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Harvard University Press

New
A MERIC AN O RACLE
The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era
DAVID W. BLIGHT
David Blight takes his readers back to the Civil Wars centennial celebration to
determine how Americans made sense of the suffering, loss, and liberation a cen-
tury earlier. He shows how four of Americas most incisive writersRobert Penn
Warren, Bruce Catton, Edmund Wilson, and James Baldwinexplored the gulf
between remembrance and reality.
[Blight] gives us more than a history lesson: he presents an introspective jour-
ney into Americas most complex and enigmatic historical event through the
minds of four exceptional storytellers. He offers us the opportunity to revisit a monumental tragedy
and thereby invites us to probe its meaning. If we do, we will not only be reacquainted with a defin-
ing American moment but we will also learn more about who America is, and why.
JAMES T. CROUSE, TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION
This is a distinctive addition to the books about the Civil War and how we view it on the conflicts
150th anniversary.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
David W. Blights richly interpretive American Oracle contextualizes the sentimentalized celebration
of the Civil War in the early 1960s within the tense realities of the civil rights era and the Cold War.
Blight unravels the complexities of Civil War memory and meaning at a time when most white Amer-
icans considered restoration of the Union, not emancipation, as the wars grand result.
JOHN DAVID SMITH, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
History and great literature blend beautifully as Blight conducts his examination of the works of
four writersRobert Penn Warren, southern-born novelist; Bruce Catton, historian and journalist;
Edmund Wilson, literary critic; and James Baldwin, northern-born essayist and race criticproviding
background and context for their works and their views of the centennial and all its commercialism
and hypocrisyThroughout, Blight explores the mythology that came out of the Civil War and the
sense of American redemption that did not include any examination of the tragedies of racism and
slavery.
VANESSA BUSH, BOOKLIST (starred review)
The ghosts of the Civil War never leave us, as David Blight knows perhaps better than anyone, and
in this superb book he masterfully unites two distant but inextricably bound events with insightful
dissection of the works of four of our best writers, writers obsessed with coming to terms with our
original sin.
KEN BURNS
Belknap 2011 4 halftones 328 pp. Cloth $27.95 / 20.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04855-3
table of contents
Featured Titles ..........................................................................2
Colonial and U.S. History to 1877 .............................................4
African American History / American South ...............................7
Religion in America ................................................................12
America and the World ...........................................................15
Atlantic World ........................................................................19
Political and Legal History .....................................................20
Economic History ...................................................................28
Social, Cultural, and Intellectual History ..................................30
Science and Medicine ..............................................................34
New TitlesSpring 2012.........................................................35
John Harvard Library ..............................................................36
Dictionary of American Regional English ..................................38
Index ......................................................................................38
Order Form.............................................................................39
Cover art: Fate of the Rebel Flag by William Bauly, c. 1861. Library of Congress.
See Confederate Reckoning by Stephanie McCurry on page 4.
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New
B EFORE THE R EVOLUTION
Americas Ancient Pasts
DANIEL K. RICHTER
A Wall Street Journal Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
A Marginal Revolution Best Book of the Year
In this epic synthesis, Daniel K. Richter reveals a new America. Surveying many
centuries prior to the American Revolution, we discover the tumultuous encoun-
ters between the peoples of North America, Africa, and Europe and see how the
present is the accumulation of the ancient layers of the past.
Ultimately, [Richters] history is a history of violence, of violence perpetrated by
Europeans against Native Americans, by Native Americans against Europeans, and by both peoples
against their own kith and kin. It is a dark and brutal story, although one in which the Native Americans
are shown as for long holding their own, manipulating
Europeans as trading partners and playing off one set of Europeans against another until the over-
whelming British victory of 1763 no longer made this possible. There is precious little uplift here,
and little sense of the more constructive characteristics of the brave new world that was rising amid
the wreckage of the old. But, in patiently uncovering the layers beneath the rubble, Richter forcefully
brings home to us that the American past belongs to many peoples, and that none should be forgotten.
J. H. ELLIOTT, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
An elegantly written attempt to see colonial America from the indigenous perspectiveIn Richters
grand system, the continents history comprises successive waves of adventurers, one atop another. Al-
though the American Revolution submerged these earlier strata, he argues that they nonetheless re-
mained beneath the surface to mold the nations current contours. Walking atop the topmost strata,
in other words, are thee and me, the terrain around us shaped by those who came first. The approach
is bold, original and insightful[A] masterly accountBefore the Revolution is a book that by its very
boldness invites intelligent argument. Every few decades, historians develop a new way of looking at
the past. I am not talking about revisionism but unifying conceptual schemes, the sort of mental
framework that Frederick Jackson Turner created in his argument for the importance of the frontier
to our history or that Bernard Bailyn established in his studies of the American Revolutions ideologi-
cal origins. Historians debated Turner for a long time and continue to debate Bailyn. I wouldnt be
surprised if they were arguing with Richter a decade from today.
CHARLES C. MANN, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
[Richter] demonstrates that U.S. history did not begin with the American Revolution, convincingly
arguing that the ideas that manifested themselves in the mid-18th century with the rebellious
colonists had their origins in such varied locales as the Mississippian Southeast and Europe of the
Middle AgesAny history written by this preeminent historian is an essential read for everyone inter-
ested in the deeper history of the United States.
JOHN BURCH, LIBRARY JOURNAL
Belknap 2011 88 halftones, 13 maps 560 pp. Cloth $35.00 / 25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05580-3
Also available by David W. Blight Also available by Daniel K. Richter

RACE AND REUNION FACING EAST FROM INDIAN COUNTRY
The Civil War in American Memory A Native History of Early America
Frederick Douglass Book Prize Louis Gottschalk Prize in Eighteenth-Century History,
Lincoln Prize American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Merle Curti Award for the Best Book in Social, Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History
Intellectual, and/or Cultural History 2003; 2001 15 halftones, 4 maps 336 pp.
Ellis W. Hawley Prize Paper $23.00 / 17.95 ISBN 978-0-674-01117-5
Co-Winner, James A. Rawley Prize
Bancroft Prize Awarded by Columbia University
Salons Top 12 Civil War Books Ever Written
Belknap 2002; 2001 31 halftones 528 pp.

Paper $26.00 / 19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-00819-9
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New New in
T HE U NION W AR paperback
GARY W. GALLAGHER
C ONFEDERATE
R ECKONING
Today, many believe the
Civil War was fought over Power and Politics in
slavery. This view satisfies the Civil War South
our contemporary sense of STEPHANIE M C CURRY
justice, but as Gary W.
Gallaghers searing revision- Willie Lee Rose Prize,
ist history shows, it is an Southern Association
anachronistic judgment. for Women Historians
Northern citizen-soldiers Avery O. Craven Award,
fought the war to preserve the Union. Emancipa- Organization of American Historians
tion was secondary to the wars primary goal of Co-Winner, Merle Curti Award,
safeguarding the republic. Organization of American Historians
Finalist, Pulitzer Prize in History
This exceptionally fine book is in effect a com-
panion piece to its authors The Confederate A Civil War Monitor
War, published in 1997Now, in The Union Top Civil War Book of the Year
War, Gallagher is back to take issue with what A landmark piece of Civil War historiography.
has become the new conventional wisdom, that JIM CULLEN, HISTORY NEWS NETWORK
the North fought the war in order to achieve the
emancipation of the slavesGallagher makes Building upon her work over almost two
a very strong casein my view a virtually ir- decades, McCurry presents a new history of the
refutable onethat the overriding motive in Souths experience during the warPerhaps the
the North was preservation of the Union. highest praise one can offer McCurrys work is
to say that once we look through her eyes, it will
JONATHAN YARDLEY,
WASHINGTON POST
become almost impossible to believe that we
ever saw or thought otherwiseConfederate
In The Union War, Gallagher offers not so much Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War
a history of wartime patriotism as a series of med- South is a book about politics that stretches far
itations on the meaning of the Union to North- beyond the ballot and the statehouse, all the way
erners, the role of slavery in the conflict and how into plantations and farms and families and
historians have interpreted (and in his view mis- communities across the South.
interpreted) these mattersAt a time when only DREW GILPIN FAUST, NEW REPUBLIC
half the population bothers to vote and many
Americans hold their elected representatives in [McCurry] has written a staggeringly smart
contempt, Gallagher offers a salutary reminder of analysis of the politics of the Confederacy
the power of democratic ideals not simply to indeed, she has written one of the most illumi-
Northerners in the era of the Civil War, but also nating and creative studies of 19th-century
to people in other nations, who celebrated the American political life, periodA triumph
Union victory as a harbinger of greater rights for of political history.
themselves. Imaginatively invoking sources neg- LAUREN WINNER, BOOKS & CULTURE
lected by other scholarswartime songs, patri- 2012; 2010 456 pp.
otic images on mailing envelopes and in Paper $21.95 / 16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06421-8
illustrated publications, and regimental histories
written during and immediately after the con- Also available
flictGallagher gives a dramatic portrait of the JUSTICE IN BLUE AND GRAY
power of wartime nationalism. A Legal History of the Civil War
STEPHEN C. NEFF
ERIC FONER,
David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Legal History,
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW The Langum Charitable Trust
2011 41 halftones 256 pp. 2010 360 pp.
Cloth $27.95 / 20.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04562-0 Cloth $47.50 / 35.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03602-4
Also available
THE CONFEDERATE WAR
GARY W. GALLAGHER
Laney Prize for Best Book on the Military
History of the Civil War
Honorable Mention, Lincoln Prize
Committee, Gettysburg College
1999; 1997 40 halftones 272 pp.
Paper $19.95 / 14.95
ISBN 978-0-674-16056-9
4 c o l o n i A l A n d U. S. H i S t o ry t o 1877

New in New in paperback
paperback S LAVERY IN
T HE T WO I NDIAN C OUNTRY
H ENDRICKS The Changing Face of
Unraveling a Captivity in Early America
Mohawk Mystery CHRISTINA SNYDER
ERIC HINDERAKER Finalist, Frederick Douglass
Hinderaker utilizes Book Prize
creative and in-depth James Broussard Best
research to construct a First Book Prize
biography of two Mo- Berkshire Conference of
hawk leaders whose actions were dictated not Women Historians First Book Prize
by British interests but by those of the Mohawks Honorable Mention, Frederick Jackson Turner
and other members of the Iroquois Confederacy Award, Organization of American Historians
during an era when the Iroquois were the linch- [Snyder] focuses on the evolution of slavery
pin between New France and Great Britain from the perspective of individual Native Ameri-
Highly recommended as both a historical work can groups. She demonstrates that captivity, be-
and an outstanding example for historiographers fore the arrival of Europeans, played an
in writing ethnohistory. important role in Native societies, as some cap-
JOHN BURCH, tives became kinfolk while others became
LIBRARY JOURNAL (starred review) slavesHighly recommended.
Hinderaker does marvelous detective work JOHN BURCH, LIBRARY JOURNAL
unwinding the two Hendricks from each other Snyderexplores the Indian practice of enslav-
and weaving their stories back together again, ing prisoners of war in this instructive and re-
but he goes beyond merely setting the record markably readable bookShe reaches back to
straight. He provides a deeply researched and early Indian captivity practices and how concep-
sympathetic history of the Mohawks when tions of captives and their roles in Indian com-
they loomed large in American history. This munities changed with the arrival of Europeans
book promises to stand as an enduring work and Africans. During the colonial period, cap-
of scholarship. tives were chosen on the basis of gender and age,
TIMOTHY J. SHANNON, not race, but as a nativist movement (a collec-
AUTHOR OF IROQUOIS DIPLOMACY tive identity as red people) emerged in the late-
ON THE EARLY AMERICAN FRONTIER
18th century, Americans, black and white,
2011; 2010 21 halftones, 2 maps 368 pp. became the common enemy. By the early 19th
Cloth $37.00 / 27.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03579-9
centurywhen, among other factors, black
Paper $19.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06194-1
slaves became more highly valuedAfricans
were specifically targeted. Snyder breaks new
Also available
VIOLENCE OVER THE LAND
ground in this study [and] reveals pre-colonial
Indians and Empires in the Early American West Southern history and restores visibility to Native
NED BLACKHAWK American history in the region.
Frederick Jackson Turner Award, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review)
Organization of American Historians
2012; 2010 1 halftone, 6 line illus., 3 maps 344 pp.
William P. Clements Prize for the Best Cloth $29.95 / 22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04890-4
Non-Fiction Book on Southwestern America Paper $19.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06423-2
Robert M. Utley Award, Western History Association
Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Book Award,
T HE C IVIL W AR AND THE
American Society of Ethnohistory
Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize, L IMITS OF D ESTRUCTION
American Studies Association
MARK E. NEELY, JR.
John C. Ewers Western History Association Prize
2008; 2006 18 halftones, 2 maps, 1 graph 384 pp.

Neely argues forcefully and thoughtfully for a
Paper $21.00 / 15.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02720-6 more realistic, less gory understanding of the
great warWhatever you think of Neelys ar-
guments, you cannot reject them as poorly con-
ceived or loosely defended. He is a thoughtful
expert who delivers a book that you cannot read
without transforming your view of the Civil
War and its place in American history.
CAMERON MCWHIRTER,
ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
2010; 2007 12 halftones 288 pp.
Paper $16.95 / 12.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04595-8
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N EAR A NDERSONVILLE
Winslow Homers Civil War
PETER H. WOOD
In Near Andersonville, Wood tells the captivat-
ing story of an abandoned painting with the
meticulousness of a historian and the panache of
a novelist. More than just an enigmatic painting,
Near Andersonville is a testament to the passions
of white abolitionists, and the halting confusion
of the freed slaves they cared for. This short
book is a quick, learned, and touching read.
T HE G REAT H EART LEAH TRIPLETT, ART NEW ENGLAND
OF THE R EPUBLIC In his engrossing book by the same name,
Wood argues that [Homers] Near Andersonville
St. Louis and the Cultural Civil War explores the question of What happensif
ADAM ARENSON any part of the Civil War drama is viewed ex-
plicitly from the vantage point of the enslaved.
Charles Redd Center Book Award
Wood offers an illuminating, if at times specula-
Arensons The Great Heart of the Republic tive, reading of the imageHis careful recon-
reveals the fresh and complex insights that close struction of the paintings provenance, and his
study of Missouri can yield for our understand- account of the discovery of the paintings title,
ing of nineteenth-century American history are every bit as rewarding as his careful analysis
Arensons book offers a much broader interpre- of the visual symbolism of the painting itself.
tation of the Civil War than a typical work of LAUREN WINNER, BOOKS & CULTURE
local history. Rather than provide a comprehen-
The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
sive account of St. Louiss past, he uses the citys 2010 8 color illus., 16 halftones 152 pp.
story to reveal a nuanced, intimate history of Cloth $18.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05320-5
the Civil War era from the heart of the republic.
The result is a beautifully written and strikingly
original interpretation of the causes, conduct,
and consequences of the war.
ANDRE M. FICHE,
HISTORY NEWS NETWORK
2011 22 halftones, 2 maps 352 pp.
Cloth $35.00 / 25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05288-8
Also available Also available

UNCOMMON DEFENSE THEIR RIGHT TO SPEAK
Indian Allies in the Black Hawk War Women's Activism in the Indian and Slave Debates
JOHN W. HALL ALISSE PORTNOY
2009 2 maps 384 pp. Karl R. Wallace Memorial Award,
Cloth $31.50 / 23.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03518-8 National Communication Association
2005 306 pp.
REPUBLIC OF DEBTORS
Cloth $62.50 / 46.95 ISBN 978-0-674-01922-5
Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence
BRUCE H. MANN
EXILES AT HOME
James Willard Hurst Prize, Law and Society Association
The Struggle to Become American in Creole New Orleans
Littleton-Griswold Prize, SHIRLEY ELIZABETH THOMPSON
American Historical Association Robert W. Hamilton Book Award,
SHEAR Prize, University of Texas at Austin Co-operative Society
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
2009 19 halftones 400 pp.
2009; 2002 1 halftone 358 pp. Cloth $54.50 / 40.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02351-2
Paper $20.00 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03241-5
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New
T O F REE A F AMILY
The Journey of Mary Walker
SYDNEY NATHANS
To Free a Family tells the remarkable story of Mary Walker, who in August 1848
fled her owner for refuge in the North and spent the next seventeen years trying to
recover her son and daughter. Her freedom, like that of thousands who escaped
from bondage, came at a great priceremorse at parting without a word, fear for
her familys fate.
In this rigorously scholarly but totally absorbing narrative, Nathans unfolds a
history as spellbinding as a novel, chockfull of fascinating people engaged in a
venture both risky and affecting. When the fugitive slave Mary Walker finds
refuge with the Lesleys in Pennsylvania, their lives, their families, and their circle
of friends become deeply involved in the general cause and the specific mis-
sionto secure the freedom of Walkers mother and her childrenNathans has
transformed the paraphernalia of academia (ploughing through archives, thor-
ough documentation, guarded speculation) into a book that will entrance the
general reader, inform the scholar, and engage both.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review)
2012 25 halftones, 4 maps 360 pp. Cloth $29.95 / 22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06212-2
New
A L EVEL P LAYING F IELD
African American Athletes and the Republic of Sports
GERALD L. EARLY
The intersection of race and sports is one of the most dangerous in American
cultureA Level Playing Field: African American Athletes and the Republic of
Sports [is] a provocative and lively collection of lectures and essays. Its a wel-
come addition to the elite sports shelf[Early] displays the grandiosity of the
critic and the passion of the fan.
ROBERT LIPSYTE, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
[A] powerful bookEarly illuminates in great detail the inner collisions of
African-American athletes as they find their way in the (mostly white) public
sphere. His is a valiantand largely successfulattempt to explain what its like
to be an African-American athlete todayA Level Playing Field makes an excellent
template from which to work when we want to look beyond the platitudes that
mark the dialogue about race and sport. But it also reminds us how far weve come.
DOUG GLANVILLE, WALL STREET JOURNAL
2011 288 pp. Cloth $25.95 / 19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05098-3
New in paperback
W E A IN T W HAT W E O UGHT T O B E
The Black Freedom Struggle from Emancipation to Obama
STEPHEN TUCK
British Association for American Studies Book Prize
Richard E. Neustadt Book Prize, American Politics Group of the Political Studies Association
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
In this sweeping and absorbing history of black activism, Tuck highlights the achievements of com-
munity organizing from the mid-19th century to Barack Obamas dexterous grassroots campaign for
the presidencyWith rich detail and a strong narrative, Tuck fills in gaps in the story, from the lesser
known backroom dealings of Booker T. Washington to the noble efforts on behalf of black women by
Anna Julia Cooper.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
We Aint What We Ought To Be is a collection of voices that document our struggle for equality in
America from the Reconstruction era until now. Its all herethe great speeches and momentsbut
its the nod to the common woman and man that lifts this narrative a notch above similar titles.
PATRIK HENRY BASS, ESSENCE
Cloth $29.95 / 22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03626-0
Paper $19.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06229-0
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New in paperback New in paperback
F REEDOM S OUTHERN
S TRUGGLES H ORRORS
African Americans Women and the Politics
and World War I of Rape and Lynching
ADRIANE LENTZ-SMITH CRYSTAL N. FEIMSTER
Honor Book Winner, W. E. B. Du Bois Book
The Black Caucus of Prize, North East Black
the American Library Studies Association
Association Literary Honorable Mention,
Awards Darlene Clark Hine
In offering a unique vision of African American Award, Organization of American Historians
aspirations, frustrations, and political sensibili- FascinatingFeimsters account challenges us
ties, Lentz-Smith convincingly contends that the to think again about race and sexual politics.
Great War era represented a transformative mo- MARY EVANS,
ment in the black freedom struggle[Freedom TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION
Struggles] provides a thoughtful, accessible por-
Historian Crystal N. Feimster provides an op-
trayal of a civil rights struggle we believe we
portunity to better understand the lack of sym-
might already understand but one that we
pathy between black and white suffragists and
should come to know much, much better.
how lynching spurred both to the political ac-
LAUREN SKLAROFF,
tivism that eventually won women the vote
JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY
This account leaves us with a sense of what
Lentz-Smiths terrific new book is a balanced made the fights for racial equality and womens
and beautifully written account of the black sol- suffrage so complicated and contentious.
diers experience in World War I. It raises impor- MARGARET WHEELER JOHNSON,
tant questions about the ways that law and DOUBLE X
status in the United States is shaped by develop- 2011; 2009 11 halftones 336 pp.
ments abroad. Paper $19.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06185-9
JOEL E. BLACK,
LAW AND HISTORY REVIEW Q UEST FOR E QUALITY
2011; 2009 16 halftones 336 pp.
Cloth $37.00 / 27.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03592-8 The Failed Promise of Black-Brown Solidarity
Paper $22.50 / 16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06205-4 NEIL FOLEY
TIL Award for Most Significant Scholarly Book,
F UGITIVE J USTICE
Texas Institute of Letters
Runaways, Rescuers, and Slavery on Trial Finalist, William P. Clements Prize,
STEVEN LUBET William P. Clements Center for Southwest
Studies at Southern Methodist University
Honorable Mention, David J. Langum, Sr. A Huffington Post Best Social and Political
Prize in American Legal History Awareness Book of the Year
A stirring account of courtroom collisions at This concise, important work considers the
the intersection of law, morality and politics. possibilities but ultimate failure of the African
KIRKUS REVIEWS American and Mexican American communities
Belknap 2010 384 pp. to unite in their struggle for civil rights.
Cloth $29.95 / 22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04704-4 D. O. CULLEN, CHOICE
Also available 2010 12 halftones, 1 line illus. 240 pp.
TO SERVE THE LIVING Cloth $24.95 / 18.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05023-5
Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death
SUZANNE E. SMITH
Belknap 2010 12 halftones 288 pp.
Cloth $31.50 / 23.95
ISBN 978-0-674-
03621-5
8 AfricAn AmericAn HiStory / AmericAn SoUtH

P LAYING THE N UMBERS New in paperback
Gambling in Harlem between the Wars T HE C ONDEMNATION

OF B LACKNESS
SHANE WHITE, STEPHEN GARTON,
STEPHEN ROBERTSON, AND Race, Crime, and the Making
GRAHAM WHITE of Modern Urban America
Brims with fascinating, colorful stories KHALIL GIBRAN
about a little-known facet of New York life. MUHAMMAD
MICHAEL J. AGOVINO,
John Hope Franklin
WALL STREET JOURNAL
Publication Prize,
[Playing the Numbers] draws on an array of American Studies Association
sourcesfrom the back issues of Harlems A dazzling study that illumi-
newspapers, to probation reports and the case nates a great deal about the social construction
files of the New York City district attorney, to of black criminality. Muhammad does a superb
the literature and memoirs of the Harlem Ren- job of explicating the role that social scientists,
aissanceto illuminate the scope of the num- journalists, and reformers played in creating the
bers game and the sometimes harmless, idea of the black criminal and sustaining racial
sometimes farcical, often sociable, but ultimately inequality.
insidious ways it permeated nearly every aspect
ALDON D. MORRIS,
of Harlemites daily lives and even their dream
AUTHOR OF THE ORIGINS
lives. The result: an intricate sociology of organ-
OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
ized crime.
BENJAMIN SCHWARZ, THE ATLANTIC With uncommon interpretive clarity and re-
sourceful accumulation of data, the author dis-
2010 320 pp.
Cloth $26.95 / 19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05107-2 entangles crime as a fact of the urban experience
from crime as a theory of race in American his-
tory. This is a mandatory read.
S ETTING D OWN THE S ACRED PAST
DAVID LEVERING LEWIS,
African-American Race Histories PULITZER PRIZEWINNING
LAURIE F. MAFFLY-KIPP AUTHOR OF W. E. B. DU BOIS
2011; 2010 7 halftones, 2 line illus., 3 cartoons 392 pp.
Maffly-Kipp draws on lectures, sermons, plays, Paper $18.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06211-5
poetry, and other works of several little-known
writers from the American Revolution and Also available
WWI that reflect on how the black community SOUL BY SOUL
in the U.S. has attempted to record and analyze Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
the meaning of the African diasporic experi- WALTER JOHNSON
enceThese writers add valuable perspective to Co-Winner, Frances B. Simkins Award,
the works of better-known black authors and a Southern Historical Association
full perspective on African American history. Avery O. Craven Award,
VANESSA BUSH, BOOKLIST
John Hope Franklin Prize,
Belknap 2010 352 pp. American Studies Association
Cloth $29.95 / 22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05079-2
Thomas J. Wilson Prize
Society for Historians of the Early
American Republic Book Prize
Co-Winner, Frederick Jackson Turner Award,
2001; 2000 20 halftones 320 pp.
Paper $23.00 / 17.95 ISBN 978-0-674-00539-6

New in paperback
P LANTATION E NTERPRISE IN
C OLONIAL S OUTH C AROLINA
S. MAX EDELSON
George C. Rogers, Jr. Book Award,
South Carolina Historical Society
Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award,
The Agricultural History Society
S. Max Edelson deftly traces how some early
colonists overcame their prejudice toward
marshes and swamps to develop a profitable
O UR S OUTH plantation system. They adapted the Carolina
Geographic Fantasy and the Rise landscape to the Atlantic economy by learning
of National Literature from local Indian communities and imported
Africans, and through active experimentation, re-
JENNIFER RAE GREESON fining the art of rice production, which they sup-
C. Hugh Holman Award, plemented with indigo and other cropsThis
Society for the Study of Southern Literature well-researched and well-written account cre-
A major achievementWith a rich archive atively cultivates an array of sources, contains nu-
extending from the eighteenth century to the merous valuable graphs and appendices to
twentiethat once regional, national, and support its arguments, and provides a convincing
globalthis is cultural history at its most story of Carolina plantation development.
capacious and compelling. ALAN GALLAY,
JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY
WAI CHEE DIMOCK, AUTHOR OF
THROUGH OTHER CONTINENTS 2011; 2006 6 halftones, 1 line illus., 5 maps,
15 tables 400 pp.
2010 18 halftones, 3 maps 368 pp. Paper $19.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06022-7
Cloth $39.95 / 29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02428-1
UP FROM H ISTORY
B ECOMING F REE IN
The Life of Booker T. Washington
THE C OTTON S OUTH
ROBERT J. NORRELL
SUSAN EVA ODONOVAN
A Library Journal Best Book of the Year
James A. Rawley Prize, A Booklist Top 10 Black History
Organization of American Historians Nonfiction Book of the Year
Outstanding Archives Award, A Washington Post Best Book of the Year
Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board Honorable Mention, U.S. History &
In her pioneering history of Reconstruction in Biography/Autobiography, The Association
southwest Georgia, Susan Eva ODonovan re- of American Publishers PROSE Awards
minds us that the men and women negotiating Few great Americans have been more cruelly
the first few years of freedom there operated treated by history than Booker Taliaferro Wash-
within a framework established by their subre- ington. He has been mocked, vilified and carica-
gions particularly harsh history of slavery and tured, yet by any reasonable measure his life was
warCompelling reading and offers welcome extraordinaryTo see him as anything less than
glimpses into this crucial moment in history heroic borders on the incomprehensibleUp
This book deserves a thoughtful readership. from History is in all respects an exemplary book.
MARK ROMAN SCHULTZ, JONATHAN YARDLEY,
JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
2010; 2007 1 map 384 pp. Belknap 2011; 2009 54 halftones 528 pp.
Paper $18.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04565-1 Paper $19.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06037-1
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D ARKER THAN B LUE
On the Moral Economies of
Black Atlantic Culture
PAUL GILROY
If the moral force of Baldwins writing was fu-
elled by the solidarity of the Civil Rights move-
ment, Gilroys book is a warning of moral
bankruptcy creeping into contemporary U.S.
black culture. According to Gilroy, commodities
have replaced community, and the spirit of the
freedom marches has been overtaken by the roar New in paperback
of accessorized Hummers. This is not simply a IN THE S HADOW OF D U B OIS
curmudgeonly critique of contemporary culture,
and Gilroy teases out the reasons why the moral Afro-Modern Political Thought in America
energy that galvanized the Civil Rights move- ROBERT GOODING-WILLIAMS
ment has been diluted by corporate American life
in three penetrating and exhilarating chapters. Best Book on Race, Ethnicity, and Political
Thought, American Political Science Association
DOUGLAS FIELD,
Honorable Mention, David Easton Award,
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
American Political Science Association,
Belknap / The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures Foundations of Political Theory Section
2011; 2010 224 pp.
Paper $18.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06023-4 A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
A thoughtful, nuanced work that challenges
T HE S HOWMAN AND THE S LAVE previous perceptions of Du Bois and modern
definitions of African American politics.
Race, Death, and Memory in Barnums America
K. ANDERSON, CHOICE
BENJAMIN REISS
By attending to Du Boiss relations to thinkers
[An] intriguing and thoughtful book like Weber, Gooding-Williams helpfully places
[a] remarkable and disturbing story. this American thinker against the background of
GARY GERSTLE, WASHINGTON POST the education he received in Berlin.
SuperbBenjamin Reiss [writes] the history of KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH,
entertainment exactly as it should be written: as NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
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of the ageRequired reading for those inter-
ested in the broad sweep of nineteenth-century T HE S ELMA OF THE N ORTH
social history, as well as the history of entertain-
ment, the popular press, science, race relations, Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee
slavery, abolitionism, business, gender studies, PATRICK D. JONES
and historical memory. A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
PAUL REDDIN, Co-Winner, Gambrinus Prize,
AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW Milwaukee County Historical Society
2010; 2001 12 halftones 288 pp. State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Paper $19.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05564-3 Book Award of Merit
A well-researched and fascinating narrative
Jones has produced an outstanding study of the
civil rights movement in Milwaukee which
should prove a model for investigations of other
Northern cities.
RON BRILEY, HISTORY NEWS NETWORK
2010; 2009 19 halftones, 1 map 360 pp.
Paper $22.95 / 16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05729-6
Also available
THE POLITICAL WORLDS OF
SLAVERY AND FREEDOM
STEVEN HAHN
2009 7 halftones, 5 tables 272 pp.
Cloth $21.95 / 16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03296-5
JOHN BROWNS TRIAL

BRIAN MCGINTY
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T HE W ASHINGTON H AGGADAH
BY JOEL BEN SIMEON
Introduction by David Stern and Katrin Kogman-Appel
After the Bible, the Passover haggadah is the most widely read classic Jewish text.
Few editions are as exquisite as the Washington Haggadah in the Library of Con-
gress. A stunning facsimile edition, meticulously reproduced in full color, brings this
illuminated fifteenth-century manuscript to life for a new generation of readers.
This beautifully produced book is a detailed facsimileFrom the Exodus to the
Rabbis to 1478 to 1879 to 2011in these pages, if anywhere, the past is present
and the present past.
ADAM KIRSCH, TABLET MAGAZINE
David Stern provides a concise and enlightening introduction to the develop-
ment of the Haggadah and ben Simeons work, while Katrin Kogman-Appel
reveals a sharp-eyed attention to detail in her examination of the Washington
Haggadah itself and its place in the context of the artistic development revealed
in other Haggadah manuscripts of the time.
RALPH AMELAN, JERUSALEM REPORT
Belknap 2011 38-page color facsimile, 11 color illus. 248 pp.
Cloth $39.95 / 29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05117-1
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T HE U NINTENDED R EFORMATION
How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society
BRAD S. GREGORY
Brad S. Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Reformation for
the modern condition: a hyperpluralism of beliefs, intellectual disagreements that
splinter into fractals of specialized discourse, the absence of a substantive common
good, and the triumph of capitalisms driver, consumerism.
A work of deep moral seriousnessThe Unintended Reformation is simply
the most intelligent treatment of the subject by a contemporary author.
THOMAS A. BRADY, JR., AUTHOR OF
GERMAN HISTORIES IN THE AGE OF REFORMATIONS, 14001650
[Gregory] approaches the continuing impact of the Reformation in what he
terms a genealogical approachone that sees the Reformation as the root of a
tree whose branches reach into every aspect of modern life[A] rewarding look
at the long reach of history, and how we are the poorer for ignoring it.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Belknap 2012 592 pp. Cloth $39.95 / 25.00 ISBN 978-0-674-04563-7
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T HE A NOINTED
Evangelical Truth in a Secular Age
RANDALL J. STEPHENS AND KARL W. GIBERSON
Why do so many evangelicals follow leaders with dubious credentials when they have other options in
their own faith? Exploring intellectual authority within evangelicalism, the authors reveal how the con-
cept of anointingbeing chosen by God to speak for himestablished a conservative evangelical lead-
ership isolated from secular arts and sciences.
The Anointed is one of the best and most important books on religion published this year. It is a
well-written, well-argued study that penetrates to the heart of modern evangelical cultureEvangeli-
cals who take the intellect seriously, as well as outsiders struggling to understand the evangelical sub-
culture, will benefit from their hard work and keen insights.
MATTHEW AVERY SUTTON, CHRISTIAN CENTURY
[Stephens and Giberson] rise triumphantly to the challenge of explaining the leaders and the culture
of the religious Right without rancor or condescension.
RAY OLSON, BOOKLIST
Belknap 2011 25 halftones 384 pp. Cloth $29.95 / 22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04818-8
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New New
N O C LOSURE R ELIGION
Catholic Practice IN H UMAN
and Bostons E VOLUTION
Parish Shutdowns
From the Paleolithic
JOHN C. SEITZ to the Axial Age
In 2004 the Roman ROBERT N. BELLAH
Catholic Archdiocese of
A New York Times
Boston announced plans
to close more than eighty Editors Choice, 2011
churches. Distraught This ambitious book probes
parishioners occupied our biological past to dis-
several of these buildings in opposition to the de- cover the kinds of lives that human beings have
crees. John Seitz tells the stories of these resisting imagined were worth living. Robert Bellahs the-
Catholics in their own words. ory goes deep into cultural and genetic evolution
to identify a range of capacities (communal danc-
A compelling ethnographyA fine history of
ing, storytelling, theorizing) whose emergence
Bostons parishes and neighborhoods and a nu-
made religious development possible in the first
anced portrait of the complex legacy of the Sec-
millennium BCE.
ond Vatican Council in modern Catholic life.
AMY KOEHLINGER, Of Bellahs brilliance there can be no doubt.
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY The sheer amount this man knows about reli-
gion is otherworldlyOnly one word is appro-
An invaluable ground-level record of a historic
priate to characterize this books subject as well
period for American Catholics.
as its substance, and that is magisterial.
ARTHUR MCCAFFREY, BOSTON GLOBE
ALAN WOLFE,
2011 322 pp. NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Cloth $39.95 / 29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05302-1
Belknap 2011 784 pp.
Cloth $39.95 / 25.00 ISBN 978-0-674-06143-9
G OD -F EARING AND F REE
A Spiritual History of Americas Cold War T O S ERVE G OD AND W AL -M ART
JASON W. STEVENS The Making of Christian Free Enterprise
Ray and Pat Browne Award, BETHANY MORETON
Best Reference / Primary Source Work
Frederick Jackson Turner Award
in Popular and American Culture
John Hope Franklin Publication Prize
A brilliant and original work of scholarshipIt A Boston Phoenix Best Book of the Year
is a robustly ambitious effort to explain Ameri-
can culture or the American character, as Stevens This book offers readers an engaging account
puts itStevens never treats religion as a dry of how a discount five-and-dime store conceived
analogue to secularism. Instead, he illustrates an in the rural American Ozarks became the tem-
unending, enlivening dialogue between the secu- plate for service work in the global economy.
lar and the religious in American culture, by REBEKAH PEEPLES MASSENGILL,
looking deeply into important American texts TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION
God-Fearing and Free is an important book that 2010; 2009 12 halftones, 1 map 392 pp.
sheds new and unexpected light on the familiar Paper $17.95 / 13.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05740-1
postwar landscape.
MICHAEL KIMMAGE, Also available
NEW REPUBLIC ONLINE AIMEE SEMPLE MCPHERSON AND THE
RESURRECTION OF CHRISTIAN AMERICA
2010 448 pp.
MATTHEW AVERY SUTTON
Cloth $39.95 / 29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05555-1
2009; 2007 50 halftones 416 pp.
Paper $20.00 / 14.95 ISBN 9780674032538
religion in AmericA 13
T HE D ISENCHANTMENT OF
S ECULAR D ISCOURSE
STEVEN D. SMITH
First Things Notable Book of the Year
This book presses us to look harder at closely
held beliefs and to question deeply rooted prem-
ises and commitments with which we are per-
haps too comfortable.
RICHARD W. GARNETT,
NOTRE DAME LAW SCHOOL
2010 304 pp.
T HE F IRE S PREADS Cloth $26.95 / 19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05087-7
Holiness and Pentecostalism

in the American South A N EW S CIENCE
RANDALL J. STEPHENS The Discovery of Religion in the Age of Reason
Smith-Wynkoop Book Award, GUY G. STROUMSA
Wesleyan Theological Society [Stroumsa] contends, persuasively and readably,
Stephenss masterful account of how the South that our current comparative approach to reli-
nurtured and altered a once-marginalized religious phenomena has three main historical
gious movementand how that religion influ- rootsStroumsa maps their relationship with
enced the regionis the most fluent and elegance, insight, and a splendid intolerance of
authoritative synthesis of a complex and contro- cant. This is a major new landmark in the intel-
versial subject. lectual landscape. It will help us to keep our
THE ATLANTIC bearings as we navigate around our own feelings
toward religion and religions.
2010; 2008 30 halftones 416 pp.
Paper $19.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04685-6 CHARLES FOSTER, FORTEAN TIMES
2010 240 pp.
P RAYERS OF THE F AITHFUL Cloth $35.00 / 25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04860-7
The Shifting Spiritual Life O N Z ION S M OUNT

of American Catholics
JAMES P. M C CARTIN
Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape
JARED FARMER
Over the course of the past several decades,
many Catholics have rejected the strict spiritual An important book for historians of the Ameri-
hierarchy that was, for centuries, the foundation can West and the nation as a whole.
of the organized church. This dramatic shift in RICHARD G. FRANCAVIGLIA,
the practice of the Catholic religion has resulted JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY
in the evolution of prayer itself into an inde- 2010; 2008 21 halftones, 3 maps 472 pp.
pendent-centered activity incorporated into Paper $19.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04743-3
daily routines rather than a publicly performed
and formalized ritual. Also available
MARGARET FLANAGAN, BOOKLIST THE NEW NUNS
Racial Justice and Religious Reform in the 1960s
2010 240 pp. AMY L. KOEHLINGER
Cloth $25.95 / 19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04913-0
Eric Hoffer Book Award, Culture Category

Cloth $51.50 / 38.95 ISBN 9780674024731
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PACIFIC C OSMOPOLITANS
A Cultural History of U.S.-Japan Relations
MICHAEL R. AUSLIN
Beginning with the first Japanese and Americans to make contact in the early
1800s, Michael Auslin traces a unique cultural relationship. He focuses on organi-
zations devoted to cultural exchange, such as the American Friends Association in
Tokyo and the Japan Society of New York, as well as key individuals who pro-
moted mutual understanding.
This book fills an important gap.
LESLEY DOWNER, LITERARY REVIEW
A splendid and nuanced account of the history of cultural exchange between
Americans and Japanese. Auslin presents a fascinating story of the evolution of Pa-
cific cosmopolitans, who promoted cultural understanding and interaction between
the two countries even in periods of geopolitical tension or economic friction.
AKIRA IRIYE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
2011 17 halftones 344 pp. Cloth $49.95 / 36.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04597-2
New
T HE M AUTHAUSEN T RIAL
American Military Justice in Germany
TOMAZ JARDIM
The Nuremberg trials are regarded as models of postwar justice, but the Maut-
hausen trial was the norm and reveals the troubling face of American military
proceedings. This rough justice, with its lax rules of evidence and questionable in-
terrogations, compromised legal standards in order to guarantee that guilty people
did not walk free.
This book will take its place as the standard work on the Mauthausen trial in
English[Jardim] makes a convincing case for the continuing relevance of this
largely overlooked trial, a point well taken now that military commissions are
back in vogue.
LAWRENCE R. DOUGLAS, AUTHOR OF THE MEMORY OF JUDGMENT
Demonstrating how unprepared the American military was to conduct war
crimes trials, Jardim reveals for the first time how questionable many of the
armys prosecutorial practices were. This valuable book offers not only signifi-
cant insights into the way American military justice functioned after World
War II, but also warns of the challenges military commissions face in the present.
DEVIN PENDAS, AUTHOR OF THE FRANKFURT AUSCHWITZ TRIAL, 19631965
2012 21 halftones 304 pp. Cloth $29.95 / 22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06157-6
New
F RAMING M USLIMS
Stereotyping and Representation after 9/11
PETER MOREY AND AMINA YAQIN
In Framing Muslims: Stereotyping and Representation after 9/11, Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin dissect
how stereotypes that depict Muslims as an inherently problematic presence in the West are constructed,
deployed, and circulated in the public imagination, producing an immense gulf between representation
and a considerably more complex reality.
Framing Muslims is an enlightening book. It is sure to make us more critical of the power and influ-
ence of media in shaping our views on Muslims and Islam. Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin deserve ap-
plause for their worthy effort.
JOSEPH RICHARD PREVILLE, SAUDI GAZETTE
GroundbreakingDrawing on their diverse backgrounds in English and Urdu literary and cultural
studies, Morey and Yaqin examine[how] veils, beards, men at prayer, and minarets stand in for
Muslims in all their heterogeneity and complexity[An] illuminating work.
CLAIRE CHAMBERS, TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION
2011 256 pp. Cloth $27.95 / 20.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04852-2
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New New in
C OLORED paperback
C OSMOPOLITANISM I NVISIBLE W AR
The Shared Struggle for The United States and
Freedom in the United the Iraq Sanctions
States and India JOY GORDON
NICO SLATE A Foreign Policy
Colored Cosmopolitanism Best Book of the Year
is a testament to a solidar- on the Middle East
ity that thrived despite Gordons important
painful contradictions. A book is a cautionary tale
detailed, compelling history that is also an ex- of what happens to a state when the full mecha-
ample of effortless storytelling. nisms of international sanctions are placed upon
AMITAVA KUMAR, AUTHOR OF it regardless of consequence. Gordon admits that
A FOREIGNER CARRYING IN THE U.S. policy was not calculated to destroy the
CROOK OF HIS ARM A TINY BOMB Iraqi population but rather was deeply indiffer-
Deeply researched, subtly argued, and written ent to the consequences of its actions.
with verve and clarity, Colored Cosmopolitanism JAMES DENSELOW, HUFFINGTON POST
demonstrates the porousness of national bor- The devastation of much of Iraqi society be-
dersand the importance of international con- tween 1990 and 2003 through [UN economic]
nections for social justice movements. This is sanctions, driven by the U.S. and to a lesser ex-
superior transnational history. tent the UK, is a story that has been buried for
THOMAS BORSTELMANN, AUTHOR OF the most part under layer on layer of diplomatic
THE COLD WAR AND THE COLOR LINE technicalities, obfuscation and sheer indiffer-
2012 17 halftones 344 pp. enceHer book deserves to be read and dis-
Cloth $39.95 / 29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05967-2 cussed widely.
ERIC HERRING,
New in paperback TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION
L ATIN A MERIC A S C OLD W AR 2012; 2010 376 pp.
Paper $21.95 / 16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06408-9
HAL BRANDS
As Brands persuasively argues, the true story of A MERIC A S G EISHA A LLY
Latin Americas role in the Cold War lies in the Reimagining the Japanese Enemy
dynamic interactions between international
forces and domestic actors. Tragically, both the NAOKO SHIBUSAWA
United States and the Soviet Union exacerbated Peter C. Rollins Book Prize,
the regions already polarized politics, and the Northeast Popular Culture Association
ensuing violent clashes rendered asunder fragile Ingeniously combines social history and do-
democracies. mestic history by discussing how American citi-
RICHARD FEINBERG, FOREIGN AFFAIRS zens contributed to the process of incorporating
Brandss study will stand as the definitive work Japan into the US-led liberal capitalist frame-
in the years ahead. work in the years immediately after the Second
J. A. RHODES, CHOICE World War.
2012; 2010 17 halftones 408 pp. YUJIN YAGUCHI,
Paper $19.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06427-0 JOURNAL OF AMERICAN STUDIES
2010; 2006 11 halftones 408 pp.
Paper $19.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05747-0
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T HE L AST U TOPIA New in paperback
Human Rights T HE S HOCK OF

in History THE G LOBAL
SAMUEL MOYN The 1970s in Perspective
A Choice Outstanding EDITED BY
Academic Title of NIALL FERGUSON,
the Year CHARLES S. MAIER,
Human rights offer a vi- EREZ MANELA, AND
sion of international jus- DANIEL SARGENT
tice that todays idealistic millions hold dear. Yet [A] masterful book.
the very concept on which the movement is based MICHAEL CASE, IRISH TIMES
became familiar only a few decades ago when it A serious and impressive in-depth
profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved study of an unjustly neglected decade.
humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn
BILL PERRETT, THE AGE
elevates that extraordinary transformation to cen-
ter stage and asks what it reveals about the ideals A grab-bag of lively academic essays that
troubled present and uncertain future. covers everything from the proliferation of
global non-government organizations to the
The triumph of The Last Utopia is that it re-
worldwide womens rights movement to small-
stores historical nuance, skepticism and context
pox eradication.
to a concept that, in the past 30 years, has
played a large role in world affairs. CHRISTIAN CARYL, FOREIGN POLICY
BRENDAN SIMMS, Belknap 2011; 2010 4 graphs, 9 tables 448 pp.

Paper $22.50 / 16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06186-6
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
[A] provocatively revisionist history. T HE H UNGRY W ORLD
G. JOHN IKENBERRY, FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Belknap 2012; 2010 1 line illus. 352 pp.
Americas Cold War Battle
Paper $18.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06434-8 against Poverty in Asia
NICK CULLATHER
S O G REAT A P ROFFIT Shortlist, Lionel Gelber Prize
How the East Indies Trade Transformed Ellis W. Hawley Prize,
Anglo-American Capitalism Organization of American Historians
Robert H. Ferrell Prize, Society for
JAMES R. FICHTER
Historians of American Foreign Relations
Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize
An immensely important book[Cullather]
Honorable Mention, Ralph Gomory Prize, has performed a tremendous service, and writ-
Business History Conference ten a book not just of interest but of lasting
[A] wonderful and important bookThe Pa- value in showing in detail and with great dis-
cific lay on the horizon of opportunity for cernment just how new, and also how radical,
Americans across the political spectrum, but its development was when it first began to trans-
pursuit would nearly blow the country apart. form the ways powerful nations thought about
James Fichters excellent book helps us to under- everything from the specifics of warfighting
stand the political and economic genealogies of to the broadest questions of national interest.
this powerful vision, and how the Pacific world DAVID RIEFF, THE NATION
would come to rival, if not supersede, the At- 2010 9 halftones, 1 map 368 pp.
lantic in American history. Cloth $35.00 / 25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05078-5
J. L. ROSENBLOOM, CHOICE
2010 1 map, 9 charts, 6 tables 400 pp. Also available
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War with America
JON LATIMER
Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award,
US History
Belknap 2010; 2007 16 halftones, 16 maps 656 pp.
Paper $20.00 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03477-8
CONSTRUCTING THE MONOLITH

The United States, Great Britain, and International
Communism, 19451950
MARC J. SELVERSTONE
Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize
2009 318 pp.

Cloth $54.50 / 40.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03179-1
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O PIUM
Uncovering the Politics of the Poppy
PIERRE-ARNAUD CHOUVY
What comes first, poverty or poppy growth?
Do local warlords spur opium production, or do
the conditions that first allowed warlords to take
power also give way to a drug trade? Is narcoter-
rorismthe notion that terrorists use drugs to
fund insurgenciesactually behind violence in
Afghanistan?Opiums insight lies in its re-
framing of such questions: despite what some
New in paperback politicians would like you to believe, Chouvy ar-
gues, these phenomenaviolence, poverty, and
S TRAIT TALK drugscan never be understood independently
United StatesTaiwan Relations of each other.
and the Crisis with China JESSICA LOUDIS,
NANCY BERNKOPF TUCKER NEW REPUBLIC ONLINE
[Tucker] focuses on the less-studied Washing- Cloth $27.95 / NA ISBN 978-0-674-05134-8
ton-Taipei leg of the Beijing-Washington-Taipei
triangle, tracing the interaction of policies and Also available
personalities with a level of detail made possible THE ECHO OF BATTLE
by extensive interviews and archival research and The Armys Way of War
with a clarity of judgment made possible by a BRIAN MCALLISTER LINN
long familiarity with most of the protagonists. 2009; 2007 320 pp.
Paper $20.00 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03479-2
ANDREW J. NATHAN, FOREIGN AFFAIRS
2011; 2008 11 illus., 1 map 404 pp. GLOBAL DAWN
Paper $22.95 / 16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06052-4 The Cultural Foundation of American
Internationalism, 18651890
FRANK NINKOVICH
T HE W AR C OUNCIL 2009 440 pp.
Cloth $52.50 / 38.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03504-1
McGeorge Bundy, the NSC, and Vietnam
ANDREW PRESTON NEXUS
Preston looks not at the flashes of gunfire but at Strategic Communications and
American Security in World War I
the more shadowy world of bureaucratic infight- JONATHAN REED WINKLER
ing[The War Council] shows all too clearly Paul Birdsall Prize, American Historical Association
what happens when the White House circle of Distinguished Publication Award,
decision-makers has too small a radius. Clearly, Ohio Academy of History
leaders have the right to rely on a loyal few; exces- Theodore & Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize
sive debate and deadlock are not desirable. But as Harvard Historical Studies 2008 6 maps, 3 charts
America is once again learning, people in power 358 pp. Cloth $60.00 / 44.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02839-5
need to make sure that the decisive circle includes
those who actually know a region.
THE ECONOMIST
2010; 2006 336 pp.
Paper $21.95 / 16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04632-0
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ATLANTIC C REOLES IN THE A GE OF R EVOLUTIONS
JANE LANDERS
Rembert Patrick Award, Florida Historical Society
From thousands of gossamer, broken threads of narrative, Jane Landers
has rewoven the whole tapestry of life along the Atlantic seaboard for Native
Americans, imported slaves, Creoles and free blacks. Excellently researched,
and eminently readable, it is an illuminating, groundbreaking work.
MADISON SMARTT BELL, AUTHOR OF
TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE: A BIOGRAPHY
Above all else, Atlantic creoles sought freedom. Landers has done an
excellent job in excavating their lives and highlighting their significance
in the Age of Revolutions.
GAD HEUMAN, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
2011; 2010 21 halftones, 2 maps 352 pp.
Cloth $31.50 / 23.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03591-1
Paper $19.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06204-7
New in paperback
S OUNDINGS IN ATLANTIC H ISTORY
Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 15001830
EDITED BY BERNARD BAILYN AND PATRICIA L. DENAULT
This is a most illuminating body of work for anyone interested in the latest re-
search on the Atlantic world.
XABIER LAMIKIZ, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARITIME HISTORY
Adds considerably to our understanding of Atlantic (and other) histories.
PETER COCLANIS, AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
2011; 2009 30 halftones, 9 maps, 5 graphs, 5 tables 640 pp.
Cloth $63.00 / 46.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03276-7
Paper $29.95 / 22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06177-4
T HE R EAPER S G ARDEN
Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery
VINCENT BROWN
Co-Winner, Merle Curti Award, Organization of American Historians
James A. Rawley Prize, Organization of American Historians
Longlisted for the Cundill International Prize in History
EngrossingBrowns major concern is the cultural significance of death in a
land marked by high mortality. Here, his account is compelling and highly origi-
nal. He is especially interested in how both whites and blacks used death to con-
trol the strange environment they found themselves in.
TREVOR BURNARD, TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT
2010; 2008 18 halftones, 4 maps, 2 graphs 368 pp.
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T HREE A NCIENT C OLONIES

Caribbean Themes and Variations
SIDNEY W. MINTZ
An engaging, accessible, and masterly work.
R. BERLEANT-SCHILLER, CHOICE
In this engaging, delightfully readable and provocative work, Sidney Mintz distills a lifetime of pio-
neering research to illuminate the making of three Caribbean plantation societies and of the creolized
cultures that challenged the slave system from within. The work seamlessly brings together history
and anthropology, showcasing Mintzs impassioned and encyclopedic knowledge of the Caribbean. A
must-read for all those interested in the history of slavery and the Atlantic world.
LAURENT DUBOIS, DUKE UNIVERSITY
The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures 2010 12 halftones, 1 map 272 pp.
Cloth $27.95 / 20.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05012-9
At l A n t i c wo r l d 19
New New
C OMMON S ENSE A MERIC AN
A Political History P ROPERTY
SOPHIA ROSENFELD A History of How, Why,
We often hear politicians and What We Own
and pundits speak of com- STUART BANNER
mon sense. Now Rosen- What is property? Stuart
feld insightfully traces the Banner here offers a
turns the phrase has taken guided tour through the
since it came into use in many manifestations,
18th-century urban cen- and innumerable uses, of
tersHer book is a model property throughout American history. From in-
of how a fine work of history may enlighten digenous culture to our genes, from ones
readers about polemics without being a polemic celebrity to Internet content, American Property
itself. Rich, graceful, often witty, this is very reveals how our ideas of ownership evolve to suit
highly recommended. our ever-changing needs.
BOB NARDIMI, LIBRARY JOURNAL
In this tightly written book, Banner tackles an
Rosenfeld is a shrewd and inventive historian. admittedly expansive topic, illustrating that our
She has excavated the rhetoric of common sense ideas about what property is, how it is regulated,
from an impressive number of sites and has and what it is meant to do are in constant flux
shaped this diverse evidence into a smart and and have been historically contested. Partly an
plausible narrative. She writes with verve examination of law, partly of culture, politics,
Rosenfeld warns us that common sense is some- economics, and even religion, Banner success-
times just an honorific that we bestow upon our fully shows how our notions of property and so-
prejudices. called natural property in essence sketch the
JEFFREY COLLINS, shifting borders of what Americans deem appro-
WALL STREET JOURNAL priate government regulation.
2011 14 halftones 368 pp. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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An exciting and captivating journey[Banner]
explores the occasionally labyrinthine legal and
New in paperback political processes that, as America was defining
N EOCONSERVATISM itself as a country, began to define one of its resi-
dents most basic (yet complex) rights.
The Biography of a Movement DAVID PITT, BOOKLIST
JUSTIN VASSE 2011 11 halftones 384 pp.
Translated by Arthur Goldhammer Cloth $29.95 / 22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05805-7
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New in paperback
Essential reading for anyone wishing to under-
stand the contours of our recent political past. R OOSEVELT S P URGE
BARRY GEWEN, How FDR Fought to Change
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW the Democratic Party
Absolutely excellentWith sobriety, subtlety SUSAN DUNN
and matchless breadth, Vasse explores the many
dimensions of the most consequential intellec- Henry Adams Prize,
tual movement in postSecond World War Society for History in the Federal Government
American politics. Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, History
RANDY BOYAGODA, GLOBE AND MAIL Dunn delves into a fascinating and overlooked
Belknap 2011; 2010 376 pp. aspect of the FDR presidency: Roosevelts
Paper $19.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06070-8 brazen effort to assert control over his own party
in the summer of 1938. Dunn has written an
engaging story of bare-knuckled political treach-
ery that pits a president at the peak of his popu-
larity against entrenched congressional leaders
who didnt like where he was taking the country
and their party. FDR tried to use the power of
the White House, and his personality, to run his
opponents out of the Democratic Party. He
failed miserably.
JONATHAN KARL,
WALL STREET JOURNAL
Cloth $27.95 / 20.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05717-3
Paper $17.95 / 13.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06430-0
20 PoliticAl And legAl HiStory

New New
T HE C OLLAPSE D ESIGN
OF A MERIC AN FOR L IBERTY
C RIMINAL Private Property,
J USTICE Public Administration,
WILLIAM J. STUNTZ
and the Rule of Law
RICHARD A. EPSTEIN
A Green Bag Almanac
& Reader Selection for In this compact book, the
Exemplary Legal noted legal scholar Richard
Writing Epstein advocates a much
A Library Journal smaller federal government,
Best Book of the Year arguing that our over-regulated state gives too
much discretion to regulators, which results in ar-
How has the American criminal-justice system
bitrary, unfair decisions and other abuses. Epstein
become one of the most punitive in the world
bases his classical liberalism on the twin pillars of
without providing a corresponding level of public
the rule of law and of private contracts and prop-
safety? In The Collapse of American Criminal
erty rightsan overarching structure that allows
Justice, William J. Stuntzoffers a provocative
private property to keep its form regardless of
big-picture answerThe overarching themes of
changes in population, tastes, technology, and
The Collapse of American Criminal Justice deserve
wealth. This structure also makes possible a re-
wide discussion, and the book as a whole can be
strained public administration to implement lim-
rightly seen as the capstone to a distinguished
ited objectives. Government continues to play a
legal career. Americans may debate whether our
key role as night-watchman, but with the added
criminal-justice system has truly collapsed, but
flexibility in revenues and expenditures to attend to
few would argue that it cant be improved.
national defense and infrastructure. Joining a set of
PAUL G. CASSELL, strong property rights with sound but limited pub-
WALL STREET JOURNAL lic administration could strengthen the rule of law,
The book is eminently readable and merits with its neutrality, generality, clarity, consistency,
careful attention because it accurately describes and forward-lookingness, and reverse the cynicism
the twin problems that pervade American crimi- that has overcome us.
nal justice todayits overall severity and its dis- 2011 248 pp.
parate treatment of African-Americans Cloth $29.95 / 22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06184-2
Virtually everything that Stuntz has written is
thought-provoking and constructiveWell P ECULIAR I NSTITUTION
worth reading.
JUSTICE JOHN PAUL STEVENS, Americas Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition
NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS DAVID GARLAND
Belknap 2011 4 charts, 11 tables 432 pp. Association of American Publishers PROSE
Cloth $35.00 / 25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05175-1
Award for Excellence, Law and Legal Studies
Barrington Moore Book Award
New in paperback Co-Winner, Mary Douglas Prize
A MERIC AN H OMICIDE A Times Literary Supplement
Best Book of the Year
RANDOLPH ROTH
[A] magisterial account of the origins, the de-
A Reason Best Book of the Year velopment, and the transformation of capital
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year punishment.
Allan Sharlin Memorial Award MARIE GOTTSCHALK,
Michael J. Hindelang Award NEW REPUBLIC ONLINE
In American Homicide, Randolph Roth traces Belknap 2010 3 figures, 3 tables 432 pp.
the history of our murdering ways through the Cloth $35.00 / COBE ISBN 978-0-674-05723-4
lens of our feelings about those in powerRoth
argues that how we see ourselves in relation to
our governmentis at the heart of many deci-
sions to take another lifeLooking at the fluc-
tuating homicide rate at various times in our
history, Roth tracks the historical consequences
of shifting powerRoths book also offers a
warning about our volatile political rhetoric.
Words can have real-life, even violent, conse-
quences. American Homicide is a vivid reminder
that politics isnt just about winningits also
about how you treat those who lose.
RAINA KELLEY, NEWSWEEK
Belknap 2012; 2009 31 charts, 1 map, 1 table 672 pp.
Paper $22.50 / 16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06411-9
PoliticAl And legAl HiStory 21

New New
L IVING C ONSTITUTIONAL
O RIGINALISM R EDEMPTION
JACK M. BALKIN Political Faith in an
Originalism and living con- Unjust World
stitutionalism, often seen as JACK M. BALKIN
opposing views, are not in Political constitutions are
conflict. So argues Jack compromises with injus-
Balkin, a leading constitu- tice. What makes the
tional scholar, in this long- U.S. Constitution legiti-
awaited book. Step by step, mate is Americans faith
Balkin shows how both lib- that the constitutional system can be made a
erals and conservatives play important roles in more perfect union. Jack M. Balkin argues that
constitutional construction, and offers a way past the American constitutional project is based in
the angry polemics of our era. hope and a narrative of shared redemption, and
With this book Jack Balkin has produced what its destiny is still over the horizon.
might be described as an owners manual for the Balkins book is both acute and inspiring
Constitution, revealing with painstaking care Wonderfully articulate, provocative, and illumi-
the many ways in which it can be read and in- nating, Balkin offers a remarkably original and
terpreted. Balkin deftly shows how we can move unified argument that the long history of struggle
past arguments over living versus originalist over the Constitutions commitments can best be
constitutionalism, to arrive at the welcome place understood as a nations story of faith, doubt, and
where Americans can own and redeem the Con- redemption.
stitution for themselves.
JAMES E. FLEMING,
DAHLIA LITHWICK, SLATE BOSTON UNIVERSITY
Cloth $35.00 / 25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06178-1
Part of the reason that all Americans can vener-
ate the Constitution is that we each see it a little
differently. What binds us together, Jack Balkin
New argues, is a shared faith that the promise of
T HE P EOPLE S C OURTS America can be redeemed through the Constitu-
tion. We do not decide what will happen in
Pursuing Judicial Independence in America America simply by consulting the Constitution.
JED HANDELSMAN SHUGERMAN We decide what the Constitution means partly
by asking what America ought to be.
Cromwell Dissertation/Article Prize,
American Society for Legal History, RICHARD PRIMUS,
awarded for the dissertation version of this book UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
2011 1 table 304 pp.
In the United States, almost 90 percent of state Cloth $35.00 / 25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05874-3
judges have to run in popular elections to remain
on the bench. In the past decade, this peculiarly
American institution has produced vicious multi- New in paperback
million-dollar political election campaigns and T HE I DEOLOGIC AL O RIGINS OF
high-profile allegations of judicial bias and mis- A MERIC AN F EDERALISM
conduct. The Peoples Courts traces the history of
judicial elections and Americans quest for an in- ALISON L. L A CROIX
dependent judiciaryone that would ensure fair- As LaCroix shows in this engaging treatise, the
ness for all before the lawfrom the colonial era who-does-what questions at the heart of federal-
to the present. ism have vexed the nation from the get-go.
2012 2 line illus., 2 graphs, 7 tables 400 pp. KEVIN R. KOSAR, WEEKLY STANDARD
Cloth $35.00 / 25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05548-3
The virtue of LaCroixs account is to show not
only that federalism as it developed was more
intellectually coherent than a mere bundle of
compromises, but also that its theoretical core
had begun to emerge decades before the dele-
gates travelled to Philadelphia in May 1787
[for the Constitutional Convention].
GARY L. MCDOWELL,
2011; 2010 320 pp.
Paper $22.50 / 16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06203-0

New New
T HE B ODY OF S OMEDAY A LL T HIS
J OHN M ERRYMAN W ILL B E Y OURS
Abraham Lincoln A History of Inheritance
and the Suspension and Old Age
of Habeas Corpus HENDRIK HARTOG
BRIAN M C GINTY Hendrik Hartog tells the
When Chief Justice heartbreaking stories of how
Taney declared Lincolns families fought over the
suspension of habeas cor- work of caring for the eld-
pus unconstitutional and erly, and its compensation,
demanded the release of John Merryman, Lincoln in a time before pensions, Social Security, and
defied the order, offering a forceful counter-argu- nursing homes filled this gap. As an explosive
ment for the constitutionality of his actions. The economy drew the young away from home, we
result was one of the most significant cases in see how the elderly used promises of inheritance
American legal historya case that resonates in to keep children at their side.
our own time. In this gem of a book, Hartog reveals the
In Brian McGintys engaging treatment of this human drama of growing old and dependent,
famous episode, Lincoln comes across as a famil- and the enduring dilemma in mixing love and
iar figureboth thoughtful and decisive, re- economic need.
spectful of constitutional law yet aware of the MARTHA MINOW, DEAN,
unusual necessities of the timeMcGintys ac- HARVARD LAW SCHOOL
count offers avivid and rounded picture of the Hartog brilliantly illuminates the central role
episode by giving Taneys motivations and that law has played in shaping Americans ideas
hypocrisies equal billing; doing so puts Lincolns about getting old. Poignant, funny, and analyti-
actions in an even more favorable light than his- cally razor-sharp, this is a groundbreaking
tory already has. Beset by enemies on all sides, book.
Lincoln had also to cope with calculated opposi-
DYLAN PENNINGROTH, AUTHOR OF
tion clothed in judicial robes, and he did so with
THE CLAIMS OF KINFOLK
admirable restraint.
2012 368 pp.
ADRIAN VERMEULE, Cloth $29.95 / 22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04688-7
NEW REPUBLIC ONLINE
An original, comprehensive, and well-written
New in paperback
narrative about the first constitutional crisis
Anyone interested in American history, the Con- A MERIC ANS A LL
stitution, and the Civil War will be anxious to
The Cultural Gifts Movement
read this excellent book.
DIANA SELIG
FRANK J. WILLIAMS, FORMER CHIEF
JUSTICE OF THE RHODE ISLAND Honorable Mention,
SUPREME COURT AND FOUNDING Gustavus Myers Book Award
CHAIR OF THE LINCOLN FORUM
This fascinating and intensively researched
2011 10 halftones 272 pp. monograph moves chronologically and themati-
Cloth $29.95 / 22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06155-2
cally to construct the first major historical study
of this movement, which aimed to enhance the
New in paperback American creed by confronting and overcoming
A MERIC A S C OLD W AR the worst prejudicial complications of American
diversity.
The Politics of Insecurity CHRISTOPHER MCKNIGHT NICHOLS,
CAMPBELL CRAIG AND FREDRIK LOGEVALL REVIEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY
This is a creative, carefully researched, and inci- 2011; 2008 17 halftones 384 pp.
Paper $29.95 / 22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06224-5
sive analysis of U.S. strategy during the long
struggle against the Soviet Union. There are
plenty of good books on this topic already, but
Craig and Logevalls is one of the best, and their
interpretation has important implications for
contemporary strategic debates.
STEPHEN M. WALT,
FOREIGNPOLICY.COM
It is an excellent history, providing the best
treatment of the question, Who ended the
Cold War, Reagan or Gorbachev?
H. NELSEN, CHOICE
Belknap 2012; 2009 448 pp.
Paper $18.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06406-5

New New
T HE U PSIDE -D OWN T HE F OUNDING
C ONSTITUTION F ATHERS V.
MICHAEL S. GREVE THE P EOPLE
The Constitutions vision of Paradoxes of

federalism in which local, American Democracy
state, and federal govern- ANTHONY KING
ment compete to satisfy pref-
erences of individuals has Tony King has pro-
given way to a cooperative, duced a beautifully
cartelized federalism that en- crafted and deliciously
ables interest groups to lever- thought-provoking ex-
age power at every level for their own benefit. tended essay on the many puzzles of American
Michael Greve traces this inversion and dispels politics emanating from the tensions between
much received wisdom along the way. constitutionalism and democracy. In his signa-
ture empirical and nonjudgmental fashion, King
Michael Greve has written the best book on identifies paradoxes and raises questions that are
American federalism in yearsNo one inter- certain to provoke discussion and debate on this
ested in American constitutional development side of the Atlantic.
(and its future) can afford to ignore this book. THOMAS E. MANN,
SANFORD LEVINSON, THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION
AUTHOR OF FRAMED 2012 256 pp.
2012 3 graphs, 6 tables 528 pp. Cloth $35.00 / 25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04573-6
Cloth $49.95 / 36.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06191-0
D EMOCRACY S P RISONER
New in paperback
Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and
T HE S UPREME C OURT AND THE the Right to Dissent
A MERIC AN E LITE , 17892008 ERNEST FREEBERG
LUCAS A. POWE, JR. David J. Langum, Sr. Prize,

Powe has certainly written a book that is enter- American Legal History
taining, quirky, idiosyncratic, fun to read, and Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize,
more than occasionally insightful. It does blend Biography
together legal doctrine and American politics, Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award,
and as a result the history is richerand more American Library Association
completethan the usual account. Democracys Prisoner is teeming with lessons.
LAWRENCE M. FRIEDMAN, But above all, its the story of one extraordinary
AMERICAN PROSPECT mans showdown with the establishmentand
2011; 2009 432 pp. how that confrontation turned into a complex
Paper $19.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06041-8 political struggle whose outcome was up for
grabs. Carefully researched and expertly told,
Debs story also brings a fascinating era into
sharp, vivid focus.
PETER RICHARDSON,
LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW
2010; 2008 17 halftones 392 pp.
Paper $18.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05720-3

New New
T HE C RISIS IN C ROSSING
E NERGY P OLICY B ORDERS
JOHN M. DEUTCH Migration and Citizenship
With an extraordinary in the Twentieth-Century
mix of technical, schol- United States
arly, corporate, and gov- DOROTHEE SCHNEIDER
ernmental expertise, John Crossing Borders deserves a
Deutch offers an eye- place on the growing shelf
opening history of the of immigration histories.
muddled practices that Filled with fresh material
have passed for energy and compelling stories, it is a useful supplement to
policy over the past thirty years, and a cogent ac- more traditional accounts of American immigra-
count of what we can learn from so many break- tion politics and policymaking.
downs of strategy and execution.
TAMAR JACOBY, NEW REPUBLIC ONLINE
Only a person with Deutchs extraordinary mix Wide-ranging and originalAn important
of deep technical expertise and broad government contribution to emerging literature that brings
experience could have written such an insightful the state back into migration studies while still
book on the challenges confronting those who paying tribute to the agency of migrants.
would affect the energy policy of this country.
DONNA R. GABACCIA,
LINDA G. STUNTZ, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
FORMER DEPUTY SECRETARY OF
2011 2 graphs 336 pp.
THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Cloth $45.00 / 33.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04756-3
The Godkin Lectures on the Essentials of Free
Government and the Duties of the Citizen
Also available
2011 1 halftone, 12 line illus., 4 tables 192 pp.
Cloth $24.95 / 18.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05826-2 THE DECLINE AND FALL
OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC
BRUCE ACKERMAN
New in paperback Belknap / The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
2010 280 pp.
F ACING C ATASTROPHE Cloth $25.95 / 19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05703-6
Environmental Action for a Post-Katrina World
DEPORTATION NATION
ROBERT R. M. VERCHICK Outsiders in American History
DANIEL KANSTROOM
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year 2010; 2007 352 pp.
The book is an important attempt to, among Paper $22.95 / 16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04622-1
other things, take the lessons of Katrina and
THE TWO FACES OF AMERICAN FREEDOM
make from them a new kind of national policy:
AZIZ RANA
one that can calculate the economic value of
A Huffington Post Best Book of the Year
natural infrastructurelike Louisianas coastal on Social and Political Awareness
wetlands, which help to diminish the ferocity of
2010 432 pp.
incoming hurricanesand can use that calcula- Cloth $29.95 / 22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04897-3
tion to make saner cost-benefit decisions about
our environment. THE ANNOTATED U.S. CONSTITUTION
HARRY SHEARER, HUFFINGTON POST AND DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
2012; 2010 334 pp. JACK N. RAKOVE
Paper $19.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06425-6 A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

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New New in
T HE C RUCIBLE OF paperback
C ONSENT S ETTLER
S OVEREIGNTY
American Child Rearing
and the Forging of Jurisdiction and
Liberal Society Indigenous People in
JAMES E. BLOCK America and Australia,
Why do free people submit 17881836
to any rule? How is consent LISA FORD
of the governed formed? NSW Premiers
James Block argues that the History Award, General
source is found in the nursery and schoolroom, History, Government of NSW, Australia
where the necessary synthesis of self-direction and Littleton-Griswold Prize,
integrative social conduct are established without American Historical Association
provoking reservation or resistance. Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize
No one understands the struggle with author- The key to understanding Australian attitudes to
ity at the heart of American liberalism better the law lies deep in our history, as Lisa Ford
than James BlockThe Crucible of Consent re- shows with great forensic flair[This] is compar-
minds us of the best in our national character ative history at its best. Ford moves confidently
and of the complications that have come to im- between the two societies and appears equally at
pede its latter-day expression. home in both. Both the similarities and the dif-
STEPHEN SKOWRONEK, ferences are revealing. Each study enlightens the
YALE UNIVERSITY other. This is so because the supporting scholar-
[This book] is an agenda-setting work that we ship is so impressive, the fruit, Ford tells us, of ten
will be reckoning with for a long time. years research and reflection.
MICHAEL ZUCKERMAN, HENRY REYNOLDS,
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW
2012 464 pp. Harvard Historical Studies 2011; 2010 6 maps 328 pp.
Cloth $45.00 / 33.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05194-2 Paper $24.95 / 18.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06188-0
A MERIC A S A RMY T HE S PIRIT OF THE L AW

Making the All-Volunteer Force Religious Voices and the Constitution
BETH BAILEY
in Modern America
SARAH BARRINGER GORDON
Distinguished Writing Award,
Army Historical Foundation A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
A valuable reference work for anyone interested The Spirit of the Law subtly suggests that the
in the armed forces. The book has added value era of strong evangelical influence in American
today, given the strain under which the military culture may be at least temporarily over.
has found itself in fighting lengthy insurgencies DAVID SKEEL, BOOKS & CULTURE
in both Afghanistan and Iraq. Belknap 2010 21 halftones 352 pp.
DOUG BANDOW, WASHINGTON TIMES Cloth $29.95 / 22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04654-2
Cloth $29.95 / 22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03536-2

New New
R EASONING P ROMISE
FROM R ACE AND P ERIL
Feminism, Law, and the America at the Dawn

Civil Rights Revolution of a Global Age
SERENA MAYERI CHRISTOPHER
M C KNIGHT NICHOLS
In the 1960s and 1970s,
analogies between sex In this important
discrimination and racial new book, Christopher
injustice became potent McKnight Nichols invites
weapons in the battle for a broad reconsideration of
womens rights, as feminists borrowed rhetoric [isolationism] by tracing its origins
and legal arguments from the civil rights move- back to the debates over U.S. imperialism
ment. Serena Mayeris Reasoning from Race is the at the end of the 19th century and its surprising
first history of this key strategy and its conse- continuitiesand surprising bedfellowsover
quences for American law. the next-half century.
Mayeri shows that racial politics impact on the JIM CULLEN, HISTORY NEWS NETWORK
womens movement was not a coincidence of A deeply thoughtful study about the power of
timing but rather the inevitable result of ideas ideas in the making of U.S. foreign policy.
and individuals colliding at key moments in his- MICHAEL KAZIN,
tory. Her carefully crafted reconciliation of racial AUTHOR OF A GODLY HERO
justice with womens rights offers a template for 2011 16 halftones 464 pp.
incorporating race into ongoing feminist debate Cloth $35.00 / 25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04984-0
rather than letting such conversations end in
painful silence. Also available
PAMELA D. BRIDGEWATER, MS. THE ROAD TO DALLAS
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
2011 382 pp.
DAVID KAISER
Cloth $39.95 / 29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04759-4
Belknap 2009; 2008 28 halftones, 2 maps 536 pp.
Paper $21.00 / 15.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03472-3
N O R IGHT T URN
SERVING THEIR COUNTRY
Conservative Politics in a Liberal America American Indian Politics and Patriotism
DAVID T. COURTWRIGHT in the Twentieth Century
PAUL C. ROSIER
There is much to admire hereNo Right Turn Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award
is a wonderful read. Courtwright engagingly 2009 19 halftones 368 pp.
profiles figures from Clare Boothe Luce to Cloth $42.00 / 31.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03610-9
Johnny Carson. He has gone to all the archives,
interviewed all the right people, and thought HENRY KISSINGER AND THE
deeply about his findingsHe tells his story AMERICAN CENTURY
with plenty of fresh twists and turns. JEREMI SURI
LAURA KALMAN, AMERICAN PROSPECT
Paper $21.00 / 15.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03252-1
Cloth $29.95 / 22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04677-1 THE WORD OF THE LORD IS UPON ME
The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King, Jr.
JONATHAN RIEDER
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New New
W HEN W ALL C APITALIST
S TREET M ET R EVOLUTIONARY
M AIN S TREET John Maynard Keynes
The Quest for an ROGER E. BACKHOUSE
Investors Democracy AND BRADLEY W.
BATEMAN
JULIA C. OTT
The financial crisis of 2008 The 2008 recession re-
made Americans keenly stored John Maynard
aware of the impact Wall Keynes to prominence.
Street has on the economic This account elaborates
well-being of the nation and its citizenry. Julia C. the misinformation that led to his repeated resur-
Ott shows how the government, corporations, rection and interment since his death in 1946.
and financial institutions transformed stock Keynes was more open-minded about capitalism
investment from an elite to a mass practice than is commonly believed, and his nuanced
at the beginning of the twentieth century. views offer an alternative to the polarized rhetoric
evoked by the word capitalism today.
A brilliant examination of the origins of our
investors democracy. Ott reveals how participa- [A] timely and provocative reappraisal.
tion in financial markets became the embodi- JOHN CASSIDY, NEW YORKER
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Ackerman, Decline and Fall of the, 25
Adams, My Dearest Friend, 33
Gordon, Invisible War, 16
Gordon, Spirit of the Law, 26
Noll, American Madness, 34
Norrell, Up from History, 10
Adams, Papers of John Adams, 33 Gould, Among the Powers of the Earth, 35 Nussbaum, New Religious Intolerance, 35
Adams, Quotable Abigail Adams, 33 Greeson, Our South, 10 ODonovan, Becoming Free, 10
Adams Family, Correspondence, 33 Gregory, Unintended Reformation, 12 Ott, When Wall Street Met Main Street, 28
Andrews, Killing for Coal, 28 Greve, Upside-Down Constitution, 24 Paine, Common Sense, 37
Arenson, Great Heart of the Republic, 6 Hahn, Political Worlds of Slavery, 11 Portnoy, Their Right to Speak, 6
Auslin, Pacific Cosmopolitans, 15 Hall, Dictionary of American, 38 Posner, Failure of Capitalism, 29
Bacevich, Short American Century, 35 Hall, Uncommon Defense, 6 Posner, Crisis of Capitalist Democracy, 29
Backhouse, Capitalist Revolutionary, 28 Hamilton, Federalist, 37 Powe, Supreme Court and, 24
Bailey, Americas Army, 26 Hartog, Someday All This Will Be Yours, 23 Powell, Accidental City, 35
Bailyn, Soundings in Atlantic History, 19 Harvard University, Explore Harvard, 40 Preston, War Council, 18
Balkin, Constitutional Redemption, 22 Hawthorne, Blithedale Romance, 37 Pyne, Voice and Vision, 33
Balkin, Living Originalism, 22 Hawthorne, House of the Seven Gables, 37 Rakove, Annotated U.S. Constitution, 25
Banner, American Property, 20 Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter, 37 Rana, Two Faces of American Freedom, 25
Bell, We Shall Be No More, 35 Hawthorne, Selected Stories, 37 Rawson, Eden on the Charles, 30
Bellah, Religion in Human Evolution, 13 Hinderaker, Two Hendricks, 5 Reiss, Showman and the Slave, 11
ben Simeon, Washington Haggadah, 12 Holmes, Common Law, 37 Rice, Jim Crow, American, 37
Benton-Cohen, Borderline Americans, 30 Holzer, Emancipating Lincoln, 35 Richter, Before the Revolution, 3
Berkman, Prison Blossoms, 36 Hoyt, Long Shot, 34 Richter, Facing East from Indian Country, 3
Blackhawk, Violence over the Land, 5 Jackson, Destined for Equality, 32 Rieder, Word of the Lord Is Upon Me, 27
Blight, American Oracle, 2 Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave, 37 Riis, How the Other Half Lives, 37
Blight, Race and Reunion, 3 Jardim, Mauthausen Trial, 15 Rodgers, Age of Fracture, 31
Block, Crucible of Consent, 26 John, Network Nation, 29 Rosenfeld, Common Sense, 20
Bradstreet, Works of Anne Bradstreet, 37 Johnson, Soul by Soul, 9 Rosier, Serving Their Country, 27
Brands, Latin Americas Cold War, 16 Jones, Selma of the North, 11 Roth, American Homicide, 21
Brown, Reapers Garden, 19 Kahrl, Land Was Ours, 35 Rubin, Songs of Ourselves, 31
Cahn, Sexual Reckonings, 32 Kaiser, Road to Dallas, 27 Schneider, Crossing Borders, 25
Cassidy, Short History of Physics, 34 Kanstroom, Deportation Nation, 25 Scott, Freedom Papers, 35
Chouvy, Opium, 18 Kelley, Africa Speaks, America Answers, 35 Seitz, No Closure, 13
Cooper, Last of the Mohicans, 37 King, Founding Fathers v. the People, 24 Selig, Americans All, 23
Cooper, Pioneers, 37 Koehlinger, New Nuns, 14 Selverstone, Constructing the Monolith, 17
Courtwright, No Right Turn, 27 LaCroix, Ideological Origins of, 22 Shephard, Harvard Sampler, 40
Craig, Americas Cold War, 23 Laird, Pull, 29 Shibusawa, Americas Geisha Ally, 16
Crane, Red Badge of Courage, 37 Landers, Atlantic Creoles in the Age, 19 Shugerman, Peoples Courts, 22
Cullather, Hungry World, 17 Latimer, 1812, 17 Silber, Daughters of the Union, 32
Davis, More Perfect Unions, 32 Lentz-Smith, Freedom Struggles, 8 Slate, Colored Cosmopolitanism, 16
Delbanco, Abolitionist Imagination, 35 Linn, Echo of Battle, 18 Smith, Disenchantment of Secular, 14
Deutch, Crisis in Energy Policy, 25 Lubet, Fugitive Justice, 8 Smith, To Serve the Living, 8
Diamond, Natural Experiments, 28 Mack, Representing the Race, 35 Snyder, Slavery in Indian Country, 5
Douglass, Narrative of the Life, 37 Maffly-Kipp, Setting Down, 9 Stephens, Anointed, 12
Dunn, Roosevelts Purge, 20 Mann, Republic of Debtors, 6 Stephens, Fire Spreads, 14
Early, Level Playing Field, 7 Marcus, New Literary History, 31 Stepto, Home Elsewhere, 31
Edelson, Plantation Enterprise, 10 Mayeri, Reasoning from Race, 27 Sternhell, Routes of War, 35
Epstein, Design for Liberty, 21 McCartin, Prayers of the Faithful, 14 Stevens, God-Fearing and Free, 13
Farmer, On Zions Mount, 14 McCurry, Confederate Reckoning, 4 Stowe, Uncle Toms Cabin, 37
Feimster, Southern Horrors, 8 McGinty, John Browns Trial, 11 Stroumsa, New Science, 14
Ferguson, Shock of the Global, 17 McGinty, Body of John Merryman, 23 Stuntz, Collapse of American, 21
Fichter, So Great a Proffit, 17 Mintz, Three Ancient Colonies, 19 Suisman, Selling Sounds, 31
Foley, Quest for Equality, 8 Mirel, Patriotic Pluralism, 31 Suri, Henry Kissinger and, 27
Ford, Settler Sovereignty, 26 Mirowski, Science-Mart, 34 Sutton, Aimee Semple McPherson, 13
Freeberg, Democracys Prisoner, 24 Moreton, To Serve God and Wal-Mart, 13 Taylor, Pilgrims of the Vertical, 31
Freidberg, Fresh, 31 Morey, Framing Muslims, 15 Thompson, Exiles at Home, 6
Friedman, Birth of a Salesman, 29 Moyn, Last Utopia, 17 Tilney, Invasion of the Body, 34
Frumkin, Serving Country, 31 Muhammad, Condemnation of Blackness, 9 Tuck, We Aint What We Ought To Be, 7
Gallagher, Confederate War, 4 Nathans, To Free a Family, 7 Tucker, Strait Talk, 18
Gallagher, Union War, 4 Nealon, Matter of Capital, 30 Vasse, Neoconservatism, 20
Garland, Peculiar Institution, 21 Neely, Civil War and the Limits, 5 Verchick, Facing Catastrophe, 25
Gilroy, Darker than Blue, 11 Neff, Justice in Blue and Gray, 4 White, Playing the Numbers, 9
Glenn, Forced to Care, 32 Nichols, Promise and Peril, 27 Winkler, Nexus, 18
Gooding-Williams, In the Shadow, 11 Ninkovich, Global Dawn, 18 Wood, Near Andersonville, 6
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