Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

アメリカ史における変革的指導者から反動的指導者まで
Azari, Julia R., Backlash Presidents: From Transformative to Reactionary Leaders in American History. (Princeton Studies in American Politics) 280 pp. 2025:8 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <747-883>
ISBN 978-0-691-24695-6 hard ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95

How most presidents avoid upsetting the racial status quo-and why those who do pave the way for lawless, norm-violating successorsWhen Barack Obama won the White House in 2008, becoming the nation's first Black president, the stage was set for Donald Trump's eventual rise to power. Backlash Presidents shows how, throughout American history, administrations that challenge the country's racial status quo are followed by presidents who deal in racially charged politics and presidential lawlessness, culminating in impeachment crises.In this incisive book, Julia Azari traces the connections between racially transformative presidents and their successors, examining the presidencies of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, and Obama and Trump. When he signed long-awaited civil rights legislation in 1964, Lyndon Johnson unleashed a perfect political storm that swept Nixon into the White House. Azari demonstrates how Nixon's rhetoric, relationship to Congress, and attitudes about executive power exhibit striking parallels with Andrew Johnson and Trump. She discusses how their actions are linked to race and racialized institutions-the Department of War during Reconstruction, the FBI during the Nixon years, and elections today-and looks at what happens after impeachment, describing how the rush to establish a new order perpetuates many of the same problems as the old.Challenging the conventional wisdom about the role of norms in American democracy, Backlash Presidents reveals how normal presidential politics upholds unsustainable racial hierarchy that in turn gives rise to intense periods of instability.

なぜ（白人のリベラルも含めて）みんな白人のリベラルが嫌いか－歴史
Schultz, Kevin M., Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals): A History. 256 pp. 2025:5 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-900>
ISBN 978-0-226-82436-9 hard ¥6,237.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

A bracing, accessible history of white American liberals-and why it's time to change the conversation about them. If there's one thing most Americans can agree on, it's that everyone hates white liberals. Conservatives hate them for being culturally tolerant and threatening to usher in communism. Libertarians hate them for believing in the power of the state. Socialists hate them for serving as capitalism's beard. Even liberals hate liberals-either because they can't manage to overcome their own prejudices, or precisely because they're so self-hating. This is the starting point for Kevin M. Schultz's lively new history of white liberals in the United States. He efficiently lays out the array of objections to liberals-ineffective, spineless, judgmental, authoritarian, and more-in a historical frame that shows how protean the concept has been throughout the past hundred years. It turns out, he declares, that how you define a "white liberal" is less a reflection of reality and more a Rorschach test revealing your own anxieties. Sharply assessing how decades of attacks on liberals and liberalism have steadily hollowed out the center of American political life, Schultz also explains precisely what needs to be done to avoid digging ourselves even further into the hole of polarization. The ultimate goal, he argues, is to achieve political fragmentation that will fuel the rise of a true multiparty system, where ideology will matter more, not less. With a tight command of postwar American history and a spirited voice, Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals) is a must-read for anyone wishing to understand-and envision a way forward in-the complicated landscape of American politics.

ニューディールと復興の約束　1933～47年
Selgin, George, False Dawn: The New Deal and the Promise of Recovery, 1933-1947. (Markets and Governments in Economic History) 384 pp. 2025:4 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-448>
ISBN 978-0-226-83293-7 hard ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

A definitive history of the United States' recovery from the Great Depression-and the New Deal's true part in it. FDR's New Deal has long enjoyed a special place in American history and policy-both because it redefined the government's fundamental responsibilities and because Roosevelt's "bold experimentation" represented a type of policymaking many would like to see repeated. But "the thing about bold experiments," economist George Selgin reminds us, "is that they often fail." In False Dawn Selgin draws on both contemporary sources and numerous studies by economic historians to show that, although steps taken during the Roosevelt administration's first days raised hopes of a speedy recovery from the Great Depression, instead of fulfilling those hopes, subsequent New Deal policies proved so counterproductive that over seventeen percent of American workers-more than the peak unemployment rate during the COVID-19 crisis-were still either unemployed or on work relief six years later. By distinguishing the New Deal's successes from its failures, and explaining how the U.S. finally managed to lay the specter of mass unemployment to rest, Selgin draws salient lessons for dealing with future recessions.

1890年代アメリカにおける金融政治
Wells, Wyatt, Financial Politics in the United States in the 1890s: The Golden Web. 331 pp. 2025:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <747-450>
ISBN 978-3-031-86764-4 hard ¥32,644.- (税込) EUR 139.99

In the 1890s, the choice between the gold standard and the free coinage of silver upended American politics. The gold standard linked the United States to the larger international financial system, in which gold was the common denominator. The free coinage of silver would effectively sever these ties by devaluing the dollar. The gold standard allowed the U.S. to secure vast amounts of foreign capital on good terms to build railroads and develop industry, but at the cost of deflation. The free coinage of silver would raise prices, particularly for cotton and wheat, whose cultivators carried heavy debts and were hard-pressed. The struggle would define the United States. Would it continue to develop industrially, or would it return to its agricultural roots? The combatants-among them Grover Cleveland, William Jennings Bryan, J.P. Morgan, and William McKinley-understood what was at stake. This book deals both with well-known aspects of the contest, such as the 1896 Presidential election between McKinley and Bryan, and lesser-known ones, such as how the currency issues interacted with racial politics and international negotiations over the role of silver in the world's monetary system. The result is the most comprehensive account of financial politics in the United States in the 1890s yet published.

ニューヨーク市と経済開発の闘争　1865～1981年
Wortel-London, Daniel, The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865-1981. (Historical Studies of Urban America) 336 pp. 2025:8 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-451>
ISBN 978-0-226-84109-0 hard ¥23,908.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-226-84111-3 paper ¥6,756.- (税込) US$ 32.50

Upends entrenched thinking about cities, demonstrating how urban economies are defined-or constrained-by the fiscal imagination of policymakers, activists, and residents. Many local policymakers make decisions based on a deep-seated belief: what's good for the rich is good for cities. Convinced that local finances depend on attracting wealthy firms and residents, municipal governments lavish public subsidies on their behalf. Whatever form this strategy takes-tax-exempt apartments, corporate incentives, debt-financed mega projects-its rationale remains consistent and assumed to be true. But this wasn't always the case. Between the 1870s and the 1970s, a wide range of activists, citizens, and intellectuals in New York City connected local fiscal crises to the greed and waste of the rich. These figures saw other routes to development, possibilities rooted in alternate ideas about what was fiscally viable. In The Menace of Prosperity, Daniel Wortel-London argues that urban economics and politics are shaped by what he terms the "fiscal imagination" of policymakers, activists, advocates, and other figures. His survey of New York City during a period of explosive growth shows how residents went beyond the limits of redistributive liberalism to imagine how their communities could become economically viable without the largesse of the wealthy. Their strategies-which included cooperatives, public housing, land-value taxation, public utilities, and more-centered the needs and capabilities of ordinary residents as the basis for local economies that were both prosperous and just. Overturning stale axioms about economic policy, The Menace of Prosperity shows that not all growth is productive for cities. Wortel-London's ambitious history demonstrates the range of options we've abandoned and hints at the economic frameworks we could still realize-and the more democratic cities that might result.

NAACP対アラバマ州裁判と結社の自由
Eagles, Charles W., A Victory for Democracy: NAACP v. Alabama and Freedom of Association. 368 pp. 2025:9 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <747-637>
ISBN 978-0-19-779587-3 hard ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Gilmore, William C., Self-Emancipation on the High Seas: The Creole Slave Mutiny of 1841 in Legal and Diplomatic Perspective. 176 pp. 2025:9 (Louisiana State U. Pr., US) <747-638>
ISBN 978-0-8071-8486-8 hard ¥8,316.- (税込) US$ 40.00

貨幣とアメリカ革命の形成
Edwards, Andrew David, Money and the Making of the American Revolution. 288 pp. 2025:12 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <747-445>
ISBN 978-0-691-20026-2 hard ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00

A new interpretation of the American Revolution as a transformative monetary contestAmerican money and American democracy have always been in tension, pitting political equality against economic inequality. In Money and the Making of the American Revolution, Andrew Edwards shows how this struggle emerged in America's founding era. Everyone knows that the founders waged a revolt against taxation without representation. Edwards shows that the dispute over taxes was really a dispute over money: what it was, who could make it, and how to keep it from being used at the expense of the colonists in North America. The colonial rebels refocused their resistance on democratic, local control-defending the power they had used to make money for themselves.Edwards's narrative spans four continents, linking the problems of money and revolt in early America to the transatlantic slave trade, the disastrous mismanagement of the East India Company in India, and violence against Native Americans. His analysis emerges from the story itself, through the lives of individuals ranging from John Blackwell, Oliver Cromwell's one-time war treasurer, to Thomas Paine, the impassioned pamphleteer of the American Revolution. Edwards argues that as the republican vision of an agrarian, independent monetary system faded, the leaders of the Revolution tied the nation to capitalism and imperialism at its founding. The colonists may have won the battle for representation, but the money that underpinned European empire had established a stronghold in the new republic. Money and the Making of the American Revolution offers both an ambitious new interpretation of the Revolution and a fascinating story about the power of economic ideas.

Gruenwald, Kim M., Philadelphia Merchants on Western Waters: Commerce and Empire in the Riverine West, 1750-1803. 208 pp. 2025:11 (Johns Hopkins U. Pr., US) <747-446>
ISBN 978-1-4214-5215-9 hard ¥13,502.- (税込) US$ 64.95

How Philadelphia merchants forged trade networks that fueled America's westward expansion.Why did the Midwest become part of the United States instead of remaining under English, Spanish, or Native control? In Philadelphia Merchants on Western Waters, historian Kim M. Gruenwald reveals commerce and trade, rather than war and political conflict, as the driving force behind America's westward expansion. Through meticulous research into business records, Gruenwald brings to life the daring ventures of Philadelphia merchant companies like Baynton, Wharton, & Morgan, who sought to dominate the Illinois fur trade, and Reed & Forde, who expanded trade routes while speculating in land warrants. Their efforts laid the foundation for the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, which unified both banks of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers under one nation and set the stage for America's continental empire. Studying international dealings with French, Spanish, and Native powers, as well as the complexities of river commerce, Gruenwald paints a vivid portrait of a transformative era between the colonial Atlantic world and America's westward push to the Pacific. Commercial expansion into what Gruenwald dubs "the Riverine West" represents a unique era in American history between the Atlantic of the colonial British Empire and the overland journeys of Americans heading across the Great Plains to California and Oregon in the nineteenth century. This book redefines our understanding of how a fledgling republic secured control of its western frontier-not through military conquest but through entrepreneurial spirit.

Pacyga, Dominic A., Clout City: The Rise and Fall of the Chicago Political Machine. 400 pp. 2025:9 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-1558>
ISBN 978-0-226-73370-8 hard ¥6,756.- (税込) US$ 32.50

Unearths the religious and cultural roots of a powerful political machine that empowered some everyday Chicagoans but ruled all of the city for decades. In politics, clout is essential. Too often, it determines whether insider access is granted or denied, favors are given or withheld, and payoffs are made or received. But Chicago clout, as we know it today, is even more potent than that-it's the absolute currency of a social, cultural, and political order that is self-reinforcing and self-dealing. Or at least, it was. In Clout City, award-winning historian Dominic A. Pacyga reveals how cultural, ethnic, and religious forces created this distinctive system-and ultimately led to its collapse. Tracing clout's origins in the Irish-Catholic-dominated working-class neighborhood of Bridgeport, shaped by De La Salle Institute and home to the legendary Daley family, Pacyga shows how communal ties can be a force for good and also the deepest wellspring of corruption. He maps Chicago's unique politics to its remarkable history, from the Great Fire of 1871 through its rise and decline as an industrial center to its emergence as a global city in the early twenty-first century. With deep research and firsthand experience from a lifetime in the city, Pacyga argues that Chicago's politics is understood best as a mixture of cultural and religious influences and more worldly pursuits, exploring how both Jewish and Catholic communalism played central roles in the creation and sustenance of the Chicago machine. Chicago's politics today aren't as defined by its distinctive brand of clout. But they are shaped by clout's decline and the ghost of the machine. Pacyga's tour of the city's multilayered past is an indispensable guide to its present and future.

Sandoval-Strausz, A. K. (ed.), Metropolitan Latinidad: Transforming American Urban History. (Historical Studies of Urban America) 360 pp. 2025:4 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-1559>
ISBN 978-0-226-83981-3 hard ¥23,908.- (税込) US$ 115.00 *
ISBN 978-0-226-83983-7 paper ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

A wide-ranging collection of essays that centers Latinos in the history of American cities and suburbs. Latino urban history has been underappreciated not only in its own right but for the centrality of its narratives to urban history as a field. A scholarly discipline that has long scrutinized economics, politics, and the built environment has too often framed race as literally Black and white. This has resulted in a fundamental misunderstanding of the full social canvas of American cities since at least the early twentieth century. Traversing metropolitan areas like Atlanta, Chicago, El Paso, Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Miami, and New York, this collection of essays brings together both established and emerging scholars, including long-time urbanists and academics working in the fields of Latino, borderlands, political, landscape, and religious history. Organized at different scales-including city, suburb, neighborhood, and hemisphere-this impressive body of work challenges long-standing narratives about metropolitan America. The contributors-Llana Barber, Mauricio Castro, Eduardo Contreras, Sandra I. Enriquez, Monika Gosin, Cecilia Sanchez Hill, Felipe Hinojosa, Michael Innis-Jimenez, Max Krochmal, Becky M. Nicolaides, Pedro A. Regalado, Iliana Yamileth Rodriguez, and Thomas J. Sugrue-engage a diverse range of subjects, such as urban rebellions, the suburbanization of Latinos, affordable housing, labor, the built environment, transnationalism, place-making, and religious life. The scholars also explore race within Latino communities, as well as the role that political and economic dynamics have played in creating Latino urban spaces. After reading this book, you will never see American cities the same way again.

Souther, J. Mark, Sandhill Cities: Metropolitan Ambitions in Augusta, Columbus, and Macon, Georgia. (Making the Modern South) 288 pp. 2025:8 (Louisiana State U. Pr., US) <747-1561>
ISBN 978-0-8071-8489-9 hard ¥9,355.- (税込) US$ 45.00

Hoberman, Michael, Imagining Early American Jews. 240 pp. 2025:10 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <747-1570>
ISBN 978-0-19-780459-9 hard ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00

アメリカの奴隷制の知的起源－近世対西洋世界におけるイギリスのアイデア
Harpham, John Samuel, The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World. 368 pp. 2025:10 (Harvard U. Pr., US) <747-1677>
ISBN 978-0-674-27837-0 hard ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00

A landmark account of the origins of American slavery, revealing how ancient Roman ideas were used to defend the establishment of a slave empire in the English Atlantic world.The period from 1550 to 1700 was critical in the development of slavery across the English Atlantic world. During this time, English discourse about slavery revolved around one central question: How could free persons be made into slaves? John Samuel Harpham shows that English authors found answers to this question in a tradition of ideas that stretched back to the ancient world, where they were most powerfully expressed in Roman law. These ideas, in turn, became the basis for the earliest defenses of American slavery.The Roman tradition had located the main source of slavery in war: enslavement was the common fate of captives who otherwise faced execution. In early modern England, this account was incorporated into studies of the common law and influential natural rights theories by the likes of Hugo Grotius and John Locke. When Europeans started to publish firsthand accounts of Africa in the sixteenth century, these reports were thus received into a culture saturated with Roman ideas. Over time, English observers started to assert that the common customs of enslavement among the nations of Africa fit within the Roman model. Englishmen had initially expressed reluctance to take part in the Atlantic slave trade. But once assured that the slave trade could be traced back to customs they understood to be legitimate, they proved keen to profit from it.An eloquent account of the moral logic that propelled the development of an immoral institution, The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery reveals the power of an overlooked tradition of ideas in the history of human bondage.

Anishanslin, Zara, The Painter's Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution. 400 pp. 2025:7 (Harvard U. Pr., US) <747-1683>
ISBN 978-0-674-29023-5 hard ¥6,849.- (税込) US$ 32.95

Told through the lives of three remarkable artists devoted to the pursuit of liberty, an illuminating new history of the ideals that fired the American Revolution.The war that we now call the American Revolution was not only fought in the colonies with muskets and bayonets. On both sides of the Atlantic, artists armed with paint, canvas, and wax played an integral role in forging revolutionary ideals. Zara Anishanslin charts the intertwined lives of three such figures who dared to defy the British monarchy: Robert Edge Pine, Prince Demah, and Patience Wright. From London to Boston, from Jamaica to Paris, from Bath to Philadelphia, these largely forgotten patriots boldly risked their reputations and their lives to declare independence.Mostly excluded from formal political or military power, these artists and their circles fired salvos against the king on the walls of the Royal Academy as well as on the battlefields of North America. They used their talents to inspire rebellion, define American patriotism, and fashion a new political culture, often alongside more familiar revolutionary figures such as Benjamin Franklin and Phillis Wheatley. Pine, an award-winning British artist rumored to be of African descent, infused massive history paintings with politics and eventually emigrated to the young United States. Demah, the first identifiable enslaved portrait painter in America, was Pine's pupil in London before self-emancipating and enlisting to fight for the Patriot cause. And Wright, a Long Island-born wax sculptor who became a sensation in London, loudly advocated for revolution while acting as an informal patriot spy.Illuminating a transatlantic and cosmopolitan world of revolutionary fervor, The Painter's Fire reveals an extraordinary cohort whose experiences testify to both the promise and the limits of liberty in the founding era.

Buccola, Nicholas, One Man's Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle over an American Ideal. 448 pp. 2025:10 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <747-1686>
ISBN 978-0-691-23030-6 hard ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00

From the acclaimed author of The Fire Is upon Us, the dramatic untold story of Barry Goldwater and Martin Luther King Jr.'s decade-long clash over the meaning of freedom-and how their conflicting visions still divide American politicsIn the mid-1950s, Barry Goldwater and Martin Luther King Jr. emerged as the leaders of two diametrically opposed freedom movements that changed the course of American history-and still divide American politics. King mobilized civil rights activists under the banner of "freedom now," insisting that true freedom would not be realized until all people-regardless of race-were empowered politically, economically, and socially. Goldwater rallied conservatives to the cause of "extremism in defense of liberty," advocating radical individualism. In One Man's Freedom, Nicholas Buccola tells the compelling story of Goldwater and King's dramatic decade-long debate over the meaning of an all-important American ideal.Part dual biography, part history, One Man's Freedom traces the actions and words of Goldwater and King over a crucial and eventful decade, from their dizzying rise through 1964, which ended with Goldwater's landslide defeat in the presidential election and King's Nobel Peace Prize. The book chronicles why Goldwater and King, who never met in person, came to view each other as perhaps the greatest threat to freedom in America. It explains how their ideas of freedom could be so vastly different, yet both so deeply rooted in American history and their times. And it shows how their disagreement continues to shape and explain politics today, when the bitter divisions between Republicans and Democrats often come down to the question of what kind of freedom Americans want-the one defined by Goldwater or by King?

Cebul, Brent / Geismer, Lily (eds.), Mastery and Drift: Professional-Class Liberals since the 1960s. 416 pp. 2025:2 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-1687>
ISBN 978-0-226-83811-3 hard ¥23,908.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-226-83813-7 paper ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00

A revelatory look at modern liberalism's historical evolution and enduring impact on contemporary politics and society. Since the 1960s, American liberalism and the Democratic Party have been remade along professional class lines, widening liberalism's impact but narrowing its social and political vision. In Mastery and Drift, historians Brent Cebul and Lily Geismer have assembled a group of scholars to address the formation of "professional-class liberalism" and its central role in remaking electoral politics and the practice of governance. Across subjects as varied as philanthropy, consulting, health care, welfare, race, immigration, economics, and foreign conflicts, the authors examine not only the gaps between liberals' egalitarian aspirations and their approaches to policymaking but also how the intricacies of contemporary governance have tended to bolster professional-class liberals' power. The contributors to Mastery and Drift all came of age amid the development of professional-class liberalism, giving them distinctive and important perspectives in understanding its internal limitations and its relationship to neoliberalism and the Right. With never-ending disputes over the meaning of liberalism, the content of its governance, and its relationship to a resurgent Left, now is the time to consider modern liberalism's place in contemporary American life.

Connolly, Emilie, Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States. 312 pp. 2025:11 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <747-1689>
ISBN 978-0-691-24012-1 hard ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00

How a system of colonial trusteeship converted Native wealth into settler capitalFrom the earliest days of its founding, the United States set its sights on Native territory. Amid better-known "Indian wars" the federal government quietly built an empire by treaty, offering payments to Native peoples for their land. Routinely inadequate, these payments were nonetheless pivotal because federal officials chose not to deliver them as a lump sum. Instead, the government kept the bulk of payments owed to Native nations under its own control as a trustee, and made access to future installments contingent on Native compliance. In Vested Interests, Emilie Connolly describes how a system of "fiduciary colonialism" seized a continent from its original inhabitants-and, ironically, furnished Native peoples with financial resources that sustained their nations.Connolly documents two centuries of dispossession in the guise of fiduciary benevolence. Acting as both dispossessor and trustee, the federal government invested Native wealth in state bonds that financed banks, canals, and other infrastructural projects that enabled the country to expand further westward. Meanwhile, Native peoples protected the money they did receive for future generations, investing it in their own institutions and mounting legal challenges to hold their trustees accountable. Still, federal trusteeship placed tight constraints on Native economies in the aim of containing Native power, forcing nations to endure through sheer resilience and ingenuity. By chronicling the long history of Native land dispossession through financial paternalism, Vested Interests reveals the unequal dividends of colonialism in the United States.

Davis, Joshua Clark, Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back. (Politics and Society in Modern America) 424 pp. 2025:10 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <747-1690>
ISBN 978-0-691-23883-8 hard ¥5,810.- (税込) US$ 27.95

A bold retelling of the 1960s civil rights struggle through its work against police violence-and a prehistory of both the Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter movements that emerged half a century laterPolice Against the Movement shatters one of the most pernicious myths about the 1960s: that the civil rights movement endured police violence without fighting it. Instead, as Joshua Clark Davis shows, activists from the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee confronted police abuses head-on, staging sit-ins at precinct stations, picketing outside department headquarters, and blocking traffic to bring attention to officer misdeeds. In return, organizers found themselves the targets of overwhelming political repression in the form of pervasive police surveillance, infiltration by undercover officers, and retaliatory prosecutions aimed at discrediting and derailing their movement.The history of the civil rights era abounds with accounts of physical brutality by county sheriffs and tales of political intrigue and constitutional violations by FBI agents. Turning our attention to municipal officials in both the North and South, Davis reveals how local police bombarded civil rights organizers with an array of insidious weapons. More than just physical violence, these economic, legal, and reputational attacks were designed to project the illusion of color-blind law enforcement.The civil rights struggle against police violence in the 1960s is largely overlooked today, the victim of a willful campaign by local law enforcement to erase their record of repression against the movement. By returning activism against police abuses to the center of the civil rights story, Police Against the Movement undoes decades of historical erasure surrounding the struggle against state violence that continues to this day.

Doolen, Andy, Traitor: The Life and Assassination of John Dunn Hunter, American Radical. 384 pp. 2026:1 (Johns Hopkins U. Pr., US) <747-1691>
ISBN 978-1-4214-5328-6 hard ¥7,265.- (税込) US$ 34.95

The story of John Dunn Hunter's remarkable life, tragic betrayal, and disgraceful murder.John Dunn Hunter was many things: a frontier hero, a writer, a celebrity at home and abroad, and, ultimately, the victim of a deadly conspiracy. Born to white parents in 1800, he was captured as a young child by the Kickapoo and later raised by the Kansa and then the Osage. As a young man, he left his Osage family and crossed the Mississippi into the United States, where he became an ardent and persuasive voice in favor of Indigenous sovereignty in the face of western expansion and the removal of native populations. In this gripping biography, Andy Doolen chronicles Hunter's compelling life and disgraceful murder. Often referred to as the "white Indian," Hunter published a gripping account of his life story and held court with esteemed figures of his day, from Presidents Jefferson and Madison to the Duke of Sussex and visionary reformer Robert Owen. But advocating for the rights of Indigenous people and nations painted a target on his back. Officials in the War Department accused him of being an imposter and the author of a hoax, but Hunter never had the chance to defend himself. He was in Texas at the time, one of the leaders in a pan-Indian movement for sovereignty, when he was assassinated in the infamous Fredonian Rebellion. Although Hunter could not have known it at the time, he was at the vanguard of a movement for an inclusive vision of democracy that embraced Indigenous rights and humanity rather than excluding and denying them. Hunter's story is a stark reminder of the work that still must be done to fulfill the promises of the American experiment.

ネイティブ・アメリカー先住民の物語
Feder, Kenneth L., Native America: The Story of the First Peoples. (Unearthing the Past) 440 pp. 2025:8 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <747-1695>
ISBN 978-0-691-22045-1 hard ¥8,305.- (税込) US$ 39.95

An epic deep history of the Indigenous peoples of North America, covering more than 20,000 years of astonishing diversity, adaptation, resilience, and continuityNative America presents an infinitely surprising and fascinating deep history of the continent's Indigenous peoples. Kenneth Feder, a leading expert on Native American history and archaeology, draws on archaeological, historical, and cultural evidence to tell the ongoing story, more than 20,000 years in the making, of an incredibly resilient and diverse mixture of peoples, revealing how they have ingeniously adapted to the many changing environments of the continent, from the Arctic to the desert Southwest.Richly illustrated, Native America introduces close to a hundred different peoples, each with their own language, economic and social system, and religious beliefs. Here, we meet the Pequot, Tunxis, Iroquois, and Huron of the Northeast; the Navajo, Hopi, Zuni, and Apache of the Southwest; the Hidatsa, Mandan, and Lakota of the Northern Plains; the Haida, Kwakiutl, Nootka, and Salish of the Northwest Coast; the Tule River and Mohave of Southern California; the Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole of the Southeast; and the Inuit and Kalaallit of the Arctic. We learn about hunters of enormous Ice Age beasts; people who raised stone toolmaking to the level of art; a Native American empire ruled by a king and queen, with a huge city at its center and colonies hundreds of miles away; a society that made the desert bloom by designing complex irrigation networks; brilliant architects who built fairy castles in sandstone cliffs; and artists who produced beautiful and moving petroglyphs and pictographs that reflect their deep thinking about history, the sacred, the land, and the sky.Native America is not about peoples of the past, but vibrant, living ones with an epic history of genius and tenacity-a history that everyone should know.

アメリカ・ロシア関係史
Foglesong, David S. / Kurilla, Ivan / Zhuravleva, V. I., Distant Friends and Intimate Enemies: A History of American-Russian Relations. 500 pp. 2025:12 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <747-1696>
ISBN 978-0-521-11105-8 hard ¥9,702.- (税込) GB￡ 35.00

This bold, sweeping history of the turbulent American-Russian relationship is unique in being written jointly by American and Russian authors. David Foglesong, Ivan Kurilla and Victoria Zhuravleva together reveal how and why America and Russia shifted from being warm friends and even tacit allies to being ideological rivals, geopolitical adversaries, and demonic foils used in the construction or affirmation of their national identities. As well as examining diplomatic, economic, and military interactions between the two countries, they illuminate how filmmakers, cartoonists, writers, missionaries and political activists have admired, disparaged, lionized, envied, satirized, loved, and hated people in the other land. The book shows how the stories they told and the images they created have shaped how the two countries have understood each other from the eighteenth century to the present and how often their violent clashes have arisen from mutual misunderstanding and misrepresentations.

Gold McBride, Sarah, Whiskerology: The Culture of Hair in Nineteenth-Century America. 304 pp. 2025:6 (Harvard U. Pr., US) <747-1698>
ISBN 978-0-674-24929-5 hard ¥6,849.- (税込) US$ 32.95

A surprising history of human hair in nineteenth-century America, where length, texture, color, and coiffure became powerful indicators of race, gender, and national belonging.Hair is always and everywhere freighted with meaning. In nineteenth-century America, however, hair took on decisive new significance as the young nation wrestled with its identity. During the colonial period, hair was usually seen as bodily discharge, even "excrement." But as Sarah Gold McBride shows, hair gradually came to be understood as an integral part of the body, capable of exposing truths about the individuals from whom it grew-even truths they wanted to hide.As the United States diversified-intensifying divisions over race, class, citizenship status, and region-Americans sought to understand and classify one another through the revelatory power of hair: its color, texture, length, even the shape of a single strand. While hair styling had long offered clues about one's social status, the biological properties of hair itself gradually came to be seen as a scientific tell: a reliable indicator of whether a person was a man or a woman; Black, white, Indigenous, or Asian; Christian or heathen; healthy or diseased. Hair was even thought to illuminate aspects of personality-whether one was courageous, ambitious, or perhaps criminally inclined. Yet if hair was a teller of truths, it was also readily turned to purposes of deception in ways that alarmed some and empowered others. Indeed, hair helped many Americans to fashion statements about political belonging, to engage in racial or gender passing, and to reinvent themselves in new cities.A history inscribed in bangs, curls, and chops, Whiskerology illuminates a period in American history when hair indexed belonging in some ways that may seem strange-but in other ways all too familiar-today.

Gudmestad, Robert, The Devil's Own Purgatory: The United States Mississippi River Squadron in the Civil War. (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War) 312 pp. 2025:11 (Louisiana State U. Pr., US) <747-1701>
ISBN 978-0-8071-8491-2 hard ¥10,395.- (税込) US$ 50.00

Hess, Earl J., Civil War Cavalry: Waging Mounted Warfare in Nineteenth-Century America. 456 pp. 2025:8 (Louisiana State U. Pr., US) <747-1704>
ISBN 978-0-8071-8444-8 hard ¥10,384.- (税込) US$ 49.95

Jacobs, John Swanson, The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery. Student ed. 80 pp. 2024:11 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-1706>
ISBN 978-0-226-83300-2 paper ¥2,068.- (税込) US$ 9.95

Lost on the other side of the world since 1855, the story of John Swanson Jacobs finally returns to America. This student edition reproduces his narrative in full and presents it on its own without any editorial or biographical apparatus. For one hundred and sixty-nine years, a first-person slave narrative written by John Swanson Jacobs-brother of Harriet Jacobs-was buried in a pile of newspapers in Australia. Jacobs's long-lost narrative, The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots, is a startling and revolutionary discovery. A document like this-written by an ex-slave and ex-American, in language charged with all that can be said about America outside America, untampered with and unedited by white abolitionists-has never been seen before. A radical abolitionist, sailor, and miner, John Jacobs has a life story that is as global as it is American. Born into slavery, by 1855 he had fled both the South and the United States altogether, becoming a stateless citizen of the world and its waters. That year, he published his life story in an Australian newspaper, far from American power and its threats. Unsentimental and unapologetic, Jacobs radically denounced slavery and the state, calling out politicians and slaveowners by their names, critiquing America's founding documents, and indicting all citizens who maintained the racist and intolerable status quo. Reproduced in full, this narrative-which entwines with that of his sister and with the life of their friend Frederick Douglass-here opens new horizons for how we understand slavery, race, and migration, and all that they entailed in nineteenth-century America and the world at large. To truly reckon with the lives of John Jacobs is to see with new clarity that in 1776, America embarked on two experiments at once: one in democracy, the other in tyranny.

Jameson, John Franklin, American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement. 100th anniversary edition. 176 pp. 2025:11 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <747-1707>
ISBN 978-0-691-28081-3 hard ¥15,592.- (税込) US$ 75.00
ISBN 978-0-691-27503-1 paper ¥3,939.- (税込) US$ 18.95

A centennial edition of the classic work that instilled a liberal spirit into the study of American historyJohn Franklin Jameson's American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement was among the first books to look at American history through the lens of social change. This pioneering work argues that the most salient feature of the American Revolution was not the war for independence itself but rather the struggle between aristocratic values and those of the common people. Jameson shows how American revolutionaries sought to change their government, not their society, but how, in destroying monarchy and establishing a republic, they changed their society profoundly. He examines the transformative effects the American Revolution had on business, intellectual and religious life, slavery, land ownership, and interactions between members of different social classes. Looking beyond the political and probing the social aspects of this pivotal event, Jameson forces a reconsideration of revolution that still resonates today.Commemorating the 250th anniversary of the founding of America, this edition features an incisive foreword by historians Michael Blaakman and Sarah Barringer Gordon, who explain the book's enduring relevance to our understanding of the American Revolution.

Peller-Semmens, Carin, Unreconstructed: Slavery and Emancipation on Louisiana's Red River, 1820-1880. (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War) 344 pp. 2025:9 (Louisiana State U. Pr., US) <747-1716>
ISBN 978-0-8071-8467-7 hard ¥10,395.- (税込) US$ 50.00

ニューディールと国家安全保障の発明
Preston, Andrew, Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security. 336 pp. 2025:5 (Belknap Pr., US) <747-1717>
ISBN 978-0-674-73738-9 hard ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

The story of how FDR and fellow New Dealers created the idea of national security, transforming the meaning of defense and vastly expanding the US government's responsibilities.National security may seem like a timeless notion. States have always sought to fortify themselves, and the modern state derives its legitimacy from protecting its population. Yet national security in fact has a very particular, very American, history-and a surprising one at that.The concept of national security originates in the 1930s, as part of a White House campaign in response to the rise of fascism. Before then, national self-defense was defined in terms of protecting sovereign territory from invasion. But President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his circle worried that the US public, comforted by two vast oceans, did not take seriously the long-term risks posed by hypermilitarization abroad. New Dealers developed the doctrine of national security, Andrew Preston argues, to supplant the old idea of self-defense: now even geographically and temporally remote threats were to be understood as harms to be combated, while ideological competitors were perilous to the "American way of life."Total Defense shows it was no coincidence that a liberal like Roosevelt promoted this vision. National security, no less than social security, was a New Deal promise: the state was obliged to safeguard Americans as much from the guns and warships of Nazi Germany and imperial Japan as from unemployment and poverty in old age. The resulting shift in threat perception-among policymakers and ordinary citizens alike-transformed the United States, spearheading massive government expansion and placing the country on a permanent war footing.

Sherman, William T., The Memoirs of General William Tecumseh Sherman: The Complete Annotated Edition. Ed. by J. F. Marszalek. 1184 pp. 2025:10 (Belknap Pr., US) <747-1722>
ISBN 978-0-674-98835-4 hard ¥8,305.- (税込) US$ 39.95

A titan among Civil War military geniuses gives an unvarnished account of his career, presented for the first time in a definitive annotated edition.William Tecumseh Sherman's memoirs were a sensation when first published in 1875, as Americans grappled with the aftermath of the Civil War and its emerging place in collective memory. Today, Sherman's account remains arguably the most significant work of Civil War military history after that of his friend and commanding general Ulysses S. Grant.In blunt terms, Sherman chronicles his military life and leadership from the First Battle of Bull Run to the Battle of Shiloh and the Atlanta and Vicksburg Campaigns. Most notably, he gives a detailed account of his notorious March to the Sea, which instituted a new and uniquely destructive type of warfare that would include civilians in the conflict between armies ever after. Along the way, he provides candid and often unsparing commentary on his fellow officers, subordinates, and adversaries. These assessments created immediate and lasting controversy, so much so that Sherman published a second edition with extensive appendixes responding to the outcry.This newly annotated volume, featuring an introduction by leading Civil War historian John F. Marszalek, presents Sherman's life and legacy for today's audience. Detailed notes shed light on his editorial process, while contextualizing individuals, places, and events that loomed large for nineteenth-century readers but have since become obscure. Reintroducing a classic work of American military history, this edition brings to life a remarkable figure whose leadership continues to be debated today.

Shiver, Joshua R., War Fought and Felt: The Emotional Motivations of Confederate Soldiers. (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War) 248 pp. 2025:11 (Louisiana State U. Pr., US) <747-1723>
ISBN 978-0-8071-8505-6 hard ¥9,355.- (税込) US$ 45.00

Williams, David Lyle, The Road to Cisterna: Darby's Rangers and Their Most Consequential Battle in World War II. 424 pp. 2025:9 (Louisiana State U. Pr., US) <747-1728>
ISBN 978-0-8071-8503-2 hard ¥9,344.- (税込) US$ 44.95

アメリカ大統領指名過程の歴史
Williams, Norman R., Who Nominates?: A History of the U.S. Presidential Nomination Process. 2025:9 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <747-1729>
ISBN 978-1-009-47158-9 hard ¥26,334.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00
ISBN 978-1-009-47159-6 paper ¥8,589.- (税込) GB￡ 30.99

Young, Ashley Rose, Nourishing Networks: The Public Culture of Food in New Orleans. 320 pp. 2025:11 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <747-1731>
ISBN 978-0-19-779403-6 hard ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Greene-Hayes, Ahmad, Underworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow New Orleans. (Class 200: New Studies in Religion) 288 pp. 2025:5 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-181>
ISBN 978-0-226-83884-7 hard ¥23,908.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-226-83886-1 paper ¥6,237.- (税込) US$ 30.00

A rethinking of African American religious history that focuses on the development and evolution of Africana spiritual traditions in Jim Crow New Orleans. When Zora Neale Hurston traveled to New Orleans, she encountered a religious underworld, a beautiful anarchy of spiritual life. In Underworld Work, Ahmad Greene-Hayes follows Hurston on a journey through the rich tapestry of Black religious expression from emancipation through Jim Crow. He looks within and beyond the church to recover the diverse leadership of migrants, healers, dissidents, and queer people who transformed their marginalized homes, bars, and street corners into sacred space. Greene-Hayes shows how, while enclosed within an anti-black world, these outcasts embraced Africana esotericisms-ancestral veneration, faith healing, spiritualized sex work, and more-to conjure a connection to freer worlds past and yet to come. In recovering these spiritual innovations, Underworld Work celebrates the resilience and creativity of Africana religions.

Koeth, Stephen M., Crabgrass Catholicism: How Suburbanization Transformed Faith and Politics in Postwar America. (Historical Studies of Urban America) 328 pp. 2025:8 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-195>
ISBN 978-0-226-82996-8 hard ¥23,908.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-226-84220-2 paper ¥6,237.- (税込) US$ 30.00

How suburbanization was a crucial catalyst for reforms in the Catholic Church. The 1960s in America were a time of revolt against the stifling conformism embodied in the sprawling, uniform suburbs of the 1950s. Typically, the reforms of the Catholic Church's Second Vatican Council, which aimed to make the Church more modern and accessible, are seen as one result of that broader cultural liberalization. Yet in Crabgrass Catholicism, Stephen M. Koeth demonstrates that the liberalization of the Church was instead the product of the mass suburbanization that began some fifteen years earlier. Koeth argues that postwar suburbanization revolutionized the Catholic parish, the relationship between clergy and laity, conceptions of parochial education, and Catholic participation in US politics, and thereby was a significant factor in the religious disaffiliation that only accelerated in subsequent decades. A novel exploration of the role of Catholics in postwar suburbanization, Crabgrass Catholicism will be of particular interest to urban historians, scholars of American Catholicism and religious studies, and Catholic clergy and laity.

Brown, Matthew P., The Novel and the Blank: A Literary History of the Book Trades in Eighteenth-Century British America. 304 pp. 2025:10 (Johns Hopkins U. Pr., US) <747-21>
ISBN 978-1-4214-5282-1 hard ¥13,502.- (税込) US$ 64.95

Explores American colonial print culture's diverse output and how these texts shaped public life and modernity.In The Novel and the Blank, Matthew P. Brown uncovers the vibrant, overlooked world of the eighteenth-century British American print shop. Printing more than just novels and pamphlets, these workshops produced a kaleidoscope of printed materials-from legal blanks and almanacs to runaway slave ads and chapbooks-that reflected the complexities of colonial life. Brown paints a rich cultural history of the time, identifying and describing the steady sellers that stabilized the trade and the print surges ignited by religious revivals of the 1730s-1740s and political upheavals of the revolutionary era. He explores the connections among commercial caution, literary expression, and oppressive structures like the slave trade. The book advances our knowledge of early modern culture in several ways: by providing a rounded portrait of colonial and early national literary culture; by examining a steadily popular canon rarely read by modern scholars; and by depicting the lived religion of readers, writers, and printers who participated in this literary culture. With a sharp focus on everyday texts and readers-rather than on the canon of works constructed by modern scholars-Brown reimagines the public sphere of the eighteenth century as a vivifying experience. Through an innovative blend of historical rigor and cultural insight, The Novel and the Blank reveals how ordinary print shaped extraordinary shifts in religion, secularism, and the ways we understand modernity itself.

Rohrer, Katherine E., Daughters of Divinity: Evangelical Protestant Christianity and the Making of a New Southern Woman, 1830-1930. 256 pp. 2025:8 (Louisiana State U. Pr., US) <747-219>
ISBN 978-0-8071-8488-2 hard ¥9,355.- (税込) US$ 45.00

Treadwell, Aaron M. (ed.), Tongues of Fire: Black Preaching in the Face of Lynching. 276 pp. 2025:11 (Louisiana State U. Pr., US) <747-236>
ISBN 978-0-8071-8490-5 hard ¥9,355.- (税込) US$ 45.00

Zackodnik, Teresa, Great Thinkers and Doers: Networking Black Feminism in the Black Press, 1827-1927. (The Black Press in America Series) 352 pp. 2025:8 (Johns Hopkins U. Pr., US) <747-1270>
ISBN 978-1-4214-5196-1 hard ¥14,542.- (税込) US$ 69.95

A corrective history of the essential role that Black women played in the early Black press.A corrective history of the essential role that Black women played in the early Black press.In Great Thinkers and Doers, Teresa Zackodnik looks at the vital-and largely overlooked-role of Black women readers, writers, and editors in the development of the Black press in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Understanding the relationship between the Black press and Black women's political and community organizing helps illuminate how important Black women were to this media phenomenon in its first one hundred years. In the nineteenth century, Zackodnik reveals, the Black press was second only to the Black church in its centrality to Black politics and communities, but histories of its development have long credited its founding and development to the Black men who were its editors. Despite their underrepresentation in the leadership of Black public politics and the Black press, women were overrepresented in the mutual benevolent, moral improvement, and literary societies that functioned as community centers of political, oratorical, and print culture work. These societies supplied the Black press with content, a readership, and distribution nodes in Black communities throughout the nation. Zackodnik examines the vital opportunity that this networking of the Black press with literary societies offered Black women readers to enter Black print space and advance communal goals. She also explores how Black women gained a foothold within publications-often, initially, with "gateway genres" such as letters to the editor and women's columns-and shaped the Black press. This book will change how we understand the early Black press and overlooked Black feminist print practices.

Kim, Sunmin, The Unruly Facts of Race: The Politics of Knowledge Production in the Early Twentieth-Century Immigration Debate. 304 pp. 2025:12 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-1308>
ISBN 978-0-226-84590-6 hard ¥23,908.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-226-84592-0 paper ¥6,237.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Livesey, Andrea (ed., with an intro.), Voices of the Formerly Enslaved in Louisiana: The WPA Narratives. 592 pp. 2025:9 (Louisiana State U. Pr., US) <747-1314>
ISBN 978-0-8071-8302-1 hard ¥13,513.- (税込) US$ 65.00

Patterson, Martha H. / Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (eds.), The New Negro: A History in Documents, 1887-1937. 648 pp. 2025:8 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <747-1318>
ISBN 978-0-691-26859-0 paper ¥8,305.- (税込) US$ 39.95

An authoritative anthology tracing the history of one of the most important concepts Black people drew on to challenge the brutal, totalizing system of Jim Crow racismThis book brings together a wealth of readings on the metaphor of the "New Negro," charting how generations of thinkers debated its meaning and seized on its potency to stake out an astonishingly broad and sometimes contradictory range of ideological positions. It features dozens of newly unearthed pieces by major figures such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Charles S. Johnson, and Drusilla Dunjee Houston as well as writings from Cuba, the US Virgin Islands, Dominica, France, Sierra Leone, South Africa, colonial Zimbabwe, and the United States. Demonstrating how this evocative and supremely protean concept predates its popularization in Alain Locke's 1925 anthology of the same name, The New Negro takes readers from its beginnings as a response to Henry Grady's famous "New South" address in 1886 through the Harlem Renaissance and the New Deal.Opening a fascinating window into a largely unexplored chapter in African American, Afro-Latin American, and African intellectual history, this groundbreaking anthology includes writings by Gwendolyn Bennett, Marita Bonner, John Edward Bruce ("Bruce Grit"), Nannie Helen Burroughs, Charles W. Chesnutt, James Bertram Clarke ("Jose Clarana," "Jaime Gil"), Anna Julia Cooper, Alexander Crummell, Countee Cullen, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Marcus Garvey, Hubert Harrison, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, D. Hamilton Jackson, Fenton Johnson, Claude McKay, Oscar Micheaux, Jeanne "Jane" Nardal, Jean Toomer, Gustavo Urrutia, Booker T. Washington, Dorothy West, Ruth Whitehead Whaley, Fannie Barrier Williams, Carter G. Woodson, and a host of others.

Terry, Brandon M., Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement. 480 pp. 2025:11 (Belknap Pr., US) <747-1328>
ISBN 978-0-674-27128-9 hard ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00

A landmark reinterpretation of the civil rights movement that challenges reductive heroic narratives of the 1950s and 1960s and invigorates new debates and possibilities for the future of the struggle for liberation.We are all familiar with the romantic vision of the civil rights movement: a moment when heroic African Americans and their allies triumphed over racial oppression through courageous protest, forging a new consensus in American life and law. But what are the effects of this celebratory storytelling? What happens when a living revolt against injustice becomes an embalmed museum piece?In this innovative work, Brandon Terry develops a novel theory of interpretation to show how competing accounts of the civil rights movement circulate through politics and political philosophy. The dominant narrative is romantic. This "arc of justice" narrative is found in popular histories, the speeches of Barack Obama, and even the writings of the liberal philosopher John Rawls. Despite being public orthodoxy, these romantic visions are exhausted and unpersuasive on their own terms. The breakdown of the authority of this history of justice has created space for a rival ironic mode, embodied in the political ideas of Afro-Pessimism. While offering a sympathetic critique, Terry ultimately finds Afro-Pessimist thought self-undermining and unworkable.Instead, he argues, the civil rights movement is best understood in tragic terms. By challenging the attachment to triumphant pasts, Terry demonstrates that tragedy exemplifies what the civil rights movement has been and can still be. Provocative and original, Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope offers an optimistic political vision without naivete, to train our judgment and resilience in the face of reasonable despair.

アメリカ都市部におけるジェンダー、児童労働、少女のための教育　1870～1930年
Oram, Ruby, Home Work: Gender, Child Labor, and Education for Girls in Urban America, 1870-1930. (Historical Studies of Urban America) 272 pp. 2025:11 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-1360>
ISBN 978-0-226-84431-2 hard ¥23,908.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-226-84433-6 paper ¥6,652.- (税込) US$ 32.00

Drez, Ronald J., The Long Purple Line: The Military History of LSU and the Heroism of Its Cadets and Associates. 416 pp. 2025:10 (Louisiana State U. Pr., US) <747-1388>
ISBN 978-0-8071-8451-6 hard ¥10,384.- (税込) US$ 49.95

Chamberlain, Charles D., New Orleans: A Concise History of an Exceptional City. 376 pp. 2025:8 (Louisiana State U. Pr., US) <747-1555>
ISBN 978-0-8071-8487-5 paper ¥7,265.- (税込) US$ 34.95

Lieb, Emily, Road to Nowhere: How a Highway Map Wrecked Baltimore. (Historical Studies of Urban America) 240 pp. 2025:11 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-1557>
ISBN 978-0-226-84436-7 hard ¥23,908.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-226-84438-1 paper ¥6,237.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Lew-Williams, Beth, John Doe Chinaman: A Forgotten History of Chinese Life under American Racial Law. 336 pp. 2025:9 (Belknap Pr., US) <747-1009>
ISBN 978-0-674-29411-0 hard ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00

A revelatory history of the laws that conditioned the everyday lives of Chinese people in the American West-and of those who negotiated, circumvented, and resisted discrimination.Legal discrimination against Chinese people in the United States began in 1852, when California passed a tax on foreign gold miners that was explicitly designed to exploit Chinese labor. Over the next seventy years, officials in California, Oregon, Washington, and other western states instituted more than five thousand laws that marginalized and controlled their Chinese residents. Long before the Chinese Exclusion Act banned Chinese immigration, these laws constrained the activities and opportunities of Chinese people already living in the United States.In this eye-opening account, Beth Lew-Williams describes a legal architecture redolent of Jim Crow but tailored specifically to people often referred to only as "John Doe Chinaman" or "Mary Chinaman" in official records. Enforced by police and tax collectors, but also by schoolteachers, missionaries, and neighbors, these laws granted the Chinese only limited access to American society, falling far short of equality or belonging. Cementing stereotypes of Chinese residents as criminals, invaders, and predators, they regulated everything from healthcare to education, property ownership, business formation, and kinship customs. Yet in the face of these limitations, Chinese communities reacted resourcefully. Many fought, evaded, and manipulated these laws, finding ways to maintain their prohibited traditions, resist unfair treatment in court, and insist on their political rights.Drawing on dozens of archives across the US West, John Doe Chinaman reveals the depth of anti-Chinese discrimination beyond federal exclusion and tells the stories of those who refused to accept a conditional place in American life.

アメリカにおけるマルクス
Hartman, Andrew, Karl Marx in America. 600 pp. 2025:5 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-107>
ISBN 978-0-226-53748-1 hard ¥8,108.- (税込) US$ 39.00

The vital and untold story of Karl Marx's stamp on American life. To read Karl Marx is to contemplate a world created by capitalism. People have long viewed the United States as the quintessential anti-Marxist nation, but Marx's ideas have inspired a wide range of people to formulate a more precise sense of the stakes of the American project. Historians have highlighted the imprint made on the United States by Enlightenment thinkers such as Adam Smith, John Locke, and Thomas Paine, but Marx is rarely considered alongside these figures. Yet his ideas are the most relevant today because of capitalism's centrality to American life. In Karl Marx in America, historian Andrew Hartman argues that even though Karl Marx never visited America, the country has been infused, shaped, and transformed by him. Since the beginning of the Civil War, Marx has been a specter in the American machine. During the Gilded Age, socialists read Marx as an antidote to the unchecked power of corporations. In the Great Depression, communists turned to Marx in hopes of transcending the destructive capitalist economy. The young activists of the 1960s were inspired by Marx as they gathered to protest an overseas war. Marx's influence today is evident, too, as Americans have become increasingly attuned to issues of inequality, labor, and power. After decades of being pushed to the far-left corner of intellectual thought, Marx's ideologies have crossed over into the mainstream and are more alive than ever. Working-class consciousness is on the rise, and, as Marx argued, the future of a capitalist society rests in the hands of the people who work at the point of production. A valuable resource for anyone interested in Marx's influence on American political discourse, Karl Marx in America is a thought-provoking account of the past, present, and future of his philosophies in American society.