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History 2019 New on Our Shelves Harvard University Press History 2019 New on Our Shelves A Specter Haunting Europe The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism Paul Hanebrink “As Paul Hanebrink demonstrates in this masterly account, the myth of Judaeo-Bolshevism rose on a tide of hysteria whipped up by the chaos in central Europe that marked the end of the Great War.” —Geoffrey Alderman, Times Higher Education “A timely reminder of the intellectual tradition deployed by Republican politicians in the U.S. when they join the loose coalition of conspiracy theorists across the Atlantic gleefully demonizing George Soros…A century after the end of the first world war, we have, it seems, learned very little.” —Mark Mazower, Financial Times Belknap Press 2018 368 pp. $29.95 • £21.95 cloth 9780674047686 De Gaulle Julian Jackson ★ American Library in Paris Book Award ★ Selected as a Best Book of the Year by Financial Times, Sunday Times, Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman, Spectator, and Kirkus Reviews “The finest one-volume life of de Gaulle in English.” —Wall Street Journal “A gripping and insightful account of the man who was at the heart of all the main events of French (and therefore European) history in the twentieth century.” —Tim Crane, Times Literary Supplement Belknap Press 2018 928 pp. $39.95 • £28.95 cloth 9780674987210 The Law of Blood Thinking and Acting as a Nazi Johann Chapoutot TRANSLATED BY Miranda Richmond Mouillot ★ A Financial Times Best Book of the Year “A useful addition to the literature on Nazi ideology…Readers will find much here to further their understanding of what Nazis thought and why they behaved the way they did.” —Dan Stone, Times Higher Education Belknap Press 2018 1 table 512 pp. $35.00 • £25.95 cloth 9780674660434 Pandora’s Box A History of the First World War Jörn Leonhard TRANSLATED BY Patrick Camiller ★ A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year “[A] monumental history…Pandora’s Box is a major contribution to the historiography of the war, the best large-scale synthesis in any language of what we currently know and understand about this multidimensional, cataclysmic conflict.” —Richard J. Evans, Times Literary Supplement Belknap Press 2018 61 halftones, 14 maps, 5 graphs, 6 tables 1104 pp. $39.95 • £28.95 cloth 9780674545113 2 harvard university press hup.harvard.edu 800-405-1619 (US only) 800-405-1619 (US only) hup.harvard.edu harvard university press 3 New on Our Shelves The Great Cauldron A History of Southeastern Europe Marie-Janine Calic TRANSLATED BY Elizabeth Janik A sweeping history of southeastern Europe from antiquity to the present that reveals it to be a vibrant crossroads of trade, ideas, and religions. Marie-Janine Calic’s ambitious reappraisal expands and deepens our understanding of the ever-changing mixture of peoples, faiths, and civilizations in this much-neglected nexus of empire. Available in June 2019 41 photos, 7 maps 660 pp. $39.95 • £28.95 cloth 9780674983922 Globalists The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism Quinn Slobodian ★ A Marginal Revolution Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year ★ A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year ★ A Guardian Best Summer Book Selection “Decisively establishes [neoliberalism] as a coherent project, tracing it back to the political and intellectual synergies of the 1920s.” —Pankaj Mishra, The Guardian 2018 3 halftones, 2 line illus., 2 graphs 400 pp. $35.00 • £25.95 cloth 9780674979529 Revolutionary Constitutions Charismatic Leadership and the Rule of Law Bruce Ackerman Populism is a threat to the democratic world, fuel for demagogues and reactionary crowds—or so its critics would have us believe. But in his award-winning trilogy We the People, Bruce Ackerman showed that Americans have repeatedly rejected this view. Now he draws on a quarter century of scholarship in this essential and surprising inquiry into the origins, successes, and threats to revolutionary constitutionalism around the world. Available in May 2019 Belknap Press 1 table 432 pp. $35.00 • £25.95 cloth 9780674970687 COVER ART: Jacopo Ripanda, Rome’s triumph over Sicily after Battle of Mylae, 260 BC, ca 1510, fresco, Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome, / Palazzo dei Conservatori, Musei Capitolini, Rome / De Agostini Picture Library / G. Dagli Orti / Bridgeman Images NEW IN PAPERBACK The Habsburg Empire A New History Pieter M. Judson ★ A EuropeNow Editor’s Pick ★ A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year “A welcome corrective.” —Wall Street Journal “Habsburg history is not the same after this book.” —London Review of Books Belknap Press 2018; 2016 40 halftones, 7 maps 592 pp. $21.95 • £17.95 paper 9780674986763 800-405-1619 (US only) hup.harvard.edu harvard university press 3 New on Our Shelves The Age of Addiction How Bad Habits Became Big Business David T. Courtwright The Age of Addiction is a provocative, singularly authoritative history of how sophisticated global businesses have targeted the human brain’s reward centers, driving us to addictions ranging from oxycodone to Big Macs to Assassin’s Creed to Snapchat—with alarming social consequences. David Courtwright chronicles the triumph of “limbic capitalism,” the growing network of competitive businesses targeting the brain pathways responsible for feeling, motivation, and long-term memory. Available in May Belknap Press 2019 24 photos 336 pp. $27.95 • £20.00 cloth 9780674737372 NEW IN PAPERBACK The People vs. Democracy Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It Yascha Mounk ★ A Financial Times Best Politics Book of the Year ★ A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice “This splendid book is an invaluable contribution to the debate about what ails democracy, and what can be done about it.” —Michael J. Sandel, author of Justice 16 graphs 400 pp. Available now 2018 $29.95 • £21.95 cloth 9780674976825 Available in June 2019 $17.95 • £12.95 paper 9780674237681 NEW IN PAPERBACK The Age of Responsibility Luck, Choice, and the Welfare State Yascha Mounk ★ A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice “[A] smart and engaging book…Mounk contends [that] too many advocates unwittingly accept the punitive framework of account- ability and, following its logic, end up patronizing those they want to help.” —New York Times Book Review 1 illus., 3 tables 288 pp. Available now 2017 $29.95 • £21.95 cloth 9780674545465 Available in June 2019 $14.95 • £10.95 paper 9780674237674 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.” —Adam Kirsch, Wall Street Journal “Why do the grimmest obscenities of economic inequality barely register on the human rights agenda? What is the historical explanation for this? Moyn’s book offers fresh and nuanced insight into these questions.” —Times Literary Supplement Belknap Press 2018 1 graph 296 pp. $29.95 • £21.95 cloth 9780674737563 4 harvard university press hup.harvard.edu 800-405-1619 (US only) 800-405-1619 (US only) hup.harvard.edu harvard university press 5 New on Our Shelves Bring the War Home The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America Kathleen Belew ★ A Guardian Best Book of the Year ★ A PopMatters Best Book of the Year ★ A Times Literary Supplement “Summer Books” Selection ★ Honorable Mention, Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize “[A] gripping study of white power.” —Nicole Hemmer, New York Times 11 halftones 352 pp. Available now 2018 $29.95 • £21.95 cloth 9780674286078 Available in June 2019 $16.95 • £12.95 paper 9780674237698 Why They Marched Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote Susan Ware Why They Marched is the inspiring story of the dedicated women—and occasionally men—who carried the banner in communities across the nation, out of the spotlight, protesting, petitioning, and demonstrating for the right to become full citizens. Ware’s moving personal narratives provide a surprisingly comprehensive account of one of the most significant and wide-ranging moments of political mobilization in all of American history. Available in May Belknap Press 2019 31 photos 320 pp. $26.95 • £19.95 cloth 9780674986688 The Embattled Vote in America From the Founding to the Present Allan J. Lichtman ★ A Colorlines “Race-Focused Books We’re Reading This Fall” Selection “[An] important book…[Lichtman] uses history to contextualize the fix we’re in today…Growing outrage, he thinks, could ignite demands for change. With luck, this fine history might just help to fan the flame.” —James A. Morone, New York Times Book Review 2018 336 pp. $27.95 • £20.95 cloth 9780674972360 NEW IN PAPERBACK Democracy A Case Study David A. Moss ★ A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year “Engagingly written, well researched, rich in content and context…Moss believes that fierce political conflicts can be constructive if they are mediated by shared ideals.” —Glenn C. Altschuler, Huffington Post Belknap Press 2019; 2017 1 illus., 19 tables 784 pp. $19.95 • £14.95 paper 9780674237704 800-405-1619 (US only) hup.harvard.edu harvard university press 5 New on Our Shelves No Property in Man Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding Sean Wilentz ★ A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice “What does Wilentz know that others have gotten so terribly wrong about the founding connection between slavery and racism? In his revealing and passionately argued book, he insists that because the framers did not sanction slavery as a matter of principle, the antislavery legacy of the Constitution has been ‘slighted’ and ‘misconstrued’ for over 200 years.” —New York Times The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures 2018 368 pp. $26.95 • £19.95 cloth 9780674972223 The Second Creation Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era Jonathan Gienapp ★ A Spectator Book of the Year ★ Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize “The greatest innovation of the American Revolution was the idea of a written constitution as supreme fundamental law.
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