Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico
10 best books like Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico (Laura Briggs): Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War, Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940, Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors, Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics, No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction, War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War, At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
| Author | Thomas G. Andrews |
| ISBN | 0674031016 |
On a spring morning in 1914, in the stark foothills of southern Colorado, members of the United Mine Workers of America clashed with guards employed by the Rockefeller family, and a state militia beholden to Colorado’s industrial barons. When the dust settled, nineteen men, women, and children...
Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam
| Author | John A. Nagl |
| ISBN | 0226567702 |
Invariably, armies are accused of preparing to fight the previous war. In Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife, Lieutenant Colonel John A. Nagl—a veteran of both Operation Desert Storm and the current conflict in Iraq—considers the now-crucial question of how armies adapt to changing circumstances...
| Author | George Chauncey |
| ISBN | 0465026214 |
The award-winning, field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century
Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet, where gay men were isolated, invisible, and self-hating. Drawing on a rich trove of...
Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors
| Author | Susan Sontag |
| ISBN | 0312420137 |
In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as "one of the most liberating books of its time." A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the...
| Author | Cynthia Enloe |
| ISBN | 0520229126 |
This radical analysis of globalization reveals the crucial role of women in international politics today. Cynthia Enloe pulls back the curtain on the familiar scenes—governments promoting tourism, companies moving their factories overseas, soldiers serving on foreign soil—and shows that...
| Author | Sarah Haley |
| ISBN | 1469627590 |
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms of gendered racial terror and heinous structures of economic exploitation. Subjugated as convict laborers and forced to serve additional time as domestic workers before they were allowed their freedom,...
| Author | Margot Canaday |
| ISBN | 0691135983 |
The Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Unearthing startling new evidence from the National Archives, Margot Canaday shows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship...
In 1904, New York nuns brought forty Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp, to be placed with Catholic families. The Catholic families were Mexican, as was the majority of the population. Soon the town's Anglos, furious at this "interracial" transgression, formed a vigilante squad that kidnapped...
War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
| Author | John W. Dower |
| ISBN | 0394751728 |
Now in paperback, War Without Mercy has been hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most original and important books to be written about the war between Japan and the United States." In this monumental history, Professor John Dower reveals a hidden, explosive dimension of the Pacific War -- race...
At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
| Author | Erika Lee |
| ISBN | 0807854484 |
With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of U.S. immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese in...
| Author | Cynthia Enloe |
| ISBN | 0520083369 |
Looking at the end of the Cold War - in the United States, Russia, Bosnia, El Salvador, and Vietnam, among other countries - Cynthia Enloe places women at the center of international politics. From the Tailhook scandal to the fall of the Berlin Wall to the NAFTA agreement, Enloe makes incisive connections...
Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives
| Author | Cynthia Enloe |
| ISBN | 0520220714 |
Maneuvers takes readers on a global tour of the sprawling process called "militarization." With her incisive verve and moxie, eminent feminist Cynthia Enloe shows that the people who become militarized are not just the obvious ones—executives and factory floor workers who make fighter planes,...
Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense
| Author | Ann Laura Stoler |
| ISBN | 0691015775 |
Along the Archival Grain offers a unique methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political content of archival forms. In a series of nuanced mediations on the nature of colonial documents from the nineteenth-century Netherlands Indies, Ann...
Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan
| Author | Ronald H. Spector |
| ISBN | 0394741013 |
Only now, almost forty years after the surrender of the Imperial Japanese Empire on the deck of the battleship Missouri, can the true scope of the American war in the Pacific be understood. Historian Ronald H. Spector, drawing on newly declassified intelligence files, an abundance of British and American...
Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement
| Author | Katherine M Marino |
| ISBN | 1469649691 |
This book chronicles the dawn of the global movement for women's rights in the first decades of the twentieth century. The founding mothers of this movement were not based primarily in the United States, however, or in Europe. Instead, Katherine M. Marino introduces readers to a cast of remarkable...
Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications
The telegraph and the telephone were the first electrical communications networks to become hallmarks of modernity. Yet they were not initially expected to achieve universal accessibility. In this pioneering history of their evolution, Richard R. John demonstrates how access to these networks...
The Cold War U.S. Army: Building Deterrence for Limited War
| Author | Ingo Trauschweizer |
| ISBN | 0700615784 |
The Cold War marked a new era for America's military, one dominated by nuclear weapons and air power that seemed to diminish the need for conventional forces. Ingo Trauschweizer chronicles the U.S. Army's struggles with its identity, structure, and mission in the face of those challenges, showing...
American Airpower Strategy in World War II: Bombs, Cities, Civilians, and Oil
Resistance is a product of will times means, Carl von Clausewitz postulated in his treatise On War. In his 1993 Bombs, Cities, and Civilians, which the American Historical Review judged must reading for anyone interested in the subject of air warfare, Conrad C. Crane focused on the moral dimension...
