Reviews of Andean Cocaine (2009)
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
Social History (link opens RTF file)
La República (Lima, Peru)
Amazon.com
Alternet
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
Social History (link opens RTF file)
La República (Lima, Peru)
Amazon.com
Alternet
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
This Field Seminar introduces some major debates and literatures about Latin American history since 1820. It is designed for MA-level students who intend to go on to a Ph.D. in Latin American History, though advanced students from other geographic concentrations, disciplines, and area universities are more than welcome.
The focus is mainly historiographical or methodological: [...]
Sunday, February 1st, 2009
The State University of New York at Stony Brook, in cooperation with the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, will hold a conference in Stony Brook on March 20-21, 2009, on “The Worlds of Lion Gardiner, c. 1599-1663: Crossings and Boundaries.” Military man and engineer, chronicler and diplomat, lord of a New English manor [...]
Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Click on the title of this entry to find links to those extra documents I promised for your suburban town histories.
Chris
Land Use Map, 1968
Land Use Map Key to Different Uses
Racial Composition and Total Population, 1960 and 1970
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
CURRICULUM VITÆ
Herman Lebovics
Department of History
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, N.Y. 11794-4348
E-mail hglebovics@aol.com
Herman.Lebovics@stonybrook.edu
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105 Grant Street
Port Jefferson, NY 11777
(631) 476-9598
EDUCATION
B.A., 1956 University of Connecticut, Storrs
M.A., 1957 Yale University
Freie Universität Berlin 1959-1960
Ph.D., 1965 Yale University
POSITIONS
Instructor, Brooklyn College, 1962‑65
Visiting Assistant Professor, Oberlin College, 1965‑66
Visiting Associate [...]
Sunday, October 19th, 2008
This seminar takes legal systems and the criminalization of social groups as lenses on modern states’ techniques for disciplining populations, reproducing structures of privilege, and articulating nationalist ideologies. In addition to looking from the perspective of states, we consider the ways subjects and citizens manipulate, modify and evade legal regimes. Moving from the [...]
Sunday, October 19th, 2008
Colonial South Asia comprised much of what is now India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, and was dubbed ‘the jewel in the crown’ of the British Empire at its height. The Subcontinent’s status as the most populous and lucrative colony of the world’s largest empire profoundly shaped the world of both colonized and colonizer there. This [...]
Sunday, October 19th, 2008
The South Asia region – contemporary India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Afghanistan – has been a crossroads of diverse people, ideas and commodities for millennia. This course covers key themes and developments in South Asia between about 1000 and 1750. British colonial rule from the late eighteenth century [...]
Sunday, October 19th, 2008
Taking oceans, rather than nations or empires, as key units for historical study focuses attention on the movement of people, ideas and commodities across space, and the political and cultural formations that emerge from these circulations. This course will accordingly consider several different stages of globalization from antiquity to the present along [...]
Saturday, October 11th, 2008
Check out the following coverage of a joint effort by Stony Brook faculty and leaders and residents of the small suburban town of Port Jefferson, NY, to “Green Port Jefferson.” Page 12 details an effort to study Port Jefferson’s carbon footprint, led by Chris Sellers of the History Department, and Jessica Gurevitch, of the Department [...]