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Adventures in Retrieval

Wilma Fairbank

Hardcover 1972

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

African-American Newspapers and Periodicals

With a Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

James P. Danky, Editor

Maureen E. Hady, Associate Editor

Foreword by Henry Louis Gates

The authentic voice of African-American culture is captured in this first comprehensive guide to a treasure trove of writings by and for a people, as found in sources in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean. This bibliography contains over 6,000 entries.

Hardcover 1999

After Mao

Edited and with an Introduction by Jeffrey C. Kinkley

"This book analyzes the unprecedented diversity and the new literary forms that burst forth in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution. The interdisciplinary approach of these studies reveals much about the society, politics, and popular culture of the post-Mao era."--Merle Goldman

Paperback

Agrarian Radicalism in China, 1968-1981

David Zweig

David Zweig argues that because advocates of agrarian radicalism formed a minority group within China's central leadership, they acted in opposition to the dominant moderate forces and resorted to alternative strategies to mobilize support for their unofficial policies. Zweig examines the local realities of the radicals' program by describing the results of specific policies; he discriminates among the responses of officials at different bureaucratic levels, peasants of varying income levels and family structures, and villages with specific geographic and socioeconomic characteristics. He draws on his own field research in Chinese villages and interviews with Chinese college students and their friends who had lived in the countryside and emigrès in Hong Kong who had lived and worked in rural China.

Hardcover 1989

Ai Ssu-chi's Contribution to the Development of Chinese Marxism

Joshua A. Fogel

Paperback 1987

American Apartheid

Douglas Massey

Nancy Denton

This powerful and disturbing book clearly links persistent poverty among blacks in the United States to the unparalleled degree of deliberate segregation they experience in American cities.

Paperback 1998 / Hardcover

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 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

American Multinationals and Japan

Mark Mason

Drawing on rich historical materials from both sides of the Pacific, including corporate records and government documents never before made public, Mason examines the development of both Japanese policy towards foreign investment and the strategic responses of American corporations.

Hardcover

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

An Introduction to Sung Poetry

Kojiro Yoshikawa

Despite the marked influence of Chinese poetry on that of the West in modem times, this book is the first full-length critical study of any major period of Chinese poetry to appear in a Western language. The period here dealt with is neither ancient China nor the medieval T'ang dynasty, from which the most numerous and most familiar previous translations have been drawn, but the era of the Sung dynasty (960-1279), of which the culture and thought were much more complex and "modern."

Hardcover 1967

The Anatomy of Racial Inequality

Glenn C. Loury

Loury describes a vicious cycle of tainted social information that has resulted in a self-replicating pattern of racial stereotypes that rationalize and sustain discrimination. His analysis shows how the restrictions placed on black development by stereotypical and stigmatizing racial thinking deny a whole segment of the population the possibility of self-actualization that American society reveres--something that many contend would be undermined by remedies such as affirmative action. On the contrary, this book persuasively argues that the promise of fairness and individual freedom and dignity will remain unfulfilled without some forms of intervention based on race.

Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2003

Arab and Jew in Jerusalem

Gerald Caplan

With the capture of East Jerusalem by Israel in the Six-Day War, the historic spot became a magnifying lens for the conflict between Arabs and Jews. Gerald Caplan, a community psychiatrist renowned for his work with normal people under stress, explores in this study points of friction between the two populations and offers insight into the sources of tension.

Hardcover 1980

Art, Myth and Ritual

K. C. Chang

Hardcover 1983 / Paperback 1988

Asian Power and Politics

Lucian W. Pye

Mary W. Pye, With

Pye reconceptualizes Asian political development as a product of cultural attitudes about power and authority. He contrasts the great traditions of Confucian East Asia with the Southeast Asian cultures and the South Asian traditions of Hinduism and Islam, and explores the national differences within these larger civilizations. This book revitalizes Asian political studies on a plane that comprehends the large differences between Asia and the West and at the same time is sensitive to the subtle variations among the many Asian cultures.

Hardcover 1985 / Paperback

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

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

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

Beyond the Synagogue Gallery

Karla Goldman

Focusing on the nineteenth century, Beyond the Synagogue Gallery recounts the emergence of new roles for American Jewish women in public worship and synagogue life. Karla Goldman's study of changing patterns of female religiosity is a story of acculturation--of adjustments made to fit Jewish worship into American society. This account of the evolving religious identity of American Jewish women expands our understanding of women's religious roles and of the Americanization of Judaism in the nineteenth century.

Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2001

A Bibliographical Guide to Japanese Research on the Chinese Economy, 1958-1970

W. P. J. Hall

Paperback 1972

A Bibliography of Studies and Translations of Modern Chinese Literature, 1918-1942

Donald Gibbs

Yun-chen Li

Hardcover 1975

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

The Black Atlantic

Paul Gilroy

There is, Paul Gilroy tells us, a culture that is not specifically African, American, Caribbean, or British, but all of these at once, a black Atlantic culture whose themes and techniques transcend ethnicity and nationality.

Paperback / Hardcover

Black Columbiad

Werner Sollors, Editor

Maria Diedrich, Editor

What finding the New World meant to those who never sought it, and how they made the hostile, unfamiliar continent their own, is the subject of this volume, the first truly international collection of essays on African American literature and culture. Distinguished scholars, critics, and writers from around the world gather here to examine a great variety of moments that have defined the African American experience.

Hardcover 1995 / Paperback

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 Identities

Mary C. Waters

The story of West Indian immigrants to the United States is generally considered to be a great success. Mary Waters, however, tells a very different story. She finds that the values that gain first-generation immigrants initial success--a willingness to work hard, a lack of attention to racism, a desire for education, an incentive to save--are undermined by the realities of life and race relations in the United States. Contrary to long-held beliefs, Waters finds, those who resist Americanization are most likely to succeed economically, especially in the second generation.

Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2001

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

Blue Dreams

Nancy Abelmann

John Lie

The situation of Los Angeles's Korean Americans touches on some of the most vexing issues facing American society today: ethnic conflict, urban poverty, immigration, multiculturalism, and ideological polarization. Combining interviews and deft sociohistorical analysis, Blue Dreams gives these problems a human face and at the same time clarifies the historical, political, and economic factors that render them so complex.

Paperback 1997 / Hardcover

Book of Gifts and Rarities

Ghada Hijjawi Qaddumi

This work is a translation and study of a ninth- through fifteenth-century manuscript, "Kitab al-Hadaya wa al-Tuhaf." The manuscript furnishes a wealth of varied information offering insights into the period immediately preceding Islam and extending through the first four centuries of Islamic rule.

Paperback 1996

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

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

Bright Radical Star

Robert Dykstra

Hardcover

Brotherhoods of Color

Eric Arnesen

From the time the first tracks were laid in the early nineteenth century, the railroad has occupied a crucial place in America's historical imagination. Now, for the first time, Arnesen gives us an untold piece of that vital American institution--the story of African Americans on the railroad. African Americans have been a part of the railroad from its inception, but today they are largely remembered as Pullman porters and track layers. The real history is far richer, a tale of endless struggle, perseverance, and partial victory.

Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2002

Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery

David Brion Davis

Challenging the boundaries of slavery ultimately brought on the Civil War and the unexpected, immediate emancipation of slaves long before it could have been achieved in any other way. This imaginative and fascinating book puts slavery into a brilliant new light and underscores anew the desperate human tragedy lying at the very heart of the American story.

Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2006

China

John King Fairbank

Fairbank has been a leading witness before Congressional groups such as Senator Fulbright's Committee on Foreign Relations, where his testimony received worldwide attention. This volume presents the major themes of his testimony more fully by bringing together essays first published in various national journals, mainly in 1966.

Hardcover 1967

China in Transformation

Wei-ming Tu, Editor

What will China look like in the twenty-first century? Powerful forces are at work and its seeming stability has been largely lost after Tiananmen Square. Changing political, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural conditions are transforming China and its neighbors with a majority Chinese population. The authors in this book, taking full advantage of the new freedom of inquiry, shed light on the Chinese experience, elaborating not only on the vast changes sweeping all sectors of Chinese society, but also on the tradition that has persisted. The authors confine themselves to enduring questions about today's Sinic societies so that educated readers and scholars of modern China will better understand the more populous half of the world.

Paperback

China's Intellectuals and the State

Merle Goldman, Editor

Timothy Cheek, Editor

Carol Lee Hamrin, Editor

Hardcover 1987

China's Practice of International Law

Jerome Alan Cohen

Hardcover 1972

China’s Intellectuals

Merle Goldman

Suppression and thaw have marked the course of communism in China. Merle Goldman traces that shifting pattern over the last decades of Mao's regime, linking it to the unique role of the intellectual in government Her engrossing account of the relations between the intellectuals and the governing elites provides a map of understanding to some recent events in the turbulent history of the People's Republic.

Hardcover 1981 / Paperback

Chinese Calligraphy

Yee Chiang

This is the classic introduction to Chinese calligraphy. In nine richly illustrated chapters Chang explores the aesthetics and the technique of this art in which rhythm, line, and structure are perfectly embodied. He measure the slow change from pictograph to stroke to the style and shape of written characters by the great calligraphers. It is a superb appreciation of beauty in the movement of strokes and in the patterns of structure--and an inspiration to amateurs as well as professionals interested in the decorative arts.

Paperback

The Chinese Literati on Painting

Susan Bush

Paperback 1971

The Chinese Short Story

Patrick Hanan

During the centuries of its popularity, early Chinese vernacular fiction was never adequately preserved or even documented. The great popular appeal of the short stories saved them from oblivion, but it was only in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that they were first collected and published. Mr. Hanan's erudite study is the first thorough attempt to uncover the history of the Chinese short story.

Hardcover 1973

Chinese Society on the Eve of Tiananmen

Deborah Davis

Hardcover 1990 / Paperback

The Chinese Vernacular Story

Patrick Hanan

Hardcover 1981

Chinese Village Politics in the Malaysian State

Judith Strauch

Hardcover 1981

The Chinese Virago

Yenna Wu

Hardcover

Chutes and Ladders

Katherine S. Newman

Now that the welfare system has been largely dismantled, the fate of America's poor depends on what happens to them in the low-wage labor market. In this timely volume, Katherine S. Newman explores whether the poorest families benefited from the tight labor markets and good economy in the late 1990s. More than a story of the shifting fortunes of the labor market, Chutes and Ladders asks probing questions about the motivations of low-wage workers, the dreams they have, and their understanding of the rules of the game.

Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008

Circles of Fantasy

C. Andrew Gerstle

The vibrant merchant culture of Tokugawa Japan gave rise to many new forms of art, none more fascinating than the puppet theater, Jōruri, created chiefly by Chikamatsu Monzaemon, the foremost playwright of popular Japanese drama. In this analysis of Chikamatsu's artistry, Dr. Gerstle focuses on features hitherto neglected by Western scholars the musical structure of Jōruri, integral to the form, mood, and movement of the drama.

Hardcover 1986 / Paperback

A Class of Their Own

Adam Fairclough

In this major undertaking, civil rights historian Adam Fairclough chronicles the odyssey of black teachers in the South from emancipation in 1865 to integration one hundred years later. A Class of Their Own is indispensable for understanding how blacks and whites interacted after the abolition of slavery, and how black communities coped with the challenges of freedom and oppression.

Hardcover 2007

Clinging to Mammy

Micki McElya

Loving, hating, pitying, or pining for mammy became a way for Americans to make sense of shifting economic, social, and racial realities. Assertions of black contentment with servitude alleviated white fears while reinforcing racial hierarchy. McElya's stories expose the power and reach of this myth, not only in advertising, films, and literature about the South, but also in national monument proposals, child custody cases, New Negro activism, anti-lynching campaigns, and the civil rights movement.

Hardcover 2007

The Cold War and the Color Line

Thomas Borstelmann

The Cold War and the Color Line is the first comprehensive examination of how the Cold War intersected with the final destruction of global white supremacy. Thomas Borstelmann pays close attention to the two Souths--Southern Africa and the American South--as the primary sites of white authority's last stand. He reveals America's efforts to contain the racial polarization that threatened to unravel the anticommunist western alliance. In so doing, he recasts the history of American race relations in its true international context, one that is meaningful and relevant for our own era of globalization.

Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2003

The Colloquial Short In China

John Lyman Bishop

Paperback

Combined Indices to Shih Chi and the Notes of P'ei Yin, Ssu-ma Cheng, Chang Shou-chieh, and Takigawa Kametaro

William Hung

Hardcover 1947

Communist China 1955-1959

Robert R. Bowie

John King Fairbank

Paperback

A Concordance to Chuang Tzu

William Hung

Hardcover

Contemporary Chinese Law

Jerome Alan Cohen

Hardcover 1970

Contemporary Chinese Novels and Short Stories, 1949-1972

Meishi Tsai

Hardcover 1979

Crescas' Critique of Aristotle

Harry Austryn Wolfson

Hardcover 1971

Crime and Punishment in Medieval Chinese Drama

George A. Hayden

Hardcover 1978

Dancing in the Street

Suzanne E. Smith

Detroit in the 1960s was a city with a pulse: people were marching in step with Martin Luther King, Jr.; dancing in the street with Martha and the Vandellas; facing off with city police. Through it all, Motown provided the beat. This book tells the story of Motown--as both musical style and entrepreneurial phenomenon--and of its intrinsic relationship to the politics and culture of Motor Town, USA. Here we see Motown's music not as the mere soundtrack for its historical moment but as an active agent in the civil rights movement and the politics of the time.

Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2001

Degrees of Freedom

Rebecca J. Scott

As Louisiana and Cuba emerged from slavery in the late nineteenth century, each faced the question of what rights former slaves could claim. Degrees of Freedom compares and contrasts these two societies in which slavery was destroyed by war, and citizenship was redefined through social and political upheaval. Both Louisiana and Cuba were rich in sugar plantations that depended on an enslaved labor force. But by the beginning of the twentieth century, they diverged sharply in the meanings attributed to race and color in public life and in the boundaries placed on citizenship.

Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2008

Designs for Living

Monni Adams

Hardcover 1982

Development Policy, II, The Pakistan Experience

Walter P. Falcon, Editor

Gustav F. Papanek, Editor

Hardcover 1971

The Development of Late Phoenician Scripts

J. Brian Peckham

Hardcover 1968

The Developmental Role of the Foreign Sector and Aid

Anne O. Krueger

Hardcover 1979

Dimensions of Ethnicity: The American Indians

Edward H. Spicer

The monumental Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups is the most authoritative single source available on the history, culture, and distinctive characteristics of ethnic groups in the United States. Dimensions of Ethnicity is designed to make this landmark scholarship available to everyone in a series of handy paperbound student editions.

Paperback

Ding Ling's Fiction

Yi-Tsi Mei Feuerwerker

Hardcover 1982

Divided Korea

Joungwon Alexander Kim

Hardcover 1975

The Dragon and the Iron Horse

Ralph William Huenemann

Hardcover 1984

Drumbeats, Masks, and Metaphor

Genevieve Fabre

Hardcover 1983

The Dynamics of China's Foreign Relations

Jerome Alan Cohen

Paperback 1970

The Economic Development of Manchuria in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Kungtu C. Sun

Paperback 1960

Economic Planning and Organization in Mainland China

Kuo-chun Chao

Paperback 1959 / Paperback 1960

Economic Structure of the Yuan Dynasty

Herbert Franz Schurmann

Hardcover 1956

The Economic and Social Modernization of the Republic of Korea

Edward S. Mason

Hardcover 1981

Egypt in Search of Political Community

Nadav Safran

Hardcover 1961

Empires of the Sand

Efraim Karsh

Inari Karsh

Rejecting the view of modern Middle Eastern history as an offshoot of global power politics, Efraim and Inari Karsh argue that the main impetus for the developments of the momentous long nineteenth century (1789-1923) came from the local actors. Empires of the Sand sees a pattern of pragmatic cooperation and conflict between the Middle East and the West during the past two centuries, rather than a "clash of civilizations," a vision affording daringly new ways of viewing the Middle East's past as well as its volatile present.

Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2001

Enter the New Negroes

Martha Jane Nadell

With the appearance of the urban, modern, diverse "New Negro" in the Harlem Renaissance, writers and critics began a vibrant debate on the nature of African-American identity, community, and history. Nadell offers an illuminating new perspective on the period and the decades immediately following it in a fascinating exploration of the neglected role played by visual images of race in that debate.

Hardcover 2004

Erbadistan ud Nirangistan

Firoze M. Kotwal, Editor

James W. Boyd, Editor

Paperback 1981

Escape from the Wasteland

Susan Napier

Lurid depictions of sex and impotence, themes of emperor worship and violence, the use of realism and myth--these characterize the fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo. Napier discovers surprising similarities as well as provocative dissimilarities in the work of two writers of radically different political orientations. Napier places Yukio's and Kenzaburo's fiction in the context of postwar Japanese political and social realities and, in a new preface for the paperback edition, reflects on each writer's position in the tradition of Japanese literature.

Hardcover 1991 / Paperback 1996

Ethnicity without Groups

Rogers Brubaker

Despite a quarter-century of constructivist theorizing in the social sciences and humanities, ethnic groups continue to be conceived as entities and cast as actors. In this timely and provocative volume, Brubaker challenges this pervasive and commonsense "groupism" and shows that ethnicity, race, and nation are not things in the world but perspectives on the world: ways of seeing, interpreting, and representing the social world.

Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2006

Exiles at Home

Shirley Elizabeth Thompson

Hardcover 2009

Facing East from Indian Country

Daniel K. Richter

In the beginning, North America was Indian country. But only in the beginning. After the opening act of the great national drama, Native Americans yielded to the westward rush of European settlers. Or so the story usually goes. Yet, for three centuries after Columbus, Native people controlled most of eastern North America and profoundly shaped its destiny. In Facing East from Indian Country, Daniel K. Richter keeps Native people center-stage throughout the story of the origins of the United States.

Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2003

The Faithful

James M. O'Toole

Shaken by the ongoing clergy sexual abuse scandal, and challenged from within by social and theological division, Catholics in America are at a crossroads. O’Toole tells the story of this ancient church from the perspective of ordinary Americans, the lay believers who have kept their faith despite persecution from without and clergy abuse from within.

Hardcover 2008

Family and Community in the Kibbutz

Yonina Talmon

Hardcover 1972 / Paperback

Fear and Hope

Dan Bar-On

From survivors to grandchildren, members of families who survived the Holocaust, emigrated to Israel, and started families there tell their own stories. The three generations reveal their different ways of confronting the original trauma of the Holocaust. A unique account of the interplay between individual biography and wider social and cultural processes, Fear and Hope offers a fresh perspective on the transgenerational effects of trauma.

Hardcover 1998

Fei Xiaotong and Sociology in Revolutionary China

R. David Arkush

Hardcover

Financial Development in Korea, 1945-1978

David C. Cole

Yung Chul Park

Hardcover 1983

A Fool's Errand

Albion W. Tourgee

Edited by John Hope Franklin

Paperback

Foreign Attachments

Tony Smith

Who speaks for America in world affairs? In exploring this question, Smith ranges over the history of ethnic group involvement in foreign affairs; he notes the openness of our political system to interest groups; and he investigates the relationship between multiculturalism and U.S. foreign policy.

Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2005

Forging Freedom

Gary B. Nash

This book is the first to trace the good and bad fortunes, over more than a century, of the earliest large free black community in the United States. Gary Nash shows how blacks in the City of Brotherly Love struggled to shape a family life, gain occupational competence, organize churches, establish neighborhoods and social networks, advance cultural institutions, educate their children in schools, forge a political consciousness, and train black leaders who would help abolish slavery.

Hardcover 1988 / Paperback 1991

The Forgotten Fifth

Gary B. Nash

As the United States gained independence, a full fifth of the country's population was African American. The experiences of these men and women have been largely ignored in the accounts of the colonies' glorious quest for freedom. In this compact volume, Gary B. Nash reorients our understanding of early America, and reveals the perilous choices of the founding fathers that shaped the nation's future. The Forgotten Fifth is a powerful story of the nation's multiple, and painful, paths to freedom.

Hardcover 2006

The Four Little Dragons

Ezra F. Vogel

Vogel brings masterly insight to the underlying question of why Japan and the little dragons--Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore--have been so extraordinarily successful in industrializing while other developing countries have not.

Paperback

From May Fourth to June Fourth

Ellen Widmer

David Der-wei Wang

Hardcover 1993 / Paperback

From Protest to Politics

Katherine Tate

Paperback 1998 / Hardcover

Fueling Growth

Laura E. Hein

Hardcover 1990

Generations of Captivity

Ira Berlin

Berlin traces the history of African-American slavery in the United States from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to its fiery demise nearly three hundred years later. Most Americans have a singular vision of slavery, fixed in the mid-nineteenth century when most American slaves grew cotton, resided in the deep South, and subscribed to Christianity. Berlin offers a major reinterpretation in which slavery was made and remade by successive generations of Africans and African Americans who lived through settlement and adaptation, plantation life, economic transformations, revolution, forced migration, war, and ultimately, emancipation.

Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2004

Going to the People

Chang-tai Hung

Hardcover 1986

Han Shih Wai Chuan

Translated by James Hightower

Hardcover 1952

The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White

George Hutchinson

By restoring interracial dimensions left out of accounts of the Harlem Renaissance--or blamed for corrupting it--George Hutchinson transforms our understanding of black (and white) literary modernism, interracial literary relations, and twentieth-century cultural nationalism in the United States. A courageous work that exposes the oversimplifications and misrepresentations of popular readings of the Harlem Renaissance, this book reveals the truly composite nature of American literary culture.

Paperback 1997 / Hardcover

Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups

Stephan Thernstrom, Editor

Ann Orlov, Managing Editor

Oscar Handlin, Consulting Editor

The Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups is a guide to the history, culture, and distinctive characteristics of the more than 100 ethnic groups who live in the United States. The origins, history and present situation of the familiar as well as the virtually unknown are presented succinctly and objectively.

Hardcover 1980

The Harvard Guide to African-American History

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Editor-in-chief

Leon F. Litwack, Volume editor

Darlene Clark Hine, Volume editor

Randall K. Burkett, Editorial board member

This landmark guide covers research into every aspect of African-American life and work, offering a compendium of information and interpretation about almost 400 years of African-Americans's experiences as an ethnic group and as Americans. A companion CD-ROM packaged with the book makes more than 15,000 bibliography entries available for computer searching.

Mixed 2001

Hasidic People

Jerome Mintz

Paperback 1998 / Hardcover

Hermeneutics and Honor

Asma Afsaruddin, Editor

Foreword by Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good

Women's traversal of public space in Islamic/ate societies and the ensuing process of negotiating gendered identities are the central concerns of this collection of essays. Elaborate cultural codes of honor and traditional, masculinist interpretations of scripture have reinforced the public-private polarity and restricted Muslim women's access to the public realm as conventionally defined. The distinguished contributors to this volume provide insight into how women from different social strata and historical periods in various Islamic/ate societies have creatively engaged with these limitations upon their behavior.

Paperback 2000

A History of Middle East Economies in the Twentieth Century

Roger Owen

Sevket Pamuk

This important book on economic development in the modern Middle East examines, for the first time, the separate national economies of the Arab states, including the Gulf, Israel, and Turkey, from 1918 to the present. It describes the main trends within each economy based on the best available statistical data, and answers larger questions concerning the long-term growth of the countries, first in the colonial period, then in the periods characterized by planning and development, followed by the first steps toward liberalization and structural adjustment.

Paperback 1999 / Hardcover 1999

How Free Is Free?

Leon F. Litwack

Hardcover 2009

How the Indians Lost Their Land

Stuart Banner

Between the early seventeenth century and the early twentieth, nearly all the land in the United States was transferred from American Indians to whites. How did Indians actually lose their land? Stuart Banner argues that neither simple coercion nor simple consent reflects the complicated legal history of land transfers. Instead, time, place, and the balance of power between Indians and settlers decided the outcome of land struggles.

Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2007

Hungering for America

Hasia R. Diner

Hungering for America tells the stories of three distinctive groups and their unique culinary dramas. Italian immigrants transformed the food of their upper classes and of sacred days into a generic "Italian" food that inspired community pride and cohesion. Irish immigrants, in contrast, loath to mimic the foodways of the Protestant British elite, diminished food as a marker of ethnicity. And, East European Jews, who venerated food as the vital center around which family and religious practice gathered, found that dietary restrictions jarred with America's boundless choices.

Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2003

In Search of Africa

Manthia Diawara

In 1996 Manthia Diawara, a distinguished professor of film and literature in New York City, returned to Guinea, thirty-two years after he and his family were expelled from the newly liberated country. Diawara's journey gives us the story of a quest for a childhood friend, for the past and present, and above all for an Africa that is struggling to find its future.

Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2000

In Search of Nella Larsen

George Hutchinson

Born to a Danish seamstress and a black West Indian cook, Nella Larsen lived her life in the shadows of America's racial divide. Her writings about that life, briefly celebrated in her time, were lost to later generations--only to be rediscovered and hailed by many. In his search for Nella Larsen, George Hutchinson exposes the truths and half-truths surrounding her, as well as the complex reality they mask and mirror. His book is a cultural biography of the color line as it was lived by one person who truly embodied all of its ambiguities and complexities.

Hardcover 2006

In Search of Wealth and Power

Benjamin I. Schwartz

Hardcover 1964 / Paperback

In Struggle

Clayborne Carson

With its radical ideology and effective tactics, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was the cutting edge of the civil rights movement during the 1960s. This sympathetic yet even-handed book records for the first time the complete story of SNCC's evolution, of its successes and its difficulties in the ongoing struggle to end white repression.

Paperback 1995

In the Shadow of the Sultan

Rahma Bourqia, Editor

Susan Gilson Miller, Editor

Since the ninth century, Morocco has been ruled by a sultan-king who has monopolized the levers of power. This striking longevity invites questions about the institutions and social processes that bolster the monarchy's stability. This collection of twelve articles approaches the question of power by bringing together the most recent scholarship on Moroccan political culture as seen from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and historical moments, from the medieval period until today. Focussing primarily on popular understandings of authority, the studies in this volume encompass themes of sainthood, ceremony, submission, tolerance, violence, sexuality, gender, and intergenerational conflict.

Paperback 1999

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet A. Jacobs

Jean Fagan Yellin, Editor

John S. Jacobs, Contributor

This enlarged edition of the most significant and celebrated slave narrative now completes the Jacobs family saga, surely one of the most memorable in all of American history. John Jacobs's short slave narrative, "A True Tale of Slavery," published in London in 1861, adds a brother's perspective to Harriet Jacobs's own autobiography. It is an exciting addition to this now classic work, as John Jacobs presents additional historical information about family life so well described already by his sister.

Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2000

Increasing Faculty Diversity

Stephen Cole

Elinor Barber

In recent years, colleges have successfully increased the racial diversity of their student bodies. They have been less successful, however, in diversifying their faculties. This book identifies the ways in which minority students make occupational choices, what their attitudes are toward a career in academia, and why so few become college professors.

Hardcover 2003

Independent Africa

L. C. B. Gower

In this book, an expanded version of The Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures he delivered at Harvard University in 1966, Mr. Gower first looks at some of the legacies of colonialism inherited by those nations of Tropical Africa which recently gained independence from Britain.

Hardcover 1967

Inside a Service Trade

Rudolph Wagner

Hardcover 1992

Integration or Separation?

Roy L. Brooks

Integrated in principle, segregated in fact: is this the legacy of fifty years of "progress" in American racial policy? Is there hope for much better? Roy L. Brooks, a distinguished professor of law and a writer on matters of race and civil rights, says with frank clarity what few will admit--integration hasn't worked and possibly never will. Equally, he casts doubt on the solution that many African-Americans and mainstream whites have advocated: total separation of the races. This book presents Brooks's strategy for a middle way between the increasingly unworkable extremes of integration and separation.

Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1999

Islamic Art

Barbara Brend

From the Taj Mahal, from the Dome of the Rock to the ever evolving art of calligraphy, Barbara Brend traces the development of classic Islamic art from the seventh through the twentieth century.

Hardcover 1991 / Paperback 1992

Israel--The Embattled Ally

Nadav Safran

Hardcover 1978 / Paperback

Judaism, Human Values, and the Jewish State

Yeshayahu Leibowitz

Eliezer Goldman, Ed. and Trans.

Yoram Navon, Translator

Zvi Jacobson, Translator

Gershon Levi, Translator

Raphael Levy, Translator

These hard-hitting essays by Yeshayahu Leibowitz, the first to be published in English, constitute a comprehensive critique of Israeli society and politics and a probing diagnosis of the malaise that afflicts contemporary Jewish culture.

Paperback 1995 / Hardcover

The Kaiping Mines, 1877-1912, 2nd ed

Ellsworth C. Carlson

Paperback 1971

Kiva Mural Decorations at Awatovi and Kawaika-a

Watson Smith

Watson Smith, an enthusiastic amateur archaeologist, was one of the Southwest's foremost archaeological scholars. In this classic volume, Smith reported on the remarkable painted murals found at Awatovi and other Puebloan sites in the underground ceremonial chambers known as kivas. Now reissued in a stunning facsimile edition, the volume includes color reproductions of the original serigraphs by Louie Ewing.

Hardcover 2006

Kpele Lala

Marion Kilson

Paperback 1971

Late Ch'ing Finance

C. John Stanley

Paperback 1961

Latin American University Students

Arthur Liebman

Kenneth F. Walker

Myron Glazer

Hardcover 1972

The Latino Education Crisis

Patricia Gándara

Frances Contreras

Hardcover 2009

Law and Social Change in Postwar Japan

Frank K. Upham

Hardcover 1989

Legacies of Childhood

John L. Saari

Saari defines the generation of educated Chinese born around the turn of the century as "the last to have the world of Confucian learning etched into their memories as schoolboys, yet the first as a group to confront the intrusive Western world." To reconstruct what those who lived through and shaped this extraordinary period felt, needed, thought, and became as children and adults, Saari draws on autobiographical writings and his own interviews among the elderly on Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Hardcover 1990

Liberating Voices

Gayl Jones

Hardcover 1991

Literary Dissent in Communist China

Merle Goldman

In modern China, literature has been regarded as a vehicle of political and idea logical dissent, a concept that has persisted under communism. This study exhaustively analyzes the conflict between the Chinese Communist party and the intellectuals, particularly the writers, in the crucial decades of the 1940's and 1950's.

Hardcover 1967

A Little Love in Big Manhattan

Ruth R. Wisse

Hardcover 1988

Local Government in China under the Ch'ing

T'ung-tsu Ch'u

Paperback

Making Americans

Andrea Most

This book examines two interwoven narratives crucial to an understanding of twentieth-century American culture: the stories of Jewish acculturation and of the development of the American musical. Here we delve into the work of the most influential artists of the genre during the years surrounding World War II and encounter new interpretations of classics such as The Jazz Singer, Babes in Arms, Oklahoma!, Annie Get Your Gun, South Pacific, and The King and I. We see how the communities these musicals invented and the anthems they popularized constructed a vision of America that fostered self-understanding as the nation became a global power.

Hardcover 2004

Managing Industrial Enterprise

William D. Wray, Editor

Hardcover 1989

Manual of Mongolian Astrology and Divination

Introduction by Antoine Mostaert

Foreword by Francis Woodman Cleaves

Paperback 1969

Many Thousands Gone

Ira Berlin

Ira Berlin, a leading historian of southern and African-American life traces the evolution of black society in America from its creation in the early seventeenth century through the American Revolution. Berlin presents a panoramic view that stretches from the North to the Chesapeake Bay and Carolina lowcountry to the Mississippi Valley, revealing the diverse forms that slavery and freedom assumed before cotton was king.

Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2000

Mao’s People

B. M. Frolic

The sixteen stories collected in this remarkable book give firsthand accounts of daily life in contemporary China. From 250 interviews conducted in Hong Kong between 1972 and 1976, Mr. Frolic has created charming vignettes that show how individuals from all parts of China led their lives in the midst of rapid social change and political unrest. We hear about oil prospectors, rubber growers, and factory workers, Widow Wang and her sit-in to get a larger apartment, the thoroughly corrupt Man Who Loved Dog Meat, the young people who flew kites to protest antidemocratic tendencies.

Hardcover 1980 / Paperback

The Margins of Utopia

Ellen Widmer

Hardcover 1987

The Memoir of James Jackson, The Attentive and Obedient Scholar, Who Died in Boston, October 31, 1833, Aged Six Years and Eleven Months

Susan Paul

Lois Brown, Editor

This remarkable document--the first African American biography and a work that predates Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by almost thirty years--is a lost treasure from the annals of African American history. Susan Paul's portrayal of James Jackson's Christian sensibility, his idealism, and his racial awareness emphasizes his humanity and exemplary American character over his racial identity, even as it embeds him in his African American community.

Paperback 2000 / Hardcover 2000

Migration Miracle

Jacqueline Maria Hagan

Hardcover 2008

The Missionary Mind and American East Asia Policy, 1911-1915

James Reed

Foreword by John King Fairbank

Hardcover 1983

Mitsubishi and the N.Y.K., 1870-1914

William D. Wray

Hardcover 1984

Multiethnic Japan

John Lie

Multiethnic Japan challenges the received view of Japanese society as ethnically homogeneous. Employing a wide array of arguments and evidence--historical and comparative, interviews and observations, high literature and popular culture--John Lie recasts modern Japan as a thoroughly multiethnic society.

Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2004

Muslim Chinese

Dru Gladney

This second edition of Dru Gladney's critically acclaimed study of the Muslim population in China includes a new preface by the author, as well as a valuable addendum to the bibliography, already hailed as one of the most extensive listing of modern sources on the Sino-Muslims.

Paperback 1996

A Nation under Our Feet

Steven Hahn

This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people--an embryonic black nation. As Hahn demonstrates, rural African-Americans were central political actors in the great events of disunion, emancipation, and nation-building. At the same time, Hahn asks us to think in more expansive ways about the nature and boundaries of politics and political practice.

Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005

The New Americans

Mary C. Waters, Editor

Reed Ueda, Editor

Helen B. Marrow, Edited with

The United States has always been a nation of immigrants, shaped by successive waves of new arrivals. This comprehensive guide, edited and written by an interdisciplinary group of prominent scholars, provides an authoritative account of the most recent surge of immigrants. Based on the latest U.S. Census data and scholarly research, The New Americans is an essential reference for anyone curious about the changing face of America.

Hardcover 2007

New States in the Modern World

Martin L. Kilson

New States in the Modern World is probably the first book to consider new states in relationship to their effect on world political order. This volume of original essays focuses on the origins and current status of the new African states and one Arab-African state, Egypt. This book takes a major step on the road to such redefinition.

Hardcover 1975

Nikolai Leskov

Hugh McLean

Hardcover 1977

No Coward Soldiers

Waldo E. Martin

In a vibrant and passionate exploration of the twentieth-century civil rights and black power eras in American history, Martin uses cultural politics as a lens through which to understand the African-American freedom struggle. In the transformative postwar period, the intersection between culture and politics became increasingly central to the African-American fight for equality. In freedom songs, in the exuberance of an Aretha Franklin concert, in Faith Ringgold's exploration of race and sexuality, the personal and social became the political.

Hardcover 2005

North Vietnam and the Pathet Lao

Paul F. Langer

Joseph J. Zasloff

Laos is a major arena of international confrontation despite the Geneva Accords of 1962. Yet there is a dearth of published material on Laos, and the crucial issue of North Vietnam's role in that country has hardly been examined. This important study illuminates the North Vietnamese-Pathet Lao partnership, an understanding of which is so critical to the search for peace in Indochina.

Hardcover 1970

Northern Protest

James R. Ralph

Hardcover

On the Trail of Negro Folk-Songs

Dorothy Scarborough

Hardcover 1925

Osugi Sakae, Anarchist in Taisho Japan

Thomas A. Stanley

Hardcover 1982

The Other Latinos

Edited by José Luis Falconi

Edited by José Antonio Mazzotti

Contributions by Michael Jones-Correa

Contributions by Helen B. Marrow

Contributions by Arturo Arias

Contributions by Nestor Rodriguez

Contributions by Juan Zevallos-Aguilar

Contributions by Claret Vargas

Contributions by Edmundo Paz-Soldán

Contributions by Debra Castillo

Contributions by Teresa Sales

Contributions by Maxine Margolies

Contributions by Ana Cristina Braga Martes

Contributions by Luciano Tosta

The Other Latinos addresses an important topic: the presence in the United States of Latin American and Caribbean immigrants from countries other than Mexico, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. Focusing on the Andes, Central America, and Brazil, the book brings together essays by a number of accomplished scholars, hoping that this introductory work will inspire others to construct a more complete understanding of the realities of Latin American migration into the United States.

Paperback 2008

Pakistan's Development

Gustav F. Papanek

Hardcover 1967

The Philosophy of the Church Fathers

Harry Austryn Wolfson

Harry Austryn Wolfson, world-renowned scholar and most lucid of scholarly writers, here presents in ordered detail his long-awaited study of the philosophic principles I and reasoning by which the Fathers of the Church sought to explain the mysteries of the Trinity and the Incarnation.

Hardcover 1970

The Philosophy of the Kalam

Harry Austryn Wolfson

In this long-awaited volume, on which he worked for twenty years, Mr. Wolfson describes the body of doctrine known as the Kalam. Kalam, an Arabic term meaning "speech" and hence "discussion," was applied to early attempts in Islam to adduce philosophic proofs for religious beliefs. It later came to designate a system of religious philosophy which reached its highest point in the eleventh century; the masters of Kalam, known as Mutakallimun, were in many respects the Muslim equivalent of the Christian Church Fathers. Mr. Wolfson studies the Kalam systematically, unfolding its philosophic origins and implications and observing its repercussions in other religions.

Hardcover 1976

Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina

S. Max Edelson

This impressive scholarly debut deftly reinterprets one of America's oldest symbols--the southern slave plantation. S. Max Edelson examines the relationships between planters, slaves, and the natural world they colonized to create the Carolina Lowcountry. With a bold interdisciplinary approach, Plantation Enterprise reconstructs the environmental, economic, and cultural changes that made the Carolina Lowcountry one of the most prosperous and repressive regions in the Atlantic world.

Hardcover 2006

Playing in the Dark

Toni Morrison

Morrison brings the genius of a master writer to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination. Through her investigation of black characters, narrative strategies, and idiom in the fiction of white American writers, Morrison provides a daring perspective that is sure to alter conventional notions about American literature.

Hardcover 1992

Poetische Werke

Han Yu

Paperback 1952

The Political Economy of Reform in Post-Mao China

Elizabeth J. Perry

Christine Wong

Hardcover 1985

Politics in Rhodesia

Larry W. Bowman

Hardcover

Politics of Development

Robert Scalapino

Hardcover 1989 / Paperback 1998

Portrait of a Giving Community

Adil Najam

Portrait of a Giving Community is based on a nationwide survey of the giving habits of Pakistani-Americans. This study, the first of its kind, not only examines the history, demography, and institutional geography of Pakistani-Americans but also looks at how this immigrant community manages its multiple identities through charitable giving and volunteering.

Paperback 2007

Postal Communication in China and Its Modernization, 1860-1896

Ying-wan Cheng

Paperback 1970

The Practical Visions of Ya'qub Sanu

Irene L. Gendzier

Hardcover 1966

The Practice of Diaspora

Brent Hayes Edwards

A pathbreaking work of scholarship that will reshape our understanding of the Harlem Renaissance, The Practice of Diaspora revisits black transnational culture in the 1920s and 1930s, paying particular attention to links between intellectuals in New York and their Francophone counterparts in Paris. Brent Edwards suggests that diaspora is less a historical condition than a set of practices: the claims, correspondences, and collaborations through which black intellectuals pursue a variety of international alliances.

Paperback 2003 / Hardcover 2003

The Problem of Race in the Twenty-first Century

Thomas C. Holt

"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line," W. E. B. Du Bois wrote in 1903, and his words have proven sadly prophetic. As we enter the twenty-first century, the problem remains--and yet it, and the line that defines it, have shifted in subtle but significant ways. This brief book speaks powerfully to the question of how the circumstances of race and racism have changed in our time--and how these changes will affect our future.

Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2002

Proceed with Caution, When Engaged by Minority Writing in the Americas

Doris Sommer

Educated readers feel entitled to know what they're reading--often, if they try hard enough, to know it with the conspiratorial intimacy of a potential partner. This book reminds us that cultural differences may in fact make us targets of a text, not its co-conspirators. Some literature, especially culturally particular or "minority" literature, actually uses its differences and distances to redirect our desire for intimacy toward more cautious, respectful engagements. To name these figures of cultural discontinuity--to describe a rhetoric of particularism in the Americas--is the purpose of Proceed with Caution.

Paperback 1999 / Hardcover 1999

The Promised City

Moses Rischin

Paperback

The Psychological World of Natsume Soseki

Takeo Doi

Hardcover 1976

Public Finance During the Korean Modernization Process

Roy Bahl

Chuk Kyo Kim

Chong Kee Park

Hardcover 1986

Puritans among the Indians

Edited by Alden T. Vaughan

Edited by Edward W. Clark

These eight reports by white settlers held captive by Indians gripped the imagination not only of early settlers but also of American writers through our history. Puritans among the Indians presents, in modern spelling, the best of the New England narratives. These both delineate the social and ideological struggle between the captors and the settlers, and constitute a dramatic rendition of the Puritans' spiritual struggle for redemption.

Hardcover 1981 / Paperback

Race Men

Hazel V. Carby

A searing critique of definitions of black masculinity at work in American culture, Race Men shows how these defining images play out socially, culturally, and politically for black and white society--and how they exclude women altogether. A powerful statement by a major voice among black feminists, Race Men holds out the hope that by understanding how society has relied upon affirmations of masculinity to resolve social and political crises, we can learn to transcend them.

Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2000

Race Mixing

Renee C. Romano

Marriage between blacks and whites is a longstanding and deeply ingrained taboo in American culture. On the eve of World War II, mixed-race marriage was illegal in most states. Yet, sixty years later, black-white marriage is no longer illegal or a divisive political issue, and the number of such couples and their mixed-race children has risen dramatically. Renee Romano explains how and why such marriages have gained acceptance, and what this tells us about race relations in contemporary America. The history of interracial marriage helps us understand the extent to which America has overcome its racist past, and how much further we must go to achieve meaningful racial equality.

Hardcover 2003

Radical Hope

Jonathan Lear

Shortly before he died, Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation, said, "When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground and they could not lift them up again. After this nothing happened." In Jonathan Lear's view, Plenty Coups' story raises a profound ethical question that transcends his time and challenges us all: how should one face the possibility that one's culture might collapse? Radical Hope is a deeply moving, philosophical inquiry into a peculiar vulnerability that goes to the heart of the human condition.

Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008

Raising Cain

W. T. Lhamon

Unearthing a wealth of long-buried plays and songs, rethinking materials often deemed too troubling or lowly to consider, and overturning cherished ideas about classics from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Benito Cereno to The Jazz Singer, W. T. Lhamon Jr. sets out a startlingly original history of blackface as a cultural ritual that, for all its racist elements, was ultimately liberating.

Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2000

Rakugo

Heinz Morioka

Miyoko Sasaki

Hardcover 1990

The Range of Yiddish

Marion Aptroot

Jeremy Dauber

The facsimiles of Yiddish documents and title pages reproduced in this volume, their captions, and the accompanying introductory essays are a succinct introduction to Yiddish culture. They cover religion, education and daily life, politics, Yiddish literature, history, and scholarship, Yiddish theater, and the Yiddish press, as reflected in materials printed over the last 400 years.

Paperback 2005

The Reaper's Garden

Vincent Brown

What did people make of death in the world of Atlantic slavery? In The Reaper's Garden, Brown asks this question about Jamaica, the staggeringly profitable hub of the British Empire in America--and a human catastrophe. Popularly known as the grave of the Europeans, it was just as deadly for Africans and their descendants. Yet among the survivors, the dead remained both a vital presence and a social force.

Hardcover 2008

Reinscribing Moses

Bluma Goldstein

Hardcover

Remaking China Policy

Richard Moorsteen

Morton Abramowitz

Hardcover 1971

Remembrances

Stephen Owen

Hardcover 1986

Repercussions of the Kalam in Jewish Philosophy

Harry Austryn Wolfson

Hardcover 1979

Rethinking Multiculturalism

Bhikhu Parekh

Bhikhu Parekh argues for a pluralist perspective on cultural diversity. Writing from both within the liberal tradition and outside of it as a critic, he challenges what he calls the "moral monism" of much of traditional moral philosophy, including contemporary liberalism--its tendency to assert that only one way of life or set of values is worthwhile and to dismiss the rest as misguided or false. He defends his pluralist perspective both at the level of theory and in subtle nuanced analyses of recent controversies.

Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002

Revolutionary Discourse in Mao's Republic

David E. Apter

Tony Saich

Hardcover 1994 / Paperback 1998

A Right to Sing the Blues

Jeffrey Melnick

"Black-Jewish relations," Jeffrey Melnick argues, has mostly been a way for American Jews to talk about their ambivalent racial status, a narrative collectively constructed at critical moments, when particular conflicts demand an explanation. Remarkably flexible, this narrative can organize diffuse materials into a coherent story that has a powerful hold on our imagination. Melnick elaborates this idea through an in-depth look at Jewish songwriters, composers, and perfomers who made "Black" music in the first few decades of this century.

Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2001

Righteous Discontent

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

What Du Bois noted has gone largely unstudied until now. In this book, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham gives us our first full account of the crucial role of black women in making the church a powerful institution for social and political change in the black community. Between 1880 and 1920, the black church served as the most effective vehicle by which men and women alike, pushed down by racism and poverty, regrouped and rallied against emotional and physical defeat. Focusing on the National Baptist Convention, the largest religious movement among black Americans, Higginbotham shows us how women were largely responsible for making the church a force for self-help in the black community. In her account, we see how the efforts of women enabled the church to build schools, provide food and clothing to the poor, and offer a host of social welfare services. And we observe the challenges of black women to patriarchal theology. Class, race, and gender dynamics continually interact in Higginbotham's nuanced history. She depicts the cooperation, tension, and negotiation that characterized the relationship between men and women church leaders as well as the interaction of southern black and northern white women's groups.

Paperback / Hardcover

Rituals of Self-Revelation

Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnerei

Hijiya-Kirschnereit brings a sophisticated and graceful method of analysis to this English translation of her book on the shishosetsu, one of the most important yet misunderstood genres in Japanese literature.

Hardcover 1996

The Road to Komatsubara

Steven D. Carter

Hardcover 1988

Roots Too

Matthew Frye Jacobson

In the 1970s, white ethnics mobilized around a new version of the epic tale of plucky immigrants making their way in the New World through the sweat of their brow. Although this turn to ethnicity was for many an individual search for familial and psychological identity, Roots Too establishes a broader white social and political consensus arising in response to the political language of the Civil Rights movement.

Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008

Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia, 1860-1900

Roger Lane

Lane offers a historical explanation for the rising levels of black urban crime and family instability during this paradoxical era. Modern crime rates and patterns are shown to be products of a historical culture that can be traced from its formative years. The author not only charts Philadelphia's story but also makes suggestions regarding national and international patterns.

Hardcover 1986 / Paperback

Rural Development

Sung Hwan Ban

Pal Yong Moon

Dwight H. Perkins

Hardcover

Saltwater Slavery

Stephanie E. Smallwood

This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and the depths of its horrors. Stephanie E. Smallwood offers a penetrating look at the process of enslavement from its African origins through the Middle Passage and into the American slave market. Saltwater Slavery is animated by deep research and gives us a graphic experience of the slave trade from the vantage point of the slaves themselves. The result is both a remarkable transatlantic view of the culture of enslavement, and a painful, intimate vision of the bloody, daily business of the slave trade.

Hardcover 2007 / Paperback 2008

A Sanskrit Reader

Charles Lanman

Hardcover 1984

Satchmo Blows Up the World

Penny M. Von Eschen

At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. State Department unleashed an unexpected tool in its battle against Communism: jazz. From 1956 through the late 1970s, America dispatched its finest jazz musicians to the far corners of the earth in order to win the hearts and minds of the Third World and to counter perceptions of American racism. Von Eschen captures the fascinating interplay between the efforts of the State Department and the progressive agendas of the artists themselves, as all struggled to redefine a more inclusive and integrated American nation on the world stage.

Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2006

Saving in Postwar Japan

Tuvia Blumenthal

Paperback

Searching for the Invisible Man

Michael Craton

Though centered on a single Jamaican sugar estate, and dealing largely with the period of formal slavery, this book is firmly placed in far wider contexts of place and time. The "Invisible Man" of the title is found, in the end, to be not just the formal slave but the ordinary black worker throughout the history of the plantation system.

Hardcover 1978

The Secret Speeches of Chairman Mao

Roderick MacFarquhar, Editor

Eugene Wu, Editor

Timothy Cheek, Editor

View a video of Professor MacFarquhar entitled "Perspectives on China"

Paperback

The Secret Window

Anthony Chambers

Hardcover

Security in Paraguay

James L. Cavallaro

Jacob Kopas

Yukyan Lam

Timothy Mayhle

Soledad Villagra de Biedermann

The perception of rising insecurity has plagued Paraguay over the past decade as the country has continued its transition from authoritarian to democratic rule. At the same time, reforms of the penal code and the code of criminal procedure have been implemented, leading many to attribute the rising sense of insecurity to the new, rights-based approach to criminal justice. In Security in Paraguay, the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School assesses the disparity between the sensation of insecurity and actual levels of urban crime.

Paperback 2008

Selected Chinese Texts in the Classical and Colloquial Styles

Lien-sheng Yang, Editor

Paperback 1953

Selecting by Origin

Christian Joppke

In a world of mutually exclusive nation-states, international migration constitutes a fundamental anomaly. No wonder that such states have been inclined to select migrants according to their origins. The result is ethnic migration. But Joppke shows that after World War II there has been a trend away from ethnic selectivity and toward non-discriminatory immigration policies across Western states. Indeed, he depicts the modern state in the cross-fire of particularistic and universalistic principles and commitments, with universalism gradually winning the upperhand.

Hardcover 2005

Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative

Valerie Smith

It is by telling the stories of their lives that black writers--from the authors of nineteenth-century slave narratives to contemporary novelists--affirm and legitimize their psychological autonomy. So Smith argues in this perceptive exploration of the relationship between autobiography and fiction in Afro-American writing. Smith sees the processes of plot construction and characterization as providing these narrators with a measure of authority unknown in their lives.

Paperback 1991

Separate and Unequal

Amir S. Cheshin

Bill Hutman

Avi Melamed

This vivid behind-the-scenes account of Israeli rule in Jerusalem details for the first time the Jewish state's attempt to lay claim to all of Jerusalem, even when that meant implementing harsh policies toward the city's Arab population. The authors, Jerusalemites from the spheres of politics, journalism, and the military, have themselves been players in the drama that has unfolded in east Jerusalem in recent years. They have also had access to a wide range of official documents that reveal the making and implementation of Israeli policy toward Jerusalem.

Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2001

Shadrach Minkins

Gary L. Collison

In 1851 Shadrach Minkins, the first runaway to be arrested in New England under the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, became the catalyst of one of the most dramatic episodes of rebellion and legal wrangling before the Civil War. In a feat of historical sleuthing, Gary Collison restores an extraordinary chapter to American history and also offers an engrossing picture of the life of an ordinary black man in nineteenth-century North America.

Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1998

Shikitei Samba and the Comic Tradition in Edo Fiction

Robert W. Leutner

Hardcover 1986

Shinzo

Christine Guth Kanda

Hardcover 1985

Sino-Soviet Crisis Politics

Richard Wich

Hardcover 1980

Slave Country

Adam Rothman

This book tells the tragic story of the expansion of slavery in the new United States. In the wake of the American Revolution, slavery gradually disappeared from the northern states and the importation of captive Africans was prohibited. Yet, at the same time, the country's slave population grew, new plantation crops appeared, and several new slave states joined the Union. Rothman explores how slavery flourished in a new nation dedicated to the principle of equality among free men, and reveals the enormous consequences of U.S. expansion into the region that became the Deep South.

Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2007

Slave Patrols

Sally E. Hadden

This book completes the grim picture of slavery by showing us the origins, nature, and extent of slave patrols in Virginia and the Carolinas from the late seventeenth century through the end of the Civil War. Here we see how the patrols, formed by county courts and state militias, were the closest enforcers of codes governing slaves throughout the South.

Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2003

Songs of Flying Dragons

Peter H. Lee

Hardcover 1975

Soul by Soul