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United States ............................... 2- 3
Europe .............................................4- 5
Middle East ................................... 5- 6
Asia ................................................... 6-7
Latin America .............................. 8-9
Stanford Studies in Jewish
History and Culture .............10-11
Cultural and Intellectual
History ............................................... 11
Exam Copy Policy ................................. 5
Ordering ..................................................... 7
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Counterculture
Colophon
Grove Press, the Evergreen
Review, and the Incorpor-
ation of the Avant-Garde
Loren Glass
Counterculture Colophon tells the
story of how Grove Press and its
house journal, Te Evergreen Review,
revolutionized the publishing
industry and radicalized the reading
habits of the paperback generation.
It ofers a new window onto the
1960s, from 1951, when Barney
Rosset purchased the fedgling press
for $3,000, to 1970, when the mul-
timedia corporation into which he
had built the company was crippled
by a strike and feminist takeover.
A riveting and highly entertaining nar-
rative, Glasss book ofers a compelling
new map of the world system of post-
war literature, a map on which Paris
and New York fgure less as competing
capitals than as the closest of trading
partners. It provides a whole new
perspective on the American literary
scene of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.
James F. English, University of Pennsylvania
296 pp., 42 illustrations, 2013
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Te Sun Never Sets
Refections on a
Western Life
L.W. Bill Lane, Jr. with
Bertrand M. Patenaude,
Introduction by Kevin Starr
Te Sun Never Sets tells the extraor-
dinary story of L.W. Bill Lane,
Jr., longtime publisher of Sunset
magazine, pioneering environmental-
ist, and U.S. ambassador. Written
with Stanford historian Bertrand
Patenaude, this fascinating memoir
traces Sunsets profound impact
on a new generation of Americans
seeking opportunity and adventure
in the great American West.
Bill Lane was a one-of-a-kind terrifc
guy who lived an energetic and con-
structive life. This memoir is a compel-
ling reminder that the sun never sets
on Bill Lane.
George P. Shultz, Former U.S. Secretary of
State and Distinguished Fellow,
Hoover Institution, Stanford University
200 pp., 75 illustrations, 2013
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Cold War InternatIonal
HIstory ProjeCt
Copublished with the
Woodrow Wilson Center Press
3 United States
Emma Goldman: A
Documentary History
of the American Years,
Volume 3
Light and Shadows,
19101916
Edited by Candace Falk
A work of scholarship and a labor of
love. . . . The care taken in the introduc-
tion is repeated throughout.
E. Broidy, CHOICE
880 pp., 2012
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Woman Lawyer
Te Trials of Clara Foltz
Barbara Babcock
Brings Foltz back to us with great
tenderness and subtlety, reclaiming a
place in American legal history for a
working mother and national thinker
who has much to teach us still.
Dahlia Lithwick, Slate
392 pp., 13 fgures, 2011
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Henry Fords War
on Jews and the Legal
Battle Against Hate
Speech
Victoria Saker Woeste
Gives us great courtroom drama and
captures an important historical mo-
ment. This will be the defnitive work
on Henry Ford and his confrontation by
American Jews.
Richard S. Levy,
University of Illinois at Chicago
424 pp., 29 illustrations, 2012
9780804772341 Cloth $55.00 $44.00 sale
Te Cuban Missile
Crisis in American
Memory
Myths versus Reality
Sheldon M. Stern
It has taken nearly 50 years to get a
history of the Cuban missile crisis as it
really was . . . For that we have Sheldon
M. Stern to thank.
Max Holland, The Nation, and
washingtondecoded.com
Stanford Nuclear Age Series
208 pp., 8 illustrations, 2012
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Te Soviet Cuban
Missile Crisis
Castro, Mikoyan, Kennedy,
Khrushchev, and the
Missiles of November
Sergo Mikoyan
Edited by Svetlana Savranskaya
360 pp., 2012
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Battleground Africa
Cold War in the Congo,
19601965
Lise Namikas
288 pp., 2013
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Marigold
Te Lost Chance for Peace
in Vietnam
James G. Hershberg
936 pp., 2012
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4 Europe
A Frenchwomans
Imperial Story
Madame Luce in
Nineteenth-Century Algeria
Rebecca Rogers
A stunning achievement. It presents a
fascinating and important contribution
to the history of women, empire, and
historical biography.
Whitney Walton, Purdue University
288 pp., 16 illustrations, 3 maps, 2013
9780804784313 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale
Te Aesthetics of Hate
Far-Right Intellectuals,
Antisemitism, and Gender
in 1930s France
Sandrine Sanos
In an important intervention, the author
illuminates how a range of extreme-
right fgures in 1930s France shared
a racialized conception of the French
nation. The books demonstration of
the mutual constitution of antisemitism
and colonial racism is one of its chief as-
sets and achievements.
Judith Surkis, Institute for Advanced Study
384 pp., 9 illustrations, 2012
9780804774574 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale
Faith in Empire
Religion, Politics, and
Colonial Rule in French
Senegal, 18801940
Elizabeth A. Foster
Deepens our understanding of how
colonial politics worked on the ground
in Senegal and ofers a fresh interpre-
tation of the relationship between
metropole and colony, between mis-
sionaries and colonial administrators,
and between ideology and practice.
Alice L. Conklin, Ohio State University
328 pp., 4 illustrations, 3 maps, 2013
9780804783804 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale
A Political History of
National Citizenship
and Identity in Italy,
18611950
Sabina Donati
This book makes particular contribu-
tions to womens history, legal his-
tory, citizenship studies, comparative
nationalism, and an analysis of fascism.
Threads of history interweave to pres-
ent a new understanding.
Mark Choate, Brigham Young University
432 pp., 2013
9780804784511 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale
Was Hitler a Riddle?
Western Democracies and
National Socialism
Abraham Ascher
This is a pioneering work of great
importance.
Walter Laqueur
Ascher is succinct, insightful, and
convincing.
Evan Bukey, University of Arkansas
256 pp., 6 images, 2012
9780804783569 Paper $29.95 $23.96 sale
9780804783552 Cloth $90.00 $72.00 sale
Afer Yugoslavia
Te Cultural Spaces of a
Vanished Land
Edited by Radmila Gorup
This collection brings together a re-
markable roster of writers and scholars
to consider the past, present, and
future of the diverse yet closely inter-
connected cultural spaces that the dis-
solution of Yugoslavia left behind.
Wendy Bracewell, University College London
Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
368 pp., 2013
9780804784023 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale
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5 Middle East
Political Commun-
ication and Political
Culture in England,
15581688
Barbara J. Shapiro
A splendid and important book in every
way. Drawing on her vast and detailed
knowledge of the period, its politics, its
thought, and its people, Shapiro has
provided a rich, subtle, and very read-
able account of the multiple sources of
political knowledge and understanding.
Gordon Schochet, Rutgers University
416 pp., 2012
9780804783620 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale
Patriotism and
Public Spirit
Edmund Burke and the
Role of the Critic in Mid-
Eighteenth-Century Britain
Ian Crowe
A high achievement of dedicated
scholarship. No other study has dealt so
searchingly with the literary milieu of
Burkes early years.
David Bromwich, Yale University
304 pp., 2012
9780804781275 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale
Tell Tis in My
Memory
Stories of Enslavement
from Egypt, Sudan, and
the Ottoman Empire
Eve M. Troutt Powell
Tell Tis in My Memory opens up a
new window in the study of slavery
in the modern Middle East, taking
up personal narratives of slaves and
slave owners to shed light on the
anxieties and intimacies of personal
experience. Te framework of racial
identity constructed through these
stories proves instrumental in
explaining how countries later
confrontedor notthe legacy
of the slave trade. Today, these
vocabularies of slavery live on
for contemporary refugees whose
forced migrations ofen replicate
the journeys and stigmas faced
by slaves in the 19th century.
Troutt Powell weaves a moving and
evocative tapestry, employing mul-
tiple perspectives of the enslaved as
well as slaveholders. Her analysis of
the conditions of enslavement as well
as the challenging processes through
which those conditions become
known is nothing short of brilliant.
Michael Gomez, New York University
264 pp., 2012
9780804782333 Cloth $40.00 $32.00 sale
Asia 6 Middle East | Asia
REIssuEd WIth A NEW
INtRoduCtIoN
Te Emergence of
Modern Afghanistan
Politics of Reform and
Modernization
Vartan Gregorian
In the past, all books about Afghani-
stan had to be measured alongside El-
phinstones 1815 classic. We now have
another yardstick: Gregorian.
American Political Science Review
680 pp., 3 tables, 16 illustrations, 2 maps, 2013
9780804783002 Paper $34.95 $27.96 sale
9780804782999 Cloth $100.00 $80.00 sale
From Frontier Policy
to Foreign Policy
Te Question of India and
the Transformation of
Geopolitics in Qing China
Matthew W. Mosca
Linking politics, foreign relations, cul-
tural and intellectual history, this work
is a must read in the current re-con-
ceptualization of the early nineteenth
century in China.
R. Kent Guy, University of Washington
408 pp., 3 maps, 2013
9780804782241 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale
Opera and the City
Te Politics of Culture in
Beijing, 17701900
Andrea S. Goldman
Goldmans study of Peking opera is
thorough, convincing, and fascinating.
It will be required reading for scholars
of Chinese theater, late imperial cul-
ture, Qing history, and gender studies.
The scholarship is as good as it gets.
Catherine Swatek,
University of British Columbia
386 pp., 22 fgures, 1 map, 2012
9780804778312 Cloth $55.00 $44.00 sale
Reconstructing Bodies
Biomedicine, Health, and
Nation-Building in South
Korea Since 1945
John P. DiMoia
Ofers the best view to date of the
intersection between South Koreas
twentieth-century development and
its medical transformation.
Robert Oppenheim,
University of Texas at Austin
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute,
Columbia University
304 pp., 5 photos, 1 map, 2013
9780804784115 Cloth $45.00 $36.00 sale
What Remains
Coming to Terms with Civil
War in 19th Century China
Tobie Meyer-Fong
Meyer-Fong makes clear that in both
the short and the long term, the Taiping
Rebellion was as crucial in personal as in
political terms.
Joanna Waley-Cohen, Professor of History and
Collegiate Professor, New York University
360 pp., 11 illustrations, 2013
9780804754255 Cloth $40.00 $32.00 sale
Constructing East Asia
Technology, Ideology, and
Empire in Japans Wartime
Era, 1931-1945
Aaron Stephen Moore
An expertly written and cogently
argued study, singular in its skillful
combining of intellectual, cultural, and
politico-economic history.
Steven J. Ericson, Dartmouth College
336 pp., 2013
9780804785396 Cloth $55.00 $44.00 sale
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7 Asia
Te Premise
of Fidelity
Science, Visuality, and
Representing the Real in
Nineteenth-Century Japan
Maki Fukuoka
A major contribution to visual and
intellectual studies of nineteenth-
century Japan.
Luke Gartlan, University of St. Andrews
304 pp., 39 illustrations, 2012
9780804777902 Cloth $45.00 $36.00 sale
Chinese Labor in
a Korean Factory
Class, Ethnicity, and
Productivity on the Shop
Floor in Globalizing China
Jaesok Kim
A pleasing study of how cultural
assumptions infuence the organiza-
tion of work in a Chinese factory.
The research is solid, insightful and
memorable.
William Jankowiak,
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
304 pp., 7 tables, 6 fgures, 2013
9780804784542 Cloth $45.00 $36.00 sale
Te Vaccinators
Smallpox, Medical Knowledge,
and the Opening of Japan
Ann Jannetta
A fascinating look at Japanese culture and
politics in the last century, and the at-
titudes of those outside who wanted to at
least see in.
Book News
264 pp., 9 tables, 3 fgures, 2 illustrations, 3 maps, 2007
9780804786904 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale
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Culinary Nostalgia
Regional Food Culture and the
Urban Experience in Shanghai
Mark Swislocki
A signifcant book which ofers a refresh-
ing new approach to the study of China
through the history of food, showing how
city residents construct their relationship to
the city, the rest of China and the world by
the way that they discuss and remember
food and restaurants.
Chee-Beng Tan, The China Journal
320 pp., 3 tables, 1 fgure, 7 illustrations, 2 maps, 2008
9780804786911 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale
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8 Latin America
Dolores del Ro
Beauty in Light and Shade
Linda B. Hall
An important work that fnally ofers
us an insight into one of the most
compelling stars of the early to mid-
twentieth century.
Jill Watts,
California State University San Marcos
376 pp., 36 illustrations, 2013
9780804784078 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale
Labor and Love in
Guatemala
Te Eve of Independence
Catherine Komisaruk
In this superb study, Komisaruk delves
into the realities of ordinary peoples
lives to help us understand the deep
causes of sweeping changes.
Camilla Townsend, Rutgers University
360 pp., 6 tables, 2 maps, 2013
9780804757041 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale
Measuring Up
A History of Living Standards
in Mexico, 18501950
Moramay Lopez-Alonso
This book constitutes pioneering scholar-
ship in Mexican history. It is potentially
one of the more important works pub-
lished in the feld in the last generation
because of its anthropometric approach
to the usually ideologized issue of Mexi-
cos secular economic development.
Richard Salvucci, Trinity University
Social Science History
304 pp., 31 tables, 14 fgures, 12 illustrations, 5 maps, 2012
9780804773164 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale
Te Life Within
Local Indigenous Society
in Mexicos Toluca Valley,
16501800
Caterina Pizzigoni
Packed with new dimensions, ap-
proaches, and fndings, the book will fnd
its place among the monuments of early
Latin American history and ethnohistory.
James Lockhart, author of
The Nahuas after the Conquest
344 pp., 2013
9780804781374 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale
Te Making of Law
Te Supreme Court and
Labor Legislation in Mexico,
18751931
William J. Suarez-Potts
An impressively researched, carefully
analyzed, and clearly explained history
of labor law in Mexico through the Por-
friato, the Revolution, and the rebuild-
ing of the Mexican state in the 1920s.
Ted Beatty, University of Notre Dame
360 pp., 2012
9780804775519 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale
Waking from the
Dream
Mexicos Middle Classes
afer 1968
Louise E. Walker
A very lively and most interesting read
on a topic which has received a dis-
graceful lack of attention the author
taps a rich new vein.
Barry Carr, La Trobe University and ANCLAS:
Australian National University
344 pp., 2013
9780804781510 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale
9 Latin America
Paolinas Innocence
Child Abuse in Casanovas
Venice
Larry Wolf
This compelling and troubling story
shakes our assumptions. Wolf shows
how poverty and dislocation could
lead poor parents to ofer their children
for sexual exploitation by the wealthy.
Nicholas Terpstra, University of Toronto
328 pp., 28 illustrations, 2012
9780804762625 Paper $29.95 $23.96 sale
9780804762618 Cloth $90.00 $72.00 sale
Staying Afoat
Risk and Uncertainty in
Spanish Atlantic World
Trade, 17601820
Jeremy Baskes
This book presents a thorough, inter-
esting, and highly readable account
of how Spanish traders managed risk
during a period of intense institutional
change. It is a substantial addition to
the literature on the economics of
Spanish colonialism.
Noel Maurer, Harvard University
Social Science History
424 pp., 25 tables, 13 fgures, 2013
9780804785426 Cloth $70.00 $56.00 sale
Days of National
Festivity in Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil,
18231889
Hendrik Kraay
A very signifcant work on the cultural
and political history of Brazil. It should
force others to rethink aspects of the
political history, and to delve deeper
into aspects of the cultural history, of the
period.
Jefrey D. Needell, University of Florida
576 pp., 33 illustrations, 1 table, 1 map, 2013
9780804785266 Cloth $70.00 $56.00 sale
Nahua and Maya
Catholicisms
Texts and Religion in
Colonial Central Mexico
and Yucatan
Mark Christensen
The analysis of the various prayers and
their renditions in Nahuatl and Maya is
fantastic.
John F. Schwaller, SUNY Potsdam
Academy of American Franciscan History
352 pp., 2013
9780804785280 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale
Twilight of the
Mission Frontier
Shifing Interethnic
Alliances and Social
Organization in Sonora,
17681855
Jose Refugio De la Torre Curiel
This book demonstrates a unique
mastery of the English and Spanish
literature on the missions of northwest-
ern New Spain, a thorough command
of the difcult archival sources upon
which the study is based, and a coher-
ent, well-researched, and compelling
argument.
Steven W. Hackel,
University of California, Riverside
Academy for American Franciscan History
352 pp., 2013
9780804785044 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale
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10 Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
A Tale of Ritual Murder
in the Age of Louis XIV
Te Trial of Raphal Lvy,
1669
Pierre Birnbaum
Translated by Arthur
Goldhammer
A fascinating and deeply moving ac-
count of human resistance and mass
fear.
Natalie Zemon Davis, University of Toronto
192 pp., 12 illustrations, 2012
9780804774048 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale
No Justice in Germany
Te Breslau Diaries,
19331941
Willy Cohn
Edited by Norbert Conrads
Translated by Kenneth Kronenberg
This is by far the most probing, insight-
ful, and gripping diary of a Jewish
intellectual who lived in Germany dur-
ing the 1930s.
Abraham Ascher, author of A Community
under Siege: The Jews of Breslau
under Nazism
440 pp., 19 illustrations, 2012
9780804773249 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale
A Goy Who
Speaks Yiddish
Christians and the Jewish
Language in Early Modern
Germany
Aya Elyada
Elyada demonstrates in an exemplary
manner how sociolinguistic theory and
method in the hands of a conscien-
tious historian can lead to truly innova-
tive research.
Marion Aptroot,
Heinrich Heine University, Dusseldorf
280 pp., 12 illustrations, 2012
9780804781930 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale
Mixing Musics
Turkish Jewry and the
Urban Landscape of a
Sacred Song
Maureen Jackson
By treating the private, discrete
narratives of individual fgures, this
innovative book brings to life the
nuances of daily existence and so-
cial accommodation in the musical
culture of modern Turkish Jews.
Edwin Seroussi,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
272 pp., 20 illustrations, 3 maps, 2013
9780804780155 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale
In Historys Grip
Philip Roths Newark
Trilogy
Michael Kimmage
Michael Kimmage has uncovered a
masterpiece, showing how Newark ac-
quired epic signifcance in Roths liter-
ary interpretation of America. If Philip
Roth does win the Nobel Prize, this
new book on his Newark trilogy will
have played its part in the process.
Ruth Wisse, Harvard University
216 pp., 2012
9780804781824 Cloth $50.00 $40.00 sale
Nathan Birnbaum and
Jewish Modernity
Architect of Zionism,
Yiddishism, and Orthodoxy
Jess Olson
A detailed account of this mercurial
and celebrated fgure. A persuasive
case for a reconsideration of Birn-
baums place in the pantheon of Eu-
ropean Jewish ideologues, publicists,
and activists.
David Rechter, University of Oxford
408 pp., 8 illustrations, 2013
9780804778732 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale
11 Cultural and Intellectual History
Te Jews of Pinsk,
1881 to 1941
Azriel Shohet
Edited by Mark Jay Mirsky
and Moshe Rosman
Translated by Faigie Tropper
and Moshe Rosman, with an
Aferword by Zvi Gitelman
A wonderful piece of scholarship that
enlightens our understanding of Jew-
ish communal life in modern Eastern
Europe.
Brian Horowitz, Tulane University
792 pp., 11 tables, 11 fgures, 2013
9780804741583 Cloth $75.00 $60.00 sale
A Jewish Life on Tree
Continents
Te Memoir of Menachem
Mendel Frieden
Translated, Edited, and Annotated,
and with Introductions and an
Aferword by Lee Shai Weissbach
This rich memoir highlights the trans-
national character of Jewish life in the
early twentieth century.
Rebecca Kobrin, Columbia University
520 pp., 6 illustrations, 2013
9780804783637 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale
Te Holocaust in
Italian Culture,
19442010
Robert S. C. Gordon
This outstanding book flls a critical gap
in the literature and has profound sig-
nifcance for the study of Italy and for
the memory of the Holocaust.
Marla Stone, Occidental College
296 pp., 2012
9780804763462 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale
9780804763455 Cloth $80.00 $64.00 sale
Warped Mourning
Stories of the Undead in
the Land of the Unburied
Alexander Etkind
Etkinds brilliant and lucid work pres-
ents the frst serious account of theo-
retical challenges to mourning theories
in the context of Soviet terror.
Nancy Condee, University of Pittsburgh
Cultural Memory in the Present
320 pp., 13 illustrations, 2013
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Having It All in the
Belle Epoque
How French Womens
Magazines Invented the
Modern Woman
Rachel Mesch
At once deeply historical and surpris-
ingly timely, Having it All in the Belle
Epoque shows how the debates that
continue to captivate high-achieving
women in America and Europe can
be traced back to the early 1900s in
France. Te frst two photographic
magazines aimed at women, Femina and
La Vie Heureuse created a female role
model whounlike the fear-inducing
New Womancould balance age-old
feminine convention with new equalities.
Ofen referred to simply as the modern
woman, the feminine role model
promoted in these magazines was a
bundle of decidedly new contradic-
tions, as she embraced a newfound
sense of equality without completely
abandoning conventional gender roles.
Full of never before studied images of
the modern French woman in action,
Having it All shows how these early
magazines exploited new photographic
technologies, artistic currents, and
literary trends to ofer a powerful new
model of French femininityone that
has exerted a lasting, if rarely recognized,
infuence on French expression.
Mesch opens a window onto a distant
and relatively unknown past, all the while
shedding light on debates that are still
very much alive today.
Susan Hiner, Vassar College
264 pp., 63 illustrations, 2013
9780804784245 Cloth $39.95 $31.96 sale
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