Indiana University Press imprint: 1080 books
François Truffaut
The Lost Secret
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
“Truffaut fans will love this English translation of Gillain’s work drawing on the psychology and cinematography of the acclaimed filmmaker.” —Booklist
For François Truffaut, the lost secret of cinematic art is in the ability to generate emotion and reveal repressed fantasies through...
Russia's Steppe Frontier
The Making of a Colonial Empire, 1500-1800
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2002
... a tremendously important contribution to the field of Russian history and the comparative study of empires and frontiers. There is no comparable work in any language.... The book presents an intricate and gripping narrative of a vast sweep of histories, weaving them together into a comprehensive...
by William O'Rourke
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
William O’Rourke’s singular view of American life over the past 40 years shines forth in these short essays on subjects personal, political, and literary, which reveal a man of keen intellect and wide-ranging interests. They embrace everything from the state of the nation after 9/11 to the author’s...
The Depression Comes to the South Side
Protest and Politics in the Black Metropolis, 1930-1933
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
In the 1920s, the South Side was looked on as the new Black Metropolis, but by the turn of the decade that vision was already in decline—a victim of the Depression. In this timely book, Christopher Robert Reed explores early Depression-era politics on Chicago's South Side. The economic crisis caused...
Letters from the Greatest Generation
Writing Home in WWII
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
A collection of personal letters from overseas that reveal in day-to-day detail what it was like to serve in World War II.
Recounting victory and defeat, love and loss, this is a remarkable and frank collection of World War II letters penned by American men and women serving overseas.
Here,...
Together and Apart in Brzezany
Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, 1919-1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2002
... by reconstructing the history/experience of Brzezany in Jewish, Ukrainian, and Polish memories [Redlich] has produced a beautiful parallel narrative of a world that was lost three times over.... a truly wonderful achievement." —Jan T. Gross, author of Neighbors
Shimon Redlich draws on...
In the Shadow of the Shtetl
Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The story of how the Holocaust decimated Jewish life in the shtetls of Eastern Europe is well known. Still, thousands of Jews in these small towns survived the war and returned afterward to rebuild their communities. The recollections of some 400 returnees in Ukraine provide the basis for Jeffrey...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
In recent years, the mask of tolerant, secular, multicultural Europe has been shattered by new forms of antisemitic crime. Though many of the perpetrators do not profess Christianity, antisemitism has flourished in Christian Europe. In this book, thirteen scholars of European history, Jewish studies,...
The House at Ujazdowskie 16
Jewish Families in Warsaw After the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
The compelling history of ten Jewish families rebuilding their lives in Warsaw after the Holocaust—“amply illustrated . . . the book reverberates with hope” (Jewish Book Council).
Warsaw, Poland, once described as the “Paris of the East,” had been transformed into a landscape of ruin...
Extraordinary Circumstances
The Seven Days Battles
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2010
The first campaign in the Civil War in which Robert E. Lee led the Army of Northern Virginia, the Seven Days Battles were fought southeast of the Confederate capital of Richmond in the summer of 1862. Lee and his fellow officers, including "Stonewall" Jackson, James Longstreet, A. P. Hill, and D....
Defeating Lee
A History of the Second Corps, Army of the Potomac
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
“Kreiser breathes new life into this most important of Union Army units. . . . A remarkably well-written and superbly researched account.” —David E. Long, author of The Jewel of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln’s Re-election and the End of Slavery
Fair Oaks, the Seven Days, Antietam, Fredericksburg,...
America's War in Vietnam
A Short Narrative History
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2000
“If you want to read one book about Vietnam, read this one.” —New York Review of Books
Drawing on years of experience teaching about the war, Larry H. Addington presents a short, narrative history of the origins, course, and outcome of America’s military involvement in Vietnam. Not intended...
1915 Diary of S. An-sky
A Russian Jewish Writer at the Eastern Front
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
S. An-sky was by the time of the First World War a well-known writer, a longtime revolutionary, and an ethnographer who pioneered the collection of Jewish folklore in Russia's Pale of Settlement. In 1915, An-sky took on the assignment of providing aid and relief to Jewish civilians trapped under Russian...
The Battle for Manchuria and the Fate of China
Siping, 1946
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
“A well-organized and excellently researched work” (H-War) on one of the crucial battles of China’s civil war.
In the spring of 1946, Communists and Nationalist Chinese were battled for control of Manchuria and supremacy in the civil war. The Nationalist attack on Siping ended with a Communist...