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Books recently published by the faculty of the Department of History at FIU. For full listing of publications please refer to the CVs of individual faculty members.

 cuban-memory.png Cuban Memory Wars: Retrospective Politics in Revolution and Exile

to-make-the-wounded-whole.jpg To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle against HIV/AIDS

modernity,-domesticity,-and-temporality-in-russia.jpg Modernity, Domesticity, and Temporality in Russia: Time at Home

  Global Protestant Missions: Politics, Reform, and Communication, 1730s-1930s

  Capitalism's Hidden Worlds

  The Revolution from within. Cuba, 1959-1980

  The Modern Spain Sourcebook: A Cultural History from 1600 to the Present

  Burdens of War: Creating the United States Veterans Health System

  Haiti and the Uses of America: Post-U.S. Occupation Promises

  The Enlightenment on Trial: Ordinary Litigants and Colonialism in the Spanish Empire

  Progressive Mothers, Better Babies: Race, Public Health, and the State in Brazil, 1850–1945

  Fatal Love: Spousal Homicide, Law and Punishment in the Late Colonial Spanish Atlantic

  Sugar and Civilization: American Empire and the Cultural Politics of Sweetness

  The 2003–2007 Excavations in the Late Roman Fort at Yotvata

  En cuerpo y alma : ser mujer en tiempos de Franco

  Performing the Temple of Liberty

Other academic publications

Recent non-monographic academic publications of the faculty of the Department of History. These are arranged alphabetically by faculty name. For full listing of publications please refer to the CVs of individual faculty members.

  • Jessica Adler
    • Adler, J.L. “Help Without Hassles: Instituting Community-Based Care for U.S. Veterans After the War in Vietnam” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 95, no. 4 (2021): 528-557.
    • Adler, J.L., Chen, W., Page, T.F., “Transitions in “Privatized” Prison Health Systems: Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalizations Among Incarcerated People in Florida, 2011–2018” American Journal of Public Health 111, no. 5 (May 1, 2021): pp. 965-968.
    • Adler, J.L., (2020) “The Case for the Courts: Military, Society, and the Legal Record” Reviews in American History, 48, no. 4: 596-604. (Review essay on Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring by Richard Gergel and Policing Sex and Marriage in the American Military: The Court-Martial and the Construction of Gender and Sexual Deviance, 1950–2000 by Kellie Wilson-Buford.)
    • Adler, J.L., (2020) Review of A Time of Scandal: Charles R. Forbes, Warren G. Harding, and the Making of the Veterans Bureau, by Rosemary Stevens, Nursing History Review, 28, no. 1: 209-211.
    • Martin Olliff, Nancy K. Bristow, Adler, J.L., (2020) “Fighting the Great War Over Here” chapter adapted from conference proceedings for Dixie’s Great War: World War I and the American South, Andrew Huebner and John Giggie, eds., (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press).
    • Adler, J.L., (2020) Health-Related Prison Conditions in the Progressive and Civil Rights Eras: Lessons from the Rockefeller Archive Center, issueLab.org.
    • Adler, J.L., (2020) “If we want to stop covid-19, we can’t forget the incarcerated,” Washington Post, March 31, 2020.
    • Adler, J.L., Page, T., (2019) “Disability Reporting Among U.S. Immigrant Veterans: Findings and Implications,” Journal of Military and Veterans’ Health, 27, no. 2: 18-27.
    • Chen, W., Adler, J.L., (2019) “Assessment of Screen Exposure in Young Children, 1997 to 2014,” JAMA Pediatrics 173, no. 4: 391-393.
    • Adler, J.L., (2019) “Why Incarcerated People Must Be Able to Speak Out About Abuse,” Washington Post, November 15, 2019.
    • Adler, J.L., (2019) Almarales, B., Humanities-Based Programming for Veterans: Report on a University-Community Partnership, report for National Endowment for the Humanities, available via securegrants.neh.gov.
    • Adler, J.L., (2019) “Veterans’ Perspectives and the Great Task Remaining,” National Council on Public History, History@Work, March 8, 2019.
    • Adler, J.L., (2018) “Veterans, Like Other Working- and Middle-Class Americans, Increasingly Rely on Public Health Programs,” American Journal of Public Health, 108, no. 3: 298-299.
    • Adler, J.L., (2018) Review of Ensuring America’s Health: The Public Creation of the Corporate Health Care System, by Christy Ford Chapin, Business History Review, 92, no. 2: 390-392.
    • Adler, J.L., (2018) Review of Medicine in First World War Europe: Soldiers, Medics, Pacifists, by Fiona Reid, Social History of Medicine, 31, no. 2: 432–433.
    • Adler, J.L. 2018. “Veterans, Like Other Working- and Middle-Class Americans, Increasingly Rely on Public Health Programs” American Journal of Public Health, 108, No. 3, 298-299.
  • Gwyn Davies
    • Davies, G. 2022. Book review of Hollway, D. 2022. At the Gates of Rome: The Fall of the Eternal City, AD 410. Osprey: Oxford. Journal of Military History. 86.4, 978-980.
    • Magness, J. & Davies, G, 2022. Jerusalem’s Northern Defences under Hadrian. Palestine Exploration Quarterly, DOI: 10.1080/00310328.2022.2030609
    • Davies, G. 2021. Book review of Zeichmann, C.B. 2019 (ed.). Essential Essays for the Study of the Military in First-Century Palestine: Soldiers and the New Testament Context. Eugene, OR: Pickwick. Review of Biblical Literature. Published 2021-02-25.
    • Davies, G. 2020. ‘Dig for Victory’! Competitive Fieldwork in Classical Siege Operations. In: Eisenberg, M. and Khamisy, R. (eds.) The Art of Siege Warfare and Military Architecture from the Classical World to the Middle Ages, 45-53. Oxbow: Oxford
    • Davies, G. 2020. Book review of Breeze, D. The Frontiers of Imperial Rome. Philadelphia: Pen and Sword Press. History: Reviews of New Books. 48.5. 132-134.
    • Davies, G. 2020. 'I will lay waste your cities, and you will become a desolation'. Insurgency and counter-insurgency in Judaea. Small Wars and Insurgencies, 31:5, 1080-1107.
    • Davies, G. 2019. Book review of Magness, J. 'Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth'. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton UP. Strata: Bulletin of the Anglo-Israeli Archaeological Society. 37, 163-4.
    • Davies, G. 2019. The Landscapes of Siege. In: Armstrong, J. and Trundle, M. (eds.) The Brill's Companion to Sieges in the Ancient Mediterranean, 18-34. Brill: Leiden.
    • Davies, G. 2019. Book review of Wrightson, G. Combined Arms Warfare in Ancient Greece. From Homer to Alexander the Great and his Successors. London and New York: Routledge. Classical Review. 69.2. 1-3.
  • Jenna Gibbs
    • Gibbs, J. M. 2018. Missions and the Global Question of Slavery: The Case of Christian Latrobe in Saxony, Great Britain and South Africa. In: Ratschiller, L. and Wetjen, K. (eds.) Verflochtene Mission: Perspektiven auf eine neue Missionsgeschichte, 27-44. Böhler: Wien/Köln/Weimar
    • Gibbs, J. M. 2018. Review of Kelly, K.E. Republic of Taste: Art, Politics and Everyday Life in Early America. University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia. Early American Literature, 42:3, 250-254.
  • Erika Kern
    • Harlitz-Kern, E. 2020. “The Puzzle of the Banquet Hall of the Dukes. The Professionalization of Swedish Historical Research Studied through Ludwik Fleck’s Thought Collective and Thought Style,” History and Theory, no. 1, 3–21.
      https:/ onlinelibrary.wiley.comdoi/abs/10.1111/hith.12143
    • Harlitz-Kern, E. 2018. Book review of Hutchings, R.M. Maritime Heritage in Crisis. Indigenous Landscapes and Global Ecological Breakdown, The International Network for Theory of History (Belgium), April, 2018.
      https:/ www.inth.ugent.becontent/maritime-heritage-crisis-indigenous-landscapes-and-global-ecological-breakdown
  • Sven Kube
    • Kube, S. 2021. “Socialist Riches to Capitalist Rags: The Disintegration of the GDR Music Industry during German Reunification.” In Galuszka, P. (ed.) Eastern European Music Industries and Policies after the Fall of Communism: From State Control to Free Market, 81–93. London: Routledge.
  • Lindsey Maxwell
    • Maxwell, Lindsey B., Book Review of When the Medium Was the Mission: The Atlantic Telegraph and the Religious Origins of Network Culture by Jenna Supp-Montgomerie” in Journal of the American Academy of Religion 89.3 (September 2021): 1108˗1111. 
  • Bianca Premo
    • Premo, Bianca. 2018. “As If She Were My Own: Love, Mastery and Freedom in the Slave Regime of Colonial Peru.” In Daina Berry and Leslie Harris, eds. Sexuality and Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018.
    • Premo, Bianca. 2018. Review Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Intimacy, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima, 1600-1700 by Michelle A. McKinley, The Hispanic American Historical Review no. 98, 2 (2018): 307-8.
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