World History

A Secret History of China

Philip Ball

“Ball’s journey along the history, politics, and culture of China’s waterways encompasses many heroes of Chinese hydrology, men who grappled with elemental forces and imperial censure and sometimes came out on top. . . . Ball argues that China’s future, like the past, can be read in the fate of its water.”—Guardian

2017 320 p. 6 x 9 70 halftones, 26 line drawings 74 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-36920-4 $27.50

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Shanghai Nightscapes

A Nocturnal Biography of a Global City

James Farrer and Andrew David Field

“A unique exploration of Shanghai’s clubs, bars, and dance halls that explains how and why Shanghai has once again become an epicenter of cosmopolitan nightlife. Drawing on a rich array of magazines, films, and many nights interviewing Shanghai entrepreneurs, performers, and club hoppers, Farrer and Field expertly ground their brilliant introduction to contemporary nightlife in a superb social history of Shanghai in the Jazz Age.”—Deborah Davis, coeditor of Wives, Husbands, and Lovers

2015 280 p. 6 x 9 18 halftones 75 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-26288-8 $27.50

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A Village with My Name

A Family History of China’s Opening to the World

Scott Tong

“A Village With My Name is a rich, subtle, closely observed study of the power of memory (and forgetting) to shape both a family and a nation. Tong’s multigenerational tale of his remarkable clan captures all the contradictions of a China in worldchanging metamorphosis.” —Eric Liu, author of A Chinaman’s Chance

2017 272 p. 6 x 9 5 halftones 76 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-33886-6 $28.00

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77 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-63695-5 $18.00

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The History of Bhutan

Karma Phuntsho

The History of Bhutan is the first book to offer a comprehensive history of Bhutan in English. Along with a detailed social and political analysis, it offers substantive discussions of Bhutan’s geography and culture: the result is the clearest, richest account of this nation and its history ever published for general readers.

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2013 661 p. 61/5 x 91/2 35 color plates, 1 map 78 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-908323-58-3 $50.00

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A Global History of Divided Cities

Carl H. Nightingale

“This study of the segregation of the world’s cities by race since the eighteenth century is an extraordinary achievement. Its scope is truly global, extending from urban Africa and Asia to the cities of the Americas and Europe and synthesizing in the process a vast literature. Through this prism Nightingale weaves a history which brilliantly links the big themes of empire, migration and racialization to the microanalysis of place and space.”—Simon Gunn, University of Leicester

2012 536 p. 6 x 9 42 halftones 79 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-58074-6 $35.00

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Walls

Enclosure and Ethics in the Modern Landscape

Thomas Oles

“In this engrossing ethical study, landscape architect Oles ponders walls and their potential for oppression or human exchange. Drawing on rich historical examples such as Britain’s economically and ecologically valuable hedgerows, Oles offers an ethics test for proposed barriers that questions whether they support commonalities or embed differences.” —Nature

2014 232 p. 6 x 9 40 halftones 80 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-19924-5 $45.00

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In Search of Ancient North Africa

A History in Six Lives

Barnaby Rogerson

“Rogerson focuses on ancient figures with complicated Berber and refugee identities. . . . He takes these complex questions on in conversational style. . . . He tells us their stories with great care and animation, filling in gaps with intelligent speculation.”—Times Literary Supplement

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2018 320 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones 81 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-909961-54-8 $29.95

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Lords of the Sea

A History of the Barbary Corsairs

Alan G. Jamieson

“A detailed, synthetic account of the Barbary corsairs who rose from a minor Mediterranean nuisance to become a major maritime menace.” —Historian

“Jamieson provides a welldocumented history of Muslim–Christian confrontation on the high seas, of devastating defeats inflicted on the mighty Holy Roman Empire.”—Military History Monthly

Islands

From Atlantis to Zanzibar

Steven Roger Fischer

“In this astonishingly wide-ranging survey, [Fischer] tells us all about how islands have enchanted writers and artists, provoked clashes between lofty rulers, egged on greedy merchants and defined the world in which we live. . . . The author provides so many unexpected and fascinating nuggets . . . A charming and thought-provoking read.”—Geographical Magazine

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2012 336 p. 51/2 x 81/2 10 halftones 83 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-032-0 $35.00

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Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism

Cathy Gere

“A stylish and original cultural history of Knossos.”—Economist

“Gere re-creates a century of bizarre misreadings of the nearly unknown ancient culture of Crete, and in doing so has produced that rarest of literary surprises: a genuinely hilarious work of Minoan historiography. . . . Gere tells some outlandish stories, but she never makes the protagonists themselves ridiculous.”—Harper’s

2009 288 p. 6 x 9 23 halftones 84 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-28954-0 $18.00

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A History of the Arctic

Nature, Exploration and Exploitation

John McCannon

“A remarkable voyage through the Arctic, from its misty past to contentious present. . . . A must-read volume for the general public and scholars alike.”—Ronald E. Doel, Florida State University

“[McCannon] possesses a keen eye for detail, especially in chronicling the region’s wildlife and the painful transition from exploration to exploitation. . . . This is a thoughtful, provocative study that should be read by anyone who cares about the Arctic’s fate.”—Geographical Magazine

Jerusalem 1900

The Holy City in the Age of Possibilities

Vincent Lemire

“Jerusalem, undoubtedly the most sensitive spiritual and geopolitical hotspot on the planet, counts Lemire among its most original historians. He brings the city to life at a time when ethnic and religious divisions were less entrenched and clear-cut than today.”—Le Monde

2017 224 p. 6 x 9 22 halftones, 1 table 86 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-18823-2 $45.00

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Faith and Sword

A Short History of Christian–Muslim Conflict, Second Expanded Edition

Alan G. Jamieson

Jamieson explores here the long and bloody history of the Christian–Muslim conflict, revealing in his concise yet comprehensive study how deeply this ancient divide is interwoven with crucial events in world history.

“[A] sedulous, unapologetic presentation of facts. . . . Opens our eyes to an inescapable truth: Christians and Muslims fought wars for more than 1,000 years.” — Philadelphia Inquirer

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2016 320 p. 51/2 x 81/2 5 halftones 87 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-672-8 $19.95

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The Makers of the Modern Middle East

Second Edition

T. G. Fraser, Andrew Mango, and Robert McNamara

This fully revised and updated second edition of The Makers of the Modern Middle East traces the changes and the ensuing history of the region through the twentieth century and on to the present. Focusing in particular on three leaders—Emir Feisal, Mustafa Kemal, and Chaim Weizmann—the book offers a clear, authoritative account of the region seen from a transnational perspective.

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2015 358 p. 6 x 9 2 maps 88 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-909942-00-4 $50.00

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A History of Oil in the Middle East

Michael Quentin Morton

“An excellent, readable introduction to the history and development of oil in the Middle East. . . . It is a complicated story, but Morton handles it well with engaging, insightful, and humorous details that bring the broader international, political, and social aspects into high relief.”—J. E. Peterson, editor of The Emergence of the Gulf

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2017 256 p. 6 x 9 57 halftones 89 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-810-4 $40.00

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My House in Damascus

An Inside View of the Syrian Crisis

Diana Darke

“Written with the pace of a novel and the color of the best travel writing. . . . The book offers much more than a personal memoir: it is an eclectic but learned encyclopedia of Syrian history, of the Arabs and their language and traditions, of Islamic art and architecture, and more.”—Times Literary Supplement

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2014 320 p. 51/2 x 83/4 2 maps 90 Paper ISBN: 978-1-908323-99-6 $17.95

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Edge of Empires

A History of Georgia

Donald Rayfield

“The most comprehensive and up-to-date history of Georgia available in English. This tour de force explains why the small south Caucasus nation looks longingly to the west. A work of consummate erudition from Britain’s foremost expert on Georgian history and literature.”—Financial Times

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2012 479 p. 6 x 9 40 halftones 91 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-030-6 $55.00

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Another Darkness, Another Dawn

A History of Gypsies, Roma and Travellers

Becky Taylor

“Taylor presents a subtly nuanced picture of European Roma, showing the everyday lived reality of complex community relations, the impact of inter-marriage and personal contacts, which alleviate what could appear to be a relentlessly grim picture of centuries of bureaucratic and legislative oppression.”—History Today

“Thanks to the greater availability of relevant documentation at the point in the historical record, Taylor is able to offer more direct quotes from Roma people themselves, adding depth to the narrative.”—Times Higher Education

Roelf Bolt

“In a time when getting to the ‘truth’ can involve ill-informed conjecture or a maze of grey areas, this encyclopedia provides a useful countermeasure with its treatment of verifiable falsehoods, fibbers, and ‘facts’ found fictitious.” —Choice

“Strangely addictive. A reader is apt to feel repelled by a hoaxster’s audacity and heartlessness yet intensely curious about how and why the deed was done.” —Boston Globe

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2014 256 p. 6 x 9 30 halftones 93 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-508-0 $20.00

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Christmas

The Sacred to Santa

Tara Moore

“An informative and intriguing page-turner. If there is anything to be known about Christmas, you will find it here.”—Catholic San Francisco

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2014 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 50 color plates, 35 halftones 94 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-514-1 $20.00

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Free as Gods

How the Jazz Age Reinvented Modernism

Charles A. Riley

For many art, music and literature lovers, the expatriate community in France during the Jazz Age represents one of the most glorious periods in history. In Paris, famous figures such as Fitzgerald, Stein, Gershwin, Diaghilev, Bechet, and Picasso enjoyed access to a vast network of rivals, collaborators, critics, and consumers. Riley’s celebration of the many masterpieces of this remarkable group shows how the creative community of postwar Paris supported astounding experiments in content and form.

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2017 272 p. 6 x 9 95 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-61168-850-4 $29.95

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The Mountain

A Political History from the Enlightenment to the Present

Bernard Debarbieux and Gilles Rudaz

“Receding glaciers, threatened freshwater supplies, and high-magnitude catastrophic events are increasingly focusing global attention on the world’s high mountain landscapes and people. The Mountain is a timely and important contribution to our understanding of how definitions of mountains, their meaning, and perceptions of their value evolved throughout time.” —Alton C. Byers, High Mountains Adaptation Partnership