History 2014 press.princeton.edu CONTENTS 1 general interest 16 politics & society in 24 economic history 5 world history twentieth-century america 26 ancient history 8 jewish history 18 u.s. history 28 medieval & early 10 jews, christians & muslims 20 america in the world modern history from the ancient to the 21 human rights & crimes 30 princeton classics modern world against humanity 30 history of science 11 middle eastern history 22 the public square 31 isaiah berlin 12 european history 23 asian | east asian history 32 index | order form LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Princeton’s History list o ers many treasures in 2014. Clearly, one of the year’s most important books is the highly anticipated English edition of Jürgen Osterhammel’s magni cent The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century. The Times Literary Supplement, which reviewed the German edition, hailed it as “a work of tremendous conceptual precision, breadth and insight, a masterpiece that sets a new benchmark for debates on the history of world society.” For scholars interested in East European history, Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern’s The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe o ers a surprising new take on the Jewish market towns that were home to two-thirds of East Europe’s Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Jacqueline Bhabha’s new book, Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age, is the rst to integrate all aspects of child migration in a global perspective; it is at the same time an activist’s book, arguing for a compelling new international ethics of children’s human rights. I am proud to o er an exceptionally strong crop of books in medieval and Byzantine history, with S. Frederick Starr’s Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane; Robert Bartlett’s major history of the saints, Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?: Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation; Averil Cameron’s Byzantine Matters; and Sverre Bagge’s Cross and Scepter: The Rise of the Scandinavian Kingdoms from the Vikings to the Reformation. Finally, please take a look at Frederick Cooper’s important new book, Citizenship between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945–1960, which will appeal to scholars engaged in the study of empire, colonialism, citizenship, and nationhood. I would like to thank all of you, authors and readers, for another terri c year! Brigitta van Rheinberg Editor in Chief Executive Editor, History Cover Illustration: Harbor at Shanghai, China, 1875 © Getty Images. Forthcoming The Transformation of the World A Global History of the Nineteenth Century Jürgen Osterhammel Translated by Patrick Camiller “Arguably the most important book by a German historian to be published in the past quarter century. It is a truly magisterial account of the global history of the nineteenth century, powerfully argued and beautifully rendered.” —Sven Beckert, author of The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896 A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World o ers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. “The Braudel of the nine- Jürgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel teenth century.” of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric —Jonathan Sperber, and chronological accounts of the era, presenting instead a truly global author of Karl Marx: A Nine- history of breathtaking scope and towering erudition. He examines the teenth-Century Life powerful and complex forces that drove global change during the “long “A work of tremendous con- nineteenth century,” taking readers from New York to New Delhi, from the ceptual precision, breadth Latin American revolutions to the Taiping Rebellion, from the perils and and insight, a masterpiece promise of Europe’s transatlantic labor markets to the hardships endured by that sets a new benchmark nomadic, tribal peoples across the planet. Osterhammel describes a world for debates on the history of increasingly networked by the telegraph, the steamship, and the railways. world society.” He explores the changing relationship between human beings and nature, —Benjamin Ziemann, Times looks at the importance of cities, explains the role slavery and its abolition Literary Supplement played in the emergence of new nations, challenges the widely held belief that the nineteenth century witnessed the triumph of the nation-state, and “A milestone of German much more. historical writing, one of the This is the highly anticipated English edition of the spectacularly successful most important historical and critically acclaimed German book, which is also being translated into books of the last several Chinese, Polish, Russian, and French. Indis- decades. [A] mosaic-like pensable for any historian, The Transformation portrait of an epoch.” of the World sheds important new light on this —Jürgen Kocka, Die Zeit momentous epoch, showing how the nineteenth century paved the way for the global catastro- phes of the twentieth century, yet how it also gave rise to paci sm, liberalism, the trade union, and a host of other crucial developments. America in the World May 2014. 1192 pages. 6 tables. Cl: 978-0-691-14745-1 $39.95 | £27.95 © University of Konstanz Visit http://press.princeton.edu/releases/m10179.html for an interview with Jürgen Osterhammel. press.princeton.edu general interest • 1 New With an afterword by Emma Rothschild & Amartya Sen The Essential Hirschman Albert O. Hirschman Edited and with an introduction by Jeremy Adelman “A survivor of Nazi Germany, Albert Hirschman was an essential thinker—one of the very few best of the twentieth century. Wise, delightful, and full of life, he was incapable of writing a dull page. He knew what made people tick, and he knew what made societies work. This book New glistens with insights, surprises, and paradoxes. One of Financial Times Alphachat’s Econ Books of the Year for 2013 Each chapter is a gem.” Worldly Philosopher —Cass R. Sunstein, coauthor of Nudge: Improving The Odyssey of Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness Albert O. Hirschman The Essential Hirschman brings together some of the nest essays in the Jeremy Adelman social sciences, written by one of the twentieth century’s most in uential and provocative thinkers. Albert O. Hirschman was a master essayist, one “[A] biography worthy of the who possessed the rare ability to blend the precision of economics with man. Adelman brilliantly and the elegance of literary imagination. The essays gathered here span an beautifully brings Hirschman to astonishing range of topics and perspectives, including industrialization life, giving us an unforgettable in Latin America, imagining reform as more than repair, the relationship portrait of one of the twentieth between imagination and leadership, routine thinking and the market- century’s most extraordinary place, and the ways our arguments a ect democratic life. Throughout, intellectuals. [M]agni cent.” we nd the humor, unforgettable metaphors, brilliant analysis, and —Malcolm Gladwell, New Yorker elegance of style that give Hirschman such a singular voice. 2013. 408 pages. 2 tables. Cl: 978-0-691-15990-4 $29.95 | £19.95 Worldly Philosopher chronicles the times and writings of Albert O. Hirschman, one of the twentieth New Paperback century’s most original and With a foreword by Amartya Sen and a new afterword by Jeremy Adelman provocative thinkers. In this grip- The Passions and the Interests ping biography, Jeremy Adelman tells the story of a man shaped Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph by modern horrors and hopes, a Albert O. Hirschman worldly intellectual who fought for “Hirschman’s volume stands as a principal and wrote in defense of the values contribution to the growing literature that is of tolerance and change. beginning to reshape our understanding of the This is the rst major account of legitimating beliefs undergirding the rise of the Hirschman’s remarkable life, and modern market economy.” a tale of the twentieth century as —Robert Wuthnow, American Journal of Sociology seen through the story of an astute Albert Hirschman here reconstructs the intellec- and passionate observer. Adelman’s tual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth riveting narrative traces how centuries to show how the pursuit of material Hirschman’s personal experiences interests—so long condemned as the deadly shaped his unique intellectual sin of avarice—was assigned the role of containing the unruly and de- perspective, and how his enduring structive passions of man. Hirschman o ers a novel interpretation of the legacy is one of hope, open-mind- rise of capitalism, one that emphasizes the continuities between old and edness, and practical idealism. new, in contrast to the notion of a sharp break that is common to both 2013. 760 pages. 39 halftones. Marxian and Weberian thinking. Cl: 978-0-691-15567-8 $39.95 | £27.95 Princeton Classics 2013. 192 pages. 1 halftone. Pa: 978-0-691-16025-2 $19.95 | £13.95 2 • general interest Forthcoming The Golden Age Shtetl A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern “An inspiring and rich study. In this highly in- novative book, Petrovsky-Shtern demonstrates how the shtetl in early nineteenth-century Russia constituted a unique context for the unfolding of a proud, resilient, and sustainable Jewish community.” —François Guesnet, University College London New The shtetl was home to two-thirds of East The Con dence Trap A History of Democracy in Crisis Europe’s Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth from World War I to the Present centuries, yet it has long been one of the most David Runciman neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience. This book provides the rst grassroots social, economic, and cultural history of “The Con dence Trap’s engrossing the shtetl.