Publications

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Initiatives of The Davis Center result in the publication of many books, including:

The Davis Center at Fifty

In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of The Davis Center, Sean H. Vanatta and Randall Todd Pippenger wrote "Let's Have At It": The Shelby Collum Davis Center at Fifty, which chronicles the founding of the Center up to the present. Angela N. H. Creager edited a second volume, "Building on Stone: Perspectives on the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Fifty."

"Let's Have At It": The Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Fifty

Building on Stone: Perspectives on the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Fifty

"Let's Have At It": The Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Fifty
Cover for Volume 2: Building on Stone: Perspectives on the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Fifty

 

The Lawrence Stone Lectures

The Davis Center and Princeton University Press have also partnered to bring important and innovative historical scholarship to a broad audience through the Lawrence Stone Lectures. Each year, the Davis Center brings a major historian to campus for a week of informal meetings and three thematically linked lectures. These lectures serve as the foundation for the Lawrence Stone Lectures volumes. Titles include:

Time and Power: Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich

Time and Power: Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich

Christopher Clark, Lawrence Stone Professor, Spring 2015

 

 

 

 

Sleepwalking into a New World: The Emergence of Italian City Communes in the Twelfth Century by Chris Wickham

Sleepwalking into a New World: The Emergence of Italian City Communes in the Twelfth Century

Chris Wickham, Lawrence Stone Professor, Spring 2013

 

 

Citizenship, Inequality, and Difference: Historical Perspectives

Citizenship, Inequality, and Difference: Historical Perspectives

Frederick Cooper, Lawrence Stone Professor, Spring 2016
 

 

Sea of Storms: A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina by Stuart B. Schwartz

Sea of Storms: A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina

Stuart B. Schwartz, Lawrence Stone Professor, Fall 2012

 

 

The Pity of Partition: Manto's Life, Times, and Work across the India-Pakistan Divide by Ayesha Jalal

The Pity of Partition: Manto's Life, Times, and Work across the India-Pakistan Divide

Ayesha Jalal, Lawrence Stone Professor, Spring 2011

 

 

Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race by Thomas J. Sugrue

Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race

Thomas J. Sugrue, Lawrence Stone Professor, Spring 2009
 

 

 

No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations by Mark Mazower

No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations

Mark Mazower, Lawrence Stone Professor, Spring 2008

 

 

 

Shelby Cullom Davis Center Volumes

The Center's theme has formed the basis for many multi-author volumes. Most recently, these collections of essays have been published in partnership with Princeton University Press.

 

Formations of Belief: Historical Approaches to Religion and the Secular, edited by Philip Nord, Katja Guenther, and Max Weiss

Formations of Belief: Historical Approaches to Religion and the Secular

Edited by Philip Nord, Katja Guenther, and Max Weiss
Copyright 2019 Princeton University Press

 

 

 

 

Cultures in Motion Edited by Daniel Rodgers, Bhavani Raman, and Helmut Reimitz

Cultures in Motion

Edited by Daniel T. Rodgers, Bhavani Raman and Helmut Reimitz
Copyright 2013 Princeton University Press

 

 

 

 

 

 

Facing Fear, edited by Michael Laffan and Max Weiss

Facing Fear: The History of an Emotion in Global Perspective

Edited by Michael Laffan and Max Weiss
Copyright 2012 Princeton University Press

 

 

 

 

 

 

Noir Urbanisms: Dystopic Images of the Modern City Edited by Gyan Prakash

Noir Urbanisms: Dystopic Images of the Modern City

Edited by Gyan Prakash
Copyright 2010 Princeton University Press

 

 

 

 

 

 

Utopia/Dystopia: Historical Conditions of Possibility Edited by Michael Gordin, Helen Tilley, and Gyan Prakash

Utopia/Dystopia: Conditions of Historical Possibility

Edited by Michael D. Gordin, Helen Tilley and Gyan Prakash
Copyright 2010 Princeton University Press

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Spaces of the Modern City: Imaginaries, Politics, and Everyday Life Edited by Gyan Prakash and Kevin Kruse

Spaces of the Modern City

Edited by Kevin Kruse and Gyan Prakash
Copyright 2008 Princeton University Press

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Nature of Cities by Andrew Isenberg

The Nature of Cities

Edited by Andrew C. Isenberg
Copyright 2006 University of Rochester Press

 

 

 

 

 

 

Corrupt Histories Edited by Emmanuel Kreike and William Chester Jordan

Corrupt Histories

Edited by Emmanuel Kreike and William Chester Jordan
Copyright 2004 University of Rochester Press

 

 

 

 

 

 

Repositioning North American Migration History Edited by Marc S. Rodriguez

Repositioning North American Migration History

Edited by Marc S. Rodriguez
Copyright 2004 University of Rochester Press

 

Conversion in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Seeing and Believing Edited by Kenneth Mills and Anthony Grafton

Conversion in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Seeing and Believing

Edited by Kenneth Mills and Anthony Grafton
Copyright 2003 University of Rochester Press

 

Conversion: Old Worlds and New Edited by Kenneth Mills and Anthony Grafton

Conversion: Old Worlds and New

Edited by Kenneth Mills and Anthony Grafton
Copyright 2003 University of Rochester Press

 

The Animal Human Boundary Edited by Angela Creager & William Chester Jordan

The Animal / Human Boundary: Historical Perspectives

Edited by Angela Creager and William Chester Jordan
Copyright 2003 University of Rochester Press

 

 

 

 

 

Animals in Human Histories: The Mirror of Nature and Culture Edited by Mary Henniger-Voss

Animals in Human Histories: The Mirror of Nature and Culture

Edited by Mary J. Henniger-Voss
Copyright 2003 University of Rochester Press

 

Trading Cultures: The Worlds of Western Merchants Edited by Jeremy Adelman and Stephen Aron

Trading Cultures: The Worlds of Western Merchants

Edited by Jeremy Adelman and Stephen Aron
Copyright 2001 Brepols Publishers

 

Proof and Persuasion: Essays on Authority, Objectivity and Evidence by Suzanne Marchand and Elizabeth Lunbeck

Proof and Persuasion: Essays on Authority, Objectivity and Evidence

Edited by Suzanne Marchand and Elizabeth Lunbeck
Copyright 1997 Brepols Publishers

 

The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe Edited by Anthony Grafton and Ann Blair

The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe

Edited by Anthony Grafton and Ann Blain
Copyright 1990 University of Pennsylvania Press

 

The Uses of Charity: The Poor on Relief in the Nineteenth-Century Metropolis Edited by Peter Mandler

The Uses of Charity: The Poor on Relief in the Nineteenth-Century Metropolis

Edited by Peter Mandler
Copyright 1990 University of Pennsyvlania Press

 

Rites of Power Edited by Sean Wilentz

Rites of Power: Symbolism, Ritual, and Politics Since the Middle Ages

Edited by Sean Wilentz
Copyright 1985 University of Pennsylvania Press

 

Professions and the French State, 1700-1900 Edited by Gerald L. Geison

Professions and the French State, 1700-1900

Edited by Gerald L. Geison
Copyright 1984 University of Pennsylvania Press

 

Religion and the People, 800-1700 Edited by James Obelkevich

Religion and the People, 800-1700

Edited by James Obelkevich
Copyright 1979 University of North Carolina Press

 

Schooling and Society: Studies in the History of Education Edited by Lawrence Stone

Schooling and Society: Studies in the History of Education

Edited by Lawrence Stone
Copyright 1976 The Johns Hopkins University Press