Princeton University Press: 2605 books
Beating the Odds
Jump-Starting Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
How poor countries can ignite economic growth without waiting for global action or the creation of ideal local conditions
Contrary to conventional wisdom, countries that ignite a process of rapid economic growth almost always do so while lacking what experts say are the essential preconditions...
Early Auden, Later Auden
A Critical Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Presented in one volume for the very first time, and updated with new archival discoveries, Early Auden, Later Auden reintroduces Edward Mendelson's acclaimed, two-part biography of W. H. Auden (1907–73), one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century. This book offers a detailed...
Building the Land of Dreams
New Orleans and the Transformation of Early America
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
In 1795, New Orleans was a sleepy outpost at the edge of Spain's American empire. By the 1820s, it was teeming with life, its levees packed with cotton and sugar. New Orleans had become the unquestioned urban capital of the antebellum South. Looking at this remarkable period filled with ideological...
The Hebrew Bible
A Critical Companion
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
This book brings together some of the world's most exciting scholars from across a variety of disciplines to provide a concise and accessible guide to the Hebrew Bible. It covers every major genre of book in the Old Testament together with in-depth discussions of major themes such as human nature,...
Wartime Kiss
Visions of the Moment in the 1940s
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2012
Wartime Kiss is a personal meditation on the haunting power of American photographs and films from World War II and the later 1940s. Starting with a stunning reinterpretation of one of the most famous photos of all time, Alfred Eisenstaedt's image of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on V-J...
Insomniac Dreams
Experiments with Time by Vladimir Nabokov
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Nabokov's dream diary, published for the first time—and placed in biographical and literary context
On October 14, 1964, Vladimir Nabokov, a lifelong insomniac, began a curious experiment. Over the next eighty days, immediately upon waking, he wrote down his dreams, following the instructions...
The Other Women's Movement
Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
American feminism has always been about more than the struggle for individual rights and equal treatment with men. There's also a vital and continuing tradition of women's reform that sought social as well as individual rights and argued for the dismantling of the masculine standard. In this much...
White Flight
Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived together. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, however, so many whites fled the city for the suburbs that Atlanta earned a new nickname: "The...
Fortune Tellers
The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic forecasters, pioneers who sought to use the tools of science to predict the future, with the aim of profiting from their forecasts. This book chronicles the lives and careers of the men who defined this first wave of...
Debt's Dominion
A History of Bankruptcy Law in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Bankruptcy in America, in stark contrast to its status in most other countries, typically signifies not a debtor's last gasp but an opportunity to catch one's breath and recoup. Why has the nation's legal system evolved to allow both corporate and individual debtors greater control over their fate...
The New York Nobody Knows
Walking 6,000 Miles in the City
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2013
As a child growing up in Manhattan, William Helmreich played a game with his father called "Last Stop." They would pick a subway line, ride it to its final destination, and explore the neighborhood. Decades later, his love for exploring the city is as strong as ever.
Putting his feet...
The Age of Garvey
How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2014
Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program of African liberation and racial uplift had attracted millions of supporters, both in the United States and abroad. The Age of Garvey presents an expansive...
Scouting and Scoring
How We Know What We Know about Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
An in-depth look at the intersection of judgment and statistics in baseball
Scouting and scoring are considered fundamentally different ways of ascertaining value in baseball. Scouting seems to rely on experience and intuition, scoring on performance metrics and statistics. In Scouting and...
by Scott Burnham
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
It is a common article of faith that Mozart composed the most beautiful music we can know. But few of us ask why. Why does the beautiful in Mozart stand apart, as though untouched by human hands? At the same time, why does it inspire intimacy rather than distant admiration, love rather than awe? And...