HISTORY 575 RECOMMENDED READINGS
Chris Endy
Fall 2010
Note: There is considerable overlap in the categories below, so be sure to look through the
whole list to see what books most interest you.
Week 2 (30 September): Human Rights: An Overview
Micheline R. Ishay, The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004).
Highly Recommended Books on Human Rights
Lynda S. Bell, Andrew J. Nathan, and Ilan Peleg, eds., Negotiating Culture and Human Rights
(2001); includes Lucinda Joy Peach, "Are Women Human? The Promise and Peril of
"Women's Rights as Human Rights.”
Mark Philip Bradley and Patrice Petro, eds., Truth Claims: Representation and Human Rights
(2001).
Lynn Hunt, Inventing Human Rights: A History (2007).
[excerpts from Hunt’s book (pp. 26-45, 56-69, 80-92) are on HIST 450 E-Reserve.]
Paul Gordon Lauren, The Evolution of International Human Rights (1998)
Samuel Moyn, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (2010)
Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, ed., Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (2010)
**See also Week 6 recommendations.
Highly Recommended Articles on Human Rights
Burns H. Weston, “Human Rights,” Encyclopædia Britannica Online [available via JFK library
online]
Kenneth Cmiel, “The Emergence of Human Rights Politics in the United States,” Journal of
American History 86 (December 1999): 1231-50
Kenneth Cmiel, “The Recent History of Human Rights,” American Historical Review 109
(February 2004): 117-135
Lynn Hunt,]
Mark Mazower, “The Strange Triumph of Human Rights, 1933-1950,” Historical Journal 47
(2004): 379-98.
Samuel Moyn, “Human Rights in History,” Nation (August 11, 2010)
http://www.thenation.com/article/153993/human-rights-history
Other Good Articles and Books on Human Rights
Roland Burke, “The Compelling Dialogue of Freedom: Human Rights at the 1955 Bandung
Conference,” Human Rights Quarterly 28 (November 2006): 947-965
Roland Burke, Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights (2010)
Sandi Cooper, “Peace as a Human Right: The Invasion of Women into the High World of
International Politics,” Journal of Women's History 14 (Summer 2002): 9-25
Mary Ann Glendon, “The Forgotten Crucible: The Latin American Influence on the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights Idea,” Harvard Human Rights Journal 16 (2003), 27-39
Darren Hawkins, Melissa Humes, “Human Rights and Domestic Violence,” Political Science
Quarterly 117 (2002): 231-57.
Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial
Africa (1998)
Neil J. Mitchell and James M. McCormick, “Economic and Political Explanations of Human
Rights Violations,” World Politics 40 (July 1988): 476-498
Michael Cotey Morgan, “The Seventies and the Rebirth of Human Rights,” in Niall Ferguson,
Charles S. Maier, Erez Manela, Daniel J. Sargent, eds., The Shock of the Global: The
1970s in Perspective (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2010), 237-50 [HIST 450 E-Reserve]
Sankar Muthu Enlightenment Against Empire (2003)
Ben Nathan, “The Dictatorship of Reason: Aleksandr Vol'pin and the Idea of Rights under
‘Developed Socialism,’” Slavic Review 66 (Winter 2007): 630-63.
Amartya Sen, “Human Rights and Asian Values,” Sixteenth Annual Morgenthau Memorial
Lecture on Ethics and Foreign Policy, 25 May 1997,
http://www.cceia.org/resources/publications/morgenthau/254.html
Jackie Smith and Ron Pagnucco with George A. Lopez, "Globalizing Human Rights: The Work
of Transnational Human Rights NGOs in the 1990s," Human Rights Quarterly 20 (1998):
379-412.
Susan Waltz, “Reclaiming and Rebuilding the History of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights," Third World Quarterly 23 (2002): 437-448.
Erika de Wet, “Labor Standards in the Globalized Economy: The Inclusion of a Social Clause in
the General Agreement On Tariff and Trade/World Trade Organization,” Human Rights
Quarterly 17 (August 1995): 443-462.
Week 3 (7 October): Imperialism, Gender, and Race
Allison L. Sneider. Suffragists in an Imperial Age: U.S. Expansion and the Woman Question,
1870–1929 (New York: Oxford University Press. 2008)
Recommended Overviews on U.S. Foreign Policy Before 1945
Alan Dawley, Changing the World: Progressives in War and Revolution (2003)
Michael H. Hunt, Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy (1987)
Matthew Frye Jacobson, Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at
Home and Abroad, 1876-1917 (2000)
Amy Kaplan, The Anarchy of Empire (2002)
Erez Manela, The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of
Anticolonial Nationalism (2007)
Frank Ninkovich, Global Dawn: The Cultural Foundation of American Internationalism, 1865–
1890 (2009)
Emily S. Rosenberg, Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural
Expansion, 1890-1945 (1982)
David F. Schmitz, Thank God They’re on Our Side: The United States and Right-Wing
Dictatorships, 1921–1965 (1999).
William Appleman Williams, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (1959)
Recommended on U.S. Imperialism circa 1898:
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Robert Beisner, Twelve Against Empire: The Anti-Imperialists, 1898-1900 (1968)
Julian Go and Anne L Foster, eds., The American Colonial State in the Philippines (2003)
Matthew Frye Jacobson, Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at
Home and Abroad, 1876-1917 (2000)
Matthew Frye Jacobson, Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy
of Race (1998)
Walter LaFeber, The American Search for Opportunity, 1865-1913, vol. 2 in the Cambridge
History of American Foreign Relations (1993)
Walter LaFeber, The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860-1898 (1960)
John Offner, An Unwanted War: The Diplomacy of the United States over Cuba, 1895-1898
(1992)
Louis A. Pérez, The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography
(1998).
Emily S. Rosenberg, Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural
Expansion, 1890-1945 (1982)
David J. Silbey, A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine-American War, 1899-1902
(2007)
Recommended on Gender and Empire
Harriet Hyman Alonso, Peace as a Women’s Issue: A History of the U.S. Movement for World
Peace and Women’s Rights (1993)
Gail Bederman, Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the
United States, 1880-1917 (1995)
Laura Briggs, Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico
(2002)
Fredrick Cooper and Ann Laura Stoler, eds., Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a
Bourgeois World (1997)
Sarah Deutsch, No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class, and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier
in the American Southwest, 1880-1940 (1987)
Cynthia Enloe, Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics
(1990)
Eileen J. Suárez Findlay, Imposing Decency: Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico,
1870-1920 (1999)
Kristin L. Hoganson, Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the
Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars (1998)
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Changing Differences: Women and the Shaping of American Foreign
Policy, 1917-1944 (1996)
Petra Goedde, GIs and Germans: Culture, Gender, and Foreign Relations, 1945-1949 (2003)
Linda Gordon, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction (1999)
Ramón A. Gutiérrez, When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality and
Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 (1991)
Kristin L. Hoganson, Consumers’ Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity,
1865-1920 (2007)
Amy Kaplan and Donald E. Pease, eds., Cultures of U.S. Imperialism (1993)
Louise Michelle Newman, White Women’s Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United
States (1999)
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Leila J. Rupp, Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women’s Movement (1997)
Nayan Shah, Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown (2001)
Ann Laura Stoler, “Tense and Tender Ties: The Politics of Comparison in North American
History and (Post) Colonial Studies, Journal of American History 88 (December 2001):
829-65
Ian R. Tyrrell, Women’s World/Women’s Empire: The Women’s Christian Temperance Union in
International Perspective, 1880-1930 (1991)
Laura Wexler, Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S. Imperialism (2000)
Mari Yoshihara, Embracing the East: White Women and American Orientalism (2003)
Recommended on Race and Empire
Gail Bederman, Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the
United States, 1880-1917 (1995)
Fredrick Cooper and Ann Laura Stoler, eds., Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a
Bourgeois World (1997)
Brent Hayes Edwards, The Practice of Diaspora : Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black
Internationalism (2003)
Reginald Horsman, Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial AngloSaxonism (1981)
Michael H. Hunt, Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy (1987)
Matthew Frye Jacobson, Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy
of Race (1998)
Moon-Ho Jung, Coolies and Cane: Race Labor and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation (2007)
Yukiko Koshiro, Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of Japan (1999)
Paul A. Kramer, The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines
(2006).
Eric T. L. Love, Race over Empire: Racism and U.S. Imperialism, 1865-1900 (2004)
Fredrick B. Pike, The United States and Latin America: Myths and Stereotypes of Civilization
and Nature (1992)
Vicente Rafael, White Love and Other Events in Filipino History (2000)
Mary A. Renda, Taking Haiti, Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 19151940 (2001)
Emily Rosenberg, Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar
Diplomacy, 1900-1930 (1999)
Robert W. Rydell, All the World’s a Fair: Visions of Empire at American International
Expositions, 1876-1916 (1984)
Michelle A. Stephens, Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean
Intellectuals in the United States, 1914-1962 (2005)
Recommended on Women’s Rights and Suffrage
Nancy F. Cott, The Grounding of Modern Feminism (1987)
Lucy Delap, The Feminist Avant-Garde: Transatlantic Encounters of the Early Twentieth
Century (2007).
Margaret Finnegan, Selling Suffrage: Consumer Culture and Votes for Women (1999)
Gayle Gullett, Becoming Citizens: The Emergence and Development of the California Women’s
Movement, 1880-1911 (2000)
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Linda K. Kerber, No Constitutional Right To Be Ladies: Women and Obligations of Citizenship
(1998).
Ann Marie Nicolsi, “’The Most Beautiful Suffragette’: Inez Mulholland and the Political
Currency of Beauty,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 6 (July 2007).
Leslie Petty, Romancing the Vote: Feminist Activism in American Fiction. 1870-1920 (2006)
Kathryn Kish Sklar and James Brewer Stewart, eds., Women's Rights and Transatlantic
Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation (2007)
Week 4 (14 October): Responsibility and Rights in Industrialism
Barbara Welke, Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law and the American Railroad
Revolution, 1865-1920 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
Recommended on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Lynn Dumenil, The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s (1995)
Rebecca Edwards. Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil
War to the Progressive Era (1997)
John F. Kasson, Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America (1990)
Michael McGerr, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in
America, 1870-1920 (2003)
Daniel T. Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (1998)
Alan Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age (1982)
Robert Wiebe, The Search for Order, 1877-1920 (1967, 1980) Read with Kenneth Cmiel’s
review in Reviews in American History, vol 21 (1993): 352-368 (avail. on Project Muse
database)
**See also Week 3 recommendations.
Recommended on Business, Labor, and Capitalism in the Gilded Age/Progressive Era
Daniel E. Bender, Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of
Labor (2004)
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
(1977)
Aviva Chomsky, Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global
Working Class (2008)
*Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939 (1991)
William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (1991)
Lawrence B. Glickman, A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society
(1997)
William P. Jones, The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim
Crow South (2005)
Walter Licht, Industrializing America: The Nineteenth Century (1995)
David Montgomery, The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American
Labor Activism, 1865-1925 (1987)
Gunther Peck, Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North
American West,1880-1930 (2005)
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Roy Rosenzweig, Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City,
1870-1920 (1983)
Recommended on Race and Jim Crow
Edward L. Ayers, The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction (1992)
Elizabeth Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s
Movement in the
Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920 (1993)
Eric Foner, A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877 (1990), or Foner’s Reconstruction:
America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (1988)
Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy
in North Carolina, 1896-1920 (1996)
William P. Jones, The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim
Crow South (2005)
Week 5 (21 October): Rights in an Era of Internationalism
Elizabeth Borgwardt, A New Deal for the World: America’s Vision for Human Rights
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005).
Recommended on Human Rights Politics in U.S. History
Carol Anderson, Eyes on the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for
Human Rights, 1944-1955 (2003)
Carol Anderson, “From Hope to Disillusion: African Americans, The United Nations and the
Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1947,” Diplomatic History 20 (Fall 1996): 531-563.
Kenneth Cmiel, “The Emergence of Human Rights Politics in the United States,” Journal of
American History 86 (December 1999): 1231-50
Kenton Clymer, “Jimmy Carter, Human Rights, and Cambodia,” Diplomatic History 27 (April
2003): 245-278
Edward C. Lorenz, Defining Global Justice: The History of U.S. International Labor Standards
Policy (2001)
David F. Schmitz and Vanessa Walker, “Jimmy Carter and the Foreign Policy of Human Rights:
The Development of a Post-Cold War Foreign Policy,” Diplomatic History, 28: (January
2004): 113-143
Bradley R. Simpson, “‘Denying the First Right’: The United States, Indonesia, and the Ranking
of Human Rights by the Carter Administration, 1976-1980,” International History Review
31 (December 2009): 798-826.
Brad Simpson, “Solidarity in an Age of Globalization: The Transnational Movement for East
Timor and U.S. Foreign Policy,” Peace and Change: A Journal of Peace Research 29 (July
2004): 454-82.
Cynthia Soohoo, Catherine Albisa, and Martha F. Davis, eds., Bringing Human Rights Home: A
History of Human Rights in the United States (2009)
**See also Week 2 and Week 6 recommendations
Recommended on Progressives Before 1945:
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Alan Dawley, Changing the World: Progressives in War and Revolution (2003)
Alan Dawley, Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State (1991)
Dorothy V. Jones, Toward a Just World: The Critical Years in the Search for International
Justice (2002)
James T. Kloppenberg; Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European
and American Thought, 1870-1920 (1986)
Michael McGerr, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in
America, 1870-1920 (2003)
Daniel T. Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (1998)
Leila Rupp, Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women’s Movement (1997)
Ian Tyrell, Woman’s World/Woman’s Empire: The Women’s Christian Temperance Union in
International Perspective, 1880-1930 (1991)
Olivier Zunz, Why the American Century? (1998)
Recommended on the New Deal
Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939 (1991)
Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, eds., The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order: 1930-1980
(1989)
Meg Jacobs, Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth Century America (2005)
Gary Gerstle, “The Protean Character of American Liberalism,” American Historical Review
(1994)
Colin Gordon, New Deals: Business, Labor, and Politics in America, 1920-1935 (1994)
Recommended on World War II U.S. Homefront:
Beth Bailey and David Farber, The First Strange Place: The Alchemy of Race and Sex in World
War II Hawaii (1992)
Alan Berube, Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II
(1990)
Lewis A. Erenberg and Susan E. Hirsch, eds., The War in American Culture: Society and
Consciousness During World War II (1996)
David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 19291945 (1999)
Leisa D. Meyer, Creating GI Jane: Sexuality and Power in the Women's Army Corps during
World War II (1996)
Ronald Takaki, Double Victory: A Multicultural History of the United States in World War II
(2000)
Week 6 (28 October): A New Humanitarian Order?
Samantha Power, “A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide (New York: Harper
Perennial, 2002)
Recommended on Genocide
Robert B. Abzug, America Views the Holocaust, 1933-1945 (1999).
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Iris Chang, The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (1998)
Roméo Dallaire, Shake Hands With the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda (2003)
Helen M. Hintjens, “Explaining the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda,” Journal of Modern African
Studies 37 (June1999): 241-286.
Mahmood Mamdani, “The New Humanitarian Order,” Nation (29 September 2008),
http://www.thenation.com/article/new-humanitarian-order
Norman Naimark, Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in the Twentieth Century (2001)
Michael Stohl, “Outside of a Small Circle of Friends: States, Genocide, Mass Killing and the
Role of Bystanders,” Journal of Peace Research 24 (June 1987): 151-166
Arne Johan Vetlesen, “Genocide: A Case for the Responsibility of the Bystander,” Journal of
Peace Research 37 (July 2000): 519-532
Eric Weitz, Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation (2003)
Recommended on Non-Governmental Organizations
John Boli and George M. Thomas, Constructing World Culture: International Nongovernmental
Organizations since 1875 (1999)
Kenneth Cmiel, “The Emergence of Human Rights Politics in the United States,” Journal of
American History 86 (December 1999): 1231-50
Matthew Connelly, Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population (2008)
Akira Iriye, Global Community: The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the
Contemporary World (2002)
Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in
International Politics (1998)
Ian R. Tyrrell, Women’s World/Women’s Empire: The Women’s Christian Temperance Union in
International Perspective, 1880-1930 (1991)
Recommended on U.S. Foreign Policy during the Cold War:
James A. Bill, The Eagle and the Lion: The Tragedy of American-Iranian Relations (1988)
Thomas Borstelmann, The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global
Arena (2001)
Robert R. Bowie and Richard H. Immerman, Waging Peace: How Eisenhower Shaped an
Enduring Cold War Strategy (1998)
Mark Philip Bradley, Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam,
1919-1950 (2000)
Matthew Connelly, A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria’s Fight for Independence and the Origins
of the Post-Cold War Era (2002)
Robert D. Dean, Imperial Brotherhood: Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy
(2002)
Lawrence Freedman, Kennedy’s Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam (2000)
Chen Jian, Mao’s China and the Cold War (2001)
Gilbert M. Joseph and Daniela Spenser, eds., In From the Cold: Latin America’s New Encounter
with the Cold War (2008)
John Lewis Gaddis, We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (1997)
Piero Gleijeses, Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954
(1991)
Walter LaFeber, Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America (1983)
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Melvyn P. Leffler, For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union and the Cold
War (2007).
William M. LeoGrande, Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1977-1992
(1998)
Douglas Little, American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East since 1945 (2003)
Fredrik Logevall, Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in
Vietnam (1999)
Alan McPherson, Yankee No!: Anti-Americanism in U.S.-Latin American Relations (2003)
Kenneth Osgood, Total Cold War: Eisenhower’s Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad
(2006)
Stephen G. Rabe, The Most Dangerous Place in the World: John F. Kennedy Confronts
Communist Revolution in Latin America (1999)
David F. Schmitz, Thank God They’re on Our Side: The United States and Right-Wing
Dictatorships, 1921-1965 (1999)
David F. Schmitz, The United States and Right-Wing Dictatorships, 1965-1989 (2006)
Michael S. Sherry, In the Shadow of War: The United States since the 1930s (1995)
Jeremi Suri, Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente (2003)
Odd Arne Westad, The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our
Times (2005)
Marilyn B. Young, Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990 (1991)
Vladislav M. Zubok, A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to
Gorbachev (2007)
Week 7 (4 November): Consumer Rights; Government Responsibilities
Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumer’s Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
(New York: Vintage, 2003)
Consumerism
Arjun Appadurai, ed., The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective (1986)
Susan Porter Benson, Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American
Department Stores, 1890–1940 (1986)
Lendol Calder, Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit (1999)
Gary Cross, An All-Consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in Modern America (2000)
Victoria de Grazia, Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance through 20th-Century Europe (2005)
Kathleen G. Donohue, Freedom from Want: American Liberalism and the Idea of the Consumer
(2003).
Christopher Endy, Cold War Holidays: American Tourism in France (Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press, 2004)
Thomas Frank, The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip
Consumerism (1997)
Meg Jacobs, Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth Century America (2005)
Jukka Gronow, Caviar with Champagne: Common Luxury and the Ideals of the Good Life in
Stalin’s Russia (2003)
Lawrence B. Glickman, ed., Consumer Society in American History: A Reader (1999)
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Walter LaFeber, Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism (2002)
William Leach, Land of Desire: Merchants, Power and the Rise of a New American Culture
(1993)
Jackson Lears, Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America (1994)
Roland Marchand, Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity, 1920-1940
(1985)
Richard Pells, Not Like Us: How Europeans Have Loved, Hated, and Transformed American
Culture Since World War II (1997)
Juliet B. Schor and Douglas B. Holt, The Consumer Society Reader (2000)
Annabel Wharton, Building the Cold War: Hilton International Hotels and Modern Architecture
(2001)
Suburbs and Cities
Eric Avila, Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los
Angeles (2004)
Rosalyn Baxandall and Elizabeth Ewen, Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened (2000)
Kenneth T. Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (1985)
Robert O. Self, American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland (2003)
Thomas J. Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
(1996)
Political Economy after 1945
William Berman, America’s Right Turn: From Nixon to Bush (1994)
Robert M. Collins, More: The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America (2000)
Jefferson Cowie, Capital Moves: RCA’s Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap
Labor (1999)
Kim Philips-Fein, Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New
Deal to Reagan (2009)
Dana Frank, Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism (1999)
Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, eds., The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order: 1930-1980
(1989)
Gary Gerstle, “The Protean Character of American Liberalism,” American Historical Review
(1994) (avail. on J-STOR).
Michael Kazin, The Populist Persuasion: An American History (1995, 1998)
Lisa McGirr, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (2001)
Kim McQuaid, Uneasy Partners: Big Business in American Politics, 1945-1990 (1994)
Bethany Moreton, To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise (2009)
Alice O’Connor, Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in TwentiethCentury U.S. History (2001)
Vicki L. Ruiz, Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the
California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950 (1987)
Judith Stein, Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of
Liberalism (1998)
Olivier Zunz, Why the American Century (1998)
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Week 9 (18 November): Closing Doors and Controlling Citizenship
Mae M. Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004).
Recommended on Immigration:
John Bodnar, The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America (1985)
Catherine Ceniza Choy, Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History
(2003)
Sarah Deutsch, No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class, and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier
in the American Southwest, 1880-1940 (1987)
Timothy P. Fong, The First Suburban Chinatown: The Remaking of Monterey Park, California
(1994)
Nancy L. Green and François Weil, eds., Citizenship and Those Who Leave: The Politics of
Emigration and Expatriation (2007)
David Gutiérrez, Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics
of Ethnicity (1995)
Oscar Handlin, The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migration That Made the American
People (1951, rev. ed. 1973)
Matthew Frye Jacobson, Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy
of Race (1998)
Erika Lee, At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
(2003)
Adam McKeown. Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change: Peru, Chicago, Hawaii,
1900–1936 (2001)
Adam McKeown, Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders (2008)
Gunther Peck, Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North
American West, 1880-1930 (2000)
Lucy E. Salyer, Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern
Immigration Law (1995)
George J. Sanchez, Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los
Angeles, 1900-1945 (1993)
Nayan Shah, Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown (2001)
Ronald Takaki, Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans (1998)
Recommended on Workers in the United States:
Daniel E. Bender, Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of
Labor (2004)
Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939 (1991)
Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumer’s Republic: The Politics of Consumption in Postwar America
(2003)
Leon Fink, The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South (2003)
Alice Kessler-Harris, In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship
in Twentieth Century America (2001)
Lawrence B. Glickman, A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society
(1997)
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Nelson Lichtenstein, State of the Union: A Century of American Labor (2002)
Nancy MacLean, Freedom is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Marketplace (2006)
David Montgomery, The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American
Labor Activism, 1865-1925 (1987)
Vicki L. Ruiz, Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the
California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950 (1987).
Week 11 (2 December): Welfare Rights
Annelise Orleck, Storming Cesar’s Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on
Poverty (Boston: Beacon Press, 2005).
Recommended on Twentieth-Century U.S. Gender and Sexuality:
Beth Bailey, Sex in the Heartland (1999)
Laura Briggs, Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico
(2002)
George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay May
World, 1890-1940 (1994)
Stephanie Coontz, The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap (1992)
K.A. Cuordileone, Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War (2005)
John D’Emilio, Sexual Politics. Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in
the United States. 1940-1970 (1983, 1998)
Ruth Feldstein, Motherhood in Black and White: Race and Sex in American Liberalism, 19301965 (2000)
David K. Johnson, The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the
Federal Government (2004)
Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era (1988, 1999)
Joanne Meyerowitz, ed. Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960
(1994)
Kathy Peiss, Hope in a Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture (1998)
Johanna Schoen, Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public
Health and Welfare. Publication Information (2005)
Recommended on Poverty and Anti-Poverty in U.S. History
Laura Briggs, Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico
(2002)
Gareth Davies, From Opportunity to Entitlement: The Transformation and Decline of Great
Society Liberalism (1996)
Todd DePastino, Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America (2005)
Linda Gordon, Pitied but not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare, 1890-1935
(1994)
Robert C. Lieberman, Shifting the Color Line: Race and the American Welfare State (1998)
Jennifer Mittelstadt, From Welfare to Workfare: The Unintended Consequences of Liberal
Reform, 1945-1965 (2005)
Alice O’Connor, Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in TwentiethCentury U.S. History (2001)
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Ellen Reese, Backlash Against Welfare Mothers: Past and Present (2005)
Robert O. Self, American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland (2003)
Rickie Solinger, Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v. Wade (1992)
Thomas J. Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
(1996)
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