Prof. James O'Toole published his most recent book The Faithful: A History of Catholics in America in April 2008. This book follows the history of Catholicism in the U.S. and addresses the religion's current crossroads. Please click here to see additional information.
Prof. Alan Rogers has published the book Murder and the Death Penalty in Massachusetts. This book provides a comprehensive account of the history of the death penalty in Massachusetts and its eventual abolishment. Please click here to view more information.
Prof. Dana Sajdi edited the recently published book Ottoman Tulips, Ottoman Coffee: Leisure and Lifestyles in the Eighteenth Century. The book offers an exploration of the definitive cultural phenomena of the Ottoman 18th century. Please click here to view more information.
Prof. Alan Rogers has published a new edition of his book Boston: City on a Hill. This book was a family affair as his wife Lisa co-authored it and his daughter took most of the photographs. Please click here to view more information.
Dr. Nadia Smith has just published Dorothy Macardle: A Life (Dublin: Woodfield Press, 2007), a biography of an important 20th-century Irish historian. Her first book, A 'Manly Study'? Irish Women Historians, 1868-1949 (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) was published in the U.S. earlier this year. Please click here to view more information about her most recent book and please click here to view more information about her earlier book.
Prof. David Northrup's new book, Crosscurrents in the Black Atlantic, 1770-1965: A Brief History with Documents, was published in July of 2007 from Bedford/St. Martin as part of the Bedford Series in History and Culture. Please click here to view more information.
Prof. Davarian Baldwin has published his book entitled Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life.
The book has been hailed by Mark Anthony Neal of Duke University, who declares "with this publication Baldwin emerges as one of the dynamic and innovative voices in contemporary African American studies."
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Prof. Franziska Seraphim has recently published her book entitled War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945-2005.
Her book looks at the memories and legacies of World War II in Japan and how war memory developed as an integral part of particular and divergent approaches to postwar democracy. For a full description of Prof. Seraphim's latest work, please click here.
Prof. Seth Jacobs published his book America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia, 1950-1957.
This book rethinks the motivations behind one of the most ruinous foreign policy decisions of the postwar era: America’s commitment to preserve an independent South Vietnam under the premiership of Ngo Dinh Diem. The so-called Diem experiment is usually ascribed to U.S. anticommunism and an absence of other candidates for South Vietnam’s highest office.
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Prof. Devin Pendas' book entitled The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, 1963-1965: Genocide, History and the Limits of the Law was recently published by the Cambridge University Press.
His book looks at the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, one of the largest and most important trial of Holocaust perpetrators conducted in West German courts. This book also provides an account of the divided response to the trial among the West German public.
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Prof. Stephen Schloesser, S.J. has recently published Jazz Age Catholicism, a book that won the John Gilmary Shea Prize from the American Catholic Historical Association.
This book was also recently reviewed in The New Republic, The Catholic Register (Toronto), and Theological Studies.
Prof. Kevin Kenny published Ireland and the British Empire as part of the Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series.
This book examines the different phases of Ireland's colonial status from the seventeenth century until the present, along with the impact of Irish people, politics, and nationalism on the Empire at large.
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Prof. Cronin has recently published his book entitled New Labour's Pasts: The Labour Party and its Discontents.
British culture, class, education, health, the arts, leisure, the economy have all seen seismic shifts since the 1997 election that raised Tony Blair to power. Politically, New Labour has changed the face of Britain.
In New Labour's Pasts, James Cronin covers the full history of the party, from its post war triumph, through decades of symbolic leadership against ruthless and organized opposition, finally to the resurgent New Labour of the 90s which finally took Britain into the new millennium.
Professors Jim O'Toole and David Quigley recently published a collection of essays in honor of historian Thomas H. O'Connor. This book builds on O'Connors work and looks at Boston's social, ethnic, political and religious past.
In October 2003, Marilynn Johnson published Street Justice. Her book traces police brutality cases in New York City and the anti-brutality movements that sought to eradicate it, from the years after the Civil War through the 1960's. Her main argument is that the idea of police brutality--what exactly it is, who its victims are, and why it occurs--is historically constructed. For a link to her book, please click here.
Kevin Kenny, in his book entitled New Directions in Irish-American History, looks at how the writing of Irish-American history has been transformed since the 1960s. His book demonstrates how scholars from many disciplines are addressing not only issues of emigration, politics, labor and social class, but also race, gender, representation, historical memory, and return (both literal and symbolic) to Ireland. For a link to his book, please click here.
Sergio Serulnikov published Subverting Colonial Authority, a political history that explores the origin and nature of the Indian revolts against the Spanish that exploded in the southern Andean highlands in the 1780s. He explores the changing forms of colonial domination and peasant politics in the Northern Potosi region of present-day Bolivia from the 1740s through the early 1780s.