Publications

In addition to their teaching, the members of SUNY Potsdam’s History Department pursue a variety of research and publishing projects, many of which are ultimately published.  The following selection of publications highlights department members' work.

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Dr. Thomas Baker

Sentiment and Celebrity: Nathaniel Parker Willis and the Trials of Literary Celebrity.  Oxford University Press, 1999.

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Dr. Geoffrey Clark

Betting on Lives: The Culture of Life Insurance in England, 1695-1775.  Manchester University Press, 1999.


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Dr. Geoffrey Clark

The Appeal of Insurance. University of Toronto Press, 2010.

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Dr. Axel Fair-Schulz

Loyal Subversion: East Germany and its Bildungsbürgerlich Marxist
Intellectuals, Trafo, 2009.

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Dr. Axel Fair-Schulz

with Mario Kessler, German Scholars in Exile: New Studies in Intellectual History, Rowman & Littlefield, 2011.

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Dr. James German

       “The Social Utility of Wicked Self-Love: Calvinism, Capitalism, and Public Policy in Revolutionary New England," Journal of American History 82 (December 1995): 965-998.

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Dr. M.J. Heisey

Peace and Persistence: Tracing the Brethren in Christ Peace Witness Through Three Generations. Kent State University Press, 2003.      

    

 

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Dr. Shiho Imai

Creating the Nisei Market: Race and Citizenship in Hawaii's Japanese American Consumer Culture. University of Hawai'i Press, 2010.

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Dr. Sheila McIntyre

with Len Travers, The Correspondence of John Cotton Junior. University of Virginia Press for the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2009.