Harvard University Press Fall 2011 Catalog

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GENERAL INTEREST ................1
ACADEMIC TRADE ................35
LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY .......52
HISTORY ..........................54
RENAISSANCE STUDIES ..........59
HUMANITIES ......................60
SCIENCE & MEDICINE ...........63

ECONOMICS & BUSINESS /
POLITICS & LAW .................66
DISTRIBUTED BOOKS ............70
PAPERBACK .......................83
RECENTLY PUBLISHED .........104

AUTHOR / TITLE INDEX .........107
ORDER INFORMATION .........108
Cover: Swiss National Museum, DIG-1418
Inside front cover: “Galileo che mostra il

cannocchiale alle muse dell’ ottica, dell’
astronomia e della matematica” by Stefano
Della Bella, 1655. S.S.P.S.A.E e per il Polo
Museale della città di Firenze - Gabinetto
Fotografico
catalog design:
sheila barrett-smith
No Enemies, No Hatred
Selected eSSayS and PoemS
Liu Xiaobo
F O R E W O R D B Y V Á C L AV H AV E L
EDITED BY PERRY LINK , TIENCHI MAR TIN -LIAO, AND LIU XIA
H LIU XIAOBO IS WINNER OF THE 2010 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
When the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on December 10, 2010, its recipient, Liu
Xiaobo, was in Jinzhou Prison, serving an eleven-year sentence for what Beijing called
“incitement to subvert state power.” In Oslo, actress Liv Ulmann read a long statement
the activist had prepared for his 2009 trial. It read in part: “I stand by the convictions I
expressed in my ‘June Second Hunger Strike Declaration’ twenty years ago—I have no
enemies and no hatred. None of the police who monitored, arrested, and interrogated
me, none of the prosecutors who indicted me, and none of the judges who judged me
are my enemies.”
That statement is one of the pieces in this book, which includes writings span-
ning two decades, providing insight into all aspects of Chinese life. Originally selected
by his wife, Liu Xia, these works not only
chronicle a leading dissident’s struggle
against tyranny but also enrich the record
L i u X i a o b o , winner of the Nobel
of universal longing for freedom and dig-
Peace Prize, is a Chinese writer and
nity. Liu writes pragmatically, yet with
human rights activist.
deep-seated passion, about peasant land dis-
putes, the Han Chinese in Tibet, child slav-
ery, the CCP’s Olympic strategy, the
Internet in China, the contemporary craze for Confucius, and the Tiananmen massacre.
Also presented are poems written for his wife, public documents, and a foreword by
Václav Havel.
This collection is an aid to reflection for Western readers who might take for
granted the values Liu has dedicated his life to achieving for his homeland.
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w w w. h u p. h a r va rd. e d u m h a r va rd u n i ve r s i t y p ress 1
Deng xiaoping and the
transformation of China
Ezra F. VogEL
Perhaps no one in the twentieth century had a greater long-term impact on world history than
Deng Xiaoping. And no scholar of contemporary East Asian history and culture is better quali-
fied than Ezra Vogel to disentangle the many contradictions embodied in the life and legacy of
China’s boldest strategist.
Once described by Mao Zedong as a “needle inside a ball of cotton,” Deng was the prag-
matic yet disciplined driving force behind China’s radical transformation in the late twentieth
century. He confronted the damage wrought by the Cultural Revolution, dissolved Mao’s cult
of personality, and loosened the economic and social policies that had stunted China’s growth.
Obsessed with modernization and
technology, Deng opened trade rela-
tions with the West that lifted hun-
E z r a F. V o g E L is Henry Ford II Professor of the
dreds of millions of his countrymen
Social Sciences, Emeritus, at Harvard University
out of poverty. Yet at the same time
and former Director of Harvard’s Fairbank Center
he answered to his authoritarian
for East Asian Research and the Asia Center.
roots, most notably when he
ordered the crackdown in June
1989 at Tiananmen Square.
Deng’s youthful commitment to the Communist Party was cemented in Paris in the
early 1920s, among a group of Chinese student-workers that also included Zhou Enlai. Deng
returned home in 1927 to join the Chinese Revolution on the ground floor. In the fifty years of
his tumultuous rise to power, he endured accusations, purges, and even exile before becoming
China’s preeminent leader from 1978 to 1989 and again in 1992. When he reached the top,
Deng saw an opportunity to creatively destroy much of the economic system he had helped
build for five decades as a loyal follower of Mao—and he did not hesitate.
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2 w w w.hup.ha r va rd. e d u m h a r va rd u n i ve r s i t y p re s s
religion in Human Evolution
From the Paleolithic to the axial age
robErt N. bELLah
“t his is aN EXtraordiNariLy rich book . t hErE is NothiNg LikE it iN EXistENcE .

o F coursE , it wiLL bE chaLLENgEd . b ut it wiLL briNg thE dEbatE a grEat stEp
Forward , EVEN For its dEtractors .”
—c harLEs tayLor
Religion in Human Evolution is a work of extraordinary ambition—a wide-ranging, nuanced

probing of our biological past to discover the kinds of lives that human beings have most often
imagined were worth living. It offers what is fre-
quently seen as a forbidden theory of the origin
of religion that goes deep into evolution, espe-
r o b E r t N . b E L L a h is Elliott
cially but not exclusively cultural evolution.
Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the
How did our early ancestors transcend University of California, Berkeley, and
the quotidian demands of everyday existence to
coauthor of Habits of the Heart.
embrace an alternative reality that called into
question the very meaning of their daily strug-
gle? Robert Bellah, one of the leading sociolo-
gists of our time, identifies a range of cultural capacities, such as communal dancing, storytelling,
and theorizing, whose emergence made this religious development possible. Deploying the lat-
est findings in biology, cognitive science, and evolutionary psychology, he traces the expansion
of these cultural capacities from the Paleolithic to the Axial Age (roughly, the first millennium
BCE), when individuals and groups in the Old World challenged the norms and beliefs of class
societies ruled by kings and aristocracies. These religious prophets and renouncers never suc-
ceeded in founding their alternative utopias, but they left a heritage of criticism that would not
be quenched.
Bellah’s treatment of the four great civilizations of the Axial Age—in ancient Israel,
Greece, China, and India—shows all existing religions, both prophetic and mystic, to be rooted
in the evolutionary story he tells. Religion in Human Evolution answers the call for a critical his-
tory of religion grounded in the full range of human constraints and possibilities.
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rElIgIoN / soCIology
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american oracle
the civil War in the civil rightS era
daVid w. bLight
Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, a century after the signing
of the Emancipation Proclamation, Martin Luther King, Jr., declared, “One hundred years later,
the Negro still is not free.” He delivered this speech just three years after the Virginia Civil War
Commission published a guide proclaiming that “the Centennial is no time for finding fault or
placing blame or fighting the issues all over again.”
David Blight takes his readers back
to the centennial celebration to determine
d aV i d w. b L i g h t is Professor of how Americans then made sense of the
American History and Director of the Gilder suffering, loss, and liberation that had
Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, wracked the United States a century ear-
Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University lier. Amid cold war politics and civil rights
and author of A Slave No More.
protest, four of America’s most incisive
writers explored the gulf between remem-
brance and reality. Robert Penn Warren,
the southern-reared poet-novelist who
also By DavID W. BlIgHt recanted his support of segregation; Bruce
Race and Reunion Catton, the journalist and U.S. Navy offi-
HUp / IsBN 978-0-674-00819-9 / $24.50* pb cer who became a popular Civil War his-
torian; Edmund Wilson, the century’s
preeminent literary critic; and James Bald-
win, the searing African-American essayist and activist—each exposed America’s triumphalist
memory of the war. And each, in his own way, demanded a reckoning with the tragic conse-
quences it spawned.
Blight illuminates not only mid-twentieth-century America’s sense of itself but also the
dynamic, ever-changing nature of Civil War memory. On the eve of the 150th anniversary of
the war, we have an invaluable perspective on how this conflict continues to shape the coun-
try’s political debates, national identity, and sense of purpose.
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the russian origins of the
first World War
sEaN McMEEkiN
“t his book shouLd ForEVEr chaNgE thE ways wE haVE uNdErstood thE roLE
oF r ussia iN thE F irst w orLd war .”
—M ichaEL s. N EibErg , author oF D ancE of ThE f uRiEs
The catastrophe of the First World War, and the destruction, revolution, and enduring hostili-
ties it wrought, make the issue of its origins a perennial puzzle. Since World War II, Germany
has been viewed as the primary culprit.
Now, in a major reinterpretation of the con-
flict, Sean McMeekin rejects the standard
s E a N M c M E E k i N is Assistant Professor
notions of the war’s beginning as either a
of International Relations at Bilkent
Germano-Austrian preemptive strike or a
University in Turkey.
“tragedy of miscalculation.” Instead, he
proposes that the key to the outbreak of
violence lies in St. Petersburg.
It was Russian statesmen who also By sEaN m C mEEkIN
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in the Near East. Unlike their civilian coun-
terparts in Berlin, who would have pre-
ferred to localize the Austro-Serbian conflict, Russian leaders desired a more general war so
long as British participation was assured. The war of 1914 was launched at a propitious moment
for harnessing the might of Britain and France to neutralize the German threat to Russia’s goal:
partitioning the Ottoman Empire to ensure control of the Straits between the Black Sea and the
Mediterranean.
Nearly a century has passed since the guns fell silent on the western front. But in the
lands of the former Ottoman Empire, World War I smolders still. Sunnis and Shiites, Arabs and
Jews, and other regional antagonists continue fighting over the last scraps of the Ottoman inher-
itance. As we seek to make sense of these conflicts, McMeekin’s powerful exposé of Russia’s
aims in the First World War will illuminate our understanding of the twentieth century.
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the Unintended reformation
hoW a religiouS revolution Secularized Society
brad s. grEgory
“a strikiNgLy braVE aNd widE - raNgiNg work . t his is , iN thE LargEst sENsE , aN
EFFort to iNtErprEt thE coNtEMporary worLd . a N astoNishiNg achiEVEMENt.”
—a NthoNy t. g raFtoN
In a work that is as much about the present as the past, Brad Gregory identifies the unintended
consequences of the Protestant Reformation and traces the way it shaped the modern condition
over the course of the following five centuries. A hyperpluralism of religious and secular beliefs,
an absence of any substantive common good,
the triumph of capitalism and its driver, con-
sumerism—all these, Gregory argues, were
b r a d s . g r E g o r y is Dorothy G. long-term effects of a movement that marked
Griffin Associate Professor of History at the end of more than a millennium during
the University of Notre Dame and which Christianity provided a framework for
author of Salvation at Stake (HUP). shared intellectual, social, and moral life in the
West.
Before the Protestant Reformation,
Western Christianity was an institutionalized
worldview laden with expectations of security for earthly societies and hopes of eternal salva-
tion for individuals. The Reformation’s protagonists sought to advance the realization of this
vision, not disrupt it. But a complex web of rejections, retentions, and transformations of
medieval Christianity gradually replaced the religious fabric that bound societies together in
the West. Today, what we are left with are fragments: intellectual disagreements that splinter
into ever finer fractals of specialized discourse; a notion that modern science—as the source of
all truth—necessarily undermines religious belief; a pervasive resort to a therapeutic vision of
religion; a set of smuggled moral values with which we try to fertilize a sterile liberalism; and
the institutionalized assumption that only secular universities can pursue knowledge.
The Unintended Reformation asks what propelled the West into this trajectory of plu-
ralism and polarization, and finds answers deep in our medieval Christian past.
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Becoming Dickens
the invention oF a noveliSt
robErt dougLas -Fairhurst
“M oViNg aNd EXcEptioNaLLy wELL - writtEN … a book to bE VaLuEd by a raNgE

oF rEadErs , aNd oNE cErtaiN to staNd thE tEst oF tiME .”
—d aVid paroissiEN
Becoming Dickens tells the story of how an ambitious young Londoner became England’s great-
est novelist. In following the twists and turns of Charles Dickens’s early career, Robert Douglas-
Fairhurst examines a remarkable double transformation: in reinventing himself, Dickens
reinvented the form of the novel. It was a high-
stakes gamble, and Dickens never forgot how dif-
ferently things could have turned out. Like the
r o b E r t d o u g L a s - Fa i r h u r s t
hero of Dombey and Son, he remained haunted
is Fellow and Tutor in English,
by “what might have been, and what was not.”
Magdalen College, Oxford, and
In his own lifetime, Dickens was without author of London Labour and the
rivals. He styled himself simply “The Inimitable.”
London Poor.
But he was not always confident about his stand-
ing in the world. From his traumatized childhood
to the suicide of his first collaborator and the sud-
den death of the woman who had a good claim to being the love of his life, Dickens faced pow-
erful obstacles. Before settling on the profession of novelist, he tried his hand at the law and
journalism, considered a career in acting, and even contemplated emigrating to the West Indies.
Yet with The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, and a groundbreaking series of plays, sketches,
and articles, he succeeded in turning every potential breakdown into a breakthrough.
Douglas-Fairhurst’s provocative new biography, focused on the 1830s, portrays a rest-
less and uncertain Dickens who could not decide on the career path he should take and would
never feel secure in his considerable achievements.
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on rereading
patricia MEyEr spacks
After retiring from a lifetime of teaching literature, Patricia Meyer Spacks embarked on a year-
long project of rereading dozens of novels: childhood favorites, fiction first encountered in young
adulthood and never before revisited, books frequently reread, canonical works of literature
she was supposed to have liked but didn’t, guilty pleasures (books she oughtn’t to have liked
but did), and stories reread for fun vs. those read for the classroom. On Rereading records the
sometimes surprising, always fascinating, results of her personal experiment.
Spacks addresses a number of
intriguing questions raised by the pur-
poseful act of rereading: Why do we
pat r i c i a M E y E r s pa c k s was a National
reread novels when, in many instances,
Book Award finalist for The Female
we can remember the plot? Why, for
Imagination and is Edgar Shannon Professor example, do some lovers of Jane Austen’s
of English, Emerita, University of Virginia. fiction reread her novels every year (or
more often)? Why do young children
love to hear the same story read aloud
every night at bedtime? And why, as
EDItED By patrICIa mEyEr spaCks
adults, do we return to childhood
Pride and Prejudice: an annotated Edition
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Wonderland, and the Harry Potter nov-
els? What pleasures does rereading
bring? What psychological needs does it answer? What guilt does it induce when life is short
and there are so many other things to do (and so many other books to read)? Rereading, Spacks
discovers, helps us to make sense of ourselves. It brings us sharply in contact with how we, like
the books we reread, have both changed and remained the same.
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With Our Backs to the Wall
VICTORY AND DEFEAT IN 1918
DAVID STEVENSON
With so much at stake and so much already lost, why did World War I end with a whimper—
an arrangement between two weary opponents to suspend hostilities? After more than four
years of desperate fighting, with victories sometimes measured in feet and inches, why did the
Allies reject the option of advancing into Germany in 1918 and taking Berlin? Most histories of
the Great War focus on the avoidability of its beginning. This book brings a laser-like focus to
its ominous end—the Allies’ incomplete vic-
tory, and the tragic ramifications for world
peace just two decades later.
In the most comprehensive account D AV I D S T E V E N S O N is Professor of
to date of the conflict’s endgame, David International History at London School of
Stevenson approaches the events of 1918 Economics and the author of Cataclysm:
from a truly international perspective, exam- The First World War as Political Tragedy.
ining the positions and perspectives of com-
batants on both sides, as well as the impact of
the Russian Revolution. Stevenson pays close
attention to America’s effort in its first twentieth-century war, including its naval and military
contribution, army recruitment, industrial mobilization, and home-front politics. Alongside mil-
itary and political developments, he adds new information about the crucial role of economics
and logistics.
The Allies’ eventual success, Stevenson shows, was due to new organizational methods
of managing men and materiel and to increased combat effectiveness resulting partly from tech-
nological innovation. These factors, combined with Germany’s disastrous military offensive in
the spring of 1918, ensured an Allied victory—but not a conclusive German defeat.
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hIstOry
the keats Brothers
the liFe oF John and george
dENisE gigaNtE
“i t g igaNtE that shE adds so Much to our

is a tributE to
uNdErstaNdiNg oF k Eats ’ s LiFE by goiNg bEyoNd thE books oF
b atE , ward, g ittiNgs , aNd M otioN . t his is accoMpLishEd Not oNLy
through dEtEctiVE work but through NEw iNsights , MaNy oF thEM
proVidEd by hEr dEEp sENsE oF J ohN aNd g EorgE as brothErs .”
—h aroLd b LooM
John and George Keats—Man of Genius and Man of Power, to use John’s words—
embodied sibling forms of the phenomenon we call Romanticism. George’s 1818 move
to the western frontier of the United States, an imaginative leap across four thousand
miles onto the tabula rasa of the American dream, created in John an abysm of alienation
and loneliness that would inspire the poet’s most
plangent and sublime poetry. Denise Gigante’s
account of this emigration places John’s life and
d E N i s E g i g a N t E is
work in a transatlantic context that has eluded
Professor of English at
his previous biographers, while revealing the
Stanford University and author
emotional turmoil at the heart of some of the
of Taste: A Literary History.
most lasting verse in English.
In most accounts of John’s life, George
plays a small role. He is often depicted as a
scoundrel who left his brother destitute and dying to pursue his own fortune in Amer-
ica. But as Gigante shows, George ventured into a land of prairie fires, flat-bottomed
riverboats, wildcats, and bears in part to save his brothers, John and Tom, from finan-
cial ruin. There was a vital bond between the brothers, evident in John’s letters to his
brother and sister-in-law, Georgina, in Louisville, Kentucky, which run to thousands of
words and detail his thoughts about the nature of poetry, the human condition, and the
soul. Gigante demonstrates that John’s 1819 Odes and “Hyperion” fragments emerged
from his profound grief following George’s departure and Tom’s death—and that we
owe these great works of English Romanticism in part to the deep, lasting fraternal friend-
ship that Gigante reveals in these pages.
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the Bear
hiStory oF a Fallen King
MichEL pastourEau
T R A N S L AT E D BY G E O R G E H O LO C H
The oldest discovered statue, fashioned some fifteen to twenty thousand years ago, is of a bear.
The lion was not always king. From antiquity to the Middle Ages, the bear’s centrality in cults
and mythologies left traces in European languages, literatures, and legends from the Slavic East
to Celtic Britain. Historian Michel Pastoureau considers how this once venerated creature was
deposed by the advent of Christianity and continued to sink lower in the symbolic bestiary
before rising again in Pyrrhic triumph as a popular toy.
The early Church was threatened by pagan legends of the bear’s power, among them a
widespread belief that male bears were sexually attracted to women and would violate them,
producing half-bear, half-human
beings—invincible warriors who
founded royal lines. Marked for
M i c h E L pa s t o u r E a u is a cultural historian
death by the clergy, bears were mas-
and Director of Studies at l’École pratique des
sacred. During the Renaissance, the
hautes études (Sorbonne) and at l’École pratique
demonic prestige bears had been
des hautes études en sciences sociales. He is
assigned in biblical allegory was lost
author of Blue, Black, and The Devil’s Cloth.
to the goat, ass, bat, and owl, which
were the devil’s new familiars, while
the lion was crowned as the symbol
of nobility. Once the undefeated
champions of the Roman arena, prized in princely menageries, bears became entertainers in the
marketplace, trained to perform humiliating tricks or muzzled and devoured
by packs of dogs for the amusement of humans. By the early twentieth cen-
tury, however, the bear would return from exile, making its way into
the hearts of children everywhere as the teddy bear.
This compelling history reminds us that men and bears have
always been inseparable, united by a kinship that gradually moved
from nature to culture—a bond that continues to this day.
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swiss National Museum, dig-1418
Invasion of the Body
revolutionS in Surgery
NichoLas L. tiLNEy
“d r . t iLNEy has aN EyE For FasciNatiNg dEtaiLs , shockiNg storiEs , aNd

uNEXpEctEd coNNEctioNs . i nvasion of ThE B oDy is a riVEtiNg accouNt oF thE
astoNishiNg traNsForMatioN oF surgEry oVEr thE past cENtury.”
—atuL g awaNdE
In 1913, the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston admitted its first patient, Mary Agnes
Turner, who suffered from varicose veins in her legs. The surgical treatment she received, under
ether anesthesia, was the most advanced available at the time. At the same hospital fifty years
later, Nicholas Tilney—then a second-year resident—assisted in the repair of a large aortic
aneurysm. The cutting-edge diagnostic tools he used to evaluate the patient’s condition would
soon be eclipsed by yet more sophisticated
apparatus, including minimally invasive
N i c h o L a s L . t i L N E y holds the posts of approaches and state-of-the-art imaging tech-
Honorary Surgeon, Brigham and Women’s nology, which Tilney would draw on in pio-
Hospital, Boston, and Francis D. Moore neering organ transplant surgery and
Distinguished Professor of Surgery, Harvard becoming one of its most distinguished prac-
titioners.
Medical School. He is author of Transplant:
From Myth to Reality. In Invasion of the Body, Tilney tells
the story of modern surgery and the revolu-
tions that have transformed the field: anes-
thesia, prevention of infection, professional
standards of competency, pharmaceutical advances, and the present turmoil in medical educa-
tion and health care reform. Tilney uses as his stage the famous Boston teaching hospital where
he completed his residency and went on to practice (now called Brigham and Women’s). His
cast of characters includes clinicians, support staff, trainees, patients, families, and various
applied scientists who push the revolutions forward.
While lauding the innovations that have brought surgeons’ capabilities to heights
undreamed of even a few decades ago, Tilney also previews a challenging future, as new capac-
ities to prolong life and restore health run headlong into unsustainable costs. The authoritative
voice he brings to the ancient tradition of surgical invasion will be welcomed by patients, prac-
titioners, and policymakers alike.
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the Battle of adwa
aFrican victory in the age oF emPire
rayMoNd JoNas
In March 1896, a well-disciplined and massive Ethiopian army did the unthinkable—it routed
an invading Italian force and brought Italy’s war of conquest in Africa to an end. In an age of
relentless European expansion, Ethiopia had successfully defended its independence and cast
doubt upon an unshakable certainty of the age—that sooner or later all Africans would fall
under the rule of Europeans. This event opened a breach that would lead, in the aftermath of
world war fifty years later, to the continent’s painful struggle for freedom from colonial rule.
Raymond Jonas offers the first comprehensive account of this singular episode in mod-
ern world history. The narrative is peopled by the ambitious and vain, the creative and the
coarse, across Africa, Europe, and the Ameri-
cas—personalities like Menelik, a biblically
inspired provincial monarch who consolidated
r ay M o N d J o N a s is Giovanni and
Ethiopia’s throne; Taytu, his quick-witted and
Amne Costigan Professor of History
aggressive wife; and the Swiss engineer Alfred
at the University of Washington.
Ilg, the emperor’s close adviser. The Ethiopians’
brilliant gamesmanship and savvy public relations
campaign helped roll back the Europeanization
of Africa.
Figures throughout the African diaspora immediately grasped the significance of Adwa,
Menelik, and an independent Ethiopia. Writing deftly from a transnational perspective, Jonas
puts Adwa in the context of manifest destiny and Jim Crow, signaling a challenge to the very
concept of white dominance. By reopening seemingly settled questions of race and empire, the
Battle of Adwa was thus a harbinger of the global, unsettled century about to unfold.
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HIstory
to free a family
the Journey oF mary WalKer
sydNEy NathaNs
What was it like for a mother to flee slavery, leaving her children behind? To Free a Family tells
the remarkable story of Mary Walker, who in August 1848 fled her owner for refuge in the
North and spent the next seventeen years trying to recover her family. Her freedom, like that
of thousands who escaped from bondage, came at a great price—remorse at parting without a
word, fear for her family’s fate.
This story is anchored in two extraor-
dinary collections of letters and diaries, that
of her former North Carolina slaveholders
s y d N E y N at h a N s is Professor and that of the northern family—Susan and
Emeritus of History, Duke University. Peter Lesley—who protected and employed
her. Sydney Nathans’s sensitive and pene-
trating narrative reveals Mary Walker’s
remarkable persistence as well as the sus-
tained collaboration of blacks and white abolitionists who assisted her. Mary Walker and the Les-
leys ventured half a dozen attempts at liberation, from ransom to ruse to rescue, until the end
of the Civil War reunited Mary Walker with her son and daughter.
Unlike her more famous counterparts—Harriet Tubman, Harriet Jacobs, and Sojourner
Truth—who wrote their own narratives and whose public defiance made them heroines, Mary
Walker’s efforts were protracted, wrenching, and private. Her odyssey was more representative
of women refugees from bondage who labored secretly and behind the scenes to reclaim their
families from the South. In recreating Mary Walker’s journey, To Free a Family gives voice to
their hidden epic of emancipation and to an untold story of the Civil War era.
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HIstory
galileo’s muse
renaiSSance mathematicS and the artS
Mark a. pEtErsoN
“p EtErsoN ’ s book portrays g aLiLEo iN a woNdErFuLLy FrEsh pErspEctiVE .

o VEr sEVEraL dEcadEs i haVE stEEpEd MysELF iN g aLiLEo biographiEs , aNd it ’ s
rEaLLy rarE to FiNd aN accouNt as iNtriguiNg as this oNE .”
—o wEN g iNgErich
Mark Peterson makes an extraordinary claim in this fascinating book focused around the life and
thought of Galileo: it was the mathematics of Renaissance arts, not Renaissance sciences, that
became modern science. Galileo’s Muse argues that painters, poets, musicians, and architects
brought about a scientific revolution that
eluded the philosopher-scientists of the day,
steeped as they were in a medieval cosmos
and its underlying philosophy. M a r k a . p E t E r s o N is Professor of
According to Peterson, the recovery Physics and Mathematics on the Alumnae

of classical science owes much to the Re- Foundation, Mount Holyoke College.
naissance artists who first turned to Greek
sources for inspiration and instruction. Chap-
ters devoted to their insights into mathe-
matics, ranging from perspective in painting to tuning in music, are interspersed with chapters
about Galileo’s own life and work. Himself an artist turned scientist and an avid student of Hel-
lenistic culture, Galileo pulled together the many threads of his artistic and classical education
in designing unprecedented experiments to unlock the secrets of nature.
In the last chapter, Peterson draws our attention to the Oratio de Mathematicae laudibus
of 1627, delivered by one of Galileo’s students. This document, Peterson argues, was penned
in part by Galileo himself, as an expression of his understanding of the universality of mathe-
matics in art and nature. It is “entirely Galilean in so many details that even if it is derivative,
it must represent his thought,” Peterson writes. An intellectual adventure, Galileo’s Muse offers
surprising ideas that will capture the imagination of anyone—scientist, mathematician, history
buff, lover of literature, or artist—who cares about the humanistic roots of modern science.
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persuasion
an annotated edition
JaNE austEN
EDITED BY ROBERT MORRISON
“a worthy additioN to thE woNdErFuL h arVard sEriEs oF aNNotatEd

VoLuMEs , LikELy to bE LoNg rEad aNd Much ENJoyEd by austEN
ENthusiasts .”
—patricia M EyEr s packs
Published posthumously with Northanger Abbey in 1817, Persuasion crowns Jane

Austen’s remarkable career. It is her most passionate and introspective love story. This
richly illustrated and annotated edition brings her last completed novel to life with pre-
viously unmatched vitality. In the same format that so rewarded readers of Pride and
Prejudice: An Annotated Edition, it offers running commentary on the novel (conve-
niently placed alongside Austen’s text) to
explain difficult words, allusions, and con-
texts, while bringing together critical
r o b E r t M o r r i s o N is Queen’s
observations and scholarship for an
National Scholar at Queen’s
enhanced reading experience. The abun-
University, Kingston, Ontario, and the dance of color illustrations allows the
author of The English Opium-Eater: A reader to see the characters, locations,
Biography of Thomas De Quincey. clothing, and carriages of the novel, as
well as the larger political and historical
events that shape its action.
In his Introduction, distinguished scholar Robert Morrison examines the broken
engagement between Anne Elliot and Frederick Wentworth, and the ways in which
they wander from one another even as their enduring feelings draw them steadily back
together. His notes constitute the most sustained critical commentary ever brought to
bear on the novel and explicate its central conflicts as well as its relationship to Austen’s
other works, and to those of her major contemporaries, including Lord Byron, Walter
Scott, and Maria Edgeworth.
Specialists, Janeites, and first-time readers alike will treasure this beautifully illus-
trated edition, which does justice to the elegance and depth of Jane Austen’s time-bound
and timeless story of loneliness, missed opportunities, and abiding love.
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© the british Librar y b oard
florence and Baghdad
renaiSSance art and arab Science
haNs bELtiNg
T R A N S L AT E D BY D E B O R A H LU C A S S C H N E I D E R
“i F wE Look carEFuLLy wE caN stiLL discoVEr that Most oF what wE

thought wE kNEw was wroNg . b ELtiNg giVEs us a FrEsh NEw EyE For art
aNd thE worLd .”
—f RankfuRTER R unDschau
The use of perspective in Renaissance painting caused

a revolution in the history of seeing, allowing artists
to depict the world from a spectator’s point of view.
But the theory of perspective that changed the course h a N s b E Lt i N g is Professor for
of Western art originated elsewhere—it was formu- Art History and Media Theory at
lated in Baghdad by the eleventh-century mathe- the Academy for Design in
matician Ibn al Haithan, known in the West as Karlsruhe, Germany, and author
Alhazen. Using the metaphor of the mutual gaze, or of many books, including
exchanged glances, Hans Belting—preeminent his- Likeness and Presence.
torian and theorist of medieval, Renaissance, and con-
temporary art—narrates the historical encounter
between science and art, between Arab Baghdad and
Renaissance Florence, that has had a lasting effect on the culture of the West.
In this lavishly illustrated study, Belting deals with the double history of perspective, as
a visual theory based on geometrical abstraction (in the Middle East) and as pictorial theory (in
Europe). How could geometrical abstraction be reconceived as a theory for making pictures?
During the Middle Ages, Arab mathematics, free from religious discourse, gave rise to a theory
of perspective that, later in the West, was transformed into art when European painters adopted
the human gaze as their focal point. In the Islamic world, where theology and the visual arts
remained closely intertwined, the science of perspective did not become the cornerstone of
Islamic art. Florence and Baghdad addresses a provocative question that reaches beyond the
realm of aesthetics and mathematics: What happens when Muslims and Christians look upon
each other and find their way of viewing the world transformed as a result?
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art HIstory
detail from “bathsheba bathing” by paris bordone, ca. 1545, wallraf-richartz Museum, cologne. rheinisches bildarchiv köln
Capitalist revolutionary
John maynard KeyneS
rogEr E. backhousE aNd bradLEy w. batEMaN
The Great Recession of 2008 restored John Maynard Keynes to prominence. After decades
when the Keynesian revolution seemed to have been forgotten, the great British theorist was
suddenly everywhere. The New York Times asked, “What would Keynes have done?” The
Financial Times wrote of “the undeniable shift to Keynes.” Le Monde pronounced the eco-
nomic collapse Keynes’s “revenge.” Two years later, following bank bailouts and Tea Party fun-
damentalism, Keynesian principles once again seemed misguided or irrelevant to a public
focused on ballooning budget deficits. In
this readable account, Roger Backhouse
and Bradley Bateman elaborate the misin-
r o g E r E . b a c k h o u s E is Professor of
formation and caricature that have led to
the History and Philosophy of Economics
Keynes’s repeated resurrection and inter-
at the University of Birmingham.
ment since his death in 1946.
b r a d L E y w. b at E M a N is Provost
Keynes’s engagement with social
and Professor of Economics at
and moral philosophy and his membership
Denison University.
in the Bloomsbury Group of artists and
writers helped to shape his manner of the-
orizing. Though trained as a mathemati-
cian, he designed models based on how specific kinds of people (such as investors and
consumers) actually behave—an approach that runs counter to the idealized agents favored by
economists at the end of the century.
Keynes wanted to create a revolution in the way the world thought about economic
problems, but he was more open-minded about capitalism than is commonly believed. He saw
capitalism as essential to a society’s well-being but also morally flawed, and he sought a cor-
rective for its main defect: the failure to stabilize investment. Keynes’s nuanced views, the
authors suggest, offer an alternative to the polarized rhetoric often evoked by the word “capi-
talism” in today’s political debates.
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18 w w w.hup.har va rd. e d u m h a r va rd u n i ve r s i t y p re s s
Invisible romans
robErt kNapp
What survives from the Roman Empire is largely the words and lives of the rich and powerful:
emperors, philosophers, senators. Yet the privilege and decadence often associated with the
Roman elite was underpinned by the toils and tribulations of the common citizens. Here, the
eminent historian Robert Knapp brings those invisible inhabitants of Rome and its vast empire
to light.
He seeks out the ordinary folk—laboring men, housewives, prostitutes, freedmen, slaves,
soldiers, and gladiators—who formed the backbone of the ancient Roman world, and the out-
laws and pirates who lay beyond it. He finds their traces in the nooks and crannies of the his-
tories, treatises, plays, and poetry created by the elite. Everyday people come alive through
original sources as varied as graffiti, incantations, mag-
ical texts, proverbs, fables, astrological writings, and
even the New Testament.
r o b E r t k N a p p is Professor
Knapp offers a glimpse into a world far Emeritus in the Classics at
removed from our own, but one that resonates
University of California, Berkeley.
through history. Invisible Romans allows us to see
how Romans sought on a daily basis to survive and
thrive under the afflictions of disease, war, and vio-
lence, and to control their fates before powers that
variously oppressed and ignored them.
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HIstory
the annotated Emerson
raLph waLdo EMErsoN
E D I T E D B Y D AV I D M I K I C S
F O R E W O R D B Y P H I L L I P L O PAT E
A brilliant essayist and a master of the aphorism (“Our moods do not believe in each
other”; “Money often costs too much”), Emerson has inspired countless writers. He
challenged Americans to shut their ears against Europe’s “courtly muses” and to forge
a new, distinctly American cultural identity. But he remains one of America’s least under-
stood writers. And, by his own admission, he spawned neither school nor follower (he
valued independent thought too much). Now, in this annotated selection of Emerson’s
writings, David Mikics instructs the
reader in a larger appreciation of Emer-
son’s essential works and the remarkable
d aV i d M i k i c s is Professor of thinker who produced them.
English at the University of Houston Full of color illustrations and rich
and coauthor of The Art of the Sonnet in archival photographs, this volume
(see p. 85). p h i L L i p L o pat E , offers much for the specialist and general
essayist, novelist, and poet, is a reader. In his running commentaries on
professor at Columbia University, Emerson’s essays, addresses, and poems,
where he directs the graduate Mikics illuminates contexts, allusions,
nonfiction program. and language likely to cause difficulty to
modern readers. He quotes extensively
from Emerson’s Journal to shed light on
particular passages or lines and examines
Emerson the essayist, poet, itinerant lecturer, and political activist. Finally, in his Fore-
word, Phillip Lopate makes the case for Emerson as a spectacular truth teller—a model
of intellectual labor and anti-dogmatic sanity.
Anyone who values Emerson will want to own this edition. Those wishing to dis-
cover, or to reacquaint themselves with, Emerson’s writings but who have not known
where or how to begin will not find a better starting place or more reliable guide than
The Annotated Emerson.
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detail from “slave ship (slavers throwing o verboard the dead and d ying, typhoon coming o n)” by
Joseph Mallord william turner, 1840. Museum of Fine ar ts, b oston / henr y Lillie pierce Fund /
the bridgeman ar t Librar y.
saladin
aNNE-MariE Eddé
T R A N S L AT E D BY JA N E MA R I E TO D D
Working simultaneously on two levels, Saladin represents the best kind of biography—a por-
trait of a man who is said to have made an age, and the most complete account we have to date
of an age that made the man. Unlike biographies that focus on Saladin’s military exploits, espe-
cially the recapturing of Jerusalem from European Crusaders in 1187, Anne-Marie Eddé’s nar-
rative draws on an incredible array of contemporary sources to develop the fullest picture
possible of a ruler shaped profoundly by the complex Arabian political environment in which
he rose to prominence. The result is a unique
view of the Crusades from an Arab perspective.
Saladin became a legend in his own
time, venerated by friend and foe alike as a a N N E - M a r i E E d d é is Director of
paragon of justice, chivalry, and generosity. Research at Centre National de la
Arab politicians ever since have sought to claim Recherche Scientifique, Paris, and
his mantle as a justification for their own exer- Professor of Medieval History at the
cise of power. But Saladin’s world-historical sta- University of Reims.
tus as the ideal Muslim ruler owes its longevity
to a tacit agreement among contemporaries and
later chroniclers about the set of virtues Saladin
possessed—virtues that can now be tested against a rich tapestry of historical research. This ten-
sion between the mythical image of Saladin, layered over centuries and deployed in service of
specific moral and political objectives, and the verifiable facts of his life available to a judicious
modern historian is what sustains Eddé’s erudite biography, published to acclaim in France in
2008 and offered here in a smooth, readable English translation.
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an aesthetic Education in the
Era of globalization
gayatri chakraVorty spiVak
During the past twenty years, the world’s most renowned critical theorist—the scholar who
defined the field of postcolonial studies—has experienced a radical reorientation in her think-
ing. Finding the neat polarities of tradition and modernity, colonial and postcolonial, no longer
sufficient for interpreting the globalized present, she turns elsewhere to make her central argu-
ment: that aesthetic education is the last available instrument for implementing global justice
and democracy.
Gayatri Spivak’s unwillingness to sacrifice the ethical in the name of the aesthetic, or to
sacrifice the aesthetic in grappling with the political, makes her task formidable. As she wres-
tles with these fraught relationships, she rewrites Friedrich Schiller’s concept of play as double
bind, reading Gregory Bateson with Gramsci
as she negotiates Immanuel Kant, while in
g ayat r i c h a k r aV o r t y s p i Va k , dialogue with her teacher Paul de Man.
University Professor at Columbia Among the concerns Spivak addresses is this:
Are we ready to forfeit the wealth of the
University and a trainer of elementary
world’s languages in the name of global com-
school teachers in West Bengal.
munication? “Even a good globalization (the
failed dream of socialism) requires the unifor-
mity which the diversity of mother-tongues
aLso by gayatri chakraVorty spiVak
must challenge,” Spivak writes. “The tower
a critique of Postcolonial Reason of Babel is our refuge.”
hup / 978-0-674-17764-2 / $30.00* pb In essays on theory, translation, Marx-
ism, gender, and world literature, and on writ-
ers such as Assia Djebar, J. M. Coetzee, and
Rabindranath Tagore, Spivak argues for the social urgency of the humanities and renews the case
for literary studies, imprisoned in the corporate university. “Perhaps,” she writes, “the literary
can still do something.”
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CUltUral stUDIEs / BIograpHy
living originalism
Jack M. baLkiN
Originalism and living constitutionalism, so often understood to be diametrically opposing views

of our nation’s founding document, are not in conflict—they are compatible. So argues Jack
Balkin, one of the leading constitutional scholars of our time, in this long-awaited book. Step
by step, Balkin gracefully outlines a constitutional theory that demonstrates why modern con-
ceptions of civil rights and civil liberties, and the modern state’s protection of national security,
health, safety, and the environment, are fully consistent with the Constitution’s original mean-
ing. And he shows how both liberals and conservatives, working through political parties and
social movements, play important roles in the
ongoing project of constitutional construction.
By making firm rules but also deliberately
J a c k M . b a L k i N is Knight
incorporating flexible standards and abstract
Professor of Constitutional Law and
principles, the Constitution’s authors con-
structed a framework for politics on which later the First Amendment at Yale
generations could build. Americans have taken University, and author of
up this task, producing institutions and doctrines Constitutional Redemption (HUP).
that flesh out the Constitution’s text and princi-
ples. Balkin’s analysis offers a way past the angry
polemics of our era, a deepened understanding
of the Constitution that is at once originalist and living constitutionalist, and a vision that allows
all Americans to reclaim the Constitution as their own.
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laW / polItICal pHIlosopHy
the age of Equality
the tWentieth century in economic PerSPective
richard poMFrEt
In 1900, the global average life expectancy at birth was thirty-one years. By 2000, it was sixty-
six. Yet, alongside unprecedented improvements in longevity and material well-being, the twen-
tieth century also saw the rise of fascism and communism and a second world war followed by
a cold war. This book tells the story of the battles between economic systems that defined the
last century and created today’s world.
The nineteenth century was a period of rapid economic growth characterized by rela-
tively open markets and more personal liberty, but it also brought great inequality within and
between nations. The following century offered
sharp challenges to freewheeling capitalism
from both communism and fascism, whose
r i c h a r d p o M F r E t is Professor of
competing visions of planned economic devel-
Economics at the University of
opment attracted millions of people buffeted by
Adelaide, Australia, and Associate the economic storms of the 1930s. The Age of
Fellow at the Centre d’économie de la Equality describes the ways in which market-
Sorbonne in Paris, France. oriented economies eventually overcame the
threat of these visions and provided a blueprint
for reform in nonmarket economies. This was
achieved not through unbridled capitalism but
by combining the efficiency and growth potential of markets with government policies to pro-
mote greater equality of opportunity and outcome. Following on the heels of economic reform,
rapid catch-up growth in countries such as China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, and Poland helped
to reduce global inequality.
At a time when inequality is on the rise in nations as disparate as the United States and
Egypt, Richard Pomfret’s interpretation of how governments of market economies faced the
challenges of the twentieth century is both instructive and cautionary.
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ECoNomICs
the Collapse of american
Criminal justice
wiLLiaM J. stuNtz
“t hE capstoNE to thE carEEr oF oNE oF thE Most iNFLuENtiaL LEgaL schoLars

oF thE past gENEratioN .”
—L iNcoLN c apLaN , n Ew yoRk T imEs
The rule of law has vanished in America’s criminal justice system. Prosecutors now decide
whom to punish and how severely. Almost no one accused
of a crime will ever face a jury. Inconsistent policing, ram-
pant plea bargaining, overcrowded courtrooms, and ever
more draconian sentencing have produced a gigantic w i L L i a M J . s t u N t z was
prison population, with black citizens the primary defen- Henry J. Friendly Professor of
dants and victims of crime. In this passionately argued Law at Harvard University.
book, the leading criminal law scholar of his generation
looks to history for the roots of these problems—and for
their solutions.
The Collapse of American Criminal Justice takes us deep into the dramatic history
of American crime—bar fights in nineteenth-century Chicago, New Orleans bordellos, Prohi-
bition, and decades of murderous lynching. Digging into these crimes and the strategies that
attempted to control them, William Stuntz reveals the costs of abandoning local democratic
control. The system has become more centralized, with state legislators and federal judges given
increasing power. The liberal Warren Supreme Court’s emphasis on procedures, not equity,
joined hands with conservative insistence on severe punishment to create a system that is both
harsh and ineffective.
What would get us out of this Kafkaesque world? More trials with local juries; laws that
accurately define what prosecutors seek to punish; and an equal protection guarantee like the
one that died in the 1870s, to make prosecution and punishment less discriminatory. Above all,
Stuntz eloquently argues, Americans need to remember again that criminal punishment is a
necessary but terrible tool, to use effectively, and sparingly.
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laW / polItICs
photo by phil Farnswor th
Design for liberty
Private ProPerty, Public adminiStration, and the rule oF laW
richard a. EpstEiN
Following a vast expansion in the twentieth century, government is beginning to creak at the
joints under its enormous weight. The signs are clear: a bloated civil service, low approval rat-
ings for Congress and the President, increasing federal-state conflict, rampant distrust of politi-
cians and government officials, record state deficits, and major unrest among public employees.
In this compact, clearly written book, the noted legal scholar Richard Epstein advocates
a much smaller federal government, arguing that our over-regulated state allows too much dis-
cretion on the part of regulators, which
results in arbitrary, unfair decisions, rent-
seeking, and other abuses. Epstein bases his
r i c h a r d a . E p s t E i N is the Laurence A. classical liberalism on the twin pillars of the
Tisch Professor of Law, The New York rule of law and of private contracts and
University School of Law, the Peter and property rights—an overarching structure
Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow, The Hoover that allows private property to keep its form
regardless of changes in population, tastes,
Institution, and a senior lecturer at the
technology, and wealth. This structure also
University of Chicago Law School. He is
makes possible a restrained public adminis-
also author of Takings (HUP).
tration to implement limited objectives.
Government continues to play a key role as
night-watchman, but with the added flexi-
bility in revenues and expenditures to attend to national defense and infrastructure formation.
Although no legal system can eliminate the need for discretion in the management of
both private and public affairs, predictable laws can cabin the zone of discretion and permit
arbitrary decisions to be challenged. Joining a set of strong property rights with sound but lim-
ited public administration could strengthen the rule of law, with its virtues of neutrality, gen-
erality, clarity, consistency, and forward-lookingness, and reverse the contempt and cynicism that
have overcome us.
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laW / polItICal pHIlosopHy
the anointed
evangelical truth in a Secular age
raNdaLL J. stEphENs aNd k arL w. gibErsoN
American evangelicalism often appears as a politically monolithic, textbook red-state funda-

mentalism that elected George W. Bush, opposes gay marriage, abortion, and evolution, and pro-
motes apathy about global warming. Prominent public figures hold forth on these topics,
speaking with great authority for millions of followers. Authors Randall Stephens and Karl
Giberson, with roots in the evangelical tradition, argue that this popular impression understates
the diversity within evangelicalism—an often insular world where serious disagreements are
invisible to secular and religiously liberal
media consumers. Yet, in the face of this
diversity, why do so many people follow r a N d a L L J . s t E p h E N s is Associate
leaders with dubious credentials when
Professor of History at Eastern Nazarene
they have other options? Why do tens of
College and author of The Fire Spreads (HUP).
millions of Americans prefer to get their
k a r L w. g i b E r s o N is Professor of
science from Ken Ham, founder of the
Physics at Eastern Nazarene College and
creationist Answers in Genesis, who has
author of Saving Darwin.
no scientific expertise, rather than from
his fellow evangelical Francis Collins,
current Director of the National Insti-
tutes of Health?
Exploring intellectual authority within evangelicalism, the authors reveal how Amer-
ica’s populist ideals, anti-intellectualism, and religious free market, along with the concept of
anointing—being chosen by God to speak for him like the biblical prophets—established a con-
servative evangelical leadership isolated from the world of secular arts and sciences.
Today, charismatic and media-savvy creationists, historians, psychologists, and bibli-
cal exegetes continue to receive more funding and airtime than their more qualified counter-
parts. Though a growing minority of evangelicals engage with contemporary scholarship, the
community’s authority structure still encourages the “anointed” to assume positions of
leadership.
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rElIgIoN
Chivalry in medieval England
NigEL sauL
“t hE rEadEr traVELs oN a FasciNatiNg JourNEy through thE M iddLE agEs oF

E NgLaNd, its poLitics , rELigioN , cuLturE …s auL is aN ELEgaNt aNd pErsuasiVE
writEr aNd wE arE NEVEr iN daNgEr oF LosiNg our way.”
—p. d. J aMEs , s unDay T imEs ( praisE For R ichaRD ii)
Popular views of medieval chivalry—knights in shining armor, fair ladies, banners fluttering
from battlements—were inherited from the nineteenth-century Romantics. This is the first book
to explore chivalry’s place within a
wider history of medieval England,
from the Norman Conquest to the
N i g E L s a u L is Professor of Medieval History aftermath of Henry VII’s triumph at
at the University of London. He is a Fellow of Bosworth in the Wars of the Roses.
the Royal Historical Society and of the Society
Nigel Saul invites us to view the
of Antiquaries. His publications include
world of castles and cathedrals, tour-
Richard II, A Companion to Medieval England, naments and round tables, with fresh
Death, Art and Memory in Medieval England eyes. Chivalry in Medieval England
and, most recently, The Three Richards. charts the introduction of chivalry by
the Normans, the rise of the knightly
class as a social elite, the fusion of
chivalry with kingship in the fourteenth
century, and the influence of chivalry on literature, religion, and architecture. Richard the Lion-
heart and the Crusades, the Black Death and the Battle of Crécy, the Magna Carta and the cult
of King Arthur—all emerge from the mists of time and legend in this vivid, authoritative
account.
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HIstory
Explore Harvard
the yard and beyond
iNtroductioN by sEaMus hEaNEy
At Harvard University, ideas are the currency of every transaction. To mark the 375th
anniversary of the founding of the College, this collection of photographs brings to life
the myriad intellectual exchanges that make Harvard one of the world’s leading insti-
tutions of higher education. Presenting contemporary images never before published
as well as archival prints, this large-format portrait of the university captures an early
spirit of exploration that continues to thrive in the Yard’s historic lecture halls, in cut-
ting-edge science facilities, and in research outposts among some of the world’s poor-
est people. From “move-in” day to Commencement, seasonal shifts across the iconic
New England landscape form a contemplative backdrop to learning and growth for
each new class that enters here. For alumni who remember the Ivy League grandeur
of houses along the Charles, or thrilled to the achievements of athletes and artists,
Explore Harvard will not disappoint. Prospective students who have seen the university only
from a distance will get an inside view of one of the most beautiful campuses in the world,
while those intimately familiar with the school will discover a side of Harvard they never knew.
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pHotograpHy / EDUCatIoN
harvard Faculty club, 2006. photo by kris snibbe
the Image of the Black in Western art
volume iii: From the “age oF diScovery” to the age oF abolition
Part 2: euroPe and the World beyond
Part 3: the eighteenth century
EditEd by daVid biNdMaN aNd hENry Louis gatEs, Jr.
In the 1960s, art patron Dominique de Menil founded an image archive

showing the ways that people of African descent have been represented
in Western art. Highlights from her collection appeared in three large-for-
mat volumes that quickly became collector’s items. A half-century later,
Harvard University Press and the Du Bois Institute are proud to publish
a complete set of ten sumptuous books, including new editions of the
original volumes and two additional ones.
Europe and the World Beyond focuses geographically on peoples
of South America and the Mediterranean as well as Africa—but con-
ceptually it emphasizes the many ways that visual constructions of blacks
mediated between Europe and a faraway African continent that was
impinging ever more closely on daily life, especially in cities and ports
engaged in slave trade.
The Eighteenth Century features a particularly rich collection of
images of Africans representing slavery’s apogee and the beginnings of
abolition. Old visual tropes of a master with adoring black slave gave
way to depictions of Africans as victims and individuals, while at the
same time the intellectual foundations of scientific racism were
established.
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IsBN 978-0-674-05263-5
detail. abraham ortelius. title page of the third edition of Theatrum orbis Terrarum (antwerp, 1584).
private collection.
30 w w w. h u p. h a r va rd. e d u m h a r va rd u n i ve r s i t y p re s s
d aV i d b i N d M a N is Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at University
College London. h E N r y L o u i s g at E s , J r . , is Alphonse Fletcher University
Professor and is the Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and
African American Research at Harvard University.
“ the three sons of cornelis van b everen” by alber t cuyp. Early 1650s. universit y of birmingham.
Volume 1: 978-0-674-05271-0
Volume 2, Part 1: 978-0-674-05256-7
Volume 2, Part 2: 978-0-674-05258-1
Volume 3, Part 1: 978-0-674-05261-1
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Hajj
Journey to the heart oF iSlam
EditEd by VENEtia portEr
The Hajj, one of the five pillars of Islam, is the largest pilgrimage in the world today and a sacred
duty for all Muslims. Each year, millions of the faithful from around the world make the pil-
grimage to Makkah, the birthplace of Islam where the Prophet Muhammad received his reve-
lation.
With contributions from renowned experts Muhammad Abdel Haleem, Hugh Kennedy,
Robert Irwin, and Ziauddin Sardar, this fascinating book pulls together many strands of Hajj, its
rituals, history, and modern manifestations. Travel was once a hazardous gamble, yet devoted
Muslims undertook the journey to Makkah, documenting their experiences in manuscripts,
wall paintings, and early photographs, many of which
are presented here. Through a wealth of illustrations
including pilgrims’ personal objects, souvenirs, and
V E N E t i a p o r t E r is a Curator
maps, Hajj provides a glimpse into this important holy
in the Department of the Middle
rite for Muslim readers already grounded in the tra-
East at the British Museum.
dition and non-Muslims who cannot otherwise par-
ticipate.
Hajj does not, however, merely trace pilgrim-
ages of the past. The Hajj is a living tradition, influenced by new conveniences and obstacles.
Graffiti, consumerism, and state lotteries all now play a role in this time-honored practice. This
book opens out onto the full sweep of the Hajj—a
sacred path walked by early Islamic devotees
and pre-Islamic Arabians, a sumptuous
site of worship under the care of sul-
tans, and an expression of faith in
the modern world.
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images © the trustees of the
british Museum
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the Harvard sampler
liberal education For the tWenty-FirSt century
EditEd by JENNiFEr M. shEphard, stEphEN M. kossLyN, aNd
EVELyNN M. haMMoNds
From Harvard University, one of the world’s preeminent institutions of liberal education, comes
a collection of essays sampling topics at the forefront of academia in the twenty-first century.
Written by faculty members at the cutting edge of their fields, including such luminaries as
Steven Pinker, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and Harry R. Lewis, these essays offer a clear and acces-
sible overview of disciplines that are shaping the culture, and even the world.
The authors, among the most
respected members of Harvard’s faculty,
invite readers to explore subjects as
J E N N i F E r M . s h E p h a r d is Special
diverse as religious literacy and Islam,
Initiatives Program Manager, Division of Social
liberty and security in cyberspace, med-
ical science and epidemiology, energy Science, Harvard University. s t E p h E N M .
resources, evolution, morality, human k o s s Ly N is John Lindsley Professor of
rights, global history, the dark side of the Psychology in Memory of William James,
American Revolution, American litera- Emeritus, Harvard University, and Director,
ture and the environment, interracial lit- Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral
erature, and the human mind. They Sciences at Stanford University; he is also
summarize key developments in their author of Clear and to the Point. E V E Ly N N M .
fields in ways that will both entertain h a M M o N d s is Dean of Harvard College and
and edify those who seek an education Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the
beyond the confines of the classroom. History of Science and of African and African
It is sometimes said that youth is American Studies, Harvard University.
wasted on the young. It could also be
said that college, too often, is wasted on
college students—that only after gradu-
ating does a former student come to appreciate learning. To those wishing to revisit the college
classroom—as well as to those who never had the opportunity in the first place—this book
gives a taste of the modern course at Harvard. The essays are stimulating and informative, and
the annotated bibliographies accompanying each chapter provide invaluable guidance to the
lifelong learner who wants to pursue these fascinating topics in depth.
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vesuvius machu picchu
giLLiaN darLEy daVid drEw
Volcanoes around the world have their own No other ruin evokes so powerfully the
legends, and many have wrought terrible dev- grandeur and mystery of a forgotten civiliza-
astation, but none has caught the imagination tion as Machu Picchu. Since its existence was
like Vesuvius. We now know that immense first publicized in 1911 by the American
eruptions destroyed Bronze Age settlements explorer Hiram Bingham, this World Heritage
around Vesuvius, but the Romans knew noth- site has become the embodiment of a “lost
ing of those disasters and were lulled into city”—although half a million people find
complacency—much as we are today—by its their way there every year. Until now, no sur-
long period of inactivity. None of the vey of the site, history of its exploration, and
nearly thirty eruptions since AD 79 has assessment of the city’s meaning have been
matched the infamous cataclysm that brought together in one authoritative and
destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum portable volume.
within hours. Nearly two thousand years In the centenary of this enigmatic site’s
later, the allure of the volcano remains— “rediscovery,” David Drew offers an up-to-
as evidenced by its popularity as a tourist date guide to the ruins, in all their complexity.
attraction, from Shelley and the Roman- He examines the latest theories on the pur-
tics to modern-day visitors. pose and functioning of the city and the cir-
Vesuvius has loomed large cumstances of its abandonment, and he
throughout history, both feared and cel- explores the powerful symbolic significance
ebrated. Gillian Darley unveils the the site has acquired since its discovery for dif-
human responses to Vesuvius from a cast ferent groups of people. Drew also looks dis-
of characters as far-flung as Pliny the passionately at the dangers to the region’s
Younger and David Hockney, revealing environment that the city’s immense popu-
shifts over time. This cultural and scien- larity now presents. A final chapter covers the
tific meditation on a powerful natural controversy over the future of items removed
wonder touches on pagan religious by Bingham from Machu Picchu, which cur-
beliefs, vulcanology, and travel writing. Sifting rently reside in Yale University’s Peabody
g i L L i a N d a r L E y is a writer,
through the ashes of Vesuvius, Darley exposes Museum. More than a guidebook, Machu
broadcaster, and architectural
how changes in our relationship to the vol- Picchu enables readers to appreciate the
journalist. d aV i d d r E w is an
cano mirror changes in our understanding of magic and multiple meanings of perhaps the
archaeologist, lecturer, and
our cultural and natural environments. most romantic ruin in the world.
broadcaster, and author of The
Lost Chronicles of the Maya Kings. WoNDErs of tHE WorlD | WoNDErs of tHE WorlD |
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travEl / HIstory travEl / HIstory
In a Sea of Bitterness
Refugees duRing the sino-Japanese WaR
R. Keith Schoppa
The Japanese invasion of Shanghai in 1937 led some thirty million Chinese to flee their
homes in terror, and live—in the words of artist and writer Feng Zikai—“in a sea of bit-
terness” as refugees. Keith Schoppa paints a comprehensive picture of the refugee expe-
rience in one province—Zhejiang, on the central Chinese coast—where the Japanese
launched major early offensives as well as
notorious later campaigns. He recounts sto-
ries of both heroes and villains, of choices
R . K e i t h S c h o p pa is Professor
poorly made amid war’s bewildering vio-
and The Edward and Catherine
lence, of risks bravely taken despite an
Doehler Chair in Asian History at
almost palpable quaking fear.
Loyola University, Maryland.
As they traveled south into China’s
interior, refugees stepped backward in time,
sometimes as far as the nineteenth century,
their journeys revealing the superficiality of China’s modernization. Memoirs and oral
histories allow Schoppa to follow the footsteps of the young and old, elite and non-elite,
as they fled through unfamiliar terrain and coped with unimaginable physical and psy-
chological difficulties. Within the context of Chinese culture, being forced to leave home
was profoundly threatening to one’s sense of identity. Not just people but whole insti-
tutions also fled from Japanese occupation, and Schoppa considers schools, governments,
and businesses as refugees with narratives of their own.
Local governments responded variously to Japanese attacks, from enacting
scorched-earth policies to offering rewards for the capture of plague-infected rats in the
aftermath of germ warfare. While at times these official procedures improved the situa-
tion for refugees, more often—as Schoppa describes in moving detail—they only deep-
ened the tragedy.
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hiStoRy
Moscow, the Fourth Rome
stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the evolution of soviet CultuRe,
1931–1941
K ateRiNa claRK
In the early sixteenth century, the monk Filofei proclaimed Moscow the “Third Rome.” By the
1930s, intellectuals and artists all over the world thought of Moscow as a mecca of secular
enlightenment. In Moscow, the Fourth Rome, Katerina Clark shows how Soviet officials and
intellectuals, in seeking to capture the imagination of
leftist and anti-fascist intellectuals throughout the
world, sought to establish their capital as the cosmo-
K at e R i N a c l a R K is Professor politan center of a post-Christian confederation and to
of Comparative Literature and rebuild it to become a beacon for the rest of the world.
Slavic Language and Literatures Clark provides an interpretative cultural history
at Yale University. of the city during the crucial 1930s, the decade of the
Great Purge. She draws on the work of intellectuals
such as Sergei Eisenstein, Sergei Tretiakov, Mikhail
Koltsov, and Ilya Ehrenburg to shed light on the singu-
lar Zeitgeist of that most Stalinist of periods. In her account, the decade emerges as an impor-
tant moment in the prehistory of key concepts in literary and cultural studies today—
transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, and world literature. By bringing to light neglected
antecedents, she provides a new polemical and political context for understanding canonical
works of writers such as Brecht, Benjamin, Lukacs, and Bakhtin.
Moscow, the Fourth Rome breaches the intellectual iron curtain that has circumscribed
cultural histories of Stalinist Russia, by broadening the framework to include considerable inter-
action with Western intellectuals and trends. Its integration of the understudied international
dimension into the interpretation of Soviet culture remedies misunderstandings of the world-
historical significance of Moscow under Stalin.
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hiStoRy
The Mauthausen Trial
ameRiCan militaRy JustiCe in geRmany
tomaz JaRdim
Shortly after 9:00 a.m. on May 27, 1947, the first of forty-nine men condemned to death for
war crimes at Mauthausen concentration camp mounted the gallows at Landsberg prison near
Munich. The mass execution that followed resulted from an American military trial conducted
at Dachau in the spring of 1946—a trial that lasted only thirty-six days and yet produced more
death sentences than any other in American history.
The Mauthausen trial was part of a massive
series of proceedings designed to judge and punish
Nazi war criminals in the most expedient manner
the law would allow. There was no doubt that the t o m a z J a R d i m is Assistant
crimes had been monstrous. Yet despite meting out Professor of History at Concordia
punishment to a group of incontestably guilty men, University and former fellow at
the Mauthausen trial reveals a troubling and sel- the United States Holocaust
dom-recognized face of American postwar justice— Memorial Museum.
one characterized by rapid proceedings, lax rules of
evidence, and questionable interrogations.
Although the better-known Nuremberg tri-
als are often regarded as epitomizing American judicial ideals, these trials were in fact the excep-
tion to the rule. Instead, as Tomaz Jardim convincingly demonstrates, the rough justice of the
Mauthausen trial remains indicative of the most common—and yet least understood—Ameri-
can approach to war crimes prosecution. The Mauthausen trial forces reflection on the impli-
cations of compromising legal standards in order to guarantee that guilty people do not walk free.
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hiStoRy
Someday All This Will Be Yours
a histoRy of inheRitanCe and old age
heNdRiK haRtog
We all hope that we will be cared for as we age. But the details of that care, for caretaker and
recipient alike, raise some of life’s most vexing questions. From the mid-nineteenth to the mid-
twentieth century, as an explosive economy and shifting social opportunities drew the young
away from home, the elderly used promises of inheritance to keep children at their side. Hendrik
Hartog tells the riveting, heartbreaking stories of how families fought over the work of care and
its compensation.
Someday All This Will Be Yours narrates the legal and emotional strategies mobilized by
older people, and explores the ambivalences of family members as they struggled with expec-
tations of love and duty. Court cases offer an
extraordinary glimpse of the mundane,
painful, and intimate predicaments of family
h e N d R i K h a R t o g is Class of 1921 life. They reveal what it meant to be old with-
Bicentennial Professor of the History out the pensions, Social Security, and nursing
of American Law and Liberty, homes that now do much of the work of serv-
Princeton University, and author of ing the elderly. From demented grandparents
Man and Wife in America (HUP). to fickle fathers, from litigious sons to grateful
daughters, Hartog guides us into a world of
disputed promises and broken hearts, and
helps us feel the terrible tangle of love and
commitments and money.
From one of the bedrocks of the human condition—the tension between the infirmities
of the elderly and the longings of the young—emerges a pioneering work of exploration into
the darker recesses of family life. Ultimately, Hartog forces us to reflect on what we owe and
are owed as members of a family.
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hiStoRy
The Jewish Dark Continent
life and death in the Russian pale of settlement
NathaNiel deUtSch
At the turn of the twentieth century, more than 40 percent of the world’s Jews lived within the
Russian Empire, almost all in the Pale of Settlement. From the Baltic to the Black Sea, the Jews
of the Pale created a distinctive way of life little known beyond its borders. This led the histo-
rian Simon Dubnow to label the territory a Jewish “Dark Continent.”
Just before World War I, a socialist revolutionary and aspiring ethnographer named
An-sky pledged to explore the Pale. He dreamed of leading an ethnographic expedition that
would produce an archive—what he called
an Oral Torah of the common people rather
than the rabbinic elite—which would pre-
serve Jewish traditions and transform them N at h a N i e l d e U t S c h is Professor of
into the seeds of a modern Jewish culture. Literature and History at the University
Between 1912 and 1914, An-sky and his of California, Santa Cruz.
team collected jokes, recorded songs, took
thousands of photographs, and created a
massive ethnographic questionnaire. Con-
sisting of 2,087 questions in Yiddish—exploring the gamut of Jewish folk beliefs and traditions,
from everyday activities to spiritual exercises to marital intimacies—the Jewish Ethnographic
Program constitutes an invaluable portrait of Eastern European Jewish life on the brink of
destruction.
Nathaniel Deutsch offers the first complete translation of the questionnaire, as well as
the riveting story of An-sky’s almost messianic efforts to create a Jewish ethnography in an era
of revolutionary change. An-sky’s project was halted by World War I, and within a few years the
Pale of Settlement would no longer exist. These survey questions revive and reveal shtetl life
in all its wonder and complexity.
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hiStoRy / JewiSh StUdieS
Secularism and Freedom
of Conscience
JocelyN maclURe aNd chaRleS tayloR
T R A N S L AT E D BY JANE MARIE TODD
Secularism: the definition of this word is as practical and urgent as income inequalities or the
paths to sustainable development. In this wide-ranging analysis, Jocelyn Maclure and Charles
Taylor provide a clearly reasoned, articulate account of the two main principles of secularism—
equal respect, and freedom of conscience—and its two operative modes—separation of Church
(or mosque or temple) and State, and State neutrality vis-à-vis religions. But more crucially, they
make the powerful argument that in our ever more religiously diverse, politically interconnected
world, secularism, properly understood, may offer the only path to religious and philosophical
freedom.
Secularism and Freedom of Conscience grew out of a very real problem—Quebec’s
need for guidelines to balance the equal respect due to all citizens with the right to religious free-
dom. But the authors go further, rethinking secularism in light of other critical issues of our
time. The relationship between
religious beliefs and deeply held
secular convictions, the scope of
the free exercise of religion, and
J o c e ly N m a c l U R e is Professor of Philosophy the place of religion in the public
at Université Laval. c h a R l e S tay l o R , sphere are aspects of the larger
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at McGill challenge Maclure and Taylor
University and author of A Secular Age and address: how to manage moral
Dilemmas and Connections (both HUP), is winner and religious diversity in a free
of the Kyoto Prize and the Templeton Prize. society. Secularism, they show, is
essential to any liberal democracy
in which citizens adhere to a plu-
rality of conceptions of what gives
meaning and direction to human
life. The working model the authors construct in this nuanced account is capacious enough to
accommodate difference and freedom of conscience, while holding out hope for a world in
which diversity no longer divides us.
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philoSophy / politicS
The Pursuits of Philosophy
an intRoduCtion to the life and thought of david hume
aNNette c. baieR
“t hiS ShoRt gUide to h Ume ’ S philoSophy coNtaiNS aUthoRitative

explaNatioNS by the philoSopheR widely acKNowledged to be the gReateSt
h Ume ScholaR alive today.”
—R ay m oNK , U NiveRSity of S oUthamptoN
Marking the tercentenary of David Hume’s birth, Annette Baier has created an engaging guide
to the philosophy of one of the greatest thinkers of Enlightenment Britain. Drawing deeply on
a lifetime of scholarship and incisive commentary, she deftly weaves Hume’s autobiography
together with his writings and correspondence, finding in these personal experiences new ways
to illuminate his ideas about religion, human nature, and the social order.
Excerpts from Hume’s autobiography at the beginning of each chapter open a window
onto the eighteenth-century context in which Hume’s philosophy developed. Famous in Chris-
tian Britain as a polymath and a nonbeliever, Hume recounts how his early encounters with cler-
ical authority laid the foundation for his lifelong skepticism toward religion. In Scotland, where
he grew up, he had been forced to study lists of sins in order to spot his own childish flaws,
he reports. Later, as a young man, he witnessed the clergy’s punishment of a pregnant
unmarried servant, and this led him to question the violent consequences of the
Church’s emphasis on the doctrine
of original sin. Baier’s clear inter-
pretation of Hume’s Treatise on
a N N e t t e c . b a i e R is Distinguished
Human Nature explains the link
Service Professor of Philosophy
between Hume’s growing disil-
Emerita at the University of Pittsburgh
lusionment and his belief that
and author of Moral Prejudices (HUP).
ethics should be based on inves-
tigations of human nature, not
on religious dogma.
Four months before he died, Hume concluded his autobiography with
a eulogy he wrote for his own funeral. It makes no mention of his flaws, critics,
or disappointments. Baier’s more realistic account rivets our attention on con-
nections between the way Hume lived and the way he thought—insights unavail-
able to Hume himself, perhaps, despite his lifelong introspection.
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“david hume” by charles-Nicolas cochin le jeune, c. 1754. harvard art museums, fogg art museum, gift of forsyth wickes, 1962.150.
allan macintyre © president and fellows of harvard college.
The Body of John Merryman
abRaham linColn and the suspension of habeas CoRpus
bRiaN mcgiNty
In April 1861, President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus along the mil-
itary line between Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia. This allowed army officers to arrest and
indefinitely detain persons who were interfering with military operations in the area. When
John Merryman, a wealthy Marylander suspected of burning bridges to prevent the passage of
U.S. troops to Washington, was detained in Fort McHenry, the chief justice of the Supreme
Court, Roger Taney, declared the suspension of habeas corpus unconstitutional and demanded
Merryman’s immediate release. Lincoln defied Taney’s order, offering his own forceful counter-
argument for the constitutionality of his actions. Thus the stage was set for one of the most dra-
matic personal and legal confrontations the country has ever witnessed.
The Body of John Merryman is the
first book-length examination of this much-
b R i a N m c g i N t y is an attorney and misunderstood chapter in American history.
writer specializing in American history and Brian McGinty captures the tension and
law. He is the author of Lincoln and the uncertainty that surrounded the early
Court and John Brown’s Trial (both HUP). months of the Civil War, explaining how
Lincoln’s suspension of habeas corpus was
first and foremost a military action that only
subsequently became a crucial constitu-
tional battle. McGinty’s narrative brings to life the personalities that drove this uneasy standoff
and expands our understanding of the war as a legal—and not just a military, political, and
social—conflict. The Body of John Merryman is an extraordinarily readable book that illuminates
the contours of one of the most significant cases in American legal history—a case that contin-
ues to resonate in our own time.
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hiStoRy
The People’s Courts
puRsuing JudiCial independenCe in ameRiCa
Jed haNdelSmaN ShUgeRmaN
In the United States, almost 90 percent of state judges have to run in popular elections to remain
on the bench. In the past decade, this peculiarly American institution has produced vicious
multimillion-dollar political election campaigns and high-profile allegations of judicial bias and
misconduct. The People’s Courts traces the history of judicial elections and Americans’ quest
for an independent judiciary—one that would ensure fairness for all before the law—from the
colonial era to the present.
In the aftermath of economic disaster, nineteenth-century
reformers embraced popular elections as a way to make politi-
cally appointed judges less susceptible to partisan patronage and Jed haNdelSmaN
more independent of the legislative and executive branches of S h U g e R m a N is
government. This effort to reinforce the separation of powers and Assistant Professor at
limit government succeeded in many ways, but it created new Harvard Law School.
threats to judicial independence and provoked further calls for
reform. Merit selection emerged as the most promising means
of reducing partisan and financial influence from judicial selec-
tion. It too, however, proved vulnerable to pressure from party politics and special interest
groups. Yet, as Jed Shugerman concludes, it still has more potential for protecting judicial inde-
pendence than either political appointment or popular election.
The People’s Courts shows how Americans have been deeply committed to judicial
independence, but that commitment has also been manipulated by special interests. By under-
standing our history of judicial selection, we can better protect and preserve the independence
of judges from political and partisan influence.
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law
Shattered Spaces
enCounteRing JeWish Ruins in postWaR geRmany and poland
michael meNg
After the Holocaust, the empty, silent spaces of bombed-out synagogues, cemeteries, and Jew-
ish districts were all that was left in many German and Polish cities with prewar histories rich
in the sights and sounds of Jewish life. What happened to this scarred landscape after the war,
and how have Germans, Poles, and Jews encountered these ruins over the past sixty years?
In the postwar period, city officials swept away many sites, despite protests from Jewish
leaders. But in the late 1970s, church groups, local residents, political dissidents, and tourists
demanded the preservation of the few ruins still standing. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union
in 1989, this desire to preserve and
restore has grown stronger. In one of the
most striking and little-studied shifts in
m i c h a e l m e N g is Assistant Professor postwar European history, the traces of a
of History at Clemson University. long-neglected Jewish past have gradually
been recovered, thanks to the rise of her-
itage tourism, nostalgia for ruins, interna-
tional discussions about the Holocaust,
and a pervasive longing for cosmopolitanism in a globalizing world.
Examining this transformation from both sides of the Iron Curtain, Michael Meng finds
no divided memory along West-East lines, but rather a shared memory of tensions and paradoxes
that crosses borders throughout Central Europe. His narrative reveals the changing dynamics
of the local and the transnational, as Germans, Poles, Americans, and Israelis confront a built
environment that is inevitably altered with the passage of time. Shattered Spaces exemplifies
urban history at its best, uncovering a surprising and moving postwar story of broad contem-
porary interest.
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hiStoRy / JewiSh StUdieS
Sonnets and Shorter Poems
petRaRch
T R A N S L AT E D BY D AV I D R . S L AV I T T
“d eft, SUbtle , Sympathetic , aNd fUll of the Small bURStS of SomethiNg liKe
electRicity that chaRacteRize the SoNNet aS p etRaRch developed it.
S lavitt ’ S tRaNSlatioNS of the madRigalS aNd ballate RiNg delicate chaNgeS
oN the baSic patteRN .”
—h eNRy tayloR
In this volume, David R. Slavitt, the distinguished translator and author of more than ninety
works of fiction, poetry, and drama, turns his skills to Il Canzoniere (Songbook) by Petrarch, the
most influential poet in the history of the sonnet.
In Petrarch’s hands, lyric verse was transformed
from an expression of courtly devotion into a way
d av i d R . S l av i t t has translated
of conversing with one’s own heart and mind.
numerous works, including The
Slavitt renders the sonnets in Il Canzoniere, along
Consolation of Philosophy, Orlando
with the shorter madrigals and ballate, in a
Furioso, and La Vita Nuova (all HUP).
sparkling and engaging idiom and in rhythm and
rhyme that do justice to Petrarch’s achievement.
At the center of Il Canzoniere (also known
as Rime Sparse, or Scattered Rhymes) is Petrarch’s obsessive love for Laura, a woman Petrarch
asserts he first saw at Easter Mass on April 6, 1327, in the church of Sainte-Claire d’Avignon
when he was twenty-two. Though Laura was already married, the sight of her woke in the poet
a passion that would last beyond her premature death on April 6, 1348, exactly twenty-one
years after he first encountered her. Unlike Dante’s Beatrice—a savior leading the poet by the
hand toward divine love—Petrarch’s Laura elicits more earthbound and erotic feelings. David
Slavitt’s deft new translation captures the nuanced tone of Petrarch’s poems exactly—their joy
and despair, and eventually their grief over Laura’s death. Readers of poetry and especially those
with an interest in the sonnet and its history will welcome this volume.
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poetRy
Being There
Learning to Live Cross-CuLturaLLy
eDiteD by Sarah h. DaviS anD Melvin Konner
A D D I T I O N A L C O N T R I B U T O R S : LILA ABU-LUGHOD, RUTH BEHAR, CHRIS BOEHM, LOUISE BROWN,
LIZA DALBY, ALMA GOTTLIEB, PHILIP GRAHAM, MELISSA FAY GREENE, JESSICA GREGG, M. CAMERON HAY,
RUSSELL LEIGH SHARMAN, BRADD SHORE, ROBERT SHORE, MARJORIE SHOSTAK, JEANNE SIMONELLI, AND
JOHN C. WOOD
How can an academic who does not believe evil spirits cause illness harbor the hope that her
cancer may be cured by a healer who enters a trance to battle her demons? Whose actions are
more (or less) honorable: those of a prostitute who sells her daughter’s virginity to a rich man,
or those of a professor who sanctions her daughter’s hook-ups with casual acquaintances? As
they immerse themselves in foreign cultures and navigate the relationships that take shape, the
authors of these essays, most of them
trained anthropologists, find that
accepting cultural difference is one
S a r a h h . D av i S is completing her doctoral
thing, experiencing it is quite another.
studies at Emory University in Cultural
In tales that entertain as much as they
Anthropology. M e lv i n K o n n e r is Samuel
illuminate, these writers show how
Candler Dobbs Professor in the Department of
the moral and intellectual challenges
Anthropology and the Program in Neuroscience
of living cross-culturally revealed to
and Behavioral Biology at Emory University and
them the limits of their perception
author of The Evolution of Childhood (see p. 84).
and understanding.
Their insights were gained
only after discomforts resulting
mainly from the authors’ own blun-
ders in the field. From Brazil to Botswana, Egypt to Indonesia, Mongolia to Pakistan, mistakes
were made. Offering a gift to a Navajo man at the beginning of an interview, rather than the
end, caused one author to lose his entire research project. In Côte d’Ivoire, a Western family
was targeted by the village madman, leading the parents to fear for the safety of their child even
as they suspected that their very presence had triggered his madness. At a time when misun-
derstanding of cultural difference is an undeniable source of conflict, we need stories like these
more than ever before.
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anthropology
46 w w w.hu p.har vard. e du m h a r vard u n i vers i t y pres s

Dropping Out
Why students dRop out of high sChool and What Can be done about it
RUSSell w. RUmbeRgeR
The vast majority of kids in the developed world finish high school—but not in the United
States. More than a million kids drop out every year, around 7,000 a day, and the numbers are
rising. Dropping Out offers a comprehensive overview by one of the country’s leading experts,
and provides answers to fundamental questions: Who drops out, and why? What happens to
them when they do? How can we prevent at-risk kids from short-circuiting their futures?
Students start disengaging long before they get to high school, and the consequences are
severe—not just for individuals but for the larger society and economy. Dropouts never catch
up with high school graduates on
any measure. They are less likely to
find work at all, and more likely to
R U S S e l l w. R U m b e R g e R is Professor of
live in poverty, commit crimes, and
Education at the University of California, Santa
suffer health problems. Even life
Barbara, and Vice Provost for Education
expectancy for dropouts is shorter
Partnerships at the University of California Office
by seven years than for those who
of the President.
earn a diploma.
Russell Rumberger advo-
cates targeting the most vulnerable
students as far back as the early elementary grades. And he levels sharp criticism at the con-
ventional definition of success as readiness for college. He argues that high schools must offer
all students what they need to succeed in the workplace and independent adult life. A more flex-
ible and practical definition of achievement—one in which a high school education does not
simply qualify you for more school—can make school make sense to young people. And maybe
keep them there.
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edUcatioN
Teaching and Its Predicaments
david K. coheN
Ever since Socrates, teaching has been a difficult and even dangerous profession. Why is good
teaching such hard work?
In this provocative, witty, and sometimes rueful book, David K. Cohen writes about the
predicaments that teachers face. Like therapists, social workers, and pastors, teachers embark
on a mission of human improvement. They aim to deepen knowledge, broaden understanding,
sharpen skills, and change behavior. One predicament is that no matter how great their expert-
ise, teachers depend on the cooperation and intelligence of their students, yet there is much that
students do not know. To teach responsibly, teachers must cultivate a kind of mental double
vision: distancing themselves from their
own knowledge to understand students’
thinking, yet using their knowledge to
d av i d K . c o h e N is John Dewey Professor guide their teaching. Another predicament
of Education and Professor of Education is that though attention to students’ think-
Policy at the University of Michigan. He is ing improves the chances of learning, it
also author of The Ordeal of Equality (HUP). also increases the uncertainty and com-
plexity of the job.
The circumstances in which teach-
ers and students work make a difference.
Teachers and students are better able to manage these predicaments if they have resources—
common curricula, intelligent assessments, and teacher education tied to both—that support
responsible teaching. Yet for most of U.S. history those resources have been in short supply,
and many current accountability policies are little help. With a keen eye for the moment-to-
moment challenges, Cohen explores what “responsible teaching” can be, the kind of mind read-
ing it seems to demand, and the complex social resources it requires.
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edUcatioN
The Crisis in Energy Policy
JohN m. deUtch
Our future depends on what we do about energy. This stark fact, clear since the oil embargo of
the 1970s, has been hammered home through crisis after crisis—and yet our government has
failed to come up with a coherent energy policy. John Deutch, with his extraordinary mix of
technical, scholarly, corporate, and governmental expertise in the realm of energy, is uniquely
qualified to explain what has stood in the way of progress on this most pressing issue. His book
is at once an eye-opening history of the muddled practices that have passed for energy policy
over the past thirty years, and a cogent account of what we can and should learn from so many
breakdowns of strategy and execution.
Three goals drive any comprehen-
sive energy policy: develop an effective
J o h N m . d e U t c h is Institute Professor at
approach to climate change; transition
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
from fossil fuels to renewable energy tech-
He has been Director of Central Intelligence
nologies; and increase the efficiency of
and Deputy Secretary of Defense in the
energy use to reduce dependence on
imported oil. Why has every effort in this Clinton Administration and Director of
direction eventually fallen short? Deutch Energy Research and Undersecretary in the
identifies the sources of this failure in our Department of Energy in the Carter
popular but unrealistic goals, our compet- Administration. He is currently a member of
ing domestic and international agendas, the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board.
and our poor analysis in planning, policy-
making, and administering government
programs. Most significantly, The Crisis in
Energy Policy clarifies the need to link
domestic and global considerations, as well as the critical importance of integrating technical,
economic, and political factors. Written for experts and citizens alike, this book will strengthen
the hand of anyone concerned about the future of energy policy.
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cURReNt affaiRS / eNviRoNmeNtal StUdieS
d umbarton Oaks SEXTUS AMARCIUS
Medieval Library Satires

Jan M. Ziolkowski tra nslat ed by
General Editor RONALD E. PEPIN
Daniel Donoghue
Old English Editor Eupolemius
Danuta Shanzer
Medieval Latin Editor
edited and translated by
JAN M. ZIOLKOWSKI
Alice-Mary Talbot
Byzantine Greek Editor
Composed in Germany by a monastic poet steeped in classical lore and letters, the Satires
of Amarcius (Sextus Amarcius Gallus Piosistratus) unrelentingly attack both secular vices
“The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
and ecclesiastical abuses of the late eleventh century. The verses
is a project of extraordinary intellectual
echo Horace and Prudentius, are laced with proverbs and
and cultural value, splendidly edited and
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handsomely presented.”
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The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library The Eupolemius is a late-eleventh-century Latin epic
is a groundbreaking new facing-page that recasts salvation history, from Lucifer’s fall through Christ’s
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written achievements of medieval and within a uniquely medieval framework. At once biblical, heroic,
Byzantine culture available to both and allegorical, it complements the so-called Bible epics in Latin
scholars and general readers in the from late antiquity and the refashionings of biblical narrative in
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Old English verse. It emulates classical Latin epics by Virgil, Lucan, and Statius and
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cultural value to a global audience
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based on the latest research by leading Bible and New Testament, it is also rooted in its own momentous times.
figures in the field.
RONALD E. PEPIN is Professor Emeritus of Humanities, Capital Community
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Professor of Medieval Latin, Harvard University, and the Director of
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.
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Histories The Vulgate Bible
RICHER OF SAINT-RÉMI Vo l u m e I I I
Th e Po e t i c a l B o o k s
Vo l u m e I : B o o k s 1 – 2
Vo l u m e I I : B o o k s 3 – 4 Douay-Rheims Translation
edited and translated by edited by

JUSTIN LAKE SWIFT EDGAR
The Historia of Richer of Saint-Rémi (ca. 950–ca. 1000), an invalu- This is the third volume of a projected five-volume set of the com-
able source for understanding tenth-century West Francia (pre- plete Vulgate Bible. Compiled and translated in large part by Saint
sent-day France), provides a rare contemporary account of the Jerome at the turn of the fifth century CE, the Vulgate Bible perme-
waning Carolingian dynasty, accession of Hugh Capet, and failed ated the Western Christian (and later specifically Catholic) tradi-
rebellion of Charles of Lorraine. Beginning in 888, the Historia sur- tion from the early medieval period through the twentieth century.
veys a tumultuous century in which two competing dynasties It influenced literature, visual arts, music, and education during
struggled for supremacy, while great magnates seized the oppor- the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and its contents lay at the heart
tunity to carve out their own principalities. Richer’s descriptive of Western theological, intellectual, artistic, and even political his-
talents are on display as he tells of synods and coronations, decep- tory during that period. At the end of the sixteenth century, as
tion and espionage, battles and sieges, disease and death, and even Protestant vernacular Bibles became available, professors at a
the difficulties of travel. Catholic college first at Douay, then at Rheims, translated the
The Historia also sheds light on a controversial figure of Vulgate Bible into English, primarily to combat the influence of rival
the Middle Ages, the legendary cleric and scholar Gerbert of theologies.
Aurillac. Gerbert, the dedicatee of the Historia, rose from humble Volume III presents the Poetical Books of the Bible. It
beginnings to become archbishop of Rheims, archbishop of begins with Job’s argument with God, and unlike other Bibles the
Ravenna, and eventually pope (as Sylvester II). The Historia con- Vulgate insists on the title character’s faith throughout that crisis.
tains a fascinating description of his teaching at the cathedral The volume proceeds with the soaring and intimate lyrics of the
school of Rheims, where his innovations involved instruments Psalms and the Canticle of Canticles. Three books of wisdom lit-
such as the monochord, armillary sphere, and abacus. erature, all once attributed to King Solomon, also are included:
Translated into English here for the first time, the Historia Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Wisdom. Ecclesiasticus, a work of wis-
holds particular attractions for historians and for anyone interested dom literature no longer considered authentically biblical, con-
in the cultural and intellectual developments in the Latin West cludes the volume. The seven Poetical Books mark the third step
around the year 1000. in a thematic progression from God’s creation of the universe,
through his oversight of grand historical events, and finally into
J U STI N LAKE is Assistant Professor of Classics in the
the personal lives of his people.
Department of European and Classical Languages and
Cultures at Texas A&M University. SWIFT EDGAR is a research assistant at the Dumbarton
Oaks Research Library and Collection.
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hiStoRy
Celebrating 100 Years
EDITED BY JEFFREY HENDERSON
LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY
The Merchant. Method of Medicine

The Braggart Soldier. Volume I: Books 1–4
The Ghost. The Persian Volume II: Books 5–9
Volume III: Books 10–14
Volume III
Galen
Plautus
Edited and translated by
Edited and translated by Ian Johnston and G. H. R. Horsley
Wolfgang de Melo
Galen of Pergamum (129–?199/216), physician to the court
The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, was a philosopher, scien-
Greek plays for Roman audiences c. 205–184 BCE, are the tist, and medical historian, a theoretician and practitioner,
earliest Latin works to survive complete and are cornerstones who wrote forcefully and prolifically on an astonishing range
of the European theatrical tradition from Shake- of subjects and whose impact on later eras rivaled that of
speare and Molière to modern times. This Aristotle. Galen synthesized the entirety of Greek medicine
third volume of a new Loeb edition of all as a basis for his own doctrines and practice, which compre-
twenty-one of Plautus’s extant come- hensively embraced theory, practical knowledge, experiment,
dies presents The Merchant, The logic, and a deep understanding of human life and society.
Braggart Soldier, The Ghost, and New to the Loeb Classical Library is Method of Medi-
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texts, lively modern transla- ples of treating injury and disease and one of Galen’s greatest
tions, introductions, and ample and most influential works.
explanatory notes.
I A N J O H N S T O N is currently an independent
WOLFGANG DE MELO scholar pursuing a lifelong passion for ancient
is Professor of Latin and languages. G . H . R . H O R S L E Y is Professor of
Greek at Ghent University. Classics at the University of New England in New
South Wales, Australia.
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The Histories Problems
Volume IV: Books 9–15 Volume I: Books 1–19
Polybius Volume II: Books 20–38, Rhetoric to
Alexander
Translated by W. R. Paton
Revised by F. W. Walbank and
Aristotle
Christian Habicht Edited and translated by Robert
A. Mayhew and David C. Mirhady
The historian Polybius (ca. 200–118 BCE) was born into a
leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese and Aristotle of Stagirus (384–322 BCE), the great Greek philoso-
served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many pher, researcher, logician, and scholar, studied with Plato at
years. From 168 to 151 he was held hostage in Rome, where Athens and taught in the Academy (367–347). After some
he became a friend of Scipio Aemilianus, whose campaigns, time at Mitylene, he was appointed in 343/2 by King Philip
including the destruction of Carthage, he later attended. As of Macedon to be tutor of his teenaged son Alexander. After
a trusted mediator between Greece and the Romans, he Philip’s death in 336, Aristotle became head of his own
helped in the discussions that preceded the final war with school (of “Peripatetics”), the Lyceum at Athens. Because
Carthage, and after 146 was entrusted by the Romans with of anti-Macedonian feeling there after Alexander’s death in
the details of administration in Greece. 323, he withdrew to Chalcis in Euboea, where he died the
Polybius’s overall theme is how and why the Romans following year.
spread their power as they did. The main part of his history Problems, the third-longest work in the Aristotelian
covers the years 264–146 BCE, describing the rise of Rome, corpus, contains thirty-eight books covering more than 900
her destruction of Carthage, and her eventual domination of problems about living things, meteorology, ethical and intel-
the Greek world. It is a vital achievement of the first impor- lectual virtues, parts of the human body, and miscellaneous
tance despite the incomplete state in which all but the first questions. Although Problems is an accretion of multiple
five of its original forty books survive. authorship over several centuries, it offers a fascinating
W. R. Paton’s excellent translation, first published in technical view of Peripatetic method and thought. Rhetoric
1922, has been thoroughly revised, the Büttner-Wobst to Alexander, which provides practical advice to orators, was
Greek text corrected, and explanatory notes and a new likely composed during the period of Aristotle’s tutorship of
introduction added, all reflecting the latest scholarship. Alexander, perhaps by Anaximenes, another of Alexander’s
tutors. Both Problems and Rhetoric to Alexander replace the
F. W. WA L B A N K was Rathbone Professor of earlier Loeb edition by Hett and Rackham, with texts and
Ancient History and Classical Archaeology at the
translations incorporating the latest scholarship.
University of Liverpool and a Fellow of the
British Academy. C H R I S T I A N H A B I C H T is R O B E R T A . M AY H E W is Professor of
Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at the Philosophy, Seton Hall University. D AV I D C .
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. M I R H A D Y is Associate Professor and Chair of
Humanities, Simon Fraser University.
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history
roads to power
Britain invents the infrastructure state
Jo Guldi
In early-eighteenth-century Britain, nothing but stretches of dirt track, impassible for much of
the year, ran between most towns. By 1848, Britain’s primitive roads were transformed into a
network of forty-foot-wide highways connecting every village and island in the nation—and
also dividing them in unforeseen ways. Roads to Power refutes the traditional tale of how bet-
ter roads made better neighbors and how the transport revolution unified the English, Scottish,
Welsh, and Irish into a common and commercial people. In fact, few issues divided Britain as
much as transport and trade.
Peripheries like the Highlands demanded that centralized government pay for roads they
could not afford, while English counties argued for a localism that would spare them from
underwriting roads to Scotland. When tradesmen, Methodist preachers, soldiers, and enter-
tainers took to the highway, travelers and townspeople alike felt vulnerable, and mistrust grew.
Social engineering followed civil engineering, in the form of state-designed sewers and slum
clearance projects. As Jo Guldi shows, in their disagreements about roads, Britons posited two
visions of community: one centralized, expert-driven, and technological; the other local, infor-
mal, and libertarian. These two visions lie at the heart of today’s debates over infrastructure,
development, and communication.
J o G u l d i is Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Histor y, University of

Chicago, and a Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows, Har vard University. She
also runs the Landscape Studies Podcast.
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our fritz faces of perfect ebony
emperor frederick iii and the political culture of encounterinG atlantic slavery in imperial Britain
imperial Germany Catherine Molineux
Frank lorenz Müller
Though blacks were not often seen on the streets of seventeenth-
On June 15, 1888, a mere ninety- century London, they were already capturing the British imagina-
nine days after ascending the tion. For two hundred years, as Britain shipped over three million
throne to become king of Prussia Africans to the New World, popular images of blacks as slaves and
and German emperor, Frederick servants proliferated in London art, both highbrow and low. Cather-
III succumbed to throat cancer. ine Molineux assembles a surprising array of sources in her explo-
Europeans were spellbound by ration of this emerging black presence, from shop signs, tea trays,
the cruel fate nobly borne by the trading cards, board games, playing cards,
voiceless Fritz, who for more than and song ballads to more familiar objects
two decades had been celebrated such as William Hogarth’s graphic satires.
as a military hero and loved as a The earliest images advertised the
kindly gentleman. A number of opulence of the British Empire, by depict-
grief-stricken individuals report- ing black slaves and servants as minor,
edly offered to sacrifice their own exotic characters who gazed adoringly at
healthy larynxes to save the ailing emperor. their masters. Later images showed
Frank Lorenz Müller, in the first comprehensive life of Fred- Britons and Africans in friendly gatherings.
erick III ever written, reconstructs how the persona of “Our Fritz” By 1807, when Britain abolished the slave
was created and used for various political purposes before and after trade and thousands of people of African
the emperor’s tragic death. Sandwiched between the reign of his descent were living in London as free men
ninety-year-old father and the calamitous rule of his own son (the and women, depictions of black laborers
future emperor William II), Frederick III served as a canvas onto in coffeehouses, taverns, or kitchens took
which different political forces projected their hopes and fears for center stage. Molineux’s well-crafted account provides rich evi-
Germany’s future. Surrounded by an unforgettable cast of charac- dence for the role that human traffic played in the popular con-
ters that includes the emperor’s widely hated English wife, Vicky, sciousness and culture of Britain during the seventeenth and
and the scheming Otto von Bismarck, Frederick III offers in death eighteenth centuries and deepens our understanding of how Britons
as well as in life a poignant glimpse of Prussia, Germany, and the imagined their burgeoning empire.
European world that his son would help to shatter.
C at h e r i n e M o l i n e u x is Assistant Professor of
F r a n k l o r e n z M ü l l e r is Senior Lecturer in Histor y at Vanderbilt University.
Modern Histor y at the University of St. Andrews.
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Church militant planning armageddon
Bishop kunG and catholic resistance in communist British economic Warfare and the first World War
shanGhai niCholas a. laMbert
Paul P. Mariani
“a MaGniFiCent aChieveMent, one oF the Most
iMPortant books Published in deCades on the
By 1952, the Chinese Communist Party had
oriGins and ConduCt oF the G reat War .”
suppressed all organized resistance to its
regime and stood unopposed, or so it has —s aMuel r. W illiaMson , J r .,
been believed. Internal party documents— u niversity oF the s outh , eMeritus
declassified just long enough for historian Before the First World War, the British Admiralty conceived a plan
Paul Mariani to send copies out of China— to win rapid victory in the event of war with Germany—economic
disclose that one group deemed an enemy of warfare on an unprecedented scale. This secret strategy called for
the state held out after the others had fallen. the state to exploit Britain’s effective monopolies in banking, com-
A party report from Shanghai marked “top- munications, and shipping to create a controlled implosion of the
secret” reveals a determined, often coura- world economic system.
geous resistance by the local Catholic
In this revisionist account, Nicholas Lambert shows in lively
Church. Drawing on centuries of experience
detail how naval planners persuaded the British political leadership
in struggling with the Chinese authorities, the
that systematic disruption of the global economy could bring about
Church was proving a stubborn match for the party.
German military paralysis. After the outbreak of hostilities, the gov-
Mariani tells the story of how Bishop (later Cardinal) Ignatius ernment shied away from full implementation, upon realizing the
Kung Pinmei, the Jesuits, and the Catholic Youth resisted the extent of likely collateral damage—political, social, economic, and
regime’s punishing assault and refused to renounce the Church in diplomatic—to both Britain and neutral countries. Woodrow Wilson
Rome. Mirroring tactics used by the previously underground CCP, in particular bristled at British restrictions on trade. A new, less dis-
Shanghai’s Catholics persevered until 1955, when the believers ruptive approach to economic coercion was hastily improvised. The
were betrayed from within their own ranks. Though the CCP could result was the blockade, ostensibly intended to starve Germany. It
not eradicate the Catholic Church in China, it succeeded in divid- proved largely ineffective because of the massive political influence
ing it. Mariani’s secret history traces the origins of a deep split in the of economic interests on national ambitions and the continued inter-
Chinese Catholic community, where relations between the “Patri- dependencies of all countries upon the smooth functioning of the
otic” and underground churches remain strained even today. global trading system. Lambert’s incisive interpretation entirely
Pa u l P. M a r i a n i is Assistant Professor of Histor y overturns our conventional understanding of British strategy in the
at Santa Clara University. early part of the First World War.
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eisbN: 978-0-674-06317-4 | reLigioN / history His first book, S i r J o h n Fi s h e r ’s N a va l R e vo l u t i o n,
won the Distinguished Book Prize from the Society for
Militar y Histor y.
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empire and Underworld Colored Cosmopolitanism
captivity in french Guiana the shared struGGle for freedom in the
Miranda FranCes sPieler united states and india
niCo slate
In the century after the French Rev-
olution, the South American out- A hidden history connects India and the United States, the world’s
post of Guiana became a depository largest democracies. From the late nineteenth century through the
for exiles—outcasts of the new 1960s, activists worked across borders of race and nation to push
French citizenry—and an experi- both countries toward achieving their democratic principles. At the
mental space for the exercise of heart of this shared struggle, African Americans and Indians forged
new kinds of power and violence bonds ranging from statements of sympathy to coordinated acts of
against marginal groups. Miranda solidarity. Within these groups, certain
Spieler chronicles the encounter activists developed a vision of the world
between colonial officials, planters, that transcended traditional racial distinc-
and others, ranging from deported tions. These men and women agitated for
political enemies to convicts, ex- the freedom of the “colored world,” even
convicts, vagabonds, freed slaves, while challenging the meanings of both
non-European immigrants, and Maroons (descendants of fugitive color and freedom.
slaves in the forest). She finds that at a time when France was advo- Colored Cosmopolitanism is the
cating the revolutionary principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity, first detailed examination of both ends of
Guiana’s exiles were stripped of their legal identities and unmade this transnational encounter. Nico Slate
by law, becoming nonpersons living in limbo. tells the stories of neglected historical fig-
The French Revolution invented the notion of the citizen, ures and offers a fresh glimpse of people
but as Spieler shows, it also invented the noncitizen—the person we thought we knew. Prominent figures
whose rights were nonexistent. Empire and Underworld discovers such as Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal
in Guiana’s wilderness a haunting prehistory of current moral dilem- Nehru, Swami Vivekananda, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du
mas surrounding detainees of indeterminate legal status. Pairing the Bois, and Martin Luther King, Jr., emerge as never before seen. Slate
history of France with that of its underworld and challenging some reveals the full gamut of this exchange—from selective appropria-
of the century’s most influential theorists from Hannah Arendt to tions, to blatant misunderstandings, to a profound empathy—as
Michel Foucault, Spieler demonstrates how rights of the modern African Americans and South Asians sought a united front against
world can mutate into an apparatus of human deprivation. racism, imperialism, and other forms of oppression.
M i r a n d a F r a n C e s s P i e l e r is Assistant n i C o s l at e is Assistant Professor of Histor y at
Professor of Histor y at the University of Arizona. Carnegie Mellon University.
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Casualties of Credit the invention of Law in
the enGlish financial revolution, 1620 –1720 the West
Carl Wennerlind aldo sChiavone
T R A N S L AT E D B Y J E R E M Y C A R D E N AND
Modern credit, developed during the financial revolution of 1620–
ANTONY SHUGAAR
1720, laid the foundation for England’s political, military, and eco-
nomic dominance in the eighteenth century. Possessed of a
Law is a specific form of social
generally circulating credit currency, a
regulation distinct from religion,
modern national debt, and sophisticated
ethics, and even politics, and
financial markets, England developed a fis-
endowed with a strong and
cal-military state that instilled fear and
autonomous rationality. Its inven-
facilitated the first industrial revolution.
tion, a crucial aspect of Western
Yet a number of casualties followed in the
history, took place in ancient
wake of this new system of credit. Not
Rome. Aldo Schiavone, a world-
only was it precarious and prone to acci-
renowned classicist, reconstructs
dents, but it depended on trust, public
this development with clear-eyed
opinion, and ultimately violence.
passion, following its course over
Carl Wennerlind reconstructs the the centuries, setting out from
intellectual context within which the the earliest origins and moving
financial revolution was conceived. He up to the threshold of Late Antiquity.
traces how the discourse on credit
The invention of Western law occurred against the backdrop
evolved and responded to the Glorious Revolution, the Scientific
of the Roman Empire’s gradual consolidation—an age of unprece-
Revolution, the founding of the Bank of England, the Great
dented accumulation of power which transformed an archaic pre-
Recoinage, armed conflicts with Louis XIV, the Whig-Tory party
disposition to ritual into an unrivaled technology for the control of
wars, the formation of the public sphere, and England’s expanded
human dealings. Schiavone offers us a closely reasoned interpreta-
role in the slave trade. Debates about credit engaged some of Lon-
tive essay that returns us to the primal origins of Western legal
don’s most prominent turn-of-the-century intellectuals, including
machinery and the discourse that was constructed around it—for-
Daniel Defoe, John Locke, Isaac Newton, Jonathan Swift, and
malism, the pretense of neutrality, the relationship with political
Christopher Wren. Wennerlind guides us through these conversa-
power. This is a landmark work of scholarship whose influence will
tions toward an understanding of how contemporaries viewed the
be felt by classicists, historians, and legal scholars for decades.
precariousness of credit and the role of violence in the safeguarding
of trust. a l d o s C h i av o n e is Professor of Roman Law at the
Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane.
C a r l W e n n e r l i n d is Assistant Professor of
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renaissanCe studies
the early renaissance and Writing history in

vernacular Culture renaissance italy
Charles deMPsey leonardo Bruni and the uses of the past
Gary ianziti
Why do the paintings and poetry of
the Italian Renaissance—a celebra- Leonardo Bruni (1370–1444) is widely recognized as the most
tion of classical antiquity—also important humanist historian of the early Renaissance. But why this
depict the Florentine countryside recognition came about—and what it has meant for the field of his-
populated with figures dressed in toriography—has long been a matter of confusion and controversy.
contemporary silk robes and fleur-de- Writing History in Renaissance Italy offers a fresh approach to the
lys crowns? Upending conventional subject by undertaking a systematic, work-by-work investigation
interpretations of this well-studied that encompasses for the first time the full
period, Charles Dempsey argues that range of Bruni’s output in history and
a fusion of classical form with con- biography.
temporary content, once seen as the
The study is the first to assess in
paradox of the Renaissance, can be
detail the impact of the classical Greek his-
better understood as its defining
torians on the development of humanist
characteristic.
methods of historical writing. It highlights
Dempsey describes how Renaissance artists deftly incorpo- in particular the importance of Thucydides
rated secular and popular culture into their creations, just as they and Polybius—authors Bruni was among
interwove classical and religious influences. Inspired by the love the first in the West to read, and whose
lyrics of Parisian troubadours, Simone Martini altered his fresco analytical approach to politics led him in
Maestà to reflect a court culture that prized terrestrial beauty. The new directions. Gary Ianziti constantly
Maestà scandalously revealed, for the first time in Italian painting, monitors Bruni’s position within the shift-
a glimpse of the Madonna’s golden locks. Modeled on an ancient ing hierarchies of power in Florence,
statue, Botticelli’s Birth of Venus went much further, featuring fash- drawing the connections between his various historical works and
ionable beauty ideals of long flowing blonde hair, ivory skin, rosy the political uses they were meant to serve. Bruni himself emerges
cheeks, and perfectly arched eyebrows. As Dempsey’s thorough as a protagonist of the first order, a figure whose location at the cen-
study illuminates, Renaissance poets and artists did not simply repro- ter of power was a decisive factor shaping his innovations in his-
duce classical aesthetics but reimagined them in vernacular idioms. torical writing.
C h a r l e s d e M P s e y is Emeritus Professor of Italian
G a r y i a n z i t i is Honorar y Associate Professor,
Renaissance and Baroque Art at Johns Hopkins Centre for the Histor y of European Discourses,
University. University of Queensland.
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i tatti stUdies iN itaLiaN reNaissaNCe history
deLivered at the viLLa i tatti
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huManities
a Case for irony the promise of memory

Jonathan lear childhood recollection and its oBjects in
literary modernism
In 2001, Vanity Fair declared that the Age of Irony was over. Joan
lorna Martens
Didion has lamented that the United States in the era of
Barack Obama has become an “irony-free zone.” As he
Readers once believed in the power of Proust’s
did in his 2006 book Radical Hope, Jonathan Lear looks
madeleine and Wordsworth’s boyhood mem-
again into America’s heart and
ories—but that was before literary culture
forges a radical way forward, by
began to defer to Freud’s questioning of adult
arguing that no genuinely
memories of childhood. In this first sustained
human life is possible without
look at childhood memories as depicted in lit-
irony.
erature, Lorna Martens reveals how much we
Becoming human, writes may have lost by turning our attention the
Lear, is something we accom- other way.
plish, something we get the
The Promise of Memory is squarely
hang of. Like Kierkegaard and
situated at the intersection of literature and
Plato, he claims that irony is one
psychology. Psychologists’ discoveries about
of the essential tools we use to
when childhood memories form, and what
do this. For Lear and the participants in his
form they most often take, resonate throughout the works of the
Socratic dialogue, irony is not about being
three writers Martens highlights. Proust and Rilke, writing before
cool and detached like a player in a Woody
Freudian theory infiltrated literary culture, offer original answers to
Allen film. Instead, it is a renewed commit-
questions such as “Why is it important to remember childhood?
ment to living seriously, to experiencing every disruption that shakes
What kinds of things do children remember? What do their mem-
us from our habitual ways of tuning out of life. Lear claims that our
ories tell us?” In Walter Benjamin, Martens finds a writer willing to
feelings and desires tend toward order, a structure that true irony
grapple with Freud and whose writings on childhood capture that
manifests to us. His exchanges with his interlocutors strengthen his
struggle. For all three authors, places and things figure prominently
claims, while his experiences as a practicing psychoanalyst bring an
in the workings of memory. Connections between memory and
emotionally gripping dimension to what is at stake—the psychic
materiality suggest new ways of understanding not just childhood
costs and benefits of living with irony.
recollection but also the artistic inclination, which draws on a child-
J o n at h a n l e a r is John U. Nef Distinguished like way of seeing: object-focused, imaginative, and emotionally
Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought intense.
and the Department of Philosophy at the University
of Chicago. l o r n a M a r t e n s is Professor of German and
Comparative Literature at the University of Virginia.
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perspectives on Categories of the temporal
pragmatism an inquiry into the forms of the finite intellect
classical, recent, and contemporary sebastian rödl
robert b. brandoM T R A N S L AT E D BY SIBYLLE SALEWSKI
Pragmatism has been reinvented in The publication of Frege’s Begriffschrift in 1879 forever altered the
every generation since its begin- landscape for many Western philosophers. Here, Sebastian Rödl
nings in the late nineteenth century. traces how the Fregean influence, written all over the development
This book, by one of today’s most and present state of analytic philosophy, led into an unholy alliance
distinguished contemporary heirs of of an empiricist conception of sensibility with an inferentialist con-
pragmatist philosophy, rereads car- ception of thought.
dinal figures in that tradition, distill- According to Rödl, Wittgenstein responded to the implosion
ing from their insights a way of Frege’s principle that the nature of thought consists in its infer-
forward from where we are now. ential order, but his Philosophical Investigations shied away from
Perspectives on Pragmatism offering an alternative. Rödl takes up the challenge by turning to
opens with a new account of the Kant and Aristotle as ancestors of this tradition, and in doing so
first three generations of classical identifies its unacknowledged question: the relation of judgment
American pragmatists, represented and truth to time. Rödl finds in the thought of these two men the
by Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey. Post- answer he urges us to consider: the temporal and the sensible, and
Deweyan pragmatism at midcentury is discussed in the work of the atemporal and the intelligible, are aspects of one reality and can-
Wilfrid Sellars, one of its most brilliant and original practitioners. not be understood independently of one another. In demonstrating
Sellars’ legacy in turn is traced through the thought of his admirer, that an investigation into the categories of the temporal can be
Richard Rorty, who further developed his predecessors’ ideas and undertaken as a contribution to logic, Rödl seeks to transform simul-
reiterated their importance both for intellectuals and for the wider taneously our philosophical understanding of both logic and time.
public sphere. The book closes with a clear description of the s e b a s t i a n r ö d l is Professor of Philosophy at the
author’s own analytic pragmatism, which combines all these ideas University of Basel, Switzerland.
with those of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and synthesizes that broad prag-
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which focuses on language and logic. The result is a treatise that
allows us to see American philosophy in its full scope, both its ori-
gins and its promise for tomorrow.
r o b e r t b . b r a n d o M is Distinguished Professor in
the Department of Philosophy, University of
Pittsburgh.
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Walter benjamin the ethical project
a philosophical portrait PhiliP kitCher
eli Friedlander
In a revolutionary approach to the problems of moral philosophy,
Walter Benjamin is often viewed as a cultural critic who produced Philip Kitcher makes a provocative proposal: Instead of conceiving
a vast array of brilliant and idiosyncratic pieces of writing with lit- ethical commands as divine revelations or as the discoveries of bril-
tle more to unify them than the feeling that they all bear the stamp liant thinkers, we should see our ethical practices as evolving over
of his “unclassifiable” genius. Eli Friedlander argues that Walter tens of thousands of years, as members of our species have worked
Benjamin’s corpus of writings must be out how to live together and prosper. Elaborating this radical vision,
recognized as a unique configuration Kitcher shows how the limited altruistic tendencies of our ancestors
of philosophy with an overarching enabled a fragile social life, how our forebears learned to regulate
coherence and a deep-seated commit- their interactions with one another, and how human societies even-
ment to engage the philosophical tra- tually grew into forms of previously unimaginable complexity. The
dition. most successful of the many millennia-old experiments in how to
live, he contends, survive in our values today.
Friedlander finds in Benjamin’s
early works initial formulations of the Drawing on natural science, social science, and philosophy
different dimensions of his philosophi- to develop an approach he calls “pragmatic naturalism,” Kitcher
cal thinking. He leads through them to reveals the power of an evolving ethics built around a few core prin-
Benjamin’s views on the dialectical ciples—including justice and cooperation—but leaving room for a
image, the nature of language, the rela- diversity of communities and modes of self-expression. Ethics
tion of beauty and truth, embodiment, emerges as a beautifully human phenomenon—permanently unfin-
dream and historical awakening, myth ished, collectively refined and distorted generation by generation. It
and history, as well as the afterlife and realization of meaning. Those is a project—the ethical project—in which our species has engaged
notions, which Friedlander articulates both in themselves and in throughout its history.
relation to central figures of the philosophical tradition, come P h i l i P k i t C h e r is John Dewey Professor of
together in the incomplete Arcades Project—the theater where Philosophy at Columbia University.
these earlier philosophical preoccupations were to be played out.
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time-bound particularities of human experience.
e l i F r i e d l a n d e r is Associate Professor of
Philosophy at Tel Aviv University, Israel.
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sCienCe & MediCine
Long shot a short history of

vaccines for national defense physics in the american
kendall hoyt Century
At the turn of the twenty-first cen- david C. Cassidy
tury, the United States contended
with a state-run biological warfare As the twentieth century ended, computers, the Internet, and
program, bioterrorism, and a pan- nanotechnology were central to modern American life. Yet the
demic. These threats spurred advances in physics underlying these applications are poorly
large-scale government demand understood and underappreciated by U.S. citizens today. In
for new vaccines, but few have this concise overview, David C. Cassidy sharpens our per-
materialized. spective on modern physics by viewing this foundational sci-
ence through the lens of America’s engagement with the
A new anthrax vaccine
political events of a tumultuous century.
has been a priority since the first
Gulf War, but twenty years and a American physics first stirred in the
billion dollars later, the United 1890s. Yet American research lagged behind
States still does not have one. This outcome is as puzzling as the European laboratories until highly effective
it is troubling. domestic policies, together with the exodus of
physicists from fascist countries, brought the
Historically, the United States has excelled at respond-
nation into the first ranks of world research in
ing to national health emergencies. Probing the history of vac-
the 1930s. The creation of the atomic bomb
cine development for factors that foster timely innovation,
and radar during World War II ensured lavish
Kendall Hoyt discovered that vaccine innovation has been
government support for particle physics, along
falling, not rising, since World War II. This finding is at odds
with computation, solid-state physics, and mil-
with prevailing theories of market-based innovation and sug-
itary communication. These advances facili-
gests that a collection of nonmarket factors drove midcentury
tated space exploration and led to the global
innovation. Ironically, the birth of a biotechnology industry
expansion of the Internet. But gradually America relinquished
and the rise of specialization and outsourcing undercut the
its postwar commitment to scientific leadership, and the
collaborative networks and research practices that drove suc-
nation found itself struggling to maintain a competitive edge in
cessful vaccine projects in the past. Hoyt’s timely investigation
science education and research. Today, American physicists,
teaches important lessons for our efforts to rebuild biodefense
relying primarily on industrial funding, must compete with
capabilities, especially when the financial payback for a vac-
smaller, scrappier nations intent on writing their own brief his-
cine is low but the social returns are high.
tory of physics in the twenty-first century.
k e n d a l l h o y t is Assistant Professor,
d av i d C . C a s s i d y is Professor of Natural
Department of Medicine, Dartmouth Medical
Sciences at Hofstra University.
School, and Lecturer, Thayer School of
Engineering, Dartmouth College. NeW histories of sCieNCe, teChNoLogy, aNd mediCiNe
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arthropod brains the primate mind
evolution, functional eleGance, and Built to connect With other minds
historical siGnificance Frans b. M. de Waal and
niCholas JaMes strausFeld Pier FranCesCo Ferrari
In the Descent of Man, “Monkey see, monkey do” may sound simple,
Darwin proposed that an but how an individual perceives and processes
ant’s brain, no larger than the behavior of another is one of the most com-
a pin’s head, must be plex and fascinating questions related to the
sophisticated to accomplish social life of humans and other primates. In The
all that it does. Yet today Primate Mind, prominent neuroscientists, psy-
many people still find it chologists, ethologists, and primatologists from
surprising that insects and around the world take a bottom-up approach
other arthropods show to primate social behavior by investigating how
behaviors that are much the primate mind connects with other minds
more complex than innate and exploring the shared neurological basis for
reflexes. They are products imitation, joint action, and empathy.
of versatile brains which, in a sense, think. In the past, there has been a tendency
Fascinating in their own right, arthropods provide funda- to ask all-or-nothing questions, such as whether primates possess a
mental insights into how brains process and organize sensory infor- theory of mind, have self-awareness, or have culture. A bottom-up
mation to produce learning, cooperation, and sociality. Richly approach asks what are the underlying cognitive processes of such
illustrated, Arthropod Brains elucidates the evolution of this knowl- capacities, some of which may be rather basic and widespread.
edge, beginning with nineteenth-century debates about how simi- Using methods ranging from developmental psychology to neuro-
lar arthropod brains were to vertebrate brains. This exchange had physiology and neuroimaging, experts explore the evolutionary
a far-reaching impact on attitudes toward evolution and animal ori- foundations that allow individuals to read the body language and
gins. Many renowned scientists, including Sigmund Freud, cut their respond to the emotions of others, interpret their actions and inten-
professional teeth studying arthropod nervous systems. Nicholas tions, and synchronize and coordinate activities. The remarkable
James Strausfeld weaves anatomical observations with evidence social sophistication of primates rests on these basic processes,
from molecular biology, neuroethology, cladistics, and the fossil which are extensively discussed in the pages of this volume.
record to explore the neurobiology of the largest phylum on earth.
F r a n s b . M . d e Wa a l is C. H. Candler Professor of
n i C h o l a s J a M e s s t r a u s F e l d is a Fellow of the Primate Behavior and Director of Living Links, part of
Royal Society of London and recipient of Guggenheim the Yerkes Primate Center, Emor y University, and is
and MacArthur Fellowships. He is a Regents’ Professor the editor of A n i m a l S o c i a l Co m p l e x i t y (HUP).
of Neuroscience at the University of Arizona, P i e r F r a n C e s C o F e r r a r i is Assistant Professor
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionar y Biology, and an in Biology at the School of Medicine at the Università
Adjunct Professor of Art. di Parma, Italy.
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american madness the retina
the rise and fall of dementia praecox an approachaBle part of the Brain
riChard noll revised edition
John e. doWlinG
In 1895, not a single case of dementia
praecox was reported in the United John Dowling’s The Retina, published in 1987, quickly became the
States. By 1912, tens of thousands of most widely recognized introduction to the structure and function
people with this diagnosis were locked of retinal cells. In this Revised Edition, Dowling draws on twenty-
up in asylums, hospitals, and jails. By five years of new research to produce an interdisciplinary synthesis
1927, it was fading away. How could focused on how retinal function contributes to our understanding
such a terrible disease be discovered, of brain mechanisms.
affect so many lives, and then turn out The retina is a part of the brain pushed out into the eye dur-
to be something else? ing development. It retains many characteristics of other brain
Richard Noll describes how the regions and hence has yielded significant insights on brain mecha-
discovery of this mysterious disorder nisms. In humans, visual signals from 126 million photoreceptors in
gave hope to the overworked asylum the retina funnel down to one million ganglion cells that convey at
doctors that they could at last least a dozen representations of a visual scene to higher brain
explain—though they could not cure—the miserable patients sur- regions. The Revised Edition includes new chapters on color vision
rounding them. The story of dementia praecox, and its eventual and retinal degenerations and genetics, as well as sections on reti-
replacement by the new concept of schizophrenia, also reveals how nal development and visual pigment biochemistry, and presents the
asylum physicians fought for their own respectability as science- latest knowledge and theories on how the retina is organized
focused medical professionals. When the concept of schizophrenia anatomically, physiologically, and pharmacologically. The clarity of
offered a biological understanding of this disorder, and hope for a writing and illustration that made The Retina a book of choice for
cure, psychiatry abandoned the old disease for the new. In this dra- a quarter century among graduate students, postdoctoral fellows,
matic story of a vanished diagnosis, Noll shows the co-dependency vision researchers, and teachers of upper-level courses on vision is
between a disease and the scientific status of the profession that retained in Dowling’s new easy-to-read Revised Edition.
treats it. The ghost of dementia praecox haunts today’s debates
about the latest generation of psychiatric disorders. J o h n e . d o W l i n G is Gordon and Llura Gund
Professor of Neurosciences and Head Tutor,
r i C h a r d n o l l is Associate Professor of Psychology Neurobiology, at Har vard University, and Professor of
at DeSales University. Ophthalmology (Neuroscience) at Har vard Medical
School.
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how economics macroeconomics beyond

shapes science the NairU
Paula stePhan servaas storM and C. W. M. naastePad
The beauty of science may be pure and eternal, but its practice costs Economists and the governments they advise have based their
money. And scientists, being human, respond to incentives and dis- macroeconomic policies on the idea of a natural rate of unemploy-
incentives, in money and glory. The payoff for savvy career deci- ment. Government policy that pushes the rate below this point—
sions may be tenure at a highly ranked university or a prestigious about 6 percent—is apt to trigger an accelerating rate of inflation
award or a bump in salary. The risk may be getting none of that. that is hard to reverse, or so the argument goes. In this book,
At a time when science is seen as an engine of economic Servaas Storm and C. W. M. Naastepad make a strong case that this
growth, Paula Stephan brings a keen understanding of the cost- concept is flawed: that a stable non-accelerating inflation rate of
benefit calculations made by individuals and institutions as they unemployment (NAIRU), independent of macroeconomic policy,
compete for resources and reputation. Universities offload risks by does not exist. Consequently, government decisions based on the
hiring non-tenure-track faculty, requiring tenured faculty to pay NAIRU not only are misguided but also have huge and avoidable
salaries from grants, and staffing labs with foreign workers on tem- social costs, namely, high unemployment and sustained inequality.
porary visas. With funding tight, investigators pursue safe projects Skillfully merging theoretical and empirical analysis, Storm
rather than less fundable ones with uncertain but potentially path- and Naastepad show how the NAIRU’s neglect of labor’s impact on
breaking outcomes. Career prospects in science are dismal for the technological change and productivity growth eclipses the many
young, because of ever-lengthening apprenticeships, scarcity of per- positive contributions that labor and its regulation make to eco-
manent academic positions, and the difficulty of getting funded. nomic performance. When these positive effects are taken into
How Economics Shapes Science highlights the growing gap account, the authors contend, a more humane policy becomes fea-
between the haves and have-nots—especially between the bio- sible, one that would enhance productivity and technological
medical sciences and physics/engineering—and offers a persuasive progress while maintaining profits, thus creating conditions for low
vision of a more productive, more creative research system that unemployment and wider equality.
would lead and benefit the world.
s e r va a s s t o r M and C . W. M . n a a s t e Pa d are
Pa u l a s t e P h a n is Professor of Economics at Senior Lecturers in Economics at Delft University of
Georgia State University and Research Associate at Technology.
the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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translating empire the Upside-down
emulation and the oriGins of Constitution
political economy
MiChael s. Greve
soPhus a. reinert
Over the course of the nation’s history, the
Historians have traditionally used the discourses of free trade Constitution has been turned upside-down,
and laissez faire to explain the development of political economy Michael Greve argues in this provocative
during the Enlightenment. But from Sophus Reinert’s perspec- book. The Constitution’s vision of a feder-
tive, eighteenth-century political economy can be understood alism in which local, state, and federal gov-
only in the context of the often brutal imperial rivalries then ernment compete to satisfy the preferences
unfolding in Europe and its former colonies and the positive con- of individuals has given way to a coopera-
sequences of active economic policy. The idea of economic emu- tive, cartelized federalism that enables
lation, he shows, was the prism through which philosophers, interest groups to leverage power at every
ministers, reformers, and merchants thought about economics, level for their own benefit. Greve traces
industrial policy, and reform in the early modern period. With this inversion from the Constitution’s
the rise of the British Empire, European powers sought to selec- founding through today, dispelling much
tively emulate the British model. received wisdom along the way.
In mapping the general history of economic translations The Upside-Down Constitution shows how federalism’s
between 1500 and 1849, and particularly tracing the successive transformation was a response to states’ demands, not an impo-
translations of the Bristol merchant John Cary’s seminal 1695 sition on them. From the nineteenth-century judicial elabora-
Essay on the State of England, Reinert makes a compelling case tion of a competitive federal order, to the New Deal
for the way that England’s aggressively nationalist policies, espe- transformation, to the contemporary Supreme Court’s impov-
cially extensive tariffs and other market interventions, were erished understanding of constitutional structure, and the “devo-
adopted in France, Italy, Germany, and Scandinavia before pro- lution” in vogue today, Greve describes a trend that will lead to
viding the blueprint for independence in the New World. Rela- more government and fiscal profligacy, not less. Taking aim at
tively forgotten today, Cary’s work served as the basis for an both the progressive heirs of the New Deal and the vocal origi-
international move toward using political economy as the prime nalists of our own time, The Upside-Down Constitution
tool of policymaking and industrial expansion. explains why the current fiscal crisis will soon compel a funda-
mental renegotiation of a new federalism grounded in constitu-
s o P h u s a . r e i n e r t is Assistant Professor of
tional principles.
Business Administration at Har vard Business
School. M i C h a e l s . G r e v e is John G. Searle Scholar at
the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy
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the Crucible of Consent democracy without
american child rearinG and the forGinG of politics
liBeral society
steven bilakoviCs
JaMes e. bloCk
For many years in Western democracies, politics and politicians
A democratic government requires the consent of its citizens. But have been thought of with contempt by the majority of citizens.
how is that consent formed? Why should free people submit to any Steven Bilakovics argues that this disdain of politics follows neither
rule? Pursuing this question to its source for the first time, The from the discontents of our liberal political system nor from the pre-
Crucible of Consent argues that the explanation is to be found in occupations of a consumer society. Extending Tocqueville’s analy-
the nursery and schoolroom. Only in the receptive and less visible sis of the modern democratic way of life, he traces the sources of
realms of childhood could the necessary synthesis of self-direction political cynicism to democracy itself.
and integrative social conduct—so contradictory in logic yet so func- Democratic society’s characteristic openness—its promise
tional in practice—be established without provoking reservation or of transcendent freedom and unlimited pos-
resistance. sibility—renders the everyday politics of
From the early post-revolutionary republic, two liberal child- argument and persuasion absurd by com-
rearing institutions—the family and schooling—took on a respon- parison. Persuasion is devalued, self-inter-
sibility crucial to the growing nation: to produce the willing and est or self-expression takes the place of
seemingly self-initiated conformability on which the society’s claim argument, and political life is diminished by
of freedom and demand for order depended. Developing the insti- the absence of mediating talk. Bilakovics
tutional mechanisms for generating early consent required the trans- sees this trend across the political land-
formation of childrearing theory and practice over the course of the scape—in the clashing authenticities of the
nineteenth century. By exploring the systematic reframing of rela- “culture war,” the perennial pursuit of the
tions between generations that resulted, this book offers new insight political outsider to set things right again,
into the consenting citizenry at the foundation of liberal society, the the call for a postpartisan politics, rising
novel domestic and educational structures that made it possible, demands on government alongside falling
and the unprecedented role created for the young in the modern expectations of what government can do,
world. and a political rhetoric that is at once petty and hyperbolic. To work
toward a politics that is both civil and vital, Bilakovics calls on us to
J a M e s e . b l o C k is Associate Professor of Political
recognize ourselves as citizens still capable of persuading and being
Science at DePaul University.
persuaded in turn.
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ephesus italy and hungary

history, archaeoloGy, architecture humanism and art in the early renaissance
edited by athanasios sideris acts of an international conference, florence,
villa i tatti, june 6–8, 2007
Ephesus: History, Archaeology, Architecture is the most complete
edited by Péter Farbaky and
presentation in English of the ancient Greek city of Ephesus. It is the
result of collaboration among numerous Greek and Austrian louis a. WaldMan
experts: archaeologists, histo-
rians, architects, and graphic In the later fifteenth century, the
designers. Its 472 lavishly Kingdom of Hungary became the
illustrated pages provide an first land outside Italy to embrace
extraordinary wealth of infor- the Renaissance, thanks to its king,
mation, including the results Matthias Corvinus, and his human-
of the most recent archaeologist advisers, János Vitéz and Janus
ical excavations, which have Pannonius. Matthias created one
been conducted by the Aus- of the most famous libraries in the
trian Archaeological Institute Western world, the Bibliotheca
for more than a century. Corviniana, rivaled in importance
only by the Vatican. The court
The introductory chap-
became home to many Italian
ters present in detail the history and archaeology of the city from its
humanists, and through his friendship with Lorenzo the Magnifi-
Mycenaean past to its fall under the Seljuks in the eleventh century
cent, Matthias obtained the services of such great Florentine artists
CE. The heart of the volume is an analytic discussion of more than
as Andrea del Verrocchio, Benedetto da Maiano, and Filippino Lippi.
60 buildings and monuments of the ancient city, supported by more
After Matthias’s death in 1490, interest in Renaissance art was con-
than 370 architectural drawings, digital models, and color photo-
tinued by his widowed Neapolitan queen, Beatrice of Aragon, and
graphs. Also included are an extended chronological table, a visual
by his successors Vladislav I and Louis II Jagiello.
and textual glossary (rendering the work accessible even to a non-
specialist public), a list of ancient sources, and a list of more than The twenty-one essays collected in this volume provide a
600 cited works. This comprehensive volume is an indispensable window onto recent research on the development of humanism
companion to anyone studying the history and the archaeology of and art in the Hungary of Matthias Corvinus and his successors.
Asia Minor, and Hellenistic and Roman architecture more generally. Richly illustrated with new photography, this book eloquently doc-
uments and explores the unique role played by the Hungarian court
athanasios sideris is Head of the History and in the cultural history of Renaissance Europe.
Archaeology Department at the Foundation of the
Hellenic World in Athens. Péter Farbaky is Director of the Budapest History
Museum. louis a. WaldMan is Associate Professor in
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art history
d av i d r o C k e F e l l e r C e n t e r F o r l at i n a M e r i C a n s t u d i e s / h a r va r d G r a d uat e s C h o o l o F d e s i G n
Cuban economic and deconstruction /

social development Construction
policy reforms and challenGes in the cheonGGyecheon restoration project in seoul
the 21st century edited by Joan busquets
edited by JorGe i. doMínGuez, oMar
everleny Pérez villanueva, Mayra esPina The restoration of the Cheonggyecheon River that runs through
Seoul, Korea—in a mere twenty-nine months—transitioning from
Prieto, and lorena G. barberia
an outmoded highway into a multipurpose performative infrastruc-
ture piece of unprecedented
The Cuban economy has been trans-
size—merits recognition as a sem-
formed over the course of the last decade,
inal project in contemporary
and these changes are now likely to accel-
urban design. This remarkable
erate. In this edited volume, prominent
achievement recovers the biologi-
Cuban economists and sociologists pres-
cal and social ecology of the city
ent a clear analysis of Cuba’s economic
and demonstrates the profound
and social circumstances and suggest
ability of design at the urban scale
steps for Cuba to reactivate economic
to provoke positive transformation
growth and improve the welfare of its cit-
effectively over large territories.
izens. These authors focus first on trade,
The project also signifies a broader
capital inflows, exchange rates, monetary
sea change in Asian attitudes
and fiscal policy, and the agricultural sec-
toward city design, from a quantitative model concerned primarily
tor. In a second section, a multidiscipli-
with growth to a more qualitative program that incorporates qual-
nary team of sociologists and an economist map how reforms in
ity of life and environmental sustainability into strategies for eco-
economic and social policies have produced declines in the social
nomic development.
standing of some specific groups and economic mobility for others.
In this well-illustrated volume, contributors consider the eco-
JorGe i. doMínGuez is Antonio Madero Professor of logical, infrastructural, and urban impacts of this exceptional proj-
Mexican and Latin American Politics and Economics in the ect at the heart of the city. For its many merits, the Cheonggyecheon
Department of Government, Harvard University. oMar restoration was awarded the Tenth Veronica Rudge Green Prize in
everleny Pérez villanueva is Professor and Researcher
Urban Design by the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
at the Center for the Study of the Cuban Economy, University
of Havana. Mayra esPina Prieto is Professor and Joan busquets is Martin Bucksbaum Professor in
Researcher, Centro de Investigaciones Psicológicas y Practice of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard
Sociológicas (CIPS) in Havana. lorena G. barberia is a University Graduate School of Design.
Program Associate at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin
American Studies, Harvard University. gradUate sChooL of desigN greeN prize 10 |
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duMbarton oaks
Landscape body dwelling their Way of Writing

charles simonds at dumBarton oaks scripts, siGns, and pictoGraphies in
edited by John beardsley pre-columBian america
edited by elizabeth hill boone and
In spring 2009, Dumbarton Oaks inaugurated an occasional series Gary urton
of contemporary art installations intended to provide unexpected
experiences and fresh interpretations of its gardens and collections. Writing and recording are key cul-
The first artist selected was the tural activities that allow humans
American sculptor Charles to communicate across time and
Simonds, who is well known for space. Whereas Old World writing
clay sculptures that document the evolved into the alphabetic system
wanderings of a fantastical civi- that is now employed around the
lization of Little People whose world, the indigenous peoples in
landscapes, architectures, and rit- the Americas autonomously devel-
uals have been imagined by the oped alternative systems that con-
artist since the early 1970s. The veyed knowledge in a tangible
outcome was a project that medium. New World systems
spanned the whole institution. A range from the hieroglyphic script of the Maya, to the figural and
wide range of his current sculp- iconic pictographies of the Aztecs, Mixtecs, and Zapotecs in Mexico
tures—some architectural, some figural, and some evocative of and the Moche in Peru, to the abstract knotted khipus of the Andes.
landscape, most preexisting but one made especially for the exhi- Like Old World writing, these systems represented a cultural cate-
bition—was installed between May and October 2009 in various gory that was fundamental to the workings of their societies, one
spaces at Dumbarton Oaks. that was heavily impregnated with cultural value.
Landscape Body Dwelling documents and reflects on the The fifteen contributors to Their Way of Writing consider
installation. Essays by Ann Reynolds and Germano Celant situate it substantive and theoretical issues concerning writing and signing
within the broader context of Simonds’s artistic career, while essays systems in the ancient Americas. They present the latest thinking
by John Beardsley and Joanne Pillsbury detail the often surprising about these graphic and tactile systems of communication. Their
connections between the exhibited works, the garden elements, variety of perspectives and their advances in decipherment and
and the permanent collections at Dumbarton Oaks. Richly illus- understanding constitute a major contribution not only to our
trated with photographs of the installation, this volume demon- understanding of Pre-Columbian and indigenous American cultures
strates how contemporary culture connects us with the past, but also to our global understanding of writing and literacy.
reinvigorating historical tropes while enlivening the institutions that
continue to speak them. elizabeth hill boone is Martha and Donald Robertson
Chair in Latin American Art at Tulane University. Gary
John beardsley is Director of Garden and Landscape urton is Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian
Studies, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Studies at Harvard University.
Collection.
dUmbartoN oaKs pre-CoLUmbiaN symposia aNd CoLLoqUia
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duMbarton oaks
twin tollans a byzantine settlement

chichén itzá, tula, and the epiclassic to early in Cappadocia
postclassic mesoamerican World, revised edition revised edition
edited by JeFF k arl koWalski and robert G. ousterhout
Cynthia kristan-GrahaM
Following its initial publication in 2005, A Byzantine Settlement in
Chichén Itzá and Tula have long Cappadocia has become a seminal work in interpreting the rich
been conceived as “twin cities”— material remains of Byzantine Cappadocia. In the first systematic
paired political capitals that share so site survey from the region, at the settlement known as Çanlı Kilise
many aspects of architectural plan, in Western Cappadocia, the careful mapping and documentation of
sculptural repertory, and iconograph- rock-cut and masonry architecture and its decoration led to a com-
ical motifs that they represent a plete reexamination of the place of Cap-
unique case of cultural contact and padocia within the larger framework of
artistic convergence in ancient Byzantine social and cultural develop-
Mesoamerica. This volume (origi- ments. This revised edition builds upon its
nally published in 2007) revisits long- predecessor with an updated preface, a
standing questions regarding the new bibliography, and a new master map
relationship between Chichén Itzá of the Çanlı Kilise site.
and Tula. Hailed as a “must read,” it quickly became a fundamen- Based on four seasons of fieldwork,
tal source for all Mesoamericanists. Robert Ousterhout challenges the com-
Rather than approaching these cities through earlier notions monly accepted notion that the rock-cut
of migrations and conquests, the volume considers their roles in the settlements of Cappadocia were primarily
social, political, and economic relationships that emerged during monastic. He proposes instead that the set-
the transition from the Epiclassic to the Early Postclassic period. tlement at Çanlı Kilise was a town, replete
The seventeen contributors utilize archaeological, art historical, with mansions, hovels, barns, stables, storerooms, cisterns, dove-
anthropological, epigraphical, and ethnohistorical methods to cotes, wine presses, fortifications, places of refuge, churches,
demonstrate that the rise and florescence of the “twin cities” was chapels, cemeteries, and a few monasteries—that is, features com-
the result of their success in adapting to complex processes of cul- mon to most Byzantine communities. A Byzantine Settlement in
tural change. Cappadocia has led to a rethinking of such sites and to a view of
Cappadocia as an untapped resource for the study of material cul-
JeFF karl koWalski i s Professor of Art History,
Mesoamerican Art and Architecture, at Northern Illinois
ture and daily life within the Byzantine Empire.
University. Cynthia kristan-GrahaM is Instructor of
robert G. ousterhout is Professor in the Department
Art History in the Department of Art, Auburn University.
of the History of Art and Director of the Center for
Ancient Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
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arChaeoLogy
duMbarton oaks
Collecting the tombs for the Living

pre-Columbian past andean mortuary practices
edited by elizabeth hill boone edited by toM d. dillehay
The history of Pre-Columbian collecting is a social and aesthetic his- In the Andes, a long history of
tory—of ideas, people and organizations, and objects. This richly research on burial records and
illustrated volume examines these histories by considering the col- burial contexts exists for the pur-
lection and display of Pre-Columbian pose of reconstructing cultural
objects in Europe, Latin America, and the affiliation, chronology, socioeco-
United States. Some of the thirteen essays nomic status, grave content, and
locate the collecting process within its human body treatment. Less
broader cultural setting in order to explain attention is paid to the larger
how and why such collections were question of how mortuary prac-
formed, while others consider how col- tices functioned in different cul-
lections have served as documents of cultures. Tombs for the Living:
ture within the disciplines of archaeology Andean Mortuary Practices
and anthropology, and as objects of fine art (originally released in 1995)
or aesthetic statements within the art and examines this broader issue by looking at the mortuary practices
art historical worlds. Nearly all contem- that created a connection between the living and the dead; the role
plate how such collections have been used of wealth and ancestors in cosmological schemes; the location, con-
as active signifiers of political, economic, struction, and sociopolitical implications of tombs and cemeteries;
and cultural power. The thirteen essays were originally presented at and the art and iconography of death. By examining rich sets of
a symposium commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Pre- archaeological, ethnographic, and ethnohistoric data, the thirteen
Columbian Collection at Dumbarton Oaks. They continue to be essays continue to enrich our understanding of the context and
groundbreaking contributions to the histories of collecting and Pre- meaning of the mortuary traditions in the Andes.
Columbian art.
toM d. dillehay is Distinguished Professor in the
elizabeth hill boone is Martha and Donald Robertson Department of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University.
Chair in Latin American Art at Tulane University.
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aNthropoLogy
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arChaeoLogy / art
Peabody MuseuM Press
res the swarts ruin

anthropoloGy and aesthetics, 59/60 a typical mimBres site in southWestern
sprinG/autumn 2011 neW mexico
edited by FranCesCo Pellizzi h. s. and C. b. CosGrove

WITH A NEW INTRODUC TION BY S T E V E N A. L E B L A N C
RES 59/60 includes “The making of
architectural types” by Joseph Rykwert; This classic volume on the evocative and enigmatic pottery of the
“Traces of the sun and Inka kinetics” by Mimbres people has become an irreplaceable design catalogue for
Tom Cummins and Bruce Mannheim; contemporary Native American artists. Burt and Harriet (Hattie)
“Inka water management and display Cosgrove were self-trained archaeologists who began excavating
fountains” by Carolyn Dean; “Guaman Mimbres materials in 1919. When their meticulous research came
Poma’s pictures of huacas” by Lisa to the attention of Alfred V. Kidder of the Peabody Museum, he
Trever; “Peruvian nature up close” by invited them to direct the Mimbres Valley Expedition at the Swarts
Daniela Bleichmar; “Narrative in the Ranch in southern New Mexico on behalf of the Peabody.
‘Battle Mural’ at Cacaxtla” by Claudia Working in the summers of 1924 to 1927, the Cosgroves
Brittenham; “Codex Teotenantzin and recovered nearly 10,000 artifacts at the Swarts site, including an
pre-Hispanic images of the Sierra de Guadalupe” by Leonardo extraordinary assemblage of Mimbres ceramics. Like their original
Lopez Lujàn and Xavier Noguez; “Under the sign of the cross in the 1932 report, this paperbound facsimile edition includes over 700 of
kingdom of Kong,” by Cécile Fromont; “Hunters, Sufis, soldiers, Hattie Cosgrove’s beautiful line drawings of individual Mimbres
and minstrels” by Cynthia Becker; “The painting of a statue of pots. It also presents a new introduction by archaeologist Steven A.
Herakles” by Clemente Marconi; “Eucharistic morphology in the LeBlanc, who reviews the eighty years of research on the Mimbres
Middle Ages” by Aden Kumler; “The history of anthropophagy in that have followed the Cosgroves’ groundbreaking
Christianity” by Beate Fricke; “The votive scenario” by Christopher study. The Peabody’s reissue of The Swarts Ruin
Wood; “Notes on pseudo-script in pre-European art” by Alexander once again makes available a rich resource
Nagel; “Dürer’s Folds” by Christopher P. Heuer; “To conceive of in for scholars, artists, and admirers of Native
pictures” by Anselm Haverkamp; “Primitivism, humanism, and American art, and it places in historical
ambivalence” by Karen Kurczynski and Nicola Pezolet; “Struth’s context the Cosgroves’ many contribu-
early citiscapes” by Paula Carabel; and contributions to Lectures, tions to North American archaeology.
Documents, and Discussions by Tanja Klemm, Esther Schomacher
and Jan Söffner; Chiara Cappelletto; Boris Groys; David Gersten; steven a. leblanC is an
Remo Guidieri; and Morton Feldman and Francesco Pellizzi. archaeologist and Director of
Collections at the Peabody
FranCesCo Pellizzi is Associate of Middle American Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.
Ethnology, Harvard University.
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"Mar tín de Murúa, “inc a urcun and the tired stone”, historia del o rigen y arChaeoLogy / Native ameriCaN stUdies
G enealogía real de los reyes del Piru, de sus hechos, costumbres,
trajes, maneras de gobierno, Folio 37v ; c a. 1589 c a. 1613; image: M imbres Classic Polychrome
Private Collec tion. Photo tbFC."
harvard universit y asia Center
the people’s post office the money doctors

the history and politics of the japanese postal from Japan
system, 1871–2010 finance, imperialism, and the BuildinG of the
PatriCia l. MaClaChlan yen Bloc, 1895–1937
MiChael sChiltz
In 2001, Prime Minister Koizumi Jun’ichiro launched a crusade to
privatize Japan’s postal services. The plan was hailed as a necessary
Money and finance have been
structural reform, but many bemoaned
among the most potent tools of
the loss of traditional institutions and the
colonial power. This study inves-
conservative values they represented. Few
tigates the Japanese experiment
expected the plan to succeed, given the
with financial imperialism—or
staunch opposition of diverse parties, but
“yen diplomacy”—at several key
four years later it appeared that Koizumi
moments between the acquisi-
had transformed not only the post office
tion of Taiwan in 1895 and the
but also the very institutional and ideo-
outbreak of the Sino-Japanese
logical foundations of Japanese finance
War in 1937. Through authori-
and politics. By all accounts, it was one of
tarian monetary reforms and
the most astonishing political achieve-
lending schemes, government
ments in postwar Japanese history.
officials and financial middlemen
Patricia L. Maclachlan analyzes the served as “money doctors” who steered capital and expertise to
interplay among the institutions, interest Japanese official and semi-official colonies in Taiwan, Korea, China,
groups, and leaders involved in the system’s evolution from the and Manchuria.
early Meiji period until 2010. Exploring the postal system’s remark-
Michael Schiltz points to the paradox of acute capital short-
able range of economic, social, and cultural functions and its insti-
ages within Japan’s domestic economy and aggressive capital
tutional relationship to the Japanese state, this study shows how
exports to its colonial possessions as the inevitable but ultimately
the post office came to play a leading role in the country’s political
disastrous outcome of the Japanese government’s goal to exercise
development. It also looks into the future to assess the resilience of
macroeconomic control over greater East Asia and establish a self-
Koizumi’s reforms and consider the significance of lingering oppo-
sufficient “yen bloc.” Through their efforts to implement their poli-
sition to the privatization of one of Japan’s most enduring social and
cies and contribute to the expansion of the Japanese empire, the
political sanctuaries.
“money doctors” brought to the colonies a series of banking insti-
PatriCia l. MaClaChlan is Associate Professor of tutions and a corollary capitalist ethos, which would all have a for-
Government and Asian Studies at The University of Texas midable impact on the development of the receiving countries.
at Austin.
MiChael sChiltz is a postdoctoral researcher in the
harvard east asiaN moNographs 338 | Department of Japanese Studies at the Katholieke
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harvard universit y asi a C e n t e r
brokers of empire reading North Korea

japanese settler colonialism in korea, 1876–1945 an ethnoloGical inquiry
Jun uChida sonia ryanG
Between 1876 and 1945, thousands of Often depicted as one of the world’s most strictly isolationist and
Japanese civilians—merchants, traders, relentlessly authoritarian regimes, North Korea has remained terra
prostitutes, journalists, teachers, and incognita to foreign researchers as a site for anthropological field-
adventurers—left their homeland for a work. Given the difficulty of gaining access to the country and its
new life on the Korean peninsula. people, is it possible to examine the cultural logic and social dynam-
Although most migrants were guided pri- ics of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea?
marily by personal profit and only sec- In this innovative book, Sonia Ryang casts new light onto
ondarily by national interest, their the study of North Korean culture and
mundane lives and the state’s ambitions society by reading literary texts as sources
were inextricably entwined in the rise of of ethnographic data. Analyzing and inter-
imperial Japan. Despite having formed preting the rituals and language embodied
one of the largest colonial communities in in a range of literary works published in
the twentieth century, these settlers and the 1970s and 1980s, Ryang focuses crit-
their empire-building activities have all but vanished from the pub- ical attention on three central themes—
lic memory of Japan’s presence in Korea. love, war, and self—that reflect the nearly
Drawing on previously unused materials in multi-language complete overlap of the personal, social,
archives, Jun Uchida looks behind the official organs of state and and political realms in North Korean soci-
military control to focus on the obscured history of these settlers, ety. The ideology embedded in these pro-
especially the first generation of “pioneers” between the 1910s and pagandistic works laid the cultural
1930s who actively mediated the colonial management of Korea as foundation for the nation as a “perpetual
its grassroots movers and shakers. By uncovering the downplayed ritual state,” where social structures and
but dynamic role played by settler leaders who operated among personal relations are suspended in tribute to Kim Il Sung, the polit-
multiple parties—between the settler community and the Govern- ical and spiritual leader who died in 1994 but lives eternally in the
ment-General, between Japanese colonizer and Korean colonized, hearts of his people and still weaves the social fabric of present-day
between colony and metropole—this study examines how these North Korea.
“brokers of empire” advanced their commercial and political inter-
sonia ryanG is Professor of Anthropology and
ests while contributing to the expansionist project of imperial Japan.
International Studies and Stanley Family and Korea
Jun uChida is Assistant Professor of History at Stanford Foundation Chair of Korean Studies at the University of
University. Iowa.
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harvard universit y asia Center
toward a history ten thousand scrolls

beyond borders readinG and WritinG in the poetics of huanG
contentious issues in sino-japanese relations tinGjian and the late northern sonG
edited by daqinG yanG, Jie liu, yuGen WanG

hiroshi Mitani, and andreW Gordon
The Northern Song (960–1126)
was one of the most transforma-
This volume brings to English-language read-
tive periods in Chinese literary
ers the results of an important long-term
history, characterized by the
project of historians from China and Japan
emergence of printing and an
addressing contentious issues in their shared
ensuing proliferation of books.
modern histories. Originally published
The poet Huang Tingjian (1045–
simultaneously in Chinese and Japanese in
1105), writing at the height of
2006, the thirteen essays in this collection
this period, both defined and
focus renewed attention on a set of political
was defined by these changes.
and historiographical controversies that have
The first focused study on the
steered and stymied Sino-Japanese relations
cultural consequences of print-
from the mid-nineteenth century through
ing in Northern Song China, this
World War II to the present.
book examines how the nascent print culture shaped the poetic the-
These in-depth contributions explore ory and practice of Huang Tingjian and the Jiangxi School of Poetry
a range of themes, from prewar diplomatic he founded.
relations and conflicts, to wartime collabo-
Author Yugen Wang argues that at the core of Huang and
ration and atrocity, to postwar commemorations and textbook
the Jiangxi School’s search for poetic methods was their desire to
debates—all while grappling with the core issue of how history has
find a new way of reading and writing that could effectively address
been researched, written, taught, and understood in both countries.
the changed literary landscape of the eleventh century. Wang chron-
In the context of a wider trend toward cross-national dialogues over
icles the historical and cultural negotiation Huang and his colleagues
historical issues, this volume can be read as both a progress report
were conducting as they responded to the new book culture, and
and a case study of the effort to overcome contentious problems of
opens new ground for investigating the literary interpretive and
history in East Asia.
hermeneutical effects of printing. This book should be of interest
daqinG yanG is Associate Professor of History and not only to scholars and readers of classical Chinese poetry but also
International Affairs at George Washington University. Jie to anyone concerned with how the material interacts with the intel-
liu is Professor of History at Waseda University. hiroshi lectual and how technology has influenced our conception and prac-
Mitani is Professor of History at the University of Tokyo. tice of reading and writing throughout history.
andreW Gordon is Lee and Juliet Folger Fund
Professor of History at Harvard University. yuGen WanG is Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature
at the University of Oregon.
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harvard universit y asi a C e n t e r
a Northern alternative visionary Journeys

xue xuan (1389–1464) and the hedonG school travel WritinGs from early medieval and
khee heonG koh nineteenth-century china
xiaoFei tian
Conventional portraits of Neo-Con-
fucianism in China are built on This book explores the parallel and yet profoundly different ways of
studies of scholars active in the seeing the outside world and engaging with the foreign at two
south, yet Xue Xuan (1389–1464), important moments of dislocation in Chinese history, namely, the
the first Ming Neo-Confucian to be early medieval period commonly known as the Northern and South-
enshrined in the Temple to Confu- ern Dynasties (317–589 CE), and the nineteenth century. Xiaofei
cius, was a northerner. Why has Tian juxtaposes literary, historical, and religious materials from these
Xue been so overlooked in the his- two periods in comparative study, bring-
tory of Neo-Confucianism? In this ing them together in their unprecedent-
first systematic study in English of edly large-scale interactions, and their
the highly influential thinker, author intense fascination, with foreign cultures.
Khee Heong Koh seeks to redress By examining various cultural
Xue’s marginalization while show- forms of representation from the two peri-
ing how a study interested mainly ods, Tian attempts to sort out modes of
in “ideas” can integrate social and intellectual history to offer a seeing the world that inform these writ-
broader picture of history. ings. These modes, Tian argues, were
Significant in its attention to Xue as well as its approach, the established in early medieval times and
book situates the ideas of Xue and his Hedong School in compara- resurfaced, in permutations and meta-
tive perspective. Koh first provides in-depth analysis of Xue’s phi- morphoses, in nineteenth-century writings
losophy, as well as his ideas on kinship organizations, educational on encountering the Other. This book is
institutions, and intellectual networks, and then places them in the for readers who are interested not only in
context of Xue’s life and the actual practices of his descendants and early medieval or nineteenth-century China but also in issues of rep-
students. Through this new approach to intellectual history, Koh resentation, travel, visualization, and modernity.
demonstrates the complexity of the Neo-Confucian tradition and
gives voice to a group of northern scholars who identified them- xiaoFei tian is Professor of Chinese Literature in the
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at
selves as Neo-Confucians but had a vision that was distinctly dif-
Harvard University.
ferent from their southern counterparts.
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khee heonG koh is Assistant Professor in the
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harvard divinit y sChool / ukrainian researCh institute
the poetics of iblīs poltava 1709

narrative theoloGy in the qur’an the Battle and the myth
Whitney s. bodMan edited by serhii Plokhy
Iblis, the character in the Qur’an who refuses God’s com- The Battle of Poltava
mand to bow to Adam and is punished by eviction from has long been recog-
heaven, is commonly depicted as a fiendish character no dif- nized as a crucial event
ferent from Satan. However, some in the geopolitical his-
Sufi stories describe Iblis as the ulti- tory of Europe and a
mate monotheist, a lover of God, decisive point in the
but tragically rejected. This volume Great Northern War
seeks the origins of this alternative between Sweden and
Iblis within the Qur’an itself, by the Russian Empire.
looking at each of the seven The Russian victory at
Qur’anic versions of the Iblis story Poltava contributed to
as a unique rendering of the basic narra- the decline of Sweden as a Great Power and was a major setback to
tive. Whitney Bodman finds that the likely Ukrainian independence. Hetman Ivan Mazepa, who joined forces
earliest version of the Iblis story presents with the Swedish king Charles XII against Tsar Peter I, remains a
him as a tragic figure, an elder sibling of controversial figure even today.
Adam unjustly displaced from God’s favor. In 2009, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute gathered
Subsequent renderings present an Iblis scholars from around the globe and from many fields of study—
more hostile to humanity, and in the last two abbreviated versions history, military affairs, philology, linguistics, literature, art history,
Iblis becomes an incidental figure in the extended story of Adam. music—to mark the 300th anniversary of the battle. This book is a
In modern Arab literature the character of Iblis is deployed collection of their papers on such topics as the international, Russ-
to reveal tragic dimensions of modern life. Although it is often said ian, and Ukrainian contexts of the battle; Mazepa in European cul-
that there is no place for tragedy in Islam, Bodman’s careful exam- ture; the language and literature of the period; art and architecture;
ination of the Iblis story shows that the tragic exists even in the history and memory; and fact, fiction, and the literary imagination.
Qur’an and forms part of the vision of medieval Sufi mystics and Mazepa himself is the focus of many of the articles—a hero to
modern social critics alike. Ukrainians but a treacherous figure to Russians. This book provides
a fresh look at this watershed event and sheds new light on the lega-
Whitney s. bodMan is Associate Professor of
cies of the battle’s major players.
Comparative Religion at Austin Presbyterian Theological
Seminary. serhii Plokhy is Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of
Ukrainian History at Harvard University.
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reLigioN
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harvard Center For helleniC s t u d i e s
Jaya the history of beyhaqi

performance in epic mahāBhārata the history of sultan mas‘ud of Ghazna, 1030–1041
volume i. introduction and translation of years
kevin MCGrath
421–423 a.h. (1030–1032 a.d.); volume ii. translation of years
424–432 a.h. (1032–1041 a.d.) and the history of khWarazm;
JAYA is a study of how the four poets
volume iii. commentary, BiBlioGraphy, index
of the Indian epic Mahabharata fuse
their separate performances of the abu’l-Fażl beyhaqi
poem into a single and seamless
T R A N S L AT E D WITH A HISTORIC AL, GEOGR APHIC AL ,
work of art. The book examines in
L I N G U I S T I C , A N D C U LT U R A L C O M M E N TA R Y B Y
detail the different mnemonic forms
C. E. B O S W O R T H ; F U L LY REVISED AND WITH
engaged by this verbal activity focus-
F U R T H E R C O M M E N TA R Y B Y MOHSEN ASHTIANY
ing primarily on the distinction
between what is seen and what is
Abu’l-Fazl Beyhaqi, a secretary at the court of a number of Ghaz-
heard, as the poets stage and dram-
navid rulers in eastern Iran and Afghanistan in the early Middle
atize the four dimensions of their
Ages, is a most perceptive, as well as intriguing, commentator
heroic song within one timely occa-
on the history of the Islamic Near East. The surviving vol-
sion. The
umes of his massive project, dealing in depth with
subtle poetics of preliteracy and literacy
the years 1030–1041, combine astute criticism
which are compounded in one perform-
and wry humor with an unobtrusive display of
ance are demonstrated and made distinct
mastery of the learned literature of the time,
in both a literary and a conceptual light.
both in Arabic and Persian. Through a skillful
JAYA will be of interest to those who work
manipulation of different styles, and timely intro-
in Sanskrit and Indian studies, the classics,
duction of the authorial voice as a framing device
oral traditions, comparative literature, and
to bring a sense of heightened drama, the histo-
the traditions of archaic poetry.
rian comments on mankind’s individual frailties
kevin MCGrath is Associate of and the many lost opportunities that hasten a mighty
the Department of Indian and dynasty’s decline. Although there are already a num-
Sanskrit Studies at Harvard ber of articles and monographs in English and other West-
University. ern languages on aspects of his style and historical approach,
this is the first complete translation of the extant volumes.
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proceedings of the health professionals for a

harvard Celtic New Century
Colloquium, 30: 2010 transforminG education to strenGthen health
systems in an interdependent World
edited by erin boon, MarGaret harrison,
a. JosePh MCMullen, and Julio Frenk , linColn C. Chen, et al.
natasha suMner
One hundred years ago a series of
Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium seminal documents, starting with the
has in its purview all aspects of culture, lan- Flexner Report of 1910, sparked an
guage, and history of the Celtic peoples, enormous burst of energy to harness
from ancient to modern times. This vol- the power of science to transform
ume of PHCC contains articles on higher education in health. Profes-
medieval Irish, Welsh, and Breton lit- sional education, however, has not
erature; post-1800 to modern poetry been able to keep pace with the chal-
in Irish, Welsh, and Scottish Gaelic; lenges of the twenty-first century. A
the Irish Revival Movement; and new generation of reforms is needed
modern Irish and Welsh linguistics. to meet the demands of health sys-
The volume also features the 2010 tems in an interdependent world.
Kelleher lecture by Dr. M. Katharine The report of the Commission
Simms on the social expression of the literary on the Education of Health Professionals for the 21st Century, a
model of the barefoot king in late global independent initiative consisting of twenty leaders from
medieval Ireland. diverse disciplinary backgrounds and institutional affiliations, artic-
ulates a fresh vision and recommends renewed actions. Building on
erin boon, MarGaret harrison, a rich legacy of educational reforms during the past century, the
a. JosePh M C Mullen, and natasha
Commission’s findings and recommendations adopt a global and
suMner are graduate students in the
multi-professional perspective using a systems approach to analyze
Department of Celtic Languages and
education and health, with a focus on institutional and instructional
Literatures at Harvard University.
reforms.
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MediCine / PubliC health
pa p e r b ac k s
The Thirty Years War

EuropE’s TragEdy
peter H. Wilson
H an Independent best History book of the Year
H a Choice outstanding academic title of the Year
H runner-up, The Atlantic best books of the Year
H society for Military History Distinguished book award
A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe,
killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter
Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the
map of the modern world.
“A MONG CONTINENTAL E UROPEANS , THE T HIRTY Y EARS WAR IS ETCHED IN MEMORY…A

DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT HAS BEEN NEEDED , AND NOW P ETER W ILSON , ONE OF B RITAIN ’ S LEADING
HISTORIANS OF G ERMANY, HAS PROVIDED IT. T HE T HIRTY Y EARS WAR : E UROPE ’ S T RAGEDY IS A
HISTORY OF PRODIGIOUS ERUDITION THAT MANAGES TO CORRAL THE BYZANTINE COMPLEXITY OF
THE T HIRTY Y EARS WAR INTO A COHERENT NARRATIVE .”
—J EFFREY COLLINS , WALL S TREET J OURNAL
“[I T ] SUCCEEDS BRILLIANTLY. I T IS HUGE BOTH IN ITS SCENE - SETTING AND ITS UNFOLDING
NARRATIVE DETAIL …I T IS TO W ILSON ’ S CREDIT THAT HE CAN BOTH OFFER THE READER A
DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THIS TERRIBLE AND COMPLICATED WAR AND STEP BACK TO GIVE DUE
SUMMARIES . H IS SCHOLARSHIP SEEMS TO ME REMARKABLE , HIS PROSE LIGHT AND LOVELY, HIS
JUDGMENTS FAIR . T HIS IS A HEAVYWEIGHT BOOK , NO DOUBT. S OMETIMES , THOUGH , THE VERY
BEST OF THEM HAVE TO BE .”
—PAUL K ENNEDY, S UNDAY T IMES
p e t e r H . W i l s o n i s G . F. G ra nt Pro fe s s o r o f H i s to r y at t h e U n i ve r s i t y
of Hull.
belknap press |
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The Grand Strategy of the The Evolution of
Byzantine Empire Childhood
eDWarD n. luttWak rElaTionships, EmoTion, mind
Melvin konner
In this book, the distinguished writer Edward Luttwak presents the
H an Atlantic book of the Year
grand strategy of the eastern Roman empire we know as Byzantine,
H a Times Literary Supplement book of the Year
which lasted more than twice as long as the more familiar western
H an amazon.com editors’ pick for best books of the
Roman empire, eight hundred years by Year in science
the shortest definition.
“LUTTWAK TELLS HIS STORY Looking at the entire range of human evolu-
WELL . H E IS ESPECIALLY tionary history, Melvin Konner tells the com-
GOOD ON FINE DETAIL . pelling and complex story of how cross-cultural
W HETHER DESCRIBING THE and universal characteristics of our growth
LETHAL ‘ COMPOSITE REFLEX from infancy to adolescence became rooted in
BOW ’ USED BY H UN ARCHERS genetically inherited characteristics of the
OR THE COMPLEX BUT human brain.
SURPRISINGLY EFFICIENT
BYZANTINE TAX SYSTEM , HE IS “T HIS MONUMENTAL BOOK … BREATHTAKINGLY
BOTH VIVID AND EXACT.” INCLUSIVE AND PAINSTAKINGLY PARTICULAR —
—E RIC O RMSBY, EXHAUSTIVELY EXPLORES THE BIOLOGICAL
WALL S TREET J OURNAL EVOLUTION OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND
SPECIFICALLY THE BEHAVIOR OF CHILDREN .”
“N OTHING LUTTWAK WRITES IS UNINTERESTING …I T IS
—B ENJAMIN S CHWARZ , T HE ATLANTIC
RARE AND REFRESHING TO FIND SUCH DEEP RESEARCH ON A GREAT
EMPIRE OF THE PAST DEPLOYED SO ELOQUENTLY FOR THE GUIDANCE “T HE E VOLUTION OF C HILDHOOD IS ONE OF THE MOST
OF THE BELEAGUERED GOVERNMENTS OF THE PRESENT.” REMARKABLE BOOKS I HAVE READ…KONNER RE - ENCHANTS
—G LEN B OWERSOCK , LONDON R EVIEW OF B OOKS CHILD ’ S PLAY, FOR INSTANCE , BY EXPLAINING ITS MOLECULAR AND
EVOLUTIONARY BACKSTORY. T HAT HE IS ABLE TO DO THIS IN A
e D Wa r D n . l u t t Wa k i s a S e n i o r A s s o c i ate at t h e LIVELY, ACCESSIBLE MANNER IS NO MEAN FEAT. A LONG THE WAY, HE
Center fo r St rate gi c a n d I nte r n at i o n a l St u d i e s. MAKES A COMPELLING CASE FOR HOW HUMANS CAME TO ACQUIRE
COMPLEX CULTURE .”
belknap press | —M ICHELE P RIDMORE -B ROWN , T IMES L ITERARY S UPPLEMENT
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eisbn: 978-0-674-05420-2 | HistorY Pro fe s s o r i n t h e D e p a r t m e nt o f A nt h ro p o l o g y and
t h e Pro gra m i n N e u ro s c i e n ce a n d B e h av i o ra l
B i o l o g y at E m o r y U n i ve r s i t y.
belknap press |
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noveMber | 6 3⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 | 18 tables | 960 pp. |
paper: isbn 978-0-674-06201-6 | $22.50 (£16.95 uk) |
eisbn: 978-0-674-05657-2 | psYcHologY
The Art of the Sonnet Duel at Dawn
stepHen burt anD DaviD Mikics hEroEs, marTyrs, and ThE risE of
modErn maThEmaTics
H a First Things notable book of the Year
aMir alexanDer
Few poetic forms have found more
uses than the sonnet in English, and In this strikingly original book that takes us from Paris to St. Peters-
none is now more recognizable. The burg, Norway to Transylvania, Amir Alexander introduces us to
Art of the Sonnet collects one hun- national heroes and outcasts, innocents, swindlers, and martyrs—
dred exemplary sonnets of the Eng- all uncommonly gifted creators of modern mathematics.
lish language (and a few sonnets in
translation), representing highlights “T HROUGH THE LIFE STORIES OF THREE OF THE PERIOD ’ S MOST
in the history of the sonnet, accom- CONTROVERSIAL FIGURES , É VARISTE
panied by short commentaries on G ALOIS , N IELS H ENRIK A BEL AND J ANOS
each of the poems. The commen- B OLYAI , A LEXANDER REVEALS HOW THEIR
TRANSGRESSIVE WORK CHANGED
taries by Stephen Burt and David
MATHEMATICS AND LED TO THEIR
Mikics offer new perspectives and
LIONIZATION AS R OMANTIC HEROES .”
insights, and, taken together, demon-
—M ICHAEL PATRICK B RADY,
strate the enduring as well as changing nature of the sonnet.
F ORBES ONLINE
“N EWCOMERS TO POETRY AND LONGTIME READERS ALIKE WILL FIND
“A LEXANDER SEES G ALOIS ’ S DEATH AS A
THIS A RICH AND REWARDING VOLUME .”
TURNING POINT IN THE HISTORY OF
—L AUREN W INNER , B OOKS & C ULTURE MODERN MATHEMATICS , A POINT AT
WHICH MATH BECAME LESS A STUDY OF
“B URT AND M IKICS HAVE WRITTEN AN ILLUMINATING TEXT THAT
NATURE THAN A PURELY ABSTRACT REALM
PROMISES MANY HOURS OF READING PLEASURE AND GREATER
OF ITS OWN , UNCONTAMINATED BY THE
UNDERSTANDING OF THIS POETIC FORM .”
EXTERNAL WORLD . HE SKILLFULLY TELLS
—S USAN L. P ETERS , L IBRARY J OURNAL THE STORY OF THIS CHANGE , WEAVING IT AROUND THE OFTEN
TRAGIC LIVES OF THE MATHEMATICIANS MOST RESPONSIBLE FOR THE
“B URT AND M IKICS WRITE TWO OR THREE PAGES ABOUT EACH OF CHANGE …[A] MARVELOUS HISTORY.”
[ THE ] POEMS , AND MOSTLY THESE ARE CLEAR AND PATIENT GUIDES
TO RHYTHM AND FORM , ALLUSIONS , THEIR RELATIONS TO THE LIVES
—M ARTIN G ARDNER , N EW C RITERION
OF THEIR AUTHORS …T HEY SAY JUST THE RIGHT THING TO MAKE
“T HIS IS A FASCINATING AND PROVOCATIVE BOOK .”
THEIR READERS TURN BACK TO THE POEMS .”
—TONY M ANN , T IMES H IGHER E DUCATION
—COLIN B URROW, LONDON R EVIEW OF B OOKS
a M i r a l e x a n D e r i s a h i s to r i a n a n d w r i te r i n
s t e p H e n b u r t i s A s s o c i ate Pro fe s s o r o f E n g l i s h
Lo s A n g e l e s.
at Har vard U n i ve r s i t y. D av i D M i k i c s i s Pro fe s s o r
of English at t h e U n i ve r s i t y o f H o u s to n . neW Histories of science, tecHnologY, anD MeDicine |
CLOTH: APRIL 2010 / ISBN 978-0-674-04661-0 |
belknap press | october | 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 | 10 Halftones, 14 line illus. | 320 pp. |
CLOTH: APRIL 2010 / ISBN 978-0-674-04814-0 | paper: isbn 978-0-674-06174-3 | $18.95 (£14.95 uk) |
october | 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 | 464 pp. | eisbn: 978-0-674-05613-8 | science
paper: isbn 978-0-674-06180-4 | $19.95 (£14.95 uk) | poetrY
The Nesting Season Myths about Suicide
cuckoos, cuckolds, and ThE tHoMas Joiner
invEnTion of monogamy
bernD HeinricH Around the world, more than a million
people die by suicide each year. Yet
many of us know very little about a
One of the world’s great naturalists and nature writers, Bernd
tragedy that may strike our own loved
Heinrich shows us how the sensual beauty of birds can open
ones—and much of what we think we
our eyes to a hidden evolutionary
know is wrong. This clear and powerful
process.
book dismantles myth after myth to
“P ERHAPS THE BEST NATURAL bring compassionate and accurate
HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR ! understanding of a massive interna-
H EINRICH ILLUMINATES ONE OF THE tional killer.
HOTTEST TOPICS IN CONTEMPORARY
BIOLOGY IN A VERY ACCESSIBLE WAY. “M YTHS ABOUT S UICIDE SEEKS TO
A GREAT READ .” DEBUNK THE MYRIAD WAYS THAT
SUICIDE IS STIGMATIZED BY IGNORANCE ,
—WAYNE M ONES ,
DISGUST, CONTEMPT, AND CALLOUSNESS .”
AUDUBON M AGAZINE BLOG
—P ETER M ONAGHAN , C HRONICLE OF H IGHER E DUCATION
“LOVE , H EINRICH WRITES , IS AN
ADAPTIVE FEELING THAT MANY ANIMALS “I N THIS VERY READABLE BOOK , J OINER ’ S WIDE RANGING
SHARE , ONE THAT CAUSES THEM TO ACT KNOWLEDGE OF THE SUBJECT LEADS TO DEEPLY PENETRATING
IRRATIONALLY FOR THE SAKE OF REPRODUCTION . HE SUGGESTS THOUGHTS ON THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SUICIDE . HE ATTACKS MYTHS
MONOGAMY AMONG BIRDS EVOLVED IN A SIMILAR WAY, AS A FROM MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES , DRAWING ON MATERIALS FROM
SEXUAL STRATEGY FOR REARING YOUNG IN DEMANDING BIBLICAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT, SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH STUDIES
ENVIRONMENTS . D RAWING HEAVILY ON PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS AND CLINICAL CASE STUDIES , ANIMAL STUDIES , LITERATURE ,
AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, H EINRICH … SHEDS LIGHT ON A WIDE POPULAR CULTURE , AND FILM . T HE BOOK ALSO ADVANCES
ARRAY OF SUBJECTS , FROM THE PREVALENCE OF LESBIAN J OINER ’ S OWN THEORY OF SUICIDE : PEOPLE WHO KILL THEMSELVES
ALBATROSS IN H AWAII TO THE PECULIAR DYNAMICS OF BIRD SEX .” FEEL THAT THEY ARE A BURDEN TO THEIR SOCIALLY SIGNIFICANT
OTHERS AND FEEL ALIENATED FROM SOCIETY.”
—J ED L IPINSKI , S ALON
—W. F EIGELMAN , C HOICE
b e r n D H e i n r i c H i s Pro fe s s o r E m e r i t u s o f B i o l o g y
at the Un i ve r s i t y o f Ve r m o nt. H e h a s w r i t te n t H o M a s J o i n e r i s D i s t i n g u i s h e d R e s e a rc h
several m e m o i r s o f h i s l i fe i n s c i e n ce a n d n at u re. Pro fe s s o r a n d B r i g ht- B u r to n Pro fe s s o r o f
Bumbleb e e Eco n o m i c s ( H U P ) wa s t w i ce a n o m i n e e Ps yc h o l o g y at Fl o r i d a St ate U n i ve r s i t y a n d t h e
for the A m e r i c a n B o o k Awa rd i n S c i e n ce. a u t h o r o f W hy Pe o p l e D i e by S u i c i d e ( H U P ) .
belknap press | CLOTH: APRIL 2010 / ISBN 978-0-674-04822-5 |

CLOTH: MAY 2010 / ISBN 978-0-674-04877-5 | noveMber | 6 3⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 | 1 line illus. | 304 pp. |
october | 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 | 69 color illus. | 352 pp. | paper: isbn 978-0-674-06198-9 | $17.95 (£13.95 uk) |
paper: isbn 978-0-674-06193-4 | $17.95 (£13.95 uk) | eisbn: 978-0-674-05655-8 | psYcHologY
eisbn: 978-0-674-05649-7 | nature
Brain Storm The Shock of the Global
ThE flaws in ThE sciEncE of sEx diffErEncEs ThE 1970s in pErspEcTivE
rebecca M. JorDan-Young eDiteD bY niall ferguson, cHarles s.
Maier, erez Manela, anD Daniel J. sargent
Female and male brains are differ-
ent, thanks to hormones coursing The Shock of the Global examines the structural upheaval of the
through the brain before birth. 1970s by transcending the standard frameworks of national borders
That’s taught as fact in psychology and superpower relations. It reveals for the first time an interna-
textbooks, academic journals, and tional system in the throes of enduring transformations.
bestselling books. And these dif-
ferences explain everything from “ [A] MASTERFUL BOOK .”
sexual orientation to gender iden- —M ICHAEL C ASE , I RISH T IMES
tity, to why there aren’t more
women physicists or more stay-at- “A SERIOUS AND IMPRESSIVE IN - DEPTH
STUDY OF AN UNJUSTLY NEGLECTED
home dads. In this compelling
DECADE .”
book, Rebecca Jordan-Young takes
on the evidence that sex differ- —B ILL P ERRETT, T HE AGE
ences are hardwired into the brain. “A GRAB - BAG OF LIVELY ACADEMIC
ESSAYS THAT COVERS EVERYTHING FROM
“W HAT J ORDAN -YOUNG ’ S ANALYSIS UNCOVERED IS BY TURNS
THE PROLIFERATION OF GLOBAL NON -
FASCINATING AND APPALLING …T HIS BOOK IS NOT ONLY A TONIC ,
GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS TO THE
IT ’ S ALSO FULL OF SCIENTIFIC INSIGHTS PRESENTED IN PLAIN ,
WORLDWIDE WOMEN ’ S RIGHTS MOVEMENT
INTELLIGENT PROSE — AN ABSORBING READ , IF YOU ’ VE EVER
TO SMALLPOX ERADICATION .”
WONDERED WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE SECRET PARTS OF
YOUR ATTIC .”
—C HRISTIAN C ARYL ,
F OREIGN P OLICY
—S ARA L IPPINCOTT, LOS A NGELES T IMES
n i a l l f e r g u s o n i s t h e L a u re n ce A . Ti s c h
“[A] DEVASTATINGLY SMART AND DEFINITIVE CRITIQUE …J ORDAN -
Pro fe s s o r o f H i s to r y at H a r va rd U n i ve r s i t y, a n d
YOUNG HAS DONE AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF WORK TO UNTANGLE
Wi l l i a m Z i e g l e r Pro fe s s o r at H a r va rd B u s i n e s s
THE GENDER CLAIMS . W E OUGHT TO READ HER , CITE HER , THANK
S c h o o l. c H a r l e s s . M a i e r i s t h e Le ve re t t
HER . A ND THEN , LET ’ S MOVE ON .”
S a l to n s t a l l Pro fe s s o r o f H i s to r y at H a r va rd
—A MANDA S CHAFFER , S LATE U n i ve r s i t y. e r e z M a n e l a i s Pro fe s s o r o f H i s to r y,
H a r va rd U n i ve r s i t y. D a n i e l J . s a r g e n t i s
r e b e c c a M . J o r D a n - Yo u n g i s a s o c i o m e d i c a l
A s s i s t a nt Pro fe s s o r o f H i s to r y at t h e U n i ve r s i t y o f
scientist an d a n A s s i s t a nt Pro fe s s o r o f Wo m e n’s Ca l i fo r n i a , B e r ke l e y.
Studies at B a r n a rd Co l l e g e, Co l u m b i a U n i ve r s i t y.
belknap press |
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october | 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 | 15 line illus., 3 tables | 408 pp. | october | 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 | 4 grapHs, 9 tables | 448 pp. |
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eisbn: 978-0-674-05879-8 | psYcHologY eisbn: 978-0-674-05631-2 | HistorY
We Ain’t What We Trotsky
Ought To Be a Biography
ThE Black frEEdom sTrugglE from robert service
EmancipaTion To oBama H Winner of the Duff cooper prize
H a New Yorker reviewers’ favorite nonfiction book of
stepHen tuck the Year
H a Choice outstanding academic title of the Year H an Independent best History book of the Year
H a Choice outstanding academic title
In this exciting revisionist history,

Stephen Tuck traces the black free- Robert Service completes his masterful
dom struggle in all its diversity, trilogy on the founding figures of the
from the first years of freedom dur- Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated,
ing the Civil War to President authoritative biography of Leon Trotsky.
Obama’s inauguration.
“T ROTSKY, EVEN BEFORE ONE OF
“W E A IN ’ T W HAT W E O UGHT T O S TALIN ’ S AGENTS FOUND HIM IN M EXICO

B E IS A COLLECTION OF VOICES AND ASSASSINATED HIM WITH AN ICE
THAT DOCUMENT OUR STRUGGLE AXE , WAS A ROMANTIC FIGURE TO THOSE
FOR EQUALITY IN A MERICA FROM WHO BELIEVED THAT IF ONLY HE HAD
THE R ECONSTRUCTION ERA UNTIL SUCCEEDED L ENIN EVERYTHING WOULD
NOW. I T ’ S ALL HERE —THE GREAT HAVE BEEN BETTER . S ERVICE , WHO HAS
SPEECHES AND MOMENTS — BUT ALSO WRITTEN STUDIES OF L ENIN AND
IT ’ S THE NOD TO THE COMMON WOMAN AND MAN THAT LIFTS S TALIN , DOES AN EXCELLENT JOB OF
THIS NARRATIVE A NOTCH ABOVE SIMILAR TITLES .” DISPENSING WITH SUCH NOTIONS …S ERVICE ’ S BOOK , UNLIKE MUCH
WRITING ABOUT T ROTSKY, IS THE WORK OF A HISTORIAN , NOT AN
—PATRIK H ENRY B ASS , E SSENCE
IDEOLOGUE , AND THE BETTER FOR IT.”
“[A] SWEEPING AND ABSORBING HISTORY OF BLACK ACTIVISM … —N EW YORKER

T UCK ARGUES THAT THERE IS NO ONE BLACK PROTEST MOVEMENT
OR AGENDA AND CASTS HIS NET OVER 150 YEARS OF BLACK “S ERVICE FASHIONS A VIVID PORTRAIT OF THIS BRILLIANT,
POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT TO REEL IN UNTOLD STORIES AND MERCILESS IDEOLOGUE , WHO DID NOT HESITATE TO DRAG HIS
UNSUNG HEROES .” COUNTRY KICKING , SCREAMING AND BLEEDING TOWARD THE UTOPIA
HE DREAMED OF CREATING FOR IT.”
—P UBLISHERS W EEKLY
—J OSHUA R UBENSTEIN , WALL S TREET J OURNAL
s t e p H e n t u c k i s U n i ve r s i t y Le c t u re r i n A m e r i c a n
H istor y at Pe m b ro ke Co l l e g e, Ox fo rd U n i ve r s i t y. r o b e r t s e r v i c e i s a Fe l l ow o f t h e B r i t i s h
Ac a d e my a n d Pro fe s s o r o f R u s s i a n H i s to r y at
belknap press | Ox fo rd U n i ve r s i t y. H i s m a ny b o o k s i n c l u d e
CLOTH: JANUARY 2010 / ISBN 978-0-674-03626-0 | S t a l i n : A B i o g ra p hy a n d Le n i n : A B i o g ra p hy ( H UP).
noveMber | 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 | 32 Halftones | 528 pp. |
paper: isbn 978-0-674-06229-0 | $19.95 (£14.95 uk) | belknap press |
HistorY / african aMerican stuDies CLOTH: NOVEMBER 2009 / ISBN 978-0-674-03615-4 |
noveMber | 6 3⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 | 50 Halftones | 648 pp. |
paper: isbn 978-0-674-06225-2 | $22.95 / obeei | biograpHY
The Crisis of Capitalist Saturday Is for Funerals
Democracy unitY DoW anD Max essex
ricHarD a. posner H a Choice outstanding academic title of the Year
H a Financial Times financial book of the Year

In the year 2000 the World Health Organization estimated that 85
percent of fifteen-year-olds in Botswana would eventually die of
Following up on his timely and well-
AIDS. In Saturday Is for Funerals we learn why that won’t happen.
received book, A Failure of Capital-
ism, Richard Posner steps back to “W EAVING TOGETHER PERSONAL ANECDOTES AND MEDICAL
take a longer view of the continuing HISTORY, THE AUTHORS REVEAL HOW A COMBINATION OF
crisis of democratic capitalism as the PROACTIVE GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION , EDUCATION , RESEARCH ,
American and world economies crawl AND FOREIGN AID HAVE ACHIEVED THE NEAR IMPOSSIBLE .”
gradually back from the depths to —D ANIELLE F RIEDMAN ,
which they had fallen in the autumn D AILY B EAST
of 2008 and the winter of 2009.
“T HE EPIDEMIC OF HIV AND AIDS
“P OSNER IS A FINE WRITER WITH A MARCHING ACROSS A FRICA IS
REAL TALENT FOR MAKING COMPLEX THREATENING TO CRUSH ENTIRE
ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL MATTERS COUNTRIES UNDER ITS WEIGHT. S ATURDAY
CLEAR TO THE AVERAGE READER … I S FOR F UNERALS TELLS THE STORY OF
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Saving Schools The Program Era
from horacE mann To virTual lEarning posTwar ficTion and ThE risE of crEaTivE wriTing
paul e. peterson Mark Mcgurl
H Winner of the truman capote award for
Saving Schools traces the story of the rise, decline, and potential literary criticism
resurrection of American public schools through the lives and ideas
of six mission-driven reformers: Horace Mann, John Dewey, In The Program Era, Mark McGurl offers
Martin Luther King, Jr., Albert a fundamental reinterpretation of postwar
Shanker, William Bennett, and American fiction, asserting that it can be
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the rise of mass higher education and the
“T HE BEST BOOKS SHOW YOU A
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ABOUT EDUCATION REFORM BY a reading of this literature.
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CONDEMNATIONS , SANCTIMONY, OR DEWY- EYED PLATITUDES , A MERICAN WRITERS FROM T HOMAS W OLFE TO B HARATI
WHICH PUTS IT IN RARE COMPANY.” M UKHERJEE IS READ AS REFLECTIONS OF, AND REFLECTIONS ON ,
THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM THROUGH WHICH SO MANY WRITERS
—D ANIEL W ILLINGHAM , WASHINGTON P OST BLOG
NOW PASS …T HE P ROGRAM E RA IS AN IMPRESSIVE AND
“COMPELLING AND ENLIGHTENING …S AVING S CHOOLS BRINGS IMAGINATIVE BOOK .”
NUMEROUS ASPECTS OF EDUCATION HISTORY OUT OF THE CLOUDS —LOUIS M ENAND, N EW YORKER
AND INTO FOCUS WITH EXCELLENT CONTEXT AND BACKGROUND .
A ND IT ’ S AN ENJOYABLE READ .” “A N INTELLIGENT, PERSUASIVE AND THOUGHT- PROVOKING BOOK ;
BY SHIFTING THE FOCUS AWAY FROM INDIVIDUAL WRITERS TOWARDS
— L AURA I MPELLIZZERI , A SSOCIATED P RESS
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BREAKS NEW CRITICAL GROUND .”
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Professo r o f G ove r n m e nt at H a r va rd U n i ve r s i t y. —PATRICK L ANGLEY, T IMES L ITERARY S UPPLEMENT
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Evolution Lake Views
ThE firsT four Billion yEars This world and ThE univErsE
eDiteD bY MicHael ruse anD JosepH travis steven Weinberg
FOREWORD BY E. O. W I L S O N H a Physics World top ten book of 2010
Spanning evolutionary science from its inception to its latest find- Steven Weinberg, considered by many to be the preeminent theo-
ings, from discoveries and data to philosophy and history, this book retical physicist alive today, continues the wide-ranging reflections
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introduction to evolutionary biol- illuminate—and sting.”
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“W EINBERG IS FAMOUS AS A SCIENTIST,
“I F EVER THERE WERE AN BUT HE THINKS DEEPLY AND WRITES
EDUCATION IN A BOOK , THERE ’ S ELEGANTLY ABOUT MANY OTHER THINGS
ONE IN THIS MASSIVE VOLUME … BESIDES SCIENCE . T HIS COLLECTION OF
W HAT IS MOST PROBABLY THE HIS WRITINGS IS CONCERNED WITH
COMMEMORATIVE PAR EXCELLENCE HISTORY, POLITICS , AND SCIENCE IN
OF THE O RIGIN OF S PECIES ROUGHLY EQUAL MEASURE .”
SESQUICENTENNIAL .” —F REEMAN DYSON ,
—R AY O LSON , B OOKLIST N EW YORK R EVIEW OF B OOKS
( STARRED REVIEW )
“T HIS COLLECTION OF ESSAYS PROVES
“H ALF ESSAY COLLECTION , HALF ENCYCLOPEDIA , IT ’ S PACKED WITH ONCE AGAIN THAT W EINBERG IS MORE
EVERYTHING YOU ’ LL EVER WANT OR NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE THAN JUST A TOP -TIER PHYSICIST. HE IS
SCIENCE OF EVOLUTION .” ALSO ONE OF THE FEW SCIENTISTS BRAVE
—Z ELDA R OLAND, W IRED ENOUGH — AND KNOWLEDGEABLE

ENOUGH —TO SUCCESSFULLY TAKE ON THE
M i c H a e l r u s e i s Lu c y l e T. We r k m e i s te r Pro fe s s o r ROLE OF PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL …I T ’ S ESSENTIAL READING .”
of Philosophy a n d D i re c to r o f t h e Pro gra m i n t h e —D AN FALK , N EW S CIENTIST
H istor y and Ph i l o s o p hy o f S c i e n ce at Fl o r i d a St ate
Universit y. H e i s t h e fo u n d e r a n d e d i to r o f t h e s t e v e n W e i n b e r g i s J o s e y R e g e nt a l Pro fe s s o r
journal Biolo g y a n d Ph i l o s o p hy. J o s e p H t r av i s i s o f S c i e n ce a n d a m e m b e r o f t h e p hys i c s a n d
D ean of the Co l l e g e o f A r t s a n d S c i e n ce s a n d a s t ro n o my d e p a r t m e nt s at t h e U n i ve r s i t y o f Tex a s,
Rober t O. Law to n D i s t i n g u i s h e d Pro fe s s o r o f Au s t i n , a n d i s t h e a u t h o r o f m a ny b o o k s. H e wo n
Biological S c i e n ce at Fl o r i d a St ate U n i ve r s i t y. t h e N o b e l Pr i ze i n Phys i c s i n 1 9 7 9 a n d t h e N at i o n al
M e d a l o f S c i e n ce i n 1 9 9 1 .
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stephen Jay gould’s journey of discovery is now available in this
selection of paperbacks from Harvard university press
Dinosaur in a Haystack Questioning the Millennium

rEflEcTions in naTural hisTory a raTionalisT’s guidE To a prEcisEly
From fads to fungus, baseball to beeswax, Gould always circles back to arBiTrary c ounTdown, rEvisEd EdiTion
the great themes of time, change, and history, carrying readers home to Gould addresses three questions about the millennium with his typical
the centering theme of evolution. combination of erudition, warmth, and whimsy: As a calendrical event,
“[G OULD ] WRITES IN A CONSISTENTLY GRACEFUL , APPROACHABLE STYLE , what is the concept of a millennium, and how has its meaning shifted
WITH EASY ELEGANCE AND CLARITY, AND HE IS AN INCOMPARABLE over time? How did the projection of Christ’s 1,000-year reign become
EXPLAINER OF DIFFICULT IDEAS .” a secular measure? And when exactly does the millennium begin—
—P HILLIP LOPATE , N EW YORK T IMES B OOK R EVIEW January 1, 2000, or January 2, 2001?
“W ITH A HUMOROUS E VERYMAN APPROACH , G OULD JUGGLES A MIND -

belknap press |
BOGGLING ARRAY OF VARIOUS CALENDRICAL CONCEPTS AS HE EXPLAINS
october | 6 x 9 | 9 Halftones, 21 line illus. | 480 pp. |
WHY CREATING A RELIABLE CALENDAR WAS ONE OF MAN ’ S GREATEST
paper: isbn 978-0-674-06160-6 | $19.95 (£14.95 uk) |
eisbn: 978-0-674-06342-6 | science STRUGGLES . W HETHER NAILING DOWN THE PRECISE DATE OF THE BIRTH OF
C HRIST OR AIRING HIS SUSPICION THAT G OD IS A N EW YORK YANKEES FAN ,
G OULD TEACHES RATHER THAN PREACHES .”
Full House —D ANEET S TEFFENS , E NTERTAINMENT W EEKLY
ThE sprEad of ExcEllEncE from plaTo To darwin belknap press | october | 6 x 9 | 20 Halftones | 202 pp. |
paper: isbn 978-0-674-06164-4 | $16.95 / caobe |
Gould shows why a more accurate way of understanding our world is
eisbn: 978-0-674-06334-1 | science
to look at a given subject within its own context, to see it as a part of a
spectrum of variation and then to reconceptualize trends as expansion
or contraction of this “full house” of variation, and not as the progress
or degeneration of an average value, or single thing.
s t e p H e n J aY g o u l D wa s t h e A l ex a n d e r
“B ACTERIA AND BASEBALL . F EW S TEPHEN J AY G OULD
AUTHORS BESIDES Ag a s s i z Pro fe s s o r o f Zo o l o g y at H a r va rd
COULD WRITE CONVINCINGLY ABOUT BOTH …WANDERING ABOUT [F ULL U n i ve r s i t y a n d Vi n ce nt A s to r Vi s i t i n g Pro fessor
H OUSE ’ S ] WELL - DECORATED ROOMS , NOOKS , AND ATTICS IS A PLEASURE o f B i o l o g y at N e w Yo r k U n i ve r s i t y. A M a c A r thur
LEFT TO THE READER .”
Pr i ze Fe l l ow, h e re ce i ve d i n n u m e ra b l e h o nors
—J OHN A LLEN PAULOS , a n d awa rd s.
WASHINGTON P OST B OOK W ORLD
belknap press | october | 6 x 9 | 20 Halftones,

10 line illus., 18 grapHs, 3 tables | 244 pp. |
paper: isbn 978-0-674-06161-3 | $17.95 (£13.95 uk) |
eisbn: 978-0-674-06339-6 | science
92 w w w.hup.ha r va rd. e d u
Leonardo’s Mountain of Clams and the I Have Landed
Diet of Worms ThE End of a BEginning in naTural hisTory
Essays on naTural hisTory Gould’s final essay collection is based on his remarkable series for
Natural History magazine—exactly 300 consecutive essays, with never
With customary brilliance, Gould examines the puzzles and paradoxes
a month missed, published from 1974 to 2001. Both an intellectually
great and small that build nature’s and humanity’s diversity and order.
thrilling journey into the nature of scientific discovery and the most per-
“N O ONE HAS WRITTEN OF OUR ILLUSIONS ABOUT PROGRESS IN NATURE sonal book he ever published.
WITH MORE WIT AND LEARNING THAN S TEPHEN J AY G OULD .”
“T HESE ESSAYS HAVE ENTRANCED MILLIONS WITH THE WONDERS OF
—O LIVER S ACKS
EVOLUTION . O NE OF THE JOYS OF READING ABOUT GOOD SCIENCE IS THE
CHANCE NOT ONLY TO OBSERVE HOW SCIENTIFIC THEORY WORKS , BUT ALSO
belknap press | october | 6 x 9 | 28 Halftones,
TO PARTICIPATE IN THE WORKINGS OF THE MIND BEHIND THE WORKS . I N
20 line illus., 2 cHarts | 422 pp. |
paper: isbn 978-0-674-06163-7 | $19.95 / caobe | I H AVE L ANDED … THE READER WILL FIND SUCH JOY IN ABUNDANCE .”
eisbn: 978-0-674-06336-5 | science —T IM F LANNERY, N EW YORK R EVIEW OF B OOKS
belknap press | october | 6 x 9 |

The Lying Stones of Marrakech 32 Halftones, 24 line illus. | 418 pp. |
paper: isbn 978-0-674-06162-0 | $19.95 / caobe |
pEnulTimaTE rEflEcTions in naTural hisTory eisbn: 978-0-674-06341-9 | science
Gould covers topics as diverse as episodes in the birth of paleontology

to lessons from Britain’s four greatest Victorian naturalists. This collec- The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the
tion presents the richness and fascination of the various lives that have
Magister’s Pox
fueled the enterprise of science and
opened our eyes to a world of unex- mEnding ThE gap BETwEEn sciEncE and ThE humaniTiEs
pected wonders.
In his final book, Gould offers a surprising and nuanced study of the
“V INTAGE G OULD : STIMULATING , complex relationship between our two great ways of knowing: science
ERUDITE , AND EMINENTLY ENJOYABLE .”
and the humanities, twin realms of knowledge that have been divided
—K IRKUS R EVIEWS against each other for far too long.
belknap press | october | “B LENDING GENUINE LITERARY TALENTS WITH IMPECCABLE SCIENTIFIC
6 x 9 | 31 Halftones, CREDENTIALS , G OULD CRAFTS AN ELEGANT ENTREATY FOR SCIENTISTS AND
13 line illus. | 372 pp. | SCHOLARS TO SPEND LESS TIME COMPLAINING ABOUT EACH OTHER AND
paper: isbn 978-0-674-06167-5 | MORE TIME COMBINING THEIR CONSIDERABLE RESOURCES . WE NEED BOTH
$19.95 / caobe | THE FOX AND THE HEDGEHOG IN ANY INTELLECTUAL MENAGERIE —THE
eisbn: 978-0-674-06337-2 | science
PERSISTENT PLURALIST.”
—A LLAN C. H UTCHINSON , G LOBE AND M AIL
belknap press | october | 6 x 9 |

36 Halftones, 4 line illus. | 274 pp. |
paper: isbn 978-0-674-06166-8 | $17.95 / caobe |
eisbn: 978-0-674-06340-2 | science
h a r va rd u n i ve r s i t y p ress 93
The Temple of Jerusalem Westminster Abbey
siMon golDHill ricHarD JenkYns
It was destroyed nearly 2,000 years ago, and yet the Temple Westminster Abbey is both an apprecia-
of Jerusalem—cultural memory, symbol, and site—remains tion of an architectural masterpiece and
one of the most powerful, and most contested, buildings in the an exploration of the building’s shifting
world. This glorious structure, imagined and re-imagined, meanings. We hear the voices of those
reconsidered and reinterpreted again who have described its forms, moods,
and again over two millennia, emerges and ceremonies, from Shakespeare and
in all its historical, cultural, and reli- Voltaire to Dickens and Henry James;
gious significance in Simon Goldhill’s we see how rulers have made use of it,
account. from medieval kings to modern prime
ministers. In a highly original book, clas-
“T HE T EMPLE IN J ERUSALEM , AS sicist and cultural historian Richard
S IMON G OLDHILL REMINDS US IN THIS Jenkyns teaches us to look at this micro-
ADMIRABLY READABLE ACCOUNT OF
cosm of history with new eyes.
ITS LONG AND TORTURED HISTORY,
HAS ALWAYS BEEN MORE THAN A HOLY
“W ESTMINSTER A BBEY IS A SECULAR HYMN TO A GREAT CHURCH .
PLACE : IT IS ABOVE ALL AN IDEA — A MYTH ,
J ENKYNS , AN OXFORD PROFESSOR WITH A FINE HISTORICAL
A FANTASY, A UTOPIAN DREAM THAT HAS
SENSIBILITY, IS A WITTY AND ERUDITE TEACHER .”
DOMINATED THE IMAGINATION FOR THREE
MILLENNIA AND CONTINUES TO ACT AS A
—D AVID A RMSTRONG , S AN F RANCISCO C HRONICLE
SOURCE OF CONTENTION …H IS BOOK IS THOROUGHLY ABSORBING :
“W ESTMINSTER A BBEY CERTAINLY RANKS AS ONE OF THE TOP
THE WRITING IS FRESH , THE ERUDITION LIGHTLY WORN WITH
TOURIST DRAWS IN THE WORLD , ESPECIALLY FOR A MERICAN
PLEASING NUGGETS OF FACT AND FANTASY CULLED FROM AN
TRAVELERS , AND THOSE DESIRING A DEEPER PROFILE OF THIS
IMPRESSIVE VARIETY OF SOURCES .”
LONDON CHURCH THAN WHAT A BASIC GUIDEBOOK GENERALLY
—M ALISE R UTHVEN , S UNDAY T IMES OFFERS WILL DO WELL TO PAY ATTENTION TO THIS BEAUTIFULLY
ARTICULATED ESSAY.”
“I T ’ S NO MEAN CHALLENGE EVOKING THE ARCHITECTURE , THE
SPIRITUAL POWER , THE POLITICS AND THE FANTASIES ASSOCIATED
—B RAD H OOPER , B OOKLIST ( STARRED REVIEW )
WITH A BUILDING BURNED DOWN BY THE R OMANS NEARLY 2,000

r i c H a r D J e n k Y n s i s Pro fe s s o r o f t h e C l a s s i cal
YEARS AGO .”
Tra d i t i o n at t h e U n i ve r s i t y o f Ox fo rd a n d a Fe llow
—M ADELEINE K INGSLEY, J EWISH C HRONICLE o f L a d y M a rg a re t H a l l. H i s p re v i o u s b o o k s i n c l ude
Th e Vi c to r i a n s a n d A n c i e n t G re e ce a n d D i g n i t y and
s i M o n g o l D H i l l i s Pro fe s s o r o f G re e k L i te rat u re
D e ca d e n ce : Vi c to r i a n A r t a n d t h e C l a s s i ca l
and Cult u re at t h e U n i ve r s i t y o f Ca m b r i d g e a n d I n h e r i t a n ce ( b o t h H U P ).
author o f J e r u s a l e m : A C i t y o f Lo n g i n g ( H UP ) .
WonDers of tHe WorlD |
WonDers of tHe WorlD | CLOTH: MARCH 2005 / ISBN 978-0-674-01716-0 |
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paper: isbn 978-0-674-06189-7 | $14.95 / na | eisbn: 978-0-674-06361-7 | travel / religion
eisbn: 978-0-674-06357-0 | travel / religion
Zhivago’s Children The
ThE lasT russian inTElligEnTsia Condemnation
vlaDislav zubok of Blackness
racE, crimE, and ThE making of
Among the least-chronicled aspects
modErn urBan amErica
of post–World War II European
intellectual and cultural history is kHalil gibran MuHaMMaD
the story of the Russian intelli-
gentsia after Stalin. Vladislav Chronicling the emergence of deeply embed-
Zubok turns a compelling subject ded notions of black people as a dangerous race
into a portrait as intimate as it is of criminals by explicit contrast to working-class whites and Euro-
provocative. Zhivago’s children, pean immigrants, this fascinating book reveals the influence such
the spiritual heirs of Boris Paster- ideas have had on urban development and social policies.
nak’s noble doctor, were the last of
their kind—an intellectual and “A DAZZLING STUDY THAT ILLUMINATES A GREAT DEAL ABOUT THE
artistic community committed to a SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF BLACK CRIMINALITY. M UHAMMAD DOES
civic, cultural, and moral mission. A SUPERB JOB OF EXPLICATING THE ROLE THAT SOCIAL SCIENTISTS ,
JOURNALISTS , AND REFORMERS PLAYED IN CREATING THE IDEA OF
“Z UBOK TELLS HIS STORY WITH A DENSITY OF DETAIL AND THE BLACK CRIMINAL AND SUSTAINING RACIAL INEQUALITY.”
COMPLEXITY OF ANALYSIS THAT IS TRULY REMARKABLE …[H E ] HAS —A LDON D. M ORRIS , AUTHOR OF
DONE A FINE JOB OF CHARACTERIZING A SLICE OF R USSIAN T HE O RIGINS OF THE C IVIL R IGHTS M OVEMENT
INTELLECTUAL LIFE OVER A COUPLE OF TURBULENT DECADES OF
S OVIET HISTORY…[A N ] INTELLIGENT AND ENGROSSING BOOK .” “W ITH UNCOMMON INTERPRETIVE CLARITY AND RESOURCEFUL
ACCUMULATION OF DATA , THE AUTHOR DISENTANGLES CRIME AS A
—M ICHAEL S CAMMELL , N EW YORK R EVIEW OF B OOKS
FACT OF THE URBAN EXPERIENCE FROM CRIME AS A THEORY OF
“T HE PLAYERS IN Z UBOK ’ S FASCINATING STUDY COME FROM ALL RACE IN A MERICAN HISTORY.”
CORNERS OF THE S OVIET INTELLIGENTSIA , FROM LEFTIST SOCIALIST —D AVID L EVERING L EWIS ,
TRUE BELIEVERS TO RIGHT- WING PATRIOTS . T HE RESULT IS A P ULITZER P RIZE – WINNING AUTHOR OF W.E.B. D U B OIS
THOROUGH , SCHOLARLY EXAMINATION OF A VITAL ERA IN R USSIAN
HISTORY WHOSE THEMES OF HUMAN RIGHTS , FREEDOM AND DISSENT k H a l i l g i b r a n M u H a M M a D i s A s s i s t a nt
WILL RESONATE AMONG EXPERTS AND LAY READERS ALIKE .” Pro fe s s o r o f H i s to r y at I n d i a n a U n i ve r s i t y ; a s
—A LEXANDER F. R EMINGTON , o f J u l y 2 0 1 1 , h e w i l l b e D i re c to r o f t h e S c h o m b u rg
WASHINGTON P OST B OOK W ORLD Ce nte r fo r R e s e a rc h i n B l a c k Cu l t u re, N e w Yo r k
Pu b l i c L i b ra r y.
v l a D i s l av z u b o k i s A s s o c i ate Pro fe s s o r o f
H istor y at Te m p l e U n i ve r s i t y. CLOTH: FEBRUARY 2010 / ISBN 978-0-674-03597-3 |
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3 cartoons | 392 pp. |
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CLOTH: MAY 2009 / ISBN 978-0-674-03344-3 | eisbn: 978-0-674-05432-5 |
noveMber | 6 3⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 | 28 Halftones | 464 pp. | african aMerican stuDies / sociologY
paper: isbn 978-0-674-06232-0 | $19.95 (£14.95 uk) |
eisbn: 978-0-674-05483-7 | HistorY
Russia and the Russians Southern Horrors
A HISTORY, SECOND EDITION WOMEN AND THE POLITICS OF RAPE AND LYNCHING
Geoffrey HoskinG Crystal n. feimster
H Winner of the W. e. B. Du Bois Book prize,
In a sweeping narrative, one of the English-speaking world’s lead- north east Black studies association
ing historians of Russia follows the country’s history from the first H Honorable mention, Darlene Clark Hine award,
organization of american Historians
emergence of the Slavs in the historical record in the sixth century
CE to the Russians’ persistent appearances
in today’s headlines. The second edition Between 1880 and 1930, close
covers the presidencies of Vladimir Putin to 200 women were murdered
and Dmitrii Medvedev and the struggle to by lynch mobs in the American
make Russia a viable functioning state for South. Many more were tarred
all its citizens. and feathered, burned, whipped,
or raped. In this brutal world of
Praise for the first edition: white supremacist politics and
“F OR THE GENERAL READER , THIS BOOK patriarchy, a world violently
IS THE K ING J AMES VERSION OF R USSIAN divided by race, gender, and
HISTORY.” class, black and white women
—R OBERT L EGVOLD, defended themselves and chal-
F OREIGN A FFAIRS lenged the male power brokers.
Crystal Feimster breaks new
“[A] COMPREHENSIVE AND INTELLIGENT ground in her story of the racial politics of the postbellum South by
SURVEY OF R USSIAN HISTORY…[ THAT FOLLOWS ] THE TWISTS AND focusing on the volatile issue of sexual violence.
TURNS OF S LAVIC HISTORY.”
—T HE E CONOMIST “FASCINATING …F EIMSTER ’ S ACCOUNT CHALLENGES US TO THINK
AGAIN ABOUT RACE AND SEXUAL POLITICS .”
G e o f f r e y H o s k i n G is ret ire d Pro fes s or of —M ARY E VANS , T IMES H IGHER E DUCATION
Russi a n H is to r y at Uni ve rs it y Col leg e Lo ndo n . H i s
other boo ks i nc lu d e R ul e r s an d Vi c t i m s : Th e “F EIMSTER PROVIDES AN OPPORTUNITY TO BETTER UNDERSTAND
R ussian s i n the S ov i e t Uni o n ( H U P) . THE LACK OF SYMPATHY BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE SUFFRAGISTS
AND HOW LYNCHING SPURRED BOTH TO THE POLITICAL ACTIVISM
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AND WOMEN ’ S SUFFRAGE SO COMPLICATED AND CONTENTIOUS .”
—M ARGARET W HEELER J OHNSON , D OUBLE X
C r y s ta l n . f e i m s t e r i s Vi s i t in g Pro fe s s o r i n the
H i s to r y D e p ar t me nt at Pr i n ce ton U n i ve r s i t y.

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Soundings in Atlantic The Age of Confucian Rule
History ThE song TransformaTion of china
laTEnT sTrucTurEs and inTEllEcTual currEnTs, Dieter kuHn
1500–1830 GENER AL EDITOR , TIMOTHY BROOK
eDiteD bY bernarD bailYn anD
patricia l. Denault Just over a thousand years ago, the Song dynasty emerged as the
most advanced civilization on earth. Within two centuries, China
was home to nearly half of all humankind. In this concise history,
These innovative essays probe the
we learn why the inventiveness of this era has been favorably com-
underlying unities that bound the early
pared with the European Renaissance, which in many ways the
modern Atlantic world into a regional
Song transformation surpassed.
whole and trace some of the intellectual
currents that flowed through the lives “O NE HOPES [K UHN ’ S ] WORK WILL FIND
of the people of the four continents. A LARGER AUDIENCE , FOR HE HAS MUCH
TO TEACH TO GENERAL READERS , WORLD
“T HIS IS A MOST ILLUMINATING BODY HISTORIANS , AND C HINA SPECIALISTS
OF WORK FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN ALIKE .”
THE LATEST RESEARCH ON THE
—M ARK H ALPERIN ,
ATLANTIC WORLD .”
A MERICAN H ISTORICAL R EVIEW
—X ABIER L AMIKIZ ,
I NTERNATIONAL J OURNAL OF “T HE AGE OF CONFUCIAN R ULE IS A BOOK
M ARITIME H ISTORY THAT EVERYONE WHO TEACHES C HINESE
HISTORY SHOULD HAVE ON HIS OR HER
“A DDS CONSIDERABLY TO OUR UNDERSTANDING OF ATLANTIC ( AND SHELF AND CONSULT FREQUENTLY…T HE
OTHER ) HISTORIES .” ATTENTION [K UHN ] GIVES MATERIAL
—P ETER COCLANIS , A MERICAN H ISTORICAL R EVIEW CULTURE IS REFRESHING AND HELPS HIM
TO MAKE HIS CASE FOR THE IMPORTANCE
b e r n a r D b a i lY n is Adams University Professor, OF C HINA IN S ONG TIMES .”
Emeritus, and Director of the International Seminar on —PATRICIA E BREY,
the History of the Atlantic World, Harvard University. He I NTERNATIONAL J OURNAL OF A SIAN S TUDIES
is the author of The Ideological Origins of the American
Revolution (Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes) and The Ordeal D i e t e r k u H n i s re t i re d Pro fe s s o r a n d C h a i r o f
of Thomas Hutchinson (National Book Award), both HUP. C h i n e s e St u d i e s at t h e U n i ve r s i t y o f Wü r z b u rg.
pat r i c i a l . D e n a u lt is the former Administrative
Director of the International Seminar on the History of belknap press | HistorY of iMperial cHina 4 |
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Two Faiths, One Banner The Fruit, the Tree, and
whEn muslims marchEd wiTh chrisTians across the Serpent
EuropE’s BaTTlEgrounds why wE sEE so wEll
ian alMonD lYnne a. isbell
H a Choice outstanding academic title of the Year
When, in our turbulent day, we hear of a “clash of civilizations,” it’s
H runner-up, The Atlantic books of the Year
easy to imagine an unbridgeable chasm between the Islamic world
and Christendom stretching back
The worldwide prominence of
through time. But such assumptions
snakes in religion, myth, and folklore
crumble before the drama that unfolds
underscores our deep connection to
in this book. Two Faiths, One Banner
the serpent—but why, when so few
shows how in Europe, the heart of the
of us have firsthand experience? The
West, Muslims and Christians were
surprising answer, this book sug-
often comrades-in-arms, repeatedly
gests, lies in the singular impact of
forming alliances to wage war against
snakes on primate evolution.
their own faiths and peoples.
“I SBELL WEAVES TOGETHER
“A N EXCELLENT HISTORY, IT IS AT
FACTS FROM ANTHROPOLOGY,
THE SAME TIME HIGH DRAMA , WITH
NEUROSCIENCE , PALAEONTOLOGY,
CHARACTERS NOBLE AND BASE ,
AND PSYCHOLOGY TO EXPLAIN THAT
INVOLVED IN THE ADVENTURE OF
OUR EMOTIONAL CONNECTION TO
THEIR LIVES . T HESE ARE ASTONISHING
SNAKES HAS A LONG EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY.”
MATERIALS PRESENTED THROUGH CAREFUL AND RELIABLE
SCHOLARSHIP. A MOST UNUSUAL GEM OF A BOOK FULL OF —B ARBARA J. K ING , T IMES L ITERARY S UPPLEMENT
HUMAN STORIES TOLD WITH LUCIDITY AND CHARM .”
“A ND SO , I SBELL AVERS , G ENESIS HAS IT RIGHT : THE SNAKE
—N UR YALMAN MADE US HUMAN . T HIS GROUNDBREAKING , INTELLECTUALLY
SCINTILLATING WORK IS NONFICTION AT ITS ABSOLUTE BEST.
“A LMOND DRAWS ON A MULTITUDE OF SOURCES TO CREATE AN
I SBELL RANGES WIDELY, UNPACKS HER EVIDENCE METICULOUSLY,
ALTERNATE HISTORY OF INTERACTIONS BETWEEN C HRISTIANS AND
SYNTHESIZES DISPARATE AND DIFFICULT MATERIAL ECONOMICALLY,
M USLIMS IN E UROPE OVER 800 YEARS , BOLDLY CONCENTRATING
ADDRESSES COUNTERARGUMENTS SCRUPULOUSLY, AND WRITES
ON ‘ UNITY AND COLLABORATION INSTEAD OF FRICTION AND
CLEANLY, OFTEN GRACEFULLY, AND OCCASIONALLY EVEN
DIVISION .’ ”
PLAYFULLY.”
—P UBLISHERS W EEKLY
—T HE ATLANTIC
i a n a l M o n D i s A s s o c i ate Pro fe s s o r at G e o rgi a
lY n n e a . i s b e l l i s Pro fe s s o r o f A nt h ro p o l o gy
State Un i ve r s i t y a n d a u t h o r o f S u f i s m a n d
a n d A n i m a l B e h av i o r at t h e U n i ve r s i t y o f Ca l i fornia,
D econstr u c t i o n a n d Th e N e w O r i e n t a l i s t s.
D av i s.
CLOTH: APRIL 2009 / ISBN 978-0-674-03397-9 |
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eisbn: 978-0-674-05404-2 | antHropologY
The Ideological Origins of The Hebrew Republic
American Federalism JEwish sourcEs and ThE TransformaTion of
EuropEan poliTical ThoughT
alison l. lacroix
eric nelson
Federalism is regarded as one of the H a Choice outstanding academic title of the Year
signal American contributions to
modern politics. Its origins are typi- According to a commonplace narrative, the rise of modern political
cally traced to the drafting of the thought in the West resulted from secularization—the exclusion of
Constitution, but the story began religious arguments from political discourse. But in this pathbreak-
decades before the delegates met in ing work Eric Nelson argues that this familiar story is wrong.
Philadelphia. In this groundbreak- Instead, he contends, political thought in early-modern Europe
ing book, Alison LaCroix traces the became less, not more, secular with time,
history of American federal thought and it was the Christian encounter with
from its colonial beginnings in scat- Hebrew sources that provoked this radical
tered provincial responses to British transformation.
assertions of authority, to its emer-
gence in the late eighteenth century “[A] MAGNIFICENT BOOK …N OT ONLY
as a normative theory of multilayered government. HAS [N ELSON ] SIGNIFICANTLY REVISED
THE HISTORY OF SOME KEY CONCEPTS IN
“A S L A C ROIX SHOWS IN THIS ENGAGING TREATISE , THE WHO -
DOES - WHAT QUESTIONS AT THE HEART OF FEDERALISM HAVE VEXED
EARLY MODERN E UROPEAN POLITICAL
THOUGHT, IT MAY BE THAT HE HAS
THE NATION FROM THE GET- GO .”
WRITTEN A PARADIGM - SHIFTER , THE KIND
—K EVIN R. KOSAR , W EEKLY S TANDARD OF BOOK THAT FUNDAMENTALLY REALIGNS
THE WAY SCHOLARS LOOK AT A PERIOD AS
“T HE VIRTUE OF L A C ROIX ’ S ACCOUNT IS TO SHOW NOT ONLY THAT
A WHOLE .”
FEDERALISM AS IT DEVELOPED WAS MORE INTELLECTUALLY
COHERENT THAN A MERE BUNDLE OF COMPROMISES , BUT ALSO —N ATHAN P ERL -R OSENTHAL ,
THAT ITS THEORETICAL CORE HAD BEGUN TO EMERGE DECADES N EW R EPUBLIC ONLINE
P HILADELPHIA
BEFORE THE DELEGATES TRAVELLED TO IN M AY
1787 [ FOR THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION ].” “N O DOUBT SPECIALISTS WILL BE DEBATING THE ARGUMENTS OF
T HE H EBREW R EPUBLIC FOR SOME TIME TO COME — WHICH IS A
—G ARY L. M C D OWELL , T IMES L ITERARY S UPPLEMENT TESTIMONY TO E RIC N ELSON ’ S PROFOUND AND ORIGINAL BOOK .”
a l i s o n l . l a c r o i x i s A s s i s t a nt Pro fe s s o r o f L aw —A DAM K IRSCH , TABLET M AGAZINE

at the Unive r s i t y o f C h i c a g o L aw S c h o o l.
e r i c n e l s o n i s Pro fe s s o r o f G ove r n m e nt at
CLOTH: APRIL 2010 / ISBN 978-0-674-04886-7 | H a r va rd U n i ve r s i t y.
october | 6 3⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 | 320 pp. |
paper: isbn 978-0-674-06203-0 | $22.50 * (£16.95 uk) | CLOTH: MARCH 2010 / ISBN 978-0-674-05058-7 |
eisbn: 978-0-674-05659-6 | HistorY / laW october | 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 | 240 pp. |
paper: isbn 978-0-674-06213-9 | $18.95 * (£14.95 uk) |
eisbn: 978-0-674-05674-9 | pHilosopHY / politics
Atlantic Creoles in the Age Freedom Struggles
of Revolutions african amEricans and world war i
Jane g. lanDers aDriane lentz-sMitH

H Honor book Winner, the black caucus of the
Sailing the tide of a tumultuous era of Atlantic revolutions, a remark- american library association literary awards
able group of African-born and African-descended individuals

transformed themselves from slaves into active agents of their For many of the 200,000 black soldiers
lives and times. Big Prince Whitten, the sent to Europe with the American Expedi-
black Seminole Abraham, and General tionary Forces in World War I, encounters
Georges Biassou were “Atlantic cre- with French civilians and colonial African
oles,” Africans who found their way to troops led them to imagine a world beyond
freedom by actively engaging in the Jim Crow. They returned home to join
most important political events of their activists working to make that world real.
day. These men and women of diverse In narrating the efforts of African Ameri-
ethnic backgrounds migrated across the can soldiers and activists to gain full citi-
New World’s imperial boundaries in zenship rights as recompense for military
search of freedom and a safe haven. Yet, service, Adriane Lentz-Smith illuminates
until now, their extraordinary exploits how World War I mobilized a generation.
have been hidden from posterity.
“I N OFFERING A UNIQUE VISION OF A FRICAN A MERICAN
“F ROM THOUSANDS OF GOSSAMER , BROKEN ASPIRATIONS , FRUSTRATIONS , AND POLITICAL SENSIBILITIES ,
THREADS OF NARRATIVE , J ANE L ANDERS HAS REWOVEN THE WHOLE L ENTZ -S MITH CONVINCINGLY CONTENDS THAT THE G REAT WAR
TAPESTRY OF LIFE ALONG THE ATLANTIC SEABOARD FOR N ATIVE ERA REPRESENTED A ‘ TRANSFORMATIVE MOMENT ’ IN THE BLACK
A MERICANS , IMPORTED SLAVES , C REOLES AND FREE BLACKS . FREEDOM STRUGGLE .”
E XCELLENTLY RESEARCHED , AND EMINENTLY READABLE , IT IS AN —L AUREN S KLAROFF, J OURNAL OF A MERICAN H ISTORY
ILLUMINATING , GROUNDBREAKING WORK .”
“A BALANCED AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN ACCOUNT OF THE BLACK
—M ADISON S MARTT B ELL
SOLDIER ’ S EXPERIENCE IN W ORLD WAR I. I T RAISES IMPORTANT
“A BOVE ALL ELSE , ATLANTIC CREOLES SOUGHT FREEDOM . QUESTIONS ABOUT THE WAYS THAT LAW AND STATUS IN THE U NITED
L ANDERS HAS DONE AN EXCELLENT JOB IN EXCAVATING THEIR LIVES S TATES ARE SHAPED BY DEVELOPMENTS ABROAD .”
AND HIGHLIGHTING THEIR SIGNIFICANCE IN THE A GE OF —J OEL E. B LACK , L AW AND H ISTORY R EVIEW
R EVOLUTIONS .”
—G AD H EUMAN , T IMES L ITERARY S UPPLEMENT a D r i a n e l e n t z - s M i t H i s A s s i s t a nt Pro fe s s or of
H i s to r y at D u ke U n i ve r s i t y.
J a n e g . l a n D e r s i s A s s o c i ate Pro fe s s o r o f
H istor y at Va n d e r b i l t U n i ve r s i t y. CLOTH: NOVEMBER 2009 / ISBN 978-0-674-03592-8 |
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Americans All Depth
ThE culTural gifTs movEmEnT an accounT of sciEnTific ExplanaTion
Diana selig MicHael strevens
H Honorable Mention, gustavus Myers book awards H a Choice outstanding academic title
Diana Selig tells the neglected story What does it mean for scientists to truly understand, rather than to
of the cultural gifts movement, merely describe, how the world works? Michael Strevens proposes
which flourished between the a novel theory of scientific explanation and understanding that over-
world wars. Progressive activists hauls and augments the familiar causal approach to explanation.
encouraged pluralism in homes, What is replaced is the test for explanatorily relevant causal infor-
schools, and churches across the mation: Strevens discards the usual criterion of counterfactual
country. Countering racist trends dependence in favor of a criterion that
and the melting-pot theory of Amer- turns on a process of progressive abstrac-
icanization, they championed the tion away from a fully detailed, physical
idea of diversity. causal story.
“T HIS FASCINATING AND “T HIS VOLUME WILL PROVE

INTENSIVELY RESEARCHED INDISPENSABLE FOR PHILOSOPHERS
MONOGRAPH MOVES CHRONOLOGICALLY AND THEMATICALLY TO WORKING IN THE FIELD OF
CONSTRUCT THE FIRST MAJOR HISTORICAL STUDY OF THIS EXPLANATION …S TREVENS ’ S BOOK
MOVEMENT, WHICH AIMED TO ENHANCE THE A MERICAN CREED BY PROVIDES AN EXCELLENT SURVEY OF
CONFRONTING AND OVERCOMING THE WORST PREJUDICIAL RECENT ARGUMENTATION ON CAUSAL
COMPLICATIONS OF A MERICAN DIVERSITY.” EXPLANATION WITH A RIGOROUS DEFENSE
—C HRISTOPHER M C K NIGHT N ICHOLS , OF HIS OWN BRAND OF EXPLANATION .”
R EVIEWS IN A MERICAN H ISTORY —J EREMY S. K IRBY,

Q UARTERLY R EVIEW OF B IOLOGY
“W HATEVER THE SHORTCOMINGS OF THE CULTURAL GIFTS
MOVEMENT, ONE LEAVES THIS FINE STUDY WITH RENEWED “P ROVIDES MANY INTELLECTUALLY STIMULATING AND HIGHLY
APPRECIATION OF THE WORK OF THESE MULTICULTURAL PIONEERS . ORIGINAL THOUGHTS ON A NUMBER OF CRITICAL AND VENERABLE
I F A MERICANS TODAY ARE NOT FIGHTING ETHNIC , RELIGIOUS , AND PHILOSOPHICAL TOPICS . A NY PHILOSOPHER OF SCIENCE TODAY WILL
EVEN RACIAL BATTLES IN THEIR STREETS , IT IS , IN SOME SMALL SURELY FIND IT TO BE A REWARDING READ .”
MEASURE , THANKS TO THEIR EFFORTS .” —S TEPHAN H ARTMANN AND J ONAH N. S CHUPBACH ,
—R OBERT C. B ANNISTER , T EACHERS COLLEGE R ECORD N OTRE D AME P HILOSOPHICAL R EVIEWS
D i a n a s e l i g i s A s s o c i ate Pro fe s s o r o f H i s to r y, M i c H a e l s t r e v e n s i s Pro fe s s o r o f Ph i l o s o p hy at

Claremont M c K e n n a Co l l e g e. N e w Yo r k U n i ve r s i t y.
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pHilosopHY

The Two Hendricks Settler Sovereignty
unravEling a mohawk mysTEry JurisdicTion and indigEnous pEoplE in amErica and
eric HinDeraker ausTralia, 1788–1836
lisa forD
In September 1755, the most famous Indian in the world—a H Winner of the littleton-griswold prize,
Mohawk leader known in English as King Hendrick—died in the american Historical association
Battle of Lake George. He was fighting the French in defense of H Winner of the nsW premier’s History awards,
British claims to North America, and his general History prize, government of nsW,
australia
death marked the end of an era in Anglo-
H Winner of the thomas J. Wilson Memorial prize,
Iroquois relations. Half a century earlier, Harvard university press
another Hendrick worked with powerful
leaders in the frontier town of Albany. He In a brilliant comparative study of
cemented his transatlantic fame when he law and imperialism, Lisa Ford
traveled to London as one of the “four argues that modern settler sover-
Indian kings.” eignty emerged when settlers in
Until recently the two Hendricks North America and Australia
were thought to be the same person. Eric defined indigenous theft and vio-
Hinderaker sets the record straight, recon- lence as crime.
structing the lives of these two men in a
compelling narrative that reveals the com- “T HE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING
plexities of the Anglo-Iroquois alliance. AUSTRALIAN ATTITUDES TO THE
LAW LIES DEEP IN OUR HISTORY,
“H INDERAKER UTILIZES CREATIVE AND IN - DEPTH RESEARCH TO AS L ISA F ORD SHOWS WITH GREAT
CONSTRUCT A BIOGRAPHY OF TWO M OHAWK LEADERS WHOSE FORENSIC FLAIR …[T HIS ] IS
ACTIONS WERE DICTATED NOT BY B RITISH INTERESTS BUT BY THOSE COMPARATIVE HISTORY AT ITS
OF THE M OHAWKS AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE I ROQUOIS BEST. F ORD MOVES CONFIDENTLY BETWEEN THE TWO SOCIETIES
CONFEDERACY DURING AN ERA WHEN THE I ROQUOIS WERE THE AND APPEARS EQUALLY AT HOME IN BOTH . B OTH THE SIMILARITIES
LINCHPIN BETWEEN N EW F RANCE AND G REAT B RITAIN …H IGHLY AND THE DIFFERENCES ARE REVEALING . E ACH STUDY ENLIGHTENS
RECOMMENDED AS BOTH A HISTORICAL WORK AND AN THE OTHER . T HIS IS SO BECAUSE THE SUPPORTING SCHOLARSHIP IS
OUTSTANDING EXAMPLE FOR HISTORIOGRAPHERS IN WRITING SO IMPRESSIVE , THE FRUIT, F ORD TELLS US , OF TEN YEARS ’
ETHNOHISTORY.” RESEARCH AND REFLECTION .”
—J OHN B URCH , L IBRARY J OURNAL ( STARRED REVIEW ) —H ENRY R EYNOLDS , AUSTRALIAN B OOK R EVIEW
e r i c H i n D e r a k e r i s Pro fe s s o r o f H i s to r y at t h e l i s a f o r D i s Le c t u re r i n H i s to r y at t h e U n i versit y
Universi t y o f U t a h . o f N e w S o u t h Wa l e s.
CLOTH: JANUARY 2010 / ISBN 978-0-674-03579-9 | HarvarD Historical stuDies 166 |

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A Sudden Terror The Art and Craft of
ThE ploT To murdEr ThE popE in rEnaissancE romE International
antHonY f. D’elia Environmental Law
Daniel boDanskY
In 1468, on the final night of Carnival
in Rome, Pope Paul II sat enthroned H Winner of the Harold and Margaret sprout award,
international studies association
above the boisterous crowd, when his
guards intercepted a mysterious
stranger trying urgently to convey a Drawing on more than two decades of experience as a government
warning—conspirators were lying in negotiator, consultant, and academic, Daniel Bodansky brings a real-
wait to slay the pontiff. Twenty world perspective on the processes by which international envi-
humanist intellectuals were quickly ronmental law develops, and influences the
arrested, tortured on the rack, and behavior of state and non-state actors.
imprisoned. Using newly discovered
“A SWEEPING REVIEW OF THE THEORY AND
sources, Anthony D’Elia shows why
PRACTICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
the pope targeted the humanists, who AT THE GLOBAL SCALE . S IMPLY WRITTEN
were seen as dangerously pagan in AND YET DEEPLY INSIGHTFUL , THE BOOK
their Epicurean morals and their Platonic beliefs about the soul and EXPLAINS THE FORCES , ACTORS , AND
insurrectionist in their support of a more democratic Church. PROCESSES THAT DETERMINE HOW
INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RULES
“[D’E LIA ] PAINTS A PORTRAIT OF MID 15 TH - CENTURY R OME THAT AND NORMS EMERGE AND WHETHER THEY
IS ILLUMINATING AND SERVES AS A CORRECTIVE TO THOSE WHO GET IMPLEMENTED .”
HOLD THE JAUNDICED AND INDEFENSIBLE VIEW THAT THE PAPACY IS
—D ANIEL C. E STY, YALE U NIVERSITY
CONSTITUTIONALLY IRREFORMABLE AND THAT THINGS HAVE NEVER
BEEN WORSE IN R OME THAN THEY ARE NOW.” “A N ACCESSIBLE , YET SOPHISTICATED ,
—M ICHAEL W. H IGGINS , L ITERARY R EVIEW OF C ANADA REVIEW OF LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL EFFORTS TO ADDRESS
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS . I T CAN BE READ WITH PROFIT
“S EX , PAPAL POLITICS , THE EXCESSES OF CARNIVAL IN BY ANYONE INTERESTED IN UNDERSTANDING THIS IMPORTANT AND
R ENAISSANCE R OME , C HRISTENDOM CONFRONTING THE OTTOMAN RAPIDLY CHANGING FIELD .”
EMPIRE , SCHOLARS JOYFULLY AND DANGEROUSLY DREAMING ABOUT
—R OBERT O. K EOHANE , P RINCETON U NIVERSITY
THE GLORIES OF ANCIENT G REECE : ONE COULDN ’ T REALLY ASK FOR
ANYTHING MORE .”
D a n i e l b o D a n s k Y i s L i n co l n Pro fe s s o r o f L aw,
—J ONATHAN W RIGHT, C ATHOLIC H ERALD Et h i c s, a n d S u s t a i n a b i l i t y at t h e S a n d ra D ay
O ’Co n n o r Co l l e g e o f L aw, A r i zo n a St ate U n i ve r s i t y.
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index
Aesthetic Education in the Era of…, 22 Dow, Saturday Is for Funerals, 89 Knapp, Invisible Romans, 19 Roads to Power, 57
Age of Confucian Rule, 97 Dowling, Retina, 65 Koh, Northern Alternative, 79 Rödl, Categories of the Temporal, 61
Age of Equality, 24 Drew, Machu Picchu, 34 Konner, Evolution of Childhood, 84 Rumberger, Dropping Out, 47
Alexander, Duel at Dawn, 85 Dropping Out, 47 Kowalski, Twin Tollans, 73 Ruse, Evolution, 91
Almond, Two Faiths, One Banner, 98 Duel at Dawn, 85 Kuhn, Age of Confucian Rule, 97 Russia and the Russians, 96
Amarcius, Satires. Eupolemius, 50 Early Renaissance and Vernacular Culture, 59 LaCroix, Ideological Origins of American…, 99 Russian Origins of the First World War, 5
American Madness, 65 Eddé, Saladin, 21 Lake Views, 91 Ryang, Reading North Korea, 77
American Oracle, 4 Edgar, Vulgate Bible, 51 Lambert, Planning Armageddon, 56 Saladin, 21
Americans All, 101 Emerson, Annotated Emerson, 20 Landers, Atlantic Creoles in the Age…, 100 Satires. Eupolemius, 50
Annotated Emerson, 20 Empire and Underworld, 57 Landscape Body Dwelling, 72 Saturday Is for Funerals, 89
Anointed, 27 Ephesus, 70 Lear, Case for Irony, 60 Saul, Chivalry in Medieval England, 28
Aristotle, Problems, 53 Epstein, Design for Liberty, 26 Lentz-Smith, Freedom Struggles, 100 Saving Schools, 90
Art and Craft of International…, 103 Ethical Project, 62 Leonardo’s Mountain of Clams and…, 93 Schiavone, Invention of Law in the West, 58
Art of the Sonnet, 85 Evolution, 91 Liu, No Enemies, No Hatred, 1 Schiltz, Money Doctors from Japan, 76
Arthropod Brains, 64 Evolution of Childhood, 84 Living Originalism, 23 Schoppa, In a Sea of Bitterness, 35
Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions, 100 Explore Harvard, 29 Long Shot, 63 Secularism and Freedom of Conscience, 40
Austen, Persuasion, 16 Faces of Perfect Ebony, 55 Luttwak, Grand Strategy of the Byzantine…, 84 Selig, Americans All, 101
Backhouse, Capitalist Revolutionary, 18 Farbaky, Italy and Hungary, 70 Lying Stones of Marrakech, 93 Service, Trotsky, 88
Baier, Pursuits of Philosophy, 41 Feimster, Southern Horrors, 96 Machu Picchu, 34 Settler Sovereignty, 102
Bailyn, Soundings in Atlantic History, 97 Ferguson, Shock of the Global, 87 Maclachlan, People’s Post Office, 76 Shattered Spaces, 44
Balkin, Living Originalism, 23 Florence and Baghdad, 17 Maclure, Secularism and Freedom…, 40 Shephard, Harvard Sampler, 33
Battle of Adwa, 13 Ford, Settler Sovereignty, 102 Macroeconomics Beyond the NAIRU, 66 Shock of the Global, 87
Bear, 11 Founding Fathers v. the People, 68 Mariani, Church Militant, 56 Short History of Physics in the American…, 63
Beardsley, Landscape Body Dwelling, 72 Freedom Struggles, 100 Martens, Promise of Memory, 60 Shugerman, People’s Courts, 43
Becoming Dickens, 7 Frenk, Health Professionals for a New Century, 80 Mauthausen Trial, 37 Sideris, Ephesus, 70
Being There, 46 Friedlander, Walter Benjamin, 62 McGinty, Body of John Merryman, 42 Slate, Colored Cosmopolitanism, 54
Bellah, Religion in Human Evolution, 3 Fruit, the Tree, and the Serpent, 98 McGrath, JAYA, 81 Someday All This Will Be Yours, 38
Belting, Florence and Baghdad, 17 Full House, 92 McGurl, Program Era, 90 Sonnets and Shorter Poems, 45
Beyhaqi, History of Beyhaqi, 81 Galen, Method of Medicine, 52 McMeekin, Russian Origins of the First…, 5 Soundings in Atlantic History, 97
Bilakovics, Democracy without Politics, 69 Galileo’s Muse, 15 Meng, Shattered Spaces, 44 Southern Horrors, 96
Bindman, Image of the Black in Western Art, 30 Gigante, Keats Brothers, 10 Merchant. The Braggart Soldier…, 52 Spacks, On Rereading, 8
Blight, American Oracle, 4 Goldhill, Temple of Jerusalem, 94 Method of Medicine, 52 Spieler, Empire and Underworld, 57
Block, Crucible of Consent, 69 Gould, Dinosaur in a Haystack, 92 Molineux, Faces of Perfect Ebony, 55 Spivak, Aesthetic Education in the Era…, 22
Bodansky, Art and Craft of International…, 103 Gould, Full House, 92 Money Doctors from Japan, 76 Stephan, How Economics Shapes Science, 66
Bodman, Poetics of Iblīs, 80 Gould, Hedgehog, the Fox, and…, 93 Moscow, the Fourth Rome, 36 Stephens, Anointed, 27
Body of John Merryman, 42 Gould, I Have Landed, 93 Muhammad, Condemnation of Blackness, 95 Stevenson, With Our Backs to the Wall, 9
Boon, Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic…, 82 Gould, Leonardo’s Mountain of Clams…, 93 Müller, Our Fritz, 55 Storm, Macroeconomics Beyond the NAIRU, 66
Boone, Collecting the Pre-Columbian Past, 74 Gould, Lying Stones of Marrakech, 93 Myths about Suicide, 86 Strausfeld, Arthropod Brains, 64
Boone, Their Way of Writing, 72 Gould, Questioning the Millennium, 92 Nathans, To Free a Family, 14 Strevens, Depth, 101
Brain Storm, 87 Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire, 84 Nelson, Hebrew Republic, 99 Stuntz, Collapse of American Criminal…, 25
Brandom, Perspectives on Pragmatism, 61 Gregory, Unintended Reformation, 6 Nesting Season, 86 Sudden Terror, 103
Brokers of Empire, 77 Greve, Upside-Down Constitution, 67 No Enemies, No Hatred, 1 Swarts Ruin, 75
Burt, Art of the Sonnet, 85 Guldi, Roads to Power, 57 Noll, American Madness, 65 Teaching and Its Predicaments, 48
Busquets, Deconstruction/Construction, 71 Hajj, 32 Northern Alternative, 79 Temple of Jerusalem, 94
Byzantine Settlement in Cappadocia, 73 Hartog, Someday All This Will Be Yours, 38 On Rereading, 8 Ten Thousand Scrolls, 78
Capitalist Revolutionary, 18 Harvard Public Affairs, Explore Harvard, 29 Our Fritz, 55 Their Way of Writing, 72
Case for Irony, 60 Harvard Sampler, 33 Ousterhout, Byzantine Settlement in…, 73 Thirty Years War, 83
Cassidy, Short History of Physics…, 63 Health Professionals for a New Century, 80 Pastoureau, Bear, 11 Tian, Visionary Journeys, 79
Casualties of Credit, 58 Hebrew Republic, 99 Pellizzi, RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 75 Tilney, Invasion of the Body, 12
Categories of the Temporal, 61 Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister’s Pox, 93 People’s Courts, 43 To Free a Family, 14
Chivalry in Medieval England, 28 Heinrich, Nesting Season, 86 People’s Post Office, 76 Tombs for the Living, 74
Church Militant, 56 Hinderaker, Two Hendricks, 102 Perspectives on Pragmatism, 61 Toward a History Beyond Borders, 78
Clark, Moscow, the Fourth Rome, 36 Histories of Polybius, 53 Persuasion, 16 Translating Empire, 67
Cohen, Teaching and Its Predicaments, 48 Histories of Richer of Saint-Rémi, 51 Peterson, Galileo’s Muse, 15 Trotsky, 88
Collapse of American Criminal Justice, 25 History of Beyhaqi, 81 Peterson, Saving Schools, 90 Tuck, We Ain’t What We Ought To Be, 88
Collecting the Pre-Columbian Past, 74 Hosking, Russia and the Russians, 96 Petrarch, Sonnets and Shorter Poems, 45 Twin Tollans, 73
Colored Cosmopolitanism, 54 How Economics Shapes Science, 66 Planning Armageddon, 56 Two Faiths, One Banner, 98
Condemnation of Blackness, 95 Hoyt, Long Shot, 63 Plautus, Merchant. The Braggart Soldier…, 52 Two Hendricks, 102
Cosgrove, Swarts Ruin, 75 I Have Landed, 93 Plokhy, Poltava 1709, 82 Uchida, Brokers of Empire, 77
Crisis in Energy Policy, 49 Ianziti, Writing History in Renaissance Italy, 59 Poetics of Iblīs, 80 Unintended Reformation, 6
Crisis of Capitalist Democracy, 89 Ideological Origins of American Federalism, 99 Poltava 1709, 82 Upside-Down Constitution, 67
Crucible of Consent, 69 Image of the Black in Western Art, 30 Polybius, Histories, 53 Vesuvius, 34
Cuban Economic and Social Development, 71 In a Sea of Bitterness, 35 Pomfret, Age of Equality, 24 Visionary Journeys, 79
Darley, Vesuvius, 34 Invasion of the Body, 12 Porter, Hajj, 32 Vogel, Deng Xiaoping and…, 2
Davis, Being There, 46 Invention of Law in the West, 58 Posner, Crisis of Capitalist Democracy, 89 Vulgate Bible, 51
D’Elia, Sudden Terror, 103 Invisible Romans, 19 Primate Mind, 64 Walter Benjamin, 62
de Waal, Primate Mind, 64 Isbell, Fruit, the Tree, and the Serpent, 98 Problems, 53 Wang, Ten Thousand Scrolls, 78
Deconstruction/Construction, 71 Italy and Hungary, 70 Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic…, 82 We Ain’t What We Ought To Be, 88
Democracy without Politics, 69 Jardim, Mauthausen Trial, 37 Program Era, 90 Weinberg, Lake Views, 91
Dempsey, Early Renaissance and Vernacular…, 59 JAYA, 81 Promise of Memory, 60 Wennerlind, Casualties of Credit, 58
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation…, 2 Jenkyns, Westminster Abbey, 94 Pursuits of Philosophy, 41 Westminster Abbey, 94
Depth, 101 Jewish Dark Continent, 39 Questioning the Millennium, 92 Wilson, Thirty Years War, 83
Design for Liberty, 26 Joiner, Myths about Suicide, 86 Ramseyer, Journal of Legal Analysis, 68 With Our Backs to the Wall, 9
Deutch, Crisis in Energy Policy, 49 Jonas, Battle of Adwa, 13 Reading North Korea, 77 Writing History in Renaissance Italy, 59
Deutsch, Jewish Dark Continent, 39 Jordan-Young, Brain Storm, 87 Reinert, Translating Empire, 67 Yang, Toward a History Beyond Borders, 78
Dillehay, Tombs for the Living, 74 Journal of Legal Analysis, 68 Religion in Human Evolution, 3 Zhivago’s Children, 95
Dinosaur in a Haystack, 92 Keats Brothers, 10 RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 75 Zubok, Zhivago’s Children, 95
Domínguez, Cuban Economic and Social…, 71 King, Founding Fathers v. the People, 68 Retina, 65 107
Douglas-Fairhurst, Becoming Dickens, 7 Kitcher, Ethical Project, 62 Richer of Saint-Rémi, Histories, 51
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GENERAL INTEREST ................1

ACADEMIC TRADE ................35

LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY .......52

SCIENCE & MEDICINE ...........63

RECENTLY PUBLISHED .........104

Cover: Swiss National Museum, DIG-1418

Inside front cover: “Galileo che mostra il

H LIU XIAOBO IS WINNER OF THE 2010 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

“t his is aN EXtraordiNariLy rich book . t hErE is NothiNg LikE it iN EXistENcE .

Religion in Human Evolution is a work of extraordinary ambition—a wide-ranging, nuanced

“M oViNg aNd EXcEptioNaLLy wELL - writtEN … a book to bE VaLuEd by a raNgE

“i t g igaNtE that shE adds so Much to our

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“d r . t iLNEy has aN EyE For FasciNatiNg dEtaiLs , shockiNg storiEs , aNd

sEptEmBEr 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 | 33 HalftoNEs | 320 pp. |

fEBrUary | 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄4 | 25 HalftoNEs | 270 pp. |

“p EtErsoN ’ s book portrays g aLiLEo iN a woNdErFuLLy FrEsh pErspEctiVE .

According to Peterson, the recovery Physics and Mathematics on the Alumnae

oCtoBEr | 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄4 | 20 lINE IllUs. | 300 pp. |

“a worthy additioN to thE woNdErFuL h arVard sEriEs oF aNNotatEd

—patricia M EyEr s packs

Published posthumously with Northanger Abbey in 1817, Persuasion crowns Jane

BElkNap prEss | NovEmBEr | 9 x 9 1⁄2 | 102 Color IllUs. | 360 pp. |

“i F wE Look carEFuLLy wE caN stiLL discoVEr that Most oF what wE

The use of perspective in Renaissance painting caused

NovEmBEr | 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄4 | 230 pp. |

oCtoBEr | 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 | 8 Color IllUs., 16 HalftoNEs | 318 pp. |

jaNUary | 6 3⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 | 42 HalftoNEs | 610 pp. |

Originalism and living constitutionalism, so often understood to be diametrically opposing views

“t hE capstoNE to thE carEEr oF oNE oF thE Most iNFLuENtiaL LEgaL schoLars

—L iNcoLN c apLaN , n Ew yoRk T imEs

photo by phil Farnswor th

NovEmBEr | 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄4 | 230 pp. |

American evangelicalism often appears as a politically monolithic, textbook red-state funda-

“t hE rEadEr traVELs oN a FasciNatiNg JourNEy through thE M iddLE agEs oF

—p. d. J aMEs , s unDay T imEs ( praisE For R ichaRD ii)

oCtoBEr | 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 | 15 IllUs. | 400 pp. |

oCtoBEr | 9 x 9 | 175 Color IllUs. | 210 pp. |

harvard Faculty club, 2006. photo by kris snibbe

In the 1960s, art patron Dominique de Menil founded an image archive

BotH volUmEs: BElkNap prEss | NovEmBEr | 9 3⁄4 x 11 |

fEBrUary | 9 7⁄16 x 10 5⁄8 |

oCtoBEr | 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄4 | 8 Color IllUs., 20 HalftoNEs, 4 taBlEs | 360 pp. |

NovembeR | 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 | 12 mapS, 6 tableS | 360 pp. |

NovembeR | 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 | 4 halftoNeS | 420 pp. |

JaNUaRy | 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄4 | 21 halftoNeS | 250 pp. |

JaNUaRy | 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄4 | 328 pp. |

NovembeR | 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 | 1 map | 390 pp. |

octobeR | 5 1⁄2 x 7 | 110 pp. |

“t hiS ShoRt gUide to h Ume ’ S philoSophy coNtaiNS aUthoRitative

—R ay m oNK , U NiveRSity of S oUthamptoN

octobeR | 4 3⁄8 x 7 1⁄8 | 5 halftoNeS | 156 pp. |

octobeR | 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄4 | 10 halftoNeS | 226 pp. |

JaNUaRy | 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 | 2 illUS., 1 gRaph. 6 tableS | 330 pp. |

NovembeR | 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 | 42 halftoNeS, 4 mapS | 360 pp. |

febRUaRy | 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄4 | 340 pp. |

SepteMber | 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄4 | 270 pp. |

46 w w w.hu p.har vard. e du m h a r vard u n i vers i t y pres s

octobeR | 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 | 10 liNe illUS., 10 tableS | 358 pp. |

aUgUSt | 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄4 | 11 tableS | 240 pp. |

octobeR | 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄4 | 1 halftoNe, 12 liNe illUS., 4 tableS | 200 pp. |

Medieval Library Satires

Dumbarton oaks meDieval library | november | 5 1⁄4 x 8 | 330 pp. |