About Mary Ryan Mary P. Ryan is Emeritus Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and the University of California, Berkeley. Her most recent book is Taking the Land to Make the City: A Bicoastal History of North America (2019). Books by Mary Ryan Remaking North American Sovereignty State Transformation in the 1860s contributions by Jewel L. Spangler, Frank Towers, Robert E. Bonner, Christopher Clark, Jane Dinwoodie, Steven Hahn, Ryan Hall, Benjamin Johnson, Pablo Mijangos, Mary Ryan, Andrew Smith & Marcela Terrazas y Basante series edited by Andrew L. Slap