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War of a Thousand Deserts 1948

Indian Raids and the U.S.–Mexican War A History of the First Arab–Israeli War
Brian DeLay Benny Morris
• Winner of the 2009 Robert M. Utley Award, given • Winner of the 2008 National Jewish Book
by the Western History Association Award in the History category, sponsored by
• Winner of the 2009 W. Turrentine Jackson Award, the Jewish Book Council
given by the Western History Association
• Winner of the 2008 Summerfield G. Roberts Award, Treacherous Alliance
presented by the Sons of the Republic of Texas The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the
• Finalist for the 2008 Francis Parkman Prize, United States
sponsored by the Society of American Historians Trita Parsi
• Winner of the 2010 University of Louisville
The Comanche Empire Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving
Pekka Hämäläinen World Order
• Winner of the 2009 Bancroft Prize, given by
Columbia University The Empire’s New Clothes
• Winner of the 2009 Recognition of Excellence A History of Russian Fashion Industry,
Award at the Cundill International Prize in 1700–1917
History ceremony, given by the Cundill Christine Ruane
Foundation at McGill University
• Winner of the 2009 Heldt Prize for the Best
• Winner of the 2008 Kate Broocks Bates Award, Book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian
presented by the Texas State Historical Association Women’s Studies, given by the Association of
• Co-winner of the 2009 Merle Curti Award, Women in Slavic Studies
presented by the Organization of American
Historians
• Winner of the Caughey Western History
All Can Be Saved
Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian
Association Prize, given by the Western History
Association Atlantic World
• Winner of the Great Plains Distinguished Book Stuart B. Schwartz
Prize, presented by the University of Nebraska- • Winner of the 2008 Cundill International
Lincoln’s Center for Great Plains Studies Prize in History, given by the Cundill
Foundation at McGill University
Fallen Giants •

Winner of the 2009 American Academy of
Religion Book Award for Excellence in the
A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from
category of Historical Study of Religion, given
the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes
by the American Academy of Religion
Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weaver • Winner of the 2009 John E. Fagg Prize, given
• Winner of the 2008 National Outdoor Book by the American Historical Association
Award for History and Biography, sponsored by • Winner of the 2009 Leo Gershoy Award, given
the Idaho State University and the Association of by the American Historical Association
Outdoor Recreation and Education
• Winner of the 2009 George L. Mosse Prize,
• Winner of the Banff Mountain Book Festival’s given by the American Historical Association
2008 Mountaineering History Prize, sponsored by
the Banff Center
Defying Empire
Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York
Making Indian Law Thomas M. Truxes
The Hualapai Land Case and the Birth of
Ethnohistory • Finalist for the 2008 Francis Parkman Prize,
sponsored by the Society of American
Christian W. McMillen Historians
• Winner of the 2008 William Nelson Cromwell
Foundation Prize, sponsored by the American
Society for Legal History
• Winner of the 2008 John Philip Reid Book Award, Visit YaleBooks.com/awards
sponsored by the American Society for Legal
History for more Yale University Press
• Winner of the 2008 Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin award-winning titles
Prize, sponsored by the American Society for
Ethnohistory

Colonial & Early America
Findings
The Material Culture of
Needlework and Sewing
Mary C. Beaudry
Mary C. Beaudry mines archaeological
findings from the middle ages through
the industrial revolution to discover
what needles, thimbles, bobbins, and
other artifacts of sewing and needlework
reveal about the cultures in which they
were used.
Cloth   2007   256 pp.   46 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11093-7  $60.00
Foul Bodies
Cleanliness in Early America
Kathleen M. Brown
This unusual history examines how
practices and attitudes toward cleanli-
ness and dirt evolved in America from
the arrival of the first Europeans to the
mid-1800s. Personal care of the body
is not simply a private matter, the book
shows, but an expression of cultural
ideals and fundamental social values.
Cloth   2009   464 pp.   35 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10618-3  $45.00
New
Jonathan Edwards’s
“Sinners in the Hands
of an Angry God”
A Casebook
Edited by Wilson H. Kimnach,
University of Bridgeport, Caleb
J. D. Maskell, and Kenneth P.
Minkema
Designed specifically for the classroom,
this volume presents the accurate and
definitive version of Sinners, accompa-
nied by the tools necessary to study and
teach this famous American sermon.
A Yale Course Book
Paper   2010   224 pp.   29 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14038-5  $14.00
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American History
New
The Papers of
Benjamin Franklin
Volume 39, January 21 through
May 15, 1783
Edited by Ellen R. Cohn
Jonathan R. Dull, Senior Associate
Editor; Karen Duval, Associate
Editor; Kate M. Ohno, Michael
Sletcher, and Philipp Ziesche,
Assistant Editors
Cloth   2009   752 pp.   8 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13448-3  $95.00
The Papers of
Benjamin Franklin
Volume 38, August 16, 1782,
through January 20, 1783
Edited by Ellen R. Cohn
Jonathan R. Dull, Senior Associate
Editor; Karen Duval, Associate
Editor; Judith M. Adkins, Kate M.
Ohno, and Michael Sletcher,
Assistant Editors
Cloth   2006   784 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10930-6  $100.00
The Making of John
Ledyard
Empire and Ambition in the Life
of an Early American Traveler
Edward G. Gray
This engaging book offers a rollicking
account of the life of American adven-
turer John Ledyard as well as important
insights into early modern empire in the
Revolutionary era. Whether living with
the Iroquois, sailing with Captain Cook,
conferring with Thomas Jefferson, or
trekking through Siberia, Ledyard was
both a product of empire and an agent
in its growth.
Cloth   2007   240 pp.   15 figures & 5 maps
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11055-5  $37.00
New
The Federalist Papers
Alexander Hamilton, James
Madison, and John Jay; Edited
and with an Introduction by Ian
Shapiro, Yale University
This authoritative edition of the com-
plete texts of the Federalist Papers, the
Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the
Articles of Confederation is accompa-
nied by essays in which leading scholars
provide historical context and thematic
background.
Paper 2009   608 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11890-2  $20.00  
New
The Hanging of
Thomas Jeremiah
A Free Black Man’s Encounter
with Liberty
J. William Harris, University of New
Hampshire
This book tells for the first time the
tragic story of Thomas Jeremiah, a black
man caught up in the turmoil of revolu-
tion in Charleston, South Carolina, in
1775.
Cloth   2009   240 pp.   22 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15214-2  $27.50
Methodism
Empire of the Spirit
David Hempton
This lively history of the rise of
Methodism charts the development of
the movement from its unpromising
origins in England in the 1730s to its
major international importance by the
1880s. The book explores Methodism’s
phenomenal growth in the British Isles,
America, and around the globe, and the
complex reasons for its wide-ranging
appeal.
2005   304 pp.   12 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10614-5   $30.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11976-3   $19.00
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 American History
Benjamin Franklin
and the Politics of
Improvement
Alan Houston
This fascinating book reinterprets
Benjamin Franklin’s social and political
thought, examining for the first time
his participation in eighteenth-century
debates over the rise of the modern
commercial republic.
Cloth   2008   336 pp.   27 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12447-7  $35.00
New Paperback
The Great Awakening
The Roots of Evangelical
Christianity in Colonial America
Thomas S. Kidd, Baylor
University
In the mid-1700s, an outbreak of reli-
gious revivals shook American colonial
society. This book provides a definitive
history of these revivals, called the First
Great Awakening, and shows how the
movement’s radical notions of the spiri-
tual equality of all people encouraged
the democratic style that later came to
characterize the American republic.
Winner of the 2008 Christianity Today
Award of Merit
2007   416 pp.   15 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11887-2  
$35.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15846-5   $22.00
The Protestant
Interest
New England After Puritanism
Thomas Kidd
Thomas Kidd explores the religious
history of colonial New England dur-
ing a period that witnessed the end
of Puritanism and the emergence of a
revivalist religious movement and global
evangelical awakenings.
Cloth   2004   224 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10421-9  $45.00/$33.75
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Peter’s War
A New England Slave Boy and the
American Revolution
Joyce Lee Malcolm
This riveting biography of a Massa-
chusetts slave boy who fought in the
Revolutionary War illuminates race
relations in the northern colonies, early
battles of the revolution, and the experi-
ences of black soldiers on both sides of
the conflict.
Cloth   2009   272 pp.   4 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11930-5  $28.00
Jonathan Edwards
A Life
George M. Marsden
This definitive biography draws on
newly available sources to reveal how
the internationally famous preacher
was shaped by cultural and religious
battles of his time and how he struggled
to reconcile his Puritan heritage with
the secular world emerging out of the
Enlightenment.
Winner of the Bancroft Prize in American
History for 2004
Paper   2004   640 pp.   30 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10596-4  $22.00
The Shaping of
America
A Geographical Perspective on
500 Years of History, Volume 1:
Atlantic America 1492-1800
D. W. Meinig
In the first book of this four volume
series, Meinig here focuses on colonial
America, examining how an im-
mense diversity of ethnic and religious
groups—Europeans, Africans, American
Indians—ultimately created a set of
distinct regional societies.
Winner of a 1986 Geographic Society of
Chicago Publication Award
Paper   1988   528 pp.   87 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-03882-8  $35.00
Benjamin Franklin
Edmund S. Morgan
The greatest statesman of his age, Ben
Franklin was also a pioneering scientist,
a bestselling author, the first Ameri-
can postmaster general, a printer, a
bon vivant. He was also a man of vast
contradictions. This brilliant biography
by one of our greatest historians offers
a compact and provocative new portrait
of America’s most extraordinary patriot.
Chosen as a Notable Book of the Year by
the New York Times Book Review
2002   352 pp.   20 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-09532-6   $28.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10162-1   $16.00
Not Your Usual
Founding Father
Selected Readings from
Benjamin Franklin
Edited by Edmund S. Morgan
This engaging book reveals Benjamin
Franklin’s human side—his tastes and
habits, his enthusiasms, and his devo-
tion to democracy and the people of
the United States. Historian Edmund
S. Morgan draws on Franklin’s vast
archives to offer insights into the most
unusual founding father, a gregarious
man with boundless curiosity and a
vision of what America could be. 
Paper   2007   320 pp.   14 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12688-4  $16.00
The Fate of the Corps
What Became of the Lewis and
Clark Explorers After the
Expedition
Larry E. Morris
This engaging book is the first to trace
the fascinating histories of the remark-
able men—and one woman—who
were members of the Lewis and Clark
expedition.
Paper   2005   320 pp.   23 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10972-6  $22.50

New
Montesquieu and the
Logic of Liberty
War, Religion, Commerce,
Climate, Terrain, Technology,
Uneasiness of Mind, the Spirit
of Political Vigilance, and the
Foundations of the Modern
Republic
Paul A. Rahe, Hillsdale College
This fresh examination of the works of
Montesquieu seeks to understand the
shortcomings of the modern demo-
cratic state in light of the great political
thinker’s insightful critique of liberal
democracy.
Cloth   2009   400 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14125-2  $45.00
New Paperback
Soft Despotism,
Democracy’s Drift
Montesquieu, Rousseau,
Tocqueville, and the Modern
Prospect
Paul A. Rahe, Hillsdale College
This provocative book draws on the
thinking of three great political
philosophers to diagnose the malady
of today’s liberal democracies: soft
despotism. A condition that occurs as
paternalistic state power expands, soft
despotism may be nonviolent, but it
seriously undermines the spirit of self-
government, says historian Paul Rahe.
2009   400 pp.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14492-5   $38.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16423-7   $25.00
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American History
New
Borderlines in
Borderlands
James Madison and the Spanish-
American Frontier, 1776-1821
J. C. A. Stagg, University of Virginia
This book takes a fresh look at the
acquisition of Spanish borderland terri-
tories from Florida toTexas. The author
reassesses President James Madison’s
diplomatic and expansionist policies as
well as the roles played by a fascinating
cast of local leaders and officials.
Cloth   2009   320 pp.   4 maps
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13905-1  $50.00
The Legacy of the
Mastodon
The Golden Age of Fossils
in America
Keith Thomson
This exciting book tells the story of
America’s golden period of fossil
discovery, the years from 1750 to 1890.
Replete with high adventure, ruthless
competing bone hunters, and previously
unimagined scientific discoveries.
2008   424 pp.   38 b/w illus. + 6 maps
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11704-2   $35.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15129-9   $23.00
Hero, Hawk, and
Open Hand
American Indian Art of the
Ancient Midwest and South
Edited by Richard F. Townsend
This book features a stunning selection
of artworks, artifacts, and ritual objects,
ranging from 3000 B.C. to A.D. 1500.
Published in association with The Art
Institute of Chicago
2004   288 pp. 120 b/w + 320 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10467-7   $70.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10601-5   $40.00
New Paperback
Defying Empire
Trading with the Enemy in
Colonial New York
Thomas M. Truxes, New York
University
This enthralling book uncovers the story
of New York City merchants’ illicit trade
with the enemy during the French and
Indian War, and how British reactions to
this treacherous behavior hastened the
colonies’ march toward revolution.
Finalist for the 2008 Francis Parkman
Prize, sponsored by the Society of
American Historians
2008   304 pp.   20 b/w maps
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11840-7   $30.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16425-1   $22.00
Young Men and the Sea
Yankee Seafarers in the Age of Sail
Daniel Vickers with Vince Walsh
This book focuses on two centuries of
early American maritime history, years
when the Atlantic Ocean beckoned as the
great frontier. Drawing on the records
of seamen who sailed from Salem,
Massachusetts, in the colonial and early
national period, the book details the per-
sonal and social lives of several thousand
seafaring men and their families.
Paper 2005   352 pp.   25 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12366-1   $23.00
Inventing a Nation
Washington, Adams, Jefferson
Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal provides us with a uniquely
irreverent take on America’s founding
fathers. Vidal brings them to life at the
key moments of decision in the birthing
of our nation and considers the impact
of their ideas and personalities on an
America that he views with both pride
and concern.
Paper 2003   208 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10592-6   $14.00
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American History
Bárbaros
Spaniards and Their Savages in
the Age of Enlightenment
David J. Weber
This landmark book explores how
Spain attempted to come to terms with
the native peoples of the Americas in
the late eighteenth century. Spaniards
attempted a variety of solutions to their
problems with “savages”—from gentle
concessions to bloody wars.
Winner of the 2006 John E. Fagg Prize
given by the American Historical
Association
Paper   2006   480 pp.   41 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11991-6  $23.00
The Spanish Frontier
in North America
David Weber
This magisterial book is the definitive
history of the Spanish colonial period
in North America. Authoritative and
colorful, the book describes not only the
Spaniards’ impact on the native peoples,
but also the effect of native North
Americans on the societies and cultures
of the Spanish settlers.
Winner of the 1993 Caughey Western
History Association Prize; Winner of the
National Cowboy Hall of Fame Western
Heritage Award
Paper   1994   304 pp.   75 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-05917-5  $30.00
New
The Spanish Frontier
in North America
The Brief Edition
David J. Weber
This compact synthesis of David J.
Weber’s prize-winning history of
colonial Spanish North America vividly
tells the story of Spain’s 300-year tenure
on the continent.
Paper  2009  320 pp.  40 b/w illus. + 16 maps
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14068-2  $20.00
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New
The Brittle Thread
of Life
Backcountry People Make a Place
for Themselves in Early America
Mark Williams, Loomis Chaffee
School, Connecticut
This innovative microhistory gives
voice to the people of two backcountry
colonial towns in Southern New
England and shows how, following the
Revolution, these rural settlers pushed
the urban elites to put a strongly
democratic stamp on the new nation.
Cloth   2009   288 pp.   15 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13922-8  $45.00
Digging in the City of
Brotherly Love
Stories from Philadelphia
Archaeology
Rebecca Yamin
This intriguing book explores
eighteenth- and nineteenth-century
Philadelphia through the findings
of recent archaeological excavations,
sharing the excitement of reconstruct-
ing long-forgotten lives—craftspeople,
shopkeepers, ministers, free Blacks,
Native Americans, and other ordinary
men and women.
Cloth   2008   264 pp.   132 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10091-4  $35.00
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18th & 19th
Centuries
New
Furs and Frontiers in
the Far North
The Contest among Native and
Foreign Nations for the Bering
Strait Fur Trade
John R. Bockstoce
With expert scholarship and a keen eye
for detail, Bockstoce provides the first
analysis of the historic competition
among the Russians, British, and
Americans for control of Alaska.
Cloth  2009  496 pp.  42 b/w illus. + 10 maps
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14921-0  $35.00
The Talking Book
African Americans and the Bible
Allen Dwight Callahan
This book is the first to explore the
profound impact of the Bible on African
American culture and history, from the
colonial era to the present. Allen Callahan
shows how certain biblical themes have
helped African Americans deal with
extraordinary injustice and find a
collective identity.
Paper   2008   304 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13616-6  $18.00
New
Notes from the Ground
Science, Soil, and Society in the
American Countryside
Benjamin R. Cohen, University
of Virginia
Integrating the history of science, envi-
ronmental history, and science studies,
Notes from the Ground examines the cul-
tural conditions that brought agriculture
and science together in early America.
Cloth   2009   288 pp.   29 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13923-5  $55.00

Vicious
Wolves and Men in America
Jon T. Coleman
In this provocative history of wolves in
America, Jon Coleman investigates the
sometimes violent and always controver-
sial relationship between the two species.
Winner of the Western History
Association’s 2005 W. Turrentine Jackson
Award; Winner of the American Historical
Association’s 2005 John H. Dunning Prize
Paper 2006  288 pp.   3 maps + 16 illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11972-5   $18.50
New
Dominion from
Sea to Sea
Pacific Ascendancy and American
Power
Bruce Cumings, University of
Chicago
In this bold new history, Bruce Cumings
upends the dominant Atlanticist approach
to American history and offers a Pacific
perspective on America’s ascendency
over the past 150 years.
Cloth   2009  672 pp.  21 b/w + 13 color illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11188-0  $38.00
New Paperback
War of a Thousand
Deserts
Indian Raids and the
U.S.-Mexican War
Brian DeLay, University of Colorado
In this radically new account of America’s
watershed victory in the U.S.-Mexican
War, DeLay uncovers the forgotten role
of the Comanches and their native allies.
Winner of the Western History Association’s
2009 Robert M. Utley Award and of the
2009 W. Turrentine Jackson Award
2008   496 pp.   31 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11932-9   $35.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15837-3   $25.00
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American History
Gather Up the
Fragments
The Andrews Shaker Collection
Mario S. De Pillis and
Christian Goodwillie
With more than 600 photographs of
Shaker objects great and small, this
gorgeous catalogue documents the
unparalleled Andrews collection and
for the first time tells the story of how it
came to be.
Distributed for Hancock Shaker Village
Cloth  2008  400 pp.  69 b/w + 599 color illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13760-6  $75.00
New
The Frederick
Douglass Papers
Series 3: Correspondence,
Volume 1: 1842-1852
Frederick Douglass
Edited by John R. McKivigan,
Indiana University-Purdue University,
Indianapolis
This volume represents the first of
a four-volume series of the selected
correspondence of the great American
abolitionist and reformer Frederick
Douglass.
Cloth   2009   728 pp.   10 b/w photos
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13560-2  $125.00/$93.75
A Fragile Freedom
African American Women and
Emancipation in the Antebellum
City
Erica Armstrong Dunbar
A Fragile Freedom investigates how
African American women in Philadel-
phia journeyed from enslavement to the
precarious status of “free persons” in the
decades leading up to the Civil War and
examines comparable developments in
the cities of New York and Boston.
Cloth   2008   212 pp.   13 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12591-7  $55.00
New
Cabin, Quarter,
Plantation
Architecture and Landscapes of
North American Slavery
Edited by Clifton Ellis, Texas Tech
University and Rebecca Ginsburg,
University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign
This important new anthology explains
how the environment of North American
slavery—houses of slaves and slave owners,
dwellings, and workspaces—can instruct
us about the daily lives of slaves and the
impact of slavery on American history and
culture.
Cloth   2010   264 pp.   49 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12042-4  $45.00
New
In the Name of God
and Country
Reconsidering Terrorism in
American History
Michael Fellman, Simon Fraser
University, Vancouver, British Columbia
In this provocative book, Michael Fellman
argues that terrorism, in various forms, has
been a constant and crucial driving force
in America from the Civil War to today. 
Cloth   2010   288 pp.   9 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11510-9  $29.95
New
Defying the Odds
The Tule River Tribe’s Struggle for
Sovereignty in Three Centuries
Gelya Frank, University of Southern
California, and Carole Goldberg,
University of California, Los Angeles
An anthropologist and a legal scholar
combine expertise in this innovative book,
deploying the history of one California
tribe in a definitive study of indigenous
sovereignty from first contact through the
current Indian gaming era.
Cloth   2010   432 pp.   40 b/w illus. + 15 maps
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12016-5  $65.00
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American History
Singing for Freedom
The Hutchinson Family
Singers and the Nineteenth-
Century Culture of Reform
Scott Gac
In the two decades prior to the Civil
War, the Hutchinson Family Singers of
New Hampshire emerged as America’s
most popular musical act. This engaging
book tells the Hutchinsons’ story and
documents their contributions to aboli-
tion and temperance, to the transforma-
tion of American culture, and to the
history of the American protest song.
Cloth   2007   328 pp.   24 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11198-9  $50.00
New
Financial Fraud and
Guerrilla Violence in
Missouri’s Civil War,
1861-1865
Mark W. Geiger
This highly original work explores a pre-
viously unknown financial conspiracy
at the start of the American Civil War.
The book explains the reasons for the
puzzling intensity of Missouri’s guerrilla
conflict, and for the state’s anomalous
experience in Reconstruction.
Cloth   2010   288 pp.   35 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15151-0  $50.00
New
The Bourgeois
Frontier
French Towns, French Traders,
and American Expansion
Jay Gitlin, Yale University
This important work of revisionist
history tells the story of the Bourgeois
Frontier—the French merchants and
families from Mid-America who shaped
the course of western expansion.
Cloth   2009   288 pp.   29 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10118-8  $40.00
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“Liberty to the
Downtrodden”
Thomas L. Kane, Romantic
Reformer
Matthew J. Grow, University of
Southern Indiana
This book draws on newly opened
archives to recount the full story of
the life and achievements of reformer
Thomas L. Kane—abolitionist, women’s
rights advocate, Civil War general, and,
though not a Mormon himself, indefati-
gable defender of the religious rights of
Mormons.
Cloth   2009   368 pp.   16 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13610-4  $40.00
New Paperback
The Comanche
Empire
Pekka Hämäläinen, University of
California, Santa Barbara
This groundbreaking book uncovers the
lost story of the Comanche Indians and
the vast and powerful empire they built
in the eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries. The volume challenges the
idea of indigenous peoples as victims
of European expansion and offers a
new perspective on the history of the
colonization of North America.
Winner of the 2009 Bancroft Prize, given
by Columbia University; Co-winner of
the 2009 Merle Curti Award, presented by
the Organization of American Historians;
Winner of the Caughey Western History
Association Prize given by the Western
History Association
Published in Association with The William
P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies,
Southern Methodist University
2008   512 pp.   12 b/w illus. + 8 maps
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12654-9   $35.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15117-6   $22.00
Selected Writings of
the American
Transcendentalists
Second Edition
Edited by George Hochfield
This volume presents substantial
selections from the writings of such key
American Transcendentalists as Margaret
Fuller, Bronson Alcott, and Theodore
Parker. Included are sermons and diary
entries as well as essays on labor, religion,
education, slavery, women’s rights,
literature, and German metaphysics.
Paper   2004   434 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10281-9  $24.00
Scenes from the
Life of a City
Corruption and Conscience
in Old New York
Eric Homberger
This vividly written book depicts life
in mid-19th century New York—a city
glittering and glamorous yet also plagued
with political corruption, sanitation
problems, and a growing gulf between
rich and poor.
1994   368 pp.   60 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-06041-6   $21.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-06882-5   $36.00
Revolution in Texas
How a Forgotten Rebellion and
Its Bloody Suppression Turned
Mexicans into Americans
Benjamin Heber Johnson
This gripping book describes a little-
known episode of racial violence in U.S.
history: the Plan de San Diego uprising,
which began in 1915 with a series of raids
by ethnic Mexicans and ended when
Texas Rangers staged a bloody counterin-
surgency that took thousands of lives.
Paper   2005   29 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10970-2  $23.00

The Chattel Principle
Internal Slave Trades in the
Americas
Edited by Walter Johnson;
Foreword by David Brion Davis
This wide-ranging book presents the
first comprehensive account of the slave
trade within the nations and colonial
systems of the Americas—Brazil, the
West Indies, and the Southern states of
the United States after the closing of the
Atlantic slave trade.
Paper   2005   400 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10355-7  $40.00
Slavery and the
Commerce Power
How the Struggle Against the
Interstate Slave Trade Led to the
Civil War
David L. Lightner
This groundbreaking book is the first to
tell the story of the struggle to end slave
trading between states in antebellum
America. If the federal government had
the authority to regulate interstate com-
merce, why wasn’t that power invoked to
terminate slave trafficking? The author
offers insights into Congress, the courts,
abolitionists, and the issues that led to
secession and the Civil War.
Cloth   2006   240 pp.   8 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11470-6  $48.00
Murder in Tombstone
The Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp
Steven Lubet
The gunfight at the OK Corral is
legendary—but what happened once
the shooting ended? This book tells the
nearly unknown story of the prosecu-
tion of Wyatt Earp, his brothers, and
Doc Holiday following the gunfight and
shows how a talented defense attorney
saved them from the gallows.
Paper   2006   288 pp.   35 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11527-7  $17.00
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American History
The Shaping
of America
A Geographical Perspective
on 500 Years of History
D. W. Meinig
Volume 2: Continental America,
1800–1867
In this new volume, the second in an
acclaimed series, D. W. Meinig again
provides a fresh interpretation of the
American past, bringing a unique geo-
graphical perspective to the tumultuous
years between 1800 and 1867, when the
nation experienced a dramatic expan-
sion in territory, population, economy,
and political tension that culminated in
the Civil War. As in his first master-
ful volume, Atlantic America, Meinig
assesses the characteristics of regions
and political territories and the relations
among them, examining the dual roles
played by geopolitics and ethnoculture in
the shaping of the United States.
Paper   1995   656 pp.   86 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-06290-8  $37.00
Volume 3: Transcontinental
America, 1850–1915
In this third volume of his acclaimed
series, D. W. Meinig offers a riveting
account of the expanding country’s
development from mid-nineteenth
century to the onset of World War I.
Beginning with the struggle over where
to build the Pacific railway, the book
details the settlement of the American
West, the nation’s increasing consolida-
tion, and America’s imperialist efforts in
the Caribbean and Pacific. Forty superb
new maps accompany the account.
Paper   2000   480 pp.   70 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-08290-6  $32.50
West from
Appomattox
The Reconstruction of America
after the Civil War
Heather Cox Richardson
Organized around the experiences of
real individuals—a plantation mistress, a
prominent industrialist, a Native Ameri-
can warrior, a Northern suffragist,  a black
cowboy, and others—this sweeping history
of Reconstruction brings to life the process
that brought forth a modern America.
2007   416 pp.   23 b/w illus. + 2 maps
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11052-4   $30.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13630-2   $20.00
New
Delia’s Tears
Race, Science, and Photography in
Nineteenth-Century America
Molly Rogers
Foreword by David W. Blight
In the first narrative history of the photo-
graphs of South Carolina slaves made for
the famous naturalist Louis Agassiz, Molly
Rogers tells the story of the photographs,
the people they depict, and the men who
made and used them.
Cloth   2010   384 pp.   36 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11548-2  $37.50
Hotel
An American History
A. K. Sandoval-Strausz
Hotel is a spellbinding history of the
hotel in America—a saga in which
politicians and prostitutes, tourists and
confidence men, celebrities and
salesmen all have a role.
Winner of the American Historical
Association's 2008 Pacific Coast
Branch Award
2007   384 pp.   58 b/w + 93 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10616-9   $37.50
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14202-0   $27.50
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 American History
Women’s Rights
and Transatlantic
Antislavery in the Era
of Emancipation
Edited by Kathryn Kish Sklar
and James Brewer Stewart
This pathbreaking  volume explores  the
intertwining histories of abolitionism
and feminism from 1770-1870. By
comparing and integrating the histories
of these movements in England, Europe,
and the United States, the authors offer a
new perspective on the search for social
justice in that fateful century.
Paper   2007   416 pp.   8 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11593-2  $37.00
William Lloyd
Garrison at
Two Hundred
Edited by James Brewer Stewart
Distinguished scholars and journalists
reconsider the life and legacy of William
Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879), one of
the most radical abolitionists in the
United States. They discuss Garrison’s
strengths and weaknesses as a leader and
the clarity and flaws in his moral vision,
presenting a new evaluation of this
controversial man.
Paper   2008   160 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13658-6  $35.00
The Last Days of the
Sioux Nation
Second Edition
Robert M. Utley
This fascinating account tells what the
Sioux were like when they first came to
their reservation and how their reaction
to the new system eventually led to the
last confrontation between the Army
and the Sioux at the armed clash at
Wounded Knee Creek.
Paper   2004   370 pp.   24 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10316-8  $24.00
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20th Century
New Paperback
The Conservatives
Ideas and Personalities
Throughout American History
Patrick Allitt, Emory University
This lively account of American
conservatism covers the entire span
of U.S. history and introduces major
conservative thinkers from Alexander
Hamilton and Daniel Webster to William
F. Buckley, Jr. and Irving Kristol.
2009   336 pp.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11894-0   $35.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16418-3  $22.00
New
For All the World to See
Visual Culture and the
Struggle for Civil Rights
Maurice Berger, University of
Maryland, Baltimore County;
Foreword by Thulani Davis
This stunning book is the first compre-
hensive examination of the ways that
visual images mattered in the American
civil rights struggle, from photography,
television, and film to magazines,
newspapers, and advertising.
Cloth   2010   224 pp.   125 illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12131-5  $39.95
Cruel and Unusual
The Culture of Punishment in
America
Anne-Marie Cusac
America’s attitudes toward criminals and
punishment have drastically changed,
says the author of this alarming book,
and she explores the cultural roots, sig-
nificance, and far-reaching implications
of the new focus on retribution.
Cloth   2009   336 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11174-3  $27.50
The Eighties
America in the Age of Reagan
John Ehrman
America emerged from the Reagan years
transformed—socially, politically, tech-
nologically, economically. In this book
John Ehrman tracks the extraordinary
changes of the 1980s in the context of
Ronald Reagan’s policies and convic-
tions, providing a balanced portrait of a
president and of the watershed decade
over which he presided.
2005   304 pp.   7 tables
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10662-6   $27.50
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11582-6   $24.00
New
War Without Fronts
The USA in Vietnam
Bernd Greiner, University of
Hamburg; Translated from the
German by Anne Wyburd with
Victoria Fern
Published to considerable controversy in
Germany, this astonishing book draws
on new archival material to reveal the
existence of a systematic U.S. policy
during the Vietnam War to exterminate
Vietnamese civilians whenever and
wherever possible.
Cloth   2009   528 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15451-1  $35.00
Theodore Roosevelt
Preacher of Righteousness
Joshua Hawley
In this book Joshua Hawley examines
Theodore Roosevelt’s political thought
and reassesses the impact of his intel-
lectual legacy. The author contends that
Roosevelt, more than any other figure,
is responsible for the progressive move-
ment, and that he permanently altered
the shape of American politics as well
as expectations for government, social
progress, and the presidency.
Cloth   2008   336 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12010-3  $35.00

New
Jesus and Justice
Evangelicals, Race, and American
Politics
Peter Goodwin Heltzel
This timely and original book examines
the increasing influence of evangelical
Christians in recent American politics
and elections. The author explores
contemporary strains of evangelical
theology that have led some groups to
embrace radical, progressive activism
while others ally themselves with the
religious right and the Republican Party.
Cloth   2009   288 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12433-0  $30.00
New Paperback
The Myth of American
Exceptionalism
Godfrey Hodgson, University of
Oxford
The idea that the United States is
destined to spread its unique gifts of
democracy and capitalism to other
countries is dangerous for Americans
and for the rest of the world, warns an
eminent British commentator.
2009   240 pp.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12570-2   $26.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16419-0   $18.00
New
Ideology and U.S.
Foreign Policy
Michael H. Hunt; With a New
Afterword by the Author
This new edition of Michael H. Hunt’s
classic reinterpretation of American
diplomatic history includes a preface
that surveys the broad impact of the
book’s argument.
Paper   2009   288 pp.   32 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13925-9  $20.00
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American History
New
War by Land, Sea,
and Air
Dwight Eisenhower and the
Concept of Unified Command
David Jablonsky
A retired U.S. Army colonel and military
historian takes a fresh look at Dwight
D. Eisenhower’s lasting military legacy,
in light of his evolving approach to the
concept of unified command.
Cloth   2010   416 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15389-7  $35.00
The FBI
A History
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
This fast-paced account of the history
of the FBI presents the first balanced
and complete portrait of the powerful
and oft-criticized institution. Rhodri
Jeffreys-Jones offers a new take on the
origins and mission of the bureau, the
significance of J. Edgar Hoover’s term
as director, the bureau’s pre-emptive
anti-terrorist capabilities before and after
9/11, and more.
2008   320 pp.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11914-5   $27.50
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14284-6   $18.00
Spiritual Radical
Abraham Joshua Heschel in
America, 1940-1972
Edward K. Kaplan
In this powerful sequel to Abraham
Joshua Heschel: Prophetic Witness,
Edward Kaplan tells the story of
Heschel’s life and work in America,
after his escape from Nazism.
Winner of the 2007 National Jewish Book
Award in the American Jewish Studies
category given by the Jewish Book Council
2007   544 pp.   53 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11540-6   $40.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15139-8   $26.00
One America in the
21st Century
The Report of President Bill
Clinton’s Initiative on Race
Edited and with an Introduction
by Steven F. Lawson; Foreword by
John Hope Franklin
This volume publishes for the first time
the report of President Clinton’s Commis-
sion on Race Initiative, an important but
neglected document that offers an array
of recommendations to improve race
relations in the diverse America of the
21st century.
Paper   2008   240 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11669-4  $20.00
From the New Deal
to the New Right
Race and the Southern Origins of
Modern Conservatism
Joseph E. Lowndes, University of
Oregon
The South’s transition from Demo-
cratic stronghold to Republican base
has frequently been viewed as a recent
occurrence. But as Joseph Lowndes argues
in this book, this rightward shift was the
result of the long-term development of an
alliance between Southern segregationists
and Northern conservatives.
2008   224 pp.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12183-4   $35.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15123-7   $20.00
Last Rites
John Lukacs
A master historian here offers an eloquent
and personal recollection of a life in ideas.
John Lukacs integrates his conception of
history and human knowledge with mem-
ories of his life in Hungary, in the U.S.,
and with his family in a distinctive work
that—like every other he has penned—
challenges, informs, and delights.
Cloth   2009   208 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11438-6  $25.00
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American History
New
The Legacy of the
Second World War
John Lukacs
In this probing book the master
historian John Lukacs explores lasting
questions and enigmas about World War
II, its consequences, and its persistent
legacy.
Cloth   2010   208 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11439-3  $26.00
Churchill: Visionary.
Statesman. Historian.
John Lukacs
This powerful book presents a clear-eyed
view of Winston Churchill, the workings
of his historical imagination, and his
successes and failures as a statesman.
Written by the best-selling author of
Five Days in London, May 1940, the
book sets forth the essence of one of the
towering figures of twentieth-century
history. 
2002   224 pp.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-09769-6   $25.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10302-1   $15.00
Five Days in London,
May 1940
John Lukacs
The days from May 24 to May 28,
1940 altered the course of the history
of this century, as the members of the
British War Cabinet debated whether to
negotiate with Hitler or to continue the
war. The decisive importance of these
five days is the focus of John Lukacs’s
magisterial new book.
Paper   2001   256 pp.   illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-08466-5  $11.95
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New Paperback
Baghdad at Sunrise
A Brigade Commander’s War in Iraq
Peter R. Mansoor, Ohio State
University
This book offers an unprecedented
on-the-ground account of the crucial
first year of the war in Iraq. Colonel
Peter Mansoor assesses the successes and
failures of military operations against the
insurgency and underscores the critical
lessons to be learned from them.
2008   416 pp.   25 b/w illus.; 4 maps in text
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14069-9   $28.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15847-2   $18.00
New
Superpower Illusions
How Myths and False Ideologies
Led America Astray—And How to
Return to Reality
Jack F. Matlock, Jr., Columbia
University
Former U.S. ambassador to the
USSR Jack F. Matlock demolishes central
myths behind America’s present foreign
policy—including the idea that the U.S.
destroyed Communism and ended the
Cold War—and makes bold recommen-
dations for the Obama administration.
Cloth   2010   368 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13761-3  $30.00
The Informant
The FBI, the Ku Klux Klan, and
the Murder of Viola Liuzzo
Gary May
The murder of Viola Liuzzo, the only
white woman killed during the Civil
Rights Movement, shocked the nation.
This compelling book documents
the even more shocking story of FBI
informant Tommy Rowe, who not only
infiltrated the KKK but also became a
violent participant.
Cloth   2005   448 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10635-0  $35.00
Woodrow Wilson
Princeton to the Presidency
W. Barksdale Maynard
This book offers a vivid account of
Wilson’s stormy tenure as president of
Princeton University, where acrimony
and failure followed initial successes
and foreshadowed his terms as U.S.
President.
Winner of the 2009 Richard P. McCormick
Prize, given by the New Jersey Historical
Commission
Cloth   2008   416 pp.   40 scattered b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13604-3  $30.00
New Paperback
Auto Mania
Cars, Consumers, and the
Environment
Tom McCarthy, United States Naval
Academy
Spanning the automobile’s entire history,
this book is the first to relate consumer
behavior to the wider environmental
impact of cars—from raw materials and
manufacturing to use and disposal.
2007   368 pp.   52 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11038-8   $32.50
Paper  ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15848-9  $20.00
Picturing Faith
Photography and the Great
Depression
Colleen McDannell
In riveting pictures and text this book
tells the story of an ambitious national
photographic project initiated by the
American government during the Great
Depression. Then-unknown photogra-
phers such as Dorothea Lange, Walker
Evans, and Gordon Parks farmed out
across America, chronicling the rich
religious vitality of the nation.
Cloth   2004   336 pp.   128 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10430-1  $52.00

Making Indian Law
The Hualapai Land Case and the
Birth of Ethnohistory
Christian W. McMillen
This is the story of a groundbreaking
Supreme Court decision in 1941 that
changed the field of Indian law. Threat-
ened by railroad claims to their lands,
Arizona’s Hualapai people engaged in
a legal battle, emerged victorious, and
along the way introduced revolutionary
new ways of thinking about all native
peoples, their property, and their past.
Winner of the American Society for Legal
History’s 2008 William Nelson Cromwell
Book Award and the 2008 John Phillip
Reid Book Award; Winner of the 2008
Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize, given by
the American Society for Ethnohistory
2007   304 pp.   2 maps
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11460-7   $40.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14329-4  $25.00
The Shaping of
America
A Geographical Perspective on
500 Years of History
D. W. Meinig
Volume 4: Global America,
1915–2000
This landmark book, the concluding
volume in a magisterial series, presents
the story of America’s interwoven his-
tory and geography from 1915 to 2000.
Discussing such developments as the
automotive, neotechnic, and commu-
nications revolutions, the world wars,
urban migration, and regionalism, D.W.
Meinig offers unprecedented insights
into the reshaping of the United States.
Winner of the 2005 John Brinckerhoff
Jackson Prize sponsored by the
Association of American Geographers
2004   488 pp.   94 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10432-5   $55.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11528-4  $32.50
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American History
New
A Question of
Command
Counterinsurgency from the Civil
War to Iraq
Mark Moyar, U.S. Marine Corps
University; Foreword by Donald
Kagan and Frederick Kagan
This timely book argues for a new ap-
proach by American forces in Iraq and
Afghanistan based on a reexamination of
the history of counterinsurgency warfare
in U.S. history.
Cloth   2009   368 pp.   7 maps, 20 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15276-0  $30.00
New Paperback
The American Far
West in the Twentieth
Century
Earl Pomeroy; Edited by Richard
W. Etulain; Foreword by Howard R.
Lamar
In this monumental history, the most
respected western scholar of our time
draws a nuanced and highly original
portrait of the American West in the
twentieth century.
2008   600 pp.   62 b/w illus. & maps
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12073-8   $35.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15852-6   $25.00
The Jews of Boston
Edited by Jonathan D. Sarna,
Ellen Smith, and Scott-Martin
Kosofsky
This stunning work traces the com-
munity from its tentative beginnings in
colonial Boston through its emergence
in the twentieth century as one of the
most influential and successful Jewish
communities in America.
Published in collaboration with the
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston
Paper   2005   384 pp.   110 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10787-6  $29.95
New
Preserving Nature in
the National Parks
A History; With a New Preface
and Epilogue
Richard Sellars
This book traces the epic clash of values
between traditional scenery-and-tour-
ism management and emerging eco-
logical concepts in the national parks,
America’s most treasured landscapes. It
spans the period from the creation of
Yellowstone National Park in 1872 to
near the present, analyzing the manage-
ment of fires, predators, elk, bear, and
other natural phenomena in parks such
as Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Can-
yon, and Great Smoky Mountains.
Winner of the Eastern National’s 1997
Authors Award in the field of natural
science or history
Paper   2009   440 pp.   25 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15414-6  $27.50
New
One Nation Under
Contract
The Outsourcing of American
Power and the Future of Foreign
Policy
Allison Stanger, Middlebury College 
Government contracting of foreign
policy is a scandal—yet, argues Allison
Stanger, we cannot turn back the clock
and fold the outsourced functions back
into government, so we had better learn
to do outsourcing right.
Cloth   2009   256 pp.   7 charts
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15265-4  $26.00
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 American History
New
Pivotal Decade
How the United States Traded
Factories for Finance in the
Seventies
Judith Stein
In this fascinating new history, Judith
Stein argues that in order to understand
our current economic crisis we need
to look back to the 1970s and the end
of the age of the factory—the era of
postwar liberalism, created by the New
Deal, whose practices, high wages, and
regulated capital produced both robust
economic growth and greater income
equality.
Cloth   2010   384 pp.   10 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11818-6  $32.50
New
The Sacco-Vanzetti
Affair
America on Trial
Moshik Temkin, Harvard
University’s Kennedy School of
Government
What began as the obscure local case
of two Italian immigrant anarchists
accused of robbery and murder soon
flared into an unprecedented cause
célèbre. This book is the first to reveal
the full international scope of the Sacco-
Vanzetti affair, tracing its enduring
implications for America at home and
abroad.
Selected for the long list of the 2009
Cundill International Prize in History at
McGill University
Cloth   2009   344 pp.   20 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12484-2  $35.00
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Fugitive Landscapes
The Forgotten History of the
U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Samuel Truett
This book explores how efforts to tame
the U.S.-Mexico borderlands in the
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
ran aground, telling a forgotten story
of unfulfilled dreams with lessons for
contemporary border relations.
Paper   2008   272 pp.   27 b/w illus
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14331-7  $22.00
New
Savages and
Scoundrels
The Untold Story of America’s
Road to Empire through Indian
Territory
Paul VanDevelder
This book demolishes myths about
America’s westward expansion and
uncovers a shocking historical pat-
tern of governmental deception and
malfeasance in treaties signed—and
just as often breached—with Native
Americans.
Cloth   2009   352 pp.   14 b/w in gallery
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12563-4  $26.00
New Paperback
The Woman Who
Walked into the Sea
Huntington’s and the Making of a
Genetic Disease
Alice Wexler
Foreword by Nancy S. Wexler
This groundbreaking book is the first to
trace the history of Huntington’s disease
in America, from a despairing victim
who committed suicide in 1806 to the
genetic discoveries of our own times.
2008   288 pp.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10502-5   hero tells us about our dreams, fears, and
$30.00
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$20.00   
Icons of America
Icons of America is a series of short
works written by leading scholars,
critics, and writers, each of whom
tells a new and innovative story about
American history and culture through
the lens of a single iconic individual,
event, object, or cultural phenomenon.
New
The Big House
Image and Reality of the American
Prison
Stephen Cox, University of
California, San Diego
Stephen Cox tells the story of the
American prison—its politics, its sex,
its violence, its inability to control
itself—and its idealization in American
popular culture.
Cloth   2009   256 pp.   25 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12419-4  $26.00
New
Andy Warhol
Arthur C. Danto
The eminent art critic and philosopher
Arthur Danto presents an elegant and
masterful portrait of Andy Warhol’s life,
character, and lasting influence.
Cloth   2009   192 pp.   6 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13555-8  $24.00
New
Our Hero
Superman on Earth
Tom De Haven, Virginia
Commonwealth University
From the author of It’s Superman!, an
exuberant and original exploration of
what America’s most iconic comic book
our national identity.
Cloth   2010   240 pp.   13 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11817-9  $24.00

Icons of America
New Paperback
Fred Astaire
Joseph Epstein
This portrait of Fred Astaire, widely
acclaimed as America’s greatest male
dancer, explores his life, his unforget-
table movie performances with Ginger
Rogers and other great dance partners,
and how he came to represent the very
essence of style, class, and charm.
2008   224 pp.   2 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11695-3   $22.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15844-1   $15.00
Wall Street
America’s Dream Palace
Steve Fraser
Steve Fraser recounts the colorful history
of America’s love-hate relationship with
Wall Street, showing how the nation still
wrestles with fundamental questions of
wealth and work, democracy and elitism,
greed and salvation.
2008   208 pp.   6 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11755-4   $22.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15143-5   $14.00
New Paperback
Frankly, My Dear
Gone with the Wind Revisited
Molly Haskell
In this lively exploration of Gone with
the Wind, Molly Haskell traces the com-
plexities of both the book and movie,
and shows why Rhett and Scarlett’s saga
is still riveting, more than seventy years
after Margaret Mitchell created it.
2009   272 pp.   15 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11752-3   $24.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16437-4   $15.00
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American History
New Paperback
Alger Hiss and the
Battle for History
Susan Jacoby
In this highly original work, Susan
Jacoby turns her attention to the Hiss
case, including his trial and imprison-
ment for perjury, as a mirror of shifting
American political views and passions.
2009   272 pp.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12133-9  $24.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16441-1  $16.00
New
The Liberty Bell
Gary B. Nash, UCLA
In this masterful work of cultural history
rooted in detailed research, Gary B. Nash
reveals how and why the flawed, voiceless
Liberty Bell continues to speak such
volumes about our nation.
Cloth   2010   256 pp.   23 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13936-5  $24.00
The Hamburger
A History
Josh Ozersky
A lively and entertaining history of
the hamburger and why it is no mere
sandwich in America, but an icon. Josh
Ozersky uncovers an array of facts and
stories about the hamburger’s evolution
and chronicles how the burger has
reflected—and even shaped—American
business and culture.
2008   160 pp.   15 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11758-5   $22.00
Paper  ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15125-1   $14.00
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New Paperback
Gypsy
The Art of the Tease
Rachel Shteir, DePaul University
This revealing biography of Gypsy Rose
Lee—an American icon who brought
striptease from the margins of American
life to Broadway, Hollywood, and Main
Street—uncovers the long-obscured
facts of her life and sets her accomplish-
ments in the context of mid-20th-
century American culture.
2009   240 pp.   9 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12040-0   $24.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16448-0  $15.00
New Paperback
King’s Dream
The Legacy of Martin Luther
King’s “I Have a Dream” Speech
Eric J. Sundquist, UCLA
In this new assessment of Martin Luther
King, Jr.’s 1963 “I have a dream” speech,
Sundquist explores its place in the long
history of American debates about
equality and race, and why it is now
hailed as the most powerful American
address of the twentieth century.
2009   320 pp.   16 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11807-0   $26.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15859-5  $14.00
New
Small Wonder
The Little Red Schoolhouse in
History and Memory
Jonathan Zimmerman, New York
University
An engaging history of the one-room
school and how successive generations
of Americans have remembered—and
just as often misremembered—this
iconic institution.
Cloth   2009   256 pp.   15 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12326-5  $26.00
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 Atlantic History
New Paperback
The Discovery of
Mankind
Atlantic Encounters in the Age of
Columbus
David Abulafia
The discovery of native peoples in
the Atlantic world came as a shock
to Columbus and other European
explorers. This book uses the vivid
eyewitness accounts of diaries and letters
to uncover what these first encounters
were like and why the initial sense of
wonder gave way to vicious exploitation.
2008   408 pp.   30 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12582-5   $35.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15821-2   $25.95
Spain, Europe and
the Wider World
1500-1800
J.H. Elliott
This extraordinarily wide-ranging
volume gathers together historian J. H.
Elliott’s recent writings on politics, art,
culture, and ideas in Europe and the
colonial worlds from 1500 to 1800.
Cloth   2009   352 pp.   31 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14537-3  $38.00
Empires of the
Atlantic World
Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830
J. H. Elliott
In this enthralling account of the
entwined histories of Britain, Spain, and
their empires in the Americas, distin-
guished historian J. H. Elliott offers us
history on a grand scale.
Winner of the Society of American
Historians’ 2007 Francis Parkman Prize
2006   560 pp.   40 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11431-7   $55.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12399-9   $29.00
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New
Oceans of Wine
Madeira and the Emergence of
American Trade and Taste
David Hancock
This innovative book examines the
Portuguese-American Madeira wine
trade from 1640 to 1815, demonstrating
how the trade helped shape the Atlantic
world and American society.
Cloth  2009  680 pp.   57 b/w + 16 color illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13605-0  $50.00
New Paperback
Pilgrims
New World Settlers and the Call
of Home
Susan Hardman Moore
This book uncovers the stories of
hundreds of English pilgrims who
came to the New World in the 1630s
but decided not to stay. The extensive
original research for the book provides
illuminating information on the colonial
experiment in the New World as well
as the religious and political tumults in
the Old.
2008   336 pp.   16 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11718-9   $35.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16405-3   $25.00
New
Colour of Paradise
The Emerald in the Age of
Gunpowder Empires
Kris Lane
Tapping a wide range of sources, Kris
Lane traces the complex web of global
trading networks that funneled emeralds
from backland South America to popu-
lous Asian capitals between the sixteenth
and the eighteenth centuries.
Cloth   2010   320 pp.   16 pp. color illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16131-1  $40.00
New Paperback
Hakluyt’s Promise
An Elizabethan’s Obsession for an
English America
Peter C. Mancall
The most comprehensive portrait yet
of Richard Hakluyt, a contemporary of
Shakespeare and the indefatigable
promoter of English colonies in the
New World.
2007   400 pp.   44 b/w illus. + 1 map
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11054-8   $40.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16422-0   $28.00
New Paperback
All Can Be Saved
Religious Tolerance and Salvation in
the Iberian Atlantic World
Stuart B. Schwartz
This groundbreaking book is the first to
investigate the idea of religious tolerance
in Spain, Portugal, and their New World
colonies during the era of the Inquisition.
Winner of the 2008 Cundill International
Prize in History; Winner of the 2009
American Academy of Religion Book Award;
Winner of the 2009 John E. Fagg Prize, of
the 2009 Leo Gershoy Award, and of the
2009 George L. Mosse Prize, all given by
the American Historical Association
2008 pp.   12 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12580-1   $40.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15854-0   $25.00
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 British & European History
Medieval & Renaissance / Reformation
New
Anne Boleyn
Fatal Attractions
G. W. Bernard, University of
Southampton
Drawing on a wide-ranging forensic
examination of sixteenth-century
sources, G. W. Bernard offers a fresh
portrait of one of England’s most
captivating queens.
Cloth   2010   256 pp.   16 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16245-5  $30.00
Bannockburn
The Triumph of Robert the Bruce
David Cornell
In Bannockburn, Robert the Bruce’s
vastly outnumbered Scottish troops
spectacularly defeated the English army
led by Edward II. This groundbreaking
book brings the battle to life with color-
ful detail and fresh insights, explaining
what happened in the years leading to
1314, how the battle unfolded, and the
impact of its legacy in both Scotland
and England.
Cloth   2009   296 pp.   16 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14568-7  $45.00
New Paperback
The Arts of Intimacy
Christians, Jews, and Muslims in
the Making of Castilian Culture
Jerrilynn D. Dodds, City
College of New York, María Rosa
Menocal, Yale University, and
Abigail Krasner Balbale
This lavishly illustrated book explores
medieval Castilian culture and the Ara-
bic, Hebrew, and Christian strands that
are inextricably woven into its fabric.
2008   416 pp.   200 color + 10 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10609-1   $40.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14214-3  $24.00
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Out of the East
Spices and the Medieval
Imagination
Paul Freedman, Yale University
Paul Freedman surveys the history, geog-
raphy, economics, and culinary tastes of
the Middle Ages to uncover the surpris-
ingly varied ways that spices were put to
use. Spices became symbols of beauty,
affluence, taste, and grace, Freedman
shows, and their expense and fragrance
drove the engines of commerce and con-
quest at the dawn of the modern era.
2008   288 pp.   21 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11199-6   $30.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15135-0   $20.00
New
Empty Bottles of
Gentilism
Kingship and the Divine in Late
Antiquity and the Early Middle
Ages (to 1050)
Francis Oakley
In this book, Francis Oakley explores
the roots of secular political thinking
by examining the political ideology and
institutions of Hellenistic and late Ro-
man antiquity and of the early European
middle ages.
Cloth   2010   320 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15538-9  $38.00
New
The Book in the
Renaissance
Andrew Pettegree, University of St.
Andrews
A groundbreaking study of the fascinat-
ing world of books in the first great age
of print, from 1450–1600.
Cloth   2010   448 pp.   69 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11009-8  $40.00
New
Edward II
J.R.S. Phillips
The definitive biography of Edward II.
Cloth   2010   650 pp.   20 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15657-7  $45.00/$33.75
New Paperback
The Second Crusade
Extending the Frontiers of
Christendom
Jonathan Phillips, University of London
This definitive book casts new light on the
origins, planning, and execution of the
Second Crusade, uncovering its profound
impact on both Europe and the Middle East.
2008   336 pp.   12 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11274-0  $40.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16475-6  $26.00
New Paperback
The Raven King
Matthias Corvinus and the Fate of
His Lost Library
Marcus Tanner
This book is the first in English to tell the
gripping story of the Raven King, Matthias
Corvinus, and of the fate of his fabled
2000-volume library.
2008   288 pp.   16 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12034-9   $35.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15828-1 $22.00
New
The Virgin Warrior
The Life and Death of Joan of Arc
Larissa Juliet Taylor, Colby College
This biography of Joan of Arc paints a vivid
portrait of the teenaged French peasant
girl whose charisma and sheer force of will
electrified those around her and struck
terror into the hearts of the English soldiers
and leaders.
Cloth   2009   320 pp.   16 pp. b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11458-4  $30.00
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British & European History
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Queen of France, Queen of
England
Ralph V. Turner
Untangling the myths and legends of
many centuries, this definitive biography
gives us the real Eleanor of Aquitaine—
wife of two kings, mother of two kings, a
tenacious and ambitious twelfth-century
queen who carved a unique position for
herself in a society hostile to the idea of a
woman in power.
Cloth   2009   416 pp.   16 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11911-4  $35.00
New
The Medieval Heart
Heather Webb, The Ohio State
University
In this debut, Heather Webb studies
medieval notions of the heart to explore
the “lost circulations” of an era when
individual lives and bodies were defined
by their extensions into the world rather
than as self-perpetuating, self-limited
entities.
Cloth   2010   256 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15393-4  $55.00
New Paperback
Shopping in the
Renaissance
Consumer Cultures in Italy,
1400-1600
Evelyn Welch, University of London
This fascinating and original book
focuses on the Italian Renaissance mar-
ketplace and the activity of shopping.
With new information on nearly every
page, the book investigates consumption
by people of different classes, the provi-
sion of foodstuffs, acquiring antiquities
and holy relics, who shopped, and where
they went to buy goods.
Winner of the Wolfson Foundation  Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-09185-4   $29.00
History Prize 2005
Paper   2009   256 pp.  80 b/w + 40 color illus
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15985-1  $35.00
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16th & 17th
Centuries
New
Church, Society, and
Religious Change in
France, 1580-1730
Joseph Bergin, University of
Manchester
This readable and engaging book by an
acclaimed historian is the only wide-
ranging synthesis devoted to the French
experience of religious change during
the period after the wars of religion up
to the early Enlightenment.
Cloth   2009   506 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15098-8  $55.00
New
The Italian Inquisition
Christopher F. Black, University
of Glasgow
The Italian Inquisition, or Holy Office,
was established in 1542, stimulated
partly by the earlier Spanish operation.
This pioneering book explores the
significant differences between their
operations, targets, and casualties.
Cloth   2009   352 pp.   16 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11706-6  $55.00
Saints and Sinners
A History of the Popes;
Third Edition
Eamon Duffy
This engrossing book encompasses the
extraordinary history of the papacy,
from its beginnings nearly two thousand
years ago to the present day. In this
new edition, the final chapter has been
expanded to cover the last years of John
Paul II and the election of Benedict XVI.
Paper   2006   496 pp.   16 pp. color illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11597-0  $22.00
New
Fires of Faith
Catholic England under Mary Tudor
Eamon Duffy, University of
Cambridge
A controversial reassessment of Mary
Tudor’s efforts to eradicate Protestantism
and restore Catholicism in mid-sixteenth-
century England, written by a leading
authority on the history of Christianity.
Cloth   2009   280 pp.   30 color illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15216-6  $28.50
The Stripping of the
Altars
Traditional Religion in England,
1400–1580, Second Edition
Eamon Duffy
This prize-winning account of the
pre-Reformation church shows that late
medieval Catholicism was a strong and
vigorous tradition, and that the Reforma-
tion represented a violent rupture from
a popular and theologically respectable
religious system.
Winner of the Longman-History Today
Book of the Year Award
Paper   2005   700 pp.   141 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10828-6  $23.00
The Voices of
Morebath
Reformation and Rebellion in an
English Village
Eamon Duffy
This delightful book shows how a tiny
Catholic community rebelled, was
punished, and reluctantly accepted
Protestantism under the demands of
the Elizabethan state.
Winner of the Hawthornden Prize for
Literature
2001   208 pp.   26 b/w + 16 color illus.
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-09825-9   $16.00
 British & European History
New
Calvin
Bruce Gordon, Yale Divinity School
This brilliant new portrait of Protestant
reformer John Calvin reveals his human
complexity, the sources of his convic-
tions, and how he inspired and trans-
formed the sixteenth-century world. The
book captures a man at once arrogant,
charismatic, unforgiving, generous, and
shrewd.
Cloth   2009   416 pp.   12 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12076-9  $35.00
New
Boyle
Between God and Science
Michael Hunter, University of
London
This extraordinary work is the first
biography in a generation of one of
the world’s most important scientists,
Robert Boyle—a pioneer of the modern
experimental method, the champion of
a novel mechanical view of nature, and
a penetrating thinker regarding philo-
sophical and theologicail issues related
to science.
Cloth   2009   400 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12381-4  $55.00
New
The Escorial
Art and Power in the Renaissance
Henry Kamen
The acclaimed historian Henry Kamen
explores one of the world’s most iconic
buildings, as well as the monarch who
created it.
Cloth   2010   336 pp.   36 illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16244-8  $35.00
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New
Image Wars
Promoting Kings and Common-
wealths in England, 1603-1660
Kevin Sharpe, University of London
From the crowning of James I to the
end of Cromwell’s protectorate, Kevin
Sharpe examines how England’s leaders
attempted to represent themselves in
words, pictures, and performances in
order to win support and to secure and
enhance their authority.
Cloth   2010   512 pp.   90 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16200-4  $55.00
Selling the Tudor
Monarchy
Authority and Image in Sixteenth-
Century England
Kevin Sharpe
While “spin” may seem a political tool
of modern times, British monarchs were
practicing the art of image management
even in the sixteenth century. This book
is the first to examine in detail how
Tudor kings and queens, notably Henry
VIII and Elizabeth I, sought to sustain
and enhance authority by carefully craft-
ing their public images.
Cloth   2009   588 pp.   66 illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14098-9  $45.00
The Familiarity of
Strangers
The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno,
and Cross-Cultural Trade in the
Early Modern Period
Francesca Trivellato, Yale University
This groundbreaking book takes a new
approach to the study of cross-cultural
trade. The author focuses on the early
modern Jewish diasporic community of
Livorno, Tuscany, and its extensive busi-
ness ties with Jews and non-Jews across
the Mediterranean and Europe.
Cloth   2009   488 pp.   19 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13683-8  $50.00
New
Warrior Generals
Winning the British Civil Wars
Malcolm Wanklyn, University of
Wolverhampton
In this bold history of the men who
directed and determined the outcome
of the mid-seventeenth-century British
wars—from Cromwell, Fairfax, and
Essex to many more lesser-known
figures—military historian Malcolm
Wanklyn offers the first assessment of
leadership and the importance of
command in the civil wars.
Cloth   2010   336 pp.   8 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11308-2  $55.00
New
The Marvelous Hairy
Girls
The Gonzales Sisters and Their
Worlds
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
This book tells the extraordinary story
of a sixteenth-century family afflicted
with a rare genetic condition that made
them unusually hairy. Neither mocked
nor shunned, the three Gonzales sisters
were welcomed in the courts of Europe,
and their lives offer fascinating insights
into their times and attitudes toward
beastliness, monstrosity, and gender.
Cloth   2009   250 pp.   40 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12733-1  $30.00
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British & European History
18th Century
On Empire, Liberty,
and Reform
Speeches and Letters
Edmund Burke
Edited by David Bromwich
This anthology of Edmund Burke’s im-
portant speeches, letters, and pamphlets
shows the genius of the great eighteenth-
century British statesman and the depth
of his concern with reform—particu-
larly in America, India, and Ireland.
2000   536 pp.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-08146-6   $60.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-08147-3   $26.00
New
Britons
Forging the Nation 1707-1837
Revised Edition
Linda Colley
This brilliant and seminal book
examines how a more cohesive British
nation was invented after 1707 and how
this new national identity was nurtured
through war, religion, trade, and empire.
Lavishly illustrated and powerful, this
edition contains an extensive new pref-
ace by the author.
Paper   2009
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15280-7  $22.00
New
When London Was
Capital of America
Julie Flavell
In this first-ever portrait of eighteenth-
century London as the capital of
America, Julie M. Flavell recreates the
famous city’s heyday as the center of
an empire that encompassed North
America and the West Indies.
Cloth   2010   336 pp.   36 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13739-2  $30.00
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Blood Sport
Hunting in Britain since 1066
Emma Griffin, University of East
Anglia
This lively book recounts the long and
colorful history of hunting in Britain,
from William the Conqueror’s estab-
lishment of royal forests to the fierce
debates provoked by the Hunting with
Dogs Act of 2004. Hunting has always
been a source of social conflict, the book
shows, and understanding this history
can provide useful insights into divisive
issues today.
2007   296 pp.   32 b/w illus.
Cloth  ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11628-1  $55.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14545-8  $25.00
New
The Culture of Nature
in Britain, 1680-1860
P.M. Harman
This wide-ranging book investigates
the emergence of modern ideas about
the natural world in Britain from 1680–
1860 through an examination of the
cultural values common to the sciences,
art, literature, and natural theology.
Cloth   2009   400 pp.   17 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15197-8  $65.00
The Atmosphere of
Heaven
The Unnatural Experiments of Dr
Beddoes and His Sons of Genius
Mike Jay
This book tells the strange story of mav-
erick doctor Thomas Beddoes, whose
medical researchers in Bristol, England
discovered the mind-altering effects of
inhaling nitrous oxide in the late 1700s.
Cloth   2009   296 pp.   24 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12439-2  $30.00
New
Enlightened Pleasures
Eighteenth-Century France and
the New Epicureanism
Thomas M. Kavanagh, Yale
University
In this daring book, Thomas Kavanagh
overturns the prevailing scholarly
tradition that views eighteenth century
France as primarily the incubator of the
Revolution. Instead, Kavanagh demon-
strates how the art and literature of the
era put the experience of pleasure at the
center of the cultural agenda, leading to
advances in both ethics and esthetics.
Cloth   2010   264 pp.   21 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14094-1  $45.00
New
Civil Society and
Empire
Ireland and Scotland in the
Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
James Livesey, University of Sussex
James Livesey traces the origins of the
modern conception of civil society to
the provincial societies of Ireland and
Scotland in the eighteenth century and
shows how this conception remains
central to the current political debate.
Cloth   2009   304 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13902-0  $45.00
New Paperback
The Hellfire Clubs
Sex, Satanism and Secret Societies
Evelyn Lord
This authoritative account of the
secret Hell-Fire Clubs that scandalized
eighteenth-century England reveals
who joined them, why the clubs became
popular, and which of the many notori-
ous legends about orgies, erotic libraries,
and blasphemous rituals are true.
2008   250 pp.   b/w plate section
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11667-0   $32.50
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16402-2   $25.00
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New
The Enlightened
Economy
An Economic History of Britain
1700-1850
Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University
and Tel Aviv University
This incisive examination of the origins
of the modern economy during the
Industrial Revolution also explains why
this phenomenon came to fruition in
Britain.
Cloth   2009   550 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12455-2  $45.00
New
1688
The First Modern Revolution
Steve Pincus, Yale University
In this bold new narrative history Steve
Pincus argues that England’s Glorious
Revolution was a fundamental turning
point in the making of the modern
world. “An important, fresh, and imagi-
native work of scholarship.”—Bernard
Bailyn, New York Review of Books
Cloth   2009   664 pp.   72 scattered b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11547-5  $40.00
New
Horace Walpole’s
Strawberry Hill
Edited by Michael Snodin
This timely and groundbreaking study
of the history and reception of Horace
Walpole’s extraordinary collections
coincides with a planned restoration of
his home, Strawberry Hill.
Published in association with the Yale Center
for British Art
Cloth   2009   356 pp.   300 color illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12574-0  $85.00
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New
The Anti-
Enlightenment
Tradition
Zeev Sternhell, Hebrew University;
Translated by David Maisel
In this masterful work of historical
scholarship, Zeev Sternhell, an inter-
nationally renowned authority on the
subject, presents a controversial new
view of the origins of Fascism.
Cloth   2009   544 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13554-1  $55.00
New
The Town House in
Georgian London
Rachel Stewart, University of
Reading
Stepping away from conventional
analyses of materials or style and into
the previously unexplored world of the
house owner, this book takes a fresh
look at both the social, as well as the
architectural, importance of  the 18th-
century London town house.
Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for
Studies in British Art
Cloth   2009  192 pp.  60 b/w + 20 color illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15277-7  $65.00
New
History and the
Enlightenment
Hugh Trevor-Roper
This volume brings together some of
the most original and radical writings
of Hugh Trevor-Roper’s career—many
hitherto inaccessible, one never before
published— focusing on the writing
and understanding of history in the
eighteenth century.
Cloth   2010   352 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13934-1  $40.00
New
Behind Closed Doors
At Home in Georgian England
Amanda Vickery, University of
London
In this brilliant new work, Amanda
Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian
England to examine the lives of the
people who lived there. Writing with her
customary wit and verve, she introduces
us to men and women from all walks of
life: gentlewoman Anne Dormer in her
stately Oxfordshire mansion, bachelor
clerk and future novelist Anthony Trol-
lope in his dreary London lodgings, gen-
teel spinsters keeping up appearances
in two rooms with yellow wallpaper,
servants with only a locking box to call
their own.
Cloth   2009  368 pp.  80 b/w + 25 color illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15453-5  $45.00
New
The Philosophers’
Quarrel
Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits
of Human Understanding
Robert Zaretsky, University of
Houston and John T. Scott,
University of California, Davis
This engaging book presents a full
account of the tragic collapse of the
friendship between Rousseau and
Hume, the two most important thinkers
of the eighteenth century. The authors
explore the relation between the men’s
quarrel and their philosophical thought
and discuss how their incompatible
ideas reverberate in thinking today.
2009   264 pp.   10 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12193-3   $27.50
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16428-2  $18.00
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British & European History
19th Century
Alexis de Tocqueville
A Life
Hugh Brogan
This magisterial biography paints a
rich portrait of Alexis de Tocqueville,
the French aristocrat whose voyage to
America resulted in one of the most
vital texts in the history of democratic
thought. Hugh Brogan brings
Tocqueville to life and elucidates his
thinking on the nature of democracy.
2007   736 pp.   16 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10803-3  
$35.00/$26.25
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13625-8  $20.00
New
Bugs and the
Victorians
John F. McDiarmid Clark,
University of St. Andrews
This engaging book considers how
insects and those who studied them
shaped the course of intellectual and
scientific inquiry in the Victorian era.
Cloth   2009   336 pp.   50 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15091-9  $55.00
Household Gods
The British and their Possessions
Deborah Cohen, Brown University
This is a richly illustrated account of the
things British people choose to decorate
their homes, and why they matter so
much.
Winner of the 2007 Morris D. Forkosch
prize given by the American Historical
Association; Co-winner of the 2007Albion
Book Prize from the North American
Conference on British Studies
2006   336 pp.   100 b/w + 15 color illus.
Cloth  ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11213-9  $45.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13641-8 $25.00
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Napoleon
The Path to Power
Philip Dwyer, The University of
Newcastle in Australia
Dwyer’s book sheds new light on Napo-
leon’s inner life and character, and on the
twisting path that led from his boyhood
in Corsica to the coup that gave him
leadership of France at the age of thirty.
2008   672 pp.   64 b/w illus. + 4 maps
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13754-5   $35.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15132-9   $23.00
New
The Gates of Hell
Sir John Franklin’s Tragic Quest
for the North West Passage
Andrew Lambert, King’s College,
London
Andrew Lambert accesses to new materi-
als to depict the shocking fate of Captain
Sir John Franklin’s doomed arctic
expedition and how, despite his failure,
Franklin inspired future arctic heroes
such as Robert Falcon Scott.
Cloth   2009   456 pp.   8 color illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15485-6  $32.50
New
Charles Dickens
Michael Slater
This masterly biography uncovers
Dickens the man through the profession
in which he excelled. Michael Slater
explores the personal and emotional
life, the high-profile public activities, the
relentless travel, the charitable works, the
amateur theatricals and the astonishing
productivity. But his core focus is Dick-
ens’ career as a writer and professional
author—not only his big novels but
also his phenomenal output of letters,
journalism, shorter fiction, and other
writings.
Cloth   2009   720 pp.   65 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11207-8  $35.00
New
The Magnificent Mrs
Tennant
The Adventurous Life of Gertrude
Tennant, Victorian Grande Dame
David Waller
Drawing on an incredible cache of
thousands of letters and dozens of
diaries only recently discovered, this
book brings to light the untold story of
Mrs. Tennant—close friend of Flaubert,
mother-in-law of the explorer Stanley,
and hostess of a glittering salon that was
a hub of European social, literary, and
intellectual life for nearly half a century.
Cloth   2009   308 pp.   40 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13935-8  $35.00
20th Century
New
Demobbed
Coming Home After
World War Two
Alan Allport
Drawing on letters and diaries, and on
newspapers, reports, novels, and films,
Alan Allport illuminates the darker
side of the homecoming experience
for veterans, their families and British
society at large.
Cloth   2010   288 pp.   16 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14043-9  $38.00
New
Why the Dreyfus
Affair Matters
Louis Begley
From the prize-winning author of
Wartime Lies, an anatomy of the infamous
prosecution of a Jewish officer attached
to the French army’s General Staff, with
profound implications for our own time.
Cloth   2009   272 pp.   1 b&w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12532-0  $24.00
 British & European History
New
Genocide Before the
Holocaust
Cathie Carmichael, University of
East Anglia.
This innovative and ambitious work is
a systematic examination of the many
instances of genocide that took place in
the late nineteenth and early twentieth-
century centuries that were precursors to
the Holocaust.
Cloth   2009   256 pp.   16 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12117-9  $45.00
New
Heidegger
The Introduction of Nazism into
Philosophy in Light of the
Unpublished Seminars of 1933-1935
Emmanuel Faye, University Paris
Ouest–Nanterre La Défense;
Translated by Michael B. Smith;
Foreword by Tom Rockmore
In the most comprehensive examination
to date of Heidegger’s Nazism, Emman-
uel Faye draws on previously unavailable
materials to paint a damning picture of
Nazism’s influence on the philosopher’s
thought and politics.
Cloth   2009   464 pp.   5 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12086-8  $40.00
New
Nazi Propaganda for
the Arab World
Jeffrey Herf, University of Maryland
in College Park
This groundbreaking history connects
Nazi Germany’s Arabic language
propaganda during World War II to
anti-Semitism in the Middle East in the
decades since.
Cloth   2009   352 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14579-3  $30.00
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New Paperback
How Jews Became
Germans
The History of Conversion and
Assimilation in Berlin
Deborah Hertz, University of
California at San Diego
Drawing on a huge Nazi archive created
to identify Jewish converts to Christian-
ity as far back as the seventeenth century,
this compelling book explores the lives
of Jews in Berlin from 1645 to 1833.
2007   288 pp.   31 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11094-4   $38.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15164-0   $24.00
New
Churchill’s Bunker
The Secret Headquarters in
Wartime London
Richard Holmes, Cranfield
University and the Defence Academy of
the United Kingdom
Distinguished Churchill biographer
Richard Holmes provides the first com-
prehensive history of London’s Cabinet
War Rooms, from which Churchill
managed to turn a seemingly inevitable
defeat at the hands of the Nazis into a
victory for the free world.
Cloth   2010   256 pp.   40 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16040-6  $27.50
Hitler, the Germans,
and the Final Solution
Ian Kershaw, University of Sheffield
The volume brings together the most
important and influential aspects of Ian
Kershaw’s research on the Holocaust for
the first time.
2008   400 pp.    2008   336 pp.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12427-9   $35.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15127-5   $22.00
New
The Cartoons That
Shook the World
Jytte Klausen, Brandeis University
This book is the first comprehensive
investigation to determine why twelve
cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed
published in a Danish newspaper in 2005
enraged many in the Muslim world.
Cloth   2009   240 pp.   7 scattered b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12472-9  $35.00
New
Living with Hitler
Liberal Democrats in the
Third Reich
Eric Kurlander, Stetson University
This book is the first to analyze in detail
the activities of German liberal demo-
crats from 1933 to the end of the Nazi
regime, exploring why so few resisted
and so many embraced aspects of the
Third Reich. The answers that come
to light have crucial implications
for understanding the genesis of
authoritarian regimes everywhere.
Cloth   2009   288 pp.   16 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11666-3  $35.00
Franco and Hitler
Spain, Germany, and World War II
Stanley G. Payne
Stanley Payne, a leading historian of
modern Spain, explores the full range
of Franco’s relationship with Hitler,
from 1936 to the fall of the Reich in
1945. These two titanic egos engaged
in an extraordinary tragicomic drama
often verging on the dark absurdity of a
Beckett or Ionesco play.
   
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12282-4   $30.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15122-0   $20.00
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 British & European History
New Paperback
Earthrise
How Man First Saw the Earth
Robert Poole, University of Cumbria
Earthrise tells the remarkable story
of the defining moment when the
world first saw the Apollo astronauts’
photographs of Earth from space. The
images showed a floating planet, small,
beautiful, unique, and alone, and the
human response was both unexpected
and profound.
2008   236 pp.   16 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13766-8  
$26.00/$19.50
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16403-9   $17.00
Gallipoli
The End of the Myth
Robin Prior
A full account of the disastrous
Gallipoli campaign of WWI, this
book sets aside the many myths about
the Allied operation and arrives at the
devastating conclusion that nearly
390,000 troops died in vain.
Cloth   2009   288 pp.   16 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14995-1  $35.00
Florence 1900
The Quest for Arcadia
Bernd Roeck;
Translated by Stewart Spencer
An entrancing portrait of turn-of-
the-century Florence and the artistic
tourists—Aby Warburg, Thomas Mann,
Oscar Wilde, Sigmund Freud, Rainer
Maria Rilke, and others—who traveled
there to experience the city’s unsur-
passed cultural riches.
Cloth   2009   336 pp.   12 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-09515-9  $35.00
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New Paperback
The Shameful Peace
How French Artists and
Intellectuals Survived the Nazi
Occupation
Frederic Spotts
A fresh investigation of the fate of
Picasso, Cocteau, Messiaen, and dozens
of other French artists and intellectu-
als who lived and worked under Nazi
occupation.
2009   288 pp.   20 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13290-8  
$35.00/$26.25
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16399-5  $22.00
New
TRIPLEX
Secrets from the Cambridge Spies
Edited by Nigel West and
Oleg Tsarev
TRIPLEX is the first book to uncover the
actual intelligence revealed to the
Soviets by the “Cambridge Five” spy-ring
and to show the extent of the damage
done to the British and Allied interests
in World War II by those revelations.
Cloth   2009   384 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12347-0  $45.00
The Great War and the
Twentieth Century
Edited by Jay Winter, Geoffrey
Parker, and Mary Habeck
World War I set in motion profound
changes that led not only to the dissolu-
tion of defeated empires but also to the
collapse of the optimistic assumption of
progress that had defined the nineteenth
century. In this book leading experts on
the Great War provide a wide-ranging
view of this war’s causes, character, and
legacy and show how it provides an
essential framework for understanding
the entire twentieth century. 
Cloth   2000   366 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-08154-1  $52.00
Dreams of Peace
and Freedom
Utopian Moments in the
Twentieth Century
Jay Winter
In this masterful volume, eminent
historian Jay Winter focuses on twentieth-
century “minor utopias” whose stories
have been overshadowed by the horrors
of the Holocaust and the Gulag. Focusing
on six moments when utopian ideas and
projects flourished in Europe, the author
fills an important gap in the history of
social thought and action.
2006   272 pp.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10665-7   $28.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12602-0 $18.00
Remembering War
The Great War between Memory
and History in the 20th Century
Jay Winter
This masterful volume on remembrance
and war in the twentieth century traces
the origins of the current fascination
with memory back to the Great War.
Historian Jay Winter discusses how
images, languages, and practices that
developed in the wake of WWI shaped
the way later conflicts and victims are
remembered both publicly and privately.
Cloth   2006   352 pp.   16 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11068-5  $40.00
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A Little Book of
Language
David Crystal, University of Wales,
Bangor
With a language disappearing every two
weeks and neologisms springing up
almost daily, an understanding of the
origins and currency of language has
never seemed more relevant. In this
charming narrative history, expert
linguist David Crystal proves why the
story of language deserves retelling.
Cloth   2010   272 pp.   40 illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15533-4  $25.00
New Paperback
Growing Up in
England
The Experience of Childhood
1600-1914
Anthony Fletcher
Drawing on a wide range of previously
unexplored diaries and letters, this book
presents an entirely fresh view of the
upbringing of English children in upper
and professional class families from 1600
to 1914.
2008   456 pp.   16 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11850-6   $45.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16396-4   $30.00
New Paperback
Mortal Coil
A Short History of Living Longer
David Boyd Haycock
Full of extraordinary stories and insights,
this book tells the captivating history of
human preoccupation with longevity
and immortality.
2008   320 pp.   16 pp. illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11778-3   $30.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15825-0   $22.00
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General History
New
Grand Strategies
Literature, Statecraft, and World
Order
Charles Hill, Yale University
From “the man on whom nothing was
lost,” a uniquely engaging guide to the
elements of statecraft, fusing literature
and international relations through
spirited interpretations of classic
literary works.
Cloth   2010   320 pp.   5 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16386-5  $27.50
The American West
A New Interpretive History
Robert V. Hine and John Mack
Faragher
This grand survey of the history of the
American West presents a panoramic
view of events and characters from the
first contacts between Native Americans
and Europeans through the 1990s.
Winner of the 2000 Western Heritage
Award in the non-fiction category;
Winner of the 2001 Caughey Western
History Association Prize
Paper   2000   632 pp.   150 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-07835-0  $29.00
Frontiers
A Short History of the American
West
Robert V. Hine and John Mack
Faragher
This is a concise and freshly updated
edition of Hine and Faragher’s
acclaimed The American West: A New
Interpretive History. The authors provide
a grand survey of our colorful frontier
history, from the first contacts between
Native Americans and Europeans to the
beginning of the twenty-first century.
2007   288 pp.   32 pp. illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11710-3   $30.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13620-3   $19.00
New Paperback
The Myth of American
Diplomacy
National Identity and U.S. Foreign
Policy
Walter Hixson, University of Akron
In this major re-conceptualization of
U. S. foreign policy, Walter Hixson
explores the entire sweep of American
history from colonial days to the War
on Terror. He discovers a remarkably
continuous mythical national identity
that regularly propels us into war in
response to external threats, even when
other options are available.
2008   392 pp.   9 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11912-1   $35.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15131-2   $23.00
New
Blood and Mistletoe
The History of the Druids in
Britain
Ronald Hutton, University of Bristol
Crushed by the Romans in the first cen-
tury A.D., the ancient Druids of Britain
left almost no reliable evidence behind.
This captivating book by a world expert
examines what is known of the Druids,
then explores how and why they have
been repeatedly reinvented to play vary-
ing roles in English, Scottish, and Welsh
history.
Cloth   2009   492 pp.   32 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14485-7  $45.00
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New Paperback
Fallen Giants
A History of Himalayan
Mountaineering from the Age of
Empire to the Age of Extremes
Maurice Isserman, Hamilton
College and Stewart Weaver,
University of Rochester; With Maps
and Peak Sketches by Dee Molenaar
This lively, illustrated history of Himala-
yan mountaineering recounts the stories
of the outsized individuals who have
tackled the world’s highest peaks since
the 1890s. The book looks at the circum-
stances that inspired expeditions and
why the expeditionary culture that once
emphasized teamwork and fellowship
among climbers is no longer the norm.
Winner of the 2008 National Outdoor
Book Award in the category of History/
Biography
2008   592 pp.   65 photos; 15 maps
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11501-7   $39.95
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16420-6   $25.00
Blood and Soil
A World History of Genocide and
Extermination from Sparta to
Darfur
Ben Kiernan, Yale University
For thirty years Ben Kiernan has been
deeply involved in the study of genocide
and crimes against humanity. He has
played a key role in unearthing confi-
dential documentation of the atrocities
committed by the Khmer Rouge. His
writings have transformed our under-
standing not only of twentieth-century
Cambodia but also of the historical
phenomenon of genocide. This book—
the first global history of genocide and
extermination from ancient times—is
among his most important achievements.
2007   768 pp.   38 b/w illus. + 31 maps
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10098-3   $40.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14425-3   $26.00
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History Lesson
A Race Odyssey
Mary Lefkowitz, Wellesley College
In the early 1990s, Classics professor
Mary Lefkowitz discovered that one
of her faculty colleagues at Wellesley
College was teaching his students that
Greek culture had been stolen from
Africa and that Jews were responsible
for the slave trade. This book tells the
disturbing story of what happened when
she spoke out.
2008   208 pp.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12659-4   $25.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15126-8   17.50
New
The Master and His
Emissary
The Divided Brain and the Making
of the Western World
Iain McGilchrist
A fascinating, deeply researched
exploration of the differences between
the brain’s left and right hemispheres,
and their effect on society, history and
culture.
Cloth   2009   608 pp.  15 color + 20 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14878-7  $38.00
New Paperback
The Invention of
Scotland
Myth and History
Hugh Trevor-Roper
Hugh Trevor-Roper looks at the role
of myth in history and memory, and
analyzes the impact of three important
myths on Scottish history and identity.
2008   304 pp.   12 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13686-9   $30.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15829-8   $20.00
New Paperback
We Shall Overcome
A History of Civil Rights
and the Law
Alexander Tsesis, University of
Chicago School of Law
Despite America’s commitment to civil
rights from the earliest days of nation-
hood, examples of injustices against
minorities stain many pages of U.S.
history. The battle for racial, ethnic, and
gender fairness remains unfinished. This
comprehensive book traces the history
of legal efforts to achieve civil rights
for all Americans, beginning with the
years leading up to the Revolution and
continuing to our own times.
2008   384 pp.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11837-7   $35.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15144-2  $23.00
New Paperback
Reading Matters
Five Centuries of Discovering
Books
Margaret Willes
This entertaining journey through five
centuries of acquiring, reading, and
enjoying books looks at a wide range
of collectors, including Samuel Pepys
and Thomas Jefferson, and those who
marketed and sold them their books.
2008   304 pp.   90 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12729-4   $30.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16404-6  $22.00

New
Sin
A History
Gary A. Anderson, Notre Dame
In this sensitive, imaginative, and
original work, Gary Anderson shows
how changing conceptions of sin and
forgiveness lay at the very heart of the
biblical tradition.
Cloth   2009   272 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14989-0  $30.00
New
Sex and Religion in
the Bible
Calum Carmichael, Cornell
University
In this unique book, one of the most
original voices in biblical studies today
focuses on the themes of marriage,
sexuality, fertility, impurity, creation,
and love in the Bible to illuminate the
remarkable subtlety and sophistication
of biblical views about sex and religion.
Cloth   2010   224 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15377-4  $50.00
New
The Good and Evil
Serpent
How a Universal Symbol Became
Christianized
James H. Charlesworth, Princeton
Theological Seminary
This pathbreaking book explores in
plentiful detail the symbolic meanings
of the serpent from 40,000 BCE to the
present, and from diverse regions in the
world. In doing so it emphasizes the
utter creativity of the biblical authors’
use of symbols and argues that we must,
today, reexamine our own archetypal
conceptions with comparable creativity.
Cloth   2010   744 pp.   102 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14082-8  $45.00
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Religious History
New
The Virgin of Chartres Christians and Pagans
Making History through Liturgy
and the Arts
Margot E. Fassler, Yale University
This richly illustrated book explores the
layers of history found in the cult of the
Virgin of Chartres as it developed in the
eleventh and twelfth centuries.
Cloth 2010  624 pp.  126 b/w + 16 color illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11088-3  $45.00
New
A New History of
Early Christianity
Charles Freeman
This stimulating history of early Christi-
anity, the first full account for over forty
years, revisits the extraordinary birth of
a world religion, and gives a new slant
on a familiar story.
Cloth   2009   400 pp.   26 illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12581-8  $35.00
New
Among the Gentiles
Greco-Roman Religion and
Christianity
Luke Timothy Johnson, Candler
School of Theology and Emory
University
An acclaimed scholar presents a
fundamentally new conception of the
relationship between Christianity and
the Paganism of Greece and Rome.
Cloth   2009   480 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14208-2  $32.50
New
The Conversion of Britain from
Alban to Bede
Malcolm Lambert
Christians and Pagans offers a compre-
hensive and highly readable account of
the coming of Christianity to Britain,
its coexistence or conflict with pagan-
ism, and its impact on the lives of both
indigenous islanders and invading
Anglo-Saxons.
Cloth   2010   336 pp.   40 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11908-4  $45.00
New Paperback
Mother of God
A History of the Virgin Mary
Miri Rubin, Queen Mary University
of London
This sweeping, global history explores
how the Virgin Mary, scarcely men-
tioned in the Gospels, rose to become
our most prominent female figure.
The book is groundbreaking in scope,
encompassing sixteen centuries and
a wealth of historical sources and
visual materials from Christian cultures
around the world.
2009   560 pp.   29 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10500-1   $35.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16432-9  $26.00
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 Asia
Confucius
A Life of Thought and Politics
Ann-Ping Chin
In this absorbing book Annping Chin
presents an original account of the life
and legacy of China’s greatest moral
thinker. Accurate information on
Confucius is elusive, but Chin’s extensive
research yields not only a new portrait of
the sage but also a masterful survey
of his influential teachings.
Paper   2009   288 pp.    religion energized by nationalism and
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15118-3  $14.95
New
Vietnam
Rising Dragon
Bill Hayton
Based on vivid eyewitness accounts and
pertinent case studies, a much-needed
behind-the-scenes survey reveals an
emerging Asian power in a period
of breathtaking social and economic
change.
Cloth   2010   272 pp.   40 pp. b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15203-6  $30.00
Shanghai’s Bund and
Beyond
British Banks, Banknote Issuance,
and Monetary Policy in China,
1842-1937
Niv Horesh, University of New South
Wales, Australia
This incisive book analyzes China’s
economic past and the shaping of its
financial institutions in the years leading
up to the Sino-Japanese War in 1937. It
is the first book to offer a comparative
analysis of foreign banking in the prewar
years, focusing particularly on leading
British banks in Shanghai.
Cloth   2009   256 pp.   13 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14356-0  $48.00
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New
Redeemed by Fire
The Rise of Popular Christianity
in Modern China
Lian Xi, Hanover College
In the first book to address the history
and future of homegrown, mass Chinese
Christianity, Lian Xi examines its trans-
formation from a small, beleaguered
“missionary” church buffeted by anti-
foreignism to an indigenous grassroots
millenarianism.
Cloth   2010   352 pp.   21 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12339-5  $45.00
New Paperback
Vishnu’s Crowded
Temple
India since the Great Rebellion
Maria Misra, Oxford University
This accessible and vividly written book
presents a new interpretation of India’s
history, focusing particular attention
on the impact of British imperialism on
Independent India.
2008   592 pp.   32 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13721-7   less peoples who occupy a vast track of
$35.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15142-8  Cloth   2009  464 pp.   7 maps and 2 b/w illus.
$24.00
Vietnam: A Natural
History
Eleanor Jane Sterling, Martha
Maud Hurley, and Le Duc Minh;
with illustrations by Joyce A. Powzyk
This book is the first English-language
guide to Vietnam’s spectacular flora and
fauna and to the diverse natural areas in
which they live.
2006   448 pp.   22 b/w + 54 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10608-4   $45.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12693-8  $22.00
New Paperback
India
The Rise of an Asian Giant
Dietmar Rothermund, University
of Heidelberg, Germany
With growing economic might, new
political influence, and changing social
dynamics, India has emerged as a major
world power. This up-to-date book
assesses the forces that have contributed
to and those that have impeded the
nation’s growth since independence,
offering a new perspective on India today
and on its prospects for the future.
2008   288 pp.   16 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11309-9   $35.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15827-4   $20.00
New
The Art of Not Being
Governed
An Anarchist History of Upland
Southeast Asia
James C. Scott, Yale University
The acclaimed author James Scott adopts
a radically different approach to history
to tell the story of the deliberately state-
land in Asia called Zomia.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15228-9  $35.00
The Pol Pot Regime
Race, Power, and Genocide in
Cambodia under the Khmer
Rouge, 1975-79, Third Edition
Ben Kiernan
This edition of Ben Kiernan’s definitive
account of the Cambodian revolution
and genocide includes a new preface that
takes the story up to 2008 and the UN-
sponsored Khmer Rouge tribunal.
Paper   2008   544 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14434-5   $25.00

New Paperback
The Crisis of Islamic
Civilization
Ali A. Allawi
Ali A. Allawi—a respected Iraqi states-
man and thinker who has served the
postwar government in several posts—
offers a bold analysis of today’s crisis in
the Islamic world. He offers proposals
that will surprise some and anger others,
but they cannot be ignored by anyone
concerned about the future of Islamic
civilization.
Winner of the Silver Prize in the 2009
Book Prize competition, presented by the
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
2009   320 pp.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13931-0   $27.50
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16406-0   $18.00
New
Pakistan
Eye of the Storm, Third Edition
Owen Bennett Jones
Pakistan—with its political instability,
pressing economic and social problems,
access to nuclear weapons, and proxim-
ity to Afghanistan—stands at the very
center of global attention. Can General
Musharraf, Pakistan’s military ruler,
control the forces that helped create
the Taliban in Afghanistan? In this
fascinating book, correspondent Bennett
Jones looks at Pakistan’s turbulent past,
recounts its recent history, and assesses
its future options.
Paper   2009   408 pp.   32 b/w illus. + 4 maps
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15475-7  $19.00
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The Middle East
New Paperback
King Hussein of
Jordan
A Political Life
Nigel Ashton, London School of
Economics and Political Science
With unprecedented access to royal
family archives, Nigel Ashton draws the
first accurate portrait of Jordan’s King
Hussein, a towering figure who led his
nation for five turbulent decades. This
biography brings Hussein to life and
sheds new light on the Iran-Contra
affair, the Middle East peace process,
and the history of the region.
2008   464 pp.   36 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-09167-0   $35.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16395-7   $23.00
New
The Great Caliphs
The Golden Age of the ‘Abbasid
Empire
Amira K. Bennison, University of
Cambridge
This accessible and informative history
brings the classical Islamic world alive,
illuminating its importance to the cul-
tural history of Europe and America as
the inheritor and interpreter of Graeco-
Roman traditions.
Cloth   2009   256 pp.   24 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15227-2  $30.00
New
Yemen
Dancing on the Heads of Snakes
Victoria Clark
Victoria Clark presents a lively, clear, and
up-to-date account of a little-known
state whose chronic instability is increas-
ingly engaging the general reader.
Cloth   2010   320 pp.   15 illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11701-1  $32.00
New
Islam, Science, and the
Challenge of History
Ahmad Dallal, American University
of Beruit
In this wide-ranging and masterful
work, Ahmad Dallal examines the
significance of scientific knowledge
and situates the culture of science in
relation to other cultural forces in
Muslim societies.
Cloth   2010   256 pp.   2 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15911-0  $27.50
New
Palestine Betrayed
Efraim Karsh, King’s College London
This brave and groundbreaking book
tells the story of Palestinian partition
from both the Arab and Jewish
perspectives.
Cloth   2010   336 pp.   16 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12727-0  $32.50
New
The Persians
Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern
Iran
Homa Katouzian, University of
Oxford
This authoritative and comprehensive
history of Iran, written by Homa
Katouzian, an acclaimed expert, covers
the entire history of the area from
the foundation of the ancient Persian
empire to today’s Iranian state.
Cloth   2009   448 pp.   32 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12118-6  $50.00
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 The Middle East
Hamas
Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in
the Service of Jihad
Matthew Levitt;
Foreword by Dennis Ross
Counter-terrorist expert Matthew Levitt  University, Israel
provides the first complete, fully-docu-
mented portrait of Hamas, the militant
Islamist organization that Palestinian
voters brought to power in the stunning
election of January 2006. Levitt draws
aside the veil of legitimacy behind which
Hamas hides and reveals the alarming
extent of the organization’s commitment
to terror.
Published in cooperation with the
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
2006   336 pp.    2009   256 pp.   7 b/w maps
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11053-1   $27.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12258-9   $18.00
New
Pashas
Traders and Travellers in the
Islamic World
James Mather
Ranging across two and a half centuries
and through the great cities of Istanbul,
Aleppo, and Alexandria, James Mather
tells the forgotten story of the men of
Britain’s Levant Company who sought
their fortunes in the Ottoman Empire.
Intriguing, intimate, and original, his
book brings to life an extraordinary
tale of faraway visitors beguiled by a
mysterious world of Islam.
Cloth   2010   320 pp.   16 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12639-6  $35.00
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New Paperback
One State, Two States
Resolving the Israel/Palestine
Conflict
Benny Morris, Ben-Gurion
Tackling one of the world’s most
perplexing and divisive issues, renowned
historian Benny Morris considers the
legacy of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war,
previous proposed solutions to the
conflict between Palestinians and Israel,
and the viability of various options for
the future. His conclusions inspire hope
for a just solution in a region where it is
most sorely needed.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12281-7   $26.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16444-2   $17.00
1948
A History of the
First Arab-Israeli War
Benny Morris
This groundbreaking account of the first
Israeli-Arab war is history at its best:
meticulously accurate, objective, and
told with drama and flair. Benny Morris
demolishes misconceptions and brings
to light the political and military facts of
the war that led to the birth of the state
of Israel and the shattering of Palestinian
Arab society.
Winner of the 2008 National Jewish
Book Award in the category of History,
presented by the Jewish Book Council
2008   544 pp.   25 b/w illus. + 30 maps
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12696-9   $32.50
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15112-1   $22.00
Treacherous Alliance
The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran,
and the United States
Trita Parsi;
With a New Preface by the Author
In today’s world of conflict and threat-
ened nuclear violence, few books, if any,
could be more important than this one.
Middle East expert Trita Parsi untangles
the complex and often duplicitous rela-
tions among Israel, Iran, and the United
States from 1948 to the present and
spells out how American policies can
avert catastrophe and lead the region
toward peace.
Winner of the 2010 Grawemeyer Award
for Ideas Improving World Order,
given by the University of Louisville
2007   384 pp.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12057-8   $28.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14311-9  $17.00
New
Taliban
Militant Islam, Oil and
Fundamentalism in Central Asia,
Second Edition
Ahmed Rashid
Correspondent Ahmed Rashid brings
the shadowy world of the Taliban—the
world’s most extreme and radical
Islamic organization—into sharp focus
in this enormously insightful book. New
to this updated edition of the #1 New
York Times Bestseller with more than
1.5 million copies sold worldwide: how
the Taliban has regained its strength;
how and why the Taliban has spread
across Central Asia; how the Taliban has
helped Al’Qaida’s spread into Europe,
North Africa, the Middle East, and the
Far East, why the Afghan people feel the
United States is losing the war, and a
major new introduction and an all-new
final chapter.
Paper   2010   320 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16368-1  $17.95

New
The Death of the
Shtetl
Yehuda Bauer, Hebrew University
In this important book an international-
ly acclaimed Holocaust historian weaves
historical narrative with individual
testimonies to recount the destruction
of the shtetls, small Jewish towns in
Poland and Russia, at the hands of the
Nazis in 1941-1942.
Cloth   2010   224 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15209-8  $35.00
New
The Warsaw Ghetto
A Guide to the Perished City
Barbara Engelking and Jacek
Leociak, both at Polish Academy of
Sciences
This book reconstructs the lost world
of the Warsaw Ghetto and describes the
everyday experiences of its victims in
unprecedented detail. With new research
on the community, cultural, and politi-
cal life of Jews confined there, the book
breaks stereotypes of the Holocaust
experience and provides the definitive
account of the ghetto’s tragic history.
Cloth 2009  936 pp.  250 b/w + 36 color illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11234-4  $75.00
New
Children of the Gulag
Cathy A. Frierson, University of
New Hampshire, and Semyon S.
Vilensky
This groundbreaking book offers a
comprehensive documentary history of
children whose parents were identified
as enemies of the Soviet regime and
arrested, executed, or sent to the Gulag.
Cloth   2010   480 pp.   29 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12293-0  $55.00
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Russian & Slavic History
New Paperback
Spies
The Rise and Fall of the KGB in
America
John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr,
Emory University, and Alexander
Vassiliev
This stunning exposé of Soviet espionage
in the U.S. during the 1930s and 40s is
based on extensive KGB archives never
revealed before. The book for the first
time documents the secret world of
Stalin’s spies and the Americans who
worked with them.
2009   704 pp.    Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16421-3   $26.00
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12390-6   $35.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16438-1   $24.00
New
Czechoslovakia
The State That Failed
Mary Heimann, University of
Strathclyde, Scotland
This book, the most thoroughly
researched and accurate history of
Czechoslovakia to appear in English,
dispels many conventional views,
particularly concerning the Munich
Crisis, Nazi occupation, Prague Spring
and Velvet Revolution.
Cloth   2009   432 pp.   20 illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14147-4  $45.00
New
The Serbs
History, Myth and the Destruction
of Yugoslavia, Third Edition
Tim Judah
Journalist Timothy Judah offers here a
history of the Serbs from medieval times
to the present, combining a gripping
personal description of the war with
a skillful analysis of the historical and
cultural context out of which it emerged.
Paper   2010   368 pp.   40 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15826-7  $19.00
New Paperback
Picturing Russia
Explorations in Visual Culture
Edited by Valerie A. Kivelson,
University of Michigan and Joan
Neuberger, University of Texas at
Austin
This wide-ranging book is the first to
explore the visual culture of Russia over
the entire span of Russian history, from
ancient Kiev to contemporary, post-
Soviet society.
2008   336 pp.   116 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11961-9   $26.00
New
The Kirov Murder and
Soviet History
Matthew E. Lenoe, University of
Rochester
Drawing on hundreds of newly available,
top-secret KGB and party Central Com-
mittee documents, historian Matthew E.
Lenoe reexamines the 1934 assassination
of Leningrad party chief Sergei Kirov
and the questions about Stalin’s involve-
ment in the killing.
Cloth   2010   864 pp.   12 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11236-8  $55.00
New
The Most Musical
Nation
Jews and Culture in the Late
Russian Empire
James Loeffler, University of Virginia
Drawing on a mass of unpublished
writings and archival sources from
prerevolutionary Russian conservatories,
this book offers an insightful account of
the Jewish search for a modern identity
in Russia through music, rather than
politics or religion.
Cloth   2010   256 pp.   26 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13713-2  $55.00
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Russian & Slavic History
New
The Triumph of
Provocation
Józef Mackiewicz; Translation
by Jerzy Hauptmann, S. D. Lukac,
and Martin Dewhirst; Foreword by
Jeremy Black; Chronology by Nina
Karsov
In this masterful political treatise, a
passionate anti-Communist discusses
the nature of Communism as it devel-
oped in the Soviet Union and in Poland.
Cloth   2009   256 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14569-4  $48.00
New
The Anti-Imperial
Choice
The Making of the Ukrainian Jew
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern,
Northwestern University
This groundbreaking book examines
how five writers and poets of Jewish
descent contributed to the development
of a Ukrainian-Jewish literary tradition
from the 1880s through the 1990s.
Cloth   2009   384 pp.   29 b/w illus. in gallery
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13731-6  $65.00
The Empire’s New
Clothes
A History of the Russian Fashion
Industry, 1700-1917
Christine Ruane, University of Tulsa
Lavishly illustrated with contemporary
photographs, this unique book studies
the revolution in dress in Imperial
Russia and its impact on daily life.
Winner of the 2009 Heldt Prize for the
Best Book in Slavic/Eastern European/
Eurasian Women’s Studies, given by the
Association of Women in Slavic Studies
Cloth  2009  276 pp.  70 b/w + 50 color illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14155-9  $65.00
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New
Russian Orientalism
Asia in the Russian Mind from
Peter the Great to the Emigration
David Schimmelpenninck van
der Oye, Brock University in Ontario
This book argues that the Russian
Empire’s geography, its ambivalent
relationship with the rest of Europe, and
the complicated nature of its encounter
with Asia have all resulted in a variegated
and often sympathetic understanding of
the East among its people.
Cloth   2010   312 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11063-0  $35.00
New
Policing Stalin’s
Socialism
Repression and Social Order in the
Soviet Union, 1924-1953
David R. Shearer, University of
Delaware
David Shearer presents a new interpreta-
tion of repression in Stalin’s Soviet
Union, which emphasizes the impor-
tance of social repression as a precursor
to the “Great Terror” of 1937-1938.
Paper   2009   536 pp.   17 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14925-8  $55.00
New Paperback
The Pearl
A True Tale of Forbidden Love
in Catherine the Great’s Russia
Douglas Smith, University of
Washington
Douglas Smith presents the most com-
plete and accurate account ever written
of the illicit love between Count Nicholas
Sheremetev, Russia’s richest aristocrat,
and Praskovia Kovalyova, his serf and the
greatest opera diva of her time.
2008   352 pp.   16 b/w + 11 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12041-7   $35.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15858-8   $22.00
New
Croatia
A Nation Forged in War, Third
Edition
Marcus Tanner
In this book an eyewitness to the
breakup of Yugoslavia provides the first
full and impartial account of the rise, fall,
and rebirth of Croatia from its medieval
origins to today’s tentative peace. This
edition updates the account and follows
Croatia’s progress to democracy since the
death of President Franjo Tudjman.
Paper   2010   384 pp.   32 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16394-0  $25.00
New
Land Reform in Russia
Institutional Design and
Behavioral Responses
Stephen K. Wegren, Southern
Methodist University
This timely work is the definitive account
of Russia’s land reform from the late
1980s to today, initiatives that will have
a profound effect on Russia’s ability to
compete in an era of globalization.
Paper   2009   360 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15097-1  $55.00
New
The Ukrainians
Unexpected Nation, Third Edition
Andrew Wilson, University College,
London
This book is the most acute, informed,
and up-to-date account of Ukraine and
its people available today. Andrew Wilson
focuses on the complex relations between
Ukraine and Russia and explains the
different versions of the past propagated
by Ukrainians and Russians. He also
examines the continuing debates over
identity, culture, and religion in Ukraine
since its independence in 1991.
Paper   2009   416 pp.   52 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15476-4  $19.00
Africa
New
The Ethiopian
Revolution
War in the Horn of Africa
Gebru Tareke, Hobart and William
Smith Colleges
This compelling and pioneering narra-
tive of the Ethiopian revolution and civil
war illuminates not only developments
within the volatile Horn of Africa in the
final decades of the twentieth century
but also broader issues of state forma-
tion and insurrectionary politics.
Cloth   2009   464 pp.   8 maps
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14163-4  $45.00
Stanley
The Impossible Life of Africa’s
Greatest Explorer
Tim Jeal
Drawing on previously closed archives,
this grand and colorful biography pres-
ents the first accurate picture of Stanley
and his extraordinary achievements.
Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics
Circle Award for Biography; Named one
of the 100 Notable Books of 2007 by The
New York Times Book Review
2007   608 pp.   67 b/w illus. + 3 maps
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12625-9   $38.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14223-5  $18.00
Extending the
Frontiers
Essays on the New Transatlantic
Slave Trade Database
Edited by David Eltis and David
Richardson
Drawing on an enormous amount of
recent research, the contributors to this
volume explore fundamental questions
about the history of the transatlantic
trade in slaves.
Cloth   2008   400 pp.   17 b/w illus. + 2 maps
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13436-0  $90.00
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Ancient History
How Rome Fell
Death of a Superpower
Adrian Goldsworthy
In this major new account of the fall of
the Roman Empire, prizewinning author
Adrian Goldsworthy examines the pain-
ful centuries of the superpower’s decline.
Bringing history to life through the
stories of the men, women, heroes, and
villains involved, the author uncovers
surprising lessons about the rise and fall
of great nations.
Cloth 2009   560 pp.   33 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13719-4   $32.50
Caesar
Life of a Colossus
Adrian Goldsworthy
This major new biography by a
distinguished British historian offers a
remarkably comprehensive portrait of a
leader whose actions changed the course
of Western history and resonate some
two thousand years later.
Named a Best Book of 2006 by Amazon.
com and Number 1 Editor’s Choice in
Biography
2006   608 pp.   16 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12048-6   $35.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12689-1   $20.00
Christianity and
Paganism in the
Fourth to Eighth
Centuries
Ramsay MacMullen
In this book, MacMullen investigates the
transition from paganism to Christianity
between the fourth and eighth centuries.
Reassessing the triumph of Christianity,
he shows that the two religious systems
were both vital during an interactive
period that lasted far longer than
historians have previously believed.
Paper   1999   288 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-08077-3  $22.00
Christianizing the
Roman Empire
(A. D. 100-400)
Ramsay MacMullen
How did the early Christian church
manage to win its dominant place in
the Roman world? In his newest book,
an eminent historian of ancient Rome
examines this question from a secular—
rather than an ecclesiastical—viewpoint.
Paper   1986   184 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-03642-8  $22.00
Corruption and the
Decline of Rome
Ramsay MacMullen
Prominent historian Ramsay MacMullen
here offers a new perspective on the
decline and fall of Rome. MacMullen
argues that a key factor in Rome’s fall was
the steady loss of focus and control over
government as its aims were thwarted
for private gain by high-ranking
bureaucrats and military leaders. Written
in an informal and lively style, his book
provides a fascinating, fresh line of inves-
tigation and shows convincingly that the
decline of Rome was a gradual, insidious
process rather than a climactic event.
Paper   1990   331 pp.   17 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-04799-8  $22.50
Paganism in the
Roman Empire
Ramsay MacMullen
This is the first book to focus on the
beliefs and practices common to all non-
Christian religions of the Empire. After
examining the successes of the more
dynamic cults and the effects on pagan-
ism of the conversion of Constantine,
MacMullen concludes that the conver-
sion of the Empire to Christianity was
not as inevitable and complete as it has
seemed up until now.
Paper   1983   246 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-02984-0  $22.00
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Voting About God in New Paperback
Early Church Councils Alexander the Great
Ramsay MacMullen
In this original book, an eminent
historian explores how early Christian
doctrine was determined by majority
vote in church councils during the third
to sixth centuries. Ramsey MacMullen
brings the reader directly into council
chambers, where rank and file bishops
engage in debate, then vote to establish a
single Christian orthodoxy.
Cloth 2006   192 pp.   6 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11596-3   $32.00
Ramsay MacMullen is the recipient of a
lifetime Award for Scholarly Distinction
from the American Historical Associa-
tion (awarded Jan. 5, 2001). The citation
begins, “Ramsay MacMullen is the
greatest historian of the Roman Empire
alive today.”
Ancient Greece
From Prehistoric to Hellenistic
Times
Thomas R. Martin
In this compact yet comprehensive
history of ancient Greece, Thomas R.
Martin brings alive Greek civilization
from its Stone Age roots to the fourth
century B.C.  Focusing on the develop-
ment of the Greek city-state and the
society, culture, and architecture of
Athens in its Golden Age, Martin
integrates political, military, social,
and cultural history in a book that will
appeal to students and general readers
alike.  Missouri–Columbia
Paper   2000   276 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-08493-1  $15.95
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A Life in Legend
Richard Stoneman, University of
Exeter
This engaging book is the first to
gather together the hundreds of colorful
legends told in cultures across the globe
about Alexander the Great, conqueror of
the ancient world.
Short-listed for the 2009 Runciman Award
2008   336 pp.   30 b/w + 16 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11203-0   $35.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16401-5  $23.00
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Caesar’s Druids
An Ancient Priesthood
Miranda Aldhouse-Green, Cardiff
University
Exploring the various roles that Druids
played in British and Gallic society
during the first centuries B.C. and A.D.,
Aldhouse-Green argues that they were
a highly complex, intellectual, and
sophisticated group whose influence
transcended religion and reached into
the realms of secular power and politics.
Cloth   2010   352 pp.   80 b/w illus.
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Philip II of Macedonia
Ian Worthington, University of
Alexander the Great is remembered
as an unparalleled conqueror, but this
provocative biography contends that
the achievements of his colorful father,
Philip II of Macedonia, were just as
great.
2008   336 pp.   16 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12079-0   $35.00
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Latin America
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Ideology and
Inquisition
The World of the Censors
in Early Mexico
Martin Austin Nesvig
Nesvig challenges the idea that the
Inquisition was a monolithic institution
and demonstrates how the persecution
of heresy also grew into the persecution
of books.
Paper   2009   384 pp.   10 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14040-8  $60.00
San Martin
Argentine Soldier, American Hero
John Lynch
A vivid new biography of South
American revolutionary José de San
Martín, an enigmatic leader who
liberated Chile and Peru from Spain
but died an exile in France.
Cloth   2009   268 pp.   16 b/w illus.
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Forgotten Continent
The Battle for Latin America’s Soul
Michael Reid
Latin America, home to half-a-billion
people, the world’s largest reserves of
arable land, and 8.5 percent of global
oil, is in the midst of a vast transforma-
tion. Michael Reid, a journalist with
many years of experience in the region,
explores Latin America’s current shift to
the political left, its struggle to compete
economically, and the potential for
democracy to flourish there.
2008   400 pp.   16 b/w illus.
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