Historians celebrate "exceptional output"
On May 23 the History Department held a party at
Micawber Books to celebrate the publication of
faculty books this past year.
"There were 18 titles in all -- which is an
exceptional output," notes department chair Philip
Nord, professor of history.
The titles and their authors:
- Republic of Capital: Buenos Aires and the
Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World, by
Jeremy Adelman, associate professor
• Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical
Vision, Natalie Zemon Davis, H.C. Lea
Professor of History, Emeritus
• Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom: A
Russian Folktale, Laura Engelstein,
professor
• Cardano's Cosmos: The Worlds and Works
of a Renaissance Astrologer, Anthony
Grafton, Dodge Professor of History
• A Shared World: Christians and Muslims
in the Early Mediterranean, by Molly
Greene, assistant professor
• Man and Wife in America: A History,
by Hendrik Hartog, Class of 1921
Bicentennial Professor in the History of American
Law and Liberty
• Law as Culture and Culture as Law:
Eassays in Honor of John Phillip Reid, edited
by Hartog and W.E. Nelson
• The Middle Ages: A Watts Guide for
Children, by William Jordan,
professor
• The Destruction of the Bison, by
Andrew Isenberg, assistant professor
• Mongolia in the Twentieth Century:
Landlocked Cosmopolitan, edited by Stephen
Kotkin, associate professor, and B.A.
Elleman
• The Furies: Violence and Terror in the
French and Russian Revolutions, by Arno
Mayer, Dayton-Stockton Professor of History,
Emeritus
• The Modern Worlds of Business and
Industry: Cultures, Technology, Labor, edited
by Karen Merrill, assistant professor
• Impressionists and Politics: Art and
Democracy in the Nineteenth Century, by
Philip Nord, professor
• Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life
of a Slave Girl, edited by Nell Painter,
Edwards Professor of American History
• Another Reason: Science and the
Imagination of Modern India, by Gyan
Prakash, professor
• American Moderns: Bohemian New York
and the Creation of a New Century, by
Christine Stansell, professor
• Silver, Trade, and War: Spain and
America in the Making of Early Modern Europe,
by Stanley Stein, W.S. Carpenter III
Professor in Spanish Civilization and Culture,
Emeritus, and Barbara Stein
• Paradoxes of Civil Society, New
Perspectives on Modern German and British
History, edited by Frank Trentmann,
assistant professor
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