Princeton University Press Spring 2019 Catalog

History 2019 press.princeton.edu CONTENTS General Interest 1 World History 8 U.S. History 12 European History 17 Middle Eastern History 19 Asian History 20 Economic History 21 Medieval & Early Modern History 24 History of Science 26 New in Paperback 28 Index | Order Form 33 Catalog cover: colored reproduction of 1768 engraving by Paul Revere, Boston 1768 GENERAL INTEREST The City-State of Boston A groundbreaking history of early America that shows how Boston built and sustained an independent city-state in New England before being folded into the United States In the vaunted annals of America’s founding, Boston has long been held up as a “city upon a hill” and the “cradle of liberty” for an independent United States. Wresting this iconic urban center from these mislead- ing clichés, e City-State of Boston highlights Boston’s overlooked past and o ers a pathbreaking new history of early America. Mark Peterson shows how this self-governing Atlantic trading center began as a refuge from Britain’s Stuart monarchs and how—through its bargain with slavery and rati cation of the Con- stitution—it would lose integrity and autonomy as it became incorporated into the greater United States. Peterson explores Boston’s origins in sixteenth-century utopian ideals, its founding and expansion into the hinterland of New England, and the growth of its distinctive political economy, with ties to the West “Mark Peterson’s story of the rise and fall of the Indies and southern Europe. By the 1700s, Boston was city-state of Boston over nearly three centuries at full strength, with wide Atlantic trading circuits and is a remarkable achievement. He has told the cultural ties, both within and beyond Britain’s empire. story in such a rich and extraordinary way that A er the cataclysmic Revolutionary War, “Bostoners” our understanding of Boston’s history will aimed to negotiate a relationship with the American never again be the same.” confederation, but through the next century, the new —Gordon S. Wood, Pulitzer Prize–winning United States unraveled Boston’s regional reign. e historian and author of Friends Divided: John fateful decision to ratify the Constitution undercut its Adams and omas Je erson power, as Southern planters and slave owners dominat- ed national politics and corroded the city-state’s vision of a common good for all. Peeling away the layers of myth surrounding a revered city, e City-State of Boston o ers a startlingly fresh understanding of America’s history. MARK PETERSON is professor of history at Yale Univer- sity. He is the author of e Price of Redemption: e Spiritual Economy of Puritan New England. April 2019. 752 pages. 8 color + 52 b/w illus. 20 maps. Hardback 9780691179995 $39.95 | £30.00 E-book 9780691185484 1 GENERAL INTEREST “A gem of a book. [C]hallenges a ra of assumptions and brims with insight and provocation. Rodgers has always written intellectual history at its very best: learned, searching, and vital.” —Jill Lepore, author of ese Truths: A History of the United States As a City on a Hill “For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill,” John Winthrop warned at New England’s founding in 1630. More than three centuries later, Ronald Reagan remade the passage into a timeless celebration of American promise. How were these words reinvented as a central statement of American identity and exceptionalism? Daniel Rodgers brings to life the ideas Winthrop’s text carried in its own time and the sharply di erent yearnings that have been attributed to it since. DANIEL T. RODGERS is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. His 2018. 368 pages. books include Age of Fracture, winner of the Bancro Hardback 9780691181592 $29.95 | £24.00 Prize; Atlantic Crossings; Contested Truths; and e E-book 9780691184371 Work Ethic in Industrial America. “ e Lost History of Liberalism is the most acute and careful account on the theme ever composed. Helena Rosenblatt’s accomplishment is thrilling, with self-evident implications for our own time of ideological strife.” —Samuel Moyn, Yale University The Lost History of Liberalism e Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a political creed that has become a rallying cry—and a term of derision—in today’s increasingly divided public square. Taking readers from ancient Rome to today, Helena Rosenblatt traces the evolution of the words “liberal” and “liberalism,” revealing the heated debates that have taken place over their meaning. HELENA ROSENBLATT is professor of history at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her many books include Liberal Values: Benjamin Constant and the Politics of Religion and inking with . 2018. 368 pages. 2 b/w illus. Rousseau: From Machiavelli to Schmitt Hardback 9780691170701 $35.00 | £27.00 E-book 9780691184135 2 GENERAL INTEREST “Sweeping, original, and erudite. Jacob’s lucidly written book exhibits a command of the source materials that few scholars can ever hope to aspire to, let alone attain.” —Darrin M. McMahon, author of Happiness: A History The Secular Enlightenment is landmark book is a panoramic account of the radical ways that ordinary life began to change in the age of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau. Familiar Enlightenment gures share places with voices that have remained largely unheard, from freethinkers and freemasons to French materialists, anticlerical Catho- lics, pantheists, pornographers, readers, and travelers. Margaret C. Jacob demonstrates how secular values and pursuits took hold of eighteenth-century Europe, spilled into the American colonies, and le their lasting imprint on the Western world. MARGARET C. JACOB is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her many books include e Radical Enlightenment February 2019. 352 pages. 13 b/w illus. and e First Knowledge Economy: Human Capital Hardback 9780691161327 $29.95 | £24.00 E-book 9780691189123 and the European Economy, 1750–1850. “Specht’s wonderful and impressive research covers an enormous territory. Red Meat Republic will reshape historians’ approach to this important topic.” —John Mack Faragher, author of Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles Red Meat Republic By the late nineteenth century, Americans rich and poor had come to expect high-quality fresh beef with almost every meal. Beef production in the United States had gone from small-scale, localized operations to a highly centralized industry spanning the country, with cattle bred on ranches in the rural West, slaugh- tered in Chicago, and consumed in the nation’s rapidly growing cities. Red Meat Republic tells the remarkable story of the violent con ict over who would reap the bene ts of this new industry and who would bear its heavy costs. JOSHUA SPECHT teaches history at Monash University in Australia. He divides his time between Melbourne and South Bend, Indiana. Twitter @joshspecht May 2019. 352 pages. 12 b/w illus. 2 maps. Hardback 9780691182315 $27.95 | £22.00 E-book 9780691185781 Audiobook 9780691193496 Histories of Economic Life 3 GENERAL INTEREST “Fauvelle is a wonderful storyteller—his sophisticated narrative is intriguing, entertaining, and informative. No other book presents medieval Africa in this way.” —Gérard Chouin, College of William & Mary The Golden Rhinoceros From the birth of Islam in the seventh century to the voyages of European exploration in the eenth, Africa was at the center of a vibrant exchange of goods and ideas. Places like Ghana, Nubia, and Zimbabwe became the crossroads of civilizations, and African royals, thinkers, and artists played celebrated roles in the globalized world of the Middle Ages. e Golden Rhinoceros nally recognizes Africa’s important role in the Middle Ages, bringing this unsung era to life and providing a window into the historian’s cra . FRANÇOIS-XAVIER FAUVELLE is senior fellow at the 2018. 280 pages. 7 color + 36 b/w illus. 2 maps. National Center for Scienti c Research (CNRS) Hardback 9780691181264 $29.95 | £24.00 in Toulouse, France, and one of the world’s leading E-book 9780691183947 historians of ancient Africa. e author and editor of numerous books, he has conducted archaeological digs in South Africa, Ethiopia, and Morocco. “[Anziska’s] combination of original research and personal fearlessness has produced one of the most compelling works of political and diplomatic history I have ever read. [A] major contribution to the history of this con ict.”—Charles Kaiser, e Guardian Preventing Palestine How and why Palestinian statelessness persists are the central questions of Seth Anziska’s groundbreaking book, which explores the complex legacy of the peace agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter. Combining astute political analysis, extensive original research, and interviews with diplomats, military veterans, and communal leaders, Preventing Palestine o ers a bold new interpretation of a highly charged struggle for self-determination. SETH ANZISKA is the Mohamed S. Farsi-Polonsky Lecturer in Jewish-Muslim Relations at University College London and a visiting fellow at the U.S./ Middle East Project. His writing has appeared in the , , and . 2018. 464 pages. 9 b/w illus. New York Times Foreign Policy Haaretz Hardback 9780691177397 $35.00 | £27.00 E-book 9780691183985 4 GENERAL INTEREST “A rich and innovative contribution to temporal studies and political history.” —François Hartog, author of Regimes of Historicity: Presentism and Experiences of Time Time and Power is groundbreaking book presents new perspectives on how the exercise of power is shaped by di erent notions of time. Acclaimed historian Christopher Clark draws on four key gures from German history—Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg-Prussia, Frederick the Great, Otto von Bismarck, and Adolf Hitler—to look at history through a temporal lens and ask how historical actors and their regimes embody unique conceptions of time.

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