Bernard Bailyn

Atlantic history is a newly and rapidly developing field of historical study. Bringing together elements of early modern European, African, and American history‹their common, comparative, and interactive aspects‹Atlantic history embraces essentials of Western civilization, from the first contacts of Europe with the Western Hemisphere to the independence movements and the globalizing industrial revolution.

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Christian Meier

"A daring book...Meier's main concern is with Europe's 'special path,' how and why its civilization (and that of its offspring, the United States) came to dominate the world, beginning in the fifteenth century. He analyzes the elemetns shapin the historic process and reflects searchingly on why in some symbolic but not precise sense Auschwitz marks the end of the special path."
‹Fritz Stern, Columbia University

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Jeremi Suri

"Power and Protest is superb in every respect‹imaginatively conceived and elegantly written. This is the most ambitious attempt I have ever seen to explicate the meaning of the cultural revolution of the 1960s and its aftermath. I find the argument provactive and on the whole persuasive...This is a most important study that will have electrifying effect on scholarship."
‹Akira Iriye, Harvard University

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James C. McCann

Sometime around A.D. 1500, an African farmer planted a maize seed imported from the New World. That act set in motion the remarkable saga of one of the world's most influential crops‹one that would transform the future of Africa and of the Atlantic world. James McCann's compelling history offers insight into the profound influence of a single crop on African culture, health, technological innovation, and the future of the world's food supply.

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Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri

"A sweeping neo-Marxist vision of the coming world order. The authors argue that globalization is not eroding sovereignty but transforming it into a system of diffuse national and supranational institutions‹in other words, a new 'empire'...[that] encompasses all of modern life."
‹Foreign Affairs

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Louis Crompton

"In Louis Crompton's sober, searching and somber new history, Homesexuality and Civilization, homosexuality is associated with the inner workings of civlization itself...It begins in the gladness of early Greece, where homosexuality had an 'honored place' for more than a millenium, and concludes with the madness of 19th-century Europe. In between is what Mr. Crompton calls a 'kaleidoscope of horrors' lasting more than 1,500 years...This is a restrained, careful, clear book of scholarly exposition."
‹Edward Rothstein, New York Times

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Christian Joppke

In a world of mutually exclusive nation-states, international migration constitutes a fundamental anomaly. No wonder that such states have been inclined to select migrants according to their origins. The result is ethnic migraiton. But Christian Joppke shows that after World War II there has been a trend away from ethnic selectivity and toward nondiscriminatory immigration policies across Western states. Indeed, he depicts the modern state in the cross-fire of particularistic and universalistic principles and commitments, with universalism gradually winning the upper hand.

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Peter Fritzsche

"Peter Fritzsche's prose is both elegant and arresting, his insights always interesting. Stranded in the Present will attract a wide audience not only of experts but of general readers interested in how modern culture constructs its own past"
‹James Sheehan, Stanford University

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Gertrude Himmelfarb

"Himmelfarb has an intellect of steel as sharp as a razor. For those who enjoy intellectual debate and a concern for the value of the past, The New History and the Old is as splendid as an Olympic fencing match."
‹J. H. Plumb, Wall Street Journal

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Richard A. Posner

"In Public Intellectuals...Posner trashes fellow smarties who expound on public issues outside their expertise. He says they abandon their rigor when they write general interest books and op-ed pieces, publish open letters, and speak on television. They are in decline, he says, because more of them than ever have safe jobs as professors, protecting them from the consequences of bad predictions and stupid proclamations...Posner fires both left and right, nearly always hitting the mark."
‹Peter Coy, Business Week

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