Thursday, April 3, 2014

List of Books Read for SHSU - Master of Arts in History


History 5097 - African-American Slavery - Spring 2014

The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870, by Hugh Thomas

The White Man's Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States, by Winthrop D. Jordan

From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans by John Hope Franklin and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

In Human Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World, by David Brion Davis

12 Years a Slave, by Solomon Northup

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet Jacobs

The Oxford Frederick Douglass Reader, by William L. Andrews

History 5373 - Civil War and Reconstruction - Summer I 2014

Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, by David W. Blight

James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery, by Drew Gilpin Faust

Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, by Drew Gilpin Faust

The Fiery Trial, by Eric Foner

History 5384 - Texas History - Fall 2014

Babe: The Life and Legend of Babe Didrikson Zaharias, by Susan E. Cayleff

The Raven, by Marquis James

Tomlinson Hill: The Remarkable Story of Two Families Who Share the Tomlinson Name - One White, One Black, by Chris Tomlinson

Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire, by Robert Perkinson

History 5372 - Early National America - Spring 2015

Forced Founders, by Woody Holton

Affairs of Honor, by Joanne Freeman

The Hemingses of Monticello, by Annette Gordon-Freeman

Parlor Politics, by Catherine Allgor

American Lion, by Jon Meacham

God's Strange Work, by David L. Rowe

Trail of Tears, by John Ehle

Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market, by Walter Johnson

History 5374 - Seminar in the History of the American South - Summer I 2015

The Mind of the South, by W. J. Cash

The Strange Career of Jim Crow, by C. Vann Woodward

American Slavery, American Freedom, by Edmund S. Morgan

A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow, by David L. Chappell

History 5384 - Early Modern Europe - Summer II 2015

Carl L. Becker, The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers (1932), pp. 1-31

Paul Hazard, The European Mind [1680-1715] (orig. 1935), pp. xv-xx, 3-79.


Mohammed and Charlemagne, by Henri Perinne

The Making of Europe: An Introduction to the history of European unity, by Christopher Dawson

Medieval Technology and Social Change, by Lynn White, Jr.

Plague and the End of Antiquity, edited by Lester K. Little

Living with the Dead in the Middle Ages, by Patrick J. Geary

Charlemagne: The Formation of a European Identity, by Rosamond McKitterick

The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000, by Chris Wickham

The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, A.D. 200-1000, by Peter Brown

History 5097 - Urban and Suburban History - Spring 2016

Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution, by Benjamin L. Carp

The Park & the People: A History of Central Park, by Roy Rosenzweig & Elizabeth Blackmar


Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco by Judy Yung

Crabgrass Frontier, by Kenneth Jackson

The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit by Thomas J. Surgrue

Saving the Neighborhood: Racially Restrictive Covenants, Law, and Social Norms, by Richard R. W. Brooks & Carol M. Rose

The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles, by Scott Kurashige

Smeltertown: Making and Remembering a Southwest Border Community, by Monica Perales

History 5377 - The American West - Summer 2016

The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture by Neil Foley

Migra!: A History of the U.S. Border Patrol by Kelly Lytle Hernandez

The Los Angeles Plaza: Sacred and Contested Space by William David Estrada

Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown by Nayan Shah

History 5385: A Seminar on the History of Latin American Commodities - Fall 2016

Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World, by Marcy Norton

Mercury, Mining, and Empire: The Human and Ecological Cost of Colonial Silver Mining in the Andes, by Nicholas A. Robins

Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States, by John Soluri

Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug, by Paul Gootenberg

Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of The Pill, by Gabriela Soto Laveaga

History 5389.01 Great Britain and the British Empire - Spring 2017

Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire, by David Cannadine

Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge, by Bernard Cohn

The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain, by Nicholas Dirks

Ideologies of the Raj, by Thomas Metcalf

Making Empire: Colonial Encounters and the Creation of imperial Rule in Nineteenth-Century Africa, by Richard Price

English lessons: The Pedagogy of Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century China, by James Hevia

Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Foundations of Britain's Covert Empire in the Middle East,  by Priya Satia

Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya, by Caroline Elkins

History 5098.03 Auschwitz - Summer I 2017

Auschwitz, by Deborah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt

Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp, by Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum

Commandant of Auschwitz, by Rudolf Hoess

The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery, by Witold Pilecki

Survival in Auschwitz, by Primo Levi


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