Princeton University Press: 2605 books
Making War at Fort Hood
Life and Uncertainty in a Military Community
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Making War at Fort Hood offers an illuminating look at war through the daily lives of the people whose job it is to produce it. Kenneth MacLeish conducted a year of intensive fieldwork among soldiers and their families at and around the US Army's Fort Hood in central Texas. He shows how war's reach...
Trusting Doctors
The Decline of Moral Authority in American Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2008
For more than a century, the American medical profession insisted that doctors be rigorously trained in medical science and dedicated to professional ethics. Patients revered their doctors as representatives of a sacred vocation. Do we still trust doctors with the same conviction? In Trusting Doctors,...
The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity
The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2012
Introducing new evidence from more than 600 secret Ottoman documents, this book demonstrates in unprecedented detail that the Armenian Genocide and the expulsion of Greeks from the late Ottoman Empire resulted from an official effort to rid the empire of its Christian subjects. Presenting these previously...
by M. Sükrü Hanioglu
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and encompassed extraordinary ethnic and cultural diversity among the estimated thirty million people living within its borders. It was perhaps the most cosmopolitan state in the world--and possibly the most volatile....
Atatürk
An Intellectual Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
When Mustafa Kemal Atatürk became the first president of Turkey in 1923, he set about transforming his country into a secular republic where nationalism sanctified by science--and by the personality cult Atatürk created around himself--would reign supreme as the new religion. This book provides...
"They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else"
A History of the Armenian Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2015
Starting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the twentieth century. By the end of the First World War, the number of Armenians in what would become Turkey had been reduced by 90 percent—more than a million...
On Stalin's Team
The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Stalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing. On Stalin's Team overturns this view, revealing that behind Stalin was a group of loyal men who formed a remarkably...
The Whites of Their Eyes
The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
Americans have always put the past to political ends. The Union laid claim to the Revolution--so did the Confederacy. Civil rights leaders said they were the true sons of liberty--so did Southern segregationists. This book tells the story of the centuries-long struggle over the meaning of the nation's...
by Norman M. Naimark
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Between the early 1930s and his death in 1953, Joseph Stalin had more than a million of his own citizens executed. Millions more fell victim to forced labor, deportation, famine, bloody massacres, and detention and interrogation by Stalin's henchmen. Stalin's Genocides is the chilling story of these...
The Neighbors Respond
The Controversy over the Jedwabne Massacre in Poland
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2009
Neighbors--Jan Gross's stunning account of the brutal mass murder of the Jews of Jedwabne by their Polish neighbors--was met with international critical acclaim and was a finalist for the National Book Award in the United States. It has also been, from the moment of its publication, the occasion of...
Death and Redemption
The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Death and Redemption offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the role of the Gulag--the Soviet Union's vast system of forced-labor camps, internal exile, and prisons--in Soviet society. Soviet authorities undoubtedly had the means to exterminate all the prisoners who passed through the Gulag, but...
A Savage War
A Military History of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
How the Civil War changed the face of war
The Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen with an unprecedented mass mobilization of peoples. Yet despite the revolutionizing aspects...
The NSA Report
Liberty and Security in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
"We cannot discount the risk, in light of the lessons of our own history, that at some point in the future, high-level government officials will decide that this massive database of extraordinarily sensitive private information is there for the plucking. Americans must never make the mistake...
Alexander the Great and His Empire
A Short Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
This is the first publication in English of Pierre Briant's classic short history of Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persian empire, from the Mediterranean to Central Asia. Eschewing a conventional biographical focus, this is the only book in any language that sets the rise of Alexander's short-lived...