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Russia ..................................................................................................... 1–2
Germany and Central & Eastern Europe ........................................... 3
France ..................................................................................................... 4–5
Early Modern Europe .............................................................................. 6
Medieval Europe .................................................................................. 6–8
The United States .............................................................................. 9–15
Asia ............................................................................................................. 16
Africa .......................................................................................................... 17
Global History ......................................................................................... 17
Diplomatic & Military History ........................................................... 18
History of Science ................................................................................... 19
Historiography ........................................................................................ 19
Recent Award-Winning Books .......................................................... 20
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Cover illustration: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division: The torch and part of the arm of the
Statue of Liberty, on display at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, from a stereograph card pub-
lished by the Centennial Photographic Company of Philadelphia, ca. 1876. Featured in Enlightening the World: The
Creation of the Statue of Liberty by Yasmin Sabina Khan (see p. 12).
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RUSSIA
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France
Laboratories of Faith
Mesmerism, Spiritism, and Occultism
in Modern France
John Warne Monroe
“This is an excellently researched, scholarly look at
serious-minded people seeking empirical truth for
the doctrines they already believed by faith, a ‘sci-
ence of God.’ With a firmer grip than most writers
on his subject, Monroe puts these events into their
political context, showing how psychic phenomena
had a rewarding way of changing shape to reflect the
preoccupations of those observing them.”
—The Guardian
Becoming a Woman in
the Age of Letters 2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4562-0
Dena Goodman 312 pages | $35.00 cloth (catalog price: $28.00)
“We might expect a book on girls and young women
writing letters to tell us about their education and
the instruction given by their mothers, but Dena
New in Paperback
Goodman takes us to many more surprising places
too: to the shops where inkstands, fine Dutch paper, Consuming Visions
and fashionable writing desks were sold, to female Mass Culture and the Lourdes Shrine
painters choosing how to depict women writing Suzanne K. Kaufman
letters, and ultimately to the hard-won sense of self
“This is a sophisticated, erudite, and provocative
gained in the act of pressing quill to paper. Goodman
study of one of the world’s most enduringly popu-
recaptures a world we have forgotten and recovers
lar modern sites of Christian worship. Kaufman has
aspects of it we never knew.”—Lynn Hunt, UCLA
produced an important book that will be of great
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7545-0 interest not just to historians of France but to any-
408 pages | $29.95 paper (catalog price: $23.96) one interested in the role of religion in the modern
world.”—American Historical Review
2009 (2004) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7532-0
Reimagining Politics after 264 pages | $24.95 paper (catalog price: $19.96)
the Terror
The Republican Origins of French Liberalism
Andrew Jainchill
New in Paperback
“After this pathbreaking work, the decade between
Thermidor and the establishment of the Empire will
Why France?
no longer be a political black hole during which American Historians Reflect on an
bourgeois interests ran wild. The classical republi- Enduring Fascination
can theories that had animated the revolutionaries Laura Lee Downs & Stéphane Gerson, editors
did not disappear; private interest did not replace Afterword by Roger Chartier
public spirit. Jainchill illustrates the emergence of a
“These historians are not afraid to open up and reveal
modern ‘liberal republicanism’ that recognizes that
their sensibility, even their sensuality. They express
liberalism can no more survive without republican-
the richness of their historical vocation and the gains
ism than republicanism can ignore the principles of
of a self-discovery that is made possible or intensified
liberalism. His careful historical reconstruction will
by distance and alterity.”—Alain Corbin, Le Monde
interest political theorists who are not primarily
specialists in the French revolution. Although Jain- –Contributors–
chill does not mention it directly, it is tempting to Ken Alder, Northwestern University
ask whether his liberal republicanism does not offer John W. Baldwin, The Johns Hopkins University
hints for dealing with our own recent experience.” Edward Berenson, New York University
—Dick Howard, Stony Brook University Herrick Chapman, New York University
2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4669-6 Clare Haru Crowston, University of Illinois
336 pages | $45.00 cloth (catalog price: $36.00) Barbara Diefendorf, Boston University
Jan Goldstein, The University of Chicago
Lynn Hunt, UCLA
Steven Kaplan, Cornell University
Thomas Kselman, Notre Dame University
Herman Lebovics, Stony Brook University
Robert Paxton, Columbia University
Todd Shepard, The Johns Hopkins Univerisity
Leonard V. Smith, Oberlin College
Gabrielle Spiegel, The Johns Hopkins University
Tyler Stovall, UC Berkeley
2009 (2006) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7570-2
256 pages | $21.95 paper (catalog price: $17.56)
Future Tense
The Culture of Anticipation in France
between the Wars
Roxanne Panchasi
“Roxanne Panchasi’s core insight is that the future
can be a congenial place to think about the present—
even if the thoughts themselves are far from reassur-
ing. She shows us how certain objects—artificial
limbs, vitamins, domestic furnishings, America—
intruded on the French imagination of the 1920s and
1930s, objectifying forebodings of stagnation and ir-
relevance. Future Tense is a timely book in the cultural
Surrealism and the Art of Crime history of anxiety.”—Raymond Jonas, University of
Jonathan P. Eburne Washington
“Copiously (in places grotesquely) illustrated, this 2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4670-2
study is an original take on the necessary blend of 224 pages | $39.95 cloth (catalog price: $31.96)
politics and sociology and their nefarious offshoots
of gutter journalism, lurid dime novels, rumor, pro-
paganda, and serious art—a shaky, volatile mix that
Reforming Urban Labor
is in one’s face, mind, and sometimes nightmares.
The visuals contribute viscerally to the substantive Routes to the City, Roots in the Country
research, presented in journalistic, readable prose Janet L. Polasky
that depicts the noirish nature of subjects and peo- In this innovative urban history, comparisons of
ple. This book is well done and delicious fun.” nineteenth-century London and Brussels are inter-
—Choice woven in the context of industrial Europe as a whole.
2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4674-0 Polasky sets urban planning against the backdrop
344 pages | $35.00 cloth (catalog price: $28.00) of idealized rural images, links transportation and
housing reform, and investigates the relationship of
middle-class reformers with industrial workers and
New in Paperback their families in the struggle to control the built en-
The Invention of Decolonization vironment and its labor force.
The Algerian War and the Remaking of France 2010 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4794-5
Todd Shepard 264 pages | $55.00 cloth (catalog price: $44.00)
•Winner, 2006 J. Russell Major Prize (American
Historical Association)
New in Paperback
• Winner, 2008 Council for European Studies Book Differential Diagnoses
Award
A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and
“Todd Shepard’s timely and significant work will be Solutions in the United States and France
of interest to a wide range of scholars. Using Alge-
Paul V. Dutton
ria as a case study, Shepard shows how the history
of French imperialism and anti-imperialism was “By first exposing the stereotypes and then carefully
rewritten after Algerian independence by bureau- exploring the distinct histories of health care provi-
crats, politicians, and journalists in such a way as sion in the U.S. and France, Dutton provides unique
to present decolonization as ‘a predetermined end and valuable insight into how both countries can
point’ that was inevitable, rather than as the failure better address their respective health crises.”
of a genuine project of national integration in the —Jeremy Shapiro, The Brookings Institution
colonies.”—Modern and Contemporary France An ILR Press Book
2008 (2006) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7454-5 2008 (2007) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7484-2
304 pages | $22.95 paper (catalog price: $18.36) 272 pages | $19.95 paper (catalog price: $15.96)
Signs of Light
from Leuven University Press—
French and British Theories of Linguistic
A Small Nation in the Turmoil of
Communication, 1648–1789
the Second World War
Matthew Lauzon
Money, Finance and Occupation (Belgium, its
“Signs of Light shows Matthew Lauzon’s extensive Enemies, its Friends, 1939–1945)
learning in a wide range of areas, including language
theory, missionary tracts, and literary texts. He Herman Van der Wee & Monique Verbreyt
reorients our approach to early modern language “The authors tell an important—and fascinating—
theory in the direction of the study of processes of story of the Belgian central bank and the Belgian
communication, as opposed to emphasizing the doc- government in Brussels and in London during the
umentation of static ideals of transparency.” hazardous years of World War II.”—Peter Mathias,
—Laura Brown, Cornell University Cambridge University
2010 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4847-8 2010 | ISBN: 978-90-5867-759-4
256 pages | $55.00 cloth (catalog price: $44.00) 494 pages | $75.00 cloth (catalog price: $60.00)
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early modern europe | medieval europe
Splendour of the
New in Paperback Burgundian Court
The Birth of the Despot Charles the Bold (1433–1477)
Venice and the Sublime Porte Susan Marti, Till-Holger Borchert &
Lucette Valensi Gabriele Keck, editors
translated by Arthur Denner
The essays here—biographies of key figures, politi-
“An elegant, almost lyrical historical study, it makes cal histories, and analyses of court art—form a com-
some important corrections to traditional assump- prehensive portrait of the Burgundian court, while
tions of how Venetians perceived and appropriated its 350 full-color illustrations vividly bring to life
the image of the Ottoman Empire in the early mod- both the brilliance and the drama of the epoch.
ern era.”—Sixteenth Century Journal
Distributed in North America for Mercatorfonds
2009 (1993) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7543-6 2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4853-9
132 pages | $18.95 paper (catalog price: $15.16) 384 pages | $80.00 cloth (catalog price: $64.00)
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Medieval europe
New in Paperback
The Powers of Prophecy The Great
The Cedar of Lebanon Vision from the Mongol Workshop
Onslaught to the Dawn of the Enlightenment Pathways of Art in
Robert E. Lerner Europe, 5th to 18th
“This volume is a delightful and somewhat amaz- Centuries
ing picture of what happened to an eschatological Roland Recht,
prophecy written about 1240 concerning the Mon- Catheline Périer-
gol invasion of Europe.”—The History Teacher D’Ieteren & Pascal
2009 (1983) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7537-5 Griener, editors
264 pages | $24.95 paper (catalog price: $19.96) foreword by Peter Burke
“This beautifully
illustrated, oversized volume offers fourteen essays
New in Paperback on various aspects of art, its production, and dissem-
ination in Europe until the 18th century, addressing
Sword, Miter, and Cloister such topics as the collecting and sharing of draw-
Nobility and the Church in Burgundy, 980–1198 ings, the Grand Tour, the legacy of the Carolingian
Constance Brittain Bouchard Empire, the impact of classical antiquity, goldsmith
“An exemplary piece of scholarship. The work is workshops, and European sculpture before the
beautifully presented: good maps, index, bibliog- Renaissance. Each essay is heavily illustrated with
raphy. Noteworthy is Bouchard’s care to include color plates of excellent quality of works from the
wives and daughters in the genealogical notes; this exhibition.”—Reference & Research Book News
makes the work especially useful as a reference for Distributed in North America for Mercatorfonds
questions of Burgundian genealogy.” 2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4710-5
—American Historical Review 336 pages | $69.95 cloth (catalog price: $55.96)
2009 (1987) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7526-9
464 pages | $35.00 paper (catalog price: $28.00)
Back in Print
Benedictine Maledictions
New in Paperback Liturgical Cursing in Romanesque France
Holy Entrepreneurs Lester K. Little
Cistercians, Knights, and Economic Exchange in
• Cowinner, 1994 David Pinkney Prize (Society
Twelfth-Century Burgundy for French Historical Studies)
Constance Brittain Bouchard
“The book’s focus is the way that religious communi-
“In addition to being an important revisionist study ties—especially the monks who followed Benedict’s
of Burgundian Cistercian economic practices, this Rule and hence were known by his name—used
clear book is an excellent brief introduction for any- liturgical cursing to safeguard their integrity and
one wishing to understand twelfth-century charters their possessions, against both laymen and other
and cartularies.”—American Historical Review ecclesiastics.”—Journal of Social History
2009 (1991) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7525-2 1996 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-8113-0
260 pages | $24.95 paper (catalog price: $19.96) 312 pages | $27.95 paper (catalog price: $22.36)
Citizen Bachelors
Manhood and the Creation of the United States
John Gilbert McCurdy
“Citizen Bachelors is a good read: lucid, concise and
compelling. John Gilbert McCurdy’s insightful
study of unmarried young men and never-married
men is an important and original contribution to
our knowledge of personal identity, family, and legal
status in early America.”—Susan E. Klepp, Temple
University
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4788-4
The Colony of New Netherland 272 pages | $35.00 cloth (catalog price: $28.00)
A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century America
Jaap Jacobs
“Jacobs has produced a model synthesis of social, Kitchens, Smokehouses,
political, and economic history for a colonial ex- and Privies
perience that has far too long been terra incognita. Outbuildings and the Architecture of Daily Life
Jacobs is particularly strong in his ability to take a
in the Eighteenth-Century Mid-Atlantic
genuinely transatlantic perspective, detailing the
many struggles within the Dutch West India Com- Michael Olmert
pany over whether its North American interest was “The Colonial-era backyard had more activity than
to be a colony of trade or a colony of settlement (or, the actual house. Elegantly written with great in-
indeed, a colony at all) as well as the efforts of a few sight and accompanied by many photographs and
thousand Europeans to recreate something resem- drawings, Michael Olmert’s book illuminates how
bling a society in New Amsterdam, Fort Orange, and the grand houses and also the more middling ac-
points adjacent.”—Daniel K. Richter, University of tually functioned in the Mid-Atlantic region. This
Pennsylvania book is essential for any serious student of Colonial
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7516-0 America.”—Richard Guy Wilson, author of Build-
ings of Virginia
320 pages | $26.95 paper (catalog price: $21.56)
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4791-4
304 pages | $27.95 cloth (catalog price: $22.36)
The Diary of Hannah
Callender Sansom
Sense and Sensibility in the Age of
Back in Print
the American Revolution
Our Earliest Colonial
Susan E. Klepp & Karin Wulf, editors
Settlements
“The Diary of Hannah Callender Sanson is truly a delight- Their Diversities of Origin and Later Characteristics
ful and compelling read. The editors both know a
great deal about late eighteenth-century Philadel- Charles M. Andrews
phia and the lives of women therein, and it shows. with a new foreword by Karen Ordahl Kupperman
They give readers a polished introduction to the di- “Andrews writes with such fullness of knowledge,
ary and do an excellent job of succinctly establishing such an easy command of his material, and such vig-
the necessary contexts, from married women’s legal orous presentation of his ideas that his book will be
position to Quaker belief to contemporary expecta- keenly interesting for all who care about our early
tions for courtship and marriage.”—Mary Beth Nor- history.”—New York Times
ton, Cornell University
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7544-3
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7513-9 192 pages | $19.95 paper (catalog price: $15.96)
376 pages | $24.95 paper (catalog price: $19.96)
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The United States
New in Paperback
The Mirror of Antiquity
American Women and the Classical
Tradition, 1750–1900
Caroline Winterer
“The Mirror of Antiquity is the best treatment of Ameri-
can women and the classics from the mid-eighteenth
to the mid-nineteenth century ever published. Lu-
cid, thoughtful, and well-researched, it is certain to
become its own object of study, a classic.”
—Common-place
Becoming American under Fire 2009 (2007) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7579-5
Irish Americans, African Americans, and the 256 pages | $22.95 paper (catalog price: $18.36)
Politics of Citizenship during the Civil War Era
Christian G. Samito
Horace Greeley’s New-York Tribune
“In this important book, Christian G. Samito ex-
Civil War–Era Socialism and the Crisis of Free Labor
plains how ex-slaves and Irish immigrants helped
to create a new definition of American citizenship. Adam Tuchinsky
Their experiences in military service, determination “This is an important book, distinguished in quality
to vote, and fervent loyalty to the federal govern- and broad in significance. Its conception is highly
ment changed Americans’ hazy antebellum concept original. Adam Tuchinsky is the first modern biog-
of citizenship as loyalty to a state into a clear set of rapher to take Horace Greeley’s socialism serious-
rights and duties in a newly powerful nation.” ly, instead of treating it as a mere eccentricity. As
—Heather Cox Richardson, University of Massa- Tuchinsky reassesses socialism in American history,
chusetts Amherst he presents a sophisticated and complex interpre-
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4846-1 tation of America in Greeley’s lifetime. One of the
312 pages | $39.95 cloth (catalog price: $31.96) book’s merits is the way it integrates political his-
tory, economic history, the history of the printed
media, labor history, and, most of all, intellectual
Awaiting the Heavenly Country history.”—Daniel Walker Howe, Pulitzer Prize–
winning author of What Hath God Wrought: The
The Civil War and America’s Culture of Death Transformation of America, 1815 to 1848
Mark S. Schantz
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4667-2
“Schantz makes a compelling case that Americans’ 336 pages | $59.95 cloth (catalog price: $47.96)
experiences with, and ideas about, death before
the Civil War made it possible for them to under-
stand—and even celebrate—death caused by the New in Paperback
war. By closely reading landscapes, images, and all
manner of writings on the ‘culture of death,’ Schantz The Politics of Size
discovers that Northerners and Southerners alike Representation in the United States, 1776–1850
came to believe that how one approached death Rosemarie Zagarri
and how a people honored the dead revealed, even “Zagarri’s book is as brilliant as it is bright. Drawing
decided, matters of faith, community, and national her inspiration from human geography, she shows
identity.”—Library Journal that the demographic theory of representation was
2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-3761-8 ideal for expansionism, though it ironically provided
264 pages | $24.95 cloth (catalog price: $19.96) the environment in which sectionalism could arise
in its ugly, antebellum form.”—Choice
2010 (1987) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7639-6
Forgotten Firebrand 180 pages | $22.95 paper (catalog price: $18.36)
James Redpath and the Making of
Nineteenth-Century America
John R. McKivigan New in Paperback
“In this first modern study of the outspoken aboli- The War against Proslavery
tionist and journalist James Redpath, John McKivi- Religion
gan resurrects the reputation of a well-traveled agi- Abolitionism and the Northern Churches, 1830–1865
tator who faded from public memory after he died
in 1898. . . . His careful and fluidly written chronicle
John R. McKivigan
sets Redpath’s varied and controversial activities “This well-researched and meticulously documented
in their historical context. . . . Whatever angle they book thoroughly examines the efforts of abolition-
adopt, historians of reform and journalism will ap- ists to convert American churches to their cause . . .
preciate McKivigan’s work in uncovering the role and offers a new perspective on the failure to ensure
that Redpath played in vital movements of his era.” equal rights for the freedmen after the war.”
—Journal of American History —Journal of Southern History
2008 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4673-2 2009 (1984) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7576-4
312 pages | $45.00 cloth (catalog price: $36.00) 328 pages | $29.95 paper (catalog price: $23.96)
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tHE uNITED sTATES
New in Paperback
On the Irish Waterfront Artillery of Heaven
The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul American Missionaries and the Failed
of the Port of New York Conversion of the Middle East
James T. Fisher Ussama Makdisi
“This is a fascinating work of history that explores •Winner, 2009 John Hope Franklin Publication
the rise of New York’s commercial port from the ear- Prize (American Studies Association)
ly 1900s to the 1950s and the corruption that eventu- •Cowinner, 2008 Albert Hourani Book Award
ally infiltrated all levels of the cargo business, until (Middle East Studies Association)
a crusading priest helped to put a stop to it—and
inspired a classic film along the way.”—Wall Street • Cowinner, 2009 British-Kuwait Friendship So-
Journal ciety Prize in Middle Eastern Studies
“This is a glorious book that ought to change how “Makdisi’s meticulously researched, beautifully writ-
movie critics view Schulberg’s cinematic creation ten book sets a high standard for forthcoming stud-
and how cultural historians interpret working-class ies on missionaries in the Middle East. He painstak-
culture in New York and New Jersey during the ingly analyzes the roots of complex, multidirectional
middle years of the 20th century.”—America movements of influence, culture, ideas, and religios-
ity that have characterized the contact between East
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4804-1 and West, America and the Arab world. The result
392 pages | $29.95 cloth (catalog price: $23.96) is an impressive work of transnational history.”
—American Historical Review
New in Paperback 2009 (2008) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7575-7
Catholics and Contraception 280 pages | $19.95 paper (catalog price: $15.96)
An American History
Leslie Woodcock Tentler New in Paperback
“Tentler’s work is thorough, nuanced, and engaging. Path of Empire
Her argument about the centrality of birth control Panama and the California Gold Rush
practices in lay lives and the significance of Huma- Aims McGuinness
nae Vitae in the church’s history is so persuasive and “Path of Empire makes an important contribution to
well supported that her work stands as a definitive the historiography of the California gold rush, Pan-
history of contraception and a major contribution to ama, and U.S. expansion and intervention in Latin
our understanding of the broader American Catho- America, challenging scholars to engage previously
lic history in the twentieth century.”—Journal of overlooked transnational connections.”—Western
Social History Historical Quarterly
2008 (2004) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7494-1 2009 (2007) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7538-2
352 pages | $19.95 paper (catalog price: $15.96) 264 pages | $19.95 paper (catalog price: $15.96)
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The United States
Condensed Capitalism
Campbell Soup and the Pursuit of Cheap
Agitate! Educate!
Production in the Twentieth Century
Organize!
Daniel Sidorick
American Labor Posters
“The union at Campbell Soup’s Camden plant was
Lincoln Cushing &
one of the most remarkable progressive unions in
Timothy W. Drescher the mid-twentieth century. This superb book tells
“This valuable document col- us about its accomplishments, as well as the impact
lects a century of posters de- of late-twentieth-century capitalism on its demise.”
signed by labor organizers, —Roger Horowitz, University of Delaware
for purposes ranging from An ILR Press Book
workplace safety to equal 2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4726-6
pay for women. . . . It’s simply fascinating viewing 312 pages | $29.95 cloth (catalog price: $23.96)
that produces a sharp sense of nostalgia for a time
when powerful visual art could lead to real change
for the victimized.” Brown in Baltimore
—Publishers Weekly (starred review) School Desegregation and the Limits of Liberalism
An ILR Press Book Howell S. Baum
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7427-9 “Baum writes with particular insight about the
216 pages | $24.95 paper (catalog price: $19.96) working-class ethnic whites of East Baltimore, and
he shows a fundamental understanding of the work-
ings of federal regulatory agencies and the peculiar
pace at which the courts manage social conflict. The
result is a wonderful combination of social science
Reading Appalachia from and history that illuminates one of America’s key
social concerns.”—Edward D. Berkowitz, George
Left to Right Washington University
Conservatives and the 1974 Kanawha
2010 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7652-5
County Textbook Controversy 272 pages | $24.95 paper (catalog price: $19.96)
Carol Mason
“In this captivating book, the Kanawha County text- New York Amish
book war of 1974 becomes a pivotal saga in the rise
Life in the Plain Communities of the Empire State
of the New Right. Cutting through the liberal and
conservative discourses that have simultaneously Karen M. Johnson-Weiner
romanticized and demonized the poor whites of “New York Amish traverses between the history of the
Appalachia, Carol Mason convincingly portrays the Anabaptists in the sixteenth century and anthropo-
textbook protests as a ‘discursive crossroads’ that logical work among contemporary Amish communi-
cast West Virginia’s working class as both back- ties, bringing Amish history into the larger religious
ward and modern, as violent racists and innocent narrative of New York. Throughout, the author al-
victims, and ultimately as Christian warriors bat- lows the reader to appreciate the variation and com-
tling to save the American soul.” plexity of these communities in a respectful way.”—
—Matthew D. Lassiter, University of Michigan Philip P. Arnold, Syracuse University
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7581-8 2010 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-4518-7
256 pages | $22.95 paper (catalog price: $18.36) 240 pages | $24.95 cloth (catalog price: $19.96)
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asia
New in Paperback
Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures
A History of Tobacco and Chocolate
in the Atlantic World
Marcy Norton
• Winner, 2009 ASFS Book Award (Association
for the Study of Food and Society)
“Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures shows how the exchange
between alien civilizations prefigured a revolution
in taste that was both genuinely global and largely
independent of the power dynamics of colonialism.
. . . Norton creatively uses a wide range of sources,
Darfur and the Crisis of from Mayan artwork to early modern medical man-
Governance in Sudan uals to Inquisition records, to show how two fre-
A Critical Reader quently consumed substances were integrated into
Salah M. Hassan & Carina E. Ray, editors European consciousness and diet.”—Times Literary
foreword by Andreas Eshete Supplement
“This is a unique and thoughtfully conceived book 2010 (2008) | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7632-7
that speaks to those who are just learning about the 352 pages | $24.95 paper (catalog price: $19.96)
crisis in Darfur, as well as those who are seeking to
deepen and nuance their understanding of it. In ad-
dition to incorporating local Sudanese voices, the Prosperity for All
book provides a comprehensive discussion of the Consumer Activism in an Era of Globalization
multiple dimensions of the Darfur crises and will
certainly challenge many of the preconceived and
Matthew Hilton
oversimplified narratives about the war.”—Ahmad “Hilton’s fine book traces the history of the consumer
Sikainga, The Ohio State University movement, focusing on how its agenda has changed
and how, in the process, it has neglected two critical
A Prince Claus Fund Library Publication
issues, overconsumption by some groups and under-
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7594-8
consumption by others. . . . The powerful narrative
524 pages | $39.95 paper (catalog price: $31.96)
makes insightful links to broader social and global
issues.”—Choice
2009 | ISBN: 978-0-8014-7507-8
328 pages | $26.95 paper (catalog price: $21.56)
Darfur
A 21st Century Genocide, Third Edition
Gérard Prunier
Nations and Nationalism
“A passionate and highly readable account of the cur-
rent tragedy that combines intimate knowledge of Second Edition
the region’s history, politics, and sociology, with a Ernest Gellner
telling cynicism about the polite but ineffectual dip- introduction by John Breuilly
lomatic efforts to end it. It is the best account avail- First published in 1983, Nations and Nationalism re-
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