William Summerhill, "Inglorious Revolution: Inglorious Revolution: Political Institutions, Sovereign Debt, and Financial Underdevelopment in Imperial Brazil (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015)" The discussants for this event are Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Chair of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, and Barry R. Weingast, Professor of Political Science, Stanford University, and Senior […]
A symposium featuring Peter Nabokov, James Brooks and Ross Frank, which will focus on Nabokov’s recent books, How the World Moves: the Odyssey of an American Indian Family, and The Origin Myth of Acoma Pueblo
Edward D. Melillo is associate professor of history and environmental studies at Amherst College. He teaches courses on global environmental history, the history of the Pacific World, and commodities in world historical perspective. He is the author of Strangers on Familiar Soil: Rediscovering the Chile-California Connection (Yale University Press, 2015), the co-editor Eco-Cultural Networks in the British Empire: New Views on Environmental […]
In this history of right-wing politics in Brazil during the Cold War, Benjamin Cowan puts the spotlight on the Cold Warriors themselves. Tracking how limits to Cold War authoritarianism finally emerged, Cowan concludes that the record of autocracy and repression in Brazil is part of a larger story of reaction against perceived threats to traditional […]
Nile Green to present on "When Hajji Baba Met Frankenstein: The Middle Eastern Encounter with the Scientific Revolution." Sponsored/Co-sponsored by the Center for European and Russian Studies, Center for Near Eastern Studies, Program on Central Asia, Dept. of History, and the Center for the Study of Religion. For more information, please contact UCLA Center for […]
The UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration (CSIM) presents: Author meets critics session on: Native to the Republic: Empire, Social Citizenship, and Everyday Life in Marseille since 1945 Author: Minayo Nasiali, Department of History, UCLA Critics: Lia Brozgal, Department of French & Francophone Studies, UCLA and Swanie Potot, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) Friday, October […]
African Women: Early History to the 21st Century Kathleen Sheldon UCLA Center for the Study of Women Thursday, October 19, 2017 4:00 – 6:00 PM 6275 Bunche Hall Free and open to the public Copies of Dr. Sheldon’s book will be available for purchase immediately following her talk. Kathleen Sheldon is an independent historian who […]
