AHR Forum: Follow the Money: Banking and Finances in the Modern World
Introduction
“Who Hold the Balance of the World?” Bankers at the Congress of Vienna, and in International History Glenda Sluga
Archipelago Capitalism: Tax Havens, Offshore Money, and the State, 1950s–1970s Vanessa Ogle
How Americans Give: The Financialization of American Jewish Philanthropy Lila Corwin Berman
Appreciating Assets: New Directions in the History of Political Economy Jonathan Levy
AHR Conversation: Walls, Borders, and Boundaries in World History
AHR Conversation: Walls, Borders, and Boundaries in World History Suzanne Conklin Akbari; Tamar Herzog; Daniel Jütte; Carl Nightingale; William Rankin ...
Featured Reviews
Siep Stuurman. The Invention of Humanity: Equality and Cultural Difference in World History. Alan T. Wood
W. V. Harris. Roman Power: A Thousand Years of Empire. Michael Kulikowski
Helmut Reimitz. History, Frankish Identity and the Framing of Western Ethnicity, 550–850. Geoffrey Koziol
Lyndal Roper. Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet. Bruce Gordon
Paul E. Lovejoy. Jihād in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions. John K. Thornton
Tara Zahra. The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World. Keely Stauter-Halsted
Kim Phillips-Fein. Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics. Steve Fraser
Reviews of Books
Methods/Theory
Sonja Luehrmann. Religion in Secular Archives: Soviet Atheism and Historical Knowledge. Penelope Papailias
Dipesh Chakrabarty. The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth. Shukla Sanyal
Noah Shenker. Reframing Holocaust Testimony. Nicholas Chare
Comparative/World/Transnational
Daniel G. König. Arabic-Islamic Views of the Latin West: Tracing the Emergence of Medieval Europe. Alex Mallett
Jürgen Kocka. Capitalism: A Short History. Frank Trentmann
Zara Anishanslin. Portrait of a Woman in Silk: Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World. Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor
David Brundage. Irish Nationalists in America: The Politics of Exile, 1798–1998. John Day Tully
Albert Monshan Wu. From Christ to Confucius: German Missionaries, Chinese Christians, and the Globalization of Christianity, 1860–1950. D. E. Mungello
David C. Atkinson. The Burden of White Supremacy: Containing Asian Migration in the British Empire and the United States. Madeline Y. Hsu
Sung-Eun Choi. Decolonization and the French of Algeria: Bringing the Settler Colony Home. Jennifer Johnson
Asia
Ravi Palat. The Making of an Indian Ocean World-Economy, 1250–1650: Princes, Paddy Fields, and Bazaars. Patricia Risso
Manan Ahmed Asif. A Book of Conquest: The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia. Chitralekha Zutshi
Audrey Truschke. Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court. Jos Gommans
Chandak Sengoopta. The Rays before Satyajit: Creativity and Modernity in Colonial India. Neilesh Bose
Rajesh Rai. Indians in Singapore, 1819–1945: Diaspora in the Colonial Port City. Stephen Dobbs
Christina Elizabeth Firpo. The Uprooted: Race, Children, and Imperialism in French Indochina, 1890–1980. Nguyễn Thị Điểu
Hilde De Weerdt. Information, Territory, and Networks: The Crisis and Maintenance of Empire in Song China. Mark Halperin
Jonathan Schlesinger. A World Trimmed with Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule. Shellen X. Wu
Miriam Gross. Farewell to the God of Plague: Chairman Mao’s Campaign to Deworm China. Michael Shiyung Liu
Frank Dikötter. The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962–1976. Richard King
Ralph A. Thaxton Jr. Force and Contention in Contemporary China: Memory and Resistance in the Long Shadow of the Catastrophic Past. Matthew D. Johnson
Su-kyoung Hwang. Korea’s Grievous War. Kyung Moon Hwang
Noriko Kawamura. Emperor Hirohito and the Pacific War. Franziska Seraphim
Kerry Ross. Photography for Everyone: The Cultural Lives of Cameras and Consumers in Early Twentieth-Century Japan. Morris Low
Oceania and the Pacific Islands
Liz Conor. Skin Deep: Settler Impressions of Aboriginal Women. Grace Karskens
Miranda Johnson. The Land Is Our History: Indigeneity, Law, and the Settler State. Barry Morris
Tracey Banivanua Mar. Decolonisation and the Pacific: Indigenous Globalisation and the Ends of Empire. Miranda Johnson
Canada and the United States
Lisa J. M. Poirier. Religion, Gender, and Kinship in Colonial New France. Erik R. Seeman
Kurt Korneski. Conflicted Colony: Critical Episodes in Nineteenth-Century Newfoundland and Labrador. Raymond B. Blake
Orest T. Martynowych. Ukrainians in Canada: The Interwar Years, Book 1: Social Structure, Religious Institutions, and Mass Organizations. Bastian A. Vollmer
Donald Worster. Shrinking the Earth: The Rise and Decline of American Abundance. Philip Garone
Anya Zilberstein. A Temperate Empire: Making Climate Change in Early America. John L. Brooke
Ann Marie Plane. Dreams and the Invisible World in Colonial New England: Indians, Colonists, and the Seventeenth Century. Richard A. Bailey
Ann M. Little. The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright. Ava Chamberlain
Claudio Saunt. West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776. Kathleen DuVal
Laurent DuBois. The Banjo: America’s African Instrument. Charles L. Hughes
Timothy S. Huebner. Liberty and Union: The Civil War Era and American Constitutionalism. Xi Wang
Gergely Baics. Feeding Gotham: The Political Economy and Geography of Food in New York, 1790–1860. Jeffrey M. Pilcher
David S. Brown. Moderates: The Vital Center of American Politics, from the Founding to Today. Gary Donaldson
Christopher D. Haveman. Rivers of Sand: Creek Indian Emigration, Relocation, and Ethnic Cleansing in the American South. Andrew Denson
Laurel Clark Shire. The Threshold of Manifest Destiny: Gender and National Expansion in Florida. Honor Sachs
Alfred L. Brophy. University, Court, and Slave: Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War. J. Brent Morris
Diane Smith. Yellowstone and the Smithsonian: Centers of Wildlife Conservation. James R. Skillen
Andrea L. Turpin. A New Moral Vision: Gender, Religion, and the Changing Purposes of American Higher Education, 1837–1917. Carol K. Coburn
Marne L. Campbell. Making Black Los Angeles: Class, Gender, and Community, 1850–1917. Herbert G. Ruffin, II
Timothy Paul Bowman. Blood Oranges: Colonialism and Agriculture in the South Texas Borderlands. Linda B. Hall
Susanna L. Blumenthal. Law and the Modern Mind: Consciousness and Responsibility in American Legal Culture. H. Robert Baker
J. Samaine Lockwood. Archives of Desire: The Queer Historical Work of New England Regionalism. Amanda Frisken
Joan Quigley. Just Another Southern Town: Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation’s Capital. Patricia A. Schechter
Edward J. Balleisen. Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff. Rowena Olegario
Ocean Howell. Making the Mission: Planning and Ethnicity in San Francisco. Nancy H. Kwak
Micki McElya. The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery. Caroline E. Janney
Douglas C. Baynton. Defectives in the Land: Disability and Immigration in the Age of Eugenics. Audra Jennings
Karen R. Jones. Epiphany in the Wilderness: Hunting, Nature, and Performance in the Nineteenth-Century American West; Frank Van Nuys. Varmints and Victims: Predator Control in the American West. Kurk Dorsey
Dan Flores. Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History; Michael D. Wise. Producing Predators: Wolves, Work, and Conquest in the Northern Rockies. Julie Courtwright
Erik Loomis. Empire of Timber: Labor Unions and the Pacific Northwest Forests. Douglas C. Sackman
Daniel E. Bender. The Animal Game: Searching for Wildness at the American Zoo. Jesse C. Donahue
Bruce J. Schulman and Julian E. Zelizer. Media Nation: The Political History of News in Modern America. Charles L. Ponce de Leon
Todd M. Michney. Surrogate Suburbs: Black Upward Mobility and Neighborhood Change in Cleveland, 1900–1980. Victoria W. Wolcott
Jason Reid. Get out of My Room! A History of Teen Bedrooms in America. Carly A. Kocurek
Richard R. John and Kim Phillips-Fein, editors. Capital Gains: Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America. Edward Balleisen
Gregory Wood. Clearing the Air: The Rise and Fall of Smoking in the Workplace. Pamela E. Pennock
Betty Livingston Adams. Black Women’s Christian Activism: Seeking Social Justice in a Northern Suburb. Cherisse Jones-Branch
Cara Lea Burnidge. A Peaceful Conquest: Woodrow Wilson, Religion, and the New World Order. Mark E. Benbow
Nancy K. Berlage. Farmers Helping Farmers: The Rise of the Farm and Home Bureaus, 1914–1935. Brian Q. Cannon
Michael G. Thompson. For God and Globe: Christian Internationalism in the United States between the Great War and the Cold War. Anna Su
Daniel Amsterdam. Roaring Metropolis: Businessmen’s Campaign for a Civic Welfare State. Gavin Wright
Catherine A. Stewart. Long Past Slavery: Representing Race in the Federal Writers’ Project. Scott E. Casper
Michael A. McCarthy. Dismantling Solidarity: Capitalist Politics and American Pensions since the New Deal. Robert E. Wright
Steven P. Remy. The Malmedy Massacre: The War Crimes Trial Controversy. Christopher Dillon
Bryan L. McDonald. Food Power: The Rise and Fall of the Postwar American Food System. Deborah Fitzgerald
Anne M. Blankenship. Christianity, Social Justice, and the Japanese American Incarceration during World War II. Karen M. Inouye
Karen M. Inouye. The Long Afterlife of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration. Alice Yang
Jerald Podair. City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles. Jon C. Teaford
Susan L. Smith. Toxic Exposures: Mustard Gas and the Health Consequences of World War II in the United States. Edwin A. Martini
Arissa H. Oh. To Save the Children of Korea: The Cold War Origins of International Adoption. SooJin Pate
Jason C. Parker. Hearts, Minds, Voices: U.S. Cold War Public Diplomacy and the Formation of the Third World. Joseph M. Siracusa
Brian D. Goldstein. The Roots of Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and the Struggle over Harlem. Tracy Neumann
Kevin M. Boylan. Losing Binh Dinh: The Failure of Pacification and Vietnamization, 1969–1971. Gregory A. Daddis
Stacie Taranto. Kitchen Table Politics: Conservative Women and Family Values in New York. June Melby Benowitz
Marjorie J. Spruill. Divided We Stand: The Battle over Women’s Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics. Susan M. Hartmann
Charles W. Eagles. Civil Rights, Culture Wars: The Fight over a Mississippi Textbook. Carl R. Weinberg
Darren Frederick Speece. Defending Giants: The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental Politics. Neil M. Maher
Caribbean and Latin America
Miriam Melton -Villanueva. The Aztecs at Independence: Nahua Culture Makers in Central Mexico, 1799–1832. Yanna Yannakakis
John Lear. Picturing the Proletariat: Artists and Labor in Revolutionary Mexico, 1908–1940. Michael David Snodgrass
Amelia M. Kiddle. Mexico’s Relations with Latin America during the Cárdenas Era. Alan Knight
Luis Martínez-Fernández. Revolutionary Cuba: A History. Kirwin Shaffer
Devyn Spence Benson. Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution. Karen Y. Morrison
Trevor Burnard and John Garrigus. The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica. Colleen A. Vasconcellos
Philippe Girard. Toussaint Louverture: A Revolutionary Life. Ronald Angelo Johnson
Anne Eller. We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom. Milagros Ricourt
Kristen Stromberg Childers. Seeking Imperialism’s Embrace: National Identity, Decolonization, and Assimilation in the French Caribbean. Jean M. Hébrard
Olga Jiménez de Wagenheim. Nationalist Heroines: Puerto Rican Women History Forgot, 1930s–1950s. Isabel Córdova
Raymond B. Craib. The Cry of the Renegade: Politics and Poetry in Interwar Chile.Patrick Barr-Melej Mary C. Karasch. Before Brasília: Frontier Life in Central Brazil. Celso Thomas Castilho
Europe: Ancient and Medieval
Andrew T. Alwine. Enmity and Feuding in Classical Athens. Edward M. Harris
Tom Turpie. Kind Neighbours: Scottish Saints and Society in the Later Middle Ages. Michael Brown
N. J. Higham. Ecgfrith: King of the Northumbrians, High-King of Britain. Alex Woolf
Donald S. Prudlo. Certain Sainthood: Canonization and the Origins of Papal Infallibility in the Medieval Church. Mary Stroll
Mike Carr. Merchant Crusaders in the Aegean, 1291–1352. Nikolaos G. Chrissis
Europe: Early Modern and Modern
Kathryn A. Edwards, editor. Everyday Magic in Early Modern Europe. Frank Klaassen
George Makari. Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind. Anton M. Matytsin
Stephen Gaukroger. The Natural and the Human: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739–1841. J. B. Shank
Bo Stråth. Europe’s Utopias of Peace: 1815, 1919, 1951. David Wetzel
Alexander Karn. Amending the Past: Europe’s Holocaust Commissions and the Right to History. Greg Burgess
Elizabeth Buettner. Europe after Empire: Decolonization, Society, and Culture. Marc Matera
John M. Collins. Martial Law and English Laws, c. 1500–c. 1700. David Edwards
Peter Elmer. Witchcraft, Witch-Hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England. Marion Gibson
David Hitchcock. Vagrancy in English Culture and Society, 1650–1750. Eleanor Hubbard
Timothy Campbell. Historical Style: Fashion and the New Mode of History, 1740–1830. David Kuchta
Peter Thorsheim. Waste into Weapons: Recycling in Britain during the Second World War. Chris Pearson
Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon. Continental Drift: Britain and Europe from the End of Empire to the Rise of Euroscepticism. David Coates
Thomas O’Connor. Irish Voices from the Spanish Inquisition: Migrants, Converts, and Brokers in Early Modern Iberia. Kimberly Lynn
Sabine Arnaud. On Hysteria: The Invention of a Medical Category between 1670 and 1820. Lianne McTavish
Lester K. Little. Indispensable Immigrants: The Wine Porters of Northern Italy and Their Saint, 1200–1800. Andrea Caracausi
Elizabeth Casteen. From She-Wolf to Martyr: The Reign and Disputed Reputation of Johanna I of Naples. Serena Ferente
Nicholas A. Eckstein. Painted Glories: The Brancacci Chapel in Renaissance Florence. Loren Partridge
Holly S. Hurlburt. Daughter of Venice: Caterina Corner; Queen of Cyprus and Woman of the Renaissance. Daria Perocco
Sarah Gwyneth Ross. Everyday Renaissances: The Quest for Cultural Legitimacy in Venice. Stephen Bowd
Fabrizio D’Avenia. La Chiesa del re: Monarchia e Papato nella Sicilia spagnola (secc. XVI–XVII). Miles Pattenden
Robert Mallett. Mussolini in Ethiopia, 1919–1935: The Origins of Fascist Italy’s African War. G. Bruce Strang
Anna Tonelli. Gli irregolari: Amori comunisti al tempo della Guerra fredda. Molly Tambor
Giovanni Mario Ceci. Il terrorismo italiano: Storia di un dibattito. Richard Drake
Alessio Ponzio. Shaping the New Man: Youth Training Regimes in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Benjamin G. Martin
Ulinka Rublack. The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler’s Fight for His Mother. Alisha Rankin
Alan S. Ross. Daum’s Boys: Schools and the Republic of Letters in Early Modern Germany. Joel F. Harrington
Sarah L. Leonard. Fragile Minds and Vulnerable Souls: The Matter of Obscenity in Nineteenth-Century Germany. Gideon Reuveni
Frank Usbeck. Fellow Tribesmen: The Image of Native Americans, National Identity, and Nazi Ideology in Germany. Kurt E. Kinbacher
Brian K. Feltman. The Stigma of Surrender: German Prisoners, British Captors, and Manhood in the Great War and Beyond. Heather R. Perry
Stefanie Fischer. Ökonomisches Vertrauen und antisemitische Gewalt: Jüdische Viehhändler in Mittelfranken, 1919–1939. Moshe Zimmermann
Alex J. Kay. The Making of an SS Killer: The Life of Colonel Alfred Filbert, 1905–1990. Peter Black
Arne Hassing. Church Resistance to Nazism in Norway, 1940–1945. Patrick Bernhard
Nicholas J. Schlosser. Cold War on the Airwaves: The Radio Propaganda War against East Germany. Arnd Bauerkämper
Cornelius Torp. Gerechtigkeit im Wohlfahrtsstaat: Alter und Alterssicherung in Deutschland und Großbritannien von 1945 bis heute. Alfred C. Mierzejewski
Maren Röger. Kriegsbeziehungen: Intimität, Gewalt und Prostitution im besetzten Polen 1939 bis 1945. Jan Claas Behrends
Erika Monahan. The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia.Kwangmin Kim Peter Whitewood. The Red Army and the Great Terror: Stalin’s Purge of the Soviet Military. Alexander Hill
Middle East and Northern Africa
Michael Philip Penn. Envisioning Islam: Syriac Christians and the Early Muslim World. Christopher MacEvitt
Sean McMeekin. The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908–1923. Ryan Gingeras
Sub-Saharan Africa
Leslie James. George Padmore and Decolonization from Below: Pan-Africanism, the Cold War, and the End of Empire. Christopher J. Lee
Abdullahi Sara. Kenya at a Crossroads: Administration and Economy under Sir Percy Girouard, 1909–1912. W. O. Maloba
Emily S. Burrill. States of Marriage: Gender, Justice, and Rights in Colonial Mali. Martin A. Klein
Ch. Didier Gondola. Tropical Cowboys: Westerns, Violence, and Masculinity in Kinshasa. Peter Geschiere
Collected Essays
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Nicole Jerr, editors. The Scaffolding of Sovereignty: Global and Aesthetic Perspectives on the History of a Concept.Lorraine Daston, editor. Science in the Archives: Pasts, Presents, Futures.
Alan Karras and Laura J. Mitchell, editors. Encounters Old and New in World History: Essays Inspired by Jerry H. Bentley.
Carin Berkowitz and Bernard Lightman, editors. Science Museums in Transition: Cultures of Display in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America.
James R. Akerman, editor. Decolonizing the Map: Cartography from Colony to Nation.
Patrick Griffin, editor. Experiencing Empire: Power, People, and Revolution in Early America.
Timothy Alan Garrison and Greg O’Brien, editors. The Native South: New Histories and Enduring Legacies.
Erica Rhodes Hayden and Theresa R. Jach, editors. Incarcerated Women: A History of Struggles, Oppression, and Resistance in American Prisons.
Joel Isaac, James T. Kloppenberg, Michael O’Brien and Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, editors. The Worlds of American Intellectual History.
Rosemary Feurer and Chad Pearson, editors. Against Labor: How U.S. Employers Organized to Defeat Union Activism.
Thomas W. Zeiler, David K. Ekbladh, and Benjamin C. Montoya, editors. Beyond 1917: The United States and the Global Legacies of the Great War.
Andrew Finstuen, Grant Wacker, and Anne Blue Wills, editors. Billy Graham: American Pilgrim.
Akira Saito and Claudia Rosas Lauro, editors. Reducciones: La concentración forzada de las éoblaciones indígenas en el Virreinato del Perú.
Stephen J. C. Andes and Julia G. Young, editors. Local Church, Global Church: Catholic Activism in Latin America from Rerum Novarum to Vatican II.
Sonia E. Alvarez, Jeffrey W. Rubin, Millie Thayer, Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Agustín Laó-Montes, editors. Beyond Civil Society: Activism, Participation, and Protest in Latin America.
Helmut Puff, Ulrike Strasser, and Christopher Wild, editors. Cultures of Communication: Theologies of Media in Early Modern Europe and Beyond.
Tony Brenton, editor. Was Revolution Inevitable? Turning Points of the Russian Revolution.
Wolfgang Schmale and Christopher Treiblmayr, editors. Human Rights Leagues in Europe (1898–2016).
Javier Moreno-Luzón and Xosé M. Núñez Seixas, editors. Metaphors of Spain: Representations of Spanish National Identity in the Twentieth Century.
Michael David-Fox, editor. The Soviet Gulag: Evidence, Interpretation, and Comparison.
Mark J. Crowley and Sandra Trudgen Dawson, editors. Home Fronts: Britain and the Empire at War, 1939–45.
Juliane Fürst and Josie McLellan, editors. Dropping Out of Socialism: The Creation of Alternative Spheres in the Soviet Bloc.
Oliver Bange and Poul Villaume, editors. The Long Détente: Changing Concepts of Security and Cooperation in Europe, 1950s–1980s.