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Iron and Blood
A Military History of the GermanSpeaking Peoples since 1500
Peter H. Wilson“The scholarship of this book is breathtaking . . . No one interested in the history of Europe, and of the Germans in particular, can afford not to read this stupendous book.”
The Telegraph
“Hugely impressive . . . A determinedly analytical book.”
— Times Literary Supplement
Belknap Press 976 pp. $39.95 • North America only cloth 9780674987623
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The Magnificent Boat
The Colonial Theft of a South Seas Cultural Treasure
Götz Aly
Translated by Jefferson Chase
“Concise and convincing, this damning account reveals the painful legacy of colonialism.”
— Publishers Weekly
March 2023 Belknap Press 224 pp.
$29.95 • £26.95 cloth 9780674276574
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The World of Sugar
How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years
Ulbe Bosma“A remarkably researched, comprehensive, and indispensable book for everyone who wishes to understand how sugar and the sugar industry have shaped the world in which we live.”
Gary Taubes, author of The Case Against Sugar
May 2023 Belknap Press 416 pp.
$35.00 • £30.95 cloth 9780674279391
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Elixir
A Parisian Perfume House and the Quest for the Secret of Life
Theresa Levitt
“Dizzying and fragrant with elegant and riveting sentences, Levitt takes us on a most fascinating journey from the bloody revolutions to the chemistry labs of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France, all to glimpse the glorious pursuit of scent.”
—Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of World of Wonders
April 2023 320 pp. $32.95 • Not for sale in the UK, Commonwealth (ex Canada), South Asia, South Africa, and Middle East cloth 9780674250895
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The Other Great Game
The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia
Sheila Miyoshi Jager
“A monumental achievement. Recounting the story of China’s decline in East Asia, Jager provides a definitive reference for the diplomatic machinations of the great-power conflict in the late nineteenth century. This is narrative historical writing at its best.”
— Michael Robinson, author of Korea’s Twentieth-Century Odyssey
May 2023 Belknap Press
592 pp. $39.95 • North America only cloth 9780674983397
NEW Guru to the World The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda
Ruth Harris
★ A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year
“Vivekananda was many things to many people . . . It’s not just any biographer who can do justice to such a complex life. He’s fortunate to have found a perfect interpreter in Ruth Harris.”
— Benjamin Moser, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Sontag
Belknap Press 560 pp.
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Never Turn Back China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s
Julian Gewirtz
★ A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year
“A richly researched addition to this literature, enhanced by access to internal Chinese documents and interviews with former officials and intellectuals active at the time.”
— The Economist
“A delectable rehabilitation of a momentous decade.”
New Republic
Belknap Press 432 pp.
$32.95 • £28.95 cloth
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The Man and His Dream to Teach the Children of the World
Eri Hotta★ A New Yorker Best Book of the Year
“Hotta takes on the life story of the man who made the mini-masters . . . The S uzuki story turns out to be a fascinating study in the hybrid nature of human culture, tracing a remarkable cross-century triple play— European music to Japanese discipline, ending with a putout at a first base manned by mad American parental ambition.”
New Yorker
Belknap Press 272 pp.
$29.95 • £26.95 cloth
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FORTHCOMING Never Again Germans and Genocide after the Holocaust
Andrew I. Port
“A thrilling accomplishment. Ingeniously conceived and intrepidly executed . . . This is the most important study of memory, politics, and the ongoing construction of public norms written in a long time.”
Samuel Moyn, author of Humane
May 2023 Belknap Press 416 pp.
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FORTHCOMING Empire, Incorporated The Corporations That Built British Colonialism
Philip J. Stern
“Brilliant, ambitious, and often surprising . . . A remarkable contribution to the current global debate about Empire.”
—William Dalrymple, author of The Anarchy
“Stern has written the most important book on the history of the company in the Englishspeaking world in over a century.”
—Paul Halliday, author of Habeas Corpus
May 2023 Belknap Press 408 pp.
$35.00 • £30.95 cloth 9780674988125
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FORTHCOMING Travels with Tocqueville Beyond America
Jeremy Jennings
“A superb study of the distinctive character of Tocqueville’s mind. Few scholars are as well equipped as Jennings to offer such penetrating insights into the origins of Tocqueville’s comparative method of political analysis.”
—Arthur Goldhammer, translator of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America
March 2023 544 pp.
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FORTHCOMING Scarcity
A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson • Carl Wennerlind
“A brilliant book—lucid, luminescent, and learned—that is relevant across disciplines . . . A timely intellectual genealogy for terms that define our contemporary debates on the planetary environment.”
— Dipesh Chakrabarty, author of The Climate of History in a Planetary Age
April 2023 304 pp.
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Ilse Koch on Trial Making the “Bitch of Buchenwald”
Tomaz Jardim
“An indispensable, superbly researched contribution to the literature on postwar trials of Nazi crimes.”
Christopher R. Browning, author of Ordinary Men
“The definitive portrait of Ilse Koch.”
—Wendy Lower, author of Hitler’s Furies
April 2023 368 pp.
$35.00 • £30.95 cloth 9780674249189
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The Project-State and Its Rivals
A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Charles S. Maier
“Charles Maier has produced a brilliantly innovative reconceptualization of twentiethcentury history in terms of the interaction between states, resources, and markets. He sets a bold agenda for future thinking about the shape of the past one hundred years.”
—Harold James, author of The War of Words
May 2023 528 pp.
$45.00 • £39.95 cloth 9780674290143
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The China Questions 2 Critical Insights into US-China Relations
EDITED BY Maria Adele Carrai • Jennifer Rudolph • Michael Szonyi“Required reading. The authors are a who’s who of American scholars on US–China relations, and the topics include virtually everything that would be of concern to students, academics, and practitioners . . . This fills a wide gap.”
—Stephen A. Orlins, President of the National Committee on United States–China Relations
464 pp. $35.00 • £30.95 cloth
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Wonders and Rarities
The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos
Travis Zadeh
“The wonders and curiosities of the Islamic imagination await discovery by a new generation of readers in this superb and very enjoyable book.”
— Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
“Zadeh dramatically revises the place of wonder in the history of Islamic thought.”
— New Books Network
464 pp. $39.95 • £34.95 cloth
9780674258457
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NEW IN PAPERBACK The Horde How the Mongols Changed the World
Marie Favereau
★ A Cundill History Prize Finalist
★ A Financial Times Best History Book of the Year
“Fascinating . . . An impressively researched and intelligently reasoned book that will be welcomed by historians of the Mongol Empire.”
The Times
Belknap Press 384 pp.
$18.95 • £16.95 paper 9780674278653
FORTHCOMING IN PAPERBACK Underground Asia Global
Revolutionaries and
the Assault on Empire
Tim Harper
★ An Economist and Financial Times Best History Book of the Year
“A clearly written, brilliantly researched examination of the people and movements that shaped Asia’s course in the 20th century and continue to influence the continent today.”
Wall Street Journal
April 2023 Belknap Press 864 pp.
$21.95 • United States and its dependencies only paper 9780674292123
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China’s Good War
How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism
Rana Mitter
★ A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year
★ An Asian Review of Books Best History Book of the Year
“A detailed and fascinating account of how the Chinese leadership’s strategy has evolved across eras.”
— Wall Street Journal
Belknap Press 336 pp.
$18.95 • £16.95 paper
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Empire and Righteous Nation
600 Years of China-Korea Relations Odd Arne Westad
“Valuable and wide-ranging . . . As two thousand years of history have shown, China’s role in Korea is a complex one. Westad’s short and stimulating study provides many clues to understanding that relationship.”
— Literary Review
March 2023 The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures
Belknap Press 216 pp.
$19.95 • £17.95 paper
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FORTHCOMING IN PAPERBACK Time’s Monster How History Makes History
Priya Satia
★ Bronze Medal in World History, Independent Publisher Book Awards
★ A New Statesman Best Book of the Year
“Powerful and radically important.”
— Times Literary Supplement
“Bracingly describes the ways imperialist historiography has shaped visions of the future as much as the past.”
— New York Review of Books
March 2023 Belknap Press 384 pp.
$19.95 • Not for sale in the UK, Commonwealth (ex Canada), South Asia, South Africa, and Middle East paper 9780674292178
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The Loss of Hindustan
The Invention of India
Manan Ahmed Asif
★ Cundill History Prize Shortlist
“The brilliance of Asif’s book rests in the way he makes readers think about the name ‘Hindustan’ . . . Asif’s focus is Indian history but it is, at the same time, a lens to look at questions far bigger.”
— Asian Review of Books
“Remarkable . . . Asif’s analysis and conclusions are powerful and poignant.”
— The Wire
March 2023 336 pp.
$24.95 • £21.95 paper 9780674292338
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Stalin and the Fate of Europe
The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty
Norman M. Naimark
★ Norris and Carol Hundley Award
★ U.S.–Russia Relations Book Prize
★ A Financial Times Best History Book of the Year
“The achievement of a lifetime.”
—Stephen Kotkin, author of Stalin
“A timely and instructive account not merely of our own history but also of our fractious, unsettling present.”
— The Guardian
Belknap Press 368 pp.
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NEW IN PAPERBACK We Shall Be Masters
Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin
Chris Miller
★ Marshall D. Shulman Book Prize
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“Captures the immensity, complexity, and importance of Russia’s eastern borderlands through the eyes of its explorers . . . Comprehensive and fluidly written.”
— Publishers Weekly
384 pp. $19.95 • £17.95 paper
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NEW IN PAPERBACK Metternich Strategist and Visionary
Wolfram Siemann
Translated by Daniel Steuer
★ An Open Letters Review Best Work in Translation of the Year
“A superb biographical portrait and work of historical analysis.”
— Wall Street Journal
“Brilliantly refreshes our understanding of Metternich and his era.”
London Review of Books
Belknap Press 928 pp. $24.95 • £21.95 paper 9780674292185
NEW IN PAPERBACK Freedom An Unruly History
Annelien de Dijn
★ PROSE Award in Philosophy
“Ambitious and impressive . . . At a time when the very survival of both freedom and democracy seems uncertain, books like this are more important than ever.”
— The Nation
“This deeply informed history of an idea has the potential to combat political polarization.”
Publishers Weekly
432 pp. $22.95 • £19.95 paper
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Virtue Politics
Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy
James Hankins
★ Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize
★ A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year
“Perhaps the greatest study ever written of Renaissance political thought.”
— Times Literary Supplement
“Puts the politics back into humanism in an extraordinarily deep and far-reaching way.”
American Affairs
Belknap Press
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$27.95 • £24.95 paper
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The Tragedy of Empire From Constantine to the Destruction of Roman Italy
Michael Kulikowski
“As Kulikowski presents it, the end of the Roman Empire in the West was mean and dirty—and thoroughly Roman . . . In a brilliant tour d’horizon of the West from Ireland to the Black Sea, he measures the effect of the fall of Rome on the world beyond Rome.”
— New York Review of Books
June 2023 History of the Ancient World
Belknap Press 424 pp. $24.95 • North America only paper
9780674292239
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The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament • Orlando Patterson
★ A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
“Illuminating . . . Patterson carefully explores the complexity of the structural machinery behind Jamaica’s dazzling successes and dismal failures.”
— New York Times Book Review
Belknap Press 432 pp.
$21.95 • £19.95 paper 9780674292246
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Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities • Mahmood Mamdani
★ British Academy Book Prize Shortlist
“A deeply learned account of the origins of our modern world . . . This book is destined to become a classic text of postcolonial studies and political theory.”
— Moustafa Bayoumi, author of How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?
Belknap Press 416 pp. $19.95 • Not for sale in Africa paper 9780674278608
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Not Made by Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition • Bronwen Everill
“Impressive . . . [Readers] will be rewarded with greater understanding of historical developments that changed the relationship between consumers and producers in a global economy in ways that reverberate to this day.”
— Wall Street Journal
328 pp. $19.95 • £17.95 paper 9780674292345
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The Dynamics of Learning in Early Modern Italy: Arts and Medicine at the University of Bologna • David A. Lines
“This is foundational scholarship at its best. Joining great scope with precise detail, Lines offers a sweeping account of an institution central to European education and thought over many centuries.”
—Ann Moyer, author of The Intellectual World of Sixteenth-Century Florence
I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History 560 pp.
$55.00 • £47.95 cloth
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Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy: The Virtuous Republic of Francesco Patrizi of Siena • James Hankins
“Meticulous scholarship and forceful argumentation . . . A tour de force in intellectual history and political theory.”
—John P. McCormick, author of Reading Machiavelli
March 2023 448 pp.
$55.00 • £47.95 cloth
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On Earth or in Poems: The Many Lives of al-Andalus • Eric Calderwood
“With extraordinary linguistic range, Calderwood brings us the voices of Arabs and Muslims who have turned to the distant past of Spain to imagine their future.”
—Hussein Fancy, Yale University
May 2023 360 pp.
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The House in the Rue Saint-Fiacre: A Social History of Property in Revolutionary Paris • H.
B. Callaway
“Conceptually bold, intensely researched, and elegantly presented . . . Callaway deftly leverages the tools of social history to shed new light on a topic most often seen through the lens of legal or intellectual history.”
—Leora Auslander, author of Cultural Revolutions
May 2023 Harvard Historical Studies 304 pp.
$45.00 • £39.95 cloth 9780674279346
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A Race for the Future: Scientific Visions of Modern Russian Jewishness • Marina Mogilner
“A gripping story of the power of ‘racial science’ as a paradigm of global modernity . . . This groundbreaking book sparkles with insights into Russia’s unique imperial predicaments.”
— Edyta M. Bojanowska, author of A World of Empires
352 pp. $49.95 • £43.95 cloth 9780674270725
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The Nonconformists: American and Czech Writers across the Iron Curtain •
Brian K. Goodman
“Groundbreaking and highly original. Goodman’s meticulous archival research and his capacious familiarity with the latest research in Czech and American studies is impressive.”
— Michelle Woods, author of Kafka Translated
June 2023 368 pp.
$45.00 • £39.95 cloth 9780674983373
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Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism • Mircea Raianu
“A searching exploration of this boundary between corporate and sovereign functions.”
— International Journal of Asian Studies
304 pp. $41.00 • £35.95 cloth
9780674984516
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Sovereign Funds: How the Communist Party of China Finances Its Global Ambitions • Zongyuan
Zoe Liu
“A must-read for any serious observer of China’s global economic and financial strategy.”
— Edwin M. Truman, Harvard Kennedy School
June 2023 Belknap Press 288 pp.
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The Global in the Local: A Century of War, Commerce, and Technology in China • Xin Zhang
“A major contribution to both modern Chinese history and the burgeoning field of global studies.”
—Stephen R. Halsey, author of Quest for Power
April 2023 288 pp.
$45.00 • £39.95 cloth
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The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought • Wang Hui
EDITED BY Michael Gibbs Hill
The definitive history of China’s philosophical confrontation with modernity, available for the first time in English.
July 2023 992 pp.
$75.00 • £65.95 cloth
9780674046764
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Cover art: The Gordon Brigade (27th & 67th Infantry Regiments) defend the S viep wood near Cishkoves, Carl Röchling, 1894, color print / akg-images