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History and Current Affairs
REFERENCE WORKS
EDITED BY LYNN PAN The Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas offers a panoramic view of past and present overseas Chinese communities worldwide. From their arrival as laborers in the British colonies to their emergence as a force in Indonesia, Chinese emigrants have carried the experiences of China to other continents and civilizations, in the process modifying and enriching them. This book reflects the diverse histories and traditions that produced this diaspora.
A National Bibliography EDITED BY JAMES P. DANKY ASSOCIATE EDITOR MAUREEN E. HADY 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.
EDITED BY FRANCOIS FURET, MONA OZOUF "No praise can really be too high for what this work represents: spectacular scholarship, consistently gripping writing, and intellectual penetration...It is certainly the most enduring book to be published in the bicentennial year." --New Republic
EVELYN BROOKS HIGGINBOTHAM, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF LEON F. LITWACK AND DARLENE CLARK HINE, GENERAL EDITORS RANDALL K. BURKETT, ASSOCIATE EDITOR "In its very vastness, its horizonless terrain--[this work] promises that far from limiting history, African American scholarship is on the case. It is liberating it." --Lisa Kennedy, Village Voice Literary Supplement
EDITED BY ABIGAIL M. THERNSTROM, ANN ORLOV, OSCAR HANDLIN
Revised Edition EDITED BY FRANK FREIDEL ASSISTANT EDITOR RICHARD K. SHOWMAN
LOUIS FRÈDÈRIC TRANSLATED BY KÄTHE ROTH This richly detailed yet concise encyclopedia is a guide to the full range of Japanese history and civilization, from the dawn of its prehistory to today, providing clear and accessible information on society and institutions, commerce and industry, sciences, sports, and politics, with particular emphasis on religion, material culture, and the arts. The volume is enhanced by maps and illustrations, along with a detailed chronology of more than 2,000 years of Japanese history and a comprehensive bibliography. Cross-references and an index help the reader trace themes from one article to the next.
A Biographical Dictionary EDITED BY EDWARD T. JAMES, JANET WILSON JAMES, PAUL BOYER NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN, THE MODERN PERIOD A Biographical Dictionary EDITED BY BARBARA SICHERMAN, CAROL HURD GREEN "[This] three-volume compilation of 1,359 lucidly written, well-documented biographies representing ten years of labor by a husband-and-wife team of editors and 738 contributors, shatters the old myths. Women were there all along, and what they did, other than merely playing their biological role, was remarkably important--even essential--to the growth of American civilization." --Life
A New History, Enlarged Edition JOHN KING FAIRBANK, MERLE GOLDMAN The late John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast ancient civilization. His book remains a masterwork without parallel--a concise and authoritative account of China and its people over four millennia. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman has brought the book up to date with a chapter on events in the post-Mao period and a new preface and epilogue.
A History of African-American Slaves IRA BERLIN "A magisterial synthesis much of what has now been learned about slave life during its first two centuries within the present United States." --New York Review of Books
A New History HAGEN SCHULZE This is the first modern one-volume history of London from Roman times to the present. An extraordinary city, London grew from a backwater in the Classical age into an important medieval city, a significant Renaissance urban center, and a modern colossus. Not since ancient times has there been such a city--not eternal, but vibrant, living, full of a free people ever evolving.
ALBERT HOURANI Upon its publication in 1991, Albert Hourani's masterwork was hailed as the definitive story of Arab civilization, and became an instant classic. In a panoramic view encompassing twelve centuries of Arab history and culture, Hourani brilliantly illuminated the people and events that have fundamentally shaped the Arab world.
Distant Worlds, Ancient Worlds A HISTORY OF THE FAMILY, VOLUME II The Impact of Modernity EDITED BY ANDRE BURGUIERE, CHRISTIANE KLAPISCH-ZUBER, MARTINE SEGALEN, FRANCOIS ZONABEND This monumental two-volume work brings together experts from every discipline to reveal what each epoch can tell us about the family.
EDITED BY HAYIM BEN-SASSON "Offering a full panorama of Jewish existence from the dim origins of the 2nd millennium B.C.E. to the hard politics of modern Israel, this work breaks new ground for a one-volume history, both in its range and in its authority...The book as a whole is a monument to scholarship and feeling, immersing the reader on every page in the rich texture of the Jewish heritage." --Commentary
From Pagan Rome to Byzantium A HISTORY OF PRIVATE LIFE, VOLUME II Revelations of the Medieval World A HISTORY OF PRIVATE LIFE, VOLUME III Passions of the Renaissance A HISTORY OF PRIVATE LIFE, VOLUME IV From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War A HISTORY OF PRIVATE LIFE, VOLUME V Riddles of Identity in Modern Times SERIES EDITORS PHILLIPPE ARIÈS, GEORGES DUBY "The new emphasis on the history of everybody has now been consecrated in [this] ambitious five-volume series...Copious illustrative materials--paintings, drawings, caricatures, and photographs, all cannily chosen and wittily captioned to display domestic life...Magnificent." --New York Times Book Review
ROBERT SERVICE "Without doubt one of the most satisfactory treatments of the Soviet story that we possess." --Wall Street Journal
From Ancient Goddesses to Christian Saints A HISTORY OF WOMEN IN THE WEST, VOLUME II Silences of the Middle Ages A HISTORY OF WOMEN IN THE WEST, VOLUME III Renaissance and the Enlightenment Paradoxes A HISTORY OF WOMEN IN THE WEST, VOLUME IV Emerging Feminism from Revolution to World War A HISTORY OF WOMEN IN THE WEST, VOLUME V Toward a Cultural Identity in the Twentieth Century SERIES EDITOR GEORGES DUBY, MICHELLE PERROT "This work has become a touchstone for all future studies of women's history. Each volume assembles an international cast of scholars...specialists from many fields, introducing expository and theoretical historical essays about the function of women in history...This emerging perspective will revolutionize how history will be thought and taught." --Reader's Review
2 Volumes Enlarged Edition J. A. S. GRENVILLE In this enlargement of his outstanding history of the world, Grenville stresses the history of nation-states within a world of interdependence and regional groupings. Grenville has updated his history through 1999 and added new material on the demise of Yugoslavia, with its wars and ethnic cleansing; Clinton's policies in Haiti, Somalia, and Asia; his economic policy; Eastern Europe's new democracies; and the progress of Third World countries.
Ancient and Medieval Rites of Passage A HISTORY OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE WEST, VOLUME II Stormy Evolution to Modern Times EDITED BY GIOVANNI LEVI, JEAN-CLA SCHMITT This two-volume history is the first to present a comprehensive account of what youth has been in the West and what it has meant through the ages. A company of gifted historians and social scientists traces the changing character and status of young people from the gymnasia of ancient Greece to the lycèes of modern France, from the sweatshops of the industrial revolution to the crucibles of Nazi youth.
LOUIS CROMPTON How have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? In a narrative tour de force, Louis Crompton chronicles the lives and achievements of homosexual men and women alongside a darker history of persecution, as he compares the Christian West with the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome, Arab Spain, imperial China, and pre-Meiji Japan.
A Social History ROY PORTER This is the first modern one-volume history of London from Roman times to the present. An extraordinary city, London grew from a backwater in the Classical age into an important medieval city, a significant Renaissance urban center, and a modern colossus. Not since ancient times has there been such a city--not eternal, but vibrant, living, full of a free people ever evolving.
MARIUS B. JANSEN Magisterial in vision, sweeping in scope, this monumental work presents a seamless account of Japanese society during the modern era, from 1600 to the present. A distillation of more than fifty years' engagement with Japan and its history, it is the crowning work of our leading interpreter of the modern Japanese experience.
The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America 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.
KI-BAIK LEE TRANSLATED BY EDWARD WAGNER CONTRIBUTOR EDWARD J. SCHULTZ One of the first, most widely-read and respected histories of Korea, Ki-baik Lee's Han'guksa Sillon has been translated into English by Edward W. Wagner. A New History of Korea offers Western readers a distillation of the best scholarship on Korean history and culture from the earliest times to the student revolution of 1960. Translated twice into Japanese and into Chinese as well, this book is noteworthy for its full and integrated discussion of major currents in Korea's cultural history.
COLIN WELLS This sweeping history of the Roman Empire from 44 B.C. to A.D. 235 has three purposes: to describe what was happening in the central administration and in the entourage of the emperor; to indicate how life went on in Italy and the provinces, in the towns, in the countryside, and in the army camps; and to show how these two different worlds impinged on each other. Colin Wells's vivid account is now available in an up-to-date second edition.
People and Empire, 1552-1917 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. 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.
PRIMARY SOURCES
HENRY ADAMS Ernest Samuels' Pulitzer Prize-winning, multivolume work on Henry Adams is now a compact, updated, one-volume biography.
EDITED BY JOHN CAREY "This unusual 700-page anthology of eyewitness accounts invites readers to dine with Attila the Hun, gaze on daffodils with Dorothy Wordsworth, attend Gauguin's impromptu wedding to a Tonga girl and roam Africa with Stanley as he searches for Livingston...This collection...is endlessly fascinating; its firsthand reports of acts of courage, cruelty, intolerance, discovery and simple pleasures burn indelible images into the mind." --Publishers Weekly
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH These letters give us a firsthand look at the working relationship between a president and one of his close advisers. Ranging from a pithy commentary on Kennedy's speech accepting the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination to reflections on critical matters of state Letters to Kennedy presents a rare, intimate picture of the lives and minds of a political intellectual and an intellectual politician during a particularly rich moment in American history.
OSCAR HANDLIN, LILLIAN HANDLIN Oscar and Lilian Handlin show how the new voyagers in the twentieth century--from Asia, Africa, Australia, and Latin America--record their experiences in the United States. Many accounts are newly translated from Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, and Spanish, and include such authors as Rabindranath Tagore, V. S. Naipaul and Octavio Paz.
The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings EDITED BY CATHARINE MACKINNON, ANDREA DWORKIN This volume contains the oral testimony of victims of pornography, recorded at hearings on a groundbreaking civil rights law drafted by Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon.
Written by Herself, Enlarged Edition HARRIET A. JACOBS 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.
THE JOURNAL OF JOHN WINTHROP, 1630-1649, ABRIDGED EDITION EDITED BY RICHARD DUNN, JAMES SAVAGE, LAETITIA YAENDLE For 350 years Governor John Winthrop's journal has been recognized as the central source for the history of Massachusetts in the 1630s and 1640s.
The Life and Democratic Writings of William Manning EDITED BY MICHAEL MERRILL, SEAN WILENTZ
Selected Letters FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE EDITED BY MARTHA VICINUS, BEA NERGAARD
His Life as He Wrote It EDITED BY ESMOND WRIGHT 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.
MARY BOYKIN CHESNUT "It is hardly too much to say that what Samuel Pepys's diary is to the reign of Charles II, Mary Boykin Chesnut's is to the Confederacy. To thousands now and in years to come it will be a fascinating source of information, an invaluable aid to the understanding of a great period, and a lasting delight." --Saturday Review
Election Campaign Pamphlets, 1828-1854 THE AMERICAN PARTY BATTLE, VOLUME 2 Election Campaign Pamphlets, 1854-1876 EDITED 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.
An American Slave, Written by Himself FREDERICK DOUGLASS EDITED BY BENJAMIN QUARLES "Harvard has done us all a service in reviving [Douglass'] most important work." --San Francisco Sunday Chronicle
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