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Interviews with authors of Harvard UP books.

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Richard Calis, "The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter, and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius" (Harvard UP, 2025)
May 19, 2025
Michael David-Fox, "Crucibles of Power: Smolensk Under Stalinist and Nazi Rule" (Harvard UP, 2025)
May 03, 2025
Udi Greenberg, "The End of the Schism: Catholics, Protestants, and the Remaking of Christian Life in Europe, 1880s-1970s" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Apr 24, 2025
Xiaolu Ma, "Transpatial Modernity: Chinese Cultural Encounters with Russia Via Japan (1880-1930)" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Apr 05, 2025
Kornel Chang, "A Fractured Liberation: Korea Under U.S. Occupation" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Apr 03, 2025
James M. O’Toole, "For I Have Sinned: The Rise and Fall of Catholic Confession in America" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Mar 25, 2025
The Audiobook's Century-Long Overnight Success
Mar 24, 2025
Kimberly Clausing, "Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Mar 08, 2025
Anthony Grafton, "Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Mar 08, 2025
Erik Baker, "Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Mar 02, 2025
Rebecca Haw Allensworth, "The Licensing Racket: How We Decide Who Is Allowed to Work, and Why It Goes Wrong" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Feb 12, 2025
Jonathan Haslam, "Hubris: The American Origins of Russia's War against Ukraine" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Feb 06, 2025
S4E20 Cosmic Connections: A Conversation with Charles Taylor
Jan 08, 2025
Nara Milanich, "Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Jan 04, 2025
Mou Banerjee, "The Disinherited: The Politics of Christian Conversion in Colonial India" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Dec 11, 2024
Osamah F. Khalil, "A World of Enemies: America's Wars at Home and Abroad from Kennedy to Biden" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Nov 26, 2024
Harvey Whitehouse, "Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Nov 10, 2024
Alexis Peri, "Dear Unknown Friend: The Remarkable Correspondence Between American and Soviet Women" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Oct 24, 2024
Faisal Devji, "Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea" (Harvard UP, 2013)
Oct 04, 2024
Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman, "Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Sep 25, 2024
Sarah Lewis, "The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Sep 21, 2024
Neil Van Leeuwen, "Religion As Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Sep 17, 2024
Yakov Feygin, "Building a Ruin: The Cold War Politics of Soviet Economic Reform" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Sep 08, 2024
Paul J. Kosmin, "Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Sep 07, 2024
Jonathan Gienapp, "Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique" (Yale UP, 2024)
Sep 03, 2024
Wendy Salkin, "Speaking for Others: The Ethics of Informal Political Representation" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Sep 01, 2024
Randall Stephens, "The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock n’ Roll" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Aug 28, 2024
Eyck Freymann, "One Belt One Road: Chinese Power Meets the World" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Aug 25, 2024
Nazmul Sultan, "Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Aug 24, 2024
Ana Raquel Minian, “Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Aug 13, 2024
David E. Kaiser, “The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy” (Harvard UP, 2008)
Jul 22, 2024
Anthony Kaldellis, "The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jul 20, 2024
Jacob Lee, "Masters of the Middle Waters: Indian Nations and Colonial Ambitions Along the Mississippi" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Jul 16, 2024
Daniel Susskind, "Growth: A History and a Reckoning" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Jul 03, 2024
J. Megan Greene, "Building a Nation at War: Building a Nation at War: Transnational Knowledge Networks and the Development of China during and after World War II" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Jun 27, 2024
Madman in the White House?
Jun 16, 2024
Judith Lewis Herman, "Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice" (Basic Books, 2023)
Jun 07, 2024
En Li, "Betting on the Civil Service Examinations: The Lottery in Late Qing China" (Harvard UP, 2023)
May 17, 2024
Elizabeth O’Brien Ingleson, "Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade" (Harvard UP, 2024)
May 16, 2024
Céline Bessière and Sibylle Gollac, "The Gender of Capital: How Families Perpetuate Wealth Inequality" (Harvard UP, 2023)
May 03, 2024
Eric Calderwood, "On Earth Or in Poems: The Many Lives of Al-Andalus" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Apr 08, 2024
Stylish Academic Writing: A Discussion with Helen Sword
Apr 04, 2024
Eva De Clercq, ed. and trans., "The Life of Padma" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Mar 15, 2024
Diego Javier Luis, "The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Mar 05, 2024
Diego Javier Luis, "The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Mar 05, 2024
Diego Javier Luis, "The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Feb 15, 2024
Lu Xun, "Wild Grass and Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Feb 13, 2024
Andrius Gališanka, "John Rawls: The Path to a Theory of Justice" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Feb 12, 2024
Matthew Kruer, "Time of Anarchy: Indigenous Power and the Crisis of Colonialism in Early America" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Feb 07, 2024
Rachel Nolan, "Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Jan 28, 2024
Marcy Norton, "The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Jan 04, 2024
John Christopoulos, "Abortion in Early Modern Italy" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Jan 01, 2024
Laurent Dubois, “The Banjo: America’s African Instrument” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Dec 30, 2023
Matthieu Felt, "Meanings of Antiquity: Myth Interpretation in Premodern Japan" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Dec 29, 2023
Marixa Lasso, "Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Dec 26, 2023
David Courtwright, "The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Dec 26, 2023
Matt Garcia, "Eli and the Octopus: The CEO Who Tried to Reform One of the World’s Most Notorious Corporations" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Dec 25, 2023
Gary Saul Morson, "Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Dec 17, 2023
Toward Equity in Science: A Discussion with Cassidy Sugimoto and Vincent Larivière
Dec 16, 2023
Lawrence Zhang, "Power for a Price: The Purchase of Official Appointments in Qing China" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Dec 04, 2023
Charles S. Maier, "The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Nov 29, 2023
Wu Jieh-min, "Rival Partners: How Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and Guangdong Officials Forged the China Development Model" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Nov 09, 2023
Writing the History of Money and Monetary Policy
Nov 08, 2023
Decolonizing Praxis
Oct 23, 2023
Branko Milanovic, "Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Oct 16, 2023
John D. Garrigus, "A Secret Among the Blacks: Slave Resistance Before the Haitian Revolution" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Oct 15, 2023
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Oct 13, 2023
Sara Marcus, "Political Disappointment: A Cultural History from Reconstruction to the AIDS Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Sep 30, 2023
Gary Saul Morson, "Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Sep 26, 2023
Kristin Surak, "The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Sep 24, 2023
Jack Schneider and Ethan L. Hutt, "Off the Mark: How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning (but Don't Have To)" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Sep 22, 2023
Tomaz Jardim, "Ilse Koch on Trial: Making the 'Bitch of Buchenwald'" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Sep 06, 2023
Denise Gigante, "Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America" (Yale UP, 2022)
Aug 29, 2023
Julian Jackson, "France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Aug 27, 2023
Ulbe Bosma, "The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment Over 2,000 Years" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Aug 20, 2023
Toward a More Expansive View of Medieval Europe: Kyivan Rus and Norman Salerno in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
Aug 14, 2023
Steven Press, "Blood and Diamonds: Germany's Imperial Ambitions in Africa" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Aug 08, 2023
The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke
Jul 28, 2023
Miya Qiong Xie, "Territorializing Manchuria: The Transnational Frontier and Literatures of East Asia" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Jul 28, 2023
Sheila Miyoshi Jager, "The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Jul 23, 2023
Xin Zhang, "The Global in the Local: A Century of War, Commerce, and Technology in China" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Jun 30, 2023
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind, "Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Jun 12, 2023
Kathryn Olivarius, "Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Jun 10, 2023
Peter H. Wilson, "Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Jun 10, 2023
Saskia Coenen Snyder, "A Brilliant Commodity: Diamonds and Jews in a Modern Setting" (Oxford UP, 2022)
May 25, 2023
Andrew I. Port, "Never Again: Germans and Genocide After the Holocaust" (Harvard UP, 2023)
May 17, 2023
Maura Dykstra, "Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine: The Administrative Revolution of the Eighteenth-Century Qing State" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Apr 30, 2023
Eberhard Guhe, "An Indian Theory of Defeasible Reasoning: The Doctrine of Upādhi in the Upādhidarpaṇa" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Apr 20, 2023
S2E21 The Roots of Equity and Equality: A Conversation with Teresa Bejan
Apr 11, 2023
Woodrow Hartzog, "Privacy's Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Mar 28, 2023
Leon Wansleben, "The Rise of Central Banks: State Power in Financial Capitalism" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Mar 23, 2023
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Andrew S. Curran, "Who's Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Mar 14, 2023
Elizabeth Cobbs, "Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Mar 07, 2023
Frederick Schauer, "The Proof: Uses of Evidence in Law, Politics, and Everything Else" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Feb 23, 2023
Rethinking the End of the Russian and Habsburg Empires
Feb 21, 2023
Geoffrey Jones, "Deeply Responsible Business A Global History of Values-Driven Leadership" (Harvard University Press, 2023)
Feb 18, 2023
Andrea G. McDowell, "We the Miners: Self-Government in the California Gold Rush" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Feb 17, 2023
The Future of Inequality: A Discussion with Mike Savage
Jan 13, 2023
Kenneth B. Moss, "An Unchosen People: Jewish Political Reckoning in Interwar Poland" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Dec 24, 2022
John D. Wong, "Hong Kong Takes Flight: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Global Hub, 1930s-1998" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Dec 22, 2022
Karma Ben-Johanan, "Jacob’s Younger Brother: Christian-Jewish Relations after Vatican II" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Dec 20, 2022
John Stratton Hawley, "A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement" (Harvard UP, 2015)
Dec 20, 2022
Samuel J. Redman, "Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Dec 15, 2022
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, "Indentured Students: How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generations Drowning in College Debt" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Dec 04, 2022
Civil Disobedience
Dec 02, 2022
Travis Zadeh, "Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Nov 24, 2022
Ann-Christine Duhaime, "Minding the Climate: How Neuroscience Can Help Solve Our Environmental Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Nov 22, 2022
Alexander Des Forges, "Testing the Literary: Prose and the Aesthetic in Early Modern China" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Nov 18, 2022
Guido Ruggiero, "Love and Sex in the Time of Plague: A Decameron Renaissance" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Nov 16, 2022
Kathryn Gin Lum, "Heathen: Religion and Race in American History" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Nov 11, 2022
Sarah E. Wagner, "What Remains: Bringing America's Missing Home from the Vietnam War" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Nov 10, 2022
Aisha Khan, "The Deepest Dye: Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Nov 07, 2022
Camilla Russell, "Being a Jesuit in Renaissance Italy: Biographical Writing in the Early Global Age" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Oct 21, 2022
Maria Adele Carrai and Jennifer Rudolph, "The China Questions 2: Critical Insights Into US-China Relations" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Oct 14, 2022
Ruth Harris, "Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Oct 13, 2022
Nadine Weidman, "Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Oct 11, 2022
Kathryn Gin Lum, "Heathen: Religion and Race in American History" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Oct 07, 2022
Margarita Fajardo, "The World That Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Oct 07, 2022
Adam Adatto Sandel, "Happiness in Action: A Philosopher's Guide to the Good Life" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Oct 06, 2022
Waleed Ziad, "Hidden Caliphate: Sufi Saints Beyond the Oxus and Indus" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Sep 30, 2022
Juliane Noth, "Transmedial Landscapes and Modern Chinese Painting" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Sep 30, 2022
Maria Berbara, "Sacrifice and Conversion in the Early Modern Atlantic World" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Sep 30, 2022
NBN Classic: Thomas Piketty, "Capital and Ideology" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Sep 25, 2022
NBN Classic: Paul Hanebrink, "A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Sep 25, 2022
Kathryn Lomas, "The Rise of Rome: From the Iron Age to the Punic Wars" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Sep 23, 2022
Sudhir Chella Rajan, "A Social Theory of Corruption: Notes from the Indian Subcontinent" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Sep 22, 2022
Suyoung Son, "Writing for Print: Publishing and the Making of Textual Authority in Late Imperial China" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Sep 22, 2022
Jamie Martin, "The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Sep 21, 2022
Beronda L. Montgomery, "Lessons from Plants" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Sep 15, 2022
Jennifer L. Allen, "Sustainable Utopias: The Art and Politics of Hope in Germany" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Sep 14, 2022
Sasha Senderovich, "How the Soviet Jew Was Made" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Sep 14, 2022
William C. Kirby, "Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Sep 08, 2022
Liz Bucar, "Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Sep 06, 2022
Fritz Bartel, "The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Sep 05, 2022
Brian Brege, "Tuscany in the Age of Empire" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Aug 22, 2022
Annah Lake Zhu, "Rosewood: Endangered Species Conservation and the Rise of Global China" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Aug 18, 2022
Tom Zoellner, "Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Aug 16, 2022
Eswar S. Prasad, "The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Aug 16, 2022
J. R. McNeill and Peter Engelke, "The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945" (Harvard UP, 2016)
Aug 10, 2022
Steven B. Miles, "Opportunity in Crisis: Cantonese Migrants and the State in Late Qing China" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Aug 09, 2022
Lisa Ford, "The King's Peace: Law and Order in the British Empire" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Aug 02, 2022
Anthony Abraham Jack, "The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Jul 28, 2022
Disintermediation
Jul 14, 2022
Sheila A. Smith, "Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Jul 07, 2022
Joshua D. Zimmerman, "Jozef Pilsudski: Founding Father of Modern Poland" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Jun 23, 2022
Care Ethics
Jun 21, 2022
Holger Droessler, "Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Jun 15, 2022
Yi Gu, "Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Jun 10, 2022
Mark Edmundson, "Song of Ourselves: Walt Whitman and the Fight for Democracy" (Harvard UP, 2021)
May 26, 2022
Susan Westhafer Furukawa, "The Afterlife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi: Historical Fiction and Popular Culture in Japan" (Harvard UP, 2022)
May 25, 2022
Jim Downs, "Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine" (Harvard UP, 2021)
May 23, 2022
Thomas Piketty, "A Brief History of Equality" (Harvard UP, 2022)
May 16, 2022
Samuel J. Redman, "Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology" (Harvard UP, 2021)
May 11, 2022
Eugenics
May 09, 2022
Megan Brown, "The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community" (Harvard UP, 2022)Megan Brown, "The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community" (Harvard UP, 2022)
May 06, 2022
Institutions
May 05, 2022
Robert Cliver, "Red Silk: Class, Gender, and Revolution in China's Yangzi Delta Silk Industry" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Apr 27, 2022
Thomas Piketty, "A Brief History of Equality" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Apr 21, 2022
Laura J. Martin, "Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Apr 13, 2022
Paul Stephenson, "New Rome: The Empire in the East" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Apr 06, 2022
Michael J. Graetz and Ian Shapiro, "The Wolf at the Door: The Menace of Economic Insecurity and How to Fight It" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Apr 04, 2022
Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath, "The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Mar 31, 2022
Sherzod Muminov, "Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Mar 31, 2022
Jeremy Friedman, "Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Mar 24, 2022
Michael D. Breidenbach, "Our Dear-Bought Liberty: Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Mar 24, 2022
Pardis Sabeti and Lara Salahi, "Outbreak Culture: The Ebola Crisis and the Next Epidemic, With a New Preface and Epilogue" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Mar 18, 2022
Carolina López-Ruiz, "Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Mar 14, 2022
Franck Billé and Caroline Humphrey, "On the Edge: Life Along the Russia-China Border" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Mar 14, 2022
Asef Bayat, "Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Mar 11, 2022
Randy E. Barnett and Evan D. Bernick, "The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Its Letter and Spirit" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Mar 07, 2022
Nandi Timmana, "Theft of a Tree" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Mar 07, 2022
Konrad Schmid and Jens Schröter, "The Making of the Bible: From the First Fragments to Sacred Scripture" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Mar 03, 2022
Jon Butler, "God in Gotham: The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Feb 24, 2022
Sarah Shortall, "Soldiers of God in a Secular World: Catholic Theology and Twentieth-Century French Politics" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Feb 21, 2022
Mircea Raianu, "Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Jan 27, 2022
Franck Billé and Caroline Humphrey, "On the Edge: Life Along the Russia-China Border" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Jan 20, 2022
Jocelyn Hendrickson, "Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Dec 17, 2021
Mia Bay, "Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Dec 09, 2021
Thane Gustafson, "Klimat: Russia in the Age of Climate Change" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Dec 03, 2021
Michael S. Neiberg, "When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Dec 03, 2021
Charles Gallagher, "Nazis of Copley Square: The Forgotten Story of the Christian Front" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Nov 23, 2021
Beatrice Gruendler, "The Rise of the Arabic Book" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Nov 22, 2021
Ümit Kurt, "The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Nov 17, 2021
Marilyn Lake, "Progressive New World: How Settler Colonialism and Transpacific Exchange Shaped American Reform" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Nov 16, 2021
Hiromu Nagahara, "Tokyo Boogie-Woogie: Japan's Pop Era and Its Discontents" (Harvard UP, 2017)
Nov 11, 2021
Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp, "Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Nov 04, 2021
Eliyana R. Adler, "Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Oct 14, 2021
Grace C. Huang, "Chiang Kai-Shek's Politics of Shame: Leadership, Legacy, and National Identity in China" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Sep 24, 2021
Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer, "A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Aug 23, 2021
Jason M. Kelly, "Market Maoists: The Communist Origins of China's Capitalist Ascent" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Aug 19, 2021
Beronda L. Montgomery, "Lessons from Plants" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Aug 10, 2021
Brendan Goff, "Rotary International and the Selling of American Capitalism" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Aug 03, 2021
Supriya Gandhi, "The Emperor Who Never Was: Dara Shukoh in Mughal India" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Jul 30, 2021
Chris Miller, "We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Jul 29, 2021
Andrew F. Jones, "Circuit Listening: Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Jul 16, 2021
Marie Favereau, "The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Jul 08, 2021
Marie Favereau, "The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Jun 29, 2021
Chad Bryant, "Prague: Belonging in the Modern City" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Jun 23, 2021
Susan Blakeley Klein, "Dancing the Dharma: Religious and Political Allegory in Japanese Noh Theater" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Jun 18, 2021
Tae-Yeoun Keum, "Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Jun 10, 2021
Matthew Karp on Writing Engaged History
Jun 08, 2021
Jordan A. Stein, "When Novels Were Books" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Jun 02, 2021
Kristy Ironside, "A Full-Value Ruble: The Promise of Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Jun 02, 2021
David Alan Sklansky, "A Pattern of Violence: How the Law Classifies Crimes and What it Means for Justice" (Harvard UP, 2020)
May 07, 2021
Odd Arne Westad, "Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations" (Harvard UP, 2021)
May 07, 2021
Amelia M. Glaser, "Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine" (Harvard UP, 2020)
May 05, 2021
Helen Sword, "Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write" (Harvard UP, 2017)
Apr 29, 2021
Stella Ghervas, "Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Apr 28, 2021
Jarvis R. Givens, "Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Apr 26, 2021
Kenneth J. Ruoff, "Japan's Imperial House in the Postwar Era, 1945-2019" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Apr 23, 2021
Jürgen P. Melzer, "Wings for the Rising Sun: A Transnational History of Japanese Aviation" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Apr 15, 2021
Oksana Kis, "Survival As Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Apr 14, 2021
Takeshi Watanabe, "Flowering Tales: Women Exorcising History in Heian Japan" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Apr 13, 2021
Jack W. Chen, "Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance: Essays on the Shishuo xinyu" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Apr 06, 2021
Cristina V. Groeger, "The Education Trap: Schools and the Remaking of Inequality in Boston" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Apr 02, 2021
Sarah Kovner, "Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Mar 24, 2021
Aaron Griffith, "God’s Law and Order: The Politics of Punishment in Evangelical America" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Mar 19, 2021
Erin L. Brightwell, "Reflecting the Past: Place, Language, and Principle in Japan's Medieval Mirror Genre" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Mar 16, 2021
Trevor Erlacher, "Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes: An Intellectual Biography of Dmytro Dontsov" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Mar 15, 2021
Gabriel Winant, "The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Mar 08, 2021
Stephanie McCurry, "Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the Civil War" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Feb 23, 2021
Daphne A. Brooks, "Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Feb 23, 2021
Jacqueline Mitton and Simon Mitton, "Vera Rubin: A Life" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Feb 16, 2021
Steven Press, "Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe's Scramble for Africa" (Harvard UP, 2017)
Feb 02, 2021
Andrew Jewett, "Science Under Fire: Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Jan 19, 2021
Manan Ahmed Asif, "The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Jan 06, 2021
Andrew A. Robichaud, "Animal City: The Domestication of Urban America" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Jan 05, 2021
Samuel Zipp, "The Idealist: Wendell Willkie's Wartime Quest to Build One World" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Dec 29, 2020
Richard Ovenden, "Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Dec 18, 2020
Priya Satia, "Time's Monster: How History Makes History" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Dec 17, 2020
Ian Ayres and Fredrick E. Vars, "Weapon of Choice: Fighting Gun Violence While Respecting Gun Rights" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Dec 16, 2020
John Campbell, "Causation in Psychology" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Dec 10, 2020
O. Carter Snead, "What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Dec 09, 2020
Rana Mitter, "China's Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Dec 08, 2020
Dominique Kirchner Reill, "The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Dec 02, 2020
Helen Sword, "Stylish Academic Writing" (Harvard UP, 2012)
Nov 18, 2020
Sharon T. Strocchia, "Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Nov 17, 2020
R. H. Helmholz, "Natural Law in Court: A History of Legal Theory in Practice" (Harvard UP, 2015)
Nov 09, 2020
Tera W. Hunter, "Bound In Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century" (Harvard UP, 2017)
Nov 05, 2020
Felicia Angeja Viator, "To Live and Defy in LA: How Gangsta Rap Changed America" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Oct 26, 2020
Sianne Ngai, "Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Oct 20, 2020
James Simpson, "Permanent Revolution: The Reformation and the Illiberal Roots of Liberalism" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Oct 20, 2020
Mira L. Siegelberg, "Statelessness: A Modern History" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Oct 12, 2020
Benjamin D. Hopkins, "Ruling the Savage Periphery: Frontier Governance and the Making of the Modern State" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Oct 07, 2020
James L. Nolan, Jr., "Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Sep 24, 2020
Annelien de Dijn, "Freedom: An Unruly History" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Sep 23, 2020
Christopher Robertson, "Exposed: Why Our Health Insurance is Incomplete and What can be Done About" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Sep 21, 2020
Alexander Keyssar, "Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Sep 17, 2020
Sana Aiyar, "Indians in Kenya: The Politics of Diaspora" (Harvard UP, 2015)
Sep 10, 2020
Ann-Sophie Barwich, "Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Sep 10, 2020
Tamar Herzig, "A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Sep 04, 2020
Ann-Sophie Barwich, "Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Sep 03, 2020
Victoria de Grazia, "The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Aug 31, 2020
A. Meleagrou-Hitchens, "Incitement: Anwar al-Awlaki’s Western Jihad" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Aug 25, 2020
Guy Raffa, "Dante’s Bones: How a Poet Invented Italy" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Aug 21, 2020
Julia Rose Kraut, "Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Aug 17, 2020
Patrice Gueniffey, "Napoleon and de Gaulle: Heroes and History" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Aug 11, 2020
Lindsay M. Chervinsky, "The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Jul 30, 2020
Tamar Herzog, "A Short History of European Law: The Last Two and a Half Millennia" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Jul 22, 2020
Gregory Afinogenov, "Spies and Scholars: Chinese Secrets and Imperial Russia’s Quest for World Power" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Jul 20, 2020
Sally Nuamah, "How Girls Achieve" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Jul 14, 2020
Alec Ryrie, "Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Jun 22, 2020
Henry M. Cowles, "The Scientific Method: An Evolution of Thinking from Darwin to Dewey" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Jun 17, 2020
Joshua Bennett, "Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man" (Harvard UP, 2020) 
Jun 08, 2020
Viet Thanh Nguyen, "Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War" (Harvard UP, 2016)
May 28, 2020
Magda Teter, "Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Apr 23, 2020
Vincent Brown, "Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Apr 07, 2020
Brian A. Hatcher, "Hinduism Before Reform" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Apr 01, 2020
Loretta E. Kim, "Ethnic Chrysalis: China’s Orochen People and the Legacy of Qing Borderland Administration" (Harvard Asia Center, 2019)
Mar 09, 2020
Jürgen Melzer, "Wings for the Rising Sun: A Transnational History of Japanese Aviation" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Feb 26, 2020
Neil Maher, "Apollo in the Age of Aquarius" (Harvard UP, 2017)
Jan 24, 2020
Jessica Lynne Pearson, "The Colonial Politics of Global Health: France and the United Nations in Postwar Africa" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Jan 15, 2020
John Danaher, "Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World without Work" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Jan 02, 2020
Benjamin Francis-Fallon, "The Rise of the Latino Vote: A History" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Dec 31, 2019
Ajantha Subramanian, "The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Dec 27, 2019
Giuliana Chamedes, "A Twentieth-Century Crusade: The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Christian Europe" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Dec 18, 2019
Daniel Schwartz, "Ghetto: The History of a Word" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Nov 19, 2019
Elisabeth Köll, "Railroads and the Transformation of China" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Oct 28, 2019
Gregory P. Downs, "After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War" (Harvard UP, 2015)
Oct 09, 2019
Evan N. Dawley, "Becoming Taiwanese: Ethnogenesis in a Colonial City, 1880s-1950s" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Sep 30, 2019
William Sturkey, "Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Sep 10, 2019
Paul Finkelman, "Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation’s Highest Court" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Aug 19, 2019
Lukas Rieppel, "Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Aug 02, 2019
Monica Muñoz Martinez, "The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Jul 29, 2019
Jonathan Gienapp, "The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Jul 10, 2019
Christian List, "Why Free Will is Real" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Jul 01, 2019
Eleonory Gilburd, "To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Jun 19, 2019
Heidi Tworek, "News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900-1945" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Jun 17, 2019
Brett Grainger, "Church in the Wild: Evangelicals in Antebellum America" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Jun 17, 2019
Nara Milanich, "Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Jun 11, 2019
Peter Guardino, "The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War" (Harvard UP, 2017)
Jun 07, 2019
Noam Maggor, "Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America's First Gilded Age" (Harvard UP, 2017)
May 30, 2019
Maren A. Ehlers, "Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan" (Harvard U Asia Center, 2018)
May 24, 2019
Max Edelson, "The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America before Independence" (Harvard UP, 2017)
May 16, 2019
James Doyle, "No Morality, No Self: Anscombe's Radical Skepticism" (Harvard UP, 2018)
May 10, 2019
William Poole, "Milton and the Making of Paradise Lost" (Harvard UP, 2017)
May 02, 2019
Sally Nuamah, "How Girls Achieve" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Apr 11, 2019
Margaret Arnold, "The Magdalene in the Reformation" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Mar 20, 2019
Nico Slate, "Lord Cornwallis is Dead: The Struggle for Democracy in the United States and India" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Mar 12, 2019
Matthew Bowman, "Christian: The Politics of a Word in America" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Feb 28, 2019
Joy Lisi Rankin, "A People’s History of Computing in the United States" (Harvard UP, 2018).
Feb 19, 2019
Duncan Williams, “American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War” (Harvard UP, 2019
Feb 18, 2019
Julian Jackson, "De Gaulle" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Jan 16, 2019
Angelos Chaniotis, "Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Jan 08, 2019
Snigdha Poonam, "Dreamers: How Young Indians Are Changing the World" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Dec 07, 2018
James M. Turner and Andrew C. Isenberg, “The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Nov 20, 2018
J.R. Osborn, “Letters of Light: Arabic Script in Calligraphy, Print, and Digital Design” (Harvard UP, 2017)
Nov 12, 2018
Philip Lutgendorf, “The Epic of Ram” (Harvard University Press, 2016-)
Nov 02, 2018
Caitlin C. Rosenthal, “Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Oct 31, 2018
Susan Carruthers, “The Good Occupation: American Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Oct 15, 2018
David Stuttard, “Nemesis: Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Oct 05, 2018
Megan Black, “The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Oct 02, 2018
Kathleen Belew, “Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Sep 24, 2018
Nick Kapur, “Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Sep 21, 2018
Quinn Slobodian, “Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Sep 18, 2018
Samuel Moyn, “Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Sep 04, 2018
Rupali Mishra, “A Business of State: Commerce, Politics, and the Birth of the East India Company” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Aug 29, 2018
Sarah E. Igo, “The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Aug 28, 2018
Katherine Benton-Cohen, “Inventing the Immigration Problem: The Dillingham Commission and Its Legacy” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Jul 30, 2018
Sarah Igo, “The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Jul 25, 2018
Heather Curtis, “Holy Humanitarians: American Evangelicals and Global Aid” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Jul 24, 2018
Alexander Bevilacqua, “The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Jul 16, 2018
Christopher G. White, “Other Worlds: Spirituality and the Search for Invisible Dimensions” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Jul 04, 2018
Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey, “Waste of a Nation: Growth and Garbage in India” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Jun 29, 2018
Waitman Beorn, “The Holocaust in Eastern Europe: At the Epicenter of the Final Solution” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)
Jun 20, 2018
Steven Lubar, “Inside the Lost Museum: Curating, Past and Present” (Harvard UP, 2017)
Jun 13, 2018
Dawn Peterson, “Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion” (Harvard UP, 2017)
May 28, 2018
Beth Lew-Williams, “The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America” (Harvard UP, 2018)
May 28, 2018
Jon D. Michaels, “Constitutional Coup: Privatization’s Threat to the American Republic” (Harvard UP, 2017)
May 17, 2018
Matthew Karp, “This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at The Helm of American Foreign Policy” (Harvard UP, 2016)
May 14, 2018
Sam Lebovic, “Free Speech and Unfree News: The Paradox of Press Freedom in America” (Harvard UP, 2016)
May 10, 2018
Nathan Marcus, “Austrian Reconstruction and the Collapse of Global Finance, 1921-1931” (Harvard UP, 2018)
May 08, 2018
David J. Silverman, “Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Apr 24, 2018
Eric T. Jennings, “Escape from Vichy: The Refugee Exodus from the French Caribbean” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Mar 19, 2018
Matthew Clavin, “Aiming for Pensacola: Fugitive Slaves on the Atlantic and Southern Frontiers” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Mar 13, 2018
James Chappel, “Catholic Modern: The Challenge of Totalitarianism and the Remaking of the Church” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Mar 07, 2018
Ammara Maqsood, “The New Pakistani Middle Class” (Harvard UP, 2017)
Feb 21, 2018
Timothy J. Shannon, “Indian Captive, Indian King: Peter Williamson in America and Britain” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Feb 20, 2018
Sara Hirschhorn, “City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement” (Harvard UP, 2017)
Feb 20, 2018
Christopher Hager, “I Remain Yours: Common Lives in Civil War Letters” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Feb 12, 2018
Anna Andreeva, “Assembling Shinto: Buddhist Approaches to Kami Worship in Medieval Japan” (Harvard Asia Center, 2017)
Feb 07, 2018
Brian McCammack, “Landscapes of Hope: Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago” (Harvard UP, 2017)
Jan 11, 2018
Elizabeth Bucar, “Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress” (Harvard UP, 2017)
Dec 25, 2017
Sam White, “A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America” (Harvard UP, 2017)
Dec 15, 2017
Steven P. Remy, “The Malmedy Massacre: The War Crimes Trial Controversy” (Harvard UP, 2017)
Dec 13, 2017
Terry Kleeman, “Celestial Masters: History and Ritual in Early Daoist Communities” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Dec 07, 2017
Eli Cook, “The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life” (Harvard UP, 2017)
Dec 06, 2017
Michael Flier and Andrea Graziosi, eds. “The Battle for Ukrainian: A Comparative Perspective” (Harvard UP, 2017)
Nov 11, 2017
Pieter M. Judson, “The Habsburg Empire: A New History” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Oct 18, 2017
Cyrus Schayegh, “The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World” (Harvard UP, 2017)
Oct 02, 2017
Carla Pestana, “The English Conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell’s Bid for Empire” (Harvard UP, 2017)
Aug 12, 2017
Manan Ahmed Asif, “A Book of Conquest: The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia” (Harvard UP, 2017)
Aug 06, 2017
Raul Coronado, “A World Not to Come: A History of Latino Writing and Print Culture” (Harvard UP, 2013)
Jul 13, 2017
Alexia Yates, “Selling Paris: Property and Commercial Culture in the Fin-de-siecle Capital” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Jul 12, 2017
William Elison, et.al. “Amar Akbar Anthony: Bollywood, Brotherhood, and the Nation” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Jun 20, 2017
Neil M. Maher, “Apollo in the Age of Aquarius” (Harvard UP, 2017)
Jun 20, 2017
Linda Heywood, “Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen” (Harvard University Press, 2017)
May 19, 2017
Cemil Aydin, “The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History” (Harvard UP, 2017)
May 01, 2017
Susanna L. Blumenthal, “Law and the Modern Mind: Consciousness and Responsibility in American Legal Culture” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Apr 18, 2017
Daniel Immerwahr, “Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Mar 17, 2017
Laura Madokoro, “Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Feb 06, 2017
David W. Stowe, “Song of Exile: The Enduring Mystery of Psalm 137” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Dec 29, 2016
Michael Brown, “The Irish Enlightenment” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Dec 13, 2016
Benjamin Martin, “The Nazi-Fascist New Order for European Culture” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Nov 29, 2016
Robert Orsi, “History and Presence” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Oct 14, 2016
Jack Hamilton, “Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Oct 11, 2016
Ellen Widmer, “Fiction’s Family: Zhan Xi, Zhan Kai, and the Business of Women in Late-Qing China” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Sep 21, 2016
Caroline Ford, “Natural Interests: The Contest over Environment in Modern France” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Sep 12, 2016
Liam Brockey, “The Visitor: Andre Palmeiro and the Jesuits in Asia” (Harvard UP, 2014)
Sep 11, 2016
Matthew Pierce, “Twelve Infallible Men: The Imams and the Making of Shiism” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Sep 07, 2016
Ellen Fitzpatrick, “The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women’s Quest for the American Presidency” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Sep 02, 2016
Patricia Buckley Ebrey, “Emperor Huizong” (Harvard UP, 2014)
Aug 23, 2016
Lauren Faulkner Rossi, “Wehrmacht Priests: Catholicism and the Nazi War of Annihilation” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Aug 16, 2016
David Brophy, “Uyghur Nation: Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Jul 13, 2016
Vanessa Ogle, “The Global Transformation of Time: 1870-1950” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Jul 13, 2016
Ethan Katz, “The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Jun 28, 2016
Stefan Ihrig, “Justifying Genocide: Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Jun 18, 2016
Bernard Harcourt, “Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age” (Harvard UP, 2015)
May 17, 2016
Mary Ziegler, “After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate” (Harvard UP, 2016)
May 10, 2016
Seth Jacobowitz, “Writing Technology in Meiji Japan” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Apr 26, 2016
Alejandra Dubcovsky, “Informed Power: Communication in the Early American South” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Apr 26, 2016
Heather Boushey, “Finding Time: The Economies of Work-Life Conflict” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Apr 04, 2016
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, “Citizen Sailors: Becoming American in the Age of Revolution” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Mar 29, 2016
Hillary Chute, “Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Mar 14, 2016
J. Brown and M. D. Johnson, eds., “Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in China’s Era of High Socialism” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Mar 07, 2016
Stefan Ihrig, “Ataturk in the Nazi Imagination” (Harvard UP, 2014)
Feb 24, 2016
Erik Linstrum, “Ruling Minds: Psychology in the British Empire” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Dec 30, 2015
Kim Wunschmann, “Before Auschwitz: Jewish Prisoners in the Prewar Concentration Camps” (Harvard University Press 2015)
Dec 12, 2015
Jennifer Mittelstadt, “The Rise of the Military Welfare State” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Dec 10, 2015
Nancy Bauer, “How to Do Things With Pornography” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Nov 15, 2015
Ping Foong, “The Efficacious Landscape: On the Authorities of Painting at the Northern Song Court” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Nov 09, 2015
James E. Strick, “Wilhelm Reich, Biologist” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Oct 06, 2015
Eric Tagliacozzo, et al., “Asia Inside Out: Connected Places” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Sep 28, 2015
Leonard Cassuto, “The Graduate School Mess: What Caused It and How We Can Fix It” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Sep 22, 2015
Anna M. Shields, “One Who Knows Me: Friendship and Literary Culture in Mid-Tang China” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Sep 04, 2015
Gordon H. Chang, “Fateful Ties: A History of America’s Preoccupation with China” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Aug 30, 2015
Kecia Ali, “The Lives of Muhammad” (Harvard UP, 2014)
Aug 25, 2015
Andrew G. Walder, “China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Aug 14, 2015
Parks M. Coble, “China’s War Reporters: The Legacy of Resistance against Japan” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Aug 10, 2015
Barak Kushner, “Men to Devils, Devils to Men: Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Aug 01, 2015
Barry Allen, “Vanishing into Things: Knowledge in Chinese Tradition” (Harvard University Press, 2015)
Jul 17, 2015
Carlos Rojas, “Homesickness: Culture, Contagion, and National Transformation in Modern China” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Jul 08, 2015
Meredith K. Ray, “Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Jul 08, 2015
Geraldo L. Cadava, “Standing on Common Ground: The Making of a Sunbelt Borderland” (Harvard UP, 2013)
Jun 14, 2015
Jenifer Van Vleck, “Empire of the Air: Aviation and the American Ascendancy” (Harvard UP, 2013)
Jun 14, 2015
Nick Sousanis, “Unflattening” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Jun 12, 2015
Brett Sheehan, “Industrial Eden: A Chinese Capitalist Vision” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Jun 02, 2015
Ananya Vajpeyi, “Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India” (Harvard UP, 2012)
Apr 30, 2015
Jamal Elias, “Aisha’s Cushion” (Harvard UP, 2012)
Apr 23, 2015
David A. Pietz, “Yellow River: The Problem of Water in Modern China” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Apr 06, 2015
Brian Vick, “The Congress of Vienna: Power and Politics after Napoleon” (Harvard University Press, 2014)
Mar 14, 2015
Byonghyon Choi, “The Annals of King T’aejo: Founder of Korea’s Choson Dynasty” (Harvard UP, 2014)
Feb 18, 2015
Gavin Wright, “Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South” (Harvard UP, 2013)
Feb 13, 2015
Emma Anderson, “The Death and Afterlife of the North American Martyrs” (Harvard UP, 2013)
Feb 02, 2015
Michael Kwass, “Contraband: Louis Mandrin and the Making of a Global Underground” (Harvard University Press, 2014)
Jan 19, 2015
Randy J. Sparks, “Where the Negroes Are Masters” (Harvard UP, 2014)
Jan 01, 2015
Frank Pasquale, “The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Dec 24, 2014
Charles F. Walker, “The Tupac Amaru Rebellion” (Harvard UP, 2014)
Dec 23, 2014
Rian Thum, “The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History” (Harvard UP, 2014)
Dec 22, 2014
Matthew A. Sutton, “American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism” (Harvard UP, 2014)
Dec 17, 2014
Johanna Drucker, “Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production” (Harvard University Press, 2014)
Dec 11, 2014
Michael Gibbs Hill, trans., Wang Hui, “China from Empire to Nation-State” (Harvard UP, 2014)
Nov 17, 2014
Edward E. Andrews, “Native Apostles: Black and Indian Missionaries in the British Atlantic World” (Harvard UP, 2013)
Nov 07, 2014
Kara W. Swanson, “Banking on the Body: The Market in Blood, Milk, and Sperm in Modern America” (Harvard UP, 2014)
Oct 20, 2014
Mark Carnes, “Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College” (Harvard UP, 2014)
Sep 24, 2014
Elizabeth Lunbeck, “The Americanization of Narcissism” (Harvard UP, 2014)
Aug 21, 2014
Bruce Ackerman, “We the People, Volume 3: The Civil Rights Revolution” (Harvard UP, 2013)
Aug 02, 2014
Wensheng Wang, “White Lotus Rebels and South China Pirates: Crisis and Reform in the Qing Empire” (Harvard UP, 2014)
Jun 23, 2014
Elizabeth Lunbeck, “The Americanization of Narcissism” (Harvard University Press, 2014)
Jun 20, 2014
Jane Maienschein, “Embryos Under the Microscope: The Diverging Meanings of Life” (Harvard UP, 2014)
Jun 12, 2014
Xiaojue Wang, “Modernity with a Cold War Face: Reimagining the Nation in Chinese Literature across the 1949 Divide” (Harvard UP, 2013)
May 15, 2014
Michael Strevens, “Tychomancy: Inferring Probability from Causal Structure” (Harvard UP, 2013)
Apr 15, 2014
Stephen C. Neff’s Justice Among Nations: A History of International Law (Harvard UP, 2014)
Apr 13, 2014
Miranda Spieler, “Empire and Underworld: Captivity in French Guiana” (Harvard University Press, 2012)
Mar 28, 2014
George E. Vaillant, “Triumphs of Experience: The Men of the Harvard Grant Study” (Harvard UP, 2012)
Mar 27, 2014
Josef Stern, “The Matter and Form of Maimonides’ Guide” (Harvard UP, 2013)
Mar 14, 2014
Benjamin A. Elman, “Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China” (Harvard UP, 2013)
Mar 09, 2014
Odette Lienau, “Rethinking Sovereign Debt” (Harvard UP, 2014)
Mar 09, 2014
Jennifer L. Anderson, “Mahogany: The Cost of Luxury in Early America” (Harvard UP, 2012)
Feb 21, 2014
Robert Neer, “Napalm: An American Biography” (Harvard UP, 2013)
Feb 13, 2014
Patricia Ebrey, “Emperor Huizong” (Harvard University Press, 2014)
Feb 03, 2014
Samuel Moyn, “The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History” (Harvard UP, 2010)
Jan 14, 2014
David Spafford, “A Sense of Place: The Political Landscape in Late Medieval Japan” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2013)
Jan 07, 2014
Denis Kozlov, “Novyi Mir: Coming to Terms with the Stalinist Past” (Harvard UP, 2013)
Dec 20, 2013
Sunil S. Amrith, “Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants” (Harvard UP, 2013)
Dec 09, 2013
James E. Fleming and Linda C. McClain, “Ordered Liberty: Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues” (Harvard UP, 2013)
Dec 02, 2013
Teena Purohit, “The Aga Khan Case: Religion and Identity in Colonial India” (Harvard UP, 2012)
Nov 14, 2013
Scott Sowerby, “Making Toleration: The Repealers and the Glorious Revolution” (Harvard UP, 2013)
Aug 23, 2013
Elizabeth A. Armstrong and Laura T. Hamilton, “Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality” (Harvard UP, 2013)
Aug 09, 2013
David Garland, “Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition” (Harvard UP, 2010)
Aug 05, 2013
T. J. Hinrichs and Linda L. Barnes, eds., “Chinese Medicine and Healing: An Illustrated History” (Harvard UP, 2012)
Jul 29, 2013
Peter Hansen, “The Summits of Modern Man: Mountaineering after the Enlightenment” (Harvard University Press, 2013)
Jul 09, 2013
Nancy Segal, “Born Together-Reared Apart: The Landmark Minnesota Twin Study” (Harvard UP, 2012)
Jun 28, 2013
Julia Tanney, “Rules, Reasons and Self-Knowledge” (Harvard UP, 2012)
Jun 15, 2013
Sherman Cochran and Andrew Hsieh, “The Lius of Shanghai” (Harvard University Press, 2013)
Jun 12, 2013
James Dawes, “Evil Men” (Harvard UP, 2013)
May 16, 2013
Perry Link, “An Anatomy of Chinese: Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics” (Harvard UP, 2013)
May 13, 2013
James Q. Whitman, “The Verdict of Battle: The Law of Victory and the Making of Modern War” (Harvard UP, 2012)
Apr 29, 2013
Neil Gross, “Why are Professors Liberal and Why do Conservatives Care?” (Harvard UP, 2013)
Apr 08, 2013
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, “American Umpire” (Harvard UP, 2013)
Mar 12, 2013
Endymion Wilkinson, “Chinese History: A New Manual” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2012)
Mar 08, 2013
Eric Lohr, “Russian Citizenship: From Empire to Soviet Union” (Harvard UP, 2012)
Mar 05, 2013
David M. Halperin, “How to be Gay” (Harvard UP, 2012)
Feb 25, 2013
Bruce Rusk, “Critics and Commentators: The ‘Book of Poems’ as Classic and Literature” (Harvard UP, 2012)
Feb 12, 2013
Joel Isaac, “Working Knowledge: Making the Human Sciences from Parsons to Kuhn” (Harvard UP, 2012)
Jan 28, 2013
William Risch, “The Ukrainian West: Culture and the Fate of Empire in Soviet Lviv” (Harvard UP, 2011)
Jan 11, 2013
Eliga Gould, “Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire” (Harvard UP, 2012)
Dec 21, 2012
Alva Noe, “Varieties of Presence” (Harvard UP, 2012)
Dec 14, 2012
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, “Courtly Encounters: Translating Courtliness and Violence in Early Modern Eurasia” (Harvard University Press, 2012)
Dec 05, 2012
Avner Baz, “When Words Are Called For: A Defense of Ordinary Language Philosophy” (Harvard University Press, 2012)
Oct 31, 2012
John S. Allen, “The Omnivorous Mind: Our Evolving Relationship to Food” (Harvard University Press, 2012)
Oct 23, 2012
Christopher Nugent, “Manifest in Words, Written on Paper: Producing and Circulating Poetry in Tang Dynasty China” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2010)
Oct 13, 2012
Minsoo Kang, “Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination” (Harvard UP, 2011)
Oct 04, 2012
Ben Shepherd, “Terror in the Balkans: German Armies and Partisan Warfare” (Harvard UP, 2012)
Sep 26, 2012
Whitney Bodman, “The Poetics of Iblis: Narrative Theology in the Qur’an” (Harvard UP, 2011)
Sep 19, 2012
Marnie Anderson, “A Place in Public: Women’s Rights in Meiji Japan” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2010)
Aug 24, 2012
Kenneth Brashier, “Ancestral Memory in Early China” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2011)
Aug 17, 2012
Christina Snyder, “Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America” (Harvard UP, 2010)
Jul 18, 2012
Ethan Segal, “Coins, Trade, and the State: Economic Growth in Early Medieval Japan” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2011)
Jul 02, 2012
Eric Marcus, “Rational Causation” (Harvard UP, 2012)
Jun 18, 2012
Pieter Judson, “Guardians of the Nation: Activists on the Language Frontiers of Imperial Austria” (Harvard UP, 2006)
Jun 15, 2012
Xiaofei Tian, "Visionary Journeys: Travel Writings from Early Medieval and Nineteenth-Century China" (Harvard UP, 2011)
May 23, 2012
Raymond Jonas, “The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire” (Harvard UP, 2011)
May 01, 2012
David Edwards, “The Lab: Creativity and Culture” (Harvard University Press, 2010)
Apr 02, 2012
Timothy Brook, “The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties” (Harvard UP, 2010)
Feb 24, 2012
Dennis Frost, “Seeing Stars: Sports Celebrity, Identity, and Body Culture in Modern Japan” (Harvard UP, 2011)
Jan 24, 2012
Artemy Kalinovsky, “A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan” (Harvard UP, 2011)
Jan 16, 2012
David Ciarlo, “Advertising Empire: Race and Visual Culture in Imperial Germany” (Harvard UP, 2011)
Nov 17, 2011
Peter Mauch, “Sailor Diplomat: Nomura Kichisaburo and the Japanese-American War” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2011)
Oct 17, 2011
Charles Townshend, “Desert Hell: The British Invasion of Mesopotamia” (Harvard University Press, 2011)
Aug 31, 2011
Michael Neiberg, “Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I” (Harvard University Press, 2011)
Aug 04, 2011
Aziz Rana, “The Two Faces of American Freedom” (Harvard UP, 2010)
Jul 13, 2011
Michael Auslin, "Pacific Cosmopolitans: A Cultural History of U.S.-Japan Relations" (Harvard UP, 2011)
May 05, 2011
Brandon L. Garrett, “Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong” (Harvard UP, 2011)
Mar 25, 2011
Beth Bailey, “America’s Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force” (Harvard UP, 2009)
Mar 18, 2011
Kenneth Moss, “Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution” (Harvard UP, 2010)
Mar 10, 2011
Andrew Donson, “Youth in the Fatherless Land: War Pedagogy, Nationalism, and Authority in Germany, 1914-1918” (Harvard UP, 2010)
Apr 23, 2010
Hilary Earl, “The Nuremberg SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial, 1945-1958: Atrocity, Law, and History” (Cambridge UP, 2010)
Feb 26, 2010
Alan E. Steinweis, “Kristallnacht 1938” (Harvard UP, 2009)
Jan 23, 2010
Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson, “Natural Experiments of History” (Harvard UP, 2010)
Jan 20, 2010
Sarah Ross, “The Birth of Feminism: Woman as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and England” (Harvard UP, 2009)
Dec 11, 2009
Peter Fritzsche, “Life and Death in the Third Reich” (Harvard UP, 2008)
Sep 25, 2009
Brett Whalen, “Dominion of God: Christendom and Apocalypse in the Middle Ages” (Harvard UP, 2009)
Sep 18, 2009
Tony Michels, “Fire in their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York” (Harvard UP, 2005)
Apr 10, 2009
Yuma Totani, “The Tokyo War Crimes Trials: The Pursuit of Justice in the Wake of World War II” (Harvard UP, 2008)
Apr 04, 2009