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Resolved

Uniting Nations in a Divided World Ban Ki-moon

Resolved is Ban Ki-moon’s personal account of his ten years at the helm of the United Nations at a time of historic turmoil and promise. He explores past flashpoints to offer the story of diplomatic lessons learned.

$27.95 / £22.00 cloth 978-0-231-19872-1 2021 376 pages 30 illus.

Race Capital?

Harlem as Setting and Symbol Edited by Andrew M. Fearnley and Daniel Matlin

In this book, leading scholars consider crucial aspects of Harlem’s social, political, and intellectual history; its artistic, cultural, and economic life; and its representation across an array of media and genres. Together they reveal a community at once local and transnational, coalescing and conflicted; one that articulated new visions of a cosmopolitan Black modernity while clashing over distinctions of ethnicity, gender, class, and sexuality.

$26.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0231-18323-9 $75.00 / £58.00 cloth 978-0-231-18322-2 2018 312 pages 15 illus. Barriers Down

How American Power and Free-Flow Policies Shaped Global Media Diana Lemberg

Barriers Down reveals the unexpected origins of freedom of information in political, economic, and cultural battles in the postwar period. Diana Lemberg traces how the United States shaped media around the world under the banner of the “free flow of information,” showing how the push for global media access acted as a vehicle for American power.

$$26.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18217-1 $60.00 / £48.00 cloth 978-0-231-18216-4 2019 304 pages 15 illus.

City of Workers, City of Struggle

How Labor Movements Changed New York Edited by Joshua B. Freeman

WINNER, ILHA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD, INTERNATIONAL LABOR HISTORY ASSOCIATION

City of Workers, City of Struggle brings together essays by leading historians of New York and a wealth of illustrations, offering rich descriptions of work, daily life, and political struggle. It recounts how workers have developed formal and informal groups not only to advance their own interests but also to pursue a vision of what the city should be like and whom it should be for.

$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19193-7 $40.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-19192-0 2019 248 pages 225 illus.

COLUMBIA STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF U.S. CAPITALISM

Stories from the Field

A Guide to Navigating Fieldwork in Political Science Edited by Peter Krause and Ora Szekely

Stories from the Field is a relatable, thoughtful, and unorthodox guide to field research in political science. It features personal stories from working political scientists: some funny, some dramatic, all fascinating and informative.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19301-6 $140.00 / £115.00 cloth 978-0-231-19300-9 2020 392 pages 11 illus. An Empire of Touch

Women’s Political Labor and the Fabrication of East Bengal Poulomi Saha

WINNER, HARRY LEVIN PRIZE, AMERICAN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE ASSOCIATION Poulomi Saha offers an innovative account of women’s political labor in East Bengal over more than a century. Through a material account of text and textile, An Empire of Touch crafts a new narrative of gendered political labor under empire.

$26.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-19209-5 $65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-19208-8 2019 344 pages

GENDER AND CULTURE SERIES

Energy Kingdoms

Oil and Political Survival in the Persian Gulf Jim Krane

WINNER, AGAPS BIENNIAL BOOK AWARD, ASSOCIATION FOR GULF AND ARABIAN PENINSULA STUDIES

In Energy Kingdoms, Jim Krane takes readers inside the Gulf monarchies to consider the conundrum facing these states. He traces the history of their energy use and policies, looking in particular at how energy subsidies have distorted demand. Oil exports are the lifeblood of their politicaleconomic systems—and the basis of their strategic importance—but domestic consumption has begun eating into exports while climate change threatens to render the region uninhabitable.

$26.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-17931-7 $34.00 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-17930-0 2019 224 pages 17 illus.

CENTER ON GLOBAL ENERGY POLICY SERIES

Desolation and Enlightenment

Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust Ira Katznelson Anniversary Edition

In this major intellectual history, Ira Katznelson examines the works of Hannah Arendt, Robert Dahl, Richard Hofstadter, Karl Polanyi, and others. In light of their epoch’s calamities, these intellectuals insisted that the tradition of Enlightenment thought required a new realism, a good deal of renovation, and much recommitment.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19789-2 $90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-19788-5 2020 208 pages