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Global History
CONTENTS Global History.........................................................3 American Foreign Relations.....................................7 American History....................................................8 History of U.S. Capitalism.....................................10 Middle Eastern History..........................................11 Asian History.........................................................13 European History...................................................21 History of Science...................................................24 Urban History.......................................................26 Economic History...................................................28 Gender and Sexuality............................................29 Culture, Art, and Film..........................................30 Biography..............................................................33 Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)....34 New in Paperback...............................................35 Ordering Information........................................36
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Titles published by the Assocation of Asian Studies, The 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. GLOBAL HISTORY Under Empire
Muslim Lives and Loyalties Across the Indian Ocean World, 1775–1945 Michael Francis Laffan
Michael Francis Laffan offers a sweeping exploration of two centuries of interactions among Muslim subjects of empires and nationstates around the Indian Ocean world. He traces interlinked lives and journeys, examining engagements with Western, Islamic, and panAsian imperial formations to consider the possibilities for Muslims in an imperial age.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20263-3 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20262-6 2022 480 pages
COLUMBIA STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL AND GLOBAL HISTORY
Chronos
The West Confronts Time François Hartog Translated by S. R. Gilbert
In Chronos, a leading French historian ranges from Western antiquity to the Anthropocene, pinpointing the crucial turning points in our relationship to time. François Hartog considers the genealogy of Western temporalities, examining the order of times and the divisions of time into epochs.
$35.00 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-20312-8 2022 312 pages
EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES: A SERIES IN SOCIAL THOUGHT AND CULTURAL CRITICISM
Singular Pasts
The "I" in Historiography Enzo Traverso
Translated by Adam Schoene
Singular Pasts offers a critical account of the emergence of authorial subjectivity in historical writing, scrutinizing both its achievements and its shortcomings. Enzo Traverso considers a group of contemporary historians who reveal emotional ties to their subjects and give their writing a literary flavor. Not only historians, they’re also memoirists and creators of literature themselves, not only historians.
$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-20399-9 $110.00 / £85.00 cloth 978-0-231-20398-2 2022 216 pages Sacred Kingship in World History
Between Immanence and Transcendence Edited by A. Azfar Moin and Alan Strathern
Sacred kingship has been the core political form, in small-scale societies and in vast empires, for much of world history. This collaborative and interdisciplinary book recasts the relationship between religion and politics by exploring this institution in long-term and global comparative perspective.
$40.00 / £35.00 paper 978-0-231-20417-0 $160.00 / £125.00 cloth 978-0-231-20416-3 2022 408 pages
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 2022 392 pages
COLUMBIA STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL AND GLOBAL HISTORY
Undoing the Liberal World Order
Progressive Ideals and Political Realities Since World War II Leon Fink
Leon Fink examines key cases of progressive influence on postwar U.S. foreign policy, tracing the tension between liberal aspirations and the political realities that stymie them. A diplomatic history that emphasizes the roles of class, labor, race, and grassroots activism, this book suggests new directions for progressive foreign policy.
$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-20225-1 $115.00 / £90.00 cloth 978-0-231-20224-4 2022 320 pages 10 illus.
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 2022 344 pages
ASIA PERSPECTIVES: HISTORY, SOCIETY, AND CULTURE
To Catch a Dictator
The Pursuit and Trial of Hissène Habré Reed Brody
To Catch a Dictator is a dramatic insider’s account of the hunt for Hissène Habré, the former despot of Chad, and his momentous trial. The human rights lawyer Reed Brody recounts how he and an international team of investigators, legal experts, and victims went on a quest for justice.
$32.00 / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-20258-9 2022 296 pages
Fascist Mythologies
The History and Politics of Unreason in Borges, Freud, and Schmitt Federico Finchelstein
Federico Finchelstein draws on a striking combination of thinkers—Jorge Luis Borges, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Schmitt—to consider fascism as a form of political mythmaking. At a moment when forces redolent of fascism cast a shadow over world affairs, this book provides a timely critical analysis of the dangers of myth in modern politics.
$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18321-5 $110.00 / £85.00 cloth 978-0-231-18320-8 2022 192 pages
NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY
Internment Refugee Camps
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Edited by Gabriele Anderl, Linda Erker, and Christoph Reinprecht
The contributors facilitate an extensive engagement with the organized, state-led, and forced placement of refugees in the past and present. They show the parallels and differences between the practices and types of internment in different countries-while considering the specific historical contexts.
$50.00 paper 978-3-8376-5927-6 2022 314 pages 28 illus.
TRANSCRIPT PUBLISHING
Traditions Can Be Changed
Tanzanian Nationalist Debates Around Decolonizing “Race and Gender,” 1960s-1970s Harald Barre
Harald Barre considers newspapers and academic activism in Tanzania as forums in which the project of an independent African nation was shaped through heated debates. Examining the changing discourses on race and gender in the 1960s and 1970s, he reveals that equating difference with inequality in the national narrative was fiercely contested.
$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-5950-4 2022 274 pages
TRANSCRIPT PUBLISHING
World War II as an Identity Project
Historicism, Legitimacy Contests, and the (Re-) Construction of Political Communities in Ukraine, 1939–1946 Oleksandr Melnyk
This book explores the relationship between history, legitimacy, and violence in the building and breaking of nations and states on the territory of contemporary Ukraine during the Second World War and in its aftermath.
$58.00 paper 978-3-8382-1704-8 2022 440 pages
IBIDEM PRESS
Representations of Global Civility
English Travellers in the Ottoman Empire and the South Pacific, 1636-1863 Sascha R. Klement
By bringing together representations of the then already familiar Ottoman Empire and the largely unknown South Pacific in English travel writing during the long eighteenth century, Sascha Klement demonstrates how cross-cultural encounters were framed by Enlightenment philosophy, global interconnections, and exchanges across cultural divides.
$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-5583-4 2022 270 pages
TRANSCRIPT PUBLISHING
Interwar Crossroads
Entangled Histories of the Middle Eastern and North Atlantic World Between the World Wars Edited by Leon Julius Biela and Anna Bundt
Studying the entangled histories of the areas conceptualized as Middle Eastern and North Atlantic World in the interwar years is crucial to understanding the two areas, respective and common histories until today.
$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-6059-3 2022 318 pages 6 illlus.
