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Micki McElya

by Bonnie Goodman

"McElya's powerful blend of cultural and political history illuminates the ways twentieth-century white Southerners tried to maintain their historic privilege while denying the violence of their past."

Jane Dailey

by Bonnie Goodman

"In Before Jim Crow, Jane Dailey brilliantly recreates the world of the Readjusters in late nineteenth-century Virginia. Emphasizing the fluidity of southern politics after the Civil War, Dailey makes clear that the emergence of segregation and disfranchisement was not preordained. An indispensable book for anyone who wants to understand the opportunities and challenges involved in building an interracial democracy in the South." -- Peter Bardaglio, Goucher College reviewing "Before Jim Crow: The Politics of Race in Postemancipation Virginia"

Kevin Mattson

by Bonnie Goodman

"Ultimately Mattson challenges readers to reconsider contemporary conceptions of democracy that view citizens as consumers, and he contributes to contemporary discussions of ways to invigorate democratic practice. Highly recommended for all readership levels."

Maya Jasanoff

by Bonnie Goodman

"Her theme is not how 'Others' were excluded by the imperial process, but the far more elusive, and in the end more illuminating ways in which so many were included in what she calls the 'rhetoric and systems of empire'. Edge of Empire is about crossing boundaries; about the porousness of culture in the early years of the British Empire; about frontiers, both geographical and mental, and how they are constructed and reconfigured." -- Anthony Pagden in "The London Review of Books" reviewing "Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East 1750-1850""

Randall J. Stephens

by Bonnie Goodman

"One of the few essential books about American holiness and pentecostal religion."

Samuel Moyn

by Bonnie Goodman

"You would be hard pressed to find a better prepared or more engaging teacher at Columbia...Prof Moyn is an excellent teacher--available to students, smart, fair, funny, organized."..."Moyn is a great lecturer, he's entertaining and exceptionally brilliant."

Peniel E. Joseph

by Bonnie Goodman

"Peniel E. Joseph, a talented young historian... has finally taken us beyond the politics of memory, mining virtually every available archive and printed source relevant to the Black Power saga. The result is an engaging...revisionist narrative that reveals a hidden world of black intellectual ferment and pursposeful political organizing." -- Raymond Arsenault, Washington Post reviewing of "Waiting Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America"

Eugenia Y. Lean

by Bonnie Goodman

"This book is at the forefront of the next generation of scholarship on early-twentieth-century China."

Mark Phillip Bradley

by Bonnie Goodman

"Mark Bradley's fine book constitutes cultural history and international relations at its best."

Matthew Avery Sutton

by Bonnie Goodman

"This biography of McPherson explores how the evangelist combined old-time religion with newfangled technology to build a multimedia soul-saving juggernaut in 1920s Los Angeles...A thorough and absorbing portrait of a wholly original figure."

Caroline Elkins

by Bonnie Goodman

"I have read practically all the books written about the Mau Mau. In my view, Ms Elkins book is so far the best researched and the most authoritative account on how the British prosecuted the Mau Mau followers."

James McDougall

by Bonnie Goodman

"...a work of brilliant originality, empathetically communicated and filled with historical nuggets that not only inform our understanding of the complexity of Algerian identity... but also provide a broader insight into how language, culture and identity pass through dynamic changes under conflicting political arrangements..." -- John P. Entelis, Fordham University reviewing "History and the Culture of Nationalism in Algeria"

Matthew Lassiter

by Bonnie Goodman

"Professor Lassiter has inspired me as no person ever has."

Jeffrey Veidlinger

by Bonnie Goodman

"Jeffrey Veidlinger's thoroughly researched, engagingly written, and richly informative book tackles these issues through the tale of the rise and fall of the Moscow State Yiddish Theater."

J.P. Daughton

by Bonnie Goodman

"Daughton's work has important ramificatoins for both imperial and domestic French history.... Remarkably well-researched and well-written first book. Highly recommended."

Jeremi Suri

by Bonnie Goodman

"Jeremi Suri has liberated us from the rigid formalism of "comparative history" to the more satisfying concept of "international history." His fresh look at the 1960s links the elite world of diplomacy and international politics to shared, underlying social and cultural experiences, transcending national and class boundaries, to reveal a more complex, richer view of that unsettling moment. Suri's work is ambitious, but he delivers with thoughtful, pioneering, and rigorous analysis. Here is history on a grand scale." -- Stanley I. Kutler, author of "Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon" reviewing "Power and Protest"

Shane Hamilton

by Bonnie Goodman

"Independent trucking is for Hamilton what Kansas was for Frank--the locus that shows a part of what has gone wrong with American politics."

Paul Friedland

by Bonnie Goodman

"Political Actors is one of the most important books written about the French Revolution in the past ten years. Paul Friedland advances a genuinely new and provocative interpretation of the Revolution as a whole." -- David A. Bell, Johns Hopkins University "Political Actors: Representative Bodies and Theatricality in the Age of the French Revolution"

Kevin M. Kruse

by Bonnie Goodman

"Professor Kruse was an incredible lecturer. His lectures were always perfectly timed, engaging, informative, and interesting."... "Kruse is by far the best lecturer I've had at Princeton."

Natasha Zaretsky

by Bonnie Goodman

"[An] exemplary and richly suggestive work. . . . This is a powerful book on how the multiple traumas of the 1970s reshaped how Americans looked at themselves and the world."