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So Conceived and So Dedicated — Wongsrichanalai '03
$40.00
Edited by Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, Class of 2003,and Lorien Foote Highlighting recent and new directions in contemporary research in the field, So Conceived and So Dedicated offers a complete and updated picture of intellectual life in the Civil War-era Union. Compiling essays from both established and young historians, this volume addresses th...
Transatlantic Encounters — Greet '93
$60.00
By Michele Greet, Class of 1993 An unprecedented and comprehensive survey of Latin American artists in interwar Paris Paris was the artistic capital of the world in the 1920s and ’30s, providing a home and community for the French and international avant-garde, whose experiments laid the groundwork for artistic production throughout the rest of ...
Seen and Heard in Mexico — Albarrán '98
$35.00
By Elena Jackson Albarrán, Class of 1998 During the first two decades following the Mexican Revolution, children in the country gained unprecedented consideration as viable cultural critics, social actors, and subjects of reform. Not only did they become central to the reform agenda of the revolutionary nationalist government; they were also the...
The Tin Ticket — Swiss '74
The Tin Ticket — Swiss '74
$17.00
By Deborah J. Swiss, Class of 1974 The convict women who built a continent..."A moving and fascinating story." -Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost The Tin Ticket takes readers to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of three women arrested and sent into suffering and slavery in Australia and Tasmania-where they ov...
The Woman's Right — Gould '37
$14.95
By Franklin F. Gould, Jr., Class of 1937 Tom Gould was a prosperous farmer and a Civil War hero when Lizzie Foster married him in 1869. But life with a frugal, verbally-abusive husband proved to be more difficult than Lizzie could have ever imagined.After giving birth to eight children in sixteen years, Lizzie Gould decides she's had enough of T...
Driving the Green Book — Hall '74
$18.99
By Alvin Hall, Class of 1974 Join award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall on a journey through America’s haunted racial past, with the legendary Green Book as your guide. For countless Americans, the open road has long been a place where dangers lurk. In the era of Jim Crow, Black travelers encountered locked doors, hostile police, and potentiall...
Africans in New Sweden — Muhammad '73
$19.95
By Abdullah R. Muhammad, Class of 1973 Historian Abdullah R. Muhammad examines a previously little-known and virtually untold aspect of Delaware’s history—the hidden role of Africans in the often brutal mercantile expansionism by European colonizers in the 17thcentury. Mr. Muhammad reveals for the first time details of the genesis of America’s...
A Flick of Sunshine — Hill '62
$31.95
By Frederic Hill, Bowdoin Class of 1962, and Alexander Jackson Hill The true and remarkable life of Richard Willis (Will) Jackson, an intrepid seaman from one of the leading shipbuilding families in 19th century Maine, whose exploits and adventures in the oceans of the world would rival characters straight out of the lives and imaginations of Jo...
The Tin Ticket — Swiss '74
The Tin Ticket — Swiss '74
$17.00
By Deborah J. Swiss, Class of 1974 The Tin Ticket takes readers to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of three women arrested and sent into suffering and slavery in Australia and Tasmania-where they overcame their fates unlike any women in the world. It also tells the tale of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, a Quaker reformer who touched...
Indigenous Peoples of East Africa — Jenson-Elliott '84
$27.45
By Cynthia Jenson-Elliott, Class of 1984 Indigenous Peoples of Africa examines the contemporary life of Africa's diverse populations as well as their widely varying social, cultural, and political histories. Family and community life, religious beliefs and practices, and the challenges of life in a fast-changing world are among the topics covere...
Buddhism in the Krishna River Valley of Andhra — Padma
$65.00
Edited by Sree Padma, Research Associate in Asian Studiesand A.W. Barber Offering perspectives from a distinguished group of international scholars, this book provides a multidisciplinary inquiry into the various forms of Buddhism that thrived during the early centuries of the common era in the Krishna River Valley areas of what is now the moder...
Shen Gua’s Empiricism — Zuo
Shen Gua’s Empiricism — Zuo
$49.95
By Ya Zuo, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies Shen Gua (1031–1095) is a household name in China, known as a distinguished renaissance man and the author of Brush Talks from Dream Brook, an old text whose remarkable “scientific” discoveries make it appear curiously ahead of its time. In this first book-length study of Shen in Engli...
Nature Behind Barbed Wire — Chiang
$37.99
By Connie Chiang, Director of Environmental Studies Program and Professor of History and Environmental Studies The mass imprisonment of over 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry during World War II was one of the most egregious violations of civil liberties in United States history. Removed from their homes on the temperate Pacific Coast, Japanes...
Shaping the Shoreline — Chiang
$25.00
By Connie Chiang, Director of Environmental Studies Program and Professor of History and Environmental Studies The Monterey coast, home to an acclaimed aquarium and the setting for John Steinbeck's classic novel Cannery Row, was also the stage for a historical junction of industry and tourism. Shaping the Shoreline looks at the ways in which Mo...
African American Settlements in West Africa: John Brown Russwurm & the American Civilizing Efforts
African American Settlements in West Africa: John Brown Russwurm & the American Civilizing Efforts
$55.00
By Amos Beyan, Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies at Western Michigan University John Brown Russwurm [Bowdoin Class of 1826] and African American Settlement in West Africa examines Russwurm's intellectual accomplishments and significant contributions to the black civil rights movement in America from 1826 - 1829, and more signif...
A Path to Peace — Mitchell '54
$26.00
By George Mitchell, Class of 1954 The “illuminating” (Los Angeles Times) answer to why Israel and Palestine’s attempts at negotiation have failed and a practical, “admirably measured” (The New York Times) roadmap for bringing peace to the Middle East—by an impartial American diplomat experienced in solving international conflicts.George Mitchell...
The Making of Delaware — Muhammad '73
$24.99
By Abdullah R. Muhammad, Class of 1973 In his book, The Making of Delaware: One Day at a Time, Abdullah R. Muhammad provides a unique glimpse of Delaware history and the contributing role it has played in developing our nation. The author captures the historical essence of "The First State" in a way that should enlighten anyone who reads this im...
Apartheid in South Africa — Gordon
$24.15
By David Gordon, Professor of History This volume introduces undergraduates to a collection of primary documents on apartheid in South Africa, one of the best known and frequently cited systems of institutionalized and legalized racial and ethnic segregation. David Gordon’s introduction provides context essential to understanding the emergence, ...
Into the White — Heuer '94
Into the White — Heuer '94
$32.95
By Christopher Heuer, Class of 1994 European narratives of the Atlantic New World tell stories of people and things: strange flora, wondrous animals, and sun-drenched populations for Europeans to mythologize or exploit. Yet between 1500 and 1700 one region upended all of these conventions in travel writing, science, and, most unexpectedly, art: ...
So Conceived and So Dedicated — Wongsrichanalai '03
$40.00
Edited by Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, Class of 2003,and Lorien Foote Highlighting recent and new directions in contemporary research in the field, So Conceived and So Dedicated offers a complete and updated picture of intellectual life in the Civil War–era Union. Compiling essays from both established and young historians, this volume addresses th...
Virginia: Maine's First Ship — Bradford '61
$26.95
By John W. Bradford, Class of 1961 This is a detailed account of the reconstruction of VIRGINIA, a project whose aims were to keep her as historically accurate as today's licensing procedures allow, and to give all who might visit her or sail her a taste of what life and work at sea was like 400 years ago. The book assembles and preserves the ex...
Mourning Lincoln — Hodes '80
Mourning Lincoln — Hodes '80
$20.00
By Martha Hodes, Class of '80 The news of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination on April 15, 1865, just days after Confederate surrender, astounded the war-weary nation. Massive crowds turned out for services and ceremonies. Countless expressions of grief and dismay were printed in newspapers and preached in sermons. Public responses to the assassinat...
Berlin Coquette — Smith
Berlin Coquette — Smith
$27.95
By Jill Suzanne SmithAssociate Professor of German During the late nineteenth century the city of Berlin developed such a reputation for lawlessness and sexual licentiousness that it came to be known as the “Whore of Babylon.” Out of this reputation for debauchery grew an unusually rich discourse around prostitution. In Berlin Coquette, Jill Suz...
Unruly Women — Boyle
Unruly Women — Boyle
$55.00
By Margaret E. BoyleAssistant Professor of Romance Languages In the first in-depth study of the interconnected relationships among public theatre, custodial institutions, and women in early modern Spain, Margaret E. Boyle explores the contradictory practices of rehabilitation enacted by women both on and off stage. Pairing historical narratives...