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Faculty Research Spotlight

Recent Books by Faculty

The Bank War and the Partisan Press

Campbell, Stephen.

The Bank War and the Partisan Press: Newspapers, Financial Institutions and the Post Office in Jacksonian America.  

Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2019.

Crusader for Democracy: The Political Life of William Allen White

Delgadillo, Charles. 

Crusader for Democracy: The Political Life of William Allen White.

Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2018.

The Integration of the Pacific Coast League: Race and Baseball on the West Coast

Essington, Amy.

The Integration of the Pacific Coast League: Race and Baseball on the West Coast.

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018.

Hoikkala, Paivi and Eileen V. Wallis 

Chronicling California: A Primary Source Reader.

San Diego: Cognella, 2016.

Good Wife, Wise Mother

Hu, Fang Yu. 

Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls under Taiwanese Rule. 

Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2024.

The stadium century:

Lewis, Robert W.

The stadium century: Sport, spectatorship and mass society in modern France.

Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017.

The Ancient Near East

Podany, Amanda H. 

The Ancient Near East: A Very Short Introduction.

New York and London: Oxford University Press, 2014.

book cover for "El antiguo Oriente Próximo"

Podany, Amanda H. 

El antiguo Oriente Próximo: Une breve introducción. 

Translated by Javier Alonso López.

Madrid: Alianza, 2016.

Book cover for Weavers, Scribes and Kings

Podany, Amanda H. 

Weavers, Scribes and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East.

New York and London: Oxford University Press, 2022.

The Living Gandhi

Sethia, Tara and Anjana Narayan (eds.) 

The Living Gandhi.  

Delhi: Penguin, 2013.

Wallis, Eileen V.

California and the Politics of Disability, 1850-1970.

Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 

 

Wang, Zuoyue and the Editorial Committee for Memorial Collections on Fang Lizhi (eds.)

 Fang Lizhi in Humanities: A Memorial Collection

Hong Kong: Mirror Books, 2016.

Church and Society in Modern Russia

Wirtschafter, Elise.

Church and Society in Modern Russia: Essays in Honor of Gregory L. Freeze.

Edited with Manfred Hildermeier.

Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015.

Religion and Enlightenment in Catherinian Russia

Wirtschafter, Elise.

Religion and Enlightenment in Catherinian Russia: The Teachings of Metropolitan Platon.

DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2013.

From Victory to Peace

Wirtschafter, Elise.

From Victory to Peace: Russian Diplomacy After Napoleon.

DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois Press, 2020.

The Perpetual Fair': Gender, Disorder, and Urban Amusement in Eighteenth-Century London.

Wohlcke, Anne. 

'The Perpetual Fair': Gender, Disorder, and Urban Amusement in Eighteenth-Century London.

Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014.

Recent books by Emeritus Faculty Members

British Historians and National Identity

Brundage, Anthony and Richard Cosgrove

British Historians and National Identity: From Hume to Churchilll.

London: Routledge, 2014.

John Moore American Presidents UN

Moore, John A. Jr. and Jerry Pubantz.

American Presidents and the United Nations: Internationalism in the Balance

New York: Routledge, 2021.