Brad Simpson Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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historian of self-determination, US foreign policy, human rights, Indonesia, development, Univ. Connecticut, DIPG dad. #DefeatDIPG
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
Amy StanleyBrad Simpson@CRWDietrich Im teaching Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World by @astanley711 in my first year grad history course and its marvelous. As close to literature as a biography can get.
Hardcover, 2020
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Korean War: A History
Bruce CumingsBrad Simpson@HerbertHistory My old advisor Bruce Cumings History of the Korean War, Vol. II. The best meditation on method i have ever read.
Paperback, 2011
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Arise!: Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution Volume 66
Christina HeathertonBrad SimpsonGrateful to @c_heatherton for talking to my global history grad students about her terrific new book. It stimulated lots of great discussion. Arise! by Christina Heatherton - Hardcover - University of California Press https://t.co/hqafyJhqj5
Hardcover, 2022
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Reconstruction
Frederick DouglassBrad Simpson@juliairwin @MichaelCullina2 @shgape Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, Upton Sinclair, Mark Twain, Boss Tweed, Tammany, Crisis 1873. Robber Barons, No tact, Chinese Exclusion Act. Frederick Taylor, Land Grant, scientific management. Reconstruction, KKK, Frederick Douglass gone away!
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Wonder Boys
Michael ChabonBrad SimpsonI like Michael Chabon’s description of his unfinished book in Wonder Boys: “like an incompetent handyman, have been up on the roof for years.”Ugh, I feel seen.
Paperback, 2008
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Direct Action: Radical Pacifism from the Union Eight to the Chicago Seven
James TracyBrad Simpson@daniel_dsj2110 Many years ago I taught James Tracy’s book direct action. Staughton Lynd’s collection nonviolence in America. There is now a good book on AJ Muste. mark Kurlansky’s Nonviolence History of a dangerous idea.
Paperback, 1996
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The Global Cold War
Odd Arne WestadBrad Simpson@JohannaMellis Odd Arne Westad has a really productive sort of structuralist discussion of this in his book the global Cold War.
Paperback, 2007
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Play
August WilsonBrad Simpson@EdgeofSports It’s also Denzel’s most intimate film and the best adaptation of an August Wilson play besides Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Just devastating.
Paperback, 1985
$15.00$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea
Mark KurlanskyBrad Simpson@daniel_dsj2110 Many years ago I taught James Tracy’s book direct action. Staughton Lynd’s collection nonviolence in America. There is now a good book on AJ Muste. mark Kurlansky’s Nonviolence History of a dangerous idea.
Paperback, 2008
$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Buried Histories: The Anticommunist Massacres of 1965-1966 in Indonesia
John RoosaBrad Simpson@JasonAHiggins @melanienewport My colleague John Roosa Has written an amazing book on the 1965 1966 mass killings in Indonesia based on oral histories. John Roosa, Buried Histories: The Anticommunist Massacres of 1965–1966 in Indonesia. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press 2020,
Paperback, 2022
$28.95$14.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book