In this talk, I consider American expansion in Mexican California,a region seen as an important gateway to the vast Pacific beyond its shores. The encroachment on Spanish and later Mexican territory also permitted the development of a trade in raw materials that, for instance, supplied the shoe factories that were springing up all over New […]

A Special Centennial EventCo-Sponsored by the UCSB Affiliates, the UCSB Department of History & Center for Cold War Studies On Armistice Day, a panel of UCSB faculty will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the start of WW I with a discussion of the impact of this war that, far from ending all wars, left millions […]

Hello Fellow Historians (and those simply interested in History), Please join the UCSB History Club and Honor Society (Phi AlphaTheta) this upcoming Wednesday (November 12) for our third general meeting of the quarter at 6:00pm at HSSB 4080. Prof. McGee and Prof. Ann Plane will host a "Beyond UCSB in History" workshop for everyone interested […]

This talk inaugurates a conference on “Labor and Empire” that continues through November 15. Chibber is the author of Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital (2013). Conference participants include Sven Beckert, Avi Chomsky, Dana Frank, Julie Green, Paul Kramer, Jana Lipman, Elizabeth McKillen, and Steve Striffler. Sponsored by LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History of […]