Reading Lists

Some Arresting, Original Recent Books in Social, Cultural and Intellectual History

(in chronological order)

Fernand Braudel, The Mediterranean: and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, 2 vols. (Harper & Row: NY, 1966)

Garry Wills, Jefferson's Declaration of Independence (1979)

Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worm: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller (Johns Hopkins U. Press: Baltimore: 1980)

Carl Schorske, Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture (Knopf: NY, 1980)

Philippe Aries, The Hour of Our Death (Knopf: NY, 1981)

Natalie Zemon Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre (Harvard U.

Press: Cambridge, 1983)

Fernand Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism: 15th-18th Century, 3 vols.

1.The Structures of Everyday Life (Harper & Row: NY, 1981);

2. Wheels of Commerce (1982);

3. Perspective of the World (Harper & Row: NY, 1984)

Rhys Isaac, The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 (U. of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill, 1982)

Daniel Boorstin, The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself (Random House: NY, 1983)

Robert Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre; and Other Episodes in French Cultural History (Basic Books: NY, 1984)

Leo Braudy, The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History (Oxford U. Press: NY, 1986)

Barbara Hanawalt, The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in

Medieval England (Oxford U. Press: London, 1986)

Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500-2000 (Random House: NY, 1987)

Richard L. Rapson, American Yearnings: Love, Money, and Endless

Possibility (University Press of America: Washington, D.C., 1988)

Simon Schama, The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age (Collins: London, 1987)

Jonathan Spence, The Question of Hu (Knopf: NY, 1988)

Robert Darnton, The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History (Norton: NY, 1990)

Carl Degler, In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought (Oxford U. Press: NY, 1991)

Simon Schama, Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations (Knopf: NY, 1991)

Daniel Boorstin, The Creators: A History of Heroes of the

Imagination (Random House: NY, 1992)

Garry Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America (Simon & Schuster: NY, 1992)

Beatrice Gottlieb, The Family in the Western World from the Black

Death to the Industrial Age (Oxford U. Press: London, 1993)

Gerda Lerner, The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to 1870 (Oxford U. Press: NY, 1993)

John Demos, The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America (Knopf: NY, 1994)

Richard Sennett, Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization (Norton: NY, 1994)

Robert Darnton, The Forbidden Best Sellers of Prerevolutionary France (Norton: NY,1995)

Ann Douglas, Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s

(Farrar, Straus: NY,1995)

David Hollinger, Post-Ethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism

(Basic Books: NY, 1995)

Jackson Lears, Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America (Basic Books: NY, 1995)

Roy Porter, London: A Social History (Harvard U. Press: Cambridge, 1995)

Simon Schama, Landscape and Memory (Knopf: NY,1995)

Patricia Meyer Spacks, Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind (University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1995)

Liselotte Steinbrugge, The Moral Sex: Woman’s Nature in the French

Enlightenment (Oxford U. Press: London, 1995)

Marina Warner, From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers (Chatto & Windus: London, 1995)

Theodore Zeldin, An Intimate History of Humanity (HarperCollins:

NY, 1995)

Pat Jalland, Death in the Victorian Family (Oxford U. Press:

London, 1996)

Seymour Martin Lipset, American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword (1996)

Steven Ozment, The Burger-Meister’s Daughter: Scandal in a 16th- Century German Town (1996)

Jonathan Spence, God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly

Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan ( Norton: NY,1996)

Renate Bridenthal and Susan Mosher Stuard, eds., Becoming

Visible: Women in European History (Houghton

Mifflin: NY, 1997)

Michael Brown, The Channeling Zone: American Spirituality in an Anxious Age (Harvard U. Press: Cambridge, Mass., 1997)

Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human

Societies (Norton: NY, 1997)

Barbara Ehrenreich, Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War (Holt: NY, 1997)

Paul Heelas, The New Age Movement: The Celebration of the Self and the Sacralization of Modernity (Oxford U.

Press: London, 1997)

Arthur Herman, The Idea of Decline inWestern History (The Free Press: NY, 1997)

David Hollinger, Transvaluations: Science, Jews and Secular Culture-Studies in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Intellectual History (Princeton U. Press: Princeton, 1997)

Bettyann Kevles Naked to the Bone: Medical Imaging in the 20th Century (Rutgers U. Press: NY, 1997)

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. (U. of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1997)

Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading (Penguin: NY, 1997)

Stephen Oates, The Approaching Fury: Voices of the Storm, 1820- 1861 (HarperCollins: NY, 1997)

Peter Stearns, Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West (NYU Press: NY, 1997)

Gary Taylor, Cultural Selection: Why Some Achievements Withstand the Test of Time--and Others Don’t (Basic Books: NY, 1997)

Garry Wills, John Wayne’s America: The Politics of Celebrity (Simon & Schuster: NY, 1997)

William F. Baker & George Dessart, Down the Tube: An Inside Account of the Failure of American Television (Basic Books: NY, 1998)

Daniel Boorstin, The Seekers: The Story of Man’s Continuing Quest (Random House: NY, 1998)

David Bordwell, On the History of Film Style (Harvard U. Press: Cambridge, 1998)

Patricial Cline Cohen, The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and

Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New

York (Knopf: NY, 1998)

James N. Davidson, Courtesans & Fishcakes: The Consuming

Passions of Classical Athens (St. Martin’s Press: NY, 1998)

Hans Ulrich Gumbert, In 1926: Living On the Edge of Time (Harvard U. Press: Cambridge, 1998)

Ralph Houlbrooke, Death, Religion, and the Family in England,

1480-1750 (Oxford U. Press: London 1998)

Richard Pells, Not like Us: How Europeans Have Loved, Hated, and Transformed American Culture Since World War II (Basic Books: NY, 1998)

Glenn Wallach, Obedient Sons: The Discourse of Youth and Generations in American Culture, 1630-1860 (Univ. of Massachusetts Press: Amherst, 1998)

Bonnie Anderson and Judith Zinsser, A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present, 2 vols.

(Oxford U. Press: London 1999)

Rudolph Bell, How To Do It: Guides to Good Living for

Renaissance Italians (U. of Chicago Press:

Chicago, 1999)

Richard Evans, Tales from the German Underworld (Yale

Univ. Press: New Haven, 1999)

Ann Goldberg, Sex, Religion, and the Making of Modern Madness:

The Eberbach Asylum and German Society, 1815-1849

(Oxford U. Press: London, 1999)

Lawrence Friedman, The Horizontal Society (Yale U. Press:

New Haven, 1999)

Ann Goldberg, Sex, Religion, and the Making of Modern Madness:

The Eberbach Asylum and German Society, 1815-1849

(Oxford U. Press: London, 1999)

Michael Kammen, American Culture, American Tastes: Social

Change and the 20^th Century (Knopf: NY, 1999)

Regina Morantz-Sanchez, Conduct Unbecoming A Woman:

Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn

(Oxford U. Press: NY, 1999)

Wendy Kaminer, Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of

Irrationalism and Perils of Piety (Pantheon: NY, 1999)

Daniel Roche, France in the Enlightenment (Harvard U. Press:

Cambridge, 1999)

Jonathan Spence, The Chan’s Great Continent: China in Western

Minds (Norton: NY, 1999)

Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western

Cultural Life—1500 to Present (HarperCollins: NY, 2000)

Cynthia Eller, The Myth of Matriarachal Prehistory: Why an

Invented Past Won’t Give Women a Future (Beacon

Press: Boston, 2000)

Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth

Century (Yale U. Press: New Haven, 2000)

Rebecca Spang, The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and the

Modern Gastronomic Culture (Harvard U. Press: Cambridge, 2000)

Natalie Zemon Davis, The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France

(U. of Wisconsin Press: Madison, 2001)

Peter Gay, Schnitzler’s Century: The Amaking of Middle-Class

Culture, 1815-1916 (Norton: NY, 2001)

Jenna Weissman Joselit, A Perfect Fit: Clothes, Character, and

The Promise of America (NY: Holt, 2001)

J.M. Beattie, Policing and Punishment in London, 166-1750: Urban

Crime and the Limits of Terror (Oxford U. Press: 2002)

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Food: A History (NY: Macmillan, 2002)

Estelle Freedman, No Turning Back: The History and the Future

Of Women (Profile: NY, 2002)

Mary Laven, Virgins of Venice: Enclosed Lives and Broken Vows in

The Renaissance Convent (Viking: NY, 2002)

E. Fuller Torrey, M.D., and Judy Miller, The Invisible Plague: The

Rise of Mental Illness from 1750 to the Present

(Rutgers U. Press: New Brunswick, N.J., 2002)

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories

in the Creation of an American Myth (Vintage: NY, 2002)

Michael Cook, A Brief History of the Human Race (Norton: NY, 2003)

Gail Collins, America’s Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls,

Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines (Morrow: NY, 2003)

Robert Darnton, George Washington’s False Teeth: An

Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century

(Norton: NY, 2003)

Deborah Hayden, Pox: Genius, Madness and the Mysteries of

Syphilis (Basic Books: NY, 2003)

Charles Murray: Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence

In the Arts and Sciences—800 B.C. to 1950

(HarperCollins: NY, 2003)

Judith Flanders, Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic

Life in Victorian England (Norton: NY, 2004)

Susan Jacoby, Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism

(Metropolitan Books: NY, 2004)

Stephen Prothero, American Jesus: How the Son of God Became

A National Icon (Farrar, Straus: NY, 2004)

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Social, Cultural and Intellectual History (in alphabetical order)

Bonnie Anderson and Judith Zinsser, A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present, 2 vols.

(Oxford U. Press: London 1999)

Philippe Aries, The Hour of Our Death (Knopf: NY, 1981)

William F. Baker & George Dessart, Down the Tube: An Inside Account of the Failure of American Television (Basic Books: NY, 1998)

Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western

Cultural Life—1500 to Present (HarperCollins: NY, 2000)

J.M. Beattie, Policing and Punishment in London, 166-1750: Urban

Crime and the Limits of Terror (Oxford U. Press: 2002)

Rudolph Bell, How To Do It: Guides to Good Living for

Renaissance Italians (U. of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1999)

Renate Bridenthal and Susan Mosher Stuard, eds., Becoming

Visible: Women in European History (Houghton Mifflin: NY, 1997)

Daniel Boorstin, The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself (Random House: NY, 1983)

Daniel Boorstin, The Creators: A History of Heroes of the

Imagination(Random House: NY, 1992)

Daniel Boorstin, The Seekers: The Story of Man’s Continuing Quest (Random House: NY, 1998)

David Bordwell, On the History of Film Style (Harvard U. Press: Cambridge, 1998)

Fernand Braudel, The Mediterranean: and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, 2 vols. (Harper & Row: NY, 1966)

Fernand Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism: 15th-18th Century, 3 vols. 1.The Structures of Everyday Life (Harper & Row: NY, 1981); 2. Wheels of Commerce (1982); 3. Perspective of the World (Harper & Row: NY, 1984)

Leo Braudy, The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History (Oxford U. Press: NY, 1986)

Michael Brown, The Channeling Zone: American Spirituality in an Anxious Age (Harvard U. Press: Cambridge, Mass., 1997)

Patricial Cline Cohen, The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life

And Deathof a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century

New York (Knopf: NY, 1998)

Gail Collins, America’s Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls,

Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines (Morrow: NY, 2003)

Michael Cook, A Brief History of the Human Race (Norton: NY, 2003)

Robert Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre; and Other Episodes in French Cultural History (Basic Books: NY, 1984)

Robert Darnton, The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History (Norton: NY, 1990)

Robert Darnton, The Forbidden Best Sellers of Prerevolutionary France ( Norton: NY,1995)

Robert Darnton, George Washington’s False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century

(Norton: NY, 2003)

James N. Davidson, Courtesans & Fishcakes: The Consuming

Passions of Classical Athens (St. Martin’s Press:

NY, 1998)

Natalie Zemon Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre (Harvard

U. Press: Cambridge, 1983)

Natalie Zemon Davis, The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France

(U. of Wisconsin Press: Madison, 2001)

Carl Degler, In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought (Oxford U. Press: NY, 1991)

John Demos, The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America (Knopf: NY, 1994)

Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human

Societies (Norton: NY, 1997)

Ann Douglas, Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s

(Farrar, Straus: NY,1995)

Barbara Ehrenreich, Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War (Holt: NY, 1997)

Cynthia Eller, The Myth of Matriarachal Prehistory: Why an

Invented Past Won’t Give Women a Future (Beacon Press: Boston, 2000)

Richard Evans, Tales from the German Underworld (YaleUniv. Press: New Haven, 1999)

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Food: A History (NY: Macmillan, 2002)

Sheila Fitzpatrick, Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in

Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s

(Oxford U. Press: London, 1999)

Judith Flanders, Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic

Life in Victorian England (Norton: NY, 2004)

Estelle Freedman, No Turning Back: The History and the Future

Of Women (Profile: NY, 2002)

Lawrence Friedman, The Horizontal Society (Yale U. Press:

New Haven, 1999)

Peter Gay, Schnitzler’s Century: The Making of Middle-Class

Culture, 1815-1916 (Norton: NY, 2001

Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worm: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller (Johns Hopkins U. Press: Baltimore, 1980)

Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth

Century (Yale U. Press: New Haven, 2000)

Ann Goldberg, Sex, Religion, and the Making of Modern Madness:

The Eberbach Asylum and German Society, 1815-1849

(Oxford U. Press: London, 1999)

Beatrice Gottlieb, The Family in the Western World from the Black

Death to the Industrial Age (Oxford U. Press: London,

1993)

Hans Ulrich Gumbert, In 1926: Living On the Edge of Time (Harvard U. Press: Cambridge, 1998)

Barbara Hanawalt, The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in

Medieval England (Oxford U. Press: London, 1986)

Deborah Hayden, Pox: Genius, Madness and the Mysteries of

Syphilis (Basic Books: NY, 2003)

Paul Heelas, The New Age Movement: The Celebration of the

Self and the Sacralization of Modernity (Oxford

U. Press: London, 1997)

Arthur Herman, The Idea of Decline inWestern History (The Free Press: NY, 1997)

David Hollinger, Post-Ethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism

(Basic Books: NY, 1997)

David Hollinger, Transvaluations: Science, Jews and Secular

Culture--Studies in Mid-Twentieth-Century

American Intellectual History (Princeton U. Pre

Press: Princeton, 1997)

Ralph Houlbrooke, Death, Religion, and the Family in England,

1480-1750 (Oxford U. Press: London 1998)

Rhys Isaac, The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 (U. of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill, 1982)

Susan Jacoby, Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism

(Metropolitan Books: NY, 2004)

Pat Jalland, Death in the Victorian Family (Oxford U. Press: London, 1996)

Jenna Weissman Joselit, A Perfect Fit: Clothes, Character, and

The Promise of America (NY: Holt, 2001)

Wendy Kaminer, Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of

Irrationalism and Perils of Piety (Pantheon: NY, 1999)

Michael Kammen, American Culture, American Tastes: Social

Change and the 20^th Century (Knopf: NY, 1999)

Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500-2000 (Random House: NY, 1987)

Bettyann Kevles, Naked to the Bone: Medical Imaging in the 20th Century (Rutgers U. Press: NY, 1997)

Mary Laven, Virgins of Venice: Enclosed Lives and Broken Vows in

The Renaissance Convent (Viking: NY, 2002)

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. (U. of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1997)

Jackson Lears, Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America (Basic Books: NY, 1995)

Gerda Lerner, The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to 1870 (Oxford U. Press: NY, 1993)

Seymour Martin Lipset, American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword (1996)

Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading (Penguin: NY, 1997)

Regina Morantz-Sanchez, Conduct Unbecoming A Woman:

Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn

(Oxford U. Press: NY, 1999)

Charles Murray: Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence

In the Arts and Sciences—800 B.C. to 1950

(HarperCollins: NY, 2003)

Stephen Oates, The Approaching Fury: Voices of the Storm, 1820- 1861 (HarperCollins: NY, 1997)

Steven Ozment, The Burger-Meister’s Daughter: Scandal in a 16th- Century German Town (1996)

Richard Pells, Not like Us: How Europeans Have Loved, Hated, and Transformed American Culture Since World War II (Basic Books: NY, 1998)

Roy Porter, London: A Social History (Harvard U. Press: Cambridge, 1995)

Stephen Prothero, American Jesus: How the Son of God Became

A National Icon (Farrar, Straus: NY, 2004)

Richard L. Rapson, American Yearnings: Love, Money, and Endless

Possibility (University Press of America: Washington,D.C., 1988)

Daniel Roche, France in the Enlightenment (Harvard U. Press: Cambridge, 1999)

Simon Schama, The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age (Collins: London, 1987)

Simon Schama, Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations (Knopf: NY, 1991)

Simon Schama, Landscape and Memory (Knopf: NY,1995)

Carl Schorske, Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture (Knopf: NY, 1980)

Richard Sennett, Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization (Norton: NY, 1994)

Patricia Meyer Spacks, Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind (University of Chicago Press: Chicago,1995)

Rebecca Spang, The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and the

Modern Gastronomic Culture (Harvard U. Press: Cambridge, 2000)

Jonathan Spence, The Question of Hu (Knopf: NY, 1988)

Jonathan Spence, God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly

Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan ( Norton: NY, 1996

Jonathan Spence, The Chan’s Great Continent: China in

Western Minds (Norton: NY, 1999)

Peter Stearns, Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West (NYU Press: NY, 1997)

Liselotte Steinbrugge, The Moral Sex: Woman’s Nature in the French

Enlightenment (Oxford U. Press: London, 1995)

Gary Taylor, Cultural Selection: Why Some Achievements

Withstand the Test of Time--and Others Don’t

(Basic Books: NY, 1997)

E. Fuller Torrey, M.D., and Judy Miller, The Invisible Plague: The

Rise of Mental Illness from 1750 to the Present

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth (Vintage: NY, 2002)

Glenn Wallach, Obedient Sons: The Discourse of Youth and Generations in American Culture, 1630-1860 (Univ, of Massachusetts Press: Amherst, 1998)

Marina Warner, From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers (Chatto & Windus: London, 1995)

Garry Wills, Jefferson's Declaration of Independence (1979)

Garry Wills, John Wayne’s America: The Politics of Celebrity

(Simon & Schuster: NY, 1997)

Garry Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America (Simon & Schuster: NY, 1992)

Theodore Zeldin, An Intimate History of Humanity (HarperCollins: NY, 1995)

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About Cultural History and Culture:

Norman Cantor, Twentieth Century Culture: Modernism to Deconstruction (Peter Lang: NY,1988)

Lynn Hunt, ed., The New Cultural History (1989)

Andrew Ross, No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture (Routledge: NY,1989)

Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob, Telling the Truth About History (NY, 1993)

Dominic Strinati, An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture (Routledge: NY,1995)

Lawrence Levine, The Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture, and History (Beacon Press: Boston, 1996)

Norman Cantor, The American Century: Varieties of Culture in Modern Times (HarperCollins: NY, 1997)

Joel Pfister and Nancy Schnog, eds., Inventing the Psychological: Toward a Cultural History of Emotional Life in America (Yale University Press: New Haven, 1997)

Richard Evans, In Defense of History (Norton: NY, 1999)

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A Few Favorite Historically-Informed American Fiction Works

Max Byrd, Jefferson: A Novel (1993) and Jackson: A Novel (1998)

Don DeLillo, Libra (1988) and Underworld (1997)

E.L. Doctorow’s “Trilogy(in historical, not publication, order). Welcome to Hard Times (1960) Ragtime (1975), The Book of Daniel.(1971). Also his Billy Bathgate (1985) World’s Fair (1989), andWaterworks (1994)

John Dos Passos, U.S.A. (trilogy)

Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952)

Joseph Heller, Catch-22 (!961)

Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove (1985)

Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon (1977)

Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (1970)

Phillip Roth’s “Zuckerman Bound” Trilogy. Ghost Writer, (1979) Zuckerman Unbound (1981), and The Anatomy Lesson (1983). Also his American Pastoral (1997) and The Plot

Against America (2004).

John Updike’s “Rabbit Quartet.” Rabbit, Run (1960), Rabbit Redux (1970), Rabbit Is Rich (1980), and Rabbit at Rest (1990).

His novella Rabbit Remembered appears in Licks of

Love (2000).Also his In the Beauty of the Lilies (1996).

Gore Vidal’s “American Chronicles” series (in historical, not publication, order). Burr (1973), Lincoln (1984), 1876 (1976), Empire (1987), Hollywood (1990), Golden Age (2000) and Washington, D.C. (1967). Also his Smithsonian Institution (1998).

Excellent British, Australian and Canadian Writers of Historically-

Informed Fiction

Peter Ackroyd, Margaret Atwood, Pat Barker, Julian Barnes, Anthony Burgess, A.S. Byatt, Peter Carey, Penelope Fitzgerald, John Fowles, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Alice Munro, Graham Swift, Rose Tremain.

Beginning Books on Film, Popular Culture, and Celebrity

James Dudley Andrew, The Major Film Theories: An Introduction

(1976)

Melvin DeFleur, Theories of Mass Communication (1989)

Stuart and Elizabeth Ewen, Channels of Desire: Mass Images and

The Shaping of American Consciousness (1992)

Neal Gabler, An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented

Hollywood (1988)

__________, Winchell: Gossip, Power, and the Culture of

Celebrity (1994)

__________, Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered

Reality (1999)

Barry Grant, Film Genre Reader II (1995)

Robert Hughes, The Culture of Complaint

Gerald Mast, ed., Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory

Readings (1992)

Michael Parenti, Make Believe Media: The Politics of Entertainment

(1991)

Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death;: Public Discourse

In the Age of Show Business (1986)

Robert Sklar, Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of

America (1994)

Vivian Sobchak, Address of the Eye: A Phenomenology of

Film Experience (1992)

George W.S. Trow, My Pilgrim’s Progress: Media Studies,

1950-1998 (1999)

Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and

Television Studies and the Historians Film Committee

www.h-net.msu.edu/~filmhis/

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Books by RLR (in chronological order)

1. Rapson, Richard L., ed. (1967). Individualism and Conformity in the American Character. New York: D.C. Heath.

2. Rapson, R. L. (1971). Britons View America: Travel Commentary, 1860-1935. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press.

3. Rapson, R. L., ed. (1971). The Cult of Youth in

Middle-Class America. New York: D.C. Heath.

4. Rapson, R.L., ed. (1972). Major Interpretations of the American Past. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.

5. Rapson, R. L. (1977). The Pursuit of Meaning: America 1600-2000. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America.

6. Rapson, R. L. (1978). Denials of Doubt: An Interpretation of American History. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America.

7. Rapson, R. L. (1980). Fairly Lucky You Live Hawaii! Cultural Pluralism in the Fiftieth State. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.

8. Rapson, R. L. (1988). American Yearnings: Love, Money, and Endless Possibility Lanham, MD.: University Press of America.

9. Hatfield, Elaine, & Rapson, R. L. (l993). Love, sex, and intimacy: Their psychology, biology, and history. New York: HarperCollins.

10. Hatfield, E., Cacioppo, John, & Rapson, R. L. (l994). Emotional contagion. New York: Cambridge University Press.

11.Hatfield, E., & Rapson, R. L. (1996). Love and sex: Cross-

cultural perspectives. New York: Allyn & Bacon.

11. Hatfield, E. & Rapson, R.L. (2000) Rosie. Pittsburgh, PA:

SterlingHouse

12. Hatfield, E. & Rapson, R.L. (2003) Recovered Memories. New

York: Xlibris (Random House)

14. Hatfield, E. & Rapson, R.L. (2003) Darwin’s Law. New

York: Xlibris (Random House)

15 . Rapson, R.L. (2003) Amazed By Life: Confessions of a

Non-Religious Believer. New York: Xlibris (Random House)

Books of Interest in Psychological History,* denoting excellent overviews and listed in chronological order:

Philippe Aries, Centuries of Childhood (Vintage: New York,1965)

*Lawrence Stone, The Family, Sex and Marriage: In England 1500-1800 (Harper: NY, 1977)

Emmanuel Roy Ladurie, Montaillou: Promised Land of Error (Vintage: NY, 1978)

*Carl Degler, At Odds: Women and the Family in America from the Revolution to the Present (Oxford U. Press: Oxford, 1980)

John Boswell, Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay

People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the

Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century (U. of Chicago

Press: Chicago, 1981)

Lois Banner, American Beauty ( U. of Chicago Press: Chicago and London, 1983)

Peter Gay, The Bourgeois Experience, vol. 1: Education of the Senses (Oxford U. Press: Oxford, 1984)

*John Gillis, For Better, For Worse: British Marriages, 1600 to the

Present (Oxford U. Press: NY and Oxford, 1985)

Judith Brown, Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy (Oxford

U. Press: NY and Oxford, 1986)

Peter Gay, The Bourgeois Experience, vol. 2: The Tender Passion (Oxford U. Press: Oxford, 1986)

Alan Macfarlane, Marriage and Love in England: Modes of Reproduction,

1300-1840 (Blackwell: London, 1986)

Beth Bailey, From Front Porch to Back Seat: A History of Courtship in America (Johns Hopkins U. Press: Baltimore,1988)

*Stephanie Coontz, The Social Origins of Private Life: A History of American Families,

1600-1900 (NY: 1988)

*John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman, Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in

America (Harper & Row: NY, 1988) Second edition:

(U. of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1997)

*Steven Mintz and Susan Kellogg, Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American

Family Life (Free Press: NY, 1988)

R. Phillips, Putting Asunder: A History of Divorce in Western Society (Cambridge U.

Press: Cambridge and NY, 1988)

Karen Lystra, Searching the Heart: Women, Men, and Romantic Love in Nineteenth-

Century America (Oxford U. Press: NY and Oxford, 1989)

Thomas Laqueur, Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud

(Zone Books: NY, 1990)

*Lawrence Stone, The Road to Divorce: England 1530-1987 (Oxford: NY, 1990)

*Stephanie Coontz, The Way We Never Were : American Families and the Nostalgia

Trap (Basic Books, NY: 1992)

Peter Gay, The Bourgeois Experience, vol. 3: Hate and Aggression

(Oxford U. Press: Oxford, 1993)

Robert L. Griswold, Fatherhood in America: A History (Basic Books: NY, 1993)

Barbara Hanawalt, Growing Up in Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood

In History (Oxford U. Press: London, 1993)

Elaine Hatfield and Richard L. Rapson, Love, Sex, and Intimacy: Their Psychology,

Biology, and History (HarperCollins: NY and London, 1993)

Lynn Hunt, ed. The Invention of Pornography (Zone Books: NY, 1993)

E. Anthony Rotundo, American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era (Basic Books: NY, 1993)

Guido Ruggiero, Binding Passion: Tales of Magic, Marriage, and Power at the

End of the Renaissance (Oxford U. Press: London, 1993)

Janet Brodie, Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-Century America

(Cornell U. Press: Ithaca, N.Y., 1994)

Michael Mason, The Making of Victorian Sexuality (Oxford U. Press: Oxford, 1994)

Patricia Anderson, When Passion Reigned: Sex and the Victorians (Basic Books: NY, 1995)

Natalie Angier, Woman: An Intimate Geography (Houghton Mifflin: NY, 1995)

Susan Bordo, Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and

The Body (U. of California Press: Berkeley, 1995)

John Boswell, Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe (Vintage: NY, 1995)

Vern Bullough, Science in the Bedroom: A History of Sex Research (Basic Books: NY, 1995)

George Chauncey, Gay New York; Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of

The Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (Basic Books: NY, 1995)

Peter Gay, The Bourgeois Experience, vol. 4: The Naked Heart (Norton: NY, 1995)

Gary Kates, Monsieur d’Eon Is a Woman: A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual

Masquerade (Basic Books: NY, 1995)

Jonathan Ned Katz, The Invention of Heterosexuality (Dutton: NY, 1995)

Elaine Tyler May, Barren in the Promised Land: Childless Americans

And the Pursuit of Happiness (New York, 1995)

Peter N. Stearns, American Cool: Constructing A 20th-Century Emotional Style (NYU Press; NY, 1995)

Natalie Zemon Davis, Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives

(Harvard: Cambridge, MA., 1996)

Emma Donoghue, Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801

(HarperCollins: NY, 1996)

Catalina de Erauso: Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the

New World (Beacon: NY, 1996)

Anthony Fletcher, Gender, Sex, and Subordination in England 1500-1800 (Yale U. Press: New Haven, 1996)

John Gillis, A World of Their Own Making: Myth, Ritual, and the Quest for

Family Values (Basic Books: NY, 1996)

Elaine Hatfield and Richard L. Rapson, Love and Sex: Cross-Cultural

Perspectives (Allyn & Bacon: NY, 1996)

Margaret Hunt, The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England,

1680-1780 (University of California Press: Berkeley, 1996)

*Olwen Hutton, The Prospect Before Her: A History of Women in Western Europe.

Volume 1, 1500-1800 (Knopf: NY, 1996)

Ruth Karras, Common Women; Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England

(Oxford U. Press: London, 1996)

Michael Kimmel, Manhood in America: A Cultural History (The Free Press: NY, 1996)

Jeffrey Merrick and Bryant Ragan, Homosexuality in Modern France

(Oxford U. Press: London, 1996)

George Mosse, The Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity

(Oxford U. Press: London, 1996)

Mary Beth Norton, Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of

American Society (Knopf: NY, 1996)

Frank Sulloway, Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives

(Pantheon Books: NY, 1996)

Joan Jacobs Brumberg, The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls

(Random House: NY, 1997)

Candace Clark, Misery and Company: Sympathy in Everyday Life (U. of Chicago Press:

Chicago, 1997)

Stephanie Coontz, The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms with America’s Changing

Families (Basic Books: NY, 1997)

Grace Palladino, Teenagers: An American History (Basic Books: NY, 1997)

Brenda E. Stevenson, Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave

South (Oxford U. Press: NY, 1997)

Marilyn Yalom, A History of the Breast (Knopf: NY, 1997)

John Boswell, The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in

Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance

(U. of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1998)

John R. Clarke, Looking at Lovemaking: Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art,

100BC-AD250 (University of California Press: Berkeley, 1998)

Gary Cross, Kids’ Stuff: Toys and the Changing World of American Childhood (Harvard

U. Press: Cambridge, 1998)

Peter Gay, The Bourgeois Experience, vol. 5: Pleasure Wars (Norton: NY, 1998)

Julia Grant, Raising Baby By the Book (Yale U. Press: New Haven, 1998)

Elizabeth Haiken, Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery (Johns Hopkins Univ.

Press: Baltimore, 1998)

Marianne Hirsch, Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory (Harvard U. Press: Cambridge, 1998)

James H. Jones, Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life (Norton: NY, 1998)

Charles Kaiser, The Gay Metropolis: 1940-1996 (Houghton Mifflin: NY, 1998)

John Loughery, The Other Side of Silence: Men’s Lives and Gay Identities--

A Twentieth-Century History (Holt: NY, 1998)

Kathy Peiss, Hope In a Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture (Metropolitan

Books: NY, 1998)

Michael Rocke, Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in

Renaissance Florence (Oxford U. Press: NY, 1998)

Merril Smith, ed., Sex and Sexuality in Early America (NYU Press: NY, 1998)

Peter Stearns and Jan Lewis, eds., An Emotional History of the United States (NYU

Press: NY, 1998)

Susan Bordo, The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private

(Farrar, Straus & Giroux: NY, 1999)

Martha Hodes, ed., Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North

American History (NYU Press: NY, 1999)

Sara Mendelson and Patricia Crosby, Women in Early Modern England,

1550-1720 (Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1999)

Steven Ozment, Flesh and Spirit: Private Life in Early Modern Germany

(Viking: NY, 1999)

Daphne Patai, Heterophobia: Sexual Harassment and the Future of Feminism

(Rowman & Littlefield: Lanham, MD, 1999)

Sarah Pomeroy, Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical

Antiquity (NY, 1999)

Peter Stearns, Battleground of Desire: The Struggle for Self Control

In Modern America (NYU Press: NY, 1999)

John Tosh, A Man’s Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home In

Victorian England (Yale U. Press: New Haven, 1999)

Randolph Trumbach, Sex and the Gender Revolution, vol. 1 Hetero-

Sexuality and the Third Gender in Enlightenment

London, (U. of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1999)

Sharon Ullman, Sex Seen: The Emergence of Modern Sexuality in America

(Univ. of Calif. Press: Berkeley, 1999)

Elizabeth Abbott, A History of Celibacy (Scribner: NY, 2000)

Carol Groneman, Nymphomania: A History (Norton: NY, 2000)

Christine Stansell, American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation

Of a New Century (Henry Holt: NY, 2000)

Nancy Cott, Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation

(Harvard U. Press: Cambridge, 2001)

Joanne Ferraro, Marriage Wars in Late Renaissance Venice (Oxford U. Press:

London, 2001)

Hendrik Hartog, Man and Wife in America: A History (Harvard U.

Press: Cambridge, 2001)

Paula Kamen, Her Way: Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolution

(NYU Press: NY, 2001)

John Kasson, Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect White Man: The White Male

Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America

(Hill & Wang: NY, 2001)

Lynne Luciano, Looking Good: Male Body Image in Modern America

(Hill & Wang: NY, 2001)

Lara Marks, Sexual Chemistry: A History of the Contraceptive Pill

(Yale U. Press: New Haven, 2001)

James McMillan, France and Women 1789-1914: Gender Society,

And Politics (Routledge: London, 2001)

Andrea Tone, Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America

(NY: Hill &Wang, 2001)

Marilyn Yalom, A History of the Wife (HarperCollins: NY, 2001)

Joan DeJean, The Reinvention of Obscenity: Sex, Lies, and Tabloids in Early Modern

France (U. of Chicago Press: Chicago, 2002)

Richard Godbeer, Sexual Revolution in Early America (Johns Hopkins Press:

Baltimore, 2002)

Betsy Israel, Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of Single Women in the

Twentieth Century (William Morrow: NY, 2002)

Jonathan Ned Katz, Love Stories: Sex between Men before Homosexuality

(U. of Chicago Press: Chicago, 2002)

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge

In Nineteenth-Centry America (Knopf: NY, 2002)

Joanne Meyerowitz, How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the

United States (2002)

Catherine Orenstein, Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality and

the Evolution of a Fairy Tale (Basic Books: NY, 2002)

Nicholas Orme, Medieval Children (Yale U. Press: New Haven, 2002)

Steven Ozment, Ancestors: The Loving Family in Old Europe (Harvard

U. Press: Cambridge, 2002)

Georges Vigarello, A History of Rape: Sexual Violence in France from the 16^th

To the 20^th Century (Polity Press: London, 2002)

Barbara Harris, English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550: Marriage and

Family, Property and Careers (Oxford: London, 2003)

Christian Henriot, Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai: A Social History,

1849-1949 (Cambridge U. Press: London, 2003)

Ann Hulbert, Raising America: Experts, Parents and a Century of Advice About

Children (Knopf: NY, 2003)

Thomas Laqueur, Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation (Zone Books

NY, 2003)

Louis Crompton, Homosexuality and Civilization (Harvard U. Press: Cambridge,

2004)

*Steven Mintz, Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood (Harvard U. Press:

Cambridge, 2004)

Graham Robb, Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century (Norton:

NY, 2004)

Sheila and David Rothman, The Pursuit of Perfection: The Promise and Perils

Of Medical Enhancements (Pantheon Books: NY, 2004)

Patricia Fortini Brown, Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art,

Architecture, and the Family (Yale U. Press: New

Haven, 2005)

*Stephanie Coontz, From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered

Marriage (Viking: NY, 2005)

Teresa Riordan, Inventing Beauty: A History of the Innovations That Have

Made Us Beautiful (Broadway Books: NY, 2005)

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Books of Interest in Psychological History,* denoting excellent overviews and listed in alphabetical order:

Elizabeth Abbott, A History of Celibacy (Scribner: NY, 2000)

Patricia Anderson, When Passion Reigned: Sex and the Victorians (Basic Books: NY, 1995)

Natalie Angier, Woman: An Intimate Geography (Houghton Mifflin: NY, 1995)

Philippe Aries, Centuries of Childhood (Vintage: New York,1965)

Beth Bailey, From Front Porch to Back Seat: A History of Courtship in America (Johns Hopkins U. Press: Baltimore,1988)

Lois Banner, American Beauty ( U. of Chicago Press: Chicago and London, 1983)

Susan Bordo, Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and The Body (U. of California Press: Berkeley, 1995)

________, The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: NY, 1999)

John Boswell, Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay

People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the

Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century (U. of Chicago

Press: Chicago, 1981)

_________, Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe (Vintage: NY, 1995)

_________, The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in

Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance

(U. of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1998)

Janet Brodie, Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-Century America

(Cornell U. Press: Ithaca, N.Y., 1994)

Judith Brown, Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy (Oxford

U. Press: NY and Oxford, 1986)

Patricia Fortini Brown, Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art,

Architecture, and the Family (Yale U. Press: New

Haven, 2005)

Joan Jacobs Brumberg, The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls

(Random House: NY, 1997)

Vern Bullough, Science in the Bedroom: A History of Sex Research (Basic Books: NY,

1995)

George Chauncey, Gay New York; Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay

Male World, 1890-1940 (Basic Books: Ny, 1995)

Candace Clark, Misery and Company: Sympathy in Everyday Life (U. of Chicago Press:

Chicago, 1997)

John R. Clarke, Looking at Lovemaking: Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art,

100BC-AD250 (University of California Press: Berkeley, 1998)

*Stephanie Coontz, The Social Origins of Private Life: A History of American Families,

1600-1900 (NY: 1988)

*_____________, The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia

Trap (Basic Books, NY: 1992)

_____________, The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms with America’s Changing Families (Basic Books: NY, 1997)

*_____________, From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered

Marriage (Viking: NY, 2005)

Nancy Cott, Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation

(Harvard U. Press: Cambridge, 2001)

Louis Crompton, Homosexuality and Civilization (Harvard U. Press: Cambridge,

2004)

Gary Cross, Kids’ Stuff: Toys and the Changing World of American Childhood (Harvard

U. Press: Cambridge, 1998)

Natalie Zemon Davis, Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives

(Harvard: Cambridge, MA., 1996)

*Carl Degler, At Odds: Women and the Family in America from the Revolution to the

Present (Oxford U. Press: Oxford, 1980)

Joan DeJean, The Reinvention of Obscenity: Sex, Lies, and Tabloids in Early Modern

France (U. of Chicago Press: Chicago, 2002)

*John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman, Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in

America (Harper & Row: NY, 1988) Second edition:

(U. of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1997)

Emma Donoghue, Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801

(HarperCollins: NY, 1996)

Catalina de Erauso: Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World

(Beacon: NY, 1996)

Joanne Ferraro, Marriage Wars in Late Renaissance Venice (Oxford U. Press:

London, 2001)

Anthony Fletcher, Gender, Sex, and Subordination in England 1500-1800 (Yale U. Press: New Haven, 1996)

Peter Gay, The Bourgeois Experience, vol. 1: Education of the Senses (Oxford U. Press: Oxford, 1984)

________, ___________________, vol. 2: The Tender Passion (Oxford U. Press: Oxford, 1986)

________,___________________, vol. 3: Hate and Aggression (Oxford U. Press: Oxford, 1993)

________,___________________, vol. 4: The Naked Heart (Norton: NY, 1995)

________,___________________, vol. 5: Pleasure Wars (Norton: NY, 1998)

*John Gillis, For Better, For Worse: British Marriages, 1600 to the

Present (Oxford U. Press: NY and Oxford, 1985)

_______, A World of Their Own Making: Myth, Ritual, and the Quest for Family Values (Basic Books: NY, 1996)

Richard Godbeer, Sexual Revolution in Early America (Johns Hopkins Press: Baltimore, 2002)

Julia Grant, Raising Baby By the Book (Yale U. Press: New Haven, 1998)

Robert L. Griswold, Fatherhood in America: A History (Basic Books: NY, 1993)

Carol Groneman, Nymphomania: A History (Norton: NY, 2000)

Elizabeth Haiken, Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press: Baltimore, 1998)

Barbara Hanawalt, Growing Up in Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood

In History (Oxford U. Press: London, 1993)

Barbara Harris, English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550: Marriage and

Family, Property and Careers (Oxford: London, 2003)

Hendrik Hartog, Man and Wife in America: A History (Harvard U. Press: Cambridge, 2001)

Elaine Hatfield and Richard L. Rapson, Love, Sex, and Intimacy: Their Psychology,

Biology, and History (HarperCollins: NY and London, 1993)

__________________________, Love and Sex: Cross-Cultural

Perspectives (Allyn & Bacon: NY, 1996)

Christian Henriot, Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai: A Social History,

1849-1949 (Cambridge U. Press: London, 2003)

Marianne Hirsch, Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory (Harvard U. Press: Cambridge, 1998)

Martha Hodes, ed., Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North

American History (NYU Press: NY, 1999)

Ann Hulbert, Raising America: Experts, Parents and a Century of Advice About

Children (Knopf: NY, 2003)

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge

In Nineteenth-Centry America (Knopf: NY, 2002)

Lynn Hunt, ed. The Invention of Pornography (Zone Books: NY, 1993)

Margaret Hunt, The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England,

1680-1780 (University of California Press: Berkeley, 1996

*Olwen Hutton, The Prospect Before Her: A History of Women in Western Europe.

Volume 1, 1500-1800 (Knopf: NY, 1996)

Betsy Israel, Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of Single Women in the

Twentieth Century (William Morrow: NY, 2002)

James H. Jones, Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life (Norton: NY, 1998)

Charles Kaiser, The Gay Metropolis: 1940-1996 (Houghton Mifflin: NY, 1998)

Paula Kamen, Her Way: Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolution

(NYU Press: NY, 2001)

Ruth Karras, Common Women; Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England

(Oxford U. Press: London, 1996)

John Kasson, Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect White Man: The White Male

Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America

(Hill & Wang: NY, 2001)

Gary Kates, Monsieur d’Eon Is a Woman: A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual

Masquerade (Basic Books: NY, 1995)

Jonathan Ned Katz, The Invention of Heterosexuality (Dutton: NY, 1995)

____________, Love Stories: Sex between Men before Homosexuality

(U. of Chicago Press: Chicago, 2002)

Michael Kimmel, Manhood in America: A Cultural History (The Free Press: NY, 1996)

Emmanuel Roy Ladurie, Montaillou: Promised Land of Error (Vintage: NY, 1978)

Thomas Laqueur, Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud

(Zone Books: NY, 1990)

___________, Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation (Zone Books

NY, 2003)

John Loughery, The Other Side of Silence: Men’s Lives and Gay Identities--

A Twentieth-Century History (Holt: NY, 1998

Lynne Luciano, Looking Good: Male Body Image in Modern America

(Hill & Wang: NY, 2001)

Karen Lystra, Searching the Heart: Women, Men, and Romantic Love in Nineteenth-

Century America (Oxford U. Press: NY and Oxford, 1989)

Michael Mason, The Making of Victorian Sexuality (Oxford U. Press: Oxford, 1994)

Elaine Tyler May, Barren in the Promised Land: Childless Americans

And the Pursuit of Happiness (New York, 1995)

Alan Macfarlane, Marriage and Love in England: Modes of Reproduction,

1300-1840 (Blackwell: London, 1986)

Lara Marks, Sexual Chemistry: A History of the Contraceptive Pill

(Yale U. Press: New Haven, 2001

James McMillan, France and Women 1789-1914: Gender Society,

And Politics (Routledge: London, 2001)

Sara Mendelson and Patricia Crosby, Women in Early Modern England,

1550-1720 (Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1999)

Jeffrey Merrick and Bryant Ragan, Homosexuality in Modern France

(Oxford U. Press: London, 1996)

Joanne Meyerowitz, How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the

United States (2002)

*Steven Mintz and Susan Kellogg, Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American

Family Life (Free Press: NY, 1988)

*Steven Mintz, Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood (Harvard U. Press:

Cambridge, 2004)

George Mosse, The Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity

(Oxford U. Press: London, 1996)

Mary Beth Norton, Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of

American Society (Knopf: NY, 1996)

Catherine Orenstein, Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality and

the Evolution of a Fairy Tale (Basic Books: NY, 2002)

Nicholas Orme, Medieval Children (Yale U. Press: New Haven, 2002)

Steven Ozment, Flesh and Spirit: Private Life in Early Modern Germany

(Viking: NY, 1999)

__________, Ancestors: The Loving Family in Old Europe (Harvard

U. Press: Cambridge, 2002)

Grace Palladino, Teenagers: An American History (Basic Books: NY, 1997)

Daphne Patai, Heterophobia: Sexual Harassment and the Future of Feminism

(Rowman & Littlefield: Lanham, MD, 1999)

Kathy Peiss, Hope In a Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture (Metropolitan

Books: NY, 1998)

R. Phillips, Putting Asunder: A History of Divorce in Western Society (Cambridge U.

Press: Cambridge and NY, 1988)

Sarah Pomeroy, Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical

Antiquity (NY, 1999)

Teresa Riordan, Inventing Beauty: A History of the Innovations That Have

Made Us Beautiful (Broadway Books: NY, 2005)

Graham Robb, Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century (Norton:

NY, 2004)

Michael Rocke, Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in

Renaissance Florence (Oxford U. Press: NY, 1998)

Sheila and David Rothman, The Pursuit of Perfection: The Promise and Perils

Of Medical Enhancements (Pantheon Books: NY, 2004)

E. Anthony Rotundo, American Manhood: Transormations in Masculinity from the

Revolution to the Modern Era (Basic Books: NY, 1993)

Guido Ruggiero, Binding Passion: Tales of Magic, Marriage, and Power at the

End of the Renaissance (Oxford U. Press: London, 1993)

Steven Seidman, Romantic Longings: A History of Love in America: 1830-Present

(Routledge: NY and London,1991)

Merril Smith, ed., Sex and Sexuality in Early America (NYU Press: NY, 1998)

Christine Stansell, American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation

Of a New Century (Henry Holt: NY, 2000)

Peter N. Stearns, American Cool: Constructing A 20th-Century Emotional Style (NYU Press; NY, 1995)

____________, Battleground of Desire: The Struggle for Self Control

In Modern America (NYU Press: NY, 1999)

Peter Stearns and Jan Lewis, eds., An Emotional History of the United States (NYU

Press: NY, 1998)

Brenda E. Stevenson, Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave

South (Oxford U. Press: NY, 1997)

*Lawrence Stone, The Family, Sex and Marriage: In England 1500-1800 (Harper: NY,

1977)

*Lawrence Stone, The Road to Divorce: England 1530-1987 (Oxford: NY, 1990)

Frank Sulloway, Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives

(Pantheon Books: NY, 1996)

John Tosh, A Man’s Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home In

Victorian England (Yale U. Press: New Haven, 1999)

Andrea Tone, Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America

(NY: Hill &Wang, 2001)

Randolph Trumbach, Sex and the Gender Revolution, vol. 1 Hetero-

Sexuality and the Third Gender in Enlightenment

London, (U. of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1999)

Sharon Ullman, Sex Seen: The Emergence of Modern Sexuality in America

(Univ. of Calif. Press: Berkeley, 1999)

Georges Vigarello, A History of Rape: Sexual Violence in France from the 16^th

To the 20^th Century (Polity Press: London, 2002)

Marilyn Yalom, A History of the Breast (Knopf: NY, 1997)

__________, A History of the Wife (HarperCollins: NY, 2001)