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S TA N F O R D U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S
HISTORY
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
General Interest......................... 2-3
Latin America.............................4-6
United States............................ 6-10
Politics......................................... 10-11
World........................................... 12-14
Europe........................................ 14-15
Stanford Studies in Jewish
History and Culture.............. 15-18
Middle East..............................19-26
Asia............................................ 27-29
Cultural and Intellectual..........30
Digital Publishing Initiative..... 31
Nothing Happened Before Trans
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Susan A. Crane Nineteenth-Century France
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2 GENERAL INTEREST
Dirty Works Mexican American Fastpitch Innocent Witnesses
Obscenity on Trial in America’s Identity at Play in Vernacular Sport Childhood Memories of
First Sexual Revolution Ben Chappell World War II
Brett Gary In Mexican American communities Marilyn Yalom
in the central United States, the Edited by Ben Yalom, Foreword by
At the turn of the twentieth
century, the United States was modern tradition of fastpitch softball Meg Waite Clayton
experiencing an awakening. has been passed from generation The violence of war leaves indelible
Victorian-era morality was being to generation. This ethnic sporting marks, and memories last a lifetime
challenged by the introduction of practice is kept alive through annual for those who experienced this
sexual modernism and women’s tournaments, the longest running of trauma as children. Marilyn Yalom
rights into popular culture, the which were founded in the 1940s, experienced World War II from
arts, and science. Dirty Works when softball was a ubiquitous afar, but over the course of her life
focuses on a series of significant form of recreation and the so-called came to be close friends with many
courtroom cases—all represented “Mexican American generation” born less lucky. This book collects these
by Morris L. Ernst. Over the to immigrant parents was coming childhood stories and brings us
course of his remarkable career, of age. In this book, Ben Chappell voices of a vanishing generation.
Ernst defended well-known travels to tournaments from Kansas This powerful collage of testimonies
European and American literati City to Houston where he interviews offers us a greater understanding
and sexual activists, among them players and fans, strikes up conversa- of what it is to be human, not just
Margaret Sanger, James Joyce, and tions in the bleachers, takes in the then but also today. With this book,
Alfred Kinsey. They had run afoul atmosphere in the heat of competi- her final and most personal work of
of obscenity laws, and became tion, and combs through local and cultural history, Yalom considers the
part of Ernst’s campaign against personal archives. He situates the lasting impact of such young experi-
censorship. These cases provided sport within a history marked by mi- ences—and asks whether we will now
courts with a powerful body of gration, marginalization, solidarity, force a new generation of children
precedents that recognized and struggle, through which Mexican to spend their lives reconciling with
women’s reproductive rights, and Americans have navigated complex such memories.
the legitimacy of sexual inquiry. negotiations of cultural, national, and
The legacy of this important, but local identities.
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Ernst and his colleagues defended
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GENERAL INTEREST 3
Oaxaca Resurgent Vendor’s Capitalism From the Grounds Up
Indigeneity, Development, and Building an Export Economy
Ingrid Bleynat
Inequality in Twentieth-Century in Southern Mexico
Mexico Mexico City’s public markets
were integral to the country’s
Casey Marina Lurtz
A. S. Dillingham economic development, bolstering In the late nineteenth century, Latin
Oaxaca Resurgent examines how the expansion of capitalism from American exports boomed. From
indigenous people in one of Mexico’s the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth Chihuahua to Patagonia, producers
most rebellious states shaped local and centuries. These publicly owned sent industrial fibers, tropical fruits,
national politics during the twentieth and operated markets supplied and staple goods across oceans to
century. Focusing on the experiences households with everyday necessities satisfy the ever-increasing demand
of anthropologists, government and generated revenue for local from foreign markets. In southern
bureaucrats, trade unionists, and authorities. At the same time, they Mexico’s Soconusco district, the
activists, A. S. Dillingham explores were embedded in a wider network coffee trade would transform rural
the relationship between indigeneity, of economic and social relations life. Alongside plantation owners
rural education and development, and that gave vendors an influence far and foreign investors, a dense but
the political radicalism of the Global beyond the running of their stalls. little-explored web of small-time
Sixties. By centering indigenous Vendors’ daily interactions with producers, shopowners, and laborers
expressions of anticolonialism, customers, suppliers and local played key roles in the rapid expan-
Oaxaca Resurgent offers key insights government shaped the city’s sion of export production.
into the entangled histories of public sphere and expanded the A regional history of the Soconusco
indigenous resistance movements scope of popular politics. Vendors’ as well as a study in commodity
and the rise of state-sponsored Capitalism argues for the centrality capitalism, From the Grounds Up
multiculturalism in the Americas. of Mexico City’s public markets places indigenous and mestizo
This revelatory book provides crucial villagers, migrant workers, and local
to the political economy of the
context for understanding post-1968 politicians at the center of our under-
city from the restoration of the
Mexican history and the rise of the
Republic in 1867 to the heyday of standing of the development of Latin
2006 Oaxacan social movement.
the so-called “Mexican miracle” America’s export-driven economy
“With care and empathy, Dillingham and the PRI in the 1960s. during the first era of globalization.
persuasively argues that Oaxaca’s gift
for our contemporary world may as “This compelling book illuminates “A remarkable contribution to our un-
well reside on the indomitable energy Mexico City markets as the nexus derstanding of capitalist development
and plurality of vision of its many of economic and political forces in in Mexico through the last 150 years.”
indigenous communities.” Mexican history.” —John Womack,
—Robert Weis, Jr., Harvard University
—Cristina Rivera Garza,
author of Nadie me verá llorar and University of Northern Colorado
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4 LATIN AMERICA
The Sacred Cause Contact Strategies A Miscarriage of Justice
The Abolitionist Movement, Heather F. Roller Women’s Reproductive Lives
Afro-Brazilian Mobilization, and and the Law in Early Twentieth-
Imperial Politics in Rio de Janeiro Around the year 1800, independent Century Brazil
Native groups still effectively
Jeffrey D. Needell controlled about half the territory Cassia Roth
For centuries, slaveholding was of the Americas. How did they A Miscarriage of Justice examines
common in Brazil among both maintain their political autonomy women’s reproductive health in
whites and people of color. Abolition and territorial sovereignty, hun- relation to legal and medical policy
was only achieved in 1888, in an dreds of years after the arrival of in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After the
unprecedented, turbulent political Europeans? In a study that spans the abolition of slavery in 1888 and
process, bringing an end to a form of eighteenth to twentieth centuries the onset of republicanism in 1889,
labor that was traditionally perceived and ranges across the vast interior women’s reproductive capabilities—
as both indispensable and entirely of South America, Heather F. Roller their ability to conceive and raise
legitimate. The Sacred Cause analyzes examines this history of power and future citizens and laborers—became
the relations between the Abolition- persistence from the vantage point critical to the expansion of the new
ist movement, its Afro-Brazilian of autonomous Native peoples in Brazilian state. Analyzing court cases,
following, and the evolving response Brazil. Rather than fleeing or evading law, medical writings, and health data,
of the parliamentary regime in Rio contact, Native peoples actively Cassia Roth argues that the increas-
de Janeiro. Jeffrey Needell highlights sought to appropriate what was ingly interventionist state fostered
the significance of racial identity useful and potent from outsiders, a culture of condemnation around
and solidarity to the Abolitionist incorporating new knowledge, poor women’s reproductive practices.
movement, showing how Afro- products, and even people, on This book provides a new way of
Brazilian leadership, organization, their own terms and for their own interpreting the intertwined histories
and popular mobilization were purposes. Their tactical decisions of gender, race, reproduction, and the
critical to the movement’s identity, shaped and limited colonizing state—and shows how these questions
nature, and impact. enterprises in Brazil, while revealing continue to reverberate in debates
Native peoples’ capacity for cultural over reproductive justice and women’s
“Based on an impressive array of ar-
chival sources and new informatio persistence through transformation. health in Brazil today.
n, Needell’s book explains in detail “Roller’s groundbreaking study is “A deeply researched, sophisticated,
why Brazil was the last country to timely, stirring and revelatory.” and insightful study with significant
abolish slavery in the Americas and implications for understanding
—Mark Harris,
how, unlike in the U.S., emancipa- University of St Andrews, Scotland reproductive justice issues even in
tion did not provoke a Civil War.” contemporary politics.”
360 pages, July 2021 —Okezi Otovo,
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LATIN AMERICA 5
NEW IN PAPERBACK Argentina in the Global Arab Routes
Monsters by Trade Middle East Pathways to Syrian California
Slave Traffickers in Modern
Lily Pearl Balloffet Sarah M. A. Gualtieri
Spanish Literature and Culture
During the global migration booms Los Angeles is home to the largest
Lisa Surwillo population of people of Middle
of the mid-nineteenth to early
Monsters by Trade shows how twentieth centuries, hundreds of Eastern descent in the United States.
modern Spain was shaped by thousands of Ottoman Syrians Since the late nineteenth century,
its Cuban colony. Lisa Surwillo migrated to Argentina, and in the Syrian and Lebanese migration
analyzes a sampling of nineteenth- decades following World War One, to Southern California has been
century Spanish literary works that Middle Eastern communities, insti- intimately connected to and through
reflected metropolitan fears of the tutions, and businesses dotted the Latin America. Arab Routes uncovers
hold that the slave economy had landscape of Argentina from bustling the stories of this Syrian American
over political, cultural, and financial Buenos Aires to its most remote community to reveal important
networks of power. frontiers. By following the mobile cross-border and multiethnic
solidarities in Syrian California.
264 pages, 2020 lives of individuals with roots in the
Gualtieri reinscribes Syrians into
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Southern California history through
sheds light on the intersections of
NEW IN PAPERBACK her examination of images and texts,
ethnicity, migrant-homeland ties,
Urban Indians in a Silver City augmented with interviews with
and international relations. Ranging
Zacatecas, Mexico, 1546-1810 descendants of immigrants. Telling
from the nineteenth-century boom the story of how Syrians helped forge
Dana Velasco Murillo in transoceanic migration to twenty- a global Los Angeles, Arab Routes
first century dynamics of large-scale counters a long-held stereotype of
In the sixteenth century, silver migration and displacement in the
mined by native peoples became Arabs as outsiders and underscores
Arabic-speaking Eastern Mediter- their longstanding place in American
New Spain’s most important export. ranean, Balloffet considers key
Urban Indians in a Silver City culture and in interethnic coalitions,
themes such as cultural production, past and present.
illuminates the social footprint of philanthropy, anti-imperial activism,
colonial Mexico’s silver mining and financial networks over the “Sarah Gualtieri complicates and
district of Zacatecas, showing how revises our understanding of Arab
course of several generations of this immigration to the Americas. An
indigenous peoples navigated status diasporic community.
and identity in the urban milieu. expansive, cutting-edge, and much-
“A model for migration and needed book.”
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6 LATIN AMERICA UNITED STATES
Oilcraft The Paranoid Style in World War II and the West
The Myths of Scarcity and Security American Diplomacy It Wrought
That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq Edited by Mark Brilliant and
Robert Vitalis Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt David M. Kennedy
There is a conventional wisdom This book weaves together histories Few episodes in American history
about oil—that US military pres- of Arab nationalists, US diplomats, were more transformative than World
ence in the Gulf guarantees access and Western oil execs to expose War II, and in no region did it bring
to this strategic resource; that the the origins US intervention in greater change than in the West.
“special” relationship with Saudi Iraq over the arc of the twentieth Having lifted the United States out
Arabia is necessary to stabilize an century and tell the parallel stories of the Great Depression, World War
otherwise volatile market; and that of the Iraq Petroleum Company II set in motion a massive westward
these assumptions provide Wash- and the resilience of Iraqi society. population movement, ignited a
ington enormous leverage. Except, American policymakers, who quarter-century boom that redefined
the conventional wisdom is wrong. inflated concerns about access to the West as the nation’s most econom-
Vitalis debunks the myths to reveal and potential scarcity of oil, gave ically dynamic region, and triggered
“oilcraft,” a line of magical thinking rise to a “paranoid style” in US unprecedented public investment in
closer to witchcraft than statecraft. foreign policy. Wolfe-Hunnicutt manufacturing, education, scientific
He exposes the suspect fears of scar- deconstructs these policy practices research, and infrastructure. This
city and conflict, and investigates to reveal how they fueled decades volume explores the lasting conse-
the significant geopolitical impact of American interventions, and quences of a pivotal chapter in U.S.
of these false beliefs. In particular, shines a light on those places that history, and offers new categories for
Vitalis shows how we can reconsider America’s covert empire-builders understanding the post-war West.
the question of the US–Saudi rela- might prefer we not look. “A stellar collection featuring an
tionship. Freeing ourselves from the all-star roster of contributors. An
“The Paranoid Style in American
spell of oilcraft won’t be easy—but indispensable resource for understand-
Diplomacy is a gripping backstory
the benefits make it essential. that reveals the historical truths of ing America’s westward tilt and its
US-Iraqi relations. American cold broader significance to national and
“Vitalis has once again revealed that
warriors inherited Britain’s imperial global history.”
our conventional wisdom is filled
with empty, and often dangerous, self- role but failed to stop Iraqis from pur- —Margaret O’Mara,
delusions. This book is a triumph of suing natural resource sovereignty.” author of The Code: Silicon Valley
and the Remaking of America
clear-eyed and courageous criticism.” —Nathan J. Citino,
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UNITED STATES 7
The American Yawp The Chinese and the
A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook, Vol. 1: To 1877 Iron Road
Edited by Joseph L. Locke and Ben Wright Building the Transcontinental
Railroad
”I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric
yawp over the roofs of the world.” Edited by Gordon H. Chang and
—Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself,” Leaves of Grass
Shelley Fisher Fishkin
The completion of the transcontinental
The American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively built American history railroad in May 1869 is usually told
textbook. Over 300 historians joined together to create the book they as a story of national triumph and a
wanted for their own students—an accessible, synthetic narrative that key moment for American Manifest
reflects the best of recent historical scholarship and provides a jumping-off Destiny. But while the transcon-
point for discussions in the U.S. history classroom and beyond. tinental has often been celebrated
Without losing sight of politics and power, The American Yawp incorpo- in national memory, the Chinese
rates transnational perspectives, integrates diverse voices, recovers narra- workers who made up 90 percent of
tives of resistance, and explores the complex process of cultural creation. the workforce on the Western portion
It looks for America in crowded slave cabins, bustling markets, congested of the line have remained largely
tenements, and marbled halls. It navigates between maternity wards, invisible and little understood. This
prisons, streets, bars, and boardrooms. The Yawp highlights the dynamism landmark volume shines new light
and conflict inherent in the history of the United States, while also looking on these workers and their enduring
for the common threads that help us make sense of the past. importance, illuminating more fully
than ever before how immigration
As part of a new publishing strand in U.S. history, Stanford University across the Pacific changed both China
Press has issued a fully peer-reviewed and updated edition of The American and the US, the dynamics of the
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a low-cost print textbook, published in two volumes. conditions under which they labored,
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ASIAN AMERICA
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8 UNITED STATES
The Peculiar Afterlife NEW IN PAPERBACK South Central Is Home
of Slavery Skimmed Race and the Power of Community
The Chinese Worker and Breastfeeding, Race, and Injustice Investment in Los Angeles
the Minstrel Form Andrea Freeman Abigail Rosas
Caroline H. Yang In 1946, Annie Mae Fultz, a Black- South Central Los Angeles is often
The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery Cherokee woman, became the mother characterized as an African American
explores how antiblack racism lived of America’s first surviving set of community beset by poverty and
on through the figure of the Chinese identical quadruplets. Their White economic neglect—a depiction that
worker in US literature after emanci- doctor sold the rights to use the sisters obscures the significant Latina/o
pation. Drawing out the connections for marketing purposes to the highest- population that has called South
between this liminal figure and the bidding formula company. The girls Central home since the 1970s. It also
formal aesthetics of blackface min- lived in poverty, while Pet Milk’s profits conceals the efforts African American
strelsy in literature of the Reconstruc- from a previously untapped market of and Latina/o residents have made
Black families skyrocketed. together in shaping their community.
tion and post-Reconstruction eras,
This book investigates how communi-
Caroline H. Yang reveals the ways Today, baby formula is a seventy- ties of color like South Central experi-
antiblackness structured US cultural billion-dollar industry and Black ence racism and discrimination—and
production during a crucial moment mothers have the lowest breastfeeding
how in the best of situations, they are
of reconstructing and re-narrating US rates in the country. Skimmed tells the
energized to improve their conditions
empire after the Civil War. Examining riveting story of the Fultz quadruplets together. Abigail Rosas illuminates
texts by major American writers in while uncovering how feeding the promise of community building,
the late nineteenth and early twenti- America’s youngest citizens is awash in offering findings indispensable to our
eth centuries, Yang’s bold re-reading social, legal, and cultural inequalities. understandings of race, community,
of these authors’ contradictory and place in U.S. society.
positions on race and labor sees the “This urgent book reveals the deadly
consequences of a health crisis that “An illuminating history of one of
figure of the Chinese worker as both implicates race, gender, economic,
hiding and making visible the legacy food, and reproductive justice.” America’s most iconic communities
in transition. In prose as vivid as her
of slavery and antiblackness. subjects, Abigail Rosas beautifully
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UNITED STATES 9
The Movement and the Common Phantoms Defending the Public’s
Middle East An American History of Enemy
How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Psychic Science The Life and Legacy of
Divided the American Left Alicia Puglionesi Ramsey Clark
Michael R. Fischbach Séances, clairvoyance, and telepathy Lonnie T. Brown
The Arab-Israeli conflict constituted captivated the U.S. public imagination Defending the Public’s Enemy is the
a serious problem for the American from the 1850s well into the twentieth first book to explore the enigmatic
Left in the 1960s. The Movement century. Though dismissed by skeptics, and perplexing life and legal career
and the Middle East offers the first a new kind of investigator sought the of U.S. Attorney General Ramsey
assessment of the controversial and science behind such phenomena. Clark. Clark’s life and work were
ultimately debilitating role of the Common Phantoms brings these enmeshed with some of the most
conflict among activists. Fischbach experiments back to life while model- notable people and events of the
draws on a deep well of original ing a new approach to the history of 1960s: Martin Luther King Jr., the
sources to present a story of the left- psychology and the mind sciences. Black Panthers, Muhammad Ali.
wing responses to the question of Drawing on previously untapped Clark worked tirelessly, especially
Palestine and Israel. He shows how, archives of participant-reported data, to secure the civil rights of black
as the 1970s wore on, the cleavages Puglionesi describes a vast though Americans. Upon entering the
emerging within the American Left flawed experiment in democratic private sector,the former insider
widened, weakening the Movement science, in which psychical research began providing legal defense to
and leaving a lasting impact that gave participants tools to study their internationally-despised figures,
still affects progressive American own experiences. Academic psy- alleged terrorists, reputed Nazi war
politics today. chology would ultimately disown criminals, and brutal dictators. He
this effort, but its challenge to the personifies the contradictions at the
“Fischbach boldly takes us into limits of science, the mind, and the
the vexed heart of debates on the heart of American political history,
American Left over the Palestinian soul still reverberates today. and our ambivalent relationship
struggle against the state of Israel. “A fresh perspective on the goals and with marginalized groups, as well
His bracing message is of the perils failures, friendships and rivalries, as those who embody a fiercely
of intransigence and the enduring methods and dreams of those who in- revolutionary spirit.
ability of the Israel-Palestine debate vestigated the interconnected powers
to further divide an already weak- of the human mind.” “An important contribution to the
ened American Left.” history of American lawyering.”
—Pamela Klassen,
—Jeremy Varon, University of Toronto —Randall Kennedy,
The New School Harvard Law School
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10 UNITED STATES POLITICSA Constitution for the Living Crisis! Permanent Revolution
Imagining How Five Generations When Political Parties Lose Reflections on Capitalism
of Americans Would Rewrite the the Consent to Rule Wyatt Wells
Nation’s Fundamental Law Cedric de Leon Permanent Revolution examines
Beau Breslin Cedric de Leon analyzes two the development and workings of
“The earth belongs...to the living, pivotal crises in the American capitalism and its influence on the
the dead have neither powers two-party system: the demise of broader society. In this historically
nor rights over it.” These famous the Whig party and secession of grounded account, Wyatt Wells
words, reflect Thomas Jefferson’s eleven southern states in 1861, considers economic innovation,
lifelong belief that each generation and the present crisis splintering the role of financial markets, the
ought to write its own Constitu- the Democratic and Republican business cycle, how markets operate,
tion. According to Jefferson each parties and leading to the election and the position of labor in capitalist
generation should take an active of Donald Trump. Crisis! takes us economies, as well as how capitalism
role in endorsing, renouncing, or beyond the common explanations affects the law, politics, religion, and
changing the nation’s fundamental of social determinants to illuminate the arts. Capitalism, Wells concludes,
law. History tells us that Jefferson’s how political parties actively shape is an extraordinarily dynamic system
voice went unheeded. But what if he national stability and breakdown. that produces immense wealth
had prevailed? In A Constitution for Just as the Civil War meant the but that requires the population to
the Living, Beau Breslin reimagines difference between the survival constantly adapt to new demands—
American history to answer that of a slaveholding republic and the and that the diversity, liberty, and
question. By tracing the story from birth of liberal democracy, what flexibility we associate with modern
the 1787 Constitutional Convention political elites and civil society society are the products of capitalist
up to the present, Breslin presents organizations do today can mean development.
an engaging and insightful narrative the difference between fascism and “A wonderful outline of how
account of historical figures and democracy. capitalism works and a spirited
how they might have shaped their “A bold and convincing argument defense of its classical principles.
particular generation’s Constitution. about the sources of political crises This is a text of great use both to
This book is, above all, a call for a and popular disaffection: it is the those who celebrate the achieve-
more engaged American public at dynamics of the parties themselves, ments of capitalism and those who
rather than voters’ economic self- want to critique its basic tenets.”
a time when change seems close at
hand, if we dare to imagine it. interest or cultural goals, that create —Odd Arne Westad,
moments of political breakdown.” Yale University
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POLITICS 11The Hijacked War The Whole World Between Containment
The Story of Chinese POWs in Was Watching and Rollback
the Korean War Sport in the Cold War The United States and the
David Cheng Chang Edited by Robert Edelman and Cold War in Germany
Christopher Young Christian F. Ostermann
The Korean War lasted for three
years, one month, and two days— In the Cold War era, the confronta- In the aftermath of World War II,
but armistice talks occupied more tion between capitalism and American diplomats and policymak-
than two of those years, as 14,000 communism played out not only in ers turned to the task of rebuilding
Chinese prisoners of war refused to military, diplomatic, and political Europe while keeping Communism
return to Communist China, effec- contexts, but also in the realm of at bay. Based on recently declassified
tively hijacking the negotiations culture—and perhaps nowhere more documents, this book tells the story
of world leaders at a pivotal moment so than the cultural phenomenon of of U.S. policy toward East Germany
in Cold War history. Drawing on sports, where the symbolic capital of from 1945 to 1953. As the American
newly declassified archival materials athletic endeavor held up a mirror to approach shifted between the policy of
from China, Taiwan, and the United the global contest for the sympathies “containment” and more active “roll-
States and interviews with surviving of citizens worldwide. The Whole back” of Communist power, the Tru-
Chinese and North Korean prisoners World Was Watching examines Cold man and Eisenhower administrations
of war, Chang depicts the struggle War rivalries through the lens of worked to undermine Soviet-backed
over prisoner repatriation that sporting activities and competitions Communist rule without compromis-
dominated the second half of the across Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin ing economic and nation-building
Korean War—and changed the America, and the U.S. The analysis interests in West Germany. There
course of the Cold War in East of sport provides a valuable lens for was a darker side to American policy
Asia—in the prisoners’ own words. understanding both how individuals in East Germany: covert operations,
experienced the Cold War in their propaganda, and psychological war-
“The research on the Chinese prisoners fare. This international history tracks
is extraordinary, the stories of indi- daily lives, and how sports culture
in turn influenced politics and relations between East German and
viduals compelling, and the analysis of
the context in which they made choices diplomatic relations. Soviet Communists, providing new
balanced and persuasive.” perspectives on U.S. foreign policy as
“A fantastic contribution to both the Cold War tensions coalesced.
—William Stueck, author of The history of sport and the history of the
Korean War: An International History “A model of outstanding historical
Cold War.”
496 pages, 2020 —Sergey Radchenko, research and argumentation.”
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Vanderbilt University
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HISTORY PROJECT COLD WAR INTERNATIONAL
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12 WORLDGuns, Guerillas, and the Political Fallout NEW IN PAPERBACK
Great Leader Nuclear Weapons Testing and The End of the Pacific War
North Korea and the Third World the Making of a Global Reappraisals
Environmental Crisis Edited by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
Benjamin R. Young
Toshihiro Higuchi Over sixty years after the end of the
Far from always having been an
isolated nation and a pariah state Political Fallout is the story of one of Pacific War, the United States and
within the international community, the first human-driven, truly global Japan have still not come to terms
North Korea exercised significant in- environmental crises—radioactive with the consequences; despite
fluence among Third World nations fallout from nuclear weapons test- their post-war alliance, memories
during the Cold War era. With one ing during the Cold War—and the of Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima-
foot in the socialist Second World international response. Beginning Nagasaki continue to remind that the
and the other in the anticolonial in 1945, the United States, Britain, decision to drop the bomb remains
Third World, North Korea occupied and the Soviet Union detonated a contentious issue. While many
a unique position as both a post- hundreds of nuclear weapons in the Americans believe the bombing
colonial nation and a Soviet client atmosphere, scattering a massive directly influenced Japan’s decision
state. North Korea sent advisors to amount of radioactivity across the to surrender, the bombing’s impact
assist African liberation movements, globe. The international debate on Japan’s decision making, as well as
trained anti-imperialist guerilla fight- over nuclear fallout turned global the role of the Soviet Union, have yet
ers, and completed building projects radioactive contamination into an to be fully explored. This book offers
in developing countries. State-run environmental issue, eventually state-of-the-art reinterpretations of
media coverage of the Third World leading the nuclear superpowers to
the reasons for Japan’s decision to
shaped the worldview of many North sign the landmark Partial Test Ban
surrender: Which was the critical
Koreans and helped them imagine Treaty in 1963. Bringing together
factor, the atomic bombing of Hiro-
a unified anti-imperialist front that environmental history and Cold War
shima and Nagasaki, or the Soviet
stretched from the boulevards of history, Toshihiro Higuchi argues that
Union’s entry into the war?
Pyongyang to the streets of the Gaza the PTBT, originally proposed as an
Strip and the beaches of Cuba. arms control measure, transformed Contributors include Barton J.
into a dual-purpose initiative to check Bernstein, Richard Frank, Sumio
“Thoroughly researched and absolutely the nuclear arms race and radioactive Hatano, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, and
eye-opening…an unprecedented look pollution simultaneously.
into the causes and consequences of David Holloway.
North Korea’s struggle for interna- “An insightful analysis of how interna- STANFORD NUCLEAR AGE SERIES
tional influence.” tional governance and environmental 352 pages, April 2021
—Mitchell Lerner, regulation configured understandings of 9781503628939 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale
Ohio State University
risk and pollution in the Anthropocene.”
COLD WAR INTERNATIONAL —Kate Brown,
HISTORY PROJECT author of Plutopia
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WORLD 13Empire of Guns Woodrow Wilson and Between Empire and Nation
The Violent Making of the the Reimagining of Muslim Reform in the Balkans
Industrial Revolution Eastern Europe Milena B. Methodieva
Priya Satia Larry Wolff This book tells the story of the trans-
Between the seventeenth and nine- At the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, formation of the Muslim community
teenth centuries, Britain transitioned where the victorious Allied powers in modern Bulgaria during a period
from an agricultural and artisanal met to redraw the map of Europe of imperial dissolution, conflicting
economy to one dominated by in the aftermath of World War One, national and imperial enterprises, and
industry, ushering in unprecedented President Woodrow Wilson played the emergence of new national and
growth in technology and trade and an important role in the political ethnic identities. Methodieva explores
putting the country at the center restructuring of Eastern Europe. how former Ottoman subjects, now
of the global economy. But the In this book, Larry Wolff explores under Bulgarian rule, navigated
commonly accepted story of the how Wilsons principles of politics between empire and nation-state, and
industrial revolution overlooks the and international relations inter- sought to claim a place in the larger
true root of Britain’s economic and sected with his “mental mapping” modern world. Using a wide array
industrial expansion: the lucrative of Eastern Europe, how his ideas of primary sources and drawing on
military contracting that enabled the about the Ottoman and Habsburg both Ottoman and Eastern European
country’s near-constant state of war. empires evolved, how his personal historiographies, Methodieva ap-
By focusing on the life of prominent friendships and connections shaped proaches the question of Balkan
British gun-maker Samuel Galton Jr., his view of Eastern Europe, and how Muslims’ engagement with modernity
this book traces the social and mate- the idea of “minority rights” devel- through a transnational lens, arguing
rial life of British guns, illuminating oped in relation to the principle of that the experience of this Muslim
Britain’s emergence as a global national self-determination. minority provides new insight into
superpower and the origins of our the nature of nationalism, citizenship,
own era’s debates over gun control “In this penetrating study Larry Wolff and state formation.
shows for the first time, with clarity
and military contracting. “This important new book is set
and subtlety, how Wilson’s ‘mental
“An important revisionist account of map’ of Eastern Europe took shape to redefine the entanglements of
the industrial revolution, reminding and what a difference it made to the modern history of Europe and the
us that the making of the modern region’s fate.” Middle East.”
—Cemil Aydin,
state and the making of modern —Erez Manela, University of North Carolina
capitalism were tightly intertwined.” author of The Wilsonian Moment
STANFORD STUDIES ON CENTRAL AND
—Sven Beckert, 304 pages, 2020 EASTERN EUROPE
author of Empire of Cotton
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14 WORLD EUROPEThe Everyday Nationalism Writing Occupation Stepchildren of the Shtetl
of Workers Jewish Émigré Voices in The Destitute, Disabled, and
A Social History of Modern Belgium Wartime France Mad of Jewish Eastern Europe,
Julia Elsky 1800-1939
Maarten Van Ginderachter
Among the Jewish writers who Natan M. Meir
In this book, Maarten Van
Ginderachter upends assumptions emigrated from Eastern Europe Memoirs of Jewish life in the east
about how European nationalism is to France between the two world European shtetl often recall the
lived and experienced by ordinary wars, a number chose to switch hekdesh (town poorhouse) and its
people—and the bottom-up impact from writing in their languages residents: beggars, madmen and
these “everyday” expressions of of origin to writing primarily in madwomen, disabled people, and
nationalism exert on institutional- French. Under the Nazi occupation poor orphans. Stepchildren of the
ized nationalism writ large. Drawing of France from 1940 to 1944, these Shtetl tells the story of these mar-
on sources from the major urban Jewish émigré writers continued ginalized figures from the dawn
and working-class centers of Bel- to write in their adopted language, of modernity to the eve of the
gium, Van Ginderachter uncovers even as the Vichy regime and Nazi Holocaust, and shows how Jewish
the everyday nationalism of the occupiers denied their French society’s most disenfranchised were
rank-and-file of the socialist Belgian identity through xenophobic and often made to bear the burden of
Workers Party between 1880 and antisemitic laws. In this book, Julia the nation as a whole. Combining
World War I, a period in which Elsky considers how these writers archival research with analysis
Europe experienced the concurrent reexamined both their Jewish- of literary, cultural, and religious
rise of nationalism and socialism ness and their place as authors texts, Natan M. Meir recovers the
as mass movements. By analyzing in France. By writing in French, lived experience of Jewish society’s
sources from—not just about— they expressed multiple cultural, outcasts and reveals the central role
ordinary workers, Van Ginderachter religious, and linguistic identities, that they came to play in the drama
reveals the limits of nation-building even when their sense of belonging of modernization.
from above and the potential of was being violently denied.
“This outstanding book offers us a
agency from below. “Clearly and gracefully written, glimpse at the underbelly of a Jewish
“This superb book both illuminates Writing Occupation will be of community rarely studied from this
the Belgian case and provides a model interest to all those concerned by vantage point. Meir tackles an elusive
for future research.” the fate of Jews in France, before topic with analytic skill, keen sensi-
—John Breuilly, and after the Second World War.” tivity, and clear, accessible prose.”
London School of Economics —Steven J. Zipperstein,
—Susan Rubin Suleiman,
author of The Némirovsky Question author of Pogrom
280 pages, 2019
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EUROPE STANFORD STUDIES IN JEWISH HISTORY AND CULTURE 15
A SERIES EDITED BY DAVID BIALE AND SARAH ABREVAYA STEINIt Could Lead to Dancing German as a Jewish Problem Another Modernity
Mixed-Sex Dancing and The Language Politics of Elia Benamozegh’s Jewish
Jewish Modernity Jewish Nationalism Universalism
Sonia Gollance Marc Volovici Clémence Boulouque
Dances and balls appear throughout The German language has held an Another Modernity is a rich study
world literature as venues for young ambivalent and controversial place of the life and thought of Elia
people to meet, flirt, and form in the modern history of European Benamozegh, a nineteenth-century
relationships, as any reader of Pride Jews, representing different—often rabbi and philosopher whose work
and Prejudice or Romeo and Juliet conflicting—historical currents. profoundly influenced Christian-
can attest. While traditional Jewish The crucial role of German in the Jewish dialogue in twentieth-century
law prohibits men and women from formation of Jewish national culture Europe. Benamozegh, a Livornese
dancing together, Jewish mixed-sex and politics in the late nineteenth rabbi of Moroccan descent, was a
dancing was understood as the century has been largely overshad- prolific writer and transnational
very sign of modernity—and the owed by the catastrophic events thinker who corresponded widely
ultimate boundary transgression. that befell Jews under Nazi rule. with religious and intellectual figures
In Jewish literature of the long German as a Jewish Problem tells in France, the Maghreb, and the
nineteenth century, dance scenes the Jewish history of the German Middle East. What he proposed
become a charged and complex language, focusing on Jewish was unprecedented: that the Jewish
arena for understanding the limits of national movements in Central and tradition presented a solution to
acculturation, the dangers of ethnic Eastern Europe and Palestine/Israel. the religious crisis of modernity.
mixing, and the implications of Marc Volovici considers key writers In this book, Clémence Boulouque
shifting gender norms and marriage and activists whose work reflected presents a wide-ranging and nuanced
patterns. Combining cultural history the multilingual nature of the Jewish investigation of Benamozegh’s views,
with literary analysis, Sonia Gollance national sphere and the centrality of considering his work’s impact on
illustrates how mixed-sex dancing the German language within it. This Christian-Jewish dialogue as well as
functions as a flexible metaphor for book offers a new understanding of on evangelical Christians and right-
the concerns of Jewish communities the language problem in modern wing religious Zionists.
in the face of cultural transitions. Jewish history. “Clémence Boulouque deftly captures
“A fascinating exploration of the “A fascinating, superbly told story.” the Italian rabbi’s singular approach to
role of dance in literary representa- —John M. Efron, mysticism, universalism, and the role
tions of Jewish modernization and University of California, Berkeley of Judaism in the modern world; she is
secularization.” the ideal scholar to bring Benamozegh
—Naomi Seidman, 352 pages, 2020 out of an undeserved obscurity.”
University of Toronto 9781503612303 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale —Jessica Maya Marglin,
288 pages, May 2021 University of Southern California
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16 STANFORD STUDIES IN JEWISH HISTORY AND CULTURE
A SERIES EDITED BY DAVID BIALE AND SARAH ABREVAYA STEINThe Jews of Ottoman Izmir Forging Ties, Forging The Converso’s Return
A Modern History Passports Conversion and Sephardi History
Dina Danon Migration and the Modern in Contemporary Literature
Sephardi Diaspora and Culture
Across Europe, Jews had been
confronted with the notion Devi Mays Dalia Kandiyoti
that their religious and cultural This book explores the history Five centuries after the forced con-
distinctiveness was somehow of Ottoman Sephardic Jews who version of Spanish and Portuguese
incompatible with the modern emigrated to the Americas—and Jews to Catholicism, stories of
age. Yet the view from Ottoman especially, to Mexico—in the late conversos’ descendants uncovering
Izmir invites a different approach. nineteenth and early twentieth long-hidden Jewish roots inspired
Danon argues that while Jewish centuries, and the complex relation- a wave of contemporary writing
religious and cultural distinctive- ships they maintained to legal pointing to a past that had been
ness remained unquestioned in documentation as they settled presumed dead and buried. The
this late Ottoman port city, other into new homes. In the aftermath Converso’s Return explores the
elements of identity emerged as of World War I and the Mexican cultural politics and literary impact
sites of tension, most notably Revolution, migrants navigated new of this reawakened interest in
poverty and social class. Through layers of bureaucracy and authority converso and crypto-Jewish history,
the voices of beggars and mer- amidst changing political regimes. and asks what this fascination
cantile elites, shoe-shiners and By making use of commercial and with lost-and-found heritage can
newspaper editors, rabbis and familial networks between formerly tell us about how we relate to
housewives, this book argues that Ottoman lands, France, the United and make use of the past. Dalia
it was new attitudes to poverty States, Cuba, and Mexico, these Kandiyoti turns to contemporary
and class that most significantly Sephardic migrants maintained a fiction and memoirs that imagine
framed the Jewish encounter with geographic and social mobility that what might be missing from the
the modern age. challenged the physical borders of historical archive, suggesting that
“Dina Danon opens new windows the state and the conceptual bound- these works propose an alternative
onto the changing socioeconomic aries of the nation. historical consciousness that reveals
realities and values of Jews in a convergences and solidarities
major port city of the late Ottoman “A sparkling work of social history
that prompts larger questions over within Sephardi, Christian, Muslim,
Empire. Those interested in modern converso, and Sabbatean histories.
Jewish and Ottoman history alike citizenship and its meanings.”
have much to learn from this —Stacy D. Fahrenthold, “Theoretically sophisticated, histori-
fascinating study.” University of California, Davis cally rigorous, and superbly written.”
—Julia Phillips Cohen, 360 pages, 2020 —Tabea Alexa Linhard,
Vanderbilt University 9781503613218 Paper $30.00 $24.00 sale author of Jewish Spain
272 pages, 2020 336 pages, 2020
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STANFORD STUDIES IN JEWISH HISTORY AND CULTURE 17
A SERIES EDITED BY DAVID BIALE AND SARAH ABREVAYA STEINThe Oldest Guard The Sultan’s Communists NEW IN PAPERBACK
Forging the Zionist Settler Past Moroccan Jews and the The Merchants of Oran
Liora R. Halperin Politics of Belonging A Jewish Port at the Dawn
Alma Rachel Heckman of Empire
This book tells the story of Zionist
settler memory in and around The Sultan’s Communists uncovers Joshua Schreier
the private agricultural colonies the history of Jewish radical involve- The Merchants of Oran weaves
(moshavot) established in late ment in Morocco’s national liberation together the history of a Mediter-
nineteenth-century Ottoman project and examines how Moroccan ranean port city with the lives of
Palestine. Though they grew into Jews envisioned themselves Oran’s Jewish mercantile elite during
the backbone of lucrative citrus and participating as citizens in a newly the transition to French colonial
wine industries of mandate Pales- independent Morocco. The figures rule. As French policies began
tine and Israel in the twentieth at the center of Heckman’s narrative collapsing Oran’s diverse Jewish
century, absorbed tens of thousands stood at the intersection of colonial- inhabitants into a single social
of Jewish immigrants, and became ism, Arab nationalism, and Zionism. category, they legally separated
known retrospectively as the “first Their stories unfolded in a country Jews from their Muslim neighbors,
wave” (First Aliyah) of Zionist that upon independence allied itself creating a racial hierarchy. Schreier
settlement, these communities have with the United States during the argues that France’s exclusionary
been regarded—and disregarded— Cold War, while attempting to claim policy of “emancipation,” far more
in the history of Zionism as sites a place for itself within the fraught than older antipathies, planted the
of conservatism, lack of ideology, politics of the post-independence seeds of twentieth-century ruptures
and resistance to Zionist Labor Arab world. This book contributes to between Muslims and Jews.
politics. Treating the “First Aliyah” the growing literature on Jews in the
modern Middle East and provides a “An eloquent evocation of the era
as a symbol created and deployed of French colonization of Algeria,
new history of twentieth-century
only in retrospect, Liora Halperin revealing how Algeria’s cosmopolitan
Jewish Morocco.
reveals the centrality of settlement Jews were active agents in shaping
to Zionist collective memory. “With meticulousness and fervor, and transforming Jewish society.”
Heckman offers a unique historical —Daniel Schroeter,
“Halperin unpacks the complex entry to North Africa’s Jewish com- University of Minnesota
relationship between Ashkenazim, munities. The Sultan’s Communists
Mizrahim, and Palestinians in the provides a new and refreshing 216 pages, May 2021
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perceptions of its past were, and colonial and post-colonial societies.”
are, in constant state of flux.”
—Aomar Boum,
—Orit Bashkin, University of California, Los Angeles
University of Chicago
344 pages, 2020
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