More Faculty Books

The Long Shadow: Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood
Russell Sage Foundation
By Karl Alexander, John Dewey Professor of Sociology; Doris Entwistle, Research Professor, Sociology; and Linda Olsen, Associate Research Scientist
Combining original interviews with data from the authors, this text unravels the connections between socioeconomic origins and destinations to reveal who succeeds and why.

Harvard University Press
By Michael Kwass, Associate Professor, History
A new look at the legend of Louis Mandrin and the underworld he helped to create by exposing the dark side of this early phase of globalization.

Johns Hopkins University Press
By John Irwin, Decker Professor in the Humanities and Writing Seminars and English Professor
Details from Fitzgerald’s life are tied to elements from his entire body of work, and central themes are revealed.

Pennsylvania State University Press
By Jennifer Kingsley, Assistant Director, Museums and Society
The first interpretive study of the pictorial program of this famed manuscript.

Penguin Press
By François Furstenberg, Associate Professor, History
The republic’s formative years are explored from the viewpoint of a distinguished circle of five Frenchmen taking refuge in America.

Leiden: Brill
Co-edited by Marina Rustow, Charlotte Bloomberg Associate Professor in the Humanities, History
Articles on the cultural, religious, social, and commercial interactions among Jews, Christians, and Muslims in medieval and early modern periods.