Books from Columbia University Press

  • The Limits of Empire: The United States and Southeast Asia Since World War II
    The Limits of Empire: The United States and Southeast Asia Since World War II
    By Robert J. McMahon, Robert McMahon

    I am especially grateful to Gary R. Hess , Melvyn P. Leffler , and Robert H. Zieger , each of whom read the entire manuscript and offered valuable suggestions for its improvement . I thank George C. Herring and David Anderson , among ...

  • The Cold War on the Periphery: The United States, India, and Pakistan
    The Cold War on the Periphery: The United States, India, and Pakistan
    By Robert J. McMahon, Robert McMahon, Robert Joseph McMahon

    Dave Colburn , Kermit Hall , Jeff Adler , Tom Gallant , Bob Zieger , Pat Geary , and Darrett Rutman have all been extremely helpful . And I am deeply indebted to Jeff Adler and Tom Gallant for also patiently reading a draft of this ...

  • The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800: Suits against states
    The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800: Suits against states
    By Maeva Marcus, James R. Perry

    After the Court's February 1797 term had ended , Charles Lee and John Marshall reported to Governor Wood . ... Georgia , and William Rawle , counsel for the Indiana Company , argued that the amendment was not " retrospective ” and thus ...

  • From Loyalist to Founding Father: The Political Odyssey of William Samuel Johnson
    From Loyalist to Founding Father: The Political Odyssey of William Samuel Johnson
    By Betsy McCaughey Ross

    From Loyalist to Founding Father: The Political Odyssey of William Samuel Johnson

  • The Inquisition of Climate Science
    The Inquisition of Climate Science
    By James Lawrence Powell

    ... science writer Chris Mooney and the other by the secretary-general of the World Meteorological Organization. Mooney's response included some important words: “Perhaps the only hope involves taking a stand for a breed of journalism ...

  • American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT
    American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT
    By James E. McWilliams

    Mooney, James. Myths of the Cherokee and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokee. Nashville, Tenn.: Elder, 1972. Muhlenberg, Henry Melchoir. The Notebook of a Colonial Clergyman, Condensed 262 Bibliography.

  • Pulitzer's School: Columbia University's School of Journalism, 1903-2003
    Pulitzer's School: Columbia University's School of Journalism, 1903-2003
    By James Boylan

    “Mincemeat”: Michael Mooney, deputy provost, to Elliott, March 23, 1981, Box 17, Richard Terrill Baker Papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University. 19. Johnston process: Boylan, Journal, June 8, 1981.

  • Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds
    Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds
    By John Pickrell

    ... Cope or Marsh's fossil hunting expeditions, but in 1879 Congress decreed that they be consolidated into a single organisation: the US Geological Survey (USGS), headed by John Wesley Powell, a well-respected explorer of the West.

  • The Measure of America: American Human Development Report, 2008-2009
    The Measure of America: American Human Development Report, 2008-2009
    By Sarah Burd-Sharps, Kristen Lewis, Eduardo Borges Martins

    ... Leena Soman, Cynthia Spence, Dorothy Thomas, Ashley Tsongas, Cássio Turra, Kevin Watkins, and Veronica White. Special thanks to Ekaterina and friends in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, and high school students in Crown Point, New Mexico, ...

  • Human Ecology of Beringia
    Human Ecology of Beringia
    By John F. Hoffecker, Scott A. Elias, Scott Elias

    Mann , D.H. , R. E. Reanier , D.M. Peteet , M. L. Kunz , and M. Johnson . 2001 . Environmental change and Arctic Paleoindians . Arctic Anthropology 38 ( 2 ) : 119-138 . Marincovich , L. , and A. Y. Gladenkov . 2001.

  • Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America
    Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America
    By Frederick Douglass Opie

    Soul Food from Africa to America Frederick Douglass Opie ... Western Europeans, and Amerindians.2 Historian Douglas Brent Chambers has shown in the case of the Igbo in Virginia that, contrary to popular belief, Africans in the New World ...

  • Early English Stages, 1300 to 1660: Plays and their makers to 1576
    Early English Stages, 1300 to 1660: Plays and their makers to 1576
    By Glynne William Gladstone Wickham

    64-5 ) One of the earliest definitions of the word as used in this context occurs in Dives and Pauper , and is there so similarly phrased as to suggest that the author of Ludus Coventriae was acquainted with it . 48 ' Every craft pat ...

  • Journalism Under Fire: Protecting the Future of Investigative Reporting
    Journalism Under Fire: Protecting the Future of Investigative Reporting
    By Stephen Gillers

    Consider two persons, Smith and Jones, who separately undertake to investigate and write a book or article about a public figure in national politics. Smith undertakes to discover whatever she can through her investigations and to write ...

  • The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature
    The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature
    By Joseph S. M. Lau, Howard Goldblatt

    An anthology of Chinese fiction, poetry, and essays written during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

  • The Papers of Alexander Hamilton
    The Papers of Alexander Hamilton
    By Alexander Hamilton, Alastair Hamilton

    ... 425-26 , 430 , 435 Secretary for Foreign Affairs : barge Salter , Titus , 527 for , 106 , 140 Samuel : and Samuel ... Benjamin , 474 Seton , William : on Bank of New Savage , George : accounts of , 38-39 York and New York branch of ...

  • The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton: Documents and Commentary
    The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton: Documents and Commentary
    By Alexander Hamilton, Alastair Hamilton

    William Armstrong and George Barnwall . See Ms. Cash Book 41 sub Jan 10 , 1797 . 3. See immediately preceding entry . 4. This entry may relate to Holland Land Company matters . 5. Manasseh and Thomas Salter were merchants at 175 ...

  • The Work of Opera: Genre, Nationhood, and Sexual Difference
    The Work of Opera: Genre, Nationhood, and Sexual Difference
    By Richard Dellamora, Daniel Fischlin

    ... “ Semitic , ” thus linking her with all the negative traits attributed to the people the Egyptians once enslaved . Accordingly , Amneris embodies much of what Lombroso would soon clasP. J. Smith 104 sify as “ degenerate ” in Jews.

  • Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement
    Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement
    By William Duggan

    Later he added an eighth intelligence, naturalistic, and as of 2005 considered a ninth, existential.15 Like de Bono's hats, Gardner's intelligences remain popular, although intelligent memory overturns both models of multiple modes of ...

  • Science and Social Work: A Critical Appraisal
    Science and Social Work: A Critical Appraisal
    By Stuart Kirk, William J. Reid

    ... 194, 198 Ginsberg, Mitchell I., 120 Glaser, B. G., 132 Glaser, E., 177 Glaser, E. M., 193 Goldstein, E. G., 155 Goode, W., 9 Goodman, H., 131 Gordon, William, 11, 207 Gorey, K. M., 85, 153, 156, 161 Gottman, J. M., 99 Graebner, W., ...

  • The FDR Years: On Roosevelt and His Legacy
    The FDR Years: On Roosevelt and His Legacy
    By William Edward Leuchtenburg

    ... 234 Gable , Clark , 13 Gorky , Arshile , 261 Galbraith , John Kenneth , 34 , 234 , Gosplan , 42 248 Graebner , Norman , 157 Gallagher , Hugh , 27 Graham , Otis L. , Jr. , 26 , 36–37 Grand Coulee dam , 230 , 259 Hancock , John INDEX 357.