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The ABCs of RBCs
George T MCCANDLESS
Harvard University Press, 2008
Library of Congress HB141.M395 2008 | Dewey Decimal 339.015195

Abducted
Susan A. CLANCY
Harvard University Press, 2005
Library of Congress BF2050.C56 2005 | Dewey Decimal 001.942

The Abolitionist Imagination
Andrew Delbanco
Harvard University Press, 2012
Library of Congress E449.D45 2012 | Dewey Decimal 973.7114

Abolitionists have been painted in extremes—vilified as reckless zealots who provoked the bloodletting of the Civil War, or praised as daring reformers who hastened the end of slavery. Delbanco sees them as the embodiment of a driving force in American history: the recurrent impulse of an adamant minority to rid the world of outrageous evil.

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Abolitionists Abroad
Lamin O. SANNEH
Harvard University Press, 1999
Library of Congress DT476.S26 1999 | Dewey Decimal 966

About Abortion: Terminating Pregnancy in Twenty-First Century America
Carol Sanger
Harvard University Press, 2017
Library of Congress HQ767.15.S26 2017 | Dewey Decimal 179.76

New medical technologies, women’s willingness to talk online and off, and tighter judicial reins on state legislatures are shaking up the practice of abortion. As talk becomes more transparent, Carol Sanger writes, women’s decisions about whether to become mothers will be treated more like those of other adults making significant personal choices.

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About Faces
Sharrona Pearl
Harvard University Press, 2010
Library of Congress BF851.P35 2010 | Dewey Decimal 138.094109034

The Academy of Fisticuffs: Political Economy and Commercial Society in Enlightenment Italy
Sophus A. Reinert
Harvard University Press, 2018
Library of Congress B802.R434 2018 | Dewey Decimal 945.07

The Italian Enlightenment, no less than the Scottish, was central to the emergence of political economy and creation of market societies. Sophus Reinert turns to Milan in the late 1700s to recover early socialists’ preoccupations with the often lethal tension among states, markets, and human welfare, and the policies these ideas informed.

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The Accidental City
Lawrence N. Powell
Harvard University Press, 2012
Library of Congress F379.N557P68 2012 | Dewey Decimal 976.335

America’s most beguiling metropolis started out as a snake-infested, hurricane-battered swamp. Through intense imperial rivalries and ambitious settlers who risked their lives to succeed in colonial America, the site became a crossroads for the Atlantic world. Powell gives us the full sweep of the city’s history from its founding through statehood.

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The Accidental Mind
David J. Linden
Harvard University Press, 2007
Library of Congress QP376.L577 2007

Linden sets the record straight about the construction of the human brain; rather than the “beautifully-engineered optimized device, the absolute pinnacle of design” portrayed in many dumbed-down text books, pop-science tomes, and education televisions programs, Linden’s organ is a complicated assembly of cobbled-together functionality that created the mind as a by-product of ad-hoc solutions to questions of survival. His guided tour of the glorious amalgam of “crummy parts” includes pit-stops in the histories and fundamentals of neurology, neural-psychology, physiology, molecular and cellular biology, and genetics.

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The Accidental Republic
John Fabian Witt
Harvard University Press, 2004
Library of Congress KF3615.W58 2004 | Dewey Decimal 344.73021

In the five decades after the Civil War, the United States witnessed a profusion of legal institutions designed to cope with the nation's exceptionally acute industrial accident crisis. Jurists elaborated the common law of torts. Workingmen's organizations founded a widespread system of cooperative insurance. Leading employers instituted welfare-capitalist accident relief funds. And social reformers advocated compulsory insurance such as workmen's compensation.

John Fabian Witt argues that experiments in accident law at the turn of the twentieth century arose out of competing views of the loose network of ideas and institutions that historians call the ideology of free labor. These experiments a century ago shaped twentieth- and twenty-first-century American accident law; they laid the foundations of the American administrative state; and they occasioned a still hotly contested legal transformation from the principles of free labor to the categories of insurance and risk. In this eclectic moment at the beginnings of the modern state, Witt describes American accident law as a contingent set of institutions that might plausibly have developed along a number of historical paths. In turn, he suggests, the making of American accident law is the story of the equally contingent remaking of our accidental republic.

Table of Contents:

Introduction

1. Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Crisis of Free Labor
2. The Dilemmas of Classical Tort Law
3. The Cooperative Insurance Movement
4. From Markets to Managers
5. Widows, Actuaries, and the Logics of Social Insurance
6. The Passion of William Werner
7. The Accidental Republic

Conclusion

Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

John Witt paints his portrait of industrializing America with the subtlety of a master and on an immense canvas. His magisterial history is much more than an account of the rise of workers compensation, still one of our greatest social reforms. Witt vividly recreates the social context of the late 19th century industrial world - workers' appalling injury and death rates, their mutual help and insurance associations, mass immigration, the rise of Taylorist management, the struggles to give new meaning to the free labor ideal, the encounter between European social engineering and American anti-statism and individualism, and the politics and economics of labor relations in the Progressive era. Out of these materials, Witt shows, the law helped fashion a new social order. His analysis has great contemporary significance, revealing both the alluring possibilities and the enduring limits of legal reform in America. It is destined to become a classic of social and legal history.
--Peter H. Schuck, author of Diversity in America: Keeping Government at a Safe Distance

John Witt shows us the power of perceptive legal history at work. Within the tangle of compensation for industrial accidents, he discovers not only a legal struggle whose outcome set the pattern for many 20th century interventions of government in economic life, but also a momentous confrontation between contract and collective responsibility. Anyone who finds American history absorbing will gain pleasure and insight from this book.
--Viviana Zelizer, Princeton University, author of The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies

In 1940 Willard Hurst and Lloyd Garrison inaugurated modern socio-legal studies in the United States with their history of workers' injuries and legal process in Wisconsin. Two generations later, John Fabian Witt's The Accidental Republic marks the full maturation of that field of inquiry. Deftly integrating a legal analysis of tort doctrine, a history of industrial accidents, and a fresh political-economic understanding of statecraft, Witt demonstrates the significance of turn-of-the-century struggles over work, injury, risk, reparation, and regulation in the making of our modern world. Sophisticated, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary, The Accidental Republic is legal history as Hurst and Garrison imagined it could be.
--William Novak, The University of Chicago, author of The People's Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America

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Accidental State
Hsiao-ting Lin
Harvard University Press, 2016
Library of Congress DS799.816.L55 2016 | Dewey Decimal 951.24905

Defeated by Mao Zedong, Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists fled to Taiwan to establish a rival state, thereby creating the Two Chinas dilemma that vexes international diplomacy to this day. Hsiao-ting Lin challenges this conventional narrative, showing the many ways the ad hoc creation of this not fully sovereign state was accidental and serendipitous.

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Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management
Caitlin Rosenthal
Harvard University Press, 2018
Library of Congress HT905.R67 2018 | Dewey Decimal 331.11734097309

Caitlin Rosenthal explores quantitative management practices on West Indian and Southern plantations, showing how planter-capitalists built sophisticated organizations and used complex accounting tools. By demonstrating that business innovation can be a byproduct of bondage Rosenthal further erodes the false boundary between capitalism and slavery.

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Accounting for Tastes
Gary S. Becker
Harvard University Press, 1996
Library of Congress HF5415.32.B43 1996 | Dewey Decimal 658.8343

Action, Contemplation, and Happiness
C. D. C. Reeve
Harvard University Press, 2012
Library of Congress B430.R45 2012 | Dewey Decimal 171.3

This accessible and innovative essay on Aristotle, based on fresh translations of a wide selection of his writings, challenges received interpretations of his accounts of practical wisdom, action, and contemplation and of their places in the happiest human life.

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The Activity of Being
Aryeh Kosman
Harvard University Press, 2013
Library of Congress B491.O5K67 2013 | Dewey Decimal 111.092

Understanding “what something is” has long occupied philosophers, and no Western thinker has had more influence on the nature of being than Aristotle. Focusing on a reinterpretation of the concept of energeia as “activity,” Aryeh Kosman reexamines Aristotle’s ontology and some of our most basic assumptions about the great philosopher’s thought.

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Actual Minds, Possible Worlds
Jerome S. BRUNER
Harvard University Press, 1986
Library of Congress BF38.B775 1986 | Dewey Decimal 153.3

Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment
Iain McDaniel
Harvard University Press, 2013
Library of Congress JC83.M35 2013 | Dewey Decimal 321.86

Unlike his contemporaries, who saw Europe’s prosperity as confirmation of a utopian future, the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher Adam Ferguson saw a reminder of Rome’s lesson that egalitarian democracy could become a self-undermining path to dictatorship. This is a major reassessment of a critic overshadowed today by David Hume and Adam Smith.

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Adam’s Fallacy
Duncan K. Foley
Harvard University Press, 2006

This book could be called "The Intelligent Person's Guide to Economics." The title expresses Duncan Foley's belief that economics at its most abstract and interesting level is a speculative philosophical discourse, not a deductive or inductive science. Adam's fallacy is the attempt to separate the economic sphere of life, in which the pursuit of self-interest is led by the invisible hand of the market to a socially beneficial outcome, from the rest of social life, in which the pursuit of self-interest is morally problematic and has to be weighed against other ends.

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Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 1 and 2
L. H. Butterfield
Harvard University Press, 1963
Library of Congress E322.1.A27 | Dewey Decimal 929.2

Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 11
Margaret A. Hogan
Harvard University Press, 1963
Library of Congress E322.1.A27 | Dewey Decimal 929.2

Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 12
Adams Family
Harvard University Press, 2015
Library of Congress E322.1.A27 | Dewey Decimal 929.2

Volume 12 opens with John Adams’s inauguration as president and closes just after details of the XYZ affair become public in America. Through private correspondence, and with the candor and perception expected from the Adamses, family members reveal their concerns for the well-being of the nation and the sustaining force of domestic life.

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Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 5 and 6
L. H ADAMS
Harvard University Press, 1963
Library of Congress E322.1.A27 | Dewey Decimal 929.2

Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 7
Margaret A. Adams Family
Harvard University Press, 1963
Library of Congress E322.1.A27 | Dewey Decimal 929.2

Adaptation to Life
George E. Vaillant
Harvard University Press, 1977
Library of Congress BF335.V35 1995 | Dewey Decimal 155.6

Between 1939 and 1942, one of America's leading universities recruited 268 of its healthiest and most promising undergraduates to participate in a revolutionary new study of the human life cycle. George Vaillant, director of this study, took the measure of the Grant Study men. The result was the compelling, provocative classic, Adaptation to Life, which poses fundamental questions about the individual differences in confronting life's stresses.

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Adaptive Oncogenesis: A New Understanding of How Cancer Evolves inside Us
James DeGregori DeGregori
Harvard University Press, 2018
Library of Congress RC268.5.D437 2018 | Dewey Decimal 616.891425

Popular understanding holds that genetic changes create cancer. James DeGregori uses evolutionary principles to propose a new way of thinking about cancer’s occurrence. Cancer is as much a disease of evolution as it is of mutation, one in which mutated cells outcompete healthy cells in the ecosystem of the body’s tissues. His theory ties cancer’s progression, or lack thereof, to evolved strategies to maximize reproductive success. Through natural selection, humans evolved genetic programs to maintain bodily health for as long as necessary to increase the odds of passing on our genes—but not much longer. These mechanisms engender a tissue environment that favors normal stem cells over precancerous ones. Healthy tissues thwart cancer cells’ ability to outcompete their precancerous rivals. But as our tissues age or accumulate damage from exposures such as smoking, normal stem cells find themselves less optimized to their ecosystem. Cancer-causing mutations can now help cells adapt to these altered tissue environments, and thus outcompete normal cells. Just as changes in a species’ habitat favor the evolution of new species, changes in tissue environments favor the growth of cancerous cells. DeGregori’s perspective goes far in explaining who gets cancer, when it appears, and why. While we cannot avoid mutations, it may be possible to sustain our tissues’ natural and effective system of defense, even in the face of aging or harmful exposures. For those interested in learning how cancers arise within the human body, the insights in Adaptive Oncogenesis offer a compelling perspective.

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Addiction: A Disorder of Choice
Gene M. Heyman
Harvard University Press, 2009
Library of Congress HV5801.H459 2009 | Dewey Decimal 616.86001

In a book sure to inspire controversy, Gene Heyman argues that conventional wisdom about addiction - that it is a disease, a compulsion beyond conscious control - is wrong. At the heart of Heyman's analysis is a startling view of choice and motivation that applies to all choices, not just the choice to use drugs. Heyman’s analysis of well-established but frequently ignored research leads to unexpected insights into how we make choices - from obesity to McMansionization - all rooted in our deep-seated tendency to consume too much of whatever we like best.

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Admiral Bill Halsey
Thomas Alexander Hughes
Harvard University Press, 2016
Library of Congress E746.H3H84 2016 | Dewey Decimal 359.0092

William Halsey, the most famous naval officer of World War II, was known for fearlessness, steely resolve, and impulsive errors. In this definitive biography, Thomas Hughes punctures the popular caricature of the fighting admiral to present a revealing human portrait of his personal and professional life as it was lived in times of war and peace.

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Adolescents after Divorce
Christy M. Buchanan
Harvard University Press, 1996
Library of Congress HQ777.5.B796 1996 | Dewey Decimal 306.874

Adorno
Martin Jay
Harvard University Press, 1984
Library of Congress HM22.G3A33 1984 | Dewey Decimal 193

Adorno and Existence
Peter E. Gordon
Harvard University Press, 2016
Library of Congress B3199.A34G67 2016 | Dewey Decimal 193

Adorno was forever returning to the philosophies of bourgeois interiority, seeking the paradoxical relation between their manifest failure and their hidden promise. As Peter E. Gordon shows, Adorno’s writings on Kierkegaard, Husserl, and Heidegger present us with a photographic negative—a philosophical portrait of the author himself.

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Adrenaline
Brian B. Hoffman
Harvard University Press, 2013
Library of Congress QP572.A27H64 2013 | Dewey Decimal 616.45

Famous as the catalyst of the fight or flight response, adrenaline has also received forensic attention as a perfect, untraceable poison—and rumors persist of its power to revive the dead. True to the spirit of its topic, Adrenaline is a stimulating journey that reveals the truth behind adrenaline’s scientific importance and popular appeal.

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Adultery
Deborah L. Rhode
Harvard University Press, 2016
Library of Congress KF9435.R48 2016 | Dewey Decimal 345.730253

Despite declining prohibitions on sexual relationships, Americans are nearly unanimous in condemning marital infidelity. Deborah Rhode explores why. She exposes the harms that criminalizing adultery inflicts—including civil lawsuits, job termination, and loss of child custody—and makes a case for repealing laws against adultery and polygamy.

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Adultery and Divorce in Calvin’s Geneva
Robert McCune Kingdon
Harvard University Press, 1995
Library of Congress HQ811.K48 1995 | Dewey Decimal 261.835890949451

Adversarial Legalism
Robert A. KAGAN
Harvard University Press, 2001
Library of Congress KF384.K34 2001 | Dewey Decimal 347.73

Advertisements for Myself
Norman Mailer
Harvard University Press, 1992
Library of Congress PS3525.A4152A65 1992 | Dewey Decimal 813.54

Advertising Empire
David Ciarlo
Harvard University Press, 2010
Library of Congress HF5813.G4C53 2010 | Dewey Decimal 659.1094309034

In the last decades of the nineteenth century Germany made the move towards colonialism, with the first German protectorates in Africa. At the same time, Germany was undergoing the transformation to a mass consumer society. As Ciarlo shows, these developments grew along with one another, as the earliest practices of advertising drew legitimacy from the colonial project, and around the turn of the century, commercial imagery spread colonial visions to a mass audience. Arguing that visual commercial culture was both reflective and constitutive of changing colonial relations and of racial hierarchies, Advertising Empire constructs what one might call a genealogy of black bodies in German advertising. At the core of the manuscript is the identification of visual tropes associated with black bodies in German commercial culture, ranging from colonial and ethnographic exhibits, to poster art, to advertising. Stereotypical images of black bodies in advertising coalesced, the manuscript argues, in the aftermath of uprisings against German colonial power in Southwest and East Africa in the early 20th century. As Advertising Empire shows for Germany, commercial imagery of racialized power relations simplified the complexities of colonial power relations. It enshrined the inferiority of blacks as compared to whites as one key image associated with the birth of mass consumer society.

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Aeneas to Augustus
Mason Hammond
Harvard University Press, 1967

An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Harvard University Press, 2011
Library of Congress BH61.S67 2011 | Dewey Decimal 111.85

The aesthetics of Chaosmos: the Middle Ages of James Joyce
Umberto Eco
Harvard University Press, 1989
Library of Congress PR6019.O9Z532713 1989 | Dewey Decimal 823.912

The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas
Umberto Eco
Harvard University Press, 1988

An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton
Richard A. Posner
Harvard University Press, 1999
Library of Congress KF5076.C57P67 1999 | Dewey Decimal 342.73062

In a book written while the events were unfolding, Richard Posner presents a balanced and scholarly understanding of President Clinton's year of crisis which began when his affair with Monica Lewinsky hit the front pages in January 1998. With the freshness and immediacy of journalism, Posner clarifies the issues involved, carefully assesses the conduct of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, and examines the pros and cons of impeaching President Clinton as well as the major procedural issues raised by both the impeachment in the House and the trial in the Senate. This book, reflecting the breadth of Posner's experience and expertise, will be the essential foundation for anyone who wants to understand President Clinton's impeachment ordeal.

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Affective Mapping
Jonathan FLATLEY
Harvard University Press, 2008
Library of Congress PS214.F63 2008 | Dewey Decimal 810.9353

The surprising claim of this book is that dwelling on loss is not necessarily depressing. Instead, embracing melancholy can be a road back to contact with others and can lead people to productively remap their relationship to the world around them. Flatley demonstrates that a seemingly disparate set of modernist writers and thinkers showed how aesthetic activity can give us the means to comprehend and change our relation to loss.

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The Affirmation of Life
Bernard REGINSTER
Harvard University Press, 2006
Library of Congress B3318.E9R44 2006 | Dewey Decimal 193

While most recent studies of Nietzsche's works have lost sight of the fundamental question of the meaning of a life characterized by inescapable suffering, Bernard Reginster's book The Affirmation of Life brings it sharply into focus. Reginster identifies overcoming nihilism as a central objective of Nietzsche's philosophical project, and shows how this concern systematically animates all of his main ideas.

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Afghan Modern: The History of a Global Nation
Robert D. Crews
Harvard University Press, 2015
Library of Congress DS356.C74 2015 | Dewey Decimal 958.1

Rugged, remote, riven by tribal rivalries and religious violence, Afghanistan seems to many a forsaken country frozen in time. Robert Crews presents a bold challenge to this misperception. During their long history, Afghans have engaged and connected with a wider world, occupying a pivotal position in the Cold War and the decades that followed.

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Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires
Faiz Ahmed
Harvard University Press, 2017
Library of Congress KNF68.A366 2017 | Dewey Decimal 349.581

Debunking conventional narratives, Faiz Ahmed presents a vibrant account of the first Muslim-majority country to gain independence, codify its own laws, and ratify a constitution after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Afghanistan, he shows, attracted thinkers eager to craft a modern state within the interpretive traditions of Islamic law and ethics.

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Africa in the World
Frederick Cooper
Harvard University Press, 2014
Library of Congress DT29.C59 2014 | Dewey Decimal 960.32

Of the many pathways out of empire, why did African leaders follow the one that led to the nation-state, whose dangers were recognized by Africans in the 1940s and 50s? Frederick Cooper revisits a long history in which Africans were empire-builders, the objects of colonization, and participants in events that gave rise to global capitalism.

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Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times
Robin D. G. Kelley
Harvard University Press, 2012
Library of Congress ML3508.K44 2012 | Dewey Decimal 781.657296

This collective biography of four jazz musicians from Brooklyn, Ghana, and South Africa demonstrates how modern Africa reshaped jazz, how modern jazz helped form a new African identity, and how musical convergences and crossings altered the politics and culture of both continents.

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African American Midwifery in the South
Gertrude Jacinta FRASER
Harvard University Press, 1998

African Catholic: Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church
Elizabeth A. Foster
Harvard University Press, 2019

Elizabeth Foster examines how French imperialists and the Africans they ruled imagined the religious future of sub-Saharan Africa in the years just before and after decolonization. The story encompasses the transition to independence, Catholic contributions to black intellectual currents, and efforts to create an authentically “African” church.

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African Pentecostals in Catholic Europe
Annalisa Butticci
Harvard University Press, 2016
Library of Congress BX8764.2.B88 2016 | Dewey Decimal 289.9408996045

Catholic Italy is a destination for migrants from Nigeria and Ghana, who bring their own form of Christianity—Pentecostalism, the most Protestant of Christian faiths. At the heart of Annalisa Butticci’s ethnography is a paradox. Believers on both sides are driven by a desire to find sensuous, material ways to make the divine visible and tangible.

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African-American Newspapers and Periodicals
James Philip Danky
Harvard University Press, 1998
Library of Congress Z6944.N39A37 1998 | Dewey Decimal 015.7303508996073

Africans in the Old South
Randy J. Sparks
Harvard University Press, 2016
Library of Congress E185.615.S695 2016 | Dewey Decimal 305.896073075

The Atlantic slave trade was the largest forced migration in history, yet most of its stories are lost. Randy Sparks examines the few remaining reconstructed experiences of West Africans who lived in the South between 1740 and 1860. Their stories highlight the diversity of struggles that confronted every African who arrived on American shores.

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Afro-Latin America
George Reid Andrews
Harvard University Press, 2016
Library of Congress F1419.N4A64 2016 | Dewey Decimal 305.80098

Two-thirds of Africans, both free and enslaved, who came to the Americas from 1500 to 1870 came to Spanish America and Brazil. Yet Afro-Latin Americans have been excluded from narratives of their hemisphere’s history. George Reid Andrews redresses this omission by making visible the lives and labors of black Latin Americans in the New World.

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After Appomattox
Gregory P. Downs
Harvard University Press, 2015
Library of Congress E668.D74 2015 | Dewey Decimal 973.714

The Civil War did not end with Confederate capitulation in 1865. A second phase commenced which lasted until 1871—not Reconstruction but genuine belligerency whose mission was to crush slavery and create civil and political rights for freed people. But as Gregory Downs shows, military occupation posed its own dilemmas, including near-anarchy.

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After Ireland: Writing the Nation from Beckett to the Present
Declan Kiberd
Harvard University Press, 2017
Library of Congress PR8753.K52 2018 | Dewey Decimal 820.99415

Political failures and globalization have eroded Ireland’s sovereignty—a decline portended in Irish literature. Surveying the bleak themes in thirty works by modern writers, Declan Kiberd finds audacious experimentation that embodies the defiance and resourcefulness of Ireland’s founding spirit—and a strange kind of hope for a more open nation.

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After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene
Jedediah Purdy
Harvard University Press, 2015
Library of Congress GF75.P87 2015 | Dewey Decimal 320.580973

Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. The world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists call this epoch the Anthropocene, Age of Humans. The facts of the Anthropocene are scientific—emissions, pollens, extinctions—but its shape and meaning are questions for politics. Jedediah Purdy develops a politics for this post-natural world.

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After Physics
David Z. Albert
Harvard University Press, 2015
Library of Congress QC6.A465 2015 | Dewey Decimal 530.01

Here the philosopher and physicist David Z Albert argues, among other things, that the difference between past and future can be understood as a mechanical phenomenon of nature and that quantum mechanics makes it impossible to present the entirety of what can be said about the world as a narrative of “befores” and “afters.”

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After Piketty: The Agenda for Economics and Inequality
Heather Boushey
Harvard University Press, 2017
Library of Congress HB501+ | Dewey Decimal 332.041

Are Thomas Piketty’s analyses of inequality on target? Where should researchers go from here in exploring the ideas he pushed to the forefront of global conversation? In After Piketty, a cast of economists and other social scientists tackle these questions in dialogue with Piketty, in what is sure to be a much-debated book in its own right.

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After Roe
Mary Ziegler
Harvard University Press, 2015
Library of Congress HQ767.5.U5Z54 2015 | Dewey Decimal 362.198880973

In the decade after the 1973 Supreme Court decision on abortion, advocates on both sides sought common ground. But as pro-abortion and anti-abortion positions hardened over time into pro-choice and pro-life, the myth was born that Roe v. Wade was a ruling on a woman’s right to choose. Mary Ziegler’s account offers a corrective.

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After the Cold War
Robert O. Keohane
Harvard University Press, 1993
Library of Congress D860.A38 1993 | Dewey Decimal 320.94

After the Fact
Clifford GEERTZ
Harvard University Press, 1995
Library of Congress GN21.G44A3 1995 | Dewey Decimal 301.092

After the Ice
Steven J. Mithen
Harvard University Press, 2004
Library of Congress GN740.M58 2004 | Dewey Decimal 930

The Aga Khan Case
Teena Purohit
Harvard University Press, 2012
Library of Congress KNS46.A33P87 2012 | Dewey Decimal 344.547096

An Arab-centric perspective dominates the West’s understanding of Islam. Purohit presses for a view of Islam as a heterogeneous religion that has found a variety of expressions in local contexts. The Ismaili community in colonial India illustrates how much more complex Muslim identity is, and always has been, than the media would have us believe.

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Against Essentialism
Stephan FUCHS
Harvard University Press, 2001
Library of Congress HM621.F83 2001 | Dewey Decimal 306

Against Obligation
Abner S. Greene
Harvard University Press, 2012
Library of Congress K240.G74 2012 | Dewey Decimal 340.112

Greene argues that citizens are not morally obligated to obey the law and that officials need not follow prior or higher authority when reading the Constitution. The sources of authority in a liberal democracy are multiple—the law must compete with other norms. Constitutional meaning is not locked in, historically or by the Supreme Court.

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AGAINST RACE
Paul Gilroy
Harvard University Press, 2000
Library of Congress HT1521.G524 2000 | Dewey Decimal 305.800973

The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business
David T. Courtwright
Harvard University Press, 2019
Library of Congress RC533.C678 2019 | Dewey Decimal 616.85227

We live in an age of addiction, from compulsive gaming and shopping to binge eating and opioid abuse. What can we do to resist temptations that insidiously and deliberately rewire our brains? Nothing, David Courtwright says, unless we understand the global enterprises whose “limbic capitalism” creates and caters to our bad habits.

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Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian
Angelos Chaniotis
Harvard University Press, 2018 Dewey Decimal 938.08

The world that Alexander remade in his lifetime was transformed once again by his death in 323 BCE. Over time, trade and intellectual achievement resumed, but Cleopatra’s death in 30 BCE brought this Hellenistic moment to a close—or so the story goes. Angelos Chaniotis reveals a Hellenistic world that continued to Hadrian’s death in 138 CE.

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Age of Entanglement
Kris Manjapra
Harvard University Press, 2014
Library of Congress DS428.M36 2014 | Dewey Decimal 303.48243054

Age of Entanglement explores the patterns of connection linking German and Indian intellectuals from the nineteenth century to the years after the Second World War. Kris Manjapra traces the intersecting ideas and careers of philologists, physicists, poets, economists, and others who shared ideas, formed networks, and studied one another's worlds. Moving beyond well-rehearsed critiques of colonialism, this study recasts modern intellectual history in terms of the knotted intellectual itineraries of seeming strangers. Collaborations in the sciences, arts, and humanities produced extraordinary meetings of German and Indian minds. Meghnad Saha met Albert Einstein, Stella Kramrisch brought the Bauhaus to Calcutta, and Girindrasekhar Bose began a correspondence with Sigmund Freud. Rabindranath Tagore traveled to Germany to recruit scholars for a new university, and Himanshu Rai worked with Franz Osten to establish movie studios in Bombay. These interactions, Manjapra argues, evinced shared responses to the hegemony of the British empire. Germans and Indians hoped to find in one another the tools needed to disrupt an Anglocentric world order. As Manjapra demonstrates, transnational encounters are not inherently progressive. From Orientalism to Aryanism to scientism, German-Indian entanglements were neither necessarily liberal nor conventionally cosmopolitan, often characterized as much by manipulation as by genuine cooperation.

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The Age of Equality: The Twentieth Century in Economic Perspective
Richard Pomfret
Harvard University Press, 2011
Library of Congress HC54.P638 2011 | Dewey Decimal 330.904

Alongside unprecedented improvements in longevity and material well-being, the twentieth century saw the rise of fascism and communism and a second world war followed by a cold war. Governments with market economies won the battle against these competing systems by combining growth and efficiency with greater equality of opportunity and outcome.

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Age of Fracture
Daniel T. Rodgers
Harvard University Press, 2011
Library of Congress E169.12.R587 2011 | Dewey Decimal 973.91

Rodgers presents the first broadly gauged history of the ideas and arguments that profoundly reshaped America in the last quarter of the twentieth century. From the ways in which Ronald Reagan changed the formulas of the Cold War presidency to the era’s intense debates over gender, race, economics, and history, it maps the dynamics through which mid-twentieth-century ideas of structure fell apart between the mid 1970s and the end of the century. Where conventional histories of modern America have focused on specific decades, the book traces the larger transformations in social ideas and visions that reshaped the era from the early 1970s through the end of the century.

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The Age of Responsibility: Luck, Choice, and the Welfare State
Yascha Mounk
Harvard University Press, 2017
Library of Congress BJ1451+ | Dewey Decimal 361.65

Yascha Mounk shows why a focus on personal responsibility is wrong and counterproductive: it distracts us from the larger economic forces determining aggregate outcomes, ignores what we owe fellow citizens regardless of their choices, and blinds us to key values such as the desire to live in a society of equals. In this book he proposes a remedy.

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Agency and Embodiment
Carrie Noland
Harvard University Press, 2009
Library of Congress HM636.N65 2009 | Dewey Decimal 306.4

In Agency and Embodiment, Carrie Noland examines the ways in which culture is both embodied and challenged through the corporeal performance of gestures. Arguing against the constructivist metaphor of bodily inscription dominant since Foucault, Noland maintains that kinesthetic experience, produced by acts of embodied gesturing, places pressure on the conditioning a body receives, encouraging variations in cultural practice that cannot otherwise be explained.

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Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America
Matthew Avery Sutton
Harvard University Press, 2007

Aimee Semple McPherson was the most flamboyant and controversial minister in the United States between the world wars, building a successful megachurch, a mass media empire, and eventually a political career to resurrect what she believed was America's Christian heritage. Sutton's definitive study reveals the woman as a trail-blazing pioneer, her life marking the beginning of Pentecostalism's advance to the mainstream of American culture.

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Aiming for Pensacola
Matthew J. Clavin
Harvard University Press, 2015
Library of Congress E450.C55 2015 | Dewey Decimal 305.800975999

Before the Civil War, slaves who managed to escape almost always made their way northward along the Underground Railroad. Matthew Clavin recovers the story of fugitive slaves who sought freedom by paradoxically sojourning deeper into the American South toward an unlikely destination: the small seaport of Pensacola, Florida, a gateway to freedom.

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Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write
Helen Sword
Harvard University Press, 2017
Library of Congress P301.5.A27S94 2017 | Dewey Decimal 808.042

From the author of Stylish Academic Writing comes an essential new guide for writers aspiring to become more productive and take greater pleasure in their craft. Helen Sword interviewed 100 academics worldwide about their writing background and practices and shows how they find or create the conditions to get their writing done.

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Aisha’s Cushion
Jamal J. Elias
Harvard University Press, 2012
Library of Congress BP190.5.A7E45 2012 | Dewey Decimal 297.267

Westerners have a strong impression that Islam does not allow religious imagery. Elias corrects this view. Unearthing shades of meaning in Islamic thought throughout history, he argues that Islamic perspectives on representation and perception should be sought in diverse areas such as optics, alchemy, dreaming, vehicle decoration, Sufi metaphysics.

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The Alex Studies
Irene M. PEPPERBERG
Harvard University Press, 1999
Library of Congress QL696.P7P46 1999 | Dewey Decimal 598.71

Alexander Wilson
Edward H. Burtt Jr.
Harvard University Press, 2013
Library of Congress QL31.W7B87 2013 | Dewey Decimal 598.092

On the bicentennial of his death, this beautifully illustrated volume pays tribute to the Scot who became the father of American ornithology. Alexander Wilson made unique contributions to ecology and animal behavior. His drawings of birds in realistic poses in their natural habitat inspired Audubon, Spencer Fullerton Baird, and other naturalists.

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Algerian Chronicles
Albert Camus
Harvard University Press, 2013
Library of Congress DT295.C293 2013 | Dewey Decimal 965.04

More than 50 years after independence, Algerian Chronicles, with its prescient analysis of the dead end of terrorism, appears here in English for the first time. Published in France in 1958—the year the war caused the collapse of the Fourth French Republic—it is one of Albert Camus’ most political works: an exploration of his commitment to Algeria.

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The Alhambra
Robert Irwin
Harvard University Press, 2004
Library of Congress DP402.A4I89 2004 | Dewey Decimal 946.82

The Alhambra is the only Muslim palace to have survived since the Middle Ages and has long been a byword for exotic and melancholy beauty. In his absorbing new book, Irwin, Arabist and novelist, examines its history and allure.

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Alien Landscapes? : Interpreting Disordered Minds
Jonathan Glover
Harvard University Press, 2014
Library of Congress RC455.2.D42G56 2014 | Dewey Decimal 616.8917

Do people with mental disorders share enough psychology with other people to make human interpretation possible? Jonathan Glover tackles the hard cases—violent criminals, people with delusions, autism, schizophrenia—to answer affirmatively. He offers values linked with agency and identity to guide how the boundaries of psychiatry should be drawn.

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Alienated Minority
Kenneth R. Stow
Harvard University Press, 1992
Library of Congress DS124.S79 1992 | Dewey Decimal 940.04924

All on a Mardi Gras Day
Reid MITCHELL
Harvard University Press, 1995
Library of Congress GT4211.N4M57 1995 | Dewey Decimal 394.25

All You Need Is Love
Elizabeth COBBS HOFFMAN
Harvard University Press, 1998
Library of Congress HC60.5.C626 1998 | Dewey Decimal 361.6

Traversing four decades and three continents, this story of the Peace Corps and the people and politics behind it is a fascinating look at American idealism at work amid the hard political realities of the second half of the twentieth century.

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Allies of the State
Jie Chen
Harvard University Press, 2010
Library of Congress JQ1516.C433 2010 | Dewey Decimal 322.30951

Alone in America
Robert A. Ferguson
Harvard University Press, 2013
Library of Congress PS374.L56F47 2013 | Dewey Decimal 813.009353

With more people living alone today than at any time in U.S. history, Ferguson investigates loneliness in American fiction, from its mythological beginnings in Rip Van Winkle to the postmodern terrors of 9/11. At issue is the dark side of a trumpeted American individualism. Ferguson shows that we can learn, from our literature, how to live alone.

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Alone Together
Paul R. Amato
Harvard University Press, 2007

Based on two studies of marital quality in America twenty years apart, Alone Together shows that while the divorce rate has leveled off, spouses are spending less time together. The authors argue that marriage is an adaptable institution, and in accommodating the changes that have occurred in society, it has become a less cohesive, yet less confining arrangement.

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Am I Making Myself Clear?
Cornelia Dean
Harvard University Press, 2009
Library of Congress Q223.D43 2009 | Dewey Decimal 501.4

Am I Making Myself Clear? shows scientists how to speak to the public, handle the media, and describe their work to a lay audience on paper, online, and over the airwaves. It is a book that will improve the tone and content of debate over critical issues and will serve the interests of science and society.

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Amar Akbar Anthony
William Elison
Harvard University Press, 2016
Library of Congress PN1997.A3415E55 2015 | Dewey Decimal 791.4372

The 1977 blockbuster Amar Akbar Anthony about the heroics of three Bombay brothers separated in childhood became a classic of Hindi cinema and a touchstone of Indian popular culture. Beyond its comedy and camp is a potent vision of social harmony, but one that invites critique, as the authors show.

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The Ambiguity of Play
Brian Sutton-Smith
Harvard University Press, 1997
Library of Congress BF717.S93 1997 | Dewey Decimal 155

The Ambiguity of Virtue
Bernard Wasserstein
Harvard University Press, 2014
Library of Congress D804.6.W3713 2014 | Dewey Decimal 940.531809492352

Working with the Nazi-appointed Jewish Council in Amsterdam, Gertrude van Tijn helped many Jews escape. But she faced difficult moral choices. Some called her a heroine; others, a collaborator. Bernard Wasserstein's haunting narrative draws readers into this twilight world, to expose the terrible dilemmas confronting Jews under Nazi occupation.

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Ambiguous Loss
Pauline Boss
Harvard University Press, 2009
Library of Congress BF575.D35B67 1999 | Dewey Decimal 155.93

What happens when there is mourning with no closure, when a family member or a friend who may be still alive is lost to us nonetheless? How, for example, does the mother whose soldier son is missing in action, or the family of an Alzheimer’s patient who is suffering from severe dementia, deal with the uncertainty surrounding this kind of loss?

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America Classifies the Immigrants: From Ellis Island to the 2020 Census
Joel Perlmann Perlmann
Harvard University Press, 2018
Library of Congress JV6483.P45 2018 | Dewey Decimal 325.73

When more than twenty million immigrants arrived in the United States between 1880 and 1920, the government attempted to classify them according to prevailing ideas about race and nationality. But this proved hard to do. Ideas about racial or national difference were slippery, contested, and yet consequential—were “Hebrews” a “race,” a “religion,” or a “people”? As Joel Perlmann shows, a self-appointed pair of officials created the government’s 1897 List of Races and Peoples, which shaped exclusionary immigration laws, the wording of the U.S. Census, and federal studies that informed social policy. Its categories served to maintain old divisions and establish new ones. Across the five decades ending in the 1920s, American immigration policy built increasingly upon the belief that some groups of immigrants were desirable, others not. Perlmann traces how the debates over this policy institutionalized race distinctions—between whites and nonwhites, but also among whites—in immigration laws that lasted four decades. Despite a gradual shift among social scientists from “race” to “ethnic group” after the 1920s, the diffusion of this key concept among government officials and the public remained limited until the end of the 1960s. Taking up dramatic changes to racial and ethnic classification since then, America Classifies the Immigrants concentrates on three crucial reforms to the American Census: the introduction of Hispanic origin and ancestry (1980), the recognition of mixed racial origins (2000), and a rethinking of the connections between race and ethnic group (proposed for 2020).

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America Unequal
Sheldon Danziger
Harvard University Press, 1995
Library of Congress HC110.I5D329 1995 | Dewey Decimal 339.220973

American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century
Bruce L GARDNER
Harvard University Press, 2002
Library of Congress HD1761.G2447 2002 | Dewey Decimal 338.109730904

American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism
Matthew Avery Sutton
Harvard University Press, 2014
Library of Congress BR1640.S88 2014 | Dewey Decimal 277.3082

In the first comprehensive history of American evangelicalism to appear in a generation, Matthew Sutton shows how charismatic Protestant preachers, anticipating the end of the world, paradoxically transformed it. Narrating the story from the perspective of the faithful, he shows how apocalyptic thinking influences the American mainstream today.

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American Cocktail
Anita Reynolds
Harvard University Press, 2014
Library of Congress E185.97.R49A3 2014 | Dewey Decimal 791.43028092

This is the rollicking, never-before-published memoir of a fascinating African American woman with an uncanny knack for being in the right place in the most interesting times. Actress, dancer, model, literary critic, psychologist, and free-spirited provocateur, Anita Reynolds was, as her Parisian friends nicknamed her, an American Cocktail.

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American Congo
Nan Elizabeth WOODRUFF
Harvard University Press, 2003
Library of Congress F347.M6W667 2003 | Dewey Decimal 976.2400496073

This is the story of how rural black people struggled against the oppressive sharecropping system of the Arkansas and Mississippi Delta during the first half of the twentieth century. Delta planters, aided by local law enforcement, engaged in peonage, murder, theft, and disfranchisement. As individuals and through collective struggle, black men and women fought back, demanding a just return for their crops and laying claim to a democratic vision of citizenship. Nan Woodruff shows how the freedom fighters of the 1960s would draw on this half-century tradition of protest, thus expanding our standard notions of the civil rights movement and illuminating a neglected but significant slice of the American black experience.

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American Empire
Andrew J. BACEVICH
Harvard University Press, 2002
Library of Congress E183.7.B284 2002 | Dewey Decimal 327.73

In a challenging, provocative book, Andrew Bacevich reconsiders the assumptions and purposes governing the exercise of American global power. Examining the presidencies of George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton--as well as George W. Bush's first year in office--he demolishes the view that the United States has failed to devise a replacement for containment as a basis for foreign policy. He finds instead that successive post-Cold War administrations have adhered to a well-defined "strategy of openness." Motivated by the imperative of economic expansionism, that strategy aims to foster an open and integrated international order, thereby perpetuating the undisputed primacy of the world's sole remaining superpower. Moreover, openness is not a new strategy, but has been an abiding preoccupation of policymakers as far back as Woodrow Wilson.

Although based on expectations that eliminating barriers to the movement of trade, capital, and ideas nurtures not only affluence but also democracy, the aggressive pursuit of openness has met considerable resistance. To overcome that resistance, U.S. policymakers have with increasing frequency resorted to force, and military power has emerged as never before as the preferred instrument of American statecraft, resulting in the progressive militarization of U.S. foreign policy.

Neither indictment nor celebration, American Empire sees the drive for openness for what it is--a breathtakingly ambitious project aimed at erecting a global imperium. Large questions remain about that project's feasibility and about the human, financial, and moral costs that it will entail. By penetrating the illusions obscuring the reality of U.S. policy, this book marks an essential first step toward finding the answers.

Table of Contents:

Preface

Introduction
1. The Myth of the Reluctant Superpower
2. Globalization and Its Conceits
3. Policy by Default
4. Strategy of Openness
5. Full Spectrum Dominance
6. Gunboats and Gurkhas
7. Rise of the Proconsuls
8. Different Drummers, Same Drum
9. War for the Imperium

Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

Reviews of this book:
[A] straightforward "critical interpretation of American statecraft in the 1990s"...he is straightforward, too, in establishing where he stands on the political spectrum about US foreign policy...Bacevich insists that there are no differences in the key assumptions governing the foreign policy of the administrations of Bush I, Clinton, and Bush II--and this will certainly be the subject of passionate debate...Bacevich's argument persuades...by means of engaging prose as well as the compelling and relentless accumulation of detail...Bring[s] badly needed [perspective] to troubled times.
--James A. Miller, Boston Globe

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For everyone there's Andrew Bacevich's American Empire, an intelligent, elegantly written, highly convincing polemic that demonstrates how the motor of US foreign policy since independence has been the need to guarantee economic growth.
--Dominick Donald, The Guardian

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Andrew Bacevich's remarkably clear, cool-headed, and enlightening book is an expression of the United States' unadmitted imperial primacy. It's as bracing as a plunge into a clear mountain lake after exposure to the soporific internationalist conventional wisdom...Bacevich performs an invaluable service by restoring missing historical context and perspective to today's shallow, hand-wringing discussion of Sept. 11...Bacevich's brave, intelligent book restores our vocabulary to debate anew the United States' purpose in the world.
--Richard J. Whalen, Across the Board

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To say that Andrew Bacevich's American Empire is a truly realistic work of realism is therefore to declare it not only a very good book, but also a pretty rare one. The author, a distinguished former soldier, combines a tough-minded approach to the uses of military force with a grasp of American history that is both extremely knowledgeable and exceptionally clear-sighted. This book is indispensable for anyone who wants to understand the background to U.S. world hegemony at the start of the 21st century; and it is also a most valuable warning about the dangers into which the pursuit and maintenance of this hegemony may lead America.
--Anatol Levin, Washington Monthly

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American Empire is an immensely thoughtful book. Its reflections go beyond the narrow realm of U.S. security policy and demonstrate a deep understanding of American history and culture.
--David Hastings Dunn, Political Studies Review

I have long suspected our nation's triumphs and trials owed much to the American genius for solipsism and self-deception. Bacevich has convinced me of it by holding up a mirror to self-styled idealists and realists alike. Read all the books you want about the post-Cold War, post-9/11 world, just be sure American Empire is one of them.
--Walter A. McDougall, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, University of Pennsylvania

This deeply informed, impressive polemical book is precisely what Americans, in and outside of the academy, needed before 9/11 and need now even more. Crisp, lively, biting prose will help them enjoy it. Among its many themes are hubris, hegemony, and the fatuousness of claims by the American military that they can now achieve 'transparency' in war-making.
--Michael S. Sherry, Northwestern University

The United States could not possibly have an empire, Americans think. But we do. And with verve and telling insight Andrew Bacevich shows how it works and what it means.
--Ronald Steel, author of Temptations of a Superpower: America's Foreign Policy after the Cold War

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