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Pekka Hämäläinen

by Bonnie Goodman

"Hämäläinen's treatment of the complex relationships between the Comanches and other European and Native American societies is unique . . . Hämäläinen collates and narrates the events of the eastern and western frontiers through time in such an effective manner that the reader is swept in the flow of an almost seamless narrative." -- Mariah F. Wade, "Great Plains Quarterly"

Jeffrey A. Engel

by Bonnie Goodman

"George H. W. Bush's China diary captures a pivotal moment when Americans were reintroduced to the Middle Kingdom after a generation of estrangement. It also reveals much of the humanity, humor, and light foreign policy touch of a future president and presidential father. We can be grateful to Jeffrey Engel for putting this important document into its rich historical context and making it accessible." -- Timothy Naftali, author of George H. W. Bush

Charlotte Brooks

by Bonnie Goodman

"A fascinating study, beautifully accomplished. Comparing the experience of Japanese and Chinese Americans in two California cities, Brooks illuminates the complex texture of discrimination, and the role of citizenship and international affairs in the evolution of equality. This book illustrates the way focused studies of particular communities contribute important insights to our understanding of the intersection of U.S. foreign affairs and civil rights history." -- Mary L. Dudziak, USC Law School, author of "Exporting American Dreams; Thurgood Marshall's African Journey"

Moshik Temkin

by Bonnie Goodman

"Temkin's original contribution is to set the case of Sacco and Vanzetti in international context, and he does so in engaging and energetic fashion." — Sarah Farmer, University of California, Irvine

Jeremy Kuzmarov

by Bonnie Goodman

"The Myth of the Addicted Army will contend for best-book awards in history, sociology, and many fields of policy studies. It is chock full of original research utilizing government documents and interviews with policy makers to show how the war in Vietnam incubated the myth of widespread drug addiction among U.S. troops that became, in turn, the back story to the homefront War on Drugs." -- Jerry Lembcke, author of The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam

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."

Holly Case

by Bonnie Goodman

"A very original and sophisticated piece of work. . . . Full of new insights and. . . amazing research in a great variety of archives and languages. . . pulled together in a most intelligent way."

Jason M. Opal

by Bonnie Goodman

"Professor Opal is one of the best professors at Colby. He is intelligent, compassionate, fair, challenging, interesting, bold and cultured. I could not respect him any more than I do."

Christopher E. Forth

by Bonnie Goodman

"Forth's ambitious panoramic history of western masculinity is sweepingly broad, yet Forth has a keen eye for the revealing detail. With an analysis as sharp as his style is clear and erudite, Forth's reach never exceeds his grasp. This is a most impressive work!"

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."

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."

Review of Robert Justin Goldstein's American Blacklist: The Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations and Loren Ghiglione's CBS's Don Hollenbeck: An Honest Reporter in the Age of McCarthyism

by Murray Polner

Don Hollenbeck was a reporter and editor and this fine book does him justice.

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."

Eugenia Y. Lean

by Bonnie Goodman

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

Randall J. Stephens

by Bonnie Goodman

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

History Doyen: William Hardy McNeill

by Bonnie Goodman

William H. McNeill is Robert A. Milikan Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Chicago.

Marina Rustow

by Bonnie Goodman

"Heresy and the Politics of Community is a fine piece of historical scholarship, presenting the new and exciting idea that the sectarian divide between Rabbanites and Qaraites in the tenth and eleventh centuries in the Middle East not only was not as deep and antagonistic as usually assumed but also hardly existed at all in certain areas."

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."

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."

Michael S. Neiberg

by Bonnie Goodman

"In recounting the events of WWI with skill and clarity, Neiberg does not break new ground for serious students of the conflict but achieves a fine balance of narrative and analyses - no easy feat in a one-volume study."