History: American, European, World
Fall 1998
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HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Spring/Summer 1998 Books:
History


***************AMERICAN HISTORY***************

RICHARD RORTY, ACHIEVING OUR COUNTRY Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America
How have national pride and American patriotism come to seem an endorsement of atrocities-from slavery to the slaughter of Native Americans, from the rape of ancient forests to the Vietnam War? "Achieving Our Country" traces the sources of this debilitating mentality of shame in the Left, as well as the harm it does to its proponents and to the country. This galvanizing book, adapted from Rorty's Massey Lectures of 1997, takes the first step toward redressing the imbalance in American cultural life by rallying those on the Left to the civic engagement and inspiration needed for "achieving our country."
April 1998
The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization
144 pages ISBN 0-674-00311-X $18.95 / L12.50 cloth

GERTRUDE JACINTA FRASER, AFRICAN AMERICAN MIDWIFERY IN THE SOUTH Dialogues of Birth, Race, and Memory

Starting at the turn of the century, most African American midwives in the South were gradually excluded from reproductive health care. Gertrude Fraser shows how physicians, public health personnel, and state legislators mounted a campaign ostensibly to improve maternal and infant health, especially in rural areas. They brought traditional midwives under the control of a supervisory body, and eventually eliminated them.
August 1998
288 pages ISBN 0-674-00852-9 $39.95 / L26.50 cloth

ELIZABETH COBBS HOFFMAN, ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE The Peace Corps and the Spirit of the 1960s
Traversing four decades and three continents, this story of the Peace Corps and the people and politics behind it is a fascinating look at American idealism at work amid the hard political realities of the second half of the twentieth century.
May 1998
3 line illus., 24 halftones / 336 pages ISBN 0-674-01635-1 $27.95 / L18.50 cloth


LARS SCHOULTZ, BENEATH THE UNITED STATES A History Of U.S. Policy Toward Latin America
In this sweeping history of United States policy toward Latin America, Lars Schoultz shows that the United States has always perceived Latin America as a fundamentally inferior neighbor. Drawing on extraordinarily rich archival sources, Schoultz, one of America's foremost Latin America scholars, shows how these core beliefs have not changed for two centuries.
June 1998
5 maps / 480 pages ISBN 0-674-92276-X $19.95/ L13.50 paper

also available in cloth: ISBN 0-674-92275-1 $39.95 / L26.50

ANDREW L. KAUFMAN CARDOZO
This first complete biography of the longtime member and chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals and Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States during the turbulent years of the New Deal is a monumental achievement by a distinguished interpreter of constitutional law. Kaufman interweaves the personal and professional lives of Benjamin Nathan Cardozo to yield a multidimensional whole.
April 1998
8 halftones, 1 table / 36 pages ISBN 0-674-09645-2 $55.00 / L36.50 cloth


THOMAS J. BROWN, DOROTHEA DIX New England Reformer
An influential lobbyist as well as a paragon of the doctrine of female benevolence, Dorothea Dix vividly illustrated the complexities of the "separate spheres" of politics and femininity. An activist who disdained the women's rights and antislavery movements, Dix, an old-line Whig, sought to promote national harmony and became the only New England social reformer to work successfully in the lower South right up to the eve of secession.
August 1998
Harvard Historical Studies, 127 8 halftones / 432 pages ISBN 0-674-21488-9 $35.00 / L23.50 cloth

E. WAYNE CARP, FAMILY MATTERS Secrecy and Disclosure in the History of Adoption
"Family Matters" cuts through the sealed records, changing policies, and conflicting agendas that have obscured the history of adoption in America and reveals how the practice and attitudes about it have evolved from colonial days to the present.
April 1998
288 pages ISBN 0-674-79668-3 $27.95 / L18.50 cloth

NANCY TOMES, THE GOSPEL OF GERMS Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life
A remarkable work of medical and cultural history, "The Gospel of Germs" takes readers back to the first great "germ panic" in American history, which peaked in the early 1900s, to explore the origins of our modern disease consciousness. Here is a timely look into the history of our long-standing obsession with germs, its impact on twentieth-century society, and its troubling new relevance to our own lives.
March 1998
336 pages ISBN 0-674-35707-8 $29.95 / L19.95 cloth

ALLAN MAZUR A HAZARDOUS INQUIRY The Rashomon Effect at Love Canal
As the twentieth anniversary of the Love Canal incident approaches, Allan Mazur reexamines the circumstances that made this upstate New York neighborhood synonymous with ecological catastrophe and triggered federal "Superfund" legislation to clean up the nation's thousands of hazardous waste sites. Borrowing the multi-viewpoint technique of the classic Japanese film "Rashomon," Mazur's book reveals that there are many-often conflicting-versions of what occurred at Love Canal.
May 1998
8 line illus., 4 halftones, 4 tables / 272 pages ISBN 0-674-74833-6 $26.00 / L17.50 cloth

Edited by James Goodman LETTERS TO KENNEDY JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
A unique document in the history of the Kennedy years, these letters give us a firsthand look at the working relationship between a president and one of his close advisers, John Kenneth Galbraith. Ranging from a pithy commentary on Kennedy's speech accepting the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination to reflections on critical matters of state "Letters to Kennedy" presents a rare, intimate picture of the lives and minds of a political intellectual and an intellectual politician during a particularly rich moment in American history.
May 1998
192 pages ISBN 0-674-52837-9 $24.95 / L16.50 cloth

ALAN BRINKLEY LIBERALISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS
In this history of liberalism since the 1930s, Alan Brinkley offers an eloquent account of postwar liberalism. He goes beyond an examination of the internal weaknesses of liberalism and the broad social and economic forces it faced to consider the role of alternative political traditions in liberalism's downfall. What emerges is a picture of a dominant political tradition far less uniform and stable--and far more complex and contested--than has been argued.
April 1998
384 pages ISBN 0-674-53017-9 $27.95 / L18.50 cloth


KIM TOWNSEND MANHOOD AT HARVARD William James and Others
On the battlefields of the American Civil War a new masculine ideal was forged. Its defining terms--the glorification of male elites, activities, and games, and the marginalization of women and others--were most clearly set forth at Harvard University. Kim Townsend introduces us to the college men who were the most influential supporters and vocal critics of the new ideal of manhood: William James, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles William Eliot, W. E. B. Du Bois, George Santayana, and others.
March 1998
2 line illus., 40 halftones / 336 pages ISBN 0-674-54804-3 $16.95 paper

W. T. LHAMON JR. RAISING CAIN Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop
The story of a rebellious, truly popular culture stretching from Jim Crow to hip hop is told for the first time in "Raising Cain," a provocative look at how the outcasts of official culture have made their own place in the world. Unearthing a wealth of long-buried plays and songs and overturning cherished ideas about classics, W. T. Lhamon Jr. offers a startlingly original history of blackface as a cultural ritual that, for all its racist elements, was ultimately liberating.
February 1998
15 halftones / 288 pages ISBN 0-674-74711-9 $24.95 / L16.50 cloth


ROBERT C. LIEBERMAN SHIFTING THE COLOR LINE Race and the American Welfare State
"Shifting the Color Line" explores the historical and political roots of racial conflict in American welfare policy, beginning with the New Deal. Robert Lieberman demonstrates how racial distinctions were built into the very structure of the American welfare state.
June 1998
16 line illus., 14 tables / 320 pages ISBN 0-674-74562-0 $45.00 / L29.95 cloth


ALBERT J. VON FRANK THE TRIALS OF ANTHONY BURNS Freedom and Slavery in Emerson's Boston
In 1854 an escaped Virginia slave, Anthony Burns, was captured and brought to trial in Boston--and never again could Northerners shield their eyes from slavery. In a searching cultural analysis, Albert J. von Frank draws us into the drama and consequences of the case. He introduces us to the individuals who contended over the fate of the barely literate twenty-year-old runaway slave and links the deeds and rhetoric surrounding the case to New England Transcendentalism.
February 1998
20 halftones / 448 pages ISBN 0-674-03954-8 $27.95 / L18.50 cloth


JAMES J. CONNOLLY THE TRIUMPH OF ETHNIC PROGRESSIVISM Urban Political Culture in Boston, 1900-1925 Progressivism, James Connolly shows us, was a language and style of political action available to a wide range of individuals and groups. In showing that the several reform visions that arose in Boston included not only the progressivism of the city's business leaders but also a series of ethnic progressivisms, Connolly offers a new approach to urban public life in the early twentieth century.
July 1998
2 line illus., 9 tables / 304 pages ISBN 0-674-90950-X $45.00 / L29.95 cloth



BRUCE ACKERMAN WE THE PEOPLE Volume 2: Transformations
Constitutional change, seemingly so orderly, has in fact always been a revolutionary process, as Bruce Ackerman makes clear in "We the People: Transformations." After the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party revolutionized the traditional system of constitutional amendment as they put principles of liberty and equality into higher law. Another wrenching transformation occurred during the Great Depression, when Franklin Roosevelt and his New Dealers vindicated a new vision of activist government against an assault by the Supreme Court.These are the crucial episodes in American constitutional history that Ackerman takes up in this second volume of this important trilogy.
Belknap Press April 1998
512 pages ISBN 0-674-94847-5 $29.95 / L19.95 cloth

BRUCE ACKERMAN WE THE PEOPLE: Volume 1, Foundations

"[We the People] cuts through the futile and absurd search for the `original intent of the founders' as the way to discover the will of the people. It recognizes that the great and extraordinary occasions required for action by the people have not been confined to a single instance in the eighteenth century. It deflates the pretensions of politicians in normal politics but magnifies the importance of political leadership in mobilizing popular support for constitutional politics when constitutional politics is needed. It gives pragmatic meaning to government of, by, and for the elusive, invisible, inaudible, but sovereign people."

First cloth edition: 1991 384 pages $10.95 paper ISBN: 0-674-94841-6

Cloth Text ISBN 0-674-94840-8. 10/1991 369p. $ 24.95

DAVID PETERSON DEL MAR WHAT TROUBLE I HAVE SEEN A History of Violence against Wives
In the first sustained history and interdisciplinary study of violence toward wives in America, David Peterson del Mar reflects on the changes in American society that have affected violence: wife-beating was quietly condoned until the spread of an ethos of self-restraint in the late nineteenth century; the practice increased with a vengeance with the florescence of expressive individualism during the twentieth century.
March 1998
256 pages ISBN 0-674-95078-X $16.95 / L11.50 paper First cloth edition: Spring 1996


DANIEL N. ROBINSON WILD BEASTS AND IDLE HUMOURS The Insanity Defense from Antiquity to the Present
"Wild Beasts and Idle Humours" takes readers on an illuminating journey through the changing historical landscape of human nature and offers an unprecedented look at the legal conceptions of insanity from the pre-classical Greek world to the present. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the evolution of thinking about legal insanity.
March 1998
320 pages ISBN 0-674-95290-1 $15.95 / L10.50 paper First cloth edition: Fall 1996


***************EUROPEAN HISTORY***************

THE BOLSHEVIKS The Intellectual and Political History of the Triumph of Communism in Russia
ADAM B. ULAM With a new preface by the author
Adam Ulam, has enlarged his classic work with a new preface that puts the revolutionary moment, and especially Lenin, in perspective for our modern age.

From reviews of the first edition:
"This biography of Lenin...is so good that it is not merely superior in degree to any other life of Lenin, but different in kind. The conjunction of scholar and artist is the rarest thing. We used to be told that it was worth learning Italian to read Dante. Here is a new one: it is worth developing an interest in Lenin to read Adam Ulam."
--The Observer (London)
April 1998
16 halftones / 624 pages ISBN 0-674-07830-6 $19.95 / L13.50 paper

GERMANS INTO NAZIS
PETER FRITZSCHE
In this dramatically plotted book, organized around crucial turning points in 1914, 1918, and 1933, Peter Fritzsche explains why the Nazis were so popular and what was behind the political choice made by the German people. Rejecting the view that Germans voted for the Nazis simply because they hated the Jews, or had been humiliated in World War I, or had been ruined by the Great Depression, Fritzsche makes the controversial argument that Nazism was part of a larger process of democratization and political invigoration that began with the outbreak of World War I. March 1998
288 pages ISBN 0-674-35091-X $24.95 / L16.50 cloth

HE IS THE SUN, SHE IS THE MOON Women in Early Modern Germany
HEIDE WUNDER Translated by Thomas Dunlap
Heide Wunder shows how the history of women and the history of gender relations can provide crucial insights into how societies organize themselves and provide resources for political action. She observes actual circumstances as well as the normative rules that were supposed to guide women's lives.
August 1998
352 pages ISBN 0-674-38321-4 $39.95 / L26.50 cloth

A HISTORY OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY RUSSIA
ROBERT SERVICE
"A History of Twentieth-Century Russia" is a masterful account of the most complex and turbulent period in Russia's long--the years from 1917 to 1991. Robert Service analyzes the peculiar mixture of political, economic, and social ingredients that made up the Soviet formula.
March 1998
5 maps, 7 cartoons / 688 pages ISBN 0-674-40347-9 $29.95 cloth

HITLER'S ECONOMY Nazi Work Creation Programs, 1933-1936
DAN P. SILVERMAN
How did the Nazis put Germany back to work? Was the recovery genuine? If so, how and why was it so much more successful than that of other industrialized nations? Hitler's Economy addresses these questions and contributes to our understanding of the internal dynamics and power structure of the Nazi regime in the early years of the Third Reich. August 1998
14 table / 384 pages ISBN 0-674-74071-8 $45.00 / L29.95 cloth


MARTIN HEIDEGGER Between Good and Evil
R†DIGER SAFRANSKI
Translated by Ewald Osers
One of the century's greatest philosophers, Martin Heidegger was also a man of great failures and flaws, a Faustus who made a pact with the devil of his time, Adolf Hitler. The story of Heidegger's life and philosophy, a quintessentially German story in which good and evil, brilliance and blindness are inextricably entwined is told in this brilliant biography. April 1998
480 pages ISBN 0-674-38709-0 $35.00 / L23.50 cloth

NATIONALISM, MARXISM, AND MODERN CENTRAL EUROPE
A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz (1872-1905)
TIMOTHY SNYDER
Timothy Snyder presents the often overlooked life and thought of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, an important Polish intellectual at the beginning of this century, and thereby opens a new path in the understanding of modern nationalism and twentieth-century socialism.
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Harvard Papers in Ukrainian Studies
Available 3 maps, 7 b & w illus. / 321 pages ISBN 0-916458-84-9 $18.00 / L11.95 softcover

PAUL LAFARGUE AND THE FLOWERING OF FRENCH SOCIALISM, 1882-1911
LESLIE DERFLER
Paul Lafargue, the disciple and son-in-law of Karl Marx, helped to found the first French Marxist party in 1882, and over the next three decades, served as its chief theoretician and propagandist. In an earlier volume, "Paul Lafargue and the Founding of French Marxism," 1842-1882, Leslie Derfler emphasized family identity and the origin of French Marxism. Here, he explores Lafargue's political strategies as well as his pioneering attempts to apply Marxist methods of analysis to anthropology, aesthetics, and literary criticism. June 1998
10 halftones / 384 pages ISBN 0-674-65912-0 $45.00 / L29.95 cloth


THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC MOMENT Ideas and Politics in the Making of Interwar Europe
SHERI BERMAN
Even though German and Swedish Social Democrats belonged to the same transnational political movement and faced similar political and social conditions in their respective countries before and after World War I, they responded very differently to the challenges of democratization and to the Great Depression--with crucial consequences for the fates of their countries and the world at large. Explaining why these two social democratic parties acted so differently is the achievement of this book. July 1998
320 pages ISBN 0-674-44261-X $45.00 / L29.95 cloth

TORMENTED VOICES Power, Crisis, and Humanity in Rural Catalonia, 1140-1200
THOMAS N. BISSON
Peasants of remote history rarely speak to us in their own voices, but Thomas Bisson's engagement with the records of several hundred twelfth-century rural Catalonians enables us to hear these voices. Bisson describes these peasants socially and culturally, showing how their experience figured in a wider crisis of power during the twelfth century.
August1998
8 halftones, 1 map, 1 table / 224 pages ISBN 0-674-89528-2 $18.95 / L12.50 paper
Also available in cloth: ISBN 0-674-89527-4 $35.00 / L23.50

THE TRAVAILS OF CONSCIENCE The Arnauld Family and the Ancien Regime
ALEXANDER SEDGWICK
The Arnauld family rose to prominence at the end of the sixteenth century by attaching themselves to King Louis XIV with absolute loyalty and obedience. The religious conversion of AngŽlique Arnauld, however, early in the seventeenth century, dramatically changed this family's fortunes. Alexander Sedgwick's engaging history chronicles the Arnauld family's reaction to momentous political and religious developments and offers a unique perspective on a tumultuous period in French history.
Harvard Historical Studies, 128
August 1998
5 line illus. / 304 pages ISBN 0-674-90567-9 $45.00 / L29.95 cloth

THE UNMASTERABLE PAST History, Holocaust, and German National Identity
CHARLES S. MAIER With a new preface by the author
"Maier has written what is the best book available on the tangled and acrimonious debate among the German historians. It is incisive in its analysis of the arguments on all sides of the debate and admirably objective in its assessment of them."
--Gordon Craig, New York Review of Books
March 1998 256 pages ISBN 0-674-92977-2 $14.00 / L9.50 paper


***************WORLD HISTORY***************

AVATARS OF THE WORD From Papyrus to Cyberspace
JAMES J. O'DONNELL
In this penetrating book, James O'Donnell takes a reading on the promise and the threat of electronic technology for our literate future. He reinterprets today's communication revolution through a series of refracted comparisons with earlier revolutionary periods: the transition from oral to written culture, from the papyrus scroll to the codex, from copied manuscript to print.
June 1998
240 pages ISBN 0-674-05545-4 $24.95 / L16.95 cloth

A PRINCE OF OUR DISORDER The Life of T. E. Lawrence
JOHN E. MACK
When this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography first appeared in 1976, it rescued T. E. Lawrence from the mythologizing that had seemed to be his fate. In it, John Mack humanely and objectively explores the relationship between Lawrence's inner life and his historically significant actions. Extensive interviews, far-flung correspondence, access to War Office dispatches and unpublished letters provide the basis for Mack's sensitive investigation of the psychiatric dimensions of Lawrence's personality.
April 1998
27 halftones / 608 pages ISBN 0-674-70494-0 $18.95 / L12.50 paper


THE SOCIOLOGY OF PHILOSOPHIES A Global Theory of Intellectual Change
RANDALL COLLINS
The first comprehensive history of world philosophy, this masterful work is also a social history of global intellectual life. Randall Collins traces the development of philosophical thought in China, Japan, India, ancient Greece, the medieval Islamic and Jewish world, medieval Christendom, and modern Europe. What emerges from this history is a general theory of intellectual life.
Belknap Press
August 1998
57 line illus., 15 maps, 2 tables / 1120 pages ISBN 0-674-81647-1 $49.95 / L33.50 cloth

TERRIFIC MAJESTY The Powers of Shaka Zulu and the Limits of Historical Invention
CAROLYN HAMILTON
Since his assassination in 1828, King Shaka Zulu has made his empire in popular imaginations throughout Africa and the West. Shaka is today the hero of Zulu nationalism, the centerpiece of Inkatha ideology, a demon of apartheid, the namesake of a South African theme park, even the subject of a major TV film. "Terrific Majesty" explores the reasons for the potency of Shaka's image.
March 1998
336 pages ISBN 0-674-87446-3 $18.95 / L12.50 paper
Also available in cloth: ISBN 0-674-87445-5 $39.95 / L12.50

HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Fall 1998 Books:

AMERICAN HISTORY: Fall 1998

AFRICAN-AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS A National Bibliography
JAMES P. DANKY, EDITOR Maureen E. Hady, Associate Editor
Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The authentic voice of African-American culture is captured in this first comprehensive guide to a treasure trove of writings by and for a people, as found in sources in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean. This bibliography of over 6,000 entries is the indispensable guide to the stories of slavery, freedom, Jim Crow, segregation, liberation, struggle, and triumph.

Harvard University Press Reference Library February 1999 8 1/2 x 11 inches 816 pages
ISBN 0-674-00788-3 : $125.00x (£77.95) cloth

ATLANTIC CROSSINGS Social Politics in a Progressive Age
DANIEL T. RODGERS
Atlantic Crossings is the first major account of the vibrant international network that early American reformers, progressives, and later New Dealers constructed-often obscured by notions of American exceptionalism--and of its profound impact on the United States from the 1870s through 1945.

Belknap Press October 1998 6 3/8 x 9 1/4 inches 33 halftones, 1 table 672 pages
ISBN 0-674-05131-9: $35.00 (£21.95) cloth

BLACK JACKS African American Seamen in the Age of Sail
W. JEFFREY BOLSTER
W. Jeffrey Bolster, master mariner and historian, shatters the myth that black seafaring in the age of sail was limited to the Middle Passage. Rescuing African American seamen from obscurity, this stirring account reveals the critical role sailors played in helping forge new identities for black people in America. An epic tale of the rise and fall of black seafaring, Black Jacks is African Americans' freedom story presented from a fresh perspective.

September 1998 5 3/4 x 9 inches 37 halftones, 3 maps 360 pages
ISBN 0-674-07627-3 : $14.95 (£9.50) paper
First cloth edition: Spring 1997 $27.00

BUILDING THE INVISIBLE ORPHANAGE A Prehistory of the American Welfare System
MATTHEW A. CRENSON
This book examines the connection between the decline of the orphanage and the rise of welfare in America. Matthew Crenson argues that the prehistory of the welfare system was played out not on the stage of national politics or class conflict but in the micropolitics of institutional management.

November 1998 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches 13 halftones, 1 table 384 pages
ISBN 0-674-46591-1 : $45.00x (£27.95) cloth

COLOR AND CULTURE Black Writers and the Making of the Modern Intellectual
ROSS POSNOCK
Ross Posnock offers a much needed and startlingly new historical perspective on "black intellectuals" as a social category, ranging over a century-from Frederick Douglass to Patricia Williams, from W.E.B. Du Bois to Samuel Delany and Adrienne Kennedy. These writers challenge two durable assumptions: that high culture is "white culture" and that racial uplift is the sole concern of the black intellectual.

October 1998 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches 368 pages   ISBN 0-674-14309-4 : $35.00x (£21.95) cloth

DARWINISM COMES TO AMERICA
RONALD L. NUMBERS
Why do so many Americans still resist the ideas laid out by Darwin in On the Origin of Species? Focusing on crucial aspects of the history of Darwinism in America, Ronald Numbers gets to the heart of this question. Displaying the expertise that has made him one of the most respected historians of his generation, he provides a much-needed historical perspective on today's quarrels about creationism and evolution--and illuminates the specifically American nature of this struggle.

November 1998 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches 1 line illus., 1 table 288 pages
Available in both cloth and paperback: $18.95x (£11.95) paper 
ISBN 0-674-19312-1: $39.95x (£24.95) cloth ISBN 0-674-19311-3

THE DECLINE OF AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIES, 1952-1996
MARTIN P. WATTENBERG
"Wattenberg's skillful analysis of poll data demonstrates how beliefs are encouraged by the politicians and the media through their efforts to personalize issues and create a candidate-centered political universe." --William Schneider, New York Times Book Review

September 1998 5 7/16 x 8 1/4 inches 256 pages
ISBN 0-674-19435-7 : $15.95x (£9.95) paper

Harvard Historical Studies, 132 November 1998 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches 8 halftones 416 pages
ISBN 0-674-26060-0 : $45.00x (£27.95) cloth

Harvard Historical Studies 131 December 1998 6 1/8 x 9 ¼ 288 pages
ISBN 0-674-32348-3 : $45.00x (£27.95) cloth

Belknap Press October 1998 8 x 11 inches 10 line illus., 230 halftones 368 pages
ISBN 0-674-37291-3 : $29.95 (£18.50) paper
First cloth edition: Fall 1985, $38.00

THE HARVARD CENTURY The Making of a University to a Nation
RICHARD NORTON SMITH
The Harvard Century tells the story of how Harvard, America's oldest and foremost institution of higher learning, has become synonymous with the nation, their goals and standards reflecting each other, each setting the other's agenda. It is also a colorful and intimate narrative of the individual achievements of its leaders and of the intense power struggles that have shaped Harvard as it pioneered in setting the priorities that have served as exemplars for the nation's educational establishment.

November 1998 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches 20 halftones 408 pages
ISBN 0-674-37295-6 : $18.95 (£11.95) paper

HARVARD OBSERVED An Illustrated History of the University in the Twentieth Century
JOHN T. BETHELL
"Educational communities," wrote James Bryant Conant, Harvard's midcentury president, "mirror the life of the nation of which they are a part." Depicting the evolution of twentieth-century Harvard in the broader context of national and world events, Harvard Observed has much to say and show about the academic rites, intellectual arguments, sexual mores, fads, and folklore that became touchstones for successive generations of Harvardians. Photographs, drawings, and paintings from the University's vast archival collections and museums add a compelling visual dimension.

November 1998 7 1/2 x 10 inches 350 illustrations 320 pages
ISBN 0-674-37733-8 : $39.95 (£24.95) cloth

Belknap Press September 1998 5 7/8 x 9 inches 20 halftones 468 pages
ISBN 0-674-17927-7 : $16.95 (£10.50) paper
First cloth edition: Fall 1997, $35.00

Belknap Press September 1998 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches 4 maps, 4 woodcuts, 3 tables 512 pages
ISBN 0-674-81092-9 : $29.95 (£18.50) cloth

October 1998 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches 33 halftones 368 pages    ISBN 0-674-58855-X : $29.95 (£18.50) cloth

The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures September 1998 6 x 9 inches 13 halftones 192 pages   ISBN 0-674-74558-2 : $24.00 (£14.95) cloth

November 1998 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches 384 pages   ISBN 0-674-83342-2 : $18.95x (£11.95) paper

May 1998 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches illustrated 352 pages
ISBN 0-674-83830-0 : $24.95x (£15.50) cloth

September 1998 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches 5 line illus., 8 halftones 336 pages
ISBN 0-674-85429-2 : $14.95 (£9.50) paper
First cloth edition: Spring 1997, $25.00

September 1998 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches 15 halftones 336 pages
ISBN 0-674-89308-5 : $15.95 (£9.95) paper
First cloth edition: Spring 1997

September 1998 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches 14 halftones 368 pages
ISBN 0-674-06371-6 : $29.95 (£18.50) cloth

ASIAN HISTORY: Fall 1998

ASIAN VALUES AND HUMAN RIGHTS A Confucian Communitarian Perspective
WM. THEODORE DE BARY
Since the horrific Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, the debate on human rights in China has raged on with increasing volume and shifting context, but little real progress. In this provocative book, one of our most learned scholars of China moves beyond the political shouting match, informing and contextualizing this debate from a Confucian and a historical perspective.

September 19986 x 9 inches 208 pages
ISBN 0-674-04955-1 : $27.95x (£17.50) cloth

CHINA A New History
Enlarged Edition
JOHN KING FAIRBANK AND MERLE GOLDMAN
The late John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast ancient civilization. His book remains a masterwork without parallel--a concise and authoritative account of China and its people over four millennia. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman has brought the book up to date with a chapter on events in the post-Mao period and a new preface and epilogue.

Belknap Press September 1998 6 3/8 x 9 1/4 inches 60 halftones 624 pages
Available in both cloth and paperback   ISBN 0-674-11673-9 : $16.95 (£10.50) paper
ISBN 0-674-11672-0 : $35.00x (£21.95) cloth

CHINESE HISTORY A Manual
ENDYMION WILKINSON
A comprehensive and up-to-date guide on the basic problems encountered in researching traditional Chinese civilization and history, this manual includes discussions of over 1,000 primary sources as well as 1,000 reference works.

Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, 46 September 1998 6 x 9 inches 800 pages
Available in both cloth and paperback     ISBN 0-674-12378-6 : $19.95x (£12.50) paper
ISBN 0-674-12377-8 : $65.00x (£40.50) cloth

THE WAGES OF AFFLUENCE Labor and Management in Postwar Japan
ANDREW GORDON
Andrew Gordon goes to the core of the Japanese enterprise system, the workplace, and reveals a complex history of contest and confrontation. The Japanese model produced a dynamic economy which owed as much to coercion as to happy consensus. Beginning with the Occupation reforms and their influence on the workplace, Gordon traces worker activism and protest in the 1950s and '60s, and how they gave way to management victory in the 1960s and '70s.

December 1998 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches 8 line illus. 288 pages
ISBN 0-674-80577-1 : $35.00x (£21.95) cloth

EUROPEAN HISTORY: Fall 1998

ATLANTIC CROSSINGS Social Politics in a Progressive Age
DANIEL T. RODGERS
Atlantic Crossings is the first major account of the vibrant international network that early American reformers, progressives, and later New Dealers constructed-often obscured by notions of American exceptionalism-and of its profound impact on the United States from the 1870s through 1945.

FRANCE IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT
DANIEL ROCHE Translated by Arthur Goldhammer
Daniel Roche, the foremost historian of eighteenth-century France, brings the Old Regime to life by showing how its institutions operated and how they were understood by the people who worked within them. Roche depicts the eighteenth-century French "culture of appearances"--the food and clothing, living quarters, and reading material of the peasant, the merchant, the noble, the King, from Paris to the provinces.

Harvard Historical Studies, 130 October 1998 6 3/8 x 9 1/4 inches 736 pages
ISBN 0-674-31747-5

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GERMANY A New History
HAGEN SCHULZE Translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider
In one concise volume, Hagen Schulze brilliantly conveys the full sweep of German history, from the days of the Romans to the fall of the Berlin Wall. A lavish array of illustrations provides a lively counterpoint to Schulze's elegantly written narrative. This dramatic account of Germany's legacy, often overshadowed and distorted by the nation's recent past, offers a hopeful answer to the perennial question of what kind of country it is and will be.

October 1998 6 x 9 inches 56 color illus., 59 halftones, 4 maps, 5 charts 304 pages
ISBN 0-674-80688-3

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October 1998 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches 4 tables 384 pages
ISBN 0-674-35111-8

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GERMANY'S SECOND CHANCE Trust, Justice, and Democratization
ANNE SA'ADAH
How does a country reconstitute itself as a functioning democracy after a period of dictatorship? Drawing on evidence from intellectual debates, trials, literary works, controversies about the actions of public figures, and partisan competition, Anne Sa'adah analyzes German responses to the problem of reconciliation after 1945 and again after 1989.

October 1998 6 3/8 x 9 1/4 inches 416 pages
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GOODNESS BEYOND VIRTUE Jacobins during the French Revolution
PATRICE HIGONNET
In Goodness beyond Virtue, one of the leading scholars of the French Revolution reconceptualizes Jacobin politics and philosophy and rescues them from recent postmodernist condescension. Higonnet shows Jacobinism's variety and flexibility, as it emerged in the lived practices of exceptional and ordinary people in varied historical situations.

October 1998 6 3/8 x 9 1/4 inches 416 pages
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KISTIAKOVSKY The Struggle for National and Constitutional Rights in the Last Years of Tsarism
SUSAN HEUMAN
In 1903 Bogdan Kistiakovsky railed against Lenin's concept of a vanguard party to lead the revolution. His charge was wholly consistent with a life devoted to the development of rule of law in the Russian Empire--a new government based on respect for national minorities, human rights, and constitutional federalism. Susan Heuman's study shows the fresh urgency of Kistiakovsky's ideas as Russia, Ukraine, and the other countries of the former Soviet Union seek to establish precisely those values that Kistiakovsky put forth ninety years ago.

Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies May 1998 6 x 9 inches 4 halftones 240 pages
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ISBN 0-916458-65-2 : $18.00x (£11.50) paper
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MOSCOW Governing the Socialist Metropolis
TIMOTHY J. COLTON
Once the hub of the tsarist state, later Brezhnev's "model Communist city"--home of the Kremlin, Red Square, and St. Basil's Cathedral--Moscow is for many the quintessence of everything Russian. Timothy Colton's sweeping biography of this city at the center of Soviet and post-Soviet life reveals what such a position has meant to Moscow and ultimately to Russia itself.

Russian Research Center Studies, 88 Belknap Press October 1998 5 5/16 x 8 15/16 inches 11 line illus., 64 halftones, 41 maps 960 pages
ISBN 0-674-58749-9 : $24.95x (£15.50) paper
First cloth edition: Fall 1995, $45.00

THE ORIGINS OF THE OLD RUS' WEIGHTS AND MONETARY SYSTEMS Two Studies in Western Eurasian Metrology and Numismatics in the Seventh to Eleventh Centuries
OMELJAN PRITSAK
In this sweeping and synthesizing work Professor Omeljan Pritsak charts the influence of Western European, Arabic, Khazaro-Bulgarian, and, later, Byzantine metrological and numismatic systems on the development of these systems in Kyivan Rus'.

Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies May 1998 6 x 9 inches 1 map, 15 halftones, 17 tables, 11 graphs 184 pages
ISBN 0-916458-48-2 : $29.00x (£17.95) cloth

PARISH COMMUNITIES AND RELIGIOUS CONFLICT IN THE VALE OF GLOUCESTER, 1590-1690
DANIEL C. BEAVER
Many historians have attempted to understand the violent religious conflicts of the seventeenth century from viewpoints dominated by concepts of class, gender, and demography. But few studies have explored the cultural process whereby religious symbolism created social cohesion and political allegiance. This book examines religious conflict in the parish communities of early modern England using an interdisciplinary approach that includes all these perspectives.

Harvard Historical Studies, 129 October 1998 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches 1 map 480 pages
ISBN 0-674-75845-5 : $49.50x (£30.95) cloth

REINVENTING RUSSIA Russian Nationalism and the Soviet State, 1953-1991
YITZHAK M. BRUDNY
Brudny argues that the rise of the Russian nationalist movement was a combined result of the reinvention of Russian national identity by a group of intellectuals, and the Communist Party's active support of this reinvention in order to gain greater political legitimacy. The author meticulously reconstructs the development of the Russian nationalist thought from Khrushchev to Yeltsin, as well as the nature of the Communist Party response to Russian nationalist ideas.

Russian Research Center Studies, 91 January 1999 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches 6 tables 352 pages
ISBN 0-674-75408-5 : $45.00x (£27.95) cloth

RUSSIA People and Empire
GEOFFREY HOSKING
The Soviet Union crumbles and Russia rises from the rubble, once again the great nation--a perfect scenario, but for one point: Russia was never a nation. This, says the eminent historian Geoffrey Hosking, is at the heart of the Russians' dilemma today, as they grapple with the rudiments of nationhood. His book is about the Russia that never was, a three-hundred-year history of empire building at the expense of national identity.

October 1998 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches 3 maps 576 pages
ISBN 0-674-78119-8 : $16.95 paper /

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THE STRATEGIC ROLE OF UKRAINE Diplomatic Addresses and Lectures (1994-1997)
YURI SHCHERBAK
Yuri Shcherbak--currently Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S.--is a writer and physician who came to international prominence with his exposŽ on Chornobyl, as a founder of the Ukrainian Green Party, as Ukraine's first minister of environmental protection, and as its first ambassador to Israel. The Strategic Role of Ukraine assesses the period during which Ukraine rose to become an important part of the European geo-strategic posture.

Harvard Papers in Ukrainian Studies Available 6 x 9 inches 3 halftones, 1 map 160 pages
ISBN 0-916458-85-7 : $12.50x (£7.95) paper

THE TSAR'S COLONELS Professionalism, Strategy, and Subversion in Late Imperial Russia
DAVID ALAN RICH
David Alan Rich weaves together several levels of narrative to show how the increasingly sophisticated, scientific, and positivistic work attitudes and habits Russia's general staff during the second half of the nineteenth century acculturated younger officers, redefining their relationship with, and responsibilities to, the state.

December 1998 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches 5 line illus., 8 tables 320 pages
ISBN 0-674-91111-3 : $49.95x (£30.95) cloth