Freedom and Its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty
by Isaiah Berlin
Princeton University Press
$24.95/$19.96

Isaiah Berlin's celebrated radio lectures on six formative anti-liberal thinkers were broadcast by the BBC in 1952. They are published here for the first time, fifty years later. They comprise one of Berlin's earliest and most convincing expositions of his views on human freedom and on the history of ideas -- views that later found expression in such famous works as "Two Concepts of Liberty," and were at the heart of his lifelong work on the Enlightenment and its critics. Working with BBC transcripts and Berlin's annotated drafts, Henry Hardy has recreated these lectures, which consolidated the forty-three-year-old Berlin's growing reputation as a man who could speak about intellectual matters in an accessible and involving way.

Defining Travel: Diverse Visions
edited by Susan L. Roberson
University Press of Mississippi
$40.00/$32.00

Travel, movement, mobility -- these are some of the essential activities in human life. Whether we travel to foreign lands or just across the city, we all journey, and from our journeying we shape ourselves, our history, and the stories we tell. In essays written by some of the most respected contemporary scholars, this anthology brings together some of the best informed convictions about travel. Travel, so essential to human life, is a complex matter that encompasses a variety of travel experiences -- family vacation, political exile, exploration of distant lands, immigration, mundane shopping trips. As the field of travel itself "travels" across academic and theoretical boundaries, it brings together sociology, anthropology, geography, history, psychology, and literary criticism.

Restructuring World Politics: Transnational Social Movements, Networks, and Norms
edited by Sanjeev Khagram, James V. Riker, and Kathryn Sikkink
University of Minnesota Press, pb
$24.95/$19.96

From the earliest campaign against Augusto Pinochet's repressive practices to the recent massive demonstrations against the World Trade Organization, transnational collective action involving nongovernmental organizations has been restructuring politics and changing the world. Ranging from Santiago to Seattle and covering over twenty-five years of transnational advocacy, the essays in Restructuring World Politics offer a clear, richly nuanced picture of this process and its far-reaching implications in an increasingly globalized political economy. The book brings together scholars, activists, and policy makers to show how such advocacy addresses -- and reshapes -- key issues in the areas of labor, human rights, gender justice, democratization, and sustainable development throughout the world.

A Life in Letters, 1914-1982
by Gershom Scholem, edited and translated by Anthony David Skinner
Harvard University Press
$35.00/$28.00

"Perhaps the greatest scholar of Jewish mysticism in the twentieth century, Gershom Scholem (1897 - 1982) once said of himself, 'I have no biography, only a bibliography.' Yet, in thousands of letters written over his lifetime, Scholem's biography does unfold, inscribing a life that epitomized the intellectual ferment and political drama of an era. This selection of the best and most representative letters gives readers an intimate view of this remarkable man, from his troubled family life in Germany to his emergence as one of the leading lights of Israel during its founding and formative years." -- Library Journal

Who Owns History? Rethinking the Past in a Changing World
by Eric Foner
Hill and Wang/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
$24.00/$19.20

History has become a matter of public controversy, as Americans clash over such things as museum presentations, the flying of the Confederate flag, or reparations for slavery. So whose history is being written? Who owns it? In Who Owns History?, Eric Foner proposes his answer to these and other questions about the historian's relationship to the world of the past and future. He examines international changes during the past two decades -- globalization, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the end of apartheid in South Africa -- and their effects on historical consciousness. He concludes with considerations of the enduring, but often misunderstood, legacies of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. This is a provocative, even controversial, study of the reasons we care about history -- or should.