Books & Articles from Harvard Faculty
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Akyeampong, Emmanuel - Africa’s Development in Historical Perspective.
Emmanuel Akyeampong, Robert H. Bates, Nathan Nunn and James A. Robinson, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2014. Publisher's Link This edited volume addresses the root causes of Africa's persistent poverty through an investigation of its longue durée...
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Armitage, David - Civil Wars: A History in Ideas
David Armitage, Knopf, 2017. Publisher's Link ABOUT CIVIL WARS We think we know civil war when we see it. Yet ideas of what it is, and what it isn’t, have a long and contested history, from its fraught origins in republican Rome to debates in early modern...
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Armitage, David - Oceanic Histories
Editors: David Armitage, Harvard University, Massachusetts, Alison Bashford, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Sujit Sivasundaram, University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 2018. Publisher's Link David Armitage Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor...
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Beckert, Sven - American Danger: United States Empire, Eurafrica, and the Territorialization of Industrial Capitalism, 1870–1950 (Article)
Sven Beckert - The American Historical Review, Volume 122, Issue 4, 1 October 2017, Pages 1137–1170, Link to Full Text Abstract During the last third of the nineteenth century, a debate emerged in a number of European countries on the “American danger.”...
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Beckert, Sven - Empire of Cotton: A Global History
Sven Beckert. 2014. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House LLC New York. Read the Newsday review. Publisher's Link Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to...
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Beckert, Sven - Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development
Edited by Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman. University of Pennsylvania Press (August 8, 2016) Publisher's Link During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation...
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Blair, Ann - The 2016 Josephine Waters Bennett Lecture: Humanism and Printing in the Work of Conrad Gessner (Article)
Ann M. Blair - Renaissance Quarterly, 70:1 (2017), pp. 1-43. Link to Full Text Abstract I discuss how printing affected the practice of scholarship by examining the working methods of Conrad Gessner (1516–65), a prolific humanist, bibliographer, and...
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Blair, Ann - The Capacious Bibliographical Practice of Conrad Gessner (Article)
Ann M. Blair - Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 111:4 (2017), pp. 1-24. Link to full text Ann M. Blair Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor Ann Blair is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard University, where she...
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Blair, Ann - Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age
Ann Blair. New Haven: Yale University Press 2010. Publisher's LInk The flood of information brought to us by advancing technology is often accompanied by a distressing sense of “information overload,” yet this experience is not unique to modern times. In...
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Bose, Sugata - His Majesty's Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India's Struggle against Empire
Sugata Bose. Harvard University Press, May 2011. Publisher's Link The man whom Indian nationalists perceived as the “George Washington of India” and who was President of the Indian National Congress in 1938–1939 is a legendary figure. Called Netaji (...
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Brown, Vincent - The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery
Vincent Brown. Harvard University Press. September 2010. Publisher's Link What did people make of death in the world of Atlantic slavery? In The Reaper’s Garden, Vincent Brown asks this question about Jamaica, the staggeringly profitable hub of the...
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Brown-Nagin, Tomiko - Reconsidering the Insular Cases: The Past and Future of the American Empire
Gerald Neuman (Editor), Tomiko Brown-Nagin (Editor). Harvard University Press, Human Rights Program Series. April 2015 Publisher's Link Over a century has passed since the United States Supreme Court decided a series of cases, known as the “Insular Cases...
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Chaplin, Joyce E. - "The Hand-Held's Tale" (Article)
Joyce E. Chaplin " For centuries, the powerful would never hold anything useful for themselves. How did devices become universal luxuries?" Read more... Joyce E. Chaplin James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History A former Fulbright Scholar...
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Chaplin, Joyce E. - Asking the Wolf (Article)
By Joyce E. Chaplin - Link to Article | PDF You can read Professor Chaplin’s article “ Can the Nonhuman Speak?: Breaking the Chain of Being in the Anthropocene” in this quarter’s edition of the Journal of the History of Ideas . Joyce E. Chaplin James...
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Chaplin, Joyce E. - The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus: Rereading the Principle of Population
Alison Bashford & Joyce E. Chaplin Princeton University Press, 2016 Publisher's Link Joyce E. Chaplin James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History. A former Fulbright Scholar, she has taught at six different universities on two continents, an...
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