Scholarly History Books

[Flightless Steller's jay]

What would y'all recommend for really good scholarly history books. Books that not only just report on that history, but also take scholarly critique approach. I would prefer non-textbooks but all suggestions are welcome.

Sincerely,

Flightless Steller's jay

[quizbowlchamp1]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tLi ... 2gbnx7brjr

This is from the Complete Quiz Bowl Study Resource. Happy studying!

[Jcm48]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tLi ... 2gbnx7brjr

This is from the Complete Quiz Bowl Study Resource. Happy studying!

This link is inaccessible for me, but here's a link to the quizbowl research and learning resources doc, which is what I suspect Russ was attempting to link to (and in the event that he wasn't, this is still probably the single best answer to your question).

[quizbowlchamp1]

which is what I suspect Russ was attempting to link to

My link was supposed to go straight to the history section of that document. Sorry, it didn't work.

this is still probably the single best answer to your question

As Joel said, this doc is life-changing. If you're looking for books, go here.

[rdc20]

The original author of the resource list gravitated towards very large (and often boring and textbook-y) books. Here are some highlights, ordered somewhat by theme, from my time as a history major. There are some full books, but these are mostly journal articles and book chapters, which can be easier to dive into. I included links to the readings where it was easy for me to find one.

• Fields, Barbara. “Slavery, Race and Ideology in the United States of America.” New Left Review 181 (May/June 1990): 95-118, https://solidarity-us.org/pdfs/cadreschool/fields.pdf.
• Michel-Rolph Trouillot, “An Unthinkable History: The Haitian Revolution as a Non-event.” In Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, 70-107. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995.
• Miles, Tiya. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake. New York: Random House, 2021.
• Belt, Rabia. “Ballots for Bullets: Disabled Veterans and the Right to Vote.” Stanford Law Review 69, no. 2 (2017): 435–90, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ... id=2477562.
• Baynton, Douglas C. “Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History.” In The New Disability History: American Perspectives, edited by Paul K. Longmore and Lauri Umansky, 33–52. New York: New York University Press, 2001, https://www.uua.org/files/documents/bay ... uality.pdf.
• Kivelson, Valerie A., and Ronald Grigor Suny. Russia's Empires. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
• Lukowski, Jerzy. “Political Ideas among the Polish Nobility in the Eighteenth Century (To 1788).” The Slavonic and East European Review 82, no. 1 (2004): 1–26. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4213847.
• Thompson, E. P. The Making of the English Working Class. New York: Open Road Media, 2016.
• Weber, Eugen. Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1976.
• Appel, Susan K. “Artificial Refrigeration and the Architecture of 19th-Century American Breweries.” IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology 16, no. 1 (1990): 21–38. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40968182.
• Williams, David R. “The Mysterious Demise of Hard Cider in America,” The Cider Page, 1995, https://mason.gmu.edu/~drwillia/cider.html.
• Okrent, Daniel. Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. 1st Scribner hardcover ed. New York, NY: Scribner, 2010.
• Cronon, William. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: W.W. Norton, 1991.
• Moore, Jason. "The Rise of Cheap Nature." In Anthropocene or Capitalocene?: Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism, edited by Parenti, Christian, and Jason W. Moore. Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2016. https://jasonwmoore.com/wp-content/uplo ... e-2016.pdf
• Scott, Joan W. “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis.” The American Historical Review 91, no. 5 (1986): 1053–75. https://doi.org/10.2307/1864376.
• Auslander, Leora. “Beyond Words.” The American Historical Review 110, no. 4 (October 1, 2005): 1015–45. https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr.110.4.1015.