God’s Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America
By Louis Warren, UC Davis' W. Turrentine Jackson Professor of U.S. Western History. This book offers a startling new view of the religion known as the Ghost Dance. (Basic Books/April 2017)
The Lima Reader: History, Culture, Politics
Edited by Charles F. Walker, professor of history, with Carlos Aguirre. Covering more than 500 years of history, culture and politics, this volume captures multiple viewpoints of the diverse peoples of Peru’s capital city. (Duke University Press/April 2017)
Knowledge and the Ends of Empire: Kazak Intermediaries and Russian Rule on the Steppe, 1731-1917
Ian W. Campbell, assistant professor of history, draws on archival materials and a wide range of 19th-century periodicals in Russian and Kazak to tell how Kazaks used local knowledge to negotiate tsarist rule and subsequently used that knowledge to resist such rule. (Cornell University Press/March 2017)