New Releases
Listed below are new releases from the AHA as well as previews of forthcoming publications. Visit this page frequently for updates on the latest titles available from the AHA.
Globalizing American History:
The AHA Guide to Re-Imagining the U.S. Survey Course
Edited by and
with essays by , , , , , and
This pamphlet is designed to contribute to the discussion of repositioning the American history survey course in a more global context.
It provides a general introduction to the issues involved in attempting to place this staple of K–12 and college history curriculum in a global milieu, and examines how these issues now stand after earlier, exploratory inquiries.
2008. 128 pages
ISBN 978-0-87229-160-7
$10 members
$15 nonmembers
Assessment in History: A Guide to Best Practices
Prepared by the
with essays by , and , and with a foreword by
Student assessment is as old as the historical profession itself. By first addressing recent new developments in student assessment, and then challenging today's historians to exercise a new level of sensitivity and self-consciousness in evaluating their students' learning, this pamphlet hopes to stimulate ongoing discussions about changes in student assessment.
2008. 40 pages
ISBN 978-0-87229-156-0
$4 members
$6 nonmembers
The Technopolitics of Cold War: Towards a Transregional Perspective
andTechnological change played a major role in the defining events of the twentieth century, and during the nearly four decades of Cold War, military hardware became an economic sector unto itself. This pamphlet studies the scientific, technological, and political changes of the Cold War through a global, social perspective.
Gabrielle Hecht is associate professor of history at the University of Michigan.
Paul N. Edwards is associate professor of information at the University of Michigan.
2008. 64 pages
ISBN 978-0-87229-157-7
$6 members
$10 nonmembers
Liberal Learning and the History Major
Here is a concise yet rich statement of the values, principles, and practices of the study of history. To fit the needs of our new century, Michael Galgano, an experienced university teacher of history and a teacher of teachers, has revised this influential report, first published in 1990, that offers guidance to historians, history programs, and their varied publics about the study of history and its place as the keystone of a liberal education.
Michael J. Galgano is a professor of history and head of the history department at James Madison University.
2008. 32 pages
ISBN 0-87229-150-2
$5 members
$7 nonmembers
Women and Gender in Colonial Latin America
In this pamphlet, Twinam looks at women in the pre-colonial and colonial periods of Latin American history, focusing on issues of class, gender, and race amid both indigenous and European women.
Ann Twinam is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research centers on colonial Spanish Latin American, focusing on gender, sexuality, illegitimacy, family, and race. Her projects, include a monograph on sexuality and illegitimacy in Spain from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries and one on the purchase of "whiteness" and racial mobility in the Spanish colonies. Publications include Public Lives, Private Secrets: Gender, Honor, Sexuality, and Illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish America (1999) which won the Thomas F. McGann Prize and received honorable mention for the Bolton Prize, and Miners, Merchants, and Farmers in Colonial Colombia (1982, 1985), as well as numerous articles. She has been a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a Tinker Fellow, a Fulbright Scholar in Colombia and Spain, and the recipient of grants from the Ford Foundation and the American Philosophical Society.
2007. 64 pages
ISBN 0-87229-150-2
$8 members
$12 nonmembers
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Women and Gender in South and Southeast Asia
New entry in the Women and Gender History in Global Comparison series. In this pamphlet, Ramusack examines the history of women in south and southeast Asia, looking beyond the exotic stereotypes—such as the self-sacrificing Hindu widows who performed sati, the delicate Javanese dancers, and occasionally the manipulative political actors—in an effort to further shape our understanding of the lived experience of Asian women.
Barbara N. Ramusack is Charles Phelps Taft Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati and has an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Three Fulbright Fellowships and grants from the American Institute of Indian Studies, the Charles Phelps Taft Fund, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Smithsonian Institution have supported her research in India and Britain. She has published numerous articles and essays on the princely states of India and on women in India during the late colonial period. Her more recent publications are Women in Asia: Restoring Women to History (1999), coauthored with Sharon Sievers, and The Princes of India for The New Cambridge History of India (2003).
2007. 52 pages
ISBN 0-87229-149-9S
$8 members
$12 nonmembers
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Latin American Women’s History: The National Period
New entry in the Women and Gender History in Global Comparison series, this work covers the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and examines key themes in the historiography of women as full participants in the process of nation building. Attention is given to the availability of sources for studying the experience of women across class and race and the collective experience of women engaged in labor and political activism. The role of ideological forces shaping state policies and social movements remains central in understanding theoretical approaches to the study of women and gender relations throughout the national period, and the incorporation of recent trends in the study of sexuality indicates the broadening agenda of the field.
Asunción Lavrin, a professor of history at Arizona State University, holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University. She has received several NEH fellowships and a John S. Guggenheim Fellowship. The author of thirty-eight articles in journals and thirty-six chapters in books, she has published Monjas y beatas: Las escritutra femenina en la espiritualided barroca novohispana, siglos XVII y XVIII (coedited with Rosalva Loreto); Women, Feminism, and Social Change in the Southern Cone 1890–1940; Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America; and Latin American Women: Historical Perspectives. Lavrin’s books and articles have received three academic prizes. She is the past president of the Conference on Latin American History and director of two National Endowment for the Humanities summer institutes.
2007. 52 pages
ISBN 0-87229-154-5
$8 members
$12 nonmembers
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History of Women in the United States to 1865
New entry in the Women and Gender History in Global Comparison series, Brown's pamphlet explores what the history of women in the United States from a global perspective. This essay moves chronologically and thematically from the point at which Native American women'’s "global" networks begin to include Europeans to the rise of a Euro-American female population whose labor, consumption of material goods, and participation in print culture made them part of global processes even as they continued to develop ever-stronger ties to local communities. It also examines the paths by which West African women became part of the plantation economies and communities of southern colonies and then analyzes the group of women who would seem least susceptible to being studied from a global perspective—native-born white women whose daily household relations and extra-local concerns reveal identities that are the product of global processes.
Kathleen Brown is associate professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches comparative women’s history and early American history. She is the author of Good Wives: Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia (1996). She is completing a book on the history of cleanliness in the early United States.
2007. 52 pages
ISBN 0-87229-151-0
$8 members
$12 nonmembers
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Women and Gender in the History of Sub-Saharan Africa
New entry in the Women and Gender History in Global Comparison series, Johnson-Odim deconstructs the concept of "women" by examining the several identities of women in sub-Saharan Africa cultures as they have changed over time, and had great importance in the lives of women in Africa.
Cheryl Johnson-Odim holds a doctorate in history from Northwestern University and is dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences and a professor of history at Columbia College Chicago. A past member of the board of directors of the African Studies Association and the American Council of Learned Societies, she is also on the board of directors of the Illinois Humanities Council and the editorial board of the Journal of Women’s History. Johnson-Odim was a Fulbright Scholar in Nigeria and has published frequently in learned journals and written chapters in edited collections, among them For Women and the Nation: Funmilayo Ransom-Kuti of Nigeria (with Nina Mba). Along with Marjorie Strobel, she is coeditor of the four-volume collection Restoring Women to History: Women in Asia; Women in Latin America and the Caribbean; Women in the Middle East.
2007. 72 pages
ISBN 0-87229-152-9
$8 members
$12 nonmembers
NOW AVAILABLE!
Women in the Middle East
Since the Rise of Islam
New entry in the Women and Gender History in Global Comparison series, this pamphlet discusses women in the Middle East since the rise of Islam in the early seventh century c.e., starting with the Near East before the rise of Islam, as many features of Islamic times arose not from Arabia but from pre-Islamic civilizations that were early conquered by Muslim armies. The change from a tribal society in Arabia to one with a state and written laws also altered the position of women. Their roles in the Middle East after the Islamic conquests reflected pre-Islamic Near Eastern and Arab cultures modified to meet the needs, laws, and customs of new Islamic states and societies as well as a variety of times, places, and religious and other ideas.
Nikkie R. Keddie is professor emerita of history, University of California at Los Angeles, has written numerous books and articles. Among her seven single-authored books are Modern Iran: Roots and Results of Revolution, Iran and the Muslim World: Resistance and Revolution, and An Islamic Response to Imperialism. Among her edited or coedited books are Women in Middle Eastern History and Women in the Muslim World. She was founding editor of the journal, Contention, and a selection of her work on women was published in 2004. Keddie graduated from Radcliff College and received a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. She has had numerous national fellowships and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her lifetime achievement awards include the Distinguished Scholar Award of the American Historical Association, the Mentoring Award of the Middle East Studies Association, and the Persian History Award of the Encyclopedia Iranica Foundation.
2007. 52 pages
ISBN 0-87229-153-7
$8 members
$12 nonmembers
Historical Comparisons
Historical analysis always involves comparison, and in this first entry in the new Teaching to Think Historically series, co-produced by the College Board, Wiesner-Hanks offers a concise and challenging argument for the application of comparative analysis in high school history classrooms.
Merry Wiesner-Hanks is UWM Distinguished Professor in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the co-editor of the Sixteenth Century Journal and the author or editor of many books and articles that have appeared in English, German, Italian, Spanish and Chinese. These include Early Modern Europe 1450–1789 (Cambridge, 2006); Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 2nd ed. 2000), and Gender in History (Blackwell, 2001). She currently serves as the chief reader for Advanced Placement Program* World History, and has written a number of source books for use in the college classroom, including Discovering the Global Past (Houghton-Mifflin, 3rd edition 2006), and a book for young adults, An Age of Voyages, 1350–1600 (Oxford 2005).
*College Board, Advanced Placement Program, AP and the acorn logo are registered trademarks owned by the College Board.
2007. 40 pages
ISBN 978-0-87229-155-3
$6 members
$10 nonmembers
Technology and Utopia
Segal examines the historical connection between technology and utopia, and shows how this connection is not just a contemporary western concept, but one that stretches back several centuries.
Howard P. Segal is Professor of History at the University of Maine, where he has taught since 1986.
2006. 128 pages
ISBN 0-87229-147-2
$10 members
$15 nonmembers
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