Belknap Press
-
Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to XI Jinping
$27.00 Add to cart“Thoughtful, probing…a worthy successor to the famous histories of Fairbank and Spence [that] will be read by all students and scholars of modern China.”
–William C. Kirby, coauthor of Can China Lea- Author: M?hlhahn, Klaus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0674248317
- Language: English
-
Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race
$29.95 Read more“A fascinating, if disturbing, window onto the origins of racism.”
“The eighteenth-century essays published for the first time in Who’s Black and Why? contain a world of ideas–theo
—Publishers Weekly- Author: Gates, Henry Louis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0674244265
- Language: English
-
The Seventy-Five Folios and Other Unpublished Manuscripts
$29.95 Read morePresented for the first time in English, the recently discovered early manuscripts of the twentieth century’s most towering literary figure offer uncanny glimpses of his emerging genius and the creati
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0674271017
- Language: English
-
Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World
$35.00 Add to cart“An insightful and breathtaking exploration of humanity’s evolutionary baggage that explains some of our species’ greatest successes and failures.” –Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens
The ancient i- Author: Whitehouse, Harvey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 067429162X
- Language: English
-
A Life in Letters
$37.95 Add to cartThe inspiring letters of philosopher, mystic, and freedom fighter Simone Weil to her family, presented for the first time in English.
Now in the pantheon of great thinkers, Simone Weil (1909-1943) liv- Author: Weil, Simone
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0674292375
- Language: English
-
Mapmatics: A Mathematician’s Guide to Navigating the World
$29.95 Add to cart“I love maps. I love math. And gosh, do I love this book, which so beautifully and clearly sounds the depths of both.” –Ben Orlin, author of Math with Bad Drawings
Explore the surprising connections- Author: Rowińska, Paulina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0674294238
- Language: English
-
Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism
$19.95 Add to cart“Provocative and engaging…The array of urgent questions and crises facing our democracy makes one miss Richard Rorty’s voice: insistent, relentlessly questioning, and dedicated to the proposition th
- Author: Rorty, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0674295471
- Language: English
-
The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition
$55.00 Add to cartThe Picture of Dorian Gray altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited. It heralded the end of a repressive Victorianism, and after its publication, literature had–in the words of
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 11 2011
- ISBN10: 0674057929
- Language: English
-
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness
$18.95 Read moreA Telegraph Book of the Year
“An indisputable masterpiece…comprehensive, fascinating, and persuasive.”
A Washington Post Notable Work
A Times Book of the Year
A Hughes Award Finalist
—Wall Street Journ- Author: Scull, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 01 2024
- ISBN10: 067429551X
- Language: English
-
Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite
$29.95 Add to cartA uniquely data-rich analysis of the British elite from the Victorian era to today: who gets in, how they get there, what they like and look like, where they go to school, and what politics they perpe
- Author: Reeves, Aaron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0674257715
- Language: English
-
From Rebel to Ruler: One Hundred Years of the Chinese Communist Party
$24.95 Read more“The definitive, candid, and absorbing history of a political organization…A vital account, based on magnificent research, that shows the party as a colossal, relentless, and enduring machine.”–Jan
- Author: Saich, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0674293916
- Language: English
-
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
$27.00 Read moreThe Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, awarded both the Pulitzer and the Bancroft prizes, has become a classic of American historical literature. Hailed at its first appearance as “the mo
- Author: Bailyn, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 19 2017
- ISBN10: 0674975650
- Language: English
-
Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities
$19.95 Add to cartProspect Top 50 Thinker of 2021
“Provocative, elegantly written.”
British Academy Book Prize Finalist
PROSE Award Finalist
–Fara Dabhoiwala, New York Review of Books “Demonstrates how a broad rethinking- Author: Mamdani, Mahmood
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0674278607
- Language: English
-
The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World
$37.43 Add to cart2021 Cundill History Prize Finalist
“Outstanding, original, and revolutionary. Favereau subjec
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year
A Spectator Best Book of the Year
A Five Books Best Book of the Year- Author: Favereau, Marie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0674244214
- Language: English
-
The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance
$40.83 Add to cartAn Economist Best Book of the Year
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year
A ProMarket Best Political Economy Book of the Year
One of The Week‘s Ten Best Business B- Author: Prasad, Eswar S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0674258444
- Language: English
-
Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World
$21.00 Read moreAn Economist Book of the Year
A Financial Times Book of the Year
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year
A Prospect Best Book of the Year
A ProMarket Book of the Year
An Omidyar Network “8 Storytellers Inf- Author: Milanovic, Branko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0674260309
- Language: English
-
The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity
$29.00 Add to cart“An extraordinary work of intellectual history as well as a scholarly tour de force, a bracing polemic, and a work of Christian prophecy…McCarraher challenges more than 200 years of post-Enlightenme
- Author: McCarraher, Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0674271092
- Language: English
-
You’re Paid What You’re Worth: And Other Myths of the Modern Economy
$19.95 Add to cart“This is the book to throw at your human resources director–not literally, of course–when any attempt is being made to bamboozle you about how decisions on pay have been made…It is a closely argue
- Author: Rosenfeld, Jake
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 067429548X
- Language: English
-
My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams
$28.00 Read more“A wonderfully vivid account of the momentous era they lived through, underscoring the chaotic, often improvisatory circumstances that attended the birth of the fledgling nation and the hardships of d
- Author: Adams, Abigail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0674057058
- Language: English
-
The Letters of Emily Dickinson
$49.95 Add to cartThe definitive edition of Emily Dickinson’s correspondence, expanded and revised for the first time in over sixty years.
Emily Dickinson was a letter writer before she was a poet. And it was through l- Author: Dickinson, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0674982975
- Language: English
