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Foreign Rights: Available Now: HistoryThe Common Adventure of Mankind by John Layton Harvey From Monastery to Hospital by Andrew Crislip The Future of Class in History by Geoff Eley and Keith Nield The Jesuit and the Incas by Sabine Hyland Jews and Gentiles in Early America by William Pencak Justice Imperiled by Douglas G. Morris The Land between the Rivers by Russell M. Lawson Other Germans by Tina M. Campt Publishing The Prince by Jacob Soll States of Violence edited by Fernando Coronil and Julie Skurski Unmaking the West by Philip Tetlock, Ned Lebow, and Geoffrey Parker Young Sidney Hook by Christopher Phelps Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory: Essays from the Sawyer SeminarFrancis X. Blouin, Jr. and William G. Rosenberg Rights: World As sites of documentary preservation rooted in various national and social contexts, artifacts of culture, and places of uncovering, archives provide tangible evidence of memory for individuals, communities, and states, as well as defining memory institutionally within prevailing political systems and cultural norms. By assigning the prerogatives of record keeper to the archivist, whose acquisition policies, finding aids, and various institutionalized predilections mediate between scholarship and information, archives produce knowledge, legitimize political systems, and construct identities. Far from being mere repositories of data, archives actually embody the fragments of culture that endure as signifiers of who we are, and why. The essays in Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory conceive of archives not simply as historical repositories but as a complex of structures, processes, and epistemologies situated at a critical point of the intersection between scholarship, cultural practices, politics, and technologies. Francis X. Blouin, Jr. is Professor of History and Director of the Bentley Historial Library at the University of Michigan. William Rosenberg is an Alfred G. Meyer Collegiate Professor of History, University of Michigan. Fall 2007 The Common Adventure of Mankind: Academic Historians and an Atlantic Identity in the Twentieth CenturyJohn Layton Harvey Rights: World Perhaps no aspect of academic history in Europe and the United States is so honored as its cosmopolitan heritage. Amidst the ruins of European culture after 1918, progressive-minded historians from America and the Continent such as James Shotwell, Henri Pirenne, Lucien Febvre and Walter Goetz sought to fashion a denationalized "Republic of Letters" through new international journals, collaborative encyclopedias and professional exchange organizations. These efforts were closely tied up with such seminal experiments as the Annales movement and the famous Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. In The Common Adventure of Mankind, historian John Layton Harvey rebuts the idea that this internationalization naturally led to greater social and cultural tolerance. Instead, Harvey shows how these international projects were quickly permeated by the ethnically chauvinist and ideologically conservative attitudes of their founders. Throughout the 1930s and '40s, well-known senior historians from Princeton, Harvard, Chicago, Stanford and other top-line schools tightened their ties to the European ideological right and openly cooperated with Nazi scholars. The Common Adventure of Mankind unmasks this betrayal of humane values, and explores its shattering ramifications for the subsequent history of world scholarship. Fall 2005 A Crooked Line: From Cultural History to the History of SocietyGeoff Eley Rights: World* A specialist in the history of modern Germany, Eley is a prolific writer and reviewer, and one of the best-known scholars in his field. A Crooked Line offers an impressive summing-up of his many years of writing and teaching about the meaning of history. Using his own intellectual biography as a narrative device, Eley tracks the evolution of historical understanding in our time from social history through the so-called "cultural turn," and now back again to a broad history of society. A Crooked Line never lapses into particularism or nostalgia. This is a book that understands which of its author's experiences are unique and which are universal, and uses the interplay of the two to draw the reader toward an organic understanding of how historical thinking (particularly the work of European historians) has evolved under the influence of new ideas. Geoff Eley is the Sylvia Thrupp Professor of History and Chair of the German Studies program at the University of Michigan. September 2005 *Spanish rights are not available. From Monastery to Hospital: Christian Monasticism and the Transformation of Health Care in Late AntiquityAndrew Crislip Rights: World In From Monastery to Hospital: Christian Monasticism and the Transformation of Health Care in Late Antiquity, Crislip argues that the nascent Christian monastic movement in Egypt developed an innovative approach to health care. The monastic health care system provided guaranteed impatient and outpatient health care at the hands of professional doctors and trained nurses, and incorporated the full range of available medical treatments in Greek and Egyptian medicine. This type of health care system is without precedent in the ancient world. Crislip's study is the first to recognize and document this integral component of the Christian monastic revolution of the fourth and fifth centuries. Andrew Crislip is Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Hawaii. Spring 2005 The Future of Class in History: What's Left of the Social?Geoff Eley and Keith Nield Rights: World Unifying concepts are essential when studying history. They provide students and scholars with ways to organize their thoughts, research, and writings. However, these concepts are also the focus of myriad conflicts within the field. Social history has experienced more than its share of such conflicts since its inception some forty years ago. In recent times the fields of "the social" and of "culture" have sometimes been presented as mutually exclusive and even hostile. Once again, conceptual innovation in history has been cast as a closure by which the new drives out the old: in this case, cultural history radically displacing social history. The Future of Class in History analyzes the effect of the conflict that followed the "turn to culture" in historical work by examining the use of class and demonstrates how practitioners in multiple fields can collaborate to produce the highest quality scholarship. "Offers new ways of thinking about 'class' and 'society' in a world in which such categories have been radically called into question." "Brilliantly charts social history's past achievement, present dilemma, and future promise in a work distinguished by intellectual openness and generosity." "Eley and Nield seek to rescue the deluded follower of social history from the enormous condescension of the cultural turn. They succeed admirably, making the case for a new hybrid socio-cultural history." Geoff Eley is Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Keith Nield is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Hull. Spring 2007 The Jesuit and the Incas: The Extraordinary Life of Padre Blas Valera, S.J.Sabine Hyland Rights: World The Jesuit and the Incas is a study of the life and work of Blas Valera, a Jesuit priest accused of and imprisoned for the crime of fornication, because of his heretical writings and defense of Inca society. This is the first extended study of the life and writings of Padre Blas Valera, one of our most important sources of information about the Inca empire. It incorporates previously unknown evidence unearthed by the author from Spanish and Peruvian archives. The Jesuit and the Incas: The Extraordinary Life of Padre Blas Valera, S.J. broadens our understanding of the Inca state by examining the thought of one of the empire's most important chroniclers. It also provides new insights into the 16th-century debates over race, religion, and culture, and contributes to our understanding of the development of rights theory. Sabine Hyland is Associate Professor of Anthropology at St. Norbert College. Fall 2004 Jews And Gentiles in Early America: 1654-1800William Pencak Rights: World Jews and Gentiles in Early America: 1654-1820, tells the story of the five Jewish communities, New York, Newport, Charleston, Savannah, and Philadelphia, where most of the small Jewish population lived. How did these communities rise and fall? How did they interact with the larger gentile population? To answer these questions, Pencak wrote five community studies. Although Jews endured less prejudice than in Europe, anti-semitism was still present in the United States. Much of the book discusses its varieties. William Pencak is Professor of History at Pennsylvania State University. Fall 2005 Justice Imperiled: The Anti-Nazi Lawyer Max Hirschberg in Weimar GermanyDouglas G. Morris Rights: World Max Hirschberg, who fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and died in the United States in 1964, was Munich's leading criminal defense lawyer during the years when Hitler was creating his Nazi movement there and was scheming to take power. Hirschberg's career during the Weimar Republic (1919-1933) illuminates both the history of political justice in pre-Nazi Germany and, more generally, the problem of miscarriages of justice in all Western democracies. Throughout the Weimar years, Hirschberg squared off in court against Munich's reactionaries and Nazis—twice facing Hitler himself. As he litigated politically charged cases, he also began fighting to reverse the criminal convictions of innocent defendants and then to study what mistaken verdicts teach about criminal justice as a whole. His cases, which tested the limits of democracy's tolerance and the fragility of law in a society that felt itself under siege, have a special resonance for Americans in the post-September 11 era. Douglas G. Morris is a trial attorney with the Federal Defender Division of the Legal Aid Society, Brooklyn N.Y. Fall 2005 The Land between the Rivers: Thomas Nuttall's Ascent of the Arkansas, 1819Russell M. Lawson Rights: World The Land Between the Rivers recreates the journeys of the English botanist Thomas Nuttall, one of American history's most well-traveled scientists. During the early nineteenth century, Nuttall explored the waters, valleys, plains, and mountains of the Great Lakes, Ohio River, Mississippi River, as well as the Missouri, Arkansas, and Canadian river valleys of the former Louisiana Territory. In this fascinating account of Nuttall's travels through the wilderness of the middle west, author Russell Lawson-using Nuttall's own journal-captures the sense of excitement of the early wanderer. As much a delight for the mind as the senses, The Land between the Rivers details the unremitting weather and rugged geography of uncharted lands within the Louisiana Purchase territory. A sense of discovery pervades the narrative as Nuttall's odyssey builds to its climax in the prairie wilderness of what is now Oklahoma. Sickened by "ague"—in his case, malaria—Nuttall at times was barely able to go on; yet he continued to search for and catalog plants and animals. The Land Between the Rivers expands our knowledge of one of the country's earliest botanists. We also learn a great deal about the early explorers, the inhabitants of the unsettled land, and about the land and culture of the times. Russell M. Lawson is the author of Portsmouth: An Old Town by the Sea and is Assistant Professor of History at Bacone College in Muskogee, Oklahoma. September 2004 Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Memory in the Third ReichTina M. Campt Rights: World It's hard to imagine an issue or image more riveting than Black Germans during the Third Reich. Yet accounts of their lives are virtually nonexistent, despite the fact that they lived through a regime dedicated to racial purity. Tina Campt's Other Germans tells the story of this largely forgotten group of individuals, with important distinctions from other accounts. Most strikingly, Campt centers her arguments on race, rather than anti-Semitism. She also provides oral history as background for her study, interviewing two Black Germans for the book. In the end, the author comes face to face with an inevitable question: Is there a relationship between the history of Black Germans and those of other black communities? The answers to Campt's questions make Other Germans essential reading in the emerging study of what it meant to be black and German in the context of a society that looked at anyone with non-German blood as racially impure at best. Tina Campt is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at Duke University. December 2003 Publishing The Prince: History, Reading, and the Birth of Political CriticismJacob Soll Rights: World* Jacob Soll's work goes behind the scenes of the making of the most influential books in early modern Europe to show how traditionally "absolutist" works were converted into manuals of political resistance. The works of Tacitus and Machiavelli, once reserved for princes intent on secret strategies of political dissimulation, became ripe for plunder as numerous editions of their works made their way into the hands of the potentially critical reading public during the seventeenth century. With new, easy-to-use versions of works such as The Prince, almost any literate person with access to a bookstore could learn much about the ruses of tyranny. Fusing the history of ideas with the history of the book, Soll's work enriches both genres by illustrating how the meaning of a particular book depended on when and in what form it was published. Where Robert Darnton has looked at the subversive influence of once popular but now obscure literature, Soll has chosen to look at the infamous political works still read by college students and historians today. Implicitly critiquing the history of philosophy in which scholars read "classic" texts, Soll shows that these works never achieved a fixed or stable edition. Rather, every new publication altered the political uses and social meaning of these works. In this history, one figure, Abraham-Nicolas Amelot de La Houssaye (1634-1706), stands out, for his edition of The Prince was the most popular version of the late-seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. A diplomatic aid and translator, Amelot made his fortune popularizing the skeptical literature by authors such as Machiavelli, Tacitus, Justus Lipsius, Paolo Sarpi, Barthasar Gracian, and La Rochefoucauld. In translating these works, Amelot also transformed them, altering their form and meaning through his prefaces and commentaries, while marketing them to a general audience. His critical editions were an international success: his translations were translated. When Pierre Bayle, Montesquieu, Voltaire and Gibbon read Machiavelli's The Prince, they read Amelot's "how-to" version. Revising the orthodox schema of the public sphere in which political authority shifted away from the crown with the rise of bourgeois civil society in the eighteenth century, Soll uses the example of Amelot to show that the very sphere of political criticism and the terms of public debate were absolutist creations which were in turn appropriated by critics of the crown. Beyond coffee shops and salons, Soll shows for the first time how the public sphere in fact grew out of the learned and even royal libraries of erudite scholars and the bookshops of subversive, not-so-polite publicists of the Republic of Letters. Jacob Soll is Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University. May 2005 States of ViolenceFernando Coronil and Julie Skurski Rights: World States of Violence is an extraordinary collection of essays that recasts prevailing understandings of the role of violence in the formation of the modern world. By illuminating the links between exceptional ruptures and the routine maintenance of social order, the collection expands and redefines our understanding of political violence. By means of a combination of detailed historical studies and imaginative reflection, this book explores the often unrecognized violent foundations of modern nations. Focusing on the relations between the state and the domestic order, it directs attention to contests over the establishment and representation of meanings, and addresses the impact of state-centered categories and narratives on the organization and collective remembering of violence. The essays cover a wide range of regions, time periods, and processes, including the Middle East, South Asia, Latin America, the United States, and Europe; and spans violent uprisings as well as the quotidian administration of the law. As its title suggests, States of Violence brings together the stable and the transient, the institutional and the experiential, inviting recognition of the multiple intersections of practices of governance and processes of feeling. Fall 2005 Unmaking the West: "What-If?" Scenarios that Rewrite World HistoryPhilip Tetlock, Ned Lebow, and Geoffrey Parker Rights: World The idea of Unmaking the West, counterfactual history, is not new, but this collection has both original features and a distinguished set of contributors that set it apart. The editors are Philip Tetlock, a distinguished psychologist at Berkeley; Ned Lebow, an equally prominent political scientist at Dartmouth; and Geoffrey Parker, the world-famous authority on sixteenth century political and military history of Europe. Their project is concerned with the question of whether the West could have failed to rise and whether or not the Orient or some other civilization could have supplanted it. Their proposed volume does not aim to provide a historical overview of the increasing power of the West; rather, it uses the rise of the West as a vehicle to test the strengths and weaknesses of counterfactual thought experiments in history. In doing so, the volume takes a cognitive science approach to the issue of how our mental processes and models observe causal relations in history. As the editors emphasize in their introduction, there is a well-known bias known as hindsight bias which tends to make us believe that things that actually happened, had to happen (or at least had much higher chances of happening than they actually did). This manuscript's approach is deeply rooted in the best social science and carefully considered; it is not just another wild imagination story of what would have happened if Hitler's car had crashed in 1930 or the South had won the battle of Appomattox. Instead, the editors have constrained its scenarios within reasonable and carefully delimited boundaries, fully explicated in the introductory chapter. October 2006 Young Sidney Hook: Marxist and PragmatistChristopher Phelps Rights: World "A very detailed and fascinating account of Hook's formative years ... [a] first-rate contribution to the history of American leftist intellectual life." "A brilliant, lucid portrait of a scholar, adversarial by temperament, who turned his extraordinary powers of analysis and polemic successively against capitalism, Stalinism, and the New Left." "The best study of Hook's thought... Supercedes all earlier treatments." "A major contribution to our understanding of Hook and the American Marxist tradition... Extremely insightful." "Succeeds in establishing the young Hook as a dedicated revolutionary Marxist." "Fascinating... well researched and packed with information." "Persuasive... Discovers not just a brilliant interpreter of Marx and the Russian Revolution, but a remarkable advocate and practitioner of the Americanization of Marxism." "Phelps's effort to uncover, explore, and analyze Hook's forgotten leftism must be judged an unqualified success." "Penetrating, closely argued, and lucid... An important contribution to the history of American radicalism in the 1930s." Spring 2005 |
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