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Books on history, society, and coffee.
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An exploration of changing ideas about bodies, gender, race, and power across the English-speaking world at the turn of the twentieth century.
Follow coffee from cultivation to roasting and brewing, with a look at the history, culture, and global forces behind the daily cup.
A wide-ranging collection examining coffee as a crop, a drink, a business, and a cultural tradition around the world.
A study of American lynching in an international context, examining collective violence and the conditions surrounding it.
Examines the fears, beliefs, and social conditions behind witch persecution, tracing how the hunts developed and eventually declined.
An earlier study of the rise and decline of witch persecution, later revised and published as The Witch Hunts.
Essays exploring how Soviet citizens experienced war, Nazi invasion, and Stalinist leadership, bringing individual lives into the wartime story.
A provocative interpretation of repression and everyday life under Stalin, examining the relationship between state power, fear, and popular responses.
A historical study of Moscow and the urban crisis in late imperial Russia during the years before the First World War.
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Professor Emeritus of History
Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Program award, in conjunction with an Individual Advanced Research Opportunity award from the International Research and Exchanges Board, 2001.
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