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Global History
CONTENTS Global History.........................................................3 American Foreign Relations.....................................6 American History....................................................8 History of U.S. Capitalism.......................................9 African American History......................................10 Middle Eastern History..........................................11 Asian History........................................................13 European History...................................................23 Urban History........................................................28 Economic History...................................................29 Gender and Sexuality.............................................30 Culture, Art, and Film...........................................31 Biography..............................................................35 Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)....36 New in Paperback...............................................37 Ordering Information.........................................38
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Titles published by the Assocation of Asian Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, ibidem Press, and transcript publishing are available from Columbia only in North America. To order titles from these publishers in other parts of the world, please contact each press directly. 1960
When Art and Literature Confronted the Memory of World War II and Remade the Modern Al Filreis
Al Filreis recasts 1960 as a turning point to offer a groundbreaking account of postwar culture. He examines an eclectic group of artistic, literary, and intellectual figures who strove to create a new language to reckon with the trauma of World War II and to imagine a new world.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20185-8 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20184-1 2021 352 pages
Global Easts
Remembering, Imagining, Mobilizing Jie-Hyun Lim
This book explores entangled Easts to reconsider global history from the margins. Examining the politics of history and memory, Jie-Hyun Lim reveals the affinities linking Eastern Europe and East Asia.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20677-8 $140.00 /£108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20676-1 May 2022 344 pages
ASIA PERSPECTIVES: HISTORY, SOCIETY, AND CULTURE
Building States
The United Nations, Development, and Decolonization, 1945–1965 Eva-Maria Muschik
Building States examines how the United Nations tried to manage the dissolution of European empires in the 1950s and 1960s—and helped transform the practice of international development and the meaning of state sovereignty in the process. Eva-Maria Muschik traces how UN personnel pioneered a new kind of state building in the midst of decolonization.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20025-7 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20024-0 March 2022 392 pages
COLUMBIA STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL AND GLOBAL HISTORY
To Deter and Punish
Global Collaboration Against Terrorism in the 1970s Silke Zoller
To Deter and Punish examines why and how the United States and its Western European allies came to treat nonstate “terrorists” as a key threat. Silke Zoller traces Western state officials’ responses to terrorism from the first Palestinian hijacking in 1968 to Ronald Reagan’s militarization of counterterrorism in the early 1980s.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19547-8 $145.00 / £120.00 cloth 978-0-231-19546-1 2021 360 pages 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 a story of diplomatic lessons learned.
$27.95 /£22.00 cloth 978-0-231-19872-1 2021 376pages 30 illus.
Unsettling Utopia
The Making and Unmaking of French India Jessica Namakkal
After India achieved independence from the British in 1947, France retained control of five scattered territories until 1962. Unsettling Utopia presents a new account of twentieth-century French India, showing how colonial projects persisted beyond formal decolonization.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19769-4 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-19768-7 2021 328 pages
COLUMBIA STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL AND GLOBAL HISTORY
Soft-Power Internationalism
Competing for Cultural Influence in the 21st-Century Global Order Edited by Burcu Baykurt and Victoria de Grazia
This book is a global comparative history of how “soft power” came to define the interregnum between the celebration of global capitalism in the 1990s and the recent resurgence of nationalism and authoritarianism. It brings together case studies from the European Union, China, Brazil, Turkey, and the United States.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19545-4 $145.00 / £120.00 cloth 978-0-231-19544-7 2021 352 pages Just Like Us
The American Struggle to Understand Foreigners Thomas Borstelmann
Just Like Us is a pathbreaking exploration of what foreignness has meant across American history. Thomas Borstelmann traces American ambivalence about non-Americans, identifying a paradoxical perception that foreigners are suspiciously different and yet, beneath layers of culture, share fundamental American values.
$32.00 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-19352-8 2020 272 pages
Ban the Bomb!
Michael Randle and Direct Action against Nuclear War Martin Levy with Michael Randle and Anne Randle
During the 1950s, Michael Randle helped pioneer a new form of direct action against nuclear war, based on the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. Martin Levy’s interviews with Michael Randle introduce the reader to a tumultuous life that is nothing short of extraordinary.
$34.00 paper 978-3-8382-1489-4 2021 272 pages 30 illus.
IBIDEM PRESS
A 'Crisis of Whiteness' in the 'Heart of Darkness'
Racism and the Congo Reform Movement Felix Lösing
The Congo Reform Movement (ca. 1890-1913), led by Britain and the United States, has been praised for its confrontation of colonial atrocities. Its commitment to white supremacy, however, continues to be overlooked. Through a thorough analysis of contemporary sources, Felix Lösing unmasks the colonial and racist formation of the modern human rights discourse.
$60.00 paper 978-3-8376-5498-1 2021 500 pages 11 illus.
