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 the history of Colonialism:
Madison Smartt Bell, Toussaint Louverture: A Biography (Pantheon, 2007). ISBN-13: 978-0375423376
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). 978-1-904890-28-7
Danine Farquharson, Sean Farrell, eds. Shadows of the Gunmen: Violence and Culture in Modern Ireland. (Cork: Cork University Press, 2008). ISBN 978-1-85918-424-0
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
Maria Luddy. Prostitution and Irish Society, 1800-1940. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). ISBN 978-0-521-88241-5; ISBN 978-0-521-70905-7
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
Daniel Mendelsohn, The Lost: a search for six of the six million (New York: Harper Collins, 2006). ISBN: 0-06-054297-7
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 and Soviet History:
Elena Andreeva, Russia and Iran in the Great Game: Travelogues and Orientalism (New York: Routledge, 2007). ISBN 0415771536
Yaacov Ro'i, Islam in the Soviet Union: From the Secoond 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
Robert J. Knecht, The French Renaissance Court (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008). ISBN-13: 978-0300118513
Dennis Romano, The Likeness of Venice: A Life of Doge Francesco Foscari (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007). ISBN-13: 978-0300112023
In Asian History:
We want very much to thank the Office of Academic Programs for purchasing seven books on Asian history for the library.
