Fall 2012 Guide to Subjects

African American Law 14, 28, 60, 78, 80 Studies 19, 27, 45, 63 Literary Criticism African Studies 56, 58 45–48, 79, 89 American History 6, 29, Literature 7, 18, 21, 55 35–36, 39–40, 49, 52, 58, Media Studies 84 61, 68, 70, 72, 84, 90 Medicine 62 Anthropology 41, 55–59 Music 43, 75, 86 Architecture 20 Nature 4, 11, 16, 64 Art 24, 33, 44, 54, 71, 79 Pets 3 Asian Studies 24, 39, 54, 87 Philosophy 2, 24–26, 45–46, 59, 71, 81–82, 90 Biography 6, 19, 20, 75, 86 Photography 4 Business 64 Poetry 1, 21–22 Classics 81–82 Political Science 25, 27, 29–32, 34, 36, 59, 76, 82, Current Events 13 –14, 86, 91 18, 73, 84 Psychology 83 Drama 85 Reference 15, 42, 67, 85 Economics 31, 33–34, 64–65, 76, 91–92 Religion 47, 54, 63, 72, 87 Education 37, 41, 87 Science 8, 11–12, 25, 33, European History 38, 42, 49–53, 73–74, 85, 46, 51 88–91 Gay & Lesbian Studies Sociology 34, 56, 60–63, 60, 77 83, 88–89 Health 64 Travel 17 History 10, 12, 16, 28, Urban Studies 27, 83 37–40, 44, 48–50, 52, 77–78, 88 Cover and catalog design by Mary Shanahan Edited by Don ShARE and ChRiSTiAn WimAn The Open Door One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine

hen Harriet Monroe founded Poetry magazine in Chicago in 1912, she began with an image: the Open Door. “May W the great poet we are looking for never find it shut, or half-shut, against his ample genius!” For a century, the most important and enduring poets have walked through that door—William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens in its first years, Rae Armantrout and Kay Ryan in 2011. And at the same time, Poetry continues to discover the new voices who will be read a century from now. Poetry’s archives are incomparable, and to celebrate the magazine’s centennial, editors Don Share and Christian Wiman combed them to “The histories of modern poetry and of create a new kind of anthology, energized by the self-imposed limita- Poetry in America are almost interchange- tion to one hundred poems. Rather than attempting to be exhaustive able, certainly inseparable.” —A. R. Ammons or definitive—or even to offer the most familiar works—they have assembled a collection of poems that, in their juxtaposition, echo across a century of poetry. Adrienne Rich appears alongside Charles SEPTEmBER 224 p. 51/2 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-75070-5 Bukowski; poems by Isaac Rosenberg and Randall Jarrell on the two Cloth $20.00/£13.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-75073-6 world wars flank a devastating Vietnam War poem by the lesser-known POETRY George Starbuck; August Kleinzahler’s “The Hereafter” precedes “Pru- frock,” casting Eliot’s masterpiece in a new light. Short extracts from Poetry’s letters and criticism punctuate the verse selections, hinting at themes and threads and serving as guides, interlocutors, or dissenting voices. The resulting volume is an anthology like no other, a celebration of idiosyncrasy and invention, a vital monument to an institution that refuses to be static, and, most of all, a book that lovers of poetry will devour, debate, and keep close at hand.

Don Share is a poet and the author, editor, or translator of numerous books. Christian Wiman is the author of three books of poetry and a volume of essays. Together they edit Poetry magazine.

general interest 1 STEphEn T. ASmA Against Fairness

rom the school yard to the workplace, there’s no charge more damning than “You’re being unfair!” Born out of democracy F and raised in open markets, fairness has become our de facto modern creed. The very symbol of American ethics—Lady Justice— wears a blindfold as she weighs the law on her impartial scale. In our zealous pursuit of fairness, we have banished our urges to like one person more than another, one thing over another, hiding them away as dirty secrets of our humanity. In Against Fairness, polymath philoso- pher Stephen T. Asma drags them triumphantly back into the light. Through playful, witty, but always serious arguments and examples, he vindicates our unspoken and undeniable instinct to favor, making the

“Against Fairness is a terrific book. Ste- case that we would all be better off if we showed our unfair tendencies phen T. Asma goes a long way toward a little more kindness—indeed, if we favored favoritism. convincing readers of a challenging Asma makes his point by synthesizing a startling array of sci- argument. Engagingly written, it avoids entific findings, historical philosophies, cultural practices, analytic the ponderousness that so often charac- arguments, and a variety of personal and literary narratives to give a terizes work in philosophy, and i would remarkably nuanced and thorough understanding of how fairness and recommend it to anyone who seems favoritism fit within our moral architecture. Examining everything excessively committed to ‘fairness’ as the from the survival-enhancing biochemistry that makes our mothers love sine qua non of just policy.” us to the motivating properties of our “affective community,” he not —Barry Schwartz, only shows how we favor but the reasons we should. Drawing on think- author of The Paradox of Choice ers from Confucius to Tocqueville to Nietzsche, he reveals how we have confused fairness with more noble traits, like compassion and open- NOvEmBER 200 p., 23 line drawings 51/2 x 81/2 mindedness. He dismantles a number of seemingly egalitarian pursuits, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-02986-3 Cloth $22.50/£14.50 from classwide Valentine’s Day cards to civil rights, to reveal the envy E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92346-8 that lies at their hearts, going on to prove that we can still be kind to PHILOSOPHY strangers, have no prejudice, and fight for equalopportunity at the same time we reserve the best of what we can offer for those dearest to us. Against Fairness resets our moral compass with favoritism as its lodestar, providing a strikingly new and remarkably positive way to think through all our actions, big and small.

Stephen T. Asma is a distinguished scholar and professor of philosophy in the Department of Humanities, as well as a fellow of the Research Group in Mind, Science, and Culture at Columbia College Chicago. He is the author of several books, including On Monsters, Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads, and Following Form and Function.

2 general interest JESSiCA piERCE The Last Walk Reflections on Our Pets at the End of Their Lives

rom the moment when we first open our homes—and our hearts—to a new pet, we know that one day we will have to F watch this beloved animal age and die. The pain of that eventual separation is the cruel corollary to the love we share with them, and most of us deal with it by simply ignoring its inevitability. With The Last Walk, Jessica Pierce makes a forceful case that our pets, and the love we bear them, deserve better. Drawing on the moving story of the last year of the life of her own treasured dog, Ody, she presents an in-depth exploration of the practical, medical, and moral “Decisions about how to treat an animal issues that trouble pet owners confronted with the decline and death toward the end of her or his life are among of their companion animals. Pierce combines heart-wrenching per- the most difficult we have to make, and sonal stories, interviews, and scientific research to consider a wide it’s our responsibility to do the best we range of questions about animal aging, end-of-life care, and death. She can. our companions trust that we will tackles such vexing questions as whether animals are aware of death, have their best interests in mind. in The whether they’re feeling pain, and if and when euthanasia is appropri- Last Walk, Jessica pierce considers all of ate. Given what we know and can learn, how should we best honor the the hard questions about sick and old ani- lives of our pets, both while they live and after they have left us? mals. She seamlessly weaves in personal The product of a lifetime of loving pets, studying philosophy, and stories with scientific research to provide collaborating with scientists at the forefront of the study of animal readers with an incredibly valuable behavior and cognition, The Last Walk asks—and answers—the toughest guide—a must read—about when and how questions pet owners face. The result is informative, moving, and to end an animal’s life in the most humane consoling in equal parts; no pet lover should miss it. way possible. i learned a lot from reading this book, and i know others will as well.” Jessica pierce is a bioethicist and coauthor of Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of —marc Bekoff, Animals. author of The Emotional Lives of Animals

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general interest 3 “As the flora and fauna of DAviD LiiTTSChWAgER the surface are examined more closely, the interlock- A World in One ing mechanisms of life are emerging in ever-greater Cubic Foot and more surprising detail. Portraits of Biodiversity With a Foreword by E. O. Wilson in time we will come fully to appreciate the magnifi- welve inches by twelve inches by twelve inches, the cubic foot cent little ecosystems that is a relatively tiny unit of measure compared to the whole Tworld. With every step, we disturb and move through cubic have fallen under our stew- foot after cubic foot. But behold the cubic foot in nature—from coral ardship.” reefs to cloud forests to tidal pools—even in that finite space you can see the multitude of creatures that make up a vibrant ecosystem. —E. o. Wilson, from the Foreword For A World in One Cubic Foot, esteemed nature photographer David Liittschwager took a bright green metal cube—measuring precisely one cubic foot—and set it in various ecosystems around the world, from Costa Rica to Central Park. Working with local scientists, he measured what moved through that small space in a period of twenty-four hours. He then photographed the cube’s setting and the plant, animal, and insect life inside it—anything visible to the naked eye. The result is a stunning portrait of the amazing diversity that can be found in ecosystems around the globe. Many organisms captured in Liittschwager’s photographs have rarely, if ever, been presented in their full splendor to the general reader, and the singular beauty of these images evocatively conveys the richness of life around us and the essential need for its conservation. The breathtaking images are accompanied by equally engaging essays that speak to both the landscapes and the worlds contained within them, from distinguished contributors such as Elizabeth Kolbert and Alan Huffman, in addition to a foreword by E. O. Wilson. After encountering this book, you will never look at the tiniest sliver of your own backyard or neighborhood park the same way; instead, you will be stunned by the unexpected variety of species found in an area so small.

4 general interest A small world awaits exploration.

A World in One Cubic Foot puts the world accessibly in our hands and allows us to behold the magic of an ecosystem in miniature. Liittschwager’s awe-inspiring photographs take us to places both famil- iar and exotic and instill new awareness of the life that abounds all around. OcTOBER 224 p., 985 color plates 12 x 12 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-48123-4 David Liittschwager is a freelance photographer and a contributor to Cloth $45.00/£29.00 National Geographic and other magazines. His work has been exhibited at such NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY institutions as the California Academy of Sciences and the American Museum of Natural History. He is the author of Skulls and coauthor of Archipelago: Portraits of Life in the World’s Most Remote Island Sanctuary, Remains of a Rain- bow: Rare Plants and Animals of Hawaii, and Witness: Endangered Species of North America. Liittschwager also lectures and shows his work around the world in both fine art and natural history contexts.

general interest 5 nEiL STEinBERg You Were Never in Chicago

n 1952 the New Yorker published a three-part essay by A. J. Liebling in which he dubbed Chicago the Second City. From Igarbage collection to the skyline, nothing escaped Liebling’s withering gaze. Among the outraged responses from Chicago residents was one that Liebling described as the apotheosis of such criticism: a postcard that read, simply, “You were never in Chicago.” Neil Steinberg has lived in and around Chicago for more than three decades—ever since he left his hometown of Berea, Ohio, to attend Northwestern University—yet he remains fascinated by the “in this wonderful book, neil Steinberg dynamics captured in Liebling’s anecdote. In You Were Never in Chicago weaves a poetic mosaic of his life and the Steinberg weaves the story of his own coming-of-age as a young outsid- life of Chicago—past, present, real, imag- er who made his way into the inner circles and upper levels of Chicago ined. Like many of its citizens, he came journalism with a nuanced portrait of the city that will surprise even here from elsewhere, drawn by its brawny lifelong residents. allure. he lives in Chicago and Chicago Steinberg takes readers through Chicago’s vanishing industrial lives in him.” past and explores the city from such vantages as the quaint skybridge —Roger Ebert between the towers of the Wrigley Building and the depths of the vast Deep Tunnel system below the streets. He deftly explains the city’s NOvEmBER 256 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77205-9 complex web of political favoritism and carefully profiles the char- Cloth $25.00/£18.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92427-4 acters he meets along the way, from greats of jazz and journalism to AmERIcAN HISTORY BIOGRAPHY small-business owners just getting by. Throughout, Steinberg never loses the curiosity and close observation of an outsider, while thought- fully considering how this perspective has shaped the city, and what it really means to belong. Intimate and layered, You Were Never in Chicago will be a welcome addition to the bookshelves of all Chicagoans—be they born in the city or forever transplanted.

neil Steinberg is a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, where he has been on staff since 1987. He is the author of seven books, including Drunkard: A Hard- Drinking Life and Hatless Jack: The President, the Fedora, and the History of American Style.

6 general interest CARLo RoTELLA Playing in Time Essays, Profiles, and Other True Stories

rom jazz fantasy camp to running a movie studio; from a fight between an old guy and a fat guy to a fear of clowns—Carlo Ro- F tella’s Playing in Time delivers good stories full of vivid charac- ters, all told with the unique voice and humor that have garnered him devoted readers in the New York Times Magazine, Boston Globe, and Wash- ington Post Magazine, among others. The two dozen essays in Playing in Time revolve around the themes and obsessions that have character- ized Rotella’s writing from the start: boxing, music, writers, and cities. “Playing in time” refers to how people make beauty and meaning while “Carlo Rotella is an old-fashioned jour- working within the constraints and limits forced on them by life, and nalist in the best sense of the term: he in his writing Rotella transforms the craft and beauty he so admires in doesn’t just visit the people and places others into an art of his own. he writes about, he inhabits them. his articles and essays are models of em- Rotella is best known for his writings on boxing, and his essays pathy and understanding. And because here do not disappoint. It’s a topic that he turns to for its colorful char- he is a man who appreciates craft—the acters, compelling settings, and formidable life lessons both in and out craft of boxers, fencers, musicians, and of the ring. He gives us tales of an older boxer who keeps unretiring clowns—his own work always strikes the and a welterweight who is “about as rich and famous as a 147-pound right celebratory note, the one that ends fighter can get these days,” and a hilarious rumination on why Muham- with just the slightest inflection of mel- mad Ali’s phrase “I am the greatest” began appearing (in the mouth ancholy—which, unparadoxically, is what of Epeus) in translations of the Iliad around 1987. His essays on blues, makes his work a pleasure to read.” crime and science fiction writers, and urban spaces are equally engag- —Arthur Krystal ing, combining an artist’s eye for detail with a scholar’s sense of re- search, whether taking us to visit detective writer George Pelecanos or OcTOBER 288 p., 1 halftone 6 x 9 to dance with the proprietress of the Baby Doll Polka Club in Chicago. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-72909-1 Cloth $27.50/£18.00 Rotella’s essays are always smart, frequently funny, and consistently E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-72911-4 LITERATURE surprising. This collection will be welcomed by his many fans and will bring his inimitable style and approach to an even wider audience.

Carlo Rotella is the author of Good with Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt and Cut Time: An Education at the Fights, among other books. He writes regularly for the New York Times Magazine, Washington Post Magazine, and Boston Globe, and he is a commentator for WGBH FM in Boston.

general interest 7 Edited by gREgoRy S. STonE and DAviD oBuRA Underwater Eden Saving the Last Coral Wilderness on Earth

t was the first time I’d seen what the ocean may have looked like thousands of years ago.” That’s conservation scientist Gregory S. IStone talking about his initial dive among the corals and sea life surrounding the Phoenix Islands in the South Pacific. Worldwide, the oceans are suffering. Corals are dying off at an alarming rate, victims of ocean warming and acidification—and their loss threatens more NOvEmBER 160 p., 91 color plates, 2 tables 8 x 10 than 25 percent of all fish species, who depend on the food and shelter ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77560-9 Cloth $40.00/£26.00 found in coral habitats. Yet in the waters off the Phoenix Islands, the E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92267-6 corals were healthy, the fish populations pristine and abundant—and ScIENcE Stone and his companion on the dive, coral expert David Obura, de- termined that they were going to try their best to keep it that way. Underwater Eden tells the story of how they succeeded, against great odds, in making that dream come true, with the establishment in 2010 of the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA). It’s a story of cutting-edge science, fierce commitment, and innovative partnerships rooted in a determination to find common ground among conserva- tionists, business interests, and governments—all backed up by hard- headed economic analysis.

8 general interest Underwater Eden is sure to enchant any ocean lover, whether ecotourist or armchair scuba diver.

Creating the world’s largest (and deepest) UNESCO World Heritage Site was by no means easy or straight- forward. Underwater Eden takes us from the initial dive, through four major scientific expeditions and planning meetings over the course of a decade, to high-level nego- tiations with the government of Kiribati—a small island nation dependent on the revenue from the surrounding fisheries. How could the people of Kiribati, and the fish- ing industry its waters supported, be compensated for the substantial income they would be giving up in favor of posterity? And how could this previously little-known wilderness be transformed into one of the highest-profile international conservation priorities? Step by step, conservation and its priorities won over the doubters, and Underwater Eden is the stunningly illustrated record of what was saved. Each chapter reveals—with eye-popping photographs—a differ- ent aspect of the science and conservation of the underwater and ter- restrial life found in and around the Phoenix Islands’ coral reefs. Writ- ten by scientists, politicians, and journalists who have been involved in the conservation efforts since the beginning, the chapters brim with excitement, wonder, and confidence—tempered with realism and full of lessons that the success of PIPA offers for other ambitious conserva- tion projects worldwide. Simultaneously an ode to the diversity, resilience, and importance of the oceans and a riveting account of how conservation really can succeed against the toughest obstacles. Underwater Eden is sure to en- chant any ocean lover, whether ecotourist or armchair scuba diver. gregory S. Stone is senior vice president and chief scientist for oceans at Conservation International. He is the author of three books, including Ice Island: The Expedition to Antarctica’s Largest Iceberg. David obura is founding direc- tor of the nonprofit research organization CORDIO. He is based in East Africa and works on coral reef research and conservation in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

general interest 9 Ann DuRKin KEATing Rising Up from Indian Country The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago

n August 1812, under threat from the Potawatomi, Captain Nathan Heald began the evacuation of ninety-four people from Ithe isolated outpost of Fort Dearborn to Fort Wayne, hundreds of miles away. The group included several dozen soldiers, as well as nine women and eighteen children. After traveling only a mile and a half, they were attacked by five hundred Potawatomi warriors. In under an “Ann Durkin Keating has taken on the least hour, fifty-two members of Heald’s party were killed, and the rest were explored area of Chicago history—its taken prisoner; the Potawatomi then burned Fort Dearborn before raucous beginnings—and brought it mag- returning to their villages. nificently to life. The book is a landmark These events are now seen as a foundational moment in Chicago’s work, deeply researched and vividly storied past. With Rising Up from Indian Country, noted historian Ann written.” Durkin Keating richly recounts the Battle of Fort Dearborn while —Donald L. miller, author of City of the Century: situating it within the context of several wider histories that span the The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America nearly four decades between the 1795 Treaty of Greenville, in which Native Americans gave up a square mile at the mouth of the Chicago River, and the 1833 Treaty of Chicago, in which the American govern- AUGUST 328 p., 35 halftones, 14 maps 6 x 9 ment and the Potawatomi exchanged five million acres of land west of ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42896-3 Cloth $30.00/£19.50 the Mississippi River for a tract of the same size in northeastern Illinois E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42898-7 and southeastern Wisconsin. HISTORY In the first book devoted entirely to this crucial period, Keating tells a story not only of military conquest but of the lives of people on all sides of the conflict. She highlights such figures as Jean Baptiste Point de Sable and John Kinzie and demonstrates that early Chicago was a place of cross-cultural reliance among the French, the Ameri- cans, and the Native Americans. Published to commemorate the bicentennial of the Battle of Fort Dearborn, this gripping account of the birth of Chicago will become required reading for anyone seeking to understand the city and its complex origins.

Ann Durkin Keating is professor of history at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. She is coeditor of The Encyclopedia of Chicago and the author of several books, including Chicagoland: City and Suburbs in the Railroad Age and Chicago Neighborhoods and Suburbs: A Historical Guide. 10 general interest STEvEn vogEL The Life of a Leaf

n its essence, science is a way of looking at and thinking about the world. In The Life of a Leaf, Steven Vogel illuminates this approach, Iusing the humble leaf as a model. Whether plant or person, every organism must contend with its immediate physical environment, a world that both limits what organisms can do and offers innumerable opportunities for evolving fascinating ways of challenging those lim- its. Here, Vogel explores through the example of the leaf the extraor- dinary designs that enable life to adapt to its physical world. In Vogel’s account, the leaf serves as a biological everyman, an ordinary and ubiquitous living thing that nonetheless speaks volumes about our environment as well as its own. Thus in exploring the leaf’s “i am astounded by the breadth of the world, Vogel simultaneously explores our own—answering questions science that can be motivated by simple about how objects get much hotter than air when in sunlight and far questions about a leaf or a tree. Re- cooler when beneath a clear night sky, how air movement matters even freshingly, the answers come from when we can’t feel it, how objects such as trees avoid damage from mechanics and engineering—not a DnA storms, and how gases diffuse and bubbles form. He introduces us to sequence in sight! An intelligent and ways leaves acquire the essential resources needed to grow and repro- highly readable introduction to impor- duce, resources not all that different from those needed by animals— tant scientific principles in a familiar, humans included. human-sized context.” In considering science on our personal scale, Vogel refers com- —ian Stewart, author of plex concepts to everyday observations in our immediate experiences. In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World Though the ideas he presents here hold surprises, he makes the case that they’re quite ordinary—so ordinary that, with the instructions

OcTOBER 320 p., 47 color plates, provided, anyone can investigate how they work with everyday house- 18 halftones, 10 line drawings 6 x 9 hold materials. Within these pages, he provides incredible food for ISBN-13: 978-0-226-85939-2 Cloth $35.00/£22.50 thought and the tools for a new way of seeing the beauty and simplicity E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-85942-2 of the science of life. NATURE ScIENcE

Steven vogel is a James B. Duke Professor Emeritus in biology at Duke Uni- versity. His books include, most recently, Glimpses of Creatures in Their Physical Worlds and Cats’ Paws and Catapults.

11 general interest LAWREnCE m. pRinCipE The Secrets of Alchemy

lchemy, the “Noble Art,” conjures up scenes of mysterious, dimly lit laboratories populated with bearded old men stir- A ring cauldrons. Though the history of alchemy is intricately linked to the history of chemistry, alchemy has nonetheless often been dismissed as the realm of myth and magic, or fraud and pseudosci- ence. And while its themes and ideas persist in some expected and unexpected places, from the Philosopher’s (or Sorcerer’s) Stone of Harry Potter to the self-help mantra of transformation, there has not been a serious, accessible, and up-to-date look at the complete history “making sense out of alchemy is nearly and influence of alchemy until now. as consuming and difficult a project as In The Secrets of Alchemy, Lawrence M. Principe, one of the world’s making gold with it. Lawrence m. leading authorities on the subject, brings alchemy out of the shadows principe has the requisite clarity of and restores it to its important place in human history and culture. mind and purity of heart, as well as By surveying what alchemy was and how it began, developed, and a willingness to risk getting burned overlapped with a range of ideas and pursuits, Principe illuminates (literally!). The Secrets of Alchemy is an the practice. He vividly depicts the place of alchemy during its heyday eminently lucid treatment of a tenebrous in early modern Europe, and then explores how alchemy has fit into subject, at once learned and reader- wider views of the cosmos and humanity, touching on its enduring friendly, and enormously winning.” place in literature, fine art, theater, and religion. In addition, he —John Crowley, author of Little, Big introduces the reader to some of the most fascinating alchemists, such as Zosimos and Basil Valentine, whose lives dot alchemy’s long Synthesis reign from the third century to the present day. Through his explora- tion, Principe pieces together closely guarded clues from obscure and NOvEmBER 288 p., 12 color plates, 23 halftones, 4 line drawings 6 x 9 fragmented texts to reveal alchemy’s secrets, and—most exciting for ISBN-13: 978-0-226-68295-2 Cloth $25.00/£16.00 budding alchemists—uses them to recreate many of the most famous E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92378-9 recipes in his lab, including those for the “glass of antimony” and “phi- HISTORY ScIENcE losopher’s tree.” A concise but illuminating history, The Secrets of Alchemy is written for anyone drawn to the alchemical arts, those who are fascinated by the science as well as the fantastic stories and mysterious practitioners.

Lawrence m. principe is the Drew Professor of the Humanities in the Depart- ment of the History of Science and Technology at Johns Hopkins University. His books include Alchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmon- tian Chymistry, also published by the University of Chicago Press. 12 general interest BEATRix hoFFmAn Health Care for Some Rights and Rationing in the United States since 1930

he 2010 Affordable Care Act (or Obamacare, as its detrac- tors like to call it) is a sweeping reform to the US health care Tsystem. Despite the fact that nearly every other developed country in the world considers health care a right, the passage of the act in the United States was hard fought, due to a staunch and vocal opposition to universal health care among many American lawmakers. Why has the United States been so continually divided on this issue? “in the American political debate, every- In Health Care for Some, Beatrix Hoffman offers an explanation in the body condemns the notion of ‘ration- form of an engaging and in-depth look at America’s long tradition of ing’ health care. But Beatrix hoffman’s unequal access to health care. meticulous history shows that rationing— Hoffman argues that two main features have characterized the by income, age, employment, etc.—has US health system: a refusal to adopt a right to care and a particularly been, and remains, a central element of American type of rationing. Health Care for Some shows that the haphaz- America’s medical system. She dem- ard way the US system allocates medical services—using income, race, onstrates that our various attempts at region, insurance coverage, and many other factors—is a disorganized, reform over the decades have kept the illogical, and powerful form of rationing. And unlike rationing in rationing mechanisms firmly in place.” most countries, which is intended to keep costs down, rationing in the —T.R. Reid, author of The Healing of United States has actually led to increased costs, resulting in the most America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care expensive health care system in the world. While most histories of US health care emphasize failed policy reforms, Health Care for Some looks OcTOBER 336 p., 14 halftones 6 x 9 at the system from the ground up in order to examine how rationing is ISBN-13: 978-0-226-34803-2 experienced by ordinary Americans—from soldiers’ pregnant wives to Cloth $30.00/£19.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-34805-6 survivors of Hurricane Katrina—and consequently reveals how experi- cURRENT EvENTS ences of rationing have led to claims for a right to health care. The story of the Affordable Care Act is still being written, and its ultimate success or failure has yet to be determined. To understand how we got here and what might be to come, you could have no better primer than Health Care for Some.

Beatrix hoffman is associate professor in the Department of History at North- ern Illinois University. She is the author of The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America. general interest 13 BRiAn Z. TAmAnAhA Failing Law Schools

n the surface, law schools today are thriving. Enrollments are on the rise, and their resources are often the envy of Oevery other university department. Law professors are among the highest paid and play key roles as public intellectuals, advisors, and government officials. Yet behind the flourishing façade, law schools are failing abjectly. Recent front-page stories have detailed widespread dubious practices, including false reporting of LSAT scores and GPAs, misleading placement reports, and the fundamental failure to prepare graduates to enter the profession. Addressing all these problems and more in a ringing critique is renowned legal scholar Brian Z. Tamanaha. Piece by piece, Tamanaha “Even those who disagree with Brian Z. lays out the how and why of the crisis and the likely consequences if Tamanaha and challenge his analyses the current trend continues. The out-of-pocket cost of obtaining a will be participating in a conversation law degree at many schools now approaches $200,000. The average shaped by his contentions. Failing Law law school graduate’s debt is around $100,000—the highest it has Schools presents a comprehensive case ever been—while the legal job market is the worst in decades, with for the negative side of the legal educa- the scarce jobs offering starting salaries well below what is needed tion debate, and i am sure that many legal to handle such a debt load. At the heart of the problem, Tamanaha academics and every law school dean will argues, are the economic demands and competitive pressures on law be talking about it.” schools—driven by competition over U.S. News and World Report rank- —Stanley Fish, Florida international ing. When paired with a lack of regulatory oversight, the work environ- university College of Law ment of professors, the limited information available to prospective students, and loan-based tuition financing, the result is a system that is Chicago Series in Law and Society fundamentally unsustainable.

JULY 238 p., 8 line drawings 6 x 9 Growing concern with the crisis in legal education has led to ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92361-1 high-profile coverage at theWall Street Journal and the New York Times, Cloth $25.00/£16.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92362-8 and many observers expect it soon will be the focus of congressional cURRENT EvENTS LAw scrutiny. Bringing to the table his years of experience from within the legal academy, Tamanaha has provided the perfect resource for assess- ing what’s wrong with law schools and figuring out how to fix them.

Brian Z. Tamanaha is the William Gardiner Hammond Professor of Law at the Washington Univeristy School of Law and the author of six books, including A General Jurisprudence of Law and Society, Law as a Means to an End, and Beyond the Formalist-Realist Divide.

14 general interest DAviD A. phARiES, Editor in Chief The University of Chicago Spanish– English Dictionary Diccionario Universidad de Chicago Inglés–Español

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or more than sixty years, The University of Chicago Spanish– English Dictionary has set the standard for concise bilingual dic- F tionaries. Now thoroughly revised to reflect the most current praise for the previous edition vocabulary and usage in both languages, this dictionary enables users “This new edition stresses the malle- to find the precise equivalents of the words and phrases they seek. ability of both the American version of Completely bilingual, the dictionary focuses on two contemporary English and the Latin American version of international languages, American English and a worldwide Spanish Spanish. . . . While the task of catalogu- rooted in both Latin American and Iberian sources. ing regionalisms across Latin America is The sixth edition has been updated with six thousand new words daunting, this dictionary does capture and meanings selected for their frequency of use, rising popularity, much of its slang, and even sometimes and situational necessity. In order to best represent the dynamic and off-color usage, making the book as warm increasingly connected cultures of three continents, this edition fea- as its easygoing typeface.” tures enhanced coverage of the vocabulary associated with four areas —Publishers Weekly of increasing global importance: medicine, business, digital technol- ogy, and sports. AUGUST 640 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-66695-2 Cloth $40.00/£26.00 Clear, precise, and easy to use, The University of Chicago Spanish– ISBN-13: 978-0-226-66696-9 English Dictionary continues to serve as the essential reference for stu- Paper $15.00/£9.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-66697-6 dents, travelers, businesspeople, and everyone interested in building REFERENcE their linguistic proficiency in both Spanish and English.

David A. pharies is associate dean for humanities in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and professor of Spanish at the University of Florida. He is the author of A Brief History of the Spanish Language and Breve historia de la lengua española, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

general interest 15 John R. giLLiS The Human Shore Seacoasts in History

ince before recorded history, people have congregated near water. But as growing populations around the globe continue to Sflow toward the coasts on an unprecedented scale and climate change raises water levels, our relationship to the sea has begun to take on new and potentially catastrophic dimensions. The latest gen- eration of coastal dwellers lives largely in ignorance of the history of those who came before them, the natural environment, and the need to live sustainably on the world’s shores. Humanity has forgotten how to live with the oceans. In The Human Shore, a magisterial account of 100,000 years of “in The Human Shore, John R. gillis seaside civilization, John R. Gillis recovers the coastal experience from offers a sweeping analysis of coastal its origins among the people who dwelled along the African shore to communities from the old Testament the bustle and glitz of today’s megacities and beach resorts. He takes to the Japanese tsunami. This inclusive readers from discussion of the possible coastal location of the Garden and wide-ranging book will be read by of Eden to the ancient communities that have existed along beaches, those interested in the ocean edge either bays, and bayous since the beginning of human society to the crucial professionally or by avocation, and it will role played by coasts during the age of discovery and empire. An ac- have a deep impact on those of us who count of the mass movement of whole populations to the coasts in the teach about coasts. it is a pleasure to last half-century brings the story of coastal life into the present. see the culture and science of our shores dovetailed into a history of such authority Along the way, Gillis addresses humankind’s changing relationship and grace. This will be required reading.” to the sea from an environmental perspective, laying out the history —John R. Stilgoe, of the making and remaking of coastal landscapes—the creation of author of Outside Lies Magic ports, the draining of wetlands, the introduction and extinction of marine animals, and the invention of the beach—while giving us a NOvEmBER 272 p., 50 halftones 6 x 9 global understanding of our relationship to the water. Learned and ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92223-2 Cloth $27.50/£18.00 deeply personal, The Human Shore is more than a history: it is the story E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92225-6 of a space that has been central to the attitudes, plans, and existence HISTORY NATURE of those who live and dream at land’s end.

John R. gillis is the author of Islands of the Mind; A World of Their Own Making: Myth, Ritual, and the Quest for Family Values; and Commemorations. A professor of history emeritus at Rutgers University, he now divides his time between two coasts: Northern California and Maine.

16 general interest gABRiEL LEvin The Dune’s Twisted Edge Journeys in the Levant

“How to speak of the imaginative reach of a land habitually seen as a seedbed of faiths and heresies, confluences and ruptures . . . trouble spot and findspot, ruin and renewal, fault line and ragged clime, with a medley of people and languages once known with mingled affection and wariness as Levantine?”

o begins poet Gabriel Levin in his journeys in the Levant, the exotic land that stands at the crossroads of western Asia, the “gabriel Levin offers a privileged glimpse eastern Mediterranean, and northeast Africa. Part travelogue, S into otherwise closed worlds, and he does part field guide, and part literary appreciation,The Dune’s Twisted Edge this with brio, wit, and a gently ironic sen- assembles six interlinked essays that explore the seaboard of the Levant sibility. Each essay in The Dune’s Twisted and its deserts, bringing to life this enigmatic part of the world. Edge is distinctive and memorable, but Striking out from his home in Jerusalem in search of a poetics of taken together they form a compelling the Fertile Crescent, Levin probes the real and imaginative terrain pattern that arises from Levin’s strong of the Levant, a place that beckoned to him as a source of wonder affinity for landscape. This isn’t only and self-renewal. His footloose travels take him to the Jordan Valley; because he is so good at evoking the var- to Wadi Rumm south of Petra; to the semiarid Negev of modern-day ied terrains in which he moves, but also Israel and its Bedouin villages; and, in his recounting of the origins of because of the central and abiding insight Arabic poetry, to the Empty Quarter of Arabia where the pre-Islamic of the book: that landscape and language poets once roamed. His meanderings lead to encounters with a host of are mysteriously conjoined.” literary presences: the wandering poet-prince Imru al-Qays, Byzantine —Eric ormsby, empress Eudocia, British naturalist Henry Baker Tristram, Herman author of Ghazali: The Revival of Islam Melville making his way to the Dead Sea, and even New York avant- garde poet Frank O’Hara. When he is not confronting ghosts, Levin OcTOBER 176 p., 5 halftones, 9 line drawings 1 1 finds himself stumbling upon the traces of vanished civilizations. He 5 /2 x 8 /2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92367-3 discovers a ruined Umayyad palace on the outskirts of Jericho, the Cloth $22.50/£14.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92368-0 Greco-Roman hot springs near the Sea of Galilee, and Nabatean stick TRAvEL figures carved on stones in the sands of Jordan. Vividly evoking the landscape, cultures, and poetry of this ancient region, The Dune’s Twisted Edge celebrates the contested ground of the Middle East as a place of compound myths and identities.

gabriel Levin is the author of four books of poems, most recently To These Dark Steps, and has published several collections in translation. He lives in Jerusalem. general interest 17 AnDREW pipER Book Was There Reading in Electronic Times

ndrew Piper grew up liking books and loving computers. While occasionally burying his nose in books, he was going to A computer camp, programming his Radio Shack TRS-80, and playing Pong. His eventual love of reading made him a historian of the book and a connoisseur of print, but as a card-carrying member of the first digital generation—and the father of two digital natives—he understands that we live in electronic times. Book Was There is Piper’s surprising and always entertaining essay on reading in an e-reader world. Much ink has been spilled lamenting or championing the decline “This is a deep and delightful perfor- of printed books, but Piper shows that the rich history of reading mance, elucidating the multiple, shifting, itself offers unexpected clues to what lies in store for books, print or overlapping ways that embodied persons digital. From medieval manuscript books to today’s playable media interact with books. Like Walter Benja- and interactive urban fictions, Piper explores the manifold ways that min, Andrew piper is able to filter vast physical media have shaped how we read, while also observing his own learning through a distinctive writerly children as they face the struggles and triumphs of learning to read. sensibility: whether he meditates on the In doing so, he uncovers the intimate connections we develop with our computability of texts, the uses of hand- reading materials—how we hold them, look at them, share them, play writing, the faces of Facebook, or the va- with them, and even where we read them—and shows how reading is rieties of annotation, he is a companion- interwoven with our experiences in life. Piper reveals that reading’s able and erudite guide. Book Was There is many identities, past and present, on page and on screen, are the key a book to return to: its provocations and to helping us understand the kind of reading we care about and how illuminations multiply with each visit.” new technologies will—and will not—change old habits. —Alan Jacobs, author of The Pleasures of Reading Contending that our experience of reading belies naive generaliza- in an Age of Distraction tions about the future of books, Book Was There is an elegantly argued and thoroughly up-to-date tribute to the endurance of books in our OcTOBER 200 p., 40 halftones 51/2 x 81/2 ever-evolving digital world. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-66978-6 Cloth $22.50/£14.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92289-8 Andrew piper teaches German and European literature at McGill University cURRENT EvENTS LITERATURE and is the author of Dreaming in Books, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

18 general interest ChARLES moLESWoRTh And Bid Him Sing A Biography of Countée Cullen

hile competing with Langston Hughes for the title of “Poet Laureate of Harlem,” Countée Cullen (1903–46) W crafted poems that became touchstones for American readers, both black and white. Inspired by classic themes and working within traditional forms, Cullen shaped his poetry to address universal questions like love, death, longing, and loss while also dealing with the issues of race and idealism that permeated the national conversation. Drawing on the poet’s unpublished correspondence with contem- poraries and friends like Hughes, Claude McKay, Carl Van Vechten, Dorothy West, Charles S. Johnson, and Alain Locke, and presenting a “meticulously researched and engagingly unique interpretation of his poetic gifts, And Bid Him Sing is the first written, Charles molesworth’s And Bid full-length critical biography of this famous American writer. Him Sing is a carefully, sympathetically, Despite his untimely death at the age of forty-two, Cullen left be- and thoughtfully drawn biography of hind an extensive body of work. In addition to five books of poetry, he Countée Cullen. This book is an original, authored two much-loved children’s books and translated Euripides’s compelling, and important contribution to Medea, the first translation by an African American of a Greek trag- our understanding of the harlem Renais- edy. In these pages, Charles Molesworth explores the many ways that sance. i strongly recommend it.” —James A. miller, race, religion, and Cullen’s sexuality informed the work of one of the george Washington university unquestioned stars of the Harlem Renaissance. An authoritative work of biography that brings to life one of the SEPTEmBER 304 p., 30 halftones 6 x 9 chief voices of his generation, And Bid Him Sing returns to us one of ISBN-13: 978-0-226-53364-3 America’s finest lyric poets in all of his complexity and musicality. Cloth $30.00/£19.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-53366-7 BIOGRAPHY AFRIcAN AmERIcAN STUDIES Charles molesworth is coauthor of Alain L. Locke: The Biography of a Philosopher and the editor of The Works of Alain Locke. He writes a regular art column for the quarterly Salmagundi.

general interest 19 FRAnZ SChuLZE and EDWARD WinDhoRST Mies van der Rohe A Critical Biography New and Revised Edition

ies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography is a major rewriting and expansion of Franz Schulze’s acclaimed 1985 biography, Mwhich was the first full treatment of the master architect and is still today considered the standard biography. In collaboration with architect Edward Windhorst, Schulze has revisited every page of the book and incorporated extensive new research on Mies, including many previously unpublished materials. Schulze and Windhorst trace Mies’s progress from traditionalist “Franz Schulze’s 1985 biography of Ludwig to radical modernist in his European period—where his work was mies van der Rohe has always been ac- often lavish but of modest scale—to his second maturity in the United knowledged as the most comprehensive States, where his architecture focused on the artistic expression of and thoughtful biography of one of the structure. Among the many discoveries uncovered by the authors for key figures in twentieth-century architec- this edition is the extensive transcript of the 1953 Farnsworth House ture. This revised edition with significant court case, which pitted him against his client, Edith Farnsworth. The new scholarship by its two authors will book reveals new details of his relationships with women, including his undoubtedly come to occupy the same correspondence with Ada Bruhn, who became his wife, and a series of position.” —Dietrich neumann, illuminating interviews with Mies’s American companion, Lora Marx. Brown university This new edition also draws on an extensive oral history collection, assembled by the Department of Architecture of the Art Institute of SEPTEmBER 568 p., 144 halftones, Chicago, that gives voice to dozens of architects who knew and worked 24 line drawings 7 x 10 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-75600-4 with (and sometimes against) Mies. Cloth $45.00/£29.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-75602-8 Unparalleled in scope, this comprehensive biography captures ARcHITEcTURE BIOGRAPHY Mies the man as well as his architecture from the perspective of those who best knew the work as well as the architect. This new, revised edi- tion speaks to how it was to work with the master architect and tells the compelling story of how he created some of the most significant build- ings of the twentieth century.

Franz Schulze is the Betty Jane Schultz Hollender Professor of Art, Emeritus, at Lake Forest College. His other books include Philip Johnson: Life and Work and Chicago’s Famous Buildings, with Kevin Harrington, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press. Edward Windhorst studied architecture with Myron Goldsmith at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He has written two books about modernism in Chicago.

20 general interest C. K. WiLLiAmS In Time Poets, Poems, and the Rest

inner of the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and numerous other awards, C. K. Williams is one W of the most distinguished poets of his generation. Known for the variety of his subject matter and the expressive intensity of his verse, he has written on topics as resonant as war, social injustice, love, family, sex, death, depression, and intellectual despair and delight. He is also a gifted essayist, and In Time collects his best recent prose along with an illuminating series of interview excerpts in which he discusses a wide range of subjects, from his own work as a poet and translator to the current state of American poetry as a whole. praise for C. K. Williams In Time begins with six essays that meditate on poetic subjects, from reflections on such forebears as Philip Larkin and Robert Lowell “Williams is a poet of imaginative compo- to “A Letter to a Workshop,” in which he considers the work of compos- sure amid real-world disarray. his fastidi- ing a poem. In the book’s innovative middle section, Williams extracts ous, refined heart camps in the middle short essays from interviews into an alphabetized series of reflections of the worldly misery that minimizes its on subjects ranging from poetry and politics to personal accounts claims.” —Dan Chiasson, of his own struggles as an artist. The seven essays of the final section New York Times branch into more public concerns, including an essay on Paris as a place of inspiration, “Letter to a German Friend,” which addresses the “Williams seems to me to fulfill, trium- issue of national guilt, and a concluding essay on aging, into which phantly, the big demands he places on Williams incorporates three moving new poems. Written in his lucid, himself. Reading his poems, you sense powerful, and accessible prose, Williams’s essays are characterized by their considerable formal beauty, yet you reasoned and complex judgments and a willingness to confront hard also hear something more: a voice that has moral questions in both art and politics. become a representative consciousness.” Wide-ranging and deeply thoughtful, In Time is the culmination —peter Campion, Boston Globe of a lifetime of reading and writing by a man whose work has made a substantial contribution to contemporary American poetry. OcTOBER 240 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-89951-0 C. K. Williams is professor of creative writing at Princeton University. He is the Cloth $27.50/£18.00 author of eighteen books of poetry, including Repair and The Singing, as well as E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-89952-7 LITERATURE POETRY several books of prose, mostly recently On Whitman.

general interest 21 Bewilderment New Poems and Translations DAviD FERRy

Disposable Camera Your Personal God JAnET FoxmAn From Horace, Epistles, II. 2. ll. 180–89

Disposable Camera Jewels, marble, ivory, paintings, beautiful Tuscan meter? For Karen Pottery, silver, Gaetulian robes dyed purple— Many there are who’d love to have all of these things. To a disposable camera I have confined the paradise There are some who don’t care about them in the least. where my sister lives— Why one twin brother lives for nothing but pleasure, And loves to fool around even more than Herod palisades, sycamores. Sunbathers mistaken for statuary. Loves his abundant gardens of date-trees, while People with shears, shrubbery cut into sea creatures. The other twin brother works from morning to night Improving his farm, ploughing and clearing the lands, Lemon trees bloom in front of houses. Pruning and planting, working his ass off, only Trophy wives escort children through mazes of palm trees. The genius knows, the personal god who knows And controls the birth star of every person In the shadows of palms the children paw their toys delicately There is in the world. Your personal god is the god while the youngest one rides his plastic motorcycle toward his mother Who dies in a sense when your own breath gives out, And yet lives on, after you die, to be with a confidence so absolute, so heartbreakingly The personal god of somebody other than you; beautiful, everybody at the pier Your personal god, whose countenance changes as He looks at you, smiling sometimes, sometimes not. hopes nothing will ever humiliate it, that it will persist after the camera runs out of film. To read David Ferry’s Bewilderment is to be reminded that poetry of the highest order can be made by the subtlest of Although Disposable Camera is Janet Foxman’s first book-length means. The passionate nature and originality of Ferry’s pro- collection, you would not know it given the wry sophistication sodic daring works astonishing transformations that take of the poems found within. The notion of the disposable your breath away. His diction modulates beautifully between camera permeates the entire book, where Foxman considers plainspoken high eloquence and colloquial vigor, making his the instabilities in even our deepest attachments. Here gulfs distinctive speech one of the most interesting and ravishing expand, for instance, between twins, between the musician achievements of the past half century. Ferry has fully realized and his instrument, between the recluse and his inconsolable both the potential for vocal expressiveness in his phrasing solitude. Whether a hermit; a twin; a filmgoer utterly taken and the way his phrasing plays against—and with—his genius with Triumph of the Will; or Masaccio, just after he’s painted the for metrical variation, thus becoming an amazingly flexible Expulsion—the poems’ speakers share a nagging anxiety that instrument of psychological and spiritual inquiry and which satisfaction may not exist outside the effort to imagine it, and gives him access to an immense variety of feeling. Sometimes that efforts at art and making, however compulsory to their that feeling is so powerful it’s like witnessing a volcanologist executor, are probably regrettable from the start. A formally taking measurements in the midst of an eruption. Ferry’s inventive and daring book, and one that displays a sophistica- translations, meanwhile, are vitally related to the original poems tion well beyond the poet’s years, Disposable Camera will be a around them. valuable addition to American poetry. Praise for David Ferry “Janet Foxman’s Disposable Camera is a brilliant book of “For fifty years [David Ferry] has practiced poetry as if it great freshness and great originality. It is an exhilarating truly matters to our lives and to our souls—and now his poems book, one that keeps the reader off balance about its ambi- have that rare power to wake us up to both.”—Christian Wiman tions and procedures.”—Frank Bidart David Ferry is the Sophie Chantal Hart Professor Emeritus of Janet Foxman is a freelance writer and editor, as well as a senior English at Wellesley College and also teaches at Suffolk University. production editor at a publishing house. In 2011 he received the prestigious Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for his lifetime accomplishments. OcTOBER 88 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92411-3 SEPTEmBER 112 p. 6 x 9 Paper $18.00/£11.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-24488-4 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92412-0 Paper $18.00/£11.50 POETRY E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-24490-7 POETRY

22 general interest B ooKS o F Sp ECi AL inTEREST ChiCAgo “Contesting Nietzsche is one of the Contesting Nietzsche finest pieces of nietzsche schol- ChRiSTA DAviS ACAmpoRA arship to appear in many years. it both offers a comprehensive In this groundbreaking work, Christa erative benefits. It imbues the human interpretation of the key texts in Davis Acampora offers a profound re- experience with significance, mean- nietzsche’s oeuvre and contributes thinking of Friedrich Nietzsche’s cru- ing, and value. Analyzing Nietzsche’s significant insights to some of the cial notion of the agon. Analyzing an elaborations of agonism—his remarks key topics in nietzsche scholarship, impressive array of primary and second- on types of contests, qualities of con- ary sources and synthesizing decades of testants, and the conditions in which including his naturalism, account Nietzsche scholarship, she shows how either may thrive or deteriorate—she of agency, approach to science, and the agon, or contest, organized core demonstrates how much the agon possible contribution to thinking areas of Nietzsche’s philosophy, provid- shaped his philosophical projects and about democracy.” ing a new appreciation of the subtleties critical assessments of others. The agon —Alan D. Schrift, of his notorious views about power. By led him from one set of concerns to grinnell College focusing so intensely on this particular the next, from aesthetics to metaphys- guiding interest, she offers an exciting, ics to ethics to psychology, via Homer, JANUARY 272 p. 6 x 9 original vantage from which to view Socrates, Saint Paul, and Wagner. In ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92390-1 Cloth $35.00s/£22.50 this iconic thinker: Contesting Nietzsche. showing how one obsession catalyzed E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92391-8 Though existence—viewed through so many diverse interests, Contesting Ni- PHILOSOPHY the lens of Nietzsche’s agon—is fraught etzsche sheds fundamentally new light with struggle, Acampora illuminates what on some of this philosopher’s most dif- Nietzsche recognized as the agon’s gen- ficult and paradoxical ideas.

Christa Davis Acampora is associate professor of philosophy at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

The Museum on the Roof of the World Art, Politics, and the Representation of Tibet CLARE E. hARRiS

For millions of people around the Harris begins with the British world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed public’s first encounter with Tibetan

(PAINTING, 2007) tradition, the Dalai Lama a spiritual culture in 1854. She then examines guide. By contrast, the Tibet Museum the role of imperial collectors and pho- opened in Lhasa by the Chinese in tographers in representations of the re- 1999 was designed to reclassify Tibetan gion and visits competing museums of objects as cultural relics and the Dalai Tibet in India and Lhasa. Drawing on Lama as obsolete. Suggesting that both fieldwork in Tibetan communities, she GYATSO, L’INTERNATIONALE these views are suspect, Clare E. Harris also documents the activities of con- argues in The Museum on the Roof of the temporary Tibetan artists as they try Buddhism and Modernity World that for the past one hundred and to displace the utopian visions of their NOvEmBER 336 p., 19 color plates, fifty years, British and Chinese collec- country prevalent in the West, as well as 50 halftones, 1 line drawing 7 x 10 tors and curators have tried to convert the negative assessments of their heri- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31747-2 Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 Tibet itself into a museum, an image tage common in China. Illustrated with E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31750-2 some Tibetans have begun to contest. many previously unpublished images,

ART ASIAN STUDIES This book is a powerful account of the this book addresses the pressing ques- museums created by, for, or on behalf tion of who has the right to represent of Tibetans and the nationalist agendas Tibet in museums and beyond. that have played out in them.

Clare E. harris is a reader in visual anthropology at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford, curator for Asian collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, and a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. She is the author of In the Image of Tibet: Tibetan Painting after 1959. 24 special interest Studying Human Behavior “helen E. Longino presents many How Scientists Investigate Aggression and Sexuality insights about different general methods, assumptions, research hELEn E. Longino goals, and the importance of defini- tions in researching behavior. i In Studying Human Behavior, Helen E. disciplines, as well as the different ques- Longino enters into the complexities of tions and mechanisms each addresses. know of no other book that covers human behavioral research, a domain She also analyzes efforts to integrate such diverse approaches.” still dominated by the age-old debate different approaches. Longino con- —peter machamer, of “nature versus nurture.” Rather than cludes that there is no single “correct” university of pittsburgh supporting one side or another or at- approach but that each contributes to tempting to replace that dichotomy our overall understanding of human DEcEmBER 256 p., 6 halftones, 3 line drawings, 3 tables 6 x 9 with a different framework for under- behavior. In addition, Longino reflects ISBN-13: 978-0-226-49287-2 standing behavior, Longino focuses on on the reception and transmission of Cloth $75.00x/£48.50 how scientists study it, specifically sex- this behavioral research in scientific, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-49288-9 Paper $25.00s/£16.00 ual behavior and aggression, and asks social, clinical, and political spheres. A E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92182-2 what can be known about human be- highly significant and innovative study PHILOSOPHY ScIENcE havior through empirical investigation. that bears on crucial scientific ques- She dissects five approaches to the tions, Studying Human Behavior will be study of behavior—quantitative behav- essential reading not only for scientists ioral genetics, molecular behavior ge- and philosophers but also for science netics, developmental psychology, neu- journalists and anyone interested in the rophysiology and anatomy, and social/ engrossing challenges of understand- environmental methods—highlighting ing human behavior. the underlying assumptions of these “What is Political Philosophy? is helen E. Longino is chair and the Clarence Irving Lewis Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Stanford University. She is the author of Science as Social Knowledge and The Strauss’s most comprehensive, Fate of Knowledge. and arguably most introductory, work. But the fact that each chapter Leo Strauss’s Defense of the Philosophic Life focuses on key themes more fully elaborated elsewhere creates the Reading What Is Political Philosophy? need for a systematic supplemen- Edited by RAFAEL mAJoR tary text. With this collection of

Leo Strauss’s What Is Political Philosophy? views on classical political philosophy. essays, the reader is afforded addresses almost every major theme in Key thinkers whose work Strauss re- helpful guidance to the way each of his life’s work and is often viewed as a sponded to are also analyzed in depth: the chapters relates to, illuminates, defense of his overall philosophic ap- Plato, al-Farabi, Maimonides, Hobbes, and is illuminated by other major proach. Yet precisely because the book and Locke, as well as twentieth-century treatments of the same themes by is so foundational, if we want to under- figures such as Eric Voegelin, Alexan- Strauss. The book will attract a stand Strauss’s notoriously careful and dre Kojève, and Kurt Riezler. Written complex thinking in these essays, we by scholars well-known for their insight broad readership among the many must also consider them just as Strauss and expertise on Strauss’s thought, the who are involved in or attentive to treated philosophers of the past: on essays in this volume apply to Strauss the ongoing debate over Strauss’s their own terms. the same meticulous approach he de- controversial thought.” Each of the contributors in this col- veloped in reading others. —Thomas L. pangle, lection focuses on a single chapter from The first book-length treatment university of Texas at Austin What Is Political Philosophy? in an effort of a single book by Strauss, Leo Strauss’s to shed light on both Strauss’s thoughts Defense of the Philosophic Life will serve as DEcEmBER 240 p. 6 x 9 about the history of philosophy and an invaluable companion to those seek- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92420-5 Cloth $85.00x/£55.00 the major issues about which he wrote. ing a helpful introduction or delving ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92421-2 Included are treatments of Strauss’s deeper into the major themes and ideas Paper $27.50s/£18.00 esoteric method of reading, his critique of this controversial thinker. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92423-6 of behavioral political science, and his PHILOSOPHY POLITIcAL ScIENcE

Rafael major is the director of faculty development at the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History. He teaches at Ursinus College. special interest 25 JEAn-JACquES RouSSEAu uentin, uentin, q aint- The Major Political Writings of Jean- Jacques Rousseau The Two Discourses and the Social Contract Translated and Edited by John T. Scott

rance. ndividualist and communitarian. Anarchist and totalitarian. f Portrait of Jean-Jacques © Musée rousseau antoine (1712–1778) Lécuyer, s Classicist and romanticist. Progressive and reactionary. Since the “John T. Scott is one of the preeminent eighteenth century, Jean-Jacques Rousseau has been said to be all Rousseau scholars in the world, and he I of these things. Few philosophers have been the subject of as much or exhibits his expertise here. This new as intense debate, yet almost everyone agrees that Rousseau is among translation is in every particular superb: the most important and influential thinkers in the history of political faithful to the French, albeit not mulishly philosophy. This new edition of his major political writings, published so; and stylishly readable. indeed, i think in the year of the three-hundredth anniversary of his birth, renews at- it combines these two qualities better tention to the perennial importance of Rousseau’s work. than any other English translation that The book brings together superb new translations of three of currently exists. Also, Scott’s introduc- Rousseau’s works: the Discourse on the Sciences and Arts, the Discourse on tion provides a compass to navigate Rous- the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men, and On the Social seau’s textual waters that will help both Contract. The two discourses show Rousseau developing his well-known beginner and scholar to reach shore.” conception of the natural goodness of man and the problems posed by —Stuart Warner, Roosevelt university life in society. With the Social Contract, Rousseau became the first major thinker to argue that democracy is the only legitimate form of political

NOvEmBER 320 p., 4 halftones 6 x 9 organization. Translation and editorial notes clarify ideas and terms ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92186-0 that might not be immediately familiar to most readers. Cloth $35.00s/£22.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92188-4 The three works collected in The Major Political Writings of Jean- PHILOSOPHY Jacques Rousseau represent an important contribution to eighteenth- century political theory that has exerted an extensive influence on generations of thinkers, beginning with the leaders of the French Revolution and continuing to the present day.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78) was a leading Genevan philosopher and political theorist and one of the key figures of the Enlightenment. John T. Scott is chair and professor of political science at the University of California, Davis; he has edited or translated several volumes on Rousseau and is coauthor of The Philosophers’ Quarrel: Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding. 26 special interest Everyday Law on the Street City Governance in an Age of Diversity mARiAnA vALvERDE

Toronto prides itself on being “the cratic governing mechanisms generally world’s most diverse city,” and its of- applauded—public meetings, for in- ficials seek to support this diversity stance—actually create disadvantages G Duke through programs and policies de- for marginalized groups, whose mem- signed to promote social inclusion. Yet bers are less likely to attend or articu- Gre h bY AP

this progressive vision of law often falls late their concerns. As a result, both of- r short in practice, limited by problems ficials and citizens fail to see problems OTOG inherent in the political culture itself. outside the point of view of their own Ph In Everyday Law on the Street, Mariana needs and neighborhood. Chicago Series in Law and Society Valverde brings to light the often unex- Taking issue with Jane Jacobs and pected ways that the development and many others, Valverde ultimately ar- NOvEmBER 272 p., 1 table 6 x 9 implementation of policies shape every- gues that Toronto and other diverse cit- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92189-1 day urban life. ies must reevaluate their allegiance to Cloth $85.00x/£55.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92190-7 Drawing on four years spent par- strictly local solutions. If urban diversi- Paper $27.50s/£18.00 ticipating in council hearings and civic ty is to be truly inclusive—of tenants as E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92191-4 association meetings, and shadowing well as homeowners, and recent immi- URBAN STUDIES housing inspectors and law enforce- grants as well as longtime residents— ment officials as they went about their cities must move beyond microlocal day-to-day work, Valverde reveals a tell- planning and embrace a more expan- ing transformation between law on the sive, citywide approach to planning and books and law on the streets. She finds, regulation. for example, that some of the demo- “Jack Turner has canvassed a remarkable range of sources to mariana valverde is professor in and director of the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author of several books, including Law’s develop a profoundly revisionist Dream of a Common Knowledge. take on individualism, a theme absolutely central to the nation’s Awakening to Race founding and which has ongo- ing—in fact heightened—relevance Individualism and Social Consciousness in America in the ‘postracial’ age-of-obama JACK TuRnER united States. Turner both makes a convincing case that individualism The election of America’s first black and James Baldwin, Turner offers an president has led many to believe that original reconstruction of democratic as a central American value needs race is no longer a real obstacle to individualism in American thought. to be recaptured from the Right and success and that remaining racial in- All these thinkers, he shows, held that demonstrates that the rich tradi- equality stems largely from the failure personal responsibility entails a refusal tion of American political thought of minority groups to take personal re- to be complicit in injustice and a duty to does indeed provide us with the sponsibility for seeking out opportuni- combat the conditions and structures necessary conceptual resources for ties. Often this argument is made in the that support it. At a time when indi- name of the long tradition of self-reli- vidualism is invoked as a reason for in- doing so.” ance and American individualism. In action, Turner makes the individualist —Charles W. mills, Awakening to Race, Jack Turner upends tradition the basis of a bold and impas- northwestern university this view, arguing that it expresses not a sioned case for race consciousness— OcTOBER 192 p., 15 halftones 6 x 9 deep commitment to the values of indi- consciousness of the ways that race ISBN-13: 978-0-226-81711-8 vidualism, but a narrow understanding continues to constrain opportunity in Cloth $70.00x/£45.00 of them. America. Turner’s “new individualism” ISBN-13: 978-0-226-81712-5 Paper $22.50s/£14.50 Drawing on the works of Ralph becomes the grounds for concerted E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-81714-9 Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, public action against racial injustice. POLITIcAL ScIENcE Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, AFRIcAN AmERIcAN STUDIES

Jack Turner is assistant professor of political science at the University of Washington and a member of the Washington Institute for the Study of Ethnicity, Race, and Sexuality. He is the editor of A Political Companion to Henry David Thoreau. special interest 27 “A masterly and potentially path- This Is Not Civil Rights breaking analysis of American Discovering Rights Talk in 1939 America ‘rights talk,’ a much-maligned gEoRgE i. LovELL but largely misunderstood phe-

nomenon. using a trove of let- Since at least the time of Tocqueville, Justice Department, George I. Lovell ters written in 1939 and 1940 by observers have noted that Americans challenges these common claims. Al- ordinary Americans to the Justice draw on the language of rights when though the letters were written prior Department’s then-new Civil Liber- expressing dissatisfaction with politi- to the emergence of the modern civil ties unit, george i. Lovell shows cal and social conditions. As the Unit- rights movement—which most people ed States confronts a complicated set assume is the origin of rights talk— that many of the standard claims of twenty-first-century problems, that many contain novel legal arguments, about American rights talk are tradition continues, with Americans including expansive demands for new wrong; beyond the fervent hope for invoking symbolic events of the found- entitlements that went beyond what a rights-regulated society lies a ing era to frame calls for change. Most authorities had regarded as legitimate worldly wise realism about rights’ observers have been critical of such or required by law. Lovell demonstrates limited capacity to bring about real “rights talk.” Scholars on the left worry that rights talk is more malleable and that it limits the range of political de- less constraining than is generally be- change.” mands to those that can be articulated lieved. Americans, he shows, are capa- —Charles R. Epp, as legally recognized rights, while con- ble of deploying idealized legal claims university of Kansas servatives fear that it creates unrealistic as a rhetorical tool for expressing their Chicago Series in Law and Society expectations of entitlement. aspirations for a more just society while Drawing on a remarkable cache retaining a realistic understanding that OcTOBER 256 p., 1 halftone 6 x 9 of Depression-era complaint letters the law often falls short of its own ideals. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-49403-6 written by ordinary Americans to the Cloth $85.00x/£55.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-49404-3 george i. Lovell is associate professor of political science at the University of Washington. Paper $27.50s/£18.00 He is the author of Legislative Deferrals. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-49405-0 LAw HISTORY The Three and a Half Minute Transaction Boilerplate and the Limits of Contract Design “mitu gulati and Robert E. Scott miTu guLATi and RoBERT E. SCoTT have assembled extraordinarily tantalizing evidence that even the Boilerplate language in contracts tends the “stickiness” of contract boilerplate, most sophisticated contracting to stick around long after its origins Mitu Gulati and Robert E. Scott have parties use contractual provisions and purpose have been forgotten. Usu- sifted through more than one thou- that neither side understands, ally there are no serious repercussions, sand sovereign debt contracts and in- and they continue to use these but sometimes it can cause unexpected terviewed hundreds of practitioners to problems. Such was the case with the show that the problem actually lies in clauses even when they stand to be obscure pari passu clause in cross-bor- the nature of the modern corporate interpreted in a mutually disadvan- der sovereign debt contracts, until a law firm. The financial pressure on tageous way. The book draws the novel judicial interpretation rattled in- large firms to maintain a high volume reader in as the authors explore ternational finance by forcing a default- of transactions contributes to an array what could possibly be going on in ing sovereign—for one of the first times of problems that deter innovation. With the near certainty of massive sovereign the law firms and investment banks in the market’s centuries-long history— to repay its foreign creditors. Though debt restructuring in Europe, The Three of Wall Street.” neither party wanted this outcome, the and a Half Minute Transaction speaks to —J. mark Ramseyer, vast majority of contracts subsequently critical issues facing the industry and harvard Law School issued demonstrate virtually no attempt has broader implications for contract to clarify the imprecise language of the design that will ensure it remains rel- Chicago Series in Law and Society clause. evant to our understanding of legal DEcEmBER 240 p., 7 line drawings, Using this case as a launching practice long after the debt crisis has 13 tables 6 x 9 pad to explore the broader issue of subsided. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92438-0 Cloth $35.00s/£22.50 mitu gulati is professor of law at Duke University. Robert E. Scott is the Alfred McCormack E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92439-7 Professor of Law and the director of the Center on Contract and Economic Organization LAw at Columbia Law School.

28 special interest The Timeline of Presidential Elections “This is an important, original book How Campaigns Do (and Do Not) Matter by accomplished political scientists at the top of their game. Robert S. RoBERT S. ERiKSon and ChRiSTophER WLEZiEn Erikson and Christopher Wlezien With the 2012 presidential election been identified and matched in poll- have addressed a central question upon us, will voters cast their ballots sters’ trial heats, preferences have come in the study of presidential elec- for the candidates whose platforms and into focus—and predicted the winner tions—to what extent do the actual positions best match their own? Or will in eleven of the fifteen elections. But campaigns matter?—and provided the race for the next president of the a similar process of forming favorites an account of election dynamics United States come down largely to who takes place in the last six months, dur- runs the most effective campaign? It’s a ing which voters’ intentions change that anyone with a passing knowl- question those who study elections have only gradually, with particular events— edge of presidential elections can been considering for years with no clear including presidential debates—rarely understand, but whose technical resolution. In The Timeline of Presidential resulting in dramatic change. sophistication will be appreciated by Elections, Robert S. Erikson and Chris- Ultimately, Erikson and Wlezien political scientists. The Timeline of topher Wlezien reveal for the first time show that it is through campaigns that Presidential Elections will be regarded how both factors come into play. voters are made aware of—or not made as a landmark by the presidential Erikson and Wlezien have amassed aware of—fundamental factors like data from close to two thousand na- candidates’ policy positions that deter- research community.” tional polls covering every presidential mine which ticket will get their votes. —gary C. Jacobson, election from 1952 to 2008, allowing In other words, fundamentals matter, university of California, San Diego them to see how outcomes take shape but only because of campaigns. Timely over the course of an election year. Polls and compelling, this book will force us Chicago Studies in American Politics from the beginning of the year, they to rethink our assumptions about presi- OcTOBER 216 p., 55 line drawings, show, have virtually no predictive power. dential elections. 27 tables 6 x 9 By mid-April, when the candidates have ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92214-0 Cloth $75.00x/£48.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92215-7 Robert S. Erikson is professor of political science at Columbia University and the author Paper $25.00s/£16.00 or coauthor of several books, including The Macro Polity. Christopher Wlezien is professor E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92216-4 of political science at Temple University and coauthor of Degrees of Democracy, among other books. POLITIcAL ScIENcE

Think Tanks in America “Thomas medvetz does us a huge service by analyzing the develop- ThomAS mEDvETZ ment of policy expertise, its shift- Over the past half-century, think tanks of public knowledge—universities, gov- ing institutional locations, and the have become fixtures of American ernment agencies, businesses, and the impact of both on academic social politics, supplying advice to presidents media—think tanks exert a tremendous science and public affairs. This is and policymakers, expert testimony on amount of influence on the way citizens an important book on an important Capitol Hill, and convenient facts and and lawmakers perceive the world, un- issue. figures to journalists and media spe- bound by the more clearly defined roles —Craig Calhoun, cialists. But what are think tanks? Who of those other institutions. In the pro- Director, London School funds them? And just how influential cess, they transform the government of of Economics and political Science have they become? this country, the press, and the political In Think Tanks in America, Thomas role of intellectuals. Timely, succinct, SEPTEmBER 296 p., 1 map, Medvetz argues that the unsettling am- and instructive, this provocative book 12 line drawings, 7 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-51729-2 biguity of the think tank is less an ac- will force us to rethink our understand- Cloth $32.50s/£21.00 cidental feature of its existence than ing of the drivers of political debate in E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-51730-8 the very key to its impact. By combining the United States. AmERIcAN HISTORY elements of more established sources POLITIcAL ScIENcE

Thomas medvetz is assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, San Diego.

special interest 29 “gabriel S. Lenz addresses the Follow the Leader? central question of how voters How Voters Respond to Politicians’ Policies and Performance make use of the information around gABRiEL S. LEnZ them to form evaluations of elected officials. Examining the impact of In a democracy, we have come to as- erences as a result of these events, he processes like priming and position sume that people know the policies explains that, while citizens do assess changing, Lenz argues that there are they prefer and elect like-minded offi- politicians based on their performance, also substantial effects working in cials who are responsible for carrying their policy positions actually matter them out. But does this actually hap- much less. Even when a policy issue the opposite direction—and that who pen? Do citizens consider candidates’ becomes highly prominent, people are voters support affects their views on policy positions when deciding whom often reluctant to shift their votes to the the issues. There is much to ponder they’ll vote for? And how do politicians’ politician whose position best agrees here for scholars interested in voter performances in office factor into the with their own. In fact, Lenz shows, the behavior and representation.” voting decision? reverse often takes place: citizens first —Thomas m. Carsey, In Follow the Leader?, Gabriel S. pick a politician and then adopt that university of north Carolina Lenz sheds light on these central ques- politician’s policy views. at Chapel hill tions surrounding democratic thought. Based on original data drawn from Lenz looks at citizens’ views on candi- multiple countries, Follow the Leader? is Chicago Studies in American Politics dates both before and after periods the most definitive treatment to date of OcTOBER 288 p., 2 halftones, of political upheaval, including cam- when and why policy and performance 64 line drawings, 25 tables 6 x 9 paigns, wars, natural disasters, and matter at the voting booth, and it will ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47213-3 episodes of economic boom and bust. break new ground in the debates about Cloth $90.00x/£58.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47214-0 Noting important shifts in voters’ pref- political campaigns. Paper $27.50s/£18.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47215-7 gabriel S. Lenz is assistant professor in the Charles and Louise Travers Department of POLITIcAL ScIENcE Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

“The best, most thorough, and most methodologically sophisticated treatment of the role of social networks in political behavior that i have ever read. Betsy Sinclair The Social Citizen shows just how strongly we are Peer Networks and Political Behavior influenced to express ourselves BETSy SinCLAiR politically by our family, neigh- bors, and friends. We are on the Human beings are social animals. Yet ticular candidate to declaring oneself a despite vast amounts of research into Democrat or Republican, basic political verge of a sea change in political political decision making, very little at- acts are surprisingly subject to social science, and this will be one of the tention has been devoted to its social pressures. When members of a social most important books we refer to dimensions. In political science, social network express a particular political when we describe what happened relationships are generally thought of opinion or belief, Sinclair shows, oth- to the discipline in the twenty-first as mere sources of information, rather ers notice and conform, particularly if century.” than active influences on one’s political their conformity is likely to be highly decisions. visible. —James h. Fowler, university of California, San Diego Drawing upon data from settings We are not just social animals, but as diverse as South Los Angeles and social citizens whose political choices Chicago Studies in American Politics Chicago’s wealthy North Shore, Betsy are significantly shaped by peer influ- Sinclair shows that social networks do ence. The Social Citizen has important NOvEmBER 200 p., 20 line drawings, not merely inform citizens’ behavior, implications for our concept of demo- 24 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92281-2 they can—and do—have the power to cratic participation and will force politi- Cloth $75.00x/£48.50 change it. From the decision to donate cal scientists to revise their notion of vot- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92282-9 money to a campaign or vote for a par- ers as socially isolated decision makers. Paper $25.00s/£16.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92283-6 Betsy Sinclair is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University POLITIcAL ScIENcE of Chicago.

30 special interest Learning While Governing “For the creativity of its design, the Expertise and Accountability in the Executive Branch importance of its subject mat- ter, and the depth of its analysis, SEAn gAiLmARD and John W. pATTy Learning While Governing is sure to make a splash in the discipline. Although their leaders and staff are on the job. Bureaucratic expertise, they not elected, bureaucratic agencies have argue, is a function of administrative Sean gailmard and John W. patty the power to make policy decisions that institutions and interactions with politi- dish up a rich array of insights into carry the full force of the law. In this cal authorities that collectively create the development of policy exper- groundbreaking book, Sean Gailmard an incentive for bureaucrats to develop tise within the executive branch. and John W. Patty explore an issue expertise. The challenge for elected of- most importantly, they show that central to political science and public ficials is therefore to provide agencies the development and transmittal of administration: How do Congress and with the autonomy to do so while mak- the president ensure that bureaucratic ing sure they do not stray significantly expertise is unavoidably haphaz- agencies implement their preferred from the administration’s course. To ard, as the institutional solutions policies? support this claim, the authors analyze to some problems of governance The assumption has long been that several types of information-manage- unavoidably exacerbate others.” bureaucrats bring to their positions ex- ment processes. —William g. howell, pertise, which must then be marshaled Learning While Governing speaks to university of Chicago to serve the interests of a particular an issue with direct bearing on power policy. In Learning While Governing, relations between Congress, the presi- Chicago Studies in American Gailmard and Patty overturn this con- dent, and the executive agencies, and it Politics ventional wisdom, showing instead will be a welcome addition to the litera- JANUARY 320 p., 4 line drawings, that much of what bureaucrats need to ture on bureaucratic development. 4 tables 6 x 9 know to perform effectively is learned ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92440-3 Cloth $90.00x/£58.00 Sean gailmard is the Judith E. Gruber Associate Professor in the Charles and Louise Travers ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92441-0 Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. John W. patty is Paper $30.00s/£19.50 associate professor of political science at Washington University in St. Louis. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92442-7 POLITIcAL ScIENcE

Institutional Foundations of Impersonal “Benito Arruñada has written an excellent and well-thought-out Exchange work that highlights the impor- Theory and Policy of Contractual Registries tance of legal rules—rather than BEniTo ARRuÑADA speculative stylized ideas about institutions—in understanding the Governments and development agen- sonal trade. Trading with strangers is true value of property rights and cies devote considerable resources to a route to growth, but inherent in the building institutions to protect proper- process are risks that can be mitigated the problems impeding real-world ty rights. When the owners of property by land and company registries, which reform. The book will find a ready feel that their claims are protected by enable both sides to protect their prop- audience among economists, law- law, they have greater incentive to invest erty rights. Tracing the development of yers, political scientists, and the in their property or use it as collateral. registries in developed and developing aid community.” Similarly, when entrepreneurs are able countries, Arruñada argues that, while —pablo T. Spiller, to easily formalize their activities, they no single institutional arrangement university of California, Berkeley benefit from gaining access to courts is appropriate across the board, there and transforming their firms into legal are general principles that may be ap- AUGUST 312 p., 10 line drawings, entities. Policies for protecting prop- plied to facilitate the protection of both 2 tables 6 x 9 erty rights have thus become an impor- private property and impersonal trade. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-02832-3 tant factor in economic growth. With its nuanced presentation of the Cloth $55.00s/£35.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-02835-4 Benito Arruñada broadens this theoretical and practical implications, EcONOmIcS POLITIcAL ScIENcE account through an examination of this book expands our understanding the costs and benefits of strong prop- of how property rights work in today’s erty rights within the context of imper- world.

Benito Arruñada is professor of business organization at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. special interest 31 “James L. gibson is an intellectual Electing Judges giant in the field of judicial politics, The Surprising Effects of Campaigning on Judicial Legitimacy and Electing Judges may be his most important contribution to JAmES L. giBSon date. This is a first-rate piece of In Electing Judges, leading judicial poli- he shows, they understand the process scholarship that speaks directly to tics scholar James L. Gibson responds of deciding cases to be an exercise in the central arguments in a highly to the growing chorus of critics who policymaking, rather than of simply contentious ongoing debate. For fear that the politics of running for of- applying laws to individual cases—and all interested in the judicial selec- fice undermine judicial independence. consequently think it’s important for tion process, gibson’s evidence While many people have opinions on candidates to reveal where they stand the topic, few have supported them with on important issues. Negative advertis- is powerful and simply cannot be actual empirical evidence. Gibson rec- ing also turns out to have a limited ef- ignored.” tifies this situation, offering the most fect on perceptions of judicial legitima- —Chris W. Bonneau, systematic and comprehensive study cy, though the same cannot be said for university of pittsburgh to date of the impact of campaigns on widely hated campaign contributions. public perceptions of fairness, impar- Taking both the good and bad Chicago Studies in American tiality, and the legitimacy of elected into consideration, Gibson argues that Politics state courts—and his findings are both elections are ultimately beneficial in OcTOBER 232 p., 1 halftone, counterintuitive and controversial. boosting the legitimacy of courts, de- 15 line drawings, 20 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-29107-9 Gibson finds that ordinary Ameri- spite the slight negative effects of some Cloth $85.00x/£55.00 cans do not conclude from campaign campaign activities. Electing Judges will ISBN-13: 978-0-226-29108-6 promises that judges are incapable of initiate a lively debate inside both the Paper $27.50s/£18.00 making impartial decisions. Instead, halls of justice and the academy. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-29110-9 POLITIcAL ScIENcE James L. gibson is the Sidney W. Souers Professor of Government at Washington University in St. Louis and Professor Extraordinary in Political Science at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. He is the author or coauthor of eight books, including Citizens, Courts, and Confirmations. “Evelyne huber and John D. Stephens have provided the most theoretically profound, empirically thorough, and Democracy and the Left wide-ranging work that advances Social Policy and Inequality in Latin America the more optimistic view that de- EvELynE huBER and John D. STEphEnS mocracy itself plays a crucial role in stimulating redistribution in Although inequality in Latin America change, it is by no means the only fac- Latin America and that the political ranks among the worst in the world, it tor. Huber and Stephens present quan- left is the most important agent in has notably declined over the last de- titative analyses of eighteen countries effecting this change. Democracy cade, offset by improvements in health and comparative historical analyses of care and education, enhanced pro- the five most advanced social policy re- and the Left is an important, major grams for social assistance, and increases gimes in Latin America, showing how book that advances a powerful argu- in the minimum wage. international power structures have ment about a significant topic and In Democracy and the Left, Evelyne influenced the direction of their social substantiates it with an impressive Huber and John D. Stephens argue policy. They augment these analyses by range of research.” that the resurgence of democracy in comparing them to the development —Kurt Weyland, Latin America is key to this change. of social policy in democratic Portugal university of Texas In addition to directly affecting public and Spain. policy, democratic institutions enable The most ambitious examination AUGUST 336 p., 12 figures, 36 tables left-leaning political parties to emerge, of the development of social policy in 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-35652-5 significantly influencing the allocation Latin America to date, Democracy and the Cloth $85.00x/£55.00 of social spending on poverty and in- Left shows that inequality is far from in- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-35653-2 Paper $27.50s/£18.00 equality. But while democracy is an im- tractable—a finding with crucial policy E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-35655-6 portant determinant of redistributive implications worldwide.

POLITIcAL ScIENcE Evelyne huber is the Morehead Alumni Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where John D. Stephens is the Gerhard E. Lenski, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology. Together, they are the authors of Development and Crisis of the Welfare State. 32 special interest Influences Art, Optics, and Astrology in the Italian Renaissance mARy quinLAn-mcgRATh

Today few would think of astronomy Pontefici, to the Villa Farnesina, these and astrology as fields related to theol- great works were commissioned to se- TAIL OF CRATER ogy. Fewer still would know that physi- lectively capture and then transmit ce- e

cally absorbing planetary rays was once lestial radiation, influencing the bodies LT, D u considered to have medical and psy- and minds of their audiences. Quinlan- IGI VA

chological effects. But this was the un- McGrath examines the sophisticated Ch derstanding of light radiation held by logic behind these theories and prac- certain natural philosophers of early tices and, along the way, sheds light on DEcEmBER 304 p., 14 color plates, 12 halftones, 14 line drawings 6 x 9 modern Europe, and that, argues Mary early creation theory; the relationship ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92284-3 Quinlan-McGrath, was why educated between astrology and natural theol- Cloth $35.00s/£22.50 people of the Renaissance commis- ogy; and the protochemistry, physics, E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92285-0 sioned artworks centered on astrologi- and mathematics of rays. ART ScIENcE cal themes and practices. An original and intellectually Some permissions will Influences is the first book to reveal stimulating study, Influences adds a new need to be cleared for a how important Renaissance artworks dimension to the understanding of aes- translated edition. were designed to be not only beauti- thetics among Renaissance patrons and ful but also—perhaps even primar- a new meaning to the seductive powers ily—functional. From the fresco cycles of art. at Caprarola, to the Vatican’s Sala dei

mary quinlan-mcgrath is associate professor of art history at Northern Illinois University.

“in his bold and thought-provoking new book, geoffrey m. hodgson ex- poses the deficiencies in ‘method- ological individualism’ and shows From Pleasure Machines to Moral how the neoclassical model of Communities human nature is a crude caricature An Evolutionary Economics without Homo economicus when it comes to dealing with the gEoFFREy m. hoDgSon emergent dynamics of collective phenomena. in doing so, he pro- Are humans at their core seekers of cent insights from research on the evo- vides much-needed clarification for their own pleasure or cooperative mem- lutionary bases of human behavior. He an often muddy economic debate.” bers of society? Paradoxically, they are focuses his attention on the evolution both. Pleasure seeking can take place of morality, its meaning, why it came —peter Corning, institute for the Study of only within the context of what works about, and how it influences human Complex Systems and the author within a defined community, and cen- attitudes and behavior. This more nu- of The Fair Society tral to any community are the evolved anced understanding sets the stage for codes and principles guiding appropri- a fascinating investigation of its implica- DEcEmBER 320 p., 2 line drawings, ate behavior or morality. The complex tions for a range of pressing issues drawn 2 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92271-3 interaction of morality and self-interest from diverse environments, including Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 is at the heart of Geoffrey M. Hodgson’s the business world and crucial policy E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92273-7 approach to evolutionary economics, realms like health care and ecology. EcONOmIcS which is designed to bring about a bet- This book provides a valuable ter understanding of human behavior. complement to Hodgson’s earlier work In From Pleasure Machines to Moral with Thorbjørn Knudsen on evolution- Communities, Hodgson casts a critical ary economics in Darwin’s Conjecture, eye on neoclassical individualism, its extending the evolutionary outlook to foundations and flaws, and turns to re- include moral and policy-related issues.

geoffrey m. hodgson is research professor at the University of Hertfordshire Business School, England, and the author or coauthor of over a dozen books, including The Evolu- tion of Institutional Economics and Darwin’s Conjecture. special interest 33 “Daniel p. Aldrich has drawn the Building Resilience lens back from the single event to Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery reveal patterns of resilience—and DAniEL p. ALDRiCh roadblocks to recovery—in four different post-disaster contexts. Each year, natural disasters threaten earthquake, Kobe after the 1995 earth- Building Resilience offers a novel the strength and stability of commu- quake, Tamil Nadu after the 2004 In- and compelling look at the darker nities worldwide. Yet responses to the dian Ocean tsunami, and New Orleans side of social capital as it relates to challenges of recovery vary greatly and post-Katrina—and finds that those with in ways that aren’t always explained by robust social networks were better able post-disaster recovery.” the magnitude of the catastrophe or to coordinate recovery. In addition to —Emily Chamlee-Wright, Beloit College the amount of aid provided by national quickly disseminating information and governments or the international com- assistance, communities with an abun- munity. The difference between resil- dance of social capital were able to SEPTEmBER 256 p., 20 line drawings, 18 tables 6 x 9 ience and disrepair, Daniel P. Aldrich minimize the migration of people and ISBN-13: 978-0-226-01287-2 shows, lies in the depth of communi- resources out of the area. Cloth $80.00x/£51.50 ties’ social capital. With governments increasingly ISBN-13: 978-0-226-01288-9 Paper $27.50s/£18.00 Building Resilience highlights the overstretched and natural disasters E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-01289-6 critical role of social capital in the abil- likely to increase in frequency and in- POLITIcAL ScIENcE SOcIOLOGY ity of a community to withstand disas- tensity, an understanding of what con- ter and rebuild the infrastructure and tributes to efficient reconstruction is ties that are at the foundation of any more important than ever. Building community. Aldrich examines the post- Resilience underscores a critical compo- disaster responses of four distinct com- nent of an effective response. munities—Tokyo following the 1923

Daniel p. Aldrich is associate professor of political science at Purdue University. He is the author of Site Fights: Divisive Facilities and Civil Society in Japan and the West.

“As the united States faces both Birth of Hegemony military and economic challenges Crisis, Financial Revolution, and Emerging Global Networks to its international status, Birth of AnDREW C. SoBEL Hegemony speaks to important and timely debates. Drawing on the in- With American leadership facing in- exchange. Through this, the hegemon creased competition from China and helps maintain stability and limits the sights of political science, history, India, the question of how hegemons risk to productive international interac- finance, and economics, Andrew C. emerge—and are able to create condi- tions. However, prudent planning can Sobel provides a masterly critique tions for lasting stability—is of utmost account for only part of a hegemon’s of existing hegemonic theories, importance in international relations. ability to provide public goods, while extending our understanding of how The generally accepted wisdom is that some of the necessary conditions must states develop into international liberal superpowers, with economies be developed simply through processes based on capitalist principles, are best of economic growth and political devel- leaders and how they stabilize the able to develop systems conducive to opment. Sobel supports these claims by global system.” the health of the global economy. examining the economic trajectories —William T. Bernhard, In Birth of Hegemony, Andrew C. So- that led to the successive leadership of university of illinois at urbana-Champaign bel draws attention to the critical role the Netherlands, Britain, and the Unit- played by finance in the emergence of ed States.

AUGUST 224 p., 1 line drawing, these liberal hegemons. He argues that Stability in international affairs 4 tables 6 x 9 a hegemon must have both the capac- has long been a topic of great interest ISBN-13: 978-0-226-76759-8 ity and the willingness to bear a dispro- to our understanding of global politics, Cloth $90.00x/£58.00 portionate share of the cost of provid- and Sobel’s account sets the stage for a ISBN-13: 978-0-226-76760-4 Paper $30.00s/£19.50 ing key collective goods that are the consideration of recent developments E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-76761-1 basis of international cooperation and affecting the United States. POLITIcAL ScIENcE EcONOmIcS Andrew C. Sobel is a political scientist in the International and Area Studies program at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of several books, including Political Economy and Global Affairs. 34 special interest miChELE LAnDiS DAuBER The Sympathetic State Disaster Relief and the Origins of the American Welfare State

ven as unemployment rates soared during the Great Depres- sion, FDR’s relief and social security programs faced attacks Ein Congress and the courts on the legitimacy of federal aid to the growing population of poor. In response, New Dealers pointed to a long tradition—dating back to 1790 and now largely forgotten—of federal aid to victims of disaster. In The Sympathetic State, Michele Lan- dis Dauber recovers this crucial aspect of American history, tracing the “A marvelous, deeply researched history roots of the modern American welfare state beyond the New Deal and of the largely forgotten role of federal di- the Progressive Era back to the earliest days of the republic when relief saster relief in the historical development was forthcoming for the victims of wars, fires, floods, hurricanes, and of the American welfare state. michele earthquakes. Landis Dauber shows very creatively how Drawing on a variety of materials, including newspapers, legal the great Depression came to be under- briefs, political speeches, art and literature of the time, and letters stood as a single, monolithic event—as a from thousands of ordinary Americans, Dauber shows that while this disaster—that justified new and expan- long history of government disaster relief has faded from our memory sive forms of relief. political scientists today, it was extremely well-known to advocates of an expanded role and historians will have to contend with for the national government in the 1930s. Making this connection her central argument: that the new Deal required framing the Great Depression as a disaster afflicting citizens was less the product of a ‘constitutional through no fault of their own. Dauber argues that the disaster para- revolution’ than ordinary lawyering from digm, though successful in defending the New Deal, would ultimately long-settled precedents.” come back to haunt advocates for social welfare. By not making a more —michael Willrich, author of Pox: An American History radical case for relief, proponents of the New Deal helped create the weak, uniquely American welfare state we have today—one torn be- DEcEmBER 352 p., 23 halftones, tween the desire to come to the aid of those suffering and the deeply 1 line drawing, 13 tables 6 x 9 rooted suspicion that those in need are responsible for their own ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92348-2 Cloth $75.00x/£48.50 deprivation. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92349-9 Paper $25.00s/£16.00 Contrary to conventional thought, the history of federal disaster E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92350-5 AmERIcAN HISTORY relief is one of remarkable consistency, despite significant political and ideological change. Dauber’s pathbreaking and highly readable book uncovers the historical origins of the modern American welfare state. michele Landis Dauber is professor of law and (by courtesy) sociology, as well as the Bernard D. Bergreen Faculty Scholar at Stanford University. special interest 35 “Derek S. hoff has taken an impor- The State and the Stork tant, complicated topic and traced The Population Debate and Policy Making in US History it over the whole of American his- DEREK S. hoFF tory. The research on display here

is striking in its breadth and depth, From the colonial era to the present, 1960s and the continuing emergence hoff’s insights are penetrating, and the ever-shifting debate about Ameri- of the aging crisis, the debate has of- his interpretation is original. The ca’s almost uninterrupted population ten been about much more than race State and the Stork is a solid piece growth has exerted a profound influ- or resource exhaustion. In The State of scholarship.” ence on the evolution of politics, public and the Stork, Derek S. Hoff draws on policy, and economic thinking in the his extraordinary knowledge of the —Robert Collins, university of missouri United States. In a remarkable shift intersections of population debates since the 1970s, Americans have cel- and economics throughout American SEPTEmBER 368 p. 6 x 9 ebrated the economic virtues of popu- history to explain the many surprising ISBN-13: 978-0-226-34762-2 lation growth—but as one of the only ways that population ideas and anxiet- Cloth $49.00s/£31.50 wealthy countries experiencing signifi- ies have provoked a wide range of poli- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-34765-3 cant growth in the twenty-first century, cies, connecting demographic debates AmERIcAN HISTORY POLITIcAL ScIENcE the United States now finds itself at a and economics to unexpected policies crossroads with policymakers unwilling and political developments—including or unable to address the future. the recent conservative revival. At once From the founders’ fears that a fascinating history and a revelatory crowded cities would produce corrup- look at the national conversation, The tion, luxury, and vice to the zero pop- State and the Stork could not be timelier. ulation growth movement of the late

Derek S. hoff is associate professor of history at Kansas State University.

“With astute attention to the paral- Brown in the Windy City lel trajectories and overlapping Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago nature of mexican Americans’ LiLiA FERnÁnDEZ and puerto Ricans’ histories, Lilia

Fernández paints a rich portrait of Like other industrial cities in the post- tions arrived in Chicago in the midst neighborhood life, moving beyond war period, Chicago underwent the of tremendous social and economic broad strokes and the white-black dramatic population shifts that radi- change and, in the midst of declin- racial binary. Told with detail, sub- cally changed the complexion of the ing industrial employment and mas- stance, and nuance, Brown in the urban north. As African American sive urban renewal projects, managed populations grew and white commu- to carve out a geographic and racial Windy City is an important story nities declined throughout the 1960s place in one of America’s great cities. that is likely to become a founda- and ’70s, Mexicans and Puerto Ricans Over the course of these three de- tional book.” migrated to the city, adding a complex cades, through their experiences in the —Carmen Teresa Whalen, layer to local racial dynamics. city’s central neighborhoods, Fernán- author of From Puerto Rico to Brown in the Windy City is the first dez demonstrates how Mexicans and Philadelphia: Puerto Rican Workers Puerto Ricans collectively articulated and Postwar Economies history to examine the migration and settlement of Mexicans and Puerto a distinct racial position in Chicago, Ricans in the postwar era. Here, Lilia one that was flexible and fluid, neither Historical Studies of Urban America Fernández reveals how the two popula- black nor white. NOvEmBER 384 p., 18 halftones, 9 maps, 13 tables 6 x 9 Lilia Fernández is assistant professor in the Department of History at Ohio State University. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-24425-9 Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-24428-0 AmERIcAN HISTORY

36 special interest History’s Babel “in this impressively researched study, Robert B. Townsend conveys Scholarship, Professionalization, and the Historical Enterprise the intellectual energy and the in the United States, 1880–1940 distinctly American unified vision RoBERT B. ToWnSEnD among particular historians of the From the late nineteenth century un- Association and a multitude of other time who sought a professional til World War II, competing spheres sources, Townsend traces the slow frag- identity for the historical enter- of professional identity and practice mentation of the field from 1880 to the prise. This is an important study of redrew the field of history, establish- divisions of the 1940s manifest today the evolution of the infrastructure ing fundamental differences between in the diverse professions of academia, of the intellectual life of the nation.” the roles of university historians, archi- teaching, and public history. By reveal- —Francis x. Blouin, Jr., vists, staff at historical societies, history ing how the founders of the contempo- university of michigan, Ann Arbor teachers, and others. rary historical enterprise envisioned

In History’s Babel, Robert B. the future of the discipline, he offers JANUARY 256 p., 15 line drawings 6 x 9 Townsend takes us from the beginning insight into our own historical moment ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92392-5 of this professional shift—when the and the way the discipline has adapted Cloth $90.00x/£58.00 work of history included not just origi- and changed over time. Townsend’s ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92393-2 Paper $30.00s/£19.50 nal research, but also teaching and the work will be of interest not only to his- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92394-9 torians but to all who care about how gathering of historical materials—to a HISTORY EDUcATION state of microprofessionalization that the professions of history emerged, how continues to define the field today. they might go forward, and the public Drawing on extensive research among role they still can play. the records of the American Historical

Robert B. Townsend is the deputy director of the American Historical Association, where he has worked for more than twenty years.

“Let the debates begin! Drawing on an astonishing panoply of sources, The Making of Romantic Love from European courtly and trouba- Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, dour literature to heian Japanese 900–1200 CE poetry, from canon law to puri WiLLiAm m. REDDy temple dancing, William m. Reddy’s important new book challenges our In the twelfth century, the Catholic regulate selfish desire and render it in- basic assumptions about eroticism, Church attempted a thoroughgoing nocent—or innocent enough. Reddy heroism, the nature of marriages, reform of marriage and sexual behav- strikes out from this historical moment and the legacy of the middle Ages ior aimed at eradicating sexual desire on an international exploration of from Christian lives. Seeking a refuge love, contrasting the medieval develop- in modern culture. Reading this from the very serious condemnations ment of romantic love in Europe with impressive study will leave you a of the Church and relying on a courtly contemporaneous eastern traditions different person.” culture that was already preoccupied in Bengal and Orissa, and in Heian Ja- —Barbara h. Rosenwein, with honor and secrecy, European po- pan from 900 to 1200 CE, where one Loyola university Chicago ets, romance writers, and lovers devised finds no trace of an opposition between a vision of love as something quite dif- love and desire. In this comparative Chicago Studies in Practices of ferent from desire. Romantic love was framework, Reddy tells an appealing Meaning thus born as a movement of covert re- tale about the rise and fall of various AUGUST 432 p. 6 x 9 sistance. practices of longing, underscoring the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-70626-9 In The Making of Romantic Love, Wil- uniqueness of the European concept of Cloth $95.00x/£61.50 liam M. Reddy illuminates the birth of sexual desire. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-70627-6 Paper $35.00s/£22.50 a cultural movement that managed to E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-70628-3 William m. Reddy is the William T. Laprade Professor of History and professor of cultural HISTORY anthropology at Duke University. He is the author of a number of historical works, includ- ing The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for the History of Emotions.

special interest 37 Walter Ralegh’s History of the World and the Historical Culture of the Late Renaissance niChoLAS poppER

Imprisoned in the Tower of London heightened value to the study of the after the death of Queen Elizabeth past and how scholars and statesmen in 1603, Sir Walter Ralegh spent the began to see historical expertise as not next seven years producing his mas- just a foundation for political practice sive History of the World. Created with and theory, but a means of advancing the aid of a library of more than five their power in the courts and councils hundred books he was allowed to keep of contemporary Europe. The rise of in his quarters, this incredible work of historical scholarship during this pe- English vernacular would become a riod encouraged the circulation of its best-seller, with nearly twenty editions, methods to other disciplines, trans- abridgments, and continuations issued forming Europe’s intellectual—and

ImAGe COurTeSY OF The SPeCIAL COLLeCTIONS reSeArCh CeNTer, Swem ImAGe COurTeSY COLLeGe OF wILLIAm AND mArY LIbrArY, in the years that followed. political—regimes. More than a mere Nicholas Popper uses Ralegh’s study of Ralegh’s book, Popper’s book DEcEmBER 368 p., 18 halftones 6 x 9 History as a touchstone in this lively ex- reveals how the methods historians de- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-67500-8 Cloth $55.00s/£35.50 ploration of the culture of history writ- vised to illuminate the past structured E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-67502-2 ing and historical thinking in the late the dynamics of early modernity in Eu- EUROPEAN HISTORY Renaissance. From Popper we learn rope and England. why early modern Europeans ascribed

nicholas popper is assistant professor in the Department of History at the College of William and Mary.

“Jan L. Logemann provides an Trams or Tailfins? outstanding contribution to the Public and Private Prosperity in Postwar West Germany history of consumption that will and the United States be an important read for scholars JAn L. LogEmAnn of European and American history. Trams or Tailfins? is an excellent In the years that followed World War II, of these economic superpowers in the model for how consumer history both the United States and the newly second half of the twentieth century. can be embedded within the his- formed West German republic had an While Americans splurged on private tory of public policy.” opportunity to remake their econo- cars and bought goods on credit in —Katherine pence, mies. Since then, much has been made suburban shopping malls, Germans Baruch College, of the supposed “Americanization” of rebuilt public transit and developed City university of new york European consumer societies—in Ger- pedestrian shopping streets in their many and elsewhere. Arguing against city centers—choices that continue to OcTOBER 352 p., 12 halftones, these foggy notions, Jan L. Logemann shape the quality and character of life 1 figure, 8 tables 6 x 9 decades later. Outlining the abundant ISBN-13: 978-0-226-49149-3 takes a comparative look at the devel- Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 opment of postwar mass consumption differences in the structures of con- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-49152-3 in West Germany and the United States sumer society, consumer habits, and HISTORY and the emergence of discrete consum- the role of public consumption in these er modernities. countries, Logemann reveals the many In Trams or Tailfins?, Logemann subtle ways that the spheres of govern- explains how the decisions made at ment, society, and physical space define this crucial time helped to define both how we live.

Jan L. Logemann is the editor of The Development of Consumer Credit in Global Perspective. A research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC, he is also the direc- tor of their Transatlantic Perspectives project. 38 special interest Document Raj “Document Raj is an outstanding book. Bhavani Raman explores, Writing and Scribes in Early Colonial South India with depth and insight, the ‘small’ BhAvAni RAmAn world of the Tamil cutcherry in the early nineteenth century. how- Historians of British colonial rule in however, that the sheer volume of their India have noted both the place of mili- document production allowed colonial ever, by so doing, she opens up tary might and the imposition of new managers to subtly but substantively large questions about the colonial cultural categories in the making of manipulate records for their own ends, encounter in india, the transforma- Empire, but Bhavani Raman, in Docu- increasingly drawing the real and the tion of knowledge and learning, ment Raj, uncovers a lesser-known story recorded further apart. While this ad- and the nature of the bureaucratic of power: the power of bureaucracy. ministrative sleight of hand increased state. The result is a major contri- Drawing on extensive archival research the company’s reach and power within in the files of the East India Company’s the Empire, it also bolstered profound- bution that establishes a paradigm administrative offices in Madras, she ly new orientations to language, writ- around which scholarly discussions tells the story of a bureaucracy gone ing, memory, and pedagogy for the offi- are likely to take place for years to awry in a fever of documentation prac- cers and Indian subordinates involved. come.” tices that grew ever more abstract—and Immersed in a subterranean world of —David Washbrook, the power, both economic and cultural, delinquent scribes, translators, village Trinity College, university this created. accountants, and entrepreneurial fix- of Cambridge In order to assert its legitimacy ers, Document Raj maps the shifting and value within the British Empire, boundaries of the legible and illegible, South Asia Across the Disciplines the legal and illegitimate, that would the East India Company was diligent OcTOBER 296 p., 6 halftones, 2 tables about record keeping. Raman shows, usher India into the modern world. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-70327-5 Bhavani Raman is assistant professor of South Asian history at Princeton University. Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-70329-9 HISTORY ASIAN STUDIES Mastering Iron IND SA The Struggle to Modernize an American Industry, 1800–1868 AnnE KELLy KnoWLES

Veins of iron run deep in the history Knowles reconstructs the American of America. Iron making began almost iron industry in unprecedented depth, as soon as European settlement, with from locating hundreds of iron compa- the establishment of the first ironworks nies in their social and environmental in colonial Massachusetts. Yet it was contexts to explaining workplace cul- Great Britain that became the Atlan- ture and social relations between work- tic world’s dominant low-cost, high- ers and managers. She demonstrates volume producer of iron, a position it how ironworks in Alabama, Maryland, retained throughout the nineteenth Pennsylvania, and Virginia struggled century. It was not until after the Civil to replicate British technologies but, War that American iron producers be- in the attempt, brought about changes gan to match the scale and efficiency of in the American industry that set the the British iron industry. stage for the subsequent age of steel.

In Mastering Iron, Anne Kelly Richly illustrated with dozens of John ferguson Weir, 1864–66 by The Gun Foundry society) historicaL (PutnaM county Knowles argues that the prolonged original maps and period art work, all development of the American iron in- in full color, Mastering Iron sheds new DEcEmBER 336 p., 66 color plates, 10 halftones, 2 line drawings, 8 tables dustry was largely due to geographical light on American ambitions and high- 7 x 10 problems the British did not face. Pair- lights the challenges a young nation ISBN-13: 978-0-226-44859-6 Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 ing exhaustive manuscript research faced as it grappled with its geographic E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-44861-9 with analysis of a detailed geospatial conditions. AmERIcAN HISTORY database that she built of the industry, No Tamil language rights. Anne Kelly Knowles is a historical geographer who teaches at Middlebury College. She is the author of Calvinists Incorporated: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio’s Industrial Frontier, also published by the University of Chicago Press, and the editor of Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS Are Changing Historical Scholarship. special interest 39 Ancient Perspectives Maps and Their Place in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome Edited by RiChARD J. A. TALBERT

Ancient Perspectives encompasses a vast his Greek predecessors at Alexandria. arc of space and time—Western Asia The remarkable accuracy of Mesopo- to North Africa and Europe from the tamian city plans is revealed, as is the third millennium BCE to the fifth cen- creation of maps by Romans to support The Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., tury CE—to explore mapmaking and the proud claim that their emperor’s Lectures in the History of worldviews in the ancient civilizations rule was global in its reach. By probing Cartography of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and the instruments and techniques of both

NOvEmBER 272 p., 9 color plates, Rome. In each society, maps served as Greek and Roman surveyors, one chap- 82 halftones, 34 line drawings, critical economic, political, and person- ter seeks to uncover how their extraor- 2 tables 7 x 10 al tools, but there was little consistency dinary planning of roads, aqueducts, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-78937-8 in how and why they were made. Much and tunnels was achieved. Cloth $65.00s/£42.00 like today, maps in antiquity meant very Even though none of these civili- HISTORY different things to different people. zations devised the means to measure Ancient Perspectives presents an am- time or distance with precision, they bitious, fresh overview of cartography still conceptualized their surround- and its uses. The seven chapters range ings, natural and man-made, near and from broad-based analyses of mapping far, and felt the urge to record them by in Mesopotamia and Egypt to a close inventive means that this absorbing vol- focus on Ptolemy’s ideas for drawing ume reinterprets and compares. a world map based on the theories of

Richard J. A. Talbert is the William Rand Kenan, Jr., Professor of History and Classics and the founder of the Ancient World Mapping Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World and Rome’s World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered.

The Charleston Orphan House YOuTh Children’s Lives in the First Public Orphanage in America OLINA John E. muRRAy The CAr er NT

OF The first public orphanage in America, who did. Through their letters and pe- SY Ce the Charleston Orphan House saw to titions, the book follows the families Te NT ur me the welfare and education of thousands from the events and decisions that led LOP e CO of children from poor white families in them to the Charleston Orphan House Ve AG Im De the urban South. From wealthy bene- through the children’s time spent there factors to the families who sought its as- to, in a few cases, their later adult lives. Markets and Governments in sistance to the artisans and merchants What these accounts reveal are fami- Economic History who relied on its charges as appren- lies struggling to maintain ties after tices, the Orphan House was a critical catastrophic loss and to preserve bonds FEBRUARY 272 p., 13 halftones, 5 tables 6 x 9 component of the city’s social fabric. By with children who no longer lived un- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92409-0 bringing together white citizens from der their roofs. Cloth $30.00s/£19.50 all levels of society, it also played a pow- An intimate glimpse into the lives E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92410-6 erful political role in maintaining the of the white poor in early American AmERIcAN HISTORY prevailing social order. history, The Charleston Orphan House is John E. Murray tells the story of moreover an illuminating look at social the Charleston Orphan House for the welfare provision in the antebellum first time through the words of those South. who lived there or had family members John E. murray is the J. R. Hyde III Professor of Political Economy at Rhodes College and 40 special interest the author of Origins of American Health Insurance. The Sex Education Debates “The Sex Education Debates is a comprehensive analysis of uS sex nAnCy KEnDALL education debates, policies, and Educating children and adolescents the sex education wars, and she illu- classroom practice. With incisive in public schools about sex is a deeply minates the unintended consequences readings of the field data, nancy inflammatory act in the United States. these protracted battles have, especially Kendall offers a rigorous engage- Since the 1980s, intense political and on teachers and students. Showing that ment with issues of structural cultural battles have been waged be- the lessons that most students, teach- and other social inequalities. her tween believers in abstinence until mar- ers, and parents take away from these riage and advocates for comprehensive battles are antithetical to the long-term analysis makes a significant contri- sex education. In The Sex Education De- health of American democracy, she bution.” bates, Nancy Kendall upends conven- argues for shifting the measure of sex —Jessica Fields, tional thinking about these battles by education success away from pregnancy San Francisco State university bringing the school and community re- and sexually transmitted infection alities of sex education to life through rates. Instead, she argues, the debates DEcEmBER 288 p., 6 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92227-0 the diverse voices of students, teachers, should focus on a broader set of social Cloth $90.00x/£58.00 administrators, and activists. and democratic consequences, such as ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92228-7 Drawing on ethnographic research what students learn about themselves as Paper $30.00s/£19.50 in five states, Kendall reveals important sexual beings and civic actors, and how E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92229-4 differences and surprising commonali- sex education programming affects EDUcATION ties shared by purported antagonists in school-community relations.

nancy Kendall is assistant professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

“Gendered Paradoxes explores schools as sites for competing Gendered Paradoxes visions, expectations, dreams, and Educating Jordanian Women in Nation, Faith, and Progress aspirations related to the mean- FiDA J. ADELy ing of womanhood, marriage, love, respectability, and morality. Fida In 2005 the World Bank released a gen- Through the lives of these stu- J. Adely forcefully takes us beyond der assessment of the nation of Jordan, dents, Adely explores the critical is- the view of the Arab woman as a a country that, like many in the Middle sues young people in Jordan grapple ‘passive’ and ‘oppressed’ victim, East, has undergone dramatic social with today: nationalism and national sharing with us the words and and gender transformations, in part identity, faith and the requisites of pi- by encouraging equal access to educa- ous living, appropriate and respectable experiences of a strong and vibrant tion for men and women. The resulting gender roles, and progress. In the pro- group of young women who are demographic picture there—highly cess she shows the important place of actively working with and against educated women who still largely stay education in Jordan, one less tied to contradictory and ambiguous at home as mothers and caregivers— the economic ends of labor and em- norms that define notions of suc- prompted the World Bank to label Jor- ployment that are so emphasized by the cess, respectability, progress, and dan a “gender paradox.” In Gendered rest of the developed world. In showcas- Paradoxes, Fida J. Adely shows that as- ing alternative values and the highly happiness.” sessment to be a fallacy, taking readers capable young women who hold them, —Farha ghannam, into the rarely seen halls of a Jordanian Adely raises fundamental questions Swarthmore College public school—the al-Khatwa High about what constitutes development, SEPTEmBER 240 p. 6 x 9 School for Girls—and revealing the progress, and empowerment—not just ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00690-1 dynamic lives of its students, for whom for Jordanians, but for the whole world. Cloth $75.00x/£48.50 such trends are far from paradoxical. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00691-8 Paper $25.00s/£16.00 Fida J. Adely is assistant professor and the Clovis and Hala Salaam Maksoud Chair in Arab E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00692-5 Studies at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies in the School of Foreign Service at EDUcATION ANTHROPOLOGY Georgetown University.

special interest 41 “Solving Problems in Technical Com- Solving Problems in Technical munication is excellent, sound, and credible. Every chapter is engag- Communication ing, easy to follow, and accurate, Edited by JohnDAn JohnSon-EiLoLA and STuART A. SELBER which doesn’t surprise me given The field of technical communication dia, and other areas that determine the editors and contributors—all is rapidly expanding in both the aca- the boundaries of the discipline. The are distinguished leaders with long demic world and the private sector, yet book is structured in four parts, offer- vitas chronicling the major conver- a problematic divide remains between ing an overview of the field, situating sations in the field.” theory and practice. Here Johndan it historically and culturally, reviewing —Tracy Bridgeford, Johnson-Eilola and Stuart A. Selber, various theoretical approaches to tech- university of nebraska at omaha both respected scholars and teachers nical communication, and examining of technical communication, effectively how the field can be advanced by draw- DEcEmBER 512 p., 53 line drawings, bridge that gap. ing on diverse perspectives. Timely, in- 9 tables 6 x 9 Solving Problems in Technical Com- formed, and practical, Solving Problems ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92406-9 Cloth $110.00x/£71.00 munication collects the latest research in Technical Communication will be an ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92407-6 and theory in the field and applies it essential tool for undergraduates and Paper $40.00x/£26.00 to real-world problems faced by prac- graduate students as they begin the E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92408-3 titioners—problems involving ethics, transition from classroom to career. REFERENcE intercultural communication, new me-

Johndan Johnson-Eilola is professor of communication and media at Clarkson University. He is the author of Datacloud, coauthor of Writing New Media, and coeditor, with Stuart A. Selber, of Central Works in Technical Communication. Stuart A. Selber is associate professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Multiliteracies for a Digital Age and the editor of Rhetorics and Technologies and Computers and Technical Communication.

“With this book, philippa J. Benson and Susan C. Silver have provided a guide to the art of preparing and What Editors Want submitting scientific manuscripts. An Author’s Guide to Scientific Journal Publishing But they have done much more than phiLippA J. BEnSon and SuSAn C. SiLvER that: they have placed their manual Research publications have always been Benson and Silver instruct read- in the wider context of the need for key to building a successful career in ers on how to identify the journals that science to be communicated to the science, yet little if any formal guidance are most likely to publish a given paper, public. i shall certainly be recom- is offered to young scientists on how to how to write an effective cover letter, mending What Editors Want to get research papers peer reviewed, ac- how to avoid common pitfalls of the authors, particularly those at an cepted, and published by leading scien- submission process, and how to effec- tific journals. WithWhat Editors Want, tively navigate the all-important peer early point in their career. And as Philippa J. Benson and Susan C. Silver, review process, including dealing with an editor, i shall even use this book two well-respected editors from the sci- revisions and rejection. With supple- to remind myself what i want.” ence publishing community, remedy mental advice from more than a dozen —Andrew Sugden, that situation with a clear, straightfor- experts, this book will equip scientists deputy editor, Science ward guide that will be of use to all sci- with the knowledge they need to usher entists. their papers through publication. Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing philippa J. Benson is director of education and author services for the Charlesworth Group, NOvEmBER 176 p., 14 halftones, an international organization that supports publishers. Susan C. Silver is editor in chief of 3 line drawings, 3 figures, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, published by the Ecological Society of America. 4 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04313-5 Cloth $55.00x/£35.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04314-2 Paper $20.00s/£13.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04315-9 REFERENcE ScIENcE

42 special interest BoB gLuCK You’ll Know When You Get There Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi Band

s the 1960s ended, Herbie Hancock embarked on a grand creative experiment. Having just been dismissed from the A celebrated Miles Davis Quintet, he brought a new group of musicians together into what would become a revolutionary band. Taking the Swahili name Mwandishi, the group would go on to play some of the most innovative music of the 1970s, fusing an assortment of musical genres, American and African cultures, and acoustic and “You’ll Know When You Get There fills an electronic sounds into groundbreaking experiments that helped shape important gap in jazz scholarship. in fact, the American popular music that followed. In You’ll Know When You Get the thin body of literature on a jazz figure There, Bob Gluck offers the first comprehensive study of this seminal as imposing as herbie hancock makes this group, mapping the musical, technological, political, and cultural book a matter of some urgency. Filled with changes that they not only lived in, but effected. meaty stuff, good quotes, and insightful conclusions, Bob gluck’s book is a sub- Beginning with Hancock’s formative years as a sideman in bebop stantial and needed look at an important and hard bop ensembles, his work with Miles Davis, and the early era of American music.” recordings under his own name, Gluck uncovers the many ingredients —Steven F. pond, that would come to form the Mwandishi sound. He offers an extensive Cornell university series of interviews with Hancock, other band members, the producer and engineer who worked with them, and a catalog of well-known AUGUST 272 p., 10 halftones, musicians who were profoundly influenced by the group. Paying close 22 line drawings 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30004-7 attention to Mwandishi’s compositions, he analyzes a wide array of Cloth $37.50s/£24.00 recordings—many little known—and examines the group’s instrumen- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30006-1 mUSIc tation, their pioneering use of electronics, and their transformation of the studio into a compositional tool. From protofunk rhythms to syn- thesizers to the reclamation of African identities, Gluck tells the story of a highly peculiar and thrillingly unpredictable band that became a hallmark of American genius.

Bob gluck is a jazz historian, an associate professor of music, and director of the Electronic Music Studio at the University at Albany, SUNY.

special interest 43 hAnnEKE gRooTEnBoER Treasuring the Gaze Intimate Vision in Late Eighteenth- Century Eye Miniatures

he end of the eighteenth century saw the start of a new craze in Europe: tiny portraits of single eyes that were exchanged Tby lovers or family members. Worn as brooches or pendants, these minuscule eyes served the same emotional need as more con- ventional mementos, such as lockets containing a coil of a loved one’s “hanneke grootenboer has fixed her art- hair. The fashion lasted only a few decades, and by the early 1800s historical gaze on a largely overlooked eye miniatures had faded into oblivion. Unearthing these portraits in category of visual representation: the late Treasuring the Gaze, Hanneke Grootenboer proposes that the rage for eighteenth-century miniature eye por- eye miniatures—and their abrupt disappearance—reveals a knot in trait. precious gifts of love and mementos the unfolding of the history of vision. of loss, the tiny portraits of individual Drawing on Alois Riegl, Jean-Luc Nancy, Marcia Pointon, Melanie eyes open onto a cultural archive of af- Klein, and others, Grootenboer unravels this knot, discovering previ- fective behaviors and practices of seeing ously unseen patterns of looking and strategies for showing. She shows that would otherwise remain largely that eye miniatures portray the subject’s gaze rather than his or her invisible. Treasuring the Gaze stands as eye, making the recipient of the keepsake an exclusive beholder who is a revelatory new chapter in the history of perpetually watched. These treasured portraits always return the looks visuality and visual culture.” they receive and, as such, they create a reciprocal mode of viewing that —Lisa Saltzman, Bryn mawr College Grootenboer calls intimate vision. Recounting stories about eye minia- tures—including the role one played in the scandalous affair of Mrs. Fitzherbert and the Prince of Wales, a portrait of the mesmerizing eye DEcEmBER 240 p., 24 color plates, 53 halftones 7 x 10 of Lord Byron, and the loss and longing incorporated in crying eye ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30966-8 Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 miniatures—Grootenboer shows that intimate vision brings the gaze E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30971-2 of another deep into the heart of private experience. ART HISTORY With a host of fascinating imagery from this eccentric and mostly forgotten yet deeply private keepsake, Treasuring the Gaze provides new ection Wn LL insights into the art of miniature painting and the genre of portraiture. no K co , un hanneke grootenboer is a university lecturer in the history of art and a fellow sayer and tutor at St Peter’s College, University of Oxford. She is the author of The . 1790, tansey tiste

P Rhetoric of Perspective: Realism and Illusionism in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still- , ca ba an Life Painting, also published by the University of Chicago Press. ean J WoM

44 special interest Before the Law “Clearly developed and cogently ar- gued, Before the Law puts existing Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame formulations on the defensive while CARy WoLFE at the same time challenging them Animal studies and biopolitics are two ing, we can begin to make sense of the to respond to what is in essence a of the most dynamic areas of interdis- fact that this distinction prevails within very straightforward but pressing ciplinary scholarship, but until now, both the human and animal domains question: have we really begun to they have had little to say to each oth- and address such difficult issues as why think through what ‘animal life’ er. Bringing these two emergent areas we afford some animals unprecedented means or to deal with the conse- of thought into direct conversation in levels of care and recognition while sub- quences of such questioning?” Before the Law, Cary Wolfe fosters a new jecting others to unparalleled forms of discussion about the status of nonhu- brutality and exploitation. Engaging —David Wills, university at Albany, Suny man animals and the shared plight of with many major figures in biopolitical humans and animals under biopolitics. thought—from Heidegger, Arendt, and DEcEmBER 152 p. 51/2 x 81/2 Wolfe argues that the human-ani- Foucault to Agamben, Roberto Esposito, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92240-9 mal distinction must be supplemented and Derrida—Wolfe explores how bio- Cloth $60.00x/£39.00 with the central distinction of biopoli- politics can help us understand both ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92241-6 Paper $20.00s/£13.00 tics: the difference between those ani- the ethical and political dimensions of E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92242-3 the current questions surrounding the mals that are members of a community LITERARY cRITIcISm PHILOSOPHY and those that are deemed killable but rights of animals. not murderable. From this understand-

Cary Wolfe is chair and the Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor in the Department of English at Rice University. His books include What Is Posthumanism? and Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press.

The Moment of Racial Sight “The Moment of Racial Sight is a A History work of complex cerebration and theoretical ambition. it seeks iREnE TuCKER nothing short of a fundamental re-

The Moment of Racial Sight overturns the Through Kant and his writing on the thinking of the racial construction most familiar form of racial analysis in relation of philosophy and medicine, thesis that has come to assume the contemporary culture: the idea that she describes how racialized skin was character of the very air we breathe race is constructed, that it operates by created as a mechanism to enable us in the humanities and interpretive attaching visible marks of difference to to perceive the likeness of individuals social sciences. An astute, eru- arbitrary meanings and associations. in a moment. From there, Tucker tells dite, and often brilliant work, this Searching for the history of the con- the story of instantaneous racial see- structed racial sign, Irene Tucker ar- ing across centuries—from the fictive book makes a huge contribution to gues that if people instantly perceive ra- bodies described but not seen in Wilkie critical theory, literary theory, and cial differences despite knowing better, Collins’s realism to the medium of philosophy.” then the underlying function of race is common public opinion in John Stuart —Stephen Best, to produce this immediate knowledge. Mill, from the invention of the notion university of California, Berkeley Racial perception, then, is not just a of a constructed racial sign in Darwin’s mark of acculturation, but a part of how late work to the institutionalizing of ra- DEcEmBER 304 p. 6 x 9 people know one another. cial sight on display in the HBO series ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92293-5 Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 The Wire. Rich with perceptive readings Tucker begins her investigation E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92295-9 in the Enlightenment, at the moment of unexpected texts, this ambitious LITERARY cRITIcISm when skin first came to be used as book is an important intervention in AFRIcAN AmERIcAN STUDIES the primary mark of racial difference. the study of race.

irene Tucker is associate professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of A Probable State: The Novel, the Contract, and the Jews, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

special interest 45 “Julia v. Douthwaite succeeds The Frankenstein of 1790 and Other Lost admirably in showing the interrela- tions between history and litera- Chapters from Revolutionary France ture and introduces the reader to JuLiA v. DouThWAiTE a long-neglected body of work. By showing the role of revolutionary The French Revolution brings to mind and 1794—first in newspapers, then violent mobs, the guillotine, and Ma- in fiction—and shows how the sym- fiction and its reinterpretation by dame Defarge, but it was also a pub- bolic stories generated by Louis XVI, later writers, this important book lishing revolution: more than 1,200 Robespierre, the market women who fills a significant gap in the history novels were published between 1789 stormed Versailles, and others were of literature.” and 1804, when Napoleon declared transformed into new tales with ongo- —marie-hélène huet, the Revolution at an end. In this book, ing appeal. She uncovers a 1790 story of princeton university Julia V. Douthwaite explores how the an automaton-builder named Frankén- works within this enormous corpus an- steïn, links Baum to the suffrage cam- OcTOBER 320 p., 29 halftones, nounced the new shapes of literature to paign going back to 1789, and discovers 2 line drawings 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-16058-0 come and reveals that vestiges of these a royalist anthem’s power to undo Bal- Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 stories can be found in novels by the zac’s Père Goriot. Bringing to light the E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-16063-4 likes of Mary Shelley, E. T. A. Hoffmann, missing links between the ancien ré- LITERARY cRITIcISm Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens, gime and modernity, The Frankenstein of EUROPEAN HISTORY Gustave Flaubert, and L. Frank Baum. 1790 and Other Lost Chapters from Revolu- Deploying political history, archi- tionary France is an ambitious account of val research, and textual analysis with a remarkable politico-literary moment eye-opening results, Douthwaite focus- and its aftermath. es on five major events between 1789

Julia v. Douthwaite is professor of French at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Exotic Women: Literary Heroines and Cultural Strategies in Ancien Régime France and The Wild Girl, Natural Man, and the Monster: Dangerous Experiments in the Age of Enlightenment, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.

“Brave and knowledgeable, The The Culture of Disaster Culture of Disaster travels to the mARiE-héLènE huET frontiers of sense making, where things crumble, crash, and quake From antiquity through the Enlighten- that made natural catastrophes and hu- only to be recuperated by sense ment, disasters were attributed to the man deeds both a collective crisis and and voracious systems of mean- obscure power of the stars or the ven- a personal tragedy. From the plague of ing. i will carry this book with me as geance of angry gods. As philosophers 1720 to the cholera of 1832, from ship- my special guide to the catastrophic sought to reassess the origins of natural wrecks to film dystopias, disasters raise disasters, they also made it clear that questions about identity and memory, tropes that rule our clouded horizon.” humans shared responsibility for the technology, control, and liability. In —Avital Ronell, new york university damages caused by a violent universe. her analysis, Huet considers anew the This far-ranging book explores the mythical figures of Medusa and Apollo, way writers, thinkers, and artists have theories of epidemics, earthquakes, po- SEPTEmBER 272 p., 22 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-35821-5 responded to the increasingly political litical crises, and films such as Blow-Up Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 concept of disaster from the Enlighten- and Blade Runner. With its scope and E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-35823-9 ment until today. precision, The Culture of Disaster will LITERARY cRITIcISm PHILOSOPHY Marie-Hélène Huet argues that appeal to a wide public interested in post-Enlightenment culture has been modern culture, philosophy, and intel- haunted by the sense of emergency lectual history.

marie-hélène huet is the M. Taylor Pyne Professor of French at Princeton University. She is the author of numerous books, including Mourning Glory: The Will of the French Revolution and Monstrous Imagination.

46 special interest Political Theology and Early Modernity Contributors Edited by gRAhAm hAmmiLL and JuLiA REinhARD LupTon étienne Balibar, Kathleen With a Postscript by Étienne Balibar Biddick, Drew Daniel, Carlo galli, Jonathan goldberg, Political theology is a distinctly modern as points of departure for such thinkers victoria Kahn, gregory Knei- problem, one that takes shape in some as Schmitt, Strauss, Benjamin, and Ar- del, paul A. Kottman, Jacques of the most important theoretical writ- endt. Written from a spectrum of posi- Lezra, Jane o. newman, ings of the twentieth and twenty-first tions ranging from renewed defenses centuries. But its origins stem from of secularism to attempts to reconceive Jennifer Rust, and Adam Sitze the early modern period, in medieval the religious character of collective life iconographies of sacred kinship and and literary experience, these essays OcTOBER 352 p., 9 halftones 6 x 9 the critique of traditional sovereignty probe moments of productive conflict, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31497-6 mounted by Hobbes and Spinoza. In disavowal, and entanglement in politics Cloth $87.50x/£56.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31498-3 this book, Graham Hammill and Julia and religion as they pass between early Paper $29.00s/£18.50 Reinhard Lupton assemble established modern and modern scenes of thought. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31499-0 and emerging scholars in early modern This stimulating collection is the first to LITERARY cRITIcISm RELIGION studies to examine the role played by show not only how Renaissance and ba- sixteenth- and seventeenth-century lit- roque literature help explain the per- erature and thought in modern concep- sistence of political theology in moder- tions of political theology. nity and postmodernity, but also how Political Theology and Early Modernity the reemergence of political theology explores texts by Shakespeare, Machia- deepens our understanding of the early velli, Milton, and others that have served modern period.

graham hammill is associate professor of English at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. Julia Reinhard Lupton is professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine.

The Accommodated Animal Cosmopolity in Shakespearean Locales LAuRiE ShAnnon T le Shakespeare wrote of lions, shrews, writers used classical natural history horned toads, curs, mastiffs, and hell- and readings of Genesis to credit ani- hounds. But he used the word “animal” mals with various kinds of stakehold-

only eight times in his work—which was ership, prerogative, and entitlement, Wild Boar PiGann, M

typical for the sixteenth century, when employing the language of politics in 1578) ainting, off h the word was rarely used. As Laurie a constitutional vision of cosmic mem- (P Shannon reveals in The Accommodated bership. Using this political idiom to DEcEmBER 304 p., 4 color plates, Animal, the animal-human divide first frame cross-species relations, Shannon 25 halftones 6 x 9 came strongly into play in the seven- argues, carried with it the notion that ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92416-8 Cloth $78.00x/£50.50 teenth century, with Descartes’s famous animals possess their own investments ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92417-5 formulation that reason sets humans in the world, a point distinct from the Paper $26.00s/£17.00 above other species: “I think, therefore question of whether animals have rea- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92418-2 I am.” Before that moment, animals son. It also enabled a sharp critique LITERARY cRITIcISm could claim a firmer place alongside of the tyranny of humankind. By an- humans in a larger vision of belonging, swering “the question of the animal” or what Shannon terms cosmopolity. historically, The Accommodated Animal With Shakespeare as her touch- makes a brilliant contribution to cross- stone, Shannon explores the creaturely disciplinary debates engaging political dispensation that existed until Des- theory, intellectual history, and literary cartes. She finds that early modern studies.

Laurie Shannon is associate professor of English and the Wender Lewis Teaching and Research Professor at Northwestern University. special interest 47 “Air’s Appearance is witty as well Air’s Appearance as elegant. The subject is original, the research breathtakingly wide- Literary Atmosphere in British Fiction, 1660–1794 JAynE ELiZABETh LEWiS ranging, and the language lyrically clear. its suggestiveness alone In Air’s Appearance, Jayne Elizabeth “airs.” Lewis thus offers a striking new opens up so many new interpretive Lewis enlists her readers in pursuit of interpretation of several standard fea- possibilities, so many new ways of the elusive concept of atmosphere in tures of the Enlightenment—the scien- historical thinking, so many new literary works. She shows how diverse tific revolution, the decline of magic, perceptions of air in text and air conceptions of air in the eighteenth character-based sociability, and the rise around. it makes you think and see century converged in British fiction, of the novel—that considers them in producing the modern literary sense terms of the romance of air that perme- differently.” of atmosphere and moving novelists to ates and connects them. As it explores —Cynthia Wall, explore the threshold between material key episodes in the history of natural university of virginia and immaterial worlds. philosophy and in major literary works

OcTOBER 336 p., 8 halftones 6 x 9 Air’s Appearance links the emer- like Paradise Lost, “The Rape of the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47669-8 gence of literary atmosphere to chang- Lock,” Robinson Crusoe, and The Mys- Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 ing ideas about air and the earth’s teries of Udolpho, this book promises to E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47671-1 atmosphere in natural philosophy, as change the atmosphere of eighteenth- LITERARY cRITIcISm HISTORY well as to the era’s theories of the su- century studies and the history of the pernatural and fascination with social novel. manners—or, as they are now known,

Jayne Elizabeth Lewis is professor of English at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of, most recently, Mary Queen of Scots: Romance and Nation.

“Romanticism and the Question Romanticism and the Question of the Stranger of the Stranger is a wonderfully DAviD SimpSon engaged and engaging book. Com- pelling and elegant at every turn, In our post-9/11 world, the figure of debate in the context of classical, bibli- it is widely and deeply informed, the stranger—the foreigner, the enemy, cal, and other later writings, he identi- addressing an enormous and varied the unknown visitor—carries a particu- fies a persistent difficulty in controlling Romantic archive while also demon- lar urgency, and the force of language the play between the despised and the strating a masterful grasp of con- used to describe those who are “differ- desired. He examines the stranger as ent” has become particularly strong. found in the works of Coleridge, Aus- temporary theoretical discussions But arguments about the stranger are ten, Scott, and Southey, as well as in about strangers and strangeness.” not unique to our time. In Romanti- depictions of the betrayals of hospital- —David Clark, cism and the Question of the Stranger, Da- ity in the literature of slavery and explo- mcmaster university vid Simpson locates the figure of the ration—as in Mungo Park’s Travels and stranger and the rhetoric of strange- Stedman’s Narrative—and portrayals of DEcEmBER 288 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92235-5 ness in romanticism and places them in strange women in de Staël, Rousseau, Cloth $35.00s/£22.50 a tradition that extends from antiquity and Burney. Contributing to a rich E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92236-2 to today. strain of thinking about the stranger LITERARY cRITIcSm Simpson shows that debates about that includes interventions by Ricoeur strangers loomed large in the French and Derrida, Romanticism and the Ques- Republic of the 1790s, resulting in tion of the Stranger reveals the complex heated discourse that weighed who history of encounters with alien figures was to be welcomed and who was to be and our continued struggles with ro- proscribed as dangerous. Placing this mantic concerns about the unknown.

David Simpson is the G. B. Needham Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Davis, and the author of 9/11: The Culture of Commemoration, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

48 special interest Science on American Television “What many scholars attempt to do, marcel Chotkowski LaFollette A History accomplishes. picking up where mARCEL ChoTKoWSKi LaFoLLETTE Science on the Air left off, Science on American Television explores As television emerged as a major cul- audiences turned out to be a disap- tural and economic force, many imag- pointment, argues historian Marcel the peculiar relationship between ined that the medium would enhance Chotkowski LaFollette in Science on broadcast television and popular civic education for topics like science. American Television. LaFollette nar- science education, and its history And, indeed, television soon offered rates the history of science on televi- of false starts, wrong turns, and a breathtaking banquet of scientific sion, from the 1940s to the turn of the cultural touchstones.” images and ideas—both factual and twenty-first century, to demonstrate —matthew h. hersch, fictional. Mr. Wizard performed ex- how disagreements between scientists university of pennsylvania periments with milk bottles. Viewers and television executives inhibited the watched live coverage of solar eclipses medium’s potential to engage in mean- DEcEmBER 296 p., 23 halftones, and atomic bomb blasts. Television ingful science education. In addition 1 table 6 x 9 cameras followed astronauts to the to examining the content of shows, she ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92199-0 moon, Carl Sagan through the Cosmos, also explores audience and advertiser Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92201-0 and Jane Goodall into the jungle. responses, the role of news in engaging But what promised to be a wonder- the public in science, and the making ScIENcE AmERIcAN HISTORY ful way of presenting science to huge of scientific celebrities.

marcel Chotkowski LaFollette is an independent historian based in Washington, DC. She is the author of several books, including Science on the Air and Making Science Our Own.

Views of the Cordilleras and Monuments of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas A Critical Edition ALExAnDER von humBoLDT Edited by Vera M. Kutzinski and Ottmar Ette

In 1799, Alexander von Humboldt and tablished von Humboldt as the founder Aimé Bonpland set out to determine of Mesoamerican studies. In Views of the whether the Orinoco River connected Cordilleras, von Humboldt weaves to- with the Amazon. But what started as gether drawings and detailed texts to a trip to investigate a relatively minor achieve multifaceted views of cultures geographical controversy became the and landscapes across the Americas. In basis of a five-year exploration through- doing so, he offers an alternative per- Alexander von Humboldt in out South America, Mexico, and spective on the New World, combating English Cuba. The discoveries amassed were presumptions of its belatedness and in- staggering, and much of today’s knowl- feriority by arguing that the “old” and AUGUST 576 p., 30 color plates, edge of tropical zoology, botany, geog- the “new” world are of the same geo- 41 halftones, 17 tables 6 x 9 raphy, and geology can be traced back logical age. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-86506-5 Cloth $65.00s/£42.00 to von Humboldt’s numerous records of This critical edition contains a new, E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-86509-6 these expeditions. unabridged English translation of von ScIENcE HISTORY One of these accounts, Views of the Humboldt’s French text, as well as an- Cordilleras and Monuments of the Indig- notations, a bibliography, and all sixty- enous Peoples of the Americas, firmly es- nine plates from the original edition.

vera m. Kutzinski is the Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of English, professor of compara- tive literature, and director of the Alexander von Humboldt in English project at Vander- bilt University. ottmar Ette is chair of romance literature at the University of Potsdam, Germany, and the author of many books on von Humboldt.

special interest 49 “This is not merely a book about the The Earthquake Observers past; it prompts the question: how will society cope with the inevita- Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter DEBoRAh R. CoEn ble natural disasters of the future? Deborah R. Coen’s finely woven Earthquakes have taught us much Ernst Mach, John Muir, and William story reveals that there have been, about our planet’s hidden structure James, but also with countless other and could be, entirely different and the forces that have shaped it. This citizen-observers, many of whom were ways of studying and coping with knowledge rests not only on the record- women. Coen explains how observing earthquakes than those we have ings of seismographs, but also on the networks transformed an instant of observations of eyewitnesses to destruc- panic and confusion into a field for sci- become accustomed to imagining.” tion. During the nineteenth century, a entific research, turning earthquakes —André Wakefield, pitzer College scientific description of an earthquake into natural experiments at the nexus was built of stories—stories from as of the physical and human sciences. many people in as many situations as Seismology abandoned this project of DEcEmBER 368 p., 14 halftones, 1 line drawing 6 x 9 possible. Sometimes their stories told citizen science with the introduction ISBN-13: 978-0-226-11181-0 of fear and devastation, sometimes of of the Richter Scale in the 1930s, only Cloth $35.00s/£22.50 wonder and excitement. to revive it in the twenty-first century in E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-11183-4 In The Earthquake Observers, Debo- the face of new hazards and uncertain- HISTORY ScIENcE rah R. Coen acquaints readers not only ties. The Earthquake Observers tells the with the century’s most eloquent seismic history of this interrupted dialogue be- commentators, including Alexander tween scientists and citizens about liv- von Humboldt, Charles Darwin, Mark ing with environmental risk. Twain, Charles Dickens, Karl Kraus,

Deborah R. Coen is assistant professor of history at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

“Watching Vesuvius explores the Watching Vesuvius question of vesuvius as an object of study in the early modern A History of Science and Culture in Early Modern Italy SEAn CoCCo science of volcanism from the investigations and opinions of Mount Vesuvius has been famous ever lect floral and mineral specimens from humanists and naturalists in the since its eruption in 79 CE, when it the mountainside. late Renaissance to the early destroyed and buried the Roman cit- In Watching Vesuvius, Cocco argues eighteenth-century philosophizing ies of Pompeii and Herculaneum. But that this investigation and engagement less well-known is the role it played in on volcanoes and the development with Vesuvius was paramount to the de- the science and culture of early mod- velopment of modern volcanology. He of geology later in the century. ern Italy, as Sean Cocco reveals in this then situates the native experience of Around this history of science, ambitious and wide-ranging study. Hu- Vesuvius in a larger intellectual, cultur- Sean Cocco weaves a deep cultural manists began to make pilgrimages to al, and political context and explains history of the relationship between Vesuvius during the early Renaissance how later eighteenth-century represen- nature and culture in the theories to experience its beauty and study its tations of Naples—of its climate and history, but a new tradition of obser- and practices of the peoples in the character—grew out of this tradition vation emerged in 1631 with the first of natural history. Painting a rich and city of naples.” great eruption of the modern period. detailed portrait of Vesuvius and those —John A. marino, Seeking to understand the volcano’s living in its shadow, Cocco returns the university of California, San Diego place in the larger system of nature, historic volcano to its place in a broad- Neapolitans flocked to Vesuvius to ex- er European culture of science, travel, DEcEmBER 336 p., 19 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92371-0 amine volcanic phenomena and to col- and appreciation of the natural world. Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92373-4 Sean Cocco is associate professor of history at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. HISTORY ScIENcE

50 special interest Eating the Enlightenment “With its wealth of insights into Food and the Sciences in Paris the history of the body as well as French culture, Eating the Enlight- E. C. SpARy enment offers abundant food for Eating the Enlightenment offers a new to the manufacture, trade, and eating thought for scholars and students perspective on the history of food, of foods, focusing upon coffee and li- in a wide range of fields.” looking at writings about cuisine, diet, queurs in particular, and also considers —Anne vila, and food chemistry as a key to larger controversies over specific issues such university of Wisconsin–madison debates over the state of the nation in as the chemistry of digestion and the Old Regime France. Embracing a wide nature of alcohol. Familiar figures such OcTOBER 368 p., 20 halftones range of authors and scientific or medi- as Fontenelle, Diderot, and Rousseau 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-76886-1 cal practitioners—from physicians and appear alongside little-known individu- Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 poets to philosophers and play- als from the margins of the world of E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-76888-5 wrights—E. C. Spary demonstrates how letters: the chess-playing café owner EUROPEAN HISTORY ScIENcE public discussions of eating and drink- Charles Manoury, the “Turkish envoy” ing were used to articulate concerns Soliman Aga, and the natural philoso- about the state of civilization versus pher Jacques Gautier d’Agoty. Equally that of nature, about the effects of con- entertaining and enlightening, Eating sumption upon the identities of individ- the Enlightenment will be an original con- uals and nations, and about the proper tribution to discussions of the dissemi- form and practice of scholarship. En nation of knowledge and the nature of route, Spary devotes extensive attention scientific authority.

E. C. Spary is a lecturer in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Utopia’s Garden: French Natural History from Old Regime to Revolution and coeditor of Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe: Between Market and Laboratory, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

Baroque Science oFER gAL and RAZ D. ChEn-moRRiS

In Baroque Science, Ofer Gal and Raz D. lenses and mirrors for observation and coLLec- sPeciaL Chen-Morris present a radically new mechanical and pneumatic devices for perspective on the study of early mod- experimentation. Likewise, the mathe- ern science. Instead of the triumph matical techniques and procedures that of reason and rationality and the cel- allowed the success of mathematical rare booK s and ebration of the discoveries and break- natural philosophy turned increasingly of sydney university throughs of the period, they examine obscure and artificial, and in place of science in the context of the baroque, divine harmonies they revealed an as- analyzing the tensions, paradoxes, and semblage of isolated, contingent laws tions Library, the tions Library, compromises that shaped the New Sci- and constants. With PerM ission of the ence of the seventeenth century and en- In its attempts to enforce order abled its spectacular success. in the face of threatening chaos, blur DEcEmBER 320 p., 51 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92398-7 Gal and Chen-Morris show how sci- the boundaries of the natural and the Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 entists during the seventeenth century artificial, and mobilize passions in the E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92399-4 turned away from the trust in the acqui- service of objective knowledge, Gal and ScIENcE EUROPEAN HISTORY sition of knowledge through the senses Chen-Morris reveal, the New Science is toward a growing reliance on the me- a baroque phenomenon. diation of artificial instruments, such as

ofer gal is associate professor of the history and philosophy of science at the University of Sydney. Raz D. Chen-morris is a lecturer in the Science, Technology, and Society Program at Bar-Ilan University.

special interest 51 “What if psychology was not just The Science of Deception the heir of philosophy or physi- Psychology and Commerce in America ology, as so many disciplinary miChAEL pETTiT histories have implied, but instead emerged through an engagement During the late nineteenth and early this paradox, weaving together the with the deceptive practices of twentieth centuries, Americans were story of deception in American com- the marketplace, from the ‘low’ fascinated with fraud. P. T. Barnum art- mercial culture with its growing use in humbuggery of carnival shows to fully exploited the American yen for de- the discipline of psychology. Michael ception, and even Mark Twain champi- Pettit reveals how deception came to the duplicity of corporate manag- oned it, arguing that lying was virtuous be something that psychologists not ers? michael pettit’s wide-ranging insofar as it provided the glue for all only studied but also employed to es- and entertaining book maps out interpersonal intercourse. But decep- tablish their authority. They devel- this alternative cultural history of tion was not used solely to delight, and oped a host of tools—the lie detector, American psychology in compelling many fell prey to the schemes of con psychotherapy, an array of personality terms.” men and the wiles of spirit mediums. tests, and more—for making deception —Ken Alder, As a result, a number of experimental more transparent in the courts and author of The Lie Detectors: psychologists set themselves the task elsewhere. Pettit’s study illuminates the The History of an of identifying and eliminating the illu- intimate connections between the sci- American Obsession sions engendered by modern, commer- entific discipline and the marketplace cial life. By the 1920s, however, many of during a crucial period in the develop- JANUARY 320 p., 5 halftones 6 x 9 these same psychologists had come to ment of market culture. With its broad ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92374-1 Cloth $50.00s/£32.50 depend on deliberate misdirection and research and engaging tales of treach- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92375-8 deceitful stimuli to support their own ery, The Science of Deception will appeal to AmERIcAN HISTORY ScIENcE experiments. scholars and general readers alike. The Science of Deception explores

michael pettit is assistant professor of the history and theory of psychology at York University in Toronto. “Loving Faster than Light is a very well-written, insightful examina- tion of one of the essential prob- Loving Faster than Light lems of the history of science—how Romance and Readers in Einstein’s Universe does elite, esoteric knowledge get KATy pRiCE read, used, modified, and owned by those outside the professional In November 1919, newspapers around Britain, demonstrating how abstract scientific community? Katy price the world alerted readers to a sensa- science came to be entangled with class focuses on one of the defining tional new theory of the universe: Al- politics, new media technology, chang- bert Einstein’s theory of relativity. Com- ing sex relations, crime, cricket, and scientific ideas of the twentieth ing at a time of social, political, and cinematography in the British imagina- century—relativity—and skillfully economic upheaval, Einstein’s theory tion during the 1920s. Blending liter- demonstrates the many genres quickly became a rich cultural resource ary analysis with insights from the his- and styles through which it was with many uses beyond physical theory. tory of science, Katy Price reveals how adopted and changed. An excellent Media coverage of relativity in Brit- cultural meanings for Einstein’s relativ- book that brings together a number ain took on qualities of pastiche and ity were negotiated in newspapers with parody, as serious attempts to evaluate differing political agendas, popular sci- of disciplinary approaches.” Einstein’s theory jostled with jokes and ence magazines, pulp fiction adventure —matthew Stanley, new york university satires linking relativity to everything and romance stories, detective plots, from railway budgets to religion. The and esoteric love poetry. Loving Faster

SEPTEmBER 264 p., 6 halftones, image of a befuddled newspaper reader than Light is an essential read for any- 9 line drawings 6 x 9 attempting to explain Einstein’s theory one interested in popular science, the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-68073-6 to his companions became a set piece in intersection of science and literature, Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 the popular press. and the social and cultural history of E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-68075-0 Loving Faster than Light focuses on physics. ScIENcE HISTORY the popular reception of relativity in

Katy price is a senior lecturer in English at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, England. 52 special interest The Evolution of Primate Societies Edited by John C. miTAni, JoSEp CALL, pETER m. KAppELER, RynE A. pALomBiT, and JoAn B. SiLK

In 1987, the University of Chicago Press around four major adaptive problems published Primate Societies, the standard primates face as they strive to grow, reference in the field of primate behav- maintain themselves, and reproduce ior for an entire generation of students in the wild. The inclusion of chapters and scientists. But in the twenty-five on the behavior of humans at the end years since its publication, new theories of each major section represents one and research techniques for studying particularly novel aspect of the book, the Primate order have been devel- and it will remind readers what we can oped, debated, and tested, forcing sci- learn about ourselves through research entists to revise their understanding of on nonhuman primates. The final sec- our closest living relatives. tion highlights some of the innovative White-faced caPuchins. Photo by WiebKe LaMMers by caPuchins. Photo White-faced Intended as a sequel to Primate So- and cutting-edge research designed to cieties, The Evolution of Primate Societies reveal the similarities and differences SEPTEmBER 504 p., 157 halftones, 34 line drawings, 44 tables 81/2 x 11 compiles thirty-one chapters that re- between nonhuman and human pri- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-53171-7 view the current state of knowledge re- mate cognition. The Evolution of Primate Cloth $145.00x/£93.50 garding the behavior of nonhuman pri- Societies will be every bit the landmark ISBN-13: 978-0-226-53172-4 mates. Chapters are written by leading publication its predecessor has been. Paper $50.00s/£32.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-53173-1 authorities in the field and organized ScIENcE John C. mitani is the James N. Spuhler Collegiate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. Josep Call is a senior scientist and director of the Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Center at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. peter m. Kappeler is head of the Department of Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology/Anthropol- “Wildlife Conservation in a Changing ogy at the University of Göttingen. Ryne A. palombit is associate professor of anthropology at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Joan B. Silk is professor in the Department Climate provides an important, of Anthropology and the Institute for Society and Genetics at the University of California, cutting-edge, and forward-looking Los Angeles. contribution toward our under- standing of climate effects on Wildlife Conservation in a Changing Climate wildlife species. The strength of Edited by JEDEDiAh F. BRoDiE, ERiC S. poST, and DAniEL F. DoAK the book is that it is a compendium of work by both academic scien- Human-induced climate change is cations for individual populations, evo- tists and front-line conservation emerging as one of the gravest threats lutionary responses, impacts on move- practitioners who are wrestling to biodiversity in history, and while a ment patterns, alterations of species with ideas and practical ways to vast amount of literature on the eco- interactions, and predicting impacts logical impact of climate change exists, across regions. The contributors also conserve wildlife in the face of very little has been dedicated to the present a number of strategies by which changing climate. These essays set management of wildlife populations conservationists and wildlife managers the standard for providing scientific and communities in the wake of un- can counter or mitigate the impacts of insights for the practice of wildlife precedented habitat changes. Wildlife climate change as well as increase the conservation in an era of changing Conservation in a Changing Climate is an resilience of wildlife populations to climate.” essential resource, bringing together such changes. A seminal contribution leaders in the fields of climate change to the fields of ecology and conserva- —oswald Schmitz, yale university ecology, wildlife population dynamics, tion biology, Wildlife Conservation in a and environmental policy to examine Changing Climate will serve as the spark DEcEmBER 416 p., 35 halftones, the impacts of climate change on popu- that ignites a new direction of discus- 37 line drawings, 16 tables 6 x 9 lations of terrestrial vertebrates. Chap- sions about and action on the ecology ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07462-7 ters assess the details of climate change and conservation of wildlife in a chang- Cloth $125.00x/£80.50 ecology, including demographic impli- ing climate. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07463-4 Paper $45.00s/£29.00 Jedediah F. Brodie is assistant professor of conservation ecology at the University of British E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07464-1 Columbia. Eric S. post is professor of biology at the Pennsylvania State University. Daniel F. ScIENcE Doak is professor in the Department of Zoology and Physiology at the University of Wyoming. special interest 53 Arts of Wonder Enchanting Secularity—Walter De Maria, Diller + Scofidio, James Turrell, Andy Goldsworthy JEFFREy L. KoSKy

“The fate of our times is character- ful of artists—Walter De Maria, Diller ized by rationalization and intellectu- + Scofidio, James Turrell, and Andy alization and, above all, by ‘the disen- Goldsworthy—to show how they intro- chantment of the world.’” Max Weber’s duce spaces hospitable to mystery and

la lumière élecTrique (1882) la statement remains a dominant inter- wonder, redemption and revelation, pretation of the modern condition: the and transcendence and creation. What increasing capabilities of knowledge might be thought of as religious long- and science have banished mysteries, ings, he argues, are crucial aspects of titLe Page froM titLe Page leaving a world that can be mastered enchanting secularity when developed technically and intellectually. And through encounters with these works Religion and Postmodernism though this idea seems empowering, of art. Developing a model of religion DEcEmBER 256 p., 27 color plates, many people have become disenchant- that might be significant to secular cul- 15 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-45106-0 ed with modern disenchantment. Using ture, Kosky shows how this model can Cloth $40.00s/£26.00 intimate encounters with works of art to be employed to deepen interpretation E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-45108-4 explore disenchantment and the possi- of the art we usually view as represent- RELIGION ART bilities of reenchantment, Arts of Wonder ing secular modernity. A thoughtful addresses questions about the nature dialogue between philosophy and art, of humanity, the world, and God in the Arts of Wonder will catch the eye of stu- wake of Weber’s diagnosis of modernity. dents of art and religion, philosophy of Jeffrey L. Kosky focuses on a hand- religion, and art criticism.

Jeffrey L. Kosky is professor and head of the Department of Religion at Washington and Lee University in Virginia.

“The Invention of Religion in Japan The Invention of Religion in Japan is truly revolutionary. original, JASon A¯nAnDA JoSEphSon well-researched, and engrossing, it overturns basic assumptions Through most of its long history, Japan anity and certain forms of Buddhism, in the study of Japanese thought, had no concept of what we call “reli- Japanese officials excluded Shinto from religion, science, and history.” gion.” There was no corresponding the category. Instead, they enshrined —Sarah Thal, Japanese word, nor anything close to its it as a national ideology while relegat- university of Wisconsin–madison meaning. But when American warships ing the popular practices of indigenous appeared off the coast of Japan in 1853 shamans and female mediums to the OcTOBER 408 p. 6 x 9 and forced the Japanese government to category of “superstitions”—and thus ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41233-7 Cloth $90.00x/£53.00 sign treaties demanding, among other beyond the sphere of tolerance. Joseph- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41234-4 things, freedom of religion, the coun- son argues that the invention of reli- Paper $30.00s/£19.50 try had to contend with this Western gion in Japan was a politically charged, E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41235-1 idea. In this book, Jason A¯nanda Jo- boundary-drawing exercise that not ASIAN STUDIES RELIGION sephson reveals how Japanese officials only extensively reclassified the inher- invented religion in Japan and traces ited materials of Buddhism, Confucian- the sweeping intellectual, legal, and ism, and Shinto to lasting effect, but cultural changes that followed. also reshaped, in subtle but significant More than a tale of oppression or ways, our own formulation of the con- hegemony, Josephson’s account dem- cept of religion today. This ambitious onstrates that the process of articulat- and wide-ranging book contributes ing religion offered the Japanese state an important perspective to broader a valuable opportunity. In addition to debates on the nature of religion, the carving out space for belief in Christi- secular, science, and superstition.

Jason A¯nanda Josephson is assistant professor of religion at Williams College. 54 special interest ALmA goTTLiEB and phiLip gRAhAm Braided Worlds

n a compelling mix of literary narrative and ethnography, an- thropologist Alma Gottlieb and writer Philip Graham continue Ithe long journey of cultural engagement with the Beng people of Côte d’Ivoire that they first recounted in their award-winning memoir Parallel Worlds. Their commitment over the span of several decades has lent them a rare insight. Braiding their own stories with those of the villagers of Asagbé and Kosangbé, Gottlieb and Graham take turns recounting a host of unexpected dramas with these West African vil- lages, prompting serious questions about the fraught nature of cultural contact. Through events such as a religious leader’s declaration that the authors’ six-year-old son, Nathaniel, is the reincarnation of a revered “At this moment in the history of our ancestor, or Graham’s late father being accepted into the Beng after- divided and violent world, we profoundly life, or the increasing, sometimes dangerous madness of a villager, need to hear the voices of Alma got- the authors are forced to reconcile their anthropological and literary tlieb and philip graham as they return gaze with the deepest parts of their personal lives. Along with these to the Beng people of the Côte d’ivoire intimate dramas, they follow the Beng from times of peace through and write not just about this remarkable the times of tragedy that led to Côte d’Ivoire’s recent civil conflicts. people but about the ways that all of us From these and many other interweaving narratives—and with the are inextricably ‘braided’ together by our combined strengths of an anthropologist and a literary writer—Braided love, through our humanity, of sharing Worlds examines the impact of postcolonialism, race, and global the great mystery of existence. Braided inequity at the same time that it chronicles a living, breathing village Worlds is not only an enthralling book community where two very different worlds meet. but an important one. And linked with gottlieb and graham’s earlier Parallel Alma gottlieb is professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois at Worlds, the two books form a masterpiece Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of The Restless Anthropologist, The Afterlife of travel memoir.” Is Where We Come From, and Under the Kapok Tree, all published by the University —Robert olen Butler, philip graham of Chicago Press. is professor of creative writing at the Univer- author of A Good Scent sity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and also teaches at the Vermont College from a Strange Mountain of Fine Arts. He is the author of seven books of fiction and nonfiction, includ- ing The Moon, Come to Earth, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Together they are the authors of Parallel Worlds: An Anthropologist and a Writer SEPTEmBER 176 p., 3 maps 6 x 9 Encounter Africa. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30527-1 Cloth $60.00x/£39.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30528-8 Paper $20.00s/£13.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30472-4 ANTHROPOLOGY LITERATURE

special interest 55 “American Value is an original and American Value ambitious book. Apart from his Migrants, Money, and Meaning in El Salvador and transnational subject—relations the United States between El Salvador and the united DAviD pEDERSEn States—David pedersen seeks to throw light on how dominant Over the past half-century, El Salvador trialization, viewing the Salvadoran interpretations of that history are has transformed dramatically. Histori- migrant work abilities used in new low- generated and then overturned by cally reliant on primary exports like wage American service jobs as a kind the kind of in-depth analysis his re- coffee and cotton, the country emerged of primary export, and shows how the from a brutal civil war in 1992 to find latest social conditions linking both search makes possible. if this were much of its national income now com- countries are part of a longer history not enough, he aspires to throw ing from a massive emigrant work- of disparity across the Americas. Draw- light on the coevolution of the force—over a quarter of its popula- ing on the work of Charles S. Peirce, he united States and Central America, tion—that earns money in the United demonstrates how the defining value including wars linking the two; and States and sends it home. In American forms—migrant work capacity, servic- he has some theoretical axes to Value, David Pedersen examines this es, and remittances—act as signs, build- new way of life as it extends across two ing a moral world by communicating grind, as well.” places: Intipucá, a Salvadoran town in- their exchangeability while hiding the —Keith hart, university of pretoria famous for its remittance wealth, and violence and exploitation on which this the Washington, DC, metro area, home story rests. Theoretically sophisticated, Chicago Studies in Practices of to the second largest population of Sal- ethnographically rich, and compelling- Meaning vadorans in the United States. ly written, American Value offers critical Pedersen charts El Salvador’s insights into practices that are increas- DEcEmBER 304 p., 10 halftones, change alongside American deindus- ingly common throughout the world. 1 map, 3 line drawings 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-65339-6 David pedersen is associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Cloth $85.00x/£55.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-65340-2 San Diego. Paper $27.50s/£18.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92277-5 ANTHROPOLOGY SOcIOLOGY Unmasking the State “Unmasking the State is an en- Making Guinea Modern gaging and insightful work that miKE mcgovERn constitutes an important contribu-

tion to African studies, political and When the Republic of Guinea gained rainforest region—people known as religious anthropology, and the independence in 1958, one of the first Forestiers—the Demystification Pro- study of iconoclasm. mike mcgov- policies of the new state was a village- gram operated via a paradox. At the ern artfully weaves an edifying to-village eradication of masks and other same time it banned rituals from For- tapestry of the demystification ritual objects it deemed “fetishes.” The estiers’ day-to-day lives, it appropriated Demystification Program, as it was them into a state-sponsored program programs launched by Sékou Touré called, was so urgent it even preceded of folklorization. McGovern points in the 1960s among Loma-speaking the building of a national road system. to an important purpose for this: by people of guinea, West Africa. This In Unmasking the State, Mike McGovern objectifying this polytheistic group’s is a well-argued and timely book.” attempts to understand why this pro- rituals, the state created a viable coun- —David Berliner, gram was so important to the emerging terexample against which the Muslim university of Brussels state and examines the complex role majority could define proper moder- it had in creating a unified national nity. Describing the intertwined rela- DEcEmBER 320 p., 12 halftones, identity. In doing so, he tells a dramatic tionship between national and local 6 maps, 8 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92509-7 story of cat and mouse where minority identity making, McGovern showcases Cloth $90.00x/£58.00 groups cling desperately to their impor- the coercive power and the unintended ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92510-3 tant—and outlawed—customs. consequences involved when states at- Paper $32.50s/£21.00 tempt to engineer culture. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92511-0 Primarily focused on the com- ANTHROPOLOGY AFRIcAN STUDIES munities in the country’s southeastern mike mcgovern is assistant professor of anthropology at Yale University. He is the author of Making War in Côte d’Ivoire, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

56 special interest Resonance “unni Wikan has spent more time in sustained fieldwork in more Beyond the Words societies than any other anthro- unni WiKAn pologist i know, and these essays Resonance gathers together forty years cept of “experience-near” observations are the connective tissue among of anthropological study by a research- —and driven by an ambition to work be- her most substantial work. They er and writer with one of the broadest yond Geertz’s own limitations—Wikan demonstrate her theoretical acuity fieldwork résumés in anthropology: strives for an anthropology that sees, in defining an approach that always Unni Wikan. In its twelve essays—four describes, and understands the human places human experience first. of which are brand new—Resonance condition in the models and concepts They are exemplars and a test, as covers encounters with transvestites in of the people being observed. She high- Oman, childbirth in Bhutan, poverty in lights the fundamentals of an explicitly well, of just that approach which Cairo, and honor killings in Scandina- comparative, person-centered, and em- understands that common human- via, with visits to several other locales pathic approach to fieldwork, pushing ity is to be found anywhere, though and subjects in between. Including a anthropology to shift from the special- complicated by distinctive cultural comprehensive preface and introduc- ist discourses of academic experts to a orientations to the expression of tion that brings the whole work into grasp of what the Balinese call keneh— personhood.” focus, Resonance surveys an astonishing the heart, thought, and feeling of the —george marcus, career of anthropological inquiry that real people of the world. By deploying university of California, irvine demonstrates the possibility for a com- this strategy across such a range of sites mon humanity, a way of knowing others and communities, she provides a pow- DEcEmBER 344 p. 6 x 9 on their own terms. erful argument that ever-deeper insight ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92446-5 Deploying Clifford Geertz’s con- can be attained despite our differences. Cloth $90.00x/£58.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92447-2 unni Wikan is professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo. She is the author Paper $30.00s/£19.50 of several books, including Behind the Veil in Arabia, Managing Turbulent Hearts, and Generous E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92448-9 Betrayal, all published by the University of Chicago Press. ANTHROPOLOGY

What Kinship Is—And Is Not “Clearly destined to become some- thing of a classic in kinship studies mARShALL SAhLinS in anthropology. This is partly because of the huge breadth of mar- In this pithy two-part essay, Marshall In the second part of his essay, shall Sahlins’s scholarship, which Sahlins reinvigorates the debates on Sahlins shows that mutuality of being what constitutes kinship, building on is a symbolic notion of belonging, not takes in everything from Aristotle some of the best scholarship in the field a biological connection by “blood.” to the most up-to-date references to produce an original outlook on the Quite apart from relations of birth, in the study of kinship, including deepest bond humans can have. Cover- people may become kin in ways rang- a wonderful range of standard and ing thinkers from Aristotle and Lévy- ing from sharing the same name or lesser-known works along the way. Bruhl to Émile Durkheim and David the same food to helping each other But this of course is not just a work Schneider, and communities from the survive the perils of the high seas. In Maori and the English to the Korowai a groundbreaking argument, he dem- of synthesis; it is also an original, of New Guinea, he draws on a breadth onstrates that even where kinship is brilliant, and, above all, creative of theory and a range of ethnographic reckoned from births, it is because the contribution to current debates in examples to form an acute definition wider kindred or the clan ancestors the discipline.” of kinship, what he calls the “mutual- are already involved in procreation, so —Janet Carsten, ity of being.” Kinfolk are persons who that the notion of birth is meaningfully university of Edinburgh are parts of one another to the extent dependent on kinship rather than kin-

that what happens to one is felt by the ship on birth. By formulating this re- DEcEmBER 128 p. 51/2 x 81/2 other. Meaningfully and emotionally, versal, Sahlins identifies what kinship ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92512-7 relatives live each other’s lives and die truly is: not nature, but culture. Cloth $20.00s/£13.00 each other’s deaths. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92513-4 ANTHROPOLOGY marshall Sahlins is the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of An- thropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. He is the author of many books, including Culture and Practical Reason, How “Natives” Think, Islands of History, and Apologies to Thucydides, all published by the University of Chicago Press. special interest 57 Exit Zero Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago ChRiSTinE J. WALLEy

In 1980, Christine J. Walley’s world was memoir and one part ethnography— turned upside down when the steel mill providing a much-needed female and in Southeast Chicago where her father familial perspective on cultures of la- worked abruptly closed. In the ensu- bor and their decline. Through vivid ing years, ninety thousand other area accounts of her family’s struggles and residents would also lose their jobs in her own upward mobility, Walley re- the mills—just one example of the vast veals the social landscapes of America’s scale of deindustrialization occurring industrial fallout, navigating complex across the United States. The disrup- tensions among class, labor, economy, tion of this event propelled Walley into and environment. Unsatisfied with the a career as a cultural anthropologist, notion that her family’s turmoil was in- PhotograPh chris by boebeL and now, in Exit Zero, she brings her an- evitable in the ever-forward progress of DEcEmBER 240 p., 1 color plate, thropological perspective home, exam- the United States, she provides a fresh 24 halftones, 1 line drawing 6 x 9 ining the fate of her family and that of and important counternarrative that ISBN-13: 978-0-226-87179-0 Cloth $85.00x/£55.00 blue-collar America at large. gives a new voice to the many Ameri- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-87180-6 Interweaving personal narratives cans whose distress resulting from Paper $27.50s/£18.00 and family photos with a nuanced as- deindustrialization has too often been E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-87181-3 sessment of the social impacts of dein- ignored. ANTHROPOLOGY AmERIcAN HISTORY dustrialization, Exit Zero is one part

Christine J. Walley is associate professor of anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of Rough Waters: Nature and Development in an East African Marine Park.

“in The Predicament of Blackness, The Predicament of Blackness Jemima pierre makes an important Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race intervention in Africanist anthro- JEmimA piERRE pology, which is in dire need of analyses, such as pierre offers, What is the meaning of blackness in and disruptive forces of colonialism that illuminate the workings of Africa? While much has been written and postcolonialism, Pierre examines race. This book is in a class by on Africa’s complex ethnic and tribal key facets of contemporary Ghanaian itself. it is not only a welcome ad- relationships, Jemima Pierre’s ground- society, from the pervasive significance breaking The Predicament of Blackness of “whiteness” to the practice of chemi- dition to the field, but will in fact is the first book to tackle the question cal skin-bleaching to the government’s inspire a new generation of African of race in West Africa through its post- active promotion of Pan-African “heri- studies scholarship that is more colonial manifestations. Challenging tage tourism.” Drawing these and other attentive to the cultural practices the view of the African continent as a examples together, she shows that race of race.” nonracialized space—as a fixed historic and racism have not only persisted in —Bayo holsey, source for the African diaspora—she Ghana after colonialism, but also that Duke university envisions Africa, and in particular the the beliefs and practices of this modern nation of Ghana, as a place whose lo- society all occur within a global racial DEcEmBER 280 p., 23 halftones 6 x 9 cal relationships are deeply informed hierarchy. In doing so, she provides a ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92302-4 by global structures of race, economics, powerful articulation of race on the Cloth $90.00x/£58.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92303-1 and politics. continent and a new way of understand- Paper $30.00s/£19.50 Against the backdrop of Ghana’s ing contemporary Africa—and the E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92304-8 history as a major port in the transat- modern African diaspora. AFRIcAN STUDIES ANTHROPOLOGY lantic slave trade and the subsequent

Jemima pierre teaches in the Program in African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University. 58 special interest Questioning Secularism “Questioning Secularism is an important book. The discussions Islam, Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law in Modern Egypt of the fatwa alone would warrant huSSEin ALi AgRAmA praise, but there is much more:

The central question of the Arab through a series of paradoxes that it the exploration of how the secular Spring—what democracies should look creates. Digging beneath the perceived state produces its own ambigui- like in the deeply religious countries of differences between the West and ties is very engaging; the idea that the Middle East—has developed into Middle East, he highlights secularism’s different fora might employ related a vigorous debate over these nations’ dependence on the law and the prob- sources of legitimacy is handled secular identities. But what, exactly, is lems that arise from it: the necessary with considerable deftness; the secularism? What has the West’s long involvement of state sovereign power familiarity with it inevitably obscured? in managing the private spiritual lives argument that the fatwa is a differ- In Questioning Secularism, Hussein Ali of citizens and the irreducible set of le- ent sort of journey than the court Agrama tackles these questions. Focus- gal ambiguities such a relationship cre- proceeding is pursued with great ing on the fatwa councils and family law ates. Navigating a complex landscape care and insight. The overall result, courts of Egypt just prior to the revolu- between private and public domains, then, is a work one can get one’s tion, he delves deeply into the meaning Questioning Secularism lays important teeth into in the best sense of the of secularism itself and the ambiguities groundwork for understanding the real that lie at its heart. meaning of secularism as it affects the word.” Drawing on a precedent-setting real freedoms of a citizenry, an under- —Lawrence Rosen, princeton university case arising from the family law courts standing of the utmost importance for —the last courts in Egypt to use Shari‘a so many countries that are now urgently law—Agrama shows that secularism is facing new political possibilities. Chicago Studies in Practices of a historical phenomenon that works Meaning OcTOBER 288 p. 6 x 9 hussein Ali Agrama is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-01068-7 Cloth $85.00x/£55.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-01069-4 Paper $27.50s/£18.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-01070-0 Lifeworlds ANTHROPOLOGY POLITIcAL ScIENcE Essays in Existential Anthropology miChAEL JACKSon “Lifeworlds is an extraordinary Michael Jackson’s Lifeworlds is a master- gues that anthropological subjects con- book, remarkable for its depth, ful collection of essays, the culmination tinually negotiate—imaginatively, prac- scholarship, and lightness of of a career aimed at understanding the tically, and politically—their relations touch. it puts the whole ques- relationship between anthropology with the forces surrounding them and and philosophy. Seeking the truths that the resources they find in themselves or tion of anthropology’s relation to are found in the interstices between in solidarity with significant others. At philosophy in a new light. michael examiner and examined, world and the same time that they mirror facets of Jackson is not only a great ethnolo- word, and body and mind, and taking the larger world, they also help shape it. gist, he is also a major theoretician inspiration from James, Dewey, Arendt, Stitching the themes, peoples, and lo- of anthropological knowledge. not Husserl, Sartre, Camus, and, especially, cales of these essays into a sustained ar- many people could have taken up Merleau-Ponty, Jackson creates in these gument for a philosophical anthropol- chapters a distinctive anthropological ogy that focuses on the places between, such profound issues while wearing pursuit of existential inquiry. More im- Jackson offers a pragmatic understand- their scholarship so lightly.” portant, he buttresses this philosophi- ing of how people act to make their —veena Das, cal approach with committed empirical lives more viable, to grasp the elusive, Johns hopkins university research. to counteract external powers, and to Traveling from the Kuranko in Si- turn abstract possibilities into embod- DEcEmBER 320 p. 6 x 9 erra Leone to the Maori in New Zealand ied truths. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92364-2 Cloth $90.00x/£58.00 to the Warlpiri in Australia, Jackson ar- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92365-9 Paper $30.00s/£19.50 michael Jackson is the Distinguished Visiting Professor of World Religions at the Harvard E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92366-6 Divinity School. ANTHROPOLOGY PHILOSOPHY

special interest 59 “Strongly grounded in debates Touching Encounters within sociology, Kevin Walby’s work reaches beyond its disciplin- Sex, Work, and Male-for-Male Internet Escorting KEvin WALBy ary base by drawing on anthropolo- gy, psychology, and philosophy, as Often depicted as deviant or pathologi- sex—the stereotypical idea of a quick well as on literary/cultural theory cal by public health researchers, psy- cash transaction and the tendency to- and queer theory. Touching Encoun- choanalysts, and sexologists, male-with- ward friendship and mutuality. In do- ters is very well-researched, well- male sex and sex work is, in fact, an ing so, Walby draws on the work of Fou- organized, and well-written—an increasingly mainstream pursuit. Based cault to make visible the play of power original and fascinating contribu- on a qualitative investigation of the in these physical and commercial rela- practices involved in male-for-male— tions between men. At once a contri- tion to the new sociology of sex.” or m4m—Internet escorting, Touching bution to the sociology of work and a —Tim Dean, Encounters is the first book to explicitly much-needed critical engagement with university at Buffalo, Suny address how masculinity and sexuality queer theory, Touching Encounters re- shape male commercial sex in this era sponds to calls from across the social SEPTEmBER 232 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-87005-2 of Internet communications. sciences to connect Foucault with soci- Cloth $75.00x/£48.50 By looking closely at the sex and ologies of sex, sexuality, and intimacy. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-87006-9 work of male escorts, Kevin Walby tries Walby does this and more, tying this Paper $25.00s/£16.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-87007-6 to reconcile the two extremes of m4m sexual practice back to society at large. GAY AND LESBIAN STUDIES Kevin Walby is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Victoria. He is coeditor of Emotions Matter: A Relational Approach to Emotions and Brokering Access: Power, Politics, and Freedom of Information Process in Canada. He is also the Prisoners’ Struggles editor for the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons.

“With SuperVision, John gilliom SuperVision and Torin monahan meld deep An Introduction to the Surveillance Society knowledge with extensive teach- John giLLiom and ToRin monAhAn ing experience to offer a richly grounded look at the ubiquity of We live in a surveillance society. Any- equality. Even if you avoid using credit surveillance in everyday, con- one who uses a credit card, cell phone, cards and stay off Facebook, they show, or even search engines to navigate the going to work or school inevitably em- temporary life—from the tracking Web is being monitored and assessed— beds you in surveillance relationships. and tracing of cell phones to the and often in ways that are imperceptible Finally, they discuss the more obvious post-9/11 hyperextension of airport to us. The first general introduction to forms of surveillance, including the se- security. Surveillance studies is the growing field of surveillance stud- curity systems used at airports and on rapidly gaining importance across ies, SuperVision uses examples drawn city streets, which both epitomize con- the social sciences, and gilliom and from everyday technologies to show temporary surveillance and make im- how surveillance is used, who is using possibly grand promises of safety and monahan’s book provides a first- it, and how it affects our world. security. rate introduction to this burgeon- Beginning with a look at the activi- Gilliom and Monahan are among ing field.” ties and technologies that connect most the foremost experts on surveillance —michael musheno, people to the surveillance matrix, from and society, and, with SuperVision, they university of California, Berkeley Facebook to identification cards to GPS offer an immensely accessible and en- devices in our cars, John Gilliom and gaging guide, giving readers the tools DEcEmBER 192 p., 2 halftones 6 x 9 Torin Monahan invite readers to criti- to understand and to question how ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92443-4 Cloth $70.00x/£45.00 cally explore surveillance as it relates to deeply surveillance has been woven ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92444-1 issues of law, power, freedom, and in- into the fabric of our everyday lives. Paper $22.50s/£14.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92445-8 John gilliom is professor in the Department of Political Science at Ohio University. He is the author of Overseers of the Poor and Surveillance, Privacy, and the Law. Torin monahan SOcIOLOGY LAw is associate professor in the Department of Human and Organizational Development at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, Surveil- lance in the Time of Insecurity. 60 special interest Dominatrix “in the tradition of the great occupa- tional ethnographies, Danielle J. Gender, Eroticism, and Control in the Dungeon Lindemann takes us into profes- DAniELLE J. LinDEmAnn sional dominatrices’ worlds and Our lives are full of small tensions, our exploring the professional aspect that shows us, with graceful and con- closest relationships full of struggle: makes them unique. Lindemann satis- sistently engaging prose, how the between woman and man, artist and fies our curiosity about these paid en- women she studied build careers, customer, purist and commercialist, counters, shining a light on one of the negotiate with clients, and develop professional and client—and between most secretive and least understood of accounts that make sense of their the dominant and the submissive. personal relationships and unthread- work and of the relationships it en- In Dominatrix, Danielle J. Linde- ing a heretofore unexamined patch tails. Dominatrix has much to teach mann draws on extensive fieldwork and of our social tapestry. Upending the interviews with professional dominatri- idea that these erotic laborers engage us about gender and sexuality.” ces in New York City and San Francisco in simple exchanges and revealing the —paul Dimaggio, to offer a sophisticated portrait of these therapeutic and analytic nature of their princeton university unusual specialists, their work, and work, Lindemann makes a major contri- SEPTEmBER 256 p., 1 line drawing, their clients. Prior research on sex work bution to cultural studies, sociology, and 1 table 6 x 9 has focused primarily on prostitutes queer studies with her analysis of how ISBN-13: 978-0-226-48256-9 and most studies of BDSM absorb pro- gender, power, sexuality, and hierarchy Cloth $85.00x/£55.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-48258-3 domme/client relationships without shape all of our social experiences. Paper $27.50s/£18.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-48259-0 Danielle J. Lindemann is a postdoctoral research scholar at Vanderbilt University. She lives with her husband in New York—a city she loves masochistically. SOcIOLOGY

“The history of sexuality is a continuing endeavor. There is still much that has not yet been written Documenting Intimate Matters about, and interpretations of key topics will inevitably change over Primary Sources for a History of Sexuality in America time. Studying these documents Edited by ThomAS A. FoSTER and reading some of the historical With an Introduction by John D’Emilio literature can put you on the road to contributing to this exciting and Over time, sexuality in America has Complementing the third edition changed dramatically. Frequently rede- of Intimate Matters, by John D’Emilio intriguing intellectual endeavor.” fined and often subject to different sys- and Estelle B. Freedman—often hailed —John D’Emilio, from the introduction tems of regulation, it has been used as as the definitive survey of sexual histo- a means of control; it has been a way to ry in America—the multiple narratives OcTOBER 256 p. 6 x 9 understand ourselves and others; and it presented by these documents reveal ISBN-13: 978-0-226-25746-4 has been at the center of fierce politi- the complexity of this subject in US his- Cloth $60.00x/£39.00 cal storms, including some of the most tory. The historical moments captured ISBN-13: 978-0-226-25747-1 crucial changes in civil rights in the last in this volume will show that, contrary Paper $20.00x/£13.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-25748-8 decade. Edited by Thomas A. Foster, to popular misconception, the history Documenting Intimate Matters features of sexuality is not a simple story of in- AmERIcAN HISTORY seventy-two documents that collectively creased freedoms and sexual libera- highlight the broad diversity inherent tion, but an ongoing struggle between Also available in the history of American sexuality. change and continuity.

Thomas A. Foster is associate professor and chair of the Department of History at DePaul Intimate Matters University. He is the author of Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Man: Massachusetts and the His- Third Edition tory of Sexuality in America and the editor of Long Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexual- John D’EmiLio and ity in Early America and New Men: Manliness in Early America. ESTELLE B. FREEDmAn see page 77.

special interest 61 “Smart, humane, and beautifully Saving Babies? written, Saving Babies? is respect- ful but critical of clinicians, par- The Consequences of Newborn Genetic Screening ents, and policymakers as it vividly STEFAn TimmERmAnS and mARA BuChBinDER connects the reader to the human It has been close to six decades since Timmermans and Mara Buchbinder tragedies on the page. Without Watson and Crick discovered the struc- evaluate the consequences and benefits being maudlin, Stefan Timmermans ture of DNA and more than ten years of state-mandated newborn screening and mara Buchbinder show us how since the human genome was decoded. —and the larger policy questions they newborn screening really works. Today, through the collection and anal- raise about the inherent inequalities in Despite the grim subjects, this pro- ysis of a small blood sample, every baby American medical care that limit the born in the United States is screened effectiveness of this potentially lifesav- found book is a real treat to read.” for more than fifty genetic disorders. ing technology. —Carol A. heimer, Though the early detection of these northwestern university Drawing on observations and in- abnormalities can potentially save lives, terviews with families, doctors, and Fieldwork Encounters and the test also has a high percentage of policy actors, Timmermans and Buch- Discoveries false positives—inaccurate results that binder have given us the first ethno- can take a brutal emotional toll on par- graphic study of how parents and genet- DEcEmBER 320 p., 3 line drawings, 1 table 6 x 9 ents before they are corrected. Now icists resolve the many uncertainties in ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92497-7 some doctors are questioning whether screening newborns. Ideal for scholars Cloth $30.00s/£19.50 the benefits of these screenings out- of medicine, public health, and public E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92499-1 weigh the stress and pain they some- policy, this book is destined to become SOcIOLOGY mEDIcINE times produce. In Saving Babies?, Stefan a classic in its field.

Stefan Timmermans is professor and chair of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles and the author of Postmortem: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths, among other books. mara Buchbinder is assistant professor of social medicine and adjunct assistant professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

“The blend of historical, archival Paging God research, in-depth interviews Religion in the Halls of Medicine and participant observation, and WEnDy CADgE visual analysis of archaeology and design is powerful. Wendy Cadge’s While the modern science of medicine jor academic medical institutions to ex- attempts to make sense of this often seems nothing short of miracu- plore how today’s doctors and hospitals peculiar yet dominant social world lous, religion still plays an important address prayer and other forms of reli- will be enthusiastically received.” role in the past and present of many gion and spirituality. From chapels to —Elizabeth m. Armstrong, hospitals. When three-quarters of intensive care units to the morgue, hos- princeton university Americans believe that God can cure pital caregivers speak directly in these people who have been given little or pages about how religion is part of their NOvEmBER 328 p., 16 halftones, no chance of survival by their doctors, daily work in visible and invisible ways. 2 line drawings, 6 tables 6 x 9 how do today’s technologically sophisti- In Paging God, Cadge shifts attention ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92210-2 cated health care organizations address away from the ongoing controversy Cloth $75.00x/£48.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92211-9 spirituality and faith? about whether faith and spirituality Paper $25.00s/£16.00 Through a combination of inter- should play a role in health care and E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92213-3 views with nurses, doctors, and chap- back to the many ways that these power- mEDIcINE SOcIOLOGY lains across the United States and close ful forces already function in healthcare observation of their daily routines, today. Wendy Cadge takes readers inside ma-

Wendy Cadge is associate professor of sociology at Brandeis University and the author of Heartwood: The First Generation of Theravada Buddhism in America, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

62 special interest Finding Mecca in America “A work of considerable originality. mucahit Bilici offers a well-crafted How Islam Is Becoming an American Religion and insightful analysis of the com- muCAhiT BiLiCi plex process of integration that The events of 9/11 had a profound im- In this book, Mucahit Bilici traces muslim immigrants have faced in the pact on American society, but they had American Muslims’ progress from out- united States since 9/11. Bilici’s look an even more lasting effect on Muslims siders to natives and from immigrants at islam as a religion in the American living in the United States. Once prac- to citizens. Drawing on the philoso- system is rich and rewarding.” tically invisible, they suddenly found phies of Simmel and Heidegger, Bilici —José Casanova, themselves overexposed. By describ- develops a novel sociological approach georgetown university ing how Islam in America began as a and offers insights into the civil rights strange cultural object and is gradually activities of Muslim Americans, their NOvEmBER 280 p., 10 halftones, sinking into familiarity, Finding Mecca increasing efforts at interfaith dia- 6 line drawings, 3 tables 6 x 9 in America illuminates the growing rela- logue, and the recent phenomenon of ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04956-4 Cloth $75.00x/£48.50 tionship between Islam and American Muslim ethnic comedy. Theoretically ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04957-1 culture as Muslims find a homeland in sophisticated, Finding Mecca in America Paper $25.00s/£16.00 America. Rich in ethnographic detail, is both a portrait of American Islam E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92287-4 the book is an up-close account of how and a groundbreaking study of what it SOcIOLOGY RELIGION Islam takes its American shape. means to feel at home.

mucahit Bilici is assistant professor of sociology at John Jay College, City University of New York.

Stuck in Place “patrick Sharkey’s Stuck in Place is Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress toward one of those rare books that will Racial Equality become a standard reference for pATRiCK ShARKEy students and scholars of inequality. Examining longitudinal data over In the 1960s, many believed that the ity that existed in the 1970s has been a period of four decades, Sharkey civil rights movement’s successes would passed down to the current generation provides compelling arguments on foster a new era of racial equality in of African Americans. Some of the most how inequality clustered in a social America. Four decades later, the de- persistent forms of racial inequality, setting can be addressed with a gree of racial inequality has barely such as gaps in income and test scores, durable urban policy agenda. This changed. To understand what went can only be explained by considering wrong, Patrick Sharkey argues that we the neighborhoods in which black and important and incredibly perceptive have to understand what has happened white families have lived over multiple book is a must-read.” to African American communities generations. This multigenerational —William Julius Wilson, over the last several decades. In Stuck nature of neighborhood inequality also harvard university in Place, Sharkey describes how politi- means that a new kind of urban pol- JANUARY 304 p., 12 maps, cal decisions and social policies have icy is necessary for our nation’s cities. 26 figures, 1 table 6 x 9 led to severe disinvestment from black Sharkey argues for urban policies that ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92424-3 neighborhoods, persistent segregation, have the potential to create transfor- Cloth $90.00x/£58.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92425-0 declining economic opportunities, and mative and sustained changes in urban Paper $30.00s/£19.50 a growing link between African Ameri- communities and the families that live E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92426-7 can communities and the criminal jus- within them, and he outlines a durable SOcIOLOGY tice system. urban policy agenda to help us move in AFRIcAN AmERIcAN STUDIES As a result, neighborhood inequal- that direction.

patrick Sharkey is assistant professor of sociology at New York University.

special interest 63 Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World Historical Trends in Mortality and Health, Employment, and Disability Insurance Participation and Reforms Edited by DAviD A. WiSE National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report In nearly every industrialized country, the effects of disability insurance pro- large aging populations and increased grams on labor force participation by SEPTEmBER 520 p., 390 line drawings, 24 tables 6 x 9 life expectancy have placed pressure older workers. Drawing on measures of ISBN-13: 978-0-226-90309-5 on social security programs—and, un- health comparable across countries, it Cloth $125.00x/£80.50 til recently, the pressure has been com- explores how differences in the labor E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92195-2 pounded by a trend toward retirement force are determined by disability in- EcONOmIcS HEALTH at an earlier age. As such, social security surance programs and to what extent in many countries may soon have to be reforms are prompted by the circum- reformed in order to remain viable. stances of a country’s elderly. This volume offers an analysis of

David A. Wise is the John F. Stambaugh Professor of Political Economy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is the area director of Health and Retire- ment Programs at the NBER. Quantifying Systemic Risk Edited by JoSEph g. hAuBRiCh and AnDREW W. Lo

In the aftermath of the recent financial the challenges of measuring risk, Quan- National Bureau of Economic crisis, the federal government has pur- tifying Systemic Risk looks at the means Research Conference Report sued regulatory reforms, including pro- of measuring systemic risk and explores

JANUARY 400 p., 65 line drawings, posals to monitor systemic risk. Howev- alternative approaches. Among the top- 26 tables 6 x 9 er, there is much debate about how this ics discussed are the challenges of ty- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31928-5 might be accomplished and whether it ing regulations to specific quantitative Cloth $110.00x/£71.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92196-9 is even possible. A key issue is determin- measures and the distinction between ing the appropriate trade-offs from a the shocks that start a crisis and the EcONOmIcS BUSINESS policy and social welfare perspective. mechanisms that enable it to grow. One of the first books to address

Joseph g. haubrich is vice president of and an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. Andrew W. Lo is the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris and Harris Group Professor of Finance and director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Design and Implementation of US Climate Policy Edited by Don FuLLERTon and CAThERinE WoLFRAm

Economic research on climate change This volume looks at the possible National Bureau of Economic has been crucial in advancing our un- effects of various climate policies on Research Conference Report derstanding of the consequences asso- economic outcomes. The studies exam- ciated with global warming as well as ine topics that include coordination— OcTOBER 352 p., 1 halftone, 27 line drawings, 28 tables 6 x 9 the costs and benefits of policies that or lack thereof—between the federal ISBN-13: 978-0-226-26914-6 might reduce emissions. As nations and state governments and the specific Cloth $110.00x/£71.00 work to develop climate policies, eco- consequences of various climate poli- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92198-3 nomic insights into their design and im- cies for the agricultural, automotive, EcONOmIcS NATURE plementation are ever more important. and buildings sectors.

Don Fullerton is the Gutgsell Professor in the Department of Finance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is also a faculty associate at the Institute of Government and Public Affairs. Catherine Wolfram is associate professor of business administration at the Haas 64 special interest School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, and a research associate of the NBER. Capitalizing China Edited by JoSEph p. h. FAn and RAnDALL moRCK

China’s economic boom over the last mal institutional makeup resembles two decades has taken many analysts by that of a free-market economy, many surprise, given the ongoing role of cen- of its practices remain socialist, includ- tral government planning. Its current ing strategically placed state-owned National Bureau of Economic growth trajectory suggests that the size enterprises that wield influence both Research Conference Report of its economy could soon surpass that directly and through controlled busi- DEcEmBER 368 p., 51 line drawings, of the United States and some argue ness groups, and Communist Party cells 42 tables 6 x 9 that continued growth and the expand- whose purpose is to maintain control of ISBN-13: 978-0-226-23724-4 Cloth $110.00x/£71.00 ing middle class will ultimately exert many segments of the economy. China’s E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-23726-8 pressure on the government to bring economic system, the contributors find, EcONOmIcS about greater openness of the financial also retains many historical characteris- market. tics that play a central role in managing To better understand China’s re- the economy. These and other issues cent economic performance, this vol- are examined in chapters on China’s ume examines the distinctive system it financial regulations, corporate gov- has developed: “market socialism with ernance codes, bankruptcy laws, taxa- Chinese characteristics.” While its for- tion, and disclosure rules.

Joseph p. h. Fan is professor in the Department of Finance, codirector of the Institute of Economics and Finance, and deputy director of the Center for Institutions and Gover- nance at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Randall morck is the Stephen A. Jarislowsky Distinguished Chair in Finance and University Professor at the University of Alberta Busi- ness School and a research associate of the NBER.

special interest 65 noW in pApERBACK JACK hART Storycraft The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction

rom the work of the New Journalists in the 1960s, to the New Yorker articles of John McPhee, Susan Orlean, Atul Gawande, Fand a host of others, to blockbuster book-length narratives such as Mary Roach’s Stiff or Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City, narra- tive nonfiction has come into its own. Yet writers looking for guidance on reporting and writing true stories have had few places to turn for advice. Now, Jack Hart, a former managing editor of the Oregonian who guided several Pulitzer Prize–winning narratives to publication, deliv- ers Storycraft, which certainly will become the definitive guide to the “Despite a career focused on the world methods and mechanics of crafting narrative nonfiction. of journalism, the author demonstrates Hart covers what narrative writers need to know, from understand- much insight into the canon of more ing story theory and structure, to mastering point of view and such ‘literary’ creative nonfiction by choosing basic elements as scene, action, and character, to drafting, revising, sound examples that are both accessible and editing work for publication. Revealing the stories behind the and widely acclaimed. . . . This book can stories, Hart brings readers into the process of developing nonfiction function as both a practical introduc- narratives by sharing tips, anecdotes, and recommendations he forged tion to narrative nonfiction and a concise during his decades in journalism. From there, he expands the discus- refresher for professionals.” sion to other well-known writers to show the broad range of texts, —Choice styles, genres, and media to which his advice applies. With examples Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, that draw from magazine essays, book-length nonfiction narratives, and Publishing film and broadcast documentaries, and radio programs,Storycraft will OcTOBER 280 p., 15 line drawings 6 x 9 be an indispensable resource for years to come. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31816-5 Paper $15.00/£9.50 “Instructive and essential, reading Storycraft is like finding the E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31820-2 secret set of blueprints to the writer’s craft. Better still, it is engaging, REFERENcE funny, and wise—wonderful to read and wonderful to learn from.” Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31814-1 —Susan Orlean

Jack hart was formerly managing editor and writing coach at the Orego- nian. He received a National Teaching Award from the American Society of Newspaper Editors and a University of Wisconsin Distinguished Service Award for his contributions to journalism, has taught on the faculties of six universities, and was named the Ruhl Distinguished Professor at the Univer- sity of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication. He is the author of A Writer’s Coach.

paperbacks 67 The Chicago History of American Civilization

EDmunD S. moRgAn John hopE FRAnKLin WiLLiAm T. hAgAn and DAniEL m. CoBB The Birth of Reconstruction the Republic, after the Civil American 1763–89 War Indians Fourth Edition Third Edition Fourth Edition

With a new Foreword by With a new Foreword by With a new Foreword by Patricia Joseph J. Ellis and an Essay Eric Foner and an Essay by Nelson Limerick and a new by Rosemarie Zagarri Michael W. Fitzgerald Introduction by Daniel M. Cobb

n 1957, the University of Chicago Press asked acclaimed best-selling historian Daniel J. Boorstin to oversee a series of accessible yet authoritative books that, together, would tell the whole history of the American people. IThe result, published over the course of nearly half a century, is the Chicago History of American Civilization series, which provides a nuanced and vibrant portrait of the United States from its inception through the twentieth century. Scholars across many disciplines contributed, and the series covers a broad range of topics, as disparate as the War of 1812, immigration, and American folklore. While the series is certainly eclectic, the books share both ambition and authority—they have been staples for teachers and general readers alike. The authors included in this series represent some of the greatest academic talents ever to turn their mind to the American past.

68 paperbacks Thus the University of Chicago Press is excited to offer new edi- The Birth of the tions of three of the series’s best-known books. In The Birth of the Republic, 1763–89 Republic, 1763–89, Edmund S. Morgan shows how the challenge of Fourth Edition British taxation started Americans on a search for constitutional DEcEmBER 240 p., 1 line drawing principles to protect their freedom, and eventually led to the Revolu- 51/2 x 81/2 tion. By demonstrating that the founding fathers’ political philosophy ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92342-0 Paper $16.00/£10.50 was not grounded in theory, but rather grew out of their own immedi- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92343-7 AmERIcAN HISTORY ate needs, Morgan paints a vivid portrait of how the founders’ own experiences shaped their passionate convictions, and these in turn were incorporated into the Constitution and other governmental docu- ments. The Birth of the Republic is the classic account of the beginnings of the American government, and in this fourth edition the original Reconstruction text is supplemented with a new foreword by Joseph J. Ellis and a histo- after the Civil War riographic essay by Rosemarie Zagarri. Third Edition

Reconstruction after the Civil War explores the role of former slaves DEcEmBER 396 p., 11 halftones, 2 tables 51/2 x 81/2 during this period in American history. Looking past popular myths ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92337-6 and controversial scholarship, John Hope Franklin uses his astute in- Paper $20.00/£13.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92339-0 sight and careful research to provide an accurate, comprehensive por- AmERIcAN HISTORY trait of the era. His arguments concerning the brevity of the North’s occupation, the limited power wielded by former slaves, the influence of moderate Southerners, the flawed constitutions of the radical state governments, and the downfall of Reconstruction remain compelling today. This new edition of Reconstruction after the Civil War also includes a American Indians Fourth Edition foreword by Eric Foner and a perceptive essay by Michael W. Fitzgerald. William T. Hagan’s classic American Indians has become standard DEcEmBER 240 p., 20 halftones, 4 maps 6 x 9 reading in the field of Native American history. Daniel M. Cobb, who ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31239-2 Paper $20.00s/£13.00 studied with Hagan, has taken over the task of updating and revising E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92347-5 the material, enabling the book to respond to the times. Spanning the AmERIcAN HISTORY arrival of white settlers in the Americas through the twentieth century, this concise account includes more than twenty new maps and illus- trations, as well as a bibliographic essay that surveys the most recent research in Indian-white relations. With an introduction by Cobb, and a foreword by eminent historian Patricia Nelson Limerick, this fourth edition marks the fiftieth anniversary of the original publication of American Indians.

Edmund S. morgan is the Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale Univer- sity and past president of the Organization of American Historians. John hope Franklin (1915–2009) was the James B. Duke Professor of History Emeritus at Duke University. He is the author of many books, including Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin and Racial Equality in America. William T. hagan (1918–2011) was professor emeritus of history at the University of Okla- homa and the author of The Sac and Fox Indians, Indian Police and Judges, United States-Comanche Relations, and The Indian Rights Association. Daniel m. Cobb is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. paperbacks 69 JEnniFER RATnER-RoSEnhAgEn American Nietzsche A History of an Icon and His Ideas

f you were looking for a philosopher likely to appeal to Ameri- cans, Friedrich Nietzsche would be far from your first choice. IAfter all, in his blazing career, Nietzsche took aim at nearly all the foundations of modern American life: Christian morality, the Enlight- enment faith in reason, and the idea of human equality. Despite that, for more than a century Nietzsche has been a hugely popular—and influential—figure in American thought and culture. “Today’s inescapable and perplexing In American Nietzsche, Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen delves deeply nietzsche is not necessarily the same ni- into Nietzsche’s philosophy, and America’s reception of it, to tell the etzsche who inspired readers in the past; story of his curious appeal. Beginning her account with Ralph Waldo and it’s the achievement of American Emerson, whom the seventeen-year-old Nietzsche read fervently, she Nietzsche to show how that is the case.” shows how Nietzsche’s ideas first burst on American shores at the —Alexander Star, New York Times Book Review turn of the twentieth century, and how they continued alternately to invigorate and to shock Americans for the century to come. She also

“A lively history. . . . With vigor and intel- delineates the broader intellectual and cultural contexts within which ligence, American Nietzsche covers a a wide array of commentators—academic and armchair philosophers, great deal of ground. . . . Jennifer Ratner- theologians and atheists, romantic poets and hard-nosed empiricists, Rosenhagen is a superb listener.” and political ideologues and apostates from the Left and the Right— —Nation drew insight and inspiration from Nietzsche’s claims for the death of God, his challenge to universal truth, and his insistence on the inter-

OcTOBER 464 p., 21 halftones 6 x 9 pretive nature of all human thought and beliefs. At the same time, she ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00676-5 Paper $20.00/£13.00 explores how his image as an iconoclastic immoralist was put to work E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-70584-2 in American popular culture, making Nietzsche an unlikely posthu- AmERIcAN HISTORY mous celebrity capable of inspiring teenagers and scholars alike. Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-70581-1 A penetrating examination of a powerful but little-explored under- current of twentieth-century American thought and culture, American Nietzsche dramatically recasts our understanding of American intellec- tual life—and puts Nietzsche squarely at its heart.

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen is the Merle Curti Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

70 paperbacks DAvE hiCKEy The Invisible Dragon Essays on Beauty Revised and Expanded

he Invisible Dragon made a lot of noise for a little book. When it was originally published in 1993 it was championed by art- Tists for its forceful call for a reconsideration of beauty—and savaged by more theoretically oriented critics who dismissed the very “Dave hickey’s writing is exhilarating and concept of beauty as naive, igniting a debate that has shown no sign of deeply engaging. At its best, Dragon is flagging. both a time capsule of a period when dirty With this revised and expanded edition, Dave Hickey is back to pictures could dismantle institutions and fan the flames. More manifesto than polite discussion, more call to a provocation to reignite the conversation action than criticism, The Invisible Dragon aims squarely at the hyper- about the purpose of art.” —Newsweek institutionalism that, in Hickey’s view, denies the real pleasures that draw us to art in the first place. Deploying the artworks of Warhol, OcTOBER 152 p., 8 halftones 6 x 71/4 Raphael, Caravaggio, and Mapplethorpe and the writings of Ruskin, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-33319-9 Shakespeare, Deleuze, and Foucault, Hickey takes on museum culture, Paper $15.00/£9.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10438-8 arid academicism, sclerotic politics, and more—all in the service of ART PHILOSOPHY making readers rethink the nature of art. A new introduction provides Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-33318-2 a context for earlier essays—what Hickey calls his “intellectual temper tantrums.” A new essay, “American Beauty,” concludes the volume with a historical argument that is a rousing paean to the inherently demo- cratic nature of attention to beauty. Written with a verve that is all too rare in serious criticism, this expanded and refurbished edition of The Invisible Dragon will be sure to captivate a new generation of readers, provoking the passionate reac- tions that are the hallmark of great criticism.

Dave hickey writes cultural criticism. He is former executive editor of Art in America and the author of Air Guitar. He has served as a contributing editor for the Village Voice and as the arts editor of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He is now a professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

paperbacks 71 John pATRiCK DigginS Why Niebuhr Now?

arack Obama has called him “one of my favorite philoso- phers.” John McCain wrote that he is “a paragon of clarity Babout the costs of a good war.” Andrew Sullivan has said, “We need Niebuhr now more than ever.” For a theologian who died in 1971, Reinhold Niebuhr is maintaining a remarkably high profile in the twenty-first century. In Why Niebuhr Now? acclaimed historian John Patrick Diggins tackles the complicated question of why, at a time of great uncertainty about America’s proper role in the world, leading politicians and thinkers are turning to Niebuhr for answers. Diggins begins by clearly and carefully working through Niebuhr’s theology, which focuses “A good introduction to the works of a less on God’s presence than his absence—and the ways that absence complex man, it adroitly places niebuhr’s abets the all-too-human sin of pride. He then shows how that theology thought among the twentieth-century informed Niebuhr’s worldview, leading him to be at the same time a intellectual milieu that mr. Diggins spent strong opponent of fascism and communism and a leading advocate a lifetime studying.” for humility and caution in foreign policy. —Economist Turning to the present, Diggins highlights what he argues is a misuse of Niebuhr’s legacy on both the right and the left: while neo- OcTOBER 152 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00452-5 conservatives distort Niebuhr’s arguments to support their call for an Paper $14.00/£9.00 endless war on terror in the name of stopping evil, many liberal inter- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-14886-1 AmERIcAN HISTORY RELIGION ventionists conveniently ignore Niebuhr’s fundamental doubts about Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-14883-0 power. Ultimately, Niebuhr’s greatest lesson is that, while it is our duty to struggle for good, we must be wary of hubris and acknowledge the limits of our understanding. The final work from a distinguished writer who spent his entire ca- reer reflecting on America’s history and promise,Why Niebuhr Now? is a compact and perceptive book that will be the starting point for all future discussions of Niebuhr.

John patrick Diggins (1935–2009) was distinguished professor at the City Uni- versity of New York and the author of many books, including Eugene O’Neill’s America and The Promise of Pragmatism, both published by the University of Chi- cago Press.

72 paperbacks pETER CoRning The Fair Society The Science of Human Nature and the Pursuit of Social Justice

e’ve been told again and again that life is unfair. But what if we’re wrong simply to resign ourselves to this situa- Wtion? What if we have the power—and more, the duty—to change society for the better? We do. And our very nature inclines us to do so. That’s the provoc- ative argument Peter Corning makes in The Fair Society. Drawing on the evidence from our evolutionary history and the emergent science of human nature, Corning shows that we have an innate sense of fairness. “An edifying book. . . . i admire peter While these impulses can easily be subverted by greed and demagogu- Corning’s attempt to develop a norma- ery, they can also be harnessed for good. Corning brings together the tive theory of justice that is ‘built on an latest findings from the behavioral and biological sciences to help us empirical foundation.’ . . . one hopes that understand how to move beyond the Madoffs and Enrons in our midst those who wish to occupy places of power in order to lay the foundation for a new social contract—a biosocial on behalf of the 99 percent will heed contract built on a deep understanding of human nature and a com- Corning’s sage advice about what to do mitment to fairness. He then proposes a sweeping set of economic and and—just as important—what not to do in political reforms based on principles of fairness that could transform planning for a better, more just society.” our society and our world. —American Scientist At this crisis point for capitalism, Corning reveals that the proper response to bank bailouts and financial chicanery isn’t to get mad—it’s OcTOBER 256 p. 6 x 9 to get fair. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00435-8 Paper $17.00/£11.00 “Peter Corning paints a compelling picture of the excessive E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-11630-3 inequalities of income, wealth, and power in American society, and cURRENT EvENTS ScIENcE Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-11627-3 the damage they cause. More importantly, he makes a strong case for fairness—arguing that equality, equity, and reciprocity are central to humanity’s social needs and collective flourishing.”—Kate Pickett, coauthor of The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger

peter Corning is the director of the Institute for the Study of Complex Systems, a onetime writer for Newsweek, professor at Stanford University, and the author of several books.

paperbacks 73 RonALD T. mERRiLL Our Magnetic Earth The Science of Geomagnetism

or the general public, magnetism often seems more the prov- ince of new age quacks, movie mad scientists, and grade-school Fteachers than an area of actual, ongoing scientific inquiry. But as Ronald T. Merrill reveals in Our Magnetic Earth, geomag- netism really is an enduring, vibrant area of science, one that offers answers to some of the biggest questions about our planet’s past—and maybe even its future. In a clear and careful fashion, he lays out the “if you’re looking for a gift for a self- physics of geomagnetism and magnetic fields, then goes on to explain described geek drawn to science books how Earth’s magnetic field provides crucial evidence for our under- like an iron filing to a magnet, then con- standing of continental drift and plate tectonics; how and why animals, sider Our Magnetic Earth, a fascinating ranging from bacteria to mammals, sense and use the magnetic field; explanation of that mysterious force.” how changes in climate over eons can be studied through variations —Julia Keller, in the magnetic field in rocks; and much more. Throughout, Merrill Chicago Tribune peppers his scientific account with bizarre anecdotes and fascinating details, from levitating pizzas to Moon missions to blackmailing KGB OcTOBER 272 p., 26 halftones, agents—a reminder that real science can at times be stranger, and 7 line drawings 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00659-8 more amusing, than fiction. Paper $17.00/£11.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-52053-7 A winning primer for anyone who has ever struggled with a com- ScIENcE pass or admired a ragged V of migrating geese, Our Magnetic Earth Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-52050-6 demonstrates that education and entertainment need not be polar opposites.

Ronald T. merrill is professor emeritus of earth and space sciences at the Uni- versity of Washington. In 2002 he was awarded the John Adam Fleming Medal of the American Geophysical Union.

74 paperbacks BoB RiESmAn I Feel So Good The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy With a Foreword by Peter Guralnick and an Appreciation by Pete Townshend

major figure in American blues and folk music, Big Bill Broonzy (1903–58) left his Arkansas Delta home after World A War I, headed north, and became the leading Chicago blues- man of the 1930s. His success came as he fused traditional rural blues with the electrified sound that was beginning to emerge in Chicago. This, however, was just one step in his remarkable journey: Big Bill was constantly reinventing himself, both in reality and in his retellings of “Bob Riesman’s account of Broonzy’s ca- it. Bob Riesman’s groundbreaking biography tells the compelling life reer in Chicago, paris, London, and later story of a lost figure from the annals of music history. on the uS folk circuit with peter Seeger I Feel So Good traces Big Bill’s career from his rise as a nationally and others, is as dense and detailed as prominent blues star, including his historic 1938 appearance at Carn- it is clear and straightforward. . . . I Feel egie Hall, to his influential role in the post–World War II folk revival, So Good is a well-written, beautifully when he sang about racial injustice alongside Pete Seeger and Studs produced account of a life lived in perfor- Terkel. Riesman’s account brings the reader into the jazz clubs and mance.” concert halls of Europe, as Big Bill’s overseas tours in the 1950s ignited —Times Literary Supplement the British blues-rock explosion of the 1960s. Interviews with Eric

Clapton, Pete Townshend, and Ray Davies reveal Broonzy’s profound OcTOBER 366 p., 31 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00709-0 impact on the British rockers who would follow him and change the Paper $17.00/£11.00 course of popular music. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-71748-7 mUSIc BIOGRAPHY Along the way, Riesman details Big Bill’s complicated and poi- Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-71745-6 gnant personal saga: he was married three times and became a father at the very end of his life to a child half a world away. He also brings to light Big Bill’s final years, when he lost first his voice, then his life, to cancer, just as his international reputation was reaching its peak. Fea- turing many rarely seen photos, as well as a foreword by the celebrated music writer and historian Peter Guralnick, I Feel So Good will be the definitive account of Big Bill Broonzy’s life and music.

Bob Riesman is coeditor of Chicago Folk: Images of the Sixties Music Scene: The Photographs of Raeburn Flerlage. He produced and cowrote the television docu- mentary American Roots Music: Chicago, and was a contributor to Routledge’s Encyclopedia of the Blues.

paperbacks 75 SEBASTiAn EDWARDS Left Behind Latin America and the False Promise of Populism

he political and economic history of Latin America has been marked by great hopes and even greater disappointments. De- Tspite abundant resources—and a history of productivity and wealth—in recent decades the region has fallen further and further behind developed nations, surpassed even by other developing econo- mies in Southeast Asia and elsewhere. In Left Behind, Sebastian Edwards explains why the nations of Latin America have failed to share in the fruits of globalization and “A masterly analysis that explains why highlights the dangers of the recent turn to economic populism in the economic populism in Latin America has region. He begins by detailing the many ways Latin American govern- been unable to reduce poverty—and never ments have stifled economic development over the years through ex- will. A must read for anyone eager to see cessive regulation, currency manipulation, and thoroughgoing corrup- Latin American countries move towards tion. He then turns to the neoliberal reforms of the early 1990s, which modern, inclusive, and sustainable mar- called for the elimination of deficits, lowering of trade barriers, and ket economies under a single rule of law.” privatization of inefficient public enterprises—and which, Edwards —hernando de Soto, author of The Other Path argues, held the promise of freeing Latin America from the burdens of and The Mystery of Capital the past. Flawed implementation, however, meant the promised gains of globalization were never felt by the mass of citizens, and growing “A brilliant blow-by-blow account of eco- frustration with stalled progress has led to a resurgence of populism nomic policy decisions and their effects throughout the region, exemplified by the economic policies of Ven- in each of three key countries: Chile, ezuela’s Hugo Chávez. But such measures, Edwards warns, are a recipe Argentina, and mexico” for disaster; instead, he argues, the way forward for Latin America lies —Times Literary Supplement in further modernization reforms, more honestly pursued and fairly implemented. As an example of the promise of that approach, Ed- NOvEmBER 296 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00466-2 wards points to Latin America’s giant, Brazil, which in recent years has Paper $17.00/£11.00 finally begun to show signs of reaching its true economic potential. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-18480-7 EcONOmIcS POLITIcAL ScIENcE Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-18478-4 Sebastian Edwards is the Henry Ford II Professor of International Economics at the Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of Califor- No Spanish language rights. nia, Los Angeles.

76 paperbacks John D’EmiLio and ESTELLE B. FREEDmAn Intimate Matters A History of Sexuality in America

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s the first full-length study of the history of sexuality in America, Intimate Matters offered trenchant insights into the A sexual behavior of Americans from colonial times to the present. Now, twenty-five years after its first publication, this ground- breaking classic is back in a crucial and updated third edition. With new and extended chapters, John D’Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman give us an even deeper understanding of how sexuality has dramati- cally influenced politics and culture throughout our history and into the present. “This book is remarkable. . . . Intimate Hailed by critics for its comprehensive approach and noted by the Matters is bound to become the defini- US Supreme Court in the landmark Lawrence v. Texas ruling, Intimate tive survey of American sexual history for Matters details the changes in sexuality and the ongoing growth of years to come.” individual freedoms in the United States through meticulous research —Roy porter, and lucid prose. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences Praise for earlier editions

“Intimate Matters was cited by Supreme Court Justice Anthony Ken- OcTOBER 560 p., 55 halftones, 11 line drawings 51/4 x 8 nedy when, writing for a majority of court . . . he and his colleagues ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92380-2 struck down a Texas law criminalizing sodomy. The decision was widely Paper $25.00x/£16.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92381-9 hailed as a victory for gay rights—and it derived in part, according to HISTORY GAY AND LESBIAN STUDIES Kennedy’s written comments, from the information he gleaned from Previous edition ISBN-13: 978-0-226-14264-7 this book.”—Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune

“Fascinating. . . . John D’Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman marshal Also available their material to chart a gradual but decisive shift in the way Ameri- cans have understood sex and its meaning in their lives.”—Barbara Documenting Intimate Matters Ehrenreich, New York Times Book Review Edited by Thomas A. Foster “With comprehensiveness and care, John D’Emilio and Estelle B. see page 61. Freedman have surveyed the sexual patterns of an entire nation across four centuries.”—Martin Duberman, Nation

John D’Emilio is professor of history and of gender and women’s studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The policy director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, he is the author of The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and Culture. Estelle B. Freedman is the Edgar E. Robinson Professor in US History at Stanford University and the author of No Turning Back: The His- tory of Feminism and the Future of Women. paperbacks 77 DAviD E. BERnSTEin Rehabilitating Lochner Defending Individual Rights against Progressive Reform

n this timely reevaluation of an infamous Supreme Court deci- sion, David E. Bernstein provides a compelling survey of the Ihistory and background of Lochner v. New York. This 1905 decision invalidated a state law limiting work hours and became the leading precedent contending that novel economic regulations were uncon- stitutional. Sure to be controversial, Rehabilitating Lochner argues that “David E. Bernstein takes issue with despite the decision’s reputation, it was well-grounded in precedent— conventional wisdom and argues that if and that modern constitutional jurisprudence owes at least as much one understands the larger context and to the limited-government ideas of Lochner proponents as to the more broader stream of historical develop- expansive vision of its Progressive opponents. ment, Lochner was a ‘good law’ at the Tracing the influence of this decision through subsequent battles time and, despite the fact that it was over segregation laws, sex discrimination, civil liberties, and more, overruled, its core principles remain good Rehabilitating Lochner argues not only that the court acted reasonably constitutional law today. This is a delight- in Lochner, but that Lochner and like-minded cases have been widely ful and informative book that deserves a misunderstood and unfairly maligned ever since. broad audience.” “As every law student knows, Lochner was a case in which a court —Choice packed with business sympathizers stuck it to the little guy in a shame- less display of judicial activism. But, like a surprisingly large number OcTOBER 208 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00404-4 of things everyone knows, this conventional wisdom is almost entirely Paper $22.50/£14.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04318-0 wrong, and David E. Bernstein’s new book, Rehabilitating Lochner, LAw HISTORY makes clear just how wrong it is—and how and why the Lochner narra- Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04353-1 tive became established in the legal academy. . . . The false narrative of Lochner has controlled the past for decades but Bernstein’s clear and incisive work may wrest that control away and move us back to the truth.”—Glenn Reynolds, Commentary “David E. Bernstein attempts the grand task of ‘correcting decades of erroneous accounts’ and succeeds with aplomb, and notable timeliness. The story of how Joseph Lochner fought legislators and unions to bake his goods in freedom goes especially well with tea.”—National Review

David E. Bernstein is a Foundation Professor at the George Mason University School of Law and the author of several books, including, most recently, You 78 paperbacks Can’t Say That! The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws. KEnnETh gRoSS Puppet An Essay on Uncanny Life

he puppet creates delight and fear. It may evoke the innocent play of childhood, or become a tool of ritual magic, able to Tnegotiate with ghosts and gods. Puppets can be creepy things, secretive, inanimate while also full of spirit, alive with gesture and voice. In this eloquent book, Kenneth Gross contemplates the fasci- nation of these unsettling objects—objects that are also actors and images of life. The poetry of the puppet is central here, whether in its blunt grotesquery or symbolic simplicity, and always in its talent for meta- morphosis. On a meditative journey to seek the idiosyncratic shapes “you have in your hands a uniquely beauti- of puppets on stage, Gross looks at the anarchic Punch and Judy show, ful book, a book of uncommon brilliance the sacred shadow theater of Bali, and experimental theaters in Eu- and lucidity. it is as wondrous as the rope and the United States, where puppets enact everything from theaters of marvels it describes; its leaps Baroque opera and Shakespearean tragedy to Beckettian farce. and mutabilities provide a thrilling adven- Throughout, he interweaves accounts of the myriad faces of the puppet ture in imaginative thinking. ‘how are we in literature—Collodi’s cruel, wooden Pinocchio, puppet-like characters devoured by the things we make?’ it asks. in Kafka and Dickens, Rilke’s puppet-angels, the dark puppeteering of ‘And when might that devouring save us?’ Philip Roth’s Mickey Sabbath—as well as in the work of artists Joseph my copy burns brightly on my favorite Cornell and Paul Klee. The puppet emerges here as a hungry creature, shelf, beside The Poetics of Space, Eccen- seducer and destroyer, demon and clown. It is a test of our experience tric Spaces, and In Praise of Shadows. of things, of the human and inhuman. A book about reseeing what we . . . A treasure!” know, or what we think we know, Puppet evokes the startling power of —Rikki Ducornet, puppets as mirrors of the uncanny in life and art. author of Netsuke and The Fan-Maker’s Inquisition “No one better illustrates the evolution of academic literary criticism into poetry than Kenneth Gross. . . . He dreams and muses, OcTOBER 224 p., 4 color plates, offering endless insights into the strange and archaic world of puppets, 24 halftones 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00550-8 inanimate things breathed to life. This is a book of literary mysticism, Paper $15.00/£9.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30960-6 rich with accrued culture yet never weighed down by it.”—New York ART LITERARY cRITIcISm Times Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30958-3

Kenneth gross teaches English at the University of Rochester and is the au- thor, most recently, of Shylock Is Shakespeare, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

paperbacks 79 LEo KATZ Why the Law Is So Perverse

onundrums, puzzles, and perversities: these are Leo Katz’s stock-in-trade, and in Why the Law Is So Perverse, he focuses on C four fundamental features of our legal system, all of which seem to not make sense on some level and to demand explanation. First, legal decisions are essentially made in an either/or fashion— guilty or not guilty, liable or not liable, either it’s a contract or it’s not—but reality is rarely as clear-cut. Why aren’t there any in-between verdicts? Second, the law is full of loopholes. No one seems to like them, but somehow they cannot be made to disappear. Why? Third, “Why the Law Is So Perverse is a terrific legal systems are loath to punish certain kinds of highly immoral con- book. it is original in its general concep- duct while prosecuting other far less pernicious behaviors. What makes tion and creative in all the particularities a villainy a felony? Finally, why does the law often prohibit what are of its execution. And in bringing the so- sometimes called win-win transactions, such as organ sales or surro- cial choice argument to the law and legal gacy contracts? Katz asserts that these perversions arise out of a cluster problems, Leo Katz has made an impor- of logical difficulties related to multicriterial decision making.Why the tant and novel academic contribution.” Law Is So Perverse contains lucid explanations and apt examples that —Bruce Chapman, show why the perversity of the law resists any easy resolutions. university of Toronto “Leo Katz wisely peppers his puzzles with humor, jokes, miniplays, and thoughtful warnings of difficult passages to come (along with wel- NOvEmBER 256 p., 1 line drawing 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00581-2 come invitations to skip ahead) that temper this otherwise demanding Paper $22.50s/£14.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42606-8 volume and make following the twists and turns of the argument well LAw worth the challenge. And for those for whom puzzling is a pleasure in Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42603-7 itself, the book will be a feast.”—Boston Globe “Mr. Katz unravels the logical tangles with clarity, humor and a light touch—a testament to the quality of his writing.”—Wall Street Journal

Leo Katz is the Frank Carano Professor of Law at the University of Pennsyl- vania Law School. He is the author of Bad Acts and Guilty Minds: Conundrums of the Criminal Law and Ill-Gotten Gains: Evasion, Blackmail, Fraud, and Kindred Puzzles of the Law, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

80 paperbacks How Philosophy Became Socratic “This book offers an extraordinarily rich, illuminating, thought-provoking, A Study of Plato’s Protagoras, Charmides, and Republic and original account of Protagoras, LAuREnCE LAmpERT Charmides, and the Republic in particular and of Socrates’s thought Plato’s dialogues show Socrates at dif- it gradually took the form that came ferent ages, beginning when he was to dominate the life of the mind in the as a whole. Even—and especially— about nineteen and already deeply im- West. The reader accompanies Socrates when one disagrees with this stimu- mersed in philosophy and ending with as he breaks with the century-old tra- lating and daring work, one learns a his execution five decades later. By pre- dition of philosophy, turns to his own great deal from it. it is a remarkably senting this model philosopher across path, gradually enters into a deeper un- ambitious book, one that attempts a fifty-year span of his life, Plato leads derstanding of nature and human na- to put forth an interpretation of his readers to wonder: Does that time ture, and discovers the successful way to period correspond to the development transmit his wisdom to the wider world. plato’s entire corpus and its role in of Socrates’s thought? In this magiste- Focusing on the final and most promi- Western civilization.” rial investigation of the evolution of nent step in that process and offering —peter Ahrensdorf, Socrates’s philosophy, Laurence Lam- detailed textual analysis of Plato’s Pro- Davidson College pert answers in the affirmative. tagoras, Charmides, and Republic, How Phi- The chronological route that Plato losophy Became Socratic charts Socrates’s DEcEmBER 448 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00628-4 maps for us, Lampert argues, reveals gradual discovery of a proper politics to Paper $35.00s/£22.50 the enduring record of philosophy as shelter and advance philosophy. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47097-9

PHILOSOPHY Laurence Lampert is emeritus professor of philosophy at Indiana University–Purdue Univer- sity Indianapolis. He is the author of four other books, including Leo Strauss and Nietzsche, Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47096-2 also published by the University of Chicago Press, and Nietzsche and Modern Times: A Study of Bacon, Descartes, and Nietzsche.

The Soul of the Greeks An Inquiry miChAEL DAviS

The understanding of the soul in the to explore the consequences of the West has been profoundly shaped by problem of Achilles across the whole Christianity, and its influence can be range of the soul’s activity. Moving to seen in certain assumptions often made Herodotus and Euripides, Davis con- about the soul: that, for example, if it siders their shared understanding of does exist, it is separable from the body, the consequences for soul of the two free, immortal, and potentially pure. extremes of culture—one rooted in The ancient Greeks, however, con- stability and tradition, the other in ceived of the soul quite differently. In freedom and motion—and explores this ambitious new work, Michael Davis how these extremes mark the limits of analyzes works by Homer, Herodotus, character. The book then turns, in the Euripides, Plato, and Aristotle to reveal final part, to several Platonic dialogues how the ancient Greeks portrayed and to understand the soul’s imperfection SEPTEmBER 248 p. 6 x 9 understood what he calls “the fully hu- in relation to law, justice, tyranny, eros, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00449-5 Paper $22.50s/£14.50 man soul.” the gods, and philosophy itself. Davis E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-13799-5 concludes with Plato’s presentation of Beginning with the Iliad, Davis PHILOSOPHY cLASSIcS lays out the tension within the soul the soul of Socrates as self-aware and Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-13796-4 of Achilles between immortality and nontragic, even if it is necessarily alien- life. He then turns to Aristotle’s work ated and divided against itself.

michael Davis is professor of philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College.

paperbacks 81 “Brimming with original insights, Plato’s Philosophers this massive book offers a compre- hensive vision of the entire platonic The Coherence of the Dialogues CAThERinE h. ZuCKERT corpus. . . . Both analytic philoso- phers and literary interpreters, Faced with the difficult task of discern- a narrative of the rise, development, who eschew argument in favor of ing Plato’s true ideas from the contra- and limitations of Socratic philosophy. artistic structure and presentation dictory voices he used to express them, In the drama’s earliest dialogues, for of character, will profit from en- scholars have never fully made sense of example, non-Socratic philosophers in- gagement with this brilliant study. the many incompatibilities within and troduce the political and philosophical . . . This book will allow scholars between the dialogues. In the magis- problems to which Socrates tries to re- terial Plato’s Philosophers, Catherine H. spond. A second dramatic group shows of all persuasions to make discov- Zuckert explains for the first time how how Socrates develops his distinctive eries at every turn as the author these prose dramas cohere to reveal a philosophical style. And, finally, the guides them through territory they comprehensive Platonic understanding later dialogues feature interlocutors thought they knew well.” of philosophy. who reveal his philosophy’s limitations. —Choice To expose this coherence, Zuckert Despite these limitations, Zuckert con- examines the dialogues not in their cludes, Plato made Socrates the dia- SEPTEmBER 896 p. 6 x 9 supposed order of composition but ac- logues’ central figure because Socrates ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00774-8 raises the fundamental human ques- Paper $30.00s/£19.50 cording to the dramatic order in which E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-99338-6 Plato indicates they took place. This tion: What is the best way to live? unconventional arrangement lays bare PHILOSOPHY POLITIcAL ScIENcE Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-99335-5 Catherine h. Zuckert is the Nancy R. Dreux Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Postmodern Platos and coauthor of The Truth about Leo Strauss, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

“The translations strike that dif- Anger, Mercy, Revenge ficult balance between fidelity to LuCiuS AnnAEuS SEnECA the original and natural English Translated by Robert A. Kaster and Martha C. Nussbaum idiom. Latinless readers will not be confused, philosophically minded Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE–65 the classical writers most widely studied readers will appreciate the cita- CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, in the humanities. tions, and classicists will find in dramatist, statesman, and adviser to Anger, Mercy, Revenge comprises the emperor Nero, all during the Silver the notes the discussion and argu- three key writings: the moral essays Age of Latin literature. The Complete On Anger and On Clemency—the latter ments they may want to clarify the Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a penned as advice for the young emper- original. . . . An admirable effort to fresh and compelling series of new Eng- or Nero—and the Apocolocyntosis, a bril- bring Seneca to a wider audience.” lish-language translations of his works liant satire lampooning the end of the —Bryn Mawr Classical Review in eight accessible volumes. Edited by reign of Claudius. Friend and tutor, as world-renowned classicists Elizabeth well as philosopher, Seneca welcomed Complete Works of Lucius Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. the end of Claudius’s sovereignty and Annaeus Seneca Nussbaum, this engaging collection re- the beginning of the age of Nero in

DEcEmBER 272 p. 51/2 x 81/2 stores Seneca—whose works have been tones alternately serious, poetic, and ISBN-13: 978-0-226-74842-9 highly praised by modern authors from comic—making Anger, Mercy, Revenge Paper $27.50s/£18.00 Desiderius Erasmus to Ralph Waldo a collection just as complicated, astute, E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-74853-5 Emerson—to his rightful place among and ambitious as its author. cLASSIcS PHILOSOPHY Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-74841-2 Robert A. Kaster is professor of classics and the Kennedy Foundation Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Princeton University. He is the author of Emotion, Restraint, and Community in Ancient Rome, among other volumes. martha C. nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago and the au- thor of Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities and Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach, among other volumes.

82 paperbacks The Gang A Study of 1,313 Gangs in Chicago FREDERiC miLTon ThRAShER

While gangs and gang culture have to feudal and medieval power systems DEcEmBER 600 p., 20 halftones 5 x 8 been around for countless centuries, and linked tribal ethos in other societ- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-79930-8 The Gang is one of the first academic ies to codes of honor and glory found in Paper $30.00s/£19.50 studies of the phenomenon. Original- American gangs. SOcIOLOGY URBAN STUDIES ly published in 1927, Frederic Milton Thrasher approaches his subject Thrasher’s magnum opus offers a pro- with empathy and insightfulness, and found and careful analysis of hundreds creates a multifaceted and textured of gangs in Chicago in the early part of portrait that still has much to offer to the twentieth century. With rich prose readers today. With handsome images and an eye for detail, Thrasher looked that evoke the era, this unabridged edi- specifically at the way in which urban tion of The Gang not only explores an geography shaped gangs, and posited important moment in the history of the thesis that neighborhoods in flux Chicago, but also is itself a landmark in were more likely to produce gangs. the history of sociology and subcultural Moreover, he traced gang culture back theory. Frederic milton Thrasher (1892–1962) taught sociology at the University of Chicago.

How Does Analysis Cure? “A landmark book which will exert hEinZ KohuT increasing influence with passing time. . . . its success lies in the ac- Edited by Arnold Goldberg with the collaboration of Paul E. Stepansky complishment of its stated aims.” The Austro-American psychoanalyst dipus complex and narcissism, while in- —Carl T. Rotenberg, Heinz Kohut was one of the foremost vestigating the nature of analysis itself Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis leaders in his field and developed the as treatment and cure for pathologies. school of self-psychology, which sets This in-depth examination of “the talk- DEcEmBER 254 p. 6 x 9 aside the Freudian explanations for be- ing cure” explores the lesser-studied ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00600-0 havior and looks instead at self/object phenomena of psychoanalysis, includ- Paper $22.50s/£14.50 relationships and empathy in order to ing when it is beneficial for analyses to E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00614-7 shed light on human behavior. In How be left unfinished, and the changing PSYcHOLOGY Does Analysis Cure? Kohut presents the definition of “normal.” Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-45034-6 theoretical framework for self-psychol- An essential volume for working ogy and carefully lays out how the self psychoanalysts, this book is important develops over the course of time. Kohut not only for psychologists, but also for also specifically defines mental health anyone interested in the complex inner and mental illness in relation to the Oe- workings of the human psyche.

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 The Curve of Life and The Analysis of the Self, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

paperbacks 83 “The book illuminates its subject Buffalo Bill in Bologna brilliantly. . . . The lively, absorb- The Americanization of the World, 1869–1922 ing, and unusually insightful text RoBERT W. RyDELL and RoB KRoES wears its learning gracefully and, perhaps unexpectedly, alludes to Buffalo Bill in Bologna reveals that the became a primary means for people older notions of American excep- globalization of American mass culture around the world, especially in Eu- tionalism in explaining the national that seems unstoppable today began as rope, to reimagine both America and talent for cultural entrepreneur- early as the mid-nineteenth century. themselves in the context of America’s ship.” In fact, by the end of World War I, the growing global sphere of influence. —American Historical Review United States already boasted an ad- Paying special attention to the role of vanced network of culture industries the World’s Fairs, the exporting of Buf-

NOvEmBER 232 p., 37 halftones 6 x 9 that served to promote American val- falo Bill’s Wild West show to Europe, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00712-0 ues. Robert W. Rydell and Rob Kroes the release of The Birth of a Nation, and Paper $18.00s/£11.50 narrate how the circuses, amusement Woodrow Wilson’s creation of the Com- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73234-3 parks, vaudeville, mail-order catalogs, mittee on Public Information, Rydell AmERIcAN HISTORY dime novels, and movies that devel- and Kroes offer an absorbing tour Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73242-8 oped after the Civil War—tools central through America’s cultural expansion to hastening the reconstruction of the at the turn of the century. Buffalo Bill country—actually doubled as agents of in Bologna is thus a tour de force that American cultural diplomacy abroad. recasts what has been popularly under- As symbols of America’s version stood about this period of American of the “good life,” cultural products and global history.

Robert W. Rydell is professor of history at Montana State University–Bozeman. He is the author of six books, including All the World’s a Fair and World of Fairs, both published by the University of Chicago Press. Rob Kroes is professor of American studies at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of eleven books including, most recently, If You’ve Seen One, You’ve Seen the Mall and Them and Us: Questions of Citizenship in a Globalizing World.

What Is Happening to News The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism JACK FuLLER

Across America, newspapers that have a human brain that is still wired for the defined their cities for over a century threats faced by our prehistoric ances- are rapidly failing, their circulations tors. Drawing on the dramatic recent plummeting even as opinion-soaked discoveries of neuroscience, Fuller ex- Web outlets thrive. Meanwhile, nightly plains why the information overload of news programs shock viewers with sto- contemporary life makes us dramatical- ries of horrific crime and celebrity scan- ly more receptive to sensational news, dal, while the smug sarcasm of shouting while rendering the staid, objective pundits dominates cable television. voice of standard journalism ineffec- In the face of these problems, tive, and the result is a toxic mix that What Is Happening to News explores the threatens to prove fatal to journalism as crucial question of how journalism lost we know it. For every reader troubled by DEcEmBER 224 p. 6 x 9 its way—and who is responsible for the what has become of news—and worried ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00502-7 ragged retreat from its great traditions. about what the future may hold—What Is Paper $15.00s/£9.50 Veteran editor and newspaperman Jack Happening to News not only offers unprec- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-26899-6 Fuller locates the surprising sources of edented insight into the causes of change cURRENT EvENTS mEDIA STUDIES change where no one has thought to but also clear guidance, strongly rooted Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-26898-9 look before: in the collision between a in the precepts of ethical journalism. revolutionary new information age and

Jack Fuller is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who spent nearly forty years working in newspapers, serving as editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune and as president of the Tribune Publishing Company. He is the author of seven novels, as well as News Values: Ideas 84 paperbacks for an Information Age, also published by the University of Chicago Press. The Eloquent Shakespeare “gary Logan has given us a pro- nouncing dictionary for Shake- A Pronouncing Dictionary for the Complete Dramatic Works with Notes to Untie the Modern Tongue speare which surpasses anything previously available in both scope gARy LogAn and depth. Thoroughly researched An actor’s deepest desire is to be under- dictionary perfect for teachers, actors, and carefully documented, it clearly stood. But when asked to pronounce and directors all over North America. indicates pronunciations which are such words as “chanson,” “phantasime,” Renowned Shakespearean voice conjectural or matters of debate, or “quaestor,” many otherwise unflap- and text coach Gary Logan has spent as well as laying out in detail the pable actors can be rendered speech- years teaching Shakespeare’s works to standard of pronunciation adopted less. some of the best actors in the world. for the dictionary.” The Eloquent Shakespeare aims to His book includes proper names and —Ellen o’Brien, untie those tongues and help anyone foreign words and phrases, as well as head of voice and text, speak Shakespeare’s language with an extensive introduction that covers Shakespeare Theatre Company ease. More than 17,500 entries make it everything from how to interpret the the most comprehensive pronunciation entries to scansion dynamics. Designed NOvEmBER 368 p. 6 x 9 guide to Shakespeare’s words, from the especially for actors, directors, stage ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00631-4 common to the arcane. Each entry is managers, and teachers, The Eloquent Paper $25.00s/£16.00 written in the International Phonetic Shakespeare is a one-of-a-kind resource E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-01679-5 Alphabet and represents standard for performing Shakespeare’s dramatic DRAmA REFERENcE Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-49115-8 American pronunciations, making this works.

gary Logan is director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy for Classical Acting at the George Washington University.

Wild Mammals in Captivity “Zoos should be staffed with those Principles and Techniques for Zoo Management who have made Wild Mammals in Second Edition Captivity their essential textbook.” Edited by DEvRA g. KLEimAn, KATERinA v. ThompSon, —Times Higher Education, on the first edition and ChARLoTTE KiRK BAER NOvEmBER 720 p., 100 halftones, Zoos, aquariums, and wildlife parks behavior; advances in captive breeding; 39 line drawings, 67 tables 81/2 x 11 are vital centers of animal conservation research in physiology, genetics, and ISBN-13: 978-0-226-44010-1 Paper $65.00x/£42.00 and management. For nearly fifteen nutrition; and new thinking in animal E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-44011-8 years, these institutions have relied on management and welfare. ScIENcE Wild Mammals in Captivity as the essen- In this edition, more than three- Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-44009-5 tial reference for their work. Now the quarters of the text is new, and infor- book reemerges in a completely updat- mation from more than seventy-five ed second edition. contributors is thoroughly updated. Wild Mammals in Captivity presents The standard text for all courses in zoo the most current thinking and practice biology, Wild Mammals in Captivity will, in the care and management of wild in its new incarnation, continue to be mammals in zoos and other institu- used by zoo managers, animal caretak- tions. In one comprehensive volume, ers, researchers, and anyone with an in- the editors have gathered the most cur- terest in how to manage animals in cap- rent information from studies of animal tive conditions.

Devra g. Kleiman (1942–2010) was principal of Zoo-Logic, LLC in Chevy Chase, Maryland; senior scientist emeritus at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park; and adjunct profes- sor at the University of Maryland. Katerina v. Thompson is director of the Undergraduate Research and Internship Programs in the College of Chemical and Life Sciences at the University of Maryland. Charlotte Kirk Baer is principal of Baer and Associates, LLC in Silver Spring, Maryland. paperbacks 85 praise for Why Parties? Back-in-Print “John Aldrich provides comprehen- Before the Convention sive coverage of the accumulated Strategies and Choices in Presidential Nomination Campaigns theory on political parties and. . . John h. ALDRiCh . Why Parties? is now the premiere standard book on political parties. Campaigns to win the Democratic and ment. From this perspective, he seeks . . . highly recommended.” Republican presidential nominations to determine why and how candidates —Choice are now longer, more complex, and choose to run, why some succeed and more confusing to the observer than others fail, and what consequences the SEPTEmBER 272 p. 6 x 9 ever before. The maze of delegate-se- nomination process has for the general ISBN-13: 978-0-226-01270-4 lection procedures includes state-run election and, later, for the president in Paper $25.00x/£16.00 primaries and caucuses, while federal office. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92244-7 election laws govern campaign financ- Now back in print, Before the Conven- POLITIcAL ScIENcE ing. In Before the Convention, political tion fills a significant gap in the litera- scientist John H. Aldrich presents a sys- ture on presidential politics and should tematic analysis of presidential nomi- be of particular importance to special- nation politics, based on application ists in this area. It will be of interest also of rational-choice models to candidate to everyone who is concerned with un- behavior. Aldrich views the candidates derstanding the rules of the game for a as decision makers with limited re- complicated but vitally important exer- sources in a highly competitive environ- cise of American democracy.

John h. Aldrich is the Pfizer-Pratt University Professor of Political Science at Duke University. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including Why Parties?, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. “until now, classical music listeners have not had an adequate context in which to place Sibelius’s well- known and much-performed works. Sibelius With Sibelius, glenda Dawn goss A Composer’s Life and the Awakening of Finland treats us to a panoramic view of gLEnDA DAWn goSS the relevant Finnish background. One of the twentieth century’s greatest member of the Swedish-speaking Finn- This is idiosyncratic music from an composers, Jean Sibelius (1865–1957) ish minority. She goes on to trace Sibel- idiosyncratic place, and goss pro- virtually stopped writing music during ius’s relationships with his creative con- vides a generous overview of both. the last thirty years of his life. Recasting temporaries, with whom he worked to unabashedly interpretive, this is his mysterious musical silence and his usher in a golden age of music and art a comprehensive and compelling undeniably influential life against the that would endow Finns with a sense of look at a major composer and the backdrop of Finland’s national awaken- pride in their heritage and encourage ing, Sibelius will be the definitive biog- their hopes for the possibilities of na- culture he both influenced and raphy of this creative legend for many tionhood. Skillfully evoking this artis- drew upon. Essential reading for all years to come. tic climate—in which Sibelius emerged Sibelians.” Glenda Dawn Goss begins her as a leader—Goss creates a dazzling —James hepokoski, sweeping narrative in the Finland of portrait of the painting, sculpture, lit- yale university Sibelius’s youth, which remained un- erature, and music it inspired. To solve der Russian control for the first five de- the deepest riddles of Sibelius’s life, OcTOBER 549 p., 12 color plates, cades of his life. Focusing on previously work, and enigmatic silence, Goss con- 36 halftones, 47 musical examples tends, we must understand the awaken- 7 x 10 unexamined parts of Sibelius’s life, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00547-8 Goss explores the composer’s formative ing in which he played so great a role. Paper $35.00s/£22.50 experiences as a Russian subject and a E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30479-3 glenda Dawn goss is the former editor in chief of the Jean Sibelius Critical mUSIc BIOGRAPHY Edition and teaches at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30477-9

86 paperbacks The Religious Question in Modern China vinCEnT gooSSAERT and DAviD A. pALmER

Recent events—from strife in Tibet and ent contexts, but by writing a unified the rapid growth of Christianity in Chi- story of how religion has shaped, and in na to the spectacular expansion of Chi- turn been shaped by, modern Chinese nese Buddhist organizations around society. From Chinese medicine and the globe—demonstrate that one can- the martial arts to communal temple not understand the modern Chinese cults and revivalist redemptive societ- world without attending closely to the ies, the authors demonstrate that from question of religion. The Religious Ques- the nineteenth century onward, as the tion in Modern China highlights paral- Chinese state shifted, the religious lels and contrasts between historical landscape consistently resurfaced in events, political regimes, and cultural a bewildering variety of old and new movements to explore how religion has forms. The Religious Question in Modern challenged and responded to secular China integrates historical, anthropo- Chinese modernity from 1898 to the logical, and sociological perspectives in OcTOBER 480 p. 6 x 9 present. a comprehensive overview of China’s re- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00533-1 Paper $27.50s/£18.00 Vincent Goossaert and David A. ligious history that is certain to become E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30418-2 Palmer piece together the puzzle of an indispensable reference for special- RELIGION ASIAN STUDIES ists and students alike. religion in China not by looking sepa- Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30416-8 rately at different religions in differ-

vincent goossaert is deputy director of the Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris. He is the author ofThe Taoists of Peking, 1800–1949: A Social History of Urban Clerics, among other books. David A. palmer is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and Utopia in China, among other books.

Leaving College praise for the first edition Rethinking the Causes and Cures of Student Attrition “This book is an excellent summary of previous research, a soundly vinCEnT TinTo sociological volume, and a very Revised and Expanded Second Edition practical guide for action. it is an In his widely acclaimed book Leaving commuting institutions and two-year excellent blend of theory, research, College, Vincent Tinto synthesizes far- colleges. He has revised his theory as and policy implication. it is also ranging research on student attrition well, giving new emphasis to the central incredibly well written; one could and on actions institutions can and importance of the classroom experi- use the book to teach others how to should take to reduce it. The key to ef- ence and to the role of multiple college fective retention, Tinto demonstrates, communities. write clearly.” is in a strong commitment to quality “This book appears to be the best —Contemporary Sociology education and the building of a strong compilation of ideas about understand- sense of inclusive educational and so- ing student departure from college NOvEmBER 312 p., 17 tables, 3 line drawings 6 x 9 cial community on campus. written to date. . . . Vincent Tinto has ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00757-1 First published in 1994, this re- pulled together a lavish variety of facts, Paper $25.00s/£16.00 vised and expanded second edition findings based on empirical studies, E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92246-1 incorporates numerous research and theories, and institutional savvy to pro- EDUcATION policy reports on why students leave vide readers with valuable information Previous edition ISBN-13: higher education. Incorporating data that should help concerned members 978-0-226-80449-1 only now available, Tinto applies his of the academic community better un- theory of student departure to the ex- derstand student departure.”—John P. periences of minority, adult, and gradu- Bean, Journal of Higher Education ate students, and to the situation facing

vincent Tinto is Distinguished Professor of Education at Syracuse University and the author of Completing College, also published by the University of Chicago Press. paperbacks 87 Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California ChARLoTTE BRooKS

Between the early 1900s and the late creasingly advocated the latter group’s 1950s, the attitudes of white Califor- access to middle-class life and the resi- nians toward their Asian American dential areas that went with it. But as neighbors evolved from outright hos- they transformed Asian Americans into tility to relative acceptance. Charlotte a “model minority,” whites purposefully Brooks examines this transformation ignored the long backstory of Chinese through the lens of California’s urban and Japanese Americans’ early and housing markets, arguing that the per- largely failed attempts to participate in ceived foreignness of Asian Americans, public and private housing programs. which initially stranded them in segre- As Brooks tells this multifaceted story, gated areas, eventually facilitated their she draws on a broad range of sources Historical Studies of Urban America integration into neighborhoods that re- in multiple languages, giving voice to jected other minorities. an array of community leaders, journal- DEcEmBER 352 p., 8 halftones, 9 line drawings, 1 table 6 x 9 Against the backdrop of Cold War ists, activists, and homeowners—and ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00418-1 efforts to win Asian hearts and minds, insightfully conveying the complexity Paper $25.00s/£16.00 whites who saw little difference be- of racialized housing in a multiracial E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07599-0 tween Asians and Asian Americans in- society. HISTORY Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07597-6 Charlotte Brooks is associate professor of history at Baruch College, City University of New York.

“in this profound and carefully Tacit and Explicit Knowledge worked-through book, leading hARRy CoLLinS sociologist of science harry Collins neatly turns polanyi on his head Much of what we know we cannot now, all fell under the umbrella of Po- by showing us that the really deep say. And much of what we do we can- lanyi’s term: relational tacit knowledge mystery is how knowledge ever not describe. For example, how do we (things we could describe in principle becomes explicit in the first place.” know how to ride a bike when we can’t if we put in the effort), somatic tacit —Trevor pinch, explain how we do it? These abilities, knowledge (things our bodies can do Cornell university which we are unable to articulate, were but we cannot describe, like balancing labeled “tacit knowledge” by chemist on a bike), and collective tacit knowl- DEcEmBER 200 p., 3 halftones, and philosopher Michael Polanyi, but edge (knowledge we draw on that is the 7 line drawings, 6 tables 6 x 9 here Harry Collins analyzes the term, property of society, such as the rules for ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00421-1 and the behavior, in much greater de- language). Thus, bicycle riding consists Paper $20.00s/£13.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-11382-1 tail, often departing from Polanyi’s of some somatic tacit knowledge and treatment. some collective tacit knowledge, such ScIENcE SOcIOLOGY as the knowledge that allows us to navi- Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-11380-7 In Tacit and Explicit Knowledge, Col- lins develops a common conceptual lan- gate in traffic. The intermixing of the guage to bridge the concept’s disparate three kinds of tacit knowledge has led domains by explaining explicit knowl- to confusion in the past; Collins’s book edge and classifying tacit knowledge. unravels these complexities and thus Collins then teases apart the three enables us to make new and better use very different meanings, which, until of the underlying concept.

harry Collins is a Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology and director of the Centre for the Study of Knowledge, Expertise, and Science at Cardiff University.

88 paperbacks Lives in Science “To take the surprise out of the ter- How Institutions Affect Academic Careers ritory ahead, anyone hoping for an academic science career would be JoSEph C. hERmAnoWiCZ wise to consider the message of this thoughtful, solid, illuminating What can we learn when we study peo- candid interviews with his subjects, ple over the years and across the course meanwhile, shed light on the ways ca- book.” of their professional lives? Joseph C. reer goals are and are not met, on the —Science Hermanowicz asks this question specifi- frustrations of the academic profession, cally about scientists and answers it here and on how one deals with the boredom DEcEmBER 344 p., 1 line drawing, 29 tables 6 x 9 by tracking fifty-five physicists through and stagnation that can set in once one ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00564-5 different stages of their careers at a vari- is established. Paper $35.00s/£22.50 ety of universities across the country. He An in-depth study of American E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-32776-1 explores these scientists’ shifting percep- higher education professionals told ScIENcE SOcIOLOGY Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-32761-7 tions of their jobs to uncover the mean- eloquently through their own words, ings they invest in their work, when and Hermanowicz’s keen analysis of how where they find satisfaction, how they institutions shape careers will appeal to succeed and fail, and how the rhythms anyone interested in life in academia. of their work change as they age. His

Joseph C. hermanowicz is associate professor of sociology at the University of Georgia and the author of The Stars Are Not Enough: Scientists—Their Passions and Professions, also pub- lished by the University of Chicago Press.

Letting Stories Breathe A Socio-Narratology ARThuR W. FRAnK

Stories accompany us through life from Frank’s unique approach uses lit- birth to death. But they do not merely erary concepts to ask social scientific entertain, inform, or distress us—they questions: how do stories make life show us what counts as right or wrong better, and when do they endanger it? and teach us who we are and who we Going beyond theory, he presents a can be. Though stories can connect thorough introduction to dialogical individuals, they also can disconnect, narrative analysis, analyzing modes of creating boundaries between people interpretation, providing specific ques- and justifying violence. In Letting Stories tions to start analysis, and describing Breathe, Arthur W. Frank grapples with different forms analysis can take. Build- this fundamental aspect of our lives, ing on his renowned work exploring offering both a theory of how stories the relationship between narrative and shape us and a useful method for ana- illness, Letting Stories Breathe expands NOvEmBER 224 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00483-9 lyzing them. Along the way he also tells Frank’s horizons further, offering a Paper $17.00s/£11.00 stories: from folktales to research inter- compelling perspective on how stories E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-26014-3 views to remembrances. affect human lives. SOcIOLOGY LITERARY cRITIcISm Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-26013-6 Arthur W. Frank is professor of sociology at the University of Calgary and the author of At the Will of the Body: Reflections on Illness; The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics; and The Renewal of Generosity: Illness, Medicine, and How to Live, the latter two also published by the University of Chicago Press.

paperbacks 89 Unsimple Truths Science, Complexity, and Policy SAnDRA D. miTChELL

The world is complex, but acknowl- prediction and action. edging its complexity requires an ap- Mitchell draws from diverse fields preciation for the many roles context including psychiatry, social insect biolo- plays in shaping natural phenomena. gy, and studies of climate change to de- In Unsimple Truths, Sandra D. Mitchell fend “integrative pluralism”—a theory argues that the long-standing scientific of scientific practices that makes sense and philosophical deference to reduc- of how many natural and social sciences tive explanations founded on simple represent the multilevel, multicompo- universal laws, linear causal models, nent, dynamic structures they study. and predict-and-act strategies fails to She explains how we must, in light of accommodate the kinds of knowledge the now-acknowledged complexity and that many contemporary sciences are contingency of biological and social sys- DEcEmBER 160 p., 7 halftones providing about the world. She advo- tems, revise how we conceptualize the 51/2 x 81/2 cates, instead, for a new understanding world, how we investigate the world, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00662-8 Paper $15.00s/£9.50 that represents the rich, variegated, in- and how we act in the world. Ultimately E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-53265-3 terdependent fabric of many levels and Unsimple Truths argues that the very

ScIENcE PHILOSOPHY kinds of explanation that are integrat- idea of what should count as legitimate Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-53262-2 ed with one another to ground effective science itself should change. No German language rights. Sandra D. 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 Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal Postwar Urbanism from New York to Berlin ChRiSTophER KLEmEK

The Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Re- ciples of modernist planning came to newal examines how postwar thinkers be challenged and then began to col- from both sides of the Atlantic con- lapse entirely. Over the 1960s, several sidered urban landscapes radically alternative views of city life emerged changed by the political and physical among neighborhood activists, New realities of sprawl, urban decay, and Left social scientists, and neoconserva- urban renewal. With a sweep that en- tive critics. Ultimately, while a pessimis- compasses New York, London, Toronto, tic view of urban crisis may have won out and Berlin, among others, Christopher in the United States and Great Britain, Klemek traces changing responses to Klemek demonstrates that other coun- the challenging issues that most affect- tries more successfully harmonized ur- Historical Studies of Urban America ed day-to-day life in the world’s cities. ban renewal and its alternatives. OcTOBER 328 p., 77 halftones, In the postwar decades, the prin- 2 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00595-9 Christopher Klemek is assistant professor in the Department of History at George Washing- Paper $25.00s/£16.00 ton University. AmERIcAN HISTORY Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-44174-0 Some permissions will need to be cleared for a translated edition.

90 paperbacks A World of Rivers Environmental Change on Ten of the World’s Great Rivers ELLEn WohL

Far from being the serene, natural in China to Central Europe’s Danube, streams of yore, modern rivers have the book journeys down the most im- been diverted, dammed, dumped in, portant rivers in all corners of the and dried up, all in efforts to harness globe. Wohl shows us how pollution, their power for human needs. But these such as in the Ganges and in the Ob of rivers have also undergone environ- Siberia, has affected biodiversity in the mental change. The old adage says you water. But rivers are also resilient, and can’t step in the same river twice, and Wohl stresses the importance of conser- Ellen Wohl would agree—natural and vation and restoration to help reverse synthetic change are so rapid on the the effects of human carelessness and world’s great waterways that rivers are hubris. transforming and disappearing right What these diverse rivers share is before our eyes. OcTOBER 368 p., 64 halftones, a critical role in shaping surrounding 1 line drawing 6 x 9 A World of Rivers explores the con- landscapes and biological communi- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00760-1 fluence of human and environmental ties, and Wohl’s book ultimately makes a Paper $25.00s/£16.00 change on ten of the great rivers of the strong case for the need to steward posi- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-90480-1 world. Ranging from the Yellow River tive change in the world’s great rivers. ScIENcE Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-90478-8 Ellen Wohl is professor of geosciences at Colorado State University and the author of, most recently, Of Rock and Rivers: Seeking a Sense of Place in the American West.

Trade-Offs praise for the first edition An Introduction to Economic Reasoning and Social Issues “With shrewd verbal reasoning, har- Second Edition old Winter brings home a number of hARoLD WinTER concepts the general public has dif- ficulty digesting. . . . This precious When economists wrestle with issues trade-offs as possible. This new edi- little book will become widespread such as unemployment, inflation, or tion incorporates recent developments budget deficits, they do so by incorpo- in policy debates, including the rise of reading in basic courses on eco- rating an impersonal, detached mode “new paternalism,” or policies designed nomics, but every sensible person of reasoning. But economists also ana- to protect people from themselves; al- interested in societal matters and lyze issues that, to others, typically do ternative ways to increase the supply not familiar with law and econom- not fall within the realm of economic of organs available for transplant; and ics issues should also read it.” reasoning, such as organ transplants, economic approaches to controlling in- —History of Economic Ideas cigarette addiction, overeating, and fectious disease. product safety. Trade-Offs is an introduc- Intellectually stimulating yet acces- FEBRUARY 192 p. 51/2 x 81/2 tion to the economic approach to ana- sible and entertaining, Trade-Offs will ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92449-6 lyzing these controversial public policy be appreciated by students of econom- Paper $19.00s/£12.50 issues. ics, public policy, health administra- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92450-2 Harold Winter provides readers tion, political science, and law, as well EcONOmIcS POLITIcAL ScIENcE with the analytical tools needed to iden- as anyone who follows current social Previous edition ISBN-13: 978-0-226-90225-8 tify and understand the trade-offs asso- policy debates. ciated with these topics. By considering “With this slim volume, Har- both the costs and benefits of potential old Winter joins the ranks of recent policy solutions, Winter stresses that re- economists who have unlocked the mys- al-world decision making is best served teries of economic reasoning for the by an explicit recognition of as many uninitiated.”—Choice, on the first edition

harold Winter is professor of economics at Ohio University. paperbacks 91 “A long-awaited and desperately Darwin’s Conjecture needed guide to why the social The Search for General Principles of Social and Economic sciences should take Darwin seri- Evolution ously. Erudite, lucidly written—a gEoFFREy m. hoDgSon and ThoRBJøRn KnuDSEn veritable tour de force.” —Robin i. m. Dunbar, Of paramount importance to the natu- prominent objections to applying university of oxford ral sciences, the principles of Darwin- Darwin to social science, arguing that ism, which involve variation, inheri- ultimately Darwinism functions as a DEcEmBER 304 p., 1 halftone, tance, and selection, are increasingly of general theoretical framework for stim- 4 line drawings, 3 tables 6 x 9 interest to social scientists as well. But ulating further inquiry. Social scientists ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00578-2 Paper $27.50s/£18.00 no one has provided a truly rigorous ac- who adopt a Darwinian approach, they E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-34692-2 count of how the principles apply to the contend, can then use it to frame and EcONOmIcS evolution of human society—until now. help develop new explanatory theories Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-34690-8 In Darwin’s Conjecture, Geoffrey and predictive models. Hodgson and Thorbjørn Knudsen re- This truly groundbreaking work at veal how the British naturalist’s core long last makes the powerful concep- concepts apply to a wide range of phe- tual tools of Darwin available to the nomena, including business practices, social sciences and will be welcomed by legal systems, technology, and even scholars and students from a range of science itself. They also critique some disciplines.

geoffrey m. hodgson is research professor at the University of Hertfordshire Business School, England, and the author or coauthor of over a dozen books, including The Evolu- tion of Institutional Economics and How Economics Forgot History. Thorbjørn Knudsen is profes- sor of strategic organization design at the University of Southern Denmark and has an ex- tensive publication record specializing in evolutionary dynamics and adaptive organizations.

92 paperbacks University of Chicago Press New Publications Fall 2012 AuThoR inDEx

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