Energy-Intensive Metropolis: An Environmental History of Houston and the Gulf Coast Region (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007)

The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade (New York University Press, 2007)

The White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas After the Civil War (University of Hawaii Press, 2007)

Making the Americas: The United States and Latin America from the Age of Revolutions to the Era of Globalization (University of New Mexico Press, 2007)

Teachers' Schools and the Making of the Modern Chinese Nation-State, 1897-1937 (University of British Columbia, 2007)

Cold War in a Hot Zone: The United States Confronts Labor and Independence Struggles in the British West Indies (Temple University Press, 2007)

The Problem of Evil: Slavery Freedom and the Ambiguities of American Reform (University of Massachusetts Press, 2007)

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 8: The Environment (University of North Carolina Press, 2007)