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The Harvard Book, rev. ed: William Bentinck-Smith; Hardcover December 1969

Ukraine under Western Eyes: Steven Seegel; As part of his personal archive, Krawciw’s maps were bequeathed to Harvard University upon his death in 1975. This book serves as both a catalog of his collection and a description of how the maps he collected serve as an invaluable source for Ukraine’s history and a symbol of Ukrainian national identity.; Hardcover August 2009

Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 9, January 1790–December 1793: Adams Family; Edited by Margaret A. Hogan; Edited by C. James Taylor; Edited by Karen N. Barzilay; Edited by Mary T. Claffey; Edited by Hobson Woodward; Edited by Robert F. Karachuk; Edited by Sara B. Sikes; Edited by Gregg L. Lint; Hardcover July 2009

China's Cosmopolitan Empire: Mark Edward Lewis; Hardcover June 2009

Dreaming and Experience in Classical Antiquity: William V. Harris; Hardcover June 2009

Soundings in Atlantic History: Edited by Bernard Bailyn; Edited by Patricia L. Denault; Hardcover June 2009

Voluntary Associations in Tsarist Russia: Joseph Bradley; Hardcover June 2009

Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America: Matthew Avery Sutton; Aimee Semple McPherson was the most flamboyant and controversial minister in the United States between the world wars, building a successful megachurch, a mass media empire, and eventually a political career to resurrect what she believed was America's Christian heritage. Sutton's definitive study reveals the woman as a trail-blazing pioneer, her life marking the beginning of Pentecostalism's advance to the mainstream of American culture.; Paperback May 2009

Christiad: Marco Girolamo Vida; Translated by James Gardner; Hardcover May 2009

For Prophet and Tsar: Robert D. Crews; In stark contrast to the popular "clash of civilizations" theory that sees Islam inevitably in conflict with the West, Robert D. Crews reveals the remarkable ways in which Russia constructed an empire with broad Muslim support. For Prophet and Tsar unearths the fascinating relationship between an empire and its subjects. As America and Western Europe debate how best to secure the allegiances of their Muslim populations, Crews offers a unique and critical historical vantage point.; Paperback May 2009

Henry Kissinger and the American Century: Jeremi Suri; What made Henry Kissinger the kind of diplomat he was? What experiences and influences shaped his worldview and provided the framework for his approach to international relations? Suri offers a thought-provoking, interpretive study of one of the most influential and controversial political figures of the twentieth century.; Paperback May 2009

Latin Poetry: Jacopo Sannazaro; Translated by Michael C. J. Putnam; Hardcover May 2009

The Learned Banqueters, V, Books 10.420e-11: Athenaeus; Edited and translated by S. Douglas Olson; Hardcover May 2009

Lincoln and the Court: Brian McGinty; In a meticulously researched and engagingly written narrative, McGinty rescues the story of Abraham Lincoln and the Supreme Court from long and undeserved neglect, recounting the compelling history of the Civil War president's relations with the nation's highest tribunal and the role it played in resolving the agonizing issues raised by the conflict.; Paperback May 2009

Makina/Medina: Edited by Aziza Chaouni; Edited by Hashim Sarkis; Paperback May 2009

The Mighty Wurlitzer: Hugh Wilford; Wilford provides the first comprehensive account of the clandestine relationship between the CIA and its front organizations. Using an unprecedented wealth of sources, he traces the rise and fall of America's Cold War front network from its origins in the 1940s to its Third World expansion during the 1950s and ultimate collapse in the 1960s.; Paperback May 2009

A Nation of Counterfeiters: Stephen Mihm; Prior to the Civil War, the United States did not have a single, national currency. Counterfeiters flourished amid this anarchy, putting vast quantities of bogus bills into circulation. Their success, Mihm reveals, is more than an entertaining tale of criminal enterprise: it is the story of the rise of a country defined by freewheeling capitalism and little government control. Mihm shows how eventually the older monetary system was dismantled, along with the counterfeit economy it sustained.; Paperback May 2009

No Place to Hide: Spring Miller; James L. Cavallaro; Paperback May 2009

The Roman Triumph: Mary Beard; A radical reexamination of the most extraordinary of ancient ceremonies, this book explores the magnificence of the Roman Triumph--but also its darker side. The Triumph, Beard contends, prompted the Romans to question as well as celebrate military glory. Her richly illustrated work is a testament to the profound importance of the triumph in Roman culture--and for monarchs, dynasts and generals ever since.; Paperback May 2009

Selling Sounds: David Suisman; Hardcover May 2009

The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan: Edited by Robert D. Crews; Edited by Amin Tarzi; The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan explores the paradox at the center of a challenging phenomenon: how has a seemingly anachronistic band of religious zealots managed to retain a tenacious foothold in the struggle for Afghanistan's future? Grounding their analysis in a deep understanding of the country's past, leading scholars of Afghan history, politics, society, and culture show how the Taliban was less an attempt to revive a medieval theocracy than a dynamic, complex, and adaptive force rooted in the history of Afghanistan and shaped by modern international politics.; Paperback May 2009

To Serve God and Wal-Mart: Bethany Moreton; Hardcover May 2009

Twice a Stranger: Bruce Clark; In the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire following World War I, nearly two million citizens in Turkey and Greece were expelled from homelands. In this evocative book, Bruce Clark draws on new archival research in Turkey and Greece as well as interviews with surviving participants to examine this unprecedented exercise in ethnic engineering.; Paperback May 2009

Voice and Vision: Stephen J. Pyne; Hardcover May 2009

Zhivago's Children: Vladislav Zubok; Hardcover May 2009

Republics and Kingdoms Compared: Aurelio Lippo Brandolini; Edited and translated by James Hankins; Hardcover May 2009

Borderline Americans: Katherine Benton-Cohen; Hardcover April 2009

Criminal Justice in China: Klaus Mühlhahn; Hardcover April 2009

History of Venice, Volume 3, Books IX-XII: Pietro Bembo; Edited and translated by Robert W. Ulery; Much of Bembo’s work is devoted to the external affairs of Venice, principally conflicts with other European states and with the Turks in the East. The History of Venice was published after his death, in Latin and in his own Italian version. This edition, completed by this third volume, makes it available for the first time in English translation.; Hardcover April 2009

Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, Volume 6: John Nesbitt; Assisted by Cecile Morrisson; Hardcover April 2009

Cleopatra and Rome: Diana E. E. Kleiner; In this beautifully illustrated book, we experience the synthesis of Cleopatra's and Rome's defining moments through surviving works of art and other remnants of what was once an opulent material culture. This culture best chronicles Cleopatra's legend and suggests her subtle but indelible mark on the art of imperial Rome at the critical moment of its inception.; Paperback April 2009

The Common Law: Oliver Wendell Holmes; Introduction by G. Edward White; Paperback April 2009

A Cultural History of Modern Science in China: Benjamin A. Elman; In A Cultural History of Modern Science in China, Elman has retold the story of the Jesuit impact on late imperial China, circa 1600-1800, and the Protestant era in early modern China from the 1840s to 1900 in a concise and accessible form ideal for the classroom.; Paperback April 2009

Daoist Modern: Xun Liu; Hardcover April 2009

Dominance by Design: Michael Adas; Long before the United States became a major force in global affairs, Americans believed in their superiority over others because of their inventiveness, productivity, and economic and social well-being. U.S. expansionists assumed a mandate to "civilize" non-Western peoples by demanding submission to American technological prowess and design. Michael Adas brilliantly pursues the history of this mission through America's foreign relations over nearly four centuries from North America to the Philippines, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf.; Paperback April 2009

Eating Rice from Bamboo Roots: Jacob Eyferth; Hardcover April 2009

A Fire in Their Hearts: Tony Michels; The Yiddish socialist movement shaped Jewish communities across the United States well into the twentieth century and left an important political legacy that extends to the rise of neoconservatism. A story of hopeful successes and bitter disappointments, A Fire in Their Hearts brings to vivid life this formative period for American Jews and the American left.; Paperback April 2009

The Generalissimo: Jay Taylor; Hardcover April 2009

A Hundred Horizons: Sugata Bose; A Hundred Horizons takes us to the shores of the Indian Ocean, in a brilliant reinterpretation of how culture developed and history was made at the height of the British raj. Sugata Bose explores the intricate social and economic webs of these shores from 1850 to 1950, finding evidence of the interdependence of the peoples of the lands beyond the horizon, from the Middle East to East Africa to Southeast Asia. This book reconstructs how a region's culture, economy, politics, and imagination are woven together in time and place.; Paperback April 2009

In a Dark Time: Linda Isako Angst; Since Japanese sovereignty from American occupation in 1972, these islands have become the site of a complex colonial and postcolonial relationship of resistance and dependence between Okinawa, Japan, and the United States. Angst looks behind this historical and geopolitical experience by drawing upon diverse perspectives of Okinawa women from different generational and economic backgrounds.; Hardcover April 2009

Indian Work: Daniel H. Usner; Hardcover April 2009

The Lost Capital of Byzantium: Steven Runciman; Foreword by John Freely; Paperback April 2009

Manifest Destinies and Indigenous Peoples: Edited by David Maybury-Lewis; Edited by Theodore Macdonald; Edited by Biorn Maybury-Lewis; Paperback April 2009

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: Frederick Douglass; Introduction by Robert B. Stepto; Paperback April 2009

Paris from the Ground Up: James H. S. McGregor; Hardcover April 2009

Power of Place: James Robson; Hardcover April 2009

Prosecuting Apartheid-Era Crimes?: Tyler Giannini; Susan Farbstein; Samantha Bent; Miles Jackson; Foreword by John Kani; Paperback April 2009

Republic of Debtors: Bruce H. Mann; Debt was an inescapable fact of life in early America. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, its sinfulness was preached by ministers and the right to imprison debtors was unquestioned. By 1800, imprisonment for debt was under attack and insolvency was no longer seen as a moral failure, merely an economic setback. In Republic of Debtors, Bruce H. Mann illuminates this crucial transformation in early American society.; Paperback April 2009

Revolution on My Mind: Jochen Hellbeck; Revolution on My Mind is a stunning revelation of the inner world of Stalin's Russia, showing us the minds and hearts of Soviet citizens who recorded their lives in diaries during an extraordinary period of revolutionary fervor and state terror. Jochen Hellbeck brings us face to face with gripping and unforgettably poignant life stories. This book brilliantly explores the forging of the revolutionary self in a study that speaks to the evolution of the individual in mass movements of our own time.; Paperback April 2009

Shaping the Industrial Century: Alfred D. Chandler; The dean of business historians continues his masterful chronicle of the transforming revolutions of the twentieth century. He argues that only with consistent attention to research and development and an emphasis on long-term corporate strategies could firms remain successful over time. He details these processes for nearly every major chemical and pharmaceutical firm, demonstrating why some companies forged ahead while others failed.; Paperback April 2009

Spectacle and Sacrifice: David Johnson; Hardcover April 2009

The Supreme Court and the American Elite, 1789-2008: Lucas A. Powe; Hardcover April 2009

Two Faiths, One Banner: Ian Almond; Hardcover April 2009

When Empire Comes Home: Lori Watt; Hardcover April 2009

The Age of Confucian Rule: Dieter Kuhn; Timothy Brook, General Editor; Just over a thousand years ago, the Song dynasty emerged as the most advanced civilization on earth. Within two centuries, China was home to nearly half of all humankind. This book is an essential introduction to this transformative era.; Hardcover March 2009

Articulating the Sinosphere: Joshua A. Fogel; Hardcover March 2009

Becoming African Americans: Clare Corbould; Hardcover March 2009

Buccaneers of the Caribbean: Jon Latimer; Hardcover March 2009

Byzantine Magic: Edited by Henry Maguire; The authors reveal the scope, the forms, and the functioning of magic in Byzantine society, throwing light on a hitherto relatively little-known aspect of Byzantine culture, and, at the same time, expanding upon the contemporary debates concerning magic and its roles in pre-modern societies.; Paperback March 2009

The Conservative Turn: Michael Kimmage; Hardcover March 2009

Constantine Porphyrogenitus: Edited by Gyula Moravcsik; Translated by Romilly J. H. Jenkins; Constantine Porphyrogenitus; Paperback March 2009

Down a Narrow Road: Jay Dautcher; Hardcover March 2009

Dry Spells: Jeffrey Snyder-Reinke; Hardcover March 2009

East & West: Edited by T. Corey Brennan; Edited by Harriet I. Flower; Hardcover March 2009

The Golden Age of the Classics in America: Carl J. Richard; Hardcover March 2009

Hunger by Design: Edited by Halyna Hryn; Paperback March 2009

In Defense of Common Sense: Lodi Nauta; Hardcover March 2009

Licentious Gotham: Donna Dennis; Hardcover March 2009

A Line Drawn in the Sand: Phyllis J. Kanki; Richard G. Marlink; Paperback March 2009

Naming Infinity: Loren Graham; Jean-Michel Kantor; Hardcover March 2009

Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts II: Edited and translated by Gregory G. Maskarinec; Hardcover March 2009

Orphans of the Republic: Olivier Wieviorka; Translated by George Holoch; Hardcover March 2009

Palaces of the Ancient New World: Edited by Susan Toby Evans; Edited by Joanne Pillsbury; As in the Old World, kings and nobles of ancient Mexico and Peru had luxurious administrative quarters in cities, and exquisite pleasure palaces in the countryside. This volume explores the great houses of the ancient New World, from palaces of the Aztecs and Incas, looted by the Spanish conquistadors, to those lost high in the Andes and deep in the jungle.; Paperback March 2009

Paradise Earned: Yannis Tzifopoulos; This is a study of the twelve small gold lamellae from Crete that were tokens for entrance into a golden afterlife. The lamellae are placed within the context of a small corpus of similar texts, and published with extensive commentary on their topography, lettering and engraving, dialect and orthography, meter, chronology, and usage. This work adduces parallels to the texts on the lamellae from the Byzantine period and modern Greece to illuminate the everlasting and persistent human quest for "earning Paradise."; Paperback March 2009

The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom: Steven Hahn; Hardcover March 2009

The Politics of Ethnicity and the Crisis of the Peloponnesian League: Edited by Peter Funke; Edited by Nino Luraghi; The crisis of Spartan power in the first half of the fourth century has been connected to Spartan inability to manage the hegemony built on the ruins of the Athenian Empire. The present book offers a new perspective, suggesting that the crisis that finally brought down Sparta was in important ways a result of centrifugal impulses within the Peloponnesian League.; Paperback March 2009

The Sage Learning of Liu Zhi: Sachiko Murata; William C. Chittick; Weiming Tu; Foreword by Seyyed Hossein Nasr; Hardcover March 2009

The Teleology of Poetics in Medieval Kashmir: Lawrence J. McCrea; Hardcover March 2009

Three Byzantine Military Treatises: Edited and translated by George T. Dennis; Threatened on all sides by relentless enemies for a thousand years, the Byzantines needed ready armies and secure borders. To this end, experienced commanders compiled practical handbooks of military strategy. Three such manuals are presented here. These treatises provide information not only on tactics and weaponry but also on the motivations of the men who risked their lives to defend the empire.; Paperback March 2009

The Tokyo War Crimes Trial: Yuma Totani; This book assesses the historical significance of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE)—commonly called the Tokyo trial—established as the eastern counterpart of the Nuremberg trial in the immediate aftermath of World War II.; Paperback March 2009

Twentieth-Century New England Land Conservation: Edited by Charles H. W. Foster; Hardcover March 2009

Worlds Made by Words: Anthony Grafton; Hardcover March 2009

Unclogging the Arteries: Mauricio Mesquita Moreira; Christian Volpe; Juan Blyde; Paperback March 2009

Arab-Byzantine Coins: Clive Foss; This illustrated handbook presents a concise history of the development of the coinage of the early Arab caliphate in the seventh century. The historical introduction, which includes descriptions of all the basic types, is followed by a summary catalogue of the recently acquired collection of Arab-Byzantine coins at Dumbarton Oaks.; Paperback February 2009

China between Empires: Mark Edward Lewis; Timothy Brook, General Editor; After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. This book traces the changes that both underlay and resulted from this split in a period that saw the geographic redefinition of China, more engagement with the outside world, significant changes to family life, developments in the literary and social arenas, and the introduction of new religions.; Hardcover February 2009

Constructing the Monolith: Marc J. Selverstone; This book not only explains the cold war mindset that determined global policy for much of the twentieth century, but reveals how the search to define a foreign threat can shape the ways in which that threat is actually met.; Hardcover February 2009

Exiles at Home: Shirley Elizabeth Thompson; New Orleans has always captured our imagination as an exotic city in its racial ambiguity and pursuit of les bons temps. In tracing the experiences of creoles of color, Thompson illuminates the role ordinary Americans played in shaping an understanding of identity and belonging.; Hardcover February 2009

How Free Is Free?: Leon F. Litwack; Despite two major efforts to reconstruct race relations, injustices remain. From the height of Jim Crow to the early twenty-first century, struggles over racism persist despite court decisions and legislation. Although a painful history to confront, Litwack’s book inspires as it probes the enduring story of racial inequality and the ongoing fight for freedom in black America.; Hardcover February 2009

Love for Lydia: Edited by Nicholas D. Cahill; This generously illustrated volume, presents new studies by scholars closely involved with Professor Greenewalt’s excavations during the Sardis Expedition in western Turkey.; Hardcover February 2009

Military Culture in Imperial China: Edited by Nicola Di Cosmo; These original essays explore the relationship between culture and the military in Chinese society from early China to the Qing empire, with contributions by eminent scholars aiming to reexamine the relationship between military matters and law, government, historiography, art, philosophy, literature, and politics.; Hardcover February 2009

The Selma of the North: Patrick D. Jones; Jones tells a powerful and dramatic story that is important for its insights into civil rights history: the debate over nonviolence and armed self-defense, the meaning of Black Power, the relationship between local and national movements, and the dynamic between southern and northern activism.; Hardcover February 2009

Strait Talk: Nancy Bernkopf Tucker; Relations among the United States, Taiwan, and China challenge policymakers, international relations specialists, and a concerned public to examine their assumptions about security, sovereignty, and peace. Tucker traces the thorny relationship between the United States and Taiwan as both watch China’s power grow.; Hardcover February 2009

Greetings in the Lord: AnneMarie Luijendijk; This is the first book-length study on Christians in the ancient Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus, the site where some of the most important and oldest fragments of early Christian books were unearthed. Bringing the people in these dry papyrus letters and documents back to life, the book reveals how diverse Christians lived in this city of diverse situations.; Paperback February 2009

Iron Kingdom: Christopher Clark; Clark demonstrates how a state deemed the bane of twentieth-century Europe has played an incalculable role in Western civilization’s fortunes. Iron Kingdom is a definitive, gripping account of Prussia’s fascinating, influential, and critical role in modern times.; Paperback January 2009

Charisma and Compassion: C. Julia Huang; Tzu-Chi (Compassion Relief) began as a tiny, grassroots women's charitable group; today in Taiwan it runs three state-of-the-art hospitals, a television channel, and a university. Based on extensive fieldwork in Taiwan, Malaysia, Japan, and the United States, this book explores the transformation of Tzu-Chi.; Hardcover January 2009

The Death of Captain Cook: Glyn Williams; In a style that is more detective story than conventional biography, Williams explores the multiple narratives of Cook’s death. In short, Williams examines the story of Cook’s progress from obscurity to fame and, eventually, to infamy—a story that, until now, has never been fully told.; Hardcover January 2009

Demons and Dancers: Ruth Webb; Compared to the wealth of information available to us about classical tragedy and comedy, not much is known about the culture of pantomime, mime, and dance in late antiquity. Webb fills this gap in our knowledge of the ancient world and provides us with a detailed look at social life in the late antique period through an investigation of its performance culture.; Hardcover January 2009

Friendship, Love, and Trust in Renaissance Florence: Dale Kent; Kent explores the meaning of love and friendship as they were represented in the fifteenth century, particularly the relationship between heavenly and human friendship.; Hardcover January 2009

Genos Dikanikon: Victor Bers; Under the Athenian democracy, litigants were expected to speak for themselves, though they could memorize a speech written for them. These amateur performances often manifested an unmanly yielding to emotions of anger or fear; professional speech, Bers seeks to demonstrate, was to a large degree crafted in reaction to amateur stumbling.; Paperback January 2009

Histoires Grecques: Maurice Sartre; Translated by Catherine Porter; Sartre spans the grand narrative of Greek culture over a thousand years and a vast expanse of land and sea. Ranging from Afghanistan to the Mediterranean world, these excursions amount to a panoramic vision of one of the most important civilizations of all time.; Hardcover January 2009

Lighting in Early Byzantium: Laskarina Bouras; Maria Parani; This book is the first general survey of lighting in Byzantium. The first part of the book discusses the technology and types of lighting devices and explains their decorative symbolism and social function. The second half illustrates this narrative by drawing on a Dumbarton Oaks exhibition.; Paperback January 2009

Mazarin's Quest: Paul Sonnino; Sonnino examines the diplomatic negotiations that took place in Westphalia from 1643 to 1648, which brought an end to the agonizing civil and religious conflict of the Thirty Years’ War.; Hardcover January 2009

The Origins of Canadian and American Political Differences: Jason Kaufman; Why do the United States and Canada have such divergent political cultures when they share one of the closest economic and cultural relationships in the world? Kaufman examines the North American political landscape to draw out the essential historical factors that underlie the countries’ differences.; Hardcover January 2009

Up from History: Robert J. Norrell; This compelling biography reveals how conditions in the segregated South led Booker T. Washington to call for a less contentious path to freedom and equality. Norrell details the positive power of Washington’s vision, one that invoked hope and optimism to overcome past exploitation and present discrimination.; Hardcover January 2009

Why the Garden Club Couldn't Save Youngstown: Sean Safford; This book compares the recent history of Allentown, Pennsylvania, with that of Youngstown, Ohio. Safford offers a probing historical explanation for the decline, fall, and unlikely rejuvenation of the Rust Belt.; Hardcover January 2009

The Declaration of Independence: David Armitage; Not only did the Declaration announce the entry of the United States onto the world stage, it became the model for other countries to follow. This unique global perspective demonstrates the singular role of the United States document as a founding statement of our modern world.; Paperback December 2008

Journey to the East: Liam Matthew Brockey; It was one of the great encounters of world history: highly educated European priests confronting Chinese culture for the first time in the modern era. This “journey to the East” is explored by Brockey as he retraces the path of the Jesuit missionaries who sailed from Portugal to China.; Paperback December 2008

Remembering Awatovi: Hester A. Davis; Remembering Awatovi is the engaging story of a major archaeological expedition on the Hopi Reservation in northern Arizona. Centered on the large Pueblo village of Awatovi, with its Spanish mission church and beautiful kiva murals, the excavations are renowned not only for the data they uncovered but also for the interdisciplinary nature of the investigations. In archaeological lore they are also remembered for the diverse, fun-loving, and distinguished cast of characters who participated in or visited the digs.; Hardcover December 2008 / Paperback December 2008

Deliverance and Submission: Kelly H. Chong; South Korea is home to some of the largest evangelical Protestant congregations in the world. This book investigates the meaning of—and the reasons behind—a particular aspect of contemporary South Korean evangelicalism: the intense involvement of middle-class women. Drawing upon extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Seoul that explores the relevance of women’s experiences to Korean evangelicalism, Kelly H. Chong not only helps provide a broader picture of the evangelical movement’s success in South Korea, but addresses the global question of contemporary women's attraction to religious traditionalism.; Hardcover December 2008

The Fires of Vesuvius: Mary Beard; Although Pompeii still does not give up its secrets quite as easily as it may seem, Mary Beard makes sense of the remains. From sex to politics, food to religion, slavery to literacy, she offers us the big picture of the inhabitants of the lost city.; Hardcover December 2008

Commentaries on Plato, Volume 1, Phaedrus and Ion: Marsilio Ficino; Edited and translated by Michael J. B. Allen; Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. This volume contains Ficino’s extended analysis and commentary on the Phaedrus.; Hardcover November 2008

Ethnic Modernism: Werner Sollors; In the first half of the twentieth century, the United States moved from the periphery to the center of global cultural production. How did African American, European immigrant, and other minority writers take part in these developments that also transformed the United States, giving it an increasingly multicultural self-awareness? This book attempts to address this question in a series of innovative and engaging close readings of major texts from this period.; Paperback November 2008

Horses at Work: Ann Norton Greene; Greene argues for recognition of horses’ critical contribution to the history of American energy and the rise of American industrial power, and a new understanding of the reasons for their replacement as prime movers.; Hardcover November 2008

Hysterical Men: Mark S. Micale; Over the course of several centuries, Western masculinity has successfully established itself as the voice of reason, knowledge, and sanity—the basis for patriarchal rule—in the face of massive testimony to the contrary. This book boldly challenges this triumphant vision of the stable and secure male by examining the central role played by modern science and medicine in constructing and sustaining it.; Hardcover November 2008

Migration Miracle: Jacqueline Maria Hagan; Migration Miracle humanizes the immigration controversy by exploring the harsh realities of the migrants’ desperate journeys. Drawing on over 300 interviews with men, women, and children, Hagan focuses on an unexplored dimension of the migration undertaking—the role of religion and faith in surviving the journey.; Hardcover November 2008

Neo-Confucianism in History: Peter K. Bol; The book argues that as Neo-Confucians put their philosophy of learning into practice in local society, they justified a new social ideal in which society at the local level was led by the literati with state recognition and support.; Hardcover November 2008

Sowing the Dragon's Teeth: Eric McGeer; The military achievements of the emperors Nikephoros Phokas, John Tzimiskes, and Basil II brought the Byzantine Empire to the height of its power by the early eleventh century. This volume presents new editions and translations of two military treatises–the Praecepta militaria of Nikephoros Phokas and the revised version included in the Taktika of Nikephoros Ouranos.; Paperback November 2008

The Triumph of Music: Tim Blanning; Blanning considers music in conjunction with nationalism, race, and sex. Although not always in step, music, society, and politics, he shows, march in the same direction.; Hardcover November 2008

Who Owns the Sky?: Stuart Banner; A collection of curious tales questioning the ownership of airspace and a reconstruction of a truly novel moment in the history of American law, Banner’s book reminds us of the powerful and reciprocal relationship between technological innovation and the law.; Hardcover November 2008

Beyond Terror and Martyrdom: Gilles Kepel; Kepel urges us to escape the ideological quagmire of terrorism and martyrdom and explore the terms of a new and constructive dialogue between Islam and the West. This book sounds the alarm to the West and to Islam that both of these exhausted narratives are bankrupt—neither productive of democratic change in the Middle East nor of unity in Islam.; Hardcover November 2008

Artistry of the Everyday: Lisa Bernasek; Photographs by Hillel S. Burger; Photographs by Mark Craig; Foreword by Susan Gilson Miller; Imazighen! Beauty and Artisanship in Berber Life presents the Peabody Museum's collection of arts from the Berber-speaking regions of North Africa. The book gives an overview of Berber history and culture, focusing on the rich aesthetic traditions of Amazigh (Berber) craftsmen and women. The book also tells the stories of the collectors--both world-traveling Bostonians and Harvard-trained anthropologists--who brought these objects to Cambridge in the early twentieth century.; Paperback November 2008

Men of Letters within the Passes: Chang Woei Ong; The main theme of this book is the interaction between two “places,” China and Guanzhong, the capital area of several dynasties. This work examines how Guanzhong literati conceptualized three sets of relations: central/regional, “official”/“unofficial,” and national/local. It further traces the formation over the last millennium of the imperial state of a critical communal self-consciousness.; Hardcover November 2008

The Peculiar Life of Sundays: Stephen Miller; From Augustine to Caesarius, through the Reformation and the Puritan flight from England, down through the ages to contemporary debates about Sunday worship, Miller explores the fascinating history of the Sabbath.; Hardcover November 2008

Stonehenge: Rosemary Hill; Hill guides the reader on a tour of Stonehenge in all its cultural contexts, as a monument to many things—to Renaissance Humanism, Romantic despair, Victorian enterprise, and English Radicalism.; Hardcover November 2008

Taj Mahal: Giles Tillotson; The meaning of the Taj Mahal, the perceptions and responses it prompts, ideas about the building and the history that shape them: these form the subject of Tillotson’s book. More than a richly illustrated history, this book is an eloquent meditation on the place of the Taj Mahal in the cultural imagination of India and the wider world.; Hardcover November 2008

Creating a Nation of Joiners: Johann N. Neem; Ever since Alexis de Tocqueville published his observations in Democracy in America, Americans have recognized the distinctiveness of their voluntary tradition. In a work of political, legal, social, and intellectual history, Neem traces the origins of this venerable tradition to the vexed beginnings of American democracy in Massachusetts.; Hardcover November 2008

Democracy Denied, 1905-1915: Charles Kurzman; Kurzman proposes that the collective agent most directly responsible for democratization was the emerging class of modern intellectuals, a group that had gained a global identity and a near-messianic sense of mission following the Dreyfus Affair of 1898. Each chapter of this book focuses on a single angle of this story, covering all six cases by examining newspaper accounts, memoirs, and government reports.; Hardcover November 2008

Popular Protest in China: Edited by Kevin J. O'Brien; Unrest in China, from the dramatic events of 1989 to more recent stirrings, offers a rare opportunity to consider how popular contention unfolds in places where speech and assembly are tightly controlled. The contributors to this volume argue that ideas inspired by social movements elsewhere can help explain popular protest in China.; Hardcover November 2008 / Paperback November 2008

Killing for Coal: Thomas G. Andrews; This book offers a bold and original perspective on the 1914 Ludlow Massacre and the “Great Coalfield War.” In a story of transformation, Andrews illuminates the causes and consequences of the militancy that erupted in colliers’ strikes over the course of nearly half a century.; Hardcover October 2008

What Blood Won't Tell: Ariela J. Gross; Unearthing the legal history of racial identity, Gross’s book examines the paradoxical and often circular relationship of race and the perceived capacity for citizenship in American society.; Hardcover October 2008

The Clash Within: Martha C. Nussbaum; While America is focused on religious militancy and terrorism in the Middle East, democracy has been under siege from religious extremism in another critical part of the world. As Nussbaum reveals in this penetrating look at India today, the forces of the Hindu right pose a disturbing threat to its democratic traditions and secular state. Nussbaum's long-standing professional relationship with India makes her an excellent guide to its recent history.; Paperback October 2008

Dry Manhattan: Michael A. Lerner; In 1919, the United States made its boldest attempt at social reform: Prohibition. This "noble experiment" was aggressively promoted, and spectacularly unsuccessful, in New York City. In the first major work on Prohibition in a quarter century, and the only full history of Prohibition in the era's most vibrant city, Lerner describes a battle between competing visions of the United States that encompassed much more than the freedom to drink.; Paperback October 2008

Everyday Jihad: Bernard Rougier; Translated by Pascale Ghazaleh; As southern Lebanon becomes the latest battleground for Islamist warriors, Rougier plunges us into the heavily populated Palestinian refugee camp at Ain al-Helweh, which became a site for militant Sunni Islamists in the early 1990s. Rougier documents how Sunni fundamentalists, through their own interpretations of sacred texts and jihad, took root in this Palestinian milieu, and explains how radical religious allegiances overcome traditional nationalist sentiment in communities marked by poverty and despair.; Paperback October 2008

First Lady of the Confederacy: Joan E. Cashin; When Jefferson Davis became president of the Confederacy, his wife, Varina Howell Davis, reluctantly became the First Lady. Pro-slavery but also pro-Union, Varina Davis was inhibited by her role as Confederate First Lady and unable to reveal her true convictions.Cashin offers a splendid portrait of a fascinating woman who struggled with the constraints of her time and place.; Paperback October 2008

From Egypt to Babylon: Paul Collins; For those who believe that globalization is a purely modern phenomenon, this book holds a startling and absorbing lesson. Readers are immersed in a world of exotic empires and states as they waxed and waned and interacted in a period of extraordinary internationalism—all before the rise of the Persian Empire.; Hardcover October 2008

God's War: Christopher Tyerman; The Crusades are perhaps both the most familiar and most misunderstood phenomena of the medieval world, and here Christopher Tyerman explores the centuries of violence committed in the name of religious devotion Tyerman uncovers a system of belief bound by paranoia and wishful thinking, and a culture founded on war as an expression of worship, social discipline, and Christian charity. Drawing on the most recent scholarship, and told with great authority, God's War is the definitive account of a fascinating story that continues to haunt our contemporary world.; Paperback October 2008

Italy and Its Invaders: Girolamo Arnaldi; Translated by Antony Shugaar; From the earliest times, successive waves of foreign invaders have left their mark on Italy. Beginning with Germanic invasions that undermined the Roman Empire and culminating with the establishment of the modern nation, Girolamo Arnaldi explores the dynamic exchange between outsider and “native.”; Paperback October 2008

The Jamestown Project: Karen Ordahl Kupperman; Despite the original settlers' dependence on the Chesapeake Algonquians and strained relations with their London backers, they forged a colony that survived where others had failed. Reconfiguring the myth of Jamestown's failure, Kupperman shows how the settlement's messy first decade actually represented a period of ferment in which individuals were learning how to make a colony work.; Paperback October 2008

Rulers and Victims: Geoffrey Hosking; In this illuminating book, Geoffrey Hosking explores what the Soviet experience meant for Russians. Hosking analyzes how the Soviet state molded Russian identity, beginning with the impact of the Bolshevik Revolution and civil war. At the heart of this penetrating work is the fundamental question of what happens to a people who place their nationhood at the service of empire. There is no surer guide than Geoffrey Hosking to reveal the historical forces forging Russian identity in the post-communist world.; Paperback October 2008

Stealing Lincoln's Body: Thomas J. Craughwell; On the night of the 1876 presidential election, a gang of counterfeiters attempted to steal the entombed embalmed body of Abraham Lincoln and hold it for ransom. Craughwell returns to this bizarre, and largely forgotten, event with the first book to place the grave robbery in historical context. This rousing story of hapless con men, intrepid federal agents, and ordinary Springfield citizens offers an unusual glimpse into late-nineteenth-century America.; Paperback October 2008

Xenophon's Retreat: Robin Waterfield; In The Expedition of Cyrus, Xenophon told how, in 401 b.c., a band of unruly Greek mercenaries traveled east to fight for the Persian prince Cyrus the Younger in his attempt to wrest the throne from his brother. With this first masterpiece of Western history forming the backbone of his book, Robin Waterfield explores what remains unsaid and assumed in Xenophon's account. The result is a nuanced and dramatic perspective on a critical moment in history that may tell us as much about our present-day adventures in the Middle East.; Paperback October 2008

Practitioners of the Divine: Beate Dignas; Kai Trampedach; “What is a Greek priest?” The volume, which has its origins in a symposium held at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C., focuses on the question through a variety of lenses: the visual representation of cult personnel, priests as ritual experts, variations of priesthood, ideal concepts and their transformation, and the role of manteis.; Paperback October 2008

Becoming Brazuca: Edited by Clémence Jouët-Pastré; Edited by Leticia J. Braga; Brazilians in the United States are a relatively new wave of immigrants from South America. This volume offers a broad-ranging discussion of an understudied population and also brings insights into the core issues of immigration research: how immigration can complicate issues of social class, race, and ethnicity, how it intersects with the educational system, and how it fits into the assimilation paradigm.; Paperback September 2008

Children of the Revolution: Robert Gildea; For those who lived in the wake of the French Revolution, from the storming of the Bastille to Napoleon’s final defeat, its aftermath left a profound wound that no subsequent king, emperor, or president could heal. This book follows the ensuing generations who repeatedly tried and failed to come up with a stable regime after the trauma of 1789.; Hardcover September 2008

The Great Wall Revisited: William Lindesay; A journey along the Great Wall in the past and present, this landmark volume offers an extraordinary portrait of perhaps the world’s most famous structure.; Hardcover September 2008

Humanist Educational Treatises: Translated by Craig W. Kallendorf; This volume provides new translations, commissioned for the I Tatti Renaissance Library, of four of the most important theoretical statements that emerged from the early humanists’ efforts to reform medieval education.; Paperback September 2008

Invectives: Francesco Petrarca; Translated by David Marsh; Petrarca, one of the greatest of Italian poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive ancient Roman language and literature. Petrarch’s four Invectives, written in Latin, were inspired by the eloquence of the great Roman orator Cicero. The new translations in this volume include the first English translation of three of the four invectives.; Paperback September 2008

On the Donation of Constantine: Lorenzo Valla; Translated by G. W. Bowersock; Valla (1407–1457) was the leading theorist of the Renaissance humanist movement. In On the Donation of Constantine he uses new philological methods to attack the authenticity of the most important document justifying the papacy’s claims to temporal rule, in a brilliant analysis that is often seen as marking the beginning of modern textual criticism. This volume provides a new translation with introduction and notes by Bowersock.; Paperback September 2008

The Power of the Buddhas: Sem Vermeersch; Buddhism in medieval Korea is characterized as “State Protection Buddhism,” a religion whose primary purpose was to rally support (supernatural and popular) for and legitimate the state. This study is an attempt to specify Buddhism’s place in Koryo and to ascertain to what extent and in what areas Buddhism functioned as a state religion.; Hardcover September 2008

Spiritual Wayfarers, Leaders in Piety: Daphna Ephrat; This book represents the first continuous history of Sufism in Palestine. Covering the period between the rise of Islam and the spread of Ottoman rule and drawing on vast biographical material and complementary evidence, the book describes the social trajectory that Sufism followed.; Paperback September 2008

Art of Ancient Egypt: Gay Robins; From the awesome grandeur of the Great Pyramids to the delicacy of a face etched on an amulet, the power of ancient Egyptian art persists to this day. Spanning three thousand years, this illustrated history offers a thorough and delightfully readable introduction to the artwork.; Paperback September 2008

Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Anthony Grafton; Megan Williams; Christianity and the Transformation of the Book combines broad-gauged synthesis and close textual analysis to reconstruct the kinds of books and the ways of organizing scholarly inquiry and collaboration among the Christians of Caesarea, on the coast of Roman Palestine. The book explores the dialectical relationship between intellectual history and the history of the book, even as it expands our understanding of early Christian scholarship.; Paperback September 2008

Hadrian: Thorsten Opper; Even in the panoply of Roman history, Hadrian stands out. This book moves beyond the familiar image of Hadrian to offer a new appraisal of this Emperor’s contradictory personality, his exploits and accomplishments, his rule, and his military role, against the backdrop of his twenty-one-year reign.; Hardcover September 2008

Innocents Abroad: Jonathan Zimmerman; Until the early twentieth century, teachers went abroad with assumptions of their own superiority. But by the mid-twentieth century, they became far more self-questioning about their social assumptions, their educational theories, and the complexity of their role in a foreign society. Drawing on extensive archives of teachers' letters and accounts, Zimmerman's narrative explores the teachers' shifting attitudes about their country and themselves, in a world that was more unexpected than they could have imagined.; Paperback September 2008

The Languages of Paradise: Maurice Olender; Translated by Arthur Goldhammer; Maurice Olender shows that philology left an indelible mark on Western visions of history and contributed directly to some of the most horrifying ideologies of the twentieth century.; Paperback September 2008

Lust for Liberty: Samuel K. Cohn; Lust for Liberty challenges long-standing views of popular medieval revolts. Comparing rebellions in northern and southern Europe over two centuries, Samuel Cohn analyzes their causes and forms, their leadership, the role of women, and the suppression or success of these revolts. The book offers a new interpretation of the Black Death and the increase of and change in popular revolt from the mid-1350s to the early fifteenth century.; Paperback September 2008

A Nation by Design: Aristide R. Zolberg; In A Nation by Design, Aristide Zolberg explores American immigration policy from the colonial period to the present, discussing how it has been used as a tool of nation building. This is an authoritative account of American immigration history and the political and social factors that brought it about. Zolberg's book shows how America has struggled to shape the immigration process to construct the kind of population it desires.; Paperback September 2008

Saltwater Slavery: Stephanie E. Smallwood; This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and the depths of its horrors. Stephanie E. Smallwood offers a penetrating look at the process of enslavement from its African origins through the Middle Passage and into the American slave market. Saltwater Slavery is animated by deep research and gives us a graphic experience of the slave trade from the vantage point of the slaves themselves. The result is both a remarkable transatlantic view of the culture of enslavement, and a painful, intimate vision of the bloody, daily business of the slave trade.; Paperback September 2008

The Two Princes of Calabar: Randy J. Sparks; In 1767, two "princes" of a ruling family in the port of Old Calabar, on the slave coast of Africa, were ambushed and captured by English slavers. The princes were themselves slave traders who were betrayed by African competitors--and so began their own extraordinary odyssey of enslavement. Their story, written in their own hand, survives as a rare firsthand account of the Atlantic slave experience. Sparks made the remarkable discovery of the princes' correspondence and has managed to reconstruct their adventures from it.; Paperback September 2008

Your Death Would Be Mine: Martha Hanna; Paul and Marie Pireaud, a young peasant couple from southwest France, were newlyweds when World War I erupted. Drawing upon the hundreds of letters they wrote, Martha Hanna tells their moving story and reveals a powerful and personal perspective on war.; Paperback September 2008

Culture, Courtiers, and Competition: Edited by David M. Robinson; This collection of essays reveals the Ming court as an arena of competition and negotiation, where a large cast of actors pursued individual and corporate ends, personal agency shaped protocol and style, and diverse people, goods, and tastes converged.; Hardcover September 2008

Dreaming Across Boundaries: Edited by Louise Marlow; This volume explores the context of theological speculations and political aspirations through the medium of dreams to present fascinating insights into the social history of the pre-modern Islamic world in all its cultural diversity. Wider cultural exchanges are discussed through concrete examples such as the Arabic version of the Aristotelian treatise De divinatione per somnum, and some of the current scholarly assumptions about dreams are challenged by personal reports that express individual personalities, self-awareness, and spiritual development.; Hardcover July 2008

Dreaming Across Boundaries: Edited by Louise Marlow; This volume explores the context of theological speculations and political aspirations through the medium of dreams to present fascinating insights into the social history of the pre-modern Islamic world in all its cultural diversity. Wider cultural exchanges are discussed through concrete examples such as the Arabic version of the Aristotelian treatise De divinatione per somnum, and some of the current scholarly assumptions about dreams are challenged by personal reports that express individual personalities, self-awareness, and spiritual development.; Paperback July 2008

American Mediterranean: Matthew Pratt Guterl; How did slave-owning Southern planters make sense of the transformation of their world in the Civil War era Guterl shows that they looked beyond their borders for answers and examines how the Southern elite connected—by travel, print culture, even the prospect of future conquest—with the communities of New World slaveholders as they redefined their world.; Hardcover June 2008

Americans All: Diana Selig; From the 1920s—a decade marked by racism and nativism—through World War II, hundreds of thousands of Americans took part in a vibrant campaign to overcome racial, ethnic, and religious prejudices. Progressive activists encouraged pluralism in homes, schools, and churches across the country.Selig tells the neglected story of the cultural gifts movement, which flourished between the world wars.; Hardcover June 2008

Classic-Period Cultural Currents in Southern and Central Veracruz: Edited by Philip J. Arnold; Edited by Christopher A. Pool; This book explores the diverse traditions and dynamic interactions along the Mexican Gulf lowlands at the height of their cultural florescence. Best known for their elaborate ball game rituals and precocious inscriptions with long-count dates, these cultures served as a critical nexus between the civilizations of highland Mexico and the lowland Maya, influencing developments in both regions.; Hardcover June 2008

Dumbarton Oaks: Edited by Gudrun Bühl; Dumbarton Oaks houses the extraordinary art collection begun by Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss. In this book the museum publishes the specialist collections in Byzantine and Pre-Columbian art, along with examples from the Blisses’ superb European collection, for the first time.; Paperback June 2008

Emigrant Nation: Mark I. Choate; Between 1880 and 1915, thirteen million Italians left their homeland, launching the largest emigration from any country in recorded world history. In its discussion of immigrant culture, transnational identities, and international politics, this book not only narrates the grand story of Italian emigration but also provides important background to immigration debates that continue to this day.; Hardcover June 2008

Euripides, VII, Fragments: Euripides; Edited and translated by Christopher Collard; Edited and translated by Martin Cropp; The extant plays and the fragments together make Euripides by far the best known of the classic Greek tragedians. This edition offers the first complete English translation of the fragments together with a selection of testimonia bearing on the content of the plays. Each play is prefaced by a select bibliography and an introductory discussion of its mythical background, plot, and location of the fragments, general character, chronology, and impact on subsequent literary and artistic traditions.; Hardcover June 2008

The Learned Banqueters, IV, Books 8-10.420e: Athenaeus; Edited and translated by S. Douglas Olson; Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the second century CE) is amusing and of extraordinary value as a treasury of quotations from works now lost.; Hardcover June 2008

Nexus: Jonathan Reed Winkler; In an illuminating study that blends diplomatic, military, technology, and business history, Winkler shows how U.S. officials during World War I discovered the enormous value of global communications. In this absorbing history, Winkler sheds light on the early stages of the global infrastructure that helped launch the United States as the predominant power of the century.; Hardcover June 2008

Normandy: Olivier Wieviorka; Translated by M. B. DeBevoise; The Allied landings on the coast of Normandy on June 6, 1944, have assumed legendary status in the annals of World War II. But in overly romanticizing D-day, Wieviorka argues, we have lost sight of the full picture. Normandy offers a balanced, complete account that reveals the successes and weaknesses of the titanic enterprise.; Hardcover June 2008

Beijing Time: Michael Dutton; Hsiu-ju Stacy Lo; Dong Dong Wu; Deeply immersed in the culture, everyday and otherworldly, this anthropological tour, from ancient cosmology to Communist kitsch, allows us to see as never before how the people of Beijing—and China—work and live.; Hardcover May 2008

Democracy's Prisoner: Ernest Freeberg; In 1920, socialist leader Eugene V. Debs ran for president while serving a ten-year jail term for speaking against America's role in World War I. In this book, Freeberg shows that the campaign to send Debs from an Atlanta jailhouse to the White House was part of a wider national debate over the right to free speech in wartime. In this story of democracy on trial, Freeberg excavates an extraordinary episode in the history of one of America's most prized ideals.; Hardcover May 2008

The Forbidden City: Geremie R. Barmé; The Forbidden City (Zijin Cheng) lying at the heart of Beijing formed the hub of the Celestial Empire for five centuries. Over the past century it has been celebrated and excoriated as a symbol of all that was magnificent and terrible in dynastic China’s legacy. In this book, Barmé provides a new and original history of the culture, politics, and architecture of the Forbidden City.; Hardcover May 2008

Olympic Dreams: Guoqi Xu; Foreword by William C. Kirby; Already the world has seen the political, economic, and cultural significance of hosting the 2008 Olympics in Beijing—in policies instituted and altered, positions softened, projects undertaken. But will the Olympics make a lasting difference? This book approaches questions about the nature and future of China through the lens of sports—particularly as sports finds its utmost international expression in the Olympics.; Hardcover May 2008

Papers of John Adams, Volume 14, 27 October 1782 - 31 May 1783: John Adams; Gregg L. Lint, Volume editor; C. James Taylor, Volume editor; Hobson Woodward, Volume editor; Margaret A. Hogan, Volume editor; Mary T. Claffey, Volume editor; Sara B. Sikes, Volume editor; Judith S. Graham, Volume editor; John Adams reached Paris on October 26, 1782, for the final act of the American Revolution: the peace treaty. This volume chronicles his role in the negotiations and the decision to conclude a peace separate from France.; Hardcover May 2008

Privatization for the Public Good?: Edited by Alberto Chong; Using unique household data sets for six Latin American countries, the essays collected in this volume put together a compelling picture of the effects of privatization.; Paperback May 2008

Ghettostadt: Gordon J. Horwitz; Ghettostadt is the terrifying examination of the Jewish ghetto’s place in the Nazi worldview. Exploring ghetto life in its broadest context, it deftly maneuvers between the perspectives and actions of Łódź’s beleaguered Jewish community, the Germans who oversaw and administered the ghetto’s affairs, and the “ordinary” inhabitants of the once Polish city.; Hardcover May 2008

Woodrow Wilson and the American Myth in Italy: Daniela Rossini; Translated by Antony Shugaar; In 1918, Woodrow Wilson’s image as leader of the free world and the image of America as dispenser of democracy spread throughout Italy, filling an ideological void. American popularity, though, did not ensure mutual understanding. Rossini sets the Italian-American political confrontation within the full context of the two countries’ cultural perceptions of each other, different war experiences, and ideas about participatory democracy and peace.; Hardcover May 2008

Jerusalem: Simon Goldhill; Jerusalem is more than a tourist site—it is a city where every square mile is layered with historical significance, religious intensity, and extraordinary stories. It is a past marked by three great forces: religion, war, and monumentality. In this book, Goldhill takes on this peculiar archaeology of human imagination, hope, and disaster to provide a tour through the history of this most image-filled and ideology-laden city.; Hardcover May 2008

Essays and Dialogues: Bartolomeo Scala; Translated by Renée Neu Watkins; Introduction by Alison Brown; From humble beginnings, Scala (1430–1497) trained in the law and rose to prominence serving as secretary and treasurer to the Medicis and chancellor of the Guelf party before becoming first chancellor of Florence. This volume collects works from throughout his career that show his acquaintance with recently rediscovered ancient writers, and the influence of fellow humanists such as Marsilio Ficino, Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II), and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.; Hardcover May 2008

History of Venice, Volume 2, Books V-VIII: Pietro Bembo; Edited and translated by Robert W. Ulery; Bembo (1470–1547), a Venetian nobleman, later a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, was the most celebrated Latin stylist of his day and was widely admired for his writings in Italian as well. Named official historian of Venice in 1529, Bembo began to compose in Latin his continuation of the city’s history in twelve books, covering the years from 1487 to 1513. The History of Venice was published after Bembo’s death. This edition, in a projected three volumes, makes it available for the first time in English translation.; Hardcover May 2008

Lives of the Popes, Volume 1, Antiquity: Bartolomeo Platina; Edited and translated by Anthony F. D'Elia; Imprisoned for conspiring against Pope Paul II Platina (1421–1481) returned to favor under Pope Sixtus IV, and composed his most famous work, a biographical compendium of the Roman popes from St. Peter down to his own time. The work critically synthesized a wide range of sources and became the standard reference work on papal history for early modern Europe. This edition contains the first complete translation into English and an improved Latin text.; Hardcover May 2008

Writings on Church and Reform: Nicholas of Cusa; Translated by Thomas M. Izbicki; Nicholas of Cusa(1401–1464), a polymath who studied canon law and became a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, was widely considered the most important original philosopher of the Renaissance. He wrote principally on speculative theology, philosophy, and church politics. This volume makes most of Nicholas’s other writings on Church and reform available in English for the first time.; Hardcover May 2008

Al Qaeda in Its Own Words: Edited by Gilles Kepel; Edited by Jean-Pierre Milelli; Introduction and notes by Omar Saghi; Introduction and notes by Thomas Hegghammer; Introduction and notes by Stephane Lacroix; Translated by Pascale Ghazaleh; To reveal Al Qaeda’s inner workings, Gilles Kepel and his collaborators, all scholars of Arabic and Islam, have collected and brilliantly annotated key texts of the major figures from whom the movement has drawn its beliefs and direction. The resulting volume offers an unprecedented glimpse into the assumptions of the salafist jihadists who have reshaped political life at the beginning of the third millennium.; Hardcover April 2008

American Protest Literature: With a Foreword by John Stauffer and an Afterword by Howard Zinn; Edited by Zoe Trodd; Foreword by John Stauffer; Afterword by Howard Zinn; "I like a little rebellion now and then," wrote Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, enlisting in a tradition that throughout American history has led writers to rage and reason, prophesy and provoke. American Protest Literature presents sources from eleven protest movements--political, social, and cultural--from the Revolution to abolition to gay rights to antiwar protest. In this impressive work, Trodd provides an enlightening and inspiring survey of this most American form of literature.; Paperback April 2008

The Averaged American: Sarah E. Igo; Americans today "know" that a majority of the population supports the death penalty, that half of all marriages end in divorce, and that four out of five prefer a particular brand of toothpaste. But remarkably, such data--now woven into our social fabric--became common currency only in the last century. With a bold and sophisticated analysis, Sarah Igo demonstrates the power of scientific surveys to shape Americans' sense of themselves as individuals, members of communities, and citizens of a nation.; Paperback April 2008

City Between Worlds: Leo Ou-fan Lee; Hong Kong is perched on the fault line between China and the West, a Special Administrative Region of the PRC. Lee offers an insider’s view of Hong Kong, capturing the history and culture that make his densely packed home city so different from its generic neighbors.; Hardcover April 2008

Degrees of Freedom: Rebecca J. Scott; As Louisiana and Cuba emerged from slavery in the late nineteenth century, each faced the question of what rights former slaves could claim. Degrees of Freedom compares and contrasts these two societies in which slavery was destroyed by war, and citizenship was redefined through social and political upheaval. Both Louisiana and Cuba were rich in sugar plantations that depended on an enslaved labor force. But by the beginning of the twentieth century, they diverged sharply in the meanings attributed to race and color in public life and in the boundaries placed on citizenship.; Paperback April 2008

Dunkirk: Hugh Sebag-Montefiore; Paperback April 2008

The Faithful: James M. O'Toole; Shaken by the ongoing clergy sexual abuse scandal, and challenged from within by social and theological division, Catholics in America are at a crossroads. O’Toole tells the story of this ancient church from the perspective of ordinary Americans, the lay believers who have kept their faith despite persecution from without and clergy abuse from within.; Hardcover April 2008

The Jewish Enemy: Jeffrey Herf; The Jewish Enemy is the first extensive study of how anti-Semitism pervaded and shaped Nazi propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust, and how it pulled together the diverse elements of a delusionary Nazi worldview. In an era when both anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories continue to influence world politics, Jeffrey Herf offers a timely reminder of their dangers along with a fresh interpretation of the paranoia underlying the ideology of the Third Reich.; Paperback April 2008

On Zion's Mount: Jared Farmer; On Zion’s Mount shows how, paradoxically, the Mormons created their homeland at the expense of the local Indians—and how they expressed their sense of belonging by investing Mt. Timpanogos with “Indian” meaning.; Hardcover April 2008

The Origins of the Developmental State in Taiwan: J. Megan Greene; The rapid growth of Taiwan’s postwar “miracle” economy is most frequently credited to the leading role of the state in promoting economic development. Megan Greene challenges this standard interpretation in the first in-depth examination of the origins of Taiwan’s developmental state.; Hardcover April 2008

The Quest for Democracy in Iran: Fakhreddin Azimi; The Constitutional Revolution of 1906 launched Iran as a pioneer in a broad-based movement to establish democratic rule in the non-Western world. In a book that provides essential context for understanding modern Iran, Azimi traces a century of struggle for the establishment of representative government.; Hardcover April 2008

The Scandal of Empire: Nicholas B. Dirks; The Scandal of Empire reveals that the conquests and exploitations of the East India Company were critical to England's development in the eighteenth century and beyond. In this powerfully written critique, Nicholas Dirks shows how the empire projected its own scandalous behavior onto India itself. By returning to the moment when the scandal of empire became acceptable, we gain a new understanding of the modern culture of the colonizer and the colonized and the manifold implications for Britain, India, and the world.; Paperback April 2008

The Southern Past: W. Fitzhugh Brundage; Since the Civil War whites and blacks have struggled over the meanings and uses of the Southern past. The Southern Past argues that these battles are ultimately about who has the power to determine what we remember of the past, and whether that remembrance will honor all Southerners or only select groups.; Paperback April 2008

Theodor W. Adorno: Detlev Claussen; Translated by Rodney Livingstone; This book gives us our first clear look at how the man and his moment met to create “critical theory.” An intimate picture of the quintessential twentieth-century transatlantic intellectual, the book is also a window on the cultural ferment of Adorno’s day—and its ongoing importance in our own.; Hardcover April 2008

The Tokyo War Crimes Trial: Yuma Totani; This book assesses the historical significance of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE)—commonly called the Tokyo trial—established as the eastern counterpart of the Nuremberg trial in the immediate aftermath of World War II.; Hardcover April 2008

Venice from the Ground Up: James H. S. McGregor; Venice came to life on mudflats at the edge of the habitable world. Protected in a tidal estuary from invaders and Byzantine overlords, the fishermen and traders who settled there crafted a way of life unlike anything the Roman Empire had ever known. In an astonishing feat of narrative history, James H. S. McGregor recreates this world, with its waterways rather than roads and its livelihood harvested from the sea. The narrative follows both a chronological and geographical organization, so that readers can trace the city's evolution by chapter and visitors can explore it by district on foot and by boat.; Paperback April 2008

Violence over the Land: Ned Blackhawk; In this ambitious book that ranges across the Great Basin, Ned Blackhawk places Native peoples at the center of a dynamic story as he chronicles two centuries of Indian and imperial history that profoundly shaped the American West. Violence over the Land is a passionate reminder of the high costs that the making of American history occasioned for many indigenous peoples, written from the vantage point of an Indian scholar whose own family history is intimately bound up in its enduring legacies.; Paperback April 2008

The Word of the Lord Is Upon Me: Jonathan Rieder; Taking us deep into King’s backstage discussions with colleagues, his preaching to black congregations, his exhortations in mass meetings, and his crossover addresses to whites, Rieder tells a powerful story about the tangle of race, talk, and identity in the life of one of America’s greatest moral and political leaders.; Hardcover April 2008

Emplacing a Pilgrimage: Barbara Ambros; The sacred mountain oyama (literally, “Big Mountain”) has loomed over the religious landscape of early modern Japan.Ambros provides a narrative history of the mountain and its place in contemporary society and popular religion by focusing on the development of the oyama cult and its religious, political, and socioeconomic contexts.; Hardcover March 2008

Gendering Modern Japanese History: Edited by Barbara Molony; Edited by Kathleen Uno; The sixteen chapters in this volume treat men as well as women, theories of sexuality as well as gender prescriptions, and same-sex as well as heterosexual relations in the period from 1868 to the present. Together, these essays construct a history informed by the idea that gender matters because it was part of the experience of people and because it often has been a central feature in the construction of modern ideologies, discourses, and institutions. Separately, each chapter examines how Japanese have (en)gendered their ideas, institutions, and society.; Paperback March 2008

Life and Death in the Third Reich: Peter Fritzsche; Fritzsche deciphers the puzzle of Nazism’s ideological grip. Its basic appeal lay in the Volksgemeinschaft—a “people’s community” that appealed to Germans to be part of a great project to redress the wrongs of the Versailles treaty, make the country strong and vital, and rid the body politic of unhealthy elements. Diaries and letters reveal Germans’ fears, desires, and reservations, while showing how Nazi concepts saturated everyday life.; Hardcover March 2008

Nature and History in American Political Development: James W. Ceaser; Foreword by Theda Skocpol; In this inaugural volume of the Alexis de Tocqueville Lectures, James Ceaser traces the way certain "foundational" ideas--including nature, history, and religion--have been understood and used over the course of American history. Ceaser treats these ideas as elements of political discourse that provide the ground for other political ideas, such as liberty or equality. Three critical commentators challenge Ceaser's arguments, and a spirited debate about large and enduring questions in American politics ensues.; Paperback March 2008

Partisans of Allah: Ayesha Jalal; Today, more than ever, jihad signifies the political opposition between Islam and the West. As the line drawn between Muslims and non-Muslims becomes more rigid, Jalal seeks to retrieve the ethical meanings of this core Islamic principle in South Asian history. Drawing on historical, legal, and literary sources, Jalal traces the intellectual itinerary of jihad through several centuries and across the territory connecting the Middle East with South Asia.; Hardcover March 2008

Policymaking in Latin America: Edited by Ernesto Stein; Edited by Mariano Tommasi; Edited by Carlos Scartascini; Edited by Pablo Spiller; What determines the capacity of countries to design, approve, and implement effective public policies? To addre

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