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No Enemies, No Hatred
Selected eSSayS and PoemS
Liu Xiaobo
F O R E W O R D B Y V Á C L AV H AV E L
EDITED BY PERRY LINK , TIENCHI MAR TIN -LIAO, AND LIU XIA
When the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on December 10, 2010, its recipient, Liu
Xiaobo, was in Jinzhou Prison, serving an eleven-year sentence for what Beijing called
“incitement to subvert state power.” In Oslo, actress Liv Ulmann read a long statement
the activist had prepared for his 2009 trial. It read in part: “I stand by the convictions I
expressed in my ‘June Second Hunger Strike Declaration’ twenty years ago—I have no
enemies and no hatred. None of the police who monitored, arrested, and interrogated
me, none of the prosecutors who indicted me, and none of the judges who judged me
are my enemies.”
That statement is one of the pieces in this book, which includes writings span-
ning two decades, providing insight into all aspects of Chinese life. Originally selected
by his wife, Liu Xia, these works not only
chronicle a leading dissident’s struggle
against tyranny but also enrich the record
L i u X i a o b o , winner of the Nobel
of universal longing for freedom and dig-
Peace Prize, is a Chinese writer and
nity. Liu writes pragmatically, yet with
human rights activist.
deep-seated passion, about peasant land dis-
putes, the Han Chinese in Tibet, child slav-
ery, the CCP’s Olympic strategy, the
Internet in China, the contemporary craze for Confucius, and the Tiananmen massacre.
Also presented are poems written for his wife, public documents, and a foreword by
Václav Havel.
This collection is an aid to reflection for Western readers who might take for
granted the values Liu has dedicated his life to achieving for his homeland.
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Deng xiaoping and the
transformation of China
Ezra F. VogEL
Perhaps no one in the twentieth century had a greater long-term impact on world history than
Deng Xiaoping. And no scholar of contemporary East Asian history and culture is better quali-
fied than Ezra Vogel to disentangle the many contradictions embodied in the life and legacy of
China’s boldest strategist.
Once described by Mao Zedong as a “needle inside a ball of cotton,” Deng was the prag-
matic yet disciplined driving force behind China’s radical transformation in the late twentieth
century. He confronted the damage wrought by the Cultural Revolution, dissolved Mao’s cult
of personality, and loosened the economic and social policies that had stunted China’s growth.
Obsessed with modernization and
technology, Deng opened trade rela-
tions with the West that lifted hun-
E z r a F. V o g E L is Henry Ford II Professor of the
dreds of millions of his countrymen
Social Sciences, Emeritus, at Harvard University
out of poverty. Yet at the same time
and former Director of Harvard’s Fairbank Center
he answered to his authoritarian
for East Asian Research and the Asia Center.
roots, most notably when he
ordered the crackdown in June
1989 at Tiananmen Square.
Deng’s youthful commitment to the Communist Party was cemented in Paris in the
early 1920s, among a group of Chinese student-workers that also included Zhou Enlai. Deng
returned home in 1927 to join the Chinese Revolution on the ground floor. In the fifty years of
his tumultuous rise to power, he endured accusations, purges, and even exile before becoming
China’s preeminent leader from 1978 to 1989 and again in 1992. When he reached the top,
Deng saw an opportunity to creatively destroy much of the economic system he had helped
build for five decades as a loyal follower of Mao—and he did not hesitate.
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religion in Human Evolution
From the Paleolithic to the axial age
robErt N. bELLah
—c harLEs tayLor
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rElIgIoN / soCIology
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american oracle
the civil War in the civil rightS era
daVid w. bLight
Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, a century after the signing
of the Emancipation Proclamation, Martin Luther King, Jr., declared, “One hundred years later,
the Negro still is not free.” He delivered this speech just three years after the Virginia Civil War
Commission published a guide proclaiming that “the Centennial is no time for finding fault or
placing blame or fighting the issues all over again.”
David Blight takes his readers back
to the centennial celebration to determine
d aV i d w. b L i g h t is Professor of how Americans then made sense of the
American History and Director of the Gilder suffering, loss, and liberation that had
Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, wracked the United States a century ear-
Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University lier. Amid cold war politics and civil rights
and author of A Slave No More.
protest, four of America’s most incisive
writers explored the gulf between remem-
brance and reality. Robert Penn Warren,
the southern-reared poet-novelist who
also By DavID W. BlIgHt recanted his support of segregation; Bruce
Race and Reunion Catton, the journalist and U.S. Navy offi-
HUp / IsBN 978-0-674-00819-9 / $24.50* pb cer who became a popular Civil War his-
torian; Edmund Wilson, the century’s
preeminent literary critic; and James Bald-
win, the searing African-American essayist and activist—each exposed America’s triumphalist
memory of the war. And each, in his own way, demanded a reckoning with the tragic conse-
quences it spawned.
Blight illuminates not only mid-twentieth-century America’s sense of itself but also the
dynamic, ever-changing nature of Civil War memory. On the eve of the 150th anniversary of
the war, we have an invaluable perspective on how this conflict continues to shape the coun-
try’s political debates, national identity, and sense of purpose.
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the russian origins of the
first World War
sEaN McMEEkiN
“t his book shouLd ForEVEr chaNgE thE ways wE haVE uNdErstood thE roLE
oF r ussia iN thE F irst w orLd war .”
—M ichaEL s. N EibErg , author oF D ancE of ThE f uRiEs
The catastrophe of the First World War, and the destruction, revolution, and enduring hostili-
ties it wrought, make the issue of its origins a perennial puzzle. Since World War II, Germany
has been viewed as the primary culprit.
Now, in a major reinterpretation of the con-
flict, Sean McMeekin rejects the standard
s E a N M c M E E k i N is Assistant Professor
notions of the war’s beginning as either a
of International Relations at Bilkent
Germano-Austrian preemptive strike or a
University in Turkey.
“tragedy of miscalculation.” Instead, he
proposes that the key to the outbreak of
violence lies in St. Petersburg.
It was Russian statesmen who also By sEaN m C mEEkIN
unleashed the war through conscious pol- The Berlin-Baghdad Express
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in the Near East. Unlike their civilian coun-
terparts in Berlin, who would have pre-
ferred to localize the Austro-Serbian conflict, Russian leaders desired a more general war so
long as British participation was assured. The war of 1914 was launched at a propitious moment
for harnessing the might of Britain and France to neutralize the German threat to Russia’s goal:
partitioning the Ottoman Empire to ensure control of the Straits between the Black Sea and the
Mediterranean.
Nearly a century has passed since the guns fell silent on the western front. But in the
lands of the former Ottoman Empire, World War I smolders still. Sunnis and Shiites, Arabs and
Jews, and other regional antagonists continue fighting over the last scraps of the Ottoman inher-
itance. As we seek to make sense of these conflicts, McMeekin’s powerful exposé of Russia’s
aims in the First World War will illuminate our understanding of the twentieth century.
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the Unintended reformation
hoW a religiouS revolution Secularized Society
brad s. grEgory
“a strikiNgLy braVE aNd widE - raNgiNg work . t his is , iN thE LargEst sENsE , aN
EFFort to iNtErprEt thE coNtEMporary worLd . a N astoNishiNg achiEVEMENt.”
—a NthoNy t. g raFtoN
In a work that is as much about the present as the past, Brad Gregory identifies the unintended
consequences of the Protestant Reformation and traces the way it shaped the modern condition
over the course of the following five centuries. A hyperpluralism of religious and secular beliefs,
an absence of any substantive common good,
the triumph of capitalism and its driver, con-
sumerism—all these, Gregory argues, were
b r a d s . g r E g o r y is Dorothy G. long-term effects of a movement that marked
Griffin Associate Professor of History at the end of more than a millennium during
the University of Notre Dame and which Christianity provided a framework for
author of Salvation at Stake (HUP). shared intellectual, social, and moral life in the
West.
Before the Protestant Reformation,
Western Christianity was an institutionalized
worldview laden with expectations of security for earthly societies and hopes of eternal salva-
tion for individuals. The Reformation’s protagonists sought to advance the realization of this
vision, not disrupt it. But a complex web of rejections, retentions, and transformations of
medieval Christianity gradually replaced the religious fabric that bound societies together in
the West. Today, what we are left with are fragments: intellectual disagreements that splinter
into ever finer fractals of specialized discourse; a notion that modern science—as the source of
all truth—necessarily undermines religious belief; a pervasive resort to a therapeutic vision of
religion; a set of smuggled moral values with which we try to fertilize a sterile liberalism; and
the institutionalized assumption that only secular universities can pursue knowledge.
The Unintended Reformation asks what propelled the West into this trajectory of plu-
ralism and polarization, and finds answers deep in our medieval Christian past.
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Becoming Dickens
the invention oF a noveliSt
robErt dougLas -Fairhurst
—d aVid paroissiEN
Becoming Dickens tells the story of how an ambitious young Londoner became England’s great-
est novelist. In following the twists and turns of Charles Dickens’s early career, Robert Douglas-
Fairhurst examines a remarkable double transformation: in reinventing himself, Dickens
reinvented the form of the novel. It was a high-
stakes gamble, and Dickens never forgot how dif-
ferently things could have turned out. Like the
r o b E r t d o u g L a s - Fa i r h u r s t
hero of Dombey and Son, he remained haunted
is Fellow and Tutor in English,
by “what might have been, and what was not.”
Magdalen College, Oxford, and
In his own lifetime, Dickens was without author of London Labour and the
rivals. He styled himself simply “The Inimitable.”
London Poor.
But he was not always confident about his stand-
ing in the world. From his traumatized childhood
to the suicide of his first collaborator and the sud-
den death of the woman who had a good claim to being the love of his life, Dickens faced pow-
erful obstacles. Before settling on the profession of novelist, he tried his hand at the law and
journalism, considered a career in acting, and even contemplated emigrating to the West Indies.
Yet with The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, and a groundbreaking series of plays, sketches,
and articles, he succeeded in turning every potential breakdown into a breakthrough.
Douglas-Fairhurst’s provocative new biography, focused on the 1830s, portrays a rest-
less and uncertain Dickens who could not decide on the career path he should take and would
never feel secure in his considerable achievements.
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on rereading
patricia MEyEr spacks
After retiring from a lifetime of teaching literature, Patricia Meyer Spacks embarked on a year-
long project of rereading dozens of novels: childhood favorites, fiction first encountered in young
adulthood and never before revisited, books frequently reread, canonical works of literature
she was supposed to have liked but didn’t, guilty pleasures (books she oughtn’t to have liked
but did), and stories reread for fun vs. those read for the classroom. On Rereading records the
sometimes surprising, always fascinating, results of her personal experiment.
Spacks addresses a number of
intriguing questions raised by the pur-
poseful act of rereading: Why do we
pat r i c i a M E y E r s pa c k s was a National
reread novels when, in many instances,
Book Award finalist for The Female
we can remember the plot? Why, for
Imagination and is Edgar Shannon Professor example, do some lovers of Jane Austen’s
of English, Emerita, University of Virginia. fiction reread her novels every year (or
more often)? Why do young children
love to hear the same story read aloud
every night at bedtime? And why, as
EDItED By patrICIa mEyEr spaCks
adults, do we return to childhood
Pride and Prejudice: an annotated Edition
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Wonderland, and the Harry Potter nov-
els? What pleasures does rereading
bring? What psychological needs does it answer? What guilt does it induce when life is short
and there are so many other things to do (and so many other books to read)? Rereading, Spacks
discovers, helps us to make sense of ourselves. It brings us sharply in contact with how we, like
the books we reread, have both changed and remained the same.
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With Our Backs to the Wall
VICTORY AND DEFEAT IN 1918
DAVID STEVENSON
With so much at stake and so much already lost, why did World War I end with a whimper—
an arrangement between two weary opponents to suspend hostilities? After more than four
years of desperate fighting, with victories sometimes measured in feet and inches, why did the
Allies reject the option of advancing into Germany in 1918 and taking Berlin? Most histories of
the Great War focus on the avoidability of its beginning. This book brings a laser-like focus to
its ominous end—the Allies’ incomplete vic-
tory, and the tragic ramifications for world
peace just two decades later.
In the most comprehensive account D AV I D S T E V E N S O N is Professor of
to date of the conflict’s endgame, David International History at London School of
Stevenson approaches the events of 1918 Economics and the author of Cataclysm:
from a truly international perspective, exam- The First World War as Political Tragedy.
ining the positions and perspectives of com-
batants on both sides, as well as the impact of
the Russian Revolution. Stevenson pays close
attention to America’s effort in its first twentieth-century war, including its naval and military
contribution, army recruitment, industrial mobilization, and home-front politics. Alongside mil-
itary and political developments, he adds new information about the crucial role of economics
and logistics.
The Allies’ eventual success, Stevenson shows, was due to new organizational methods
of managing men and materiel and to increased combat effectiveness resulting partly from tech-
nological innovation. These factors, combined with Germany’s disastrous military offensive in
the spring of 1918, ensured an Allied victory—but not a conclusive German defeat.
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the keats Brothers
the liFe oF John and george
dENisE gigaNtE
—h aroLd b LooM
John and George Keats—Man of Genius and Man of Power, to use John’s words—
embodied sibling forms of the phenomenon we call Romanticism. George’s 1818 move
to the western frontier of the United States, an imaginative leap across four thousand
miles onto the tabula rasa of the American dream, created in John an abysm of alienation
and loneliness that would inspire the poet’s most
plangent and sublime poetry. Denise Gigante’s
account of this emigration places John’s life and
d E N i s E g i g a N t E is
work in a transatlantic context that has eluded
Professor of English at
his previous biographers, while revealing the
Stanford University and author
emotional turmoil at the heart of some of the
of Taste: A Literary History.
most lasting verse in English.
In most accounts of John’s life, George
plays a small role. He is often depicted as a
scoundrel who left his brother destitute and dying to pursue his own fortune in Amer-
ica. But as Gigante shows, George ventured into a land of prairie fires, flat-bottomed
riverboats, wildcats, and bears in part to save his brothers, John and Tom, from finan-
cial ruin. There was a vital bond between the brothers, evident in John’s letters to his
brother and sister-in-law, Georgina, in Louisville, Kentucky, which run to thousands of
words and detail his thoughts about the nature of poetry, the human condition, and the
soul. Gigante demonstrates that John’s 1819 Odes and “Hyperion” fragments emerged
from his profound grief following George’s departure and Tom’s death—and that we
owe these great works of English Romanticism in part to the deep, lasting fraternal friend-
ship that Gigante reveals in these pages.
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the Bear
hiStory oF a Fallen King
MichEL pastourEau
T R A N S L AT E D BY G E O R G E H O LO C H
The oldest discovered statue, fashioned some fifteen to twenty thousand years ago, is of a bear.
The lion was not always king. From antiquity to the Middle Ages, the bear’s centrality in cults
and mythologies left traces in European languages, literatures, and legends from the Slavic East
to Celtic Britain. Historian Michel Pastoureau considers how this once venerated creature was
deposed by the advent of Christianity and continued to sink lower in the symbolic bestiary
before rising again in Pyrrhic triumph as a popular toy.
The early Church was threatened by pagan legends of the bear’s power, among them a
widespread belief that male bears were sexually attracted to women and would violate them,
producing half-bear, half-human
beings—invincible warriors who
founded royal lines. Marked for
M i c h E L pa s t o u r E a u is a cultural historian
death by the clergy, bears were mas-
and Director of Studies at l’École pratique des
sacred. During the Renaissance, the
hautes études (Sorbonne) and at l’École pratique
demonic prestige bears had been
des hautes études en sciences sociales. He is
assigned in biblical allegory was lost
author of Blue, Black, and The Devil’s Cloth.
to the goat, ass, bat, and owl, which
were the devil’s new familiars, while
the lion was crowned as the symbol
of nobility. Once the undefeated
champions of the Roman arena, prized in princely menageries, bears became entertainers in the
marketplace, trained to perform humiliating tricks or muzzled and devoured
by packs of dogs for the amusement of humans. By the early twentieth cen-
tury, however, the bear would return from exile, making its way into
the hearts of children everywhere as the teddy bear.
This compelling history reminds us that men and bears have
always been inseparable, united by a kinship that gradually moved
from nature to culture—a bond that continues to this day.
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Invasion of the Body
revolutionS in Surgery
NichoLas L. tiLNEy
—atuL g awaNdE
In 1913, the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston admitted its first patient, Mary Agnes
Turner, who suffered from varicose veins in her legs. The surgical treatment she received, under
ether anesthesia, was the most advanced available at the time. At the same hospital fifty years
later, Nicholas Tilney—then a second-year resident—assisted in the repair of a large aortic
aneurysm. The cutting-edge diagnostic tools he used to evaluate the patient’s condition would
soon be eclipsed by yet more sophisticated
apparatus, including minimally invasive
N i c h o L a s L . t i L N E y holds the posts of approaches and state-of-the-art imaging tech-
Honorary Surgeon, Brigham and Women’s nology, which Tilney would draw on in pio-
Hospital, Boston, and Francis D. Moore neering organ transplant surgery and
Distinguished Professor of Surgery, Harvard becoming one of its most distinguished prac-
titioners.
Medical School. He is author of Transplant:
From Myth to Reality. In Invasion of the Body, Tilney tells
the story of modern surgery and the revolu-
tions that have transformed the field: anes-
thesia, prevention of infection, professional
standards of competency, pharmaceutical advances, and the present turmoil in medical educa-
tion and health care reform. Tilney uses as his stage the famous Boston teaching hospital where
he completed his residency and went on to practice (now called Brigham and Women’s). His
cast of characters includes clinicians, support staff, trainees, patients, families, and various
applied scientists who push the revolutions forward.
While lauding the innovations that have brought surgeons’ capabilities to heights
undreamed of even a few decades ago, Tilney also previews a challenging future, as new capac-
ities to prolong life and restore health run headlong into unsustainable costs. The authoritative
voice he brings to the ancient tradition of surgical invasion will be welcomed by patients, prac-
titioners, and policymakers alike.
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the Battle of adwa
aFrican victory in the age oF emPire
rayMoNd JoNas
In March 1896, a well-disciplined and massive Ethiopian army did the unthinkable—it routed
an invading Italian force and brought Italy’s war of conquest in Africa to an end. In an age of
relentless European expansion, Ethiopia had successfully defended its independence and cast
doubt upon an unshakable certainty of the age—that sooner or later all Africans would fall
under the rule of Europeans. This event opened a breach that would lead, in the aftermath of
world war fifty years later, to the continent’s painful struggle for freedom from colonial rule.
Raymond Jonas offers the first comprehensive account of this singular episode in mod-
ern world history. The narrative is peopled by the ambitious and vain, the creative and the
coarse, across Africa, Europe, and the Ameri-
cas—personalities like Menelik, a biblically
inspired provincial monarch who consolidated
r ay M o N d J o N a s is Giovanni and
Ethiopia’s throne; Taytu, his quick-witted and
Amne Costigan Professor of History
aggressive wife; and the Swiss engineer Alfred
at the University of Washington.
Ilg, the emperor’s close adviser. The Ethiopians’
brilliant gamesmanship and savvy public relations
campaign helped roll back the Europeanization
of Africa.
Figures throughout the African diaspora immediately grasped the significance of Adwa,
Menelik, and an independent Ethiopia. Writing deftly from a transnational perspective, Jonas
puts Adwa in the context of manifest destiny and Jim Crow, signaling a challenge to the very
concept of white dominance. By reopening seemingly settled questions of race and empire, the
Battle of Adwa was thus a harbinger of the global, unsettled century about to unfold.
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to free a family
the Journey oF mary WalKer
sydNEy NathaNs
What was it like for a mother to flee slavery, leaving her children behind? To Free a Family tells
the remarkable story of Mary Walker, who in August 1848 fled her owner for refuge in the
North and spent the next seventeen years trying to recover her family. Her freedom, like that
of thousands who escaped from bondage, came at a great price—remorse at parting without a
word, fear for her family’s fate.
This story is anchored in two extraor-
dinary collections of letters and diaries, that
of her former North Carolina slaveholders
s y d N E y N at h a N s is Professor and that of the northern family—Susan and
Emeritus of History, Duke University. Peter Lesley—who protected and employed
her. Sydney Nathans’s sensitive and pene-
trating narrative reveals Mary Walker’s
remarkable persistence as well as the sus-
tained collaboration of blacks and white abolitionists who assisted her. Mary Walker and the Les-
leys ventured half a dozen attempts at liberation, from ransom to ruse to rescue, until the end
of the Civil War reunited Mary Walker with her son and daughter.
Unlike her more famous counterparts—Harriet Tubman, Harriet Jacobs, and Sojourner
Truth—who wrote their own narratives and whose public defiance made them heroines, Mary
Walker’s efforts were protracted, wrenching, and private. Her odyssey was more representative
of women refugees from bondage who labored secretly and behind the scenes to reclaim their
families from the South. In recreating Mary Walker’s journey, To Free a Family gives voice to
their hidden epic of emancipation and to an untold story of the Civil War era.
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galileo’s muse
renaiSSance mathematicS and the artS
Mark a. pEtErsoN
—o wEN g iNgErich
Mark Peterson makes an extraordinary claim in this fascinating book focused around the life and
thought of Galileo: it was the mathematics of Renaissance arts, not Renaissance sciences, that
became modern science. Galileo’s Muse argues that painters, poets, musicians, and architects
brought about a scientific revolution that
eluded the philosopher-scientists of the day,
steeped as they were in a medieval cosmos
and its underlying philosophy. M a r k a . p E t E r s o N is Professor of
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persuasion
an annotated edition
JaNE austEN
EDITED BY ROBERT MORRISON
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florence and Baghdad
renaiSSance art and arab Science
haNs bELtiNg
T R A N S L AT E D BY D E B O R A H LU C A S S C H N E I D E R
—f RankfuRTER R unDschau
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art HIstory
detail from “bathsheba bathing” by paris bordone, ca. 1545, wallraf-richartz Museum, cologne. rheinisches bildarchiv köln
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Capitalist revolutionary
John maynard KeyneS
rogEr E. backhousE aNd bradLEy w. batEMaN
The Great Recession of 2008 restored John Maynard Keynes to prominence. After decades
when the Keynesian revolution seemed to have been forgotten, the great British theorist was
suddenly everywhere. The New York Times asked, “What would Keynes have done?” The
Financial Times wrote of “the undeniable shift to Keynes.” Le Monde pronounced the eco-
nomic collapse Keynes’s “revenge.” Two years later, following bank bailouts and Tea Party fun-
damentalism, Keynesian principles once again seemed misguided or irrelevant to a public
focused on ballooning budget deficits. In
this readable account, Roger Backhouse
and Bradley Bateman elaborate the misin-
r o g E r E . b a c k h o u s E is Professor of
formation and caricature that have led to
the History and Philosophy of Economics
Keynes’s repeated resurrection and inter-
at the University of Birmingham.
ment since his death in 1946.
b r a d L E y w. b at E M a N is Provost
Keynes’s engagement with social
and Professor of Economics at
and moral philosophy and his membership
Denison University.
in the Bloomsbury Group of artists and
writers helped to shape his manner of the-
orizing. Though trained as a mathemati-
cian, he designed models based on how specific kinds of people (such as investors and
consumers) actually behave—an approach that runs counter to the idealized agents favored by
economists at the end of the century.
Keynes wanted to create a revolution in the way the world thought about economic
problems, but he was more open-minded about capitalism than is commonly believed. He saw
capitalism as essential to a society’s well-being but also morally flawed, and he sought a cor-
rective for its main defect: the failure to stabilize investment. Keynes’s nuanced views, the
authors suggest, offer an alternative to the polarized rhetoric often evoked by the word “capi-
talism” in today’s political debates.
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Invisible romans
robErt kNapp
What survives from the Roman Empire is largely the words and lives of the rich and powerful:
emperors, philosophers, senators. Yet the privilege and decadence often associated with the
Roman elite was underpinned by the toils and tribulations of the common citizens. Here, the
eminent historian Robert Knapp brings those invisible inhabitants of Rome and its vast empire
to light.
He seeks out the ordinary folk—laboring men, housewives, prostitutes, freedmen, slaves,
soldiers, and gladiators—who formed the backbone of the ancient Roman world, and the out-
laws and pirates who lay beyond it. He finds their traces in the nooks and crannies of the his-
tories, treatises, plays, and poetry created by the elite. Everyday people come alive through
original sources as varied as graffiti, incantations, mag-
ical texts, proverbs, fables, astrological writings, and
even the New Testament.
r o b E r t k N a p p is Professor
Knapp offers a glimpse into a world far Emeritus in the Classics at
removed from our own, but one that resonates
University of California, Berkeley.
through history. Invisible Romans allows us to see
how Romans sought on a daily basis to survive and
thrive under the afflictions of disease, war, and vio-
lence, and to control their fates before powers that
variously oppressed and ignored them.
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the annotated Emerson
raLph waLdo EMErsoN
E D I T E D B Y D AV I D M I K I C S
F O R E W O R D B Y P H I L L I P L O PAT E
A brilliant essayist and a master of the aphorism (“Our moods do not believe in each
other”; “Money often costs too much”), Emerson has inspired countless writers. He
challenged Americans to shut their ears against Europe’s “courtly muses” and to forge
a new, distinctly American cultural identity. But he remains one of America’s least under-
stood writers. And, by his own admission, he spawned neither school nor follower (he
valued independent thought too much). Now, in this annotated selection of Emerson’s
writings, David Mikics instructs the
reader in a larger appreciation of Emer-
son’s essential works and the remarkable
d aV i d M i k i c s is Professor of thinker who produced them.
English at the University of Houston Full of color illustrations and rich
and coauthor of The Art of the Sonnet in archival photographs, this volume
(see p. 85). p h i L L i p L o pat E , offers much for the specialist and general
essayist, novelist, and poet, is a reader. In his running commentaries on
professor at Columbia University, Emerson’s essays, addresses, and poems,
where he directs the graduate Mikics illuminates contexts, allusions,
nonfiction program. and language likely to cause difficulty to
modern readers. He quotes extensively
from Emerson’s Journal to shed light on
particular passages or lines and examines
Emerson the essayist, poet, itinerant lecturer, and political activist. Finally, in his Fore-
word, Phillip Lopate makes the case for Emerson as a spectacular truth teller—a model
of intellectual labor and anti-dogmatic sanity.
Anyone who values Emerson will want to own this edition. Those wishing to dis-
cover, or to reacquaint themselves with, Emerson’s writings but who have not known
where or how to begin will not find a better starting place or more reliable guide than
The Annotated Emerson.
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Joseph Mallord william turner, 1840. Museum of Fine ar ts, b oston / henr y Lillie pierce Fund /
the bridgeman ar t Librar y.
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saladin
aNNE-MariE Eddé
T R A N S L AT E D BY JA N E MA R I E TO D D
Working simultaneously on two levels, Saladin represents the best kind of biography—a por-
trait of a man who is said to have made an age, and the most complete account we have to date
of an age that made the man. Unlike biographies that focus on Saladin’s military exploits, espe-
cially the recapturing of Jerusalem from European Crusaders in 1187, Anne-Marie Eddé’s nar-
rative draws on an incredible array of contemporary sources to develop the fullest picture
possible of a ruler shaped profoundly by the complex Arabian political environment in which
he rose to prominence. The result is a unique
view of the Crusades from an Arab perspective.
Saladin became a legend in his own
time, venerated by friend and foe alike as a a N N E - M a r i E E d d é is Director of
paragon of justice, chivalry, and generosity. Research at Centre National de la
Arab politicians ever since have sought to claim Recherche Scientifique, Paris, and
his mantle as a justification for their own exer- Professor of Medieval History at the
cise of power. But Saladin’s world-historical sta- University of Reims.
tus as the ideal Muslim ruler owes its longevity
to a tacit agreement among contemporaries and
later chroniclers about the set of virtues Saladin
possessed—virtues that can now be tested against a rich tapestry of historical research. This ten-
sion between the mythical image of Saladin, layered over centuries and deployed in service of
specific moral and political objectives, and the verifiable facts of his life available to a judicious
modern historian is what sustains Eddé’s erudite biography, published to acclaim in France in
2008 and offered here in a smooth, readable English translation.
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an aesthetic Education in the
Era of globalization
gayatri chakraVorty spiVak
During the past twenty years, the world’s most renowned critical theorist—the scholar who
defined the field of postcolonial studies—has experienced a radical reorientation in her think-
ing. Finding the neat polarities of tradition and modernity, colonial and postcolonial, no longer
sufficient for interpreting the globalized present, she turns elsewhere to make her central argu-
ment: that aesthetic education is the last available instrument for implementing global justice
and democracy.
Gayatri Spivak’s unwillingness to sacrifice the ethical in the name of the aesthetic, or to
sacrifice the aesthetic in grappling with the political, makes her task formidable. As she wres-
tles with these fraught relationships, she rewrites Friedrich Schiller’s concept of play as double
bind, reading Gregory Bateson with Gramsci
as she negotiates Immanuel Kant, while in
g ayat r i c h a k r aV o r t y s p i Va k , dialogue with her teacher Paul de Man.
University Professor at Columbia Among the concerns Spivak addresses is this:
Are we ready to forfeit the wealth of the
University and a trainer of elementary
world’s languages in the name of global com-
school teachers in West Bengal.
munication? “Even a good globalization (the
failed dream of socialism) requires the unifor-
mity which the diversity of mother-tongues
aLso by gayatri chakraVorty spiVak
must challenge,” Spivak writes. “The tower
a critique of Postcolonial Reason of Babel is our refuge.”
hup / 978-0-674-17764-2 / $30.00* pb In essays on theory, translation, Marx-
ism, gender, and world literature, and on writ-
ers such as Assia Djebar, J. M. Coetzee, and
Rabindranath Tagore, Spivak argues for the social urgency of the humanities and renews the case
for literary studies, imprisoned in the corporate university. “Perhaps,” she writes, “the literary
can still do something.”
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living originalism
Jack M. baLkiN
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the age of Equality
the tWentieth century in economic PerSPective
richard poMFrEt
In 1900, the global average life expectancy at birth was thirty-one years. By 2000, it was sixty-
six. Yet, alongside unprecedented improvements in longevity and material well-being, the twen-
tieth century also saw the rise of fascism and communism and a second world war followed by
a cold war. This book tells the story of the battles between economic systems that defined the
last century and created today’s world.
The nineteenth century was a period of rapid economic growth characterized by rela-
tively open markets and more personal liberty, but it also brought great inequality within and
between nations. The following century offered
sharp challenges to freewheeling capitalism
from both communism and fascism, whose
r i c h a r d p o M F r E t is Professor of
competing visions of planned economic devel-
Economics at the University of
opment attracted millions of people buffeted by
Adelaide, Australia, and Associate the economic storms of the 1930s. The Age of
Fellow at the Centre d’économie de la Equality describes the ways in which market-
Sorbonne in Paris, France. oriented economies eventually overcame the
threat of these visions and provided a blueprint
for reform in nonmarket economies. This was
achieved not through unbridled capitalism but
by combining the efficiency and growth potential of markets with government policies to pro-
mote greater equality of opportunity and outcome. Following on the heels of economic reform,
rapid catch-up growth in countries such as China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, and Poland helped
to reduce global inequality.
At a time when inequality is on the rise in nations as disparate as the United States and
Egypt, Richard Pomfret’s interpretation of how governments of market economies faced the
challenges of the twentieth century is both instructive and cautionary.
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the Collapse of american
Criminal justice
wiLLiaM J. stuNtz
The rule of law has vanished in America’s criminal justice system. Prosecutors now decide
whom to punish and how severely. Almost no one accused
of a crime will ever face a jury. Inconsistent policing, ram-
pant plea bargaining, overcrowded courtrooms, and ever
more draconian sentencing have produced a gigantic w i L L i a M J . s t u N t z was
prison population, with black citizens the primary defen- Henry J. Friendly Professor of
dants and victims of crime. In this passionately argued Law at Harvard University.
book, the leading criminal law scholar of his generation
looks to history for the roots of these problems—and for
their solutions.
The Collapse of American Criminal Justice takes us deep into the dramatic history
of American crime—bar fights in nineteenth-century Chicago, New Orleans bordellos, Prohi-
bition, and decades of murderous lynching. Digging into these crimes and the strategies that
attempted to control them, William Stuntz reveals the costs of abandoning local democratic
control. The system has become more centralized, with state legislators and federal judges given
increasing power. The liberal Warren Supreme Court’s emphasis on procedures, not equity,
joined hands with conservative insistence on severe punishment to create a system that is both
harsh and ineffective.
What would get us out of this Kafkaesque world? More trials with local juries; laws that
accurately define what prosecutors seek to punish; and an equal protection guarantee like the
one that died in the 1870s, to make prosecution and punishment less discriminatory. Above all,
Stuntz eloquently argues, Americans need to remember again that criminal punishment is a
necessary but terrible tool, to use effectively, and sparingly.
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Design for liberty
Private ProPerty, Public adminiStration, and the rule oF laW
richard a. EpstEiN
Following a vast expansion in the twentieth century, government is beginning to creak at the
joints under its enormous weight. The signs are clear: a bloated civil service, low approval rat-
ings for Congress and the President, increasing federal-state conflict, rampant distrust of politi-
cians and government officials, record state deficits, and major unrest among public employees.
In this compact, clearly written book, the noted legal scholar Richard Epstein advocates
a much smaller federal government, arguing that our over-regulated state allows too much dis-
cretion on the part of regulators, which
results in arbitrary, unfair decisions, rent-
seeking, and other abuses. Epstein bases his
r i c h a r d a . E p s t E i N is the Laurence A. classical liberalism on the twin pillars of the
Tisch Professor of Law, The New York rule of law and of private contracts and
University School of Law, the Peter and property rights—an overarching structure
Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow, The Hoover that allows private property to keep its form
regardless of changes in population, tastes,
Institution, and a senior lecturer at the
technology, and wealth. This structure also
University of Chicago Law School. He is
makes possible a restrained public adminis-
also author of Takings (HUP).
tration to implement limited objectives.
Government continues to play a key role as
night-watchman, but with the added flexi-
bility in revenues and expenditures to attend to national defense and infrastructure formation.
Although no legal system can eliminate the need for discretion in the management of
both private and public affairs, predictable laws can cabin the zone of discretion and permit
arbitrary decisions to be challenged. Joining a set of strong property rights with sound but lim-
ited public administration could strengthen the rule of law, with its virtues of neutrality, gen-
erality, clarity, consistency, and forward-lookingness, and reverse the contempt and cynicism that
have overcome us.
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the anointed
evangelical truth in a Secular age
raNdaLL J. stEphENs aNd k arL w. gibErsoN
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rElIgIoN
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Chivalry in medieval England
NigEL sauL
Popular views of medieval chivalry—knights in shining armor, fair ladies, banners fluttering
from battlements—were inherited from the nineteenth-century Romantics. This is the first book
to explore chivalry’s place within a
wider history of medieval England,
from the Norman Conquest to the
N i g E L s a u L is Professor of Medieval History aftermath of Henry VII’s triumph at
at the University of London. He is a Fellow of Bosworth in the Wars of the Roses.
the Royal Historical Society and of the Society
Nigel Saul invites us to view the
of Antiquaries. His publications include
world of castles and cathedrals, tour-
Richard II, A Companion to Medieval England, naments and round tables, with fresh
Death, Art and Memory in Medieval England eyes. Chivalry in Medieval England
and, most recently, The Three Richards. charts the introduction of chivalry by
the Normans, the rise of the knightly
class as a social elite, the fusion of
chivalry with kingship in the fourteenth
century, and the influence of chivalry on literature, religion, and architecture. Richard the Lion-
heart and the Crusades, the Black Death and the Battle of Crécy, the Magna Carta and the cult
of King Arthur—all emerge from the mists of time and legend in this vivid, authoritative
account.
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Explore Harvard
the yard and beyond
iNtroductioN by sEaMus hEaNEy
At Harvard University, ideas are the currency of every transaction. To mark the 375th
anniversary of the founding of the College, this collection of photographs brings to life
the myriad intellectual exchanges that make Harvard one of the world’s leading insti-
tutions of higher education. Presenting contemporary images never before published
as well as archival prints, this large-format portrait of the university captures an early
spirit of exploration that continues to thrive in the Yard’s historic lecture halls, in cut-
ting-edge science facilities, and in research outposts among some of the world’s poor-
est people. From “move-in” day to Commencement, seasonal shifts across the iconic
New England landscape form a contemplative backdrop to learning and growth for
each new class that enters here. For alumni who remember the Ivy League grandeur
of houses along the Charles, or thrilled to the achievements of athletes and artists,
Explore Harvard will not disappoint. Prospective students who have seen the university only
from a distance will get an inside view of one of the most beautiful campuses in the world,
while those intimately familiar with the school will discover a side of Harvard they never knew.
w w w. h u p. h a r va rd. e d u m h a r va rd un i ve r s i t y p ress 29
the Image of the Black in Western art
volume iii: From the “age oF diScovery” to the age oF abolition
Part 2: euroPe and the World beyond
Part 3: the eighteenth century
EditEd by daVid biNdMaN aNd hENry Louis gatEs, Jr.
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d aV i d b i N d M a N is Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at University
College London. h E N r y L o u i s g at E s , J r . , is Alphonse Fletcher University
Professor and is the Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and
African American Research at Harvard University.
“ the three sons of cornelis van b everen” by alber t cuyp. Early 1650s. universit y of birmingham.
Volume 1: 978-0-674-05271-0
Volume 2, Part 1: 978-0-674-05256-7
Volume 2, Part 2: 978-0-674-05258-1
Volume 3, Part 1: 978-0-674-05261-1
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Hajj
Journey to the heart oF iSlam
EditEd by VENEtia portEr
The Hajj, one of the five pillars of Islam, is the largest pilgrimage in the world today and a sacred
duty for all Muslims. Each year, millions of the faithful from around the world make the pil-
grimage to Makkah, the birthplace of Islam where the Prophet Muhammad received his reve-
lation.
With contributions from renowned experts Muhammad Abdel Haleem, Hugh Kennedy,
Robert Irwin, and Ziauddin Sardar, this fascinating book pulls together many strands of Hajj, its
rituals, history, and modern manifestations. Travel was once a hazardous gamble, yet devoted
Muslims undertook the journey to Makkah, documenting their experiences in manuscripts,
wall paintings, and early photographs, many of which
are presented here. Through a wealth of illustrations
including pilgrims’ personal objects, souvenirs, and
V E N E t i a p o r t E r is a Curator
maps, Hajj provides a glimpse into this important holy
in the Department of the Middle
rite for Muslim readers already grounded in the tra-
East at the British Museum.
dition and non-Muslims who cannot otherwise par-
ticipate.
Hajj does not, however, merely trace pilgrim-
ages of the past. The Hajj is a living tradition, influenced by new conveniences and obstacles.
Graffiti, consumerism, and state lotteries all now play a role in this time-honored practice. This
book opens out onto the full sweep of the Hajj—a
sacred path walked by early Islamic devotees
and pre-Islamic Arabians, a sumptuous
site of worship under the care of sul-
tans, and an expression of faith in
the modern world.
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the Harvard sampler
liberal education For the tWenty-FirSt century
EditEd by JENNiFEr M. shEphard, stEphEN M. kossLyN, aNd
EVELyNN M. haMMoNds
From Harvard University, one of the world’s preeminent institutions of liberal education, comes
a collection of essays sampling topics at the forefront of academia in the twenty-first century.
Written by faculty members at the cutting edge of their fields, including such luminaries as
Steven Pinker, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and Harry R. Lewis, these essays offer a clear and acces-
sible overview of disciplines that are shaping the culture, and even the world.
The authors, among the most
respected members of Harvard’s faculty,
invite readers to explore subjects as
J E N N i F E r M . s h E p h a r d is Special
diverse as religious literacy and Islam,
Initiatives Program Manager, Division of Social
liberty and security in cyberspace, med-
ical science and epidemiology, energy Science, Harvard University. s t E p h E N M .
resources, evolution, morality, human k o s s Ly N is John Lindsley Professor of
rights, global history, the dark side of the Psychology in Memory of William James,
American Revolution, American litera- Emeritus, Harvard University, and Director,
ture and the environment, interracial lit- Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral
erature, and the human mind. They Sciences at Stanford University; he is also
summarize key developments in their author of Clear and to the Point. E V E Ly N N M .
fields in ways that will both entertain h a M M o N d s is Dean of Harvard College and
and edify those who seek an education Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the
beyond the confines of the classroom. History of Science and of African and African
It is sometimes said that youth is American Studies, Harvard University.
wasted on the young. It could also be
said that college, too often, is wasted on
college students—that only after gradu-
ating does a former student come to appreciate learning. To those wishing to revisit the college
classroom—as well as to those who never had the opportunity in the first place—this book
gives a taste of the modern course at Harvard. The essays are stimulating and informative, and
the annotated bibliographies accompanying each chapter provide invaluable guidance to the
lifelong learner who wants to pursue these fascinating topics in depth.
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vesuvius machu picchu
giLLiaN darLEy daVid drEw
Volcanoes around the world have their own No other ruin evokes so powerfully the
legends, and many have wrought terrible dev- grandeur and mystery of a forgotten civiliza-
astation, but none has caught the imagination tion as Machu Picchu. Since its existence was
like Vesuvius. We now know that immense first publicized in 1911 by the American
eruptions destroyed Bronze Age settlements explorer Hiram Bingham, this World Heritage
around Vesuvius, but the Romans knew noth- site has become the embodiment of a “lost
ing of those disasters and were lulled into city”—although half a million people find
complacency—much as we are today—by its their way there every year. Until now, no sur-
long period of inactivity. None of the vey of the site, history of its exploration, and
nearly thirty eruptions since AD 79 has assessment of the city’s meaning have been
matched the infamous cataclysm that brought together in one authoritative and
destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum portable volume.
within hours. Nearly two thousand years In the centenary of this enigmatic site’s
later, the allure of the volcano remains— “rediscovery,” David Drew offers an up-to-
as evidenced by its popularity as a tourist date guide to the ruins, in all their complexity.
attraction, from Shelley and the Roman- He examines the latest theories on the pur-
tics to modern-day visitors. pose and functioning of the city and the cir-
Vesuvius has loomed large cumstances of its abandonment, and he
throughout history, both feared and cel- explores the powerful symbolic significance
ebrated. Gillian Darley unveils the the site has acquired since its discovery for dif-
human responses to Vesuvius from a cast ferent groups of people. Drew also looks dis-
of characters as far-flung as Pliny the passionately at the dangers to the region’s
Younger and David Hockney, revealing environment that the city’s immense popu-
shifts over time. This cultural and scien- larity now presents. A final chapter covers the
tific meditation on a powerful natural controversy over the future of items removed
wonder touches on pagan religious by Bingham from Machu Picchu, which cur-
beliefs, vulcanology, and travel writing. Sifting rently reside in Yale University’s Peabody
g i L L i a N d a r L E y is a writer,
through the ashes of Vesuvius, Darley exposes Museum. More than a guidebook, Machu
broadcaster, and architectural
how changes in our relationship to the vol- Picchu enables readers to appreciate the
journalist. d aV i d d r E w is an
cano mirror changes in our understanding of magic and multiple meanings of perhaps the
archaeologist, lecturer, and
our cultural and natural environments. most romantic ruin in the world.
broadcaster, and author of The
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travEl / HIstory travEl / HIstory
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In a Sea of Bitterness
Refugees duRing the sino-Japanese WaR
R. Keith Schoppa
The Japanese invasion of Shanghai in 1937 led some thirty million Chinese to flee their
homes in terror, and live—in the words of artist and writer Feng Zikai—“in a sea of bit-
terness” as refugees. Keith Schoppa paints a comprehensive picture of the refugee expe-
rience in one province—Zhejiang, on the central Chinese coast—where the Japanese
launched major early offensives as well as
notorious later campaigns. He recounts sto-
ries of both heroes and villains, of choices
R . K e i t h S c h o p pa is Professor
poorly made amid war’s bewildering vio-
and The Edward and Catherine
lence, of risks bravely taken despite an
Doehler Chair in Asian History at
almost palpable quaking fear.
Loyola University, Maryland.
As they traveled south into China’s
interior, refugees stepped backward in time,
sometimes as far as the nineteenth century,
their journeys revealing the superficiality of China’s modernization. Memoirs and oral
histories allow Schoppa to follow the footsteps of the young and old, elite and non-elite,
as they fled through unfamiliar terrain and coped with unimaginable physical and psy-
chological difficulties. Within the context of Chinese culture, being forced to leave home
was profoundly threatening to one’s sense of identity. Not just people but whole insti-
tutions also fled from Japanese occupation, and Schoppa considers schools, governments,
and businesses as refugees with narratives of their own.
Local governments responded variously to Japanese attacks, from enacting
scorched-earth policies to offering rewards for the capture of plague-infected rats in the
aftermath of germ warfare. While at times these official procedures improved the situa-
tion for refugees, more often—as Schoppa describes in moving detail—they only deep-
ened the tragedy.
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Moscow, the Fourth Rome
stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the evolution of soviet CultuRe,
1931–1941
K ateRiNa claRK
In the early sixteenth century, the monk Filofei proclaimed Moscow the “Third Rome.” By the
1930s, intellectuals and artists all over the world thought of Moscow as a mecca of secular
enlightenment. In Moscow, the Fourth Rome, Katerina Clark shows how Soviet officials and
intellectuals, in seeking to capture the imagination of
leftist and anti-fascist intellectuals throughout the
world, sought to establish their capital as the cosmo-
K at e R i N a c l a R K is Professor politan center of a post-Christian confederation and to
of Comparative Literature and rebuild it to become a beacon for the rest of the world.
Slavic Language and Literatures Clark provides an interpretative cultural history
at Yale University. of the city during the crucial 1930s, the decade of the
Great Purge. She draws on the work of intellectuals
such as Sergei Eisenstein, Sergei Tretiakov, Mikhail
Koltsov, and Ilya Ehrenburg to shed light on the singu-
lar Zeitgeist of that most Stalinist of periods. In her account, the decade emerges as an impor-
tant moment in the prehistory of key concepts in literary and cultural studies today—
transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, and world literature. By bringing to light neglected
antecedents, she provides a new polemical and political context for understanding canonical
works of writers such as Brecht, Benjamin, Lukacs, and Bakhtin.
Moscow, the Fourth Rome breaches the intellectual iron curtain that has circumscribed
cultural histories of Stalinist Russia, by broadening the framework to include considerable inter-
action with Western intellectuals and trends. Its integration of the understudied international
dimension into the interpretation of Soviet culture remedies misunderstandings of the world-
historical significance of Moscow under Stalin.
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The Mauthausen Trial
ameRiCan militaRy JustiCe in geRmany
tomaz JaRdim
Shortly after 9:00 a.m. on May 27, 1947, the first of forty-nine men condemned to death for
war crimes at Mauthausen concentration camp mounted the gallows at Landsberg prison near
Munich. The mass execution that followed resulted from an American military trial conducted
at Dachau in the spring of 1946—a trial that lasted only thirty-six days and yet produced more
death sentences than any other in American history.
The Mauthausen trial was part of a massive
series of proceedings designed to judge and punish
Nazi war criminals in the most expedient manner
the law would allow. There was no doubt that the t o m a z J a R d i m is Assistant
crimes had been monstrous. Yet despite meting out Professor of History at Concordia
punishment to a group of incontestably guilty men, University and former fellow at
the Mauthausen trial reveals a troubling and sel- the United States Holocaust
dom-recognized face of American postwar justice— Memorial Museum.
one characterized by rapid proceedings, lax rules of
evidence, and questionable interrogations.
Although the better-known Nuremberg tri-
als are often regarded as epitomizing American judicial ideals, these trials were in fact the excep-
tion to the rule. Instead, as Tomaz Jardim convincingly demonstrates, the rough justice of the
Mauthausen trial remains indicative of the most common—and yet least understood—Ameri-
can approach to war crimes prosecution. The Mauthausen trial forces reflection on the impli-
cations of compromising legal standards in order to guarantee that guilty people do not walk free.
w w w. h u p. h a r va rd. e d u m h a r va rd u n i ve r s i t y p ress 37
Someday All This Will Be Yours
a histoRy of inheRitanCe and old age
heNdRiK haRtog
We all hope that we will be cared for as we age. But the details of that care, for caretaker and
recipient alike, raise some of life’s most vexing questions. From the mid-nineteenth to the mid-
twentieth century, as an explosive economy and shifting social opportunities drew the young
away from home, the elderly used promises of inheritance to keep children at their side. Hendrik
Hartog tells the riveting, heartbreaking stories of how families fought over the work of care and
its compensation.
Someday All This Will Be Yours narrates the legal and emotional strategies mobilized by
older people, and explores the ambivalences of family members as they struggled with expec-
tations of love and duty. Court cases offer an
extraordinary glimpse of the mundane,
painful, and intimate predicaments of family
h e N d R i K h a R t o g is Class of 1921 life. They reveal what it meant to be old with-
Bicentennial Professor of the History out the pensions, Social Security, and nursing
of American Law and Liberty, homes that now do much of the work of serv-
Princeton University, and author of ing the elderly. From demented grandparents
Man and Wife in America (HUP). to fickle fathers, from litigious sons to grateful
daughters, Hartog guides us into a world of
disputed promises and broken hearts, and
helps us feel the terrible tangle of love and
commitments and money.
From one of the bedrocks of the human condition—the tension between the infirmities
of the elderly and the longings of the young—emerges a pioneering work of exploration into
the darker recesses of family life. Ultimately, Hartog forces us to reflect on what we owe and
are owed as members of a family.
38 w w w.hup.ha r va rd. e d u m h a r va rd u n i ve r s i t y p re s s
The Jewish Dark Continent
life and death in the Russian pale of settlement
NathaNiel deUtSch
At the turn of the twentieth century, more than 40 percent of the world’s Jews lived within the
Russian Empire, almost all in the Pale of Settlement. From the Baltic to the Black Sea, the Jews
of the Pale created a distinctive way of life little known beyond its borders. This led the histo-
rian Simon Dubnow to label the territory a Jewish “Dark Continent.”
Just before World War I, a socialist revolutionary and aspiring ethnographer named
An-sky pledged to explore the Pale. He dreamed of leading an ethnographic expedition that
would produce an archive—what he called
an Oral Torah of the common people rather
than the rabbinic elite—which would pre-
serve Jewish traditions and transform them N at h a N i e l d e U t S c h is Professor of
into the seeds of a modern Jewish culture. Literature and History at the University
Between 1912 and 1914, An-sky and his of California, Santa Cruz.
team collected jokes, recorded songs, took
thousands of photographs, and created a
massive ethnographic questionnaire. Con-
sisting of 2,087 questions in Yiddish—exploring the gamut of Jewish folk beliefs and traditions,
from everyday activities to spiritual exercises to marital intimacies—the Jewish Ethnographic
Program constitutes an invaluable portrait of Eastern European Jewish life on the brink of
destruction.
Nathaniel Deutsch offers the first complete translation of the questionnaire, as well as
the riveting story of An-sky’s almost messianic efforts to create a Jewish ethnography in an era
of revolutionary change. An-sky’s project was halted by World War I, and within a few years the
Pale of Settlement would no longer exist. These survey questions revive and reveal shtetl life
in all its wonder and complexity.
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Secularism and Freedom
of Conscience
JocelyN maclURe aNd chaRleS tayloR
T R A N S L AT E D BY JANE MARIE TODD
Secularism: the definition of this word is as practical and urgent as income inequalities or the
paths to sustainable development. In this wide-ranging analysis, Jocelyn Maclure and Charles
Taylor provide a clearly reasoned, articulate account of the two main principles of secularism—
equal respect, and freedom of conscience—and its two operative modes—separation of Church
(or mosque or temple) and State, and State neutrality vis-à-vis religions. But more crucially, they
make the powerful argument that in our ever more religiously diverse, politically interconnected
world, secularism, properly understood, may offer the only path to religious and philosophical
freedom.
Secularism and Freedom of Conscience grew out of a very real problem—Quebec’s
need for guidelines to balance the equal respect due to all citizens with the right to religious free-
dom. But the authors go further, rethinking secularism in light of other critical issues of our
time. The relationship between
religious beliefs and deeply held
secular convictions, the scope of
the free exercise of religion, and
J o c e ly N m a c l U R e is Professor of Philosophy the place of religion in the public
at Université Laval. c h a R l e S tay l o R , sphere are aspects of the larger
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at McGill challenge Maclure and Taylor
University and author of A Secular Age and address: how to manage moral
Dilemmas and Connections (both HUP), is winner and religious diversity in a free
of the Kyoto Prize and the Templeton Prize. society. Secularism, they show, is
essential to any liberal democracy
in which citizens adhere to a plu-
rality of conceptions of what gives
meaning and direction to human
life. The working model the authors construct in this nuanced account is capacious enough to
accommodate difference and freedom of conscience, while holding out hope for a world in
which diversity no longer divides us.
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The Pursuits of Philosophy
an intRoduCtion to the life and thought of david hume
aNNette c. baieR
Marking the tercentenary of David Hume’s birth, Annette Baier has created an engaging guide
to the philosophy of one of the greatest thinkers of Enlightenment Britain. Drawing deeply on
a lifetime of scholarship and incisive commentary, she deftly weaves Hume’s autobiography
together with his writings and correspondence, finding in these personal experiences new ways
to illuminate his ideas about religion, human nature, and the social order.
Excerpts from Hume’s autobiography at the beginning of each chapter open a window
onto the eighteenth-century context in which Hume’s philosophy developed. Famous in Chris-
tian Britain as a polymath and a nonbeliever, Hume recounts how his early encounters with cler-
ical authority laid the foundation for his lifelong skepticism toward religion. In Scotland, where
he grew up, he had been forced to study lists of sins in order to spot his own childish flaws,
he reports. Later, as a young man, he witnessed the clergy’s punishment of a pregnant
unmarried servant, and this led him to question the violent consequences of the
Church’s emphasis on the doctrine
of original sin. Baier’s clear inter-
pretation of Hume’s Treatise on
a N N e t t e c . b a i e R is Distinguished
Human Nature explains the link
Service Professor of Philosophy
between Hume’s growing disil-
Emerita at the University of Pittsburgh
lusionment and his belief that
and author of Moral Prejudices (HUP).
ethics should be based on inves-
tigations of human nature, not
on religious dogma.
Four months before he died, Hume concluded his autobiography with
a eulogy he wrote for his own funeral. It makes no mention of his flaws, critics,
or disappointments. Baier’s more realistic account rivets our attention on con-
nections between the way Hume lived and the way he thought—insights unavail-
able to Hume himself, perhaps, despite his lifelong introspection.
“david hume” by charles-Nicolas cochin le jeune, c. 1754. harvard art museums, fogg art museum, gift of forsyth wickes, 1962.150.
allan macintyre © president and fellows of harvard college.
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The Body of John Merryman
abRaham linColn and the suspension of habeas CoRpus
bRiaN mcgiNty
In April 1861, President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus along the mil-
itary line between Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia. This allowed army officers to arrest and
indefinitely detain persons who were interfering with military operations in the area. When
John Merryman, a wealthy Marylander suspected of burning bridges to prevent the passage of
U.S. troops to Washington, was detained in Fort McHenry, the chief justice of the Supreme
Court, Roger Taney, declared the suspension of habeas corpus unconstitutional and demanded
Merryman’s immediate release. Lincoln defied Taney’s order, offering his own forceful counter-
argument for the constitutionality of his actions. Thus the stage was set for one of the most dra-
matic personal and legal confrontations the country has ever witnessed.
The Body of John Merryman is the
first book-length examination of this much-
b R i a N m c g i N t y is an attorney and misunderstood chapter in American history.
writer specializing in American history and Brian McGinty captures the tension and
law. He is the author of Lincoln and the uncertainty that surrounded the early
Court and John Brown’s Trial (both HUP). months of the Civil War, explaining how
Lincoln’s suspension of habeas corpus was
first and foremost a military action that only
subsequently became a crucial constitu-
tional battle. McGinty’s narrative brings to life the personalities that drove this uneasy standoff
and expands our understanding of the war as a legal—and not just a military, political, and
social—conflict. The Body of John Merryman is an extraordinarily readable book that illuminates
the contours of one of the most significant cases in American legal history—a case that contin-
ues to resonate in our own time.
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The People’s Courts
puRsuing JudiCial independenCe in ameRiCa
Jed haNdelSmaN ShUgeRmaN
In the United States, almost 90 percent of state judges have to run in popular elections to remain
on the bench. In the past decade, this peculiarly American institution has produced vicious
multimillion-dollar political election campaigns and high-profile allegations of judicial bias and
misconduct. The People’s Courts traces the history of judicial elections and Americans’ quest
for an independent judiciary—one that would ensure fairness for all before the law—from the
colonial era to the present.
In the aftermath of economic disaster, nineteenth-century
reformers embraced popular elections as a way to make politi-
cally appointed judges less susceptible to partisan patronage and Jed haNdelSmaN
more independent of the legislative and executive branches of S h U g e R m a N is
government. This effort to reinforce the separation of powers and Assistant Professor at
limit government succeeded in many ways, but it created new Harvard Law School.
threats to judicial independence and provoked further calls for
reform. Merit selection emerged as the most promising means
of reducing partisan and financial influence from judicial selec-
tion. It too, however, proved vulnerable to pressure from party politics and special interest
groups. Yet, as Jed Shugerman concludes, it still has more potential for protecting judicial inde-
pendence than either political appointment or popular election.
The People’s Courts shows how Americans have been deeply committed to judicial
independence, but that commitment has also been manipulated by special interests. By under-
standing our history of judicial selection, we can better protect and preserve the independence
of judges from political and partisan influence.
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Shattered Spaces
enCounteRing JeWish Ruins in postWaR geRmany and poland
michael meNg
After the Holocaust, the empty, silent spaces of bombed-out synagogues, cemeteries, and Jew-
ish districts were all that was left in many German and Polish cities with prewar histories rich
in the sights and sounds of Jewish life. What happened to this scarred landscape after the war,
and how have Germans, Poles, and Jews encountered these ruins over the past sixty years?
In the postwar period, city officials swept away many sites, despite protests from Jewish
leaders. But in the late 1970s, church groups, local residents, political dissidents, and tourists
demanded the preservation of the few ruins still standing. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union
in 1989, this desire to preserve and
restore has grown stronger. In one of the
most striking and little-studied shifts in
m i c h a e l m e N g is Assistant Professor postwar European history, the traces of a
of History at Clemson University. long-neglected Jewish past have gradually
been recovered, thanks to the rise of her-
itage tourism, nostalgia for ruins, interna-
tional discussions about the Holocaust,
and a pervasive longing for cosmopolitanism in a globalizing world.
Examining this transformation from both sides of the Iron Curtain, Michael Meng finds
no divided memory along West-East lines, but rather a shared memory of tensions and paradoxes
that crosses borders throughout Central Europe. His narrative reveals the changing dynamics
of the local and the transnational, as Germans, Poles, Americans, and Israelis confront a built
environment that is inevitably altered with the passage of time. Shattered Spaces exemplifies
urban history at its best, uncovering a surprising and moving postwar story of broad contem-
porary interest.
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Sonnets and Shorter Poems
petRaRch
T R A N S L AT E D BY D AV I D R . S L AV I T T
“d eft, SUbtle , Sympathetic , aNd fUll of the Small bURStS of SomethiNg liKe
electRicity that chaRacteRize the SoNNet aS p etRaRch developed it.
S lavitt ’ S tRaNSlatioNS of the madRigalS aNd ballate RiNg delicate chaNgeS
oN the baSic patteRN .”
—h eNRy tayloR
In this volume, David R. Slavitt, the distinguished translator and author of more than ninety
works of fiction, poetry, and drama, turns his skills to Il Canzoniere (Songbook) by Petrarch, the
most influential poet in the history of the sonnet.
In Petrarch’s hands, lyric verse was transformed
from an expression of courtly devotion into a way
d av i d R . S l av i t t has translated
of conversing with one’s own heart and mind.
numerous works, including The
Slavitt renders the sonnets in Il Canzoniere, along
Consolation of Philosophy, Orlando
with the shorter madrigals and ballate, in a
Furioso, and La Vita Nuova (all HUP).
sparkling and engaging idiom and in rhythm and
rhyme that do justice to Petrarch’s achievement.
At the center of Il Canzoniere (also known
as Rime Sparse, or Scattered Rhymes) is Petrarch’s obsessive love for Laura, a woman Petrarch
asserts he first saw at Easter Mass on April 6, 1327, in the church of Sainte-Claire d’Avignon
when he was twenty-two. Though Laura was already married, the sight of her woke in the poet
a passion that would last beyond her premature death on April 6, 1348, exactly twenty-one
years after he first encountered her. Unlike Dante’s Beatrice—a savior leading the poet by the
hand toward divine love—Petrarch’s Laura elicits more earthbound and erotic feelings. David
Slavitt’s deft new translation captures the nuanced tone of Petrarch’s poems exactly—their joy
and despair, and eventually their grief over Laura’s death. Readers of poetry and especially those
with an interest in the sonnet and its history will welcome this volume.
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Being There
Learning to Live Cross-CuLturaLLy
eDiteD by Sarah h. DaviS anD Melvin Konner
A D D I T I O N A L C O N T R I B U T O R S : LILA ABU-LUGHOD, RUTH BEHAR, CHRIS BOEHM, LOUISE BROWN,
LIZA DALBY, ALMA GOTTLIEB, PHILIP GRAHAM, MELISSA FAY GREENE, JESSICA GREGG, M. CAMERON HAY,
RUSSELL LEIGH SHARMAN, BRADD SHORE, ROBERT SHORE, MARJORIE SHOSTAK, JEANNE SIMONELLI, AND
JOHN C. WOOD
How can an academic who does not believe evil spirits cause illness harbor the hope that her
cancer may be cured by a healer who enters a trance to battle her demons? Whose actions are
more (or less) honorable: those of a prostitute who sells her daughter’s virginity to a rich man,
or those of a professor who sanctions her daughter’s hook-ups with casual acquaintances? As
they immerse themselves in foreign cultures and navigate the relationships that take shape, the
authors of these essays, most of them
trained anthropologists, find that
accepting cultural difference is one
S a r a h h . D av i S is completing her doctoral
thing, experiencing it is quite another.
studies at Emory University in Cultural
In tales that entertain as much as they
Anthropology. M e lv i n K o n n e r is Samuel
illuminate, these writers show how
Candler Dobbs Professor in the Department of
the moral and intellectual challenges
Anthropology and the Program in Neuroscience
of living cross-culturally revealed to
and Behavioral Biology at Emory University and
them the limits of their perception
author of The Evolution of Childhood (see p. 84).
and understanding.
Their insights were gained
only after discomforts resulting
mainly from the authors’ own blun-
ders in the field. From Brazil to Botswana, Egypt to Indonesia, Mongolia to Pakistan, mistakes
were made. Offering a gift to a Navajo man at the beginning of an interview, rather than the
end, caused one author to lose his entire research project. In Côte d’Ivoire, a Western family
was targeted by the village madman, leading the parents to fear for the safety of their child even
as they suspected that their very presence had triggered his madness. At a time when misun-
derstanding of cultural difference is an undeniable source of conflict, we need stories like these
more than ever before.
The vast majority of kids in the developed world finish high school—but not in the United
States. More than a million kids drop out every year, around 7,000 a day, and the numbers are
rising. Dropping Out offers a comprehensive overview by one of the country’s leading experts,
and provides answers to fundamental questions: Who drops out, and why? What happens to
them when they do? How can we prevent at-risk kids from short-circuiting their futures?
Students start disengaging long before they get to high school, and the consequences are
severe—not just for individuals but for the larger society and economy. Dropouts never catch
up with high school graduates on
any measure. They are less likely to
find work at all, and more likely to
R U S S e l l w. R U m b e R g e R is Professor of
live in poverty, commit crimes, and
Education at the University of California, Santa
suffer health problems. Even life
Barbara, and Vice Provost for Education
expectancy for dropouts is shorter
Partnerships at the University of California Office
by seven years than for those who
of the President.
earn a diploma.
Russell Rumberger advo-
cates targeting the most vulnerable
students as far back as the early elementary grades. And he levels sharp criticism at the con-
ventional definition of success as readiness for college. He argues that high schools must offer
all students what they need to succeed in the workplace and independent adult life. A more flex-
ible and practical definition of achievement—one in which a high school education does not
simply qualify you for more school—can make school make sense to young people. And maybe
keep them there.
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Teaching and Its Predicaments
david K. coheN
Ever since Socrates, teaching has been a difficult and even dangerous profession. Why is good
teaching such hard work?
In this provocative, witty, and sometimes rueful book, David K. Cohen writes about the
predicaments that teachers face. Like therapists, social workers, and pastors, teachers embark
on a mission of human improvement. They aim to deepen knowledge, broaden understanding,
sharpen skills, and change behavior. One predicament is that no matter how great their expert-
ise, teachers depend on the cooperation and intelligence of their students, yet there is much that
students do not know. To teach responsibly, teachers must cultivate a kind of mental double
vision: distancing themselves from their
own knowledge to understand students’
thinking, yet using their knowledge to
d av i d K . c o h e N is John Dewey Professor guide their teaching. Another predicament
of Education and Professor of Education is that though attention to students’ think-
Policy at the University of Michigan. He is ing improves the chances of learning, it
also author of The Ordeal of Equality (HUP). also increases the uncertainty and com-
plexity of the job.
The circumstances in which teach-
ers and students work make a difference.
Teachers and students are better able to manage these predicaments if they have resources—
common curricula, intelligent assessments, and teacher education tied to both—that support
responsible teaching. Yet for most of U.S. history those resources have been in short supply,
and many current accountability policies are little help. With a keen eye for the moment-to-
moment challenges, Cohen explores what “responsible teaching” can be, the kind of mind read-
ing it seems to demand, and the complex social resources it requires.
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The Crisis in Energy Policy
JohN m. deUtch
Our future depends on what we do about energy. This stark fact, clear since the oil embargo of
the 1970s, has been hammered home through crisis after crisis—and yet our government has
failed to come up with a coherent energy policy. John Deutch, with his extraordinary mix of
technical, scholarly, corporate, and governmental expertise in the realm of energy, is uniquely
qualified to explain what has stood in the way of progress on this most pressing issue. His book
is at once an eye-opening history of the muddled practices that have passed for energy policy
over the past thirty years, and a cogent account of what we can and should learn from so many
breakdowns of strategy and execution.
Three goals drive any comprehen-
sive energy policy: develop an effective
J o h N m . d e U t c h is Institute Professor at
approach to climate change; transition
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
from fossil fuels to renewable energy tech-
He has been Director of Central Intelligence
nologies; and increase the efficiency of
and Deputy Secretary of Defense in the
energy use to reduce dependence on
imported oil. Why has every effort in this Clinton Administration and Director of
direction eventually fallen short? Deutch Energy Research and Undersecretary in the
identifies the sources of this failure in our Department of Energy in the Carter
popular but unrealistic goals, our compet- Administration. He is currently a member of
ing domestic and international agendas, the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board.
and our poor analysis in planning, policy-
making, and administering government
programs. Most significantly, The Crisis in
Energy Policy clarifies the need to link
domestic and global considerations, as well as the critical importance of integrating technical,
economic, and political factors. Written for experts and citizens alike, this book will strengthen
the hand of anyone concerned about the future of energy policy.
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d umbarton Oaks SEXTUS AMARCIUS
Daniel Donoghue
Old English Editor Eupolemius
Danuta Shanzer
Medieval Latin Editor
edited and translated by
JAN M. ZIOLKOWSKI
Alice-Mary Talbot
Byzantine Greek Editor
Composed in Germany by a monastic poet steeped in classical lore and letters, the Satires
of Amarcius (Sextus Amarcius Gallus Piosistratus) unrelentingly attack both secular vices
“The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
and ecclesiastical abuses of the late eleventh century. The verses
is a project of extraordinary intellectual
echo Horace and Prudentius, are laced with proverbs and
and cultural value, splendidly edited and
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handsomely presented.”
foppery of young nobles, the vainglory of the nouveaux riches,
—Harold Bloom
the fastidiousness of debauched gluttons. This is the first Eng-
lish translation of the Satires.
The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library The Eupolemius is a late-eleventh-century Latin epic
is a groundbreaking new facing-page that recasts salvation history, from Lucifer’s fall through Christ’s
translation series designed to make resurrection. The poem fuses Greek and Hebrew components
written achievements of medieval and within a uniquely medieval framework. At once biblical, heroic,
Byzantine culture available to both and allegorical, it complements the so-called Bible epics in Latin
scholars and general readers in the from late antiquity and the refashionings of biblical narrative in
English-speaking world. It will offer the
Old English verse. It emulates classical Latin epics by Virgil, Lucan, and Statius and
classics of the medieval canon as well as
responds creatively to the foundational personification allegory by the Christian poet Pru-
lesser-known gems of literary and
dentius. The poem was composed by an anonymous German monk, possibly the author
cultural value to a global audience
through accessible modern translations who used the pseudonym Amarcius. Although it focuses on events of both the Hebrew
based on the latest research by leading Bible and New Testament, it is also rooted in its own momentous times.
figures in the field.
RONALD E. PEPIN is Professor Emeritus of Humanities, Capital Community
College (Hartford). JAN M. ZIOLKOWSKI is Arthur Kingsley Porter
Professor of Medieval Latin, Harvard University, and the Director of
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.
The Historia of Richer of Saint-Rémi (ca. 950–ca. 1000), an invalu- This is the third volume of a projected five-volume set of the com-
able source for understanding tenth-century West Francia (pre- plete Vulgate Bible. Compiled and translated in large part by Saint
sent-day France), provides a rare contemporary account of the Jerome at the turn of the fifth century CE, the Vulgate Bible perme-
waning Carolingian dynasty, accession of Hugh Capet, and failed ated the Western Christian (and later specifically Catholic) tradi-
rebellion of Charles of Lorraine. Beginning in 888, the Historia sur- tion from the early medieval period through the twentieth century.
veys a tumultuous century in which two competing dynasties It influenced literature, visual arts, music, and education during
struggled for supremacy, while great magnates seized the oppor- the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and its contents lay at the heart
tunity to carve out their own principalities. Richer’s descriptive of Western theological, intellectual, artistic, and even political his-
talents are on display as he tells of synods and coronations, decep- tory during that period. At the end of the sixteenth century, as
tion and espionage, battles and sieges, disease and death, and even Protestant vernacular Bibles became available, professors at a
the difficulties of travel. Catholic college first at Douay, then at Rheims, translated the
The Historia also sheds light on a controversial figure of Vulgate Bible into English, primarily to combat the influence of rival
the Middle Ages, the legendary cleric and scholar Gerbert of theologies.
Aurillac. Gerbert, the dedicatee of the Historia, rose from humble Volume III presents the Poetical Books of the Bible. It
beginnings to become archbishop of Rheims, archbishop of begins with Job’s argument with God, and unlike other Bibles the
Ravenna, and eventually pope (as Sylvester II). The Historia con- Vulgate insists on the title character’s faith throughout that crisis.
tains a fascinating description of his teaching at the cathedral The volume proceeds with the soaring and intimate lyrics of the
school of Rheims, where his innovations involved instruments Psalms and the Canticle of Canticles. Three books of wisdom lit-
such as the monochord, armillary sphere, and abacus. erature, all once attributed to King Solomon, also are included:
Translated into English here for the first time, the Historia Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Wisdom. Ecclesiasticus, a work of wis-
holds particular attractions for historians and for anyone interested dom literature no longer considered authentically biblical, con-
in the cultural and intellectual developments in the Latin West cludes the volume. The seven Poetical Books mark the third step
around the year 1000. in a thematic progression from God’s creation of the universe,
through his oversight of grand historical events, and finally into
J U STI N LAKE is Assistant Professor of Classics in the
the personal lives of his people.
Department of European and Classical Languages and
Cultures at Texas A&M University. SWIFT EDGAR is a research assistant at the Dumbarton
Oaks Research Library and Collection.
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Celebrating 100 Years
EDITED BY JEFFREY HENDERSON
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The Histories Problems
Volume IV: Books 9–15 Volume I: Books 1–19
Polybius Volume II: Books 20–38, Rhetoric to
Alexander
Translated by W. R. Paton
Revised by F. W. Walbank and
Aristotle
Christian Habicht Edited and translated by Robert
A. Mayhew and David C. Mirhady
The historian Polybius (ca. 200–118 BCE) was born into a
leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese and Aristotle of Stagirus (384–322 BCE), the great Greek philoso-
served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many pher, researcher, logician, and scholar, studied with Plato at
years. From 168 to 151 he was held hostage in Rome, where Athens and taught in the Academy (367–347). After some
he became a friend of Scipio Aemilianus, whose campaigns, time at Mitylene, he was appointed in 343/2 by King Philip
including the destruction of Carthage, he later attended. As of Macedon to be tutor of his teenaged son Alexander. After
a trusted mediator between Greece and the Romans, he Philip’s death in 336, Aristotle became head of his own
helped in the discussions that preceded the final war with school (of “Peripatetics”), the Lyceum at Athens. Because
Carthage, and after 146 was entrusted by the Romans with of anti-Macedonian feeling there after Alexander’s death in
the details of administration in Greece. 323, he withdrew to Chalcis in Euboea, where he died the
Polybius’s overall theme is how and why the Romans following year.
spread their power as they did. The main part of his history Problems, the third-longest work in the Aristotelian
covers the years 264–146 BCE, describing the rise of Rome, corpus, contains thirty-eight books covering more than 900
her destruction of Carthage, and her eventual domination of problems about living things, meteorology, ethical and intel-
the Greek world. It is a vital achievement of the first impor- lectual virtues, parts of the human body, and miscellaneous
tance despite the incomplete state in which all but the first questions. Although Problems is an accretion of multiple
five of its original forty books survive. authorship over several centuries, it offers a fascinating
W. R. Paton’s excellent translation, first published in technical view of Peripatetic method and thought. Rhetoric
1922, has been thoroughly revised, the Büttner-Wobst to Alexander, which provides practical advice to orators, was
Greek text corrected, and explanatory notes and a new likely composed during the period of Aristotle’s tutorship of
introduction added, all reflecting the latest scholarship. Alexander, perhaps by Anaximenes, another of Alexander’s
tutors. Both Problems and Rhetoric to Alexander replace the
F. W. WA L B A N K was Rathbone Professor of earlier Loeb edition by Hett and Rackham, with texts and
Ancient History and Classical Archaeology at the
translations incorporating the latest scholarship.
University of Liverpool and a Fellow of the
British Academy. C H R I S T I A N H A B I C H T is R O B E R T A . M AY H E W is Professor of
Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at the Philosophy, Seton Hall University. D AV I D C .
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. M I R H A D Y is Associate Professor and Chair of
Humanities, Simon Fraser University.
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history
roads to power
Britain invents the infrastructure state
Jo Guldi
In early-eighteenth-century Britain, nothing but stretches of dirt track, impassible for much of
the year, ran between most towns. By 1848, Britain’s primitive roads were transformed into a
network of forty-foot-wide highways connecting every village and island in the nation—and
also dividing them in unforeseen ways. Roads to Power refutes the traditional tale of how bet-
ter roads made better neighbors and how the transport revolution unified the English, Scottish,
Welsh, and Irish into a common and commercial people. In fact, few issues divided Britain as
much as transport and trade.
Peripheries like the Highlands demanded that centralized government pay for roads they
could not afford, while English counties argued for a localism that would spare them from
underwriting roads to Scotland. When tradesmen, Methodist preachers, soldiers, and enter-
tainers took to the highway, travelers and townspeople alike felt vulnerable, and mistrust grew.
Social engineering followed civil engineering, in the form of state-designed sewers and slum
clearance projects. As Jo Guldi shows, in their disagreements about roads, Britons posited two
visions of community: one centralized, expert-driven, and technological; the other local, infor-
mal, and libertarian. These two visions lie at the heart of today’s debates over infrastructure,
development, and communication.
54 w w w.hup.ha r va rd. e d u m h a r va rd u n i ve r s i t y p re s s
our fritz faces of perfect ebony
emperor frederick iii and the political culture of encounterinG atlantic slavery in imperial Britain
imperial Germany Catherine Molineux
Frank lorenz Müller
Though blacks were not often seen on the streets of seventeenth-
On June 15, 1888, a mere ninety- century London, they were already capturing the British imagina-
nine days after ascending the tion. For two hundred years, as Britain shipped over three million
throne to become king of Prussia Africans to the New World, popular images of blacks as slaves and
and German emperor, Frederick servants proliferated in London art, both highbrow and low. Cather-
III succumbed to throat cancer. ine Molineux assembles a surprising array of sources in her explo-
Europeans were spellbound by ration of this emerging black presence, from shop signs, tea trays,
the cruel fate nobly borne by the trading cards, board games, playing cards,
voiceless Fritz, who for more than and song ballads to more familiar objects
two decades had been celebrated such as William Hogarth’s graphic satires.
as a military hero and loved as a The earliest images advertised the
kindly gentleman. A number of opulence of the British Empire, by depict-
grief-stricken individuals report- ing black slaves and servants as minor,
edly offered to sacrifice their own exotic characters who gazed adoringly at
healthy larynxes to save the ailing emperor. their masters. Later images showed
Frank Lorenz Müller, in the first comprehensive life of Fred- Britons and Africans in friendly gatherings.
erick III ever written, reconstructs how the persona of “Our Fritz” By 1807, when Britain abolished the slave
was created and used for various political purposes before and after trade and thousands of people of African
the emperor’s tragic death. Sandwiched between the reign of his descent were living in London as free men
ninety-year-old father and the calamitous rule of his own son (the and women, depictions of black laborers
future emperor William II), Frederick III served as a canvas onto in coffeehouses, taverns, or kitchens took
which different political forces projected their hopes and fears for center stage. Molineux’s well-crafted account provides rich evi-
Germany’s future. Surrounded by an unforgettable cast of charac- dence for the role that human traffic played in the popular con-
ters that includes the emperor’s widely hated English wife, Vicky, sciousness and culture of Britain during the seventeenth and
and the scheming Otto von Bismarck, Frederick III offers in death eighteenth centuries and deepens our understanding of how Britons
as well as in life a poignant glimpse of Prussia, Germany, and the imagined their burgeoning empire.
European world that his son would help to shatter.
C at h e r i n e M o l i n e u x is Assistant Professor of
F r a n k l o r e n z M ü l l e r is Senior Lecturer in Histor y at Vanderbilt University.
Modern Histor y at the University of St. Andrews.
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Church militant planning armageddon
Bishop kunG and catholic resistance in communist British economic Warfare and the first World War
shanGhai niCholas a. laMbert
Paul P. Mariani
“a MaGniFiCent aChieveMent, one oF the Most
iMPortant books Published in deCades on the
By 1952, the Chinese Communist Party had
oriGins and ConduCt oF the G reat War .”
suppressed all organized resistance to its
regime and stood unopposed, or so it has —s aMuel r. W illiaMson , J r .,
been believed. Internal party documents— u niversity oF the s outh , eMeritus
declassified just long enough for historian Before the First World War, the British Admiralty conceived a plan
Paul Mariani to send copies out of China— to win rapid victory in the event of war with Germany—economic
disclose that one group deemed an enemy of warfare on an unprecedented scale. This secret strategy called for
the state held out after the others had fallen. the state to exploit Britain’s effective monopolies in banking, com-
A party report from Shanghai marked “top- munications, and shipping to create a controlled implosion of the
secret” reveals a determined, often coura- world economic system.
geous resistance by the local Catholic
In this revisionist account, Nicholas Lambert shows in lively
Church. Drawing on centuries of experience
detail how naval planners persuaded the British political leadership
in struggling with the Chinese authorities, the
that systematic disruption of the global economy could bring about
Church was proving a stubborn match for the party.
German military paralysis. After the outbreak of hostilities, the gov-
Mariani tells the story of how Bishop (later Cardinal) Ignatius ernment shied away from full implementation, upon realizing the
Kung Pinmei, the Jesuits, and the Catholic Youth resisted the extent of likely collateral damage—political, social, economic, and
regime’s punishing assault and refused to renounce the Church in diplomatic—to both Britain and neutral countries. Woodrow Wilson
Rome. Mirroring tactics used by the previously underground CCP, in particular bristled at British restrictions on trade. A new, less dis-
Shanghai’s Catholics persevered until 1955, when the believers ruptive approach to economic coercion was hastily improvised. The
were betrayed from within their own ranks. Though the CCP could result was the blockade, ostensibly intended to starve Germany. It
not eradicate the Catholic Church in China, it succeeded in divid- proved largely ineffective because of the massive political influence
ing it. Mariani’s secret history traces the origins of a deep split in the of economic interests on national ambitions and the continued inter-
Chinese Catholic community, where relations between the “Patri- dependencies of all countries upon the smooth functioning of the
otic” and underground churches remain strained even today. global trading system. Lambert’s incisive interpretation entirely
Pa u l P. M a r i a n i is Assistant Professor of Histor y overturns our conventional understanding of British strategy in the
at Santa Clara University. early part of the First World War.
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won the Distinguished Book Prize from the Society for
Militar y Histor y.
56 w w w.hup.ha r va rd. e d u m h a r va rd u n i ve r s i t y p re s s
empire and Underworld Colored Cosmopolitanism
captivity in french Guiana the shared struGGle for freedom in the
Miranda FranCes sPieler united states and india
niCo slate
In the century after the French Rev-
olution, the South American out- A hidden history connects India and the United States, the world’s
post of Guiana became a depository largest democracies. From the late nineteenth century through the
for exiles—outcasts of the new 1960s, activists worked across borders of race and nation to push
French citizenry—and an experi- both countries toward achieving their democratic principles. At the
mental space for the exercise of heart of this shared struggle, African Americans and Indians forged
new kinds of power and violence bonds ranging from statements of sympathy to coordinated acts of
against marginal groups. Miranda solidarity. Within these groups, certain
Spieler chronicles the encounter activists developed a vision of the world
between colonial officials, planters, that transcended traditional racial distinc-
and others, ranging from deported tions. These men and women agitated for
political enemies to convicts, ex- the freedom of the “colored world,” even
convicts, vagabonds, freed slaves, while challenging the meanings of both
non-European immigrants, and Maroons (descendants of fugitive color and freedom.
slaves in the forest). She finds that at a time when France was advo- Colored Cosmopolitanism is the
cating the revolutionary principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity, first detailed examination of both ends of
Guiana’s exiles were stripped of their legal identities and unmade this transnational encounter. Nico Slate
by law, becoming nonpersons living in limbo. tells the stories of neglected historical fig-
The French Revolution invented the notion of the citizen, ures and offers a fresh glimpse of people
but as Spieler shows, it also invented the noncitizen—the person we thought we knew. Prominent figures
whose rights were nonexistent. Empire and Underworld discovers such as Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal
in Guiana’s wilderness a haunting prehistory of current moral dilem- Nehru, Swami Vivekananda, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du
mas surrounding detainees of indeterminate legal status. Pairing the Bois, and Martin Luther King, Jr., emerge as never before seen. Slate
history of France with that of its underworld and challenging some reveals the full gamut of this exchange—from selective appropria-
of the century’s most influential theorists from Hannah Arendt to tions, to blatant misunderstandings, to a profound empathy—as
Michel Foucault, Spieler demonstrates how rights of the modern African Americans and South Asians sought a united front against
world can mutate into an apparatus of human deprivation. racism, imperialism, and other forms of oppression.
M i r a n d a F r a n C e s s P i e l e r is Assistant n i C o s l at e is Assistant Professor of Histor y at
Professor of Histor y at the University of Arizona. Carnegie Mellon University.
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Casualties of Credit the invention of Law in
the enGlish financial revolution, 1620 –1720 the West
Carl Wennerlind aldo sChiavone
T R A N S L AT E D B Y J E R E M Y C A R D E N AND
Modern credit, developed during the financial revolution of 1620–
ANTONY SHUGAAR
1720, laid the foundation for England’s political, military, and eco-
nomic dominance in the eighteenth century. Possessed of a
Law is a specific form of social
generally circulating credit currency, a
regulation distinct from religion,
modern national debt, and sophisticated
ethics, and even politics, and
financial markets, England developed a fis-
endowed with a strong and
cal-military state that instilled fear and
autonomous rationality. Its inven-
facilitated the first industrial revolution.
tion, a crucial aspect of Western
Yet a number of casualties followed in the
history, took place in ancient
wake of this new system of credit. Not
Rome. Aldo Schiavone, a world-
only was it precarious and prone to acci-
renowned classicist, reconstructs
dents, but it depended on trust, public
this development with clear-eyed
opinion, and ultimately violence.
passion, following its course over
Carl Wennerlind reconstructs the the centuries, setting out from
intellectual context within which the the earliest origins and moving
financial revolution was conceived. He up to the threshold of Late Antiquity.
traces how the discourse on credit
The invention of Western law occurred against the backdrop
evolved and responded to the Glorious Revolution, the Scientific
of the Roman Empire’s gradual consolidation—an age of unprece-
Revolution, the founding of the Bank of England, the Great
dented accumulation of power which transformed an archaic pre-
Recoinage, armed conflicts with Louis XIV, the Whig-Tory party
disposition to ritual into an unrivaled technology for the control of
wars, the formation of the public sphere, and England’s expanded
human dealings. Schiavone offers us a closely reasoned interpreta-
role in the slave trade. Debates about credit engaged some of Lon-
tive essay that returns us to the primal origins of Western legal
don’s most prominent turn-of-the-century intellectuals, including
machinery and the discourse that was constructed around it—for-
Daniel Defoe, John Locke, Isaac Newton, Jonathan Swift, and
malism, the pretense of neutrality, the relationship with political
Christopher Wren. Wennerlind guides us through these conversa-
power. This is a landmark work of scholarship whose influence will
tions toward an understanding of how contemporaries viewed the
be felt by classicists, historians, and legal scholars for decades.
precariousness of credit and the role of violence in the safeguarding
of trust. a l d o s C h i av o n e is Professor of Roman Law at the
Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane.
C a r l W e n n e r l i n d is Assistant Professor of
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58 w w w.hup.ha r va rd. e d u m h a r va rd u n i ve r s i t y p re s s
renaissanCe studies
w w w. h u p. h a r va rd. e d u m h a r va rd u n i ve r s i t y p ress 59
huManities
60 w w w.hup.ha r va rd. e d u m h a r va rd u n i ve r s i t y p re s s
perspectives on Categories of the temporal
pragmatism an inquiry into the forms of the finite intellect
classical, recent, and contemporary sebastian rödl
robert b. brandoM T R A N S L AT E D BY SIBYLLE SALEWSKI
Pragmatism has been reinvented in The publication of Frege’s Begriffschrift in 1879 forever altered the
every generation since its begin- landscape for many Western philosophers. Here, Sebastian Rödl
nings in the late nineteenth century. traces how the Fregean influence, written all over the development
This book, by one of today’s most and present state of analytic philosophy, led into an unholy alliance
distinguished contemporary heirs of of an empiricist conception of sensibility with an inferentialist con-
pragmatist philosophy, rereads car- ception of thought.
dinal figures in that tradition, distill- According to Rödl, Wittgenstein responded to the implosion
ing from their insights a way of Frege’s principle that the nature of thought consists in its infer-
forward from where we are now. ential order, but his Philosophical Investigations shied away from
Perspectives on Pragmatism offering an alternative. Rödl takes up the challenge by turning to
opens with a new account of the Kant and Aristotle as ancestors of this tradition, and in doing so
first three generations of classical identifies its unacknowledged question: the relation of judgment
American pragmatists, represented and truth to time. Rödl finds in the thought of these two men the
by Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey. Post- answer he urges us to consider: the temporal and the sensible, and
Deweyan pragmatism at midcentury is discussed in the work of the atemporal and the intelligible, are aspects of one reality and can-
Wilfrid Sellars, one of its most brilliant and original practitioners. not be understood independently of one another. In demonstrating
Sellars’ legacy in turn is traced through the thought of his admirer, that an investigation into the categories of the temporal can be
Richard Rorty, who further developed his predecessors’ ideas and undertaken as a contribution to logic, Rödl seeks to transform simul-
reiterated their importance both for intellectuals and for the wider taneously our philosophical understanding of both logic and time.
public sphere. The book closes with a clear description of the s e b a s t i a n r ö d l is Professor of Philosophy at the
author’s own analytic pragmatism, which combines all these ideas University of Basel, Switzerland.
with those of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and synthesizes that broad prag-
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which focuses on language and logic. The result is a treatise that
allows us to see American philosophy in its full scope, both its ori-
gins and its promise for tomorrow.
r o b e r t b . b r a n d o M is Distinguished Professor in
the Department of Philosophy, University of
Pittsburgh.
w w w. h u p. h a r va rd. e d u m h a r va rd u n i ve r s i t y p ress 61
Walter benjamin the ethical project
a philosophical portrait PhiliP kitCher
eli Friedlander
In a revolutionary approach to the problems of moral philosophy,
Walter Benjamin is often viewed as a cultural critic who produced Philip Kitcher makes a provocative proposal: Instead of conceiving
a vast array of brilliant and idiosyncratic pieces of writing with lit- ethical commands as divine revelations or as the discoveries of bril-
tle more to unify them than the feeling that they all bear the stamp liant thinkers, we should see our ethical practices as evolving over
of his “unclassifiable” genius. Eli Friedlander argues that Walter tens of thousands of years, as members of our species have worked
Benjamin’s corpus of writings must be out how to live together and prosper. Elaborating this radical vision,
recognized as a unique configuration Kitcher shows how the limited altruistic tendencies of our ancestors
of philosophy with an overarching enabled a fragile social life, how our forebears learned to regulate
coherence and a deep-seated commit- their interactions with one another, and how human societies even-
ment to engage the philosophical tra- tually grew into forms of previously unimaginable complexity. The
dition. most successful of the many millennia-old experiments in how to
live, he contends, survive in our values today.
Friedlander finds in Benjamin’s
early works initial formulations of the Drawing on natural science, social science, and philosophy
different dimensions of his philosophi- to develop an approach he calls “pragmatic naturalism,” Kitcher
cal thinking. He leads through them to reveals the power of an evolving ethics built around a few core prin-
Benjamin’s views on the dialectical ciples—including justice and cooperation—but leaving room for a
image, the nature of language, the rela- diversity of communities and modes of self-expression. Ethics
tion of beauty and truth, embodiment, emerges as a beautifully human phenomenon—permanently unfin-
dream and historical awakening, myth ished, collectively refined and distorted generation by generation. It
and history, as well as the afterlife and realization of meaning. Those is a project—the ethical project—in which our species has engaged
notions, which Friedlander articulates both in themselves and in throughout its history.
relation to central figures of the philosophical tradition, come P h i l i P k i t C h e r is John Dewey Professor of
together in the incomplete Arcades Project—the theater where Philosophy at Columbia University.
these earlier philosophical preoccupations were to be played out.
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time-bound particularities of human experience.
e l i F r i e d l a n d e r is Associate Professor of
Philosophy at Tel Aviv University, Israel.
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sCienCe & MediCine
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arthropod brains the primate mind
evolution, functional eleGance, and Built to connect With other minds
historical siGnificance Frans b. M. de Waal and
niCholas JaMes strausFeld Pier FranCesCo Ferrari
In the Descent of Man, “Monkey see, monkey do” may sound simple,
Darwin proposed that an but how an individual perceives and processes
ant’s brain, no larger than the behavior of another is one of the most com-
a pin’s head, must be plex and fascinating questions related to the
sophisticated to accomplish social life of humans and other primates. In The
all that it does. Yet today Primate Mind, prominent neuroscientists, psy-
many people still find it chologists, ethologists, and primatologists from
surprising that insects and around the world take a bottom-up approach
other arthropods show to primate social behavior by investigating how
behaviors that are much the primate mind connects with other minds
more complex than innate and exploring the shared neurological basis for
reflexes. They are products imitation, joint action, and empathy.
of versatile brains which, in a sense, think. In the past, there has been a tendency
Fascinating in their own right, arthropods provide funda- to ask all-or-nothing questions, such as whether primates possess a
mental insights into how brains process and organize sensory infor- theory of mind, have self-awareness, or have culture. A bottom-up
mation to produce learning, cooperation, and sociality. Richly approach asks what are the underlying cognitive processes of such
illustrated, Arthropod Brains elucidates the evolution of this knowl- capacities, some of which may be rather basic and widespread.
edge, beginning with nineteenth-century debates about how simi- Using methods ranging from developmental psychology to neuro-
lar arthropod brains were to vertebrate brains. This exchange had physiology and neuroimaging, experts explore the evolutionary
a far-reaching impact on attitudes toward evolution and animal ori- foundations that allow individuals to read the body language and
gins. Many renowned scientists, including Sigmund Freud, cut their respond to the emotions of others, interpret their actions and inten-
professional teeth studying arthropod nervous systems. Nicholas tions, and synchronize and coordinate activities. The remarkable
James Strausfeld weaves anatomical observations with evidence social sophistication of primates rests on these basic processes,
from molecular biology, neuroethology, cladistics, and the fossil which are extensively discussed in the pages of this volume.
record to explore the neurobiology of the largest phylum on earth.
F r a n s b . M . d e Wa a l is C. H. Candler Professor of
n i C h o l a s J a M e s s t r a u s F e l d is a Fellow of the Primate Behavior and Director of Living Links, part of
Royal Society of London and recipient of Guggenheim the Yerkes Primate Center, Emor y University, and is
and MacArthur Fellowships. He is a Regents’ Professor the editor of A n i m a l S o c i a l Co m p l e x i t y (HUP).
of Neuroscience at the University of Arizona, P i e r F r a n C e s C o F e r r a r i is Assistant Professor
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionar y Biology, and an in Biology at the School of Medicine at the Università
Adjunct Professor of Art. di Parma, Italy.
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american madness the retina
the rise and fall of dementia praecox an approachaBle part of the Brain
riChard noll revised edition
John e. doWlinG
In 1895, not a single case of dementia
praecox was reported in the United John Dowling’s The Retina, published in 1987, quickly became the
States. By 1912, tens of thousands of most widely recognized introduction to the structure and function
people with this diagnosis were locked of retinal cells. In this Revised Edition, Dowling draws on twenty-
up in asylums, hospitals, and jails. By five years of new research to produce an interdisciplinary synthesis
1927, it was fading away. How could focused on how retinal function contributes to our understanding
such a terrible disease be discovered, of brain mechanisms.
affect so many lives, and then turn out The retina is a part of the brain pushed out into the eye dur-
to be something else? ing development. It retains many characteristics of other brain
Richard Noll describes how the regions and hence has yielded significant insights on brain mecha-
discovery of this mysterious disorder nisms. In humans, visual signals from 126 million photoreceptors in
gave hope to the overworked asylum the retina funnel down to one million ganglion cells that convey at
doctors that they could at last least a dozen representations of a visual scene to higher brain
explain—though they could not cure—the miserable patients sur- regions. The Revised Edition includes new chapters on color vision
rounding them. The story of dementia praecox, and its eventual and retinal degenerations and genetics, as well as sections on reti-
replacement by the new concept of schizophrenia, also reveals how nal development and visual pigment biochemistry, and presents the
asylum physicians fought for their own respectability as science- latest knowledge and theories on how the retina is organized
focused medical professionals. When the concept of schizophrenia anatomically, physiologically, and pharmacologically. The clarity of
offered a biological understanding of this disorder, and hope for a writing and illustration that made The Retina a book of choice for
cure, psychiatry abandoned the old disease for the new. In this dra- a quarter century among graduate students, postdoctoral fellows,
matic story of a vanished diagnosis, Noll shows the co-dependency vision researchers, and teachers of upper-level courses on vision is
between a disease and the scientific status of the profession that retained in Dowling’s new easy-to-read Revised Edition.
treats it. The ghost of dementia praecox haunts today’s debates
about the latest generation of psychiatric disorders. J o h n e . d o W l i n G is Gordon and Llura Gund
Professor of Neurosciences and Head Tutor,
r i C h a r d n o l l is Associate Professor of Psychology Neurobiology, at Har vard University, and Professor of
at DeSales University. Ophthalmology (Neuroscience) at Har vard Medical
School.
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eConoMiCs & business / P o l i t i C s & l aW
The beauty of science may be pure and eternal, but its practice costs Economists and the governments they advise have based their
money. And scientists, being human, respond to incentives and dis- macroeconomic policies on the idea of a natural rate of unemploy-
incentives, in money and glory. The payoff for savvy career deci- ment. Government policy that pushes the rate below this point—
sions may be tenure at a highly ranked university or a prestigious about 6 percent—is apt to trigger an accelerating rate of inflation
award or a bump in salary. The risk may be getting none of that. that is hard to reverse, or so the argument goes. In this book,
At a time when science is seen as an engine of economic Servaas Storm and C. W. M. Naastepad make a strong case that this
growth, Paula Stephan brings a keen understanding of the cost- concept is flawed: that a stable non-accelerating inflation rate of
benefit calculations made by individuals and institutions as they unemployment (NAIRU), independent of macroeconomic policy,
compete for resources and reputation. Universities offload risks by does not exist. Consequently, government decisions based on the
hiring non-tenure-track faculty, requiring tenured faculty to pay NAIRU not only are misguided but also have huge and avoidable
salaries from grants, and staffing labs with foreign workers on tem- social costs, namely, high unemployment and sustained inequality.
porary visas. With funding tight, investigators pursue safe projects Skillfully merging theoretical and empirical analysis, Storm
rather than less fundable ones with uncertain but potentially path- and Naastepad show how the NAIRU’s neglect of labor’s impact on
breaking outcomes. Career prospects in science are dismal for the technological change and productivity growth eclipses the many
young, because of ever-lengthening apprenticeships, scarcity of per- positive contributions that labor and its regulation make to eco-
manent academic positions, and the difficulty of getting funded. nomic performance. When these positive effects are taken into
How Economics Shapes Science highlights the growing gap account, the authors contend, a more humane policy becomes fea-
between the haves and have-nots—especially between the bio- sible, one that would enhance productivity and technological
medical sciences and physics/engineering—and offers a persuasive progress while maintaining profits, thus creating conditions for low
vision of a more productive, more creative research system that unemployment and wider equality.
would lead and benefit the world.
s e r va a s s t o r M and C . W. M . n a a s t e Pa d are
Pa u l a s t e P h a n is Professor of Economics at Senior Lecturers in Economics at Delft University of
Georgia State University and Research Associate at Technology.
the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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translating empire the Upside-down
emulation and the oriGins of Constitution
political economy
MiChael s. Greve
soPhus a. reinert
Over the course of the nation’s history, the
Historians have traditionally used the discourses of free trade Constitution has been turned upside-down,
and laissez faire to explain the development of political economy Michael Greve argues in this provocative
during the Enlightenment. But from Sophus Reinert’s perspec- book. The Constitution’s vision of a feder-
tive, eighteenth-century political economy can be understood alism in which local, state, and federal gov-
only in the context of the often brutal imperial rivalries then ernment compete to satisfy the preferences
unfolding in Europe and its former colonies and the positive con- of individuals has given way to a coopera-
sequences of active economic policy. The idea of economic emu- tive, cartelized federalism that enables
lation, he shows, was the prism through which philosophers, interest groups to leverage power at every
ministers, reformers, and merchants thought about economics, level for their own benefit. Greve traces
industrial policy, and reform in the early modern period. With this inversion from the Constitution’s
the rise of the British Empire, European powers sought to selec- founding through today, dispelling much
tively emulate the British model. received wisdom along the way.
In mapping the general history of economic translations The Upside-Down Constitution shows how federalism’s
between 1500 and 1849, and particularly tracing the successive transformation was a response to states’ demands, not an impo-
translations of the Bristol merchant John Cary’s seminal 1695 sition on them. From the nineteenth-century judicial elabora-
Essay on the State of England, Reinert makes a compelling case tion of a competitive federal order, to the New Deal
for the way that England’s aggressively nationalist policies, espe- transformation, to the contemporary Supreme Court’s impov-
cially extensive tariffs and other market interventions, were erished understanding of constitutional structure, and the “devo-
adopted in France, Italy, Germany, and Scandinavia before pro- lution” in vogue today, Greve describes a trend that will lead to
viding the blueprint for independence in the New World. Rela- more government and fiscal profligacy, not less. Taking aim at
tively forgotten today, Cary’s work served as the basis for an both the progressive heirs of the New Deal and the vocal origi-
international move toward using political economy as the prime nalists of our own time, The Upside-Down Constitution
tool of policymaking and industrial expansion. explains why the current fiscal crisis will soon compel a funda-
mental renegotiation of a new federalism grounded in constitu-
s o P h u s a . r e i n e r t is Assistant Professor of
tional principles.
Business Administration at Har vard Business
School. M i C h a e l s . G r e v e is John G. Searle Scholar at
the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy
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the founding fathers v. JLa/ Journal of Legal
the people analysis
paradoxes of american democracy http://jla.hup.harvard.edu
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the Crucible of Consent democracy without
american child rearinG and the forGinG of politics
liBeral society
steven bilakoviCs
JaMes e. bloCk
For many years in Western democracies, politics and politicians
A democratic government requires the consent of its citizens. But have been thought of with contempt by the majority of citizens.
how is that consent formed? Why should free people submit to any Steven Bilakovics argues that this disdain of politics follows neither
rule? Pursuing this question to its source for the first time, The from the discontents of our liberal political system nor from the pre-
Crucible of Consent argues that the explanation is to be found in occupations of a consumer society. Extending Tocqueville’s analy-
the nursery and schoolroom. Only in the receptive and less visible sis of the modern democratic way of life, he traces the sources of
realms of childhood could the necessary synthesis of self-direction political cynicism to democracy itself.
and integrative social conduct—so contradictory in logic yet so func- Democratic society’s characteristic openness—its promise
tional in practice—be established without provoking reservation or of transcendent freedom and unlimited pos-
resistance. sibility—renders the everyday politics of
From the early post-revolutionary republic, two liberal child- argument and persuasion absurd by com-
rearing institutions—the family and schooling—took on a respon- parison. Persuasion is devalued, self-inter-
sibility crucial to the growing nation: to produce the willing and est or self-expression takes the place of
seemingly self-initiated conformability on which the society’s claim argument, and political life is diminished by
of freedom and demand for order depended. Developing the insti- the absence of mediating talk. Bilakovics
tutional mechanisms for generating early consent required the trans- sees this trend across the political land-
formation of childrearing theory and practice over the course of the scape—in the clashing authenticities of the
nineteenth century. By exploring the systematic reframing of rela- “culture war,” the perennial pursuit of the
tions between generations that resulted, this book offers new insight political outsider to set things right again,
into the consenting citizenry at the foundation of liberal society, the the call for a postpartisan politics, rising
novel domestic and educational structures that made it possible, demands on government alongside falling
and the unprecedented role created for the young in the modern expectations of what government can do,
world. and a political rhetoric that is at once petty and hyperbolic. To work
toward a politics that is both civil and vital, Bilakovics calls on us to
J a M e s e . b l o C k is Associate Professor of Political
recognize ourselves as citizens still capable of persuading and being
Science at DePaul University.
persuaded in turn.
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h a rva r d C e n t e r F o r h e l l e n i C s t u d i e s / v i l l a i tat t i
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d av i d r o C k e F e l l e r C e n t e r F o r l at i n a M e r i C a n s t u d i e s / h a r va r d G r a d uat e s C h o o l o F d e s i G n
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duMbarton oaks
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duMbarton oaks
The history of Pre-Columbian collecting is a social and aesthetic his- In the Andes, a long history of
tory—of ideas, people and organizations, and objects. This richly research on burial records and
illustrated volume examines these histories by considering the col- burial contexts exists for the pur-
lection and display of Pre-Columbian pose of reconstructing cultural
objects in Europe, Latin America, and the affiliation, chronology, socioeco-
United States. Some of the thirteen essays nomic status, grave content, and
locate the collecting process within its human body treatment. Less
broader cultural setting in order to explain attention is paid to the larger
how and why such collections were question of how mortuary prac-
formed, while others consider how col- tices functioned in different cul-
lections have served as documents of cul- tures. Tombs for the Living:
ture within the disciplines of archaeology Andean Mortuary Practices
and anthropology, and as objects of fine art (originally released in 1995)
or aesthetic statements within the art and examines this broader issue by looking at the mortuary practices
art historical worlds. Nearly all contem- that created a connection between the living and the dead; the role
plate how such collections have been used of wealth and ancestors in cosmological schemes; the location, con-
as active signifiers of political, economic, struction, and sociopolitical implications of tombs and cemeteries;
and cultural power. The thirteen essays were originally presented at and the art and iconography of death. By examining rich sets of
a symposium commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Pre- archaeological, ethnographic, and ethnohistoric data, the thirteen
Columbian Collection at Dumbarton Oaks. They continue to be essays continue to enrich our understanding of the context and
groundbreaking contributions to the histories of collecting and Pre- meaning of the mortuary traditions in the Andes.
Columbian art.
toM d. dillehay is Distinguished Professor in the
elizabeth hill boone is Martha and Donald Robertson Department of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University.
Chair in Latin American Art at Tulane University.
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Peabody MuseuM Press
Remo Guidieri; and Morton Feldman and Francesco Pellizzi. archaeologist and Director of
Collections at the Peabody
FranCesCo Pellizzi is Associate of Middle American Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.
Ethnology, Harvard University.
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"Mar tín de Murúa, “inc a urcun and the tired stone”, historia del o rigen y arChaeoLogy / Native ameriCaN stUdies
G enealogía real de los reyes del Piru, de sus hechos, costumbres,
trajes, maneras de gobierno, Folio 37v ; c a. 1589 c a. 1613; image: M imbres Classic Polychrome
Private Collec tion. Photo tbFC."
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harvard universit y asi a C e n t e r
Between 1876 and 1945, thousands of Often depicted as one of the world’s most strictly isolationist and
Japanese civilians—merchants, traders, relentlessly authoritarian regimes, North Korea has remained terra
prostitutes, journalists, teachers, and incognita to foreign researchers as a site for anthropological field-
adventurers—left their homeland for a work. Given the difficulty of gaining access to the country and its
new life on the Korean peninsula. people, is it possible to examine the cultural logic and social dynam-
Although most migrants were guided pri- ics of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea?
marily by personal profit and only sec- In this innovative book, Sonia Ryang casts new light onto
ondarily by national interest, their the study of North Korean culture and
mundane lives and the state’s ambitions society by reading literary texts as sources
were inextricably entwined in the rise of of ethnographic data. Analyzing and inter-
imperial Japan. Despite having formed preting the rituals and language embodied
one of the largest colonial communities in in a range of literary works published in
the twentieth century, these settlers and the 1970s and 1980s, Ryang focuses crit-
their empire-building activities have all but vanished from the pub- ical attention on three central themes—
lic memory of Japan’s presence in Korea. love, war, and self—that reflect the nearly
Drawing on previously unused materials in multi-language complete overlap of the personal, social,
archives, Jun Uchida looks behind the official organs of state and and political realms in North Korean soci-
military control to focus on the obscured history of these settlers, ety. The ideology embedded in these pro-
especially the first generation of “pioneers” between the 1910s and pagandistic works laid the cultural
1930s who actively mediated the colonial management of Korea as foundation for the nation as a “perpetual
its grassroots movers and shakers. By uncovering the downplayed ritual state,” where social structures and
but dynamic role played by settler leaders who operated among personal relations are suspended in tribute to Kim Il Sung, the polit-
multiple parties—between the settler community and the Govern- ical and spiritual leader who died in 1994 but lives eternally in the
ment-General, between Japanese colonizer and Korean colonized, hearts of his people and still weaves the social fabric of present-day
between colony and metropole—this study examines how these North Korea.
“brokers of empire” advanced their commercial and political inter-
sonia ryanG is Professor of Anthropology and
ests while contributing to the expansionist project of imperial Japan.
International Studies and Stanley Family and Korea
Jun uChida is Assistant Professor of History at Stanford Foundation Chair of Korean Studies at the University of
University. Iowa.
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harvard divinit y sChool / ukrainian researCh institute
Iblis, the character in the Qur’an who refuses God’s com- The Battle of Poltava
mand to bow to Adam and is punished by eviction from has long been recog-
heaven, is commonly depicted as a fiendish character no dif- nized as a crucial event
ferent from Satan. However, some in the geopolitical his-
Sufi stories describe Iblis as the ulti- tory of Europe and a
mate monotheist, a lover of God, decisive point in the
but tragically rejected. This volume Great Northern War
seeks the origins of this alternative between Sweden and
Iblis within the Qur’an itself, by the Russian Empire.
looking at each of the seven The Russian victory at
Qur’anic versions of the Iblis story Poltava contributed to
as a unique rendering of the basic narra- the decline of Sweden as a Great Power and was a major setback to
tive. Whitney Bodman finds that the likely Ukrainian independence. Hetman Ivan Mazepa, who joined forces
earliest version of the Iblis story presents with the Swedish king Charles XII against Tsar Peter I, remains a
him as a tragic figure, an elder sibling of controversial figure even today.
Adam unjustly displaced from God’s favor. In 2009, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute gathered
Subsequent renderings present an Iblis scholars from around the globe and from many fields of study—
more hostile to humanity, and in the last two abbreviated versions history, military affairs, philology, linguistics, literature, art history,
Iblis becomes an incidental figure in the extended story of Adam. music—to mark the 300th anniversary of the battle. This book is a
In modern Arab literature the character of Iblis is deployed collection of their papers on such topics as the international, Russ-
to reveal tragic dimensions of modern life. Although it is often said ian, and Ukrainian contexts of the battle; Mazepa in European cul-
that there is no place for tragedy in Islam, Bodman’s careful exam- ture; the language and literature of the period; art and architecture;
ination of the Iblis story shows that the tragic exists even in the history and memory; and fact, fiction, and the literary imagination.
Qur’an and forms part of the vision of medieval Sufi mystics and Mazepa himself is the focus of many of the articles—a hero to
modern social critics alike. Ukrainians but a treacherous figure to Russians. This book provides
a fresh look at this watershed event and sheds new light on the lega-
Whitney s. bodMan is Associate Professor of
cies of the battle’s major players.
Comparative Religion at Austin Presbyterian Theological
Seminary. serhii Plokhy is Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of
Ukrainian History at Harvard University.
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d e Pa r t M e n t o F C e lt i C l a n G uaG e s & l i t e r at u r e s / h a r va r d s C h o o l o F P u b l i C h e a lt h
82 w w w.hup.ha r va rd. e d u m h a r va rd u n i ve r s i t y p re s s
pa p e r b ac k s
A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe,
killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter
Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the
map of the modern world.
“[I T ] SUCCEEDS BRILLIANTLY. I T IS HUGE BOTH IN ITS SCENE - SETTING AND ITS UNFOLDING
NARRATIVE DETAIL …I T IS TO W ILSON ’ S CREDIT THAT HE CAN BOTH OFFER THE READER A
DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THIS TERRIBLE AND COMPLICATED WAR AND STEP BACK TO GIVE DUE
SUMMARIES . H IS SCHOLARSHIP SEEMS TO ME REMARKABLE , HIS PROSE LIGHT AND LOVELY, HIS
JUDGMENTS FAIR . T HIS IS A HEAVYWEIGHT BOOK , NO DOUBT. S OMETIMES , THOUGH , THE VERY
BEST OF THEM HAVE TO BE .”
p e t e r H . W i l s o n i s G . F. G ra nt Pro fe s s o r o f H i s to r y at t h e U n i ve r s i t y
of Hull.
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The Grand Strategy of the The Evolution of
Byzantine Empire Childhood
eDWarD n. luttWak rElaTionships, EmoTion, mind
Melvin konner
In this book, the distinguished writer Edward Luttwak presents the
H an Atlantic book of the Year
grand strategy of the eastern Roman empire we know as Byzantine,
H a Times Literary Supplement book of the Year
which lasted more than twice as long as the more familiar western
H an amazon.com editors’ pick for best books of the
Roman empire, eight hundred years by Year in science
the shortest definition.
“LUTTWAK TELLS HIS STORY Looking at the entire range of human evolu-
WELL . H E IS ESPECIALLY tionary history, Melvin Konner tells the com-
GOOD ON FINE DETAIL . pelling and complex story of how cross-cultural
W HETHER DESCRIBING THE and universal characteristics of our growth
LETHAL ‘ COMPOSITE REFLEX from infancy to adolescence became rooted in
BOW ’ USED BY H UN ARCHERS genetically inherited characteristics of the
OR THE COMPLEX BUT human brain.
SURPRISINGLY EFFICIENT
BYZANTINE TAX SYSTEM , HE IS “T HIS MONUMENTAL BOOK … BREATHTAKINGLY
BOTH VIVID AND EXACT.” INCLUSIVE AND PAINSTAKINGLY PARTICULAR —
—E RIC O RMSBY, EXHAUSTIVELY EXPLORES THE BIOLOGICAL
WALL S TREET J OURNAL EVOLUTION OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND
SPECIFICALLY THE BEHAVIOR OF CHILDREN .”
“N OTHING LUTTWAK WRITES IS UNINTERESTING …I T IS
—B ENJAMIN S CHWARZ , T HE ATLANTIC
RARE AND REFRESHING TO FIND SUCH DEEP RESEARCH ON A GREAT
EMPIRE OF THE PAST DEPLOYED SO ELOQUENTLY FOR THE GUIDANCE “T HE E VOLUTION OF C HILDHOOD IS ONE OF THE MOST
OF THE BELEAGUERED GOVERNMENTS OF THE PRESENT.” REMARKABLE BOOKS I HAVE READ…KONNER RE - ENCHANTS
—G LEN B OWERSOCK , LONDON R EVIEW OF B OOKS CHILD ’ S PLAY, FOR INSTANCE , BY EXPLAINING ITS MOLECULAR AND
EVOLUTIONARY BACKSTORY. T HAT HE IS ABLE TO DO THIS IN A
e D Wa r D n . l u t t Wa k i s a S e n i o r A s s o c i ate at t h e LIVELY, ACCESSIBLE MANNER IS NO MEAN FEAT. A LONG THE WAY, HE
Center fo r St rate gi c a n d I nte r n at i o n a l St u d i e s. MAKES A COMPELLING CASE FOR HOW HUMANS CAME TO ACQUIRE
COMPLEX CULTURE .”
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B i o l o g y at E m o r y U n i ve r s i t y.
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The Art of the Sonnet Duel at Dawn
stepHen burt anD DaviD Mikics hEroEs, marTyrs, and ThE risE of
modErn maThEmaTics
H a First Things notable book of the Year
aMir alexanDer
Few poetic forms have found more
uses than the sonnet in English, and In this strikingly original book that takes us from Paris to St. Peters-
none is now more recognizable. The burg, Norway to Transylvania, Amir Alexander introduces us to
Art of the Sonnet collects one hun- national heroes and outcasts, innocents, swindlers, and martyrs—
dred exemplary sonnets of the Eng- all uncommonly gifted creators of modern mathematics.
lish language (and a few sonnets in
translation), representing highlights “T HROUGH THE LIFE STORIES OF THREE OF THE PERIOD ’ S MOST
in the history of the sonnet, accom- CONTROVERSIAL FIGURES , É VARISTE
panied by short commentaries on G ALOIS , N IELS H ENRIK A BEL AND J ANOS
each of the poems. The commen- B OLYAI , A LEXANDER REVEALS HOW THEIR
TRANSGRESSIVE WORK CHANGED
taries by Stephen Burt and David
MATHEMATICS AND LED TO THEIR
Mikics offer new perspectives and
LIONIZATION AS R OMANTIC HEROES .”
insights, and, taken together, demon-
—M ICHAEL PATRICK B RADY,
strate the enduring as well as changing nature of the sonnet.
F ORBES ONLINE
“N EWCOMERS TO POETRY AND LONGTIME READERS ALIKE WILL FIND
“A LEXANDER SEES G ALOIS ’ S DEATH AS A
THIS A RICH AND REWARDING VOLUME .”
TURNING POINT IN THE HISTORY OF
—L AUREN W INNER , B OOKS & C ULTURE MODERN MATHEMATICS , A POINT AT
WHICH MATH BECAME LESS A STUDY OF
“B URT AND M IKICS HAVE WRITTEN AN ILLUMINATING TEXT THAT
NATURE THAN A PURELY ABSTRACT REALM
PROMISES MANY HOURS OF READING PLEASURE AND GREATER
OF ITS OWN , UNCONTAMINATED BY THE
UNDERSTANDING OF THIS POETIC FORM .”
EXTERNAL WORLD . HE SKILLFULLY TELLS
—S USAN L. P ETERS , L IBRARY J OURNAL THE STORY OF THIS CHANGE , WEAVING IT AROUND THE OFTEN
TRAGIC LIVES OF THE MATHEMATICIANS MOST RESPONSIBLE FOR THE
“B URT AND M IKICS WRITE TWO OR THREE PAGES ABOUT EACH OF CHANGE …[A] MARVELOUS HISTORY.”
[ THE ] POEMS , AND MOSTLY THESE ARE CLEAR AND PATIENT GUIDES
TO RHYTHM AND FORM , ALLUSIONS , THEIR RELATIONS TO THE LIVES
—M ARTIN G ARDNER , N EW C RITERION
OF THEIR AUTHORS …T HEY SAY JUST THE RIGHT THING TO MAKE
“T HIS IS A FASCINATING AND PROVOCATIVE BOOK .”
THEIR READERS TURN BACK TO THE POEMS .”
—TONY M ANN , T IMES H IGHER E DUCATION
—COLIN B URROW, LONDON R EVIEW OF B OOKS
a M i r a l e x a n D e r i s a h i s to r i a n a n d w r i te r i n
s t e p H e n b u r t i s A s s o c i ate Pro fe s s o r o f E n g l i s h
Lo s A n g e l e s.
at Har vard U n i ve r s i t y. D av i D M i k i c s i s Pro fe s s o r
of English at t h e U n i ve r s i t y o f H o u s to n . neW Histories of science, tecHnologY, anD MeDicine |
CLOTH: APRIL 2010 / ISBN 978-0-674-04661-0 |
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paper: isbn 978-0-674-06180-4 | $19.95 (£14.95 uk) | poetrY
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The Nesting Season Myths about Suicide
cuckoos, cuckolds, and ThE tHoMas Joiner
invEnTion of monogamy
bernD HeinricH Around the world, more than a million
people die by suicide each year. Yet
many of us know very little about a
One of the world’s great naturalists and nature writers, Bernd
tragedy that may strike our own loved
Heinrich shows us how the sensual beauty of birds can open
ones—and much of what we think we
our eyes to a hidden evolutionary
know is wrong. This clear and powerful
process.
book dismantles myth after myth to
“P ERHAPS THE BEST NATURAL bring compassionate and accurate
HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR ! understanding of a massive interna-
H EINRICH ILLUMINATES ONE OF THE tional killer.
HOTTEST TOPICS IN CONTEMPORARY
BIOLOGY IN A VERY ACCESSIBLE WAY. “M YTHS ABOUT S UICIDE SEEKS TO
A GREAT READ .” DEBUNK THE MYRIAD WAYS THAT
SUICIDE IS STIGMATIZED BY IGNORANCE ,
—WAYNE M ONES ,
DISGUST, CONTEMPT, AND CALLOUSNESS .”
AUDUBON M AGAZINE BLOG
—P ETER M ONAGHAN , C HRONICLE OF H IGHER E DUCATION
“LOVE , H EINRICH WRITES , IS AN
ADAPTIVE FEELING THAT MANY ANIMALS “I N THIS VERY READABLE BOOK , J OINER ’ S WIDE RANGING
SHARE , ONE THAT CAUSES THEM TO ACT KNOWLEDGE OF THE SUBJECT LEADS TO DEEPLY PENETRATING
IRRATIONALLY FOR THE SAKE OF REPRODUCTION . HE SUGGESTS THOUGHTS ON THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SUICIDE . HE ATTACKS MYTHS
MONOGAMY AMONG BIRDS EVOLVED IN A SIMILAR WAY, AS A FROM MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES , DRAWING ON MATERIALS FROM
SEXUAL STRATEGY FOR REARING YOUNG IN DEMANDING BIBLICAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT, SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH STUDIES
ENVIRONMENTS . D RAWING HEAVILY ON PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS AND CLINICAL CASE STUDIES , ANIMAL STUDIES , LITERATURE ,
AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, H EINRICH … SHEDS LIGHT ON A WIDE POPULAR CULTURE , AND FILM . T HE BOOK ALSO ADVANCES
ARRAY OF SUBJECTS , FROM THE PREVALENCE OF LESBIAN J OINER ’ S OWN THEORY OF SUICIDE : PEOPLE WHO KILL THEMSELVES
ALBATROSS IN H AWAII TO THE PECULIAR DYNAMICS OF BIRD SEX .” FEEL THAT THEY ARE A BURDEN TO THEIR SOCIALLY SIGNIFICANT
OTHERS AND FEEL ALIENATED FROM SOCIETY.”
—J ED L IPINSKI , S ALON
—W. F EIGELMAN , C HOICE
b e r n D H e i n r i c H i s Pro fe s s o r E m e r i t u s o f B i o l o g y
at the Un i ve r s i t y o f Ve r m o nt. H e h a s w r i t te n t H o M a s J o i n e r i s D i s t i n g u i s h e d R e s e a rc h
several m e m o i r s o f h i s l i fe i n s c i e n ce a n d n at u re. Pro fe s s o r a n d B r i g ht- B u r to n Pro fe s s o r o f
Bumbleb e e Eco n o m i c s ( H U P ) wa s t w i ce a n o m i n e e Ps yc h o l o g y at Fl o r i d a St ate U n i ve r s i t y a n d t h e
for the A m e r i c a n B o o k Awa rd i n S c i e n ce. a u t h o r o f W hy Pe o p l e D i e by S u i c i d e ( H U P ) .
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Brain Storm The Shock of the Global
ThE flaws in ThE sciEncE of sEx diffErEncEs ThE 1970s in pErspEcTivE
rebecca M. JorDan-Young eDiteD bY niall ferguson, cHarles s.
Maier, erez Manela, anD Daniel J. sargent
Female and male brains are differ-
ent, thanks to hormones coursing The Shock of the Global examines the structural upheaval of the
through the brain before birth. 1970s by transcending the standard frameworks of national borders
That’s taught as fact in psychology and superpower relations. It reveals for the first time an interna-
textbooks, academic journals, and tional system in the throes of enduring transformations.
bestselling books. And these dif-
ferences explain everything from “ [A] MASTERFUL BOOK .”
sexual orientation to gender iden- —M ICHAEL C ASE , I RISH T IMES
tity, to why there aren’t more
women physicists or more stay-at- “A SERIOUS AND IMPRESSIVE IN - DEPTH
STUDY OF AN UNJUSTLY NEGLECTED
home dads. In this compelling
DECADE .”
book, Rebecca Jordan-Young takes
on the evidence that sex differ- —B ILL P ERRETT, T HE AGE
ences are hardwired into the brain. “A GRAB - BAG OF LIVELY ACADEMIC
ESSAYS THAT COVERS EVERYTHING FROM
“W HAT J ORDAN -YOUNG ’ S ANALYSIS UNCOVERED IS BY TURNS
THE PROLIFERATION OF GLOBAL NON -
FASCINATING AND APPALLING …T HIS BOOK IS NOT ONLY A TONIC ,
GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS TO THE
IT ’ S ALSO FULL OF SCIENTIFIC INSIGHTS PRESENTED IN PLAIN ,
WORLDWIDE WOMEN ’ S RIGHTS MOVEMENT
INTELLIGENT PROSE — AN ABSORBING READ , IF YOU ’ VE EVER
TO SMALLPOX ERADICATION .”
WONDERED WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE SECRET PARTS OF
YOUR ATTIC .”
—C HRISTIAN C ARYL ,
F OREIGN P OLICY
—S ARA L IPPINCOTT, LOS A NGELES T IMES
n i a l l f e r g u s o n i s t h e L a u re n ce A . Ti s c h
“[A] DEVASTATINGLY SMART AND DEFINITIVE CRITIQUE …J ORDAN -
Pro fe s s o r o f H i s to r y at H a r va rd U n i ve r s i t y, a n d
YOUNG HAS DONE AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF WORK TO UNTANGLE
Wi l l i a m Z i e g l e r Pro fe s s o r at H a r va rd B u s i n e s s
THE GENDER CLAIMS . W E OUGHT TO READ HER , CITE HER , THANK
S c h o o l. c H a r l e s s . M a i e r i s t h e Le ve re t t
HER . A ND THEN , LET ’ S MOVE ON .”
S a l to n s t a l l Pro fe s s o r o f H i s to r y at H a r va rd
—A MANDA S CHAFFER , S LATE U n i ve r s i t y. e r e z M a n e l a i s Pro fe s s o r o f H i s to r y,
H a r va rd U n i ve r s i t y. D a n i e l J . s a r g e n t i s
r e b e c c a M . J o r D a n - Yo u n g i s a s o c i o m e d i c a l
A s s i s t a nt Pro fe s s o r o f H i s to r y at t h e U n i ve r s i t y o f
scientist an d a n A s s i s t a nt Pro fe s s o r o f Wo m e n’s Ca l i fo r n i a , B e r ke l e y.
Studies at B a r n a rd Co l l e g e, Co l u m b i a U n i ve r s i t y.
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w w w. h u p. h a r va rd. e d u m h a r va rd u n i ve r s i t y p ress 87
We Ain’t What We Trotsky
Ought To Be a Biography
ThE Black frEEdom sTrugglE from robert service
EmancipaTion To oBama H Winner of the Duff cooper prize
H a New Yorker reviewers’ favorite nonfiction book of
stepHen tuck the Year
H a Choice outstanding academic title of the Year H an Independent best History book of the Year
H a Choice outstanding academic title
NOW. I T ’ S ALL HERE —THE GREAT HAVE BEEN BETTER . S ERVICE , WHO HAS
SPEECHES AND MOMENTS — BUT ALSO WRITTEN STUDIES OF L ENIN AND
IT ’ S THE NOD TO THE COMMON WOMAN AND MAN THAT LIFTS S TALIN , DOES AN EXCELLENT JOB OF
THIS NARRATIVE A NOTCH ABOVE SIMILAR TITLES .” DISPENSING WITH SUCH NOTIONS …S ERVICE ’ S BOOK , UNLIKE MUCH
WRITING ABOUT T ROTSKY, IS THE WORK OF A HISTORIAN , NOT AN
—PATRIK H ENRY B ASS , E SSENCE
IDEOLOGUE , AND THE BETTER FOR IT.”
POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT TO REEL IN UNTOLD STORIES AND MERCILESS IDEOLOGUE , WHO DID NOT HESITATE TO DRAG HIS
UNSUNG HEROES .” COUNTRY KICKING , SCREAMING AND BLEEDING TOWARD THE UTOPIA
HE DREAMED OF CREATING FOR IT.”
—P UBLISHERS W EEKLY
—J OSHUA R UBENSTEIN , WALL S TREET J OURNAL
s t e p H e n t u c k i s U n i ve r s i t y Le c t u re r i n A m e r i c a n
H istor y at Pe m b ro ke Co l l e g e, Ox fo rd U n i ve r s i t y. r o b e r t s e r v i c e i s a Fe l l ow o f t h e B r i t i s h
Ac a d e my a n d Pro fe s s o r o f R u s s i a n H i s to r y at
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The Crisis of Capitalist Saturday Is for Funerals
Democracy unitY DoW anD Max essex
ricHarD a. posner H a Choice outstanding academic title of the Year
w w w. h u p. h a r va rd. e d u m h a r va rd u n i ve r s i t y p ress 89
Saving Schools The Program Era
from horacE mann To virTual lEarning posTwar ficTion and ThE risE of crEaTivE wriTing
paul e. peterson Mark Mcgurl
H Winner of the truman capote award for
Saving Schools traces the story of the rise, decline, and potential literary criticism
resurrection of American public schools through the lives and ideas
of six mission-driven reformers: Horace Mann, John Dewey, In The Program Era, Mark McGurl offers
Martin Luther King, Jr., Albert a fundamental reinterpretation of postwar
Shanker, William Bennett, and American fiction, asserting that it can be
James Coleman. properly understood only in relation to
the rise of mass higher education and the
“T HE BEST BOOKS SHOW YOU A
creative writing program. McGurl asks
NEW WAY OF THINKING ABOUT A
both how the patronage of the university
FAMILIAR ISSUE .PAUL P ETERSON ’ S
has reorganized American literature and
S AVING S CHOOLS : F ROM H ORACE
M ANN TO V IRTUAL L EARNING , how the increasing intimacy of writing
OFFERS A NEW WAY OF THINKING and schooling can be brought to bear on
ABOUT EDUCATION REFORM BY a reading of this literature.
RECOUNTING THE HISTORIES OF
REFORMERS …I ENCOURAGE YOU TO “M C G URL’ S BOOK IS NOT A HISTORY OF
H APPILY, THE BOOK LACKS HISTORY OF TWENTIETH - CENTURY FICTION , IN WHICH THE WORK OF
CONDEMNATIONS , SANCTIMONY, OR DEWY- EYED PLATITUDES , A MERICAN WRITERS FROM T HOMAS W OLFE TO B HARATI
WHICH PUTS IT IN RARE COMPANY.” M UKHERJEE IS READ AS REFLECTIONS OF, AND REFLECTIONS ON ,
THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM THROUGH WHICH SO MANY WRITERS
—D ANIEL W ILLINGHAM , WASHINGTON P OST BLOG
NOW PASS …T HE P ROGRAM E RA IS AN IMPRESSIVE AND
NUMEROUS ASPECTS OF EDUCATION HISTORY OUT OF THE CLOUDS —LOUIS M ENAND, N EW YORKER
AND INTO FOCUS WITH EXCELLENT CONTEXT AND BACKGROUND .
A ND IT ’ S AN ENJOYABLE READ .” “A N INTELLIGENT, PERSUASIVE AND THOUGHT- PROVOKING BOOK ;
BY SHIFTING THE FOCUS AWAY FROM INDIVIDUAL WRITERS TOWARDS
— L AURA I MPELLIZZERI , A SSOCIATED P RESS
THE INSTITUTIONS THAT NURTURED ( OR INHIBITED ) THEM , M C G URL
BREAKS NEW CRITICAL GROUND .”
pa u l e . p e t e r s o n i s H e n r y Le e S h at t u ck
Professo 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. —PATRICK L ANGLEY, T IMES L ITERARY S UPPLEMENT
90 w w w.hup.ha r va rd. e d u m h a r va rd u n i ve r s i t y p re s s
Evolution Lake Views
ThE firsT four Billion yEars This world and ThE univErsE
eDiteD bY MicHael ruse anD JosepH travis steven Weinberg
FOREWORD BY E. O. W I L S O N H a Physics World top ten book of 2010
Spanning evolutionary science from its inception to its latest find- Steven Weinberg, considered by many to be the preeminent theo-
ings, from discoveries and data to philosophy and history, this book retical physicist alive today, continues the wide-ranging reflections
is the most complete, authorita- that have also earned him a reputation as, in the words of New York
tive, and inviting one-volume Times reporter James Glanz, “a powerful writer of prose that can
introduction to evolutionary biol- illuminate—and sting.”
ogy available.
“W EINBERG IS FAMOUS AS A SCIENTIST,
“I F EVER THERE WERE AN BUT HE THINKS DEEPLY AND WRITES
EDUCATION IN A BOOK , THERE ’ S ELEGANTLY ABOUT MANY OTHER THINGS
ONE IN THIS MASSIVE VOLUME … BESIDES SCIENCE . T HIS COLLECTION OF
W HAT IS MOST PROBABLY THE HIS WRITINGS IS CONCERNED WITH
COMMEMORATIVE PAR EXCELLENCE HISTORY, POLITICS , AND SCIENCE IN
OF THE O RIGIN OF S PECIES ROUGHLY EQUAL MEASURE .”
SESQUICENTENNIAL .” —F REEMAN DYSON ,
—R AY O LSON , B OOKLIST N EW YORK R EVIEW OF B OOKS
( STARRED REVIEW )
“T HIS COLLECTION OF ESSAYS PROVES
“H ALF ESSAY COLLECTION , HALF ENCYCLOPEDIA , IT ’ S PACKED WITH ONCE AGAIN THAT W EINBERG IS MORE
EVERYTHING YOU ’ LL EVER WANT OR NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE THAN JUST A TOP -TIER PHYSICIST. HE IS
SCIENCE OF EVOLUTION .” ALSO ONE OF THE FEW SCIENTISTS BRAVE
w w w. h u p. h a r va rd. e d u m h a r va rd u n i ve r s i t y p ress 91
stephen Jay gould’s journey of discovery is now available in this
selection of paperbacks from Harvard university press
92 w w w.hup.ha r va rd. e d u
Leonardo’s Mountain of Clams and the I Have Landed
Diet of Worms ThE End of a BEginning in naTural hisTory
Essays on naTural hisTory Gould’s final essay collection is based on his remarkable series for
Natural History magazine—exactly 300 consecutive essays, with never
With customary brilliance, Gould examines the puzzles and paradoxes
a month missed, published from 1974 to 2001. Both an intellectually
great and small that build nature’s and humanity’s diversity and order.
thrilling journey into the nature of scientific discovery and the most per-
“N O ONE HAS WRITTEN OF OUR ILLUSIONS ABOUT PROGRESS IN NATURE sonal book he ever published.
WITH MORE WIT AND LEARNING THAN S TEPHEN J AY G OULD .”
“T HESE ESSAYS HAVE ENTRANCED MILLIONS WITH THE WONDERS OF
—O LIVER S ACKS
EVOLUTION . O NE OF THE JOYS OF READING ABOUT GOOD SCIENCE IS THE
CHANCE NOT ONLY TO OBSERVE HOW SCIENTIFIC THEORY WORKS , BUT ALSO
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h a r va rd u n i ve r s i t y p ress 93
The Temple of Jerusalem Westminster Abbey
siMon golDHill ricHarD JenkYns
It was destroyed nearly 2,000 years ago, and yet the Temple Westminster Abbey is both an apprecia-
of Jerusalem—cultural memory, symbol, and site—remains tion of an architectural masterpiece and
one of the most powerful, and most contested, buildings in the an exploration of the building’s shifting
world. This glorious structure, imagined and re-imagined, meanings. We hear the voices of those
reconsidered and reinterpreted again who have described its forms, moods,
and again over two millennia, emerges and ceremonies, from Shakespeare and
in all its historical, cultural, and reli- Voltaire to Dickens and Henry James;
gious significance in Simon Goldhill’s we see how rulers have made use of it,
account. from medieval kings to modern prime
ministers. In a highly original book, clas-
“T HE T EMPLE IN J ERUSALEM , AS sicist and cultural historian Richard
S IMON G OLDHILL REMINDS US IN THIS Jenkyns teaches us to look at this micro-
ADMIRABLY READABLE ACCOUNT OF
cosm of history with new eyes.
ITS LONG AND TORTURED HISTORY,
HAS ALWAYS BEEN MORE THAN A HOLY
“W ESTMINSTER A BBEY IS A SECULAR HYMN TO A GREAT CHURCH .
PLACE : IT IS ABOVE ALL AN IDEA — A MYTH ,
J ENKYNS , AN OXFORD PROFESSOR WITH A FINE HISTORICAL
A FANTASY, A UTOPIAN DREAM THAT HAS
SENSIBILITY, IS A WITTY AND ERUDITE TEACHER .”
DOMINATED THE IMAGINATION FOR THREE
MILLENNIA AND CONTINUES TO ACT AS A
—D AVID A RMSTRONG , S AN F RANCISCO C HRONICLE
SOURCE OF CONTENTION …H IS BOOK IS THOROUGHLY ABSORBING :
“W ESTMINSTER A BBEY CERTAINLY RANKS AS ONE OF THE TOP
THE WRITING IS FRESH , THE ERUDITION LIGHTLY WORN WITH
TOURIST DRAWS IN THE WORLD , ESPECIALLY FOR A MERICAN
PLEASING NUGGETS OF FACT AND FANTASY CULLED FROM AN
TRAVELERS , AND THOSE DESIRING A DEEPER PROFILE OF THIS
IMPRESSIVE VARIETY OF SOURCES .”
LONDON CHURCH THAN WHAT A BASIC GUIDEBOOK GENERALLY
—M ALISE R UTHVEN , S UNDAY T IMES OFFERS WILL DO WELL TO PAY ATTENTION TO THIS BEAUTIFULLY
ARTICULATED ESSAY.”
“I T ’ S NO MEAN CHALLENGE EVOKING THE ARCHITECTURE , THE
SPIRITUAL POWER , THE POLITICS AND THE FANTASIES ASSOCIATED
—B RAD H OOPER , B OOKLIST ( STARRED REVIEW )
94 w w w.hup.ha r va rd. e d u m h a r va rd u n i ve r s i t y p re s s
Zhivago’s Children The
ThE lasT russian inTElligEnTsia Condemnation
vlaDislav zubok of Blackness
racE, crimE, and ThE making of
Among the least-chronicled aspects
modErn urBan amErica
of post–World War II European
intellectual and cultural history is kHalil gibran MuHaMMaD
the story of the Russian intelli-
gentsia after Stalin. Vladislav Chronicling the emergence of deeply embed-
Zubok turns a compelling subject ded notions of black people as a dangerous race
into a portrait as intimate as it is of criminals by explicit contrast to working-class whites and Euro-
provocative. Zhivago’s children, pean immigrants, this fascinating book reveals the influence such
the spiritual heirs of Boris Paster- ideas have had on urban development and social policies.
nak’s noble doctor, were the last of
their kind—an intellectual and “A DAZZLING STUDY THAT ILLUMINATES A GREAT DEAL ABOUT THE
artistic community committed to a SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF BLACK CRIMINALITY. M UHAMMAD DOES
civic, cultural, and moral mission. A SUPERB JOB OF EXPLICATING THE ROLE THAT SOCIAL SCIENTISTS ,
JOURNALISTS , AND REFORMERS PLAYED IN CREATING THE IDEA OF
“Z UBOK TELLS HIS STORY WITH A DENSITY OF DETAIL AND THE BLACK CRIMINAL AND SUSTAINING RACIAL INEQUALITY.”
COMPLEXITY OF ANALYSIS THAT IS TRULY REMARKABLE …[H E ] HAS —A LDON D. M ORRIS , AUTHOR OF
DONE A FINE JOB OF CHARACTERIZING A SLICE OF R USSIAN T HE O RIGINS OF THE C IVIL R IGHTS M OVEMENT
INTELLECTUAL LIFE OVER A COUPLE OF TURBULENT DECADES OF
S OVIET HISTORY…[A N ] INTELLIGENT AND ENGROSSING BOOK .” “W ITH UNCOMMON INTERPRETIVE CLARITY AND RESOURCEFUL
ACCUMULATION OF DATA , THE AUTHOR DISENTANGLES CRIME AS A
—M ICHAEL S CAMMELL , N EW YORK R EVIEW OF B OOKS
FACT OF THE URBAN EXPERIENCE FROM CRIME AS A THEORY OF
“T HE PLAYERS IN Z UBOK ’ S FASCINATING STUDY COME FROM ALL RACE IN A MERICAN HISTORY.”
CORNERS OF THE S OVIET INTELLIGENTSIA , FROM LEFTIST SOCIALIST —D AVID L EVERING L EWIS ,
TRUE BELIEVERS TO RIGHT- WING PATRIOTS . T HE RESULT IS A P ULITZER P RIZE – WINNING AUTHOR OF W.E.B. D U B OIS
THOROUGH , SCHOLARLY EXAMINATION OF A VITAL ERA IN R USSIAN
HISTORY WHOSE THEMES OF HUMAN RIGHTS , FREEDOM AND DISSENT k H a l i l g i b r a n M u H a M M a D i s A s s i s t a nt
WILL RESONATE AMONG EXPERTS AND LAY READERS ALIKE .” Pro fe s s o r o f H i s to r y at I n d i a n a U n i ve r s i t y ; a s
—A LEXANDER F. R EMINGTON , o f J u l y 2 0 1 1 , h e w i l l b e D i re c to r o f t h e S c h o m b u rg
WASHINGTON P OST B OOK W ORLD Ce nte r fo r R e s e a rc h i n B l a c k Cu l t u re, N e w Yo r k
Pu b l i c L i b ra r y.
v l a D i s l av z u b o k i s A s s o c i ate Pro fe s s o r o f
H istor y at Te m p l e U n i ve r s i t y. CLOTH: FEBRUARY 2010 / ISBN 978-0-674-03597-3 |
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3 cartoons | 392 pp. |
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CLOTH: MAY 2009 / ISBN 978-0-674-03344-3 | eisbn: 978-0-674-05432-5 |
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eisbn: 978-0-674-05483-7 | HistorY
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Russia and the Russians Southern Horrors
A HISTORY, SECOND EDITION WOMEN AND THE POLITICS OF RAPE AND LYNCHING
Geoffrey HoskinG Crystal n. feimster
H Winner of the W. e. B. Du Bois Book prize,
In a sweeping narrative, one of the English-speaking world’s lead- north east Black studies association
ing historians of Russia follows the country’s history from the first H Honorable mention, Darlene Clark Hine award,
organization of american Historians
emergence of the Slavs in the historical record in the sixth century
CE to the Russians’ persistent appearances
in today’s headlines. The second edition Between 1880 and 1930, close
covers the presidencies of Vladimir Putin to 200 women were murdered
and Dmitrii Medvedev and the struggle to by lynch mobs in the American
make Russia a viable functioning state for South. Many more were tarred
all its citizens. and feathered, burned, whipped,
or raped. In this brutal world of
Praise for the first edition: white supremacist politics and
“F OR THE GENERAL READER , THIS BOOK patriarchy, a world violently
IS THE K ING J AMES VERSION OF R USSIAN divided by race, gender, and
HISTORY.” class, black and white women
—R OBERT L EGVOLD, defended themselves and chal-
F OREIGN A FFAIRS lenged the male power brokers.
Crystal Feimster breaks new
“[A] COMPREHENSIVE AND INTELLIGENT ground in her story of the racial politics of the postbellum South by
SURVEY OF R USSIAN HISTORY…[ THAT FOLLOWS ] THE TWISTS AND focusing on the volatile issue of sexual violence.
TURNS OF S LAVIC HISTORY.”
—T HE E CONOMIST “FASCINATING …F EIMSTER ’ S ACCOUNT CHALLENGES US TO THINK
AGAIN ABOUT RACE AND SEXUAL POLITICS .”
G e o f f r e y H o s k i n G is ret ire d Pro fes s or of —M ARY E VANS , T IMES H IGHER E DUCATION
Russi a n H is to r y at Uni ve rs it y Col leg e Lo ndo n . H i s
other boo ks i nc lu d e R ul e r s an d Vi c t i m s : Th e “F EIMSTER PROVIDES AN OPPORTUNITY TO BETTER UNDERSTAND
R ussian s i n the S ov i e t Uni o n ( H U P) . THE LACK OF SYMPATHY BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE SUFFRAGISTS
AND HOW LYNCHING SPURRED BOTH TO THE POLITICAL ACTIVISM
Belknap press | THAT EVENTUALLY WON WOMEN THE VOTE …T HIS ACCOUNT LEAVES
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AND WOMEN ’ S SUFFRAGE SO COMPLICATED AND CONTENTIOUS .”
C r y s ta l n . f e i m s t e r i s Vi s i t in g Pro fe s s o r i n the
H i s to r y D e p ar t me nt at Pr i n ce ton U n i ve r s i t y.
w w w. h u p. h a r va rd. e d u m h a r va rd u n i ve r s i t y p ress 97
Two Faiths, One Banner The Fruit, the Tree, and
whEn muslims marchEd wiTh chrisTians across the Serpent
EuropE’s BaTTlEgrounds why wE sEE so wEll
ian alMonD lYnne a. isbell
H a Choice outstanding academic title of the Year
When, in our turbulent day, we hear of a “clash of civilizations,” it’s
H runner-up, The Atlantic books of the Year
easy to imagine an unbridgeable chasm between the Islamic world
and Christendom stretching back
The worldwide prominence of
through time. But such assumptions
snakes in religion, myth, and folklore
crumble before the drama that unfolds
underscores our deep connection to
in this book. Two Faiths, One Banner
the serpent—but why, when so few
shows how in Europe, the heart of the
of us have firsthand experience? The
West, Muslims and Christians were
surprising answer, this book sug-
often comrades-in-arms, repeatedly
gests, lies in the singular impact of
forming alliances to wage war against
snakes on primate evolution.
their own faiths and peoples.
“I SBELL WEAVES TOGETHER
“A N EXCELLENT HISTORY, IT IS AT
FACTS FROM ANTHROPOLOGY,
THE SAME TIME HIGH DRAMA , WITH
NEUROSCIENCE , PALAEONTOLOGY,
CHARACTERS NOBLE AND BASE ,
AND PSYCHOLOGY TO EXPLAIN THAT
INVOLVED IN THE ADVENTURE OF
OUR EMOTIONAL CONNECTION TO
THEIR LIVES . T HESE ARE ASTONISHING
SNAKES HAS A LONG EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY.”
MATERIALS PRESENTED THROUGH CAREFUL AND RELIABLE
SCHOLARSHIP. A MOST UNUSUAL GEM OF A BOOK FULL OF —B ARBARA J. K ING , T IMES L ITERARY S UPPLEMENT
HUMAN STORIES TOLD WITH LUCIDITY AND CHARM .”
“A ND SO , I SBELL AVERS , G ENESIS HAS IT RIGHT : THE SNAKE
—N UR YALMAN MADE US HUMAN . T HIS GROUNDBREAKING , INTELLECTUALLY
SCINTILLATING WORK IS NONFICTION AT ITS ABSOLUTE BEST.
“A LMOND DRAWS ON A MULTITUDE OF SOURCES TO CREATE AN
I SBELL RANGES WIDELY, UNPACKS HER EVIDENCE METICULOUSLY,
ALTERNATE HISTORY OF INTERACTIONS BETWEEN C HRISTIANS AND
SYNTHESIZES DISPARATE AND DIFFICULT MATERIAL ECONOMICALLY,
M USLIMS IN E UROPE OVER 800 YEARS , BOLDLY CONCENTRATING
ADDRESSES COUNTERARGUMENTS SCRUPULOUSLY, AND WRITES
ON ‘ UNITY AND COLLABORATION INSTEAD OF FRICTION AND
CLEANLY, OFTEN GRACEFULLY, AND OCCASIONALLY EVEN
DIVISION .’ ”
PLAYFULLY.”
—P UBLISHERS W EEKLY
—T HE ATLANTIC
i a n a l M o n D i s A s s o c i ate Pro fe s s o r at G e o rgi a
lY n n e a . i s b e l l i s Pro fe s s o r o f A nt h ro p o l o gy
State Un i ve r s i t y a n d a u t h o r o f S u f i s m a n d
a n d A n i m a l B e h av i o r at t h e U n i ve r s i t y o f Ca l i fornia,
D econstr u c t i o n a n d Th e N e w O r i e n t a l i s t s.
D av i s.
CLOTH: APRIL 2009 / ISBN 978-0-674-03397-9 |
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eisbn: 978-0-674-05404-2 | antHropologY
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The Ideological Origins of The Hebrew Republic
American Federalism JEwish sourcEs and ThE TransformaTion of
EuropEan poliTical ThoughT
alison l. lacroix
eric nelson
Federalism is regarded as one of the H a Choice outstanding academic title of the Year
signal American contributions to
modern politics. Its origins are typi- According to a commonplace narrative, the rise of modern political
cally traced to the drafting of the thought in the West resulted from secularization—the exclusion of
Constitution, but the story began religious arguments from political discourse. But in this pathbreak-
decades before the delegates met in ing work Eric Nelson argues that this familiar story is wrong.
Philadelphia. In this groundbreak- Instead, he contends, political thought in early-modern Europe
ing book, Alison LaCroix traces the became less, not more, secular with time,
history of American federal thought and it was the Christian encounter with
from its colonial beginnings in scat- Hebrew sources that provoked this radical
tered provincial responses to British transformation.
assertions of authority, to its emer-
gence in the late eighteenth century “[A] MAGNIFICENT BOOK …N OT ONLY
as a normative theory of multilayered government. HAS [N ELSON ] SIGNIFICANTLY REVISED
THE HISTORY OF SOME KEY CONCEPTS IN
“A S L A C ROIX SHOWS IN THIS ENGAGING TREATISE , THE WHO -
DOES - WHAT QUESTIONS AT THE HEART OF FEDERALISM HAVE VEXED
EARLY MODERN E UROPEAN POLITICAL
THOUGHT, IT MAY BE THAT HE HAS
THE NATION FROM THE GET- GO .”
WRITTEN A PARADIGM - SHIFTER , THE KIND
—K EVIN R. KOSAR , W EEKLY S TANDARD OF BOOK THAT FUNDAMENTALLY REALIGNS
THE WAY SCHOLARS LOOK AT A PERIOD AS
“T HE VIRTUE OF L A C ROIX ’ S ACCOUNT IS TO SHOW NOT ONLY THAT
A WHOLE .”
FEDERALISM AS IT DEVELOPED WAS MORE INTELLECTUALLY
COHERENT THAN A MERE BUNDLE OF COMPROMISES , BUT ALSO —N ATHAN P ERL -R OSENTHAL ,
THAT ITS THEORETICAL CORE HAD BEGUN TO EMERGE DECADES N EW R EPUBLIC ONLINE
P HILADELPHIA
BEFORE THE DELEGATES TRAVELLED TO IN M AY
1787 [ FOR THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION ].” “N O DOUBT SPECIALISTS WILL BE DEBATING THE ARGUMENTS OF
T HE H EBREW R EPUBLIC FOR SOME TIME TO COME — WHICH IS A
—G ARY L. M C D OWELL , T IMES L ITERARY S UPPLEMENT TESTIMONY TO E RIC N ELSON ’ S PROFOUND AND ORIGINAL BOOK .”
w w w. h u p. h a r va rd. e d u m h a r va rd u n i ve r s i t y p ress 99
Atlantic Creoles in the Age Freedom Struggles
of Revolutions african amEricans and world war i
Diana Selig tells the neglected story What does it mean for scientists to truly understand, rather than to
of the cultural gifts movement, merely describe, how the world works? Michael Strevens proposes
which flourished between the a novel theory of scientific explanation and understanding that over-
world wars. Progressive activists hauls and augments the familiar causal approach to explanation.
encouraged pluralism in homes, What is replaced is the test for explanatorily relevant causal infor-
schools, and churches across the mation: Strevens discards the usual criterion of counterfactual
country. Countering racist trends dependence in favor of a criterion that
and the melting-pot theory of Amer- turns on a process of progressive abstrac-
icanization, they championed the tion away from a fully detailed, physical
idea of diversity. causal story.
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pHilosopHY
“H INDERAKER UTILIZES CREATIVE AND IN - DEPTH RESEARCH TO AS L ISA F ORD SHOWS WITH GREAT
CONSTRUCT A BIOGRAPHY OF TWO M OHAWK LEADERS WHOSE FORENSIC FLAIR …[T HIS ] IS
ACTIONS WERE DICTATED NOT BY B RITISH INTERESTS BUT BY THOSE COMPARATIVE HISTORY AT ITS
OF THE M OHAWKS AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE I ROQUOIS BEST. F ORD MOVES CONFIDENTLY BETWEEN THE TWO SOCIETIES
CONFEDERACY DURING AN ERA WHEN THE I ROQUOIS WERE THE AND APPEARS EQUALLY AT HOME IN BOTH . B OTH THE SIMILARITIES
LINCHPIN BETWEEN N EW F RANCE AND G REAT B RITAIN …H IGHLY AND THE DIFFERENCES ARE REVEALING . E ACH STUDY ENLIGHTENS
RECOMMENDED AS BOTH A HISTORICAL WORK AND AN THE OTHER . T HIS IS SO BECAUSE THE SUPPORTING SCHOLARSHIP IS
OUTSTANDING EXAMPLE FOR HISTORIOGRAPHERS IN WRITING SO IMPRESSIVE , THE FRUIT, F ORD TELLS US , OF TEN YEARS ’
—J OHN B URCH , L IBRARY J OURNAL ( STARRED REVIEW ) —H ENRY R EYNOLDS , AUSTRALIAN B OOK R EVIEW
e r i c H i n D e r a k e r i s Pro fe s s o r o f H i s to r y at t h e l i s a f o r D i s Le c t u re r i n H i s to r y at t h e U n i versit y
Universi t y o f U t a h . o f N e w S o u t h Wa l e s.
Lipstick Traces A Secular Age This Craft of Verse Healing Spaces The Fires of Vesuvius
Greil Marcus Charles Taylor Jorge Luis Borges Esther M. Sternberg, M.D. Mary Beard
Belknap 2009 496 pp. Belknap 2007 896 pp. Edited by Calin-Andrei Mihailescu Belknap 2010; 2009 352 pp. Belknap 2010; 2008 384 pp.
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The Poems of Emily Dickinson Why People Die by Suicide One Writer’s Beginnings The Accidental Mind The Harvard Dictionary of Music,
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Belknap 2009 368 pp. Kevin McLaughlin Edited by Michael W. Jennings, Paper $18.95* / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03039-8
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index
Aesthetic Education in the Era of…, 22 Dow, Saturday Is for Funerals, 89 Knapp, Invisible Romans, 19 Roads to Power, 57
Age of Confucian Rule, 97 Dowling, Retina, 65 Koh, Northern Alternative, 79 Rödl, Categories of the Temporal, 61
Age of Equality, 24 Drew, Machu Picchu, 34 Konner, Evolution of Childhood, 84 Rumberger, Dropping Out, 47
Alexander, Duel at Dawn, 85 Dropping Out, 47 Kowalski, Twin Tollans, 73 Ruse, Evolution, 91
Almond, Two Faiths, One Banner, 98 Duel at Dawn, 85 Kuhn, Age of Confucian Rule, 97 Russia and the Russians, 96
Amarcius, Satires. Eupolemius, 50 Early Renaissance and Vernacular Culture, 59 LaCroix, Ideological Origins of American…, 99 Russian Origins of the First World War, 5
American Madness, 65 Eddé, Saladin, 21 Lake Views, 91 Ryang, Reading North Korea, 77
American Oracle, 4 Edgar, Vulgate Bible, 51 Lambert, Planning Armageddon, 56 Saladin, 21
Americans All, 101 Emerson, Annotated Emerson, 20 Landers, Atlantic Creoles in the Age…, 100 Satires. Eupolemius, 50
Annotated Emerson, 20 Empire and Underworld, 57 Landscape Body Dwelling, 72 Saturday Is for Funerals, 89
Anointed, 27 Ephesus, 70 Lear, Case for Irony, 60 Saul, Chivalry in Medieval England, 28
Aristotle, Problems, 53 Epstein, Design for Liberty, 26 Lentz-Smith, Freedom Struggles, 100 Saving Schools, 90
Art and Craft of International…, 103 Ethical Project, 62 Leonardo’s Mountain of Clams and…, 93 Schiavone, Invention of Law in the West, 58
Art of the Sonnet, 85 Evolution, 91 Liu, No Enemies, No Hatred, 1 Schiltz, Money Doctors from Japan, 76
Arthropod Brains, 64 Evolution of Childhood, 84 Living Originalism, 23 Schoppa, In a Sea of Bitterness, 35
Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions, 100 Explore Harvard, 29 Long Shot, 63 Secularism and Freedom of Conscience, 40
Austen, Persuasion, 16 Faces of Perfect Ebony, 55 Luttwak, Grand Strategy of the Byzantine…, 84 Selig, Americans All, 101
Backhouse, Capitalist Revolutionary, 18 Farbaky, Italy and Hungary, 70 Lying Stones of Marrakech, 93 Service, Trotsky, 88
Baier, Pursuits of Philosophy, 41 Feimster, Southern Horrors, 96 Machu Picchu, 34 Settler Sovereignty, 102
Bailyn, Soundings in Atlantic History, 97 Ferguson, Shock of the Global, 87 Maclachlan, People’s Post Office, 76 Shattered Spaces, 44
Balkin, Living Originalism, 23 Florence and Baghdad, 17 Maclure, Secularism and Freedom…, 40 Shephard, Harvard Sampler, 33
Battle of Adwa, 13 Ford, Settler Sovereignty, 102 Macroeconomics Beyond the NAIRU, 66 Shock of the Global, 87
Bear, 11 Founding Fathers v. the People, 68 Mariani, Church Militant, 56 Short History of Physics in the American…, 63
Beardsley, Landscape Body Dwelling, 72 Freedom Struggles, 100 Martens, Promise of Memory, 60 Shugerman, People’s Courts, 43
Becoming Dickens, 7 Frenk, Health Professionals for a New Century, 80 Mauthausen Trial, 37 Sideris, Ephesus, 70
Being There, 46 Friedlander, Walter Benjamin, 62 McGinty, Body of John Merryman, 42 Slate, Colored Cosmopolitanism, 54
Bellah, Religion in Human Evolution, 3 Fruit, the Tree, and the Serpent, 98 McGrath, JAYA, 81 Someday All This Will Be Yours, 38
Belting, Florence and Baghdad, 17 Full House, 92 McGurl, Program Era, 90 Sonnets and Shorter Poems, 45
Beyhaqi, History of Beyhaqi, 81 Galen, Method of Medicine, 52 McMeekin, Russian Origins of the First…, 5 Soundings in Atlantic History, 97
Bilakovics, Democracy without Politics, 69 Galileo’s Muse, 15 Meng, Shattered Spaces, 44 Southern Horrors, 96
Bindman, Image of the Black in Western Art, 30 Gigante, Keats Brothers, 10 Merchant. The Braggart Soldier…, 52 Spacks, On Rereading, 8
Blight, American Oracle, 4 Goldhill, Temple of Jerusalem, 94 Method of Medicine, 52 Spieler, Empire and Underworld, 57
Block, Crucible of Consent, 69 Gould, Dinosaur in a Haystack, 92 Molineux, Faces of Perfect Ebony, 55 Spivak, Aesthetic Education in the Era…, 22
Bodansky, Art and Craft of International…, 103 Gould, Full House, 92 Money Doctors from Japan, 76 Stephan, How Economics Shapes Science, 66
Bodman, Poetics of Iblīs, 80 Gould, Hedgehog, the Fox, and…, 93 Moscow, the Fourth Rome, 36 Stephens, Anointed, 27
Body of John Merryman, 42 Gould, I Have Landed, 93 Muhammad, Condemnation of Blackness, 95 Stevenson, With Our Backs to the Wall, 9
Boon, Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic…, 82 Gould, Leonardo’s Mountain of Clams…, 93 Müller, Our Fritz, 55 Storm, Macroeconomics Beyond the NAIRU, 66
Boone, Collecting the Pre-Columbian Past, 74 Gould, Lying Stones of Marrakech, 93 Myths about Suicide, 86 Strausfeld, Arthropod Brains, 64
Boone, Their Way of Writing, 72 Gould, Questioning the Millennium, 92 Nathans, To Free a Family, 14 Strevens, Depth, 101
Brain Storm, 87 Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire, 84 Nelson, Hebrew Republic, 99 Stuntz, Collapse of American Criminal…, 25
Brandom, Perspectives on Pragmatism, 61 Gregory, Unintended Reformation, 6 Nesting Season, 86 Sudden Terror, 103
Brokers of Empire, 77 Greve, Upside-Down Constitution, 67 No Enemies, No Hatred, 1 Swarts Ruin, 75
Burt, Art of the Sonnet, 85 Guldi, Roads to Power, 57 Noll, American Madness, 65 Teaching and Its Predicaments, 48
Busquets, Deconstruction/Construction, 71 Hajj, 32 Northern Alternative, 79 Temple of Jerusalem, 94
Byzantine Settlement in Cappadocia, 73 Hartog, Someday All This Will Be Yours, 38 On Rereading, 8 Ten Thousand Scrolls, 78
Capitalist Revolutionary, 18 Harvard Public Affairs, Explore Harvard, 29 Our Fritz, 55 Their Way of Writing, 72
Case for Irony, 60 Harvard Sampler, 33 Ousterhout, Byzantine Settlement in…, 73 Thirty Years War, 83
Cassidy, Short History of Physics…, 63 Health Professionals for a New Century, 80 Pastoureau, Bear, 11 Tian, Visionary Journeys, 79
Casualties of Credit, 58 Hebrew Republic, 99 Pellizzi, RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 75 Tilney, Invasion of the Body, 12
Categories of the Temporal, 61 Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister’s Pox, 93 People’s Courts, 43 To Free a Family, 14
Chivalry in Medieval England, 28 Heinrich, Nesting Season, 86 People’s Post Office, 76 Tombs for the Living, 74
Church Militant, 56 Hinderaker, Two Hendricks, 102 Perspectives on Pragmatism, 61 Toward a History Beyond Borders, 78
Clark, Moscow, the Fourth Rome, 36 Histories of Polybius, 53 Persuasion, 16 Translating Empire, 67
Cohen, Teaching and Its Predicaments, 48 Histories of Richer of Saint-Rémi, 51 Peterson, Galileo’s Muse, 15 Trotsky, 88
Collapse of American Criminal Justice, 25 History of Beyhaqi, 81 Peterson, Saving Schools, 90 Tuck, We Ain’t What We Ought To Be, 88
Collecting the Pre-Columbian Past, 74 Hosking, Russia and the Russians, 96 Petrarch, Sonnets and Shorter Poems, 45 Twin Tollans, 73
Colored Cosmopolitanism, 54 How Economics Shapes Science, 66 Planning Armageddon, 56 Two Faiths, One Banner, 98
Condemnation of Blackness, 95 Hoyt, Long Shot, 63 Plautus, Merchant. The Braggart Soldier…, 52 Two Hendricks, 102
Cosgrove, Swarts Ruin, 75 I Have Landed, 93 Plokhy, Poltava 1709, 82 Uchida, Brokers of Empire, 77
Crisis in Energy Policy, 49 Ianziti, Writing History in Renaissance Italy, 59 Poetics of Iblīs, 80 Unintended Reformation, 6
Crisis of Capitalist Democracy, 89 Ideological Origins of American Federalism, 99 Poltava 1709, 82 Upside-Down Constitution, 67
Crucible of Consent, 69 Image of the Black in Western Art, 30 Polybius, Histories, 53 Vesuvius, 34
Cuban Economic and Social Development, 71 In a Sea of Bitterness, 35 Pomfret, Age of Equality, 24 Visionary Journeys, 79
Darley, Vesuvius, 34 Invasion of the Body, 12 Porter, Hajj, 32 Vogel, Deng Xiaoping and…, 2
Davis, Being There, 46 Invention of Law in the West, 58 Posner, Crisis of Capitalist Democracy, 89 Vulgate Bible, 51
D’Elia, Sudden Terror, 103 Invisible Romans, 19 Primate Mind, 64 Walter Benjamin, 62
de Waal, Primate Mind, 64 Isbell, Fruit, the Tree, and the Serpent, 98 Problems, 53 Wang, Ten Thousand Scrolls, 78
Deconstruction/Construction, 71 Italy and Hungary, 70 Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic…, 82 We Ain’t What We Ought To Be, 88
Democracy without Politics, 69 Jardim, Mauthausen Trial, 37 Program Era, 90 Weinberg, Lake Views, 91
Dempsey, Early Renaissance and Vernacular…, 59 JAYA, 81 Promise of Memory, 60 Wennerlind, Casualties of Credit, 58
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation…, 2 Jenkyns, Westminster Abbey, 94 Pursuits of Philosophy, 41 Westminster Abbey, 94
Depth, 101 Jewish Dark Continent, 39 Questioning the Millennium, 92 Wilson, Thirty Years War, 83
Design for Liberty, 26 Joiner, Myths about Suicide, 86 Ramseyer, Journal of Legal Analysis, 68 With Our Backs to the Wall, 9
Deutch, Crisis in Energy Policy, 49 Jonas, Battle of Adwa, 13 Reading North Korea, 77 Writing History in Renaissance Italy, 59
Deutsch, Jewish Dark Continent, 39 Jordan-Young, Brain Storm, 87 Reinert, Translating Empire, 67 Yang, Toward a History Beyond Borders, 78
Dillehay, Tombs for the Living, 74 Journal of Legal Analysis, 68 Religion in Human Evolution, 3 Zhivago’s Children, 95
Dinosaur in a Haystack, 92 Keats Brothers, 10 RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 75 Zubok, Zhivago’s Children, 95
Domínguez, Cuban Economic and Social…, 71 King, Founding Fathers v. the People, 68 Retina, 65 107
Douglas-Fairhurst, Becoming Dickens, 7 Kitcher, Ethical Project, 62 Richer of Saint-Rémi, Histories, 51
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