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GENERAL INTEREST
Twelve Caesars
Mary Beard tells the story of how for more than two
millennia portraits of the rich, powerful, and famous
in the western world have been shaped by the image of
Roman emperors, especially the “Twelve Caesars,” from
the ruthless Julius Caesar to the fly-torturing Domitian.
Twelve Caesars includes fascinating detective work and
offers a gripping story of some of the most challenging
and disturbing portraits of power ever created.
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GENERAL INTEREST
In Asian Waters
In the centuries leading up to our own, the volume
of traffic across Asian sea routes grew dramatically,
eventually making them the busiest in the world. The
result was a massive circulation of people, commodities,
religion, culture, technology, and ideas. In this book, Eric
Tagliacozzo chronicles how the seas and oceans of Asia
have shaped the history of the largest continent for the
past half millennium, leaving an indelible mark on the
modern world in the process. A novel account showing
how Asian history can be seen as a whole when seen from
the water, In Asian Waters presents a voyage into a past that
is still alive in the present.
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GENERAL INTEREST
Waterloo Sunrise
Waterloo Sunrise is a panoramic and multifaceted account
of modern London during the transformative years of the
sixties and seventies, when a city still bearing the scars
of war emerged as a vibrant yet divided metropolis. John
Davis paints lively and colorful portraits of life in the
British capital, covering topics as varied as the rise and fall
of boutique fashion, Soho and the sex trade, eating out in
London, cabbies and tourists, gentrification, conservation,
suburbia and the welfare state. Monumental in scope,
Waterloo Sunrise draws on a wealth of archival evidence to
provide an evocative, engrossing account of Britain’s ever-
evolving capital city.
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GENERAL INTEREST
Maria Theresa
Maria Theresa (1717–1780) was once the most powerful
woman in Europe. At the age of twenty-three, she
ascended to the throne of the Habsburg Empire, a realm
composed of diverse ethnicities and languages, beset on
all sides by enemies and rivals. Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger
provides the definitive biography of Maria Theresa,
situating this exceptional empress within her time while
dispelling the myths surrounding her. A panoramic work
of scholarship that brings Europe’s age of empire to life,
Maria Theresa paints an unforgettable portrait of the
uncompromising yet singularly charismatic woman who
left her mark on the era in which she lived and reigned.
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GENERAL INTEREST
Robespierre
Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) is arguably the
most controversial and contradictory figure of the French
Revolution. The fervor of those who defend Robespierre
the “Incorruptible,” who championed the rights of the
people, is met with revulsion by those who condemn him
as the bloodthirsty tyrant who sent people to the guillotine.
Marcel Gauchet argues that he was both. This panoramic
book tells the story of how the man most associated with
the founding of modern French democracy was also the
first tyrant of that democracy, and it offers vital lessons for
all democracies about the perpetual danger of tyranny.
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GENERAL INTEREST
Neighbors
On July 10, 1941, in Nazi-occupied Poland, half of the town of
Jedwabne brutally murdered the other half. Jan Gross reveals how
Jedwabne’s Jews were murdered not by faceless Nazis but by people
who knew them well—their non-Jewish Polish neighbors. In a new
preface, Gross reflects on the book’s impact and the backlash it
continues to provoke from right-wing Polish nationalists.
In Hitler’s Munich
In the aftermath of Germany’s defeat in World War I, the
conservative government of Bavaria identified Jews with left-wing
radicalism. It was here that Adolf Hitler established the Nazi
movement. In Hitler’s Munich reveals how a once-cosmopolitan city
became, in the words of Thomas Mann, “the city of Hitler.”
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GENERAL INTEREST
Rules
Rules order almost every aspect of our lives. We may chafe under
the rules we have, yet no culture could do without them. In Rules,
historian Lorraine Daston traces their development in the Western
tradition and shows how rules have evolved from ancient to
modern times. This book offers a wide-angle view on the history of
the constraints that guide us—whether we know it or not.
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HUMAN RIGHTS & CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
Sharing Responsibility
The idea that states share a responsibility to shield
people everywhere from atrocities is presently under
threat. Despite some early twenty-first century successes,
including the 2005 United Nations endorsement of the
Responsibility to Protect, the project has been placed
into jeopardy due to catastrophes in such places as Syria,
Myanmar, and Yemen; resurgent nationalism; and growing
global antagonism. With attention to ethics, law, and poli-
tics, Luke Glanville measures what possibilities remain for
protecting people wherever they reside from atrocities.
A World Divided
The world is now divided into some 200 independent
countries that proclaim human rights—a transformation
that suggests that nations and human rights inevitably
develop together. But the reality is far more problematic. A
World Divided describes how, since the eighteenth century,
nationalists have established states that grant human rights
to some people while excluding others, setting the stage
for many of today’s problems, from the refugee crisis to
right-wing nationalism. Only the advance of international
human rights will move us beyond a world divided
between those who have rights and those who don’t.
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HUMAN RIGHTS & CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
Scorched Earth
The environmental infrastructure that sustains human
societies has been a target and instrument of war for
centuries, resulting in famine and disease, displaced
populations, and the devastation of people’s livelihoods
and ways of life. Scorched Earth traces the history of
scorched earth, military inundations, and armies living
off the land from the sixteenth to the twentieth century,
arguing that the resulting deliberate destruction of the
environment—“environcide”—constitutes total war and
is a crime against humanity and nature. Scorched Earth
explains why ecocide and genocide are not separate
phenomena, and why international law must recognize
environmental warfare as a violation of human rights.
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US HISTORY
White Freedom
The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our
modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also
the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. America, a
nation founded on the principle of liberty, is also a nation
built on African slavery, Native American genocide, and
systematic racial discrimination. White Freedom traces the
complex relationship between freedom and race from the
eighteenth century to today, revealing how being free has
meant being white. White Freedom provides new perspec-
tives on the inherent racism behind our most cherished
beliefs about freedom, liberty, and human rights.
A Site of Struggle
Images of African American suffering and death have
constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural land-
scape, and the development of creative counterpoints to
these images has been an ongoing concern for American
artists. Investigating the conceptual and aesthetic strate-
gies artists have used to engage with the issue of anti-Black
violence, A Site of Struggle highlights diverse works of art
and ephemera from the post-Reconstruction period of the
late nineteenth century to the founding of the Black Lives
Matter movement.
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US HISTORY
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US HISTORY
Agents of Reform
The beginnings of the modern welfare state are often
traced to the late nineteenth-century labor movement
and to policymakers’ efforts to appeal to working-class
voters. But in Agents of Reform, Elisabeth Anderson shows
that the regulatory welfare state began a half century
earlier, in the 1830s, with the passage of the first child
labor laws. Agents of Reform moves beyond standard narra-
tives of interests and institutions toward an integrated
understanding of how these interact with political actors’
ideas and coalition-building strategies.
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US HISTORY
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson,
Volume 45 Retirement Series, Volume 17 Retirement Series, Volume 18
Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson
Edited by James P. McClure Edited by J. Jefferson Looney Edited by J. Jefferson Looney
2021. 864 pages. 2021. 800 pages. March 2022. 800 pages.
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AMERICA IN THE WORLD
American Mirror
In the nineteenth century, the United States and Brazil
were the largest slave societies in the Western world.
The former enslaved approximately four million people,
the latter nearly two million. Slavery was integral to the
production of agricultural commodities for the global
market, and governing elites feared the system’s demise
would ruin their countries. Yet, when slavery ended in the
United States and Brazil, what resulted was immediate
economic progress. Challenging commonly held ideas
about slavery and its demise in the Western Hemisphere,
American Mirror illustrates the crucial role of slave emanci-
pation in the making of capitalism.
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AMERICA IN THE WORLD
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EUROPEAN HISTORY
The Invention of
International Order
In 1814, an alliance of European empires captured Paris
and exiled Napoleon Bonaparte, defeating French military
expansionism and establishing the Concert of Europe.
This groundbreaking book chronicles the European
women and men who embraced the promise of a new
kind of politics in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars,
and whose often paradoxical contributions to modern
diplomacy and international politics still resonate today.
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EUROPEAN HISTORY
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RUSSIAN, EASTERN EUROPEAN & EURASIAN STUDIES
Stalin
This is the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin from his
birth to the October Revolution of 1917, a panoramic and
often chilling account of how an impoverished, idealistic
youth from the provinces of tsarist Russia was transformed
into a cunning outlaw who would one day become one
of the twentieth century’s most brutal dictators. Ronald
Grigor Suny sheds light on the least understood years
of Stalin’s career, bringing to life the turbulent world in
which he lived. Stalin paints a portrait of a driven young
man who abandoned his religious faith to become a skilled
political operative and a single-minded and ruthless rebel.
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RUSSIAN, EASTERN EUROPEAN & EURASIAN STUDIES
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MIDDLE EAST HISTORY
Empire of Salons
Historians have typically linked Ottoman imperial cohesion in
the sixteenth century to the bureaucracy or the sultan’s court. In
Empire of Salons, Helen Pfeifer points instead to an overlooked
factor: gentlemanly salons. Empire of Salons illustrates the extent to
which magnificent gatherings of Ottoman gentlemen contributed
to the culture and governance of empire.
Promised Lands
Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt in 1798 showed how vulnerable India
was to attack by France and Russia. It forced the British Empire
to try to secure the routes that a European might use to reach
the subcontinent—through Egypt and the Red Sea, and through
Baghdad and the Persian Gulf. Promised Lands shows how what
started as a geopolitical contest became a drama about diplomatic
competition, religion, race, and the consequences of history.
Masada
Two thousand years ago, 967 Jewish men, women, and children
reportedly took their own lives rather than surrender to the
Roman army. This dramatic event, which took place on top of
Masada spawned a powerful story of Jewish resistance that came
to symbolize the embattled modern State of Israel. Jodi Magness,
an archaeologist who has excavated at Masada, explains what
happened there—and what it has come to mean since.
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ASIAN HISTORY
Central Asia
Central Asia is often seen as a remote land on the
peripheries of modern history. Encompassing Uzbekistan,
Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and
the Xinjiang province of China, it in fact stands at the
crossroads of world events. Adeeb Khalid provides the first
comprehensive history of Central Asia from the mid-
eighteenth century to today, shedding light on the histor-
ical forces that have shaped the region under imperial
and Communist rule. This panoramic book reveals how
Central Asia has been shaped by the forces of modernity,
from colonialism and social revolution to nationalism,
state-led modernization, and social engineering.
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ASIAN HISTORY
A Decade of Upheaval
A Decade of Upheaval chronicles the dramatic political
conflicts of a rural Chinese county over the course of the
Cultural Revolution. Dong Guoqiang and Andrew Walder
uncover a previously unimagined level of strife in the
countryside that began with the Red Guard Movement
in 1966 and continued unabated until the death of Mao
Zedong in 1976. A Decade of Upheaval illuminates one of
the most unstable periods in modern Chinese history.
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ASIAN HISTORY
Violent Fraternity
Violent Fraternity is a major history of the political thought that laid
the foundations of modern India. Taking readers from the dawn of
the twentieth century to the independence of India and formation
of Pakistan in 1947, the book is a testament to the power of ideas to
drive historical transformation. Violent Fraternity demonstrates why
India, with its breathtaking scale and diversity, redefined the nature
of political violence for the modern global era.
Distant Shores
China has conventionally been considered a land empire whose
lack of maritime and colonial reach contributed to its economic
decline after the mid-eighteenth century. Distant Shores challenges
this view. This book reveals how the transoceanic migration of
Chaozhouese laborers and merchants across a far-flung maritime
world linked the Chinese homeland to an ever-expanding frontier
of settlement and economic extraction.
Visualizing Dunhuang
Situated at the crossroads of the northern and southern routes
of the ancient silk routes in western China, Dunhuang is one
of the richest Buddhist sites in the world. Visualizing Dunhuang
presents for the first time in print the comprehensive photographic
archive—created in the 1940s—of the remarkable Buddhist caves
at Dunhuang.
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AFRICAN HISTORY
In My Time of Dying
In My Time of Dying is the first detailed history of death and the
dead in Africa south of the Sahara. Focusing on a region that is
now present-day Ghana, John Parker explores mortuary cultures
and the relationship between the living and the dead over a
four-hundred-year period spanning the seventeenth to twentieth
centuries. In My Time of Dying adds to an understanding of how the
dead continue to weigh on the shoulders of the living.
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HISTORY & ECONOMICS
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ANCIENT HISTORY
That Tyrant, Persuasion Escape from Rome The Roman Republic of Letters
J. E. Lendon Walter Scheidel Katharina Volk
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RELIGIOUS HISTORY
Catholic Spectacle Forgery and Memory at the Living I Was Your Plague
and Rome’s Jews End of the First Millennium Lyndal Roper
Emily Michelson Levi Roach Cloth 9780691205304 $29.95 | £25.00
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE & KNOWLEDGE
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Republics of the New World The Birth of Modern Belief Jewish Emancipation
Hilda Sabato Ethan H. Shagan David Sorkin
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The Holy Roman Empire The Greek Experience of India Hitler’s Northern Utopia
Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger Richard Stoneman Despina Stratigakos
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The Outsiders In the Matter of Nat Turner The Promise and Peril of Credit
Philipp Ther Christopher Tomlins Francesca Trivellato
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The War on the Uyghurs Michelangelo, God’s Architect The Princeton Guide
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