FACULTY BOOKS

FACULTY BOOKS

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COLIN G. CALLOWAY

Professor of History & Native American Studies

The Indian World of George Washington

Colonials called Washington the “Father of his Country.” Native Americans knew him as Conotocarious—Devourer of Villages. This National Book Award-nominated biography by Calloway, a professor of history and Native American studies, focuses on Washington's Indian policy and frontier dealings. Calloway masterfully recounts how the Seneca half-king Tanaghrisson, a seasoned warrior and diplomat, bested the young Washington and sparked the French and Indian War. But the future president was a quick study. During Revolutionary War negotiations with the Mohawks, their leader Joseph Brant warned other tribes that the general is “very cunning, he will try to fool us if he can.”

Oxford University Press (April 2018), 640 pp„$35

ANNELISE ORLECK

Professor of History

“We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now”

Around the world, laborers are rising up against “the cruelties of 21st-century economy,” says history professor Orleck. To learn their stories, she traveled the globe, interviewing workers and activists in Asia, Europe, Latin America—and the United States. Her fast-paced narrative introduces readers to a Marxist organizer of hotel workers in Rhode Island, the survivor of a garment factory collapse that killed 1,134 in Bangladesh, and McDonald’s workers in Manila struggling for full-time employment. She says that amid “the ravages of neoliberalism” emerging worker-led social responsibility codes leave her hopeful about the future.

Beacon Press (February 2018), 288 pp„ $18

DOUGLAS A. IRWIN

Professor of Economics

Clashing over Commerce

Protectionism did not make America great, and there’s no link between tariffs and the economic cycle, according to this authoritative history of U.S. trade policy. The author, an economics professor and associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, also believes that “deep structural factors” have prevented presidents from singlehandedly upending commerce. Civil War buffs (and fans of Daniel Webster, class of 1801) will enjoy Irwin’s account of the 1820s congressional clash over trade that revealed the jagged divide between the industrial North and the agrarian South.

University of Chicago Press (November 2017), 832 pp„ $35