History Faculty Publications in Spring/Summer 2008

Several members of the History Department expect their books to be published in 2008. These include the following:

• Prof. Chad Montrie, Making a Living: Work and Environment in the United States  (May 2008, University of North Carolina Press).  In an innovative fusion of labor and environmental history, Montrie examines six case studies, including textile 'mill girls' in New England, plantation slaves in the Mississippi Delta, homesteading women in Nebraska, coal minters in Appalachia, autoworkers in Detroit, and Mexican-American farm workers in California.
• Prof. Christoph Strobel, The Testing Grounds of Modern Empire: The Making of Colonial Racial Order in the American Ohio Country and the South African Eastern Cape, 1770s-1850s (Spring 2008, Peter Lang Publishing).  This study examines the transformation and gradual creation of colonial racial order in the Ohio Country of the USA and the South African Eastern Cape, with a legacy shaped by violence, conflict, and cooperation in these two areas and around the world.
• Prof. Robert Forrant, Metal Fatigue: American Bosch and the Demise of Metalworking in the Connecticut River Valley (Summer/Fall 2008, Baywood Press).  Drawing upon his expertise in the history of industrialization in New England, Forrant contributes to the important history of manufacturing decline, with implications for the present and the future of this region.