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Martin Klimke is research fellow at the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, and the Heidelberg Center for American Studies at the University of Heidelberg.
Using previously classified documents and original interviews, The Other Alliance examines the channels of cooperation between American and West German student movements throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, and the reactions these relationships provoked from the U.S. government. Revising...
2) Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South
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Andrew Zimmerman is professor of history at George Washington University and the author of Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany.
In 1901, the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington, sent an expedition to the German colony of Togo in West Africa, with the purpose of transforming the region into a cotton economy similar to that of the post-Reconstruction American South. Alabama in Africa explores the politics of labor, sexuality,...
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Ian Tyrrell is Scientia Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, Australia. His books include Transnational Nation and Historians in Public.
Reforming the World offers a sophisticated account of how and why, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American missionaries and moral reformers undertook work abroad at an unprecedented rate and scale. Looking at various organizations such as the Young Men's Christian Association...
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Thomas ("Tim") Borstelmann is the Elwood N. and Katherine Thompson Distinguished Professor of Modern World History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
A compelling framework for understanding the importance of the 1970s for America and the world
The 1970s looks at an iconic decade when the cultural left and economic right came to the fore in American society and the world at large. While many have seen the 1970s as simply a period of failures...
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"Winner of the 2011 Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations" "Winner of the 2010 Best First Book Award, Phi Alpha Theta" David Ekbladh is assistant professor of history at Tufts University.
The Great American Mission traces how America's global modernization efforts during the twentieth century were a means to remake the world in its own image. David Ekbladh shows that the emerging concept of modernization...
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"Finalist for the 2012 Spur Award for Best Western Nonfiction, Contemporary (1900-Present), Western Writers of America" Rachel St. John is associate professor of history at New York University.
The first transnational history of the U.S.-Mexico border
Line in the Sand details the dramatic transformation of the western U.S.-Mexico border from its creation at the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 to the emergence of the modern boundary line...
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"Winner of the 2013 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society" Donna R. Gabaccia is professor of history and former director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota. Her many books include We Are What We Eat and Immigration and American Diversity.
A new history exploring U.S. immigration in global context
Histories investigating U.S. immigration have often portrayed America as...
8) The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics
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"Winner of the 2015 Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations" Adam Ewing is assistant professor of African American studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.
A groundbreaking exploration of Garveyism's global influence during the interwar years and beyond
Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program...
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Jeffrey A. Engel is director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. Mark Atwood Lawrence is associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Andrew Preston is reader in American history at the University of Cambridge.
A one-of-a-kind anthology of primary texts in American foreign relations
How should America wield its enormous power beyond its borders? Should it adhere to grand principles or...
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A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. Jürgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronological accounts of the era, presenting instead a truly global history of breathtaking scope and towering erudition. He examines the powerful and complex...
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How did events and ideas from elsewhere in the British empire influence development in the thirteen American colonies? And what was the effect of the American Revolution on the wider Atlantic world? In Empire and Nation, leading historians reconsider the American Revolution as a transnational event, with many sources and momentous implications for Ireland, Africa, the West Indies, Canada, and Britain itself.
The opening section of the book situates...
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"The New Deal: A Global History provides a radically new interpretation of a pivotal period in US history. The first comprehensive study of the New Deal in a global context, the book compares American responses to the international crisis of capitalism and democracy during the 1930s to responses by other countries around the globe--not just in Europe but also in Latin America, Asia, and other parts of the world. Work creation, agricultural intervention,...
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"Co-Winner of the Peter Dobkin Hall History of Philanthropy Book Prize, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA)" "Winner of the Luciano Tomassini Latin American International Relations Book Award, Latin American Studies Association" "Winner of the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations" "Winner of the William M. LeoGrande Prize, American University's Center for Latin...
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A new history of the United States that turns American exceptionalism on its headAmerican Empire is a panoramic work of scholarship that presents a bold new global perspective on the history of the United States. Drawing on his expertise in economic history and the imperial histories of Britain and Europe, A. G. Hopkins takes readers from the colonial era to today to show how, far from diverging, the United States and Western Europe followed similar...
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The first in-depth account of the historic diplomatic agreement that served as a blueprint for ending the Cold War The Helsinki Final Act was a watershed of the Cold War. Signed by thirty-five European and North American leaders at a summit in Finland in the summer of 1975, the agreement presented a vision for peace based on common principles and cooperation across the Iron Curtain. The Final Act is the first in-depth account of the diplomatic saga...
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Sara Lorenzini is associate professor of international history in the School of International Studies at the University of Trento in Italy.
In the Cold War, "development" was a catchphrase that came to signify progress, modernity, and economic growth. Development aid was closely aligned with the security concerns of the great powers, for whom infrastructure and development projects were ideological tools for conquering hearts and minds around the...
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"Winner of the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize for Best First Book, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations" "Honorable Mention for the Michael H. Hunt Prize in International History, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations" "Winner of the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize, American Historical Association" Stefan J. Link is associate professor of history at Dartmouth College.
A new global history of Fordism from the Great Depression...
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"Winner of the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations" "Winner of the Michael H. Hunt Prize for International History, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations" "Winner of the Albert J. Beveridge Award, American Historical Association" "Honorable Mention for the Luciano Tomassini Latin American International Relations Book Award" Roberto Saba is assistant professor of American Studies at Wesleyan...
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"Winner of the Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations" Mark Atwood Lawrence teaches history at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam and The Vietnam War: A Concise International History.
A groundbreaking new history of how the Vietnam War thwarted U.S. liberal ambitions in the developing world and at home in the...
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"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year" Dorothy Sue Cobble is Distinguished Professor of History and Labor Studies Emerita at Rutgers University. Her many books include The Sex of Class, Feminism Unfinished, and The Other Women's Movement (Princeton). Website www.dorothysuecobble.com
A history of the twentieth-century feminists who fought for the rights of women, workers, and the poor, both in the United States and abroad
For the Many...
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