2012 New Books in
American History
Harvard University Press
New
A MERIC AN O RACLE
The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era
DAVID W. BLIGHT
David Blight takes his readers back to the Civil War’s centennial celebration to
determine how Americans made sense of the suffering, loss, and liberation a century earlier. He shows how four of America’s most incisive writers—Robert Penn
Warren, Bruce Catton, Edmund Wilson, and James Baldwin—explored the gulf
between remembrance and reality.
“[Blight] gives us more than a history lesson: he presents an introspective journey into America’s most complex and enigmatic historical event through the
minds of four exceptional storytellers. He offers us the opportunity to revisit a monumental tragedy
and thereby invites us to probe its meaning. If we do, we will not only be reacquainted with a defining American moment but we will also learn more about who America is, and why.”
—JAMES T. CROUSE, TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION
“This is a distinctive addition to the books about the Civil War and how we view it on the conflict’s
150th anniversary.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“David W. Blight’s richly interpretive American Oracle contextualizes the sentimentalized celebration
of the Civil War in the early 1960s within the tense realities of the civil rights era and the Cold War.
Blight unravels the complexities of Civil War memory and meaning at a time when most white Americans considered restoration of the Union, not emancipation, as the war’s grand result.”
—JOHN DAVID SMITH, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
“History and great literature blend beautifully as Blight conducts his examination of the works of
four writers—Robert Penn Warren, southern-born novelist; Bruce Catton, historian and journalist;
Edmund Wilson, literary critic; and James Baldwin, northern-born essayist and race critic—providing
background and context for their works and their views of the centennial and all its commercialism
and hypocrisy…Throughout, Blight explores the mythology that came out of the Civil War and the
sense of American redemption that did not include any examination of the tragedies of racism and
slavery.”
—VANESSA BUSH, BOOKLIST (starred review)
“The ghosts of the Civil War never leave us, as David Blight knows perhaps better than anyone, and
in this superb book he masterfully unites two distant but inextricably bound events with insightful
dissection of the works of four of our best writers, writers obsessed with coming to terms with our
original sin.”
—KEN BURNS
Belknap 2011 4 halftones 328 pp. Cloth $27.95 / £20.95
ISBN
978-0-674-04855-3
table of contents
Featured Titles ..........................................................................2
Colonial and U.S. History to 1877 .............................................4
African American History / American South ...............................7
Religion in America ................................................................12
America and the World ...........................................................15
Atlantic World ........................................................................19
Political and Legal History .....................................................20
Economic History ...................................................................28
Social, Cultural, and Intellectual History ..................................30
Science and Medicine ..............................................................34
New Titles—Spring 2012.........................................................35
John Harvard Library ..............................................................36
Dictionary of American Regional English ..................................38
Index ......................................................................................38
Order Form.............................................................................39
Cover art: “Fate of the Rebel Flag” by William Bauly, c. 1861. Library of Congress.
See Confederate Reckoning by Stephanie McCurry on page 4.
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B EFORE
THE
R EVOLUTION
America’s Ancient Pasts
DANIEL K. RICHTER
★
★
A Wall Street Journal Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
A Marginal Revolution Best Book of the Year
In this epic synthesis, Daniel K. Richter reveals a new America. Surveying many
centuries prior to the American Revolution, we discover the tumultuous encounters between the peoples of North America, Africa, and Europe and see how the
present is the accumulation of the ancient layers of the past.
“Ultimately, [Richter’s] history is a history of violence, of violence perpetrated by
Europeans against Native Americans, by Native Americans against Europeans, and by both peoples
against their own kith and kin. It is a dark and brutal story, although one in which the Native Americans
are shown as for long holding their own, manipulating
Europeans as trading partners and playing off one set of Europeans against another until the overwhelming British victory of 1763 no longer made this possible. There is precious little uplift here,
and little sense of the more constructive characteristics of the brave new world that was rising amid
the wreckage of the old. But, in patiently uncovering the layers beneath the rubble, Richter forcefully
brings home to us that the American past belongs to many peoples, and that none should be forgotten.”
—J. H. ELLIOTT, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
“An elegantly written attempt to see colonial America from the indigenous perspective…In Richter’s
grand system, the continent’s history comprises successive waves of adventurers, one atop another. Although the American Revolution ‘submerged these earlier strata,’ he argues that they nonetheless ‘remained beneath the surface to mold the nation’s current contours.’ Walking atop the topmost strata,
in other words, are thee and me, the terrain around us shaped by those who came first. The approach
is bold, original and insightful…[A] masterly account…Before the Revolution is a book that by its very
boldness invites intelligent argument. Every few decades, historians develop a new way of looking at
the past. I am not talking about ‘revisionism’ but unifying conceptual schemes, the sort of mental
framework that Frederick Jackson Turner created in his argument for the importance of the frontier
to our history or that Bernard Bailyn established in his studies of the American Revolution’s ideological origins. Historians debated Turner for a long time and continue to debate Bailyn. I wouldn’t be
surprised if they were arguing with Richter a decade from today.”
—CHARLES C. MANN, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
“[Richter] demonstrates that U.S. history did not begin with the American Revolution, convincingly
arguing that the ideas that manifested themselves in the mid-18th century with the rebellious
colonists had their origins in such varied locales as the Mississippian Southeast and Europe of the
Middle Ages…Any history written by this preeminent historian is an essential read for everyone interested in the deeper history of the United States.”
—JOHN BURCH, LIBRARY JOURNAL
Belknap 2011 88 halftones, 13 maps 560 pp. Cloth $35.00 / £25.95
Also available by David W. Blight
RACE AND REUNION
The Civil War in American Memory
★ Frederick Douglass Book Prize
★ Lincoln Prize
★ Merle Curti Award for the Best Book in Social,
Intellectual, and/or Cultural History
★ Ellis W. Hawley Prize
★ Co-Winner, James A. Rawley Prize
★ Bancroft Prize Awarded by Columbia University
★ Salon’s Top 12 Civil War Books Ever Written
ISBN
978-0-674-05580-3
Also available by Daniel K. Richter
FACING EAST FROM INDIAN COUNTRY
A Native History of Early America
★ Louis Gottschalk Prize in Eighteenth-Century History,
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
★ Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History
2003; 2001 15 halftones, 4 maps 336 pp.
Paper $23.00 / £17.95 ISBN 978-0-674-01117-5
Belknap 2002; 2001 31 halftones 528 pp.
Paper $26.00 / £19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-00819-9
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GARY W. GALLAGHER
C ONFEDERATE
R ECKONING
Today, many believe the
Civil War was fought over
slavery. This view satisfies
our contemporary sense of
justice, but as Gary W.
Gallagher’s searing revisionist history shows, it is an
anachronistic judgment.
Northern citizen-soldiers
fought the war to preserve the Union. Emancipation was secondary to the war’s primary goal of
safeguarding the republic.
“This exceptionally fine book is in effect a companion piece to its author’s The Confederate
War, published in 1997…Now, in The Union
War, Gallagher is back to take issue with what
has become the new conventional wisdom, that
the North fought the war in order to achieve the
emancipation of the slaves…Gallagher makes
a very strong case—in my view a virtually irrefutable one—that the overriding motive in
the North was preservation of the Union.”
—JONATHAN YARDLEY,
WASHINGTON POST
“In The Union War, Gallagher offers not so much
a history of wartime patriotism as a series of meditations on the meaning of the Union to Northerners, the role of slavery in the conflict and how
historians have interpreted (and in his view misinterpreted) these matters…At a time when only
half the population bothers to vote and many
Americans hold their elected representatives in
contempt, Gallagher offers a salutary reminder of
the power of democratic ideals not simply to
Northerners in the era of the Civil War, but also
to people in other nations, who celebrated the
Union victory as a harbinger of greater rights for
themselves. Imaginatively invoking sources neglected by other scholars—wartime songs, patriotic images on mailing envelopes and in
illustrated publications, and regimental histories
written during and immediately after the conflict—Gallagher gives a dramatic portrait of the
power of wartime nationalism.”
—ERIC FONER,
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
2011 41 halftones 256 pp.
Cloth $27.95 / £20.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04562-0
Power and Politics in
the Civil War South
STEPHANIE M C CURRY
★
Willie Lee Rose Prize,
Southern Association
for Women Historians
★ Avery O. Craven Award,
Organization of American Historians
★ Co-Winner, Merle Curti Award,
Organization of American Historians
★ Finalist, Pulitzer Prize in History
★
A Civil War Monitor
Top Civil War Book of the Year
“A landmark piece of Civil War historiography.”
—JIM CULLEN, HISTORY NEWS NETWORK
“Building upon her work over almost two
decades, McCurry presents a new history of the
South’s experience during the war…Perhaps the
highest praise one can offer McCurry’s work is
to say that once we look through her eyes, it will
become almost impossible to believe that we
ever saw or thought otherwise…Confederate
Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War
South is a book about politics that stretches far
beyond the ballot and the statehouse, all the way
into plantations and farms and families and
communities across the South.”
—DREW GILPIN FAUST, NEW REPUBLIC
“[McCurry] has written a staggeringly smart
analysis of the politics of the Confederacy—
indeed, she has written one of the most illuminating and creative studies of 19th-century
American political life, period…A triumph
of political history.”
—LAUREN WINNER, BOOKS & CULTURE
2012; 2010 456 pp.
Paper $21.95 / £16.95
ISBN
978-0-674-06421-8
Also available
JUSTICE IN BLUE AND GRAY
A Legal History of the Civil War
STEPHEN C. NEFF
★ David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Legal History,
The Langum Charitable Trust
2010 360 pp.
Cloth $47.50 / £35.95
ISBN
978-0-674-03602-4
Also available
THE CONFEDERATE WAR
GARY W. GALLAGHER
★ Laney Prize for Best Book on the Military
History of the Civil War
★ Honorable Mention, Lincoln Prize
Committee, Gettysburg College
1999; 1997 40 halftones 272 pp.
Paper $19.95 / £14.95
ISBN 978-0-674-16056-9
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S LAVERY IN
I NDIAN C OUNTRY
T HE T WO
H ENDRICKS
Unraveling a
Mohawk Mystery
ERIC HINDERAKER
“Hinderaker utilizes
creative and in-depth
research to construct a
biography of two Mohawk leaders whose actions were dictated not
by British interests but by those of the Mohawks
and other members of the Iroquois Confederacy
during an era when the Iroquois were the linchpin between New France and Great Britain…
Highly recommended as both a historical work
and an outstanding example for historiographers
in writing ethnohistory.”
—JOHN BURCH,
LIBRARY JOURNAL
(starred review)
“Hinderaker does marvelous detective work
unwinding the two Hendricks from each other
and weaving their stories back together again,
but he goes beyond merely setting the record
straight. He provides a deeply researched and
sympathetic history of the Mohawks when
they loomed large in American history. This
book promises to stand as an enduring work
of scholarship.”
—TIMOTHY J. SHANNON,
AUTHOR OF IROQUOIS DIPLOMACY
ON THE EARLY AMERICAN FRONTIER
2011; 2010 21 halftones, 2 maps 368 pp.
Cloth $37.00 / £27.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03579-9
Paper $19.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06194-1
Also available
VIOLENCE OVER THE LAND
Indians and Empires in the Early American West
NED BLACKHAWK
★ Frederick Jackson Turner Award,
Organization of American Historians
★ William P. Clements Prize for the Best
Non-Fiction Book on Southwestern America
★ Robert M. Utley Award, Western History Association
★ Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Book Award,
American Society of Ethnohistory
★ Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize,
American Studies Association
★ John C. Ewers Western History Association Prize
2008; 2006 18 halftones, 2 maps, 1 graph 384 pp.
Paper $21.00 / £15.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02720-6
The Changing Face of
Captivity in Early America
CHRISTINA SNYDER
★
Finalist, Frederick Douglass
Book Prize
★ James Broussard Best
First Book Prize
★ Berkshire Conference of
Women Historians First Book Prize
★ Honorable Mention, Frederick Jackson Turner
Award, Organization of American Historians
“[Snyder] focuses on the evolution of slavery
from the perspective of individual Native American groups. She demonstrates that captivity, before the arrival of Europeans, played an
important role in Native societies, as some captives became kinfolk while others became
slaves…Highly recommended.”
—JOHN BURCH, LIBRARY JOURNAL
“Snyder…explores the Indian practice of enslaving prisoners of war in this instructive and remarkably readable book…She reaches back to
early Indian captivity practices and how conceptions of captives and their roles in Indian communities changed with the arrival of Europeans
and Africans. During the colonial period, captives were chosen on the basis of gender and age,
not race, but as a nativist movement (‘a collective identity as red people’) emerged in the late18th century, Americans, black and white,
became the ‘common enemy.’ By the early 19th
century—when, among other factors, black
slaves became more highly valued—Africans
were specifically targeted. Snyder breaks new
ground in this study [and] reveals pre-colonial
Southern history and restores visibility to Native
American history in the region.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review)
2012; 2010 1 halftone, 6 line illus., 3 maps 344 pp.
Cloth $29.95 / £22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04890-4
Paper $19.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06423-2
T HE C IVIL W AR AND THE
L IMITS OF D ESTRUCTION
MARK E. NEELY, JR.
“Neely argues forcefully and thoughtfully for a
more realistic, less gory understanding of the
great war…Whatever you think of Neely’s arguments, you cannot reject them as poorly conceived or loosely defended. He is a thoughtful
expert who delivers a book that you cannot read
without transforming your view of the Civil
War and its place in American history.”
—CAMERON MCWHIRTER,
ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
2010; 2007 12 halftones 288 pp.
Paper $16.95 / £12.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04595-8
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N EAR A NDERSONVILLE
Winslow Homer’s Civil War
PETER H. WOOD
“In Near Andersonville, Wood tells the captivating story of an abandoned painting with the
meticulousness of a historian and the panache of
a novelist. More than just an enigmatic painting,
Near Andersonville is a testament to the passions
of white abolitionists, and the halting confusion
of the freed slaves they cared for. This short
book is a quick, learned, and touching read.”
T HE G REAT H EART
OF THE R EPUBLIC
St. Louis and the Cultural Civil War
ADAM ARENSON
★
Charles Redd Center Book Award
“Arenson’s The Great Heart of the Republic…
reveals the fresh and complex insights that close
study of Missouri can yield for our understanding of nineteenth-century American history…
Arenson’s book offers a much broader interpretation of the Civil War than a typical work of
local history. Rather than provide a comprehensive account of St. Louis’s past, he uses the city’s
story to reveal a ‘nuanced, intimate history of
the Civil War era from the heart of the republic.’
The result is a beautifully written and strikingly
original interpretation of the causes, conduct,
and consequences of the war.”
—LEAH TRIPLETT, ART NEW ENGLAND
“In his engrossing book by the same name,
Wood argues that [Homer’s] Near Andersonville
‘explores the question’ of ‘What happens…if
any part of the Civil War drama is viewed explicitly from the vantage point of the enslaved.’
Wood offers an illuminating, if at times speculative, reading of the image…His careful reconstruction of the painting’s provenance, and his
account of the discovery of the painting’s title,
are every bit as rewarding as his careful analysis
of the visual symbolism of the painting itself.”
—LAUREN WINNER, BOOKS & CULTURE
The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
2010 8 color illus., 16 halftones 152 pp.
Cloth $18.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05320-5
—ANDRE M. FICHE,
HISTORY NEWS NETWORK
2011 22 halftones, 2 maps 352 pp.
Cloth $35.00 / £25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05288-8
Also available
UNCOMMON DEFENSE
Indian Allies in the Black Hawk War
JOHN W. HALL
2009 2 maps 384 pp.
Cloth $31.50 / £23.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03518-8
REPUBLIC OF DEBTORS
Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence
BRUCE H. MANN
★ James Willard Hurst Prize, Law and Society Association
★ Littleton-Griswold Prize,
American Historical Association
★ SHEAR Prize,
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
2009; 2002 1 halftone 358 pp.
Paper $20.00 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03241-5
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THEIR RIGHT TO SPEAK
Women's Activism in the Indian and Slave Debates
ALISSE PORTNOY
★ Karl R. Wallace Memorial Award,
National Communication Association
2005 306 pp.
Cloth $62.50 / £46.95
ISBN
978-0-674-01922-5
EXILES AT HOME
The Struggle to Become American in Creole New Orleans
SHIRLEY ELIZABETH THOMPSON
★ Robert W. Hamilton Book Award,
University of Texas at Austin Co-operative Society
2009 19 halftones 400 pp.
Cloth $54.50 / £40.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02351-2
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T O F REE
A
F AMILY
The Journey of Mary Walker
SYDNEY NATHANS
To Free a Family tells the remarkable story of Mary Walker, who in August 1848
fled her owner for refuge in the North and spent the next seventeen years trying to
recover her son and daughter. Her freedom, like that of thousands who escaped
from bondage, came at a great price—remorse at parting without a word, fear for
her family’s fate.
“In this rigorously scholarly but totally absorbing narrative, Nathans unfolds a
history as spellbinding as a novel, chockfull of fascinating people engaged in a
venture both risky and affecting. When the fugitive slave Mary Walker finds
refuge with the Lesleys in Pennsylvania, their lives, their families, and their circle
of friends become deeply involved in the general cause and the specific mission—to secure the freedom of Walker’s mother and her children…Nathans has
transformed the paraphernalia of academia (ploughing through archives, thorough documentation, guarded speculation) into a book that will entrance the
general reader, inform the scholar, and engage both.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review)
2012 25 halftones, 4 maps 360 pp. Cloth $29.95 / £22.95
ISBN
978-0-674-06212-2
New
A L EVEL P LAYING F IELD
African American Athletes and the Republic of Sports
GERALD L. EARLY
“The intersection of race and sports is one of the most dangerous in American
culture…A Level Playing Field: African American Athletes and the Republic of
Sports [is] a provocative and lively collection of lectures and essays. It’s a welcome addition to the elite sports shelf…[Early] displays the grandiosity of the
critic and the passion of the fan.”
—ROBERT LIPSYTE, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
“[A] powerful book…Early illuminates in great detail the inner collisions of
African-American athletes as they find their way in the (mostly white) public
sphere. His is a valiant—and largely successful—attempt to explain what it’s like
to be an African-American athlete today…A Level Playing Field makes an excellent
template from which to work when we want to look beyond the platitudes that
mark the dialogue about race and sport. But it also reminds us how far we’ve come.”
—DOUG GLANVILLE, WALL STREET JOURNAL
2011 288 pp. Cloth $25.95 / £19.95
ISBN
978-0-674-05098-3
New in paperback
W E A IN ’ T W HAT W E O UGHT T O B E
The Black Freedom Struggle from Emancipation to Obama
STEPHEN TUCK
★
British Association for American Studies Book Prize
Richard E. Neustadt Book Prize, American Politics Group of the Political Studies Association
★ A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
★
“In this sweeping and absorbing history of black activism, Tuck highlights the achievements of community organizing from the mid-19th century to Barack Obama’s dexterous grassroots campaign for
the presidency…With rich detail and a strong narrative, Tuck fills in gaps in the story, from the lesser
known backroom dealings of Booker T. Washington to the noble efforts on behalf of black women by
Anna Julia Cooper.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“We Ain’t What We Ought To Be is a collection of voices that document our struggle for equality in
America from the Reconstruction era until now. It’s all here—the great speeches and moments—but
it’s the nod to the common woman and man that lifts this narrative a notch above similar titles.”
—PATRIK HENRY BASS, ESSENCE
Belknap 2011; 2010 32 halftones 528 pp.
Cloth $29.95 / £22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03626-0
Paper $19.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06229-0
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F REEDOM
S TRUGGLES
S OUTHERN
H ORRORS
African Americans
and World War I
Women and the Politics
of Rape and Lynching
ADRIANE LENTZ-SMITH
CRYSTAL N. FEIMSTER
★
★
Honor Book Winner,
The Black Caucus of
the American Library
Association Literary
Awards
“In offering a unique vision of African American
aspirations, frustrations, and political sensibilities, Lentz-Smith convincingly contends that the
Great War era represented a ‘transformative moment’ in the black freedom struggle…[Freedom
Struggles] provides a thoughtful, accessible portrayal of a civil rights struggle we believe we
might already understand but one that we
should come to know much, much better.”
—LAUREN SKLAROFF,
JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY
“Lentz-Smith’s terrific new book is a balanced
and beautifully written account of the black soldier’s experience in World War I. It raises important questions about the ways that law and
status in the United States is shaped by developments abroad.”
—JOEL E. BLACK,
LAW AND HISTORY REVIEW
“Historian Crystal N. Feimster provides an opportunity to better understand the lack of sympathy between black and white suffragists and
how lynching spurred both to the political activism that eventually won women the vote…
This account leaves us with a sense of what
made the fights for racial equality and women’s
suffrage so complicated and contentious.”
—MARGARET WHEELER JOHNSON,
DOUBLE X
2011; 2009 11 halftones 336 pp.
Paper $19.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06185-9
FOR
E QUALITY
NEIL FOLEY
★
TIL Award for Most Significant Scholarly Book,
Texas Institute of Letters
★ Finalist, William P. Clements Prize,
William P. Clements Center for Southwest
Studies at Southern Methodist University
★ A Huffington Post Best Social and Political
Awareness Book of the Year
Runaways, Rescuers, and Slavery on Trial
STEVEN LUBET
Honorable Mention, David J. Langum, Sr.
Prize in American Legal History
“A stirring account of courtroom collisions at
the intersection of law, morality and politics.”
“This concise, important work considers the
possibilities but ultimate failure of the African
American and Mexican American communities
to unite in their struggle for civil rights.”
—KIRKUS REVIEWS
Belknap 2010 384 pp.
Cloth $29.95 / £22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04704-4
—D. O. CULLEN, CHOICE
The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
2010 12 halftones, 1 line illus. 240 pp.
Cloth $24.95 / £18.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05023-5
Also available
TO SERVE THE LIVING
Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death
SUZANNE E. SMITH
Belknap 2010 12 halftones 288 pp.
Cloth $31.50 / £23.95
ISBN 978-0-67403621-5
AfricAn AmericAn HiStory
—MARY EVANS,
TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION
The Failed Promise of Black-Brown Solidarity
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“Fascinating…Feimster’s account challenges us
to think again about race and sexual politics.”
Q UEST
2011; 2009 16 halftones 336 pp.
Cloth $37.00 / £27.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03592-8
Paper $22.50 / £16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06205-4
★
W. E. B. Du Bois Book
Prize, North East Black
Studies Association
★ Honorable Mention,
Darlene Clark Hine
Award, Organization of American Historians
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THE
N UMBERS
Gambling in Harlem between the Wars
SHANE WHITE, STEPHEN GARTON,
STEPHEN ROBERTSON, AND
GRAHAM WHITE
“Brims with fascinating, colorful stories
about a little-known facet of New York life.”
—MICHAEL J. AGOVINO,
WALL STREET JOURNAL
“[Playing the Numbers] draws on an array of
sources—from the back issues of Harlem’s
newspapers, to probation reports and the case
files of the New York City district attorney, to
the literature and memoirs of the Harlem Renaissance—to illuminate the scope of the numbers game and the sometimes harmless,
sometimes farcical, often sociable, but ultimately
insidious ways it permeated nearly every aspect
of Harlemites’ daily lives and even their dream
lives. The result: an intricate sociology of organized crime.”
—BENJAMIN SCHWARZ, THE ATLANTIC
2010 320 pp.
Cloth $26.95 / £19.95
ISBN
S ETTING D OWN
978-0-674-05107-2
THE
S ACRED PAST
African-American Race Histories
LAURIE F. MAFFLY-KIPP
“Maffly-Kipp draws on lectures, sermons, plays,
poetry, and other works of several little-known
writers from the American Revolution and
WWI that reflect on how the black community
in the U.S. has attempted to record and analyze
the meaning of the African diasporic experience…These writers add valuable perspective to
the works of better-known black authors and a
full perspective on African American history.”
—VANESSA BUSH, BOOKLIST
Belknap 2010 352 pp.
Cloth $29.95 / £22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05079-2
New in paperback
T HE C ONDEMNATION
OF B LACKNESS
Race, Crime, and the Making
of Modern Urban America
KHALIL GIBRAN
MUHAMMAD
★
John Hope Franklin
Publication Prize,
American Studies Association
“A dazzling study that illuminates a great deal about the social construction
of black criminality. Muhammad does a superb
job of explicating the role that social scientists,
journalists, and reformers played in creating the
idea of the black criminal and sustaining racial
inequality.”
—ALDON D. MORRIS,
AUTHOR OF THE ORIGINS
OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
“With uncommon interpretive clarity and resourceful accumulation of data, the author disentangles crime as a fact of the urban experience
from crime as a theory of race in American history. This is a mandatory read.”
—DAVID LEVERING LEWIS,
PULITZER PRIZE–WINNING
AUTHOR OF W. E. B. DU BOIS
2011; 2010 7 halftones, 2 line illus., 3 cartoons 392 pp.
Paper $18.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06211-5
Also available
SOUL BY SOUL
Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
WALTER JOHNSON
★ Co-Winner, Frances B. Simkins Award,
Southern Historical Association
★ Avery O. Craven Award,
Organization of American Historians
★ John Hope Franklin Prize,
American Studies Association
★ Thomas J. Wilson Prize
★ Society for Historians of the Early
American Republic Book Prize
★ Co-Winner, Frederick Jackson Turner Award,
Organization of American Historians
2001; 2000 20 halftones 320 pp.
Paper $23.00 / £17.95 ISBN 978-0-674-00539-6
AfricAn AmericAn HiStory
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P LANTATION E NTERPRISE IN
C OLONIAL S OUTH C AROLINA
S. MAX EDELSON
★
George C. Rogers, Jr. Book Award,
South Carolina Historical Society
★ Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award,
The Agricultural History Society
“S. Max Edelson deftly traces how some early
colonists overcame their prejudice toward
marshes and swamps to develop a profitable
plantation system. They adapted the Carolina
landscape to the Atlantic economy by learning
from local Indian communities and imported
Africans, and through active experimentation, refining the art of rice production, which they supplemented with indigo and other crops…This
well-researched and well-written account creatively cultivates an array of sources, contains numerous valuable graphs and appendices to
support its arguments, and provides a convincing
story of Carolina plantation development.”
O UR S OUTH
Geographic Fantasy and the Rise
of National Literature
JENNIFER RAE GREESON
★
C. Hugh Holman Award,
Society for the Study of Southern Literature
“A major achievement…With a rich archive
extending from the eighteenth century to the
twentieth—at once regional, national, and
global—this is cultural history at its most
capacious and compelling.”
—ALAN GALLAY,
JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY
—WAI CHEE DIMOCK, AUTHOR OF
THROUGH OTHER CONTINENTS
2011; 2006 6 halftones, 1 line illus., 5 maps,
15 tables 400 pp.
Paper $19.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06022-7
2010 18 halftones, 3 maps 368 pp.
Cloth $39.95 / £29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02428-1
UP
B ECOMING F REE IN
THE C OTTON S OUTH
FROM
H ISTORY
The Life of Booker T. Washington
ROBERT J. NORRELL
SUSAN EVA O’DONOVAN
★
A Library Journal Best Book of the Year
A Booklist Top 10 Black History
Nonfiction Book of the Year
★ A Washington Post Best Book of the Year
★ Honorable Mention, U.S. History &
Biography/Autobiography, The Association
of American Publishers PROSE Awards
★
★
James A. Rawley Prize,
Organization of American Historians
★ Outstanding Archives Award,
Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board
“In her pioneering history of Reconstruction in
southwest Georgia, Susan Eva O’Donovan reminds us that the men and women negotiating
the first few years of freedom there operated
within a framework established by their subregion’s particularly harsh history of slavery and
war…Compelling reading and offers welcome
glimpses into this crucial moment in history…
This book deserves a thoughtful readership.”
“Few great Americans have been more cruelly
treated by history than Booker Taliaferro Washington. He has been mocked, vilified and caricatured, yet by any reasonable measure his life was
extraordinary…To see him as anything less than
heroic borders on the incomprehensible…Up
from History is in all respects an exemplary book.”
—MARK ROMAN SCHULTZ,
JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY
—JONATHAN YARDLEY,
WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
2010; 2007 1 map 384 pp.
Paper $18.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04565-1
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Belknap 2011; 2009 54 halftones 528 pp.
Paper $19.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06037-1
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D ARKER
THAN
B LUE
On the Moral Economies of
Black Atlantic Culture
PAUL GILROY
“If the moral force of Baldwin’s writing was fuelled by the solidarity of the Civil Rights movement, Gilroy’s book is a warning of moral
bankruptcy creeping into contemporary U.S.
black culture. According to Gilroy, commodities
have replaced community, and the spirit of the
freedom marches has been overtaken by the roar
of accessorized Hummers. This is not simply a
curmudgeonly critique of contemporary culture,
and Gilroy teases out the reasons why the moral
energy that galvanized the Civil Rights movement has been diluted by corporate American life
in three penetrating and exhilarating chapters.”
—DOUGLAS FIELD,
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
Belknap / The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
2011; 2010 224 pp.
Paper $18.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06023-4
T HE S HOWMAN
AND THE
S LAVE
Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum’s America
BENJAMIN REISS
“[An] intriguing and thoughtful book…
[a] remarkable and disturbing story.”
—GARY GERSTLE, WASHINGTON POST
“Superb…Benjamin Reiss [writes] the history of
entertainment exactly as it should be written: as
a sophisticated interaction between presenters
and observers that reveals much about the values
of the age…Required reading for those interested in the broad sweep of nineteenth-century
social history, as well as the history of entertainment, the popular press, science, race relations,
slavery, abolitionism, business, gender studies,
and historical memory.”
—PAUL REDDIN,
AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
2010; 2001 12 halftones 288 pp.
Paper $19.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05564-3
New in paperback
IN
THE
S HADOW
OF
D U B OIS
Afro-Modern Political Thought in America
ROBERT GOODING-WILLIAMS
★
Best Book on Race, Ethnicity, and Political
Thought, American Political Science Association
★ Honorable Mention, David Easton Award,
American Political Science Association,
Foundations of Political Theory Section
★ A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
“A thoughtful, nuanced work that challenges
previous perceptions of Du Bois and modern
definitions of African American politics.”
—K. ANDERSON, CHOICE
“By attending to Du Bois’s relations to thinkers
like Weber, Gooding-Williams helpfully places
this American thinker against the background of
the education he received in Berlin.”
—KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH,
NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
2011; 2009 368 pp.
Paper $18.95 / £14.95
T HE S ELMA
ISBN
978-0-674-06024-1
OF THE
N ORTH
Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee
PATRICK D. JONES
★
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Co-Winner, Gambrinus Prize,
Milwaukee County Historical Society
★ State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Book Award of Merit
★
“A well-researched and fascinating narrative…
Jones has produced an outstanding study of the
civil rights movement in Milwaukee which
should prove a model for investigations of other
Northern cities.”
—RON BRILEY, HISTORY NEWS NETWORK
2010; 2009 19 halftones, 1 map 360 pp.
Paper $22.95 / £16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05729-6
Also available
THE POLITICAL WORLDS OF
SLAVERY AND FREEDOM
STEVEN HAHN
The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
2009 7 halftones, 5 tables 272 pp.
Cloth $21.95 / £16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03296-5
JOHN BROWN’S TRIAL
BRIAN MCGINTY
2009 19 halftones 384 pp.
Cloth $27.95 / £20.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03517-1
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T HE W ASHINGTON H AGGADAH
BY JOEL BEN SIMEON
Introduction by David Stern and Katrin Kogman-Appel
After the Bible, the Passover haggadah is the most widely read classic Jewish text.
Few editions are as exquisite as the Washington Haggadah in the Library of Congress. A stunning facsimile edition, meticulously reproduced in full color, brings this
illuminated fifteenth-century manuscript to life for a new generation of readers.
“This beautifully produced book is a detailed facsimile…From the Exodus to the
Rabbis to 1478 to 1879 to 2011—in these pages, if anywhere, the past is present
and the present past.”
—ADAM KIRSCH, TABLET MAGAZINE
“David Stern provides a concise and enlightening introduction to the development of the Haggadah and ben Simeon’s work, while Katrin Kogman-Appel
reveals a sharp-eyed attention to detail in her examination of the Washington
Haggadah itself and its place in the context of the artistic development revealed
in other Haggadah manuscripts of the time.”
—RALPH AMELAN, JERUSALEM REPORT
Belknap 2011 38-page color facsimile, 11 color illus. 248 pp.
Cloth $39.95 / £29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05117-1
New
T HE U NINTENDED R EFORMATION
How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society
BRAD S. GREGORY
Brad S. Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Reformation for
the modern condition: a hyperpluralism of beliefs, intellectual disagreements that
splinter into fractals of specialized discourse, the absence of a substantive common
good, and the triumph of capitalism’s driver, consumerism.
“A work of deep moral seriousness…The Unintended Reformation is simply
the most intelligent treatment of the subject by a contemporary author.”
—THOMAS A. BRADY, JR., AUTHOR OF
GERMAN HISTORIES IN THE AGE OF REFORMATIONS, 1400–1650
“[Gregory] approaches the continuing impact of the Reformation in what he
terms a ‘genealogical’ approach—one that sees the Reformation as the root of a
tree whose branches reach into every aspect of modern life…[A] rewarding look
at the long reach of history, and how we are the poorer for ignoring it.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Belknap 2012 592 pp. Cloth $39.95 / £25.00
ISBN
978-0-674-04563-7
New
T HE A NOINTED
Evangelical Truth in a Secular Age
RANDALL J. STEPHENS AND KARL W. GIBERSON
Why do so many evangelicals follow leaders with dubious credentials when they have other options in
their own faith? Exploring intellectual authority within evangelicalism, the authors reveal how the concept of anointing—being chosen by God to speak for him—established a conservative evangelical leadership isolated from secular arts and sciences.
“The Anointed is one of the best and most important books on religion published this year. It is a
well-written, well-argued study that penetrates to the heart of modern evangelical culture…Evangelicals who take the intellect seriously, as well as outsiders struggling to understand the evangelical subculture, will benefit from their hard work and keen insights.”
—MATTHEW AVERY SUTTON, CHRISTIAN CENTURY
“[Stephens and Giberson] rise triumphantly to the challenge of explaining the leaders and the culture
of the religious Right without rancor or condescension.”
—RAY OLSON, BOOKLIST
Belknap 2011 25 halftones 384 pp. Cloth $29.95 / £22.95
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978-0-674-04818-8
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N O C LOSURE
Catholic Practice
and Boston’s
Parish Shutdowns
JOHN C. SEITZ
In 2004 the Roman
Catholic Archdiocese of
Boston announced plans
to close more than eighty
churches. Distraught
parishioners occupied
several of these buildings in opposition to the decrees. John Seitz tells the stories of these resisting
Catholics in their own words.
“A compelling ethnography…A fine history of
Boston’s parishes and neighborhoods and a nuanced portrait of the complex legacy of the Second Vatican Council in modern Catholic life.”
—AMY KOEHLINGER,
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
“An invaluable ground-level record of a historic
period for American Catholics.”
—ARTHUR MCCAFFREY, BOSTON GLOBE
2011 322 pp.
Cloth $39.95 / £29.95
G OD -F EARING
ISBN
978-0-674-05302-1
AND
F REE
New
R ELIGION
H UMAN
E VOLUTION
IN
From the Paleolithic
to the Axial Age
ROBERT N. BELLAH
★
A New York Times
Editors’ Choice, 2011
This ambitious book probes
our biological past to discover the kinds of lives that human beings have
imagined were worth living. Robert Bellah’s theory goes deep into cultural and genetic evolution
to identify a range of capacities (communal dancing, storytelling, theorizing) whose emergence
made religious development possible in the first
millennium BCE.
“Of Bellah’s brilliance there can be no doubt.
The sheer amount this man knows about religion is otherworldly…Only one word is appropriate to characterize this book’s subject as well
as its substance, and that is ‘magisterial.’”
—ALAN WOLFE,
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Belknap 2011 784 pp.
Cloth $39.95 / £25.00 ISBN 978-0-674-06143-9
A Spiritual History of America’s Cold War
T O S ERVE G OD
JASON W. STEVENS
The Making of Christian Free Enterprise
★
BETHANY MORETON
Ray and Pat Browne Award,
Best Reference / Primary Source Work
in Popular and American Culture
“A brilliant and original work of scholarship…It
is a robustly ambitious effort to explain American culture or the American character, as Stevens
puts it…Stevens never treats religion as a dry
analogue to secularism. Instead, he illustrates an
unending, enlivening dialogue between the secular and the religious in American culture, by
looking deeply into important American texts…
God-Fearing and Free is an important book that
sheds new and unexpected light on the familiar
postwar landscape.”
—MICHAEL KIMMAGE,
NEW REPUBLIC ONLINE
2010 448 pp.
Cloth $39.95 / £29.95
ISBN
978-0-674-05555-1
AND
W AL -M ART
★
Frederick Jackson Turner Award
John Hope Franklin Publication Prize
★ A Boston Phoenix Best Book of the Year
★
“This book offers readers an engaging account
of how a discount five-and-dime store conceived
in the rural American Ozarks became the template for service work in the global economy.”
—REBEKAH PEEPLES MASSENGILL,
TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION
2010; 2009 12 halftones, 1 map 392 pp.
Paper $17.95 / £13.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05740-1
Also available
AIMEE SEMPLE MCPHERSON AND THE
RESURRECTION OF CHRISTIAN AMERICA
MATTHEW AVERY SUTTON
2009; 2007 50 halftones 416 pp.
Paper $20.00 / £14.95 ISBN 9780674032538
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T HE D ISENCHANTMENT
S ECULAR D ISCOURSE
OF
STEVEN D. SMITH
★
First Things Notable Book of the Year
“This book presses us to look harder at closely
held beliefs and to question deeply rooted premises and commitments with which we are perhaps too comfortable.”
—RICHARD W. GARNETT,
NOTRE DAME LAW SCHOOL
T HE F IRE S PREADS
2010 304 pp.
Cloth $26.95 / £19.95
Holiness and Pentecostalism
in the American South
A N EW S CIENCE
RANDALL J. STEPHENS
The Discovery of Religion in the Age of Reason
★
GUY G. STROUMSA
Smith-Wynkoop Book Award,
Wesleyan Theological Society
“Stephens’s masterful account of how the South
nurtured and altered a once-marginalized religious movement—and how that religion influenced the region—is the most fluent and
authoritative synthesis of a complex and controversial subject.”
—THE ATLANTIC
2010; 2008 30 halftones 416 pp.
Paper $19.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04685-6
P RAYERS
OF THE
F AITHFUL
The Shifting Spiritual Life
of American Catholics
JAMES P. M C CARTIN
“Over the course of the past several decades,
many Catholics have rejected the strict spiritual
hierarchy that was, for centuries, the foundation
of the organized church. This dramatic shift in
the practice of the Catholic religion has resulted
in the evolution of prayer itself into an independent-centered activity incorporated into
daily routines rather than a publicly performed
and formalized ritual.”
—MARGARET FLANAGAN, BOOKLIST
2010 240 pp.
Cloth $25.95 / £19.95
ISBN
978-0-674-04913-0
ISBN
978-0-674-05087-7
“[Stroumsa] contends, persuasively and readably,
that our current comparative approach to religious phenomena has three main historical
roots…Stroumsa maps their relationship with
elegance, insight, and a splendid intolerance of
cant. This is a major new landmark in the intellectual landscape. It will help us to keep our
bearings as we navigate around our own feelings
toward religion and religions.”
—CHARLES FOSTER, FORTEAN TIMES
2010 240 pp.
Cloth $35.00 / £25.95
ISBN
978-0-674-04860-7
O N Z ION ’ S M OUNT
Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape
JARED FARMER
“An important book for historians of the American West and the nation as a whole.”
—RICHARD G. FRANCAVIGLIA,
JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY
2010; 2008 21 halftones, 3 maps 472 pp.
Paper $19.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04743-3
Also available
THE NEW NUNS
Racial Justice and Religious Reform in the 1960s
AMY L. KOEHLINGER
★ Eric Hoffer Book Award, Culture Category
2007 10 halftones 320 pp.
Cloth $51.50 / £38.95 ISBN 9780674024731
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PACIFIC C OSMOPOLITANS
A Cultural History of U.S.-Japan Relations
MICHAEL R. AUSLIN
Beginning with the first Japanese and Americans to make contact in the early
1800s, Michael Auslin traces a unique cultural relationship. He focuses on organizations devoted to cultural exchange, such as the American Friends’ Association in
Tokyo and the Japan Society of New York, as well as key individuals who promoted mutual understanding.
“This book fills an important gap.”
—LESLEY DOWNER, LITERARY REVIEW
“A splendid and nuanced account of the history of cultural exchange between
Americans and Japanese. Auslin presents a fascinating story of the evolution of Pacific cosmopolitans, who promoted cultural understanding and interaction between
the two countries even in periods of geopolitical tension or economic friction.”
—AKIRA IRIYE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
2011 17 halftones 344 pp. Cloth $49.95 / £36.95
ISBN
978-0-674-04597-2
New
T HE M AUTHAUSEN T RIAL
American Military Justice in Germany
TOMAZ JARDIM
The Nuremberg trials are regarded as models of postwar justice, but the Mauthausen trial was the norm and reveals the troubling face of American military
proceedings. This rough justice, with its lax rules of evidence and questionable interrogations, compromised legal standards in order to guarantee that guilty people
did not walk free.
“This book will take its place as the standard work on the Mauthausen trial in
English…[Jardim] makes a convincing case for the continuing relevance of this
largely overlooked trial, a point well taken now that military commissions are
back in vogue.”
—LAWRENCE R. DOUGLAS, AUTHOR OF THE MEMORY OF JUDGMENT
“Demonstrating how unprepared the American military was to conduct war
crimes trials, Jardim reveals for the first time how questionable many of the
army’s prosecutorial practices were. This valuable book offers not only significant insights into the way American military justice functioned after World
War II, but also warns of the challenges military commissions face in the present.”
—DEVIN PENDAS, AUTHOR OF THE FRANKFURT AUSCHWITZ TRIAL, 1963–1965
2012 21 halftones 304 pp. Cloth $29.95 / £22.95
ISBN
978-0-674-06157-6
New
F RAMING M USLIMS
Stereotyping and Representation after 9/11
PETER MOREY AND AMINA YAQIN
In Framing Muslims: Stereotyping and Representation after 9/11, Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin dissect
how stereotypes that depict Muslims as an inherently problematic presence in the West are constructed,
deployed, and circulated in the public imagination, producing an immense gulf between representation
and a considerably more complex reality.
“Framing Muslims is an enlightening book. It is sure to make us more critical of the power and influence of media in shaping our views on Muslims and Islam. Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin deserve applause for their worthy effort.”
—JOSEPH RICHARD PREVILLE, SAUDI GAZETTE
“Groundbreaking…Drawing on their diverse backgrounds in English and Urdu literary and cultural
studies, Morey and Yaqin examine…[how] veils, beards, men at prayer, and minarets stand in for
Muslims in all their heterogeneity and complexity…[An] illuminating work.”
—CLAIRE CHAMBERS, TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION
2011 256 pp. Cloth $27.95 / £20.95
ISBN
978-0-674-04852-2
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New in
C OLORED
C OSMOPOLITANISM
paperback
The Shared Struggle for
Freedom in the United
States and India
The United States and
the Iraq Sanctions
NICO SLATE
★
“Colored Cosmopolitanism
is a testament to a solidarity that thrived despite
painful contradictions. A
detailed, compelling history that is also an example of effortless storytelling.”
—AMITAVA KUMAR, AUTHOR OF
A FOREIGNER CARRYING IN THE
CROOK OF HIS ARM A TINY BOMB
“Deeply researched, subtly argued, and written
with verve and clarity, Colored Cosmopolitanism
demonstrates the porousness of national borders—and the importance of international connections for social justice movements. This is
superior transnational history.”
—THOMAS BORSTELMANN, AUTHOR OF
THE COLD WAR AND THE COLOR LINE
2012 17 halftones 344 pp.
Cloth $39.95 / £29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05967-2
I NVISIBLE W AR
JOY GORDON
“Gordon’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. Gordon admits that
U.S. policy was not calculated to destroy the
Iraqi population but rather was ‘deeply indifferent’ to the consequences of its actions.”
—JAMES DENSELOW, HUFFINGTON POST
“The devastation of much of Iraqi society between 1990 and 2003 through [UN economic]
sanctions, driven by the U.S. and to a lesser extent the UK, is a story that has been buried for
the most part under layer on layer of diplomatic
technicalities, obfuscation and sheer indifference…Her book deserves to be read and discussed widely.”
—ERIC HERRING,
TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION
New in paperback
L ATIN A MERIC A ’ S C OLD W AR
A Foreign Policy
Best Book of the Year
on the Middle East
2012; 2010 376 pp.
Paper $21.95 / £16.95
ISBN
978-0-674-06408-9
HAL BRANDS
“As Brands persuasively argues, the true story of
Latin America’s role in the Cold War lies in the
dynamic interactions between international
forces and domestic actors. Tragically, both the
United States and the Soviet Union exacerbated
the region’s already polarized politics, and the
ensuing violent clashes rendered asunder fragile
democracies.”
—RICHARD FEINBERG, FOREIGN AFFAIRS
“Brands’s study will stand as the definitive work
in the years ahead.”
—J. A. RHODES, CHOICE
2012; 2010 17 halftones 408 pp.
Paper $19.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06427-0
A MERIC A ’ S G EISHA A LLY
Reimagining the Japanese Enemy
NAOKO SHIBUSAWA
★
Peter C. Rollins Book Prize,
Northeast Popular Culture Association
“Ingeniously combines social history and domestic history by discussing how American citizens contributed to the process of incorporating
Japan into the US-led liberal capitalist framework in the years immediately after the Second
World War.”
—YUJIN YAGUCHI,
JOURNAL OF AMERICAN STUDIES
2010; 2006 11 halftones 408 pp.
Paper $19.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05747-0
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T HE L AST U TOPIA
New in paperback
Human Rights
in History
T HE S HOCK OF
THE G LOBAL
SAMUEL MOYN
The 1970s in Perspective
★
A Choice Outstanding
Academic Title of
the Year
Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s 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 ideal’s
troubled present and uncertain future.
“The triumph of The Last Utopia 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.”
—BRENDAN SIMMS,
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
“[A] provocatively revisionist history.”
—G. JOHN IKENBERRY, FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Belknap 2012; 2010 1 line illus. 352 pp.
Paper $18.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06434-8
EDITED BY
NIALL FERGUSON,
CHARLES S. MAIER,
EREZ MANELA, AND
DANIEL SARGENT
“[A] masterful book.”
—MICHAEL CASE, IRISH TIMES
“A serious and impressive in-depth
study of an unjustly neglected decade.”
—BILL PERRETT, THE AGE
“A grab-bag of lively academic essays that
covers everything from the proliferation of
global non-government organizations to the
worldwide women’s rights movement to smallpox eradication.”
—CHRISTIAN CARYL, FOREIGN POLICY
Belknap 2011; 2010 4 graphs, 9 tables 448 pp.
Paper $22.50 / £16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06186-6
T HE H UNGRY W ORLD
America’s Cold War Battle
against Poverty in Asia
NICK CULLATHER
S O G REAT
A
P ROFFIT
How the East Indies Trade Transformed
Anglo-American Capitalism
JAMES R. FICHTER
★
★
Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize
Honorable Mention, Ralph Gomory Prize,
Business History Conference
“[A] wonderful and important book…The Pacific lay on the horizon of opportunity for
Americans across the political spectrum, but its
pursuit would nearly blow the country apart.
James Fichter’s excellent book helps us to understand the political and economic genealogies of
this powerful vision, and how the Pacific world
would come to rival, if not supersede, the Atlantic in American history.”
★
Shortlist, Lionel Gelber Prize
Ellis W. Hawley Prize,
Organization of American Historians
★ Robert H. Ferrell Prize, Society for
Historians of American Foreign Relations
★
“An immensely important book…[Cullather]
has performed a tremendous service, and written a book not just of interest but of lasting
value in showing in detail and with great discernment just how new, and also how radical,
development was when it first began to transform the ways powerful nations thought about
everything from the specifics of warfighting…
to the broadest questions of national interest.”
—DAVID RIEFF, THE NATION
2010 9 halftones, 1 map 368 pp.
Cloth $35.00 / £25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05078-5
—J. L. ROSENBLOOM, CHOICE
2010 1 map, 9 charts, 6 tables 400 pp.
Cloth $35.00 / £25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05057-0
Also available
1812
War with America
JON LATIMER
★ Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award,
US History
Belknap 2010; 2007 16 halftones, 16 maps 656 pp.
Paper $20.00 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03477-8
CONSTRUCTING THE MONOLITH
The United States, Great Britain, and International
Communism, 1945–1950
MARC J. SELVERSTONE
★ Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize
2009 318 pp.
Cloth $54.50 / £40.95
ISBN
978-0-674-03179-1
AmericA And tHe world
17
O PIUM
Uncovering the Politics of the Poppy
PIERRE-ARNAUD CHOUVY
New in paperback
S TRAIT TALK
United States–Taiwan Relations
and the Crisis with China
NANCY BERNKOPF TUCKER
“[Tucker] focuses on the less-studied Washington-Taipei leg of the Beijing-Washington-Taipei
triangle, tracing the interaction of policies and
personalities with a level of detail made possible
by extensive interviews and archival research and
with a clarity of judgment made possible by a
long familiarity with most of the protagonists.”
—ANDREW J. NATHAN, FOREIGN AFFAIRS
2011; 2008 11 illus., 1 map 404 pp.
Paper $22.95 / £16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06052-4
T HE W AR C OUNCIL
McGeorge Bundy, the NSC, and Vietnam
ANDREW PRESTON
“Preston looks not at the flashes of gunfire but at
the more shadowy world of bureaucratic infighting…[The War Council] shows all too clearly
what happens when the White House circle of
decision-makers has too small a radius. Clearly,
leaders have the right to rely on a loyal few; excessive debate and deadlock are not desirable. But as
America is once again learning, people in power
need to make sure that the decisive circle includes
those who actually know a region.”
“What comes first, poverty or poppy growth?
Do local warlords spur opium production, or do
the conditions that first allowed warlords to take
power also give way to a drug trade? Is narcoterrorism—the notion that terrorists use drugs to
fund insurgencies—actually behind violence in
Afghanistan?…Opium’s insight lies in its reframing of such questions: despite what some
politicians would like you to believe, Chouvy argues, these phenomena—violence, poverty, and
drugs—can never be understood independently
of each other.”
—JESSICA LOUDIS,
NEW REPUBLIC ONLINE
2010 9 halftones, 10 maps 272 pp.
Cloth $27.95 / NA ISBN 978-0-674-05134-8
Also available
THE ECHO OF BATTLE
The Army’s Way of War
BRIAN MCALLISTER LINN
2009; 2007 320 pp.
Paper $20.00 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03479-2
GLOBAL DAWN
The Cultural Foundation of American
Internationalism, 1865–1890
FRANK NINKOVICH
2009 440 pp.
Cloth $52.50 / £38.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03504-1
NEXUS
Strategic Communications and
American Security in World War I
JONATHAN REED WINKLER
★ Paul Birdsall Prize, American Historical Association
★ Distinguished Publication Award,
Ohio Academy of History
★ Theodore & Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize
Harvard Historical Studies 2008 6 maps, 3 charts
358 pp. Cloth $60.00 / £44.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02839-5
—THE ECONOMIST
2010; 2006 336 pp.
Paper $21.95 / £16.95
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978-0-674-04632-0
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ATLANTIC C REOLES
IN THE
A GE
OF
R EVOLUTIONS
JANE LANDERS
★
Rembert Patrick Award, Florida Historical Society
“From thousands of gossamer, broken threads of narrative, Jane Landers
has rewoven the whole tapestry of life along the Atlantic seaboard for Native
Americans, imported slaves, Creoles and free blacks. Excellently researched,
and eminently readable, it is an illuminating, groundbreaking work.”
—MADISON SMARTT BELL, AUTHOR OF
TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE: A BIOGRAPHY
“Above all else, Atlantic creoles sought freedom. Landers has done an
excellent job in excavating their lives and highlighting their significance
in the Age of Revolutions.”
—GAD HEUMAN, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
2011; 2010 21 halftones, 2 maps 352 pp.
Cloth $31.50 / £23.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03591-1
Paper $19.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06204-7
New in paperback
S OUNDINGS
IN
ATLANTIC H ISTORY
Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 1500–1830
EDITED BY BERNARD BAILYN AND PATRICIA L. DENAULT
“This is a most illuminating body of work for anyone interested in the latest research on the Atlantic world.”
—XABIER LAMIKIZ, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARITIME HISTORY
“Adds considerably to our understanding of Atlantic (and other) histories.”
—PETER COCLANIS, AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
2011; 2009 30 halftones, 9 maps, 5 graphs, 5 tables 640 pp.
Cloth $63.00 / £46.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03276-7
Paper $29.95 / £22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06177-4
T HE R EAPER ’ S G ARDEN
Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery
VINCENT BROWN
★
Co-Winner, Merle Curti Award, Organization of American Historians
James A. Rawley Prize, Organization of American Historians
★ Longlisted for the Cundill International Prize in History
★
“Engrossing…Brown’s major concern is the cultural significance of death in a
land marked by high mortality. Here, his account is compelling and highly original. He is especially interested in how both whites and blacks used death to control the strange environment they found themselves in.”
—TREVOR BURNARD, TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT
2010; 2008 18 halftones, 4 maps, 2 graphs 368 pp.
Paper $19.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05712-8
T HREE A NCIENT C OLONIES
Caribbean Themes and Variations
SIDNEY W. MINTZ
“An engaging, accessible, and masterly work.”
—R. BERLEANT-SCHILLER, CHOICE
“In this engaging, delightfully readable and provocative work, Sidney Mintz distills a lifetime of pioneering research to illuminate the making of three Caribbean plantation societies and of the creolized
cultures that challenged the slave system from within. The work seamlessly brings together history
and anthropology, showcasing Mintz’s impassioned and encyclopedic knowledge of the Caribbean. A
must-read for all those interested in the history of slavery and the Atlantic world.”
—LAURENT DUBOIS, DUKE UNIVERSITY
The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures 2010 12 halftones, 1 map 272 pp.
Cloth $27.95 / £20.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05012-9
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C OMMON S ENSE
A MERIC AN
P ROPERTY
A Political History
SOPHIA ROSENFELD
“We often hear politicians
and pundits speak of ‘common sense.’ Now Rosenfeld insightfully traces the
turns the phrase has taken
since it came into use in
18th-century urban centers…Her book is a model
of how a fine work of history may enlighten
readers about polemics without being a polemic
itself. Rich, graceful, often witty, this is very
highly recommended.”
—BOB NARDIMI, LIBRARY JOURNAL
“Rosenfeld is a shrewd and inventive historian.
She has excavated the rhetoric of common sense
from an impressive number of sites and has
shaped this diverse evidence into a smart and
plausible narrative. She writes with verve…
Rosenfeld warns us that common sense is sometimes just an honorific that we bestow upon our
prejudices.”
—JEFFREY COLLINS,
WALL STREET JOURNAL
2011 14 halftones 368 pp.
Cloth $29.95 / £22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05781-4
New in paperback
N EOCONSERVATISM
The Biography of a Movement
JUSTIN VAÏSSE
Translated by Arthur Goldhammer
★
A Financial Times Politics Book of the Year
“Essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the contours of our recent political past.”
—BARRY GEWEN,
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
“Absolutely excellent…With sobriety, subtlety
and matchless breadth, Vaïsse explores the many
dimensions of the most consequential intellectual movement in post–Second World War
American politics.”
—RANDY BOYAGODA, GLOBE AND MAIL
Belknap 2011; 2010 376 pp.
Paper $19.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06070-8
A History of How, Why,
and What We Own
STUART BANNER
What is property? Stuart
Banner here offers a
guided tour through the
many manifestations,
and innumerable uses, of
property throughout American history. From indigenous culture to our genes, from one’s
celebrity to Internet content, American Property
reveals how our ideas of ownership evolve to suit
our ever-changing needs.
“In this tightly written book, Banner tackles an
admittedly expansive topic, illustrating that our
ideas about what property is, how it is regulated,
and what it is meant to do are in constant flux
and have been historically contested. Partly an
examination of law, partly of culture, politics,
economics, and even religion, Banner successfully shows how our notions of property and socalled ‘natural property’ in essence sketch the
shifting borders of what Americans deem appropriate government regulation.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“An exciting and captivating journey…[Banner]
explores the occasionally labyrinthine legal and
political processes that, as America was defining
itself as a country, began to define one of its residents’ most basic (yet complex) rights.”
—DAVID PITT, BOOKLIST
2011 11 halftones 384 pp.
Cloth $29.95 / £22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05805-7
New in paperback
R OOSEVELT ’ S P URGE
How FDR Fought to Change
the Democratic Party
SUSAN DUNN
★
Henry Adams Prize,
Society for History in the Federal Government
★ Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, History
“Dunn delves into a fascinating and overlooked
aspect of the FDR presidency: Roosevelt’s
brazen effort to assert control over his own party
in the summer of 1938. Dunn has written an
engaging story of bare-knuckled political treachery that pits a president at the peak of his popularity against entrenched congressional leaders
who didn’t like where he was taking the country
and their party. FDR tried to use the power of
the White House, and his personality, to run his
opponents out of the Democratic Party. He
failed miserably.”
—JONATHAN KARL,
WALL STREET JOURNAL
Belknap 2012; 2010 20 halftones 384 pp.
Cloth $27.95 / £20.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05717-3
Paper $17.95 / £13.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06430-0
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T HE C OLLAPSE
A MERIC AN
C RIMINAL
J USTICE
D ESIGN
FOR L IBERTY
OF
WILLIAM J. STUNTZ
★
A Green Bag Almanac
& Reader Selection for
Exemplary Legal
Writing
★ A Library Journal
Best Book of the Year
“How has the American criminal-justice system
become one of the most punitive in the world
without providing a corresponding level of public
safety? In The Collapse of American Criminal
Justice, William J. Stuntz…offers a provocative
big-picture answer…The overarching themes of
The Collapse of American Criminal Justice deserve
wide discussion, and the book as a whole can be
rightly seen as the capstone to a distinguished
legal career. Americans may debate whether our
criminal-justice system has truly collapsed, but
few would argue that it can’t be improved.”
—PAUL G. CASSELL,
WALL STREET JOURNAL
“The book is eminently readable and merits
careful attention because it accurately describes
the twin problems that pervade American criminal justice today—its overall severity and its disparate treatment of African-Americans…
Virtually everything that Stuntz has written is
thought-provoking and constructive…Well
worth reading.”
—JUSTICE JOHN PAUL STEVENS,
NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
Belknap 2011 4 charts, 11 tables 432 pp.
Cloth $35.00 / £25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05175-1
New in paperback
A MERIC AN H OMICIDE
RANDOLPH ROTH
★
A Reason Best Book of the Year
★ A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
★ Allan Sharlin Memorial Award
★ Michael J. Hindelang Award
“In American Homicide, Randolph Roth traces
the history of our murdering ways through the
lens of our feelings about those in power…Roth
argues that how we see ourselves in relation to
our government…is at the heart of many decisions to take another life…Looking at the fluctuating homicide rate at various times in our
history, Roth tracks the historical consequences
of shifting power…Roth’s book also offers a
warning about our volatile political rhetoric.
Words can have real-life, even violent, consequences. American Homicide is a vivid reminder
that politics isn’t just about winning—it’s also
about how you treat those who lose.”
Private Property,
Public Administration,
and the Rule of Law
RICHARD A. EPSTEIN
In this compact book, the
noted legal scholar Richard
Epstein advocates a much
smaller federal government,
arguing that our over-regulated state gives too
much discretion to regulators, which results in arbitrary, unfair decisions and other abuses. Epstein
bases his classical liberalism on the twin pillars of
the rule of law and of private contracts and property rights—an overarching structure that allows
private property to keep its form regardless of
changes in population, tastes, technology, and
wealth. This structure also makes possible a restrained public administration to implement limited objectives. Government continues to play a
key role as night-watchman, but with the added
flexibility in revenues and expenditures to attend to
national defense and infrastructure. Joining a set of
strong property rights with sound but limited public administration could strengthen the rule of law,
with its neutrality, generality, clarity, consistency,
and forward-lookingness, and reverse the cynicism
that has overcome us.
2011 248 pp.
Cloth $29.95 / £22.95
ISBN
978-0-674-06184-2
P ECULIAR I NSTITUTION
America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition
DAVID GARLAND
★
Association of American Publishers PROSE
Award for Excellence, Law and Legal Studies
★ Barrington Moore Book Award
★ Co-Winner, Mary Douglas Prize
★ A Times Literary Supplement
Best Book of the Year
“[A] magisterial account of the origins, the development, and the transformation of capital
punishment.”
—MARIE GOTTSCHALK,
NEW REPUBLIC ONLINE
Belknap 2010 3 figures, 3 tables 432 pp.
Cloth $35.00 / COBE ISBN 978-0-674-05723-4
—RAINA KELLEY, NEWSWEEK
Belknap 2012; 2009 31 charts, 1 map, 1 table 672 pp.
Paper $22.50 / £16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06411-9
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New
New
L IVING
O RIGINALISM
C ONSTITUTIONAL
R EDEMPTION
JACK M. BALKIN
Political Faith in an
Unjust World
Originalism and living constitutionalism, often seen as
opposing views, are not in
conflict. So argues Jack
Balkin, a leading constitutional scholar, in this longawaited book. Step by step,
Balkin shows how both liberals and conservatives play important roles in
constitutional construction, and offers a way past
the angry polemics of our era.
“With this book Jack Balkin has produced what
might be described as an owner’s manual for the
Constitution, revealing with painstaking care
the many ways in which it can be read and interpreted. Balkin deftly shows how we can move
past arguments over ‘living’ versus ‘originalist’
constitutionalism, to arrive at the welcome place
where Americans can own and redeem the Constitution for themselves.”
—DAHLIA LITHWICK, SLATE
Belknap 2011 480 pp.
Cloth $35.00 / £25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06178-1
New
T HE P EOPLE ’ S C OURTS
Pursuing Judicial Independence in America
JED HANDELSMAN SHUGERMAN
★
Cromwell Dissertation/Article Prize,
American Society for Legal History,
awarded for the dissertation version of this book
In the United States, almost 90 percent of state
judges have to run in popular elections to remain
on the bench. In the past decade, this peculiarly
American institution has produced vicious multimillion-dollar political election campaigns and
high-profile allegations of judicial bias and misconduct. The People’s Courts traces the history of
judicial elections and Americans’ quest for an independent judiciary—one that would ensure fairness for all before the law—from the colonial era
to the present.
2012 2 line illus., 2 graphs, 7 tables 400 pp.
Cloth $35.00 / £25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05548-3
JACK M. BALKIN
Political constitutions are
compromises with injustice. What makes the
U.S. Constitution legitimate is Americans’ faith
that the constitutional system can be made “a
more perfect union.” Jack M. Balkin argues that
the American constitutional project is based in
hope and a narrative of shared redemption, and
its destiny is still over the horizon.
“Balkin’s book is both acute and inspiring…
Wonderfully articulate, provocative, and illuminating, Balkin offers a remarkably original and
unified argument that the long history of struggle
over the Constitution’s commitments can best be
understood as a nation’s story of faith, doubt, and
redemption.”
—JAMES E. FLEMING,
BOSTON UNIVERSITY
“Part of the reason that all Americans can venerate the Constitution is that we each see it a little
differently. What binds us together, Jack Balkin
argues, is a shared faith that the promise of
America can be redeemed through the Constitution. We do not decide what will happen in
America simply by consulting the Constitution.
We decide what the Constitution means partly
by asking what America ought to be.”
—RICHARD PRIMUS,
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
2011 1 table 304 pp.
Cloth $35.00 / £25.95
ISBN
978-0-674-05874-3
New in paperback
T HE I DEOLOGIC AL O RIGINS
A MERIC AN F EDERALISM
OF
ALISON L. L A CROIX
“As LaCroix shows in this engaging treatise, the
who-does-what questions at the heart of federalism have vexed the nation from the get-go.”
—KEVIN R. KOSAR, WEEKLY STANDARD
“The virtue of LaCroix’s account is to show not
only that federalism as it developed was more
intellectually coherent than a mere bundle of
compromises, but also that its theoretical core
had begun to emerge decades before the delegates travelled to Philadelphia in May 1787
[for the Constitutional Convention].”
—GARY L. MCDOWELL,
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
2011; 2010 320 pp.
Paper $22.50 / £16.95
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978-0-674-06203-0
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T HE B ODY OF
J OHN M ERRYMAN
S OMEDAY A LL T HIS
W ILL B E Y OURS
Abraham Lincoln
and the Suspension
of Habeas Corpus
A History of Inheritance
and Old Age
BRIAN M C GINTY
Hendrik Hartog tells the
heartbreaking stories of how
families fought over the
work of caring for the elderly, and its compensation,
in a time before pensions, Social Security, and
nursing homes filled this gap. As an explosive
economy drew the young away from home, we
see how the elderly used promises of inheritance
to keep children at their side.
When Chief Justice
Taney declared Lincoln’s
suspension of habeas corpus unconstitutional and
demanded the release of John Merryman, Lincoln
defied the order, offering a forceful counter-argument for the constitutionality of his actions. The
result was one of the most significant cases in
American legal history—a case that resonates in
our own time.
“In Brian McGinty’s engaging treatment of this
famous episode, Lincoln comes across as a familiar figure—both thoughtful and decisive, respectful of constitutional law yet aware of the
unusual necessities of the time…McGinty’s account offers a…vivid and rounded picture of the
episode by giving Taney’s motivations and
hypocrisies equal billing; doing so puts Lincoln’s
actions in an even more favorable light than history already has. Beset by enemies on all sides,
Lincoln had also to cope with calculated opposition clothed in judicial robes, and he did so with
admirable restraint.”
—ADRIAN VERMEULE,
NEW REPUBLIC ONLINE
“An original, comprehensive, and well-written
narrative about the first constitutional crisis…
Anyone interested in American history, the Constitution, and the Civil War will be anxious to
read this excellent book.”
—FRANK J. WILLIAMS, FORMER CHIEF
JUSTICE OF THE RHODE ISLAND
SUPREME COURT AND FOUNDING
CHAIR OF THE LINCOLN FORUM
2011 10 halftones 272 pp.
Cloth $29.95 / £22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06155-2
New in paperback
A MERIC A ’ S C OLD W AR
The Politics of Insecurity
CAMPBELL CRAIG AND FREDRIK LOGEVALL
“This is a creative, carefully researched, and incisive analysis of U.S. strategy during the long
struggle against the Soviet Union. There are
plenty of good books on this topic already, but
Craig and Logevall’s is one of the best, and their
interpretation has important implications for
contemporary strategic debates.”
HENDRIK HARTOG
“In this gem of a book, Hartog reveals the
human drama of growing old and dependent,
and the enduring dilemma in mixing love and
economic need.”
—MARTHA MINOW, DEAN,
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL
“Hartog brilliantly illuminates the central role
that law has played in shaping Americans’ ideas
about getting old. Poignant, funny, and analytically razor-sharp, this is a groundbreaking
book.”
—DYLAN PENNINGROTH, AUTHOR OF
THE CLAIMS OF KINFOLK
2012 368 pp.
Cloth $29.95 / £22.95
ISBN
978-0-674-04688-7
New in paperback
A MERIC ANS A LL
The Cultural Gifts Movement
DIANA SELIG
★
Honorable Mention,
Gustavus Myers Book Award
“This fascinating and intensively researched
monograph moves chronologically and thematically to construct the first major historical study
of this movement, which aimed to enhance the
American creed by confronting and overcoming
the worst prejudicial complications of American
diversity.”
—CHRISTOPHER MCKNIGHT NICHOLS,
REVIEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY
2011; 2008 17 halftones 384 pp.
Paper $29.95 / £22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06224-5
—STEPHEN M. WALT,
FOREIGNPOLICY.COM
“It is an excellent history, providing the best
treatment of the question, ‘Who ended the
Cold War, Reagan or Gorbachev?’”
—H. NELSEN, CHOICE
Belknap 2012; 2009 448 pp.
Paper $18.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06406-5
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New
T HE U PSIDE -D OWN
C ONSTITUTION
T HE F OUNDING
F ATHERS V.
THE P EOPLE
MICHAEL S. GREVE
The Constitution’s vision of
federalism in which local,
state, and federal government compete to satisfy preferences of individuals has
given way to a cooperative,
cartelized federalism that enables interest groups to leverage power at every level for their own benefit.
Michael Greve traces this inversion and dispels
much received wisdom along the way.
“Michael Greve has written the best book on
American federalism in years…No one interested in American constitutional development
(and its future) can afford to ignore this book.”
—SANFORD LEVINSON,
AUTHOR OF FRAMED
2012 3 graphs, 6 tables 528 pp.
Cloth $49.95 / £36.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06191-0
Paradoxes of
American Democracy
ANTHONY KING
“Tony King has produced a beautifully
crafted and deliciously
thought-provoking extended essay on the many puzzles of American
politics emanating from the tensions between
constitutionalism and democracy. In his signature empirical and nonjudgmental fashion, King
identifies paradoxes and raises questions that are
certain to provoke discussion and debate on this
side of the Atlantic.”
—THOMAS E. MANN,
THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION
2012 256 pp.
Cloth $35.00 / £25.95
ISBN
978-0-674-04573-6
D EMOCRACY ’ S P RISONER
New in paperback
T HE S UPREME C OURT AND THE
A MERIC AN E LITE , 1789–2008
“Powe has certainly written a book that is entertaining, quirky, idiosyncratic, fun to read, and
more than occasionally insightful. It does blend
together legal doctrine and American politics,
and as a result the history is richer—and more
complete—than the usual account.”
—LAWRENCE M. FRIEDMAN,
AMERICAN PROSPECT
ISBN
ERNEST FREEBERG
★
LUCAS A. POWE, JR.
2011; 2009 432 pp.
Paper $19.95 / £14.95
Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and
the Right to Dissent
978-0-674-06041-8
David J. Langum, Sr. Prize,
American Legal History
★ Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize,
Biography
★ Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award,
American Library Association
“Democracy’s Prisoner is teeming with lessons.
But above all, it’s the story of one extraordinary
man’s showdown with the establishment—and
how that confrontation turned into a complex
political struggle whose outcome was up for
grabs. Carefully researched and expertly told,
Debs’ story also brings a fascinating era into
sharp, vivid focus.”
—PETER RICHARDSON,
LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW
2010; 2008 17 halftones 392 pp.
Paper $18.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05720-3
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T HE C RISIS IN
E NERGY P OLICY
C ROSSING
B ORDERS
JOHN M. DEUTCH
Migration and Citizenship
in the Twentieth-Century
United States
With an extraordinary
mix of technical, scholarly, corporate, and governmental expertise, John
Deutch offers an eyeopening history of the
muddled practices that
have passed for energy
policy over the past thirty years, and a cogent account of what we can learn from so many breakdowns of strategy and execution.
“Only a person with Deutch’s extraordinary mix
of deep technical expertise and broad government
experience could have written such an insightful
book on the challenges confronting those who
would affect the energy policy of this country.”
—LINDA G. STUNTZ,
FORMER DEPUTY SECRETARY OF
THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
The Godkin Lectures on the Essentials of Free
Government and the Duties of the Citizen
2011 1 halftone, 12 line illus., 4 tables 192 pp.
Cloth $24.95 / £18.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05826-2
New in paperback
F ACING C ATASTROPHE
Environmental Action for a Post-Katrina World
ROBERT R. M. VERCHICK
★
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
“The book is an important attempt to, among
other things, take the ‘lessons of Katrina’ and
make from them a new kind of national policy:
one that can calculate the economic value of
‘natural infrastructure’—like Louisiana’s coastal
wetlands, which help to diminish the ferocity of
incoming hurricanes—and can use that calculation to make saner cost-benefit decisions about
our environment.”
—HARRY SHEARER, HUFFINGTON POST
2012; 2010 334 pp.
Paper $19.95 / £14.95
ISBN
978-0-674-06425-6
DOROTHEE SCHNEIDER
“Crossing Borders deserves a
place on the growing shelf
of immigration histories.
Filled with fresh material
and compelling stories, it is a useful supplement to
more traditional accounts of American immigration politics and policymaking.”
—TAMAR JACOBY, NEW REPUBLIC ONLINE
“Wide-ranging and original…An important
contribution to emerging literature that brings
the state back into migration studies while still
paying tribute to the agency of migrants.”
—DONNA R. GABACCIA,
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
2011 2 graphs 336 pp.
Cloth $45.00 / £33.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04756-3
Also available
THE DECLINE AND FALL
OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC
BRUCE ACKERMAN
Belknap / The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
2010 280 pp.
Cloth $25.95 / £19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05703-6
DEPORTATION NATION
Outsiders in American History
DANIEL KANSTROOM
2010; 2007 352 pp.
Paper $22.95 / £16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04622-1
THE TWO FACES OF AMERICAN FREEDOM
AZIZ RANA
★ A Huffington Post Best Book of the Year
on Social and Political Awareness
2010 432 pp.
Cloth $29.95 / £22.95
ISBN
978-0-674-04897-3
THE ANNOTATED U.S. CONSTITUTION
AND DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
JACK N. RAKOVE
★ A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Belknap 2009 34 halftones 368 pp.
Cloth $24.95 / £18.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03606-2
PoliticAl And legAl HiStory
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New
T HE C RUCIBLE
C ONSENT
New in
OF
American Child Rearing
and the Forging of
Liberal Society
JAMES E. BLOCK
Why do free people submit
to any rule? How is consent
of the governed formed?
James Block argues that the
source is found in the nursery and schoolroom,
where the necessary synthesis of self-direction and
integrative social conduct are established without
provoking reservation or resistance.
“No one understands the struggle with authority at the heart of American liberalism better
than James Block…The Crucible of Consent reminds us of the best in our national character
and of the complications that have come to impede its latter-day expression.”
—STEPHEN SKOWRONEK,
YALE UNIVERSITY
“[This book] is an agenda-setting work that we
will be reckoning with for a long time.”
paperback
S ETTLER
S OVEREIGNTY
Jurisdiction and
Indigenous People in
America and Australia,
1788–1836
LISA FORD
★
NSW Premier’s
History Award, General
History, Government of NSW, Australia
★ Littleton-Griswold Prize,
American Historical Association
★ Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize
“The key to understanding Australian attitudes to
the law lies deep in our history, as Lisa Ford
shows with great forensic flair…[This] is comparative history at its best. Ford moves confidently
between the two societies and appears equally at
home in both. Both the similarities and the differences are revealing. Each study enlightens the
other. This is so because the supporting scholarship is so impressive, the fruit, Ford tells us, of ten
years’ research and reflection.”
—HENRY REYNOLDS,
AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW
—MICHAEL ZUCKERMAN,
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
2012 464 pp.
Cloth $45.00 / £33.95
ISBN
978-0-674-05194-2
Harvard Historical Studies 2011; 2010 6 maps 328 pp.
Paper $24.95 / £18.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06188-0
A MERIC A ’ S A RMY
T HE S PIRIT
Making the All-Volunteer Force
Religious Voices and the Constitution
in Modern America
BETH BAILEY
★
Distinguished Writing Award,
Army Historical Foundation
“A valuable reference work for anyone interested
in the armed forces. The book has added value
today, given the strain under which the military
has found itself in fighting lengthy insurgencies
in both Afghanistan and Iraq.”
—DOUG BANDOW, WASHINGTON TIMES
OF THE
L AW
SARAH BARRINGER GORDON
★
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
“The Spirit of the Law subtly suggests that the
era of strong evangelical influence in American
culture may be at least temporarily over.”
—DAVID SKEEL, BOOKS & CULTURE
Belknap 2010 21 halftones 352 pp.
Cloth $29.95 / £22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04654-2
Belknap 2009 22 halftones 352 pp.
Cloth $29.95 / £22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03536-2
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New
R EASONING
FROM R ACE
P ROMISE
AND P ERIL
Feminism, Law, and the
Civil Rights Revolution
America at the Dawn
of a Global Age
SERENA MAYERI
CHRISTOPHER
M C KNIGHT NICHOLS
In the 1960s and 1970s,
analogies between sex
discrimination and racial
injustice became potent
weapons in the battle for
women’s rights, as feminists borrowed rhetoric
and legal arguments from the civil rights movement. Serena Mayeri’s Reasoning from Race is the
first history of this key strategy and its consequences for American law.
“Mayeri shows that racial politics’ impact on the
women’s movement was not a coincidence of
timing but rather the inevitable result of ideas
and individuals colliding at key moments in history. Her carefully crafted reconciliation of racial
justice with women’s rights offers a template for
incorporating race into ongoing feminist debate
rather than letting such conversations end in
painful silence.”
—PAMELA D. BRIDGEWATER, MS.
2011 382 pp.
Cloth $39.95 / £29.95
ISBN
978-0-674-04759-4
N O R IGHT T URN
Conservative Politics in a Liberal America
DAVID T. COURTWRIGHT
“There is much to admire here…No Right Turn
is a wonderful read. Courtwright engagingly
profiles figures from Clare Boothe Luce to
Johnny Carson. He has gone to all the archives,
interviewed all the right people, and thought
deeply about his findings…He tells his story
with plenty of fresh twists and turns.”
—LAURA KALMAN, AMERICAN PROSPECT
2010 22 halftones 352 pp.
Cloth $29.95 / £22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04677-1
“In this important
new book, Christopher
McKnight Nichols invites
a broad reconsideration of
[isolationism] by tracing its origins
back to the debates over U.S. imperialism
at the end of the 19th century and its surprising
continuities—and surprising bedfellows—over
the next-half century.”
—JIM CULLEN, HISTORY NEWS NETWORK
“A deeply thoughtful study about the power of
ideas in the making of U.S. foreign policy.”
—MICHAEL KAZIN,
AUTHOR OF A GODLY HERO
2011 16 halftones 464 pp.
Cloth $35.00 / £25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04984-0
Also available
THE ROAD TO DALLAS
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
DAVID KAISER
Belknap 2009; 2008 28 halftones, 2 maps 536 pp.
Paper $21.00 / £15.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03472-3
SERVING THEIR COUNTRY
American Indian Politics and Patriotism
in the Twentieth Century
PAUL C. ROSIER
★ Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award
2009 19 halftones 368 pp.
Cloth $42.00 / £31.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03610-9
HENRY KISSINGER AND THE
AMERICAN CENTURY
JEREMI SURI
Belknap 2009; 2007 32 halftones 368 pp.
Paper $21.00 / £15.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03252-1
THE WORD OF THE LORD IS UPON ME
The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King, Jr.
JONATHAN RIEDER
Belknap 2010; 2008 6 halftones 408 pp.
Paper $18.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04698-6
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New
W HEN W ALL
S TREET M ET
M AIN S TREET
C APITALIST
R EVOLUTIONARY
The Quest for an
Investors’ Democracy
ROGER E. BACKHOUSE
AND BRADLEY W.
BATEMAN
JULIA C. OTT
The financial crisis of 2008
made Americans keenly
aware of the impact Wall
Street has on the economic
well-being of the nation and its citizenry. Julia C.
Ott shows how the government, corporations,
and financial institutions transformed stock
investment from an elite to a mass practice
at the beginning of the twentieth century.
“A brilliant examination of the origins of our
investors’ democracy. Ott reveals how participation in financial markets became the embodiment of citizenship.”
—STEPHEN MIHM, AUTHOR OF
A NATION OF COUNTERFEITERS
“Ott’s stunning book provides much needed
history to a modern America that takes mutual
funds, 401ks, and stock options for granted…
Ott astutely reveals the benefits and costs of
becoming a nation of stockholders.”
—LIZABETH COHEN, AUTHOR OF
A CONSUMERS’ REPUBLIC
John Maynard Keynes
The 2008 recession restored John Maynard
Keynes to prominence.
This account elaborates
the misinformation that led to his repeated resurrection and interment since his death in 1946.
Keynes was more open-minded about capitalism
than is commonly believed, and his nuanced
views offer an alternative to the polarized rhetoric
evoked by the word “capitalism” today.
“[A] timely and provocative reappraisal.”
—JOHN CASSIDY, NEW YORKER
“Elegantly written and extremely thoughtful…
This is not a technical economic tract; this is a
book for someone who wants to understand
how Keynes’ ideas and habits of thought fit together…Writing about someone like Keynes
who personally wrote so much, so well, must be
a daunting task. Backhouse and Bateman more
than keep up, not by competing with Keynes,
but by letting him speak, in all his many voices.”
—ROBERT TEITELMAN, THE DEAL
2011 29 halftones, 2 maps, 1 graph 352 pp.
Cloth $35.00 / £25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05065-5
2011 208 pp.
Cloth $25.95 / £20.00
K ILLING
New in paperback
FOR
C OAL
America’s Deadliest Labor War
THOMAS G. ANDREWS
★
Bancroft Prize, Columbia University
George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Book
in Environmental History, American Society
for Environmental History
★ Caroline Bancroft History Prize,
Denver Public Library
★ Vincent P. DeSantis Book Prize, The Society for
Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
★ Colorado Book Award, History
★ Spence Award, Mining History Association
★ Honorable Mention, Hundley Prize,
The Pacific Coast Branch of the
American Historical Association
★ Finalist, Clements Prize, Southwest History
★ Noteworthy Book in Industrial Relations
and Labor Economics, Industrial Relations
Section of Princeton Firestone Library
★
ISBN
978-0-674-05775-3
N ATURAL E XPERIMENTS
OF H ISTORY
EDITED BY JARED DIAMOND
AND JAMES A. ROBINSON
“A short book packed with huge ideas. Its collected essays advocate how controlled experiments can be applied to the messy realities of
human history, politics, culture, economics and
the environment…All of the essays in Natural
Experiments of History will trigger debate.”
—JON CHRISTENSEN, NATURE
Belknap 2011; 2010
14 figures, 5 maps, 7 tables 288 pp.
Paper $18.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06019-7
“A groundbreaking work about coal and coal
development, labor relations and class conflict.”
—SANDRA DALLAS, DENVER POST
2010; 2008 30 halftones, 4 maps 408 pp.
Cloth $29.95 / £22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03101-2
Paper $18.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04691-7
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A F AILURE OF
C APITALISM
T HE C RISIS
OF C APITALIST
D EMOCRACY
The Crisis of ’08 and the
Descent into Depression
RICHARD A. POSNER
RICHARD A. POSNER
★
“[Posner] is one of our
most original and clearheaded thinkers.”
A Financial Times
Financial Book
of the Year
Following up on his
timely and well-received
book, A Failure of Capitalism, Richard Posner steps
back to take a longer view of the continuing crisis
of democratic capitalism as the American and
world economies crawl gradually back from the
depths to which they had fallen in the autumn of
2008 and the winter of 2009.
“My advice is: Read it…Altogether, The Crisis of
Capitalist Democracy is the best thing I’ve read
on the origins and development of the ‘Great
Recession.’”
—JOHN STEELE GORDON,
NATIONAL REVIEW
“The best volume I have read specifically about
the financial crisis and its implications is
Richard Posner’s The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy…Posner’s book contains a formidablelooking chart of supply and demand curves, but
do not be misled: this is a clear and brilliant exposition of the greatest economic news story for
generations.”
—AZAR NAFISI, THE TIMES
2011; 2010 2 graphs 408 pp.
Cloth $25.95 / £19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05574-2
Paper $18.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06219-1
Also available
BIRTH OF A SALESMAN
The Transformation of Selling in America
WALTER A. FRIEDMAN
2005; 2004 25 halftones 368 pp.
Paper $22.00 / £16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-01833-4
PULL
Networking and Success since Benjamin Franklin
PAMELA WALKER LAIRD
★ Harold F. Williamson Prize, Business History Conference
★ Hagley Prize in Business History,
The Business History Conference & The Hagley Museum
—L. GORDON
CROVITZ,
WALL STREET JOURNAL
“A surprising volume that explains what happened to the banking system and economy in
terms the lay reader can easily understand…
[Posner’s] critique is bracing, all the more so because it comes from a right-leaning thinker normally hostile to the ministrations of government
bureaucrats.”
—PAUL M. BARRETT,
WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
2011; 2009 368 pp.
Paper $17.95 / £13.95
ISBN
978-0-674-06039-5
N ETWORK N ATION
Inventing American Telecommunications
RICHARD R. JOHN
★
Ralph Gomory Prize,
Business History Conference
★ Best Journalism and Mass Communication
History Book Award, Association for Education
in Journalism and Mass Communication
“This is a valuable book on the technological
and economic trends that impacted the popularization of the telephone, one of the most profoundly significant inventions in the record of
humanity. To understand the history of American telecommunications is to attend to the political economies at the time technological
innovation occurred. John brilliantly articulates
this context.”
—JIM HAHN, LIBRARY JOURNAL
Belknap 2010 12 line illus., 1 map, 3 tables 528 pp.
Cloth $39.95 / £29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02429-8
Harvard Studies in Business History
2007; 2005 16 halftones 464 pp.
Paper $22.50 / £16.95 ISBN 9780674025530
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New
T HE M ATTER
OF C APITAL
A GE OF
F RACTURE
Poetry and Crisis in
the American Century
DANIEL T. RODGERS
★
CHRISTOPHER NEALON
This reexamination of
North America’s poetry in
English, from Ezra Pound
and W. H. Auden to
younger poets of the present
day, argues persuasively that the central literary
project of the past century was to explore the relationship between poetry and capitalism—its impact on individuals, communities, and cultures.
“Nealon makes a strongly compelling case in
this book that ‘capital’ and its crises have continued to pervade and magnetize much of the most
cannily powerful poetry of the last century…Indeed, with this book, Nealon is likely to join the
select company of a handful of critics of poetry,
such as Charles Altieri and Maria Damon,
whom poets actually read.”
“It is hard to think of a
work of American intellectual history, written in the last quarter of a century, that is more accomplished or more likely to
remain permanently influential.”
—MICHAEL O'BRIEN,
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
“An elegant, often eloquent, history of intellectual
life in the last quarter of the twentieth century.”
—LISA SZEFEL, HISTORY NEWS NETWORK
“Age of Fracture provides a frequently insightful
narrative of recent public intellectual life in this
country--and also some understanding of its
precarious situation now.”
—MICHAEL MOON, EMORY UNIVERSITY
2011 202 pp.
Cloth $35.00 / £25.95
ISBN
978-0-674-05872-9
John G. Cawelti
Award, Popular
Culture Association
and American Culture
Association
—SCOTT MCLEMEE, THE NATIONAL
Belknap 2011 360 pp.
Cloth $29.95 / £22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05744-9
New in paperback
E DEN
B ORDERLINE A MERIC ANS
The Making of Boston
Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona
Borderlands
MICHAEL RAWSON
KATHERINE BENTON-COHEN
★
★
A Pima County Public Library
Best Southwest Book of the Year
★ Finalist, Spur Award, Best Western Nonfiction—
Contemporary, Western Writers of America
★ Finalist, William P. Clements Prize,
William P. Clements Center for Southwest
Studies at Southern Methodist University
“Benton-Cohen uses the backdrop of the Wild
West, with its bustling commerce and growing
population, to wage a discussion on racial division and the power of ‘white privilege’…in this
richly detailed anthropological look into the creation of racial boundaries and their application
in present-day immigration reform debates.”
ON THE
C HARLES
★
Finalist, Pulitzer Prize in History
Abel Wolman Award,
American Public Works Association
★ Finalist, Julia Ward Howe Prize,
Boston Author’s Club
“This urban case study explores the changing
nature of environmental relationships and the
leading role that the city of Boston played in
the process…A valuable contribution to urban
historiography.”
—T. A. AIELLO, CHOICE
2010 12 maps, 17 halftones 384 pp.
Cloth $29.95 / £22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04841-6
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
2011; 2009 20 halftones, 4 maps 384 pp.
Paper $19.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06053-1
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S ELLING S OUNDS
A N EW L ITERARY
H ISTORY OF
A MERIC A
The Commercial
Revolution in
American Music
EDITED BY
GREIL MARCUS AND
WERNER SOLLORS
★
An Amazon.com
Editors’ Pick Best
Book of the Year
★ An Entertainment Weekly
“Shelf Life” Blog Best Book of the Year
★ A Time Out New York Gift Book of the Year
★ A Seminary Co-op Top 20 Book of the Year
★ A Salon Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
★ A Boston Phoenix Gift Book of the Year
★ An East Bay Express Best Book of the Year
★ An Entertainment Weekly Best Nonfiction
Book of the Year
★ An NPR Best Gift Book of the Year
“This magnificent volume is a vast, inquisitive,
richly surprising and consistently enlightening
wallow in our national history and culture.”
—LAURA MILLER, SALON
Belknap / Harvard University Press Reference Library
2012; 2009 27 halftones 1128 pp.
Paper $24.95 / £18.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06410-2
DAVID SUISMAN
★
Vincent P. DeSantis Prize
Hagley Prize in
Business History
★ ARSC Excellence in
Historical Recorded
Sound Research
★ A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
★
“Suisman kicks the legs out from the romantic
account of the music industry’s innocent start
and slow move to commercial heartlessness.”
—J. GABRIEL BOYLAN, THE NATION
2012; 2009 41 halftones 368 pp.
Paper $19.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06404-1
Also available
SERVING COUNTRY
AND COMMUNITY
Who Benefits from National Service?
PETER FRUMKIN AND JOANN JASTRZAB
2010 1 chart, 17 graphs, 12 tables 320 pp.
Cloth $45.00 / £33.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04678-8
F RESH
PATRIOTIC PLURALISM
Americanization Education and European Immigrants
JEFFREY E. MIREL
★ A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
A Perishable History
2010 2 tables 378 pp.
Cloth $45.00 / £33.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04638-2
SUSANNE FREIDBERG
★
Sally Hacker Prize
“A dietary-cum-social history…This smart,
sweeping, and timely volume—appearing at a
moment when buying locally and eating organically are fashionably responsible quests—considers the conundrums of industrial freshness.”
—THE ATLANTIC
Belknap 2010; 2009 28 halftones 416 pp.
Paper $17.95 / £13.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05722-7
SONGS OF OURSELVES
The Uses of Poetry in America
JOAN SHELLEY RUBIN
Belknap 2010; 2007 25 halftones 488 pp.
Paper $20.00 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03512-6
A HOME ELSEWHERE
Reading African American Classics in the Age of Obama
ROBERT B. STEPTO
The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures 2010 192 pp.
Cloth $22.95 / £16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05096-9
PILGRIMS OF THE VERTICAL
Yosemite Rock Climbers and Nature at Risk
JOSEPH E. TAYLOR III
★ National Outdoor Book Award—History / Biography,
NOBA Foundation, Idaho State University
2010 36 halftones, 3 maps 384 pp.
Cloth $29.95 / £22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05287-1
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New in
S EXUAL
R ECKONINGS
paperback
Southern Girls in
a Troubling Age
Coercion and Caregiving
in America
SUSAN K. CAHN
EVELYN NAKANO
GLENN
“As public policy wars over
morality rage unabated, the
bodies of teenage girls and
young women remain the
battleground, making this
book an urgent read…Cahn weaves the experiences and voices of girls from all classes and both
black and white communities to show how girls
used economic, social and cultural capital to redefine Victorian moral codes and pursue sexual
experiences once viewed as the preserve of men.”
—FRANCE WINDDANCE TWINE, MS.
“Cahn gives readers an insightful understanding
of history that will leave you intrigued, indignant, entertained and even confer value on anyone who has suffered injustices, nourishing the
possibility for change.”
—SOFIA MARIN, FEMINIST REVIEW
2012; 2007 19 halftones 384 pp.
Cloth $29.95 / £22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02452-6
Paper $19.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06393-8
D ESTINED
FOR
E QUALITY
The Inevitable Rise of Women’s Status
ROBERT MAX JACKSON
★
Honorable Mention, Association of American
Publishers Professional/Scholarly Publishing
Annual Award in Sociology & Anthropology
“This ambitious book deserves wide readership.
One does not have to agree with Jackson that
women were, as the title
suggests, ‘destined for
equality’ to appreciate the
force of his argument and
the crisp and clear manner
in which he presents it.”
—DENNIS A. DESLIPPE,
JOURNAL OF
AMERICAN HISTORY
2010; 1998 11 line illus.,
1 table 330 pp.
Paper $22.95 / £16.95
ISBN 978-0-674-05728-9
F ORCED
★
TO
C ARE
Finalist, C. Wright
Mills Award,
Society for the Study
of Social Problems
“[Glenn’s] evidence is compelling and deals with
a wide variety of examples that proves how coercion and caregiving have gone hand in hand.
She uses evidence from the coercion of AfricanAmerican women in general, slavery, NativeAmerican women, as well as White women. She
provides the reader with information on how
class, race, and gender have formed the caregiving policies of twenty-first century America and
how policies and laws have favored women as
carers.”
—ELIN WEISS, METAPSYCHOLOGY
“A powerful and persuasive critique, Forced to
Care weaves together an insightful historical
narrative about caregiving…This important and
timely book should be part of the national discussion about America’s health care system.”
—KAREN BRODKIN,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
LOS ANGELES
2012; 2010 12 halftones 272 pp.
Cloth $29.95 / £22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04879-9
Paper $19.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06415-7
M ORE P ERFECT U NIONS
The American Search for Marital Bliss
REBECCA L. DAVIS
“An astute, engaging, and disturbing history.”
—JILL LEPORE, NEW YORKER
“More Perfect Unions is…a useful, and usefully
provocative, book. It should find a durable life
in the discourse of marriage and gender studies.”
—JIM CULLEN, HISTORY NEWS NETWORK
2010 336 pp.
Cloth $29.95 / £22.95
D AUGHTERS
ISBN
978-0-674-04796-9
OF THE
U NION
Northern Women Fight the Civil War
NINA SILBER
“An innovative analysis that is sure to inspire a
reconsideration of northern women’s patriotism
and its long-term results. Silber’s analytical
strengths and narrative style make this an engaging study for students and scholars of both
women’s and Civil War history.”
—VICTORIA E. OTT,
JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN HISTORY
2011; 2005 12 halftones 352 pp.
Paper $19.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06048-7
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V OICE AND
V ISION
M Y D EAREST
F RIEND
Letters of Abigail
and John Adams
A Guide to Writing
History and Other
Serious Nonfiction
EDITED BY
MARGARET A. HOGAN
AND C. JAMES TAYLOR
STEPHEN J. PYNE
“Because John Adams’s
work as a critical player in
the War of Independence
frequently took him away
from home, his correspondence with Abigail (some
1,160 letters between them
have survived) provides a
wonderfully vivid account
of the momentous era they
lived through, underscoring the chaotic, often improvisatory circumstances
that attended the birth of
the fledgling nation and
the hardships of daily life.”
“The book is everything
the author says a work
of nonfiction ought to
be: well written, clearly thought out, and full of
specific examples (of what to do and what not to
do). An essential tool for anyone who is attempting to write nonfiction, or even just thinking about it.”
—DAVID PITT, BOOKLIST
2011; 2009 3 line illus. 336 pp.
Paper $19.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06042-5
Also available
THE QUOTABLE ABIGAIL ADAMS
ABIGAIL ADAMS
Edited by John P. Kaminski
Belknap 2009 448 pp.
Cloth $26.95 / £19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03532-4
—MICHIKO
KAKUTANI,
NEW YORK TIMES
Belknap 2010; 2007 19 color illus., 9 halftones 528 pp.
Paper $19.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05705-0
Papers of John Adams / Adams Family Correspondence
PAPERS OF JOHN ADAMS
Belknap / Adams Papers
VOLUMES 1 AND 2
September 1755–April 1775
1977 888 pp.
Cloth $259.00 / £191.95
ISBN 978-0-674-65441-9
VOLUMES 3 AND 4
May 1775–August 1776
1980 1110 pp.
Cloth $247.50 / £183.95
ISBN 978-0-674-65442-6
VOLUMES 5 AND 6
August 1776–July 1778
1986 936 pp.
Cloth $259.00 / £191.95
ISBN 978-0-674-65443-3
VOLUMES 7 AND 8
September 1778–February 1780
1989 480 pp.
Cloth $259.00 / £191.95
ISBN 978-0-674-65444-0
VOLUMES 9 AND 10
March 1780–December 1780
1996 1192 pp.
Cloth $259.00 / £191.95
ISBN 978-0-674-65445-7
VOLUME 11
January–September 1781
2003 568 pp.
Cloth $124.50 / £92.95
ISBN 978-0-674-01136-6
VOLUME 12
October 1781–April 1782
2004 576 pp.
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ISBN 978-0-674-01281-3
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Adams, My Dearest Friend, 33
Adams, Papers of John Adams, 33
Adams, Quotable Abigail Adams, 33
Adams Family, Correspondence, 33
Andrews, Killing for Coal, 28
Arenson, Great Heart of the Republic, 6
Auslin, Pacific Cosmopolitans, 15
Bacevich, Short American Century, 35
Backhouse, Capitalist Revolutionary, 28
Bailey, America’s Army, 26
Bailyn, Soundings in Atlantic History, 19
Balkin, Constitutional Redemption, 22
Balkin, Living Originalism, 22
Banner, American Property, 20
Bell, We Shall Be No More, 35
Bellah, Religion in Human Evolution, 13
ben Simeon, Washington Haggadah, 12
Benton-Cohen, Borderline Americans, 30
Berkman, Prison Blossoms, 36
Blackhawk, Violence over the Land, 5
Blight, American Oracle, 2
Blight, Race and Reunion, 3
Block, Crucible of Consent, 26
Bradstreet, Works of Anne Bradstreet, 37
Brands, Latin America’s Cold War, 16
Brown, Reaper’s Garden, 19
Cahn, Sexual Reckonings, 32
Cassidy, Short History of Physics…, 34
Chouvy, Opium, 18
Cooper, Last of the Mohicans, 37
Cooper, Pioneers, 37
Courtwright, No Right Turn, 27
Craig, America’s Cold War, 23
Crane, Red Badge of Courage, 37
Cullather, Hungry World, 17
Davis, More Perfect Unions, 32
Delbanco, Abolitionist Imagination, 35
Deutch, Crisis in Energy Policy, 25
Diamond, Natural Experiments…, 28
Douglass, Narrative of the Life…, 37
Dunn, Roosevelt’s Purge, 20
Early, Level Playing Field, 7
Edelson, Plantation Enterprise…, 10
Epstein, Design for Liberty, 21
Farmer, On Zion’s Mount, 14
Feimster, Southern Horrors, 8
Ferguson, Shock of the Global, 17
Fichter, So Great a Proffit, 17
Foley, Quest for Equality, 8
Ford, Settler Sovereignty, 26
Freeberg, Democracy’s Prisoner, 24
Freidberg, Fresh, 31
Friedman, Birth of a Salesman, 29
Frumkin, Serving Country…, 31
Gallagher, Confederate War, 4
Gallagher, Union War, 4
Garland, Peculiar Institution, 21
Gilroy, Darker than Blue, 11
Glenn, Forced to Care, 32
Gooding-Williams, In the Shadow…, 11
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Gordon, Spirit of the Law, 26
Gould, Among the Powers of the Earth, 35
Greeson, Our South, 10
Gregory, Unintended Reformation, 12
Greve, Upside-Down Constitution, 24
Hahn, Political Worlds of Slavery…, 11
Hall, Dictionary of American…, 38
Hall, Uncommon Defense, 6
Hamilton, Federalist, 37
Hartog, Someday All This Will Be Yours, 23
Harvard University, Explore Harvard, 40
Hawthorne, Blithedale Romance, 37
Hawthorne, House of the Seven Gables, 37
Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter, 37
Hawthorne, Selected Stories, 37
Hinderaker, Two Hendricks, 5
Holmes, Common Law, 37
Holzer, Emancipating Lincoln, 35
Hoyt, Long Shot, 34
Jackson, Destined for Equality, 32
Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave…, 37
Jardim, Mauthausen Trial, 15
John, Network Nation, 29
Johnson, Soul by Soul, 9
Jones, Selma of the North, 11
Kahrl, Land Was Ours, 35
Kaiser, Road to Dallas, 27
Kanstroom, Deportation Nation, 25
Kelley, Africa Speaks, America Answers, 35
King, Founding Fathers v. the People, 24
Koehlinger, New Nuns, 14
LaCroix, Ideological Origins of…, 22
Laird, Pull, 29
Landers, Atlantic Creoles in the Age…, 19
Latimer, 1812, 17
Lentz-Smith, Freedom Struggles, 8
Linn, Echo of Battle, 18
Lubet, Fugitive Justice, 8
Mack, Representing the Race, 35
Maffly-Kipp, Setting Down…, 9
Mann, Republic of Debtors, 6
Marcus, New Literary History…, 31
Mayeri, Reasoning from Race, 27
McCartin, Prayers of the Faithful, 14
McCurry, Confederate Reckoning, 4
McGinty, John Brown’s Trial, 11
McGinty, Body of John Merryman, 23
Mintz, Three Ancient Colonies, 19
Mirel, Patriotic Pluralism, 31
Mirowski, Science-Mart, 34
Moreton, To Serve God and Wal-Mart, 13
Morey, Framing Muslims, 15
Moyn, Last Utopia, 17
Muhammad, Condemnation of Blackness, 9
Nathans, To Free a Family, 7
Nealon, Matter of Capital, 30
Neely, Civil War and the Limits…, 5
Neff, Justice in Blue and Gray, 4
Nichols, Promise and Peril, 27
Ninkovich, Global Dawn, 18
Noll, American Madness, 34
Norrell, Up from History, 10
Nussbaum, New Religious Intolerance, 35
O’Donovan, Becoming Free…, 10
Ott, When Wall Street Met Main Street, 28
Paine, Common Sense, 37
Portnoy, Their Right to Speak, 6
Posner, Failure of Capitalism, 29
Posner, Crisis of Capitalist Democracy, 29
Powe, Supreme Court and…, 24
Powell, Accidental City, 35
Preston, War Council, 18
Pyne, Voice and Vision, 33
Rakove, Annotated U.S. Constitution…, 25
Rana, Two Faces of American Freedom, 25
Rawson, Eden on the Charles, 30
Reiss, Showman and the Slave, 11
Rice, Jim Crow, American, 37
Richter, Before the Revolution, 3
Richter, Facing East from Indian Country, 3
Rieder, Word of the Lord Is Upon Me, 27
Riis, How the Other Half Lives, 37
Rodgers, Age of Fracture, 31
Rosenfeld, Common Sense, 20
Rosier, Serving Their Country, 27
Roth, American Homicide, 21
Rubin, Songs of Ourselves, 31
Schneider, Crossing Borders, 25
Scott, Freedom Papers, 35
Seitz, No Closure, 13
Selig, Americans All, 23
Selverstone, Constructing the Monolith, 17
Shephard, Harvard Sampler, 40
Shibusawa, America’s Geisha Ally, 16
Shugerman, People’s Courts, 22
Silber, Daughters of the Union, 32
Slate, Colored Cosmopolitanism, 16
Smith, Disenchantment of Secular…, 14
Smith, To Serve the Living, 8
Snyder, Slavery in Indian Country, 5
Stephens, Anointed, 12
Stephens, Fire Spreads, 14
Stepto, Home Elsewhere, 31
Sternhell, Routes of War, 35
Stevens, God-Fearing and Free, 13
Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 37
Stroumsa, New Science, 14
Stuntz, Collapse of American…, 21
Suisman, Selling Sounds, 31
Suri, Henry Kissinger and…, 27
Sutton, Aimee Semple McPherson…, 13
Taylor, Pilgrims of the Vertical, 31
Thompson, Exiles at Home, 6
Tilney, Invasion of the Body, 34
Tuck, We Ain’t What We Ought To Be, 7
Tucker, Strait Talk, 18
Vaïsse, Neoconservatism, 20
Verchick, Facing Catastrophe, 25
White, Playing the Numbers, 9
Winkler, Nexus, 18
Wood, Near Andersonville, 6
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