Department of HistoryResearchFaculty Books

Faculty Publications

2025

  • Overtoom, Nikolaus L., The Parthians at War: Combat, Logistics, Reputation, and the First War with Rome. Bloomsbury Publishing. 2025.

2024

  • Chastain, Andra. Chile Underground: The Santiago Metro and the Struggle for a Rational City (Yale University Press), 2024
  • Heidenreich, L. with Urquijo Ruiz, Rita. Writing That Matters: A Handbook in Chicanx and Latinx Studies. University of Arizona Press, 2024
  • Smelyansky, Eugene. Medievalisms and Russia: The Contest for Imaginary Pasts. Arc Humanities Press, 2024
  • Spohnholz, Jesse with van Veen, Mirjam. Dutch Reformed Protestants in the Holy Roman Empire, c.1550–1620: A Reformation of Refugees. University of Rochester Press, 2024
  • Weller, Charles. Moses, Muhammad and Nature’s God in Early American Religious-Legal History, 1640-1830: A Global Crosscultural Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024

2023

  • Weller, Charles. Pre-Islamic Survivals’ in Muslim Central Asia: Tsarist, Soviet and Post-Soviet Ethnography in World Historical Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

2022

  • Boag, Peter. Pioneering Death: The Violence of Boyhood in Turn-of-the-Century Oregon. University of Washington Press, 2022.
  • Brecher, William. Animal Care in Japanese Tradition: A Short History. Columbia University Press, 2022.

2021

  • Bauman, Robert and Franklin, Robert, Co-editors. Echoes of Exclusion and Resistance: Voices from the Hanford Region. WSU Press.
  • Brecher, William,  Japan’s Private Spheres: Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930. Brill Publications, 2021.
  • Faunce, Ken, Heavy Traffic: The Global Drug Trade in Historical Perspective. Oxford University Press.
  • Herzog, Shawna, Negotiating Abolition: The Antislavery Project in the British Straits Settlements, 1786–1843. Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2021.
  • Phoenix, Karen, Gender Rules: Identity and Empire in Historical Perspective. Oxford University Press.
  • Stratton, Clif, Power Politics: Carbon Energy in Historical Perspective. Oxford University Press.
  • Tyler, Jacki, Leveraging an Empire: Settler Colonialism and the Legalities of Citizenship in the Pacific Northwest. University of Nebraska Press, 2021.

2020

  • Brecher, William, Co-editor. Defamiliarizing Japan’s Asia-Pacific War. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
  • Chastain, Andra, Rethinking Basic Infrastructure: Urban Development and Metro-Building in Latin America, 1960s-1980s,” special issue of Comparativ, edited by Marc Frey, Sönke Kunkel, and Nancy Kwak.
  • Itineraries of Expertise: Science, Technology, and the Environment in Latin America’s Long Cold War. Co-editor with Timothy Lorek. Pittsburg, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.
  • Faunce, Ken, Global Drug Trade. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
  • Heidenreich, Linda, Nepantla2: Excavating Transgender Mestiz@ Histories in Northern California. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
  • “La Sombra y el Sueño: Looking for Queer Hope in Times of Epochal Shift,”. in El Mundo Zurdo 7: Selected Works from the 2015 Meeting of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa. San Francisco, CA: Aunt Lute Books: 63-78.
  • Herzog, Shawna R., Gender, Slavery, and Abolition in the British Straits Settlements 1795 – 1841. London: Bloomsbury.
  • Overtoom, Nikolaus L., Reign of Arrows: The Rise of the Parthian Empire in the Hellenistic Middle East. Oxford University Press. Oxford Studies in Early Empires Series. 2020.
  • “The Parthians’ Failed Vassalage of Syria: The Shortsighted Western Policy of Phraates II and the Second Reign of Demetrius II (129-125 BCE).” Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 60.1-2 (2020): 1-14.
  • “Considering the Failures of the Parthians against the Invasions of the Central Asian Tribal Confederations in the 120s BCE.” Studia Iranica 48 (2019): 77-111.
  • “The Power-Transition Crisis of the 160s-130s BCE and the Formation of the Parthian Empire.” Journal of Ancient History 7.1 (2019): 111-155.
  • “A Reconsideration of Mithridates II’s Early Reign: A Savior Restores the Eastern Frontier of the Parthian Empire.” Parthica, Incontri di culture nel mondo antico 21 (2019): 9-21.
  • Peabody, Sue. Les Enfants de Madeleine: Famille, liberté, secrets et mensonges dans les colonies françaises de l’océan Indien. Paris: Karthala.
  • Sanders, Jeffrey C., Razing Kids: Youth, Environment, and the Postwar American West. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020
  • “From Bomb to Bone: Children and the Politics of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty,” in The Politics of Hope: Grassroots Organizing, Environmental Justice, and Social Change, eds. Char Miller and Jeff Crane. Boulder: University of Colorado Press.
  • “Duwamps: Extreme Makeover Edition,” in Green Contradictions: Urban Cascadia and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice, eds. Nik Janos and Corina McKendry. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020.
  • Smelyansky, Eugene, The Intolerant Middle Ages: A Reader. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2020.
  • Heresy and Citizenship: Persecution of Heresy in Late Medieval German Cities. London: Routledge
  • Spohnholz, Jesse A., Big Ideas and Ruptured Lives: Refugee Crises in World History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
  • “Reformed Exiles and the Calvinist International in Reformation-Era Europe: A Reappraisal.” Handbook of Calvin and Calvinism, edited by Bruce Gordon and Carl Trueman. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • “The Polyphonies of Microhistories: Yair Mintzker and The Many Questions of Historical Perspective.” Central European History, 53, no. 2 (2020).
  • “Religious Diversity during Europe’s Age of Religious Wars (1550‒1650).” In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religious Diversity, edited by Kevin Schilbrack. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020.
  • “Religious Worldviews” in Cambridge History of America and the World, Vol. 3, 1900-1945, eds. Brooke L. Blower, Andrew Preston, and Mark P. Bradley. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • “God’s Spooks: Religion, the CIA, and Church-State Collaboration,” in Beyond the Culture Wars: Recasting Religion and Politics in the Twentieth Century, edited by R. Marie Griffith and Darren Dochuk. South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press.
  • Weller, Charles, Reason, Revelation and Law in Western and Islamic Theory and History, co-editor with Anver Emon. London: Palgrave.
  • “The Spread of Islam to the Americas via the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Its Civilizational Legacy, Indigenous Encounters and Implications for American National History and Identity.” World History Connected, Vol. 16, No. 1.
  • Wempe, Sean, Chronic Disparities: Public Health in Historical Perspective. Oxford University Press, 2020.
  • Wright, Ashley, “Gender, Violence and Justice in Colonial Assam: the Webb case, c. 1884” Journal of Social History, 1-18 (2020).

2019

  • Bauman, Robert.  Fighting to Preserve a Nation’s Soul (UGA Press, 2019).
  • Dodson, Julian. Fanáticos, Exiles, and Spies: Revolutionary Failures on the US-Mexico Border, 1923–1930 (Texas A&M University Press, 2019).
  • Sutton, Matthew Avery. Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War (Basic Books, 2019).

2018

  • Bauman, Robert and Franklin, Robert, Co-editors. Nowhere to Remember. WSU Press.

2017

  • Brecher, Puck. Honored and Dishonored Guests: Westerners in Wartime Japan (Harvard University Press, 2017).
  • Hatter, Lawrence B.A. Citizens of Convenience: Empire, Nationhood, and the Northern Border of the American Republic, 1783-1820 (University of Virginia Press, 2017).
  • Peabody, Sue.  Madeleine’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secret’s and Lies in France’s Indian Ocean Colonies (Oxford, 2017).
  • Spohnholz, Jesse. The Convent of Wesel: The Event That Never Happened and the Invention of Tradition (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
  • Spohnholz, Jesse, et al., Archeologies of Confession: Writing the German Reformation, 1517-2017 (Berghahn Books, 2017).
  • Weller, Charles. (ed.) 21st Century Narratives of World History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).

2016

  • Sutton, Matthew Avery. Faith in the New Millennium: The Future of American Religion and Politics, co-editor with Darren Dochuk (Oxford University Press, 2016).
  • Stratton, David Clif. Education for Empire: America’s Schools, Race, and the Paths of Good Citizenship (University of California Press, 2016).

2015

  • Berliner, Yvonne. et. al., History of the Americas 1880-1981  (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2015).
  • Berliner, Yvonne and Philip Benson, The Mexican Revolution 1910-1940 (Hodder Education 2015).
  • Brown, Jen. Trout Culture. University of Washington Press.
  • Goucher, Candice and Graeme Barker, The Cambridge History of the World Volume 2. A World with Agriculture, 12,000 BCE-500 CE (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
  • Kawamura, Noriko. Emperor Hirohito and the Pacific War (University of Washington Press, 2015).

2014

  • Goucher, Candice. Congotay! Congotay! A Global History of Caribbean Food (Routledge, 2014).
  • Goucher, Candice and Walton, Linda. World History Second Edition – Journeys from Past to Present, Volume 1: from Human Origins to 16—CE  (Routledge, 2014).
  • Goucher, Candice and Walton, Linda. World History Second Edition – Journeys from Past to Present Volume 2: from 1300 CE to THE PRESENT (Routledge, 2014).
  • Heidenreich, L and Castañeda, Antonia. Three Decades of Engendering History: Selected Works of Antonia I. Castañeda. UNT Press.
  • Peabody, Sue, and Boulle, Pierre H., Le Droit Des Noirs En France Au Temps de L’Esclavage. Editions L’Harmattan, 2014.
  • Spohnholz, Jesse and Gary Waite, Exile and Religious Identity 1500-1800 (Pickering & Chatto, 2014).
  • Sutton, Matthew Avery. American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014).
  • Thigpen, Jennifer.  Island Queens and Mission Wives – How Gender and Empire Remade Hawai’i’s Pacific World (University of North Carolina Press, 2014).
  • Wright, Ashley. Opium and Empire in Southeast Asia – Regulating Consumption in British Burma (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014).

2013

  • Brecher, William. The Aesthetics of Strangeness: Eccentricity and Madness in Early Modern Japan. University of Hawai’i Press.
  • Sutton, Matthew Avery. Jerry Falwell and the Rise of the Religious Right (Bedford St. Martin’s 2013).

2012

  • Berliner, Yvonne and Pathak, Rakesh, Communism in Crisis 1976-1989 (Hodder Education 2012).

2011

  • Bennett, Edward (ret) and Norman Graebner, The Versailles Treaty and Its Legacy: The Failure of the Wilsonian Vision (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
  • Berliner, Yvonne et. al., History of the Americas Course Companion: International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (Oxford University Press, 2011).
  • Boag, Peter.  Re-Dressing America’s Frontier Past (University of California Press, 2011).
  • Kawamura, Noriko. Yoichiro Murakami, and Shin Chiba, eds., Building New Pathways to Peace (University of Washington, 2011).
  • Spohnholz, Jesse. The Tactics of Toleration: A Refugee Community in the Age of Religious Wars (University of Delaware Press, 2011).
  • Wang, Xiuyu. China’s Last Imperial Frontier:  Late Qing Expansion in Sichuan’s Tibetan Borderlands (Lexington Books, 2011).

2010

  • Armitage, Sue and Mercier, Laurie. Speaking History: The American Past through Oral Histories, 1865-2001 (Palgrave/MacMillan Press, 2010).
  • Sanders, Jeffrey. Seattle and the Roots of Urban Sustainability (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010).
  • Stratton, David. Tree Top: Creating a Fruit Revolution (Washington State University Press, 2010).
  • Svingen, Orlan. ed., Splendid Service: The Montana National Guard, 1867-2006 (book trailer video) (Washington State University Press, 2010).

2009

  • McCoy, Robert R. and Clifford E. Trafzer, Forgotten Voices: Death Records of the Yakima, 1888-1964 (Scarecrow Press, 2009).
  • Mercier, Laurie, et al., The 1970s Social History of the United States. Twentieth Century Social History of the U.S. Series. Daniel Walkowitz and Daniel Bender, series eds. (ABC-CLIO Press, 2009).

2008

  • Bauman, Robert. Race and the War on Poverty: From Watts to East L.A. (University of Oklahoma Press, 2008).
  • Hume, Richard and Gough, Jerry. Blacks, Carpetbaggers, and Scalawags: The Constitutional Conventions of Radical Reconstruction (Louisiana State University Press, 2008).

2007

  • Heidenreich, L. “This Land Was Mexican Once:” Histories of Resistance from Northern California (Chicana Matters). University of Texas Press.
  • Peabody, Sue and Keila Grinberg, Slavery, Freedom and the Law in the Atlantic World (Bedford Books, 2007).
  • Sutton, Matthew Avery Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America (Harvard University Press, 2007).

2006

  • Mercier, Laurie and Jaclyn Gier, Mining Women: Gender in the Development of a Global Industry, 1670-2000  (Palgrave/MacMillan Press, 2006) (paperback edition with new preface and introduction 2009).