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Distributed Books 104 The AMS Weather Book Nature’s Great Events Ordering The Ultimate Guide to The Most Amazing Natural Events Information 210 America’s Weather on the Planet Jack Williams Karen Bass, General Editor With Forewords by Rick Anthes With an Introduction by Brian Leith Subject Index 215 and Stephanie Abrams ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47154-9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-89898-8 Cloth $39.95 USA Cloth $35.00/£24.00 Author Index 216

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The Subversive Copy Paradise Found Editor Nature in America at the Time Advice from Chicago (or, How to of Discovery Negotiate Good Relationships with Steve Nicholls Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and ISBN-13: 978-0-226-58340-2 Yourself) Cloth $30.00/£20.50 Carol Fisher Saller Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73425-5 Paper $13.00/£9.00

Cover image: Stock car racing, backlit shot of man and two boys leaning Bigfoot An Orchard Invisible on railing, watching field from the colonnades, 1947. Photograph by permission and courtesy of the Chicago Park District Special Collections. The Life and Times of a Legend A Natural History of Seeds Joshua Blu Buhs Jonathan Silvertown Cover design by Mary Shanahan ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07979-0 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-75773-5 Cloth $29.00/£20.00 Cloth $25.00/£17.50 Catalog design by Alice Reimann and Mary Shanahan Adrian Johns Piracy The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates

ince the rise of Napster and other file sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a prod- Suct of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. The Motion Picture Association of America, for instance, claimed that in 2005 the film industry lost $2.3 billion in revenue to piracy online. But here Adrian Johns shows that piracy has a much longer and more vital history than we have realized—one that has been largely forgotten and is little understood. Praise for Adrian Johns’s The Nature of Piracy explores the intellectual property wars from the advent of the Book print culture in the fifteenth century to the reign of the Internet in the “A mammoth and stimulating account of twenty-first. Written with a historian’s flair for narrative and sparkling the place of print in the history of knowl- detail, the book swarms throughout with characters of genius, prin- edge. . . . Johns has written a tremen- ciple, cunning, and outright criminal intent. In the wars over piracy, dously learned primer on . . . how books it is the victims—from Charles Dickens to Bob Dylan—who have were made and sold, by whom, and how always been the best known, but the principal players—the pirates one decided which could be relied on.” themselves—have long languished in obscurity, and it is their stories —New Republic especially that Johns brings to life in these vivid pages.

Brimming with broader implications for today’s debates over open “Entertainingly written. . . . The most access, fair use, free culture, and the like, Johns’s book ultimately comprehensive account available. . . Well argues that piracy has always stood at the center of our attempts to rec- documented and engaging.” oncile creativity and commerce—and that piracy has been an engine —Times Literary Supplement of social, technological, and intellectual innovations as often as it has been their adversary. From Cervantes to Sonny Bono, from Maria Cal- “Provocative. . . . Johns has an enviable las to Microsoft, from Grub Street to Google, no chapter in the story eye for telling detail, a skill in narrative, of piracy evades Johns’s graceful analysis in what will be the definitive and an ability to intersperse this with history of the subject for years to come. ingenious, often deflationary, asides.” —Nature Adrian Johns is professor of history and chair of the Committee on Concep- tual and Historical Studies at the University of Chicago. He is the author of february 648 p., 40 halftones 6 x 9 The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making, also published by the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40118-8 University of Chicago Press. Cloth $35.00/£24.00 HISTORY

general interest 1 Michael Forsberg Great Plains America’s Lingering Wild With a Foreword by Ted Kooser, Chapter Introductions by David Wishart, and Essays by Dan O’Brien

he Great Plains were once among the greatest grasslands on the planet. But as the United States T and Canada grew westward, the Plains were plowed up, fenced in, overgrazed, and otherwise degraded. Today, “The Great Plains of America are not for this fragmented landscape is the most endangered and least protected sissies, but those who respond to their ecosystem in North America. But all is not lost on the prairie. Through haunting beauty will not be driven off. lyrical photographs, essays, historical images, and maps, this beauti- The photographer Michael Forsberg and fully illustrated book gets beneath the surface of the Plains, revealing three of his writing friends show why. the lingering wild that still survives and whose diverse natural com- Forsberg has spent a long time looking at munities, native creatures, migratory traditions, and natural systems the Great Plains and now he has shared together create one vast and extraordinary whole. what he saw.” —Larry McMurtry Three broad geographic regions are covered in detail in Great Plains, evoked in the unforgettable and often haunting images taken “The prairie is a minimalist landscape, by Michael Forsberg. Between the fall of 2005 and the winter of 2008, anything but flashy. Forsberg’s discern- he traveled roughly 100,000 miles across twelve states and three prov- ing eye frames its sparse beauty in all inces, from southern Canada to northern Mexico, to complete the its exquisite detail and lovely sweep. To photographic fieldwork for this project, underwritten by the Nature spend time with this book is to under- Conservancy. Complementing his images and firsthand accounts are stand why the Great Plains matter.” essays by Great Plains scholar David Wishart and acclaimed writer —Chris Johns, editor-in-chief, Dan O’Brien. Each section of the book begins with a thorough overview National Geographic by Wishart, while O’Brien—a wildlife biologist and rancher as well as a writer—uses his powerful literary voice to put the Great Plains into a hu- “The beauty and majesty of the Great man context, connecting their natural history with man’s uses and abuses. Plains come alive in the pages of this magnificent book.” The Great Plains are a dynamic but often forgotten landscape— —James V. Risser, overlooked, undervalued, misunderstood, and in desperate need of two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting conservation. This book helps lead the way forward, informing and inspiring readers to recognize the wild spirit and splendor of this irreplaceable part of the planet. October 256 p., 150 color plates 12 x 11 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-25725-9 Cloth $45.00/£31.00 Michael Forsberg is a Nebraska native and a professional photographer whose NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY images have appeared in publications including Audubon, National Geographic, Natural History, National Wildlife, and in books published by National Geo- graphic and the Smithsonian. He is also the author of On Ancient Wings: The Sandhill Cranes of North America. 2 general interest Dietmar Elger Gerhard Richter A Life in Painting Translated by Elizabeth M. Solaro

erhard Richter is one of the most important and popular artists of the postwar era. For decades he has sought innova- G tive ways to make painting more relevant, often through a multifaceted dialogue with photography. Today Richter is most widely recognized for the photo-paintings he made during the 1960s that rely on images culled from mass media and pop culture. Always fascinated with the limits and uncertainties of representation, he has since then produced landscapes, abstractions, glass and mirror constructions, “At a time when art is full of doubt, Richter prints, sculptures, and installations. is the most self-critical of artists, putting painting to the most extravagant tests Though Richter has been known in the United States for quite and taking nothing for granted. In the some time, the highly successful retrospective of his work at the MOMA process, he makes disturbing and often in 2002 catapulted him to unprecedented fame. Enter noted curator utterly beautiful art. . . . His work asks Dietmar Elger, who here presents the first biography of this contem- people to think freshly and not roman- porary artist. Written with full access to Richter and his archives, this tically about control versus freedom, fascinating book offers unprecedented insight into his life and work. austerity versus exuberance, faith versus Elger explores Richter’s childhood in Nazi Germany; his years as a skepticism: about what we can trust in student and mural painter in communist East Germany; his time in the what we see. . . . Having grown up under West during the turbulent 1960s and ’70s, when student protests, po- the Nazis and then in Communist East litical strife, and violence tore the Federal Republic of Germany apart; Germany, he has had his share of dicta- and his rise to international acclaim during the 1980s and beyond. tors and ideologues, in life and in art. Richter has always been a difficult personality to parse, and the He is a solitary man who rarely grants seemingly contradictory strands of his artistic practice have frustrated interviews, aware that his solitude also and sometimes confounded critics. But the extensive interviews on enhances his aura.” which this book is based disclose a Richter who is far more candid and —New York Times vivid than ever before. The result is a book that will be the foundational portrait of this artist and his profoundly influential oeuvre. february 468 p., 78 color plates, 103 halftones 7 x 10 Dietmar Elger is director of the Gerhard Richter Archive and chief curator at ISBN-13: 978-0-226-20323-2 Cloth $45.00/£31.00 the Galerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. He is for- BIOGRAPHY ART mer curator for painting and sculpture at the Sprengel Museum in Hannover. Between 1984 and 1985 he was the secretary in Gerhard Richter’s studio. He has organized numerous exhibitions on modern and contemporary art and has written and edited their accompanying catalogs. Elizabeth M. Solaro is a translator of works from the German.

general interest 3 Lance Grande and Allison Augustyn Gems and Gemstones Timeless Natural Beauty of the Mineral World

ems are objects of wealth, icons of beauty, and emblems of the very best of everything. Given as tokens of love and G affection, they also come in a kaleidoscopic array of hues and can be either mineral or organic. Gems can command a person’s gaze in the way they play with light and express rich color. October 352 p., 290 color plates, And they can evoke feelings of passion, greed, mystery, and warmth. 7 line drawings, 5 tables 81/2 x 10 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30511-0 Cloth $45.00/£31.00 For millennia, gems have played an important role in human cul- nature REFERENCE ture: they have significant value, both financially and within folklore Copublished with the Field Museum and mythology. But just what are gems, exactly? This lavishly illustrated volume—the most ambitious publication of its kind—provides a general introduction to gems and natural gemstones, conveying their timeless beauty and exploring similarities among different species and varieties. Gems and Gemstones features nearly three hundred color images of the cut gems, precious and semiprecious stones, gem- quality mineral specimens, and fine jewelry to be unveiled in the new Grainger Hall of Gems at the Field Museum in Chicago this October. The book and exhibition’s overarching theme will be the relationship between finished gems and their natural origin: while beautiful as faceted and polished pieces of jewelry, gems are often just as lovely— or even more so—as gemstones in their natural state. For example, an aquamarine or emerald as originally found in a mine with its natural crystal faces can be as stunning as any cut and polished gem prepared for a ring, bracelet, or charm. Gems and Gemstones features nearly 300 color images of the cut gems, precious and semiprecious stones, gem-quality mineral Gems and specimens, and fine jewelry to be unveiled in the new Grainger Hall Gemstones of Gems at the Field Museum in Chicago this October. Mindful of both ancient and modern times, Gems and Gemstones also includes fun-filled facts and anecdotes that broaden the historical portrait of each specimen. When Harry Winston, for instance, donated the Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian in 1958, he sent it through the U.S. mail wrapped in plain brown paper. And for anyone who has ever marveled at the innovations of top jewelry designers, Gems and Gemstones features a dazzling array of polished stones, gold objects, and creations from around the world. Diamonds, sapphires, rubies, amethysts, pearls, topaz, amber—every major gem gets its due in this invaluable reference.

Lance Grande is senior vice president and head of collections and research at the Field Museum. He is a curator in the geology department and a general content specialist for the Field’s new Grainger Hall of Gems exhibit. He is also a member of the Committee on Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago and is adjunct professor of biology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Allison Augustyn, a funding specialist at the Field Museum, was previously an exhibition developer there, where she prepared such exhibits as the Ancient Americas, George Washington Carver, and the Grainger Hall of Gems.

general interest 5 Marty Crump Sexy Orchids Make Lousy Lovers and Other Unusual Relationships With Illustrations by Alan Crump

ampire bats that regurgitate blood for roosting buddies. Mos- quitoes that filch honeydew droplets from ants. Reptiles that V enforce chastity on their lovers with copulatory plugs. Capu- chin monkeys that use millipede secretions as mosquito repellent. The natural world is full of unusual relationships, and negotiation between life-forms striving to survive is evolution at its most diverse, entertain- Praise for Headless Males Make Great ing, and awe-inspiring. Lovers Picking up where her highly popular Headless Males Make Great “Marty Crump’s book is a trawl through Lovers left off, tropical field biologist Marty Crump takes us on another the whole gamut of weird animal behav- voyage of discovery into the world of unusual natural histories, this iours. Watch out for spine-anointing, time focusing on extraordinary interactions involving animals, plants, toad-chewing hedgehogs; tortoises that fungi, and bacteria. Sexy Orchids Make Lousy Lovers and Other Unusual stomp the ground to draw up worms; and Relationships illuminates the ceaseless give-and-take between species. the mantids of the title that mate more Occasionally, both interacting parties benefit, like when hornbills and effectively once the female has bitten dwarf mongooses hunt together for food. Other times, like when mites off their heads. With Crump’s thirty-plus ride in hummingbirds’ nostrils to reach their next meal of nectar, one years of experience in the field, this beau- individual benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed. But tifully written and charmingly illustrated sometimes one individual benefits at the expense of the other; you book combines acute observation with need only recall your last sinus infection to understand how that works. helpful explanation. Nature has never Throughout, Crump brings her trademark spunk and zest to these seemed so bizarre and splendid.” stories of intimate exchange. She introduces readers to penguins that —Adrian Barnett, New Scientist babysit, pseudoscorpions that ride and mate under the wings of giant harlequin beetles, and parasitic fungi that bend insects to their will.

November 224 p., 120 line drawings 6 x 9 After this entertaining romp through the world of natural relation- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-12185-7 ships, you’ll never look at an orchid the same way again. Cloth $25.00/£17.50 NATURE Marty Crump is a behavioral ecologist who has worked with tropical amphib- ians in the areas of parental care, reproduction, territoriality, cannibalism, and tadpole ecology. An adjunct professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Northern Arizona University, she is the author of In Search of the Golden Frog and Headless Males Make Great Lovers, both published by the Uni- versity of Chicago Press.

6 general interest Gary S. Becker and Richard A. Posner Uncommon Sense Economic Insights, from Marriage to Terrorism

n December 5, 2004, the still-developing blogosphere took one of its biggest steps toward mainstream credibility, Oas Nobel Prize–winning economist Gary S. Becker and renowned jurist and legal scholar Richard A. Posner announced the formation of the Becker-Posner Blog. In no time at all, the blog had established a wide readership and reputation as a reliable source of lively, thought-provoking commentary on current events, its pithy and profound weekly essays highlighting the value of economic reasoning when applied to unexpected topics. Uncom- “If Becker has a single guiding principle, mon Sense gathers the most important and innovative entries from the it is that the economic way of looking at blog, arranged by topic, along with updates and even reconsiderations behaviour applies more broadly than orig- when subsequent events have shed new light on a question. Whether it’s inally thought, and people make rational Posner making the economic case for the legalization of gay marriage, choices about crime, marriage, parent- Becker arguing in favor of the sale of human organs for transplant, hood, education, even drug addiction. or even the pair of scholars vigorously disagreeing about the utility of . . . Becker is now regarded as one of collective punishment with reference to Israel’s battles with Hezbollah the most influential economists of the and Hamas, the writing is always clear, the interplay energetic, and the twentieth century—arguably, the most resulting discussion deeply informed and intellectually substantial. influential of all.” —Tim Harford, To have a single thinker of the stature of Becker or Posner address- Financial Times ing questions of this nature would make for fascinating reading; to have both, writing and responding to each other, is an exceptionally “For sheer intimidating cerebral mega- rare treat. With Uncommon Sense, they invite the adventurous reader to hertz, Posner has few rivals on the join them on a whirlwind intellectual journey. All they ask is that you bench—or anywhere else, for that matter. leave your preconceptions behind. . . . His books and writings make him, by a wide margin, the most frequently cited legal scholar of the past half-century.” Gary S. Becker is University Professor at the University of Chicago and the —Fortune author of many books, including Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empiri- cal Analysis. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1992 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007. Richard A. Posner is a judge of the November 304 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04101-8 U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, senior lecturer in law at the Cloth $29.00/£20.00 University of Chicago Law School, and the author of numerous books, CURRENT EVENTS ECONOMICS including How Judges Think.

general interest 7 Dominic A. Pacyga Chicago A Biography

hicago has been called by many names. Nelson Algren declared it a “City on the Make.” Carl Sandburg dubbed it the C“City of Big Shoulders.” Upton Sinclair christened it “The Jungle,” while New Yorkers, naturally, pronounced it “the Second City.” At last there is a book for all of us, whatever we choose to call Chicago. Here, historian Dominic A. Pacyga gives his hometown the magisterial biography it has long deserved. Chicago: A Biography traces the city’s storied past, from the explorations of Joliet and Marquette in “A wonderful achievement from someone 1673 to the new wave of urban pioneers today. The city’s great industri- who has devoted much of his career to alists, reformers, and politicians—and, indeed, the many not-so-great studying Chicago’s history. Pacyga gives and downright notorious—animate this book, from Al Capone and us the singular story of Chicago in his Jane Addams to Mayor Richard J. Daley and President Barack Obama. own inimitable voice.” But what distinguishes this book from the many others on the sub- —Ann Durkin Keating, coeditor of The Encyclopedia of Chicago ject is its author’s uncommon ability to illuminate the lives of Chicago’s ordinary people. Born and raised in Back of the Yards on Chicago’s southwest side, Pacyga spent his college years working at the Union October 480 p., 145 halftones, 7 maps 7 x 10 Stock Yards. Chicago, therefore, gives voice to the city’s steelyard work- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-64431-8 Cloth $35.00/£24.00 ers and kill floor operators, mapping the neighborhoods distinguished AMERICAN HISTORY not by Louis Sullivan masterworks, but by bungalows and corner taverns. And their stories come alive through an extensive selection of evocative illustrations culled from major institutional archives, local historical societies, and the author’s personal collection. Filled with the city’s one-of-a-kind characters and all of its defining moments, Chicago is as big and boisterous as its namesake—and as ambitious as the men and women who built it.

Dominic A. Pacyga is the award-winning author or coauthor of several books, including Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago, also published by the University of Chicago Press. He teaches in the Department of Humanities, History, and Social Sciences at Columbia College Chicago.

8 general interest Liam T. A. Ford Soldier Field A Stadium and Its City

ports fans nationwide know Soldier Field as the home of the Chicago Bears. For decades its signature columns provided an Siconic backdrop for gridiron matches, but few realize that the stadium has been much more than that. Soldier Field: A Stadium and Its City explores how this amphitheater evolved from a public war memo- rial into a majestic arena that helped define Chicago. Chicago Tribune staff writer Liam T. A. Ford led the reporting on the stadium’s controversial 2003 renovation—and simultaneously found himself unearthing a dramatic history. As he tells it, the tale of “Wrigley Field and Comiskey Park may Soldier Field truly is the story of Chicago, filled with political intrigue attract more attention, but neither has and civic pride. Designed by Holabird and Roche, Soldier Field arose hosted as many historic events as Soldier through a serendipitous combination of local tax dollars, City Beauti- Field. Ford’s Soldier Field reveals how ful boosterism, and the machinations of Mayor “Big Bill” Thompson. Chicago’s iconic amphitheater is more The result was a stadium that stood at the center of Chicago’s political, than a football field; it serves as a unique cultural, and sporting life for nearly sixty years before the arrival of portal into Chicago’s social, political, and Walter Payton and William “The Refrigerator” Perry. cultural history.” Ford describes it all in the voice of a seasoned reporter: the high —Timothy J. Gilfoyle, author of Millennium Park: school football games, track and field contests, rodeos, and even Creating a Chicago Landmark NASCAR races. Photographs, including many from the Chicago Park District’s own collections, capture these remarkable scenes: the swell- Chicago Visions and Revisions ing crowds at ethnic festivals, Catholic masses, and political rallies. Few November 384 p., 78 halftones 7 x 10 remember that Soldier Field hosted Billy Graham and Martin Luther ISBN-13: 978-0-226-25706-8 Cloth $30.00/£20.50 King Jr., Judy Garland and Johnny Cash—as well as the Grateful AMERICAN HISTORY Dead’s final show. Now part of the city’s bid for the 2016 Olympic Games, Chicago’s stadium on the lake continues to make dramatic history. Soldier Field captures this history in the making and will captivate armchair historians and sports fans alike.

Liam T. A. Ford is a reporter at the Chicago Tribune.

general interest 9 Paul Murdin Secrets of the Universe How We Discovered the Cosmos

iscoveries in astronomy challenge our fundamental ideas about the universe. Where the astronomers of Dantiquity once spoke of fixed stars, we now speak of whirling galaxies and giant supernovae. Where we once thought Earth was the center of the universe, we now see it as a small planet among millions of other planetary systems, any number of which could also hold life. These dramatic shifts in our perspective hinge on thousands of individual discoveries: moments November 342 p., 400 color plates 83/8 x 105/8 when it became clear to someone that some part of the universe— ISBN-13: 978-0-226-55143-2 Cloth $49.00 whether a planet or a supermassive black hole—was not as it once SCIENCE cusa seemed. Copublished with Thames and Hudson Secrets of the Universe invites us to participate in these moments of revelation and wonder as scientists first experienced them. Renowned astronomer Paul Murdin here provides an ambitious and exciting overview of astronomy, conveying for newcomers and aficionados alike the most important discoveries of this science and introducing the many people who made them. Lavishly illustrated with four hundred color images, the book outlines in seventy episodes what humankind has learned about the cosmos—and what scientists around the world are poised to learn in the coming decades. Arranged by types of discovery, it also provides an overarching narrative throughout that explains how the earliest ideas of the cosmos evolved into the cutting-edge astronomy we know today. Along the way, Mur- din never forgets that science is a human endeavor, and that every discovery was the result of inspiration, hard work, or luck—usually all three. Secrets of the Universe provides an ambitious and exciting overview of astronomy, conveying for newcomers and aficionados alike the most important discoveries of this science and introducing the many people who made them.

The first section ofSecrets explores discoveries made before the advent of the telescope, from stars and con- stellations to the position of our own sun. The second considers discoveries made within our own solar system, from the phases of Venus and the moons of Jupiter to the comets and asteroids at its distant frontier. The next section delves into discoveries of the dynamic universe, like gravitation, relativity, pulsars, and black holes. A fourth examines discoveries made within our own galaxy, from interstellar nebulae and supernovae to Cepheid variable stars and extrasolar planets. Next Murdin turns to discoveries made within the deepest recesses of the universe, like quasars, supermassive black holes, and gamma ray bursters. In the end, Murdin unveils where astronomy still teeters on the edge of discovery, considering dark matter and alien life alike.

Paul Murdin is a senior fellow at the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge and the editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Formerly, he was head of astronomy at the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council and director of science at the British National Space Centre. He is the author of Full Meridian of Glory: Perilous Adventures in the Competition to Measure the Earth and coauthor of The Firefly Encyclopedia of Astronomy.

general interest 11 Edited by Richard A. Shweder The Child An Encyclopedic Companion

nformed parents know there is an abundance of information about children and child development available on the Internet, Ibut can they trust that the content they find is authoritative? Pro- fessionals who work with children know where to find research relevant to their specialty, but where can they go to find reliable information on other related disciplines? The Child offers both parents and professionals access to the best scholarship from all areas of child studies—and from all regions of the world—in a remarkable one-volume reference. This encyclopedic companion brings together contemporary research on children and childhood from pediatrics, child psychology, childhood studies, education, sociology, history, law, anthropology, The best scholarship from and other related areas—in sum, more than five hundred articles, all a wide range of disciplines, written by experts in their fields and overseen by noted anthropologist including Richard A. Shweder. Each entry begins with a concise and accessible ♦ Anthropology synopsis of the topic at hand. For example, the entry on “adoption” begins with a general definition, followed by a detailed look at adoption ♦ Child development in different cultures and at different times, a summary of the associ- ♦ Childhood studies ated mental and developmental issues that can arise, and an overview ♦ Education of applicable legal and public policy both within the United States and elsewhere. Within the scope of a few pages, readers encounter a wide ♦ History range of information and perspectives on this complex and fascinating ♦ Law topic. Entries also include multiple cross-references to guide readers toward related topics within the volume and suggestions for further ♦ Literature reading. ♦ Pediatrics While many of the entries address universal, biological facts about ♦ Psychology children—most fetuses suck their thumbs, for example, and most babies develop musical rhythm by seven months—they also consider ♦ Public policy the many worlds of childhood within the United States and around ♦ Religion the globe. Alongside the topical articles, The Child includes more ♦ Sociology than forty “Imagining Each Other” essays, which focus on the experiences of particular children in different cultures. In “Work before Play for Yucatec Mayan Children,” for example, readers learn of the work responsibilities of some modern-day Mexican children, while in “A Hindu Brahman Boy Is Born Again,” they witness a coming-of-age ritual in contemporary India. 12 general interest More than 500 articles

Compiled by some of the most distinguished child development researchers in the world, The Child will A unique global perspective—selections broaden the current scope of knowledge on children from the “Imagining Each Other” essays and childhood. It is an unparalleled resource for parents, social workers, researchers, educators, and others ◆ Growing Up Hearing in a Deaf Family who work with children, and will spark a necessary discussion about children and childhood around the ◆ Formality and Fun in Kinship world. Relations among the Gusii

Richard A. Shweder is a cultural anthropologist and the ◆ Educated at Home in the United States William Claude Revis Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. A former associate editor of ◆ the journal Child Development, Shweder has written several Children as Family Caregivers in books on cultural psychology and human development, Mexico including, most recently, Why Do Men Barbecue? Recipes for Cultural Psychology. ◆ On Infants Sleeping Alone

◆ The Luminous Books of Childhood

◆ Trial by Fire: Emotional Socialization among Canadian Inuit

◆ The Parenting Style of a Turkish Reformer

◆ Memories of Childhood on an Israeli Kibbutz

◆ Summer Camp for Diabetic Children: A Stigma-Free Zone

◆ An African American Grandmother Combats Racial Hatred

◆ Early Childhood Education in Japan

◆ A Refugee’s Childhood in the West Bank

September 1160 p., 12 halftones, 6 line drawings, 7 tables 73/8 x 95/8 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47539-4 Cloth $75.00s/£51.50 FAMILY AND CHILDCARE

general interest 13 Noel Kingsbury Hybrid The History and Science of Plant Breeding

isheartened by the shrink-wrapped, Styrofoam-packed state of contemporary supermarket fruits and vegetables, many Dshoppers hark back to a more innocent time, to visions of succulent red tomatoes plucked straight from the vine, gleaming orange carrots pulled from loamy brown soil, swirling heads of green lettuce basking in the sun. With Hybrid, Noel Kingsbury reveals that even those imaginary perfect foods are themselves far from anything that could properly “The reason you and billions of other be called natural; rather, they represent the end of a millennia-long people will eat today is a century-long history of selective breeding and hybridization. Starting his story at the effort to increase the yield of crop plants. birth of agriculture, Kingsbury traces the history of human attempts Hybrid tells the story of the quiet heroes to make plants more reliable, productive, and nutritious—a story behind this triumph. Noel Kingsbury has that owes as much to accident and error as to innovation and experi- written a fantastic history of a subject ment. Drawing on historical and scientific accounts, as well as a rich that should become much better known.” trove of anecdotes, Kingsbury shows how scientists, amateur breeders, —Gregg Easterbrook, author of Sonic Boom and countless anonymous farmers and gardeners slowly caused the evolutionary pressures of nature to be supplanted by those of human needs—and thus led us from sparse wild grasses to succulent corn October 504 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-43704-0 cobs, and from mealy, white wild carrots to the juicy vegetables we Cloth $35.00/£24.00 SCIENCE GARDENING enjoy today. At the same time, Kingsbury reminds us that contemporary controversies over the Green Revolution and genetically modified crops are not new; plant breeding has always had a political dimension. A powerful reminder of the complicated and ever-evolving relationship between humans and the natural world, Hybrid will give readers a thoughtful new perspective on—and a renewed appreciation of—the cereal crops, vegetables, fruits, and flowers that are central to our way of life.

Noel Kingsbury is a horticulturalist and writer, the author of many books, including Designing with Plants and Natural Gardening in Small Spaces, and coeditor of Vista—the Culture and Politics of Gardens.

14 general interest Edited by Beate Meyer, Hermann Simon, and Chana Schütz Jews in Nazi Berlin From Kristallnacht to Liberation

hough many of the details of Jewish life under Hitler are familiar, historical accounts rarely afford us a real sense of what Tit was like for Jews and their families to live in the shadow of Nazi Germany’s oppressive racial laws and growing violence. With Jews in Nazi Berlin, those individual lives—and the constant struggle they required—come fully into focus, and the result is an unprecedented “This unique and comprehensive collection and deeply moving portrait of a persecuted people. of essays considers the Nazi destruction Drawing on a remarkably rich archive that includes photographs, of Jewish life in Berlin between 1938 objects, official documents, and personal papers, the editors ofJews in and 1945. Each facet in that process of Nazi Berlin have assembled a multifaceted picture of Jewish daily life in destruction is described in meticulous the Nazi capital during the height of the regime’s power. The book’s detail, mainly by the victims themselves, essays and images are divided into thematic sections, each represent- and effectively conveyed by the volume’s ing a different aspect of the experience of Jews in Berlin, covering such contributing authors in concise essays. topics as emigration, the yellow star, Zionism, deportation, betrayal, There is nothing comparable in English survival, and more. To supplement—and, importantly, to humanize— that so thoroughly dissects the tragic the comprehensive documentary evidence, the editors draw on an consequences of the Nazi destruction of extensive series of interviews with survivors of the Nazi persecution, a Jewish community that had originally who present gripping first-person accounts of the innovation, subter- constituted about one-third of the entire fuge, resilience, and luck required to negotiate the increased brutality Jewish population in pre-Nazi Germany.” of the regime. —Francis R. Nicosia, University of Vermont A stunning reconstruction of a storied community as it faced destruction, Jews in Nazi Berlin renders that loss with a startling imme- Studies in German-Jewish Cultural diacy that will make it an essential part of our continuing attempts to History and Literature, Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center, understand World War II and the Holocaust. Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Beate Meyer is a researcher at the Institute for the History of German Jews in december 356 p., 50 color plates, 138 halftones, 6 tables 71/2 x 91/2 Hamburg. Hermann Simon is director of the New Synagogue Berlin–Centrum ISBN-13: 978-0-226-52157-2 Judaicum Foundation. Chana Schütz is a research associate at and vice direc- Cloth $40.00/£27.50 tor of the New Synagogue Berlin–Centrum Judaicum Foundation. EUROPEAN HISTORY

general interest 15 Lee Alan Dugatkin Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose Natural History in Early America

n the years after the Revolutionary War, the fledging republic of America was viewed by many Europeans as a degenerate back- Iwater, populated by subspecies weak and feeble. Chief among these naysayers was the French count and world-renowned naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, who wrote that the flora and fauna of America (natives included) were inferior to European specimens. Thomas Jefferson—U.S. president and ardent naturalist—spent “Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose cap- years countering the French conception of American degeneracy. His tures the degeneracy debates that pitted Notes on Virginia systematically and scientifically dismantled Buffon’s some of the most respected continental case through a series of tables and equally compelling writing on the naturalists against the finest intellects nature of his home state. But the book did little to counter the arro- in the emergent United States. Stand- gance of the French and hardly satisfied Jefferson’s quest to demon- ing at the center of the conflict is a giant strate that his young nation was every bit the equal of a well-established moose that Thomas Jefferson acquired Europe. Enter the giant moose. through considerable effort and expense The American moose, which Jefferson claimed was so enormous to definitively disprove Comte de Buffon’s a European reindeer could walk under it, became the cornerstone argument. With this dramatic episode of his defense. Convinced that the sight of such a magnificent beast at the core, Lee Alan Dugatkin depicts would cause Buffon to revise his claims, Jefferson had the remains of a American degeneracy as a key issue in seven-foot ungulate shipped first class from New Hampshire to Paris. the intellectual history of the transatlan- Unfortunately, Buffon died before he could make any revisions to his tic Enlightenment.” Histoire Naturelle, but the legend of the moose makes for a fascinating —Frederick Davis, tale about Jefferson’s passion to prove the prestige of American nature. author of The Man Who Saved Sea Turtles In Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose, Lee Alan Dugatkin vividly recreates the origin and evolution of the debates about natural history in October 192 p., 25 halftones 6 x 9 America and, in so doing, returns the prize moose to its rightful place ISBN-13: 978-0-226-16914-9 Cloth $26.00/£18.00 in American history. SCIENCE HISTORY

Lee Alan Dugatkin is professor of biology at the University of Louisville and the author of The Altruism Equation: Seven Scientists Search for the Origins of Goodness and Cheating Monkeys and Citizen Bees: The Nature of Cooperation in Animals and Humans, among other books.

16 general interest Allan H. Meltzer A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 2

llan H. Meltzer’s critically acclaimed history of the Federal Reserve is the most ambitious, most intensive, and most A revealing investigation of the subject ever conducted. Its first volume, published to widespread critical acclaim in 2003, spanned the period from the institution’s founding in 1913 to the restoration of its independence in 1951. This two-part second volume of the history chronicles the evolution and development of this institution from the Praise for Volume 1

Treasury–Federal Reserve accord in 1951 to the mid-1980s, when the “To understand why the Fed acted as it great inflation ended. It reveals the inner workings of the Fed during did—at these critical moments and many a period of rapid and extensive change. An epilogue discusses the role others—would require years of study, por- of the Fed in resolving our current economic crisis and the needed ing over letters, the minutes of meetings reforms of the financial system. and internal Fed documents. Such a task In rich detail, drawing on the Federal Reserve’s own documents, would naturally deter most scholars of Meltzer traces the relation between its decisions and economic and economic history but not, thank good- monetary theory, its experience as an institution independent of ness, Allan Meltzer.” politics, and its role in tempering inflation. He explains, for example, —Wall Street Journal how the Federal Reserve’s independence was often compromised by the active policy-making roles of Congress, the Treasury Department, “A seminal work that anyone interested different presidents, and even White House staff, who often pressured in the inner workings of the U.S. central the bank to take a short-term view of its responsibilities. With an eye bank should read.” —John M. Berry, on the present, Meltzer also offers solutions for improving the Federal Washington Post Reserve, arguing that as a regulator of financial firms and lender of last resort, it should focus more attention on incentives for reform, Book 1, 1951–1969 medium-term consequences, and rule-like behavior for mitigating october 784 p., 60 line drawings, financial crises. Less attention should be paid, he contends, to com- 33 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-52001-8 mand and control of the markets and the noise of quarterly data. Cloth $75.00s/£51.50 ECONOMICS AMERICAN HISTORY At a time when the United States finds itself in an unprecedented Book 2, 1970–1985 financial crisis, Meltzer’s fascinating history will be the source of record october 640 p., 52 line drawings, for scholars and policy makers navigating an uncertain economic future. 48 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-51994-4 Cloth $75.00s/£51.50 Allan H. Meltzer is the Allan H. Meltzer University Professor of Political Economy ECONOMICS AMERICAN HISTORY at Carnegie Mellon University and visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He is the author of many books, including A History of the Federal Re- serve, Volume 1: 1913–1951, also published by the University of Chicago Press. general interest 17 Mark V. Barrow Jr. Nature’s Ghosts Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology

he rapid growth of the American environmental movement in recent decades obscures the fact that long before the first TEarth Day and the passage of the Endangered Species Act, naturalists and concerned citizens recognized—and worried about— the problem of human-caused extinction. As Mark V. Barrow Jr. reveals in Nature’s Ghosts, the threat of species loss has haunted Americans since the early days of the republic. From Thomas Jefferson’s day—when the fossil remains of such fantas- “I fear we’ll have good reason to think tic lost animals as the mastodon and the woolly mammoth were first more and more about extinction as this reconstructed—through the pioneering conservation efforts of early century progesses, and this fascinating naturalists like John James Audubon and John Muir, Barrow shows how (and rueful) history provides a good base Americans came to understand that it was not only possible for entire for that reflection.” species to die out, but that humans themselves could be responsible —Bill McKibben, for their extinction. With the destruction of the passenger pigeon and author of Deep Economy the precipitous decline of the bison, professional scientists and wildlife enthusiasts alike began to understand that even very common species “Mark Barrow knows more about the were not safe from the juggernaut of modern industrial society. That history of wildlife biology and conserva- realization spawned public education and legislative campaigns that tion in the United States than anyone laid the foundation for the modern environmental movement and the else. In these pages he gives us the most preservation of such iconic creatures as the bald eagle, the California comprehensive picture we have of how condor, and the whooping crane. naturalists discovered species extinction and humanity’s role in it, then set about A sweeping, beautifully illustrated historical narrative that unites to take responsibility for the destruction the fascinating stories of endangered animals and the dedicated indi- of the bison, the bald eagle, the spotted viduals who have studied and struggled to protect them, Nature’s Ghosts owl, and so many other creatures, even offers an unprecedented view of what we’ve lost—and a stark reminder in far-off Latin America and Africa. Well of the hard work of preservation still ahead. researched and clearly told.” —Donald Worster, Mark V. Barrow Jr. is associate professor of history at Virginia Tech and the author of A Passion for Nature: author of A Passion for Birds: American Ornithology after Audubon. The Life of John Muir

October 496 p., 62 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03814-8 Cloth $37.50/£26.00 NATURE AMERICAN HISTORY

18 general interest Edited by Maurice Hornocker and Sharon Negri Cougar Ecology and Conservation With a Foreword by Alan Rabinowitz

he cougar is one of the most beautiful, enigmatic, and majestic animals in the Americas. Eliciting reverence for its grace T and independent nature, it also triggers fear when it comes into contact with people, pets, and livestock or competes for hunters’ game. Mystery, myth, and misunderstanding surround this remarkable “Cougar is a mighty compendium by six- creature. teen cougar authorities who share consid- The cougar’s range once extended from northern Canada to the erable firsthand experience in the field. tip of South America, and from the Pacific to the Atlantic, making it A very important contribution, this book the most widespread animal in the Western Hemisphere. But overhunt- will surely take its place as the definitive ing and loss of habitat vastly reduced cougar numbers by the early work on this fascinating, beautiful, and twentieth century across much of its historical range, and today the ever elusive animal.” cougar faces numerous threats as burgeoning human development —Peter Matthiessen encroaches on its remaining habitat.

When Maurice Hornocker began the first long-term study of cou- December 368 p., 36 color plates, 70 halftones, 19 line drawings, 25 tables gars in the Idaho wilderness in 1964, little was known about this large 81/2 x 11 cat. Its secretive nature and rarity in the landscape made it difficult to ISBN-13: 978-0-226-35344-9 Cloth $49.00/£34.00 study. But his groundbreaking fieldwork yielded major insights and was SCIENCE the prelude to further research on this controversial species. The capstone to Hornocker’s long career studying big cats, Cougar is a powerful and practical resource for scientists, conservationists, and anyone with an interest in large carnivores. He and conservationist Sharon Negri bring together the diverse perspectives of eighteen distinguished scientists to provide the fullest account of the cougar’s ecology, behavior, and genetics, its role as a top predator, and its conservation needs. This compilation of recent findings, stunning photographs, and firsthand accounts of field research unravels the mysteries of this magnificent animal and emphasizes its importance in healthy ecosystem processes and in our lives.

Maurice Hornocker is director of the Selway Institute. Sharon Negri is the director and founder of WildFutures.

general interest 19 Lynn C. Klotz and Edward J. Sylvester Breeding Bio Insecurity How U.S. Biodefense Is Exporting Fear, Globalizing Risk, and Making Us All Less Secure

n the years since the 9/11 attacks—and the subsequent lethal anthrax letters—the United States has spent billions of dollars on Imeasures to defend the population against the threat of biological weapons. But as Lynn C. Klotz and Edward J. Sylvester argue force-

“Forceful and provocative, Breeding Bio fully in Breeding Bio Insecurity, all that money and effort hasn’t made us Insecurity contends that U.S. biodefense any safer—in fact, it has made us more vulnerable. policies generate more risk than the threat Breeding Bio Insecurity reveals the mistakes made to this point and they are supposed to be addressing. By lays out the necessary steps to set us on the path toward true biosecu- carefully spelling out their rationales, rity. The fundamental problem with the current approach, according the book’s authors place the burden of to the authors, is the danger caused by the sheer size and secrecy of justification on the defenders of massive our biodefense effort. Thousands of scientists spread throughout hun- biodefense budgets. Replete with deft dreds of locations are now working with lethal bioweapons agents—but arguments and imaginative scenarios, their inability to make their work public causes suspicion among our this book should be read by scientists, enemies and allies alike, even as the enormous number of laborato- policy makers, and, indeed, all concerned ries greatly multiplies the inherent risk of deadly accidents or theft. citizens.” Meanwhile, vital public health needs go unmet because of this new —Leonard Cole, biodefense focus. True biosecurity, the authors argue, will require a author of Terror: How Israel Has Coped and What America Can Learn multipronged effort based on an understanding of the complexity of the issue, guided by scientific ethics, and watched over by a vigilant

October 240 p., 4 halftones, citizenry attentive to the difference between fearmongering and true 1 line drawing, 1 table 6 x 9 analysis of risk. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-44405-5 Cloth $27.50/£19.00 An impassioned warning that never loses sight of political and sci- SCIENCE CURRENT EVENTS entific reality,Breeding Bio Insecurity is a crucial first step toward meeting the evolving threats of the twenty-first century.

Lynn C. Klotz is senior science fellow with the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. Edward J. Sylvester is a science journalist and the author of three books on cutting-edge medical research, as well as the highly acclaimed The Gene Age, in which he and Klotz introduced lay audiences to the emerging biotechnology revolution.

20 general interest Alanna Mitchell Seasick Ocean Change and the Extinction of Life on Earth

e have long lorded over the ocean. But only recently have we become aware of the myriad life-forms beneath its W waves. We now know that this delicate ecosystem is our life-support system—that it regulates Earth’s temperatures and climate and makes up 99 percent of the living space on the planet. So when we change the chemistry of the whole ocean system, as we are now, life as we know it is threatened. In Seasick, veteran science journalist Alanna Mitchell dives beneath the surface of the world’s oceans to give readers a sense of how this “A riveting book of revelations about watery realm can be managed and preserved, and with it life on Earth. Earth’s largest and most important Each chapter features a different group of researchers who introduce habitat.” readers to the importance of ocean currents, the building of coral —Tim Flannery structures, or the effects of acidification. With Mitchell at the helm, readers submerge 3,000 feet to gather sea sponges that may contribute “Most of us, being land-dwelling air- to cancer care, see firsthand the lava lamp–like dead zone covering breathers, think of the earth in terms 17,000 square kilometers in the Gulf of Mexico, and witness the simul- of its surface. We are oblivious to the taneous spawning of corals under a full moon in Panama. incredible world beneath the surface of The first book to look at the environmental crisis through the lens the oceans and its importance to our own of the global ocean, Seasick takes the reader on an emotional journey life. Mitchell’s book reads like a novel—I through a hidden realm of the planet and urges conservation and couldn’t wait to find out what happens reverence for the fount from which all life on Earth sprang. next. I loved Seasick. It’s a winner.” —Margaret Rioux, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Alanna Mitchell spent fourteen years as a writer covering science and the environment at the Globe and Mail. She is the author of Dancing at the Dead Sea: Tracking the World’s Environmental Hotspots, also published by the University of October 176 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-53258-5 Chicago Press. Cloth $25.00 SCIENCE CURRENT EVENTS usa

general interest 21 Harriet Ritvo The Dawn of Green Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern Environmentalism

ocated in the heart of England’s Lake District, Thirlmere, with its placid sheen, surrounding evergreens, and appar- L ent lack of pollution or development, seems to epitomize the unadulterated bucolic ideal. But under its calm surface lurks the enduring legacy of a nineteenth-century conflict that pitted industrial progress against natural conservation—and helped launch the envi- “This is the first detailed study of a ronmental movement as we know it. pathbreaking late nineteenth-century Purchased by the city of Manchester in the 1870s, Thirlmere was controversy about whether to turn a lake dammed and converted into a reservoir, its water piped one hundred in England’s most scenic district into a miles south to the burgeoning industrial center and its workforce. This reservoir to provide water for the fast- feat of civil engineering—and of natural resource diversion—inspired growing industrial city of Manchester. one of the first environmental struggles of modern times.The Dawn of The debate over Thirlmere pitted nature Green recreates the battle for Thirlmere and the clashes between con- against progress, a conflict that has be- servationists who wished to preserve the lake and developers eager to come common in the century since. Ritvo meet the needs of industry and a growing urban population. Bringing tells the story with skill and insight, and to vivid life the colorful and strong-minded characters who populated The Dawn of Green will be widely read.” both sides of the debate, noted historian Harriet Ritvo revisits notions —Adam Rome, author of The Bulldozer of the natural promulgated by Romantic poets, recreationists, resource in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and managers, and industrial developers to establish Thirlmere as the tem- the Rise of American Environmentalism plate for subsequent—and continuing—environmental struggles. A century after Thirlmere, the demand for water and the control October 240 p., 60 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-72082-1 of water rights are among the most pressing political, humanitarian, Cloth $26.00/£18.00 and environmental concerns of our time. By investigating Victorian NATURE EUROPEAN HISTORY ideas about industry, development, and technology, Ritvo shows how the lessons learned in the Lake District can inform and guide modern environmental and conservation campaigns.

Harriet Ritvo is the Arthur J. Conner Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of The Platypus and the Mermaid, and Other Figments of Classifying Imagination and The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age.

22 general interest Fulvio Melia Cracking the Einstein Code Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole Physics With an Afterword by Roy Kerr

lbert Einstein’s theory of general relativity describes the effect of gravitation on the shape of space and the flow of A time. But for more than four decades after its publication, the theory remained largely a curiosity for scientists; however accurate it seemed, Einstein’s mathematical code—represented by six interlock- “Cracking the Einstein Code is at once an ing equations—was one of the most difficult to crack in all of science. explanation of what black holes are, a That is, until a twenty-nine-year-old Cambridge graduate solved the description of their place in the universe, great riddle in 1963. Roy Kerr’s solution emerged coincidentally with and a scientific biography of Kerr. The the discovery of black holes that same year and provided fertile testing uniqueness of Melia’s book lies with ground—at long last—for general relativity. Today, scientists routinely Kerr’s biography, a story that deserved to cite the Kerr solution, but even among specialists, few know the story be told but wasn’t until now. Elegant with of how Kerr cracked Einstein’s code. expert pacing.” Fulvio Melia here offers an eyewitness account of the events lead- —Eric Poisson, University of Guelph ing up to Kerr’s great discovery. Cracking the Einstein Code vividly describes how luminaries such as Karl Schwarzschild, David Hilbert, and Emmy Noether set the stage for the Kerr solution; how Kerr came to October 152 p., 54 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-51951-7 make his breakthrough; and how scientists such as Roger Penrose, Kip Cloth $25.00/£17.50 Thorne, and Stephen Hawking used the accomplishment to refine and SCIENCE expand modern astronomy and physics. Today more than 300 million supermassive black holes are suspected of anchoring their host galaxies across the cosmos, and the Kerr solution is what astronomers and astrophysicists use to describe much of their behavior. By unmasking the history behind the search for a real world solution to Einstein’s field equations, Melia offers a firsthand account of an important but untold story. Sometimes dramatic, often exhilarating, but always attuned to the human element, Cracking the Einstein Code is ultimately a showcase of how important science gets done.

Fulvio Melia is professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Arizona and the author of numerous books, including, most recently, The Galactic Supermassive Black Hole. general interest 23 Adam Biro Is It Good for the Jews? More Stories from the Old Country and the New Translated by Catherine Tihanyi

ewish stories,” writes Adam Biro, “resemble every people’s stories.” Yet at the same time there is no better way to understand the soul, Jhistory, millennial suffering, or, crucially, the joys of the Jewish people than through such tales—“There’s nothing,” writes Biro, “more revelatory of the Jewish being.” Praise for Two Jews on a Train With Is It Good for the Jews? Biro offers a sequel to his acclaimed col- “In applying an Old World sensibility to lection of stories Two Jews on a Train. Through twenty-nine tales—some the present, the author underscores the new, some old, but all finely wrought and rich in humor—Biro spins nature of the divide between them, and stories of characters coping with the vicissitudes and reverses of daily the increasingly despairing punch line of life, while simultaneously painting a poignant portrait of a world of each joke seems to become: Why did You unassimilated Jewish life that has largely been lost to the years. From abandon us?” rabbis competing to see who is the most humble, to the father who —New Yorker uses suicide threats to pressure his children into visiting, to three men berated by the Almighty himself for playing poker, Biro populates his december 144 p. 51/2 x 81/2 stories with memorable characters and absurd—yet familiar—situa- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05217-5 Cloth $20.00/£14.00 tions, all related with a dry wit and spry prose style redolent of the long HUMOR jewish studies tradition of Jewish storytelling. A collection simultaneously of foibles and fables, adversity and affection, Is It Good for the Jews? reminds us that if in the beginning was the word, then we can surely be forgiven for expecting a punch line to follow one of these days.

Adam Biro is the author of Two Jews on a Train and One Must Also Be Hungarian. Catherine Tihanyi has translated numerous books from the French.

24 general interest Frederick William Danker The Concise Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament

rederick William Danker, a world-renowned scholar of New Testament Greek, is widely acclaimed for his 2000 revision of FWalter Bauer’s Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. With more than a quarter of a million copies in print, it is considered the finest dictionary of its kind. Praise for A Greek-English Lexicon of the Danker’s Concise Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament will prove New Testament and Other Early Christian to be similarly invaluable to ministers, seminarians, translators, and Literature students of biblical Greek. Unlike other lexica of the Greek New Testa- ment, which give only brief glosses for headwords, The Concise Greek- “A standard reference for biblical scholars.” English Lexicon offers extended definitions or explanations in idiomatic —Publishers Weekly English for all Greek terms. An overarching aim of The Concise Greek-English Lexicon is to assist “This is a rare instance in which it may the reader in recognizing the broader linguistic and cultural contexts well be impossible to praise too highly for New Testament usage of words. Each entry includes basic etymolog- either Danker or the volume that he has ical information, short renderings, information on usage, and plentiful produced.” biblical references. And Greek terms that could have different English —Michael W. Holmes, Religious Studies Review definitions, depending on context, are thoughtfully keyed to the appropriate passages. November 416 p., 1 line drawing 6 x 9 The Concise Greek-English Lexicon retains all the acclaimed features ISBN-13: 978-0-226-13615-8 Cloth $55.00x/£38.00 of A Greek-English Lexicon in a succinct and affordable handbook, per- REFERENCE fect for specialists and nonspecialists alike.

Frederick William Danker is the Christ Seminary–Seminex Professor Emeritus of New Testament at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago. He is the editor of A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, among other books.

general interest 25 Laura Dassow Walls The Passage to Cosmos Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America

xplorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Hum- boldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began Ewith Napoleon and ended with Darwin. With Cosmos, the book that crowned his career, Humboldt offered to the world his vision of humans and nature as integrated halves of a single whole. In it, he espoused the idea that, while the universe of nature exists apart from “The Passage to Cosmos provides the best human purpose, its beauty and order, the very idea of the whole it com- explanation I have ever seen of Alexan- poses, are human achievements: cosmos comes into being in the dance der von Humboldt’s ideas, career, major of world and mind, subject and object, science and poetry. works, influence on American society Laura Dassow Walls here traces Humboldt’s ideas for Cosmos to his and thought, and declining reputation. 1799 journey to the Americas, where he first experienced the diversity Walls exposes the thought and influ- of nature and of the world’s peoples—and envisioned a new cosmopol- ence of a complex man who straddled the itanism that would link ideas, disciplines, and nations into a global web developing split between science and of knowledge and cultures. In reclaiming Humboldt’s transcultural the humanities and high culture in the and transdisciplinary project, Walls situates America in a lively and nineteenth century.” contested field of ideas, actions, and interests, and reaches beyond to a —Thomas Dunlap, Texas A&M University new worldview that integrates the natural and social sciences, the arts, and the humanities.

August 416 p., 22 halftones 6 x 9 To the end of his life, Humboldt called himself “half an Ameri- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-87182-0 Cloth $35.00/£24.00 can,” but ironically his legacy has largely faded in the United States. AMERICAN HISTORY NATURE The Passage to Cosmos will reintroduce this seminal thinker to a new audience and return America to its rightful place in the story of his life, work, and enduring legacy.

Laura Dassow Walls is the John H. Bennett Jr. Chair of Southern Letters at the University of South Carolina and the author of several books, including, most recently, Emerson’s Life in Science: The Culture of Truth.

26 general interest Eric A. Posner The Perils of Global Legalism

he arrival of the Obama administration has led to expectations, both here and abroad, that in the coming years the T United States will increasingly adhere to international law—a position that many believe is both ethically necessary and in the nation’s best interest. The rule of international law, they argue, is surely better than the chaos of nations acting toward their own ends. With The Perils of Global Legalism, Eric A. Posner explains that such views demonstrate a dangerously naive tendency toward legalism— an idealistic belief that law can be effective even in the absence of legitimate institutions of governance. After tracing the historical roots “This trenchant and rigorous book provides of the concept, Posner carefully lays out the many illusions—such as a much-needed antidote to the sanctimony universalism, sovereign equality, and the possibility of disinterested and sermonizing that permeates interna- judgment by politically unaccountable officials—on which the legalis- tional law. It lays bare international law’s tic view is founded. Drawing on such examples as NATO’s invasion of circularity and demonstrates that much of Serbia, attempts to ban the use of land mines, and the free-trade provi- the edifice is built on illusion. The ‘estab- sions of the WTO, Posner demonstrates throughout that the weakness- lishment’ will be forced into contortions es of international law confound legalist ambitions—and that whatever to answer its arguments. It’s a bracing, their professed commitments, all nations stand ready to dispense with refreshingly and altogether scintillating international agreements when it suits their short- or long-term interests. read.” —Michael J. Glennon, Provocative and sure to be controversial, The Perils of Global Legal- author of Limits of Law, Prerogatives of ism will serve as a wake-up call for those who view global legalism as a Power: Interventionism after Kosovo panacea—and a stern reminder that international relations in a brutal world can only be addressed with a hard-headed realism. October 280 p., 2 line drawings, 5 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-67574-9 Cloth $29.00/£20.00 CURRENT EVENTS LAW Eric A. Posner is the Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty, and the Courts and The Limits of Interna- tional Law.

general interest 27 James C. Garland Saving Alma Mater A Rescue Plan for America’s Public Universities

merica’s public universities educate 80 percent of our nation’s college students. But in the wake of rising demands on state A treasuries, changing demographics, growing income inequality, and legislative indifference, many of these institutions have fallen into decline. Tuition costs have skyrocketed, class sizes have gone up, the number of courses offered has gone down, and the overall quality of education has decreased significantly. Here James C. Garland draws on more than thirty years of experi- “In this thought-provoking book, Garland ence as a professor, administrator, and university president to argue combines vast knowledge, insights, that a new compact between state government and public universities is and recommendations gleaned from his needed to make these schools more affordable and financially secure. career in Ohio with his keen understand- Saving Alma Mater challenges a change-resistant culture in academia ing of the modern complexities created that places too low a premium on efficiency and productivity. Seeing by a global economy. He argues that a crisis of campus leadership, Garland takes state legislators to task institutions hoping to evolve into thriving for perpetuating the decay of their public university systems and calls places of higher learning must be enabled for reforms in the way university presidents and governing boards are and willing to embrace the freedom to selected. He concludes that the era is long past when state appropria- set tuition, resize classes, restructure tions can enable public universities to keep their fees low and afford- majors, and add scholarships that better able. Saving Alma Mater thus calls for the partial deregulation of public meet the needs of students and the com- universities and a phase-out of their state appropriations. Garland’s munity. Garland correctly contends that plan would tie university revenues to their performance and exploit such drastic changes are overdue, and the competitive pressures of the academic marketplace to control costs, that the process of adapting and moving rein in tuition, and make schools more responsive to student needs. forward begins with universities remak- A much-needed blueprint for reform based on Garland’s real-life ing themselves today.” —Judy Genshaft, successes as the head of Miami University of Ohio, Saving Alma Mater president, University of South Florida will be essential for anyone concerned with the costs and quality of higher education in America today.

October 320 p., 7 line drawings, 3 tables 6 x 9 James C. Garland began his teaching career at the Ohio State University in ISBN-13: 978-0-226-28386-9 Cloth $27.50/£19.00 1970. During his twenty-six-year tenure there, he served as a physics professor EDUCATION and department chairperson, acting vice president for research and graduate studies, director of the school’s Materials Research Laboratory, dean of its College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and finally as the school’s executive dean of Arts and Sciences. In 1996 Garland began a ten-year term as president of Miami University of Ohio. He retired in 2006. 28 general interest Gaye Tuchman Wannabe U Inside the Corporate University

n most debates over its future, the university is represented by both its critics and its champions as a secular temple for learn- Iing, a sacred space freed from the more mundane concerns that trouble other institutions. But lately this lofty image looks increasingly tarnished, especially with regard to public universities. There, a new class of administrative professionals has been busy working to make colleges as much like businesses as possible. In this eye-opening ex- posé of the modern university, Gaye Tuchman paints a candid portrait of these wannabe corporate managers and the new regime of revenue streams, mission statements, and five-year plans they’ve ushered in. “Wannabe U is an exceptional portrait of Based on years of observation at a state school, Wannabe U tracks a state university that desperately wants the dispiriting consequences of trading in traditional educational to play in the big leagues. Tuchman il- values for loyalty to the market. Aping their boardroom idols, the new luminates how universities have not just corporate administrators wander from job to job and reductively view borrowed tools from the business world the students as future workers in need of training. Obsessed with mea- but redefined them in ways that have had surable successes, they stress auditing and accountability, which leads, a far-reaching and pernicious influence Tuchman reveals, to policies of surveillance and control dubiously on higher education. She deftly captures cloaked in the guise of scientific administration. Following the big the careerist ambitions of administrators money to be made from the discoveries of Wannabe U’s researchers, and the discomfort that these transforma- Tuchman probes the cozy relationships that the administration forms tions can cause between older faculty with industry and the government. and newer arrivals. In the midst of these Like the best campus novelists, Tuchman entertains with her acidly changes and conflicts, Tuchman also witty observations of backstage power dynamics and faculty politics, notes how much the day-to-day experi- but ultimately Wannabe U is a hard-hitting account of how higher edu- ence of faculty and students is affected. cation’s misguided pursuit of success fails us all. No other book is as revealing about the revolution underway in American higher education as this one.” Gaye Tuchman is professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut. She —Walter W. Powell, is the author of Making News: A Study in the Construction of Reality and Edging coeditor of The Nonprofit Sector: Women Out: Victorian Novelists, Publishers, and Social Change, the editor of The A Research Handbook TV Establishment: Programming for Power and Profit, and coeditor of Hearth and Home: Images of Women in the Mass Media. november 288 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-81529-9 Cloth $25.00/£17.50 EDUCATION

general interest 29 “The Phoenix Poets list contains a number of poets currently on my list of favorites. This is a strong, vital series that has given voice to some of the best voices in American poetry today.” —Billy Collins

War Bird Watch DAVID GEWANTER greg miller

From Three at 4:43 Strasbourg

And here comes my friend, limping on The yellow and green rose, and the pink rock, his heavy boot, the heel come off. A cobbler’s shop The chestnuts blooming, the cobblestone square, appears, and I buy the black nails, Our Lady’s tower rising everywhere, the dwarf’s hammer, glue and strapping. Dark timbered fronts; the mechanical clock Whose rooster crows three times for Peter’s flock, I work hard on it, bending there The Apostles, the old man’s and the child’s share until he speaks and walks on. Of time—aspire I’d say to make me stare But as he is dead, his voice and step And stop. I praise what I might otherwise mock, make no sound. The locked contingencies, the stock of losses, Bright liquidity everywhere channeled, In his third book of poems, David Gewanter takes on wartime A storied cityscape of destinies Averted as when, turning, a young Turk tosses America, showing our personal costs and inextricable com- His hands in the air and my chest’s pummeled, plicities. The constructs of our social lives, the conventions of “My brother, forgive me!” and my thoughts freeze. our political values, the ambitions of our private fantasies— all these collide comically and tragically. Here, the far right In Watch, Greg Miller describes a fresh purposefulness in his marries the far left, and the sacred is undone by the profane. life and achieves a new level of poetic thinking and composi- Gewanter’s ironic vision pulls together details from science, tion in his writing. Artfully combining the religious and secu- history, philosophy, the disappearing dailies, and the emo- lar worldviews in his own sense of human culture, Miller com- tional life of an engaged and singular mind into poems on the plicates our understanding of all three. The poems in Watch move with tense rhythms, rich correspondences, and daring sift layers of natural and human history across several con- hairpin turns. War Bird gives the lie to the shining moral com- tinents, observing paintings, archaeological digs, cityscapes, placencies of the homefront. Unsettling yet radiant, this col- seascapes, landscapes—all in an attempt to envision a clear, lection is a book for troubled times, for what Whitman called grounded spiritual life. Employing an impressive array of train “1861,” our “hurrying, crashing, sad, distracted year.” ditional meters and various kinds of free verse, Miller’s poems celebrate communities both invented and real. Praise for The Sleep of Reason “A strong collection from a writer who seems to possess that Praise for Iron Wheel most curious and necessary of literary attributes—a moral “Miller demonstrates that what Eliot said about reading a vision.”—New York Times poem may be equally true of writing them: the best thing ‘is to be very, very intelligent’ and intelligence is not the same David Gewanter is professor of English at Georgetown University. as erudition. Whether the world is made, found, or named, He is coeditor of Robert Lowell’s Collected Poems and the author of Miller offers an engaging portrait of things as they are.’’ In the Belly and The Sleep of Reason, the latter two published by the University of Chicago Press. —Poetry

Greg Miller is professor of English at Millsaps College. He is the 1 1 OCTOBER 80 p. 5 /2 x 8 /2 author of Rib Cage and Iron Wheel, both published by the University ISBN-13: 978-0-226-28978-6 of Chicago Press. Paper $18.00/£12.50 poetry

OCTOBER 80 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-52614-0 Paper $18.00/£12.50 poetry

30 general interest 3rd PROOF ❍ MARY ❍ ALICE

An Algebra Don bogen from Bagatelles

Bagatelles, mere gestures in dry air, each pluck a dot, strokes marked on silence reaching into the dark.

Beauty is strict, it passes: an echo, a wedge of harmony, sudden, broken—Who goes there?

An Algebra is an interwoven collection of eight sequences and sixteen individual poems, where images and phrases recur in new contexts, connecting and suspending thoughts, emotions, and insights. By turns, the poems leap from the public realm of urban decay and outsourcing to the intimacies of family life, from a street mime to a haunting dream, from elegy to lyric evocation. Wholeness and brokenness intertwine in the book; glimpsed patterns and startling disjunctions drive its explorations. An Algebra is a work of changing equivalents, a search for balance in a world of transformation and loss. It is a bril- Also available in the Phoenix Poets series liantly constructed, moving book by a poet who has achieved a new level of imaginative expression and skill. Mean Rare High Meadow of Colette LaBouff Atkinson Which I Might Dream

ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03059-3 Connie Voisine Praise for After the Splendid Display Paper $14.00/£9.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-86352-8 Paper $14.00/£9.50

“In his best work . . . conscience and craft fuse seamlessly, Breakfast with Thom and the result is original and arresting.”—Nation Gunn Chameleon Hours Randall Mann Elise Partridge ISBN-13: 978-0-226-50344-8 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-64792-0 Don Bogen is professor of English at the University of Cincinnati. Paper $14.00/£9.50 Paper $15.00/£10.50 He is the author of three books of poetry, including, most recently, Luster. Hollywood & God Blessings for the Hands

October 88 p. 51/2 x 81/2 Robert Polito Matthew Schwartz ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06313-3 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-67339-4 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-74095-9 Paper $18.00/£12.50 Cloth $22.00/£15.00 Paper $14.00/£9.50 POETRY The Lions Under Sleep Peter Campion Daniel Hall ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09310-9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31332-0 Paper $18.00/£12.50 Cloth $22.00/£15.00

general interest 31 Hans J. Nissen and Peter Heine From Mesopotamia to Iraq A Concise History Translated by Hans J. Nissen

he recent reopening of Iraq’s National Museum attracted worldwide attention, underscoring the country’s dual image T as both the cradle of civilization and a contemporary geopo- litical battleground. A sweeping account of the rich history that has played out between these chronological poles, From Mesopotamia to Iraq looks back through ten thousand years of the region’s deeply signifi- Praise for The Early History of the Ancient cant yet increasingly overshadowed past. Near East, by Hans J. Nissen Hans J. Nissen and Peter Heine begin by explaining how ancient “Without any doubt . . . an original and co- Mesopotamian inventions—including urban society, a system of writ- herent synthesis of 7,000 years of politi- ing, and mathematical texts that anticipated Pythagoras—profoundly cal evolution. . . . Nissen has provided us influenced the course of human history. These towering innovations, with a creative and challenging overview they go on to reveal, have sometimes obscured the major role Meso- of political evolution in an area of the potamia continued to play on the world stage. Alexander the Great, world commonly referred to as the ‘cradle for example, was fascinated by Babylon and eventually died there. of civilization.’” Seventh-century Muslim armies made the region one of their first con- —Science quests outside the Arabian peninsula. And the Arab caliphs who ruled

for centuries after the invasion built the magnificent city of Baghdad, “This outstanding book traces in less than attracting legions of artists and scientists. Tracing the evolution of this two hundred pages some 7,000 years of vibrant country into a contested part of the Ottoman Empire, a twen- ancient Near Eastern history. . . . Filled tieth-century British colony, a republic ruled by Saddam Hussein, and with original ideas of lasting significance.” the democracy it has become, Nissen and Heine repair the fragmented —Choice image of Iraq that has come to dominate our collective imagination.

September 192 p., 52 halftones, In hardly any other continuously inhabited part of the globe can 42 line drawings, 1 table 51/2 x 81/2 we chart such developments in politics, economy, and culture across so ISBN-13: 978-0-226-58663-2 Cloth $50.00x/£34.50 extended a period of time. By doing just that, the authors illuminate ISBN-13: 978-0-226-58664-9 Paper $17.00/£11.50 nothing less than the forces that have made the world what it is today. HISTORY Hans J. Nissen is professor of ancient Near Eastern archaeology at the Free University of Berlin. Peter Heine is professor of Near Eastern studies at Humboldt University of Berlin.

32 general interest Philip Graham The Moon, Come to Earth Dispatches from Lisbon

dispatch from a foreign land, when crafted by an attentive and skilled writer, can be magical, transmitting pleasure, A drama, and seductive strangeness. In The Moon, Come to Earth, Philip Graham offers an expanded edition of a popular series of dispatches originally published on McSweeney’s, an exuberant yet introspective account of a year’s sojourn in Lisbon with his wife and daughter. Casting his attentive gaze on scenes as broad as a citywide arts festival and as small as a single paving “A good part of the reason I feel so pas- stone in a cobbled walk, Graham renders Lisbon from a perspective sionately positive about The Moon, Come that varies between wide-eyed and knowing; though he’s unquestion- to Earth is how well Graham is able to ably not a tourist, at the same time he knows he will never be a lo- convey his compassionate, generous, cal. So his lyrical accounts reveal his struggles with (and love of) the and comic spirit to the reader. Unfailingly Portuguese language, an awkward meeting with Nobel laureate José endearing, whether he’s trying to figure Saramago, being trapped in a budding soccer riot, and his daughter’s the number of cobblestones in Lisbon or challenging transition to adolescence while attending a Portuguese trying to find an ATM to buy tickets for school—but he also waxes loving about Portugal’s saudade-drenched a futebol match, Graham becomes the music, its inventive cuisine, and its vibrant literary culture. And reader’s traveling surrogate in the best through his humorous, self-deprecating, and wistful explorations, we sense. But this book is as much about come to know Graham himself, and his wife and daughter, so when parenthood as it is about Portugal, with an unexpected crisis hits his family, we can’t help but ache alongside Graham’s daughter Hannah as the most them. constant figure in the narrative. The por- A thoughtful, finely wrought celebration of the moment-to-moment trait of this father-daughter relationship excitement of diving deep into another culture and confronting one’s is about as lovely as I’ve seen.” secret selves, The Moon, Come to Earth is literary travel writing of a rare —Robin Hemley, author of Do-Over! intimacy and immediacy.

November 176 p. 51/2 x 81/2 Philip Graham is the author of two short story collections, The Art of the Knock ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30514-1 and Interior Design, and a novel, How to Read an Unwritten Language, and is Cloth $45.00x/£31.00 coauthor of a memoir of Africa, Parallel Worlds. He teaches at the University of ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30515-8 Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Paper $15.00/£10.50 TRAVEL

general interest 33 Robert R. Faulkner and Howard S. Becker “Do You Know . . . ?” The Jazz Repertoire in Action

very night, somewhere in the world, three or four musicians will climb on stage together. Whether the gig is at a jazz club, Ea bar, or a bar mitzvah, the performance never begins with a note, but with a question. The trumpet player might turn to the bassist and ask, “Do you know ‘Body and Soul’?”—and from there the subtle craft of playing the jazz repertoire is tested in front of a live audience. These ordinary musicians may have never played together—they may have never even met—so how do they smoothly put on a show without getting booed off the stage? “This book consists of a seamless blend In “Do You Know . . . ?” Robert R. Faulkner and Howard S. Becker of anecdotes and analysis, filled with —both jazz musicians with decades of experience performing—pres- delight and insight. Robert Faulkner and ent the view from the bandstand, revealing the array of skills necessary Howard Becker, writing from their twin for working musicians to do their jobs. While learning songs from perspectives of professional jazz players sheet music or by ear helps, the jobbing musician’s lexicon is daunt- and renowned scholars, offer an unprec- ingly massive: hundreds of thousands of tunes from jazz classics and edented understanding of the interper- pop standards to more exotic fare. Since it is impossible for anyone to sonal dynamics of jazz performance.” memorize all of these songs, Faulkner and Becker show that musicians —Barry Kernfeld, editor of The New Grove collectively negotiate and improvise their way to a successful perfor- Dictionary of Jazz mance. Players must explore each others’ areas of expertise, develop an ability to fake their way through unfamiliar territory, and respond September 216 p., 2 halftones, to the unpredictable demands of their audience—whether an unex- 6 line drawings 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-23921-7 pected gang of polka fanatics or a tipsy father of the bride with an Cloth $26.00/£18.00 obscure favorite song. MUSIC “Do You Know . . . ?” dishes out entertaining stories and sharp insights drawn from the authors’ own experiences and observations as well as interviews with a range of musicians. Faulkner and Becker’s vivid, detailed portrait of the musician at work holds valuable lessons for anyone who has to think on the spot or under a spotlight.

Robert R. Faulkner is professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the author of Music on Demand: Composers and Careers in the Hol- lywood Film Industry. Howard S. Becker is the author of several books, including Telling About Society, Tricks of the Trade, and Art Worlds. Together with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett they are coeditors of Art from Start to Finish: Jazz, Paint- ing, Writing, and Other Improvisations.

34 general interest Jacques Derrida The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume 1 Translated by Geoffrey Bennington

hen he died in 2004, Jacques Derrida left behind a vast legacy of unpublished material, much of it in the form W of written lectures. With The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume 1, the University of Chicago Press inaugurates an ambitious series, edited by Geoffrey Bennington and Peggy Kamuf, translating these important works into English. The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume 1 launches the series with Der- rida’s exploration of the persistent association of bestiality or animality Praise for Jacques Derrida with sovereignty. In this seminar from 2001 and 2002, Derrida contin- “Along with Ludwig Wittgenstein and ues his deconstruction of the traditional determinations of the human. Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida . . . will The beast and the sovereign are connected, he contends, because be remembered as one of the three most neither animals nor kings are subject to the law—the sovereign stands important philosophers of the twentieth above it, while the beast falls outside the law from below. He then century. No thinker in the last one hun- traces this association through an astonishing array of texts, including dred years had a greater impact than he La Fontaine’s fable “The Wolf and the Lamb,” Hobbes’s biblical sea did on people in more fields and different monster in Leviathan, D. H. Lawrence’s poem “Snake,” Machiavelli’s disciplines.” Prince with its elaborate comparison of princes and foxes, a historical — New York Times account of Louis XIV attending an elephant autopsy, and Rousseau’s evocation of werewolves in The Social Contract. “Derrida revolutionised our understanding Deleuze, Lacan, and Agamben also come into critical play as Der- of words, texts, reading and authorship. rida focuses in on questions of force, right, justice, and philosophical . . . Each publication is a singular demon- interpretations of the limits between man and animal. stration of a patient response to the con- tours, rhythms and turns of the subject Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) was director of studies at the École des hautes being addressed.” études en sciences sociales, Paris, and professor of humanities at the Univer- —Times (UK) sity of California, Irvine. He is the author of many books published by the University of Chicago Press. Geoffrey Bennington is Asa G. Candler Professor of Modern French Thought at Emory University and the author of numerous The Seminars of Jacques Derrida works, including Interrupting Derrida. November 352 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-14428-3 Cloth $35.00s/£24.00 PHILOSOPHY

general interest 35 In Hock Pawning in America from Independence through the Great Depression Wendy A. Woloson

Puncturing the myth of the seamy businessmen, reformers, and cultural storefront stocked with stolen watches critics berated the shops for promoting and overseen by a shifty proprietor, In vice and used anti-Semitic stereotypes Hock reveals that pawnshops have long to cast their proprietors as greedy and played an integral role in Americans’ cold-hearted. Parsing and subverting economic lives. these caricatures, Woloson shows that The definitive history of pawn- pawnbrokers were in fact shrewd busi- broking in the United States from the nessmen, often from humble origins, nation’s founding through the Great who honed sophisticated knowledge of

Photograph of the B. Berkowitz Loan Office, circa1924. Artist unknown. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-B2- 4024-10[P&P]. Depression, this volume demonstrates a wide range of goods and their values that the practice was inextricably inter- in different markets. February 256 p., 39 halftones, twined with the rise of capitalism. The In the process, she paints a reso- 1 table 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-90567-9 class of working poor begotten by this nant portrait of the generations of Cloth $35.00s/£24.00 economic tide could make ends meet, Americans whose struggle for economic AMERICAN HISTORY Wendy A. Woloson argues, only by reg- survival often depended on an institu- ularly visiting pawnshops to supplement tion that has remained, until now, woe- their inadequate wages. Nonetheless, fully misunderstood.

Wendy A. Woloson is an independent scholar and consulting historian living in Philadel- phia. She is the author of Refined Tastes: Sugar, Consumers, and Confectionery in Nineteenth- Century American Culture.

“This impressively researched book New York Undercover makes an important contribution to Private Surveillance in the Progressive Era a wide range of central themes in Jennifer Fronc modern American history, including the growth of state power and the To combat behavior they viewed as the National Civic Federation and the policing of class, race, and gender sexually promiscuous, politically un- Committee of Fourteen generated the relations. In this age of terrorism, desirable, or downright criminal, so- knowledge they needed to change ur- ‘homeland security’ initiatives, the cial activists in Progressive-era New ban conditions. This information, Fronc expanded use of wiretapping and York employed private investigators demonstrates, eventually empowered other forms of surveillance, and to uncover the roots of society’s prob- government regulators in the Progres- lems. New York Undercover follows these sive era and beyond, strengthening a a new debate about the relation- investigators—often journalists or so- federal state that grew increasingly re- ship between civil liberties and cial workers with no training in surveil- pressive in the interest of pursuing a governmental authority, New York lance—on their information-gathering national security agenda. Revealing the Undercover is also timely.” visits to gambling parlors, brothels, and central role of undercover investigation —Jeffrey Adler, meetings of criminal gangs and radical in both social change and the consti- University of Florida political organizations. tution of political authority, New York Drawing on the hundreds of de- Undercover narrates previously untold Historical Studies of Urban America tailed reports that resulted from these chapters in the history of vice and the missions, Jennifer Fronc reconstructs emergence of the modern surveillance December 256 p., 7 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-26609-1 the process by which organizations like state. Cloth $35.00s/£24.00 Jennifer Fronc is assistant professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. AMERICAN HISTORY

36 special interest Karin Sanders Bodies in the Bog and the Archaeological Imagination

nown for his curly red hair, day-old stubble, and uncannily preserved two-thousand-year-old physique, Grauballe Man— K a mummified body discovered in 1950s Denmark—was an instant archaeological sensation. But he was not the first of his kind: recent history has resurrected from northern Europe’s bogs several men, women, and children who were deposited there as sacrifices in the early Iron Age and kept startlingly intact by the chemical properties of peat. In this remarkable account of their modern afterlives, Karin Sanders argues that the discovery of bog bodies began an extraordinary—and ongoing—cultural journey. “What a wonderful, wonderful book this is. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Sanders I absolutely loved Bodies in the Bog and shows, these eerily preserved remains came alive in art and science everything about it, from the thought- as material metaphors for such concepts as trauma, nostalgia, and ful approach and beautiful writing to the identity. Sigmund Freud, Joseph Beuys, Serge Vandercam, Seamus well-contextualized discussions of bog Heaney, and other major figures have used them to reconsider fun- bodies in psychology, poetry, art, mu- damental philosophical, literary, aesthetic, and scientific concerns. seum display, and facial reconstruction. Exploring this intellectual spectrum, Sanders contends that the power A truly interdisciplinary study clearly of bog bodies to provoke such a wide range of responses is rooted in based on years of passionate research, it their unique status as both archaeological artifacts and human beings. offers a rich and nuanced explanation of They emerge as corporeal time capsules that transcend archaeology what makes these bodies so fascinating, to challenge our assumptions about what we can know about the past. appealing, and troubling.” —Stephanie Moser, By restoring them to the roster of cultural phenomena that force us to University of Southampton confront our ethical and aesthetic boundaries, Bodies in the Bog exca- vates anew the question of what it means to be human. October 320 p., 63 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73404-0 Cloth $35.00s/£24.00 Karin Sanders is professor of Scandinavian at the University of California, HISTORY SCIENCE Berkeley.

special interest 37 Adam J. Berinsky In Time of War Understanding American Public Opinion from World War II to Iraq

rom World War II to the war in Iraq, periods of international conflict seem like unique moments in U.S. political history— F but when it comes to public opinion, they are not. To make this groundbreaking revelation, In Time of War explodes conventional wisdom about American reactions to World War II, as well as the more recent conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Adam J. Berinsky argues that public response to these crises has been shaped less by their defining characteristics—such as what they

“With this important and intellectually cost in lives and resources—than by the same political interests and stimulating book, Adam Berinsky be- group affiliations that influence our ideas about domestic issues. comes one of the pioneers in bridging the With the help of World War II–era survey data that had gone virtu- gap between the study of international ally untouched for the past sixty years, Berinsky begins by disproving relations and the study of domestic poli- the myth of “the good war” that Americans all fell in line to support af- tics. In Time of War boldly revises ter the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. The attack, he reveals, did not our understanding of public opinion on significantly alter public opinion but merely punctuated interventionist World War II and the Iraq war, as well as sentiment that had already risen in response to the ways that political broader issues such as attitudes toward leaders at home had framed the fighting abroad. Weaving his findings war, foreign affairs, and public policy in into the first general theory of the factors that shape American war- general.” time opinion, Berinsky also sheds new light on our reactions to other —Jeffrey Cohen, crises. He shows, for example, that our attitudes toward restricted civil Fordham University liberties during Vietnam and after 9/11 stemmed from the same kinds

Chicago Studies in American Politics of judgments we make during times of peace. With Iraq and Afghanistan now competing for attention with October 344 p., 70 line drawings, 38 tables 6 x 9 urgent issues within the United States, In Time of War offers a timely ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04358-6 reminder of the full extent to which foreign and domestic politics pro- Cloth $69.00x/£47.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04359-3 foundly influence—and ultimately illuminate—each other. Paper $23.00s/£16.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Adam J. Berinsky is associate professor of political science at the Massachu- setts Institute of Technology.

38 special interest Untimely Ruins “Untimely Ruins is a magisterial work of scholarship, brimming with An Archaeology of American Urban Modernity, 1819–1919 intelligence, insight, and inter- Nick Yablon est on every page. Nick Yablon’s scholarship is prodigious. His American urban ruins have become Unlike classical and Gothic ruins, increasingly prominent, whether in which decayed over centuries and in- extended meditation on the mean- debates about home foreclosures, im- spired philosophical meditations about ings of American ruins explains ages of 9/11, or postapocalyptic movies. the past, American ruins often ap- why they are distinctive, what they Nick Yablon argues that this association peared unpredictably and disappeared reveal, and how they matter. This between American cities and ruins before they could accrue an aura of is a book of exceptional historical dates back to a much earlier period in age. In doing so, they generated critical expanse and interpretive ambition the nation’s history. Recovering numer- reflections about contemporary cities, ous scenes of urban desolation—from and the new kinds of experience they that is at the same time remarkably accounts of failed banks, abandoned enabled. Unearthing evocative depic- lucid from sentence to sentence, towns, and dilapidated tenements to tions of these untimely ruins every- paragraph to paragraph, and page popular fiction and cartoons that envi- where from the archives of photography to page.” sioned disintegrating skyscrapers and clubs to the pages of pulp magazines, —Carl Smith, bridges—Yablon challenges the myth Yablon reconstructs crucial debates author of The Plan of Chicago: that ruins were absent or at least insig- about America’s economic, technologi- Daniel Burnham and the Remaking nificant objects in nineteenth-century cal, and cultural transformation in an of the American City America. age of urban modernity. February 416 p., 76 halftones 6 x 9 Nick Yablon is assistant professor of American studies at the University of Iowa. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-94663-4 Cloth $70.00x/£48.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-94664-1 Paper $25.00s/£17.50 AMERICAN HISTORY

Staying Italian “This lucid and original study of the postwar Italian enclaves in Toronto Urban Change and Ethnic Life in Postwar Toronto and Philadelphia confirms the im- and Philadelphia portance of space and place in the Jordan Stanger-Ross making and maintenance of such Despite their twin positions as two preserving turf and marking boundar- communities. The way in which of North America’s most iconic Ital- ies. Toronto’s thriving Little Italy, on Jordan Stanger-Ross pairs these ian neighborhoods, South Philly and the other hand, drew Italians together two cases is particularly well- Toronto’s Little Italy have functioned from across the wider region. These conceived, allowing him to illumi- in dramatically different ways since distinctive ethnic enclaves, Stanger- nate the recent urban historical World War II. Inviting readers into the Ross argues, were shaped by each city’s experience of ethnicity in both churches, homes, and businesses at the response to suburbanization, segrega- heart of these communities, Staying tion, and economic restructuring. By Canada and the United States.” Italian reveals that daily experience in situating malleable ethnic bonds in the —Richard Harris, McMaster University each enclave created two distinct, yet context of political economy and racial still Italian, ethnicities. dynamics, he offers a fresh perspective Historical Studies of Urban As Philadelphia struggled with on the potential of local environments America deindustrialization, Jordan Stanger- to shape individual identities and social Ross shows, Italian ethnicity in South experience. January 192 p., 20 halftones, 19 line drawings, 14 maps 6 x 9 Philly remained closely linked with ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77074-1 Cloth $35.00s/£24.00 Jordan Stanger-Ross is assistant professor of history at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. AMERICAN HISTORY

special interest 39 The Unwanted Child The Fate of Foundlings, Orphans, and Juvenile Criminals in Early Modern Germany Joel F. Harrington

The baby abandoned on the doorstep mercenary who drifts in and out of his is a phenomenon that has virtually dis- children’s lives, a civic leader handling appeared from our experience, but in the government’s response to prob- the early modern world, unwanted chil- lems arising from unwanted children, a dren were a very real problem for par- homeless teenager turned prolific thief, ents, government officials, and society. and orphaned twins who enter state The Unwanted Child skillfully recreates care at the age of nine. Braiding to- sixteenth-century Nuremberg to ex- gether these compelling portraits, Har- plore what befell abandoned, neglect- rington uncovers and analyzes the key ed, abused, or delinquent children in elements that link them, including the December 480 p., 64 halftones, this critical period. impact of war and the vital importance 9 line drawings 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31727-4 Joel F. Harrington tackles this of informal networks among women. Cloth $45.00s/£31.00 question by focusing on the stories of From the harrowing to the inspiring, EUROPEAN HISTORY five individuals. In vivid and poignant The Unwanted Child paints a gripping pic- detail, he recounts the experiences of ture of life on the streets five centuries an unmarried mother-to-be, a roaming ago.

Joel F. Harrington is assistant provost for international affairs and associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University. His books include Reordering Marriage and Society in Reformation Germany.

Whose Fair? Experience, Memory, and the History of the Great St. Louis Exposition James Gilbert

The 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair was a competing, versions of history and major event in early twentieth-century memory prompts Gilbert to dig through America. Attracting millions of tour- a rich trove of archival material. He exists, it exemplified the Victorian pre- amines the papers of David Francis, the dilection for public spectacle. The Fair Fair’s president and subsequent chief has long served as a touchstone for his- archivist; guidebooks and other official November 240 p., 20 halftones 6 x 9 torians interested in American culture publications; the 1944 filmMeet Me in St. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-29310-3 prior to World War I and has endured in Louis; diaries, oral histories, and other Cloth $35.00s/£24.00 the memories of generations of St. Lou- personal accounts; and a collection of AMERICAN HISTORY is residents and visitors. In Whose Fair? striking photographs. From this daz- James Gilbert asks: what can we learn zling array of sources, Gilbert paints about the lived experience of fairgoers a lively picture of how fairgoers spent when we compare historical accounts, their time, while also probing the ways individual and collective memories, history and memory can complement and artifacts from the event? each other. Exploring these differing, at times

James Gilbert is professor of history at the University of Maryland. He is the author of ten books, including Perfect Cities: Chicago’s Utopias of 1893 and Men in the Middle: Searching for Masculinity in the 1950s, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

40 special interest Schooling Citizens “I cannot think of any other book that is like Schooling Citizens, The Struggle for African American Education in which makes an important contri- Antebellum America bution both to the historiography Hilary J. Moss of African Americans and to the history of education in America. While white residents of antebellum portunity to become full-fledged citi- Boston and New Haven forcefully op- zens, it redefined citizenship as synony- Well written and well argued, this posed the education of black residents, mous with whiteness. This link between book is an original contribution to their counterparts in slaveholding Bal- school and American identity, Moss scholarship.” timore did little to resist the establish- argues, increased white hostility to —Shane White, ment of African American schools. Such black education at the same time that it author of Stories of Freedom discrepancies, Hilary J. Moss argues, spurred African Americans to demand in Black New York suggest that white opposition to black public schooling as a means of securing education was not a foregone conclu- status as full and equal members of so- November 256 p., 13 halftones, 2 maps, 4 line drawings, 7 tables 6 x 9 sion. Through the comparative lenses ciety. Shedding new light on the efforts ISBN-13: 978-0-226-54249-2 of these three cities, she shows why op- of black Americans to learn indepen- Cloth $37.50s/£26.00 position erupted where it did across the dently in the face of white attempts to AMERICAN HISTORY United States during the same period withhold opportunity, Schooling Citizens AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES that gave rise to public education. narrates a previously untold chapter in As common schooling emerged in the thorny history of America’s educa- the 1830s, providing white children of tional inequality. all classes and ethnicities with the op-

Hilary J. Moss is assistant professor of history and black studies at Amherst College.

Living in Arcadia “A work of exceptional erudition, originality, and insight. It not only Homosexuality, Politics, and Morality in France from restores the most important French the Liberation to AIDS homophile movement to history Julian Jackson in all its complexity; it also uses that history to make a power- In Paris in 1954, a young man named The main cause of this neglect, André Baudry founded Arcadie, an or- Julian Jackson explains in Living in Ar- ful revisionist argument for the ganization for “homophiles” that would cadia, is that during the post-Stonewall intelligence, savvy, courage, and, become the largest of its kind that has era of queer activism, Baudry’s organi- indeed, dignity of the people who ever existed in France, lasting nearly zation fell into disfavor, dismissed as founded and guided it. As one of thirty years. In addition to acting as the conservative, conformist, and closeted. the most important studies of the only public voice for French gays prior Through extensive archival research pre-Stonewall homophile move- to the explosion of radicalism of 1968, and numerous interviews with the re- Arcadie—with its club and review—was clusive Baudry, Jackson challenges this ment we have, Living in Arcadia a social and intellectual hub, attracting reductive view, uncovering Arcadie’s represents a major new contribu- support from individuals as diverse as pioneering efforts to educate the Eu- tion to both gay history and French Jean Cocteau and Michel Foucault and ropean public about homosexuality in history.” offering support and solidarity to thou- an era of renewed repression. In the —George Chauncey, sands of isolated individuals. Yet de- course of relating this absorbing story, author of Gay New York spite its huge importance, Arcadie has Jackson offers a startlingly original ac- largely disappeared from the historical count of the history of homosexuality december 304 p., 25 halftones 6 x 9 record. in modern France. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38925-7 Cloth $40.00s/£27.50

Julian Jackson is professor of modern French history at Queen Mary, University of London. HISTORY GAY AND LESBIAN studies He is the author of many books, including France: The Dark Years, 1940–1944; The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion, 1940; and De Gaulle.

special interest 41 “John Dent-Young has done some- Selected Poems of Garcilaso de la Vega thing that I did not think possible: A Bilingual Edition he has successfully rendered Garcilaso d e l a Vega Garcilaso’s verse in English in ways Edited and Translated by John Dent-Young that capture its rhythm and grace, while at the same time conveying Garcilaso de la Vega (ca. 1501–36), in nearly two hundred years to fully its sense with all the directness a Castilian nobleman and soldier at represent Garcilaso for an Anglophone and elusiveness of the original. the court of Charles V, lived a short readership. In facing-page translations This edition stands to become the but glamorous life. As the first poet to that capture the music and skill of Gar- make the Italian Renaissance lyric style cilaso’s verse, John-Dent Young pres- point of entry into the work of this at home in Spanish, he is credited with ents the sonnets, songs, elegies, and classic Spanish poet for readers of beginning the golden age of Spanish eclogues that came to influence gen- English.” poetry. Known for his sonnets and pas- erations of poets, including San Juan —Ricardo Padrón, torals, gracefully depicting beauty and de la Cruz, Luis de León, Cervantes, University of Virginia love while soberly accepting their pass- and Góngora. The Selected Poems of Gar- ing, he is shown here also as a calm stu- cilaso de la Vega will help to explain to October 216 p., 5 halftones 51/2 x 81/2 dent of love’s psychology and a critic of the English-speaking public this poet’s ISBN-13: 978-0-226-14188-6 the savagery of war. preeminence in the pantheon of Span- Cloth $35.00s/£24.00 This bilingual volume is the first ish letters. POETRY John Dent-Young is a freelance editor and translator who has also translated from Chinese. He was a lecturer in English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong for nearly twenty years. He is the editor and translator of Selected Poems of Luis de Góngora, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

“This is a brilliant, provocative, The Terror of Natural Right enormously compelling book. Edel- Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution stein has produced one of the most Dan Edelstein important studies of the French Revolution in many years, and one Natural right—the idea that there is a application. Edelstein argues that the that is sure to make a major mark collection of laws and rights based not Jacobins shared a political philosophy on the study of European history.” on custom or belief but that are “natu- that he calls “natural republicanism,” —David Bell, ral” in origin—is typically associated which assumed the natural state of soci- Johns Hopkins University with liberal politics and freedom. But ety was a republic and that natural right during the French Revolution, this provided its only acceptable laws. Ulti- October 328 p., 6 halftones, tradition was interpreted to justify the mately, he argues that what we call the 2 line drawings 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-18438-8 most repressive actions of the violent Terror was in fact only one facet of the Cloth $40.00s/£27.50 period known as the Terror. republican theory that prevailed from EUROPEAN HISTORY In The Terror of Natural Right, Dan Louis XVI’s trial until the fall of Robe- LITERARY CRITICISM Edelstein argues that the revolutionar- spierre. ies used the natural right concept of A highly original work of historical the “enemy of the human race”—an in- analysis, political theory, literary criti- dividual who has transgressed the laws cism, and intellectual history, The Ter- of nature and must be executed with- ror of Natural Right challenges prevail- out judicial formalities—to authorize ing assumptions of the Terror to offer three-quarters of the deaths during a new perspective on the Revolutionary the Terror. But the significance of the period. natural right did not end with its legal

Dan Edelstein is assistant professor of French at Stanford University.

42 special interest Grand Illusion “In the World’s Fair of 1937 and its attendant cultural programs, Karen The Third Reich, the Paris Exposition, and the Cultural Fiss has found a wonderful vehicle Seduction of France for exploring bilateral relations Karen Fiss between France and Germany at this critical historical junction. Franco-German cultural exchange pageantry, Fiss illuminates the role of Na- reached its height at the 1937 Paris tional Socialist propaganda in the French Her careful analysis of cultural World’s Fair, where the Third Re- decision to ignore Hitler’s war prepara- products—starting with a masterful ich worked to promote an illusion of tions and pursue an untenable policy explication of Jean Renoir’s classic friendship between the two countries. of appeasement. France’s receptiveness film La grande illusion, extending Through the prism of this decisive toward Nazi culture, Fiss contends, was through treatments of the German event, Grand Illusion examines the over- rooted in its troubled identity and deep- and French pavilions, and culminat- looked relationships among Nazi elites seated insecurities. With their govern- and French intellectuals. Their inter- ment in crisis, French intellectuals from ing with a study of three German action, Karen Fiss argues, profoundly both the left and the right demanded films—enables Fiss to ground her influenced cultural production and a new national culture that could rival original arguments in specific and normalized aspects of fascist ideology those of the totalitarian states. By exam- important examples. This is a mar- in 1930s France, laying the groundwork ining how this cultural exchange shifted velous book.” for the country’s eventual collaboration toward political collaboration, Grand Illu- —Jonathan Petropoulos, with its German occupiers. sion casts new light on the power of art to Claremont McKenna College Tracing related developments across influence history. fine arts, film, architecture, and mass December 272 p., 95 halftones 81/2 x 10 Karen Fiss is associate professor of visual and critical studies at the California College of ISBN-13: 978-0-226-25199-8 the Arts, San Francisco. Cloth $99.00x/£68.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-25201-8 Paper $37.50s/£26.00 EUROPEAN HISTORY ARCHITECTURE

Colonial Encounters in Ancient Iberia Phoenician, Greek, and Indigenous Relations Edited by Michael Dietler and Carolina López-Ruiz Contributors Ana Margarida Arruda, During the first millennium BCE, com- history, anthropology, and archaeology Maria Carme Belarte, Ramon plex encounters of Phoenician and —address such topics as trade and con- Buxó, María Belén Deamos, Greek colonists with natives of the Ibe- sumption, changing urban landscapes, Michael Dietler, Javier Gómez rian Peninsula transformed the region cultural transformations, and the ways Espelosín, Carolina López- and influenced the entire history of the in which these issues played out in the Ruiz, Sebastián Celestino Mediterranean. Greek and Phoenician imaginations. Pérez, Pierre Rouillard, Joan One of the first books on these Situating ancient Iberia within Medi- encounters to appear in English, this terranean colonial history and estab- Sanmartí-Grego, and Brigitte volume brings together a multinational lishing a theoretical framework for Warning Treumann group of contributors to explore ancient approaching encounters between colo- Iberia’s colonies and indigenous societ- nists and natives, these studies exempli- October 336 p., 62 halftones, ies, as well as the comparative study of fy the new intellectual vistas opened by 3 tables 6 x 9 colonialism. These scholars—from a the engagement of colonial studies with ISBN-13: 978-0-226-14847-2 range of disciplines, including classics, Iberian history. Cloth $55.00s/£38.00 HISTORY Michael Dietler is associate professor of anthropology, associate in classics, and member of the Program on the Ancient Mediterranean World at the University of Chicago. Carolina López-Ruiz is assistant professor of Greek and Latin at the Ohio State University.

special interest 43 “This elegant study not only Epidemic Invasions reshapes our understanding of Yellow Fever and the Limits of Cuban Independence, U.S.-Cuban relations but also forces 1878–1930 us to rethink the broader history Mariola Espinosa of U.S. public health interventions all over the world. It is a model for In the early fall of 1897, yellow fever United States to declare war against doing transnational history.” shuttered businesses, paralyzed trade, Spain in 1898, and, after the war was —Paul Sutter, and caused tens of thousand of people won and the disease eradicated, the University of Colorado living in the southern United States to United States demanded that Cuba abandon their homes and flee for their pledge in its new constitution to main- November 192 p., 4 halftones, lives. Originating in Cuba, the deadly tain the sanitation standards estab- 5 line drawings 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-21811-3 plague inspired disease-control mea- lished during the occupation. By situ- Cloth $55.00x/£38.00 sures that not only protected U.S. trade ating the history of the fight against ISBN-13: 978-0-226-21812-0 interests but also justified the political yellow fever within its political, military, Paper $22.50s/£15.50 and economic domination of the island and economic context, Espinosa reveals HISTORY SCIENCE nation from which the pestilence came. that the U.S. program of sanitation By focusing on yellow fever, Epidemic and disease control in Cuba was not a Invasions uncovers for the first time charitable endeavor. Instead, she shows how the devastating power of this virus that it was an exercise in colonial public profoundly shaped the relationship be- health that served to eliminate threats tween the two countries. to the continued expansion of U.S. in- Yellow fever in Cuba, Mariola Es- fluence in the world. pinosa demonstrates, motivated the

Mariola Espinosa is assistant professor of history and director of Latino and Latin American Studies at Southern Illinois University.

“Sojourners in a Strange Land will Sojourners in a Strange Land be an essential addition to the literature on the encounter between Jesuits and Their Scientific Missions in Late Imperial China China and Europe in the seven- Florence C. Hsia teenth century and the role played Though Jesuits assumed a variety of of scientific life within the Chinese mis- by scientific knowledge in that roles as missionaries in late imperial sion field from the sixteenth through encounter. It is a subtle, erudite, China, their most memorable guise was eighteenth centuries. Analyzing the and highly readable account of this that of scientific expert, whose maps, printed record of their endeavors in complex episode in seventeenth- clocks, astrolabes, and armillaries re- natural philosophy and mathematics, century world history.” portedly astonished the Chinese. But Hsia identifies three models of the mis- —Nicholas Dew, the icon of the missionary-scientist is sionary man of science by their genres McGill University itself a complex myth. Magisterially of writing: mission history, travelogue, correcting the standard story of China and academic collection. Drawing on

November 272 p., 23 halftones, Jesuits as simple conduits for Western the history of early modern Europe’s 5 line drawings, 2 tables 6 x 9 science, Florence C. Hsia shows how scientific, religious, and print culture, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-35559-7 these missionary-scientists remade she uses the elaboration and reception Cloth $45.00s/£31.00 themselves as they negotiated the place of these scientific personae to construct HISTORY SCIENCE of the profane sciences in a religious the first collective biography of the enterprise. Jesuit missionary-scientist’s many incar- Sojourners in a Strange Land devel- nations in late imperial China. ops a genealogy of Jesuit conceptions

Florence C. Hsia is assistant professor of history of science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

44 special interest A Tenth of a Second “In the past, the history of the personal equation and of reaction time A History has been mainly an interesting Jimena Canales topic for historians of astronomy and psychology. In her fascinating In the late fifteenth century, clocks ac- the speed of thought, they developed quired minute hands. A century later, reaction time experiments with lasting and innovative study, Canales con- second hands appeared. But it wasn’t implications for experimental psychol- vincingly argues that the tenth of a until the 1850s that instruments could ogy, physiology, and optics. Meanwhile, second plays a much more impor- recognize a tenth of a second, and, once astronomers and physicists struggled to tant role in modern science. A novel they did, the impact on modern science control the profound consequences of contribution that will find readers and society was profound. Revealing results that were a tenth of a second off. beyond the history of science.” the history behind this infinitesimal in- And references to the interval became terval, A Tenth of a Second enhances our part of a general inquiry into time, con- —Michael Hagner, Swiss Federal Institute of sciousness, and sensory experience that understanding of modernity and illu- Technology, Zürich minates the work of important thinkers involved rethinking the contributions of Descartes and Kant. of the last two centuries. October 272 p., 33 halftones 6 x 9 Tracing debates about the nature Featuring appearances by Henri ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09318-5 of time, causality, and free will, as well Bergson, Walter Benjamin, and Albert Cloth $35.00s/£24.00 as the introduction of modern technol- Einstein, among others, A Tenth of a SCIENCE ogies, Jimena Canales locates the rever- Second is an important contribution to berations of this “perceptual moment” history and a novel perspective on mo- throughout culture. Once scientists dernity. associated the tenth of a second with

Jimena Canales is assistant professor of the history of science at Harvard University.

“This is a valuable contribution to Science for All the study of popular science in the The Popularization of Science in Early twentieth century. Science for All Twentieth-Century Britain will go a long way toward providing Peter J. Bowler a much-needed first exploration of the period.” Recent scholarship has revealed that substantial market for science books —Peter Broks, pioneering Victorian scientists endeav- and magazines aimed at those who University of the ored through voluminous writing to had benefited from better secondary West of England raise public interest in science and its education but could not access higher implications. But it has generally been learning. Scientists found it easy and October 352 p., 12 halftones 6 x 9 assumed that once science became profitable to write for this audience, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06863-3 Cloth $45.00s/£31.00 a profession around the turn of the Bowler reveals, and because their work SCIENCE twentieth century, this new generation was seen as educational, they faced no of scientists turned its collective back hostility from their peers. But when on public outreach. Science for All de- admission to colleges and universities bunks this apocryphal notion. became more accessible in the 1960s, Peter J. Bowler surveys the books, this market diminished and profes- serial works, magazines, and newspa- sional scientists began to lose interest pers published between 1900 and the in writing at the nonspecialist level. outbreak of World War II to show that Eagerly anticipated by scholars of practicing scientists were very active scientific engagement throughout the in writing about their work for a gen- ages, Science for All speaks to our own eral readership. Science for All argues era and the continuing tension between that the social environment of early science and public understanding. twentieth-century Britain created a

Peter J. Bowler is professor of the history of science at Queen’s University Belfast, coauthor of Making Modern Science: A Historical Survey, and the author of Life’s Splendid Drama: Evolutionary Biology and the Reconstruction of Life’s Ancestry, 1860–1940 and Reconciling Science and Religion: The Debate in Early Twentieth-Century Britain, all published by the University of Chicago Press. special interest 45 “A manifesto in favor of a new Unsimple Truths epistemology of science premised on a careful assessment of the Science, Complexity, and Policy current state of biological research, Sandra Mitchell Unsimple Truths is accessible, well The world is complex, but acknowledg- Mitchell draws from diverse fields, written, and important. Simply ing its complexity requires an apprecia- including psychiatry, social insect biology, superb.” tion for the many roles context plays in and studies of climate change, to de- —Jason Scott Robert, shaping natural phenomena. In Unsim- fend “integrative pluralism”—a theory Arizona State University ple Truths, Sandra Mitchell argues that of scientific practices that makes sense the long-standing scientific and philo- of how many natural and social sciences December 176 p., 7 halftones sophical deference to reductive expla- represent the multilevel, multicompo- 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-53262-2 nations founded on simple universal nent, dynamic structures they study. Cloth $27.50s/£19.00 laws, linear causal models, and predict- She explains how we must, in light of SCIENCE PHILOSOPHY and-act strategies fails to accommodate the now-acknowledged complexity and the kinds of knowledge that many con- contingency of biological and social sys- temporary sciences are providing about tems, revise how we conceptualize the the world. She advocates instead for a world, how we investigate the world, new understanding that represents the and how we act in the world. Ultimately, rich, variegated, interdependent fabric Unsimple Truths argues that the very of many levels and kinds of explanation idea of what should count as legitimate that are integrated with one another to science itself should change. ground effective prediction and action.

Sandra Mitchell is professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of Biological Complexity and Integrative Pluralism.

“The Infanticide Controversy is an The Infanticide Controversy authoritatively researched and Primatology and the Art of Field Science attractively written work of Amanda Rees historico-sociological analysis of important recent science. It draws Infanticide in the natural world might characterized field studies of apes and on extensive interviews with partic- be a relatively rare event, but, as Aman- monkeys in the twentieth century. As a ipants and exhibits a deep knowl- da Rees shows, it has enormously sig- detailed study of the scientific method edge of the technical issues as well nificant consequences. Identified in the and its application to field research, as the multiple contexts condition- 1960s as a phenomenon worthy of inves- The Infanticide Controversy sheds new ing debates about them.” tigation, infanticide had, by the 1970s, light on our understanding of scientific —Gregory Radick, become the focus of serious controver- practice, focusing in particular on the author of The Simian Tongue sy. The suggestion, by Sarah Hrdy, that challenges of working in “natural” en- it might be the outcome of an evolved vironments, the relationship between November 288 p. 6 x 9 strategy intended to maximize an indi- objectivity and interpretation in an ISBN-13: 978-0-226-70711-2 vidual’s reproductive success sparked observational science, and the impact Cloth $40.00s/£27.50 furious disputes between scientists, dis- of the public profile of primatology on SCIENCE agreements that have continued down the development of primatological re- to the present day. search. Most importantly, it also consid- Meticulously tracing the history of ers the wider significance that the study the infanticide debates, and drawing of field science has in a period when on extensive interviews with field scien- the ecological results of uncontrolled tists, Rees investigates key theoretical human interventions in natural systems and methodological themes that have are becoming ever more evident.

Amanda Rees is a lecturer in sociology at the University of York.

46 special interest Cognitive Ecology II Contributors Edited by Reuven Dukas and John M. Ratcliffe Karin L. Akre, Michael D. Beecher, John M. Burt, Michael Merging evolutionary ecology and cog- bird song, and spatial learning. They S. Caldwell, Nicola S. Clayton, nitive science, cognitive ecology investi- also explore decision making, with Isabelle Coolen, Scott Dobrin, gates how animal interactions with nat- mechanistic analyses of reproductive Nathan J. Emery, Susan E. ural habitats shape cognitive systems, behavior in voles, escape hatching by Fahrbach, Ira G. Federspiel, and how constraints on nervous systems frog embryos, and predation in the au- limit or bias animal behavior. Research ditory domain of bats and eared insects. Rachel L. Kendal, Mark Kirk- in cognitive ecology has expanded rap- Finally, they consider social cognition, patrick, Kevin N. Laland, Marta idly in the past decade, and this second focusing on alarm calls and the factors B. Manser, Stephen Nowicki, volume builds on the foundations laid determining social learning strategies Alexander G. Ophir, Steven M. out in the first, published in 1998. of corvids, fish, and mammals. Phelps, Vladimir V. Pravosu- Cognitive Ecology II integrates nu- With cognitive ecology ascending dov, Michael J. Ryan, William merous scientific disciplines to analyze to its rightful place in behavioral and A. Searcy, Daniel Sol, and the ecology and evolution of animal evolutionary research, this volume cap- cognition. The contributors cover the tures the promise that has been realized Karen M. Warkentin mechanisms, ecology, and evolution in the past decade and looks forward to of learning and memory, including new research prospects. November 496 p., 45 halftones, detailed analyses of bee neurobiology, 52 line drawings, 5 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-16935-4 Reuven Dukas is associate professor of psychology, neuroscience, and behavior, and a Cloth $100.00x/£69.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-16936-1 member of the Animal Behaviour Group at McMaster University. John M. Ratcliffe is a Paper $40.00s/£27.50 postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Sound Communication at the Institute of Biology of the University of Southern Denmark. SCIENCE

Island Bats “Island Bats will be of great interest Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation to ecologists, biogeographers, conservation biologists in general, Edited by Theodore H. Fleming and Paul A. Racey and bat biologists in particular— especially those interested in the The second largest order of mammals, ine how the earth’s history has affected Chiroptera comprises more than one the evolution of island bats, investigate biology of island faunas. The new thousand species of bats. Because of how bat populations are affected by information presented in this book their mobility, bats are often the only volcanic eruptions and hurricanes, and should stimulate the next genera- native mammals on isolated oceanic is- explore the threat of extinction from tion of bat researchers to increase lands, where more than half of all bat human disturbance. Geographically their efforts to protect and con- species live. These island bats represent diverse, the volume includes studies of serve these threatened faunas.” an evolutionarily distinctive and eco- the islands of the Caribbean, the West- logically significant part of the earth’s ern Indian Ocean, Micronesia, Indone- —Thomas H. Kunz, editor of Bat Ecology biological diversity. sia, the Philippines, and New Zealand.

Island Bats is the first book to focus With its wealth of information from january 592 p., 17 color plates, solely on the evolution, ecology, and long-term studies, Island Bats provides 47 halftones, 49 line drawings, conservation of bats living in the world’s timely and valuable information about 46 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-25330-5 island ecosystems. Among other topics, how this fauna has evolved and how it Cloth $65.00s/£45.00 the contributors to this volume exam- can be conserved. SCIENCE

Theodore H. Fleming is professor emeritus of biology at the University of Miami. Paul A. Racey is the Regius Professor of Natural History in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.

special interest 47 “Witman and Roy’s book could do for Marine Macroecology marine ecology what Macroecol- Edited by Jon D. Witman and Kaustuv Roy ogy did for terrestrial ecology. This represents a nice mix of empirical Pioneered in the late 1980s, the con- Divided into three parts, Marine patterns, reviews of established cept of macroecology—a framework for Macroecology first provides an overview or emerging areas, and theoretical studying ecological communities with a of marine diversity patterns and offers insights.” focus on patterns and processes—revo- case studies of specific habitats and —Jay Stachowicz, lutionized the field. Although this ap- taxonomic groups. In the second part, University of California, Davis proach has been applied mainly to ter- contributors focus on process-based restrial ecosystems, there is increasing explanations for marine ecological pat- October 448 p., 31 halftones, interest in quantifying macroecological terns. The third part presents new ap- 55 line drawings 6 x 9 patterns in the sea and understanding proaches to understanding processes ISBN-13: 978-0-226-90411-5 the processes that generate them. Tak- driving the macroecological patterns in Cloth $95.00x/£65.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-90412-2 ing stock of the current work in the field the sea. Uniting unique insights from Paper $40.00s/£27.50 and advocating a research agenda for different perspectives with the common SCIENCE the decades ahead, Marine Macroecology goal of identifying and understanding draws together insights and approaches large-scale biodiversity patterns, Marine from a diverse group of scientists to Macroecology will inspire the next wave show how marine ecology can benefit of marine ecologists to approach their from the adoption of macroecological research from a macroecological per- approaches. spective.

Jon D. Witman is professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Brown University. Kaustuv Roy is professor in the Section of Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution at the University of California, San Diego.

“Herrera has achieved an impressive Multiplicity in Unity goal with this work. This book will appeal to researchers and graduate Plant Subindividual Variation and Interactions with Animals students looking for new approach- Carlos M. Herrera es to the fields of plant-animal Plants produce a considerable number evolutionary factors involved in plant- interactions, evolutionary ecology, of structures of one kind, like leaves, animal interactions. On one hand, population biology, comparative flowers, fruits, and seeds, and this re- phenotypic variation at the subindi- evolutionary biology, and plant iteration is a quintessential feature of vidual scale has diverse ecological im- physiology.” the body plan of higher plants. But plications for animals that eat plants. —Susan J. Mazer, since not all structures of the same On the other hand, by choosing which University of California, kind produced by a plant are identi- plants to consume, these animals may Santa Barbara cal—for instance, different branches constrain or modify plant ontogenetic on a plant may be male or female, leaf patterns, developmental stability, and Interspecific Interactions sizes in the sun differ from those in the extent to which feasible phenotypic

November 416 p., 15 halftones, the shade, and fruit sizes can vary de- variants are expressed by individuals. 23 line drawings, 19 tables 6 x 9 pending on patterns of physiological An innovative study of the ecology, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-32793-8 allocation among branches—a single morphology, and evolution of modular Cloth $110.00x/£76.00 plant genotype generally produces a ISBN-13: 978-0-226-32794-5 organisms, Multiplicity in Unity address- Paper $40.00s/£27.50 multiplicity of phenotypic versions of es a topic central to our understanding SCIENCE the same organ. of the diversity of life and the ways in Multiplicity in Unity uses this sub- which organisms have coevolved to individual variation to deepen our cope with variable environments. understanding of the ecological and

Carlos M. Herrera is professor of research and an evolutionary ecologist at Estación Biológica de Doñana in Seville, Spain.

48 special interest Lew Daly God’s Economy Faith-Based Initiatives and the Caring State With a Foreword by E. J. Dionne Jr.

resident Obama has signaled a sharp break from many Bush administration policies, but he remains committed to federal Psupport for religious social service providers. Like George W. Bush’s faith-based initiative, though, Obama’s version of the policy has generated loud criticism—from both sides of the aisle—even as the communities that stand to benefit suffer through an ailing economy.

God’s Economy reveals that virtually all of the critics, as well as many “Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, supporters, have long misunderstood both the true implications of and Barack Obama have all supported faith-based partnerships and their unique potential for advancing expanding poverty-fighting partnerships social justice. between religious nonprofit organiza- Unearthing the intellectual history of the faith-based initiative, tions and government agencies. Lew Daly Lew Daly locates its roots in the pluralist tradition of Europe’s Chris- has taken the complicated history and tian democracies, in which the state shares sovereignty with social often divisive discourse concerning such institutions. He argues that Catholic and Dutch Calvinist ideas played faith-based initiatives to a better intel- a crucial role in the evolution of this tradition, as churches across nine- lectual and civic place. Agree or not with teenth-century Europe developed philosophical and legal defenses to all of Daly’s conclusions, this is an engag- protect their education and social programs against ascendant governing, balanced, and timely book: President ments. Tracing the influence of this heritage on the past three decades Obama’s faith-based policy advisors and of American social policy and church-state law, Daly finally untangles all other interested citizens should take the radical beginnings of the faith-based initiative. In the process, he note.” frees it from the narrow culture-war framework that has limited debate —John J. DiIulio Jr., first director, White House Office of on the subject since Bush opened the White House Office of Faith- Faith-Based and Community Initiatives Based and Community Initiatives in 2001.

A major contribution from an important new voice at the intersec- December 304 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-13483-3 tion of religion and politics, God’s Economy points the way toward policy Cloth $37.50s/£26.00 making that combines strong social support with a new moral focus on POLITICAL SCIENCE RELIGION the protection of families and communities.

Lew Daly is a senior fellow at Demos, a nonpartisan public policy research and advocacy organization. He is the author, most recently, of Unjust Deserts.

special interest 49 “Innovative, interesting, and im- Beyond Ideology portant, Beyond Ideology gives us Politics, Principles, and Partisanship in the U.S. Senate rich new insights on an institution Frances E. Lee about which we still know relatively little compared with the House. The congressional agenda includes polarizes legislators who can influence It is a substantial contribution many issues about which liberals and public opinion of the president and his that sheds new light on complex conservatives generally agree. Even over party by how they handle his agenda. relationships and offers engaging these matters, though, Democratic and Senators also exploit good government illustrations drawn from political Republican senators tend to fight with measures and floor debate to embar- each other. What explains this discord? rass opponents and burnish their own interactions on legislation.” Beyond Ideology argues that many parti- party’s image—even when the issues —David W. Rohde, san battles are rooted in competition involved are broadly supported or low- Duke University for power rather than disagreement stakes. Moreover, Frances E. Lee con- over the rightful role of government. tends, the congressional agenda itself December 256 p., 29 line drawings, 24 tables 6 x 9 The first book to systematically amplifies conflict by increasingly focus- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47074-0 distinguish Senate disputes centering ing on issues that reliably differentiate Cloth $66.00x/£45.50 on ideological questions from the large the parties. With the new president ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47076-4 Paper $22.00s/£15.00 proportion of them that do not, this pledging to stem the tide of partisan POLITICAL SCIENCE volume foregrounds the role of power polarization, Beyond Ideology provides a struggle in partisan conflict. Presiden- timely taxonomy of exactly what stands tial leadership, for example, inherently in his way.

Frances E. Lee is associate professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland.

“The Partisan Sort is a very impres- The Partisan Sort sive contribution to a couple of How Liberals Became Democrats and Conservatives highly contested contemporary Became Republicans debates in American politics. Matthew Levendusky Matthew Levendusky offers a compelling explanation of why As Washington elites drifted toward servative factions—liberals today over- American voters increasingly ideological poles over the past few de- whelmingly identify with Democrats, as align themselves with the ‘cor- cades, did ordinary Americans follow conservatives do with Republicans. This rect’ political party—liberals with their lead? In The Partisan Sort, Mat- “sorting,” Levendusky contends, results Democrats and conservatives with thew Levendusky reveals that we have directly from the increasingly polar- responded to this trend—but not, for ized terms in which political leaders Republicans—and fruitfully draws the most part, by becoming more ex- define their parties. Exploring its far- out the potential implications of treme ourselves. While polarization has reaching implications for the American this development.” filtered down to a small minority of vot- political landscape, he demonstrates —Jeff Manza, ers, it also has had the more significant that sorting makes voters more loyally New York University effect of reconfiguring the way we sort partisan, allowing campaigns to focus ourselves into political parties. more attention on mobilizing commit- Chicago Studies in American In a marked realignment since the ted supporters. Ultimately, Levendusky Politics 1970s—when partisan affiliation did concludes, this new link between party December 176 p., 11 line drawings, not depend on ideology and both ma- and ideology represents a sea change in 11 tables 6 x 9 jor parties had strong liberal and con- American politics. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47364-2 Cloth $57.00x/£39.50 Matthew Levendusky ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47365-9 is assistant professor of political science at the University of Paper $19.00s/£13.00 Pennsylvania. POLITICAL SCIENCE

50 special interest Making Rights Real “An elegant study that combines historical, comparative, and at Activists, Bureaucrats, and the Creation of the Legalistic State times even ethnographic learning, Charles R. Epp Making Rights Real reveals how fervor for professionalism and fears It’s a common complaint: the United ity in both the United States and the States is overrun by rules and proce- United Kingdom—Epp explains how of lawsuits together shaped police dures that shackle professional judg- activists and professionals used legal li- policies and practices in the United ment, have no valid purpose, and serve ability, lawsuit-generated publicity, and States and in Britain as well as only to appease courts and lawyers. innovative managerial ideas to pur- responses to sexual harassment Charles R. Epp argues, however, that sue the implementation of new rights. and the safety of playgrounds. It few Americans would want to return to Together, these strategies resulted in will be indispensable for scholars an era without these legalistic policies, frameworks designed to make institu- which in the 1970s helped bring recalci- tions accountable through intricate of the law.” trant bureaucracies in line with a grow- rules, employee training, and mana- —William Haltom, coauthor of Distorting the Law ing national commitment to civil rights gerial oversight. Explaining how these and individual dignity. practices became ubiquitous across bu- Focusing on three disparate policy reaucratic organizations, Epp casts to- Chicago Series in Law and Society areas—workplace sexual harassment, day’s legalistic state in an entirely new December 320 p., 17 line drawings, playground safety, and police brutal- light. 4 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-21164-0 Charles R. Epp is associate professor in the Department of Public Administration at the Cloth $72.00x/£49.50 University of Kansas. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-21165-7 Paper $24.00s/£16.50 LAW POLITICAL SCIENCE

Us Against Them “Learned, historically grounded, and theoretically ambitious. Seldom Ethnocentric Foundations of American Opinion have I read social science this well Donald R. Kinder and Cindy D. Kam written and broadly conceived. The way that Kinder and Kam weave Ethnocentrism—our tendency to par- in previous theories from a wide range together decades of important tition the human world into in-groups of disciplines, establishing a new frame- and out-groups—pervades societies work for understanding what ethnocen- research with their view of ethno- around the world. Surprisingly, though, trism is and how it becomes politically centrism is wonderful.” few scholars have explored its role in po- consequential. They also marshal a vast —Samuel L. Popkin, litical life. Donald R. Kinder and Cindy trove of survey evidence to identify the University of California, D. Kam fill this gap with Us Against conditions under which ethnocentrism San Diego Them, their definitive explanation of shapes public opinion. While ethno- how ethnocentrism shapes American centrism is widespread in the United Chicago Studies in American Politics public opinion. States, the authors demonstrate that its December 400 p., 25 line drawings, Arguing that humans are broadly political relevance depends on circum- 44 tables 6 x 9 stance. Exploring the implications of ISBN-13: 978-0-226-43570-1 predisposed to ethnocentrism, Kinder Cloth $80.00x/£55.00 and Kam explore its impact on our atti- these findings for political knowledge, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-43571-8 tudes toward an array of issues, includ- cosmopolitanism, and societies outside Paper $25.00s/£17.50 ing the war on terror, humanitarian the United States, Kinder and Kam add POLITICAL SCIENCE SOCIOLOGY assistance, immigration, the sanctity of a new dimension to our understanding marriage, and the reform of social proof how democracy functions. grams. The authors ground their study

Donald R. Kinder is the Philip E. Converse Collegiate Professor in the Department of Politi- cal Science and professor of psychology and research professor in the Center for Political Studies of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Cindy D. Kam is associate professor of political science at Vanderbilt University.

special interest 51 Contributors Political Ethnography Jessica Allina-Pisano, Enrique What Immersion Contributes to the Study of Politics Desmond Arias, Myron Arnoff, Edited by Edward Schatz Lorraine Bayard de Volo, Cédric Jourde, Jan Kubik, Scholars of politics have sought in re- addresses the central ontological and Timothy Pachirat, Michael cent years to make the discipline more epistemological issues raised by ethno- hospitable to qualitative methods of graphic work, while the second grap- Schatzberg, Stanford Schram, research. Lauding the results of this ef- ples with the reality that all research Corey Shdaimah, Roland Stahl, fort and highlighting its potential for is conducted from a first-person per- Katherine Cramer Walsh, the future, Political Ethnography makes a spective. The third section goes on to Lisa Wedeen, Elisabeth compelling case for one such method in explore how ethnographic research Jean Wood, Dvora Yanow, and particular. Ethnography, the contribu- can provide fresh perspectives on such Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh tors amply demonstrate in a wide range perennial topics as opinion, causality, of original essays, is uniquely suited for and power. Concluding that political illuminating the study of politics. ethnography can and should play a October 352 p., 5 tables 6 x 9 central role in the field as a whole, the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73676-1 Situating these pieces within the Cloth $87.00x/£60.00 context of developments in political final chapters illuminate the many ways ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73677-8 science, Edward Schatz provides an in which ethnographic approaches can Paper $29.00s/£20.00 overarching introduction and substan- enhance, improve, and, in some areas, POLITICAL SCIENCE tive prefaces to each of the volume’s transform the study of politics. four sections. The first of these parts

Edward Schatz is associate professor of political science at the University of Toronto.

“This book brings good contemporary social science to the public debate about the role of terror in the Democracy at Risk modern democracy. In the natural How Terrorist Threats Affect the Public world, we typically see that people Jennifer L. Merolla and Elizabeth J. Zechmeister who find terrorism threatening will be more likely to support authori- How do threats of terrorism affect who exist outside the societal main- tarian and security-minded poli- the opinions of citizens? Speculation stream. Additionally, voters under cies, but it is hard to say how much abounds, but until now no one had threat tend to prize “strong leadership” of this set of beliefs stems from a marshaled hard evidence to explain the more highly than partisan affiliation, complexities of this relationship. Draw- making some politicians seem more genuine concern about terrorism ing on data from surveys and original charismatic than they otherwise would. rather than personality or political experiments they conducted in the The authors show that a wary public will interests. Merolla and Zechmeis- United States and Mexico, Jennifer L. sometimes continue to empower such ter’s original experiments give real Merolla and Elizabeth J. Zechmeister leaders after they have been elected, purchase on these questions.” demonstrate how our strategies for cop- giving them greater authority even at —Michael MacKuen, ing with terrorist threats significantly the expense of institutional checks and University of North Carolina influence our attitudes toward fellow balances. Having demonstrated that a at Chapel Hill citizens, political leaders, and foreign climate of terrorist threat also increases nations. support for restrictive laws at home and Chicago Studies in American The authors reveal, for example, engagement against terrorists abroad, Politics that some people try to restore a sense Merolla and Zechmeister conclude that October 256 p., 23 line drawings, of order and control through increased our responses to such threats can put 16 tables 6 x 9 wariness of others—especially of those democracy at risk. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-52054-4 Cloth $75.00x/£51.50 Jennifer L. Merolla is the Mary Nicolai–George Blair Assistant Professor in the Department ISBN-13: 978-0-226-52055-1 Paper $25.00s/£17.50 of Politics and Policy at Claremont Graduate University. Elizabeth J. Zechmeister is assistant professor of political science at Vanderbilt University. POLITICAL SCIENCE

52 special interest Terrorism “This is a brilliant book—a rich and insightful theoretical analysis. The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Zulaika presents an in-depth Joseba Zulaika critical and cultural deconstruction of what terrorism means sym- In counterterrorism circles, the stan- Exploring the blind spots of coun- dard response to questions about the terterrorist doctrine, Zulaika takes bolically, how it is used in political possibility of future attacks is a terse readers on a remarkable intellectual discourse, and how it is applied by one-liner worthy of Jack Bauer: “Not journey. He contrasts the psychologi- the U.S. government as a means of if, but when.” This mantra supposedly cal insight of Truman Capote’s In Cold manufacturing consent for violent conveys a realistic approach to the Blood with The 9/11 Commission Report, policies of counterterrorism.” problem, but, as Joseba Zulaika argues plumbs the mindset of terrorists in —Jeffrey Sluka, in Terrorism, it functions as a self-fulfill- works by Oriana Fallaci and Jean Genet, author of Death Squad ing prophecy. By distorting reality to fit maps the continuities between the cold their own worldview, the architects of war and the fight against terrorism, and December 224 p. 6 x 9 the war on terror prompt the behavior analyzes the case of a Basque terror- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-99415-4 they seek to prevent—a twisted logic ist who tried to return to civilian life. Cloth $55.00x/£38.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-99416-1 that has already played out horrifically Zulaika’s argument is powerful, inven- Paper $20.00s/£14.00 in Iraq. In short, Zulaika contends, tive, and rich with insights and ideas CURRENT EVENTS counterterrorism has become pivotal that provide a new and sophisticated POLITICAL SCIENCE in promoting terrorism. perspective on the war on terror.

Joseba Zulaika is professor of Basque studies and codirector of the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is the author or coauthor of many books, including Terror and Taboo: The Follies, Fables, and Faces of Terrorism.

Playing the Fool “Reading this book is a continuous pleasure. Ralph Lerner expounds Subversive Laughter in Troubled Times his chosen texts with genuine skill, Ralph Lerner delicacy, and a rare ear for shadings of tone. His prose is at once accom- The role of the fool is to provoke the As Playing the Fool makes plain, powerful to question their convictions, all these men lived through periods plished and self-effacing, leaving preferably while avoiding a beating. marked by fanaticism, particularly with us with the impression of a second Fools accomplish this not by hectoring regard to religion and its relation to voice on the scene—one of the same their audience, but by broaching sensi- the state. In such a troubled context, family as the authors he comments tive topics indirectly, often disguising advocating on behalf of skepticism and on, all of whom deployed an oblique their message in a joke or a tale. Writers against tyranny could easily lead to cen- style, an ambiguous genre, or a and thinkers throughout history have sure, or even, as in More’s case, execu- adopted the fool’s approach, and here tion. And so, Lerner reveals, these seri- mode of impersonation that resists Ralph Lerner turns to six of them— ous thinkers relied on humor to move the direct disclosure of doctrine, Thomas More, Francis Bacon, Robert their readers toward a more reasoned always for the purpose of insinuat- Burton, Pierre Bayle, Benjamin Frank- understanding of the world and our ing doubts and scruples.” lin, and Edward Gibbon—to elucidate place in it. At once erudite and enter- —David Bromwich, the strategies these men employed to taining, Playing the Fool is an eloquently Yale University persuade the heedless, the zealous, thought-provoking look at the lives and and the overly confident to pause and writings of these masterly authors. November 144 p. 6 x 9 reconsider. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47315-4 Cloth $32.50s/£22.50 Ralph Lerner is the Benjamin Franklin Professor Emeritus in the College and professor POLITICAL SCIENCE emeritus in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the author of four other books, including Maimonides’ Empire of Light, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

special interest 53 “This book is a valuable antidote to Complex Deterrence some of the more glib and prema- Strategy in the Global Age turely pessimistic statements that get circulated about ‘the end of Edited by T. V. Paul, Patrick M. Morgan, and James J. Wirtz deterrence as we know it.’ Quite As the costs of a preemptive foreign pol- rational actors, failed states, religious comprehensive on the theories and icy in Iraq have become clear, strategies zeal, ambiguous power relationships, modes of deterrence, it is valuable such as containment and deterrence and other situations where the tradi- for drawing together both political have been gaining currency among pol- tional rules of statecraft do not apply. scientists and policy makers.” icy makers. This comprehensive book A distinguished group of contributors —George Quester, offers an agenda for the contemporary here examines issues such as deterrence University of Maryland practice of deterrence—especially as it among the Great Powers; the problems applies to nuclear weapons—in an in- of regional and non-state actors; and September 336 p., 1 line drawing, creasingly heterogeneous global and actors armed with chemical, biological, 1 table 6 x 9 political setting. and nuclear weapons. Complex Deter- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-65002-9 Cloth $85.00x/£58.50 Moving beyond the precepts of tra- rence will be a valuable resource for any- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-65003-6 ditional deterrence theory, this ground- one facing the considerable challenge Paper $30.00s/£20.50 breaking volume offers insights for the of fostering security and peace in the POLITICAL SCIENCE use of deterrence in the modern world, twenty-first century. where policy makers may encounter ir-

T. V. Paul is the James McGill Professor of International Relations at McGill University. Patrick M. Morgan is professor of political science and the Tierney Chair in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of California, Irvine. James J. Wirtz is acting dean at the School of International Graduate Studies and professor of national security studies at the Naval Postgraduate School.

“This is a provocative and important Combating Jihadism study of contemporary terrorism and counterterrorism; it is, in many American Hegemony and Interstate Cooperation in the War on Terrorism ways, the best attempt yet to locate these phenomena within general Barak Mendelsohn international-relations theory and Although terrorism is an age-old phe- both enable and constrain the hege- the workings of the international nomenon, jihadist ideology is distinc- mon’s freedom of action. He examines system. Mendelsohn not only pro- tive in its ambition to overthrow the how the presence of a hegemonic state vides a compelling explanation for modern state system, abandon the prin- affects international cooperation, se- variation in the degree of interna- ciple of state sovereignty, and destroy curity, and international relations— the foundations of world order. Barak revealing, for example, why the United tional cooperation against terror- Mendelsohn argues that a crucial ele- States has found greater cooperation ism, but also makes an important ment in responding to such a threat and for the war in Afghanistan than for the contribution to how we theorize winning the war against terror in the war in Iraq. Tracing and explaining the the institutions of international twenty-first century is the hegemon—a varying levels of cooperation that exist society.” powerful state that takes the lead and for suppressing terrorism financing, for —Daniel H. Nexon, generates cooperation among states to preventing non-state actors from ob- Georgetown University fight jihad. taining weapons of mass destruction, While most analyses of hegemony and for offering military support to October 272 p., 1 table 6 x 9 have focused on power, Mendelsohn U.S. hegemony, Combating Jihadism pro- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-52011-7 firmly grounds the phenomenon in vides a nuanced understanding of the Cloth $45.00s/£31.00 a web of shared norms and rules that interaction between norms and power. POLITICAL SCIENCE Barak Mendelsohn is assistant professor of political science at Haverford College.

54 special interest The Wealth and Poverty of Regions “This is one of the most original books in the subject area that Why Cities Matter I have read in forty years. It is Mario Polèse remarkable in the way it combines depth and breadth, all presented As the world becomes more intercon- in minor advantages that accumulate nected through travel and electronic over time, resulting in reduced prices, in a jargon-free, almost conversa- communication, many believe that improved transportation networks, in- tional style.” physical places will become less impor- creased diversity, and, not least of all, —Sir Peter Hall, tant. But as Mario Polèse argues in The “buzz”—the excitement and vitality that Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, Wealth and Poverty of Regions, geography attracts ambitious people. The Wealth University College London will matter more than ever before in a and Poverty of Regions maps out how a world where distance is allegedly dead. heady mix of size, infrastructure, prox- January 256 p., 2 halftones, This provocative book surveys the imity, and cost will determine which 23 line drawings, 3 tables 6 x 9 globe, from London and Cape Town to urban centers become the thriving ISBN-13: 978-0-226-67315-8 New York and Beijing, contending that metropolises of the future, and which Cloth $45.00s/£31.00 regions rise—or fall—due to their loca- become the deserted cities of the past. ECONOMICS CURRENT EVENTS tion, not only within nations but also Engagingly written, the book provides on the world map. Polèse reveals how insight on the past, present, and future concentrations of industries and popu- of regions. lations in specific locales often result

Mario Polèse holds the Senior Canada Research Chair in Urban and Regional Studies and is professor at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique in Montreal. He is coauthor of, most recently, Connecting Cities with Macroeconomic Concerns.

Making the Grade “Making the Grade is an important contribution to the study of the The Economic Evolution of American School Districts political economy of public educa- William A. Fischel tion, drawing on an eclectic body of evidence ranging from anecdotes A significant factor for many people munities attractive to outsiders. The deciding where to live is the quality of result has been a standardized, inter- to survey data to maps from Google the local school district, with superior changeable system of education not Earth. Fischel has an unusually schools creating a price premium for overly demanding for either students engaging prose style, and I am con- housing. The result is a “race to the or teachers, one that involved parents fident that the book will be widely top,” as all school districts attempt to and local voters in its governance and read and discussed by economists improve their performance in order finance. Innovative in its focus on bot- and political scientists with an to attract homebuyers. Given the im- tom-up processes generated by individ- portance of school districts to the daily ual behaviors rather than top-down de- interest in education policy.” lives of children and families, it is sur- cisions by bureaucrats, Making the Grade —Martin West, Brown University prising that their evolution has not re- provides a new perspective on educa- ceived much attention. tion reform that emphasizes how public November 288 p., 1 halftone, In this provocative book, William schools form the basis for the localized 12 line drawings, 10 tables 6 x 9 A. Fischel argues that the historical social capital in American towns and ISBN-13: 978-0-226-25130-1 development of school districts reflects cities. Cloth $55.00s/£38.00 Americans’ desire to make their com- ECONOMICS EDUCATION

William A. Fischel is professor of economics at Dartmouth College. He is the author of The Homeowner Hypothesis: How Home Values Influence Local Government Taxation, School Finance, and Land-Use Policies.

special interest 55 “This heartbreakingly beautiful book Justice for Girls? troubles the terrain, unforgettably Stability and Change in the Youth Justice Systems of the challenging our stereotypes of United States and Canada ‘bad girls’ who become delinquent. Jane B. Sprott and Anthony N. Doob Sprott and Doob persuasively make With a Foreword by Franklin E. Zimring the case that the justice system treats girls differently, and that the For over a century, as women have Tackling a century of historical evi- treatment—for those who enter the fought for and won greater freedoms, dence and crime statistics, Jane B. Sprott system—is unfair, damaging, and concern over an epidemic of female and Anthony N. Doob carefully trace unsuccessful. But they also present criminality, especially among young the evolution of approaches to the treat- women, has followed. Fear of this crime ment of young offenders. Seeking to keep a remarkably hopeful constellation wave—despite a persistent lack of evi- youths out of adult courts, both countries of opportunities to do less harm.” dence of its existence—has played a have built their systems around rehabili- —Bernadine Dohrn, decisive role in the development of tation. But, as Sprott and Doob reveal, Northwestern University the youth justice systems in the United the myth of the “girl crime wave” led to School of Law States and Canada. Justice for Girls? is a a punitive system where young people are Adolescent Development and comprehensive comparative study of the dragged into court for minor offenses Legal Policy way these countries have responded to and girls are punished far more severely the hysteria over “girl crime” and how it than boys. Thorough, timely, and persua- November 224 p., 86 line drawings, has affected the treatment of both girls sive, Justice for Girls? will be vital to anyone 14 tables 6 x 9 and boys. working with troubled youths. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77004-8 Cloth $37.50s/£26.00 Jane B. Sprott is associate professor of criminal justice and criminology at Ryerson law University. Anthony N. Doob is professor at the Centre of Criminology at the University of Toronto and coauthor of Responding to Youth Crime in Canada.

The Likeness of the King A Prehistory of Portraiture in Late Medieval France Stephen Perkinson

Anyone who has strolled through the the Valois court of France, he argues halls of a museum knows that portraits that local practice prompted shifts in occupy a central place in the history of the late medieval understanding of how art. But did portraits, as such, exist in images could represent individuals and the medieval era? The Likeness of the King prompted artists and patrons to deploy challenges the canonical account of the likeness in a variety of ways. Through invention of modern portrait practices, an examination of well-known images offering a case against the tendency of of the fourteenth- and early fifteenth- recent scholarship to identify late medi- century kings of France, as well as largely eval likenesses of historical personages overlooked objects such as wax votive as “the first modern portraits.” figures and royal seals, Perkinson dem- Unwilling to accept the anachro- onstrates that the changes evident in October 400 p., 96 halftones 6 x 9 nistic nature of these claims, Stephen these images do not constitute a revolu- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-65879-7 Perkinson both resists and complicates tionary break with the past, but instead Cloth $55.00s/£38.00 grand narratives of portraiture art that were continuous with late medieval rep- ART ignore historical context. Focusing on resentational traditions.

Stephen Perkinson is associate professor of art history at Bowdoin College.

56 special interest The Classrooms All Young Children Need “A book focusing on how Vivian Paley’s pedagogical approach has Lessons in Teaching from Vivian Paley informed her practice as a teacher Patricia M. Cooper is long overdue and sorely needed. Now we have Cooper’s book, which Teacher and author Vivian Paley is characteristics of her teaching philoso- is a real pleasure to read and will highly regarded by parents, educators, phy. This careful analysis leads Coo- and other professionals for her original per to identify a pedagogical model benefit a wide range of readers, insights into such seemingly everyday organized around two complementary especially educators dissatisfied issues as play, story, gender, and how principles: a curriculum that promotes with the current overemphasis on young children think. She is also rec- play and imagination, and the idea of teaching young children specific ognized for exposing racism and exclu- classrooms as fair places where young academic skills.” sion in the early childhood classroom. children of every color, ability, and —Ageliki Nicolopoulou, Surprisingly, until now no one has at- disposition are welcome. With timely Lehigh University tempted a comprehensive analysis of attention paid to debates about the

Paley’s work. reduction in time for play in the early October 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 In The Classrooms All Young Children childhood classroom, the role of race ISBN-13: 978-0-226-11523-8 Need, Patricia M. Cooper takes a synop- in education, and No Child Left Be- Cloth $29.00s/£20.00 tic view of Paley’s many books and ar- hind, The Classrooms All Young Children EDUCATION ticles, charting the evolution of Paley’s Need will be embraced by anyone tasked thinking while revealing the seminal with teaching our youngest pupils.

Patricia M. Cooper is assistant professor of language and literacy at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Education and the author of When Stories Come to School: Telling, Writing, and Performing Stories in the Early Childhood Classroom.

Producing Success “Producing Success tells a very good story, highlighting matters that are The Culture of Personal Advancement in an American of both current and perennial con- High School cern. Demerath’s book should lead Peter Demerath to interesting discussions about the stresses of academic meritocracy in Middle- and upper-middle-class stu- ethic and employ various strategies to dents continue to outpace those from succeed, from negotiating with teach- America. It is a distinguished addi- less privileged backgrounds. Most aters to cheating; parents relentlessly tion to the literature on American tempts to redress this inequality focus push their children while manipulating high schools.” on the issue of access to financial re- school policies to help them get ahead; —Hervé Varenne, sources, but, as Producing Success makes and administrators aid high perform- Teachers College, clear, the problem goes beyond mere ers in myriad ways, even naming over Columbia University economics. In this eye-opening study, forty students “valedictorians.” Yet, as December 208 p., 9 halftones, Peter Demerath examines a typical sub- Demerath shows, this unswerving com- 1 line drawing 6 x 9 urban American high school to explain mitment to individual advancement ISBN-13: 978-0-226-14239-5 how some students get ahead. takes its toll, leading to student stress Cloth $55.00x/£38.00 and fatigue, incivility and vandalism, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-14241-8 Demerath undertook four years of Paper $22.00s/£15.00 research at a midwestern high school to and the alienation of the less success- EDUCATION examine the mercilessly competitive cul- ful. Insightful and candid, Producing ture that drives students to advance. Pro- Success is an often troubling account of ducing Success reveals the many ways the the educationally and morally question- community’s ideology of achievement able results of the American culture of plays out: students hone their work success.

Peter Demerath is associate professor in the Department of Educational Policy and Administration at the University of Minnesota.

special interest 57 “Rebell has a brilliant legal mind Courts and Kids and a tremendous heart for children, particularly those who Pursuing Educational Equity through the State Courts Michael A. Rebell have been poorly served by public education. He challenges all of us Over the past thirty-five years, federal access to a sound education. While to think differently, and to do so courts have dramatically retreated from the plaintiffs have won in the majority with a sense of urgency, because actively promoting school desegrega- of these cases, the decisions are often our children cannot wait.” tion. In the meantime, state courts have branded “judicial activism,” a stigma —Arne Duncan, taken up the mantle of promoting the that has reduced their impact. To coun- Secretary of Education vision of educational equity originally ter the charge, Michael A. Rebell per- articulated in Brown v. Board of Educa- suasively defends the courts’ authority November 176 p. 6 x 9 tion. Courts and Kids is the first detailed and responsibility to pursue the goal ISBN-13: 978-0-226-70619-1 analysis of why the state courts have of educational equity. He envisions Cloth $35.00s/£24.00 taken on this active role and how suc- their ideal role as supervisory, and in law education cessful their efforts have been. Courts and Kids he offers innovative rec- Since 1973, litigants have chal- ommendations on how the courts can lenged the constitutionality of educa- collaborate with the executive and leg- tion finance systems in forty-five states islative branches to create a truly demo- on the grounds that they deprive many cratic educational system. poor and minority students of adequate

Michael A. Rebell is executive director of the Campaign for Education Equity, executive director of the National Access Network, professor of law and educational practice at Teachers College, Columbia University, and adjunct professor of law at Columbia Law School. He is the author or coauthor of many books, including Moving Every Child Ahead: From NCLB Hype to Meaningful Educational Opportunity.

“This book will advance everyone’s Organizing Schools for Improvement thinking about key ideas in school improvement. I was excited by the Lessons from Chicago authors’ willingness to go beyond Anthony S. Bryk, Penny Bender Sebring, Elaine Allensworth, descriptive facts to find out what Stuart Luppescu, and John Q. Easton specifically distinguishes two dif- In 1988 the Chicago public school sys- of practices and conditions that were ferent student bodies with similar tem decentralized, granting parents key factors for improvement, includ- demographics. What is so important and communities significant resources ing school leadership, the professional about this book is that it figures out and authority to reform their schools in capacity of the faculty and staff, and a and describes in various ways the dramatic ways. To track the effects of student-centered learning climate. In vital role social capital plays both this bold experiment, the authors of Or- addition, they analyze the impact of so- ganizing Schools for Improvement collected cial dynamics, including crime, critical- inside and outside school.” a wealth of data on elementary schools ly examining the inextricable link be- —Ellen Guiney, in Chicago. They identified one hun- tween schools and their communities. director of the Boston Plan for Excellence dred elementary schools that had sub- Putting their data onto a more human stantially improved, and one hundred scale, they also chronicle the stories of

December 304 p., 72 line drawings, that had not, over a seven-year period. two neighboring schools with very dif- 11 tables 6 x 9 What had the successful schools done ferent trajectories. The lessons gleaned ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07799-4 to accelerate student learning? from this groundbreaking study will be Cloth $70.00x/£48.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07800-7 The authors of this illuminat- invaluable for anyone involved with ur- Paper $28.00s/£19.50 ing book identify a comprehensive set ban education. education Anthony S. Bryk is president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teach- ing. Penny Bender Sebring is founding codirector of the Consortium on Chicago School Research (CCSR) at the Urban Education Institute at the University of Chicago. Elaine Allensworth is codirector for statistical analysis at CCSR. Stuart Luppescu is chief psycho- metrician at CCSR. John Q. Easton is executive director of CCSR. 58 special interest Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann Arcimboldo Visual Jokes, Natural History, and Still-Life Painting

n Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s most famous paintings, grapes, fish, and even the beaks of birds form human hair. A pear stands I in for a man’s chin. Citrus fruits sprout from a tree trunk that doubles as a neck. All sorts of natural phenomena come together on canvas and panel to assemble the strange heads and faces that constitute one of Renaissance art’s most striking oeuvres. The first major Praise for Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann study in a generation of the artist behind these remarkable paintings, Arcimboldo tells the singular story of their creation. “Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann’s careful, Drawing on his thirty-five-year engagement with the artist, Thomas steady-going, and well-researched study DaCosta Kaufmann begins with an overview of Arcimboldo’s life and . . . is a very good guide to one of the high work, exploring the artist’s early years in sixteenth-century Lombardy, cultural moments of central Europe.” —New York Times, his grounding in Leonardesque traditions, and his tenure as a Hab- on The School of Prague sburg court portraitist in Vienna and Prague. Arcimboldo then trains its focus on the celebrated composite heads, approaching them as visual “Kaufmann’s book . . . reveals possible jokes with serious underpinnings—images that poetically display picto- steps along pathways whose pursuit may rial wit while conveying an allegorical message. In addition to probing transform future ways of seeing.” the humanistic, literary, and philosophical dimensions of these pieces, —Geographical Reviews, on Toward a Geography of Art Kaufmann explains that they embody their creator’s continuous engagement with nature painting and natural history. He reveals, in fact, that Arcimboldo painted many more nature studies than scholars have December 288 p., 39 color plates, 43 halftones, 1 table 81/2 x 11 realized—a finding that significantly deepens current interpretations ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42686-0 of the composite heads. Cloth $65.00s/£45.00 ART Demonstrating the previously overlooked importance of these works to natural history and still-life painting, Arcimboldo finally restores the artist’s fantastic visual jokes to their rightful place in the history of both science and art.

Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann is the Frederick Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. His many books include Toward a Geogra- phy of Art, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

special interest 59 The Great Image Has No Form, or On the Nonobject through Painting François Jullien Translated by Jane Marie Todd

In premodern China, elite painters this perspective with the Western no- used imagery not to mirror the world tion of art as separate from the world it around them, but to evoke unfathom- represents, Jullien investigates the the-

FALL COLORS IN QUEHUA, ZHAO BY MENGFU (1254–1322). MUSEUM OF THE TAIPEI PALACE. able experience. Considering their art oretical conditions that allow us to ap- alongside the philosophical traditions prehend, isolate, and abstract objects. October 272 p., 7 color plates 6 x 9 that inform it, The Great Image Has No His comparative method lays bare the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41530-7 Cloth $48.00s/£33.00 Form explores the “nonobject”—a no- assumptions of Chinese and European ART PHILOSOPHY tion exemplified by paintings that do thought, revitalizing the questions of not seek to represent observable sur- what painting is, where it comes from, roundings. and what it does. Provocative and intel- François Jullien argues that this lectually vigorous, this sweeping inquiry nonobjectifying approach stems from introduces new ways of thinking about the painters’ deeply held belief in a the relationship of art to the ideas in continuum of existence, in which art which it is rooted. is not distinct from reality. Contrasting

François Jullien is professor of Chinese philosophy and literature at the University of Paris VII and director of the Institut Marcel Granet. Jane Marie Todd has translated many books for the University of Chicago Press, including The Forbidden Image, by Alain Besançon, and Conversations with Picasso, by Brassaï.

What Is Contemporary Art? “What is Contemporary Art? far Terry Smith surpasses other books that have sought to grapple with the ques- Who gets to say what counts as contem- ent kind of practice: one that builds on porary art? Artists, critics, curators, local concerns and tackles questions tion. Terry Smith’s voice is strong gallerists, auctioneers, collectors, or of identity, history, and globalization. and convincing, his arguments are the public? Revealing how all of these A younger generation embodies yet a clear yet subtle, and his descrip- groups have shaped today’s multifac- third approach to contemporaneity by tions of the many biennials and eted definition, Terry Smith brilliantly investigating time, place, mediation, artworks he addresses are invalu- shows that a historical approach offers and ethics through small-scale, closely able. Particularly fascinating are the best answer to the question: What Is connective art making. Inviting read- Contemporary Art? ers into these diverse yet overlapping his insights on the role of the art Smith argues that the most rec- art worlds, Smith offers a behind-the- market in the crystallization of ognizable kind is characterized by scenes introduction to the institutions, contemporary art.” a return to mainstream modernism the personalities, the biennials, and of —Alexander Alberro, in the work of such artists as Richard course the works that together are de- Columbia University Serra and Gerhard Richter, as well as fining the contemporary. The resulting the retro-sensationalism of figures like map of where art is now illuminates not October 304 p., 75 halftones 6 x 9 only where it has been but also where it ISBN-13: 978-0-226-76430-6 Damien Hirst and Takashi Murakami. Cloth $68.00x/£47.00 At the same time, Smith reveals, post- is going. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-76431-3 colonial artists are engaged in a differ- Paper $25.00s/£17.50 ART Terry Smith is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Pittsburgh. His many books include The Architecture of Aftermath, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

60 special interest Socrates and the Fat Rabbis “It is a brilliant and novel move to put the Talmud next to Lucian. Daniel Boyarin Boyarin brings together here some very hot topics: cultural difference, What kind of literature is the Talmud? onstrates, through multiple close read- To answer this question, Daniel Boyarin ings, that the give-and-take in these cultural regulation, and the spe- looks to an unlikely source: the dia- texts is actually monologic in spirit. At cific interface between Jewish and logues of Plato. In these ancient texts he the same time, he shows that there are Greco-Roman culture. Socrates and finds similarities, both in their unique other elements that manifest genuine the Fat Rabbis is a book with intel- combination of various genres and top- dialogicality. Boyarin ultimately singles lectual range and ambition. And it ics and in their dialogic structure. But out Menippean satire as the most im- is fun—as the title promises.” Boyarin goes beyond the typological portant genre with which to understand parallelism between the texts, arguing both the Talmud and Plato, pointing —Simon Goldhill, King’s College, also for a cultural relationship. out their seriocomic peculiarity. University of Cambridge In Socrates and the Fat Rabbis, Bo- An innovative contribution to rab- yarin suggests that these dialogues binic studies, Socrates and the Fat Rabbis December 384 p., 1 halftone 6 x 9 are not dialogic at all. Using Michael makes a major contribution to scholar- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06916-6 Bakhtin’s notion of represented dia- ship on the discursive and cultural prac- Cloth $45.00s/£31.00 logue and real dialogism, Boyarin dem- tices of the ancient Mediterranean. RELIGION PHILOSOPHY

Daniel Boyarin is professor of Talmudic culture and holds the Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Chair in the departments of Near Eastern studies and rhetoric at the Univer- sity of California, Berkeley. He is the author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of more than a dozen books, including, most recently, Border Lines: The Partition of Judeo-Christianity.

The Unconverted Self “This is an ambitious and intriguing Jews, Indians, and the Identity of Christian Europe attempt to trace the ongoing processes of European self-definition Jonathan Boyarin from the relationship to Jews in the later Middle Ages to the encounter Europe’s formative encounter with its questions of difference inside Christian “others” is still widely assumed to have Europe not only are inseparable from with New World peoples in the come with its discovery of the peoples the painful legacy of colonialism but early modern period.” of the New World. But, as Jonathan Bo- also reveal Christian domination to be —Barbara Fuchs, yarin argues, long before 1492, Chris- a fragile construct. Boyarin compares University of Pennsylvania tian Europe imagined itself in distinc- the Christian efforts aimed toward tion to the Jewish difference within. European Jews and toward indigenous December 192 p. 6 x 9 The presence and image of Jews in peoples of the New World, bringing ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06919-7 Cloth $32.50s/£22.50 Europe afforded the Christian major- into focus the intersection of colonial ity a foil against which it could refine expansion with the Inquisition and RELIGION and maintain its own identity. In funda- adding significant nuance to the entire mental ways this experience, along with question of the colonial encounter. the ongoing contest between Christian- Revealing the crucial tension be- ity and Islam, shaped the rhetoric, atti- tween the Jews as “others within” and tudes, and policies of Christian coloniz- the Indians as “others without,” The Un- ers in the New World. converted Self is a major reassessment of The Unconverted Self proposes that early modern European identity.

Jonathan Boyarin is the Leonard and Tobee Kaplan Distinguished Professor of Modern Jewish Thought in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with adjunct appointments in the departments of anthropology and communications. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of a dozen books, including Thinking in Jewish¸ also published by the University of Chicago Press.

special interest 61 Sinister Yogis David Gordon White

Since the 1960s, yoga has become a ners. Combing through millennia of billion-dollar industry in the West, at- South Asia’s vast and diverse literature, tracting housewives and hipsters, New he discovers that yogis are usually por- Agers and the old aged. Marketed as a trayed as wonder-workers or sorcerers clear path to self-realization, mind ex- who use their dangerous supernatural pansion, and taut abs, yoga is also per- abilities—which can include raising the ceived as an ancient and unchanging dead, possession, and levitation—to ac- Indian tradition based on the revela- quire power, money, and sexual grati- tions of benign and limber sages. But fication. As White shows, even those this modern conception of yoga derives yogis who aren’t downright villainous from nineteenth-century European bear little resemblance to Western as- spirituality, Sinister Yogis reveals, and sumptions about them. By turns rollick- November 336 p., 24 halftones 6 x 9 the true story of yoga’s origins in South ing and sophisticated, Sinister Yogis tears ISBN-13: 978-0-226-89513-0 Asia is far richer, stranger, and much down the image of yogis as detached, Cloth $40.00s/£27.50 more entertaining. contemplative teachers, finally placing RELIGION To uncover this history, David Gor- them in their proper context. don White focuses on yoga’s practitio-

David Gordon White is professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of several books, including The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India and Kiss of the Yogini: “Tantric Sex” in its South Asian Contexts.

“At last, after 165 years, a transla- Introduction to the History of tion of Eugène Burnouf’s magnum opus! Katia Buffetrille and Donald Indian Buddhism Lopez make available to English Eugène Burnouf readers a work from the infancy of Translated by Katia Buffetrille and Donald S. Lopez Jr. Buddhist scholarship and enable us The most influential work on Bud- Reemerging here as a vibrant artifact of to discover its remarkable preco- dhism to be published in the nine- intellectual history and as a progenitor ciousness, and how much we still teenth century, Introduction à l’histoire du of the often colorful genealogy of Bud- have to learn from it.” Buddhisme indien, by the great French dhist studies, Introduction to the History of —John Strong, scholar of Sanskrit Eugène Burnouf, Indian Buddhism provides a clear view of Bates College set the course for the academic study how the religion was understood in the of Buddhism, and Indian Buddhism in early decades of the nineteenth centu- Buddhism and Modernity particular, for the next hundred years. ry. Burnouf was an impeccable scholar, First published in 1844, the masterwork and his vision, especially of the Bud- December 624 p. 6 x 9 was read by some of the most important dha, continues to profoundly shape our ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08123-6 Cloth $65.00s/£45.00 thinkers of the time, including Scho- modern understanding of Buddhism. penhauer and Nietzsche in Germany Indeed, the work offers a wellspring of RELIGION ASIAN STUDIES and Emerson and Thoreau in America. still-valuable information and insight But a century and a half on, Burnouf’s into the theory and practice of Bud- text has largely been forgotten. dhism. In reintroducing Burnouf to a All that changes with Katia Buf- new generation of Buddhologists, Buf- fetrille and Donald S. Lopez Jr.’s English fetrille and Lopez have revived a semi- translation of this foundational text. nal text in the history of Orientalism.

Katia Buffetrille is a research scholar at the École pratique des hautes études. She is the author or coeditor of several books. Donald S. Lopez Jr. is the Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies in the Department of Asian Lan- guages and Cultures at the University of Michigan. He is the author or editor of many books, including, most recently, Buddhism and Science: A Guide for the Perplexed and In the Forest of Faded Wisdom: 104 Poems by Gendun Chopel, a Bilingual Edition, both published by the 62 special interest University of Chicago Press. The Promise of Salvation “Riesebrodt aims at nothing less than a self-contained theory of reli- A Theory of Religion gion. This erudite scholar achieves Martin Riesebrodt his goal to ‘cognitively structure, Translated by Steven Rendall understand, and explain’ the Why has religion persisted across the amining religious holidays, conversion jumble of religious experience with course of human history? Secularists stories, prophetic visions, and life-cycle fascinating theoretical aplomb.” have predicted the end of faith for a events. In analyzing these practices, —Friedrich Wilhelm Graf, long time, but religions continue to his scope is appropriately broad, tak- author of The Return of the Gods, attract followers. Meanwhile, scholars ing into consideration traditions in Ju- on the German edition of religion have expanded their field daism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, to such an extent that we lack a basic Daoism, and Shinto. Ultimately, Riese- January 256 p. 6 x 9 framework for making sense of the cha- brodt argues, all religions promise to ISBN-13: 978-0-226-71391-5 os of religious phenomena. To remedy avert misfortune, help their followers Cloth $37.50s/£26.00 this state of affairs, Martin Riesebrodt manage crises, and bring both tempo- RELIGION here undertakes a task that is at once rary blessings and eternal salvation. simple and monumental: to define, un- And, as The Promise of Salvation makes derstand, and explain religion as a uni- clear through abundant empirical evi- versal concept. dence, religion will not disappear as Instead of propounding abstract long as these promises continue to help theories, Riesebrodt concentrates on people cope with life. the concrete realities of worship, ex-

Martin Riesebrodt is professor of sociology at the University of Chicago and the author of several books, including Pious Passion: The Emergence of Modern Fundamentalism in the United States and Iran. Steven Rendall has translated numerous books, including On Borrowed Time: The Art and Economy of Living with Deadlines by Harald Weinrich, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Rhetoric, Modality, Modernity “In Rhetoric, Modality, Modernity, Nancy Struever shapes over a Nancy S. Struever decade of methodological reflec- Since antiquity, philosophy and rheto- tive readings of Hobbes and Vico allow tion on Hobbes, Vico, Peirce, and ric have traditionally been cast as ri- her to reexamine rhetoric’s role in the Heidegger into a bold historical vals, with the former often lauded as a history of modernity and to make fas- argument that will find resonance search for logical truth and the latter cinating connections between thinkers with anyone interested in the limits usually disparaged as empty speech. from the classical, early modern, and of philosophy and our most basic But in this erudite intellectual history, modern periods. From there she turns modes of being. When I am asked Nancy S. Struever stakes out a claim for to Walter Benjamin, reclaiming him as rhetoric as the more productive form of an exemplar of modernist rhetoric and a to recommend the best new books inquiry. central figure in the long history of the in the history and theory of rheto- Struever views rhetoric through the form. Persuasive and perceptive, Rheto- ric, I will now name this one first.” lens of modality, arguing that rhetoric’s ric, Modality, Modernity is a novel rewrit- —Daniel M. Gross, guiding interest in what is possible—as ing of the history of rhetoric and a heady University of California, Irvine opposed to philosophy’s concern with examination of the motives, issues, and what is necessary—makes it an ideal flaws of contemporary inquiry. November 176 p. 6 x 9 tool for understanding politics. Innova- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77748-1 Cloth $35.00s/£24.00

Nancy S. Struever is professor emerita in the Department of History and the Humanities PHILOSOPHY Center at the Johns Hopkins University. Her most recent book is The History of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of History.

special interest 63 Glenda Dawn Goss Sibelius A Composer’s Life and the Awakening of Finland

ne of the twentieth century’s greatest composers, Jean Sibel- ius (1865–1957) virtually stopped writing music during the Olast thirty years of his life. Recasting his mysterious musical silence and his undeniably influential life against the backdrop of Finland’s national awakening, Sibelius will be the definitive biography of this creative legend for many years to come. Glenda Dawn Goss begins her sweeping narrative in the Finland of Sibelius’s youth, which remained under Russian control for the first “Until now, classical music listeners have five decades of his life. Focusing on previously unexamined events, not had an adequate context in which to Goss explores the composer’s formative experiences as a Russian sub- place Sibelius’s well-known and much- ject and a member of the Swedish-speaking Finnish minority. She goes performed works. With Sibelius, Glenda on to trace Sibelius’s relationships with his creative contemporaries, Goss treats us to a panoramic view of with whom he worked to usher in a golden age of music and art that the relevant Finnish background. This is would endow Finns with a sense of pride in their heritage and encour- idiosyncratic music from an idiosyncratic age their hopes for the possibilities of nationhood. Skillfully evoking place, and Goss provides a generous this artistic climate—in which Sibelius emerged as a leader—Goss cre- overview of both. Unabashedly interpre- ates a dazzling portrait of the painting, sculpture, literature, and music tive, this is a comprehensive and compel- it inspired. To solve the deepest riddles of Sibelius’s life, work, and ling look at a major composer and the enigmatic silence, Goss contends, we must understand the awakening culture he both influenced and drew upon. in which he played so great a role. Essential reading for all Sibelians.” Situating this national creative tide in the context of Nordic and —James Hepokoski, Yale University European cultural currents, Sibelius dramatically deepens our knowledge of a misunderstood musical giant and an important chapter in December 496 p., 8 color plates, the intellectual history of Europe. 36 halftones, 47 musical examples 7 x 10 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30477-9 Cloth $55.00s/£38.00 Glenda Dawn Goss is the former editor-in-chief of the Jean Sibelius Critical Edi- MUSIC BIOGRAPHY tion and teaches at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.

64 special interest A Nation of Speechifiers “The peoples of the early Ameri- can republic were engaged in an Making an American Public after the Revolution epochal struggle over who could Carolyn Eastman claim public citizenship. In a wide- ranging analysis, Carolyn Eastman In the decades after the American and speakers. Eastman paints vibrant provides a careful reading of this Revolution, inhabitants of the United portraits of the arenas where this en- States began to shape a new national gagement played out, from the schools contest on the boundaries of the identity. Telling the story of this messy that instructed children in elocution to public sphere, describing the ways yet formative process, Carolyn Eastman the debating societies, newspapers, and in which traditionally excluded argues that ordinary men and women presses through which different groups Americans were moving into public gave meaning to American nationhood jostled to define themselves—some- space and claiming the title of citi- and national belonging by first learn- times against each other. Demonstrat- zen. A Nation of Speechifiers will be ing to imagine themselves as members ing the previously unrecognized extent of a shared public. to which nonelites participated in the an important book.” She reveals that the creation of this formation of our ideas about politics, —John L. Brooke, Ohio State University American public—which only gradually manners, and gender and race rela- developed nationalistic qualities—took tions, A Nation of Speechifiersprovides an December 304 p., 20 halftones 6 x 9 place as men and women engaged with unparalleled genealogy of early Ameri- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-18019-9 oratory and print media not only as can identity. Cloth $37.50s/£26.00 readers and listeners but also as writers AMERICAN HISTORY Carolyn Eastman is assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

The Italian Way Food and Social Life Douglas Harper and Patrizia Faccioli

Outside of Italy, the country’s culture The authors interview and observe these and its food appear to be essentially families as they go shopping for ingre- synonymous. And indeed, as The Italian dients, cook together, and argue over Way makes clear, preparing, cooking, who has to wash the dishes. Through- and eating food play a central role in out, the authors elucidate the guiding the daily activities of Italians from all principle of the Italian table—a deli- walks of life. In this beautifully illustrat- cate balance between the structure of ed book, Douglas Harper and Patrizia tradition and the joy of improvisation. Faccioli present a fascinating and color- With its bite-sized history of food in It- ful look at the Italian table. aly, including the five-hundred-year-old September 352 p., 160 halftones The Italian Way focuses on two story of the country’s cookbooks, and 7 x 10 dozen families in the city of Bologna, Harper’s mouth-watering photographs, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31724-3 elegantly weaving together Harper’s The Italian Way is a rich repast—insight- Cloth $29.00s/£20.00 outsider perspective with Faccioli’s in- ful, informative, and inviting. cooking timate knowledge of the local customs.

Douglas Harper is professor of sociology at Duquesne University; this is his fifth work of visual ethnography published by the University of Chicago Press. Patrizia Faccioli is associate professor of sociology at the University of Bologna and the author or editor of seven books in Italian.

special interest 65 “A Neighborhood That Never A Neighborhood That Never Changes Changes offers a sophisticated reinvention of the classic com- Gentrification, Social Preservation, and the Search for Authenticity munity study by emphasizing how Japonica Brown-Saracino local residents interpret contemporary economic and political forces Newcomers to older neighborhoods are The new breed of gentrifiers, through the lens of culture and the usually perceived as destructive, tearing Brown-Saracino finds, exhibits an acute imagination of authenticity. Brown- down everything that made the place self-consciousness about their role in the Saracino’s intellectually ambitious special and attractive. But as A Neighbor- process and works to minimize gentrifi- and entertaining book adds to the hood That Never Changes demonstrates, cation’s risks for certain longtime resi- burgeoning literature on gentrifi- many gentrifiers seek to preserve the au- dents. In an era of rapid change, they cation by slicing through some of thentic local flavor of their new homes, cherish the unique and fragile, whether rather than ruthlessly remake them. a dilapidated house, a two-hundred-year- the assumptions of the field with Drawing on ethnographic research in old landscape, or the presence of people empirical rigor.” four distinct communities—the Chica- deeply rooted in the place they live. Con- —David Grazian, go neighborhoods of Andersonville and testing many long-standing assumptions University of Pennsylvania Argyle and the New England towns of about gentrification, Brown-Saracino’s Provincetown and Dresden—Japonica absorbing study reveals the unexpected Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries Brown-Saracino paints a colorful por- ways beliefs about authenticity, place, November 368 p., 22 halftones, trait of how residents new and old, from and change play out in the social, politi- 3 maps, 10 tables 6 x 9 wealthy gay homeowners to Portuguese cal, and economic lives of very different ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07662-1 Cloth $90.00x/£62.00 fishermen, think about gentrification. neighborhoods. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07663-8 Paper $30.00s/£20.50 Japonica Brown-Saracino is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and a faculty fellow in the Center for Urban Research and Learning at Loyola University Chicago. SOCIOLOGY

Enabling Creative Chaos The Organization Behind the Burning Man Event Katherine K. Chen

Last summer, nearly fifty thousand a small, underfunded group of organiz- people traveled to Nevada’s Black Rock ers transformed into an unconvention- Desert to participate in the countercul- al corporation with a ten-million-dollar tural arts event Burning Man. Founded budget and two thousand volunteers. on a commitment to expression and Over the years, Burning Man’s organiz- community, the annual weeklong fes- ers have experimented with different tival presents unique challenges to its management models; learned how to organizers. Over four years, Katherine recruit, motivate, and retain volunteers; K. Chen regularly participated in Burn- and developed strategies to handle reg- ing Man’s organizing efforts to safely ulatory agencies and respond to media and successfully create a temporary coverage. This remarkable evolution, community in the middle of the desert Chen reveals, offers important lessons under the hot August sun. for managers in any organization, par-

September 264 p., 15 halftones, Enabling Creative Chaos tracks how ticularly in uncertain times. 2 line drawings, 7 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10237-5 Katherine K. Chen is assistant professor of sociology at the City College of New York, the Cloth $75.00x/£51.50 City University of New York. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10238-2 Paper $25.00s/£17.50 SOCIOLOGY ART

66 special interest Moving Politics “Moving Politics is not just a rich and rigorous history of ACT UP. It Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight against AIDS is also that rarest of works: one Deborah B. Gould that simultaneously breaks new empirical ground while challeng- In the late 1980s, after a decade spent Surprisingly overlooked by many engaged in more routine interest-group scholars of social movements, emotion, ing our more general conceptual politics, thousands of lesbians and gay Gould argues, plays a fundamental understanding of the subject mat- men responded to the AIDS crisis by role in political activism. From anger ter. Quite simply, it will be hard for defiantly and dramatically taking to the to hope, pride to shame, and solidarity social movement scholars fol- streets. But by the early 1990s, the or- to despair, feelings played a significant lowing Gould to ignore the emo- ganization they founded, ACT UP, was part in ACT UP’s provocative style of tional dimensions and dynamics of no more—even as the AIDS epidemic protest, which included raucous dem- raged on. Weaving together interviews onstrations, die-ins, and other kinds of struggle.” with activists, extensive research, and street theater. Detailing the movement’s —Doug McAdam, Stanford University reflections on the author’s time as a public triumphs and private setbacks, member of the organization, Moving Moving Politics is the definitive account November 458 p., 18 halftones, Politics is the first book to chronicle the of ACT UP’s origin, development, and 5 figures 6 x 9 rise and fall of ACT UP, highlighting a decline as well as a searching look at the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30529-5 key factor in its trajectory: emotion. role of emotion in contentious politics. Cloth $65.00x/£45.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30530-1 Paper $23.00s/£16.00 Deborah B. Gould is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. SOCIOLOGY POLITICAL SCIENCE

How It Works Recovering Citizens in Post-Welfare Philadelphia Robert P. Fairbanks II

Of the some sixty thousand vacant recovery houses, Robert P. Fairbanks properties in Philadelphia, half of them II goes inside one particular home in are abandoned row houses. Taken as a the Kensington neighborhood. Operat- whole, these derelict homes symbolize ing without a license and unregulated the city’s plight in the wake of indus- by any government office, the recovery trial decline. But a closer look reveals a house provides food, shelter, company, September 304 p., 5 halftones 6 x 9 remarkable new phenomenon—street- and a bracing self-help philosophy to ISBN-13: 978-0-226-23408-3 level entrepreneurs repurposing hun- addicts in an area saturated with drugs Cloth $70.00x/£48.50 dreds of these empty houses as facilities and devastated by poverty. From this ISBN-13: 978-0-226-23409-0 Paper $27.50s/£19.00 for recovering addicts and alcoholics. starkly vivid close-up, Fairbanks widens How It Works is a compelling study of his lens to reveal the intricate relation- SOCIOLOGY this recovery house movement and its ships the recovery houses have forged place in the new urban order wrought with public welfare, the formal drug by welfare reform. treatment sector, criminal justice insti- To find out what life is like in these tutions, and local government.

Robert P. Fairbanks II is assistant professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago.

special interest 67 “Gay Fatherhood is doubly a mag- Gay Fatherhood nificent achievement: it not only Narratives of Family and Citizenship in America offers an exemplary investigation Ellen Lewin into the lived experience of gay parenting, but also shows how the Men are often thought to have less inter- while married to women. These men struggles and triumphs of these est in parenting than women, and gay face unique challenges in their quest gay men and their children can act men are generally assumed to prefer for fatherhood, negotiating specific bu- as a kind of lens into how American pleasure over responsibility. The toxic reaucratic and financial difficulties as cultures more broadly understand combination of these two stereotypical they pursue adoption or surrogacy and views has led to a lack of serious atten- juggling questions about their future family, love, responsibility, and tion being paid to the experiences of child’s race, age, sex, and health. Gay belonging.” gay fathers. But the truth is that more Fatherhood chronicles the lives of these —Tom Boellstorff, and more gay men are setting out to men, exploring how they cope with University of California, Irvine become parents and succeeding—and political attacks from both the “family

November 240 p. 6 x 9 Gay Fatherhood aims to tell their stories. values” right and the “radical queer” ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47656-8 Ellen Lewin takes as her focus left—while also shedding light on the Cloth $70.00x/£48.50 people who undertake the difficult pro- evolving meanings of family in twenty- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47658-2 cess of becoming fathers as gay men, first-century America. Paper $24.00s/£16.50 rather than having become fathers GAY AND LESBIAN STUDIES Ellen Lewin is professor in the departments of women’s studies and anthropology at the University of Iowa. She is the author of Recognizing Ourselves: Ceremonies of Lesbian and Gay Commitment and Lesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture.

“This is an insightful study of the interplay between the formal The New Welfare Bureaucrats rules of the welfare bureaucracies Entanglements of Race, Class, and Policy Reform and the discretionary power and Celeste Watkins-Hayes practices of welfare caseworkers. As the recession worsens, more and much more complex process of help- Watkins-Hayes brilliantly docu- more Americans must turn to welfare ing recipients find work. Now that wel- ments the emerging culture of the to make ends meet. Once inside the fare officers are both more intimately welfare workplace and its effect on agency, the newly jobless will face a involved in their clients’ lives and wield human service delivery. This timely bureaucracy that has undergone mas- greater power over their well-being, book is a must-read for citizens, sive change since the advent of welfare their racial, class, and professional domestic policy analysts, and reform in 1996. A behind-the-scenes identities have become increasingly look at bureaucracy’s human face, The important factors in their work. Based scholars concerned about strate- New Welfare Bureaucrats is a compelling on the author’s extensive fieldwork in gies to address the plight of the study of welfare officers and how they two very different communities in the truly disadvantaged.” navigate the increasingly tangled po- northeast, The New Welfare Bureaucrats —William Julius Wilson, litical and emotional terrain of their is a boon to anyone looking to under- Harvard University jobs. stand the impact of the institutional Celeste Watkins-Hayes here re- and policy changes wrought by welfare July 328 p., 2 tables 6 x 9 veals how welfare reform engendered reform as well as the subtle social dy- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-87491-3 Cloth $75.00x/£51.50 a shift in focus for caseworkers from namics that shape the way welfare is ISBN-13: 978-0-226-87492-0 simply providing monetary aid to the meted out at the individual level. Paper $25.00s/£17.50 SOCIOLOGY Celeste Watkins-Hayes is assistant professor of sociology and African American studies at Northwestern University.

68 special interest Is the Rectum a Grave? Praise for Intimacies and Other Essays “In this fascinating and disturbing Leo Bersani book, two writers with prose styles and intellectual styles that are at Over the course of a distinguished ca- psychoanalysis, Bersani contends that by once famously identifiable and inti- reer, critic Leo Bersani has tackled a considering his ideas alongside Freud’s, mately personal celebrate the pos- range of issues in his writing, and this one gains a clearer understanding of sibility of relationships that defy collection gathers together some of human identity and how we relate to identity and undo personality.” his finest work. Beginning with one of one another. For Bersani, art represents —Stephen Greenblatt the foundations of queer theory—his a crucial guide for conceiving new ways famous meditation on how sex leads of connecting to the world, and so, in to a shattering of the self, “Is the Rec- many of these essays, he stresses the im- “This is a beautifully crafted book, tum a Grave?”—this volume charts the portance of aesthetics, analyzing works one that underscores how the social inspired connections Bersani has made by Jean Genet, Caravaggio, Proust, Pedro life of the psyche is a matter of risk, between sexuality, psychoanalysis, and Almodóvar, and Jean-Luc Godard. wager, suspense, excitation, bod- aesthetics. Documenting over two decades in ies, talk, and all manner of things Over the course of these essays, the life of one of the best minds work- both dangerous and sustaining.” Bersani grapples with thinkers ranging ing in the humanities today, Is the Rec- —Judith Butler from Plato to Descartes to Georg Sim- tum a Grave? and Other Essays is a unique mel. Foucault and Freud recur as key opportunity to explore the fruitful ca- December 224 p. 6 x 9 figures, and although Foucault rejected reer of a formidable intellect. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04352-4 Cloth $75.00x/£51.50 Leo Bersani is professor emeritus of French at the University of California, Berkeley. He is ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04354-8 the author of Homos and coauthor, with Adam Phillips, of Intimacies, also published by the Paper $25.00s/£17.50 University of Chicago Press. GAY AND LESBIAN studies

Manly Love “Nissen has trumped nearly every other scholar in recapturing and Romantic Friendship in American Fiction elucidating some fundamental pat- Axel Nissen terns of American Victorian culture. His engaging, even suspenseful, The modern idea of Victorians is that friendship. Delving into works by Mark they were emotionless prudes, impris- Twain, Henry James, William Dean book transported me into those oned by sexual repression and suffocat- Howells, and others, Nissen identifies times more fully than anything I ing social constraints; they expressed the genre’s unique features and ex- know from outside the period itself, love and affection only within the plores the connections between roman- such that his insights attain an bounds of matrimony—if at all. And yet, tic friendships in literature and in real emotional as well as intellectual a wealth of evidence contradicting this life. Situating love between men at the force.” idea has been hiding in plain sight for heart of Victorian culture, Nissen radi- close to a century. In Manly Love, Axel cally alters our understanding of the —John W. Crowley, University of Alabama Nissen turns to the novels and short American literary canon. And with its stories of Victorian America to uncover deep insights into the emotional and September 240 p. 6 x 9 the widely overlooked phenomenon of intellectual life of the period, Manly ISBN-13: 978-0-226-58666-3 passionate friendships between men. Love also offers a fresh perspective on Cloth $37.50s/£26.00 Nissen’s examination of the lit- nineteenth-century America’s attitudes LITERATURE erature of the period brings to light a toward love, friendship, marriage, and forgotten genre: the fiction of romantic sex.

Axel Nissen is professor of American literature at the University of Oslo and the author of several books, including Bret Harte: Prince and Pauper.

special interest 69 “Agile, knowledgeable, and venture- Mary Chesnut’s Civil War Epic some, Stern provides yet another Julia A. Stern reason for scholars and fellow travelers to see Chesnut’s recrafted A genteel southern intellectual, salo- returns Chesnut to her rightful place pages as a literary triumph, a back- niste, and wife to a prominent colonel among American writers. In Mary Ches- ward glance through an epic lens to in Jefferson Davis’s inner circle, Mary nut’s Civil War Epic, Stern argues that Confederate defeat in the making.” Chesnut today is remembered best for the revised diary offers the most tren- —Kathleen Diffley, her penetrating Civil War diary. Com- chant literary account of race and slav- University of Iowa posed between 1861 and 1865 and re- ery until the work of Faulkner and that, vised thoroughly from the late 1870s along with his Yoknapatawpha novels, January 336 p., 10 halftones 6 x 9 until Chesnut’s death in 1886, the di- it constitutes one of the two great Civil ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77328-5 ary was published first in 1905, again War epics of the American canon. By Cloth $45.00s/£31.00 in 1949, and later, to great acclaim, in restoring Chesnut’s 1880s revision to its LITERARY CRITICISM 1981. This complicated literary history complex, multidecade cultural context, and the questions that attend it—which Stern argues both for Chesnut’s reinser- edition represents the real Chesnut? To tion into the pantheon of nineteenth- what genre does this text belong?—may century American letters and for her explain why the document largely has, centrality to the literary history of wom- until now, been overlooked in literary en’s writing as it evolved from sentimen- studies. tal to tragic to realist forms. Julia A. Stern’s critical analysis

Julia A. Stern is associate professor of English and American Studies and the Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University. She is the author of The Plight of Feeling: Sympathy and Dissent in the Early American Novel, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

“For thirty years, Joel Altman’s The Improbability of Othello foundational thinking about Tudor drama has inspired scholars work- Rhetorical Anthropology and Shakespearean Selfhood Joel B. Altman ing at the boundaries of rhetoric, literature, and law. His brilliant Shakespeare’s dramatis personae exist resentation of the self as a specific re- and complex new study will have in a world of supposition, struggling alization of tensions pervading the rhe- an even greater impact. Combin- to connect knowledge that cannot be torical culture in which he was educated ing great erudition and conceptual had, judgments that must be made, and practiced his craft. In Altman’s ac- sophistication with a dazzling and actions that need to be taken. For count, Shakespeare also restrains and sensitivity to literary language as them, probability—what they and oth- energizes his audiences’ probabilizing ers might be persuaded to believe—not capacities, alternately playing the skep- an instrument of psychological and certainty, governs human affairs. Yet tical critic and dramaturgic trickster. ethical meaning, The Improbability negotiating the space of probability is A monumental work of scholarship of Othello is a magisterial contri- fraught with difficulty. Here, Joel B. by one of America’s most respected bution to Shakespeare and early Altman explores the problematics of scholars of Renaissance literature, The modern studies, to the histories probability and the psychology of per- Improbability of Othello contributes fresh of rhetoric and culture, and to the suasion in Renaissance rhetoric and ideas to our understanding of Shake- Shakespeare’s theater. speare’s conception of the self, his shap- genealogy of self and subjectivity.” Focusing on the Tragedy of Othello, ing of audience response, and the rela- —Bradin Cormack, University of Chicago Altman investigates Shakespeare’s rep- tionship of actors to his texts.

Joel B. Altman is professor emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley, January 449 p., 2 line drawings 6 x 9 and the author of The Tudor Play of Mind: Rhetorical Inquiry and the Development of Elizabethan ISBN-13: 978-0-226-01610-8 Drama. Cloth $49.00s/£34.00 LITERARY CRITICISM

70 special interest Shakespeare Only Praise for Shakespeare’s Tribe Jeffrey Knapp “Knapp’s capacity to interrogate prevailing assumptions through a Four decades of controversy in Shake- dynamically combined. In Shakespeare blend of original scholarship and speare studies can be summed up in a Only, Knapp pursues a historiographi- breathtaking insight will have a single question: Was Shakespeare one cal analysis of Shakespeare to investi- widespread and salutary effect of a kind? On one side of the debate gate key questions about the nature of on the field. . . . This is a remark- are the Shakespeare lovers, the bar- Renaissance authorship. He ultimately able and substantial book that will dolatrists, who advocate Shakespeare’s argues that Shakespeare tried to adapt unique eminence as an author. On his own singular ambition to the collab- hold a signal place in the critical the other side are the theater histori- orative enterprise of drama by imagin- conversation about religion and the ans who view Shakespeare’s greatness ing the playwright as embodying the di- early modern stage for many years as a post-facto construction. For these verse, fractious energies of the popular to come.” scholars, the bardolatrous emphasis on theater. Rewriting our current histories —Michael Schoenfeldt, “Shakespeare only” is itself a form of of authorship as well as Renaissance Shakespeare Studies denial that blinds us to the inescapably drama, Shakespeare Only revives a sense social nature of drama. of the creative force that mass enter- October 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 Jeffrey Knapp shows that the in- tainment exerted on Shakespeare and ISBN-13: 978-0-226-44571-7 dividualizing and the historicizing that Shakespeare exerted on mass en- Cloth $35.00s/£24.00 perspectives on Shakespeare can be tertainment. LITERARY CRITICISM

Jeffrey Knapp is Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Shakespeare’s Tribe: Church, Nation, and Theater in Renaissance England.

Continental Divides “A powerful work of scholarship, Remapping the Cultures of North America Continental Divides will become a model for reconceiving American Rachel Adams literature, culture, and history in

North America is more a political and U.S. cultural study is deepened, and in a complex international context. an economic invention than a place some cases transformed, when Canada Adams’s work on North American people call home. Nonetheless, the re- and Mexico enter the picture. How, for literature and culture will be highly gion shared by the United States and its example, does the work of the iconic significant.” closest neighbors is an intriguing frame American writer Jack Kerouac read dif- —José David Saldivar, for comparative American studies. Con- ferently when his Franco-American ori- University of California, Berkeley tinental Divides is the first book to study gins and Mexican travels are taken into the patterns of contact, exchange, con- account? Or how would our conception November 320 p., 29 halftones, flict, and disavowal among cultures of American modernism be altered if 1 line drawing 6 x 9 Mexico were positioned as a center of ar- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00551-5 that span the borders of Canada, the Cloth $75.00x/£51.50 United States, and Mexico. tistic and political activity? In this engag- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00552-2 Rachel Adams considers a broad ing analysis, Adams charts the lengthy Paper $25.00s/£17.50 range of literary, filmic, and visual texts and often unrecognized traditions of LITERARY CRITICISM that exemplify cultural traffic across neighborly exchange, both hostile and North American borders. She inves- amicable, that have left an imprint on tigates how our understanding of key North America’s varied cultures. themes, genres, and periods within

Rachel Adams is associate professor of English at Columbia University and the author of Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

special interest 71 Praise for Toy Medium Infidel Poetics “One of the most fascinating pieces Riddles, Nightlife, Substance of literary and cultural criticism to Daniel Tiffany appear in the last decade. . . . Al- ways interesting and challenging, Poetry has long been regarded as the obscurity has functioned for hundreds this book is a reminder that literary least accessible of literary genres. But of years as a medium of alternative so- and cultural criticism can actually how much does the obscurity that cieties. For example, he discovers in the be stimulating, less routinized, and confounds the reader of a poem dif- submerged tradition of canting poetry fer from, say, the slang or patois that and its eccentric genres—thieves’ car- daring.” captivates listeners of hip-hop? Infidel ols, drinking songs, beggars’ chants—a —Virginia Quarterly Review Poetics examines not only the shared in- genealogy of modern nightlife, but also comprehensibilities of poetry and slang a visible underworld of social and ver- October 256 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-80309-8 but also poetry’s genetic relation to the bal substance, a demimonde for sale. Cloth $66.00x/£45.50 spectacle of underground culture. Ranging from Anglo-Saxon riddles ISBN-13: 978-0-226-80310-4 Charting connections between to Emily Dickinson, from the icy logos of Paper $24.00s/£16.50 lyric obscurity, vernacular speech, and Parmenides to the monadology of Leib- LITERARY CRITICISM types of social relations—networks of niz, from Mother Goose to modernism, darkened streets in preindustrial cities, Infidel Poetics offers an exhilarating ac- the historical underworld of taverns and count of the subversive power of obscu- clubs, and the subcultures of the avant- rity in word, substance, and deed. garde—Daniel Tiffany shows that poetic

Daniel Tiffany is the author of two books of criticism, including Toy Medium: Materialism and Modern Lyric, and a volume of poetry, Puppet Wardrobe. He teaches at the University of Southern California.

Contributors The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound Hélène Aji, Charles Bernstein, Edited by Marjorie Perloff and Craig Dworkin Antonio Sergio Bessa, Chris- tian Bök, Gordana P. Crnk- Sound—one of the central elements of the visual and the auditory, the role poetry—finds itself all but ignored in of the body in performance, and the ovic, Johanna Drucker, Craig the current discourse on lyric forms. impact of recording technologies on Dworkin, Rubén Gallo, Kenneth The essays collected here by Marjorie the lyric voice. Along the way, the es- Goldsmith, Susan Howe, Yunte Perloff and Craig Dworkin break that says take on the “ensemble discords” Huang, Leevi Lehto, Steve Mc- critical silence to readdress some of the of Maurice Scève’s Délie, Ezra Pound’s Caffery, Ming-Qian Ma, Nancy fundamental connections between po- use of “Chinese whispers,” the alchemi- Perloff, Brian M. Reed, Jacques etry and sound—connections that go cal theology of Hugo Ball’s Dada per- far beyond traditional metrical studies. formances, Jean Cocteau’s modernist Roubaud, Richard Sieburth, Ranging from medieval Latin lyr- radiophonics, and an intercultural ac- Susan Stewart, Yoko Tawada, ics to a cyborg opera, sixteenth-century count of the poetry reading as a kind and Rosmarie Waldrop France to twentieth-century Brazil, of dubbing. romantic ballads to the contemporary A genuinely comparatist study, The

October 368 p., 30 halftones, avant-garde, The Sound of Poetry / The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound is 5 line drawings, 1 table 6 x 9 Poetry of Sound explores such subjects designed to challenge current precon- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-65742-4 as the translatability of lyric sound, the ceptions about what Susan Howe has Cloth $70.00x/£48.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-65743-1 historical and cultural roles of rhyme, called “articulations of sound forms in Paper $26.00s/£18.00 the role of sound repetition in novel- time” as they have transformed the ex- LITERARY CRITICISM istic prose, the connections between panded poetic field of the twenty-first “sound poetry” and music and between century.

Marjorie Perloff is professor emerita of English at Stanford University and the author of many books, including Wittgenstein’s Ladder and The Futurist Moment, both published by the University of Chicago Press. Craig Dworkin is associate professor of English at the Univer- sity of Utah and the author, most recently, of Language to Cover a Page: The Early 72 special interest Writings of Vito Acconci. The Adventure of the Real “This is a splendid book—well Jean Rouch and the Craft of Ethnographic Cinema researched, original, and lucidly Paul Henley written. I have no doubt it will become a classic: the single Though relatively unsung in the search in West Africa in the 1940s and indispensable book on Rouch and English-speaking world, Jean Rouch ’50s. His innovative use of unscripted his work. Henley provides a vast (1917–2004) was a towering figure of improvisation by his subjects had a pro- amount of information, detailed ethnographic cinema. Over the course found impact on the French New Wave, analyses of many of Rouch’s films, of a fifty-year career, he completed over Paul Henley reveals, while his documen- and above all a subtle and probing one hundred films, both documentary tary work launched the genre of cinema and fictional, and exerted an influence vérité. In addition to tracking Rouch’s discussion of Rouch’s ‘praxis.’ The far beyond academia. Exhaustively re- pioneering career, Henley examines book is particularly illuminating searched yet elegantly written, The Ad- the technical strategies, aesthetic con- as to Rouch’s working methods, venture of the Real is the first comprehen- siderations, and ethical positions that which only a practicing filmmaker sive analysis of his practical filmmaking contribute to Rouch’s cinematographic with a gift for analysis and a fund methods. legacy. Featuring over 150 images, The of personal experience could have Rouch developed these methods Adventure of the Real is an essential intro- while conducting anthropological reduction to Rouch’s work. carried off—a rare combination.” —David MacDougall, Paul Henley is director of the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, professor of visual Australian National University anthropology at the University of Manchester, and a documentary filmmaker. December 536 p., 161 halftones, 3 maps, 2 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-32714-3 Cloth $95.00x/£65.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-32715-0 Paper $37.50s/£26.00 anthropology film

A Grammar of Murder “Karla Oeler exhibits a lively, searching, and penetrating intel- Violent Scenes and Film Form ligence. In A Grammar of Murder karla oeler she takes a fresh and illuminating look at various representations The dark shadows and offscreen space syntax of Hollywood genre. She argues that force us to imagine violence we that murder plays such a central role of violence—their form as well as cannot see. The real slaughter of ani- in film because it mirrors, on multiple their content—in films ranging from mals spliced with the fictional killing levels, the act of cinematic representa- the Soviet montage school to Jean of men. The missing countershot from tion. Death and murder at once eradi- Renoir, from classical Hollywood the murder victim’s point of view. Such cate life and call attention to its former to the work of such mavericks as images, or absent images, Karla Oeler existence, just as cinema conveys both Stanley Kubrick and Jim Jarmusch.” contends, distill how the murder scene the reality and the absence of the ob- challenges and changes film. jects it depicts. But murder shares with —Gilberto Perez, Sarah Lawrence College Reexamining works by such film- cinema not only this interplay between makers as Renoir, Hitchcock, Kubrick, presence and absence, movement and december 384 p., 187 halftones Jarmusch, and Eisenstein, Oeler traces stillness: unlike death, killing entails 6 x 9 the murder scene’s intricate connec- the deliberate reduction of a singular ISBN-13: 978-0-226-61794-7 tions to the great breakthroughs in subject to a disposable object. Like cin- Cloth $80.00x/£55.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-61795-4 the theory and practice of montage ema, it involves a crucial choice about Paper $30.00s/£20.50 and the formulation of the rules and what to cut and what to keep. film

Karla Oeler is associate professor of film studies at Emory University.

special interest 73 Contributors Music, Theater, and Cultural Transfer Olivier Bara, Katharine Ellis, Paris, 1830–1914 Mark Everist, Annegret Fauser, Edited by Annegret Fauser and Mark Everist David Grayson, Diana R. Hall- man, Rebecca Harris-Warrick, Opera and musical theater dominated on the city’s musical theater scene as Sarah Hibberd, Steven Hueb- French culture in the 1800s, and the a whole rather than on individual the- ner, Arnold Jacobshagen, Peter influential stage music that emerged aters or repertories. Their broad range from this period helped make Paris, as enables their collective examination of Lamothe, Alicia C. Levin, Ralph Walter Benjamin put it, the “capital of the ways in which all aspects of perfor- P. Locke, Kerry Murphy, Marian the nineteenth century.” The fullest ac- mance and reception were affected by Smith, and Lesley Wright count available of this artistic ferment the transfer of works, performers, and and its international impact, Music, management models from one envi- Theater, and Cultural Transfer explores ronment to another. By focusing on December 440 p., 37 halftones, 5 musical examples, 16 tables 7 x 10 the diverse institutions that shaped Pa- this interplay between institutions and ISBN-13: 978-0-226-23926-2 risian music and extended its influence individuals, the authors illuminate the Cloth $55.00s/£38.00 across Europe, the Americas, and Aus- tension between institutional conven- MUSIC tralia. tions and artistic creation during the The contributors to this volume, heady period when Parisian stage music who work in fields ranging from lit- reached its zenith. erature to theater to musicology, focus

Annegret Fauser is professor of music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mark Everist is professor of music at the University of Southampton.

“This book is the crowning achieve- A Language of Its Own ment of a first-rate scholar, draw- Sense and Meaning in the Making of Western Art Music ing on decades of intensive as Ruth Katz well as extensive expertise. The perspective it offers on Western The Western musical tradition has pro- art form itself. As ideas entered music art music is not just exceptionally duced not only music, but also count- from the contexts in which it existed, well informed but also thoroughly less writings about music that remain its internal language developed in in continuous—and enormously in- tandem with shifts in intellectual and original. Scholars in generations fluential—dialogue with their subject. social history. Katz explores how this to come will find it an invaluable With sweeping scope and philosophi- infrastructure allowed music to ex- document of how scholars working cal depth, A Language of Its Own traces plain itself from within, creating a self- at the end of the Western canonic the past millennium of this ongoing referential and rational foundation paradigm viewed that paradigm.” exchange. that has begun to erode in recent years. —Rose Rosengard Subotnik, Ruth Katz argues that the indis- A magisterial exploration of a Brown University pensable relationship between intellec- frequently overlooked intersection of tual production and musical creation Western art and philosophy, A Lan- December 352 p., 4 halftones, gave rise to the Western conception guage of Its Own restores music to its 7 line drawings 6 x 9 of music. This evolving and sometimes rightful place in the history of ideas. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42596-2 conflicted process, in turn, shaped the Cloth $48.00s/£33.00 MUSIC PHILOSOPHY Ruth Katz is the Emanuel Alexandre Professor Emerita of Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

74 special interest Masses for the Sistine Chapel Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Cappella Sistina, MS 14 edited by Richard Sherr

Donated in the late fifteenth century to Du Fay, Johannes Ockeghem, and An- the papal choir, the musical manuscript toine Busnoys. In a comprehensive in- Cappella Sistina 14 reflects a new style of troduction and critical commentary on Monuments of Renaissance Music mass composition used by some of the each work, Richard Sherr places the era’s most noted composers. Masses for choirbook in its historical context, de- October 544 p., 8 halftones, the Sistine Chapel makes the complete scribing its physical makeup as well as 7 musical examples, 5 tables 9 x 12 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-75259-4 contents of Cappella Sistina 14 —held in the repertory. Sherr’s critical edition of Cloth $295.00x/£203.50 the Vatican Library—available for the this celebrated manuscript finally pro- MUSIC first time. vides the insight necessary to inform Featuring fifteen masses and four future performances and recordings of mass fragments, this volume includes its influential contents. works by such composers as Guillaume

Richard Sherr is the Caroline L. Wall ’27 Professor of Music at Smith College.

Enrico; or, Byzantium Conquered A Heroic Poem Lucrezia Marinella Edited and Translated by Maria Galli Stampino

Lucrezia Marinella (1571–1653) is, by story of the conquest of Byzantium in The Other Voice in Early all accounts, a phenomenon in early the Fourth Crusade. Marinella inter- Modern Europe modernity: a woman who wrote and sperses historical events in her account published in many genres, whose fame of the invasion with numerous invented shone brightly within and outside her episodes, drawing on the rich imagina- native Venice, and whose voice is si- tive legacy of the chivalric romance. multaneously original and reflective Fast-moving, colorful, and narrated of her time and culture. In Enrico; or, with the zest that characterizes Marinel- September 512 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-50547-3 Byzantium Conquered, one of the most la’s other works, this poem is a great ex- Cloth $90.00x/£62.00 ambitious and rewarding of her numer- ample of a woman engaging critically ISBN-13: 978-0-226-50548-0 ous narrative works, Marinella demon- with a quintessentially masculine form Paper $35.00x/£24.00 strates her skill as an epic poet. and subject matter, writing in a genre EUROPEAN HISTORY LITERATURE Now available for the first time in in which the work of women poets was English translation, Enrico retells the typically shunned.

Maria Galli Stampino is associate professor of Italian and French at the University of Miami. She is the author of Staging the Pastoral: Tasso’s “Aminta” and the Emergence of Modern Western Theater.

special interest 75 Selected Philosophical and Scientific Writings Emilie Du Châtelet Edited and with an Introduction by Judith P. Zinsser Translated by Isabelle Bour and Judith P. Zinsser

The Other Voice in Early Though most historians remember ing Du Châtelet’s writings and her con- Modern Europe her as the mistress of Voltaire, Emilie tributions to history and philosophy. Du Châtelet (1706–49) was an accom- For this edition, Judith P. Zinsser has se- plished writer in her own right, who pub- lected key sections from Du Châtelet’s lished multiple editions of her scientific published and unpublished works, as writings during her lifetime, as well as a well as related correspondence, part of translation of Newton’s Principia Math- her little-known critique of the Old and ematica that is still the standard edition New Testaments, and a treatise on hap- of that work in French. Had she been a piness that is a refreshingly uncensored man, her reputation as a member of the piece of autobiography—making all of September 440 p., 15 line drawings eighteenth-century French intellectual them available for the first time in Eng- 6 x 9 elite would have been assured. lish. The resulting volume will recover ISBN-13: 978-0-226-16806-7 Cloth $95.00x/£65.50 In the 1970s, feminist historians of Du Châtelet’s place in the pantheon of ISBN-13: 978-0-226-16807-4 science began the slow work of recover- French letters and culture. Paper $35.00x/£24.00 SCIENCE WOMEN’S STUDIES Judith P. Zinsser is professor of history and an affiliate in the women’s studies program at Miami University. She is the author of Emilie Du Châtelet: Daring Genius of the Enlightenment. Isabelle Bour is professor of eighteenth-century English studies at the Sorbonne.

Jewish Poet and Intellectual in Seventeenth-Century Venice The Works of Sarra Copia Sulam in Verse and Prose Along with Writings of Her Contemporaries in Her Praise, Condemnation, or Defense Sarra Copia Sulam Edited, Translated, and with an Introduction by Don Harrán

The first Jewish woman to leave her sonnets, a manifesto—into a single mark as a writer and intellectual, Sarra volume. Harrán has also assembled all Copia Sulam (1600?–41) was doubly extant correspondence and poetry that tainted in the eyes of early modern soci- was addressed to Sulam, as well as all ety by her religion and her gender. This known contemporary references to her, remarkable woman, who until now has making them available to Anglophone been relatively neglected by modern readers for the first time. Featuring rich September 512 p., 12 halftones 6 x 9 scholarship, was a unique figure in Ital- biographical and historical notes that ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77988-1 ian cultural life, opening her home in place Sulam in her cultural context, Cloth $95.00x/£65.50 the Venetian ghetto to Jews and Chris- this volume will provide readers with in- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77989-8 Paper $35.00x/£24.00 tians alike as a literary salon. sight into the thought and creativity of a

RELIGION LITERATURE For this bilingual edition, Don woman who dared to express herself in Harrán has collected all of Sulam’s the male-dominated, overwhelmingly previously scattered writings—letters, Catholic Venice of her time.

Don Harrán is the Artur Rubinstein Professor Emeritus of Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jersualem. He is the author of many books, including Salamone Rossi: Jewish Musician in Late Renaissance Mantua.

76 special interest Perspectives in Computation Praise for General Relativity from A to B Robert Geroch “A beautiful little book. . . . It suc- Computation is the process of applying putation. The emphasis is theoretical; ceeds so well because Geroch a procedure or algorithm to the solu- Robert Geroch asks what can be done, believes that ‘physics is a human tion of a mathematical problem. Math- and what, in principle, are the limita- activity’ and wants to share some ematicians and physicists have been tions on what can be done. Geroch of its joy with others.” occupied for many decades pondering guides readers through these topics —Physics Today which problems can be solved by which by combining general discussions of procedures, and, for those that can be broader issues with precise mathemati- Chicago Lectures in Physics solved, how this can most efficiently cal formulations—as well as through be done. In recent years, quantum examples of how computation works. August 208 p. 6 x 9 mechanics has augmented our under- Requiring little technical knowl- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-28854-3 Cloth $75.00x/£51.50 standing of the process of computation edge of mathematics or physics, Perspec- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-28855-0 and of its limitations. tives in Computation will serve both ad- Paper $25.00s/£17.50 Perspectives in Computation covers vanced undergraduates and graduate SCIENCE MATHematics three broad topics: the computation students in mathematics and physics, as process and its limitations, the search well as other scientists working in adja- for computational efficiency, and the cent fields. role of quantum mechanics in com-

Robert Geroch is professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Chicago and the author of General Relativity from A to B and Mathematical Physics, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

International Differences in the Business Practices and Productivity of Firms Edited by Richard B. Freeman and Kathryn L. Shaw

In recent years, globalization and the This volume brings together eight expansion of information technologies studies that combine qualitative and National Bureau of Economic have reshaped managerial practices, quantitative insider analysis of busi- Research Conference Report forcing multinational firms to adjust ness practices such as the use of teams, business practices to different envi- incentive pay, lean manufacturing, and October 288 p., 24 line drawings, 50 tables 6 x 9 ronments and domestic companies to quality control, revealing the elements ISBN-13: 978-0-226-26194-2 adjust to their foreign competitors. that determine which practices are ad- Cloth $99.00x/£68.50 In International Differences in the Busi- opted and why. International Differences ECONOMICS ness Practices and Productivity of Firms, in the Business Practices and Productivity a distinguished group of contribu- of Firms offers a much-needed model tors examines the phenomenon of for measuring the productivity and widespread differences in managerial performance of international firms in practices across firms, establishments a fast-paced global economy. within firms, and countries.

Richard B. Freeman holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard Univer- sity and is currently serving as faculty director of the Labor and Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School. He is director of the Labor Studies Program at the NBER. Kathryn L. Shaw is the Ernest C. Arbuckle Professor of Economics at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.

special interest 77 International Dimensions of Monetary Policy Edited by Jordi GalÍ and Mark Gertler

United States monetary policy has tra- In this comprehensive book, the ditionally been modeled under the as- contributors examine the real and po- sumption that the domestic economy tential effects of increased openness National Bureau of Economic is immune to international factors and and exposure to international econom- Research Conference Report exogenous shocks. Such an assump- ic dynamics from a variety of perspec-

february 568 p., 117 line drawings, tion is increasingly unrealistic in the tives. Their findings reveal that central 34 tables 6 x 9 age of integrated capital markets, tight- banks continue to decisively influence ISBN-13: 978-0-226-27886-5 ened links between national economies, domestic economic outcomes—even Cloth $120.00x/£83.00 and reduced trading costs. International inflation—suggesting that interna- economics Dimensions of Monetary Policy brings to- tional factors may have a limited role gether fresh research to address the rein national performance. International percussions of the continuing evolution Dimensions of Monetary Policy will lead toward globalization for the conduct of the way in analyzing monetary policy monetary policy. measures in complex economies.

Jordi Galí is director and senior researcher at the Center for Research in International Economics and professor of economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Mark Gertler is the Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Economics and chairman of the economics department at New York University.

Studies of Labor Market Intermediation edited by David H. Autor

From the traditional craft hiring hall By building a conceptual founda- to the Web site Monster.com, a multi- tion for analyzing the roles that these tude of institutions exist to facilitate understudied economic actors serve National Bureau of Economic the matching of workers with firms. in the labor market, this volume devel- Research Conference Report The diversity of such labor market in- ops both a qualitative and quantitative November 576 p., 1 halftone, 27 line termediaries encompasses criminal sense of their significance to market drawings, 123 tables 6 x 9 records providers, public employment operation and worker welfare. Cross- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03288-7 offices, labor unions, temporary help national in scope, Studies of Labor Market Cloth $110.00x/£76.00 agencies, and centralized medical resi- Intermediation is distinctive in coalescing ECONOMICS dency matches. Studies of Labor Market research on a set of market institutions Intermediation analyzes how these third- that are typically treated as isolated en- party actors intercede where workers tities, thus setting a research agenda for and firms meet, thereby aiding, imped- analyzing the changing shape of em- ing, and, in some cases, exploiting the ployment in an era of rapid globaliza- matching process. tion and technological change.

David H. Autor is professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

78 special interest The Problems of Disadvantaged Youth An Economic Perspective Edited by Jonathan Gruber

One of the most important public pol- assess the causal impacts of disadvan- icy issues in the United States is how tage on youth outcomes, and how policy National Bureau of Economic to improve the life prospects of disad- interventions can alleviate those effects. Research Conference Report vantaged youth who, in their formative Each chapter develops a framework to years, face low-quality school systems, describe the relationship between youths November 496 p., 21 line drawings, poor access to health care, and high- and later life outcomes, addressing such 89 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30945-3 crime environments. The Problems of Dis- factors as educational opportunity, Cloth $110.00x/£76.00 advantaged Youth includes a broad range health, neighborhood crime rates, and ECONOMICS of research examining various aspects employment. This vital book documents of disadvantage and ways of increasing the serious short- and long-term nega- the ability of low-income youths to im- tive consequences of childhood disad- prove their circumstances later in life. vantage and provides nuanced evidence Taking an empirical economics per- of the impact of public policy designed spective, the nine essays in this volume to help needy children.

Jonathan Gruber is professor and associate head of the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of the Program on Children at the NBER, where he is a research associate.

Measuring the Subjective Well-Being of Nations National Accounts of Time Use and Well-Being Edited by Alan B. Krueger

Surely everyone wants to know the periences during various uses of time, National Bureau of Economic source of happiness—and indeed, a distinct improvement in measuring Research Conference Report economists and social scientists are in- well-being from objective measures creasingly interested in the study and such as the Gross National Product. A November 416 p., 1 halftone, effects of subjective well-being. Putting distinguished group of contributors 30 line drawings, 74 tables 6 x 9 forward a new method for measuring, here summarize the NTA methodol- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-45456-6 Cloth $75.00x/£51.50 comparing, and analyzing the relation- ogy, provide illustrative findings about ship between happiness and the way happiness based on NTA, and subject ECONOMICS people spend their time—across coun- the system to a rigorous conceptual tries, regions, and history—this book and methodological critique that only will help set the agenda for research. strengthens the approach. As subjective It does so by introducing the sys- well-being is topical in economics, psy- tem of National Time Accounting chology, and other social sciences, this (NTA), which relies on individuals’ book should have cross-disciplinary ap- own evaluations of their emotional ex- peal.

Alan B. Krueger is the Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University.

special interest 79 Price Index Concepts and Measurement W. Erwin Diewert, John Greenlees, and Charles R. Hulten

Although inflation is much feared for the Consumer Price Index. its negative effects on the economy, Price Index Concepts and Measure- how to measure it is a matter of consid- ments brings together leading experts National Bureau of Economic erable debate that has important im- to address the many questions involved Research Studies in Income and plications for interest rates, monetary in conceptualizing and measuring in- Wealth supply, and investment and spending flation. They evaluate the accuracy of February 672 p., 49 line drawings, decisions. Underlying many of these is- COLI, a Cost-of-Goods Index, and a 51 tables 6 x 9 sues is the concept of the Cost-of-Living variety of other methodological frame- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-14855-7 Index (COLI) and its controversial role Cloth $135.00x/£93.00 works as the bases for consumer price as the methodological foundation for construction. ECONOMICS W. Erwin Diewert is professor in the Department of Economics at the University of British Columbia and a research associate of the NBER. John Greenlees is a research economist and former associate commissioner for prices and living conditions at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Charles R. Hulten is professor of economics at the University of Maryland and a research associate of the NBER.

Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 23 Edited by Jeffrey R. Brown and james m. poterba

Tax Policy and the Economy publishes standing corporate tax losses, the influ- current academic research findings on ence of globalization on the design of a taxation and government spending that tax system, and the question of whether National Bureau of Economic have both immediate bearing on policy federal provision of goods and services Research International Seminar on debates and longer-term interest. The crowds out their provision by lower lev- Macroeconomics articles in Volume 23 address a range of els of government or the private sector.

July 232 p. 6 x 9 topics, including Social Security, under- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07654-6 Cloth $60.00x/£41.50 Jeffery R. Brown is the William G. Karnes Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a research associate of the NBER. James M. Poterba is professor ECONOMICS of economics and head of the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as director of the NBER Public Economics Research Program.

Crime and Justice, Volume 38 Edited by Michael Tonry

Crime and Justice: A Review of Since 1979, Crime and Justice has pre- series explores a full range of issues Research sented an annual review of the latest in- concerning crime, its causes, and its ternational research, providing exper- cure. Volume 38 covers criminal justice November 500 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-80876-5 tise to enhance the work of sociologists, issues from the effects of parental im- Cloth $65.00x/£45.00 psychologists, criminal lawyers, justice prisonment on children to economists LAW scholars, and political scientists. The and crime.

Michael Tonry is director of the Institute on Crime and Public Policy and the Sonofsky Professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota. He is also a senior fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement.

80 special interest Seth Lerer Children’s Literature A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter

ver since children have learned to read, there has been children’s literature. Seth Lerer here charts the makings of the EWestern literary imagination from Aesop’s fables to Mother Goose, from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from Where the Wild Things Are to Harry Potter. The only single-volume work to capture the rich and diverse history Winner of the National Book Critics of children’s literature in its full panorama, this extraordinary book Circle Award reveals why J. R. R. Tolkien, Dr. Seuss, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Beatrix “Lerer’s Olympian survey of more than Potter, and many others, despite their divergent styles and subject mat- 2,000 years leaves the reader with a stim- ter, have all resonated with generations of readers. Children’s Literature ulating vision of history. . . . His narrative is an exhilarating quest across centuries, continents, and genres to swells and ebbs like a symphony. . . . To discover how, and why, we first fall in love with the written word. find Pilgrim’s Progress and Weetzie Bat in “Lerer has accomplished something magical. Unlike the many a single volume is itself a pleasure.” handbooks to children’s literature that synopsize, evaluate, or otherwise —Michael Sims, guide adults in the selection of materials for children, this work presents Washington Post Book World a true critical history of the genre. . . . Scholarly, erudite, and all but exhaustive, it is also entertaining and accessible. Lerer takes his subject september 396 p., 24 halftones 6 x 9 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47301-7 seriously without making it dull.”—Library Journal, starred review Paper $19.00/£13.00 LITERATURE “Lerer’s history reminds us of the wealth of literature written Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-47300-0 during the past 2,600 years. . . . With his vast and multidimensional knowledge of literature, he underscores the vital role it plays in form- ing a child’s imagination. We are made, he suggests, by the books we read.”—San Francisco Chronicle “There are dazzling chapters on John Locke and Empire, and nonsense, and Darwin, but Lerer’s most interesting chapter focuses on girls’ fiction. . . . A brilliant series of readings.”—Diane Purkiss,Times Literary Supplement

Seth Lerer is dean of arts and humanities at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of many books, including Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language, and the editor of several collections, including The Yale Companion to Chaucer. paperbacks 81 Robert Pogue Harrison Gardens An Essay on the Human Condition

umans have long turned to gardens—both real and imaginary—for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that sur- H rounds them. With Gardens, Robert Pogue Harrison graces readers with a thoughtful, wide-ranging examination of the many ways gardens evoke the human condition. Moving from the gardens of ancient philosophers to the gardens of homeless people in contemporary New York, he shows how, again and again, the garden has served as a check against the destruction and losses of history. Alive with the echoes and arguments of Western thought, Gardens is a fitting continuation of the intellectual journeys of Harrison’s “The year’s most thought-provoking, earlier classics, Forests and The Dominion of the Dead. Voltaire famously original, and weighty garden book is urged us to cultivate our gardens; with this compelling volume, Harrison Gardens. . . . Reading Harrison’s book is reminds us of the nature of that responsibility—and its enduring impor- like strolling down a path through a well- tance to humanity. cultivated, richly sown, light-dappled “I find myself completely besotted by a new book titled Gardens. woodland. . . . Just as in the making of a The author . . . is one of the very best cultural critics at work today. garden, there’s no end to the wonder; the He is a man of deep learning, immense generosity of spirit, passionate journey is everything.” curiosity, and manifold rhetorical gifts.”—Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune —New York Times Book Review “Mr. Harrison has planted his own garden of beautiful quotations and provocative speculation, and it is an absorbing and stimulating September 264 p., 2 halftones 51/2 x 81/2 place to spend time.”—Jonathan Rosen, Wall Street Journal 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31790-8 Paper $15.00/£10.50 “This book is about gardens as a metaphor for the human condi- LITERARY STUDIES Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-31789-2 tion. . . . Harrison draws freely and with brilliance from 5,000 years of Western literature and criticism, including works on philosophy and garden history. . . . He is a careful as well as an inspiring scholar.” —Tom Turner, Times Higher Education

Robert Pogue Harrison is the Rosina Pierotti Professor of Italian Literature at Stanford University. He is the author of four books, including Forests: The Shadow of Civilization and The Dominion of the Dead, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

82 paperbacks Ingrid D. Rowland Giordano Bruno Philosopher Heretic

iordano Bruno (1548–1600) is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. G Ingrid D. Rowland’s biography establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Galileo—a thinker whose vision of the world prefigures ours. Writing with great verve and erudition, Rowland traces Bruno’s wanderings through a sixteenth-century Europe where every certainty of religion and philosophy has been called into question, and reveals how he valiantly defended his ideas to the very end, when he was burned at the stake as a heretic on Rome’s Campo de’ Fiori. “A loving and thoughtful account of “Whatever else Bruno was, he was wild-minded and extreme, and Bruno’s life and thought, satires and Rowland communicates this, together with a sense of the excitement sonnets, dialogues and lesson plans, that his ideas gave him. . . . It’s that feeling for the explosiveness of the vagabond days and star-spangled nights. period, and Rowland’s admiration of Bruno for participating in it— . . . Ingrid D. Rowland has her reasons for indeed, dying for it—that is the central and most cherishable quality of preferring Bruno to Copernicus, Tycho the biography.”—Joan Acocella, New Yorker Brahe, Johannes Kepler, even Galileo and “Rowland tells this great story in moving, vivid prose, concentrat- Leonardo, and they’re good ones.” ing as much on Bruno’s thought as on his life. . . . His restless mind, as —John Leonard, Harper’s she makes clear, not only explored but transformed the heavens.” —Anthony Grafton, New York Review of Books September 352 p. 6 x 9 “Bruno seems to have been an unclassifiable mixture of foul- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73024-0 Paper $18.00/£12.50 mouthed Neapolitan mountebank, loquacious poet, religious reformer, BIOGRAPHY HISTORY scholastic philosopher, and slightly wacky astronomer.” Previously published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux ISBN: 0-8090-9524-6 —Anthony Gottlieb, New York Times Book Review “A marvelous feat of scholarship. . . . This is intellectual biography at its best.”—Peter N. Miller, New Republic “An excellent starting point for anyone who wants to rediscover the historical figure concealed beneath the cowl on Campo de’ Fiori.” —Paula Findlen, Nation

Ingrid D. Rowland lives in Rome, where she teaches at the University of Notre Dame’s School of Architecture, and is a regular essayist for the New York Review of Books and the New Republic. She is the author of many books, including The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

paperbacks 83 Roger Ebert Scorsese by Ebert

With a Foreword by Martin Scorsese

oger Ebert wrote the first film review that director Martin Scorsese ever received—for 1967’s I Call First, later renamed RWho’s That Knocking at My Door—creating a lasting bond that made him one of Scorsese’s most appreciative and perceptive commen- tators. Scorsese by Ebert offers the first record of America’s most respected film critic’s engagement with the works of America’s greatest living director, chronicling every single feature film in Scorsese’s considerable oeuvre, from his aforementioned debut to his 2008 release, the Rolling Stones documentary Shine a Light.

“A film-by-film chronicling of the profession- In the course of eleven interviews done over almost forty years, al, yet passionate, Ebert-Scorsese relation- the book also includes Scorsese’s own insights on both his accomplish- ship. . . . A work of obvious affection, even ments and disappointments. Ebert has also written and included six adoration, what might surprise readers new reconsiderations of the director’s less commented upon films, as most is how Scorsese by Ebert emerges as well as a substantial introduction that provides a framework for under- a work of profound identification.” standing both Scorsese and his profound impact on American cinema. —Time “Given their career-long back-and-forth, this collection makes perfect sense. . . . In these reconsiderations, Ebert invites us into his September 314 p. 6 x 9 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-18203-2 thought processes, letting us see not just what he thinks, but how he Paper $16.00/£11.00 forms his opinions. Ebert’s insights into Scorsese are terrific, but this FILM Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-18202-5 book offers the bonus of further insights into Ebert himself.”—Time Out Chicago “Ebert, film critic for theChicago Sun-Times, is an unabashed fan of Scorsese, whom he considers ‘the most gifted director of his generation.’ . . . Of special note are interviews with Scorsese over a twenty- five-year period, in which the director candidly discusses his body of work.”—Publishers Weekly

Roger Ebert is the Pulitzer Prize–winning film critic of theChicago Sun-Times. Starting in 1975, he cohosted a long-running weekly movie review program on television, first with Gene Siskel and then with Richard Roeper. He is the author of numerous books on film, includingThe Great Movies, The Great Movies II, and Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert, the last published by the University of Chicago Press.

84 paperbacks Anne Whiston Spirn Daring to Look Dorothea Lange’s Photographs and Reports from the Field

aring to Look presents never-before-published photos and captions from Dorothea Lange’s fieldwork in California, the DPacific Northwest, and North Carolina during 1939. Lange’s images of squatter camps, benighted farmers, and stark landscapes are stunning, and her captions—which range from simple explanations of settings to historical notes and biographical sketches—add unex- “These images endure, not as relics of the pected depth, bringing her subjects and their struggles unforgettably past but as vital, living documents. We to life, often in their own words. stare, the images stare back, and recognition flashes in our eyes.” When Lange was dismissed from the Farm Security Administra- —Louis P. Masur, tion at the end of 1939, these photos and field notes were consigned to Los Angeles Times archives, where they languished, rarely seen. With Daring to Look, Anne

Whiston Spirn not only returns them to the public eye, but sets them September 384 p., 195 halftones 81/2 x 101/2 in the context of Lange’s pioneering life, work, and struggle for critical 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-76985-1 recognition—firmly placing Lange in her rightful position at the fore- Paper $30.00/£20.50 HISTORY PHOTOGRAPHY front of American photography. Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-76984-4 “A thoughtful and meticulously researched account of Lange’s career. . . . Spirn, a photographer herself, traces Lange’s path, visiting her locations and subjects in a fascinating series of ‘then and now’ shots.”—Publishers Weekly “Dorothea Lange has long been regarded as one of the most brilliant photographic witnesses we have ever had to the peoples and landscapes of America, but until now no one has fully appreciated the richness with which she wove images together with words to convey her insights about this nation. We are lucky indeed that Anne Whiston Spirn, herself a gifted photographer and writer, has now recovered Lange’s field notes and woven them into a rich tapestry of texts and images to help us reflect anew on Lange’s extraordinary body of work.”—William Cronon, author of Nature’s Metropolis

Anne Whiston Spirn is professor of landscape architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A photographer herself, she is the author of The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design and The Language of Landscape.

paperbacks 85 Shirley Hazzard and Francis Steegmuller The Ancient Shore Dispatches from Naples

orn in Australia, Shirley Hazzard first moved to Naples as a young woman in the 1950s to take up a job with the United B Nations. It was the beginning of a long love affair with the city. The Ancient Shore collects the best of Hazzard’s writings on Naples, along with a classic New Yorker essay by her late husband, Francis Steegmuller. For the pair, both insatiable readers, the Naples of Pliny, Gibbon, and Auden is constantly alive to them in the present. With Hazzard as our guide, we encounter Henry James, Oscar “An exquisite companion for the armchair Wilde, and of course Goethe, but Hazzard’s concern is primarily with traveler who dreams in the languages the Naples of our own time—often violently unforgiving to innocent of literature and art. . . . A love letter to tourists, but able to transport the visitor who attends patiently to its an ancient Italian city by the sea. . . . By rhythms and history. A town shadowed by both the symbol and the re- temperament, I incline toward the under- ality of Vesuvius can never fail to acknowledge the essential precarious- stated appreciations of art and people I ness of life—nor, as the lover of Naples discovers, the human compas- find in The Ancient Shore. . . . Such passion, generosity, and friendship that are necessary to sustain it. sages, simple as they are, constitute the Beautifully illustrated with photographs from such masters as unalloyed traces of love.” Henri Cartier-Bresson and Herbert List, The Ancient Shore is a lyrical —Mindy Aloff, Washington Post Book World letter to a lifelong love: honest and clear-eyed, yet still fervently, endlessly enchanted.

september 144 p., 8 halftones 51/2 x 81/2 “Much larger than all its parts, this book does full justice to a 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-32202-5 place, and a time, where ‘nothing was pristine, except the light.’” Paper $13.00/£9.00 TRAVEL LITERATURE —Bookforum Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-32201-8 “Deep in the spell of Italy, Hazzard parses the difference between visiting and living and working in a foreign country. She writes with enormous eloquence and passion of the beauty of getting lost in a place.”—Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times “The two voices join in exquisite harmony. . . . A lovely book.” —Booklist, starred review

Shirley Hazzard is the acclaimed author of four books of nonfiction and six novels, including the National Book Award–winning The Great Fire. Francis Steegmuller (1906–94) was an editor, translator, critic, and literary biographer.

86 paperbacks Leo Durocher with Ed Linn Nice Guys Finish Last

he history of baseball is rife with colorful characters. But for sheer cantankerousness, fighting moxie, and will to win, very Tfew have come close to Leo “the Lip” Durocher. Following a five-decade career as a player and manager for baseball’s most storied franchises, Durocher teamed up with veteran sportswriter Ed Linn to tell the story of his life in the game. The resulting book, Nice Guys Finish photo

Last, is baseball at its best, brimming with personality and full of all file upi the fights and feuds, triumphs and tricks that made Durocher such a success—and an outsized celebrity. “The delight of the book is its exuberance, its sense of a life lived at full tilt. . . . Durocher began his career inauspiciously, riding the bench for the Durocher is a first-class raconteur.” powerhouse 1928 Yankees and hitting so poorly that Babe Ruth nick- —New York Times Book Review named him “the All-American Out.” But soon Durocher hit his stride: traded to St. Louis, he found his headlong play and never-say-die at- “Mr. Durocher has somehow managed to titude a perfect fit with the rambunctious “Gashouse Gang” Cardinals. be involved with more than his fair share In 1939 he was named player-manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers—and of baseball’s mythic moments and situ- almost instantly transformed the underachieving Bums into perennial ations. . . . This is Leo Durocher talking contenders. He went on to manage the New York Giants, sharing the straight as a low line drive.” glory of one of the most famous moments in baseball history, Bobby —New York Times Thomson’s “shot heard ’round the world,” which won the Giants the 1951 pennant. Durocher would later learn how it felt to be on the SEPTEMBER 456 p., 16 halftones other side of such an unforgettable moment, as his 1969 Cubs, after 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-17388-7 holding first place for 105 days, blew a seemingly insurmountable 18 /2 Paper $18.00/£12.50 game lead to the Miracle Mets. sports All the while, Durocher made as much noise off the field as on it. His perpetual feuds with players, owners, and league officials—not to mention his public associations with gamblers, riffraff, and Hollywood stars like George Raft and Laraine Day—kept his name in the headlines and spread his fame far beyond the confines of the diamond. A no-holds-barred account of a singular figure,Nice Guys Finish Last brings the personalities and play-by-play of baseball’s greatest era to vivid life, earning a place on every baseball fan’s bookshelf.

Leo Durocher (1905–91) spent nearly fifty years in the major leagues as a player and manager. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1994. Ed Linn (1922–2000) was the author of seventeen books, including Veeck—As In Wreck. paperbacks 87 Lennard J. Davis Obsession A History

e live in an age of obsession. Not only are we hopelessly devoted to our work, strangely addicted to our favorite W television shows, and desperately impassioned about our cars, we admire obsession in others: we demand that lovers be infatu- ated with one another in films, we respond to the passion of single- minded musicians, we cheer on driven athletes. To be obsessive is to be American; to be obsessive is to be modern. But obsession is not only a phenomenon of modern existence: it is a medical category—both a pathology and a goal. Behind this para-

“Beautifully written and impeccably—per- dox lies a fascinating history, which Lennard J. Davis tells in Obsession. haps obsessively—researched: important Beginning with the roots of the disease in demonic possession and reading for anyone interested in inescap- its secular successors, Davis traces the evolution of obsessive behavior able fascinations.” from a social and religious fact of life into a medical and psychiatric —Kirkus Reviews problem. From obsessive aspects of professional specialization to obsessive compulsive disorder and nymphomania, no variety of obsession “A witty and interesting historical tour of a eludes Davis’s graceful analysis. fascinating subject.” “This is an engaging book which I read with considerable—dare I —Ian Brooks, Nature say, obsessive?—enjoyment. . . . The book is laced with rich examples exemplifying obsessional people and their work.”—Christine Purdon, Times Higher Education october 296 p., 17 halftones 6 x 9 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-13784-1 “Intellectually bold and constantly insightful. . . . Manages to link Paper $17.00/£11.50 HISTORY MEDICINE Moby-Dick and the TV show Monk.”—Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-13782-7 “Those with a keen interest in (or perhaps an obsession with) obsession and its place in human culture will enjoy Davis’s book.” —Melinda Wenner, Scientific American Mind “If you should pick up the book expecting an obsessively thorough discourse, you won’t be disappointed. But Davis is a fine writer, and he grabs the reader at the outset by confessing his own childhood rituals.”—Deanna Isaacs, Chicago Reader

Lennard J. Davis is professor in the Departments of English, Disability and Human Development, and Medical Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of The Disability Studies Reader, among other books.

88 paperbacks William Davies King Collections of Nothing

early everyone collects something, even those who don’t think of themselves as collectors. William Davies King, on Nthe other hand, has devoted decades to collecting nothing— and a lot of it. With Collections of Nothing, he takes a hard look at this habitual hoarding to see what truths it can reveal about the impulse to accumulate. Part memoir, part reflection on the mania of acquisition,Collec - tions of Nothing begins with the stamp collection that King was given as a boy. In the following years, rather than rarity or pedigree, he found himself searching out the lowly and the lost, the cast-off and the unde- “Part memoir and part disquisition on the sired: objects that, merely by gathering and retaining them, he could psychological impulses behind the urge imbue with meaning, even value. As he relates the story of his burgeon- to accumulate, Collections of Nothing is ing collections, King also offers a fascinating meditation on the human a wonderfully frank and engaging look urge to collect. This wry, funny, even touching appreciation and dis- at one man’s detritus-fueled pathology. section of the collector’s art as seen through the life of a most unusual . . . King emerges by book’s end a flawed specimen will appeal to anyone who has ever felt the unappeasable but truly lovable eccentric—an ‘antimonk, power of that acquisitive fever. carefully preserving and sustaining a “What makes this book, bred of a midlife crisis, extraordinary is vital darkness, heavy with various glues, the way King weaves his autobiography into the account of his collec- through a forbidding period of enlighten- tion, deftly demonstrating that the two stories are essentially one. . . . ment.’ May this darkness reign.” —Henry Alford, His hard-won self-awareness gives his disclosures an intensity that will New York Times Book Review likely resonate with all readers, even those whose collections of nothing contain nothing at all.”—New Yorker october 160 p., 11 halftones 51/2 x 81/2 “King’s extraordinary book is a memoir served up on the backs of 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-43701-9 Paper $13.00/£9.00 all things he collects. . . . His story starts out sounding odd and singu- LITERATURE autobiography lar—who is this guy?—but by the end, you recognize yourself in a lot Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-43700-2 of what he does.”—Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune

William Davies King is professor in the Department of Theater and Dance at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

paperbacks 89 George E. Lewis A Power Stronger Than Itself The AACM and American Experimental Music

ounded in 1965 and still active today, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) is an American Finstitution with an international reputation. George E. Lewis, who joined the collective as a teenager in 1971, establishes the full importance and vitality of the AACM with this communal history, written with a symphonic sweep that draws on a cross-generational “With A Power Stronger Than Itself, Lewis chorus of voices and a rich collection of rare images. exceeds expectations. For rather than Moving from Chicago to New York to Paris, and from founding merely recount the ascent of the AACM, member Steve McCall’s kitchen table to Carnegie Hall, A Power Stronger he elegantly sets it against the backdrop Than Itself uncovers a vibrant, multicultural universe and brings to of cultural, racial, and social changes that light a major piece of the history of avant-garde music and art. shook the twentieth century. . . . Lewis “An important book. . . . Mr. Lewis narrates the AACM’s develop- unreels this tale with dramatic flourish ment with exacting context and incisive analysis. . . . Because the book and scholarly authority, in effect telling includes biographical portraits of so many participating musicians, it’s the story of not only the AACM but also a swift, engrossing read.”—New York Times the city where it’s centered, Chicago.” —Howard Reich, “In bringing intellectual breadth and what Lester Bowie calls Chicago Tribune ‘good old country ass-kicking’ to bear on past and present indignities, Lewis has produced a fitting companion to the music he celebrates.” october 690 p., 4 color plates, —Nation 71 halftones 6 x 9 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47696-4 Paper $25.00/£17.50 George E. Lewis is the Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music at MUSIC Columbia University. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship in 2002, Lewis Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-47695-7 has made over 120 recordings as composer or performer, and his publications on experimental music appear regularly in scholarly and popular journals.

90 paperbacks Three Parker Novels by Richard Stark

With a new Foreword by Luc Sante The Seventh The Handle The Rare Coin Score

arker, the ruthless antihero of Richard Stark’s eponymous mystery novels, is one of the most unforgettable characters in Phardboiled noir. Lauded by critics for his taut realism, unapologetic amorality, and razor-sharp prose style—and adored by fans who turn each intoxicating page with increasing urgency—Stark is a master of crime writing, his books as influential as any in the genre. The Uni-

“The Parkers read with the speed of pulp versity of Chicago Press has embarked on a project to return the early while unfolding with an almost Nabok- volumes of this series to print for a new generation of readers to discover ovian wit and flair.” —and become addicted to. This season’s offerings include volumes 7–9 —Richard Rayner, in the series: The Seventh, The Handle, and The Rare Coin Score. Los Angeles Times In The Seventh, the heist of a college football game goes sour, and the take is stolen by a crazed, violent amateur. Parker must outrun the “Parker is refreshingly amoral, a thief who cops—and the killer—to retrieve his cash. In The Handle, Parker is always gets away with the swag.” —Stephen King, enlisted by the mob to knock off an island casino guarded by speed- Entertainment Weekly boats and heavies, forty miles from the Texas coast. The Rare Coin Score The Seventh features the first appearance of Claire, who will steal Parker’s heister’s heart—while together they steal two million dollars of rare coins. august 166 p. 51/4 x 8 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77105-2 “Parker . . . lumbers through the pages of Richard Stark’s noir Paper $14.00/£9.50 mystery novels scattering dead bodies like peanut shells. . . . In a complex world cobe he makes things simple.”—William Grimes, New York Times The Handle “Whatever Stark writes, I read. He’s a stylist, a pro, and I thoroughly

august 176 p. 51/4 x 8 enjoy his attitude.”—Elmore Leonard ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77106-9 Paper $14.00/£9.50 “Donald Westlake’s Parker novels are among the small number mystery cobe of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you’ve been telling The Rare Coin Score yourself about War and Peace and Proust—these are the books you’ll want on that desert island.”—Lawrence Block august 160 p. 51/4 x 8 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77107-6 Paper $14.00/£9.50 Richard Stark was one of the many pseudonyms of Donald E. Westlake mystery (1933–2008), a prolific author of noir crime fiction. In 1993 the Mystery cobe Writers of America bestowed the society’s highest honor on Westlake, naming 91 paperbacks him a Grand Master. Erin Hogan Spiral Jetta A Road Trip through the Land Art of the American West

rin Hogan hit the road in her Volkswagen Jetta and headed west from Chicago in search of the monuments of American Eland art: a salty coil of rocks, four hundred stainless steel poles, a gash in a mesa, four concrete tubes, and military sheds filled with cubes. Her journey took her through the states of Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. It also took her through the states of anxiety, drunkenness, disorientation, and heat exhaustion. Spiral Jetta is a chronicle of this journey.

“I was never quite sure what Hogan was A lapsed art historian and devoted urbanite, Hogan initially looking for when she set out . . . or indeed sought firsthand experience of the monumental earthworks of the whether she found it. But I loved the ride. 1970s and ’80s—Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, Nancy Holt’s Sun Tun- In Spiral Jetta, an unashamedly honest, nels, Walter De Maria’s Lightning Field, James Turrell’s Roden Crater, slyly uproarious, ever-probing book, Michael Heizer’s Double Negative, and the contemporary art mecca of art doesn’t magically have the power to Marfa, Texas. Armed with spotty directions, no compass, and less- change lives, but it can, perhaps no less than-desert-appropriate clothing, she found most of what she was look- powerfully, change ways of seeing.” ing for and then some. —Tom Vanderbilt, New York Times Book Review “The reader emerges enlightened and even delighted. . . . Casually scrutinizing the artistic works . . . while gamely playing up her fish-out- of-water status, Hogan delivers an ingeniously engaging travelogue- Culture Trails cum-art history.”—Atlantic October 190 p., 26 halftones, 1 map “Smart and unexpectedly hilarious.”—Kevin Nance, Chicago 51/2 x 81/2 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-34846-9 Sun-Times Paper $15.00/£10.50 ART TRAVEL “One of the funniest and most entertaining road trips to be pub- Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-34845-2 lished in quite some time.”—June Sawyers, Chicago Tribune “Hogan ruminates on how the work affects our sense of time, space, size, and scale. She is at her best when she reexamines the precepts of modernism in the changing light of New Mexico, and shows how the human body is meant to be a participant in these grand constructions.”—New Yorker

Erin Hogan is director of public affairs at the Art Institute of Chicago.

92 paperbacks Jan R. Van Meter Tippecanoe and Tyler Too Famous Slogans and Catchphrases in American History

y necessity, by proclivity, by delight,” Ralph Waldo Emerson said in 1876, “we all quote.” But often the phrases that fall Bmost readily from our collective lips—like “fire when ready,” “speak softly and carry a big stick,” or “nice guys finish last”—are those whose origins and true meanings we have ceased to consider. Restor- ing three-dimensionality to more than fifty of these American sayings, “As the great philosopher George Santaya- Tippecanoe and Tyler Too turns clichés back into history by telling the life na would have said, ‘those who cannot stories of the words that have served as our most powerful battle cries, remember the past . . . should simply read rallying points, laments, and inspirations. Jan Van Meter’s Tippecanoe and Tyler In individual entries on slogans and catchphrases from the early Too.’ Van Meter’s greatest hits collection seventeenth to the late twentieth century, Jan R. Van Meter reveals that of slogans is the catchiest ever retelling each one is a living, malleable entity that has profoundly shaped and of American history. It’s like the great- continues to influence our public culture. From John Winthrop’s est minds of Madison Avenue sat down “We shall be as a city upon a hill” and the 1840 Log Cabin Campaign’s to write a history book. They don’t make “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too” to Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a sound bites like they used to!” dream” and Ronald Reagan’s “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall,” —Mo Rocca, each of Van Meter’s selections emerges as a memory device for a larger author of All the Presidents’ Pets political or cultural story. Taken together in Van Meter’s able hands, these famous slogans and catchphrases give voice to our common his- november 344 p. 6 x 9 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-84969-0 tory even as we argue about where it should lead us. Paper $16.00/£11.00 AMERICAN HISTORY “As Van Meter argues, these are important ‘memory devices for a Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-84968-3 larger story.’ . . . The author has thoroughly researched all the catchphrases . . . . This book would make delightful in-flight reading or a nice gift for a trivia buff. Recommended.”—Choice

Jan R. Van Meter is a former public relations executive, CIA intelligence analyst, English professor, and speechwriter.

paperbacks 93 Jurgen Brauer and Hubert v a n Tuyll Castles, Battles, and Bombs How Economics Explains Military History

astles, Battles, and Bombs reconsiders key episodes of military history from the point of view of economics—with dramati- Ccally insightful results. For example, when looked at as a question of sheer cost, the building of castles in the High Middle Ages seems almost inevitable: though stunningly expensive, a strong castle was far cheaper to maintain than a standing army. The authors also “The authors have cogently synthesized reexamine the strategic bombing of Germany in World War II and an extensive literature to effectively provide new insights into France’s decision to develop nuclear weapons. demonstrate to nonspecialists how basic Drawing on these examples and more, Jurgen Brauer and Hubert van economic concepts can provide insights Tuyll suggest lessons for today’s military, from counterterrorist strategy into the nature of war.” and military manpower planning to the use of private military compa- —Choice nies in Afghanistan and Iraq. “In bringing economics into assessments of military history, the au- September 432 p., 23 line drawings, 21 tables 6 x 9 thors turn their interdisciplinary lens on the mercenary arrangements 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07164-0 of Renaissance Italy; the wars of Marlborough, Frederick the Great, Paper $18.00/£12.50 MILITARY HISTORY ECONOMICS and Napoleon; Grant’s campaigns in the Civil War; and the strategic Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-07163-3 bombings of World War II. The results are invariably stimulating.” —Martin Walker, Wilson Quarterly “This study is serious, creative, important. As an economist I am happy to see economics so professionally applied to illuminate major decisions in the history of warfare.”—Thomas C. Schelling, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics

Jurgen Brauer is professor of economics in the James M. Hull College of Business at Augusta State University and the author of Arms Trade and Eco- nomic Development. Hubert van Tuyll is professor of history and chair of the Department of History, Anthropology, and Philosophy at Augusta State University. He is the author of The Netherlands and World War I.

94 paperbacks 3rd PROOF ❍✔ MARY ❍ ALICE

The Year of the Gorilla “In the course of his fresh, bright book, Schaller does not so much George B. Schaller argue for his biological ecumenism With a new Postscript as—talking, walking, doing, going, This seminal work chronicles George and offers a warning against poaching describing—he exemplifies it.” B. Schaller’s two years of travel and ob- and other human threats against these —Naomi Bliven, servation of gorillas in East and Central endangered creatures. This edition fea- New Yorker Africa in the late 1950s, high in the tures a postscript detailing Schaller’s Virunga volcanoes on the Zaire-Rwan- more recent visits with gorillas, current november 290 p., 30 halftones, 27 line drawings, 3 maps 51/4 x 8 da-Uganda border. There, he learned to 2009. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73647-1 that these majestic animals, far from be- “Whether the author is tracking Paper $25.00s/£17.50 ing the aggressive apes of film and fic- gorillas, slipping past elephant herds on science tion, form close-knit societies of caring narrow jungle paths, avoiding poach- mothers and protective fathers watch- ers’ deadfalls, or routing Watusi invad- ing over playful young. Alongside his ers, this is an exciting book. Although observations of gorilla society, Schaller Schaller feels that this is ‘not an adven- celebrates the enforced yet splendid sol- ture book,’ few readers will be able to itude of the naturalist, recounts the ad- agree.”—Irven DeVore, Science ventures he experienced along the way,

George B. Schaller is a senior conservationist at the Wildlife Conservation Society and vice president of Panthera, a foundation devoted to the conservation of wild cats. He is the author of many books, including The Mountain Gorilla and The Last Panda, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

The Serengeti Lion Winner of the National Book Award A Study of Predator-Prey Relations “By the time the reader has finished George B. Schaller this book, the Serengeti, its landscapes, seasons, and wild- Based on three years of study in the beauty of the intimate interdependence life, takes shape in the mind as a Serengeti National Park, George B. of all living things.”—Saturday Review complex and epic poem, each part Schaller’s The Serengeti Lion describes the “If you have only enough time to read a function of every other part and vast impact of the lion and other preda- one book about field biology, this is the each part a function of the whole.” tors on the great herds of wildebeest, one I recommend.”—Edward O. Wilson, —George Stade, zebra, and gazelle for which the area is Science New York Times Book Review famous. The most comprehensive book “This is an important book, not available on the lion, this classic work just for its valuable information on li- Wildlife Behavior and Ecology includes the author’s findings on all as- ons, but for its broad, open, and intel- pects of lion behavior, including its so- ligent approach to problems that cut november 494 p., 43 halftones 3 1 cial system, population dynamics, hunt- across the fields of behavior, popula- 6 /4 x 9 /2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73640-2 ing behavior, and predation patterns. tions, ecology, wildlife management, Paper $30.00s/£20.50 “This book conveys not only the evolution, anthropology, and compara- science fascination of its particular study of lion tive biology.”—Richard G. Van Gelder, behavior but the drama and wonder and Bioscience

paperbacks 95 “The Tragic Sense of Life is an im- The Tragic Sense of Life mensely impressive work of biography and intellectual history, and a Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought Robert J. Richards fitting testament to a complex and contradictory character. . . . Rich- Prior to World War I, more people as a moving account of Haeckel’s event- ards succeeds brilliantly in reestab- learned of evolutionary theory from ful life. lishing Haeckel as a significant the voluminous writings of Charles “This is a brilliant book. . . . It is scientist and a major figure in the Darwin’s foremost champion in Ger- intellectually brilliant, offering an ac- history of evolutionary thought.” many, Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919), than count of Haeckel as driven by tragic —P. D. Smith, from any other source, including the failures in love that colored his view of Times Literary Supplement writings of Darwin himself. But, with life. And the book is brilliant scholar- detractors ranging from paleontolo- ship, drawing on a wide range of sourc- october 512 p., 8 color plates, gist Stephen Jay Gould to modern-day es to paint a quite different picture of 122 halftones 6 x 9 creationists and advocates of intelligent Haeckel’s work than other scholars 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-71216-1 design, Haeckel is better known as a have achieved.”—History and Philosophy Paper $25.00s/£17.50 divisive figure than as a pioneering bi- of the Life Sciences HISTORY SCIENCE ologist. Robert J. Richards’s intellectual Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-71214-7 “An excellent, well-illustrated, biography rehabilitates Haeckel, pro- and scholarly biography of Haeckel.” viding the most accurate measure of —Andrew Robinson, Financial Times his science and art yet written, as well

Robert J. Richards is the Morris Fishbein Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Chicago and the author of The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

“This book is an excellent comple- The Theological Origins of Modernity ment to Charles Taylor’s A Secular Michael Allen Gillespie Age and a powerful counterpoint to

Mark Lilla’s The Stillborn God. All Exposing the religious roots of our understood as a series of attempts to three hold that the story of modern ostensibly godless age, Michael Allen formulate a new and coherent meta- philosophy is both superficial and Gillespie reveals in this landmark study physics or theology. hollow if its theological/metaphys- that modernity is much less secular “Bringing the history of political ical components are denied. Highly than conventional wisdom suggests. thought up to date and situating it Taking as his starting point the col- against the backdrop of contemporary recommended.” lapse of the medieval world, Gillespie events, Gillespie’s analyses provide us a —Choice argues that from the very beginning, way to begin to have conversations with moderns sought not to eliminate reli- the Islamic world about what is perhaps September 368 p. 6 x 9 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-29346-2 gion but to support a new view of re- the central question within each of the Paper $22.50s/£15.50 ligion and its place in human life. He three monotheistic religions: if God is PHILOSOPHY POLITICAL SCIENCE goes on to explore the ideas of such fig- omnipotent, then what is the place of Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-29345-5 ures as William of Ockham, Petrarch, human freedom?”—Joshua Mitchell, Erasmus, Luther, Descartes, and Hob- Georgetown University bes, showing that modernity is best

Michael Allen Gillespie is the Jerry G. and Patricia Crawford Hubbard Professor of Politi- cal Science in Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and professor of philosophy at Duke University. He is the author of Hegel, Heidegger, and the Ground of History and Nihilism Before Nietzsche, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

96 paperbacks Imperial City Rome under Napoleon Susan Vandiver Nicassio

In 1798 the armies of the French Revolu- Romans in the age of Napoleon. tion tried to transform Rome from the “A remarkable book that wonder- capital of the Papal States to a Jacobin fully vivifies an understudied era in the Republic. For the next two decades, history of Rome. . . . This book will en- Rome was the subject of power struggles gage anyone interested in early modern between the forces of the Empire and cities, the relationship between religion the Papacy, while Romans endured the and daily life, and the history of the city unsuccessful efforts of Napoleon’s best of Rome.”—Journal of Modern History and brightest to pull the ancient city into “An engaging account of Tosca’s the modern world. Against this histori- Rome. . . . Nicassio provides a fluent cal backdrop, Susan Vandiver Nicassio introduction to her subject.”—History weaves together an absorbing social, cul- Today tural, and political history of Rome and “Meticulously researched, drawing November 256 p., 54 halftones, its people. Based on primary sources on a host of original manuscripts, mem- 3 maps 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-57973-3 and incorporating two centuries of Ital- oirs, personal letters, and secondary Paper $19.00/£13.00 ian, French, and international research, sources, enabling Nicassio to bring her european history her work reveals what life was like for story to life.”—History

Susan Vandiver Nicassio is professor of history at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She is the author of many books, including Tosca’s Rome, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Camus “Bronner succeeds in explaining Camus’ unique sense of personal Portrait of a Moralist responsibility and his lucidity, Stephen Eric Bronner tolerance, and honesty.” With a new Afterword —Library Journal Decades after his death, Albert Camus “A model of a kind of intelligent 1 1 (1913–60) is still regarded as one of the writing that should be in greater supply. september 208 p. 5 /4 x 8 /2 iSBN-13: 978-0-226-07567-9 most influential and fascinating intel- Bronner manages judiciously to com- Paper $18.00s/£12.50 lectuals of the twentieth century. This bine an appreciation for the strengths biography philosophy biography by Stephen Eric Bronner ex- of Camus and non-rancorous criticism Previously published by the University of plores the connections between his lit- of his weaknesses. . . . As a personal Minnesota Press erary work, his philosophical writings, and opinionated book, it invites the ISBN: 0-8166-3284-7 and his politics. reader into an engaging and informa- Camus illuminates his impover- tive dialogue.”—American Political Science ished childhood, his existential con- Review cerns, his activities in the antifascist re- “This concise, lively, and remark- sistance, and the controversies in which ably evenhanded treatment of the life he was engaged. Beautifully written and work of Albert Camus weaves to- and incisively argued, this study offers gether biography, philosophical analy- new insights and highlights the contem- sis, and political commentary.”—Science porary relevance of an extraordinary & Society man.

Stephen Eric Bronner is distinguished professor of political science and director of global relations at the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University.

paperbacks 97 “No other historian would have been Venice capable of writing a book as direct, The Hinge of Europe, 1081–1797 as well informed, and as little William H. McNeill weighed down by purple prose as this one. Or as impartial. McNeill In this magisterial history, National status at the frontier between the papal has succeeded admirably.” Book Award winner William H. Mc- and Orthodox Christian worlds. He —Fernand Braudel, Neill chronicles the interactions and pays particular attention to Venetian Times Literary Supplement disputes between Latin Christians and influence upon southeastern Europe, the Orthodox communities of eastern and from such an angle of vision, the november 352 p. 6 x 9 Europe during the period of 1081 to familiar pattern of European history ISBN-13: 978-0-226-56149-3 Paper $22.50s/£15.50 1797. Concentrating on Venice as the changes shape. european history hinge of European history in the late “The book is serious, interesting, medieval and early modern period, Mc- occasionally compelling, and always Neill explores the technological, eco- suggestive.”—Stanley Chojnacki, Ameri- nomic, and political bases of Venetian can Historical Review power and wealth, and the city’s unique

William H. McNeill is professor emeritus of history at the University of Chicago and winner of the National Book Award. He is the author of many books, including The Rise of the West, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Stoicism and Emotion Margaret R. Graver

On the surface, stoicism and emotion In this work, Margaret R. Graver seem like contradictory terms. Yet the gives a compelling new interpretation Stoic philosophers of ancient Greece of the Stoic position. Drawing on a vast and Rome were deeply interested in range of ancient sources, she argues the emotions, which they understood that the chief demand of Stoic ethics as complex judgments about what we is not that we should suppress or deny regard as valuable in our surround- our feelings, but that we should perfect ings. Stoicism and Emotion shows that the rational mind at the core of every they did not simply advocate a suppres- human being. sion of feeling, as stoicism implies in to- “A lucidly written . . . compellingly day’s English, but instead conducted a argued, and carefully researched in- searching examination of these power- vestigation which should remain an ful psychological responses, seeking to indispensable resource for study of november 272 p., 9 tables 6 x 9 understand what attitude toward them the Stoics on emotions for years to 2007 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30558-5 Paper $22.50s/£15.50 expresses the deepest respect for hu- come.”—Bryn Mawr Classical Review man potential. PHILOSOPHY CLASSICS Margaret R. Graver is professor of classics at Dartmouth College. Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-30557-8

98 paperbacks Isaac Israeli “Altmann and Stern are due our gratitude for illuminating with A Neoplatonic Philosopher of the Early Tenth Century such considerable scholarship a Translated, Introduced, and Annotated by Alexander Altmann corner of that remarkable interplay and Samuel M. Stern between Greek, Muslim, and Jewish With a new Foreword by Alfred Ivry ideas that constitutes one of the Recognized as one of the earliest Jew- cal writings, including the Book of Defini- most exciting and happy conse- ish Neoplatonist writers, Isaac ben Sol- tions, the Book of Substances, and the Book quences of the spread of Islam.” omon Israeli (ca. 855–955) influenced on Spirit and Soul. Additionally, Isaac —Philosophical Quarterly Muslim, Jewish, and Christian schol- Israeli features a biographical sketch ars through the Middle Ages. A native of the philosopher and extensive notes November 252 p. 51/2 x 81/2 of Egypt who wrote in Arabic, Israeli and comments on the texts, as well as ISBN-13: 978-0-226-01613-9 explored definitions of such terms as a survey and appraisal of his philoso- Paper $22.50x/£14.00 imagination, sense-perception, desire, phy. Restored to print for the first time philosophy religion love, creation, and “coming-to-be” in in decades, Isaac Israeli will be essential his writings. reading for students and scholars of me- This classic volume contains Eng- dieval philosophy and Jewish studies. lish translations of Israeli’s philosophi-

Alexander Altmann (1906–87) was the founder of the Institute of Jewish Studies and professor at Brandeis University and Harvard University, among other institutions. He authored many books, including Moses Mendelssohn: A Biographical Study. Samuel M. Stern (1920–69) was a senior research fellow of All Souls College and university lecturer in the history of Islamic civilization at the University of Oxford. He coauthored Muslim Studies (v. 1).

Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy Ibn Yaqzan “One of the most remarkable books A Philosophical Tale of the Middle Ages.” —Times Literary Supplement Edited, Translated, and with an Introduction by LeNn E. Goodman With a new Preface October 288 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30310-9 The Arabic philosophical fable Hayy text. The volume features a new preface Paper $17.00s/£11.50 Ibn Yaqzan is a classic of medieval Is- and index, as well as an updated bibli- middle eastern studies lamic philosophy. Ibn Tufayl (d. 1185), ography. an Andalusian philosopher, tells of a “An enchanting and puzzling story. happy child raised by a doe on an equa- . . . The book transcends all historical torial island who grows up to discover and cultural environments to settle the truth about the world and his own upon the questions of human life that place in it, unaided—but also unim- perpetually intrigue men.”—Middle peded—by society, language, or tradi- East Journal tion. Hayy’s discoveries about God, na- “Goodman has done a service to ture, and man challenge the values of the modern English reader by pro- the culture in which the tale was writ- viding a readable translation of a ten as well as those of every contempo- philosophically significant allegory.” rary society. —Philosophy East and West Translator Lenn E. Goodman’s “Adds bright new pieces to an Islamic commentary places Hayy Ibn Yaqzan mosaic whose general shape is already in its historical and philosophical con- known.”—American Historical Review

Lenn E. Goodman is professor of philosophy and the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. His many books include The Case of the Animals vs. Man before the King of Jinn.

paperbacks 99 John Donne, Body and Soul Ramie Targoff

For centuries readers have struggled the mutual necessity of body and soul. to fuse the seemingly scattered pieces In chapters that range from his earli- of John Donne’s works into a complete est letters to his final sermon, Targoff image of the poet and priest. In John reveals that Donne’s obsessive imagin- Donne, Body and Soul, Ramie Targoff of- ing of both the natural union and the fers a way to read Donne as a writer who inevitable division between body and returned again and again to a single soul is the most continuous and abiding great subject, one that connected to subject of his writing. his deepest intellectual and emotional “Ramie Targoff achieves the rare concerns. feat of taking early modern theol- Reappraising Donne’s oeuvre in ogy seriously, and of explaining why it pursuit of the struggles and commit- matters. Her book transforms how we ments that connect his most disparate think about Donne.”—Helen Cooper, August 208 p., 4 halftones 6 x 9 works, Targoff convincingly shows that University of Cambridge 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-78964-4 Donne believed throughout his life in Paper $20.00s/£14.00 Ramie Targoff LITERARY CRITICISM is professor of English at Brandeis University. She is the author of Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England, also published by the Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-78963-7 University of Chicago Press.

On the Fireline Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters Matthew Desmond

In this rugged account of a rugged pro- ticated analysis of a high-risk profes- fession, Matthew Desmond explores the sion—and a captivating read. heart and soul of the wildland firefight- “Gripping. . . . A masterful account er. Having joined a firecrew in north- of how young men are able to face down ern Arizona as a young man, Desmond wildfire, and why they volunteer for such relates his experiences with intimate an enterprise in the first place.”—David knowledge and native ease, adroitly Grazian, Sociological Forum balancing emotion with analysis and “Along with the risks and sorrow, action with insight. On the Fireline shows Desmond also presents the humor and that these firefighters aren’t adrenaline camaraderie of ordinary men perform- junkies or romantic heroes, as they’re ing extraordinary tasks. . . . A good so often portrayed. Fieldwork Encounters and complement to Norman Maclean’s Discoveries An immersion into a dangerous Young Men and Fire. Recommended.” world, On the Fireline is also a sophis- —Library Journal August 368 p., 32 halftones, 1 line drawing 6 x 9 Matthew Desmond is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at the University of 2007 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-14409-2 Wisconsin–Madison. Paper $18.00s/£12.50 CURRENT EVENTS Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-14408-5

100 paperbacks Madwomen “Couch offers a succinct, comprehensive biocritical introduction to The Locas mujeres Poems of Gabriela Mistral, Mistral and her ‘Locas mujeres’ a Bilingual Edition poems, particularly exploring Gabriela Mistral autobiographical issues in the Edited and Translated by Randall Couch poems. . . . Plentiful information on Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957) is one of bilingual reader to jump back and forth the rich cross-references . . . in the most important and enigmatic fig- between the original poem and the Mistral’s poems and on the identi- ures in twentieth-century Latin Ameri- translation to elucidate the meaning of ties of those to whom Mistral can literature. The Locas mujeres poems a particularly sophisticated word or to dedicated her poems enhances this collected here are among Mistral’s tease out the meaning of an unfamiliar volume, which will interest Spanish most complex and compelling, explor- phrasing in the Spanish.”—Translation and English speakers alike.” ing facets of the self in extremis—poems Journal —Choice marked by the wound of blazing catas- “Randall Couch has gathered a trophe and its aftermath of mourning. remarkable collection. . . . He has ac- October 160 p. 51/2 x 81/2 Madwomen promises to reveal a pro- cepted the challenge of setting them 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-53191-5 found poet to a new generation while forth in English, and one can only re- Paper $18.00s/£12.50 reacquainting Spanish readers with a spect and applaud his efforts, under- POETRY stranger, more complicated “madwom- taken with painstaking scholarship and Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-53190-8 an” than most have ever known. impassioned linguistic acuity.”—Calque “This volume makes it easy for the

Randall Couch is adjunct professor of English at Arcadia University and an administrator at the University of Pennsylvania. He received Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowships in poetry in 2000 and 2008.

Building the Devil’s Empire French Colonial New Orleans Shannon Lee Dawdy

Building the Devil’s Empire is the first com- how colonialism works. prehensive history of New Orleans’s “A penetrating study of the colony’s early years, tracing the town’s develop- founding.”—Nation ment from its origins in 1718 to its revolt “A brilliant and spirited reinterpre- against Spanish rule in 1768. Shannon tation of the emergence of French New Lee Dawdy’s picaresque account of New Orleans. Dawdy leads us deep into the Orleans’s wild youth features a cast of daily life of the city, and along the many strong-willed captives, thin-skinned paths that connected it to France, the nobles, sharp-tongued women, and ca- North American interior, and the Great- rousing travelers. But she also widens er Caribbean. A major contribution to her lens to reveal the port city’s global our understanding of the history of the significance, examining its role in the Americas and of the French Atlantic, the French Empire and the Caribbean, and September 336 p., 7 color plates, work is also a model of interdisciplinary 8 halftones, 5 maps, 1 figure, 2 tables she concludes that by exemplifying a research and analysis, skillfully bringing 6 x 9 kind of rogue colonialism—where gov- together archival research, archaeology, 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-13842-8 Paper $22.50s/£15.50 ernments, outlaws, and capitalism be- and literary analysis.”—Laurent Dubois, come entwined—New Orleans should Duke University AMERICAN HISTORY ANTHROPOLOGY prompt us to reconsider our notions of Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-13841-1

Shannon Lee Dawdy is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago and coeditor of Dialogues in Cuban Archaeology.

paperbacks 101 “This is not a standard biography Richard Owen in the traditional sense, but a Biology without Darwin marvelous interrogation of one of Victorian Britain’s major scien- Revised Edition Nicolaas Rupke tists. It succeeds in capturing the remarkable and multifaceted career In the mid-1850s, no scientist in the from history. of Richard Owen himself, while British Empire was more visible than With this innovative biography, Ni- at the same time opening up the Richard Owen. Mentioned in the same colaas Rupke resuscitates Owen’s repu- entire culture of British natural breath as Newton and championed as tation. Arguing that Owen should no history in the nineteenth century. Britain’s answer to France’s Cuvier and longer be judged by the evolution dis- An outstanding work.” Germany’s von Humboldt, Owen was, pute that figured in only a minor part —David Livingstone, as the Times declared in 1856, the most of his work, Rupke stresses context, em- Queen’s University Belfast “distinguished man of science in the phasizing the importance of places and country.” But a century and a half later, practices in the production and recep- August 356 p., 20 halftones, 2 tables Owen remains largely obscured by the tion of scientific knowledge. Dovetailing 6 x 9 shadow of the most famous Victorian with the recent resurgence of interest ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73177-3 Paper $29.00s/£20.00 naturalist of all, Darwin. Publicly mar- in Owen’s life and work, Rupke’s book ginalized by his contemporaries for his SCIENCE brings the forgotten naturalist back into critique of natural selection, Owen suf- the canon of the history of science and fered personal attacks that undermined demonstrates how much biology existed his credibility long after his name faded with, and without, Darwin.

Nicolaas Rupke is professor of the history of science at Göttingen University and the author of Alexander von Humboldt: A Metabiography, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Physiologus A Medieval Book of Nature Lore Translated by Michael J. Curley With a new Preface

One of the most popular and widely ologus will delight readers with its an- read books of the Middle Ages, Physiolo- cient tales of ant-lions, centaurs, and gus contains allegories of beasts, stones, hedgehogs—and their allegorical sig- and trees both real and imaginary, in- nificance. fused by their anonymous author with “An elegant little book . . . still di- the spirit of Christian moral and mysti- verting to look at today. . . . The wood- October 144 p., 20 halftones cal teaching. cuts reproduced from the 1587 Rome 51/2 x 81/2 Accompanied by an introduction edition are alone worth the price of the 1979 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-12870-2 Paper $17.00s/£11.50 that explains the origins, history, and book.”—Raymond A. Sokolov, New York literary value of this curious text, this Times Book Review HISTORY volume also reproduces twenty wood- “Curley gives a careful account of cuts from the 1587 version. Originally the history and development of Physiolo- composed in the fourth century in gus, including the insoluble problem of Greek, and translated into dozens of its authorship.”—Anne Clark, Washing- versions through the centuries, Physi- ton Post Book World

Michael J. Curley is professor emeritus of English at the University of Puget Sound. He is the author of many books, including Alessandro Manzoni: Two Plays.

102 paperbacks Aristotle’s Dialogue with Socrates “This is the best book I have read on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. It On the Nicomachean Ethics is so well crafted that reading it is Ronna Burger like reading the Ethics itself, in that it provides an education in ethi- What is the good life for a human be- by approaching it as Aristotle’s dialogue ing? Aristotle’s exploration of this ques- with the Platonic Socrates. cal matters that does justice to all tion in the Nicomachean Ethics has estab- Tracing the argument of the Eth- sides of the issues.” lished it as a founding work of Western ics as it emerges through that approach, —Mary P. Nichols, philosophy, though its teachings have Burger’s careful reading shows how Ar- Baylor University long puzzled readers and provoked istotle represents ethical virtue from August 320 p. 6 x 9 spirited discussion. Adopting a radi- the perspective of those devoted to it 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08052-9 cally new point of view, Ronna Burger while standing back to examine its as- Paper $22.50s/£15.50 deciphers some of the most perplexing sumptions and implications. PHILOSOPHY CLASSICS conundrums of this influential treatise Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-08050-5

Ronna Burger is professor of philosophy at Tulane University.

The Analysis of the Self “Kohut has done for narcissism what Charles Dickens did for poverty in the A Systematic Approach to the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Narcissistic Personality Disorders nineteenth century. Everyone always knew that both existed and were a Heinz Kohut problem. . . . The undoubted original-

Psychoanalyst, teacher, and scholar, dustry standard of the treatment of ity is to have put it together in a form Heinz Kohut was one of the twentieth personality disorders for a generation which carries appeal to action.” century’s most important intellectuals. of analysts. This volume, best known —International Journal A rebel according to many mainstream for its groundbreaking analysis of nar- of Psychoanalysis psychoanalysts, Kohut challenged cissism, is essential reading for scholars Freudian orthodoxy and the medical and practitioners seeking to under- September 384 p. 6 x 9 1971 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-45012-4 control of psychoanalysis in America. stand human personality in its many Paper $25.00s/£17.50 In his highly influential bookThe Analy- incarnations. PSYCHOLOGY sis of the Self, Kohut established the in-

Heinz Kohut (1913–81) was professorial lecturer in psychiatry at the University of Chicago and president of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He is the author of many books, including How Does Analysis Cure? and The Curve of Life, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

The Restoration of the Self “Kohut speaks clearly from his Heinz Kohut identity as a psychoanalyst-healer, showing that he is more of a In his foundational work The Restoration issues such as the role of narcissism psychoanalyst than most, and yet of the Self, noted psychoanalyst Heinz in personality, when a patient can be calling for major theoretical revi- Kohut boldly challenges “the limits of considered cured, and the oversimpli- sions including a redefinition of the classical analytic theory” and the Freud- fications and social biases that unduly ian orthodoxy. Here Kohut proposes a influenced Freudian thought. This vol- essence of psychoanalysis.” “psychology of the self” as a theory in ume puts forth some of Kohut’s most in- —American Journal of Psychotherapy its own right—one that can stand be- fluential ideas on achieving emotional side the teachings of Freud and Jung. health through a balanced, creative, September 368 p. 6 x 9 and joyful sense of self. Using clinical data, Kohut explores 1977 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-45013-1 Paper $25.00s/£17.50 Heinz Kohut (1913–81) was professorial lecturer in psychiatry at the University of Chicago and president of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He is the author of many books, PSYCHOLOGY including How Does Analysis Cure? and The Curve of Life, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

paperbacks 103 Distributed books Reaktion Books 105 Seagull Books 119 Architects Research Foundation 134 British Library 135 Planners Press, American Planning Association 141 National Journal Group 142 Bodleian Library, University of Oxford 144 Dana Press 147 American Meteorological Society 148 Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago 149 Prickly Paradigm Press 153 Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University 154 Verlag Scheidegger and Spiess 155 Swan Isle Press 158 The Karolinum Press, Charles University Prague 159 Smart Museum of Art 160 KWS Publishers 161 Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs 165 Intellect Books 166 Brigham Young University 170 University of Alaska Press 170 University of Chicago Center in Paris 175 Amsterdam University Press 176 University of Exeter Press 184 Campus Verlag 188 Liverpool University Press 191 University of Wales Press 198 University of Scranton Press 206 Eburon Publishers, Delft 209 Fondazione Rossini 210 Mels v a n Driel Manhood The Rise and Fall of the Penis Translated by Paul Vincent

The ancient Greeks paraded enormous sculptural replicas in annual celebration. Freud theorized that women envied them. An undeniable, global symbol of power and virility since the beginning of humankind, the penis has been much discussed, gestured toward, and depicted, yet seldom understood outside folklore and popular culture’s uneasy mix of self-deprecation and aggrandizement. Despite the penis’s central role in human life or perhaps due to that role, nearly every man seems to suffer in isolation or silence from some perceived inadequacy or affliction. That’s where experienced urologist and sexologist Mels van Driel October 500 p., 30 halftones 51/2 x 81/2 comes in. In Manhood, he offers an unprecedented history of the ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-542-4 Cloth $35.00 penis—with answers to everything you ever wanted to know, and even History some questions you’d never thought to ask. Manhood considers the NSA male sexual organ from medical, psychological, and cultural perspectives. Van Driel’s fascinating study ranges from circumcision to infertil- ity and from impotence to the speed of ejaculation. Psychological factors that have an impact on sexual experience, as well as contemporary phenomena, such as cybersex, are given enlightening treatment along the way as well. With good humor and much insight, van Driel offers diverse and instructive examples. This informative guide is not just a book for men, but for women too—anyone curious to know the facts behind the many myths and stories of the penis.

Mels van Driel is a urologist and sexologist at the University Medical Center in Groningen in the Netherlands. He has written widely for scientific publications, newspapers, and magazines. Paul Vincent has been a translator from Dutch and German to English for twenty years.

Reaktion Books 105 Thor Gotaas Running A Global History Translated by Peter Graves

n the past decade, the number of Americans who consider themselves runners has more than doubled—in 2008, more than 16 Imillion Americans claimed to have run or jogged at least one hundred days in the year. Though running now thrives as a convenient and accessible form of exercise, it is no surprise to learn that the craze is not truly new; humans have been running as long as they could walk. What may be surprising, however, are the myriad reasons why we have performed this exhausting yet exhilarating activity through the

“An obligatory Christmas present for ages. In this humorous and unique world history, Thor Gotaas collects everyone who can both run and read. . . . numerous unusual and curious stories of running, from ancient times [The book includes] a whole universe of to modern marathons and Olympic competitions. fascinating anecdotes.” Among the many examples that illustrate Gotaas’s history are King —Bjørn Gabrielsen, Shulgi of Mesopotamia, who four millennia ago boasted of running Dagens Næringsliv from Nippur to Ur, a distance of not less than one hundred miles. Gotaas’s account also includes ancient Egyptian pharaohs who ran to October 320 p., 15 halftones prove their vitality and maintain their power, Norwegian Vikings who 51/2 x 8 1/2 ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-526-4 exercised by running races against animals, as well as little-known Cloth $35.00 Sports naked runs, bar endurance tests, backward runs, monk runs, snowshoe NSA runs, and the Incas’ ingenious network of professional runners. The perfect gift for the sprinter, the marathoner, or the daily jog- ger, this intriguing world history will appeal to all who wish to know more about why the ancients shared our love—and hatred—of this demanding but rewarding pastime. “An effortless run through history. Thor Gotaas takes us with him on a well-gauged tour through the amazing and many-sided world history of running, elegantly told without for a moment being monotonous.”—Per Haddal, Aftenposten

Thor Gotaas is a writer who specializes in folklore and cultural history. His previous books include The Gypsies, The First in the Race: The History of Cross- Country Skiing in Norway, and Ski Makers: The History of Norwegian Skis. Peter Graves heads the School of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh and has translated many books.

106 Reaktion Books Elisabeth Hardouin-Fugier A History of Bullfighting Translated by Sue Rose

s Ernest Hemingway wrote in Death in the Afternoon, “Bull- fighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of A death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.” Art? Ritual? Sport? Cruelty? Though opinions are divided, one thing is certain: bullfighting sparks passionate responses. Supporters argue that bullfighting is a culturally November 224 p., 50 color plates, important tradition stretching back thousands of years, while animal 50 halftones 71/2 x 94/5 ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-518-9 rights groups argue that it is cruel and barbaric, causing unnecessary Paper $35.00 suffering to both bulls and horses. In A History of Bullfighting, Elisabeth History NSA Hardouin-Fugier brings clarity to this debate through an exploration of the long history of killing bulls as public spectacle. A History of Bullfighting is the first cross-cultural study of bullfighting, covering Europe and the Americas. Hardouin-Fugier shows how each continent has its own unique style and tools of the trade. For example, in North America, the favored technique is grabbing the bull by the horns, but in Europe the bull is run through with a sword. In the late 1700s, bullfights became mass leisure activities, with paying spectators packing into arenas—the classic bullfight of popular imagination. It was at this time that the bullfight became a big business and the bullfighter became a celebrity. In this vivid and comprehensive history, Hardouin-Fugier also explores the extensive influence of the bullfight on art, literature, and culture from the paintings of Goya to the writings of Georges Bataille. Enriched with many fascinating and sometimes disturbing illustrations, A History of Bullfighting presents a discerning and intelligent approach to a divisive practice. Hardouin-Fugier’s informative history will enthrall anyone who has been curious about bullfighting—supporters and detractors alike.

Elisabeth Hardouin-Fugier is professor of art history at the Université Jean Moulin in Lyon. She is the author of A History of Floral Painting and A History of French Still Life in the Nineteenth Century and coauthor of Zoo: A History of Zoological Gardens in the West, also published by Reaktion Books. Sue Rose has been working as a translator from French and Italian for more than seventeen years. Reaktion Books 107 Chocolate A Global History Sarah Moss and Alec Badenoch

Chocolate layer cake. Fudge brownies. sociated with sexuality, sin, blood, and Chocolate chip cookies. Boxes of choc- sacrifice. The first Spanish accounts olate truffles. Cups of cocoa. Hot fudge claim that the Aztecs and Mayans used sundaes. Chocolate is synonymous with chocolate as a substitute for blood in our cultural sweet tooth, our restaurant sacrificial rituals and as a currency to dessert menus, and our idea of indul- replace gold. In the eighteenth cen- gence. Chocolate is adored around the tury, chocolate became regarded as an world and has been since the Spanish aphrodisiac—the first step on the road first encountered cocoa beans in South to today’s boxes of Valentine delights. America in the sixteenth century. It is Chocolate also looks at today’s mass-pro- seen as magical, addictive, and powerful duction of chocolate, with brands such beyond anything that can be explained as Hershey’s, Lindt, and Cadbury domi- Edible by its ingredients, and in Chocolate Sar- nating our supermarket shelves. ah Moss and Alec Badenoch explore Packed with tempting images and September 128 p., 40 color plates, the origins and growth of this almost 20 halftones 43/4 x 73/4 decadent descriptions of chocolate ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-524-0 universal obsession. Moss and Bade- throughout the ages, Chocolate will be Cloth $15.95 noch recount the history of chocolate, as irresistible as the tasty treats it de- cooking which from ancient times has been as- scribes. NSA Sarah Moss is a senior lecturer in English literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury. She has written widely on the literature and culture of food. Alec Badenoch is an instructor in media and cultural studies at Utrecht University, and the author of Voices in Ruins: West German Radio across the 1945 Divide.

Cheese A Global History Andrew Dalby

Take a slice of bread. It’s perfectly okay its modern rebirth. Here you will find in and of itself. Maybe it has a nice, crisp the most ancient cheese appellations, crust or the scent of sourdough. But re- the first written description of the ally, it’s rather boring. Now melt some cheese-making process, a list of the lux- cheese on it—a sharp Vermont cheddar ury cheeses of classical Rome, the medi- or a flavorful Swiss Gruyère. Mmm, deli- eval rule-of-thumb for identifying good cious. Cheese—it’s the staple food, the cheese, and even the story of how loyal accessory that makes everything better, cheese lover Samuel Pepys saved his from the hamburger to the ordinary parmesan from the Great Fire of Lon- sandwich to a bowl of macaroni. Yet de- don. Dalby reveals that cheese is one of spite its many uses and variations, there the most ancient of civilized foods, and has never before been a global history he suggests that our passion for cheese Edible of cheese, but here at last is a succinct, may even lay behind the early establish- authoritative account, revealing how ment of global trade. September 128 p., 40 color plates, cheese was invented as well as where, Packed with entertaining facts, 20 halftones 43/4 x 73/4 ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-523-3 when, and even why. anecdotes, and images, Cheese also fea- Cloth $15.95 In bite-sized chapters, well-known tures a selection of historic recipes. For cooking food historian Andrew Dalby tells the those who crave a pungent stilton, a NSA true and savory story of cheese, from its creamy brie, or a salty pecorino, Cheese prehistoric invention to the moment of is the perfect snack of a book.

Andrew Dalby is a linguist, translator, and historian based in France. He is the author of many books, including Bacchus: A Biography; Flavours of Byzantium; Food in the Ancient World from A to Z ; and Dangerous Tastes: The Story of Spices, which was named Food Book of the 108 Reaktion Books Year by the Guild of Food Writers. Curry A Global History Colleen Taylor Sen

Curry is one of the most widely used— of the Caribbean; kari/raisu, Japan’s fa- and misused—terms in the culinary vorite comfort food; Indonesian gulais lexicon. Outside of India, the word cur- and rendang; Malaysia’s delicious Nonya ry is often used as a catchall to describe cuisine; and exotic Western hybrids any Indian dish or Indian food in gen- such as American curried chicken sal- eral, yet Indians rarely use it to describe ad, German currywurst, and Punjabi- their own cuisine. Curry answers the Mexican-Hindu pizza. Along the way, question, “What is curry?” by giving a Sen unravels common myths about lively historical and descriptive account curry and Indian food and illuminates of a dish that has many incarnations. the world of curry with excerpts from In this global history, food writer popular songs, literary works, historical Colleen Taylor Sen describes in detail and modern recipes, and illustrations the Anglo-Indian origins of curry and depicting curry dishes and their prepa- Edible how this widely used spice has been rations. September 128 p., 40 color plates, adapted throughout the world. Explor- A vibrant, flavorful book about an 20 halftones 43/4 x 73/4 ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-522-6 ing the curry universe beyond India increasingly popular food, Curry will Cloth $15.95 and Great Britain, her chronicles in- find a wide audience of cooking enthu- Cooking clude the elegant, complex curries of siasts and hungry fans of Indian food. NSA Thailand; the exuberant curry/rotis

Colleen Taylor Sen is a food writer and journalist specializing in the cuisine of India. She is the author of Indian Cuisine and Culture and a regular contributor to such publications as Travel and Leisure, Food Arts, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Globe and Mail.

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Reaktion Books 109 Desmond Morris Owl

rom Edward Lear’s “The Owl and the Pussycat” to David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, owls have long been woven into the fabric F of popular culture. At times they are depicted as dignified, wise old scholars and at other times as foreboding voyeurs who see all and interrogate with an accusatory, “Who? Who?” In Owl, best-selling author Desmond Morris explores the natural and cultural history of these predators of the night who embody both good and evil in turn. In this fascinating book, Morris describes the evolution, the many species, and the wide spread of owls across the globe. Owls are found on every land mass around the world, with the exception of Antarctica; “Morris is one of the world’s leading and as a result of their wide distribution, owls appear in the folktales, authorities on human and animal myths, and legends of many native peoples—in addition to popular behavior.” art, film, and literature worldwide. Featuring over one hundred vivid —Forbes illustrations from nature and culture, Owl will appeal to the numerous fans of this enigmatic bird, from friendly Mr. Owls to silent, sinister, “Undeniably the quintessential observer hunters of the dark. of the human condition. . . . Always entertaining, Morris takes a complex subject Desmond Morris is a well-known and critically acclaimed writer and broad- and cogently dissects it in fine detail for a caster. His many books include The Naked Ape, The Human Zoo, and The Human critically enlightening experience.” Animal. For several years he was the host of the television program Zootime, —Booklist, on The Naked Woman and in 1959 he was appointed Curator of Mammals at the London Zoo.

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110 Reaktion Books Pigeon Barbara Allen

Our frequent urban companion, coo- lated birds. For polluting statues and ing in the eaves of train stations or architecture, the pigeon has earned a scavenging underfoot for breadcrumbs bad reputation, but Allen offers several and discarded french fries, the pigeon examples of the bird’s importance—as has many detractors—and even some a source of food and fertilizer, a bearer fans. Written out of love for and fasci- of messages during times of war, a pol- nation with this humble yet important lution monitor, and an aid to Charles bird, Barbara Allen’s Pigeon explores its Darwin in his pivotal research on evo- cultural significance, as well as its simi- lutionary theory. Allen also comments larities to and differences from its close on the literary love and celebration of counterpart, the dove. While the dove pigeons and doves in the work of such is seen as a symbol of love, peace, and writers and poets as Shakespeare, Dick- Animal goodwill, the pigeon is commonly per- ens, Beatrix Potter, Proust, and Isaac ceived as a filthy, ill-mannered flying Bashevis Singer. Along the way, Allen October 224 p., 40 color plates, rodent—a “rat with wings.” corrects the many stereotypes about 60 halftones 53/8 x 71/2 Readers will find in here an entic- pigeons in the hope that the rich his- ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-513-4 Paper $19.95 ing exploration of the historical and tory of one of the oldest human-animal contemporary bonds between humans partnerships will be both admired and nature NSA and these two unique and closely re- celebrated.

Barbara Allen is chaplain at the Lort Smith Animal Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of a picture book, I Was There, and has contributed to Peace of Mind and Uniting Church Studies.

Snail Peter Williams

So attached was the author Patricia maligned creature. Beginning with an Highsmith to snails that they became overview of our relationship with snails, her constant travelling companions. slugs, and sea snails, Williams moves on Often hidden in a large handbag, they to examine snail evolution; snail behav- provided her with comfort and com- ior and habitat; snails as food, medicine, panionship in what she perceived to be and the source of useful chemicals and a hostile world. Theirs was perhaps an dyes; snail shells as collectible objects; unusual relationship; for most of us, the and snails in literature, art, and popu- tentacled snail with his sticky trail might lar culture. Finally, in this appreciative be a delicious treat served up in garlic account of the snail, Williams offers a butter but certainly not an affectionate plea for a reconsideration of the snail pet. As well, for many a gardener, opin- as a dignified, ancient creature that de- Animal ions on the snail (and the slug, which serves our respect. is a just a snail without a shell) have Containing beautiful illustrations October 224 p., 40 color plates, been shaped by the harm they inflict and written in an approachable, infor- 60 halftones 53/8 x 71/2 on vegetable plants and seedlings. With mal style, Snail will help readers get be- ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-528-8 Paper $19.95 Snail, Peter Williams wishes to change yond the shell and slime to discover the nature our perspectives on this little but much- fascinating creature inside. NSA

Peter Williams is a doctor based in Oxford, England.

Reaktion Books 111 Ian J. Bickerton The Arab-Israeli Conflict A History

hough more than sixty years have passed since the signing of the proclamation of the State of Israel, the impact of that Tepochal event continues to shape the political policies and public opinion of not only the Middle East but much of the world. The consequent conflict between Arabs and Israelis for sovereignty over the land of Palestine has been one of the most bloody, intractable, and drawn-out of modern times. It continues today in cycles of aggressive violence followed by temporary, tenuous ceasefires that are marked Contemporary Worlds and complicated by resolute opinions and fractious religious ideolo- gies. In this timely volume, noted military historian Ian J. Bickerton July 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 cuts through the complex perspectives in order to explain this struggle ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-527-1 Paper $24.95 in objective detail, describing its history from the dissolution of the Ot- history NSA toman Empire following World War I to the present day. In concise and clear prose, Bickerton argues that the present problem can be traced to the fact that each side is trapped by a conception of their past from which they seem unable to break free. This attachment and reaction to history has had a negative influence on the decision making of Arabs and Israelis since 1948. Ultimately, Bickerton maintains that the use of armed force has not, and will not, resolve the issues that have divided Israelis and Arabs. The Arab-Israeli Conflict is a plea for reasoned diplomacy in a situation that has been dominated by extreme violence. This book will appeal to a wide general audience seeking a balanced understanding of an enduring struggle that still dominates headlines today.

Ian J. Bickerton is associate professor of history at the University of New South Wales. He is the author of many books, including Unintended Consequences: The United States at War, also published by Reaktion Books.

112 Reaktion Books John Dixon Hunt, David Lomas, and Michael Corris Art, Word and Image 1,000 Years of Visual/ Textual Interaction

hat does it mean to say that a painting has been “invaded” by language? Art, Word and Image answers this question W by exploring how visual images and writing can work in dialogue in an artwork. Whether a picture frame is encroached upon November 352 p., 250 color plates, 70 halftones 81/4 x 11 by doodlings, as with Adolf Wolfli’s seemingly irrational scribbles, or ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-520-2 a plea to spirituality is blazoned across a vast canvas, as in the moving Cloth $55.00s art images of Colin McCahon, we can be sure that words here have a spe- NSA cial meaning, one beyond everyday communication. Art, Word and Image, one of the first books to examine the use of language in art, is constructed around three major chronological essays by renowned scholars John Dixon Hunt, David Lomas, and Michael Corris. Each charts the use and significance of words in art— from classical Greece through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the digital age. The three central essays comment upon a variety of movements, and woven throughout are more than three hundred images from many very well-known artists, including Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, Paul Klee, and Jasper Johns. Also featured are shorter essays that spotlight work by artists who engage substantially with the intersection of the visual and written. Art, Word and Image will be an influential volume in art criticism, providing the framework for future scholarship in the field.

John Dixon Hunt is professor of the history and theory of landscape at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the editor of the journal Word and Image and the author of Nature Over Again: The Garden Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay. David Lomas is a reader in art history at the University of Manchester. He is the author of The Haunted Self: Surrealism, Psychoanalysis and Subjectivity. Michael Corris is professor of fine art at Sheffield Hallam University. He is the author of Ad Reinhardt.

Reaktion Books 113 Edgar Allan Poe Kevin J. Hayes

The life of Edgar Allan Poe (1809–49) Dalí, Sergei Eisenstein, and Jean Coc- is the quintessential writer’s biogra- teau. phy—great works arising from a life of Previous biographers have tended despair, poverty, and alcoholism, fol- to concentrate on the sorry details of lowed by a mysterious, solitary death. It Poe’s life, but Hayes takes an original may seem like a cliché now, but it was approach by examining Poe within the Poe who helped shape this idea in the context of his writings. His book offers popular imagination. Despite or per- fresh, insightful readings of many of haps even inspired by his many hard- Poe’s short stories and presents newly ships, Poe wrote some of the most well- discovered information about previ- known poems and intricately crafted ously unknown books from Poe’s li- stories in American literature. In Edgar brary, as well as updated biographical Allan Poe, Kevin J. Hayes argues that details obtained from nineteenth-cen- Critical Lives Poe’s work anticipated many of the di- tury newspapers and magazines. This rections Western thought would take in well-researched biography goes beyond September 192 p., 25 halftones the century to come, and he identifies previous scholarship and creates a com- 5 x 77/8 ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-515-8 links between Poe and writers and art- plete picture of Poe and his significant Paper $16.95 ists such as Walter Benjamin, Salvador body of work. biography NSA Kevin J. Hayes is professor of English at the University of Central Oklahoma. His previous books include Poe and the Printed Word, The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe, and The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson.

Gertrude Stein Lucy DanieL

“You are, of course, never yourself,” Welcomed into Stein’s art-covered liv- wrote Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) who ing room were the likes of Picasso, penned many pseudo-autobiographies, Matisse, Hemingway, and Pound. But including the well-known story of her despite the celebrated names in her so- lover, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas; cial circle, and her immense and varied but here Lucy Daniel turns the pen body of work, Stein has remained one of directly on Stein, revealing the many the least recognized figures in the pan- selves that composed her inspiring and theon of American letters. With detailed captivating life. reference to her writings, Stein’s own Though American-born, Stein has collected anecdotes, and even the many been celebrated in many incarnations portraits painted of her, Lucy Daniel as the embodiment of French bohemia. discusses how the legend of Gertrude She was a patron of modern art and writ- Stein was created, both by herself and Critical Lives ing, a gay icon, the coiner of the term her admirers, and gives much-needed “Lost Generation,” and the hostess of attention to the continuing significance September 192 p., 25 halftones one of the most famous artistic salons. and influence of Stein’s literary works. 5 x 77/8 ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-516-5 Paper $16.95 Lucy Daniel is a freelance reviewer and critic. She has written for a wide range of publications, including the Daily Telegraph, Financial Times Magazine, Times Literary Supplement, and Biography the London Review of Books. NSA

114 Reaktion Books Samuel Beckett Andrew Gibson

Samuel Beckett (1906–89) is known of his life. for depicting a world of abject mis- In Samuel Beckett, Gibson tracks ery, failure, and absurdity in his many Beckett from Ireland after indepen- plays, novels, short stories, and poems. dence to Paris in the late 1920s, from Yet the despair in his work is never ab- London in the ’30s to Nazi Germany solute; instead, it is intertwined with and Vichy France, and finally through black humor and an indomitable will to the cold war to the fall of commu- endure—characteristics best embodied nism in the late ’80s. Gibson narrates by his most famous protagonists, Vladi- the progression of Beckett’s life as a mir and Estragon, in the play Waiting for writer—from a student in Ireland to Godot. Beckett himself was a supremely the 1969 Nobel Prize winner for liter- modern, minimalist writer who deeply ature—through chapters that examine distrusted biographies and resisted let- individual historical events and the ting himself be pigeonholed by easy works that grew out of those experienc- Critical Lives interpretation or single definition. An- es. A notoriously private figure, Beck- October 192 p., 25 halftones drew Gibson’s accessible critical biogra- ett sought refuge from life in his work, 5 x 77/8 phy overcomes Beckett’s reticence and where he expressed his disdain for the ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-517-2 carefully considers the writer’s work in suffering and unnecessary absurdity of Paper $16.95 relation to the historical circumstances much that he witnessed. Biography NSA Andrew Gibson is professor of modern literature and theory at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is coeditor of London from Punk to Blair and the author of Joyce’s Revenge: History, Politics and Aesthetics in “Ulysses” and James Joyce, also published by Reaktion Books.

Pablo Neruda Dominic Moran

Pablo Neruda (1904–73) is one of Latin He describes a life that was marked by America’s best-known poets, adored by an increasingly militant communism, readers for the passionate love lyrics the seeds of which can be traced to written during his early years in his na- Neruda’s experiences in Spain during tive Chile, and respected by critics for the early months of the Spanish Civil the dark, hypnotic verses he composed War. Throughout the 1950s and ’60s, during his later, solitary years as a dip- Neruda became a literary torchbearer lomat based in the Far East. As Dominic for the international Left, and he spent Moran shows in his concise biography, his final years campaigning to bring so- rarely have the life and works of a writ- cialism to his beloved Chile. He lived er been so intimately and dramatically just long enough to see his hero Salva- bound up together. dor Allende unseated by Augusto Pi- Moran here takes a detailed and nochet’s bloody coup. often critical look at this relationship, Pablo Neruda paints a fascinating Critical Lives focusing as much on what the poetry picture of one of the most prodigiously October 192 p., 25 halftones sometimes strategically hides about gifted literary figures of the twentieth 5 x 77/8 Neruda the poet, the lover, and the po- century. ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-514-1 Paper $16.95 litical proselytizer as on what it reveals. biography Dominic Moran is a lecturer and tutor in Spanish at Christ Church, University of Oxford. NSA He has written books and articles on a range of twentieth-century Spanish American writers, including Julio Cortázar and Alejo Carpentier. He has also published a critical |edition of Neruda’s Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. Reaktion Books 115 A Philosophy of Pain Arne Vetlesen Translated by John Irons

“Living involves being exposed to pain nas of modern life such as family and every second—not necessarily as an in- work, and he specifically probes a very sistent reality, but always as a possibil- common modern phenomenon, the ity,” writes Arne Vetlesen in A Philosophy idea of pushing oneself to the limit. of Pain, a thought-provoking look at an Engaging throughout with the ideas inevitable and essential aspect of the hu- of thinkers such as Søren Kierkegaard, man condition. Here, Vetlesen addresses Sigmund Freud, Martin Heidegger, pain in many forms, including the pain Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau- inflicted during torture; the pain suf- Ponty, Max Horkheimer, Theodor fered in disease; the pain accompanying Adorno, Alice Miller, Susan Sontag, anxiety, grief, and depression; and the and Melanie Klein, A Philosophy of Pain pain brought by violence. He examines asks which came first, thinking or feel- 3 8 August 176 p. 4 /4 x 7 /9 the dual nature of pain: how we attempt ing, and explores the concept and pos- ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-541-7 Paper $27.95s to avoid it as much as possible in our dai- sibility of empathy as well. The result is Philosophy ly lives and yet, conversely, obtain a thrill an original and insightful perspective NSA from seeking it. on something that all of us suffer and Vetlesen’s analysis of pain is reveal- endure—from a sprained ankle to a ing, plumbing the very center of many broken heart. Although pain is in itself of our most intense and complicated unpleasant, our ability to feel it reminds emotions. He looks at pain within are- us that we are alive.

Arne Vetlesen is professor of philosophy at the University of Oslo. He has published many books, including Perception, Empathy, and Judgment and Evil and Human Agency. John Irons translated A Philosophy of Fear and The End is Nigh: A History of Natural Disasters, both published by Reaktion Books.

Outsider Art From the Margins to the Marketplace David Maclagan

The term outsider art has been used to the critical and commercial hype lies a describe work produced exterior to the cluster of assumptions about creative mainstream of modern art by certain drives, the expression of inner worlds, self-taught visionaries, spiritualists, ec- originality, and artistic eccentricity. Al- centrics, recluses, psychiatric patients, though outsider art is often presented criminals, and others beyond the per- as a recent discovery, these ideas, Macl- ceived margins of society. Yet the idea of agan reveals, belong to a tradition that such a raw, untaught creativity remains goes back to the Renaissance, when the a contentious and much-debated issue modern image of the artist began to in the art world. Is this creative instinct take shape. In Outsider Art, Maclagan a natural, innate phenomenon, requir- challenges many of the current opining only the right circumstances—such ions about this increasingly popular November 176 p., 30 color plates as isolation or alienation—in order for field of art and explores what happens 59/10 x 79/10 it to be cultivated? Or is it an idealistic to outsider artists and their work when ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-521-9 Cloth $35.00s notion projected onto the art and art- they are brought within the very world Art ists by critics and buyers? from which they have excluded them- NSA David Maclagan argues that behind selves.

David Maclagan is an artist, art therapist, and university lecturer. He has published numerous articles on outsider art, art therapy, and image-based psychology and is the author of Creation Myths: Man’s Introduction to the World and Psychological Aesthetics: Painting, Feeling and 116 Reaktion Books Making Sense. Photography and Egypt Maria Golia

Egypt immediately conjures images book, Maria Golia examines these twin of the pyramids, the temples, and the drives, while looking closely at the work Sphinx in the desert. Early photographs of early Egyptian photographers such of Egypt took these ancient monuments as Colonel Mohammed Sadiq, Moham- as their primary subjects, and these med Badr, and Atiyya Gaddis, many of have remained hugely influential in whom have never before been studied. constructing our view of the country. Golia examines how photography was But while Egypt has been regularly pho- also employed for propaganda purpos- tographed by foreigners, little is known es, including depictions of celebrated about the early days of photography soldiers, workers, and farmers; and how among Egyptians. Photography and Egypt studio-based photography was used to Exposures considers a wide range of images from portray the growing Egyptian middle the mid-nineteenth century to the pres- class. Today’s young photographic art- November 144 p., 30 color plates, 1 2 ent day, including studio portraits, ists, Golia reveals, use the medium both 50 halftones 7 /2 x 8 /3 ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-543-1 landscapes, and photojournalism. to celebrate everyday life and to indict Paper $29.95s the political and social conditions that Two forces drove photography’s Photography early development in Egypt: its use as contribute to their hardship, with pho- NSA an essential tool of archaeology and the tography bearing witness to this history accelerating effects of archaeological —as well as helping to shape it. photographs on the burgeoning tourism industry. In this richly illustrated

Maria Golia writes fiction and nonfiction. She has lived in Rome, Paris, and Fort Worth, and is a longtime resident of Cairo. She is the author of Cairo: City of Sand, also published by Reaktion Books.

Portugal in European and World History Malyn Newitt

Despite its modest size, Portugal has the evolution of Portugal as the first played a major part in the development commercial empire of modern times. of Europe. In Portugal in European and Newitt also examines Portugal’s role World History, Malyn Newitt offers a in the Counter-Reformation, in Spain’s fresh appraisal of Portugal and its role wars in Europe, and in the Anglo-Portu- in the modern world. guese alliance. Finally, Newitt analyzes Newitt specifically examines epi- the fall of fascism and the Portuguese sodes where Portugal was a key player decolonization within the context of or innovator in history. Chapters focus larger global empires and movements. on such topics as the cultural impact This new account of a country with of contact with the Moors—one of a rich history shows how Portugal has the oldest points of exchange between moved from being the last colonial pow- Western Europe and Islam; the open- er to one of the most enthusiastic propo- ing up of trade with western Africa; and nents of the modern European ideal. August 256 p., 10 halftones 51/2 x 81/2 the explorations of Vasco de Gama and ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-519-6 Cloth $39.95x Malyn Newitt is a professor in the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at King’s College London. He is the author of A History of Mozambique. History NSA

Reaktion Books 117 Now in Paperback Boxing A Cultural History Kasia Boddy

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118 Reaktion Books Jean-Paul Sartre Portraits Translated by Chris Turner

hilosopher Jean-Paul Sartre counted among his friends and associates some of the most esteemed intellectuals, writers, and Partists of the twentieth century. In Portraits, Sartre collected his impressions and accounts of many of his notable acquaintances, in addition to some of his most important writings on art and literature during the early 1950s. Portraits includes Sartre’s preface to Nathalie Sarraute’s Portrait of a Man Unknown and his homages to André Gide, Albert Camus, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. The essay on Merleau-Ponty casts considerable light on the recent history of French philosophy, particularly with regard to dominant postwar political conceptions. Also featured are “One of the most brilliant and versatile lengthy studies of Sartre’s close friend Paul Nizan and of the young An- writers as well as one of the most original dré Gorz that are no less revealing, as well as Sartre’s “Reply to Albert thinkers of the twentieth century.” Camus,” which sealed the ideological and personal break between the —Times (UK) two writers on its publication in 1952. Alongside these major writings are fascinating articles on Tintoretto and a number of contemporary “Jean-Paul Sartre dominated the intellec- artists, including Alberto Giacometti and André Masson. Finally, Por- tual life of twentieth-century France to an traits concludes with two travelogue-style accounts of Sartre’s time in extraordinary degree.” Italy. —Tom Bishop, New York Times This new translation by Chris Turner presents these essays in their The French List complete form as originally intended by Sartre and is essential reading for anyone interested in the artistic and intellectual history of the time. August 686 p. 5 x 8 ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-17-0 Cloth $30.00/£20.50 Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–80) was a novelist, playwright, and biographer, and he philosophy biography is widely considered one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. IND Chris Turner is a writer and translator who lives in Birmingham, England.

Seagull Books 119 Jean Baudrillard Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?

Translated by Chris Turner With Images by Alain Willaume

ehind every image, something has disappeared. And that is the source of its fascination,” writes French theorist Jean BBaudrillard in Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? In this, one of the last texts written before his death in 2007, Baudrillard meditates poignantly on the question of disappearance. Throughout, he weaves an intricate set of variations on his theme, ranging from the “Baudrillard got there first, many times. potential disappearance of humanity as a result of the fulfillment of its And now his self-imposed task is to shock goal of world mastery to the vanishing of reality due to the continual us into realising that thought and the transmutation of the real into the virtual. Along the way, he takes in world need not be as they are.” —Guardian the more conventional question of the philosophical “subject,” whose disappearance has, in his view, been caused by a “pulverization of con- “A sharp-shooting Lone Ranger of the sciousness into all the interstices of reality.” post-Marxist left.” Interspersed throughout the text are photographs by Alain Wil- —New York Times laume that help illustrate Baudrillard’s argument. Baudrillard insists

that with disappearance, strange things happen—some things that “The most important French thinker of the were eliminated or repressed may return in destructive viral forms— past twenty years.” —J. G. Ballard yet at the same time, he reminds us that disappearance has a positive aspect, as a “vital dimension” of the existence of things. The French List “An international, intellectual superstar.”—Salon “The most notorious intellectual celebrity to emerge from Paris October 72 p., 15 color plates 41/4 x 7 ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-40-8 since Roland Barthes and the most influential prophet of the media Cloth $17.00/£11.50 Philosophy since Marshall McLuhan.”—I. D. Magazine IND

Jean Baudrillard’s (1929–2007) many works include The System of Objects, Simulacra and Simulation, The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, and Utopia Deferred. Chris Turner is a writer and translator who lives in Birmingham, England. Alain Willaume is a freelance photographer, independent curator, editor, and lecturer at the École supérieure des arts décoratifs in Strasbourg.

120 Seagull Books Tzvetan Todorov Torture and the War on Terror Translated by Gila Walker With Photographs by Ryan Lobo

hough the 2008 election of Barack Obama and his subsequent signing of the executive order to close the prison at TGuantanamo Bay signaled a considerable shift away from the policies of the Bush era, the lessons to be learned from the war on terror will remain relevant and necessary for many years to come. In the aftermath of 9/11, the U.S. government approved interrogation tactics for enemy combatant detainees that could be defined as torture, which Praise for The Conquest of America was outlawed in Europe in the eighteenth century as well as prohib- “Compelling . . . fascinating and ited by the Geneva Conventions and the United Nations Convention disturbing. . . . An engaging book.” Against Torture. In conjunction with these policies, the Bush adminis- —New York Times Book Review tration vocally defended torture as a necessary tool in its war on terror. “An ethical interpretation of history.” Here Tzvetan Todorov argues that the use of the terms “war” and —Le Monde “terror” dehumanize the enemy and permit treatment that would otherwise be impermissible. He examines the implications and cor- “Among the most interesting and rupting impact of the attempt to impose “good” through violence and genuinely illuminating studies of the the attempt to spread democratic values by unethical means. Todorov discovery of America to have been asks: Can violence overcome violence? Does the need to protect one’s published for many years.” own country justify violating human rights? Invalidating one by one —Times Literary Supplement the political and ethical arguments in favor of torture, Todorov likens The French List institutional torture to a cancer that is eroding our society and under- mining the very fundamental democratic ideas of justice and right. August 64 p., 30 halftones 41/4 x 61/4 ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-36-1 Torture and the War on Terror is a significant work in ethics, human Cloth $12.00/£8.50 rights, and political and social history by one of the world’s leading in- current events IND tellectuals, and its arguments will be influential in shaping our policies to come.

Tzvetan Todorov is the author of The Conquest of America, Mikhail Bakhtin, On Human Diversity, Facing the Extreme, Imperfect Garden, Hope and Memory, and The New World Disorder, among other books. Gila Walker has translated more than one hundred works from the French, including texts by Jacques Derrida, François Julienne, Yves Bonnefoy, and Georges Didi-Huberman. Ryan Lobo is a producer, director, photographer, and videographer whose films have been aired on National Geographic International and Animal Planet. He has traveled the globe and documented a variety of topics, including wildlife, science, archaeology, adventure, and nature. Seagull Books 121 Theodor W. Adorno Night Music Essays on Music 1928–1962 Translated by Wieland Hoban

lthough Theodor W. Adorno is best known for his association with the Frankfurt School of critical theory, he began his A career as a composer and successful music critic. Night Music presents the first complete English translations of two collections of texts compiled by Adorno—Moments musicaux, containing essays written between 1928 and 1962, and Theory of New Music, a group of texts written between 1929 and 1955. In Moments musicaux, Adorno echoes Schubert’s eponymous cycle, with its emphasis on aphorism, and offers lyrical reflections on music “Adorno is one of the most subtle, incisive, of the past and his own time. The essays include extended aesthetic and critically profound thinkers active analyses that demonstrate Adorno’s aim to apply high philosophical today. A creative musician himself, he is standards to the study of music. Theory of New Music, as its title indicates, simultaneously gifted with an analytical presents Adorno’s thoughts and theories on the composition, recep- ability and capacity for verbal expression tion, and analysis of the music that was being written around him. His whose precision and illuminating power extensive philosophical writing ultimately prevented him from pursu- are unparalleled.” ing the compositional career he had once envisaged, but his view of the —Thomas Mann modern music of the time is not simply that of a theorist, but clearly

The German List also that of a composer. Though his advocacy of the Second Viennese School, comprising composer Arnold Schoenberg and his pupils, is well October 492 p. 5 x 8 known, many of his writings in this field have remained obscure. Col- ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-21-7 Cloth $29.00/£20.00 lected in their entirety for the first time in English, the insightful texts MUsic Philosophy in Night Music show the breadth of Adorno’s musical understanding and IND reveal an overlooked side to this significant thinker.

Theodor W. Adorno (1903–69) was the author of Minima Moralia, Philosophy of Modern Music, and Prisms, among many other books. Wieland Hoban is a British composer who lives in Germany. He has translated several works by Adorno.

122 Seagull Books Hans Magnus Enzensberger The Silences of Hammerstein Translated by Martin Chalmers

he Silences of Hammerstein, the latest work from one of Germa- ny’s most significant contemporary authors, engages readers Twith a blend of documentary, collage, narration, and fictional interviews. The gripping plot revolves around the experiences of real- life German General Kurt von Hammerstein and his wife and children. A member of an old military family, a brilliant staff officer, and the last commander of the German army before Hitler seized power, Hammerstein, who died in 1943 before Hitler’s defeat, was neverthe- less an idiosyncratic character. Too old to be a resister, he retained an independence of mind that was shared by his children: three of his “The book is impossible to put down.” —Frankfurter Rundschau daughters joined the Communist Party, and two of his sons risked their lives in the July 1944 plot against Hitler and were subsequently on the “Enzensberger has written an unusually run until the end of the war. Hammerstein never criticized his chil- exciting book, one in which the age of dren for their activities, and he maintained contacts with the Commu- extremes is condensed in a quite nists himself and foresaw the disastrous end of Hitler’s dictatorship. surprising way.” In The Silences of Hammerstein, Hans Magnus Enzensberger offers a —Die Zeit brilliant and unorthodox account of the military milieu whose acqui- escence to Nazism consolidated Hitler’s power—and of the heroic few The German List who refused to share in the spoils. October 402 p., 64 halftones 5 x 8 “An astonishing story of betrayal and human decency, about the ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-22-4 Cloth $29.00/£20.00 possibilities of resistance of the most various kinds. . . . A book without literature IND heroes but with heroic moments and small gestures of resistance. . . . An unbelievably thrilling book.”—Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung

Hans Magnus Enzensberger, often considered Germany’s most important living poet, is also the editor of the book series Die Andere Bibliothek and the founder of the monthly TransAtlantik. His books include Lighter Than Air: Moral Poems and Civil Wars: From L. A. to Bosnia. Martin Chalmers has translated works by Hubert Fichte, Ernst Weiss, Herta Mueller, Alexander Kluge, Emine Sevgi Oezdamar, and Erich Hackl.

Seagull Books 123 Tariq Ali The Idea of Communism

ovember 9, 2009, will mark twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the monumental event that signaled the begin- Nning of the end of Communism in the former Soviet Union. Why was this collapse of Communism considered final, while the many failures of capitalism are considered temporary and episodic? In The Idea of Communism, Tariq Ali addresses this very question. The idea of Communism, argues Ali, was simple and noble. The Communist Manifesto, which advocated the creation of a society based on the principle of “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need” rather than a system based on greed and profit, appealed to millions all over the globe. However, Ali argues that the “Ali broadens our horizons, geographical- vision of society adumbrated by the founders of Communism was a far ly, historically, intellectually, and politi- cry from what became known as actually existing socialism in the So- cally. His mode of history telling is lyrical viet Union and China. The Communist system that developed ignored and engaging, humane, and passionate.” —Nation Engels’s belief that a workers’ movement and its victory were inconceiv- able without freedom of the press and assembly. This freedom, Engels What Was Communism? insisted, “is the air it needs to breathe.” Here, in a thought-provoking reevaluation, Ali argues that a new November 96 p. 41/4 x 7 ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-26-2 form of socialism and global planning is vital to save the planet from Cloth $15.00/£10.50 capitalist and environmental degradation. History IND Tariq Ali is a writer, filmmaker, and a longtime political activist and campaign- er. He has written over a dozen books on world history and politics—including The Clash of Fundamentalisms, Bush in Babylon, Rough Music, and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Axis of Hope—as well as five novels and scripts for both stage and screen.

124 Seagull Books The Cuban Drumbeat Piero Gleijeses

Reflecting on Cuba’s unique foreign invasion, and the 55,000 Cuban soldiers policy—both its meaning and its leg- present in Angola by 1988. Even the So- acy—and how Cuba has adjusted to a viet Union sent far fewer troops beyond world dominated by the United States, its immediate borders in those years Piero Gleijeses asserts in The Cuban than did Cuba. Drumbeat that it has been a policy with- The Cuban Drumbeat describes how out equal in modern times. During the the cold war framed three decades cold war, extra-continental military in- of Castro’s revolutionary zeal; but, terventions were the preserve of the two Gleijeses argues, Castro’s vision was al- superpowers, a few Western European ways larger than the cold war. For Cas- countries, and Cuba. Gleijeses docu- tro, the battle against imperialism—his ments how the rest of the world was raison d’être—is more than the struggle regularly stunned by Cuba’s massive against the United States: it is the war uses of force, including the 1975–76 against despair and oppression in the “A necessary corrective to past mis- dispatch of 36,000 Cuban soldiers to third world—a war that continues even interpretations of how and why the Angola to repel a South African inva- though the future of Castro’s policies is Cubans intervened in Africa.” sion, the 12,000 Cuban soldiers sent to uncertain. —Los Angeles Times, Ethiopia in 1978 to help defeat a Somali on Conflicting Missions

Piero Gleijeses is professor of American foreign policy in the School of Advanced Interna- tional Studies at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of many books on Latin What Was Communism? America, including Politics and Culture in Guatemala, Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolu- tion and the United States, and Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa, 1959–1976. November 96 p. 41/4 x 7 ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-37-8 Cloth $15.00/£10.50 History IND Back in the USSR Boris Kagarlitsky

Though it has been nearly two decades the government in Moscow organize since the fall of Communism in the for- impressive celebrations for Victory Day, mer Soviet Union and the accompany- inevitably drawing parallels to the old ing disintegration of the Soviet state, a Soviet ceremonies? strange aspect of the current cultural Back in the USSR, by Boris Kagar- situation in Russia and in the other for- litsky, tackles these questions and more mer republics of the USSR is that the as it reflects on what happened in Rus- people still identify themselves as post- sia after the collapse of the old regime Soviet. Yet, the difference between the and how this has affected social and Soviet past and a capitalist present is cultural life, as well as the everyday lives striking, which raises many questions: of ordinary people. In this arresting Why are the new elites referring to the work, Kagarlitsky also delves into what old times to legitimize themselves? Why type of intelligentsia still exists in the do commercial advertisements stress former USSR and the cultural products What Was Communism? that the products they offer are exactly that are being produced by these art- November 88 p. 41/4 x 7 the same as they used to be in Soviet ists, including novels, films, and music. ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-27-9 times? And why, year after year, does Cloth $15.00/£10.50

Boris Kagarlitsky is coordinator of the Transnational Institute Global Crisis project and Current Events History IND director of the Institute of Globalization and Social Movements in Moscow. His previous publications include The Revolt of the Middle Class and Empire of the Periphery: Russia and the World System.

Seagull Books 125 Two Underdogs and a Cat Three Reflections on Communism Slavenka Drakulic

Croatian writer Slavenka Drakulic here museum and concludes wryly that she presents an unorthodox, imaginative herself is possibly the museum’s best ex- take on the transition from Communism hibit. Finally, “A Cat-keeper in Warsaw” to capitalism in the former Soviet Union. describes an encounter with a person “of Three characters—a dog, an underdog, feline origin” who claims to be in posses- and a cat—offer the reader narratives sion of the cat-keeper called “General” that reflect on life under Communism who declared martial law in Poland on and what has followed in its wake. December 13, 1981. The first, “An Interview with the The three stories are unified by pow- Oldest Dog in Bucharest,” is about a dog erful, but troubling questions: Are de- named Charlie, whose mother, Mimi, mocracy and capitalism really a change together with thousands of other pets, for the better? Is the idea of social justice What Was Communism? was thrown out into the street during lost forever? Is there such a thing as col- the Ceausescu regime. In this interview, lective responsibility? And how do we re- November 112 p. 41/4 x 7 ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-28-6 Charlie describes how not only people member and understand our past? Cloth $17.00/£11.50 but animals, too, became victims during “Slavenka Drakulic is a journalist Fiction the destruction of downtown neighbor- and writer whose voice belongs to the IND hoods in Bucharest in order to build world. If the purpose of bringing down a pyramid-like “Palace of the People.” the walls of Eastern Europe had been In “A Guided Tour of the Museum of only to let us hear it, that would have Communism,” a sixty-year-old souvenir been reason enough.”—Gloria Steinem, vendor-cum-cleaning woman in Prague on As If I Am Not There reflects upon the meaning of such a

Slavenka Drakulic is an author and journalist whose books include Café Europa, As If I Am Not There, They Would Never Hurt a Fly: War Criminals on Trial in the Hague, and Frida’s Bed. She is also a frequent contributor to journals such as the New Republic, Nation, New York Times, and the New York Review of Books.

Edge of Faith Prabuddha Dasgupta and William Dalrymple

Located on the west coast of India along writer William Dalrymple provides an the Arabian Sea, Goa officially became accompanying text that explores both an Indian state in 1987 after nearly five the history of Goa’s Catholic past and its hundred years of Portuguese rule. This struggle to deal with its multicultural, conflict of cultures is captured by Indi- multireligious present. Edge of Faith cap- an photographer Prabuddha Dasgupta tures Catholic Goa in a haunting, but “William Dalrymple has superseded in Edge of Faith. The book’s seventy strik- beautiful, impasse—caught in a time Mark Tully as the voice of India. . . . ing photographs create an intimate warp between comforting nostalgia and portrait of the Catholic community in a doubt-ridden, insecure future. He may well be the greatest travel Goa rarely seen before—a portrait of “An intense man with so many writer of his generation.” people torn between their fidelity to a auras, India’s Avedon, Prabuddha Das- —Robert Twigger, history of Portuguese faith and culture gupta gives us images that burn in our Spectator and their post-independence Indian memory, long after they are seen no identity. In addition, acclaimed travel more.”—Asian Age October 140 p., 70 halftones 91/2 x 91/2 Prabuddha Dasgupta ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-31-6 is a self-taught photographer and the author of Women and Ladakh. Cloth $29.00s/£20.00 His work is in the collections of many institutions, including Museo Ken Damy and Galleria Carla Sozzani. William Dalrymple divides his time between London and Delhi. His other photography religion books include In Xanadu, City of Djinns, The Age of Kali, and The Last Mughal. IND

126 Seagull Books Offence The Hindu Case Salil Tripathi

To many outside India, Hinduism is en- from continuing in their jobs. In addi- visioned as the foundation of an ideal, tion, Tripathi shows that these extrem- all-embracing society. Yet this is far ists are in the process of rewriting the from the truth. Though historically the ancient Hindu scriptures. practice of Hinduism does promote the This title in the Manifestos for the idea of an inclusive and tolerant way of 21st Century series, published in col- life, in the past decade Hindu extrem- laboration with Index on Censorship, the ists have captured the religion and per- only international magazine dedicated verted it to their own ideological ends. to promoting and protecting free ex- In The Hindu Case, Indian journalist pression, focuses on rights, tolerance, Salil Tripathi meticulously documents censorship, and dissent within India’s how Hindu fundamentalists have suc- complex society, and it is an essential Manifestos for the 21st Century. ceeded in censoring and banning many read for those interested in the struggle In collaboration with Index on cultural works, tampered with univer- between religious fundamentalism and Censorship sity teaching, and prevented academics free expression. August 102 p., 6 halftones 41/4 x 7 Salil Tripathi was born in Bombay. He moved to London in 1999 and has written frequently ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-38-5 for numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Guardian, Independent, New Cloth $20.00s/£14.00 Statesman, Spectator, Prospect, Index on Censorship, Philadelphia Inquirer, Washington Post, and religion Salon. He is also senior visiting fellow for business and human rights at the Kennedy School IND of Government, Harvard University.

Offence The Jewish Case Brian Klug

Part of an ongoing series published in and its relationship to Zionism are cen- cooperation with Index on Censorship tral political and social concerns. that deals with religion and free expres- In the light of this difficulty, Bri- sion, The Jewish Case is distinctive in sev- an Klug in The Jewish Case develops a eral ways. To begin with, even calling critique of Jewish sensibilities from Judaism a religion is problematic: the within—confronting Judaism with it- breadth of Judaism, combined with its self—rather than attacking it from the antiquity, gives Jewish sensibility a com- outside. Focusing on the current contro- plexity that defies the simple distinction versy over Israel, and drawing on three between “religious” and “secular.” That basic features of Judaism—iconoclasm, complexity affects the entire discussion commitment to argument, and respect of the Jewish case on tolerance and cen- for human dignity—Klug makes a Jew- Manifestos for the 21st Century. sorship—especially today, when Israel ish case for outspokenness. In collaboration with Index on Censorship Brian Klug is a senior research fellow in philosophy at St. Benet’s Hall, University of Oxford, and a member of the philosophy faculty at the University of Oxford. He is associate editor August 102 p., 6 halftones 41/4 x 7 of the journal Patterns of Prejudice and is the author of Minding Our Language: Prejudice, ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-39-2 Racism and Antisemitism, among other books. Cloth $20.00s/£14.00 Religion IND

Seagull Books 127 The Prison Poems of Nikolai Bukharin Nikolai Bukharin Translated by George Shriver

Nikolai Bukharin (1888–1938), an origi- 180 poems in this volume, written from nal Bolshevik leader and a founder of June to November 1937, into several se- the Soviet state, spent the last year of his ries. Two series of poems—one dealing life imprisoned by Stalin, awaiting trial with forerunners to the 1917 Russian and eventual execution. Remarkably, Revolution and another focusing on during that time, from March 1937 to the Russian Civil War—address topics March 1938, Bukharin wrote four book- not found in the other prison manu- length manuscripts by hand in his prison scripts. The same is true of the “Lyrical cell. Seventy years later, The Prison Poems Intermezzo” poems for and about Anna is the last of these four manuscripts— Larina, his young wife, from whom he which include How It All Began: The Pris- was separated by his imprisonment. on Novel and Socialism and Its Culture—to This first English translation of The Prison Manuscripts be published, allowing readers to grasp Bukharin’s Prison Poems is a compelling Bukharin’s vision in its full extent. read, evidencing the powerful intersec- November 572 p. 5 x 8 Bukharin organized the nearly tion of politics and art. ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-16-3 Cloth $35.00s/£24.00 Nikolai Bukharin was a leading critic of Stalinism beginning in the late 1920s. In 1988, Poetry fifty years after Bukharin’s execution, his name was cleared by the Soviet Supreme Court. IND George Shriver has translated and edited Roy Medvedev’s On Soviet Dissent, The October Revo- lution, and Let History Judge. He is also the translator of Bukharin’s How It All Began: The Prison Novel and Socialism and Its Culture.

States of Violence An Essay on the End of War Frédéric Gros Translated by Krzysztof Fijalkowski and Michael Richardson

According to political philosopher Fré- how war was once conducted to defend déric Gros, traditional notions of war or increase the power of a city, an empire, and peace are currently being replaced or a state, but today conflict is directed by ideas of intervention and security. at the very fragility of the individual and But while we may be able to speak of based upon a logic of unilateral destruc- an end to war, this does not imply an tion inflicted upon deprived civilian end to violence. On the contrary, Gros populations. While war was once ratio- argues, we are witnessing a reconfigu- nalized as justified bloodshed, these new ration of our ideas of war, resulting in states of violence are instead centered new forms of violence—terrorist at- on the spectacle of stark, publicized ci- The French List tacks, armed groups jockeying for ter- vilian suffering. By charting the history ritory, the use of precision missiles, and of the philosophy of conflict in Western January 312 p. 6 x 71/2 the dangerous belief that conflict can discourse, Gros offers a stimulating and ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-18-7 be undertaken without casualties. timely critique of contemporary notions Cloth $29.00s/£20.00 In States of Violence, Gros explains of war and terror. Philosophy history IND Frédéric Gros is a professor at the University of Paris XII. Krzysztof Fijalkowski is a senior lecturer in critical studies at Norwich University College of the Arts. Michael Richardson is a writer and translator. Together, Fijalkowski and Richardson have translated Refusal of the 128 Seagull Books Shadow, Surrealism against the Current, and Georges Bataille: An Intellectual Biography. Conversations with Jacqueline Rose Supriya Chaudhuri, Aveek Sen, Rosemary Bechler, Anthony Lerman, Henrietta Moore, and Stephen Frosh

In this collection of conversations that versations was sparked by her recent were conducted in Calcutta, at the and controversial writing on Zionism, London School of Economics, through Israel, and Palestine—Rose reflects on Jewish Book Week, and on the radical the role of Jewish dissent in our time. In Web site openDemocracy, internationally these conversations, Rose appears cou- renowned Jewish scholar Jacqueline rageous, passionate, ethical, and never Rose explores the debates that have afraid to engage politically on issues fueled her writing and thinking over that are of human concern in the ongo- three decades. Drawn out by her inter- ing Middle and Near East crisis. locutors, Rose discusses the difference “Jacqueline Rose has written a between political and sexual identity timely and courageous book. . . . It and inquires whether psychoanalysis could do nothing but good if the force can be considered a radical form of of Rose’s argument were to be felt not Conversations thought that can be used fruitfully in only in and for Israel but beyond.” January 184 p. 51/2 x 73/4 dialogue about political struggle. Most —David Simpson, London Review of ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-34-7 significantly—since each of these con- Books, on The Question of Zion Cloth $27.50s/£19.00

Supriya Chaudhuri is professor of English at Jadavpur University, Calcutta. Aveek Sen is current events religion IND senior assistant editor, editorial pages, the Telegraph, Calcutta. Rosemary Bechler is international editor of openDemocracy. Anthony Lerman is director of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research in the United Kingdom. Henrietta Moore is the William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, and director of the Culture and Globalisation Programme of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the LSE. Stephen Frosh is pro-vice-master for learning and teaching and incoming head of the School of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London.

Conversations with Mohsen Makhmalbaf Hamid Dabashi

Born in Tehran in 1957, filmmaker The three lengthy conversations Mohsen Ostad Ali Makhmalbaf grew collected here, between Makhmalbaf up in the religiously and politically and leading Iranian film critic and charged atmosphere of the 1960s, and scholar Hamid Dabashi, traverse the the June 1963 uprising of Ayatollah filmmaker’s experiences as a young Khomeini constitutes one of his earliest radical, his critical stance regarding memories. In 1972 Makhmalbaf formed the current Islamic regime, and his fas- his own urban guerrilla group and two cination with films—both as product years later attacked a police officer, for and as process. In this in-depth view of which he was arrested and jailed. He re- one of the most significant Middle East- mained incarcerated until 1978, when ern filmmakers of our time, Makhmal- the revolutionary wave led by Ayatollah baf reflects on the relationship between Khomeini freed him and launched his cinema and violence, tolerance, and so- career as a writer and self-taught film- cial change, as well as the political and Conversations maker. Since then, Makhmalbaf has artistic importance of the autonomy of gone on to make such highly admired the filmmaker. January 196 p. 51/2 x 73/4 films asGabbeh and The Silence. ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-35-4 Cloth $27.50s/£19.00 Hamid Dabashi is professor at Columbia University and the author of many books and film essays on cinema, including Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present and Future; Dreams of a Na- IND tion: On Palestinian Cinema; and Makhmalbaf at Large: The Making of a Rebel Filmmaker.

Seagull Books 129 The Fable of the World A Philosophical Enquiry into Freedom in Our Times Gérard Mairet Translated by Philip Derbyshire

Modern political theory begins with yond the sovereign state and its rooted- the rise of the philosophical concept ness in inter-state violence: for Mairet, and practice of sovereignty in the six- Europe has become the harbinger of a teenth century. Over the course of the new federative form of statehood. next several centuries, sovereignty was In this rigorous investigation of generalized as the form of the modern the notion of sovereignty from Bodin state—eventually, there was no state and Hobbes, through Rousseau and that was not sovereign, and there was no the Federalists, to Foucault and the understanding of the state that did not framers of the European constitution, depend upon the notion of sovereign- Mairet examines the articulation of the The French List ty. Yet, as Gérard Mairet argues in The concept through the bloody history of Fable of the World, at this moment of the European colonialism. He also shows January 282 p. 6 x 71/2 culmination of political sovereignty, the how the reconstitution of the European ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-19-4 limitations and dangers of this theory political community after World War Cloth $29.00s/£20.00 and practice have become all too appar- II marked the beginning of a new tra- political science ent. Furthermore, Mairet believes that IND jectory—one that offers the hope of a we have begun to see the glimmers of post-sovereign mode of political being- a new form of political community be- in-the-world.

Gérard Mairet is professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Paris VIII. His other publications include Of “The Leviathan” by Hobbes, The Principle of Sovereignty and Histories of the Modern Foundation, and The Master and the Multitude. Philip Derbyshire is an academic, researcher, and translator, and currently a British Academy post-doctoral research fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London. His previous translations include Childhood Psychosis and Transatlantic Translations.

Framing the Nation Languages of ‘Modernity’ in India Ajanta Sircar

As films like Slumdog Millionaire attest, the distance that film theory has trav- India on film is quickly growing beyond eled in the Anglo-American academy the images of Bollywood that used to and India in the past decades, inviting come to mind. In the 1980s the idea of questions such as: How do we make “Ajanta Sircar is a careful and me- film theory arrived in the Indian schol- sense of this new academic interest in ticulous thinker. She makes good arly community, stirring a new fascina- popular Indian cinemas? How should use of sources and integrates quite tion with popular cinema, especially we begin to understand Indian popu- that of Bombay, that went beyond pre- lar culture as a result? Sircar’s work is difficult theory into her arguments vious Bollywood-oriented discussions founded not only in a scholarly fascina- in an exemplary fashion.” focused on cinematic styles and genres tion with the growth and transition of —Laura Mulvey, alone. Ajanta Sircar’s Framing the Nation films, but in a real passion for the mov- Birkbeck College, grew out of that new engagement with ies, resulting in a book that will appeal University of London cinema in India, a transition marked by not just to scholars of film history and a move from cinephilia to film theory. theory, but to those intrigued by Indian January 172 p., 12 halftones 6 x 9 In Framing the Nation, Sircar maps cinema in general. ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-30-9 Cloth $29.00s/£20.00 Ajanta Sircar is a fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies in Shimla. She is also a Film graduate of the film studies program at the University of East Anglia. IND

130 Seagull Books On the Edge of Utopia Performance and Ritual at Burning Man Rachel Bowditch

During the week before Labor Day ev- Man participant—explores the spec- ery year, nearly fifty thousand people trum of performance and ritual prac- gather in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert tices within Black Rock City from the and build Black Rock City. At the cen- everyday to wild spectacle, the profane ter of Black Rock City is a forty-foot to the sublime. Bowditch argues that wooden effigy of a man, an icon around Burning Man can be understood as a which art, performance, and communi- contemporary galaxy of happenings, a ty revolve. Since 1986, the Burning Man revival of the ancient Roman Saturna- Festival has evolved from founder Larry lia, a site for rehearsals of utopia, and Harvey’s personal healing ritual into a a secular pilgrimage. As Burning Man cultural movement where ceremony, re- continues to grow, it will create new ligion, visual art, and performance con- paradigms for performance, installa- verge on an epic scale. In On the Edge tion art, community, and invented ritu- Enactments of Utopia, Rachel Bowditch—performer, als that bridge ancient traditions to the theater director, scholar, and Burning twenty-first century. December 364 p., 70 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-25-5 Cloth $35.00s/£24.00 Rachel Bowditch is assistant professor at Arizona State University in the School of Theatre and Film. She is artistic associate of Schechner’s East Coast Artist Exchange and associate drama of RoseLee Goldberg’s Performa. InD

Planes of Composition Dance, Theory, and the Global Edited by André Lepecki and Jenn Joy

Gathering eighteen original essays by positions—compositions of everyday ki- eminent choreographers, philosophers, netics with philosophical considerations and dance and performance theorists of political modernity; compositions from across the globe, The Planes of Com- of certain staged choreographic works position focuses on how contemporary with the formations of racial identities choreographic strategies initiate new in specific postcolonial contexts; and modes of understanding the moving compositions between embodied prac- body in its multiple performances: ra- tices and theoretical practices. cial, kinetic, political, ethical, and theo- This volume will be of interest to retical. Adding to the expanding field of scholars in critical dance studies, philos- critical dance studies and critical move- ophy, performance studies, and cultural ment studies, the contributors address and postcolonial studies as it proposes Enactments a variety of formations arising from hy- new and creative dialogues among these brid theoretical and performative com- disciplines. December 372 p., 53 halftones 6 x 9 André Lepecki is associate professor in the Department of Performance Studies at New York ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-24-8 Cloth $35.00s/£24.00 University. His books include Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement and Of the Presence of the Body. Jenn Joy is a PhD candidate in performance studies at the Tisch Dance School of the Arts at New York University, and she has been a lecturer in the History of Art IND and Visual Culture Department at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Seagull Books 131 Grotowski’s Empty Room A Challenge to the Theatre Edited by Paul Allain

Jerzy Grotowski (1933–99) was a Polish Among the contributors are Leszek Ko- stage director, theatrical theorist, and lankiewicz and Zbigniew Osinski, his founder and director of the small but close collaborators; Marco de Marinis, influential Polish Laboratory Theatre. Franco Ruffini, and Fernando Taviani, Most of Grotowski’s theater-making scholars who have followed Grotowski’s took place in this and similar small the- works from the fourteen years he spent aters and studio spaces, and as a result in Italy; and Swedish filmmaker and one of his central fascinations was the writer Marianne Ahrne and director actor’s work within the context of an Eugenio Barba, who reveal the strong empty room. The essays in Grotowski’s impression Grotowski left on all those Empty Room analyze how Grotowski’s who met him and express the challenge explorations in the theater continue to of those who must now work in the emp- Enactments challenge dramatists and directors. ty rooms he has left behind. The contributors to this volume “For Grotowski, theater itself was a August 224 p., 16 halftones 6 x 9 reflect with special insight on how kind of religion. He described himself ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-23-1 Cloth $29.00s/£20.00 theater scholars and practitioners can not as an artist, but as a craftsman, a spiri- drama further Grotowski’s work and how his tual instructor.”—Wojciech Krukowski IND legacy will be developed in the theater.

Paul Allain is professor of theater and performance at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Since 2006, he has been leading the Arts and Humanities Research Council–funded British Grotowski Project as well as developing research collaborations with the Moscow Art Theatre School.

Performance in Place of War James Thompson, Jenny Hughes, and Michael Balfour

From the Greeks and Shakespeare to Performance in Place of War draws the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, on extensive original material and in- war has often been a major theme cludes interviews with artists, short play of dramatic performances. However, extracts, and photographs from the many of the most extraordinary theater Democratic Republic of Congo, Ko- projects in recent years not only have sovo, Israel, Lebanon, the Sudan, and been about war but also have originat- others. The authors combine critical ed in actual conflict zones themselves. commentary, overviews of the conflicts, Performance in Place of War is concerned and firsthand accounts in order to con- with these initiatives, including theater sider such questions as: Why in times of in refugee camps, war-ravaged villages, disruption have people turned to per- towns under curfew, and cities under formance? And what aesthetic, ethical, occupation. It looks at theater and and political choices are made in these performances that often occur quite different contexts? Performance in Place literally as bombs are falling, as well as of War is a fascinating perspective on Enactments during times of ceasefire and in the af- the role of theater in unpredictable, termath of hostilities. war-torn times. September 392 p., 26 halftones 6 x 9 James Thompson is professor of applied and social theater at the University of Manchester ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-14-9 and codirector of the Centre for Applied Theatre Research. He is the author of Digging Up Cloth $29.00s/£20.00 Stories, among other books. Jenny Hughes is a lecturer in applied theater at the University drama of Manchester and codirector of the Centre for Applied Theatre Research. Michael Balfour IND is professor of applied theater at Griffith University in Australia. His books includeTheatre and War 1933–1945: Performance in Extremis and The Use of Drama in the Rehabilitation of Violent 132 Seagull Books Male Offenders. Rebels, Wives, Saints Designing Selves and Nations in Colonial Times Tanika Sarkar

In Rebels, Wives, Saints, Tanika Sarkar discussion to consider male reformers continues her revolutionary scholarship who battle Hindu conservatives, a Hin- on women, religion, and nationhood in du novelist who idealizes nationalism as colonial Bengal. The colonial universe a means for overcoming Muslim influ- Sarkar describes in Rebels, Wives, Saints ence, male-dominant social norms, and centers around symbols of women as theater and censorship. both defiled and deified, exemplified in Throughout the book, Sarkar de- the idea of woman as widow and woman ploys her trademark focus on small, as goddess. The nation, Sarkar explains, specific, defining emotional moments is imagined as a woman-goddess within in order to arrive at a larger, compelling a country comprising plural cultural picture that reveals how people actually traditions. Sarkar also broadens the feel and experience life in Bengal. January 356 p. 51/2 x 81/2 Tanika Sarkar is professor of history at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She is also ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-29-3 the author of Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation: Community, Religion, and Cultural Nationalism and Cloth $29.00s/£20.00 Words to Win: The Making of “Amar Jiban,” A Modern Autobiography. women’s studies religion IND

Remembered Rhythms Issues of Music and Diaspora in India Edited by Shubha Chaudhuri and Anthony Seeger

Remembered Rhythms explores the role of a fascinating compact disc of musical music and cultural memory in shaping examples from many of the traditions and creating diasporic identities. With discussed, Remembered Rhythms will be of contributions from leading scholars in significant interest to scholars of ethno- the fields of ethnomusicology, cultural musicology and cultural anthropology. studies, sociology, and anthropology, the Contributors: Frank J. Korom, essays range across the musical traditions Jean-Pierre Angenot, Tejaswini Niran- of the Indian diaspora in Trinidad, the jana, Tina K. Ramnarine, Amy Catlin- role of Hindi film music in the diaspora, Jairazbhoy, Sara Manasseh, Esther Da- and the music of the African and Jewish vid, Helen Myers, Shubha Chaudhuri, diasporas in India. Illustrated through- and Anthony Seeger. out with halftones and accompanied by January 282 p., 94 halftones, 1 map, 5 tables, 1 compact disc 71/2 x 9 Shubha Chaudhuri is director of the Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology ISBN-13: 978-1-905422-50-0 at the American Institute of Indian Studies, New Delhi. Anthony Seeger is professor of Paper $29.00s/£20.00 ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Seeger served as director of anthropology Smithsonian Folkways Recordings at the Smithsonian Institution from 1988 to 2000 and IND was executive producer of all recordings issued on the Smithsonian Folkways label during that time.

Seagull Books 133 Robert Samuel Roche and Aric Lasher Plans of Chicago

his year Chicago celebrates the centennial of the publication of the visionary Plan of Chicago. Daniel Burnham and his Tcoauthor, Edward Bennett, reimagined the American city as a vibrant, interconnected whole. Their Plan is responsible for much of Chicago’s public character, including its open lakefront and expansive park system. Plans of Chicago, the inaugural publication of the Chicago-based Architects Research Foundation, uses the 1909 Plan as a point of de- parture for a proposed reconnection of Chicago’s center to its outlying November 160 p., 45 color plates, suburbs. As in Burnham’s Plan, the improved transportation and park 100 halftones 91/2 x 121/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-615-28220-6 systems proposed here would make Chicago both “the city that works” Cloth $45.00s/£31.00 Architecture and a “City Beautiful.” Robert Samuel Roche and Aric Lasher begin with a careful assessment of the Burnham Plan’s orgins, principles, and implementation. Along the way they identify Chicago’s persistent planning problems, and then compare the Plan of Chicago to other proposals, including those by Frank Lloyd Wright, Jens Jensen, Walter Burley Griffin, Eliel Saarinen, and Ludwig Hilberseimer. This historical analysis is the springboard for a new plan to manage Chicago’s future growth. The authors reframe the central city’s relationship to the larger Chicago area, proposing new designs for Grant Park and Congress Street and Aric Lasher, 2009. new planning models for urban neighborhoods and the suburbs. With 130 exquisite illustrations, including full-color reproduc- tions of Jules Guerin’s famous watercolors—collected here for the first time—as well as original drawings by Aric Lasher, Plans of Chicago is the first in a series by the nonprofit Foundation on Chicago architecture and urbanism. Its practical, viable proposals for city living chart a path for Chicago’s future.

Robert Samuel Roche has worked at Hammond Beeby Rupert Ainge Archi- Aric Lasher, 2009. tects since 2007. Aric Lasher is an architect principal with Hammond Beeby Rupert Ainge Architects.

134 Architects Research Foundation Editied by the British Library The Spoken Word The Bloomsbury Group

he Bloomsbury Group remains, to this day, one of modern culture’s most remarkable associations of individuals—the Tdiverse contributions of the Bell siblings alone, not to men- “Why not give somebody the gift of tion their lovers, peers, and acquaintances, rival the output of the rest something they probably didn’t know still of the Modernist canon in terms of experimentation, collaboration, existed? This astounding collection . . . is and acclaim. This informal group of poets and painters, writers and like the dream of the perfect literary cock- critics, which included Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Clive and Vanessa tail party (cocktails sold separately).” Bell, Duncan Grant, Vita Sackville-West, and Bertrand Russell, among —Lev Grossman, Time, on the Spoken Word series others, may have called central London their home, but to generations of future scholars, writers, and cultural aficionados, they helped to locate Modernism both critically and geographically. Now, for the first November ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-0593-8 time, the British Library has gathered their voices and reminiscences 2 Compact Discs $25.00 LitErature together on a masterly two-disc set, which draws on long-unheard BBC USA archives, many of which will be available for the first time.

Among the unforgettable tracks heard in this collection are:

Virginia Woolf reading an extract from a radio talk on Vita Sackville-West talking about the inspiration be- the importance of language hind Virginia Woolf’s Orlando Leonard Woolf proffering a who’s who of the Blooms- Quentin Bell exactingly describing the fashions of bury Group Virginia Woolf Desmond McCarthy meditating on “tears” in literature Margery Fry holding court on Virginia Woolf’s flights Duncan Grant discussing the infamous Dreadnought of fancy Hoax Benedict Nicholson remembering Virginia Woolf’s Clive Bell remembering Lytton Strachey visits to Sissinghurst Frances Partridge speaking about the Group’s larger Elizabeth Bowen recalling Bloomsbury parties and influence Virginia Woolf’s antics William Plomer discussing the Group’s exclusivity Ralph Partridge reminiscing on time spent with Leon- ard and Virginia Woolf David Garnett candidly describing the relationship between Lytton Strachey and Dora Carrington John Lehmann describing his reactions to Woolf’s final novel, Between the Acts David Cecil detailing Virginia Woolf’s day-to-day appearance Bertrand Russell on Lytton Strachey and his family Angelica Garnett opining on various attitudes towards Gerald Brenan recalling times spent with Lytton Stra- members of the Group chey, Ralph Partridge, and Dora Carrington Harold Nicholson reciting a talk on the members and Grace Higgins describing daily life at Charleston, the attitudes that dominated the Group Bloomsbury outpost in Sussex

British Library 135 The Spoken Word: Robert Graves Edited by the British Library

Over a career spanning almost eighty and “To Juan at the Winter Solstice,” as years, Robert Graves (1895–1985) pro- well as rarer gems that showcase his di- duced works across a variety of genres— verse range of influences. Also included including historical novels, classical is a 1954 broadcast entitled The Poet and translations, criticism, and memoirs— His Public, in which Graves offers in- yet he regarded himself primarily as a sight into the emotions of his audience poet. Drawing on previously unavail- and the difference in his approach to able BBC broadcasts that span more writing poetry and novels. This collec- than three decades, this compact disc tion is not to be missed by anyone with a June presents an artful selection of record- passion for Graves and his writing—or ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-0591-4 ings of Graves reading and commenting simply an interest in hearing the voice Compact Disc $15.00 on his poems, including better-known of one of the twentieth century’s most Poetry USA works such as “The White Goddess” beloved masters of clarity and style.

The Spoken Word: Stevie Smith Edited by the British Library

Stevie Smith (1902–71) was an English the Person from Porlock,” and “Do Take poet and novelist and a consummately Muriel Out.” Also included are excerpts dark craftsman who believed only she of an older Smith in conversation, in an could do justice to a performance of interview entitled, “Longing for Death her own work—that only she could cap- because of Feebleness.” Another high- ture the qualities of humor and irony light of the collection is a complete live at hand in her witty, wry, and often performance from the 1965 Edinburgh disturbing poems. This compact disc Festival, including material not broad- boasts a tremendous collection of over cast at the time—a perfect introduction June fifty poems and songs recorded for the to the mature Smith at the height of her ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-0592-1 Compact Disc $15.00 BBC, dating from the period of 1956 to powers, as she holds her audience spell- 1968, and including several of Smith’s bound with her caustic and deliberate poetry USA most adored titles, including “Not Wav- delivery. ing but Drowning,” “Thoughts about

136 British Library The Spoken Word: Bob Cobbing Early Recordings 1965–1973 Edited by the British Library

Bob Cobbing (1920–2002) was a Brit- which the listener can hear Cobbing’s ish sound, visual, concrete, and perfor- unique exploration of the visual and mance poet; a central member of the auditory possibilities inherent in the British Poetry Revival; and an influence English alphabet. In a career marked on generations of artists, sound experi- by the emergence of the 1960s coun- menters, educators, poets, and print- terculture and the thrilling potential makers. Perhaps his most famous work of sound-based performance poetics, is 26 Sound Poems, from which several the work of Bob Cobbing stands alone July poems are included here, alongside col- as an instrument at play for the human ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-0550-1 laborations with Annea Lockwood, voice; a testament to the essential in- Compact Disc $15.00 Henri Chopin, François Dufrêne, and terplay between writings for print and Poetry others, as well as previously unreleased sound; and the strangely verbal incan- USA archival recordings from the BBC and tations implicit in the concrete poetry the British Library’s Sound Archive, in he championed.

Now Available in the Spoken Word Series

H. G. Wells Graham Greene Bernard Shaw ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-0532-7 ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-0539-6 ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-0531-0 Compact Disc $15.00 Compact Disc $15.00 2 Compact Discs $25.00 USA USA USA Ted Hughes Evelyn Waugh Edith Sitwell Poetry in the Making ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-0546-4 ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-0548-8 ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-0554-9 Compact Disc $15.00 Compact Disc $15.00 2 Compact Discs $25.00 USA USA USA W. H. Auden George Barker Ted Hughes ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-0535-8 ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-0540-2 2 Compact Discs $25.00 Compact Disc $15.00 Poems and Short Stories USA USA ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-0549-5 2 Compact Discs $25.00 USA British Library 137 Henry VIII Man and Monarch Edited by Susan Doran and David Starkey

The year 2009 marks the five-hundredth rounding this monumental historical anniversary of Henry VIII’s accession figure and encourages readers to reas- to the throne, and to celebrate this mo- sess their perceptions of the great Tu- mentous occasion, leading Tudor schol- dor monarch who still manages to cast ars Susan Doran and David Starkey a spell over our imaginations. Richly examine the extraordinary transfor- illustrated with color images from the mations—personal and political, intel- accompanying exhibition at the British lectual and religious, literary, aesthetic, Library—including many of Henry’s and linguistic—that took place during own annotated volumes—and includ- Henry’s reign. Drawing on the Brit- ing contributions from notable scholars ish Library’s unparalleled collections, such as Eamon Duffy and James Carley, June 288 p., 250 color plates 83/4 x 11 Henry VIII explores the motives and be- this volume presents an unsurpassed ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-5025-9 liefs that spurred Henry’s actions, mas- firsthand outline of the revolutionary Cloth $55.00x terfully telling the story of his reign. changes in ideas that took place dur- ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-5026-6 Paper $29.00s This refreshing approach reaches being Henry’s reign—and above all, in his European History biography yond the myths and stereotypes sur- own mind. USA Susan Doran is a senior research fellow at Jesus College, University of Oxford. Her previous publications include Queen Elizabeth I and The Tudor Chronicles. David Starkey is a notable British academic, historian, writer, and broadcaster whose books have been made into acclaimed television series, including Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.

Points of View Capturing the 19th Century in Photographs Edited by John Falconer and Louise Hide

From its earliest beginnings in the early years up until the coming of the 1840s up to its democratization as a twentieth century. Beginning with the widespread leisure pursuit, photogra- work of William Henry Fox Talbot and phy was swept along by a tide of artistic including some of our most celebrated and entrepreneurial activity that gath- photographic pioneers—Francis Frith, ered pace throughout the nineteenth Felix Teynard, Samuel Bourne, and Pe- November 176 p., 150 color plates century. Both as an art form and a so- ter Henry Emerson among them—this 83/4 x 103/4 cial document, the photograph quickly volume focuses on the question of who ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-5081-5 Cloth $55.00x took on a critical role as the primary was taking the photograph and why. Ul- ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-5082-2 means of visual expression in the mod- timately the answer is found in the rise Paper $29.00s ern age. Points of View brings together, of mass market interest, the increasing photography for the first time, a selection of im- role of technology, and the emergence USA ages from the British Library’s unique of this thrilling new discipline amid photography collections, examining rapid scientific, social, and industrial the history, diversity, and influence progress. of the medium from its invention and

John Falconer is head of visual materials and curator of photography at the British Library. He has curated a number of exhibitions in this field, and he is most recently the author of India: Pioneering Photographers, 1850–1900. Louise Hide is a social and cultural historian. She is a sessional lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London. 138 British Library John Keats A Poet and his Manuscripts Stephen Hebron

In his brief lifetime, John Keats (1795– at actual size and in their entirety— 1821) published three volumes of po- providing a record of the poet’s visual etry: a collection of early verse in 1817; processes of composition and offering Endymion, a long and fairly unsuccessful a vivid portrait of his rich imagination poem, in 1819; and a final collection in and swift progress as a writer and think- 1820, which included most of the poems er. Stephen Hebron, in his masterly infor which he is now famous. For many troduction, tells the intriguing story of years these anthologies contained all how Keats’s manuscripts were jealously that the public knew of Keats, but over guarded after his death, before they time it has become readily apparent that were finally bequeathed to public and an extraordinary wealth of manuscripts private collections, revealing as much lay behind these few volumes. John about the social and literary fashions of October 176 p., 100 color plates 3 Keats presents, in chronological order, the past two hundred years as the fame 8 /4 x 11 ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-4924-6 the surviving manuscripts of his finest of this celebrated poet. Cloth $39.00s poems and letters—often illustrated Literary Criticism USA Stephen Hebron worked for many years at the Wordsworth Trust in Cumbria, England. He is the author of William Wordsworth, John Keats, and The Romantics and the British Landscape, among other volumes.

Raffles’ Ark Redrawn Natural History Drawings from the Collection of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles H. J. Noltie

Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles and mammals is a dramatic one: Chi- (1781–1826) is best known today as the nese and French artists from the island founder of Singapore, though he was of Sumatra composed the bulk of them also a passionate scholar of all aspects during one ten-week period in 1824, of the Malay world who amassed a su- in order to replace over 2,000 similar perb collection of drawings and manu- drawings, priceless Malay manuscripts, July 180 p., 130 color plates scripts during his nearly twenty years in animal specimens, and living animals 81/2 x 91/2 Southeast Asia in the service of the East (including a tiger specially tamed for ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-5084-6 Paper $35.00s India Company. Raffles’ Ark Redrawn is a the voyage!) that perished in a ship- lushly illustrated catalog of the 120 nat- board fire. Accompanied by 130 full- art nature USA ural history drawings that make up the color illustrations, this volume captures Raffles Family Collection, acquired by an array of historical flora and fauna the British Library in 2007. The story of superbly reproduced for lovers of exotic these colorful drawings of plants, birds, plants and gardens.

H. J. Noltie is a taxonomist at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh. He has written two volumes of the Flora of Bhutan and several books on botanical drawings made by Indian artists for the East India Company.

British Library 139 Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain G. R. C. Davis Revised by Claire Breay, Julian Harrison, and David M. Smith

A cartulary is a medieval manuscript include information about cartularies volume or roll of a specific institution that have changed hands, newly come that records its rights, privileges, and to light, or have been studied and ed- properties. First published in 1958, ited since the volume’s first publication Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain pro- fifty years ago. Taking into account en- vides a full listing of all monastic and rolled evidences and the cartularies of secular cartularies from England, Scot- corporations omitted in the original land, and Wales. Widely regarded as an version, this revised edition enables the indispensable tool for the study of Brit- reader to determine at a glance the cur- ish history during the Middle Ages, the rent location, dating, and former own- original edition is here fully updated ership of any individual cartulary. and substantially revised in order to November 256 p. 63/4 x 93/4 ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-5038-9 Claire Breay is head of medieval and earlier manuscripts at the British Library and the Cloth $75.00x author of Magna Carta Manuscripts and Myths, among other publications. Julian Harrison is curator of medieval and earlier manuscripts at the British Library and coeditor of The Medieval Studies Chronicle of Melrose Abbey. David M. Smith was formerly director of the Borthwick Institute of Historical Research and is the editor of two volumes of The Heads of Religious Houses: England and Wales.

Now in Paperback Medieval Dress and Fashion Margaret Scott

From Renaissance fairs to countless re- of women’s fashion in the fourteenth tellings of the legend of Robin Hood to century as a method of securing a hus- the popular restaurant Medieval Times, band; and the various types of jewelry, people remain fascinated by the medi- fabric, and subtle garment fittings that eval era—and in particular the cloth- managed to convey the important dis- ing of the time. The richly varied dress tinctions between the upper class and of medieval days meant more than just the peasantry. Political and religious fashion and style, and Margaret Scott history were also critical factors, Me- offers here an insightful chronicle of dieval Dress and Fashion shows, as the the layered meanings of the garb worn book draws from firsthand accounts to by queens, kings, courtiers, and peas- analyze how pivotal historical moments “Magnificently illustrated. . . . A ants. Fascinating changes mark the de- such as the Crusades and the fall of the velopment of medieval fashion, such as Roman Empire resulted in an unex- wealth of scholarship.” the transition in men’s grooming from pected blending of cultures and cloth- —Costume wearing beards and long hair to being ing styles. clean-shaven with short hair; the rise September 208 p., 120 color plates, 20 halftones 81/2 x 11 Margaret Scott was head of the history of dress at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-5067-9 Paper $29.00s and a consultant on historical dress for the National Gallery in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago, among other museums. She is also the Medieval Studies author of Late Gothic Europe, 1400–1500 and A Visual History of Costume. USA Cloth ISBN: 978-0-7123-0675-1

140 British Library English Manuscript Studies, Volume 15 Tudor Manuscripts, 1485–1603 Edited by A. S. G. Edwards

This volume’s publication marks the and Scotland; a look at the differing 500th anniversary of Henry VIII’s acces- texts emerging from London during sion. Featuring articles that examine a this period, some complex and of an broad range of Tudor manuscripts pro- unusual kind; and studies of Thomas duced between 1485 and 1603, English Wyatt’s poetical manuscripts and the Manuscript Studies, Volume 15 includes: circulations of those romances. Con- an examination of various forms of re- tributing scholars include Jason Powell, gional manuscript production, includ- Joyce Boro, and Cathy Shrank. ing those written in northern England

A. S. G. Edwards teaches at the De Montfort University and is a foremost authority in medieval and early modern English. He is the author or editor of over twenty volumes. English Manuscript Studies 1100–1700

November 368 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-7123-5063-1 Cloth $95.00x Literary Criticism USA

The Citizen’s Guide to Planning Fourth Edition Christopher J. Duerksen, C. Gregory Dale, and Donald L. Elliott

For decades, community activists, bution make it ideal for answering specific reaucrats, and even elected officials questions as they arise in meetings. The have consulted the pages of The Citizen’s authors have maintained favorite sec- Guide to Planning for solutions to their tions—such as the list of key planning planning problems. Now in its fourth law cases and the full text of APA ethi- edition, the volume has been complete- cal considerations—and have provided ly rewritten for the twenty-first century readers with new chapters emphasizing with new chapters that address the chal- energy conservation, energy genera- lenges of planning for a sustainable tion, and land-use efficiency. This vol- world. ume is ideal for citizen activists wanting Like its predecessors, this new to influence planning decisions in their edition is aimed at nonprofessionals communities, citizens appointed to and offers a broad-ranging general in- planning boards, and newly elected of- July 240 p., 14 halftones, 2 tables, 8 diagrams, 3 maps 51/2 x 81/2 troduction to the field. The volume’s ficials facing difficult planning-related ISBN-13: 978-1-932364-65-1 easy-to-read language and organiza- decisions. Paper $24.95s/£17.50

Christopher J. Duerksen is a managing director and Donald L. Elliott is a senior consultant, Urban Studies both at Clarion Associates, LLC, a land-use consulting firm. C. Gregory Dale is a founding principal with McBride Dale Clarion, the Cincinnati affiliate office of Clarion Associates.

British Library 141 Planners Press, American Planning Association Michael Barone and Richard E. Cohen The Almanac of American Politics, 2010

he results of the 2008 presidential election were extraordinary, marking the beginning of a new period in American Tpolitical history. Democrat Barack Obama became the first African American president of the United States, claiming a decisive victory over Republican John McCain. His fellow Democrats, meanwhile, established a robust majority in the Senate, winning seats in New Hampshire, New Jersey, and North Carolina, among others. What’s in the 2010 Almanac: Florida, Indiana, Ohio, and Virginia—states carried by Republicans in ◆ a statistical breakdown of the 2008 previous elections—went blue for the first time in decades. Across the presidential vote by state and congressional district political spectrum, Americans turned out to vote in droves. ◆ a comprehensive overview of the No matter how you voted in the 2008 presidential election, it presidential election and its was unmistakably exciting. Its implications for both parties, however, implications for the future remain unknown. From Internet fundraising to foreign policy, ballot ◆ in-depth profiles and photographs fraud to ethics scandals, the political scene for Republicans and Demo- of every governor and member of Congress crats is changing quickly. And in this time of uncertainty, there is one ◆ Colorful, insightful narratives for book both parties turn to: The Almanac of American Politics. The 2010 each state and congressional Almanac remains the gold standard of accessible political information, district relied upon by everyone involved, invested, or interested in American ◆ Coverage of all special elections politics. ◆ More than sixty state and congressional district maps As in previous editions, the 2010 Almanac includes profiles of every ◆ Campaign expenditure data member of Congress and every governor, as well as in-depth and com- ◆ Voting records pletely up-to-date narrative profiles of all fifty states and 435 House ◆ interest group ratings districts, covering everything from economics to history to, of course, ◆ Census data politics. It also contains Michael Barone’s sharp-eyed analysis of the 2008 presidential elections, congressional elections, and redistrict- ing battles. New to this edition is a statistical breakdown of the 2008 August 1500 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-89234-119-1 presidential vote by state and congressional district, plus coverage of Cloth $97.95s/£ 67.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-89234-120-7 all recent special elections. Paper $79.95/£55.00 Political Science Reference Full of maps, census data, and information on topics ranging from campaign expenditures to voting records to interest group ratings, the 2010 Almanac of American Politics presents everything you need to know about American politics, related in snappy prose and framed by cogent 142 National Journal Group analysis. ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ “The Bible of American politics.” —George Will

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Michael Barone is a senior writer at U.S. News and World Report and a Fox News Channel contributor. His most recent book is Our First Revolution: The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America’s Founding Fathers.

Richard E. Cohen has decades of experience covering Capitol Hill as National Journal’s congressional correspondent. The author of a biography of former Representative Dan Rostenkowski, in 1990 he won the prestigious Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for distinguished reporting on Congress.

National Journal Group 143 Margaret Willes Pick of the Bunch Twelve Treasured Flowers

n the dark, bitter days of winter, when the ground lies frozen and snow-covered, it can be hard to believe that mere months before, I gardens and window boxes were bursting forth with fragrant, colorful blossoms. Today on the frosty walk home, at least we can pick up cut flowers at the store to remind us of the spring to come. But before the technological miracles of hothouses and refrigeration, flowers could only be captured for the winter months by artists and painters. Some of the finest flower-pieces ever painted were by Dutch and Flemish artists in the seventeenth century, depicting flowers in vases of metal and porcelain, sometimes with insects and butterflies nestling in petals or clinging to stalks. From these flower-pieces we can see what Europeans of the time considered desirable flowers: the rose, iris, carnation, lily, snowdrop, violet, fritillary, narcissus, tulip, daffodil, and hyacinth—many of which are still our favorites today. Alongside lush color botanical illustrations, Pick of the Bunch presents the social history of these flora—how they arrived in our gardens; how they were bought, acquired, and displayed; and who were their devotees and cultivators. The book delves into their symbolic associations in classical and Christian traditions and examines the complex language of flowers employed by the Victorians. Beautiful to behold and engagingly written, Pick of the Bunch is a wonderful gift for any garden lover and will be a warm, much-needed glimpse of spring and summer throughout the cold, barren months.

October 224 p., 70 color plates 73/4 x 73/4 Margaret Willes was the publisher at the National Trust until her retirement ISBN-13: 978-1-85124-303-7 Cloth $35.00s in 2006. She is the author of many books, including, most recently, Reading Gardening Matters: Five Centuries of Discovering Books. NAM

144 Bodleian Library Edited by the Bodleian Library The Original Rules of Sport This series of books from the Bodleian Library reproduces the original rules of classic sports, complete with commentary about their historical evolution and adaptation—in attractive, collectible formats. Bringing the past and present together, they are informative and often witty companions to the world of sports.

The Rules of Association Football, 1863 With a Foreword by Sir Bobby Charlton With an Introduction by Melvyn Bragg

In 1863 a group of Victorian Oxbridge ify the rules of the game. They quickly July 72 p., 20 halftones 4 x 61/8 graduates, frustrated by the confusing drew up the standard set of rules, creat- ISBN-13: 978-1-85124-375-4 Cloth $12.00 riot of competing rules that character- ing the First Rule Book of the Football ized the game of British football, be- Association, reprinted here in its en- sports NAM gan meeting at the Freemason’s Tavern tirety alongside illustrations and draw- in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, to cod- ings of the game. The Original Laws of Cricket With a Foreword by Mike Atherton With an Introduction by Michael Rundell

Of all the rules governing sports, the Original Laws of Cricket reprints the July 64 p., 29 halftones 4 x 61/8 laws of cricket are among the oldest. complete text of this original and ex- ISBN-13: 978-1-85124-312-9 The first written rules of 1744 survive plores how these early laws shaped the Cloth $12.00 solely on the border of a piece of lin- development of the game—and in turn Sports NAM en at the Museum of the Marylebone how the social dimensions of the game Cricket Club, the home of cricket. The changed the laws. The Original Rules of Rugby With a Foreword by Martin Johnson With an Introduction by Jed Smith

1 Rugby has rules, seriously? Believe it or by Football Union in 1871. The book July 96 p., 29 halftones 4 x 6 /8 ISBN-13: 978-1-85124-371-6 not, it does. The Original Rules of Rugby shows the complex evolution of rugby Cloth $12.00 brings together the original rules of and the intriguing history behind its Sports the game drawn up at Rugby School shifting rules. NAM in 1845 and the first rules of the Rug- Bodleian Library 145 The Itineraries of William Wey William Wey Edited and Translated by Francis Davey

In 1456 and again in 1458, William Wey English, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew (1405/6–76) set out on journeys across vocabularies, in addition to a remark- a Europe in turmoil from local conflicts able scrapbook compendium of places, and cross-border expansions. Wey, a De- roads, and distances. Originally written von priest and bursar of Eton College, in English and Latin, Wey’s fascinating had been granted special dispensation observations of a changing Europe are by Henry VI to undertake pilgrimages, for the first time available in a modern and he was prompted by his friends to English edition. The pilgrimage was write an account of his itinerant adven- an idea essential to medieval and early tures. He collected his stories from his modern Christianity, and Wey’s work travels to the Cathedral of Santiago de adds a new dimension to our under- Compostela in Spain and later Jerusa- standing of its importance and practice. November 272 p., 2 maps 71/5 x 94/5 lem in the fifteen chapters that make Wey is at once adventurous and highly ISBN-13: 978-1-85124-304-4 up The Itineraries. observant, and The Itineraries will be of Cloth $39.00s The Itineraries contains practical interest to scholars of early modern his- European History tory and armchair pilgrims alike. NAM travel advice for the period on conduct and currency, alongside comparative

Francis Davey has also translated William Wey’s An English Pilgrim to Compostella in 1456.

The Life of Anthony Wood in His Own Words Anthony Wood Edited by Nicolas K. Kiessling

Anthony Wood (1632–95) was an Eng- His Own Words is brimming with infor- lish historian and antiquarian best mation of all kinds, from firsthand ac- known for his books on the history and counts of famous people—including antiquities of the University of Oxford, Christopher Wren, John Locke, the as well as Athenae Oxonienses: an Exact physician John Lower, the defiant Cath- History of all the Writers and Bishops who olic Ralph Sheldon, the mathematician have had their Education in the University John Wallis, and a host of Oxford heads of Oxford from 1500 to 1690. Some of the of colleges, vice-chancellors, and chan- revelations in Athenae Oxonienses were cellors—to descriptions of significant considered scandalous at the time, and events, such as skirmishes between par- a copy of the manuscript was famously liamentarian and royalist forces in the burned in protest in front of the Bodle- 1640s, the atmosphere of Oxford dur- November 256 p., 16 halftones ian Library in 1693. Wood’s autobiogra- ing the parliamentarian occupation, 71/5 x 94/5 phy reflects his lifelong devotion to his- the return of King Charles II in 1660, ISBN-13: 978-1-85124-308-2 Cloth $50.00s toriography, and consequently it paints and the anti-Catholic movement of the biography european History a lively picture of many well-known fig- 1670s. Based directly upon original NAM ures in seventeenth-century England. sources, this critical edition of Wood’s Wood made more contributions to autobiography offers an entertaining biography, bibliography, and the his- and revealing look at one of the most tory of the university and city of Oxford interesting and turbulent periods in than any other writer before that time. Oxford’s past. As a result, The Life of Anthony Wood in

Nicolas K. Kiessling is professor emeritus in the Department of English at Washington State University. His recent publications include the Oxford edition of The Anatomy of Mel- ancholy; The Library of Robert Burton; The Legacy of Democritus, Junior, Robert Burton; and The 146 Bodleian Library Library of Anthony Wood. Walter G. Bradley Treating the Brain What the Best Doctors Know

n the United States alone, one-quarter of all new consultations between patients and their family physician are the result of a I neurological problem. But even in this information age, it is a daunting task to find clear, concise, and credible sources for essential medical facts. And for those dealing with the symptoms of often serious neurological disorders, finding trustworthy and straightforward information is gravely important. Treating the Brain is precisely what has been missing for non-specialists. Focusing on the most common neurological conditions, it provides accurate, reliable information to patients, caregivers, and health prac- november 347 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-1-932594-46-1 titioners from the expert whose professional text informs neurologists Cloth $25.00/£17.50 Science Medicine worldwide: Walter G. Bradley. One of the nation’s foremost neurologists and the editor of the leading neurology textbook, Neurology in Clinical Practice, Bradley here navigates the complexities of the brain in highly accessible language. Treating the Brain is the definitive resource for patients, offering a coherent and up-to-date understanding of what physicians know about the brain. Using case histories as examples, Treating the Brain explains the neurological examinations and tests and clinical features, causes, and treatments available for Alzheimer’s disease, migraines, stroke, epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, and other frequently diagnosed neurological disorders. For anyone who has ever had a neurological symptom, from a headache to tingling hands, and for anyone with a personal interest in how the brain works in health and disease, Treating the Brain will prove to be a valuable, easy-to-read source of a wide range of information.

Walter G. Bradley is a Fulbright Fellow, the lead author of Neurology in Clinical Practice, and emeritus chairman of the Department of Neurology at the Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami.

Dana Press 147 “Mirroring her scientific credo that The Hourglass of Life imperfection and unpredictability A Nobel Laureate Reflects on Her Life are the yeast of human evolution, Rita Levi-Montalcini with Giuseppina Tripodi her story unfolds a rich, unpredictable life.” Italian neurologist Rita Levi-Montal- near Piemonte, where she continued her —Publishers Weekly, research. She set up a small laboratory on In Praise of Imperfection cini’s distinguished career is matched only by her extraordinary life. The in her bedroom to study the developing Hourglass of Life is Levi-Montalcini’s in- nervous systems of chicken embryos us- September 200 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-1-932594-47-8 spiring memoir of her experience as a ing eggs brought to her by neighboring Cloth $23.95/£16.50 revolutionary woman in science. farmers. For this work and their fur- Biography Science Born in Turin in 1909, she was ther research on nerve growth factor, driven by a passion for issues of equal- she and her colleague Stanley Cohen ity and social justice and enrolled in were ultimately awarded the 1986 No- medical school, receiving her degree in bel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In medicine and surgery in 1936. In 1938, this lively and engrossing book, one of fascist Italy’s racial laws forced her, like the foremost scientists of our time turns many other Italian Jews, to leave her na- her attentive eye toward her experienc- tive country. She returned to Italy while es both as a Jew in fascist Italy and as a World War II was still raging, hiding on pioneering woman in medicine. a family farm in the Italian countryside

Rita Levi-Montalcini is the author of In Praise of Imperfection: My Life and Work.

Eloquent Science A Practical Guide to Becoming a Better Writer, Speaker, and Scientist David M. Schultz

Eloquent Science evolved from a work- at the domain of the student or scien- shop aimed at offering atmospheric sci- tist at the start of her career. The vol- ence students formal guidance in com- ume offers tips on poster presentations, munications, tailored for their eventual media communication, and advice for scientific careers. Drawing on advice non-native speakers of English, as well from over twenty books and hundreds as appendices on proper punctuation of other sources, this volume presents usage and commonly misunderstood informative and often humorous tips meteorological concepts. A further for writing scientific journal articles, reading section at the end of each while also providing a peek behind the chapter suggests additional sources for December 400 p., 5 color plates, curtain into the operations of editorial the interested reader, and sidebars writ- 5 halftones, 20 line drawings, boards and publishers of major jour- ten by experts in the field offer diverse 10 tables 7 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-878220-91-2 nals. The volume focuses on writing, viewpoints on reference topics. Paper $45.00s/£31.00 reviewing, and speaking and is aimed reference science David M. Schultz is professor of experimental meteorology in the Department of Physics at the University of Helsinki and the Finnish Meteorological Institute. He has published on a wide range of topics in the field and is chief editor of theMonthly Weather Review, cofounder and assistant editor of the Electronic Journal of Severe Storms Meteorology, associate editor of Atmospheric Science Letters, and a member of the editorial board of Geophysica.

148 Dana Press American Meteorological Society Kim Stringfellow Jackrabbit Homestead Tracing the Small Tract Act in the Southern California Landscape, 1938–2008

he Morongo Basin of Southern California’s Mojave Desert is dotted with unusual buildings and parcels of land that devel- Toped as a result of the Small Tract Act of 1938. The structures, which are remnants of a mid-century homestead movement, have become a lightning rod for seemingly disparate communities wish- “Stringfellow attacks her subject as a ing to claim and inhabit the desert landscape. In Jackrabbit Homestead, historian, a collector, and a photographer Kim Stringfellow, an artist and writer known for her cross-disciplinary with the vision of a Walker Evans on acid.” —Danny Lyon, author of work addressing the American West, land use, and the built environ- The Bikeriders and ment, documents the character of the homestead architecture and the Conversations with the Dead homesteaders who built it. Alongside her compelling photographs, she explores the origins of the Homestead Act, the Public Land Survey, Center Books on the American West and other U.S. public land policies that have shaped our perception and long-term management of the California desert. September 136 p., 61 color plates, 18 halftones 51/2 x 81/2 Richly illustrated with historical drawings and Stringfellow’s color ISBN-13: 978-1-935195-05-4 Cloth $35.00s/£24.00 photographs, Jackrabbit Homestead is an essential document of Ameri- photography nature can landscape history. “Stringfellow has invented her own genre, a fusion of cultural geography/tour guide and artist’s book. These books are unique as environmental/local histories that are up to date, readable(!), and imaginatively illustrated. I’d welcome her into my neighborhood any time.”—Lucy Lippard, author of Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the Twentieth Century

Kim Stringfellow is an associate professor in the School of Art, Design, and Art History at San Diego State University. She is also the author of Greetings from the Salton Sea: Folly and Intervention in the Southern California Landscape, 1905–2005.

Center for American Places 149 Jennifer Greenburg The Rockabillies With Essays by Bruce Berenson and Dick Hebdige

lvis Presley. Pompadours. Black-and-white creeper shoes. Cuffed jeans. And a little bit of James Dean Erebellion. These are just some of the ingredients of the modern Rockabilly style. Despite being generations removed from the original Rockabillies of the 1950s, today’s Rockabilly subculture has adopted the look—the slicked-back hair or Center Books on American Places the Bettie Page bangs—and the sound—from Carl Perkins to Buddy Holly—of mid-twentieth-century American youth culture.

October 96 p., 45 color plates 91/2 x 9 In The Rockabillies, photographer Jennifer Greenburg offers a visual ISBN-13: 978-1-930066-99-1 tour of a unique global subculture and her own place within it. The Cloth $50.00s/£34.50 Photography individuals her photographs capture are examples of the Rockabilly scene, who have fully embraced the aesthetic values of the 1950s. What intrigues Greenburg is that these contemporary Rockabillies choose to overlook the social and political realities of the time period they adore and emulate. The subculture today has become a hybrid of texts and images—frequently taken out of context—from an era that saw race riots, cultural upheaval, and little hope for middle-class advancement. Few, if any, members of the Rockabilly culture would actually want to live in the postwar era; rather, the imagery and ideals have been adapted to serve as a wistful interpretation of that time.

Jennifer Greenburg completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received her MFA from the University of Chicago. Her work is featured in the collections of the Museum of Contem- porary Photography in Chicago and the Rose Gallery in California, among others.

150 Center for American Places The Living and the Dead The Neapolitan Cult of the Skull Margaret Stratton

Snaking beneath the streets and crum- Christian catacombs, the catacombs of bling churches of Naples is a vast system Naples were constructed more like un- of ancient catacombs and aqueducts, derground cathedrals, with passageways many lined with skulls in seemingly so vast they could accommodate horse- endless rows stretching far back into drawn chariots, ox-carts, and large the depths of the caverns. In The Liv- biers carrying many corpses. Strikingly, ing and the Dead, Margaret Stratton pro- Stratton’s photographs show that, un- Center Books on the International vides an unusual photographic record like the rigid class system that governed Scene that documents these spaces in which medieval Naples, the catacombs offer a Neapolitans of early Christian history virtually classless society, where noble- December 88 p., 50 duotones sought to preserve emotional connec- men and peasants were laid to rest side 91/2 x 8 ISBN-13: 978-1-935195-01-6 tions to the afterlife through rituals in by side, their remains indistinguishable Cloth $37.50s/£26.00 which the tangible skull represents the from one another. photography ephemeral soul. The beautiful and solemn images Among the remarkable under- of The Living and the Dead document the ground cemeteries of Naples that Strat- delicate reciprocity between death and ton captures in The Living and the Dead the afterlife, between the living and the are the Catacombs of San Gennaro, the dead, and between the early history of Catacomb San Gaudioso, and il Cimite- Catholicism and pagan ritual. ro delle Fontanelle. Unlike typical early

Margaret Stratton is head of the Department of Photography in the School of Art and Art History at the University of Iowa. She has received regional and national awards in photography, video, and installation from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Jerome Foundation. Her work has been shown at the Smithsonian Institution, Lincoln Center, the Berlin Film Festival, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the Harvard Film Archive.

Chris Drury Mushrooms|Clouds Edited by Ann M. Wolfe

British conceptual and landscape art- collected from such places as Pyramid ist Chris Drury has been lauded for Lake, Donner State Park, and the Ne- his many installations and site-specific vada Test Site to remind viewers of the works that investigate themes related to many connections between art and the the environment and emphasize cycles environment. of destruction and regeneration in na- This companion volume to the ture and the ways that humans affect exhibition documents Drury’s installa- Center Books on the American West these processes. In Mushrooms|Clouds, tions and captures his ephemeral work a series of artworks commissioned by for further viewing and extended study. October 96 p., 67 color plates the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, In addition, the book includes an essay 91/2 x 8 Drury brought an international per- by Colin Robertson, the Nevada Mu- ISBN-13: 978-1-935195-02-3 spective to topics ranging from land seum of Art Curator of Education, that Cloth $49.50x/£34.00 ISBN-13: 978-1-935195-04-7 and water appropriation to nuclear expounds on the themes and signifi- Paper $29.95/£20.50 testing in the American West. In many cance of Drury’s art. ART of these works, Drury utilizes materials

Ann M. Wolfe is curator of exhibitions and collections at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno. She previously served as an assistant curator at the San Jose Museum of Art, where she curated Sandow Birk’s Divine Comedy and coauthored with Lindsey M. Wylie Selections: The San Jose Museum of Art Permanent Collection. She is also the author of Suburban Escape: The Art of California Sprawl, published by the Center for American Places. Center for American Places 151 West and West Reimagining the Great Plains Joe Deal

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 of- viewed his photography as a form of re- ficially opened the Great Plains to enactment, a method of understanding westward settlement, and the public how it felt to contain the Great Plains in survey of 1855 by Charles A. Manners smaller, more measurable units. and Joseph Ledlie along the Sixth Prin- In West and West, Deal, who was cipal Meridian established the grid by born and raised in Kansas, revisits the which the uncharted expanse of the Kansas-Nebraska territory and applies Great Plains was brought into scale. his photographic understanding of the “This is a great book, a book that Photographer Joe Deal believes that landscape grid and horizon line to il- I love. And Deal’s excellent essay the mechanical act performed by land luminating the sense of infinite space will be very valuable for students surveyors is powerfully similar to the that transcends the reality of the sur- artistic act of making a photograph. vey. The stunning photographs in West and teachers alike.” To Deal, both acts are about establish- and West present the Great Plains from —Rod Slemmons, director, ing a frame around a vast scene that Museum of Contemporary a rare perspective. From this vantage Photography, Chicago suggests no definite boundaries of its point, Deal is able to distill and contem- own. Thus, when approaching his own plate its expanse. photographs of the Great Plains, Deal Center Books on the American West Joe Deal was born in 1947 in Topeka, Kansas. He is the provost of the Rhode Island School October 112 p., 51 duotones, 3 maps of Design. Deal has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and 10 x 11 two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and his work is included in numerous ISBN-13: 978-1-935195-00-9 museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Cloth $60.00s/£41.50 Modern Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles; and photography the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester.

Like No Other Place The Sandhills of Nebraska David A. Owen

Covering nearly 20,000 square miles, braskans, and Like No Other Place docu- the Nebraska Sandhills are the largest ments his experience of this uniquely sand dune formation in America. Con- American place and its people. sisting primarily of grass and wetland, Throughout Like No Other Place, the Sandhills are inhospitable to agri- Owen is both photographer and story- culture, but enterprising cattle ranch- teller as he connects the everyday activi- ers turned the Sandhills into one of ties of the ranchers and residents he en- the most productive ranching regions counters to the vast, isolated landscape. in the country in the late nineteenth Owen provides a fascinating, firsthand century. Center Books on the American West look at a simple, though hardly simplis- Like the ranchers before him, Da- tic, existence. Featuring poetry, song, vid A. Owen found his place in the Sand- recipes, and traditions within Owen’s September 160 p., 76 duotones 8 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-930066-92-2 hills of Nebraska. A widely travelled narrative, Like No Other Place celebrates Cloth $32.50s/£22.50 Episcopal minister and photographer, a remote and unfamiliar corner of the Photography Owen and his wife moved from their United States. home in Connecticut to become Ne-

David A. Owen, a priest in the Episcopal Church, was born and raised in Ohio and now lives in Canton, Connecticut. He has photographed extensively in the American southwest and in Nepal.

152 Center for American Places Pacification and Its Discontents Kurt Jacobsen

As George W. Bush’s Iraq mission un- innocuous, but for Kurt Jacobsen and raveled, U.S. policy elites revived coun- fellow skeptics, “pacification” and its terinsurgency doctrines—known in an synonym “counterinsurgency” are earlier incarnation as pacification. The stale euphemisms for violent suppres- new edition of the Counterinsurgency sion of popular resistance movements Field Manual defines pacification as abroad—the tragic atrocities commit- “the process by which the government ted against non-combatants in Vietnam assert[s] its influence and control in and elsewhere. In this pamphlet, Jacob- an area beset by insurgents,” which in- sen examines pacification, the rehabili- October 100 p., 10 halftones cludes “local security efforts, programs tation of repressive practices, and their 41/2 x 7 to distribute food and medical supplies, attendant illusions—practices that, he ISBN-13: 978-0-9794057-8-5 and lasting reforms (like land redistri- argues, civilized nations have a duty to Paper $12.95/£9.00 bution).” Such language may sound abandon. Current events anthropology

Kurt Jacobsen is a research associate in the Program on International Politics, Economics, and Security in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago and the book review editor at Logos: A Journal of Modern Society & Culture. He is the author or editor of many books, including Experiencing the State and the forthcoming Freud’s Foes: Psychoanalysis, Science, and Resistance.

The Science of Passionate Interests An Introduction to Gabriel Tarde’s Economic Anthropology Bruno Latour and Vincent Antonin Lépinay

How can economics become genuinely passions. In a stunning anticipation of quantitative? This is the question that contemporary economic anthropology, French sociologist Gabriel Tarde tack- Tarde’s work defines an alternative path led at the end of his career, and in this beyond the two illusions responsible for pamphlet, Bruno Latour and Vincent so much modern misery: the adepts of Antonin Lépinay offer a lively intro- the Invisible Hand and the devotees duction to the work of that forgotten of the Visible Hand will learn how to genius of nineteenth-century social escape the sterility of their fight and thought. Tarde’s solution was in total recognize the originality of a thinker contradiction to the dominant views of for whom everything is intersubjective, his time: to quantify the connections hence quantifiable. between people and goods, you need to At a time when the regulation of fi- grasp “passionate interests.” In Tarde’s nancial markets is the subject of heated view, capitalism is not a system of cold debate, Latour and Lépinay provide a calculations—rather it is a constant am- valuable historical perspective on the plification in the intensity and reach of fundamental nature of capitalism.

Bruno Latour is the author of many books, including We Have Never Been Modern, and is vice October 100 p. 41/2 x 7 president for research and professor at Sciences Po Paris. Vincent Antonin Lépinay is assistant professor in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts ISBN-13: 978-0-9794057-7-8 Paper $12.95/£9.00 Institute of Technology. Economics Political Science

Prickly Paradigm Press 153 Meredith Malone Chance Aesthetics

hance Aesthetics explores how artists used chance in modernist art from the beginning of the twentieth century Cthrough the early 1970s. Published to accompany a major exhibition at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, this volume brings together a broad range of artistic practices that cede an element of authorial intent. Dropping pieces of cut paper onto a surface and gluing them down where they lay; dripping

Ellsworth Kelly, Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance V, 1951. Collage on paper, 39 x 39”. Collection of Ellsworth Kelly or flinging paint across a canvas; letting the progressive decay of organic materials determine a composition; and flipping coins to com- Exhibition Schedule pose a musical score—these are some of the processes used by artists ♦ Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum included in this volume that tap into the creative potential of chance september 11, 2009– while directing its operation. January 10, 2010 Though many artists throughout the twentieth century have championed the creative possibilities of chance and indeterminacy in the September 160 p., 60 color plates 61/2 x 9 creation of works of art, both as an attack on reason and logic and as a ISBN-13: 978-0-936316-27-7 Paper $35.00/£24.00 counterpoint to officially sanctioned aesthetic tastes, artistic subjectivi- art ty is never truly sublimated. Including more than sixty artworks by over thirty avant-garde artists from across Europe and America, this volume examines that fundamental tension between chance and choice, between the liberation from artistic agency and the continuous reasser- tion of authorship—the central paradoxes resting at the heart of the exhibition. Featured artists include Jean Arp, George Brecht, Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Max Ernst, Ellsworth Kelly, François Morellet, Robert Morris, Jackson Pollock, and Niki de Saint Phalle, among many others. Featuring essays by Susan Laxton, Meredith Malone, and Janine Mileaf that draw connections across media and disciplines while linking the genesis and meaning of artistic production through chance to larger sociocultural, historical, and theoretical contexts, Chance Aesthetics also includes extended entries on all works in the exhibition, focusing on the processes employed and the rhetoric used to describe and theorize them.

Meredith Malone is an assistant curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis.

154 Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Caroline Bachmann and Stefan Banz What Duchamp Abandoned for the Waterfall

uring his stay in Switzerland in 1946, Marcel Duchamp spent a few days at the Hotel Bellevue in Chexbres, high above DLake Geneva and overlooking one of Switzerland’s most famous vistas. The nearby waterfall Le Forestay, cascading through the steep vineyards of the Lavaux towards the lake, inspired Duchamp to create his last great masterwork, the assemblage Étant donnés: 1. La Exhibition Schedule chute d’eau, 2. Le gaz d’éclairage. Duchamp photographed the scenery ♦ Philadelphia Museum of Art and included the images in his enigmatic work that has been perma- august 15–November 1, 2009 nently installed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art since 1969. His three-dimensional environmental tableau offers an unforgettable and August 240 p., 100 color plates 81/2 x 11 untranslatable experience to those who peer through the two small ISBN-13: 978-3-85881-261-2 Cloth $55.00s holes in its solid wooden door. art UK/EU Years later the artist duo Caroline Bachmann and Stefan Banz set out to reverse the situation. They discovered exactly where Duchamp stood with his camera, and over several years they took countless pictures of what the artisit had turned his back on, the breathtaking views over the lake. Their work What Duchamp Abandoned for the Waterfall consists of many color photographs of one of Switzerland’s most extraordinary landscapes. This companion book presents one hundred striking images as well as an essay by the art critic Luc Debraine, who examines the artists’ research in dialogue with Duchamp’s Étant donnés, analyzing how Duchamp made use of the location for his artistic intentions and what photographing this particular waterfall meant to him. This beautiful book will delight fans of Duchamp and modern art and provide a striking new perspective on one of the most important works of twentieth-century art.

Caroline Bachmann is professor of painting and drawing at the Haute école d’art et de design in Geneva. Stefan Banz has been working as a self-taught freelance artist since 1993, using various media and techniques. He also works as a writer of fiction and dramatic works and of critical texts on art and artists.

Verlag Scheidegger and Spiess 155 Spatial Sequences and Urban Infrastructure Graber Pulver at ETH Zürich Marco Graber and Thomas Pulver With Essays by Nadine Olonetzky, Judit Solt, Andreas Ruby, and Axel Simon

Graber Pulver Architects was founded and its methods of instruction. Within in Switzerland in 1992. Since then, the any project, Graber and Pulver under- firm has received many international stand design as a process that includes design awards and undertaken numer- the development of both the intellectu- ous projects, including the leopard pit al concept and the sensual dimension in the Dählhölzli Animal Park in Berne, of the structure. Their unique working the Glarisegg boarding school in Steck- methods focus on the intersection of in- born, and the Rondo apartment house frastructure and the demands of form, in Zürich. In Spatial Sequences and Urban as well as the judgment of a structure Infrastructure, the firm’s founders, Mar- that is developed by inhabiting and August 176 p., 160 halftones, 30 line drawings 7 x 91/2 co Graber and Thomas Pulver, reflect moving within it. Graber and Pulver ISBN-13: 978-3-85881-260-5 on their design process and projects also show these methods at work, using Cloth $49.00s and describe how they teach their ap- examples from student projects, accom- architecture proach to architectural design to stu- panied by essays that investigate the UK/EU dents at the Swiss Federal Institute of students’ tasks and approaches. Spatial Technology Zürich. Sequences and Urban Infrastructure will be In this book, Graber and Pulver a fascinating contribution to the ongo- focus on the interaction between the ing dialogue about architectural theory practical application of architecture and its application.

Marco Graber worked with Cruz Ortiz architects in Seville and Thomas Pulver worked with Torres Martinez-Lapeña in Barcelona before they founded Graber Pulver Architects together in Berne and Zürich.

Belgrade. Formal/Informal A Research on Urban Transformation Edited by ETH Studio Basel With Essays by Roger Diener, Marcel Meili, Christian Mueller Inderbitzin, and Milica Topalovic

ETH Studio Basel, an institute of urban how Belgrade has changed throughout research, undertakes projects that ex- years of upheaval and economic hard- plore the evolution of the contemporary ship. It shows the result of the interplay city, looking specifically at how cities between guided and accidental urban transform over time and interact with planning and construction and the material space. Belgrade. Formal/Infor- varied architecture that has emerged mal presents the fascinating findings of from that intersection. In essays by ar- ETH Studio Basel’s research in the for- chitects and urban planners, Belgrade mer Yugoslavian and now Serbian capi- is presented as an example of how con- tal, investigating in particular the city’s temporary cities develop in an increas- November 256 p., 180 color plates development from the international ingly global community. Of interest to and halftones 71/2 x 11 ISBN-13: 978-3-85881-254-4 embargo against the Milosevic regime architects and planners, Belgrade. For- Cloth $65.00s after the Yugoslavian wars of separation mal / Informal provides a model of how

architecture in the 1990s until the present day. This cities spatially adapt to the constantly UK/EU richly illustrated book explores in depth expanding needs of their inhabitants.

ETH Studio Basel Contemporary City Institute, is part of the Department of Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich.

156 Verlag Scheidegger and Spiess Hannes Schüpbach. Cinema Elements Films, Paintings and Performances 1989–2008 Hannes Schüpbach With Essays by Eleonore Frey, Philippe-Alain Michaud, Andréa Picard, Hannes Schüpbach, and Adam Szymczyk

Published to accompany Hannes Schüp- His work also includes large, connected bach’s first large solo show at the Kunst- series of paintings whose simple combi- halle Basel, this book presents the first nations of colors give the appearance of in-depth look at the visually stunning physical movement. Hannes Schüpbach. work of this important Swiss filmmaker Cinema Elements features many large- and artist. Schüpbach is best known scale film stills and images of his paint- for his 16mm films, which have been ings, alongside essays by critics and by shown at the Kunstmuseum Winterthur; Schüpbach himself that explore the key the Centre Pompidou; the Biennale de elements of his work as a filmmaker, l’image en mouvement, Geneva; Museo such as his use of montage, repetition, Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, and loops. August 216 p., 152 color plates, 1 Madrid; and the Tate Modern, London. 1 halftone 9 /2 x 12 ISBN-13: 978-3-85881-246-9 Cloth $55.00s Hannes Schüpbach is a filmmaker, painter, and performance artist and the curator of Film direkt, a monthly film program. His films includeToccata , Winter Feuer, and L’At e l i e r. Film art UK/EU

Gillian White Dance in Steel. 40 Years’ Work Edited by Sabine Altorfer, Uli Däster, Jochen Hesse, and Frieda Vogt-Baumann With Essays by Sabine Altorfer, Anne Blonstein, Uli Däster, Jochen Hesse, Erica Pedretti, and Frieda Vogt-Baumann

British-born sculptor Gillian White are informed by her early education at has gained wide recognition for her the Elmhurst School of Dance in Cam- monumental steel sculptures, the ma- berley, Surrey, and her lifelong inter- jority of them commissioned for public est in contemporary dance. The many August 160 p., 126 color plates, spaces in Switzerland. White’s unique rich images of her precisely composed 30 halftones 12 x 101/2 contribution to contemporary Swiss works in this volume are complemented ISBN-13: 978-3-85881-251-3 Cloth $65.00s sculpture has never been examined un- by critical essays and personal texts by ART til now. Gillian White: Dance in Steel fo- art writers and contemporaries. Gillian UK/EU cuses on her public sculptures and her White: Dance in Steel will be a beautiful art-in-architecture works, as well as her introduction to the oeuvre of one of Eu- paintings and small, playful sculptures. rope’s most significant contemporary Many of Gillian White’s abstract shapes sculptors.

Sabine Altorfer is chief arts editor of the Swiss daily newspaper Mittelland Zeitung. Uli Däster is a freelance art critic in Switzerland. Jochen Hesse is head of the collection of prints and drawings of the Zürich University library and has been a research assistant with the Swiss Institute for Art Research in Zürich. Frieda Vogt-Baumann works as a lecturer in teachers’ education and in local politics.

Verlag Scheidegger and Spiess 157 Winter Journey Jaume Cabré Translated by Patricia Lunn

With this highly original collection of characters, objects, and ideas across short stories, Catalonian writer Jaume time and place. The text takes the form Cabré takes his place among the mas- of a Schubertian musical progression in ters of the form. In Winter Journey, the prose, a philosophical mystery moving reader encounters disparate and often freely through a labyrinth of centuries desperate characters—pianist, cuck- and cities, historical and contempo- old, whore, organ builder, rabbi, priest, rary. scholar, thief, hitman, madman, Holo- Richly allusive with its themes and caust survivor, oligarch, failed artist— motifs of music and art, Winter Journey who challenge notions about will, mo- will continue to provoke questions long rality, and the riddle of existence. This after the reader has closed the book. October 220 p. 6 x 9 is not a selection of individual stories, This edition represents the first transla- ISBN-13: 978-0-9748881-6-3 but a singularly brilliant and enigmatic tion of Cabré’s work into English and Cloth $28.00/£19.50 narrative, novelistic in its approach, an invitation to many more readers to Fiction with mysterious connections linking come along for the ride.

Jaume Cabré is a novelist, essayist, screenwriter, playwright, and philologist. Among his works are the novels La teranyina, Fra Junoy o l’agonia dels sons, Senyoria, L’ombra de l’eunuc, and Les veus del Pamano. Patricia Lunn is professor emerita in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Michigan State University. She is coauthor of the textbook En Otras Palabras and the author of other books and articles on Spanish and Catalan.

The Light of Desire La luz del deseo Marjorie Agosín Translated by Lori Marie Carlson

Marjorie Agosín’s intensely personal in this tender, rhapsodic expression long poem The Light of Desire is both a of longing and desire. This is not un- secular and sacred meditation on love requited love, but rather a reciprocal and its meanings in the land of Israel. passion that brings exquisite pleasure, Following the tradition of the Song of pain, a sense of fragility, and the hope Songs and the secular poetry of Sep- and belief in that which is eternal. harad, the beloved in The Light of Desire The poem was written over a four- is both physical and metaphorical. The year span in Jerusalem’s Mishkenot lovers’ bodies are the paths, the geog- Sha’ananim neighborhood, overlook- raphy, leading not only from desire to ing the wall of the Second Temple, and

October 120 p. 6 x 9 sensual pleasure, but to memory and these hallowed surroundings imbue ISBN-13: 978-0-9748881-7-0 illumination. The light on the pink Agosín’s poetic voice. Lori Marie Carl- Cloth $28.00/£19.50 stones of Jerusalem, the sunlight of Gal- son’s sensitive translation maintains the Poetry ilee, from hills to the sea, the fragrant spirit of the original Spanish in this bi- air and mantle of stars, all become one lingual edition.

Marjorie Agosín is professor of Spanish at Wellesley College and a human rights activist. She has written several volumes of poetry, essays, novels, and criticism, among them Tapes- tries of Hope, Threads of Love, and Cartographies. Lori Marie Carlson is a lecturer in the Depart- ment of English at Duke University. She is the author of Cool Salsa, The Sunday Tertulia, and a number of award-winning books for young adults. 158 Swan Isle Press Petr Wittlich Art-Nouveau Prague

ince the collapse of the iron curtain, Prague has become one of Europe’s—and the world’s—most popular tourist destinations. SAs in London, Paris, and Rome, visitors flock to the gorgeous buildings and monuments that grace the streets of Prague, entranced by structures ranging from Gothic and baroque to neoclassical and cubist. And while hundreds of thousands stroll over the Charles Bridge and gaze up at the St. Vitus Cathedral each year, far fewer venture october 135 p., 100 color plates 8 x 10 away from the crowds to seek out the countless gems of art nouveau ISBN-13: 978-80-246-1346-8 peppered throughout Prague. Paper $30.00/£20.50 architecture With Art-Nouveau Prague, Petr Wittlich—one of Europe’s leading cze/svk experts on nineteenth- and twentieth-century architecture—tours those monuments and buildings of Prague representative of the art nouveau movement and offers insightful commentary on each. Along the way, Wittlich visits such sites as the Municipal House, the Wilson Railway Station, the Grand Hotel Europa, and works by sculptors František Bílek, Ladislav Šaloun, and Stanislav Sucharda. An introductory essay by Wittlich emphasizing the role of art nouveau within contemporary currents of modern European art accom- panies one hundred color illustrations of some of the most stunning examples of art nouveau architecture and decoration, while a detailed bibliography provides additional reading for each of the sites displayed in the book. Art-Nouveau Prague is a must-have for those traveling to Prague for the first time or for anyone who appreciates or wants to learn more about art nouveau style.

Petr Wittlich is professor at the Institute of Art History at Charles University Prague.

Karolinum Press, Charles University Prague 159 A History of the Czech Lands Edited by Jaroslav Pánek and Oldrˇich Tu˚ ma

Born January 1, 1993, after it split with ous political past arises in part from a Slovakia, the Czech Republic is one of fascinating native people, and A History the youngest members of the European of the Czech Lands profiles the Czechs in Union. Despite its youth as a nation, great detail, delving into past and pres- this land and the areas just outside ent traditions and explaining how gen- its modern borders boasts an ancient eration after generation adapted to a and intricate past. With A History of perpetually changing government and the Czech Lands, editors Jaroslav Pánek economy. In addition, the contributors and Oldrˇich Tu˚ma—along with several examine the many minorities that now scholars from the Academy of Sciences call these lands home—Jews, Slovaks, of the Czech Republic and Charles Poles, Germans, Ukrainians, and oth- University Prague—provide one of the ers—and how each group’s migration July 750 p., 6 halftones, 11 drawings, most complete historical accounts of to the region has contributed to life in 5 engravings, 2 maps 67/10 x 91/2 ISBN-13: 978-80-246-1645-2 this region to date. the Czech Republic today. Paper $48.00/£33.00 Pánek and Tu˚ma’s history begins The first study in English with this European History in the Neolithic era and follows the de- scope and ambition, A History of the Czech cze/svk velopment of the state as it transformed Lands is essential for scholars of Slavic, into the Kingdom of Bohemia during Central, and East European studies and the ninth century, into Czechoslova- a must-read for those who trace their kia after World War I, and finally into ancestry to these lands. the Czech Republic. Such a tumultu-

Jaroslav Pánek is professor in the Institute of History and Oldrˇich Tu˚ma is a researcher in the Institute of Contemporary History, both at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

Heartland Edited by Charles Esche, Kerstin NEImann, and Stephanie Smith

Throughout the vast interior of the through topics ranging from art to mu- United States, contemporary artists sic to urban farming to political history. are responding to the world around An illustrated section introduces over them and reshaping it in unexpected twenty artists featured in the exhibit, ways. Published to coincide with an including both established figures exhibition of the same name that first like Kerry James Marshall and exuber- appeared last year in the Netherlands ant newcomers like the group Whoop and will open in fall 2009 at the Univer- Dee Doo. An appendix rounds out the sity of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art, volume by surveying the lively state of Heartland offers an idiosyncratic look at independent and artist-run cultural ini- innovative forms of cultural production tiatives from New Orleans to Detroit. October 176 p., 90 color plates taking place across the region. Produced by the Van Abbemuseum 8 x 101/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-935573-47-3 In this engaging book—part criti- and the Smart Museum of Art, Heart- Paper $30.00/£20.50 cal reader, part catalog—contributors, land challenges expectations of place

ART including novelist Dave Eggers, scholar and illuminates a diverse assembly of Hasan Kwame Jeffries, and journal- artists who are redefining the cultural ist Rebecca Solnit, explore the region terrain of the American heartland.

Charles Esche is director of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Kerstin Neimann works as a guest researcher at the Van Abbemuseum. Stephanie Smith is director of collections and exhibitions and curator of contemporary art at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago.

160 Karolinum Press, Charles University Prague smart Museum of Art Edited by Andrew Nahum Making the Modern World Milestones of Science and Technology Second Edition

he Kodak camera, the brain scanner, the steam turbine, the telephone. Inventions like these not only changed the course Tof history, but also our understanding of what the human race could achieve. Since its publication in 1990, Making the Modern World has served as an exquisitely illustrated guide to this remarkable history October 240 p., 100 color plates, of human innovation. The second edition of Making the Modern World 50 halftones 10 x 10 ISBN-13: 978-0-9817736-5-0 takes its readers up to the present day, with insightful discussions of Cloth $50.00s/£34.50 science the new technologies we already take for granted—from IVF to the Internet. Organized chronologically, the book begins with a look at the navigational tools that mapped the New World, such as the octant and the chronometer, before moving on to the steam-powered factory ma- chines of the Industrial Revolution, the lifesaving medicines of World Wars I and II, and the dynamically designed consumer goods of the 1950s and ’60s. An essay about each invention, written by an expert in the field, includes a short history of the invention’s creation, use, and significance—and is accompanied by a specially commissioned color photograph as well as supplementary archival photographs in black and white. Edited by Andrew Nahum, curator of technology at London’s Sci- ence Museum, Making the Modern World will be fascinating reading for anyone interested in new developments in science and technology. Its colorful images and concise descriptive text, moreover, make it an unrivaled reference for the budding engineers and scientists among us.

Andrew Nahum is curator of technology at the Science Museum of London and director of a related synoptic exhibit, Making the Modern World.

KWS Publishers 161 Gill Saunders Picturing Plants An Analytical History of Botanical Illustration Second Edition

rawing on the rarely seen archives of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Picturing Plants begins with Dsome pressing questions: throughout history, who has drawn plants, and why? And what do these images say “Every page of this splendid book rewards about our relationship with the natural world? To answer, art the reader with new insights.” historian Gill Saunders shares the story behind one hundred gorgeous —Bulletin of the History of Medicine works, from exquisitely detailed scientific illustrations to the boldly colored seed packets of today. July 160 p., 160 color plates 10 x 10 ISBN-13: 978-0-9817736-4-3 Starting with a printed book from the fifteenth century, Saunders Cloth $50.00s/£34.50 art nature explores a remarkable selection of botanic art, including masterworks by Georg Dionysius Ehret and Pierre Joseph Redouté as well as superb illustrations by anonymous artists in China, India, and Japan. Along the way, she makes insightful connections between botanical art, science, and culture. Plant illustrators, Saunders shows, found innovative ways to convey both a plant’s beauty and its use. For example, today, when we see a picture in which a plant is framed by white space, we simply assume that it is a convention of botanical illustration. But in the seventeenth century, the same arrangement reflected contemporary gardening practices—each plant was set in its own separate bed. Picturing Plants captures both the complex cultural history and the distinctive loveliness of botanical illustration. This updated second edition will be a welcome addition to the shelves of art historians and avid gardeners. “An excellent beginning point for those interested in botanical illustration as well as general readers interested in the art and photography of plants and professionals in the botanical and horticultural fields.”—Choice

Gill Saunders is an art historian at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, where she serves as the senior curator in the Word & Image Depart- ment. She is the author of, among other books, Sian Bown: Gaze, Prints Now: Directions and Definitions, and The Nude: A New Perspective, also available from KWS Publishers. 162 KWS Publishers The Pencil of Nature William Henry Fox Talbot

Originally published as a serial between subjects into art. Architectural studies 1844 and 1846, The Pencil of Nature was and local landscapes, still-lifes, close- the first book to be illustrated entirely ups, and even a single, painstakingly with photographs. Early enthusiast Wil- executed portrait—Talbot’s twenty-four liam Henry Fox Talbot hoped to spur prints remain strikingly modern and public interest in photography—but quietly beautiful. was forced to cease publication after just Reproduced from the original six installments. In its time, The Pencil of plates held in England’s National Me- Nature was a commercial disaster. dia Museum, each print is accompanied A century and a half later, Talbot’s by the artist’s own careful description Pencil is recognized as a major contribu- of its creation. An introduction gives tion to both the history of photogra- further shape to Talbot’s life, making phy and the development of the book. The Pencil of Nature an essential volume August 150 p., 24 calotype plates Talbot not only invented the calotype for historians, photographers, and any- 81/2 x 11 process—the precursor to today’s film one interested in the development of ISBN-13: 978-0-9817736-6-7 Cloth $150.00x/£103.50 cameras—he transformed his everyday this modern art. photography William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–77) is widely recognized as one of the founding fathers of photography.

Encyclopedia of the Commemorative Coins of the United States Anthony Swiatek

American collectors are undoubt- the reference librarian and the stu- edly familiar with the popular U.S. dent to the serious collector. Anthony state quarters program and the new Swiatek not only provides a history for Presidential Dollar Coin. Such limited- each coin, but also a detailed analysis of edition coinage is part of a long tradi- contemporary collecting facts, includ- tion, dating back as far as the Columbi- ing quantity in existence and the coin’s an Exposition of 1893. Encyclopedia of the current value. Swiatek further discusses Commemorative Coins of the United States counterfeit and doctored coins; mint celebrates America’s rich numismatic errors; and even other related collect- history with the most thorough and able materials such as cancelled coin- wide-ranging volume ever compiled on age dies. With pages of illustrations of U.S. commemorative coinage. coins as well as rare photographs of Written by the country’s leading historical memorabilia, packaging, and expert on numismatics, the Encyclope- other ephemera, the Encyclopedia is a dia provides indispensable information must-have for the discerning investor for a broad spectrum of readers—from and the casual hobbyist. July 350 p., 100 halftones 81/2 x 11 Anthony Swiatek is a consultant to the United States Mint, former president of the Ameri- ISBN-13: 978-0-9817736-7-4 Cloth $150.00x/£103.50 can Numismatic Association, and the author of numerous pamphlets, newsletters, and monographs about commemorative coins. Reference

KWS Publishers 163 The Nude A New Perspective Second Edition Gill Saunders

The human body, unclothed and on dis- ders’s analysis up to the present day. She play, has long been the subject of both examines artists’ depictions of nudes artists and art historians. But it wasn’t and their public reception from classical until 1989, when Gill Saunders’s The Greece through the twenty-first century, Nude was first published, that the nude’s highlighting the relationship between evolution in modern art was considered nudity in art and the rise of feminism, in all its facets. Written in response to as well as the effects of technological de- Kenneth Clark’s 1956 study of the same velopments in painting and photogra- name, The Nude offered a new, crucial phy. Replete with many lush, full-color “A welcome addition to the growing feminist perspective on nudity in art— illustrations, this volume will become a list of books on critical approaches and has been cited in nearly every art staple for students and readers of art his- to visual culture and gender history book since its publication. tory, as well as professional artists. construction. . . . Provocative.” This second edition brings Saun- —Karen Barzman, Women’s Art Journal Gill Saunders is an art historian at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, where she serves as the senior curator in the Word & Image Department. She is the author of, among other books, Picturing Plants: An Analytical History of Botanical Illustration. October 240 p., 100 color plates, 35 halftones 10 x 10 ISBN-13: 978-0-9817736-8-1 Cloth $50.00s/£34.50

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The Discovery of Human Antiquity A Sourcebook Jill Cook

More than two hundred years before the ensuing, often fierce debates—have anyone had even heard of intelligent been left mostly untranslated and un- September 300 p., 50 halftones design, scholarly naturalists, geologists, examined. In The Discovery of Human 7 x 10 and antiquarians—many of them de- Antiquity, Jill Cook gathers this archival ISBN-13: 978-0-9817736-9-8 Cloth $75.00s/£51.50 vout Christians—began to discover puz- material together for the first time, cull-

Archaeology zling artifacts at archaeological sites, ing from the footnotes of journals, the including stone tools and human-like minutes of learned society meetings, skeletons. Such relics suggested that and even the columns of local newspa- human life on earth had begun tens of pers. With dozens of illustrations and thousands of years earlier than anyone Cook’s expert commentary, The Discov- previously supposed. ery of Human Antiquity provides insight Although the names of these sites into what would become the founda- (Neander Valley, Altamira, the Courbet tion of modern archaeology—and the Cave) and their discoverers (Buckland, beginnings of the intelligent design/ Lyell, and Darwin, just to name a few) evolution debate. are well known, original reports—and

Jill Cook is the deputy keeper of prehistory at the British Museum.

164 KWS Publishers Recently Published by KWS

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Troubled Waters The Changing Fortunes of Whales and Dolphins Sarah Lazarus ISBN-13: 978-0-9817736-1-2 Cloth $30.00s/£20.50

Barbara Crane Challenging Vision With Essays by John Rohrbach and Abigail Foerstner and an Introduction by Kenneth C. Burkhart

Barbara Crane’s subjects are common- of more than 250 color and black-and- place: a piece of driftwood, a cluster of white photographs. wild mushrooms, a crowd of commut- “Once I developed my first roll of ers rushing for the train. The resulting film in 1948,” Crane notes, “nothing photographs, however, are far from or- else mattered.” Spanning the breadth dinary. They are imaginative, peculiar, of her career, from early studies of jarring, and, like their creator, defy easy the human form to long, narrow land- Exhibition Schedule explanation. scapes evoking Asian scrolls, from silver ◆ Chicago Cultural Center For more than sixty years, Crane gelatin and platinum prints to present- october 3, 2009– has forged her own path as a photog- day digital works, the book is by far the January 10, 2010 rapher. Lacking a darkroom, she be- largest and most definitive overview gan using Polaroid materials. Lacking of her work to date. Rounded out by a Available 252 p., 293 color plates suitable models, she paid her children critical analysis by John Rohrbach and a and halftones 12 x 11 to pose. Barbara Crane: Challenging Vi- biographical essay by Abigail Foerstner, ISBN-13: 978-0-938903-42-0 sion celebrates this Chicagoan’s wide- it will delight and challenge anyone in- Cloth $75.00s/£51.50 ranging art with a gorgeous collection terested in contemporary photography. art

John Rohrbach is senior curator of photographs at the Amon Center Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke and Eliot Porter: The Color of Wildness. Abigail Foer- stner teaches science and environmental journalism at Northwestern University. She is the author of Picturing Utopia: Bertha Shambaugh and the Amana Photographers and James Van Allen: The First Eight Billion Miles. KWS Publishers 165 Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs Performing Violence Literary and Theatrical Experiments of New Russian Drama Birgit Beumers and Mark Lipovetsky

The so-called “New Russian Drama” As the first English-language study emerged at the end of the twentieth of Russian drama and theater in the century, following a long period of twenty-first century, Performing Violence decline in dramatic writing in the late seeks a vantage point for the analysis of Soviet and post-Soviet era. In Performing brutality in post-Soviet culture. While Violence, Birgit Beumers and Mark Li- previous generations had preferred povetsky examine the representation of poetry and prose, this new breed of au- violence in these new dramatic works by thors—the Presnyakov brothers, Evgeni young Russian playwrights. Reflecting a Grishkovets, and Vasili Sigarev among disappointment in Yeltsin’s democratic them—have garnered international rec- reforms and Putin’s neoconservative ognition for their fierce plays. This book politics, these plays focus on the repre- investigates the portrayal of the identity October 240 p., 25 halftones 7 x 9 sentation and performance of various crisis of a whole generation and will be ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-269-4 Paper $25.00s manifestations of violence—social, po- a key text for students and scholars of Drama litical, and linguistic. drama, Russian studies, and literature. UK/EU/ANZ/SEA Birgit Beumers is a reader in Russian at the University of Bristol, specializing in contemporary Russian culture. She is the author or editor of many books, including A History of Russian Cinema and The Post-Soviet Russian Media. Mark Lipovetsky is associate professor of Russian studies and comparative literature at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has written several books on Russian literature and culture, including Paralogies: Transformation of (Post)modernist Discourse in Russian Culture of the 1920s–2000s.

Futures of Chinese Cinema Technologies and Temporalities in Chinese Screen Cultures Edited by Olivia Khoo and Sean Metzger

In recent years, Chinese film has gar- screening, from computers and digi- nered worldwide attention, and this tal video to smaller screens (including interdisciplinary collection investigates mobile phones). It also considers time how new technologies, changing pro- and technology in both popular block- duction constraints, and shifting view- busters and independent art films from ing practices have shaped perceptions mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, of Chinese screen cultures. For the first and the Chinese diasporas. The con- time, international scholars from film tributors explore transnational con- studies, media studies, history, and so- nections, including little-discussed ciology have come together to examine Chinese-Japanese and Sino-Soviet technology and temporality in Chinese interactions. With an exciting array cinema today. of essays by established and emerging September 288 p., 2 halftones 7 x 9 Futures of Chinese Cinema takes an scholars, Futures of Chinese Cinema rep- ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-274-8 resents a fresh contribution to film and Paper $35.00s innovative approach, arguing for a broadening of Chinese screen cultures cultural studies. Film UK/EU/ANZ/SEA to account for new technologies of

Olivia Khoo is a Targeted Research Fellow at Curtin University of Technology in Australia. She is the author of The Chinese Exotic: Modern Diasporic Femininity and has published widely on Asian film and media. Sean Metzger is assistant professor of English and theater studies and former codirector of the Center for Asian and Asian American Studies at Duke University. 166 Intellect Books The Musical Comedy Films of Grigorii Aleksandrov Laughing Matters Rimgaila Salys

Grigorii Aleksandrov’s musical comedy cinema preserved the paradigms of the films, created with composer Isaak Du- American musical, including its come- naevskii, were the most popular Russian dic tradition, using both to inscribe the cinema of the 1930s and ’40s. Drawing foundation myths of the Stalin era in on studio documents, press materials, the national consciousness. As the first and interviews with surviving film crew major study to situate these films in the members, The Musical Comedy Films of cultural context of the era, this book Grigorii Aleksandrov presents the untold will be essential to courses on Russian production history of the films. Rim- cinema and Soviet culture. gaila Salys explores how Aleksandrov’s July 240 p., 55 halftones 7 x 9 Rimgaila Salys is professor of Russian studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-282-3 a specialist in twentieth-century Russian literature, film, and culture. Paper $35.00s Film Directors & Designers UK/EU/ANZ/SEA Edited by Christine White

Directors & Designers explores the prac- director and designer have developed August 208 p., 9 halftones 7 x 9 tice of scenography—the creation of over time. Featuring chapters on the- ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-289-2 Paper $35.00x perspective in the design and paint- ater and site-specific performance, the- Drama ing of stage scenery—and offers new atrical communication and aesthetics, UK/EU/ANZ/SEA insight into the working relationships and the cognitive reception of design of the people responsible for these by the audience, this volume provides a theatrical transformations. With con- valuable resource on current approach- tributions from leading practitioners es to scenography for professionals and and theorists, editor Christine White students. describes the way in which the roles of

Christine White is head of narrative and interactive arts in the School of Art and Design at Nottingham Trent University.

Applied Theatre International Case Studies and Challenges for Practice Edited by Monica Prendergast and Juliana Saxton

Applied Theatre is the first collection to cation, medicine, and law—and collect assist practitioners and students in de- essential readings to provide a compre- veloping critical frameworks for their hensive survey of the field. Infused with own community-based theatrical proj- a historical and theoretical overview of ects. The editors draw on thirty case practical theater, Applied Theatre offers studies in applied theater from fifteen clear developmental approaches and countries—covering a wide range of models for practical application. disciplines, from theater studies to edu-

Monica Prendergast is assistant professor in the Division of Creative Arts in Learning at September 176 p. 7 x 9 Lesley University and adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Theatre at the Uni- ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-281-6 versity of Victoria. She is the author of many books, including Teaching Spectatorship: Essays Paper $35.00x and Poems on Audience in Performance. Juliana Saxton is professor emerita in the Department Drama of Theatre at the University of Victoria and the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award UK/EU/ANZ/SEA from the American Alliance for Theatre and Education. She has coauthored a number of books, including Teaching Drama: A Mind of Many Wonders, Asking Better Questions, and Into the Story: Language in Action through Drama. Intellect Books 167 Three Myths of Internet Governance Making Sense of Networks, Governance and Regulation Richard Collins

The Internet is a global medium that “legacy” media; and that national gov- defies and sometimes even replaces ernance is unimportant. Based on ex- established media, yet ideas about it tensive empirical research (including are largely biased by a U.S. perspec- interviews and participant observation tive. This book draws on European and in international governance at a United African examples to challenge three Nations World Summit), Three Myths of established myths about the Internet: Internet Governance will appeal to media that the market can decide its future studies scholars and students, policy path; that the Internet is different from makers, and regulators.

Richard Collins is professor of media studies at the Open University. He was formerly deputy director of the British Film Institute and is the author or editor of many books, including Media and Identity in Contemporary Europe: Consequences of Global Convergence, also December 208 p. 7 x 9 published by Intellect Books. ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-233-5 Paper $35.00s Media Studies UK/EU/ANZ/SEA Digital Radio in Europe Technologies, Industries and Cultures Edited by Brian O’Neill Coedited by Per Jauert, Marko Ala-Fossi, Stephen Lax, Lars Nyre, and Helen Shaw

December 212 p. 7 x 9 Radio, the oldest form of electronic details on the technologies, policies, ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-279-3 broadcasting, has thus far lagged be- and strategies to bring radio into the Cloth $45.00x hind TV in the push to go digital, but digital era—and highlights the suc- Media Studies UK/EU/ANZ/SEA efforts have been underway for over cesses and failures in implementation. twenty years in Europe to create digi- An accessible introduction for students tal platforms for radio. Drawing on and professionals, this volume presents extensive cross-national research, this digital radio broadcasting in both a Eu- volume offers the first comprehensive ropean and global context. review of European digital radio, with

Brian O’Neill is head of research and graduate studies in the Faculty of Applied Arts at the Dublin Institute of Technology.

Developing Dialogues Indigenous and Ethnic Community Broadcasting in Australia Susan Forde, Kerrie Foxwell, and Michael Meadows

The traditional audience/producer an essential service for indigenous and boundary has collapsed in indigenous ethnic audiences, empowering them at and ethnic community broadcasting, various levels, fostering active citizenry, and this is the first comprehensive and enhancing democracy. Developing study of this homegrown media sector. Dialogues offers international research- Based on firsthand research of radio ers a new perspective on Australian and television audiences in Australia, community broadcasting and presents November 208 p., 10 halftones 7 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-275-5 the authors argue that community ra- evidence of global trends in the media Paper $35.00x dio and television worldwide performs industry. Media Studies Susan Forde is a senior lecturer in journalism in the School of Humanities; Kerrie Foxwell UK/EU/ANZ/SEA is associate lecturer in media, communication, and youth studies; and Michael Meadows is associate professor of journalism in the School of Humanities, all at Griffith University in 168 Intellect Books Australia. Serbian & Greek Art Music A Patch to Western Music History Edited by Katy Romanou

The music of Serbia and Greece has book stresses the interaction between August 176 p., 20 halftones 7 x 9 long been a vital part of Balkan culture, music and politics and relates the efforts ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-278-6 but it has been excluded from the aca- of local musicians to synchronize their Cloth $45.00x demic canon of Western music history. musical environment with the West. Fo- Music UK/EU/ANZ/SEA Katy Romanou corrects this oversight cusing on music education, musical cul- with Serbian & Greek Art Music, the first ture, and creation, this timely volume book in English on the subject. Written will be of interest to musicologists and by seven renowned musicologists, the scholars of Balkan culture.

Katy Romanou is a musicologist teaching in the music faculty of the School of Philosophy at the University of Athens. She is associate editor of Répertoire International de la Presse Musicale.

Aesthetic Journalism How to Inform Without Informing Alfredo Cramerotti

Addressing a growing area of focus in dia to that of art and aestheticism—a contemporary art, Aesthetic Journalism change that questions the very founda- investigates why contemporary art ex- tions of journalism and the nature of hibitions often consist of interviews, art. This volume challenges the way we documentaries, and reportage. Art understand art and journalism in con- July 112 p. 7 x 9 theorist and critic Alfredo Cramerotti temporary culture and suggests future ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-268-7 traces the shift in the production of developments of this new relationship. Paper $35.00s truth from the domain of the news me- art UK/EU/ANZ/SEA Alfredo Cramerotti is curator at QUAD in Derby and fellow of art theory and criticism at Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen in Austria.

“Walking, Writing and Performance makes for a fascinating and decisive contribution to the emerging Walking, Writing and Performance field of walking as generative Autobiographical Texts by Deirdre Heddon, Carl Lavery practice. Each of the performance and Phil Smith texts presented adopts a highly Edited by Roberta Mock distinctive approach to both the act of walking itself—its creative This collection charts three projects by photographs and contextual essays. purpose—and to its subsequent by performers who generate autobio- Taken together or separately, the work processing as autobiographical graphical writing by walking through of all three artist-scholars raises impor- performance.” inspirational landscapes. Included in tant issues about memory, the ethics of —Nicolas Whybrow, the book are the full texts of The Crab autobiographical performance, ritual, Warwick University Walks and Crab Steps Aside by Phil Smith, life writing, and site-specific perfor- Mourning Walk by Carl Lavery, and Tree mance. October 192 p., 42 halftones 7 x 9 by Deirdre Heddon, each accompanied ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-155-0 Paper $35.00s Roberta Mock , originally from Canada, is a performance theorist and practitioner. She is a literary criticism reader in performance and associate dean for postgraduate affairs in the Faculty of Arts at UK/EU/ANZ/SEA the University of Plymouth, United Kingdom; the editor of Performing Processes: Creating Live Performance, also published by Intellect books; and series editor of Intellect’s Playtext series. Intellect Books 169 On Poisons and the Protection against Lethal Drugs A Parallel Arabic-English Edition Moses Maimonides Edited, Translated, and Annotated by Gerrit Bos, along with critical editions of Hebrew and Latin; medieval translations by Gerrit Bos and Michael R. McVaugh

Written in 1199 at the request of al- non-Jewish circles alike. Qadi al-Fadil, the famous counselor and Although On Poisons survives in secretary to Saladin, On Poisons and the several Arabic and Judeo-Arabic manu- Protection against Lethal Drugs is distin- scripts, this is the first finished critical guished rabbi Moses Maimonides’ guide edition of the Arabic. The volume also to emergency first aid and readily avail- includes critical editions of the medi- able antidotes. This treatise—assembled eval Hebrew and Latin translations and from the existing medical literature as a glossary of materia medica and technical well as Maimonides’ own practice— terms. It will be essential for the shelves Medical Works of Moses proved highly influential amongst schol- Maimonides of scholars interested in Maimonides ars and laypersons in both Jewish and and medieval medicine. July 494 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-8425-2730-9 Gerrit Bos is chair of the Martin Buber Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Cloth $49.95x/£34.50 Cologne. Michael R. McVaugh is the William Smith Wells Professor Emeritus of History at Religion Philosophy the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Tukiliit The Stone People Who Live in the Wind Norman Hallendy

For centuries, Inuit and their ances- Islands, and the Utah desert to docu- tors have been building beautiful rock ment a range of inuksuk-like figures. structures known as inuksuit across the It features ninety stunning images of Arctic and sub-Arctic. But such monu- these unique objects, both ancient and ments are not limited to the Inuit cul- contemporary, alongside Norman Hal- ture, and in fact tukiliit —the Inuktitut lendy’s thoughtful insights into what term for all meaningful stone objects— inuksuit are, why the Inuit build them, are found all over the world. Tukiliit and what they can tell us about life and August 128 p., 90 color plates 8 x 9 ventures to Iceland, India, the Faroe death in the Far North. ISBN-13: 978-1-60223-057-6 Paper $19.95/£14.00 Norman Hallendy has dedicated himself to unravelling the mysteries of inuksuit and Inuit anthropology Photography sacred sites with outstanding passion for more than forty years. He lives outside Carp, Ontario.

170 Brigham Young University university of Alaska Press Apun The Arctic Snow Matthew Sturm

There are some twenty-five words for has prepared an educational children’s September 44 p., 53 line drawings 81/2 x 91/4 “snow” in the Inupiaq language. Each book designed to teach a new genera- ISBN-13: 978-1-60223-069-9 word denotes a different kind of snow— tion of Arctic residents the importance Paper $12.95/£9.00 fresh powder snow, hard pack, soft of Arctic snow cover. Fully illustrated to Children’s snow, very wet snow, or just snow. Such demonstrate the cycle of the snow cov- fine distinction is reasonable, for over er, Apun covers each phase of the “snow Also available: the centuries, Natives of the Arctic have year.” Geared towards grades 3 and 4, Apun had to rely on their knowledge of the this is a must-read for elementary sci- The Arctic Snow snow to survive. Now Matthew Sturm ence classes. (A Teacher’s Guide) Matthew Sturm Matthew Sturm is a research physical scientist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Cold September 80 p., 41 line drawings Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory. He lives and works in Fairbanks. 81/2 x 91/4 ISBN-13: 978-1-60223-070-5 Paper $12.95/£9.00 Children’s

A Place of Belonging Five Founding Women of Fairbanks, Alaska Phyllis Demuth Movius

Alaska has always attracted people are woven together in these biographi- from varied backgrounds. In A Place of cal portraits, drawn from the women’s Belonging, Phyllis Demuth Movius in- letters, memoirs, personal papers, club troduces us to five women who settled records, their own oral histories, and in Fairbanks between 1903 and 1923 published writings. Enriched by many and who typify the disparate popula- never-before-published historical pho- tion that has long enriched Alaska. The tos, Movius’s research gives us unique women’s daily lives and personal stories insight into life on the frontier.

Phyllis Demuth Movius has spent years in service with the American Red Cross and the United Way. She resides in Fairbanks with her husband, Jim.

September 120 p., 74 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-60223-064-4 Cloth $26.95/£18.50 Women’s Studies The Little Seal Ram Papish

The northern fur seal spends most of fur seals converged annually. In 2008 October 24 p., 20 color plates 1 its life in the open ocean of the North the population counted in the Pribilofs 8 /2 x 11 ISBN-13: 978-1-60223-068-2 Pacific, from California up through was less than one million and dropping Cloth $15.95/£11.00 Alaska and down to Japan. These seals rapidly. Ram Papish’s richly illustrated Children’s travel hundreds of miles, farther than story follows these magnificent—and any other seal or sea lion, to reach their increasingly vulnerable—creatures remote breeding grounds. Most fur through the most important part of seals go to the Pribilof Islands of Alas- their lives. ka, where, historically, several million

Ram Papish has worked as a field biologist all over the Western Hemisphere. He has studied nesting seabirds on several remote islands in Alaska and draws upon his experiences as a biologist and birder to produce beautiful and accurate wildlife paintings. He lives in South Beach, Oregon. University of Alaska Press 171 Common Interior Alaska Cryptogams Fungi, Lichenicolous Fungi, Lichenized Fungi, Slime Molds, Mosses, and Liverworts Gary A. Laursen and Rodney D. Seppelt

With Common Interior Alaska Cryptogams, colous fungi, slime molds, mosses, and Gary A. Laursen and Rodney D. Seppelt liverworts. This field guide to common- offer the first field guide to cryptogams ly seen cryptogams will provide a basis of Interior Alaska. Useful to both lay for understanding their vast diversity of and professional investigators, this fully taxa, speciation, edibility, relative abun- illustrated compendium covers mush- dance, and utility, as well as the ecologi- room fungi, lichenized fungi, licheni- cal roles played by these organisms.

Gary A. Laursen is a senior research professor with the Institute of Arctic Biology and adjunct associate professor of mycology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Rodney D. Seppelt is principal research scientist with the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) August 256 p., 338 color plates, and curator of the AAD Herbarium. 113 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-60223-058-3 Paper $26.95/£18.50 Nature Fighting for the Forty-Ninth C. W. Snedden and the Long Struggle for Alaska Statehood Terrence Cole

November 350 p., 100 halftones In the 1950s C. W. Snedden, owner of cause of Alaska statehood. Snedden 6 x 9 the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, used his orchestrated a national press campaign ISBN-13: 978-1-883309-06-0 newspaper to crusade for statehood to push through the statehood legisla- Cloth $30.00/£20.50 and the development of Alaska and tion and opened much of the North American History its resources, particularly North Slope Slope for oil development, which would oil and gas. As a confidant of Interior play such a crucial role in financing the Secretary Fred A. Seaton, Snedden had young state. Fighting for the Forty-Ninth is unrivaled access to the top ranks of the the story of how an independent news- Eisenhower administration, and he em- paper publisher played a pivotal role in ployed his connections to advance the the making of modern Alaska.

Terrence Cole is professor of history and director of the Office of Public History at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Point Hope, Alaska Life on Frozen Water Berit ArnEstad Foote

This book is a window into the daily life ever, the arctic ice has been changing and environment of the Tikigaq, the rapidly, and so are the lives of people in Inupiaq people of Point Hope, Alaska, Point Hope and across the North. This as seen in photographs taken by young book—a call to action as well as a work Norwegian artist Berit Arnestad Foote of art—provides powerful documenta- from 1959 to 1962. In Foote’s days in tion of how profoundly the entire fabric September 204 p., 192 halftones, Point Hope fifty years ago, the ice cov- of a community’s life and culture is af- 1 map 10 x 11 ered the sea in October and did not fected by the ice that surrounds it. ISBN-13: 978-1-60223-065-1 Cloth $45.00/£31.00 clear until July. In recent years, how- Photography anthropology Berit Arnestad Foote is a photographer, noted visual artist, and the author of The Tigara Eskimos and Their Environment. She lives in Norway.

172 University of Alaska Press All That Glitters The Life and Times of Joe Ladue, Founder of Dawson City Ed and Star Jones

Like many men of the nineteenth cen- miner, and promoter of the Yukon Val- tury, Joseph Francis Ladue (1854–1901) ley. When gold was discovered in the sought to rise from humble origins to a Klondike, Ladue founded Dawson City, position of wealth—by way of the moth- one of the most important commercial erlode. His quest took him to the dusty, centers during the heady days of the rowdy boomtowns of Deadwood and Klondike gold rush. Painstakingly re- Tombstone and the unexplored territo- searched, All That Glitters brings read- ry of Canada’s Yukon. There, for fifteen ers the exciting, vivid life story of this years, he worked as a prospector, trader, northern pioneer.

Ed and Star Jones live in Dawson City and Sante Fe, New Mexico. For forty years they have retraced Ladue’s steps in Canada and the United States. August 348 p., 24 halftones 61/10 x 93/10 ISBN-13: 978-0-9732683-9-3 Where the Rivers Meet the Sky Cloth $34.95/£24.00 Biography A Collaborative Approach to Participatory Development Timothy Kennedy “The text is excellent, fascinating, The SKYRIVER process—a video com- ernment. The collaborative process led and also shows a potential for munication tool developed by Timothy to direct communication between the further positive change in Alaska Kennedy to allow Native Alaskans in re- villages and government officials and, villages.” mote areas to express their concerns to ultimately, to positive social change. —Rosita Worl, elected officials—has received a great This book provides a detailed review president of Sealaska deal of recognition for its innovative of how the SKYRIVER process evolved Heritage Center use of video and film tools to enhance and the many lessons learned from its and strengthen citizen participation in development. August 210 p., 19 halftones the decision-making processes of gov- 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-983-9054-51-4 Timothy Kennedy is chair of the Communications Department and professor at the Paper $20.00/£14.00 University of Tampa. He is a pioneering expert in the field of development communication Political Science and spent eleven years in Alaska developing communication between remote Eskimo villages and the government using videography.

Field Techniques for Sea-Ice Research Edited by Hajo Eicken

As much as one-tenth of the world’s and techniques used to measure and re- September 368 p., 80 graphs and oceans are covered with sea ice, or fro- cord those changes. The first compre- figures 7 x 10 zen ocean water, at some point during hensive research done on sea-ice field ISBN-13: 978-1-60223-059-0 Cloth $49.95s/£34.50 the annual cycle. Sea ice thus plays an techniques, this volume will be indis- Nature important, often defining, role in the pensable for the study of northern sea natural environment and the global cli- ice and a must-have for scientists in the mate system. This book is a global look field of climate change research. at the changes in sea ice and the tools

Hajo Eicken is associate professor of geophysics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

University of Alaska Press 173 Bone Strings Anne Coray

Anne Coray is unapologetic in her at- “Anne Coray’s precise, austere, yet tempts to bring the plight of the envi- sensuous language is a fine instrument ronment to the masses. Her words are for tracing the harsh geography of her forthright, her language is clear—but native Alaska. Cool as the moon, her Coray’s poems are not to be mistaken poems shine a clear light on unforgiv- as easy. Bone Strings is a harrowing, mag- ing landscapes, and on tough truths nificent, and morbid examination of of the heart. Bone Strings sings a hard- Alaska’s jeopardized wilderness. earned song.”—Stephen Kessler

Anne Coray lives at her birthplace on remote Qizhjeh Vena (Lake Clark) in southwest Alaska. Her poems have appeared in the Southern Review, Poetry, Seneca Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Rattapallax, among others. She lives with her husband, Steve, and her dog, Zipper.

August 77 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-9670224-9-9 Paper $15.00/£10.50 Poetry Alaska at 50 The Past, Present, and Future of Alaska Statehood Edited by Gregory W. Kimura

October 264 p., 50 halftones 6 x 9 In 2009 Alaska celebrates its fiftieth Alaska at 50 is written in highly acces- ISBN-13: 978-1-60223-061-3 Cloth $26.95/£18.50 anniversary of U.S. statehood. To com- sible prose. Illustrations and photo- memorate that milestone, Alaska at 50 graphs of significant artifacts of Alaska American History brings together some of today’s most history enliven the text. Each contribu- noteworthy and recognizable writers tor brings a strong voice and prescrip- and researchers to address the past, tion for the next fifty years, and the present, and future of Alaska. Divided resulting work presents Alaskans and into three sections—art, culture, and the nation with an overview of Alaska humanities; law, economy, and politics; statehood and ideas for future develop- and environment, people, and place— ment.

Gregory W. Kimura is president and CEO of the Alaska Humanities Forum. He lives in Anchorage.

Cartography of Water Mike Burwell

Mike Burwell’s poetry is hauntingly is kept company by the wilderness of one evocative, palpably conveying to the man’s longing and loud ache. Wolves ap- reader his love of the natural world and pear, and bears, and the rusty remnants of Alaska as he navigates on a steady of old miners’ dreams. . . . Against the current of powerful images. Burwell’s beauty and terror of life, the poet holds poems evoke Alaska’s landscapes, and to words which manage, in turn, to cap- each poem is a thoughtful mapping of ture and hold up for us some remnant the world around him. of the brief joys of his world, actual and August 77 p. 6 x 9 “Here, in Cartography of Water, the imagined.”—Anne Caston ISBN-13: 978-0-9794365-0-5 Paper $16.00/£11.00 quietude of the untamed, wilder world

Poetry Mike Burwell’s poems have appeared in Abiko Quarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, Pacific Re- view, Poems Plays, and Utah Wilderness Review. The poems in Cartography of Water come from 174 University of Alaska Press his time in the mountains and on the waters of the West and Alaska. Changing Paths in Alaska’s Arctic Wilderness Bill Sherwonit

Changing Paths in Alaska’s Arctic Wilder- in rural Connecticut and his recogni- ness is an autobiographical exploration tion of wild nature as refuge, while part of author Bill Sherwonit’s relationship three follows the author as he becomes to the Alaska wilderness. Written in a nature writer and wilderness advo- three parts, it first describes Sherwonit’s cate. This book makes an extraordinary introduction to the Brooks Range and contribution to the literature of place his years as an exploration geologist. from one of Alaska’s most accomplished Part two takes the author deeper into writers. the past, to explore his childhood roots

Bill Sherwonit is a widely published journalist and nature writer and has written ten previous books on Alaska.

September 220 p., 25 halftones, 2 maps 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-60223-060-6 Paper $21.95/£15.00 Alaska Politics and Public Policy Biography Nature The Dynamics of Beliefs, Institutions, Processes, Personalities, and Power Edited by Clive S. Thomas

For the first time, more than two dozen a forecast of issues on the horizon. A November 864 p., 30 graphs, maps, of the most prominent scholars and one-volume primer on Alaska affairs in and figures 7 x 10 ISBN-13: 978-1-60223-062-0 community leaders in Alaska have come a readable and accessible format, Alaska Cloth $40.00/£27.50 together to offer a comprehensive look Politics and Public Policy provides public Political Science into Alaska’s politics and public policy. officials, business leaders, students, and This volume offers a complete reevalua- the general public with the foundation tion of the key past and present issues in they need to begin to understand the Alaska politics and government—and forty-ninth state.

Clive S. Thomas is professor of political science at the University of Alaska Southeast. He is a member of Westrends Monitoring Group for the Council of State Governments and a senior fellow at the Center for the New West in Denver. He lives in Juneau.

Cahiers Parisiens / Parisian Notebooks Number Five Edited by Jan E. Goldstein

The Cahiers Parisiens / Parisian Notebooks ences: “Paris/Chicago: Urban Cultures July 530 p. 53/4 x 81/4 series publishes selected papers in Eng- in Comparative Historical Perspective,” ISBN-13: 978-2-9525962-4-4 Paper $25.00x/£17.50 lish and French drawn from interna- “Emigration, Influence, Exile: Models LITERARY CRITICISM tional conferences held at the University of Cultural Interaction between Russia of Chicago Center in Paris. This volume and France,” and “Freud in the Twenty- contains papers presented during the first Century.” 2007–8 academic year at three confer-

Jan E. Goldstein is the Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of History at the University of Chicago and the academic director of the University of Chicago Center in Paris.

University of Alaska Press 175 university of Chicago Center in Paris Cookies, Coleslaw and Stoops The Influence of Dutch on the North American Languages Nicoline v a n d e r Sijs

From Santa Claus (after the Dutch folk- tion presented in this volume charts the lore saint Sinterklaas) and his sleigh (the journey of these words into the Ameri- pronunciation of the Dutch slee is almost can territory and languages, from more identical) to a dumbhead talking poppy- obscure uses which may have survived cock, the contributions of the Dutch lan- only in regional dialects to such ubiq- guage to American English are indelibly uitous contributions to our language embedded in some of our most vernac- as Yankee, cookie, and dope. Each entry ular terms and expressions. In Cookies, marks the original arrival of its term Coleslaw and Stoops, the renowned lin- into American English and adds up-do- guist Nicoline van der Sijs glosses over date information on its evolving mean- three hundred Dutch loan words like ing, etymology, and regional spread. these that traveled to the New World on Not to be missed by anyone with a pas- September 384 p., 100 halftones 63/10 x 91/2 board Henry Hudson’s ship the Halve sion for the history behind our everyday ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-124-3 Maan, which dropped anchor off Man- expressions, this charming volume is Paper $32.50s hattan more than four hundred years the perfect gift for the linguistic adven- reference history ago. Lively and accessible, the informa- turer in us all. CUSA Nicoline van der Sijs is a linguist and a coeditor of the multivolume Dutch Etymological Dictionary.

One Billion Rising Law, Land and the Alleviation of Global Poverty Edited by Roy L. Prosterman, Robert Mitchell, and Tim Hanstad With a Preface by Joseph E. Stiglitz

In an age fueled by globalization and tional wisdom concerning law and land focused on the struggling citizens of tenure reform—what is needed, what the urban metropolis, it might come is possible, and how such reform con- as a surprise to learn that most of the tributes to pro-poor development—has world’s 1.4 billion poorest people are changed, sometimes in striking ways. In still rural. Unfortunately, the vast ma- this timely and important volume, law- jority of these populations lack owner- yers from the Rural Development Insti- ship of—and rights to—the land that tute and the University of Washington “This book, based on many years forms their principal source of liveli- School of Law use four decades’ worth of field experience, demonstrates hood. Although land reform and re- of research on the results of land ten- the leveraged power of the law lated legal work have transformed the ure reform efforts around the world in as a tool for social and economic lives of millions of families by providing order to address how we might better progress.” secure land rights, not all such efforts meet the challenge of understanding —Bill Gates Sr., have succeeded. That mix of success and changing the plight of the rural chairman, Microsoft Corporation and failure has been a big part of the poor. reason that, in recent years, the conven-

Law, Governance and Roy L. Prosterman is founder and chairman emeritus of the Rural Development Institute Development Research (RDI) in Seattle, and professor emeritus at the University of Washington School of Law. Robert Mitchell is program chair and senior land tenure expert at RDI, where he currently 3 1 August 450 p. 6 /10 x 9 /2 directs RDI’s India Program, and affiliate assistant professor of law at the University of ISBN-13: 978-90-8728-064-2 Washington School of Law. Tim Hanstad is chief executive officer and president of RDI, Paper $39.95s and affiliate associate professor of law at the University of Washington School of Law. Law Political Science CUSa

176 Amsterdam University Press Ship’s Surgeons of the Dutch East India Company Commerce and the Progress of Medicine in the Eighteenth Century Iris Bruijn

During the eighteenth century, the sur- and firsthand accounts from over three geons of ships employed by the Dutch thousand of the surgeons in the com- East India Company were responsible pany’s service, and spanning topics as not only for the health of sailors on diverse as the recruitment policy of the board, but also of those in company company, the career trajectory of the hospitals throughout a vast empire that surgeons in its employ, their geographi- extended from South Africa to Japan. cal origins, and their life expectancy. Regarded by their contemporaries as Demonstrating that the image of these little more than illiterate and opportu- surgeons as uneducated apprentices is Leiden University Press nistic barbers, these early medical prac- little more than a myth, Iris Bruijn por- titioners engaged in a complex working trays them more appropriately as fairly July 396 p., 25 color plates life as varied as the geographical ter- well-educated men subject to the risks 63/10 x 91/2 rain they covered. This volume offers of life at sea, including incurable dis- ISBN-13: 978-90-8728-051-2 Paper $39.95s a fascinating exploration of the reality eases otherwise unknown in their Eu- of their profession, drawing on data ropean homeland. European History CUSA Iris Bruijn is a naval historian and a compliance officer at the international law firm Clifford Chance in Amsterdam.

Dutch Ships in Tropical Waters The Development of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) Shipping Network in Asia 1595–1660 Robert Parthesius

During the closing years of the six- previously ignored smaller vessels. Dem- teenth century, the Dutch East India onstrating that the wide range of types Company fast became a political and and sizes of vessels were indeed what economic force in Asia, en route to be- gave the Company the ability to sail— coming the leading private company and to continue its profitable trade— in the world by 1660. This definitive year after year, Dutch Ships in Tropical volume explores perhaps the most im- Waters combines the best of maritime portant tool in the company’s trade: history and archaeological research in its ships. Robert Parthesius here recon- order to change our understanding of structs the complete shipping activities the logistical dynamics behind one of of the Company through a unique data- the most important and successful busi- July 256 p., 35 color plates base that charts the movements of even nesses of this period. 67/10 x 91/2 ISBN-13: 978-90-5356-517-9 Robert Parthesius is a maritime historian and archaeologist, as well as director of the Paper $37.50s Centre for International Heritage Activities in Leiden and a lecturer in historical european History archaeology at Leiden University. CUSA

Amsterdam University Press 177 Digital Material Tracing New Media in Everyday Life and Technology Edited by Marianne v a n d e n Boomen, Sybille Lammes, Ann-Sophie Lehmann, Joost Raessens, and Mirko Tobias Schäfer

In the three decades since its found- assembled their knowledge of digital ing as a discipline, new media studies material into this fascinating contem- has yielded a host of innovations, tri- porary anthology, covering issues rang- als, and problems in both popular and ing from desktop metaphors, cybergot- academic discourse. But what new ques- hic music, and Web 2.0 ecosystems to tions are still emerging? Is contempo- touch screen interfaces, live blogging, rary digital culture all about the user? and role-playing games, all showcasing Which riddles are still unsolved now the state of current work in this rapidly that new media is taken for granted? changing field. The contributors to this volume have

Media Matters Marianne van den Boomen, Sybille Lammes, Ann-Sophie Lehmann, Joost Raessens, and Mirko Tobias Schäfer are all researchers in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies July 352 p., 15 halftones 61/4 x 61/3 at Utrecht University. ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-068-0 Paper $39.95s Media Studies CUSA The Place of Play Toys and Digital Cultures Maaike Lauwaert

Technology has come to dominate the search into the nature, characteristics, world of toys and gaming. Given the im- mechanisms, and problems at hand in mense popularity of computer games, our contemporary assessment of what as well as the increasing role played by it means to play. Maaike Lauwaert cen- the digital in childhood activities, it’s ters her discussion on the “geography not surprising that the world of play has of play,” which comprises different as- come to exist at the borders of techno- pects of play itself, including the design logical production and consumption. of a toy, the discourse surrounding it, The Place of Play takes on digital toys and and the ways in which it is actually used computer games as a site for strategic re- by its player.

Maaike Lauwaert works at the Mondriaan Foundation. She is a new media researcher.

Media Matters Cinema Beyond Film

August 160 p., 15 halftones Media Epistemology in the Modern Era 3 1 6 /10 x 9 /2 Edited by François Albera and Maria Tortajada ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-080-2 Paper $29.95s Cultural Studies CUSA Cinema Beyond Film elaborates on the and structures that hold power in place. theoretical uses of two key terms—dis- Episteme (“to know”), on the other and —in order to exam- hand, refers to the conditions and pos- Film Culture in Transition positif episteme ine their relationship as well as their sibilities of knowledge and reception, August 224 p. 63/10 x 91/2 larger connections to film, technology, more than to technological innovation. ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-084-0 and modernity. Although both terms Each term is explored here in rela- Cloth $75.00x originate in the work of Foucault, dis- tion to the other, allowing this edited ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-083-3 Paper $35.00x positif (“device”) intrinsically links it- collection to assess the wide array of Film CUSA self to the mechanics of movement and potential materialities that arise from speed behind cinematics, while more the mechanics behind cinema and the generally referring to the mechanisms changing face of its technology.

François Albera is professor of film and cinema studies at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. Maria Tortajada is assistant professor in the Department of History and the 178 Amsterdam University Press Aesthetics of Film, also at the University of Lausanne. Discovering the Dutch On Culture and Society of the Netherlands Edited by Emmeline Besamusca and Jaap Verheul

What are the most salient and sparkling Golden Age, from William of Orange to facts about the Netherlands that those Anne Frank, Discovering the Dutch uses interested in its history need to know? a series of charming vignettes written This volume tackles the heart of this by experts in their fields in order to question of Dutch identity by analyzing address historical and contemporary a number of essential themes that run issues such as immigration, tolerance, through the culture, history, and soci- and the struggle against water, as well ety of the Netherlands. Running the as cultural elements, such as painting, gamut from the Randstad to the Dutch literature, architecture, and design.

Emmeline Besamusca is a lecturer in Dutch culture at Utrecht University and the Univer- sity of Vienna. Jaap Verheul is a lecturer in history and director of the Amsterdam studies program at Utrecht University. decmber 160 p., 60 halftones 63/10 x 91/2 ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-100-7 Paper $35.00s

European History CUSA Technology, Trust, and Religion Roles of Religions in Controversies over Ecology and the Modification of Life Edited by Willem B. Drees

What does it mean to be human in a issues of expertise, trust, and engage- Leiden University Press world of technology? What could be ment in light of ecological and spiri- the role of religion in responding to the tual concerns, including our increasing July 320 p. 63/10 x 91/2 ecological crisis? Whom do we trust to technological awareness, religious re- ISBN-13: 978-90-8728-059-8 Paper $49.95s make decisions regarding our common sources for ecological crises, biotech- future? Is the public ignorant, in the nology, and matters of trust between science CUSA eyes of our scientific experts? The con- scientists and the general public. tributors to this timely volume address

Willem B. Drees is chair of the philosophy of religion and ethics at Leiden University and editor of Zygon: A Journal of Religion and Science.

New Germans, New Dutch Literary Interventions Liesbeth Minnaard

In today’s globalized world, traditions analysis of works by the Turkish-Ger- of a national Self and a national Oth- man writers Emine Sevgi Özdamer and er no longer hold. This timely volume Feridun Zaimoglu and the Moroccan- considers the stakes in our changing Dutch writers Abdelkader Benali and definitions of national boundaries in Hafid Bouazza,New Germans, New Dutch light of the unmistakable transforma- offers crucial insights into the ways in July 328 p. 63/10 x 91/2 tion of German and Dutch societies. which literature negotiates both dif- ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-028-4 Examining how the literature of migra- ference and the national context of its Paper $57.50x tion intervenes in public discourses on writing. Literary Criticism multiculturality and including detailed CUSA

Liesbeth Minnaard is assistant professor in literary studies at Leiden University. Amsterdam University Press 179 “This is a new and highly readable Synod on the Freedom of Conscience translation . . . particularly well- A Thorough Examination during the Gathering Held in the suited for classroom use.” Year 1582 in the City of Freetown —Christine Kooi, Louisiana State University Dirck volckertszoon Coornhert Edited and Translated by Gerrit Voogt july 242 p., 12 halftones 3 1 6 /10 x 9 /2 This volume presents the first English- of the struggle against Habsburg Spain. ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-082-6 Paper $45.00x language translation of Synod on the The imaginary synod at the center of Freedom of Conscience (1582), a book- this text, held in “Freetown,” becomes religion CUSA length plea for religious freedom by a space of exchange for Catholic and Dutch humanist Dirck Volckertszoon Protestant leaders and theologians, Coornhert. Coornhert’s central con- whose spirited debates are concluded cern in his writings and exchanges with with remarks by Coornhert’s alter ego, ministers of the Reformed Church was the irenic Gamaliel, who shows that the safeguarding of freedom of con- both parties sin equally on the side of science—the chief cause, he believed, intolerance.

Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert (1522–90) was a Dutch humanist and prolific writer on issues of religious tolerance and freedom. Gerrit Voogt is professor of history at Kennesaw State University.

Braving Troubled Waters Sea Change in a Dutch Fishing Community Rob v a n Ginkel

This ethnographic study considers the the fisheries of Texel, an island at the engagement of Dutch fishermen with northwestern end of the Netherlands. the limited resources of the marine Elucidating how the fishermen have world, as well as the capricious markets navigated treacherous waters, in both a and political interventions that have real and metaphorical sense, for many governed the fishing industry from the decades, Braving Troubled Waters offers a MARE Publications early eighteenth century to the pres- portrait of a community at the interface ent day. More specifically, it focuses on of local, national, and supranational July 328 p., 23 halftones 63/10 x 91/2 the deckhands, owner-operators, fish- processes. ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-087-1 ermen’s wives, and others involved in Paper $49.95s anthropology Rob van Ginkel is a senior lecturer in cultural anthropology at the University CUSA of Amsterdam.

“This is a thought-provoking book Ethnic Constructs in Antiquity which contributes significantly to The Role of Power and Tradition current debates.” Edited by Ton Derks and Nico Roymans —Martin Millett, University of Cambridge This bold and original volume explores says collected here analyze historical, themes of ethnicity and ethnogenesis epigraphic, and archaeological source Amsterdam Archaeological Studies in the societies of the ancient world. material in order to consider the dy- It starts with a view currently held by namic nature of ethnic formations over July 368 p., 45 halftones 72/3 x 12 many in the social and historical scienc- time and range thematically from ar- ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-078-9 Cloth $65.00s es, namely, that ethnicity is a subjective chaic Greece to early medieval Western archaeology concept shaped through an interaction Europe. CUSa with the ethnic other. The thirteen es-

Ton Derks is assistant professor of Roman archaeology and Nico Roymans is professor of Western European archaeology, both at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. 180 Amsterdam University Press Asian Material Culture Edited by Marianne Hulsbosch, Elizabeth Bedford, and Martha Chaiklin

This richly illustrated volume offers the rather than exhaustive, in its portrayal reader unique insight into the materi- of Asian material culture, together they ality of Asian cultures and the ways in clearly demonstrate that objects are which objects and practices can simul- entities that resonate with discourses taneously embody and exhibit aesthetic of human relationships, personal and and functional characteristics, as well group identity formations, ethics, val- as everyday and spiritual aspirations. ues, trade, and, above all, distinctive Though each chapter is representative, futures.

Marianne Hulsbosch is a senior lecturer and course director of visual arts and design education at the University of Sydney. Elizabeth Bedford is an independent scholar who has lectured at the University of Hong Kong and the University of Sydney. Martha Chaiklin is assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh. ICAS Publications

August 232 p., 71 halftones 63/10 x 91/2 ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-090-1 Paper $39.95s

asian Studies Sticking Together or Falling Apart CUSA Solidarity in an Age of Individualization and Globalization Paul d e Beer and Ferry Koster

This volume examines the impact of aid. The first thorough study of inter- Solidarity & Identity globalization and individualization national comparative data on solidar- 3 1 on social solidarity in both a theoreti- ity, Sticking Together or Falling Apart con- september 208 p. 6 /10 x 9 /2 ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-128-1 cal and empirical context, focusing on cludes that, overall, solidarity is on the Paper $39.90s types of informal solidarity, such as vol- rise rather than declining, despite the Political Science Sociology unteering, charitable giving, and care, ambiguous effects of both globalization CUSA as well as more formal types, such as and individualization. government benefits and development

Paul de Beer is professor of industrial relations at the University of Amsterdam. Ferry Koster is a researcher in the Department of Social Science at Leiden University.

Ethnic Minorities and Regional Development in Asia Reality and Challenges Edited by Huhua Cao

The global development experience struggle for minority rights. Within this of the past century has shown that context, this volume argues for the sup- ICAS Publications economic growth cannot be sustained port of an interdisciplinary discussion without taking into consideration the that aims to link studies surrounding August 252 p. 63/10 x 91/2 social and political development of the development of minorities in Asia. ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-091-8 vulnerable populations, including the Paper $47.50x Economics Asian Studies Huhua Cao is associate professor in the Department of Geography at the University CUSA of Ottawa. Amsterdam University Press 181 Responding to the West Essays on Colonial Domination and Asian Agency Edited by Hans Hägerdal

The international contributors to this wide-ranging account of the diversity of volume apply fresh perspectives and human relationships forged by the co- new methodologies to the Asian colo- lonial presence. For all of its features of nial experience from the eighteenth structural oppression, colonialism was century through the post–World War not a one-way communicative process, II decolonization. Historiography, gen- as this volume demonstrates through der, military studies, finance, and is- its analysis of the ever-shifting roles of sues of race and class all feature in this colonizer and colonized.

Hans Hägerdal is a senior lecturer in history in the School of Humanities at Växjö University in Sweden.

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July 192 p., 10 halftones 63/10 x 91/2 Reframing Singapore ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-093-2 Paper $47.50x Memory—Identity—Trans-Regionalism asian Studies Edited by Derek Heng and Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied CUSA Over the past two decades, Singapore transnational experiences with the ex- ICAS Publications has advanced rapidly towards becom- ternal world. This collection spans sev-

September 320 p. 63/10 x 91/2 ing both a global city-state and a key eral disciplines in the humanities and ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-094-9 nodal point in the international eco- social sciences and draws on various Paper $57.00x nomic sphere. These developments theoretical approaches and methodolo- Sociology Asian Studies have caused us to reassess how we un- gies in order to produce a more refined CUSA derstand this changing nation, includ- understanding of Singapore and recon- ing its history, population, and geog- ceptualize the challenges faced by the raphy, as well as its transregional and country and its peoples.

Derek Heng is assistant professor in the Department of History at the Ohio State University. Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied is assistant professor in the Department of Malay Studies at the National University of Singapore.

Social Movements in China and Hong Kong The Expansion of Protest Space Edited by Gilles Guiheux and Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce

This volume provides an account of and the emergence of collective move- how Chinese individuals, increasingly ments, the contributors suggest that free from the constraints of the state, specific protest actions taking place on today have to rely on their own efforts the mainland and in Hong Kong have to support their well-being, and how, in enabled both societies to expand their certain circumstances, they must gath- protest space. Ultimately, these devel- er together to defend their interests. opments lead us to reconceptualize citi- ICAS Publications Complicating the internal and exter- zenship as something practiced rather nal factors behind the relationship be- than given. September 336 p. 63/10 x 91/2 ISBN-13: 978-90-8964-131-1 tween the individualization of society Paper $59.00s Gilles Guiheux is professor of sociology in the Department of Oriental Languages and Sociology Asian Studies Civilizations at the University of Paris Diderot. Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce is associate professor cusa in the Department of Sociology at the University of Hong Kong. 182 Amsterdam University Press Morphological Atlas of the Dutch Dialects Volume II Ton Goeman, Marc v a n Oostendorp, Pieter v a n Reenen, Oele Koornwinder, Boudewijn v a n d e n Berg, and Anke v a n Reenen

The Morphological Atlas of the Dutch Dia- deals with the grades of comparison lects presents word formation in Dutch of adjectives, possessive pronouns, per- and Frisian dialects at the end of the sonal pronouns for subject and object, twentieth century in two comprehen- the endings of present- and past-tense sive volumes. Based on data acquired in strong and weak verbs, the participle the field between 1979 and 2000, this prefix, and the stem form of strong collaborative effort between linguists verbs. from the Netherlands and Belgium

Ton Goeman, Marc van Oostendorp, Pieter van Reenen, Oele Koornwinder, Boudewijn van 1 1 den Berg, and Anke van Reenen are all researchers at the Meertens Institute of the Royal July 180 p. 9 /2 x 13 /3 Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. ISBN-13: 978-90-5356-775-3 Cloth $182.00x linguistics Reference CUSA Syntactic Atlas of the Dutch Dialects Volume II Sjef Barbiers, Johan v a n d e r Auwera, Hans Bennis, Eefje Boef, Gunther d e Vogelaer, and Margreet v a n d e r Ham

1 1 The Syntactic Atlas of the Dutch Dialects of over one hundred syntactic vari- July 176 p., 200 maps 9 /2 x 13 /3 ISBN-13: 978-90-5356-780-7 provides a detailed overview of the sur- ables, many of which are absent from Cloth $182.00x prisingly rich syntactic variation found the Dutch standard language. A state- Linguistics Reference in the 267 dialects of Dutch recorded of-the-art linguistic description accom- CUSA at the beginning of the twenty-first panies each map, taking into account century. Two hundred full-color maps both modern syntactic research and illustrate the geographic distribution historical developments.

Sjef Barbiers, Hans Bennis, Eefje Boef, and Margreet van der Ham are researchers at the Meertens Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Johan van der Auwera is a researcher at University of Antwerp. Gunther de Vogelaer is a researcher at Ghent University.

Infrastructures Time to Invest The Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy

Modern societies cannot exist without private equity created by that change, dams, roads, drinking water, telephone from economic, legal, administrative, networks, and electricity. Recent de- and technical perspectives. The con- cades of privatization and globalization tributors outline the challenges that have put infrastructure providers at a future governments will need to meet distance from the influence of govern- nationally and globally, such as climate November 224 p. 63/10 x 91/2 ment, and the essays in this timely book change, reduction of CO2 emissions, ISBN-13: 978-90-5356-605-3 consider the various intersections of and global capital flows, among other Paper $59.25x public interest, strategic activity, and concerns. Political Science CUSA The Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policyis an independent advisory board for Dutch government policy. Amsterdam University Press 183 The Emperors’ Needles Egyptian Obelisks and Rome Susan Sorek

Obelisks—the ubiquitous, four-sid- markable objects, as well as the history ed monuments with pyramidal tops of their construction and transmission. that dotted the landscapes of ancient Aimed both at the scholar and culturally

November 192 p., 16 halftones 6 x 9 Egypt—reached their heyday between interested traveler, The Emperors’ Needles ISBN-13: 978-1-904675-30-3 2000 and 1500 BC, when they trans- links two of our greatest ancient civili- Cloth $85.00x formed from emblems of the sun cult zations through an in-depth account of ISBN-13: 978-1-904675-51-8 to everyday objects proclaiming the their standing monuments. Tracing the Paper $29.00x splendor of the pharaohs. Today, only interest of Roman emperors in the obe- Architecture Ancient History NSA twenty-seven Egyptian obelisks remain lisk as an object of prestige and power, standing, long ago dispersed to various as well as discussing each monument locales throughout the world. Rome, in detail, the individual histories and with thirteen—each of which is in a remarkable accounts presented in this different corner of the Eternal City— highly illustrated volume are not to be possesses more than anywhere else, in- missed by any enthusiast of Roman or cluding Egypt. This fascinating volume Egyptian culture. is a comprehensive guide to these re-

Susan Sorek teaches in the Department of Classics at University of Wales Lampeter and the Open University. Her previous publications include The Jews against Rome: War in Palestine, AD 66–73.

Alexander the Great Myth, Genesis and Sexuality Daniel Ogden

Alexander the Great (356–323 BC) ume for any student of ancient history. has become a figure emblematic of his Along the way, the author draws us in to age—as well as one continually reas- captivating issues as diverse as Alexan- sessed in our own time by generations der’s relationship with his wife Barsine; “Daniel Ogden is eminently quali- of scholars, historians, and critics. This the mythology behind accounts of his fied to write this much-needed is the first volume devoted specifically siring by a thunderbolt or giant snake; to the study of Alexander’s sexual- the recurring representation of Alexan- work.” ity and its representation, and Daniel der’s mother Olympias as a witch; and —Joseph Roisman, Colby College Ogden’s accessible presentation of the the various commentaries on Alexan- myths and critical narratives behind der’s homosexual engagement with his January 288 p., 12 halftones 6 x 9 this heroic figure makes it a perfect vol- companion Hephaestion. ISBN-13: 978-0-85989-837-9 Cloth $100.00x Daniel Ogden is professor of ancient history at the University of Exeter. ISBN-13: 978-0-85989-838-6 Paper $34.00s Biography ancient History NSA

184 University of Exeter Press Augustus, First Roman Emperor Power, Propaganda and the Politics of Survival Matthew D. H. Clark

A key figure in Roman history, Augus- use the classical world’s conception of tus (63 BC–14 AD) was the adopted son propaganda to his advantage. Through of Julius Caesar and the first to lead the an examination of the emperor’s rela- Roman Empire; so mighty was he that tionship with Maecenas, his political upon his death the month previously advisor, and Agrippa, his great com- known as Sextilis was renamed in his mander, as well as a host of historical honor. In this volume, Matthew D. H. personages, including the poets Virgil Clark presents a fascinating analysis of and Ovid, Augustus helps us understand how Augustus was able to manipulate this remarkable figure’s rise to power, as the mechanisms of political power and well as his lasting legacy.

Matthew D. H. Clark teaches classics at the Shrewsbury School, England, and is coauthor of Measuring the Cosmos: How Scientists Discovered the Dimensions of the Universe. Bristol Phoenix Press - Greece and Rome Live

September 128 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-1-904675-43-3 Cloth $75.00x ISBN-13: 978-1-904675-14-3 Paper $25.00s Biography Ancient History NSA

A New Life of Dante Revised and Updated Stephen Bemrose

This fully revised and updated biog- contexts surrounding their production. raphy of Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), The volume includes English-language one of world literature’s foremost writ- translations of all quotations and an up- ers and thinkers, weaves the life and dated bibliography, making it an excel- works of the Florentine poet into a lent introductory text for anyone with single accessible thread. Aimed at stu- an interest in this master poet of the dents, as well as the curious but non- Middle Ages. specialist reader, A New Life of Dante “This volume deserves to become takes into account the philosophies recommended reading for undergrad- running through Dante’s major and uates, especially those approaching minor works while also paying particu- Dante for the first time.”—Modern Lan- lar attention to the social and political guages Review, on the first edition September 272 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-85989-845-4 Stephen Bemrose was a lecturer in Italian at the University of Exeter, where he taught Paper $32.50s courses on Dante’s life and work for over twenty years until his recent retirement. biography Literary Criticism NSA

University of Exeter Press 185 Ramparts of Empire The Fortications of Sir William Jervois, Royal Engineer 1821–1897 Timothy Crick

November 320 p., 16 color plates, In 1860 Palmerston’s parliament sanc- that spanned continents and empires. 1 150 halftones 8 /2 x 11 tioned the construction of the largest This volume is a detailed study of Jer- ISBN-13: 978-1-905816-04-0 Cloth $90.00x system of fortifications that the Brit- vois’s life and works, based on exten- ish Isles had ever seen, or would ever sive use of extracts from his diary and Military History architecture NSA see again, in order to defend against a illustrations of his most important for- feared French invasion. William Jervois tresses, offering the reader a rounded (1821–97), then a young major in the picture of his glittering career, as well Royal Engineers, was appointed as de- as the political and technical consider- sign leader of this program, which later ations involved in fort and armament led to a career in fortress construction construction.

Timothy Crick has lectured on mechanical engineering, industrial design, and design history and is a member of several prominent organizations related to these fields.

“This really is a compendium of A Companion to The Doctrine of the Hert everything one needs to know Edited by Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead about this text.” —Nicholas Watson, The Doctrine of the Hert is a fifteenth- to our understanding of late medieval Harvard University century Middle English translation of female spirituality. This volume con- Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies De doctrina cordis, a thirteenth-century sists of ten essays from an international Latin devotional treatise addressed to group of medieval religious scholars January 288 p., 2 halftones 6 x 9 nuns. Despite its medieval popular- who discuss the Middle English text ISBN-13: 978-0-85989-821-8 ity, The Doctrine of the Hert had largely alongside its Latin forebear and other Cloth $100.00x escaped the attention of scholars until European vernacular translations. Medieval Studies religion recently, yet it has much to contribute NSA Denis Renevey is professor of medieval English literature and language at the University of Lausanne. Christiania Whitehead is a senior lecturer in medieval English literature at the University of Warwick. The two have previously coedited Writing Religious Women: Female Spiritual and Textual Practices in Late Medieval England, and, with Anne Mouron, The Doctrine of the Hert: A Critical Edition with Introduction and Commentary.

Mortuary Practices and Social Identities in the Middle Ages Edited by Duncan Sayer and Howard Williams

The research of archaeologist and of medieval social identities. Applying scholar Heinrich Härke has highly in- theoretical perspectives to case stud- fluenced contemporary theories of mor- ies from a range of European finds— tuary archaeology and our interpreta- from Scandinavia to the British Isles, tions of historical burial practices. This southern France, and the Black Sea— volume builds on his groundbreaking the contributors engage with themes as work on the relationship between the diverse as migration, ethnicity, kinship, November 320 p., 55 halftones 7 x 10 theory and practice of burial archaeol- masculinity, and perceptions of land- ISBN-13: 978-0-85989-831-7 ogy, exploring the role mortuary rituals scape in this accessible contribution to Cloth $110.00x played in the creation and expression the emerging field of death studies. archaeology Medieval Studies NSA Duncan Sayer is a lecturer at the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath and a contributor to the Handbook of British Archaeology. Howard Williams is a senior lecturer in archaeology at the University of Chester and author of Death & Memory in Early Medieval 186 University of Exeter Press Britain. The Great War and German Memory Society, Politics and Psychological Trauma, 1914–1945 Jason Crouthamel

In Weimar Germany and under the nation, as well as their authentic memo- Third Reich, views on class, war, mascu- ry of the Great War. Jason Crouthamel linity, and social deviance were shaped situates his exploration of the veterans’ by debates about—but not with—the words and world in the contemporary survivors of World War I. This volume field of trauma studies, revealing a pre- uses previously unexplored first-person viously hidden vein of protest against accounts in order to focus on the trau- the Nazi institutions and the official matized German war veterans, follow- memory of the time and exposing the ing these vulnerable members of soci- universal problems faced by societies ety forward in history and examining coping with war and the politics of the their marginalization within their own veterans’ long-term care.

Jason Crouthamel is assistant professor of history at Grand Valley State University. October 304 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-85989-842-3 Cloth $85.00x European History The Censorship of British Drama NSA Volume Three, the Fifties Steve Nicholson

This volume is the third part of Steve Lord Chamberlain’s determination to “This is a major work of scholarship.” Nicholson’s four-volume analysis of Brit- keep homosexuality off the stage and to —Philip Roberts, ish theater censorship from 1900 until rewrite censorship laws, which resulted University of Leeds 1968, based on previously undocument- in a ban on performances of Cat on a ed materials from the Lord Chamber- Hot Tin Roof and A View from the Bridge, Exeter Performance Studies lain’s Correspondence Archives at the among other plays; and the early strug- British Library and the Royal Archives gles with Royal Court writers such as January 288 p. 6 x 9 at Windsor. Charting a range of rele- John Osborne—Nicholson focuses on ISBN-13: 978-0-85989-750-1 Cloth $85.00x vant topics from the period—including the plays we know, those we have for- Drama history the standoffs with Samuel Beckett and gotten, and even those that have been NSA with leading American dramatists; the forever silenced.

Steve Nicholson is a reader in twentieth-century and contemporary drama at the University of Sheffield.

Performing Greek Drama in Oxford and on “Amanda Wrigley has unearthed a treasure trove of previously un- Tour with the Balliol Players known material, both documentary Amanda Wrigley and visual.” —Oliver Taplin, Performing Greek Drama in Oxford is a the “dangers” associated with under- University of Oxford celebration of the performance and graduate acting, and the place of clas- reception of Greek drama in Oxford, sics within the Oxford curriculum. January 320 p., 30 halftones 6 x 9 as well as an exploration of the endur- Amanda Wrigley situates the Oxford ISBN-13: 978-0-85989-844-7 ing connections between antiquity and reception of these plays in a context Cloth $70.00x landmark dramatic events from the six- extending to groups such as John Mase- Drama Classics NSA teenth century to the 1970s. The book field’s Boars Hill Players and their rela- offers a performance history of classi- tionship to the London stage, as well as cal texts, as well as an illumination of to touring companies such as those led contemporary responses to debates on by Sybil Thorndike. such matters as the position of women,

Amanda Wrigley is a Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow in classics at Northwestern University. University of Exeter Press 187 “It will undoubtedly enable Rolle The English Manuscripts of Richard Rolle scholarship to move forward.” A Descriptive Catalogue —Marion Glasscoe, University of Exeter Ralph Hanna

January 288 p., 8 halftones 7 x 91/2 Richard Rolle (d. 1349)—Yorkshire her- of his period. This volume assembles the ISBN-13: 978-0-85989-820-1 mit, religious writer, visionary, and mys- breadth of his writings together for the Cloth $140.00x tical wanderer—was widely recognized first time in a comprehensive bibliogra- Medieval History Religion NSA in the later Middle Ages as a major spiri- phy, accompanied by an introduction to tual author. Though still an enigma for their context and significance, provid- most scholars, Rolle was a prolific writer ing invaluable data for Rolle scholars as who produced over 120 volumes in his well as for others working on medieval lifetime, many of which are central to religious literature and culture. our understanding of the sacred culture

Ralph Hanna is professor of palaeography at the University of Oxford and the author of numerous publications, including, most recently, London Literature, 1300–1380.

Family, Kinship and State in Contemporary Europe Patrick Heady, General Editor

Volume One Over the past few years, a consensus has graphic studies that inform readers The Century of Welfare: grown among European policy special- about the diversity of kin relationships Eight Countries ists that kinship should play a larger role in contemporary Europe, the strengths Edited by Hannes Grandits in the welfare state. Family, Kinship and and weaknesses of the various systems, State in Contemporary Europe examines and the extent to which each can be October 450 p. 51/2 x 83/8 ISBN-13: 978-3-593-38961-5 the fundamental questions about such influenced—for better or worse—by Paper $57.00x/£39.50 kinship ties and seeks to understand the state. Historical and comparative Anthropology how and why family members help each analyses track the impact of political other and in what circumstances they and economic change and show how might withhold their aid. marriage, cohabitation, fertility rates, Volume Two The editors and their collabora- and population aging affects the per- The View from Below: tors have gathered here three volumes formance and structure of these kin- Nineteen Localities of historical, sociological, and ethno- ship networks. Edited by Patrick Heady and Peter Schweitzer Patrick Heady is a research associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropol- October 480 p. 51/2 x 83/8 ogy and an honorary research fellow at University College London. Hannes Grandits is a ISBN-13: 978-3-593-38962-2 senior lecturer in Southeast European history at the University of Graz. Peter Schweitzer is Paper $57.00x/£39.50 professor of anthropology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Martin Kohli is professor of sociology at the European University Institute in Florence. Anthropology

Volume Three Perspectives on Theory and Policy Edited by Patrick Heady and Martin Kohli

October 460 p. 51/2 x 83/8 ISBN-13: 978-3-593-38963-9 Paper $57.00x/£39.50 Anthropology

188 University of Exeter Press Campus Verlag Transnational Political Spaces Agents—Structures—Encounters Edited by Mathias Albert, Gesa Bluhm, Jan Helmig, Andreas Leutzsch, and Jochen Walter

From a decidedly multidisciplinary per- occurs oblivious to national pressure. spective, the articles in Transnational Organized into three sections—trans- Political Spaces address the notion that national actors, transnational spaces, political space is no longer fully congru- and critical encounters—this volume ent with national borders. Instead there explains how these spaces are formed are transnational political spaces— and defined and how they can be traced caused by factors such as migration and and conceptualized. social transformation—where policy

Mathias Albert is professor of political science at Bielefeld University. Gesa Bluhm is a PhD candidate at Bielefeld University and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. Jan Helmig is a guest lecturer at Bielefeld University. Andreas Leutzch is a lecturer in October 300 p. 51/2 x 83/8 early modern history at Bielefeld University and an A. S. K. Social Science Award Fellow at ISBN-13: 978-3-593-38945-5 the Social Science Research Center Berlin. Jochen Walter is a research associate at the Paper $47.00x/£32.50 Collaborative Research Centre at Bielefeld University. Political Science

Gendering Historiography Beyond National Canons Edited by Angelika Epple and Angelika Schaser

Comparing various European and that exclusionary practices can have on American historiographies from the each national canon. This detailed and past two hundred years, Gendering His- revealing book will change the face of toriography provides insights into the es- history writing, bringing overlooked tablishment and cultivation of gendered and previously excluded histories back power relations in different societies into modern historiography. and outlines the devastating effects

Angelika Epple is professor of history at Bielefeld University. Angelika Schaser is professor of modern history at the University of Hamburg.

September 280 p. 51/2 x 83/8 ISBN-13: 978-3-593-38960-8 Paper $40.00x/£27.50 Diaspora Identities History Exile, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Past and Present Edited by Susanne Lachenicht and Kirsten Heinsohn

Historical work on the late nineteenth draws on eight case studies, ranging and early twentieth centuries suggests from the early modern period through that as nation-states were solidifying the twentieth century, to explore the throughout Western Europe, exiled interconnectedness of exile, national- October 270 p. 51/2 x 83/8 groups tended to develop rival na- ism, and cosmopolitanism as concepts, ISBN-13: 978-3-593-38819-9 tional identities—an occurrence that ideals, attitudes, and strategies among Paper $52.00x/£36.00 had been fairly uncommon in the two diasporic groups. History preceding centuries. Diaspora Identities

Susanne Lachenicht is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Hamburg. Kirsten Heinsohn is a research fellow at the Institute for German-Jewish History in Hamburg and a lecturer at the University of Hamburg. Campus Verlag 189 Management The Essence of the Craft Fredmund Malik

In today’s competitive world, good sional management. While previous management is essential. With Manage- studies have relied strictly on human

July 300 p. 6 x 9 ment: The Essence of the Craft, Fredmund psychology to evaluate existing theories ISBN-13: 978-3-593-38969-1 Malik—one of the most prominent of management, Malik instead employs Cloth $52.00x/£36.00 authors of management scholarship a cybernetics of complex systems for Business in Europe—draws on the works of the task. Though Management is written Stafford Beer, Peter Drucker, Friedrich primarily for managers in the business von Hayek, and Viktor Frankl to outline world, it will be valuable to those in oth- the basic principles of effective profes- er fields facing management tasks.

Fredmund Malik is cofounder and chairman of Malik Management in St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Managing Performing Living Effective Management for a New Era Fredmund Malik

In this classic study from management This volume is designed for managers expert Fredmund Malik, managers will in business and industry, students of find sound professional advice for suc- management, public and university ad- cessful management in their organiza- ministrators, and executives in other tions. Malik offers advice for improving types of organizations. It can be used skills in organization, decision making, independently or as a companion vol- supervising, budgeting, and numer- ume to Malik’s Management: The Essence August 352 p. 6 x 9 ous other management-related tasks. of the Craft. ISBN-13: 978-3-593-38278-4 Cloth $35.00x/£24.00 Fredmund Malik is cofounder and chairman of Malik Management in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Business

Theorizing Emotions Sociological Explorations and Applications Edited by DeBra Hopkins, Jochen Kleres, Helena Flam, and Helmut Kuzmics

Theorizing Emotions reflects the recent Among the topics discussed are the turn to emotions in academia—not just tensions between feelings and feeling in sociology but also in psychology, evo- rules, the conscious and unconscious lutionary biology, and neuroscience. emotions of scientists, emotions and Drawing on the classic studies of Max social disorder, the effect of the emo- Weber, Erving Goffman, and Norbert tional turn as an element of advancing Elias, several leading scholars present modernity, romantic love in U.S. and their findings on the role of emotions Israeli codes of conduct, and the role of august 280 p. 51/2 x 83/8 in various facets of society, from the mass media in generating massive pub- ISBN-13: 978-3-593-38972-1 laboratory to the office to the media. lic emotions. Paper $47.00x/£32.50 sociology Debra Hopkins is a researcher at the University of Aberdeen and vice coordinator of the Sociology of Emotions Network. Jochen Kleres is currently finishing his PhD at the Uni- versity of Leipzig. Helena Flam is professor of sociology at the University of Leipzig. Helmut 190 Campus Verlag Kuzmics is professor of sociology at the University of Graz. Alan Scarth Titanic and Liverpool

n the fateful night of April 14, 1912, if you could have stood behind the “unsinkable” RMS Titanic as she went down in Othe frigid waters off of the Great Banks of Newfoundland, the last sight that would have flashed before your eyes as the great ship sank would have been the word “Liverpool.” The loss of such a storied liner, a national and international catastrophe, was also a tragedy for its home port—and this fascinating, first-of-its-kind volume explores the history and myths surrounding the sinking in terms of the extraordinary stories that link Europe’s preeminent port city of Liverpool and its most famous maritime loss. November 192 p., 32 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-222-9 The majority of the ship’s crew and all of its senior officers were Paper $19.95 from Liverpool, the ship’s owners were based in the city, and many of history NAM the most memorable tales emerging from the disaster relate to lower- Copublished with National Museums Liverpool class Liverpudlians who scrimped and saved to join the voyage. Using material from the archives of the White Star Line, the extensive hold- ings of the Merseyside Maritime Museum, a rich trove of newly discovered illustrations, and a variety of other topical historical sources, Alan Scarth unearths the unbelievable backstory of key characters, minor crewmen turned unsung heroes, and company officers who, though not on the ship, were intimately connected to the events of that infamous evening. We also find out what happened to the survivors when they went on with their lives following the ship’s sinking. Filled with previously unpublished source material and illustrations, Titanic and Liverpool will be compulsory reading for anyone interested in the fateful events of that unforgettable night.

Alan Scarth is a curator at the Merseyside Maritime Museum.

Liverpool University Press 191 “Readers of all stripes will come Spanish Screen Fiction away richly rewarded by this book.” Between Cinema and Television —Kathleen Vernon, Stony Brook University Paul Julian Smith

Contemporary Hispanic and This pioneering volume argues that cin- first foray into television production Lusophone Cultures ema and television in Spain only make alongside prize-winning workplace dra- sense when considered together as twin mas watched by thousands on Spanish November 256 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-201-4 vehicles for the screen fiction that has television, Alejandro Amenábar’s movie Cloth $95.00x come to dominate the twenty-first cen- The Sea Inside, and attempts to establish ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-202-1 tury. It offers comparative readings of the dominant Latin American genre of Paper $35.00s films such as Pedro Almodóvar’s classic the telenovela in the very different con- film Women on the Verge of a Nervous Break- text of Spanish television. NAM down and his production company’s

Paul Julian Smith is professor of Spanish at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of over fourteen books and a regular contributor to Sight & Sound and the Guardian’s film blog, as well as a founding editor of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies.

The French Atlantic Travels in Culture and History Bill Marshall

The French Atlantic is a compelling and of fields nearly as diverse as the loca- timely contribution to ongoing de- tions he explores, Bill Marshall con- bates about nationhood, culture, and siders the cultural history of seven dif- “Frenchness” that have come to define ferent French Atlantic spaces—from France and its diaspora in light of the Quebec to the southern Caribbean to diplomatic fracas surrounding the Iraq the North Atlantic territory and back to Contemporary French & war and other mass cultural events. metropolitan France—in this ground- Francophone Cultures Through interdisciplinary navigation breaking study.

October 256 p. 6 x 9 Bill Marshall is professor of comparative literary and cultural studies at the University of ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-050-8 Stirling and the author of the three-volume encyclopedia France and the Americas, among Cloth $95.00x other titles. ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-051-5 Paper $35.00s cultural studies NAM Postcolonial Thought in the “This volume will surely become a French-Speaking World major reference point for a wide Edited by Charles Forsdick and David Murphy range of disciplines.” —Alec Hargreaves, In the late 1990s, postcolonial studies the postcolonial debate—including Florida State University risked imploding as a credible area of the work of Edouard Glissant and Ab- academic inquiry, in part due to the delkebir Khatibi—have risen to greater Postcolonialism Across Disciplines emergence of repetitive anthologies prominence in the English-speaking and an overemphasis on English-lan- world. This volume, written by scholars September 256 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-054-6 guage literatures. In the early twenty- working with French-language materi- Cloth $95.00x first century, however, the postcolo- als, acknowledges this shift and pro- ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-055-3 nial began to reveal a new openness vides an essential tool for students and Paper $35.00s towards its comparative dimensions, scholars seeking a way into the study of cultural studies NAM and French-language contributions to Francophone postcolonial debates.

Charles Forsdick is the James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool and the author of numerous volumes. David Murphy is professor of postcolonial studies at the University of Stirling and president of the Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies. 192 Liverpool University Press Bright Stars John Keats, Barry Cornwall and Romantic Literary Culture Richard Marggraf Turley

The most celebrated poet of his day century popularity with his subsequent after Byron, Barry Cornwall, pseudony- neglect, emphatically returning an im- mous identity of Bryan Waller Procter portant and unjustly neglected Roman- (1787–1874), was a solicitor, dandy, and tic author to critical focus and explor- pugilist championed by Leigh Hunt, ing the fascinating mirror between his as well as the author of three books of own trajectory into celebrity and that heralded verse. This volume attempts of his now better-known contemporary, to square Cornwall’s early nineteenth- John Keats.

Richard Marggraf Turley is codirector of the Centre for Romantic Studies at Aberystwyth University. His previous publications include Keats’ Boyish Imagination and The Politics of Language in Romantic Literature. Liverpool English Texts and Studies

November 256 p. 6 x 9 Cinematic Fictions ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-211-3 The Impact of the Cinema on the American Novel Cloth $95.00x up to World War II Literary Criticism NAM David Seed “Cinematic Fictions is often fascinating. Seed succeeds admirably in The phrase “cinematic fiction” gener- insights into classics such as The Great striking a balance between examin- ally has been accepted into critical dis- Gatsby and The Grapes of Wrath, as well as ing canonical texts and studying course, but usually only in the context discussing critical writings on film and those that have been neglected.” of postwar novels. This volume exam- active participation in filmmaking by —Sharon Monteith, ines the influence of a particular me- major writers such as William Faulkner, University of Nottingham dium, film, on another, the novel, in Cinematic Fictions will be compulsory

American literature from the first half reading for scholars of American film November 288 p. 6 x 9 of the twentieth century. Offering new and literature alike. ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-212-0 Cloth $95.00x David Seed is professor of American literature at the University of Liverpool and the Film Literary Criticism NAM author of numerous volumes on twentieth-century American literature, science fiction, and literary theory.

Underground Writing The London Tube from George Gissing to Virginia Woolf David Welsh

This exciting volume explores the way ground is evaluated here as portrayed in which the London Underground in fiction, poetry, and art, as well as a (“The Tube”) was mapped by a number borderland for cultural construction of writers, including George Orwell, in transportation history, anthropol- H. G. Wells, George Gissing, and Vir- ogy, and urban studies. Linking adven- ginia Woolf, from the late Victorian era turous literature with the actual Un- to the end of World War II. Represent- derground, David Welsh reshapes the ed diversely as a Dantean underworld, metaphorical world of “underground a psychological looking-glass, and a writing” and places it in its proper so- November 256 p. 6 x 9 place for safety and security, the Under- cial and political context. ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-223-6 Cloth $95.00x David Welsh is an oral historian who works for the World War II Home Front Veterans Cultural Studies NAM Project and the HISTORYTalk project in west London. From 1978 to 1984 he worked for the London Underground. Liverpool University Press 193 “This is a story that needed to be The MacBride Principles told, and it is well told here.” Irish America Strikes Back —Paul Arthur, University of Ulster Kevin McNamara

November 256 p. 6 x 9 Originally published in November 1984, by Irish America to achieve social jus- ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-217-5 the MacBride Principles contained nine tice in Northern Ireland. Using inter- Cloth $65.00x affirmative action proposals aimed at views with key personalities, as well as European History eliminating religious discrimination in hitherto unpublished and inaccessible NAM the employment practices of U.S. cor- archival information, Kevin McNamara porations with subsidiaries in Northern draws on his experience as a British Ireland. Supported by the U.S. govern- Member of Parliament and a former ment, the Principles were met with tre- shadow Secretary of State for Northern mendous opposition in Britain and mo- Ireland to chronicle this struggle for tivated a massive nonviolent campaign equality.

Kevin McNamara was, for forty years, a Member of the British Parliament and held several key appointments, including shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.

“This is one of Mireille Rosello’s The Reparative in Narratives definitive contributions . . . that Works of Mourning in Progress will appeal to all fields of the social Mireille D. Rosello sciences.” —Michel Laronde, University of Iowa The authors studied in this volume rep- ers be prepared to accept that healing resent a Francophone archipelago un- belongs to a whole realm of potential familiar to any mapmaker, but drawn outcomes—and that exposure and de- Contemporary French & Francophone Cultures together through their use of narra- nunciation do not exhaust the victim’s tors who are survivors and, sometimes, range of possibilities. Rosello contends November 256 p. 6 x 9 inflictors, of unspeakable acts of vio- that this context-specific, yet repeating, ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-220-5 lence. These authors, then, Mireille D. pattern constitutes a response to our Cloth $95.00x ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-221-2 Rosello argues, repair trauma through contemporary understanding of both Paper $35.00x the act of writing. The reparative narra- globalized and extremely localized Literary Criticism tives introduced here require that read- types of traumatic memories. NAM Mireille D. Rosello is chair of the Program of Comparative Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her many books include Postcolonial Hospitality and France and the Maghreb: Performative Encounters. Cultured Violence Narrative, Social Suffering and Engendering Human Rights in Contemporary South Africa Rosemary Jolly

Postcolonialism Across Disciplines Cultured Violence explores contemporary sion, documents from former Deputy South African culture as a test case for President Jacob Zuma’s rape trial, and November 256 p. 6 x 9 the achievement of democracy by con- personal interviews among them—in ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-213-7 stitutional means in the wake of pro- order to illuminate different cultural Cloth $95.00x longed and violent cultural conflict. It senses of the “state of the nation” and Cultural Studies History NAM draws on and juxtaposes narratives of retrieve otherwise elusive descriptions profoundly different kinds—the fiction of South Africans taken from accounts of J. M. Coetzee, public testimony from of their individual lives. the Truth and Reconciliation Commis-

Rosemary Jolly holds appointments in the Department of English, Southern African Research Centre, and the Institute for Population and Public Health at Queen’s Univer- sity, Canada. Her previous books include Colonization, Violence and Narration in White South 194 Liverpool University Press African Writing: Breyten Breytenbach, André Brink and J. M. Coetzee. French Postmodern Masculinities “This is a timely and important book, a tour de force, which will From Neuromatrices to Seropositivity find an enthusiastic public in the Lawrence R. Schehr both the UK and the United States” —Jean-Pierre Boulé, As traditional notions of masculinity Lawrence R. Schehr analyzes AIDS Nottingham Trent University have been called into question, repre- narratives, mainstream films, popular sentational reactions and articulations novels, graphic narratives, and rightist Contemporary French & have swept postmodern cultures. Cer- polemics, among other genres, in order Francophone Cultures tain contemporary French cultural to explore the changing meaning of productions illustrate this shift in mas- masculinity in French society, making November 256 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-215-1 culinities, and this volume offers up this volume appealing to a broad range Cloth $95.00x the first comprehensive examination of researchers and students in a variety Cultural Studies of their development. Acclaimed critic of fields. NAM

Lawrence R. Schehr is professor of French at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign and the author or editor of ten volumes.

The Letters of Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake “Julie Sheldon’s meticulous edition makes a powerful contribution to Edited by Julie Sheldon our understanding of the cultural controversies of the period.” This year marks the bicentennial of the bly reviews of works and authors such as —Dinah Birch, English writer, translator, critic, and Jane Eyre, Vanity Fair, Ruskin, Coleridge, University of Liverpool amateur artist Elizabeth Rigby, Lady and Madame de Staël, as well as art- Eastlake (1809–93). The Letters of Eliza- related criticism, including one of the Liverpool English Texts and beth Rigby, Lady Eastlake brings togeth- earliest critical texts on photography. Studies er a comprehensive collection of her Her lively correspondence here shows surviving correspondence and reveals how this well-connected woman played September 608 p. 6 x 9 significant new material about this such an important role in the Victorian ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-194-9 Cloth $99.95x extraordinary Victorian figure. Rigby art world. Literature wrote on a variety of subjects, most nota- NAM

Julie Sheldon is a reader in art history at Liverpool John Mores University, the author of Modern Art: A Critical Introduction, and the editor of Making American Art.

The Original Liverpool Sound The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Story Darren Henley and Vincent McKernan

In 1840 a group of music-loving Liver- years since its founding, its original pool businessmen came together and vision has remained constant. With formed the Royal Liverpool Philhar- the aid of one hundred illustrations, monic society, which gave four concerts The Original Liverpool Sound tells the in its first year. Though the scope and amazing story of an organization still reach of the Liverpool Phil—now the dedicated to its founding mission, “to November 192 p., 60 color plates, second-oldest concert promoting soci- promote the science and practice of 40 halftones 6 x 9 ety with the oldest continuing profes- music,” as it brings to life one of Liver- ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-224-3 sional orchestra in all of the United pool’s cultural crown jewels. Cloth $60.00x Kingdom—has changed in the many Music NAM

Darren Henley is the author of eighteen books about classical music and musicians. Vincent McKernan joined the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic as an archivist in 2006. Liverpool University Press 195 “A pathbreaking contribution to the Postcolonial Eyes vibrant field of tourism and travel Intercontinental Travel in Francophone African Literature studies.” Aedín Ní Loingsigh —Dominic Thomas, University of California, Los Angeles Over the past two decades, scholarly tory. This volume is the first of its kind Contemporary French & interest in travel and travel writing to identify a specifically sub-Saharan Francophone Cultures has developed significantly. Critical African lineage within the broader tra- engagement with issues such as impe- dition of travel writing, and it explores September 224 p. 6 x 9 rialism, postcolonialism, ethnography, the reason for Africans’ exclusion from ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-049-2 and cultural anthropology has led to the genre, as well as the important rela- Cloth $95.00x increasingly sophisticated readings of tionship between ethnicity and travel in Literary Criticism NAM the travel writing genre and a growing the concerns that define African writ- acknowledgment of its complex his- ers’ approaches to travel.

Aedín Ní Loingsigh is a research fellow at the University of Stirling. Her previous books include Thresholds of Otherness. “This is an exceptionally interesting new book. It breaks new ground and makes a significant contribu- Reconfiguring Slavery tion to slavery and, more particu- West African Trajectories larly, post-slavery studies.” Edited by Benedetta Rossi —Suzanne Miers, author of Slavery in the Twentieth Century Despite our tendencies to historicize here show that existing studies of slavery Studies in International Slavery slavery, repeatedly proclaiming its death and abolition in West Africa do not ad- or end, this volume shows that we are equately portray the fragmented field, November 256 p. 6 x 9 mistaken in relegating it to the past, by and this volume advances a new concep- ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-199-4 focusing on a range of trajectories fol- tual framework for understanding slav- Cloth $95.00x lowed by slavery as an institution, as well ery in West Africa today by focusing on History NAM the lives of particular groups of slave de- its recent reconfigurations rather than scendents. The contributions presented historical lineages.

Benedetta Rossi is a Research Councils UK Academic Fellow in International Slavery at the University of Liverpool.

Racism Postcolonialism Europe Edited by Graham Huggan and Ian Law

This multidisciplinary edited collection guise of representing the interests of turns the postcolonial critical gaze back the European people—which is a very on Europe itself, arguing that racism is different entity than the European pop- alive and dangerously well and examin- ulation as a whole. This volume—which ing a variety of postcolonial criticism in includes contributions from Griselda order to understand a variety of racisms: Pollock, Michel Wieviorka, and Philom- those of false respect, reaction, and sur- ena Essed—will be required reading veillance. Racism Postcolonialism Europe for scholars and students of race, post- Postcolonialism Across the wisely suggests that all of these forms colonial studies, sociology, and cultural Disciplines of postcolonial racism occur under the studies alike.

November 256 p. 6 x 9 Graham Huggan is professor of English, chair of commonwealth and postcolonial litera- ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-219-9 ture, and founding codirector of the Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at the Cloth $95.00x University of Leeds, as well as the author of numerous publications. Ian Law is the author of european History several works on racism, founding director of the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies, Cultural Studies and a reader in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds. NAM

196 Liverpool University Press Three Political Voices from the Age of Justinian Agapetus—Advice to the Emperor; Dialogue on Political Science; Paul the Silentiary—Description of Hagia Sophia Translated and with an Introduction and Notes by Peter N. Bell

This one-volume translation, with com- glected politics and ideology of early Translated Texts for Historians mentary and introduction, brings to- Byzantium. No complete modern Eng- gether three important works—Advice lish translation of any of these three November 256 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-209-0 to the Emperor, Dialogue on Political Sci- works exists, and they each highlight Paper $40.00x ence, and Description of Hagia Sophia— the clash of political and religious ide- classics that cast light on the generally ne- ology of the period. NAM

Peter N. Bell teaches at the University of Oxford.

History and Fiction on Late-Antique Sinai Translated and with an Introduction and Notes by Daniel Caner With Contributions by Kevin van Bladel and Richard Price

This volume collects a number of impor- lus of Ancyrus’s Epistula, and fifty tales tant texts that have never before been attributed to Anastasius of Sinai. All translated into a modern language, remain important for late antique his- each of which describes the late antique tory, literature, and religion, as well as conditions and experiences on the Si- for their special focus on developments nai peninsula. The texts in translation in the Sinai region prior to the Islamic include Pseudo-Nilus’s Narrationes, Ni- period.

Daniel Caner is associate professor of history and classics at the University of Connecticut.

Translated Texts for Historians

November 256 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-216-8 Paper $40.00x Classics NAM Domains and Divisions of European History Edited by Johann P. Arnason and Natalie Doyle

The patterns of unity and division that the structures and boundaries of histor- Studies in Social and Political define Europe as a historical region ical formations, as well as the question Thought have been discussed in many seminal of European unity. This volume tackles works, but the complex set of questions head-on the topic of the divisions that November 256 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-214-4 behind its domains and divisions merits have shaped European history, as lead- Cloth $95.00x a more sustained debate. The end of the ing scholars in the field negotiate such European History cold war, the expansion of the Europe- issues as regional identity, geographi- NAM an Union, and core issues of historical cal boundaries, divisional labeling, and sociology all require an exploration of post–cold war European unity.

Johann P. Arnason is professor emeritus of sociology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and the author of numerous publications. Natalie Doyle is deputy director of the Monash European and EU Centre. Liverpool University Press 197 3rd PROOF ❍ MARY ❍✔ ALICE

Birds of the Cotswolds Iain Main, Dave Pearce, and Tim Hutton

This beautifully illustrated volume is the sented here—vitally important for con- result of over five years of fieldwork that servation of the area—tracks changes spanned the entire Cotswolds range of in the breeding distribution of particu- November 256 p. 6 x 9 west-central England. Aimed at both lar species through a series of accessible ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-210-6 ornithologists and any of the thousands maps and illustrations presented in full Cloth $95.00x of visitors who travel to the Cotswold color and black and white. reference nature region each year, the information pre- NAM

A Cultural Journey through Andalusia From Granada to Seville Gwynne Edwards

July 224 p., 80 color plates Andalusia, the region of southern Spain the Alhambra in Granada, the Great 51/2 x 81/2 famous for its fervor for flamenco, bull- Mosque in Córdoba, and the Moorish ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2207-9 fighting, and its Moorish heritage, has palaces of the Alcázar in Seville, as well Paper $25.00s long been a destination for travelers as vibrant portraits of the origin and travel Cultural Studies NSA/AU/NZ and historians alike. This accessible development of flamenco dance and and richly illustrated volume provides the evolution of the bullfight, Gwynne a clear and comprehensive account of Edwards captures the heart and soul those aspects of Andalusian history and of a region shaped by the events of the culture that have shaped its essential twentieth century, yet still vibrantly character. Offering detailed informa- aware of its own history. tion on architectural treasures such as

Gwynne Edwards was formerly professor of Spanish and member of the Department of European Languages at Aberystwyth University.

Stuart Cable From Cwmaman to the Stereophonics and Beyond Jeff Collins

The Stereophonics are one of the Welsh behind the drum kit at sold-out shows nation’s best-known contributions to in stadiums worldwide. Jeff Collins en- the contemporary music scene, and at gages Cable in rich replays of the past the heart of their story is the rise and and narrates the debut of Cable’s new fall and reemergence of Stuart Cable, band, Killing for Company, from back- the band’s original drummer, who was stage, then turns to music legend Roger kicked out of the band in 2003 after Daltrey for thoughts on the difficulties January 176 p., 50 color plates 61/4 x 91/4 their first run of success. This book of making it in the world of rock and ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2179-9 presents an insider’s account of Cable’s the possibilities of Cable succeeding Paper $25.00s life in music, detailing his rise from an one last time. Music Biography obscure Welsh mining village to a seat NSA/AU/NZ Jeff Collins is a regular contributor to Classic Rock Magazine, BBC Wales, and Sky News, among others, and the author of Rock Legends at Rockfield, also published by the University 198 Liverpool University Press of Wales Press. university of Wales Press History of the Gothic Gothic Literature 1764–1824 Carol Margaret Davison

This volume, which weds a sociohistori- traditions like the female gothic, are cal and intellectual approach to classic examined against the backdrop of eigh- British gothic literature, is a perfect in- teenth- and nineteenth-century British troduction to the genre for the student political and cultural developments, and lay reader alike. Works by gothic culminating in a detailed and acces- authors such as Horace Walpole, Mat- sible exploration of the gothic’s major thew Lewis, Ann Radcliffe, William motifs and themes. Godwin, and Mary Shelley, as well as

Carol Margaret Davison is associate professor in the Department of English at the Univer- sity of Windsor in Canada and has published widely on British gothic literature. Gothic Literary Studies November 192 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2009-9 Cloth $85.00x ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2045-7 Paper $25.00s Literary Criticism NSA/AU/NZ History of the Gothic Gothic Literature 1825–1914 Jarlath Killeen

In this volume, Jarlath Killeen provides detective story, and the adventure sto- a detailed and accessible introduction ry—History of the Gothic pays particular to the gothic literature of the nine- attention to how the gothic attempted teenth century. Examining how themes to resolve the psychological and theo- and trends associated with early gothic logical problems introduced with the novels were diffused in many differ- modernization and secularization of ent genres throughout the Victorian British society, as well as the relation- period—including the ghost story, the ship between the child and horror.

Jarlath Killeen is a lecturer in the Department of English at Trinity College Dublin. His most recent publication is The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde.

Gothic Literary Studies August 192 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2070-9 History of the Gothic Cloth $85.00x American Gothic ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2069-3 Paper $25.00s Charles L. Crow Literary Criticism NSA/AU/NZ Defining the American gothic tradition Toni Morrison, and Cormac McCarthy. both within the context of the major Charles L. Crow demonstrates how the Gothic Literary Studies movements of intellectual history over gothic provides a forum for discussing the past three hundred years, as well as key issues of changing American cul- September 192 p. 51/2 x 81/2 within the issues critical to American culture, explores forbidden subjects, and ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2008-2 Cloth $85.00x ture, this comprehensive volume covers provides a voice for the repressed and ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2044-0 a diverse terrain of well-known Ameri- silenced. Paper $25.00s can writers, including Poe, Faulkner, Literary Criticism NSA/AU/NZ Charles L. Crow is professor emeritus at Bowling Green State University. He has published extensively on gothic and other literary genres. University of Wales Press 199 Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic Laurence Talairach-Vielmas

Throughout his career, Wilkie Collins tles into modern medical institutions (1824–89) made changes to the proto- and ghost-fearing heroines into nine- typical gothic scenario, reworking and teenth-century women who feared the adapting aristocratic villains, victim- surgeon’s knife. This volume uniquely ized maidens, and medieval castles in explores the way in which Collins’s order to thrill his Victorian readership. gothic revisions increasingly tackled Drawing upon contemporary anxieties such medical questions, using the ter- introduced by advances in neurosci- rain of scientific changes to capitalize ence and the development of criminol- on his readers’ fears. ogy, Collins transformed Moorish cas-

Laurence Talairach-Vielmas is a senior lecturer in English literature at the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail.

Gothic Literary Studies

November 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2223-9 The Gothic and Catholicism Cloth $85.00x Religion, Cultural Exchange and the Popular Novel, Literary Criticism NSA/AU/NZ 1785 –1829 Maria Purves

Gothic Literary Studies This unique volume offers up a ground- terpreted as signifying subversiveness), breaking analysis: proof that a revision the gothic was neither anti-Catholic November 192 p. 51/2 x 81/2 is required of the common critical idea nor anti-church, and instead part of a ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2091-4 in gothic scholarship that the roots of British culture much more sympathetic Cloth $85.00x the gothic novel lie within the popular towards Catholicism during the long Literary Criticism NSA/AU/NZ anti-Catholicism of late eighteenth- eighteenth century—especially during century Britain. Arguing that despite and immediately following the French the predominance of Catholic motifs Revolution—than has been previously in gothic novels (monks, nuns, abbeys, supposed. and confessionals have long been in-

Maria Purves has served as associate director of the Princeton Atelier, an arts program based at Princeton University.

Shakespearean Gothic Edited by Christy Desmet and Anne Williams

E. J. Clery, an expert on the gothic, performance of Shakespeare in eigh- famously stated, “Scratch the surface teenth- and nineteenth-century Britain, of any gothic fiction and the debt to but also Shakespeare’s importance to Shakespeare will be there.” This collec- the gothic tradition as a whole—as well tion takes Clery’s quotation as a starting as to particular, often-studied gothic point and addresses not only the influ- works. Gothic Literary Studies ence of the gothic on the reading and

November 192 p. 10 51/2 x 81/2 Christy Desmet is associate professor of English at the University of Georgia. Anne Williams ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2093-8 is professor of English at the University of Georgia. Cloth $85.00x Literary Criticism NSA/AU/NZ

200 University of Wales Press Republicanism and the American Gothic Marilyn Michaud

Republicanism and the American Gothic of- tion and migration to the American col- Gothic Literary Studies fers a comparative study of British and onies, Marilyn Michaud pays particular American literature and culture in the attention to the transatlantic influence August 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 1790s and 1950s, as it recontextualizes of seventeenth- and eighteenth-centu- ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2146-1 Cloth $85.00x American gothic fiction from the perry libertarian and anti-authoritarian Literary Criticism spective of the cold war. Exploring the thought on British and American revo- NSA/AU/NZ republican tradition of the British En- lutionary culture. lightenment and the effect of its transla-

Marilyn Michaud teaches English and American literature at the University of Stirling.

The Welsh in Iowa Cherilyn Walley

The Welsh in Iowa is a history of the little- as well as community and oral histo- September 224 p., 48 maps, 1 1 known Welsh immigrant communities ries, in order to examine Welsh culture 13 graphs, 10 tables 5 /2 x 8 /2 ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2222-2 that dot the Iowa countryside. Identify- as it was expressed in middle America Cloth $60.00s ing the qualities that made the Welsh by the farmers and coal miners who cultural studies unique as immigrants, migrants, and passed through the prairie state as it NSA/AU/NZ settlers to North America, Cherilyn grew to maturity in the late nineteenth Walley analyzes documentary evidence, and early twentieth centuries.

Cherilyn Walley has taught in the Department of History at the University of Iowa and has published extensively on rural, regional, and military history.

Hermaphroditism, Medical Science and Sexual Identity in Spain, 1850–1960 Richard Cleminson and Francisco VÁzquez García

How did Spanish doctors conceptual- charts the changing medical discourse Iberian and Latin American ize persons believed to be a mix of the on the “hermaphrodite” or “intersex” Studies male and female genders during the persons as the interrelationship be- December 288 p. 51/2 x 81/2 period of 1850 to 1960? Such persons tween the body, biological sex, and ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2204-8 disrupted gendered and sexual givens, gender was constantly reassessed and Cloth $85.00x and from a legal and medical stand- rewritten, making this the first major Cultural Studies point, required examination and deter- study of Spanish hermaphroditism for NSA/AU/NZ mination according to their true sex in the period and an important contribu- order to permit marriage, inheritance, tion to the growing interest in this sub- and a “normal” social life. This volume ject worldwide.

Richard Cleminson is a senior lecturer in Spanish at the University of Leeds. Francisco Vázquez García is professor of philosophy at the University of Cádiz and the author of numerous volumes on Foucault and sexuality in Spain. University of Wales Press 201 The Women’s Suffrage Movement in Wales, 1866–1928 Ryland Wallace

An organized women’s suffrage move- dramatic and sensational actions car- ment operated continuously in Britain ried out by suffragettes in Wales, as well for more than sixty years, from the as the more mundane day-to-day cam- mid-1860s until the achievement of paigns for equal rights, Ryland Wallace equal voting rights in 1928. This vol- uses extensive archival material in or- ume represents the first comprehensive der to assess the impact of various cam- investigation into this movement in paigning organizations and the hugely Wales, which participated in agitation committed but unsung individuals who throughout the period. Covering the worked for their ideals.

Ryland Wallace is a lecturer in history at Coleg Gwent, Pontypool. He is the author of Organize! Organize! Organize! A Study of Reform Agitations in Wales, 1840–1886. Studies in Welsh History

July 384 p. 61/4 x 91/4 ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2173-7 Cloth $65.00x European History Gender Studies Emyr Humphreys NSA/AU/NZ Contemporary Critical Perspectives Linden Peach

Writing Wales in English Emyr Humphreys is a leading Welsh Humphreys’ poem “Land of the Living” novelist, poet, and author who will cel- and subsequent works such as Old People December 156 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ebrate his ninetieth birthday in 2009. Are a Problem and constitutes a positive ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2216-1 This volume is the first book-length reappraisal of Humphreys’ work, high- Paper $25.00x study of his work to discuss the prin- lighting issues that drive our current Literary Criticism NSA/AU/NZ cipal thematic concerns found in his critical investigations, such as nation- fiction and criticism in light of contem- hood and identity, religion and con- porary critical concepts such as psycho- flict, spirituality, gender issues, and the analysis and socioeconomic change. environment. It offers readers the first discussion of

Linden Peach is professor in and head of the Department of English and History at the Edge Hill University.

Emyr Humphreys A Postcolonial Novelist Diane Green

Writing Wales in English Emyr Humphreys is perhaps best known a separate Welsh identity. Here Diane for his works of fiction, such as A Toy Green explores Humphreys’ practice in September 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 Epic and Outside the House of Baal, which light of his own theories of culture and ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2217-8 are important in part because of Hum- fiction and from the viewpoint of a vari- Paper $25.00x phreys’ ideas about Wales, Welsh histo- ety of models derived from postcolonial Literary Criticism ry and culture, and the importance of theory. NSA/AU/NZ Diane Green is the author of numerous articles on Emyr Humphreys.

202 University of Wales Press Deleuze and Guattari Aesthetics and Politics Robert Porter

This volume examines the relationship and political draw from each other. Par- between aesthetics and politics at the ticular attention is paid to how Deleuze forefront of the philosophies espoused and Guattari, in their belief that politi- by Gilles Deleuze (1925–95) and Pierre- cal theory can take on aesthetic form Félix Guattari (1930–92), especially in and vice versa, force us to confront the their famous collaborative works Anti- fact that art always has the potential Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus to become political, not in the least (1980). Robert Porter analyzes the rela- because of its ability to name and give tionship between art and sociopolitical shape to the order of our world, rather life, considering the ways the aesthetic than its representation.

Robert Porter is a senior lecturer in the Media Studies Research Institute at the University of Ulster. Political Philosophy Now

August 160 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2159-1 Cloth $85.00x Medieval Blood Philosophy literary criticism NSA/AU/NZ Bettina Bildhauer

Medieval Blood is the first interdisciplin- tinct identity, transforming it from an Religion and Culture in the ary account of one of the most crucial unenclosed, diverse, and not unified Middle Ages elements of the medieval imagination: vessel into a whole distinct from its sur- July 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 blood. Taking blood and bodies seri- roundings—all through various strat- ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2197-3 ously, this volume uses cutting-edge egies of discourse and investigation, Paper $35.00x theory to propose that blood possesses each of which rely “wholeheartedly” on Medieval Studies the ability to shape the body as a dis- blood. NSA/AU/NZ

Bettina Bildhauer is a lecturer in German at the University of St. Andrews and coeditor of The Monstrous Middle Ages.

Anchorites, Wombs and Tombs Intersections of Gender and Enclosure in the Middle Ages New Edition Edited by Liz Herbert McAvoy and Mari Hughes-Edwards

Until recently, the figure of the medi- and anchoritic studies in order to ex- Religion and Culture in the eval anchorite and the underlying ideo- amine anchoritic enclosure from a va- Middle Ages logical concepts that framed her day- riety of different perspectives. In so do- 1 1 to-day existence have escaped detailed ing, Anchorites, Wombs and Tombs offers September 256 p. 5 /2 x 8 /2 ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2200-0 examination, despite the anchorite’s illuminating conclusions about how the Paper $35.00x importance to the study of medieval phenomenon of anchoritism was affect- Medieval Studies Gender Studies culture. This collection brings together ed by, and in turn, influenced contem- NSA/AU/NZ leading scholars in the field of gender porary notions of gender difference.

Liz Herbert McAvoy is a senior lecturer in gender and English studies at Swansea University. Mari Hughes-Edwards is a senior lecturer in English at the Edge Hill University.

University of Wales Press 203 Double Agents Women and Clerical Culture in Anglo-Saxon England Clare A. Lees and Gillian R. Overing

First published in 2001, Double Agents complicates the exclusion of women was the first book-length study of from the historical record of Anglo- women in Anglo-Saxon written cul- Saxon England by tackling the deeper ture that took on the insights provided questions behind how the feminine is by contemporary critical and feminist modeled, used, and made metaphoric theory, and it quickly established itself in Anglo-Saxon texts, even when the as a standard. Now available again, it women themselves are absent.

Clare A. Lees is professor of medieval literature at King’s College London. Gillian R. Overing is professor of English at Wake Forest University. They have collaborated on a number of projects, including, most recently, A Place to Believe In: Locating Medieval Landscapes.

Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages

August 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2183-6 The Milieu and Context of the Wooing Group Cloth $85.00x Edited by Susannah M. Chewning Literary Criticism Gender Studies NSA/AU/NZ The Wooing Group is a collection of current interpretations of these texts texts in English written by an unknown from scholars currently working in the author in the late twelfth to early fields of medieval spirituality, gender, thirteenth centuries, almost certainly and the anchorite tradition, providing aimed at a group of women living as an- new literary, theological, linguistic, and choresses and recluses who were literate cultural context for the works and situ- in English and interested in guidance ating them within the larger continuum on both spiritual and worldly issues. of medieval culture. This volume brings together our most

Susannah M. Chewning is assistant professor of English at Union County College. She is the author of Intersections of Sexuality and the Divine in Medieval Culture: The Word Made Flesh.

Spirituality in Ministerial Formation The Dynamic of Prayer in Learning Religion and Culture in the Andrew Mayes Middle Ages

1 1 August 240 p. 5 /2 x 8 /2 Spirituality in Ministerial Formation trac- this research and offers creative ideas ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2033-4 Cloth $85.00x es the origin and evolution of the for- for renewing our understanding of how literary Criticism mation model of training and identifies prayer works in the teaching of spiri- NSA/AU/NZ important differences this theological tuality. Of interest to a wide group of paradigm makes to present practice. theological educators and students, this Religion, Education and Culture Uncovering significant and surprising is essential reading for those interested functions for prayer in the learning in a clearer articulation of spirituality December 224 p., 51/2 x 81/2 process through firsthand accounts by in education and our present culture ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2224-6 ordained clergy and tutors, this volume and context. Cloth $85.00x identifies the practical implications of religion Education NSA/AU/NZ Andrew Mayes is an Anglican priest serving as course director at St. George’s College Jerusalem. He is the author of Spirituality of Struggle: Pathways to Growth. 204 University of Wales Press Celtic Christianity in Early Medieval Wales The Origins of the Welsh Spiritual Tradition Oliver Davies

This volume presents a study of sources poetry, prose, and hagiography— from early medieval Wales that offer Oliver Davies adds significantly to our new and exciting insights into the phe- understanding of Celtic Christianity, nomenon of Celtic Christianity. Exam- as well as of early Welsh texts, many of ining this concept and tracing its com- which he here makes available in Eng- mon Celtic features back through early lish translation for the first time. Welsh religious literature—including

Oliver Davies is a senior lecturer in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Wales, Lampeter.

December 193 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-1287-2 Paper $25.00x Medieval Studies religion NSA/AU/NZ

Embodying Identity Representations of the Body in Welsh Literature Harri Garrod Roberts

Since the time of Freud, our most radi- rounding Wales, this volume combines cal innovators in critical theory have psychoanalysis with more culturally stressed the importance of the body oriented approaches to the body. Harri and the means through which it helps Garrod Roberts stresses the role of the to constitute our subjectivity. Exploring body in the construction of identity at some of these debates surrounding the both a cultural and individual level, body and assessing its value as a critical contributing to the growing critical concept in both Welsh literary texts in literature concerned with identity in a English and the larger discourse sur- Welsh cultural context.

Harri Garrod Roberts is a Welsh language officer at the Torfaen Borough Council. Writing Wales in English

September 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2169-0 Paper $25.00x Cultural Studies Rhys Davies Literary Criticism NSA/AU/NZ Huw Osborne

Rhys Davies (1901–78) was a highly pro- the Rhondda, he ultimately left Wales lific writer and one of the first novelists to write about his homeland in Eng- Writers of Wales to depict industrial Wales, making his land. This volume unravels his national sixty-year career a seminal influence experience and its deep ties to complex September 144 p., 9 halftones 51/2 x 81/2 on Welsh literary culture. Davies was a issues of class, sexuality, and gender, as ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2167-6 complicated figure himself: a gay man it follows a career considered to be that Paper $25.00x who grew up as a shopkeeper’s son in of “the representative Welshman.” Literary Criticism NSA/AU/NZ Huw Osborne is a lecturer in English at the Royal Military College of Canada.

University of Wales Press 205 The Meaning of Pictures Images of Personal, Social and Political Identity Peter Lord

Why do Welsh pictures painted between ent aspects of painting unified by this the eighteenth and the twentieth cen- common theme, including such topics turies still matter today? This volume as eighteenth-century painting, nine- is mainly concerned with how pictures teenth-century genres, how pictures are understood by the people who use are valued by the art market, and how, them—including patrons, museum cu- since the 1980s, the Welsh art world has rators, and the general public—rather fought a reactionary battle against the than by the painters who paint them. New Art History movement. The Meaning of Pictures discusses differ-

Peter Lord is an established authority on Welsh art and a research fellow at Swansea University.

September 256 p., 70 color plates 73/4 x 93/4 ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2221-5 Cloth $55.00x art history NSA/AU/NZ

Nonprofit Governance The Why, What, and How of Nonprofit Boardship John Tropman and Thomas J. Harvey

This thorough volume offers up-to- boards, suggestions for board organiza- date information and practical guide- tion, appropriate protocol for meetings, lines for board members and executives legal issues affecting nonprofit groups, of nonprofit organizations large and and useful tools for self-assessment. small. Among the topics addressed are This guide will be indispensable to the the historical roots of the voluntary sec- almost two million nonprofit organiza- tor in America, a complete discussion tions existing in the United States to- of the key responsibilities of nonprofit day.

John Tropman is professor of human services management and organizational behavior at the University of Michigan. Thomas J. Harvey is director of the Master of Nonprofit July 285 p. 6 x 9 Administration program at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business. ISBN-13: 978-1-58966-199-8 Paper $35.00/£24.00 Economics

206 University of Wales Press university of Scranton Press Push A Collection of Poems Ronald F. Smits

In this sophisticated debut collection, sion of mid-century America that is by Ronald F. Smits deftly weaves the comic turns nostalgic and clear-eyed, humor- with the tragic as he vividly recreates ous and heartfelt. A masterly evocation days past in rural Pennsylvania. With a of a place and a time that feel quintes- boyish charm, the eighty poems in Push sentially American, Push opens our eyes lyrically recall baseball games, campouts to the twinned power of literature and Pennsylvania Heritage Books under the stars, and dusty treks along memory. lonely back roads—bringing to life a vi- October 80 p. 5 x 8 ISBN-13: 978-1-58966-198-1 Cloth $10.00/£7.00 Ronald F. Smits is professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Poetry

Sacrosanctum Concilium and the Reform of the Liturgy Proceedings from the 29th Annual Convention of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Edited by Kenneth D. Whitehead

Soon after Pope Paul VI promulgated The contributors to this volume seek to Sacrosanctum Concilium more than forty- restore those elements of worship lost five years ago, a small group of liturgy to these secular interpretations, such as specialists replaced the liturgical re- the sacred music, art and architecture, forms mandated by Sacrosanctum Con- scripture and liturgical translation, and cilium with a more secular liturgy. As the relation of the liturgy to the mission a result, most Catholics are unfamiliar of the Church. with the document’s actual direction. available 210 p. 6 x 9 Kenneth D. Whitehead is the author and translator of numerous works on the church. ISBN-13: 978-1-58966-171-4 Paper $22.00x/£15.00 Religion The Second Vatican Ecumenical Council A Counterpoint for the History of the Council Agostino Marchetto Translated by Kenneth D. Whitehead

This important study by Archbishop Catholicism.” Instead Marchetto invites July 705 p. 6 x 9 Agostino Marchetto makes a significant readers to reconsider the Council di- ISBN-13: 978-1-58966-196-7 contribution to the debate that sur- rectly, through its official documents, Paper $40.00x/£27.50 rounds the interpretation of the Second commentaries, and histories. Marchet- Religion Vatican Ecumenical Council. Arch- to’s volume will be a useful resource bishop Marchetto critiques the Bologna for graduate students, seminarians, and School, which, he suggests, presents the scholars interested in the theological Council as a kind of “Copernican revo- significance of Vatican II. lution,” a transformation to “another

Agostino Marchetto is secretary of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples and Titular Archbishop of Astigi. Kenneth D. Whitehead is the author and translator of numerous works on the church. University of Scranton Press 207 Passion of Israel Jacques Maritain, Catholic Conscience, and the Holocaust Richard Francis Crane

In his lifetime, French philosopher preciation of Judaism that animated his Jacques Maritain (1882–1973) achieved stance. Crane probes the writings and a reputation as both a leading Catholic teachings of Maritain—from before, intellectual and an outspoken critic of during, and after the Holocaust—and anti-Semitism. Here, historian Richard illuminates how his ideas altered Chris- Francis Crane traces the development tian perceptions of Jews and Judaism of Maritain’s opposition toward anti- during his lifetime and continue to do Semitism and analyzes the Catholic ap- so today.

Richard Francis Crane is professor of history at Greensboro College.

January 180 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1-58966-193-6 Paper $25.00x/£17.50 Religion The Drug, the Soul, and God A Catholic Moral Perspective on Antidepressants John-Mark Miravalle

January 150 p. 6 x 9 With The Drug, the Soul, and God, John- nitive, interpersonal, and environmen- ISBN-13: 978-1-58966-192-9 Mark Miravalle examines the stance of tal changes necessary for a patient’s Paper $28.00x/£19.50 the Catholic Church regarding the pre- long-term health. In addition, he sug- Religion Psychology scription and consumption of antide- gests that such medication may deprive pressants. After a careful investigation sufferers of providential opportunities of Catholic moral theology and phi- for personal and communal conversion losophy, Miravalle argues that treating and sanctification. This controversial depression with medication alone fails volume will engage theologians and to address the underlying causes of de- medical professionals alike. pression and does not facilitate the cog-

John-Mark Miravalle teaches at the School of Faith in Lawrence, Kansas.

The Dark Night of the Soul A Metaphor for Understanding the Ethics and Spirituality of Hospice Care Patricia Kobielus Thompson

Drawing from her many years of experi- a wisdom that she argues will assist January 200 p. 6 x 9 ence as a hospice nurse and her train- caregivers in comforting their patients ISBN-13: 978-1-58966-194-3 Paper $25.00/£17.50 ing as a theologian, Patricia Kobielus through the trying times just before Medicine Thompson offers in The Dark Night of the death. Though much has been written Soul instruction to those providing care on Saint John of the Cross, Thompson’s for terminally ill patients. Thompson application of these works is wholly new finds in the poetry and other writings of and rooted in deep empathy. Spanish mystic Saint John of the Cross

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African American Studies 41 Humor 24 American History 8–9, 17–18, 26, 36, 39, 40–41, Law 27, 51, 56, 58, 80, 176 65, 93, 101, 172, 174 Linguistics 183 Ancient History 184–85 Literary Criticism 42, 70–72, 100, 139, 141, 169, Anthropology 73, 101, 133, 170, 172, 180, 188 175, 179, 185, 193–194, 196, 199–205 Archaeology 164, 180, 186 Literary Studies 82 Architecture 43, 134, 156, 159, 184, 186 Literature 69, 75–76, 81, 86, 89, 123, 135, 195 Art 3, 56, 59–60, 66, 92, 113, 116, 139, 151, 154–55, Mathematics 77 157, 160, 162, 164–65, 169 Media Studies 168, 178 Art History 206 Medicine 88, 147, 208 Asian Studies 62, 181–82 Medieval History 188 Autobiography 89 Medieval Studies 140, 186, 203, 205 Biography 3, 64, 83, 87, 97, 114–15, 119, 138, 146, Military History 94, 186 148, 173, 175, 184–85, 198 Music 34, 64, 74–75, 90, 122, 169, 195, 198, 210 Business 190 Mystery 91 Children’s 171 Nature 2, 4, 6, 18, 22, 26, 110–11, 139, 149, 162, Classics 98, 103, 187, 197 172–73, 175, 198 Cooking 65, 108–9 Philosophy 35, 46, 60–61, 63, 74, 96–99, 103, 116, Cultural Studies 178, 192–96, 198–200, 205 119–20, 122, 128, 170, 203 Current Events 7, 20–21, 27, 53, 55, 100, 121, 125, Photography 2, 85, 117, 126, 138, 149–52, 163, 170, 129, 153 172 Dance 131 Poetry 30–31, 42, 101, 128, 136–37, 158, 174, 207 Drama 131–32, 166–67, 187 Political Science 38, 49–54, 67, 96, 130, 142, 173, Economics 7, 17, 55, 77–80, 94, 153, 181, 206 175–76, 181, 183, 189 Education 28–29, 55, 57–58, 204 Psychology 103, 208 European History 15, 22, 40, 42–43, 75, 97–98, Reference 4, 25, 142, 148, 163, 176, 183, 198 138, 146, 160, 177, 179, 187, 194, 196–97, 202 Religion 49, 61–63, 76, 99, 126–27, 129, 133, 170, Family and Childcare 12 180, 186, 188, 204–5, 207–9 Fiction 126, 158 Science 10, 14, 16, 19–23, 37, 44–48, 76–77, 95–96, 102, 147–48, 161, 179 Film 73, 84, 129–30, 157, 166–67, 178, 192–93 Sociology 51, 66–68, 181–82, 190 Gardening 14, 144 Sports 87, 106, 118, 145 Gay and Lesbian Studies 41, 68–69 Travel 33, 86, 92, 198 Gender Studies 202–4 Urban Studies 141 History 1, 16, 32, 37, 41, 43–44, 83, 85, 88, 96, 102, 105, 107, 110, 112, 117, 124–25, 128, 176, 187, 189, Women’s Studies 76, 133, 171 191, 194, 196, 209 AUTHOR INDEX University of Chicago Press New Publications Fall 2009

Adams/Continental Divides, 71 Derks/Ethnic Constructs in Antiquity, 180 Kagarlitsky/Back in the USSR, 125 Renevey/A Companion to The Doctrine of the Hert, 186 Adorno/Night Music, 122 Derrida/The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I, 35 Katz/A Language of Its Own, 74 Richards/The Tragic Sense of Life, 96 Agosín/The Light of Desire, 158 Desmet/Shakespearean Gothic, 201 Kaufmann/Arcimboldo, 59 Riesebrodt/The Promise of Salvation, 63 Albera/Cinema Beyond Film, 178 Desmond/On the Fireline, 100 Kennedy/Where the Rivers Meet the Sky, 173 Ritvo/The Dawn of Green, 22 Albert/Transnational Political Spaces, 189 Dietler/Colonial Encounters in Ancient Iberia, 43 Khoo/Futures of Chinese Cinema, 166 Roberts/Embodying Identity, 205 Ali/The Idea of Communism, 124 Diewert/Price Index Concepts and Measurement, 80 Killeen/History of the Gothic, 199 Roche/Plans of Chicago, 134 Allain/Grotowski’s Empty Room, 132 Doran/Henry VIII, 138 Kimura/Alaska at 50, 174 Rohrbach/Barbara Crane, 165 Allen/Pigeon, 111 Drakulic/Two Underdogs and a Cat, 126 Kinder/Us Against Them, 51 Romanou/Serbian & Greek Art Music, 169 Altman/The Improbability of Othello, 70 Drees/Technology, Trust, and Religion, 179 King/Collections of Nothing, 89 Rosello/The Reparative in Narratives, 194 Altmann/Isaac Israeli, 99 Du Châtelet/Selected Philosophical and Scientific Writings, 76 Kingsbury/Hybrid, 14 Rossi/Reconfiguring Slavery, 196 Altorfer/Gillian White, 157 Duerksen/The Citizen’s Guide to Planning, 141 Klotz/Breeding Bio Insecurity, 20 Rossini/Torvaldo e Dorliska, 210 Arnason/Domains and Divisions of European History, 197 Dugatkin/Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose, 16 Klug/Offence: The Jewish Case, 127 Rowland/Giordano Bruno, 83 Autor/Studies of Labor Market Intermediation, 78 Dukas/Cognitive Ecology II, 47 Knapp/Shakespeare Only, 71 Rupke/Richard Owen, 102 Bachmann/What Duchamp Abandoned for the Waterfall, 155 Durocher/Nice Guys Finish Last, 87 Kohut/The Analysis of the Self, 103 Salys/The Musical Comedy Films of Grigorii Aleksandrov, 167 Barbiers/Syntactic Atlas of the Dutch Dialects, 183 Eastman/A Nation of Speechifiers, 65 Kohut/The Restoration of the Self, 103 Sanders/Bodies in the Bog, 37 Barone/The Almanac of American Politics 2010, 142 Ebert/Scorsese by Ebert, 84 Krueger/Measuring the Subjective Well-Being of Nations, 79 Sarkar/Rebels, Wives, Saints, 133 Barrow Jr./Nature’s Ghosts, 18 Edelstein/The Terror of Natural Right, 42 Lachenicht/Diaspora Identities, 189 Sartre/Portraits, 119 Baudrillard/Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?, 120 Edwards/A Cultural Journey through Andalusia, 198 Latour/The Science of Passionate Interests, 153 Saunders/The Nude, 164 Becker/Uncommon Sense, 7 Edwards/English Manuscript Studies, Volume 15, 141 Laursen/Common Interior Alaska Cryptogams, 172 Saunders/Picturing Plants, 162 Bell/Three Political Voices from the Age of Justinian, 197 Eicken/Field Techniques for Sea-Ice Research, 173 Lauwaert/The Place of Play, 178 Sayer/Mortuary Practices and Social Identities in the Middle Ages, 186 Bemrose/A New Life of Dante, 185 Elger/Gerhard Richter, 3 Lee/Beyond Ideology, 50 Scarth/Titanic and Liverpool, 191 Berinsky/In Time of War, 38 Enzensberger/The Silences of Hammerstein, 123 Lees/Double Agents, 204 Schaller/The Serengeti Lion, 95 Bersani/Is the Rectum a Grave?, 69 Epp/Making Rights Real, 51 Lepecki/Planes of Composition, 131 Schaller/The Year of the Gorilla, 95 Besamusca/Discovering the Dutch, 179 Epple/Gendering Historiography, 189 Lerer/Children’s Literature, 81 Schatz/Political Ethnography, 52 Beumers/Performing Violence, 166 Esche/Heartland, 160 Lerner/Playing the Fool, 53 Schehr/French Postmodern Masculinities, 195 Bickerton/The Arab-Israeli Conflict, 112 Espinosa/Epidemic Invasions, 44 Levendusky/The Partisan Sort, 50 Schultz/Eloquent Science, 148 Bildhauer/Medieval Blood, 203 ETH Studio Basel/Belgrade. Formal/Informal, 156 Levi-Montalcini/The Hourglass of Life, 148 Schüpbach/Hannes Schüpbach, 157 Biro/Is It Good for the Jews?, 24 Fairbanks/How It Works, 67 Lewin/Gay Fatherhood, 68 Scott/Medieval Dress and Fashion, 140 Boddy/Boxing, 118 Falconer/Points of View, 138 Lewis/A Power Stronger Than Itself, 90 Seed/Cinematic Fictions, 193 Bodleian Library/The Original Laws of Cricket, 145 Faulkner/”Do You Know...?”, 34 Loingsigh/Postcolonial Eyes, 196 Sen/Curry, 109 Bodleian Library/The Original Rules of Rugby, 145 Fauser/Music, Theater, and Cultural Transfer, 74 Lord/The Meaning of Pictures, 206 Sheldon/The Letters of Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake, 195 Bodleian Library/The Rules of Association Football, 1863, 145 Fischel/Making the Grade, 55 Maclagan/Outsider Art, 116 Sherr/Masses for the Sistine Chapel, 75 Bogen/An Algebra, 31 Fiss/Grand Illusion, 43 Maimonides/On Poisons and the Protection against Sherwonit/Changing Paths in Alaska’s Arctic Wilderness, 175 Bowditch/On the Edge of Utopia, 131 Fleming/Island Bats, 47 Lethal Drugs, 170 Shweder/The Child, 12 Bowler/Science for All, 45 Foote/Point Hope, Alaska, 172 Main/Birds of the Cotswolds, 198 Sircar/Framing the Nation, 130 Boyarin/Socrates and the Fat Rabbis, 61 Ford/Soldier Field, 9 Mairet/The Fable of the World, 130 Smith/Spanish Screen Fiction, 192 Boyarin/The Unconverted Self, 61 Forde/Developing Dialogues, 168 Malik/Management, 190 Smith/What Is Contemporary Art?, 60 Bradley/Treating the Brain, 147 Forsberg/Great Plains, 2 Malik/Managing Performing Living, 190 Smits/Push, 207 Brauer/Castles, Battles, and Bombs, 94 Forsdick/Postcolonial Thought in the French Speaking Malone/Chance Aesthetics, 154 World, 192 Sorek/The Emperors’ Needles, 184 British Library/The Spoken Word : Bob Cobbing, 137 Marchetto/The Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, 207 Freeman/International Differences in the Business Practices Spirn/Daring to Look, 85 British Library/The Spoken Word: Robert Graves, 136 Marinella/Enrico; or, Byzantium Conquered, 75 and Productivity of Firms, 77 Sprott/Justice for Girls?, 56 British Library/The Spoken Word: Stevie Smith, 136 Marshall/The French Atlantic, 192 Fronc/New York Undercover, 36 Stanger-Ross/Staying Italian, 39 British Library/The Spoken Word: The Bloomsbury Group, 135 Mayes/Spirituality in Ministerial Formation, 204 Galí/International Dimensions of Monetary Policy, 78 Stark/The Handle, 91 Bronner/Camus, 97 McAvoy/Anchorites, Wombs and Tombs, 203 Garland/Saving Alma Mater, 28 Stark/The Rare Coin Score, 91 Brown/Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 23, 80 McNamara/The MacBride Principles, 194 Geroch/Perspectives in Computation, 77 Stark/The Seventh, 91 Brown-Saracino/A Neighborhood That Never Changes, 66 McNeill/Venice, 98 Gewanter/War Bird, 30 Stern/Mary Chesnut’s Civil War Epic, 70 Bruijn/Ship’s Surgeons of the Dutch East India Company, 177 Melia/Cracking the Einstein Code, 23 Gibson/Samuel Beckett, 115 Stratton/The Living and the Dead, 151 Bryk/Organizing Schools for Improvement, 58 Meltzer/A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 2, 17 Gilbert/Whose Fair?, 40 Stringfellow/Jackrabbit Homestead, 149 Bukharin/The Prison Poems, 128 Mendelsohn/Combating Jihadism, 54 Gillespie/The Theological Origins of Modernity, 96 Struever/Rhetoric, Modality, Modernity, 63 Burger/Aristotle’s Dialogue with Socrates, 103 Merolla/Democracy at Risk, 52 Gleijeses/The Cuban Drumbeat, 125 Sturm/Apun, 171 Burnouf/Introduction to the History of Indian Buddhism, 62 Meyer/Jews in Nazi Berlin, 15 Goeman/Morphological Atlas of the Dutch Dialects, 183 Sulam/Jewish Poet and Intellectual in Burrell/Learning to Trust in Freedom, 209 Michaud/Republicanism and the American Gothic, 201 Seventeenth-Century Venice, 76 Goldstein/Cahiers Parisiens / Parisian Notebooks, No. 5, 175 Burwell/Cartography of Water, 174 Miller/Watch, 30 Swiatek/Encyclopedia of the Commemorative Coins Golia/Photography and Egypt, 117 Cabré/Winter Journey, 158 Minnaard/New Germans, New Dutch, 179 of the United States, 163 Goodman/Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, 99 Miravalle/The Drug, the Soul, and God, 208 Talairach-Vielmas/Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Canales/A Tenth of a Second, 45 Goss/Sibelius, 64 Mistral/Madwomen, 101 Gothic, 200 Caner/History and Fiction on Late-Antique Sinai, 197 Gotaas/Running, 106 Mitchell/Seasick, 21 Talbot/The Pencil of Nature, 163 Cao/Ethnic Minorities and Regional Development in Asia, 181 Gould/Moving Politics, 67 Mitchell/Unsimple Truths, 46 Targoff/John Donne, Body and Soul, 100 Chaudhuri/Conversations with Jacqueline Rose, 129 Graber/Spatial Sequences and Urban Infrastructure, 156 Mock/Walking, Writing and Performance, 169 Thomas/Alaska Politics and Public Policy, 175 Chaudhuri/Remembered Rhythms, 133 Graham/The Moon, Come to Earth, 33 Moran/Pablo Neruda, 115 Thompson/The Dark Night of the Soul, 208 Chen/Enabling Creative Chaos, 66 Grande/Gems and Gemstones, 4 Morris/Owl, 110 Thompson/Performance in Place of War, 132 Chewning/The Milieu and Context of the Wooing Group, 204 Graver/Stoicism and Emotion, 98 Moss/Chocolate, 108 Tiffany/Infidel Poetics, 72 Clark/Augustus, First Roman Emperor, 185 Green/Emyr Humphreys, 202 Moss/Schooling Citizens, 41 Todorov/Torture and the War on Terror, 121 Cleminson/Hermaphroditism, Medical Science and Sexual Greenburg/The Rockabillies, 150 Identity in Spain, 1850–1960, 201 Movius/A Place of Belonging, 171 Tonry/Crime and Justice, Volume 38, 80 Gros/States of Violence, 128 Cole/Fighting for the Forty-Ninth, 172 Murdin/Secrets of the Universe, 10 Tripathi/Offence: The Hindu Case, 127 Gruber/The Problems of Disadvantaged Youth, 79 Collins/Stuart Cable, 198 Nahum/Making the Modern World, 161 Tropman/Nonprofit Governance, 206 Guiheux/Social Movements in China and Hong Kong, 182 Tuchman/Wannabe U, 29 Collins/Three Myths of Internet Governance, 168 Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy/ Hägerdal/Responding to the West, 182 Turley/Bright Stars, 193 Cook/The Discovery of Human Antiquity, 164 Infrastructures, 183 Hallendy/Tukiliit, 176 van Driel/Manhood, 105 Cooper/The Classrooms All Young Children Need, 57 Newitt/Portugal in European and World History, 117 Hanna/The English Manuscripts of Richard Rolle, 188 van Ginkel/Braving Troubled Waters, 180 Coornhert/Synod on the Freedom of Conscience, 180 Nicassio/Imperial City, 97 Hardouin-Fugier/A History of Bullfighting, 107 Van Meter/Tippecanoe and Tyler Too, 93 Coray/Bone Strings, 174 Nicholson/The Censorship of British Drama, 187 Harper/The Italian Way, 65 van den Boomen/Digital Material, 178 Cramerotti/Aesthetic Journalism, 169 Nissen/From Mesopotamia to Iraq, 32 Harrington/The Unwanted Child, 40 van der Sijs/Cookies, Coleslaw, and Stoops, 176 Crane/Passion of Israel, 208 Nissen/Manly Love, 69 Harrison/Gardens, 82 Vetlesen/A Philosophy of Pain, 116 Crick/Ramparts of Empire, 186 Noltie/Raffles’ Ark Redrawn, 139 Hayes/Edgar Allan Poe, 114 Wallace/The Women’s Suffrage Movement in Wales, Crouthamel/The Great War and German Memory, 187 O’Neill/Digital Radio in Europe, 168 Hazzard/The Ancient Shore, 86 1866–1928, 202 Crow/History of the Gothic, 199 Oeler/A Grammar of Murder, 73 Heady/Family, Kinship and State in Contemporary Europe, 188 Walley/The Welsh in Iowa, 201 Crump/Sexy Orchids Make Lousy Lovers, 6 Ogden/Alexander the Great, 184 Hebron/John Keats, 139 Walls/The Passage to Cosmos, 26 Curley/Physiologus, 102 Osborne/Rhys Davies, 205 Heng/Reframing Singapore, 182 Watkins-Hayes/The New Welfare Bureaucrats, 68 Dabashi/Conversations with Moshen Makhmalbaf, 129 Owen/Like No Other Place, 152 Henley/The Adventure of the Real, 73 Welsh/Underground Writing, 193 Dalby/Cheese, 108 Pacyga/Chicago, 8 Henley/The Original Liverpool Sound, 195 Wey/The Itineraries of William Wey, 146 Daly/God’s Economy, 49 Pánek/A History of the Czech Lands, 160 Herrera/Multiplicity in Unity, 48 White/Directors & Designers, 167 Daniel/Gertrude Stein, 114 Papish/The Little Seal, 171 Hogan/Spiral Jetta, 92 White/Sinister Yogis, 62 Danker/The Concise Greek-English Lexicon of the New Parthesius/Dutch Ships in Tropical Waters, 177 Hopkins/Theorizing Emotions, 190 Whitehead/Sacrosanctum Concilium and the Reform Testament, 25 Paul/Complex Deterrence, 54 of the Liturgy, 207 Hornocker/Cougar, 19 Dasgupta/Edge of Faith, 126 Peach/Emyr Humphreys, 202 Willes/Pick of the Bunch, 144 Hsia/Sojourners in a Strange Land, 44 Davies/Celtic Christianity in Early Medieval Wales, 205 Perkinson/The Likeness of the King, 56 Williams/Snail, 111 Huggan/Racism Postcolonialism Europe, 196 Davis/Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain, 140 Perloff/The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound, 72 Witman/Marine Macroecology, 48 Hulsbosch,/Asian Material Culture, 181 Davis/Obsession, 88 Polèse/The Wealth and Poverty of Regions, 55 Wittlich/Art-Nouveau Prague, 159 Hunt/Art, Word and Image, 113 Davison/History of the Gothic, 199 Porter/Deleuze and Guattari, 203 Wolfe/Chris Drury, 151 Jackson/Living in Arcadia, 41 Dawdy/Building the Devil’s Empire, 101 Posner/The Perils of Global Legalism, 27 Woloson/In Hock, 36 Jacobsen/Pacification and its Discontents, 153 de Beer/Sticking Together or Falling Apart, 181 Prendergast/Applied Theatre, 167 Wood/The Life of Anthony Wood in His Own Words, 146 Johns/Piracy, 1 de la Vega/Selected Poems of Garcilaso de la Vega, 42 Prosterman/One Billion Rising, 176 Wrigley/Performing Greek Drama in Oxford and on Tour with Jolly/Cultured Violence, 194 De Laat/Words Out of Wood, 209 Purves/The Gothic and Catholicism, 200 the Balliol Players, 187 Jones/All That Glitters, 173 Deal/West and West, 152 Rebell/Courts and Kids, 58 Yablon/Untimely Ruins, 39 Jullien/The Great Image Has No Form, or On the Nonobject Demerath/Producing Success, 57 Rees/The Infanticide Controversy, 46 Zulaika/Terrorism, 53 through Painting, 60