New Books by History Faculty, 2004-2006

Nwando Achebe, Farmers, Traders, Warriors, Kings: Female Power and Authority in Northern Igboland, 1900-1960 (Greenwood Press)

Peter Alegi, Laduma! Soccer, Politics and Society in South Africa (University of KwaZulu-Natal Press)

Peter Beattie, Ed. The Human Tradition in Modern Brazil (Scholarly Resources)

Chris Celenza, The Lost Italian Renaissance (Johns Hopkins University Press)

Winner, Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize, Renaissance Society of America

George Cornell, North American Indians Today: Ojibway (Mason Crest)

Pero Dagbovie, Black History: Old School Black Historians and the Hip Hop Generation (Bedford Publishers)

Laurent Dubois, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (Belknap Press/Harvard University Press)

A Christian Science Monitor Noteworthy Book of 2004

Chosen as a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2004: Nonfiction

2004-2005 Runner-Up Adult Non-fiction Committee of the Society of Midland Authors

Laurent Dubois, A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 (University of North Carolina Press)

Winner of the 2005 Frederick Douglass Prize, Gilder Lehrmann Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition

Winner of the 2005 David Pinkney Prize, Society for French Historical Studies

Winner of the 2004 Prize in Atlantic History, American Historical Association

Winner of the 2004 John Edwin Fagg Prize, American Historical Association

Lisa Fine, The Story of REO Joe: Work, Kin, and Community in Autotown, USA (Temple University Press)

Winner of the 2005 Cugnot Award of Distinction by Society for Automotive Historians

Selected as a Michigan Notable Book of 2005

Awarded Honorable Mention in the Adult Non-fiction category by the Society of Midland Authors - 2005

Kirsten Fermaglich, American Dreams and Nazi Nightmares: Early Holocaust Consciousness and Liberal America, 1957-1965 (Brandeis University/University Press of New England)

Maureen A. Flanagan, America Reformed: Progressives and Progressivisms, 1895-1925 (Oxford University Press)

Charles Gliozzo, A Student's Guide to Scholarships, Grants, and Funding Sources (Michigan State University Press)

Darlene Hine, African Americans: A Concise History (Prentice Hall)

Darlene Hine, Ed., Black Women in America (New York: Oxford University Press)

Roy Matthews (Emeritus), Western Humanities, 5th Ed. (McGraw-Hill)

Juan Javier Pescador, The New World Inside a Basque Village: The Oiartzun Valley and Its Atlantic Emigrants, 1550-1800 (Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press)

David Robinson, Muslim Societies in African History (Cambridge University Press)

Lewis Siegelbaum, Ed. Stalinism as a Way of Life (Yale University Press) - new paperback edition

Lewis Siegelbaum, Ed. Borders of Socialism: Private Spheres of Soviet Russia (Palgrave)

Includes essay by Prof. Siegelbaum, "Cars, Cars, and More Cars: The Faustian Bargain of the Brezhnev Era."

Thomas Summerhill, Ed. Transatlantic Rebels: Agrarian Radicalism in Comparative Context (Michigan State University Press)

Includes the winner of the 2004 Sturgis Leavitt Award, Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies

Thomas Summerhill, Harvest of Dissent: Agrarianism in Central New York in the Nineteenth Century (University of Illinois Press)

Richard Thomas, Ed. (With Gwendolun Etter-Lewis), Lights of the Spirit: Historical Portraits of Black Bahais in North America, 1898-2000, (Baha'i Publishing)

In addition to co-editing this volume, Prof. Thomas also provided three chapters.