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Harvard University Press World History 2020 New on Our Shelves Stalin and the Fate of Europe The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty Norman M. Naimark ★ A Financial Times Best History Book of the Year “Exemplifies the best qualities of Cold War history-writing. It is also…a book for our time.” —Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Times Literary Supplement “Naimark has few peers as a scholar of Stalinism, the Soviet Union and 20th-century Europe, and his latest work Stalin and the Fate of Europe is one of his most original and interesting.” —Financial Times Belknap Press 14 photos, 8 maps 368 pp. $29.95 • £23.95 cloth 9780674238770 Bitter Reckoning Israel Tries Holocaust Survivors as Nazi Collaborators Dan Porat “Porat’s writing is smooth and deliberate, delivered with integrity. His analysis of prosecutor and judicial motivations, especially within the trial records kept by judges and justices, is masterful.” —Charles S. Weinblatt, New York Journal of Books Belknap Press 14 photos 288 pp. $29.95 • £23.95 cloth 9780674988149 FORTHCOMING IN PAPER A Specter Haunting Europe The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism Paul Hanebrink ★ A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year “Magisterial…Hanebrink’s book covers this dark history with insight and skill…The end result is a major intervention into our understanding of 20th-century Europe and the lessons we ought to take away from its history.” —James Chappel, The Nation February 2020 Belknap Press 368 pp. $19.95 • £15.95 paper 9780674244764 Cover art: Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix, Study for Liberty Leading the People / Musee des Beaux-Arts, Blois, France / Bridgeman Images FORTHCOMING IN PAPER Pandora’s Box A History of the First World War Jörn Leonhard TRANSLATED BY Patrick Camiller ★ Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr., Prize ★ A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year “[A] monumental history.” —Richard J. Evans, Times Literary Supplement May 2020 Belknap Press 61 photos, 14 maps, 5 graphs, 6 tables 1104 pp. $24.95 • £19.95 paper 9780674244801 2 harvard university press hup.harvard.edu 800-405-1619 (US only) New on Our Shelves Metternich Strategist and Visionary Wolfram Siemann TRANSLATED BY Daniel Steuer “[An] engaging and comprehensive biography…Siemann has greatly advanced our knowledge of and admiration for [Metternich].” —Andrew Roberts, New Criterion “A compelling and humane portrait of one of the most gifted and inter- esting statesmen of modern times. But this is more than a biography— it is a window into the heart of Europe’s nineteenth century.” —Christopher Clark, author of Iron Kingdom Belknap Press 72 photos, 2 illus., 6 tables 928 pp. $39.95 • £31.95 cloth 9780674743922 FORTHCOMING Freedom An Unruly History Annelien de Dijn In a masterful and surprising reappraisal of more than two thousand years of thinking about freedom in the West, Annelien de Dijn argues that we owe our view of freedom not to the liberty lovers of the Age of Revolution but to the enemies of democracy. “Ambitious and bold, this book will have an enormous impact on how we think about the place of freedom in the Western tradition.” —Samuel Moyn, author of Not Enough July 2020 29 photos 400 pp. $35.00 • £28.95 cloth 9780674988330 FORTHCOMING Napoleon and de Gaulle Heroes and History Patrice Gueniffey TRANSLATED BY Steven Rendall Napoleon and de Gaulle compares two exemplars of political and military leadership to make the unfashionable case that individuals, for better and worse, matter in history. Napoleon Bonaparte and Charles de Gaulle were men of genuine talent and achievement, with flaws almost as pronounced as their strengths. As many nations struggle to find their soul in a rapidly changing world, Gueniffey shows us what a difference an extraordinary leader can make. May 2020 Belknap Press 400 pp. $35.00 • £28.95 cloth 9780674988385 NEW IN PAPER De Gaulle Julian Jackson ★ Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography ★ American Library in Paris Book Award ★ A Financial Times Best History Book of the Year “In crafting the finest one-volume life of de Gaulle in English, Julian Jackson has come closer than anyone before him to demystifying this conservative at war with the status quo, for whom national interests were inseparable from personal honor.” —Richard Norton Smith, Wall Street Journal Belknap Press 85 photos, 7 maps 928 pp. $24.95 • United States and its dependencies only paper 9780674241459 800-405-1619 (US only) hup.harvard.edu harvard university press 3 New on Our Shelves FORTHCOMING Island on Fire The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire Tom Zoellner From a New York Times bestselling author, a gripping account of the slave rebellion that led to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire. “Splendid…A highly readable but carefully documented account of the greatest of all British slave rebellions, the miseries that led to it, and the momentous changes it wrought.” —Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold’s Ghost May 2020 11 illus., 1 map 368 pp. $29.95 • £23.95 cloth 9780674984301 Tacky’s Revolt The Story of an Atlantic Slave War Vincent Brown “[A] revealing history…Readers interested in the era will find much of value in this exhaustive portrait of the rebellion’s origins and ramifications.” —Publishers Weekly “Brilliant…groundbreaking…Brown’s profound analysis and revolution- ary vision of the Age of Slave War—from the too-often overlooked Tacky’s Revolt to the better-known Haitian Revolution—gives us an original view of the birth of modern freedom in the New World.” —Cornel West Belknap Press 24 illus., 12 maps 336 pp. $35.00 • £28.95 cloth 9780674737570 The Confounding Island Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament Orlando Patterson “An eye-opening volume…Patterson carefully explores the complexity of the structural machinery behind Jamaica’s dazzling successes and dismal failures, rather than just chalking these up to simple causes.” —Carrie Gibson, New York Times Book Review “Excellent…One thing I like so much about this book is that it tries to answer actual questions you might have about Jamaica.” —Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution Belknap Press 14 illus., 8 tables 432 pp. $35.00 • £28.95 cloth 9780674988057 NEW IN PAPER Not Enough Human Rights in an Unequal World Samuel Moyn “No one has written with more penetrating skepticism about the history of human rights than Samuel Moyn…This book, like the author’s last, is the rare academic study that is sure to provoke a wider discussion about important political and economic questions.” —Adam Kirsch, Wall Street Journal Belknap Press 1 illus. 296 pp. $17.95 • £14.95 paper 9780674241398 4 harvard university press hup.harvard.edu 800-405-1619 (US only) New on Our Shelves The Thirty-Year Genocide Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924 Benny Morris • Dror Ze’evi ★ A Financial Times Best Book of History ★ A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year ★ A World Book of the Year “A landmark contribution…The authors document, in painstaking detail and with constant reference to their key arguments, the centrally planned murder and deportation of Christians throughout Turkey.” —Mardean Isaac, Times Literary Supplement “Offers a subtle diagnosis of why, at particular moments over a span of three decades, Ottoman rulers and their successors unleashed torrents of suffering.” —Bruce Clark, New York Times Book Review 30 photos, 7 maps, 2 tables 672 pp. $35.00 • £28.95 cloth 9780674916456 Ghetto The History of a Word Daniel B. Schwartz ★ A Times Higher Education Recommended Summer Read “[An] authoritative survey of how this most malleable of words was understood in different ways over the centuries… [A] rich and nuanced work.” —Howard Cooper, Jewish Chronicle 20 photos, 2 illus. 288 pp. $35.00 • £28.95 cloth 9780674737532 Blood Libel On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth Magda Teter A landmark history of the antisemitic blood libel myth—how it took root in Europe, spread with the invention of the printing press, and persists today. “An intellectual tour de force. This authoritative study of the blood libel and its ramifications in early modern Europe will become a classic.” —Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia, author of Trent 1475 33 photos, 1 map 560 pp. $39.95 • £31.95 cloth 9780674240933 FORTHCOMING IN PAPER Globalists The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism Quinn Slobodian ★ George Louis Beer Prize ★ Shortlist, Wallace K. Ferguson Prize ★ A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year ★ A Marginal Revolution Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year “Slobodian makes a groundbreaking contribution… Globalists is intellectual history at its best.” —Stephen Wertheim, Foreign Affairs April 2020 3 photos, 2 illus., 2 graphs 400 pp. $19.95 • £15.95 paper 9780674244849 800-405-1619 (US only) hup.harvard.edu harvard university press 5 New on Our Shelves The Tragedy of Empire From Constantine to the Destruction of Roman Italy Michael Kulikowski “A tour de force history of the inner workings of the late Roman Empire. Kulikowski tells a vivid, compelling story of the humans who fought to control the machinery of the empire until the entire system could no longer hold.” —Kyle Harper, author of The Fate of Rome History of the Ancient World Belknap Press 25 color photos, 14 maps 424 pp. $35.00 • North America only cloth 9780674660137 NEW IN PAPER The Triumph of Empire The Roman World from Hadrian to Constantine Michael Kulikowski ★ A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year “A genuinely bracing and innovative history of Rome.” —Times Literary Supplement “This was an era of great change, and Kulikowski is an excellent and insightful guide.” —Adrian Goldsworthy, Wall Street Journal History of the Ancient World 35 color illus., 14 maps 400 pp. $24.95 • North America only paper 9780674241381 The Origin of Empire Rome from the Republic to Hadrian David Potter “A vigorous experience even for readers who are already very familiar with the men, women, scandals, and wars the book considers.