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
All the Pasha's Men
Khaled FahmySam HaselbyRobert 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
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The Nationalization of the Masses: Political Symbolism and Mass Movements in Germany from the Napoleonic Wars Through the Third Reich
George L. MosseSam HaselbyI 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
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Culture: The Story of Us, from Cave Art to K-Pop
Martin PuchnerSam HaselbyIsmail 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
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Pigs in Heaven
Barbara KingsolverSam HaselbyThe 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
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The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers
Robert L. HeilbronerSam Haselby@HamrickPaul @buffsoldier_96 Robert Heilbroner’s chapter on Marx in The Worldly Philosophers is imo the best summary intro.
Paperback, 1999
$22.00Member price:$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics
Dan KaufmanSam HaselbyKrugman 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
$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Happiness: A History
Darrin M. McMahonSam Haselby@shahanSean Darrin McMahon's book Happiness: A History
Paperback, 2006
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Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain
Padraic X. ScanlanSam HaselbyIn 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
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Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South
Adam RothmanSam 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
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Settler Colonialism
Patrick WolfeSam HaselbyDahl, 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
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