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In October 1963, President Kennedy proposed withdrawing from Vietnam, gaining him a durable reputation as a skeptic on the war. However, drawing on secret White House tapes, Marc Selverstone reveals that JFK never had a firm intention to withdraw. The real value of the proposal lay in obtaining political cover for his open-ended Vietnam policy.

The Mongols are universally known as conquerors, but they were more than that: influential thinkers, politicians, engineers, and merchants. Challenging the view that nomads are peripheral to history, The Horde reveals the complex empire the Mongols built and traces its enduring imprint on politics and society in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 40 features Máire Ní Mhaonaigh on Irish chronicles, Ruairí Ó hUiginn assessing the Irish genealogical corpus in its sociological context, Georgia Henley on the reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth¿s work in Norman Ireland and Wales, and other articles centered on Irish and Welsh.

Pairs is a student-led journal at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design dedicated to conversations about design that are down to earth and unguarded. Pairs 02 features conversations with Rashid bin Shabib, Sara Hendren, Jorge Silvetti, and Sumayya Vally, among others.

Livius Andronicus, Naevius, and Caecilius were highly influential pioneers in the creation and development of Latin poetry, especially tragedy, comedy, historical drama, and epic, not only in the adaptation of Greek models but also in the inclusion of Roman allusions, subjects, and themes.

When the US government resettled thousands of Hmong in 1975, the work was done by Christian organizations deputized by the state. Exploring the resiliency of tradition amid shaky US commitments to pluralism and secularism, Melissa May Borja shows how Hmong Americans developed a ¿new way¿ that blended Christianity with their longstanding practices.

Renowned scholar Susan J. Wolfson assembles seventy-eight selections¿some beloved, others less well known¿that illuminate the brief, extraordinary career of John Keats. Lively commentaries showcase the poems¿ form, style, layers of meaning, and relevant contexts, offering a chronicle of Keats¿s artistic evolution.

Nigel of Canterbury's Miracles of the Virgin, the oldest Latin poem about miracles performed by Mary, features lively tales illustrating her boundless mercy. Tract on Abuses rails against ecclesiastical corruption. Alongside authoritative editions of the Latin texts, this volume offers the first translations of both works into English.

When Europeans came to the American continent in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, they were confronted with what they perceived as sacrificial practices. Sacrifice and Conversion in the Early Modern Atlantic World examines the encounter between European and American conceptions of sacrifice expressed in texts, music, rituals, and images.

Ariosto and the Arabs sheds new light on Ludovico Ariosto's famous poem Orlando Furioso. The sixteen essays assembled here, produced by diverse scholars who work on Europe, Africa, and Asia, encompass several intertwined areas of analysis-philology, religious and social history, cartography, material and figurative arts, and performance.

A longstanding tradition holds that universities in early modern Italy suffered from cultural sclerosis and long-term decline. Drawing on rich archival sources, including teaching records, David Lines shows that one of Italy¿s leading institutions, the University of Bologna, displayed remarkable vitality in the arts and medicine.

Why has Taiwan spent more than three decades pouring capital and talent into China? Going beyond the received wisdom of the ¿China miracle¿ and ¿Taiwan factor,¿ Wu Jieh-min¿s award-winning Rival Partners shows how Taiwan benefits from partnering with its political archrival and helps to cultivate a global economic superpower.

Amid the nationalization of Russian imperial politics, Jews developed a powerful version of race science and biopolitics as a response to their colonial condition, nonterritoriality, and exclusion from looming postimperial modernity. Marina Mogilner explores this story in the context of Russiäs turbulent early twentieth century.

Central banks are supposed to stabilize markets, yet decades of mounting central bank power have seen wave after wave of financial crisis. Leon Wansleben offers novel explanations for the rise of central banks and the problematic implications of their finance-dependent policies.

The China Questions 2 assembles top experts to explore key issues in US¿China relations today, including conflict over Taiwan, economic and military competition, public health concerns, and areas of cooperation. Rejecting a new Cold War mindset, the authors call for dealing with the world¿s most important bilateral relationship on its own terms.

Lu Xun was Chinäs greatest literary modernist and a key thinker of the early twentieth century. This new translation assembles some of Lu Xun¿s essays and experimental writings little known to English readers¿works of profound imagination that seek to find beauty and meaning in an unjust world.

The root of democratic decline is insecurity, not inequality. Antidemocrats across the globe feel differently about inequality, but all fear losing what they have¿financially or culturally. Pranab Bardhan urges context-sensitive policy solutions and the promotion of civic patriotism and moderate community values over aggrandizing ethnonationalism.