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Pericles of Athens
THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE AND BALANCED
BIOGRAPHY OF PERICLES EVER PUBLISHED
Vincent Azoulay
Translated by Janet Lloyd
With a foreword by Paul Cartledge

Pericles has had the rare distinction of giving his name to an

entire period of history, embodying what has often been taken
as the golden age of the ancient Greek world. “Periclean”
Athens witnessed tumultuous political and military events,
and achievements of the highest order in philosophy, drama,
poetry, oratory, and architecture. Pericles of Athens is the first
book in more than two decades to reassess the life and legacy
of one of the greatest generals, orators, and statesmen of the
classical world.
In this compelling critical biography, Vincent Azoulay
provides an unforgettable portrait of Pericles and his turbulent
era, shedding light on his powerful family, his patronage of
the arts, and his unrivaled influence on Athenian politics and
culture. He takes a fresh look at both the classical and modern
reception of Pericles, recognizing his achievements as well as
his failings while deftly avoiding the adulatory or hypercritical
positions staked out by some scholars today. From Thucydides
and Plutarch to Voltaire and Hegel, ancient and modern au-
thors have questioned the great statesman’s relationship with
“Remarkable in every way.” democracy and Athenian society. Did Pericles hold supreme
power over willing masses or was he just a gifted representa-
—Roger-Pol Droit, Le Monde
tive of popular aspirations? Was Periclean Athens a democracy
in name only, as Thucydides suggests? This is the enigma that
“Rigorous and finely argued.” Azoulay investigates in this groundbreaking book.
—Pascal Payen, Bryn Mawr Classical Pericles of Athens offers a balanced look at the complex
Review life and afterlife of the legendary “first citizen of Athens” who
presided over the birth of democracy.
“This impressive book successfully
strikes a critical balance between the Vincent Azoulay is assistant professor of ancient Greek history
excessive praise and hypercriticism that at the Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée and a leading expert
on the politics of classical Greece.
have dominated scholarship in recent
decades.”
—Kurt Raaflaub, author of The Discov-
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Byzantine Mat ters WHY THE MARGINALIZED STORY OF
BYZANTIUM HAS MUCH TO TEACH US
ABOUT WESTERN HISTORY
Averil Cameron

For many of us, Byzantium remains “byzantine”—obscure,

marginal, difficult. Despite the efforts of some recent histori-
ans, prejudices still deform popular and scholarly understand-
ing of the Byzantine civilization, often reducing it to a poor
relation of Rome and the rest of the classical world. In this
book, renowned historian Averil Cameron presents an original
and personal view of the challenges and questions facing
historians of Byzantium today.
The book explores five major themes, all subjects of con-
troversy. “Absence” asks why Byzantium is routinely passed
over, ignored, or relegated to a sphere of its own. “Empire”
reinserts Byzantium into modern debates about empire, and
discusses the nature of its system and its remarkable longev-
ity. “Hellenism” confronts the question of the “Greekness” of
Byzantium, and of the place of Byzantium in modern Greek
consciousness. “The Realms of Gold” asks what lessons can
be drawn from Byzantine visual art, and “The Very Model of
Orthodoxy” challenges existing views of Byzantine Christianity.
Throughout, the book addresses misconceptions about
Byzantium, suggests why it is so important to integrate the “In this brilliant and remarkably re-
civilization into wider histories, and lays out why Byzantium freshing book, one of the most distin-
should be central to ongoing debates about the relationships guished living Byzantinists describes
between West and East, Christianity and Islam, Catholicism what has changed and what still needs
and Eastern Orthodoxy, and the ancient and medieval periods.
to change in our approach to Byzan-
The result is a forthright and compelling call to reconsider the
tium. Personal, direct, and written with
place of Byzantium in Western history and imagination.
extraordinary acuity, Byzantine Matters
Averil Cameron is professor emeritus of late antique and Byz- will be essential reading for all those
antine history at the University of Oxford and former warden interested in the future of classical,
of Keble College, Oxford. Her books include The Mediterra- medieval, and Byzantine studies.”
nean World in Late Antiquity, The Byzantines, and The Later
—Peter Sarris, author of Empires of
Roman Empire.
Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of
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Cross and Scepter
A CONCISE HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL SCANDINAVIA
The Rise of the Scandinavian Kingdoms
from the Vikings to the Reformation

Sverre Bagge

Christianity and European-style monarchy—the cross and

the scepter—were introduced to Scandinavia in the tenth
century, a development that was to have profound implica-
tions for all of Europe. Cross and Scepter is a concise history
of the Scandinavian kingdoms from the age of the Vikings
to the Reformation, written by Scandinavia’s leading medi-
eval historian. Sverre Bagge shows how the rise of the three
kingdoms not only changed the face of Scandinavia, but also
helped make the territorial state the standard political unit
in Western Europe. He describes Scandinavia’s momentous
conversion to Christianity and the creation of church and
monarchy there, and traces how these events transformed
Scandinavian law and justice, military and administrative or-
ganization, social structure, political culture, and the division
of power among the king, aristocracy, and common people.
Bagge sheds important new light on the reception of Christi-
anity and European learning in Scandinavia, and on Scandina-
vian history writing, philosophy, political thought, and courtly
culture. He looks at the reception of European impulses and
their adaptation to Scandinavian conditions, and examines the
“A tour de force. Cross and Scepter is relationship of the three kingdoms to each other and the rest
a short, readable, and deeply learned of Europe, paying special attention to the inter-Scandinavian
introduction to the political and consti- unions and their consequences for the concept of government
tutional history of Scandinavia, written and the division of power.
by Scandinavia’s foremost medieval Cross and Scepter provides an essential introduction to
Scandinavian medieval history for scholars and general read-
historian. No one else but Bagge could
ers alike, offering vital new insights into state formation and
have achieved this with such apparent
cultural change in Europe.
ease.”
—Patrick Geary, author of The Myth of Sverre Bagge is professor emeritus of medieval history at the
Nations: The Medieval Origins of Europe University of Bergen in Norway. His books include Kings, Poli-
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In Search of Sacred Time
Jacobus de Voragine and The Golden Legend HOW THE GOLDEN LEGEND SHAPED
THE MEDIEVAL IMAGINATION

Jacques Le Goff
Translated by Lydia G. Cochrane

It is impossible to understand the late Middle Ages without

grasping the importance of The Golden Legend, the most pop-
ular medieval collection of saints’ lives. Assembled for clerical
use in the thirteenth century by Genoese archbishop Jacobus
de Voragine, the book became the medieval equivalent of a
best seller. By 1500, there were more copies of it in circulation
than there were of the Bible itself. Priests drew on The Golden
Legend for their sermons, the faithful used it for devotion and
piety, and artists and writers mined it endlessly in their works.
In Search of Sacred Time is the first comprehensive history and
interpretation of this crucial book. Jacques Le Goff, one of the
world’s most renowned medievalists, provides a lucid, com-
pelling, and unparalleled account of why and how The Golden
Legend exerted such a profound influence on medieval life.
In Search of Sacred Time explains how The Golden Leg-
end—an encyclopedic work that followed the course of the
liturgical calendar and recounted the life of the saint for each
feast day—worked its way into the fabric of medieval life.
Le Goff describes how this ambitious book was carefully
crafted to give sense and shape to the Christian year, under- “This is a comprehensive and innova-
scoring its meaning and drama through the stories of saints, tive interpretation of The Golden Legend.
miracles, and martyrdoms. Ultimately, Le Goff argues, The Jacques Le Goff—one of the world’s fin-
Golden Legend influenced how medieval Christians perceived
est medieval historians—has produced
the passage of time, Christianizing time itself and reconciling
a most engaging and important book.
human and divine temporality.
It combines utter authority, intellectual
Authoritative, eloquent, and original, In Search of Sacred
Time is a major reinterpretation of a book that is central to vigor, beautiful prose, and countless
comprehending the medieval imagination. rich insights into medieval culture. Tak-
ing the approach of a cultural historian,
Jacques Le Goff is a world-renowned historian of the Middle Le Goff shows why the vastly ambitious
Ages. His books include Medieval Civilization, 400–1500, The Golden Legend had such a tremendous
Birth of Europe, The Medieval Imagination, Money and the
purchase on the medieval imagination.”
Middle Ages, The Birth of Purgatory, Saint Francis of Assisi, and
Intellectuals in the Middle Ages. —Miri Rubin, Queen Mary University
of London
Also available—the only complete English edition
of The Golden Legend

The Golden Legend:

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Enlightening Symbols
AN ENTERTAINING LOOK AT A Short History of Mathematical Notation
THE ORIGINS OF MATHEMATICAL SYMBOLS and Its Hidden Powers

Joseph Mazur

While all of us regularly use basic math symbols such as those

for plus, minus, and equals, few of us know that many of these
symbols weren’t available before the sixteenth century. What
did mathematicians rely on for their work before then? And
how did mathematical notations evolve into what we know
today? In Enlightening Symbols, popular math writer Joseph
Mazur explains the fascinating history behind the develop-
ment of our mathematical notation system. He shows how
symbols were used initially, how one symbol replaced another
over time, and how written math was conveyed before and
after symbols became widely adopted.
Traversing mathematical history and the foundations of
numerals in different cultures, Mazur looks at how historians
have disagreed over the origins of the numerical system for
the past two centuries. He follows the transfigurations of
algebra from a rhetorical style to a symbolic one, demonstrat-
ing that most algebra before the sixteenth century was written
in prose or in verse employing the written names of numerals.
Mazur also investigates the subconscious and psychological
effects that mathematical symbols have had on mathematical
“Joseph Mazur teaches us that the thought, moods, meaning, communication, and comprehen-
history of mathematical notation is the sion. He considers how these symbols influence us (through
history of human civilization.” similarity, association, identity, resemblance, and repeated
—Kenneth A. Ribet, University of imagery), how they lead to new ideas by subconscious associa-
California, Berkeley tions, how they make connections between experience and the
unknown, and how they contribute to the communication of
basic mathematics.
From words to abbreviations to symbols, this book shows
how math evolved to the familiar forms we use today.

Joseph Mazur is the author of Euclid in the Rainforest (Plume),

which was a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, as
well as The Motion Paradox (Penguin) and What’s Luck Got
to Do with It? (Princeton). He lives with his wife, Jennifer, in
Vermont.  

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Dream Interpretation
Ancient and Modern JUNG’S LANDMARK SEMINAR SESSIONS
ON DREAM INTERPRETATION AND ITS HISTORY
Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936–1941

C. G. Jung
Edited by John Peck, Lorenz Jung & Maria Meyer-Grass
Translated by Ernst Falzeder with
the collaboration of Tony Woolfson

From 1936 to 1941, C. G. Jung gave a four-part seminar series

in Zurich on children’s dreams and the historical literature on
dream interpretation. This book completes the two-part pub-
lication of this landmark seminar, presenting the sessions de-
voted to dream interpretation and its history. Here we witness
Jung as both clinician and teacher: impatient and sometimes
authoritarian but also witty, wise, and intellectually daring, a
man who, though brilliant, could be vulnerable, uncertain, and
humbled by life’s mysteries. These sessions open a window on
Jungian dream interpretation in practice, as Jung examines a
long dream series from the Renaissance physician Girolamo
Cardano. They also provide the best example of group super-
vision by Jung the educator. Presented here in an inspired
English translation commissioned by the Philemon Founda-
tion, these sessions reveal Jung as an impassioned teacher
in dialogue with his students as he developed and refined the “This is a very important book that
discipline of analytical psychology. adds a critical dimension to the Jungian
An invaluable document of perhaps the most important literature. It provides a look into how
psychologist of the twentieth century at work, this splendid Jung formulated his thinking in a group
book is the fullest representation of Jung’s interpretations of setting, and how he tried to put forward
dream literatures, filling a critical gap in his collected works.
his conceptualizations. Readers will
John Peck is a Jungian analyst in private practice. He is a encounter Jung’s darker side, but they
cotranslator of Jung’s Red Book and the author of ten books will also become acquainted with his
of poetry, including Contradance. Lorenz Jung, now deceased, creative genius for interpreting dreams,
was a grandson of C. G. Jung and a Jungian analyst in private his wide scholarship, and his penetrat-
practice. Maria Meyer-Grass is a Jungian analyst in private ing intuition.”
practice. Ernst Falzeder is lecturer at the University of Inns-
bruck and senior editor at the Philemon Foundation. He is the
—Brian Feldman, Jungian psychoanalyst
editor of The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and
Karl Abraham, 1907–1925.

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Finding Equilibrium
THE REMARKABLE STORY AND PERSONALITIES
BEHIND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT
Arrow, Debreu, McKenzie and
THEORIES IN MODERN ECONOMICS the Problem of Scientific Credit

Till Düppe & E. Roy Weintraub

Finding Equilibrium explores the post–World War II transfor-

mation of economics by constructing a history of the proof
of its central dogma—that a competitive market economy
may possess a set of equilibrium prices. The model economy
for which the theorem could be proved was mapped out in
1954 by Kenneth Arrow and Gerard Debreu collaboratively,
and by Lionel McKenzie separately, and would become
widely known as the “Arrow-Debreu Model.” While Arrow
and Debreu would later go on to win separate Nobel prizes
in economics, McKenzie would never receive it. Till Düppe
and E. Roy Weintraub explore the lives and work of these
economists and the issues of scientific credit against the
extraordinary backdrop of overlapping research communities
and an economics discipline that was shifting dramatically to
mathematical modes of expression.
Based on recently opened archives, Finding Equilibrium
shows the complex interplay between each man’s personal
life and work, and examines compelling ideas about scientific
credit, publication, regard for different research institutions,
and the awarding of Nobel prizes. Instead of asking whether
“‘Unputdownable’ is a word more often recognition was rightly or wrongly given, and who were the
used of novels than of books on general heroes or villains, the book considers attitudes toward intellec-
equilibrium theory, but it describes tual credit and strategies to gain it vis-à-vis the communities
this book. Written in a style accessible that grant it.
to nonmathematicians, Finding Equi- Telling the story behind the proof of the central theorem
in economics, Finding Equilibrium sheds light on the changing
librium makes fascinating reading for
nature of the scientific community and the critical connections
anyone interested in the rise of math-
between the personal and public rewards of scientific work.
ematical economics after the Second
World War.” Till Düppe is assistant professor of economics at the Univer-
—Roger Backhouse, author of The sité du Québec à Montréal. He is the author of The Making of
Ordinary Business of Life: A History of the Economy. E. Roy Weintraub is professor of economics at
Economics from the Ancient World to the Duke University. He is the author of How Economics Became a
Mathematical Science.
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Complexit y and the
Art of Public Policy HOW IDEAS IN COMPLEXITY CAN BE USED
TO DEVELOP MORE EFFECTIVE PUBLIC POLICY
Solving Society’s Problems from the Bottom Up

David Colander &

Roland Kupers

Complexity science—made possible by modern analytical and “This accessible and well-researched
computational advances—is changing the way we think about book argues that the world in which
social systems and social theory. Unfortunately, economists’ our leaders govern has become increas-
policy models have not kept up and are stuck in either a ingly complex and interconnected, with
market fundamentalist or government control narrative. While the potential for unexpected, harmful
these standard narratives are useful in some cases, they are
events, such as market crashes and
damaging in others, directing thinking away from creative,
political uprisings. Complexity, though,
innovative policy solutions. Complexity and the Art of Public
Policy outlines a new, more flexible policy narrative, picturing
should not be avoided. Properly har-
society as a complex evolving system that is uncontrollable but nessed, the drivers of complexity can
that can be influenced. produce constant innovation while
David Colander and Roland Kupers describe how maintaining system-level robustness.
economists and society became locked into the current policy Achieving those ends requires an un-
framework, and lay out fresh alternatives for framing policy derstanding of the bottom-up thinking
questions. Offering original solutions to stubborn problems, so engagingly presented in this book.”
the complexity narrative builds on broader philosophical tradi- —Scott Page, University of Michigan
tions, such as those in the work of John Stuart Mill, to suggest
initiatives that the authors call “activist laissez-faire” policies.
Colander and Kupers develop innovative bottom-up solutions
that, through new institutional structures such as for-benefit
corporations, channel individuals’ social instincts into solving
societal problems, making profits a tool for change rather
than a goal. They argue that a central role for government in
this complexity framework is to foster an ecostructure within
which diverse forms of social entrepreneurship can emerge
and blossom.
David Colander
David Colander is College Professor in the Department of
Economics at Middlebury College, where he was the Christian
A. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Economics from 1982
to 2013. His many books include The Making of an Economist,
Redux (Princeton). Roland Kupers is an associate fellow in the
Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the Uni-
versity of Oxford and was a senior executive at AT&T and Shell Roland Kupers
from 1987 to 2010. He is the coauthor of The Essence of Shell
Scenarios: Reframing Strategy.
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Falling Behind?
HOW THE FEAR OF A SHORTAGE IN
AMERICAN SCIENCE TALENT FUELS
Boom, Bust, and the Global Race for Scientific Talent
CYCLES IN THE TECHNICAL LABOR MARKET

Michael S. Teitelbaum

Is the United States falling behind in the global race for

scientific and engineering talent? Are U.S. employers facing
shortages of the skilled workers that they need to compete in a
globalized world? Such claims from some employers and edu-
cators have been widely embraced by mainstream media and
political leaders, and have figured prominently in recent policy
debates about education, federal expenditures, tax policy, and
immigration. Falling Behind? offers careful examinations of
the existing evidence and of its use by those involved in these
debates.
These concerns are by no means a recent phenomenon.
Examining historical precedent, Michael Teitelbaum highlights
five episodes of alarm about “falling behind” that go back
nearly seventy years to the end of World War II. In each of
these episodes the political system responded by rapidly ex-
panding the supply of scientists and engineers, but only a few
years later political enthusiasm or economic demand waned.
Booms turned to busts, leaving many of those who had been
encouraged to pursue science and engineering careers facing
disheartening career prospects. Their experiences deterred
younger and equally talented students from following in their
“Filled with fascinating anecdotes and footsteps—thereby sowing the seeds of the next cycle of
information about U.S. policy toward alarm, boom, and bust.
the science and engineering workforce, Falling Behind? examines these repeated cycles up to the
this powerful book shows that officials, present, shedding new light on the adequacy of the science
industry lobbyists, and leading mem- and engineering workforce for the current and future needs of
the United States.
bers of the scientific establishment
have time and again tried to make the Michael S. Teitelbaum is a Wertheim Fellow in the Labor and
case that the United States needs more Worklife Program at Harvard Law School and senior advisor to
scientists and engineers when there the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in New York. Until 2011 he was
is no evidence of this. With verve and vice president of the Sloan Foundation. His previous books
clarity, Falling Behind? raises the level of include The Global Spread of Fertility Decline, A Question of
Numbers, The Fear of Population Decline, and The British Fertil-
discourse on science workforce issues.” ity Decline.
—Richard Freeman, Harvard University

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Philology A PREHISTORY OF TODAY’S HUMANITIES,
The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities FROM ANCIENT GREECE TO
THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY

James Turner

Many today do not recognize the word, but “philology” was

for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual
life, encompassing not only the study of Greek and Roman
literature and the Bible but also all other studies of language
and literature, as well as religion, history, culture, art, archaeol-
ogy, and more. In short, philology was the queen of the human
sciences. How did it become little more than an archaic word?
In Philology, the first history of Western humanistic learn-
ing as a connected whole ever published in English, James
Turner tells the fascinating, forgotten story of how the study
of languages and texts led to the modern humanities and the
modern university.
This compelling narrative traces the development of
humanistic learning from its beginning among ancient Greek
scholars and rhetoricians, through the Middle Ages, Renais-
sance, and Enlightenment, to the English-speaking world of
the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Turner shows
how evolving researches into the texts, languages, and physi-
cal artifacts of the past led, over many centuries, to sophis-
ticated comparative methods and a deep historical aware-
ness of the uniqueness of earlier ages. But around 1800, he
explains, these interlinked philological and antiquarian studies “This fascinating book makes a power-
began to fragment into distinct academic fields. These fissures ful argument: that the modern humani-
resulted, within a century or so, in the new, independent “dis- ties derived in large part from the broad
ciplines” that we now call the humanities. Yet the separation tradition of philology. This genealogy,
of these disciplines only obscured, rather than erased, their Turner shows, clarifies the origins of
common features.
both the modern research university
The humanities today face a crisis of relevance, if not of
and its disciplines, and explains simi-
meaning and purpose. Understanding their common ori-
larities between such apparently diverse
gins—and what they still share—has never been more urgent.
fields as history and comparative reli-
James Turner is the Cavanaugh Professor of Humanities at gion. . . . This is a gripping intellectual
the University of Notre Dame, where he teaches in the History detective story.”
Department and the doctoral program in history and philoso- —Anthony Grafton, Princeton
phy of science. He is the author of The Liberal Education of
University
Charles Eliot Norton and Religion Enters the Academy, and the
coauthor of The Sacred and the Secular University (Princeton).

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Child Migration
THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE LOOK AT
THE GLOBAL DILEMMA OF CHILD MIGRATION
and Human Rights
in a Global Age

Jacqueline Bhabha

Why, despite massive public concern, is child trafficking on

the rise? Why are unaccompanied migrant children living
on the streets and routinely threatened with deportation to
their countries of origin? Why do so many young refugees of
war-ravaged and failed states end up warehoused in camps,
victimized by the sex trade, or enlisted as child soldiers? This
book provides the first comprehensive account of the wide-
spread but neglected global phenomenon of child migration,
exploring the complex challenges facing children and adoles-
cents who move to join their families, those who are moved to
be exploited, and those who move simply to survive.
Spanning several continents and drawing on the actual
stories of young migrants, the book shows how difficult it
is for children to reunite with parents who left them behind
to seek work abroad. It looks at the often-insurmountable
obstacles we place in the paths of adolescents fleeing war, ex-
ploitation, or destitution; the contradictory elements in our ap-
proach to international adoption; and the limited support we
give to young people brutalized as child soldiers. Part history,
“Courageous, remarkably erudite, and part in-depth legal and political analysis, this powerful book
deeply moving, this important book is challenges the prevailing wisdom that widespread protection
the work of a thinker and activist at the failures are caused by our lack of awareness of the problems
height of her powers. Read it for rich these children face, arguing instead that our societies have a
historical perspective, wise legal analy- deep-seated ambivalence to migrant children—one we need to
sis, and practical policy recommenda- address head-on.
tions that address the vulnerabilities of Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age offers
children in the international landscape a road map for doing just that, and makes a compelling and
courageous case for an international ethics of children’s hu-
today.”
man rights.
—Linda K. Kerber, author of No Consti-
tutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and Jacqueline Bhabha is professor of the practice of health and
the Obligations of Citizenship human rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, director
of research at Harvard’s François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for
Health and Human Rights, and the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer
at Harvard Law School. Her books include Children without a
State: A Global Human Rights Challenge.

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There Goes
the Gayborhood? THE FIRST IN-DEPTH LOOK AT AMERICA’S
CHANGING GAY NEIGHBORHOODS

Amin Ghaziani

Gay neighborhoods, like the legendary Castro District in

San Francisco and New York’s Greenwich Village, have long
provided sexual minorities with safe havens in an often
unsafe world. But as our society increasingly accepts gays and
lesbians into the mainstream, are “gayborhoods” destined to
disappear? Amin Ghaziani provides an incisive look at the ori-
gins of these unique cultural enclaves, the reasons why they
are changing today, and their prospects for the future.
Drawing on a wealth of evidence—including census data,
opinion polls, hundreds of newspaper reports from across the
United States, and more than one hundred original interviews
with residents in Chicago, one of the most paradigmatic cities
in America—There Goes the Gayborhood? argues that political
gains and societal acceptance are allowing gays and lesbians
to imagine expansive possibilities for a life beyond the gaybor-
hood. The dawn of a new post-gay era is altering the character
and composition of existing enclaves across the country, but
the spirit of integration can coexist alongside the celebration
of differences in subtle and sometimes surprising ways. More
diverse options for how to structure gay and lesbian lives
mean not the death of gayborhoods but rather their unex-
“What happens to cities when gay life
pected growth.
moves out of the closet and into the
Exploring the intimate relationship between sexuality
streets? In this important book, Amin
and the city, this cutting-edge book reveals how gayborhoods,
like the cities that surround them, are organic and continually Ghaziani examines the cultural politics
evolving places. Gayborhoods have nurtured sexual minorities and political economy of the gaybor-
throughout the twentieth century and, despite the unstoppable hood, charting its emergence as a safe
forces of flux, will remain resonant and revelatory features of space in a hostile environment and its
urban life. evolving role in the gentrifying me-
tropolis. There Goes the Gayborhood?
Amin Ghaziani is associate professor of sociology at the Uni- is original, timely, and provocative. It’s
versity of British Columbia. He is the author of The Dividends
destined to spark a heated debate.”
of Dissent: How Conflict and Culture Work in Lesbian and Gay
Marches on Washington. —Eric Klinenberg, author of Going Solo
and Heat Wave
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Ruling Russia
THE FIRST BOOK TO TRACE THE
EVOLUTION OF RUSSIAN POLITICS
Authoritarianism from the Revolution to Putin
FROM THE BOLSHEVIKS TO PUTIN

William Zimmerman

When the Soviet Union collapsed, many hoped that Russia’s

centuries-long history of autocratic rule might finally end. Yet
today’s Russia appears to be retreating from democracy, not
progressing toward it. Ruling Russia is the only book of its
kind to trace the history of modern Russian politics from the
Bolshevik Revolution to the presidency of Vladimir Putin. It ex-
amines the complex evolution of communist and post-Soviet
leadership in light of the latest research in political science,
explaining why the democratization of Russia has all but failed.
William Zimmerman argues that in the 1930s the USSR
was totalitarian but gradually evolved into a normal authoritar-
ian system, while the post-Soviet Russian Federation evolved
from a competitive authoritarian to a normal authoritarian
system in the first decade of the twenty-first century. He traces
how the selectorate—those empowered to choose the deci-
sion makers—has changed across different regimes since the
end of tsarist rule. The selectorate was limited in the period
after the revolution, and contracted still further during Joseph
Stalin’s dictatorship, only to expand somewhat after his death.
Zimmerman also assesses Russia’s political prospects in
future elections. He predicts that while a return to totalitarian-
“Zimmerman makes a unique and ism in the coming decade is unlikely, so too is democracy.
innovative contribution to our thinking Rich in historical detail, Ruling Russia is the first book to
about the evolution of Soviet and Rus- cover the entire period of the regime changes from the Bol-
sian politics since 1917. With brilliance sheviks to Putin, and is essential reading for anyone seeking
and welcome flashes of wry humor, to understand why Russia still struggles to implement lasting
he leads readers through the history democratic reforms.
of both Soviet and post-Soviet politics, William Zimmerman is professor emeritus of political science
right through to today. Ruling Russia is at the University of Michigan, where he is also research profes-
an important book.” sor emeritus at the Institute for Social Research. This is his
—George W. Breslauer, author of Gor- fourth book with Princeton University Press, his most recent
bachev and Yeltsin as Leaders being The Russian People and Foreign Policy: Russian Elite and
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Strategic Reassurance HOW THE UNITED STATES AND CHINA
and Resolve CAN AVOID FUTURE CONFLICT AND ESTABLISH
STABLE COOPERATIVE RELATIONS
U.S.-China Relations in the Twenty-First Century

James Steinberg &

Michael E. O’Hanlon

After forty years of largely cooperative Sino-U.S. relations,

policymakers, politicians, and pundits on both sides of the
Pacific see growing tensions between the United States and
China. Some go so far as to predict a future of conflict, driven
by the inevitable rivalry between an established and a rising
power, and urge their leaders to prepare now for a future
showdown. Others argue that the deep economic interde-
pendence between the two countries and the many areas of
shared interests will lead to more collaborative relations in the
coming decades.
In this book, James Steinberg and Michael O’Hanlon
stake out a third, less deterministic position. They argue
that there are powerful domestic and international factors,
especially in the military and security realms, that could
well push the bilateral relationship toward an arms race and
confrontation, even though both sides will be far worse off if
such a future comes to pass. They contend that this pessimis-
tic scenario can be confidently avoided only if China and the “This excellent book makes an elegant
United States adopt deliberate policies designed to address
statement on the stakes involved in
the security dilemma that besets the relationship between
achieving strategic coexistence between
a rising and an established power. The authors propose a
set of policy proposals to achieve a sustainable, relatively
the established power, the United States,
cooperative relationship between the two nations, based on and the rising power, China. The au-
the concept of providing mutual strategic reassurance in such thors provide a specific set of guidelines
key areas as nuclear weapons and missile defense, space and for avoiding unnecessary competition.”
cyber operations, and military basing and deployments, while —Patrick M. Cronin, Center for a New
also demonstrating strategic resolve to protect vital national American Security
interests, including, in the case of the United States, its com-
mitments to regional allies.

James Steinberg is dean and professor of social science,

international affairs, and law at Syracuse University and former
deputy secretary of state in the Obama administration. His
books include An Ever Closer Union. Michael E. O’Hanlon is
a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who specializes
in national security policy. His books include The Science of
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The Butterfly Defect
HOW TO BETTER MANAGE SYSTEMIC RISKS How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks,
IN OUR HIGHLY GLOBALIZED WORLD and What to Do about It

Ian Goldin &

Mike Mariathasan

“Filled with striking examples, this Global hyperconnectivity and increased system integration
ambitious book offers a new perspec- have led to vast benefits, including worldwide growth in
tive on globalization—in particular, the incomes, education, innovation, and technology. But rapid
need for policy responses that recog- globalization has also created concerns because the repercus-
nize the challenges presented by the sions of local events now cascade over national borders and
globalization of many domains, from the fallout of financial meltdowns and environmental disasters
affects everyone. The Butterfly Defect addresses the widening
health to finance. The message about
gap between systemic risks and their effective management. It
the need for coordination to overcome
shows how the new dynamics of turbo-charged globalization
systemic problems will strike a chord has the potential and power to destabilize our societies. Draw-
with readers.” ing on the latest insights from a wide variety of disciplines,
—Diane Coyle, author of The Soulful Ian Goldin and Mike Mariathasan provide practical guidance
Science: What Economists Really Do and for how governments, businesses, and individuals can better
Why It Matters manage risk in our contemporary world.
Goldin and Mariathasan assert that the current complexi-
“This fascinating and useful book pro- ties of globalization will not be sustainable as surprises be-
vides interesting examples and connec- come more frequent and have widespread impacts. The recent
tions across a range of fields and areas financial crisis exemplifies the new form of systemic risk that
of study.” will characterize the coming decades, and the authors provide
the first framework for understanding how such risk will
—Danny Quah, London School of Eco-
function in the twenty-first century. Goldin and Mariathasan
nomics and Political Science
demonstrate that systemic risk issues are now endemic every-
where—in supply chains, pandemics, infrastructure, ecology
and climate change, economics, and politics. Unless we are
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better able to address these concerns, they will lead to greater

protectionism, xenophobia, nationalism, and, inevitably, deglo-
balization, rising conflict, and slower growth.
The Butterfly Defect shows that mitigating uncertainty
and systemic risk in an interconnected world is an essential
task for our future.

Ian Goldin Ian Goldin is director of the Oxford Martin School and profes-
sor of globalization and development at the University of
Oxford. He has served as vice president of the World Bank
and advisor to President Nelson Mandela. His many books
Mike Mariathasan
include Divided Nations, Globalization for Development, and
Exceptional People (Princeton). Mike Mariathasan is assistant
JUNE professor of finance at the University of Vienna.
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