The Monster Within: the Hidden Side of Motherhood
Barbara Almond
Native Apostles: Black and Indian Missionaries in the British Atlantic World
Edward E. Andrews
Destiny Disrupted: a History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
Tamim Ansary
The Bible
Karen Armstrong
Coolie Woman
Gaiutra Bahadur (2012)
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Gobal Poverty
Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo
Setting the Desert on Fire: T.E. Lawrence and Britain's Secret War in Arabia, 1916-1918
James Barr
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Roland Barthes
Fires of Vesuvius
Mary Beard
Women from the Ankles Down: the Story of Shoes and How They Define Us
Rachelle Bergstein
(2012)
Anne Boleyn...
G. W. Bernard
The Caliph's Splendor: Islam and the West in the Golden Age of Baghdad
Benson Bobrick (8/14/2012)
The Girl With the Crooked Nose: a Tale of Murder, Obsession, and Forensic Artistry
Ted Botha (2008)
Another Freedom: the Alternative History of an Idea
Svetlana Boym
American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People
T. H. Breen
New Worlds, Lost Worlds: the Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603
Susan Brigden (2001)
The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and its Legacies
Victoria E. Bynum (UNC Press - April, 2010)
Corkscrewed: Adventures in the New French Wine Country
Robert V. Camuto
Late for Tea at the Deer Palace: the Lost Dreams of My Iraqi Family
Tamara Chalabi
Big Box Re-Use
Julia Christensen
A Strange Stirring: the Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s
Stephanie Coontz
Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle
Thea Cooper and Arthur Ainsberg
A Little Book of Language
David Crystal (Yale University Press)
Islam, Science, and the Challenge of History
Ahmad Dallal (Yale)
What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets
Faith D'Aluisio
(read an exerpt in Marie Claire or something; very interesting!)
[later ended up seeing the spin-off exhibit at the Boston Museum of Science - and it was GROSS seeing what some people eat, sad seeing how little some people eat, and depressing seeing how few vegetable most people ate...so then V and I went and ate lots of veggies and stuff. But also had lots of wine, so eventually there were some chips]
Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris
Robert Darnton
The Empire Project: the Rise and Fall of the British World-System 1830-1970
John Darwin (Cambridge University Press, 2009) - glowing review in AHR 2/2011
The Bone Gatherers: the Lost Worlds of Early Christian Women
Nicola Denzey
Wave
Sonali Deraniyagala
(2013: memoir about the 2004 tsunami)
Natural Experiments of History
Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson, editors
Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America
Eric Jay Dolin
Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town
Elyssa East
Get Capone: The Secret Plot that Captured America's Most Wanted Gangster
Jonathan Eig
Evil
Terry Eagleton (Yale)
Cabin, Quarter, Plantation: Architecture and Landscapes of North American Slavery Ellis & Ginsburg
The Coming of the Third Reich
Richard J. Evans
The Just City
Susan S. Fainstein
In the Name of God and Country: Reconsidering Terrorism in American History
Michael Fellman
Scorpions: the Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices
Noah Feldman
Dry Storeroom No. 1: the Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
Richard Fortey
The Tribal Imagination: Civilization and the Savage Mind
Robin Fox
Defying the Odds: the Tule River Tribe's Struggle for Sovereignty in Three Centuries Gelya Frank & Carole Goldberg
Pauline Bonaparte, Venus of Empire
Flora Fraser
The Turbulent World of Franz Goll
Peter Fritzsche
Faces of America...
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
I is an Other: the Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World
James Geary
Judaism: A Way of Being
David Gelernter (Yale University Press)
India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking
Anand Giridharadas
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
Edward Glaeser
Antony & Cleopatra
How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower (Yale University Press)
Adrian Goldsworthy
Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World (2013)
Matthew Goodman
The Hemingses of Monticello
Annette Gordon-Reed
Fordlandia: the Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
Greg Grandin
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
David Grann
The Natural Mystics: Marley, Tosh, and Wailer
Colin Grant
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (2011)
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (2004)
Stephen Greenblatt
The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam
Eliza Griswold [8/2/2011]
Makers of Modern India
Ramachandra Guha, editor
Blood, Bones, and Butter: the Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
Gabrielle Hamilton
Ships, Furs, and Sandalwood: A Yankee Trader in Hawai'i, 1823-1825
Charles C. Hammatt, ed. Sandra Wagner-Wright (1999)
Oceans of Wine: Madeira and the Emergence of American Trade and Taste
David Hancock (Yale University Press, 2009) review in WMQ 10/2010
High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America
Jessica B. Harris
The Anatomist: a True Story of Gray's Anatomy
Bill Hayes
Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order
Charles Hill (Yale University Press)
My Korean Deli
Ben Ryder Howe
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Tony Horwitz
(Afterwards reread David Blight’s Race and Reunion: the Civil War in American Memory?)
Rome
Robert Hughes, 2011
Alger Hiss & the Battle for History
Susan Jacoby
In the Eye of All Trade: Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680-1783
Michael Jarvis (Omohundro, 2010 - WidLC F1637.J37)
What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, & Everyday Life in Nazi Germany
E. Johnson & K.H. Reuband
Among the Gentiles: Greco-Roman Religion and Christianity
Luke Timothy Johnson (2009) Wid-LC BR128.G8 J646
A School for My Village: A Promise to the Orphans of Nyaka
Twesigye Jackson Kaguri
The Begums of Bhopal: A Dynasty of Women Rulers in Raj India
Shaharyar M. Khan (London, 2000) see, too, Metcalf article AHR 2/2011 (fascinating!)
Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History
Anne Kelly Knowles, ed. (2002)
Christians and Pagans...Conversion of Britain...
Malcolm Lambert
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Erik Larsen
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles
Jennifer 8 Lee
The Invisible Hook: the Hidden Economics of Pirates
Peter T. Leeson (Princeton U. P., 2009)
Jane Austen's "Outlandish Cousin": the Life and Letters of Eliza de Feuillide
Deirdre Le Faye
The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle Over American History
The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death (2012)
Jill Lepore
The Fourth Part of the World: an Astonishing Epic of Global Discovery, Imperial Ambition, and the Birth of America
Toby Lester
Suffering Succotash: A Picky Eater's Quest to Understand Why We Hate the Foods We Hate
Stephanie Lucianovic (2012)
33 Revolutions Per Minute
Dorian Lynskey
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
Ben Macintyre (2010)
Searching For the Just City: Debates in Urban Theory & Practice
ed. Peter Marcuse
America and the Pill
Elaine Tyler May
The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume
Tilar J. Mazzeo
Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914
J. R. McNeill (Cambridge University Press, 2010) review in WMQ 10/2010
Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England
Carolyn Merchant
Born in Africa: the Quest for the Origins of Human Life
Martin Meredith
Destiny of the Republic: a Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President
Candice Millard
Three Ancient Colonies
Sidney Mintz (Harvard University Press)
Framing Muslims: Stereotyping and Representation After 9/11
Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Changing Homelands: Hindu Politics and the Partition of India
Neeti Nair
Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case
Debbie Nathan
[Okay, this could be total trash, but I vaguely recall the movie from the high school Psych class where it was a famously casual teacher's last semester, and R and I discussed how improbable it all seemed, so...I dunno, might be a light read at some point]
The Liberty Bell
Gary B. Nash (Yale University Press)
God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible
Adam Nicolson
Creating Capabilities: the Human Development Approach
Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities (2010)
Martha C. Nussbaum
Empty Bottles of Gentilism: Kingship and the Divine in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (to 1050)
Francis Oakley
Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England
Jean M. O'Brien (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010)
Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture
Peggy Orenstein
The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek & the Birth of Modern China
Hannah Pakula
Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection
Katharine Park
Italian Vices: Nation and Character from the Risorgimento to the Republic
Silvana Patriarca (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, a Playwright, and a Spy Saved the American Revolution
Joel Richard Peal (Peal? Can't read my own scribbling...SOUNDS funny though!)
Pagan Holiday: On the Trail of Ancient Roman Tourists
Tony Perrottet
The Book in the Renaissance
Andrew Pettegree
Brilliant Effects: A Cultural History of Gemstones and Jewellery
Marcia Pointon
Bird Cloud: A Memoir
Annie Proulx (maybe)
A City So Grand: the Rise of an American Metropolis, Boston, 1850-1900
Stephen Puleo (2010)
Revolutionaries: a New History of the Invention of America
Jack Rakove
The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human
V.S. Ramachandran (2012)
Knocking On Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World (2011)
Lisa Randall
American Uprising: the Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt
Daniel Rasmussen
Eden on the Charles: the Making of Boston
Michael Rawson
Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure That Took the Victorian World by Storm (2013)
Monte Reel
Make the Bread, Buy the Butter
Jennifer Reese
The Bridge: the Life and Rise of Barack Obama
David Remnick
Representing Justice: Invention, Controversy, and Rights in City-States and Democratic Courtrooms
Judith Resnik & Dennis Curtis (Yale University Press)
The Founders and the Classics: Greece, Rome, and the American Enlightenment (1995)
The Golden Age of the Classics in America: Greece, Rome, and the Antebellum United States (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009) [review in NEQ]
Carl J. Richard
Before the Revolution: America's Ancient Pasts
Daniel K. Richter
The Waters of Rome: Aqueducts, Fountains, and the Birth of the Baroque City
Katherine Wentworth Rinne (Yale University Press)
Hiroshima in the Morning Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
When I Was a Child I Read Books Marilynn Robinson
Listed: Dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act
Joe Roman
Delia's Tears: Race, Science, and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America
Molly Rogers [Wid-LC E445.S7 R64]
For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History
Sarah Rose
Common Sense: a Political History
Sophia Rosenfeld
Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary
Miri Rubin
Islands of History
Marshall Sahlins
The Elephant's Journey
Jose Saramago
Child-Sized History: Fictions of the Past in U.S. Classrooms
Sara L. Schwebel (2011)
La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life
Elaine Sciolino
The Idea of Justice
Amartya Sen
Rome Reborn on Western Shores: Historical Imagination and the Creation of the American Republic
Eran Shalev (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009)
Charles Dickens
Michael Slater (Yale University Press)
Newspaper Titan: The Infamous Life and Monumental Times of Cissy Patterson
Amanda Smith
[Debutante becomes newspaper editor in the 30s? Awesome]
Natural Reflections
Barbara Herrnstein Smith
Monsters of the Gevaudan
Jay M. Smith
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Timothy Snyder
Winged Obsession: The Pursuit of the World's Most Notorious Butterfly Smuggler
Jessica Speart
The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science Douglas Starr
The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation
Nancy Rubin Stuart
The Horse That Leaps Through Clouds: A Tale of Espionage, the Silk Road, and the Rise of Modern China
Eric Enno Tamm
The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair
Moshik Temkin
The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898
Evan Thomas
The Fear of Barbarians: Beyond the Clash of Civilizations
Tzvetan Todorov
Big Girls Don't Cry: the Election That Changed Everything for American Women Rebecca Traister
Defying Empire: Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York
Thomas Truxes (Yale University Press)
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Randolph V. Turner
Why the Constitution Matters
Mark Tushnet
The Tiger: a True Story of Vengeance and Survival
John Vaillant
(the guy who wrote Golden Spruce - which I still don't know what it's about - this one is about a tiger in the Russian taiga that goes rogue and starts eating people and has to be tracked down...sounds fun!)
Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian EnglandAmanda Vickery (2009) [Wid-LC HQ615.V53]
Unfamiliar Fishes
The Wordy Shipmates
Sarah Vowell
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
Edmund de Waal
The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle
Sara Wheeler
A Royal Passion...
Katie Whitaker (Charles I and Henrietta Maria; should read this, then Gambling Man)
Nothing Daunted: the Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West
Dorothy Wickenden
Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History (2012)
Florence Williams
The Clamorgans: One Family's History of Race in America
Julie Winch
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
Simon Winchester
The Evolution of God
Robert Wright (Back Bay Books)
Naked City: the Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places
Sharon Zukin
