Library Guides/ Modern and Contemporary History 1800 AD - Present

New Books (December 2024)

Rural Renaissance

Moore, L. Michelle. Rural Renaissance: Revitalizing America’s Hometowns through Clean Power. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2022.

Von Widukind zur ‘Sassine’

Baisch, Martin, Malena Ratzke, Regina Toepfer, eds. Von Widukind zur ‘Sassine’: Prozesse der Konstruktion und Transformation regionaler Identität im norddeutschen Raum. Wien: Böhlau, 2023.

The Threat

Giugni, Lilia. The Threat: Why Digital Capitalism Is Sexist - and How to Resist. La Vergne: September, 2022.

New Books (November 2024)

White Supremacy

Evans, Gavin. White Supremacy: From Eugenics to Great Replacement. London: Icon Books, 2024.

Die Entdeckung der Wirtschaft

Lingg, Andreas Friedolin. Die Entdeckung der Wirtschaft: Der mittelalterliche Bergbau und die Vermehrung der Welt. Göttingen: Konstanz University Press, 2023.

Decrim

Stewart, Kennedy. Decrim: How We Decriminalized Drugs in British Columbia. Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2023.

Coloured

Dooms, Tessa, and Lynsey Ebony Chutel. Coloured: How Classification Became Culture. London: Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2023.

Immaculate Forms

King, Helen. Immaculate Forms: Uncovering the History of Women’s Bodies. London: Profile Books / Wellcome Collection, 2024.

New Books (September-October 2024)

Frank French Feminisms

Galis, Polly. Frank French Feminisms: Sex, Sexuality and the Body in the Work of Ernaux, Huston and Arcan. Oxford: Peter Lang Publishing, 2023.

Making Politics in the European Countryside

Brassart, Laurent, Corinne Marache, Juan Pan-Montojo, and Leen van Molle, eds. Making Politics in the European Countryside: 1780s-1930s. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2022.

Fabricating Transnational Capitalism

Rofel, Lisa, and Sylvia J. Yanagisako. Fabricating Transnational Capitalism: A Collaborative Ethnography of Italian-Chinese Global Fashion. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018.

Developing Rural Ireland

Ó Fathartaigh, Mícheál. Developing Rural Ireland: A History of the Irish Agricultural Advisory Services. Dublin: Wordwell, 2021.

Brewing Socialism

Kloiber, Andrew. Brewing Socialism: Coffee, East Germans, and 20th Century Globalization. New York: Berghahn Books, 2023.

Performing Left Populism

Goran Petrović Lotina and Théo Aiolfi, eds. Performing Left Populism: Performance, Politics and the People. London: Bloomsbury, 2023.

Arab Youths

Bonnefoy, Laurent, and Myriam Catusse, eds. Arab Youths: Leisure, Culture and Politics from Morocco to Yemen. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023.

New Books (July-August 2024)

Surviving the Sanctuary City

Shrestha, Tina. Surviving the Sanctuary City: Asylum-Seeking Work in Nepali New York. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2023.

Underground Leviathan

Solares, Israel G. Underground Leviathan: Corporate Sovereignty and Mining in the Americas. Chicago: University of Nevada Press, 2024.

Of Living Stone

Wilkins, David E., and Shelly Hulse Wilkins, eds. Of Living Stone: Perspectives on Continuous Knowledge and the Work of Vine Deloria, Jr. Wheat Ridge, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 2024.

A Nation of Shopkeepers

Evans, Dan. A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petite Bourgeoisie. New York: Watkins Media, 2023.

Richer and More Equal

Waldenström, Daniel. Richer and More Equal: A New History of Wealth in the West. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2024.

Civilization

Chiantera-Stutte, Patricia, and Giovanni Borgognone, eds. Civilization: Global Histories of a Political Idea. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2022.

The Restless Clock (ebook)

Riskin, Jessica. The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Fabriekswerk

Dekker, Fabian. Fabriekswerk : Over de vergeten arbeidersklasse. Alkmaar: Uitgeverij Van Gennep, 2024.

New Books (June 2024)

A Cultural History of Race in the Modern and Genomic Age (ebook)

Golash-Boza, Tanya Maria. A Cultural History of Race in the Modern and Genomic Age. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.

Barbie

Gerber, Robin. Barbie: Her Inspiration, History, and Legacy. Minneapolis: becker&mayer! books, 2024.

Traces of History

Wolfe, Patrick. Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race. London: Verso, 2016.

Remaking the World

Chapman, Jessica M. Remaking the World: Decolonization and the Cold War. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2023.

A Cultural History of Plants in Antiquity (ebook)

Giesecke, Annette. A Cultural History of Plants in Antiquity. London: Bloomsbury, 2023

Midwives and Medical Men

Donnison, Jean. Midwives and Medical Men: A History of the Struggle for the Control of Childbirth. Abingdon: Routledge, 2023. Originally published in 1988.

Geologic Life

Yusoff, Kathryn. Geologic Life: Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race. Durham: Duke University Press, 2024.

New Books (May 2024)

Fighting for Health

Michitake Aso, Kathryn Sweet, and Claudia Michele Thompson, eds. Fighting for Health: Medicine in Cold War Southeast Asia. Singapore: NUS Press, 2024.

Eroding a Way of Life

Knuttila, Murray. Eroding a Way of Life: Neoliberalism and the Family Farm. Toronto: University of Regina, 2023.

Carbon Colonialism

Parsons, Laurie. Carbon Colonialism: How Rich Countries Export Climate Breakdown. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023.

How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth

Saitō, Kōhei. How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth. Translated by Brian Bergstrom. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2024.

New Books (April 2024)

The Selected Papers of Jane Addams, Volume 3

The Selected Papers of Jane Addams, Volume 3: Creating Hull-House and an International Presence, 1889-1900. Edited by Mary Lynn Bryan and Maree de Angury. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019.

Inside the Tudor Home

Watts, Bethan, Inside the Tudor Home: Daily Life in the Sixteenth Century. [S.l.]: Pen & Sword History, 2023.

Patterns of Human Growth (3rd Edition)

Bogin, Barry. Patterns of Human Growth. Third edition. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

The Exhausted of the Earth

Chaudhary, Ajay Singh. The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World. London: Repeater Books, an imprint of Watkins Media Ltd., 2024.

Environmentalism from below

Dawson, Ashley. Environmentalism from below: How Global People’s Movements Are Leading the Fight for Our Planet. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, 2024.

New Books (March 2024)

Three Squares

Carroll, Abigail. Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal. New York: Basic Books, 2013.

Forging Modernity

Hutchison, Martin. Forging Modernity: Why and How Britain Got the Industrial Revolution. London: The Lutterworth Press, 2023.

To Have and Have Not

Black, Brian. To Have and Have Not: Energy in World History. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.

Endangered Maize

Curry, Helen Anne. Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022.

Dining Out

Rawson, Katie, and Elliott Shore. Dining out: A Global History of Restaurants. London: Reaktion Books, 2019.

Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas

Moreno, Aviad. Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas: Hispanic Moroccan Jews and Their Globalizing Community. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2024.

Beyond Coal and Steel

Raphael, Lutz. Beyond Coal and Steel: A Social History of Western Europe after the Boom. Translated by Kate Tranter. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2023.

Sporen van het slavernijverleden in Groningen (4e herziene druk)

Barbara Henkes, Lieuwe Jongsma, and Margriet Fokken. Sporen van het slavernijverleden in Groningen. 4e herziene druk. Groningen: Uitgeverij Passage, 2024.

Jews in Muslim Lands, 1750-1830: Volume I

Tsur, Yaron. Jews in Muslim Lands, 1750-1830: Volume I: The Ottoman Middle East. Translated by Ursula Wokoeck. Liverpool: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2023.