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Karl K arl Marx Greatness and Illusion

Gareth Stedman Jones An Economist Best Best Book of the Year HAn Editors’ Choice HA New York Times Book Review Editors’ HA Seminary Co-op Notable Book of the Year

“[Gareth Stedman Jones] has written the de�initive biography of Marx for our time.” —Peter E. Gordon, New York Times Book Review “Important…[Stedman Jones] bring[s] exceptional learning to the business of rooting Marx in the intellectual and political life of nineteenth-century Europe.” Europe.” —Louis Menand, New Yorker

Somme Into the Breach Hugh Sebag-Monte�io Sebag-Monte�iore re

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The Habsburg Empire A New History

Telegraph Best Best Book of the Year HA Telegraph “[Sebag-Monte�iore] utilizes the intimate archives of letters, diaries, and dispatches to produce a far more detailed and individualized portrait of the subject than earlier big single-volume treatments…The narrative moves easily from the larger logistical tangles back at headquarters to the experiences of the men �ighting in the front lines, and Sebag-Monte�iore is every bit as authoritative writing about the birth of air and tank warfare as he is picking apart the psychologies of the men involved…[ involved…[An] An] enormously satisfying book. book.”” —Steve Donoghue, Christian Science Monitor Belknap Press 2016 65 halftones, halftones, 21 maps 656 pp. pp. $35.00 cloth 9780674545199 United States and its dependencie dependenciess only

Pieter M. Judson Editor’s Pick HA EuropeNow Editor’s Telegraph “Best “Best History Books for HA Telegraph

Christmas” Selection

“Pieter M. Judson’s Judson’s book informs and stimulates. If his account of Habsburg achievements, especially in the 18th century, is rather starry-eyed, it is a welcome corrective to the black legend usually presented. Lucid, elegant, full of surprising and illumi nating details, it can be warmly recommended to anyone with an interest in modern European history.” —Tim Blanning, Wall Street Journal

Belknap Press 2016 40 halftones, 7 maps 592 pp. $35.00 | £25.00 cloth 9780674047761

Park Par k Chung Hee and Modern Modern Korea Korea The Roots of Militarism, 1866–1945

Carter J. Eckert “This pathbreaking book contributes to both m odern Korean history and Japanese colonial history by exploring the instruction that Park Chung-hee (who went on to lead S outh Korea from 1961 to 1979) and others of his generation received when they were of�icer trainees in the Japanese colonial army in the 1940s.” —Andrew J. Nathan, Foreign Affairs

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Heart of Europe A History of the Holy Roman Empire Empire

Peter H. Wilson An Economist Best Best Book of the Year HAn

“An ambitious, sprawling tome that seeks to rehabilitate the Holy Roman Empire’s Empire’s reputation by re-examining its place within the larger sweep of European history…Heart history…Heart of Europe succeeds Europe succeeds splendidly in rescuing the empire from its critics. critics.”” —Mark Molesky, Wall Street Journal

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The Triumph of Empire The Roman World from Hadrian to Constantine

Michael Kulikowski “This is a wonderfully broad sweep of Roman history. It tells the fascinating story of imperial rule from the enigmatic Hadrian through the dozens of warlords and usurpers who fought for the throne in the third century AD, to the Christian emperors o f the fourth—after the biggest religious and cultural revolution the world has ever seen.” —Mary Beard, University of Cambridge

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History and Presence Presence Robert A. Orsi “[A] brilliant, theologically sophisticated exploration of the Catholic experience of Go d’ d’ss presence through the material world…On every level—from its sympathetic, honest, and som etimes moving ethnography to its astute analytical observations— this book is a scholarly masterpiece.” —A. W. Klink, Choice

Charlemagne Johannes Fried Translated by Peter Lewis “Charlemagne Charlemagne is is relentless in the accumulation of detail and austerely comprehensive in its endnotes…This endnotes… This Charles the Great is unmistakably Karl der Grosse… Matching the mood of our times, blood-�lecked Realpolitik and and smoldering religious intolerance are very much to the fore…Fe fore…Few w [Charlemagne biographies] capture so well the unlovely realities of Carolingian politics and the sheer technical dif�iculty of ruling a medieval empire in the ab sence of a state apparatus.” —Michael Kulikowski, Wall Street Journal “In this splendid biography, Fried shows that Charlemagne remains a �igure to b e reckoned with even 12 centuries after his death. death.””

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Thundersticks Firearmss and the Violent Transformation Firearm Transformation of Native Native America

David J. Silverman “A good measure of a work of history is whether it changes the way we understand its subject. By that measure, David J. Silverman succeeds admirably in Thundersticks Thundersticks…In …In Silverman’ Silverman’ss so ber ber,, s prawling account, America is a nation built on slaves and guns.” —Thomas E. Ricks, New York Times Book Review “Silverman tells this sad and bloody story with verve, making this an essential work for scholars of col onial encounters.” encounters.” —Publishers Weekly

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This Vast Southern Empire Slaveholders at the Helm of Slaveholders American Foreign Foreign Policy Matthew Karp “Combining immense erudition with an engaging style, Karp sheds light on an important but poorly understood era in American foreign policy and provides much food for thought about the ways in which the Davisonian legacy continued to in�luence the United States long after slavery died.”

Tibet in Agony Lhasa 1959

Jianglin Li Translated by Susan Wilf

“Should be required reading.” —Jonathan Mirsky, The Spectator “Remarkable…for its meticulously researched and detailed exposé of Chinese duplici ty and ruthlessness…What you hear turning every page of this book—the �irst book written with full access to of �icial Chinese documents and accounts of the events—is the sound of scales falling from the eyes.” —Mick Brown, Literary Review

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—Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs “Adept and detailed…Karp’s thorough and polished study will be eagerly welcomed by scholars.” —Publishers Weekly 2016 7 halftones, 3 maps, 3 tables 368 pp. $29.95 | £22.95 cloth 9780674737259

The War Within Diaries from the the Siege of Leningrad Leningrad

Alexis Peri “By mining an extraordinarily rich treasure trove of unpublished diaries, Peri moves beyond relating what happened during the blockade and instead explains how Leningraders made sense of it. Sophisticated, nuanced, and extremely well written, The War Within is Within is a major contribution to our understanding of the m entality of Leningrad’s civilians during the blockade and the role that diaries played in Soviet history.” history.” —Richard Bidlack, coauthor of The Leningrad Blockade, 1941�1944


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The French Resistance Olivier Wieviorka Translated by Jane Marie Todd

“The work o f [a] seasoned scholar and energetic researcher… researcher…The ultimate question is what difference the French Resistance really made. Wieviorka considers this matter most fully. fully.”” —Robert O. Paxton, New York Review of Books “Magisterial…Wieviorka shows that the Resistance was divided “Magisterial…Wieviorka and fragmented from the start, and that the many and varied organizations that constituted it were often driven by political ideology…[An] engrossing boo k.” —Richard J. Evans, London Review of Books

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Freud In His Time and Ours Ours

Élisabeth Roudinesco

From the War War on Poverty to the War on Crime The Making of Mass Incarceration Incarcer ation in America

Translated by Catherine Porter Education Book of the Week HA Times Higher Education Book

Elizabeth Hinton

“Through seamlessly and eloquently weaving together details from Freud’s time and our own, [Roudinesco] provides a refreshingly new and welcome account—warts and all.” all.”

Times Notable HA New York Times Notable Book of the Year HA New York Times Book Review

Editors’ Choice

—Janet Sayers, Times Higher Education

Favorite HA Publishers Weekly Favorite

“A welcome reminder of Freud’s considerable in�luence on 20th-century intellectual life. life.”” —Samuel Moyn, The Nation

2016 1 chart 592 pp. $35.00 | £25.00 cloth 9780674659568

Red Ellen The Life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist

Laura Beers “In Red Ellen, Ellen , Laura Beers…draws a multifaceted portrait, capturing the woman herself as well as her remarkable political career career..” —Martin Rubin, Wall Street Journal “Beers has produced a detailed account of an extraordinary life.” life.” —Clare Gri�iths, Times Higher Education

Book of the Year HA Seminary Co-op Notable Book of the Year Co-Winner, Thomas J. Wilson HCo-Winner, Memorial Prize “A revelation…A reader cannot help reckoning with the truth that the problem of police brutality and mass incarceration won’t be remedied with technology and training. Those of us who believe in the principles of democracy and justic jus tice e would wo uld do well to wit witnes ness, s, as detailed in Hinton’ Hinton’ss pages, the shameful theft of liberty in this socalled land of the free. free.”” —Imani Perry,

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Once Within Borders Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging since 1500

Charles S. Maier “In this bril liant and sweeping narrative, Maier shows how how,, beginning in the seventeenth century, sovereignty and territory became intertwined as states built borders, reorganized systems of labor and capital, and forged domains of law and authority. authority.”” —G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs


The Cold World They Made The Strategic Legacy of Roberta and Albert Wohlstetter

Ron Robin

Nothing Ever Dies Vietnam and the Memory of War War Viet Thanh Nguyen Finalist, National Book HFinalist,

Award Awar d in Non�iction Reviews Best HA Kirkus Reviews Best Non�iction Book of the Year Best Book of the Year HA Listener Best HA Seminary Co-op Notable Book of the Year “ Nothing Ever Dies is Dies is an account of humanity at its darkest, a realm of war, memory, memory, identity and pain that ventures from the jungles of Vietnam to the killing �ields of Cambodia.” —Jeffrey Fleishman,

“Provocative…The Cold World They Made is “Provocative…The Made is a withering indictment of the Wohlstetter Wohlstetterss and their in�luence on defense policy.” policy.” —Philip Taubman, New York Times Book Review


Preparing for War War The Emergence of the Modern U.S. Army, 1815–1917

J. P. Clark “A subtle, so phisticated, and im mensely insightful contribution to U.S U.S.. military history. Combining intimate understanding with admirable critical distance, J. P. Clark’s Clark’s study stands alone in describing the intellectual evolution of the army of�icer corps. His story may end with World War I, but its impl ications echo down to the present day.” day.” —Andrew J. Bacevich, author of America’s War for the Greater Gr eater Middle East E ast


Los Angeles Times “[An] eloquent…narrative of the Vietnam War’s psychological impact on combatants and civilians… Nguyen succeeds in delivering a potent critique of the war and revealing what the memories of living have meant for the identities of the next generation.” —Publishers Weekly 2016 35 halftones 384 pp. $27.95 | £22.95 cloth 9780674660342

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The Good Occupation American Soldiers Soldiers and the Hazards Hazards of Peace

Susan L. Carruthers “A disturbing l ook at the experiences of the ‘after-army’: ‘after-army’: the American service-people who stayed on active duty after the Second World War, War, charged with rebuilding the places they had helped to destroy. Frank, often harsh voices from letters, diaries and memoirs serve up ‘inconvenient truths’: the armed forces’ caste system and racism; casual cruelty and venality trumping conscience; ‘fraternisation’ (and prostitution and rape) with ‘blowsy frauleins’ and ‘anx ‘anxious ious to please’ Japanese maids.” —Times Higher Education


The Politics of Mourning

Admiral Bill Halsey A Naval Life

Thomas Alexander Hughes “Smartly written…[It] deserves to supplant E. B. Potter’s 21-yearold Bull Halsey as as the standard life of i ts subject…Hughes is an entertaining writer and an incisive observer observer..” —James D. Horn�ischer, Wall Street Journal


Elvis’ss Army Elvis’ Cold War GIs and the Atomic Battlefield

Death and Honor in Arlington Arlington National Cemetery Cemetery Micki McElya “An insightful and affecting investigation of how Americans see themselves, and how they memorialize their soldiers, that will be of interest to historians and, particularly, veterans.” —Edwin Burgess,

Brian McAllister Linn

Library Journal

“Brian Linn’s Linn’s history holds l essons for us: be wary about clai ms of revolutionary change in warfare; �ind ways to keep servicemen and women connected to those in whose name they serve; recognize that the American military ’s advantage over potential enemies is more human than technological. Thi s is a book for scholars, students, soldiers, and citizens.”

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—H. R. McMaster, author of Dereliction of Duty


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Elusive Refuge Refuge Chinese Migrants in the Cold War

Laura Madokoro “Madokoro shows that our grasp of the history o f refugees is woefully incomplete unless we take proper account of the international response to those who �led mainland China in the wake of the Chi nese Revolution…Innovative in conception and execution, Elusive Refuge makes a very signi�icant contribution to our understanding of the modern world’s response to refugees. refugees.”” —Peter Gatrell, author of The Making of the Modern Refugee


Accidental State

China’s Crony Capitalism The Dynamics of Regime Decay Minxin Pei An Economist Best Best Book of the Year HAn Times Best Economics HA Financial Times Best Book of the Year “Pei’s book is quietly devastating… “Pei’s With clinical precision, Pei explains how corruption operates at every level, perverting each branch of the party-state and subverting the political authority of the regime… This book is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand China today, or engage with it at any level, in any �ield.” —The Economist “Xi Jinping claims to be eliminating corruption from China’ China’ss economic and political systems. Pei, one of the world’s most knowledgeable scholars, argues that this is impossible because corruption is the system.” —Martin Wolf, Financial Times 2016 10 tables 376 pp. $35.00 | £25.95 cloth 9780674737297

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Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the Making of Taiwan

Hsiao-ting Lin “A model o f rigorous scholarship and revisionist argument. Using a wide variety of primary m aterials, Lin shows the early Col d War in Asia was a time of fast and unexpected change and that the establishment of a new pol ity on Taiwan came about in highly contingent circumstances. This is a powerful and exciting argument to our understanding of modern Co ld War and Chinese history.” —Rana Mitter, author of Forgotten Ally


Unlikely Partners Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China

Julian Gewirtz HA Marginal

Revolution Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year Revolution Best

“Gewirtz’s account of China’s transition from Marxist central “Gewirtz’s planning to ‘socialist market’ economics is masterful: detailed, balanced, and i lluminating… lluminating…This This is a revelatory account o f China’s economic evolution, its debt to Western economic thought, and its love-hate relationship with capit alism.” —Publishers Weekly (starred (starred review) “I loved this book. I t is a tour de force on China, the theory of policy advising, and the history of economic thought, all rolled into o ne. ne.”” —Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution


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Uyghur Nation Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Russia-China Frontier Frontier

David Brophy “This work on the Uyghurs, a 10-m illion strong Turkic Muslim minority residing mainly in Xinjiang in western China, is a welcome contribution to a recent rise in Uyghur studies… A remarkable account of a people searching for identity at the intersection of empire. empire.”” —M. Chakars, Choice


A Book of Conquest Conquest The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia

Manan Ahmed Asif Magazine Global History Book of HA BBC History Magazine Global

the Year Year

“Ahmed’ Ahmed’ss re-reading will no doubt provoke scholars in both Pakistan and India. It cuts against the grain of the way the Chachnama has Chachnama has been discussed and taught for centuries. Though its rigorously argued style may not help wi n the readership it deserves outside academia, the book comes at a pivotal time. time.”” —Kanishk Tharoor, Hindu Business Line

2016 8 halftones, 1 map 272 pp. $45.00 | £33.95 cloth 9780674660113

The Discovery of Chance The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzen Aileen M. Kelly HA New York Times Book Review

Editors’ Choice “If you read only one book related to Russia this year, this should be it.” —Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs

Twelve Infallible Men The Imams and the Making of Shi’ism

Matthew Pierce “An exemplary work on a hitherto understudied yet highly signi�icant topic. Pierce succeeds admirably in making these biographies speak to central concerns in the contemporary study of Shi’ism in particular and of Islam in general…This compact and accessible work will go a long way towards offering a robust understanding of a major religious phenomenon.” —Ahmet Karamustafa, University of Maryland

2016 272 pp. $45.00 | £35.95 cloth 9780674737075

“[A] gripping biography of a tragic if courageous life…[The] hidden strands in Herzen’ Herzen’ss thought, painstakingly uncovered here by Aileen Kelly, provide yet another compelling reason we should read the melancholy old Russian again and recognize, in his anguished attempt to defend human freedom in dark times, amid all the cruelty of history, that he is truly our contemporary.” —Michael Ignatieff, New York Times Book Review 2016 19 halftones 608 pp. $39.95 | £31.95 cloth 9780674737112

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Democracy’ Democr acy’ss Slaves A Political History of Ancient Ancient Greece

Paulin Ismard Translated by Jane Marie Todd

“This is not a conventional work of ancient history, and so much the better. better. Ismard challenges our dependence on in�luential comparisons of ancient and mo dern democracies, ancient and modern slave societies. Democracy’ Democracy’ss Slaves Slaves is is forceful, engaging, erudite, and s ophisticated. ophisticated.”” —Page duBois, University of California, San Diego

2017 208 pp. $35.00 | £25.95 cloth 9780674660076

The Empire That Would Not Die

The First European A History of Alexander Alexander in the Age of Empire Pierre Briant Translated by Nicholas Elliott

The Paradox of Eastern Roman Survival, 640–740

John Haldon “The Empire That Would Not Die is Die is the latest contribution from a proli�ic scholar who has been laying the foundations of Byzantine history for the last twenty-�ive years. Haldon returns to seventh-century Byzantium with a new approach full of fresh insights.” —Averil Cameron, Keble College, University of Oxford

“With its vast erudition, and careful attention to minor as well as major �igures from Montesquieu to Droysen and beyond, Pierre Briant’s book is nothing less than a tour de force…This force…This is a signi�icant and weighty contribution to a real global intellectual history.” —Sanjay Subrahmanyam, University of California, Los Angeles 2017 13 color illus., 17 halftones, 3 tables 496 pp. pp. $35.00 | £25.00 cloth 9780674659667

Carl Newell Jackson Jackson Lectures 2016 7 maps, 1 graph, 3 tables 432 pp. $45.00 | £35.95 cloth 9780674088771

Legal Plunder Households and Debt Collection Collection in Late Medieval Medieval Europe

Daniel Lord Smail “Legal Plunder is is only partly about the exploration of grand interpretive ideas using a medieval case study. The book will als o stimulate readers interested primarily in debates about the economy, society and culture of late medieval Europe. Its main conclusions will surely excite discussion and f urther exploration.” exploration.” —Christopher Briggs, History Today

2016 15 color illus., 8 halftones, 2 line illus., 6 graphs, 4 tables 344 pp. pp. $39.95 | £31.95 cloth 9780674737280

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The Mormon Jesus A Biography

John G. Turner “The Mormon Jesus is Jesus is an example of excellent Mormon scholarship that can be found from authors outside the faith…A worthy look at the LDS faith.” —Doug Gibson, Standard-Examiner

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Insanity and Sanctity Sanctity in Byzantium The Ambiguity of Religious Experience

Youval Rotman “Rotman’s approach and interpretation are bold and novel— “Rotman’s Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium gives Byzantium gives a central and decisive role to psychology in interpreting the historical phenomenon of holy fools. This is an intriguing and inspiring book that will have a profound impact.” —Kostis Smyrlis, New York University

2016 272 pp. $39.95 | £29.95 cloth 9780674057616

Our Divine Double Charles M. Stang “In this lively, insightful book, Stang tackles a major problem in the history of ancient religion, and sheds much light on a forgotten chapter in the archaeology of the person. Major instances, such as Thomas, Jesus’ Jesus’ss twin brother brother,, and Mani’ Mani’ss heavenly twin, are studied in the context of a Platonic tradition going from Socrates’ Socrates’ss daimon to Plotinus.” —Guy Stroumsa, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and University of Oxford

The Menorah From the Bible to Modern Israel Israel Steven Fine “Fine meticulously documents how this well-known, still-extant artifact became a familiar and important symbol for the Jewish people and the State of Israel, despite initiall y representing the Romans’ defeat of the Jews in Jerusalem.” —Amanda Folk, Library Journal “Magisterial…Fine displays a savvy approach to his st udy of the menorah.” —Jonathan Kirsch, Jewish Kirsch, Jewish Journal Journ al 2016 50 color illus. 304 pp. $29.95 | £22.95 cloth 9780674088795

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African Pentecostals Pentecostals in Catholic Catholic Europe The Politics of Presence in the Twenty-First Century

Annalisa Butticci “Excellent and highly readable… readable…The The different sides have surprising commonalities, and it i s in this area that the book makes its greatest contribution to the literature on migrant religion.” —Philip Jenkins, Books & Culture


Beyond Timbuktu Timbuktu An Intellectual History of Muslim Muslim West Africa Africa

Ousmane Oumar Kane “Kane’s compelling intellectual history of West Africa places Timbuktu “Kane’s within a much broader tradition of Is lamic learning in the region, which was home to other medieval knowledge centers and which continues to advance the study of Arabic philology even today…His wide-ranging book focuses on the intellectual traditions of the region and its role in the production and circulation of key Arabic-language texts regarding religion, law, and ethics.” —Nicolas van de Walle, Foreign Affairs

2016 296 pp. $39.95 | £31.95 cloth 9780674050822

The Scriptural Universe of Ancient Christianity Guy G. Stroumsa

“The Anglophone world’ world’ss most readily accessible collection of classical masterpieces…With their digitization, [the

“Stroumsa covers scriptural history with remarkable sophistication and provides here a comprehensive review of ancient Christian book culture.” —Brian Stock, Ponti�ical Institute of Mediaeval Studies and Collège de France

2016 192 pp. $39.95 | £29.95 cloth 9780674545137

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Legible Religion Religion Books, Gods, and Rituals Rituals in Roman Culture Culture

Duncan MacRae “With this book on the role of writing in Roman religion, MacRae offers a reasoned and persuasive corrective to current scholarship. While scholars center all too of ten on the importance of ritual action and religious practice, Legible Religion provides a timely and important reminder that writing, reading, and thinking about religion were just as essential to people’ people’ss religious identities in the Roman world as were their sacri�ices and vows.” —Andreas Bendlin, University of Toronto

2016 272 pp. $49.95 | £39.95 cloth 9780674088719

“We can only welcome an undertaking like the Murty Classical Library of India, which intends inte nds to inject injec t fresh blood directly into

Everyday Every day Renaissances Renaissances The Quest for Cultura Culturall Legitimacy in Venice

Sarah Gwyneth Ross “An innovative, highly signi�icant, and original contribution to the study of early modern European cultural history. Ross makes a concrete, well-documented case that cultural pursuits served an important set of purposes in helping early modern people craft their identities. identities.”” —Christopher S. Celenza, author of Machiavelli

I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History 2016 256 pp. $49.95 | £39.95 cloth 9780674659834

Success and Suppressi Suppression on Arabic Sciences and and Philosophy in the Renaissance Renaissance

the circulatory system of the English language. Any intelligent reader cannot fail to be favorably impressed i mpressed in the presence of the variegated varie gated offerings offer ings of the t he series’ first titles.” —Roberto Calasso,

New York Review Revie w of Books Boo ks “The Murty Classical Library is uncovering India’s

Dag Nikolaus Hasse “A must-read for people working on the histories of philosophy, medicine, or science in Renaissance Italy. In this important book , Hasse challenges a reigning paradigm in Renaissance studies, documenting the continuing centrality of the Arabic tradition in Italy and the complex interactions of humanism and Arabism in scienti�ic and philosophical teaching and debates. debates.”” —Katharine Park, Harvard University

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dazzling literary history… It illuminates lost things, brings back to recognition texts that th at were once crucial.” —Neel Mukherjee,

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Probing the Ethics Ethics of Holocaust Holocaust Culture Edited by Claudio Fogu • Wulf Kansteiner • Todd Presner “These essays provide a new framework for the study of co llective violence and state terror at a global scale…A must read for anyone interested in the past and future of Holocaust studies and a great tribute to Saul Friedländer.” —Andreas Huyssen, author of Miniature Metropolis


The Nazi-Fascist New Order for European Culture Benjamin G. Martin

Éamon de Valera Valera A Will to Power Power Ronan Fanning “[A] sharp new biography of de Valera.” —Fintan O’Toole,

“As Benjamin G. Martin shows in his bo ld and impressive book , Germany,, in clos e collaboration with Mussolini’s Italy, Germany Italy, tried to recast European culture in accordance with their ideological aims…Martin’ aims…Martin’ss book is a work of great originality because it does not focus on the art, nor on individual artists, �ilm-makers and writers, but instead draws our attention to the policies enacted by the N azi-fascist regimes to transform the cultural market.” —Gavin Jacobson, New Statesman

2016 19 halftones 384 pp. $39.95 | £29.95 cloth 97806745457 9780674545748 48

New York Review of Books “De Valera is the subject of many biographies, including several authorized productions that he carefully supervised. But Éamon de Valera: A Will to Power , by Ronan Fanning, stands out…An astute, nuanced and highly readable life that manages to be both sharply critical and expansive in its judgme jud gments nts.. In I n this t his era of doo doorst rstop op biographies, Fanning d eserves extra praise for accomplishing all this in a trim 300 pages.” pages.” —Michael O’Donnell,

Belonging to the Nation Inclusion and Exclusion in the the Polish-German Polish-German Borderlands, Borderlands, 1939–1951 1939–1951

John J. Kulczycki “Kulczycki seeks to show how the stories of thos e who left Poland for West Germany in the 1950s do not easily �it the narrow categories of expulsion or economic mi gration…Kulczycki has written an engaging and deeply informative account of nationalization policies in the German-Polish borderlands…Judicious and fairly written, the book reminds readers that the need to respect the cultural variety of the region remains relevant to this day.” —Winson Chu, H�Net Reviews

2016 3 maps, 9 tables 416 pp. $49.95 | £39.95 cloth 9780674659780

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Shaper Nations Strategies Strat egies for a Changing World World

Edited by William I. Hitchcock • Melvyn P. Le�ler • Jeffrey W. Legro “The idea that some states, while not Great Powers, play a very large role in shaping the development of their regions is a good one, and the essays by a diverse set of authors provide insightful and well-grounded discussions of the particular cases…Readers will learn a lot abo ut an important set of co untries, how the U.S. may respond, and what this means for the future of world politics.” —Robert Jervis, author of Why Intelligence Fails

2016 4 graphs 224 pp. $35.00 | £27.95 cloth 9780674660212

Free Speech Speech and Unfree Unfree News

Democracy

The Paradox of Press Freedom in America

A Case Study David A. Moss

Sam Lebovic “How could a nation proud of i ts commitment to free expression also be a place where journalists m ust scour through leaked documents to learn basic facts about government policies? Sam Lebovic’s Lebovic’s spectacular and im portant book shows how the idea of a ‘right to know’ dropped out of twentieth-century understandings of the First Amendment. Essential for understanding what has become of an American free press.” press.” —Mary L. Dudziak, author of War Time

2016 352 pp. $39.95 | £31.95 cloth 9780674659773

“This set of well-documented, accessible essays presents the prickly challenges facing the rapidly changing American democracy democracy,, for lawmakers and citizens a like…A sterling educational tool that offers a fresh presentation of how ‘democracy ‘de mocracy in America has always been a contact sport. sport.’” ’” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Legislating Instability Instability Adam Smith, Free Free Banking, and the the Financial Crisis of 1772 1772

Tyler Beck Goodspeed

Belknap Press 2017 1 graph, 19 tables 784 pp. pp. $35.00 | £25.95 cloth 9780674971455

“Goodspeed’s novel i nterpretation of the Ayr crisis revises “Goodspeed’s the historical record and advances our understanding of the workings of unregulated banking. It is masterly.” masterly.” —George Selgin, Director, Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, The Cato Institute

2016 4 halftones, 19 graphs 224 pp. $39.95 | £31.95 cloth 9780674088887

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Battle for Bed-Stuy The Long War on Poverty in New York City

Michael Woodsworth “This original and well-written account of postwar community activism makes an excellent and provocative case that Bed-Stuy, long overshadowed by Harlem, is a key site for understanding postwar African American history.” —Karen Ferguson, author of Top Down


Africans in the Old South Mapping Exceptional Exceptional Lives across the the Atlantic World World

Randy J. Sparks

Shantytown, USA Forgotten Landscapes Forgotten of the Working Poor Lisa Goff “In her broadly researched debut book, Goff traces the history of shanties in America, beginning with Thoreau’s famous cabin on Walden Pond.” —Kirkus Reviews “Lisa Goff ’s Shantytown, USA is USA is not your ordinary American Studies cuppa joe. But it’s one of thos e books you might pick up in a loosechange moment of curiosity and �ind yourself utterly unable to put down because it’s so unexpected, so smart, so good. good.”” —Dana D. Nelson, American America n Literary Litera ry History Histor y

“ Afr Africa icans ns in the Old Sou South th is is an original and illuminating biographical narrative of six Africans whose diverse and compelling stories challenge us to think deeply about African mobility and resourcefulness across the uneven geographies of Atlantic slavery and abolition.” —Sharla M. Fett, author of Working Cures

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The Roots of Urban Renaissance Gentrification and the Struggle over Harlem

Brian D. Goldstein “We’ve waited far too long for a boo k like Golds tein’ “We’ve tein’s. s. We see, through his efforts, how debates over community control, modernist and insurgent architecture, architecture, and public/pr public/private ivate partnerships owe much of their ongoing salience to the experience of redevelopment in Harlem. Indeed, if the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s captures a distinctive cultural �lowering, the Harlem of the 1960s and 1970s, in Go ldstein’ ldstein’ss able hands, similarly stands in for America.” —N. D. B. Connolly, author of A of A World More Mo re Concrete Con crete

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Afro-Latin America America Black Lives, 1600–2000 1600–2000

George Reid Andrews “Black lives matter i n Latin American history…This history…This is classi c Andrews, hands on the evidence, head around the big picture, a lover of paradox. Both a masterful introduction for the newly curious and a master class for ol d hands like me.” —John Charles Chasteen, author of Born in Blood and Fire

The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures 2016 2 maps, 2 graphs, 4 tables 136 pp. $24.95 | £19.95 cloth 9780674737594

Informed Power Power Communication Communicat ion in the Early American South

Alejandra Dubcovsky

America’s Dream America’s Palace

Michael V. R. Thomason Book Award, HMichael Gulf South Historical Association

“Alejandra Dubcovsky offers a nuanced interpretation of the ways in which early Americans communicated. She i s a master of the primary source evidence and employs her keen analytic abilities to reveal not only that knowledge was power in this early modern world but how it circulated and who it bene�ited. A groundbreaking work.” —Peter C. Mancall, University of Southern California


Brahmin Brahm in Capitalism Frontierss of Wealth and Frontier and Populism in America’s America’s First Gilded Age Age

Noam Maggor “A rich and truly original his tory of industrial capitalism that ties Boston to the trans-Mississi ppi West. [Maggor] offers a penetrating and bracing analysis of the spatial dynamics of capital accumulation and the political forces that have restrained it…A remarkable book .” —Elizabeth Blackmar, Columbia University

Middle East Expertise and the Rise of the National Security Security State Osamah F. Khalil “Offers a wide-ranging exploration of the complex relationship between the knowledge that Americans have produced about the Middle East and the exercise of American power in the region, from the First World War down to the invasion of Iraq. Well-researched and engagingly written, it should be of interest to scholars and nonscholars alike.” —Zachary Lockman, author of Field Notes 2016 5 halftones 440 pp. $35.00 | £25.95 cloth 9780674971578

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Lysenko’ Lysen ko’ss Ghost Epigenetics and Russia Russia

Loren Graham “[Graham’s] survey of the terrifying milieu in which Lysenko thrived “[Graham’s] includes a discussion of the eugenics movement in the Soviet Union, and the short book thus encompasses two major types of threat to the integrity of scienti�ic inquiry: institutional interference from without and political infection from within. The latter threat, in particular, is ever present…Graham’s survey of Lysenkoism and eugenics in Soviet Russia contains important lessons about threats to the health of science.” —Nicholas Wade, Wall Street Journal


Bone Rooms

Who Owns the Dead?

From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory Prehistory in Museums

The Science and Politics of Death at Ground Zero

Samuel J. Redman Choice Outstanding Outstanding Academic HA Choice Title “Top 25” Selection “[A] remarkable examination of scienti�ic racism, biological anthropology, and the mission of medical museums. museums.”” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “ Bone Rooms details Rooms details the nascent views of racial science that evolved in U.S. natural history, anthropological and medical museums. These debates spilled into public museum spaces, arraying human bodies in sometimes controversial, even macabre, exhibits. Redman effectively portrays the remarkable personalities behind them. them.”” —David Hurst Thomas, Nature 2016 25 halftones 408 pp. $29.95 | £23.95 cloth 9780674660410

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Jay D. Aronson “Absorbing.” —Brian Bethune, Maclean’s “Thoroughly researched, eminently judicious, powerful, and poignant… Aronson emphasizes throughout his �ine book that Americans must �ind ways to understand, respect, and respond to the immense burdens bereaved families carry, as well as the cultural, economic, and political implications of public commemorations of mass deaths.” —Glenn C. Altschuler, Philadelphia Inquirer

2016 336 pp. $29.95 | £22.95 cloth 9780674971493

Vanishing America Species Extinction, Racial Racial Peril, and the Origins Origins of Conservation Conservation

Miles A. Powell “Powell’s intention is to illuminate a little-known chapter of American “Powell’s history, a lengthy period when wilderness was a racially charged concept…The concept… The book deserves to be included in current discussions of class, race, and gender. It indicates how highly intelligent and educated, even often well-intentioned, individuals can band together to promote divisive and discriminatory causes.” —Louise Fabiani, Paci�ic Standard


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From Steel to Slots Casino Capitalism in the Postindustr Postindustrial ial City

Chloe E. Taft Planetizen’s ’s Top Planning Books for 2017 HA Planetizen

“As a case study of the steel industry’s decline and casino-based postindustrial economic development, From Steel to Slots offers Slots offers up illuminating detail and storytelling.” —Catherine Tumber Tumber,, In These Times


Bankrupts and Usurers Usurers of Imperial Russia Russia Debt, Property, Property, and the Law in the Age of Dostoevsky Dostoevsky and Tolstoy Tolstoy

Sergei Antonov “With imagination and rich detail, [Sergei Antonov] shows how informal personal credit pervaded every aspect of culture, society, and government, undergirding the social order and an entire regime of private property ownership…A masterly addition to the new cultural and social history of debt.” —Bruce H. Mann, author of Republic of Debtors

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Letters of a Dead Man Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau Edited and translated by Linda B. Parshall HA New

Statesman Best Book of the Year

Rage for Order The British Empire and the Origins of International Law, 1800–1850

Lauren Benton • Lisa Ford “This book is a major achievement. Benton and Ford provide a powerful new way of understanding the global reach and effects of modern British imperiali sm. By connecting projects of colonial governance with new visio ns of global legal ordering, they offer a bold rethinking of the imperial context for the emergence of modern international law law.” .” —Robert Travers, Cornell University

2016 7 halftones 288 pp. $39.95 | £29.95 cloth 9780674737 9780674737464 464

“A treat and a treasure.” —Richard C. Evans, New Statesman “Linda Parshall’s elegant new translation provides the �irst complete English edition…It is in Pückler’s observations of the society he encounters that the Letters really Letters really come into their own… They are a joy to read: lively, well observed, imbued with gentle selfirony and a good eye for a story— even, and perhaps especially, when the author is the butt of it.” —Maren Meinhardt, Times Literary Supplement Ex Horto: Dumbar ton Oaks Texts in Garden and Landscape Studies Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection 2016 126 color illus., 3 maps 800 pp. pp. $75.00 | £59.95 cloth 9780884024118

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Tamil A Biography Biography

David Shulman HA Seminary Co-op Notable Book of the Year

“Shulman is a priceless advocate of the l anguage and its many masterpieces.” —Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly “An impressive monument to Tamil, written with erudition and wit. This ‘biography’ deals with much more than language—literature, culture, geography,, history, all combine i n praise of beauty and love.” geography —Tzvetan Todorov, National Center for Scienti�ic Research, Paris

Belknap Press 2016 416 pp. $35.00 | £25.00 cloth 9780674059924

Dante The Story of His Life Marco Santagata Translated by Richard Dixon HA Times Literary Supplement

Best Book of the Year Revolution Best HA Marginal Revolution Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year HA Seminary Co-op Notable Book of the Year HA Times Higher Education Book of the Week “Santagata…has written an impressive new biography that takes into consideration every bit of reliable and s emireliable information available to us about Dante’ss life, from his birth in Dante’ Florence in 1265 to his death in Ravenna in 1321…If you are looking for the most thorough, factually based account of Dante’s life and times to date, Santagata is your man.” —Robert Pogue Harrison, New York Review of Books Belknap Press 2016 8 line illus. 496 pp. $35.00 | £25.00 cloth 9780674504868

The Irish Enlightenme Enlightenment nt Michael Brown “This controversial reading of the modern Irish mind is a very welcome addition to the ongoing 20 16 debates about where Ireland comes from and where it ho pes to go.” —Richard Kearney, Irish Times “Impressively detailed scholarship…Brown…has written a bi g, brave and important book. He has authoritatively shown that a debate about enlightenment took place in Ireland and that the debate was in part constitutive of the phenomenon itself.” itself.” —David Dwan, Times Literary Supplement

2016 640 pp. $39.95 | £25.00 9780674045774

The Banjo America’ss African Instrument America’ Instrument

Laurent Dubois Choice Outstanding Outstanding Academic Title “Top 25” Selection HA Choice

“Dubois ill uminates the banjo’s complicated cultural history… This lively account is not without surprises.” —New Yorker “[A] riveting history of the banjo… banjo…While While the story Dubois tells is primarily historical and sociological, it is also musical, and he never lets us forget the magical hum that distinguishes the banjo from the guitar and other stringed instruments.” —Tom —T om Gilling, The Australian


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Flaubert Michel Winock Translated by Nicholas Elliott HA WBUR Best Book of the Year

“This generous study ingeniously builds a narrative around Flaubert’ss own words—from not o nly the novels but also Flaubert’ voluminous correspondence and unpublished work. Adding light background and analysis, Winock allows the mind o f the Master to shine. shine.”” —New Yorker “Noted French historian Winock’s biography succeeds in presenting a fresh portrait of a man plagued by paradoxes.” paradoxes.” —Erica Swenson Danowitz, Library Journal


Just around Midnight

Authors in in Court Scenes from the Theater Theater of Copyright Copyright

Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination

Mark Rose

Jack Hamilton

“Well-written, erudite, informative, and engaging…We see the way “Well-written, that personalities in�lect the supposedly i mpartial law; we see the role of gender in authorial self-fashioning; we see some of the fault lines which produce litigation; and we get a nice history of the evolution of the fair use doctrine…Going forward, no one writing about any of the cases Rose discusses can afford to ignore his contribution. contribution.”” —Lewis Hyde, Kenyon College


Writing Writin g for f or Hire Unions, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue

Catherine L. Fisk “This is an incisive work of scholarship and historical reconstruction that not only captures the dilemma of authorship in corporatized �ilm, TV, and advertising but also demonstrates the central importance of good old-fashioned trade unionism in defending the creativity, status, and income of even the most renowned writers…Catherine Fisk’s Fisk’s eye-opening boo k is essential reading. reading.””

Holiday HA WBUR’s The Artery Holiday Gift Guide Selection “Brilliant…[A] valuable engagement with the unheard narrative of race in rock and roll.” —Emma Rees, Times Higher Education “Ambitious and rewarding… Just rewarding… Just Around Arou nd Mid nig night ht seeks seeks to tell the story of [black] erasure [from rock ‘n’ roll], and it does so quite compellingly by bringing t ogether artists and songs that our implicitly segregationist narratives have encouraged us to keep apart.” —Kevin J. H. Dettmar, Chronicle of Higher Education 2016 3 halftones, 5 music illus. 352 pp. $29.95 | £22.95 cloth 9780674416598

—Nelson Lichtenstein, author of A Contest Con test of Ideas I deas

2016 320 pp. $35.00 | £25.95 cloth 9780674971400

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The Animal Game Searching for Wildness Wildness at the American American Zoo

Daniel E. Bender “What emerges is a story of adaptation and survival that exposes the modern zoo as ‘a third nature’…Those nature’…Those who are ethically oppos ed to zoos will �ind plenty here to strengthen their case. But with zoos’ power of reinvention, it seems likely that this ‘third nature’ will be with us for s ome time.” —Henry Nicholls, Nature


Natural Interests Interests The Contest over Environment in Modern France

The Tupac Amaru Rebellion Charles F. Walker Norris and Carol Hundley Award, HNorris Paci�ic Coast Branch of the American Historical Association Times Best History HA Financial Times Best Book of the Year “[This is] t he �irst extended survey of the causes and the course of the Tupac Amaru rebellion to appear in English s ince 1966…Walker 1966…Walker skillfully blends narrative with explanation to construct a harrowing story of violence and atrocities on an enormous scale…[It] will give Anglophone readers a perceptive and reliable account of the terrible events that occurred far away from what they naturally regard as the principal center of action at that time, the British North American colonies, a mere 322,000 square miles in size, as compared with an Andean surface area approaching two million.”

Caroline Ford “This thoughtful analysis of the people, documents, and controversies evoked by ecological themes in France since the revolution highlights the play of anxiety and nostalgia that underpinned sites of consciousness and trajectories in environmental actions and poli cies.” —G. W. McDonogh, Choice

2016 18 halftones, 2 maps, 1 table 296 pp. $49.95 | £39.95 cloth 9780674045903

The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium An Essay in Natural Natural History History

Juan Pimentel Translated by Peter Mason

“In a series of brilliantly illuminating juxtapositions, between Renaissance and Revolution, between the worlds of the East and West Indies, and, above all, between the enterprises of analysis and description, Pimentel’s astute book shows how the work of imagination and of ingenious imagery has long played a decisive if neglected role in making natural knowledge.” —Simon Schaffer, University of Cambridge


—J. H. Elliott, New York Review of Books Belknap Press 2016; 2014 12 halftones, 10 maps 376 pp. $19.95 | £15.95 paper 9780674659995

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Latin Story of a World World Language Language

Jürgen Leonhardt Translated by Kenneth Kronenberg Choice Outstanding Outstanding Academic Title of HA Choice

the Year

Best Book of the Year HA Library Journal Best Slate “Overlooked “Overlooked Book” of the Year HA Slate

“Leonhardt has dethroned Latin from its traditional position as a marmoreal, static sidekick to Greek and taught us to understand the history not only of Latin, but of language and literature, in a new way. His approach seems natural i n a time of intellectual globalization, but it is the fruit of hard thinking, and adds to our sense of the complex ways in which language and power intersect.” —Anthony Grafton, London Review of Books

Belknap Press 2016; 2013 20 halftones, 3 maps 352 pp. $18.95 | £14.95 paper 9780674659964

Corruption in America

The Lives of Muhammad

From Benjamin Franklin’ Franklin’ss Snuff Box to Citizens United

Kecia Ali

Zephyr Teachout

“Muhammad presents two violently incompatible faces to the historian. For devout Muslims, relying both on the Quran and the vast corpus of sacred traditions, the hadith, he serves as the unimpeachable model for human behavior…For non-Muslims, drawing on the same sources, he has been viewed from the earliest times as l ustful and barbarous, as a raving impostor aping the ancient prophets…The contrast is so stark as to appear irreconcilable. Instead of attempting to skirt this divergence, Ali uses it to structure her inquiry.” —Eric Ormsby, Wall Street Journal

2016; 2014 352 pp. $18.95 | £14.95 paper 9780674659889

Makers of Modern Asia

Choice Outstanding Outstanding HA Choice

Academic

Title of the Year HA Moyers & Company

Best Book of the Year Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize HThomas “At last…a book that puts a name to what is perhaps the most signi�icant factor shaping American politics today: corruption. In a ma sterly work of scholarship, Zephyr Teachout…traces Teac hout…traces the history of American approaches to what was long considered a mortal threat to the republic.” —Sarah Chayes, Wall Street Journal

Edited by Ramachandra Guha “[An] entertaining and illuminating collection of essays… The chapters on Sukarno, by James Rush, and on Bhutto, by Farzana Shaikh, are exceptional.”

2016; 2014 384 pp. $18.95 | £14.95 paper 9780674659988

—The Economist

Belknap Press 2016; 2014 400 pp. $22.95 | £16.95 paper 9780674970809

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A World World Not to Come Come A History of Latino Writing Writing and Print Culture Culture

Raúl Coronado John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, American Studies Association HJohn National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies HNational

Book Award

Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book HModern Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize, Melbern G. Glasscock HSusanne Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University Award of Merit, Philosophical Society of Texas HAward Renato Ramírez Scholarly Book Award, Texas Institute of Letters HRenato Kate Broocks Bates Award for Historical Research, HKate Texas State Historical Association

The First Crusade The Call from the East Peter Frankopan “Highly readable…The readable…The First Crusade tells Crusade tells a complex story, but its presentation of political machinations, compromises, and betrayals seems utterly convincing. The harsh truths of realpolitik are, are, alas, with us always.” always.” —Michael Dirda, Washington Post “Frankopan’s qualities as a historian “Frankopan’s and a writer are of a high order…It is pleasing to see [the Byzantine view of the First Crusade] updated with scholarship and �lair.” —BBC History Belknap Press 2016; 2012 13 halftones, 5 maps 296 pp. pp. $19.95 paper 9780674970786 No t fo r sa le in th e UK , Br it is h Commonwealth & Europe (except Canada)

“At once a gripping history, a dizzying synthesis of Enlightenment philosophical currents, and a breathtaking feat of original archival research, [Coronado’s] [Coronado’s] book merits reading by anyone interested in American literature, Latina/o studies, economic history, or Western philosophy. A philosophy. A World Wo rld Not to Com Come e demands that we recalibrate our sense of what ‘American’ ‘American’ literary history looks like.” —John Alba Cutler, Los Angeles Review of Books

2016; 2013 70 halftones, 4 maps 574 pp. $22.50 | £16.95 paper 9780674970908

Latino Pentecostals Pentecostals in America America Faith and and Politics in Action

Gastón Espinosa “Those interested in the religious experience of Latinos or in the history of Pentecostalism will �ind Espinosa’s Espinosa’s study to be both informative and useful.” —John Jaeger, Library Journal

2016; 2014 41 halftones, 2 tables 520 pp. $22.95 | £16.95 paper 9780674970915

Standing on Common Common Ground Ground The Making of a Sunbelt Borderland

Geraldo L. Cadava Frederick HFrederick

Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians

“Thoroughly researched and cleverly organized around iconic Tucson events and people, the book gives illuminating his torical background to current strife over racial and migrant i ssues. Cadava has crafted a compelling story of the whole border region as the various people there experienced it.” —J. A. Stuntz, Choice

2016; 2013 18 halftones, 1 map 320 pp. $19.95 | £14.95 paper 9780674970892

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The Baltic A History

Michael North Translated by Kenneth Kronenberg

“The book shines when the author writes about the region’s region’s cultural history, particularly in medieval times…North’s book provides a valuable service in underlining the centrality of the Baltic region to Europe’s Europe’s past. The way things are going, it may determine the continent’s future, too.” —Edward Lucas, Wall Street Journal

2016; 2015 10 halftones, 10 maps, 5 tables 448 pp. pp. $22.95 | £16.95 paper 9780674970830

From Shame to Sin

Coup d’État

The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality Morality in Late Antiquity Antiquity

A Practical Practical Handbook, Revised Edition

Kyle Harper Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, HAward American Academy of Religion Choice Outstanding Outstanding Academic Title of the Year HA Choice

“I wish that I had had a book as clear, as cogent, and as i ntellectually responsible as Harper’ Harper’ss From Shame to Sin before Sin before me when I began to write on si milar topics in the early 1980s, some third of a century ago. One can only envy the good fortune of those who can now embark on their own work with such a book in hand.” —Peter Brown, New York Review of Books

Revealing Antiquity 2016; 2013 316 pp. $18.95 | £14.95 paper 9780674660014

A Life Worth Living Albert Camus and and the Quest for Meaning

Edward N. Luttwak “Additions bringing this work i nto the twenty-�irst century include Luttwak’ss obs ervations about Luttwak’ how coup plotters in the age of the internet must now take control of more than the central television station to control public propaganda…[The book] offers as much wisdom on the counter-coup as on the coup itself…It remains in print more than forty years after it was written and still commands sales. The reason may be that it is a good read: wry, observant and practical.” —Charles Glass,

Robert Zaretsky

Times Literary Supplement

Choice Outstanding Outstanding Academic Title of HA Choice

the Year An Australian “Hot “Hot Reads for Summer” Selection HAn Australian “Great Books You Might Have Missed” Selection HA Newsday “Great

2016 19 line illus., 23 tables 304 pp. $24.95 | £19.95 paper 9780674737266

“Zaretsky brings to light in this wonderfully readable intellectual biography of the iconoclastic pied noir the the co ntinued relevance of Camus in contemporary life.” —L. A. Wilkinson, Choice

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The Great Acceleration An Environmental Environmental History of the Anthropocene Anthropocene since 1945

J. R. McNeill • Peter Engelke “Among the �irst scholarly works to make explicit use of the geological framework of the Anthropocene for the purpose of rethinking the grand narratives of global economic change.” —Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Public Books

Belknap Press 2016 12 halftones, 2 maps, 1 graph, 6 tables 288 pp. $19.95 | £15.95 paper 9780674545038

Routes of Power Power Energy and Modern Modern America

Christopher F. Jones

A Chosen Exile A History of Racial Racial Passing in American Life Allyson Hobbs Frederick Jackson Turner Award, HFrederick Organization of American Historians Lawrence W. Levine Award, HLawrence Organization of American Historians HA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice “Best 15 Non�iction Books HA Root “Best by Black Authors” Selection HA San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year NewsOne Top Top Book of the Year HA NewsOne HA Times Higher Education Book of the Week “[An] incisive cultural hist ory… [Hobbs] takes nothing at face value—least of all the idea that the person who is passing is actually and truly of one race or the other… [A] critically vigilant work.”

HEdelstein

Prize, Society for the History of Technology

“Working at the intersection of technological and environmental history, Jones shows that understanding political economy and social context are integral to understanding energy transitions. His elegantly written and cogently argued narrative of how Americans spent down the planetary savings account of solar energy amassed in fossil fuels is as compelling as a mystery novel.” novel.” —Ann Norton Greene, Journal Greene, Journal of Interdisciplinary Interdis ciplinary History

2016; 2014 13 halftones, 11 maps 320 pp. $19.95 | £14.95 paper 9780674970922

American Railroads Railroads Decline and Renaissance Renaissance in the Twentieth Twentieth Century

Robert E. Gallamore • John R. Meyer George W. and Constance M. Hilton Book Award, HGeorge Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, Inc. Choice Outstanding Outstanding Academic Title of the Year HA Choice

“A comprehensive account… Amer ica ican n Ra ilr ilroads oads is a readable history with a focus o n freight rail.” —Daniel Machalaba, Wall Street Journal

2016; 2014 15 halftones, 14 line illus., 14 maps 528 pp. pp. $24.95 | £18.95 paper 9780674970793

—Danzy Senna, New York Times Book Review 2016; 2014 26 halftones 400 pp. $16.95 | £13.95 paper 9780674659926

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The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century Edited by Yota Batsaki • Sarah Burke Cahalan • Anatole Tchikine The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth C entury brings brings together an international body of schol ars to examine the �igure of the botanical explorer; links between imperial ambition and the impulse to survey survey,, map, and collect specimens in “new” territories; and relationships among botanical knowledge, selfrepresentation, and material culture.

Dumbarton Oaks Symposia and Colloquia Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection 2017 174 color illus., 6 halftones, 1 line illus., 1 map, 1 table 406 pp. $90.00 | £66.95 cloth 9780884024163

The New Testament in Byzantium Edited by Derek Krueger • Robert S. Nelson The New Testament in Byzantium draws Byzantium draws on the current state of textual scholarship and explores aspects of the New Testament, particularly as it was imagined in lectionaries, hymns, homilies, saints’ lives, miniatures, and monuments—framing Byzantine Christian theological inquiry, ecclesiastical controversy, controversy, and political thought.

Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Symposia and Colloquia Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection 2016 85 color illus., 30 halftones, 1 table 336 pp. $65.00 | £48.95 cloth 9780884024149

Paperss of John Adams, Paper Adams, Volume Volume 18 December 1785 – January January 1787

John Adams Edited by Gregg L. Lint • Sara Martin • C. James Taylor • Sara Georgini • Hobson Woodward • Sara B. Sikes • Amanda M. Norton

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