New books in June and July from Harvard University Press

Share Tweet Forward New Books in June and July In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews honors Patricia Sullivan's Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy's America in Black and White: "Effectively shows why Kennedy, who cared deeply about the plights of his fellow citizens, was beloved by millions." Library Journal lauds: "This is the best work to date on Kennedy's civil rights record; it is a must for all historians of the 1960s, and for activists working for a more just society." Chris Miller's We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin is an illuminating account of Russia's attempts—and failures—to achieve great power status in Asia. Publishers Weekly raves for "a rich and well-informed chronicle of Russia's engagement with Asia over the past three centuries." On the centennial of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, Tony Saich's From Rebel to Ruler: One Hundred Years of the Chinese Communist Party presents the definitive history of how Mao and his successors overcame incredible odds to gain and keep power. Publishers Weekly praises an "exhaustive, well-informed chronicle [that] sheds light on one of the world's most consequential political institutions." More on Our Shelves Mircea Raianu's Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism is an eye-opening portrait of global capitalism spanning 150 years, told through the history of the Tata corporation. The New Yorker values Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer's A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication: "The invention of graphs and charts was a much quieter affair than that of the telescope, but these tools have done just as much to change how and what we see." The revised edition of C. K. Gunsalus's The College Administrator's Survival Guide is the book that every dean and department chair needs to survive—and thrive—in the twenty-first-century university. June releases: Life in the Cosmos • The Banks Did It • The Economic Integration of Europe • Paperback: China and Japan  July releases: The Deepest Dye • The Suicide of Miss Xi •  Rotary International and the Selling of American Capitalism • Toward a Contextual Realism • Tuscany in the Age of Empire Celebrating Pride The History Project This month, we partnered with The History Project—an independent community archives focused exclusively on documenting and preserving the history of New England's LGBTQ communities and sharing that history with all. Curated Collection: LGBTQ+ From marriage equality to the cultural costs of mainstream assimilation, our LGBTQ+ collection features scholarship that ranges through gender studies, history, literature, politics, and psychology. HUP Blog | Excerpts Awakening | Nathaniel Frank tells the dramatic story of the struggle for same-sex couples to legally marry, something that is now taken for granted. How To Be Gay | David M. Halperin, a pioneer of LGBTQ studies, dares to suggest that gayness is a way of being that gay men must learn from one another to become who they are. Feeling Backward | Heather Love looks at the cost of gay assimilation into mainstream culture and makes an effort to value aspects of historical gay experience that now threaten to disappear. Discover the Loeb Classical Library The Loeb Classical Library is the only existing series that, through original text and English translation, gives access to all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. Its iconic red and green volumes line the shelves of libraries and bookstores around the world. Gift the wisdom of the ancients with the Digital Loeb Classical Library » New: Orations, Volume II • History of Rome, Volume VIII: Books 28–30 Martha Stewart gifted the Loeb Classical Library's two-volume set of Homer's Odyssey for the 99th birthday of her friend, Homer Gere. Follow our Instagram page for the latest news » Coming in August Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism Indentured Students The King's Peace Paperbacks: The Anatomy of Racial Inequality •  The Chinese Must Go • From Here to There • Landscapes of Hope • The Missing Course • Policing the Open Road STAY CONNECTED MORE RESOURCES    Subscribe    Facebook    Twitter    Instagram Awards » Catalogs » Events » Resources for Educators and Students » © 2021 Harvard University Press. All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you signed up to receive the latest news on scholarship by Harvard University Press. We respect the privacy of our subscribers and we adhere to our privacy policy as well as Harvard University's EEA Privacy Disclosures. Our mailing address is: Harvard University Press 79 Garden Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.