Books & Articles from Harvard Faculty
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Hankins, James - Reforming Elites the Confucian Way (Article)
American Affairs 1.2 (Summer 2017) - Link to Article James Hankins Professor of History Renaissance intellectual history. Main research interests are the history of Renaissance political thought, history of philosophy, and history of the classical...
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Hankins, James - The intimate Michelangelo (Article)
The New Criterion 36 (December 2017) - Link to Article James Hankins Professor of History Renaissance intellectual history. Main research interests are the history of Renaissance political thought, history of philosophy, and history of the classical...
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Hankins, James - The rebirth of platonic theology... Ediz. italiana e inglese (Multilingual)
James Hankins (Author), F. Meroi (Author). Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki, 2013. Publisher's Link La figura e l'opera di Marsilio Ficino si collocano allo snodo del passaggio dall'età medievale a quella moderna, risultando di importanza decisiva nel quadro...
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Herzog, Tamar - Frontiers of Possession: Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas
Tamar Herzog. Harvard University Press, 2014 Publisher's Link Frontiers of Possession asks how territorial borders were established in Europe and the Americas during the early modern period and challenges the standard view that national boundaries are...
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Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks - Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. Harvard University Press. 1994 Publisher's Link Between 1880 and 1920, the black church served as the most effective vehicle by which men and women alike, pushed down by racism and poverty, regrouped and rallied against...
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Higonnet, Patrice - Vie et destin de l'architecte de Marie-Antoinette (French)
Patrice Higonnet. Vendemiaire. March 15, 2013 Publisher's Link Patrice Higonnet Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History Professor Higonnet has written on 17th-century French painting, 18th-century French diplomacy, 19th-century French deputies...
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Higonnet, Patrice - Le Village des Fanatiques
Patrice Higonnet. Vendémiaire, 2014 Publisher's Link L'histoire d'un petit village protestant des Cévennes, de l'an Mil à l'an 2000, qui reflète les grands événements de l'histoire de France : guerres de religions, diffusion des idées des Lumières...
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Hinton, Elizabeth K. - From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
Elizabeth Hinton. 2017. Published by Harvard University Press. Publisher's Link Summary: In the United States today, one in every thirty-one adults is under some form of penal control, including one in eleven African American men. How did the “land of the...
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Hinton, Elizabeth K. - The New Black History: Revisiting the Second Reconstruction
Elizabeth Kai Hinton, Manning Marable. Critical Black Studies. 2011. Publisher's Link The New Black History anthology presents cutting-edge scholarship on key issues that define African American politics, life, and culture, especially during the Civil...
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Ho Tai, Hue-Tam - Passion, Betrayal, and Revolution in Colonial Saigon The Memoirs of Bao Luong
Hue-Tam Ho Tai. University of California Press. May 2010. Publisher's Link This is the incredible story of Bao Luong, Vietnam’s first female political prisoner. In 1927, when she was just 18, Bao Luong left her village home to join Ho Chi Minh’s...
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Jasanoff, Maya - Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
Maya Jasanoff. Random House, March 6, 2012. Publisher's Link At the end of the American Revolution, sixty thousand Americans loyal to the British cause fled the United States and became refugees throughout the British Empire. Liberty’s Exiles tells their...
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Jasanoff, Maya - The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World
Maya Jasanoff. Penguin Random House. November 7, 2017. Publisher's Link ABOUT THE DAWN WATCH “Enlightening, compassionate, superb” —John Le CarréA New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017A visionary exploration of the life and times of Joseph...
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Johnson, Alison Frank - Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia
Alison Frank Johnson. Harvard University Press. September 2007. Publisher's Link In a brilliantly conceived work, Alison Frank traces the interaction of technology, nationalist rhetoric, social tensions, provincial politics, and entrepreneurial vision in...
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Johnson, Walter - Ferguson's Fortune 500 Company: Why the Missouri city - despite hosting a multinational corporation - relied on municipal fees and fines to extract revenue from its poorest residents (Article)
Walter Johnson. The Atlantic. 2015. Link to Article Walter Johnson Winthrop Professor of History, Professor of African and African American Studies I have written a history of the Mississippi Valley between the Louisiana Purchase and the Civil War...
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Johnson, Walter - River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
Walter Johnson. Harvard University Press, February 2013. Publisher's Link When Jefferson acquired the Louisiana Territory, he envisioned an “empire for liberty” populated by self-sufficient white farmers. Cleared of Native Americans and the remnants of...
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