Harvard University Press Spring 2011 Catalog

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GENERAL INTEREST ...............1
ACADEMIC TRADE ..............34

HUMANITIES ....................53
HISTORY / RELIGION ...........57
POLITICS & LAW ................63
SCIENCE / SOCIAL SCIENCE ....65
DISTRIBUTED BOOKS ...........69
PAPERBACK ......................78
RECENTLY PUBLISHED ..........97
AUTHOR / TITLE INDEX ..........99
ORDER INFORMATION ........100
cover image: “Narcissus” by Michelangelo Merisi

da Caravaggio, c.1597–1599. Palazzo Barberini,
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Before the Revolution
AmericA’s Ancient PAsts
DANIEL K. RICHTER
America began, we are often told, with the Founding Fathers, the men who waged a rev-
olution and created a unique place called the United States. We may acknowledge the
early Jamestown and Puritan colonists and mourn the dispossession of Native Americans,
but we rarely grapple with the complexity of the nation’s
pre-revolutionary past. In this pathbreaking revision, Daniel
Richter shows that the United States has a much deeper
history than is apparent—that far from beginning with a
DANIEL K. RICHTER
clean slate, it is a nation with multiple pasts that stretch
is the Richard S. Dunn
back as far as the Middle Ages, pasts whose legacies con-
tinue to shape the present. Director of the McNeil
Center for Early
Exploring a vast range of original sources, Before
American Studies at
the Revolution spans more than seven centuries and ranges
the University of
across North America, Europe, and Africa. Richter recovers
the lives of a stunning array of peoples—Indians, Spaniards, Pennsylvania, and author of Facing
French, Dutch, Africans, English—as they struggled with East from Indian Country.
one another and with their own people for control of land
and resources. Their struggles occurred in a global context
and built upon the remains of what came before. Gradu-
ally and unpredictably, distinctive patterns of North American culture took shape on a
continent where no one yet imagined there would be nations called the United States,
Canada, or Mexico.
By seeing these trajectories on their own dynamic terms, rather than merely as
a prelude to independence, Richter’s epic vision reveals the deepest origins of American
history.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
An AnnotAted, Uncensored edition
OSCAR WILDE
EDITED BY NICHOLAS FRANKEL
The Picture of Dorian Gray altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhab-
ited. It heralded the end of a repressive Victorianism, and after its publication, literature
had—in the words of biographer Richard Ellmann—“a different look.” Yet the Dorian
Gray that Victorians never knew was even more daring than the novel the British press
condemned as “vulgar,” “unclean,” “poisonous,” “discreditable,” and “a sham.” Now,
more than 120 years after Wilde handed it over to his
publisher, J. B. Lippincott & Company, Wilde’s uncensored
typescript is published for the first time, in an annotated,
NICHOLAS extensively illustrated edition.
F R A N K E L is The novel’s first editor, J. M. Stoddart, excised
Associate material—especially homosexual content—he thought
Professor of English at Virginia would offend his readers’ sensibilities. When Wilde
Commonwealth University. enlarged the novel for the 1891 edition, he responded to
his critics by further toning down its “immoral” elements.
The differences between the text Wilde submitted to Lip-
pincott and published versions of the novel have until
now been evident to only the handful of scholars who
have examined Wilde’s typescript.
Wilde famously said that Dorian Gray “contains much of me”: Basil Hallward is “what
I think I am,” Lord Henry “what the world thinks me,” and “Dorian what I would like to be—
in other ages, perhaps.” Wilde’s comment suggests a backward glance to a Greek or Dorian
Age, but also a forward-looking view to a more permissive time than his own, which saw Wilde
sentenced to two years’ hard labor for gross indecency. The appearance of Wilde’s uncensored
text is cause for celebration.
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LITERATURE
From left: Detail, “Sappho” by Gustave Moreau, c.1871-1872. ©V&A Images, Victoria and Albert Museum.
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Confessions of a Young Novelist
UMBERTO ECO
Umberto Eco published his first novel, The Name of the Rose, in 1980, when he was nearly
fifty. In these “confessions,” the author, now in his late seventies, looks back on his long career
as a theorist and his more recent work as a novelist, and explores their fruitful conjunction.
He begins by exploring the boundary between fiction and nonfiction—playfully, seri-
ously, brilliantly roaming across this frontier of interpretation. Good nonfiction, he believes, is
crafted like a whodunnit, and a skilled novelist builds precisely detailed worlds through obser-
vation and research. Taking us on a tour of his own creative
method, Eco recalls how he designed his fictional realms. He
began with specific images, made choices of period, location, and
voice, and composed stories that would appeal to both sophisti- U M B E R T O E C O teaches
cated and popular readers. The blending of the real and the fictive at the University of
extends to the inhabitants of such invented worlds. Why are we Bologna and is the author
moved to tears by a character’s plight? In what sense do Anna of many works, including
Karenina, Gregor Samsa, and Leopold Bloom “exist”? Foucault’s Pendulum and
At once a classicist, medievalist, and scholar of modern lit- Six Walks in the Fictional Woods.
erature, Eco astonishes above all when he considers the pleasures
of enumeration. He shows that the humble list, the potentially
endless series, enables us to glimpse the infinite and approach the
ineffable. This “young novelist” is a master who has wise things to
impart about the art of fiction and the power of words.
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LITERATURE / BIOGRAPHY
Photo by Anne Selders.
Early Writings, 1910–1917
WALTER BENJAMIN
EDITED BY H O WA R D E I L A N D
“YOUTH IS THE S LEEPING B EAUTY WHO SLUMBERS AND HAS NO INKLING OF THE
PRINCE WHO APPROACHES TO SET HER FREE . A ND TO BRING ABOUT THE AWAKENING
OF YOUTH , ITS PARTICIPATION IN THE STRUGGLE GOING ON AROUND IT, IS PRECISELY
[ OUR ] GOAL . . .”
—F ROM THE CHAPTER “S LEEPING B EAUTY ”
Walter Benjamin became a published writer at the age of seventeen. Yet the first stirrings of this
most original of critical minds—penned during the years in which he transformed himself from
the comfortable son of a haute-bourgeois German Jewish
family into the nomadic, uncompromising philosopher-critic
we have since come to appreciate—have until now
H O WA R D E I L A N D remained largely unavailable in English. Early Writings,
teaches literature at the 1910–1917 rectifies this situation, documenting the form-
Massachusetts Institute of ative intellectual experiences of one of the twentieth cen-
Technology. He is co- tury’s most resolutely independent thinkers.
editor of Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Here we see the young Benjamin in his various roles
among other works by Benjamin. as moralist, cultural critic, school reformer, and poet-
philosopher. The diversity of interest and profundity of
thought characteristic of his better-known work from the
1920s and ’30s are already in evidence, as we witness the
emergence of critical projects that would occupy Benjamin
throughout his intellectual career: the role of the present in
historical remembrance, the relationship of the intellectual
to political action, the idea of truth in works of art, and the investigation of language as the
veiled medium of experience.
Even at this early stage, a recognizably Benjaminian way of thinking comes into view—
a daring, boundary-crossing enterprise that does away with classical antitheses in favor of the
relentlessly seeking critical consciousness that produced the groundbreaking works of his later
years. With the publication of these early writings, our portrait of one of the most significant
intellects of the twentieth century edges closer to completion.
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The Turbulent World of Franz Göll
An ordinAry Berliner Writes the tWentieth centUry
PETER FRITZSCHE
Franz Göll was a thoroughly typical Berliner. He worked as a clerk, sometimes as a postal
employee, night watchman, or publisher’s assistant. He enjoyed the movies, ate spice cake,
wore a fedora, tamed sparrows, and drank beer or schnapps. He lived his entire life in a two-
room apartment in Rote Insel, Berlin’s famous working-class district. What makes Franz Göll dif-
ferent is that he left behind one of the most comprehensive diaries
available from the maelstrom of twentieth-century German life.
Deftly weaving in Göll’s voice from his diary entries, Peter Fritzsche
narrates the quest of an ordinary citizen to make sense of a violent
PETER
and bewildering century.
F R I T Z S C H E is
Fritzsche paints a deeply affecting portrait of a self-educated
Professor of
man seized by an untamable impulse to record, who stayed put for
History at the
nearly seventy years as history thundered around him. Determined
University of
to compose a “symphony” from the music of everyday life, Göll
Illinois, Urbana-
wrote of hungry winters during World War I, the bombing of Berlin,
Champaign and author of Life and
the rape of his neighbors by Russian soldiers in World War II, and the
Death in the Third Reich.
flexing of U.S. superpower during the Reagan years. In his early
entries, Göll grappled with the intellectual shockwaves cast by Dar-
win, Freud, and Einstein, and later he struggled to engage with the
strange lifestyles that marked Germany’s transition to a fluid,
dynamic, unmistakably modern society.
With expert analysis, Fritzsche shows how one man’s
thoughts and desires can give poignant shape to the collective experience of twentieth-century
life, registering its manifold shocks and rendering them legible.
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Göll on his balcony at Rossbachstrasse 1 (late 1920s). Landesarchiv Berlin.
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Desert Hell
the British invAsion of mesoPotAmiA
CHARLES TOWNSHEND
The U.S.-led conquest and occupation of Iraq have kept that troubled country in international
headlines since 2003. For America’s major Coalition ally, Great Britain, however, this latest
incursion into the region played out against the dramatic backdrop of imperial history: Britain’s
fateful invasion of Mesopotamia in 1914 and the creation of a nation from the shards of war.
The objectives of the expedition sent by the British Government of India were primarily
strategic: to protect the Raj, impress Britain’s military power upon Arabs chafing under Ottoman
rule, and secure the Persian oil supply. But over the course
of the Mesopotamian campaign, these goals expanded, and
by the end of World War I Britain was committed to con-
CHARLES TOWNSHEND trolling the entire region from Suez to India. The conquest
is Professor of of Mesopotamia and the creation of Iraq were the central
International History at acts in this boldly opportunistic bid for supremacy. Charles
Keele University. Townshend provides a compelling account of the atrocious,
unnecessary suffering inflicted on the expedition’s mostly
Indian troops, which set the pattern for Britain’s follow-
up campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan over the next seven
years. He chronicles the overconfidence, incompetence,
and dangerously vague policy that distorted the mission,
and examines the steps by which an initially cautious
strategic operation led to imperial expansion on a vast scale.
Desert Hell is a cautionary tale for makers of national policy. And for those with an inter-
est in imperial history, it raises searching questions about Britain’s quest for global power and
the indelible consequences of those actions for the Middle East and the world.
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Dance of the Furies
eUroPe And the oUtBreAk of World WAr i
MICHAEL S. NEIBERG
The common explanation for the outbreak of World War I depicts Europe as a minefield of
nationalism, needing only the slightest pressure to set off an explosion of passion that would rip
the continent apart. But in a crucial reexamination of the outbreak of violence, Michael Neiberg
shows that ordinary Europeans, unlike their political and military leaders, neither wanted nor
expected war during the fateful summer of 1914. By training his eye
on the ways that people outside the halls of power reacted to the
rapid onset and escalation of the fighting, Neiberg dispels the notion
that Europeans were rabid nationalists intent on mass slaughter. He
MICHAEL S.
reveals instead a complex set of allegiances that cut across national
N E I B E R G is
boundaries.
Professor of
Neiberg marshals letters, diaries, and memoirs of ordinary
History at the
citizens across Europe to show that the onset of war was experi-
University of
enced as a sudden, unexpected event. As they watched a minor
Southern
diplomatic crisis erupt into a continental bloodbath, they expressed
Mississippi and author of Fighting
shock, revulsion, and fear. But when bargains between belligerent
the Great War: A Global History.
governments began to crumble under the weight of conflict, public
disillusionment soon followed. Yet it was only after the fighting
acquired its own horrible momentum that national hatreds emerged
under the pressure of mutually escalating threats, wartime atroci-
ties, and intense government propaganda.
Dance of the Furies gives voice to a generation who found themselves compelled to par-
ticipate in a ghastly, protracted orgy of violence they never imagined would come to pass.
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Creating Capabilities
the hUmAn develoPment APProAch
MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM
If a country’s Gross Domestic Product increases each year, but so does the percentage of its
people deprived of basic education, health care, and other opportunities, is that country really
making progress? If we rely on conventional economic indicators, can we ever grasp how the
world’s billions of individuals are really managing?
In this powerful critique, Martha Nussbaum argues that our dominant theories of devel-
opment have given us policies that ignore our most basic human needs for dignity and self-
respect. For the past twenty-five years, Nussbaum has been
working on an alternate model to assess human develop-
ment: the Capabilities Approach. She and her colleagues
MARTHA C. begin with the simplest of questions: What is each person
N U S S B A U M is Ernst actually able to do and to be? What real opportunities are
Freund Distinguished available to them?
Service Professor of Law The Capabilities Approach to human progress has
and Ethics at the University of Chicago and, until now been expounded only in specialized works. Cre-
with Amartya Sen, a Founding President of ating Capabilities, however, affords anyone interested in
the Human Development and Capability issues of human development a wonderfully lucid account
Association. She is the author of The Clash of the structure and practical implications of an alternate
Within and Cultivating Humanity.
model. It demonstrates a path to justice for both humans
and nonhumans, weighs its relevance against other philo-
sophical stances, and reveals the value of its universal
guidelines even as it acknowledges cultural difference. In
our era of unjustifiable inequity, Nussbaum shows how—
by attending to the narratives of individuals and grasping
the daily impact of policy—we can enable people everywhere to live full and creative lives.
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The Union War
GARY W. GALLAGHER
“G ALLAGHER [ IS ] ONE OF OUR FINEST HISTORIANS OF THE C IVIL WAR .”

—R OBERT B RENT TOPLIN , A MERICAN H ISTORICAL R EVIEW
Even one hundred and fifty years later, we are haunted by the Civil War—by its division, its
bloodshed, and, perhaps above all, by its origins. Today, many believe that the war was fought
over slavery. This answer satisfies our contemporary sense of justice, but as Gary Gallagher
shows in this brilliant revisionist history, it is an anachronistic judgment.
In a searing analysis of the Civil War North as revealed in contemporary letters, diaries,
and documents, Gallagher demonstrates that what motivated the
North to go to war and persist in an increasingly bloody effort was
primarily preservation of the Union. Devotion to the Union bonded
nineteenth-century Americans in the North and West against a G A R Y W.
slaveholding aristocracy in the South and a Europe that seemed des- G A L L A G H E R is
tined for oligarchy. Northerners believed they were fighting to save John L. Nau III
the republic, and with it, the world’s best hope for democracy. Professor of
Once we understand the centrality of union, we can in turn History at the University of Virginia and
appreciate the force that made northern victory possible: the citi- author of The Confederate War.
zen-soldier. Gallagher reveals how the massive volunteer army of
the North fought to confirm American exceptionalism by salvaging
the Union. Contemporary concerns have distorted the reality of
nineteenth-century Americans, who embraced emancipation to pun-
ish secessionists and remove slavery as a future threat to union—
goals that emerged in the process of war. As Gallagher recovers why and how the Civil War was
fought, we gain a more honest understanding of why and how it was won.
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Engraving of G eneral Philip H. Sheridan. Ha rp er ’s We ek l y, Oc tob er 8, 1864, cover.
The Essential Tagore
EDITED BY FAKRUL ALAM AND R ADHA CHAKRAVARTY
The Essential Tagore showcases the genius of India’s Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel
Laureate and possibly the most prolific and diverse serious writer the world has ever known.
Marking the 150th anniversary of Tagore’s birth, this ambitious collection—the largest
single volume of his work available in English—attempts to represent his extraordinary achieve-
ments in ten genres: poetry, songs, autobiographical works, letters, travel writings, prose, nov-
els, short stories, humorous pieces, and plays. In addition to the newest translations in the
modern idiom, it includes a sampling of works originally composed in English, his translations
of his own works, three poems omitted from the published version of the English Gitanjali, and
examples of his artwork.
Tagore’s writings are notable for their variety and innovation.
His Sonar Tari signaled a distinctive turn toward the symbolic in Ben-
FA K R U L A L A M
gali poetry. “The Lord of Life,”
is Professor of
from his collection Chitra, created
English, T HE D AY I D EPART
controversy around his very per-
University of (“J ABAR D IN ”—G ITANJALI )
sonal concept of religion. Chokher
Dhaka, and R A D H A C H A K R AVA R T Y is Bali marked a decisive moment in THE DAY I DEPART
Associate Professor of English at Gargi the history of the Bengali novel I’D LIKE TO DECLARE
College, University of Delhi. because of the way it delved into WHAT I SAW OR GOT
the minds of men and women. WAS BEYOND COMPARE.
The skits in Vyangakautuk mocked HAVING DRUNK THE HONEY
upper-class pretensions. Prose OF THE LOTUS GLOWING
pieces such as “The Problem and the Cure” were lauded by ON THE OCEAN OF LIGHT
nationalists, who also sang Tagore’s patriotic songs. I FEEL BLESSED—
THE DAY I DEPART
Translations for this volume were contributed by
THIS IS WHAT I’LL WRITE.
Tagore specialists and writers of international stature, includ-
IN THE PLAY OF INFINITE FORMS
ing Amitav Ghosh, Amit Chaudhuri, and Sunetra Gupta.
I SPORTED ENDLESSLY
AND SAW THE FORMLESS ONE
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LITERATURE
CARESSED MY BODY,
IF THIS IS HIS INTENT
LET IT THEN BE SO—
ON THE DAY OF PARTING
I WOULD LIKE ALL TO KNOW!
TRANSLATED BY FAKRUL ALAM
Makers of Modern India
EDITED BY R AMACHANDRA GUHA
Modern India is the world’s largest democracy, a sprawling, polyglot nation containing one-
sixth of all humankind. The existence of such a complex and distinctive democratic regime
qualifies as one of the world’s bona fide political miracles. Furthermore, India’s leading politi-
cal thinkers have often served as its most influential political actors—think of Gandhi, whose
collected works run to more than ninety volumes, or Ambedkar, or Nehru, who recorded their
most eloquent theoretical reflections at the same time as they strove to set the delicate machin-
ery of Indian democracy on a coherent and just path.
Out of the speeches and writings of these thinker-
activists, Ramachandra Guha has built the first major anthology
RAMACHANDRA
of Indian social and political thought. Makers of Modern India
collects the work of nineteen of India’s foremost generators of G U H A is one of the
political sentiment, from those whose names command instant leading historians of
global recognition to pioneering subaltern and feminist thinkers modern India. His
whose works have until now remained obscure and inaccessi- books include
ble. Ranging across manifold languages and cultures, and address- Environmentalism: A
ing every crucial theme of modern Indian history—race, religion, Global History and India after Gandhi.
language, caste, gender, colonialism, nationalism, economic
development, violence, and nonviolence—Makers of Modern
India provides an invaluable roadmap to Indian political debate.
An extensive introduction, biographical sketches of each
figure, and guides to further reading make this work a rich resource for anyone interested in
India and the ways its leading political minds have grappled with the problems that have increas-
ingly come to define the modern world.
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“T HEsE DazzlING volUMEs FIllED
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WITH ExTRaoRDINaRY IMaGEs aND RICH
aRGUMENTs CoNTRIBUTE To aN
alTERNaTIvE HIsToRY oF THE W EsTERN
WoRlD. a N INvalUaBlE GIFT FoR BoTH
sPECIalIsTs aND GENERal REaDERs .”
—PaUl G IlRoY
the
Florence / Cour tesy of the M inis tero B eni e Att. Cu ltu rali.
Image of
the Black in
Western Art
EDITED BY
DAVID BINDMAN &
HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR.
VOLUME I: F R O M T H E VOLUME II: F R O M T H E E A R LY C H R I S T I A N E R A TO T H E VOLUME III: FROM THE “AGE

P H A R A O H S TO T H E FA L L “A G E O F D I S CO V E R Y ” OF DISCOVERY” TO THE AGE
OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, PART 1: FROM THE DEMONIC THREAT TO THE INCARNATION OF OF ABOLITION
NEW EDITION SAINTHOOD, NEW EDITION. PART 2: AFRICANS IN THE CHRISTIAN PART 1: ARTISTS OF THE
ORDINANCE OF THE WORLD, NEW EDITION RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE
V O LU M E I I I : FROM THE “AGE OF DISCOVERY” DavID BINDMaN is
Emeritus Professor of the
TO THE AGE OF A BOLITION
History of Art at University
PART 2 : EUROPE AND THE WO R L D B EYO N D College London.
HENRY loUIs GaTEs, JR.,
is Alphonse Fletcher
EDITED BY
University Professor and
DAVID BINDMAN & Director of the W. E. B. Du
HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. Bois Institute for African and
TEXT BY JEAN MICHEL MASSING African American Research at
Harvard University.
In the 1960s, art patron Dominique de Menil JEaN MICHEl MassING is
founded an image archive showing the ways
Professor in the History of
that people of African descent have been rep-
Art at Cambridge University.
resented in Western art. Highlights from her
collection appeared in three large-format vol-
umes that quickly became collector’s items.
A half-century later, Harvard University Press
and the Du Bois Institute are proud to pub-
lish a complete set of ten sumptuous books,
including new editions of the original vol-
umes and two additional ones.
From the “Age of Discovery” to the
Age of Abolition: Europe and the World Beyond focuses geographically on peoples of South
America and the Mediterranean as well as Africa—but conceptually it emphasizes the many
ways that visual constructions of blacks mediated between Europe and a faraway African
continent that was impinging ever more closely on daily life, especially in cities and ports
engaged in slave trade. Images of blacks during this period did not follow European con-
tact per se but rather tracked the professions involved in painting, engraving, and print-
making, which were primarily based in Holland. Dutch masters’ representational mode
dominated the depiction of distant lands, and their works are featured in Part 2 of Vol-
ume III.
Taken together, Parts 1 and 2 of this third volume of The Image of the Black in
Western Art show in considerable depth the efforts Europeans made to understand the
African peoples they frequently used so ill.
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“B arbar y M o or with a giraffe” by Jacop o Ligozzi. Florence, G abinetto D isegni e Stamp e degli U ffizi, 2966 F.
© R abatti—Domingie/akg -images.
Monsters of the Gévaudan
the mAking of A BeAst
JAY M. SMITH
In a brilliant, original rendition, Monsters of the Gévaudan revisits a spellbinding French tale
that has captivated imaginations for over two hundred years, and offers the definitive explana-
tion of the strange events that underlie this timeless story.
In 1764 a peasant girl was killed and partially eaten while tending a flock of sheep. Even-
tually, over a hundred victims fell prey to a mysterious creature, or creatures, whose cunning
and deadly efficiency terrorized the region and mesmerized Europe. The fearsome aggressor
quickly took on mythic status, and the beast of the Gévaudan passed
into French folklore.
What species was this killer, why did it decapitate so many of
J AY M . S M I T H its victims, and why did it prefer the flesh of women and children?
is John Van Seters Why did contemporaries assume that the beast was anything but a
Distinguished wolf, or a pack of wolves, as authorities eventually claimed, and why
Term Professor of is the tale so often ignored in histories of the ancien régime? Jay
History, University of North Carolina Smith finds the answer to these last two questions in an accident of
at Chapel Hill. timing. The beast was bound to be perceived as strange and anom-
alous because its ravages coincided with the emergence of modernity
itself.
Expertly situated within the social, intellectual, cultural, and
political currents of French life in the 1760s, Monsters of the Gévaudan will engage a wide
range of readers with both its recasting of the beast narrative and its compelling insights into
the allure of the monstrous in historical memory.
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EISBN: 978-0-674-06132-3 |
HISTORY
Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
The Tribal Imagination
civilizAtion And the sAvAge mind
ROBIN FOX
We began as savages, and savagery has served us well—it got us where we are. But how do our
tribal impulses, still in place and in play, fit in the highly complex, civilized world we inhabit
today? This question, raised by thinkers from Freud to Lévi-Strauss, is fully explored in this
book by the acclaimed anthropologist Robin Fox. It takes up what he sees as the main—and
urgent—task of evolutionary science: not so much to explain
what we do, as to explain what we do at our peril.
Ranging from incest and arranged marriage to poetry
and myth to human rights and pop icons, Fox sets out to show ROBIN FOX,
how a variety of human behaviors reveal traces of their tribal
anthropologist, poet,
roots, and how this evolutionary past limits our capacity for
and essayist, is
action. Among the questions he raises: How real is our notion
University Professor of
of time? Is there a human “right” to vengeance? Are we dem-
Social Theory at
ocratic by nature? Are cultural studies and fascism cousins
Rutgers University and
under the skin? Is evolutionary history coming to an end—or
author of Kinship and Marriage: An
just getting more interesting? In his famously informative and
Anthropological Perspective and The
entertaining fashion, drawing links from Volkswagens to Bartok
to Woody Guthrie, from Swinburne to Seinfeld, Fox traces our Red Lamp of Incest: An Enquiry into the
ongoing struggle to maintain open societies in the face of pro- Origins of Mind and Society.
foundly tribal human needs—needs which, paradoxically, hold
the key to our survival.
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ISBN 978-0-674-05901-6 | $29.95 (£22.95 UK) |
EISBN: 978-0-674-06094-4 | ANTHROPOLOGY
His Majesty’s opponent
sUBhAs chAndrA Bose And indiA’s strUggle AgAinst emPire
SUGATA BOSE
The man whom Indian nationalists perceived as the “George Washington of India” and who was
President of the Indian National Congress in 1938–1939 is a legendary figure. Called Netaji
(“revered leader”) by his countrymen, Subhas Chandra Bose struggled all his life to liberate his
people from British rule and, in pursuit of that goal, raised and led the Indian National Army
against Allied forces during World War II. His patriotism, as Gandhi asserted, was second to
none, but his actions aroused controversy in India and condemnation in the West.
Now, in a definitive biography of the revered Indian
nationalist, Sugata Bose deftly explores a charismatic person-
ality whose public and private life encapsulated the contra-
S U G ATA B O S E is dictions of world history in the first half of the twentieth
Gardiner Professor of century. He brilliantly evokes Netaji’s formation in the intel-
History at Harvard lectual milieu of Calcutta and Cambridge, probes his thoughts
University and author of and relations during years of exile, and analyzes his ascent to
the peak of nationalist politics. Amid riveting accounts of
A Hundred Horizons.
imprisonment and travels, we glimpse the profundity of his
struggle: to unite Hindu and Muslim, men and women, and
diverse linguistic groups within a single independent Indian
nation. Finally, an authoritative account of his untimely death
in a plane crash will put to rest rumors about the fate of this “deathless hero.”
This epic of a life larger than its legend is both intimate, based on family archives, and
global in significance. His Majesty’s Opponent establishes Bose among the giants of Indian and
world history.
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ISBN 978-0-674-04754-9 | $35.00 (£25.95 UK) / OISC |
EISBN: 978-0-674-06083-8 | BIOGRAPHY
Courtesy Netaji Research Bureau.
awakening Islam
religioUs dissent in contemPorAry sAUdi ArABiA
STÉPHANE LACROIX
T R A N S L AT E D BY G E O R G E H O LO C H
“B ASED ON INTIMATE KNOWLEDGE OF THE MILITANTS , L ACROIX ’ S PIONEERING

ANALYSIS OF THE HISTORY AND POLITICS OF S AUDI I SLAMISTS IS , AND WILL REMAIN ,
A CLASSIC .”
—G ILLES K EPEL , AUTHOR OF J IHAD AND

B EYOND T ERROR AND M ARTYRDOM
Amidst the roil of war and instability in the Middle East, we

in the West are still searching for ways to understand the S T É P H A N E L A C R O I X is
Islamic world. Stéphane Lacroix has now given us a pene- Assistant Professor of
trating look at the political dynamics of Saudi Arabia, one of Political Science, Institut
the most opaque of Muslim countries and the place that gave d’Études Politiques, Paris.
birth to Osama bin Laden.
The result is a history that has never been told before.
Lacroix shows how thousands of Islamist militants from
Egypt, starting in the 1950s, escaped persecution and found
refuge in Saudi Arabia, where they were integrated into the
core of key state institutions and society. The transformative result was the Sahwa, or “Islamic
Awakening,” an indigenous social movement that blended political activism with local religious
ideas. Awakening Islam offers a pioneering analysis of how the movement became an essential
element of Saudi society, and why, in the late 1980s, it turned against the very state that had
nurtured it. Though the “Sahwa Insurrection” failed, it has bequeathed the world two very dif-
ferent, and very determined, heirs: the Islamo-liberals, who seek an Islamic state through con-
stitutional change, and the neo-jihadis, supporters of bin Laden, who promulgate violent
overthrow.
Awakening Islam is built upon seldom-seen documents in Arabic, numerous travels
through the country, and interviews with an unprecedented number of Saudi Islamists across
the ranks of today’s movement. The result affords unique insight into a closed culture and its
potent brand of Islam, which has been exported across the world and which remains danger-
ously misunderstood.
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EISBN: 978-0-674-06107-1 | HISTORY / RELIGION
Prison Blossoms
AnArchist voices from the AmericAn PAst
ALEXANDER BERKMAN, HENRY BAUER, AND C ARL NOLD
EDITED BY MI R I AM BR O DY AND BONNIE BUETTNER
A LEXANDER B ERKMAN DEFENDS ANARCHISM :
“I S IT LUNACY TO WISH TO MAKE THE WORLD BETTER ?…I S IT UTOPIAN TO DESIRE

FREEDOM AND THE ENJOYMENT OF LIFE FOR EVERY HUMAN BEING ? A RE S OCIALISTS
AND A NARCHISTS ENEMIES OF SOCIETY BECAUSE THEY THINK THE WORLD COULD BE
IMPROVED UPON AND EVERY MAN , WOMAN AND CHILD MADE FREE AND HAPPY ? I F
THIS IS LUNACY AND A SIGN OF ENMITY TOWARDS SOCIETY, THEN A NARCHISTS ARE
INDEED CRIMINAL LUNATICS .”
In 1892, unrepentant anarchists Alexander Berkman, Henry

Bauer, and Carl Nold were sent to the Western Pennsylvania
M I R I A M B R O D Y is an State Penitentiary for the attempted assassination of steel
independent scholar. tycoon Henry Clay Frick. Searching for a way to continue
B O N N I E B U E T T N E R is their radical politics and to proselytize among their fellow
Senior Lecturer of German Studies at inmates, these men circulated messages of hope and engage-
Cornell University. ment via primitive means and sympathetic prisoners. On odd
bits of paper, in German and in English, they shared their
thoughts and feelings in a handwritten clandestine magazine
called “Prison Blossoms.” This extraordinary series of essays
on anarchism and revolutionary deeds, of prison portraits and
narratives of homosexuality among inmates, and utopian poems and fables of a new world to
come not only exposed the brutal conditions in American prisons, where punishment cells and
starvation diets reigned, but expressed a continuing faith in the “beautiful ideal” of communal
anarchism.
Most of the “Prison Blossoms” were smuggled out of the penitentiary to fellow com-
rades, including Emma Goldman, as the nucleus of an exposé of prison conditions in America’s
Gilded Age. Those that survived relatively unrecognized for a century in an international archive
are here transcribed, translated, edited, and published for the first time. Born at a unique his-
torical moment, when European anarchism and American labor unrest converged, as each
sought to repel the excesses of monopoly capitalism, these prison blossoms peer into the heart
of political radicalism and its fervent hope of freedom from state and religious coercion.
BELKNAP PRESS | MAY | 5 1⁄2 X 8 1⁄4 | 260 PP. |

ISBN 978-0-674-05056-3 | $26.95 (£19.95 UK) | HISTORY / LITERATURE
Cairo
histories of A city
NEZAR ALSAYYAD
From its earliest days as a royal settlement fronting the pyramids of Giza to its current mani-
festation as the largest metropolis in Africa, Cairo has forever captured the urban pulse of the
Middle East. In Cairo: Histories of a City, Nezar AlSayyad narrates the many Cairos that have
existed throughout time, offering a panoramic view of the city’s history unmatched in tempo-
ral and geographic scope, through an in-depth examination of
its architecture and urban form.
In twelve vignettes, accompanied by drawings, photo-
graphs, and maps, AlSayyad details the shifts in Cairo’s built envi-
N E Z A R A L S AY YA D
ronment through stories of important figures who marked the
is Professor of
cityscape with their personal ambitions and their political ide-
Architecture,
ologies. The city is visually reconstructed and brought to life not
Planning and Urban
only as a physical fabric but also as a social and political order—
History, and Chair of
a city built within, upon, and over, resulting in a present-day
the Center for Middle
richly layered urban environment. Each chapter attempts to cap-
Eastern Studies at the University of
ture a defining moment in the life trajectory of a city loved for
California, Berkeley.
all of its evocations and contradictions. Throughout, AlSayyad
illuminates not only the spaces that make up Cairo but also the
figures that shaped them, including its chroniclers, from
Herodotus to Mahfouz, who recorded the deeds of great and
ordinary Cairenes alike. He pays particular attention to how the
imperatives of Egypt’s various rulers and regimes—from the pharaohs to Sadat and beyond—
have inscribed themselves in the city that residents navigate today.
BELKNAP PRESS | MAY | 6 1⁄8 X 9 1⁄4 | 73 COLOR ILLUS., 9 HALFTONES, 13 COLOR MAPS |
260 PP. | ISBN 978-0-674-04786-0 | $29.95 (£22.95 UK) |
EISBN: 978-0-674-06079-1 | HISTORY / ARCHITECTURE
Details from Prayer in Ca iro by Jean-Léon G érôme (1865). Bildarchiv Preußischer Kulturb esitz / Ar t Resource, NY.
american Property
A history of hoW, Why, And WhAt We oWn
STUART BANNER
In America, we are eager to claim ownership: our homes, our ideas, our organs, even our own
celebrity. But beneath our nation’s proprietary longing looms a troublesome question: what does
it mean to own something? More simply: what is property?
The question is at the heart of many contemporary controversies, including disputes
over who owns everything from genetic material to indigenous culture to music and film on the
Internet. To decide if and when genes or culture or digits are a kind of property that can be pos-
sessed, we must grapple with the nature of property itself.
How does it originate? What purposes does it serve? Is it a
natural right or one created by law?
S T U A R T B A N N E R is Accessible and mercifully free of legal jargon, Amer-
Professor of Law at the ican Property reveals the perpetual challenge of answering
University of California, these questions, as new forms of property have emerged in
Los Angeles. response to technological and cultural change, and as ideas
about the appropriate scope of government regulation have
shifted. This first comprehensive history of property in the
United States is a masterly guided tour through a contested
human institution that touches all aspects of our lives and
desires.
Stuart Banner shows that property exists to serve a
broad set of purposes, constantly in flux, that render the
idea of property itself inconstant. Despite our ideals of own-
ership, property has always been a means toward other ends. What property signifies and what
property is, we come to see, has consistently changed to match the world we want to acquire.
MARCH | 6 1⁄8 X 9 1⁄4 | 11 HALFTONES | 340 PP. |

ISBN 978-0-674-05805-7 | $29.95 (£22.95 UK) |
EISBN: 978-0-674-06082-1 | HISTORY / LAW
Common sense
A PoliticAl history
SOPHIA ROSENFELD
Common sense has always been a cornerstone of American politics. In 1776, Tom Paine’s vital
pamphlet with that title sparked the American Revolution. And today, common sense—the
wisdom of ordinary people, knowledge so self-evident that it is beyond debate—remains a pow-
erful political ideal, utilized alike by George W. Bush’s aw-shucks articulations and Barack
Obama’s down-to-earth reasonableness. But far from self-evi-
dent is where our faith in common sense comes from, and how
its populist logic has shaped modern democracy. Common
Sense: A Political History is the first book to explore this essen-
SOPHIA ROSENFELD
tial political phenomenon.
is Associate Professor
The story begins in the aftermath of England’s Glorious
of History at the
Revolution, when common sense first became a political ideal
University of Virginia.
worth struggling over. Sophia Rosenfeld’s accessible and
insightful account then wends its way across two continents
and multiple centuries, revealing the remarkable individuals
who appropriated the old, seemingly universal idea of com-
mon sense and the new strategic uses they made of it. Paine
may have boasted that common sense is always on the side of
the people and opposed to the rule of kings, but Rosenfeld demonstrates that common sense has
been used to foster demagoguery and exclusivity as well as popular sovereignty. She provides
a new account of the transatlantic Enlightenment and the Age of Revolutions, and offers a fresh
reading on what the eighteenth century bequeathed to the political ferment of our own time.
Far from commonsensical, the history of common sense turns out to be rife with paradox and
surprise.
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EISBN: 978-0-674-06128-6 | HISTORY
a long Goodbye
the soviet WithdrAWAl from AfghAnistAn
ARTEMY K ALINOVSKY
“A N ORIGINAL AND IMPORTANT BOOK THAT ADVANCES OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE END
OF THE COLD WAR AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE USSR.”
—W ILLIAM C. TAUBMAN , AUTHOR OF K HRUSHCHEV : T HE M AN AND H IS E RA
The conflict in Afghanistan looms large in the collective consciousness of Americans. What has
the United States achieved, and how will it withdraw without sacrificing those gains? The
Soviet Union confronted these same questions in the 1980s, and Artemy Kalinovsky’s history
of the USSR’s nine-year struggle to extricate itself from
Afghanistan and bring its troops home provides a sobering per-
spective on exit options in the region.
ARTEMY
What makes Kalinovsky’s intense account both timely
K A L I N O V S K Y is
and important is its focus not on motives for initiating the con-
Assistant Professor at
flict but on the factors that prevented the Soviet leadership
the University of
from ending a demoralizing war. Why did the USSR linger for
Amsterdam and Research Associate at the so long, given that key elites recognized the blunder of the mis-
Cold War Studies Programme at London sion shortly after the initial deployment?
School of Economics and Politics.
Newly available archival material, supplemented by
interviews with major actors, allows Kalinovsky to reconstruct
the fierce debates among Soviet diplomats, KGB officials, the
Red Army, and top Politburo figures. The fear that withdrawal
would diminish the USSR’s status as leader of the Third World
is palpable in these disagreements, as are the competing inter-
ests of Afghan factions and the Soviet Union’s superpower rival in the West. This book challenges
many widely held views about the actual costs of the conflict to the Soviet leadership, and its
findings illuminate the Cold War context of a military engagement that went very wrong, for
much too long.
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ISBN 978-0-674-05866-8 | $27.95 (£20.95 UK) |
EISBN: 978-0-674-06104-0 | HISTORY
Palaces of Time
JeWish cAlendAr And cUltUre in eArly modern eUroPe
ELISHEVA C ARLEBACH
From one of the leading historians of the Jewish past comes a stunning look into a previously
unexamined dimension of Jewish life and culture: the calendar. In the late sixteenth century,
Pope Gregory XIII instituted a momentous reform of Western timekeeping, and with it a period
of great instability. Jews, like all minority cultures in Europe, had to realign their timekeeping
to accord with the new Christian calendar.
Elisheva Carlebach shows that the calendar is a complex and liv-
ing system, constantly modified as new preoccupations emerge and old
priorities fade. Calendars serve to structure time and activities and thus E L I S H E VA
become mirrors of experience. Through this seemingly mundane and
CARLEBACH
all-but-overlooked document, we can reimagine the quotidian world of
is Salo W.
early modern Jewry, of market days and sacred days, of times to avoid
Baron
Christian gatherings and times to secure communal treasures. In cal-
Professor of
endars, we see one of the central paradoxes of Jewish existence: the
Jewish
need to encompass the culture of the other while retaining one’s own
History, Culture, and Society at
unique culture. Carlebach reveals that Jews have always lived in mul-
Columbia University.
tiple time scales, and demonstrates how their accounting for time, as
much as any cultural monument, has shaped Jewish life.
After a decade exploring
Judaica collections around the
world, Carlebach brings to light
these textually rich and beauti-
fully designed repositories of Jewish life. With color illus-
trations throughout, this is an evocative illumination of
how early modern Jewry marked the rhythms and reali-
ties of time and filled it with anxieties and achievements.
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56 COLOR ILLUS. | 292 PP. |
ISBN 978-0-674-05254-3 |
$35.00 (£25.95 UK) |
HISTORY / JEWISH STUDIES
Sha’ar, Portal, Sefer evronot (1557). Courtesy of the Library of the Jewish
Theological Seminary, ms 2548. fol. 34v.
The Washington Haggadah
JOEL BEN SIMEON
I N T R O D U C T I O N S B Y D AV I D S T E R N AND K AT R I N K O G M A N -A P P E L
T R A N S L AT I O N B Y D AV I D S T E R N
After the Bible, the Passover haggadah is the most widely read clas-
sic text in the Jewish tradition. More than four thousand editions
have been published since the late fifteenth century, but few are as
exquisite as the Washington Haggadah, which resides in the
Library of Congress. Now, in a stunning facsimile edition meticu-
lously reproduced in full color, this beautiful illuminated manu-
script comes to life for a new generation of readers.
Joel ben Simeon, the creator of this unusually well-pre-
served codex, was one of the most gifted and prolific scribe-
artists in the history of the Jewish book. David Stern’s
introduction reconstructs his professional biography and sit-
uates his masterwork within the historical development of
the haggadah, tracing the different forms this book (or clas-
sic Jewish text) took in the Jewish centers of Europe at the
dawn of modernity.
Katrin Kogman-Appel shows how ben Simeon,
more than just a copyist, was an active agent of cultural
exchange. As he traveled between Jewish communities on
both sides of the Alps, he brought elements of Ashkenazi haggadah illustration
to Italy and returned with stylistic devices acquired during his travels. In addition
to traditional Passover images, ben Simeon’s realistic illustrations of day-to-day
life provide a rare window into the world of late-fifteenth-century Europe.
D AV I D S T E R N is Associate Professor of
Postbiblical and Medieval Hebrew This edition faithfully preserves the original text, with the Hebrew fac-
simile appearing in the original right-to-left orientation. It will be read and treas-
Literature at the University of
ured by anyone interested in Jewish history, medieval illuminated manuscripts,
Pennsylvania. K AT R I N K O G M A N -
and the history of the haggadah.
A P P E L is Associate Professor of the Arts
at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
BELKNAP PRESS | MARCH | 7 X 10 | 38-PAGE COLOR FACSIMILE,
11 COLOR ILLUS. | 158 PP. | ISBN 978-0-674-05117-1 | $39.95 (£29.95 UK) |
JUDAICA / ART
Field Notes on science and Nature
EDITED BY MICHAEL C ANFIELD
FOREWORD BY E. O. W I L S O N
“T HERE IS NO OTHER BOOK LIKE THIS — ONE THAT TAKES READERS OUT OF THE
LABORATORY AND INTO THE FIELD TO LEARN THE BASICS OF NATURAL HISTORY AND
THE FUN OF OBSERVING NATURE .”
—G EORGE S CHALLER
Once in a great while, as the New

York Times noted recently,
a naturalist writes a book
that changes the way peo-
MICHAEL
ple look at the living world. John James
C A N F I E L D is
Audubon’s Birds of America, published in
Lecturer on
1838, was one. Roger Tory Peterson’s 1934
Organismic
Field Guide to the Birds was another. How does
such insight into nature develop? and
Evolutionary Biology,
Pioneering a new niche in the study of plants and
Harvard University.
animals in their native habitat, Field Notes on Science and
Nature allows readers to peer over the shoulders and into the
notebooks of a dozen eminent field workers, to study firsthand their
observational methods, materials, and fleeting impressions.
What did George Schaller note when studying the lions of the Serengeti? What lists did
Kenn Kaufman keep during his 1973 “big year”? How does Piotr Naskrecki use relational data-
bases and electronic field notes? In what way is Bernd Heinrich’s approach “truly Thoreau-
vian,” in E. O. Wilson’s view? Recording observations in the field is an indispensable scientific
skill, but researchers are not generally willing to share their personal records with others. Here,
for the first time, are reproductions of actual pages from notebooks. And in essays abounding
with fascinating anecdotes, the authors reflect on the contexts in which the notes were taken.
Covering disciplines as diverse as ornithology, entomology, ecology, paleontology, anthro-
pology, botany, and animal behavior, Field Notes offers specific examples that professional
naturalists can emulate to fine-tune their own field methods, along with practical
advice that amateur naturalists and students can use to document their
adventures.
MAY | 6 3⁄8 X 9 1⁄4 | 87 COLOR ILLUS., 43 HALFTONES, 1 TABLE | 280 PP. |

ISBN 978-0-674-05757-9 | $27.95 (£20.95 UK) |
EISBN: 978-0-674-06084-5 | NATURE
D rawing of a blue -banded k ingfisher by Ro ger Kitching; D rawing of a checkered sengi by Jonathan Kingdon.
listed
disPAtches from AmericA’s endAngered sPecies Act
JOE ROMAN
“A BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN DESCRIPTION OF WHAT IS HAPPENING TO MANY OF OUR

ONLY KNOWN LIVING COMPANIONS IN THE UNIVERSE , TOLD AGAINST THE BACKGROUND
OF THE MUCH ( IGNORANTLY ) MALIGNED U.S. E NDANGERED S PECIES A CT. I T IS ALSO
A PLEA TO TAKE STEPS THAT WOULD HELP TO PRESERVE THREATENED ORGANISMS AND
US . A FASCINATING READ .”
—PAUL R. E HRLICH , CO - AUTHOR OF T HE D OMINANT A NIMAL
The first listed species to make headlines after the Endan-

gered Species Act was passed in 1973 was the snail darter,
a three-inch fish that stood in the way of a massive dam on
J O E R O M A N is a the Little Tennessee River. When the Supreme Court sided
researcher at the with the darter, Congress changed the rules. The dam was
University of Vermont, the built, the river stopped flowing, and the snail darter went
author of Whale, and extinct on the Little Tennessee, though it survived in other
senior editor of the journal Solutions. waterways. A young Al Gore voted for the dam; freshman
congressman Newt Gingrich voted for the fish.
A lot has changed since the 1970s, and Joe Roman
helps us understand why we should all be happy that this
sweeping law is alive and well today. More than a general
history of endangered species protection, Listed is a tale of
threatened species in the wild—from the whooping crane
and North Atlantic right whale to the purple bankclimber,
a freshwater mussel tangled up in a water war with Atlanta—and the people working to save
them.
Employing methods from the new field of ecological economics, Roman challenges the
widely held belief that protecting biodiversity is too costly. And with engaging directness, he
explains how preserving biodiversity can help economies and communities thrive. Above all,
he shows why the extinction of species matters to us personally—to our health and safety, our
prosperity, and our joy in nature.
MAY | 5 1⁄2 X 8 1⁄4 | 326 PP. |

ISBN 978-0-674-04751-8 | $27.95 (£20.95 UK) |
EISBN: 978-0-674-06127-9 | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Cricket Radio
tUning in the night-singing insects
JOHN HIMMELMAN
At a time when night-singing insects have slipped beyond our notice—indeed, are more likely
to be heard as NatureSounds than in a backyard—John Himmelman seeks to reconnect us to
creatures whose songs form a part of our own natural history.
On warm summer evenings, night-singing insects produce a whirring, chirping sound-
scape—a calming aural tapestry celebrated by poets and naturalists for millennia. But “cricket
radio” is not broadcast for the easy-listening pleasure of humans. The noctur-
nal songs of insects are lures
and warnings, full of
risks and rewards
for these tiny J O H N H I M M E L M A N is
competitive author and illustrator of

performers. What nearly seventy books,
moves crickets most recently Guide to
and katydids to sing, how they produce Night-Singing Insects of the Northeast and
their distinctive sounds, how they hear the songs of others, Discovering Amphibians: Frogs and
and how they vary cadence, volume, and pitch to attract Salamanders of the Northeast. Visit his
potential mates, warn off competitors, and evade predators website at www.johnhimmelman.com.
is part of the engaging story Cricket Radio tells.
Himmelman’s narrative weaves together his personal
experiences as an amateur naturalist in search of crickets
and katydids with the stories of scientists who study these
insects professionally. He also offers instructions for bringing a few of the little singers into our
homes and gardens. We can, Himmelman suggests, be reawakened to these night songs that
have meant so much to the human psyche. The online insect calls that accompany this color-
fully illustrated narrative provide a bridge of sound to our past and to our vital connection with
other species.
BELKNAP PRESS | MARCH | 5 1⁄2 X 8 1⁄4 | 53 COLOR ILLUS., 24 HALFTONES, 18 LINE ILLUS. |
260 PP. | ISBN 978-0-674-04690-0 | $22.95 / NA |
EISBN: 978-0-674-06102-6 | NATURE
Line drawing of a house cricket by L. Joutel in Bulletin of the A merica n Museum of Na tural Histor y (1864);
Photo of a fork-tailed bush k at ydid by John H immelman.
Rising Force
the mAgic of mAgnetic levitAtion
JAMES D. LIVINGSTON
From Peter Pan to Harry Potter, from David Copperfield to levitating toys, there is magic in
conquering gravity. In this first-ever popular introduction to “maglev”— the use of magnetic
forces to overcome gravity and friction—James D. Livingston takes lay readers on a journey of
discovery, from basic concepts to today’s most thrilling applications.
The tour begins with examples of our historical fascination with levitation, both real
and fake. At the next stop, Livingston introduces readers to the components of maglev: gravi-
tational and magnetic forces in the universe, force fields, diamag-
netism and stabilization, superdiamagnetism and supercurrents,
maglev nanotechnology, and more. He explores the development
J A M E S D. of the superconductors that are making large-scale levitation devices
L I V I N G S T O N is a possible, and the use of magnetic bearings in products ranging from
former physicist at implanted blood pumps to wind turbines, integrated circuit fabri-
GE and lecturer at cation, and centrifuges to enrich uranium. In the last chapters, we
MIT, and the author of Driving Force:
arrive at the science behind maglev trans-
portation systems, such as Chinese
The Natural Magic of Magnets.
trains that travel 250 miles per hour
without touching the tracks.
Packed with fascinating
anecdotes about the colorful per-
sonalities who have
“fought friction by fighting gravity,” the
book maintains accuracy throughout
while it entertains and informs tech-
nical and nontechnical readers
alike. With so many new applica-
tions for magnetic levitation on the
horizon, Rising Force is sure to retain
its own magic for years to come.
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ISBN 978-0-674-05535-3 | $27.95 (£20.95 UK) |
EISBN: 978-0-674-06109-5 | SCIENCE
Cherr y Wo o d Levitron, with top magnet spinning and levitating ab ove ring-shap ed base magnet.
Cour tesy of Fascinations, I nc.
101 Quantum Questions
WhAt yoU need to knoW ABoUt the World yoU cAn’t see
KENNETH W. FORD
Ken Ford’s mission is to help us understand the “great ideas” of quantum physics—ideas such
as wave-particle duality, the uncertainty principle, superposition, and conservation. These fun-
damental concepts provide the structure for 101 Quantum Questions, an authoritative yet
engaging book for the general reader in which every question and answer brings out one or more
basic features of the mysterious world of the quantum—
the physics of the very small.
Nuclear researcher and master teacher, Ford cov-
ers everything from quarks, quantum jumps, and what
K E N F O R D ’s other books
causes stars to shine, to practical applications ranging
include The Quantum World:
from lasers and superconductors to light-emitting diodes.
Quantum Physics for
Ford’s lively answers are enriched by Paul Hewitt’s draw-
Everyone, which Esquire
ings, numerous photos of physicists, and anecdotes,
magazine recommended as
many from Ford’s own experience. Organized for cover-
the best way to gain an
to-cover reading, 101 Quantum Questions also is great
understanding of quantum physics. Ford’s
for browsing.
new book, a sequel to the earlier one, makes
Some books focus on a single subject such as the
the quantum world even more accessible.
standard model of particles, or string theory, or fusion
energy. This book touches all those topics and more,
showing us that disparate natural phenomena, as well
as a host of human inventions, can be understood in
terms of a few key ideas. Yet Ford does not give us simplistic explanations. He assumes a seri-
ous reader wanting to gain real understanding of the essentials of quantum physics.
MARCH | 6 1⁄8 X 8 1⁄2 | 39 HALFTONES, 64 LINE ILLUS., 9 TABLES | 326 PP. |

ISBN 978-0-674-05099-0 | $24.95 (£18.95 UK) |
EISBN: 978-0-674-06093-7 | SCIENCE
Engineering animals
hoW life Works
MARK DENNY AND ALAN MCFADZEAN
The alarm calls of birds make them difficult for predators to locate, while the howl of wolves
and the croak of bullfrogs are designed to carry across long distances. From an engineer’s per-
spective, how do such specialized adaptations among living things really work? And how does
physics constrain evolution, channeling it in particular directions?
Writing with wit and a richly informed sense of wonder, Mark Denny and Alan
McFadzean offer an expert look at animals as works of engineering, each exquisitely adapted
to a specific manner of survival, whether that means spin-
ning webs or flying across continents or hunting in the
dark—or writing books. This particular book, containing
M A R K D E N N Y is a more than a hundred illustrations, conveys clearly, for engi-
retired aerospace neers and nonengineers alike, the physical principles under-
engineer and the author lying animal structure and behavior.
of Froth: The Science of Pigeons, for instance—when understood as marvels
Beer. A L A N M C FA D Z E A N is an of engineering—are flying remote sensors: they have wide-
independent consultant. band acoustical receivers, hi-res optics, magnetic sensing,
and celestial navigation. Albatrosses expend little energy
while traveling across vast southern oceans, by exploiting
a technique known to glider pilots as dynamic soaring.
Among insects, one species of fly can locate the source of
a sound precisely, even though the fly itself is much smaller
than the wavelength of the sound it hears. And that big-
brained, upright Great Ape? Evolution has equipped us to
figure out an important fact about the natural world: that there is more to life than engineer-
ing, but no life at all without it.
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ISBN 978-0-674-04854-6 | $35.00 (£25.95 UK) |
EISBN: 978-0-674-06085-2 | SCIENCE
letters to a Young Poet
R AINER MARIA RILKE
T R A N S L AT E D BY MARK HARMAN
P RAISE FOR M ARK H ARMAN ’ S TRANSLATION OF T HE C ASTLE :

“F OR THE GENERAL READER OR FOR THE STUDENT, IT WILL BE THE TRANSLATION OF
PREFERENCE FOR SOME TIME TO COME .”
—J.M. COETZEE , T HE N EW YORK R EVIEW OF B OOKS
In 1902, a nineteen-year-old aspiring poet named Franz Kappus

wrote to Rilke, then twenty-six, seeking advice on his poetry. Kap-
pus, a student at a military academy in Vienna similar to the one
Rilke had attended, was about to embark on a career as an officer, MARK HARMAN,
for which he had little inclination. Touched by the innocence and who has written
forthrightness of the student, Rilke responded to Kappus’s letter and extensively on
began an intermittent correspondence that would last until 1908. German and Irish
Letters to a Young Poet collects the ten letters that Rilke literature, is
wrote to Kappus. A book often encountered in adolescence, it Professor of
speaks directly to the young. Rilke offers unguarded thoughts on English and German at
subjects such creativity, solitude, self-reliance, living with uncer- Elizabethtown College.
tainty, the shallowness of irony, the uselessness of criticism, career
choices, sex, love, God, and art. Letters to a Young Poet is, finally,
a life manual. Art, Rilke tells the young poet in his final letter to
him, is only another way of living.
With the same artistry that marks his widely acclaimed trans-
lations of Kafka’s The Castle and Amerika: The Missing Person, Mark Harman captures the
lyrical and spiritual dimensions of Rilke’s prose. In his introduction, he provides biographical con-
texts for the reader and discusses the challenges of translating Rilke. This lovely hardcover edi-
tion makes a perfect gift for any young person starting out in life or for those interested in finding
a clear articulation of Rilke’s thoughts on life and art.
APRIL | 4 1⁄4 X 6 3⁄8 | 84 PP. |

ISBN 978-0-674-05245-1 | $15.95 (£11.95 UK) | LITERATURE
Machu Picchu
DAVID DREW
No other ruin evokes so powerfully the grandeur and mystery of a forgotten civilization as
Machu Picchu. Since its existence was first publicized in 1911 by the American explorer Hiram
Bingham, this World Heritage site has become the embodiment of a “lost city”—although nearly
half a million people find their way there every year. Until now, no survey of the site, history of
its archaeological exploration, and assessment of the city’s meaning have been brought together
in one authoritative and portable volume.
In the centenary of this enigmatic site’s “rediscovery,” David Drew offers an up-to-date
guide to the ruins, in all their complexity. His vivid account
includes the story of Hiram Bingham’s expeditions and a judicious
appraisal of their achievements and failings. He examines the lat-
est theories on the purpose and functioning of the city and the cir-
D AV I D D R E W is
cumstances of its abandonment, and he explores the powerful
an archaeologist,
symbolic significance the site has acquired since its discovery for
lecturer, and
different groups of people. Drew also looks dispassionately at how
broadcaster, and
the fabric of the city has fared over the last century and the dan-
author of The Lost Chronicles of the gers to the region’s environment that its immense popularity now
Maya Kings. presents. A final chapter covers the controversy over the future of
items removed by Bingham from Machu Picchu, which currently
reside in Yale University’s Peabody Museum.
Much more than a guidebook, Machu Picchu enables read-
ers to appreciate the magic and multiple meanings of perhaps the
most romantic ruin in the world.
WONDERS OF THE WORLD |

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ISBN 978-0-674-05867-5 | $19.95 / NA | HISTORY / ARCHITECTURE
Pacific art in Detail
JENNIFER NEWELL
Pacific Art in Detail introduces the riches of Oceanic art through astonishing
close-up views of rarely seen treasures, allowing behind-the-scenes insight into
this vibrant work that no conventional gallery tour affords.
Carefully selected pieces from the world-renowned Oceanic
collection at the British Museum—by artists employing a wide
variety of materials and techniques—illustrate such major
themes as the role of artistic creation in land and ocean man-
agement, political and spiritual power, and connections to
gods and ancestors.
Jennifer Newell’s introduction addresses the question
“What is Pacific art?” while short texts
place each individual object into its
cultural context. Handsome photo-
graphs of each complete work are
displayed alongside these fine details, J E N N I F E R N E W E L L is Research Fellow,
to allow for intriguing comparisons National Museum of Australia, and was
between seemingly unrelated formerly Curator, Oceania section, British
objects and media. Museum. She is the author of Trading
Evoking the hand Nature: Tahitians, Europeans, and
and eye of the most accom- Ecological Exchange.
plished Pacific artists and
craft workers, past and
present, these details spur
the creative imagination and serve as an astute introduc-
tion to Oceanic collections in museums around the world.
ART IN DETAIL
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ISBN 978-0-674-05578-0 | $22.95 / NA | ART
I mages ©The Trustees of the British Museum.
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Understanding Global Trade
ELHANAN HELPMAN
Global trade is of vital interest to citizens as well as policymakers, yet it is widely misunderstood.
This compact exposition of the market forces underlying international commerce addresses
both of these concerned groups, as well as the needs of students and scholars. Although it con-
tains no equations, it is almost mathematical in its elegance, precision, and power of expression.
Understanding Global Trade provides a thorough explanation of what shapes the inter-
national organization of production and distribution and the resulting trade flows. It reviews the
evolution of knowledge in this field from Adam Smith to today as a process of theoretical mod-
eling, accumulation of new empirical data, and then revi-
sion of analytical frameworks in response to evidence and
changing circumstances. It explains the sources of com-
parative advantage and how they lead countries to special-
E L H A N A N H E L P M A N is
ize in making products which they then sell to other
Galen Stone Professor of
countries. While foreign trade contributes to the overall
International Trade,
welfare of a nation, it also creates winners and losers, and
Harvard University and
Elhanan Helpman describes mechanisms through which
the author of many research articles and trade affects a country’s income distribution.
books, including The Mystery of Economic
The book provides a clear and original account of
Growth.
the revolutions in trade theory of the 1980s and the most
recent decade. It shows how scholars shifted the analysis of
trade flows from the sectoral level to the business-firm level,
to elucidate the growing roles of multinational corporations,
offshoring, and outsourcing in the international division of
labor. Helpman’s explanation of the latest research findings
is essential for an understanding of world affairs.
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ISBN 978-0-674-06078-4 | $23.95 * (£17.95 UK) |
EISBN: 978-0-674-06101-9 | ECONOMICS
Deep secrets
Boys’ friendshiPs And the crisis of connection
NIOBE WAY
“Boys are emotionally illiterate and don’t want intimate friendships.” In this empirically
grounded challenge to our stereotypes about boys and men, Niobe Way reveals the intense inti-
macy among teenage boys, especially during early and middle adolescence. Not only do boys
share their deepest secrets and feelings with their closest male friends, but they also claim that
without them they would go “wacko.” Yet as boys become
men, they become distrustful, lose these friendships, and
feel isolated and alone.
Drawing from hundreds of interviews conducted
N I O B E WAY is Professor
throughout adolescence with black, Latino, white, and
of Applied Psychology at
Asian American boys, Deep Secrets reveals the ways in
New York University and
which we have been telling ourselves a false story about
director of the Ph.D.
boys, friendships, and human nature. Boys’ descriptions of
program in Developmental
their male friendships sound more like “something out of
Psychology.
Love Story than Lord of the Flies.” Yet in late adolescence,
boys feel they have to “man up” by becoming stoic and
independent. Vulnerable emotions and intimate friendships
are for girls and gay men. “No homo” becomes their
mantra.
These findings are alarming, given what we know about links between friendships and
health, and even longevity. Rather than a “boy crisis,” Way argues that boys are experiencing
a “crisis of connection” because they live in a culture where human needs and capacities are
given a sex (female) and a sexuality (gay), and thus discouraged for those who are neither. Way
argues that the solution lies with exposing the inaccuracies of our gender stereotypes and fos-
tering these critical relationships and fundamental human skills.
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ISBN 978-0-674-04664-1 | $24.95 * (£18.95 UK) |
EISBN: 978-0-674-06136-1 | PSYCHOLOGY
Constitutional Redemption
PoliticAl fAith in An UnJUst World
JACK M. BALKIN
Political constitutions, hammered out by imperfect human beings in periods of intense political
controversy, are always compromises with injustice. What makes the U.S. Constitution legiti-
mate, argues this daring book, is Americans’ enduring faith that the Constitution’s promises
can someday be redeemed, and the constitutional system be made “a more perfect union.”
A leading constitutional theorist, Jack Balkin argues eloquently that the American con-
stitutional project is based in faith, hope, and a narrative of shared redemption. Our belief that
the Constitution will deliver us from evil shows in the sto-
ries we tell one another about where our country came
from and where it is headed, and in the way we use these
J A C K M . B A L K I N is historical touchstones to justify our fervent (and opposed)
Knight Professor of political creeds. Because Americans have believed in a story
Constitutional Law and of constitutional redemption, we have assumed the right
the First Amendment and to decide for ourselves what the Constitution means, and
have worked to persuade others to set it on the right path.
Director of The Information Society Project
As a result, constitutional principles have often shifted dra-
and the Knight Law and Media Program, all
matically over time. They are, in fact, often political com-
at Yale Law School.
promises in disguise.
What will such a Constitution become? We cannot
know. But our belief in the legitimacy of the Constitution
requires a leap of faith—a gamble on the ultimate vindica-
tion of a political project that has already survived many
follies and near-catastrophes, and whose destiny is still over the horizon.
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ISBN 978-0-674-05874-3 | $35.00 * (£25.95 UK) |
EISBN: 978-0-674-06081-4 | LAW / POLITICS
Convicting the Innocent
Where criminAl ProsecUtions go Wrong
BRANDON L. GARRETT
On January 20, 1984, Earl Washington—defended for all of forty minutes by a lawyer who had
never tried a death penalty case—was found guilty of rape and murder in the state of Virginia
and sentenced to death. After nine years on death row, DNA testing cast doubt on his convic-
tion and saved his life. However, he spent another eight years in prison before more sophisti-
cated DNA technology proved his innocence and convicted
the guilty man.
DNA exonerations have shattered confidence in the
criminal justice system by exposing how often we have con- BRANDON L.
victed the innocent and let the guilty walk free. In this unset-
G A R R E T T is a
tling in-depth analysis, Brandon Garrett examines what went
Professor of Law at the
wrong in the cases of the first 250 wrongfully convicted peo-
University of Virginia
ple to be exonerated by DNA testing.
School of Law.
Based on trial transcripts, Garrett’s investigation into
the causes of wrongful convictions reveals larger patterns of
incompetence, abuse, and error. Evidence corrupted by sug-
gestive eyewitness procedures, coercive interrogations,
unsound and unreliable forensics, shoddy investigative prac-
tices, cognitive bias, and poor lawyering illustrates the weaknesses built into our current crim-
inal justice system. Garrett proposes practical reforms that rely more on documented, recorded,
and audited evidence, and less on fallible human memory.
Very few crimes committed in the United States involve biological evidence that can be
tested using DNA. How many unjust convictions are there that we will never discover? Con-
victing the Innocent makes a powerful case for systemic reforms to improve the accuracy of all
criminal cases.
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ISBN 978-0-674-05870-5 | $39.95 * (£29.95 UK) |
EISBN: 978-0-674-06098-2 | LAW
The law of life and Death
ELIZABETH PRICE FOLEY
Are you alive? What makes you so sure? Most people believe this question has a clear answer—
that some law defines our status as living (or not) for all purposes. But they are dead wrong. In
this pioneering study, Elizabeth Price Foley examines the many, and surprisingly ambiguous,
legal definitions of what counts as human life and death.
Foley reveals that “not being dead” is not necessarily the same as being alive, in the
eyes of the law. People, pre-viable fetuses, and post-viable fetuses have different sets of legal
rights, which explains the law’s seemingly inconsistent approach to stem cell research, in vitro
fertilization, frozen embryos, in utero embryos, contra-
ception, abortion, homicide, and wrongful death.
In a detailed analysis that is sure to be controver-
sial, Foley shows how the need for more organ trans-
ELIZABETH PRICE FOLEY
plants and the need to conserve health care resources
is Professor of Law, Florida
are exerting steady pressure to expand the legal defini-
International University
tion of death. As a result, death is being declared faster
College of Law.
than ever before. The “right to die,” Foley worries, may
be morphing slowly into an obligation to die.
Foley’s balanced, accessible chapters explore the
most contentious legal issues of our time—including
cryogenics, feticide, abortion, physician-assisted suicide,
brain death, vegetative and minimally conscious states, informed consent, and advance direc-
tives—across constitutional, contract, tort, property, and criminal law. Ultimately, she suggests,
the inconsistencies and ambiguities in U.S. laws governing life and death may be culturally, and
perhaps even psychologically, necessary for an enormous and diverse country like ours.
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EISBN: 978-0-674-06090-6 |
LAW / ETHICS
Author photo by Myra Klarman.
38 w w w.hup.ha r vard. e d u ( h a r va rd u n i ve r s i t y p re s s
a level Playing Field
AfricAn AmericAn Athletes And the rePUBlic of sPorts
GERALD L. EARLY
“G ERALD E ARLY IS ONE OF THE GREAT CULTURAL CRITICS OF OUR TIME , AND A
COLLECTION LIKE THIS ONE IS LONG OVERDUE .”
—H UA H SU , VASSAR COLLEGE
As Americans, we believe there ought to be a level playing field for everyone. Even if we don’t
expect to finish first, we do expect a fair start. Only in sports
have African Americans actually found that elusive level ground.
But at the same time, black players offer an ironic perspective on
the athlete-hero, for they represent a group historically held to be G E R A L D L . E A R LY
without social honor. is Professor of
In his first new collection of sports essays since Tuxedo English, African, and
Junction (1989), the noted cultural critic Gerald Early investi- African American
gates these contradictions as they play out in the sports world Studies and American
and in our deeper attitudes toward the athletes we glorify. Early Cultural Studies at
addresses a half-century of heated cultural issues ranging from Washington University in St. Louis.
integration to the use of performance-enhancing drugs. Writing
about Jackie Robinson and Curt Flood, he reconstructs pivotal
moments in their lives and explains how the culture, politics,
and economics of sport turned with them. Taking on the sub-
texts, racial and otherwise, of the controversy over remarks Rush
Limbaugh made about quarterback Donovan McNabb, Early restores the political consequence
to an event most commentators at the time approached with predictable bluster.
The essays in this book circle around two perennial questions: What other, invisible con-
tests unfold when we watch a sporting event? What desires and anxieties are encoded in our
worship of (or disdain for) high-performance athletes?
These essays are based on the Alain Locke Lectures delivered at Harvard University’s
W. E. B. Du Bois Institute.
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EISBN: 978-0-674-06086-9 |
AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
The Politics of Imagining asia
WANG HUI
EDITED BY THEODORE HUTERS
In this bold, provocative collection, Wang Hui confronts some of the major issues concerning
modern China and the status quo of contemporary Chinese thought.
The book’s overarching theme is the possibility of an alternative modernity that does
not rely on imported conceptions of Chinese history and its legacy. Wang Hui argues that cur-
rent models, based largely on Western notions of empire and the nation-state, fail to account for
the richness and diversity of pre-modern Chinese historical practice. At the same time, he
refrains from offering an exclusively Chinese perspective or
from placing China in an intellectual ghetto. Navigating terrain
on regional language and politics, he draws on China’s unique
past to expose the inadequacies of European-born standards for
WA N G H U I is
assessing modern China’s evolution. He takes issue particularly
Professor of Literature
with the way in which nation-state logic has dominated politi-
and History at
cally charged concerns like Chinese language standardization
Tsinghua University in
and “The Tibetan Question.” His stance is critical—and often
Beijing. T H E O D O R E H U T E R S is
controversial—but he locates hope in the kinds of complex,
Professor Emeritus of Chinese in the
multifaceted arrangements that defined China and much of Asia
Department of Asian Languages and for centuries.
Cultures at the University of California,
The Politics of Imagining Asia challenges us not only to
Los Angeles.
re-examine our theories of “Asia” but to reconsider what
“Europe” means as well. As Theodore Huters writes in his intro-
duction, “Wang Hui’s concerns extend beyond China and Asia
to an ambition to rethink world history as a whole.”
MARCH | 6 1⁄8 X 9 1⁄4 | 358 PP. |

ISBN 978-0-674-05519-3 | $35.00 * (£25.95 UK) |
EISBN: 978-0-674-06135-4 | HISTORY
Framing Muslims
stereotyPing And rePresentAtion After 9/11
PETER MOREY AND AMINA YAQIN
Can Muslims ever fully be citizens of the West? Can the values of Islam ever be brought into
accord with the individual freedoms central to the civic identity of Western nations? Not if you
believe what you see on TV. Whether the bearded fanatic, the veiled, oppressed female, or the
shadowy terrorist plotting our destruction, crude stereotypes permeate public representations
of Muslims in the United States and western Europe. But these
“Muslims” are caricatures—distorted abstractions, wrought in the
most garish colors, that serve to reduce the diversity and complex-
ity of the Muslim world to a set of fixed objects suitable for sound
P E T E R M O R E Y is
bites and not much else.
Senior Lecturer in
In Framing Muslims: Stereotyping and Representation after
English Literature,
9/11, Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin dissect the ways in which
University of East
stereotypes depicting Muslims as an inherently problematic pres-
London. A M I N A
ence in the West are constructed, deployed, and circulated in the
YA Q I N is Lecturer
public imagination, producing an immense gulf between represen-
in Urdu, University of London.
tation and a considerably more complex reality. Crucially, they show
that these stereotypes are not solely the province of crude-minded
demagogues and their tabloid megaphones, but multiply as well
from the lips of supposedly progressive elites, even those who pre-
sume to speak “from within,” on Muslims’ behalf. Based on nuanced analyses of cultural rep-
resentations in both the United States and the United Kingdom, the authors draw our attention
to a circulation of stereotypes about Muslims that sometimes globalizes local biases and, at other
times, brings national differences into sharper relief.
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EISBN: 978-0-674-06114-9 | CULTURAL STUDIES / RELIGION
love Poems, letters, and
Remedies of ovid
TRANSLATED BY DAVID R. SLAVITT
INTRODUCTION BY MICHAEL DIRDA
Widely praised for his recent translations of Boethius and Ariosto, David R. Slavitt returns to
Ovid, once again bringing to the contemporary ear the spirited, idiomatic, audacious charms of
this master poet.
The love described here is the anguished, ruinous kind, for which Ovid was among the
first to find expression. In the Amores, he testifies to the male experience, and in the compan-
ion Heroides—through a series of dramatic monologues
addressed to absent lovers—he imagines how love goes for
women. “You think she is ardent with you? So was she ardent
D AV I D R . S L AV I T T with him,” cries Oenone to Paris. Sappho, revisiting the forest
is a poet and the where she lay with Phaon, sighs, “The place / without your pres-
translator of more ence is just another place. / You were what made it magic.” The
than ninety works of Remedia Amoris sees love as a sickness and offers curative advice:
fiction, poetry, and drama. “The beginning is your best chance to resist”; “Try to avoid
onions, / imported or domestic. And arugula is bad. / Whatever
may incline your body to Venus / keep away from.” The voices
of men and women produce a volley of extravagant laments over
love’s inconstancy and confusions, as though elegance and vigor
of expression might compensate for heartache.
Though these love poems come to us across millennia, Slavitt’s translations, introduced
by Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Dirda, ensure that their sentiments have not faded with the
passage of time. They delight us with their wit, even as we weep a little in recognition.
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EISBN: 978-0-674-06122-4 | POETRY
The lost Children
reconstrUcting eUroPe’s fAmilies After World WAr ii
TARA Z AHRA
During the Second World War, an unprecedented number of families were torn apart. As the
Nazi empire crumbled, millions roamed the continent in search of their loved ones. The Lost
Children tells the story of these families and of the struggle to determine their fate. We see how
the reconstruction of families quickly became synonymous with the survival of European civi-
lization itself.
Even as Allied officials and humanitarian organizations pro-
claimed a new era of individualist and internationalist values, Tara
Zahra demonstrates that they defined the “best interests” of chil-
TA R A Z A H R A is
dren in nationalist terms. Sovereign nations and families were seen
Assistant Professor
as the key to the psychological rehabilitation of traumatized indi-
of History at the
viduals and the peace and stability of Europe.
University of
Based on original research in German, French, Czech, Pol-
Chicago.
ish, and American archives, The Lost Children is a heartbreaking
and mesmerizing story. It brings together the histories of eastern
and western Europe, and traces the efforts of everyone—from Jew-
ish Holocaust survivors to German refugees, from Communist offi-
cials to American social workers—to rebuild the lives of displaced children. It reveals that many
seemingly timeless ideals of the family were actually conceived in the concentration camps,
orphanages, and refugee camps of the Second World War, and shows how the process of recon-
struction shaped Cold War ideologies and ideas about childhood and national identity. This riv-
eting tale of families destroyed by war reverberates in the lost children of today’s wars and in
the compelling issues of international adoption, human rights and humanitarianism, and refugee
policies.
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EISBN: 978-0-674-06137-8 | HISTORY
Promise and Peril
AmericA At the dAWn of A gloBAl Age
CHRISTOPHER MCKNIGHT NICHOLS
“A DEEPLY THOUGHTFUL STUDY ABOUT THE POWER OF IDEAS IN THE MAKING OF U.S.
FOREIGN POLICY.”
—M ICHAEL K AZIN , AUTHOR OF

A G ODLY H ERO : T HE L IFE OF W ILLIAM J ENNINGS B RYAN
Spreading democracy abroad or taking care of business at home is a tension as current as the
war in Afghanistan and as old as America itself. Tracing the history of isolationist and interna-
tionalist ideas from the 1890s through the 1930s, Christopher
McKnight Nichols reveals unexpected connections among indi-
viduals and groups from across the political spectrum who
CHRISTOPHER
developed new visions for America’s place in the world.
MCKNIGHT From Henry Cabot Lodge and William James to W. E. B.
N I C H O L S is the Du Bois and Jane Addams to Randolph Bourne, William Borah,
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in and Emily Balch, Nichols shows how reformers, thinkers, and
U.S. History at the University of
politicians confronted the challenges of modern society—and
then grappled with urgent pressures to balance domestic pri-
Pennsylvania.
orities and foreign commitments. Each articulated a distinct
strain of thought, and each was part of a sprawling national
debate over America’s global role. Through these individuals,
Nichols conducts us into the larger community as it strove to
reconcile America’s founding ideals and ideas about isolation with the realities of the nation’s
burgeoning affluence, rising global commerce, and new opportunities for worldwide cultural
exchange. The resulting interrelated set of isolationist and internationalist principles provided
the basis not just for many foreign policy arguments of the era but also for the vibrant as well
as negative connotations that isolationism still possesses.
Nichols offers a bold way of understanding the isolationist and internationalist impulses
that shaped the heated debates of the early twentieth century and that continue to influence
thinking about America in the world today.

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S enators Henr y Cab ot Lo dge and Reed Smo ot af ter consulting with President Co olidge, M ay 7, 1924.
Librar y of Congress.
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Digital Cultures
MILAD DOUEIHI
In a world largely divided between giddy celebrants and dire detractors of digital culture, Milad
Doueihi is one of the very few who speak with broadly informed and measured authority about
what the rise of the digital means. Writing as a philologist and intellectual historian, Doueihi
argues that digital culture is or will be akin to religion in the scope of its influence and power,
and that because of its omnipresence it requires special analysis. Digital Cultures is the culmi-
nation of his deep and far-reaching attempts to meet this need.
Doueihi shows clearly how applying the notions of print cul-
ture to digital textuality distorts the logic and promise of the new
literacy. He then moves on to examine a number of inherent con-
tradictions or tensions in digital culture: between digital technology’s MILAD DOUEIHI
capacity to create a public sphere and its use as an instrument of is Honorary

control and censorship; between the possible collective and anony- Professorial
mous construction of knowledge in the Wikisphere and the dissem- Fellow, University
ination of errors. Throughout, he strives to give a balanced account of Glasgow, and
of digitization’s potential for both disruption and innovation. author of
Writing accessibly about the underlying technology, Doueihi Augustine and Spinoza and Earthly
explores the multidimensional question of what it means to partici- Paradise: Myths and Philosophies.
pate in online culture—from literacy and citizenship to texts, archiv-
ing, and storage. By bringing together topics explored separately
elsewhere—such as copyright, digital subjectivity, and social net-
works—Digital Cultures offers a rare, comprehensive view of the
emerging digital space.
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Celebrating 10 Years
James Hankins, General Editor
Shane Butler and Martin Davies, Associate Editors
THE I TAT TI RE NAISSAN CE LIBR ARY
Letters to Friends Modern Poets

Bartolomeo Fonzio Lilio Gregorio Giraldi
Edited by Alessandro Daneloni Edited and translated by John Grant
Translated by Martin Davies
Born in Ferrara, Lilio Gregorio Giraldi
Bartolomeo Fonzio (1447–1513) was a leading literary figure in Florence (1479–1552) received an excellent classi-
during the time of Lorenzo de’ Medici and Machiavelli. A professor of poetry cal education at the world-famous human-
and rhetoric at the University of Florence, he included ist schools of his native city. On his various
among his friends and colleagues leading figures such travels in search of a patron, he visited
as Marsilio Ficino, Angelo Poliziano, John Argy- Naples, frequenting the Academy there;
ropoulos, Cristoforo Landino, and Pietro Soderini. He Mirandola, where he entered the service of
was one of the principal collaborators in creating the Gianfrancesco Pico; Milan, where he stud-
famous humanist library of King Mattyas Corvinus of ied Greek under Demetrius Chalcondyles;
Hungary. As a scholar and teacher, he devoted himself and Rome, where he enjoyed the munifi-
to the study of classical authors, particularly Valerius cence of Pope Leo X. Following the sack of Rome in 1527, Giraldi eventu-
Flaccus, Livy, Persius, and Juvenal; his studies of Juve- ally made his way back to Ferrara, where he spent the last years of his life.
nal led to bitter polemics with Poliziano. Giraldi was the author of many works on literary history, mythology,
Fonzio’s letters, translated here for the first time into English, are a and antiquities. Among the most famous are his dialogues, translated here
window into the world of Renaissance humanism and classical scholarship, into English for the first time. Modeled on Cicero’s Brutus, the work dis-
and include the famous letter about the discovery in 1485 on the Via Appia cusses hundreds of contemporary neo-Latin and vernacular poets, giving a
of the perfectly preserved body of a Roman girl. panoramic view of European poetry in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth
century from Great Britain to Greece, but concentrating above all on Italy.
A L E S S A N D R O DA N E L O N I is Adjunct Professor in the
Department of Philology, Literature, and Linguistics of the J O H N G R A N T is Professor Emeritus of Classics,
University of Verona. M A RT I N DAV I E S is Associate University of Toronto.
Editor of The I Tatti Renaissance Library.
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Photo: James Hank ins.
Genealogy of the Dialectical Disputations
Pagan Gods Volumes 1 and 2
Lorenzo Valla
Volume 1: Books I–V
Edited and translated by
Giovanni Boccaccio Brian P. Copenhaver and Lodi Nauta
Edited and translated by Jon Solomon
Lorenzo Valla (1407–1457) ranks among the greatest scholars and thinkers
Giovanni Boccaccio’s Genealogy of the Pagan Gods is of the Renaissance. He has secured lasting fame for his brilliant critical skills,
an ambitious work of humanistic scholarship most famously displayed in his exposure of the“Donation of Constantine,”
the forged document upon which the papacy based its claims to political
whose goal is to plunder ancient and medieval lit-
power. Less well known in the English-speaking world is Valla’s work in the
erary sources to create a massive synthesis of Greek
philosophy of language—the basis of his reputation as the greatest philoso-
and Roman mythology. The work also contains a
pher of the humanist movement.
famous defense of the value of studying ancient
The Dialectical Disputations, translated here for the first time into
pagan poetry in a Christian world.
any modern language, is his principal contribution to the philosophy of lan-
The complete work in fifteen books contains a meticulously organ- guage and logic. With this savage attack on the scholastic tradition of Aris-
ized genealogical tree identifying approximately 950 Greco-Roman mytho- totelian logic, Valla sought to replace that tradition with a new logic based
logical figures. The scope is enormous: 723 chapters include over a thousand on the actual historical usage of classical Latin and on a commonsense
citations from 200 Greek, Roman, medieval, and Trecento authors. Through- approach to semantics and argument. Valla’s goal was to provide a logic that
out, Boccaccio employs allegorical, historical, and philological critiques of could be used by lawyers, preachers, statesmen, and others who needed to
ancient myths and their iconography. succeed in public debate—one that was both stylistically correct and rhetor-
ically elegant, and thus could dispense with the technical language of the
More than a mere compilation of pagan myths, the Genealogy incor-
scholastics, a “tribe of Peripatetics, perverters of natural meanings.” Valla’s
porates hundreds of excerpts from and comments on ancient poetry, illus-
reformed dialectic became a milestone in the development of humanist logic
trative of a new spirit of philological and cultural inquiry emerging in the
and contained startling anticipations of certain modern theories of seman-
early Renaissance. It is simultaneously the most ambitious work of literary
tics and language.
scholarship of the early Renaissance and a demonstration to contemporaries
of the moral and cultural value of studying ancient poetry. This is the first B R I A N P. C O P E N H AV E R is Professor of History and
Philosophy and Director of UCLA’s Center for Medieval and
of a projected three-volume set of Boccaccio’s complete Genealogy. Renaissance Studies. L O D I N AU TA is Professor of the
History of Philosophy, University of Groningen, the
J O N S O L O M O N is Robert D. Novak Professor of Western
Netherlands.
Civilization and Culture and Professor of the Classics and of
Cinema Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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d umbarton Oaks The Vulgate Bible
Me dieval Library volume II N parts a and b
Th e H i s t o r i c a l B o o k s
Douay-Rheims Translation
e di t e d b y
SWIFT EDGAR
This is the second volume, in two parts, of a projected five-

Jan M. Ziolkowski volume set of the complete Vulgate Bible.
Compiled and translated in large part by Saint Jerome
General Editor
at the turn of the fifth century CE, the Vulgate Bible was used
Daniel Donoghue from the early medieval period through the twentieth century
Old English Editor in the Western Christian (and later specifically Catholic) tra-
Danuta Shanzer dition. It influenced literature, visual arts, music, and educa-
Medieval Latin Editor tion during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and its contents
Alice-Mary Talbot lay at the heart of Western theological, intellectual, artistic,
Byzantine Greek Editor and even political history during that period. At the end of the
sixteenth century, as Protestant vernacular Bibles became
“The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library available, professors at a Catholic college first at Douay, then at Rheims, translated the Vul-
is a project of extraordinary intellectual gate Bible into English, primarily to combat the influence of rival theologies.
and cultural value, splendidly edited and Volume II presents the Historical Books of the Bible,
handsomely presented.”
which tell of Joshua’s leading the Israelites into the Promised Land,
—Harold Bloom the judges and kings, Israel’s steady departure from God’s precepts,
The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library the Babylonian Captivity, and the return from exile. The focus
is a groundbreaking new facing-page then shifts to shorter, intimate narratives: the pious Tobit,
translation series designed to make whose son’s quest leads him to a cure for his father’s blindness;
written achievements of medieval and Judith, whose courage and righteousness deliver the Israelites from
Byzantine culture available to both the Assyrians; and Esther and Mordecai, who saved all the Jews living in Ahasuerus from
scholars and general readers in the execution. These three tales come from books that were canonical in the Middle Ages but
English-speaking world. It will offer the
now are often called “apocryphal,” with the partial exception of the Book of Esther.
classics of the medieval canon as well as
lesser-known gems of literary and SWIFT EDGAR is a research assistant at the Dumbarton Oaks Research
cultural value to a global audience Library and Collection.
through accessible modern translations
based on the latest research by leading
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Old Testament Narratives The Rule of Saint Benedict
edited and translated by e di t e d a n d t ra n slat e d b y
DANIEL ANLEZARK BRUCE L. VENARDE
The Old English poems in this vol- One of the most influential texts in the
ume are among the first retellings of Middle Ages, The Rule of Saint Benedict
scriptural texts in a European vernac- offers guidance about both the spiritual
ular. More than simple translations, and organizational dimensions, from the
they recast the familiar plots in dar- loftiest to the lowliest, of monastic life.
ingly imaginative ways, from Satan’s This new Latin-English edition has fea-
seductive pride (anticipating Milton), tures of interest for first-time readers of
to a sympathetic yet tragic Eve, to the Rule as well as for scholars of medieval
Moses as a headstrong Germanic war- history and language.
rior-king, to the lyrical nature poetry The Latin text is a transcription of
in Azarias. manuscript 914 of the Abbey of St. Gall
Whether or not the legendary Caedmon authored any of (Switzerland), an early ninth-century copy regarded as the version
the poems in this volume, they represent traditional verse in all its that most closely reproduces Benedict’s style. The saint’s idiom
vigor. Three of them survive as sequential epics in a manuscript in was informal, sometimes conversational, and heavily influenced
the Bodleian Library at Oxford. The first, the Old English Gen- by the spoken Latin of the sixth century CE . In the Rule his voice
esis, recounts biblical history from creation and the apocryphal and thought processes come through in all their strength and
fall of the angels to the sacrifice of Isaac; Abraham emerges as the humanity. Readers will find background to the monastic life in
central figure struggling through exile toward a lasting covenant the notes. This volume also includes texts and translations of two
with God. The second, Exodus, follows Moses as he leads the letters that explain the origins of the St. Gall version as well as an
Hebrew people out of Egyptian slavery and across the Red Sea. index to all the translated materials.
Both Abraham and Moses are transformed into martial heroes in
BRUCE L. VENARDE is Professor of History and
the Anglo-Saxon mold. The last in the triad, Daniel, tells of the
Classics at the University of Pittsburgh.
trials of the Jewish people in Babylonian exile up through Bel-
shazzar’s feast. Azarias, the final poem in this volume (found in
DUMBARTON OAKS MEDIEVAL LIBRARY 6 |
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Celebrating 100 Years
EDITED BY JEFFREY HENDERSON
LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY
Fragments of Old Comedy

Volumes I, II, III
Edited and translated by Ian C. Storey
The era of Old Comedy (c. 485 – c. 380 BCE), when theatrical comedy was created and established,
is best known through the extant plays of Aristophanes, but there were many other poets whose
comedies survive only in fragments. This new Loeb edition, the most exten-
sive selection of the fragments available in English, presents the
work of fifty-six poets, including Cratinus and Eupolis, the
other members (along with Aristophanes) of the canoni-
cal Old Comic triad.
For each poet and play there is an introduction,
brief notes, and select bibliography. Also included
is a selection of ancient testimonia to Old Com-
edy, nearly one hundred unattributed fragments
(both book and papyri), and descriptions of twenty-five vase-paintings illus-
trating Old Comic scenes. The texts are based on the monumental edition
of Kassel and Austin, updated to reflect the latest scholarship.
I A N C . S T O R E Y is Professor of Classics at Trent University.
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CLASSICS
The Histories Casina. The Casket
Volume III: Books 5–8 Comedy. Curculio.
Polybius Epidicus. The Two
Translated by W. R. Paton Menaechmuses
Revised by F. W. Walbank and Volume II
Christian Habicht
Plautus
The historian Polybius (ca. 200–118 BCE) was born into a Edited and translated by
leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese and
served in the Achaean League. From 168 to 151 he was held
Wolfgang de Melo
hostage in Rome, where he became a friend of Lucius
The rollicking comedies of
Aemilius Paulus and his two sons, especially Scipio Aemil-
Plautus, who brilliantly adapted
ianus, whose campaigns, including the destruction of
Greek plays for Roman audi-
Carthage, he later attended. Late in his life, he served as a
ences c. 205–184 BCE, are the
mediator between Greece and the Romans before the final
earliest Latin works to survive
war with Carthage; and after 146 he was entrusted by the
complete and are cornerstones
Romans with the details of administration in Greece.
of the European theatrical tra-
Polybius’s overall theme is the spread of Roman power. dition from Shakespeare and
The main part of his history covers the years 264–146 BCE, Molière to modern times. This
describing the rise of Rome, its destruction of Carthage, and second volume of a new Loeb
its eventual domination of the Greek world. edition of all twenty-one of
For this edition, W. R. Paton’s excellent translation, Plautus’s extant comedies presents Casina, Cistellaria, Cur-
first published in 1922, has been thoroughly revised, the culio, Epidicus, and Menaechmi with freshly edited texts,
Büttner-Wobst Greek text corrected, and explanatory notes lively modern translations, introductions, and ample
and a new introduction added, all reflecting the latest schol- explanatory notes.
arship.
W O L F G A N G D E M E L O is Professor of Latin
F. W. WA L B A N K was Rathbone Professor of and Greek at Ghent University.
Ancient History and Classical Archaeology at the
University of Liverpool and a Fellow of the LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY® 61 |
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Emeritus Professor of Ancient History, Institute
for Advanced Study, Princeton.
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liberal arts at the Brink
VICTOR E. FERRALL, JR.
Liberal arts colleges represent a tiny portion of the higher education market—no more than 2
percent of enrollees. Yet they produce a stunningly large percentage of America’s leaders in vir-
tually every field of endeavor. The educational experience they offer—small classes led by pro-
fessors devoted to teaching and mentoring, in a community dedicated to learning—has been a
uniquely American higher education ideal.
Liberal Arts at the Brink is a wake-up call for everyone who values liberal arts education.
A former college president trained in law and economics, Victor Ferrall shows how a spiraling
demand for career-related education has pressured liberal arts colleges to become vocational, dis-
torting their mission and core values. The relentless com-
petition among them to attract the “best” students has
driven down tuition revenues while driving up operating
VIC TOR E. FERR ALL, JR. expenses to levels the colleges cannot cover. The weak-
is President Emeritus of est are being forced to sell out to vocational for-profit uni-
Beloit College. versities or close their doors. The handful of wealthy elite
colleges risk becoming mere dispensers of employment
and professional school credentials. The rest face the
prospect of moving away from liberal arts and toward
vocational education in order to survive.
Writing in a personable, witty style, Ferrall tackles the host of threats and challenges lib-
eral arts colleges now confront. Despite these daunting realities, he makes a spirited case for the
unique benefits of the education they offer—to students and the nation. He urges liberal arts
colleges to stop going it alone and instead band together to promote their mission and ensure
their future.
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HUMANITIES
Thinking with Whitehead Developmental Fairy Tales

I SABELLE S TENGERS Evolutionary thinking and
T R A N S L AT E D B Y M I C H A E L C H A S E ModErn ChinEsE CulturE
W I T H A P R E FA C E B Y B R U N O L AT O U R A NDREW F. J ONES
Alfred North Whitehead has never gone out of print, but for a In 1992 Deng Xiaoping famously declared,
time he was decidedly out of fashion in the English-speaking “Development is the only hard imperative.”
world. In a splendid work that serves as both introduction and The spirit of development has since become
erudite commentary, Isabelle Stengers—one of today’s leading the prevailing creed of the People’s Republic,
philosophers of science—goes straight to the beating heart of ushering in the transformation of China from
Whitehead’s thought. The product of thirty years’ engagement a socialist state to a capitalist market economy.
with the mathematician-philosopher’s entire canon, this volume
In Developmental Fairy Tales, Andrew
establishes Whitehead as a daring thinker on par with Gilles
Jones asserts that the groundwork for this
Deleuze, Felix Guattari, and Michel Foucault.
recent transformation was laid in the late
Reading the texts in broadly chronological order while nineteenth century, with the translation of the
highlighting major works, Stengers deftly unpacks Whitehead’s evolutionary works of Lamarck, Darwin, and
often complicated language, explaining the seismic shifts in his Spencer into Chinese letters. He traces the
thinking and showing how he called into question all that ways that the evolutionary narrative itself
philosophers had considered settled after Descartes and Kant. evolved into a form of vernacular knowledge,
She demonstrates that the implications of Whitehead’s philo- dissolving boundaries between beast and man and recasting
sophical theories and specialized knowledge of the various sci- childhood development as a recapitulation of China’s civiliza-
ences come yoked with his innovative, revisionist take on tional ascent into the modern world-system.
God. Whitehead’s God exists within a specific epistemological
This narrative left an indelible imprint on China’s litera-
realm created by a radically complex and often highly mathe-
ture and popular media, from children’s primers to print culture,
matical language.
from fairy tales to filmmaking. Jones offers an innovative and
“To think with Whitehead today,” Stengers writes, interdisciplinary angle of vision on China’s cultural evolution.
“means to sign on in advance to an adventure that will leave He focuses especially on China’s foremost modern writer and
none of the terms we normally use as they were.” public intellectual, Lu Xun, in whose work the fierce contra-
I s a b e l l e s T e n g e r s te a c h e s p h i l o s o p hy o f
dictions of his generation’s developmentalist aspirations became
science at t h e Fre e U n i ve r s i t y i n B r u s s e l s. the stuff of pedagogical parable. Developmental Fairy Tales
revises our understanding of literature’s role in the making of
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a n D r e W F . J o n e s i s Pro fe s s o r o f C h i n e s e,
U n i ve r s i t y o f Ca l i fo r n i a , B e r ke l e y.
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giotto and His Publics essays on anscombe’s Intention
thrEE Par adigMs of PatronagE E DITED BY A NTON F ORD, J ENNIFER H ORNSBY, AND
J ULIAN G ARDNER F REDERICK S TOUTLAND
This probing analysis of three works by Giotto and the patrons who G. E. M. Anscombe’s Intention firmly established the philosophy of
commissioned them goes far beyond the clichés of Giotto as the action as a distinctive field of inquiry. Donald Davidson called this
founding figure of Western painting. It traces the interactions 97-page book “the most important treatment of action since Aris-
between Franciscan friars and powerful bankers, totle.” But until quite recently, few scholars recognized the magni-
illuminating the complex interplay between tude of Anscombe’s philosophical achievement. This collection of
mercantile wealth and the iconography of ten essays elucidates some of the more challenging aspects of
poverty. Anscombe’s work and affirms her reputation as one of our most
original philosophers.
Giotto’s commissions are best under-
stood against the background of political strife Born in 1919, Anscombe studied at St. Hugh’s College,
and religious faction that lacerated fourteenth- Oxford, where she later held a research fellowship. A close friend
century Italy. Julian Gardner examines this of Wittgenstein, she joined Oxford’s Somerville College in 1946,
important period of Giotto’s career through where she spent over two decades before being appointed to the
works created for Franciscan churches: Stigma- Chair of Philosophy at Cambridge. She died in 2001 after her long
tization of Saint Francis (San Francesco, Pisa), career as a highly regarded analytic philosopher.
the Bardi Chapel’s Life of St. Francis (Santa This volume brings together the work of some of today’s
Croce, Florence), and the frescoes of the cross- leading philosophers of action. It will enlighten Anscombe’s readers
ing vault above the tomb of Saint Francis in the who struggle with concepts they find puzzling or obscure, while
Lower Church of San Francesco at Assisi. Giotto crafted these providing a bracing corrective to doubts about Intention’s signifi-
murals during a period when internal conflict divided Franciscans cance.
as they confronted radical changes of papal policy toward their
a n T o n F o r D i s A s s i s t a nt Pro fe s s o r o f Ph i l o sophy
defining vow of poverty. The Order’s great wealth and ostentatious
at t h e U n i ve r s i t y o f C h i c a g o. J e n n I F e r
churches had alienated many Franciscans and incurred the hostil- H o r n s b y i s Pro fe s s o r o f Ph i l o s o p hy, B i r k b e ck
ity of other Orders. References to St. Peter, Florentine politics, and Co l l e g e, U n i ve r s i t y o f Lo n d o n . F r e D e r I c k
church architecture were included in Giotto’s paintings to satisfy s T o u T l a n D i s Pro fe s s o r o f Ph i l o s o p hy E m e ritus
patrons, redefine the figure of Francis, and celebrate the dominant at St. O l a f Co l l e g e.
group within the Franciscan brotherhood.
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THE BERNARD BERENSON LECTURES ON THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE

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Detail, “ The Stigmatization of S aint Francis” by G iotto, B ardi Chap el,

S anta Cro ce, Florence.
slow Violence and the richard bentley
environmentalism of the Poor PoEtry and EnlightEnMEnt
R OB N IXON K RISTINE LOUISE H AUGEN
The violence wrought by cli- What warranted the vicious skewering of classical scholar Richard
mate change, toxic drift, defor- Bentley by two of the literary giants of his day, Jonathan Swift and
estation, oil spills, and the Alexander Pope? The answer: his temerity in bringing classical
environmental aftermath of study out of the scholar’s closet
war takes place gradually and and into the drawing rooms of
often invisibly. Using the inno- polite society. Kristine Haugen’s
vative concept of “slow vio- highly engaging biography of a
lence” to describe these man whom Rhodri Lewis charac-
threats, Rob Nixon focuses on terized as “perhaps the most
the inattention we have paid to notable—and notorious—scholar
the attritional lethality of many ever to have English as a mother
environmental crises, in contrast with the sensational, spectacle- tongue” affords a fascinating por-
driven messaging that impels public activism today. Slow violence, trait of Bentley and the intellec-
because it is so readily ignored by a hard-charging capitalism, exac- tual turmoil he set in motion.
erbates the vulnerability of ecosystems and of people who are poor, Aiming at a convergence
disempowered, and often involuntarily displaced, while fueling between scholarship and literary culture, the brilliant, caustic, and
social conflicts that arise from desperation as life-sustaining condi- imperious Bentley brought the work of professional scholars to a
tions erode. wider audience. At the same time, he adapted his own publications
In a book of extraordinary scope, Nixon examines a cluster to address his readers’ lack of expertise. Abandoning the church-
of writer-activists affiliated with the environmentalism of the poor oriented historical study of his peers, he worked on texts that inter-
in the global South. By approaching environmental justice literature ested the broader public, with spectacular and—in the case of his
from this transnational perspective, he exposes the limitations of interventionist edition of Paradise Lost—sometimes lamentable
the national and local frames that dominate environmental writing. results.
And by skillfully illuminating the strategies these writer-activists If the union of worlds Bentley craved was not to be achieved
deploy to give dramatic visibility to environmental emergencies, in his lifetime, his provocations show that professional humanism
Nixon invites his readers to engage with some of the most pressing left a deep imprint on the literary world of England’s Enlightenment.
challenges of our time.
k r I s T I n e l o u I s e H a u g e n i s A s s i s t a nt
r o b n I x o n i s R a c h e l Ca r s o n Pro fe s s o r o f E n g l i s h , Pro fe s s o r o f E n g l i s h a n d Co m p a rat i ve L i te rat u re at
Universit y o f Wi s co n s i n - M a d i s o n . A m o n g h i s m a ny t h e Ca l i fo r n i a I n s t i t u te o f Te c h n o l o g y.
books is D re a m b i rd s : Th e N a t u ra l H i s to r y o f a
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Photo by Anne M cClinto ck
The matter of capital capitalism—not least its tendency to generate economic and polit-
ical turmoil. Nealon argues persuasively that poets’ attention to the
PoEtry and Crisis in thE aMEriCan CEntury matter of capital has created a corresponding notion of poetry as a
C HRISTOPHER N EALON kind of textual matter, capable of dispersal, retrieval, and disguise in
times of crisis. Offering fresh readings of canonical poets from W. H.
In this reexamination of North American poetry in English from Auden to Adrienne Rich, as well as interpretations of younger writ-
Ezra Pound to the present day, Christopher Nealon demonstrates ers like Kevin Davies, The Matter of Capital reorients our under-
that the most vital writing of the period is deeply concerned with standing of the central poetic project of the last century.
capitalism. Moreover, capitalism’s problematic effect on individuals, c H r I s T o P H e r n e a l o n i s A s s o c i ate Pro fe ssor of
communities, and cultures is central not just to leftist poets but to E n g l i s h at J o h n s H o p k i n s U n i ve r s i t y.
those spanning a range of political and aesthetic orientations.
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Poets as diverse as Jack Spicer, John Ashbery, and Claudia
Rankine have taken as their “matter” the dynamics and impact of
collected Works of Sufi poetry, influenced his

thought and expression.
ralph Waldo emerson
The textual introduc-
voluME iX • PoEMs: a varioruM Edition tion and apparatus make trans-
HISTORIC AL INTRODUC TION , TEX TUAL parent the theoretical and
INTRODUC TION, AND POEM HEADNOTES BY practical concerns that inform
A L B E R T J. V O N F R A N K ; T E X T E S TA B L I S H E D B Y these critical texts. Also
A L B E R T J. V O N F R A N K A N D T H O M A S W O R T H A M included are chronological
lists of variants and texts con-
At his death in 1882, Ralph Waldo Emerson was counted among stituting the historical colla-
the greatest poets in nineteenth-century America. This variorum tion, notes clarifying obscure
edition of all the poems Emerson chose for publication during his allusions, and headnotes iden-
lifetime offers readers the opportunity to situate Emerson’s poetic tifying sources and context.
achievement alongside his celebrated essays and to consider their a l b e r T J . V o n F r a n k i s Pro fe s s o r o f E n g l ish
interrelationship. a n d A m e r i c a n St u d i e s, Wa s h i n g to n St ate
Though his reputation as essayist now eclipses his reputa- U n i ve r s i t y. T H o m a s W o r T H a m i s Pro fe s s o r of
tion as poet, Emerson self-identified as a writer of verse and worked E n g l i s h , U n i ve r s i t y o f Ca l i fo r n i a , Lo s A n g e l e s.
out his transcendental philosophy in this genre, establishing his
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how life events, as well as his reading of German philosophy and
HISTORY/RELIGION
sinners on Trial
JE ws and saCrilEgE aftEr thE rEforMation
M AGDA T ETER
In post-Reformation Poland, home to the largest Jew-

ish population in the world, the Catholic Church suf-
fered profound anxiety about its power, and
consequently criminal law became a key tool in the
effort to legitimize Church authority and manipulate
the meaning of the sacred. In this chilling history,
Magda Teter shows how the mishandling of sacred
symbols was transformed from a sin that could be
absolved into a crime that resulted in sentences of
mutilation, hanging, decapitation, and burning at the
stake.
Teter focuses especially on the infamous accu-
sation against Jews for desecrating the eucharistic
wafer and offers a fresh interpretation. She demon-
strates that host desecration—defined in the law as
sacrilege—went beyond anti-Jewish hatred to reflect
Catholic-Protestant conflict, changing conditions of
ecclesiastic authority and jurisdiction, and competi-
tion in the economic marketplace.
This is the first book to consider accusations of sacrilege during the early modern period
within the context of politics and common crime. Teter draws on previously unexamined trial
records and accounts of torture and punishment to bring out the real-life relationships among
Catholics, Jews, and Protestants and to challenge the commonly held view that, following the
Reformation, Poland was a country without religious persecution.
m a g D a T e T e r i s A s s o c i ate Pro fe s s o r o f H i sto r y a n d J e re my Zwe l l i n g

Associate Pro fe s s o r o f J e w i s h St u d i e s, We s l e ya n U n i ve r s i t y.
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Detail from S ac ra tissimi Corp oris Christi Historia et Miracula: Q uae in Ecclesia Posna niensis O rdinis S. MARIAE
Ca rmelita rum D ivina b onitas op era tae by Tomasz Treter (1609). Collec tion of Bibliotek a Kórnick a PAN (Poland).
The ukrainian West confluence
CulturE and thE fatE of EMPirE in soviEt lviv thE naturE of tEChnology and thE rEMaking of thE rhônE
W ILLIAM J AY R ISCH S ARA B. P RITCHARD
In 1990, months before crowds in Moscow and other major cities Because of its location, volume,
dismantled their monuments to Lenin, residents of the western speed, and propensity for severe
Ukrainian city of Lviv toppled theirs. William Jay Risch argues that flooding, the Rhône, France’s
Soviet politics of empire inadvertently shaped this anti-Soviet city, most powerful river, has long
and that opposition from the periphery as much as from the impe- influenced the economy, poli-
rial center was instrumental in unraveling the Soviet Union. tics, and transportation net-
Lviv’s borderlands identity was defined by works of Europe. Humans have
complicated relationships with its Polish neighbor, tried to control the Rhône for
its imperial Soviet occupier, and the real and imag- over two thousand years, but
ined West. The city’s intellectuals strained the lim- large-scale development did not
its of censorship in order to achieve greater public occur until the twentieth cen-
use of Ukrainian language and literary expression, tury. The Rhône valley has
and challenged state-sanctioned histories with their undergone especially dramatic
collective memory of the recent past. changes since World War II.
The Ukrainian West enriches our under- Hydroelectric plants, nuclear reactors, and industrialized agricul-
standing not only of the Soviet Union’s postwar ture radically altered the river, as they simultaneously fueled both
evolution but also of the role urban spaces, cosmo- the physical and symbolic reconstruction of France.
politan identities, and border regions play in the In Confluence, Sara B. Pritchard traces the Rhône’s remak-
development of nations and empires. It also calls ing since 1945. She interweaves this story with an analysis of how
into question many of our assumptions about the state officials, technical elites, and citizens connected the environ-
regional divisions that have characterized Ukrain- ment and technology to political identities and state-building. In the
ian politics. Risch shines a bright light on the polit- process, Pritchard illuminates the relationship between nature and
ical, social, and cultural history that turned this nation in France.
once peripheral city into a Soviet window on the Pritchard’s innovative integration of science and technology
West. studies, environmental history, and the political history of modern
France makes a powerful case for envirotechnical analysis: an
W I l l I a m J a y r I s c H i s A s s o c i ate Pro fe s s o r o f
approach that highlights the material and rhetorical links between
H istor y at G e o rgi a Co l l e g e a n d St ate U n i ve r s i t y.
ecological and technological systems. As Pritchard shows, recon-
HARVARD HISTORICAL STUDIES 173 | JUNE | 6 1⁄8 X 9 1⁄4 | structing the Rhône remade France itself.
11 HALFTONES, 5 TABLES | 332 PP. |
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EISBN: 978-0-674-06126-2 | HISTORY S c i e n ce a n d Te c h n o l o g y St u d i e s, Co r n e l l U n i versit y.
A rmenia n A lley (1970) by Petro H rehoriychuk from I zobra titel ’no e iskusst vo
L’vova: Zhivopis’, sku l ’ptura, gra fika by Ie. P. Mysko (M oscow : “S ovetsk ii HARVARD HISTORICAL STUDIES 172 | APRIL | 6 1⁄8 X 9 1⁄4 |
k hudozhnik ,” 1978). Andrei Shept ytsk yi National Museum, Lviv. 5 HALFTONES, 2 LINE ILLUS., 9 MAPS | 352 PP. |
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The Park chung Hee era changing Homelands
thE tr ansforMation of south korEa hindu PolitiCs and thE Partition of india
EDITED BY BYUNG-KOOK KIM AND EZRA F. VOGEL N EETI N AIR
In 1959 South Korea was Changing Homelands offers a startling new perspective on what
mired in poverty. By 1979 it was and was not politically possible in late colonial India. In this
was a powerful democracy of account of the partition in the Punjab, Neeti Nair rejects the idea
considerable political, eco- that essential differences between the Hindu and Muslim commu-
nomic, and cultural influence. nities made political settlement impossible. Far from being an
The great breakthrough came inevitable solution, the idea of partition was a very late, stunning
during the years of Park surprise to the majority of Hindus in the region.
Chung Hee’s presidency. Park Tracing the political and social history of the Punjab from
seized power in a coup in the early years of the twentieth century, Nair overturns the
1961 and ruled as a virtual entrenched view that Muslims
dictator until his assassination were responsible for partition.
in October 1979. He is cred- Some powerful Punjabi Hindus
ited with modernizing South also preferred partition and con-
Korea, but at a huge political tributed to its adoption. Almost no
and social cost. one, however, foresaw the deaths
South Korea’s political landscape under Park defies easy cat- and devastation that would follow
egorization. The state was predatory yet technocratic, reform- in its wake.
minded yet quick to crack down on dissidents in the name of Though much has been
political order. The nation was balanced uneasily between opposi- written on the politics of the Mus-
tion forces calling for democratic reforms and the Park government’s lim and Sikh communities in the
obsession with economic growth. Punjab, Nair is the first historian to
This landmark volume examines South Korea’s era of devel- focus on the Hindu minority. She
opment as a study in the complex politics of modernization. Draw- engages with politics in post-parti-
ing on an extraordinary range of sources in both English and tion India by drawing from oral histories that reveal the complex
Korean, these essays recover and contextualize many of the ambi- relationship between memory and history—a relationship that con-
guities in South Korea’s trajectory from poverty to a sustainable high tinues to inform politics between India and Pakistan.
rate of economic growth.
n e e T I n a I r i s A s s i s t a nt Pro fe s s o r o f H i s to r y at
b y u n g – k o o k k I m i s Pro fe s s o r o f Po l i t i c a l t h e U n i ve r s i t y o f Vi rgi n i a .
S cience and I nte r n at i o n a l R e l at i o n s, K o re a
Universit y. e z r a F . V o g e l i s H e n r y Fo rd I I APRIL | 6 1⁄8 X 9 1⁄4 | 3 HALFTONES, 4 MAPS | 352 PP.
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Professor of t h e S o c i a l S c i e n ce s, E m e r i t u s, at
EISBN: 978-0-674-06115-6 | HISTORY
Har vard Uni ve r s i t y.
Photo by R achel Forse.
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EISBN: 978-0-674-06106-4 HISTORY
Pacific cosmopolitans crossing borders
a Cultur al history of u.s–JaPan rElations Migr ation and CitizEnshiP in
thE t wEntiEth-CEntury unitEd statEs
M ICHAEL R. AUSLIN
D OROTHEE S CHNEIDER
Decades before Americans cheered on Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese base-
ball fans swooned over Babe Ruth. And a century prior to the craze Aspiring immigrants to the United
for anime and manga, American States make many separate border
art collectors hoarded Japanese crossings in their quest to become
woodblock prints. Few relation- Americans—in their home towns,
ships can match the depth of the ports of departure, U.S. border sta-
cultural ties between America tions, and in American neighbor-
and Japan over the past two hun- hoods, courthouses, and schools.
dred years. In Pacific Cos- Dorothee Schneider covers both the
mopolitans, Michael Auslin tells immigrants’ experience of their pas-
this absorbing history in full for sage from an old society to a new one
the first time. and American policymakers’ debates
From the early 1800s on, over admission to the United States
cultural encounter formed the and citizenship. Bringing together the separate histories of Irish,
bedrock of U.S.–Japan ties. English, German, Italian, Jewish, Chinese, Japanese, and Mexican
Casual connections turned into immigrants, she unveils a fresh view of immigrant aspirations and
formal cultural exchange within government responses.
the emerging global society of Ingenuity and courage emerge repeatedly from these stories,
the late nineteenth century. As both countries became great pow- as immigrants adapted their resources to make migration and citi-
ers, new cultural institutions supplemented political ties and helped zenship successful on their own terms. While officials argued over
promote economic trade, shaping the Pacific world yet ultimately immigrants’ fitness for admission and citizenship, immigrant com-
becoming entangled in controversy. munities forced the government to alter the meaning of race, class,
In the decades since World War II, U.S.–Japan cultural and gender as criteria for admission.
exchange has again been seen as a crucial means to strengthen the Schneider aims to relate the immigrant experience as a total-
bonds between the two nations. Acolytes of exchange continue to ity across many borders. By including immigrant voices as well as
believe that cross-cultural understanding will promote a more peace- U.S. policies and laws, she provides a truly transnational history that
ful future, even in the face of competing national interests. offers valuable perspectives on current debates over immigration.
m I c H a e l r . a u s l I n i s D i re c to r o f J a p a n St u d i e s D o r o T H e e s c H n e I D e r i s t h e a u t h o r o f Trade
at the Am e r i c a n E nte r p r i s e I n s t i t u te fo r Pu b l i c U n i o n s a n d Co m mu n i t y : Th e G e r m a n Wo r k i n g C lass
Polic y Re s e a rc h a n d t h e a u t h o r o f N e g o t i a t i n g w i t h i n N e w Yo r k C i t y, 1 8 7 0 – 1 9 0 0 , a n d te a c h e s i n t he
Imperiali s m : Th e U n e q ua l Tre a t i e s a n d t h e Cu l t u re o f D e p a r t m e nt o f H i s to r y at t h e U n i ve r s i t y o f I l l i nois
Japanese D i p l o m a c y. at U r b a n a - C h a m p a i gn .
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Histories of computing When Wall street met
M ICHAEL S EAN M AHONEY main street
EDITED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY thE QuEst for an invEstor’s dEMoCr aCy
THOMAS HAIGH J ULIA C. O TT
Computer technology is pervasive, embedded in a myriad of phys- The financial crisis that began in 2008
ical systems and disciplinary ways of thinking. The late Michael made Americans keenly aware of the enor-
Sean Mahoney was a pioneer scholar of the history of computing, mous impact Wall Street has on the eco-
one of the first established historians of science to take seriously the nomic well-being of the nation and its
challenges and opportunities posed by information technology to citizenry. How did financial markets and
our understanding of the twentieth century. institutions—commonly perceived as mar-
Mahoney’s work ranged widely, from logic and the theory of ginal and elitist at the beginning of the
computation to the development of software and applications as twentieth century—come to be seen as the
craft-work. But it was always informed by a unique perspective, bedrock of American capitalism? How did
derived from his work on the history of medieval mathematics and stock investment—once considered dis-
experimental practice during the Scientific Revolution, that bridged reputable and dangerous—become a mass
the gaps between academic historians and computer scientists. practice?
Indeed, he came to believe that the field was irreducibly pluralis- Julia Ott tells the story of how,
tic—there could be only histories of computing. between the rise of giant industries and the
In this collection, Thomas Haigh presents thirteen of Crash of 1929, the federal government,
Mahoney’s essays and papers organized across three categories: his- corporations, and financial institutions
toriography, software engineering, and theoretical computer sci- campaigned to universalize investment
ence. Haigh surveys Mahoney’s work, tracing the development of and provide individuals with a stake in the
key themes, illuminating connections among different areas of his economy and the nation. As they established a broad, national mar-
research, and contextualizing his contributions. The result is a land- ket for stocks and bonds, they debated the distribution of economic
mark book. power, the proper role of government, and the meaning of citizen-
ship under modern capitalism.
m I c H a e l s e a n m a H o n e y wa s Pro fe s s o r o f
H istor y and H i s to r y o f S c i e n ce at Pr i n ce to n By 1929, stock ownership engulfed one-quarter of Ameri-
Universit y. T H o m a s H a I g H i s A s s o c i ate can households in the looming financial disaster. Accordingly, the
Professor of I n fo r m at i o n St u d i e s at t h e U n i ver s i t y federal government assumed responsibility for protecting citizen-
of Wisconsin , M i l wa u ke e. investors by regulating the securities markets. In recovering the for-
gotten history of this initial phase of mass investment and its
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surrounding issues, Ott enriches and enlightens contemporary
ISBN 978-0-674-05568-1 | $49.95X (£36.95 UK) |
SCIENCE debates over economic reform.
J u l I a c . o T T i s A s s i s t a nt Pro fe s s o r o f H i s to r y at
Th e N e w S c h o o l fo r S o c i a l R e s e a rc h .
From top: The grandson of t wo Confederate generals assists at a Lib er t y Loan
sales b o oth in R ichmond, Virginia, flanked by t wo wounded Civil War veterans.
Records of the Bureau of Public Debt, National Archives, College Park , M ar yland;
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Still from The Na tion’s Ma rket Place (1928). NYSE Archives, New York , NY.
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EISBN: 978-0-674-06121-7 | HISTORY
no closure Boston’s history, Seitz tells the stories of resisting Catholics as they
reflect on their parishes and the sacred objects and personal mem-
CatholiC Pr aCtiCE and Boston’s Parish shutdowns ories they hold and on the structures of authority in the Catholic
J OHN C. S EITZ Church.
Resisters describe how they took their parishes and religious
In 2004 the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston announced lives into their own hands, and how they struggled with everyday
plans to close or merge more than eighty parish churches. By the theological questions of respect and memory; with relationships
archdiocese’s count, 28,000 Catholics would be affected. The clo- among religion, community, place, and comfort; and with the mean-
sures came just two years after the first major revelations of clergy ing of the local church. No Closure maps a path of inquiry on how
sexual abuse and the cover up. Wounds from this profound betrayal tradition and change shape Catholics’ ability to make sense of their
of trust had not healed. lives in a secular world.
In the months that followed, distraught parishioners occu- J o H n c . s e I T z i s A s s i s t a nt Pro fe s s o r, Th e o l ogy
pied several churches in opposition to the closure decrees. Why did D e p a r t m e nt, Fo rd h a m U n i ve r s i t y.
these accidental activists resist the parish closures? What do their
actions and reactions tell us about modern American Catholicism? JUNE | 6 1⁄8 X 9 1⁄4 | 328 PP. |
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adams Family correspondence found time to improve his sons’ legal education. Abigail’s letters jux-
tapose her own political insights with lively accounts of her farm
voluME 10, January 1794–JunE 1795 management and the day-to-day happenings in Quincy.
E DITED BY M ARGARET A. H OGAN , The most significant event of the period for the Adams clan
C. J AMES TAYLOR , S ARA M ARTIN , was John Quincy’s appointment as U.S. minister resident at The
Hague. Accompanying him overseas was his brother Thomas Boyl-
H OBSON W OODWARD, S ARA B. S IKES , G REGG L.
ston. Arriving just as the French army began its final march into the
L INT, AND S ARA G EORGINI
Netherlands, John Quincy and Thomas Boylston became first-hand
observers of the impact of the French Revolution on the broader
This volume offers over 300 letters from the irrepressible Adamses,
society. Back in the United States, Charles continued to build his
including many between John and Abigail never before printed. As
legal career, while Nabby’s family grew with the birth of the
always, Adams family members serve as important commentators
Adamses’ first granddaughter, Caroline Amelia Smith.
on national and international events, from America’s growing exter-
nal tensions to its internal struggles with increasingly virulent polit-
BELKNAP PRESS / ADAMS PAPERS |
ical factionalism and the Whiskey Rebellion. John, languishing as MARCH | 6 1⁄2 X 9 3⁄4 | 500 PP. |
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growing divisions within the Washington administration but also
P O L I T I C S & L AW
reasoning from race

fEMinisM, law, and thE Civil rights rE volution
S ERENA M AYERI
Informed in 1944 that she was “not of the sex” entitled to be admitted to Harvard Law School,
African American activist Pauli Murray confronted “Jane Crow” injustice. In the 1960s and
1970s, Murray’s pioneering analogies between sex and race discrimination became potent
weapons in the battle for women’s rights as feminists borrowed rhetoric and legal arguments
from the civil rights movement. Serena Mayeri’s Reasoning from Race is the first book to explore
the development and consequences of this key feminist strategy.
Mayeri uncovers the history of an often misunderstood connection at the heart of Amer-
ican antidiscrimination law. Her study details how a tumultuous political and legal climate trans-
formed the links between race and sex equality, civil rights, and feminism. Battles over
employment discrimination, school segregation, reproductive freedom, affirmative action, and
constitutional change reveal the promise and peril of reasoning from race—and offer a vivid pic-
ture of Murray, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and others who defined feminists’ agenda.
Looking beyond Supreme Court opinions to the deliberations of feminist advocates, their
opponents, and the legal decisionmakers who heard—or chose not to hear—their claims, May-
eri showcases struggles that continue to shape the meaning of equality under the law.
s e r e n a m a y e r I i s A s s i s t a nt Pro fe s s o r o f L aw a n d H i s to r y at t h e
Universit y o f Pe n n s y l va n i a L aw S c h o o l.
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ISBN 978-0-674-04759-4 | $39.95X (£29.95 UK) |
EISBN: 978-0-674-06110-1 | LAW / WOMEN'S STUDIES
eurolegalism Justifying Intellectual Property
thE tr ansforMation of law and rEgulation R OBERT P. M ERGES
in thE EuroPEan union
In this wide-ranging and ambi-
R. D ANIEL K ELEMEN
tious analysis, Robert P. Merges
establishes a sophisticated ration-
Despite western Europe’s traditional disdain for America’s “adver-
ale for the most vital form of
sarial legalism,” the European Union is shifting toward a similar
modern property: IP rights. His
approach to the law, according to R. Daniel Kelemen. Coining the
insightful new book answers the
term “eurolegalism” to describe the hybrid now developing, he
many critics who contend that
shows how the political and organizational realities of the EU make
these rights are inefficient,
this shift inevitable.
unfair, and theoretically incoher-
The model of regulatory law that long predominated in west- ent. But Merges’s vigorous
ern Europe was more informal and cooperative than its American defense of IP is also a call for
counterpart. It relied less on lawyers, courts, and private enforce- appropriate legal constraints and
ment, and more on opaque networks of bureaucrats and other inter- boundaries: IP rights are real,
ests to develop and implement regulatory policies. Europe chose but they come with real limits.
flexible, informal means of regulating, and counted on the courts to
Drawing on Kant, Locke, and Rawls as well as contempo-
challenge decisions only rarely. Regulation through litigation—cen-
rary scholars, Merges crafts an original theory to explain why IP
tral to the U.S. model—was largely absent in Europe.
rights make sense as a reward for effort and as a way to encourage
But that changed with the advent of the European Union. individuals to strive. He also provides a novel explanation of why
Kelemen argues that the EU’s fragmented institutional structure and awarding IP rights to creative people is fair for everyone else in soci-
its prioritizing of market integration have generated political incen- ety, by contributing to a just distribution of resources. Merges argues
tives and functional pressures that cause policymakers to enact convincingly that IP rights are based on a solid ethical foundation,
detailed, transparent, judicially enforceable rules—often framed as and—when subject to fair limits—these rights are an indispensable
“rights”—and back them with public enforcement litigation, part of a well-functioning society.
enhancing opportunities for private litigation.
r o b e r T P. m e r g e s i s Wi l s o n S o n s i n i G o o d rich &
r . D a n I e l k e l e m e n is the Jean Monnet Chair R o s at i Pro fe s s o r o f L aw a n d Te c h n o l o g y, U n i versit y
and Dire c to r o f t h e Ce nte r fo r Eu ro p e a n St u d i e s o f Ca l i fo r n i a B e r ke l e y S c h o o l o f L aw, a n d co -
and Asso c i ate Pro fe s s o r o f Po l i t i c a l S c i e n ce at fo u n d e r o f t h e B e r ke l e y Ce nte r fo r L aw a n d
Rutgers U n i ve r s i t y. Te c h n o l o g y.
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SCIENCE / SOCIAL SCIENCE
science-mart
Privatizing aMEriCan sCiEnCE
P HILIP M IROWSKI
“S CIENCE -M ART IS TIMELY AND IMPORTANT IN A SENSE THAT GOES BEYOND A

SPECIALIST CONTRIBUTION . M IROWSKI ’ S WIDE - RANGING RESEARCH ADDRESSES A
DAZZLING ARRAY OF TOPICS , WHICH HE SITUATES HISTORICALLY AND FUSES INTO A
COMPELLING CRITIQUE THAT WILL FASCINATE ANY READER CONCERNED WITH THE
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF MODERN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY.”
—T HEODORE M. P ORTER , U NIVERSITY OF C ALIFORNIA , LOS A NGELES
Science-Mart trenchantly analyzes the rise and decline in the quality and character of science
in America since World War II.
During the Cold War, the U.S. government amply funded basic research in science and
medicine. Starting in the 1980s, however, support began to decline and for-profit corporations
became the largest funders of research. Philip Mirowski argues that a powerful neoliberal ide-
ology promoted a radically different view of knowledge and discovery: the fruits of scientific
investigation are not a public good that should be freely available to all, but monetized com-
modities.
Consequently, patent and intellectual property laws were strengthened, universities
demanded patents on the discoveries of their faculty, information sharing among researchers was
impeded, and the line between universities and corporations began to blur. Corporations shed
their in-house research laboratories, instead contracting with independent firms both within
the United States and abroad. Among such firms were AT&T and IBM, whose outstanding
research laboratories had produced Nobel Prize–winning work in chemistry and physics, rang-
ing from the transistor to superconductivity.
Science-Mart offers a learned, provocative critique of interest to anyone concerned that
American science—once the envy of the world—must be more than just another way to make
money.
P H I l I P m I r o W s k I i s Ca r l K o c h Pro fe s s o r o f Eco n o m i c s a n d t h e H i s to r y
and Philoso p hy o f S c i e n ce at t h e U n i ve r s i t y o f N o t re D a m e.
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kids Don’t Want to Fail before and beyond Divergence
oPPositional CulturE and thE BlaCk-whitE thE PolitiCs of EConoMiC ChangE in China and EuroPE
aChiE vEMEnt gaP
JEAN-LAURENT ROSENTHAL AND R. BIN WONG
A NGEL L. H ARRIS
China has reemerged as a powerhouse in the global economy, reviv-
Understanding the causes of the racial ing a classic question in economic history: why did sustained eco-
achievement gap in American education— nomic growth arise in Europe rather than in China?
and then addressing it with effective pro- Many favor cultural and environmental explanations for the
grams—is one of the most urgent problems nineteenth-century economic divergence between Europe and the
communities and educators face. rest of the world. This book, the product of over twenty years of
The most popular explanation for research, takes a sharply different tack. It argues that political dif-
the achievement gap has been the “oppo- ferences which crystallized well before 1800 were responsible both
sitional culture theory”: black students for China’s early and more recent prosperity and for Europe’s diffi-
underperform in secondary schools culties after the fall of the Roman Empire and during early indus-
because their culture devalues learning and trialization.
sees academic effort as “acting white.” Jean-Laurent Rosenthal and R. Bin Wong show that relative
Despite lack of evidence for this belief, prices matter to how economies evolve; institutions can have a large
teachers accept it, with predictable self-ful- effect on relative prices; and the spatial scale of polities can affect the
filling results. In a careful quantitative choices of institutions in the long run. Their historical perspective
assessment of the oppositional culture hypothesis, Angel L. Harris on institutional change has surprising implications for understand-
tests its empirical implications systematically, analyzing data from ing modern transformations in China and Europe and for future
both American and British schools. From every angle, the opposi- expectations. It also yields insights in comparative economic his-
tional culture theory fell flat. tory, essential to any larger social science account of modern world
Despite achieving less in school, black students value school- history.
ing more than their white counterparts. They perform badly not
J e a n - l a u r e n T r o s e n T H a l i s R e a A . a n d Lela
because they don’t want to succeed but because they enter without
G . A x l i n e Pro fe s s o r o f B u s i n e s s Eco n o m i c s,
the necessary skills. Harris finds that the gap starts in preadoles-
Ca l i fo r n i a I n s t i t u te o f Te c h n o l o g y. r . b I n W o n g
cence—when cumulating socioeconomic and health disadvantages i s Pro fe s s o r o f H i s to r y a n d D i re c to r o f t h e A s i a
inhibit development and when black students start to feel the I n s t i t u te, U C L A .
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S ociolog y a n d Af r i c a n A m e r i c a n St u d i e s at
Princeto n U n i ve r s i t y.
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EDUCATION / AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
surgical anatomy of the Head and neck
E DITED BY PARVIZ J ANFAZA , M.D., J OSEPH B. N ADOL , J R ., M.D.,
R ICHARD L. FABIAN , M.D., AND W ILLIAM W. M ONTGOMERY, M.D.
I LLUSTRATED BY R OBERT J. G ALLA
Surgical Anatomy of the Head and Neck was immediately

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demand ever since, this classic surgical atlas—packed with more
than 700 exceptional drawings, 537 of them in full color, by an
internationally noted medical illustrator—is now available again,
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clearly labeled with key anatomic landmarks, and a user-friendly
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DUMBARTON OAKS
clio in the Italian garden charlemagne’s survey of

t wEnt y-first–CEntury studiEs in historiCal MEthods the Holy land
and thEorEtiCal PErsPECtivEs wEalth, PErsonnEl, and B uildings of a
E DITED BY M IRKA B ENEŠ AND M ICHAEL G. L EE MEditErr anEan ChurCh BEt wEEn antiQuit y
and thE MiddlE agEs
Italian gardens have received M ICHAEL M CCORMICK
more attention from historians
than perhaps any other garden In Charlemagne’s Survey of the Holy Land,
tradition. This volume presents Michael McCormick rehabilitates and rein-
eight richly illustrated essays by terprets one of the most neglected and
established and emerging schol- extraordinary sources from Charlemagne’s
ars that suggest striking new revival of the Roman Empire: the report of a
directions for future research. fact-finding mission to the Christian church
Mirka Beneš and Raf- of the Holy Land. The roll of documents
faella Fabiani Giannetto examine translated and edited in this volume pre-
the long historical development serves the most detailed statistical portrait
and disciplinary diversity of Ital- before the Domesday Book of the finances,
ian garden studies. Marcello Fagiolo and Vincenzo Cazzato advance monuments (including exact dimensions),
a new theory of villa systems that enlarges the geographical frame and female and male personnel of any major
of the field. Mauro Ambrosoli highlights the contributions of anony- Christian church.
mous laborers and gardeners in the creation of the countryside, Setting these documents in the con-
while Lionella Scazzosi shows how this broader view of agency text of economic trends, archaeological evidence, and a compari-
informs decisions by policymakers regarding the restoration and son of Holy Land churches and monasteries with their
maintenance of historical gardens. Antonella Pietrogrande and contemporaries west and east, this study shows that the Palestinian
Denis Ribouillault offer new interpretations of some of the most church was living in decline as its old financial links with Byzantium
famous Renaissance sites through analyses of cultural imagination slackened. In recounting Charlemagne’s move to outflank the
and modes of perception. Byzantine emperor, McCormick constructs a microhistory of the
This volume exemplifies the broad transformations, both Frankish king’s ambitions and formidable organizational talents for
quantitative and methodological, taking place in the study and prac- running an empire.
tice of garden design, and offers a reflective meditation on the vital- Supplementing McCormick’s major synthesis, The Origins
ity of one of the oldest branches of garden and landscape history. of the European Economy, this volume will be indispensable read-
m I r k a b e n e š is Associate Professor of Landscape
ing for anyone interested in medieval rulership and economics, and
Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. in the history of the Holy Land, its Christian communities, and its
mIcHael g. lee is a post-doctoral associate in late antique monuments.
Garden and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks.
m I c H a e l m c c o r m I c k i s Fra n c i s G o e l e t
Pro fe s s o r o f M e d i e va l H i s to r y, H a r va rd U n i ve r s i t y.
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HARVARD UNIVERSITY ASIA CENTER
The People’s republic of china mao’s Invisible Hand

at 60 thE PolitiCal foundations of adaPtivE
an intErnational assEssMEnt govErnanCE in China
E DITED BY W ILLIAM C. K IRBY E DITED BY S EBASTIAN H EILMANN AND

E LIZABETH J. P ERRY
In 2009, to mark the sixtieth anniversary of
the People’s Republic of China, the Fairbank Observers have been predicting the
Center for Chinese Studies convened a major demise of China’s political system
conference to discuss the health and since Mao Zedong’s death over
longevity of China’s ruling system and to con- thirty years ago. The Chinese Com-
sider a fundamental question: after three munist state, however, seems to
decades of internal strife and turmoil, fol- have become increasingly adept at
lowed by an era of reform, entrepreneurial- responding to challenges ranging
ism, and internationalization, is the PRC here from leadership succession and pop-
for the dynastic long haul? ular unrest to administrative reor-
Bringing together scholars and stu- ganization, legal institutionalization,
dents of China from around the world, the and global economic integration.
gathering witnessed an energetic exchange of views on four inter- What political techniques and procedures have Chinese policy-
related themes: polities, social transformations, wealth and well- makers employed to manage the unsettling impact of the fastest sus-
being, and culture, belief, and practice. Edited and expanded from tained economic expansion in world history?
the original conference papers, the wide-ranging essays in this bilin- As the authors of these essays demonstrate, China’s politi-
gual volume remain true to the conference’s aim: to promote open cal system allows for more diverse and flexible input than would be
discussion of the past, present, and future of the People’s Republic predicted from its formal structures. Many contemporary methods
of China. of governance have their roots in techniques of policy generation
and implementation dating to the revolution and early PRC—tech-
W I l l I a m c . k I r b y i s t h e S p a n g l e r Fa m i l y
niques that emphasize continual experimentation. China’s long rev-
Professo r o f B u s i n e s s Ad m i n i s t rat i o n at t h e
olution had given rise to this guerrilla-style decisionmaking as a way
Har vard B u s i n e s s S c h o o l, T. M . C h a n g Pro fe s s o r o f
of dealing creatively with pervasive uncertainty. Thus, even in a
China Stu d i e s, a n d D i re c to r o f t h e Fa i r b a n k Ce nte r
for Chine s e St u d i e s at H a r va rd U n i ve r s i t y. post-revolutionary PRC, the invisible hand of Chairman Mao plays
an important role in China’s adaptive governance.
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ASIAN STUDIES Co m p a rat i ve G ove r n m e nt a n d t h e Po l i t i c a l
Eco n o my o f C h i n a at t h e U n i ve r s i t y o f Tr i e r.
e l I z a b e T H J . P e r r y i s H e n r y R o s ovs k y
Pro fe s s o r o f G ove r n m e nt at H a r va rd U n i ve r s i t y and
D i re c to r o f t h e H a r va rd -Ye n c h i n g I n s t i t u te.
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ASIAN STUDIES
Picturing Heaven in early china realms of literacy

L ILLIAN L AN -YING T SENG Early JaPan and thE history of writing
D AVID B. LURIE
Tian, or Heaven, had multiple
meanings in early China. It had In the world history of writing, Japan presents an unusually detailed
been used since the Western Zhou record of transition to literacy. Extant materials attest to the social,
to indicate both the sky and the cultural, and political contexts and consequences of the advent of
highest god, and later came to be writing and reading, from the earliest appearance of imported arti-
regarded as a force driving the facts with Chinese inscriptions in the first century BCE, through the
movement of the cosmos and as a production of texts within the Japanese archipelago in the fifth cen-
home to deities and imaginary ani- tury, to the widespread literacies and the simultaneous rise of a full-
mals. By the Han dynasty, which fledged state in the late seventh and eighth centuries.
saw an outpouring of visual mate-
David B. Lurie explores the complex
rials depicting Heaven, the con-
processes of adaptation and invention that
cept of Heaven encompassed an
defined the early Japanese transition from
immortal realm to which humans
orality to textuality. Drawing on archaeo-
could ascend after death.
logical and archival sources varying in con-
Using excavated materials, Lillian Tseng shows how Han tent, style, and medium, this book highlights
artisans transformed various notions of Heaven—as the mandate, the diverse modes and uses of writing that
the fantasy, and the sky—into pictorial entities. The Han Heaven coexisted in a variety of configurations
was not indicated by what the artisans looked at, but rather was among different social groups. It offers new
suggested by what they looked into. Artisans attained the visibility perspectives on the pragmatic contexts and
of Heaven by appropriating and modifying related knowledge of cos- varied natures of multiple simultaneous lit-
mology, mythology, and astronomy. Thus the depiction of Heaven eracies, the relations between languages and
in Han China reflected an interface of image and knowledge. systems of inscription, and the aesthetic
By examining Heaven as depicted in ritual buildings, on dimensions of writing. Lurie’s investigation
household utensils, and in the embellishments of funerary settings, into the textual practices of early Japan illuminates not only the cul-
Tseng maintains that visibility can hold up a mirror to visuality; tural history of East Asia but also the broader comparative history of
Heaven was culturally constructed and should be culturally recon- writing and literacy in the ancient world.
structed.
D a V I D b . l u r I e i s A s s o c i ate Pro fe s s o r o f
l I l l I a n l a n - y I n g T s e n g i s A s s o c i ate J a p a n e s e H i s to r y a n d L i te rat u re at Co l u m b i a
Professor of t h e H i s to r y o f A r t at Ya l e U n i ve r s i t y. U n i ve r s i t y.
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coins, Trade, and the state The Japanization of modernity

EConoMiC grow th in Early MEdiE val JaPan Mur ak aMi haruki BEt wEEn JaPan and
E THAN I SAAC S EGAL thE unitEd statEs

R EBECCA S UTER
Framed by the decline of the Heian aristocracy in the late 1100s
and the rise of the Tokugawa shogunate in the early 1600s, Japan’s Murakami Haruki is perhaps the
medieval era was a chaotic period of diffuse political power and fre- best known and most widely
quent military strife. This instability pre- translated Japanese author of his
vented central authorities from regulating generation. Despite Murakami’s
trade, issuing currency, enforcing con- critical and commercial success,
tracts, or guaranteeing property rights. But particularly in the United States,
the lack of a strong central government his role as a mediator between
did not inhibit economic growth. Rather, Japanese and American literature
it created opportunities for a wider spec- and culture is seldom discussed.
trum of society to participate in trade, Bringing a comparative
markets, and monetization. perspective to the study of Murakami’s fiction, Rebecca Suter com-
Peripheral elites—including mer- plicates our understanding of the author’s oeuvre and highlights his
chants, warriors, rural estate managers, contributions not only as a popular writer but also as a cultural critic
and religious leaders—devised new ways on both sides of the Pacific. Suter concentrates on Murakami’s short
to circumvent older forms of exchange by stories—less known in the West but equally worthy of critical atten-
importing Chinese currency, trading in tion—as sites of some of the author’s bolder experiments in manip-
local markets, and building an effective system of long-distance ulating literary (and everyday) language, honing cross-cultural
money remittance. Over time, the central government recognized allusions, and crafting metafictional techniques. This study scruti-
the futility of trying to stifle these developments, and by the six- nizes Murakami’s fictional worlds and their extraliterary contexts
teenth century it asserted greater control over monetary matters through a range of discursive lenses: modernity and postmodernity,
throughout the realm. universalism and particularism, imperialism and nationalism, Ori-
Drawing upon diaries, tax ledgers, temple records, and gov- entalism and globalization.
ernment decrees, Ethan Isaac Segal chronicles how the circulation By casting new light on the style and substance of
of copper currency and the expansion of trade led to the start of a Murakami’s prose, Suter situates the author and his works within
market-centered economy and laid the groundwork for Japan’s the sphere of contemporary Japanese literature and finds him a
transformation into an early modern society. prominent place within the broader sweep of the global literary
scene.
e T H a n I s a a c s e g a l i s A s s i s t a nt Pro fes s o r o f
H istor y at M i c h i g a n St ate U n i ve r s i t y. r e b e c c a s u T e r i s Le c t u re r i n J a p a n e s e St udies
at t h e U n i ve r s i t y o f Syd n e y.
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ASIAN STUDIES / LITERATURE
Tradition, Treaties, and Trade shredding the Tapestry

Qing iMPErialisM and Chosŏn korEa, 1850–1910 of meaning
K IRK W. L ARSEN thE PoEtry and PoEtiCs of kitasono k atuE (1902–1978)
J OHN S OLT
Relations between the Choson
and Qing states are often cited as Kitasono Katue was a leading avant-garde
the prime example of the opera- literary figure, first in Japan and then
tion of the “traditional” Chinese throughout the world, from the 1920s to
“tribute system.” In contrast, this the 1970s. In his long career, Kitasono
work contends that the motiva- was instrumental in creating Japanese-
tions, tactics, and successes (and language work influenced by futurism,
failures) of the late Qing Empire in dadaism, and surrealism before World War
Choson Korea mirrored those of II and in contributing a Japanese voice to
other nineteenth-century imperi- the international avant-garde movement
alists. Between 1850 and 1910, after the war. This critical biography of
the Qing attempted to defend its Kitasono examines the life, poetry, and
informal empire in Korea by inter- poetics of this controversial and flamboy-
vening directly, not only to preserve its geopolitical position but also ant figure, including his wartime support
to promote its commercial interests. And it utilized the technology of the Japanese state. Using Kitasono as a window on Japanese lit-
of empire—treaties, international law, the telegraph, steamships, erature in the twentieth century, John Solt analyzes the relation-
and gunboats. ship of Japanese writers to foreign literary movements and the
Although the transformation of Qing-Choson diplomacy was influence of Japanese writers on world literature.
based on modern imperialism, this work argues that it is more accu-
J o H n s o l T i s a n i n d e p e n d e nt s c h o l a r.
rate to describe the dramatic shift in relations in terms of flexible
adaptation by one of the world’s major empires in response to new
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in Korea’s integration into regional and global political and economic POETRY / LITERARY STUDIES
systems.
k I r k W . l a r s e n i s A s s o c i ate Pro fe s s o r o f
H istor y at B r i g h a m Yo u n g U n i ve r s i t y.

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HISTORY
CENTER FOR HELLENIC STUDIES
Homer’s Versicolored Fabric christianity and Hellenism in

thE E voCativE PowEr of anCiEnt grEEk the Fifth-century greek east
EPiC wordMaking thEodorEt’s aPologEtiCs against thE
A NNA B ONIFAZI grEEks in ContEX t
YANNIS PAPADOGIANNAKIS
Anna Bonifazi suggests that the Homeric text we have now would
have enabled ancient audiences to enjoy the evocative power of This book—the first full-length
even minimal linguistic elements. The study of the “last and most
multiple functions served by these ele- beautiful” apology against
ments are associated not only with the paganism, Theodoret’s Thera-
variety of narrative contexts in which peutic for Hellenic Maladies—
they occur but also with overarching combines close readings of the
poetic strategies. text with detailed analysis of
The findings relate to two strate- Theodoret’s arguments against
gies in particular: unfolding the narra- Greek religion, philosophy, and
tive by signaling the upcoming content culture and the ways in which
with au- adverbs and particles, and let- that Greek influence interacts
ting the complexity of Odysseus’s iden- with other diverse ideas, prac-
tity resonate through the ambiguous tices, and developments in the
use of third-person pronouns. The fifth-century Roman Empire.
words’ evocative power springs from The book’s larger underlying themes—the continuing debate
the deliberate merging of distinct mean- between Christianity and Hellenism, and the relationship between
ings, which prompts multifaceted interpretations. The text allows classical and Christian literature—offer insights into more general
the incorporation of different viewpoints, just as an iridescent fab- late Roman and early Byzantine religious and cultural attitudes and
ric allows the simultaneous perception of different colors. issues, including the relations between pagan and Christian paideia,
a n n a b o n I F a z I i s h e a d o f a n E m my- N o e t h e r
the cult of the martyrs, and the role of Christianity in the Roman
independ e nt re s e a rc h gro u p at t h e U n i ve r s i t y o f Empire.
Heidelbe rg, C l a s s i c s.
y a n n I s P a P a D o g I a n n a k I s i s A . G . Le ve ntis
Le c t u re r i n G re e k Pat r i s t i c s, Ox fo rd U n i ve r s i t y.
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CLASSICS
CENTER FOR HELLENIC STUDIES
The rhetoric of biography lydian architecture

narr ating livEs in PErsianatE soCiEtiEs ashlar Masonry struCturEs at sardis
E DITED BY L. M ARLOW C HRISTOPHER R ATTÉ
In the context of a growing scholarly literature devoted to the top- From the sixth to the fourth
ics of biography and autobiography, especially in the Arabic literary century BC, the western Anato-
tradition, the essays in this volume explore the forms and meanings lian region of Lydia was home
of these genres with particular reference to Persian writings, as well to a distinctive local tradition of
as to writings in Arabic and Turkish that were also composed in Per- ashlar masonry construction.
sianate societies. The earliest datable example of
The authors address, among other topics, biographies and fine stone masonry in the envi-
autobiographies of women; biogra- rons of Sardis, the capital of the
phies of specific occupational groups, Lydian empire, is the tomb of
such as poets; the relation of tradi- King Alyattes, who died in ca.
tional “lives of poets” to the reception 560 BC Contemporary monu-
of their literary works; intertextuality ments include a city gate and
across biographical and autobio- monumental terraces. Alyattes’ son Croesus was overthrown by the
graphical writings and across lan- Persians in 547 BC, but the Lydian building tradition survived in
guages; and the processes involved in chamber tombs at Sardis and throughout Lydia.
translating written biographies for the This richly illustrated volume examines the monuments of
contemporary television screen. Sardis and environs in the context of contemporary developments
Readers are invited to glimpse in Lydia and throughout the ancient Mediterranean and Near East.
the lives of figures from the past and The study of Lydian architecture illuminates traditions of Anatolian
to appreciate the historical, cultural, kingship, technological exchange between Lydia and Greece and
and literary contexts that shaped their the Near East, and the origins of Persian imperial architecture.
biographical and autobiographical narratives, and to reflect on the
c H r I s T o P H e r r a T T é i s A s s o c i ate Pro fe s s o r o f
continuing significance of these narratives into the modern era. A rc h a e o l o g y i n t h e D e p a r t m e nt o f C l a s s i c a l St u d i es
at t h e U n i ve r s i t y o f M i c h i g a n a n d D i re c to r o f t h e
l . m a r l o W i s D i re c to r o f M i d d l e E a s te r n Stu d i e s,
I nte rd e p a r t m e nt a l Pro gra m i n C l a s s i c a l A r t a n d
Wellesley Co l l e g e.
A rc h a e o l o g y.
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ARCHAEOLOGY
HARVARD UKRAINIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE
The Paterik of the kievan sermons and

caves monastery rhetoric of
T RANSLATED AND WITH AN kievan rus’
I NTRODUCTION BY M URIEL H EPPELL T RANSLATED AND WITH AN
I NTRODUCTION BY
The Kievan Caves Monastery was for centuries
S IMON F RANKLIN
the most important Ukrainian monastic estab-
lishment. It was the outstanding center of literary production, and
The authors included in this volume, Ilarion, Klim Smoljatic, and
its monks served throughout the territory of Rus’ as bishops and
Kirill of Turov, are remarkable for both their personal and literary
monastic superiors. The most detailed source for the monastery’s
achievements. Appointed in 1051 by Prince Jaroslav the Wise, Ilar-
early history was its Paterik, a thirteenth-century compilation con-
ion was the first of only two recorded “native” metropolitans of
taining stories reaching back to
Kiev. His Sermon on Law and Grace
the monastery’s foundation in
constitutes the finest piece of eleventh-
the mid-eleventh century.
century Rus’ rhetorical literature. Klim
Muriel Heppell makes available
Smoljatic, the second “native” metro-
the first complete English trans-
politan of Rus’ (from 1147), is the
lation of the Paterik. With an
author of the controversial Epistle to
introduction, a glossary of
Foma, which addresses the debate
terms, and several appendices,
over the proper nature and limits of
Heppell discusses the work’s
Christian learning. Finally, the twelfth-
Byzantine background and also
century monk Kirill of Turov is best
sets it in the historical context
known for his collection of allegorical
of Medieval Rus’.
lessons and some of the most accom-
murIel HePPell plished sermons of Kievan Rus’.
is Emerit u s R e a d e r i n The volume contains the first
the M edi e va l H i s to r y o f O r t h o d ox E a s te r n Eu ro p e at complete translations of the Epistle to Foma and the lessons and
the Unive r s i t y o f Lo n d o n . sermons of Kirill, as well as an entirely new rendering of the Sermon
on Law and Grace. Simon Franklin prefaces the texts with a sub-
HARVARD LIBRARY OF EARLY UKRAINIAN LITERATURE:
TRANSLATIONS 1 | stantial introduction that places each of the three authors in their
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RELIGION / HISTORY
s I m o n F r a n k l I n i s Pro fe s s o r o f S l avo n i c
St u d i e s at C l a re Co l l e g e, Ca m b r i d g e.
HARVARD LIBRARY OF EARLY UKRAINIAN LITERATURE:

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LITERATURE / RELIGION
HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAM, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL / DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
litigating Health rights The revolution in Venezuela

Can Courts Bring MorE JustiCE to hEalth? soCial and PolitiCal ChangE undEr ChávEz
E DITED BY A LICIA E LY YAMIN AND S IRI G LOPPEN E DITED BY J ONATHAN E ASTWOOD AND
T HOMAS P ONNIAH
The last fifteen years have seen a
tremendous growth in the number Is Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution under Hugo Chávez truly rev-
of health rights cases focusing on olutionary? Most books and articles tend to view the Chávez gov-
issues such as access to health ernment in an either-or fashion. Some see the president as the
services and essential medications. shining knight of twenty-first–century socialism, while others see
This volume examines the poten- him as an avenging Stalinist strongman. Despite passion on both
tial of litigation as a strategy to sides, the Chávez government does not fall easily into a seamless
advance the right to health by fable of emancipatory or authoritarian history, as these essays make
holding governments accountable clear.
for these obligations. It includes A range of distinguished authors consider the nature of social
case studies from Costa Rica, change in contemporary Venezuela and explore a number of themes
South Africa, India, Brazil, that help elucidate the sources of the nation’s political polarization.
Argentina, and Colombia, as well The chapters range from Fernando Coronil’s “Bolivarian Revolu-
as chapters that address cross-cut- tion,” which examines the relationship between the state’s social
ting themes. body (its population) and its natural body (its oil reserves), to an
The authors analyze what types of services and interventions insightful look at women’s rights by Cathy A. Rakowski and Gio-
have been the subject of successful litigation and what remedies conda Espina. This volume shows that, while the future of the
have been ordered by courts. Different chapters address the sys- national process is unclear, the principles elaborated by the Chávez
temic impact of health litigation efforts, taking into account who government are helping articulate a new Latin American left.
benefits both directly and indirectly—and what the overall impacts
on health equity are. J o n a T H a n e a s T W o o D i s A s s o c i ate Pro fe s s o r of
S o c i o l o g y, Wa s h i n g to n a n d Le e U n i ve r s i t y.
a l I c I a e l y y a m I n i s t h e J o s e p h H . Fl o m Fe l l ow T H o m a s P o n n I a H i s Le c t u re r a n d A s s i s t a nt
on Global He a l t h a n d H u m a n R i g ht s at H a r va rd L aw D i re c to r o f St u d i e s i n t h e Co m m i t te e o n D e gre e s in
S chool, Adju n c t Le c t u re r o n H e a l t h Po l i c y a n d S o c i a l St u d i e s, a n d Fa c u l t y A s s o c i ate i n t h e
M anagement at t h e H a r va rd S c h o o l o f Pu b l i c Pro gra m o n J u s t i ce, We l f a re, a n d Eco n o m i c s,
Health, and S e n i o r R e s e a rc h e r ( a f f i l i ate d ) at t h e H a r va rd U n i ve r s i t y.
Chr. M ichels e n I n s t i t u te i n B e rg e n , N o r way. s I r I
g l o P P e n i s Pro fe s s o r o f Co m p a rat i ve Po l i t i c s at DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER
the Universi t y o f B e rg e n a n d R e s e a rc h D i re c to r at SERIES FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES 23 |
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LAW / MEDICINE
The Idea of Justice
A MARTYA S EN
A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year
An Economist Best Book of the Year
A New Statesman Top Ten Book of the Decade
Social justice: an ideal forever beyond our grasp or one of many practical possibilities? More than
a matter of intellectual discourse, the idea of justice influences how—and how well—people
live. In this book Amartya Sen offers a powerful critique of the mainstream theories of justice
that, despite their many specific achievements, have taken us, he argues, in the wrong direc-
tion.
“I N THIS INTRICATE , ENDLESSLY THOUGHT- PROVOKING BOOK , S EN BRINGS THE FULL FORCE OF
HIS FORMIDABLE MIND AND HIS MORAL SENSE TO SHOW HOW SPECIFIC QUESTIONS — OF
CHRONIC MALNOURISHMENT, ILL - HEALTH , DEMOGRAPHIC GENDER IMBALANCE — MUST BE
ANALYZED IN TERMS OF JUSTICE . D OING SOMETHING ABOUT THEM IS NOT A DISCRETIONARY
MATTER — IT IS A REQUIREMENT OF BEING HUMAN . S EN IS THE MOST SOPHISTICATED
INTELLECTUAL CAMPAIGNER OF OUR TIMES — HIS ARGUMENTS HAVE SHAPED NOT JUST
ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES BUT THE POLICIES OF GOVERNMENTS AND OF GLOBAL INSTITUTIONS LIKE
THE W ORLD B ANK .”
—S UNIL K HILNANI , F INANCIAL T IMES ONLINE
“[S EN ’ S ] BOOK QUITE RADICALLY ATTEMPTS TO SHIFT THE GROUNDS OF THE CONVERSATION
[ ABOUT JUSTICE ] ALTOGETHER . I T SEEKS TO PROVIDE A COUNTER - FRAMEWORK RATHER THAN
A COUNTER -THEORY. A ND THIS IS ONLY ONE OF ITS MANY ADMIRABLE AMBITIONS …T HE
REPUDIATION OF THE ECONOMICIST ACCOUNT OF LIFE IS ONE OF THIS BOOK ’ S MOST VALUABLE
ACHIEVEMENTS .”
—M OSHE H ALBERTAL , N EW R EPUBLIC
A m A r T yA S e n , winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics, is Lamont University

Professor at Harvard University. His many books include R a t i o n a l i t y a n d Fre edom
(Harvard).
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PHILOSOPHY
Commonwealth A Failure of Capitalism
M ICHAEL H ARDT AND A NTONIO N EGRI The Crisis of ’08 and The desCenT inTo depression
R ICHARD A. P OSNER
When Empire appeared in 2000, it
defined the political and economic The financial and economic crisis that began
challenges of the era of globalization in 2008 is the most alarming of our lifetime
and, thrillingly, found in them possi- because of the warp-speed at which it began.
bilities for new and more democratic Posner presents a concise and non-technical
forms of social organization. Now, examination of this mother of all financial
with Commonwealth, Michael disasters and of the, as yet, stumbling efforts
Hardt and Antonio Negri conclude to cope with it.
the trilogy begun with Empire and
continued in Multitude, proposing “B Y THE LAST PAGE , NOT A SINGLE LAZY
an ethics of freedom for living in our GENERALIZATION HAS SURVIVED P OSNER ’ S
common world and articulating a MERCILESS SCRUTINY, NOT ONE POPULIST
CLICHÉ REMAINS STANDING .”
possible constitution for our common wealth.
—J ONATHAN R AUCH , N EW YORK T IMES B OOK R EVIEW
“C OMMONWEALTH [ IS ] THE LATEST BOOK BY M ICHAEL H ARDT
AND A NTONIO N EGRI , WHOSE E MPIRE AND M ULTITUDE HAVE , “L IVELY, READABLE , AND PLAINSPOKEN …P OSNER HAS AN
ARGUABLY, BEEN THE DOMINANT WORKS OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY EXTRAORDINARILY SHARP MIND .”
OF THE NEW CENTURY…[I T ’ S ] THE MUCH - ANTICIPATED FINAL —R OBERT M. S OLOW, N EW YORK R EVIEW OF B OOKS
VOLUME OF THE E MPIRE TRILOGY.”
—A RTFORUM “B EFORE SEEKING POLITICAL ASYLUM IN FREE - MARKET H ONG

K ONG , CONSIDER READING A NEW BOOK THAT CRITIQUES WHAT
“A WORTHY ADDITION TO THE TRILOGY…C OMMONWEALTH IS A WENT WRONG WITH CAPITALISM , WRITTEN IN ORDER TO SAVE IT…
BOOK THAT CHALLENGES PRESUPPOSITIONS ABOUT THE UTILITY OF [P OSNER ] IS ONE OF OUR MOST ORIGINAL AND CLEARHEADED
M ARX , AND INTRODUCES THE POSSIBILITY OF COMBINING HIS THINKERS .”
INSIGHTS WITH THE IDEAS OF OTHER SIGNIFICANT AUTHORS SUCH —L. G ORDON C ROVITZ , WALL S TREET J OURNAL
AS N IETZSCHE , F OUCAULT, D ELEUZE AND G UATTARI , WHO ARE
NOT TRADITIONALLY ASSOCIATED WITH THE RADICAL COMMUNIST r I C h A r d A . P o S n e r is Circuit Judge, the United States Court
PROJECT.” of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and a senior lecturer at the
—B ERTIE R USSELL AND A NDRE P USEY, R ED P EPPER University of Chicago Law School. His numerous books include
H ow J u d g e s Th i n k and Th e C r i s i s o f Ca p i t a l i s t D e m o c ra c y.
m I C h A e l h A r dT is Professor of Literature and Italian at Duke
University. A n To n I o n e g r I is an independent researcher and CLOTH: MAY 2009 / ISBN 978-0-674-03514-0 |
MAY | 4 3⁄8 X 7 1⁄8 | 368 PP. |
writer. He has been a Lecturer in Political Science at the
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University of Padua. CURRENT AFFAIRS / ECONOMICS
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The generalissimo Up from history
Chiang K ai-sheK and The sTruggle for Modern China The life of BooKer T. WashingTon
J AY TAYLOR R OBERT J. N ORRELL

A Financial Times Best History Book A Library Journal Best Book of the Year
The Lionel Gelber Prize for Best Book on A Booklist Top 10 Black History Nonfiction
International Affairs Book of the Year
A Washington Post Best Book of the Year
Drawing heavily on Chinese sources including
Chiang’s diaries, The Generalissimo provides The first full-length biography of
the most lively, sweeping, and objective biogra- Booker T. Washington in a genera-
phy yet of a man whose length of uninter- tion, Up from History reinstates
rupted, active engagement at the highest levels this extraordinary historical figure
in the march of history is excelled by few, if any, to the pantheon of black leaders.
in modern history.
“F EW GREAT A MERICANS HAVE
“N OW THAT J AY TAYLOR HAS WRITTEN HIS BEEN MORE CRUELLY TREATED BY
COMPREHENSIVE BOOK T HE G ENERALISSIMO : HISTORY THAN B OOKER
C HIANG K AI - SHEK AND THE S TRUGGLE FOR M ODERN C HINA , WE ARE TALIAFERRO WASHINGTON . H E
ABLE TO SEE C HIANG AS A MAN OF CONSIDERABLE CUNNING , HAS BEEN MOCKED , VILIFIED AND
BRUTALITY AND PATIENCE WHO SKILLFULLY PLAYED A WEAK HAND CARICATURED , YET BY ANY
AGAINST THE J APANESE AND M AO ’ S FORCES WHILE EXTRACTING REASONABLE MEASURE HIS LIFE
HUGE SUMS FROM THE A MERICANS .” WAS EXTRAORDINARY…T O SEE HIM AS ANYTHING LESS THAN
HEROIC BORDERS ON THE INCOMPREHENSIBLE …U P FROM H ISTORY
—J ONATHAN M IRSKY, N EW YORK T IMES B OOK R EVIEW
IS IN ALL RESPECTS AN EXEMPLARY BOOK .”
“TAYLOR SUCCEEDS IN RECOVERING A COMPLICATED MAN WHO WAS —J ONATHAN YARDLEY, WASHINGTON P OST B OOK W ORLD
RESPONSIBLE FOR MILITARY AND ECONOMIC SUCCESS AS WELL AS
STUNNING FAILURES …T HE G ENERALISSIMO IS NOW THE BEST “TODAY THE BRILLIANCE WITH WHICH [WASHINGTON ] ACHIEVED
E NGLISH - LANGUAGE BIOGRAPHY AVAILABLE .” THE NEAR IMPOSSIBLE IS FORGOTTEN , WHILE THE UNFAIR
PRESUMPTION OF HIS RACIAL CAPITULATION IS UBIQUITOUS . UP
—J EREMY B ROWN , T IMES L ITERARY S UPPLEMENT
FROM H ISTORY WILL GO FAR IN CORRECTING THIS …W ITH MORE
J Ay TAylo r is a Research Associate at the Fairbank Center for

FEARLESSNESS THAN ANY ’60 S BLACK NATIONALIST, HE SAW BLACK
Chinese Studies at Harvard University and the author of Th e A MERICANS AS A FREE - STANDING PEOPLE AND ASKED THEM TO
COMPETE OPENLY WITH ALL OTHERS …U P FROM H ISTORY GIVES
Generalissimo’s S o n : C h i a n g C h i n g - ku o a n d t h e R e vo l u t i o n s
in China and Ta i wa n (Harvard). BACK TO A MERICA ONE OF ITS GREATEST HEROES .”
—S HELBY S TEELE , N EW YORK T IMES B OOK R EVIEW

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History at the University of Tennessee.
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BIOGRAPHY
mothers and others The Annotated Origin
The e voluTionary origins of MuTual undersTanding a faCsiMile of The firsT ediTion of
ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES
S ARAH B LAFFER H RDY
A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year
C HARLES D ARWIN
An Irish Times Best Book of the Year INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY J A M E S T. C O S TA
Somewhere in Africa, more than a
million years ago, a line of apes On the Origin of Species is the most
began to rear their young differently important and yet least read scientific
than their Great Ape ancestors. From work in the history of science. Now
this new form of care came new James T. Costa—experienced field
ways of engaging and understanding biologist, theorist on the evolution of
each other. insect sociality, and passionate advo-
cate for teaching Darwin—has given a
“H RDY ’ S CONCEPTION OF EARLY new voice to this epochal work.
HUMAN SOCIETY IS FAR DIFFERENT
FROM THE CLASSIC SOCIO - “C LEARLY WORTH ATTENTION …
BIOLOGICAL VIEW OF A PRIMEVAL C OSTA MAKES USE OF HIS EXPERIENCE
NUCLEAR FAMILY, WITH DAD OFF AS A FIELD NATURALIST AND HIS
HUNTING BIG GAME AND MOM TENDING THE CAVE AND THE KIDS . KNOWLEDGE OF THE MODERN
I NSTEAD, H RDY PAINTS A PICTURE OF A COOPERATIVE BREEDING LITERATURE OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY TO ILLUMINE MANY
CULTURE IN WHICH PARENTING DUTIES WERE SPREAD OUT ACROSS PASSAGES IN D ARWIN ’ S WORK .”
A NETWORK OF FRIENDS AND RELATIVES . T HE EFFECT ON OUR —R ICHARD C. L EWONTIN , N EW YORK R EVIEW OF B OOKS
DEVELOPMENT WAS PROFOUND .”
—J ULIA WALLACE , S ALON “E VERYONE KNOWS ABOUT [O N THE O RIGIN OF S PECIES ], BUT I
VENTURE TO GUESS THAT FEW NON - SCHOLARS HAVE ACTUALLY
“H RDY ’ S MUCH - AWAITED NEW BOOK IS ANOTHER MIND - READ IT. N OW, ALONG COMES J AMES T. C OSTA WITH THIS
EXPANDING , PARADIGM - SHIFTING , RIGOROUSLY SCIENTIFIC YET FACSIMILE . T HE INDEX TO THE NEW EDITION , AND ESPECIALLY
EMINENTLY READABLE TREATISE …S ARAH B LAFFER H RDY HAS C OSTA’ S WONDERFUL ANNOTATIONS , MAKE THIS CLASSIC TEXT NOT
ADDED ANOTHER ENORMOUS BUILDING BLOCK TO OUR THINKING ONLY APPROACHABLE , BUT POSITIVELY INVITING .”
ABOUT OUR ORIGINS WITH THIS NEW BOOK . O UR SPECIES IS LUCKY —D UDLEY B ARLOW, E DUCATION D IGEST
TO HAVE HER .”
—C LAUDIA C ASPER , G LOBE AND M AIL J A m e S T. Co S TA is Executive Director of the Highlands

Biological Station and is Professor of Biology at Western
S A r A h b l A F F e r h r dy is Professor Emerita of Anthropology Carolina University.
at the University of California–Davis. She is the author of Th e
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ANTHROPOLOGY / PSYCHOLOGY
Coyote at the Kitchen door Voice and Vision
living WiTh Wildlife in suB urBia a guide To WriTing hisTory and
oTher serious nonfiCTion
S TEPHEN D E S TEFANO
S TEPHEN J. P YNE
A moose frustrates commuters by wandering
onto the highway; a cougar stalks his prey Voice and Vision is for those who
through suburban backyards; an alligator suns wish to understand the ways in
himself in a strip mall parking lot. Such sto- which literary considerations can
ries, which regularly make headline news, enhance nonfiction writing. Fiction
highlight the blurred divide that now exists has guidebooks galore; journalism
between civilization and wilderness. has shelves stocked with manuals;
but history and other serious or
“D E S TEFANO WEAVES PERSONAL STORIES OF
scholarly nonfiction have nothing
HIS OWN WILD ENCOUNTERS WITH SCIENTIFIC
comparable. Now this curious
EVIDENCE ON THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS THAT
LIGHT, NOISE , TRAFFIC , ROAD BUILDING AND
omission is addressed by Stephen
OTHER HUMAN ACTIVITIES HAVE ON THE WILD Pyne as he analyzes and teaches
ANIMALS IN OUR MIDST. A S THE BOOK UNFOLDS , READERS ARE the craft that undergirds whole realms of nonfiction and book-based
DRAWN INTO HIS QUESTIONS AND ARE CALLED TO RETHINK ‘ OUR academic disciplines.
OVERWHELMING OCCUPATION OF THE LANDSCAPE .’”
“T HE BOOK IS EVERYTHING THE AUTHOR SAYS A WORK OF
—LYANDA LYNN H AUPT, LOS A NGELES T IMES B OOK R EVIEW NONFICTION OUGHT TO BE : WELL WRITTEN , CLEARLY THOUGHT OUT,
AND FULL OF SPECIFIC EXAMPLES ( OF WHAT TO DO AND WHAT NOT
“D E S TEFANO CITES SOME ALARMING FACTS : IN THE PAST HALF -
TO DO ). AN ESSENTIAL TOOL FOR ANYONE WHO IS ATTEMPTING TO
CENTURY, THE AVERAGE SIZE OF THE A MERICAN HOME HAS GROWN
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ALTERS THE ECOSYSTEM FOR THREE HUNDRED FEET ON EITHER SIDE
OF IT. B UT, HAVING EXPERIENCED THE BENEFITS OF A SUBURBAN
“[P YNE ’ S ] BOOK IS A TOUR DE FORCE OF CRITICAL COMMENTARY
AND EXPLANATION . V OICE AND V ISION IS AN ENGAGING LITERARY
CHILDHOOD , HE REFUSES TO REDUCE HIS THINKING TO A VIEW IN
PERFORMANCE IN ITS OWN RIGHT.”
WHICH WILDERNESS PRESERVATION IS THE ONLY SOLUTION .”
—N EW YORKER —P ETER C OCHRANE , T HE AUSTRALIAN
S T e P h e n J . Pyn e is a Regents Professor at Arizona State

S T e P h e n d e S T e FA n o is a research professor, Department of
University. He is the author of many books, including
Natural Resources Conservation, at the University of
S m o ke c h a s i n g and Te n d i n g Fi re .
Massachusetts, Amherst, and leader, U.S. Geological Survey’s
Massachusetts Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit.
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EISBN: 978-0-674-05374-8 |
NATURE
Worlds made by Words The Supreme Court and the
sCholarship and CoMMuniT y in The Modern WesT American elite, 1789–2008
A NTHONY G RAFTON LUCAS A. P OWE , J R .
A Scotsman Gift Pick of the Year
“The Supreme Court follows the election
When many of our fellow citizens returns,” the fictional Mr. Dooley observed
seem to have forgotten why we col- a hundred years ago. And for all our ideals
lect books in the buildings we call and dreams of a disinterested judiciary,
libraries, Anthony Grafton’s engag- above the political fray, it seems Mr. Dooley
ing, erudite essays could be a rally- was right. In this engaging—and disturb-
ing cry for reviving the liberal arts. ing—book, Lucas A. Powe, Jr., reveals the
“T HE SCOPE OF G RAFTON ’ S close fit between its decisions and the
VOLUME IS VAST, AND THE TOPICS IT nation’s politics.
ADDRESSES ARE UNIFORMLY
“P OWE HAS CERTAINLY WRITTEN A BOOK
IMPORTANT. H E TAKES HIS READERS
THAT IS ENTERTAINING , QUIRKY,
ON A LONG JOURNEY, FROM THE
IDIOSYNCRATIC , FUN TO READ , AND MORE THAN OCCASIONALLY
R EPUBLIC OF L ETTERS TO THE
INSIGHTFUL . I T DOES BLEND TOGETHER LEGAL DOCTRINE AND
B ABEL OF THE I NTERNET. I F IT IS HARD TO SAY WHETHER OR NOT
A MERICAN POLITICS , AND AS A RESULT THE HISTORY IS RICHER —
THE ROAD LEADS UPWARD TO THE LIGHT, THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT
AND MORE COMPLETE —THAN THE USUAL ACCOUNT.”
WE COULD NOT ASK FOR ANYONE WISER TO LEAD US . L IKE D ANTE ’ S
V IRGIL , G RAFTON KNOWS EVERYONE WE MEET ALONG THE WAY.” —L AWRENCE M. F RIEDMAN , A MERICAN P ROSPECT
—G. W. B OWERSOCK , N EW YORK R EVIEW OF B OOKS “A LEADING HISTORIAN OF THE S UPREME C OURT, P OWE DECRIES
WHAT HE CALLS THE I MPERIAL C OURT, WHICH HE SEES AS OVERLY
“G RAFTON MAY BE STEEPED IN THE PAST, BUT HE IS NO
CONCERNED WITH SOLIDIFYING ITS PRIMACY THROUGH A SERIES OF
ANTIQUARIAN .H E IS QUICK TO LINK SUBMERGED TRADITIONS WITH
PRETENTIOUS OPINIONS . HE DETAILS A LITANY OF CASES IN WHICH
PRESENT TRENDS . H E REGARDS RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN
THE R EHNQUIST C OURT OVERTURNED POSITIVE , PROGRESSIVE , AND
TECHNOLOGY, AND THEIR EFFECTS ON LIBRARIES AND ON READING ,
PROACTIVE LEGISLATION DESIGNED TO PROTECT AND IMPROVE
AS BOTH A BLESSING AND A BURDEN .”
SOCIETY, INSTEAD TURNING TO RIGID INTERPRETATION IN AN
—E RIC O RMSBY, WALL S TREET J OURNAL OVERREACHING ATTEMPT TO STIFLE CONGRESSIONAL AUTHORITY, AS
GRANTED BY THE C ONSTITUTION .”
A n T h o ny g r A F To n is Henry Putnam University Professor of
—P HILIP Y. B LUE , L IBRARY J OURNAL
History at Princeton University. He is the author or editor of
several books, including Th e C l a s s i ca l Tra d i t i o n and “ I h a ve
lU C A S A . P o W e , J r ., holds the Anne Green Regents Chair at
always loved the H o l y To n g u e” : I s a a c Ca s a u b o n , t h e J e w s,
the University of Texas, where he teaches in the School of Law
and a Forgotten Ch a p te r i n R e n a i s s a n ce S c h o l a r s h i p (both
and the Department of Government.
from Harvard).
CLOTH: APRIL 2009 / ISBN 978-0-674-03267-5 |
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HISTORY HISTORY / LAW
Selected Writings darker than blue
a TerCenTenary CeleBr aTion on The Mor al eConoMies of BlaCK aTlanTiC CulTure
S AMUEL J OHNSON PAUL G ILROY

EDITED BY PETER MARTIN
Paul Gilroy seeks to awaken a new
understanding of W. E. B. Du Bois’s
Published for Johnson’s 300th birthday, this
intellectual and political legacy.
tercentenary gift edition introduces readers to
With his brilliant, provocative
Dr. Johnson’s wisdom and the great pleasures
analysis and astonishing range of
of his prose.
reference, Gilroy revitalizes the
“W E SEE IN [J OHNSON ’ S ] ESSAYS THE TINY study of African American culture.
BRUSHWORK OF BRILLIANT SELF - He traces the shifting character of
PORTRAITURE ; WE HEAR THE RHYTHM OF black intellectual and social move-
MORAL SERIOUSNESS , THE SOUND OF ments, and shows how we can
CONTEMPLATION AS IT ENGAGES WITH THE
construct an account of moral
QUESTIONS OF HOW TO LIVE AND HOW TO
progress that reflects today’s complex realities.
MANAGE IN THE FACE OF DEATH . B UT MOST
OF ALL WE FEEL THE REACH OF AN AUTHOR — “I F THE B ALDWIN ’ S WRITING WAS FUELLED BY
MORAL FORCE OF
A WRITER ATTEMPTING TO REACH PAST SELF - DOUBT, POVERTY, THE SOLIDARITY OF THEC IVIL R IGHTS MOVEMENT, G ILROY ’ S BOOK
CANT, AND ORTHODOXY, IN ORDER TO ASSERT THE POWER OF IS A WARNING OF MORAL BANKRUPTCY CREEPING INTO CONTEMPO -
INDIVIDUAL AUTHORSHIP AND FREE THINKING IN THE FACE OF MORE RARY U.S. BLACK CULTURE . A CCORDING TO G ILROY, COMMODITIES
NEBULOUS AUTHORITIES . S AMUEL J OHNSON MAY HAVE FAILED HAVE REPLACED COMMUNITY, AND THE SPIRIT OF THE FREEDOM
OFTEN ENOUGH TO BE PERSONABLE , BUT HE NEVERTHELESS FREED MARCHES HAS BEEN OVERTAKEN BY THE ROAR OF ACCESSORIZED
SUBJECTIVITY… AND BROUGHT BOTH DIGNITY AND SELF - H UMMERS . T HIS IS NOT SIMPLY A CURMUDGEONLY CRITIQUE OF
SUFFICIENCY TO THE WRITING GAME , ALLOWING AUTHORS TO BE CONTEMPORARY CULTURE , AND G ILROY TEASES OUT THE REASONS
WHO THEY CHOSE TO BE , UNSHACKLED FROM PATRONAGE AND THE WHY THE MORAL ENERGY THAT GALVANIZED THE C IVIL R IGHTS
REQUIREMENT TO PLEASE GREAT MEN . WE SEE IT IN HIS ESSAYS MOVEMENT HAS BEEN DILUTED BY CORPORATE A MERICAN LIFE IN
AND WE SEE IT AGAIN IN HIS L IVES OF THE P OETS : A WRITER ’ S [ THIS ] PENETRATING AND EXHILARATING [ BOOK ].”
WRITER , BECKONING INDIVIDUAL CREATIVE POWER OUT OF THE MIRE
—D OUGLAS F IELD, T IMES L ITERARY S UPPLEMENT
OF DEPENDENCY, MAKING THE WORK ANSWERABLE ONLY TO HIGH
STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE STRINGENTLY APPLIED .” “P ROVOCATIVE …I NSIGHTFUL …R AISE [ S ] PROFOUND QUESTIONS
—A NDREW O’H AGAN , N EW YORK R EVIEW OF B OOKS ABOUT RACE , DEMOCRACY, AND CITIZENSHIP IN THE AGE OF
O BAMA .”
P e T e r m A r T I n has taught English literature on both sides of —P ENIEL E. J OSEPH , B OOKFORUM
the Atlantic and is the author of S a mu e l J o h n s o n : A B i o g ra p hy
(Harvard). PAU l g I l r oy holds the Anthony Giddens Professorship in
Social Theory at the London School of Economics.
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LITERATURE
AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
Quantum leaps borderline Americans
J EREMY B ERNSTEIN r aCial division and laBor War in The
arizona Borderlands
Anyone can Google “quantum the- K ATHERINE B ENTON -COHEN
ory” and find more than 34 million
A Pima County Public Library Best Southwest
entries—from poets and historians,
Book of the Year
certainly, as well as film critics and
Finalist, Spur Award, Best
Buddhist monks. How—and how Western Nonfiction—
pervasively—quantum mechanics Contemporary Category, Western
Writers of America
has entered the general culture is
the subject of this engaging, eclectic, “Are you an American, or are you not?” This
and thought-provoking book. was the question Harry Wheeler, sheriff of
Cochise County, Arizona, used to choose his
“J EREMY B ERNSTEIN REVISITS HIS
targets in one of the most remarkable vigi-
OWN ENCOUNTERS WITH THE
lante actions ever carried out on U.S. soil.
QUANTUM WORLD , FIRST AS A
STUDENT AT H ARVARD AND THEN THROUGHOUT HIS STORIED
And this question is at the heart of Katherine
CAREER , WHICH FEATURES A CAST OF CHARACTERS INCLUDING Benton-Cohen’s provocative history, which
W. H. AUDEN , J. R OBERT O PPENHEIMER AND T OM S TOPPARD. ties that remote corner of the country to one
A LONG THE WAY, HE DISCUSSES THE STRANGE INTERSECTIONS OF of America’s central concerns: the historical
QUANTUM MECHANICS WITH M ARXISM AND MYSTICISM . T HIS IS AN creation of racial boundaries.
ECLECTIC BOOK BY SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS THE PHYSICS AND
HAS OBSERVED ITS CULTURAL CONSEQUENCES FIRST- HAND .” “B ENTON -C OHEN USES THE BACKDROP OF THE W ILD W EST, WITH
ITS BUSTLING COMMERCE AND GROWING POPULATION , TO WAGE A
—S ASWATO R. D AS , N EW S CIENTIST
DISCUSSION ON RACIAL DIVISION AND THE POWER OF ‘ WHITE
“A PHYSICIST-TURNED - PROLIFIC - WRITER , [B ERNSTEIN ] IS AMONG PRIVILEGE ’— EVEN WHERE THE BLACK - WHITE DICHOTOMY DIDN ’ T
THE MOST ENGAGING AND THOUGHTFUL OF QUANTUM EXPLAINERS , NECESSARILY EXIST— IN THIS RICHLY DETAILED ANTHROPOLOGICAL
AND Q UANTUM L EAPS PROVIDES ONE OF THE BEST CONCISE GUIDES LOOK INTO THE CREATION OF RACIAL BOUNDARIES AND THEIR
AVAILABLE TO WHAT THE FUSS IS ALL ABOUT.” APPLICATION IN PRESENT- DAY IMMIGRATION REFORM DEBATES .”
—T OM S IEGFRIED, S CIENCE N EWS —P UBLISHERS W EEKLY
“A SPLENDID STUDY OF THE CONTESTED MEANING OF ‘A MERICAN ’

J e r e m y b e r n S T e I n is a former staff writer for the N e w
FROM THE 1880 S THROUGH THE N EW D EAL , THIS IS AN EPISODIC
Yorker . He is the author of many books, including Pl u to n i u m :
CASE STUDY OF C OCHISE C OUNTY, A RIZONA , BEST KNOWN AS THE
A Histor y of the Wo r l d ’s M o s t D a n g e ro u s E l e m e n t and
LOCUS FOR THE GUNFIGHT AT THE OK C ORRAL .”
O ppenheimer : Por t ra i t o f a n E n i g m a.
—E. R. C ROWTHER , C HOICE
BELKNAP PRESS |
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EISBN: 978-0-674-05355-7 | HISTORY / SOCIOLOGY
Selected Stories The Pioneers
N ATHANIEL H AWTHORNE J AMES F ENIMORE COOPER
EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY INTRODUCTION BY R O B E R T D A LY
BRENDA WINEAPPLE
With The Pioneers (1823), Cooper
Dark, weird, psychologically complex, initiated his series of elegiac
Hawthorne’s short fiction continues to fas- romances of frontier life and intro-
cinate readers. Brenda Wineapple has duced the world to Natty Bumppo
made a generous selection of Hawthorne’s (or Leather-stocking). Set in 1793
stories, including some of his best-known tales as well as other, less- in New York State, the novel
often anthologized gems. In her introduction, Wineapple explores depicts an aging Leather-stocking
a writer whose best stories, as she has elsewhere observed, “pene- negotiating his way in a restlessly
trate the secret horrors of ordinary life, those interstices in the gen- expanding society. In his introduc-
eral routine where suddenly something or tion, Robert Daly argues for the
someone shifts out of place, changing everything.” novel’s increasing relevance: we
The John Harvard Library edition repro- live in a similarly complex society
duces the authoritative texts of Hawthorne’s sto- as Cooper’s frontier world, faced with the same questions about the
ries in The Centenary Edition of the Works of limits of individualism, the need for voluntary cooperation, and
Nathaniel Hawthorne. stewardship of the environment.
The John Harvard Library edition reproduces the authorita-
b r e n d A W I n e A P P l e is Director of the Leon tive text of The Pioneers in the The Writings of James Fenimore
Levy Center for Biography at The Graduate Cooper, published by the State University of New York Press.
School, CUNY, and teaches in the MFA
programs at The New School and Columbia r o b e r T d A ly, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of
University. Her books include W h i te H e a t : Th e English at the University at Buffalo, has published widely on
Friendship of Em i l y D i c k i n s o n a n d Th o m a s We n t wo r t h American and English literature.
Higginson and H a w t h o r n e : A L i f e.
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$9.95 (£7.95 UK) | LITERATURE LITERATURE
The Colosseum The Alhambra
K EITH H OPKINS AND M ARY B EARD R OBERT I RWIN
A New York Sun Book of the Year
Byron and Hitler were equally
entranced by Rome’s most famous The Alhambra is the only Muslim palace to have
monument, the Colosseum. Mid- survived since the Middle Ages and has long
Victorians admired the hundreds of been a byword for exotic and melancholy
varieties of flowers in its crannies beauty. In his absorbing new book, Robert Irwin
and occasionally shuddered at its examines its history and allure.
reputation for contagion, danger, “[I RWIN ] BRINGS THE MAJESTIC RUINS TO LIFE .”
and sexual temptation. Today it is
—N EWSWEEK
the highlight of a tour of Italy for
more than three million visitors a “I RWIN USES HIS VAST KNOWLEDGE OF
year. MEDIEVAL I SLAM TO ILLUMINE BOTH MYTH AND
REALITY, HISTORY AND IMAGINATION , WITHOUT
“G IVES A SPRIGHTLY, ENTERTAINING DISENCHANTING THE ROMANTIC READER …H AVING BEEN TO THE
ACCOUNT OF THIS ARCHETYPAL BUILDING IN ALL ITS VARIOUS A LHAMBRA MANY TIMES , AFTER READING THIS WONDERFUL BOOK I
INCARNATIONS , FROM THE ‘ KILLING FIELDS ’ OF ANTIQUITY TO THE WISHED TO GO BACK — AND SEE IT FOR THE FIRST TIME .”
PILGRIM ’ S GOAL OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY, THE BOTANIST ’ S
—S HUSHA G UPPY, T HE I NDEPENDENT
PARADISE OF THE NINETEENTH , AND THE ARCHAEOLOGIST ’ S PUZZLE
OF TODAY— FOUR DIFFERENT CONSTRUCTION CREWS WORKED ON “T HE A LHAMBRA IS A SUCCINCT, WITTY, OFTEN ACERBIC
SEPARATE QUARTERS OF THE BUILDING , WITH CONSPICUOUSLY COMPENDIUM OF FACTS , LEGENDS , AND OUTRIGHT DELUSIONS
DIFFERING RESULTS .” ABOUT THIS N ASRID ARCHITECTURAL MASTERPIECE . [I RWIN ] ALSO
—I NGRID R OWLAND, N EW YORK R EVIEW OF B OOKS MANAGES , WITH STYLE AND FLAIR , TO CONVEY A SURPRISINGLY
RICH STORE OF DETAIL ON MEDIEVAL A NDALUSIAN CULTURE AND
“T HE MAGNIFICENT, CRUMBLING BUILDING STILL HOLDS PRIDE OF LIFE …H E IS THE IDEAL COMPANION : AMUSING , LEARNED ,
PLACE IN THE E TERNAL C ITY, AND THIS BOOK PROVIDES A CURIOUS , OFTEN ELOQUENT…T HE A LHAMBRA CONTAINS MUCH
READABLE AND INFORMED INTRODUCTION .” PRECIOUS DETAIL DRAWN FROM THE A RABIC SOURCES , HISTORICAL
—D AVID A RMSTRONG , S AN F RANCISCO C HRONICLE AS WELL AS LITERARY.”
—E RIC O RMSBY, N EW YORK S UN

K e I T h h o P K I n S was, at the time of his death, Professor of
Ancient History at the University of Cambridge. He is the author r o b e r T I r W I n lives in London. His fiction includes Th e
of A World Full of G o d s. m A ry b e A r d has a Chair of Classics A ra b i a n N i g h t m a re and E xq u i s i te Co r p s e. His many books and
at Cambridge and is a Fellow of Newnham College. She is articles on Islamic subjects include Th e A ra b i a n N i g h t s : A
classics editor of the Ti m e s L i te ra r y S u p p l e m e n t and author of Co m p a n i o n and I s l a m i c A r t.
the blog “A Don’s Life.” Her books include Th e Pa r t h e n o n, Th e
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TRAVEL / CLASSICS
orlando Furioso In the Shadow of du bois
a ne W verse Tr anslaTion afro-Modern poliTiCal ThoughT in aMeriCa
LUDOVICO A RIOSTO R OBERT G OODING -W ILLIAMS

T R A N S L AT E D B Y D AV I D R . S L AV I T T Best Book on Race, Ethnicity, and Political Thought,
American Political Science Association
INTRODUC TION BY CHARLES S. ROSS
Honorable Mention, David Easton Award, American
Political Science Association, Foundations of Political
The appearance of David R. Slavitt’s trans- Theory Section
lation of Orlando Furioso (“Mad
The Souls of Black Folk is Du Bois’s outstanding contribution to
Orlando”), one of the great literary achieve-
modern political theory. It is his still influential answer to the ques-
ments of the Italian Renaissance, is a pub-
tion, “What kind of politics should
lishing event. With this lively new verse
African Americans conduct to
translation, Slavitt introduces readers to
counter white supremacy?” Here,
Ariosto’s now neglected masterpiece.
in a major addition to American
“I N D AVID R. S LAVITT ’ S EXUBERANT NEW studies and the first book-length
VERSION , O RLANDO F URIOSO (1532) philosophical treatment of Du
MAKES FOR QUITE WONDERFUL SEASONAL Bois’s thought, Robert Gooding-
ENTERTAINMENT. S LAVITT ' S EASYGOING , Williams examines the conceptual
COLLOQUIAL APPROACH POSSESSES A foundations of Du Bois’s interpre-
LIGHTNESS AND BRIO , A SWEET PLAYFULNESS ( TOUCHED WITH
tation of black politics.
IRONY ) THAT CARRIES THE READER EFFORTLESSLY, HAPPILY
ALONG …A RIOSTO ’ S IRRESISTIBLE MASTERPIECE EFFORTLESSLY “[A] SUSTAINED AND IN - DEPTH
BLENDS CHIVALRY, LOVE AND MAGIC . T HINK OF IT AS A KNIGHTLY ENGAGEMENT WITH THE LEGACY
SOAP OPERA , COMPLETE WITH CLIFF - HANGERS , EROTIC INTRIGUE OF D U B OIS ’ S THOUGHT,
AND ONE MELODRAMATIC IMPROBABILITY AFTER ANOTHER …T HE ESPECIALLY AS IT PERTAINS TO QUESTIONS OF BLACK POLITICAL
WHOLE BOOK IS CLEVER AND FUN .” ACTIVISM AND LEADERSHIP.”
—M ICHAEL D IRDA , WASHINGTON P OST —P ENIEL E. J OSEPH , B OOKFORUM
“[T HE ] TRANSLATION IS WITTY, ENERGETIC , PLAYFUL , “I N THE S HADOW OF D U B OIS IS A THOUGHTFUL , NUANCED WORK
OUTRAGEOUS , YET SERIOUS AND SOMBRE TOO . C RUCIALLY, THAT CHALLENGES PREVIOUS PERCEPTIONS OF D U B OIS AND
IT IS EFFORTLESSLY READABLE .” MODERN DEFINITIONS OF A FRICAN A MERICAN POLITICS .”
—D OIREANN L ALOR , T IMES L ITERARY S UPPLEMENT —K. A NDERSON , C HOICE
d AV I d r . S l AV I T T is a poet and the translator of more than r o b e r T g o o d I n g - W I l l I A m S is Ralph and Mary Otis Isham
ninety works of fiction, poetry, and drama. Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.
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LITERATURE / POETRY
natural experiments of history neoconservatism
E DITED BY J ARED D IAMOND AND The Biogr aphy of a MoveMenT
J AMES A. R OBINSON J USTIN VAÏSSE
T R A N S L AT E D BY ARTHUR GOLDHAMMER
This book consists of eight compara-
tive studies drawn from history,
Justin Vaïsse offers the first comprehensive
archaeology, economics, economic
history of neoconservatism, exploring the
history, geography, and political sci-
connections between a changing and multi-
ence. The studies cover a spectrum
faceted school of thought, a loose network
of approaches, ranging from a non-
of thinkers and activists, and American polit-
quantitative narrative style in the
ical life in turbulent times.
early chapters to quantitative statis-
tical analyses in the later chapters. “S OMETIMES WE NEED A NON -A MERICAN
TO SEE A MERICAN POLITICS IN A PROPER
“N ATURAL E XPERIMENTS OF H ISTORY
PERSPECTIVE . VAÏSSE OFFERS ONE OF THE
IS A SHORT BOOK PACKED WITH
MOST COMPREHENSIVE AND BALANCED
HUGE IDEAS . I TS COLLECTED ESSAYS
STUDIES OF THE HISTORY OF
ADVOCATE HOW CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS CAN BE APPLIED TO THE
NEOCONSERVATISM YET TO APPEAR .”
MESSY REALITIES OF HUMAN HISTORY, POLITICS , CULTURE ,
ECONOMICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT. I T DEMONSTRATES —F RANCIS F UKUYAMA
PRODUCTIVE INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATIONS BUT ALSO
“E SSENTIAL READING FOR ANYONE WISHING TO UNDERSTAND THE
REVEALS GULFS BETWEEN DIFFERENT CULTURES OF ACADEMIA …
CONTOURS OF OUR RECENT POLITICAL PAST.”
A LL OF THE ESSAYS IN N ATURAL E XPERIMENTS OF H ISTORY WILL
TRIGGER DEBATE .” —B ARRY G EWEN , N EW YORK T IMES B OOK R EVIEW
—J ON C HRISTENSEN , N ATURE “[VAÏSSE ] HAS WRITTEN A BOOK ON NEOCONSERVATISM THAT IS
THOUGHTFUL AND WELL - INFORMED …I N A CROWDED FIELD , VAÏSSE
J A r e d d I A m o n d is Professor of Geography, University of HAS WRITTEN A FINE PRIMER , JUDICIOUS , THOROUGH AND SURE -
California, Los Angeles. His books include G u n s, G e r m s, a n d FOOTED .”
S teel . J A m e S A . r o b I n S o n is Professor of Government,
—R ICH LOWRY, WASHINGTON P OST
Harvard University.
J U S T I n VA ï S S e is Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution.

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HISTORY
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HISTORY
biology Is Technology life from an rnA World
The proMise , peril, and ne W B usiness The anCesTor WiThin
of engineering life
M ICHAEL YARUS
R OBERT H. C ARLSON
A majority of evolutionary biolo-
Technology is a process and a body of knowl- gists believe that we now can envi-
edge as much as a collection of artifacts. sion our biological predecessors—
Biology is no different—and we are just begin- not the first, but nearly the first,
ning to comprehend the challenges inherent living beings on Earth. Life from
in the next stage of biology as a human tech- an RNA World is about these van-
nology. It is this critical moment, with its ished forebears, sketching them in
wide-ranging implications, that Robert Carlson the distant past just as their work-
considers in Biology Is Technology. He offers ings first began to resemble our
a uniquely informed perspective on the own.
endeavors that contribute to current progress
“L IFE FROM AN RNA W ORLD IS
in this area.
AN UNCONVENTIONAL BOOK
“I N THIS NEW BOOK , BIOENGINEER R OBERT ABOUT RNA. R ATHER THAN OPENING WITH THE CENTRAL DOGMA
H. C ARLSON FORECASTS THE RISE OF THE CELL AND THE AND ATTENDANT TEACHINGS ON MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, YARUS USES
SUBSEQUENT EMERGENCE OF BIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES FOR MAKING EVOLUTION AS A GATEWAY.H E THEN TAKES US ON A JOURNEY
FUELS , SYNTHETIC DNA THAT BUILDS NEW ORGANISMS , AND THROUGH EVOLUTIONARY TIME , CONCENTRATING ON THE ROLES OF
REVERSE - ENGINEERED VIRUSES FOR MAKING VACCINES . B IOLOGISTS , THE VARIOUS FORMS OF RNA…[H E ] IS A PROFICIENT GUIDE .”
C ARLSON SAYS , ARE THE NEW ENGINEERS , AND THE FUTURE IS —T IM H ARRIS , N ATURE
IN REMODELING LIFE AS WE KNOW IT.”
“M ICHAEL YARUS ’ BOOK IS A VERY ENJOYABLE READ , BE THE
—W IRED
READER A WELL INFORMED MOLECULAR BIOLOGIST, OR A LAY
“[C ARLSON ] PRESENTS AN INFORMATIVE VIEW OF THE FUTURE PERSON …S URELY THIS BOOK WILL HIGHLIGHT AND INCREASE THE
PROSPECTS FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY AND ITS REGULATION .” INTEREST IN THE RNA WORLD ; RAISING THE AWARENESS THAT WE
ARE ALL , AFTER ALL , THE CHILDREN OF RNA.”
—M ICHAEL A. G OLDMAN , N ATURE
—M ICHAEL L ADOMERY, C HEMISTRY W ORLD
“S INCE R OB C ARLSON IS THE AUTHORITATIVE TRACKER OF
PROGRESS IN BIOTECH , THIS BOOK IS THE MOST COMPLETE — AND m I C h A e l yA r U S is Professor Emeritus, Department of
EXCITING — CHRONICLE OF THE TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION THAT Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of
PROMISES TO DOMINATE THIS CENTURY.” Colorado.
—S TEWART B RAND, AUTHOR OF W HOLE E ARTH D ISCIPLINE
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SCIENCE / BUSINESS
China between empires military Culture in
The norThern and souThern dynasTies Imperial China
M ARK E DWARD L EWIS E DITED BY N ICOLA D I COSMO
TIMOTHY BROOK , GENER AL EDITOR, A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
HISTORY OF IMPERIAL CHINA SERIES This volume explores the relationship
between culture and the military in Chinese
After the collapse of the Han dynasty society from early China to the Qing empire,
in the third century CE, China with contributions by historians of imperial
divided along a north-south line. China aiming to reexamine the relationship
Mark Lewis traces the changes that between military matters and law, govern-
both underlay and resulted from this ment, historiography, art, philosophy, litera-
split in a period that saw the geo- ture, and politics.
graphic redefinition of China, more
engagement with the outside world, “F UTURE STUDENTS OF THE ROLE OF THE
significant changes to family life, MILITARY IN C HINESE HISTORY WILL WANT

TO HAVE THE PRESENT VOLUME CLOSE AT
developments in the literary and
HAND .”
social arenas, and the introduction
of new religions. —PAUL J AKOV S MITH ,
J OURNAL OF M ILITARY H ISTORY
The centuries between the
Han and the Tang had a profound and permanent impact on the “A S C HINA GROWS ECONOMICALLY, POLITICALLY AND MILITARILY,
Chinese world. IT WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND

C HINA’ S PRESENT MILITARY CULTURE , WHICH IS ROOTED IN THE
“T HE BOOK IS WIDE - RANGING IN SCOPE AND INTERSPERSED WITH IMPERIAL TRADITION EXPLORED IN THIS BOOK .”
INTERESTING IDEAS .” —F RANCESCO S ISCI , A SIA T IMES
—V. C. X IONG , C HOICE
“T HIS IS AN EXTREMELY VALUABLE STUDY OF C HINESE MILITARY
m A r K e d WA r d l e W I S is Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in Chinese CULTURE .”
Culture, Stanford University. He is the author of Th e Ea r l y —P ETER LORGE , B ULLETIN OF THE S CHOOL
Chinese Empires and C h i n a’s Co s m o p o l i t a n E m p i re (both OF O RIENTAL AND A FRICAN S TUDIES
from Harvard).
“T HIS EXCELLENT BOOK WILL BE THE STARTING PLACE FOR MANY
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HISTORY
The College Fear Factor Unmaking the Public University
hoW sTudenTs and professors The forT y-year assaulT on The Middle Class
MisundersTand one anoTher
C HRISTOPHER N EWFIELD
R EBECCA D. COX Gold Winner, Book of the Year Award,
ForeWord Magazine
Eye-opening even for experienced faculty and
An essential American dream—equal access
administrators, The College Fear Factor reveals
to higher education—was becoming a real-
how the traditional college culture can actually
ity with the GI Bill and civil rights move-
pose obstacles to students’s success, and sug-
ments after World War II. But this vital
gests strategies for effectively explaining aca-
American promise has been broken.
demic expectations.
Unmaking the Public University is the story
“W E HAVE HAD BLUE RIBBON COMMISSIONS , of how conservatives have maligned and
CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES , CORPORATE restructured public universities in a cam-
ROUNDTABLES , UNIVERSITY CONSORTIUMS AND paign to end public education’s democratiz-
DOZENS OF NON - PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS ing influence on American society.
STRUGGLE WITH THE CENTRAL QUESTION OF
A MERICAN EDUCATION :
H OW DO WE PREPARE “I T IS NOT OFTEN THAT EVEN A FIRST- RATE
STUDENTS FOR SUCCESS IN COLLEGE ? T HE WRITTEN OUTPUT OF SCHOLAR AND WRITER MANAGES TO DELVE
THESE GROUPS NUMBERS TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PAGES , AT LEAST. SO DEEPLY INTO A CORE PROBLEM OF HIS SOCIETY AND TIME AS TO
A ND YET I JUST GOT MORE USEFUL INFORMATION FROM A 198- COME OUT WITH AN UNDERSTANDING OF IT THAT IS SO COMPLETE ,
PAGE BOOK WRITTEN BY AN UNKNOWN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF SO PROFOUND — INDEED REVELATORY— AS TO ILLUMINATE THE
EDUCATION AT S ETON H ALL U NIVERSITY THAN I EVER LEARNED PUBLIC MUDDLED MIND AND OPEN THE WAY TO RECOVERY. T HIS IS
FROM THOSE STACKS OF WELL - INTENTIONED REPORTS …P UTTING WHAT C HRISTOPHER N EWFIELD HAS ACHIEVED IN HIS BOOK ,
THE BOOK IN THE HANDS OF EDUCATORS AND POLICY MAKERS AT U NMAKING THE P UBLIC U NIVERSITY .”
ALL LEVELS WOULD COST RELATIVELY LITTLE FOR THE REALITY IT —E MILIA I LIEVA , D AILY N ATION
WOULD BRING TO OUR SO FAR CLUMSY ATTEMPTS TO GET THIS
RIGHT.” “I T IS NOT EVERY DAY THAT YOU GET A METICULOUS ANALYSIS OF
HIGHER EDUCATION BUDGETARY MECHANISMS WITHIN THE SAME
—J AY M ATHEWS , WASHINGTON P OST BLOG
COVERS AS REFLECTIONS ON R OBERT P IRSIG ’ S Z EN AND THE A RT
“T HIS IS A WORTHWHILE READ THAT ENABLES THE READER TO OF M OTORCYCLE M AINTENANCE . A ND THE SHEER GENEROSITY OF
REFLECT ON WHAT AND WHO EXACTLY HIGHER EDUCATION IS FOR , SPIRIT THAT UNDERLIES N EWFIELD ’ S RATHER DEPRESSING
AND ALSO ABOUT HOW BEST TO ACHIEVE THIS FOR THOSE WHO REFLECTIONS IS DEEPLY ATTRACTIVE .”
CHOOSE TO TAKE THIS PATH .” —A LAN R YAN , T IMES H IGHER E DUCATION S UPPLEMENT
—A NDREAS H ESS , T IMES H IGHER E DUCATION
C h r I S To P h e r n e W F I e l d is Professor of English at the
r e b e CC A d. Cox is Assistant Professor of Education at Seton University of California, Santa Barbara.
Hall University.
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EDUCATION
living at micro Scale manipulative monkeys
The unexpeCTed physiCs of Being sMall The CapuChins of loMas BarB udal
D AVID B. D USENBERY S USAN P ERRY

Georgia Author of the Year Award, Specialty Book W I T H J O S E P H H. M A N S O N
Category, Georgia Writers Association
In Living at Micro Scale David This book takes us into a Costa Rican forest
Dusenbery shows that it isn’t easy teeming with simian drama, where since
being small—existing at the size of, 1990 primatologists Susan Perry and Joseph
say, a rotifer, a tiny multicellular ani- H. Manson have followed the lives of four
mal just at the boundary between generations of capuchins. What the authors
the visible and the microscopic. describe is behavior as entertaining—and
What are the physical consequences occasionally as alarming—as it is recogniza-
of life at this scale? ble: the competition and cooperation, the
jockeying for position and status, the peace-
“D AVID D USENBERY ’ S BOOK L IVING
ful years under an alpha male devolving into
ATM ICRO S CALE DOES AN
bloody chaos, and the complex traditions
EXCELLENT JOB OF EXPLAINING THE
PHYSICS THAT IS RELEVANT AT THIS
passed from one generation to the next.
SCALE AND , LATER IN THE BOOK , HOW THIS PHYSICS AFFECTS THE
“S USAN P ERRY AND J OSEPH H. M ANSON ’ S BOOK REVEALS
BEHAVIOR OF MICROORGANISMS ...T HE BOOK WILL BE ACCESSIBLE
CAPUCHINS AS HAVING SOCIAL LIVES AS RICH AND AS COMPLEX AS
AND USEFUL TO A WIDE AUDIENCE OF PEOPLE INTERESTED IN
THOSE ... OF HUMANS ...P ERRY ’ S BOOK , WITH HER HUSBAND AND
BIOLOGY, PHYSICS OR ENGINEERING . A ND THE PROVOCATIVE
RESEARCH PARTNER , IS FAR MORE THAN JUST STORIES ABOUT
QUESTIONS PRESENTED ARE SURE TO BE THE SUBJECT OF INTENSE
MONKEYS ’ SOCIAL LIVES . I T OFFERS FASCINATING BIOLOGY FROM
ACTIVITY IN THE RESEARCH COMMUNITY FOR YEARS TO COME .”
C OSTA R ICA’ S TROPICAL FORESTS , INCLUDING THE SMALL ,
—T HOMAS R. P OWERS , A MERICAN S CIENTIST SOMEWHAT UGLY, M ACHIAVELLIAN CAPUCHIN MONKEYS . T HEY ACT
AS THE FOCUS FOR A DISCOURSE THAT RANGES OVER ‘ BIG
“T HE BOOK DRAWS ON 20 YEARS OF D USENBERY ’ S OWN
QUESTIONS ’: WHY EVOLVE LARGE BRAINS AND INTELLIGENCE ; HOW
RESEARCH , AND HE DOESN ’ T COMPROMISE ON THE SCIENCE ;
DO YOUNGSTERS LEARN GROUP -TYPICAL BEHAVIOR ; WHY DOES
INFORMED READERS WILL FIND ALL THE EQUATIONS THEY COULD
LETHAL AGGRESSION OCCUR ?...W E DESPERATELY NEED SUCH
NEED . B UT IT IS RARELY DRY OR UNINTERESTING , AND BENEFITS
STUDIES TO BE SUSTAINED . L ET ’ S HOPE THIS FASCINATING BOOK
FROM A LIBERAL SCATTERING OF ANECDOTES GOING BACK 2500 WILL GO SOME WAY TOWARDS ACHIEVING THIS AIM .”
YEARS .”
—P HYLLIS C. L EE , T IMES H IGHER E DUCATION S UPPLEMENT
—C OLIN B ARRAS , N EW S CIENTIST
S U S A n P e r ry and J o S e P h h . m A n S o n are Associate
d AV I d b . d U S e n b e ry is Professor of Biology, Emeritus,
Professors of Anthropology at UCLA.
Georgia Institute of Technology.
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SCIENCE
hope and despair in the method and meaning in Polls
American City and Surveys
Why There are no Bad sChools in r aleigh H OWARD S CHUMAN
G ERALD G RANT
Howard Schuman is one of the
In Hope and Despair, Gerald Grant compares premier scholars of social surveys.
two cities—his hometown of Syracuse, New His expertise concerns the way
York, and Raleigh, North Carolina—in order to questions about attitudes and
examine the consequences of the nation’s ongo- beliefs are worded and the effects
ing educational inequities. A new Afterword questions have on the answers
brings this paperback edition up to date. people give. However, Method
and Meaning in Polls and Surveys
“S OMETHING EXTRAORDINARY HAS BEEN is less about the substance of
HAPPENING IN [N ORTH C AROLINA’ S ] SCHOOLS wording effects and more about
OVER THE PAST FEW DECADES , AND THE BEST approaches to interpreting the
GUIDE TO THIS EXPERIMENT IS AN IMPORTANT
respondent’s world, and how surveys can make that world under-
NEW BOOK BY G ERALD G RANT...H E FOUND
standable.
THAT THE SINGLE BIGGEST FACTOR
DETERMINING WHETHER YOU DO WELL AT SCHOOL OR NOT ISN ’ T “O NCE MORE , H OWARD S CHUMAN BRINGS HIS SCHOLARLY
YOUR PARENTS , YOUR TEACHERS , YOUR SCHOOL BUILDINGS OR IMAGINATION AND METHODOLOGICAL RIGOR TO THE TASK OF
YOUR GENES . I T WAS , OVERWHELMINGLY, THE OTHER KIDS SITTING DECIPHERING THE QUESTION - AND - ANSWER PROCESS …I T IS
IN THE CLASSROOM WITH YOU .” THE WORK OF THE MASTER CRAFTSMAN , THE CONSUMMATE
—J OHANN H ARI , T HE I NDEPENDENT METHODOLOGIST DEMONSTRATING HOW TO DISCOVER THE
MULTIFACETED ‘ MEANING ’ OF RESPONSES TO SURVEY QUESTIONS
“T HE BOOK IS A MUST- READ FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN URBAN THROUGH THE DISCIPLINE OF ‘ METHOD ’ CONSTRUED IN ALL ITS
PLANNING , RACE RELATIONS AND EDUCATION REFORM .” MANIFOLD FORMS .”
—P UBLISHERS W EEKLY ( STARRED REVIEW ) —G EORGE F RANKLIN B ISHOP, P UBLIC O PINION Q UARTERLY
“E SSENTIAL READING NOT ONLY FOR [ THE ] TARGET AUDIENCE OF “A N EXEMPLAR OF WHAT SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH SHOULD BE .
EDUCATION REFORMERS BUT FOR ANYONE CONCERNED WITH THE I T ADDS SIGNIFICANT INSIGHT INTO SURVEY RESEARCH METHODS
FATE OF SMALLER CITIES .” AND HOW SURVEY RESEARCH CAN ADVANCE THE SCIENTIFIC
—C ATHERINE T UMBER , B OOKFORUM UNDERSTANDING OF SOCIETY.”
—T OM W. S MITH , F IELD M ETHODS

g e r A l d g r A n T is the Hannah Hammond Professor of
Education and Sociology, Emeritus, at Syracuse University. h o WA r d S C h U m A n is Professor of Sociology and Research
Scientist, Emeritus, at the University of Michigan’s Survey
CLOTH: MAY 2009 / ISBN 978-0-674-03294-1 | Research Center.
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EISBN: 978-0-674-03391-7
SOCIOLOGY
When Is discrimination Wrong? Plantation enterprise in
D EBORAH H ELLMAN Colonial South Carolina
S. M AX E DELSON
We routinely draw distinctions
George C. Rogers, Jr. Book Award,
among people on the basis of char- South Carolina Historical Society
acteristics that they possess or lack. Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award,
While some distinctions are benign, The Agricultural History Society
many are morally troubling. In this
This impressive scholarly debut deftly rein-
boldly conceived book, Deborah
terprets one of America’s oldest symbols—
Hellman develops a much-needed
the southern slave plantation. S. Max
general theory of discrimination. She
Edelson examines the relationships between
demonstrates that many familiar
planters, slaves, and the natural world they
ideas about when discrimination is
colonized to create the Carolina Lowcountry.
wrong—when it is motivated by
prejudice, grounded in stereotypes, “E DELSON DEFTLY TRACES HOW SOME EARLY
or simply departs from merit-based decision-making—won’t ade- COLONISTS OVERCAME THEIR PREJUDICE
quately explain our widely shared intuitions. TOWARD MARSHES AND SWAMPS TO DEVELOP
A PROFITABLE PLANTATION SYSTEM . T HEY
“[H ELLMAN ] HAS PROVIDED A COHERENT, THOUGHTFUL APPROACH ADAPTED THE C AROLINA LANDSCAPE TO THE
THAT ADVANCES UNDERSTANDING OF THIS INTRACTABLE PROBLEM .” ATLANTIC ECONOMY BY LEARNING FROM
—P. J. G ALIE , C HOICE LOCAL I NDIAN COMMUNITIES AND IMPORTED
A FRICANS , AND THROUGH ACTIVE EXPERIMENTATION , REFINING THE
“H ELLMAN HAS TAKEN ON THE IMPORTANT AND DIFFICULT TASK ART OF RICE PRODUCTION , WHICH THEY SUPPLEMENTED WITH
OF TRYING TO ESTABLISH LOGICALLY CONSISTENT RULES FOR INDIGO AND OTHER CROPS .”
DETERMINING JUST WHERE IN THAT FUZZY TERRITORY THE LINE
—A LAN G ALLAY, J OURNAL OF A MERICAN H ISTORY
BETWEEN LEGITIMATE AND ILLEGITIMATE DISCRIMINATION SHOULD
BE DRAWN .” “H ISTORIANS HAVE WRITTEN MUCH ABOUT S OUTH C AROLINA’ S
—W ENDY J OHNSON , T IMES H IGHER E DUCATION S UPPLEMENT COLONIAL PAST, BUT IN P LANTATION E NTERPRISE , E DELSON
PROVIDES A COMPELLING AND WELL - WRITTEN NEW PERSPECTIVE
d e b o r A h h e l l m A n is Professor of Law at the University of ON FREQUENTLY DEBATED TOPICS BY ASKING COMMONSENSE
Maryland School of Law. QUESTIONS ABOUT HERETOFORE ACCEPTED INTERPRETATIONS .”
—P HILIP N. R ACINE , N ORTH C AROLINA H ISTORICAL R EVIEW

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EISBN: 978-0-674-03393-1 | University of Virginia.
LAW / PHILOSOPHY
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HISTORY / ECONOMICS
daughters of the Union Strait Talk
norThern WoMen fighT The Civil War uniTed sTaTes-TaiWan relaTions and
The Crisis WiTh China
N INA S ILBER
N ANCY B ERNKOPF T UCKER
Daughters of the Union casts a spotlight on
some of the most overlooked and least under- Relations among the United States,
stood participants in the American Civil War: Taiwan, and China challenge poli-
the women of the North. Nina Silber traces cymakers, international relations
the emergence of a new sense of self and citi- specialists, and a concerned public
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GENERAL INTEREST ...............1

ACADEMIC TRADE ..............34

SCIENCE / SOCIAL SCIENCE ....65

DISTRIBUTED BOOKS ...........69

RECENTLY PUBLISHED ..........97

AUTHOR / TITLE INDEX ..........99

ORDER INFORMATION ........100

cover image: “Narcissus” by Michelangelo Merisi

back cover image: “Barbary Moor with a giraffe”

inside front cover image: Detail from “Prayer in

BELKNAP PRESS | APRIL | 6 1⁄8 X 9 1⁄4 | 88 HALFTONES, 13 MAPS | 370 PP. |

BELKNAP PRESS | MARCH | 9 X 9 1⁄2 | 60 COLOR ILLUS. | 236 PP. |

THE RICHARD ELLMANN LECTURES IN MODERN LITERATURE |

Photo by Anne Selders.

BELKNAP PRESS | MAY | 5 1⁄2 X 8 1⁄4 | 272 PP. |

MARCH | 5 1⁄2 X 8 1⁄4 | 25 HALFTONES | 244 PP. |

Göll on his balcony at Rossbachstrasse 1 (late 1920s). Landesarchiv Berlin.

BELKNAP PRESS | MARCH | 6 1⁄8 X 9 1⁄4 | 16 HALFTONES, 3 MAPS | 560 PP. |

BELKNAP PRESS | APRIL | 6 1⁄8 X 9 1⁄4 | 36 HALFTONES | 320 PP. |

BELKNAP PRESS | MARCH | 5 1⁄2 X 8 1⁄4 | 228 PP. |

“G ALLAGHER [ IS ] ONE OF OUR FINEST HISTORIANS OF THE C IVIL WAR .”

APRIL | 6 1⁄8 X 9 1⁄4 | 40 HALFTONES | 304 PP. |

Engraving of G eneral Philip H. Sheridan. Ha rp er ’s We ek l y, Oc tob er 8, 1864, cover.

BELKNAP PRESS | MARCH | 6 1⁄8 X 9 1⁄4 | 458 PP. |

VOLUME I: F R O M T H E VOLUME II: F R O M T H E E A R LY C H R I S T I A N E R A TO T H E VOLUME III: FROM THE “AGE

MARCH | 6 1⁄8 X 9 1⁄4 | 25 HALFTONES, 3 MAPS | 386 PP. |

Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

MARCH | 6 1⁄8 X 9 1⁄4 | 28 LINE ILLUS., 3 MAPS | 400 PP. |

BELKNAP PRESS | MAY | 6 1⁄8 X 9 1⁄4 | 68 HALFTONES, 3 MAPS | 412 PP. |

Courtesy Netaji Research Bureau.

“B ASED ON INTIMATE KNOWLEDGE OF THE MILITANTS , L ACROIX ’ S PIONEERING

—G ILLES K EPEL , AUTHOR OF J IHAD AND

Amidst the roil of war and instability in the Middle East, we

APRIL | 5 1⁄2 X 8 1⁄4 | 1 MAP | 328 PP. |

A LEXANDER B ERKMAN DEFENDS ANARCHISM :

“I S IT LUNACY TO WISH TO MAKE THE WORLD BETTER ?…I S IT UTOPIAN TO DESIRE

In 1892, unrepentant anarchists Alexander Berkman, Henry

BELKNAP PRESS | MAY | 5 1⁄2 X 8 1⁄4 | 260 PP. |

MARCH | 6 1⁄8 X 9 1⁄4 | 11 HALFTONES | 340 PP. |

MAY | 6 1⁄8 X 9 1⁄4 | 14 HALFTONES | 346 PP.

MAY | 6 1⁄8 X 9 1⁄4 | 10 HALFTONES, 3 MAPS | 290 PP. |

BELKNAP PRESS | APRIL | 7 X 10 |

Once in a great while, as the New

MAY | 6 3⁄8 X 9 1⁄4 | 87 COLOR ILLUS., 43 HALFTONES, 1 TABLE | 280 PP. |

“A BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN DESCRIPTION OF WHAT IS HAPPENING TO MANY OF OUR

—PAUL R. E HRLICH , CO - AUTHOR OF T HE D OMINANT A NIMAL

The first listed species to make headlines after the Endan-

MAY | 5 1⁄2 X 8 1⁄4 | 326 PP. |

competitive author and illustrator of

MAY | 5 1⁄2 X 8 1⁄4 |

MARCH | 6 1⁄8 X 8 1⁄2 | 39 HALFTONES, 64 LINE ILLUS., 9 TABLES | 326 PP. |

P RAISE FOR M ARK H ARMAN ’ S TRANSLATION OF T HE C ASTLE :

—J.M. COETZEE , T HE N EW YORK R EVIEW OF B OOKS

In 1902, a nineteen-year-old aspiring poet named Franz Kappus

APRIL | 4 1⁄4 X 6 3⁄8 | 84 PP. |

WONDERS OF THE WORLD |

I mages ©The Trustees of the British Museum.

BELKNAP PRESS | APRIL | 5 1⁄2 X 8 1⁄4 | 22 GRAPHS, 9 TABLES | 236 PP. |

MARCH | 5 1⁄2 X 8 1⁄4 | 326 PP. |

MAY | 6 1⁄8 X 9 1⁄4 | 1 TABLE | 292 PP. |

APRIL | 6 1⁄8 X 9 1⁄4 | 18 GRAPHS | 358 PP. |

APRIL | 6 1⁄8 X 9 1⁄4 | 290 PP. |

Author photo by Myra Klarman.