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1812

Jon Latimer

In the first complete history of the War of 1812 written from a British perspective, Latimer offers an authoritative and compelling account that places the conflict in its strategic context within the Napoleonic wars. Drawing on personal letters, diaries, and memoirs, Latimer describes events not merely through the eyes of generals, admirals, and politicians but through those of the soldiers, sailors, and ordinary people who were directly affected.

Hardcover 2007

The Paterik of the Kievan Caves Monastery

Muriel Heppell, Translator

The Kievan Caves Monastery was for centuries the most important Ukrainian monastic establishment. It was the outstanding center of literary production, and its monks served throughout the territory of Rus' as bishops and monastic superiors. Heppell now makes available the first complete English translation of the Paterik.

Hardcover 1989

The Povest' vremennykh let

with David Birnbaum and Horace G. Lunt

Compiled and Edited by Donald Ostrowski

David Birnbaum, Associate Editor

Horace G. Lunt, Senior Consultant

The Tale of Bygone Years (Povest' vremennykh let) is the most important source for the history of early Rus'. This massive undertaking provides scholars and general readers with the first fully legible text that includes all of the known redactions of the Povest'. The text consists of an intercollation of the five oldest redactions, three more modern redactions, three later interpolations, and Ostrowski's own final interpretation. The intercollated texts are nested line-by-line. This three-part set will be of fundamental importance to Slavic philologists and historians of early Rus'.

Hardcover 2004

Abolitionists Abroad

Lamin Sanneh

In 1792, nearly 1,200 freed American slaves crossed the Atlantic and established in Freetown, West Africa, a community dedicated to anti-slavery and opposed to the African chieftain hierarchy that was tied to slavery. Lamin Sanneh's engrossing book narrates this story of freed slaves who set out to establish communities that would be havens for ex-slaves and an example to the rest of Africa. Tracking this potent African American anti-slavery and democratizing movement through the nineteenth century, Lamin Sanneh recounts a crucial development in the history of West Africa.

Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2001

Above and Beyond

Kostiantyn P. Morozov

Sherman W. Garnett

Morozov provides behind-the-scenes insights on Yeltsin, Kuchma, Dudaev, and other important players still active today. His book will firmly alter our perception of the USSR and its demise, the Soviet military machine, and the rise of a modern, independent Ukraine.

Hardcover 2001

Academy and Community

William R. Keylor

In this book Keylor describes the establishment of history as an academic discipline in France between 1870 and 1914 and the formation of the "scientific" school of historical writing in the French university system. In a lucid study the author explains the complex process by which the new discipline of history was organized, furnished with a set of professional goals, and provided with the theoretical and institutional means of achieving them.

Hardcover 1975

The Accidental Republic

John Fabian Witt

John Fabian Witt argues that experiments in accident law at the turn of the twentieth century arose out of competing views of the loose network of ideas and institutions that historians call the ideology of free labor. These experiments a century ago shaped twentieth- and twenty-first-century American accident law; they laid the foundations of the American administrative state; and they occasioned a still hotly contested legal transformation from the principles of free labor to the categories of insurance and risk.

Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2006

Actors in the Audience

Shadi Bartsch

This is a book about language, theatricality, and empire--about how the Roman emperor dramatized his rule and how his subordinates in turn staged their response. Informed by theories of dramaturgy, sociology, new historicism, and cultural criticism, this close reading of literary and historical texts gives us a new perspective on the politics of the Roman empire--and on the languages and representation of power.

Hardcover 1998

Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 7, January 1786-February 1787

Adams Family

Edited by Margaret A. Hogan

Edited by C. James Taylor

Edited by Celeste Walker

Edited by Anne Decker Cecere

Edited by Gregg L. Lint

Edited by Hobson Woodward

Edited by Mary T. Claffey

In their myriad letters to one another the Adamses interspersed observations about their own family life--births and deaths, illnesses and marriages, new homes and new jobs, education and finances--with commentary on the most important social and political events of their day, from the scandals in the British royal family to the deteriorating political situation in Massachusetts that eventually culminated in Shays' Rebellion.

Hardcover 2005

Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 8, March 1787-December 1789

Adams Family

Edited by Margaret A. Hogan

Edited by C. James Taylor

Edited by Jessie May Rodrique

Edited by Hobson Woodward

Edited by Gregg L. Lint

Edited by Mary T. Claffey

By early 1787, as this latest volume of the award-winning series Adams Family Correspondence opens, John and Abigail Adams, anticipating a quiet retirement from government in Massachusetts, were quickly pulled back into the public sphere by John's election as the first vice president under the new Constitution. With their characteristic candor, the Adamses thoughtfully observe the world around them, from the manners of English court life to the politics of the new federal government in New York during this crucial historical period.

Hardcover 2007

Adams Family Correspondence, Volumes 1 and 2, December 1761 - March 1778

Adams Family

L. H. Butterfield, Editor

Wendell D. Garrett, Associate Editor

Marjorie Sprague, Assistant Editor

The Adams Family Correspondence, Mr. Butterfield writes, "is an unbroken record of the changing modes of domestic life, religious views and habits, travel, dress, servants, food, schooling, reading, health and medical care, diversions, and every other conceivable aspect of manners and taste among the members of a substantial New England family who lived on both sides of the Atlantic and wrote industriously to each other over a period of more than a century." These volumes are the first in the estimated twenty or more in Series 2 of The Adams Papers.

Hardcover

Adams Family Correspondence, Volumes 3 and 4, April 1778 - September 1782

Adams Family

Edited by L. H. Butterfield

Edited by Marc Friedlaender

Hardcover

Adams Family Correspondence, Volumes 5 and 6, October 1782 - December 1785

Adams Family

Richard Alan Ryerson, Editor

Joanna Revelas, Editor

Celeste Walker, Editor

Gregg L. Lint, Editor

Humphrey Costello, Editor

With the summer of 1784, most of the family reunited to spend nearly a year together in Europe. Their correspondence expanded to include an ever larger and more fascinating range of Cultural topics and international figures. The record of this remarkable expansion, these volumes document John Adams' diplomatic triumphs, his wife and daughter's participation in the cosmopolitan scenes of Paris and London, and his son John Quincy's travels in Europe and America.

Hardcover 1992

Adultery and Divorce in Calvin's Geneva

Robert Kingdon

In Calvin's Geneva, the changes associated with the Reformation were particularly abrupt and far-reaching, in large part owing to John Calvin himself. This book makes two major contributions to our understanding of this time: the first is to the history of divorce itself; the second is in illustrating the operations of the Consistory of Geneva.

Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1995

Advertising Tower

William O. Gardner

The activities of Japanese advertisers helped to define a new urban aesthetic emerging in the 1920s. This book examines some of the responses of Japanese authors to the transformation of Tokyo in the early decades of the twentieth century. William Gardner shows how modernist works offer new constructions of individual subjectivity amid the social and technological changes that provided the ground for the appearance of "mass media."

Hardcover 2006

Affairs of State

Morton Keller

Paperback

Africa and Its Explorers

Robert I. Rotberg

Paperback

African American Midwifery in the South

Gertrude Jacinta Fraser

Starting at the turn of the century, most African American midwives in the South were gradually excluded from reproductive health care. Gertrude Fraser shows how physicians, public health personnel, and state legislators mounted a campaign ostensibly to improve maternal and infant health, especially in rural areas. They brought traditional midwives under the control of a supervisory body, and eventually eliminated them.

Hardcover 1998

African American Women and Christian Activism

Judith Weisenfeld

When the middle class black women of Judith Weisenfeld's history organized a black chapter of the Young Women's Christian Association in 1905, it was a clear step toward establishing a suitable environment for young working women. Weisenfeld's account gives a vibrant picture of African American women as significant actors in the life of New York. It also bears telling witness to the religious, class, gender, and racial negotiations so often involved in American social reform movements.

Hardcover 1998

After the Ice

Steven Mithen

20,000 B.C., the peak of the last ice age--the atmosphere is heavy with dust, glaciers span vast regions, and people face the threat of extinction. But these people live on the brink of seismic change--10,000 years of climate shifts culminating in abrupt global warming that will usher in a fundamentally changed human world. This is the story of this momentous period--one in which a seemingly minor alteration in temperature could presage anything from the spread of lush woodland to the coming of apocalyptic floods--and one in which we find the origins of civilization itself.

Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2006

The Age of Confucian Rule

Dieter Kuhn

Timothy Brook, General Editor

Just over a thousand years ago, the Song dynasty emerged as the most advanced civilization on earth. Within two centuries, China was home to nearly half of all humankind. This book is an essential introduction to this transformative era.

Hardcover 2008

The Age of Independence

Michael J. Rosenfeld

Rosenfeld offers a new theory to account for the startling changes in American family composition in recent years. His argument revolves around the independent life stage that emerged around 1960, experienced by young adults after leaving their parents' homes and before settling down to start their own families. He shows how this stage has reduced parental control over their children's mate selection and has resulted in a rise in interracial and same-sex unions--unions that were more easily averted by previous generations.

Hardcover 2007

The Age of Visions and Arguments

Kyu Hyun Kim

The Meiji Restoration of 1868 inaugurated a period of great change in Japan; it is seldom associated, however, with advances in civil and political rights. By studying parliamentarianism--the theories, arguments, and polemics marshaled in support of a representative system of government--Kim uncovers a much more complicated picture of this era than is usually given.

Hardcover 2008

Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America

Matthew Avery Sutton

Aimee Semple McPherson was the most flamboyant and controversial minister in the United States between the world wars, building a successful megachurch, a mass media empire, and eventually a political career to resurrect what she believed was America's Christian heritage. Sutton's definitive study reveals the woman as a trail-blazing pioneer, her life marking the beginning of Pentecostalism's advance to the mainstream of American culture.

Hardcover 2007

Al Qaeda in Its Own Words

Edited by Gilles Kepel

Edited by Jean-Pierre Milelli

Translated by Pascale Ghazaleh

Introduction and notes by Thomas Hegghammer

Introduction and notes by Stephane Lacroix

Introduction and notes by Jean-Pierre Milelli

Introduction and notes by Omar Saghi

To reveal Al Qaeda’s inner workings, Gilles Kepel and his collaborators, all scholars of Arabic and Islam, have collected and brilliantly annotated key texts of the major figures from whom the movement has drawn its beliefs and direction. The resulting volume offers an unprecedented glimpse into the assumptions of the salafist jihadists who have reshaped political life at the beginning of the third millennium.

Hardcover 2008

Alamein

Jon Latimer

In this compelling account of the decisive World War II battle of El Alamein, Jon Latimer brings to life the harsh desert conflict in North Africa. This is the story of two of the most intriguing commanders of the war and the story of the infantry soldiers who fought in a scorched wilderness.

Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004

The Aldo Moro Murder Case

Richard Drake

Aldo Moro's kidnapping and violent death in 1978 had much the same effect in Italy as the assassination of President John F. Kennedy had in the United States, with both cases giving rise to endless conspiracy theories. In his thorough account of the long and anguished quest for justice in the Moro murder case, Richard Drake provides a detailed portrait of the tragedy and its aftermath as complex symbols of a turbulent age in Italian history.

Hardcover

The Alienated Academy

Wen-Hsin Yeh

The enormous changes in twentieth-century Chinese higher education up to the Sino-Japanese War are detailed in this pioneering work. Yeh examines the impact of instruction in English and of the introduction of science and engineering into the curriculum. Such innovations spurred the movement of higher education away from the gentry academies focused on classical studies and propelled it toward modern middle-class colleges with diverse programs.

Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 2000

Alienated Minority

Kenneth Stow

This narrative history surveying one thousand years of Jewish life integrates the Jewish experience into the context of the overall culture and society of medieval Europe. It presents a new picture of the interaction between Christians and Jews in this tumultuous era.

Paperback 1998 / Hardcover

All You Need Is Love

Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman

Traversing four decades and three continents, this story of the Peace Corps and the people and politics behind it is a fascinating look at American idealism at work amid the hard political realities of the second half of the twentieth century.

Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2000

All on a Mardi Gras Day

Reid Mitchell

With this colorful study, Reid Mitchell takes us to Mardi Gras--to a yearly ritual that sweeps the richly multicultural city of New Orleans into a frenzy of parades, pageantry, dance, drunkenness, music, sexual display, and social and political bombast. Mitchell tells us some of the most intriguing stories of Carnival since 1804 and he examines the meaning and messages of Mardi Gras.

Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1999

Alternative America

John Thomas

George's Progress and Poverty, Bellamy's Looking Backward, and Lloyd's Wealth against Commonwealth each in its turn became an international best-seller, championing a course of national policy that owed allegiance neither to the large-scale capitalist model then emerging, nor to the bureaucratic socialism espoused on the left. Through vivid and searching portraits of these three redoubtable journalists, prizewinning historian Thomas traces for the first time the evolving ideologies of the most significant reformers of their age.

Hardcover

Amber

Andrew Ross

The fossilized resin of ancient trees, amber preserves organic material--most commonly insects and other invertebrates--and with it the shape and surface detail that are usually obliterated or hopelessly distorted during the mineralization we associate with fossils. This fascinating substance offers a unique intersection of the fields of paleontology, botany, entomology, and mineralogy.

Paperback 1999

America's China Trade in Historical Perspective

Ernest R. May, Editor

John King Fairbank, Editor

This volume explores commercial relations between the United States and China from the eighteenth century until 1949, fleshing out with facts the romantic and shadowy image of "the China trade." These nine chapters by specialists in the field have developed from papers they presented at a conference supported by the national Committee on American-East Asian Relations.

Hardcover 1986

America's Geisha Ally

Naoko Shibusawa

During World War II, Japan was vilified by America as our hated enemy. As the Cold War heated up, however, the U.S. government decided to make Japan its bulwark against communism in Asia. In this revelatory work, Naoko Shibusawa charts the remarkable reversal from hated enemy to valuable ally that occurred in the two decades after the war.

Hardcover 2006

America's Germany

Thomas Alan Schwartz

America's Germany describes a unique period in the relationship between America and Germany, when the two nations forged an extraordinary range of connections--political, economic, military, and cultural--as the Federal Republic became part of the Western club and the new Europe.

Hardcover 1991

American Congo

Nan Elizabeth Woodruff

This is the story of how rural black people struggled against the oppressive sharecropping system of the Arkansas and Mississippi Delta during the first half of the twentieth century. Delta planters, aided by local law enforcement, engaged in peonage, murder, theft, and disfranchisement. As individuals and through collective struggle, black men and women fought back, demanding a just return for their crops and laying claim to a democratic vision of citizenship. Nan Woodruff shows how the freedom fighters of the 1960s would draw on this half-century tradition of protest, thus expanding our standard notions of the civil rights movement and illuminating a neglected but significant slice of the American black experience.

Hardcover 2003

American Empire

Andrew J. Bacevich

In a provocative book, Andrew Bacevich reconsiders the assumptions and purposes governing the exercise of American global power. Examining the presidencies of George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton--as well as George W. Bush's first year in office--he demolishes the view that the United States has failed to devise a replacement for containment as a basis for foreign policy.

Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004

The American Enlightenment, 1750-1820

Robert A. Ferguson

This concise literary history of the American Enlightenment captures the varied and conflicting voices of religious and political conviction in the decades when the new nation was formed. Ferguson's trenchant interpretation yields new understanding of this pivotal period for American culture.

Paperback 1997

American Jewish Ephemera

Compiled by Charles Berlin

Introduction by Oscar Handlin

The ephemera reproduced in this volume consist mainly of broadsides, posters, and leaflets produced in the United States from the late nineteenth century on. They deal with Jewish immigration to America and attitudes toward lands of origin; early efforts to organize American Jewish life through a variety of social structures; anti-Semitism; American Jewish religious affairs; the response of American Jewry to World Wars I and II; the participation of American Jewry in the Zionist movement; the adjustment to American economic and political life; and the flourishing of Yiddish theater.

Paperback 2005

American Mediterranean

Matthew Pratt Guterl

How did slave-owning Southern planters make sense of the transformation of their world in the Civil War era Guterl shows that they looked beyond their borders for answers and examines how the Southern elite connected—by travel, print culture, even the prospect of future conquest—with the communities of New World slaveholders as they redefined their world.

Hardcover 2008

The American Newness

Irving Howe

What is the Emersonian spirit? What inspired it, what propelled it? And what does it mean to us today? Howe lays before us the intellectual and personal tragedy of the first great American man of letters, yet also shows that Emerson's belief in the untapped power of free men pervades not only the lives and works of his contemporaries but is also a permanent part of the American psyche.

Hardcover 1986

The American Party Battle: Election Campaign Pamphlets, 1828-1876, Volume 1, 1828-1854

Edited and with an introduction by Joel H. Silbey

The nineteenth century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Joel Silbey has recaptured the drama and substance of those battles in a representative sampling of party pamphlets. The nature of political controversy, as well as the substance of politics, is embedded in these party documents which both united and divided Americans. Unlike today's party platforms, these pamphlets explicated real issues and gave insight into the society at large.

Paperback 1999 / Hardcover 1999

The American Party Battle: Election Campaign Pamphlets, 1828-1876, Volume 2, 1854-1876

Joel H. Silbey, Editor

The nineteenth century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Joel Silbey has recaptured the drama and substance of those battles in a representative sampling of party pamphlets. The pamphlets demonstrate how, for this fifty-year period, political parties were surrogates for American demands and values.

Paperback 1999 / Hardcover 1999

American Politics

Samuel P. Huntington

Huntington examines the persistent, radical gap between the promise of American ideals and the performance of American politics. He shows how Americans, throughout their history as a nation, have been united by the democratic creed of liberty, equality, and hostility to authority. At the same time he reveals how, inevitably, these ideals have been perennially frustrated through the institutions and hierarchies required to carry on the essential functions of governing a democratic society.

Hardcover 1981 / Paperback

American Protest Literature

With a Foreword by John Stauffer and an Afterword by Howard Zinn

Edited by Zoe Trodd

Foreword by John Stauffer

Afterword by Howard Zinn

"I like a little rebellion now and then," wrote Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, enlisting in a tradition that throughout American history has led writers to rage and reason, prophesy and provoke. American Protest Literature presents sources from eleven protest movements--political, social, and cultural--from the Revolution to abolition to gay rights to antiwar protest. In this impressive work, Trodd provides an enlightening and inspiring survey of this most American form of literature.

Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008

American Tragedy

David Kaiser

In what will become the classic account, based on newly opened archival sources, David Kaiser rewrites what we know about the Vietnam War. Reviving and expanding a venerable tradition of political, diplomatic, and military history, he shows not only why we entered the war, but also why our efforts were doomed to fail. American Tragedy is the first book to draw on complete official documentation and decisively challenges widely held assumptions about the roles of Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson.

Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002

Americanization of the Common Law

William E. Nelson

Paperback

Americans All

Diana Selig

From the 1920s—a decade marked by racism and nativism—through World War II, hundreds of thousands of Americans took part in a vibrant campaign to overcome racial, ethnic, and religious prejudices. Progressive activists encouraged pluralism in homes, schools, and churches across the country.Selig tells the neglected story of the cultural gifts movement, which flourished between the world wars.

Hardcover 2008

Americans First

K. Scott Wong

World War II was a watershed event for many of America's minorities, but its impact on Chinese Americans has been largely ignored. Utilizing extensive archival research as well as oral histories and letters from over one hundred informants, Wong explores how Chinese Americans carved a newly respected and secure place for themselves in American society during the war years.

Hardcover 2005

Amid the Clouds and Mist

John E. Herman

In 1200, what is now southwest China--Guizhou, Yunnan, and the southern portion of Sichuan--was home to an assortment of strikingly diverse cultures and ruled by a multitude of political entities. One purpose of this book is to examine how China's three late imperial dynasties--the Yuan, Ming, and Qing--conquered, colonized, and assumed control of the southwest. Another objective is to highlight the indigenous response to China's colonization of the southwest, particularly that of the Nasu Yi people of western Guizhou and eastern Yunnan, the only group to leave an extensive written record.

Hardcover 2007

Among Empires

Charles S. Maier

This elegantly written book examines the structure and impact of empires and asks whether the United States shares their traits and behavior. Charles S. Maier outlines the essentials of empire throughout history, then explores the exercise of U.S. power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. With learning, dispassion, and clarity, Among Empires offers bold comparisons and an original account of American power.

Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2007

An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Chinese Reference Works, 3rd ed

Ssu-yu Têng, Editor

Knight Biggerstaff, Editor

Hardcover 1971

An Early Stone Pectoral from Southeastern Mexico

Michael D. Coe

This description and iconographic analysis of an Olmec pectoral, with an early Maya figure and glyphic text incised on its reverse, offers evidence of the presence of writing in the Late Pre-Classic Maya lowlands.

Paperback 1966

An Estimate of the Land Tax Collection in China, 1753 and 1908

Yeh-Chien Wang

Hardcover 1973

An Instinct for War

Roger Spiller

Spiller combines a mastery of the primary sources with a vibrant historical imagination to locate a dozen turning points in the world's history of warfare that altered our understanding of war and its pursuit. We are conducted through profound moments by the voices of those who witnessed them and are given a graphic understanding of war, the devastating choices, the means by which battles are won and lost, and the enormous price exacted. Spiller's attention to the sights and sounds of battle enables us to feel the sting and menace of past violent conflicts as if they were today's.

Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2007

The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture

Amy Kaplan

Kaplan shows how U.S. imperialism--from "Manifest Destiny" to the "American Century"--has profoundly shaped key elements of American culture at home, and how the struggle for power over foreign peoples and places has disrupted the quest for domestic order. In literature, journalism, film, political speeches, and legal documents, Kaplan traces the undeniable connections between American efforts to quell anarchy abroad and the eruption of such anarchy at the heart of the empire.

Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005

Ancestors

Steven Ozment

This powerful book extends and completes a project begun with Steven Ozment's When Fathers Ruled: Family Life in Reformation Europe (Harvard). Here Ozment, the leading historian of the family in the middle centuries, replaces the often miserable depiction of premodern family relations with a delicately nuanced portrait of a vibrant and loving social group.

Paperback 2001 / Hardcover 2001

Ancient Cyprus

Veronica Tatton-Brown

Paperback

Ancient Greek Love Magic

Christopher A. Faraone

The ancient Greeks commonly resorted to magic spells to attract and keep lovers--as numerous allusions in Greek literature and recently discovered "voodoo dolls," magical papyri, gemstones, and curse tablets attest. Surveying and analyzing these various texts and artifacts, Christopher Faraone reveals two distinct types of love magic: the curselike charms used primarily by men to torture unwilling women with fiery and maddening passion until they surrender sexually; and the binding spells and debilitating potions generally used by women to sedate angry or philandering husbands and make them more affectionate.

Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2001

The Ancient Greeks

John V. A. Fine

John Fine offers a major reassessment of the history of Greece from prehistoric times to the rise of Alexander. Throughout he indicates the nature of the evidence on which our present knowledge is based, masterfully explaining the problems and pit-falls in interpreting ancient accounts.

Hardcover 1983 / Paperback

Ancient Literacy

William V. Harris

Hardcover 1989 / Paperback 1991

Ancient Mystery Cults

Walter Burkert

The foremost historian of Greek religion providers the first comprehensive, comparative study of a little-known aspect of ancient religious beliefs and practices.

Hardcover 1987 / Paperback

Ancient Religions

Sarah Iles Johnston, General Editor

Religious beliefs and practices, which permeated all aspects of life in antiquity, traveled well-worn routes throughout the Mediterranean: itinerant charismatic practitioners peddled their skills as healers, purifiers, cursers, and initiators; and vessels decorated with illustrations of myths traveled with them. This collection of essays, drawn from the groundbreaking reference work Religion in the Ancient World, offers an expansive, comparative perspective on this complex spiritual world.

Paperback 2007

Ancient Roman Gardens

Edited by Elizabeth Blair MacDougall

Edited by Wilhelmina F. Jashemski

Hardcover 1981

Ancient Roman Villa Gardens

Edited by Elizabeth Blair MacDougall

Hardcover 1987

Ancient Slavery and the Ideal of Man

Joseph Vogt

Hardcover 1975

Andean Art at Dumbarton Oaks

Edited by Elizabeth Hill Boone

The body of Pre-Columbian art that Robert Bliss carefully assembled over a half-century between 1912 and 1963, and which has been amplified slightly since his death, is a remarkably significant collection. Andean Art is composed of five topical essays, shorter essays on the Andean cultures represented in the collection, and discussions of the individual objects.

Hardcover 1996

The Animal Estate

Harriet Ritvo

Hardcover 1987 / Paperback

Anti-Foreignism and Western Learning in Early Modern Japan

Bob Wakabayashi

Paperback

The Ape in the Tree

Alan Walker

Pat Shipman

This book offers a unique insider's perspective on the unfolding discovery of a crucial link in our evolution. It is written in the voice of Walker, whose involvement with Proconsul began when his graduate supervisor analyzed the tree-climbing adaptations in the arm and hand of this extinct creature. Today, Proconsul is the best-known fossil ape in the world and its attributes have profound implications for the very definition of humanness.

Hardcover 2005

Apocalypses

Eugen Weber

Apocalyptic visions and prophecies from Zarathustra to yesterday form the panorama in Eugen Weber's profound and elegant book. Beginning with the ancients of the West and the Orient, Weber finds that an absolute belief in the end of time, when good would do final battle with evil, was omnipresent. From this more than two millennia history, Weber redresses the historical and religious amnesia that has consigned the study of apocalypses and millennial thought to the ash heap of thought and belief.

Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2000

Apostles and Agitators

Richard Drake

One of the most controversial questions in Italy today concerns the origins of the political terror that ravaged the country from 1969 to 1984, when the Red Brigades, a Marxist revolutionary organization, intimidated, maimed, and murdered on a wide scale. In this timely study of the ways in which an ideology of terror becomes rooted in society, Richard Drake explains the historical character of the revolutionary tradition to which so many ordinary Italians professed allegiance, examining its origins and internal tensions, the men who shaped it, and its impact and legacy in Italy.

Hardcover 2003

Arab-Byzantine Coins

Clive Foss

This illustrated handbook presents a concise history of the development of the coinage of the early Arab caliphate in the seventh century. The historical introduction, which includes descriptions of all the basic types, is followed by a summary catalogue of the recently acquired collection of Arab-Byzantine coins at Dumbarton Oaks.

Paperback 2008

Aramis, or the Love of Technology

Bruno Latour

The story of the birth and death of Aramis--the guided-transportation system intended for Paris--is told in this thought-provoking and fictional account by several different parties: an engineer and his professor; company executives and elected officials; a sociologist; and finally Aramis itself, who delivers a passionate plea on behalf of technological innovations that risk being abandoned by their makers.

Paperback 1996 / Hardcover 1996

The Arcades Project

Walter Benjamin

Edited by Rolf Tiedemann

Howard Eiland, Translator

Kevin McLaughlin, Translator

Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, The Arcades Project is Benjamin's effort to represent and to critique the bourgeois experience of nineteenth-century history, and, in so doing, to liberate the suppressed "true history" that underlay the ideological mask. Preoccupied with the commodification of things and focusing on the arcades of nineteenth-century Paris--glass-roofed rows of shops that were early centers of consumerism--Benjamin presents a montage of quotations from, and reflections on, hundreds of published sources, arranging them in thirty-six categories with descriptive rubrics such as "Fashion," "Boredom," "Catacombs," "Prostitution," and "Theory of Progress."

Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2002

Archaeology of Formative Ecuador

Edited by J. Scott Raymond

Edited by Richard L. Burger

This volume is devoted to the archaeology of Formative Ecuador in order to bring new information on this important period of the region's past to the attention of New World scholars.

Hardcover 2003

Archilochos Heros

Diskin Clay

The discovery of the Mnesiepes inscription on Paros revealed the third century B.C. belief that the young Archilochos was transformed into a poet by an encounter with the Muses. It also revealed that the poet had become the object of a cult by his fellow islanders as he was transformed in death to a local hero. This is the first attempt to trace the history of this cult and addresses for the first time the larger phenomenon of the cult of poets in the Greek states.

Paperback 2005

Architects of Affluence

Thomas Havens

The interrelated Seibu and Saison enterprise groups have shaped Japanese consumer culture and made the Tsutsumi family fabulously rich. Beginning with the colorful founder, Yasujiro Tsutsumi, Thomas Havens traces the family's fortunes through the rise of its various companies.

Paperback / Hardcover

Architecture and Politics in Germany, 1918-1945

Barbara Miller Lane

In a close analysis of intellectual, political, social, and economic developments, Lane shows that Nazi views on architecture were generated by a complex of historical factors. Far from being cohesive, Nazi cultural policy was largely the product of the conflicting ideas about art held by the Nazi leaders and their efforts to advance these ideas during internal power struggles.

Paperback

The Architecture of the Kariye Camii in Istanbul

Robert G. Ousterhout

The Kariye Camii remains one of the most important and best-known monuments of the Byzantine world. Rebuilt and decorated in the early fourteenth century by the statesman and scholar Theodore Metochites, the Kariye Camii played a key role in the development of Late Byzantine art. Ousterhout presents a detailed structural history and architectural analysis of this important building, and shows that the Kariye Camii was equally important in the development of Late Byzantine architecture.

Hardcover 1988

Are We to Be a Nation?

Richard B. Bernstein

Kym S. Rice, Contributor

Hardcover / Paperback

Are We to Be a Nation?

Richard B. Bernstein

Kym S. Rice, Contributor

Hardcover / Paperback

Aristocracy and People

Norman Gash

Paperback

Armenian Gospel Iconography

Thomas F. Mathews

Avedis K. Sanjian

This is the first monographic study of a single Armenian manuscript, the Glajor Gospel, a fourteenth-century illuminated manuscript. In addition to critical studies of the iconography of the illuminations, Mathews and Sanjian provide the history of the Glajor Gospel and the political and cultural setting in which it was produced, as well as the history of the monastery and school of Glajor. All full-page illuminations from the Gospel are reproduced at their original size, with twenty-four color illustrations.

Hardcover 1991

The Armenian Inscriptions from the Sinai

Michael Stone

Hardcover 1983

The Art and Iconography of Late Post-Classic Central Mexico

Elizabeth Hill Boone

Hardcover 1982

Art of Ancient Egypt

Gay Robins

From the awesome grandeur of the Great Pyramids to the delicacy of a face etched on an amulet, the power of ancient Egyptian art persists to this day. Spanning three thousand years, this illustrated history offers a thorough and delightfully readable introduction to the artwork.

Paperback 2008

The Art of Ancient Egypt

Gay Robins

What did art, and the architecture that housed it, mean to the ancient Egyptians? Why did they invest such vast wealth and effort in its production? These are the puzzles Gay Robins explores as she examines the objects of Egyptian art--the tombs and wall paintings, the sculpture and stelae, the coffins, funerary papyri, and amulets--from its first flowering in the Early Dynastic period to its final resurgence in the time of the Ptolemies.

Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 2000

Art, Ideology, and the City of Teotihuacan

Edited by Janet C. Berlo

Hardcover 1992

Articulated Ladies

Paul Rouzer

This volume analyzes the representation of gender and desire in elite, male-authored literary texts in China dating from roughly 200 B.C. until 1000 A.D.

Hardcover 2001

Articulating Citizenship

Robert Culp

This book reconstructs civic education and citizenship training in secondary schools in the lower Yangzi region during the Republican era. It also analyzes how students used the tools of civic education introduced in their schools to make themselves into young citizens, and explores the complex social and political effects of educated youths' civic action.

Hardcover 2007

Artistry of the Everyday

Lisa Bernasek

Photographs by Hillel S. Burger

Imazighen! Beauty and Artisanship in Berber Life presents the Peabody Museum's collection of arts from the Berber-speaking regions of North Africa. The book gives an overview of Berber history and culture, focusing on the rich aesthetic traditions of Amazigh (Berber) craftsmen and women. The book also tells the stories of the collectors--both world-traveling Bostonians and Harvard-trained anthropologists--who brought these objects to Cambridge in the early twentieth century.

Paperback 2008

The Arts in Boston

Bernard Taper

Hardcover 1970 / Paperback

The Arts of Deception

James W. Cook

In The Arts of Deception, James Cook explores the distinctly modern mode of trickery designed to puzzle the eye and challenge the brain. Upsetting the normally strict boundaries of value, race, class, and truth, the spectacles offer a revealing look at the tastes, concerns, and prejudices of America's very first mass audiences.

Paperback 2001 / Hardcover 2001

As Seen on TV

Karal Ann Marling

From the painting-by-numbers fad to the public fascination with the First Lady's apparel to the television sensation of Elvis Presley to the sculptural refinement of the automobile, Marling explores what Americans saw and what they looked for in the 1950s with a gaze newly trained by TV.

Paperback 1996 / Hardcover 1998

The Ascension of Authorship

Jed Wyrick

This book traces the history of the idea of the author in the ancient world, beginning with the attribution practices of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism. Wyrick argues that the fusion of Jewish and Hellenistic approaches toward attribution helped lead to St. Augustine's reinvention of the writer of scripture as an author whose texts were governed by both divine will and human intent.

Paperback 2004 / Hardcover 2004

Asian Borderlands

C. Patterson Giersch

C. Patterson Giersch provides a groundbreaking challenge to the China-centered narrative of the Qing conquest through comparative frontier history and a pioneering use of indigenous sources. He focuses on the Tai domains of China's Yunnan frontier, part of the politically fluid borderlands, where local, indigenous leaders were crucial actors in an arena of imperial rivalry.

Hardcover 2006

The Association

Eugene Charlton Black

Hardcover

Athanasius and Constantius

Timothy D. Barnes

In this new reconstruction of Athanasius's career, Barnes analyzes the nature and extent of the Bishop's power, especially as it intersected with the policies of these emperors. Untangling longstanding misconceptions, Barnes reveals the Bishop's true role in the struggles within Christianity, and in the relations between the Roman emperor and the Church at a critical juncture.

Paperback 2001 / Hardcover

Athens from Alexander to Antony

Christian Habicht

Deborah Lucas Schneider, Translator

The conquests of Alexander the Great transformed the Greek world into a complex of monarchies and vying powers, a vast sphere in which the Greek city-states struggled to survive. This is the compelling story of one city that despite long periods of subjugation persisted as a vital social entity throughout the Hellenistic age.

Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1999

Atlantic History

Bernard Bailyn

Bringing together elements of early modern European, African, and American history, Atlantic history embraces essentials of Western civilization, from the first contacts of Europe with the Western Hemisphere to the independence movements and the globalizing industrial revolution. Bailyn explores the origins of the subject, its rapid development, and its impact on historical study.

Hardcover 2005

Atlas of the Year 1000

John Man

Atlas of the Year 1000 takes readers on a voyage of discovery around the world at the turn of the last millennium, when for the first time the world was in essence a unity, when peoples reached out to create links and put isolated cultures unwittingly in touch. John Man vividly captures the epochal events, and depicts the colorful peoples that defined the world's mix of stability and change, of isolation and contact. In an immensely learned portrayal, he traces enduring cultural strands that became part of the world as we know it today.

Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2001

The Autobiographical Notes of Charles Evans Hughes

Charles Evans Hughes

Hughes was lawyer, governor of New York, Supreme Court Justice, presidential candidate in 1916, Secretary of State in the Harding and Coolidge administrations, a member of the World Court, and Chief Justice of the United States from 1930 until his retirement in 1941. His Autobiographical Notes portray him as no biography could and provide comment on almost a century of American history as seen by one who played a part in shaping its course.

Hardcover 1973

Avant-Garde Florence

Walter Adamson

They envisioned a brave new world, and what they got was fascism. As vibrant as its counterparts in Paris, Munich, and Milan, the avant-garde of Florence rose on a wave of artistic, political, and social idealism that swept the world with the arrival of the twentieth century. How the movement flourished in its first heady years, only to flounder in the bloody wake of World War I, is a fascinating story, told here for the first time. It is the history of a whole generation's extraordinary promise--and equally extraordinary failure.

Hardcover 1993

Avengers of the New World

Laurent Dubois

The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters on Saint-Domingue. Laurent Dubois weaves the stories of slaves, free people of African descent, wealthy whites, and French administrators into an unforgettable tale of insurrection, war, heroism, and victory. He establishes the Haitian Revolution as a foundational moment in the history of democracy and human rights.

Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2005

The Averaged American

Sarah E. Igo

Americans today "know" that a majority of the population supports the death penalty, that half of all marriages end in divorce, and that four out of five prefer a particular brand of toothpaste. But remarkably, such data--now woven into our social fabric--became common currency only in the last century. With a bold and sophisticated analysis, Sarah Igo demonstrates the power of scientific surveys to shape Americans' sense of themselves as individuals, members of communities, and citizens of a nation.

Hardcover 2007 / Paperback 2008

Awash in a Sea of Faith

Jon Butler

Challenging the formidable tradition that places early New England Puritanism at the center of the American religious experience. Yale historian Jon Butler offers a new interpretation of three hundred years of religious and cultural development. Butler stresses the instability of religion in Europe where state churches battled dissenters, magic, and astonishingly low church participation. He charts the transfer of these difficulties to America, including the failure of Puritan religious models, and describes the surprising advance of religious commitment there between 1700 and 1865. Through the assertion of authority and coercion, a remarkable sacralization of the prerevolutionary countryside, advancing religious pluralism, the folklorization of magic, and an eclectic, syncretistic emphasis on supernatural interventionism, including miracles, America emerged after 1800 as an extraordinary spiritual hothouse that far eclipsed the Puritan achievement -even as secularism triumphed in Europe.

Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 1992

Axe-Monies and Their Relatives

Dorothy Hosler

Heather Lechtman

Olaf Holm

Paperback 1990

Aztec Imperial Strategies

Edited by Frances F. Berdan

Edited by Richard E. Blanton

Edited by Elizabeth Hill Boone

Edited by Mary G. Hodge

Edited by Michael E. Smith

Edited by Emily Umberger

Hardcover 1996

The Aztec Templo Mayor

Edited by Elizabeth Hill Boone

Hardcover 1987

Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis

Walter Burkert

At the distant beginning of Western civilization, according to European tradition, Greece stands as an insular, isolated, near-miracle of burgeoning culture. This book traverses the ancient world's three great centers of cultural exchange--Babylonian Nineveh, Egyptian Memphis, and Iranian Persepolis--to situate classical Greece in its proper historical place, at the Western margin of a more comprehensive Near Eastern-Aegean cultural community that emerged in the Bronze Age and expanded westward in the first millennium B.C.

Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2007

Baldo, Volume 1, Books I-XII

Teofilo Folengo

Translated by Ann E. Mullaney

Folengo (1491-1544) was a native of Mantua and a member of the Benedictine order, later to become a runaway monk and satirist. Blending Latin and various Italian dialects in a deliberately droll manner, Baldo follows a sort of French royal juvenile delinquent through imprisonment, fantastical adventures, and a journey to the underworld. This edition provides the first English translation of this hilarious send-up of the ancient epic and Renaissance chivalric romance traditions.

Hardcover 2007

Barbaric Traffic

Philip Gould

Studying the rhetoric of various antislavery genres, Gould exposes the close relation between antislavery writings and commercial capitalism. By distinguishing between good commerce, or the importing of commodities that refined manners, and bad commerce, like the slave trade, the literature offered both a critique and an outline of acceptable forms of commercial capitalism. A challenge to the premise that objections to the slave trade were rooted in modern laissez-faire capitalism, Gould's work revises--and expands--our understanding of antislavery literature as a form of cultural criticism in its own right.

Hardcover 2003

Barren in the Promised Land

Elaine T. May

Chronicling astonishing shifts in public attitudes toward reproduction, May reveals the intersection between public life and the most private part of our lives--sexuality, procreation, and family.

Paperback 1997

The Battle for Children

Sarah Fishman

The Battle for Children links two major areas of historical inquiry: crime and delinquency with war and social change. In a study based on impressive archival research, Fishman reveals the impact of the Vichy regime on one of history's most silent groups--children--and offers enlightening new information about the Vichy administration.

Hardcover 2002

Beacon Fire and Shooting Star

Xiaofei Tian

The Liang dynasty (502-557) was one of the most brilliant and creative periods in Chinese history and is one of the most underestimated and misunderstood. This book is devoted to contextualizing the literary culture of this era, exploring not only the literary works themselves but also the processes of literary production and the intricate interactions of religion and literature.

Hardcover 2007

The Beauty and the Book

Ellen Widmer

This study of Chinese women in the book trade begins with three case studies, each of which probes one facet of the relationship between women and fiction in the early nineteenth century. Building on these case studies, the second half of the book focuses on the many sequels to the Dream of the Red Chamber and the significance of this novel for women. As Ellen Widmer shows, by the end of the century, women became increasingly involved in the novel as critical readers, writers, and editors.

Hardcover 2006

Becoming America

Jon Butler

In his panoramic view of Britain's mainland American colonies after 1680, Jon Butler reveals a strikingly "modern" character that belies the eighteenth-century quaintness fixed in history. Multinational, profit-driven, materialistic, politically self-conscious, power-hungry, religiously plural--the colonies in this epoch became a society the earliest colonists never imagined, a "new order of the ages" that anticipated the American Revolution.

Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2001

Becoming Apart

Michael Lewis

Focusing on the marginal region of Toyama, on the Sea of Japan, the author explores the interplay of central and regional authorities, local and national perceptions of rights, and the emerging political practices in Toyama and Tokyo that became part of the new political culture that took shape in Japan following the Meiji Restoration. Lewis argues that in response to the demands of the centralizing state, local elites and leaders in Toyama developed a repertoire of supple responses that varied with the political or economic issue at stake.

Hardcover 2000

Becoming Brazuca

Edited by Clémence Jouët-Pastré

Edited by Leticia J. Braga

Brazilians in the United States are a relatively new wave of immigrants from South America. This volume offers a broad-ranging discussion of an understudied population and also brings insights into the core issues of immigration research: how immigration can complicate issues of social class, race, and ethnicity, how it intersects with the educational system, and how it fits into the assimilation paradigm.

Paperback 2008

Becoming Free in the Cotton South

Susan Eva O'Donovan

This book challenges our most basic ideas about slavery and freedom in America. Instead of seeing emancipation as the beginning or the ending of the story, as most histories do, O'Donovan explores the perilous transition between these two conditions, offering a unique vision of both the enormous changes and the profound continuities in black life before and after the Civil War.

Hardcover 2007

Before Color Prejudice

Frank M. Snowden

In this account of black-white contacts from the Pharaohs to the Caesars, Snowden demonstrates that the ancients did not discriminate against blacks because of their color. He sheds light on the reasons for the absence in antiquity of virulent color prejudice and for the difference in attitudes of whites toward blacks in ancient and modern societies.

Hardcover 1983 / Paperback 1991

Beijing Time

Michael Dutton

Hsiu-ju Stacy Lo

Dong Dong Wu

Deeply immersed in the culture, everyday and otherworldly, this anthropological tour, from ancient cosmology to Communist kitsch, allows us to see as never before how the people of Beijing—and China—work and live.

Hardcover 2008

Beloved Strangers

Anne C. Rose

Interfaith marriage is a visible and often controversial part of American life--and one with a significant history. Rose draws a vivid picture of interfaith marriages over the century before World War I, their problems and their social consequences. She shows how mixed-faith families became agents of change in a culture moving toward pluralism.

Hardcover 2001

Benjamin Franklin

Esmond Wright, Editor

Ever the chronicler and teacher, Franklin wrote an autobiography, ostensibly for his illegitimate son William. Apart from hurried additions when he was in his eighties, his story halts at 1757. Tracing his footsteps centuries later, Franklin's most celebrated biographer completes the last twenty-five years of the autobiography by drawing on Franklin's most personal and insightful letters and writings--even making additions within the interrupted Autobiography to give us the expository memoir that Franklin intended. Indeed, as he wrote it.

Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 1996

Benjamin Franklin's Science

I. Bernard Cohen

I. Bernard Cohen, the eminent historian of science and the principal elucidator of Franklin's scientific work, examines Franklin's scientific activities in fields ranging from heat to astronomy. He provides masterly accounts of the theoretical background of Franklin's science (especially his study of Newton), the experiments he performed, and their influence throughout Europe and the United States.

Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 1996

Berlin Cabaret

Peter Jelavich

Peter Jelavich spotlights Berlin's cabarets from the day the curtain first went up, in 1901, until the Nazi regime brought it down. Fads and fashions, sexual mores, and political ideologies--all were subject to satire and parody on the cabaret stage. This book follows the changing treatment of these themes, and the fate of cabaret itself, through the most turbulent decades of German history.

Paperback 1996 / Hardcover

Berlin Childhood around 1900

Walter Benjamin

Translated by Howard Eiland

Not an autobiography in the customary sense, Walter Benjamin's Berlin Childhood around 1900 is a recollection of his childhood in an upper-middle-class Jewish home in Berlin's West End at the turn of the century. In this diagram of his life, Benjamin focuses not on persons or events but on places and things, all seen from the perspective of a child. This book is one of Benjamin's great city texts, bringing to life the cocoon of his childhood--the parks, streets, schoolrooms, and interiors of an emerging metropolis.

Paperback 2006

The Betrayal of Faith

Emma Anderson

Anderson uses one man's compelling story to explore the collision of Christianity with traditional Native religion in colonial North America. Pastedechouan's story illuminates key struggles to retain and impose religious identity on both sides of the seventeenth-century Atlantic, even as it has a startling relevance to the contemporary encounter between native and nonnative peoples.

Hardcover 2007

Between Dreams and Reality

Eugene Y. Park

From the mid-seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century, millions of Korean men trained for the state military examination, or mukwa. But few were actually appointed as military officials after passing the test. In this comprehensive history, Park argues that the mukwa was not only the state's primary means of recruiting aristocrats as new members of the military bureaucracy, but also a way for the ruling elite to partially satisfy the status aspirations of marginalized regional elites, secondary status groups, commoners, and manumitted slaves.

Hardcover 2007

Between History and Literature

Lionel Gossman

Drawing on essays written over the course of a distinguished teaching career, Gossman illuminates the many facets of the problematic relationship between history and literature and shows how each discipline both challenges and undermines the other's absolutist pretensions. His detailed inquiries into the work of the Romantic historians and his thoughtful reflections on his own assumptions and practices as a scholar exemplify the highest ideals of humanistic scholarship.

Hardcover 1990

Between Poland and the Ukraine

Frank E. Sysyn

Hardcover 1986

Between Tradition and Modernity

Paul A. Cohen

Paperback

Beyond Birth

Kyung Moon Hwang

The social structure of contemporary Korea contains strong echoes of the hierarchical principles and patterns governing stratification in the Choson dynasty (1392-1910): namely, birth and one's position in the bureaucracy. As the author shows, the political disruptions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, however, rewarded talent instead of birth. In turn, these groups' newfound standing as part of the governing elite allowed them to break into, and often dominate, the cultural, literary, and artistic spheres as well as politics, education, and business.

Hardcover 2005

Beyond Justice

Rebecca Wittmann

In 1963, West Germany was gripped by a dramatic trial of former guards who had worked at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz. It was the largest and most public trial to take place in the country and attracted international attention. Using the pretrial files and extensive trial audiotapes, Rebecca Wittmann offers a fascinating reinterpretation of Germany's first major attempt to confront its past.

Hardcover 2005

Beyond Suffrage

Susan Ware

The New Deal administration of Franklin Roosevelt brought an unprecedented number of women to Washington to serve in positions of power and influence. Beyond Suffrage is a study of women who achieved positions of national leadership in the 1930s. Susan Ware discusses the network they established, their attitudes toward feminism and social reform, and the impact they had upon the New Deal's social welfare policies and on Democratic party politics.

Hardcover 1981 / Paperback

Beyond Terror and Martyrdom

Gilles Kepel

Kepel urges us to escape the ideological quagmire of terrorism and martyrdom and explore the terms of a new and constructive dialogue between Islam and the West. This book sounds the alarm to the West and to Islam that both of these exhausted narratives are bankrupt—neither productive of democratic change in the Middle East nor of unity in Islam.

Hardcover 2008

Beyond the Great Story

Robert F. Berkhofer

What legitimate form can history take when faced by the severe challenges issued in recent years by literary, rhetorical, multiculturalist, and feminist theories? That is the question considered in this pathbreaking book. Robert Berkhofer addresses the essential practical concern of contemporary historians.

Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1997

Be’erot Yitzhak

Edited by Jay M. Harris

In this memorial volume, the students of Professor Isadore Twersky pay homage to their late teacher by producing a collection of essays that show his and their remarkable range of interests and talents. The result is an important collection of original scholarship on a wide range of topics in Jewish Studies.

Hardcover 2005

Bibliography of the Harvard Chiapas Project

Evon Z. Vogt

This volume publishes the complete annotated bibliography of the publications that resulted from the first 20 years of ethnological and archaeological work by faculty and graduate students in the Mexican state of Chiapas, sponsored by Harvard's Peabody Museum and Department of Anthropology.

Paperback

Big Business in China

Sherman Cochran

Hardcover 1980

Big Enough to Be Inconsistent

George M. Fredrickson

This book focuses on the most controversial aspect of Lincoln’s thought and politics—his attitudes and actions regarding slavery and race. Drawing attention to the limitations of Lincoln’s judgment and policies without denying his magnitude, the book provides the most comprehensive and even-handed account available of Lincoln’s contradictory treatment of black Americans in matters of slavery in the South and basic civil rights in the North.

Hardcover 2008

Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism, 1921-1965

Donald W. Klein

Anne B. Clark

The Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism, first published in 1970, provides biographies of 433 influential figures of the Chinese Communist Party in the years from 1921 to 1965. Each biography contains all information then available on the person's family, education, socio-economic status, early revolutionary activity, and career after the Communists came to power in 1949, as well as the dates and purposes of all foreign trips, information about important writings, and involvement in all kinds of Party activities.

Hardcover 1971

Biographical Writings

Giannozzo Manetti

Edited and translated by Stefano U. Baldassarri

Edited and translated by Rolf Bagemihl

The Renaissance recovery of ancient biographical writers such as Plutarch, Suetonius, and Jerome led to a wave of imitations by Renaissance authors from Petrarch to Machiavelli. The orator, diplomat, and statesman Giannozzo Manetti (1396-1459), an expert in Greek and Hebrew as well as Latin, was among the leading humanist biographers of the Renaissance. This collection brings together his famous biographies of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, which helped establish the canon of Italian literature, as well as his parallel lives of Socratesand Seneca, which remained the standard biographical sources for those philosophers throughout the early modern period.

Hardcover 2003

A Biography of No Place

Kate Brown

Drawing on recently opened archives, ethnography, and oral interviews that were unavailable a decade ago, A Biography of No Place reveals Stalinist and Nazi history from the perspective of the remote borderlands, thus bringing the periphery to the center of history.

Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2005

Biologists under Hitler

Ute Deichmann

Thomas Dunlap, Translator

Biologists under Hitler is the first book to examine the impact of Nazism on the lives and research of a generation of German biologists. Drawing on previously unutilized archival material, Ute Deichmann, herself a biologist, explores not only the lives of the biologists forced to emigrate but also the careers, science, and crimes of those who stayed in Germany.

Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1999

Birth of a Salesman

Walter A. Friedman

In this entertaining and informative book, Walter Friedman chronicles the remarkable metamorphosis of the American salesman from itinerant amateur to trained expert. From the mid-nineteenth century to the eve of World War II, the development of sales management transformed an economy populated by peddlers and canvassers to one driven by professional salesmen and executives.

Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2005

Birthing a Slave

Marie Jenkins Schwartz

Birthing a Slave depicts the competing approaches to reproductive health that evolved on plantations in the antebellum South, as both black women and white men sought to enhance the health of enslaved mothers--in very different ways and for entirely different reasons. This is the first book to focus exclusively on the health care of enslaved women, and it argues convincingly for the critical role of reproductive medicine in the slave system of antebellum America.

Hardcover 2006

Bitter Fruit

Stephen Schlesinger

Stephen Kinzer

Introduction by John H. Coatsworth

Foreword by Richard A. Nuccio

Bitter Fruit is a comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. This book has become a classic, a textbook case of the relationship between the United States and the Third World. It is a warning of what happens when the United States abuses its power.

Paperback 2005

The Black Book of Communism

Stéphane Courtois

Nicolas Werth

Jean-Louis Panné

Andrzej Paczkowski

Karel Bartosek

Jean-Louis Margolin

Mark Kramer, Editor

Jonathan Murphy, Translator

This international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the actual, practical accomplishments of Communism around the world: terror, torture, famine, mass deportations, and massacres. The authors systematically show how and why, wherever the millenarian ideology of Communism was established, it quickly led to crime, terror, and repression. Astonishing in the sheer detail it amasses, the book amply documents the unparalleled position and significance of Communism in the hierarchy of violence that is the history of the twentieth century.

Hardcover 1999

The Black Death and the Transformation of the West

David Herlihy

Samuel K. Cohn

Looking beyond the view of the plague as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy finds evidence for its role in the advent of new population controls, the establishment of universities, the spread of Christianity, the dissemination of vernacular cultures, and even the rise of nationalism. This book, which displays a distinguished scholar's masterly synthesis of diverse materials, reveals that the Black Death can be considered the cornerstone of the transformation of Europe.

Paperback 1997 / Hardcover 1997

Black Doves Speak

Rosaria Munson

In Greek thought, barbaroi are utterers of unintelligible or inarticulate sounds. What importance does the text of Herodotus's Histories attribute to language as a criterion of ethnic identity? The answer to this question illuminates the empirical foundations of Herodotus's pluralistic worldview.

Paperback 2005

The Black Hearts of Men

John Stauffer

Drawing on the largest extant bi-racial correspondence in the Civil War era, this book braids together Gerrit Smith, Frederick Douglass, James McCune Smith, and John Brown's struggles to reconcile ideals of justice with the reality of slavery and oppression. As the nation headed toward armed conflict, these men waged their own war by establishing model interracial communities, forming a new political party, and embracing a malleable and "black-hearted" self that was capable of violent revolt against a slaveholding nation.

Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004

Black Is a Country

Nikhil Pal Singh

Despite black gains in modern America, the end of racism is not yet in sight. Singh asks what happened to the worldly and radical visions of equality that animated black intellectual activists from W. E. B. Du Bois in the 1930s to Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1960s. In so doing, he constructs an alternative history of civil rights in the twentieth century, a long civil rights era, in which radical hopes and global dreams are recognized as central to the history of black struggle.

Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2005

Black Jacks

W. Jeffrey Bolster

Jeffrey Bolster, master mariner and historian, shatters the myth that black seafaring in the age of sail was limited to the Middle Passage. Rescuing African American seamen from obscurity, this stirring account reveals the critical role sailors played in helping forge new identities for black people in America. An epic tale of the rise and fall of black seafaring, Black Jacks is African Americans' freedom story presented from a fresh perspective.

Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1998

Black Rice

Judith A. Carney

Few Americans identify slavery with the cultivation of rice, yet rice was a major plantation crop during the first three centuries of settlement in the Americas. It accompanied African slaves across the Middle Passage throughout the New World to Brazil, the Caribbean, and the southern United States. Judith Carney reveals how racism has shaped our historical memory and neglected this critical African contribution to the making of the Americas.

Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2002

Black, French, and African

Janet Vaillant

Hardcover 1990

Blackett

Mary Jo Nye

This is a lively and compact biography of P. M. S. Blackett, one of the most brilliant and controversial physicists of the twentieth century. Nobel laureate, leader of operational research during the Second World War, scientific advisor to the British government, President of the Royal Society, member of the House of Lords, Blackett was also denounced as a Stalinist apologist for opposing American and British development of atomic weapons, subjected to FBI surveillance, and named as a fellow traveler on George Orwell's infamous list.

Hardcover 2004

Blacks in Antiquity

Frank M. Snowden

Paperback

Blood of Brothers

With New Afterword

Stephen Kinzer

Foreword by Merilee S. Grindle

Widely considered the best-connected journalist in Central America, Kinzer personally met and interviewed people at every level of the Somoza, Sandinistas and contra hierarchies, as well as dissidents, heads of state, and countless ordinary citizens. Blood of Brothers is Kinzer's dramatic story of the centuries-old power struggle that burst into the headlines in 1979 with the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship, as well as a vibrant portrait of the Nicaraguan people.

Paperback 2007

Bloodstoppers and Bearwalkers

Richard M. Dorson

Paperback

The Blue and the Yellow Stars of David

Dina Porat

Saul Friedlander

Hardcover

The Bodega of Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico

Linda Schele

Peter Mathews

Illustrated with both black-and-white photographs and line drawings, this catalogue records the most important objects in the storeroom of the museum at Palenque.

Paperback 1979

Bodies and Souls

Katrin Schultheiss

This political history shows how the turmoil and transformation of nursing during the French Third Republic reflected the political and cultural tensions at work in the nation, including critical conflicts over the role of the Church in society, the professionalization of medicine, and the emancipation of women.

Hardcover 2001

Body and Face in Chinese Visual Culture

Edited by Hung Wu

Edited by Katherine R. Tsiang

Traditionally the "Chinese body" was approached as a totality and explained by sweeping comparisons of the differences that distinguished Chinese examples from their Western counterparts. Recently, scholars have argued that we must look at particular examples of Chinese images of the body and explore their intrinsic conceptual complexity and historical specificity. This book describes a more complex picture of how the visual culture of the body and face in China has served to depict the living, memorialize the dead, and present the unrepresentable in art.

Hardcover 2004

The Bomb

Gerard J. DeGroot

The Bomb has killed hundreds of thousands outright, condemned many more to lingering deaths, and made vast tracts of land unfit for life. For decades it dominated the psyches of millions, becoming a touchstone of popular culture, celebrated or decried in mass political movements, films, songs, and books. DeGroot traces the life of the Bomb from its birth in turn-of-the-century physics labs of Europe to a childhood in the New Mexico desert of the 1940s, from adolescence and early adulthood in Nagasaki and Bikini, Australia and Kazakhstan to maturity in test sites and missile silos around the globe.

Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2006

Born Losers

Scott A. Sandage

This is a pioneering work of American cultural history, which connects everyday attitudes and anxieties about failure to lofty ideals of individualism and salesmanship of self. Sandage's storytelling will resonate with all of us as it brings to life forgotten men and women who wrestled with The Loser--the label and the experience--in the days when American capitalism was building a nation of winners.

Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2006

Born in Bondage

Marie Jenkins Schwartz

Following the life cycle of a child from birth through youth to young adulthood, Marie Jenkins Schwartz explores the daunting world of American slave children, a world governed by the dual authority of parent and owner, each with conflicting agendas. Schwartz counters the commonly held vision of the paternalistic slaveholder who determines the life and welfare of his passive chattel, showing instead how slaves struggled to give their children a sense of self and belonging that denied the owner complete control.

Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2001

Boston

Walter Muir Whitehill

Lawrence W. Kennedy

This urbane and delightful book covering more than 300 years of the course of Boston's history has now been enlarged with an account of the city's new urban design, architecture, and historic preservation and is richly illustrated with 32 additional photographs and drawings. In the last three decades momentous changes have visited this colonial city made modern. Lawrence Kennedy portrays the Boston that preserved much of the intimacy of the remembered place while creating a dramatic new skyline.

Paperback 2000 / Hardcover 2000

Boston Priests, 1848-1910

Donna Merwick

Merwick rejects the usual assumption that Boston Catholicism is, definitively, Irish Catholicism. In her penetrating study of three distinct generations of Boston priests in the late nineteenth century, the author shows that Irish Catholicism met with steady opposition. Her account of the struggle of Boston clerics and intellectuals to relate their faith to their experiences in the changing city provides a new interpretation of Boston Catholic culture.

Hardcover 1973

The Boston Rehabilitation Program

Langley C. Keyes, Jr

Hardcover 1968

Boston's Immigrants, 1790-1880

Oscar Handlin

As fresh in 1991 as when it first published a half-century ago, Boston's Immigrants illuminates the history of a particular city and an important phase of the American experience. Focusing on the life of people from the perspective of the social historian, the book explores a wide range of subjects: peasants society and the cause of European migration, population growth and industrial development, the ideology of progress and Catholic thought, and urban politics and the dynamic of prejudice.

Paperback 1991

Brahms and the German Spirit

Daniel Beller-McKenna

Beller-McKenna counters music historians's reluctance to address Brahms's Germanness, wary perhaps of fascist implications. He gives an account of the intertwining of nationalism, politics, and religion that underlies major works, and enriches both our understanding of his art and German culture.

Hardcover 2004

Branches of Heaven

John W. Chaffee

By the end of the Sung dynasty (960-1279), known descendants of the three Chao brothers who had founded the dynasty numbered over 20,000. Unlike the rulers of many other Chinese dynasties, however, the Sung emperors were not plagued by challenges to their rule from their relatives. How the Sung created a social and political asset in the imperial clan while neutralizing it as a potential threat is the story of this book. In this, the first full-length study of the imperial clan as an institution, John Chaffee analyzes its history, its political role, and the lifestyle of its members, focussing on their residence patterns, marriages, and occupations.

Hardcover 1999

Brandeis of Boston

Allon Gal

Hardcover 1980

The Breakdown of the State in Lebanon, 1967-1976

Farid el Khazen

Straddling the boundaries of politics and history, Farid el Khazen's arresting book shows how Lebanon was led toward its fate by its neighbors, yet ultimately undid itself. The Palestine Liberation Organization's presence was of central importance to the breakdown of the state, while the porousness of the democratic system could not contain the problems and violence. The breakdown was less a civil war in the conventional sense than a series of little wars with outside interference.

Hardcover 2000

Breaking Barriers

Constantine Nomikos Vaporis

Constantine Vaporis challenges the notion that an elaborate and restrictive system of travel regulations in Tokugawa Japan prevented widespread travel, maintaining instead that a "culture of movement" developed in that era.

Hardcover

Breathing under Water and Other East European Essays

Stanislaw Baranczak

These superb essays focus on the role that culture, and particularly literature, has played in keeping the spirit of intellectual independence alive in Eastern and Central Europe. Exploring a variety of issues from censorship to underground poetry, Baranczak shows why, in societies where people struggle to survive under totalitarian rule, art is believed to have the power to make things happen.

Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 1992

A Bridge of Longing

David Roskies

This compelling history shows how Yiddish storytelling became the politics of rescue for successive generations of displaced Jewish artists, embodying their fervent hopes and greatest fears in the languages of tradition. Its protagonists are modern writers who returned to storytelling in the hope of harnessing the folk tradition, and who created copies that are better than the original.

Paperback 1996 / Hardcover 1998

Bright Radical Star

Robert Dykstra

Hardcover

Bring Out Your Dead

Anthony Grafton

The work of the Renaissance humanists comes to life in this exploration of European letters from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. Grafton defines the current state of the art of scholarship on early modern European cultural and intellectual history while simultaneously demonstrating how entertaining, enlightening, and relevant that history can be.

Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004