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Thai Stick
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Surfers, Scammers, and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade
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Peter Maguire and Mike Ritter; Foreword by David Farber
“An extraordinary work, at once a participatory anthropology, detached sociology, cultural history, remarkable example of oral history, series of smuggling stories, and many other things to boot.” — Anders Stephanson, Columbia University “From the dank highlands of Siam to the sage-blown point breaks of Alta California, Thai Stick explores the relationship between surf culture and the ‘funny business.’ Maguire—grounded in law, history, and the surfing life—is exactly the right author for this street-level breakdown of smuggling in the 1970s.” — The Surfer’s Journal $27.95/ £19.95 cloth 978-0-231-16134-3 2013 272 pages / 36 illus.
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Picturing Power
Shifting Sands The United States in the Middle East Joel S. Migdal “A compelling narrative of American policy in the Middle East since World War II. Joel S. Migdal dissects America’s static strategic model in a region that has undergone four periods of profound change..... Eschewing visions of grand change, Migdal suggests the temperate yet more effective approach of building alliances and fostering gradual change. This is a book to be read by policy makers and students of the Middle East alike.” — Daniel Kurtzer, Princeton University, former U.S. ambassador to Egypt and Israel $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16672-0 2014 424 pages / 14 illus.
Portraiture and Its Uses in the New York Chamber of Commerce Karl Kusserow; With contributions by David L. Barquist, Elizabeth Blackmar, Daniel Bluestone, and Paul Staiti “Picturing Power is an ambitious, interdisciplinary study of the New York Chamber of Commerce’s substantial portrait collection. Picturing Power uses the Chamber’s collection as a compelling case study to explore larger questions surrounding art’s social production of meaning. The book offers a sophisticated ‘portrait’ of how high art was used by a wealthy and powerful group of men to fashion an identity that suited their corporate and civic needs. This volume is a significant and welcome addition to the literature on American art and culture.” — Martin A. Berger, University of California at Santa Cruz $60.00 / £41.50 cloth 978-0-231-12358-7 2013 424 pages / 200 illus.
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U.S. HISTORY New in paper
“A solid introduction to the topic at a good price.” — Library Journal
Destination America (DVD)
Taking It Big
The Great European Emigration
C. Wright Mills and the Making of Political Intellectuals
“A solid introduction to the topic at a good price.” — Library Journal America embodies the dream of a better life like no other country. All told, more than seventy million people made the journey to America during the great migrations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The stories of Hamburg, Bremen, and Bremerhaven, three major ports of departure, are captured in this spectacular DVD, complete with an informational booklet. Why did these people leave their homes, and what was their fate in America? For the first time, an overview of this great migration is provided in this one hundred fifty minute documentary, starting in Europe, covering the crossing, and ending in the Wild West and the ethnic neighborhoods of America’s metropolises.
Stanley Aronowitz “Rich in insight and scholarship. . . . Aronowitz has added positively to the literature on Mills and the American post-war Left with this fascinating study.” — Marx & Philosophy Review of Books “The book’s broad scope and brilliant analyses of Mills’s writings trump any of the existing overviews of his work . . . . This is indeed an invaluable addition to the existing literature.” — Journal of American Culture $26.00 / £18.00 paper 978-0-231-13541-2 $32.50 / £22.50 cloth 978-0-231-13540-5 2012 288 pages,
$15.95 978-3-8378-6002-3 DVD with bilingual booklet 2011 Edition Temmen / 80 mins.
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U.S. HISTORY Forthcoming in paper, June
Foundations of the American Century
The Dissent Papers The Voices of Diplomats in the Cold War and Beyond
The Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations in the Rise of American Power
Hannah Gurman
Inderjeet Parmar “A valuable resource for historians of philanthropy and U.S. foreign policy...anyone interested in the behind-the-scenes operations of the Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller foundations from their inception to the present day will find the author’s chronicling of events riveting.” — Philanthropy News Digest “This scholarly treatment of institutionalized philanthropy is a good pick for students and researchers of history and political science.” — Library Journal
“Fluent and insightful, The Dissent Papers is a highly impressive debut.” — American Historical Review “A welcome celebration of elegent prose and careful analysis.” — H-Diplo Roundtable “One of the best compliments that can be paid to a book is to say that it made the reader think and this book certainly accomplished that.“ — H-War $50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-15872-5 2012 296 pages / 11 illus.
$25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-14629-6 $40.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-14628-9 2012 368 pages
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U.S. HISTORY New in paper
New in paper
Intelligence and U.S. Foreign Policy
Religion in America
Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform
Denis Lacorne
Paul R. Pillar
“Anyone interested in religion and politics in the U.S. stands to be deeply informed by Lacorne’s lucid, intelligent book.” — Booklist
A Political History
“[A] rich, useful, and important book.” —New York Times Book Review “A thoroughly documented, cogently argued work by an author with vast personal experience of his topic.” — Kirkus Reviews “A vigorous and hard-hitting insider’s account.” — Foreign Affairs “A brief endorsement cannot do justice to the richness and power of his arguments, which are essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what intelligence can and cannot do.” — Robert Jervis, author of Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons from the Fall of the Shah and the Iraq War
“It’s an edifying read for someone seeking grounding in the subject as well as a userfriendly course adoption.” — History News Network “Forceful and intelligent.” — Kirkus Reviews “Provides a much welcomed viewpoint from outside our ongoing religious squabbles in American politics. Lacorne admirably avoids oversimplification while remaining eminently readable.” — Library Journal $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-15101-6 $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-15100-9
$23.00 / £16.00 paper 978-0-231-15793-3
2011 248 pages / 1 illus.
$29.50 / £20.50 cloth 978-0-231-15792-6
Religion, Culture, and Public Life
2011 432 pages
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The Columbia Guide to Religion in American History
Buddhism in America, Revised and Expanded
Edited by Paul Harvey and Edward J. Blum
Richard Hughes Seager
“Harvey and Blum have done a great service in creating this readable, accessible overview of so many important topics.” — Christian Century
Praise for the previous edition:
“An important reference work, welcome for its breadth and portability. Highly Recommended.” — Choice “Innovative approaches, new areas of inquiry, up-to-date scholarship, and profound insights are to be found in twenty essays ranging from topics such as “Colonial Encounters” to “Religion and the Environment.” I highly recommend this profound contribution to the field of religion in American history.” — Curtis J. Evans, Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity, University of Chicago Divinity School $75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-0-231-14020-1 2012 480 pages Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures
“This well-informed book provides a comprehensive survey of a variety of Buddhist traditions in the contemporary U.S. . . . [Its] strength, apart from being a mine of information, is Seager’s insistence on taking a historically informed and comparative perspective.”—Religious Studies Review “This book cries out for use as a textbook for classes on Buddhism in America.”—The Journal of Religion New material includes revised information on the full range of communities profiled in the first edition; an added study of a second generation of young, Euro-American leaders and teachers; an accessible look at the increasing importance of meditation and neurobiological research; and a provocative consideration of the mindfulness movement in American culture. $27.50 / £19.00 paper 978-0-231-15973-9 $79.50 / £55.00 cloth 978-0-231-15972-2 2012 384 pages Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series
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U.S. HISTORY New in paper
New in paper
Theos Bernard, the White Lama
The Perversion for Profit
Tibet Yoga, and American Religious Life
The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right
Paul G. Hackett
Whitney Strub
“A lively and significant study.” —Buddhadharma “A detailed and engrossing story about this enigmatic figure’s life.” — Journal of Buddhist Ethics “Part mystic, part explorer, and part con man, Theos Bernard comes to life in a tale that is both captivating and enlightening. It is a must read for anyone interested in Eastern religions in America.” — Robert A. F. Thurman, Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies, Columbia University $26.00 / £18.00 paper 978-0-231-15887-9 $32.95 / £22.95 cloth 978-0-231-15886-2
“Strub does a masterful job of making the complicated postwar legal history of the shifting definitions of obscenity clear in a nuanced analysis that is always attentive to issues of gender and sexuality.” — American Historical Review ”[Strub] conveys how pornography comes into contact with greater narratives of obscenity, permissiveness, sexuality, and gender. It is apparent from [his] accounts how pornography is a vital and rich subject for analyzing a range of social pressures and competing narratives.” — H-Histsex $26.00 / 18.00 paper 978-0-231-14887-0 $40.00 / 27.50 cloth 978-0-231-14886-3
2012 520 pages / 48 illus.
2010 (cloth) 400 pages / 10 illus.
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Mongolia and the United States
The First Chinese American
A Diplomatic History
The Remarkable Life of Wong Chin Foo
Jonathan Addleton
Scott D. Seligman
“Must reading for professional diplomats and business people preparing to work in Ulaanbaatar. Well organized and authoritative, Ambassador Addleton’s book will be welcomed by libraries and academic researchers seeking a work that puts all the data on US-Mongolia relations in one place. Lively descriptions of past history lead up to informative treatments of contemporary USAID measures to reform the Mongolian banking system, security cooperation between our military establishments, and Peace Corps people-to-people relationships. A valuable contribution to the literature on a strategic Asian country.” — Nicholas Platt, President Emeritus, Asia Society
“A satisfying book, whether as a entertaining biography of an American (and Wong was American) original, as an evocative history of post-Civil War America, or as an in-depth introduction to the Chinese struggle for equal rights.” — Asian Review of Books
$45.00 / £30.95 cloth 978-988-8139-94-1 2013 200 pages Hong Kong University Press
“Thoroughly researched and documented and elegantly written, Seligman’s The First Chinese American is an important contribution to Chinese-American history. Very little of what Seligman has discovered about Wong Chin Foo has been presented in standard publications on the Chinese in the United States, which rarely focus in such depth on individuals.” — Raymond Lum, Librarian for the Western Languages Collection, Harvard-Yenching Library, Harvard University $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-988-8139-90-3 $50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-988-8139-89-7 2013 336 pages / 40 illus. Hong Kong University Press
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AMERICAN CULTURAL HISTORY
Continental Strangers
Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939
German Exile Cinema, 1933-1951
Thomas Doherty
Gerd Gemünden
“Wide-ranging and brightly written.” — The New York Times Book Review
“A necessary and most compelling pendant to Thomas Doherty’s Hollywood and Hitler, 1933–1939. Indeed, these two recent releases provide an impressive ensemble. Doherty depicts how American film studios reacted to Nazi terror in both direct and less overt ways. Gemünden fills out the picture in a series of intriguing case studies devoted to filmmakers who fled Hitler and settled in Southern California. Sensitive to the variety of ways in which German film artists experienced emigration and exile, Gemünden’s book remains admirably attentive to the historical determinations and textual shapes of Hollywood’s anti-Nazi features.” — Eric Rentschler, Harvard University
“A witty writer familiar with Hollywood history and manners, Doherty places the studios’ craven behavior within a general account of the political culture of the movies in the thirties and forties.The New Yorker” — David Denby, The New Yorker “Mr. Doherty fully understands the studio system and how it juggled interference from its own internal agency, the Production Code Administration.” — Wall Street Journal $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16392-7 2013 448 pages / 72 illus. Film and Culture Series
$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16679-9 $90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16678-2 2014 296 pages / 40 illus. Film and Culture Series
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Electric Dreamland
Transatlantic Cultural Exchange
Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity
African American Women’s Art and Activism in West Germany
Lauren Rabinovitz
Katharina Gerund
“An excellent pick for any collection strong in entertainment and social analysis.” — Midwest Book Review
From Josephine Baker’s performances in the 1920s to the 1970s solidarity campaigns for Angela Davis, from Audre Lorde as “mother” of the Afro-German movement in the 1980s to the literary stardom of 1993 Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, Germans have actively engaged with African American women’s art and activism throughout the 20th century. The discursive strategies that have shaped the (West) German reactions to African American women’s social activism and cultural work are examined in this study, which proposes not only a nuanced understanding of African Americanizations as a form of cultural exchange but also sheds new light on the role of African American culture for (West) German society, culture, and national identity.
“Thought-provoking, theoretically savvy, and sometimes even amusing study...highly recommended.” — Choice “Amusement parks and motion pictures, Lauren Rabonovitz argues, served as unique venues of mass culture for people to adapt to modernity by experiencing its pleasures and dangers first hand and to share in the emergence of a new American national identity.” — Richard Abel, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor $27.50 / £19.00 paper 978-0-231-15661-5 $82.50 / £57.00 cloth 978-0-231-15660-8 2012 256 pages / 49 illus.
$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-2273-7
Film and Culture Series
2013 320 pages Transcript-Verlag
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AMERICAN CULTURAL HISTORY Forthcoming in paper, March
New in paper
American Showman
Hollywood’s Copyright Wars
Samuel “Roxy” Rothafel and the Birth of the Entertainment Industry, 1908-1935
From Edison to the Internet
Ross Melnick
“Both scholarly and readable, this will be of interest to movie history buffs and those who deal with copyright issues.” — Library Journal
“Book of the Year” Award from the Theatre Historical Society of America “[An] eye-poppingly informative new book. . . First-rate cultural history.” — Washington Post “American Showman is at the cutting edge of contemporary film studies. It is to this book that future generations of film scholars engaged in cultural history will turn.” — John Belton , Rutgers University, author of American Cinema/American Culture “Dr. Melnick skillfully captures the substance and durability of Rothafel’s prolific life.” — New York Times $28.00 / £19.50 paper 978-0-231-15905-0 $37.50 / £26.00 cloth 978-0-231-15904-3
Peter Decherney
“Peter Decherney shows how the copyright system shaped the American film industry and how film in turn shaped copyright. This is cultural history at its best.” — Siva Vaidhyanathan, University of Virginia, author of Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity “A splendid new study of the legal, technological, and aesthetic wrangling over motion picture copyright wrongs and rights, particularly timely.” —Moving Image Source $26.00 / £18.00 paper 978-0-231-15947-0 $34.50 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-15946-3
2012 576 pages /27 illus.
2012 304 pages /40 illus.
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AMERICAN CULTURAL HISTORY Forthcoming in paper, June
Eating History
Drinking History
Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine
Fifteen Turning Points in the Making of American Beverages
Andrew F. Smith
Andrew F. Smith
“Easy-to-digest prose and modest portions make these stories compulsively readable, and reveal new angles on old stories.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Full of rewarding details, each chapter of Drinking History tells a concise, compelling tale likely to inspire further, more expansive investigations.” — Times Literary Supplement
“In Eating History, Andrew F. Smith presents thirty essays on key events that led to our current food revolution. His choices are fascinating. Many are familiar, but most are unexpected, covering a surprising range from the Erie Canal to Cracker Jacks and Rodale’s organic gardening. I learned something from every chapter. This book is a total delight.” — Marion Nestle, New York University, and author of What to Eat: An Aisle-by-Aisle Guide to Savvy Food Choices and Good Eating
“This acts as a companion title to the author’s Eating History title that was equally well-researched and well-written and well worth a read in its own right.” — Yum.fi “Highly recommended.” — Choice $19.95 / £13.95 paper 978-0-231-15117-7 $29.95 / £19.95 cloth 978-0-231-15116-0 2012 336 pages Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
$19.95 / £13.95 paper 978-0-231-14093-5 $29.95 / £19.95 cloth 978-0-231-14092-8 2009 (cloth) 392 pages / 30 illus. Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
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Ornamenting the Cold Roast
Placing America
The Domestic Architecture and Interior Design of Upper-Class Boston Homes, 1760-1880
American Culture and its Spaces
Dorothee Wagner von Hoff This book presents the meticulous case studies of three individual houses from different eras, which serve to depict the social, political, and cultural effects that domestic architecture and interior design had on the upper class, the city of Boston, and a national American identity. It takes the reader on a journey to 18th and 19th century Boston and provides insight into the lives of these prominent men and women as seen through the perspective of their homes. It is a novel examination of the cultural significance of domestic architecture and interior design and, because of its story-telling character and extensive attention to detail, it is fascinating for curious readers and cultural historians alike. $62.00 paper 978-3-8376-2276-8
Edited by Michael Fuchs and Maria-Theresia Holub In Call Me Ishmael, Charles Olson exclaims “SPACE to be the central fact to man born in America.” Indeed, from the start, history and identity in America have been intricately tied to issues of space: from the idea of the “city upon a hill” to the transnational (soft) power of the United States, space has always served as an important parameter of power gained or lost and of the struggles to maintain or resist it. With contributions that range from the construction of America in (European) academic discourses to children’s fiction, this collection provides an extensive and insightful study of how space influences our understanding of America. $40.00 paper 978-3-8376-2080-1 2013 214 pages / 11 illus. Transcript-Verlag
2013 340 pages / 32 illus. Transcript-Verlag
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Under Siege PLO Decisionmaking During the 1982 War Rashid Khalidi “Khalidi has produced an extremely valuable analysis of how and why the P.L.O. made the decisions it did that fateful summer of 1982. For students of the middle east, his generally objective, lucid, and incisive account of P.L.O. decisionmaking fills a critical void in the literature about the Israeli invasion.” — New York Times “A gold-mine of empirical evidence and insights for students of decision-making under crisis. Khalidi is first and foremost an involved historian . . . [his] work is a much needed and welcome contribution to the modern literature on Middle Eastern history and politics.” — MERIP Middle East Report $35.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-16669-0 2013 256 pages
Conflict, Conquest, and Conversion Two Thousand Years of Christian Missions in the Middle East Eleanor H. Tejirian and Reeva Spector Simon “Fills a substantial gap in the existing literature. It is encyclopedic in its range, keeping in view the missionary struggles between eastern and western Christianity...as well as the divisions between the Protestant denominations... Simon and Tejirian’s history is conceived on a grand scale and draws together much of the recent enormous literature on the subject.” — Andrew Porter, King’s College London This volume surveys Christian missions from the earliest days of Christianity to the present, with particular emphasis on the role of Christian missions, both Protestant and Catholic, in the political and economic imperialism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-13864-2 2012 296 pages
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MIDDLE EAST Forthcoming in paper, June
New in paper
Islam Through Western Eyes
The Millennial Sovereign
From the Crusades to the War on Terrorism
Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam
Jonathan Lyons
Choice Outstanding Academic Title “A useful corrective to the powerful voices of those who intersperse claims of Islam’s innate bloodthirstiness with advocacy for suppression of the rights of Muslims at home and abroad.” — Publishers Weekly “Jonathan Lyons offers a very readable and thought-provoking account of the roots and characteristics of Islamophobia. This book should be added to the reading lists of undergraduate and graduate courses on contemporary world affairs and American foreign policy.” — H-Diplo $26.00 / £18.00 paper 978-0-231-15895-4 $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-15894-7 2012 272 pages
A. Azfar Moin
Best First Book in the History of Religions from the American Academy of Religion “Moin deserves the highest praise for venturing into this contested terrain and writing a most interesting book about it.” — American Historical Review “[Moin] has thrown an entirely new light on how early monarchs of India’s greatest dynastic house asserted their claims to royal authority. His book should be read not just by historians of South Asia but equally by those of Central Asia and Iran, as well as by specialists in Islamic studies.” -Journal of Interdisciplinary History $28.00 / £19.50 paper 978-0-231-16037-7 $55.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-16036-0 2012 368 pages South Asia Across the Disciplines
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Cairo: Images of Transition
Women in Iraq
Perspectives on Visuality in Egypt 2011-2013
Past Meets Present Noga Efrati
Edited by Mikala Hyldig Dal Cairo: Images of Transition offers a broad range of artistic and academic works that examine the relationship between aesthetics and politics in the wake of the Egyptian revolution of January 25, 2011. With an emphasis on the political processes of 2011-2012, contributors trace the shifting status of the image as a communicative tool, a witness to history, and an active agent for change.
“A very well-researched, accessible, and wellwritten piece of important scholarship, filling a gap in the existing literature on the history of Iraq and the more specific history of Iraqi women’s rights activism.” — Nadje Al-Ali, School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London “Efrati’s book is a remarkable study that deserves much praise.” — Taarii Newsletter $45.00 / £30.95 cloth 978-0-231-15814-5
$35.00 paper 978-3-8376-2615-5
2012 256 pages
2013 286 pages Transcript-Verlag
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ASIA
Sources of Tibetan Tradition
The Tibetan History Reader
Edited by Kurtis R. Schaeffer, Matthew T.
Edited by Gray Tuttle and Kurtis R. Schaeffer
Kapstein, and Gray Tuttle “Sources of Tibetan Tradition represents a mammoth and long-overdue contribution to the field, both as a basic reference tool for scholars and as a keystone of undergraduate and graduate education.” — Annabella Pitkin, Barnard College “The editors have done a remarkable job of selecting sources from a 1,500-year-old civilization for a single volume. They provide not only representative texts on Tibetan religion from all eras but also significant sources on history, politics, society, law, medicine, art, architecture, and literature.” — Roger R. Jackson, editor of The Crystal Mirror of
“[A] superb collection...give[s] an extraordinary sense of perspective.” — Asian Review of Books “This single volume offers a thorough education in Tibetan history from the founding of the Tibetan empire in the seventh century through 1951. In thirty-three topical and absorbing essays, leading historians of Asia, Europe, and North America explain exactly what the original documents say and why historians of Tibet interpret them in such dramatically different ways. Anyone who wants to learn more about Tibetan history should begin here.” — Valerie Hansen, Yale University $40.00 / £27.50 paper 978-0-231-14469-8
Philosophical Systems: A Tibetan Study of
$120.00 / £83.00 cloth 978-0-231-14468-1
Asian Religious Thought
2013 752 pages / 15 illus
$40.00 / £27.50 paper 978-0-231-13599-3 $120.00 / £83.00 cloth 978-0-231-13598-6 2013 856 pages /2 illus Introduction to Asian Civilizations
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The Dao of the Military
China’s Search for Security
Liu An’s Art of War
Andrew J. Nathan and Andrew Scobell
Translated, with an Introduction by Andrew Seth Meyer Foreword by John S. Major
“With its highly competent translation and penetrating analysis, this volume will be a valuable antidote to the widespread misapprehension that Sunzi’s Art of War and Chinese military thought are essentially coterminous.” — Journal of Military History “The Dao of the Military is a valuable addition to the body of early China’s military texts available in English. Meyer’s learned introduction and admirably readable translation provide new and fascinating insights into the intellectual world and the military thinking of ancient Chinese philosophers. It is an essential read for everyone interested in how the Chinese tradition has understood warfare.” — Nicola Di Cosmo, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University
“Comprehensive, persuasive, and empathetic, China’s Search for Security offers a fresh look.” — e-International Relations “[Nathan & Scobell] skillfully and fairly explore this complex and contradictory American-Chinese competition—without themselves being complex or contradictory.” — New York Review of Books $32.95 / £22.95 cloth 978-0-231-14050-8 2012 432 pages / 2 illus.
$19.50 / £13.50 paper 978-0-231-15333-1 $60.00 / £41.50 cloth 978-0-231-15332-4 2012 176 pages Translations from the Asian Classics
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The Birth of Chinese Feminism
Exemplary Women of Early China
Essential Texts in Transnational Theory
The Lienü zhuan of Liu Xiang
Edited by Lydia H. Liu, Rebecca E. Karl, and Dorothy Ko “This magnificent volume opens up a past and conjures a future. Anarcho-feminist He-Yin Zhen published her passionate and closely reasoned essays more than a century ago, yet the issues she raises have yet to be addressed adequately in China or anywhere else. The Birth of Chinese Feminism offers us the best of her writing and that of her feminist male contemporaries, with whom she did not always agree. The editors and translators have restored to visibility a world crackling with debate about equality, hierarchy, property, and justice. They challenge us to keep one appreciative eye on history and another on the conundrum of our own moment.” — Gail Hershatter, author of The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past
Translated and edited by Anne Behnke Kinney
“Exemplary Women of Early China is essential for understanding China’s premodern gender regime, Confucian ideology, and women’s sense of self. The Lienü zhuan provided later authors and artists with an endlessly rich source of moral exemplars to reveal behavioral norms for both genders. Kinney’s elegant and erudite translation brings to life the words and deeds of these remarkable women. A wonderfully inspiring read.” — Robin D. S. Yates, McGill University $35.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-16309-5 $105.00 / £72.50 cloth 978-0-231-16308-8 February 2014 160 pages Translations from the Asian Classics
$29.50 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16291-3 $89.50 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16290-6 2013 328 pages / 6 illus. Weatherhead Books on Asia
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Sources of Vietnamese Tradition George Dutton, Jayne Werner, and John K.
The Birth of Vietnamese Political Journalism
Whitmore
Saigon, 1916-1930
“[Sources of Vietnamese Tradition] will be indispensable for students interested in Vietnamese society and political theory. . . . Essential.” — Choice
Philippe M. F. Peycam
“This addition to the venerable Introduction to Asian Civilizations series marks a major step in the maturation of Vietnam Studies in the American academy.” — Foreign Affairs “An essential research tool for anyone interested in Vietnamese history. The editors have done a marvelous job of locating, interpreting, and translating key documents written in a variety of languages.” — Hue-Tam Ho Tai, Harvard University $35.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-13863-5 $105.00 / £72.50 cloth 978-0-231-13862-8 2012 664 pages Introduction to Asian Civilizations
“A welcome addition to the literature on the development of journalism and its role in identity formation and nationalist resistance in Vietnam, Southeast Asia, and the colonized world generally.” — American Historical Review Peycam instead gives us portraits of writers, publishers, and editors who for months and years put out popular, often financially viable, newspapers to challenge the status quo. He makes judicious use of the reports of the French security police and brings these men and their peculiar mix of French idealism and colonial hypocrisy to life. His portrait of the rapidly changing society of French Indochina’s major entrepôt emphasizes the hybrid nature of Saigon politics with fascinating detail.” — Sophie Quinn-Judge, Temple University, author of Ho Chi Minh: The Missing Years $50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-15850-3 2012 320 pages
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Never Forget National Humiliation
Early Medieval China
Historical Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations
Edited by Wendy Swartz, Robert Ford
Zheng Wang
“This magisterial volume is of singular importance to the study of early medieval Chinese history, literature, thought, and religion. Written by the Who’s Who in a field that has grown exponentially in recent years, this sourcebook presents up-to-date scholarship at the highest level. Wide-ranging in scope, rich in detail, and thoroughly interdisciplinary, it serves as the principal guide to the world of early medieval China and as a wonderful inspiration to students.” — Martin Kern, Princeton University
A Sourcebook
“Wang gives us a critically important book that provides a solid blueprint for understanding contemporary China.” — Virginia Review of Asian Studies “A timely addition to the fast-expanding literature on Chinese nationalism.” — Pacific Affairs “For those who want a deeper understanding of the Chinese conceptual realm still profoundly penetrated by the Chinese ‘victim mentality’ in the era of ‘China’s rise,’ this is a book they cannot afford to ignore.” — Chen Jian, The Michael J. Zak Chair of History for U.S.–China Relations, Cornell University
Campany, Yang Lu, and Jessey J. C. Choo
$40.00 / £27.50 paper 978-0-231-15987-6 $120.00 / £83.00 cloth 978-0-231-15986-9 February 2014 744 pages / 1 illus.
$25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-14891-7 $32.50 / £22.50 cloth 978-0-231-14890-0 2012 312 pages / 23 illus. Contemporary Asia in the World
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The Formation of the Chinese Communist Party
The China Threat
Ishikawa Yoshihiro
Nancy Bernkopf Tucker
Translated by Joshua Fogel
“Any collection strong in China culture and politics or U.S. political history will find this a winning addition.” — Midwest Book Review
Memories, Myths, and Realities in the 1950s
“Joshua Fogel has rendered Ishikawa’s 2001 Japanese study into a lucid and scrupulously prepared English edition. This account of the international aspects of the founding of the CCP is built on vivid detail and impeccable archival research. It is an important new contribution to English-language scholarship and an invitation to comparative scholars of modern Chinese history, Sino-Japanese relations, and world Marxism.” — Timothy Cheek, Institute
of Asian Research, University of British Columbia $55.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-15808-4 2012 520 pages /11 illus.
“A crisply written, judicious, and comprehensive appraisal of the Eisenhower administration’s policy towards China. It will be of greatest use to undergraduates and laymen.” — H-War “Highly recommended for students of U.S.China relations in general and U.S.-China policy during the 1950s in particular.” — Journal of American History $27.00 / £18.50 paper 978-0-231-15925-8 $39.50 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-15924-1 2012 312 pages / 12 illus.
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China
Protest with Chinese Characteristics
A New Cultural History Cho-yun Hsu “Hsu’s book is unique in the field, and makes a distinct contribution above the many other grand narratives of Chinese history. Impeccably researched and consistently insightful, this is precisely the sort of book that every serious scholar of China should keep within arm’s reach.” — China Journal “An important and original book on a permanently important topic by one of the world’s leading historians of China. The writing is lucid, often elegant, and has been beautifully translated into English.” — William C. Kirby, director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University $40.00 / £27.50 paper 978-0-231-15921-0 $120.00 / £83.00 cloth 978-0-231-15920-3 2012 632 pages / 62 illus.
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Winner of the President’s Book Award, Social Science History Association “Ambitious, informative, and stimulating, this study deserves to be widely read. Summing up: Essential.” — Choice “Hung’s clear articulation of protest cycles in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century China demands the attention of scholars interested in specific episodes of rebellion and resistance in this period as well as scholars of Qing political economy.” — Journal of Asian Studies $27.00 / £18.50 paper 978-0-231-15203-7 $50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-15202-0
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Demonstrations, Riots, and Petitions in the Mid-Qing Dynasty
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China’s Uncertain Future
Unearthing the Changes
Jean-Luc Domenach
Recently Discovered Manuscripts of the Yi Jing (I Ching) and Related Texts
Translated by George Holoch Jr.
“Now that the world’s most populous country has ceased to be an abstraction . . . French books are suddenly among the most downto-earth. The latest is Jean-Luc Domenach’s excellent La Chine m’inquiète, written after his stay in the country from 2002 to 2007. Through a hailstorm of statistics, an outline of contemporary China appears. . . . Domenach has a sharp nose for Chinese paradoxes.” — Times Literary Supplement “Informed, accessible, engaging...Highly recommended.” — Choice $32.50 / £22.50 cloth 978-0-231-15224-2 2012 208 pages
Edward L. Shaughnessy “This deeply researched book breaks new ground for the study of Chinese manuscripts and China’s methods of divination, with penetrating contributions to the scholarly handling of fragments, the recovery of lost literature and the problems of textual criticism.” — Michael Loewe, University of Cambridge “Shaughnessy has written the definitive account of these materials. Nothing like it exists, in any language. Closely argued, and drawing on impeccable control of the literature, this study re-forms our understanding of how and what the Yijing might have been.” — Kidder Smith, Bowdoin College $40.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-16184-8 April 2014 200 pages / 100 characters; 20 illus. Translations from the Asian Classics
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Shizi
Breaking with the Past
China’s First Syncretist Shizi
The Maritime Customs Service and the Global Origins of Modernity in China
Translated and edited by Paul Fischer
Hans van de Ven
“Paul Fischer’s translation of Shizi shows us that the world of thought in ancient China is a vast space, like a starry sky, and the famous thinkers such as Kongzi, Mozi, and Laozi are only the brightest of so many stars. Fischer provides a way to find many forgotten thinkers that should be reexamined, as in fact they are treasure boxes of knowledge.” — Li Ling, Peking University
“Far more than an institutional history of the Customs Service, this book is effectively a complete new history of China’s rocky entrance into the global political economy. There is no better book written at this level of historical research and archival detail on the subject of “China and the West.” — Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia
$45.00 / £30.95 cloth 978-0-231-15906-7
“This is the story of China’s economic internationalization in the century before the Communist conquest.... The eminent Cambridge historian, Hans van de Ven, has written this history in full for the first time, using an extraordinary array of Chinese and international sources. Today, as China looks to its pre-Communist past as a guide to its future, this is an important book.” — William C. Kirby, Harvard University
2012 256 pages / 20 illus.
$50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-13738-6 February 2014 432 pages / 34 illus.
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Lust, Commerce, and Corruption An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard, by an Edo Samurai Translated by Mark Teeuwen, Kate Wildman Nakai, Miyazaki Fumiko, Anne Walthall, and John Breen
The Lost Generation The Rustification of Chinese Youth (1968–1980) Michele Bonnin The Lost Generation is a vital component to an understanding of Maoism. The book provides a comprehensive account of the critical movement during which seventeen million young “educated” city dwellers were supposed to transform themselves into peasants, potentially for life. Bonnin closely examines the Chinese leadership’s motivations and the methods that it used over time to implement its objectives, as well as the day-to-day lives of those young people in the countryside, their difficulties, their doubts, their resistance, and, ultimately, their revolt. The author draws on a rich and diverse array of sources, concluding with a comprehensive assessment of the movement that shaped an entire generation, including a majority of today’s cultural, economic, and political elite. translated into English for the first time.
“This translation of Seiji kenbunroku is a wonderful and invaluable addition to our view of nineteenth-century Japan, and covers an amazing range of social groups and professions, with detailed accounts of the back-side of everyday lives. His unadulterated views and his vivid vignettes defy the textbook stereotypes. It will change forever what you thought Japan was like at the beginning of the nineteenth century.” — Haruo Shirane, Columbia University $50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-16644-7 February 2014 496 pages / 3 illus. Translations from the Asian Classics
$55.00 cloth 978-962-996-481-8 2012 400 pages / 52 illus. The Chinese University Press
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ASIA Transforming History The Making of A Modern Academic Discipline in Twentieth-Century China Edited by Brian Moloughney and Peter Zarrow
The Company and the Shogun The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan Adam Clulow “In this original and penetrating study, Adam Clulow brilliantly dissects the process through which Dutch merchants and their sponsors became subordinates rather than colonizers in Japan. The book masterfully weaves together storytelling and analysis while impressively mining both Dutch and Japanese sources. The result is not only the best available account of the Dutch East India Company in Japan but also an important contribution to the history of empire, piracy, law, and diplomacy in the early modern world. A remarkable achievement.” — Lauren Benton, New York University
Part of the Chinese University Press’s three volume series on the construction of Chinese disciplines, Transforming History examines the profound transformation of historical thought and the practice of writing history from the late Qing through the mid-twentieth century. The authors devote extensive analysis to the common set of intellectual and political forces that shaped the study of history, from the ideas ofevolution, positivism, nationalism, historicism, and Marxism to political processes such as revolution, imperialism, and modernization. Also discussed are the impact and problems associated with the nation-state as the subject of history, the linear model of historical time, and the spatial system of nation-states. The result is a convincing study that illustrates how history has transformed into a modern academic discipline in China. $52.00 cloth 978-962-996-479-5 2013 296 pages / 45 illus. The Chinese University Press
$55.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-16428-3 2013 352 pages / 11 illus The Columbia Studies in International and Global History
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The Great Difference Hong Kong’s New Territories and Its People 1898-2004
The Great Kantō Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan
James Hayes
J. Charles Schencking
“A richly textured account of this fascinating region.” — The China Journal
“In vivid detail, this timely book explores the many ways the Japanese responded to the earthquake of 1923—from debates about the meaning of the disaster through representations of the event in popular culture and the rough-and-tumble politics of reconstruction. Deeply researched and well written, it is a major contribution to the urban history of modern Japan as well as to the burgeoning field of disaster studies.” — Peter Duus, Stanford University
In 1898, Great Britain added to its colony at Hong Kong a 368-square-mile expanse of mountainous countryside and islands, leased from China for a term of 99 years, which became known as the New Territories. The colonial official, James Stewart Lockhart, after an inspection of the newly acquired extension, called it “the great difference,” describing the gulf between the people of the New Territories and their counterparts in the existing, largely urban, British colony. In this book, James Hayes argues that “the great difference” led the colonial government to administer the New Territories and its people differently from the old urban area from the outset, with repercussions that continue to affect present-day Hong Kong. First published in 2006, and now appearing in this paperback edition with a new preface, The Great Difference covers the whole period of the lease and embodies the fruits of its author’s studies of the territory and indigenous population over several decades.
$50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-16218-0 2013 400 pages / 61 illus. Contemporary Asia in the World
$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-988-8139-75-0 2013 340 pages Hong Kong University Press
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A Korean War Captive in Japan, 1597–1600
Troubled Apologies Among Japan, Korea, and the United States
The Writings of Kang Hang
Alexis Dudden
Edited and translated by JaHyun Kim
“Dudden engagingly explores how the nexus of politics, war memory and apology shapes contemporary trilateral relations between Korea, Japan and the United States.” — Japan Times
Haboush and Kenneth R. Robinson “This important text offers a fascinating glimpse into early modern Japan and Japanese-Korean relations from the perspective of a Korean official captured by Japanese invaders in 1597, contributing significantly to the growing body of scholarship on the largest military conflict (in terms of numbers) in the world in the sixteenth century. The translation is smooth and erudite and the notes are full of useful historical and cultural information, making it invaluable for students and academics.” — Kenneth M. Swope, University of Southern Mississippi
“Richly and eloquently written . . . Recommended.” — Choice “A significant contribution on the issue of historical apologies . . . This book should be required reading.” — Pacific Affairs “Rich with insights.” — Journal of World History $27.00 / £18.50 paper 978-0-231-14177-2 $55.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-14176-5 2008 (cloth) 184 pages / 30 illus.
$45.00 / £30.95 cloth 978-0-231-16370-5 2013 272 pages
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Sources of Indian Traditions
Pacific Crossing
Modern India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh Vol. 2 third edition
California Gold, Chinese Migration, and the Making of Hong Kong
Edited by Rachel Fell McDermott, Leonard
Elizabeth Sinn
A. Gordon, Ainslie T. Embree, Frances W.
“In this definitive statement about Hong Kong’s roots as the catalyst for the rise of a trans-Pacific world, Elizabeth Sinn forces us to rethink how migration connected China and North America, examining the movement of not only people but also goods in shaping how ‘Gold Mountain’ fueled the rise of Hong Kong and how migrating Chinese and the companies they created built a corridor across the Pacific.” — Henry Yu, author of Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America
Pritchett, and Dennis Dalton “The third edition of Sources of Indian Traditions is fascinating, easy to read, provocative, and relevant to the present. Two narrative lines flow, like an underground river, through the book: colonialism and the search for independence and the struggle with the ever-changing questions of nationalism. An excellent expansion of the second edition, this anthology is masterly organized, making it a unique teaching text on South Asia.” — Owen M. Lynch, New York University $75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-0-231-13830-7
$45.00 / £30.95 cloth 978-988-8139-71-2 2013 460 pages, 23 illus. Hong Kong University Press
April 2014 1128 pages / 11 illus Introduction to Asian Civilizations
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Workers, Unions, and Global Capitalism
An Imperial Concubine’s Tale
Lessons from India
Scandal, Shipwreck, and Salvation in Seventeenth-Century Japan
Rohini Hensman
G.G. Rowley
“Rohini Hensman’s wide-ranging and provocative argument should be read by all those seeking to understand the lived experience of workers in a globalizing world and the most prominent and promising responses by way of ideas and actions.” — Sanjay Reddy, New School for Social Research “[Hensman’s] work promises to move the debate over globalization and its impact on workers beyond the limits of ‘pro’ and ‘con.’” — Kim Moody, Work and Employment Research Unit, University of Hertfordshire $65.00 / £45.00 cloth 978-0-231-14800-9 2011 440 pages
“G.G. Rowley tells the extraordinary story of an aristocratic woman whose sexual escapade brought her unexpected notoriety. The cast of characters includes everyone from the emperor and the founder of the Tokugawa military regime to servants, nuns, and farmers. Of particular note is the amazing array of documents germane to this account, from poetry and court documents to a temple diary and a fictional narrative that purports to be the ‘true story.’ In Rowley’s skillful hands, they are all brought to bear in portraying life as it was lived in the early seventeenth century.” — Anne Walthall, University of California, Irvine $40.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-14374-5 2012 280 pages / 15 illus
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History and Repetition
Democracy and Islam in Indonesia
Kojin Karatani; edited by Seiji M. Lippit
Edited by Mirjam Künkler and Alfred Stepan
History and Repetition cemented Karatani’s reputation as one of Japan’s premier thinkers, capable of traversing the fields of philosophy, political economy, history, and literature in his work. The first complete translation of History and Repetition into English, undertaken with the cooperation of Karatani himself, this volume opens with his innovative reading of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, tracing Marx’s early theoretical formulation of the state. Karatani follows with a study of violent crises as they recur after major transitions of power, developing his theory of historical repetition and introducing a groundbreaking interpretation of fascism (in both Europe and Japan) as the spectral return of the absolutist monarch in the midst of a crisis of representative democracy. $29.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-15729-2 $90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-15728-5
“Democratization literature in political science has few in-depth studies of democratic transitions in Muslim-majority societies. The abundant literature on Islam and politics in Indonesia has largely neglected to compare Indonesia’s transition with those in other parts of the world. In this well-written and theoretically engaging volume, Künkler and Stepan bring together leading figures from political science and Indonesian studies to address both of these intellectual shortcomings. The result is the best volume currently available on the role of Islam and Muslims in Indonesia’s democratic transition.” — Robert W. Hefner, Boston University $30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16191-6 $90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16190-9 2013 272 pages / 3 illus. Religion, Culture, and Public Life
2011 272 pages / 5 illus. Weatherhead Books on Asia
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ASIA The Memoirs of Jin Luxian Learning and Relearning, 1916-1982 Jin Luxian; Translated by William Hanbury Tenison; With an introduction by Anthony E. Clark Jin Luxian is considered by many to be one of China’s most controversial religious figures. Educated by the Jesuits, he joined the Society of Jesus and was ordained priest in 1945 before continuing his studies in Europe. In 1951 he made the dangerous decision to return to the newly established People’s Republic of China. He became one of the many thousands of Roman Catholics who suffered persecution. Convicted of counter-revolutionary activities and treason, he was imprisoned for 27 years and only released in 1982. His subsequent decision to accept the government’s invitation to resume his prior role as head of the Shanghai Seminary and then assume the title of Bishop of Shanghai without Vatican approval shocked many Catholics. Now, some thirty years later, still serving as Bishop and regarded as one of the leading figures in the Chinese Catholic Church, Jin recounts formative experiences that provide essential insight into the faith and morality that sustained him through the turbulent years of the late 20th Century. $28.00 / £19.50 paper 978-988-8139-67-5 $60.00 / £41.50 cloth 978-988-8139-66-8 2013 324 pages / 12 illus. Hong Kong University Press
Y.K. Pao My Father Anna Pao Sohmen “This book is more than a memoir, as the subject lived an extraordinary life in an extraordinary time.” — South China Morning Post “Y. K. Pao made many selfless contributions to China’s modernization, especially in the educational sector . . . He emphasized the need to stabilize investment and prevent the outflow of capital and talent....Mr. Pao played a significant role during Hong Kong’s return to China, enhancing communication between the PRC and British governments on the issue of Hong Kong’s sovereignty by utilizing his special relationship with senior British officials. Mr. Pao deserves to be called ‘the Unofficial Ambassador’ between China and the United Kingdom.” — Lu Ping, former director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-988-8083-31-2 2013 240 pages / 69 illus. Hong Kong University Press
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Mahatma Gandhi
Harbin to Hanoi
Nonviolent Power in Action
Colonial Built Environment in Asia, 1840 to 1940
Dennis Dalton “The product of seasoned research and of several decades of teaching, reading, thinking, and acting on Gandhi’s ideas. It is a rich stew, and a feast for those who appreciate careful scholarship and the continuing power of Gandhian thought. . . . Dalton’s book helps to ensure that Gandhi’s voice will be heard beyond this generation and this century, and well into the next.” — Journal of Asian Studies “Represents the culmination of decades of research and study . . . which accounts for Dalton’s sureness of touch, cogent handling of ideas, lucid prose, and effortless movement between theory and narrative.” — American Historical Review
Edited by Laura Victoir and Victor Zatsepine In this volume, scholars of city planning, architecture, and Asian and imperial history provide a detailed analysis of how colonization worked both at the top and bottom levels of the society and how it was expressed in stone, iron, and concrete. The process of creating the colonial built environment was multilayered, complicated, and unpredictable. This book stresses the regional diversity of the colonial built form found from Harbin to Hanoi, diverse experiences of the foreign powers in Asia, flexible interactions between the colonizers and the colonized, and the many risks entailed in building and living in these colonies and treaty ports. $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-988-8139-42-2
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2013 272 pages / 50 illus.
2012 336 pages
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Imperial Contagions
Bonded Labor
Medicine, Hygiene, and Cultures of Planning in Asia
Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia
Edited by Robert Peckham and David M.
Siddharth Kara
Pomfret “This substantial collection greatly enriches our understanding of medicine, disease, and policy in colonial Asia. The contributors, from a range of disciplines, grapple fruitfully with questions surrounding medical space and the shift from enclavism to public health. In doing so, they make important theoretical and empirical contributions to medical and imperial history.” — David Arnold, author of Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-988-8139-52-1 $65.00 / £45.00 cloth 978-988-8139-12-5 2013 320 pages / 19 illus.
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“A valuable resource for policy makers, human-rights activists, legal experts and academics, as well as for businesses with supply chains in developing countries. It deserves attention, and should inspire the eradication of the insidious crime of enslavement.” — Asia Literary Review $22.00 / £15.00 paper 978-0-231-15849-7 $29.50 / £20.50 cloth 978-0-231-15848-0
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”Passionate...yet data-driven and absent of sensationalism, Kara’s spotlight on debt bondage, “at once the most ancient and most contemporary face of human servitude,” warrants profound attention.” — Publishers Weekly
2012 336 pages / 26 illus.
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Watching Over Hong Kong
Robert Morrison and the Protestant Plan for China
Private Policing 1841-1941 Sheilah E. Hamilton
Christopher A. Daily
“[Hamilton’s] book is a case study in the interplay of forces inherent in public-private policing and clearly demonstrates how the foundation stones of today’s structure of public private policing in Hong Kong were laid down.” — Offbeat “Watching Over Hong Kong is a welcome addition to the historical literature, plugging an important gap and providing a comprehensive and impressive account of the emergence of private security in Hong Kong. Sheilah Hamilton has undertaken some striking historical research and presents her findings in a highly readable and engaging style..” — Dr. Mark Button, Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth
“Through a brilliant analysis of hitherto unexplored archival material, Christopher Daily offers important new insights into Robert Morrison’s missionary career at the gates of the Chinese Empire. This eminently readable book demonstrates with great clarity how the implementation of the Gosport ‘mission template’ was religiously observed by Morrison in an exceedingly hostile environment.” — R. G. Tiedemann, Professor of Chinese History, Shandong University $60.00 / £41.50 cloth 978-988-8208-03-6 2013 272 pages Hong Kong University Press
$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-988-8028-99-3 $45.00 / £30.95 cloth 978-962-209-900-5 2008 (cloth) 244 pages Hong Kong University Press
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ASIA Imperial to International A History of St. John’s Cathedral, Hong Kong Stuart Wolfendale
Portugal, China, and the Macau Negotiations, 1986–1999 Carmen Amado Mendes “Setting Portugal’s approach to the Macau question in the context of broader domestic and international political dilemmas, Mendes provides a nuanced picture of the institutional inertias, party rivalries, and postcolonial exhaustion that shaped the entire negotiation process. She shows, paradoxically, that although these factors weakened Portugal’s position relative to China, this weakness sometimes put Portugal in the driver’s seat at the negotiating table.” — Cathryn Clayton, author of Sovereignty at the Edge: Macau and the Question of Chineseness
“Stuart Wolfendale charts how St John’s Cathedral grew from a colonial parish and official church of government into a truly international religious center and monument of Hong Kong’s historical landscape. Like that of Hong Kong itself, the history of St John’s is one of successes and setbacks, progression and regression. Generously illustrated, and neither hagiographical nor judgmental, this will remain the definitive account of one of Hong Kong’s oldest and most important churches for many years to come.” — John Carroll, author of A Concise History of Hong Kong $50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-988-8139-87-3 2013 368 pages / 40 illus. Hong Kong University Press
$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-988-8139-00-2 2013 166 pages / 2 illus. Hong Kong University Press
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The British Presence in Macau, 1635–1793
Imagining Gay Paradise
Rogério Miguel Puga
Gary L. Atkins
For more than four centuries, Macau was the center of Portuguese trade and culture on the South China Coast. Until the founding of Hong Kong and the opening of other ports in the 1840s, it was also the main gateway to China for independent British merchants and their only place of permanent residence there. Drawing extensively on Portuguese as well as British sources, The British Presence in Macau traces AngloPortuguese relations in South China from the first arrival of English trading ships in the 1630s through the establishment of factories at Canton and the beginnings of the opium trade to the Macartney Embassy of 1793. Longstanding allies in the west, British and Portuguese pursued more complex relations in the east, as trading interests clashed under a Chinese imperial system and as the British increasingly asserted their power as “a community in search of a colony.”
“An innovative, highly readable, nonfictional account of masculinity and gay male sexuality in Southeast Asia since the early 20th century. . . . Highly recommended.” — Choice
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Bali, Bangkok, and Cyber-Singapore
“Homosexuality in Southeast Asia has been studied mostly as developments in individual countries within the region. Atkins has skillfully deployed a storytelling device of several protagonists’ common attempts to create a ‘paradise’ for gay men—Bali, Bangkok and Singapore, or more precisely the space they offered to gay people at a particular period in time. The book contributes to our understanding of the important role that gender issues can play in national politics; more specifically how it can be a weapon used by politicians in their power play.” — Russell Heng Hiang Khng, author of Outlaws at the Table: Gay Activists in Singapore Civil Society
2013 200 pages Hong Kong University Press
$25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-988-808-324-4 $50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-988-808-323-7 2012 320 pages Hong Kong University Press
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ASIA Renewal The Chinese State and the New Global History Wang Gungwu The Chinese state has been the subject of fierce debates since reformers and revolutionaries first fought to redefine it at the end of the Qing dynasty. After the 1912 Revolution, when the idea of “empire” gave way to that of “nation-state,” the Chinese people sought a modern identity, re-designed their governance system and re-wrote their history. Revolution (geming) became the source of the legitimacy that the new leaders defended in a world based on state sovereignty. They soon found the task of reconciling their republic with the political culture they inherited extraordinarily difficult. They now sense that their state is neither an empire nor a nation-state and seek to renew the Chinese state through a civilization of industry and science fused with the best of their heritage. $30.00 cloth 978-962-996-536-5 2012 172 pages The Chinese University Press
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Crowds and Democracy
German Colonialism
The Idea and Image of the Masses from Revolution to Fascism
Race, the Holocaust, and Postwar Germany
Stefan Jonsson
Edited by Volker Langbehn and Mohammad
“In his strikingly choreographed and beautifully written study, Jonsson traverses an extensive archive, delving into novels and artworks, philosophy, historiography, and psychoanalysis. From this remarkable interdisciplinary bricolage emerges a profound set of insights into the shifting notions of the masses during the interwar years.” — Kerstin Barndt, University of Michigan “A magnificent sociocultural analysis, written with the erudition of the intellectual historian and the vision of a photographer in the captivating prose of the experienced journalist.” — Göran Therborn, University of Cambridge
Salama “[These] essays prove that the study of German colonialism is crucial to understanding a wide range of central issues related to German history, and that the field is becoming increasingly more interdisciplinary and transnational, and, as a result, generating substantial insights.” — German Quarterly “A state-of-the-art collection...The excellent, wide-ranging chapters quickly draw the reader into the most recent debates in literary and historical studies on German colonialism.” — H-TGS $32.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-14973-0
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Unlikely Collaboration Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma Barbara Will “Brilliant and fascinating . . . . This exceptional study provides new insights into previously hidden corners of Stein’s life.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A fine-grained, unflinching, and nuanced his-
tory.” — New York Review of Books “Exceptionally well researched and elegantly written, this book is certain to make an important contribution to and beyond Stein studies. . . . Highly recommended.” — Choice $26.00 / £18.00 paper 978-0-231-15263-1 $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-15262-4 2011 320 pages / 20 illus. Gender and Culture series
The Shining Beacon of Socialism in Europe The Albanian State and Society in the Period of Communist Dictatorship, 1944-1992 Tadeusz Czekalski In the history of European communist dictatorships, the Albanian case deserves particular attention. Half a century of Albanian communism saw an attempt to apply the model of forceful industrialisation, combined with a brutal and multifarious indoctrination of society, to a backward country which had lived in traditional tribal structures. In Albania, the model of power which was called Stalinist in Europe proved particularly durable and impossible to verify through demographic and generational changes. This work is the first to analyse the process of the ideologization of the state and its impact on the economic, social, and cultural life. An important asset of the book is its extensive use of Albanian source materials as well as works of Albanian historians. $42.00 / £29.00 paper 978-83-233-3515-3 2013 170 pages Jagiellonian University Press
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The Lemko Region in the Second Polish Republic Political and Interdenominational Issues 1918–1939
Democracy, State, and Society European Integration in Central and Eastern Europe Edited by Magdalena Góra and Katarzyna
Jarosław Moklak
Zielińska
“This is the definitive book on this subject. Jaroslaw Moklak has done thorough, careful research at relevant Polish and other archival collections and has created the most balanced, comprehensive, and complete work on the fate of the Lemko minority in interwar Poland. Every serious library or scholar specializing in Polish-Ukrainian relations or ethnic minorities in interwar Poland should have this book.” — Jacek Lubecki, director of the Center for International Studies, Georgia Southern University
This book demonstrates and assess the changes resulting from the EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007 and European integration processes, identifying both the similarities and the differences in the countries of the region. Its two main aims are to present the recent alterations in the region resulting from the processes of European integration and to offer an account of the process of Europeanisation in the countries occurring after accession to the EU that goes beyond just conditionality mechanisms. The collection also explores how the changes taking place in CEE influence theorisation on Europeanisation - a concept initially constructed to tackle the changes taking place in response to the processes of European integration in the old member states.
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$45.00 / £30.95 paper 978-83-233-3208-4 2013 320 pages Jagiellonian University Press
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Constitutional Developments of the Habsburg Empire in the Last Decades before its Fall The Materials of Polish-Hungarian Conference. Cracow, September 2007 Edited by Kazimierz Baran This volume is based upon the 2007 PolishHungarian Conference held in Cracow. The participants of the Conference discussed at length the topics concerned with the constitutional developments in the AustroHungarian empire in the final era of its existence. A series of articles published in the volume are illustrative of the Rechtsstaat tendencies as detectable in the functioning of the Austro-Hungarian administration and the judiciary, and also in the field of ChurchState relationships. Also discussed is the liberalism of the Austro-Hungarian regime in the area of emigration as well as the grass-roots initiative of the Poles in laying the foundations of Polonia Restituta prior to the end of World War I. $38.00 / £26.00 paper 978-83-233-2898-8 2013 92 pages / 6 illus. Jagiellonian University Press
Multiple Modernities A Tale of Scandinavian Experiences Gunnar Skirbekk Multiple Modernities approaches the concept of modernity through two historical phases of Norway. The first study focuses on the interplay between Lutheran state officials and popular movements in the nineteenth century as an essential aspect of the growth of social democracy. The second examination of modernization centers on twentieth-century Norway up to World War II. The book is balanced between theoretical remarks on conceptual issues (through the eyes of a trained philosopher rather than historian), an assessment of modernization processes, and a study of basic epistemic and structural challenges that confront us in our time. Scandinavian countries are often noted as cases of successful modernization processes. However, these references to a Scandinavian model tend to focus on the mid-twentieth century after World War II. In Skirbekk’s view, the uniqueness of modernization processes in Scandinavia, for instance in Norway, is better conceived by focusing on the nineteenth century, with a continuation into the twentieth century. $45.00 cloth 978-962-996-487-0 2012 250 pages The Chinese University Press
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Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time
Henry Stubbe and the Beginnings of Islam
John of Rupescissa in the Late Middle Ages
The Originall & Progress of Mahometanism
Leah DeVun
John Nicholas Brown Prize, Medieval Academy of America “DeVun has written a splendid book about medieval alchemy and apocalyptic prophecy that is truly a pleasure to read. Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time will be an essential item for anyone hoping to understand the history of science and religion in the later Middle Ages.” — Medievalia et Humanistica “DeVun’s book is well-constructed, thoroughly documented, instructive, and very useful.” — American Historical Review $28.00 / £19.50 paper 978-0-231-14539-8 $55.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-14538-1
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Edited by Nabil Matar “The most acute literary historian of Islam in the West has now given us a valuable, critical edition of Henry Stubbe’s The Originall & Progress of Mahometanism, contextualized by a well-researched introduction. Stubbe’s manuscript treatise, which drew for the first time on Arabic and non-Christian sources in Latin translation, was revolutionary in its methodology and understanding of Islam. He presented the first historical biography of the Prophet and told the story of the spread of Islam, dispelling many untruths, such as conversion by the sword, while recognizing Muslim toleration for other religions. Nabil Matar’s work illuminates an important moment in the late seventeenth century.” — Donald R. Dickson, Texas A&M University $50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-15664-6 2013 288 pages
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FOOD Forthcoming in April
Religion, Food, and Eating in North America
Italian Identity in the Kitchen, or Food and the Nation
Edited by Benjamin E. Zeller, Marie W.
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Dallam, Reid L. Neilson, and Nora L. Rubel
“This slim volumes is a delightful excursion into the cuisine and culture of Italy.” — Booklist
“From a Georgia farm to the salmon runs of the Pacific Northwest, from Sylvester Graham to hip vegans, Americans draw tight links between their food and their faith. This volume’s authors use a variety of disciplinary lenses-historical, sociological, anthropological-to look at the ways in which religious belief has shaped food practices, and vice-versa....Looking at both insiders and outsiders, these essays help us think about what it means to be American, as well as what it means to be religious--and force us to broaden our definition of religion. With implications for health, commerce, and the environment, they remind us that food is never just about food, and religion is rarely just about religion.” — Daniel Sack, author of Whitebread Protestants: Food and Religion in American Culture
“Eminently readable, fascinating, and a pleasure to read, Italian Identity in the Kitchen explains why we have always identified ‘Italianness’ by Italian cuisine.” — Marta Braun, Ryerson University $26.50 / £18.50 cloth 978-0-231-16084-1 2013 128 pages Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
$35.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-16031-5 $105.00 / £72.50 cloth 978-0-231-16030-8 April 2014 384 pages / 11 illus. Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
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Fashioning Appetite
The Land of the Five Flavors
Restaurants and the Making of Modern Identity
A Cultural History of Chinese Cuisine
Joanne Finkelstein “An original, inventive, deliciously clever, necessary book that invites overindulgence in all the most delightful ways. Joanne Finkelstein has always had a sharp eye for seeing deep into our cultures of conviviality, consumption, and chic.” — Glenda Sluga, University of Sydney Public spaces have become platforms for the invention and display of self-identity, especially in the affluent West where the restaurant, from local café to Michelin-starred establishment, deftly stages these performances. In this follow-up to her classic Dining Out: A Sociology of Modern Manners, Joanne Finkelstein takes a fragment of social life—restaurant dining—and uses it to examine the dramatic effect our public behavior and social habits have on our private desires and sense of identity.
Thomas O. Höllmann “Anyone interested in China or in food history needs this book, an insightful introduction to China’s food traditions that is anchored in an understanding and appreciation of centuries of Chinese history and culinary culture, from the earliest empires to the present day.” — Naomi Duguid, author of Burma: Rivers of Flavor “This engaging look at China’s culinary history will appeal to readers interested in China and those who enjoy books on cooking.” — Library Journal $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16186-2 2013 216 pages / 48 illus. Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
$35.00 cloth 978-0-231-16796-3 February 2014 224 pages Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
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FOOD Forthcoming in paper, June
Creamy and Crunchy An Informal History of Peanut Butter, the All-American Food
Food A Culinary History Edited by Jean-Louis Flandrin and Massimo
Jon Krampner
Montanari
“Enjoyable and informative.” — New Yorker
“Essential reading for students of the rich and influential culinary tradition rooted in the Mediterranean. It is provocative in providing a framework for a more general history of European foodways.” — Journal of Social History
“Creamy and Crunchy is the definitive history of this scrumptious staple, an enterining and informative read.” — The Past in Review “A comprehensive and entertaining account of peanut butter and how this popular food assumed its place in American food culture. . . . This informal, folksy discussion will likely appeal to curious consumers and those interested in the history of food.” — Library Journal “An enjoyable, interesting overview of an important part of American culture...highly recomended.” — Choice
“From the Bible and ancient Egypt to the ‘banquets’of the Middle Ages and the ‘McDonaldization’of Europe, Food: A Culinary History covers the immense history of the table throughout the world. Well researched and scholarly, it is essential reading for the historian and the lover of social studies as well as the modern cook and gourmet.” — Jacques Pépin $24.95 / £16.95 paper 978-0-231-11155-3
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The Metamorphoses of Fat
Let the Meatballs Rest
A History of Obesity
And Other Stories About Food and Culture Massimo Montanari
Georges Vigarello “Vigarello offers up a grande bouffe of food for thought, tracing the impact of evolving mores and medicines on society’s perception of an often stigmatized condition.” — Nature “Vigarello masterfully traces...the stigmatization of the fat person over time.” — Times Literary Supplement
“Montanari’s erudition is manifest throughout the book. He assiduously avoids both commonplaces and pedantry and provokes thought, thrilling anyone looking to understand on a profound level why we eat what we eat.” — Booklist “Delectable.” — Times Literary Supplement
“Gluttony—whether perceived or real—has become the ultimate deadly sin in our secularized Western world. The Metamorphoses of Fat tackles with depth and breadth the history of obesity from the Middle Ages to the present from a wide interdisciplinary and cultural perspective.” — Jean-Jacques Courtine, The University of Auckland
“A textured, surprising, and brightly astringent read.” — Boston Globe $26.50 / £18.50 cloth 978-0-231-15732-2 2012 192 pages Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
$29.50 / £20.50 cloth 978-0-231-15976-0 2013 296 pages / 25 illus. European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
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Capital of Capital
The Greatest Grid
Money, Banking, and Power in New York City
The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011
Steven H. Jaffe, Jessica Lautin, and Museum of the City of New York Based on a major exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York, Capital of Capital profiles the key leaders and critics of banking, such as Alexander Hamilton, the Rockefellers, and the Occupy Wall Street protesters. The book also covers the key events and controversies that have shaped the history of banking and includes a fascinating array of primary materials ranging from speeches and political documents to advertisements and journalistic accounts. Lavishly illustrated, Capital of Capital provides a multifaceted, original understanding of the profound impact of banking on the life of New York City and the world’s economy. $45.00 cloth 978-0-231-16910-3 May 2014 288 pages / 150 illus.
Edited by Hilary Ballon “You don’t have to be a geometry major to love The Greatest Grid.” —New York Times Laying out Manhattan’s street grid and providing a rationale for the growth of New York was the city’s first great civic enterprise, not to mention a brazenly ambitious project and major milestone in the history of city planning. The Greatest Grid incorporates archival photos and illustrations, primary documents and testimony, and magnificent maps with essential analysis. The text follows the grid’s initial design, implementation, and evolution, and then speaks to its enduring influence. Constituting the first sustained examination of this subject, this text describes the social, political, and intellectual figures who were instrumental in remaking early New York, not in the image of old Europe but as a reflection of other American cities and a distinct New World sensibility. $40.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-15990-6 2012 224 pages / 200 illus; gatefold
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They Wished They Were Honest
Reds at the Blackboard
The Knapp Commission and New York City Police Corruption
Communism, Civil Rights, and the New York City Teachers Union
Michael F. Armstrong
Clarence Taylor
“A must-read for anyone concerned about corrupt cops, past or present.” —New York Times
“Offers a highly readable and engaging story of the rise of [the Teacher’s Union] model, as well as the ferocious onslaught against it during the McCarthy era...a must-read.” — Socialist Worker.org
“An impartial and detailed account of one of the most corrupt eras in recent police history.” — Library Journal “Mike Armstrong’s brilliant inside account of the Commission’s work is as gripping as a novel and a compelling read for anyone interested in criminal justice or in New York City.” — William M. Treanor, dean, Georgetown University Law Center $29.50 / £20.50 cloth 978-0-231-15354-6 2012 272 pages, 20 illus
“Clarence Taylor’s superb history of the left-led New York City Teachers’ Union (1916-1964), fills a void in the historical record of teacher unionism and education in the United States, providing important background on recurring controversies of curriculum, due process, academic freedom, testing, transfers, community involvement, civil rights, and the need for more Black and Latino teachers.” — Jeffrey B. Perry, author of Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 $28.00 / £19.50 paper 978-0-231-15269-3 $60.00 / £41.50 cloth 978-0-231-15268-6 2011 (cloth) 384 pages / 10 illus.
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Until the Fires Stopped Burning 9/11 and New York City in the Words and Experiences of Survivors and Witnesses Charles Strozier “Strozier’s intimate yet comprehensive, visceral, and intellectual dissection of 10 years of trauma, fear, and recovery is full of pain and mystery, radiance and strength.” — Booklist Based on the testimony of survivors, bystanders, spectators, and victim’s friends and families, Until the Fires Stopped Burning brings much-needed clarity to the conscious and unconscious meaning of 9/11 and its relationship to historical disaster, apocalyptic experience, unnatural death, and the psychological endurance of trauma. Charles Strozier interprets and contextualizes the memories of witnesses and compares their encounter with 9/11 to the devastation of Hiroshima, Auschwitz, Katrina, and other events Kai Erikson has called a “new species of trouble” in the world. $22.00 / £15.00 paper 978-0-231-15899-2 $28.95 / £19.95 cloth 978-0-231-15898-5 2012 (cloth) 312 pages / 20 illus.
Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City Jonathan Soffer “Provides an invaluable resource for urbanists, historians, scholars of New York, and anyone interested in this extraordinary subject, city, and time.” — Journal of American History “Soffer’s biography is a successful exploration of the history of one of New York’s most charismatic mayors. It delivers on its promises on several levels, telling the history of Ed Koch the person, analyzing his politics, and then situating the story within the radical changes of Koch’s political activism. This book is well written, accessible, thoughtful, and deals with a subject many New Yorkers care deeply about.” — Sven Beckert, Harvard University, author of The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie $24.95 / £16.95 paper 978-0-231-15033-0 $34.95 / £23.95 cloth 978-0-231-15032-3 2010 528 pages / 19 illus. Columbia History of Urban Life
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The Plebeian Experience
Global Intellectual History
A Discontinuous History of Political Freedom
Edited by Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori
Martin Breaugh
“A milestone, a collection of the first importance for global historians and intellectual historians alike.” — David Armitage, Harvard University, author of Foundations of Modern International Thought
“The Plebeian Experience is a rich, discontinuous history of plebeian uprisings from the founding of republican Rome to the present. Martin Breaugh writes vividly of these holidays of the oppressed in ancient Rome, Renaissance Italy, and modern Europe as seen through the eyes of Livy, Machiavelli, Montesquieu, Marx, Thompson, Soboul, and Abensour. Those who follow the Occupy or the Aboriginal Idle No More Movements will obtain fresh insight and exhilaration from Breaugh’s highly readable account of these spontaneous struggles for dignity.” — Ed Andrew, University of Toronto $55.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-15618-9 2013 344 pages
“Conceptually and substantively sophisticated, this volume of essays will be widely welcomed by a variety of historians. The field is a burgeoning one, but there is little to shape it collectively at present. This volume is among the first to focus on the comparative merits of global intellectual history.” — Duncan Kelly, University of Cambridge, author of The Propriety of Liberty: Persons, Passions, and Judgement in Modern Political Thought $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16048-3
Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History
2013 352 pages / 1 illus. Columbia Studies in International and Global History
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Memory, Trauma, and History
The Great Civilized Conversation
Essays on Living with the Past
Education for a World Community
Michael S. Roth
Wm. Theodore de Bary
“Exceptional and wide-ranging.” — Times Higher Education
“This is a timely and imaginative set of essays, inviting readers to reconsider education in the classics in a more global fashion and to reconsider the Confucian and East Asian heritage in light of their contribution to liberal education goals. The results are sometimes surprising yet consistently constructive.” — Peter N. Stearns, provost, George Mason University
“Not only does it stand out as a profound interdisciplinary study on the multilayered facets of (collective) memory and its (re)construction, but it is in itself a valuable record of contemporary discourses on memory, since its essays were written over more than twenty years.” — Modern Language Review $29.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-14569-5
$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16276-0 2013 432 pages
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“Parkinson successfully shows that same-sex love and desire are an integral part of human history.” — Publishers Weekly
“With this engaging, wide-ranging, and impressively researched book, which tracks the global history of the ‘world population problem’—including fascinating forays into debates on eugenics, birth control, colonization, soil, food, agriculture, and the carrying capacity of the earth—Bashford joins a very select group of historians who have recently taken the familiar narratives of world history in an entirely new direction: toward the historical origins of modern ‘planetary consciousness.’ A timely and brilliant piece of work.” — Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago
“Moving and fascinating.” — The Sunday Times “This little gay history is a little terrific book... highly recommended.” — Library Journal $19.95 paper 978-0-231-16663-8 2013 128 pages / 80 color photos
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This volume contains eight studies written by scholars from Great Britain, Israel, Poland, and the United States. The contributors are all specialists in Greek history, and their essays deal with different aspects of the period’s history, focusing on historiography, political evelopments, and military actions and events. $42.00 / £29.00 paper 978-83-233-3483-5 2013 180 pages
“At the risk of undermining the title itself, Nuclear Nightmares will not actually give you nightmares. It will make you see that our giant, supposedly intractable nuclear problem is solvable, now, in this generation. A fascinating and vital book” — Rachel Maddow, Host of MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show”
Jagiellonian University Press
“Cirincione’s gripping, harrowing account of the arms race debate is essential reading for those concerned with a fickle world prone to threats and terrorism.” — Publishers Weekly $26.95 / £18.95 cloth 978-0-231-16404-7 2013 280 pages
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Lawrence J. Friedman “Through this thorough portrait, “Love’s Prophet” emerges as an exemplar of enjoying an examined life to its fullest potential.” — Publishers Weekly “The brilliantly comprehensive study of psychoanalyst Erich Fromm’s (1900–1980) many “lives” as a clinician, philosopher, social critic and political activist...Academic biography at its best.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) $29.95 / £19.95 cloth 978-0-231-16258-6 2013 410 pages / 15 illus.
Steven M. Cahn and Victor L. Cahn; Foreword by Mary Ann Caws
“The authors, both exceptionally talented writers and teachers, present the material at the right level of detail, organize it well, and engage their readers. The book is an invaluable resource for anyone serious about writing well.” — Peter Markie, University of Missouri “If you would like to improve your writing, read this wondrous book, then read it again.” — Christine Vitrano, Brooklyn College $14.95 / £9.95 paper 978-0-231-16089-6 $49.50 / £34.00 cloth 978-0-231-16088-9 2013 104 pages
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