Category:Book Summaries

A

• A Brief History of Neoliberalism
• A Changing Wind
• A City in the Republic
• A Consumers’ Republic
• A Nation under Our Feet
• A Nervous Splendor: 1888-1889
• A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine-American War, 1899-1902
• Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany
• Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends
• America and The Pill
• America in the World
• American Apartheid
• American Slavery, American Freedom
• Art Nouveau in Fin-de-Siècle France: Politics, Psychology and Style
• Atlanta, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
• Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century
• Avengers of the New World

B

• Becoming a Revolutionary
• Beggars and Choosers
• Betty Friedan and the Making of “The Feminine Mystique”
• Beyond Chinatown
• Black Chicago
• Black Corona
• Black, White, and Indian
• Blood at the Root
• Bohemian Los Angeles
• Building the Dream

C

• Card Sharps and Bucket Shops
• Carnival of Fury
• Cartographic Mexico
• Challenging the Growth Machine
• Changes in the Land
• Chants Democratic
• Choosing War
• Cities and Development in the Third World
• Cities of Knowledge
• Citizens of the World
• City of Quartz
• City of Women
• City Requiem
• Conflicting Missions
• Consciousness and the Urban Experience
• Consumer’s Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920
• Contested Truths
• Contracultura
• Crucible of War
• Culture and Imperialism

D

• Dark Rose
• Defining Cult Movies: The Cultural Politics of Oppositional Taste
• Digging in the City of Brotherly Love
• Discrimination, Jobs, and Politics: The Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity in the United States since the New Deal
• Domesticating the World
• Downtown America
• Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men’s Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality
• Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home

E

• Early Years of the Republic
• Epic Journeys of Freedom

F

• Fighting Sprawl and City Hall
• Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
• Fire Shut Up In My Bones
• Flowers in the Dustbin
• Fortress California, 1910-1961
• France in America
• Freedom Is Not Enough
• From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers
• From Puritan to Yankee

G

• Globalizing Cities

G cont.

• Globalizing L.A.

H

• Harlem
• Haunted by Empire
• Hiroshima
• History of Atlanta, Georgia
• Hope and Danger in the New South City

I

• Images of America: East Atlanta
• Immigrant Acts
• Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars
• Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
• Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy
• Interpreting Islam
• Island World

L

• Land of Desire
• Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor 1980-1983
• Lincoln and His Generals
• Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class

M

• Magic Lands
• Magical Urbanism
• Making a New Deal
• Manifest Design
• Medical Apartheid
• Melancholy Order
• Middletown
• Modernity At Large
• Modernity at Large
• Multitude
• Museums Matters
• My Blue Heaven

N

• Nations and Nationalism since 1780
• News over the Wires
• Non-Plan
• North of Slavery

O

• Of States and Cities
• One Vast Winter Count
• Original Meanings – The Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
• Our Separate Ways

P

• Palatines, Liberty, and Property
• Parades and the Politics of the Street: Festive Culture in the Early American Republic
• Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914
• Political Parties and American Political Development from the Age of Jackson to the Age of Lincoln
• Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight
• Post Colonial Melancholia
• Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
• Power and Protest
• Presidential Temples: How Memorials and Libraries Shape Public Memory
• Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland
• Property Rules
• Public Vows

R

• Race Relations in the Urban South
• Reconstruction
• Redeeming the Dial
• Reproducing Empire
• Roll, Jordan, Roll

S

• Satchmo Blows Up The World
• Short Title
• Slave Counterpoint
• Slavery in the Cities
• Social Darwinism in American Thought
• Soldiers as Citizens: Former Wehrmacht Officers in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1955
• Something New Under the Sun
• Strangers Within the Gate City
• Suburban Warriors
• Suffragists in an Imperial Age

T

• Tactical Media
• The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus
• The Alcoholic Republic

T cont.

• The American Political Tradition
• The American Revolution in Indian Country
• The Americans
• The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture
• The Best Poor Man's Country
• The Blood of Government
• The Bohemian South
• The Bulldozer in the Countryside
• The Bungalow
• The Cheese and the Worms
• The Coming of the French Revolution
• The Condition of Postmodernity
• The Contested City
• The Crisis of Growth Politics
• The Cristal Experiment
• The Culture of Time and Space
• The Death of Reconstruction
• The Decline of American Power
• The Dynamite Club
• The Elusive Republic
• The First Strange Place
• The Future of Us All
• The Global City
• The Global Cold War
• The Graves of Tarim
• The Highs & Lows of Little Five
• The Ideology of Home Ownership
• The Invasion Within
• The Long Twentieth Century
• The Marketplace of Revolution
• The Media Monopoly
• The Middle Ground
• The Mobility of Labor and Capital
• The Modern Girl Around the World
• The Myth of Continents
• The Mythical World of Nazi War Propaganda, 1939-1945
• The Neoliberal City
• The New York Approach
• The Night Battles
• The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson
• The Order of Things
• The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review
• The Politics of Public Housing
• The Politics of Urban Renewal
• The Postmodern Urban Condition
• The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South
• The Power of the Zoot
• The Private City
• The Public City
• The Radicalism of the American Revolution
• The Refinement of America
• The Remaking of Pittsburgh
• The Sans-Culottes
• The Second Gold Rush
• The Seventies
• The Silent Majority
• The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
• The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural Origins of the Constitution
• The Strike that Changed New York
• The Terrorist in Search of Humanity
• The Thanks of the Fatherland: German Veterans after the Second World War
• The Tragedy of American Diplomacy
• The Transatlantic Constitution: Colonial Legal Culture and Empire
• The Transformation of Virginia 1740-1790
• The Vietnam Wars
• The Way We Never Were