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Russia ..................................................................................................... 1–2
Germany and Central & Eastern Europe ........................................... 3
France ..................................................................................................... 4–5
Early Modern Europe .............................................................................. 6
Medieval Europe .................................................................................. 6–8
The United States .............................................................................. 9–15
Asia ............................................................................................................. 16
Africa .......................................................................................................... 17
Global History ......................................................................................... 17
Diplomatic & Military History ........................................................... 18
History of Science ................................................................................... 19
Historiography ........................................................................................ 19
Recent Award-Winning Books .......................................................... 20
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Russia
Cars for Comrades

The Life of the Soviet Automobile
Lewis H. Siegelbaum
• Winner,2009 Ed A. Hewett Book Prize (Ameri-
can Association for the Advancement of Slavic
Studies)
“Siegelbaum has produced a superb account of Soviet
life as viewed through the lens of the failed Soviet
struggle to match the capitalist West, and the U.S.
in particular, auto for auto and highway for highway,
while denying its citizens the mobility that would
Spartak Moscow undermine the Soviet state. The book is a pleasure
to read and brings an important part of Soviet his-
A History of the People’s Team in the Workers’ State tory to light by illustrating the day-to-day workings
Robert Edelman of its economic system.”—Books & Culture
“Today’s savvy sports fan accepts that favorite games 2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4638-2
have a political dimension, without allowing that 328 pages | $39.95 cloth (catalog price: $31.96)
to deter from the thrill of competition. In this fasci-
nating study of one of Moscow’s preeminent soccer
teams, Robert Edelman reminds that the opposite is To the Tashkent Station
also true, that politics has an athletic edge. Permit- Evacuation and Survival in the Soviet Union at War
ting fans, managers, and athletes to tell the history
of their team, Spartak, Edelman provides unique in- Rebecca Manley
sights into the USSR and Russia.” “This is an indispensable contribution to the schol-
—Louise McReynolds, UNC Chapel Hill arship on World War II. It will certainly repay the
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4742-6 attention of readers who are seeking a serious, in-
400 pages | $35.00 cloth (catalog price: $28.00) formed, and nuanced study of Soviet wartime up-
heaval and mobilization. Drawing from source ma-
terial in several Russian archives, Rebecca Manley
guides the reader through debates on policy as well
as the process and experiences of evacuation, reset-
Stories of the Soviet Experience tlement, and return of Soviet civilians.”
Memoirs, Diaries, Dreams —Peter Gatrell, University of Manchester
Irina Paperno 2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4739-6
“With this, her third magisterial book, the eminent 304 pages | $45.00 cloth (catalog price: $36.00)
literary and cultural historian Irina Paperno moves
from Russia’s nineteenth into the twentieth century,
of which she was a denizen and which is now histo- From Ruins to Reconstruction
ry. As usual, Paperno works at the elusive borderline Urban Identity in Soviet Sevastopol after
between ‘raw life’ and the ‘meaning(s)’ born from its World War II
foam. The riveting interest of the stories told by his- Karl D. Qualls
tory’s participants is matched by the sophistication
of the analyst.”—Alexander Zholkovsky, USC “The epic of Sevastopol’s destruction, reconstruction,
and memorializing as recounted in Karl D. Qualls’s
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7590-0 From Ruins to Reconstruction is both an important
304 pages | $22.95 paper (catalog price: $18.36) case study of postwar reconstruction and a sig-
nificant contribution to our understanding of ‘high
Stalinism.’”—Theodore R. Weeks, Southern Illinois
University
Khrushchev’s Cold Summer 2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4762-4
Gulag Returnees, Crime, and the 232 pages | $49.95 cloth (catalog price: $39.96)
Fate of Reform after Stalin
Miriam Dobson The Many Lives of
“A truly panoptic study of Khrushchev’s USSR, Khrushchev’s Thaw
Miriam Dobson’s book offers a perceptive analysis Experience and Memory in Moscow’s Arbat
of de-Stalinization, especially the social and moral
upheavals following the mass return of ‘Stalin’s out-
Stephen V. Bittner
casts’ from the Gulag. Based on new archival sources “Bittner’s account consistently refines and compli-
and covering issues as diverse as party politics, youth cates the myth of the ‘thaw’ while acknowledging
culture, and prisoners’ tattoos, it shows a society in myth’s real cultural and social power. The ‘thaw’
the process of reinventing itself, defining new val- myth and the Arbat myth, he argues, became en-
ues and articulating new meanings for justice, honor, twined, even mutually constitutive. . . . An immense-
and respectability.”—Hubertus F. Jahn, University ly rewarding and thought-provoking work.”
of Cambridge —Russian Review
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4757-0 2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4606-1
288 pages | $45.00 cloth (catalog price: $36.00) 288 pages | $39.95 cloth (catalog price: $31.96)
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RUSSIA
The Odd Man Karakozov

Imperial Russia, Modernity, and the
Birth of Terrorism
Claudia Verhoeven
“Verhoeven demonstrates that Karakozov’s attempt
on the life of Alexander II inaugurated a new form
of modern terrorist political violence—the murder
of a crowned ruler, conceived as a form of action and
communication intended to catalyze further revolu-
tionary upheaval and the overthrow of the state.”
—Kevin M. F. Platt, University of Pennyslvania
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4652-8
Slavophile Empire 248 pages | $39.95 cloth (catalog price: $31.96)
Imperial Russia’s Illiberal Path
Laura Engelstein
“These concise and lucid essays by Laura Engelstein Divine Sophia
reveal the complex and straitened political culture The Wisdom Writings of Vladimir Solovyov
of moderate and conservative Russia in the century Judith Deutsch Kornblatt
before the 1917 revolution. Engelstein provides a
• Winner, 2009 Association for Women in Slavic
compelling analysis of the futile quests of liberals
and conservative thinkers and artists to find a basis Studies’ Prize for Best translation in Slavic/East-
ern European/Eurasian women’s studies
for a viable Russian national identity either in civic
ideals or in Orthodox religion while facing an un- “Kornblatt has written an extremely interesting and
yielding autocracy and an increasingly intransigent valuable book devoted to Divine Sophia, a concept
revolutionary movement.” which came to fascinate Solovyov and appears in
—Richard Wortman, Columbia University many of his writings, while providing the reader
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7592-4 with annotated translations of Solovyov’s Wis-
256 pages | $24.95 paper (catalog price: $19.96) dom writings, each introduced by a helpful reading
guide.”—Times Literary Supplement
2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7479-8
320 pages | $21.95 paper (catalog price: $17.56)
Renovating Russia
The Human Sciences and the Fate of
Liberal Modernity, 1880–1930 The Old Faith and the
Daniel Beer Russian Land
“Beer offers a wealth of new material on the pre-rev- A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals
olutionary roots of the intellectual apparatus used Douglas Rogers
by the Bolsheviks to make sense of their society. The
book offers a convincing case in favor of seeing the “This extraordinarily skillful and instructive account
Soviet modernization project, not as a deviation of a community’s creation of ethical practices and
from European modernity, but as ‘a legitimate off- subjectivities uses ethnography to illuminate his-
spring of the modern spirit,’ as Zygmunt Bauman tory and historical study to elucidate current efforts
has put it.”—Times Literary Supplement to define community standards. Rogers’s work also
speaks powerfully to the role of religion and com-
2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4627-6 munity in the post-Soviet world more broadly.”
248 pages | $45.00 cloth (catalog price: $36.00) —David L. Ransel, Indiana University
Culture and Society after Socialism
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7520-7
Lost to the Collective 360 pages | $24.95 paper (catalog price: $19.96)
Suicide and the Promise of Soviet
Socialism, 1921–1929
Kenneth M. Pinnow Meeting the Demands of Reason
The Life and Thought of Andrei Sakharov
“Based on a broad foundation of sources, Lost to the Col-
lective employs closely focused and well-argued chap- Jay Bergman
ters to study how specific institutional nodes—the “In this superb intellectual history, Jay Bergman il-
Communist Party, the Red Army, forensic medical luminates the rise of the public citizen in the USSR,
doctors, social statisticians—understood, tracked, from Stalin to Gorbachev, explaining how physi-
and explained suicide. This impressive book should cist Andrei Sakharov moved from unquestioningly
be of interest to students of Soviet history and more developing nuclear weapons for the Soviet state to
broadly to those interested in the interplay of social raising questions about universal human rights and
science and state policy.” even the legitimacy of the USSR.”
—Peter Holquist, University of Pennsylvania —Paul R. Josephson, Colby College
2010 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4766-2 2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4731-0
2 cornell university press

germany and central & eastern europe
Kidnapped Souls Adam Mickiewicz

National Indifference and the The Life of a Romantic
Battle for Children in the Roman Koropeckyj
Bohemian Lands, 1900–1948 • Cowinner, 2009 AAASS/
Tara Zahra Orbis Books Prize for Polish
• Winner, 2009 Barbara Studies
Jelavich Book Prize (Ameri- “This superb, meticulously
can Association for the Ad-
researched, richly detailed
vancement of Slavic Studies)
book places the great Polish
• Winner, 2009 Czechoslovak Romantic poet and patriot in
Studies Association Book Prize the midst of European events
“Zahra’s finely researched, engagingly written book of his time. . . . Koropeckyj reveals details unknown
makes many contributions to several different lit- even to avid scholars of Polish literature.”—Choice
eratures, including comparative studies of national- 2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4471-5
ism, the history of the welfare state, and the history 568 pages | $45.00 cloth (catalog price: $36.00)
of pedagogy. Most striking is her ability to write a
truly Bohemian history, rather than a Czech or Ger-
man one.”—H-German, H-Net Reviews
The Greengrocer and His TV
2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4628-3
304 pages | $39.95 cloth (catalog price: $31.96) The Culture of Communism after the
1968 Prague Spring
Reforming the Moral Subject Paulina Bren
Ethics and Sexuality in Central Europe, 1890–1930 “Few scholars have yet tackled the dynamics of what
Tracie Matysik Václav Havel called ‘post-totalitarianism,’ with its
“Matysik is stunningly creative in her analysis of the myriad enticements to conformity. In this engag-
formation of the female moral subject at the turn of ing, entertaining book, Paulina Bren shows us that
the last century. She tightly weaves an elegant ac- the relationship between the communist state and
count of connections among ethics discourses, the Czechoslovak society was mediated by television.
field of sexuality, subjectivity, and citizenship, along To understand the regime’s longevity, therefore, we
with important explorations of religion, science, the would really have to sit down in the greengrocer’s
racial imagination, and psychoanalysis.”—Kathleen living room and watch what his family is watching.
Canning, University of Michigan And now we can.”
—Padraic Kenney, Indiana University
2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4712-9
320 pages | $45.00 cloth (catalog price: $36.00) 2010 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7642-6
Mirrors of Memory
Freud, Photography, and the History of Art
Mary Bergstein New in Paperback
“Bergstein combines her talents as an art historian In Defense of Christian Hungary
with a sophisticated approach to Freud and psycho- Religion, Nationalism, and Antisemitism, 1890–1944
analytic theory to tell us much about the mentality Paul A. Hanebrink
of turn-of-the-century visual culture in central Eu-
rope and its impact on the development of Freud’s “Hanebrink in his excellent, well-researched study
thought.”—Michael Roth, Wesleyan University brings together important questions concerning
nationalism, religion, and the ever-present issue of
Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry antisemitism.”—Slavic Review
2010 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4819-5
344 pages | $29.95 cloth (catalog price: $23.96) 2009 (2006) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7530-6
New in Paperback
Hysterical Men
War, Psychiatry, and the Politics of Back in Print
Trauma in Germany, 1890–1930 Bread and Democracy
Paul Lerner in Germany
• Winner, 2006 Cheiron Book Prize (Cheiron: The Alexander Gerschenkron
International Society for the History of Behav- with a foreword by Charles Maier
ioral and Social Sciences) “In this carefully documented, illuminating study
“This is sure to become the standard text on the (first published in 1943), Gerschenkron analyzes
tangled relations among war, psychological trauma, the interesting problem of the relation between
medicine, welfare, and masculinity in early twenti- democracy and protection of agricultural products,
eth-century Germany.”—German Studies Review particularly of grain, in Germany.”—Political Science
Quarterly
Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry
2009 (2003) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7536-8 1989 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-9586-1
344 pages | $29.95 paper (catalog price: $23.96) 276 pages | $22.95 paper (catalog price: $18.36)
France
Laboratories of Faith
Mesmerism, Spiritism, and Occultism
in Modern France
John Warne Monroe
“This is an excellently researched, scholarly look at
serious-minded people seeking empirical truth for
the doctrines they already believed by faith, a ‘sci-
ence of God.’ With a firmer grip than most writers
on his subject, Monroe puts these events into their
political context, showing how psychic phenomena
had a rewarding way of changing shape to reflect the
preoccupations of those observing them.”
—The Guardian
Becoming a Woman in
the Age of Letters 2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4562-0
Dena Goodman 312 pages | $35.00 cloth (catalog price: $28.00)
“We might expect a book on girls and young women
writing letters to tell us about their education and
the instruction given by their mothers, but Dena
New in Paperback
Goodman takes us to many more surprising places
too: to the shops where inkstands, fine Dutch paper, Consuming Visions
and fashionable writing desks were sold, to female Mass Culture and the Lourdes Shrine
painters choosing how to depict women writing Suzanne K. Kaufman
letters, and ultimately to the hard-won sense of self
“This is a sophisticated, erudite, and provocative
gained in the act of pressing quill to paper. Goodman
study of one of the world’s most enduringly popu-
recaptures a world we have forgotten and recovers
lar modern sites of Christian worship. Kaufman has
aspects of it we never knew.”—Lynn Hunt, UCLA
produced an important book that will be of great
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7545-0 interest not just to historians of France but to any-
408 pages | $29.95 paper (catalog price: $23.96) one interested in the role of religion in the modern
world.”—American Historical Review
2009 (2004) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7532-0
Reimagining Politics after 264 pages | $24.95 paper (catalog price: $19.96)
the Terror
The Republican Origins of French Liberalism
Andrew Jainchill
New in Paperback
“After this pathbreaking work, the decade between
Thermidor and the establishment of the Empire will
Why France?
no longer be a political black hole during which American Historians Reflect on an
bourgeois interests ran wild. The classical republi- Enduring Fascination
can theories that had animated the revolutionaries Laura Lee Downs & Stéphane Gerson, editors
did not disappear; private interest did not replace Afterword by Roger Chartier
public spirit. Jainchill illustrates the emergence of a
“These historians are not afraid to open up and reveal
modern ‘liberal republicanism’ that recognizes that
their sensibility, even their sensuality. They express
liberalism can no more survive without republican-
the richness of their historical vocation and the gains
ism than republicanism can ignore the principles of
of a self-discovery that is made possible or intensified
liberalism. His careful historical reconstruction will
by distance and alterity.”—Alain Corbin, Le Monde
interest political theorists who are not primarily
specialists in the French revolution. Although Jain- –Contributors–
chill does not mention it directly, it is tempting to Ken Alder, Northwestern University
ask whether his liberal republicanism does not offer John W. Baldwin, The Johns Hopkins University
hints for dealing with our own recent experience.” Edward Berenson, New York University
—Dick Howard, Stony Brook University Herrick Chapman, New York University
2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4669-6 Clare Haru Crowston, University of Illinois
336 pages | $45.00 cloth (catalog price: $36.00) Barbara Diefendorf, Boston University
Jan Goldstein, The University of Chicago
Lynn Hunt, UCLA
Steven Kaplan, Cornell University
Thomas Kselman, Notre Dame University
Herman Lebovics, Stony Brook University
Robert Paxton, Columbia University
Todd Shepard, The Johns Hopkins Univerisity
Leonard V. Smith, Oberlin College
Gabrielle Spiegel, The Johns Hopkins University
Tyler Stovall, UC Berkeley
2009 (2006) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7570-2

France
Future Tense
The Culture of Anticipation in France
between the Wars
Roxanne Panchasi
“Roxanne Panchasi’s core insight is that the future
can be a congenial place to think about the present—
even if the thoughts themselves are far from reassur-
ing. She shows us how certain objects—artificial
limbs, vitamins, domestic furnishings, America—
intruded on the French imagination of the 1920s and
1930s, objectifying forebodings of stagnation and ir-
relevance. Future Tense is a timely book in the cultural
Surrealism and the Art of Crime history of anxiety.”—Raymond Jonas, University of
Jonathan P. Eburne Washington
“Copiously (in places grotesquely) illustrated, this 2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4670-2
study is an original take on the necessary blend of 224 pages | $39.95 cloth (catalog price: $31.96)
politics and sociology and their nefarious offshoots
of gutter journalism, lurid dime novels, rumor, pro-
paganda, and serious art—a shaky, volatile mix that
Reforming Urban Labor
is in one’s face, mind, and sometimes nightmares.
The visuals contribute viscerally to the substantive Routes to the City, Roots in the Country
research, presented in journalistic, readable prose Janet L. Polasky
that depicts the noirish nature of subjects and peo- In this innovative urban history, comparisons of
ple. This book is well done and delicious fun.” nineteenth-century London and Brussels are inter-
—Choice woven in the context of industrial Europe as a whole.
2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4674-0 Polasky sets urban planning against the backdrop
344 pages | $35.00 cloth (catalog price: $28.00) of idealized rural images, links transportation and
housing reform, and investigates the relationship of
middle-class reformers with industrial workers and
New in Paperback their families in the struggle to control the built en-
The Invention of Decolonization vironment and its labor force.
The Algerian War and the Remaking of France 2010 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4794-5
Todd Shepard 264 pages | $55.00 cloth (catalog price: $44.00)
•Winner, 2006 J. Russell Major Prize (American
Historical Association)
New in Paperback
• Winner, 2008 Council for European Studies Book Differential Diagnoses
Award
A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and
“Todd Shepard’s timely and significant work will be Solutions in the United States and France
of interest to a wide range of scholars. Using Alge-
Paul V. Dutton
ria as a case study, Shepard shows how the history
of French imperialism and anti-imperialism was “By first exposing the stereotypes and then carefully
rewritten after Algerian independence by bureau- exploring the distinct histories of health care provi-
crats, politicians, and journalists in such a way as sion in the U.S. and France, Dutton provides unique
to present decolonization as ‘a predetermined end and valuable insight into how both countries can
point’ that was inevitable, rather than as the failure better address their respective health crises.”
of a genuine project of national integration in the —Jeremy Shapiro, The Brookings Institution
colonies.”—Modern and Contemporary France An ILR Press Book
2008 (2006) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7454-5 2008 (2007) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7484-2
Signs of Light
from Leuven University Press—
French and British Theories of Linguistic
A Small Nation in the Turmoil of
Communication, 1648–1789
the Second World War
Matthew Lauzon
Money, Finance and Occupation (Belgium, its
“Signs of Light shows Matthew Lauzon’s extensive Enemies, its Friends, 1939–1945)
learning in a wide range of areas, including language
theory, missionary tracts, and literary texts. He Herman Van der Wee & Monique Verbreyt
reorients our approach to early modern language “The authors tell an important—and fascinating—
theory in the direction of the study of processes of story of the Belgian central bank and the Belgian
communication, as opposed to emphasizing the doc- government in Brussels and in London during the
umentation of static ideals of transparency.” hazardous years of World War II.”—Peter Mathias,
—Laura Brown, Cornell University Cambridge University
2010 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4847-8 2010 | ISBN: 978-90-5867-759-4
early modern europe | medieval europe
Beggars, The Serf, the

Iconoclasts, Knight, and the
and Civic Patriots Historian
The Political Culture of the Dominique Barthélemy
Dutch Revolt translated from the french by
Peter Arnade Graham Robert Edwards
“Arnade offers breathtakingly “This is an outstanding trans-

original insights into the mo- lation of Dominique Barthéle-
tivations of the individuals my’s brilliantly argued attack
involved in the signal events on the scholarly consensus
of the Revolt, from the of the last half century that a
iconoclastic riots of 1566 to the sacks of Ghent and so-called ‘feudal revolution’ radically transformed
Antwerp. Underlying the entire book is a revisionist France and other regions of Europe in around 1000,
interpretation that sets politics rather than religion and it features two new essays written for this
at the heart of the conflict. Elegantly written and so- volume.”—Stephen D. White, Emory University
phisticated in its scholarship, this superb study is 2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7560-3
essential reading for anyone interested in the history 368 pages | $29.95 paper (catalog price: $23.96)
of the Dutch Revolt.”—Richard L. Kagan, The Johns
Hopkins University
2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7496-5 Enemies and Familiars
368 pages | $26.95 paper (catalog price: $21.56) Slavery and Mastery in Fifteenth-Century Valencia
Debra Blumenthal
“This is a terrific piece of work that provides com-
Giambattista Vico: Keys to plete and bold new vistas on the lives of slaves dur-
the New Science ing the transition to modernity and on the eve of the
Translations, Commentaries, and Essays Atlantic slave trade. The archival evidence deployed
Thora Ilin Bayer & Donald Phillip Verene, here is unusually rich and abundant.”
editors
—Teofilo F. Ruiz, UCLA
“This work is essential to a correct and comprehen- Conjunctions of Religion and Power
in the Medieval Past
sive view of the scholar who was at once one of
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4502-6
the last of the humanists and one of the first prac-
328 pages | $42.50 cloth (catalog price: $34.00)
titioners and theoreticians of the modern human
sciences.”—Donald R. Kelley, Rutgers University
2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7472-9
224 pages | $17.95 paper (catalog price: $14.36) So Great a Light,
So Great a Smoke
The Beguin Heretics of Languedoc
Shakespeare’s Foreign Worlds Louisa A. Burnham
National and Transnational Identities in “This is a very well-written, clever, humane, and in-
the Elizabethan Age sightful piece of history that delights, enthralls, and
impresses throughout. . . . Written with consider-
Carole Levin & John Watkins able verve and imagination, it is based on a thorough,
“Levin and Watkins draw upon literary and histori- insightful, and diligent interrogation of a variety of
cal studies to illuminate nation-building, the cultur- unpublished archival sources.”—H-France Reviews
al and economic impact of foreign worlds, and the
Conjunctions of Religion and Power
roles of foreign characters in Elizabethan drama.”
—Phyllis Rackin, University of Pennsylvania
2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4131-8
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4741-9 240 pages | $39.95 cloth (catalog price: $31.96)
Splendour of the
New in Paperback Burgundian Court
The Birth of the Despot Charles the Bold (1433–1477)
Venice and the Sublime Porte Susan Marti, Till-Holger Borchert &
Lucette Valensi Gabriele Keck, editors
translated by Arthur Denner
The essays here—biographies of key figures, politi-
“An elegant, almost lyrical historical study, it makes cal histories, and analyses of court art—form a com-
some important corrections to traditional assump- prehensive portrait of the Burgundian court, while
tions of how Venetians perceived and appropriated its 350 full-color illustrations vividly bring to life
the image of the Ottoman Empire in the early mod- both the brilliance and the drama of the epoch.
ern era.”—Sixteenth Century Journal
Distributed in North America for Mercatorfonds
2009 (1993) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7543-6 2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4853-9
132 pages | $18.95 paper (catalog price: $15.16) 384 pages | $80.00 cloth (catalog price: $64.00)

medieval europe
The Divorce of Idols in the East

Lothar II European Representations of
Christian Marriage and Islam and the Orient, 1100–1450
Political Power in the Suzanne Conklin Akbari
Carolingian World “Akbari carefully unpacks me-
Karl Heidecker dieval practices of mapping the
translated from the dutch by East, representations of Juda-
Tanis M. Guest ism and Islam, conflations of
“In Heidecker’s lucid treat- ethnic and religious terminol-
ment, the 9th-century scan- ogy, and iconic figurations of
dal becomes a fascinating study of family dynamics, the Saracen. Her book reaches
changing mental attitudes, and Carolingian reform. beyond medieval studies to furnish an account of ori-
Most of all, it exposes the tensions between crown entalism’s prehistory that all postcolonialists should
and nobility, Church and state, when it came to roy- read.”—David Wallace, University of Pennsylvania
al marriage.”—Walter Simons, Dartmouth College 2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4807-2
Conjunctions of Religion and Power 336 pages | $49.95 cloth (catalog price: $39.96)
2010 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-3929-2
240 pages | $45.00 cloth (catalog price: $36.00) Out of Love for My Kin
Aristocratic Family Life in the
Heresy and the Politics Lands of the Loire, 1000–1200
of Community Amy Livingstone
The Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate “Addressing a central question about medieval fam-
Marina Rustow ily structure, Out of Love for My Kin is clearly based
• Winner, 2009 Salo W. Baron Prize (American
on an intimate knowledge of an enormous amount
Academy for Jewish Research) of primary information—to the extent that the au-
thor often appears personally acquainted with the
“Rustow’s book provides fascinating new insights families discussed.”—Constance Brittain Bouchard,
into the history of Jewish communities of Egypt, University of Akron
Syria, and Palestine [and] . . . presents a picture of
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Conjunctions of Religion and Power The Making of Saint Louis
Kingship, Sanctity, and Crusade in the
2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4582-8
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M. Cecilia Gaposchkin
New in Paperback “This is a beautifully written, well-researched, com-
The Sephardic Frontier prehensive, and insightful work on the cult of St.
The Reconquista and the Jewish Louis. Scholars and students working in the fields
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Community in Medieval Iberia religion will find Gaposchkin’s book an invalu-
Jonathan Ray able resource for its content, illustrations, and
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Eric J. Goldberg
Women and Aristocratic Culture
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that women played fundamental roles in defining clothing, books and paintings, and architectural and
and transmitting aristocratic culture in the period archaeological remains—to great effect.”—Speculum
from ca. 700 to 925.”—Jane Schulenburg, University Conjunctions of Religion and Power
of Wisconsin–Madison
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The Good Wife’s Art of the

Guide (Le Ménagier Celts
de Paris) 700 b.c. to a.d. 700
A Medieval Household Book Felix Müller,
translated from the editor
French by Gina L. Greco “This informative book
& Christine M. Rose begins in 700 b.c. with
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plete—English translation tery and proceeds
of the Ménagier de Paris makes through the centuries
available to a broad audience to book illuminations
one of the key texts for our understanding of late created in Christian
medieval mentalities. Its lively language, excellent monasteries in the eighth century. Concentrating
introduction, and copious notes make this useful to on ornamentation as the Celts’ main form of expres-
students, scholars, and anyone interested in medi- sion, weapons, helmets, chariots, pottery, jewelery
eval culture.”—Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Uni- and coinage are shown in color and black-and-white
versity of Pittsburgh photographs.”—The Globe & Mail (Toronto)
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Robert E. Lerner Europe, 5th to 18th
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Benedictine Maledictions
New in Paperback Liturgical Cursing in Romanesque France
Holy Entrepreneurs Lester K. Little
Cistercians, Knights, and Economic Exchange in
• Cowinner, 1994 David Pinkney Prize (Society
Twelfth-Century Burgundy for French Historical Studies)
Constance Brittain Bouchard
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one wishing to understand twelfth-century charters their possessions, against both laymen and other
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Citizen Bachelors
Manhood and the Creation of the United States
John Gilbert McCurdy
“Citizen Bachelors is a good read: lucid, concise and
compelling. John Gilbert McCurdy’s insightful
study of unmarried young men and never-married
men is an important and original contribution to
our knowledge of personal identity, family, and legal
status in early America.”—Susan E. Klepp, Temple
University
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4788-4
The Colony of New Netherland 272 pages | $35.00 cloth (catalog price: $28.00)
A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century America
Jaap Jacobs
“Jacobs has produced a model synthesis of social, Kitchens, Smokehouses,
political, and economic history for a colonial ex- and Privies
perience that has far too long been terra incognita. Outbuildings and the Architecture of Daily Life
Jacobs is particularly strong in his ability to take a
in the Eighteenth-Century Mid-Atlantic
genuinely transatlantic perspective, detailing the
many struggles within the Dutch West India Com- Michael Olmert
pany over whether its North American interest was “The Colonial-era backyard had more activity than
to be a colony of trade or a colony of settlement (or, the actual house. Elegantly written with great in-
indeed, a colony at all) as well as the efforts of a few sight and accompanied by many photographs and
thousand Europeans to recreate something resem- drawings, Michael Olmert’s book illuminates how
bling a society in New Amsterdam, Fort Orange, and the grand houses and also the more middling ac-
points adjacent.”—Daniel K. Richter, University of tually functioned in the Mid-Atlantic region. This
Pennsylvania book is essential for any serious student of Colonial
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7516-0 America.”—Richard Guy Wilson, author of Build-
ings of Virginia
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4791-4
The Diary of Hannah
Callender Sansom
Sense and Sensibility in the Age of
Back in Print
the American Revolution
Our Earliest Colonial
Susan E. Klepp & Karin Wulf, editors
Settlements
“The Diary of Hannah Callender Sanson is truly a delight- Their Diversities of Origin and Later Characteristics
ful and compelling read. The editors both know a
great deal about late eighteenth-century Philadel- Charles M. Andrews
phia and the lives of women therein, and it shows. with a new foreword by Karen Ordahl Kupperman
They give readers a polished introduction to the di- “Andrews writes with such fullness of knowledge,
ary and do an excellent job of succinctly establishing such an easy command of his material, and such vig-
the necessary contexts, from married women’s legal orous presentation of his ideas that his book will be
position to Quaker belief to contemporary expecta- keenly interesting for all who care about our early
tions for courtship and marriage.”—Mary Beth Nor- history.”—New York Times
ton, Cornell University
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7544-3
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Castorland Journal New in Paperback

An Account of the Exploration and Settlement of New The Healer’s Calling
York State by French Émigrés in the Years 1793 to 1797 Women and Medicine in Early New England
translated from the french and edited by Rebecca J. Tannenbaum
John A. Gallucci
“Tannenbaum recovers the neglected history of
“Castorland Journal is especially rich on the interac- women’s contributions to the practice of medicine
tion of foreign and American land speculators and in colonial American, as well as the surprising de-
on the displacement of native peoples. Perceptive, gree to which women could exercise power through
articulate, and frank, the French authors crafted an this practice within a society dominated by men. . . .
especially detailed and insightful (and often highly Erudite and lucidly written, it is required reading for
critical) account of their flawed attempt to profit anyone interested in the history of gender in early
from the rapid expansion of new settlements.” America.”—Itinerario
—Alan Taylor, University of California, Davis
2008 (2002) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7493-4
2010 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4626-9 200 pages | $21.00 paper (catalog price: $16.80)
The United States
To Live upon Hope Children Bound to

Mohicans and Missionaries Labor
in the Eighteenth-Century The Pauper Apprentice System
Northeast in Early America
Rachel Wheeler Ruth Wallis Herndon &
“Wheeler’s history is a major John E. Murray, editors
work and should remain as the “Struck by the unfortunate
definitive study of the Mohican circumstances of illegitimate
mission experience for many birth, abandonment, or abuse,
years to come. Demonstrating free children were bound out
clearly and eloquently that the Mohicans did not to work in the families of strangers everywhere in
rely on hope alone to survive in a changing world, early America. Herndon and Murray have brought
she shows that they acted and they adapted.”—The together a superior group of scholars whose re-
New England Quarterly search in pauper records presents a compelling and
2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4631-3 gracefully presented account of how communities
336 pages | $45.00 cloth (catalog price: $36.00) struggled to define what it meant to ‘govern’ and
‘properly parent’ pauper children.”—Cathy Matson,
University of Delaware
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7559-7
Available again from Cornell
Indian Affairs in Colonial
New York
The Seventeenth Century
New in Paperback
Allen W. Trelease
Killed Strangely
“This is an important contribution to our knowledge
The Death of Rebecca Cornell
of seventeenth-century New York, both in terms of
its Dutch and English settlers and of its Algonquian Elaine Forman Crane
and Iroquian Indian inhabitants, written with care “This book is brief and compulsively readable, the
and precision.”—The New England Quarterly kind of work tailor-made to grip and hold the imagi-
Fall Creek Books nations of undergraduates in early American survey
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7564-1 courses everywhere. . . . Crane’s use of material cul-
404 pages | $24.95 paper (catalog price: $19.96) ture is also marvelously adept.”
—Reviews in American History
2009 (2002) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7527-6
New in Paperback
Reluctant Revolutionaries
New York City and the Road to Independence,
1763–1776 Back in Print
Joseph S. Tiedemann Federalists in Dissent
• Winner, the Society of Colonial Wars’ 1998
Imagery and Ideology in Jeffersonian America
Distinguished Book of Award Linda K. Kerber
“A rich political narrative of the Revolutionary “The Federalist thinking that Kerber explores helps
movement, carefully researched and skillfully told. to give greater depth to the more familiar history
. . . Joseph Tiedemann has provided an excellent of Federalist politics, and, beyond that, she brings
survey of fifteen years of New York politics before more of the country to life.”
Independence.”—William & Mary Quarterly —Journal of American Studies
2008 (1997) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7495-8 1980 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-9212-9
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The Punished Self Testing the Chains
Surviving Slavery in the Colonial South Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies
Alex Bontemps Michael Craton
“Asking new questions of standard sources, Bon- “Scholars interested in determining the causes of slave
temps reveals with insight and imagination the rebellions, the characteristics of rebel slave leader-
psychological consequences of objectification, and ship, the autonomous organizations developed, and
blacks’ struggle to maintain a sense of self while the ideology and styles of rebellious behavior will
adapting to the brutalities and dehumanization of find this work an invaluable sourcebook.”
enslavement.”—Georgia Historical Quarterly —Journal of American History
2008 (2001) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7482-8 2009 (1982) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7528-3

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New in Paperback
The Mirror of Antiquity
American Women and the Classical
Tradition, 1750–1900
Caroline Winterer
“The Mirror of Antiquity is the best treatment of Ameri-
can women and the classics from the mid-eighteenth
to the mid-nineteenth century ever published. Lu-
cid, thoughtful, and well-researched, it is certain to
become its own object of study, a classic.”
—Common-place
Becoming American under Fire 2009 (2007) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7579-5
Irish Americans, African Americans, and the 256 pages | $22.95 paper (catalog price: $18.36)
Politics of Citizenship during the Civil War Era
Christian G. Samito
Horace Greeley’s New-York Tribune
“In this important book, Christian G. Samito ex-
Civil War–Era Socialism and the Crisis of Free Labor
plains how ex-slaves and Irish immigrants helped
to create a new definition of American citizenship. Adam Tuchinsky
Their experiences in military service, determination “This is an important book, distinguished in quality
to vote, and fervent loyalty to the federal govern- and broad in significance. Its conception is highly
ment changed Americans’ hazy antebellum concept original. Adam Tuchinsky is the first modern biog-
of citizenship as loyalty to a state into a clear set of rapher to take Horace Greeley’s socialism serious-
rights and duties in a newly powerful nation.” ly, instead of treating it as a mere eccentricity. As
—Heather Cox Richardson, University of Massa- Tuchinsky reassesses socialism in American history,
chusetts Amherst he presents a sophisticated and complex interpre-
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4846-1 tation of America in Greeley’s lifetime. One of the
312 pages | $39.95 cloth (catalog price: $31.96) book’s merits is the way it integrates political his-
tory, economic history, the history of the printed
media, labor history, and, most of all, intellectual
Awaiting the Heavenly Country history.”—Daniel Walker Howe, Pulitzer Prize–
winning author of What Hath God Wrought: The
The Civil War and America’s Culture of Death Transformation of America, 1815 to 1848
Mark S. Schantz
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4667-2
“Schantz makes a compelling case that Americans’ 336 pages | $59.95 cloth (catalog price: $47.96)
experiences with, and ideas about, death before
the Civil War made it possible for them to under-
stand—and even celebrate—death caused by the New in Paperback
war. By closely reading landscapes, images, and all
manner of writings on the ‘culture of death,’ Schantz The Politics of Size
discovers that Northerners and Southerners alike Representation in the United States, 1776–1850
came to believe that how one approached death Rosemarie Zagarri
and how a people honored the dead revealed, even “Zagarri’s book is as brilliant as it is bright. Drawing
decided, matters of faith, community, and national her inspiration from human geography, she shows
identity.”—Library Journal that the demographic theory of representation was
2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-3761-8 ideal for expansionism, though it ironically provided
264 pages | $24.95 cloth (catalog price: $19.96) the environment in which sectionalism could arise
in its ugly, antebellum form.”—Choice
2010 (1987) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7639-6
Forgotten Firebrand 180 pages | $22.95 paper (catalog price: $18.36)
James Redpath and the Making of
Nineteenth-Century America
John R. McKivigan New in Paperback
“In this first modern study of the outspoken aboli- The War against Proslavery
tionist and journalist James Redpath, John McKivi- Religion
gan resurrects the reputation of a well-traveled agi- Abolitionism and the Northern Churches, 1830–1865
tator who faded from public memory after he died
in 1898. . . . His careful and fluidly written chronicle
John R. McKivigan
sets Redpath’s varied and controversial activities “This well-researched and meticulously documented
in their historical context. . . . Whatever angle they book thoroughly examines the efforts of abolition-
adopt, historians of reform and journalism will ap- ists to convert American churches to their cause . . .
preciate McKivigan’s work in uncovering the role and offers a new perspective on the failure to ensure
that Redpath played in vital movements of his era.” equal rights for the freedmen after the war.”
—Journal of American History —Journal of Southern History
2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4673-2 2009 (1984) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7576-4
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tHE uNITED sTATES
20th Anniversary Edition

Playing for Keeps
A History of Early Baseball
Warren Goldstein
“One of the many virtues of Playing for Keeps is that it
explains why we continue to care about baseball,
our hopes eternally and absurdly renewed each
spring and dashed each autumn. . . . This is a marvel-
ous book, tightly structured, entertaining, beautiful-
ly written; and, like the best social history, it focuses
on the particular (the story of baseball) to enlarge
our understanding of the general (American society
Enlightening the World and culture).”
The Creation of the Statue of Liberty —The Nation (reviewing the first edition)
Yasmin Sabina Khan 2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7508-5
“Enlightening the World is a superb account of the high 208 pages | $17.95 paper (catalog price: $14.36)
ideals that drove the conception, design, and execu-
tion of the Statue of Liberty. Yasmin Sabina Khan
makes it clear that the monument we see today The Manly Art
emerged from the age of democratic revolutions and
liberal political ideologies such as the rights of man
Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America,
and freedom from tyranny and slavery. This impor- Updated Edition
tant book explains why the Statue of Liberty still Elliott J. Gorn
has immense relevance today.” “An important contribution to the study of nine-
—John Bodnar, Indiana University teenth-century American culture. Writing with
2010 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4851-5 clarity, vigor, and grace, Gorn combines detailed
240 pages | $24.95 cloth (catalog price: $19.96) narrative with convincing interpretations. He offers
the reader a judicious selection of quotations from
the sporting press that capture the drama, sensual-
Citizen Employers ity, and brutality of the ring and its craftsmen.”
Business Communities and Labor in —Journal of American History (reviewing the first edi-
Cincinnati and San Francisco, 1870–1916 tion)
Jeffrey Haydu 2010 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7608-2
• Winner, 2008 Labor History Book Prize 336 pages | $19.95 paper (catalog price: $15.96)
“Haydu has written a well-researched and thought-
provoking study of class formation, labor relations,
and upper-class civic life during the Gilded Age and New in Paperback
Progressive Era. . . . It is a noteworthy book that de- The Earnest Men
serves a wide readership and will stimulate further Republicans of the Civil War Senate
interest in the history of organized employers.” Allan G. Bogue
—Enterprise & Society
“The core of this study is analysis of the roll-call
An ILR Press Book voting record, but extensive context is supplied in
2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4641-2 evaluation of biographical, institutional, and ideo-
280 pages | $39.95 cloth (catalog price: $31.96) logical elements. Bogue makes explicit his belief
that ‘quantitative research can be most effective
when combined with research in so-called literary
New in Paperback
sources.’ His presentation brilliantly demonstrates
The Orange Riots that he has acted on his beliefs.”—Civil War History
Irish Political Violence in New York City, 2009 (1981) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7569-6
1870 and 1871 372 pages | $29.95 paper (catalog price: $23.96)
Michael A. Gordon
“A carefully researched and powerful account of Irish
sectarian violence in New York City. . . . There is New in Paperback
a great deal to be learned from Gordon’s approach, The Politics of Race in New York
and not just about the Orange riots in New York
The Struggle for Black Suffrage in the Civil War Era
City. His description of the riots as battles between
two opposing worldviews should be tested on other Phyllis F. Field
instances of ethnic and religious violence, both in “In this excellent book, Phyllis F. Field brings quan-
Northern Ireland and the United States. . . . This is a titative sophistication to the study of politics and
fine book, fair and judicious in interpretation and so- race. Historians concerned with the relationship be-
phisticated in analysis. His careful and original treat- tween political ideology and emerging class distinc-
ment of these two days of violence lights up some tions will find Field’s analysis of the politics of race
dark corners of American ethnic, working-class, and rewarding.”—American Historical Review
urban history.”—American Historical Review
2009 (1982) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7563-4
2009 (1993) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-8034-8 266 pages | $24.95 paper (catalog price: $19.96)

The United States
Cushwa Center Studies of The United States in the World

Catholicism in Twentieth- a series edited by Mark Philip Bradley and
Century America Paul A. Kramer
a series edited by R. Scott Appleby
New in Paperback
On the Irish Waterfront Artillery of Heaven
The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul American Missionaries and the Failed
of the Port of New York Conversion of the Middle East
James T. Fisher Ussama Makdisi
“This is a fascinating work of history that explores •Winner, 2009 John Hope Franklin Publication
the rise of New York’s commercial port from the ear- Prize (American Studies Association)
ly 1900s to the 1950s and the corruption that eventu- •Cowinner, 2008 Albert Hourani Book Award
ally infiltrated all levels of the cargo business, until (Middle East Studies Association)
a crusading priest helped to put a stop to it—and
inspired a classic film along the way.”—Wall Street • Cowinner, 2009 British-Kuwait Friendship So-
Journal ciety Prize in Middle Eastern Studies
“This is a glorious book that ought to change how “Makdisi’s meticulously researched, beautifully writ-
movie critics view Schulberg’s cinematic creation ten book sets a high standard for forthcoming stud-
and how cultural historians interpret working-class ies on missionaries in the Middle East. He painstak-
culture in New York and New Jersey during the ingly analyzes the roots of complex, multidirectional
middle years of the 20th century.”—America movements of influence, culture, ideas, and religios-
ity that have characterized the contact between East
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4804-1 and West, America and the Arab world. The result
392 pages | $29.95 cloth (catalog price: $23.96) is an impressive work of transnational history.”
—American Historical Review
New in Paperback 2009 (2008) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7575-7
Catholics and Contraception 280 pages | $19.95 paper (catalog price: $15.96)
An American History
Leslie Woodcock Tentler New in Paperback
“Tentler’s work is thorough, nuanced, and engaging. Path of Empire
Her argument about the centrality of birth control Panama and the California Gold Rush
practices in lay lives and the significance of Huma- Aims McGuinness
nae Vitae in the church’s history is so persuasive and “Path of Empire makes an important contribution to
well supported that her work stands as a definitive the historiography of the California gold rush, Pan-
history of contraception and a major contribution to ama, and U.S. expansion and intervention in Latin
our understanding of the broader American Catho- America, challenging scholars to engage previously
lic history in the twentieth century.”—Journal of overlooked transnational connections.”—Western
Social History Historical Quarterly
2008 (2004) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7494-1 2009 (2007) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7538-2
New in Paperback Screening Enlightenment

Ballots and Bibles Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction
Ethnic Politics and the Catholic Church in Providence of Defeated Japan
Evelyn Savidge Sterne Hiroshi Kitamura
“Ballots and Bibles is a substantial contribution to the “This book offers a view of the U.S. film industry’s
historical studies of Rhode Island. It is also an impor- efforts in Japan from the perspective of Japan’s en-
tant study of ethnic communities, particularly of the gagement with and influence on the world’s cinema,
Irish, that will serve to help enrich the understand- as well as from the point of view of the United States
ing of Catholic ethnic communities in the United in its cultural dealings with Japan.”
States as a whole.”—Catholic Historical Review —Andrew Gordon, Harvard University
2008 (2003) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7497-2 2010 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4599-6
The United States
The Eccentric In the Shadow of

Realist FDR
Henry Kissinger and the Shaping From Harry Truman to Barack
of American Foreign Policy Obama, Fourth Edition
Mario Del Pero William E. Leuchtenburg
“Mario Del Pero brings a fresh “This is a fine, perceptive work
and vivid intelligence to his that constitutes a valuable coda
analysis of American for- for New Deal studies. Several
eign and domestic policy as pertinent insights help to con-
shaped and practiced by Henry tribute to discussions of the
Kissinger. The Eccentric Realist is a brilliant discussion role of personalities in politics,
of the decidedly unrealistic nature of Kissinger’s re- and it is a refreshing contribution to studies of the
alism, the circularity of his bipolar view of the world, presidency.”—American Historical Review (reviewing
and his ultimate defeat at the hands of newly pow- a previous edition)
erful neoconservative forces.”—Marilyn B. Young,
New York University 2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7568-9
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4759-4
New in Paperback
Atomic Tragedy
An Outsider in the White House
Henry L. Stimson and the Decision to Use
Jimmy Carter, His Advisors, and the Making of
the Bomb against Japan
American Foreign Policy
Sean L. Malloy
Betty Glad
“Malloy provides an important perspective on the
“This book contributes significantly to presidential continuing debate about the bombings of Hiroshima
studies, diplomatic history, the study of the dynam- and Nagasaki in August 1945 . . . . He presents us
ics of policymaking, and international relations the- with an updated and exceedingly insightful assess-
ory, especially as it bears on realism and idealism in ment of the aging statesman, perhaps no longer at
foreign policy. This impressively documented and the top of his game yet faced with one of our coun-
vividly written book is full of fascinating anecdotes.” try’s most challenging decisions during its most aw-
—Fred I. Greenstein, Princeton University ful conflict. Malloy believes Stimson’s decision to
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4815-7 support the bomb went against his most cherished
392 pages | $29.95 cloth (catalog price: $23.96) beliefs and was for many a disappointing conclusion
to an outstanding career of public service.
—Library Journal (starred review)
Why Intelligence Fails 2010 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7629-7
Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War 248 pages | $19.95 paper (catalog price: $15.96)
Robert Jervis
“At long, long last, Robert Jervis has managed to free New in Paperback
his three-decade-old inside postmortem on intelli- LaGuardia in Congress
gence failure during the early stages of the Iranian
revolution from the dark of classification, and he Howard Zinn
has coupled that with his recent writings on in- “LaGuardia in Congress is an exceedingly well-written
telligence’s woeful performance over those Iraqi and highly readable study of a man and his times. It
weapons of mass destruction that weren’t. This has describes the career of an extraordinary human be-
resulted in definitive case studies of those two im- ing whose background and ideology presaged the
portant episodes. ”—Gregory F. Treverton, RAND New Deal and whose specific legislative program
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