The Lawrence Stone Lectures⁹

This series features titles on a range of historical topics originated in an annual lecture series delivered by Princeton University’s Lawrence Stone Visiting Professor, co-sponsored by Princeton University Press, Princeton’s History Department, and the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies. The Center was founded by former chair of the History Department, Lawrence Stone (1919–91).

Rules: A Short History of What We Live By Lorraine Daston
Rules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended hand or cheek in greeting, and organize the rites of life, from birth through death. We...
Living I Was Your Plague: Martin Luther's World and Legacy Lyndal Roper
Martin Luther was a controversial figure during his lifetime, eliciting strong emotions in friends and enemies alike, and his outsized persona has left an indelible mark on the world today. Living I Was Your Plague explores how Luther...
Time and Power: Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich Christopher Clark
This groundbreaking book presents new perspectives on how the exercise of power is shaped by different notions of time. Acclaimed historian Christopher Clark draws on four key figures from German history—Friedrich Wilhelm of...
Citizenship, Inequality, and Difference: Historical Perspectives Frederick Cooper
Citizenship, Inequality, and Difference offers a concise and sweeping overview of citizenship's complex evolution, from ancient Rome to the present. Political leaders and thinkers still debate, as they did in Republican Rome, whether...
Sleepwalking into a New World: The Emergence of Italian City Communes in the Twelfth Century Chris Wickham
Amid the disintegration of the Kingdom of Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a new form of collective government—the commune—arose in the cities of northern and central Italy. Sleepwalking into a New World takes a bold new...
Sea of Storms: A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina Stuart B. Schwartz
The diverse cultures of the Caribbean have been shaped as much by hurricanes as they have by diplomacy, commerce, or the legacy of colonial rule. In this panoramic work of social history, Stuart Schwartz examines how Caribbean societies...
The Pity of Partition: Manto's Life, Times, and Work across the India-Pakistan Divide Ayesha Jalal
Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) was an established Urdu short story writer and a rising screenwriter in Bombay at the time of India's partition in 1947, and he is perhaps best known for the short stories he wrote following his migration...
No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations Mark M. Mazower
No Enchanted Palace traces the origins and early development of the United Nations, one of the most influential yet perhaps least understood organizations active in the world today. Acclaimed historian Mark Mazower forces us to set...
Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race Thomas J. Sugrue
Barack Obama, in his acclaimed campaign speech discussing the troubling complexities of race in America today, quoted William Faulkner's famous remark "The past isn't dead and buried. In fact, it isn't even past." In Not Even Past...