HIS Faculty Publications: Recent submissions
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Book review: Metropolitan preoccupations: the spatial politics of squatting in Berlin
(Oxford University Press, 2017-03-01)While reading Alexander Vasudevan’s monograph on squatting in Berlin, the Rigaer Straße in Berlin-Friedrichshain has again exploded into violence. First occupied during the second wave of squatting in 1990, Rigaer 94 has ... -
"In our image, according to our likeness" : John D. Rockefeller, jr. and reconstructing manhood in post-Ludlow Colorado
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-01)John D. Rockefeller, Jr.' s reactions to the Colorado Coal Wars resulted in the creation of the Employee Representation Plan, better known as the Rockefeller Plan. While labor historians identify the Rockefeller Plan as a ... -
Book review: The Divided Dominion: Social Conflict and Indian Hatred in Early Virginia
(University of Illinois Press, 2016)In The Divided Dominion, Ethan A. Schmidt seeks to illustrate a common thread in the first century of English colonization in Virginia, namely the popular appeal and impact of violence toward Indians. The brutal race war ... -
Book review: Pop History, vol 2, Contemporary Historical Case Studies 1958-1988
(Oxford University Press, 2016-09)This two-volume methodological and empirical study of the contours of popular music opens with a simple question: ‘Does pop history need theory?’ (Braucht Popgeschichte Theorie?, vol. 1, p. 7). Such a question implies that ... -
Book review: Pop History, vol 1, Concept and Methods
(Oxford University Press, 2016-09)This two-volume methodological and empirical study of the contours of popular music opens with a simple question: ‘Does pop history need theory?’ (Braucht Popgeschichte Theorie?, vol. 1, p. 7). Such a question implies that ... -
Book review: Born in the GDR: living in the shadow of the wall
(SAGE Publications, 2016-04)In the twenty-five years since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of state socialism in East Germany, Hester Vaizey contends that two competing narratives exist uncomfortably side by side in the public understanding ... -
Book review: How sex became a civil liberty
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 2016)The US Supreme Court regularly reviews cases dealing with sexual liberty, privacy, and freedom of speech. Where our understanding of sexuality and sexual privacy as a civil liberty originated and how it evolved is the ... -
Commercial conflict resolution across the religious divide in the thirteenth-century Mediterranean
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015-09-18)Commercial conflict resolution in the medieval Mediterranean has been treated by a number of scholars in recent years, notably through the use of documents from the Cairo Geniza and the archives of the Italian port of ... -
Book review: Historical Atlas of Northeast Asia 1590-2010: Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia, Eastern Siberia
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2015-07)This work fills a gaping hole in our knowledge of Russian history as well as all of Northeast Asian history. It is the collaborative work of Robert Cribb and Li Narangoa, director of the Mongolia Studies Centre, both of ... -
Krawall in der Zionskirche: skinhead violence and political Legitimacy in the GDR
(SAGE Publications, 2015-04)In 1987, an East Berlin punk concert was attacked by Skinheads. This event and others like it provoked sustained outcry in the German Democratic Republic in the last years of the 1980s. The political opposition transformed ... -
Book review: Siberia: a history of the people
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2015-04)This volume joins a growing literature on the history of ethnography in Russia and the Soviet Union. The collection includes essays by scholars from German, Russian, American, Swiss, British,and Austrian institutions. ... -
Chapter 4 -- In order to form a more perfect worker: John D. Rockefeller Jr. and reform in Post-Ludlow Southern Colorado
(University of Colorado Press, 2014)The tumultuous events of the winter and early spring of 1913–14 transformed the coalfields and company towns of southern Colorado and marked a new episode in relations between labor and management. In the aftermath of the ... -
Book review: Main street Oklahoma: stories of twentieth-century America
(Southern Historical Association, 2015-02)Oklahoma historian Angie Debo once observed that all the forces of United States history have come to bear in the development of the Sooner State. This collection of essays provides a series of snapshots reflecting both ... -
Book review: William Henry Harrison and the Conquest of the Ohio Country: Frontier Fighting in the War of 1812
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Book review: Religious bodies politic: rituals of sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014-07)In the twenty-first century, Buddhism is one of the older established-by-law religions of the Russian Republic. In the eighteenth century, Yellow Hat, Mahayana Buddhism was brought by Mongol Lamas from Tibet through ... -
Historians' reaction to the documentary, The Dust Bowl
(Agricultural History Society, 2014-04-14)Historical documentaries have a wider audience and often a greater visceral impact than written histories. They frequently resonate deeply with viewers through the use of images, first-person narratives, and evocative ... -
Book Review: The store in the hood: a century of ethnic business and conflict
(Cambridge University Press, 2013)Steven J. Gold's The Store in the Hood: A Century of Ethnic Business and Conflict provides a panoramic discussion and critique of the literature related to the historic relationship between ethnic enterprises and their customers. -
Book Review: Grant's final victory: Ulysses S. Grant's heroic last year
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)The author focuses on General Grant's valiant effort while facing impending death to complete his Personal Memoirs and replenish the fortunes of his family. He and his wife, Julia, had not foreseen such an end. Grant left ... -
Book review: American Pandemic: The Lost World of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
(Oxford Univ Press, 2013-11)Since the republication of Alfred Crosby's landmark work on Spanish Flu in 1989, and the recovery of fragments of the causative virus in 1997, there has been a tsunami of scholarly and popular works examining the cataclysmic ... -
Book review: Russia's own orient: the politics of identity and oriental studies in the late imperial and early Soviet periods
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013-09)Having previously written extensively on the creation of early twentieth-century Russian identity, Vera Tolz has tackled an important issue in her recent research: the development of regional identity in late Imperial ...