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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 hup.harvard.edu

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

9780674278424

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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

9780674274709

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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.

$45.00 • £39.95 cloth

9780674980365