This collection features books and book contributions written by faculty in the Department of History at Fairfield University.
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Encyclopedia of Modern China
David Pong and Danke K. Li
Danke Li is a contributing author, "“Chinese Physical Education", pp. 127-129.
Book description: The encyclopedia showcases the work of an international body of prominent scholars, who offer accessible, original, and authoritative analysis of all aspects of the history and culture of China since 1800. Enyclopedia Of Modern China provides critical information on the most populous country and most dynamic trade market in the world: the people, politics, economics, religion, philosophy, traditions, art, and literature of this ancient and enduring civilization is explored from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present day. Given China's increasing role in world affairs, its modern history and culture are of great interest to many, and this work is designed to bring reliable and accessible facts and analysis to students, professionals, and others who study and interact with China and her people. Commissioned contributors from colleges and universities in China and around the world provide authoritative content and fresh scholarly analysis.
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Jewish Dimensions in Modern Visual Culture: Antisemitism, Assimilation, Affirmation
Rose-Carol Washton Long, Matthew Baigell, Milly Heyd, and Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Gavriel Rosenfeld is a contributing author, “Postwar Jewish Architecture and the Memory of the Holocaust”, pp.285-302.
Book description: A fascinating look at key aspects of visual culture in modern Jewish history In modern western history, the cultural and social developments of modernism have long been associated with Jews. Usually this has been a negative association: the perceived breakdown of traditional norms was blamed on Jewish influence in politics, society, and the arts. Throughout Europe, Jews were viewed as carriers of industrialized and cosmopolitan developments that threatened to undermine a cherished way of life. This anthology speaks to this issue through the lens of modernist visual production including paintings, posters, sculpture, and architecture. Essays by scholars from the U.S. and Israel confront the contradictory impulses that modernism’s interaction with Jewish culture provoked. Discussing how religion, class, race, and political alignments were used to provide attacks on modern art, the scholars also comment on visual responses to anti-semitism and the mainstream success of artists in the U.S. and Israel since World War II.
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Liberated Territory: Untold Local Perspectives on the Black Panther Party.
Yohuru Williams and Jama Lazerow
In addition to co-editing this title, Yohuru Williams is a contributing author, "Introduction: From Oakland to Omaha: Historicizing the Panthers”, "Bringing the Black Panther Party Back In: A Survey”, and “Give Them a Cause to Die For": The Black Panther Party in Milwaukee, 1969-77”.
Book description: With their collection In Search of the Black Panther Party, Yohuru Williams and Jama Lazerow provided a broad analysis of the Black Panther Party and its legacy. In Liberated Territory, they turn their attention to local manifestations of the organization, far away from the party’s Oakland headquarters. This collection’s contributors, all historians, examine how specific party chapters and offshoots emerged, developed, and waned, as well as how the local branches related to their communities and to the national party. The histories and character of the party branches vary as widely as their locations. The Cape Verdeans of New Bedford, Massachusetts, were initially viewed as a particular challenge for the local Panthers but later became the mainstay of the Boston-area party. In the early 1970s, the Winston-Salem, North Carolina, chapter excelled at implementing the national Black Panther Party’s strategic shift from revolutionary confrontation to mainstream electoral politics. In Detroit, the Panthers were defined by a complex relationship between their above-ground activities and an underground wing dedicated to armed struggle. While the Milwaukee chapter was born out of a rising tide of black militancy, it ultimately proved more committed to promoting literacy and health care and redressing hunger than to violence. The Alabama Black Liberation Front did not have the official imprimatur of the national party, but it drew heavily on the Panthers’ ideas and organizing strategies, and its activism demonstrates the broad resonance of many of the concerns articulated by the national party: the need for jobs, for decent food and housing, for black self-determination, and for sustained opposition to police brutality against black people. Liberated Territory reveals how the Black Panther Party’s ideologies, goals, and strategies were taken up and adapted throughout the United States. -- Publisher description.
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Encyclopedia of African American History: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century
Paul Finkelman and Yohuru Williams
Yohuru Williams is a contributing author, "Delaware".
Book description: Focusing on the making of African American society from the 1896 "separate but equal" ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson up to the contemporary period, this encyclopedia traces the transition from the Reconstruction Era to the age of Jim Crow, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Migration, the Brown ruling that overturned Plessy, the Civil Rights Movement, and the ascendant influence of African American culture on the American cultural landscape. -- Publisher description
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The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to Present
Immanuel Ness and Yohuru Williams
Yohuru Williams is a contributing author, "The Black Panthers".
Book description: This definitive 8-volume reference is a comprehensive print resource covering the history of protest and revolution over the past 500 years – throughout the modern era of mass movements.
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Beyond Berlin: Twelve German Cities Confront the Nazi Past
Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Paul Jaskot
Gavriel Rosenfeld (wiith Paul Jaskot), in addition to a co-editing this book, is a co-contributing author,:
“Urban Space and the Nazi Past in Postwar Germany [with Paul Jaskot]”, p.1-24. and,
""Memory and the Museum: Munich's Struggle to Build a Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism", pp.163-185.
Book description: Beyond Berlin breaks new ground in the ongoing effort to understand how memorials, buildings, and other spaces have figured in Germany's confrontation with its Nazi past. The contributors challenge reigning views of Germany's postwar memory work by examining how specific urban centers apart from the nation's capital have wrestled with their respective Nazi legacies. A wide range of West and East German cities is profiled in the volume: prominent metropolises like Hamburg, dynamic regional centers like Dresden, gritty industrial cities like Wolfsburg, and idyllic rural towns like Quedlinburg. In employing historical, art historical, anthropological, and geographical methodologies to examine these and other important urban centers, the volume's case studies shed new light upon the complex ways in which the confrontation with the Nazi past has directly shaped the German urban landscape since the end of the Second World War.
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Social Networks in Byzantine Egypt
Giovanni Ruffini
Book description: Social network analysis maps relationships and transactions between people and groups. This 2008 text was the first book-length application of this method to the ancient world, using the abundant documentary evidence from sixth-century Oxyrhynchos and Aphrodito in Egypt. Professor Ruffini combines a prosopographical survey of both sites with computer analyses of the topographical and social networks in their papyri. He thereby uncovers hierarchical social structures in Oxyrhynchos not present in Aphrodito, and is able for the first time to trace the formation of the famous Apion estate. He can also use quantitative techniques to locate the central players in the Aphrodito social landscape, allowing us to see past the family of Dioskoros to discover the importance of otherwise unknown figures. He argues that the apparent social differences between Oxyrhynchos and Aphrodito in fact represent different levels of geographic scale, both present within the same social model. -- Publisher description.
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Black Politics White Power, Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Black Panthers in New Haven
Yohuru Williams
The popular media have portrayed the Black Panthers mainly for the rhetoric of violence some members employed and for the associations between the Panthers and a black militancy drawing on racial hostility to whites in general. Overlooked have been the efforts that branches of the organization undertook for practical economic and social progress within African-American neighborhoods, frequently in alliance with whites. Yohuru Williams' study of black politics in New Haven culminating in the arrival of the Panthers argues that the increasing militancy in the black community there was motivated not by abstractions of black cultural integrity but by the continuing frustrations the leadership suffered in its dealings with the city's white liberal establishment. Black Politics/White Power is an important contribution to a discovery of the complexities of racial politics during the angry late sixties and early seventies. -- Publisher description
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Teaching U.S. History beyond the Textbook: Six Investigative Strategies, Grades 5-12
Yohuru Williams
Written by a history educator, this exciting guide provides a unique approach that makes it easy for middle and high school teachers to engage students' critical thinking in history and social studies. Using a "CSI approach" to history, the author's six powerful strategies tap into students' natural curiosity and investigative instincts. Students become detectives of the past as they ghost-hunt in their neighborhoods, solve historical crime scenes, prepare arguments for famous court cases, and more. Each ready-to-use technique: Demonstrates how students can use primary and secondary sources to solve historical mysteries Includes sample lessons and case studies for Grades 5–12 Aligns with national standards, making the book useful for both teachers and curriculum developers Features review questions, reflections, and Web and print resources in every chapter for further reading Incorporate these strategies into your classroom and watch as students discover just how thrilling and spine-chilling history can be! --Publisher's description
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Proceedings of the 24th International Congress of Papyrology: Helsinki, 1-7 August, 2004
Jaakko Frosen, Tiina Purola, Erja Salmenkivi, and Giovanni Ruffini
Giovanni Ruffini is a contributing author, “New Approaches to Oxyrhynchite Topography”, pp. 973-988.
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Prosopography Approaches and Applications: A Handbook
K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Shawn Graham, and Giovanni Ruffini
Giovanni Ruffini (with Shawn Graham) is a contributing author, "Network Analysis and Greco-Roman Prosopography”, pp. 325-336.
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Lessons and Legacies: The Holocaust in International Perspective
Dagmar Herzog and Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Gavriel Rosenfeld is a contributing author, "" The Normalization of Memory: Saul Friedländer’s Reflections of Nazism Twenty Years Later", pp. 400-410
Book description: As the discipline of Holocaust studies matures, new questions and themes come to the fore. Among these are critical issues that receive serious scholarly attention, often for the first time, in this collection of essays by some of the world's most respected experts in the field. Greed and theft as motives for Holocaust perpetrators and bystanders; sexual violence and what it tells us about the experiences of both victims and perpetrators; collaboration with Nazis among the local populations of the ever-moving Eastern front; the durability of anti-Semitism after 1945; and the perspectives of the Soviet military and Soviet leadership on Nazi crimes: these are some of the topics the authors address as they extend the boundaries of Holocaust scholarship beyond the central loci of the planning and execution of technologized mass murder--Germany and Poland--and into ghettos and killing fields in Ukraine and Belarus, as well as spaces whose boundaries and national identities changed repeatedly. The authors also look to Western Europe and consider the expropriation of Dutch Jews and the exigencies of post-Holocaust filmmaking in France; they draw insights from recent genocides such as those in Cambodia and Rwanda, and provide new critical analyses of the course and meaning of contested responses to the Shoah in nations and locations long and deeply studied. A thorough, thoughtful, and insightful introduction clarifies the volume's themes and concisely places them within the larger context of Holocaust scholarship; and an introductory essay by Omer Bartov brings into focus the numerous paradoxes structuring early twenty-first-century retrospective thinking about the significance of the Holocaust as a central theme of the twentieth century.
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The Black Power Movement
Peniel E. Joseph and Yohuru Williams
Yohuru Williams is a contributing author, "A Red Black and Green Liberation Jumpsuit: Roy Wilkins, the FBI and the Conundrum of Black Power," 169-191.
Book description: The Black Power Movement remains an enigma. Often misunderstood and ill-defined, this radical movement is now beginning to receive sustained and serious scholarly attention. Peniel Joseph has collected the freshest and most impressive list of contributors around to write original essays on the Black Power Movement. Taken together they provide a critical and much needed historical overview of the Black Power era. Offering important examples of undocumented histories of black liberation, this volume offers both powerful and poignant examples of 'Black Power Studies' scholarship.--Publisher's Description
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Encyclopedia Judaica, Second Edition
Fred Skolnit and Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Gavriel Rosenfeld is a contributing author, "Saul Friedländer", volume 7, pp. 275-76.
Book description: Provides an exhaustive and organized overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel, from Rabbinic to modern Yiddish literature, from Kabbalah to "Americana" and from Zionism to the contribution of Jews to world cultures.
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In Search of the Black Panther Party: New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement
Yohuru Williams and Jama Lazerow
In addition to co-editing this title, Yohuru Williams is a contributing author, “White Tigers, Brown Berets, Black Panthers, Oh My!” and (with Jama Lazerow) "The Black Panthers and Historical Scholarship: Why Now?”.
Book description: Controversy swirled around the Black Panthers from the moment the revolutionary black nationalist Party was founded in Oakland, California, in 1966. Since that time, the group that J. Edgar Hoover called “the single greatest threat to the nation’s internal security” has been celebrated and denigrated, deified and vilified. Rarely, though, has it received the sort of nuanced analysis offered in this rich interdisciplinary collection. Historians, along with scholars in the fields of political science, English, sociology, and criminal justice, examine the Panthers and their present-day legacy with regard to revolutionary violence, radical ideology, urban politics, popular culture, and the media. The essays consider the Panthers as distinctly American revolutionaries, as the products of specific local conditions, and as parts of other movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
One contributor evaluates the legal basis of the Panthers’ revolutionary struggle, explaining how they utilized and critiqued the language of the Constitution. Others explore the roles of individuals, looking at a one-time Panther imprisoned for a murder he did not commit and an FBI agent who monitored the activities of the Panthers’ Oakland branch. Contributors assess the Panthers’ relations with Students for a Democratic Society, the Young Lords, the Brown Berets, and the Peace and Freedom Party. They discuss the Party’s use of revolutionary aesthetics, and they show how the Panthers manipulated and were manipulated by the media. Illuminating some of the complexities involved in placing the Panthers in historical context, this collection demonstrates that the scholarly search for the Black Panthers has only just begun. -- Publisher description
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Victorian Churches and Churchmen: Essays Presented to Vincent Alan McClelland
Sheridan Gilley and Jeffrey P. von Arx S.J.
Jeffrey P. von Arx, S.J. is a contributing author, "Cardinal Manning and his political persona: the education act of 1870" p. 1.
The major themes of Catholic historiography and the history of education during the Victorian era unite the essays collected here, as is fitting for a volume honouring the work in these fields of Professor Vincent Alan McClelland. There is a particular emphasis upon the life and work of Cardinal Manning; other figures and topics considered include Father Randal Lythgoe, Cardinal Newman, the English Benedictine contribution to the British Empire, modern Scottish Catholic history, and Victorian Christianity in its various forms, as in the essays on Methodism and the Church of Ireland. - Publisher description
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The Triangle Fire, the Protocols of Peace, and Industrial Democracy in Progressive Era
Richard Greenwald
America searched for an answer to "The Labor Question" during the Progressive Era in an effort to avoid the unrest and violence that flared so often in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. In the ladies' garment industry, a unique experiment in industrial democracy brought together labor, management, and the public. As Richard Greenwald explains, it was an attempt to "square free market capitalism with ideals of democracy to provide a fair and just workplace." Led by Louis Brandeis, this group negotiated the "Protocols of Peace." But in the midst of this experiment, 146 mostly young, immigrant women died in the Triangle Factory Fire of 1911. As a result of the fire, a second, interrelated experiment, New York's Factory Investigating Commission (FIC)—led by Robert Wagner and Al Smith—created one of the largest reform successes of the period.
The Triangle Fire, the Protocols of Peace, and Industrial Democracy in Progressive Era New York uses these linked episodes to show the increasing interdependence of labor, industry, and the state. Greenwald explains how the Protocols and the FIC best illustrate the transformation of industrial democracy and the struggle for political and economic justice.
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Gray Zones: Ambiguity and Compromise in the Holocaust and its Aftermath
Jonathan Petropolous, John Roth, and Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Gavriel Rosenfeld is a contributing author, “Alternate Holocausts and the Mistrust of Memory", pp. 240-251.
Book description: Few essays about the Holocaust are better known or more important than Primo Levi’s reflections on what he called “the gray zone,” a reality in which moral ambiguity and compromise were pronounced. In this volume accomplished Holocaust scholars, among them Raul Hilberg, Gerhard L. Weinberg, Christopher Browning, Peter Hayes, and Lynn Rapaport, explore the terrain that Levi identified. Together they bring a necessary interdisciplinary focus to bear on timely and often controversial topics in cutting-edge Holocaust studies that range from historical analysis to popular culture. While each essay utilizes a particular methodology and argues for its own thesis, the volume as a whole advances the claim that the more we learn about the Holocaust, the more complex that event turns out to be. Only if ambiguities and compromises in the Holocaust and its aftermath are identified, explored, and at times allowed to remain--lest resolution deceive us--will our awareness of the Holocaust and its implications be as full as possible.
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The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism
Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Book description: What if the Nazis had triumphed in World War II? What if Adolf Hitler had escaped Berlin for the jungles of Latin America in 1945? What if Hitler had become a successful artist instead of a politician? Originally published in 2005, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld's pioneering study explores why such counterfactual questions on the subject of Nazism have proliferated within Western popular culture. Examining a wide range of novels, short stories, films, television programs, plays, comic books, and scholarly essays appearing in Great Britain, the United States, and Germany post-1945, Rosenfeld shows how the portrayal of historical events that never happened reflects the evolving memory of the Third Reich's real historical legacy. He concludes that the shifting representation of Nazism in works of alternate history, as well as the popular reactions to them, highlights their subversive role in promoting the normalisation of the Nazi past in Western memory.
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A Constant Struggle: African-American History from 1619-1865
Yohuru Williams, Tamara Brown, and Rodger Davidson
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Holding Up Half the Sky: Chinese Women: the Past, Present, and Future
Tao Jie, Zheng Bijun, Shirley L. Mow, and Danke K. Li
Danke Li is a contributing author, “Gender Inequality in Education in Rural China”, p.123-136.
Book Description: Mao Zedong's famous statement that "women hold up half the sky" marked a new recognition of Chinese women's contributions to their society—but only today is there a rich and extensive body of research by Chinese women about women in China. Drawing together work by many of China's most distinguished women scholars, this collection presents twenty-one essays that address issues relating to women in the workplace, women's education, and women's role in marriage, family, and in cultural and political life. With statistics and accounts otherwise unavailable in the West, they reveal a feminist activism among China's women that is breathtaking both for the problems it confronts and for the spirit of the struggle it embodies.
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The Encyclopedia of New Jersey
Maxine Lurie, Marc Mappen, and Yohuru Williams
Yohuru Williams is a contributing author, "Nation of Islam".
Book description: The Encyclopedia of New Jersey is the most extensive reference work ever published on the Garden State. The Encyclopedia contains nearly 3,000 original articles, along with 585 illustrations and 130 maps, collecting a wealth of information about the state in one volume. The Encyclopedia is filled with fascinating and interesting entries ranging from New Jersey's earliest history to the present. For example-Did you know that New Jersey was once divided into two parts-East Jersey and West Jersey? That streptomycin was first isolated at Rutgers University? Or that the first vote cast by an African American under the Fifteenth Amendment was in Perth Amboy? How about that New Jersey was the site of the first intercollegiate football game? These facts, and thousands more, can be found in the pages of the Encyclopedia of New Jersey. This volume will provide the answers to questions about New Jersey that you never even knew you had!
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Architektur und Gedächtnis: München und Nationalsozialismus, Strategien des Vergessens
Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
[2004 Translated and revised edition of Munich and Memory: Architecture, Monuments, and the Legacy of the Third Reich (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000)]
Wenig erforscht sind bisher die Auswirkungen der Auseinandersetzung mit dem Nationalsozialismus nach 1945 auf die Stadtentwicklung und das Stadtbild Münchens. In Auswertung bislang unbeachteten Archivmaterials beschreibt der Autor anschaulich die Planungen für den Wiederaufbau Münchens nach seiner Zerstörung, wobei er detailliert die Probleme eines historischen Wiederaufbaus der Stadt erläutert. Ausführlich dokumentiert er die kontroversen Einstellungen der Stadtplaner zur NS-Architektur, bei denen sich rein ästhetische und ideologisch-historisch argumentierende Positionen unversöhnlich gegenüberstehen. Rosenfeld legt in seiner wegweisenden Untersuchung dar, dass die Debatten zwischen den so genannten Traditionalisten, Modernisten, Postmodernisten und kritischen Denkmalpflegern aber auch zeigen, dass der Umgang mit dem Nationalsozialismus nicht von Verdrängung, sondern vielmehr von heftigen rivalisierenden Meinungsverschiedenheiten über die Zukunft der Stadt geprägt waren. Gleichwohl zeichnete sich München durch einen konservativen Umgang mit seiner NS-Vergangenheit aus und dadurch, dass die Stadt bestrebt war, ihre historische Verantwortung für das »Dritte Reich« abzuschwächen.
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Ancient Alexandria between Egypt and Greece
Giovanni Ruffini and W. V. Harris
Giovanni Ruffini, in addition to editing this title, is a contributing author, “Late Antique Pagan Networks from Athens to the Thebaid,” pp. 241-257."
Book description: As one of the greatest cities of antiquity, Alexandria has always been a severe challenge to its historians, all the more so because the surviving evidence, material and textual, is so disparate. New archaeological and literary discoveries and the startling diversity of ancient Alexandria (so reminiscent of some modern cities) add to the interest. The present volume contains the papers given at a conference at Columbia University in 2002 which attempted to lay some of the foundations for a new history of Alexandria by considering, in particular, its position between the traditions and life of Egypt on the one hand, and on the other the immigrants who came there from Greece and elsewhere in the wake of the founder Alexander of Macedon. -- Publisher description.