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Karl MarxGreatness and Illusion

Gareth Stedman Jones

HAn EconomistBest Book of the YearHA New York Times Book ReviewEditors ChoiceHA Seminary Co-op Notable Book of the Year

[Gareth Stedman Jones] has written the deinitive biography

of Marx for our time.

Peter E. Gordon, New York Times Book Review

Important[Stedman Jones] bring[s] exceptional learning to

the business of rooting Marx in the intellectual and political life

of nineteenth-century Europe.

Louis Menand, New YorkerBelknap Press 2016 30 halftones, 4 maps 768 pp. $35.00 | 25.95 cloth9780674971615 World rights except United Kingdom, Commonwealth & Europe

The Habsburg EmpireA New History

Pieter M. Judson

HA EuropeNowEditors PickHA TelegraphBest History Books for Christmas Selection

Pieter M. Judsons book informs and stimulates. If his account of

Habsburg achievements, especially in the 18th century, is rather

starry-eyed, it is a welcome corrective to the black legend usually

presented. Lucid, elegant, full of surprising and illuminating details,

it can be warmly recommended to anyone with an interest in

modern European history.

Tim Blanning, Wall Street Journal

Belknap Press 2016 40 halftones, 7 maps 592 pp.$35.00 | 25.00 cloth 9780674047761

Park Chung Hee and Modern KoreaThe Roots of Militarism, 18661945

Carter J. Eckert

This pathbreaking book contributes to both modern Korean history

and Japanese colonial history by exploring the instruction that Park

Chung-hee (who went on to lead South Korea from 1961 to 1979) and

others of his generation received when they were oficer trainees in

the Japanese colonial army in the 1940s.

Andrew J. Nathan, Foreign Affairs

Belknap Press 2016 36 halftones, 2 maps 512 pp.$39.95 | 29.95 cloth 9780674659865

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SommeInto the Breach

Hugh Sebag-Monteiore

HA TelegraphBest Book of the Year

[Sebag-Monteiore] utilizes the

intimate archives of letters, diaries,

and dispatches to produce a far

more detailed and individualized

portrait of the subject than earlier

big single-volume treatmentsThe

narrative moves easily from the

larger logistical tangles back at

headquarters to the experiences of

the men ighting in the front lines,

and Sebag-Monteiore is every bit

as authoritative writing about the

birth of air and tank warfare as he

is picking apart the psychologies of

the men involved[An] enormously

satisfying book.

Steve Donoghue,

Christian Science Monitor

Belknap Press 2016

65 halftones, 21 maps 656 pp.

$35.00 cloth 9780674545199

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CharlemagneJohannes Fried

Translated by Peter Lewis

Charlemagneis relentless in

the accumulation of detail and

austerely comprehensive in its

endnotesThis Charles the Great

is unmistakably Karl der Grosse

Matching the mood of our times,

blood-lecked Realpolitikand

smoldering religious intolerance

are very much to the foreFew

[Charlemagne biographies] capture

so well the unlovely realities of

Carolingian politics and the sheer

technical dificulty of ruling a

medieval empire in the ab sence

of a state apparatus.

Michael Kulikowski,

Wall Street Journal

In this splendid biography, Fried

shows that Charlemagne remains

a igure to b e reckoned with even

12 centuries after his death.

Publishers Weekly

2016 8 color illus., 62 halftones,

2 maps 688 pp.

$39.95 | 25.00 cloth

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Heart of EuropeA History of the Holy Roman Empire

Peter H. Wilson

HAn EconomistBest Book of the Year

An ambitious, sprawling tome that seeks to rehabilitate the Holy

Roman Empires reputation by re-examining its place within the

larger sweep of European historyHeart of Europesucceeds

splendidly in rescuing the empire from its critics.

Mark Molesky, Wall Street Journal

Belknap Press 2016 10 color illus., 10 halftones, 20 line illus. 1008 pp.$39.95 cloth 9780674058095 United States and its dependencies only

The Triumph of EmpireThe Roman World from Hadrian to Constantine

Michael Kulikowski

This is a wonderfully broad sweep of Roman history. It tells the

fascinating story of imperial rule from the enigmatic Hadrian

through the dozens of warlords and usurpers who fought for

the throne in the third century AD, to the Christian emperors of

the fourthafter the biggest religious and cultural revolution

the world has ever seen.

Mary Beard, University of Cambridge

History of the Ancient World 2016 35 color illus., 14 maps 400 pp.$35.00 cloth 9780674659612 Nor th Ame ric a onl y

History and Presence

Robert A. Orsi

[A] brilliant, theologically sophisticated exploration of the

Catholic experience of Gods presence through the material

worldOn every levelfrom its sympathetic, honest, and some-

times moving ethnography to its astute analytical observations

this book is a scholarly masterpiece.A. W. Klink, Choice

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Cover credit: Charlemagne with model of Palatine Chapel by Casper Johann

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ThundersticksFirearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America

David J. Silverman

A good measure of a work of history is whether it changes the way we

understand its subject. By that measure, David J. Silverman succeeds

admirably in ThundersticksIn Silvermans sober, sprawling account,

America is a nation built on slaves and guns.

Thomas E. Ricks, New York Times Book Review

Silverman tells this sad and bloody story with verve, making this an

essential work for scholars of colonial encounters.

Publishers Weekly

Belknap Press 2016 28 halftones, 1 map 400 pp.

$29.95 | 22.95 cloth 9780674737471

Tibet in AgonyLhasa 1959

Jianglin Li

Translated by Susan Wilf

Should be required reading.

Jonathan Mirsky, The Spectator

Remarkablefor its meticulously researched and detailed expos

of Chinese duplici ty and ruthlessnessWhat you hear turning every

page of this bookthe irst book written with full access to oficial

Chinese documents and accounts of the eventsis the sound of

scales falling from the eyes.

Mick Brown, Literary Review

2016 30 halftones, 7 maps 464 pp. $29.95 | 22.95 cloth 9780674088894

The War WithinDiaries from the Siege of Leningrad

Alexis PeriBy mining an extraordinarily rich treasure trove of unpublished diaries,

Peri moves beyond relating what happened during the blockade and

instead explains how Leningraders made sense of it. Sophisticated,

nuanced, and extremely well written, The War Withinis a major contri-

bution to our understanding of the mentality of Leningrads civilians

during the blockade and the role that diaries played in Soviet history.

Richard Bidlack, coauthor of The Leningrad Blockade, 19411944



This VastSouthern EmpireSlaveholders at the Helm ofAmerican Foreign Policy

Matthew Karp

Combining immense erudition

with an engaging style, Karp sheds

light on an important but poorlyunderstood era in American foreign

policy and provides much food for

thought about the ways in which

the Davisonian legacy continued

to inluence the United States long

after slavery died.

Walter Russell Mead,

Foreign Affairs

Adept and detailedKarps

thorough and polished study

will be eagerly welcomed byscholars.

Publishers Weekly

2016 7 halftones, 3 maps,

3 tables 368 pp.

$29.95 | 22.95 cloth

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From the Waron Poverty to theWar on CrimeThe Making of MassIncarceration in America

Elizabeth Hinton

HA New York TimesNotable

Book of the YearHA New York Times Book Review

Editors ChoiceHA Publishers WeeklyFavorite

Book of the YearHA Seminary Co-op Notable

Book of the YearHCo-Winner, Thomas J. Wilson

Memorial Prize

A revelationA reader cannot

help reckoning with the truth that

the problem of police brutality

and mass incarceration wont beremedied with technology and

training. Those of us who believe

in the principles of democracy and

justic e would do well to witness,

as detailed in Hintons pages, the

shameful theft of liberty in this so-

called land of the free.

Imani Perry,

New York Times Book Review

2016 11 halftones 464 pp.

$29.95 | 23.95 cloth

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The French Resistance

Olivier Wieviorka

Translated by Jane Marie Todd

The work of [a] seasoned scholar and energetic researcherThe

ultimate question is what difference the French Resistance re-

ally made. Wieviorka considers this matter most fully.

Robert O. Paxton, New York Review of Books

MagisterialWieviorka shows that the Resistance was divided

and fragmented from the start, and that the many and varied

organizations that constituted it were often driven by political

ideology[An] engrossing book.

Richard J. Evans, London Review of Books

Belknap Press 2016 1 line illus., 3 maps 592 pp.$39.95 | 31.95 cloth 9780674731226

FreudIn His Time and Ours

lisabeth Roudinesco

Translated by Catherine Porter

HA Times Higher EducationBook of the Week

Through seamlessly and eloquently weaving together

details from Freuds time and our own, [Roudinesco] providesa refreshingly new and welcome accountwarts and all.

Janet Sayers, Times Higher Education

A welcome reminder of Freuds considerable inluence on

20th-century intellectual life.

Samuel Moyn, The Nation

2016 1 chart 592 pp. $35.00 | 25.00 cloth 9780674659568

Red EllenThe Life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist

Laura Beers

In Red Ellen, Laura Beersdraws a multifaceted portrait, captur-

ing the woman herself as well as her remarkable political career.

Martin Rubin, Wall Street Journal

Beers has produced a detailed account of an extraordinary life.

Clare Griiths, Times Higher Education

2016 30 halftones 568 pp. $29.95 | 20.00 cloth 9780674971523

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Once Within BordersTerritories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging since 1500

Charles S. Maier

In this bril liant and sweeping narrative, Maier shows how,

beginning in the seventeenth century, sovereignty and territory

became intertwined as states built borders, reorganized systems

of labor and capital, and forged domains of law and authority.

G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs

Belknap Press 2016 16 halftones 416 pp. $29.95 | 22.95 cloth 9780674059788

The Cold World They MadeThe Strategic Legacy of Roberta and Albert Wohlstetter

Ron Robin

ProvocativeThe Cold World They Madeis a withering indictment

of the Wohlstetters and their inluence on defense policy.

Philip Taubman, New York Times Book Review


Preparing for WarThe Emergence of the Modern U.S. Army, 18151917

J. P. Clark

A subtle, sophisticated, and immensely insightful contribution to U.S.

military history. Combining intimate understanding with admirable

critical distance, J. P. Clarks study stands alone in describing the in-

tellectual evolution of the army oficer corps. His story may end with

World War I, but its impl ications echo down to the present day.

Andrew J. Bacevich, author of

Americas War for the Greater Middle East



Nothing Ever DiesVietnam and theMemory of War

Viet Thanh Nguyen

HFinalist, National Book Awardin Noniction

HA Kirkus ReviewsBestNoniction Book of the Year

HA ListenerBest Book of the YearHA Seminary Co-op Notable

Book of the Year

Nothing Ever Diesis an account

of humanity at its darkest, a realm

of war, memory, identity and pain

that ventures from the jungles

of Vietnam to the killing ields of

Cambodia.

Jeffrey Fleishman,

Los Angeles Times

[An] eloquentnarrative of theVietnam Wars psychological impact

on combatants and civilians

Nguyen succeeds in delivering

a potent critique of the war and

revealing what the memories of

living have meant for the identities

of the next generation.

Publishers Weekly


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The Politics ofMourningDeath and Honor in ArlingtonNational Cemetery

Micki McElya

An insightful and affecting

investigation of how Americans

see themselves, and how theymemorialize their soldiers, that

will be of interest to historians and,

particularly, veterans.

Edwin Burgess,

Library Journal

(starred review)


$29.95 | 22.95 cloth

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The Good OccupationAmerican Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace

Susan L. Carruthers

A disturbing look at the experiences of the after-army: the

American service-people who stayed on active duty after the

Second World War, charged with rebuilding the places they had

helped to destroy. Frank, often harsh voices from letters, diaries

and memoirs serve up inconvenient truths: the armed forces

caste system and racism; casual cruelty and venality trumping

conscience; fraternisation (and prostitution and rape) with

blowsy frauleins and anxious to please Japanese maids.

Times Higher Education


Admiral Bill HalseyA Naval Life

Thomas Alexander Hughes

Smartly written[It] deserves to supplant E. B. Potters 21-year-

old Bull Halseyas the standard life of i ts subjectHughes is an

entertaining writer and an incisive observer.

James D. Hornischer, Wall Street Journal


Elviss ArmyCold War GIs and the Atomic Battlefield

Brian McAllister Linn

Brian Linns history holds lessons for us: be wary about claims

of revolutionary change in warfare; ind ways to keep service-

men and women connected to those in whose name they serve;

recognize that the American military s advantage over potential

enemies is more human than technological. This is a book for

scholars, students, soldiers, and citizens.

H. R. McMaster, author of Dereliction of Duty


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8/36

Elusive RefugeChinese Migrants in the Cold War

Laura Madokoro

Madokoro shows that our grasp of the history of refugees is woefully

incomplete unless we take proper account of the international re-

sponse to those who led mainland China in the wake of the Chinese

RevolutionInnovative in conception and execution, Elusive Refuge

makes a very signiicant contribution to our understanding of the

modern worlds response to refugees.

Peter Gatrell, author of The Making of the Modern Refugee


Accidental StateChiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the Making of Taiwan

Hsiao-ting Lin

A model of rigorous scholarship and revisionist argument. Using a

wide variety of primary materials, Lin shows the early Cold War in

Asia was a time of fast and unexpected change and that the estab-

lishment of a new pol ity on Taiwan came about in highly contingent

circumstances. This is a powerful and exciting argument to our

understanding of modern Cold War and Chinese history.

Rana Mitter, author of Forgotten Ally


Unlikely PartnersChinese Reformers, Western Economists,

and the Making of Global China

Julian Gewirtz

HA Marginal RevolutionBest Non-Fiction Book of the Year

Gewirtzs account of Chinas transition from Marxist central

planning to socialist market economics is masterful: detailed,

balanced, and i lluminatingThis is a revelatory account of Chinas

economic evolution, its debt to Western economic thought, and

its love-hate relationship with capitalism.

Publishers Weekly(starred review)

I loved this book. I t is a tour de force on China, the theory of policy

advising, and the history of economic thought, all rolled into one.

Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution



Chinas CronyCapitalismThe Dynamics of Regime Decay

Minxin Pei

HAn EconomistBest Book of the YearHA Financial TimesBest Economics

Book of the Year

Peis book is quietly devastatingWith clinical precision, Pei explains

how corruption operates at every

level, perverting each branch of

the party-state and subverting the

political authority of the regime

This book is essential reading for

anyone who wishes to understand

China today, or engage with it at any

level, in any ield.

The Economist

Xi Jinping claims to be eliminatingcorruption from Chinas economic

and political systems. Pei, one of

the worlds most knowledgeable

scholars, argues that this is

impossible because corruption is

the system.

Martin Wolf, Financial Times

2016 10 tables 376 pp.

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9/36

The Discoveryof ChanceThe Life and Thoughtof Alexander Herzen

Aileen M. Kelly

HA New York Times Book ReviewEditors Choice

If you read only one book related toRussia this year, this should be it.

Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs

[A] gripping biography of a tragic

if courageous life[The] hidden

strands in Herzens thought,

painstakingly uncovered here by

Aileen Kelly, provide yet another

compelling reason we should read

the melancholy old Russian again

and recognize, in his anguished

attempt to defend human freedomin dark times, amid all the cruelty

of history, that he is truly our

contemporary.

Michael Ignatieff,

New York Times Book Review


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Uyghur NationReform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier

David Brophy

This work on the Uyghurs, a 10-million strong Turkic Muslim

minority residing mainly in Xinjiang in western China, is a

welcome contribution to a recent rise in Uyghur studies

A remarkable account of a people searching for identity

at the intersection of empire.

M. Chakars, Choice


A Book of Conquest

The Chachnamaand Muslim Origins in South AsiaManan Ahmed Asif

HA BBC History MagazineGlobal History Book of the Year

Ahmeds re-reading will no doubt provoke scholars in both

Pakistan and India. It cuts against the grain of the way the

Chachnamahas been discussed and taught for centuries.

Though its rigorously argued style may not help win the

readership it deserves outside academia, the book comes

at a pivotal time.

Kanishk Tharoor,Hindu Business Line

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Twelve Infallible MenThe Imams and the Making of Shiism

Matthew Pierce

An exemplary work on a hitherto understudied yet highly signii-

cant topic. Pierce succeeds admirably in making these biogra-

phies speak to central concerns in the contemporary study of

Shiism in particular and of Islam in generalThis compact and

accessible work will go a long way towards offering a robust

understanding of a major religious phenomenon.

Ahmet Karamustafa, University of Maryland

2016 272 pp. $45.00 | 35.95 cloth 9780674737075

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10/36

Democracys SlavesA Political History of Ancient Greece

Paulin Ismard

Translated by Jane Marie Todd

This is not a conventional work of ancient history, and so much

the better. Ismard challenges our dependence on inluential

comparisons of ancient and modern democracies, ancient and

modern slave societies. Democracys Slavesis forceful, engaging,

erudite, and sophisticated.

Page duBois, University of California, San Diego

2017 208 pp. $35.00 | 25.95 cloth 9780674660076

The Empire That Would Not DieThe Paradox of Eastern Roman Survival, 640740

John Haldon

The Empire That Would Not Dieis the latest contribution from a

proliic scholar who has been laying the foundations of Byzantine his-

tory for the last twenty-ive years. Haldon returns to seventh-century

Byzantium with a new approach full of fresh insights.

Averil Cameron, Keble College, University of Oxford

Carl Newell Jackson Lectures 2016 7 maps, 1 graph, 3 tables 432 pp.$45.00 | 35.95 cloth 9780674088771

Legal PlunderHouseholds and Debt Collection in Late Medieval Europe

Daniel Lord Smail

Legal Plunderis only partly about the exploration of grand interpre-

tive ideas using a medieval case study. The book will also stimulate

readers interested primarily in debates about the economy, society

and culture of late medieval Europe. Its main conclusions will surely

excite discussion and further exploration.

Christopher Briggs, History Today

2016 15 color illus., 8 halftones, 2 line illus., 6 graphs, 4 tables 344 pp.$39.95 | 31.95 cloth 9780674737280


The First EuropeanA History of Alexanderin the Age of Empire

Pierre Briant

Translated by Nicholas Elliott

With its vast erudition, and careful

attention to minor as well as major

igures from Montesquieu toDroysen and beyond, Pierre Briants

book is nothing less than a tour

de forceThis is a signiicant and

weighty contribution to a real global

intellectual history.

Sanjay Subrahmanyam,

University of California,

Los Angeles

2017 13 color illus.,

17 halftones, 3 tables 496 pp.

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11/36

The MenorahFrom the Bible to Modern Israel

Steven Fine

Fine meticulously documents how

this well-known, still-extant artifact

became a familiar and important

symbol for the Jewish people and

the State of Israel, despite initiall y

representing the Romans defeat ofthe Jews in Jerusalem.

Amanda Folk, Library Journal

MagisterialFine displays a

savvy approach to his st udy of the

menorah.

Jonathan Kirsch,Jewish Journal

2016 50 color illus. 304 pp.

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The Mormon JesusA Biography

John G. Turner

The Mormon Jesusis an example of excellent Mormon

scholarship that can be found from authors outside the

faithA worthy look at the LDS faith.

Doug Gibson, Standard-Examiner


Insanity and Sanctity in ByzantiumThe Ambiguity of Religious Experience

Youval Rotman

Rotmans approach and interpretation are bold and novel

Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantiumgives a central and decisive

role to psychology in interpreting the historical phenomenon

of holy fools. This is an intriguing and inspiring book that will

have a profound impact.

Kostis Smyrlis, New York University

2016 272 pp. $39.95 | 29.95 cloth 9780674057616

Our Divine DoubleCharles M. Stang

In this lively, insightful book, Stang tackles a major problem

in the history of ancient religion, and sheds much light on a

forgotten chapter in the archaeology of the person. Major

instances, such as Thomas, Jesuss twin brother, and Manis

heavenly twin, are studied in the context of a Platonic tradition

going from Socratess daimon to Plotinus.

Guy Stroumsa, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

and University of Oxford

2016 1 line illus. 320 pp. $49.95 | 39.95 cloth 9780674287198

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12/36

African Pentecostals in Catholic EuropeThe Politics of Presence in the Twenty-First Century

Annalisa Butticci

Excellent and highly readableThe different sides have surprising

commonalities, and it is in this area that the book makes its greatest

contribution to the literature on migrant religion.

Philip Jenkins, Books & Culture


Beyond TimbuktuAn Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa

Ousmane Oumar Kane

Kanes compelling intellectual history of West Africa places Timbuktu

within a much broader tradition of Is lamic learning in the region,

which was home to other medieval knowledge centers and which

continues to advance the study of Arabic philology even todayHis

wide-ranging book focuses on the intellectual traditions of the region

and its role in the production and circulation of key Arabic-language

texts regarding religion, law, and ethics.

Nicolas van de Walle, Foreign Affairs

2016 296 pp. $39.95 | 31.95 cloth 9780674050822

The Scriptural Universe of Ancient Christianity

Guy G. Stroumsa

Stroumsa covers scriptural history with remarkable sophistication

and provides here a comprehensive review of ancient Christian

book culture.

Brian Stock, Pontiical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

and Collge de France

2016 192 pp. $39.95 | 29.95 cloth 9780674545137

The Anglophone worlds

most readily accessible

collection of classical

masterpiecesWith

their digitization, [the

translations] have crossed

yet another frontier.

TOM HOLLAND,

Wall Street Journal

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13/36

Legible ReligionBooks, Gods, and Rituals in Roman Culture

Duncan MacRae

With this book on the role of writing in Roman religion, MacRae

offers a reasoned and persuasive corrective to current scholar-

ship. While scholars center all too often on the importance of

ritual action and religious practice, Legible Religion provides a

timely and important reminder that writing, reading, and think-

ing about religion were just as essential to peoples religious

identities in the Roman world as were their sacriices and vows.

Andreas Bendlin, University of Toronto

2016 272 pp. $49.95 | 39.95 cloth 9780674088719

Everyday RenaissancesThe Quest for Cultural Legitimacy in Venice

Sarah Gwyneth Ross

An innovative, highly signiicant, and original contribution to the

study of early modern European cultural history. Ross makes a

concrete, well-documented case that cultural pursuits served

an important set of purposes in helping early modern people

craft their identities.

Christopher S. Celenza, author of Machiavelli

I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History 2016 256 pp.$49.95 | 39.95 cloth 9780674659834

Success and SuppressionArabic Sciences and Philosophy in the Renaissance

Dag Nikolaus Hasse

A must-read for people working on the histories of philosophy,

medicine, or science in Renaissance Italy. In this important book,

Hasse challenges a reigning paradigm in Renaissance studies,

documenting the continuing centrality of the Arabic tradition inItaly and the complex interactions of humanism and Arabism in

scientiic and philosophical teaching and debates.

Katharine Park, Harvard University

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We can only welcome an

undertaking like the Murty

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which intends to inject

fresh blood directly into

the circulatory system of

the English language. Any

intelligent reader cannot fail

to be favorably impressed

in the presence of the

variegated offerings of the

series first titles.

Roberto Calasso,

New York Review of Books

The Murty Classical Library

is uncovering Indias

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It illuminates lost things,

brings back to recognition

texts that were once crucial.

Neel Mukherjee,

New Statesman

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14/36

Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture

Edited by Claudio Fogu Wulf Kansteiner Todd Presner

These essays provide a new framework for the study of collectiveviolence and state terror at a global scaleA must read for anyone

interested in the past and future of Holocaust studies and a great

tribute to Saul Friedlnder.

Andreas Huyssen, author of Miniature Metropolis


The Nazi-Fascist New Order for European Culture

Benjamin G. Martin

As Benjamin G. Martin shows in his bold and impressive book,Germany, in close collaboration with Mussolinis Italy, tried to recast

European culture in accordance with their ideological aimsMartins

book is a work of great originality because it does not focus on the

art, nor on individual artists, ilm-makers and writers, but instead

draws our attention to the policies enacted by the Nazi-fascist

regimes to transform the cultural market.

Gavin Jacobson, New Statesman


Belonging to the NationInclusion and Exclusion in the Polish-German Borderlands, 19391951

John J. Kulczycki

Kulczycki seeks to show how the stories of those who left Poland

for West Germany in the 1950s do not easily it the narrow categories

of expulsion or economic migrationKulczycki has written an engag-

ing and deeply informative account of nationalization policies in the

German-Polish borderlandsJudicious and fairly written, the book

reminds readers that the need to respect the cultural variety of the

region remains relevant to this day.

Winson Chu, HNet Reviews

2016 3 maps, 9 tables 416 pp. $49.95 | 39.95 cloth 9780674659780


amon de ValeraA Will to Power

Ronan Fanning

[A] sharp new biography

of de Valera.

Fintan OToole,


De Valera is the subject of manybiographies, including several

authorized productions that he

carefully supervised. But amon de

Valera: A Will to Power, by Ronan

Fanning, stands outAn astute,

nuanced and highly readable life

that manages to be both sharply

critical and expansive in its

judgme nts. In this era of doorstop

biographies, Fanning d eserves

extra praise for accomplishing all

this in a trim 300 pages.

Michael ODonnell,

Wall Street Journal


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15/36

DemocracyA Case Study

David A. Moss

This set of well-documented,

accessible essays presents the

prickly challenges facing the rapidly

changing American democracy, for

lawmakers and citizens a likeA

sterling educational tool thatoffers a fresh presentation of how

democracy in America has always

been a contact sport.

Kirkus Reviews

(starred review)

Belknap Press 2017

1 graph, 19 tables 784 pp.

$35.00 | 25.95 cloth

9780674971455

Shaper NationsStrategies for a Changing World

Edited by William I. Hitchcock

Melvyn P. Leler Jeffrey W. Legro

The idea that some states, while not Great Powers, play a

very large role in shaping the development of their regions

is a good one, and the essays by a diverse set of authors

provide insightful and well-grounded discussions of the

particular casesReaders will learn a lot about an important

set of countries, how the U.S. may respond, and what this

means for the future of world politics.

Robert Jervis, author of Why Intelligence Fails

2016 4 graphs 224 pp. $35.00 | 27.95 cloth 9780674660212

Free Speech and Unfree NewsThe Paradox of Press Freedom in America

Sam Lebovic

How could a nation proud of i ts commitment to free expression

also be a place where journalists must scour through leaked

documents to learn basic facts about government policies?

Sam Lebovics spectacular and important book shows how

the idea of a right to know dropped out of twentieth-century

understandings of the First Amendment. Essential for under-

standing what has become of an American free press.

Mary L. Dudziak, author of War Time

2016 352 pp. $39.95 | 31.95 cloth 9780674659773

Legislating InstabilityAdam Smith, Free Banking, and the Financial Crisis of 1772

Tyler Beck Goodspeed

Goodspeeds novel interpretation of the Ayr crisis revises

the historical record and advances our understanding of the

workings of unregulated banking. It is masterly.

George Selgin, Director, Center for Monetary

and Financial Alternatives, The Cato Institute

2016 4 halftones, 19 graphs 224 pp. $39.95 | 31.95 cloth 9780674088887

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16/36

Battle for Bed-StuyThe Long War on Poverty in New York City

Michael Woodsworth

This original and well-written account of postwar community activism

makes an excellent and provocative case that Bed-Stuy, long over-

shadowed by Harlem, is a key site for understanding postwar African

American history.

Karen Ferguson, author of Top Down


Africans in the Old SouthMapping Exceptional Lives across the Atlantic World

Randy J. Sparks

Afr icans in the Old Southis an original and illuminating biographical

narrative of six Africans whose diverse and compelling stories chal-

lenge us to think deeply about African mobility and resourcefulness

across the uneven geographies of Atlantic slavery and abolition.

Sharla M. Fett, author of Working Cures

2016 15 maps 224 pp. $26.95 | 21.95 cloth 9780674495166

The Roots of Urban Renaissance

Gentrification and the Struggle over Harlem

Brian D. Goldstein

Weve waited far too long for a book like Goldsteins. We see, through

his efforts, how debates over community control, modernist and

insurgent architecture, and public/private partnerships owe much of

their ongoing salience to the experience of redevelopment in Harlem.

Indeed, if the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s captures a distinctive

cultural lowering, the Harlem of the 1960s and 1970s, in Goldsteins

able hands, similarly stands in for America.

N. D. B. Connolly, author ofA World More Concrete

2017 42 halftones, 1 map 400 pp. $39.95 | 29.95 cloth 9780674971509


Shantytown, USAForgotten Landscapesof the Working Poor

Lisa Goff

In her broadly researched debut

book, Goff traces the history of

shanties in America, beginning

with Thoreaus famous cabin on

Walden Pond.

Kirkus Reviews

Lisa Goff s Shantytown, USAis not

your ordinary American Studies

cuppa joe. But its one of thos e

books you might pick up in a loose-

change moment of curiosity and

ind yourself utterly unable to put

down because its so unexpected, so

smart, so good.

Dana D. Nelson,

American Literary History


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17/36

Americas DreamPalaceMiddle East Expertiseand the Rise of theNational Security State

Osamah F. Khalil

Offers a wide-ranging exploration

of the complex relationshipbetween the knowledge that

Americans have produced about

the Middle East and the exercise of

American power in the region, from

the First World War down to the

invasion of Iraq. Well-researched

and engagingly written, it should

be of interest to scholars and

nonscholars alike.

Zachary Lockman,

author of Field Notes2016 5 halftones 440 pp.

$35.00 | 25.95 cloth

9780674971578

Afro-Latin AmericaBlack Lives, 16002000

George Reid Andrews

Black lives matter in Latin American historyThis is classic

Andrews, hands on the evidence, head around the big picture,

a lover of paradox. Both a masterful introduction for the newly

curious and a master class for old hands like me.

John Charles Chasteen, author of Born in Blood and Fire

The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures 2016 2 maps, 2 graphs, 4 tables 136 pp.$24.95 | 19.95 cloth 9780674737594

Informed Power

Communication in the Early American SouthAlejandra Dubcovsky

HMichael V. R. Thomason Book Award,Gulf South Historical Association

Alejandra Dubcovsky offers a nuanced interpretation of the

ways in which early Americans communicated. She is a master

of the primary source evidence and employs her keen analytic

abilities to reveal not only that knowledge was power in this

early modern world but how it circulated and who it beneited.

A groundbreaking work.

Peter C. Mancall, University of Southern California


Brahmin CapitalismFrontiers of Wealth and Populism in Americas First Gilded Age

Noam Maggor

A rich and truly original history of industrial capitalism that

ties Boston to the trans-Mississippi West. [Maggor] offers

a penetrating and bracing analysis of the spatial dynamics

of capital accumulation and the political forces that haverestrained itA remarkable book.

Elizabeth Blackmar, Columbia University

2017 14 halftones, 7 graphs 304 pp. $39.95 | 29.95 cloth 9780674971462

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18/36

Lysenkos GhostEpigenetics and Russia

Loren Graham

[Grahams] survey of the terrifying milieu in which Lysenko thrived

includes a discussion of the eugenics movement in the Soviet Union,

and the short book thus encompasses two major types of threat to

the integrity of scientiic inquiry: institutional interference from with-

out and political infection from within. The latter threat, in particular,

is ever presentGrahams survey of Lysenkoism and eugenics in

Soviet Russia contains important lessons about threats to the health

of science.

Nicholas Wade, Wall Street Journal


Who Owns the Dead?The Science and Politics of Death at Ground Zero

Jay D. Aronson

Absorbing.

Brian Bethune, Macleans

Thoroughly researched, eminently judicious, powerful, and poignant

Aronson emphasizes throughout his ine book that Americans must

ind ways to understand, respect, and respond to the immense bur-dens bereaved families carry, as well as the cultural, economic, and

political implications of public commemorations of mass deaths.

Glenn C. Altschuler, Philadelphia Inquirer

2016 336 pp. $29.95 | 22.95 cloth 9780674971493

Vanishing AmericaSpecies Extinction, Racial Peril, and the Origins of Conservation

Miles A. Powell

Powells intention is to illuminate a little-known chapter of Americanhistory, a lengthy period when wilderness was a racially charged

conceptThe book deserves to be included in current discussions

of class, race, and gender. It indicates how highly intelligent and

educated, even often well-intentioned, individuals can band together

to promote divisive and discriminatory causes.

Louise Fabiani, Paciic Standard



Bone RoomsFrom Scientific Racism toHuman Prehistory in Museums

Samuel J. Redman

HA ChoiceOutstanding AcademicTitle Top 25 Selection

[A] remarkable examination

of scientiic racism, biologicalanthropology, and the mission of

medical museums.

Publishers Weekly

(starred review)

Bone Roomsdetails the nascent

views of racial science that

evolved in U.S. natural history,

anthropological and medical

museums. These debates spilled

into public museum spaces,

arraying human bodies insometimes controversial, even

macabre, exhibits. Redman

effectively portrays the remarkable

personalities behind them.

David Hurst Thomas, Nature


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19/36

Letters of aDead ManPrince Hermannvon Pckler-Muskau

Edited and translated by

Linda B. Parshall

HA New Statesman

Best Book of the Year

A treat and a treasure.

Richard C. Evans, New Statesman

Linda Parshalls elegant new

translation provides the irst

complete English editionIt is

in Pcklers observations of the

society he encounters that the

Lettersreally come into their own

They are a joy to read: lively, well

observed, imbued with gentle self-

irony and a good eye for a story

even, and perhaps especially, when

the author is the butt of it.

Maren Meinhardt,

Times Literary Supplement

Ex Horto: Dumbar ton Oaks Texts

in Garden and Landscape Studies

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library

and Collection 2016

126 color illus., 3 maps 800 pp.

$75.00 | 59.95 cloth

9780884024118

From Steel to SlotsCasino Capitalism in the Postindustrial City

Chloe E. Taft

HA Planetizens Top Planning Books for 2017

As a case study of the steel industrys decline and casino-based

postindustrial economic development, From Steel to Slotsoffers

up illuminating detail and storytelling.

Catherine Tumber, In These Times


Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial RussiaDebt, Property, and the Law in the Age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy

Sergei Antonov

With imagination and rich detail, [Sergei Antonov] shows

how informal personal credit pervaded every aspect of culture,

society, and government, undergirding the social order and

an entire regime of private property ownershipA masterly

addition to the new cultural and social history of debt.

Bruce H. Mann, author of Republic of Debtors

Harvard Historical Studies 2016 6 halftones, 14 tables 400 pp.$49.95 | 36.95 cloth 9780674971486

Rage for OrderThe British Empire and the Origins of International Law,

18001850

Lauren Benton Lisa Ford

This book is a major achievement. Benton and Ford provide

a powerful new way of understanding the global reach and

effects of modern British imperialism. By connecting projects

of colonial governance with new visions of global legal order-

ing, they offer a bold rethinking of the imperial context for the

emergence of modern international law.

Robert Travers, Cornell University


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20/36

TamilA Biography

David Shulman

HA Seminary Co-op Notable Book of the Year

Shulman is a priceless advocate of the language and its many

masterpieces.

Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly

An impressive monument to Tamil, written with erudition and wit. This

biography deals with much more than languageliterature, culture,

geography, history, all combine in praise of beauty and love.

Tzvetan Todorov, National Center for Scientiic Research, Paris

Belknap Press 2016 416 pp. $35.00 | 25.00 cloth 9780674059924

The Irish Enlightenment

Michael Brown

This controversial reading of the modern Irish mind is a very welcome

addition to the ongoing 2016 debates about where Ireland comes

from and where it hopes to go.

Richard Kearney, Irish Times

Impressively detailed scholarshipBrownhas written a big, brave

and important book. He has authoritatively shown that a debate

about enlightenment took place in Ireland and that the debate was in

part constitutive of the phenomenon itself.

David Dwan, Times Literary Supplement

2016 640 pp. $39.95 | 25.00 9780674045774

The BanjoAmericas African Instrument

Laurent Dubois

HA ChoiceOutstanding Academic Title Top 25 Selection

Dubois illuminates the banjos complicated cultural history

This lively account is not without surprises.

New Yorker

[A] riveting history of the banjoWhile the story Dubois tells is

primarily historical and sociological, it is also musical, and he

never lets us forget the magical hum that distinguishes the banjo

from the guitar and other stringed instruments.

Tom Gilling, The Australian

Belknap Press 2016 20 halftones 384 pp. $29.95 | 23.95 cloth 9780674047846


DanteThe Story of His Life

Marco Santagata

Translated by Richard Dixon

HA Times Literary SupplementBest Book of the Year

HA Marginal RevolutionBestNon-Fiction Book of the Year

HA Seminary Co-op NotableBook of the Year

HA Times Higher EducationBook of the Week

Santagatahas written an

impressive new biography that

takes into consideration every

bit of reliable and s emireliable

information available to us about

Dantes life, from his birth in

Florence in 1265 to his death in

Ravenna in 1321If you are looking

for the most thorough, factually

based account of Dantes life and

times to date, Santagata is your

man.

Robert Pogue Harrison,


Belknap Press 2016

8 line illus. 496 pp.

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21/36

Just aroundMidnightRock and Roll and theRacial Imagination

Jack Hamilton

HA WBURs The ArteryHolidayGift Guide Selection

Brilliant[A] valuable engagementwith the unheard narrative of race

in rock and roll.

Emma Rees,

Times Higher Education

Ambitious and rewardingJust

Around Mid nightseeks to tell the

story of [black] erasure [from

rock n roll], and it does so quite

compellingly by bringing t ogether

artists and songs that our implicitly

segregationist narratives haveencouraged us to keep apart.

Kevin J. H. Dettmar,

Chronicle of Higher Education

2016 3 halftones, 5 music illus.

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Flaubert

Michel Winock

Translated by Nicholas Elliott

HA WBUR Best Book of the Year

This generous study ingeniously builds a narrative around

Flauberts own wordsfrom not only the novels but also

voluminous correspondence and unpublished work. Adding

light background and analysis, Winock allows the mind of

the Master to shine.

New Yorker

Noted French historian Winocks biography succeeds in

presenting a fresh portrait of a man plagued by paradoxes.

Erica Swenson Danowitz, Library Journal


Authors in CourtScenes from the Theater of Copyright

Mark Rose

Well-written, erudite, informative, and engagingWe see the way

that personalities inlect the supposedly impartial law; we see

the role of gender in authorial self-fashioning; we see some ofthe fault lines which produce litigation; and we get a nice his-

tory of the evolution of the fair use doctrineGoing forward, no

one writing about any of the cases Rose discusses can afford to

ignore his contribution.

Lewis Hyde, Kenyon College


Writing for HireUnions, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue

Catherine L. Fisk

This is an incisive work of scholarship and historical recon-

struction that not only captures the dilemma of authorship in

corporatized ilm, TV, and advertising but also demonstrates

the central importance of good old-fashioned trade unionism

in defending the creativity, status, and income of even the

most renowned writersCatherine Fisks eye-opening book is

essential reading.

Nelson Lichtenstein, author ofA Contest of Ideas

2016 320 pp. $35.00 | 25.95 cloth 9780674971400

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22/36

The Animal GameSearching for Wildness at the American Zoo

Daniel E. Bender

What emerges is a story of adaptation and survival that exposes

the modern zoo as a third natureThose who are ethically opposed

to zoos will ind plenty here to strengthen their case. But with zoos

power of reinvention, it seems likely that this third nature will be

with us for some time.

Henry Nicholls, Nature


Natural Interests

The Contest over Environment in Modern France

Caroline Ford

This thoughtful analysis of the people, documents, and controver-

sies evoked by ecological themes in France since the revolution

highlights the play of anxiety and nostalgia that underpinned sites of

consciousness and trajectories in environmental actions and policies.

G. W. McDonogh, Choice

2016 18 halftones, 2 maps, 1 table 296 pp. $49.95 | 39.95 cloth 9780674045903

The Rhinoceros and the MegatheriumAn Essay in Natural History

Juan Pimentel

Translated by Peter Mason

In a series of brilliantly illuminating juxtapositions, between

Renaissance and Revolution, between the worlds of the East and

West Indies, and, above all, between the enterprises of analysis

and description, Pimentels astute book shows how the work of

imagination and of ingenious imagery has long played a decisive

if neglected role in making natural knowledge.

Simon Schaffer, University of Cambridge



The Tupac AmaruRebellion

Charles F. Walker

HNorris and Carol Hundley Award,Paciic Coast Branch of theAmerican Historical Association

HA Financial TimesBest HistoryBook of the Year

[This is] t he irst extended surveyof the causes and the course of the

Tupac Amaru rebellion to appear in

English s ince 1966Walker skillfully

blends narrative with explanation

to construct a harrowing story

of violence and atrocities on an

enormous scale[It] will give

Anglophone readers a perceptive

and reliable account of the terrible

events that occurred far away from

what they naturally regard as the

principal center of action at thattime, the British North American

colonies, a mere 322,000 square

miles in size, as compared with an

Andean surface area approaching

two million.

J. H. Elliott,


Belknap Press 2016; 2014

12 halftones, 10 maps

376 pp. $19.95 | 15.95 paper

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