Books by Humanities Faculty
JOHN BREWER
Eli and Edye Broad Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences
Professor of History and Literature
- Rethinking Leviathan: The Eighteenth-Century State in Britain and Germany Co-edited by Eli and Edye Broad Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of History and Literature John Brewer, Rethinking Leviathan offers a new approach to the history of the modern state.
WARREN C. BROWN
Associate Professor of History
- Conflict in Medieval Europe: Changing Perspectives on Society and Culture This volume co-edited by Warren Brown, Associate Professor of History, represents the "American school" of the study of medieval conflict and social order. A set of original, highly individual contributions from scholars bridging two generations, this work marks the trajectory of conflict studies in the United States.
JED Z. BUCHWALD
Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History
Histories of the Electron: The Birth of Microphysics This book, co-edited by Professor of History Jed Z. Buchwald, is both a biography of the electron and a history of the microphysical world that it opened up.
Isaac Newton's Natural Philosophy This volume, co-edited by Professor of History Jed Z. Buchwald, singles out two strands in recent Newton studies: the intellectual background to Isaac Newton's scientific thought and both specific and general aspects of his technical science.
FIONA COWIE
Associate Professor of Philosophy
- What's Within? Nativism Reconsidered This iconoclastic book by Associate Professor of Philosophy Fiona Cowie reconsiders the influential nativist position toward the mind.
MORDECHAI FEINGOLD
Professor of History
- The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture
A companion volume to Professor Feingold's acclaimed exhibition "The Newtonian Moment," presented this year first in New York and now at the Huntington Library in San Marino, Calif., this splendidly illustrated book offers an introduction to Newton's life and his rise to scientific greatness.
KEVIN M. GILMARTIN
Associate Professor of Literature
- Print Politics: The Press and Radical Opposition in Early Nineteenth-Century England Print Politics, authored by Associate Professor of Literature Kevin M. Gilmartin, is the first literary study of the culture of the popular radical movement for parliamentary reform in the early decades of the nineteenth century which was characterized by popular agitation and repressive political measures including trials for seditious and blasphemous libel.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHCOCK
Professor of Philosophy
- Contemporary Debates in Philosophy Edited by Professor of Philosophy Christopher Hitchcock, this is a collection of sixteen original essays by leading authors in the philosophy of science, each one defending the affirmative or negative answer to one of eight specific questions, including: Are there laws of social science? Are causes physically connected to their effects? Is the mind a system of modules shaped by natural selection?
PHILIP T. HOFFMAN
Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor of History and Social Science
- Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development Co-edited by Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor of History and Social Science Philip T. Hoffman, this volume includes ten essays dealing with financial and other forms of economic intermediation in Europe, Canada, and the United States since the seventeenth century.
CATHERINE JURCA
Associate Professor of Literature
- White Diaspora: The Suburb and the Twentieth-Century American Novel Tracing the suburb's emergence as a crucial setting and subject of the twentieth-century American novel, Associate Professor of Literature Catherine Jurca identifies a decidedly masculine obsession with the suburban home and a preoccupation with its alternative—the experience of spiritual and emotional dislocation that she terms "homelessness."
DIANA KORMOS-BUCHWALD
Professor of History
- Walther Nernst and the Transition to Modern Physical Science Primarily a scientific biography of Walther H. Nernst (1864-1941), one of Germany's most important, productive and often controversial scientists, this book by Associate Professor of History Diana Kormos-Buchwald addresses a set of specific scientific problems that evolved at the intersection of physics, chemistry and technology during one of the most revolutionary periods of modern physical science.
J. MORGAN KOUSSER
Professor of History and Social Science
- Colorblind Injustice: Minority Voting Rights and the Undoing of the Second Reconstruction Blending history, political science, and law in this study of the legal history of minority voting rights, J. Morgan Kousser argues in this book that institutions and institutional rules—not customs, ideas, attitudes, culture, or individual behavior—have been the primary forces shaping American race relations.
JENIJOY LABELLE
Professor of Literature
- Night Thoughts: Or, the Complaint and the Consolation This book, co-edited by Professor of Literature Jenijoy LaBelle, is a superb reproduction of the 1797 publication of four sections of Edward Young's popular poem "Night Thoughts," illustrated with 43 designs by William Blake.
GEORGE W. PIGMAN III
Professor of Literature
- A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres Edited by Professor of Literature George W. Pigman III, this version of George Gascoigne's A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres studies Gascoigne's use of his sources and situates his works in their literary and social milieux.
STEVEN R. QUARTZ
Associate Professor of Philosophy
- Liars, Lovers, and Heroes: What the New Brain Science Reveals About How We Become Who We Are Why do humans fall in love, create art, make war? Author Steve Quartz, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, argues that these and other capabilities are the result of biology and culture working together.
ROBERT A. ROSENSTONE
Professor of History
History on Film/Film on History To deal with film is to deal with a historical game pretty much outside the control of historians. This book provides a broad historical and theoretical overview to the rapidly growing field of history and film. It introduces the varieties, types, and traditions of historical films made in Hollywood, Europe, and the rest of the world and the various and changing ways historians and other public critics (reviewers, teachers, politicians, historical actors) have greeted, evaluated, and debated the way particular historical events and history in have been presented on the screen.
Rosenstone argues that historical films utilize specific codes of conventions, visual, aural and dramatic, to engage us with and alter and complexify our view of the past. This allows film to create a sort of new history, one that we must approach with new conceptual tools if we are to evaluate its contribution to our understanding of the past.
CINDY WEINSTEIN
Associate Professor of Literature
The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe This collection of specially commissioned essays edited by Associate Professor of Literature Cindy Weinstein provides new perspectives on the frequently read classic Uncle Tom's Cabin, as well as on topics of perennial interest, such as Stowe's representation of race, her attitude to reform, and her relationship to the American novel.
The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature: Allegory in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction Associate Professor of Literature Cindy Weinstein's The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature juxtaposes representations of labor in fictional texts and non-fictional texts in order to trace the intersections between aesthetic and economic discourse in nineteenth-century America.
JAMES F. WOODWARD
J.O. and Juliette Koepfli Professor of the Humanities
- Making Things Happen: A Theory of Causal Explanation In Making Things Happen, J.O. and Juliette Koepfli Professor of the Humanities James Woodward develops a new and ambitious comprehensive theory of causation and explanation that draws on literature from a variety of disciplines and which applies to a wide variety of claims in science and everyday life.