The politics of losing

Rory McVeigh and Kevin Estep trace the parallels between the 192s Klan and today’s right-wing backlash, identifying the conditions that allow white nationalism to emerge from the shadows. Their sociological analysis of the Klan’s outbreaks sheds light on how Trump’s rise to power was made possibl...

Overcoming modernity

In the summer of 1942 Japan's leading cultural authorities gathered in Tokyo to discuss the massive cultural, technological, and intellectual changes that had transformed Japan since the Meiji period. They feared that without a sufficient understanding of these developments, the Japanese people w...

Behind the gate

On May 4, 1919, thousands of students protested the Versailles treaty in Beijing. Seventy years later, another generation demonstrated in Tiananmen Square. Climbing the Monument of the People's Heroes, these protestors stood against a relief of their predecessors, merging with their own mythology...

The columbia guide to american indians of the southeast

Though they speak several different languages and organize themselves into many distinct tribes, the Native American peoples of the Southeast share a complex ancient culture and a tumultuous history. This volume examines and synthesizes their history through each of its integral phases: the compl...

The columbia guide to irish american history

Once seen as threats to mainstream society, Irish Americans have become an integral part of the American story. More than 40 million Americans claim Irish descent, and the culture and traditions of Ireland and Irish Americans have left an indelible mark on U.S. society. Timothy J. Meagher fuses a...

A history of the iraq crisis

New perspective on the escalation of tensions that led to the invasion of Iraq and the collapse of America’s diplomatic standing in the West.

Dreaming of cockaigne

Imagine a dreamland where roasted pigs wander about with knives in their backs to make carving easy, where grilled geese fly directly into one's mouth, where cooked fish jump out of the water and land at one's feet. The weather is always mild, the wine flows freely, sex is readily available, and ...

The dead pledge

Today, the federal government underwrites a financial system built around mortgage lending. In The Dead Pledge, Judge Glock reveals the surprising origins of this entanglement in forgotten economic ideas and policies that held sway from the early twentieth century through the Great Depression.

Hunters, herders, and hamburgers

Richard W. Bulliet has long been a leading figure in the study of human-animal relations, and in his newest work, Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers, he offers a sweeping and engaging perspective on this dynamic relationship from prehistory to the present. By considering the shifting roles of donke...

Agrarian and other histories

There is no area of Indian agrarian history that Binay Bhushan Chaudhuri has not traversed. This volume considers his work on the peasantry and the political economy of agriculture in eastern India, including the process of 'depeasantization' and the forcible induction of tribes and forest dwelle...

Romania and the holocaust

From summer 1941 onwards, Romania actively pursued at its own initiative the mass killing of Jews in the territories it controlled. 1941 saw 13,000 Jewish residents of the Romanian city of Ia?i killed, the extermination of thousands of Jews in Northern Bukovina and Bessarabia by Romanian armed fo...

The long war

Essays by a diverse and distinguished group of historians, political scientists, and sociologists examine the alarms, emergencies, controversies, and confusions that have characterized America's Cold War, the post-Cold War interval of the 1990s, and today's "Global War on Terror." This "Long War"...

Empire in the western ocean

This book discusses the geographic, political, and commercial factors that led to the emergence of seapower and a navy under the Ming.

Up from communism

The british slave trade and public memory

How does a contemporary society restore to its public memory a momentous event like its own participation in transatlantic slavery? What are the stakes of once more restoring the slave trade to public memory? What can be learned from this history? Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace explores these questi...

Villages and market towns in hong kong

Patrick H. Hase presents An Oral history of the New Territories villages and market towns.

Camp century

At the height of the Cold War, the United States Army secretly began work on a base embedded deep in the Greenland ice cap. This book is the first comprehensive account of Camp Century. Kristian H. Nielsen and Henry Nielsen unravel the extraordinary history of this clandestine installation.

The glory of the rails

In this brilliant essay the historian Tony Judt describes the singular contribution made by railways to the development of our shared way of life.

Vote gun

Patrick J. Charles charts the rise of gun rights activism from the early twentieth century through the 1980 presidential election, pinpointing the role of the 1968 Gun Control Act. Offering a deep dive into the politicization of gun rights, Vote Gun reveals the origins of the acrimonious division...

The making of salafism

Sees the Salafi movement as a recent conception of Islam projected back onto the past and its purist evolution as a direct result of decolonization

Mobile pastoralists

Based on more than ten years of study among the Harasiis, a Middle Eastern tribe living in the Sultanate of Oman, Mobile Pastoralists is a powerful statement on the importance of grassroots, people-based development and on the inadequacy of conventional responses for such a community by the inter...

Lust, commerce, and corruption

In 1816, an anonymous samurai produced a scathing critique of Edo society. Writing as Buyō Inshi, he expressed a profound despair with the state of the realm. Although he saw decay wherever he turned, Buyō also provided a vivid, wide-ranging picture of Edo life. This abridged edition streamlines ...

The freedom schools

Created in 1964 as part of the Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Mississippi Freedom Schools were launched by educators and activists to provide an alternative education for African American students that would facilitate student activism and participatory democracy. The schools, as Jon N. Hale dem...

Intellectuals and world war i

This volume considers intellectuals within the social history of World War I. It offers a reflection on intellectuals’ stance toward militarism and the outbreak of war. It examines their reactions, thoughts, and predictions and the ways in which they interpreted the meaning of the war, as well as...

Taking it big

C. Wright Mills (1916–1962) was a pathbreaking intellectual who transformed the independent American Left in the 1940s and 1950s. Often challenging the established ideologies and approaches of fellow leftist thinkers, Mills was central to creating and developing the idea of the "public intellectu...

The king's plunder, the king's bodies

This work establishes the monarchical form of the British empire between CE 1600 and 1900.

Literature and history in the shi ji of sima qian

An excellent introduction to Sima Qian’s masterpiece, Shi Ji.

Japan since 1945

Concisely rendered, engagingly written, and thoughtful in its judgments, this short book is a most valuable interpretation of Japan’s remarkable history since the end of World War II. It surveys the dramatic changes in Japan’s society, politics, economy, international relations, and culture from ...

Educating harlem

Educating Harlem brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to consider of the history of schooling in perhaps the nation’s most iconic black community. The volume traces the varied ways that Harlem residents defined and pursued educational justice for their children and community desp...