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Recent Books

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.

Revolutionary Warfare How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency

Cover A Companion to Latin American Legal History green background with a small frame rectangle in the middle of multicolored roof houses smooshed together A Companion to Latin American Legal History

blue rectangle half the page,yellow text the title then swirly, decorating lines with leaves, below author name in yellow , smaller font. the bottom half a picture of bitish americans in the 1800s suits a big tree trunk in the middle. the place is an outside shop seeting, with two kids walking in the walkway and meny men sitting and standing in various parts on shoping area Accommodating the Republic Taverns in the Early United States

the global innovator book cover. red triangle that covers the right half corner of the page. the red triangles has 17 white triangles. The left side is blue with one white triange very close the lines of the red triangle. The Global Innovator: How Nations Have Held and Lost the Innovative Edge

red rectangle cover 1/3 of the page with the title in white font. A picute of an elephand on the right side and a african american littl boy with cultural clothing on the right the picturing is coverin more than a 1/3 of the book. small red rectable on the bottom, the authors name Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa: The Human and Nonhuman Creatures of Nigeria

black and white photo woman in her mid 30s with a scarf on her head and fair light clothing holding a circlular pocket watch and looking down on it Modernity, Domesticity, and Temporality in Russia: Time at Home

black and white photo incongrous stairs leading to nowhere. the title in blue text on the ride side. Capitalism's Hidden Worlds

black-african man half naked staning on the left side with a spear and cultutral clothing, the clothing skirt is open on both side of legs. The man is position in a field on the right and standing on a plane sidewalk the tittle is on the upper right hand side Guns and Society in Colonial Nigeria: Firearms, Culture, and Public Order

welcome to fairyland title blue on beige background covering half the photo. the upper hald is a watercolor painting of a beach with a nearby corner of a big green tree, siting down are three men spaced out in beachwear. Welcome to Fairyland

in red the tittle in black the sub title of the book. the photo is pictured in a 1900s setting. 6 men sitting in wooden chairs together crafting Burdens of War: Creating the United States Veterans Health System

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

white background picture in the middle people dancing looking at a white brightening circle with a eight note inside The Enlightenment on Trial: Ordinary Litigants and Colonialism in the Spanish Empire

yellow upper half with white text ot the title. bottom half a picture of a nursery home with three nuses posing next to baby carriages in a room. Small babies upfront sitting playing with toys Progressive Mothers, Better Babies: Race, Public Health, and the State in Brazil, 1850–1945