Author: Peter Fritzsche
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: reich, third, death, life
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2009-09-30
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0674034651
ISBN-13: 9780674034655

On January 30, 1933, hearing about the celebrations for Hitler’s assumption of power, Erich Ebermayer remarked bitterly in his diary, “We are the losers, definitely the losers.” Learning of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935, which made Jews non-citizens, he raged, “hate is sown a million-fold.” Yet in March 1938, he wept for joy at the Anschluss with Austria: “Not to want it just because it has been achieved by Hitler would be folly.” In a masterful work, Peter Fritzsche deciphers the puzzle of Nazism’s ideological grip. Its basic appeal lay in the Volksgemeinschaft—a “peopl

Authors:John King Fairbank, Merle Goldman,
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: enlarged, history, new, china
Number of Pages: 568
Published: 1998-05
List price: $24.50
ISBN-10: 0674116739
ISBN-13: 9780674116733

Recognized for decades as the West’s doyen on China, John King Fairbank here offers the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast ancient civilization. Fairbank’s masterwork is without parallel as a concise, comprehensive, and authoritative account of China and its people. 83 halftones, line drawings and maps.

Authors:Lord George Gordon Byron, Leslie A. Marchand,
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: byron, journals, letters, vol, opposition, volume, viii
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 1978-11-09
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0674089480
ISBN-13: 9780674089488

Byron was a superb letter-writer: almost all his letters, whatever the subject or whoever the recipient, are enlivened by his wit, his irony, his honesty, and the sharpness of his observation of people. They provide a vivid self-portrait of the man who, of all his contemporaries, seems to express attitudes and feelings most in tune with the twentieth century. In addition, they offer a mirror of his own time. This first collected edition of all Byron’s known letters supersedes Prothero’s incomplete edition at the turn of the century. It includes a considerable number of hitherto unp

Author: Frederick Douglass
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: himself, john, harvard, library, written, slave, life, frederick, douglass, american, narrative
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2009-04-15
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 0674034015
ISBN-13: 9780674034013

No book more vividly explains the horror of American slavery and the emotional impetus behind the antislavery movement than Frederick Douglass’ "Narrative". In an introductory essay, Robert Stepto re-examines the extraordinary life and achievement of a man who escaped from slavery to become a leading abolitionist and one of our most important writers. The John Harvard Library text reproduces the first edition, published in Boston in 1845.

Author: Joan Houston Hall
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: volume, english, regional, american, dictionary
Number of Pages: 1040
Published: 2002-12-31
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 0674008847
ISBN-13: 9780674008847

Every page in this new volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English makes it wonderfully clear that regional expressions still flourish throughout the United States. Depending on where you live, your conversation may include such beguiling terms as paddybass (North Carolina), pinkwink (Cape Cod), or scallyhoot (West); if you’re invited to a potluck dinner, in Indiana you’re likely to call it a pitch-in, while in northern Illinois it’s a scramble; if your youngsters play hopscotch, they may call it potsy in Manhattan, but sky blue in Chicago. Like the popular fi

Author: Louis Crompton
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: civilization, homosexuality
Number of Pages: 648
Published: 2006-10-31
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0674022335
ISBN-13: 9780674022331

How have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? In a narrative tour de force, Louis Crompton chronicles the lives and achievements of homosexual men and women alongside a darker history of persecution, as he compares the Christian West with the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome, Arab Spain, imperial China, and pre-Meiji Japan. Ancient Greek culture celebrated same-sex love in history, literature, and art, making high claims for its moral influence. By contrast, Jewish religious leaders in the sixth century B.C.E. branded male ho

Authors:Bradley Bateman, Toshiaki Hirai, Maria Cristina Marc
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: keynes, return
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2010-02-15
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0674035380
ISBN-13: 9780674035386

Keynesian economics, which proposed that the government could use monetary and fiscal policy to help the economy avoid the extremes of recession and inflation, held sway for thirty years after World War II. However, it was discredited after the stagflation of the 1970s, which not only proved resistant to traditional Keynesian policies but was actually thought to be caused by them. By the 1990s, the anti-Keynesian counter-revolution seemed to reach its pinnacle with the award of several Nobel Prizes in economics to its architects at the University of Chicago. However, with the collapse of