Harvard University Press: Spring 2012 Catalog

HARVARD
u n iversity press
Spring
Summer 2012
contents
G ENERAL I NTEREST ...........1
A CADEMIC T RADE ..........32
D UMBARTON O AKS ........46
L OEB C LASSICAL L IBRARY 48
T HE I TATTI .................50
H UMANITIES ..................51
S OCIAL S CIENCE ............56
P OLITICS & E CONOMICS ..66
L EGAL S TUDIES .............68
D ISTRIBUTED B OOKS ......70
PAPERBACKS ..................83
B ACKLIST H IGHLIGHTS ...109
R ECENT H IGHLIGHTS .....110
A UTHOR / T ITLE I NDEX ..111
O RDER I NFORMATION .....112
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Girls Head: A Fantasy
by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, 1897.
Cecil French Bequest, Hammersmith
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To Forgive Design
UNDERSTANDING FAILURE
H ENRY P ETROSKI
When planes crash, bridges collapse, and automobile gas tanks explode, we are quick to blame
poor design. But Henry Petroski says we must look beyond design for causes and corrections.
Known for his masterly explanations of engineering successes and failures, Petroski here takes
his analysis a step further, to consider the larger context in which accidents occur.
In To Forgive Design he surveys some of the most infamous failures of our time, from
the 2007 Minneapolis bridge collapse and the toppling of a massive Shanghai apartment building in 2009, to Bostons prolonged Big Dig and the 2010 Gulf
oil spill. These avoidable disasters reveal the interdependency
H E N RY P E T RO S K I is
of people and machines within systems whose complex behav-
the Aleksandar S. Vesic
ior was undreamt of by their designers, until it was too late.
Professor of Civil
Petroski shows that even the simplest technology is embedded
Engineering and
in cultural and socioeconomic constraints, complications, and
Professor of History at
Duke University.
contradictions.
Failure to imagine the possibility of failure is the most
profound mistake engineers can make. Software developers
realized this early on and looked outside their young field, to
structural engineering, as they sought a historical perspective
to help them identify their own potential mistakes. By explain-
ALSO BY
HENRY PETROSKI
Invention by Design:
How Engineers Get
ing the interconnectedness of technology and culture and the

dangers that can emerge from complexity, Petroski demonstrates that we would all do well to follow their lead.
from Thought to Thing

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Solar Dance
VAN GOGH, FORGERY, AND THE ECLIPSE OF CERTAINTY
M ODRIS E KSTEINS
In Modris Eksteinss hands, the interlocking stories of Vincent van Gogh and art dealer Otto
Wacker reveal the origins of the fundamental uncertainty that is the hallmark of the modern era.
Through the lens of Wackers sensational 1932 trial in Berlin for selling fake Van Goghs, Eksteins
offers a unique narrative of Weimar Germany, the rise of Hitler, and the replacement of nineteenth-century certitude with twentieth-century doubt.
Berlin after the Great War was a magnet for art and transgression. Among those it attracted was Otto Wacker, a young
gay dancer turned art impresario. His sale of thirty-three forged
Van Goghs and the ensuing scandal gave Van Goghs work
MODRIS EKSTEINS
unprecedented commercial value. It also called into question a
is Professor Emeritus
world of defined values and standards that had already begun to

erode during the war. Van Gogh emerged posthumously as a
hero who rejected organized religion and other suspect sources
of authority in favor of art. Self-pitying Germans saw in his biography a series of triumphsover defeat, poverty, and meaning-
of History at the
University of
Toronto, Scarborough
and author of Rites
of Spring.
lessnessthat spoke to them directly. Eksteins shows how the

collapsing Weimar Republic that made Van Gogh famous and
gave Wacker an opportunity for reinvention propelled a third misfit into the spotlight. Taking
advantage of the void left by a gutted belief system, Hitler gained power by fashioning myths
of mastery.
Filled with characters who delight and frighten, Solar Dance merges cultural and political history to show how upheavals of the early twentieth century gave rise to a search for
authenticity and purpose.
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The First Crusade

THE CALL FROM THE EAST
P ETER F RANKOPAN
A
DAZZLING BOOK , PERFECTLY COMBINING DEEP SCHOLARSHIP AND EASY READABILITY .
MOST IMPORTANT ADDITION TO
C RUSADING
J OHN J ULIUS N ORWICH ,
LITERATURE SINCE
AUTHOR OF
T HE
S TEVEN R UNCIMAN .
B YZANTIUM
According to tradition, the First Crusade began at the instigation of Pope Urban II and culminated in July 1099, when thousands of western European knights liberated Jerusalem from the
rising menace of Islam. But what if the First Crusades real
catalyst lay far to the east of Rome? In this groundbreaking
P E T E R F R A N KO PA N
is Senior Research
book, countering nearly a millennium of scholarship, Peter

Frankopan reveals the untold history of the First Crusade.
Fellow and Faculty
Nearly all historians of the First Crusade focus on the
Fellow at Worcester
papacy and its willing warriors in the West, along with innu-
College, University
merable popular tales of bravery, tragedy, and resilience. In
of Oxford.
sharp contrast, Frankopan examines events from the East, in

particular from Constantinople, seat of the Christian Byzantine Empire. The result is revelatory. The true instigator of the
First Crusade, we see, was the Emperor Alexios I Komnenos,
who in 1095, with his realm under siege from the Turks and on the point of collapse, begged
the pope for military support.
Basing his account on long-ignored eastern sources, Frankopan also gives a provocative
and highly original explanation of the world-changing events that followed the First Crusade.
The Vaticans victory cemented papal power, while Constantinople, the heart of the still-vital
Byzantine Empire, never recovered. As a result, both Alexios and Byzantium were consigned
to the margins of history. From Frankopans revolutionary work, we gain a more faithful understanding of the way the taking of Jerusalem set the stage for western Europes dominance up
to the present day and shaped the modern world.
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The New Religious Intolerance

OVERCOMING THE POLITICS OF FEAR IN AN ANXIOUS AGE
M ARTHA C. N USSBAUM
What impulse prompted some newspapers to attribute the murder of 77 Norwegians to Islamic
extremists, until it became evident that a right-wing Norwegian terrorist was the perpetrator?
Why did Switzerland, a country of four minarets, vote to ban those structures? How did a proposed Muslim cultural center in lower Manhattan ignite a fevered political debate across the
United States? In The New Religious Intolerance, Martha C. Nussbaum surveys such developments and identifies the fear behind these reactions.
Drawing inspiration from philosophy, history, and literature, she suggests a route past this limiting response and
toward a more equitable, imaginative, and free society.
Fear, Nussbaum writes, is more narcissistic than
M A RT H A C . N U S S B A U M is
Ernst Freund Distinguished
Service Professor of Law and
other emotions. Legitimate anxieties become distorted
Ethics at the University of
and displaced, driving laws and policies biased against
Chicago and author of Not
those different from us. Overcoming intolerance requires
for Profit: Why Democracy
consistent application of universal principles of respect
Needs the Humanities.
for conscience. Just as important, it requires greater

understanding. Nussbaum challenges us to embrace
freedom of religious observance for all, extending to othALSO BY
ers what we demand for ourselves. She encourages us to
MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM
expand our capacity for empathetic imagination by cul-
Creating Capabilities
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The Clash Within
Nussbaum argues, we can rise above the politics of fear

and toward a more open and inclusive future.
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A Conversation with
Martha C. Nussbaum
Q
This book began as a New York Times piece about the burqa ban.
How did the comments that piece received shape your thinking?
Some of the comments were insightful, but most showed just what
Socrates thought wrong with democracy in his time: haste, prideful
boasting, a lack of careful examination, and an unwillingness to listen to
the opposing position. I became even more convinced that Socrates was right: patient
attention to argument makes democracy work better. Thats what I hope my book offers.
What do you see as the broad differences between the United States and Europe
on questions of tolerance and of secularism?

The U.S. has long thought of national identity as a matter of shared political values rather
than as a matter of cultural or religious homogeneity, as it often is in Europe. This is a great
advantage in dealing with new immigrants. Despite waves of anti-immigrant sentiment
throughout our history, Americans are used to other people searching for the meaning of life
in their own ways, and those ways might require habits of dress and conduct that look weird
to the majority. The U.S. idea of religious freedom therefore includes accommodation, a
sensitive deference to the unique religious needs of minority groups.
Why has this historical moment seen the emergence of new forms of religious
intolerance?
People are justifiably insecure about many things: the global economy, jobs, safety in an era
of terrorism. It is difficult to understand these large-scale problems, much less to fix them. It
is far easier to convince oneself that the problem stems from the presence of new minority
groups, and that some simple remedy, such as a ban on minarets or the burqa, can fix it.
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The Omnivorous Mind

OUR EVOLVING RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD
J OHN S. A LLEN
A
FEAST OF FRESH IDEAS ABOUT OUR EATING HABITS .
T HE O MNIVOROUS M IND
IS A
FASCINATING REFLECTION ON THE DEEP MEANINGS OF FOOD .
R ICHARD W RANGHAM ,
AUTHOR OF
C ATCHING F IRE
In this gustatory tour of human history, John S. Allen demonstrates that the everyday activity of eating offers deep insights
into human beings biological and cultural heritage.
We humans eat a wide array of plants and animals, but
unlike other omnivores we eat with our minds as much as our
stomachs. This thoughtful relationship with food is part of
what makes us a unique species, and makes culinary cultures
diverse. Not even our closest primate relatives think about
J O H N S . A L L E N is a
Research Scientist at
Dornsife Cognitive
Neuroscience Imaging
Center and the Brain
and Creativity
food in the way Homo sapiens does. We are superomnivores
Institute, University
whose palates reflect the natural history of our species.
of Southern California.
Drawing on the work of food historians and chefs,

anthropologists and neuroscientists, Allen starts out with the
diets of our earliest ancestors, explores cookings role in our
evolving brain, and moves on to the preoccupations of conALSO BY
temporary foodies. The Omnivorous Mind delivers insights
JOHN S. ALLEN
into food aversions and cravings, our compulsive need to label
The Lives of the
foods as good or bad, dietary deviation from healthy food
Brain: Human
pyramids, and cross-cultural attitudes toward eating (with the
Evolution and the
French, bien sr, exemplifying the pursuit of gastronomic
Organ of Mind
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To explain, for example, the worldwide popularity of
see p. 98
crispy foods, Allen considers first the food habits of our insecteating relatives. He also suggests that the sound of crunch may
stave off dietary boredom by adding variety to sensory experience. Or perhaps fried foods, which
we think of as bad for us, interject a frisson of illicit pleasure. When it comes to eating, Allen
shows, theres no one way to account for taste.
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Stranger Magic
CHARMED STATES AND THE ARABIAN NIGHTS
M ARINA WARNER
P RAISE
FOR
E SSENTIAL
F ROM
THE
B EAST
TO THE
B LONDE : O N FAIRY TALES
AND
T HEIR T ELLERS
READING FOR ANYONE CONCERNED , NOT ONLY WITH FAIRY TALES , MYTHS AND
LEGENDS , BUT ALSO WITH HOW STORIES OF ALL KINDS GET TOLD .
M ARGARET ATWOOD , L OS A NGELES T IMES B OOK R EVIEW
Our foremost theorist of myth, fairy tales, and folktales explores

M A R I N A WA R N E R is
Professor of
Literature, Film, and
Theatre Studies at the
University of Essex
andauthor of many
books, including
No Go the Bogeyman.
the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly, objects

speak, dreams reveal hidden truths, and genies grant prophetic
wishes. Stranger Magic examines the wondrous tales of the
Arabian Nights, their profound impact on the West, and the
progressive exoticization of magic since the eighteenth century, when the first European translations appeared.
The Nights seized European readers imaginations during the sicle des Lumires, inspiring imitations, spoofs, turqueries, extravaganzas, pantomimes, and mauresque tastes
in dress and furniture. Writers from Voltaire to Goethe to
Borges, filmmakers from Raoul Walsh on, and countless
authors of childrens books have adapted its stories. What gives these tales their enduring
power to bring pleasure to readers and audiences? Their appeal, Marina Warner suggests,
lies in how the stories magic stimulates the creative activity of the imagination. Their popularity during the Enlightenment was no accident: dreams, projections, and fantasies are
essential to making the leap beyond the frontiers of accepted knowledge into new scientific
and literary spheres. The magical tradition, so long disavowed by Western rationality, underlies
modernitys most characteristic developments, including the charmed states of brand-name luxury goods, paper money, and psychoanalytic dream interpretation.
In Warners hands, the Nights reveal the underappreciated cultural exchanges between
East and West, Islam and Christianity, and cast light on the magical underpinnings of contemporary experience, where mythical principles, as distinct from religious belief, enjoy growing
acceptance. These tales meet the need for enchantment in the safe guise of oriental costume.
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The War on Heresy

R. I. M OORE
I N
THIS GRAND AND SANE BOOK , ARMED WITH MANY LIGHTS ( INTELLIGENCE , NARRATIVE
SKILL , LEARNING )
R. I. M OORE
RE - ENTERS THE TERRITORY OF
E UROPE S
FEROCIOUS
MEDIEVAL COMPETITION FOR THEOLOGICAL ORTHODOXY ; WHEREVER HE VENTURES , HE

ILLUMINES WHAT HAD BEEN DARK .
J AMES S IMPSON , H ARVARD U NIVERSITY
Between 1000 and 1250, the Catholic Church confronted the threat of heresy with increasing
force. Some of the most portentous events in medieval historythe Cathar crusade, the persecution and mass burnings of heretics, the papal inquisition
established to identify and suppress beliefs that departed from
the true religiondate from this period. Fear of heresy
R . I. M O O R E is
molded European society for the rest of the Middle Ages and
Professor Emeritus of
beyond, and violent persecutions of the accused left an indeli-
Medieval History at
ble mark. Yet, as R. I. Moore suggests, the version of these
Newcastle University
events that has come down to us may be more propaganda
and author of The
than historical reality.
Formation of a
Popular accounts of heretical events, most notably the
Persecuting Society.
Cathar crusade, are derived from thirteenth-century inquisitors who saw organized heretical movements as a threat to
society. Skeptical of the reliability of their reports, Moore reaches back to earlier contemporaneous sources, where he learns a startling truth: no coherent opposition to Catholicism, outside
the Church itself, existed. The Cathars turn out to be a mythical construction, and religious difference does not explain the origins of battles against heretic practices and beliefs.
A truer explanation lies in conflicts among elitesboth secular and religiouswho used
the specter of heresy to extend their political and cultural authority and silence opposition. By
focusing on the motives, anxieties, and interests of those who waged war on heresy, Moores
narrative reveals that early heretics may have died for their faith, but it was not because of their
faith that they were put to death.
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The Accidental City

IMPROVISING NEW ORLEANS
L AWRENCE N. P OWELL
This is the story of a city that shouldnt exist. In the seventeenth century, what is now Americas most beguiling metropolis was nothing more than a swamp: prone to flooding, infested with
snakes, battered by hurricanes. But through the intense imperial rivalries of Spain, France, and
England, and the ambitious, entrepreneurial merchants and settlers from four continents who
risked their lives to succeed in colonial America, this unpromising site became a crossroads for
the whole Atlantic world.
Lawrence N. Powell, a decades-long resident and
observer of New Orleans, gives us the full sweep of the
L AW R E N C E N. P O W E L L
citys history from its founding through Louisiana state-
holds the James H. Clark
hood in 1812. We see the Crescent City evolve from a
Endowed Chair in American
French village, to an African market town, to a Spanish
Civilization and is Director
fortress, and finally to an Anglo-American center of trade
of the New Orleans Center
and commerce. We hear and feel the mix of peoples,
for the Gulf South at
religions, and languages from four continents that make
Tulane University.
the place electricand always on the verge of unraveling. The Accidental City is the story of land-jobbing
schemes, stock market crashes, and nonstop squabbles
over status, power, and position, with enough rogues, smugglers, and self-fashioners to fill a
picaresque novel.
Powells tale underscores the fluidity and contingency of the past, revealing a place
where people made their own history. This is a city, and a history, marked by challenges and
perpetual shifts in shape and direction, like the sinuous river on which it is perched.
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London
A HISTORY IN VERSE
EDITED BY
T HIS
M ARK F ORD
MARVELOUS ANTHOLOGY RANGING OVER SIX CENTURIES ABOUT ONE OF THE GREAT
CITIES OF WORLD IS NOT ONLY A DELIGHT TO READ , BUT ALSO A REVELATION .

WITH
M ARK F ORD S
S TARTING
INFORMATIVE AND THOROUGHLY - ENJOYABLE INTRODUCTION , WE GO
FROM SURPRISE TO SURPRISE TURNING THE PAGES OF THIS BOOK .
C HARLES S IMIC
Called the flour of Cities all, London has long been understood through the poetry it has
inspired. Now poet Mark Ford has assembled the most capacious and wide-ranging anthology
of poems about London to date, from Chaucer to Wordsworth to
the present day, providing a chronological tour of urban life and
of English literature.
M A R K F O R D is
Nearly all of the major poets of British literature have left

some poetic record of London: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare,
a poet and
Professor of English
Donne, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Johnson, Wordsworth, Keats,
at University
Byron, and T. S. Eliot. Ford goes well beyond these figures, how-
College London.
ever, to gather significant verse of all kinds, from Jacobean city

comedies to nursery rhymes, from topical satire to anonymous
ballads. The result is a cultural history of the city in verse, one
that represents all classes of Londons population over some
seven centuries, mingling the high and low, the elegant and the
salacious, the courtly and the street smart. Many of the poems respond to large events in the
citys historythe beheading of Charles I, the Great Fire, the Blitzbut the majority reflect the
quieter routines and anxieties of everyday life through the centuries.
Fords selections are arranged chronologically, thus preserving a sense of the strata of the
capitals history. An introductory essay by the poet explores in detail the cultural, political, and
aesthetic significance of the verse inspired by this great city. The result is a volume as rich and
vibrant and diverse as London itself.
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Gothicka
V ICTORIA N ELSON
The Gothic, Romanticisms gritty older sibling, has flourished in myriad permutations since the
eighteenth century. In Gothicka, Victoria Nelson identifies the revolutionary turn it has taken
in the twenty-first. Todays Gothic has fashioned its monsters into heroes and its devils into
angels. It is actively reviving supernaturalism in popular culture, not as an evil dimension
divorced from ordinary human existence but as part of our daily lives.
To explain this millennial shift away from the traditionally dark Protestant post-Enlightenment Gothic, Nelson studies the complex arena of contemporary Gothic subgenres that take
the form of novels, films, and graphic novels. She considers the work of Dan Brown and
Stephenie Meyer, graphic novelists Mike Mignola and Garth
Ennis, Christian writer William P. Young (author of The
VICTORIA NELSON
Shack), and filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. She considers
is an independent
twentieth-century Gothic masters H. P. Lovecraft, Anne Rice,
scholar living in
and Stephen King in light of both their immediate ancestors in
California. She has
the eighteenth century and the original Gothicthe late
taught at the
medieval period from which Horace Walpole and his succes-
University of California
sors drew their inspiration.
at Berkeley and the
Fictions such as the Twilight and Left Behind series do
University of Hawaii.
more than follow the conventions of the classic Gothic novel.

They are radically reviving and reinventing the transcendental worldview that informed the Wests premodern era. As
ALSO BY
Jesus becomes mortal in The Da Vinci Code and the child
VICTORIA NELSON
Ofelia becomes a goddess in Pans Labyrinth, Nelson argues
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that this unprecedented mainstreaming of a spiritually driven

supernaturalism is a harbinger of what a post-Christian religion in America might look like.
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Dictionary of American Regional English

VOLUME V: SL Z
J OAN H OUSTON H ALL , C HIEF E DITOR

"T HIS
SURVEY OF SPOKEN
E NGLISH
IS , AS ITS PUBLISHER PROUDLY PROCLAIMS ,
UNPRECEDENTED . I T ' S ALSO SCHOLARLY , ENDLESSLY FASCINATING AND ENLIGHTENING .

CAN HEAR
A MERICA
YOU
TALKING FROM ITS PAGES ."
H OWARD S. S HAPIRO , P HILADELPHIA I NQUIRER
With this fifth volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English, readers now have the
full panoply of American regional vocabulary, from Adams housecat to Zydeco. Like the first
four volumes, the fifth is filled with words that reflect our origins, migrations, ethnicities, and neighborhoods.
Contradicting the popular notion that American English has become homogenized, DARE demonstrates that our
language still has distinct and delightful local character. If a
person lives in a remote place, would you say hes from the
boondocks? Or from the puckerbrush, the tules, or the willywags? Where are you likely to live if you eat Brunswick stew
rather than jambalaya, stack cake, smearcase, or kringle?
Whats your likely background if your favorite card game is
JOAN HOUSTON HALL

is a Distinguished
Scientist at the
University of Wisconsin,
Madison. She joined the
DARE staff in 1975,
became Associate Editor
in 1979, and was named
Chief Editor in 2000.
hasenpfeffer? bid whist? sheepshead? Whether we are talking

about foods, games, clothing, family members, animals, or
almost any other aspect of life, our vocabulary reveals much
about who we are.
Each entry in DARE has been carefully researched to provide as complete a history of
its life in America as possible. Illustrative citations extend from the seventeenth century through
the twenty-first. More than 600 maps show where words were collected by the DARE fieldworkers. And quotations highlight the wit and wisdom of American speakers and writers. Recognized as the authoritative record of American English, DARE serves scholars and professionals
of all stripes. It also holds treasures for readers who simply love our language.
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The Short American Century

A POSTMORTEM
EDITED BY
A NDREW J. B ACEVICH
Writing in Life magazine in February 1941, Henry Luce memorably announced the arrival of
The American Century. The phrase caught on, as did the belief that Americas moment was
at hand. Yet as Andrew J. Bacevich makes clear, that century has now ended, the victim of
strategic miscalculation, military misadventures, and economic decline. To take stock of the
short American Century and place it in historical perspective, Bacevich has assembled a richly
provocative range of perspectives.
What did this age of reputed American preeminence
signify? What caused its premature demise? What legacy
remains in its wake? Distinguished historians David M.
A N D R E W J.
Kennedy, Emily S. Rosenberg, Nikhil Pal Singh, T. J. Jackson
B A C E V I C H is Professor
Lears, Akira Iriye, Jeffry A. Frieden, Walter LaFeber, and
of International
Eugene McCarraher offer illuminating answers to these ques-
Relations and History
tions. Achievement and failure, wisdom and folly, calculation

and confusion all make their appearance in essays that touch
on topics as varied as internationalism and empire, race and
at Boston University
and author of
Washington Rules.
religion, consumerism and globalization.

As the United States grapples with protracted wars,
daunting economic uncertainty, and pressing questions about
ALSO BY
exactly what role it should play in a rapidly changing world,
ANDREW J. BACEVICH
understanding where the nation has been and how it got
American Empire:
where it is today is critical. What did the forging of the Amer-
The Realities and
ican Centurywith its considerable achievements but also its
U.S. Diplomacy
ample disappointments and missed opportunitiesultimately
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The Last Pre-Raphaelite

EDWARD BURNE-JONES AND THE VICTORIAN IMAGINATION
F IONA M AC C ARTHY
A
TRIUMPH OF BIOGRAPHICAL ART .
J AN M ARSH , T HE I NDEPENDENT
B URNE -J ONES
WAS ,
[M AC C ARTHY ]
WRITES , THE LICENSED ESCAPIST OF THE
AGE , AND IN THIS ACCOMPLISHED BIOGRAPHY SHE ALLOWS THE
H OUDINI
V ICTORIAN
OF THE CANVAS TO
TAKE CENTRE STAGE ONCE MORE .
J UDITH F LANDERS , T HE T ELEGRAPH
F I O N A M A C C A RT H Y is one
of Britains most acclaimed
biographers, a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Literature,
and the author of numerous
books, including William
Morris: A Life for Our Time.
While still a student at Oxford, Edward Burne-Jones

formed a friendship and made a renunciation that
would shape art history. The friendship was with
William Morris, with whom he would occupy the
social and intellectual center of the eras cult of beauty.
The renunciation was of his intention to enter the
clergy, when hetogether with Morrisvowed to
throw over the Church in favor of art. In Fiona MacCarthys riveting account of Burne-Joness life, that
exchange of faith for art places him at the intersection
of the nineteenth century and the Modern, as he leads us forward from Victorian mores and attitudes to the psychological, sexual, and artistic audacity that would characterize the early twentieth century.
In MacCarthys hands, Burne-Jones emerges as a great visionary painter, a master of
mystic reverie, and a pivotal late-nineteenth-century cultural and artistic figure. Lavishly illustrated with color plates, The Last Pre-Raphaelite shows that Burne-Joness influence extended
far beyond his own circle to Freudian Vienna and the delicately gilded erotic dream paintings
of Gustav Klimt, the Swiss Symbolist painter Ferdinand Hodler, and the young Pablo Picasso and
the Catalan painters.
Drawing on extensive research, MacCarthy offers a fresh perspective on the achievement
of Burne-Jones, a precursor to the Modern, and tells the dramatic, fascinating story of this peculiarly captivating and elusive man.
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Trusting What Youre Told

HOW CHILDREN LEARN FROM OTHERS
PAUL L. H ARRIS
If children were little scientists who learn best through firsthand observations and
mini-experiments, as conventional wisdom holds, how would a child discover that the
earth is roundnever mind conceive of heaven as a place someone might go after
death? Overturning both cognitive and commonplace theories about how children
learn, Trusting What Youre Told begins by reminding us of a basic truth: Most of
what we know we learned from others.
Children recognize early on that other people are
an excellent source of information. And so they ask ques-
PA U L L . H A R R I S
tions. But youngsters are also remark-
is Victor S.
ably discriminating as they weigh the
Thomas Professor
responses they elicit. And how much
of Education at
they trust what they are told has a lot
Harvard
to do with their assessment of its
University.
source. Trusting What Youre Told

opens a window into the moral reasoning of elementary school vegetarians, the preschoolers ability to distinguish historical narrative
from fiction, and the six-year-olds nuanced stance toward magic:
skeptical, while still open to miracles. Paul Harris shares striking
cross-cultural findings, too, such as that children in religious communities in rural Central America resemble Bostonian children
in being more confident about the existence of germs and oxygen than they are about souls and God.
We are biologically designed to learn from one another,
Harris demonstrates, and this greediness for explanation marks
a key difference between human beings and our primate cousins.
Even Kanzi, a genius among bonobos, never uses his keyboard to ask for information: he only
asks for treats.
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Conquest
THE ENGLISH KINGDOM OF FRANCE, 14171450
J ULIET B ARKER
S TRIKINGLY
ENGAGING . . . THE STORY OF HOW
H ENRY V SWEPT ALL BEFORE HIM , HOW HIS

H ENRY VI BICKERED OVER HIS CONQUESTS , HOW J OAN OF
AND HOW C HARLES VII WON HIS COUNTRY BACK , MAKES FOR
RELATIVES UNDER THE INFANT
A RC
RALLIED THE
F RENCH
ENGROSSING READING .
A NDREW H OLGATE , T HE Y EAR S B EST H ISTORY B OOKS , S UNDAY T IMES
For thirty dramatic years, England ruled a great swath of

France at the point of the swordan all-but-forgotten
J U L I E T B A R K E R is the
author of Agincourt: Henry V
episode in the Hundred Years War that Juliet Barker

brings to vivid life in Conquest.
and the Battle That Made

England, and one of Britains
most distinguished literary
biographers and
medievalists.
Following Agincourt, Henry Vs second invasion

of France in 1417 launched a campaign that would place
the crown of France on an English head. Buoyed by conquest, the English army seemed invincible. By the time of
Henrys premature death in 1422, nearly all of northern
France lay in his hands and the Valois heir to the throne
had been disinherited. Only the appearance of a visionary
peasant girl who claimed divine guidance, Joan of Arc, was able to halt the English advance, but
not for long. Just six months after her death, Henrys young son was crowned in Paris as the
firstand lastEnglish king of France.
Henry VIs kingdom endured for twenty years, but when he came of age he was not the
leader his father had been. The dauphin whom Joan had crowned Charles VII would finally
drive the English out of France. Barker recounts these stirring eventsthe epic battles and
sieges, plots and betrayalsthrough a kaleidoscope of characters from John Talbot, the English Achilles, and John, duke of Bedford, regent of France, to brutal mercenaries, opportunistic freebooters, resourceful spies, and lovers torn apart by the conflict.
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Africa Speaks, America Answers

MODERN JAZZ IN REVOLUTIONARY TIMES
R OBIN D. G. K ELLEY
In Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, pianist Randy Weston and bassist Ahmed Abdul-Malik celebrated with song the revolutions spreading across Africa. In Ghana and South Africa, drummer
Guy Warren and vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin fused local musical forms with the dizzying
innovations of modern jazz. These four were among hundreds of musicians in the 1950s and
60s who forged connections between jazz and Africa that definitively reshaped both their music
and the world.
Each artist identified in particular ways with Africas
struggle for liberation and made music dedicated to, or inspired
by, demands for independence and self-determination. That
RO B I N D. G . K E L L E Y
music was the wild, boundary-breaking exultation of modern
is Gary B. Nash
jazz. The result was an abundance of conversation, collabora-
Professor of American
tion, and tension between African and African American musi-
History at the
cians during the era of decolonization. This collective

biography demonstrates how modern Africa reshaped jazz,
how modern jazz helped form a new African identity, and how
University of California,
Los Angeles, and author
of Thelonious Monk.
musical convergences and crossings altered the politics and

culture of both.
In a crucial moment when freedom electrified the African diaspora, these black artists
sought each other out to create new modes of expression. Documenting individuals and places,
from Lagos to Chicago, from New York to Cape Town, Robin Kelley gives us a meditation on
modernity: we see innovation not as an imposition from the West but rather as indigenous,
multilingual, and messy, the result of innumerable exchanges across a breadth of cultures.
THE NATHAN I. HUGGINS LECTURES
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The Harm in Hate Speech

J EREMY WALDRON
Every liberal democracy has laws or codes against hate speechexcept the United States. For
constitutionalists, regulation of hate speech violates the First Amendment and damages a free
society. Against this absolutist view, Jeremy Waldron argues powerfully that hate speech should
be regulated as part of our commitment to human dignity and to inclusion and respect for members of vulnerable minorities.
Causing offenseby depicting a religious leader as a terrorist in a newspaper cartoon,
for exampleis not the same as launching a libelous attack on a groups dignity, according to
Waldron, and it lies outside the reach of law. But defamation of a minority group, through hate speech, underJ E R E M Y WA L D RO N is
mines a public good that can and should be protected:
University Professor, New
the basic assurance of inclusion in society for all mem-
York University School of
bers. A social environment polluted by anti-gay leaflets,
Law, and Chichele Professor
Nazi banners, and burning crosses sends an implicit mes-
of Social and Political
sage to the targets of such hatred: your security is uncer-
Theory, All Souls College,
tain, and you can expect to face humiliation and
University of Oxford.
discrimination when you leave your home.

Free-speech advocates boast of despising what
racists say but defending to the death their right to say it.
Waldron finds this emphasis on intellectual resilience misguided and points instead to the threat
hate speech poses to the lives, dignity, and reputations of minority members. Finding support
for his view among philosophers of the Enlightenment, Waldron asks us to move beyond kneejerk American exceptionalism in our debates over the serious consequences of hateful acts.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES LECTURES
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Internal Time
T ILL R OENNEBERG
T HIS
IS A WONDERFUL BOOK FROM A GIFTED SCIENTIST , THINKER AND WRITER
THAT PROVIDES THE READER WITH THE RARE OPPORTUNITY TO DISCOVER

SOMETHING NEW ABOUT THEMSELVES AND THE WORLD IN WHICH THEY LIVE .
R USSELL G. F OSTER , U NIVERSITY
OF
O XFORD
Early birds and night owls are born, not made. Sleep patterns may be the
most obvious manifestation of the highly individualized biological clocks
we inherit, but these clocks also regulate bodily functions from digestion to hormone levels to cognition. Living at odds with our
internal timepieces, Till Roenneberg
shows, can make us chronically sleep
deprived and more likely to smoke, gain
T I L L RO E N N E B E RG is
Professor at the
Institute of Medical
weight, feel depressed, fall ill, and fail geometry. By under-
Psychology at the
standing and respecting our internal time, we can live better.
Ludwig-Maximilians
Internal Time combines storytelling with accessible
University, Munich.
science tutorials to explain how our internal clocks work

for example, why morning classes are so unpopular and why
lazy adolescents are wise to avoid them. We learn why the
constant twilight of our largely indoor lives makes us dependent on alarm clocks and tired,
and why social demands and work schedules lead to a social jetlag that compromises our
daily functioning.
Many of the factors that make us early or late chronotypes are beyond our control,
but that doesnt make us powerless. Roenneberg recommends that the best way to sync our
internal time with our external environment and feel better is to get more sunlight. Such simple steps as cycling to work and eating breakfast outside may be the tickets to a good nights
sleep, better overall health, and less grouchiness in the morning.
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Freedom and the Arts

ESSAYS ON MUSIC AND LITERATURE
C HARLES ROSEN
Is there a moment in history when a work receives its ideal interpretation? Or is negotiation
always required to preserve the past and accommodate the present? The freedom of interpretation, Charles Rosen suggests in these sparkling explorations of music and literature, exists in
a delicate balance with fidelity to the identity of the original work.
Rosen cautions us to avoid doctrinaire extremes when approaching art of the past. To
understand Shakespeare only as an Elizabethan or Jacobean theatergoer would understand him,
or to modernize his plays with no sense of what they bring
from his age, deforms the work, making it less ambiguous and
C H A R L E S RO S E N is a
inherently less interesting. For a work to remain alive, it must
pianist and Professor
change character over time while preserving a valid witness to
Emeritus of Music and
its earliest state. When twentieth-century scholars transformed
Social Thought at the
Mozarts bland, idealized nineteenth-century image into that
University of Chicago.
of a modern revolutionary expressionist, they paradoxically

restored the reputation he had among his eighteenth-century
contemporaries. Mozart became once again a complex innovator, challenging to perform and to understand.
Drawing on a variety of critical methods,
ALSO BY
CHARLES ROSEN
Rosen maintains that listening or reading with

intensityfor pleasureis the one activity
The Romantic
indispensable for full appreciation. It allows
Generation
us to experience multiple possibilities in lit-
978-0-674-77934-1
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erature and music, and to avoid recognizing only the revolutionary elements of
artistic production. By reviving the sense that
works of art have intrinsic merits that bring
pleasure, we justify their continuing existence.
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No Citizen Left Behind

M EIRA L EVINSON
While teaching at an all-Black middle school in Atlanta, Meira Levinson realized that students
individual self-improvement would not necessarily enable them to overcome their profound
marginalization within American society. This is because of a civic empowerment gap that is as
shameful and antidemocratic as the academic achievement gap targeted by No Child Left
Behind. No Citizen Left Behind argues that students must be taught how to upend and reshape
power relationships directly, through political and civic action. Drawing on political theory,
empirical research, and her own on-the-ground experience,
Levinson shows how de facto segregated urban schools can
and must be at the center of this struggle.
Recovering the civic purposes of public schools will
take more than tweaking the curriculum. Levinson calls on
M E I R A L E V I N S O N is
Associate Professor of
Education at Harvard
schools to remake civic education. Schools should teach col-
Graduate School of
lective action, openly discuss the racialized dimensions of cit-
Education.
izenship, and provoke students by engaging their passions

against contemporary injustices. Students must also have frequent opportunities to take civic and political action, including within the school itself. To build a truly egalitarian society,
we must reject myths of civic sameness and empower all young people to raise their diverse
voices. Levinsons account challenges not just educators but all who care about justice, diversity, or democracy.
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Many Subtle Channels

IN PRAISE OF POTENTIAL LITERATURE
D ANIEL L EVIN B ECKER

A
GLORIOUS CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF WORDPLAY AND AN EQUALLY GLORIOUS EXAMPLE
OF WORDPLAY AT WORK . I TS AUTHOR IS VERY , VERY SMART , BUT BECAUSE HE S SO WITTY

AND SO PLAYFUL , HIS INTELLIGENCE FEELS FRIENDLY RATHER THAN FORMIDABLE .
THE NAME
D ANIEL L EVIN B ECKER :
R EMEMBER
YOU WILL BE HEARING IT AGAIN .
A NNE FADIMAN
What sort of society could bind together Jacques Roubaud,

Italo Calvino, Marcel Duchamp, and Raymond Queneau
DANIEL LEVIN
B E C K E R is Reviews
Editor for The
Believer and has been a
member of the Oulipo
since 2009.
and Daniel Levin Becker, a young American obsessed with

language play? Only the Oulipo, the Paris-based experimental
collective founded in 1960 and fated to become one of literatures quirkiest movements.
An international organization of writers, artists, and
scientists who embrace formal and procedural constraints to
achieve literatures possibilities, the Oulipo (the French
acronym stands for workshop for potential literature) is perhaps best known as the cradle of Georges Perecs novel A
Void, which does not contain the letter e. Drawn to the Oulipos mystique, Levin Becker secured
a Fulbright grant to study the organization and traveled to Paris. He was eventually offered
membership, becoming only the second American to be admitted to the group. From the perspective of a young initiate, the Oulipians and their projects are at once bizarre and utterly compelling. Levin Beckers love for games, puzzles, and language play is infectious, calling to mind
Elif Batumans delight in Russian literature in The Possessed.
In recent years, the Oulipo has inspired the creation of numerous other collectives: the
OuMuPo (a collective of DJs), the OuMaPo (marionette players), the OuBaPo (comic strip
artists), the OuFlarfPo (poets who generate poetry with the aid of search engines), and a
menagerie of other Ou-X-Pos (workshops for potential something). Levin Becker discusses these
and other intriguing developments in this history and personal appreciation of an iconicand
iconoclasticgroup.
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Nuclear Forces
THE MAKING OF THE PHYSICIST HANS BETHE
S ILVAN S. S CHWEBER
[B ETHE
WAS ] THE SUPREME PROBLEM SOLVER OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY .
F REEMAN D YSON
On the fiftieth anniversary of Hiroshima, Nobel-winning physicist Hans Bethe called on

his fellow scientists to stop working on weapons of mass destruction. What drove Bethe, the
head of Theoretical Physics at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, to renounce the weaponry he had once
worked so tirelessly to create? That is one of the questions
S I LVA N S . S C H W E B E R
answered by Nuclear Forces, a riveting biography of Bethes
is Professor of Physics
early life and development as both a scientist and a man of
and Richard Koret
principle.
Professor in the History
As Silvan Schweber follows Bethe from his childhood

in Germany, to laboratories in Italy and England, and on to
of Ideas, Emeritus, at
Brandeis University.
Cornell University, he shows how these differing environments were reflected in the kind of physics Bethe produced.
Many of the young quantum physicists in the 1930s, including Bethe, had Jewish roots, and Schweber considers how Liberal Judaism in Germany helps explain their remarkable
contributions. A portrait emerges of a man whose strategy for
staying on top of a deeply hierarchical field was to tackle
only those problems he knew he could solve.
Bethes emotional maturation was shaped by his
ALSO BY
SILVAN S. SCHWEBER
Einstein and Oppenheimer:
The Meaning of Genius
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father and by two women of Jewish background: his

overly possessive mother and his wife, who would later
serve as an ethical touchstone during the turbulent years he
spent designing nuclear bombs. Situating Bethe in the context of the various communities where
he worked, Schweber provides a full picture of prewar developments in physics that changed
the modern world, and of a scientist shaped by the unprecedented moral dilemmas those developments in turn created.
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The Crimes of Elagabalus

THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF ROMES DECADENT BOY EMPEROR
M ARTIJN I CKS
I N
THIS ACCESSIBLE AND LIVELY STUDY , I CKS SHEDS NEW LIGHT ON THE DISSEMINATION
OF CLASSICAL CULTURE AND THE RECEPTION OF

THE EVOLVING FIGURE OF
E LAGABALUS
R OME
IN LATER PERIODS BY FOLLOWING
IN OPERA , DRAMA AND FICTION THROUGH
THE CENTURIES .
B RIAN C AMPBELL , Q UEEN S U NIVERSITY, B ELFAST
The four short years of Elagabaluss rule have generated nearly two
millennia of sustained attention, from salacious rumor to scholarly
M A RT I J N I C K S is
analysis to novels that cast him as a gay hero avant la lettre. Here,
a Postdoctoral
Martijn Icks succeeds in distinguishing the reality of the emperors
Fellow at the
brief life from the myth that clouds itand in tracing the meaning
University of
of the myth itself to the present day.
Heidelberg.
In 219
CE,
when the fourteen-year-old Syrian arrived in
Rome to assume the throne, he brought with him a conical black

stone, which he declared was the earthly form of the sun god ElGabal, who gave Elagabalus his name and lifelong office as high
priest. Shoving Jupiter aside, the new emperor did the unthinkable, installing El-Gabal at the head of the Roman pantheon and marrying a vestal virgin.
Whether for these offenses, his neglect of the empire, or weariness from watching the emperor
dance at the elaborate daily sacrifices, the imperial guards murdered Elagabalus and put ElGabal in a packing crate.
Sifting through later accounts of the emperors outrageous behavior, Icks finds the
invented Elagabalus as compelling as the historical figure. In literature, art, and music from the
fifteenth century on, Elagabalus appears in many guises, from evil tyrant to anarchist rebel,
from mystical androgyne to modern gay teenager, from decadent sensualist to pop star. These
many reincarnations reveal as much about the ages that produced them, Icks shows, as they do
about the bad-boy emperor himself.
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In the Whirlwind
GOD AND HUMANITY IN CONFLICT
R OBERT A. B URT
God deserves obedience simply because hes Godor does he? Inspired by a passion for biblical as well as constitutional scholarship, Yale Law Professor Robert A. Burt in this audacious book
conceptualizes the political theory of the Hebrew and Christian Bibles. Gods authority as
expressed in these accounts is not a given. It is no less inherently problematic and in need of
justification than the legitimacy of secular government.
In recounting the rich narratives of key biblical figuresfrom Adam and Eve to Noah,
Cain, Abraham, Moses, Job, and JesusIn the Whirlwind paints a surprising picture of the
ambivalent, mutually dependent relationship between God
and his peoples. Taking the Hebrew and Christian Bibles as a
unified whole, Burt traces Gods relationship with humanity
as it evolves from complete harmony at the outset to continual struggle. In almost every case, God insists on unconditional obedience, while humanity withholds submission and
holds God accountable for his promises.
Contemporary political theory aims for perfect justice.
The Bible, Burt shows, does not make this assumption. Justice
in the biblical account is an imperfect process grounded in
humanand divinelimitation. Burt suggests that we consider the lessons of this tension as we try to negotiate the
power struggles within secular governments, and also the conflicts roiling our public and private lives.
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RO B E RT A . B U RT is
Alexander M. Bickel
Professor of Law at Yale
Law School.
The Assumptions Economists Make

J ONATHAN S CHLEFER
A
MARVELOUS PIECE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY . J ONATHAN
S CHLEFER
ABLY CONTRASTS
THE TWO MAIN APPROACHES TO MACROECONOMICS NEOCLASSICAL AND CLASSICAL /
K EYNESIAN AND
ON SOCIAL , HISTORICAL , AND POLITICAL GROUNDS STRONGLY
ENDORSES THE LATTER .
L ANCE TAYLOR
Economists make confident assertions in op-ed columns and on cable newsso why are their
explanations so often at odds with equally confident assertions from other economists? And
why are all economic predictions so rarely borne out? Harnessing his frustration with these
contradictions, Jonathan Schlefer set out to investigate how
economists arrive at their opinions.
J O N AT H A N
While economists cloak their views in the aura of sci-
S C H L E F E R is a
ence, what they actually do is make assumptions about the
Research Associate at
world, use those assumptions to build imaginary economies
Harvard Business
(known as models), and from those models generate conclu-
School.
sions. Their models can be useful or dangerous, and it is surprisingly difficult to tell which is which. Schlefer arms us with
an understanding of rival assumptions and models reaching
back to Adam Smith and forward to cutting-edge theorists
today. Although abstract, mathematical thinking characterizes
economists work, Schlefer reminds us that economists are
unavoidably human. They fall prey to fads and enthusiasms and subscribe to ideologies that
shape their assumptions, sometimes in problematic ways.
Schlefer takes up current controversies such as income inequality and the financial crisis, for which he holds economists in large part accountable. Although theorists won international acclaim for creating models that demonstrated the inherent instability of markets,
ostensibly practical economists ignored those accepted theories and instead relied on their blind
faith in the invisible hand of unregulated enterprise. Schlefer explains how the politics of economics allowed them to do so. The Assumptions Economists Make renders the behavior of
economists much more comprehensible, if not less irrational.
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Henry Friendly
GREATEST JUDGE OF HIS ERA
D AVID M. D ORSEN
F OREWORD BY RICHARD A. POSNER
Henry Friendly is frequently grouped with Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Brandeis, Benjamin
Cardozo, and Learned Hand as the best American jurists of the twentieth century. In this first,
comprehensive biography of Friendly, David M. Dorsen opens a unique window onto how a
judge of this caliber thinks and decides cases, and how Friendly lived his life.
During his time on the bench, Judge Friendly was
widely revered as a conservative who exemplified the tradition of judicial restraint. But he demonstrated remarkable creativity in circumventing precedent and formulating new rules
in a multitude of areas of the law. Henry Friendly, Greatest
Judge of His Era describes the inner workings of Friendlys
chambers and his thought process and craftsmanship in writ-
D AV I D M. D O R S E N is
Of Counsel to Sedgwick
LLP, based in
Washington, D.C.
ing opinions. His articles on habeas corpus, the Fourth Amendment, self-incrimination, and the reach of the state are still
cited by the Supreme Court.
Dorsen draws on extensive research, employing private memoranda between the judges and interviews with all fifty-one of Friendlys law clerks
a veritable Whos Who that includes Chief Justice John R. Roberts, Jr., six federal judges, and
seventeen professors at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and elsewhere. In his Foreword, Judge Richard
Posner writes: David Dorsen has produced the most illuminating, the most useful,
judicial biography that I have ever read . . . We learn more about the American
judiciary at its best than we can learn from any other . . . Some of what Ive
learned has already induced me to make certain changes in my judicial practice.
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The Buddhas of Bamiyan

L LEWELYN M ORGAN
For 1,400 years, two colossal figures of the Buddha overlooked the fertile Bamiyan Valley on
the Silk Road in Afghanistan. Witness to a melting pot of passing monks, merchants, and armies,
the Buddhas embodied the intersection of East and West, and their destruction by the Taliban
in 2001 provoked international outrage. Llewelyn Morgan excavates the layers of meaning
these vanished wonders hold for a fractured Afghanistan.
Carved in the sixth and seventh centuries, the Buddhas represented a confluence of religious and artistic traditions from India, China, Central Asia, and Iran, and even an echo of
Greek influence brought by Alexander the Greats armies. By
the time Genghis Khan destroyed the town of Bamiyan six
L L E W E LY N M O RG A N
centuries later, Islam had replaced Buddhism as the local reli-
is University Lecturer in
gion, and the Buddhas were celebrated as wonders of the
Classical Language and
Islamic world. Not until the nineteenth century did these fig-
Literature at the
ures come to the attention of Westerners. That is also the his-
University of Oxford.
torical moment when the ground was laid for many of

Afghanistans current problems, including the rise
of the Taliban and the oppression of the Hazara
people of Bamiyan. In a strange twist, the Hazarasdescendants of the conquering Mongol
hordes who stormed Bamiyan in the thirteenth centuryhad come to venerate the Buddhas that once dominated their valley as symbols of their
very different religious identity.
Incorporating the voices of the holy men, adventurers, and
hostages throughout history who set eyes on the Bamiyan Buddhas,
Morgan tells the history of this region of paradox and heartache.
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The Image of the Black in Western Art

VOLUME IV: FROM THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION TO WORLD WAR I
PART 1: SLAVES AND LIBERATORS, NEW EDITION
PART 2: BLACK MODELS AND WHITE MYTHS, NEW EDITION
EDITED BY
D AVID B INDMAN
AND
H ENRY L OUIS G ATES , J R .
In the 1960s, art patron Dominique de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that
people of African descent have been represented in Western art. Highlights from her collection
appeared in three large-format volumes that quickly became collectors items. A half-century
later, Harvard University Press and the Du Bois Institute are proud to publish a complete set of
ten sumptuous books, including new editions of the original
volumes and two additional ones.
Slaves and Liberators looks at the political implications
D AV I D B I N D M A N is
of the representation of Africans, from the earliest discussions
Emeritus Professor of
of the morality of slavery, through the rise of abolitionism, to
the History of Art at
the imposition of European imperialism on Africa. Popular imagery and great works, like Gericaults Raft
of the Medusa and Turners Slave Ship, are considered in depth, casting light on widely differing European responses to Africans and
their descendants.
Black Models and White Myths
University College
London. H E N RY L O U I S
G AT E S , J R ., is Alphonse
Fletcher University
Professor and Director
of the W. E. B. Du Bois
Institute at Harvard
University.
examines the tendentious racial

assumptions behind representations
of Africans that emphasized the contrast between civilization and savagery and the development of
so-called scientific and ethnographic racism. These works often
depicted Africans within a context of sexuality and exoticism, representing their allegedly natural behavior as a counterpoint to
inhibited European conduct.
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La Vengeance by Victor van Hove, ca. 1855. Muses Royaux des Beaux-Arts de
Belgique,Muse dArt Moderne. Hickey & Robertson, Houston / Menil Foundation.
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T HESE
DAZZLING VOLUMES FILLED WITH
EXTRAORDINARY IMAGES AND RICH ARGUMENTS

CONTRIBUTE TO AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF THE
W ESTERN
WORLD .
PAUL G ILROY
Detail, Henry Ward Beecher Monument by John Quincy Adams Ward,

1891. Cadman Plaza, Brooklyn, NY. Hickey & Robertson, Houston / The
Menil Foundation; detail, Adoration of the Magi by AlexandreFranois Caminade, 1831. Church of St-Etienne-du-Mont, Paris. Hickey &
Robertson, Houston / The Menil Foundation; detail, Slaves Waiting for
SaleRichmond, Virginia by Eyre Crowe, 1861. Royal Academy, London.
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
Volume 3, Part 2: 978-0-674-05262-8
Volume 3, Part 3: 978-0-674-05263-5
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Freedom Papers
AN ATLANTIC ODYSSEY IN THE AGE OF EMANCIPATION
R EBECCA J. S COTT
AND J EAN
M. H BRARD
Around 1785, a woman was taken from her home in Senegambia and sent to Saint-Domingue
in the Caribbean. Those who enslaved her there named her Rosalie. Her later efforts to escape
slavery were the beginning of a familys quest, across five generations and three continents, for
lives of dignity and equality. Freedom Papers sets the saga of Rosalie and her descendants against
the background of three great antiracist struggles of the nineteenth century: the Haitian Revolution, the French Revolution of 1848,
and the Civil War and Reconstruction
in the United States.
R E B E CC A J. S CO T T is Charles Gibson
Freed during the Haitian Revo-
Distinguished University Professor of
lution, Rosalie and her daughter Elisa-
History and Professor of Law at the
beth fled to Cuba in 1803. A few years
University of Michigan. J E A N M. H B R A R D
later, Elisabeth departed for New
is a historian at the cole des Hautes tudes
Orleans, where she married a carpenter,
en Sciences Sociales (Paris) and Visiting
Jacques Tinchant. In the 1830s, with
Professor at the University of Michigan.
tension rising against free persons of

color, they left for France. Subsequent
generations of Tinchants fought in the Union Army, argued for
ALSO BY
equal rights at Louisianas state constitutional convention, and
REBECCA J. SCOTT
created a transatlantic tobacco network that turned their Cre-
Degrees of Freedom:
ole past into a commercial asset. Yet the fragility of freedom
Louisiana and Cuba
and security became clear when, a century later, Rosalies
after Slavery
great-great-granddaughter Marie-Jos was arrested by Nazi

forces occupying Belgium.
978-0-674-02759-6
HUP | $21.00x paper
Freedom Papers follows the Tinchants as each generation tries to use the power and legitimacy of documents to help secure freedom and respect. The
strategies they used to overcome the constraints of slavery, war, and colonialism suggest the contours of the lives of people of color across the Atlantic world during this turbulent epoch.
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The Rise and Fall of

Arab Presidents for Life
ROGER O WEN
The monarchical presidential regimes that prevailed in the Arab world for so long looked as
though they would last indefinitelyuntil events in Tunisia and Egypt made clear their time was
up. The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life exposes for the first time the origins and
dynamics of a governmental system that largely defined the Arab Middle East in the twentieth
century.
Presidents who rule for life have been a feature of the
Arab world since independence. In the 1980s their regimes
RO G E R O W E N is A. J.
increasingly resembled monarchies as presidents took up res-
Meyer Professor of
idence in palaces and made every effort to ensure their sons
Middle East History at

Harvard University.
would succeed them. Roger Owen explores the main features

of the prototypical Arab monarchical regime: its household;
its inner circle of corrupt cronies; and its attempts to create a
popular legitimacy based on economic success, a manipulated
constitution, managed elections, and information suppression.
Why has the Arab world suffered such a concentration
of permanent presidential government? Though post-Soviet
Central Asia has also known monarchical presidencies, Owen argues that a significant reason
is the Arab demonstration effect, whereby close ties across the Arab world have enabled ruling families to share management strategies and assistance. But this effect also explains why
these presidencies all came under the same pressure to reform or go. Owen discusses the huge
popular opposition the presidential systems engendered during the Arab Spring, and the political change that ensued, while also delineating the challenges the Arab revolutions face across
the Middle East and North Africa.
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Under the Drones

MODERN LIVES IN THE AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN BORDERLANDS
EDITED BY
S HAHZAD B ASHIR
AND
R OBERT D. C REWS
In the West, media coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan is framed by military and political concerns, resulting in a simplistic picture of ageless barbarity, terrorist safe havens, and peoples in
need of either punishment or salvation. Under the Drones looks beyond this limiting view to
investigate real people on the ground, and to analyze the political, social, and economic forces
that shape their lives. Understanding the complexity of life along the 1,600-mile border between
Afghanistan and Pakistan can help America and its European allies realign their priorities in the
region to address genuine problems, rather than fabricated ones.
This volume explodes Western misunder-
S H A H Z A D B A S H I R is Lysbeth
standings by revealing a land that abounds with
Warren Anderson Professor in
human agency, perpetual innovation, and vibrant
Islamic Studies in the Department
complexity. Through the work of historians and
of Religious Studies at Stanford
social scientists, the thirteen essays here explore the

real and imagined presence of the Taliban; the animated sociopolitical identities expressed through
University. RO B E RT D. C R E W S
is Associate Professor of History
at Stanford University.
traditions like Pakistani truck decoration; Sufisms

ambivalent position as an alternative to militancy;
the long and contradictory history of Afghan media; the simultaneous brutality and potential that
heroin brings to women in the area.
Moving past shifting conceptions of security, the authors expose the Wests prevailing
perspective on the region as strategic, targeted, and alarmingly dehumanizing. Under the
Drones is an essential antidote to contemporary media coverage and military concerns.
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Why Lyrics Last

EVOLUTION, COGNITION, AND SHAKESPEARES SONNETS
B RIAN B OYD
T HE MOST ILLUMINATING BOOK ON S HAKESPEARE S S ONNETS
T HE A RT OF S HAKESPEARE S S ONNETS .
M AC J ACKSON , T HE U NIVERSITY
OF
SINCE
H ELEN V ENDLER S
A UCKLAND
In Why Lyrics Last, the internationally acclaimed critic Brian Boyd turns an evolutionary lens
on the subject of lyric verse. He finds that lyric making, though it presents no advantages for
the species in terms of survival and reproduction, is universal
across cultures because it fits constraints of the human mind.
B R I A N B OY D isthe
worlds leading
authority on the life and
work of Vladimir
Nabokov and the author
of numerous books.
An evolutionary perspectiveespecially when coupled with

insights from aesthetics and literary historyhas
much to tell us about both verse and the lyrical
impulse.
Boyd places the writing of lyrical verse within the
human disposition to play with pattern, and in an extended
example he uncovers the many patterns to be found within
Shakespeares Sonnets. Shakespeares bid for readership
is unlike that of any sonneteer before him: he deliber-
ALSO BY
BRIAN BOYD
On the Origin of
Stories: Evolution,
Cognition, and Fiction
978-0-674-05711-1
HUP | $25.95*
ately avoids all narrative, choosing to maximize the

openness of the lyric and demonstrating the power that
verse can have when liberated of story.
In eschewing narrative, Shakespeare plays freely
with patterns of other kinds: words, images, sounds, structures; emotions and moods; argument and analogy; and natural rhythms in daily, seasonal, and life cycles. In the
originality of his stratagems, and in their sheer number and variety, both within and between
sonnets, Shakespeare outdoes all competitors. A reading of the Sonnets informed
by evolution is primed to attend to these complexities and better able to appreciate Shakespeares remarkable gambit for immortal fame.
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Seeing Through Race

W. J. T. M ITCHELL
According to W. J. T. Mitchell, a color-blind post-racial world is neither achievable nor desirable. Against popular claims that race is an outmoded construct that distracts from more important issues, Mitchell contends that race remains essential to our understanding of social reality.
Race is not simply something to be seen but is among the fundamental media through which
we experience human otherness. Race also makes racism visible and is thus our best weapon
against it.
The power of race becomes most apparent at times when pedagogy fails, the lesson is
unclear, and everyone has something to learn. Mitchell identifies three such moments in Americas recent racial history.
First is the postCivil Rights moment of theory, in which race
W. J. T. M I T C H E L L is
and racism have been subject to renewed philosophical
the Gaylord Donnelley
inquiry. Second is the moment of blackness, epitomized by
Distinguished Service
the election of Barack Obama and accompanying images of
Professor at University
blackness in politics and popular culture. Third is the Semitic
of Chicago and author
Moment in Israel-Palestine, where race and racism converge
of What Do Pictures
in new forms of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. Mitchell

brings visual culture, iconology, and media studies to bear on
his discussion of these critical turning points in our understanding of the relation between race and racism.
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Want?
Testing Prayer
SCIENCE AND HEALING
C ANDY G UNTHER B ROWN

When sickness strikes, people around the world pray for healing. Many of the faithful claim that
prayer has cured them of blindness, deafness, and metastasized cancers, and some believe they
have been resurrected from the dead. Can, and should, science test such claims? A number of
scientists say no, concerned that empirical studies of prayer will be misused to advance religious
agendas. And some religious practitioners agree with this restraint, worrying that scientific testing could undermine faith.
In Candy Gunther Browns view, science cannot prove prayers healing power, but what scientists
C A N DY G U N T H E R B RO W N
can and should do is study prayers measurable effects
is Associate Professor,
on health. If prayer produces benefits, even indirectly
Department of Religious
(and findings suggest that it does), then more careful
Studies, and Adjunct
attention to prayer practices could impact global health,
Associate Professor, American

Studies Program, at Indiana
particularly in places without access to conventional

medicine.
University, Bloomington.
Drawing on data from Pentecostal and Charismatic Christians, Brown reverses a number of stereotypes about believers in faith-healing. Among them is
the idea that poorer, less educated people are more likely to believe in the healing power of
prayer and therefore less likely to see doctors. Brown finds instead that people across socioeconomic backgrounds use prayer alongside conventional medicine rather than as a substitute. Dissecting medical records from before and after prayer, surveys of prayer recipients, prospective
clinical trials, and multiyear follow-up observations and interviews, she shows that the widespread perception of prayers healing power has demonstrable social effects, and that in some
cases those effects produce improvements in health that can be scientifically verified.
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The Abolitionist Imagination

A NDREW D ELBANCO
W I T H J O H N S TA U F F E R , M A N I S H A S I N H A , D A R RY L P I N C K N E Y ,
W I L F R E D M. M C C L AY
AND
The abolitionists of the mid-nineteenth century have long been painted in extremesvilified
as reckless zealots who provoked the catastrophic bloodletting of the Civil War, or praised as daring and courageous reformers who hastened the end of slavery. But Andrew Delbanco sees abolitionists in a different light, as the embodiment of a driving force in American history: the
recurrent impulse of an adamant minority to rid the world of outrageous evil.
Delbanco imparts to the reader a sense of what it
meant to be a thoughtful citizen in nineteenth-century
America, appalled by slavery yet aware of the fragility of
A N D R E W D E L B A N CO
the republic and the high cost of radical action. In this light,
holds the Mendelson
we can better understand why the fiery vision of the abo-
Family Chair of American
litionist imagination alarmed such contemporary wit-
Studies and is Julian
nesses as Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne even
Clarence Levi Professor in
as they sympathized with the cause. The story of the abo-
the Humanities at
litionists thus becomes both a stirring tale of moral fervor
Columbia University.
and a cautionary tale of ideological certitude. And it raises

the question of when the demand for purifying action is
cogent and honorable, and when it is fanatic and irresponsible.
Delbancos work is placed in conversation with responses from literary scholars and historians. These provocative essays bring the past into urgent dialogue with the present, dissecting the power and legacies of a determined movement to bring Americas reality into conformity
with American ideals.
THE ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE LECTURES ON AMERICAN POLITICS
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Emancipating Lincoln
THE PROCLAMATION IN TEXT, CONTEXT, AND MEMORY
H AROLD H OLZER
Emancipating Lincoln seeks a new approach to the Emancipation Proclamation, a foundational
text of American liberty that in recent years has been subject to woeful misinterpretation. These
seventeen hundred words are Lincolns most important piece of writing, responsible both for
his being hailed as the Great Emancipator and for his being pilloried by those who consider his
once-radical effort at emancipation insufficient and half-hearted.
Harold Holzer, an award-winning Lincoln scholar, invites us to examine the impact of
Lincolns momentous announcement at the moment of its creation, and then as its meaning has changed over time. Using
H A RO L D H O L Z E R is
neglected original sources, Holzer uncovers Lincolns very
Senior Vice President,
modern manipulation of the mediafrom his promulgation
External Affairs, at the
of disinformation to the ways he variously withheld, leaked,
Metropolitan Museum
and promoted the Proclamationin order to make his society-
of Art and author of

Lincoln at Cooper Union.
altering announcement palatable to America. Examining his

agonizing revisions, we learn why a peerless prose writer executed what he regarded as his greatest act in leaden language. Turning from word to image, we see the complex
responses in American sculpture, painting, and illustration
across the last century and a half, as artists sought to criticize, lionize, and profit from Lincolns
endeavor.
Holzer shows the faults in applying our own standards to Lincolns efforts, but also
demonstrates how Lincolns obfuscations made it nearly impossible to discern his true motives.
As we approach the 150th anniversary of the Proclamation, this concise volume is a vivid depiction of the painfully slow march of all Americanswhite and black, leaders and constituents
toward freedom.
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The Creation of Inequality

HOW OUR PREHISTORIC ANCESTORS SET THE STAGE FOR
MONARCHY, SLAVERY, AND EMPIRE
K ENT F LANNERY
AND J OYCE
M ARCUS
Our early ancestors lived in small groups and worked actively to preserve social equality. As they
created larger societies, however, inequality rose, and by 2500
BCE
truly egalitarian societies
were on the wane. In The Creation of Inequality, Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus demonstrate
that this development was not simply the result of population increase, food surplus, or the
accumulation of valuables. Instead, inequality resulted from conscious manipulation of the
unique social logic that lies
at the core of every human
K E N T F L A N N E RY is James B. Griff in Distinguished
group.
A
few
University Professor of Anthropological Archaeology
societies
and Curator, Environmental Archaeology, Museum of
allowed talented and ambi-
Anthropology, University of Michigan. J OYC E M A RC U S
tious individuals to rise in
is Robert L. Carneiro Distinguished Professor of Social
prestige while still prevent-
Evolution and Curator, Latin American Archaeology,
ing them from becoming a
Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan.
hereditary elite. But many

others made high rank
hereditary, by manipulating
debts, genealogies, and sacred lore. At certain moments in history, intense competition among
leaders of high rank gave rise to despotic kingdoms and empires in the Near East, Egypt, Africa,
Mexico, Peru, and the Pacific.
Drawing on their vast knowledge of both living and prehistoric social groups, Flannery
and Marcus describe the changes in logic that create larger and more hierarchical societies, and
they argue persuasively that many kinds of inequality can be overcome by reversing these
changes, rather than by violence.
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Sensitive Matter
FOAMS, GELS, LIQUID CRYSTALS, AND OTHER MIRACLES
M ICHEL M ITOV
T R A N S L AT E D
A N
BY
GISELLE WEISS
EXCELLENT GUIDE TO THE LABYRINTHINE WORLD OF SOFT MATTER .
D AVID Q UR , N ATURE
Life would not exist without sensitive, or soft, matter. All biological
structures depend on it, including red blood globules, lung fluid, and
membranes. So do industrial emulsions,
gels, plastics, liquid crystals, and granular
M I C H E L M I T O V is a
materials. What makes sensitive matter so fasci-
Research Scientist
nating is its inherent versatility. Shape-shifting at
(Liquid-crystal) at
the slightest provocation, whether a change in com-
CMES-CNRS, Groupe
Nanomatriaux.
position or environment, it leads a fugitive existence.

Physicist Michel Mitov brings drama to molecular gastronomy (as when two irreconcilable materials are
mixed to achieve the miracle of mayonnaise) and offers
answers to everyday questions, such as how does paint dry
on canvas, why does shampoo foam better when you
repeat, and what allows for the controlled release of drugs? Along the way we meet a futurist cook, a scientist with a runaway imagination, and a penniless inventor named Goodyear
who added sulfur to latex, quite possibly by accident, and created durable rubber.
As Mitov demonstrates, even religious ritual is a lesson in the surprising science of sensitive matter. Thrice yearly, the reliquary of St. Januarius is carried down cobblestone streets from
the Cathedral to the Church of St. Clare in Naples. If all goes as hopedand since 1389 it
often hasthe dried blood contained in the reliquarys largest vial liquefies on reaching its destination, and Neapolitans are given a reaffirming symbol of renewal.
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Representing the Race

THE CREATION OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER
K ENNETH W. M ACK
R EPRESENTING
THE
R ACE
IS A WONDERFUL EXCAVATION OF THE FIRST ERA OF
CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYERING .
R ANDALL L. K ENNEDY,
AUTHOR OF
T HE P ERSISTENCE
OF THE
C OLOR L INE
Representing the Race tells the story of an enduring paradox of American race relations, through
the prism of a collective biography of African American lawyers who worked in the era of segregation. Practicing the law and seeking justice for
diverse clients, they confronted a tension between their
racial identity as black men and women and their pro-
K E N N E T H W. M A C K is
fessional identity as lawyers. Both blacks and whites
Professor of Law at Harvard
demanded that these attorneys stand apart from their
Law School.
racial community as members of the legal fraternity. Yet,

at the same time, they were expected to be authenticthat is, in sympathy with the black masses. This
conundrum, as Kenneth W. Mack shows, continues to
reverberate through American politics today.
Mack reorients what we thought we knew
about famous figures such as Thurgood Marshall, who rose to prominence by convincing local
blacks and prominent whites that he wasas nearly as possibleone of them. But he also
introduces a little-known cast of characters to the American racial narrative. These include
Loren Miller, the biracial Los Angeles lawyer who, after learning in college that he was black,
became a Marxist critic of his fellow black attorneys and ultimately a leading civil rights advocate; and Pauli Murray, a black woman who seemed neither black nor white, neither man nor
woman, who helped invent sex discrimination as a category of law. The untold stories of these
lawyers pose the unsettling question: What, ultimately, does it mean to represent a minority
group in the give-and-take of American law and politics?
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Dignity
ITS HISTORY AND MEANING
M ICHAEL ROSEN
Dignity plays a central role in current thinking about law and human rights but there is sharp
disagreement about its meaning. Combining conceptual precision with a broad historical background, Michael Rosen puts these controversies in context and offers a novel, constructive
proposal.
Drawing on law, politics, religion and culture, as well as philosophy, Rosen shows how
modern conceptions of dignity inherit several distinct strands of meaning. This is why users of
the word nowadays often talk past one another. The idea of
dignity as the foundation for the universal entitlement to
M I C H A E L RO S E N is
human rights represented the coming together after the
Professor of
Second World War of two extremely powerful traditions:
Government at Harvard
Christian theology and Kantian philosophy. Not only is this
University.
idea of dignity as an inner transcendental kernel behind

human rights problematic, Rosen argues, it has drawn attention away from a different, very important, sense of dignity:
the right to be treated with dignity, that is, with proper
respect.
At the heart of the argument stands the giant figure of
Immanuel Kant. Challenging current orthodoxy, Rosens interpretation presents Kant as a

philosopher whose ethical thought is governed, above all, by the requirement of showing respect
toward a kernel of value that each of us carries, indestructibly, within ourselves. Finally, Rosen
asks (and answers) a surprisingly puzzling question: why do we still have a duty to treat the dead
with dignity if they will not benefit from our respect?
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From Enemy to Brother

THE REVOLUTION IN CATHOLIC TEACHING ON THE JEWS, 19331965
J OHN C ONNELLY
A N
ASTONISHING ACHIEVEMENT , ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT BOOKS WRITTEN ON THE
HISTORY OF TWENTIETH - CENTURY
C ATHOLICISM .
J OHN T. M C G REEVY, U NIVERSITY
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N OTRE D AME
In 1965 the Second Vatican Council declared that God loves the Jews. Before that, the Church
had taught for centuries that Jews were cursed by God and, in the 1940s, mostly kept silent as
Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis. How did an institution whose wisdom is said to be
unchanging undertake one of the most enormous, yet undiscussed, ideological swings in modern history?
The radical shift of Vatican II grew out of a buried history, a theological struggle in Central Europe in the years just
J O H N CO N N E L LY is
before the Holocaust, when a small group of Catholic con-
Associate Professor of
verts (especially former Jew Johannes Oesterreicher and for-
History at the University
mer Protestant Karl Thieme) fought to keep Nazi racism from
of California, Berkeley.
entering their newfound church. Through decades of engagement, extending from debates in academic journals, to popular education, to lobbying in the corridors of the Vatican, this
unlikely duo overcame the most problematic aspect of
Catholic history. Their success came not through appeals to
morality but rather from a rediscovery of neglected portions of scripture.
From Enemy to Brother illuminates the baffling silence of the Catholic Church during
the Holocaust, showing how the ancient teaching of deicideaccording to which the Jews
were condemned to suffer until they turned to Christconstituted the Churchs only language
to talk about the Jews. As he explores the process of theological change, John Connelly moves
from the speechless Vatican to those Catholics who endeavored to find a new language to speak
to the Jews on the eve of, and in the shadow of, the Holocaust.
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Stylish Academic Writing

H ELEN S WORD
Elegant data and ideas deserve elegant expression, argues Helen Sword in this lively
guide to academic writing. For scholars frustrated with disciplinary conventions, and
for specialists who want to write for a larger audience but are unsure where to begin,
here are imaginative, practical, witty pointers that show how to make articles and
books a pleasure to readand to write.
Dispelling the myth that you cannot get published without writing wordy,
impersonal prose, Sword shows how much journal editors and readers welcome work that avoids excessive jargon and abstraction. Swords analysis of
more than a thousand peer-reviewed articles across a wide
range of fields documents
a startling gap between
H E L E N S W O R D is
Head of the Centre for
Academic Development
and Senior Lecturer in
the Department of
English at the University
of Auckland.
how academics typically

describe good writing and
the turgid prose they
regularly produce.
Stylish Academic
Writing showcases a range
of scholars from the sciences, humanities, and
social sciences who write
with vividness and panache. Individual chapters take up specific elements of

style, such as titles and headings, chapter openings, and structure, and close
with examples of transferable techniques that any writer can master.
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d umbarton Oaks Medieval Libr ary

Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius
An Alexandrian World Chronicle
Old English Shorter Poems
Edited and translated by

BENJAMIN GARSTAD

CHRISTOPHER A. JONES
This volume contains two texts that crossed the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity. The Apocalypse of PseudoMethodius was one of the first works composed in
response to the Arab invasions and the establishment of the Muslim empire in the seventh century.
In a matter of decades it was translated from its original Syriac into Greek and from Greek into Latin.
(Both the Greek and Latin texts are presented here.)
The Apocalypse enjoyed immense popularity
throughout the Middle Ages, informing expectations of the end of the world, responses to strange
and exotic invaders such as the Mongols and Turks,
and even the legendary versions of the life of Alexander the Great. An Alexandrian World Chronicle
(Excerpta Latina Barbari) was considered important
by no less a humanist than Joseph Scaliger. He recognized it as a representative of an early stage in the
Christian chronicle tradition that would dominate
medieval historiography. The original Greek
text may have been a diplomatic gift from
the court of Justinian to a potential ally
among Frankish royalty, translated two
centuries later by the Franks themselves in their efforts to convert the
pagan Saxons. In addition to presenting
a universal chronicle with a comprehensive
ethnography and geography, the Excerpta offer a
Euhemeristic narrative of the gods and another
account of Alexander.
Alongside famous long works such as Beowulf, Old English poetry offers a large number of shorter compositions,
many of them on explicitly Christian themes. This volume of the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library presents
twenty-nine of these shorter religious poems composed
in Old and early Middle English between the seventh and
twelfth centuries. Among the texts, which demonstrate
the remarkable versatility of early English verse, are colorful allegories of the natural world, poems dedicated to
Christian prayer and morality, and powerful meditations
on death, judgment, heaven, and hell.
BENJAMIN GARSTAD is Assistant Professor

and Chair of the Department of Humanities,
Grant MacEwan College.
Volume I: Religious and Didactic
Previously edited in many different places and in

some instances lacking accessible translations, many of
these poems have remained little known outside scholarly circles. The present volume aims to offer this important body of texts to a wider audience by bringing them
together in one collection and providing all of them
with up-to-date translations and explanatory
notes. An introduction sets the poems
in their literary-historical contexts,
which are further illustrated by two
appendices, including the first complete modern English translation of the
so-called Old English Benedictine Office.
CHRISTOPHER A. JONE S is Professor of
English, Ohio State University.
DUMBARTON OAKS MEDIEVAL LIBRARY 15

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Jan M. Ziolkowski
The Vulgate Bible
Miracle Tales from Byzantium
Volume IV: The Major

Prophetical Books
Translated by
Edited by
ANGELA M. KINNEY
This is the fourth volume of a projected six-volume
Vulgate Bible. Compiled and translated in large part
by Saint Jerome at the turn of the fifth century CE,
the Vulgate Bible permeated the Western Christian
tradition through the twentieth century. It influenced literature, art, music, and education, and its
contents lay at the heart of Western theological,
intellectual, artistic, and political history through
the Renaissance. At the end of the sixteenth century,
professors at a Catholic college first at Douay, then
at Rheims, translated the Vulgate Bible into English
to combat the influence of Protestant vernacular
Bibles.
Volume IV presents the writings attributed
to the major prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel,
and Daniel), which feature dire prophecies of Gods
impending judgment, punctuated by portentous
visions. Yet profound grief is accompanied by the
promise of mercy and redemption, a promise perhaps illustrated best by Isaiahs visions of a new
heaven and a new earth. In contrast with the Historical Books, the planned salvation includes the
gentiles.
ANG E LA M . KI NNEY is a doctoral candidate

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Daniel Donoghue
Old English Editor
ALICE -MARY TALBOT AND SCOTT

FITZGERALD JOHNSON
Douay-Rheims Translation
at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign and research associate at

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and
Collection.
General Editor
Miracles occupied a unique place in medieval and

Byzantine life and thought. This volume makes
available three collections of miracle tales never
before translated into English. Together, the collections offer an exceptional variety of miracles
from the Byzantine era.
Danuta Shanzer
Medieval Latin Editor
Alice-Mary Talbot
Byzantine Greek Editor
First are the fifth-century Miracles of

Saint Thekla. Legendary female companion of the Apostle
Paul, Thekla counted among the most revered martyrs of the
early church. Her Miracles depict activities, both extraordinary and ordinary, in a rural healing shrine at a time when
Christianity was still supplanting traditional religion. A
half millennium later comes another anonymous text, the
tenth-century Miracles of the Spring of the Virgin Mary.
This collection describes how the marvelous waters at this
shrine outside Constantinople healed emperors, courtiers,
and churchmen. Complementing the first two collections
are the Miracles of Saint Gregory Palamas, fourteenthcentury archbishop of Thessalonike. Written by the most
gifted hagiographer of his era (Philotheos Kokkinos), this
account tells of miraculous healings that Palamas performed, both while alive and once dead. It allows readers
to witness the development of a saints cult in late Byzantium. Saints and their miracles were essential components
of faith in medieval and Byzantine culture.
ALICE -MARY TALBOT is Director of Byzantine
Studies Emerita, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library
and Collection. SCOT T FITZGERALD JOHNSON is
Dumbarton Oaks Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in
Byzantine Greek, Georgetown University.

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The Learned Banqueters

Volume VIII: Book 15.
General Indexes
The Little Carthaginian.

Pseudolus. The Rope
Volume IV
Athenaeus
Plautus
S. Douglas Olson
Wolfgang de Melo
In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a

series of dinner parties at which the guests quote
extensively from Greek literature. The work (which
dates to the very end of the second century AD) is
amusing reading and of extraordinary value as a
treasury of quotations from works now lost.
Athenaeus also preserves a wide range of information about different cuisines and foodstuffs, the
music and entertainments that ornamented banquets, and the intellectual talk that was the heart of
Greek conviviality. Volume VIII completes S. Douglas Olsons complete new edition of the work,
replacing the previous Loeb Athenaeus (published
under the title Deipnosophists) and includes comprehensive indexes of authors, terms, texts, and
places.
S . D O U G L A S O L S O N is Distinguished
McKnight University Professor of Classical
and Near Eastern Studies at the University of
Minnesota.
The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly

adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences c. 205184
BC, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and
are cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition
from Shakespeare and Molire to modern times. This
fourth volume of a new Loeb edition of all twenty-one of
Plautuss extant comedies presents The Little Carthaginian, Pseudolus, and The Rope with freshly edited texts,
lively modern translations, introductions, and ample
explanatory notes.
W O L F G A N G D E M E L O is Professor of
Latin and Greek at Ghent University.
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LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY

The Histories
Volume V: Books 1627
Polybius
Translated by
W. R. Paton
Revised by
F. W. Walbank and
Christian Habicht
The historian Polybius (ca. 200118 BC) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in
the Peloponnese and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years.
From 168 to 151 he was held hostage in Rome, where he became a friend of Scipio Aemilianus, whose campaigns, including the destruction of Carthage, he later attended. As a
trusted mediator between Greece and the Romans, he helped in the discussions that preceded the final war with Carthage, and after 146 was entrusted by the Romans with the
details of administration in Greece.
Polybiuss overall theme is how and why the Romans spread their power as they
did. The main part of his history covers the years 264146 BC, describing the rise of
Rome, the destruction of Carthage, and the eventual domination of the Greek world.
The Histories is a vital achievement of the first importance despite the incomplete
state in which all but the first five of its original forty books survive. For this edition, W. R. Patons excellent translation, first published in 1922, has been thoroughly revised, the Bttner-Wobst Greek text corrected, and explanatory notes
and a new introduction added, all reflecting the latest scholarship.
F. W. WA L B A N K was Rathbone Professor of Ancient History and
Classical Archaeology at the University of Liverpool. C H R I S T I A N
H A B I C H T is Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at the Institute
for Advanced Study, Princeton.
LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY 160
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James Hankins, General Editor

Shane Butler and Martin Davies, Associate Editors
THE I TAT TI RE NAISSAN CE LIBR ARY

Commentaries
on Plato
Dialectical Disputations
Volume 2: Parmenides
Part I and Part II
Lorenzo Valla
Marsilio Ficino
Maude Vanhaelen
Marsilio Ficino (1433
1499), the Florentine
scholar-philosophermagus, was largely
responsible for the
Renaissance revival of
Plato. Ficinos commentaries on Plato remained the standard guide
to the Greek philosophers works for centuries.
Vanhaelens new translation of Ficinos vast commentary on the Parmenides makes this monument
of Renaissance metaphysics accessible to the
modern student of philosophy. The volume contains the first critical edition of the Latin text, an
ample introduction, and extensive notes.
M AU D E VA N H A E L E N is an
Academic Fellow in the Departments
of Italian and Classics at the
University of Warwick.
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Volume 1: Book I / Volume 2: Books IIIII

Brian P. Copenhaver and
Lodi Nauta
LORENZO VALL A
DIALECTICAL DISPU TATIONS
.

BRIAN P. COPENHAVER
and
LODI NAU TA
Lorenzo Valla (14071457) ranks among the greatest scholars and thinkers of the Renaissance. He
secured lasting fame for his brilliant critical skills,
most famously in his exposure of the Donation of
Constantine, the forged document upon which the
papacy based claims to political power. Lesser
known in the English-speaking world is Vallas work in the philosophy of language
the basis of his reputation as the greatest philosopher of the humanist movement.
Dialectical Disputations, translated here for the first time into any modern language, is his principal contribution to the philosophy of language and logic. With this
savage attack on the scholastic tradition of Aristotelian logic, Valla aimed to supersede it with a new logic based on the actual historical usage of classical Latin and on
a commonsense approach to semantics and argument. Valla provides a logic that
could be used by lawyers, preachers, statesmen, and others who needed to succeed
in public debateone that was stylistically correct and rhetorically elegant, and thus
could dispense with the technical language of the scholastics, a tribe of Peripatetics, perverters of natural meanings. Vallas reformed dialectic became a milestone in
the development of humanist logic and contains startling anticipations of modern
theories of semantics and language.
B R I A N P. C O P E N H AV E R is Professor of History and
Philosophy and Director of UCLAs Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies. L O D I N AU TA is Professor of the History
of Philosophy, University of Groningen, the Netherlands.
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PHILOSOPHY
Philosophy in an Age of Science

PHYSICS, MATHEMATICS, AND SKEPTICISM
H ILARY P UTNAM
EDITED
BY
MARIO DE CARO
AND
D AV I D M A C A R T H U R
Hilary Putnams unceasing self-criticism has led to the frequent changes of mind he is famous
for, but his thinking is also marked by considerable continuity. A simultaneous interest in science and ethicsunusual in the current climate of contentionhas long characterized his
thought. In Philosophy in an Age of Science, Putnam collects his papers for publicationhis
first volume in almost two decades.
Mario De Caro and David Macarthurs introduction identifies central themes to help
the reader negotiate between Putnam past and Putnam present: his critique of logical positivism; his enduring aspiration to be realist about rational normativity; his anti-essentialism
about a range of central philosophical notions; his reconciliation of the scientific worldview and the humanistic traH I L A RY P U T N A M is
dition; and his movement from reductive scientific
Cogan University
naturalism to liberal naturalism. Putnam returns here to
Professor Emeritus at
some of his first enthusiasms in philosophy, such as logic,
Harvard University.
mathematics, and quantum mechanics. The reader is given

a glimpse, too, of ideas currently in development on the
subject of perception.
Putnams work, contributing to a broad range of
philosophical inquiry, has been said to represent a history
of recent philosophy in outline. Here it also delineates a
humanities
possible future.
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When Words Are Called For

A DEFENSE OF ORDINARY
LANGUAGE PHILOSOPHY
Varieties of
Presence
Alva No
Avner Baz
The world shows up for
A new form of philosophizing known as ordinary language
usit is present in our
philosophy took root in England after World War II, promis-
thought and perception.
ing a fresh start and a way out of long-standing dead-end
But it doesnt show up for
philosophical debates. Pioneered by Wittgenstein, Austin,
free. The world is achieved
and others, OLP is now widely rumored, within mainstream
rather than given. As with
analytic philosophy, to have been discredited, and conse-
a painting in a gallery, the
quently its perspective is ignored.
world has no meaningno presence to be experienced
Avner Baz begs to differ, and shows how the prevail-
apart from our able engagement with it. We must show up,
ing arguments against OLP collapse under close scrutiny. All
too, and bring along what knowledge and skills weve culti-
of them, he claims, presuppose one version or another of the
vated. This means that education, skills acquisition, and tech-
very conception of word-meaning that OLP calls into ques-
nology can expand the worlds availability to us and
tion and takes to be responsible for many traditional philo-
transform our consciousness.
sophical difficulties. Worse, analytic philosophy itself has
Cognitive science, dance, and performance art, along
suffered as a result of its failure to take OLPs perspective
with Kant and Wittgenstein, inform this literary and personal
seriously. Baz blames a neglect of OLPs insights for seem-
work of scholarship, which is intended for artists and art the-
ingly irresolvable disputes over the methodological relevance
orists, psychologists, cognitive scientists, and anthropologists
of intuitions in philosophy and for misunderstandings
as much as philosophers. Alva No rejects the traditional rep-
between contextualists and anti-contextualists (or invari-
resentational theory of mind and its companion internalism,
antists) in epistemology.
and dismisses the notion that conceptual knowledge is radi-
When Words Are Called For defends OLP as a form
cally distinct from other forms of practical know-how. For
of practice that might provide a viable alternative to work
him, perceptual presence and thought presence are varieties
currently carried out within mainstream analytic philosophy.
of exploration through which we achieve contact with the
Accordingly, Baz does not merely argue for OLP but prac-
world. Forceful reflections on the nature of understanding, as
tices it himself in this eye-opening book.
well as substantial examination of the perceptual experience
A V N E R B A Z is Associate Professor of Philosophy at

Tufts University. He has written about ethics,
aesthetics, judgment, Kant, Wittgenstein, Cavell, and
John McDowell.
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of pictures and what they depict or model, are included in

this far-ranging discussion.
A L V A N O is Professor of Philosophy at the University
of California, Berkeley.
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From Kant to Husserl

SELECTED ESSAYS
The Twenty-Five Years

of Philosophy
Charles Parsons
A SYSTEMATIC RECONSTRUCTION
In From Kant to Husserl, Charles Parsons examines a wide
Eckart Frster
range of historical opinion on philosophical questions from
Kant declared that philosophy began in 1781 with
mathematics to phenomenology. Amplifying his early ideas
his Critique of Pure Reason. In 1806 Hegel
on Kants philosophy of arithmetic, Parsons uses Kants lec-
announced that philosophy had now been com-
tures on metaphysics to explore how his arithmetical con-
pleted. Eckart Frster examines these claims and
cepts relate to the categories. He then turns to early reactions
the steps that led in such a short time from Kants
by two immediate successors of Kant, Johann Schultz and
beginning to Hegels end. He concludes that
Bernard Bolzano, to shed light on disputed questions regard-
both Kant and Hegel were indeed right.
ing interpretation of Kants philosophy of mathematics. Interested in what Kant meant by pure natural science, Parsons
considers the relationship between the first Critique and the
Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science. His commentary on Kants Transcendental Aesthetic departs from
mathematics to engage the vexed question of what it tells
about the meaning of Kants transcendental idealism.
The Twenty-Five Years of Philosophy follows the

unfolding of a key idea during this exceptionally productive
period: the Kantian idea that philosophy can be scientific
and, consequently, can be completed. Frsters study combines historical research with philosophical insight and leads
him to propose a new thesis. The development of Kants transcendental philosophy in his three Critiques, Frster claims,
Proceeding
to
resulted in a fundamental distinction between intellectual
phenomenology, Parsons
intuition and intuitive understanding. Overlooked until
examines Freges evolv-
now, this distinction yields two takes on how to pursue phi-
ing idea of extensions,
losophy as science after Kant. One line of thought culminates
his attitude toward set
in Fichtes theory of freedom (Wissenschaftslehre), while the
theory, and his corre-
otherand here Frster brings Goethes significance to the
spondence, particularly
foreresults in Goethes transformation of the Kantian idea
exchanges with Russell
of an intuitive understanding in light of Spinozas third kind
and
of knowledge. Both strands are brought together in Hegel
Husserl.
Ending
with the question why
and propel his split from Schelling.
Husserl did not take the

linguistic turn, the
essay marks the only article-length discussion of Husserl
E C K A R T F R S T E R is Professor of Philosophy at Johns

Hopkins University. He is also Honorary Professor of
Philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin.
Parsons has ever written.

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Philosophy Emeritus at Harvard University.
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Action, Contemplation,
and Happiness
AN ESSAY ON ARISTOTLE
Rational Causation
Eric Marcus
We explain what people think and do by citing their reasons,
C. D. C. Reeve
but how do such explanations work, and what do they tell
The notion of practical wisdom is one of Aristotles greatest
us about the nature of reality? Contemporary efforts to
inventions. It has inspired philosophers as diverse as Martin
address these questions are often motivated by the worry
Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Elizabeth Anscombe,
that our ordinary conception of rationality contains a kernel
Michael Thompson, and John McDowell. Now a
of supernaturalisma ghostly presence that meditates on
leading scholar of ancient philosophy offers a chal-
sensory messages and orchestrates behavior on the basis of its
lenge to received accounts of practical wisdom by
ethereal calculations. In shunning this otherworldly concep-
situating it in the larger context of Aristotles views
tion, contemporary philosophers have focused on the proj-
on knowledge and reality.
ect of naturalizing the mind, viewing it as a kind of
That happiness is the end pursued by practical wisdom is commonly agreed. What is disputed
is whether happiness is to be found in the practical
life of political action, in which we exhibit courage,
temperance, and other virtues of character, or in the
machine that converts sensory input and bodily impulse into

thought and action. Eric Marcus rejects this choice between
physicalism and supernaturalism as false and defends
a third way.
He
contemplative life, where theoretical wisdom is the
argues
that
essential virtue. C. D. C. Reeve argues that the
philosophers have failed to
ALSO BY
dichotomy is bogus, that these lives are in fact parts of a sin-
take seriously the idea that
C. D. C. REEVE
gle life, which is the best human one. In support of this view,
rational explanations postu-
Love's Confusions
he develops innovative accounts of many of the central
late a distinctive sort of cau-
notions in Aristotles metaphysics, epistemology, and psy-
sationrational causation.
chology, including matter and form, scientific knowledge,
Unlike causal connections
dialectic, educatedness, perception, understanding, political
in the natural sciences,
science, practical truth, deliberation, and deliberate choice.
rational causation draws on
Reeves accessible essay is based directly on freshly translated
the theoretical and practical inferential abilities of human
passages from many of Aristotles writings.
beings. Marcus defends this position against a wide array of
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physicalist arguments that have captivated philosophers of

C . D . C . R E E V E is Delta Kappa Epsilon Distinguished
Professor of Philosophy at the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill.
mind for decades. He provides novel views on the difference

between rational and nonrational animals and the distinction between states and events.
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E R I C M A R C U S is Associate Professor of Philosophy at

Auburn University.
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A Mahzor from Worms
Scholarship,
Commerce, Religion
ART AND RELIGION IN A MEDIEVAL

JEWISH COMMUNITY
THE LEARNED BOOK IN THE AGE OF

CONFESSIONS, 15601630
Katrin Kogman-Appel
The Leipzig Mahzor is one of the most lavish Hebrew illu-
Ian Maclean
minated manuscripts of all time. A prayer book used during
A decade ago in the Times Literary Supplement,
Jewish holidays, it was produced for the community of
Roderick Conway Morris claimed that almost
Worms in the German Rhineland. Though Worms was a
everything that was going to happen in book pub-
vibrant center of Judaism in the eleventh and twelfth cen-
lishingfrom pocket books, instant books and
turies, little is known about its Jews in the later Middle Ages.
pirated books, to the concept of authors copy-
In the pages of its famous book, Katrin Kogman-Appel dis-
right, company mergers, and remaindersoccurred during
covers a portal into this fourteenth-century community.
the early days of printing. Ian Macleans survey of the flour-
The Leipzig Mahzor pays homage to one of Wormss

most illustrious scholars, Eleazar ben Judah. Its imagery
reveals how his Ashkenazi
Pietist
worldview
ishing learned book trade of the late Renaissance brings this

assertion to life.
His story is centered on the Frankfurt book fair as the
and
hub of intellectual exchanges among scholars and of com-
involvement in mysticism
mercial dealings among publishers. The three major religious
shaped religious practice.
confessions jostled for position there, and few scholars were
Kogman-Appel
draws
exempt from religious or financial pressures. Maclean sur-
attention to the Mahzors
veys the predicament of underfunded authors, the activities
innovative strategy for
of greedy publishing entrepreneurs, the fitful interventions
avoiding visual representa-
of regimes of censorship and licensing, and the struggles sell-
tion of God and its
ers and buyers faced in an increasingly overheated market.
unusual depiction of cus-
The story ends with the dramatic decline of the scholarly
toms such as washing
book trade in the 1620s and the connivance of humanist
dishes before Passover. In
scholars in the values of the commercial world through
addition to decoding its iconography, Kogman-Appel
which they aspired to international recognition. Their fate
approaches the manuscript as a ritual object that preserved
invites comparison with todays writers of learned books, as
a sense of identity and cohesion within a community facing
they too come to terms with new technologies and changing
a wide range of threats to its stability and security.
academic environments.
K A T R I N K O G M A N - A P P E L is Associate Professor of
the Arts at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
I A N M A C L E A N is Titular Professor of Renaissance

Studies at University of Oxford.
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Born TogetherReared Apart

THE LANDMARK MINNESOTA TWIN STUDY
N ANCY L. S EGAL
The identical Jim twins were raised in separate families and met for the first time at age thirtynine, only to discover that they both suffered tension headaches, bit their fingernails, smoked
Salems, enjoyed woodworking, and vacationed on the same Florida beach. This example of the
potential power of genetics captured widespread media attention in 1979 and inspired the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart. This landmark investigation into the nature-nurture debate
shook the scientific community by demonstrating, across a number of traits, that twins reared
separately are as alike as those raised together.
As a postdoctoral fellow and then as assistant director
of the Minnesota Study, Nancy L. Segal provides an eagerly
N A N C Y L . S E G A L is
anticipated overview of its scientific contributions and their
Distinguished Professor
effect on public consciousness. The studys evidence of genetic
in Humanities and Social
influence on individual differences in traits such as personal-
Sciences and Director of
ity (50%) and intelligence (70%) overturned conventional
the Twin Studies Center

at California State
ideas about parenting and teaching. Treating children differently and nurturing their inherent talents suddenly seemed to
University, Fullerton.
be a fairer approach than treating them all the same. Findings

of genetic influence on physiological characteristics such as
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cardiac and immunologic function have led to more targeted
ALSO BY
approaches to disease prevention and treatment. And indica-
NANCY L. SEGAL
tions of a stronger genetic influence on male than female
Indivisible by Two: Lives of
homosexuality have furthered debate regarding sexual orien-
Extraordinary Twins
978-0-674-02570-7
tation.
HUP | $19.00* pb
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19 HALFTONES, 2 GRAPHS, 44 TABLES | 390 PP.
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Motherland in Danger
The Devils Wall
SOVIET PROPAGANDA DURING WORLD WAR II
THE NATIONALIST YOUTH MISSION OF

HEINZ RUTHA
Karel C. Berkhoff
Mark Cornwall
Much of the story about the Soviet Unions victory over Nazi
Germany has yet to be told. In Motherland in Danger, Karel
Berkhoff addresses one of the most neglected questions facing historians of the Second World War: how did the Soviet
leadership sell the campaign against the Germans to the people on the home front?
Repelling the German invasion would require a mobilization so large that it would test the limits of the Soviet
state. Berkoff takes us inside the Stalinist state to witness,
from up close, its propaganda machine. Using sources in
many languages, including memoirs and documents of the
Soviet censor, Berkhoff explores how the Soviet media
reflectedand distortedevery aspect of the war, from the
successes and blunders on the front lines to the institution of
forced labor on farm fields and factory floors. He also details
the medias handling of Nazi atrocities and the Holocaust, as
well as its stinting treatment of the Allies, particularly the
United States, the UK, and Poland. Berkhoff demonstrates
not only that propaganda was critical to the Soviet war effort
but that it has colored perceptions of the war to the present
day, both inside and outside of Russia.
K A R E L C . B E R K H O F F is Senior Researcher at the
NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
APRIL | 6 18 X 9 14 | 254 PP.
$35.00X (25.00 UK) | HISTORY
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Legend has it that twenty miles of volcanic rock

rising through northern Bohemia was the work of
the devil, who separated the warring Czechs and
Germans by building a wall. The nineteenth-century invention of the Devils Wall was evidence of
rising ethnic tensions. In interwar Czechoslovakia,
Sudeten German nationalists conceived a radical
mission to try to restore German influence across the region.
Mark Cornwall tells the story of Heinz Rutha, an internationally recognized figure who pioneered a youth movement
that emphasized male bonding in its quest to reassert German dominance over Czech space.
Through a narrative that unravels the threads of
Ruthas own repressed sexuality, Cornwall shows how
Czech authorities misinterpreted Ruthas mission as sexual
deviance and in 1937 charged him with corrupting adolescents. The scandal led to Ruthas imprisonment, suicide, and
excommunication from the nationalist cause he had devoted
his life to furthering. Cornwall is the first historian to tackle
the long-taboo subject of how youth, homosexuality, and
nationalism intersected in a fascist environment. He also
challenges the notion that all Sudeten German nationalists
were Nazis, and supplies a fresh explanation for Britains
appeasement of Hitler, showing why the British might justifiably have supported the Sudeten German cause.
M A R K C O R N W A L L is Professor of Modern European
History at the University of Southampton.
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The Soviet Biological

Weapons Program
Fighting for
the Soul
of Germany
A HISTORY
Milton Leitenberg and

Raymond A. Zilinskas
THE CATHOLIC
STRUGGLE FOR
INCLUSION AFTER
UNIFICATION
W I T H J E N S H. K U H N
T HE
MOST AUTHORITATIVE AND COMPREHENSIVE ACCOUNT OF
AN IMPORTANT SUBJECT .
Rebecca Ayako
Bennette
A MBASSADOR R AYMOND L. G ARTHOFF
Russian officials claim today that the USSR never possessed

an offensive biological weapons program. In fact, the Soviet
government spent billions of rubles and hard currency to
fund hugely expensive research that added nothing to the
countrys security. This history is the first attempt to understand the full scope of the USSRs offensive biological
weapons research, from its inception in the 1920s. We learn
that between 1990 and 1992 the U.S. and U.K. governments
never obtained clear evidence of the programs closure, raising the haunting question whether the means for waging biological warfare could be resurrected in Russia today.
This book peels back layers of lies to reveal how and
why Soviet leaders decided to develop biological weapons.
We learn that Biopreparat, an ostensibly civilian organization, was established to manage a top secret program whose
objective was to apply genetic engineering to develop strains
of pathogenic agents that had never existed in nature. The
authors consider the performance of the U.S. intelligence
community in discovering and assessing these activities, and
they examine in detail the crucial years 1985 to 1992.
M I LT O N L E I T E N B E R G is a Senior Research Scholar at
the University of Maryland. R A Y M O N D A . Z I L I N S K A S
is Director of the Chemical and Biological Weapons
Program, Monterey Institute of International Studies.
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Historians have long

believed that Catholics were late and ambivalent supporters
of the German nation. Rebecca Ayako Bennettes bold new
interpretation demonstrates definitively that from the beginning in 1871, when Wilhelm I was proclaimed Kaiser of a
unified Germany, Catholics were actively promoting a German national identity for the new Reich.
In the years following unification, Germany was
embroiled in a struggle to define the new nation. Bismarck
and his allies looked to establish Germany as a modern
nation through emphasis on Protestantism and military
prowess. Many Catholics feared for their future when he
launched the Kulturkampf, a program to break the political
and social power of German Catholicism. But these antiCatholic policies did not destroy Catholic hopes for the new
Germany. Bennettes reconstruction of Catholic thought and
politics sheds light on several aspects of German life. From
her discovery of Catholics who favored a more feminine
alternative to Bismarckian militarism to her claim that antisocialism, not anti-Semitism, energized Catholic politics,
Bennettes work forces us to rethink much of what we know
about religion and national identity in late-nineteenthcentury Germany.
R E B E C C A A Y A K O B E N N E T T E is Assistant Professor
of History, Middlebury College.
HARVARD HISTORICAL STUDIES 178
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Terror in
the Balkans
GERMAN ARMIES
AND PARTISAN
WARFARE
Ben Shepherd
Germanys 1941 seizure
of Yugoslavia led to an
insurgency as bloody as
any in World War II. The
Wehrmacht waged a brutal counter-insurgency campaign in response, and by 1943
German troops in Yugoslavia were engaged in some of the
largest operations of the entire European war. Their actions
encompassed massive reprisal shootings, the destruction of
entire villages, and huge mobile operations unleashed against
civilians believed to be aiding the insurgents. Terror in the
Balkans explores the reasons behind the Wehrmachts
extreme security measures in southern and eastern Europe.
Ben Shepherd focuses his study on lower-level units
and their officers, a disproportionate number of whom were
of Austrian origin. He considers how the personal experiences of many Austrian officers during the Great War played
a role in brutalizing their behavior in Yugoslavia, and he analyzes how a range of midlevel commanders and their units
conducted themselves in different parts of Yugoslavia. Shepherd concludes that the Wehrmacht campaigns violence was
driven not just by National Socialist ideology but also by the
fratricidal infighting of Yugoslavias ethnic groups, by conditions on the ground, and by doctrines that had shaped the
military mindsets of both Germany and Austria since the late
nineteenth century.
B E N S H E P H E R D is Lecturer in Modern History at
Glasgow Caledonian University and author of War in the
Wild East (HUP 978-0-674-01296-7).
Worlds of Dissent
CHARTER 77, THE PLASTIC PEOPLE OF
THE UNIVERSE, AND CZECH CULTURE
UNDER COMMUNISM
Jonathan Bolton
Worlds of Dissent analyzes the myths of Central
European resistance popularized by Western journalists and historians, and replaces them with a picture of the struggle against state repression as the
dissidents themselves understood, debated, and
lived it. In the late 1970s, when Czech intellectuals, writers, and artists drafted Charter 77 and called on their
government to respect human rights, they hesitated to name
themselves dissidents. Their personal and political experiencesdiverse, uncertain, namelesshave been obscured
by victory narratives that portray them as larger-than-life
heroes who defeated Communism in Czechoslovakia.
Jonathan Bolton draws on diaries, letters, personal
essays, and other first-person texts to analyze Czech dissent
less as a political philosophy than as an everyday experience.
Dissidents often debated, and even doubted, their own influence as they confronted incommensurable choices and the
messiness of real life. Bolton considers not only Vclav Havel
but also a range of men and women writers who have
received less attention in the Westincluding Ludvk Vaculk, whose 1980 diary The Czech Dream Book is a compelling portrait. By freeing dissidents from the suffocating
confines of moral absolutes, Worlds of Dissent offers a rare
opportunity to understand the texture of dissent in a closed
society.
J O N A T H A N B O LT O N is Professor of Slavic Languages
and Literatures at Harvard University.
APRIL | 6 18 X 9 14 | 360 PP.
$49.95X (36.95 UK) | HISTORY
ISBN 978-0-674-06438-6 | EISBN: 978-0-674-06483-6
APRIL | 6 18 X 9 14 | 16 HALFTONES, 6 MAPS | 310 PP.

$45.00X (29.95 UK) | HISTORY
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Reimagining Europe
KIEVAN RUS IN THE MEDIEVAL WORLD
Christian Raffensperger
An overriding assumption has directed scholarship in both
European and Slavic history: that Kievan Rus was part of a
Byzantine commonwealth separate from Europe. Christian
Raffensperger refutes this, and offers a new frame
for two hundred years of history, in which Rus is
understood as part of medieval Europe, and East is
not so neatly divided from West.
With the aid of Latin sources, Raffensperger
brings to light the considerable political, religious,
marital, and economic ties among European kingdoms, including Rus, restoring a historical record
rendered blank by Russian monastic chroniclers and
modern scholars ideologically motivated to build
barriers between East and West. Further, he revises
the concept of a Byzantine commonwealth that
stood in opposition to Europeand under which
Rus was subsumedtoward that of a Byzantine
Ideal emulated by all the states of Europe. In this new context, appropriation of Byzantine customs, law, coinage, art,
and architecture in both Rus and Europe can be understood
as an attempt to gain legitimacy and prestige by association
with the surviving remnant of the Roman Empire. Reimagining Europe initiates an expansion of history that is sure to
challenge ideas of Russian exceptionalism and influence the
course of European medieval studies.
C H R I S T I A N R A F F E N S P E R G E R is Assistant Professor
of History at Wittenburg University.
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We Shall Be
No More
SUICIDE AND SELFGOVERNMENT IN
THE NEWLY
UNITED STATES
Richard Bell
In the aftermath of the American Revolution, the personal
act of suicide seemed to be a
public threat that held the
fate of the fledgling Republic in its grip. Salacious novelists
and eager newspapermen broadcast images of a young nation
rapidly destroying itself. Parents, physicians, ministers, and
magistrates debated the meaning of self-destruction and
whether it could (or should) be prevented. Jailers rushed to
thwart condemned prisoners who made halters from bedsheets, while abolitionists used slave suicides as testimony
to both the ravages of the peculiar institution and the humanity of its victims.
Struggling to create political community out of
national turmoil, these groups invoked self-murder as a way
to ask: What is the appropriate balance between individual
liberty and social order? Who owns the self? How far should
the control of the state (or the church, or a husband, or a
master) extend over the individual? With visceral prose and
an abundance of sources, Richard Bell lays bare the ways in
which self-destruction was perceived as a transgressive challenge to embodied authority, a portent of both danger and
possibility. His unique study of suicide between the Revolution and Reconstruction uncovers what was at stake in the
nations first decades.
R I C H A R D B E L L is Assistant Professor of History at the
University of Maryland.
$39.95X (29.95 UK) | HISTORY
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The Land
Was Ours
More than Real
AFRICAN AMERICAN
BEACHES FROM JIM
CROW TO THE
SUNBELT SOUTH
Andrew W. Kahrl
Driving along the coasts
of the American South,
we see miles of luxury
condominiums, timeshare
resorts, and gated communities. Yet, a century ago, a surprising amount of beachfront property in the region was
owned and populated by African Americans. In a path-breaking combination of social and environmental history, Andrew
W. Kahrl shows how the rise and fall of Jim Crow and the
growing prosperity of the Sunbelt have transformed both
communities and ecosystems along the southern seaboard.
Kahrl traces the history of these dynamic coastlines
from unimproved marshlands to segregated beaches, from
exclusive resorts for the black elite to campgrounds for religious revival. His careful reconstruction of African American
life, labor, and leisure in small oceanside communities reveals
the variety of ways African Americans pursued freedom and
mobility through the land under their feet. This judicious
appraisal of the ambiguous legacy of racial progress in the
Sunbelt makes unexpected connections between two seemingly diverse topics: African Americans struggles for economic empowerment and the ecology of coastal lands.
Kahrls innovative approach allows him fresh insights into
the rise of African American consumers, the widespread campaigns to dispossess blacks of their property, and the role of
African American landowners and real-estate developers.
A N D R E W W . K A H R L is Assistant Professor of History
at Marquette University.
A HISTORY OF THE IMAGINATION IN

SOUTH INDIA
David Shulman
From the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the
major cultures of southern India underwent a revolution in sensibility reminiscent of what had
occurred in Renaissance Italy. During this time,
the imagination came to be recognized as the
defining feature of human beings. More than Real
draws our attention to a period in Indian history
that signified major civilizational change and the emergence
of a new, proto-modern vision.
In general, India conceived of the imagination as a
causative agent: things we perceive are real because we
imagine them. David Shulman illuminates this distinctiveness and shows how it differed radically from Western
notions of reality and models of the mind. Shulmans explication offers insightful points of comparison with ancient
Greek, medieval Islamic, and early modern European theories of mind, and returns Indology to its rightful position of
intellectual relevance in the humanities. At a time when contemporary ideologies and language wars threaten to segregate the study of pre-modern India into linguistic silos,
Shulman demonstrates through his virtuoso readings of
important literary worksworks translated lyrically by the
author from Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalamthat
Sanskrit and the classical languages of southern India have
been intimately interwoven for centuries.
D A V I D S H U L M A N is Renee Lang Professor of
Humanistic Studies at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Among the Powers

of the Earth
Routes of
War
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND THE MAKING

OF A NEW WORLD EMPIRE
THE WORLD OF
MOVEMENT IN THE
CONFEDERATE
SOUTH
Eliga H. Gould
For most Americans, the Revolutions main achievement is
summed up by the phrase life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Yet far from a straightforward
attempt to be free of Old World laws and customs,
the American founding was also a bid for inclusion
in the community of nations as it existed in 1776.
America aspired to diplomatic recognition under
international law and the authority to become a colonizing power itself.
As Eliga Gould shows in this reappraisal of
American history, the Revolution was an international transformation of the first importance. To
conform to the public law of Europes imperial powers, Americans crafted a union nearly as centralized
as the one they had overthrown, endured taxes
heavier than any they had faced as colonists, and remained
entangled with European Atlantic empires long after the Revolution ended. No factor weighed more heavily on Americans than the legally plural Atlantic where they hoped to
build their empire. Gould follows the regions transfiguration
from a fluid periphery with its own rules and norms to a
place where people of all descriptions were expected to abide
by the laws of western Europecivilized laws that precluded neither slavery nor the dispossession of Native Americans.
E L I G A H . G O U L D is Associate Professor of History at
the University of New Hampshire.
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Yael A. Sternhell
The Civil War thrust millions of men and women
rich and poor, soldiers and
civilians, enslaved and
freeonto the roads of the South. During four years of war,
southerners lived on the move. In the hands of Yael A. Sternhell, movement becomes a radically new means to perceive
the full trajectory of the Confederacys rise, struggle, and ultimate defeat.
By focusing not only on the battlefield and the home
front but on the roads and woods that connected the two,
this pioneering book investigates the many roles of bodies in
motion. We watch battalions of young men as they march
to the front, galvanizing small towns along the way, creating
the Confederate nation in the process. We follow deserters
and refugees, both hoping to escape the burdens of war. And
in a landscape turned upside down, we see slaves running
toward freedom, whether hundreds of miles away or just
beyond the plantations gate. Based on a vast array of documents, from slave testimonies to the papers of Confederate
bureaucrats to the private letters of travelers from all walks
of life, Sternhell unearths the hidden connections between
physical movements and their symbolic meanings, individual bodies and entire armies, the reinvention of a social order
and the remaking of private lives.
Y A E L A . S T E R N H E L L is Assistant Professor of History
and American Studies at Tel Aviv University.
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Diary and
Autobiographical Writings
of Louisa Catherine Adams
VOLUME 1, 17781815
VOLUME 2, 18191849
E DITED BY J UDITH S. G RAHAM , B ETH L UEY ,

M ARGARET A. H OGAN , AND C. J AMES T AYLOR
The Adams saga takes a stride through the first half of the
nineteenth century, as Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams
chronicles her life with John Quincy Adams. Born in London in 1775 to a Maryland merchant and his English wife,
Louisa recalls her childhood and education in England and
France and her courtship with John Quincy, then U.S. minister to the Netherlands. Married in 1797, Louisa accompanied her husband on his postings to Berlin, St. Petersburg,
and London. Her memoirs of Prussia and Russia
vividly portray the republican couple in the courts
of Europe.
Louisa came to
America in 1801 and
would
share
John
Quincys career as U.S.
senator, secretary of state,
president, and congressman. Except for his presidency, her diaries for
these years have been
preserved, and they reveal a reluctant but increasingly canny
political wife.
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Papers of John Adams

VOLUME 16,
FEBRUARY 1784MARCH 1785
E DITED BY G REGG L. L INT , C. J AMES T AYLOR ,

R OBERT F. K ARACHUK , H OBSON W OODWARD ,
M ARGARET A. H OGAN , N EAL E. M ILLIKAN ,
S ARA B. S IKES , S ARA M ARTIN , S ARA G EORGINI ,
A MANDA A. M ATHEWS , AND J AMES T. C ONNOLLY
Once more after an Interruption of ten Years, I
pronounce myself a happy Man, and pray Heaven
to continue me so. Thus wrote John Adams in
late August 1784 after the arrival in Europe of his
wife Abigail and daughter Nabby. Adams and his
family were living together in the pleasant Paris
suburb of Auteuil. There Adams, with Benjamin
Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, formed a joint
commission to conclude commercial treaties with
the nations of Europe and North Africa. For the
first time since 1778, Adams was no longer
engaged in militia diplomacy.
Volume 16 chronicles fourteen months of
Adamss diplomatic career. As minister to the
Netherlands he raised a new Dutch loan to save America
from financial ruin. As joint commissioner he negotiated a
commercial treaty with Prussia, proposed similar treaties
with other European nations, and prepared to negotiate with
the Barbary states. The commissioners also sought to resolve
Anglo-American differences left over from the peace negotiations and arising from the two nations burgeoning trade.
Volume 16 thus forms a prelude to the next phase of John
Adamss diplomatic career, as minister to the Court of St.
James, when the management of Anglo-American relations
would be his responsibility alone.
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Working Knowledge
MAKING THE HUMAN SCIENCES FROM PARSONS
TO KUHN
Joel Isaac
The human sciences in the English-speaking world have been
in a state of crisis since the Second World War. The battle
between champions of hardcore scientific standards
and supporters of a more humanistic, interpretive
approach has been fought to a stalemate. Joel Isaac
seeks to throw these contemporary disputes into
much-needed historical relief, by exploring how
influential thinkers at mid-century understood the
relations among science, knowledge, and the empirical study of human affairs.
For a number of them, questions about what
kinds of knowledge the human sciences could produce did not rest on grand ideological gestures
toward science and objectivity but were linked
to the ways in which knowledge was created and
taught in local laboratories and seminar rooms. For
Percy Williams Bridgman, Talcott Parsons, B. F. Skinner,
W. V. O. Quine, and Thomas Kuhn, the institutional milieu
in which they constructed their models of scientific practice
was Harvard University. There, special seminars, interfaculty
discussion groups, and non-professionalized societies and
teaching programsoperating alongside but apart from traditional departmentsfostered connections between epistemological discourse and the practice of science. This
Harvard complex created a culture of inquiry that shaped
thinking in sociology, psychology, anthropology, philosophy,
science studies, and management science.
J O E L I S A A C is University Lecturer in the History of
Modern Political Thought at the University of Cambridge
and Fellow of Christs College.
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Is American
Science in
Decline?
Yu Xie and
Alexandra A.
Killewald
Alarmists argue that the
United States urgently
needs more and bettertrained scientists to compete with the rest of the
world. Their critics counter that, far from facing a shortage,
we are producing a glut of young scientists with poor
employment prospects. Both camps have issued reports in
recent years that predict the looming decline of American
science. Drawing on their extensive analysis of national
datasets, Yu Xie and Alexandra Killewald have welcome
news: American science is in good health.
Is American Science in Decline? does reveal areas of
concern, namely scientists low earnings, increasing competition from Asia, and the declining number of academic positions. But the authors argue that the values inherent in
American culture make the country highly conducive to science for the foreseeable future. They see globalization as a
potential benefit rather than a threat, since it promotes efficiency in science through knowledge-sharing. As technology
continues to change the American economy, better-educated
workers with a range of skills will be in demand. So as a matter of policy, the authors urge that science education not be
detached from general education.
Y U X I E is Otis Dudley Duncan Distinguished University
Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan.
A L E X A N D R A A . K I L L E W A L D is a Researcher at
Mathematica Policy Research, Princeton, New Jersey.
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Godly Republicanism
The Ancient Middle Classes
PURITANS, PILGRIMS, AND A CITY ON A HILL
URBAN LIFE AND AESTHETICS IN THE ROMAN

EMPIRE, 100 BCE 250 CE
Michael P. Winship
Emanuel Mayer
Puritans did not find a life free from tyranny in the New
Worldthey created it there. Massachusetts emerged a
republic as they hammered out a vision of popular participation and limited government in church and state,
spurred by Plymouth pilgrims. Godly Republicanism underscores how
pathbreaking yet rooted
in puritanisms history the
project was.
Michael Winship
takes us first to England,
where he uncovers the
roots of the puritans
republican ideals in the
aspirations and struggles of Elizabethan Presbyterians. Faced
with the twin tyrannies of Catholicism and the crown, Presbyterians turned to the ancient New Testament churches for
guidance. What they discovered therewhether it existed
or notwas a republican structure that suggested better
models for governing than monarchy. The puritans took their
ideals to Massachusetts, but they did not forge their godly
republic alone. In this book, for the first time, the separatists
contentious, creative interaction with the puritans is given its
due. Winship looks at the emergence of separatism and puritanism from shared origins in Elizabethan England, considers
their split, and narrates the story of their reunion in Massachusetts. Out of the encounter between the separatist Plymouth pilgrims and the puritans of Massachusetts Bay arose
Massachusetts Congregationalism.
Our image of the Roman world is shaped by the

writings of Roman statesmen and upper-class intellectuals. Yet most of the material evidence we
have from Roman timesart, architecture, and
household artifacts from Pompeii and elsewherebelonged to, and was made for, artisans,
merchants, and professionals. Roman culture as
we have seen it with our own eyes, Emanuel
Mayer boldly argues, turns out to be distinctly
middle class and requires a radically new framework of analysis.
Starting in the first century BCE, ancient
communities, largely shaped by farmers living
within city walls, were transformed into vibrant urban centers where wealth could be quickly acquired through commercial success. From 100 BCE to 250 CE, the archaeological
record details the growth of a cosmopolitan empire and a
prosperous new class rising along with it. Not as keen as
statesmen and intellectuals to show off their status and
refinement, members of this new middle class found novel
ways to create pleasure and meaning. In the dcor of their
houses and tombs, Mayer finds evidence that middle-class
Romans took pride in their work and commemorated familial love and affection in ways that departed from the tastes
and practices of social elites.
E M A N U E L M A Y E R is Assistant Professor of Classics at
the University of Chicago.
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M I C H A E L P. W I N S H I P is E. Merton Coulter Professor

of History at the University of Georgia.
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Capitalism from Below

MARKETS AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE IN CHINA
V ICTOR N EE
AND
S ONJA O PPER
More than 630 million Chinese have escaped poverty since the 1980s, reducing the fraction remaining from 82 to 10 percent of the population. This astonishing decline in poverty, the largest in history, coincided with the rapid growth
of a private enterprise economy. Yet private enterprise in China emerged in spite
of impediments set up by the Chinese government. How did private enterprise
overcome these initial obstacles, to become the engine of Chinas economic miracle? Where did capitalism come from?
Studying over 700 manufacturing
V I C T O R N E E is Frank and
Sonja Opper argue that Chinas private
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firms in the Yangzi region, Victor Nee and
below. Through trial and error, entrepreneurs devised institutional innovations

that enabled them to decouple from the
established economic order to start up
Sociology at Cornell
University. S O N J A O P P E R is
Gad Rausing Professor of
International Economics and
Business at Lund University.
and grow small, private manufacturing

firms. Barriers to entry motivated them to
build their own networks of suppliers and distributors, and to develop competitive advantage in self-organized industrial clusters. Close-knit groups of like-minded people participated in the emergence of private enterprise by offering financing and establishing reliable
business norms.
This rapidly growing private enterprise economy diffused throughout the coastal regions
of China and, passing through a series of tipping points, eroded the market share of state-owned
firms. Only after this fledgling economy emerged as a dynamic engine of economic growth,
wealth creation, and manufacturing jobs did the political elite legitimize it as a way to jump-start
Chinas market society. Today, this private enterprise economy is one of the greatest success
stories in the history of capitalism.
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Jobs for the Boys
In Doubt
PATRONAGE AND THE STATE IN

COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE CRIMINAL

JUSTICE PROCESS
Merilee S. Grindle
Dan Simon
Patronage systems in the public service are universally

reviled as undemocratic and corrupt. Yet patronage was the
prevailing method of staffing government for centuries, and
in some countries it still is. In Jobs for the Boys, Merilee
Grindle considers why patronage has been so ubiquitous in
history and explores the political processes through which it
is replaced by merit-based civil service systems. Such reforms
are consistently resisted, she finds, because patronage systems, though capricious, offer political executives flexibility
to achieve a wide variety of objectives.
The criminal justice process is unavoidably

human. Police detectives, witnesses, suspects, and
victims shape the course of investigations, while
prosecutors, defense attorneys, jurors, and judges
affect the outcome of adjudication. In this sweeping review of psychological research, Dan Simon
shows how flawed investigations can produce
erroneous evidence and why well-meaning juries send innocent people to prison and set the guilty free.
Grindle looks at the histories of public sector reform

in six developed countries and compares them with contemporary struggles for reform in four Latin American countries. A historical, case-based approach allows her to take into
account contextual differences between countries as well as
to identify cycles that govern reform across the board. As a
rule, she finds, transition to merit-based systems involves
years and sometimes decades of conflict and compromise
with supporters of patronage, as new systems of public service are politically constructed. Becoming aware of the limitations of public sector reform, Grindle hopes, will temper
expectations for institutional change now being undertaken.
M E R I L E E S . G R I N D L E is Edward S. Mason Professor
of International Development and Director of the David
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard
University.
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The investigators task is genuinely difficult and prone

to bias. This often leads investigators to draw faulty conclusions, assess suspects truthfulness incorrectly, and conduct
coercive interrogations that can lead to false confessions. Eyewitnesses identification of perpetrators and detailed recollections of criminal events rely on cognitive processes that
are often mistaken and can easily be skewed by the investigative procedures used. In the courtroom, jurors and judges
are ill-equipped to assess the accuracy of testimony, especially
in the face of the heavy-handed rhetoric and strong emotions
that crimes arouse.
Simon offers an array of feasible ways to improve the
accuracy of criminal investigations and trials. While the limitations of human cognition will always be an obstacle, these
reforms can enhance the criminal justice systems ability to
decide correctly whom to release and whom to punish.
D A N S I M O N is Professor of Law and Psychology at the
University of Southern California.
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Against Obligation
THE MULTIPLE SOURCES OF AUTHORITY IN A LIBERAL DEMOCRACY
Abner S. Greene
Do citizens of a nation such as the United States have a moral duty to obey the law? Do officials, when interpreting the Constitution, have an obligation to follow what that text meant
when ratified? To follow precedent? To follow what the Supreme Court today says the Constitution means?
These are questions of political obligation (for citizens) and interpretive obligation (for
anyone interpreting the Constitution, often officials). Abner Greene argues that such obligations do not exist. Although citizens should obey some laws
entirely, and other laws in some instances, no one has put
forth a successful argument that citizens should obey all laws
all the time. Greenes case is not only against obligation.
It is also for an approach he calls permeable sovereignty:
all of our norms are on equal footing with the states laws.
Accordingly, the state should accommodate religious, philosophical, family, or tribal norms whenever possible. Greene
shows that questions of interpretive obligation share many
qualities with those of political obligation. In rejecting the
view that constitutional interpreters must follow either prior
or higher sources of constitutional meaning,
Greene confronts and turns aside arguments
similar to those offered for a moral duty
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of citizens to obey the law.

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A B N E R S . G R E E N E is
Leonard F. Manning
Professor of Law at
Fordham University.
Rethinking Patent Law
Thirteen Ways to
Steal a Bicycle
Robin Feldman
Scientific and technological innovations are forcing patent
law into the spotlight and revealing its many glaring inadequacies. Take, for example, the growing phenomenon of
patent trolling, in which patents are acquired for the sole purpose of entrapping companies whose products relate to them.
Robin Feldman explains why patents are causing so much
trouble. The problem lies
in our assumption that
patents set clear boundaries for rights to an
invention. In reality, they
do no such thing. When
something is so new that
we do not understand yet
how it works, what it is
capable of doing, or how
it could be applied, unambiguous description for all
time is impossible.
Instead of hoping for clear boundaries, Rethinking
Patent Law urges lawmakers to focus on what the law can
do well: craft rules that anticipate the bargaining that will
occur as rights unfold. By steering clear of laws that distort
the bargaining process, lawmakers can help courts answer
difficult questions, such as whether genes, software, and
business methods constitute patentable subject matter,
whether patents in the life sciences should control inventions that have yet to be discovered, and how to resolve the
battles between pharmaceutical companies and generics.
R O B I N F E L D M A N is Professor of Law at University of
California Hastings College of the Law.
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THEFT LAW IN THE INFORMATION AGE
Stuart P. Green
Theft claims more victims and causes greater economic injury than any other criminal offense. Yet
fundamental questions about what should count
as stealing remain unresolved in the lawespecially misappropriations of intellectual property,
information, ideas, identities, and virtual property.
Stuart Green assesses our current legal
framework at a time when our economy increasingly commodifies intangibles and when the means of committing theft
grow ever more sophisticated. Was it theft for the editor of a
technology blog to buy a prototype iPhone he allegedly
knew had been lost by an Apple engineer in a Silicon
Valley bar? Was it theft for doctors to use a patients tissue without permission, to harvest a valuable cell
line? For an Internet activist to publish tens of
thousands of State Department documents on his
website? This full-scale critique reveals that the last
major reforms in Anglophone theft law, almost fifty
years ago, flattened moral distinctions, so that the
same punishments are now assigned to vastly different offenses. Unreflective of community attitudes
toward theft, which favor gradations in blameworthiness according to what is stolen and under what circumstances, and uninfluenced by advancements in
criminal law theory, theft law cries out for another reformationand soon.
S T U A R T P. G R E E N is Professor of Law and Justice
Nathan L. Jacobs Scholar at Rutgers School of Law
Newark.
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Beauty without the Breast

F ELICIA M ARIE K NAUL
FOREWORD BY EMMA ROTHSCHILD AND AMARTYA SEN
EPILOGUE BY JULIO FRENK
Felicia Knaul, an economist who has lived and worked for two decades in Latin America on
health and social development, documents the personal and professional sides of her breast
cancer experience. Beauty without the Breast contrasts her difficult but inspiring journey with
that of the majority of women throughout the world who face not only the disease but stigma,
discrimination, and lack of access to health care. This wrenching contrast is the cancer divide
an equity imperative in global health.
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Knaul exposes barriers affecting

women in low and middle-income
countries and highlights the role of men,
family, and community in responding to
the challenge of breast cancer. She
shares striking data about breast cancer,
a leading killer of young women in
developing countries, and narrates the
process of applying this evidence and
launching Tmatelo a Pecho (also the
book title in Spanish) a Mexico-based
program promoting awareness and
access to health care. The book concludes with letters from Dr. Julio Frenk,
her husband and former Minister of
Health of Mexico, written while they
shared the trauma of diagnosis and treatment. With force and lucidity, the book
narrates the journey of patient and family as they courageously navigate disease
and survivorship.
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F E L I C I A M A R I E K N A U L is Director of
the Harvard Global Equity Initiative,
Associate Professor at Harvard Medical
School, and Senior Economist at the Mexican
Health Foundation. She is also founder of
Cncer de mama: Tmatelo a Pecho.
J U L I E R . G R A L O W, M.D. , is Professor in
the Department of Medicine at the University
of Washington and Director, Breast Medical
Oncology, at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance.
R E B E C A W O N G is P. & S. Kempner
Distinguished Professor in Health Disparities at
the Sealy Center on Aging, University of Texas
Medical Branch.
H C T O R A R R E O L A- O R N E L A S is Economic
Research Coordinator at Fundacin Mexicana
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AN EQUITY IMPERATIVE
Financing Health in
Latin America
Edited by Felicia Marie Knaul and

Julie R. Gralow
VOLUME 1: HOUSEHOLD SPENDING

AND IMPOVERISHMENT
Cancer has become a leading cause of death and disability

and a serious yet unforeseen challenge to health systems in
low- and middle-income
countries. A protracted and
polarized cancer transition
is under way and fuels a
concentration of preventable risk, illness, suffering,
and death among poor
populations. Closing this
cancer divide is an equity
imperative.
Edited by Felicia Marie Knaul,

Rebeca Wong, and
Hctor Arreola-Ornelas
Closing the Cancer

Divide presents strategies
for innovation in delivery,
pricing, procurement, finance, knowledgebuilding, and leadership that can be scaled up
by applying a diagonal approach to health system strengthening. The chapters provide evidence-based recommendations for developing
programs, local and global policy-making, and
prioritizing research. The cases and frameworks provide a guide for developing
responses to the challenge of cancer and other
chronic illnesses. The book summarizes results
of the Global Task Force on Expanding Access
to Cancer Care and Control in Developing
Countries, a collaboration among leaders from
the global health and cancer care communities
worldwide, originally convened by Harvard
University.
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Among the most serious challenges facing health

systems in lower and middle income countries is
establishing efficient, fair, and sustainable financing mechanisms that offer universal protection.
Lack of financial protection forces families to suffer the burden not only of illness but also of economic ruin and impoverishment. In Latin America, financial protection for health
continues to be segmented and fragmented; health is mainly
financed through out-of-pocket payments.
The first part of a two-volume set, Financing Health
in Latin America presents new and important insight into
the crucial issue of financial protection in health systems.
The book analyzes the level and determinants of catastrophic
health expenditures among households in Argentina, Brazil,
Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Peru, applying both descriptive and econometric
analyses. The results demonstrate that out-of-pocket health
spending is pushing large segments of the population into
impoverishment and that the poorest and most vulnerable
segments of the population are most at risk of financial catastrophe. This work is a product of the collaboration between
more than 25 researchers and 18 institutions associated with
the Research for Health Financing in Latin America and the
Caribbean Network, with support from the International
Development Research Centre of Canada
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The Cost of Inaction

CASE STUDIES FROM RWANDA AND ANGOLA
Sudhir Anand, Chris Desmond, Habtamu Fuje,

and Nadejda Marques
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This book is motivated by the idea that the cost of inaction

can be much greater than the cost of action. Inaction can
lead to serious negative consequencesfor individuals, the
economy, and society. The consequences of a failure to
reduce extreme poverty, for example, typically include malnutrition, preventable morbidity, premature mortality, incomplete basic education, and other human and social
development costs. In this volume, the authors seek to clarify exactly what is meant by cost of inaction.
They develop a methodology to account for the
consequences and estimate the costs of a failure
to respond to the needs of children and their
families. Their conceptual framework emphasizes the need to select appropriate actions
against which inaction is evaluated. The
authors present the results of applying the cost
of inaction (COI) approach to six case studies
from Rwanda and Angola. The case studies
highlight important differences between the
COI approach and benefit-cost analysis as it is
traditionally implemented.
SUDHIR ANAND is Professor of Economics at the University
of Oxford and Senior Fellow at St. Catherines College,
Oxford. CHRIS DESMOND is Research Associate at the FXB
Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University.
HABTAMU FUJE and NADEJDA MARQUES are Research
Coordinators at the FXB Center for Health and Human
Rights, Harvard University.
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Export Pioneers in
Latin America
Edited by Charles Sabel, Eduardo FernndezArias, Ricardo Hausmann, Andrs
Rodrguez-Clare, and Ernesto Stein
Why do some new export
activities succeed while others do not? Why are some
not even attempted? In this
book, distinguished research
teams analyze eleven cases
of new export endeavors in
six Latin American countries
to learn how export pioneers are born and jumpstart a virtuous process
leading to economic transformation. The case studies
range from blueberries in Argentina and fresh cut flowers in
Colombia to aircraft in Brazil and software in Uruguay. They
put to the test two conjectures: that costly burdens to entrepreneurial self-discovery due to imitation by competitors
deter would-be pioneers and that new export activities are a
complex enterprise that only reach fruition when the innovative contributions of many actors are somehow provided
jointly. These case studies offer many examples in which
cooperation proved absolutely vital to export success, while
problems of appropriation appeared less critical.
CHARLES SABEL is Maurice T. Moore Professor at
Columbia Law School. EDUARDO FERNNDEZ-ARIAS and
ERNESTO STEIN are Lead Economists at the InterAmerican Development Bank. RICARDO HAUSMANN is
Director of the Center for International Development at
Harvard University. ANDRS RODRGUEZ-CLARE is
Professor of Economics at Pennsylvania State University.
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A Continuous Revolution
Picturing the True Form
MAKING SENSE OF CULTURAL

REVOLUTION CULTURE
DAOIST VISUAL CULTURE IN

TRADITIONAL CHINA
Barbara Mittler
Shih-shan Susan Huang
Cultural Revolution Culture, often denigrated as nothing but

propaganda, not only was liked in its heyday but continues
to be enjoyed today. A Continuous Revolution sets out to
explain its legacy. By considering Cultural Revolution propaganda artmusic, stage
works, prints and posters,
comics, and literature
from the point of view of
its longue dure, Barbara
Mittler suggests that Cultural Revolution propaganda art was able to
build on a tradition of earlier art works, and this
allowed for its sedimentation in cultural memory
and its proliferation in
contemporary China.
Picturing the True Form investigates the longmary indigenous religion, from the tenth through
thirteenth centuries with references to earlier
and later times. In this richly illustrated book,
Susan Huang provides a comprehensive mapping
of Daoist images in various media, including
Dunhuang manuscripts, funerary artifacts, paintings, and other charts, illustrations, and talismans preserved
in the fifteenth-century Daoist Canon. True form (zhenxing),
the key concept behind Daoist visuality, is not a static picture but entails an active journey of seeing underlying and
secret phenomena through a series of metamorphoses.
The books structure mirrors the two-part Daoist jour-
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Taking the aesthetic experience of the Cultural Revolution (19661976) as her base, Mittler juxtaposes close
readings and analyses of cultural products from the period
with impressions given in a series of personal interviews conducted in the early 2000s with Chinese from diverse class
and generational backgrounds. By including much testimony
from these original voices, Mittler illustrates the extremely
multifaceted and contradictory nature of the Cultural Revolution, both in terms of artistic production and of its cultural
experience.
neglected visual culture of Daoism, Chinas pri-
ney from inner to outer. Part I focuses on inner images associated with meditation and visualization practices for
self-cultivation and longevity. Part II investigates the visual
and material dimensions of Daoist ritual. Interwoven through
these discussions is the idea that the inner and outer mirror
each other and the boundary demarcating the two is fluent.
Huang also reveals three central modes of Daoist symbolism
aniconic, immaterial, and ephemeraland shows how
Daoist image-making goes beyond the traditional dichotomy
of text and image to incorporate writings in image design.
These particular features distinguish Daoist visual culture
from its Buddhist counterpart.
BARBARA MITTLER is Professor of Chinese Studies at the

University of Heidelberg, Chair and Institute Director.
SHIH-SHAN SUSAN HUANG is Assistant Professor of Art

History at Rice University.
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Making Personas
TRANSNATIONAL FILM STARDOM IN
MODERN JAPAN
Hideaki Fujiki
The film star is not simply an actor but a historical phenomenon that derives from the production of an actors attractiveness, the circulation of his or her name and likeness, and
the support of media consumers. This book analyzes the
establishment and transformation of the
transnational film star system and the formations of historically important film starsJapanese and non-Japaneseand casts new light on
Japanese modernity between the 1910s and
1930s.
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Hideaki Fujiki illustrates how film stardom and the star system emerged and evolved,
touching on such facets as the production, representation, circulation, and reception of performers images in films and other media.
Examining several individual performersparticularly benshi narrators, Onoe Matsunosuke,
Tachibana Teijiro, Kurishima Sumiko, Clara
Bow, and Natsukawa Shizueas well as certain aspects of
different star systems that bolstered individual stardom, this
study foregrounds the associations of contradictory, multivalent social factors that constituted modernity in Japan, such
as industrialization, capitalism, colonialism, nationalism, and
consumerism. Through its nuanced treatment of the production and consumption of film stars, this book shows that
modernity is not a simple concept, but an intricate, contested, and paradoxical nexus of diverse social elements
emerging in their historical contexts.
HIDEAKI FUJIKI is Associate Professor of Cinema and
Japanese Studies at Nagoya University.
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KOREAN AND
JAPANESE BUDDHISM,
18771912
Hwansoo Ilmee Kim

Empire of the Dharma
explores the dynamic relationship between Korean
and Japanese Buddhists in
the years leading up to the
Japanese annexation of Korea. Conventional narratives cast
this relationship in politicized terms, with Korean Buddhists
portrayed as complicit in the religious annexation of the
peninsula. However, this view fails to account for the diverse
visions, interests, and strategies that drove both sides.
Hwansoo Ilmee Kim complicates this politicized
account of religious interchange by reexamining the
alliance forged in 1910 between the Japanese Soto sect
and the Korean Wonjong order. The author argues that their
ties involved not so much political ideology as mutual benefit. Both wished to strengthen Buddhisms precarious position within Korean society and curb Christianitys growing
influence. Korean Buddhist monastics sought to leverage
Japanese resources as a way of advancing themselves and
their temples, and missionaries of Japanese Buddhist sects
competed with one another to dominate Buddhism on the
peninsula. This strategic alliance pushed both sides to confront new ideas about the place of religion in modern society
and framed the way that many Korean and Japanese Buddhists came to think about the future of their shared religion.
HWANSOO ILMEE KIM is Assistant Professor of Religion
and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University.
MAY | 6 X 9 | 19 HALFTONES, 1 BLACK & WHITE
ILLUS., 2 MAPS, 10 TABLES | 350 PP.
ISBN 978-0-674-06575-8 | $39.95X (29.95 UK)
RELIGION
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Detective Fiction and the

Rise of the Japanese Novel,
18801930
Satoru Saito
An Imperial Path
to Modernity
YOSHINO SAKUZO AND A NEW LIBERAL
ORDER IN EAST ASIA, 19051937
Jung-Sun N. Han
Through close readings of literary texts by canonical

writers of Japanese literature and detective fiction, including
Tsubouchi Shoyo, Natsume Soseki, Shimazaki Toson, Sato
Haruo, Kuroiwa Ruiko, and Edogawa Ranpo, Saito explores
how the detective story functioned to mediate the tenuous
relationships between literature and society as well as
between subject and authority that made literary texts significant as political acts.
SATORU SAITO is Assistant Professor of Japanese at
Rutgers University.
APRIL | 6 X 9 | 300 PP.
ISBN 978-0-674-06586-4 | $39.95X (29.95 UK)
LITERATURE
An Imperial Path to Modernity examines the role

of liberal intellectuals in reshaping transnational
ideas and internationalist aspirations into national
values and imperial ambitions in early-twentiethcentury Japan. Perceiving the relationship between
liberalism and the international world order, a
cohort of Japanese thinkers conformed to liberal ideas and
institutions to direct Japans transformation into a liberal
empire in Asia. To sustain and rationalize the imperial enterprise, these Japanese liberals sought to make the domestic
political stage less hostile to liberalism. Facilitating the creation of print-mediated public opinion, liberal intellectuals
attempted to enlist the new middle class as a social ally in circulating liberal ideas and practices within Japan and throughout the empire.
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Satoru Saito sheds light on

the deep structural and
conceptual similarities
between detective fiction
and the novel in prewar
Japan. Arguing that the
interactions between the
two genres were not marginal occurrences but
instead critical moments
of literary engagement,
Saito demonstrates how
detective fiction provided
Japanese authors with the necessary frameworks through
which to examine and critique the nature and implications
of Japans literary formations and its modernizing society.
In tracing the interconnections between liberalism

and the imperial project, Jung-Sun N. Han focuses on the
ideas and activities of Yoshino Sakuzo (18781933), who
was and is remembered as a champion of prewar Japanese
liberalism and Taisho democracy. Drawing insights from
intellectual history, cultural studies, and international relations, this study argues that prewar Japanese liberalism grew
out of the efforts of intellectuals such as Yoshino who worked
to devise a transnational institution to govern the Japanese
empire.
JUNG-SUN N. HAN is Assistant Professor in the Division
of International Studies at Korea University.
JUNE | 6 X 9 | 10 HALFTONES | 350 PP.
ISBN 978-0-674-06571-0 | $39.95X (29.95 UK)
ASIAN STUDIES
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How to Defeat the Saracens
Interlacing Words and Things
GUILLELMUS ADE, TRACTATUS QUOMODO

SARRACENI SUNT EXPUGNANDI; TEXT AND
TRANSLATION WITH NOTES
BRIDGING THE NATURE-CULTURE OPPOSITION

IN GARDENS AND LANDSCAPE
William of Adam
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A N D T R A N S L AT E D B Y
G I L E S C O N S TA B L E
The fall of the crusader-controlled city of Acre to the Muslims

in 1291 inspired many schemes for crusades to recover
Jerusalem and its environs. One of these proposals is How
to Defeat the Saracens, written around 1317 by William of
Adam, a Dominican who traveled extensively in the eastern
Mediterranean, Persia, and parts of India. The treatise, poorly
known even among specialists, presents a five-pronged plan
for retaking the Holy Land. In particular, it
focuses on cutting off economic and military
support for Egypt. Williams personal experience in the lands he describes comes through,
for example, when he recollects his encounters in Persia with a captive Greek woman
whose child he baptized, and in India with a
lapsed Christian who said that God had abandoned him. In this volume Giles Constable
provides a critical edition of the Latin text and
a facing English translation. Extensive notes,
produced in collaboration with other experts,
guide the reader through the political, geographical, economic, military, and historical
context of this fascinating work.
GILES CONSTABLE is Medieval History Professor
Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, Institute for
Advanced Study, Princeton.
DUMBARTON OAKS MEDIEVAL HUMANITIES
JUNE | 7 X 10 | 2 MAPS | 240 PP.
ISBN 978-0-88402-376-0 | $34.95X (25.95 UK)
HISTORY
d u m b a rt o n
o a k s
Edited by Stephen Bann

Interlacing Words and
Things: Bridging the
Nature-Culture Opposition in Gardens and
Landscape examines
the various ways in
which the natural world
has been transformed
through the creative use
of language. The nine
contributors do not
assume that there is an
opposition
between
nature and culture, but
rather emphasize that forms of language are embedded in
our understanding and appreciation of the natural environment. Their illustrated essays consider the relationship
between language and the natural world, as it has been mediated in different cultures and at different periods by broad
notions such as landscape and the garden. Complementing
the richness of the examples covered in the volume is the
message that writing must still be integrally involved in the
creative remaking of the natural world.
STEPHEN BANN is Emeritus Professor of Art History and
a senior research fellow at the University of Bristol.
DUMBARTON OAKS COLLOQUIUM ON THE HISTORY OF
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
APRIL | 8 12 X 10 12 | 70 COLOR PHOTOS,
22 HALFTONES | 176 PP.
PAPER: ISBN 978-0-88402-369-2 | $40.00X (29.95 UK)
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Trade and Markets

in Byzantium
Ancient Maya Art at

Dumbarton Oaks
Edited by Ccile Morrisson
Edited by Joanne Pillsbury, Miriam

Doutriaux, Reiko Ishihara-Brito, and
Alexandre Tokovinine
CCILE MORRISSON is Director of Research, Emerita, at

Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris, and
Advisor for Byzantine Numismatics at Dumbarton Oaks.
DUMBARTON OAKS BYZANTINE SYMPOSIA AND
COLLOQUIA
JUNE | 8 12 X 11 | 76 COLOR PHOTOS, 5 COLOR ILLUS.,
16 HALFTONES, 43 BLACK & WHITE ILLUS., 49 MAPS,
2 TABLES | 464 PP.
ISBN 978-0-88402-377-7 | $85.00X (62.95 UK)
HISTORY
Based on the comprehensive study of one of the

most important collections of Maya art in the
United States, Ancient Maya Art at Dumbarton
Oaks is a scholarly introduction to one of the great
traditions of sculpture and painting in ancient
America. Assembled by Robert Woods Bliss
between 1935 and 1962, the collection is historically important, as it was one of the first to be established on the basis
of aesthetic criteria. The catalogue, written by leading international scholars of Maya archaeology, art history, and writing, contains detailed analyses of specific works of art along
with thematic essays situating these works within the
broader context of Maya culture. Monumental panels, finely
worked jade ornaments, exquisitely painted ceramic vessels,
and other objects are presented in full color and analyzed in
light of recent breakthroughs in understanding their creation,
function, and deeper meaning in Maya ritual and history.
Individual essays address the history of the Dumbarton Oaks
collection; Maya culture, history, and myth; and Maya aesthetics. Scholarly yet accessible, this volume provides a
detailed introduction to Maya art and culture.
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How are markets in antiquity to be characterized? As comparable to modern free markets, with differences in scale not
quality? As controlled and dominated by the state? Or as a
third way, in completely different terms, as free but regulated? In Trade and Markets in Byzantium seventeen scholars address these and
related issues by reexamining and reinterpreting the material
and textual record
from Byzantium and
its hinterland for local,
regional, and interregional trade. Special
emphasis is placed on
local trade, which has
been understudied. To
comprehend
the
recovery of long-distance trade from its eighth-century nadir to the economic
prosperity enjoyed in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the
authors analyze the variety and complexity of the exchange
networks, the role of money as a measure of exchange, and
the character of local markets. This collection of groundbreaking research will prove to be indispensable for anyone
interested in economic history in antiquity and the medieval
period.
JOANNE PILLSBURY is the Director of the Pre-Columbian

Studies program at Dumbarton Oaks. MIRIAM
DOUTRIAUX is an exhibition associate for the PreColumbian Collection at Dumbarton Oaks. REIKO
ISHIHARA-BRITO is a postdoctoral associate in the PreColumbian Studies program at Dumbarton Oaks.
ALEXANDRE TOKOVININE is a research associate at the
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at
Harvard University and a lecturer in the Department of
Anthropology at Harvard University.
MAY | 9 X 12 | 222 COLOR PLATES & PHOTOS,
45 HALFTONES, 1 COLOR ILLUS., 129 BLACK & WHITE
ILLUS., 2 COLOR MAPS, 17 TABLES | 584 PP.
ISBN 978-0-88402-375-3 | $90.00X (66.95 UK)
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Commentary on the
De Administrando Imperio
Edited by R. J. H. Jenkins
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The De Administrando Imperio, compiled by Constantine

VII Porphyrogenitus in the tenth century, is one of the most
important historical documents surviving from the middle
Byzantine period, containing a wide variety of information on
foreign relations and internal administration. The critical text
of the De Administrando Imperio, edited by
Gyula Moravcsik and translated by R. J. H.
Jenkins (Dumbarton Oaks Texts), is now
joined by the commentary, written in 1962 by
a team of eminent scholars led by Jenkins. Long
out of print, the Jenkins commentary remains the
most thorough and authoritative study of this significant
medieval text, and it is now republished as a companion
volume to the critical text and translation. In addition
to extensive commentary on the historical, geographical, and philological nuances of the Greek text, this
volume contains a bibliography, map, indexes, and
genealogical charts.
R. J. H. JENKINS was Professor of Byzantine History
and Literature at Harvard University and Director of
Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks.
DUMBARTON OAKS TEXTS
MAY | 6 X 9 | 2 CHARTS, 1 MAP | 240 PP.
PAPER: ISBN 978-0-88402-379-1
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The House of the Bacabs,
Copan, Honduras
Edited by David Webster
HOW MESOAMERICAN KINGDOMS

REPRESENTED THEMSELVES IN
ARCHITECTURE AND IMAGERY
Edited by William L. Fash and

Leonardo Lpez Lujn
The Art of Urbanism explores
how the royal courts of powerful Mesoamerican centers
represented their kingdoms in
architectural, iconographic,
and cosmological terms.
Through an investigation of
the ecological contexts and
environmental opportunities
of urban centers, the contributors consider how ancient
Mesoamerican cities defined
themselves and reflected
upon their physicaland metaphysicalplace via their built
environment. This collection of papers addresses how communities leveraged their environment and built upon their
cultural and historical roots as well as the ways that the performance of calendrical rituals and other public events tied
individuals and communities to both urban centers and
hinterlands.
WILLIAM L. FASH is Bowditch Professor of Central
American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology and
William and Muriel Seabury Howells Director of the
Peabody Museum at Harvard University. LEONARDO
LPEZ LUJN is Senior Professor and Researcher of
Archaeology at the Museo del Templo Mayor, Instituto
Nacional de Antropologa e Historia, Mexico City.
DUMBARTON OAKS PRE-COLUMBIAN SYMPOSIA
AND COLLOQUIA
CLOTH: NOVEMBER 2009 / 978-0-88402-344-9
APRIL | 7 X 10 | 7 COLOR PHOTOS, 6 COLOR ILLUS.,
56 HALFTONES, 187 BLACK & WHITE ILLUS., 3 MAPS,
5 TABLES | 488 PP.
PAPER: ISBN 978-0-88402-378-4 | $35.00X (25.95 UK)
ARCHAEOLOGY / ART HISTORY
978-0-88402-177-3
$15.00 paper
The Art of Urbanism
d u m b a rt o n
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Hunters, Carvers, and

Collectors
Anthropology at Harvard
THE CHAUNCEY C. NASH COLLECTION OF

INUIT ART
David L. Browman and Stephen Williams
A BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY, 17901940
In the late 1950s,

Chauncey C. Nash
started collecting Inuit
carvings just as the art of
printmaking was being
introduced in Kinngait
(Cape Dorset), an Inuit
community on Baffin
Island in the Canadian
territory of Nunavut.
Nash donated some 300
prints and sculptures to Harvards Peabody Museumone of
the oldest collections of early modern Inuit art. The Peabody
collection includes not only early Inuit sculpture but also
many of the earliest prints on paper made by the women and
men who helped propel Inuit art onto the world stage.
Author Maija M. Lutz draws from ethnology, archaeology, art history, and cultural studies to tell the story of a
little-known collection that represents one of the most
vibrant and experimental periods in the development of contemporary Inuit art. Lavishly illustrated, Hunters, Carvers,
and Collectors presents numerous never-before-published
gems, including carvings by the artists Karoo Ashevak and
Peter Qumalu. This latest contribution to the award-winning
Peabody Museum Collections Series fills an important gap in
the literature of Native American art.
MAIJA M. LUTZ is an Associate of the Peabody Museum
and former Librarian of the Tozzer Library at Harvard
University.
PEABODY MUSEUM COLLECTIONS SERIES
JUNE | 8 X 8 12
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PAPER: ISBN 978-0-87365-407-4 | $21.95X (16.95 UK)
ART / ANTHROPOLOGY
Anthropology at Harvard recounts the rich and complex history of anthropology at Americas oldest university, beginning with the earliest precursors of the discipline within the
study of natural history. The story unfolds through fascinating vignettes about the many individualsfamous and
obscure alikewho helped shape the discipline at Harvard
College and the Peabody Museum. Lively anecdotes provide
in-depth portraits of dozens of key individuals, including Louis and Alexander
Agassiz, Frederic Ward Putnam, Mary
Hemenway, Alice Cunningham Fletcher,
Sylvanus Morley, A. V. Kidder, and Antonio Apache. The text also throws new
light on longstanding puzzles and debates,
such as Franz Boass censure by the American Anthropological Association and the
involvement of Harvard archaeologists in
espionage work for the U.S. government
during World War I.
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Maija M. Lutz
The authors look beyond the big

names to the larger network of colleagues
that formed the dynamic backdrop to the
development of ideas. A monumental achievement, Anthropology at Harvard makes an important contribution to the
history of Americanist anthropology.
DAVID L. BROWMAN is Director of the Interdisciplinary
Program in Archaeology and Professor of Archaeology at
Washington University in St. Louis. STEPHEN WILLIAMS
is Peabody Professor of North American Archaeology and
Ethnography, Emeritus, and former Director of the
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at
Harvard University.
PEABODY MUSEUM MONOGRAPHS
JULY | 7 X 10 | 50 BLACK & WHITE ILLUS. | 640 PP.
ISBN 978-0-87365-913-0 | $65.00X (48.95 UK)
ANTHROPOLOGY / EDUCATION
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The Oxopetra Elegies and

West of Sorrow
Selected Poems
Odysseas Elytis
T R A N S L AT E D
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Nikos Engonopoulos
D AV I D C O N N O L LY
This volume contains translations of two late collections by

Odysseas Elytis (Nobel Prize for literature, 1979). According
to the official announcement of the Swedish Academy, the
Nobel Prize was awarded to Elytis for his poetry, which,
against the background of Greek tradition, depicts with sensuous strength and intellectual clear-sightedness modern
mans struggle for freedom and creativeness. The Oxopetra Elegies, which he published in November 1991 at the
age of eighty, was immediately hailed as one
of his finest works. Far from being a dialogue
with death, as many critics hastily concluded,
these elegies are laments for what is seen and
perceived in certain timeless moments that,
like the Oxopetra headland, project into the
beyond, into another reality, revealing truths
that, to the poets constant dismay, remain
unverifiable and unutterable. The poems
here function as a contemporary form of
magic, a key opening the portals to this other
reality, at least for those who speak Elytis language: the language of the Secret Sun. In
West of Sorrow, published in November
1995, only months before his death, it becomes even clearer
that his poetry remains, as it always was, a paean to life and
love and beauty.
DAVID CONNOLLY is Professor of Translation Studies at
the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
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D AV I D C O N N O L LY
Nikos Engonopoulos belongs to a little-known yet extremely

active and influential group of Greek surrealist poets and was
one of its most orthodox
exponents. Perhaps more so
than any other poet, however, he adapted surrealism
to the Greek context,
inventing a poetic system
out of purely Greek elementsthe mythical and
legendary, the historical and
topical, the exotic and commonplace, the sensual and
intoxicatingand his poetry
is characterized not by the
complexes of the subconscious but by the ecstasy. With these elements and drawing
on all phases of the Greek language, in his poetry he reconstructs the world, making it more poetic, more intelligible,
more real and, above all, more humane. Until recently, very
little of his work was available in English translation. The
present volume, introduced by the translator, contains some
sixty poems, including representative selections from each
of his published collections and the whole of his long poem
Bolivr.
DAVID CONNOLLY is Professor of Translation Studies at
the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
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POETRY
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POETRY
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Aspects of History and

Epic in Ancient Iran
VOLUME 1: GREEK ANTIQUITY
FROM GAUMTA TO WAHNM
Edited by Dimitrios Yatromanolakis
M. Rahim Shayegan
Music and Cultural Politics in Greek and Chinese

Societies, Volume 1:
Greek Antiquity is the first
part of a three-volume set
that focuses on the
intriguing but often
underexplored interaction
between music and songmaking, on the one hand,
and practices of cultural
politics, on the other. The
scope of this three-volume
set is comparative and transhistorical. Given the abundance
of relevant evidence with regard to Greek antiquity, the first
volume investigates major aspects of this intricate sociocultural phenomenon exclusively in ancient Greek societies,
with a special emphasis on archaic and classical song-making,
Attic vase-painting, Athenian drama, Platonic philosophy, and
Hellenistic performance culture. A second volume will
explore parallel manifestations of the interplay between
music and cultural politics in Greek antiquity and in ancient
and medieval China. A third volume will focus on comparative material from ancient, medieval, and modern Chinese
and Greek societies across a transhistorical scope of investigation, drawing on a variety of musical and performative
genres.
Aspects of History and Epic in Ancient Iran

focuses on the content of one of the most important inscriptions of the Ancient Near East: the
Bisotun inscription of the Achaemenid king Darius
I (6th century BCE), which in essence reports on a
suspicious fratricide and subsequent coup dtat.
Moreover, the study shows how the inscriptions
narrative would decisively influence the Iranian
epic, epigraphic, and historiographical traditions well
into the Sasanian and early Islamic periods.
DIMITRIOS YATROMANOLAKIS is a Former Fellow at the

Society of Fellows at Harvard University, and recipient
of the Berlin Prize.
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www.hup.harvard.edu
Intriguingly, our assessment of the

impact of the Bisotun narrative on later literary traditionsin particular, the inscription of the Sasanian king Narseh at Paikuli
(3rd4th centuries CE)necessarily relies
on the reception of the oral rendition of
the Bisotun story captured by Greek historians. As Rahim Shayegan argues, this oral
tradition had an immeasurable impact upon
the historiographical writings and epic compositions of later Iranian empires. It would have
otherwise remained unknown to modern scholars, had
it not been partially preserved and recorded by Hellanicus
of Lesbos, Herodotus, Ctesias, and other Greek authors. The
elucidation of Bisotuns thematic composition therefore not
only allows us to solve an ancient murder but also to re-evaluate pre-Thucydidean Greek historiography as one of the
most important repositories of Iranian epic themes.
M. RAHIM SHAYEGAN is Assistant Professor of Iranian at
the University of California, Los Angeles.
HELLENIC STUDIES
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Colors Between Two Worlds

THE FLORENTINE CODEX OF BERNARDINO DE SAHAGN
E DITED
G ERHARD W OLF AND J OSEPH C ONNORS

COLLABORATION WITH L OUIS A. W ALDMAN
BY
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For half a century the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagn (14991590), often described as
the first anthropologist of the New World, worked with his indigenous colleagues at the Collegio Imperial at Tlateloco (now Mexico City) on an encyclopedic compendium of the beliefs, rituals, language, arts, and economy of the
vanishing culture of the Aztecs. Colors
Between Two Worlds examines the
most richly illustrated manuscript of this
G E R H A R D W O L F is Director of the
great ethnographic work, the Florentine
Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence.
Codex, which is in the collection of the
J O S E P H CO N N O R S , Harvard University,
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Flowas Director of Villa I Tatti from 2002 to
rence, through the issue of color.
2010. L O U I S A . WA L D M A N is Associate
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Professor in the Department of Art and Art
reveals how the
History at The University of Texas at Austin.
colors the Aztecs used
in their artistic production and in everyday life,
as well as the names they
gave each color, illuminate their understanding of the world around them,
from the weather to the curing of disease. The pigments and dyes that
indigenous artists used to illustrate the Codex reflect a larger dialogue
between native and European cultures, which the Florentine Codex records
more fully than any surviving document from colonial New Spain.
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A World of Insects
THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS READER
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THE DISCOVERIES .
E DWARD O. W ILSON
As we follow the path of a giant water bug or peer

over the wing of a gypsy moth, we glimpse our
R I N G C A R D is Distinguished
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Entomology, University of
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world anew, at once shrunk and magnified. Owing

to their size alone, insects experience of the world
is radically different from ours. Air to them is as
viscous as water to us. The predicament of size,
along with the dizzying diversity of insects and
their status as arguably the most successful organisms on earth, have inspired passion and
eloquence in some of the worlds most
innovative scientists. A World of
Insects showcases classic works on insect behavior, physiology, and ecology published
over half a century by Harvard University Press.
James Costa, Vincent Dethier, Thomas Eisner, Lee Goff, Bernd Heinrich, Bert Hlldobler,
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Selected by two world-class entomologists, these essays offer compelling descriptions of
insect cooperation and warfare, the search for ancient insect DNA in amber, and the energy economics of hot-blooded insects. They also discuss the impactfor good and illof insects on our
food supply, their role in crime scene investigation, and the popular fascination with
pheromones, killer bees, and fire ants. Each entry begins with commentary on the authors,
their topics, and the latest research in the field.
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Prefaces to Shakespeare
Tony Tanner
FOREWORD
BY
S T E P H E N H E AT H
AT THE ORIGINS
OF ISLAM
A Sunday Herald Book of the Year
In the final ten years of his life Tony Tanner tackled the
largest project any critic in English can take onwriting a
preface to each of Shakespeares plays. This collection serves as a comprehensive introduction for the
general reader, the greatest and perhaps the last in
the line of great introductions to Shakespeare written by such luminaries as Samuel Johnson and
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
TANNER
MAINTAINS AN EASY , BOOK - CLUB TONE , AT
ONCE GENTLE AND GENEROUS .
T HOUGH
SOME ESSAYS
PROBE MORE DEEPLY THAN OTHERS ( HE ' S SHARPEST

ON THE COMEDIES ), HE ' S ALWAYS SENSITIVE TO HOW
THE THEMES OF CHANGE AND REGENERATION RECUR .
A ND
Muhammad
and the
Believers
Fred M. Donner
The origins of Islam have
been the subject of increasing controversy in recent
years. The traditional view,
which presents Islam as a self-consciously distinct religion
tied to the life and revelations of the prophet Muhammad in
western Arabia, has since the 1970s been challenged by historians engaged in critical study of the Muslim sources. In
Muhammad and the Believers, the eminent historian Fred
Donner offers a lucid and original vision of how Islam first
evolved.
AT ALMOST EVERY JUNCTURE , HE RESISTS THE
TEMPTATION TO SPECULATE OUT OF HAND .
J EREMY M C C ARTER ,
N EW Y ORK T IMES B OOK R EVIEW
LEARNED AND BRILLIANTLY ORIGINAL , YET CONCISE AND
ACCESSIBLE STUDY OF I SLAM S FORMATIVE FIRST CENTURY ...
D ONNER S
EXPLANATION OF THE PROCESS BY WHICH
M USLIMS
CAME TO DEFINE THEMSELVES IS BOTH FASCINATING AND
A LMOST
EVERY PAGE CONTAINS ILLUMINATION , FROM THE
CRITICAL TRADITION , FROM THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT , FROM
ENLIGHTENING .
M AX R ODENBECK , N EW Y ORK T IMES
CONTEMPORARY DEBATE ...I F YOU EVER GO TO THE THEATRE TO
S HAKESPEARE , OR EVEN JUST READ THE PLAYS AT HOME ,

TANNER S INTRODUCTIONS ARE AN INDISPENSABLE GUIDE .
SEE
FROM THE USUAL STORYLINE .
T O N Y T A N N E R was Professor of English and American

Literature at the University of Cambridge. S T E P H E N
H E A T H is Professor of English and French Literature
and Culture at the University of Cambridge.
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u n i v e r s i t y
C HRISTIAN C. S AHNER , T IMES L ITERARY S UPPLEMENT

F R E D M . D O N N E R is Professor of Near Eastern
History in the Oriental Institute and Department of Near
Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of
Chicago.
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A New Literary History of America

E DITED
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A MERICA .
W ES D AVIS , W ALL S TREET J OURNAL
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Confederate Reckoning
Stephanie McCurry
The BerlinBaghdad
Express
THE OTTOMAN
EMPIRE AND
GERMANYS BID FOR
WORLD POWER
POWER AND POLITICS IN THE CIVIL WAR SOUTH
2011 Frederick Douglass Book Prize

Avery O. Craven Award
Merle Curti Award
Finalist, Pulitzer Prize in History
Stephanie McCurry tells a very different tale of the

Confederate experience. When the grandiosity of
Southerners national ambitions met the harsh realities of wartime crises, unintended consequences
ensued. Although Southern statesmen and generals
had built the most powerful slave regime in the
Western world, they had excluded the majority of
their own peoplewhite women and slavesand
thereby sowed the seeds of their demise.
T HE
SESQUICENTENNIAL OF THE
C IVIL WAR
Sean McMeekin
The modern Middle East
was forged in the crucible
of the First World War, but few know the full story of how
war actually came to the region. As Sean McMeekin reveals
in this startling reinterpretation of the war, it was neither the
British nor the French but rather a small clique of Germans
and Turks who thrust the Islamic world into the conflict for
their own political, economic, and military ends.
NOW
LOOMS ON THE HORIZON , PROMISING ITS OWN
S EAN M C M EEKIN
DELUGE OF BOOKS OF EVERY SIZE , SHAPE AND
POPULAR TOUCH ...[T HIS IS AN ] ENGROSSING AND
DESCRIPTION .
ENLIGHTENING NARRATIVE .
WE
WILL BE FORTUNATE INDEED IF IN
IS A PROFESSIONAL HISTORIAN WITH A DEFT
C HRISTOPHER H ITCHENS , T HE ATLANTIC
SHEER ORIGINALITY AND INSIGHT THEY MEASURE UP TO
C ONFEDERATE R ECKONING .
E RIC F ONER , T HE N ATION
P ERHAPS
THE HIGHEST PRAISE ONE CAN OFFER
M C C URRY S
WORK IS TO SAY THAT ONCE WE LOOK THROUGH HER EYES , IT
A N EXCITING NEW BOOK BY A TALENTED YOUNG HISTORIAN ,

S EAN M C M EEKIN , WHO IS ONE OF THE FEW TO HAVE
PENETRATED THE NOTORIOUSLY DIFFICULT O TTOMAN
ARCHIVES .
N IALL F ERGUSON , T HE O BSERVER
WILL BECOME ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO BELIEVE THAT WE EVER

SAW OR THOUGHT OTHERWISE ...M C C URRY HAS HELPED TO
TRANSFORM OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE
C ONFEDERACY
STORY LITTLE KNOWN TO
W ESTERN
READER . . . I T DEPICTS A
SPLENDID CAST OF CHARACTERS HEROIC IN THEIR ENDEAVORS IF
AND OF ITS IMPOSSIBILITY .
ABSURD IN THEIR LACK OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS .
D REW G ILPIN FAUST, N EW R EPUBLIC
M AX H ASTINGS , N EW Y ORK R EVIEW

S T E P H A N I E M C C U R R Y is Professor of History at the
University of Pennsylvania.
CLOTH: APRIL 2010 / ISBN 978-0-674-04589-7
MAY | 6 18 X 9 14 | 456 PP.
PAPER: $21.95 (16.95 UK) | HISTORY
ISBN 978-0-674-06421-8 | EISBN: 978-0-674-05665-7
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B OOKS
S E A N M C M E E K I N is Assistant Professor of
International Relations at Bilkent University in Turkey.
BELKNAP PRESS
MAY | 6 18 X 9 14 | 29 HALFTONES, 6 MAPS | 496 PP.
PAPER: $19.95 / USA | HISTORY
ISBN 978-0-674-06432-4 | EISBN: 978-0-674-05853-8
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Moses Montefiore
Pope and Devil
JEWISH LIBERATOR, IMPERIAL HERO
THE VATICANS ARCHIVES AND THE

THIRD REICH
Abigail Green
Hubert Wolf
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year

A New Republic Best Book of the Year
Finalist, National Jewish Book Award
T R A N S L AT E D
Sir Moses Montefiore

(17841885) was the preeminent Jewish figure of
the nineteenth century
and one of the first truly
global celebrities. His story,
told here in full for the first
time, is a remarkable and
illuminating tale.
I F
ONE OF THE MOST
FAMOUS MEN OF HIS AGE IS

NOW BARELY A NAME , THAT
MAY IN PART BE BECAUSE HIS
ASTONISHING LIFE S STORY HAS NEVER BEEN PROPERLY TOLD
BEFORE ; AS
A BIGAIL G REEN S
SPLENDID BIOGRAPHY SHOWS , IT
IS AS RICH , COMPLEX AND ABSORBING AS A NINETEENTH -
BY
KENNETH KRONENBERG
The Vaticans dealings with the Weimar Republic

and the Third Reich have long been swathed in
myth and speculation. After almost seventy years,
the crucial records for the years leading up to
1939 were finally opened to the public, revealing
the bitter conflicts that raged behind the walls of
the Holy See. In rich detail, Hubert Wolf presents astonishing findings from the recently opened Vatican archives and
illuminates the thinking of the popes, cardinals, and bishops
who saw themselves in a historic struggle against evil. Never
have the inner workings of the Vaticanits most important
decisions and actionsbeen portrayed so fully and vividly.
N O
STRANGER TO THE DARK SIDE OF CHURCH HISTORY , AND
INTIMATELY FAMILIAR WITH ECCLESIASTICAL DOGMA , POLITICS ,

AND PROCEDURE ,
W OLF
PRESENTS SENSITIVE MATERIAL WITH
ADMIRABLE EVENHANDEDNESS , AVOIDING BOTH APOLOGY AND

EASY CONDEMNATION .
CENTURY NOVEL .
G EOFFREY W HEATCROFT, T IMES L ITERARY S UPPLEMENT

[A N ] ERUDITE , INTELLIGENT, AND GRACEFUL BIOGRAPHY . . .
G REEN S BOOK IS A RICH GIFT TO HISTORYAND NOT JUST
J EWISH HISTORY . . . H ER PAGES ARE MOST MEMORABLE WHEN
THEY SIMPLY BRING THE OLD BOY TO VIVID LIFE AMID ALL THE
COMPLEXITIES AND PERPLEXITIES OF HIS GREAT SELF - IMPOSED
CALLING .
M ICHAEL R. M ARRUS , C OMMONWEAL

W OLF
HAS WRITTEN A VERY IMPORTANT BOOK . I T DOES NOT
EXPLAIN THE SILENCE OF
P IUS VII,
THOUGH IT CERTAINLY
EXONERATES HIM OF THE CHARGE THAT HE WAS IN ANY WAY

SYMPATHETIC TO THE REGIME IN
G ERMANY. I T
ALSO REVEALS A
MAN WITH A MISPLACED CONFIDENCE IN HIS OWN

COMPETENCE .
M ICHAEL WALSH , T HE TABLET
S IMON S CHAMA , N EW R EPUBLIC
H U B E R T W O L F is Professor of Church History at the

University of Mnster.
A B I G A I L G R E E N is Tutor and Fellow in History,

Brasenose College, University of Oxford.
BELKNAP PRESS
CLOTH: MARCH 2010 / ISBN 978-0-674-04880-5
MAY | 6 38 X 9 14
46 HALFTONES, 4 MAPS, 2 CHARTS | 560 PP.
PAPER: $19.95 (14.95 UK) | BIOGRAPHY
ISBN 978-0-674-06419-5 | EISBN: 978-0-674-05644-2
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CLOTH: MAY 2010 / ISBN 978-0-674-05081-5
ISBN 978-0-674-06426-3
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The Offensive Internet
March of the Microbes
SPEECH, PRIVACY, AND REPUTATION
SIGHTING THE UNSEEN
Edited by Saul Levmore and

Martha C. Nussbaum
John L. Ingraham
The Internet has been romanticized as a zone of freedom.

But an unregulated Internet is a breeding ground for offensive conduct.
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
[T HIS
FOREWORD
BOOK ] IS FOR THOSE WHO CARE HOW THE
INTERNET HAS COMPLICATED PRIVACY , SPEECH , AND
BY
R O B E R T O K O LT E R
Renowned microbiologist John Ingraham rescues the

supremely important and ubiquitous microorganisms from
their unwonted obscurity by showing us how we can, in fact,
see and appreciate them.
REPUTATION , AND FOR THOSE WHO MAY HAVE TO
I NGRAHAM
RESCUE IT FROM ITSELF.
L IZ E LSE , N EW S CIENTIST
[T HE O FFENSIVE I NTERNET ]
HE
DRIVES HOME THE POINT THAT
WITHOUT THESE OVERLOOKED LIFE FORMS WE WOULDN T BE
TAKES UP THE SERIOUS
QUESTIONS WE MUST FACE AS THE NET BECOMES NOT

SOME SPECIALIZED TOOL FOR TECHNOLOGY
ENTHUSIASTS BUT UBIQUITOUS .
PRESENTS THE MICROBES BEHIND SO MUCH OF THE
WORLD AROUND US .
W HAT
POLICIES CAN
HERE AT ALL ...I NGRAHAM S FRESH PERSPECTIVE MAKES IT AN

ENGAGING READ .
J O M ARCHANT,
N EW S CIENTIST
WE PUT IN PLACE TO CURB BULLYING AND

HARASSMENT WHILE PROTECTING FREE SPEECH ?
[I NGRAHAM ]
W HAT
DEEP KNOWLEDGE OF AN
PROVISIONS CAN BE MADE TO PROTECT
INDIVIDUALS PRIVACY OR TO PREVENT FALSE AND

MALICIOUS RUMORS FROM FOREVER TARNISHING REPUTATIONS ?
T HIS
BOOK IS AN ESSENTIAL READ FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN
ACADEMIC WITH THE

PASSION OF A MICROBE
WATCHER EXTRAORDI -
EXPLORING THESE QUESTIONS ...I NFORMATIVE , ILLUMINATING ,
NAIRE WHICH MAKES THIS
AND DISTURBING .
GUIDE AS ENTERTAINING AS
R ACHEL B RIDGEWATER ,
L IBRARY J OURNAL ( STARRED
IT IS INFORMATIVE .
REVIEW )
S A U L L E V M O R E is the William B. Graham

Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University
of Chicago Law School. M A R T H A C . N U S S B A U M is
Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and
Ethics at the University of Chicago and author of The
New Religious Intolerance (see p. 4).
CLOTH: JANUARY 2011 / ISBN 978-0-674-05089-1
MAY | 6 18 X 9 14 | 312 PP.
PAPER: $18.95 (14.95 UK) | CURRENT AFFAIRS / LAW
ISBN 978-0-674-06431-7 | EISBN: 978-0-674-05876-7
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L AURENCE A.
M ARSCHALL ,
N ATURAL H ISTORY
J O H N L . I N G R A H A M is the former President of the
American Society of Microbiologists, and Professor
Emeritus of Microbiology at University of California,
Davis.
BELKNAP PRESS
CLOTH: FEBRUARY 2010 / ISBN 978-0-674-03582-9
MAY | 5 12 X 8 14 | 38 FIGURES | 336 PP.
PAPER: $16.95 (12.95 UK) | SCIENCE
ISBN 978-0-674-06409-6 | EISBN: 978-0-674-05403-5
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The Rise of Nuclear Fear

S PENCER R. W EART
The meltdown of Japans Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant prompted worldwide protests against
nuclear power. Germany announced it would close its plants by 2022. Spencer Weart demonstrates that a web of images surrounding nuclear energy holds us captive, allowing fear, rather
than facts, to drive our thinking and public policy.
Building on his classic, Nuclear Fear, Weart follows nuclear imagery from its origins in
the symbolism of medieval alchemy to its appearance in film and fiction. Long before nuclear
fission was discovered, fantasies of the destroyed planet, the transforming ray, and the white city
of the future had taken root in the popular imagination. At the turn of the twentieth century when
S P E N C E R R . W E A RT is Director
limited facts about radioactivity became known,
Emeritus of the Center for History
they produced a blurred picture upon which sci-
of Physics of the American
entists and the public projected their hopes and
Institute of Physics.
fears. These fears were magnified during the cold

war, when mushroom clouds no longer needed to
be imagined; they appeared on the evening news.
Weart examines nuclear anxiety in sources as
diverse as Alain Resnaiss Hiroshima Mon Amour,
Cormac McCarthys The Road, and The Simp-
sons. Recognizing how much we remain in thrall to these setpieces of the imagination will help
us resist manipulation in the nuclear debate.
MARCH | 6 18 X 9 14 | 350 PP.
PAPER: $21.95 (16.95 UK) | SCIENCE
ISBN 978-0-674-05233-8 | EISBN: 978-0-674-06506-2
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The Last Utopia
Roosevelts Purge
HUMAN RIGHTS IN HISTORY
HOW FDR FOUGHT TO CHANGE THE

DEMOCRATIC PARTY
Samuel Moyn
Susan Dunn
Human rights offer a vision of international justice that
todays idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on
which the movement is based became familiar only a few
decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes
for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book,
Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals
about the ideals troubled present and uncertain
future.
T HE
T HE L AST U TOPIA IS THAT IT

RESTORES HISTORICAL NUANCE , SKEPTICISM , AND
CONTEXT TO A CONCEPT THAT , IN THE PAST 30
YEARS , HAS PLAYED A LARGE ROLE IN WORLD
AFFAIRS .
TRIUMPH OF
B RENDAN S IMMS , W ALL S TREET J OURNAL
Winner of the Henry Adams Prize, Society for

History in the Federal Government
Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, History
Susan Dunn tells the dramatic story of FDRs unprecedented

battle to drive his foes out of his party by intervening in Democratic primaries and backing liberal challengers to conservative incumbents.
D UNN
DELVES INTO A FASCINATING AND OVERLOOKED ASPECT
OF THE
FDR
PRESIDENCY :
R OOSEVELT S
BRAZEN EFFORT TO
ASSERT CONTROL OVER HIS OWN PARTY IN THE SUMMER OF
1938. D UNN
HAS WRITTEN AN ENGAGING STORY OF BARE -
KNUCKLED POLITICAL
TREACHERY THAT PITS A
PRESIDENT AT THE PEAK OF
HIS POPULARITY AGAINST
T HE L AST U TOPIA
SUPPLIES A DETAILED , SUBTLE ,
AND IN MANY WAYS CONVINCING ACCOUNT OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS SURGE .
M OYN S
CASE FOR A
1970 S
TURNING - POINT
ENTRENCHED CONGRES SIONAL LEADERS WHO

DIDN T LIKE WHERE HE WAS
TAKING THE COUNTRY AND
IS A STRONG ONE .
R OBIN B LACKBURN , N EW L EFT R EVIEW
THEIR PARTY .
FDR
TRIED
TO USE THE POWER OF THE
S A M U E L M O Y N is Professor of History at Columbia

University.
W HITE H OUSE ,
AND HIS
PERSONALITY , TO RUN HIS

OPPONENTS OUT OF THE
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D EMOCRATIC PARTY. H E
FAILED MISERABLY .
J ONATHAN K ARL , W ALL S TREET J OURNAL

S U S A N D U N N is Preston Parish 41 Third Century
Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Williams College.
BELKNAP PRESS
CLOTH: OCTOBER 2010 / ISBN 978-0-674-05717-3
ISBN 978-0-674-06430-0 | EISBN: 978-0-674-05845-3
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What Is a Palestinian
State Worth?
Shiism
Sari Nusseibeh
Hamid Dabashi
For over sixty years, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been

subjected to many solutions and offered many answers by
diverse parties. Yet, answers are only as good as the questions that beget them. It is
with this simple, but powerful idea, the idea of asking the basic questions
anew, that the renowned
Palestinian philosopher
and activist Sari Nusseibeh begins his book.
For a Western world anxious to understand Islam

and, in particular, Shiism, this book arrives with
urgently needed information and critical analysis.
Hamid Dabashi exposes the soul of Shiism as a
religion of protestsuccessful only when in a warring position, and losing its legitimacy when in
power.
A RELIGION OF PROTEST
S ARI N USSEIBEH
REPEATEDLY EXPRESSES HIS
A FTER
P ROPHET, A STRUGGLE
M USLIM COMMUNITY. T HOSE
WHO BELIEVE THE P ROPHET S COUSIN AND SON - IN - LAW A LI
WAS HIS LEGITIMATE SUCCESSOR ARE CALLED THE S HI I , AND
D ABASHI S BOOK IS A FASCINATING LOOK AT THIS TRADITION
VIEWED THROUGH THE LENS OF SUCH THINKERS AS F REUD ,
W EBER , H ABERMAS , AND OTHERS .
THE DEATH OF THE
ENSUED FOR LEADERSHIP OF THE
BELIEF THAT CHANGE IS

POSSIBLE IF PEOPLE HAVE
C HRISTOPHER M C C ONNELL , B OOKLIST
THE SELF - CONFIDENCE

AND FAITH IN THEMSELVES
TO ACT.
HE
SEES HIS TASK AS AN EDUCATOR TO BE ONE OF
INCULCATING SUCH FAITH .
A ND
HE ALSO DESCRIBES , IN
SEVERAL CHAPTERS OF HIS OFTEN MOVING BOOK , A MORAL

BASIS FOR POLITICAL ACTION THAT CAN SPEAK TO ALL OF US .
D AVID S HULMAN , N EW Y ORK R EVIEW

[N USSEIBEH ]
OF
COMES CLOSER TO ADVOCATING A
STRATEGY THAN ANY OTHER
PALESTINIAN
LEADER
B OOKS
G ANDHIAN
I KNOW OF.
A DAM K IRSCH , TABLET M AGAZINE
H A M I D D A B A S H I , an internationally renowned
cultural critic and award-winning author, is Hagop
Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative
Literature at Columbia University. More information can
be found at www.hamiddabashi.com.
BELKNAP PRESS
ISBN 978-0-674-06428-7 | EISBN: 978-0-674-05875-0
S A R I N U S S E I B E H is the president of Al-Quds

University in Jerusalem and the author of Once Upon a
Country: A Palestinian Life.
FEBRUARY | 4 X 6 34 | 256 PP.
PAPER: $14.95 (11.95 UK) | CURRENT AFFAIRS
ISBN 978-0-674-06435-5 | EISBN: 978-0-674-05949-8
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The Tomb of Agamemnon

Cathy Gere
From Homer to Himmler, from Thucydides to Freud, Mycenae has occupied a singular place in the Western imagination. As the backdrop to one of the most famous military
campaigns of all time, Agamemnons city has served for generation after generation as a symbol of the human
appetite for war. As an archaeological site, it has
given its name to the splendors of one of Europes
earliest civilizations: the Mycenaean Age. In this
book, historian of science Cathy Gere tells the story
of these extraordinary ruins.
C ATHY G ERE S WONDERFUL LITTLE HISTORY /
T HE T OMB OF A GAMEMNON , IS ABOUT A
LOT OF THINGS . I T S ABOUT HOW EACH NEW ERA
BENDS THE PAST TO ITS OWN NEEDS . I T S ABOUT
WHAT S GAINED AND LOST WHEN SCIENTISTS
DISPLACE PASSIONATE AMATEURS . I T S ABOUT THE
HUMAN DESIRE TO IMPOSE NARRATIVE , FALSE IF NEED
BE , ON THE MUTE RELICS OF HISTORY . W HAT G ERE S
BOOK ISN T ABOUT, STRICTLY SPEAKING , IS THE TOMB OF
A GAMEMNON , BECAUSE THAT DOESN T EXIST...T HIS BOOK IS A
REAL PAGE -TURNER .
The Rosetta Stone and the

Rebirth of Ancient Egypt
John Ray
The Rosetta Stone is one of the worlds great wonders,
attracting awed pilgrims by the tens of thousands each year.
This book tells the Stones story, from its discovery by
Napoleons expedition to Egypt to its currentand controversial status as the single most visited object on display in
the British Museum.
[R AY ] SUCCESSFULLY CAPTURES THE W EST S FASCINATION
E GYPT. A LWAYS THE MASTER OF HIS SUBJECT, HE
ENTERTAINS RATHER THAN LECTURES , IS SPARING WITH
MINUTIAE BUT STILL FINDS SPACE FOR TELLING DETAIL .
WITH
GUIDEBOOK ,
A NTHONY S ATTIN , S UNDAY T IMES

A
WONDERFUL
INTRODUCTION NOT ONLY

TO THE
R OSETTA S TONE
AND ITS STORY, BUT ALSO

TO THE GROWTH AND
DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN
E GYPTOLOGY...R AY
ALSO
OFFERS AN ILLUMINATING
OVERVIEW OF DEAD
J OANN C. G UTIN , N EWSDAY
LANGUAGE STUDIES AND THE
G ERE RECONSTRUCTS THE HISTORY AND SIGNIFICANCE OF

M YCENAE IN THE LITERARY AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORDS
COLORFUL FIGURES WHO

DEVOTE THEIR LIVES TO
AND ASTUTELY EXAMINES WHY THE PLACE AND ITS DENIZENS
IT...T HIS INFORMATIVE TEXT
HAVE SO GRIPPED THE COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE
HAS AN APPEALING ,
W EST
CONVERSATIONAL TONE
THROUGH THE CENTURIES .
J AMES P. H OLOKA , B RYN M AWR C LASSICAL R EVIEW
THAT NON - SPECIALISTS SHOULD FIND ESPECIALLY WELCOMING .
P UBLISHERS W EEKLY
C A T H Y G E R E is Associate Professor of the History of
Science at the University of California, San Diego.
CLOTH: APRIL 2006 / ISBN 978-0-674-02170-9
APRIL | 4 516 X 7 | 24 HALFTONES, 2 MAPS | 208 PP.
PAPER: $14.95 / NA | CLASSICS / TRAVEL
ISBN 978-0-674-06388-4 | EISBN: 978-0-674-06356-3
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J O H N R A Y is Herbert Thompson Professor of

Egyptology at Cambridge University, and is also a Fellow
of Selwyn College.
CLOTH: JULY 2007 / ISBN 978-0-674-02493-9
APRIL | 4 516 X 7 | 25 HALFTONES | 208 PP.
PAPER: $14.95 / NA | TRAVEL / HISTORY
ISBN 978-0-674-06394-5 | EISBN: 978-0-674-06364-8
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The Forbidden City
St. Peters
Geremie R. Barm
Keith Miller
The Forbidden City (Zijin Cheng) lying at the heart of Beijing

formed the hub of the Celestial Empire for five centuries.
Over the past century it has led a reduced life as the refuge
for a deposed emperor, as well as a heritage museum for
monarchist, republican, and socialist citizens, and it has been
celebrated and excoriated as a symbol of all that was magnificent and terrible in dynastic Chinas legacy.
Built by the decree of Constantine, rebuilt by some

of the most distinguished architects in Renaissance
Italy, emulated by Hitlers architect in his vision
for Germania, immortalized on film by Fellini, and
fictionalized by a modern American bestseller, St.
Peters is the most easily recognizable church in
the world. This book is a cultural history of one of
the most significant structures in the West. It bears
the imprint of Bramante, Raphael, Michelangelo,
Bernini, and Canova. For Grand Tourists of the eighteenth
century, St. Peters exemplified the sublime. It continues to
fascinate visitors today and appears globally as a familiar symbol of the papacy and of the Catholic Church itself.
T HIS ROLLS -ROYCE
OF A GUIDEBOOK COVERS ALMOST EVERY
72B EIJING FIRST CONSTRUCTED

EMPEROR , Z HU D I . B ARM S
CONCEIVABLE PHYSICAL AND HISTORICAL NOOK OF THE

HECTARE IMPERIAL ENCLAVE IN
THE
15 TH - CENTURY YONGLE
BY
HISTORY PACKS A VERITABLE PALACE OF INFORMATION INTO ITS

PAGES FROM THE STORY OF THE SADISTIC J IAJING EMPEROR ,
NEARLY STRANGLED TO
DEATH BY HIS
CONCUBINES , TO THE TALE
OF THE CLANDESTINE
PLUNDERING OF THE CITY S
TREASURES DURING THE
CULTURAL REVOLUTION .
ROBERT C OLLINS ,
S UNDAY T IMES
T HE
T HE MOST ENJOYABLE BOOK [ OF THE YEAR ] WAS S T. P ETER S

K EITH M ILLER , A WITTY AND ENTERTAINING ACCOUNT OF
THE MOST FAMOUS CHURCH IN THE WORLD , STILL STANDING
FIRM AGAINST THE TIDES OF TOURISM THAT SWIRL AROUND IT .
A S M ILLER MAKES CLEAR , S T P ETER S HAS ALWAYS BEEN FAR
MORE THAN A CHURCH .
BY
J. G. B ALLARD , T HE O BSERVER
A
FINELY PRODUCED AND STYLISHLY WRITTEN STUDY OF THE
GREATEST CHURCH IN THE WORLD .
LATEST IN AN
EXCELLENT SERIES FROM
H ARVARD U NIVERSITY
P RESS ...A N IDEAL AND
ELEGANT HISTORY , GOOD
M ILLER S
RESPONSE TO THE
BASILICA S UNPARALLELED ARCHITECTURAL OPULENCE IS POISED

BETWEEN WONDER AND WRY IRREVERENCE AT THE COUNTER
R EFORMATION
INTENSITY OF IT ALL .
T HEO H OBSON , S UNDAY T IMES
FOR KEEPING IN THE HAND WHILE VISITING THE VAST
K E I T H M I L L E R is a journalist, reviewer, and lecturer

living in London.
EXTRAORDINARY COMPLEX .
T HE E CONOMIST
G E R E M I E R . B A R M is Professor of Chinese History
and Founding Director of the Australian Centre on China
in the World at the Australian National University.
CLOTH: MAY 2008 / ISBN 978-0-674-02779-4
APRIL | 4 516 X 7 | 32 HALFTONES, 1 MAP | 288 PP.
PAPER: $14.95 / NA | HISTORY / TRAVEL
ISBN 978-0-674-06396-9 | EISBN: 978-0-674-06354-9

APRIL | 4 516 X 7
19 HALFTONES, 1 LINE ILLUS. | 256 PP.
PAPER: $14.95 / NA | HISTORY / TRAVEL
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Invisible War
THE UNITED STATES AND THE IRAQ SANCTIONS
Wagner and the

Erotic Impulse
Joy Gordon
Laurence Dreyfus
A Foreign Policy Best Book on the Middle East
The economic sanctions imposed on Iraq from 1990 to 2003

were the most comprehensive and devastating of any established in the name of international governance.
Drawing on internal UN documents, confidential
minutes of closed meetings, and interviews with
foreign diplomats and U.S. officials, Joy Gordon
details how the United States not only prevented
critical humanitarian goods from entering Iraq but
also undermined attempts at reform.
G ORDON S
IMPORTANT BOOK IS A CAUTIONARY TALE
OF WHAT HAPPENS TO A STATE WHEN THE FULL

MECHANISMS OF INTERNATIONAL SANCTIONS ARE
PLACED UPON IT REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCE .
G ORDON
ADMITS THAT
U.S.
Though his image is tarnished today by unrepentant antiSemitism, Richard Wagner (18131883) was better known
in the nineteenth century for his provocative musical eroticism. In this illuminating study of the composer and his
works, Laurence Dreyfus shows how Wagners obsession
with sexuality prefigured the composition of operas such as
Tannhuser, Die Walkre, Tristan und Isolde, and Parsifal.
R EVELATORY.
A LEX R OSS , N EW Y ORKER
D REYFUS EXPLORES THE AESTHETIC AND BIOGRAPHICAL
( INCLUDING THE COMPOSER S FONDNESS FOR WEARING
WOMEN S SILK LINGERIE )
WITH ADMIRABLE CLARITY ,
ISSUES
LAYING BARE AN ASPECT OF
POLICY WAS NOT
CALCULATED TO DESTROY THE I RAQI POPULATION BUT
THE COMPOSER THAT IS
RATHER WAS DEEPLY INDIFFERENT TO THE
BOTH CENTRAL AND OFTEN

STRANGELY IGNORED .
CONSEQUENCES OF ITS ACTIONS .
A DAM L IVELY,
S UNDAY T IMES
J AMES D ENSELOW , H UFFINGTON P OST

T HE DEVASTATION OF MUCH OF I RAQI SOCIETY BETWEEN
1990 AND 2003 THROUGH [UN ECONOMIC ] SANCTIONS ,
DRIVEN BY THE U.S. AND TO A LESSER EXTENT THE UK, IS
STORY THAT HAS BEEN BURIED FOR THE MOST PART UNDER
LAYER ON LAYER OF DIPLOMATIC TECHNICALITIES , OBFUSCATION
T EARS THE ROOF OFF

WAGNER SCHOLARSHIP.
T IM P FAFF,
B AY A REA R EPORTER
AND SHEER INDIFFERENCE ...H ER BOOK DESERVES TO BE READ

AND DISCUSSED WIDELY .
E RIC H ERRING , T IMES H IGHER E DUCATION

J O Y G O R D O N is Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield
University.
CLOTH: APRIL 2010 / ISBN 978-0-674-03571-3
APRIL | 6 18 X 9 14 | 376 PP.
PAPER: $21.95 (16.95 UK) | HISTORY / POLITICS
ISBN 978-0-674-06408-9 | EISBN: 978-0-674-05390-8
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LAURENCE DREYFUS
is Professor of Music at University of Oxford and a
Fellow of Magdalen College.
CLOTH: DECEMBER 2010 / ISBN 978-0-674-01881-5
MAY | 6 18 X 9 14
1 LINE ILLUS., 11 MUSIC EXAMPLES | 288 PP.
PAPER: $18.95 (14.95 UK) | MUSIC
ISBN 978-0-674-06429-4 | EISBN: 978-0-674-05929-0
p r e s s
Fatherhood
EVOLUTION AND HUMAN PATERNAL BEHAVIOR
Reshaping the
Work-Family Debate
Peter B. Gray and Kermyt G. Anderson
WHY MEN AND CLASS MATTER
Joan C. Williams
As Peter Gray and Kermyt

Anderson reveal, fatherhood actually alters a
mans sexuality, rewires
his brain, and changes his
hormonal profile. This
book presents a uniquely
detailed picture of how
being a parent fits with
mens broader social and
work lives, how fatherhood evolved, and how it
differs across cultures and
through time.
G RAY AND A NDERSON DO FOR FATHERHOOD
H RDY HAS DONE FOR MOTHERHOOD .
WHAT
[S ARAH ]
IS ELOQUENT ON THE STRESSES CREATED FOR BOTH
THE OLD IMAGE OF THE HARD - WORKING , ALWAYS AVAILABLE

HUSBAND AND THE STAY - AT- HOME WIFE .
S HE
UNMASKS THE
FACT THAT WOMEN DO NOT DROP OUT OF THE WORKPLACE , AS

THE MEDIA OFTEN CLAIM , BUT RATHER ARE PUSHED .
J EAN H ARDISTY, W OMEN S R EVIEW

T HIS
BOOK WILL JOIN
W ILLIAMS
FIRST ,
OF
B OOKS
U NBENDING G ENDER ,
IT
IS ESSENTIAL READING FOR ALL WORK - FAMILY SCHOLARS
ACROSS A WIDE RANGE OF DISCIPLINES ...I T SHOULD BE ADDED
TEXT REPRESENTS A NEW GO -TO SOURCE FOR THOSE
WISHING TO LEARN ABOUT EVOLUTIONARY , ANTHROPOLOGICAL

APPROACHES TO HUMAN AND HOMININ FATHERHOOD .
L EE T. G ETTLER ,
A MERICAN J OURNAL
W ILLIAMS
MEN AND WOMEN BY A WORKPLACE CULTURE THAT RELIES ON
AS A KEY PIECE IN THE CANON OF WORK - FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP.
D REW H. B AILEY, B ENJAMIN W INEGARD , AND

D AVID C. G EARY, E VOLUTIONARY P SYCHOLOGY
T HIS
The United States has the most family-hostile public policy in the developed world. Contesting the
idea that women need to negotiate better within
the family, and redefining the notion of success in
the workplace, Joan C. Williams reinvigorates the
work-family debate and offers the first steps to
making life manageable for all American families.
TO THE PANTHEON OF OTHER CONTEMPORARY GENDER

SCHOLARSHIP THAT HAS MOVED THE WORK - FAMILY DEBATE
FORWARD ...I T IS MY HOPE THAT IT WILL ALSO PROVE TO BE
ESSENTIAL READING FOR POLITICIANS SEEKING PROGRESSIVE
SOLUTIONS .
OF
H UMAN B IOLOGY
S ARAH D AMASKE , S EX R OLES
P E T E R B . G R A Y is Associate Professor of
Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
K E R M Y T G . A N D E R S O N is Associate Professor of
Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma.
CLOTH: MAY 2010 / ISBN 978-0-674-04869-0
APRIL | 6 18 X 9 14 | 2 TABLES | 320 PP.
PAPER: $18.95 (14.95 UK)
ANTHROPOLOGY / GENDER STUDIES
ISBN 978-0-674-06418-8 | EISBN: 978-0-674-05643-5
J O A N C . W I L L I A M S is Distinguished Professor of Law,

1066 Foundation Chair, and Director of the Center for
WorkLife Law at the University of California, Hastings
College of the Law.
THE WILLIAM E. MASSEY SR. LECTURES IN THE HISTORY
OF AMERICAN CIVILIZATION
MAY | 6 18 X 9 14 | 2 GRAPHS | 304 PP.
PAPER: $18.95 * (14.95 UK) | SOCIOLOGY
ISBN 978-0-674-06449-2 | EISBN: 978-0-674-05883-5
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American Homicide
Someone Has to Fail
Randolph Roth
THE ZERO-SUM GAME OF PUBLIC SCHOOLING
Michael J. Hindelang Award, American Society of
David F. Labaree
Criminology
Allan Sharlin Memorial Award, Social Science

History Association
A Reason Best Book of the Year

Randolph Roth charts changes in the character and

incidence of homicide in the United States from
colonial times to the present.
A MERICAN H OMICIDE
OFFERS A VAST INVESTIGATION
OF MURDER , IN THE AGGREGATE , AND OVER TIME .
R OTH S
ARGUMENT IS PROFOUNDLY UNSETTLING ...A S
A DISCUSSION OF THE AVAILABLE DATA ,
H OMICIDE
A MERICAN
IS RICH , FASCINATING , AND UNRIVALLED .
J ILL L EPORE , N EW Y ORKER

R ANDOLPH R OTH S A MERICAN H OMICIDE PRESENTS
A MERICA IS THE
MOST MURDEROUS OF ALL THE SO - CALLED F IRST
W ORLD NATIONS . R OTH S CONCLUSIONS ARE
PROFOUND AND DISTURBING .
A WORKING HYPOTHESIS ABOUT WHY
R ICHARD R AYNER , L OS A NGELES T IMES
What do we really want

from schools? Only everything, in all its contradictions. Most of all, we want
access and opportunity for
all childrenbut all possible advantages for our
own. So argues historian
David Labaree in this
provocative look at the way
this archetype of dysfunction works so well at what
we want it to do even as it
evades what we explicitly
ask it to do.
T HE
BOOK IS ... SO RICH IN CONTRARIAN ASSAULTS ON
CHERISHED
A MERICAN
ASSUMPTIONS
CANNOT ADEQUATELY
SUMMARIZE IT...[L ABAREE S ] CANDOR AND DEPTH ENCOURAGE

HUMILITY.
A LL
OF US ARGUING ABOUT HOW TO IMPROVE
SCHOOLS COULD USE SOME OF THAT .
J AY M ATHEWS , W ASHINGTON P OST

R A N D O L P H R O T H is Professor of History and
Sociology at Ohio State University.
L ABAREE
IS PERCEPTIVE AND LUCID IN PRESENTING HIS VIEW
THAT INDIVIDUAL SELF - INTEREST IS A DRIVING FORCE IN
BELKNAP PRESS
MARCH | 6 18 X 9 14
31 CHARTS, 1 MAP, 1 TABLE | 672 PP.
PAPER: $22.50 * (16.95 UK) | SOCIOLOGY / POLITICS
ISBN 978-0-674-06411-9 | EISBN: 978-0-674-05454-7
SCHOOLING AND SCHOOL REFORM .
J. L. D E V ITIS , C HOICE
D A V I D F . L A B A R E E is Professor of Education at
Stanford University and author of How to Succeed in
School without Really Learning.
CLOTH: NOVEMBER 2010 / ISBN 978-0-674-05068-6
APRIL | 5 12 X 8 14 | 312 PP.
PAPER: $19.95 * (14.95 UK) | EDUCATION
ISBN 978-0-674-06386-0 | EISBN: 978-0-674-05886-6
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Chinas Cosmopolitan Empire

THE TANG DYNASTY
Mark Edward
Lewis
THE CHANGING FACE OF CAPTIVITY IN

EARLY AMERICA
TIMOTHY BROOK,
GENERAL EDITOR,
H I S T O RY O F I M P E R I A L
CHINA SERIES
Christina Snyder
The Tang dynasty is often

called Chinas golden
age, a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from
Korea and Japan to the
Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity.
Mark Lewis captures a dynamic era in which the empire
reached its greatest geographical extent under Chinese rule,
painting and ceramic arts flourished, women played a major
role both as rulers and in the economy, and China produced
its finest lyric poets in Wang Wei, Li Bo, and Du Fu.
W ITH
CLARITY AND RICH DETAILS , SUSTAINED BY QUOTES ,
ANECDOTES , POEMS , AND VISUAL IMAGES ,
L EWIS BRINGS TO
C HINA IN GEOGRAPHY,
POLITICS , URBAN LIFE , RURAL SOCIETY , THE OUTER WORLD ,
KINSHIP, RELIGION , AND WRITING , ALL IN COMPARISON WITH
PREVIOUS TIMES .
LIFE THE VITALITY OF A TRANSFORMING
BEST OVERVIEW OF
TANG
Historians First Book Prize
Slavery existed in North America long before the

first Africans arrived at Jamestown in 1619. For
centuries, from the pre-Columbian era through the 1840s,
Native Americans took prisoners of war and killed, adopted,
or enslaved them. Christina Snyders pathbreaking book
takes a familiar setting for bondage, the American South, and
places Native Americans at the center of her engrossing story.
[A N ] INSTRUCTIVE AND REMARKABLY READABLE BOOK ...
[S NYDER ] REACHES BACK TO EARLY I NDIAN CAPTIVITY
PRACTICES AND HOW CONCEPTIONS OF CAPTIVES AND THEIR
ROLES IN I NDIAN COMMUNITIES CHANGED WITH THE ARRIVAL
OF E UROPEANS AND A FRICANS ...S NYDER BREAKS NEW GROUND
IN THIS STUDY [ AND ] REVEALS PRE - COLONIAL S OUTHERN
HISTORY AND RESTORES VISIBILITY TO N ATIVE A MERICAN
HISTORY IN THE REGION .
P UBLISHERS W EEKLY ( STARRED
REVIEW )
HISTORY IN ANY LANGUAGE ,
AND WOULD BE A GOOD STARTING POINT FOR ANYONE

INTERESTED IN THE DYNASTY .
P ETER L ORGE , J OURNAL
Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalist

James Broussard Best First Book Prize
Berkshire Conference of Women
C H R I S T I N A S N Y D E R is an Assistant Professor of
American Studies and History at Indiana University.
Y IHONG PAN , C HINA R EVIEW I NTERNATIONAL

T HE
Slavery in Indian
Country
OF
M ILITARY H ISTORY
M A R K E D W A R D L E W I S is Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in
Chinese Culture at Stanford University.
CLOTH: APRIL 2010 / ISBN 978-0-674-04890-4

APRIL | 6 18 X 9 14
1 HALFTONE, 6 LINE ILLUS., 3 MAPS | 344 PP.
PAPER: $19.95 * (14.95 UK)
HISTORY / NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES
ISBN 978-0-674-06423-2 | EISBN: 978-0-674-05687-9
BELKNAP PRESS | HISTORY OF IMPERIAL CHINA 3

CLOTH: JUNE 2009 / ISBN 978-0-674-03306-1
APRIL | 6 18 X 9 14 | 24 ILLUS., 17 MAPS | 368 PP.
PAPER: $19.95 * (14.95 UK) | HISTORY
ISBN 978-0-674-06401-0 | EISBN: 978-0-674-05419-6
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Facing Catastrophe
The Lives of the Brain
ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION FOR A

POST-KATRINA WORLD
HUMAN EVOLUTION AND THE ORGAN OF MIND
John S. Allen
Robert R. M. Verchick
In this bold contribution to environmental law, Robert Verchick argues for a new perspective on disaster law that is
based on the principles of environmental protection. He contends that government must assume a
stronger regulatory role in managing natural infrastructure, distributional fairness, and public risk.
Verchick proposes changes to the federal statutes
governing environmental impact assessments, wetlands development, air emissions, and flood control, among others. This is a new vision of disaster
law for the next generation.
M AKES
A COMPELLING CASE FOR REFORMING
DISASTER POLICY , MAKING GOVERNMENT DECISION MAKING MORE TRANSPARENT .
Though we have other distinguishing characteristics

(walking on two legs, for
instance, and relative hairlessness), the brain and the
behavior it produces are
what truly set us apart from
the other apes and primates. And how this threepound organ composed of
water, fat, and protein
turned a mammal species
into the dominant animal
on earth today is the story John S. Allen seeks to tell.
[A LLEN ]
N EW O RLEANS T IMES -P ICAYUNE
PROVIDES THE PERSPECTIVE AND FOUNDATION TO
START THINKING ABOUT BRAIN EVOLUTION IN A MORE

SOPHISTICATED , MULTIDIMENSIONAL FASHION .
T HE
BOOK IS AN IMPORTANT ATTEMPT TO , AMONG OTHER
K ATRINA AND MAKE FROM

THEM A NEW KIND OF NATIONAL POLICY : ONE THAT CAN
CALCULATE THE ECONOMIC VALUE OF NATURAL
INFRASTRUCTURE LIKE L OUISIANA S COASTAL WETLANDS ,
A SIF A. G HAZANFAR , T IMES L ITERARY S UPPLEMENT
THINGS , TAKE THE LESSONS OF
W ONDERFULLY
DISCOVERIES .
WHICH HELP TO DIMINISH THE FEROCITY OF INCOMING
C HET C. S HERWOOD ,
A MERICAN J OURNAL OF P HYSICAL A NTHROPOLOGY
HURRICANES AND CAN USE THAT CALCULATION TO MAKE

SANER COST- BENEFIT DECISIONS ABOUT OUR ENVIRONMENT .
A N
H ARRY S HEARER , H UFFINGTON P OST
ENGAGING ...B ECAUSE OF ITS WIDE SCOPE ,
EVEN EXPERTS IN THE FIELD ARE CERTAIN TO MAKE NEW
ANTIDOTE TO MANY THINGS YOU HAVE READ IN
P INKER .
T YLER C OWEN , M ARGINAL R EVOLUTION . COM

R O B E R T R . M . V E R C H I C K is GauthierSt. Martin
Professor of Environmental Law at Loyola University
New Orleans.
CLOTH: JUNE 2010 / ISBN 978-0-674-04791-4
APRIL | 6 18 X 9 14 | 334 PP.
PAPER: $19.95 * (14.95 UK)
LAW / ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
ISBN 978-0-674-06425-6 | EISBN: 978-0-674-05694-7
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J O H N S . A L L E N is Research Scientist, Dornsife

Cognitive Neuroscience Imaging Center and the Brain
and Creativity Institute, University of Southern
California.
BELKNAP PRESS
PAPER: $19.95 * (14.95 UK) | SCIENCE
ISBN 978-0-674-06405-8 | EISBN: 978-0-674-05349-6
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Habeas Corpus
Continental Divide
FROM ENGLAND TO EMPIRE
HEIDEGGER, CASSIRER, DAVOS
Paul D. Halliday
Peter E. Gordon
A New Statesman Favorite Read of the Year
Jacques Barzun Prize
We call habeas corpus the

Great Writ of Liberty. But
it was actually a writ of
power. In a work based on
an unprecedented study
of thousands of cases
across more than five hundred years, Paul Halliday
provides a sweeping revisionist account of the
worlds most revered legal
device.
[A]
SUPERB HISTORY OF HABEAS CORPUS ...PART LEGAL
ASTONISHES , AND IN THE PROCESS TEACHES US NEW WAYS OF

THINKING ABOUT THE HISTORY OF IDEAS ...A FTER
H EIDEGGER S
[G ORDON S ]
AND
C ASSIRER S
DIFFERENCES TO INIMICAL
HISTORIANS OF MY GENERATION .
CONTRADICTION IN TERMS .
D AVID N IRENBERG , N EW R EPUBLIC
A DRIAN V ERMEULE , N EW R EPUBLIC O NLINE

MONUMENTAL WORK ...F OR ANYONE DEEPLY INTERESTED
IN THESE ISSUES IT PROVIDES AN INVIGORATING BLAST AGAINST
A BOVE
ALL ,
IT CHALLENGES US TO THINK AGAIN ABOUT THE FOUNDATION

STONES OF PERSONAL LIBERTY .
T HE E CONOMIST
[A]
EXTRAORDINARY BOOK ...E ACH OF ITS PAGES OF
PHILOSOPHIES ...G ORDON S MANIFESTO WILL RESONATE WITH
THAT A GRIPPING HISTORY OF A LEGAL WRIT IS NO
RECEIVED IDEAS AND INTELLECTUAL COMPLACENCY .
[A N ]
SUSTAINED PHILOSOPHICAL EXPLICATION EXCITES AND
BRILLIANT READING , WE CAN NO LONGER SIMPLY ASCRIBE
DRAMA , PART SUBTLE CAUSAL ANALYSIS , THIS BOOK PROVES
[A]
In the spring of 1929, Martin Heidegger and Ernst

Cassirer met for a public conversation in Davos,
Switzerland. They were arguably the most important thinkers in Europe, and their exchange
touched upon the most urgent questions in the
history of philosophy. Here, in a reconstruction at
once historical and philosophical, Peter Gordon
reexamines the conversation, its origins and its aftermath.
B Y JUDICIOUSLY RECONSTRUCTING C ASSIRER S AND

H EIDEGGER S ARGUMENTS , G ORDON DEFINITIVELY UNVEILS THE
SUBTLE REFINEMENT OF H EIDEGGER S POSITIONS AND SHOWS
WITH NEW CLARITY THAT THIS STRUGGLE OVER K ANT S LEGACY
HAS RELENTLESSLY UNFOLDED OVER THE 20 TH CENTURY . A
WORK OF EXCEPTIONAL SIGNIFICANCE .
N. L UKACHER , C HOICE
SPLENDID AND IMPORTANT BOOK ...I T CASTS MUCH
BRILLIANT NEW LIGHT ON THE SUBJECT .
L INDA C OLLEY, T IMES L ITERARY S UPPLEMENT

P A U L D . H A L L I D A Y is Professor of History at the
University of Virginia.
BELKNAP PRESS
CLOTH: MARCH 2010 / ISBN 978-0-674-04901-7
APRIL | 6 18 X 9 14 | 512 PP.
PAPER: $21.95 * (16.95 UK) | HISTORY / LAW
ISBN 978-0-674-06420-1 | EISBN: 978-0-674-05647-3
P E T E R E . G O R D O N is Amabel B. James Professor of

History and Harvard College Professor, Harvard
University. He is also a faculty affiliate at the Center for
European Studies and co-chair of the Harvard Colloquium
for Intellectual History.
CLOTH: JUNE 2010 / ISBN 978-0-674-04713-6
FEBRUARY | 6 18 X 9 14 | 1 HALFTONE | 448 PP.
PAPER: $21.95 * (16.95 UK) | PHILOSOPHY / HISTORY
ISBN 978-0-674-06417-1 | EISBN: 978-0-674-05641-1
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Blurring the Color Line
Sexual Reckonings
THE NEW CHANCE FOR A MORE INTEGRATED

AMERICA
SOUTHERN GIRLS IN A TROUBLING AGE
Susan K. Cahn
Richard Alba
Richard Alba argues that the social cleavages that separate Americans into distinct, unequal ethno-racial
groups could narrow dramatically in the coming
decades. In Blurring the Color Line, Alba explores a
future in which socially mobile minorities could blur
stark boundaries and gain much more control over
the social expression of racial differences.
W HEN
IT COMES TO UNDERSTANDING RACIAL CHANGE
AND INTEGRATION IN THE
A LBA
U NITED S TATES , R ICHARD
IS A GROUNDBREAKER .
N ATASHA K UMAR WARIKOO ,

T EACHERS C OLLEGE R ECORD
A
GROUNDBREAKING , ORIGINAL , AND IMPORTANT WORK
WHICH GREATLY ADVANCES AND BROADENS THE DEBATE ON THE

FUTURE MAKEUP OF
A MERICAN
SOCIETY .
A S
PUBLIC POLICY WARS OVER MORALITY RAGE UNABATED ,
THE BODIES OF TEENAGE GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN REMAIN

THE BATTLEGROUND , MAKING THIS BOOK AN URGENT READ .
F RANCE W INDDANCE T WINE , M S .
W ILLIAM H ELMREICH , S OCIETY

A
Sexual Reckonings is the

fascinating tale of adolescent girls coming of age in
the South during the most
explosive decades for the
region. Focusing on the
period from 1920 to 1960,
Susan Cahn reveals how
both the life of the South
and the meaning of adolescence underwent enormous political, economic,
and social shifts.
GUTSY BOOK , ONE THAT FEW SCHOLARS WOULD HAVE
DARED TO WRITE .
F ROM
POOR WHITE GIRLS TARGETED FOR REFORM TO
WARTIME PICKUP GIRLS TO THE ROCK N ROLLER ,
C AHN
GIVES
READERS AN INSIGHTFUL UNDERSTANDING OF HISTORY THAT
C HARLES H IRSCHMAN ,
P OPULATION AND D EVELOPMENT R EVIEW
WILL LEAVE YOU INTRIGUED , INDIGNANT, ENTERTAINED AND

EVEN CONFER VALUE ON ANYONE WHO HAS SUFFERED
INJUSTICES , NOURISHING THE POSSIBILITY FOR CHANGE .
R I C H A R D A L B A is Distinguished Professor of
Sociology, the Graduate Center, City University of
New York.
MARCH | 5 12 X 8 14
3 HALFTONES, 12 FIGURES, 12 TABLES | 320 PP.
PAPER: $21.95X (16.95 UK)
SOCIOLOGY / CURRENT AFFAIRS
ISBN 978-0-674-06470-6 | EISBN: 978-0-674-05348-9
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S OFIA M ARIN , F EMINIST R EVIEW

S U S A N K . C A H N is Professor of History at the State
University of New York, Buffalo.
CLOTH: MAY 2007 / ISBN 978-0-674-02452-6
PAPER: $19.95X (14.95 UK)
HISTORY / WOMEN'S STUDIES
ISBN 978-0-674-06393-8 | EISBN: 978-0-674-02914-9
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Forced to Care
COERCION AND CAREGIVING IN AMERICA
Better Living
through Economics
Evelyn Nakano Glenn
Edited by John J. Siegfried
Finalist, C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the
Study of Social Problems
This important and timely

book illuminates the
source of contradictions
between American beliefs
about the value and
importance of caring in a
good society and the
exploitation and devalued
status of those who actually do the caring.
G LENN
ADVOCATES FOR
Better Living through Economics consists of

twelve case studies that demonstrate how economic research has improved economic and social
conditions over the past half century by influencing public policy decisions.
T HIS
VOLUME SHOULD BE ON THE SHELF OF ANY
SELF - RESPECTING ECONOMIST AND WOULD MAKE FOR A

PERFECT SUPPLEMENTAL TEXT FOR ANY INTRODUCTORY OR
INTERMEDIATE CLASS IN ECONOMICS ...I T IS ALSO WRITTEN AT A
LEVEL ALLOWING PEOPLE WHO ARE ECONOMICALLY ILLITERATE
TO READ WITH ENJOYMENT .
P. S HAW , Choice
BOTH CARE PROVIDERS

AND THOSE RECEIVING
CARE AND USES HER VAST KNOWLEDGE OF THE HISTORY AND
FOUNDATION OF THE PROBLEMS TO OFFER CONCRETE
T HE
CONTRIBUTIONS ARE UNIFORMLY EXCELLENT AND
WRITTEN BY TOP ECONOMISTS .
T YLER C OWEN , M ARGINAL R EVOLUTION . COM
SOLUTIONS TO THE DIFFICULTIES BOTH FACE AS OUR AGING

SOCIETY PUSHES US CLOSER TO A CRISIS IN THE FASTEST
GROWING SEGMENT OF HEALTHCARE IN
J O H N J . S I E G F R I E D is Professor of Economics
Emeritus at Vanderbilt University, and SecretaryTreasurer of the American Economic Association.
A MERICA .
K ARI OD RISCOLL , F EMINIST R EVIEW

[G LENN S ]
EVIDENCE IS COMPELLING AND DEALS WITH A WIDE
VARIETY OF EXAMPLES THAT PROVES HOW COERCION AND

CAREGIVING HAVE GONE HAND IN HAND .
S HE USES EVIDENCE
A FRICAN -A MERICAN WOMEN IN
GENERAL , SLAVERY , N ATIVE -A MERICAN WOMEN , AS WELL AS
W HITE WOMEN .
FROM THE COERCION OF

MARCH | 6 18 X 9 14
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E LIN W EISS , M ETAPSYCHOLOGY

E V E LY N N A K A N O G L E N N is Professor of Womens
Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of
California, Berkeley.
CLOTH: JUNE 2010 / ISBN 978-0-674-04879-9
PAPER: $19.95X (14.95 UK) | SOCIOLOGY
ISBN 978-0-674-06415-7 | EISBN: 978-0-674-05638-1
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Americas Cold War
Latin Americas Cold War
THE POLITICS OF INSECURITY
Hal Brands
Campbell Craig and Fredrik Logevall

In a brilliant new interpretation, Campbell Craig and Fredrik
Logevall reexamine the successes and failures of Americas
Cold War. The United States dealt effectively with the threats
of Soviet predominance in Europe and of nuclear
war in the early years of the conflict. But by engineering this policy, American leaders successfully
paved the way for domestic actors and institutions
with a vested interest in the struggles continuation.
Long after the USSR had been effectively contained,
Washington continued to wage a virulent Cold War
that entailed a massive arms buildup, wars in Korea
and Vietnam, the support of repressive regimes and
counterinsurgencies, and a pronounced militarization of American political culture.
T HIS
IS A CREATIVE , CAREFULLY RESEARCHED , AND
INCISIVE ANALYSIS OF
U.S.
STRATEGY DURING THE
S OVIET U NION . T HERE

ARE PLENTY OF GOOD BOOKS ON THIS TOPIC ALREADY , BUT
C RAIG AND L OGEVALL S IS ONE OF THE BEST, AND THEIR
LONG STRUGGLE AGAINST THE
INTERPRETATION HAS IMPORTANT IMPLICATIONS FOR

CONTEMPORARY STRATEGIC DEBATES .
I T
OR
W HO
L ATIN
DOMESTIC ACTORS .
T RAGICALLY, BOTH THE U NITED S TATES

S OVIET U NION EXACERBATED THE REGION S ALREADY
POLARIZED POLITICS , AND THE ENSUING VIOLENT CLASHES
RENDERED ASUNDER FRAGILE DEMOCRACIES .
AND THE
ENDED THE
C OLD WAR ,
STUDY WILL STAND AS THE DEFINITIVE WORK IN
THE YEARS AHEAD .
J. A. R HODES , C HOICE
G ORBACHEV ?
H. N ELSEN , C HOICE
C A M P B E L L C R A I G is Professor of International
Politics, Aberystwyth University. F R E D R I K L O G E V A L L
is Professor of History at Cornell University.
BELKNAP PRESS
MARCH | 5 12 X 8 14 | 448 PP.
PAPER: $18.95X (14.95 UK) | HISTORY
ISBN 978-0-674-06406-5 | EISBN: 978-0-674-05367-0
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THE TRUE STORY OF
LIES IN THE DYNAMIC
INTERACTIONS BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL FORCES AND
B RANDS S
IS AN EXCELLENT HISTORY , PROVIDING THE BEST
R EAGAN
A S B RANDS PERSUASIVELY ARGUES ,

A MERICA S ROLE IN THE C OLD WAR
R ICHARD F EINBERG , F OREIGN A FFAIRS
S TEPHEN M. W ALT, F OREIGN P OLICY. COM
TREATMENT OF THE QUESTION ,
For Latin America, the Cold

War was anything but cold.
Nor was it the so-called
long peace afforded the
worlds superpowers by
their nuclear standoff. In
this book, the first to take
an international perspective
on the postwar decades in
the region, Hal Brands sets
out to explain what exactly
happened in Latin America
during the Cold War, and
why it was so traumatic.
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H A L B R A N D S is Assistant Professor of Public Policy

and History at the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke
University. He is also the author of From Berlin to
Baghdad.
ISBN 978-0-674-06427-0 | EISBN: 978-0-674-05843-9
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Out of Athens
A Bull of a Man
THE NEW ANCIENT GREEKS
IMAGES OF MASCULINITY, SEX, AND

THE BODY IN INDIAN BUDDHISM
Page duBois
John Powers
The iconoclast of Classics, Page duBois refuses to act as border patrol for a sometimes fiercely protected traditional discipline. Instead, she incorporates insights from postcolonial,
psychoanalytic, and postmodern theories into her nuanced
close readings of ancient Greek texts.Out of Athens sets
ancient Greek culture next to the global ancient world of
Vedic India, the Han dynasty in China, and the empires that
survived Alexander the Great. DuBois establishes a daring
agenda for the next generation of Classicists.
I F
WE ARE NOW PART OF AN INCREASINGLY GLOBAL CULTURE ,
G REEK AND ROMAN CIVILIZATIONS IN

D U B OIS CALLS ON CLASSICAL SPECIALISTS
IT BEHOOVES US TO SEE
A GLOBALIST LIGHT .
TO BE TOLERANT OF THE
INADEQUATE GRASP
CRUCIAL ,
INFLUENTIAL ,
F OR
THE FIRST TIME ,
P OWERS S
STUDY PRESENTS
US WITH A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON THE
B UDDHA
AS AN
IDEAL , PERFECT MAN FOR OTHERS TO EMULATE

THROUGH HIS CAREFUL EXAMINATION OF MASCULINITY IN
I NDIAN B UDDHIST
LITERATURES .
G UANG X ING , A MERICAN H ISTORICAL R EVIEW

P OWERS PLOTS THE WAYS IN WHICH MASCULINITY AND THE
I NDIAN B UDDHIST PATH ARE DISCURSIVELY INTERTWINED , AND
HE OFFERS EXPLANATIONS FOR AN I NDIAN B UDDHIST
DISCOURSE OF MASCULINITY THAT MANY HAVE IGNORED OR
CONTEMPORARY
THEORISTS MAY HAVE OF
ANCIENT LANGUAGES AND
TECHNICAL SCHOLARSHIP,
AND TO BE OPEN TO THEIR
PERSPECTIVES ON THE
PAST, INCLUDING THEIR
PRODUCTIVE MISREADINGS .
A ND
The androgynous, asexual Buddha of contemporary popular imagination stands in stark contrast
to the muscular, virile, and sensual figure presented in Indian Buddhist texts.
SHE DEMONSTRATES
TO ALL READERS , WITHOUT

USING MATHEMES , THE
FOUND COUNTERINTUITIVE .
A MY PARIS L ANGENBERG , J OURNAL
OF
A SIAN S TUDIES
A N EXCEPTIONAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE FIELD OF I NDIAN

B UDDHIST S TUDIES . T HE MAIN ARGUMENT IS SIMPLE , AND YET
SCHOLARS IN THE FIELD HAVE CONSISTENTLY MISSED IT FOR
DECADES .
P OWERS
CENTRAL THEME IN
HAS MANAGED TO PUT HIS FINGER ON A
B UDDHIST
LITERATURE THAT HAS EVADED
THE MAJORITY OF US .
VANESSA S ASSON , J OURNAL
OF
B UDDHIST E THICS
IMPORTANT INSIGHTS TO
BE GAINED BY SUCH NEW WAYS OF LOOKING AT CLASSICAL
CULTURE AND HISTORY .
T OM PALAIMA , T IMES H IGHER E DUCATION

P A G E D U B O I S is Distinguished Professor of Classics
and Comparative Literature at the University of
California, San Diego.
J O H N P O W E R S is Professor in Asian Studies at the

College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National
University.
CLOTH: JUNE 2009 / ISBN 978-0-674-03329-0
PAPER: $22.50X (16.95 UK)
RELIGION / GENDER STUDIES
ISBN 978-0-674-06403-4 | EISBN: 978-0-674-05443-1

APRIL | 6 18 X 9 14 | 256 PP.
PAPER: $18.95X (14.95 UK) | CLASSICS
ISBN 978-0-674-06407-2 | EISBN: 978-0-674-05376-2
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Selling Sounds
Why Race Matters in

South Africa
THE COMMERCIAL REVOLUTION IN

AMERICAN MUSIC
Michael MacDonald
David Suisman
Vincent P. DeSantis Prize, Society for Historians of
the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Hagley Prize in Business History

ARSC Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound
Research
This book tells the story of how the transition to democracy

in South Africa enfranchised blacks politically but without
raising most of them from poverty. It shows in detail how
the continuing strength of the white establishment forces the
leaders of the African National Congress (ANC) to compromise plans for full political and economic transformation.

W HY R ACE M ATTERS
From Tin Pan Alley to grand opera, player-pianos to

phonograph records, David Suisman explores the
rise of music as big business and the creation of a
radically new musical culture. Provocative, original,
and lucidly written, Selling Sounds reveals the commercial architecture of Americas musical life.
IS AN EXPOSURE OF THE INTIMATE LINK
BETWEEN RACIALISM AND POLITICAL ECONOMIC POWER , HOW IN
N EVILLE A LEXANDER S
WORDS , A NONRACIAL CAPITALISM IS
IMPOSSIBLE , AS IT IS ALSO A DEVASTATING CRITIQUE OF THE

LIMITATIONS OF LIBERAL NON - RACIALISM , CONCEIVED AS THE
REPRESENTATION
OF IDENTITIES .
B UT
IS IT ALSO , FOR
POLITICAL THEORISTS , A
PARADIGMATIC CASE STUDY
FASCINATING , WELL- WRITTEN , RICHLY DETAILED ...

[S UISMAN ] IS AMAZINGLY WIDE - RANGING .
W ILLIAM F. G AVIN , W ASHINGTON T IMES
OF A FUTURE PERFECT ( NOT

SUBJUNCTIVE ) POLITICS OF
THE IMPOSSIBLE , AN
EMPIRICAL ENACTMENT OF A
W ELL- RESEARCHED
AND BEAUTIFULLY DOCUMENTED ,
NON - RACIALISM TO COME .
REPLETE WITH BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATIONS AND
D IANE R UBENSTEIN ,
P OLITICAL T HEORY
PHOTOGRAPHS , THIS BOOK BELONGS ON THE SHELF

OF ANY READER SERIOUS ABOUT POPULAR MUSIC .
C HADWICK J ENKINS , P OP M ATTERS
TOUR DE FORCE ...A
RICH , SUBTLE , AND
S UISMAN
KICKS THE LEGS OUT FROM THE ROMANTIC ACCOUNT
ANALYTICALLY POWERFUL
OF THE MUSIC INDUSTRY S INNOCENT START AND SLOW MOVE
ACCOUNT OF THE
TO COMMERCIAL HEARTLESSNESS .
PERSISTENCE OF RACE IN
POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC SYSTEMS THAT ARE OSTENSIBLY
J. G ABRIEL B OYLAN , T HE N ATION
RACE - BLIND .
D A V I D S U I S M A N is Associate Professor of History at

the University of Delaware.
CLOTH: MAY 2009 / ISBN 978-0-674-03337-5
PAPER: $19.95X (14.95 UK) | MUSIC / HISTORY
ISBN 978-0-674-06404-1 | EISBN: 978-0-674-05468-4
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C OURTNEY J UNG , C OMPARATIV

M I C H A E L M A C D O N A L D is Frederick L. Schuman
Professor of International Relations at Williams College.
CLOTH: APRIL 2006 / ISBN 978-0-674-02186-0
MARCH | 6 18 X 9 14 | 1 TABLE | 256 PP.
PAPER: $19.95X / OSAF (14.95 UK)
HISTORY / POLITICS | ISBN 978-0-674-06389-1
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The Ecological Thought
Self-Knowledge and
Resentment
Timothy Morton
In this passionate, lucid, and surprising book, Timothy Morton argues that all forms of life are connected in a vast, entangling mesh. This interconnectedness penetrates all
dimensions of life. No being, construct, or object can exist
independently from the ecological entanglement, Morton
contends, nor does Nature exist as an entity separate from
the uglier or more synthetic elements of life.
M ORTON
HAS A UNIQUE TAKE ON ECOLOGY THAT CHALLENGES
MUCH OF THE ALTERNATIVE CONSCIOUSNESS THAT FLOATS

AROUND ON THE
Akeel Bilgrami argues that self-knowledge of our

intentional states is special among all the knowledges we have because it is not an epistemological
notion in the standard sense of that term, but
instead is a fallout of the radically normative
nature of thought and agency.
B ILGRAMI S
BOOK PROVIDES MANY INTERESTING
ARGUMENTS WOVEN TOGETHER IN AN INTRICATE APPROACH TO

THE NOTION OF SELF - KNOWLEDGE , AND IT PROVIDES AN
PERIPHERY OF
IMPORTANT AND CAREFUL ACCOUNT OF A NORMATIVE AND
ENVIRONMENTAL CIRCLES .
HE
Akeel Bilgrami
OFFERS A PROFOUND
ANTI - NATURALIST APPROACH TO AGENCY AND

INTENTIONALITY .
TAKE ON HUMAN
M ARKUS S CHLOSSER , P HILOSOPHICAL Q UARTERLY
POSSIBILITIES .
T IKKUN
B ILGRAMI S
BOOK IS A DEEP AND PAINSTAKING PURSUIT OF A
PROJECT SPANNING SOME OF THE LARGEST THEMES IN
M ORTON
PROPOSES A
PHILOSOPHY , SHOWING HOW THEY MIGHT BEAR ON SELF -
FUTURE IN WHICH THE
KNOWLEDGE .
VENERABLE IDEAS OF
AS AN ISOLATED ISSUE , THIS BOOK IS A GREAT ANTIDOTE .
NATURE AND
ENVIRONMENT
ARE SO
W ERE
ONE INCLINED TO SEE SELF - KNOWLEDGE
K RISTA L AWLOR , M IND
MUCH DETRITUS , USELESS

FOR ADDRESSING A
LOOMING ECOLOGICAL
CATASTROPHE .
H IS
BOOK EXEMPLIFIES THE SERIOUS
HUMANITIES SCHOLARSHIP HE MAKES A PLEA FOR .
N OEL C ASTREE , T IMES H IGHER E DUCATION

T I M O T H Y M O R T O N is Professor of Literature and
Environment at the University of California, Davis. He is
the author of Ecology without Nature, The Poetics of Spice,
and Shelley and the Revolution in Taste, and the editor of
The Cambridge Companion to Shelley.
A K E E L B I L G R A M I is Johnsonian Professor of
Philosophy at Columbia University and the author of
Belief and Meaning.
MARCH | 6 18 X 9 14 | 416 PP.
PAPER: $24.95X (18.95 UK) | PHILOSOPHY
ISBN 978-0-674-06452-2
CLOTH: APRIL 2010 / ISBN 978-0-674-04920-8

APRIL | 6 18 X 9 14 | 184 PP.
PAPER: $19.95X (14.95 UK)
PHILOSOPHY / ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
ISBN 978-0-674-06422-5 | EISBN: 978-0-674-05673-2
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Endocrinology of Social
Relationships
Life and Action

ELEMENTARY STRUCTURES OF PRACTICE AND
PRACTICAL THOUGHT
Edited by Peter T. Ellison and

Peter B. Gray
Michael
Thompson
This book, a rare melding of human and animal research and

theoretical and empirical science, ventures into the most
interesting realms of behavioral biology to examine the intimate role of endocrinology in social relationships.
A S
THE EDITORS POINT OUT, WE ARE ALL BEING
EXPOSED , LIKE IT OR NOT, TO HORMONES IN THE

ENVIRONMENT AND TO ADS FULL OF CLAIMS ABOUT
THE BENEFITS OF ADMINISTERING HORMONES .
WE
NEED TO UNDERSTAND HOW SUCH HORMONES MIGHT
( OR
MIGHT NOT ) BE AFFECTING SOCIAL
RELATIONSHIPS .
W ILL
SPRAYING ON SOME OXYTOCIN
MAKE YOUR COLLEAGUES LIKE YOU ?

BUT READING
E NDOCRINOLOGY
R ELATIONSHIPS
OF
P ROBABLY
S OCIAL
NOT,
PRODUCED WARM FEELINGS ABOUT
Any sound practical philosophy must be clear on practical conceptsconcepts,

in particular, of life, action,
and practice. This clarity is
Michael Thompsons aim
in his ambitious work. In
Thompsons view, failure
to comprehend the structures of thought and judgment expressed in these concepts has disfigured modern
moral philosophy, rendering it incapable of addressing the
larger questions that should be its focus.
THE ABILITY OF GOOD SCIENCE TO ILLUMINATE THE
A N
HUMAN CONDITION .
E LIZABETH A DKINS -R EGAN , S CIENCE

I N
THE PAST
15
YEARS , THERE HAVE BEEN MANY STUDIES
PUBLISHED ON THE TOPIC OF HORMONES ROLES IN SOCIAL

RELATIONSHIPS , BUT NEVER BEFORE HAS THERE BEEN ONE
EXCEPTIONAL PIECE OF PHILOSOPHY THAT IS A RESERVOIR
OF DEEP INSIGHTS CONCERNING LIFE , ACTION , AND PRACTICES
...T HOMPSON S
THEORY OF ACTION IS DAZZLING DEEP,
ORIGINAL , REVOLUTIONARY , AND IN CERTAIN RESPECTS
(I
SUSPECT ) JUST PLAIN RIGHT .
PAUL H URLEY, N OTRE D AME P HILOSOPHICAL R EVIEWS
DEFINITIVE VOLUME THAT REVIEWS THE ENTIRE AREA WITH
O NE
SUCH A HIGH DEGREE OF ACCURACY .
M ARYANNE F ISHER , E VOLUTIONARY P SYCHOLOGY

P E T E R T . E L L I S O N is John Cowles Professor of
Anthropology and Human Evolutionary Biology at
Harvard University. P E T E R B . G R A Y is Associate
Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nevada,
Las Vegas.
MARCH | 6 18 X 9 14
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OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS TO APPEAR IN
PHILOSOPHY IN A GENERATION ...I F THE PHILOSOPHICAL

UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN LIFE MATTERS TO YOU , THIS BOOK
IS ABSOLUTELY REQUIRED READING .
J ONATHAN L EAR , U NIVERSITY
OF
C HICAGO
M I C H A E L T H O M P S O N is Professor of Philosophy at
the University of Pittsburgh.
CLOTH: JUNE 2008 / ISBN 978-0-674-01670-5
MARCH | 6 18 X 9 14 | 1 TABLE | 240 PP.
PAPER: $22.95X (16.95 UK) | PHILOSOPHY
ISBN 978-0-674-06398-3 | EISBN: 978-0-674-03396-2
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Thinking Like a Lawyer
Beyond Justice
A NEW INTRODUCTION TO LEGAL REASONING
THE AUSCHWITZ TRIAL
Frederick Schauer
Rebecca Wittmann
This primer on legal reasoning is aimed at law

students and upper-level
undergraduates. But it is
also an original exposition
of basic legal concepts
that scholars and lawyers
will find stimulating. It
covers such topics as
rules, precedent, authority, analogical reasoning,
the common law, statutory interpretation, legal
realism, judicial opinions, legal facts, and burden of proof.
Fraenkel Prize, Wiener Library
WELCOME COMPLEMENT TO
[E DWARD ] L EVI S
APPROACH ,
In 1963, West Germany was gripped by a dramatic trial of former guards who had worked at
the Nazi death camp Auschwitz. It was the largest
and most public trial to take place in the country
and attracted international attention. Using the
pretrial files and extensive trial audiotapes,
Rebecca Wittmann offers a fascinating reinterpretation of Germanys first major attempt to confront
its past.
A S
THE MOST THOROUGH STUDY OF ONE OF THE MOST
IMPORTANT , THOUGH ULTIMATELY VEXED , TRIALS OF THE

TWENTIETH CENTURY ,
B EYOND J USTICE
IS SOMETHING OF A
LANDMARK THAT DESERVES A WIDE READING .
J EFFREY K. O LICK , E THICS & I NTERNATIONAL A FFAIRS
AS WELL AS BEING EASIER FOR THE LEGAL NOVICE TO
AND SCHOLAR USEFUL PERSPECTIVE ON WHAT HE OR SHE
T HE LONG
A USCHWITZ
DOES .
BOOK PROVIDES A REFRESHING CORRECTIVE TO PREVIOUS
UNDERSTAND .
Y ET S CHAUER
BOOK ALSO OFFERS THE LAWYER
SCHOLARLY CLAIMS ABOUT THE IMPACT OF THE
B RIAN L EITER , T IMES L ITERARY S UPPLEMENT

T HINKING L IKE
L AWYER
WAIT FOR A DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE

TRIAL HAS PROVED WORTHWHILE ...W ITTMANN S
TRIAL .
IS EXCELLENT READING MATERIAL
T HROUGH
A USCHWITZ
HER CAREFUL AND IMMENSELY DETAILED
ANALYSIS OF THE PROCEEDINGS ,
W ITTMANN
OFFERS NEW
FOR ANYONE WISHING A DEEPER AND MORE NUANCED EVEN A
EVIDENCE OF THE TRIAL S IMPACT UPON THE
MORE MAGNANIMOUS UNDERSTANDING OF THE MOTIVATIONS
PEOPLE , AND THE EXTENT TO WHICH IT REALLY CAN BE SAID TO
W EST G ERMAN
BEHIND LAW S OFTEN CONVOLUTED PRONOUNCEMENTS .
HAVE ALTERED POPULAR ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE
N AZI
PAST .
C AROLINE S HARPLES , H-N ET
J OHN A ZZOLINI , L AW L IBRARY J OURNAL

F R E D E R I C K S C H A U E R is David and Mary Harrison
Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of
Virginia School of Law.
CLOTH: APRIL 2009 / ISBN 978-0-674-03270-5
APRIL | 6 18 X 9 14 | 256 PP.
PAPER: $19.95X (14.95 UK) | LAW
ISBN 978-0-674-06248-1 | EISBN: 978-0-674-05456-1
R E B E C C A W I T T M A N N is Associate Professor of
History at the University of Toronto at Mississauga.
CLOTH: MAY 2005 / ISBN 978-0-674-01694-1
MARCH | 5 12 X 8 14
6 HALFTONES, 1 LINE ILLUS. | 360 PP.
ISBN 978-0-674-06387-7 | EISBN: 978-0-674-04529-3
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Framing Contract Law
Fractured Rebellion
AN ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE
THE BEIJING RED GUARD MOVEMENT
Victor Goldberg
Andrew G. Walder
The central theme of this book is that an economic frameworkincorporating such concepts as information asymmetry, moral hazard, and adaptation to changed
circumstancesis appropriate for contract interpretation, analyzing contract disputes, and developing contract doctrine. The value of the approach
is demonstrated through the close analysis of major
contract cases. In many of the cases, had the court
(and the litigators) understood the economic context, the analysis and results would have been very
different.
Barrington Moore Award, American Sociological

Association
Fractured Rebellion is the

first full-length account of
the evolution of Chinas Red
Guard Movement in Beijing.
T HE
BOOK IS WITHOUT
DOUBT ONE OF THE GREATEST

BREAKTHROUGHS IN
RESEARCH ON THE
T HIS
IS THE MOST STIMULATING AND INTERESTING
BOOK ON CONTRACT LAW THAT
HAVE COME ACROSS
IN MANY YEARS . I T IS FULL OF SURPRISES .
R EVOLUTION
C ULTURAL
PUBLISHED
DURING THE PAST THREE

DECADES AND SHOULD BE
J OSEPH M. P ERILLO , C ONTRACTS P ROF B LOG
READ BY ANYONE INTERESTED

IN THE HISTORY OF MASS
T HIS
STIMULATING BOOK SHOULD BE PLACED ON
THE TOP OF THE READING STACK FOR EVERYONE WHO STUDIES
MOVEMENTS AND MODERN
C HINESE
HISTORY .
D ANIEL L EESE , C HINA Q UARTERLY
CONTRACT LAW ALONG WITH THOSE WHO STRUCTURE OR

LITIGATE DEALS FOR A LIVING .
G OLDBERG
IS AN ADEPT LEGAL
UNEARTHING OLD COURT DOCUMENTS , OBSCURE BUSINESS

RELATIONSHIP, AND FORGOTTEN FAMILY HISTORIES .
HE
IS A
MASTER STORYTELLER MANY OF THE CHAPTERS FLOW MORE

LIKE A
B OOKER P RIZE
NOVEL THAN DRY LEGAL COMMENTARY .
G EORGE S. G EIS , U NIVERSITY
OF
C HICAGO L AW R EVIEW
V I C T O R G O L D B E R G is Jerome L. Greene Professor of

Transactional Law at Columbia Law School.
MARCH | 6 18 X 9 14 | 5 TABLES | 424 PP.
PAPER: $29.95X (22.95 UK) | LAW
ISBN 978-0-674-06392-1
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LITTLE RESEARCH HAS BEEN CONDUCTED ABOUT THE
FASCINATING , CONFUSING UPHEAVALS THAT SHOOK
ARCHEOLOGIST WHO HAS DONE A WONDERFUL JOB OF
u n i v e r s i t y
C HINA
G REAT P ROLETARIAN C ULTURAL R EVOLUTION OF
196668. N OW , FOUR DECADES AFTER THE MASS FIGHTING
WAS SUPPRESSED , A NDREW W ALDER HELPS TO FILL IMPORTANT
GAPS IN OUR KNOWLEDGE .
DURING THE
J ONATHAN U NGER , C HINA J OURNAL

A N D R E W G . W A L D E R is Denise OLeary and Kent
Thiry Professor of Sociology and a Senior Fellow,
Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies,
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index
Abolitionist Imagination, 38
Accidental City, 9
Action, Contemplation, and Happiness, 54
adams, Diary and Autobiographical, 63
adams, Papers of John Adams, 63
Africa Speaks, America Answers, 18
Against Obligation, 68
alba, Blurring the Color Line, 100
allen, Lives of the Brain, 98
allen, Omnivorous Mind, 6
Americas Cold War, 102
American Homicide, 96
Among the Powers of the Earth, 62
anand, Cost of Inaction, 72
Ancient Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks, 77
Ancient Middle Classes, 65
Anthropology at Harvard, 79
Art of Urbanism, 78
Aspects of History and Epic in Ancient Iran, 81
Assumptions Economists Make, 27
bacevich, Short American Century, 14
bann, Interlacing Words and Things, 76
barker, Conquest, 17
barm, Forbidden City, 93
bashir, Under the Drones, 34
baz, When Words Are Called For, 52
Beauty without the Breast, 70
bell, We Shall Be No More, 60
bennette, Fighting for the Soul of Germany, 58
berkho, Motherland in Danger, 57
Berlin-Baghdad Express, 86
Better Living through Economics, 101
Beyond Justice, 107
bilgrami, Self-Knowledge and Resentment, 105
bindman, Image of the Black in Western Art, 30
Blurring the Color Line, 100
bolton, Worlds of Dissent, 59
Born TogetherReared Apart, 56
boyd, Why Lyrics Last, 35
brands, Latin Americas Cold War, 102
browman, Anthropology at Harvard, 79
brown, Testing Prayer, 37
Buddhas of Bamiyan, 29
Bull of a Man, 103
burt, In the Whirlwind, 26
cahn, Sexual Reckonings, 100
Capitalism from Below, 66
card, World of Insects, 83
Chinas Cosmopolitan Empire, 97
Closing the Cancer Divide, 71
Colors Between Two Worlds, 82
Commentary on De Administrando Imperio, 78
Confederate Reckoning, 86
connelly, From Enemy to Brother, 44
Conquest, 17
Continental Divide, 99
Continuous Revolution, 73
cornwall, Devils Wall, 57
Cost of Inaction, 72
craig, Americas Cold War, 102
Creation of Inequality, 40
Crimes of Elagabalus, 25
dabashi, Shiism, 91
delbanco, Abolitionist Imagination, 38
Detective Fiction and the Rise of, 75
Devils Wall, 57
Diary and Autobiographical Writings of, 63
Dictionary of American Regional English, 12
Dignity, 43
donner, Muhammad and the Believers, 84
dorsen, Henry Friendly, Greatest Judge, 28
dreyfus, Wagner and the Erotic Impulse, 94
dubois, Out of Athens, 103
dumbarton Oaks Medieval library, 46
dunn, Roosevelts Purge, 90
Ecological Thought, 105
eksteins, Solar Dance, 2

ellison, Endocrinology of Social, 106
elytis, Oxopetra Elegies and West of Sorrow, 80
Emancipating Lincoln, 39
Empire of the Dharma, 74
Endocrinology of Social Relationships, 106
engonopoulos, Selected Poems, 80
Export Pioneers in Latin America, 72
Facing Catastrophe, 98
Fash, Art of Urbanism, 78
Fatherhood, 95
Feldman, Rethinking Patent Law, 69
Fighting for the Soul of Germany, 58
Financing Health in Latin America, 71
First Crusade, 3
Flannery, Creation of Inequality, 40
Forbidden City, 93
Forced to Care, 101
Ford, London, 10
Frster, Twenty-Five Years of Philosophy, 53
Fractured Rebellion, 108
Framing Contract Law, 108
Frankopan, First Crusade, 3
Freedom and the Arts, 21
Freedom Papers, 32
From Enemy to Brother, 44
From Kant to Husserl, 53
Fujiki, Making Personas, 74
gere, Tomb of Agamemnon, 92
glenn, Forced to Care, 101
Godly Republicanism, 65
goldberg, Framing Contract Law, 108
gordon, Continental Divide, 99
gordon, Invisible War, 94
Gothicka, 11
gould, Among the Powers of the Earth, 62
gray, Fatherhood, 95
green, Moses Monteore, 87
green, Thirteen Ways to Steal a Bicycle, 69
greene, Against Obligation, 68
grindle, Jobs for the Boys, 67
Habeas Corpus, 99
hall, Dictionary of American Regional, 12
halliday, Habeas Corpus, 99
han, Imperial Path to Modernity, 75
Harm in Hate Speech, 19
harris, Trusting What Youre Told, 16
Henry Friendly, Greatest Judge of His Era, 28
holzer, Emancipating Lincoln, 39
How to Defeat the Saracens, 76
huang, Picturing the True Form, 73
Hunters, Carvers, and Collectors, 79
icks, Crimes of Elagabalus, 25
Image of the Black in Western Art, 30
Imperial Path to Modernity, 75
In Doubt, 67
In the Whirlwind, 26
ingraham, March of the Microbes, 88
Interlacing Words and Things, 76
Internal Time, 20
Invisible War, 94
Is American Science in Decline?, 64
isaac, Working Knowledge, 64
i tatti renaissance library, 50
Jenkins, Commentary on De, 78
Jobs for the Boys, 67
kahrl, Land Was Ours, 61
kelley, Africa Speaks, America Answers, 18
kim, Empire of the Dharma, 74
knaul, Beauty without the Breast, 70
knaul, Closing the Cancer Divide, 71
knaul, Financing Health in Latin America, 71
kogman-appel, Mahzor from Worms, 55
labaree, Someone Has to Fail, 96
Land Was Ours, 61
Last Pre-Raphaelite, 15
Last Utopia, 90
Latin Americas Cold War, 102
leitenberg, Soviet Biological Weapons, 58
levin becker, Many Subtle Channels, 23
levinson, No Citizen Left Behind, 22
levmore, Oensive Internet, 88
lewis, Chinas Cosmopolitan Empire, 97
Life and Action, 106
Lives of the Brain, 98
loeb classical library, 48
London, 10
lutz, Hunters, Carvers, and Collectors, 79
Maccarthy, Last Pre-Raphaelite, 15
Macdonald, Why Race Matters in South, 104
Mack, Representing the Race, 42
Maclean, Scholarship, Commerce, Religion, 55
Mahzor from Worms, 55
Making Personas, 74
Many Subtle Channels, 23
March of the Microbes, 88
Marcus, New Literary History of America, 85
Marcus, Rational Causation, 54
Mayer, Ancient Middle Classes, 65
Mccurry, Confederate Reckoning, 86
McMeekin, Berlin-Baghdad Express, 86
Miller, St. Peters, 93
Mitchell, Seeing Through Race, 36
Mitov, Sensitive Matter, 41
Mittler, Continuous Revolution, 73
Moore, War on Heresy, 8
More than Real, 61
Morgan, Buddhas of Bamiyan, 29
Morrisson, Trade and Markets in Byzantium, 77
Morton, Ecological Thought, 105
Moses Monteore, 87
Motherland in Danger, 57
Moyn, Last Utopia, 90
Muhammad and the Believers, 84
Music and Cultural Politics in Greek and, 81
nee, Capitalism from Below, 66
nelson, Gothicka, 11
New Literary History of America, 85
New Religious Intolerance, 4
No Citizen Left Behind, 22
no, Varieties of Presence, 52
Nuclear Forces, 24
nussbaum, New Religious Intolerance, 4
nusseibeh, What Is a Palestinian State, 91
Oensive Internet, 88
Omnivorous Mind, 6
Out of Athens, 103
Oxopetra Elegies and West of Sorrow, 80
Owen, Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents, 33
Papers of John Adams, 63
Parsons, From Kant to Husserl, 53
Petroski, To Forgive Design, 1
Philosophy in an Age of Science, 51
Picturing the True Form, 73
Pillsbury, Ancient Maya Art at Dumbarton, 77
Pope and Devil, 87
Powell, Accidental City, 9
Powers, Bull of a Man, 103
Prefaces to Shakespeare, 84
Putnam, Philosophy in an Age of Science, 51
raensperger, Reimagining Europe, 60
Rational Causation, 54
ray, Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of, 92
reeve, Action, Contemplation, and, 54
Reimagining Europe, 60
Representing the Race, 42
Reshaping the Work-Family Debate, 95
Rethinking Patent Law, 69
Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life, 33
Rise of Nuclear Fear, 89
roenneberg, Internal Time, 20
Roosevelts Purge, 90
rosen, Dignity, 43
rosen, Freedom and the Arts, 21
Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of, 92
roth, American Homicide, 96
Routes of War, 62
sabel, Export Pioneers in Latin America, 72
saito, Detective Fiction and the Rise, 75
schauer, Thinking Like a Lawyer, 107
schlefer, Assumptions Economists Make, 27
Scholarship, Commerce, Religion, 55
schweber, Nuclear Forces, 24
scott, Freedom Papers, 32
Seeing Through Race, 36
segal, Born TogetherReared Apart, 56
Selected Poems of Engonopoulos, 80
Self-Knowledge and Resentment, 105
Selling Sounds, 104
Sensitive Matter, 41
Sexual Reckonings, 100
shayegan, Aspects of History and Epic in, 81
shepherd, Terror in the Balkans, 59
Shiism, 91
Short American Century, 14
shulman, More than Real, 61
siegfried, Better Living through Economics, 101
simon, In Doubt, 67
Slavery in Indian Country, 97
snyder, Slavery in Indian Country, 97
Solar Dance, 2
Someone Has to Fail, 96
Soviet Biological Weapons Program, 58
St. Peters, 93
sternhell, Routes of War, 62
Stranger Magic, 7
Stylish Academic Writing, 45
suisman, Selling Sounds, 104
sword, Stylish Academic Writing, 45
tanner, Prefaces to Shakespeare, 84
Terror in the Balkans, 59
Testing Prayer, 37
Thinking Like a Lawyer, 107
Thirteen Ways to Steal a Bicycle, 69
thompson, Life and Action, 106
To Forgive Design, 1
Tomb of Agamemnon, 92
Trade and Markets in Byzantium, 77
Trusting What Youre Told, 16
Twenty-Five Years of Philosophy, 53
Under the Drones, 34
Varieties of Presence, 52
Verchick, Facing Catastrophe, 98
Wagner and the Erotic Impulse, 94
Walder, Fractured Rebellion, 108
Waldron, Harm in Hate Speech, 19
War on Heresy, 8
Warner, Stranger Magic, 7
We Shall Be No More, 60
Weart, Rise of Nuclear Fear, 89
What Is a Palestinian State Worth?, 91
When Words Are Called For, 52
Why Lyrics Last, 35
Why Race Matters in South Africa, 104
William of adam, How to Defeat the, 76
Williams, Reshaping the Work-Family, 95
Winship, Godly Republicanism, 65
Wittmann, Beyond Justice, 107
Wolf, Colors Between Two Worlds, 82
Wolf, Pope and Devil, 87
Working Knowledge, 64
World of Insects, 83
Worlds of Dissent, 59
xie, Is American Science in Decline?, 64
Yatromanolakis, Music and Cultural, 81
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HARVARD

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of people and machines within systems whose complex behav-

the Aleksandar S. Vesic

ior was undreamt of by their designers, until it was too late.

Petroski shows that even the simplest technology is embedded

in cultural and socioeconomic constraints, complications, and

ing the interconnectedness of technology and culture and the

from Thought to Thing

unprecedented commercial value. It also called into question a

world of defined values and standards that had already begun to

lessnessthat spoke to them directly. Eksteins shows how the

The First Crusade

DAZZLING BOOK , PERFECTLY COMBINING DEEP SCHOLARSHIP AND EASY READABILITY .

MOST IMPORTANT ADDITION TO

J OHN J ULIUS N ORWICH ,

book, countering nearly a millennium of scholarship, Peter

Fellow and Faculty

Nearly all historians of the First Crusade focus on the

merable popular tales of bravery, tragedy, and resilience. In

sharp contrast, Frankopan examines events from the East, in

The New Religious Intolerance

other emotions. Legitimate anxieties become distorted

Ethics at the University of

and displaced, driving laws and policies biased against

Chicago and author of Not

those different from us. Overcoming intolerance requires

for Profit: Why Democracy

consistent application of universal principles of respect

Needs the Humanities.

for conscience. Just as important, it requires greater

ers what we demand for ourselves. She encourages us to

expand our capacity for empathetic imagination by cul-

tivating our curiosity, seeking friendship across religious

lines, and establishing a consistent ethic of decency and

civility. With this greater understanding and respect,

The Clash Within

Nussbaum argues, we can rise above the politics of fear

on questions of tolerance and of secularism?

The Omnivorous Mind

FEAST OF FRESH IDEAS ABOUT OUR EATING HABITS .

FASCINATING REFLECTION ON THE DEEP MEANINGS OF FOOD .

food in the way Homo sapiens does. We are superomnivores

whose palates reflect the natural history of our species.

Drawing on the work of food historians and chefs,

temporary foodies. The Omnivorous Mind delivers insights

into food aversions and cravings, our compulsive need to label

The Lives of the

foods as good or bad, dietary deviation from healthy food

pyramids, and cross-cultural attitudes toward eating (with the

Evolution and the

French, bien sr, exemplifying the pursuit of gastronomic

To explain, for example, the worldwide popularity of

B LONDE : O N FAIRY TALES

M ARGARET ATWOOD , L OS A NGELES T IMES B OOK R EVIEW

Our foremost theorist of myth, fairy tales, and folktales explores

the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly, objects

The War on Heresy

RE - ENTERS THE TERRITORY OF

MEDIEVAL COMPETITION FOR THEOLOGICAL ORTHODOXY ; WHEREVER HE VENTURES , HE

J AMES S IMPSON , H ARVARD U NIVERSITY

beyond, and violent persecutions of the accused left an indeli-

ble mark. Yet, as R. I. Moore suggests, the version of these

events that has come down to us may be more propaganda