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AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
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A RIGHT TO SING THE BLUES
African Americans, Jews, and American Popular Song
JEFFREY MELNICK
"Black-Jewish relations," Jeffrey Melnick argues, has mostly been a way for American Jews to talk about their ambivalent racial status, a narrative collectively constructed at critical moments, when particular conflicts demand an explanation. Remarkably flexible, this narrative can organize diffuse materials into a coherent story that has a powerful hold on our imagination. Melnick elaborates this idea through an in-depth look at Jewish songwriters, composers, and perfomers who made "Black" music in the first few decades of this century.
April 1999
272 pages
ISBN 0-674-76976-7
$27.95 / L17.50 cloth


THE TRIALS OF ANTHONY BURNS
Freedom and Slavery in Emerson's Boston
ALBERT J. VON FRANK
Before 1854, most Northerners managed to ignore the distant unpleasantness of slavery. But that year an escaped Virginia slave, Anthony Burns, was captured and brought to trial in Boston--and never again could Northerners look the other way. This is the story of Burns's trial and of how, arising in abolitionist Boston just as the incendiary Kansas-Nebraska Act took effect, it revolutionized the moral and political climate in Massachusetts and sent shock waves through the nation.
February 1999
20 halftones / 431 pages
ISBN 0-674-90850-3
$16.95 / L10.50 paper


AMERICAN HISTORY
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THE ADAMS WOMEN
Abigail and Louisa Adams, Their Sisters and Daughters
PAUL C. NAGEL
>From his vast storehouse of knowledge about the Adams family, Nagel pulls out the feminine threads of that tapestry to write all about the Adams women, from Abigail to daughter Nabby, from Louisa Catherine Adams, wife of John Quincy, to Clover Adams, wife of Henry, with others making more than cameo appearances.
April 1999
336 pages
ISBN 0-674-00410-8
$14.95 / L9.50 paper


ALICE JAMES
A Biography
JEAN STROUSE
Awarded the Bancroft Prize for Distinguished American History
"Strouse is acquainting us with the younger sister of William and Henry James...[She has] written a Jamesian novel, subtle, evasive, embroidered, splendid."
--John Leonard, New York Times
April 1999
36 halftones / 400 pages
ISBN 0-674-01555-X
$18.95 / L11.95 paper


ALL ON A MARDI GRAS DAY
Episodes in the History of New Orleans Carnival
REID MITCHELL
In All on a Mardi Gras Day Mitchell tells us some of the most intriguing stories of Carnival since 1804. Woven into his narrative are observations of the meaning and messages of Mardi Gras--themes of unity, exclusion, and elitism course through these tales as they do through the Crescent City.
MARCH 1999
13 halftones / 255 pages
ISBN 0-674-01623-8
$16.95 / L10.50 paper


THE AMERICAN PARTY BATTLE
Election Campaign Pamphlets, 1828-1876
EDITED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOEL H. SILBEY
The nineteenth century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Joel Silbey has recaptured the drama and substance of those battles in a representative sampling of party pamphlets. The nature of political controversy, as well as the substance of politics, is embedded in these party documents which both united and divided Americans. Unlike today's party platforms, these pamphlets explicated real issues and gave insight into the society at large.
The John Harvard Library
July 1999
320 pages
Volume 1, 1828-1854:
ISBN 0-674-02642-X / $39.95 / L24.95 cloth
ISBN 0-674-02645-4 / $16.95 / L10.50 paper
Volume 2, 1854-1876:
ISBN 0-674-02643-8 / $39.95 / L24.95 cloth:
ISBN 0-674-02646-2 / $16.95 / L10.50 paper


THE CONFEDERATE WAR
GARY W. GALLAGHER
"[Gallagher's] perceptive and engaging new book maintains that historians have got off track in recent years by attributing Confederate defeat to weakness on the home front rather than to performance on the battlefield. War-weariness, lack of will and ambivalence toward the cause of independence, they say, doomed the South...Gallagher addresses the right issues, asks probing questions and suggests intriguing alternatives."
--Daniel E. Sutherland, New York Times Book Review
March 1999
40 halftones / 230 pages
ISBN 0-674-16056-8
$15.95 / L9.95 paper

CONSTITUTIONAL CONSTRUCTION
Divided Powers and Constitutional Meaning
KEITH E. WHITTINGTON
This book argues that the American Constitution has a dual nature. The first aspect, on which legal scholars have focused, is the degree to which the Constitution acts as a binding set of rules that can be neutrally interpreted and externally enforced by the courts against government actors. This is the process of constitutional interpretation. But according to Keith Whittington, the Constitution also permeates politics itself, to guide and constrain political actors in the very process of making public policy.
June 1999
352 pages
ISBN 0-674-16541-1
$49.95 / L30.95 cloth


DESCENT FROM GLORY
Four Generations of the John Adams Family
PAUL C. NAGEL
There has never been any doubt that the Adams family was America's first family in our politics and memory. This research-based and insightful book is a multigenerational biography of that family from the founder father John through the mordant writer Brooks.
April 1999
39 halftones / 400 pages
ISBN 0-674-19829-8
$16.95 / L10.50 paper


THE DUMBARTON OAKS CONVERSATIONS AND THE UNITED NATIONS, 1944-1994
EDITED BY ERNEST R. MAY AND ANGELIKI E. LAIOU
In 1994, the "Dumbarton Oaks Conference, 1944-1994" brought together scholars and policymakers who have been involved with the study of international organizations or have played important roles in them. The conference papers in this volume examine both the formation of the United Nations and a number of current issues, including human rights, collective economic sanctions, peacekeeping operations, and the evolution of the role of the secretary-general.
November 1999
11 illus. / 176 pages
ISBN 0-88402-255-2
$20.00 / L12.50 paper


ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY
A Reformer on Her Own Terms
BRUCE A. RONDA
This is the first full-length biography of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, one of the three notable Peabody sisters of Salem, Massachusetts, and sister-in-law of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Horace Mann. In elegant prose it traces the intricate private life and extraordinary career of one of nineteenth-century America's most important Transcendental writers and educational reformers.
March 1999
9 halftones / 416 pages
ISBN 0-674-24695-0
$45.00 / L27.95 cloth


FEVERED LIVES
Tuberculosis in American Culture since 1870
KATHERINE OTT
Fevered Lives explores the changing meanings of consumption/tuberculosis in an extraordinarily readable cultural history. Emphasizing the material culture of disease, Ott traces the shift from the pre-industrial world of 1870, in which consumption was conceived of primarily as a middle-class malaise that conferred virtue, heightened spirituality, and gentility on the sufferer, to the post-industrial world of today, in which tuberculosis is viewed as a microscopic enemy, fought on an urban battleground and attacking primarily the outcast poor and AIDS patients.
May 1999
33 halftones / 296 pages
ISBN 0-674-29911-6
$16.95 / L10.50 paper


GOING OUT
The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements
DAVID NASAW
"David Nasaw's fine history of public amusements in urban America is such a welcome contribution to contemporary cultural debate...Nasaw unearths fascinating details about everything from the early history of the movies to pre-World War I dance crazes; and he raises fundamental questions about the web of connections joining commercial play, public space and cultural cohesion."
--Jackson Lears, New York Times Book Review
April 1999
31 halftones / 320 pages
ISBN 0-674-35622-5
$16.95 / L10.50 paper


JOHN ELIOT'S MISSION TO THE INDIANS BEFORE KING PHILIP'S WAR
RICHARD W. COGLEY
No previous work on John Eliot's mission to the Indians has told such a comprehensive and engaging story. Richard Cogley takes a dual approach: he delves deeply into Eliot's theological writings and describes the historical development of Eliot's missionary work. By relating the two, he presents fresh perspectives that challenge widely accepted assessments of the Puritan mission.
April 1999
352 pages
ISBN 0-674-47537-2
$45.00 / L27.95 cloth


JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
A Public Life, a Private Life
PAUL C. NAGEL
Winner of the Colonial Dames of America Award
"Nagel offers a rich portrait of the moody and anxiety-ridden Adams...This biography remov[es] the dust from his portrait and restor[es] the glow of historical significance to his splendid and troubled life."
--Washington Post
April 1999
29 halftones / 448 pages
ISBN 0-674-47940-8
$16.95 / L10.50 paper

KISS AND TELL
Surveying Sex in the Twentieth Century
JULIA A. ERICKSEN WITH SALLY A. STEFFEN
Kiss and Tell chronicles the history of sex surveys in the United States over a century of changing social and sexual mores. Julia Ericksen and Sally Steffen reveal that the survey questions asked, more than the answers elicited, expose and shape the popular image of appropriate sexuality. We can learn as much about the history and practice of sexuality by looking at surveyors' changing concerns as we can by reading the results of their surveys.
April 1999
320 pages
ISBN 0-674-50535-2
$29.95 / L18.50 cloth


RED-HOT AND RIGHTEOUS
The Urban Religion of The Salvation Army
DIANE WINSTON
In this engrossing study of American religion, urban life, and commercial culture, Diane Winston shows how a (self-styled "red-hot") militant Protestant mission established a beachhead in the modern city. She illustrates how the Army borrowed the forms and idioms of popular entertainments, commercial emporiums, and master marketers to deliver its message.
May 1999
33 halftones, 9 linecuts / 320 pages
ISBN 0-674-86706-8
$27.95 / L17.50 cloth


RONALD REAGAN
The Politics of Symbolism
ROBERT DALLEK
With a new preface by the author
Robert Dallek presents a sharply drawn, richly detailed portrait of Ronald Reagan and his politics--from his childhood years through the California governorship to the first years of the presidency. It is an essential guide for all observers of the presidential election of 2000, and a starting point for anyone wanting to discover what the Reagan experience really meant.
April 1999
256 pages
ISBN 0-674-77941-X
$15.95 / L9.95 paper


SHOOK OVER HELL
Post-Traumatic Stress, Vietnam, and the Civil War
ERIC T. DEAN, JR.
Winner of the Award for the Best Book in Political Psychology of the American Political Science Association
Vietnam still haunts the American conscience. Not only did nearly 58,000 Americans die there, but--by some estimates--1.5 million veterans returned with war-induced Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This psychological syndrome of social pathology is now placed in historical context by Eric Dean in this remarkable new book on Civil War veterans.
March 1999
18 halftones / 329 pages
ISBN 0-674-80652-2
$16.95 / L10.50 paper


SUBSTANCE AND SHADOW
Women and Addiction in the United States
STEPHEN R. KANDALL
"Although the historical literature is replete with references to drug use by males, female drug-users have remained largely invisible. This book reduces that discrepancy by providing a comprehensive historical examination of women, drug use, and addiction."
--Choice
May 1999
15 halftones / 367 pages
ISBN 0-674-85361-X
$16.95 / L10.50 paper


THOREAU'S COUNTRY
Journey through a Transformed Landscape
DAVID R. FOSTER
In 1977 David Foster took to the woods of New England to build a cabin with his own hands. Along with a few tools, he brought the journals of Henry David Thoreau. Foster was struck by how different the forested landscape around him was from the one Thoreau described more than a century earlier. Part ecological and historical puzzle, this book brings a vanished countryside to life and offers a rich record of human imprint upon the land. Foster adds the perspective of a modern forest ecologist and landscape historian, using the journals to trace themes of historical and social change.
April 1999
19 line illus. / 88 pages
ISBN 0-674-88645-3
$27.95 / L17.50 cloth


THE TRIALS OF ANTHONY BURNS
Freedom and Slavery in Emerson's Boston
ALBERT J. VON FRANK
Before 1854, most Northerners managed to ignore the distant unpleasantness of slavery. But that year an escaped Virginia slave, Anthony Burns, was captured and brought to trial in Boston--and never again could Northerners look the other way. This is the story of Burns's trial and of how, arising in abolitionist Boston just as the incendiary Kansas-Nebraska Act took effect, it revolutionized the moral and political climate in Massachusetts and sent shock waves through the nation.
February 1999
20 halftones / 431 pages
ISBN 0-674-90850-3
$16.95 / L10.50 paper


URBAN EXODUS
Why the Jews Left Boston and the Catholics Stayed
GERALD GAMM
In telling the story of why the Jews left Boston and the Catholics stayed, Gerald Gamm places neighborhood institutions at its center. He challenges the long-held assumption that bankers and real estate agents were responsible for the rapid Jewish exodus. Rather, according to Gamm, basic institutional rules explain the strength of Catholic attachments to neighborhood and the weakness of Jewish attachments.
March 1999
22 digitized maps, 3 line illus., 5 halftones / 400 pages
ISBN 0-674-93070-3
$39.95 / L24.95 cloth


THE WORLD THROUGH A MONOCLE
The New Yorker at Midcentury
MARY F. COREY
Today The New Yorker is one of a number of general-interest magazines published for a sophisticated audience, but in the post-World War II era the magazine occupied a truly significant niche of cultural authority. Balancing the consumption of goods with a social conscience which prized goodness, the magazine managed to provide readers with what seemed like a coherent and comprehensive value system in an incoherent world. Mary Corey mines the magazine's editorial voice, journalism, fiction, advertisements, cartoons, and poetry to unearth the preoccupations and values of its readers, editors, and contributors.
April 1999
256 pages
ISBN 0-674-96193-5
$25.95 / L15.95 cloth


THE WORLD WITHIN WAR
America's Combat Experience in World War II
GERALD F. LINDERMAN
Gerald Linderman has created a seamless and highly original social history, authoritatively recapturing the full experience of combat in World War II. Drawing on letters and diaries, memoirs and surveys, Linderman explores how ordinary frontline American soldiers prepared for battle, related to one another, conceived of the enemy, thought of home, and reacted to battle itself.</font>
March 1999
408 pages
ISBN 0-674-96202-8
$15.95 / L9.95 paper


ANCIENT HISTORY
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ASSYRIAN SCULPTURE
JULIAN READE
For almost three centuries, until 612 BC, the small kingdom of Assyria dominated the Middle East. The story of those years was recorded in stone on the walls of a succession of royal palaces. These sculptures, offering eyewitness views of a long-lost civilization, were not rediscovered until the nineteenth century.and the finest collection is now preserved at the British Museum. This book is both a richly illustrated history of Assyrian sculpture in general and a guide to the outstanding collections of the British Museum.
British Museum Paperbacks
40 color, 110 halftones/ 96 pages
ISBN 0-674-05017-7
$18.95 paper
NOT FOR SALE IN THE COMMONWEALTH EXCEPT CANADA


DEMOCRACY, EMPIRE, AND THE ARTS IN FIFTH-CENTURY ATHENS
DEBORAH BOEDEKER AND KURT A. RAAFLAUB, EDITORS
Athens in the fifth century BC offers a striking picture: the first democracy in history; the first empire created and ruled by a Greek; and a flourishing of learning, philosophical thought, and visual and performing arts so rich as to leave a remarkable heritage for Western civilization. To what extent were these three parallel developments interrelated? An international group of fourteen scholars expert in different fields explores the ways in which the fifth-century "cultural revolution" depended on Athenian democracy and the ways it was influenced by the fact that Athens was an imperial city.
Center for Hellenic Studies Colloquia
March 1999
55 halftones, 7 line illus., 5 tables / 512 pages
ISBN 0-674-19769-0
$50.00 / £31.50 cloth


KINSHIP DIPLOMACY IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
CHRISTOPHER P. JONES
>From the Homeric age to Byzantium, peoples and nations sharing the same fictive ancestry appealed to their kinship when forging military alliances, settling disputes, or negotiating trade connections. In this intriguing study of the political uses of perceived kinship, Christopher Jones gives us an unparalleled view of mythic belief in action and addresses fundamental questions about communal and national identity.
Revealing Antiquity, 12 / A series edited by G. W. Bowersock
August 1999
5 halftones / 224 pages
ISBN 0-674-50527-1
$35.00 / L21.95 cloth


THE VIRGIN AND THE BRIDE
Idealized Womanhood in Late Antiquity
KATE COOPER
During the last centuries of the Roman Empire, the prevailing ideal of feminine virtue was radically transformed: the pure but fertile heroines of Greek and Roman romance were replaced by a Christian heroine who ardently refused the marriage bed. How this new concept and figure of purity is connected with--indeed, how it abetted--social and religious change is the subject of Kate Cooper's lively book.
May 1999
129 pages
ISBN 0-674-93950-6
$16.95 / L10.50 paper


ASIAN HISTORY
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COLONIAL INDUSTRIALIZATION AND LABOR IN KOREA
The Onoda Cement Factory
SOON WON PARK
This book is a study of labor relations and the first generation of skilled workers in colonial Korea, a subject crucial to the understanding of modernization in twentieth-century Korea. Based on the archives of the Onoda Cement Factory and interviews with surviving workers, this work analyzes the complex relationship between colonialism and modernization.
Harvard-Hallym Series on Korean Studies
Harvard East Asian Monographs, 181
May 1999
2 figures, 3 maps, 41 tables / 325 pages
ISBN 0-674-14240-3
$42.50 / L26.50 cloth


THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE CHINESE OVERSEAS
EDITED BY LYNN PAN
The Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas offers a panoramic view of past and present overseas Chinese communities worldwide. From their arrival as laborers in the British colonies to their emergence as a force in Indonesia, Chinese emigrants have carried the experiences of China to other continents and civilizations, in the process modifying and enriching them. This book reflects the diverse histories and traditions that produced this diaspora. Arranged geographically and thematically, the book includes sections on the regional and cultural origins of emigrant communities; the history and patterns of migration; social, familial, and business institutions; and interethnic relations.
April 1999
375 color illus., 255 halftones, 125 maps and charts
416 pages
ISBN 0-674-25210-1
$59.95 cloth
FOR SALE IN NORTH AMERICA ONLY


JAPANESE CULTURAL POLICY TOWARD CHINA, 1918-1931
A Comparative Perspective
SEE HENG TEOW
Most existing scholarship on Japan's cultural policy toward modern China reflects the paradigm of cultural imperialism. In contrast, this study demonstrates that Japan was mindful of Chinese opinion and sought the cooperation of the Chinese government. China, however, was not a passive recipient and actively sought to redirect this policy to serve its national interests and aspirations. The author argues that it is time to move away from the framework of cultural imperialism toward one that recognizes the importance of cultural autonomy, internationalism, and transculturation.
Harvard East Asian Monographs, 175
March 1999
6 tables / 320 pages
ISBN 0-674-47257-8
$39.50 / L24.50 cloth


JAPAN'S PROTOINDUSTRIAL ELITE
The Economic Foundations of the Gono
EDWARD E. PRATT
Through a close examination of economic trends and case studies of particular families, this study demonstrates that Japan's protoindustrial economy was far more volatile than portrayed in most studies to date. Few rural elites survived the competitive and unstable climate of this era. Onerous exactions, interregional competition, market volatility, and succession problems propelled many wealthy families into steep decline and others into drastic shifts in the focus of their businesses.
Harvard East Asian Monographs 179
June 1999
3 maps, 15 tables / 250 pages
ISBN 0-674-47290-X
$39.50 / L24.50 cloth


THE PARADOX OF CHINA'S POST-MAO REFORMS
EDITED BY MERLE GOLDMAN AND RODERICK MacFARQUHAR
China's bold program of reforms launched in the late 1970s ended the political chaos and economic stagnation of the Cultural Revolution and sparked China's unprecedented economic boom. Yet, while the reforms made possible a rising standard of living for the majority of China's population, they came at the cost of a weakening central government, increasing inequalities, and fragmenting society. These essays analyze the contradictory impact of China's economic reforms on its political system and social structure.
Harvard Contemporary China Series, 12
May 1999
448 pages
ISBN 0-674-65453-6 / $55.00 / L34.50 cloth
ISBN 0-674-65454-4 / $24.95 / L15.50 paper


POVERTY, EQUALITY, AND GROWTH
The Politics of Economic Need in Postwar Japan
DEBORAH J. MILLY
In striking contrast to the large indigent population in Japan in the 1950s, very few Japanese live in poverty today. This book explains the Japanese government's decision to respond to poverty by promoting equality as the basis for a social compromise. Milly argues that to account for why and how political actors crafted a program that won acceptance, we must look beyond them and identify how they relied on knowledge and normative arguments. This book straddles theoretical fault lines in comparative politics by exploring the interactions among choice, language, knowledge, and institutions in policy processes.
Harvard East Asian Monographs, 174
March 1999
10 tables, 5 charts / 400 pages
ISBN 0-674-69475-9
$49.50 / L30.95 cloth


PRECIOUS VOLUMES
An Introduction to Chinese Sectarian Scriptures from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
DANIEL L. OVERMYER
This book, the most detailed and comprehensive study of pao-chuan in any language, studies 34 early examples of this literature in order to understand the origins and development of this textual tradition. Although the work focuses on content and structure, it also treats the social context of these works as well as their transmission and ritual use.
Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, 49
May 1999
500 pages
ISBN 0-674-69838-X
$55.00 / L34.50 cloth


SHANGHAI MODERN
The Flowering of New Urban Culture in China, 1930-1945
LEO OU-FAN LEE
A preeminent specialist in Chinese studies, Leo Ou-fan Lee gives us a rare wide-angle view of Shanghai culture in the making. He shows us the architecture and urban spaces in which the new commercial culture flourished, then guides us through the publishing and filmmaking industries that nurtured a whole generation of artists and established a bold new style in urban life known as modeng. This work is a virtual genealogy of Chinese modernity from the 1930s to the present day.
Interpretations of Asia
August 1999
26 halftones / 416 pages
ISBN 0-674-80550-X / $49.95 / L30.95 cloth:
ISBN 0-674-80551-8 / $24.95 / L15.50 paper


WAR AND NATIONAL REINVENTION
Japan in the Great War, 1914-1919
FREDERICK R. DICKINSON
This study links two sets of concerns--the focus of recent studies of the nation on language, culture, education, and race; and the emphasis of diplomatic history on international developments--to show how political, diplomatic, and cultural concerns work together to shape national identity.
Harvard East Asian Monographs, 177
June 1999
14 illus. / 325 pages
ISBN 0-674-94655-3
$40.00 / L24.95 cloth


EUROPEAN HISTORY
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BIOLOGISTS UNDER HITLER
UTE DEICHMANN
Translated by Thomas Dunlap
Biologists under Hitler is the first book to examine the impact of Nazism on the lives and research of a generation of German biologists. Drawing on previously unutilized archival material, Ute Deichmann, herself a biologist, explores not only the lives of the biologists forced to emigrate but also the careers, science, and crimes of those who stayed in Germany.
May 1999
488 pages
ISBN 0-674-07405-X
$18.95 / L11.95 paper


DIVIDED MEMORY
The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys
JEFFREY HERF
Cowinner of the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History of the Wiener Library, London
A significant new look at the legacy of the Nazi regime, this book exposes the workings of past beliefs and political interests on how--and how differently--the two Germanys have recalled the crimes of Nazism, from the anti-Nazi emigration of the 1930s through the establishment of a day of remembrance for the victims of National Socialism in 1996.
March 1999
20 halftones / 539 pages
ISBN 0-674-21304-1
$17.95 / L10.95 paper


THE FOOTNOTE
A Curious History
ANTHONY GRAFTON
The weapon of pedants, the scourge of undergraduates, the bête noire of the "new" liberated scholar: the lowly footnote, long the refuge of the minor and the marginal, emerges in this book as a singular resource, with a surprising history that says volumes about the evolution of modern scholarship. In Anthony Grafton's engrossing account, footnotes to history give way to footnotes as history, recounting in their subtle way the curious story of the progress of knowledge in written form.
April 1999
255 pages
ISBN 0-674-30760-7
$14.00 paper
NOT FOR SALE IN THE COMMONWEALTH AND EUROPE EXCEPT CANADA


A HISTORY OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY RUSSIA
ROBERT SERVICE
Russia has had an extraordinary history in the twentieth century. As the first Communist society, the USSR was both an admired model and an object of fear and hatred to the rest of the world. How are we to make sense of this past? A History of Twentieth-Century Russia treats the years from 1917 to 1991 as a single period and analyzes the peculiar mixture of political, economic, and social ingredients that made up the Soviet formula.
April 1999
688 pages
ISBN 0-674-40348-7
$16.95 paper
NOT FOR SALE IN THE COMMONWEALTH AND EUROPE EXCEPT CANADA

MARTIN LUTHER
The Christian between God and Death
RICHARD MARIUS
Few figures in history have defined their time as dramatically as Martin Luther. In this occasionally irreverent--but always humane--biography, Richard Marius provides a full portrait of Luther: his inner compulsions, his struggle with himself and his God, the gestation of his theology, his relations with contemporaries, and his responses to opponents. Focusing in particular on the productive years 1516-1525, Marius' detailed account of Luther's writings yields a rich picture of the development of Luther's thought on the great questions that came to define the Reformation.
Belknap Press
16 halftones / 592 pages
ISBN 0-674-55090-0
$35.00 / L19.95 cloth


ON THE ROAD TO THE WOLF'S LAIR
German Resistance to Hitler
THEODORE S. HAMEROW
In the beginning, they rallied behind Hitler in the national interest of Germany; in the end, they sacrificed their lives to assassinate him. A history of German resistance to Hitler in high places, this book offers a glimpse into one of the most intractable mysteries. Why did high-ranking army officers, civil servants, and religious leaders support Hitler? Why did they ultimately turn against him? What transformed these unlikely men, most of them elitist, militaristic, and fiercely nationalistic, into martyrs to a universal ideal?
Belknap Press
March 1999
11 halftones / 454 pages
ISBN 0-674-63681-3
$18.95 / L11.95 cloth


THE OTTOMAN SURVEY REGISTER OF PODOLIA (CA. 1681)
Defter-i Mufassal-i Eyalet-i-Kamanice
DARIUSZ KOLODZIEJCZYK
Ottoman survey registers are recognized as unparalleled sources on the demographic, economic, and linguistic characteristics of the regions for which they were made. The register for Kamanice (the region of Podolia and the city of Kam'janec', which the Ottomans conquered in 1672) is the only surviving survey register of Ukrainian lands. The full text of the defter is given in transcription in the first part, with a facsimile edition given in the second part. All narrative documents are translated in appendices, while narrative segments of the registry portion of the defter are translated in the notes. Commentary includes extensive notes and an introduction.
Ottoman Documents Pertaining to Ukraine and the Black Sea Countries, 3
July 1999
maps, illus.
760 pages
ISBN 0-916458-78-4
$75.00 / L46.95 paper
softcover set


A PRAYER FOR THE GOVERNMENT
Ukrainians and Jews in Revolutionary Times, 1917-1920
HENRY ABRAMSON
After the fall of the Russian Empire, Jewish and Ukrainian activists worked to overcome previous mutual antagonism by creating a Ministry of Jewish Affairs within the new Ukrainian state and taking other measures to satisfy the national aspirations of Jews and other non-Ukrainians. This bold experiment ended in terrible failure as anarchic violence swept the countryside amidst civil war and foreign intervention. Abramson sheds new light on the relationship between the various Ukrainian governments and the communal violence. A Prayer for the Government treats a crucial period of Ukrainian and Jewish history, and is also a case study of ethnic violence in emerging political entities.
March 1999
6 x 9 inches
maps, illus.
320 pages
ISBN 0-916458-88-1 / $34.95 cloth
ISBN 0-916458-87-3 / $18.95 / L21.95 softcover


RUSSIA UNDER WESTERN EYES
>From the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausoleum
MARTIN MALIA
A dazzling work of intellectual history, spanning the years from Peter the Great to the fall of the Soviet Union, this book portrays Russia not as an eternal barbarian menace but as an outermost, if laggard, member in the continuum of European nations. Here modern Europe is depicted as a East-West cultural gradient in which the central and eastern portions respond to the Atlantic West's challenge in delayed and generally skewed fashion.
April 1999
Belknap Press
480 pages
ISBN 0-674-78120-1
$35.00 / L21.95 cloth


SCIENCE UNDER SOCIALISM
East Germany in Comparative Perspective
EDITED BY KRISTIE MACRAKIS AND DIETER HOFFMANN
Taking advantage of documents never before available from the archives of the East German Communist Party and the Ministry for State Security, and drawing on interviews with, among others, the legendary spy chief Markus Wolf and members of the East German Politburo, Science under Socialism is the first book to examine the role of science and technology in the former German Democratic Republic.
April 1999
448 pages
ISBN 0-674-79477-X
$55.00 / L34.50 cloth


THOMAS MORE
A Biography
RICHARD MARIUS
Over the centuries, biographers of Thomas More have always praised him and made him an example for their own times. He was a man for all seasons. Truly, he was a Renaissance man with the contradictions such praise imposes on a towering figure. In Richard Marius's authoritative and engaging portrait, Sir Thomas More, the martyr and brilliant public figure, is a lesson for our season.
March 1999
592 pages
ISBN 0-674-88525-2
$18.95 / L11.95 paper


THE WORLD WITHIN WAR
America's Combat Experience in World War II
GERALD F. LINDERMAN
Gerald Linderman has created a seamless and highly original social history, authoritatively recapturing the full experience of combat in World War II. Drawing on letters and diaries, memoirs and surveys, Linderman explores how ordinary frontline American soldiers prepared for battle, related to one another, conceived of the enemy, thought of home, and reacted to battle itself.</font>
March 1999
408 pages
ISBN 0-674-96202-8
$15.95 / L9.95 paper


LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY
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LATIN AMERICA AND THE WORLD ECONOMY SINCE 1800
EDITED BY JOHN H. COATSWORTH AND ALAN M. TAYLOR
The fifteen essays in this volume apply the methods of the new economic history to the history of the Latin American economies since 1800. The authors combine the historian's sensitivity to context and contingency with modern or "neoclassical" economic theory and quantitative methods
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University
April 1999
16 graphs, 85 tables / 512 pages
cloth: ISBN 0-674-51280-4 / $49.95
paper: ISBN 0-674-51281-2 / $24.95 / L15.50


MIDDLE EASTERN HISTORY
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A HISTORY OF MIDDLE EAST ECONOMIES IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
ROGER OWEN AND SEVKET PAMUK
This important book on economic development in the modern Middle East examines, for the first time, the separate national economies of the Arab states, including the Gulf, Israel, and Turkey, from 1918 to the present. It describes the main trends within each economy based on the best available statistical data, and answers larger questions concerning the long-term growth of the countries, first in the colonial period, then in the periods characterized by planning and development, followed by the first steps toward liberalization and structural adjustment.
February 1999
57 tables / 400 pages
ISBN 0-674-39830-0 / $60.00 cloth
ISBN 0-674-39831-9 / $24.95 paper
FOR SALE IN NORTH AMERICA ONLY


SEPARATE AND UNEQUAL
The Inside Story of Israeli Rule in East Jerusalem
AMIR S. CHESHIN, BILL HUTMAN, AND AVI MELAMED
This vivid behind-the-scenes account of Israeli rule in Jerusalem details for the first time the Jewish state's attempt to lay claim to all of Jerusalem, even when that meant implementing harsh policies toward the city's Arab population. The authors, Jerusalemites from the spheres of politics, journalism, and the military, have themselves been players in the drama that has unfolded in east Jerusalem in recent years. They have also had access to a wide range of official documents that reveal the making and implementation of Israeli policy toward Jerusalem.
May 1999
4 maps / 288 pages
ISBN 0-674-80136-9
$27.95 / L17.50 cloth


NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY
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FIRST PEOPLES, FIRST CONTACTS
Native Peoples of North America
J. C. H. KING
>From the big-game hunters who appeared on the continent as far back as 12,000 years ago to the Inuits plying the Alaskan waters today, the Native peoples of North America produced a remarkable culture that has survived in the face of almost inconceivable trials. This book is at once a history of that culture and a celebration of its variety. To illustrate this history, King draws on the extensive collections of the British Museum.
March 1999
7 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches
170 color, 35 halftones / 288 pages
ISBN 0-674-62654-0 / $45.00 cloth
ISBN 0-674-62655-9 / $24.95 paper
FOR SALE IN NORTH AMERICA ONLY

WORLD HISTORY
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APOCALYPSES
Prophecies, Cults, and Millennial Beliefs through the Ages
EUGEN WEBER
Apocalyptic visions and prophecies from Zarathustra to yesterday form the panorama in Eugen Weber's profound and elegant book. Beginning with the ancients of the West and the Orient, Weber finds that an absolute belief in the end of time, when good would do final battle with evil, was omnipresent. From this more than two millennia history, Weber redresses the historical and religious amnesia that has consigned the study of apocalypses and millennial thought to the ash heap of thought and belief. A master storyteller, his book offers a map for understanding the creeds we ignore at our peril.
April 1999
288 pages
ISBN 0-674-04080-5
$24.95 cloth
FOR SALE IN THE UNITED STATES AND ITS DEPENDENCIES ONLY


EVE'S HERBS
A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West
JOHN M. RIDDLE
In Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance, John Riddle showed, through extraordinary scholarly sleuthing, that women from ancient Egyptian times to the fifteenth century had relied on an extensive pharmacopoeia of herbal abortifacients and contraceptives to regulate fertility. In Eve's Herbs, Riddle explores a new question: If women once had access to effective means of birth control, why was this knowledge lost to them in modern times?
April 1999
352 pages
ISBN 0-674-27026-6
$18.95 / L11.95 paper


FROM THE OTHER SHORE
Russian Social Democracy after 1921
ANDRE LIEBICH
Winner of the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History of the Wiener Library, London
This book is an inquiry into the possibilities of politics in exile. Russian Mensheviks, driven out of Soviet Russia and their party stripped of legal existence, functioned abroad in the West for an entire generation. For several years they also continued to operate underground in Soviet Russia. Bereft of the usual advantages of political actors, the Mensheviks succeeded in impressing their views upon social democratic parties and Western thinking about the Soviet Union.
Harvard Historical Studies, 125
May 1999
9 halftones / 496 pages
ISBN 0-674-32518-4
$19.95 / L12.50 paper

THE OTTOMAN SURVEY REGISTER OF PODOLIA (CA. 1681)
Defter-i Mufassal-i Eyalet-i-Kamanice
DARIUSZ KOLODZIEJCZYK
Ottoman survey registers are recognized as unparalleled sources on the demographic, economic, and linguistic characteristics of the regions for which they were made. The register for Kamanice (the region of Podolia and the city of Kam'janec', which the Ottomans conquered in 1672) is the only surviving survey register of Ukrainian lands. The full text of the defter is given in transcription in the first part, with a facsimile edition given in the second part.
Ottoman Documents Pertaining to Ukraine and the Black Sea Countries, 3
July 1999
maps, illus.
760 pages
ISBN 0-916458-78-4
$75.00 / L46.95 paper
softcover set

THE WORLD WITHIN WAR
America's Combat Experience in World War II
GERALD F. LINDERMAN
Gerald Linderman has created a seamless and highly original social history, authoritatively recapturing the full experience of combat in World War II. Drawing on letters and diaries, memoirs and surveys, Linderman explores how ordinary frontline American soldiers prepared for battle, related to one another, conceived of the enemy, thought of home, and reacted to battle itself.</font>
March 1999
408 pages
ISBN 0-674-96202-8
$15.95 / L9.95 paper

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