2015 Columbia UP History Catalogue

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We’re very excited to be sharing with you the Columbia University Press History catalog for 2015. These titles reflect the various areas we cover in our growing history list, including Asian history, Food history, International history, Middle East history, and U.S. history. The books reflect the global and interdisciplinary approach of our list and exemplify our commitment to high-‐quality scholarship.

Among the many excellent books in this year’s catalog several deserve special attention. In U.S. history, Doug Rossinow’s The Reagan Era: A History of the 1980s provides a compelling account of the decade and how Reagan’s policies shaped the nation’s politics, economy, culture, and relation to the world. The Wrong Carlos: Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution, by James Liebman and the Columbia DeLuna Project, and Michael Yudell’s Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century are both powerful histories race and its profound effects on the justice system and other institutions in American life. On a different note, Chop Suey USA: The Story of Chinese Food in America, by Yong Chen, provides a fascinating history of America’s first “fast food” and the Chinese immigrant experience.

We have recently published three new works that highlight New York City’s economic, political, and cultural history. Capital of Capital: Money, Banking, and Power in New York City, by Steven Jaffe and Jessica Lautin, was published with the Museum of the City of New York and is the first book from our Columbia Studies in the History of Capitalism series. Frederick Douglass Opie’s Upsetting the Apple Cart: Black-‐Latino Coalitions in New York City from Protest to Public Office recounts how a powerful social movement transformed the city’s neighborhoods, education, and workplaces. Finally, A Coney Island Reader offers a panoramic view of the beach resort through the words of some of America’s most famous writers.

New titles in Middle East and Asian history reflect the range and depth of our list. Jie Li’s Shanghai Homes offers a highly original microhistory of residential life in Shanghai in the twentieth century, told through the author's family history. Wendy Law-‐Yone’s A Daughter’s Memoir of Burma is an adventure story, love story, and political memoir set against Burma’s turbulent twentieth century. Hans van de Ven’s Breaking with the Past: The Maritime Customs Service and the Global Origins of Modernity in China brilliantly recounts China’s rocky entrance into the global political economy. Jerusalem Unbound: Geography, History, and the Future of the Holy City, by Michael Dumper, plots a history of Jerusalem that makes sense of the city’s many, often overlapping borders to better understand its possible future.

Finally, we have also recently published four noteworthy books that examine the theory and practice of history, including Moved by the Past: Discontinuity and Historical Mutation, by Eelco Runia; History and Popular Memory: The Power of Story in Moments of Crisis, by Paul A. Cohen; Regimes of Historicity: Presentism and Experiences of Time, by François Hartog; and Autobiography of an Archive: A Scholar’s Passage to India, by Nicholas B. Dirks.

We hope you share our excitement about these new books, and we look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Philip Leventhal, senior editor for U.S. History and New York City History

Anne Routon, senior editor for Asian History, International History, and Middle East History

Letter from the editors:

United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

United States Cultural . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

New York City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Asian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Middle East . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

European . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41

Global . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Ancient & Medieval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49

Intellectual & Historiography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51

Culinary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56

Other Books of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62

Ordering Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63

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UNited states history

The Reagan EraA History of the 1980sdoUg rossiNow

"One of the best books on the 1980s written to date. Rossinow offers a deeply researched and compelling account of the decade in its many facets: political, economic, cultural, and international."

—Jeremi Suri, University of Texas at Austin

"With rare eloquence and erudition, Doug Rossinow captures the many contradictions of the 1980s, years when the cultural, political, and economic landscape of the United States was decisively reconfigured by the rise of Ronald Reagan and his conservative movement. This book not only paints a vivid portrait of a momentous historical turning point, it illuminates dynamics that continue to shape our world even now. There is no better introduction to the Reagan years."—Joseph A. McCartin, Georgetown University

$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16988-2

2015 392 pages

THE REAGAN

ERA

DOUG ROSSINOW

A HISTORY OF THE

1980s

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The Columbia Sourcebook of Mormons in the United Statesedited by terryl l. giveNs aNd reid l.

NeilsoN

"The most expansive and comprehensive collection of documents ever compiled about the LDS Church in the United States. Dealing with subjects varied and frequently controversial, from theology and polity to race and sexuality, Terryl L. Givens and Reid L. Neilson include glimpses of Mormonism as revealed, proscribed, and lived in many times and places....An indispensable resource and starting point for anyone interested in the history and ongoing story of the Mormon faith for years to come."

— Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp, Washington University in St. Louis

$80.00 / £55.00 cloth 978-0-231-14942-6

2014 480 pages

Race Unmasked Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century miChael yUdell

“Race Unmasked is a terrific guide to the often invisible, intertwined terrain of science and politics around race. Re-reading the past with an eye toward nuance and clarity, Michael Yudell understands how ‘race’ comes to be unintentionally hidden yet still can be uncovered and critiqued. This book should find its way into classrooms across the curriculum.”

—Susan M. Reverby, Wellesley College

“Michael Yudell has given us a fascinating and perceptive study of ‘man’s most dangerous myth.’ This insightful book on race should be read widely by anyone concerned with the multiple uses, misuses, tangled history, and persistent confusions over this vexed and potent concept.”

—Keith Wailoo, Princeton University

$40.00 / £27.50 978-0231-16874-8

2014 304 pages


B i o l o g y a n d R a c e

i n t h e 2 0 t h c e n t u Ry

M i c h a e l y u d e l lF o R e w o R d B y J . c R a i g V e n t e R

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The Wrong CarlosAnatomy of a Wrongful ExecutionJames s. liebmaN aNd the ColUmbia

delUNa ProJeCt

"Liebman and his coauthors tell an important story of alleged wrongful execution. The story of Carlos DeLuna highlights several important yet often overlooked problems plaguing our criminal justice system, ranging from the pitfalls of eyewitness identification to the disadvantages of the restrictions of habeas corpus."-Meghan Ryan, Southern Methodist University School of Law

"Wrenching . . . death penalty opponents now have a definitive example to cite; death penalty proponents have an agonizing case to consider."-Kirkus (Starred Review)

$27.95 / £19.90 paper 978-0-231-16723-9

2014 448 pages / 99 i l lus

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Henry George and the Crisis of InequalityProgress and Poverty in the Gilded Ageedward t. o'doNNell

"A beautifully written, deeply researched, carefully argued, and analytically nuanced book. O'Donnell's own prodigious research, as well as his talent for synthesizing the findings of other scholars, makes this a social and political history of Gilded Age America as seen through the lens of Henry George’s extraordinary life."-—Daniel Czitrom, Mount Holyoke College

Edward T. O’Donnell’s exploration of Henry George’s life and times merges labor, ethnic, intellectual, and political history to illumi-nate the early militant labor movement in Gilded Age New York. O’Donnell locates in George’s rise to prominence the beginning of a larger effort by American workers to regain control of the workplace and obtain economic security. George’s accessible, forward-thinking ideas on democracy, equal-ity, and freedom have tremendous value to ongoing debates over the future of unions, corporate power, Wall Street recklessness,

regulation, and political polarization.

$38.00 / £26.00 cloth 978-0-231-12000-5

June 2015 368 pages / 23 i l lus.

Columbia History of Urban Life

ForthComiNg

JUNe 2015


Thai StickSurfers, Scammers, and the Untold Story of the Marijuana TradePeter magUire aNd mike ritter

“An extraordinary work, at once a participatory anthropology, detached sociology, cultural history, remarkable example of oral history, series of smuggling stories, and many other things to boot.” — Anders Stephanson, Columbia University

“From the dank highlands of Siam to the sage-blown point breaks of Alta California, Thai Stick explores the relationship between surf culture and the ‘funny business.’ Maguire—grounded in law, history, and the surfing life—is exactly the right author for this street-level breakdown of smuggling in the 1970s.”

—The Surfer’s Journal

$27.95/ £19.95 cloth 978-0-231-16134-3

2013 272 pages / 36 illus.

Shifting Sands The United States in the Middle EastJoel s. migdal

“Exquisitely timely. . . . Read this benchmark study at your earliest opportunity.”—Israel Studies Review

“A compelling narrative of American policy in the Middle East since World War II. Joel S. Migdal dissects America’s static strategic model in a region that has undergone four periods of profound change....Eschewing visions of grand change, Migdal suggests the temperate yet more effective approach of building alliances and fostering gradual change.”

— Daniel Kurtzer, Princeton University, former U.S. ambassador to Egypt and Israel

$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16672-0

2014 424 pages / 14 illus.



Religion in AmericaA Political HistorydeNis laCorNe

“Anyone interested in religion and politics in the U.S. stands to be deeply informed by Lacorne’s lucid, intelligent book.”

— Booklist

“It’s an edifying read for someone seeking grounding in the subject as well as a user-friendly course adoption.”

— History News Network

“Provides a much welcomed viewpoint from outside our ongoing religious squabbles in American politics. Lacorne admirably avoids oversimplification while remaining eminently

readable.”

— Library Journal

$25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-15101-6

2011 248 pages / 1 illus.

Religion, Culture, and Public Life

d e n i s l a c o r n et r a n s l a t e d b y g e o r g e h o l o c h

f o r e w o r d b y t o n y j u d t

a p o l i t i c a l h i s t o r y

r e l i g i o ni n a m e r i c a


The Columbia Guide to Religion in American Historyedited by PaUl harvey aNd edward J.

blUm

“An important reference work, welcome for its breadth and portability. Highly Recommended.”

— Choice

“Innovative approaches, new areas of inquiry, up-to-date scholarship, and profound insights are to be found in twenty essays ranging from topics such as ‘Colonial Encounters’ to ‘Religion and the Environment.’ I highly recommend this profound contribution to the field of religion in American history.” — Curtis J. Evans, University of Chicago Divinity School

$75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-0-231-14020-1

2012 480 pages

Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures

The Columbia Guide to

RELIGION IN AMERICAN HISTORY

Paul Harvey & Edward J. Blum, editors



Taking It BigC. Wright Mills and the Making of Political IntellectualsstaNley aroNowitz

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title

“Stanley Aronowitz—himself a towering public intellectual—has written the definitive book on one of the towering public intellectu-als of twentieth-century America. Don’t miss it.”—Cornel West, Princeton University

“The book’s broad scope and brilliant analyses of Mills’s writings trump any of the existing overviews of his work . . . . This is indeed an invaluable addition to the existing

literature.”

— Journal of American Culture

$26.00 / £18.00 paper 978-0-231-13541-2

2012 288 pages

Mongolia and the United StatesA Diplomatic HistoryJoNathaN addletoN

“Well organized and authoritative, Ambassador Addleton’s book will be welcomed by libraries and academic researchers seeking a work that puts all the data on US-Mongolia relations in one place. Lively descriptions of past history lead up to informative treatments of contemporary USAID measures to reform the Mongolian banking system, security cooperation between our military establishments, and Peace Corps people-to-people relationships. A valuable contribution to the literature on a

strategic Asian country.”— Nicholas Platt, President Emeritus, Asia

Society

$45.00 / £30.95 cloth 978-988-8139-94-1

2013 200 pages

Hong Kong University Press


Winnebago NationThe RV in American CultureJames b. twitChell

"Winnebago Nation draws on James B. Twitchell’s own experiences as well as historical and sociological sources to explain the tremendous appeal of the RV for its aficionados, the disdain many Americans feel toward it, and the paradoxical qualities of a population of motorized nomads who seem to seek both individualistic escape and communitarian society. Twitchell locates his interpretation of these questions in the enduring mythos of the road and the frontier; in a lingering Puritanism that demands accountability along with freedom; and in the RV’s ability to reconcile autonomy and belonging, wilderness and domesticity."—Cathy Stanton, Tufts University

"A historical, psychological, and cultural romp through the quirky landscape of RVing in America.”-Doreen Orion, author of Queen of the Road

$19.95 / £13.95 cloth 978-0-231-16778-9

2014 192 pages / 38 i l lus .

"It's the Pictures That Got Small"Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood's Golden Ageedited by aNthoNy slide

"Reading Charles Brackett’s diary entries is like stepping into a time machine. It provides a vivid and valuable account of day-to-day life in the heyday of Hollywood’s studio system and a bittersweet chronicle of his volatile relationship with Billy Wilder. I couldn’t put the book down."-Leonard Maltin

“Anyone interested in the golden age of film should enjoy this very entertaining and illustrative look at the film industry of the 1930s and 1940s.—Library Journal

$34.95 / £23.95 cloth 978-0-231-16708-6

2014 448 pages / 18 illus.

Film and Culture Series

UNited states CUltUral history


Eric WalrondA Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic CaribbeanJames davis

"Eric Walrond...may have been the most promising literary talent of the Harlem Renaissance. His collection, Tropic Death, was an astonishing succes d'estime. A Guggenheim Fellowship certified the promise of The Big Ditch, Walrond's bildungsroman of capitalism, underdevelopment, and race. In one of the more mysterious losses in American letters, the book never appeared and its author disappeared. James Davis’s finely written, beautifully paced Eric Walrond is a major biography of a fascinating figure, a triumph of archival sleuthing that reintroduces readers to almost everybody known to his peripatetic protagonist."—David Levering Lewis , New York University

$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-15784-1

2015 440 pages / 17 illus.

After the SilentsHollywood Film Music in the Early Sound Era, 1926-1934miChael slowik

"Slowik not only sketches out the important trends and developments of this nascent period of classical film music history but also makes a compelling argument that there are important continuities that connect the mature silent period with the early sound period."—Jeff Smith, author of The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music

"With a thorough investigation of hundreds of conversion-era feature films, Michael Slowik has provided an important revision of film music history to account for a wide range of scoring practices. After the Silents is impressive scholarship and a valuable resource for anyone with an interest in film sound."-Jennifer Fleeger, author of Sounding American: Hollywood, Opera, and Jazz

$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16583-9

2014 400 pages / 60 illus.



A Life

in the

Harlem

Renaissance

and the

Transatlantic

Caribbean

James Davis

James Davis

Eric WalrondEric Walrond


Cold War ModernistsArt, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacygreg barNhisel

"A thoughtful, well-written reexamination of the use of modernism in American arts and letters as a diplomatic and cultural tool in the early Cold War. It is sure to become the standard text on cultural diplomacy in the early Cold War."—Robert Genter, author of Late Modernism: Art, Culture, and Politics in Cold War America

"Greg Barnhisel’s important new study combines an assured grasp of historical context with sensitive readings of artworks and literary texts to illuminate previously obscure aspects of the 'Cultural Cold War.'”—Hugh Wilford, author of The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America and America's Great Game

"Barnhisel mobilizes rich archival sources to show not only the accommodation of modernism to anti-Communism but also the entanglement of the highbrow and the middlebrow....This lively, fascinating book contributes to the histories of both cultural diplomacy and cultural hierarchy."—Joan Shelley Rubin, University of Rochester

$40.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-16230-2

2015 336 pages / 24 illus.

Continental StrangersGerman Exile Cinema, 1933-1951gerd gemüNdeN

“Gerd Gemünden combines perceptive close readings of select films with sharp archival investigation to show how some key movies of classical Hollywood came—in often fraught manner—to engage with the evils of fascism. By understanding cinema as a complex negotiation over political meanings, from production to final results onscreen, this volume represents a major contribution to the literature on the Hollywood emigrés and their cultural work.”

—Dana Polan, New York University

“A lucid and comprehensive account of German filmmakers in American exile, this book also offers a poetics of displacement and alienation. It adds another chapter to the story about Hitler and Hollywood and contributes to a deeper historical understanding of political cinema at a moment of crisis.”

—Anton Kaes, University of California, Berkeley

$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16679-9

2014 296 pages / 40 illus.


GermanExile Cinema

1933-1951

GERD GEMÜNDEN

CoNtiNENtal StRaNGERS



Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939thomas doherty

Named one of the Best Film Books of the

year by the Huffington Post

“Wide-ranging and brightly written.” — The New York Times Book Review

“A witty writer familiar with Hollywood history and manners, Doherty places the studios’ craven behavior within a general account of the political culture of the movies in the

thirties and forties.”— David Denby, The New Yorker

“Hollywood and Hitler tracks the advance of fascism, and the movie industry’s reaction on screen and in private.... [A] fascinating work.”

— Kate Muir

$22.95 / £15.95 paper 978-0-231-16393-4

$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16392-7

2013 448 pages / 72 illus.


and

1933–1939HitlerThomas doherTy

hollywood

Electric DreamlandAmusement Parks, Movies, and American ModernitylaUreN rabiNovitz

“Amusement parks and motion pictures, Lauren Rabonovitz argues, served as unique venues of mass culture for people to adapt to modernity by experiencing its pleasures and dangers first hand and to share in the emergence of a new American national identity.”

—Richard Abel, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

“Electric Dreamland is part of a growing body of work that builds an inter-medial reading of cinema’s relationship to other early-twentieth-century phenomena. It draws on a wealth of archival materials, ephemera, and experiential data to demonstrate the remarkable inter-dependence of amusement parks and early motion pictures.”—Shelley Stamp, author of Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture after the Nickelodeon

$27.50 / £19.00 paper 978-0-231-15661-5

2012 256 pages / 49 illus.



New iN PaPer

Until the Fires Stopped Burning 9/11 and New York City in the Words and Experiences of Survivors and WitnessesChArleS STrozier

$22.00 / £15.00 paper 978-0-231-15899-2

$28.95 / £19.95 cloth 978-0-231-15898-5

2014 312 pages / 20 illus.

American ShowmanSamuel “Roxy” Rothafel and the Birth of the Entertainment Industry, 1908-1935ross melNiCk

“Book of the Year” Award from the Theatre Historical Society of America

$28.00 / £19.50 paper 978-0-231-15905-0

$37.50 / £26.00 cloth 978-0-231-15904-3

2012 576 pages / 27 illus.


Foundations of the American CenturyThe Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations in the Rise of American PoweriNderJeet Parmar

$25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-14629-6

$40.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-14628-9

2014 368 pages

The Columbia History of Post-World War II Americaedited by mark C CarNes

$27.00 /£18.50 paper 978-0-231-12127-9

$75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-0-231-12126-2

2014 544 pages

The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the SouthwesttrUdy griFFiN-PierCe

$25.00 /£17.50 paper 978-0-231-12791-2

$50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-12790-5

2014 320 pages / 35 illus.

The Columbia Guides to American Indian History

and Culture

Upsetting the Apple CartBlack-Latino Coalitions in New York City from Protest to Public OfficeFrederiCk doUglass oPie

“Upsetting the Apple Cart outlines for the first time an important part of the American working class history and race relations. Opie’s narrative delineates how Black and Latino coalitions supported by organized labor can become a formula to attain power. He focuses on how these coalitions work and how they become contentious based on mutual suspicions. Provocative and engaging.”—Miguel “Mickey” Melendez, author of We Took the Streets...Fighting for Latino Rights with the Young Lords

"Through extensive use of oral histories, Opie provides fascinating and original insight on social movements and electoral politics in the 1970s and 1980s."—Martha Biondi, Northwestern University, author of The Black Revolution on Campus

$30.00 / £20.50 cloth 978-0-231-14940-2

2014 312 pages /28 illus.

Columbia History of Urban Life

A Coney Island ReaderThrough Dizzy Gates of Illusionedited by loUis J. ParasCaNdola

aNd JohN ParasCaNdola

"A timely, important addition to anthologies of New York writing. A Coney Island Reader will be welcomed by urban historians and a general public that continues to be fascinated by Coney Island’s ramshackle roller coaster of a history."—Bryan Waterman, New York University

"An amazing Americana anthology of Coney fact-fiction-poetry-tabloid news and government propaganda, many pieces obscure, a few famous yet so hard to find all bound together in what now becomes the definitive and best beach book read about the Island that invented beach leisure."—Dick Zigun, Artistic Director, Coney Island USA

$26.95 / £18.95 paper 978-0-231-16573-0

$79.50 / £55.00 cloth 978-0-231-16572-3

2014 360 pages / 25 illus.

New york City history


A Lever Long EnoughA History of Columbia's School of Engineering and Applied Science Since 1864robert mCCaUghey

"Begun in 1864 as the School of Mines, engineering at Columbia oscillated from a pioneer leader of its field to near irrelevance and back to national distinction. McCaughey relates these vicissitudes with candor and grace, drawing on his unparalleled knowledge of the university’s history. Besides providing a uniquely valuable contribution to higher education history, this volume opens a window on enduring issues of university leadership and technological education." —Roger L. Geiger, Pennsylvania State University

$40.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-16688-1


Race and Real EstateConflict and Cooperation in Harlem, 1890-1920keviN mCgrUder

"Kevin McGruder’s meticulous study shows us exactly how black migrants to Harlem between 1890 and 1920 created a community. His analysis of the role of black real estate agents and black churches in ‘opening’ Harlem to black residents is fascinating, and his attention to the ways that ethnicity structured white responses to the movement of blacks to white neighborhoods is nuanced and insightful." —Beryl Satter, Rutgers University

$50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-16914-1

June 2015 288 pages / 15 illus.


ForthComiNg

JUNe 2015


The Greatest GridThe Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011edited by hilary balloN

“You don’t have to be a geometry major to

love The Greatest Grid.”

—New York Times

Laying out Manhattan’s street grid and providing a rationale for the growth of New York was the city’s first great civic enter-prise, not to mention a brazenly ambitious project and major milestone in the history of city planning. The Greatest Grid incorporates archival photos and illustrations, primary documents and testimony, and magnifi-cent maps with essential analysis. The text follows the grid’s initial design, implementa-tion, and evolution, and then speaks to its enduring influence. Constituting the first sustained examination of this subject, this text describes the social, political, and intel-lectual figures who were instrumental in remaking early New York, not in the image of old Europe but as a reflection of other American cities and a distinct New World sensibility.

$40.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-15990-6

2012 224 pages / 200 illus; gatefold

Capital of CapitalMoney, Banking, and Power in New York CitysteveN h. JaFFe, JessiCa laUtiN, aNd

mUseUm oF the City oF New york

“Anyone interested in exploring how Manhattan came to rule the nation’s, then the world’s, banking system should tread the trail expertly blazed by Capital of Capital, which is as beautifully written as it is exquisitely illustrated.”

—Robert E. Wright, author of Bailouts: Public Money, Private Profit

“The book... includes a fascinating array of primary materials ranging from antebellum bank notes and ledgers to early credit cards and advertisements. Lavishly illustrated, Capital of Capital provides a multifaceted, original understanding of the profound impact of banking on the life of New York City and the world’s economy.”

—Capital Spectator

$45.00 cloth 978-0-231-16910-3

2014 304 pages / 150 illus.

Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism


Picturing PowerPortraiture and Its Uses in the New York Chamber of Commercekarl kUsserow

WItH CONtrIBUtIONS BY dAvId l . BArqUISt,

ElIzABEtH BlACkMAr, dANIEl BlUEStONE, ANd

pAUl StAItI

“An ambitious, interdisciplinary study of the New York Chamber of Commerce’s substantial portrait collection. Picturing Power uses the Chamber’s collection as a compelling case study to explore larger questions surrounding art’s social production of meaning. The book offers a sophisticated ‘portrait’ of how high art was used by a wealthy and powerful group of men to fashion an identity that suited their corporate and civic needs. This volume is a significant and welcome addition to the literature on American art and culture.” — Martin A. Berger, University of California at Santa Cruz

$60.00 / £41.50 cloth 978-0-231-12358-7

2013 424 pages / 200 illus.

Reds at the BlackboardCommunism, Civil Rights, and the New York City Teachers UnionClareNCe taylor

“Clarence Taylor’s superb history of the left-led New York City Teachers’ Union (1916-1964), fills a void in the historical record of teacher unionism and education in the United States, providing important background on recurring controversies of curriculum, due process, academic freedom, testing, transfers, community involvement, civil rights, and the need for more Black and

Latino teachers.” — Jeffrey B. Perry, author of Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918

“Offers a highly readable and engaging story

of the rise of [the Teacher’s Union] model,

as well as the ferocious onslaught against it

during the McCarthy era...a must-read.” —Socialist Worker.org

$28.00 / £19.50 paper 978-0-231-15269-3

2011 384 pages / 10 illus.


Historical Atlas of Northeast Asia, 1590-2010Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia, Eastern Siberiali NaraNgoa aNd robert Cribb

"This superb atlas greatly enhances our knowledge of the region of Asia comprising north China, Korea, Japan, Russia, Mongolia, and Manchuria. The authors define the region ecologically instead of politically, focusing on the interaction of nomadic conquerors with the expanding empires of Russia and China and the Korean state. They outline boundaries with vivid colors and carefully locate major towns and geographic features, while also providing a concise integrated political narrative for each decade over nearly five hundred years....An essential resource for anyone researching or teaching about this critical region of Asia."—Peter C. Perdue, Yale University

$150.00 / £103.50 cloth 978-0-231-16070-4

2014 352 pages / 78 maps

Autobiography of an ArchiveA Scholar's Passage to IndiaNiCholas b. dirks

"Using the conceit of an autobiography, this book dazzles with luminous reflections on the archive of knowledge on India....Nicholas Dirks offers original insights on the history and politics of scholarship, on Empire and its entailment in the production of knowledge, and the career of history and anthropology as disciplines. "—Gyan Prakash, author of Mumbai Fables

"Nicholas Dirks’s account of the interconnections of anthropology and history and his commitment to the internationalization of liberal learning make his book a vital contribution to contemporary discussions of globalization and education."—Michael S. Roth, President, Wesleyan University

$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16967-7

2015 400 pages

Cultures of History

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The Pariah ProblemCaste, Religion, and the Social in Modern IndiarUPa viswaNath

“Viswanath powerfully argues that there was a government–missionary nexus that sought to turn the pariah from traditional forms of slavery to modern forms of dispossessed labor. Most remarkably, she shows that the initiative for conversion to Christianity came not from missionaries but from Dalits who were motivated not by abstract ideas of emancipation but by strategic considerations of material advantage in their daily struggles.”—Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University and the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta

$60.00 / £41.50 cloth 978-0-231-16306-4

2014 416 pages

Cultures of History

A Daughter's Memoir of BurmaweNdy law-yoNe

"Beautifully written with a keen sense of humor, [this] book is bound to become a classic in the genre of personal books written about modern Myanmar. . . . [Wendy Law-Yone] has done her famous journalist and rebel father justice in a volume that is a must-read for anyone interested in modern Myanmar history"—Asia Times

"An important testimony to the almost unbelievable courage, determination and patience of those who choose a hazardous path of political dissent in the face of state tyranny and oppression.”—Times Literary Supplement

$30.00 cloth 978-0-231-16936-3

2014 328 pages

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Being Human in a Buddhist WorldAn Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern TibetJaNet gyatso

"An amazing book and a stellar contribution to Columbia University Press's growing catalog of Tibetan and Tibetan Buddhist studies, for it will be the key book on medicine and religion in Tibet for this generation. Like Gyatso's book on autobiography, her new book on medicine will simply be field defining.." — Kurtis R. Schaeffer, The University of Virginia

"A landmark in the study of South Asian medical traditions."

— Daud Ali, University of Pennsylvania

$45.00 / £30.95 cloth 978-0-231-16496-2

2015 544 pages / 51 illus.

@ Being Human @ in a

BuddHist WorldAn IntellectuAl HIstory of MedIcIne

In eArly Modern tIbet

Janet Gyatso

Forthcoming February

Shanghai HomesPalimpsests of Private LifeJie li

"Shanghai Homes recounts the lives of three generations of residents in Shanghai’s alleyway neighborhoods, once vibrant communities that have all but disappeared since the late 1990s. In her detailed and wonderfully written account, Li treats her subjects with a rare combination of personal engagement and academic rigor. A remarkable work in urban cultural studies."—Hanchao Lu, author of Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century

“A real gem...Shanghai Homes is that unique work that effortlessly moves between and cuts across several disciplinary areas: family history, Cultural Revolution politics, urban architecture, and above all personal and collective memory and its place in post-Socialsit and globalized China.”—Leo Ou-Fan Lee, author of Shanghai Modern: The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China

$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16717-8

2014 280 pages / 49 illus.

Global Chinese Culture

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Sources of Tibetan Traditionedited by kUrtis r. sChaeFFer, matthew

t. kaPsteiN, aNd gray tUttle

“Sources of Tibetan Tradition represents a mammoth and long-overdue contribution to the field, both as a basic reference tool for scholars and as a keystone of undergraduate and graduate education.”

— Annabella Pitkin, Barnard College

“The editors have done a remarkable job of selecting sources from a 1,500-year-old civilization for a single volume. They provide not only representative texts on Tibetan religion from all eras but also significant sources on history, politics, society, law, medicine, art, architecture, and literature.” —Roger R. Jackson, editor of The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems: A Tibetan Study of Asian Religious Thought

$40.00 / £27.50 paper 978-0-231-13599-3

2013 856 pages

Introduction to Asian Civilizations

The Tibetan History Readeredited by gray tUttle aNd kUrtis r.

sChaeFFer

“This single volume offers a thorough education in Tibetan history from the founding of the Tibetan empire in the seventh century through 1951. In thirty-three topical and absorbing essays, leading historians in Asia, Europe, and North America explain exactly what the original documents say and why historians of Tibet interpret them in such dramatically different ways. Anyone who wants to learn more about Tibetan history should begin here.” —Valerie Hansen, Yale University

“[A] superb collection...give[s] an extraordinary

sense of perspective.” — Asian Review of Books

$40.00 / £27.50 paper 978-0-231-14469-8

2013 752 pages / 15 illus

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Exemplary Women of Early ChinaThe Lienü zhuan of Liu XiangtraNslated aNd edited by aNNe behNke

kiNNey

“Exemplary Women of Early China is essential for understanding China’s premodern gender regime, Confucian ideology, and women’s sense of self. The Lienü zhuan provided later authors and artists with an endlessly rich source of moral exemplars to reveal behavioral norms for both genders. Kinney’s elegant and erudite translation brings to life the words and deeds of these remarkable women. A wonderfully inspiring read.” —Robin D. S. Yates, McGill University

$35.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-16309-5

2014 160 pages

Translations from the Asian Classics

ExEmplary WomEn of Early ChinaT h e L i e n ü z h u a n o f L i u X i a n g

annE BEhnkE kinnEyT r a n s L a T o r a n d e d i T o r

The Birth of Chinese Feminism Essential Texts in Transnational Theoryedited by lydia h. liU, rebeCCa e. karl,

aNd dorothy ko

“This magnificent volume opens up a past and conjures a future. Anarcho-feminist He-Yin Zhen published her passionate and closely reasoned essays more than a century ago, yet the issues she raises have yet to be addressed adequately in China or anywhere else. The Birth of Chinese Feminism offers us the best of her writing and that of her feminist male contemporaries, with whom she did not always agree. The editors and translators have restored to visibility a world crackling with debate about equality, hierarchy, property, and justice. They challenge us to keep one appreciative eye on history and another on the conundrum of our own moment.”

—Gail Hershatter, author of The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past

$29.50 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16291-3


Weatherhead Books on Asia

asiaN history


Early Medieval ChinaA Sourcebookedited by weNdy swartz, robert Ford

CamPaNy, yaNg lU, aNd Jessey J. C. Choo

“This magisterial volume is of singular importance to the study of early medieval Chinese history, literature, thought, and religion. Written by the Who’s Who in a field that has grown exponentially in recent years, this sourcebook presents up-to-date scholarship at the highest level. Wide-ranging in scope, rich in detail, and thoroughly interdisciplinary, it serves as the principal guide to the world of early medieval China and as a wonderful inspiration to students.”

— Martin Kern, Princeton University

$40.00 / £27.50 paper 978-0-231-15987-6

2014 744 pages

Unearthing the ChangesRecently Discovered Manuscripts of the Yi Jing (I Ching) and Related Textsedward l. shaUghNessy

"In his skillful presentation of three groups of bamboo-strip manuscripts discovered in China since the 1970s, Shaughnessy gives new meaning and pleasure to reading one of the two oldest works of Chinese literature....These manuscripts bring to life the significance of divination in early Chinese culture, while remaking our understanding of the ‘Changes.’"

— Donald Harper, University of Chicago

"[Shaughnessy's] deeply researched text breaks new ground for the study of Chinese manuscripts and China’s methods of divination, with penetrating contributions to the scholarly handling of fragments, the recovery of lost literature, and the problems of textual criticism."

— Michael Loewe, University of Cambridge

$40.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-16184-8

2014 400 pages


Edwa r d l. sh aughnEssy

Unearthing

the

Changes

recently discovered

manUscr ip ts

of the yi j ing ( i Ching )

and rel at e d texts

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Sources of Indian TraditionsModern India, Pakistan, and BangladeshThird edition; volume twoedited by raChel Fell mCdermott,

leoNard a. gordoN, aiNslie t. embree,

FraNCes w. PritChett, aNd deNNis

daltoN

“The third edition of Sources of Indian Traditions is fascinating, easy to read, provocative, and relevant to the present. Two narrative lines flow, like an underground river, through the book: colonialism and the search for independence and the struggle with the ever-changing questions of nationalism. An excellent expansion of the second edition, this anthology is masterly organized, making it a unique teaching text on South Asia.”

—Owen M. Lynch, New York University

$75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-0-231-13830-7

2014 1024 pages / 11 illus.

A Korean War Captive in Japan, 1597–1600The Writings of Kang Hangedited aNd traNslated by JahyUN kim

haboUsh aNd keNNeth r. robiNsoN

“This important text offers a fascinating glimpse into early modern Japan and Japanese-Korean relations from the perspective of a Korean official captured by Japanese invaders in 1597, contributing significantly to the growing body of scholarship on the largest military conflict (in terms of numbers) in the world in the sixteenth century. The translation is smooth and erudite and the notes are full of useful historical and cultural information, making it invaluable for students and academics.”

— Kenneth M. Swope, University of Southern Mississippi

$45.00 / £30.95 cloth 978-0-231-16370-5

2013 272 pages

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Breaking with the PastThe Maritime Customs Service and the Global Origins of Modernity in ChinahaNs vaN de veN

“Far more than an institutional history of the Customs Service, this book is effectively a complete new history of China’s rocky entrance into the global political economy. There is no better book written at this level of historical research and archival detail on the subject of China and the West.” —Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia

“This is the story of China’s economic internationalization in the century before the Communist conquest....Hans van de Ven has written this history in full for the first time, using an extraordinary array of Chinese and international sources. Today, as China looks to its pre-Communist past as a guide to its future, this is an important book.”

— William C. Kirby, Harvard University

$50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-13738-6

2014 432 pages / 34 illus.

Sources of Vietnamese Tradition

GeorGe DuTTon, JAyne Werner, AnD

John K. WhiTMore

“This addition to the venerable Introduction to Asian Civilizations series marks a major step in the maturation of Vietnam Studies in the American academy.” —Foreign Affairs

“An essential research tool for anyone interested in Vietnamese history. The editors have done a marvelous job of locating, interpreting, and translating key documents written in a variety of languages.”

—Hue-Tam Ho Tai, Harvard University

$35.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-13863-5

2012 664 pages

Introduction to Asian Civilizations

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Lust, Commerce, and Corruption An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard, by an Edo SamuraitraNslated by mark teeUweN, kate

wildmaN Nakai, miyazaki FUmiko, aNNe

walthall, aNd JohN breeN

“This translation of Seiji kenbunroku is a wonderful and invaluable addition to our view of nineteenth-century Japan, and covers an amazing range of social groups and professions, with detailed accounts of the back-side of everyday lives. His unadulterated views and his vivid vignettes defy the textbook stereotypes. It will change forever what you thought Japan was like at the beginning of the nineteenth century.”—Haruo Shirane, Columbia University

$50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-16644-7

2014 496 pages


The Company and the Shogun The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japanadam ClUlow

“Adam Clulow brilliantly dissects the process through which Dutch merchants and their sponsors became subordinates rather than colonizers in Japan. The book masterfully weaves together storytelling and analysis while impressively mining both Dutch and Japanese sources. The result is not only the best available account of the Dutch East India Company in Japan but also an important contribution to the history of empire, piracy, law, and diplomacy in the early modern world. A remarkable achievement.”

—Lauren Benton, New York University

$55.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-16428-3


The Columbia Studies in International and Global History

asiaN history

The Great Kantō Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in JapanJ. Charles sCheNCkiNg

“In vivid detail, this timely book explores the many ways the Japanese responded to the earthquake of 1923—from debates about the meaning of the disaster through representations of the event in popular culture and the rough-and-tumble politics of reconstruction. Deeply researched and well written, it is a major contribution to the urban history of modern Japan as well as to the burgeoning field of disaster studies.” —Peter Duus, Stanford University

$50.00 / £34..50 cloth 978-0-231-16218-0

2013 400 pages / 61 illus.

Contemporary Asia in the World

East River ColumnHong Kong Guerrillas in the Second World War and AftersUi-JeUNg ChaN

"Here for the first time in English is a comprehensive account of the huge contribution made by Chinese guerrillas to Hong Kong's resistance in the Second World War. In rescuing this story from oblivion through 25 years of interviews and documentary research, Chan Sui-jeung has rendered a major service to the history of Hong Kong and Guangdong province." —Philip Snow, author of The Fall of Hong Kong

$23.00 / £14.95 paper 978-9-622-09193-1

2014 200 pages

Hong Kong Univesity Press

asiaN history


asiaN history

Y.K. PaoMy FatheraNNa Pao sohmeN

“This book is more than a memoir, as the subject lived an extraordinary life in an extraordinary time.”

— South China Morning Post

“Y. K. Pao made many selfless contributions to China’s modernization, especially in the educational sector....He emphasized the need to stabilize investment and prevent the outflow of capital and talent....Mr. Pao played a significant role during Hong Kong’s return to China, enhancing communication between the PRC and British governments on the issue of Hong Kong’s sovereignty by utilizing his special relationship with senior British officials. Mr. Pao deserves to be called ‘the Unofficial Ambassador’ between China and the United Kingdom.”

—Lu Ping, former director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State

Council of the People’s Republic of China

$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-988-8083-31-2

2013 240 pages / 69 illus.


Portugal, China, and the Macau Negotiations, 1986–1999CarmeN amado meNdes

“Setting Portugal’s approach to the Macau

question in the context of broader domestic

and international political dilemmas,

Mendes provides a nuanced picture of the

institutional inertias, party rivalries, and post-

colonial exhaustion that shaped the entire

negotiation process. She shows, paradoxically,

that although these factors weakened

Portugal’s position relative to China, this

weakness sometimes put Portugal in the

driver’s seat at the negotiating table.”

— Cathryn Clayton, author of Sovereignty

at the Edge: Macau and the Question of

Chineseness

$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-988-8139-00-2



Merchants of Canton and MacaoPolitics and Strategies in Eighteenth-Century Chinese TradePaUl a. vaN dyke

"Merchants of Canton and Macao is an invaluable addition to our knowledge of Sino-Western trade in the eighteenth century....Culled from a rich source base in multiple languages, Van Dyke brings the financial actors in this complex commercial story vividly to life.”— Jonathan Spence, author of The Search for Modern China

$80.00 / £55.00 cloth 978-988-8028-91-7

2011 672 pages / 195 illus.


Forgotten SoulsA Social History of the Hong Kong CemeteryPatriCia lim

"For the historian or genealogist, Patricia Lim's exhaustive cataloguing of the Hong Kong Cemetery is both comprehensive and easy to use. For the curious and intrigued whovever passed the Cemetery and wondered who lies within, Forgotten Souls is a wonderful collection of facts, anecdotes and lost Hong Kong tales." —Paul French, author of The Old Shanghai A-Z

$55.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-962-209-990-6

2011 624 pages / 200 illus


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Escape from Hong KongAdmiral Chan Chakâ’s Christmas Day Dash, 1941tim lUard

"Tim Luard tells this exciting and little known story with great skill. Some of us departed from Hong Kong much more comfortably! But we missed this extraordinary adventure.”—Chris Patten, governor of Hong Kong, 1992-19997

Escape from Hong Kong offers a full account of the Great Sino- British Escape of Christmas Day, 1941-the day Hong Kong surrendered to the Japanese, less than three

weeks after Pearl Harbor.

$38.00 / £26.00 cloth 978-988-808-376-3

2012 384 pages / 68 illus.


Pacific CrossingCalifornia Gold, Chinese Migration, and the Making of Hong Kongelizabeth siNN

“In this definitive statement about Hong Kong’s roots as the catalyst for the rise of a trans-Pacific world, Elizabeth Sinn forces us to rethink how migration connected China and North America. Sinn examines the movement of not only people but also goods in shaping how ‘Gold Mountain’ fueled the rise of Hong Kong and how migrating Chinese and the companies they created built a corridor across the Pacific.” —Henry Yu, author of Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America

$45.00 / £30.95 cloth 978-988-8139-71-2

2013 460 pages / 23 illus.


asiaN history

Robert Morrison and the Protestant Plan for ChinaChristoPher a. daily

"Through a brilliant analysis of hitherto unexplored archival material, Christopher Daily offers important new insights into Robert Morrison’s missionary career at the gates of the Chinese Empire. This eminently readable book demonstrates with great clarity how the implementation of the Gosport ‘mission template’ was religiously observed by Morrison in an exceedingly hostile environment." — R. G. Tiedemann, Shandong University

$60.00 / £41.50 cloth 978-988-8208-03-6

2013 272 pages


neW in PAPer

When a Woman Becomes a Religious DynastyThe Samding Dorje Phagmo of Tibethildegard diemberger

$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-14321-9

$60.00 / £41.50 cloth 978-0-231-14320-2

2014 416 pages / 64 illus.

The Millennial SovereignSacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islama. azFar moiN

Best First Book in the History of Religions

from the American Academy of Religion

$28.00 / £19.50 paper 978-0-231-16037-7

$55.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-16036-0

2014 368 pages

South Asia Across the Disciplines

China’s Uncertain FutureJeaN-lUC domeNaCh

$24.00 / £16.50 paper 978-0-231-15225-9

$32.50 / £22.50 cloth 978-0-231-15224-2

2014 208 pages

Bonded LaborTackling the System of Slavery in South Asiasiddharth kara

$22.00 / £15.00 paper 978-0-231-15849-7

$29.50 / £20.50 cloth 978-0-231-15848-0

2014 336 pages / 26 illus.

New iN PaPer

China’s Search for SecurityaNdrew J. NathaN

aNd aNdrew sCobell

$24.00 / £16.50 paper 978-0-231-14051-5

$32.95 / £22.95 cloth 978-0-231-14050-8


Never Forget National HumiliationHistorical Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign RelationszheNg waNg

$25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-14891-7

$32.50 / £22.50 cloth 978-0-231-14890-0

2014 312 pages / 23 illus.

Contemporary Asia in the World

The China ThreatMemories, Myths, and Realities in the 1950sNaNCy berNkoPF tUCker

$27.00 / £18.50 paper 978-0-231-15925-8

$39.50 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-15924-1

2014 312 pages / 12 illus.

Troubled Apologies Among Japan, Korea, and the United Statesalexis dUddeN

$27.00 / £18.50 paper 978-0-231-14177-2

$55.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-14176-5

2014 184 pages / 30 illus.

Memories of Life in Lhasa Under Chinese RuletUbteN khÉtsUN

TRANSLATED AND WITH AN

INTRoDUCTIoN By MATTHEW AkESTER

$25.00 /£17.50 paper 978-0-231-14287-8

$40.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-14286-1

2014 344 pages / 16 illus.

The Six-Day War of 1899Hong Kong in the Age of ImperialismPatriCk h. hase

$25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-9-888-13954-5

$45.00 / £30.95 cloth 978-9-622-09899-2



Conflict, Conquest, and ConversionTwo Thousand Years of Christian Missions in the Middle EasteleaNor h. teJiriaN

aNd reeva sPeCtor simoN

$25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-13865-9

$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-13864-2

2014 296 pages

Islam Through Western Eyes From the Crusades to the War on TerrorismJoNathaN lyoNs

Choice Outstanding Academic Title

$26.00 / £18.00 paper 978-0-231-15895-4

$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-15894-7

2012 272 pages


Den is GuenounForeword b y Judith Butler

A Me m o i r o f A l g e r i a

a sem ite

A SemiteA Memoir of AlgeriadeNis gUÉNoUN

Foreword by Judith Butler

“This is a complex engagement with the unique temporal, linguistic, and embodied qualities of family and cultural heritage. It is philosophically important and politically engaging, speaking to the necessities of repetition and distortion in the accuracies of memory and historical truth. It is also a deli-cate prose work of exceptional literary quality, an important contribution to contemporary studies in trauma and testimony and to the field of autobiography.”

—Penelope Deutscher, Northwestern University

“Drawing on his own recollections as well as documents that offer an official chronicle and letters and journals that pour out personal desires, Guénoun explores the complications of family and identity.”

—Booklist

$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16402-3


Jerusalem UnboundGeography, History, and the Future of the Holy CitymiChael dUmPer

“A clearly organized, meticulously researched, highly readable guide to Jerusalem’s complex social and political landscape.”—Washington Report on Middle East Affairs

“An original look at a city in flux amidst impasse. Jerusalem Unbound presents a new argument about how to think about this contentious city, asserting that its fluid, ‘many-bordered’ nature constrains the unilateral imposition of political power and opens up new alternatives for political compromise.” — Scott A. Bollens, author of City and Soul in Divided Societies

$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16196-1

2014 360 pages / 37 illus.

middle east history


Women in the MosqueA History of Legal Thought and Social PracticemarioN holmes katz

”A scholarly milestone. Women in the Mosque is a comprehensive, categorical treatment of the question of women’s mosque access in Islamic law and history. Marion Holmes Katz is one of the most widely respected scholars of Islamic law and ritual in the West, and, in its scope and detail, this work is peerless to my knowledge.” —Jonathan Brown, Georgetown University

“Women in the Mosque will become an essential part of the library of every scholar concerned with Islamic ritual law, women in religion, women in Islam, and even religious architecture. There is something here for students of Islamic law, Ottoman history, Arab social history, and modern Muslim intellectual history.” — Kevin Reinhart, Dartmouth College

$55.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-16266-1


WOMEN iN thE

MOSQUEA History of Legal Thought and Social Practice

marion holmes katz

Under SiegePLO Decisionmaking During the 1982 Warrashid khalidi

With a new preface by the author

“A gold-mine of empirical evidence and insights for students of decision-making under crisis. Khalidi is first and foremost an involved historian . . . [his] work is a much needed and welcome contribution to the modern literature on Middle Eastern history and politics.”

— Bulletin (British Society for Middle Eastern Studies)

“Khalidi presents an objective and closely reasoned analysis of the defeat of the P.L.O. and its allies. The study reveals the effect of battlefield events on the complex quadrilateral diplomacy between the P.L.O., the Lebanese government, the U.S. and Israel.”

— Publishers Weekly

$35.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-16669-0

2014 256 pages

UNDERSIEGE

PLO decisionmaking

during the 1982 War

with a new preface by the author

RASHID KHALIDI

middle east history

CairoImages of Transition: Perspectives on Visuality in Egypt, 2011-2013edited by mikala hyldig dal

Cairo: Images of Transition offers a broad range of artistic and academic works that examine the relationship between aesthetics and politics in the wake of the Egyptian rev-olution of January 25, 2011. With an empha-sis on the political processes of 2011-2012, contributors trace the shifting status of the image as a communicative tool, a witness to history, and an active agent for change.

$35.00 paper 978-3-8376-2615-5

2014 286 pages

Transcript-Verlag

middle east history

Women in IraqPast Meets PresentNoga eFrati

“A very well-researched, accessible, and well-

written piece of important scholarship, filling

a gap in the existing literature on the history

of Iraq and the more specific history of Iraqi

women’s rights activism.”

— Nadje Al-Ali, School of African and

Oriental Studies, University of London

“Efrati’s book is a remarkable study that

deserves much praise.”

— Taarii Newsletter

$45.00 / £30.95 cloth 978-0-231-15814-5

2012 256 pages


Crowds and DemocracyThe Idea and Image of the Masses from Revolution to FascismsteFaN JoNssoN

“In his strikingly choreographed and beautifully written study, Jonsson traverses an extensive archive, delving into novels and artworks, philosophy, historiography, and psychoanalysis. From this remarkable interdisciplinary bricolage emerges a profound set of insights into the shifting notions of the masses during the interwar years.”

—Kerstin Barndt, University of Michigan

“A magnificent sociocultural analysis, written with the erudition of the intellectual historian and the vision of a photographer in the captivating prose of the experienced journalist.”—Göran Therborn, University of Cambridge

$50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-16478-8

2013 336 pages / 33 illus.

Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and

the Arts

After the Red Army Faction Gender, Culture, and Militancy

Charity sCribNer

"The most innovative discussion of the RAF to date. This book provides a much-needed, nuanced understanding of the influence of the RAF on German cultural memory and will revolutionize the study of militant politics and aesthetics."

—Sabine von Dirke, University of Pittsburgh, author of “All Power to the Imagination!”: Art and Politics in the West German Counterculture

Masterminded and led by women, the Red Army Faction (RAF) terrorized West Germany from the 1970s to the 1990s, and afterimages of its leaders persist in the works of pivotal artists and writers, including Gerhard Richter, Elfriede Jelinek, and Slavoj ŽiŽek. Why were women so prominent in the RAF? What does the continuing cultural response to the German armed struggle tell us about the representation of violence, power, and gender today? Charity Scribner engages critical theory to address these questions and analyze signal works that point beyond militancy and terrorism.

$50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-16864-9


charity scribner

gender, culture, and militancy

after the red army faction

eUroPeaN history


DoublespeakThe Rhetoric of the Far Right Since 1945edited by matthew FeldmaN

aNd PaUl JaCksoN

"Feldman and Jackson have collected an impressive range of contributors who analyse the language of the far- and extreme-right with both historic breadth and linguistic detail. This volume demonstrates, in a clear and precise manner, the ways extremists camouflage their language in a series of elaborate codes and euphemisms in order to conceal their anti-democratic nature and appear more moderate. This vitally important collection will prove stimulating and useful for all opponents of right-wing extremism, both inside and outside academia. I cannot recommend this book highly enough."—John Richardson, Loughborough University

$53.00 / £36.50 paper 978-3-8382-0554-0


Ibidem Press

The Treblinka Death CampHistory, Biographies, RemembranceChris webb aNd miChal

ChoCholaty

This book offers a definitive account of one of history’s most infamous death factories, where approximately 800,000 people lost their lives. From the Nazis who ran it to the Ukrainian guards and maids, the Jewish survivors, and the Poles living in the camp’s shadows, the book represents a multitude of perspectives. It provides biographies of the Jews who perished in the death camp as well as those who escaped from Treblinka in individual efforts or as part of the mass prisoner uprising on August 2, 1943. It also includes previously unpublished sketches of the camp’s ramp area and

gas chamber, drawn by survivors.

$53.00 / £36.50 paper 978-3-8382-0546-5

2014 400 pages

Ibidem Press

eUroPeaN history


History as TherapyAlternative History and Nationalist Imaginings in RussiakoNstaNtiN sheiko

aNd stePheN browN

"Sheiko's work marks a milestone in the analysis of one of the main currents of contemporary Russian nationalist thought, hitherto quite unknown to scholars."—International Affairs

This book explores the delusional imagin-ings of Russia’s “pseudo-scientific alternative history” movement, which diligently rewrites Russia’s past and rediscovers its hidden greatness. Alternative history has become a popular therapy for Russians still coming to terms with the reality of post-Soviet life. It is one of the forces shaping a new Russian nationalism and an important factor in the

geopolitics of the twenty-first century.

$39.00 / £27.00 paper 978-3-8382-0565-6

2014 240 pages

Ibidem Press

A Life Dedicated to the RepublicVavro Srobár's Slovak CzechoslovakismJosette baer

Josette Baer retraces the life of Slovak politician Vavro Srobár the principal figure in the implementation of Czechoslovak democracy in Slovakia. From his student days and fight for Slovak civil rights in Upper Hungary to his active resistance to German fascism, Srobár shaped Czechoslovakia’s turbulent history in the first half of the twentieth century. Baer’s comprehensive biography makes archival materials available to English-speaking audiences for the first time and offers insight into Czechoslovakia’s

underresearched political history.

$46.00 / £31.50 paper 978-3-8382-0346-1

2014 280 pages / 25 illus.

Ibidem Press

eUroPeaN history


The Elephant in the RoomCorruption and Cheating in Russian Universitiesserghei golUNov

Serhei Golunov offers a long overdue account of the vast corruption and cheating practices in Russian higher education, including bribery, financial fraud, clien-telism, plagiarism, and exam cheating. Golunov uncovers the recent social trends that have created a favorable ground for such malpractices and evaluates the efficiency of measures taken against corruption and fraud by various actors. Although corruption and cheating are widespread, the value of most Russian diplomas is not disputed. Golunov shows how problems are not prioritized by higher education managers nor by foreign actors such as partner universities, partici-pants of the Bologna process, or the authors

of global university rankings.

$34.00 / £23.50 paper 978-3-8382-0670-7

2014 102 pages

Ibidem Press

The Moscow Bombings of September 1999Examinations of Russian Terrorist Attacks at the Onset of Vladimir Putin's RuleJohN b. dUNloP

"Dunlop draws on investigative reporting by Russian journalists, accounts of Russian officials in law enforcement agencies, eyewitness testimony, and the analyses of Western journalists and academics. The evidence he provides makes an overwhelming case that Russian authorities were complicit in these horrific attacks."—The New York Review of Books

The five chapters of this volume focus on the complex and tumultuous events occurring in Russia during the five months from May through September 1999. They sparked the Russian invasion of Chechnya on October 1st and vaulted a previously unknown former KGB agent into the post of Russian prime

minister and, ultimately, president.

$46.00 / £31.50 paper 978-3-8382-0608-0

2014 290 pages

Ibidem Press

eUroPeaN history


Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian NationalistFascism, Genocide, and Cultgrzegorz rossoliNski-liebe

“A major contribution to the discourse on the meaning of modern Ukrainian history.”—John-Paul Himka, University of Alberta

This volume is the first comprehensive biography of the Ukrainian far-right leader Stepan Bandera and the first in-depth study of his political cult. Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe illuminates the life of a mythologized personality and scrutinizes the history of the most violent twentieth-century Ukrainian nationalist movement: the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and its Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Elucidating the circumstances in which Bandera and his movement emerged and functioned, Rossolinski-Liebe explores the impact of fascism and racism on Ukrainian revolutionary and genocidal nationalism.

$45.00 / £30.95 paper 978-3-8382-0684-4


Ibidem Press

Our Glorious PastLukashenka's Belarus and the Great Patriotic Wardavid r. marPles

David Marples examines how the regime of President Aliaksandr Lukashenka has used the “Great Patriotic War” (1941-45) as a key element in state and identity formation in Belarus. Marples focuses in particular on the years 2009 and 2010, which commemo-rated two 65th anniversaries: the liberation of Minsk (July 3, 1944) and the end of World War II in Europe (May 9, 1945). He exam-ines the official interpretations of the war including the initial invasion, occupation, the Partisans, historic sites and monuments, films, documentaries, museums, schools, and public occasions commemorating some of the major events. Marples explains and measures the effectiveness of Lukashenka's program. He assesses the successes and weaknesses of the campaign as well as its

long term effects and prospects.

$54.00 / £37.50 paper 978-3-8382-0674-5

$79.00 / £54.50 cloth 978-3-8382-0675-2

2014 400 pages / 12 illus.

Ibidem Press

eUroPeaN history


The World’s First Stock ExchangelodewiJk Petram

“Petram’s informed and lively account of Amsterdam’s 17th-century securities market demonstrates that when it comes to investing and speculating we have not progressed much in four centuries. Although a company’s dividend may sometimes have been paid in East Indian spices as well as cash, in most respects Dutch financial markets were surprisingly modern, with not just shares and bonds, but also forward contracts, derivatives, even repo financing with haircuts. And, of course, the Dutch experienced frauds, bankruptcies, crises, and corporate governance problems. While modern Wall Street may have succeeded Amsterdam as the leading market, what goes on there is hardly new.”—Richard Sylla, New York University Stern School of Business

“A fascinating book.” — Investing.com

$29.95 / £19.95 cloth 978-0-231-16378-1

2014 304 pages / 20 illus.

Columbia Business School Publishing

The Origins of Business, Money, and MarketsKeith RobeRts

“ Keith Roberts knows his history and is highly informed on the nature of today’s comparable instruments and institutions. By placing his story within changing political, social, and cultural settings and by present-ing it in a fascinating, well-written way unen-cumbered by technical jargon, he opens a new field in the discipline of business his-tory.”

— Alfred D. Chandler, winner of the Pulitzer Prize

“Roberts’s well-documented, readable book provides valuable insight into the past and lessons for the present....highly recommended.”—Choice

$21.95 / £14.95 paper 978-0-231-15327-0

$29.95 / £20.50 cloth 978-0-231-15326-3



bUsiNess history


Passion for RealityThe Extraordinary Life of the Investing Pioneer Paul CabotmiChael r. yogg

“Passion for Reality is a special kind of social history, a piece of Harvard’s history, and a compelling biographical study, but above all it is a history of major financial developments. ”—Bernard Bailyn, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, Harvard University

“An intelligent and well-written account of the career of an important figure in the formation of the modern investment management business.”— Financial Analysts Journal

$29.95 / £19.95 cloth 978-0-231-16746-8

2014 296 pages


Genealogy of American Financerobert e. wright

aNd riChard sylla

"Wright and Sylla have produced an extremely valuable edition on the history of the 50 institutions central to American economic life. Highly recommended to anyone with an interest in business history."—Charles R. Geisst, author of Wall Street: A History and Beggar Thy Neighbor

In this unique, gorgeously illustrated book, readers learn how fifty financial corporations came to dominate the U.S. banking system and their impact on the nation’s political, social, and economic growth. A story that spans more than two centuries of war, crisis, and opportunity, this account reminds readers that American banking was never a fixed enterprise but has evolved in tandem

with the country.

$60.00 / £41.50 cloth 978-0-231-17026-0

march 2015 336 pages / 300 illus.


bUsiNess history

ForthComiNg

marCh 2015


Symbols of PowerTen Coins That Changed the Worldedited by thomas hoCkeNhUll

This revelatory history of ten major curren-cies details the trajectory of world civilization tied to the movement of money. From the earliest measurements of precious metals to the global fiat currencies we use today, the evolution of these dominant money systems plots the rise and fall of influential rulers, governments, and imperial powers. These coins have acted as powerful symbols of political expression and continuity despite deeply disruptive social, economic, and political change. Rich with illustrations from the famous collections at the British Museum and elsewhere, this book charts the fascinating path of each coin as it has

traveled through history.

$19.95 paper 978-0-231-17408-4

may 2015 144 pages

Free Trade’s First MissionarySir John Bowring in Europe and AsiaPhiliP bowriNg

Reformer, intellectual, colonial governor, Sir John Bowring made Britain a leading global power in the nineteenth century. Born to a modest trading family, he showed an aptitude for languages which led him to literature, then to radical politics. He became a high-profile advocate of free trade and a liberal foe of Karl Marx. As member of parliament he supported full suffrage and other radical causes. He modernized Britain’s public accounts, invented the florin as a first step to decimalization, and became an industrial entrepreneur. Losing his money in the 1848 slump, Bowring took a job as consul in Canton, which led to the governorship of Hong Kong. This book brings Bowring’s life and disparate achieve-ments together with a particular emphasis on his role in promoting free trade and his

much criticized career in Asia.

$48.00 / £33.00 cloth 978-988-8208-72-2

2014 336 pages / 32 illus.


bUsiNess history

ForthComiNg

may 2015


The Evolution of the Global Terrorist ThreatFrom 9/11 to Osama bin Laden’s Deathedited by brUCe hoFFmaN

aNd FerNaNdo reiNares

“Leading authorities on terrorism ably dis-sect the exact scope and nature of the threat posed by al-Qaeda and allied groups in the decade after 9/11 in a work that is both com-prehensive and authoritative.”

— Peter Bergen, author of Manhunt: The Ten Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad

Examining major terrorist acts and cam-paigns undertaken in the decade following September 11, 2001, internationally recog-nized scholars study the involvement of global terrorist leaders and organizations in these incidents and the planning, organiza-tion, execution, recruitment, and training that went into them. Their work captures the changing character of al-Qaeda and its affiliates since the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and the sophisticated elements that, despite the West’s best counterterrorism efforts, continue to exert substantial direc-tion over jihadist terrorist operations.

$45.00 / £30.95 cloth 978-0-231-16898-4

2014 696 pages

Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare

global history

Crowded OrbitsConflict and Cooperation in SpaceJames Clay moltz

"A long-needed book that explains ‘space basics,’ the importance of space to the general public, the challenges of operating in space, and the political conundrums of international cooperation and competition in space....[Moltz’s] book is scholarly, readable, and fills a significant gap in the literature."

—Joan Johnson-Freese, U.S. Naval War College

"Moltz’s book is the best available general introduction to the past, present, and alternative futures in all areas of space activity."—John Logsdon, The George Washington University, and founder of The George Washington University’s Space Policy Institute

"A concise, accessible, and very timely account of the history of space development, and the possible futures we could build for ourselves."—Publishers Weekly

$30.00 / £20.50 cloth 978-0-231-15912-8

2014 240 pages

Global PopulationHistory, Geopolitics, and Life on EarthalisoN bashFord

“With this engaging, wide-ranging, and impressively researched book, which tracks the global history of the ‘world population problem’—including fascinating forays into debates on eugenics, birth control, colonization, soil, food, agriculture, and the carrying capacity of the earth—Bashford joins a very select group of historians who have recently taken the familiar narratives of world history in an entirely new direction: toward the historical origins of modern ‘planetary consciousness.’ A timely and brilliant piece of work.”

— Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago

“This is the most fascinating and informative history on global population that this reviewer has ever read... Highly recommended.”

—Choice

$50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-14766-8

2014 480 pages / 15 illus.

Columbia Studies in International and Global History

From Mutual Observation to Propaganda WarPremodern Revolts in Their Transnational Representationsedited by malte griesse

The Arab Spring, protest movements in the EU, Russia, Turkey or elsewhere, are often labeled as Twitter-revolutions. With the dissemination of print, revolts in early-modern times faced the challenge of a similar media-revolution. This volume focuses upon the crucial role played by new media in shaping the world’s preception of

revolts cross-boarder revolts and protests.

$40.00 paper 978-3-837-62642-1


Transcript-Verlag

global history

Mankind Beyond EarthThe History, Science, and Future of Human Space ExplorationClaUde a. PiaNtadosi

$25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-16243-2

$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16242-5

2014 336 pages / 20 illus.

global history

A Little Gay HistoryDesire and Diversity Across the Worldr. b. ParkiNsoN

“Parkinson successfully shows that same-sex love and desire are an integral part of human history.”

— Publishers Weekly

“Moving and fascinating.” — The Sunday Times

“This little gay history is a little terrific book...

highly recommended.”

— Library Journal

$19.95 paper 978-0-231-16663-8

2013 128 pages / 80 illus.

New in paper


Henry Stubbe and the Beginnings of IslamThe Originall & Progress of Mahometanismedited by Nabil matar

“Stubbe’s manuscript treatise, which drew for the first time on Arabic and non-Christian sources in Latin translation, was revolutionary in its methodology and understanding of Islam. He presented the first historical biography of the Prophet and told the story of the spread of Islam, dispelling many untruths, such as conversion by the sword, while recognizing Muslim toleration for other religions. Nabil Matar’s work illuminates an important moment in the late seventeenth century.”

— Donald R. Dickson, Texas A&M University

$50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-15664-6

2013 288 pages

H E NRYSTUBBEBEGINNINGSOF ISLAMThe Originall & Progress of Mahometanism

ANDTHE

E D I T E D A N D I N T R O D U C E D B Y

NABIL MATAR

Prophecy, Alchemyand the End of TimeJohn of Rupescissa in the Late Middle Agesleah devUN

John Nicholas Brown Prize, Medieval

Academy of America

"A compelling introduction to the effort made by medieval authors to use human reason in approaching the secrets of God."—Laura Ackerman Smoller, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

"An excellent study...not only for its careful description of an underappreciated figure, but also because of the important theoretical contributions [DeVun] makes to a more holistic approach to our understanding of the history of science and to late medieval culture."—H-German

$28.00 / £19.50 paper 978-0-231-14539-8


aNCieNt & medieval history

New in paper

Cultures in MotionStudies in the Medieval and Early Modern Periodsedited by adam izdebski aNd

damiaN JasiNski

This volume offers a collection of thirteen studies covering intercultural contact and exchange in the medieval and early modern periods beginning with Late Antiquity and encompass-ing both the Renaissance and its immediate aftermath. Geographical areas that are often studied separately — including the Middle East, the Caucasus, the Latin West and Central Europe (especially Poland, Germany and Hungary)— are here presented together in order to allow for cross-

period and cross-regional comparisons.

$50.00 /£34.50 paper 978-83-233-3631-0

2014 310 pages

Jagiellonian University Press

Divine Men and Women in the History and Society of Late Hellenismedited by maria dzielska aNd kamilla

twardowska

This volume gathers many eminent scholars, who bring with them new perspectives on ancient sources, presenting divine men and women of Neoplatonic era, their multifac-eted activities, and the entire range of their

scientific pursuits and virtues.

$42.00 / £29.00 paper 978-83-233-3679-2

2014 168 pages / 11 illus.

Jagiellonian University Press

aNCieNt & medieval history


The Collapse of Western CivilizationA View from the Future

Naomi oreskes aNd erik m. CoNway

“ Oreskes and Conway provide us with a glimpse of the dystopian future we may ACTUALLY face should we fail to head the warning of the world’s scientists regarding the looming climate change crisis.”

— Michael E. Mann, director, Penn State Earth System Science Center, and author of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars

“Oreskes and Conway’s startling and all-too-plausible history of the century to come is in the spirit of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley and all the writers who have turned to prophecy in the attempt to ward off an oncoming disaster. Witty in its details and disturbing in its plausibility, this is an account of the Long Emergency we’re entering that you will not soon forget.”

—Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Shaman, 2312, Science In the Capital, and the Mars trilogy

$9.95 / £6.95 paper 978-0-231-16954-7

2014 104 pages

Race in a BottleThe Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic AgeJoNathaN kahN

“Race in a Bottle is lucid and energetic, with fascinating and little-known evidence about clinical trials, the federal regulatory and patent systems, and the history of racial classification...Kahn offers a heartfelt and persuasive case against allowing race to be reduced to biology.”—Journal of American History

"[Race in a Bottle] tackle[s] one of the most important concerns pertaining to race facing our society today. . . . Must-read material."—New Scientist

"Mr. Kahn deserves credit for teasing out all the daunting complexities behind these events, including the details of genetic analysis, the perils of racial determinations, and the minutiae of patent law."— New York Times

$27.00 / £18.50 paper 978-0-231-16299-9

2012 328 pages

history oF sCieNCe


Race UnmaskedBiology and Race in the Twentieth CenturymiChael yUdell

“Race Unmasked is a terrific guide to the often invisible, intertwined terrain of science and politics around race. Re-reading the past with an eye toward nuance and clarity, Michael Yudell understands how ‘race’comes to be unintentionally hidden yet still can be uncovered and critiqued. This book should find its way into classrooms across the curriculum."—Susan M. Reverby, Wellesley College

"A challenging, well-researched work that clearly shows the interconnectedness of scientific and social thought."—Kirkus Reviews

"This intensely deliberative book unearths many subtle and not-so-subtle examples of this complex historic relationship."—Publishers Weekly

$40.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-16874-8

2014 304 pages

Race and the Genetic RevolutionScience, Myth, and Cultureedited by sheldoN krimsky aNd

kathleeN sloaN

"There is perhaps no issue that is of more interest and relevance to the social study of science and public health than race and genetics, and Sheldon Krimsky and Kathleen Sloan are leaders in the field. Novel and forward thinking, this book will be a valuable addition to a literature that needs to be brought up to speed."—David Rosner, Columbia University

"Essential reading for researchers, students, and policymakers seeking to challenge the new racial genetics."—Dorothy Roberts, author of Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century

$35.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-15697-4


history oF sCieNCe

B i o l o g y a n d R a c e

i n t h e 2 0 t h c e n t u Ry

M i c h a e l y u d e l lF o R e w o R d B y J . c R a i g V e n t e R


Shadow MedicineThe Placebo in Conventional and Alternative TherapiesJohN s. haller Jr.

"Shadow Medicine explores the foundations of both reductionist biomedicine and complementary and alternative medicine. John S. Haller Jr. shows why the former is unable to deal adequately with the placebo effect and the latter cannot judge the efficacy of its individualistic interventions. This book is an important contribution to an understanding of the contemporary health scene and merits a

wide audience."—Gerry Grob, Rutgers University

"This provocative book is aimed at challenging the research community, and the questions it raises are important for patients and doctors alike."—Publishers Weekly

"A great read... Brilliantly presented.”—ZME Science

$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16904-2

2014 288 pages

Regimes of HistoricityPresentism and Experiences of TimeFraNÇois hartog

TRANSLATED BY SASKIA BROWN

"Since his classic, Mirror of Herodotus, FranÇois Hartog has emerged as the most significant theorist of history, and chronicler of our changing relationship to our own past, that France has produced. In this series of meditative chapters, he takes us from the Greeks to the present once more, emphasizing how the theory of history must move from diagnosing the modern gap between expectation and experience to confronting the exigency of historical crisis today."—Samuel Moyn, Columbia University

"In a book that should be required reading for anyone interested in history's role in contemporary society, Hartog shows how unexamined assumptions about the past shape our understandings of ourselves and our place in history.”—Lynn Hunt, Distinguished Professor, UCLA

$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16376-7

February 2015 288 pages

European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and

Cultural Criticism

f r a n ç o i s h a r t o g

translated by

saskia brown

p r e s e n t i s m a n de x p e r i e n c e s

o f t i m e

regimes

of

historicity

history oF sCieNCe i N t e l l e C t U a l h i s t o r y &h i s t o r i o g r a P h y

J O H N S. H A L L E R J R .

T H E P L AC E B O

I N C O N V E N T I O N A L

A N D A L T E R N A T I V E

T H E R A P I E S


Moved by the PastDiscontinuity and Historical MutationeelCo rUNia

"In elegant and exhilarating prose, these brilliant discussions of historical discontinuity, the presence of the past, self-invention, and related topics set the field on a new track. The result is essential reading for anyone interested in what history is and can be."

— Brian Fay, Wesleyan University

“Runia lays the fundaments of a new philosophy of history. A fascinating book."

— Jörn Rüsen, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Essen

$40.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-16820-5

2014 264 pages


Cultural Criticism

History and Popular MemoryThe Power of Story in Moments of CrisisPaUl a. CoheN

"A remarkable and fascinating foray by a distinguished Chinese historian into the realms of history, memory, and ‘history stories,’ those tales we tell about past events that help us understand and instill meaning into the present, even at the cost of distorting the past. Analyzing several celebrated cases of refashioned distant historical moments, ranging from Masada and King Goujian to the Battle of Kosovo and Joan of Arc, Cohen lucidly demonstrates how at times of crisis modern societies reach back for succor and inspiration to the stories and myths of their greatest triumphs and defeats."—Omer Bartov, author of Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine

"A seminal work of extraordinary scholarship....very highly recommended."—Midwest Book Review

$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16636-2

2014 304 pages / 24 illus.

i N t e l l e C t U a l h i s t o r y & h i s t o r i o g r a P h y

Who's Afraid of Academic Freedom?edited by akeel bilgrami aNd JoNathaN r.

Cole

In these seventeen essays, distinguished scholars discuss the conceptual issues surrounding the idea of freedom of inquiry and scrutinize a variety of obstacles to such inquiry that they have encountered in their personal and professional experience. Their discussion of threats to freedom traverses a wide disciplinary and institutional, political and economic range covering specific restric-tions linked to speech codes, the interests of donors, institutional review board licensing, political pressure groups, and government policy, as well as phenomena of high generality, such as intellectual orthodoxy, where coercion is barely visible and often

self-imposed.

$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16880-9

2015 448 pages

who’s AFRAID of AcADemIc FReeDom? edited by akeel bilgrami & jonathan R. cole



The Plebeian ExperienceA Discontinuous History of Political FreedommartiN breaUgh

“The Plebeian Experience is a rich, discontinuous history of plebeian uprisings from the founding of republican Rome to the present. Martin Breaugh writes vividly of these holidays of the oppressed in ancient Rome, Renaissance Italy, and modern Europe as seen through the eyes of Livy, Machiavelli, Montesquieu, Marx, Thompson, Soboul, and Abensour. Those who follow the Occupy or the Aboriginal Idle No More Movements will obtain fresh insight and exhilaration from Breaugh’s highly readable account of these spontaneous struggles for dignity.”

— Ed Andrew, University of Toronto

$55.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-15618-9

2013 344 pages

Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History

the plebe ian e x p e r i e n c ea d i scont inuous h i s tory o f p o l i t i c a l f r e e d o m

m a r t i n b r e a u g ht r a n s l a t e d b y l a z e r l e d e r h e n d l e r

Global Intellectual Historyedited by samUel moyN aNd aNdrew

sartori

“A milestone, a collection of the first importance for global historians and intellectual historians alike.”

— David Armitage, Harvard University, author of Foundations of Modern International Thought

“This volume is among the first to focus on the comparative merits of global intellectual history....[It] will be widely welcomed by a variety of historians.” — Duncan Kelly, University of Cambridge, author of The Propriety of Liberty: Persons, Passions, and Judgement in Modern Political Thought

$27.00 / £18.50 paper 978-0-231-16049-0

2013 352 pages

Columbia Studies in International and Global History

Global I n t e l l e c t u a l History

EditEd by

Samuel Moyn & Andrew Sartori


The Great Civilized Conversation Education for a World Communitywm. theodore de bary

$24.00 / £16.50 paper 978-0-231-16277-7

$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16276-0

2014 432 pages

The Lives of Erich FrommLove’s ProphetlawreNCe J. FriedmaN

$19.95 / £13.95 paper 978-0-231-16259-3

$29.95 / £19.95 cloth 978-0-231-16258-6

2014 410 pages / 15 illus.

N e w i N P a P e r

Memory, Trauma, and History Essays on Living with the PastmiChael s. roth

“Exceptional and wide-ranging.” —Times Higher Education

“Not only does it stand out as a profound interdisciplinary study on the multilayered facets of (collective) memory and its (re)con-struction, but it is in itself a valuable record of contemporary discourses on memory, since its essays were written over more than twenty years.” — Modern Language Review

$29.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-14569-5

2011 336 pages / 15 illus.


CUliNary history

Chop Suey, USAThe Story of Chinese Food in AmericayoNg CheN

“A thoroughly researched, highly readable account of the development of Chinese American food, this book fills important gaps in the literature of ethnic and food studies, while incorporating an appealing personal memoir into the narrative.”

—Jeffrey Pilcher, University of Toronto

“A perceptive view of an America built on abundance and consumption.”

—Kirkus

“Well organized and breathtakingly broad in its geographic scope, Chop Suey, USA is an utterly original and significant contribution to the field. Yong Chen has done a superb job. No one has attempted anything like this.”

—Hasia Diner, New York University

Chop Suey, USA offers the first comprehen-sive interpretation of the rise of Chinese food, revealing the forces that made it ubiquitous in the American gastronomic landscape and turned the country into an

empire of consumption.

$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16892-2

2014 312 page / 18 illus

Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on

Culinary History

the story of

chinese food

in america

yong chen

chop suey, usa

The Winemaker’s HandConversations on Talent, Technique, and TerroirNatalie berkowitz

“Few if any wine writers have devoted as much time and care as Berkowitz to the disparate paths to evolution of the winemaker’s emotional intelligence that result in memorable wines from around the world.”

—Armand Gilinsky, Sonoma State University

“Special wines come from special places. And special wines are made by special people. This book is special, too-worthy of its subject and deserving of your attention. Savor it as you would the wines of the talented enologists who inspire its story.”

—Anthony Verdoni, “The Wine Professor” and host of Eat Drink Italy with Vic Rallo

In these fascinating interviews, winemakers from the United States and abroad clarify the complex process of converting grapes into wine, with more than forty vintners candidly discussing how a combination of talent, passion, and experience shape the outcome of their individual wines.

$27.95 / £19.95 cloth 978-0-231-16756-7

2014 336 pages / 58 illus.


Culinary History


Italian Identity in the Kitchen, or Food and the Nationmassimo moNtaNari

Translated by Beth Archer Brombert

"A delightful excursion into the cuisine and culture of Italy."—Booklist

Massimo Montanari draws readers into the far-flung story of how local and global influences came to flavor Italian identity. The fusion of ancient Roman cuisine, which consisted of bread, wine, and olives, with the barbarian diet, rooted in bread, milk, and meat, first formed the basics of modern eating across Europe. From there, Montanari highlights the importance of the Italian city in the development of gastronomic taste in the Middle Ages, the role of Arab traders in positioning the country as the supreme producers of pasta, and the nation’s healthful contribution of vegetables to the

fifteenth-century European diet.

$26.50 / £18.50 cloth 978-0-231-16084-1

2013 128 pages


Culinary History

CUliNary history

Religion, Food, and Eating in North Americaedited by beNJamiN e. zeller, marie w.

dallam, reid l. NeilsoN, aNd Nora l.

rUbel

“From a Georgia farm to the salmon runs of the Pacific Northwest, from Sylvester Graham to hip vegans, Americans draw tight links between their food and their faith. These essays investigate a broad set of religious traditions, and the results are theoretically rich yet accessible to nonspecialists. The volume helps us think about what it means to be American, as well as what it means to be religious, and forces us to broaden our definition of religion, with implications for health, commerce, and the environment.”

—Daniel Sack, author of Whitebread Protestants: Food and Religion in American Culture

“A welcome addition to the literature on food and religion. No other work compares with it.”

—Ken Albala, coeditor of Food and Faith in Christian Culture

$35.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-16031-5

$105.00 / £72.50 cloth 978-0-231-16030-8

2014 376 pages / 11 illus.


Culinary History

Edited by

Benjamin e. Zeller, marie W. Dallam,

reiD l. neilson, & nora l. ruBel

l l

Religion, Food, Eating in

North America &

e

The Land of the Five FlavorsA Cultural History of Chinese Cuisinethomas o. hÖllmaNN

Wnner of Academic Award in Culinary Arts and Sciences

"Photos, posters, paintings and sketches alternate with recipes in this fascinating book, which takes ingredients from several types of available sources: part cookbook, part cultural history of China through its kitchen."—William H. Nienhauser, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"Anyone interested in China or in food history needs this book, an insightful introduction to China’s food traditions that is anchored in an understanding and appreciation of centuries of Chinese history and culinary culture.”—Naomi Duguid, author of Burma: Rivers of Flavor

$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16186-2

2013 216 pages/ 48 illus.


Culinary History

CUli iNary history

Fashioning AppetiteRestaurants and the Making of Modern IdentityJoaNNe FiNkelsteiN

“Joanne Finkelstein examines the emergence of restaurant patronage as a vital expression of both aspirational and acculturated societal behaviors-by groups and by individuals-with the physical restaurant itself as a public stage for the realization, refinement, and reinvention of self-identity in wealthy Western societies. An engaging read with an original examination of the role and place of the restaurant in affluent Western countries at the beginning of the twenty-first century.”—Alexander Lobrano, author of Hungry for Paris: The Ultimate Guide to the City’s 102 Best Restaurants

Joanne Finkelstein takes a fragment of social life, “restaurant dining,”and uses it to examine the dramatic effect our public behavior and social habits have on our private desires and sense of identity.

$35.00 cloth 978-0-231-16796-3

2014 224 pages


Culinary History

CUliNary history

The Metamorphoses of FatA History of Obesity

georges vigarello

TRANSLATED By C. JoN DELoGU

"Georges Vigarello’s history of obesity is at heart a history of condemnation, how its shape has shifted in response to larger social, cultural, economic, and scientific transformations. A powerful and disturbing read that highlights the role of modern science in defining the very heavy as unfit for membership in the community of valued

citizens."—Susan Greenhalgh, Harvard University

“Gluttony—whether perceived or real—has become the ultimate deadly sin in our secularized Western world. The Metamorphoses of Fat tackles with depth and breadth the history of obesity from the Middle Ages to the present from a wide interdisciplinary and cultural perspective.”—Jean-Jacques Courtine, University of Auckland

"At once compelling and ground-breaking... This work represents all that is best in new histories of the body.”—Modern Language Review

$29.50 / £20.50 cloth 978-0-231-15976-0

2013 296 pages / 25 illus.

European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought

and Cultural Criticism

FoodA Culinary Historyedited by JeaN-loUis FlaNdriN aNd

massimo moNtaNari

TRANSLATED By ALBERT SoNNENFELD

"From the Bible and ancient Egypt to the 'banquets'of the Middle Ages and the 'McDonaldization'of Europe, Food: A Culinary History covers the immense history of the table throughout the world. Well researched and scholarly, it is essential reading for the historian and the lover of social studies as well as the modern cook and gourmet.”

—Jacques Pepin

"Essential reading for students of the rich and influential culinary tradition rooted in the Mediterranean. It is provocative in providing a framework for a more general history of European foodways."

—Journal of Social History

$24.95 / £16.95 paper 978-0-231-11155-3

$55.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-11154-6

1999 624 pages


Cultural Criticism

CUliNary history

Eating HistoryThirty Turning Points in the Making of American CuisineaNdrew F. smith

“Easy-to-digest prose and modest portions make these stories compulsively readable, and reveal new angles on old stories.”

—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Eating History covers an enormous amount of ground and is something of a mini-encyclopedia with many entries, each densely packed with information. Smith is a talented storyteller, so the copious facts and figures are presented well, nicely sprinkled with interesting anecdotes.”

—Gastronomica

$19.95 / £13.95 paper 978-0-231-14093-5

2009 392 pages / 30 illus.

Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary

History

Let the Meatballs RestAnd Other Stories About Food and Culturemassimo moNtaNari

“Montanari’s erudition is manifest throughout the book. He assiduously avoids both commonplaces and pedantry and provokes thought, thrilling anyone looking to understand on a profound level why we eat what we eat.” — Booklist

“Delectable.” — Times Literary Supplement

“A textured, surprising, and brightly astringent read.” — Boston Globe

$26.50 / £18.50 cloth 978-0-231-15732-2

2012 192 pages


History

Drinking HistoryFifteen Turning Points in the Making of American BeveragesaNdrew F. smith

“Pour yourself a cup of tea, a glass of milk, or a chilled Martini and be prepared to sip your way through a compelling history of what and why we drink. This scholarly and highly readable work on the 400-year history of beverages in America is a must-read for every culinary historian and anyone interested in an informative and entertaining story. Surprising facts pop up and fizz on every page.”

—Joseph M. Carlin, author of Cocktails: A Global History

“Full of rewarding details, each chapter of Drinking History tells a concise, compelling tale likely to inspire further, more expansive investigations.”

—Times Literary Supplement

$19.95 / £13.95 paper 978-0-231-15117-7

2012 336 pages


History

CUliNary history

Creamy and CrunchyAn Informal History of Peanut Butter, the All-American FoodJoN kramPNer

“Creamy and Crunchy is the definitive history of this scrumptious staple, an enterining and informative read.”

— The Past in Review

“A comprehensive and entertaining account of peanut butter and how this popular food assumed its place in American food culture. — Library Journal

“Enjoyable and informative.”— New Yorker

$19.95 / £13.95 paper 978-0-231-16233-3

2012 320 pages/ 49 illus.


History

A Short Course in Reading FrenchCelia briCkmaN

“The perfect companion for the student or scholar wishing to develop reading skills in French. Not only does this book provide clear, concise explanations but it also offers a wide range of carefully designed and relevant tasks based on short phrases, more complex sentences, and authentic reading passages. These carefully selected texts also cover a breadth of subjects, eras, and styles of interest. For teachers, this book represents a considerable time saver, since it presents a collection of activities and texts that can be fully exploited in class or assigned as homework.” — David Tual, teaching fellow, Durham University

$35.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-15677-6

$105.00 / £72.50 cloth 978-0-231-15676-9

2012 264 pages

Polishing Your ProseHow to Turn First Drafts IntoFinished Work“The authors, both exceptionally talented writers and teachers, present the material at the right level of detail, organize it well, and engage their readers. The book is an invaluable resource for anyone serious about writing well.”

— Peter Markie, University of Missouri

“If you would like to improve your writing, read this wondrous book, then read it again.”

— Christine Vitrano, Brooklyn College

$14.95 / £9.95 paper 978-0-231-16089-6

$49.50 / £34.00 cloth 978-0-231-16088-9

2013 104 pages

other books oF iNterest

The Elements of Academic Style Writing for the HumanitieseriC hayot

"The Elements of Academic Style is an utter tour de force, a guide to scholarly writing in the humanities that manages to be at once lively, funny, absorbing, rigorous, and immensely insightful. It offers a wealth of advice from the minute and grammatical to the disciplinary and career-changing, even as it probes deeply into the humanities as they are actually practiced, in the nitty gritty of our writing. Intended for graduate students, who will benefit in untold ways from its wisdom, it is a boon for faculty as well, so acute are its observations and so intelligent its maxims." — Sarah Cole, Columbia University

“[The Elements of Academic Style] has the potential to transform how we teach and practice academic writing, and it invites the kind of reading and engagement that makes such a transformation possible....A book well worth reading and rereading.

—New Books Network Seminar

$20.00 / £14.00 paper 978-0-231-16801-4

$60.00 / £41.50 cloth 978-0-231-16800-7


The ElEmEnTs of AcAdEmic StyleWriTing for ThE humAniTiEs

Eric Hayot


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