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Columbia University Press Save 30% on New Titles in History and Historiography! Reader reviews     Table of Contents         Reader reviews Table of Contents History and Popular Memory The Power of Story in Moments of Crisis   Paul A. Cohen   When people experience a traumatic event, such as war or the threat of annihilation, they often turn to history for stories that promise a positive outcome to their suffering. During World War II, the French took comfort in the story of Joan of Arc and her heroic efforts to rid France of foreign occupation. To bring the Joan narrative more into line with current circumstances, however, popular retellings modified the original story so that what people believed took place in the past was often quite different from what actually occurred. Paul A. Cohen identifies this interplay between story and history as a worldwide phenomenon, found in countries of radically different cultural, religious, and social character. He focuses here on Serbia, Israel, China, France, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain, all of which experienced severe crises in the twentieth century and, in response, appropriated age-old historical narratives that resonated with what was happening in the present to serve a unifying, restorative purpose.     Order Now and Save 30%!  $35.00 $24.50 Use discount code HISCOH at check-out Cloth | 304 pages | £24.00    Breaking with the Past The Maritime Customs Service and the Global Origins of Modernity in China   Hans van de Ven    Between its founding in 1854 and its collapse in 1952, the Chinese Maritime Customs Service was pivotal to China's post-Taiping integration into the world of modern nation-states and twentieth-century trade and finance. If the Customs Service introduced the modern governance of trade to China, it also made Chinese legible to foreign audiences. Following the activities of the Inspectors General, who were virtual autocrats within the service and communicated regularly with senior Chinese officials and foreign diplomats, this history tracks the Customs Service as it transformed China and its relationship to the world. The Customs Service often kept China together when little else did. This book reveals the role of the agency in influencing the outcomes of the Sino-French War, the Boxer Rebellion, and the 1911 Revolution, as well as the rise of the Nationalists in the 1920s, and concludes with the Customs Service purges of the early 1950s, when the relentless logic of revolution dismantled the agency for good.    Order Now and Save 30%! $50.00 $35.00 Use discount code BREVAN at check-out   Cloth | 432 pages | £34.50 FOLLOW COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS:

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