NYU Department of History Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery
Peter Wirzbicki
[1/2] @peterw536, PhD 2012 (advisor @MarthaHodes), has won the Best Book Prize from @SHEARites, for "Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists against Slavery" (@PennPress). The citation called Peter's book "cogently argued and gracefully written,"
Paperback, 2024
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Cuba: An American History
Ada Ferrer
History professor @Adita_Ferrer's "Cuba: An American History" (@ScribnerBooks, 2021) received a PROSE Prize from @AmericanPublish, was longlisted for the BOCAS Prize in Caribbean Literature, and is currently a finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize in History. Congrats Ada🥳!
Paperback, 2022
$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
Howard W. French
[1/2] Congratulations to Oluwatomisin (Tomi) Onabanjo, First-year Ph.D. student who is studying African Diasporic History, who has published an extended book review of Howard W. French's, "Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the... https://t.co/h7EL9rimIR
Paperback, 2022
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Silver Women: How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal
Joan Flores-Villalobos
Congratulations to @JoanFloresVill1 (Ph.D. in African Diaspora History 2018) who published her first book, "The Silver Women: How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal", out with @PennPress! https://t.co/QCvEc6CB62 https://t.co/1TpzqfCi61
Hardcover, 2023
$39.95$19.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ways of Seeing
John Berger
[1/2] Congratulations to @ToddCSimmons, fall graduate of @APH_NYU, who presented in person at a conference in Metz, France for the anniversary of John Berger's book 'Ways of Seeing'. The title of the paper was 'Seeing the Swinish Multitude' based on his thesis.
Paperback, 1990
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Making Schools American: Nationalism and the Origin of Modern Educational Politics
Cody D. Ewert
History PhD graduate, Cody Dodge Ewert, published a new book. His publication, "Nationalism and the Origin of Modern Educational Politics," was based on his PhD Dissertation. Congratulations Cody! Read here: https://t.co/wyxGeLBhGO https://t.co/luqyX28N7m
Hardcover, 2022
$39.95$19.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy
Christy Thornton
[1/4] Christy Thorton has received the Luciano Tomassini Latin American International Relations Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) for her book "Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy" -
Paperback, 2021
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Under the Skin: Tattoos, Scalps, and the Contested Language of Bodies in Early America
Mairin Odle
Congrats to @MairinOdle (PhD 2015), who received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor of American Studies at @UofAlabama in August 2022. In addition, her first book, "Under the Skin: Tattoos, Scalps, and the Contested Language of Bodies", was just published by @PennPress!
Hardcover, 2022
$39.95$19.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa
Robyn D'Avignon
Congratulations to our own Professor @DavignonRobyn who just published her first book, A Ritual Geology! 🥳🔥 https://t.co/iCSf2jFfmt
Paperback, 2022
$27.95$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Terms of Exchange: Brazilian Intellectuals and the French Social Sciences
Ian Merkel
[1/2] @historianmerkel, PhD candidate at @FrenchStudiesNY and intellectual historian at @FU_Berlin, published his book "Terms of Exchange: Brazilian Intellectuals and the French Social Sciences" (Chicago: @UChicagoPress, 2022)! Check it out here: https://t.co/dwbwe3eZ7I
Hardcover, 2022
$105.00$80.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)