Our Walter Stiern Library is woefully under funded, and the history collection has not kept pace with the scholarship being published. We invite your help!
History Department faculty are creating lists of books in their fields and seeking your help to purchase these. If you are able, we invite you to select a book on the list. Purchase the book (all books in the list have links to sites where they can be purchased) and either bring it to the department office or have it shipped directly here with an email or gift message to alert us to your contribution, which is tax deductible.
Our address is CSU Bakersfield History Department, 9001 Stockdale Hwy., Bakersfield, CA 93311-1099.
You might select a book you'd like to see us have in our collection, or one in a particular field of interest to you. (We aren't picky!) We just ask that, if available, the books are hardbound, as these are much more durable than paperbacks. The library will place a nameplate inside the book, acknowledging your gift.
If you'd prefer someone else to do the purchasing, you may write a check to the Stiern Library Associates in the amount of the book, and they will procure it.
Book donations we currently seek for the WSL:
In Modern European History:
Jan Broadway, No Historie So Meete: Gentry Culture and the Development of Local History in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006). ISBN: 978-0-7190-7294-9
Richard W. Davis. A Political History of the House of Lords, 1811-1846: From the Regency to Corn Law Repeal. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008). ISBN: 978-0-8047-5763-8
Diarmaid Ferriter, Judging Dev: A reassessment of the Life and Legacy of Eamon de Valera (Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2007). ISBN: 978-1-904890-28-7
Virginia Hoselitz. Imagining Roman Britain: Victorian Responses to a Roman Past. (Boydell Press, 2007). ISBN: 978-0-86193-293-1
Rosie Llewellyn-Jones. The Great Uprising in India, 1857-58: Untold Stories, Indian and British. (Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2007). ISBN: 978-1-84383-304-8
S. P. Mackenzie. The Battle of Britain on Screen: 'The Few' in British Film and Television Drama. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007). ISBN: 978-0-7486-2389-1
Alison Twells, ed. British Women's History: A Documentary History from the Enlightenment to World War I (International Library of Historical Studies). (London: I. B. Tauris, 2007) (cloth), ISBN 978-1-86064-161-9; (paper), ISBN: 978-1-86064-162-6
Marlene Tromp. Victorian Freaks: The Social Context of Freakery in Britain. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2008). xiii, 328 p. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN: 978-0-8142-1086-4
In Russian/Soviet and East European History:
Elena Andreeva, Russia and Iran in the Great Game: Travelogues and Orientalism (New York: Routledge, 2007). ISBN: 0415771536
Patrick Desbois, The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest's Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). ISBN: 978-0-230-60617-3
Walter Hixson, Parting the Curtain: Propaganda, Culture and the Cold War (New York: St. Martin's, 1996). ISBN: 0312176805
Evan Mawdsley, Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941-1945 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007). ISBN: 978-0340808085
Kevin McDermott, Matthew Stibbe, eds. Revolution and Resistance in Eastern Europe: Challenges to Communist Rule (Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers, 2007. ISBN: 978-1-84520-259-0
Yaacov Ro'i, Islam in the Soviet Union: From the Second World War to Gorbachev (London: Hurst, 2000). ISBN: 1850654034
Medieval/Early Modern Europe:
Christopher Dyer, Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain, 850-1520 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003). ISBN-13: 978-0300090604
In Asian History:
We want very much to thank the Office of Academic Programs for purchasing seven books on Asian history for the library.
