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Jimmy Carter in Africa

Race and the Cold War

NANCY MITCHELL

As Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter

fought for the presidency in late
1976, the Cold War overseas seemed
to take a backseat to more contentious domestic issues, including race
relations. There was one continent,
however, where the Cold War was on
the point of flaring hot: Africa.
As President Carter confronted
Africa, the essence of American foreign
policystopping Soviet expansion
slammed up against the most explosive
and raw aspect of American domestic
politicsracism. Drawing on candid
interviews with Carter, as well as key
U.S. and foreign diplomats, and on a
dazzling array of international archival
sources, Nancy Mitchell offers a timely
reevaluation of the Carter administration and of the man himself.
Mitchells superb treatment of international maneuvering in Africa in the
1970s delivers the most incisive portrait
yet of Carter and other personalities at
the top of his administration plus, as a
bonus, the best examination to date of
Henry Kissingers discovery of Africa
in his last year as secretary of state. An
absorbing and entertaining read.
James G. Hershberg,
author of Marigold: The Lost Chance
for Peace in Vietnam
COLD WAR INTERNATIONAL
HISTORY PROJECT

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An American Cakewalk

Ten Syncopators of the

Modern World
ZEESE PAPANIKOLAS

The profound economic and social

changes in the post-Civil War United
States created numerous challenges.
Newly-freed African Americans,
emboldened women, intellectuals and
artists, and a polyglot tide of immigrants found themselves in a restless
new world. In An American Cakewalk,
Zeese Papanikolas tells the lively and
entertaining story of a diverse group
of figures in the arts and sciences who
inhabited this new America.
Just as ragtime composers subverted
musical expectations by combining
European march timing with
African syncopations, so this books
protagonistswho range from Emily
Dickinson to Thorstein Veblen and
from Henry and William James to
Charles Mingusinterrogated the
modern American world through their
own syncopations of cultural givens.
The old antebellum slave dance, the
cakewalk, with its parody of the white
folks in the Big House, provides a template of how the tricksters, shamans,
poets, philosophers, ragtime pianists,
and jazz musicians who inhabit this
book used parody, satire, and disguise
to subvert American cultural norms
and to create new works of astonishing
beauty and intellectual vigor.
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BETTY S. ANDERSON

A HISTORY OF THE

MODERN MIDDLE EAST

RULERS, REBELS, AND ROGUES

A History of the
Modern Middle East

Rulers, Rebels, and Rogues

BETTY S. ANDERSON

This textbook offers a comprehensive

assessment of the Middle East, stretching from the fourteenth century and
the founding of the Ottoman and Safavid empires through to the present-day
protests and upheavals. Enriched
by the perspectives of workers and
professionals; urban merchants and
provincial notables; slaves, students,
women, and peasants alongside the
actions of political leaders, this book
maps their complex interrelationships
to describe the shifting shapes of
governance in the Middle East and
the trajectories of social change.
Discussion of areas typically left out
of Middle East historysuch as the
Balkansrestores the larger context
that influenced the regions cultural
and political development. Extensively
illustrated with drawings, photographs,
and maps, this book highlights the
complexity and variation of the region,
countering easy assumptions about the
Middle East, those who governed, and
those they governedthe rulers, rebels,
and rogues who shaped a region.
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The South African Gandhi

A History of the Grandparents

I Never Had

ASHWIN DESAI AND

GOOLAM VAHED

IVAN JABLONKA

Stretcher-Bearer of Empire

The South African Gandhi focuses on

Gandhis first leadership experiences
in South Africa and the complicated
man they reveala man who actually
supported the British Empire. Ashwin
Desai and Goolam Vahed unveil a
man who, throughout his stay on
African soil, stayed true to Empire
while showing a disdain for Africans.
Gandhis racism was matched by his
class prejudice towards the Indian
indentured. He persistently claimed
that they were ignorant and needed
his leadership, and he wrote their
resistances and compromises in
surviving a brutal labor regime out
of history. The South African Gandhi
writes the indentured and working
class back into history.
This meticulously researched book
punctures the dominant narrative of
Gandhi and uncovers an ambiguous
figure whose time in Africa was
marked by a desire to seek the
integration of Indians, minus many
basic rights, into the white body
politic while simultaneously excluding
Africans from his moral compass and
political ideals.
SOUTH ASIA IN MOTION

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Ivan Jablonkas grandparents lives

ended long before his began. When he
set out to uncover their story, Jablonka
had little to work with. They left little
behind except their two orphaned
children, a handful of letters, and a
passport. Persecuted as communists
in Poland, as refugees in France, and
then as Jews under the Vichy regime,
Mats and Idesa lived their short lives
underground. Jablonkas challenge was,
as a historian, to rigorously distance
himself and yet, as family, to invest
himself completely in their story. Imagined oppositions collapsedbetween
scholarly research and personal commitment, between established facts and
the passion of the one recording them,
between history and the art of storytelling. In the process of writing this book,
Jablonka reflected on his own family
and his responsibilities to his father the
orphaned son, to his own children and
the family wounds they all inherited.
A History of the Grandparents I
Never Had cannot bring Mats and
Idesa to life, but Jablonka succeeds
in bringing them, as he soberly puts
it, to light. The result is a gripping
story, a profound reflection, and an
absolutely extraordinary history.
STANFORD STUDIES IN JEWISH
HISTORY AND CULTURE

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Scripting Revolution

The French Historical

Revolution

A Historical Approach to the

Comparative Study of Revolutions

The Annales School, 19292014

EDITED BY KEITH MICHAEL BAKER

AND DAN EDELSTEIN

Second Edition
PETER BURKE

The Arab Spring was heralded

and publicly embraced by foreign
leaders of many countries that define
themselves by their own historic
revolutions. The contributors to this
volume examine the legitimacy of
these comparisons by exploring
whether or not all modern revolutions
follow a pattern or script. Traditionally,
historians have studied revolutions as
distinct and separate events. Drawing
on close familiarity with many different cultures, languages, and historical
transitions, this anthology presents the
first cohesive historical approach to
the comparative study of revolutions.

In the twentieth century, historians

began arguing for new ways of doing
history. Instead of limiting themselves
to official documents, new historians
examined a greater variety of evidence,
collaborating with sociologists, anthropologists, economists, linguists, and
psychologists. Instead of traditional
narratives, new history examined
structures. Instead of claiming objective truth, new history acknowledged
the prejudices associated with color,
creed, class, or gender.

This volume argues that the American

and French Revolutions provided the
genesis of the revolutionary script
that was rewritten by Marx, which was
revised by Lenin and the Bolshevik
Revolution, which was revised again
by Mao and the Chinese Communist
Revolution. Later revolutions in Cuba
and Iran improvised further. This
script is once again on display in the
capitals of the Middle East and North
Africa, and it will serve as the model
for future revolutionary movements.
448 pp., 2015
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In this newly revised and updated edition of The French Historical Revolution, renowned cultural historian Peter
Burke provides a critical history of
this movement most associated with
the French journal Annales, from its
foundation in 1929 to the present.
From the new history movements
best-known champions to current
practitioners, Burke traces and analyzes the contributions of one of the
most important historical movements
of the last century.
160 pp., 2015
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The Virtues of Abandon

An Anti-Individualist History
of the French Enlightenment
CHARLY COLEMAN

France in the eighteenth century seethed.

Fired by the desire to abandon the self,
men and women sought new ways to
relate to God, nature, and nation. They
joined illicit mystic cults, committed
suicides in the throes of materialist
fatalism, drank potions to induce
consciousness-altering dreams, and
ultimately renounced the feudal privileges that had for centuries defined their
social existence. The explosive denouement was the French Revolution, during
which God and king were toppled from
their thrones.
456 pp., 2014
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Monsters by Trade

Slave Traffickers in Modern Spanish

Literature and Culture
LISA SURWILLO

Transatlantic studies have begun to

explore the lasting influence of Spain
on its former colonies. In Monsters by
Trade, Lisa Surwillo takes a different
approach, explaining how modern Spain
was literally made by its Cuban colony.
Long after the transatlantic slave trade
had been abolished, Spain continued to
smuggle thousands of Africans annually
to Cuba. The profits underwrote Spains
modernization even as they damaged its
international standing.
280 pp., 2014
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EUROPE

The Singing Turk

Ottoman Power and Operatic

Emotions on the European Stage
from the Siege of Vienna to the
Age of Napoleon
LARRY WOLFF

While European powers were at war

with the Ottoman Empire for much
of the eighteenth century, European
opera houses were staging operas
featuring singing sultans and pashas
surrounded by their musical courts
and harems. This book explores how
these representations of the Muslim
Ottoman Empire, the great nemesis of
Christian Europe, became so popular
in the opera house and what they
illustrate about European-Ottoman
international relations.
After Christian armies defeated the
Ottomans at Vienna in 1683, the
Turks no longer seemed as threatening.
Europeans increasingly understood
that Turkish issues were also European
issues, and the political absolutism
of the sultan in Istanbul was relevant
for thinking about politics in Europe.
While Christian Europeans recognized
that Muslim Turks were, to some
degree, different from themselves,
this difference was sometimes seen
as a matter of exotic costume and
setting. The singing Turks of the stage
expressed strong political perspectives
and human emotions that European
audiences could recognize as their own.
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Engines of Empire

Fumo

Steamships and the

Victorian Imagination

Italys Love Affair with

the Cigarette

DOUGLAS R. BURGESS JR.

CARL IPSEN

In 1859, the S.S. Great Eastern departed

from England on her maiden voyage. She
was a remarkable wonder of the nineteenth century: an iron city longer than
Trafalgar Square, taller than Big Bens
tower, heavier than Westminster Cathedral. Yet she ended her days as a floating
carnival before being unceremoniously
dismantled in 1889.

For over a century, Italy has had a love

affair with the cigarette. Perhaps no
consumer item better symbolizes the
economic, political, social, and cultural
dimensions of contemporary Italian
history. Starting around 1900, the new
and popular cigarette spread down the
social hierarchy and eventually, during
the 1960s, across the gender divide.
For much of the century, cigarette
consumption was an index of economic
well-being and of modernism. Only at
the end of the century did its meaning
change as Italy achieved economic
parity with other Western powers and
entered into the antismoking era.

Steamships occupied a singular place

in the Victorian mind. They became
emblems of nationalism, modernity,
and humankinds triumph over the
cruel elements. The spectacle of a ships
launch was one of the most recognizable
symbols of British social and technological progress. Yet this celebration
of the power of the empire masked
overconfidence and an almost religious
veneration of technology. Equating
steam with civilization had catastrophic
consequences for subjugated peoples
around the world.

Drawing on film, literature, and the

popular press, Carl Ipsen offers a view
of the cigarette century in Italy, from
the 1870s to the ban on public smoking
in 2005. He traces important links
between smoking and imperialism,
world wars, Fascism, and the protest
movements of the 1970s. In considering
this grand survey of the cigarette, Fumo
tells a much larger story about the
socio-economic history of a society
known for its casual attitude toward
risk and a penchant for la dolce vita.

Engines of Empire tells the story of the

complex relationship between Victorians
and their wondrous steamships, following famous travelers like Mark Twain,
Charles Dickens, and Jules Verne as
well as ordinary spectators, tourists,
and imperial administrators. Rich with
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possibleif there was an engine behind it.
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EUROPE

Forging a
Multinational State

State Making in Imperial Austria

from the Enlightenment to the
First World War
JOHN DEAK

The Habsburg Monarchy ruled over

approximately one-third of Europe for
almost 150 years. Previous books on
the Habsburg Empire emphasize its
slow decline in the face of the growth
of neighboring nation-states. John
Deak, instead, argues that the state
was not in eternal decline, but actively
sought not only to adapt, but also to
modernize and build.
Deak has spent years mastering
the structure and practices of the
Austrian public administration and
has immersed himself in the minutiae
of its codes, reforms, political maneuverings, and culture. He demonstrates
how an early modern empire made
up of disparate lands connected solely
by the feudal ties of a ruling family
was transformed into a relatively
unitary, modern, semi-centralized
bureaucratic continental empire. This
process was only derailed by the
state of emergency that accompanied
the First World War. Consequently,
Deak provides the reader with a new
appreciation for the evolving architecture of one of Europes Great Powers
in the long nineteenth century.
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Stories of Khmelnytsky

Competing Literacy Legacies of the

1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising

Genocide in the Carpathians

War, Social Breakdown, and

Mass Violence, 19141945

EDITED BY AMELIA M. GLASER

RAZ SEGAL

In the middle of the seventeenth

century, Bohdan Khmelnytsky was
the legendary Cossack general who
organized a rebellion that liberated
the Eastern Ukraine from Polish rule.
Consequently, he has been memorialized in the Ukraine as a God-given
nation builder, cut in the model of
George Washington. But in this
campaign, the massacre of thousands
of Jews perceived as Polish intermediaries was the collateral damage,
and in order to secure the tentative
independence, Khmelnytsky signed a
treaty with Moscow, ultimately ceding
the territory to the Russian tsar.

Genocide in the Carpathians presents

the history of Subcarpathian Rus, a
multiethnic and multi-religious borderland in the heart of Europe. This society
of Carpatho-Ruthenians, Jews, Magyars,
and Roma disintegrated under pressure,
first from interwar Czechoslovakia,
and, during World War II, from the
onslaught of the Hungarian occupation.
Charges of foreignness and disloyalty
to the Hungarian state linked antisemitism to xenophobia and anxieties about
national security. Genocide unfolded
as a Hungarian policy, and Hungarian
authorities committed state-sponsored
robbery, deportations, and mass killings
against all non-Magyar groups.

So, was he a liberator or a villain? This

volume examines drastically different
narratives, from Ukrainian, Jewish,
Russian, and Polish literature, that
have sought to animate, deify, and
vilify the seventeenth-century Cossack. Khmelnytskys legacy, either as
nation builder or as antagonist, has
inhibited inter-ethnic and political
rapprochement at key moments
throughout history and, as we see in
recent conflicts, continues to affect
Ukrainian, Jewish, Polish, and Russian
national identity.
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This book reorients our view of the

Holocaust not simply as a German
drive for continent-wide genocide, but
as a truly international campaign of
mass murder, related to violence against
non-Jews unleashed by projects of
state and nation building. Focusing on
both state and society, Raz Segal shows
how Hungarys genocidal attack on the
people of Subcarpathian Rus obliterated lives and social ties that encapsulated a way of life for both Jews and
non-Jews that today, from our vantage
point of our world of nation-states, we
find difficult to imagine.
240 pp., 2016
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STANFORD STUDIES ON CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE

A BOOK SERIES EDITED BY NORMAN NAIMARK AND LARRY WOLFF

Another Hungary

The Nineteenth-Century
Provinces in Eight Lives

Enchanting
the Desert
NICHOLAS BAUCH

ROBERT NEMES

Another Hungary tells the stories

of eight remarkable individuals:
an aristocrat, merchant, engineer,
teacher, journalist, rabbi, tobacconist,
and writer. All eight came from the
same woebegone corner of prewar
Hungary. Taken together, their
stories create a unique picture of the
troubled history of Eastern Europe,
viewed not from the capital cities, but
from the small towns and villages.
Through these eight lives, Another Hungary investigates the
wider processes that remade Eastern
Europe in the nineteenth century. It
asks: How did people make sense
of the dramatic changes, from the
advent of the railroad to the outbreak
of the First World War? How did
they respond to the army of political
ideologies that marched through
this region: liberalism, socialism,
nationalism, anti-Semitism, and
Zionism? To what extent did people
in the provinces not just react to, but
influence what was happening in
the centers of political power? This
collective biography confirms that
nineteenth-century Hungary was no
earthly paradise. But it also shows
that the provinces produced men and
women with bold ideas on how to
change their world.
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Introducing a groundbreaking publishing

program in the
Digital Humanities
and Social Sciences,
with generous
support from the
Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation
This initiative aims to
provide a publishing
process for digital
projects that are
peer-reviewed, edited,
designed, and held to
the rigorous standards
of traditional print
monographs. This program will revolutionize
how scholars work
online and how their
research is accredited
by the academy.
Proposals for this
project are now
being accepted.
Visit sup.org/isw for
more information.

Enchanting the
Desert embellishes
Henry Peabodys
1905 slideshow of
the Grand Canyon by using rich GIS mapping overlays and virtual recreations of the
Canyons topography. Fifty essays accompany
the slideshow, exploring the history and
geography of the landmark.
Peabodys images were formative for todays
experience of the Canyon, as the views
shown on his slides have become the vista
points of todays national park. Allowing us
to explore the topography of the Canyon
from multiple perspectives, Bauchs
enhancement of the photographs transforms
what would be a whirlwind of shades and
rock formations into specific places filled
with cultural history. Through his skillful
interplay of subject matter and technical
features, Bauch raises and answers questions
only a digital-born project could make
possible and reveals a hidden geography
of a landmark that has come to define the
American West.
Available in 2016
DIGITAL HUMANITIES

Feverish Bodies,
Enlightened Minds

African Americans Against

the Bomb

VINCENT J. INTONDI

ARISSA H. OH

THOMAS A. APEL

Well before Rev. Dr. Martin Luther

King, Jr. spoke out against nuclear
weapons, African Americans were
protesting the Bomb. Historians have
generally ignored African Americans
when studying the anti-nuclear movement, yet they were some of the first
citizens to protest Trumans decision to
drop atomic bombs in Hiroshima and
Nagasaki in 1945. Now, for the first
time, Vincent Intondi tells the compelling story of those black activists who
fought for nuclear disarmament by
connecting the nuclear issue with the
fight for racial equality. By expanding
traditional research in the history of
the nuclear disarmament movement
to look at black liberals, clergy, artists,
musicians, and civil rights leaders,
Intondi reveals the links between
the black freedom movement in
America and issues of global peace.
From Langston Hughes through
Lorraine Hansberry to President
Obama, African Americans Against the
Bomb offers an eye-opening account of
the continuous involvement of African
Americans who recognized that the
rise of nuclear weapons was a threat to
the civil rights of all people.

To Save the Children of Korea is the

first book about the origins and
history of international adoption.
Although it has become a commonplace practice in the United States, we
know very little about how or why it
began, or how or why it developed
into the practice that we see today.

Science and the Yellow Fever

Controversy in the Early
American Republic
From 1793 to 1805, yellow fever
devastated U.S. port cities in a series
of terrifying epidemics. The search
for the cause and prevention of the
disease involved many prominent
American intellectuals, including
Noah Webster and Benjamin Rush.
This investigation produced one of
the most substantial and innovative
outpourings of scientific thought in
early American history. But it also led
to a heated and divisive debateboth
political and theologicalaround the
place of science in American society.
Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds
opens an important window onto the
conduct of scientific inquiry in the early
American republic. The debate reflected
contemporary beliefs about God and
creation, the capacities of the human
mind, and even the appropriate direction of the new nation. Through this
thoughtful investigation of the yellow
fever epidemic and engaging examination of natural science in early America,
Thomas Apel demonstrates that the
scientific imaginations of early republicans were far broader than historians
have realized: in order to understand
their science, we must understand their
ideas about God.
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UNITED STATES

Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism,

and the Black Freedom Movement

STANFORD NUCLEAR AGE SERIES

224 pp., 2015

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To Save the Children

of Korea

The Cold War Origins of

International Adoption

Arissa Oh argues that international

adoption began in the aftermath of
the Korean War. First established as
an emergency measure to evacuate
mixed-race GI babies, it became a
mechanism through which the Korean
government exported its unwanted
children: the poor, the disabled, or
those lacking Korean fathers. Focusing
on the legal, social, and political systems at work, this book shows how the
growth of Korean adoption from the
1950s to the 1980s occurred within the
context of the neocolonial U.S.-Korea
relationship, and was facilitated by
crucial congruencies in American and
Korean racial thought, government
policies, and nationalisms.
ASIAN AMERICA

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The Size of Others Burdens

Laws of Image

ERIK SCHNEIDERHAN

What if you suddenly found yourself on

the front page of the New York Times?
Or your picture was used to advertise
a new product youd never heard of?
Though most Americans go about their
lives privately, sometimes the limelight
is thrust upon the unsuspecting and
the unwilling. Today, Americans can
successfully sue over being portrayed
in a way they find misrepresentative
or upsetting. But it hasnt always been
this way. Just a few generations ago,
Americans had no legal recourse if their
image was used or misappropriated
without their permission.

Barack Obama, Jane Addams, and

the Politics of Helping Others

Americans have a fierce spirit of

individualism. We pride ourselves on
self-reliance, on bootstrapping our
way to success. Yet, we also believe in
helping those in need, and we turn to
our neighbors in times of crisis. The
tension between these competing
values is evident, and how we balance
between them holds real consequences
for community health and well-being.
In The Size of Others Burdens, Erik
Schneiderhan asks how people can
act in the face of competing pressures
and explores the stories of two famous
Americans to develop present-day
lessons for improving our communities.
Although Jane Addams and Barack
Obama are separated by roughly one
hundred years, the parallels between
their lives are remarkable. Through
the stories of Addamss and Obamas
early community work, Schneiderhan
challenges readers to think about how
many of our own struggles are not
simply personal challenges, but also
social challenges. Not everyone can
run for president or win a Nobel Prize,
but we can help others without sacrificing their dignity or our principles.
Great thinkers of the past and present
can give us the motivation; Addams
and Obama show us how.
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Privacy and Publicity in America

SAMANTHA BARBAS

Laws of Image tells the story of how

Americans came to use the law to
protect and manage their images,
feelings, and reputations. In this social,
cultural, and legal history, Samantha
Barbas ties the development of
personal image law to the self-consciousness and image-consciousness
that has become endemic in our
media-saturated culture of celebrity
and consumerism, where people see
their identities as intertwined with
their public images. The laws of image
are the expression of a people who
have become so publicity-conscious
and self-focused that they believe
they have a right to control their
imagesto manage and spin them
like actors, politicians, and rock stars.

Field Notes

The Making of Middle East Studies

in the United States
ZACHARY LOCKMAN

Field Notes reconstructs the origins

and trajectory of area studies in the
United States, focusing on Middle East
studies from the 1920s into the 1980s.
These new academic fields centered
around specific world regions were
not simply a product of the Cold War
or an instrument of the American
national security state, but had roots
in shifts in the humanities and the
social sciences stretching back to the
1920s. Drawing on extensive archival
research, Zachary Lockman shows
how the Carnegie, Rockefeller, and
Ford foundations played key roles in
conceiving, funding, and launching
postwar area studies. He explores the
decision-making processes and visions
of knowledge production at the
foundations and the bodies charged
with guiding the intellectual and
institutional development of Middle
East studies. Field Notes uncovers
how area studies as an academic
field was actually builta process
replete with contention, anxiety,
dead ends, and consequences both
unanticipated and unintended.
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MIDDLE EAST

Recovering Armenia

The Limits of Belonging in

Post-Genocide Turkey
LERNA EKMEKCIOGLU

Recovering Armenia offers the first

in-depth study of the aftermath of
the 1915 Armenian Genocide and the
Armenians who remained in Turkey.
Reading Armenian texts and images
produced in Istanbul from the close of
World War I through the early 1930s,
Lerna Ekmekcioglu gives voice to the
communitys most prominent public
figures, notably Hayganush Mark, a
renowned activist, feminist, and editor
of the influential journal Hay Gin.
The book explores a paradox: how
someone could be an Armenian and
a feminist in post-genocide Turkey
when, through various laws and regulations, the key path for Armenians to
maintain their identity was through
traditionally gendered roles.
With verve, passion, and wit, Lerna
Ekmekcioglu shows how central women
were to the restoration of the Armenian
community. Recovering Armenia is a
must-read for all students of the Great
War, and for anyone who wants to understand the modern Middle East and
the roots of sectarian conflict.
Elizabeth Thompson,
University of Virginia

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Shattered Dreams
of Revolution

The Ottoman Scramble

for Africa

BEDROSS DER MATOSSIAN

MOSTAFA MINAWI

The Ottoman revolution of 1908 raised

expectations for new opportunities of
inclusion and citizenship for Arabs, Armenians, and Jews. But these euphoric
feelings soon turned to pessimism
and a dramatic rise in ethnic tensions.
Today as the Middle East experiences
another set of revolutions, these early
lessons of the Ottoman Empire still
provide important insights into the
contradictions of hope and disillusion.

This is the first book to tell the story

of the Ottoman Empires expansionist
efforts during the age of high imperialism. Drawing on previously untapped
Ottoman archival evidence, Mostafa
Minawi examines how the Ottoman
participation in the Conference of
Berlin and subsequent involvement in
an aggressive inter-imperial competition for colonial possessions in Africa
were part of a self-reimagining of this
once powerful global empire. In so
doing, Minawi redefines the parameters
of agency in late nineteenth-century
colonialism to include the Ottoman
Empire and turns the typical framework of a European colonizer and a
non-European colonized on its head.
Most importantly, Minawi offers a
radical revision of nineteenth century
Middle East history by providing a
counternarrative to the Sick Man
of Europe trope, challenging the
idea that the Ottomans were passive
observers of the great European
powers negotiations over solutions
to the so-called Eastern Question.

From Liberty to Violence in

the Late Ottoman Empire

262 pp., 2015

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Goodbye, Antoura

A Memoir of the
Armenian Genocide
KARNIG PANIAN

When World War I began, Karnig

Panian was five years old, living among
his fellow Armenians in Anatolia. Four
years later, American aid workers
found him at an orphanage in Lebanon.
He was among nearly 1,000 Armenian
and 400 Kurdish children who had
been abandoned at the orphanage.
Panians memoir is a full-throated
story of loss, resistance, and survival,
but told without bitterness or sentimentality. Goodbye Antoura assures us
of how humanity, once denied, can be
again reclaimed.
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Empire and Diplomacy in the

Sahara and the Hijaz

272 pp., 2016

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Partners of the Empire

The Shaykh of Shaykhs

The Crisis of the Ottoman Order

in the Age of Revolutions

Mithqal Al-Fayiz and Tribal

Leadership in Modern Jordan

ALI YAYCIOGLU

YOAV ALON

Partners of Empire offers a radical

rethinking of the Ottoman Empire in
the eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries. Over this unstable period,
the Ottoman Empire faced political
crises, institutional shakeups, and
popular insurrections. This book
takes a holistic look at the era, not
simply at central reforms or regional
developments, but at their interactions.
Drawing on original archival sources,
Ali Yaycioglu uncovers the patterns
of political actionthe making and
unmaking of coalitions, forms of
building and losing power, and public
opinions. He shows that the Ottoman
transformation was not a linear
transition; rather, it involved many
crossing paths, as well as dead-ends,
all of which offered a rich repertoire of
governing possibilities to be followed,
reinterpreted, or ultimately forgotten.

Born in the 1880s during a time

of rapid modernization across the
Ottoman Empire, Shaykh Mithqal
al-Fayiz led his tribe through World
War I, the development and decline of
colonial rule and founding of Jordan,
the establishment of the state of
Israel and the Arab-Israeli conflict that
ensued, and the rise of pan-Arabism.
In following Mithqals remarkable
life, this book explores how Mithqal
redefined the modern role of the
shaykh, and tribal leadership in the
modern Middle East more generally.
The support of Mithqals tribe to the
Jordanian Hashemite regime extends
back to the creation of Jordan in 1921
and has characterized its political
system ever since. The long-standing
alliances between such tribal elites
and the royal family explain, to a large
extent, the countrys relative stability
over the decades. Mithqal al-Fayizs
life and work as a shaykh offer a
notable individual story, as well as a
window into a social, political, and
cultural office as it evolved.

This book not only fills an important

gap in early modern Middle Eastern
history, but it teaches a lesson about
writing world history. Ali Yaycioglu
offers the most conclusive corrective
to the still often-heard argument that
representative institutions are a foreign
import to the Middle East.

Kuwait Transformed

A History of Oil and Urban Life

FARAH AL-NAKIB

Kuwait Transformed connects the citys

past and presentfrom its settlement
in 1716 to the twenty-first century
through the bridge of oil discovery. It
traces the relationships between the
urban landscape, patterns and practices
of everyday life, and social behaviors
and relations in Kuwait. The history
that emerges reveals how decades of
urban planning, suburbanization,
and privatization have eroded a once
open and tolerant society and given
rise to the insularity, xenophobia, and
divisiveness that characterize Kuwaiti
social relations today. The book makes
a call for a restoration of the city that
modern planning eliminated. But this is
not simply a case of nostalgia for a lost
landscape, lifestyle, or community. It
is a claim for a right to the citythe
right of all inhabitants to shape and use
the spaces of their city to meet their
own needs and desires.
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Baki Tezcan,
University of California, Davis

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Violence and the City in

the Modern Middle East
EDITED BY NELIDA FUCCARO

This critical and timely volume offers

an important way to understand
the transformative powers of urban
violenceits ability to redraw the
boundaries of urban life, to create
and divide communities, and to affect
ruling strategies locally and globally.
Essays reflect the diversity of Middle
Eastern urbanism from the eighteenth
to the late twentieth centuries, from
the capitals of Cairo, Tunis, and
Baghdad to the provincial towns of
Jeddah, Nablus, and Basra and the oil
settlements of Dhahran and Abadan.
In reconstructing the violent pasts
of cities, this book offers alternative
and complementary perspectives to
the making and unmaking of empires,
nations, and states.
Violence has long been a major
feature of social and political life in
Middle Eastern cities, but no single
volume surveys so much of the area
in the way that this one does. A
truly path-breaking collection.
Peter Sluglett, Middle East Institute,
National University of Singapore

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Workers and Thieves

Labor Movements and Popular

Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt

SHERENE SEIKALY

Since the 1990s, the Middle East has

experienced an upsurge of wildcat
strikes, sit-ins, demonstrations, and
other collective actions. However,
most observers have failed to recognize the importance of workers
participation in the events of the
Arab uprisings of 2011, the ouster of
Egyptian and Tunisian autocrats, and
the political realignments after their
demise. In Workers and Thieves, Joel
Beinin argues that the Egyptian and
Tunisian uprisingsand, importantly,
their vastly different outcomesare
best understood within the context of
the repeated mobilizations of workers
and the unemployed since the 1970s.

Men of Capital examines British-ruled

Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s
through a focus on economy. In a
departure from the expected histories
of Palestine, this book illuminates dynamic class constructions that aimed
to shape a pan-Arab utopia in terms
of free trade, profit accumulation, and
private property. It positions Palestine
and Palestinians in the larger world of
Arab thought and social life, moving
attention away from the limiting
debates of ZionistPalestinian conflict.
Ultimately, it shows that the economic
is as central to social management as
the political.

We know the thieves who plundered

Tunisia and Egypt, but few have
considered the role of the workers to
understand why these countries led the
Arab Spring in 2011. Joel Beinin offers
this necessary perspective, highlighting
in this truly readable and most useful
account the clash of workers and thieves
that shaped Tunisias and Egypts recent
history and will determine their future.
Gilbert Achcar, SOAS,
University of London

StanfordBRIEFS
MIDDLE EAST

Scarcity and Economy in

Mandate Palestine

JOEL BEININ

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Men of Capital

Men of Capital is a breathtaking study

of the complex work of making economy in pre-1948 Palestine, filled with
unforgettable characters striving for
economic renewal in commerce and in
the home. Sherene Seikaly gives us entirely new ways of thinking about Israel/
Palestine and colonialismall wrapped
up in an unstoppable read.
Julia Elyachar,
University of California, Irvine

272 pp., 2015

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Composing Egypt

Reading, Writing, and the

Emergence of a Modern Nation,

18701930

Scythe and the City

A Social History of Death

in Shanghai
CHRISTIAN HENRIOT

HODA A. YOUSEF

The issue of death has loomed large

in Chinese cities in the modern
Hoda Yousef explores how the idea of
literacy and its practices fundamentally era. Throughout the Republican
period, Shanghai swallowed up lives
altered the social fabric of Egypt at
by the thousands. Exposed bodies
the turn of the twentieth century. The
impact of new reading and writing prac- strewn around in public spaces were
tices went well beyond the elites and the a threat to social order as well as to
newly literate of Egyptian society. Wide public health. In a place where every
group had its own beliefs and set of
segments of society could engage with
new ideas about nationalism, education, death and funeral practices, how did
gender, and, ultimately, what it meant to they adapt to a modern, urbanized
environment? How did the interacbe part of modern Egypt.
tions of social organizations and state
272 pp., 2016
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thinking and acting?

Making History in Iran

Recent historiography has almost

completely ignored the ways in which
death created such immense social
change in China. Now, Scythe and the
FARZIN VEJDANI
City corrects this problem. Christian
Iranian history was long told through
Henriots pioneering and original
a variety of stories and legend, tribal
study of Shanghai between 1865 and
lore and genealogies, and tales of the
1965 offers new insights into this
prophets. But in the late nineteenth
crucial aspect of modern society in
century, new institutions emerged to
a global commercial hub and guides
produce and circulate a coherent history
readers through this tumultuous era
that fundamentally reshaped these
that radically redefined the Chinese
fragmented narratives and dynastic
relationship with death.
storylines. Farzin Vejdani investigates
480 pp., 2016
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cultural institutions and a growing
public-sphere affected history-writing,
and how in turn this writing defined
Iranian nationalism.

Education, Nationalism, and

Print Culture

288 pp., 2015

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Empires of Coal

Fueling Chinas Entry into the

Modern World Order, 18601920
SHELLEN XIAO WU

From 18681872, German geologist

Ferdinand von Richthofen went on
an expedition to China. His reports
on what he found there would
transform Western interest in China
from the land of porcelain and tea to
a repository of immense coal reserves.
By the 1890s, European and American
powers and the Qing state and local
elites battled for control over the rights
to these valuable mineral deposits. As
coal went from a useful commodity to
the essential fuel of industrialization,
this vast natural resource would prove
integral to the struggle for political
control of China.
Geology served both as the handmaiden to European imperialism
and the rallying point of Chinese
resistance to Western encroachment.
In the late nineteenth century both
foreign powers and the Chinese
viewed control over mineral resources
as the key to modernization and
industrialization. When the first
China Geological Survey began work
in the 1910s, conceptions of natural
resources had already shifted, and the
Qing state expanded its control over
mining rights, setting the precedent
for the subsequent Republican and
Peoples Republic of China regimes.
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Negotiating Chinas Destiny

in World War II
EDITED BY HANS VAN DE VEN,
DIANA LARY, AND
STEPHEN R. MACKINNON

Before World War II, China had suffered through five wars with European
powers as well as American imperial
policies resulting in economic, military,
and political domination. This shifted
dramatically during WWII, resulting in
the evolution of Chinas relationships
with the USSR, the U.S., Britain, France,
India, and Japan. This book explains
how China was able to become one of
the Allies with a seat on the Security
Council, thus changing the course of
its future.
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Politics, Poetics, and Gender

in Late Qing China

Xue Shaohui and the Era of Reform

NANXIU QIAN

In 1898, Qing dynasty emperor

Guangxu ordered a series of reforms
to correct the weaknesses exposed
by Chinas defeat by Japan in the First
Sino-Japanese War. Until now the Qing
women reformers have received almost
no consideration for their role in the
Hundred Days Reform. In this book,
Nanxiu Qian reveals the contributions
of the active, optimistic, and selfsufficient women reformers of the late
Qing Dynasty.
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Photography for Everyone

Youth and Empire

The Cultural Lives of Cameras and

Consumers in Early TwentiethCentury Japan

Trans-Colonial Childhoods in
British and French Asia

KERRY ROSS

Youth and Empire brings to light new

research and new interpretations on
two relatively neglected fields of study:
the history of imperialism in East and
Southeast Asia and, more pointedly,
the influence of childhoodand
childrens voiceson modern empires.

The Japanese passion for photography

is almost a clich, but how did
it begin? Although Japanese art
photography has been widely studied,
this book is the first to demonstrate
how photography became an everyday
activity. Japans enthusiasm for
photography emerged alongside a
retail and consumer revolution that
marketed products and activities that
fit into a modern, tasteful, middleclass lifestyle. Kerry Ross examines the
magazines and merchandise promoted
to ordinary Japanese people in the
early twentieth century that allowed
Japanese consumers to participate
in that lifestyle, and gave them a
powerful tool to define its contours.
Ross looks at the quotidian activities
that went into the entire picturemaking process, activities not typically
understood as photographic in nature,
such as shopping for a camera, reading
photography magazines, and even
preserving ones pictures in albums.
These activities embedded the camera
in everyday life and made it the
irresistible enterprise that Eastman
encountered in his first visit to Japan
in 1920 when he remarked that the
Japanese people were almost as addicted to the Kodak habit as ourselves.
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DAVID M. POMFRET

By utilizing a diverse range of

unpublished source materials drawn
from three different continents, David
M. Pomfret examines the emergence
of children and childhood as a central
historical force in the global history
of empire in the late nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. This book is
unusual in its scope, extending across
the two empires of Britain and France
and to points of intense impact in
tropical places where indigenous, immigrant, and foreign cultures mixed:
Hong Kong, Singapore, Saigon, and
Hanoi. It thereby shows how childhood was crucial to definitions of race,
and thus European authority, in these
parts of the world. By examining the
various contradictory and overlapping
meanings of childhood in colonial
Asia, Pomfret is able to provide new
and often surprising readings of a set
of problems that continue to trouble
our contemporary world.
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Radical Equality

Ambedkar, Gandhi, and the

Risk of Democracy
AISHWARY KUMAR

B.R. Ambedkar, the architect of Indias

constitution, and Indian nationalist M.K.
Gandhi, the two figures whose policies
and legacies have most contributed to
Indian democracy, are typically considered antagonists who held irreconcilable
views of empire and political and social
reform. As such, they are rarely studied
together. This book reassesses their
complex relationship, focusing on what
it identifies as a mutual commitment to
unconditional equality as inseparable
from the struggle for sovereignty.

Purchasing Whiteness

Fatal Love

ANN TWINAM

VICTOR M. URIBE-URAN

Pardos, Mulattos, and the

Quest for Social Mobility in
the Spanish Indies

The colonization of Spanish America

resulted in the mixing of Natives, Europeans, and Africans and the subsequent
creation of a casta system that discriminated against them. Members of mixed
races could, however, free themselves
from such burdensome restrictions
through the purchase of a gracias al
sacara royal exemption that provided
the privileges of Whiteness. For more
than a century, the whitening gracias al
sacar has fascinated historians. Even while
the documents remained elusive, scholars
It traces the philosophical foundations
continually mentioned the potential
of their thought in Indian and Western
to acquire Whiteness as a provocative
traditions, both religious and secular,
marker of the historic differences between
and explores the paradoxes and risks of
Anglo and Latin American treatments of
democracy in modern political thought.
race. Purchasing Whiteness explores the
It is particularly attentive to slippages
fascinating details of 40 cases of whitenwhereby their militant demands for egaliing petitions, tracking thousands of pages
tarian justice are compromised or contraof ensuing conversations as petitioners,
dicted by their own moral practices, and
royal officials, and local elites disputed
where the language of nonviolence lapses
not only whether the state should grant
into that of force or sacrifice. Excavating
full whiteness to deserving individuals,
the intellectual kinship of Ambedkar and
but whether selective prejudices against
Gandhi, Aishwary Kumar allows them to
the castas should cease. By examining
shed light on each other, and the story of
this history of pardo and mulatto mobility,
their struggle against inequality, violence,
Ann Twinam provides striking insight
and empire thus transcends national
into those uniquely characteristic and
boundaries and unfolds within a broader
deeply embedded pathways through
twentieth-century history of ideas.
which the Hispanic world negotiated
416 pp., 2015
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Spousal Killers, Law, and

Punishment in the Late
Colonial Spanish Atlantic

For historians, spousal murders are

significant for what they reveal about
social and family history, in particular the
hidden history of day-to-day gender relations, conflicts, crimes, and punishments.
Fatal Love examines this phenomenon
in the late colonial Spanish Atlantic,
focusing on incidents occurring in New
Spain (colonial Mexico), New Granada
(colonial Colombia), and Spain from the
1740s to the 1820s. In the more than 200
cases consulted, it considers not only the
social features of the murders, but also
the legal discourses and judicial practices guiding the historical treatment of
spousal murders, helping us understand
the historical intersection of domestic
violence, private and state/church patriarchy, and the law.
A highly valuable contribution to the
history of social violence and Spanish law
both in the metropolis and the colonies.
Eric Van Young,
University of California, San Diego

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The River People in

Flood Time

The Civil Wars in Tabasco,

Spoiler of Empires
TERRY RUGELEY

The River People in Flood Time tells the

astonishing story of how the people of
nineteenth-century Tabasco, Mexico,
overcame impossible odds to expel
foreign interventions. Tabascans
resisted control by Mexico City, overcame the grip of a Cuban adventurer
who seized the region for two years,
turned back the United States Navy,
and defeated the French Intervention
of the early 1860s, thus remaining free
territory while the rest of the nation
struggled for four painful years under
the imposed monarchy of Maximilian.
With colorful anecdotes and biographical sketches, this deeply researched and
masterfully written history reconstructs
the lives and culture of the Tabascans,
as well as their pre-Columbian and
colonial past. Virtually the only English-language study of this little-known
province, it explores the ways in which
geography, climate, and social relationships contributed to an extraordinarily
successful defense against unwelcome
meddling from the outside world.
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Pesos and Politics

Business, Elites, Foreigners, and

Government in Mexico, 18541940

LATIN AMERICA

Zacatecas, Mexico, 1546-1810

MARK WASSERMAN

DANA VELASCO MURILLO

The relationship between business and

politics is crucial to understanding
Mexican history, and Pesos and Politics
explores this relationship from the
mid-nineteenth century dictatorship
of Porfirio Diaz through the Mexican
Revolution (18761940). Mark Wasserman argues that throughout this era,
over the course of successive regimes,
there was an evolving enterprise system
that had to balance the interests of the
Mexican national elite, state and local
governments, large foreign corporations, and individual foreign entrepreneurs. During and after the Revolution,
these groups were joined by organized
labor and organized peasants. Concentrating on the three most important
sectors of the Mexican economy:
mining, agriculture, and railroads, and
employing a series of case studies of the
careers of prominent Mexican business
people and the operations of large U.S.owned ranching and mining companies,
Wasserman effectively demonstrates
that Mexicans in fact controlled their
economy from the 1880s through 1940;
foreigners did not exploit the country;
and, Mexicans established, sometimes
shakily, sometimes unplanned, a system
of relations between foreigners, elite
and government (and later unions and
peasant organizations) that maintained
checks and balances on all parties.

In the sixteenth century, silver mined

by native peoples became New Spains
most important export. Silver production served as a catalyst for northern
expansion, creating mining towns that
led to the development of new industries, markets, population clusters, and
frontier institutions. On the northern
edge of the empire, 350 miles from
Mexico City, sprung up Zacatecas, a
silver-mining town that would grow
in prominence to become the Second
City of New Spain.

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Urban Indians in a
Silver City

Urban Indians in a Silver City

illuminates the social footprint of
colonial Mexicos silver mining district.
It reveals the men, women, children,
and families that shaped indigenous
society and shifts the view of indigenous peoples from simply laborers
to settlers and vecinos (municipal
residents). Dana Velasco Murillo
shows how native peoples exploited
the urban milieu to create multiple
statuses and identities that allowed
them to live in Zacatecas as both
Indians and vecinos. In reconsidering
traditional paradigms about ethnicity
and identity among the urban Indian
population, she raises larger questions
about the nature and rate of cultural
change in the Mexican north.
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Reading Rio de Janeiro

Literature and Society in the

Nineteenth Century
ZEPHYR FRANK

Reading Rio de Janeiro blazes a new

trail for understanding the cultural
history of 19th-century Brazil. To bring
the social fabric of Rio de Janeiro
alive, Zephyr Frank flips the historians
usual interest in literature as a source
of evidence and, instead, uses the
historical context to understand
literature. By focusing on the theme
of social integration through the
novels of Jos de Alencar, Machado
de Assis, and Aluisio Azevedo, the
author draws the readers attention to
the way characters are caught between
conflicting moral imperatives as they
encounter the newly mobile, capitalist,
urban society, so different from the
slave-based plantations of the past.
Some characters grow and triumph
in this setting; others are defeated by
it. Though literature infuses this social
history of 19th-century Rio, it is replete
with maps, graphs, non-fiction sources,
and statistical data and analysis that
are the historians stock-in-trade. By
connecting a literary understanding of
the social problems with the quantitative data traditional historical methods
provide, Frank creates a richer and
deeper understanding of society in
19th-century Rio.
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Ftbol, Jews, and the

Making of Argentina
RAANAN REIN

If you attend a soccer match in Buenos

Aires of the local Atlanta Athletic Club,
you will likely hear the rival teams
chanting anti-Semitic slogans. This
is because the neighborhood of Villa
Crespo has long been considered a Jewish district, and its soccer team, Club
Atltico Atlanta, has served as an avenue
of integration into Argentine culture.
Through the lens of this neighborhood
institution, Raanan Rein offers an
absorbing social history of Jews in
Latin America. The soccer club has also
constituted one of the few spaces where
both Jews and non-Jews, affiliated Jews
and non-affiliated Jews, Zionists and
non-Zionists, have interacted. The
result has been an active shaping of the
local culture by Jewish Latin Americans
to their own purposes.
Offering a rare window into the rich
culture of everyday life in the city of
Buenos Aires created by Jewish immigrants and their descendants, Ftbol,
Jews, and the Making of Argentina
represents a pioneering study of the
intersection between soccer, ethnicity,
and identity in Latin America and
makes a major contribution to Jewish
History, Latin American History, and
Sports History.
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Sephardi Lives

A Documentary History, 17001950

JULIA PHILLIPS COHEN AND
SARAH ABREVAYA STEIN

This ground-breaking documentary history contains over 150 primary sources

originally written in fifteen languages by
or about Sephardi Jewsdescendants
of Jews who fled medieval Spain and
Portugal settling in the western portions
of the Ottoman Empire, including the
Balkans, Anatolia, and Palestine. Reflecting Sephardi history in all its diversity,
from the courtyard to the courthouse,
spheres intimate, political, commercial,
familial, and religious, these documents
show life within these distinctive Jewish
communities as well as between Jews,
Muslims, and Christians.
Sephardi Lives offers readers an intimate
view of how Sephardim experienced the
major regional and world events of the
modern eranatural disasters, violence
and wars, the transition from empire to
nation-states, and the Holocaust. It also
provides a vivid exploration of the dayto-day lives of Sephardi women, men,
boys, and girls in the Judeo-Spanish
heartland of the Ottoman Balkans
and Middle East, as well as the migr
centers Sephardim settled throughout
the twentieth century, including North
and South America, Africa, Asia, and
Europe. In a single volume, Sephardi
Lives preserves the cultural richness
and historical complexity of a Sephardi
world that is no more.
400 pp., 2014
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The Marriage Plot

Or, How Jews Fell in Love with

Love, and with Literature

Jewish Rights, National Rites

Nationalism and Autonomy in Late

Imperial and Revolutionary Russia

NAOMI SEIDMAN

SIMON RABINOVITCH

For nineteenth-century Eastern

European Jews, modernization entailed
the abandonment of arranged marriage
in favor of the love match. Romantic
novels taught Jewish readers the rules
of romance and the choreography
of courtship. But because these new
conceptions of romance were rooted in
the Christian and chivalric traditions,
the Jewish embrace of the love religion
was always partial.

Jewish Rights, National Rights provides

a completely new interpretation of the
origins of Jewish nationalism in Russia.
It argues that Jewish nationalism, and
Jewish politics generally, developed in a
changing legal environment where the
idea that nations had rights was beginning to take hold, and centered on the
demand for Jewish autonomy in Eastern
Europe. Drawing on numerous archives
and libraries in the United States, Russia,
Ukraine, and Israel, Simon Rabinovitch
carefully reconstructs the political movement for Jewish autonomy, its personalities, institutions, and cultural projects.

In The Marriage Plot, Naomi Seidman

considers the evolution of Jewish love
and marriage though the literature
that provided Jews with a sentimental
education and highlights a persistent
ambivalence in the Jewish adoption
of romantic ideologies. Nineteenthcentury Hebrew and Yiddish literature
tempered romantic love with the claims
of family and community, and treated
the rules of gender complementarity
as comedic fodder. Twentieth-century
Jewish writers turned back to tradition,
finding pleasures in matchmaking,
intergenerational ties, and sexual segregation. In the modern Jewish voices of
Sigmund Freud, Erica Jong, Philip Roth,
and Tony Kushner, traditional Jewish
attitudes and approaches to sex, marriage, and gender find surprising echoes.
The Jewish heretical challenge to the
European romantic sublime has become
the central sexual ideology of our time.
368 pp., 2016
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392 pp., 2014

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Emissaries from
the Holy Land

The Sephardic Diaspora and the

Practice of Pan-Judaism in the
Eighteenth Century
MATTHIAS B. LEHMANN

Mattias Lehmann provides a critical,

historical perspective on the question
of how Jews in the early modern
period encountered one another, how
they related to Jerusalem and the land
of Israel, and how the early modern
period changed perceptions of Jewish
unity and solidarity.
352 pp., 2014
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STANFORD STUDIES IN JEWISH HISTORY AND CULTURE

A BOOK SERIES EDITED BY DAVID BIALE AND SARAH ABREVAYA STEIN

Clepsydra

Marigold

Essay on the Plurality of

Time in Judaism

The Lost Chance for

Peace in Vietnam

SYLVIE ANNE GOLDBERG

JAMES G. HERSHBERG

The clepsydra is an ancient water clock

and serves as the primary metaphor
for this examination of Jewish conceptions of time from antiquity to the
present. Just as the flow of water is
subject to a number of variables such
as temperature and pressure, water
clocks mark a time that is shifting
and relative. Time is not a uniform
phenomenon. It is a social construct
made of beliefs, scientific knowledge,
and political experiment. It is also a
story told by theologians, historians,
philosophers, and astrophysicists.

COLD WAR INTERNATIONAL

HISTORY PROJECT

Consequently, Clepsydra is a cultural

history divided in two parts: narrated
time and measured time, recounted
time and counted time, absolute time
and ordered time. It is through this
dialog that Sylvie Anne Goldberg
challenges the idea of a unified JudeoChristian time and asks, What is
Jewish time? She consults biblical and
rabbinic sources and refers to medieval and modern texts to understand
the different sorts of consciousness of
time found in Judaism. In Jewish time,
Goldberg argues, past, present, and
future are intertwined and comprise
one perpetual narrative.

936 pp., 2012

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Battleground Africa

Cold War in the Congo, 19601965

LISE NAMIKAS
COLD WAR INTERNATIONAL
HISTORY PROJECT

352 pp., 2013

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Constructing East Asia

Technology, Ideology, and Empire

in Japans Wartime Era, 19311945
AARON STEPHEN MOORE

328 pp., 2013

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From Frontier Policy

to Foreign Policy

The Question of India and the

Transformation of Geopolitics
in Qing China
MATTHEW W. MOSCA

408 pp., 2013

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The Barber of Damascus

Nouveau Literacy in the

Eighteenth-Century
Ottoman Levant
DANA SAJDI

312 pp., 2013

9780804797276 Paper $27.95 $22.36 sale

Mixing Musics

Turkish Jewry and the Urban

Landscape of a Sacred Song
MAUREEN JACKSON
STANFORD STUDIES IN JEWISH
HISTORY AND CULTURE

272 pp., 2013

9780804797269 Paper $27.95 $22.36 sale

Dolores del Ro

Beauty in Light and Shade

LINDA B. HALL

376 pp., 2013

9780804799461 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale

Rabbis and Revolution

The Jews of Moravia in the

Age of Emancipation

MICHAEL LAURENCE MILLER

STANFORD STUDIES IN JEWISH
HISTORY AND CULTURE

480 pp., 2010

9780804799713 Paper $29.95 $23.96 sale

376 pp., 2016

9780804789059 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale

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