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Traveling Black
A Story of Race and Resistance
Mia Bay
★B
 ancroft Prize
★A
 New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

“This extraordinary book is a powerful addition to the history of

travel segregation. Traveling Black reveals how travel discrimination
transformed over time from segregated trains to buses and Uber
rides. Mia Bay shows that Black mobility has always been a struggle.”
—Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist

“In Mia Bay’s superb history of mobility and resistance, the question
of literal movement becomes a way to understand the civil rights
movement writ large.”
—Jennifer Szalai, New York Times
Belknap Press 50 photos, 1 table 400 pp.
$35.00 • £28.95 cloth 9780674979963

Why White Liberals Fail

Race and Southern Politics from FDR to Trump
Anthony J. Badger
“Badger is a master of Southern politics, and this book is
a highly readable account of the decades of racist politics
that brought us to our present moment.”
—Glenda Gilmore, author of Defying Dixie

“This is a provocative summary of the history of twentieth-century

white Southern liberalism.”
—Joseph Crespino, author of Atticus Finch
The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures 256 pp.
$27.95 • £22.95 cloth 9780674242340

Washington at the Plow

The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery
Bruce A. Ragsdale
“A landmark work that both deepens and complicates
our understanding of George Washington...This fascinating
book has done more to change my views on Washington
than anything I have read in a long time.”
—François Furstenberg, author of In the Name of the Father
Belknap Press 19 photos 368 pp.
$29.95 • £23.95 cloth 9780674246386

Necropolis
Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
Kathryn Olivarius
“Captivating…Olivarius illuminates the complex workings of
‘immunocapitalism’ and paints a vivid picture of antebellum
New Orleans. This is a timely and thought-provoking look at how
disease outbreaks have exacerbated inequality in America.”
—Publishers Weekly

“This transformative work is a pivotal addition to the

scholarship on American slavery.”
—Annette Gordon-Reed, author of On Juneteenth
Belknap Press 9 photos, 3 maps 352 pp.
$35.00 • £28.95 cloth 9780674241053

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When France Fell

The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance
Michael S. Neiberg
“A mesmerizing account of how the U.S., as it anticipated another
European war, stumbled through attempts to neutralize Vichy France.”
—Ronald C. Rosbottom, Wall Street Journal

“One of the very best historians on wartime France...superbly written.”

—Antony Beevor, author of The Second World War
20 photos, 2 maps 320 pp. $29.95 • £23.95 cloth 9780674258563

Nazis of Copley Square

The Forgotten Story of the Christian Front
Charles R. Gallagher
“A great, but deeply unsettling, revelation...This book is more
than an account of Boston in wartime. It is a warning.”
—Boston Globe

“[A] well told, expertly researched, and much-needed history

of the Christian Front, an organization that presages today’s
far-right activity…Riveting. I found the result startling.”
—Paul Moses, Commonweal
15 photos 336 pp. $29.95 • £23.95 cloth 9780674983717

The Brethren
A Story of Faith and Conspiracy in Revolutionary America
Brendan McConville
“In this innovative and vivid history, McConville deploys
deft and deep research to recover a long-hidden struggle
within the American Revolution for the soul of a new nation.”
—Alan Taylor, author of American Revolutions

“McConville gives us an American Revolution we have

never really seen.”
—Woody Holton, author of Liberty Is Sweet
4 maps 304 pp. $29.95 • £23.95 cloth 9780674249165

Cover art: The Life of George Washington: The Farmer,

lithograph after painting by Junius Brutus Stearns. Claude
Regnier, lithographer. Printed by Imprimerie Lemercier,
Paris, c1853. Library of Congress.

The Next Shift

The Fall of Industry and the Rise
of Health Care in Rust Belt America
Gabriel Winant
★ A ProMarket Best Political Economy Book of the Year
★ A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

“A deeply upsetting book…Winant ably blends social and political

history with conventional labor history to construct a remarkably
comprehensive narrative with clear contemporary implications.”
—Scott W. Stern, New Republic
368 pp. 8 photos, 4 illus., 6 maps, 12 tables
$35.00 • £28.95 cloth 9780674238091

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The Chinese Must Go Hattiesburg

Violence, Exclusion, and the William Sturkey
Making of the Alien in America ★Z
 ócalo Public Square Book Prize
Beth Lew-Williams ★B
 enjamin L. Hooks Award Finalist

★ Ray Allen Billington Prize
★ Ellis W. Hawley Prize
“A powerful argument about racial violence that
could not be more timely…White nationalists
targeted Chinese immigrants as threats to their
homes and jobs and blamed the American
government for failing to seal the borders.”
—Richard White, author of
The Republic for Which It Stands
15 halftones, 6 maps, 1 chart, 4 tables 360 pp.
$29.95 • £23.95 paper 9780674260351
“Sturkey’s clear-eyed and meticulous book pulls off
a delicate balancing act. While depicting the terrors
of Jim Crow, he also shows how Hattiesburg’s black
residents, forced to forge their own communal
institutions, laid the organizational groundwork
for the civil rights movement.”
—New York Times
“An insightful, powerful, and moving book.”
—Kevin Boyle, author of Arc of Justice
Belknap Press 16 photos, 1 map, 1 table 456 pp.
$21.95 • £17.95 paper 9780674248274

Landscapes of Hope Policing the Open Road

Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago
Brian McCammack
★F  rederick Jackson Turner Award
★G  eorge Perkins Marsh Prize
★ J ohn Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize
“A major work of history that brings together
African-American history and environmental
studies in exciting ways.”
—Davarian L. Baldwin,
Journal of Interdisciplinary History
24 halftones, 7 maps 376 pp.
$29.95 • £23.95 paper 9780674260375
How Cars Transformed American Freedom
Sarah A. Seo
★L
 ittleton-Griswold Prize
★A
 Smithsonian Best History Book of the Year
“With insights ranging from the joy of the open
road to the indignities—and worse—of ‘driving
while black,’ Sarah Seo makes the case that the
‘law of the car’ has eroded our rights to privacy
and equal justice.”
—Paul Butler, author of Chokehold
24 photos, 2 tables 352 pp.
$18.95 • £15.95 paper 9780674260344

The Cabinet
George Washington and the Creation
of an American Institution
Lindsay M. Chervinsky
★D
 aughters of the American Revolution’s
Excellence in American History Book Award

“An indispensable guide to the creation of the cabinet. With

[Chervinsky’s] groundbreaking study, we can now have a much
greater appreciation of this essential American institution.”
—Ron Chernow, author of Washington: A Life
Belknap Press 11 photos 432 pp.
$17.95 • £14.95 paper 9780674271036

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The Enchantments of Mammon Tomorrow, the World

How Capitalism Became
the Religion of Modernity
Eugene McCarraher
“An extraordinary work of intellectual history
as well as a scholarly tour de force, a bracing
polemic, and a work of Christian prophecy.”
—The Observer
“A majestic achievement…It is a work of great
moral and spiritual intelligence.”
—Commonweal
Belknap Press 816 pp.
$27.95 • £22.95 paper 9780674271098
The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy
Stephen Wertheim
★A
 Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year
“A tour de force.”
—Andrew J. Bacevich, The Nation
“Its implications are invigorating…Wertheim
opens space for Americans to reexamine their
own history and ask themselves whether primacy
has ever really met their interests.”
—Daniel Bessner, New Republic
Belknap Press 7 photos, 4 maps 272 pp.
$19.95 • £15.95 paper 9780674271135

The Cigarette The Global Interior

A Political History Mineral Frontiers and American Power
Sarah Milov Megan Black
★L
 os Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist ★G
 eorge Perkins Marsh Prize
★W
 illie Lee Rose Prize ★S
 tuart L. Bernath Prize
“Vaping gets all the attention now, but Milov’s “Extraordinary…Deftly rearranges the last
thorough study reminds us that smoking has century and a half of American history in
always intersected with the government, for fresh and useful ways.”
better or worse.”
—Los Angeles Review of Books
—New York Times Book Review
“A smart, original, and ambitious book. Black
“A nuanced and ultimately devastating indictment demonstrates that the Interior Department has
of government complicity with the worst excesses had a far larger, more invasive, and more conse-
of American capitalism.” quential role in the world than one would expect.”
—New Republic —Brian DeLay, author of War of a Thousand Deserts
21 photos 400 pp. 25 photos, 4 maps 360 pp.
$22.95 • £18.95 paper 9780674260313 $27.95 • £22.95 paper 9780674271197

Katrina
A History, 1915–2015
Andy Horowitz
★ Bancroft Prize

“Masterful…Disasters have the power to reveal who we are,

what we value, what we’re willing—and unwilling—to protect.”
—Eric Klinenberg, New York Review of Books

“If you want to read only one book to better understand why
people in positions of power in government and industry do
so little to address climate change...this is the one.”
—Scott W. Stern, Los Angeles Review of Books
28 photos, 2 maps 296 pp. $17.95 • £14.95 paper 9780674271074

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Tacky’s Revolt
Vincent Brown
★A
 nisfield-Wolf Book Award
★F
 rederick Douglass Book Prize

“Brilliant…groundbreaking.”
—Cornel West

“Vividly demonstrat[es] how warfare shaped

every aspect of bondage.”
—Harper’s
Belknap Press 24 illus., 12 maps 336 pp.
$19.95 • £15.95 paper 9780674260290

No Property in Man
Sean Wilentz
★A
 New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
★A
 Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year

“Wilentz brings a lifetime of learning and a mastery

of political history to this brilliant book.”
—David W. Blight, author of Frederick Douglass

“No American historian of his generation has

written so well on so many different subjects;
few even come close.”
—The Nation
The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures 368 pp.
$20.00 • £16.95 paper 9780674241428

The World of Plymouth Plantation

Carla Gardina Pestana
“Thanksgiving, Squanto, the Mayflower, and its compact—
we all know the Pilgrims’ story, or we think we do. In this
succinct, elegantly written book, Pestana introduces
readers to the reality behind the myth.”
—Eliga H. Gould, author of
Among the Powers of the Earth

“Illuminating…Pestana brings the early decades of the

colony to rich and nuanced life.”
—Publishers Weekly
Belknap Press 18 photos, 3 maps 248 pp.
$25.95 • £20.95 cloth 9780674238510

AN EBOOK ORIGINAL

Racism in America
A Reader
Foreword by Annette Gordon-Reed

Racism in America is an invitation to understand anti-Black

racism through the eyes of our most incisive commentators.
It is for all curious readers, teachers, and students who wish to
discover for themselves the complex and rewarding intellectual
work that has sustained our national conversation on race and
will continue to guide us in future years.

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The Authority of the Court

and the Peril of Politics
Stephen Breyer
“Breyer…has thought deeply about judicial power, the rule of law,
and the role of the judiciary in the American polity…His voice
is a powerful one, and the brevity of this book, together with
its readability, should ensure its lasting influence…An important
document on American civics.”
—Bryan A. Garner, Wall Street Journal

“Seeks to provide a historical backdrop to current public discussions

about reforming the court…[Breyer] warns that these politically
polarized times threaten public confidence in the high court.”
—Joan Biskupic, Washington Post
2 illus. 128 pp. $19.95 • £15.95 cloth 9780674269361

Justice Rising
Robert Kennedy’s America in Black and White
Patricia Sullivan
“In most accounts of the tumultuous 1960s, Robert Kennedy
plays a supporting role…Sullivan corrects this and puts [him]
near the center of the nation’s struggle for racial justice…
Kennedy’s personal growth and his political triumphs are
reminders of the transformative potential of American democracy.”
—Richard Thompson Ford, Washington Post
Belknap Press 34 photos 544 pp. $39.95 • £31.95 9780674737457

The Original Meaning of

the Fourteenth Amendment
Its Letter and Spirit
Randy E. Barnett • Evan D. Bernick
foreword by James Oakes

“The book’s impressive array of historical materials makes an

important contribution to our understanding of the 14th Amendment.”
—Raymond Kethledge, Wall Street Journal

“As complete an account of the intellectual and political origins of the

Fourteenth Amendment as one could hope for. As a work of history, it
bristles with surprises.”
—Richard H. Fallon, Jr., author of
Law and Legitimacy in the Supreme Court
Belknap Press 488 pp. $35.00 • £28.95 cloth 9780674257764

Bring the War Home

Kathleen Belew
★A
 Guardian Best Book of the Year

“A gripping study of white power…Explosive.”

—New York Times

“Helps explain how we got to today’s alt-right.”

—Terry Gross, Fresh Air

“A rigorous meditation on the relationship between American

militarism abroad and extremism at home .”
—Patrick Blanchfield, The Nation
11 photos 352 pp. $17.95 • £14.95 paper 9780674237698

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Liner Notes for the Revolution

The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
Daphne A. Brooks
★S
 tone Book Award, Museum of African American
History of Boston and Nantucket
★P
 EN Oakland–Josephine Miles Award
★A
 New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

“A sweeping survey of Black women’s contributions to music

history and a rigorous mapping of their lives as intellectuals…
A positively revolutionary ‘critical re-attunement.’”
—Pitchfork
Belknap Press 90 photos 608 pp.
$39.95 • £31.95 cloth 9780674052819

Why They Marched

Susan Ware
“An intimate account of the unheralded activism
that won women the right to vote.”
—Ms.

“Demonstrates the steady advance of women’s

suffrage while also complicating the standard portrait of it.”
—New Yorker
Belknap Press 31 photos 360 pp.
$16.95 • £13.95 paper 9780674248298

Women’s War
Stephanie McCurry
★P
 EN Oakland–Josephine Miles Award

“Correcting histories that erase women’s share in wartime work,

McCurry reminds us that ‘Women are never just witnesses to war.’”
—Wall Street Journal

“Explodes the fiction that men fight wars while women idle on the
sidelines.”
—Washington Post
Belknap Press 8 photos 320 pp.
$26.95 • £21.95 cloth 9780674987975

The Condemnation of Blackness

Khalil Gibran Muhammad
★ J ohn Hope Franklin Prize
★A  Vera Institute of Justice Best Book of the Year

“A brilliant work that tells us how directly the past has formed us.”
—Darryl Pinckney, New York Review of Books

“A fresh and fierce study of one of the most enduring lies in

American society: the deliberate statistical fusion of criminality
with Blackness.”
—Los Angeles Review of Books
7 photos, 5 illus. 416 pp. $16.95 • £13.95 paper 9780674238145

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Prophets and Ghosts Time of Anarchy Heathen The Listeners

Samuel J. Redman Matthew Kruer Kathryn Gin Lum Brian Hochman
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Our Dear-Bought True Story We the Miners Coconut Colonialism

Liberty Shanon Fitzpatrick Andrea G. McDowell Holger Droessler
Michael D. Breidenbach 304 pp. $39.95 • £31.95 336 pp. $39.95 • £31.95 Harvard Historical
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Cotton Mather’s Not Made by Slaves Accounting Wild by Design

Spanish Lessons Bronwen Everill for Slavery Laura J. Martin
Kirsten Silva Gruesz 328 pp. $39.95 • £31.95 Caitlin Rosenthal 336 pp. $39.95 • £31.95
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Saltwater Slavery Race and Reunion The Reaper’s Garden The Black Atlantic
Stephanie E. Smallwood David W. Blight Vincent Brown Paul Gilroy
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Confederate To ’Joy My Freedom This Vast Southern Incidents in the Life

Reckoning Tera W. Hunter Empire of a Slave Girl
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River of Dark Many Thousands Generations Black Rice

Dreams Gone of Captivity Judith A. Carney
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Killing for Coal The Dead March The Ideological From the War on
Thomas G. Andrews Peter Guardino Origins of the Poverty to the War
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 eorge Perkins Award, Society for Bernard Bailyn Elizabeth Hinton
Marsh Prize Military History
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A Nation under Facing East from A Misplaced Salem Possessed

Our Feet Indian Country Massacre Paul Boyer • Stephen
Steven Hahn Daniel K. Richter Ari Kelman Nissenbaum
★ Pulitzer Prize ★F
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 ancroft Prize ★F
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After Appomattox Huck’s Raft Age of Fracture The Accidental City

Gregory P. Downs Steven Mintz Daniel T. Rodgers Lawrence N. Powell
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