The Indian Ocean World in the Nineteenth Century
Review of “A Hundred Horizons” by Sugata Bose
Why I Am Not Voting
To vote for anyone is to vote for a system in which politicians in Washington, CEOs on Wall Street, and generals in the Pentagon rule.
The Long Nineteenth Century From a Global Perspective
Review of The Birth of the Modern World by C.A. Bayly.
Smashing Dissent
Police brutality towards protesters at this year’s Democratic and Republican National Conventions rose to levels not seen at a convention since 1968. The police conducted preemptive raids on activist houses, arrested journalists, attacked demonstrations with explosives, rubber bullets, and a variety of chemical weapons, spied on organizers, and filed “terrorism” charges against dissidents.
Sixties Activists Tell Their Stories
Discussion of Generation on Fire: Voices of Protest from the 1960s by Jeff Kisseloff.
MLK and the History of the Civil Rights Movement
Review of The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. edited by Clayborne Carson.
Early Reparations Movements
Review of My Face is Black is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations by Mary Francis Berry
Patriotism and the history of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement
Review of the book Eyes on the Prize by Juan Williams
The Modernity Myth
The concept of modernity is flawed, Eurocentric, and not a useful way to understand world history.
Class Struggle and the Jute-Mill Workers of Bengal
Critique of Rethinking Working-Class History by Dipesh Chakrabarty.
Households in Western History
Critique of The Household and the Making of History by Mary Hartman.
Cotton Mill Workers in the Southern U.S.
Review of Like a Family by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, et al.
Coal Mining in the Ottoman Empire
Review of Miners and the State in the Ottoman Empire by Donald Quataert.
Healthcare Reform in Early Twentieth-Century Milwaukee
Review of The Healthiest City by Judith Walzer Leavitt.
Origins of the English Proletariat
Review of The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson.