-
Laboring women
When black women were brought from Africa to the New World as slave laborers, their value was determined by their ability to work as well as their potential to bear children, who by law would become the enslaved property of the mother's master. In Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New Wo...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
The age of social democracy
A history of how Norway and Sweden became the envy of the modern worldThis is the history of how two countries on the northern edge of Europe built societies in the twentieth century that became objects of inspiration and envy around the world. Francis Sejersted, one of Scandinavia's leading hist...
Read MoreRegular price $45.00Sale price $45.00 Regular price $45.00Unit price per -
Seneca possessed
Seneca Possessed examines the ordeal of a Native people in the wake of the American Revolution. As part of the once-formidable Iroquois Six Nations in western New York, Senecas occupied a significant if ambivalent place within the newly established United States. They found themselves the object ...
Read MoreRegular price $34.95Sale price $34.95 Regular price $34.95Unit price per -
Hayek's bastards
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismHow neoliberals turned to nature to defend inequality after the end of the Cold WarNeoliberals should have seen the end of the Cold War as a total victory—but they didn’t. Instead, they saw the chameleon of communism changing colors fr...
Read MoreRegular price $25.00Sale price $25.00 Regular price $25.00Unit price per -
The making and breaking of the american constitution
A provocative new history of America’s constitution and an urgent call to action for a nation confronted by challenges its founders could never have imaginedThe American Revolution occurred at a time when Britain’s constitutional order failed to adapt to the extraordinary growth of its colonies. ...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
Sea of treasures
How goods and people in motion across the ancient world were entangled through consumptionThe ancient world was a far more interconnected place than is often assumed. Maritime routes across the Indian Ocean, by no means peripheral, made these connections possible. In Sea of Treasures, Jeremy Simm...
Read MoreRegular price $45.00Sale price $45.00 Regular price $45.00Unit price per -
The war that made the middle east
A new history that tells the story of how European imperial ambitions destroyed the Ottoman Empire during the Great War and created a divided and unstable Middle EastThe Ottoman Empire’s collapse at the end of the First World War is often treated as a foregone conclusion. It was only a matter of ...
Read MoreRegular price $32.00Sale price $32.00 Regular price $32.00Unit price per -
Lenape country
A sweeping narrative history of Lenape Indian encounters with European settlers in the Delaware Valley in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, reissued with a new preface that discusses the complicated legacy of the nation’s founding at its 250th anniversary for the Indigenous peoples ...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
Out of italy
In the fifteenth century, even before the city states of the Apennine Peninsula began to coalesce into what would become, several centuries later, a nation, “Italy” exerted enormous influence over all of Europe and throughout the Mediterranean. Its cultural, economic, and political dominance is u...
Read MoreRegular price $17.00Sale price $17.00 Regular price $17.00Unit price per -
Land of hope
A wonderfully written, sweeping narrative history of the United States that will help Americans discover the land they call homeHigh School and College Age StudentsThe Original Land of Hope Narrative in Paperback Edition We have a glut of text and trade books on American history. But what we don'...
Read MoreRegular price $49.99Sale price $49.99 Regular price $49.99Unit price per -
Dissimilar similitudes
From an acclaimed historian, a mesmerizing account of how medieval European Christians envisioned the paradoxical nature of holy objectsBetween the twelfth and the sixteenth centuries, European Christians used a plethora of objects in worship, not only prayer books, statues, and paintings but als...
Read MoreRegular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
Power and impotence
A timely and instructive reconsideration of South America 's recent 'progressive' era.
Regular price $30.00Sale price $30.00 Regular price $30.00Unit price per -
Wicked flesh
The story of freedom pivots on the choices black women made to retain control over their bodies and selves, their loved ones, and their futures.The story of freedom and all of its ambiguities begins with intimate acts steeped in power. It is shaped by the peculiar oppressions faced by African wom...
Read MoreRegular price $24.95Sale price $24.95 Regular price $24.95Unit price per -
American freethinker
The first comprehensive biography of Elihu Palmer, who was at the heart of the early United States' protracted contest over religious freedom and free speechWhen the United States was new, a lapsed minister named Elihu Palmer shared with his fellow Americans the radical idea that virtue required ...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
Little lindy is kidnapped
Thomas Doherty offers a lively and comprehensive cultural history of the media coverage of the abduction of the child of Charles and Anne Lindbergh and its aftermath. He traces how newspapers, radio, and newsreels reported on what was dubbed the “crime of the century.”
Regular price $27.95Sale price $27.95 Regular price $27.95Unit price per -
The long partition and the making of modern south asia
Nation-states often shape the boundaries of historical enquiry, and thus silence the very histories that have sutured nations to territorial states. "India" and "Pakistan" were drawn onto maps in the midst of Partition's genocidal violence and one of the largest displacements of people in the twe...
Read MoreRegular price $34.00Sale price $34.00 Regular price $34.00Unit price per -
An outline of a theory of civilization
Yukichi Fukuzawa rose from low samurai origins to become one of the finest intellectuals and social thinkers of modern Japan. Through his best-selling works, he helped transform an isolated feudal nation into a full-fledged international force. In Outline of a Theory of Civilization, the author's...
Read MoreRegular price $34.00Sale price $34.00 Regular price $34.00Unit price per -
Tunisia
Safwan M. Masri explores the factors that have shaped Tunisia's exceptional experience, arguing that its history of reformism set it on a separate trajectory from the rest of the region. Based on interviews with experts, leaders, activists, and citizens, Masri's account is critical for understand...
Read MoreRegular price $23.00Sale price $23.00 Regular price $23.00Unit price per -
The hindu nationalist movement in india
A detailed account of the Hindu nationalist movement in India since the 1920s arguing that political uneasiness, created by real and imagined threats of colonialism and the presence of minority groups, paved the way for militant Hinduism on the Indian subcontinent.
Regular price $37.00Sale price $37.00 Regular price $37.00Unit price per -
Regimes of historicity
A classical historian confronts our crises of time, radically calling into question our relations to the past, present, and future.
Regular price $27.00Sale price $27.00 Regular price $27.00Unit price per -
Commentary on the dream of scipio
Regular price $36.00Sale price $36.00 Regular price $36.00Unit price per -
Political freud
Political Freud considers how twentieth century radicals, activists, and thinkers used Freudian thought to understand the political developments of their times. Eli Zaretsky shows how important political readings of Freud were to the theory of fascism, African American radical thought, and femini...
Read MoreRegular price $26.00Sale price $26.00 Regular price $26.00Unit price per -
Moved by the past
A prominent Dutch historian upsets our linear conception of time and event and introduces a new way to envision history.
Regular price $60.00Sale price $60.00 Regular price $60.00Unit price per -
Muhammad and the origin of islam in the byzantine-slavic literary context
This bibliographic dictionary features an overview of medieval texts from the Eastern Orthodox world that discuss Muhammad, the Arabs, and the birth of Islam. These texts shed new light on interreligious polemics in the Middle Ages, previous studies of which have typically focused on texts writte...
Read MoreRegular price $50.00Sale price $50.00 Regular price $50.00Unit price per -
When good government meant big government
The years after World War I have often been seen as an era when Republican presidents and business leaders brought the growth of government in the United States to a halt. Jesse Tarbert reveals a forgotten effort by business-allied reformers to expand federal power—and how that effort was foiled ...
Read MoreRegular price $30.00Sale price $30.00 Regular price $30.00Unit price per -
The reagan era
A definitive account of the efforts by Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and other conservatives to remake American politics, the American economy, and America’s approach to the world in a pivotal decade.
Regular price $28.00Sale price $28.00 Regular price $28.00Unit price per -
Europe through arab eyes, 1578–1727
Traveling to archives in Tunisia, Morocco, France, and England, with visits to Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Spain, Nabil Matar assembles a rare history of Europe's rise to power as seen through the eyes of those who were later subjugated by it. Many historians of the Middle East believe Arabs and ...
Read MoreRegular price $65.00Sale price $65.00 Regular price $65.00Unit price per -
Refuge and resistance
This book is a groundbreaking international history of Palestinian refugee politics. Anne Irfan demonstrates that refugee groups are important actors in global politics, not simply aid recipients, and recasts modern Palestinian history through the lens of refugee camps and communities.
Regular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
Boundless winds of empire
Sixiang Wang demonstrates how Chosŏn political actors strategically deployed cultural practices, values, and narratives to carve out a place for Korea within the Ming imperial order.
Regular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
Before the revolution
During the French colonial period (1900-1945), Vietnamese peasants wrote vigorously about the effects of French policies on their living conditions. The vast majority of their writings were censored or contradicted by the published works of French and Vietnamese officials, and none is currenty in...
Read MoreRegular price $36.00Sale price $36.00 Regular price $36.00Unit price per -
Publics, politics and participation
Though it is rarely explicitly articulated, many believe that there is no "public" in the Middle East. Scholarship on the Middle East and North Africa almost always engages with politics-a prominent focus of this region-yet the assumed absence of public spaces and fora has led many to think that ...
Read MoreRegular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
Love and liberation
Reads the autobiographical and biographical writings of one of the few Tibetan Buddhist women to record the story of her life
Regular price $42.00Sale price $42.00 Regular price $42.00Unit price per -
Creative pasts
The "Maratha period" of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when an independent Maratha state successfully resisted the Mughals, is a defining era in the history of the region of Maharashtra in western India. In this book, Prachi Deshpande considers the importance of this period for a varie...
Read MoreRegular price $80.00Sale price $80.00 Regular price $80.00Unit price per -
Escaping the end of times
Escaping the End of Times invites readers to explore the intricate relationships between dreams, politics, and the Chinese writing system in early modern China.
Regular price $45.00Sale price $45.00 Regular price $45.00Unit price per -
Wars of position
Taking stock of contemporary social, cultural, and political currents, Timothy Brennan explores key turning points in the recent history of American intellectual life. He contends that a certain social-democratic vision of politics has been banished from public discussion, leading to an unlikely ...
Read MoreRegular price $36.00Sale price $36.00 Regular price $36.00Unit price per -
Transtopia in the sinophone pacific
Howard Chiang proposes a new paradigm for doing transgender history in which geopolitics assumes central importance. Defined as the antidote to transphobia, transtopia challenges a minoritarian view of transgender experience and makes room for the variability of transness on a historical continuum.
Regular price $30.00Sale price $30.00 Regular price $30.00Unit price per -
The columbia companion to american history on film
American history has always been an irresistible source of inspiration for filmmakers, and today, for good or ill, most Americans'sense of the past likely comes more from Hollywood than from the works of historians. In important films such as The Birth of a Nation (1915), Roots (1977), Apocalypse...
Read MoreRegular price $42.00Sale price $42.00 Regular price $42.00Unit price per -
Taiwan under japanese colonial rule, 1895–1945
The first study of colonial Taiwan in English, this volume brings together seventeen essays by leading scholars to construct a comprehensive cultural history of Taiwan under Japanese rule. Contributors from the United States, Japan, and Taiwan explore a number of topics through a variety of theor...
Read MoreRegular price $75.00Sale price $75.00 Regular price $75.00Unit price per -
The adoption plan
The Adoption Plan offers a new history of the rise of global humanitarianism that places the recipients, administrators, and critics of humanitarian aid in China at the center of the story.
Regular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
Sources of east asian tradition
In Sources of East Asian Tradition, Wm. Theodore de Bary offers a selection of essential readings from his immensely popular anthologies Sources of Chinese Tradition, Sources of Korean Tradition, and Sources of Japanese Tradition so readers can experience a concise but no less comprehensive portr...
Read MoreRegular price $45.00Sale price $45.00 Regular price $45.00Unit price per -
Global intellectual history
Where do ideas fit into historical accounts that take an expansive, global view of human movements and events? Teaching scholars of intellectual history to incorporate transnational perspectives into their work, while also recommending how to confront the challenges and controversies that may ari...
Read MoreRegular price $29.00Sale price $29.00 Regular price $29.00Unit price per -
Famine in north korea
In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century. The socialist food distribution system collapsed primarily because of a misguided push for self-reliance, but was compounded by the regime's failure to formulate a quick response-incl...
Read MoreRegular price $32.00Sale price $32.00 Regular price $32.00Unit price per -
Shanghai homes
In the dazzling global metropolis of Shanghai, what has it meant to call this city home? In this account—part microhistory, part memoir—Jie Li salvages intimate recollections by successive generations of inhabitants of two vibrant, culturally mixed Shanghai alleyways from the Republican, Maoist, ...
Read MoreRegular price $32.00Sale price $32.00 Regular price $32.00Unit price per -
The conquest of lisbon
Although the Crusades are generally thought of in terms of the European attempt to conquer and colonize the Holy Land, from the twelfth century onward crusading also involved the "reconquest" of the Iberian peninsula from the Muslims. This eyewitness account of the capture of Lisbon in 1147 by th...
Read MoreRegular price $34.00Sale price $34.00 Regular price $34.00Unit price per -
American environmental history
By studying the many ways diverse peoples have changed, shaped, and conserved the natural world over time, environmental historians provide insight into humanity's unique relationship with nature and, more importantly, are better able to understand the origins of our current environmental crisis....
Read MoreRegular price $38.00Sale price $38.00 Regular price $38.00Unit price per -
The great east asian war and the birth of the korean nation
JaHyun Kim Haboush offers a compelling counternarrative to Western historiography, which ties Korea's idea of nation to the imported ideologies of modern colonialism. This book instead elevates the formative role of the conflicts that defined the second half of the Chosôn Dynasty.
Regular price $65.00Sale price $65.00 Regular price $65.00Unit price per -
A desert named peace
In the mid-nineteenth century, French colonial leaders in Algeria started southward into the Sahara, beginning a fifty-year period of violence. Lying in the shadow of the colonization of northern Algeria, which claimed the lives of over a million people, French empire in the Sahara sought power t...
Read MoreRegular price $37.00Sale price $37.00 Regular price $37.00Unit price per -
Brain magnet
Alex Sayf Cummings reveals the significance of North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park to the emergence of the high-tech economy in a postindustrial United States. Brain Magnet pinpoints how it sheds new light on the origins of today’s urban landscape, in which innovation is lauded as the engine ...
Read MoreRegular price $30.00Sale price $30.00 Regular price $30.00Unit price per -
The columbia guide to the holocaust
Offering a multidimensional approach to one of the most important episodes of the twentieth century, The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust offers readers and researchers a general history of the Holocaust while delving into the core issues and debates in the study of the Holocaust today. Each of th...
Read MoreRegular price $38.00Sale price $38.00 Regular price $38.00Unit price per
Something went wrong
Please try again
