Peter Temin
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/TEMENG.html
New England's economy has a history as dramatic
as any in the world. From an inauspicious beginning--as immigration ground to
a halt in the eighteenth century--New England went on to lead the United States
in its transformation from an agrarian to an industrial economy. And when the
rest of the country caught up in the mid-twentieth century, New England reinvented
itself as a leader in the complex economy of the information society.
Engines of Enterprise tells this dramatic story in a sequence of narrative essays
written by preeminent historians and economists. These essays chart the changing
fortunes of entrepreneurs and venturers, businessmen and inventors, and common
folk toiling in fields, in factories, and in air-conditioned offices. The authors
describe how, short of staple crops, colonial New Englanders turned to the sea
and built an empire; and how the region became the earliest home of the textile
industry as commercial fortunes underwrote new industries in the nineteenth
century. They show us the region as it grew ahead of the rest of the country
and as the rest of the United States caught up. And they trace the transformation
of New England's products and exports from cotton textiles and machine tools
to such intangible goods as education and software. Concluding short essays
also put forward surprising but persuasive arguments--for instance, that slavery,
while not prominent in colonial New England, was a critical part of the economy;
and that the federal government played a crucial role in the development of
the region's industrial skills.
OTHER HARVARD BOOKS BY PETER TEMIN
Taking Your Medicine: Drug Regulation in the United States
Peter Temin is Elisha Gray II Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology.
Paper edition forthcoming in October 2002:
$18.95 / £12.95 / €18.95 (one world price)
ISBN 0-674-00984-3
May 2000
7 x 8--5/8 inches
23 halftones, 2 linecuts, 13 digital line
336 pages
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ISBN 0-674-00099-4
Bruce Dain
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/DAIHID.html
The intellectual history of race, one of the
most pernicious and enduring ideas in American history, has remained segregated
into studies of black or white traditions. Bruce Dain breaks this separatist
pattern with an integrated account of the emergence of modern racial consciousness
in the United States from the Revolution to the Civil War. A Hideous Monster
of the Mind reveals that ideas on race crossed racial boundaries in a process
that produced not only well-known theories of biological racism but also countertheories
that were early expressions of cultural relativism, cultural pluralism, and
latter-day Afrocentrism.
From 1800 to 1830 in particular, race took on a new reality as Americans, black
and white, reacted to postrevolutionary disillusionment, the events of the Haitian
Revolution, the rise of cotton culture, and the entrenchment of slavery. Dain
examines not only major white figures like Thomas Jefferson and Samuel Stanhope
Smith, but also the first self-consciously "black" African-American
writers. These various thinkers transformed late-eighteenth-century European
environmentalist "natural history" into race theories that combined
culture and biology and set the terms for later controversies over slavery and
abolition. In those debates, the ethnology of Samuel George Morton and Josiah
Nott intertwined conceptually with important writing by black authors who have
been largely forgotten, like Hosea Easton and James McCune Smith. Scientific
racism and the idea of races as cultural constructions were thus interrelated
aspects of the same effort to explain human differences.
In retrieving neglected African-American thinkers, reestablishing the European
intellectual background to American racial theory, and demonstrating the deep
confusion "race" caused for thinkers black and white, A Hideous Monster
of the Mind offers an engaging and enlightening new perspective on modern American
racial thought.
Forthcoming in February 2003
6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches
320 pages
Cloth edition:
$29.95 / £20.50 / €29.95 (one world price)
ISBN 0-674-00946-0
In a powerful
challenge to conventional wisdom, Philip Hamburger argues that the separation
of church and state has no historical foundation in the First Amendment. The
detailed
evidence assembled here shows that eighteenth-century Americans almost never
invoked this
principle. Although Thomas Jefferson and others retrospectively claimed that
the First
Amendment separated church and state, separation became part of American constitutional
law only much later.
Hamburger shows that separation became a constitutional freedom largely through
fear and
prejudice. Jefferson supported separation out of hostility to the Federalist
clergy of New
England. Nativist Protestants (ranging from nineteenth-century Know Nothings
to
twentieth-century members of the K.K.K.) adopted the principle of separation
to restrict the
role of Catholics in public life. Gradually, these Protestants were joined by
theologically
liberal, anti-Christian secularists, who hoped that separation would limit Christianity
and all
other distinct religions. Eventually, a wide range of men and women called for
separation.
Almost all of these Americans feared ecclesiastical authority, particularly
that of the Catholic
Church, and, in response to their fears, they increasingly perceived religious
liberty to require
a separation of church from state. American religious liberty was thus redefined
and even
transformed. In the process, the First Amendment was often used as an instrument
of
intolerance and discrimination.
Philip Hamburger is the John P. Wilson Professor of Law at the University of
Chicago.
Forthcoming in May 2002
6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches
560 pages
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ISBN 0-674-00734-4
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Law: Constitutional / History: United States: General / Religion: Church &
State
The death penalty arouses
our passions as does few other issues. Some view taking another
person's life as just and reasonable punishment while others see it as an inhumane
and
barbaric act. But the intensity of feeling that capital punishment provokes
often obscures its
long and varied history in this country.
Now, for the first time, we have a comprehensive history of the death penalty
in the United
States. Law professor Stuart Banner tells the story of how, over four centuries,
dramatic
changes have taken place in the ways capital punishment has been administered
and
experienced. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the penalty was standard
for a
laundry list of crimes--from adultery to murder, from arson to stealing horses.
Hangings were
public events, staged before audiences numbering in the thousands, attended
by women and
men, young and old, black and white alike. Early on, the gruesome spectacle
had explicitly
religious purposes--an event replete with sermons, confessions, and last minute
penitence--to
promote the salvation of both the condemned and the crowd. Through the nineteenth
century, the execution became desacralized, increasingly secular and private,
in response to
changing mores. In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, ironically, as
it has become a
quiet, sanitary, technological procedure, the death penalty is as divisive as
ever.
By recreating what it was like to be the condemned, the executioner, and the
spectator,
Banner moves beyond the debates, to give us an unprecedented understanding of
capital
punishment's many meanings. As nearly four thousand inmates are now on death
row, and
almost one hundred are currently being executed each year, the furious debate
is unlikely to
diminish. The Death Penalty is invaluable in understanding the American way
of the ultimate
punishment.
Stuart Banner is Professor of Law at Washington University.
Forthcoming in March 2002
6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches
12 halftones
408 pages
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ISBN 0-674-00751-4
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History: United States: General / Social Science: Criminology / Social Science:
Penology
We commonly think of marriage
as a private matter between two people, a personal
expression of love and commitment. In this pioneering history, Nancy F. Cott
demonstrates
that marriage is and always has been a public institution. From the founding
of the United
States to the present day, imperatives about the necessity of marriage and its
proper form
have been deeply embedded in national policy, law, and political rhetoric. Legislators
and
judges have envisioned and enforced their preferred model of consensual, lifelong
monogamy model derived from Christian tenets and the English common law that
posits
the husband as provider and the wife as dependent. In early confrontations with
Native
Americans, emancipated slaves, Mormon polygamists, and immigrant spouses, through
the
invention of the New Deal, federal income tax, and welfare programs, the federal
government consistently influenced the shape of marriages. And even the immense
social
and legal changes of the last third of the twentieth century have not unraveled
official
reliance on marriage as a "pillar of the state." By excluding some
kinds of marriages and
encouraging others, marital policies have helped to sculpt the nation's citizenry,
as well as its
moral and social standards, and have directly affected national understandings
of gender
roles and racial difference. Public Vows is a panoramic view of marriage's political
history,
revealing the national government's profound role in our most private of choices.
No one
who reads this book will think of marriage in the same way again.
Nancy F. Cott is Sterling Professor of History and American Studies at Yale
University.
January 2001
6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches
304 pages
Cloth edition:
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ISBN 0-674-00320-9
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ISBN 0-674-00875-8
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History: United States: General / Social Science: Sociology: Marriage &
Family
Daniel K. Richter
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/RICFAC.html
In the beginning, North America was Indian country. But only in the beginning.
After the opening act
of the great national drama, Native Americans yielded to the westward rush of
European settlers.
Or so the story usually goes. Yet, for three centuries after Columbus, Native
people controlled most of
eastern North America and profoundly shaped its destiny. In Facing East from
Indian Country,
Daniel K. Richter keeps Native people center-stage throughout the story of the
origins of the United
States.
Viewed from Indian country, the sixteenth century was an era in which Native
people discovered
Europeans and struggled to make sense of a new world. Well into the seventeenth
century, the most
profound challenges to Indian life came less from the arrival of a relative
handful of European colonists
than from the biological, economic, and environmental forces the newcomers unleashed.
Drawing
upon their own traditions, Indian communities reinvented themselves and carved
out a place in a
world dominated by transatlantic European empires. In 1776, however, when some
of Britain's
colonists rebelled against that imperial world, they overturned the system that
had made
Euro-American and Native coexistence possible. Eastern North America only ceased
to be an Indian
country because the revolutionaries denied the continent's first peoples a place
in the nation they were
creating.
In rediscovering early America as Indian country, Richter employs the historian's
craft to challenge
cherished assumptions about times and places we thought we knew well, revealing
Native American
experiences at the core of the nation's birth and identity.
Daniel K. Richter is Director of The McNeil Center for Early American Studies
at the University of
Pennsylvania, and the author of The Ordeal of the Longhouse.
Forthcoming in December 2001
6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches
15 halftones, 4 maps
336 pages
Cloth edition:
$26.00 / £17.95 (one world price)
ISBN 0-674-00638-0
History: United States: Colonial Period (1600-1775) / Social Science: Native
American Studies
FROM THE HARVARD
UNIVERSITY FOREST
NEW ENGLAND FORESTS THROUGH
TIME
Insights from the Harvard Forest Dioramas
DAVID R. FOSTER AND JOHN F. O'KEEFE
Over the past three hundred years New England's landscape has been transformed.
The forests were cleared;
the land was farmed intensively through the mid-nineteenth century and then
was allowed to reforest
naturally as agriculture shifted west. Today, in many ways the region is more
natural than at any time since
the American Revolution. This fascinating natural history is essential background
for anyone interested in
New England's ecology, wildlife, or landscape. In New England Forests through
Time these historical and
environmental lessons are told through the world-renowned dioramas in Harvard's
Fisher Museum. These
remarkable models have introduced New England's landscape to countless visitors
and have appeared in
many ecology, forestry, and natural history texts. This first book based on
the dioramas conveys the
phenomenal history of the land, the beauty of the models, and new insights into
nature.
August 2000
10 x 8 inches
49 color illustrations
70 pages
Paper edition:
$9.95 / £6.95 (one world price)
ISBN 0-674-00344-6
Nature: Forests & Forestry / History: United States: State & Local
OTHER HARVARD BOOKS BY DAVID R. FOSTER
Thoreau's Country
FROM THE PURITANS TO THE
PROJECTS
Public Housing and Public Neighbors
LAWRENCE J. VALE
From the almshouses of seventeenth-century Puritans to the massive housing projects
of the mid-twentieth
century, the struggle over housing assistance in the United States has exposed
a deep-seated ambivalence
about the place of the urban poor. Lawrence J. Vale's groundbreaking book is
both a comprehensive
institutional history of public housing in Boston and a broader examination
of the nature and extent of public
obligation to house socially and economically marginal Americans during the
past 350 years.
First, Vale highlights startling continuities both in the way housing assistance
has been delivered to the
American poor and in the policies used to reward the nonpoor. He traces the
stormy history of the Boston
Housing Authority, a saga of entrenched patronage and virulent racism tempered,
and partially overcome, by
the efforts of unyielding reformers. He explores the birth of public housing
as a program intended to reward
the upwardly mobile working poor, details its painful transformation into a
system designed to cope with
society's least advantaged, and questions current policy efforts aimed at returning
to a system of rewards for
responsible members of the working class. The troubled story of Boston public
housing exposes the mixed
motives and ideological complexity that have long characterized housing in America,
from the Puritans to the
projects.
November 2000
6-3/8 x 9 inches
44 halftones, 35 line, 9 maps
480 pages
Cloth edition:
$45.00 / £30.95 (one world price)
ISBN 0-674-00286-5
Social Science: Sociology: Urban
INHERITING THE REVOLUTION
The First Generation of Americans
JOYCE APPLEBY
Born after
the Revolution, the first generation of Americans inherited a truly new world--and,
with it, the task of
working out the terms of Independence. Anyone who started a business, marketed
a new invention, ran for office,
formed an association, or wrote for publication was helping to fashion the world's
first liberal society. These are the
people we encounter in Inheriting the Revolution, a vibrant tapestry of the
lives, callings, decisions, desires, and
reflections of those Americans who turned the new abstractions of democracy,
the nation, and free enterprise into
contested realities.
Through data gathered on thousands of people, as well as hundreds of memoirs
and autobiographies, Joyce Appleby
tells myriad intersecting stories of how Americans born between 1776 and 1830
reinvented themselves and their
society in politics, economics, reform, religion, and culture. They also had
to grapple with the new distinction of free
and slave labor, with all its divisive social entailments; the rout of Enlightenment
rationality by the warm passions of
religious awakening; the explosion of small business opportunities for young
people eager to break out of their
parents' colonial cocoon. Few in the nation escaped the transforming intrusiveness
of these changes. Working these
experiences into a vivid picture of American cultural renovation, Appleby crafts
an extraordinary--and deeply
affecting--account of how the first generation established its own culture,
its own nation, its own identity.
The passage of social responsibility from one generation to another is always
a fascinating interplay of the inherited
and the novel; this book shows how, in the early nineteenth century, the very
idea of generations resonated with new
meaning in the United States.
Joyce Appleby is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
April 2000
Belknap Press
6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches
12 halftones
336 pages
ISBN 0-674-00236-9
$26.00 / £16.50 cloth
American History
BECOMING AMERICA
The Revolution before 1776
JON BUTLER
Multinational,
profit-driven, materialistic, politically self-conscious, power-hungry, religiously
plural: America three
hundred years ago--and today. Here are Britain's mainland American colonies
after 1680, in the process of becoming
the first modern society--a society the earliest colonists never imagined, a
"new order of the ages" that anticipated the
American Revolution. Jon Butler's panoramic view of the colonies in this epoch
transforms our customary picture of
prerevolutionary America; it reveals a strikingly "modern" character
that belies the eighteenth-century quaintness fixed
in history.
Stressing the middle and late decades (the hitherto "dark ages") of
the American colonial experience, and emphasizing
the importance of the middle and southern colonies as well as New England, Becoming
America shows us vast
revolutionary changes before 1776 among a fantastically diverse assortment of
peoples. Here are polyglot populations
of English, Indians, Africans, Scots, Germans, Swiss, and French; a society
of small colonial cities with enormous
urban complexities; an economy of prosperous farmers thrust into international
market economies; peoples of
immense wealth, a burgeoning middle class, and incredible poverty.
Butler depicts settlers pursuing sophisticated provincial politics that ultimately
sparked revolution and a new nation;
developing new patterns in production, consumption, crafts, and trades that
remade commerce at home and abroad; and
fashioning a society remarkably pluralistic in religion, whose tolerance nonetheless
did not extend to Africans or
Indians. Here was a society that turned protest into revolution and remade itself
many times during the next
centuries--a society that, for ninety years before 1776, was already becoming
America.
Jon Butler is the William Robertson Coe Professor of American Studies and History,
and Professor of Religious
Studies, at Yale University.
OTHER HARVARD BOOKS BY THIS AUTHOR:
Awash in a Sea of Faith
April 2000
6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches
21 halftones
336 pages
ISBN 0-674-00091-9
$27.95 / £17.50 cloth
American History
ENGINES OF ENTERPRISE
An Economic History of New England
EDITED BY PETER TEMIN
New England's economy has a history as dramatic as any in the world. From an
inauspicious beginning--as
immigration ground to a halt in the eighteenth century--New England went on
to lead the United States in its
transformation from an agrarian to an industrial economy. And when the rest
of the country caught up in the
mid-twentieth century, New England reinvented itself as a leader in the complex
economy of the information society.
Engines of Enterprise tells this dramatic story in a sequence of narrative essays
written by preeminent historians and
economists. These essays chart the changing fortunes of entrepreneurs and venturers,
businessmen and inventors,
and common folk toiling in fields, in factories, and in air-conditioned offices.
The authors describe how, short of
staple crops, colonial New Englanders turned to the sea and built an empire;
and how the region became the earliest
home of the textile industry as commercial fortunes underwrote new industries
in the nineteenth century. They show
us the region as it grew ahead of the rest of the country and as the rest of
the United States caught up. And they trace
the transformation of New England's products and exports from cotton textiles
and machine tools to such intangible
goods as education and software. Concluding short essays also put forward surprising
but persuasive arguments--for
instance, that slavery, while not prominent in colonial New England, was a critical
part of the economy; and that the
federal government played a crucial role in the development of the region's
industrial skills.
Peter Temin is Elisha Gray II Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology.
May 2000
7 x 8 5/8 inches
23 halftones, 14 line illustrations, 7 tables
336 pages
ISBN 0-674-00099-4
$24.95 / £15.50 cloth
American History/Business/New England
MIGRATION AND THE ORIGINS
OF THE ENGLISH ATLANTIC WORLD
ALISON GAMES
1999 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award in American Immigration History,
sponsored by the Immigration and Ethnic History Society.
England's seventeenth-century colonial empire in North America and the Caribbean
was
created by migration. The quickening pace of this essential migration is captured
in the
London port register of 1635, the largest extant port register for any single
year in the
colonial period and unique in its record of migration to America and to the
European
continent. Alison Games analyzes the 7,500 people who traveled from London in
that year,
recreating individual careers, exploring colonial societies at a time of emerging
viability, and
delineating a world sustained and defined by migration.
The colonial travelers were bound for the major regions of English settlement--New
England, the Chesapeake, the West Indies, and Bermuda--and included ministers,
governors,
soldiers, planters, merchants, and members of some major colonial dynasties--Winthrops,
Saltonstalls, and Eliots. Many of these passengers were indentured servants.
Games shows
that however much they tried, the travelers from London were unable to recreate
England in
their overseas outposts. They dwelled in chaotic, precarious, and hybrid societies
where New
World exigencies overpowered the force of custom. Patterns of repeat and return
migration
cemented these inchoate colonial outposts into a larger Atlantic community.
Together, the
migrants' stories offer a new social history of the seventeenth century. For
the origins and
integration of the English Atlantic world, Games illustrates the primary importance
of the
first half of the seventeenth century.
Alison Games is Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University.
October 1999
Harvard Historical Studies
6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches
12 halftones
336 pages
Cloth edition:
$47.50 / £32.95 (one world price)
ISBN: 0-674-57381-1
Paper edition forthcoming in September 2001:
$22.00 / £14.95 (one world price)
ISBN: 0-674-00702-6
History: United States: Colonial Period (1600-1775)
July 16, 2002