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- Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire
- Eliga H. Gould presents the argument that the American founding was a bid for inclusion in the community of nations as it existed in 1776.
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- Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times
- Robin D. G. Kelley describes how this collective biography of four jazz musicians from the U.S. and Africa helps us to understand how musical convergences and crossings altered the politics and culture of both continents.
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- Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer
- Kenneth W. Mack describes the paradox of being expected to represent one’s race while also standing apart from it.
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- The Short American Century: A Postmortem
- Andrew J. Bacevich describes the impetus behind this new collection of essays on the age of reputed American preeminence.
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- Dictionary of American Regional English
- Joan Houston Hall, Chief Editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English, and Erin McKean, founder of Wordnik, explain the history and significance of this authoritative record of American English.
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- Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation
- Rebecca J. Scott outlines the multi-generational quest for freedom and respect that she presents with Jean M. Hébrard in their new book.
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- An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak explains the radical reorientation in her thinking presented in her new collection of essays on theory, translation, Marxism, gender, and world literature.
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- The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire
- Raymond Jonas explains the global historical significance of Ethiopia’s defeat of Italy in 1896.
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- The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
- Khalil Gibran Muhammad discusses his disentangling of crime as a fact of the urban experience from crime as a theory of race in American history.
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- The Harvard Sampler: Liberal Education for the Twenty-First Century
- Evelynn M. Hammonds, Dean of Harvard College, explains the impetus for this collection of essays sampling topics at the forefront of academia in the twenty-first century.
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- Ezra F. Vogel describes Deng Xiaoping and the challenges he faced after taking his position as China’s pre-eminent leader.
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- Robert Douglas-Fairhurst describes his new biography of Charles Dickens as a “zero-to-hero” story.
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- David W. Blight describes his study of four American writers grappling with the memory of the Civil War during the American Centennial.
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- Nicholas L. Tilney details surgery’s advance from the dangerous province of itinerant practitioners to a highly specialized discipline practiced in over 85,000 elective procedures each weekday in modern American hospitals.
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- Martha C. Nussbaum explains the Capabilities Approach to human progress.
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- Daniel E. Lieberman describes some of the research included in this innovative book that will permanently change the study of human evolution and carry widespread ramifications for thinking about other branches of evolutionary biology.
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- Serena Mayeri describes how feminists borrowed rhetoric and legal arguments from the civil rights movement in the 1960s and ’70s.
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- Martha Nussbaum and Saul Levmore discuss the abuses made possible by the anonymity, freedom from liability, and lack of oversight that currently characterize the Internet.
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- Brandon L. Garrett describes how DNA exonerations have shattered confidence in the criminal justice system by examining cases in which we have convicted the innocent and let the guilty walk free.
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- David W. Blight discusses the compelling history and politics of Civil War memory, and how a nation chose healing over justice.
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- Hamid Dabashi explains the soul of Shi’ism as a religion of protest—successful only when in a warring position, and losing its legitimacy when in power.
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- Robert R. M. Verchick outlines his prescriptions for better protecting our environment and communities from disasters.
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- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., explains the history of this monumental research project and photo archive.
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- An inside look at the design and production of our new annotated edition of Jane Austen’s classic novel.
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- A conversation with HUP Director of Design and Production Tim Jones about his jacket design for our newest Robin Dunbar collection.
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- A conversation with HUP Director of Design and Production Tim Jones about his jacket design for Susan Dunn’s study of FDR’s unprecedented battle to drive his foes out of his party.
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- In true-life stories of loss and quiet heroism, activism and scientific initiatives, Unity Dow and Max Essex show how the experiences of battling HIV/AIDS in Botswana offer practical lessons along with the critical element of hope.
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- Susanne Freidberg explains the curious story of the quality we call freshness.
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- Esther M. Sternberg, M.D., immerses us in the discoveries that have revealed a complicated working relationship between the senses, the emotions, and the immune system.
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- Lindsay Waters, Executive Editor for the Humanities at HUP, explains this collection of more than two hundred original essays bringing together the nation’s many voices to present a new, kaleidoscopic view of what “Made in America” means.
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- Thomas G. Andrews on his award-winning study of the 1914 Ludlow Massacre and the “Great Coalfield War.”
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- James M. Lang describes his guide full of experience-tested, research-based advice for graduate students and new teaching faculty.
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- The late Jon Latimer describes this first complete history of the War of 1812 to be written from a British perspective.
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- Peter Last and John D. Stevens on their catalog of the greatest diversity of sharks and rays on Earth.
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- Barbara Dianne Savage describes her history of African American religion as the story of a powerful but ambivalent Christian legacy in African American life.
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- Mary Beard makes sense of the remains of Pompeii, offering us the big picture of the inhabitants of the lost city.
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