- Chinese Communist Studies of Modern Chinese History
- Albert Feuerwerker
- S. Cheng
- Hardcover 1961
- The Contested Country
- Aleksa Djilas
- Published amid the unraveling of the second Yugoslavia, The Contested Country lays bare the roots of the idea of Yugoslav unity--its conflict with the Croatian and Serbian national ideologies and its peculiar alliance with liberal and progressive, especially Communist, ideologies.
- Hardcover 1991 / Paperback 1996
- The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918
- Stephen Kern
- Stephen Kern writes about the sweeping changes in technology and culture between 1880 and World War I that created new modes of understanding and experiencing time and space. To mark the book's twentieth anniversary, Kern provides an illuminating new preface about the breakthrough in interpretive approach that has made this a seminal work in interdisciplinary studies.
- Paperback 2003
- Deus Destroyed
- George Elison
- Paperback 1988
- Disembodying Women
- Barbara Duden
- Translated by Lee Hoinacki
- Hardcover
- The Dustbin of History
- Greil Marcus
- With the startling insights and electric style that have made him our foremost writer on American music, Greil Marcus brings back to life the cultural events that have defined us and our time. Again and again he skewers the widespread assumption that history exists only in the past, that it is behind us, relegated to the dustbin.
- Paperback 1997 / Hardcover 1998
- Emigrant Nation
- Mark I. Choate
- Between 1880 and 1915, thirteen million Italians left their homeland, launching the largest emigration from any country in recorded world history. In its discussion of immigrant culture, transnational identities, and international politics, this book not only narrates the grand story of Italian emigration but also provides important background to immigration debates that continue to this day.
- Hardcover 2008
- Favorites of Fortune
- Edited by Patrice Higonnet
- Edited by David S. Landes
- Edited by Henry Rosovsky
- A galaxy of distinguished international economists and historians pit economic history against the shaky assumptions of the classical economic theory of natural growth.
- Hardcover 1991 / Paperback 1998
- The Footnote
- Anthony Grafton
- The weapon of pedants, the scourge of undergraduates, the bête noire of the "new" liberated scholar: the lowly footnote, long the refuge of the minor and the marginal, emerges in this book as a singular resource, with a surprising history that says volumes about the evolution of modern scholarship. In Anthony Grafton's engrossing account, footnotes to history give way to footnotes as history, recounting in their subtle way the curious story of the progress of knowledge in written form.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1999
- The Foul and the Fragrant
- Alain Corbin
- In a book whose insight and originality have already had a dazzling impact in France, Alain Corbin has put the sense of smell on the historical map. He conjures up the dominion that the combined forces of smells--from the seductress's civet to the ubiquitous excremental odors of city cesspools--exercised over the lives (and deaths) of the French in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
- Hardcover 1986 / Paperback
- The History of Statistics
- Stephen M. Stigler
- Stigler shows how statistics arose from the interplay of mathematical concepts and the needs of several applied sciences including astronomy, geodesy, experimental psychology, genetics, and sociology. His emphasis is upon how, when, and where the methods of probability theory were developed for measuring uncertainty in experimental and observational science, for reducing uncertainty, and as a conceptual framework for quantative studies in the social sciences.
- Hardcover 1986 / Paperback 1990
- A History of Women in the West, Volume IV, Emerging Feminism from Revolution to World War
- Series edited by Georges Duby
- Series edited by Michelle Perrot
- Edited by Genevieve Fraisse
- Translated by Arthur Goldhammer
- The fourth volume in this world-acclaimed series covers the distance between the French Revolution and World War I. It gives us a vibrant picture of a bourgeois century, dynamic and expansive, in which the role of woman in the home was stressed more and more, even as the economic pressures and opportunities of the industrial revolution drew her out of the house.
- Paperback 1998 / Hardcover
- The Human Measure
- Donald Kelley
- Hardcover
- Inventing the Electronic Century
- Alfred D. Chandler
- Consumer electronics and computers redefined life and work in the twentieth century. In Inventing the Electronic Century, Pulitzer Prize-winning business historian Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. traces their origins and worldwide development. From electronics prime mover RCA in the 1920s to Sony and Matsushita's dramatic rise in the 1970s; from IBM's dominance in computer technology in the 1950s to Microsoft's stunning example of the creation of competitive advantage, this masterful analysis is essential reading for every manager and student of technology.
- Paperback 2005
- Laws of Men and Laws of Nature
- Tal Golan
- Are scientific expert witnesses partisans, or spokesmen for objective science? This ambiguity has troubled the relations between scientists and the legal system for more than 200 years. With deep learning and wry humor, Tal Golan tells stories of courtroom drama and confusion and media jeering on both sides of the Atlantic, until the start of the twenty-first century, as the courts still search for ways that will allow them to distinguish between good and bad science.
- Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2007
- The Making of Urban Europe, 1000-1994
- Paul Hohenberg
- Lynn Lees
- By tracing the large-scale processes of social, economic, and political change within cities, as well as the evolving relationships between town and country and between city and city, Hohenberg and Lees present an original synthesis of European urbanization within a global context. They bring this edition up to date with a new chapter entitled "Europe's Cities in the Twentieth Century."
- Paperback 1995
- Music and the Historical Imagination
- Leo Treitler
- Leo Theitler is a central figure in American musicology, both for his writings on medieval and Renaissance music and for his influential work on historical analysis. In this elegant book he develops a powerful statement of what music analysis and criticism in relation to historical understanding can be. His aim is an understanding of the music of the past not only in its own historical context but also as we apprehend it now, and as we assimilate it to our current interests and concerns. He elucidates his views through unique new interpretations of major works from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries.
- Hardcover 1989 / Paperback 1990
- Nationalism
- Liah Greenfeld
- Nationalism is a movement and a state of mind that brings together national identity, consciousness, and collectivities. A five-country study that spans five hundred years, this historically oriented work in sociology bids well to replace all previous works on the subject.
- Hardcover 1992 / Paperback
- The New History and the Old
- Gertrude Himmelfarb
- For this updated edition of her acclaimed work on historians and the writing of history, Himmelfarb adds four insightful and provocative essays dealing with changes in the discipline over the past twenty years. In examining the effects of postmodernism, the illusions of cosmopolitanism, A. J. P. Taylor and revisionism, and Francis Fukuyama's "end of history," Himmelfarb enriches her illuminating exploration of the myriad ways--new and old--in which historians make sense of the past.
- Paperback 2004
- Russia
- Geoffrey Hosking
- The Soviet Union crumbles and Russia rises from the rubble, once again the great nation--a perfect scenario, but for one point: Russia was never a nation. And this, says the eminent historian Geoffrey Hosking, is at the heart of the Russians' dilemma today, as they grapple with the rudiments of nationhood. His book is about the Russia that never was, a three-hundred-year history of empire building at the expense of national identity.
- Paperback 1998
- Scale and Scope
- Alfred D. Chandler
- Scale and Scope is Alfred Chandler's first major work since his Pulitzer prize-winning The Visible Hand. Representing ten years of research into the history of the managerial business system, this book concentrates on patterns of growth and competitiveness in the U.S., Germany, and Great Britain, tracing the evolution of large firms into multinational giants and orienting the late twentieth century's most important developments. This edition includes the entire hardcover edition with the exception of the Appendix Tables.
- Hardcover 1990 / Paperback
- Sexual Blackmail
- Angus McLaren
- This fascinating view of the impact of regulating sexuality from the late Victorian Age to our own time demonstrates the centrality of blackmail to sexual practices, deviance, and the law.
- Hardcover 2002
- Shaping the Industrial Century
- Alfred D. Chandler
- The dean of business historians continues his masterful chronicle of the transforming revolutions of the twentieth century. He argues that only with consistent attention to research and development and an emphasis on long-term corporate strategies could firms remain successful over time. He details these processes for nearly every major chemical and pharmaceutical firm, demonstrating why some companies forged ahead while others failed.
- Hardcover 2005
- Stranded in the Present
- Peter Fritzsche
- Tracing the scars of history, writers and painters, revolutionaries and exiles, soldiers and widows, and ordinary home dwellers took a passionate, even flamboyant, interest in the past. They argued politics, wrote diaries, devoured memoirs, and collected antiques, all the time charting their private paths against the tremors of public life. These nostalgic histories take place on battlefields trampled by Napoleon, along bucolic English hedges, and in the newly constructed parlors of America's western territories.
- Hardcover 2004
- To the Ends of the Earth
- Thomas Bonner
- Thomas Bonner unveils the dramatic history of women's long struggle to become physicians, focusing both on international comparisons and on the personal histories of many of the pioneers.
- Hardcover 1992 / Paperback
- Utopian Thought in the Western World
- Frank E. Manuel
- Fritzie P. Manuel
- The authors have structured five centuries of utopian invention by identifying successive constellations, groups of thinkers joined by common social and moral concerns. Within this framework they analyze individual writings, in the context of the author's life and of the socio-economic, religious, and political exigencies of his time.
- Hardcover 1979 / Paperback 1982