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Sam Haselby 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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Sam Haselby is an editor and historian. Senior Editor @aeonmag; Consulting Editor @harvard_press; Historian, wrote Origins of American Religious Nationalism; Wisconsinite

24 books
Book Cover for: All the Pasha's Men, Khaled Fahmy

All the Pasha's Men

Khaled Fahmy
Sam HaselbySam Haselby

Robert Penn Warren's novel also (at least I presume) gave inspiration to Khaled Fahmy's excellent biography of Mehmed Ali, All the Pasha's Men. https://t.co/nRcSZr73DB

Paperback, 2021

$46.99$23.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Nationalization of the Masses: Political Symbolism and Mass Movements in Germany from the Napoleonic Wars Through the Third Reich, George L. Mosse

The Nationalization of the Masses: Political Symbolism and Mass Movements in Germany from the Napoleonic Wars Through the Third Reich

George L. Mosse
Sam HaselbySam Haselby

I read George Mosse's The Nationalization of the Masses: Political Symbolism and Mass Movements in Germany and got super excited. I asked Eric Foner who wrote the version for American history and he said "No one. That's a good idea." https://t.co/VDGig0Mgzu

Paperback, 2023

$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Culture: The Story of Us, from Cave Art to K-Pop, Martin Puchner

Culture: The Story of Us, from Cave Art to K-Pop

Martin Puchner
Sam HaselbySam Haselby

Ismail Muhammed on @martin_puchner "Culture is not a possession..." but more like "...a vast recycling project in which small fragments from the past are retrieved to generate new and surprising ways of meaning-making." https://t.co/pBrtTl25UJ

Paperback, 2024

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Pigs in Heaven, Barbara Kingsolver

Pigs in Heaven

Barbara Kingsolver
Sam HaselbySam Haselby

The librarian at the American University in Cairo told me they every time they tried to buy Barbara Kingsolver's novel Pigs in Heaven (English language books all having to be imported), Egyptian customs officials would seize it as an insult to Islam. https://t.co/Ccqrx6Q9a5

Paperback, 2013

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers, Robert L. Heilbroner

The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers

Robert L. Heilbroner
Sam HaselbySam Haselby

@HamrickPaul @buffsoldier_96 Robert Heilbroner’s chapter on Marx in The Worldly Philosophers is imo the best summary intro.

Paperback, 1999

$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics, Dan Kaufman

The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics

Dan Kaufman
Sam HaselbySam Haselby

Krugman cites Kathy Cramer's 2016 The Politics of Resentment, which along with @dankaufman70 's 2018 The Fall of Wisconsin (and Angus Deaton and Anne Case's 2020 The Politics of Despair) are the best books on what a half century... https://t.co/K5MRTFhKqA

Paperback, 2019

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Happiness: A History, Darrin M. McMahon

Happiness: A History

Darrin M. McMahon
Sam HaselbySam Haselby

@shahanSean Darrin McMahon's book Happiness: A History

Paperback, 2006

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain, Padraic X. Scanlan

Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain

Padraic X. Scanlan
Sam HaselbySam Haselby

In any event, two key works on the role of slavery and racism in the development of Anglo capitalism are Chris Brown's Moral Capital and Padraic Scanlan's Slave Empire, showing turn from slavery to anti-slavery we can imagine a comparable turn from racism to anti-racism.

Paperback, 2022

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South, Adam Rothman

Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South

Adam Rothman
Sam HaselbySam Haselby

@joefrancis505 Daryl Scott's Liberties article contra Thirteentherism. Adam Rothman's Slave Country on slaver and the origins of the Deep South.

Paperback, 2007

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Settler Colonialism, Patrick Wolfe

Settler Colonialism

Patrick Wolfe
Sam HaselbySam Haselby

Dahl, and @LachlanMcNamee's new book, help preserve some of the explanatory power and specificity of Patrick Wolfe's theory of settler colonialism, as well as its wider applicability, and work against its transformation into a shallow slogan in the American culture wars.

Paperback, 1998

$52.95$27.95 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)