Pamela Kyle Crossley

Robert 1932 and Barbara Black Professor of History

Office: 308 Carson Hall

Office Phone: (603) 646-2589

Fax: (603) 646-3353

Email: Pamela.K.Crossley@Dartmouth.edu

Address

• Department of History
  Dartmouth College
  6107 Carson Hall
  Hanover, NH 03755

Courses

• 5.3: The History of China since 1800
• 72: History of China to 1800
• 74: Intellectual History of East Asia
• 95: The Mongols

My current projects are developing a course for history students to develop analytical software; the history of coercive institutions in China; a comparative history of cross-cultural empires in Inner Asia; a comparative history of horsemanship in medieval Eurasia; the experiences of Richard T. Greener in Vladivostok, 1989-1905; and development of a research portal for Qing studies.

Selected Publications

• Foretelling Human Pasts: Concepts and Strategies in Global Narrative. Polity Press, forthcoming.
• with Lynn Hollen Lees and John Servos, Global Society: The World since 1900. Houghton Mifflin, 2003.
• with Richard Bulliet, Daniel Headrick, Lyman Johnson, David Northrup and Steven Hirsch, The Earth and its Peoples: A Global History, 3rd edition, 2004, 2nd edition, 2002, 1st edition, 1997.
• A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology. University of California Press, 1999.
• The Manchus. Blackwell Publishers, 1997; revised 2001; Spanish translation, 2003.
• Orphan Warriors: Three Manchu Generations and the End of the Qing World. Princeton University Press, 1990.
• "Unfree Life in Early-Modern China," in David Eltis and Stanley Engerman, eds., The Cambridge History of Slavery. Volume 3. Cambridge UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2005.
• "Making Mongols" in P.K. Crossley, H.F. Siu and D. Sutton, eds., Empire, Frontier and Ethnicity in Early Modern China. University of California Press, forthcoming 2004.
• "The Conquest Elite," in Willard Peterson, ed., The Cambridge History of China. Volume 9. Cambridge, London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
• "The Historiography of Modern China," in Michael Bentley, ed., The Routledge Companion to Historiography. London: Routledge, 1997.
• "A Profile of the Manchu Language in Ch'ing History" co-authored with Evelyn S. Rawski, in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 53:1 [June 1993]:63-102.
• "The Rulerships of China," American Historical Review, 97:5 [December 1992:1468-1483.
• "Thinking about Ethnicity in Early Modern China," essay solicited by the editors and published in Late Imperial China 11:2 [June 1990]:1-36.