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Loeb Classical Library ................................................62
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Inside cover: "Sportsmen, or Suprematism in Sportsmen's Contours," (192832) by Kazimir Severinovich Malevich. State Russian Museum,
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Back cover: Mwaash a Mbooy. African School. Detroit Institute of Arts. Gift of Robert B. Jacobs in honor of Michael Kan. Bridgeman Images.
Miosz
A Biography
Andrzej Franaszek
edited and translated by
Aleksandra Parker Michael Parker
Franaszeks outstanding biography of Czesaw Miosz narrates one of the great lives of the
twentieth century, and does not shy away from recounting the more private side of the poets
loves, moods, victories, and defeats. One of the finest literary critics of his generation in
Poland, Franaszek is well suited to his subject. A triumph.
Adam Zagajewski, University of Chicago
Andrzej Franaszeks award-winning biography of Czesaw Mioszthe great Polish poet
and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980offers a rich portrait of the writer and
his troubled century, providing context for a larger appreciation of his work. This Englishlanguage edition, translated by Aleksandra Parker and Michael Parker, contains a new introduction by the translators, along with historical explanations, maps, and a chronology.
Franaszek recounts the poets personal odyssey through the events that convulsed
twentieth-century Europe: World War I, the Bolshevik revolution, the Nazi invasion and
occupation of Poland, and the Soviet Unions postwar dominance of Eastern Europe.
He follows the footsteps of a perpetual outsider who spent much of his unsettled life in
Lithuania, Poland, and France, where he sought political asylum. From 1960 to 1999, Miosz
lived in the United States before returning to Poland, where he died in 2004.
Franaszek traces Mioszs changing, constantly questioning, often skeptical attitude toward
organized religion. In the long term, he concluded that faith performed a positive role, not
least as an antidote to the amoral, soulless materialism that afflicts
contemporary civilization. Despite years of hardship, alienation,
and neglect, Miosz retained a belief in the transformative power
of poetry, particularly its capacity to serve as a source of moral
resistance and a reservoir of collective hope. Seamus Heaney
once said that Mioszs poetry is irradiated by wisdom. Miosz
reveals how that wisdom was tempered by experience even as
the poet retained a childlike wonder in a misbegotten world.
Andrzej Franaszek is Assistant Professor of Polish Literature at Krakows Pedagogical
University.
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A Mind to Stay
White Plantation, Black Homeland

Sydney Nathans
The exodus of millions of African Americans from the rural South is a central theme of
black life and liberation in the twentieth century. A Mind to Stay offers a counterpoint to the
narrative of the Great Migration. Sydney Nathans tells the rare story of people who moved
from being enslaved to becoming owners of the very land they had worked in bondage,
and who have held on to it from emancipation through the Civil Rights era.
The story began in 1844, when North Carolina planter Paul Cameron bought 1,600 acres
near Greensboro, Alabama, and sent out 114 enslaved people to cultivate cotton and
enlarge his fortune. In the 1870s, he sold the plantation to emancipated black families who
worked there. Drawing on thousands of letters from the planter and on interviews with
descendants of those who bought the land, Nathans unravels how and why the planters
former laborers purchased the site of their enslavement,
kept its name as Cameron Place, and defended their
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homeland against challengers from the Jim Crow era to
the present day.
To Free a Family:
The Journey of Mary Walker
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Through the prism of a single plantation and the destiny

of black families that dwelt on it for over a century and a
half, A Mind to Stay brings to life a vivid cast of characters and illuminates the changing meaning of land and
landowning to successive generations of rural African
Americans. Those who remained fought to make their lives fully freefor themselves, for
their neighbors, and for those who might someday return.
Sydney Nathans is Professor Emeritus of History, Duke University.
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Russia
The Story of War

Gregory Carleton
No nation is a stranger to war, but for Russians war is part of who they are. Their motherland has been the battlefield where some of the largest armies have clashed, the most
savage battles have been fought, and the highest death tolls paid. Having prevailed over
the Mongol hordes and vanquished Napoleon and Hitler, many Russians believe that no
country on earth has sacrificed so much for the world. In Russia: The Story of War, Gregory
Carleton explores the belief in exceptionalism that pervades Russian culture and politics
and shows how Russians have forged a distinct identity rooted in war.
While outsiders view Russia as an aggressor, Russians themselves see a country surrounded by enemies, poised in a permanent defensive crouch as it fights off one invader
after another. Time and again, history has called upon Russia to play the saviorof Europe,
of Christianity, of civilization itselfand Russias victories, especially over the Nazis in
World War II, have come at immense cost. Even its defeats, always suffered on behalf of
just causes in this telling, have become a source of pride.
War is the unifying thread of Russias national epic, the factor that transcends its wrenching ideological transformations from the archconservative Russian Empire to the radicaltotalitarian Soviet Union to the pseudo-democratic Russian Federation. Today, as Vladimir
Putins Russia asserts itself in ever bolder ways, knowing how the nations war-torn past
inflects its self-image is essential to understanding Russias sense of place in history and
in the world.
Gregory Carleton is Professor of Russian Studies and Chair of the Department of
International Literary and Cultural Studies at Tufts University.
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A New Literary History of Modern China

edited by
David Der-wei Wang
Literature, from the Chinese perspective, makes manifest the cosmic patterns that shape
and complete the worlda process of worlding that is much more than mere representation. In that spirit, A New Literary History of Modern China looks beyond state-sanctioned
works and official narratives to reveal China as it has seldom been seen before, through a
rich spectrum of writings covering Chinese literature from the late-seventeenth century to
the present.
Featuring over 140 Chinese and non-Chinese contributors from throughout the world, this
landmark volume explores unconventional forms as well as traditional genrespop song
lyrics and presidential speeches, political treatises and prison-house jottings, to name just
a few. Major figures such as Lu Xun, Shen Congwen, Eileen Chang, and Mo Yan appear in a
new light, while lesser-known works illuminate turning points in recent history with unexpected clarity and force. Many essays emphasize Chinese authors influence on foreign
writers as well as Chinas receptivity to outside literary influences. Contemporary works
that engage with ethnic minorities and environmental issues take their place in the critical
discussion, alongside writers who embraced Chinese traditions and others who resisted.
Writers assessments of the popularity of translated foreign-language classics and avantgarde subjects refute the notion of China as an insular and inward-looking culture.
A vibrant collection of contrasting voices and points of view, A New Literary History of
Modern China is essential reading for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of Chinas
literary and cultural legacy.
David Der-wei Wang is Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature and
Comparative Literature, Harvard University, and Director of the CCK Foundation
Inter-University Center for Sinological Studies.
April1020 pp.cloth$45.00 35.959780674967915
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Mans Better Angels
Romantic Reformers and the Coming of the Civil War

Philip F. Gura
A lively and engaging jeremiad on the failure of individualism as a source of social reform.
Guras examination of antebellum reformers efforts to address economic and social
dislocations speaks to our own moment as well.
Robert S. Levine
Banks failed, credit contracted, inequality grew, and people everywhere were out of work
while political paralysis and slavery threatened to rend the nation in two. As financial crises always have, the Panic of 1837 drew forth a plethora of reformers who promised to
restore America to greatness. Animated by an ethic of individualism and self-reliance, they
became prophets of a new moral order: if only their fellow countrymen would call on each
individuals God-given better instincts, the most intractable problems could be resolved.
Inspired by this reformist fervor, Americans took to strict dieting, water cures, phrenology readings, mesmerism, utopian communities, free love, mutual banking, and a host of
other elaborate self-improvement schemes. Vocal activists were certain that solutions to
the countrys ills started with the reformation of individuals, and through them communities, and through communities the nation. This set of assumptions ignored the hard political and economic realities at the core of the countrys malaise, however, and did nothing
to prevent another financial panic twenty years later, followed by secession and civil war.
Focusing on seven individualsGeorge Ripley, Horace Greeley, William B. Greene, Orson
Squire Fowler, Mary Gove Nichols, Henry David Thoreau, and John BrownPhilip Gura
explores their efforts, from the comical to the homicidal, to beat a new path to prosperity.
A narrative of people and ideas, Mans Better Angels captures an intellectual moment in
American history that has been overshadowed by the Civil War and the pragmatism that
arose in its wake.
Philip F. Gura is William S. Newman Distinguished Professor of American Literature and
Culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the award-winning author
of many books, including Truths Ragged Edge and American Transcendentalism.
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Butterfly Politics
Catharine A. MacKinnon
This excellent collection of MacKinnons speeches and other writings covers a roughly 40
year period and shows the process of attempting to hammer law into a tool that could be
used for social change to address the inequality of women. This was something of a tall order,
given, as MacKinnon says, The legal system that we have was not designed by women or so
that women could make it work for women. Yet here she is, doing it, and the book provides a
rare and quite intimate window on how it is done, in both theory and practice.
Michele Dauber, Stanford Law School
The minuscule motion of a butterflys wings can trigger a tornado half a world away,
according to chaos theory. Under the right conditions, small simple actions can produce
large complex effects. In this timely and provocative book, Catharine A. MacKinnon argues
that the right seemingly minor interventions in the legal realm can have a butterfly effect
that generates major social and cultural transformations.
Butterfly Politics brings this incisive understanding of social causality to a wide-ranging
exploration of gender relations. The pieces collected heremany published for the first
timeprovide a new perspective on MacKinnons career as a pioneer of legal theory and
practice and an activist for womens rights. Its central concerns of gender inequality, sexual harassment, rape, pornography, and prostitution have defined MacKinnons intellectual,
legal, and political pursuits for over forty years. Though differing in style and approach, the
selections all share the same motivation: to end inequality, including abuse, in womens
lives. Several mark the first time ideas that are now staples of legal and political discourse
appeared in publicfor example, the analysis of substantive equality. Others urge changes
that have yet to be realized.
The butterfly effect can animate political activism and advance equality socially and legally.
Seemingly insignificant actions, through collective recursion, can intervene in unstable
systems to produce systemic change. A powerful critique of the legal and institutional
denial of reality that perpetuates practices of gender inequality, Butterfly Politics provides
a model of what principled, effective, socially conscious engagement with law looks like.
Catharine A. MacKinnon is Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of
Michigan Law School. She is the author of many books, including Toward a Feminist
Theory of the State and Feminism Unmodified (both from Harvard).
April432 pp.cloth$29.95 23.959780674416604
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After Piketty
The Agenda for Economics and Inequality

edited by
Heather Boushey J. Bradford DeLong Marshall Steinbaum

Thomas Pikettys Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the most widely discussed work of
economics in recent history, selling millions of copies in dozens of languages. But are its
analyses of inequality and economic growth on target? Where should researchers go from
here in exploring the ideas Piketty pushed to the forefront of global conversation? A cast
of economists and other social scientists tackle these questions in dialogue with Piketty, in
what is sure to be a much-debated book in its own right.
After Piketty opens with a discussion by Arthur Goldhammer,
the books translator, of the reasons for Capitals phenomenal success, followed by the published reviews of Nobel
laureates Paul Krugman and Robert Solow. The rest of
Capital in the
Twenty-First Century
the book is devoted to newly commissioned essays that
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interrogate Pikettys arguments. Suresh Naidu and other
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contributors ask whether Piketty said enough about power,
slavery, and the complex nature of capital. Laura Tyson
and Michael Spence consider the impact of technology on inequality. Heather Boushey,
Branko Milanovic, and others consider topics ranging from gender to trends in the global
South. Emmanuel Saez lays out an agenda for future research on inequality, while a variety
of essayists examine the books implications for the social sciences more broadly. Piketty
replies to these questions in a substantial concluding chapter.
available by
Thomas Piketty
An indispensable interdisciplinary work, After Piketty does not shy away from the seemingly intractable problems that made Capital in the Twenty-First Century so compelling for
so many.
Heather Boushey is Executive Director and Chief Economist at the Washington Center
for Equitable Growth. J. Bradford DeLong is Professor of Economics at the University of
California, Berkeley. Marshall Steinbaum is Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, New York.
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Njinga of Angola
Africas Warrior Queen

Linda M. Heywood
Njingas time has come. Heywood tells the fascinating story of arguably the greatest queen
in sub-Saharan African history, who surely deserves a place in the pantheon of revolutionary
world leaders, male and female alike.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Though largely unknown in the Western world, the seventeenth-century African queen
Njinga was one of the most multifaceted rulers in history, a woman who rivaled Elizabeth
I and Catherine the Great in political cunning and military prowess. Linda Heywood offers
the first full-length study in English of Queen Njingas long life and political influence,
revealing how this Cleopatra of central Africa skillfully navigatedand ultimately transcendedthe ruthless, male-dominated power struggles of her time.
In 1626 after being deposed by the Portuguese, she transformed herself into a prolific slave
trader and ferocious military leader, waging wars against the Portuguese colonizers and
their African allies. Surviving multiple attempts to kill her, Njinga conquered the neighboring state of Matamba and ruled as queen of Ndongo/Matamba. At the height of her reign
in the 1640s Njinga ruled almost one-quarter of modern-day Angola. Toward the end of her
life, weary of war, she made peace with Portugal and converted to Christianity, though her
devotion to the new faith was questioned.
Who was Queen Njinga? There is no simple answer. In a world where women were subjugated by men, she repeatedly outmaneuvered her male competitors and flouted gender
norms, taking both male and female lovers. Today, Njinga is revered in Angola as a national
heroine and honored in folk religions, and her complex legacy continues to resonate, forming a crucial part of the collective memory of the Afro-Atlantic world.
Linda M. Heywood is Professor of History and African American Studies at Boston
University.
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Moscow 1956
The Silenced Spring
Kathleen E. Smith
Joseph Stalin had been dead for three years when his successor, Nikita Khrushchev, stunned
a closed gathering of Communist officials with a litany of his predecessors abuses. Meant
to clear the way for reform from above, Khrushchevs Secret Speech of February 25, 1956,
shattered the myth of Stalins infallibility. In a bid to rejuvenate the Party, Khrushchev had
his report read out loud to members across the Soviet Union that spring. However, its
message sparked popular demands for more information and greater freedom to debate.
Moscow 1956: The Silenced Spring brings this first brief season of thaw into fresh focus.
Drawing on newly declassified Russian archives, Kathleen Smith offers a month-by-month
reconstruction of events as the official process of de-Stalinization unfolded and political
and cultural experimentation flourished. Smith looks at writers, students, scientists, former
gulag prisoners, and free-thinkers who took Khrushchevs promise of liberalization seriously, testing the limits of a more open Soviet system.
But when anti-Stalin sentiment morphed into calls for democratic reform and eventually
erupted in dissent within the Soviet blocnotably in the Hungarian uprisingthe Party
balked and attacked critics. Yet Khrushchev had irreversibly opened his compatriots eyes
to the flaws of monopolistic rule. Citizens took the Secret Speech as inspiration and permission to opine on how to restore justice and build a better society, and the new crackdown only reinforced their discontent. The events of 1956 set in motion a cycle of reform
and retrenchment that would recur until the Soviet Unions collapse in 1991.
Kathleen E. Smith is Teaching Professor in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown
University.
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Numbers and the Making of Us

Counting and the Course of Human Cultures
Caleb Everett
In his journey through the millennia of human evolution, from the forests of Amazonia to
the deserts of Australia, ever in search of a better understanding of human diversity, Caleb
Everett presents a breathtaking narrative of how the human species developed one of its most
distinct cognitive and linguistic achievements: to count and to use concepts of quantity to
expand and enrich a wide range of cultural activities.
Bernd Heine, University of Cologne
Carved into our past, woven into our present, numbers shape our perceptions of the world
and of ourselves much more than we commonly think. Numbers and the Making of Us is
a sweeping account of how numbers radically enhanced our species cognitive capabilities and sparked a revolution in human culture. Caleb Everett brings new insights in psychology, anthropology, primatology, linguistics, and other disciplines to bear in explaining
the myriad human behaviors and modes of thought numbers have made possible, from
enabling us to conceptualize time in new ways to facilitating the development of writing,
agriculture, and other advances of civilization.
Number concepts are a human inventiona tool, much like the wheel, developed and
refined over millennia. Numbers allow us to grasp quantities precisely, but they are not
innate. Recent research confirms that most specific quantities are not perceived in the
absence of a number system. In fact, without the use of numbers, we cannot precisely
grasp quantities greater than three; our minds can only estimate beyond this surprisingly
minuscule limit.
Everett examines the various types of numbers that have developed in
different societies, showing how most number systems derived from
anatomical factors such as the number of fingers on each hand. He
details fascinating work with indigenous Amazonians who demonstrate
that, unlike language, numbers are not a universal human endowment.
Yet without numbers, the world as we know it would not exist.
Caleb Everett is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow and Associate Professor of Anthropology at
the University of Miami.
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Basic Income
A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy

Philippe Van Parijs Yannick Vanderborght
It may sound crazy to pay people an income whether or not they are working or looking
for work. But the idea of providing an unconditional basic income to every individual, rich
or poor, active or inactive, has been advocated by such major thinkers as Thomas Paine,
John Stuart Mill, and John Kenneth Galbraith. For a long time, it was hardly noticed and
never taken seriously. Today, with the traditional welfare state creaking under pressure, it
has become one of the most widely debated social policy proposals in the world. Philippe
Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght present the most comprehensive defense of this radical idea so far, advocating it as our most realistic hope for addressing economic insecurity
and social exclusion in the twenty-first century.
The authors seamlessly combine philosophy, politics, and economics as they compare the
idea of a basic income with rival ideas past and present for guarding against poverty and
unemployment. They trace its history, tackle the economic and ethical objections against
an unconditional incomeincluding its alleged tendency to sap incentives and foster free
ridingand lay out how such an apparently implausible idea might be viable financially
and achievable politically. Finally, they consider the relevance of the proposal in an increasingly globalized economy.
In an age of growing inequality and divided politics, when old answers to enduring social
problems no longer inspire confidence, Basic Income presents fresh reasons to hope that
we might yet achieve a free society and a sane economy.
Philippe Van Parijs is Professor of Economic and Social Ethics, University of Louvain.
Yannick Vanderborght is Professor of Political Science, Universit Saint-Louis, Brussels.
March398 pp.cloth$29.95 23.959780674052284
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Bound in Wedlock
Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century

Tera W. Hunter
Americans have long viewed marriage between a white man and a white woman as a
sacred union. But marriages between African Americans have seldom been treated with
the same reverence. This discriminatory legacy traces back to centuries of slavery, when
the overwhelming majority of black married couples were bound in servitude as well as
wedlock. Though their unions were not legally recognized, slaves commonly married, fully
aware that their marital bonds would be sustained or nullified according to the whims of
white masters.
Bound in Wedlock is the first comprehensive history of African American marriage in the
nineteenth century. Uncovering the experiences of African American spouses in plantation records, legal and court documents, and pension files, Tera Hunter reveals the myriad
ways couples adopted, adapted, revised, and rejected white Christian ideas of marriage.
Setting their own standards for conjugal relationships, enslaved husbands and wives were
creative and, of necessity, practical in starting and supporting families under conditions of
uncertainty and cruelty.
After emancipation, white racism continued to menace black marriages. Laws passed during Reconstruction, ostensibly to secure the civil rights of newly freed African American
citizens, were often coercive and repressive. Informal antebellum traditions of marriage
were criminalized, and the new legal regime became a convenient tool for plantation owners to discipline agricultural workers. Recognition of the right of African Americans to enter
into wedlock on terms equal to whites would remain a struggle into the Jim Crow era, and
its legacy would resonate well into the twentieth century.
Tera W. Hunter is Professor of History and African American Studies at Princeton
University and author of To 'Joy My Freedom (Harvard).
April380 pp.cloth$29.95 23.959780674045712
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Bostons Massacre
Eric Hinderaker
Hinderaker illuminates the events of March 5, 1770, from a host of unexpected angles, from
its military origins and the possibility of an additional shooter to the Kent State comparison
that thrust itself upon the nation 200 years later.
Woody Holton, author of Abigail Adams: A Life
On the night of March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd gathered in front of
Bostons Custom House, killing five people. Denounced as an act of unprovoked violence
and villainy, the event that came to be known as the Boston Massacre is one of the most
familiar incidents in American history, yet one of the least understood. Eric Hinderaker
revisits this dramatic episode, examining in forensic detail the facts of that fateful night,
the competing narratives that molded public perceptions at the time, and the long campaign afterward to transform the tragedy into a touchstone of American identity.
When Parliament stationed two thousand British troops in Boston beginning in 1768,
resentment spread rapidly among the populace. Steeped in traditions of self-government
and famous for their Yankee independence, Bostonians were primed to resist the imposition. Living up to their reputation as Britains most intransigent North American community,
they refused compromise and increasingly interpreted their conflict with Britain as a matter of principle. Relations between Britain and the North American colonies deteriorated
precipitously after the shooting at the Custom House, and it soon became the catalyzing
incident that placed Boston in the vanguard of the Patriot movement.
Fundamental uncertainties about the nights events cannot be resolved. But the larger significance of the Boston Massacre extends from the era of the American Revolution to our
own time, when the use of violence in policing crowd behavior has once again become a
pressing public issue.
Eric Hinderaker is Professor of History at the University of Utah and author of The Two
Hendricks (Harvard).
March350 pp.cloth$29.95 23.959780674048331
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Zero Degrees
Geographies of the Prime Meridian

Charles W. J. Withers
Space and time on earth are regulated by the prime meridian, 0, which is, by convention, based at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. But the meridians location in southeast
London is not a simple legacy of Britains imperial past. Before the nineteenth century,
more than twenty-five different prime meridians were in use around the world, including
Paris, Beijing, Greenwich, Washington, and the location traditional in Europe since Ptolemy,
the Canary Islands. Charles Withers explains how the choice of Greenwich to mark 0 longitude solved complex problems of global measurement that had engaged geographers,
astronomers, and mariners since ancient times.
Withers guides readers through the navigation and astronomy associated with diverse
meridians and explains the problems that these cartographic lines both solved and created. He shows that as science and commerce became more global and as railway and
telegraph networks tied the world closer together, the multiplicity of prime meridians led
to ever greater confusion in the coordination of time and the geographical division of
space. After a series of international scientific meetings, notably the 1884 International
Meridian Conference in Washington, DC, Greenwich emerged as the most pragmatic
choice for a global prime meridian, though not unanimously or without acrimony. Even
after 1884, other prime meridians remained in use for decades.
As Zero Degrees shows, geographies of the prime meridian are a testament to the power of
maps, the challenges of accurate measurement on a global scale, and the role of scientific
authority in creating the modern world.
Charles W. J. Withers is Ogilvie Chair of Geography, University of Edinburgh, and
Geographer Royal for Scotland.
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Apollo in the Age of Aquarius

Neil M. Maher
A major work from a fine writer. Maher is the first to explore how the space race intersected
with the eras political, social, and cultural movements.
Adam Rome, State University of New York, Buffalo
The summer of 1969 saw astronauts land on the moon for the first time and hippie hordes
descend on Woodstock for a legendary music festival. For Neil Maher, the conjunction of
these two era-defining events is not entirely coincidental. Apollo in the Age of Aquarius
shows how the celestial aspirations of NASAs Apollo space program were tethered to terrestrial concerns, from the civil rights struggle and the antiwar movement to environmentalism, feminism, and the counterculture.
With its lavishly funded mandate to send a man to the moon, Apollo became a litmus test
in the Sixties culture wars. Many people believed it would reinvigorate a country that had
lost its way, while for others it represented a colossal waste of resources needed to solve
pressing problems at home. Yet Maher also discovers synergies between the space program and political movements of the era. Photographs of Whole Earth as a bright blue
marble heightened environmental awareness, while NASAs space technology allowed scientists to track ecological changes globally. The space agencys exclusively male personnel sparked feminist debates about opportunities for women. Activists pressured NASA to
apply its technical know-how to ending the Vietnam War and helping African Americans by
reducing energy costs in urban housing projects. Particularly during
the 1970s, as public interest in NASA waned, the two sides became
dependent on one another for political support.
Against a backdrop of Saturn V moonshots and Neil Armstrongs giant
leap for mankind, Apollo in the Age of Aquarius brings the cultural
politics of the space race back down to planet Earth.
Neil M. Maher is Associate Professor of History at the New Jersey Institute of Technology
and Rutgers UniversityNewark.
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The New Map of Empire
How Britain Imagined America before Independence

S. Max Edelson
After the Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years War in 1763, British America stretched from
Hudson Bay to the Florida Keys, from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River, and across
new islands in the West Indies. To better rule these vast dominions, Britain set out to map
its new territories with unprecedented rigor and precision. Max Edelsons The New Map
of Empire pictures the contested geography of the British Atlantic world and offers new
explanations of the causes and consequences of Britains imperial ambitions in the generation before the American Revolution.
Under orders from King George III to reform the colonies, the Board of Trade dispatched
surveyors to map far-flung frontiers, chart coastlines in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, sound
Floridas rivers, parcel tropical islands into plantation tracts, and mark boundaries with indigenous nations across the continental interior. Scaled to military standards of resolution, the
maps they produced sought to capture the essential attributes of colonial spacestheir
natural capacities for agriculture, navigation, and commerceand give British officials the
knowledge they needed to take command over colonization from across the Atlantic.
Britains vision of imperial control threatened to displace colonists as meaningful agents
of empire and diminished what they viewed as their greatest historical accomplishment:
settling the new world. As Londons mapmakers published these images of order in breathtaking American atlases, Continental and British forces were already engaged in a violent
contest over who would control the real spaces they represented.
Accompanying Edelsons innovative spatial history of British America are online visualizations of more than 250 original maps, plans, and charts.
S. Max Edelson is Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia and author
of Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina (Harvard).
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Paradise Lost
A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald

David S. Brown
Provides the kind of context that other biographers, caught up in the myths that Scott and
Zelda created about themselves, have not provided. A pleasure to read.
James L. W. West III, Pennsylvania State University
Pigeonholed in popular memory as a Jazz Age epicurean, a playboy, and an emblem of
the Lost Generation, F. Scott Fitzgerald was at heart a moralist struck by the nations shifting mood and manners after World War I. In Paradise Lost, David Brown contends that
Fitzgeralds deepest allegiances were to a fading antebellum world he associated with his
fathers Chesapeake Bay roots. Yet as a midwesterner, an Irish Catholic, and a perpetually in-debt author, he felt like an outsider in the haute bourgeoisie haunts of Lake Forest,
Princeton, and Hollywoodplaces that left an indelible mark on his worldview.
In this comprehensive biography, Brown reexamines Fitzgeralds childhood, first loves, and
difficult marriage to Zelda Sayre. He looks at Fitzgeralds friendship with Hemingway, the
golden years that culminated with Gatsby, and his increasing alcohol abuse and declining
fortunes, which coincided with Zeldas institutionalization and the nations economic
collapse.
Placing Fitzgerald in the company of Progressive intellectuals such as Charles Beard,
Randolph Bourne, and Thorstein Veblen, Brown reveals Fitzgerald as a writer with an
encompassing historical imagination not suggested by his reputation as the chronicler of
the Jazz Age. His best novels, stories, and essays take the measure of both the immediate
moment and the more distant rhythms of capital accumulation, immigration, and sexual
politics that were moving America further away from its Protestant agrarian moorings.
Fitzgerald wrote powerfully about change in America, Brown shows, because he saw it as
the dominant theme in his own family history and life.
David S. Brown is the Raffensperger Professor of History at Elizabethtown College and
author of Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography.
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The Wisdom of Money

Pascal Bruckner
translated by
Steven Rendall
Money is an evil that does good, and a good that does evil. It inspires hymns to the prosperity it enables, manifestos about the poor it leaves behind, and diatribes for its corrosion
of morality. In The Wisdom of Money, one of the worlds great essayists guides us through
the rich commentary that money has generated since ancient timesboth the passions
and the resentmentsas he builds an unfashionable defense of the worldly wisdom of the
bourgeoisie.
Bruckner begins with the worshippers and the despisers. Sometimes they are the same
peoplepriests, for example, who venerate the poor from within churches of opulence
and splendor. This hypocrisy endures in our secular world, he says, not least in his own
France, where it is de rigueur even among the rich to feign indifference to money. It is better to speak plainly about money in the old American fashion, in Bruckners view. A little
more honesty would allow us to see through the myths of moneys omnipotence but also
the dangers of the aristocratic, ideological, and religious systems of
thought that try to put money in its place. This does not mean we
should emulate the mega-rich with their pathologies of consumption, competition, and narcissistic philanthropy. But we could do
worse than defy three hundred years of derision from novelists and
poets to embrace the unromantic bourgeois virtues of work, security, and moderate comfort. It is wise to have money, Bruckner tells
us, and wise to think about it critically.
Pascal Bruckner is an eminent novelist, philosopher, and critic. He is author of The
Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism .
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The Classical Debt
Greek Antiquity in an Era of Austerity

Johanna Hanink
Haninks new book depicts the pernicious intertwining of Classics with Orientalism during
the worst of the Greek economic crisis. Antigones determination to violate unjust laws
suddenly acquires a fresh interpretation in our post-Brexit Europe.
Yanis Varoufakis, University of Athens, and former Greek Minister of Finance
Ever since the International Monetary Funds first bailout of Greeces sinking economy
in 2010, the phrase Greek debt has meant one thing to the countrys creditors. But for
millions who claim to prize culture over capital, it means something quite different: the
symbolic debt that Western civilization owes to Greece for furnishing its principles of
democracy, philosophy, mathematics, and fine art. Where did this other idea of Greek debt
come from, Johanna Hanink asks, and why does it remain so compelling today?
The Classical Debt investigates our abiding desire to view Greece through the lens of the
ancient past. Though classical Athens was in reality a slave-owning imperial power, the
city-state of Socrates and Pericles is still widely seen as a utopia of wisdom, justice, and
beautyan idealization that the ancient Athenians themselves assiduously cultivated.
Greeces allure as a travel destination dates back centuries, and Hanink examines many
historical accounts that express disappointment with a Greek people who fail to live up
to modern fantasies of the ancient past. More than any other movement, the spread of
European Philhellenism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries carved idealized conceptions of Greece in marble, reinforcing the Western habit of comparing the Greece that is with the Greece that once was.
Today, as the European Union teeters and neighboring Muslim
nations disintegrate into civil war, Greece finds itself burdened by
economic hardship and an unprecedented refugee crisis. Our idealized image of ancient Greece dangerously shapes how we view these
contemporary European problems.
Johanna Hanink is Associate Professor of Classics at Brown University.
May 310 pp. cloth $29.95 23.95 9780674971547
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One Anothers Equals

The Basis of Human Equality
Jeremy Waldron
An enduring theme of Western philosophy is that we are all one anothers equals. Yet the
principle of basic equality is woefully under-explored in modern moral and political philosophy. In a major new work, Jeremy Waldron attempts to remedy that shortfall with a
subtle and multifaceted account of the basis for the Wests commitment to human equality.
What does it mean to say we are all one anothers equals? Is this supposed to distinguish
humans from other animals? What is human equality based on? Is it a religious idea, or
a matter of human rights? Is there some essential feature that all human beings have in
common? Waldron argues that there is no single characteristic that serves as the basis of
equality. He says the case for moral equality rests on four capacities that all humans have
the potential to possess in some degree: reason, autonomy, moral agency, and ability to love. But how should
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they have along these lines?
Waldron, who has worked on the nature of equality for many years, confronts these questions and others fully and unflinchingly. Based on the Gifford Lectures he delivered at the
University of Edinburgh in 2015, One Anothers Equals takes Waldrons thinking further and
deeper than ever before.
Jeremy Waldron is University Professor in the School of Law at New York University and
author of Political Political Theory (Harvard).
June270 pp.cloth$29.95 23.959780674659766
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About Abortion
Terminating Pregnancy in Twenty-First-Century America

Carol Sanger
One of the most private decisions a woman can make, abortion is also one of the most
contentious topics in American civic life. Protested at rallies and politicized in party platforms, terminating pregnancy is often characterized as a selfish decision by women who
put their own interests above those of the fetus. This background of stigma and hostility
has stifled womens willingness to talk about abortion, which in turn distorts public and
political discussion. To pry open the silence surrounding this public issue, Sanger distinguishes between abortion privacy, a form of nondisclosure based on a womans desire to
control personal information, and abortion secrecy, a womans defense against the many
harms of disclosure.
Laws regulating abortion patients and providers treat abortion not as an acceptable
medical decisionlet alone a rightbut as something disreputable, immoral, and chosen by mistake. Exploiting the emotional power of fetal imagery, laws require women to
undergo ultrasound, a practice welcomed in wanted pregnancies but commandeered for
use against women with unwanted pregnancies. Sanger takes these prejudicial views of
womens abortion decisions into the twenty-first century by uncovering new connections
between abortion law and American culture and politics.
New medical technologies, womens increasing willingness to talk online and off, and the
prospect of tighter judicial reins on state legislatures are shaking up the practice of abortion. As talk becomes more transparent and acceptable, womens decisions about whether
or not to become mothers will be treated more like those of other adults making significant
personal choices.
Carol Sanger is the Barbara Aronstein Black Professor of Law at Columbia Law School.
March296 pp.cloth$29.95 23.959780674737723
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The Crucible of Islam

G. W. Bowersock
Little is known about Arabia in the sixth century CE. Yet from this distant time and place
emerged a faith and an empire that stretched from the Iberian peninsula to India. Today,
Muslims account for nearly a quarter of the global population. G. W. Bowersock seeks to
illuminate this most obscure and yet most dynamic period in the history of Islamfrom
the mid-sixth to mid-seventh centuryexploring why arid Arabia proved to be such fertile
ground for Muhammads prophetic message, and why that message spread so quickly to
the wider world.
In Muhammads time, Arabia stood at the crossroads of great empires, a place where
Christianity, Judaism, and local polytheistic traditions vied for adherents. Mecca,
Muhammads birthplace, belonged to the part of Arabia recently conquered by the
Ethiopian Christian king Abraha. But Ethiopia lost western Arabia to Persia following
Abrahas death, while the death of the Byzantine emperor in 602 further destabilized the
region. Within this chaotic environment, where lands and populations were traded frequently among competing powers and belief systems, Muhammad began winning converts to his revelations. In a troubled age, his followers coalesced into
a powerful force, conquering Palestine, Syria, and Egypt and laying the
groundwork of the Umayyad Caliphate.
The crucible of Islam remains an elusive vessel. Although we may
never grasp it firmly, Bowersock offers the most detailed description
of its contours and the most compelling explanation of how one of the
worlds great religions took shape.
G. W. Bowersock is Professor Emeritus of Ancient History at the Institute for Advanced
Study, Princeton, and the author of many books, including Late Antiquity: A Guide to the
Postclassical World (Harvard).
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The Enigma of Reason

Hugo Mercier Dan Sperber
Reason, we are told, is what makes us human, the source of our knowledge and wisdom. If
reason is so useful, why didnt it also evolve in other animals? If reason is that reliable, why
do we produce so much thoroughly reasoned nonsense? In their groundbreaking account
of the evolution and workings of reason, Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber set out to solve
this double enigma. Reason, they argue with a compelling mix of real-life and experimental
evidence, is not geared to solitary use, to arriving at better beliefs and decisions on our
own. What reason does, rather, is help us justify our beliefs and actions to others, convince
them through argumentation, and evaluate the justifications and arguments that others address to us.
In other words, reason helps humans better exploit their uniquely rich
social environment. This interactionist interpretation explains why reason may have evolved and how it fits with other cognitive mechanisms.
It makes sense of strengths and weaknesses that have long puzzled
philosophers and psychologistswhy reason is biased in favor of what
we already believe, why it may lead to terrible ideas and yet is indispensable to spreading good ones.
Ambitious, provocative, and entertaining, The Enigma of Reason will
spark debate among psychologists and philosophers, and make many
reasonable people rethink their own thinking.
Hugo Mercier is a researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research,
working in the Cognitive Science Institute Marc Jeannerod in Lyon. Dan Sperber is a
researcher in the Departments of Cognitive Science and of Philosophy at the Central
European University, Budapest, and in the Institut Jean Nicod at the cole Normale
Suprieure, Paris.
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Far-Right Politics in Europe

Jean-Yves Camus Nicolas Lebourg
translated by
Jane Marie Todd
A fascinating and comprehensive study that follows more than a century of the history of
far-right movements in Western Europe as they transform or die and argues that there are no
prepackaged essences to them. I cannot imagine a better way to understand the current field
than to read this book.
John Bowen, author of Why the French Dont Like Headscarves
In Europe today, staunchly nationalist parties such as Frances National Front and the
Austrian Freedom Party are identified as far-right movements, though supporters seldom
embrace that label. More often, far right is pejorative, used by liberals to tar these groups
with the taint of fascism, Nazism, and other discredited ideologies. Jean-Yves Camus
and Nicolas Lebourgs critical look at the far right throughout Europefrom the United
Kingdom to France, Germany, Poland, Italy, and elsewherereveals a prehistory and politics more complex than the stereotypes suggest and warns of the challenges these movements pose to the EUs liberal-democratic order.
The European far right represents a confluence of many ideologies: nationalism, socialism,
anti-Semitism, authoritarianism. In the first half of the twentieth century, the radical far
right achieved its apotheosis in the regimes of fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. But far-right
movements have evolved significantly since 1945, as Far-Right Politics in Europe makes
clear. The 1980s marked a turning point in political fortunes, as national-populist parties
began winning seats in European parliaments. Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, a new
wave has unfurled, one that is explicitly anti-immigrant and Islamophobic in outlook.
Though Europes far-right parties differ in important respects, they are motivated by a common sense of mission: to save their homelands from the corrosive effects of multiculturalism and globalization by creating a closed-off, ethnically homogeneous society. Members
of these movements are increasingly determined to gain power through legitimate electoral means. In democracies across Europe, they are succeeding.
Jean-Yves Camus is Director of the Observatory of Radical Politics at the Jean Jaurs
Foundation. Nicolas Lebourg is a research fellow at the Institute for European, Russian
and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at George Washington University.
March296 pp.cloth$29.95 23.959780674971530
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Pillars of Justice
Lawyers and the Liberal Tradition

Owen Fiss
Pillars of Justice explores the purpose and possibilities of life in the law through moving
accounts of thirteen lawyers who shaped the legal world during the past half century.
Some, such as Thurgood Marshall, were Supreme Court Justices. Others, like John Doar
and Burke Marshall, set the civil rights policies of the federal government during the 1960s.
Some, including Harry Kalven and Catharine MacKinnon, have taught at the greatest law
schools of the nation and nourished the liberalism rooted in the civil rights era. Jurists from
abroadAharon Barak, for examplewere responsible for the rise of the human rights
movement that today carries the burden of advancing liberal values. These lawyers came
from diverse backgrounds and held various political views. What unites them is a deep,
abiding commitment to Brown v. Board of Education as an exceptional moment in the life
of the lawa willingness to move mountains, if need be, to ensure that we are living up to
our best selves. In tracing how these lawyers over a period of fifty years used the Brown
ruling and its spirit as a beacon to guide their endeavors, this history tells the epic story of
the liberal tradition in the law.
For Owen Fiss, one of the countrys leading constitutional theorists, the people described
were mentors, colleagues, friends. In his portraits, Fiss tries to identify the unique qualities
of mind and character that made these individuals so important to the institutions and
legal principles they served.
Owen Fiss is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale University and author of The Irony
of Free Speech (Harvard) and A War Like No Other: The Constitution in a Time of Terror.
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Kin
How We Came to Know Our Microbe Relatives

John L. Ingraham
With many personal anecdotes about scientists involved, Ingraham unfolds the history of
microbiology and molecular biology, the development of genetic technology, and ideas on the
origin of life. Kin is a highly readable account of a remarkable period of scientific progress.
Norman Pace, University of Colorado
Since Darwin, people have speculated about the evolutionary relationships among dissimilar species, including our connections to the diverse life forms known as microbes. In the
1970s biologists discovered a way to establish these kinships. This new era of exploration
began with Linus Paulings finding that every protein in every cell contains a huge reservoir
of evolutionary history. His discovery opened a research path that has changed the way
biologists and others think about the living world. In Kin John Ingraham tells the story of
these remarkable breakthroughs. His original, accessible history explains how we came to
understand our microbe inheritance and the relatedness of all organisms on Earth.
Among the most revolutionary scientific achievements
was Carl Woeses discovery that a large group of organMarch of the Microbes
isms previously lumped together with bacteria were in
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But the crowning accomplishment has been to construct
the Tree of Lifean evolutionary project Darwin dreamed
about over a century ago. Today, we know that the Trees three main stems are dominated
by microbes. The nonmicrobesplants and animals, including humansconstitute only a
small upper branch in one stem.
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Knowing the Trees structure has given biologists the ability to characterize the complex
array of microbial populations that live in us and on us, and investigate how they contribute
to health and disease. This knowledge also moves us closer to answering the tantalizing
question of how the Tree of Life began, over 3.5 billion years ago.
John L. Ingraham, author of March of the Microbes (Harvard), is Professor of
Microbiology Emeritus at the University of California, Davis.
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Making Sense of Science

Separating Substance from Spin
Cornelia Dean
Im not a scientist is a familiar refrain among people asked to evaluate scientific claims
they feel are beyond their ken. Most citizens learn about science from media coverage,
and even the most conscientious reporters sometimes struggle to offer a clear, unbiased
explanation to readers. Politicians, activists, business spokespersons, and religious leaders
with their own agendas to pursue also influence the way science is reported and discussed.
Meanwhile, anyone seeking factual information on climate change, vaccine safety, risk of
terrorist attack, or other topics in the news must sift through an avalanche of bogus assertions and self-interested spin.
Making Sense of Science seeks to equip nonscientists with a set of critical tools to evaluate
the scientific claims and controversies that shape our lives. Cornelia Dean draws on thirty
years of experience as a science journalist with the New York Times to expose the flawed
reasoning and knowledge gaps that handicap readers with little background in science.
Shortcomings in K12 education are partly to blame, but so too is the publics indifference
to the way science is done and communicated. Dean shows how venues such as courtrooms and talk shows become fonts of scientific misinformation. She also calls attention
to the conflicts of interest that color scientific research, as well as the price society pays
when science journalism declines and government funding for research dries up.
Timely and provocative, Making Sense of Science warns us all that we can no longer afford
to make a virtue of our collective scientific ignorance.
Cornelia Dean is a science writer for the New York Times and Writer-in-Residence at
Brown University. She is author of Am I Making Myself Clear?: A Scientists Guide to
Talking to the Public (Harvard).
March280 pp.cloth$19.95 15.959780674059696
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The Cross
History, Art, and Controversy

Robin M. Jensen
An impeccable work on a sign that is both central to Christianity and immediately

recognizable, meaningful, and sometimes controversial across the world. Jensens historical
narrative is learned and lucid.
Robert Kiely, author of Blessed and Beautiful: Picturing the Saints
The cross stirs intense feelings among Christians as well as non-Christians. Robin Jensen
takes readers on an intellectual and spiritual journey through the two-thousand-year evolution of the cross as an idea and an artifact, illuminating the controversiesalong with the
forms of devotionthis central symbol of Christianity inspires.
Jesuss death on the cross posed a dilemma for Saint Paul and the early Church fathers.
Crucifixion was a humiliating form of execution reserved for slaves and criminals. How
could their messiah and savior have been subjected to such an ignominious death?
Wrestling with this paradox, they reimagined the cross as a triumphant expression of
Christs sacrificial love and miraculous resurrection. Over time, the symbols transformation raised myriad doctrinal questions, particularly about the crucifixthe cross with the
figure of Christand whether it should emphasize Jesuss suffering or his glorification.
How should Jesuss body be depicted: alive or dead, naked or dressed? Should it be shown
at all?
Jensens wide-ranging study focuses on the cross in painting and literature, the quest
for the true cross in Jerusalem, and the symbols role in conflicts from the Crusades to
wars of colonial conquest. The Cross also reveals how Jews and Muslims viewed the most
sacred of all Christian emblems and explains its role in public life in the West today.
Robin M. Jensen is Patrick OBrien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame.
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Awakening
How Gays and Lesbians Brought Marriage Equality to America

Nathaniel Frank
As the battle for same-sex marriage in the United States slides into history, it has found
a powerful chronicler in Nathaniel Frank. Even those steeped in the gay-rights movement
will find much to admire in the novelistic detail and scholarly erudition that distinguish
this book.
Kenji Yoshino, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law, NYU
The right of same-sex couples to marry provoked decades of intense conflict before it was
upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015. Yet some of the most divisive contests shaping
the quest for marriage equality occurred not on the culture-war front lines but within the
ranks of LGBTQ advocates. Nathaniel Frank tells the dramatic story of how an idea that
once seemed unfathomableand for many gays and lesbians undesirablebecame a legal
and moral right in just half a century.
Awakening begins in the 1950s, when millions of gays and lesbians were afraid to come
out, let alone fight for equality. Across the social upheavals of the next two decades, a gay
rights movement emerged with the rising awareness of the equal dignity of same-sex love.
A cadre of LGBTQ lawyers soon began to focus on legal recognition for same-sex couples,
if not yet on marriage itself. It was only after being pushed by a small set of committed
lawyers and grassroots activists that established movement groups created a successful
strategy to win marriage in the courts.
Marriage equality proponents then had to win over members of their own LGBTQ community who declined to make marriage a priority, while seeking to rein in others who charged
ahead heedless of their carefully laid plans. All the while, they had to fight against virulent
antigay opponents and capture the American center by spreading the simple message
that love is love, ultimately propelling the LGBTQ communityand Americaimmeasurably closer to justice.
Nathaniel Frank is Director of the What We Know Project at Columbia Law School
and author of Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens
America.
April424 pp.cloth$35.00 27.959780674737228
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Cubas Revolutionary World

Jonathan C. Brown
Adds rich detail to the international ripples of the Cuban Revolution, often in lively prose. It
is fascinating to see how interrelated Latin American revolutionaries were, popping up in
several national stories, and equally captivating to see how influential Cuba was.
Alan McPherson, University of Oklahoma
On January 2, 1959, Fidel Castro, the rebel comandante who had just overthrown Cuban
dictator Fulgencio Batista, addressed a crowd of jubilant supporters. Recalling the failed
popular uprisings of past decades, Castro assured them that this time the real Revolution
had arrived. As Jonathan Brown shows in this capacious history of the Cuban Revolution,
Castros words proved prophetic not only for his countrymen but for Latin America and
the wider world.
Cubas Revolutionary World examines in forensic detail how the turmoil that rocked a small
Caribbean nation in the 1950s became one of the twentieth centurys most transformative
events. Initially, Castros revolution augured well for democratic reform movements gaining traction in Latin America. But what had begun promisingly veered off course as Castro
took a heavy hand in efforts to centralize Cubas economy and stamp out private enterprise.
Embracing the Soviet Union as an ally, Castro and his lieutenant Che Guevara sought to
export the socialist revolution abroad through armed insurrection.
Castros provocations inspired intense opposition. Cuban anticommunists who had fled to
Miami found a patron in the CIA, which actively supported their efforts to topple Castros
regime. The unrest fomented by Cuban-trained leftist guerrillas lent support to Latin
Americas military castes, who promised to restore stability. Brazil was the first to succumb
to a coup in 1964; a decade later, military juntas governed most Latin American states.
Thus did a revolution that had seemed to signal the death knell of dictatorship in Latin
America bring about its tragic opposite.
Jonathan C. Brown is Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin.
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The Boatman
Henry David Thoreaus River Years

Robert M. Thorson
The first sustained account of what Henry Thoreau was doing on the local rivers before
and after he sojourned at Walden Pond. Thoreaus water world engaged his mind and eye,
involved him in a major political dispute, and led him to far-reaching scientific insights.
Explicating these insights into the ecology of rivers and into the power of the wild, Robert
Thorson reminds us why Thoreau is so essential to our environmentally imperiled times.
Robert A. Gross, author of The Minutemen and Their World
The Boatman gives readers a Thoreau for the Anthropocene epoch. As a backyard naturalist and river enthusiast, Thoreau was keenly aware of the way humans had altered the
waterways and meadows of his beloved Concord River Valley. And he recognized that
he himselfa land surveyor by tradewas as complicit in these transformations as the
bankers, lawyers, builders, landowners, and elected officials who were his clients. Robert
Thorson tells a compelling story of intellectual growth, as Thoreau
moved from anger, to lament, to acceptance of the way humans
had changed the river he cherished more than Walden Pond.
In his twenties, Thoreau had contemplated industrial sabotage
against a downstream factory dam. By the mid-1850s he realized
that humans and an imperfect nature were inseparable. His
beliefs and scientific understanding of the river would be challenged again when he was
hired in 1859 as a technical consultant for the River Meadow Association, in Americas first
statewide case for dam removala veritable class-action suit of more than five hundred
petitioners that pitted local farmers against industrialists. Thorson offers the most complete account to date of this flowage controversy, including Thoreaus behind-the-scenes
investigations and the political corruption that eventually carried the day.
In the years after the publication of Walden (1854), the river boatmans joy in the natural
world was undiminished by the prospect of environmental change. Increasingly, he sought
out for solace and pleasure those river sites most dramatically altered by human invention
and interventionfor better and worse.
Robert M. Thorson is Professor of Geology at the University of Connecticut and author of
Waldens Shore: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Science (Harvard).
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The Image of the Black in

African and Asian Art
edited by
David Bindman Suzanne Preston Blier

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art asks how the black figure
was depicted by artists from the non-Western world. Beginning with ancient
Egyptpositioned properly as part of African historythis volume focuses on
the figure of the black as rendered by artists from Africa, East Asia, and the
Indian subcontinent. The aesthetic traditions illustrated here are as diverse as
the political and social histories of these regions. From Igbo Mbari sculptures
to modern photography from Mali, from Indian miniatures to Japanese prints,
African and Asian artists portrayed the black body in ways distinct from the
European tradition, even as they engaged with Western art through the colonial encounter and the forces of globalization.
This volume complements the vision of art patrons Dominique and Jean
de Menil who, during the 1960s, founded an image archive to collect the ways
that people of African descent have been represented in Western art from
the ancient world to modern times. A half-century later, Harvard University
Press and the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research completed the
historic publication of The Image of the Black in Western Artten books in totalbeginning
with Egyptian antiquities and concluding with images that span the twentieth century. The
Image of the Black in African and Asian Art reinvigorates the de Menil familys original mission and reorients the study of the black body with a new focus on Africa and Asia.
David Bindman is Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at University College London.
Suzanne Preston Blier is Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of
African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is
Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research
Institute at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard
University.
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Air & Light & Time & Space

How Successful Academics Write
Helen Sword
From the author of Stylish Academic Writing comes an essential new guide for writers
aspiring to become more productive and take greater pleasure in their craft. Helen Sword
interviewed one hundred academics worldwide about their writing background and practices. Relatively few were trained as writers, she found, and yet all have developed strategies to thrive in their publish-or-perish environment.
So how do these successful academics write, and where do they find the air and light and
time and space, in the words of poet Charles Bukowski, to get their writing done? What
are their formative experiences, their daily routines, their habits of mind? How do they
summon up the courage to take intellectual risks and the resilience to deal with rejection?
Sword identifies four cornerstones that anchor any successful writing practice: Behavioral
habits of discipline and persistence; Artisanal habits of craftsmanship and care; Social
habits of collegiality and collaboration; and Emotional habits of positivity and pleasure.
Building on this BASE, she illuminates the emotional complexity of the writing process
and exposes the lack of writing support typically available to early-career academics. She
also lays to rest the myth that academics must produce safe, conventional prose or risk
professional failure. The successful writers profiled here tell stories of intellectual passions indulged, disciplinary conventions subverted, and risk-taking rewarded. Grounded in
empirical research and focused on sustainable change, Air & Light & Time & Space offers a
customizable blueprint for refreshing personal habits and creating a collegial environment
where all writers can flourish.
Helen Sword is Professor and Director of the Centre for Learning and Research in Higher
Education at the University of Auckland. She is also the author of Stylish Academic
Writing (Harvard).
April260 pp.cloth$24.95 19.959780674737709
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The Idea of the Muslim World

A Global Intellectual History
Cemil Aydin
When President Barack Obama visited Cairo in 2009 to deliver an address to Muslims
worldwide, he followed in the footsteps of countless politicians who have taken the existence of a unified global Muslim community for granted. But as Cemil Aydin explains in this
provocative history, it is a misconception to think that the worlds 1.5 billion Muslims constitute a single religio-political entity. How did this belief arise, and why is it so widespread?
The Idea of the Muslim World searches for the intellectual origins of a mistaken notion and
explains its enduring allure for non-Muslims and Muslims alike.
Conceived as the antithesis of Western Christian civilization, the idea of the Muslim world
emerged in the late nineteenth century, when European empires ruled the majority of
Muslims. It was inflected from the start by theories of white supremacy, but Muslims had
a hand in shaping the idea as well. Aydin reveals the role of Muslim intellectuals in envisioning and essentializing an idealized pan-Islamic society that refuted claims of Muslims
racial and civilizational inferiority.
After playing a key role in the politics of the Ottoman Caliphate, the idea of the Muslim
world survived decolonization and the Cold War, and took on new force in the late twentieth
century. Standing at the center of both Islamophobic and pan-Islamic ideologies, the idea
of the Muslim world continues to hold the global imagination in a grip that will need to be
loosened in order to begin a more fruitful discussion about politics in Muslim societies
today.
Cemil Aydin is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
April250 pp.cloth$29.95* 23.959780674050372
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When Police Kill

Franklin E. Zimring
This is a superb book, and an urgently needed one. Frank Zimring carefully demonstrates
what is known and inexcusably unknown about fatal shooting by American police officers.
Even better, he tells us how to fix the problem. This is a book full of sharp insight and wise
counsel. It should be read by anyone concerned about the problem of police violence.
David Sklansky, Professor of Law at Stanford University
Deaths of civilians at the hands of on-duty police are in the national spotlight as never
before. How many killings by police occur annually? What circumstances provoke police
to shoot to kill? Who dies? The lack of answers to these basic questions points to a crisis in
American government that urgently requires the attention of policy experts. When Police
Kill is a groundbreaking analysis of the use of lethal force by police in the United States and
how its death toll can be reduced.
Franklin Zimring compiles data from federal records, crowdsourced research, and investigative journalism to provide a comprehensive, fact-based picture of how, when, where,
and why police resort to deadly force. Of the 1,100 killings by police in the United States
in 2015, he shows, 85 percent were fatal shootings and 95 percent of victims were male.
The death rates for African Americans and Native Americans are twice their share of the
population.
Civilian deaths from shootings and other police actions are vastly higher in the United
States than in other developed nations, but American police also confront an unusually
high risk of fatal assault. Zimring offers policy prescriptions for how federal, state, and local
governments can reduce killings by police without risking the lives of officers. Criminal
prosecution of police officers involved in killings is rare and only necessary in extreme
cases. But clear administrative rules could save hundreds of lives without endangering
police officers.
Franklin E. Zimring is William G. Simon Professor of Law at the University of California,
Berkeley, and author of The City That Became Safe: New Yorks Lessons for Urban Crime
and Its Control.
February320 pp.cloth$35.00* 27.959780674972186
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The Age of Responsibility

Luck, Choice, and the Welfare State
Yascha Mounk
A terrific book. The insight at its heartthat we live in an age of responsibility, and that the
conception of responsibility now at work in much public rhetoric and policy is both punitive
and ill-conceivedis very important and should be widely heeded.
Jedediah Purdy, Duke University
A novel focus on personal responsibility has transformed political thought and public policy in America and Europe. Since the 1970s, responsibilitywhich once meant the moral
duty to help and support othershas come to suggest an obligation to be self-sufficient.
This narrow conception of responsibility has guided recent reforms of the welfare state,
making key entitlements conditional on good behavior. Drawing on intellectual history,
political theory, and moral philosophy, Yascha Mounk shows why the Age of Responsibility
is perniciousand how it might be overcome.
Personal responsibility began as a conservative catchphrase. But over time, leaders across
the political spectrum came to subscribe to its underlying framework. Today, even egalitarian philosophers rarely question the normative importance of responsibility. Emphasizing
the pervasive influence of luck over our lives, they cast the poor as victims who cannot be
held responsible for their actions.
Mounk shows that todays focus on individual culpability is both wrong and counterproductive: it distracts us from the larger economic forces determining aggregate outcomes, ignores what we owe our fellow citizens regardless of their choices, and blinds
us to other key values, such as the desire to live in a society of equals. Recognizing that
even societys neediest members seek to exercise genuine agency, Mounk builds a positive conception of responsibility. Instead of punishing individuals for their past choices, he
argues, public policy should aim to empower them to take responsibility for themselves
and those around them.
Yascha Mounk is a Lecturer on Political Theory at Harvard Universitys Government
Department, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the German Marshall Funds Transatlantic Academy,
and a Nonresident Fellow in the Political Reform Program at New America. He is also the
author of My Own Country: A Jewish Family in Modern Germany.
June264 pp.cloth$29.95* 23.959780674545465
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The Malmedy Massacre

The War Crimes Trial Controversy
Steven P. Remy
A first-rate book. Remys superb analysis shows how virtually every element of the standard
narrative on the Malmedy trials is wrong.
Devin Pendas, Boston College
During the Battle of the Bulge, Waffen SS soldiers shot 84 American prisoners near the
Belgian town of Malmedythe deadliest mass execution of U.S. soldiers during World War II.
The bloody deeds of December 17, 1944, produced the most controversial war crimes trial
in American history. Drawing on newly declassified documents, Steven Remy revisits the
massacreand the decade-long controversy that followedto set the record straight.
The U.S. Army tracked down 74 of those responsible and put them on trial. All were sentenced to death or life imprisonment. To discredit the trial, however, a network of Germans
and sympathetic Americans claimed that interrogatorssome of them Jewish migrs
had coerced false confessions and that heat of battle conditions had led to the shooting. The ensuing controversy, generated when the United States was
anxious to placate its West German ally, resulted in the release of all
the convicted men by 1957. Remy shows that the torture accusations
were untrue and that the massacre was not an accident but was typical
of the Waffen SSs fighting style. The Malmedy Massacre reveals how
amnesty advocates have warped our understanding of this infamous
crime through a systematic campaign of fabrications and distortions.
Steven P. Remy is Associate Professor of History at Brooklyn College and the Graduate
Center, City University of New York.
March 318 pp. cloth $29.95* 23.95 9780674971950
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Tokyo Boogie-Woogie
Japans Pop Era and Its Discontents
Hiromu Nagahara
In this first English-language history of the impact of the Japanese pop music industry,
Hiromu Nagahara connects the rise of mass entertainment with Japans transformation into
a middle-class society in the years after World War II.
With the arrival of recording companies like Columbia and Victor in the 1920s, Japans
pop scene grew into a full-fledged industry that reached avid consumers through radio,
cinema, and other media. The songs that poured forth over the next four decades represented something new in the cultural landscape. Emerging during some of the most
volatile decades in the nations history, popular songs struck a deep chord in Japanese
society, gaining a devoted following but also galvanizing a vociferous band of opponents. Intellectuals, journalists, government officials, and self-appointed arbiters of taste
engaged in contentious debates on the merits of pop music. Many regarded it as a scandal,
evidence of a debased and Americanized culture. For others, popular songs represented
liberation from the oppressive political climate of the war years. Tokyo Boogie-Woogie is a
tale of competing cultural dynamics coming to a head just as Japans hierarchical society
was shifting toward middle-class democracy. The pop soundscape of these years became
the audible symbol of changing times.
Hiromu Nagahara is Associate Professor of History at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
May260 pp.cloth$35.00* 27.959780674971691
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Epistrophies
Jazz and the Literary Imagination

Brent Hayes Edwards
In 1941 Thelonious Monk and Kenny Clarke copyrighted Epistrophy, one of the best-known
compositions of the bebop era. The songs title refers to a literary devicethe repetition
of a word or phrase at the end of successive clausesthat is echoed in the construction
of the melody. Written two decades later, Amiri Barakas poem Epistrophe alludes slyly to
Monks tune. Whether it is composers finding formal inspiration in verse or a poet invoking
the sound of music, hearing across media is the source of innovation in black art.
Epistrophies explores this fertile interface through case studies in jazz literatureboth
writings informed by music and the surprisingly large body of writing by jazz musicians
themselves. From James Weldon Johnsons vernacular transcriptions to Sun Ras liner note
poems, from Henry Threadgills arresting song titles to Nathaniel Mackeys Song of the
Andoumboulou, there is an unending back-and-forth between music that hovers at the
edge of language and writing that strives for the propulsive energy and melodic contours
of music.
At times this results in art that gravitates into multiple media. In Duke Ellingtons social
significance suites, or in the striking parallels between Louis Armstrongs inventiveness
as a singer and trumpeter on the one hand and his idiosyncratic creativity as a letter writer
and collagist on the other, one encounters an aesthetic that takes up both literature and
music as components of a uniqueand uniquely African Americansphere of art-making
and performance.
Brent Hayes Edwards is Professor in the Department of English and Comparative
Literature at Columbia University. He is also the author of The Practice of Diaspora
(Harvard).
June320 pp.cloth$35.00* 27.959780674055438
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Dispelling the Darkness

A Jesuits Quest for the Soul of Tibet
Donald S. Lopez, Jr. Thupten Jinpa

In a remote Himalayan village in 1721, the Jesuit priest Ippolito Desideri awaited permission from Rome to continue his mission to convert the Tibetan people to Christianity. In
the meantime, he forged ahead with an ambitious project: a treatise, written in classical Tibetan, that would refute key Buddhist doctrines. If he could convince the Buddhist
monks that these doctrines were false, thought Desideri, he would dispel the darkness of
idolatry from Tibet.
Offering a fascinating glimpse into the historical encounter between Christianity and
Buddhism, Dispelling the Darkness brings Desideris Tibetan writings to readers of English
for the first time. This authoritative study provides extended excerpts from Inquiry
Concerning the Doctrines of Previous Lives and Emptiness, Desideris unfinished masterpiece, as well as a full translation of Essence of the Christian Religion, a companion work
that broadens his refutation of Buddhism. Desideri possessed an unusually sophisticated
understanding of Buddhism and a masterful command of the classical Tibetan language.
He believed that only careful argumentation could demolish the philosophical foundations
of Buddhism, especially the doctrines of rebirth and emptiness that prevented belief in the
existence of God. Donald Lopez and Thupten Jinpas detailed commentary reveals how
Desideri deftly uses Tibetan literary conventions and passages from Buddhist scriptures
to make his case.
When the Vatican refused Desideris petition, he returned to Rome, his manuscripts in tow,
where they languished unread in archives. Dispelling the Darkness brings these vital texts
to light after centuries of neglect.
Donald S. Lopez, Jr., is the Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist
and Tibetan Studies at the University of Michigan. Thupten Jinpa is Adjunct Professor of
Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy in the School of Religious Studies at McGill University. He is
the principal English translator for the Dalai Lama, traveling extensively in this capacity.
He has translated and edited twelve books by the Dalai Lama.
April296 pp.cloth$29.95* 23.959780674659704
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The New Geopolitics of Natural Gas

Agnia Grigas
We are in the midst of an energy revolution, led by the United States. As the worlds greatest producer of natural gas moves aggressively to expand its exports of liquefied natural
gas (LNG), America stands poised to become an energy superpoweran unanticipated
development with far-reaching implications for the international order. Agnia Grigas drills
deep into todays gas markets to uncover the forces and trends transforming the geopolitics of gas.
The boom in shale gas production in the United States, the growth of global LNG trade,
and the buildup of gas transport infrastructure worldwide have so transformed the traditional markets that natural gas appears to be on the verge of becoming a true global commodity. Traditional suppliers like Russia, whose energy-poor neighbors were dependent
upon its gas exports and pipelines, are feeling the foundations of the old order shifting
beneath their feet. Grigas examines how this new reality is rewriting the conventional rules
of intercontinental gas trade and realigning strategic relations among the United States,
the European Union, Russia, China, and beyond.
In the near term, Moscows political influence will erode as the
Russian gas giant Gazprom loses share in its traditional markets
while its efforts to pivot eastward to meet Chinas voracious energy
needs will largely depend on Beijings terms. In this new geopolitics
of gas, the United States will enjoy opportunities but also face challenges in leveraging its newfound energy clout to reshape relations
with both European states and rising Asian powers.
Agnia Grigas is a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and a frequent advisor to
government and business.
April 360 pp. cloth $35.00* 27.95 9780674971837
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The Hello Girls
Americas First Women Soldiers

Elizabeth Cobbs
In 1918, the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France to help win World War I.
They were masters of the latest communications technology: the telephone switchboard.
Top U.S. commander General John Pershing requested female wire experts when he discovered that inexperienced doughboys were unable to keep him connected with Allies
and troops under fire. Men called them the Hello Girls. They were Americas first women
soldiers.
While militant suffragettes picketed the White House, and President Woodrow Wilson
struggled to persuade a segregationist Congress to give the vote to all women, an extraordinary cohort swore the Army oath. Elizabeth Cobbs reveals the day-to-day challenges
these patriotic young women faced in a war zone where male soldiers resented, wooed,
mocked, saluted, and ultimately celebrated them. The first received a baptism by fire as
Germans bombarded Paris with their new heavy artillery, Big Bertha. A few followed Black
Jack Pershing to battlefields where they served through shelling and bombardment. Their
brave, impassioned 25-year-old leader won the Distinguished Service Medal.
The Army discharged the last Hello Girls in 1920, the year Congress
ratified the Nineteenth Amendment granting women the ballot. When
the uniformed operators sailed home, the Army unexpectedly dismissed them without veterans benefits. They began a new, sixty-year
battle that a handful of undaunted survivors carried to triumph in 1979.
With the help of the National Organization for Women, Senator Barry
Goldwater, and a crusading young Seattle attorney, they defeated the
U.S. Army to win their Victory Medals at last.
Elizabeth Cobbs is Melbern G. Glasscock Chair in American History at Texas A&M
University and a Research Fellow at Stanfords Hoover Institution. She is also the author
of American Umpire (Harvard) and The Hamilton Affair: A Novel.
April 316 pp. cloth $29.95* 23.95 9780674971479
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The English Conquest of Jamaica

Oliver Cromwells Bid for Empire
Carla Gardina Pestana
In 1654, Englands Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell conceived a plan of breathtaking ambition: the conquest of Spains vast American empire. As the first phase of his Western
Design, a large expedition sailed to the West Indies, under secret orders to take Spanish
colonies. The English Conquest of Jamaica presents entrenched imperial fantasies confronting Caribbean realities. It captures the moment when the revolutionary English state
first became a major player in the Atlantic arena.
Although capturing Jamaica was supposed to be only the first step in Cromwells scheme,
even that relatively modest acquisition proved difficult. The English badly underestimated
the myriad challenges they faced, starting with the unexpectedly fierce resistance offered
by the Spanish and other residents who tenaciously defended their island. After sixteen
long years Spain surrendered Jamaica and acceded to an English presence in the Americas
in the 1670 Treaty of Madrid. But by then, other goalsincluding profit through commerce
rather than further conquesthad superseded the vision behind the Western Design.
Carla Gardina Pestana situates Cromwells imperial project in the context of an emerging Atlantic empire as well as the religious strife and
civil wars that defined seventeenth-century England. Though falling
short of its goal, Cromwells plan nevertheless reshaped Englands
Atlantic endeavors and the Caribbean region as a whole. Long before
sugar and slaves made Jamaica Britains most valuable colony, its
acquisition sparked conflicts with other European powers, opened
vast tropical spaces to exploitation by the purportedly industrious
English, and altered Englands engagement with the wider world.
Carla Gardina Pestana is Professor and Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America and
the World at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is also the author of The
English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 16401661 (Harvard).
April 350 pp. cloth $35.00* 27.95 9780674737310
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Social Science Law Education
Before Orthodoxy
The Satanic Verses in Early Islam

Shahab Ahmed
One of the most controversial episodes in the life of the Prophet Muhammad concerns
an incident in which he allegedly mistook words suggested by Satan as divine revelation.
Known as the Satanic verses, these praises to the pagan deities contradict the Islamic
belief that Allah is one and absolute. Muslims todayof all sectsdeny that the incident
of the Satanic verses took place. But as Shahab Ahmed explains, Muslims did not always
hold this view.
Before Orthodoxy wrestles with the question of how religions establish truthespecially
religions such as Islam that lack a centralized authority to codify beliefs. Taking the now
universally rejected incident of the Satanic verses as a case study in the formation of
Islamic orthodoxy, Ahmed shows that early Muslims, circa 632 to 800 CE, held the exact
opposite belief. For them, the Satanic verses were an established fact in the history of the
Prophet. Ahmed offers a detailed account of the attitudes of Muslims
to the Satanic verses in the first two centuries of Islam and traces the
chains of transmission in the historical reports known as riwyah.
Touching directly on the nature of Muhammads prophetic visions, the
interpretation of the Satanic verses incident is a question of profound
importance in Islam, one that plays a role in defining the limits of what
Muslims may legitimately say and doissues crucial to understanding
the contemporary Islamic world.
Shahab Ahmed taught at Harvard University and was a fellow in the Harvard Society of
Fellows and the Islamic Studies Program at Harvard Law School. He is also the author
of What Is Islam?: The Importance of Being Islamic.
April 320 pp. cloth $49.95x 39.95 9780674047426
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When Free Exercise and

Nonestablishment Conflict
Kent Greenawalt
The First Amendment begins:
Congress shall make no law
reflecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. This statement has
the aim of separating church and
state, but tensions can emerge
between its two elementsthe socalled Nonestablishment Clause
and the Free Exercise Clause.
If the government controls (or
is controlled by) a single church
and suppresses other religions,
the dominant churchs establishment interferes with free exercise,
and the First Amendments clauses coalesce to protect freedom
of religion. But Kent Greenawalt examines a variety of situations
in which the clauses point in opposite directions. Are ceremonial
prayers in government offices free exercise or establishment of
religion? Should the state provide assistance to religious private
schools? Should parole boards take prisoners religious convictions
into account? Should officials act on public reason alone, leaving
religious beliefs out of political decisions? When Free Exercise
and Nonestablishment Conflict offers an accessible but sophisticated exploration of these conflicts. It explains how disputes have
been adjudicated to date and suggests how they might be better
resolved in the future. Not only does Greenawalt consider what
courts should decide but also how officials and citizens should take
the First Amendments conflicting values into account.
Kent Greenawalt is University Professor at Columbia University
and author of Exemptions: Necessary, Justified, or Misguided?
(Harvard).
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The First Amendment and

LGBT Equality
A Contentious History
Carlos A. Ball
Conservative opponents of LGBT
equality in the United States
often couch their opposition in
claims of free speech, free association, and religious liberty. It is
no surprise, then, that many LGBT
activists equate First Amendment
arguments with resistance to their
cause. The First Amendment and
LGBT Equality tells another story,
about the First Amendments crucial yet largely forgotten role in
the first decades of the gay rights
movement.
Between the 1950s and 1980s,
when many courts were still openly hostile to sexual minorities,
they nonetheless recognized the freedom of gay and lesbian
people to express themselves and associate with one another.
Successful First Amendment cases protected LGBT publications,
organizations, protests, parades, and individuals right to come out.
The amendment was wielded by the other side only after it had laid
the groundwork for major LGBT equality victories. Carlos A. Ball
illuminates the full trajectory of this legal and cultural history. As
progressives fight the First Amendment claims of religious conservatives and other opponents, he argues, they should take care not
to erode the very safeguards of liberty that allowed LGBT rights to
exist in the first place.
Carlos A. Ball is Distinguished Professor of Law and Judge
Frederick Lacey Scholar at Rutgers Law School.
March320 pp.cloth$39.95x 31.959780674972193
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Improving How Universities Teach Science

Lessons from the Science Education Initiative
Carl Wieman
Too many universities remain wedded to outmoded ways of teaching science in spite of
extensive research showing that there are more effective methods. Too few departments
ask whether what happens in their lecture halls is effective at helping students to learn and
how they can encourage their faculty to teach better. But real change is possible, and Carl
Wieman shows us how it can be done.
Improving How Universities Teach Science distills Wiemans unparalleled experience in a
blueprint for educators seeking sustainable improvements in science teaching. Wieman
created the Science Education Initiative (SEI), a program implemented across thirteen science departments at the universities of Colorado and British Columbia, to support the
widespread adoption of the best research-based approaches to science teaching. The programs data show that in the most successful departments 90 percent of faculty adopted
better methods. Wieman identifies what factors helped and hindered the adoption of good
teaching methods. He also gives detailed, effective, and tested strategies for departments
and institutions to measure and improve the quality of their teaching while limiting the
demands on faculty time.
Among all of the commentary addressing shortcomings in higher education, Wiemans
lessons on improving teaching and learning stand out. His analysis and solutions are not
limited to just one lecture hall or course but deal with changing entire departments and
universities. For those who want to improve how universities teach science to the next
generation, Wiemans work is a critical first step.
Carl Wieman was the founding chair of the National Academy of Sciences Board on
Science Education from 20042009 and winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics. He
was named U.S. University Professor of the Year in 2004 by the Carnegie Foundation.
May216 pp.cloth$35.00x 27.959780674972070
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Who Gets In?
Strategies for Fair and Effective College Admissions

Rebecca Zwick
When it comes to the hotly disputed topic of U.S. college admissions, the one thing everyone
agrees about is that this highstakes competition is unfair. But
there is little agreement on what a
fair process would be.
Rebecca Zwick takes a hard look
at the goals of different admissions systems and the fairness
of criteriafrom grades and
standardized test scores to race,
socioeconomic status, and students academic aspirationsand
illustrates her points using analyses of survey data from applicants to the nations top colleges
and universities. Who Gets In? considers the merits and flaws of
competing approaches and demonstrates that some admissions
policies fail to produce the desired results. For example, some nontraditional selection methods hurt more than help the students they
are intended to benefit. There is no universal definition of student
merit or blanket entitlement to attend college: some schools may
hope to attract well-rounded students, while others focus on specific academic strengths. What matters most is that the admissions
policy reflects a schools educational philosophy. Colleges should
be free to include socioeconomic and racial preferences among
their admissions criteria, Zwick contends, but they should strive for
transparency about the factors they use to evaluate applicants.
Rebecca Zwick is Distinguished Presidential Appointee at
Educational Testing Service and Professor Emerita at the
University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Stateless Commerce
The Diamond Network and the Persistence of

Relational Exchange
Barak D. Richman
Barak Richman uses the colorful
case study of the diamond industry to explore how ethnic trading
networks operate and why they
persist in the twenty-first century.
How, for example, does the 47th
Street diamond district in midtown
Manhattansurrounded by skyscrapers and sophisticated financial institutionscontinue to thrive
as an ethnic marketplace that
operates like a traditional bazaar?
Conventional models of economic
and technological progress suggest that primitive commercial
networks would be displaced by new trading paradigmsyet in the
heart of New York City the old world persists. Richmans explanation is deceptively simple. Far from being an anachronism, 47th
Streets ethnic enclave is an adaptive response to the unique pressures of the diamond industry.
Ethnic trading networks survive because they better fulfill many
functions usually performed by state institutions. While the modern world rests heavily on lawyers, courts, and state coercion, ethnic merchants regularly sell goods and services by relying solely
on familiarity, trust, and community enforcement. Extending
the framework of transactional cost and institutional economics,
Stateless Commerce draws on rare insider interviews to explain
why personal exchange succeeds and what it reveals about the
limitations of the modern state in governing the economy.
Barak D. Richman is Edgar P. and Elizabeth C. Bartlett Professor
of Law and Business Administration at Duke University School of
Law.
June192 pp.cloth$35.00x 27.959780674972179
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Society and Economy
Framework and Principles

Mark Granovetter
Society and Economya work

of exceptional ambition by the
founder of modern economic
sociologyis the first full account
of Mark Granovetters ideas about
the diverse ways in which society
and economy are intertwined. The
economy is deeply embedded
in social relations and subject to
the same emotions, ideas, and
constraints as religion, science,
politics, or law, he shows. While
sometimes people work rationally
toward well-defined ends, much
human behavior is harder to fit
into that framework. Actors sometimes follow social norms with a passionate faith in their appropriateness, and at other times they conform without conscious
thought. They trust others when there is no obvious reason to do
so. The power individuals wield over one another can have a major
impact on economic outcomes, even when that power arises from
noneconomic sources.
Although people depend on social norms, culture, trust, and power
to solve problems, the guidance these offer is often murky and
complicated. Granovetter explores how problem solvers improvise
to assemble pragmatic solutions from this multitude of principles.
Underlying his arguments is an attempt to move beyond such simple dualisms as agency/structure to a more nuanced appreciation
of the dynamics that drive social and economic life.
Mark Granovetter is Joan Butler Ford Professor in the School of
Humanities and Sciences and Professor of Sociology at Stanford
University.
February220 pp.cloth$39.95x 31.959780674975217
Sociology6 1/8 x 9 1/4Belknap Press
Corporations and American

Democracy
edited by
Naomi R. Lamoreaux William J. Novak

Recent Supreme Court decisions
in Citizens United and other highprofile cases have sparked disagreement about the role of corporations in American democracy.
Partisans have made bold claims,
often with little basis in historical
facts. Bringing together scholars
of history, law, and political science, this book provides essential grounding for todays policy
debates.
Since the nations founding, Americans have regarded corporations

with ambivalenceembracing their potential to revolutionize economic life and yet remaining wary of their capacity to undermine
democratic institutions. Although corporations were created to
give businesses some of the legal rights of personhood, they were
denied many protections afforded flesh-and-blood citizens. This
volume covers the origins of corporations in English and American
law, the shift from special charters to general incorporation, and
the roots of modern corporate regulation in the Progressive Era
and New Deal. It also covers the evolution of judicial views of corporate rights, particularly since corporations have become the
form of choice for a variety of nonbusiness organizations, including political advocacy groups. Ironically, in todays global economy
the decline of large, vertically integrated corporationswhich past
reform movements fought hard to regulateposes some of the
newest challenges to government oversight of the economy.
Naomi R. Lamoreaux is Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics
and History at Yale University. William J. Novak is Charles F. and
Edith J. Clyne Professor of Law at the University of Michigan.
May432 pp.cloth$35.00x 27.959780674972285
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Humanities
Literary Criticism
A Concise Political History

Joseph North
Literary Criticism offers a concise overview of literary studies in the English-speaking world
from the early twentieth century to the present. Joseph North steps back from the usual
tangle of figures, schools, and movements in order to analyze the intellectual paradigms
that underpinned them. The result is a radically new account of the disciplines development, together with a trenchant argument about where its political future lies.
People in todays literature departments often assume that their work is politically progressive, especially when compared with the work of early- and mid-twentieth-century critics.
Norths view is less cheering. For when understood in relation to the longer arc of the discipline, the current historicist and contextualist mode in literary studies represents a step to
the Right. Since the global turn to neoliberalism in the late 1970s, all the major movements
within literary studies have been diagnostic rather than interventionist in character: scholars have developed sophisticated techniques for analyzing culture, but they have retreated
from systematic attempts to transform it. In this respect, the political potential of current
literary scholarship compares poorly with that of earlier critical modes, which, for all their
faults, at least had a programmatic commitment to cultural change.
Yet neoliberalism is now in crisisa crisis that presents opportunities as well as dangers.
North argues that the creation of a genuinely interventionist criticism is one of the central
tasks facing those on the Left of the discipline today.
Joseph North is Assistant Professor of English at Yale University.
May 256 pp. cloth $39.95x 31.95 9780674967731
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49
Rethinking Race
Pragmatism as a Way of Life
Michael O. Hardimon
Hilary Putnam Ruth Anna Putnam
The Case for Deflationary Realism
The Lasting Legacy of William James and John Dewey

edited by
Because science has shown that

racial essentialism is false, and
because the idea of race has
proved virulent, many people
believe we should eliminate the
word and concept entirely. Michael
Hardimon criticizes this line of
thinking, arguing that we must recognize the real ways in which race
exists in order to revise our understanding of its significance.
Pernicious, traditional racialism
maintains that people can be
ranked according to innate racial
features. Those who would eliminate race make the mistake of associating the word only with this
view. Hardimon agrees that this concept should be jettisoned, but
draws a distinction with three alternative ideas: a stripped-down
version of the ordinary concept that recognizes physical differences but considers them insignificant; a scientific understanding
of populations with shared lines of descent; and an acknowledgment of socialrace as a separate construction. Hardimon provides
a language for understanding ways that races do and do not exist.
His account is realistic in recognizing the physical features of races
and the existence of races in our social world. But it is deflationary
in rejecting the concept of hierarchical, defining racial characteristics. Rethinking Race offers a philosophical basis for repudiating
racism without blinding ourselves to reality.
Michael O. Hardimon is Associate Professor in the Department of
Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego.
June208 pp.cloth$39.95x 31.959780674975668
Philosophy / Sociology6 1/8 x 9 1/41 line illus.
David Macarthur
Throughout his influential career,

Hilary Putnam was famous for
changing his mind. As a pragmatist he treated philosophical positions as experiments in deliberate
living. His aim was not to fix on one
position but to do justice to the
depth and complexity of reality. In
this new collection, he and Ruth
Anna Putnam argue that key elements of the classical pragmatism
of William James and John Dewey
provide a framework for the most
progressive and forward-looking
forms of philosophy in contemporary thought. The Putnams present a compelling defense of the
radical originality of these pragmatists ideas and their usefulness
in confronting the urgent social, political and moral problems of
the twenty-first century.
The pragmatism the Putnams endorse, though respectful of the
sciences, is an open experience-based philosophy of our everyday lives that trenchantly criticizes the fact/value dualism running
through contemporary culture. Hilary Putnam argues that all facts
are dependent on cognitive values, while Ruth Anna Putnam turns
the problem around, illuminating the factual basis of moral principles. Together, they offer a shared vision that, in Hilarys words,
could serve as a manifesto for what the two of us would like philosophy to look like in the twenty-first century and beyond.
Hilary Putnam was Cogan Professor Emeritus at Harvard
University and author of, among many books, Naturalism, Realism,
and Normativity (Harvard). Ruth Anna Putnam is Professor Emerita
of Philosophy at Wellesley College. David Macarthur is Associate
Professor of Philosophy, University of Sydney.
May448 pp.cloth$49.95x 39.959780674967502
Philosophy6 1/8 x 9 1/4Belknap Press
Humanity without Dignity

Moral Equality, Respect, and Human Rights
Andrea Sangiovanni
Name any valued human traitintelligence, wit, charm, grace, strengthand you will find
an inexhaustible variety and complexity in its expression among individuals. Yet whatever
merit, blame, praise, love, or hate we receive as beings with a particular past and a particular constitution, we are always and everywhere due equal respect merely as persons.
But why?
Most who attempt to answer this question appeal to the idea that all human beings possess an intrinsic dignity and worthgrounded in our capacities, for example, to reason,
reflect, or lovethat raise us up in the order of nature. Andrea Sangiovanni rejects this
view and offers a radical alternative that begins with a consideration not of equality but of
inequality. Rather than search for a chimerical value-bestowing capacity possessed to an
equal extent by each one of us, we ought to ask: Why and when is it wrong to treat others
as inferior? He concludes that our commitment to moral equality is best explained by a
rejection of cruelty rather than a celebration of rational capacity. Humanity without Dignity
traces the impact of this fundamental shift for our understanding of human rights and the
norms of anti-discrimination that underlie it.
Andrea Sangiovanni is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Kings College London.
June286 pp.cloth$39.95x 31.959780674049215
Philosophy6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Does History Make Sense?

Hegel on the Historical Shapes of Justice
Terry Pinkard
Hegels philosophy of history
which most critics view as a theory of inevitable progress toward
modern European civilizationis
widely regarded as a failure today.
In Does History Make Sense? Terry
Pinkard argues that Hegels understanding of historical progress
is not the kind of teleological or
progressivist account that its
detractors claim but is based on
a subtle understanding of human
subjectivity.
For Hegel, a break occurred
between modernity and all that
came before, when human beings found a new way to make sense
of themselves as rational, self-aware creatures. In this view of history, different types of sense-making become viable as social conditions change and new forms of subjectivity emerge. At the core
are evolving conceptions of justiceof who has authority to rule
over others. In modern Europe, Hegel believes, an unprecedented
understanding of justice as freedom arose, based on the notion
that every man should rule himself. Freedom is a more robust form
of justice but, like health, it requires constant effort to sustain and
cannot ever be fully achieved.
For Hegel, philosophy and history are inseparable. Pinkards spirited defense of the Hegelian view of history will play a central role
in reevaluations of the philosophers work.
Terry Pinkard is University Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown
University.
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5 2 w w w. h up. h a r va rd.edu H h a r va rd u n ivers i ty p re s s
Eros and Illness

David B. Morris
Susan Sontag described illness as
the night-side of life. When we or
our loved ones fall ill, our world is
thrown into disarray, our routines
are interrupted, our beliefs shaken.
Modern biomedicine offers little
solace when it comes to the effects
of ill health on our inner lives. Eros
and Illness offers an alternative:
an unconventional, deeply human
exploration of what it means to
live with, and live through, disease.
Desire in its many guises plays a
crucial part in illness, David Morris
shows. Emotions, dreams, and
storieseven romance and eroticismshape our experiences as patients and as caregivers. Our
perception of the world we enter through illnessincluding too
often a world of painis shaped by desire.
Writing from his own heartbreaking experience as a caretaker for
his wife, Morris relates how desire can worsen or mitigate the heavy
weight of disease. He looks to myths, memoirs, paintings, performances, and narratives, from many centuries and media, to understand how illness is intertwined with the things we value dearly.
Eros and Illness reaches out a hand to guide us through the darkness, showing us how to find productive desire where we expected
only despair and defeat.
David B. Morris is a writer and Emeritus Professor of English at
the University of Virginia and author of Alexander Pope: The
Genius of Sense (Harvard).
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Science Medicine
Viruses
Agents of Evolutionary Invention

Michael G. Cordingley
Viruses are the most abundant biological entities on Earth, and arguably the most successful. They are not technically alive, but they have a remarkable capacity to invade, replicate,
and evolve within living cells. Michael Cordingley goes beyond our familiarity with viral
infections to show how viruses spur evolutionary change in their hosts and shape global
ecosystems.
Viruses are fundamental to the photosynthetic capacity of the worlds oceans. But perhaps most fascinating, viruses are now recognized as remarkable engines of the genetic
innovation that fuels natural selection and catalyzes evolution in all domains of life. Viruses
have coevolved with their hosts since the beginning of life on our planet and are part of
the evolutionary legacy of every species that has ever lived. They are responsible for the
creation of many feared bacterial diseases and the emergence of newly pathogenic and
drug-resistant strains. Even as epidemic viral diseases threaten global society and more
viruses jump to humans from other animals, we can adapt, relying on our evolved cognitive and cultural capacities to limit the consequences of viral infections. Piecing together
the story of viruses major role within and beyond human disease, Viruses creates a valuable roadmap through virologys rapidly expanding terrain.
Michael G. Cordingley is an internationally recognized virologist and pharmaceutical
scientist. He is President and Founder of Revolution Pharma Consulting Inc. and Senior
Scientific Advisor at Antiva Biosciences Inc.
June 356 pp. cloth $49.95x 39.95 9780674972087
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53
How the Vertebrate Brain

Regulates Behavior
Life in the Himalaya
An Ecosystem at Risk
Direct from the Lab
Maharaj K. Pandit
Donald Pfaff
foreword by
Throughout his remarkable career,

Donald Pfaff has demonstrated
that by choosing problems and
methods with care, biologists can
study the molecular mechanisms
of brains more complex than those
of fruit flies, snails, roundworms,
and other invertebrates. His half
century in the lab, starting with his
discovery of hormone receptors in
the brains of mammals and leading to the first detailed account
of a neural circuit for mammalian
behavior, puts him in a unique
position to survey the origins and
development of behavioral neurobiology and the current state
of research. How the Vertebrate Brain Regulates Behavior offers a
close-up, conversational perspective on a fifty-year quest to understand how behavior is regulated in a complex organism.
In graduate school, when Pfaff expressed a desire to study behavioral regulation, his advisor suggested focusing on hormones.
Pfaffs investigation into the hormonal basis of female sexual
behavior led to a breakthrough which, along with other researchers findings, established a link between molecular biology and
neuroscience and opened up a fruitful new field of inquiry. Pfaffs
approach is to focus on one solvable problem and explore it from
many angles. His relentless pursuit of his goal continues to inspire
neuroscientists today.
Donald Pfaff is Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior at The
Rockefeller University in New York City and author of Brain
Arousal and Information Theory (Harvard).
May230 pp.cloth$35.00x 27.959780674660311
Science6 1/8 x 9 1/46 halftones, 33 line illus.
Peter H. Raven Kamal Bawa
The collision of the Indian and

Eurasian plates about fifty million years ago profoundly altered
global and regional climates. The
rise of the Himalaya led to intensification of the monsoon, the
birth of massive glaciers and
turbulent rivers, and an efflorescence of ecosystems along the
most extreme elevational gradient on Earth. When the Ice Age
ended, humans became part of
this mix, and today one quarter of
the worlds population inhabits its
river basins. Life in the Himalaya
examines the regions geophysical and biological systems and
explores the past and future of human sustainability in the mountains shadow.
Maharaj Pandit divides Himalayas history into four phases: the formation of the mountain and early ecosystems; human impact, from
nomadic pastoralism to commercial deforestation; human population explosion accompanied by large-scale infrastructure building that degraded ecosystems and accelerated extinctions; and a
future networking phase which holds the promise of sustainable
living within the mountains carrying capacity. Today, the Himalaya
is at risk of catastrophic loss of life, Pandit argues. If humans are to
have a sustainable future there, they will need to better understand
the regions ecological vulnerability. Life in the Himalaya outlines
the mountains past to map a way forward.
Maharaj K. Pandit is Dean, Faculty of Science, and Professor of
Environmental Studies at the University of Delhi, and a Radcliffe
Fellow at Harvard University.
June360 pp.cloth$45.00x 35.959780674971745
Nature / Environmental Studies6 1/8 x 9 1/4
27 halftones, 9 line illus., 6 tables
History Classics Religion
Europes India
Words, People, Empires, 15001800

Sanjay Subrahmanyam
When Portuguese explorers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope and arrived in the subcontinent in the late fifteenth century, Europeans had little direct knowledge of India.
The maritime passage opened new opportunities for exchange of goods as well as ideas.
Traders were joined by ambassadors, missionaries, soldiers, and scholars from Portugal,
England, Holland, France, Italy, and Germany, all hoping to learn about India for reasons
as varied as their particular nationalities and professions. In the following centuries they
produced a body of knowledge about India that significantly shaped European thought.
Europes India tracks Europeans changing ideas of India over the entire early modern
period. Sanjay Subrahmanyam brings his expertise and erudition to bear in exploring the
connection between European representations of India and the fascination with collecting
Indian texts and objects that took root in the sixteenth century. European notions of Indias
history, geography, politics, and religion were strongly shaped by the manuscripts, paintings, and artifactsboth precious and prosaicthat found their way into Western hands.
Subrahmanyam rejects the opposition between true knowledge of India and the selfserving fantasies of European Orientalists. Instead, he shows how knowledge must always
be understood in relation to the concrete circumstances of its production. Europes India
is as much about how the East came to be understood by the West as it is about how India
shaped Europes ideas concerning art, language, religion, and commerce.
Sanjay Subrahmanyam is Distinguished Professor and Irving & Jean Stone Chair in Social
Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of Courtly Encounters:
Translating Courtliness and Violence in Early Modern Eurasia (Harvard).
March 372 pp. cloth $39.95x 31.95 9780674972261
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City on a Hilltop
American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement

Sara Yael Hirschhorn
Since 1967, more than 60,000 Jewish-Americans have settled in
the territories captured by the State of Israel during the Six Day
War. Comprising 15 percent of the settler population today, these
immigrants have established communities, transformed domestic
politics and international relations, and committed shocking acts
of terrorism. They demand attention in both Israel and the United
States, but little is known about who they are and why they chose to
leave America to live at the center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In this deeply researched, engaging work, Sara Yael Hirschhorn
unsettles stereotypes, showing that the 1960s generation who
moved to the occupied territories were not messianic zealots or
right-wing extremists but liberal idealists. They did not abandon
their progressive heritage when they crossed the Green Line.
Rather, they saw a historic opportunity to create new communities that would serve as a beacon to Jews across the globe. This
pioneering vision was realized in their ventures at Yamit in the Sinai
and Efrat and Tekoa in the West Bank. On the fiftieth anniversary
of the 1967 war, Hirschhorn illuminates the changing face of the
settlements and the clash between liberal values and political realities at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Sara Yael Hirschhorn is University Research Lecturer and Sidney
Brichto Fellow in Israel Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies and
Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of
Oxford.
May340 pp.cloth$39.95x 31.959780674975057
History / Politics6 1/8 x 9 1/49 halftones, 3 maps
Jewish Messiahs in a
Christian Empire
A History of the Book of Zerubbabel

Martha Himmelfarb
The seventh-century CE Hebrew

work Sefer Zerubbabel (Book of
Zerubbabel), composed during
the period of conflict between
Persia and the Byzantine Empire
for control over Palestine, is the
first full-fledged messianic narrative in Jewish literature. Martha
Himmelfarb offers a comprehensive analysis of this rich but
understudied text, illuminating
its distinctive literary features and
the complex milieu from which it
arose.
Sefer Zerubbabel presents itself
as an angelic revelation of the end of times and relates a tale of
two messiahs who, as Himmelfarb shows, play a major role in later
Jewish narratives. The first messiah, a descendant of Joseph, dies in
battle. He is restored to life by the triumphant messiah descended
from David. The mother of the Davidic messiah also figures in the
work as a warrior. Himmelfarb places Sefer Zerubbabel in the dual
context of earlier Jewish eschatology and Byzantine Christianity.
The role of the messiahs mother, for example, reflects the Byzantine
notion of the Virgin Mary as the protector of Constantinople. On the
other hand, Sefer Zerubbabel shares traditions about the messiahs
with rabbinic literature. But while the rabbis are ambivalent about
these traditions, Sefer Zerubbabel embraces them with enthusiasm.
Martha Himmelfarb is William H. Danforth Professor of Religion at
Princeton University.
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The Sons of Remus
Identity in Roman Gaul and Spain
The Evolution of Race and Nation in the Hispanic World
Andrew C. Johnston
Antonio Feros
Histories of ancient Rome have
long emphasized the ways in
which the empire assimilated the
societies it conquered, bringing
civilization to the supposed barbarians. Yet interpretations of this
Romanization of Western Europe
inevitably erase local identities
and traditions from the historical
picture, leaving us with an incomplete understanding of the diverse
cultures that flourished in the
provinces far from Rome.
The Sons of Remus recaptures the

experiences, memories, and discourses of these variegated societies. Focusing on Gaul and Spain,
Andrew Johnston explores how the inhabitants of these provinces,
though they adopted Roman customs and authority, never became
exclusively Roman. Their self-representations in literature, inscriptions, and visual art reflect identities rooted in a sense of belonging
to indigenous communities. Provincials performed shifting roles for
different audiences, rehearsing traditions at home, while subverting Roman stereotypes abroad. Balancing their local identities with
their status as Roman subjects, they preserved a cultural memory
of their pre-Roman past and wove their own narratives into Roman
mythology. The Romans saw themselves as the heirs of Romulus,
the legendary founder of the eternal city; from the other brother,
the provincials of the west received a complicated inheritance,
which shaped the history of the sons of Remus.
Andrew C. Johnston is Assistant Professor of Classics and History
at Yale University.
June384 pp.cloth$49.95x 39.959780674660106
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Speaking of Spain
Momentous changes swept Spain

in the fifteenth century. Royal marriage united its two largest kingdoms, the last Muslim emirate fell
to Catholic armies, and conquests
in the Americas were turning Spain
into a great empire. Yet few people
could define Spanishness concretely. Speaking of Spain analyzes
the forces that attempted to transform Spains diverse peoples and
polities into a unified nation.
Antonio Feros traces evolving ideas
of nationhood among educated
elites, who debated whether the
union of Spains kingdoms created a single fatherland or whether
Spain remained a dynastic monarchy comprised of separate
nations. If a unified Spain was emerging, was it a pluralistic nation
or an imposition of the dominant Castilian culture over the rest?
The presence of large communities with Muslim and Jewish ancestors and the colonization of the New World brought issues of race
to the fore. A nascent civic concept of Spanish identity clashed
with a racialist understanding that Spaniards were necessarily
of pure blood and white, unlike converted Jews and Muslims,
Amerindians and Africans. Spaniards gradually settled the most
intractable disputes, and by 1812 when the Constitution of Cadiz
was ratified, almost all people born in Spains territories, whatever
their ethnicity, were Spanish.
Antonio Feros is Associate Professor in the Department of History
at the University of Pennsylvania.
April340 pp.cloth$45.00x 35.959780674045514
Rogue Empires
Letters of Light
Contracts and Conmen in Europes Scramble for Africa
Arabic Script in Calligraphy, Print, and Digital Design
Steven Press
J. R. Osborn
In the 1880s, Europeans grabbed
vast swaths of the African continent, using documents, not guns,
as their weapon of choice. Rogue
Empires follows a paper trail of
questionable contracts to discover the confidence men whose
actions touched off the scramble
for Africa. Many were would-be
kings who sought to establish
their own autonomous empires
across the continentoften at
odds with traditional European
governments which competed for
control.
From 1882 to 1885, independent businessmen and firms (many of

doubtful legitimacy) produced hundreds of deeds purporting to
buy political rights from African leaders whose understanding of
these agreements was usually deemed irrelevant. Steven Press
traces this notion of empire by purchase to the Southeast Asian
island of Borneo, where the English adventurer James Brooke
bought his own kingdom in the 1840s. Brookes example inspired
speculators in Africa to exploit a loophole in international law in
order to assert sovereignty over lands which they then plundered
for profit. Press shows how the whole dubious enterprise came to
a head at the Berlin Conference of 18841885, when King Leopold
of Belgium and the German Chancellor Bismarck embraced rogue
empires as legal precedents for new colonial agendas in the Congo,
Namibia, and Cameroon.
Steven Press is Assistant Professor of History at Stanford
University.
April296 pp.cloth$39.95x 31.959780674971851
Arabic script remains one of the

most widely employed writing
systems in the world, for Arabic
and non-Arabic languages alike.
Focusing on naskhthe style
most commonly used across
the Middle EastLetters of Light
traces the evolution of Arabic
script from its earliest inscriptions
to digital fonts, from calligraphy
to print and beyond. J. R. Osborn
narrates this storied past for historians of the Islamic and Arab
worlds, for students of communication and technology, and for
contemporary practitioners.
The partnership of reed pen and paper during the tenth century
inaugurated a golden age of Arabic writing. The shape and proportions of classical calligraphy known as al-khatt al-mansub were formalized, and variations emerged to suit different types of content.
The rise of movable type quickly led to European experiments in
printing Arabic texts. Ottoman Turkish printers, more sensitive than
Europeans to the scripts nuances, adopted movable type more
cautiously. Debates about reforming Arabic for print technology
persisted into the twentieth century. Programmers in the digital
age have adapted the script to the international Unicode standard,
and technology companies are investing resources into supporting Arabic. Professional designers continue to reinterpret classical
Arabic aesthetics and push new boundaries in digital form.
J. R. Osborn is Assistant Professor of Communication, Culture &
Technology and Co-Director of the Technology Design Studio at
Georgetown University.
May250 pp.cloth$45.00x 35.959780674971127
History / Graphic Arts6 1/8 x 9 1/42 halftones, 24 line illus.
Sold People
Traffickers and Family Life in North China
Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
Johanna S. Ransmeier
Dawn Peterson
A robust trade in human lives thrived

throughout North China during the
late Qing and Republican periods.
Families at all levels of society participated in the market to buy servants,
slaves, concubines, or childrenor
dispose of unwanted household
members. Sold People brings into
focus the complicit dynamic of
human trafficking, including the
social and legal networks that sustained it. Johanna Ransmeier reveals
the extent to which the structure of
the Chinese family encouraged the
buying and selling of men, women, and children.
During his invasion of Creek territory

in 1813, Andrew Jackson discovered
an infant orphaned by his troops.
Moved by unusual sympathy,
Jackson sent the child to be adopted
into his Tennessee plantation household. Through the stories of white
adopters, adopted Indian children,
and their biological parents, Dawn
Peterson opens a window onto the
forgotten history of adoption in early
nineteenth-century America. Indians
in the Family shows the important
role that adoption played in efforts
to subdue Native peoples in the name of nation-building.
Though prohibited during the Qing period, human trafficking was

widely accepted in practice, despite the frequent involvement
of criminals. In 1910, Qing reformers, hoping to usher China into
the community of modern nations, officially abolished the trade,
but police and judicial officials found the law difficult to enforce.
Industrialization, urbanization, and modern transportation created
a breeding ground for commerce in people. After the 1911 revolution, the Republican government similarly struggled to root out
the entrenched practice. Ransmeier draws from untapped archival
sources to recreate the lived experience of human trafficking. Not
always a measure of last resort, the sale of people was a commonplace transaction that built and restructured families as often as it
broke them apart.
As the United States expanded into Indian territories between 1790

and 1830, government officials stressed the importance of assimilating Native peoples into the national family. White slave-holding
planters who adopted Indians saw themselves as part of this expansionist project. They hoped to inculcate in their young charges
American attitudes toward private property, patriarchal family, and
the value of slave labor. Choctaw, Creek, and Chickasaw families
sought to place their sons in white households to be educated in
the ways of American governance and political economy. As adults,
these adopted Indians used their educations to thwart U.S. claims
to their homelands, setting the stage for the struggles that would
culminate in the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
Johanna S. Ransmeier is Assistant Professor of History and the

College at the University of Chicago.
March368 pp.cloth$49.95x 39.959780674971974
History6 1/8 x 9 1/415 halftones, 3 maps, 4 tables
Indians in the Family
Dawn Peterson is Assistant Professor of History at Emory

University.
June346 pp.cloth$39.95x 31.959780674737556
History6 1/8 x 9 1/43 halftones, 4 maps
German Colonial Wars and the

Context of Military Violence
Susanne Kuss
translated by
Andrew Smith
Germany fought three major colonial wars from 1900 to 1908: the
Boxer War in China, the Herero
and Nama War in Southwest
Africa, and the Maji Maji War in
East Africa. Recently, historians
have traced a line from German
atrocities in the colonial sphere
to those committed by the Nazis
during World War II. Susanne Kuss
dismantles such claims, rejecting
the notion that a distinctive military culture or ethos determined
how German forces acted overseas. Despite acts of unquestionable brutality committed by the
Kaisers soldiers, she finds no direct path from Windhoek, site of
the infamous massacre of the Herero people, to Auschwitz.
Belying its reputation for Teutonic efficiency, Germany did not
possess a professional colonial army. Its soldiersunlike those of
France and Great Britainwere a motley mix of volunteers, sailors, mercenaries, and native recruits with different training and
motivations. Germanys military conduct was improvisational and
haphazard, and the violence its soldiers employed was determined
by local conditionsgeography, climate, the size and capabilities
of opposing native populations. As German Colonial Wars and the
Context of Military Violence demonstrates persuasively, a deliberate policy of genocide did not guide Germanys conduct of operations in Africa and China.
The Invention of Humanity
Equality and Cultural Difference in World History

Siep Stuurman
Stuurman writes with great clarity and authority. He is judicious,

insightful, and often thinks against the grain.
Darrin M. McMahon, Dartmouth College
For much of history, strangers
were seen as barbarians, seldom
as fellow human beings. The notion
of common humanity had to be
invented. Siep Stuurman traces
evolving ideas of human equality
and difference across continents
and civilizations from ancient times
to the present.
Despite humans deeply ingrained
bias against strangers, migration
and cultural blending have shaped
human experience from the earliest times. As travelers crossed
frontiers and came into contact with unfamiliar peoples and customs, frontier experiences generated not only hostility but also
empathy and understanding. Drawing on the views of a global mix
of thinkersHomer, Confucius, Herodotus, the medieval Muslim
scholar Ibn Khaldun, the Haitian writer Antenor Firmin, the Filipino
nationalist Jose Rizal, and moreThe Invention of Humanity surveys
the great civilizational frontiers of history, from the interaction of
nomadic and sedentary societies in ancient Eurasia and Africa, to
Europeans first encounters with the indigenous peoples of the
New World, to the Enlightenment invention of universal modern
equality. Against a backdrop of two millennia of thinking about
common humanity and equality, Stuurman concludes with a discussion of present-day debates about human rights and the clash
of civilizations.
Susanne Kuss is Privatdozentin at the University of Bern.

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Siep Stuurman is Emeritus Professor of the History of Ideas at

Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
Marriage and the Law in the

Age of Khubilai Khan
Cases from the Yuan dianzhang
Clerical Households in Late

Medieval Italy
Roisin Cossar
Bettine Birge
The Mongol conquest of China in
the thirteenth century and Khubilai
Khans founding of the Yuan
dynasty brought together under
one government people of different languages, religions, and social
customs. Chinese law evolved rapidly to accommodate these changes,
as reflected in the great compendium Yuan dianzhang (Statutes and
Precedents of the Yuan Dynasty).
The legal cases contained in this
seminal text paint a portrait of
medieval Chinese family life that is
unmatched by any other historical source.
Marriage and the Law in the Age of Khubilai Khan reveals the complex, contradictory inner workings of the Mongol-Yuan legal system,
seen through the prism of marriage disputes. Bettine Birges meticulously annotated translation clarifies the meaning of passages,
some in hybrid Sino-Mongolian, that have eluded scholars for generations. The text includes court testimony in lawsuitsrecorded
in the vivid vernacular of people from all social classesover adultery, divorce, rape, wife-selling, runaway slave marriages, and other
conflicts. It brings us closer than any other source to the actual
Mongolian speech of Khubilai and the great khans who succeeded
him as they struggled to reconcile very different Mongol, Muslim,
and Chinese legal traditions and confront the challenges of ruling a
diverse polyethnic empire.
Bettine Birge is Associate Professor at the University of Southern
California in the Department of East Asian Languages and
Cultures with a joint appointment in the Department of History.
Roisin Cossar brings a new perspective to the history of the Christian

church in late medieval Italy, as
she examines how clerics managed
efforts to reform their domestic lives
in the decades after the arrival of the
Black Death. Despite church reformers desire for clerics to remain celibate, clerical households resembled
those of the laity to a surprising
degree. The phases of priests lives
closely followed those of their lay
contemporaries, including apprenticeships in their youth, fatherhood
in middle age, and reliance on their families in old age.
Priests fully embraced their status as masters of household servants and even slaves. They used their legal knowledge to protect their female companions and children against a church that
frowned on such domestic arrangements and actively sought to
stamp them out. Clerical Households in Late Medieval Italy refutes
the longstanding charge that the clergy were corrupt, living licentious lives that failed to uphold priestly obligations. In fashioning
a domestic culture that responded flexibly to their own needs,
priests tempered the often unrealistic expectations of their superiors. Their response to the rigid demands of church reform allowed
the church to maintain itself during a period of crisis and transition
in European history.
Roisin Cossar is Associate Professor in the Department of History
at the University of Manitoba.
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I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
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History6 1/8 x 9 1/46 halftones, 4 maps, 6 charts
Loeb Classical Library
JEFFREY HENDERSON, general editor founded by JAMES LOEB, 1911
History of Rome
Volume IX Books 3134

Livy
J. C. Yardley
with an introduction by
Dexter Hoyos
Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman
historian, was born at Patavium
(Padua) in 64 or 59 BC, where after
years in Rome he died in AD 12 or
17. Livys history, composed as the
imperial autocracy of Augustus was
replacing the republican system
that had stood for over 500 years,
presents in splendid style a vivid
narrative of Romes rise from the
traditional foundation of the city in
753 or 751 BC to 9 BC and illustrates
the collective and individual virtues
necessary to achieve and maintain
such greatness.
Of its 142 books, conventionally divided into pentads and decads,

we have 110 and 2145 complete, and short summaries (periochae)
of all the rest except 41 and 4345; 1120 are lost, and of the rest
only fragments and the summaries remain. The fourth decad
comprises two recognizable pentads: Books 3135 narrate
the Second Macedonian War (200196) and its aftermath,
then Books 3640 the years from 191 to 180, when Rome
crushed and shrank Antiochus empire to extend and consolidate her mastery over the Hellenistic states. This edition
replaces the original Loeb edition by Evan T. Sage.
J. C. Yardley is Professor of Classics, Emeritus, at the University of
Ottawa. Dexter Hoyos is Honorary Associate in the Department of
Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney.
June 680 pp. cloth $26.00 16.95 9780674997059
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Apologia. Florida.
De Deo Socratis
Apuleius
Christopher P. Jones
Apuleius, one of the great stylists of

Latin literature, was born ca. 125 AD
in Madauros to a politically prominent family and received an elite
education in the provincial capital Carthage and at Athens, where
he began a lifelong allegiance to
Platonic philosophy. In the later
150s, he married Pudentilla of Oea,
a wealthy widow, and seems to
have enjoyed a distinguished public
career in Africa and perhaps as an
advocate in Rome.
Although Apuleius is best known for
his picaresque novel Metamorphoses
or The Golden Ass (LCL 44, 453), he also wrote and declaimed on
a wide variety of subjects. This edition contains the other surviving works of Apuleius that are considered genuine. Apologia is
a speech in which Apuleius defends himself against in-laws
who had accused him of having used sinister means,
including magic, to induce Pudentilla to marry him. The
Florida is a collection of twenty-three excerpts from
speeches by Apuleius. De Deo Socratis (On Socrates
God) locates Socrates invisible guide and protector
(daimonion) within the more general concept of daimones
as forces intermediary between gods and humans.
This edition, new to the Loeb Classical Library, offers fresh translations and texts based on the best critical editions.
Christopher P. Jones is Ge o rge Martin Lane Professor of the
Classics and of History, Emeritus, at Harvard University.
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Loeb Classical Library
Euthyphro. Apology.
Crito. Phaedo
Orations, Volume I
Plato
Chris Emlyn-Jones William Preddy
Plato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks among its greatest practitioners, was born to a prosperous
and politically active family circa
427 BC. In early life an admirer of
Socrates, Plato later founded the
first institution of higher learning
in the West, the Academy, among
whose many notable alumni was
Aristotle. Traditionally ascribed
to Plato are thirty-five dialogues
developing Socrates dialectic
method and composed with great
stylistic virtuosity, together with
the Apology and thirteen letters.
The four works in this volume
recount the circumstances of
Socrates trial and execution in
399 BC. In Euthyphro, set in the weeks before the trial, Socrates and
Euthyphro attempt to define holiness. In Apology, Socrates answers
his accusers at trial and unapologetically defends his philosophical career. In Crito, a discussion of justice and injustice explains
Socrates refusal of Critos offer to finance his escape from prison.
And in Phaedo, Socrates discusses the concept of an afterlife and
offers arguments for the immortality of the soul. This edition, which
replaces the original Loeb edition by Harold North Fowler, offers
text, translation, and annotation that are fully current with modern
scholarship.
Chris Emlyn-Jones is Emeritus Professor of Classical Studies, The
Open University (UK). William Preddy is Retired Head of Classics,
Oakham School, Rutland (UK).
Aelius Aristides
Michael Trapp
Publius Aelius Aristides Theodorus was among the most

celebrated authors of the Second Sophistic and an important figure in the transmission of Hellenism. Born to wealthy
landowners in Mysia in 117, he studied in Athens and
Pergamum before he fell chronically ill in the early 140s and
retreated to Pergamums healing
shrine of Asclepius. By 147 Aristides
was able to resume his public
activities and pursue a successful oratorical career. Based at his
family estate in Smyrna, he traveled between bouts of illness and
produced speeches and lectures,
declamations on historical themes,
polemical works, prose hymns, and
various essays, all of it displaying
deep and creative familiarity with
the classical literary heritage. He
died between 180 and 185.
This edition of Aristides, new to the Loeb Classical Library, offers
fresh translations and texts based on the critical editions of LenzBehr (Orations 116) and Keil (Orations 1753). Volume I contains the
Panathenaic Oration, a historical appreciation of classical Athens
and Aristides most influential work, and A Reply to Plato, the first
of three essays taking issue with the attack on orators and oratory
delivered in Platos Gorgias.
Michael Trapp is Professor of Greek Literature and Thought at
Kings College London.
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The I Tatti Renaissance Library
JAMES HANKINS, general editor
SHANE BUTLER LEAH WHITTINGTON, ASSOCIATE EDITORS ORNELLA ROSSI ARIANE SCHWARTZ, ASSISTANT EDITORS
Against the Jews and the Gentiles

Books IIV
Giannozzo Manetti
edited by
Stefano U. Baldassarri Daniela Pagliara
translated by
David Marsh
Giannozzo Manetti (13961459) was a celebrated humanist orator, historian, philosopher, and scholar of the early Renaissance. Son of a wealthy
Florentine merchant, he participated actively in the public life of the
Florentine republic and embraced the new humanist scholarship of the
quattrocento, oriented to the service of the state and the reform of religion. Mastering not only classical Latin but also Greek and Hebrew, he
gained access to a whole library of sources previously unknown in the Latin West. Among
the fruits of his studies is his treatise Against the Jews and the Gentiles, an apologia for
Christianity in ten books that redefines religion in terms of true piety, and relates the
historical development of the pagan and Jewish religions to the life of Jesus. The present
volume includes the first critical edition of Books IIV, together with the first translation of
those books into any modern language.
Stefano U. Baldassarri is Director at the International Studies Institute (Palazzo Rucellai),
Florence. Daniela Pagliara is a research associate at the University of Pescara. David
Marsh is Professor of Italian at Rutgers University.
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The I Tatti Renaissance Library
SHANE BUTLER LEAH WHITTINGTON, ASSOCIATE EDITORS ORNELLA ROSSI ARIANE SCHWARTZ, ASSISTANT EDITORS
Commentary on Plotinus
Genealogy of the Pagan Gods
Volume 4 Ennead III Part 1
Volume 2 Books VIX
Marsilio Ficino
Giovanni Boccaccio
Stephen E. Gersh
Marsilio Ficino (14331499) was the

leading Platonic philosopher of the
Renaissance and is generally recognized as the greatest authority on
ancient Platonism before modern
times. Among his greatest accomplishments as a scholar was his 1492
Latin translation of the complete
works of Plotinus (204270 CE), the
founder of Neoplatonism. The 1492
edition also contained an immense
commentary that remained for centuries the principle introduction to
Plotinuss works for Western scholars. At the same time, it constitutes a major statement of Ficinos
own late metaphysics. The I Tatti edition, planned in six volumes,
contains the first modern edition of the Latin text and the first translation into any modern language. The present volume also contains
an extensive analytical study of Ficinos interpretation of Plotinuss
Third Ennead.
Stephen E. Gersh is Professor of Medieval Studies at the
University of Notre Dame.
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Jon Solomon
Genealogy of the Pagan Gods by
Giovanni Boccaccio (13131375) is
an ambitious work of humanistic
scholarship whose goal is to plunder
ancient and medieval literary sources
so as to create a massive synthesis
of Greek and Roman mythology. The
work also contains a famous defense
of the value of studying ancient
pagan poetry in a Christian world.
The complete work in fifteen books

contains a meticulously organized
genealogical tree identifying approximately 950 Greco-Roman mythological figures. The scope is enormous: 723 chapters include
over a thousand citations from 200 Greek, Roman, medieval, and
Trecento authors. Throughout the Genealogy, Boccaccio deploys
an array of allegorical, historical, and philological critiques of the
ancient myths and their iconography.
Much more than a mere compilation of pagan myths, the Genealogy
incorporates hundreds of excerpts from and comments on ancient
poetry, illustrative of the new spirit of philological and cultural
inquiry emerging in the early Renaissance. It is at once the most
ambitious work of literary scholarship of the early Renaissance and
a demonstration to contemporaries of the moral and cultural value
of studying ancient poetry.
Jon Solomon is Robert D. Novak Professor of Western Civilization
and Culture and Professor of the Classics and of Cinema Studies,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
JAN M. ZIOLKOWSKI, general editor
DANIEL DONOGHUE, OLD ENGLISH EDITOR DANUTA SHANZER, MEDIEVAL LATIN EDITOR ALICE-MARY TALBOT, BYZANTINE GREEK EDITOR
Christian Novels from the

Menologion
Poems
Symeon Metaphrastes
Michael Roberts
Stratis Papaioannou
Created in the tenth century, most
likely as an imperial commission, the Menologion is a collection of rewritings of saints lives
originally intended to be read at
services for Christian feast days.
Yet Symeon Metaphrastess stories also abound in transgression
and violence, punishment and
redemption, love and miracles.
They resemble Greek novels of the
first centuries of the Common Era,
highlighting intense emotions and
focusing on desire, both sacred
and profane.
Symeon Metaphrastes was celebrated for rescuing martyrdom

accounts and saints biographies that otherwise may have been
lost. His Menologion, among the most important Byzantine works,
represents the culmination of a well-established tradition of Greek
Christian storytelling. A landmark of Byzantine religious and literary culture, the Menologion was revered for centuriescopied in
hundreds of manuscripts, recited publicly, and adapted into other
medieval languages. This edition presents the first English translation of six Christian novels excerpted from Symeons text, all of
them featuring women who defy social expectations.
Stratis Papaioannou is Associate Professor of Classics at Brown
University.
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Venantius Fortunatus
The eleven books of poetry by

Venantius Fortunatus include wellloved hymns, figure poems, epigrams on miracles, and elegies in
the voices of abandoned or exiled
women. The sixth-century poet
began his career in northern Italy
before moving to Gaul, where
he wrote for the remainder of
his lifepraising kings and elites
of the Merovingian dynasty and
describing the natural scenery
and society of his adopted homeland during the transition from
late antiquity to the early Middle
Ages. In his lively and inventive style, Fortunatus also addressed
verses to religious figures such as his patron Gregory of Tours and
to holy women such as Radegund, founder of the Convent of the
Holy Cross in Poitiers, and Agnes, the Convents first abbess.
Fortunatuss imaginative metaphors and
wry, self-mocking humor ensure his place
in the canon of Christian Latin poets.
This volume presents for the first time in
English translation all of his poetry, apart
from a single long saints life in verse.
Michael Roberts is Robert Rich Professor of Latin at Wesleyan
University.
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Distributed Books
San Lorenzo
A Florentine Church
edited by
Robert W. Gaston Louis A. Waldman
This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection illuminates many previously unexplored aspects of the Basilica of San Lorenzos history, extending from its Early
Christian foundation to the modern era. Brunelleschis rebuilt Basilica, the center of
liturgical patronage of the Medici and their grand-ducal successors until the nineteenth century, is today one of the most frequently studied churches in Florence.
Modern research has tended, however, to focus on the remarkable art and architecture from ca. 14001600.
In this wide-ranging collection, scholars investigate: the urban setting of the church
and its parish; San Lorenzos relations with other ecclesiastical institutions; the genesis of individual major buildings of the complex and their decorations; the clergy,
chapels, and altars; the chapters administration and financial structure; lay and clerical patronage; devotional furnishings, music, illuminated liturgical manuscripts, and
preaching; as well as the annual or ephemeral festal practices on the site. Each contribution offers a profound exploration of its topic, wide-ranging in its chronological
scope. One encounters here fresh archival research, the publication of relevant documents, and critical assessments of the historiography. San Lorenzo is represented in
this volume as a living Florentine institution, continually reshaped by complex historical forces.
Robert W. Gaston is Associate Professor and Principal Fellow, Art History, School
of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. Louis A. Waldman is
Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas
at Austin.
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Honored and Dishonored Guests
Osaka Modern
Westerners in Wartime Japan
The City in the Japanese Imaginary
W. Puck Brecher
Michael P. Cronin
The brutality and racial hatred

exhibited by Japans military during the Pacific War piqued outrage
in the West and fanned resentments throughout Asia. Public
understanding of Japans wartime
atrocities, however, often fails to
differentiate the racial agendas of
its military and government elites
from the racial values held by the
Japanese people. While not denying brutalities committed by the
Japanese military, Honored and
Dishonored Guests overturns these
standard narratives and demonstrates rather that Japans racial
attitudes during wartime are more accurately discerned in the
treatment of Western civilians living in Japan than the experiences
of enemy POWs.
Images of the city in literature

and film help constitute the experience of modern life. Studies of
the Japanese city have focused on
Tokyo, but a fuller understanding of
urban space and life requires analysis of other cities, beginning with
Osaka. Japans merchant capital
in the late sixteenth century, Osaka
remained an industrial centerthe
Manchester of the Eastinto the
1930s, developing a distinct urban
culture to rival Tokyos. It therefore
represents a critical site of East
Asian modernity. Osaka Modern
maps the city as imagined in
Japanese popular culture from the 1920s to the 1950s, a city that
betrayed the workings of imperialism and asserted an urban identity alternative toeven subversive ofnational identity.
The book chronicles Western communities in wartime Japan, using

this body of experiences to reconsider allegations of Japanese racism and racial hatred. Its bold thesis is borne out by a broad mosaic
of stories from dozens of foreign families and individuals who variously endured police harassment, suspicion, relocation, starvation,
denaturalization, internment, and torture, as well as extraordinary
acts of charity. The books account of stranded Westernersfrom
Tokyo, Yokohama, and Kobe to the mountain resorts of Karuizawa
and Hakoneyields a unique interpretation of race relations and
wartime life in Japan.
Osaka Modern brings an appreciation of this imagined citys

emphatic locality to: popular novels by Tanizaki Junichiro, favorite son Oda Sakunosuke, and best-seller Yamasaki Toyoko; films by
Toyoda Shiro and Kawashima Yuzo; and contemporary radio, television, music, and comedy. Its interdisciplinary approach creates
intersections between Osaka and various theoretical concerns
everyday life, coloniality, masculinity, translationto produce not
only a fresh appreciation of key works of literature and cinema, but
also a new focus for these widely-used critical approaches.
W. Puck Brecher is Associate Professor of Japanese History at

Washington State University.
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Harvard East Asian Monographs
Michael P. Cronin is Assistant Professor of Japanese at the

College of William and Mary.
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Aesthetic Life
Beauty and Art in Modern Japan

Miya Elise Mizuta Lippit
This study of modern Japan
engages the fields of art history,
literature, and cultural studies,
seeking to understand how the
beautiful woman (bijin) emerged
as a symbol of Japanese culture
during the Meiji period (1868
1912). With origins in the formative period of modern Japanese
art and aesthetics, the figure of
the bijin appeared across a broad
range of visual and textual media:
photographs, illustrations, prints,
and literary works, as well as fictional, critical, and journalistic
writing. It eventually constituted a genre of painting called bijinga
(paintings of beauties).
Aesthetic Life examines the contributions of writers, artists, scholars, critics, journalists, and politicians to the discussion of the
bijin and to the production of a national discourse on standards
of Japanese beauty and art. As Japan worked to establish its place
in the world, it actively presented itself as an artistic nation based
on these ideals of feminine beauty. The book explores this exemplary figure for modern Japanese aesthetics and analyzes how the
deceptively ordinary image of the beautiful Japanese womanan
iconic image that persists to this daywas cultivated as a national
treasure, synonymous with Japanese culture.
Miya Elise Mizuta Lippit is Adjunct Assistant Professor of East
Asian Languages and Cultures and Art History at the University of
Southern California.
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Making History Matter
Kuroita Katsumi and the Construction of

Imperial Japan
Lisa Yoshikawa
Making History Matter explores the
role history and historians played in
imperial Japans nation and empire
building from the 1890s to the
1930s. As ideological architects
of this process, leading historians wrote and rewrote narratives
that justified the expanding realm.
Learning from their Prussian counterparts, they highlighted their
empiricist methodology and their
scholarly standpoint, to authenticate their perspective and to distinguish themselves from competing
discourses. Simultaneously, historians affirmed imperial myths that helped bolster statist authoritarianism domestically and aggressive expansionism abroad. In so
doing, they aligned politically with illiberal national leaders who
provided funding and other support necessary to nurture the modern discipline of history. By the 1930s, the field was thriving and
historians were crucial actors in nationwide commemorations and
historical enterprises.
Through a close reading of vast, multilingual sources, with a focus
on Kuroita Katsumi, Yoshikawa argues that scholarship and politics
were inseparable as Japans historical profession developed. In the
process of making history matter, historians constructed a national
past to counter growing interwar liberalism. This outlookwhich
continues as the historical perspective that the Liberal Democratic
Party leadership embracesultimately justified the Japanese
aggressions during the Asia-Pacific Wars.
Lisa Yoshikawa is Associate Professor of History and Asian
Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
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Chinese Literary Forms in

Heian Japan
Poetics and Practice
Brian Steininger
Written Chinese served as a prestigious, cosmopolitan script across
medieval East Asia, from as far
west as the Tarim Basin to the
eastern kingdom of Heian period
Japan (7941185). In this book,
Brian Steininger revisits the midHeian court of the Tale of Genji
and the Pillow Book, where literary
Chinese was not only the basis of
official administration, but also a
medium for political protest, sermons of mourning, and poems of
celebration.
Chinese Literary Forms in Heian
Japan reconstructs the lived practice of Chinese poetic and prose
genres among Heian officials, analyzing the material exchanges by
which documents were commissioned, the local reinterpretations
of Tang aesthetic principles, and the ritual venues in which literary Chinese texts were performed in Japanese vocalization. Even as
state ideology and educational institutions proclaimed the Chinese
scripts embodiment of timeless cosmological patterns, everyday
practice in this far-flung periphery subjected classical models to
a string of improvised exceptions. Through careful comparison of
literary and documentary sources, this book provides a vivid case
study of one societys negotiation of literatures positionboth
within a hierarchy of authority and between the incommensurable
realms of script and speech.
A Passage to China
Literature, Loyalism, and Colonial Taiwan

Chien-hsin Tsai
This book, the first of its kind in
English, examines the reinvention of loyalism in colonial Taiwan
through the lens of literature. It
analyzes the ways in which writers from colonial Taiwanincluding Qiu Fengjia, Lian Heng, Wu
Zhuoliu, and otherscreatively
and selectively employed loyalist ideals to cope with Japanese
colonialism and its many institutional changes. In the process,
these writers redefined their relationship with China and Chinese
culture.
Drawing attention to select authors lesser-known works, author
Chien-hsin Tsai provides a new assessment of well-studied historical and literary materials and a nuanced overview of literary and
cultural productions in colonial Taiwan. During and after Japanese
colonialism, the islanders perception of loyalism, sense of belonging, and self-identity dramatically changed. Tsai argues that the
changing tradition of loyalism unexpectedly complicates Taiwans
tie to China, rather than unquestionably reinforces it, and presents
a new line of inquiry for future studies of modern Chinese and
Sinophone literature.
Chien-hsin Tsai is Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Society
and Culture at University of Texas at Austin.
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Brian Steininger is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at

Princeton University.
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Bannermen Tales (Zidishu)
Manchu Storytelling and Cultural Hybridity in the

Qing Dynasty
Elena Suet-Ying Chiu
Bannermen Tales is the first book
in English to offer a comprehensive study of zidishu (bannermen
tales)a
popular
storytelling
genre created by the Manchus in
early eighteenth-century Beijing.
Contextualizing zidishu in Qing
dynasty Beijing, this book examines both bilingual (ManchuChinese) and pure Chinese texts,
recalls performance venues and
features, and discusses their circulation and reception into the
early twentieth century.
To go beyond readily available texts, author Elena Chiu engaged

in intensive fieldwork and archival research, examining approximately four hundred hand-copied and printed zidishu texts housed
in libraries in Mainland China, Taiwan, Germany, and Japan. Guided
by theories of minority literature, cultural studies, and intertextuality, Chiu explores both the Han and Manchu cultures in the Qing
dynasty through bannermen tales, and argues that they exemplified elements of Manchu cultural hybridization in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries while simultaneously attempting to validate and perpetuate the superiority of Manchu identity.
With its original translations, musical score, and numerous illustrations of hand-copied and printed zidishu texts, this study opens a
new window into Qing literature and provides a broader basis for
evaluating the process of cultural hybridization.
Elena Suet-Ying Chiu is Associate Professor of History at the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Upriver Journeys
Diaspora and Empire in Southern China, 15701850

Steven B. Miles
Tracing journeys of Cantonese
migrants along the West River and
its tributaries, this book describes
the circulation of people through
one of the worlds great river systems between the late sixteenth and
mid-nineteenth centuries. Steven B.
Miles examines the relationship
between diaspora and empire in
an upriver frontier, and the role of
migration in sustaining families and
lineages in the homeland of what
would become a global diaspora.
Based on archival research and multisite fieldwork, this innovative history of mobility explores a set of diasporic practices ranging from
the manipulation of household registration requirements to the
maintenance of split families.
Many of the institutions and practices that facilitated overseas
migration were not adaptations of tradition to transnational modernity; rather, they emerged in the early modern era within the context of riverine migration. Likewise, the extension and consolidation
of empire required not only unidirectional frontier settlement and
sedentarization of indigenous populations. It was also responsible for the regular circulation between homeland and frontier of
people who drove imperial expansioneven while turning imperial
aims toward their own purposes of socioeconomic advancement.
Steven B. Miles is Associate Professor of History at Washington
University in St. Louis.
History6 x 911 maps, 1 table
Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
July330 pp.cloth$49.95x 39.959780674975194

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Sound and Scent in the Garden

edited by
D. Fairchild Ruggles
While we often approach gardens as things to be seenthus
engaging the rational, intellectual part of the human brain
Sound and Scent in the Garden
explores the more elusive experiences of sound and smell.
These senses are important
dimensions of garden design
and performance and often
have a powerful effect on the
human body, yet they may also
be ephemeral and difficult to
study.
The contributors to the volume explore the sensory experience of

gardens specifically as places where people encounter landscape
in a staged manner, as a result of intentional design. How do the
senses shape the experience of those places? In what ways are
plants, gardens, and landscapes produced so as to stimulate the
senses? What evidence do we have of historical sensory experiences? What is lost when we forget to acknowledge the sensory
environment of the past or simply overlook its traces?
The volume demonstrates a wide variety of approaches to apply to
the study of sensory history and illuminates this important dimension of the experience of gardenspast and present, East and West.
D. Fairchild Ruggles is Professor in the Department of Landscape
Architecture at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
May368 pp.cloth$65.00x 51.959780884024224
History / Landscape Architecture8 1/2 x 11113 halftones and
color photos, 13 color illus., 4 line illus. Dumbarton Oaks
Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture
Visualizing Community
Art, Material Culture, and Settlement in
Byzantine Cappadocia
Robert G. Ousterhout
Cappadocia, a picturesque volcanic region of central Anatolia,
preserves the best evidence of
daily life in the Byzantine Empire
and yet remains remarkably
understudied, better known to
tourists than to scholars. The
area preserves an abundance
of physical remains: at least a
thousand rock-cut churches or
chapels, of which more than
one-third retain significant elements of their painted decoration, as well as monasteries,
houses, entire towns and villages, underground refuges, agricultural installations, storage facilities, hydrological interventions, and
countless other examples of non-ecclesiastical architecture. In
dramatic contrast to its dearth of textual evidence, Cappadocia is
unrivaled in the Byzantine world for its material culture.
Based upon the close analysis of material and visual residues,
Visualizing Community offers a critical reassessment of the story
and historiography of Byzantine Cappadocia, with chapters
devoted to its architecture and painting, as well as to its secular
and spiritual landscapes. In the absence of a written record, it may
never be possible to write a traditional history of the region, but,
as Robert Ousterhout shows, it is possible to visualize the kinds of
communities that once formed the living landscape of Cappadocia.
Robert G. Ousterhout is Professor in the Department of the
History of Art and Director of the Center for Ancient Studies at
the University of Pennsylvania.
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Painted Words
Nahua Catholicism, Politics, and Memory in the

Atzaqualco Pictorial Catechism
Elizabeth Hill Boone Louise M. Burkhart
David Tavrez
Painted Words presents a facsimile,
decipherment, and analysis of a
seventeenth-century pictographic
catechism from colonial Mexico,
preserved as Fonds Mexicain 399
at the Bibliothque Nationale de
France. Works in this genre present the Catholic catechism in
pictures that were read sign by
sign as aids to memorization and
oral performance. They have long
been understood as a product of
the experimental techniques of
early evangelization, but this study
shows that they are better understood as indigenous expressions
of devotional knowledge.
In addition to inventive pictography to recount the catechism,
this manuscript features Nahuatl texts that focus on don Pedro
Moteuczoma, son of the Mexica ruler Moteuczoma the Younger,
and his home, San Sebastin Atzaqualco. Other glosses identify figures drawn within the manuscript as Nahua and Spanish historical
personages, as if the catechism had been repurposed as a dynastic
record. The end of the document displays a series of Nahua and
Spanish heraldic devices. These combined pictorial and alphabetic
expressions form a spectacular example of how colonial pictographers created innovative text genres, through which they reimagined pre-Columbian writing and early evangelization.
Elizabeth Hill Boone is Martha and Donald Robertson Chair in
Latin American Art at Tulane University. Louise M. Burkhart is
Professor of Anthropology at SUNY, Albany. David Tavrez is
Professor of Anthropology at Vassar College.
Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 70

edited by
Margaret Mullett Michael Maas
In this issue: Przemysaw Marciniak, Reinventing Lucian in

Byzantium; Byron MacDougall, Gregory Thaumaturgus: A Platonic
Lawgiver; Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, The Stone the Builders
Rejected: Liturgical and Exegetical Irrelevancies in the Piacenza
Pilgrim; Roland Betancourt, Why Sight Is Not Touch: Reconsidering
the Tactility of Vision in Byzantium; Aglae Pizzone, Audiences
and Emotions in Eustathios of Thessalonikes Commentaries on
Homer; Heta Bjrklund, Classical Traces of Metamorphosis in
the Byzantine Hystera Formula; Charis Messis, Les voix littraires
des eunuques: genre et identit
du soi Byzance; Anne Caudano,
These Are the Only Four Seas:
The World Map of Bologna,
University Library, Codex 3632;
Niels Gaul, All the Emperors
Men (and His Nephews): Paideia
and Networking Strategies at the
Court of Andronikos II Palaiologos,
12901320; Christopher Wright,
Constantinople and the Coup
dtat in Palaiologan Byzantium;
Nicholas Warner, The Architecture
of the Red Monastery Church (Dayr
Anb Biy) in Egypt: An Evolving
Anatomy; Ilene H. Forsyth with Elizabeth Sears, George H. Forsyth
and the Sacred Fortress at Sinai; Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann, A
Newly Acquired Gospel Manuscript at Dumbarton Oaks (DO MS 5):
Codicological and Paleographic Description and Analysis.
Margaret Mullett is Director of the Byzantine Studies Program,
Emerita, at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.
Michael Maas is Director of Byzantine Studies at the Dumbarton
Oaks Research Library and Collection.
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History / Art8 1/2 x 11Dumbarton Oaks Papers
February400 pp.paper$69.95x 55.959780884024187

History / Religion7 3/4 x 10 1/228 color illus., 3 line illus., 4 tables,
64-page color insertPre-Columbian Art and Archaeology
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The Tears of Achilles
Equine Poetics
Hlne Monsacr
Ryan Platte
translated by
Nicholas J. Snead
with an introduction by
Equine Poetics is a literary analysis of horses and horsemanship in

early Greek epic and lyric poetry,
especially those facets that reflect
the prehistory of Greek language
and culture.
Richard P. Martin
Achilleswarrior and heroby
the protocols of Western culture,
should never cry. And yet Homeric
epic is full of his tears and those
of his companions at Troy. This
path-blazing study by Hlne
Monsacr shows how later ideals
of stoically inexpressive manhood
run contrary to the poetic vision
presented in the Iliad and Odyssey.
The epic protagonists, as largerthan-life figures who transcend
gender categories, are precisely
the men most likely to weep.
Monsacr pursues the paradox of

the tearful fighter through a series of lucid and detailed close readings, and examines all aspects of the interactions between men
and women in the Homeric poems. Her illuminating analysis, first
published in French in 1984, remains bold, fresh, and compelling
for anyone touchedlike Achillesby a world of grief.
The book begins with Ryan Plattes

analysis of Homeric formulas for
horses, proposing a model by
which most such formulas may
be understood as members of a
single verbal network, with roots
in preliterate antiquity. He then
considers the poetic relationship
between horses and humans,
leading to an analysis of the figure of the metapoetic charioteer.
Finally, the work compares myths featuring chariot races and bridal
contests, focusing on the supposed mythological inventiveness of
Pindars Olympian 1.
Hlne Monsacr is Director of Sciences humaines for ditions

Albin Michel, Paris.
Platte develops a methodology rooted in oral verse mechanics to

understand contest-based mythical parallels that have defied easy
historical explanationsin Greece and beyond. Drawing from the
fields of comparative poetics and historical linguistics, Equine
Poetics sheds new light on fascinating and puzzling aspects of
these central figures in early Greek verbal art.
May225 pp.paper$22.50x 17.959780674975682

Classics / Literature6 x 9Hellenic Studies Series
Ryan Platte is Associate Professor of Instruction in Classics and

Director of Greek Instruction at Northwestern University.
April200 pp.paper$19.95x 15.959780674975705
Classics / Literature6 x 9Hellenic Studies Series
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The Singer of Tales

Third Edition
Albert B. Lord
edited by
edited by
David F. Elmer
Pernille Hermann Stephen A. Mitchell
Jens Peter Schjdt Amber J. Rose
First published in 1960, Albert B.

Lords The Singer of Tales remains
the fundamental study of the distinctive techniques and aesthetics
of oral epic poetry. Based upon
pathbreaking fieldwork conducted
in the 1930s and 1950s among oral
epic singers of Bosnia, Croatia, and
Serbia, Lord analyzes in impressive detail the techniques of oral
composition in performance. He
explores the consequences of this
analysis for the interpretation of
numerous works of traditional verbal art, includingin addition to
South Slavic epic songsthe Homeric Iliad and Odyssey, Beowulf,
the Chanson de Roland, and the Byzantine epic Digenis Akritas. A
cardinal text for the study of oral traditions, The Singer of Tales also
represents an exemplary use of the comparative method in literary
criticism.
This third edition offers a corrected text of the second edition and
is supplemented by an open-access website (in lieu of the second
editions CD-ROM), providing all the recordings discussed by Lord,
as well as a variety of other multimedia materials.
David F. Elmer is Professor of the Classics and Associate Curator
of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature at Harvard
University.
June350 pp.paper$24.50x 19.959780674975736
Classics / Literature6 x 91 halftone
Publications of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature
Old Norse Mythology

Comparative Perspectives
Old Norse mythology is elusive: it

is the label used to describe the
religious stories of the pre-Christian North, featuring such wellknown gods as Odin and Thor, yet
most of the narratives have come
down to us in manuscripts from
the Middle Ages mainly written by
Christians. Our view of the stories
as they were transmitted in oral
form in the pre-Christian era is
obscured.
To overcome these limitations,
this book assembles comparisons
from a range of theoretical and analytical perspectivesacross
media, cultures, and disciplines. Fifteen scholars from a wide range
of fields examine the similarities of and differences of the Old Norse
mythologies with the myths of other cultures. The differences and
similarities within the Old Norse corpus itself are examined to tease
out the hidden clues to the original stories.
Pernille Hermann is Associate Professor of Scandinavian
Studies at Aarhus University. Stephen A. Mitchell is Professor
of Scandinavian and Folklore at Harvard University. Jens Peter
Schjdt is Associate Professor of the History of Religions at
Aarhus University. Amber J. Rose is a doctoral candidate at the
University of WisconsinMadison.
June570 pp.paper$29.95x 23.959780674975699
Classics / Literature6 x 927 halftones
Publications of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature
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Kinyras
The Divine Lyre

John Curtis Franklin
Kinyras, in Greco-Roman sources,
is the central culture-hero of early
Cyprus: legendary king, metallurge, Agamemnons (faithless)
ally, Aphrodites priest, father of
Myrrha and Adonis, rival of Apollo,
ancestor of the Paphian priestkings, and much more. Kinyras
increased in depth and complexity with the demonstration in 1968
that Kinnaruthe divinized temple-lyrewas venerated at Ugarit,
an important Late Bronze Age
city just opposite Cyprus on the
Syrian coast. John Curtis Franklin
seeks to harmonize Kinyras as a mythological symbol of pre-Greek
Cyprus with what is known of ritual music and deified instruments
in the Bronze Age Near East, using evidence going back to early
Mesopotamia. Franklin addresses issues of ethnicity and identity;
migration and colonization, especially the Aegean diaspora to
Cyprus, Cilicia, and Philistia in the Early Iron Age; cultural interface
of Hellenic, Eteocypriot, and Levantine groups on Cyprus; early
Greek poetics, epic memory, and myth-making; performance traditions and music archaeology; royal ideology and ritual poetics; and
a host of specific philological and historical issues arising from the
collation of classical and Near Eastern sources.
Kinyras includes a vital background study of divinized balang-harps
in Mesopotamia by Wolfgang Heimpel. This paperback edition contains minor corrections, while retaining the maps of the original
hardback edition as spreads, alongside illustrations and artwork by
Glynnis Fawkes.
Social Policies and

Decentralization in Cuba
Change in the Context of 21st Century Latin America

Jorge I. Domnguez Mara del Carmen
Zabala Argelles Mayra Espina Prieto
Lorena Barberia
edited by
Cuba has long been a social policy

pioneer in Latin America. Since the
1959 revolution, its government has
developed ambitious policies to
address health care, higher education, employment, the environment,
and broad social inequalities. Cuban
strategies emphasized universal
rights and benefits, provided free to
users, and implemented under centralized and unitary policy design.
Following the Soviet Unions collapse
in 1991, funds for these policies came
under strain, although efforts have been made to sustain them.
Poverty rates and inequality have risen. Access to higher education
has become more difficult and access to health care less reliable.
Environmental policies are both more salient and more difficult to
sustain. The government has resisted privatization policies, but
has sought to decentralize the implementation of various policies,
fostering non-state cooperatives as well. At the same time, many
Latin American governments have experimented with new policies
to reduce poverty and various inequalities. Still facing economic
challenges, Cuba may look to learn from these neighbors.
John Curtis Franklin is Associate Professor of Classics at the

University of Vermont.
Jorge I. Domnguez is Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of

Mexico at Harvard University. Mara del Carmen Zabala Argelles
is a professor at the University of Havana, Cuba, and a researcher
at FLACSO. Mayra Espina Prieto is National Program Officer at the
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. Lorena Barberia
is a Professor of Political Science at University of So Paulo.
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July400 pp.paper$24.99x 19.959780674975309

Politics6 x 920 line illus.Series on Latin American Studies
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Into Srs Ocean
Poetry, Context, and Commentary
John Stratton Hawley

Surs Ocean: Poems from the Early Tradition was published in 2015
as the fifth volume of the Murty Classical Library of India. That
book contains Kenneth Bryants critical reconstructions of 433
poems of Surdas that circulated in the sixteenth century, when this
great Hindi poet lived, and it includes facing-page, English verse
translations by John Stratton
Hawley. The name traditionalso available translated by
ally assigned to these poems
John Stratton Hawley
is Sursagar, meaning Srs
Surs Ocean: Poems from
Ocean.
the Early Tradition
Surdas
Edited by Kenneth E. Bryant
9780674427778
$35.00 25.95 cloth
Into Srs Ocean picks up

many threads from that volume, and provides a substantial introduction to the poet,
From the Murty Classical Library
his medium, and his oeuof India
vre; an overview of editions,
including Bryants; an analysis of the challenges Hawley
faced as translator; and poem-by-poem commentary. Each commentary is a brief, independent essay. This book offers a deepand
rewardingdive into Surs Ocean.
John Stratton Hawley is Claire Tow Professor of Religion at
Barnard College, Columbia University.
July1035 pp.cloth$95.00x 75.959780674975583
History / Literature7 x 10Harvard Oriental Series
An Early Text on the History of

Rwa sgreng Monastery
The Rgyal ba'i dben gnas rwa sgreng gi bshad pa nyi
ma'i 'od zer of 'Brom Shes rab me lce
edited by
Maho Iuchi
This monograph is a study of the Rgyal ba'i dben gnas rwa sgreng
gi bshad pa nyi ma'i 'od zer (Rays of the Sun: A Statement about
Rwa sgreng Monastery, Hermitage of the Victor), which is a newly
discovered hand-written manuscript from the Fifth Dalai Lamas private library at 'Bras spungs monastery, Lhasa. It is the first known
work devoted solely to Rwa sgreng monastery, the mother monastery of the Bka' gdams
school founded by 'Brom
ston Rgyal ba'i 'byung
gnas (10051064) in 1057
after the death of his
master Atia (9821054).
The Bka' gdams school
no longer exists, but it
has greatly influenced
major schools of Tibetan
Buddhism, such as Dge
lugs, Bka' brgyud, and Sa skya school. Rwa sgreng monastery itself
has shifted to the Dge lugs school, but it still has a strong presence
as a monastery related to Bka' gdams school. Since this work was
written at approximately the end of the thirteenth century, it is a
relatively early text in the history of the Bka' gdams school, and it
provides valuable historical, political, and sociological data on Rwa
sgreng monastery.
This study aids understanding of the history of Rwa sgreng monastery and the early Bka' gdams schooland more broadly illuminates important aspects of Tibetan history.
Maho Iuchi is a Visiting Scholar at Kobe City University of Foreign
Studies, Kobe, Japan.
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Muslim Superheroes
Comics, Islam, and Representation
edited by
A. David Lewis Martin Lund

The roster of Muslim superheroes
in the comic book medium has
grown over the years, as has the
complexity of their depictions.
Muslim Superheroes tracks the
initial absence, reluctant inclusion, tokenistic employment, and
then nuanced scripting of Islamic
protagonists in the American
superhero comic book market and
beyond.
This scholarly anthology investigates the ways in which Muslim

superhero characters fulfill, counter, or complicate Western stereotypes and navigate popular audience expectations globally, under
the looming threat of Islamophobia. The contributors consider
assumptions buried in the very notion of a character who is both a
superhero and a Muslim with an interdisciplinary and international
focus characteristic of both Islamic studies and comics studies
scholarship. Muslim Superheroes investigates both intranational
American racial formation and international American geopolitics,
juxtaposed with social developments outside U.S. borders.
Providing unprecedented depth to the study of Muslim superheroes, this collection analyzes, through a series of close readings,
how Muslim and non-Muslim comics creators and critics have
produced, reproduced, and represented different conceptions of
Islam and Muslimness embodied in the genre characters.
Picturing Emerson
An Iconography
edited by
Joel Myerson Leslie Perrin Wilson

Picturing Emerson reproduces and
explores the background of all known
images of Ralph Waldo Emerson created from life, including drawings,
paintings, silhouettes, sculptures,
and photographs. The book provides
dates for these images; information
about their makers and Emersons sittings; as well as commentary by family members and contemporaries.
The resulting work makes it possible
for the first time to trace Emersons
visage over seven decades.
Dating and correctly identifying

images of Emerson has long challenged scholars, collectors, and the
general public. By examining over fifty years of archival and published researchincluding web resources, library catalogs, and
correspondence with international collectionsthe authors have
been able to locate nearly 140 images dating from 1829 to immediately before Emersons death in 1882.
Joel Myerson is Carolina Distinguished Professor of American
Literature, Emeritus, at the University of South Carolina.
Leslie Perrin Wilson is Curator of the William Munroe Special
Collections at the Concord Free Public Library in Concord, MA.
Available140 pp.paper$30.00x 23.959780674975972
Biography / History7 x 105 halftones, 135 color illus.
Harvard Library Bulletin
A. David Lewis is a Faculty Member at Massachusetts College of

Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Online. Martin Lund is Swedish
Research Council International Postdoc at Linnaeus University
and Visiting Research Scholar at Gotham Center for New York
City History at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York.
July220 pp.paper$24.95x 19.959780674975941
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Paperbacks
The Middle Ages

Johannes Fried
translated by
Peter Lewis
Since the fifteenth century, when humanist writers began to speak of a middle period
in history linking their time to the ancient world, the nature of the Middle Ages has been
widely debated. Across the millennium from 500 to 1500, distinguished historian Johannes
Fried describes a dynamic confluence of political, social,
religious, economic, and scientific developments that
also by Johannes Fried
draws a guiding thread through the era: the growth of a
Charlemagne
culture of reason.
9780674737396
$39.95 25.00 cloth
Frieds breadth of knowledge is formidable and his passion for

the period admirable . . . Those with a true passion for the Middle
Ages will be thrilled by this ambitious defensio.
Dan Jones, SUNDAY TIMES
Reads like a counterblast to the hot air of the liberal-humanist interpreters of European history . . .
[Fried] does justice both to the centrifugal fragmentation of the European region into monarchies,
cities, republics, heresies, trade and craft associations, vernacular literatures, and to the persistence
of unifying and homogenizing forces: the papacy, the Western Empire, the schools, the friars, the civil
lawyers, the bankers, the Crusade.
Eric Christiansen, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
[An] absorbing book . . . Fried covers much in the realm of ideas on monarchy, jurisprudence, arts,
chivalry and courtly love, millenarianism and papal power, all of it a rewarding read.
Sean McGlynn, THE SPECTATOR
Johannes Fried was, until his retirement, Professor of Medieval History at the University
of Frankfurt.
May 632 pp. paper $22.95 18.95 9780674975361
History 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 20 color illus., 40 halftones Belknap Press
cloth January 2015 9780674055629
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River of Dark Dreams
Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom

Walter Johnson
HEAR Book Prize, Society for Historians of the

S
Early American Republic
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
The Invaders
How Humans and Their Dogs Drove

Neanderthals to Extinction
Pat Shipman
A Times Higher Education Book of the Week
Approximately 200,000 years

ago, Neanderthals were already
thriving in Europedescendants
of a much earlier migration of
the African genus Homo. But
when modern humans made their
way to Europe 45,000 years ago,
Neanderthals suddenly vanished.
Ever since the first Neanderthal
bones were identified in 1856,
scientists have been vexed by
the question, why did modern
humans survive while their closest known relatives went extinct?
[One] of the most impressive works of

American history in many years.
Timothy Shenk, THE NATION
An important, arguably seminal, book
. . . It is always trenchant and learned.
And in highly compelling fashion, it
helps us more fully appreciate how
thoroughly the slaveholding South
was part of the capitalist transatlantic
world of the first half of the 19th
century.
Mark M. Smith,
WALL STREET JOURNAL
Shows how the Cotton Kingdom of the

19th-century Deep South, far from being a backward outpost of feudalism,
was a dynamic engine of capitalist expansion built on enslaved labor.
A. O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES
Delivers spectacularly on the long-standing mission to write history from
the bottom up.
Maya Jasanoff, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
Few books have captured the lived experience of slavery as powerfully.
Ari Kelman, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
Shipman admits that scientists have yet to find genetic evidence that would
prove her theory. Time will tell if shes right. For now, read this book for an
engagingly comprehensive overview of the rapidly evolving understanding
of our own origins.
Toby Lester, WALL STREET JOURNAL
The relationship between Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis is
laid out cleanly, along with genetic and other evidence. Shipman posits
provocatively that the deciding factor in the triumph of our ancestors was
the domestication of wolves.
Daniel Cressey, NATURE
Walter Johnson is Winthrop Professor of History and Professor

of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.
His books include Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave
Market (Harvard).
Pat Shipman is retired Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at

Pennsylvania State University and coauthor of The Ape in the
Tree: An Intellectual and Natural History of Proconsul (Harvard).
March560 pp.paper$22.95 18.959780674975385

History6 1/8 x 9 1/427 halftones, 2 tablesBelknap Press
May288 pp.paper$18.95 15.959780674975415

Anthropology5 1/2 x 8 1/419 halftones, 4 line illus., 2 tables
Belknap Press
clothFebruary 2013 9780674045552
clothMarch 2015 9780674736764
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Religion in Human Evolution

From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age
Robert N. Bellah
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

An ABC Australia Best Book on Religion and Ethics
Distinguished Book Award, American Sociological Association
Religion in Human Evolution is a work of extraordinary ambitiona wide-ranging, nuanced

probing of our biological past to discover the kinds of lives that human beings have most
often imagined were worth living. It offers what is frequently seen as a forbidden theory of
the origin of religion that goes deep into evolution, especially but not exclusively cultural
evolution.
Of Bellahs brilliance there can be no doubt. The sheer amount this man knows about religion is
otherworldly . . . Bellah stands in the tradition of such stalwarts of the sociological imagination as
Emile Durkheim and Max Weber. Only one word is appropriate to characterize this books subject
as well as its substance, and that is magisterial.
Alan Wolfe, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Religion in Human Evolution is a magnum opus founded on careful research and immersed in the
reflective judgment of one of our best thinkers and writers.
Richard L. Wood, COMMONWEAL
Robert N. Bellah was Elliott Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, at the University of
California, Berkeley, and a National Humanities Medal Winner. His many books include
The Axial Age and Its Consequences (Harvard).
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Wheel of Fortune
The Battle for Oil and Power in Russia

Thane Gustafson
Stuff and Money in the Time of

the French Revolution
Rebecca L. Spang
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year
The Russian oil industrywhich

vies with Saudi Arabia as the
worlds largest producer and
exporter of oilis facing mounting problems that could send
shock waves through the Russian
economy and worldwide. Wheel of
Fortune provides an authoritative
account of this vital industry from
the last years of communism to its
uncertain future. Thane Gustafson
shows how the stakes extend
beyond international energy security to include the potential threat
of a destabilized Russia.
Few have studied the Russian oil and gas industry longer or with a broader
political perspective than Gustafson. The result is this superb book, which
is not merely a fascinating, subtle history of the industry since the Soviet
Unions collapse but also the single most revealing work on Russian politics
and economics published in the last several years.
Robert Legvold, FOREIGN AFFAIRS
The history of Russias oil industry since the collapse of communism is the
history of the country itself. There can be few better guides to this terrain
than Thane Gustafson.
Neil Buckley, FINANCIAL TIMES
Thane Gustafson is Professor of Government at Georgetown
University and Senior Director of IHS Cambridge Energy Research
Associates.
May672 pp.paper$22.95 18.959780674975378
History6 3/8 x 9 1/43 maps, 7 charts, 2 tablesBelknap Press
A Financial Times Best History Book of the Year

L ouis Gottschalk Prize
Rebecca Spangs new history

of money uses one of the most
infamous examples of monetary
innovation, the assignats to demonstrate that money is as much a
social and political mediator as it
is an economic instrument.
A brilliant, assertive book.
Patrice Higonnet,
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
Brilliant . . . What [Spang] proposes

is nothing less than a new conceptualization of the revolution . . . She has
provided historiansand not just
those of France or the French Revolutionwith a new set of lenses with
which to view the past.
Arthur Goldhammer, BOOKFORUM
[Spang] views the French Revolution from rewardingly new angles by
analyzing the cultural significance of money in the turbulent years of
European war, domestic terror and inflation.
Tony Barber, FINANCIAL TIMES
Rebecca L. Spang is Professor of History at Indiana University and
the author of The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern
Gastronomic Culture (Harvard).
February360 pp.paper$22.95 18.959780674975422
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The Fissured Workplace
Internal Time
Why Work Became So Bad for So Many and

What Can Be Done to Improve It
Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You're So Tired

Till Roenneberg
David Weil
For much of the twentieth century,

large companies formed the bedrock of the U.S. economy. Today,
as David Weils groundbreaking
analysis shows, large corporations have shed their role as direct
employers in favor of outsourcing work to small companies that
compete fiercely with one another.
The result has been declining
wages, eroding benefits, inadequate health and safety conditions, and ever-widening income
inequality.
Shed[s] important new light on the resurgence of the power of finance and
its connection to the debasement of work and income distribution.
Robert Kuttner, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
The kinds of workplace fissuring discussed heresubcontracting,
franchising and global supply chainshave been the subjects of a number
of studies detailing the employment effects that Weil describes. The
Fissured Workplace is unusual in bringing this research together into an
integrated, detailed and decidedly policy-oriented analysis . . . It makes a
convincing case that the better regulation of fissured workplaces is a first
step towards reversing the erosion of pay and conditions at the bottom of
the labor market.
Virginia Doellgast, TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION
May424 pp.paper$22.95 18.959780674975446

Sociology / Business6 1/8 x 9 1/410 line illus., 16 tables
British Medical Association Award
Sleep patterns may be the most

obvious manifestation of the
highly
individualized
biological clocks we inherit, but these
clocks also regulate bodily functions from digestion to hormone
levels to cognition. Living at odds
with our internal timepieces, Till
Roenneberg shows, can make us
chronically sleep deprived and
more likely to smoke, gain weight,
feel depressed, fall ill, and fail
geometry. By understanding and
respecting our internal time, we
can live better.
This is a cautionary taleactually a series of 24 tales, not coincidentally.
Roenneberg ranges widely from the inner workings of biological rhythms
to their social implications, illuminating each scientific tutorial with an
anecdote inspired by clinical research . . . Written with grace and good
humor, this book is a serious work of science incorporating the latest
research in chronobiology . . . [A] compelling volume.
A. Roger Ekirch, WALL STREET JOURNAL
This is a fascinating introduction to an important topic, which will appeal
to anyone who wishes to delve deep into the world of chronobiology, or
simply wonders why they struggle to get a good nights sleep.
Richard Wiseman, NEW SCIENTIST
David Weil is the U.S. Wage and Hour Administrator in the U.S.
Department of Labor.
A Brain Pickings Best Science Book of the Year
Till Roenneberg is Professor at the Institute of Medical Psychology

at the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich.
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The Ideological Origins of the

American Revolution
Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
Bernard Bailyn
Pulitzer Prize for History

Bancroft Prize, Columbia University
Bernard Bailyn is a 2010 National Humanities Medal Winner
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, awarded both the Pulitzer and the
Bancroft prizes, has become a classic of American historical literature. Hailed at its first
appearance as the most brilliant study of the meaning of the Revolution to appear in a
generation, it was enlarged in a second edition to include the nationwide debate on the
ratification of the Constitution, hence exploring not only the Founders initial hopes and
aspirations but also their struggle to implement their ideas in constructing the national
government.
Now, in a new preface, Bernard Bailyn reconsiders salient features of the book and isolates
the Founders profound concern with power. In pamphlets, letters, newspapers, and sermons they returned again and again to the problem of the uses and misuses of powerthe
great benefits of power when gained and used by popular consent and the political and
social devastation when acquired by those who seize it by force or deceit or sheer demagoguery and use it for their personal benefit.
This fiftieth anniversary edition will be welcomed by readers familiar with Bailyns book,
and it will introduce a new generation to a work that remains required reading for anyone
seeking to understand the nations historical roots.
Bernard Bailyn is Adams University Professor, Emeritus, and James Duncan Phillips
Professor of Early American History, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He is also the author
of the Pulitzer Prizewinning Voyagers to the West and the Pulitzer Prize finalist The
Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North AmericaThe Conflict of Civilizations,
16001675.
April396 pp.paper$22.95 18.959780674975651
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Mexicans in the Making

of America
American Apocalypse
A History of Modern Evangelicalism

Matthew Avery Sutton
Neil Foley
The first comprehensive history

of modern American evangelicalism to appear in a generation,
American Apocalypse shows how a
group of radical Protestants, anticipating the end of the world, paradoxically transformed it.
According to census projections,

by 2050 nearly one in three U.S. residents will be Latino, and the overwhelming majority of these will be
of Mexican descent. This dramatic
demographic shift is reshaping
politics, culture, and fundamental
ideas about American identity. Neil
Foley, a leading Mexican American
historian, offers a sweeping view of
the evolution of Mexican America.
Compelling . . . Readers of all
political persuasions will find
Foleys intensively researched,
well-documented scholarly work
an instructive, thoroughly accessible guide to the ramifications of
immigration policy.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
KIRKUS REVIEWS
Neil Foley holds the Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Chair in History
at Southern Methodist University. He is the author of Quest for
Equality: The Failed Promise of Black-Brown Solidarity (Harvard).
May368 pp.paper$19.95 15.959780674975354
NEW YORKER
Relentlessly and impressively shows
how evangelicals have interpreted
almost every domestic or international
crisis in relation to Christs return and his judgment upon the wicked . . .
Sutton sees one of the most troubling aspects of evangelical influence in the
spread of the apocalyptic outlook among Republican politicians with the
rise of the Religious Right.
D. G. Hart, WALL STREET JOURNAL
For Americans long accustomed to understanding the countrys

development as an east-to-west phenomenon, Foleys singular service is to
urge us to tilt the map south-to-north and to comprehend conditions as they
have been for some time and will likely be for the foreseeable future . . . A
timely look at and appreciation of a fast-growing demographic destined to
play an increasingly important role in our history.
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The history Sutton assembles is rich,

and the connections are startling.
The best history of American evangelicalism Ive read in some time . . . If you
want to understand why compromise has become a dirty word in the GOP
today and how cultural politics is splitting the nation apart, American
Apocalypse is an excellent place to start.
Stephen Prothero, BOOKFORUM
Matthew Avery Sutton is Edward R. Meyer Distinguished Professor
of History at Washington State University. He is the author of
Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian
America (Harvard).
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The Assumptions
Economists Make
Jonathan Schlefer
Economists make confident assertions in the mediaso why are
their explanations often at odds
with equally confident assertions
from other economists? And why
are all economic predictions so
rarely borne out? Harnessing his
frustration with these contradictions, Jonathan Schlefer set out to
investigate how economists arrive
at their opinions.
A lucid, plain-spoken account of the
major economic models, creating
a kind of intellectual history of
macroeconomics. [Schlefer] explains what the models assume, what they
actually demonstrateand where they fall short.
Binyamin Applebaum, NEW YORK TIMES blog
Fascinating . . . [Schlefers] book is a tough critique of economics, but a
deeply informed and sympathetic one.
Justin Fox, HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW blog
An impressive and informative analysis of the economics literature.
Michelle Baddeley, TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION
Schlefers gripes concern model-building run amok. . . His criticisms of these
models are original and sophisticated.
Christopher Caldwell, LITERARY REVIEW
Racial Reckoning
Prosecuting Americas Civil Rights Murders

Renee C. Romano
Few whites who violently resisted
the civil rights struggle were
charged with crimes in the 1950s
and 1960s. But the tide of a longdeferred justice began to change
in 1994, when a Mississippi jury
convicted Byron De La Beckwith
for the 1963 murder of Medgar
Evers. Since then, more than one
hundred murder cases have been
reopened, resulting in more than
a dozen trials. But how much did
these public trials contribute to a
public reckoning with Americas
racist past? Racial Reckoning
investigates that question, along
with the political pressures and cultural forces that compelled the
legal system to revisit these decades-old crimes.
[A] timely and significant work . . . Romano brilliantly demystifies the

false binary of villainous white men like Beckwith or Edgar Ray Killen
who represent vestiges of a violent racial past with a more enlightened
color-blind society . . . Considering the current partisan and racial divide
over the prosecution of police shootings of unarmed black men, this book
is a must-read for historians, legal analysts, and journalists interested
in understanding the larger meanings of civil rights or racially explosive
trials in America.
Chanelle Rose, AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
Jonathan Schlefer is a research associate at Harvard Business

School and the author of Palace Politics: How the Ruling Party
Brought Crisis to Mexico.
Renee C. Romano is Professor of History, Comparative American

Studies, and Africana Studies at Oberlin College. She is the
author of Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America
(Harvard).
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Economics5 1/2 x 8 1/4Belknap Press
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China Under Mao
The Classical Liberal

Constitution
A Revolution Derailed
Andrew G. Walder
The Uncertain Quest for Limited Government
Chinas Communist Party seized

power in 1949 after a long period
of guerrilla insurgency followed
by full-scale war, but the Chinese
revolution was just beginning.
China Under Mao narrates the rise
and fall of the Maoist revolutionary
state from 1949 to 1976an epoch
of startling accomplishments and
disastrous failures, steered by
many forces but dominated above
all by Mao Zedong.
Walder convincingly shows that the
effect of Maoist inequalities still
distorts China today . . . [It] will be a
mind-opening book for many (and is a depressing reminder for others).
Jonathan Mirsky, THE SPECTATOR
Andrew Walders account of Maos time in power is detailed, sophisticated
and powerful . . . Walder takes on many pieces of conventional wisdom
about Maos China and pulls them apart . . . What was it that led so much
of Chinas population to follow Maos orders, in effect to launch a civil war
against his own party? There is still much more to understand about the
bond between Mao and the wider population. As we try to understand that
bond, there will be few better guides than Andrew Walders book. Sober,
measured, meticulous in every deadly detail, it is an essential assessment of
one of the worlds most important revolutions.
Rana Mitter, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
Andrew G. Walder is Denise OLeary and Kent Thiry Professor of
Sociology, and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute
for International Studies, Stanford University. His books include
Fractured Rebellion: The Beijing Red Guard Movement (Harvard).
March440 pp.paper$24.95x 19.959780674975491
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Richard A. Epstein
Steering clear of well-worn debates
between defenders of originalism and proponents of a living
Constitution, Epstein employs close
textual reading, historical analysis,
and political and economic theory
to urge a return to the classical
liberal theory of governance that
animated the framers' original text,
and to the limited government this
theory supports.
[An] important and learned book.
Gary L. McDowell,
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
Epstein has now produced a full-scale and full-throated defense of his

unusual vision of the Constitution. This book is his magnum opus . . . Much
of his book consists of comprehensive and exceptionally detailed accounts
of how constitutional provisions ought to be understood . . . All of Epsteins
particular discussions are instructive, and most of them are provocative . . .
Epstein has written a passionate, learned, and committed book.
Cass R. Sunstein, NEW REPUBLIC
Richard A. Epstein is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at
New York University School of Law, Peter and Kirsten Bedford
Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and James Parker Hall
Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Law and Senior
Lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. His books
include Design for Liberty (Harvard).
March704 pp.paper$24.95x 19.959780674975460
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The Twenty-Five Years

of Philosophy
Grounds for Difference

Rogers Brubaker
A Systematic Reconstruction
Offering fresh perspectives on

perennial questions of ethnicity,
race, nationalism, and religion,
Rogers Brubaker makes manifest
the forces that shape the politics
of diversity and multiculturalism
today. In a lucid analysis, he contends that three recent developments have altered the contours
of the politics of difference: the
return of inequality as a central
public concern, the return of biology as an asserted basis of racial
and ethnic difference, and the
return of religion as a key terrain
of public contestation.
Eckart Frster
translated by
Brady Bowman
Kant declared that philosophy
began in 1781 with his Critique
of Pure Reason. In 1806 Hegel
announced that philosophy had
now been completed. Eckart
Frster examines the reasons
behind these claims and assesses
the steps that led in such a short
time from Kants beginning to
Hegels end. He concludes that,
in an unexpected yet significant
sense, both Kant and Hegel were
indeed right.
A novel interpretation of the

development of German idealism that is rich in both historical depth and
philosophical insight.
Peter Yong, PHILOSOPHY IN REVIEW
This book is clearly written, and Bowmans translation is commendable . . .
[A] masterpiece.
J. M. Fritzman, CHOICE
Eckart Frster is Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins
University and Honorary Professor of Philosophy at Humboldt
University in Berlin. He is the author of Kants Final Synthesis: An
Essay on the Opus Postumum (Harvard).
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clothMarch 2012 9780674055162
A subtle, original, and comprehensive book. All the hallmarks of

Brubakers earlier work, such as the conceptual clarity, the theoretical
rigorgrounded in a well-researched and well-informed analysisthe
crisp writing style, and the impeccable sociological reasoning are displayed
here. There is a wealth of original ideas developed in this book that requires
much careful reading and unpacking.
Sinisa Maleevi, H-NET REVIEWS
Brubaker has once more put us in his debt, with these illuminating, tersely
set out but always clearly expressed essays. This is a relatively short book,
but in it Brubaker packs an enormous amount of material for reflection.
Krishan Kumar, SOCIAL FORCES
Rogers Brubaker is Professor of Sociology and UCLA Foundation
Chair at the University of California, Los Angeles. His books
include Ethnicity without Groups (Harvard).
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The Cross-Border Connection
The Expressive Powers of Law
Roger Waldinger
Richard H. McAdams
Immigrants, Emigrants, and Their Homelands
International migration presents

the human face of globalization,
with consequences that make
headlines throughout the world.
The Cross-Border Connection
addresses a paradox at the core
of this phenomenon: emigrants
departing one society become
immigrants in another, tying those
two societies together in a variety
of ways. Roger Waldinger explains
how interconnections between
place of origin and destination are
built and maintained and why they
eventually fall apart.
When are immigrants us? When are they them? Waldinger implores
readers to reframe the debate from a before-after dichotomy to a new
transnational approach, revealing migrants to be here, there, and inbetween at all stages of their migration tenure . . . The books real strength is
in the elegance of the author's argument.
R. A. Harper, CHOICE
Waldinger is to be commended for putting substance into the black box of
transnationalism, offering a dynamic model to account for the ebb and flow
of transnationalism in the real world and yielding testable propositions
about the circumstances under which cross-border connections can be
expected to expand or contract.
Theories and Limits
When asked why people obey the

law, legal scholars usually give
two answers. Law deters illicit
activities by specifying sanctions, and it possesses legitimate
authority in the eyes of society.
Richard McAdams shifts the prism
on this familiar question to offer
another compelling explanation of
how the law creates compliance:
through its expressive power
to coordinate our behavior and
inform our beliefs.
McAdamss account is useful,
powerful, anda rarity in legal
theoryconcrete . . . McAdamss treatment reveals important insights into
how rational agents reason and interact both with one another and with
the law. The Expressive Powers of Law is a valuable contribution to our
understanding of these interactions.
HARVARD LAW REVIEW
McAdamss analysis widening the perspective of our understanding of why
people comply with the law should be welcomed by those interested either
in the nature of law, the function of law, or both . . . McAdams shows how
law sometimes works by a power of suggestion. His varied examples are
fascinating for their capacity both to demonstrate and to show the limits of
laws expressive power.
Douglas S. Massey, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY
Patrick McKinley Brennan, REVIEW OF METAPHYSICS
Roger Waldinger is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the

University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Still
the Promised City? African-Americans and New Immigrants in
Postindustrial New York (Harvard).
Richard H. McAdams is Bernard D. Meltzer Professor of Law and

Aaron Director Research Scholar at the University of Chicago
Law School.
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Index
About Abortion, 21
Aesthetic Life, 69
After Piketty, 7
Against the Jews and the Gentiles, 64
Age of Responsibility, 36
Ahmed, Formation of Orthodoxy, 44
Air & Light & Time & Space, 33
American Apocalypse, 85
Apollo in the Age of Aquarius, 15
Apologia. Florida. De Deo Socratis, 62
Apuleius, Apologia. Florida, 62
Aristides, Orations, 63
Assumptions Economists Make, 86
Awakening, 29
Aydin, Idea of the Muslim World, 34
Bailyn, Ideological Origins, 84
Ball, First Amendment and LGBT, 45
Bannermen Tales (Zidishu), 71
Basic Income, 11
Bellah, Religion in Human Evolution, 81
Bindman, Image of the Black, 32
Birge, Marriage and the Law, 61
Boatman, 31
Boccaccio, Genealogy of the Pagan, 65
Boone, Painted Words, 73
Bostons Massacre, 13
Bound in Wedlock, 12
Boushey, After Piketty, 7
Bowersock, Crucible of Islam, 22
Brecher, Honored and Dishonored, 68
Brown, Cubas Revolutionary World, 30
Brown, Paradise Lost, 17
Brubaker, Grounds for Difference, 88
Bruckner, Wisdom of Money, 18
Butterfly Politics, 6
Camus, Far-Right Politics in Europe, 24
Carleton, Russia, 3
China Under Mao, 87
Chinese Literary Forms in Heian Japan, 70
Chiu, Bannermen Tales (Zidishu), 71
Christian Novels from the Menologion, 66
City on a Hilltop, 56
Classical Debt, 19
Classical Liberal Constitution, 87
Clerical Households in Late, 61
Cobbs, Hello Girls, 42
Commentary on Plotinus, 65
Cordingley, Viruses, 53
Conrad, Educating a Diverse Nation, 90
Corporations and American Democracy, 48
Cossar, Clerical Households, 61
Cronin, Osaka Modern, 68
Cross, 28
Cross-Border Connection, 89
Crucible of Islam, 22
Cubas Revolutionary World, 30
Dean, Making Sense of Science, 27
Dispelling the Darkness, 40
Does History Make Sense?, 52
Domnguez, Social Policies, 76
Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library 66
Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 73
Early Text on the History, 77
Edelson, New Map of Empire, 16

Educating a Diverse Nation, 90
Edwards, Epistrophies, 39
English Conquest of Jamaica, 43
Enigma of Reason, 23
Epistrophies, 39
Epstein, Classical Liberal Constitution, 87
Equine Poetics, 74
Eros and Illness, 52
Europes India, 55
Euthyphro. Apology. Crito. Phaedo, 63
Everett, Numbers and the Making of Us, 10
Expressive Powers of Law, 89
Far-Right Politics in Europe, 24
Feros, Speaking of Spain, 57
Ficino, Commentary on Plotinus, 65
First Amendment and LGBT Equality, 45
Fiss, Pillars of Justice, 25
Fissured Workplace, 83
Foley, Mexicans in the Making, 85
Formation of Orthodoxy in Early Islam, 44
Frster, Twenty-Five Years, 88
Fortunatus, Poems, 66
Franaszek, Milosz, 1
Frank, Awakening, 29
Franklin, Kinyras, 76
Fried, Middle Ages, 79
Gaston, San Lorenzo, 67
Genealogy of the Pagan Gods, 65
German Colonial Wars, 60
Granovetter, Society and Economy, 48
Greenawalt, When Free Exercise, 45
Grigas, New Geopolitics of Natural Gas, 41
Grounds for Difference, 88
Gura, Mans Better Angels, 5
Gustafson, Wheel of Fortune, 82
Hanink, Classical Debt, 19
Hardimon, Rethinking Race, 50
Hawley, Into Srs Ocean, 77
Hello Girls, 42
Hermann, Old Norse Mythology, 75
Heywood, Njinga of Angola, 8
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