3 Histories: The Long Century, Hasidism, California Conservatism

In this volume spanning the 1870s to the present, history professor Edward Ross Dickinson explores the making of the modern world as a connected pattern of global developments in politics and economics, technological advances and environmental transformations. (University of California Press/January 2018)

David Biale, the Emanuel Ringelblum Distinguished Professor of Jewish History at UC Davis, and his co-authors (David Assaf, Benjamin Brown, Uriel Gellman, Samuel Heilman, Moshe Rosman, Gadi Sagiv and Marcin Wodziński) present what the publisher describes as a unique blend of intellectual, religious and social history, offering perspectives on the movement’s leaders as well as its followers, and demonstrating that, far from being a throwback to the Middle Ages, Hasidism is a product of modernity that forged its identity as a radical alternative to the secular world. (Princeton University Press/2017)

History professor Kathryn S. Olmsted re-examines the labor disputes of Depression-era California that led the state’s businessmen and media to create a new style of politics with corporate funding, intelligence gathering, professional campaign consultants and alliances between religious and economic conservatives. (The New Press/June 2017)