A Natural History of Seeds

Jonathan Silvertown An Orchard Invisible A Natural History of Seeds

he story of seeds, in a nutshell, is a tale of evolution. From the tiny sesame that we sprinkle on our bagels to the forty-five- Tpound double coconut borne by the coco-de-mer tree, seeds are a perpetual reminder of the complexity and diversity of life on earth. With An Orchard Invisible, Jonathan Silvertown presents the oft-ignored seed with the natural history it deserves, one nearly as varied and surprising as the Earth’s flora itself. Beginning with the evolution of the first seed plant from fernlike “Seeds—familiar, mysterious, wonderful, ancestors more than 360 million years ago, Silvertown carries his tale endlessly fascinating, but rarely consid- through epochs and around the globe. In a clear and engaging style, ered carefully. In this beautifully written he delves into the science of seeds: How and why do some lie dormant popular exposition, Jonathan Silvertown for years on end? How did seeds evolve? The wide variety of uses that brings seeds to life, illuminating their humans have developed for seeds of all sorts also receives a fascinat- diversity, their amazing properties, their ing look, studded with examples, including foods, oils, perfumes, and role in nature, evolution and fate over pharmaceuticals. An able guide with an eye for the unusual, Silver- time, germination and fate in the life town is happy to take readers on unexpected—but always interesting— of an individual. To be read by all those tangents, from Lyme disease to human color vision to the Salem witch interested in nature: they will gain deeper trials. But he never lets us forget that the driving force behind the story understanding from the lively words that of seeds—its theme, even—is evolution, with its irrepressible habit of trace these and many other aspects of stumbling upon new solutions to the challenges of life. these familiar structures.” —Peter H. Raven, “I have great faith in a seed,” Thoreau wrote. “Convince me that director, Missouri Botanical Garden you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.” Written with a scientist’s knowledge and a gardener’s delight, An Orchard Invis- April 224 p., 21 halftones 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-75773-5 ible offers those wonders in a package that will be irresistible Cloth $25.00/£14.50 to science buffs and green thumbs alike. SCIENCE NATURE

Jonathan Silvertown is professor of ecology at the Open University, the author of Demons in Eden, and the editor of 99%Ape: How Evolution Adds Up.

1 Robert Pinsky Thousands of Broadways Dreams and Nightmares of the American Small Town

roadway, the main street that runs through Robert Pinsky’s hometown of Long Branch, New Jersey, was once like thou- Bsands of other main streets in small towns across the country. But for Pinsky, one of America’s most admired poets and its former Poet Laureate, this Broadway is the point of departure for a lively journey through the small towns of the American imagination. Thousands of Broadways explores the dreams and nightmares of such small towns— Praise for Robert Pinsky their welcoming yet suffocating, warm yet prejudicial character during “What makes Mr. Pinsky such a rewarding their heyday, from the early nineteenth century through World War II. and exciting writer is the sense he gives The citizens of quintessential small towns know one another exten- . . . of getting at the depths of human sively and even intimately, but fail to recognize the geniuses and crimi- experience, in which everything is always nal minds in their midst. Bringing the works of such figures as Mark repeated but also always new.” Twain, William Faulkner, Alfred Hitchcock, Thornton Wilder, Willa —New York Times Book Review Cather, and Preston Sturges to bear on this paradox, as well as reflec- “Since the death of Robert Lowell in 1977, tions on his own time growing up in a small town, Pinsky explores how no single figure has dominated American such imperfect knowledge shields communities from the anonymity poetry the way that Lowell, or before him and alienation of modern life. Along the way, he also considers how Eliot, once did. . . . But among the many small towns can be small-minded—in some cases viciously judgmental writers who have come of age in our fin and oppressively provincial. Ultimately, Pinsky examines the uneasy de siècle, none have succeeded more regard that creative talents like him often have toward the small towns completely as poet, critic, and translator, that either nurtured or thwarted their artistic impulses. than Robert Pinsky.” Of living in a small town, Sherwood Anderson once wrote that —Nation “the sensation is one never to be forgotten. On all sides are ghosts, The Rice University Campbell Lectures not of the dead, but of living people.” Passionate, lyrical, and intensely

1 1 moving, Thousands of Broadways is a rich exploration of this crucial March 106 p., 17 halftones 5 /2 x 8 /2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-66944-1 theme in American literature by one of its most distinguished figures. Cloth $16.00/£9.50 LITERATURE Robert Pinsky is professor of English and creative writing at Boston University and poetry editor of Slate. He is the author of numerous books of poems, most recently Gulf Music and Jersey Rain. He is also the translator of The Inferno of Dante and coeditor of An Invitation to Poetry. Among his numerous honors are the Wil- liam Carlos Williams Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Shelley Memo- rial Award, the PEN-Voelcker Award, and the Lenore Marshall Prize.

2 Jack Williams The AMS Weather Book The Ultimate Guide to America’s Weather With Forewords by Rick Anthes and Stephanie Abrams

s the monstrous and soon to be infamous Hurricane Katrina approached New Orleans, the National Weather Service is- A sued this dire warning: “Devastating damage expected. . . . A most powerful hurricane with unprecedented strength. . . . Most of the “I am often asked what book I would area will be uninhabitable for weeks.” Few Americans would deny the recommend to aspiring young meteorolo- eerie accuracy of that prediction or forget the destruction wrought by gists or climatologists. I will be spreading that vicious storm. the word about this one. Whether for the Extreme weather like Katrina can be a matter of life and death. weather enthusiast or the reader simply But even when it is pleasant—72 degrees and sunny—weather is still curious about the many faces of our ever- central to the lives of all Americans. Indeed, it’s hard to imagine a changing atmosphere, The AMS Weather topic of greater collective interest. America has one of the most varied Book is a must read! Meticulously and dynamic weather systems in the world. Every year, the Gulf coast is researched and beautifully written, Jack battered by hurricanes, the Great Plains are ravaged by tornados, the Williams’s book is incredible.” Midwest is pummeled by blizzards, and the temperature in the South- —Tom Skilling, WGN/Chicago Tribune west reaches a sweltering 120 degrees. Whether we want to know if we Chief Meteorologist should close the storm shutters or just carry an umbrella to work, we turn to forecasts. But few of us really understand the science behind April 368 p., 140 color plates, 70 halftones them. 1 8 /2 x 11 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-89898-8 Cloth $35.00/£20.50 SCIENCE REFERENCE

3 For Weather Channel junkies, amateur meteorologists, and storm chasers alike, The AMS Weather Book is an invaluable tool for anyone who wants to better understand how weather works and how it affects our lives.

All that will change with The AMS Weather Book. The most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to our weather and our atmosphere, it is the ultimate resource for anyone who wants to understand how hurricanes form, why tornados twirl, or even why the sky is cerulean blue. Covering everything from daily weather patterns to air pollution and global warming, The AMS Weather Book will help readers make sense of news about the weather, cope with threats, and learn how integral oceanic and atmospheric science are to navigating our place in the physical world. Written by esteemed science journalist and former USA Today weather editor Jack Williams, The AMS Weather Book explores not only the science behind the weather but also the stories of people coping with severe weather and those who devote their lives to understanding the atmosphere, oceans, and climate. The book’s profiles and historic discussions illustrate how meteorology and the related sciences are interwoven throughout our lives. Words alone, of course, are not adequate to explain many meteorological concepts. To illustrate complex phenomena, The AMS Weather Book is filled with engaging full-color graphics that explain such concepts as why winds blow in a particular direction, how Doppler weather radar works, what happens inside hurricanes, how clouds create wind and snow, and what’s really affecting the Earth’s climate.

Jack Williams is a former editor of the USA Today Weather Page and the author of The USA Today Weather Book. He is the public outreach coordinator for the American Meteorological Society.

4 Joshua Blu Buhs Bigfoot The Life and Times of a Legend

ast August, two men in rural Georgia announced that they had killed Bigfoot. The claim drew instant, feverish attention, Lleading to more than a thousand news stories worldwide— despite the fact that nearly everyone knew it was a hoax. Though Bigfoot may not exist, there’s no denying Bigfoot mania. With Bigfoot, Joshua Blu Buhs traces the wild and woolly story of America’s favorite homegrown monster. He begins with nineteenth- century accounts of wildmen roaming the forests of America, treks to the Himalayas to reckon with the Abominable Snowman, then takes “The mistaken assumption of past Bigfoot us to northern California in 1958, when reports of a hairy hominid investigation is that the phenomenon is loping through remote woodlands marked Bigfoot’s emergence as a best understood from the perspective of modern marvel. Buhs delves deeply into the trove of lore and misinfor- natural history. Joshua Blu Buhs has writ- mation that has sprung up around Bigfoot in the ensuing half century. ten an original and engaging book that We meet charlatans, pseudoscientists, and dedicated hunters of the tells us the meaning of the hairy beast beast—and with Buhs as our guide, the focus is always less on evaluat- that won’t go away yet we cannot seem ing their claims than on understanding why Bigfoot has inspired so to find. Bigfoot is the definitive history of much drama and devotion in the first place. What does our fascination the legend’s social and cultural con- with this monster say about our modern relationship to wilderness, text, and it offers an explanation for the individuality, class, consumerism, and the media? phenomenon that will be pondered and Writing with a scientist’s skepticism but an enthusiast’s deep discussed for years to come.” engagement, Buhs invests the story of Bigfoot with the detail and —David Daegling, author of Bigfoot Exposed power of a novel, offering the definitive take on this elusive beast.

May 288 p., 35 halftones 6 x 9 Joshua Blu Buhs is an independent scholar and the author of The Fire Ant Wars, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07979-0 also published by the University of Chicago Press. Cloth $29.00/£17.00 SCIENCE HISTORY

5 Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce Wild Justice The Moral Lives of Animals

cientists have long counseled against interpreting animal behavior in terms of human emotions, warning that such anthro- Spomorphizing limits our ability to understand animals as they really are. Yet what are we to make of a female gorilla in a German zoo who spent days mourning the death of her baby? Or a wild female elephant who cared for a younger one after she was injured by a ram- bunctious teenage male? Or a rat who refused to push a lever for food when he saw that doing so caused another rat to be shocked? Aren’t these clear signs that animals have recognizable emotions and moral intelligence? With Wild Justice Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce unequivo- “As a child I learned that behaving fairly, cally answer yes. during play with others, was a very im- Marrying years of behavioral and cognitive research with compel- portant social rule. As a mother, I learned ling and moving anecdotes, Bekoff and Pierce reveal that animals that treating my child fairly was key in exhibit a broad repertoire of moral behaviors, including fairness, building his trust and cooperation. And empathy, trust, and reciprocity. Underlying these behaviors is a we find that fairness plays an important complex and nuanced range of emotions, backed by a high degree of role in the social interactions of many intelligence and surprising behavioral flexibility. Animals, in short, are different animals and is key in developing incredibly adept social beings, relying on rules of conduct to navigate and maintaining friendships. Marc Bekoff intricate social networks that are essential to their survival. Ultimately, and Jessica Pierce’s ideas about the moral Bekoff and Pierce draw the astonishing conclusion that there is no lives of animals stress the significance moral gap between humans and other species: morality is an evolved of fairness, cooperation, empathy, and trait that we unquestionably share with other social mammals. justice, aspects of behavior desperately Sure to be controversial, Wild Justice offers not just cutting-edge needed in the world today. Read this science, but a provocative call to rethink our relationship with—and book, share it widely, and incorporate its our responsibilities toward—our fellow animals. lessons into your classroom, family room or board room.” Marc Bekoff (http://literati.net/Bekoff) has published numerous books, —Jane Goodall, including The Ten Trusts and The Emotional Lives of Animals, and has provided PhD, DBE, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, and United Nations expert commentary for many media outlets, including the New York Times, Messenger of Peace CNN, and the BBC. Jessica Pierce (www.newbioethics.com) is the author or coauthor of several books, including Morality Play: Case Studies in Ethics and Contemporary Bioethics. May 192 p., 8 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04161-2 Cloth $26.00/£15.50 SCIENCE

6 Ben-Ami Scharfstein Art Without Borders A Philosophical Exploration of Art and Humanity

eople all over the world make art and take pleasure in it, and they have done so for millennia. But acknowledging that art P is a universal part of human experience leads us to some big questions: Why does it exist? Why do we enjoy it? And how do the world’s different art traditions relate to art and to each other? Art Without Borders is an extraordinary exploration of those ques- “This is the most comprehensive study tions, a profound and personal meditation on the human hunger of art and artists ever written. Not only for art and a dazzling synthesis of the whole range of inquiry into its does it range across the world’s cultures significance. Esteemed thinker Ben-Ami Scharfstein’s encyclopedic in time and space, but it takes account of erudition is here brought to bear on the full breadth of the world of the latest findings in a variety of relevant art. He draws on neuroscience and psychology to understand the way disciplines, including neuroscience, we both perceive and conceive of art, including its resistance to verbal cross-cultural psychology, and anthro- exposition. Through examples of work by Indian, Chinese, European, pology. Scharfstein’s mastery of the African, and Australian artists, Art Without Borders probes the distinc- literature of those disciplines is impres- tion between accepting a tradition and defying it through innovation, sive, as is his command of scholarly which leads to a consideration of the notion of artistic genius. Continu- writing on art worldwide. Timely, global, ing in this comparative vein, Scharfstein also examines the mutual and open-minded, Art Without Borders influence of European and non-European artists. Then, through a evinces warmth and humanity as Scharf- comprehensive evaluation of the world’s major art cultures, he shows stein admirably highlights the makers of how all of these individual traditions are gradually, but haltingly, con- art, their individual lives, and their views joining into a single current of universal art. Finally, he concludes by on artistry.” looking at the ways empathy and intuition can allow members of one —Wilfried van Damme, author of Beauty in Context culture to appreciate the art of another. Lucid, learned, and incomparably rich in thought and detail, Art

March 528 p., 9 halftones 6 x 9 Without Borders is a monumental accomplishment, on par with the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73609-9 Cloth $35.00/£20.50 artistic achievements Scharfstein writes about so lovingly in its pages. ART PHILOSOPHY

Contact author for Hebrew Ben-Ami Scharfstein is professor emeritus of philosophy at Tel Aviv University. language rights. He is the author of numerous books, including Mystical Experience, A Compara- tive History of World Philosophy, Ineffability: The Failure of Words in Philosophy and Religion, and Of Birds, Beasts, and Other Artists: An Essay on the Universality of Art.

7 Dave Hickey The Invisible Dragon Essays on Beauty Revised and Expanded

ave Hickey’s The Invisible Dragon exploded like a bomb in the world of art criticism when it was originally published in 1993. Championed by artists for its forceful call for attention D Praise for Dave Hickey to beauty, and savaged by more theoretically oriented critics who had long dismissed the very concept of beauty as naive, the book ignited a “What art might mean and how it is dis- debate that has shown no sign of flagging. cussed in a country formed by life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is his big, With this newly revised and expanded edition, Hickey is back to compelling question. But he doesn’t go fan the flames. More manifesto than polite discussion, more call to at it from afar, from the distant vantage action than criticism, The Invisible Dragon aims squarely at the hyper- point of theory. Like the best American institutionalism that, in Hickey’s view, attempts to deny the real plea- critics, Hickey sneaks up on the question sures that draw viewers to art in the first place. Deploying the artworks quick and close.” of Warhol, Raphael, Caravaggio, and Mapplethorpe and the writings of —Sarah Vowell, Ruskin, Shakespeare, and Foucault, Hickey takes on museum culture, Salon arid academicism, sclerotic politics, and more—all in the service of making readers rethink the nature of art. A new introduction pro- 1 april 152 p. 6 x 7 /4 vides context for the earlier essays—what Hickey calls his “intellectual ISBN-13: 978-0-226-33318-2 Cloth $22.00/£13.00 temper tantrums”—while a new essay, “American Beauty,” concludes ART the volume with a historical argument that is a rousing paean to the German language rights already inherently democratic nature of attention to beauty. licensed. Written with a verve and dynamism all too rare in serious criticism, this expanded and refurbished edition of The Invisible Dragon will be sure to captivate a whole new generation of readers, provoking the passionate reactions that are the hallmark of great art.

Dave Hickey is professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. A former executive editor of Art in America, he has also served as a contributing editor for the Village Voice and as the arts editor of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

8 Michael L. Burgoyne and Albert J. Marckwardt The Defense of Jisr al-Doreaa With E. D. Swinton’s The Defence of Duffer’s Drift With a Foreword by John A. Nagl

ollowing the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the U.S. military found itself in a battle with a lethal and adaptive in- F surgency, where the divisions between enemy and ally were ambiguous at best, and working with the local population was essential for day-to-day survival. From the lessons they learned during multiple “This is a terrific and illuminating piece of tours of duty in Iraq, two American veterans have penned The Defense writing, one of the best things to come of Jisr al-Doreaa, an instructional parable of counterinsurgency that ad- out of the Iraq war. It reads to me like a dresses the difficulties of war in the postmodern era. history of the conflict as it would be told In this tactical primer based on the military classic The Defence of by a smart American platoon leader. It Duffer’s Drift, a young officer deployed for the first time in Iraq receives should be in the rucksack of every soldier ground-level lessons about urban combat, communications technology, heading to Iraq, and also should be read and high-powered weaponry in an environment where policy meets by anyone who cares about this war. If reality. Over the course of six dreams, the inexperienced soldier fights you want to support our troops, buy it the same battle again and again, learning each time—the hard way— right now.” —Thomas E. Ricks, which false assumptions and misconceptions he needs to discard in author of Fiasco: The American order to help his men avoid being killed or captured. As the protago- Military Adventure in Iraq nist grapples with the consequences of his mistakes, he develops a keen understanding of counterinsurgency fundamentals and the potential April 178 p., 8 halftones, 7 line drawings 5 x 8 pitfalls of working with the native population. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08092-5 Cloth $40.00x/£23.50 Accompanied here by the original novella that inspired it, The Defense ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08093-2 Paper $14.00/£8.00 of Jisr al-Doreaa offers an invaluable resource for cadets and junior military CURRENT EVENTS MILITARY HISTORY leaders—as well as general readers seeking a deeper understanding of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Just as Swinton’s classic has been a hallmark of military instruction, The Defense of Jisr al-Doreaa will help draw the road map for counterinsurgency in the postmodern world.

Michael L. Burgoyne is a captain in the United States Army who was deployed to Iraq in 2003 and 2005. He has also served as an instructor at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin, California. Albert J. Marckwardt, also a captain in the United States Army, served in Iraq in 2005 and 2007. He now serves as aide de camp to the commanding general at Fort Stewart, Georgia.

9 Benjamin I. Page and Lawrence R. Jacobs Class War? What Americans Really Think about Economic Inequality

ecent battles in Washington over how to fix America’s fiscal failures strengthened the widespread impression that eco- R nomic issues sharply divide average citizens. Indeed, many commentators split Americans into two opposing groups: uncompromising supporters of unfettered free markets and advocates for government solutions to economic problems. But such dichotomies, Benjamin I. Page and Lawrence R. Jacobs contend, ring false. In Class War? they present compelling evidence that most Americans favor free enterprise and practical government programs to distribute wealth more equitably. “Innovative and fascinating, Class War? At every income level and in both major political parties, majori- is the only book I know of that investi- ties embrace conservative egalitarianism—a philosophy that prizes gates public attitudes about inequality individualism and self-reliance as well as public intervention to help with an open mind. Benjamin Page and Americans pursue these ideals on a level playing field. Drawing on Lawrence Jacobs make a sensible, lucid, hundreds of opinion studies spanning more than seventy years, in- and broadly persuasive argument that cluding a new comprehensive survey, Page and Jacobs reveal that this although Americans tend to identify with worldview translates to broad support for policies aimed at narrowing conservative philosophies, they also the gap between rich and poor and creating genuine opportunity for favor egalitarian policies when those poli- all. They find, for example, that across economic, geographical, and cies are presented in pragmatic terms.” ideological lines, most Americans support higher minimum wages, —James K. Galbraith, improved public education, wider access to universal health insurance author of The Predator State coverage, and the use of tax dollars to fund these programs. April 144 p., 20 line drawings, 2 tables In this surprising and heartening assessment, Page and Jacobs 1 1 5 /2 x 8 /2 provide our new administration with a popular mandate to combat the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-64454-7 Cloth $39.00x/£23.00 economic inequity that plagues our nation. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-64455-4 Paper $13.00/£7.50 POLITICAL SCIENCE Benjamin I. Page is the Gordon Scott Fulcher Professor of Decision Making in the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University. Lawrence R. Jacobs is the Walter F. and Joan Mondale Chair and director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the Hubert Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota.

10 David S. Brown Beyond the Frontier The Midwestern Voice in American Historical Writing

s the United States went to war in 1941, Time magazine founder Henry Luce coined a term for what was rapidly be- A coming the establishment view of America’s role in the world: the twentieth century, he argued, was the American Century. Many of the nation’s most eminent historians—nearly all of them from the East Coast—agreed with this vision and its endorsement of the vigorous use of power and persuasion to direct world affairs. But an important concentration of midwestern historians actively dissented. With Beyond Praise for Richard Hofstadter the Frontier, David S. Brown tells their little-known story of opposition. “In his intelligent and stimulating book, Raised in a cultural landscape that combined agrarian provincial- Brown admirably balances respect for ism with reform-minded progressivism, these historians—among them his subject with critical distance and Charles Beard, William Appleman Williams, and Christopher Lasch— persuasively makes the case that the argued strenuously against the imperial presidencies, interventionist ambiguousness of Hofstadter’s legacy is foreign policies, and Keynesian capitalism that swiftly shaped cold war inseparable from his continuing interest.” America. Casting a skeptical eye on the burgeoning military-industrial —Sam Tanenhaus, New York Times Book Review complex and its domestic counterpart, the welfare state, they warned that both components of the liberal internationalist vision jeopardized

July 272 p., 6 halftones 6 x 9 the individualistic, republican ethos that had long lain at the heart of ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07651-5 Cloth $32.50/£19.00 American democracy. AMERICAN HISTORY Drawing on interviews, personal papers, and correspondence of the key players in the debate, Brown has written a fascinating follow-up to his critically acclaimed biography of Richard Hofstadter. Illumi- nating key ideas that link midwestern writers from Frederick Jackson Turner all the way to William Cronon and Thomas Frank, Beyond the Frontier is intellectual history at its best: grounded in real lives and focused on issues that remain salient—and unresolved—even today.

David S. Brown is professor of history at Elizabethtown College. He is the author of Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography, published by the University of Chicago Press.

11 Cathy Gere Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism

n the spring of 1900, British archaeologist Arthur Evans began to excavate the palace of Knossos on Crete, bringing ancient Greek Ilegends to life just as a new century dawned amid far-reaching questions about human history, art, and culture. Over the next three decades, Evans engaged in an unprecedented reconstruction project, creating a complex of concrete buildings on the site that owed at least

“This is a simply wonderful book, expertly as much to modernist architecture as they did to Bronze Age remains. researched, written with panache, and In the process, he fired the imaginations of a whole generation of intel- consistently eye-opening. It brilliantly lectuals and artists, whose work would drive movements as disparate as uncovers how the high priests of mod- fascism and pacifism, feminism and psychoanalysis. ernism—from Freud to Robert Graves to With Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism, Cathy Gere relates the H. D.—were deeply engaged not just with fascinating story of Evans’s excavation and its long-term effects on the new discoveries of archaeology but Western culture. Gere shows how Evans’s often-fanciful account of also with a fantasy of ancient Crete— ancient Minoan society captivated a generation riven by serious doubts pacifist, sexually free, matriarchal— about the fundamental values of European civilization. After World inaugurated by Sir Arthur Evans’s dig at War I left the Enlightenment dream in tatters, the lost paradise that Knossos. This is cultural history at its Evans offered in the concrete labyrinth—pacifist and matriarchal, pa- very best.” gan and cosmic—seemed to offer a new way forward for writers, artists, —Simon Goldhill and thinkers such as Sigmund Freud, James Joyce, Giorgio de Chirico, Robert Graves, and H. D., all of whom emerge as forceful characters in May 272 p., 23 halftones 6 x 9 Gere’s account. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-28953-3 Cloth $27.50/£16.00 Assembling a brilliant, talented, and eccentric cast at a moment HISTORY of tremendous intellectual vitality and wrenching change, Cathy Gere Some permissions need to be paints an unforgettable portrait of the age of concrete and the birth of cleared for translation. modernism.

Cathy Gere is assistant professor in the history of science and medicine at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of The Tomb of Agamemnon.

12 Scott N. Brooks Black Men Can’t Shoot

he myth of the natural black athlete is widespread, though it’s usually only talked about when a sports commentator or T celebrity embarrasses himself by bringing it up in public. Those gaffes are swiftly decried as racist, but apart from their link to the long history of ugly racial stereotypes about black people— especially men—they are also harmful because they obscure very real, hard-fought accomplishments. As Black Men Can’t Shoot demonstrates, such successes on the basketball court don’t just happen because of natural gifts—instead, they grow out of the long, tough, and unpredictable process of becoming a known player. “In this vivid depiction of the urban reality Scott N. Brooks spent four years coaching summer league basket- of grassroots basketball, Scott Brooks ball in Philadelphia. And what he saw, heard, and felt working with the exhibits an insider’s passion for the young black men on his team tells us much about how some kids are game, broad and deep knowledge of able to make the extraordinary journey from the ghetto to the NCAA. the local history, and a real feel for the To show how good players make the transition to greatness, Brooks significance of basketball in Philly’s black tells the story of two young men, Jermaine and Ray, following them community. Along with offering important through their high school years and chronicling their breakthroughs ideas about the relationship between and frustrations on the court as well as their troubles at home. We race and sports, Black Men Can’t Shoot is witness them negotiating the pitfalls of forging a career and a path packed with genuine drama and intrigue, out of poverty, we see their triumphs and setbacks, and we hear from making it one of those rare books that are the network of people—their families, the neighborhood elders, and both insightful and truly engaging.” Coach Brooks himself—invested in their fates. —Douglas Hartmann, author of Race, Culture, and the Revolt Black Men Can’t Shoot has all the hallmarks of a classic sports book, of the Black Athlete: The 1968 Olympic with a climactic championship game and a suspenseful ending as we Protests and Their Aftermath wait to find out if Jermaine and Ray will be recruited. Brooks’s moving 1 1 coming-of-age story counters the belief that basketball only exploits June 208 p., 4 tables 5 /2 x 8 /2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07603-4 kids and lures them into following empty dreams—and shows us that Cloth $22.00/£13.00 by playing ball, some of these young black men have already begun SPORTS AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES their education even before they get to college.

Scott N. Brooks is assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Riverside.

13 Lawrence Rothfield The Rape of Mesopotamia Behind the Looting of the Iraq Museum

n April 10, 2003, as the world watched a statue of Saddam Hussein come crashing down in the heart of Baghdad, a Omob of looters attacked the Iraq National Museum. Despite the presence of an American tank unit, the pillaging went unchecked, and more than 15,000 artifacts—some of the oldest evidence of human culture—disappeared into the shadowy worldwide market in “One of the many tragedies that resulted illicit antiquities. In the five years since that day, the losses have only from the arrogance and poor planning mounted, with gangs digging up roughly half a million artifacts that that preceded the Iraq invasion was the had previously been unexcavated; the loss to our shared human heri- lack of foresight in protecting the irre- tage is incalculable. placeable artifacts that represented the With The Rape of Mesopotamia, Lawrence Rothfield answers the rich millennial culture of Iraq. Lawrence complicated question of how this wholesale thievery was allowed to Rothfield has written a remarkable account occur. Drawing on extensive interviews with soldiers, bureaucrats, war of the looting that occurred and the efforts planners, archaeologists, and collectors, Rothfield reconstructs the in the aftermath to recover the invaluable planning failures—originating at the highest levels of the U.S. govern- representations of an important histori- ment—that led to the invading forces’ utter indifference to the protec- cal culture that may be lost forever. This tion of Iraq’s cultural heritage from looters. Widespread incompetence is a must read for all those who value our and miscommunication on the part of the Pentagon, unchecked by heritage and the need to preserve it during the disappointingly weak efforts of worldwide preservation advocates, conflicts that threaten it.” enabled a tragedy that continues even today, despite widespread public —General Anthony C. Zinni, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.) outrage. Bringing his story up to the present, Rothfield argues forcefully

April 224 p., 20 haftones, 1 map 6 x 9 that the international community has yet to learn the lessons of Iraq— ISBN-13: 978-0-226-72945-9 Cloth $25.00/£14.50 and that what happened there is liable to be repeated in future con- CURRENT EVENTS flicts. A powerful, infuriating chronicle of the disastrous conjunction Some permissions need to be of military adventure and cultural destruction, The Rape of Mesopotamia cleared for translation. is essential reading for all concerned with the future of our past.

Lawrence Rothfieldis director of the Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago.

14 Peter M. Shane Madison’s Nightmare How Executive Power Threatens American Democracy

n recent years, the Bush administration’s ambitious—even breathtaking—claims of unilateral executive authority have Iproperly raised concerns among constitutional scholars, civil lib- ertarians, and ordinary citizens alike. But Bush’s attempts to assert his power are only the latest development in a near-thirty-year assault on the basic checks and balances of the U.S. government—a battle waged by presidents of both parties, and one that, as Peter M. Shane warns in “As presidential authority expands, and Madison’s Nightmare, threatens to utterly subvert the founders’ vision of the role of Congress diminishes, the representative government. American people continue to lose control over their government. Today’s asser- Tracing this tendency back to the first Reagan administration, tions of executive power are indeed a Shane shows how this era of “aggressive presidentialism” has seen nightmare and Peter Shane’s extremely presidents exerting ever more control over nearly every arena of policy, readable and well-informed book de- from military affairs and national security to domestic programs. scribes this disturbing transformation Driven by political ambition and a growing culture of entitlement in in frightening detail. For anybody who the executive branch—and abetted by a complaisant Congress, riven cares about our constitutional system of by partisanship—this presidential aggrandizement has too often protected liberties, this book is indis- undermined wise policy making and led to shallow, ideological, and pensable. I couldn’t put it down and grew sometimes outright lawless decisions. The solution, Shane argues, will angrier, and more concerned, with every require a multipronged program of reform, including both specific page.” changes in government practice and broader institutional changes —Mickey Edwards, aimed at supporting a renewed culture of government accountability. author of Reclaiming Conservatism From the war on science to the mismanaged war on terror, Madi- son’s Nightmare outlines the disastrous consequences of the unchecked May 256 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-74939-6 executive—and issues a stern wake-up call to all who care about the Cloth $27.00/£16.00 fate of our long democratic experiment. CURRENT EVENTS LAW

Peter M. Shane is the Jacob E. Davis and Jacob E. Davis II Chair in Law at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. He is coauthor and coeditor of A Little Knowledge: Privacy, Security and Public Information after September 11.

15 Thomas Kochman and Jean Mavrelis Corporate Tribalism White Men/White Women and Cultural Diversity at Work

he 2008 Democratic primary pushed race and gender back to the forefront of our national consciousness. Barack Obama T and Hillary Clinton’s shattering of historical precedents— and the ugly reactions their success sometimes elicited—dramatically reflected ongoing conflicts over diversity in our society, especially in the venue where people are most likely to encounter them: work. As more and more people who aren’t white men enter corporate America, we urgently need to learn how to avoid clashes over these issues and “Kochman and Mavrelis provide analyses, how to resolve them when they do occur. anecdotes, and examples from their re- Thomas Kochman and Jean Mavrelis have been helping corpora- search and training experiences that give tions successfully do that for over twenty years. Their diversity training richness and credibility to their reason- and consulting firm has helped managers and employees at numerous ing. As a consequence, their discussions companies recognize and overcome the cultural bases of miscommuni- are vivid, insightful, and stimulating. cation between ethnic groups and across gender lines—and in Corpo- Their arguments about the connections rate Tribalism they seek to share their expertise with the world. In the between the culture of racial, gender, and first half of the book, Kochman addresses white men, explicating the ethnic groups and the conflicts that can ways that their cultural background can motivate their behavior, work surface between and among members of style, and perspective on others. Then Mavrelis turns to white women, these groups merit consideration. And focusing on the particular problems they face, including conflicts with their timely conclusions will be relevant men, other women, and themselves. Together they emphasize the need in the workplace and to society at large.” for a multicultural—rather than homogenizing—approach and offer —R. Roosevelt Thomas, author of Building on the Promise constructive ideas for turning the workplace into a more interactive of Diversity: How We Can Move to the Next Level in Our Workplaces, Our community for everyone who works there. Communities, and Our Society Written with the wisdom and clarity gained from two decades of hands-on work, Corporate Tribalism will be an invaluable resource as we April 224 p., 4 figures, 4 tables 6 x 9 look toward a future beyond the glass ceiling. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-44957-9 Cloth $22.50/£13.00 BUSINESS Thomas Kochman is the author of Black and White Styles in Conflict and emeritus professor of communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is COO and Jean Mavrelis is CEO of Kochman Mavrelis Associates.

16 Will Dunne The Dramatic Writer’s Companion Tools to Develop Characters, Cause Scenes, and Build Stories

oss Hart once said that you never really learn how to write a play; you only learn how to write this play. Crafted with Mthat adage in mind, The Dramatic Writer’s Companion is designed to help playwrights and screenwriters explore their own ideas in order to develop the script in front of them. No ordinary guide to plot- ting, this handbook starts with the principle that character is key. “The The Dramatic Writer’s Companion features character is not something added to the scene or to the story,” writes ◆ More than sixty of the author’s author Will Dunne. “Rather, the character is the scene. The character workshop-tested exercises for is the story.” playwrights and screenwriters Having spent decades working with dramatists to refine and ◆ An underlying focus on character as expand their existing plays and screenplays, Dunne effortlessly blends the root of scene and story condensed dramatic theory with specific action steps—over sixty work- ◆ A unique, nonlinear format that allows the writer to use exercises in any shop-tested exercises that can be adapted to virtually any individual order and as often as needed to meet writing process and dramatic script. Dunne’s in-depth method is both individual writing goals instinctual and intellectual, allowing writers to discover new actions for ◆ A special troubleshooting section that their characters and new directions for their stories. addresses common script problems Dunne’s own experience is a crucial element of this guide. His ◆ A glossary of key terms plays have been selected by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center for ◆ Examples drawn from well-known three U.S. National Playwrights Conferences and have earned numer- plays and films, including both contemporary and classical masterworks ous honors, including a Charles MacArthur Fellowship, four Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards, and two Drama-Logue Playwriting Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, Awards. Thousands of individuals have already benefited from his and Publishing workshops, and The Dramatic Writer’s Companion promises to bring his remarkable creative method to an even wider audience. April 356 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-17253-8 Cloth $45.00x/£23.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-17254-5 Will Dunne is currently a resident playwright at Chicago Dramatists, where he Paper $19.00/£11.00 develops plays and teaches workshops. He also has led over 1,500 workshops DRAMA REFERENCE through his San Francisco program, served as a dramaturg at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, and twice attended the Australian National Play- wrights Conference as guest instructor. His plays, which include How I Became an Interesting Person and Hotel Desperado, have been presented in Russia, Aus- tralia, and Croatia as well as in the United States.

17 Carol Fisher Saller The Subversive Copy Editor Advice from Chicago (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself)

ach year readers submit over three thousand grammar and style questions to the Q&A page at The Chicago Manual of Style Online. Some are arcane, some simply hilarious—and one E “I’ve never read anything like The Subver- editor, Carol Fisher Saller, reads every single one. All too often she sive Copy Editor. Its pages illuminate the notes a classic author-editor standoff over the “rights” and “wrongs” humanity and the love of language and form of prose styling: “This author is giving me a fit.” “I wish that I could just that transmute a manuscript into a book.” DEMAND the use of the serial comma.” “My author wants his preface at —Richard Lederer, the end of the book. This seems ridiculous. I mean, it’s not a post-face.” author of Anguished English and The Write Way In The Subversive Copy Editor, Saller suggests new strategies for keeping the peace. Emphasizing carefulness, transparency, and flex- “It’s no surprise that the droll and (seemingly) ibility, she shows copy editors how to build trust and cooperation. all-knowing wizard behind the Chicago One chapter takes on the difficult author; another speaks to writers Style Q&A puts it all together—entertain- directly. Throughout, the focus is on serving the reader, even if it ingly—for manuscript editors in this real- means breaking “rules” along the way. Saller’s own foibles and misadven- world guide to job success and survival. The tures provide ample material: “I mess up all the time,” she confesses. surprise is how urgent it is for every author, “It’s how I know things.” client, and boss who works with editors to Copy editors, Saller acknowledges, also make trouble for them- embrace Saller’s ‘subversiveness’—or suf- selves. (Does any other book have an index entry that says “terrorists. fer the next outcome from hell.” See copy editors”?) The book includes helpful sections on e-mail —Arthur Plotnik, author of The Elements of Editing etiquette, work-flow management, and organizing computer files. and Spunk & Bite: A Writer’s Guide to Saller’s emphasis on negotiation and flexibility will surprise many Bold, Contemporary Style copy editors who have absorbed, along with the dos and don’ts of their Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, stylebooks, an attitude that their way is the right way. In encouraging and Publishing copy editors to banish their ignorance and disorganization, insecuri- April 148 p. 5 x 8 ties and compulsions, the Chicago Q&A presents itself as a kind of al- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73424-8 ter ego to the comparatively staid Manual of Style. In The Subversive Copy Cloth $30.00s/£17.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73425-5 Editor, Saller continues her mission with audacity and good humor. Paper $13.00/£7.50 REFERENCE Carol Fisher Saller is a senior manuscript editor at the University of Chicago Press and the editor of The Chicago Manual of Style Online’s Q&A. 18 Hollywood & God robert Polito from Hollywood & God . . . this hour I tell you things in confidence, I might not tell everybody, but I’ll tell you.

The world is a road under the wall to the church, the world is a church, & the world is a road,

& the world is a stone wall.

Still, he wanted her the way the Cardinal wanted the Caravaggio, & when the ill-advised possessor of the painting resisted— one night Papal Guards searched his house.

Of course contraband came to light, some illegal rifles, & when the ill-advised possessor of the painting went to prison— the Cardinal got his Caravaggio.

But I wasn’t a Cardinal, nephew to the Pope, and you— you were not a Caravaggio.

So I asked you to be in my movie.

Hollywood & God is a virtuosic performance, filled with cross- ings back and forth from cinematic chiaroscuro to a kind of unsettling desperation and disturbing—even lurid—hallu- cination. From the Baltimore Catechism to the great noir films of the last century to today’s Elvis impersonators and Paris Hilton (an impersonator of a different sort), Polito tracks the snares, abrasions, and hijinks of personal identities in our society of the spectacle, a place where who we say we are, and who (we think) we think we are, fade in and out of Also available in the Phoenix Poets series consciousness, like flickers of light dancing tantalizingly on the silver screen. Mixing lyric and essay, collage and narra- Mean Under Sleep tive, memoir and invention, Hollywood & God is an audacious Colette LaBouff Atkinson Daniel Hall book, as contemporary as it is historical, as sly and witty as it ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03059-3 ISBN-13: 978-0226-31332-0 Paper $14.00/£8.00 Cloth $22.00/£13.00 is devastatingly serious.

Praise for Doubles Rare High Meadow of Honey with Tobacco “The poems in this collection are as striking for their lan- Which I Might Dream Peg Boyers Connie Voisine ISBN-13: 978-0226-06967-8 guage, which reveals a subtle rhetorical intelligence, as for ISBN-13: 978-0-226-86352-8 Paper $16.00/£9.50 their dramas, which exist in an atmosphere charged with Paper $14.00/£8.00 violence. Polito handles his volatile material with an almost ritual caution: an instinct for structure and symmetry guides Chameleon Hours Draft of a Letter his descent into the underworld of adulterous betrayal and Elise Partridge James Longenbach psychic exposure.”—New Yorker ISBN-13: 978-0-226-64792-0 ISBN-13: 978-0226-49268-1 Paper $15.00/£9.00 Paper $16.00/£9.50

Robert Polito is director of the Graduate Program in Creative Writing and professor of writing at the New School. He is the au- Blessings for the Hands thor of Doubles, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Matthew Schwartz

ISBN-13: 978-0-226-74095-9 April 88 p. 61/8 x 81/2 Paper $14.00/£8.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-67339-4 Cloth $22.00/£13.00 POETRY

19 “The Phoenix Poets list contains a number of poets currently on my list of favorites. This is a strong, vital series that has given voice to some of the best voices in American poetry today.” —Billy Collins The Lions Breakfast with Thom Gunn Peter Campion Randall Mann

Big Avalanche Ravine Aubade

Just the warning light on a blue crane. Those who lack a talent for love have come Just mountains. Just the mist that skimmed to walk the long Pier 7. Here at the end them both and bled to silver rain of the imagined world are three low-flying gulls lashing the condominiums. But there it sank on me. This urge like lies on the surface; the slow red to carve a life from the long expanse. of a pilot’s boat; the groan To hold some ground against the surge of a fisherman hacking a small shark— of sheer material. It was a tense and persistent and metallic shiver. and our speech like the icy water, a poor And it stayed, that tremor, small and stark translation that will not carry us across. as the noise of the hidden river What brought us west, anyway? A hunger. fluming its edge against the dark. But ours is no Donner Party, we who feed In his second collection of poems, Peter Campion writes about only on scenery, the safest form of obfuscation: see how the bay is a gray the struggle of making a life in America, about the urge “to carve a space” for love and family from out of the vast sweep deepening into gray, the color of heartbreak. of modern life. Coursing between the political and personal with astonishing ease, Campion writes at one moment of his Randall Mann’s Breakfast with Thom Gunn is a work both di- disturbing connection to the public political structure, sym- rect and unsettling. Haunted by the afterlife of Thom Gunn bolized by Robert McNamara (who makes a startling appear- (1929–2004), one of the most beloved gay literary icons of ance in the title poem), then in the next of a haunting reverie the twentieth century, the poems are moored in Florida and beneath a magnolia tree, representing his impulse to escape California, but the backdrop is “pitiless,” the trees “thin and the culture altogether. He moves through various forms just bloodless,” the words “like the icy water” of the San Francisco as effortlessly, as confident in rhymed quatrains as in slender, Bay. Mann, fiercely intelligent, open yet elusive, draws on the tensed free verse. In The Lions, Campion achieves a fusion of “graceful erosion” of both landscape and the body, on the narrative structure and lyric intensity that proves him to be beauty that lies in unbeauty. With audacity, anxiety, and un- one of the very best poets of his generation. bridled desire, this gifted lyric poet grapples with dilemmas of the gay self embroiled in—and aroused by—a glittering, Praise for Other People unforgiving subculture. Breakfast with Thom Gunn is at once “Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing formal and free, forging a sublime integrity in the fire of wit, without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight.” intensity, and betrayal. —David Biespiel, Oregonian Praise for Complaint in the Garden Peter Campion is assistant professor of English at Auburn University, “We have before us a skillful, witty, passionate young poet. . . . editor of Literary Imagination, and a recipient of a Pushcart Prize. Randall Mann is both attuned to and at odds with the natural He is the author of Other People, also published by the University of Chicago Press. world; he articulates the passions and predicaments of a self inside a massive, arousing, but sometimes brutal culture. And he accomplishes these things with buoyant lyric sensibilities april 80 p. 61/8 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09310-9 and rejuvenating skills.”—Kenyon Review Paper $18.00/£10.50 poetry Randall Mann is a writer and editor who lives in San Francisco. He is the author of Complaint in the Garden, winner of the Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry.

april 76 p. 61/8 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-50343-1 Cloth $45.00x/£26.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-50344-8 Paper $14.00/£8.00 poetry Some permissions need to be cleared for translation. 20 Gendun Chopel In the Forest of Faded Wisdom 104 Poems by Gendun Chopel, A Bilingual Edition Edited and Translated by Donald S. Lopez Jr.

n a culture where poetry is considered the highest form of human language, Gendun Chopel is revered as Tibet’s greatest modern Ipoet. Born in 1903 as British troops were preparing to invade his homeland, he was identified at any early age as the incarnation of

“Gendun Chopel is one of the most impor- a famous lama and became a Buddhist monk, excelling in the debat- tant Tibetan intellectuals of the twentieth ing courtyards of the great monasteries of Tibet. At the age of thirty- century. In bringing together Gendun one, he gave up his monk’s vows and set off for India, where he would Chopel’s poetry in translation, In the wander, often alone and impoverished, for over a decade. Returning to Forest of Faded Wisdom is an important Tibet, he was arrested by the government of the young Dalai Lama on contribution to the study of Asian literary trumped-up charges of treason, emerging from prison three years later arts in general and to Tibetan studies in a broken man. He died in 1951 as troops of the People’s Liberation particular.” Army marched into Lhasa. —José Cabezón, Throughout his life, from his childhood to his time in prison, University of California, Santa Barbara Gendun Chopel wrote poetry that conveyed the events of his remarkable life. In the Forest of Faded Wisdom is the first comprehensive col- Buddhism and Modernity lection of his oeuvre in any language, assembling poems in both the original Tibetan and in English translation. A master of many forms of May 160 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10452-2 Tibetan verse, Gendun Chopel composed heartfelt hymns to the Buddha, Cloth $26.00/£15.50 POETRY pithy instructions for the practice of the dharma, stirring tributes to the Tibetan warrior-kings, cynical reflections on the ways of the world, and laments of a wanderer, forgotten in a foreign land. These poems exhibit the technical skill for which Gendun Chopel was known and reveal the poet to be a consummate craftsman, skilled in both Tibetan and Indian poetics. With a directness and force often at odds with the conventions of belles lettres, this is a poetry that is at once elegant and earthy.

Donald S. Lopez Jr. is the Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan. He is the author or editor of several books, including, most recently The Madman’s Middle Way: Reflections on Reality of the Tibetan Monk Gendun Chopel and Buddhism and Science: A Guide for the Perplexed, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

21 Scott Norton Developmental Editing A Handbook for Freelancers, Authors, and Publishers

diting is a tricky business. It requires analytical flair and creative panache, the patience of a saint and the vision of a Ewriter. Transforming a manuscript into a book that edifies, inspires, and sells? That’s the job of the developmental editor, whose desk is the first stop for many manuscripts on the road to bookdom— a route ably mapped out in the pages of Developmental Editing. “In Developmental Editing, Scott Norton Scott Norton has worked with a diverse range of authors, editors, gives aspiring editors the tools they and publishers, and his handbook provides an approach to develop- need to do this demanding job. He gives mental editing that is logical, collaborative, humorous, and realistic. authors the understanding they need He starts with the core tasks of shaping the proposal, finding the hook, to take advantage of an editor’s advice. and building the narrative or argument, and then turns to the hard And he gives authors without the good work of executing the plan and establishing a style. fortune to work with a developmental edi- Developmental Editing includes detailed case studies featuring a tor a way to look at their own work with a variety of nonfiction books—election-year polemic, popular science, critical eye.” memoir, travel guide—and authors ranging from first-timer to veteran, —Beth Luey, journalist to scholar. Handy sidebars offer advice on how to become a author of Handbook for Academic Authors and Revising Your Dissertation: developmental editor, create effective illustration programs, and adapt Advice from Leading Editors sophisticated fiction techniques such as point of view, suspense, plot- ting, character, and setting to nonfiction writing. “Scott Norton is a man with a method— Norton’s book also provides freelance copy editors with a way to practical, detailed, lucid, engaging. Even earn higher fees while introducing more creativity into their work lives. the most battle-tested editors and agents It gives acquisitions, marketing, and production staff a vocabulary for will rethink their tactics after reading this diagnosing a manuscript’s flaws and techniques for transforming it into field guide to manuscript development.” a best-seller. And perhaps most importantly, Developmental Editing equips —Susan Wallace Boehmer, executive editor for trade book authors with the concrete tools they need to reach their audiences. development, Harvard University Press

Scott Norton is developmental editor and project manager for science at the Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, University of California Press. and Publishing

April 192 p., 4 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-59514-6 Cloth $35.00s/£20.50 REFERENCE

22 books of special interest from CHICAGO

23 At the Barriers Contributors On the Poetry of Thom Gunn Eavan Boland, Alfred Corn, Edited by Joshua Weiner David Gewanter, Thom Gunn, August Kleinzahler, Wendy Maverick gay poetic icon Thom Gunn The first book-length study of Lesser, Paul Muldoon, John (1929–2004) and his body of work have this major poet, At the Barriers surveys Peck, Robert Pinsky, Neil long dared the British and American Gunn’s career from his youth in 1930s Powell, Tom Sleigh, Brian poetry establishments either to claim Britain to his final years in California, Teare, Keith Tuma, Joshua or disavow him. To critics in the Unit- from his earliest publications to his ed Kingdom and United States alike, later unpublished notebooks, bringing Weiner, and Clive Wilmer Gunn demonstrated that formal poetry together some of the most important could successfully include new speech poet-critics from both sides of the Atlantic April 288 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-89043-2 rhythms and open forms, and that ex- to assess his oeuvre. This landmark vol- Cloth $70.00x/£41.00 perimental styles could still maintain ume traces how Gunn, in both his life ISBN-13: 978-0-226-89044-9 technical and intellectual rigor. Along and his writings, pushed at boundaries, Paper $25.00s/£14.50 the way, Gunn’s verse captured the so- be they geographic, sexual, or poetic. LITERARY CRITICISM cial upheavals of the 1960s, the existen- At the Barriers will solidify Gunn’s right- Note: All author’s royalties tial possibilities of the late twentieth ful place in the pantheon of Anglo- will be donated to the century, and the tumult of post-Stone- American letters. San Francisco Aids wall gay culture. Foundation. Joshua Weiner is associate professor of English and the director of the English Honors Program at the University of Maryland. He is the author of two books of poetry, The World’s Room and From the Book of Giants, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

Selected Poetry of Francisco de Quevedo A Bilingual Edition Francisco d e Quevedo Edited and Translated by Christopher Johnson

Francisco de Quevedo (1580–1645), profane burlesques. one of the greatest poets of the Span- In this book, Christopher John- ish Golden Age, was the master of the son gathers together a generous selec- baroque style known as “conceptismo,” tion of forty-six poems—in a bilingual a complex form of expression fueled Spanish-English format on facing by elaborate conceits and constant pages—that highlights the range of wordplay as well as ethical and philo- Quevedo’s technical expertise and sophical concerns. Although scattered themes. Johnson’s ingenious solutions translations of his works have appeared to rendering the difficult seventeenth-

in English, there is currently no com- century Spanish into poetic English johannes van noordt, francisco de quevedo (engraving, early seventeenth century) prehensive collection available that will be invaluable to students and 1 1 samples each of the genres in which scholars of European history, litera- june 256 p., 7 halftones 5 /2 x 8 /2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-69889-2 Quevedo excelled—metaphysical and ture, and translation, as well as poetry Cloth $45.00s/£26.50 moral poetry, grave elegies and moving lovers wishing to reacquaint themselves POETRY epitaphs, amorous sonnets and melan- with an old master. cholic psalms, playful romances and

Christopher Johnson is associate professor of comparative literature at Harvard University.

24 Dan C. Lortie School Principal Managing in Public

hen we think about school principals, most of us imagine a figure of vague, yet intimidating authority—for an W elementary school student, being sent to the principal’s office is roughly on par with a trip to Orwell’s Room 101. But with School Principal, Dan C. Lortie aims to change that. Much as he did for teachers with his groundbreaking book Schoolteacher, Lortie offers here an intensive and detailed look at principals, painting a compelling portrait of what they do, how they do it, and why. Lortie begins with a brief history of the job before turning to the Praise for Schoolteacher daily work of a principal. These men and women, he finds, stand at “Some of the most trenchant, unique, and the center of a constellation of competing interests around and within helpful research ever done on the profes- the school. School district officials, teachers, parents, and students all sion of teaching and the dynamics of the have needs and demands that frequently clash, and it is the principal’s school as an organization.” job to manage these conflicting expectations to best serve the public. —Teachers College Record Unsurprisingly then, Lortie records his subjects’ professional dissatis- factions, but he also vividly depicts the pleasures of their work and the “It is a rare experience to read a book that pride they take in their accomplishments. Finally, School Principal offers is at once so comprehensive, so incisive, a glimpse of the future with an analysis of current issues and trends in and so compelling. . . . A classic. . . . It is education, including the increasing presence of women in the role and ‘must’ reading for anyone even remotely the effects of widespread testing mandated by the government. associated with teaching.” —Educational Administration Quarterly Lortie’s scope is both broad and deep, offering an eminently useful range of perspectives on his subject. From the day-to-day toil to the

1 1 July 272 p., 30 tables 5 /2 x 8 /2 long-term course of an entire career, from finding out just what goes ISBN-13: 978-0-226-49348-0 Cloth $50.00x/£29.50 on inside that office to mapping out the larger social and organization- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-49349-7 al context of the job, School Principal is a truly comprehensive account Paper $18.00s/£10.50 EDUCATION SOCIOLOGY of a little-understood profession.

Dan C. Lortie is professor emeritus of education at the University of Chicago and the author of Schoolteacher, now in its second edition from the University of Chicago Press.

25 Joseph Tobin, Yeh Hsueh, and Mayumi Karasawa Preschool in Three Cultures Revisited China, Japan, and the United States

ublished twenty years ago, the original Preschool in Three Cul- tures was a landmark in the study of education: a profoundly Penlightening exploration of the different ways preschoolers are taught in China, Japan, and the United States. Here, lead author Joseph Tobin—along with new collaborators Yeh Hsueh and Mayumi Karasawa—revisits his original research to discover how two decades of globalization and sweeping social transformation have affected the way Praise for Preschool in Three Cultures these three cultures educate and care for their youngest pupils. “The book should be required reading In Preschool in Three Cultures Revisited the authors return to the for professionals in early education and three schools from the first book and also take a look at three new, makes thought-provoking reading for progressive schools in each country—once again armed with a video anyone aware of his or her own cultural camera to capture a typical day. They record the children saying good- blinkers and interested in glimpsing the bye to their parents, fighting, misbehaving, and playing, as well as mo- world outside them.” ments of intimacy such as teachers comforting crying students. Then —New York Times the authors show the three videos they shot in 1984 and the six new “An enticing journey. . . . Tobin et al. have videos to the teachers and school directors, and their reactions offer some strong and thought-provoking evi- sharp insights into their culture’s approach to early childhood educa- dence that demonstrates that preschools tion and its connection to developments in their societies as a whole. may be at the frontline of conserving Putting their subjects’ responses into a historical perspective, Tobin, social structures and values. . . . A must Hsueh, and Karasawa analyze the pressures put on schools to evolve read for those who take social issues and to stay the same, discuss how the teachers adapt to these demands, seriously.” and examine the patterns and processes of continuity and change in —Los Angeles Times each country. “A well-written, thought-provoking Featuring nearly one hundred stills from the videotapes, Preschool comparison that can only lead to better in Three Cultures Revisited artfully and insightfully illustrates the surpris- understanding.” ing, illuminating, and at times entertaining experiences of four-year- —Library Journal olds—and their teachers—on both sides of the Pacific.

Joseph Tobin is the Nadine Mathis Basha Professor of early childhood educa- July 288 p., 95 halftones, 1 table 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-80503-0 tion at Arizona State University and the author or editor of several books. Cloth $39.00s/£23.00 Yeh Hsueh is associate professor of educational psychology and research at EDUCATION the University of Memphis. Mayumi Karasawa is professor of comparative psychology at Tokyo Women’s Christian University.

26 Michael Taussig What Color Is the Sacred?

ver the past thirty years, visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig has crafted a highly distinctive body of work. Play- Oful, enthralling, and whip-smart, his writing makes ingenious connections between ideas, thinkers, and things. An extended meditation on the mysteries of color and the fascination they provoke, What Color Is the Sacred? is the next step on Taussig’s remarkable intellectual path. Following his interest in magic and surrealism, his earlier work on mimesis, and his recent discussion of heat, gold, and cocaine in My Praise for Michael Taussig Cocaine Museum, this book uses color to explore further dimensions of

“If Hunter S. Thompson had been trained what Taussig calls “the bodily unconscious” in an age of global warm- by Boas in anthropology, Engels in ing. Drawing on classic ethnography as well as the work of Benjamin, economics, and Arendt in philosophy, Burroughs, and Proust, he takes up the notion that color invites the he might write something like Taussig.” viewer into images and into the world. Yet, as Taussig makes clear, —Publishers Weekly color has a history—a manifestly colonial history rooted in the West’s discomfort with color, especially bright color, and its associations “Blending fact and fiction, ethnographic with the so-called primitive. He begins by noting Goethe’s belief that observation, archival history, literary Europeans are physically averse to vivid color while the uncivilized theory and memoir, his books read more revel in it, which prompts Taussig to reconsider colonialism as a ten- like beatnik novels than somber analyses sion between chromophobes and chromophiliacs. And he ends with of other cultures.” the strange story of coal, which, he argues, displaced colonial color by —New York Times giving birth to synthetic colors, organic chemistry, and IG Farben, the giant chemical corporation behind the Third Reich. April 304 p., 17 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-79005-3 Nietzsche once wrote, “So far, all that has given colour to existence Cloth $65.00x/£38.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-79006-0 still lacks a history.” With What Color Is the Sacred? Taussig has taken up Paper $24.00s/£14.00 that challenge with all the radiant intelligence and inspiration we’ve ANTHROPOLOGY come to expect from him.

Michael Taussig is professor of anthropology at Columbia University and the author of several books, including Walter Benjamin’s Grave and My Cocaine Mu- seum, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

27 Robert P. Burns The Death of the American Trial

he American trial looms large in our collective imagination— witness the enormous popularity of Law & Order—but it is, Tin reality, almost extinct. Seven years ago, less than 2 percent of federal civil cases culminated in a trial, down from 12 percent forty years earlier. And the number of criminal trials also dropped dramatically, from 9 percent of cases in 1976 to only 3 percent in 2002. In The Death of the American Trial, distinguished legal scholar Robert P. Burns makes an impassioned case for reversing this rapid decline before we lose one of our public culture’s greatest achievements. Burns begins by cutting through the all-too-common misinforma- “An excellent and accessible book by a dis- tion about contemporary trials, reminding readers of their essential tinguished lawyer and scholar, The Death features and functions. These characteristics, he shows, resulted from of the American Trial makes a persuasive a centuries-long process that brought trials to maturity only in the plea on behalf of the fading American early twentieth century. As a practice adapted for modern times yet trial, which is so much a part of our imag- rooted in ancient wisdom, the trial is uniquely suited to balance the ined world that we can hardly conceive tensions—between idealism and reality, experts and citizens, contex- of its disappearance. Robert Burns’s tual judgment and reliance on rules—that define American culture. statement of what we stand to lose if this Arguing that many observers make a grave mistake by taking a positive institution disappears is powerful and or even complacent view of the trial’s demise, Burns concludes by lay- moving. This book should start the sort of ing out the catastrophic consequences of losing an institution that so conversation about the trial that ought to perfectly embodies democratic governance. take place among lawyers and any others concerned about the state of justice in our As one federal judge put it, the jury is the “canary in the mine- culture.” shaft; if it goes, if our people lose their inherited right to do justice in —James Boyd White, court, other democratic institutions will lose breath too.” The Death of author of Living Speech: Resisting the Empire of Force the American Trial arrives not a second too soon to spark a rescue opera- tion before trials are relegated to the purely fictional realm of televised drama. April 176 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08126-7 Cloth $29.00s/£17.00 Robert P. Burns is professor at the Northwestern University School of Law. He LAW CURRENT EVENTS is the author of A Theory of the Trial.

28 Catherine H. Zuckert Plato’s Philosophers The Coherence of the Dialogues

aced with the difficult task of discerning Plato’s true ideas from the contradictory voices he used to express them, scholars have F never fully made sense of the many incompatibilities within and between the dialogues. In the magisterial Plato’s Philosophers, Catherine H. Zuckert explains for the first time how these prose dramas cohere to reveal a comprehensive Platonic understanding of philosophy. To expose this coherence, Zuckert examines the dialogues not in their supposed order of composition but according to the dramatic order in which Plato indicates they took place. This unconventional “Plato’s Philosophers is brilliantly arrangement lays bare a narrative of the rise, development, and conceived, remarkably well executed, limitations of Socratic philosophy. In the drama’s earliest dialogues, decidedly innovative, and enormously for example, non-Socratic philosophers introduce the political and important. Illuminating a pattern of philosophical problems to which Socrates tries to respond. A second dramatic cohesiveness within Plato’s dramatic group shows how Socrates develops his distinctive philosophi- body of work, Catherine Zuckert offers a cal style. And the later dialogues feature interlocutors who reveal his compelling alternative to interpretations philosophy’s limitations. Despite these limitations, Zuckert concludes, that trace a developmental logic across Plato made Socrates the dialogues’ central figure because Socrates the dialogues. This book will spur us to raises the fundamental human question: What is the best way to live? rethink concepts and perspectives that Plato’s dramatization of Socratic imperfections suggests, moreover, have been taken for granted for too long. that he recognized the apparently unbridgeable gap between our under- It is magisterial in the finest sense.” standings of human life and the nonhuman world. At a time when this —Gerald Mara, gap continues to raise questions—about the division between sciences Georgetown University and the humanities and the potentially dehumanizing effects of scientific progress—Zuckert’s brilliant interpretation of the entire Platonic May 896 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-99335-5 corpus offers genuinely new insights into worlds past and present. Cloth $45.00s/£26.50 PHILOSOPHY POLITICAL SCIENCE

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.

29 “This is a highly original and very Subjects of the World provocative book. Davies puts forth Darwin’s Rhetoric and the Study of Agency in Nature a version of naturalism that is far Paul Sheldon Davies more critical of our philosophical and intellectual heritage than Being human while trying to scientifi- cies. Darwin worked hard to anticipate past proponents have dared to be. cally study human nature confronts us and diminish the anxieties and biases Sharply and forcefully argued, it will with our most vexing problem. Efforts to that his radically historical view of life be of interest to a substantial range explicate the human mind are thwarted was bound to provoke. Likewise, Davies of philosophers, biologists, cogni- by our cultural biases and entrenched draws from the history of science and tive scientists, and lay readers.” infirmities; our first-person experienc- contemporary psychology and neuro- es as practical agents convince us that science to build a framework for the —William Bechtel, University of California, we have capacities beyond the reach of study of human agency that identifies San Diego scientific explanation. What we need and diminishes outdated and limiting to move forward in our understanding biases. The result is a heady, philosoph- April 272 p., 1 line drawing 6 x 9 of human agency, Paul Sheldon Davies ically wide-ranging argument in favor ISBN-13: 978-0-226-13762-9 argues, is a reform in the way we study of recognizing that humans are, like Cloth $40.00s/£23.50 ourselves and a long overdue break with everything else, subjects of the natural PHILOSOPHY SCIENCE traditional humanist thinking. world—an acknowledgment that may Davies locates a model for change free us to see the world the way it actu- in the rhetorical strategies employed by ally is. Charles Darwin in On the Origin of Spe-

Paul Sheldon Davies is the author of Norms of Nature: Naturalism and the Nature of Functions. He teaches philosophy at the College of William and Mary.

“Peters draws on many sources to The Philosophy of Improvisation construct a model of improvisation Gary Peters that is true to the experience as attested by artists and yet escapes Improvisation is usually either lionized sche, Adorno, Kant, Benjamin, and the criticisms that various theorists as an ecstatic experience of being in the Deleuze—offering readings of their re- have leveled against the idea of moment or disparaged as the thought- flections on improvisation and explor- improvisation. Laced with bits of less recycling of clichés. Eschewing both ing improvisational elements within humor, satire, and irony, this is a of these orthodoxies, The Philosophy of Im- their thinking. Peters’s wry, humorous provisation ranges across the arts—from style offers an antidote to the frequently work of considerable imagination.” music to theater, dance to comedy—and overheated celebration of freedom and —John Sallis, Boston College considers the improvised dimension of community that characterizes most philosophy itself in order to elaborate an writing on the subject. Expanding the

May 192 p. 6 x 9 innovative concept of improvisation. field of what counts as improvisation, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-66278-7 Gary Peters turns to many of the The Philosophy of Improvisation will be Cloth $38.00s/£22.50 major thinkers within continental phi- welcomed by anyone striving to com- PHILOSOPHY losophy—including Heidegger, Nietz- prehend the creative process.

Gary Peters is chair of critical and cultural theory at York St. John University and the author of Irony and Singularity: Aesthetic Education from Kant to Levinas.

30 Lobbying and Policy Change “This excellent book draws on a creative, original data set that Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why nearly solves one of the great Frank R. Baumgartner, Jeffrey M. Berry, Marie Hojnacki, puzzles of political analysis: how David C. Kimball, and Beth L. Leech to make a systematic assessment of who wields influence in politics. During the 2008 election season, poli- five percent of the difference between ticians from both sides of the aisle successful and unsuccessful efforts. The authors amassed a phenom- promised to rid government of lobby- Moreover, they show, these attempts enal amount of information from ists’ undue influence. For the authors must overcome an entrenched Wash- interviews and electronic and of Lobbying and Policy Change, the most ington system with a tremendous bias print sources. Although much of extensive study ever done on the topic, in favor of the status quo. what they find challenges common these promises ring hollow—not be- Though elected officials and exist- wisdom in political science, their cause politicians fail to keep them but ing policies carry more weight, lobbies findings are persuasive.” because lobbies are far less influential have an impact too, and when advocates than political rhetoric suggests. for a given issue finally succeed, policy —Kay Schlozman, Boston College Based on a comprehensive exami- tends to change significantly. The au- nation of ninety-eight issues, this vol- thors argue, however, that the lobby- May 336 p., 10 line drawings, ume demonstrates that sixty percent ing community so strongly reflects elite 40 tables 6 x 9 of recent lobbying campaigns failed to interests that it will not fundamentally ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03944-2 change policy despite millions of dol- alter the balance of power unless its Cloth $66.00x/£39.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03945-9 lars spent trying. Why? The authors makeup shifts dramatically in favor of Paper $24.00s/£14.00 find that resources explain less than average Americans’ concerns. POLITICAL SCIENCE Frank R. Baumgartner is the Bruce R. Miller and Dean D. LaVigne Professor of Political Science at Penn State University. Jeffrey M. Berry is the John Richard Skuse Professor of Political Science at Tufts University. Marie Hojnacki is associate professor of political science at Penn State University. David C. Kimball is associate professor of political science at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Beth L. Leech is associate professor of political science at Rutgers University. “I know of no other book which examines full-on the impact of Wash- Behind the Development Banks ington politics—and especially the unique split between executive Washington Politics, World Poverty, and the Wealth of Nations branch and legislative branch in Sarah Babb the American polity—on the functioning of a multilateral organiza- The World Bank and other multilateral ism and the perpetual “selling” of banks development banks (MDBs) carry out to Congress by the executive branch. tion. Sarah Babb has delved deeply their mission to alleviate poverty and Babb contends that congressional reluc- into archival sources and supple- promote economic growth based on tance to fund the MDBs has enhanced mented them with more academic the advice of professional economists. the influence of the United States on literature and some interviews. The But as Sarah Babb argues in Behind the them by making credible America’s result is a well-written book, acces- Development Banks, these organizations threat to abandon the banks if its policy sible to a wide readership and not have also been indelibly shaped by preferences are not followed. At a time Washington politics—particularly by when the United States’s role in world just to students and scholars.” the legislative branch and its power of affairs is being closely scrutinized, Be- —Robert H. Wade, London School of Economics the purse. hind the Development Banks will be nec- and Political Science Tracing American influence on essary reading for anyone interested in

MDBs over three decades, this volume how American politics helps determine July 320 p., 7 line drawings, 6 tables assesses increased congressional activ- the fate of developing countries. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03364-8 Sarah Babb is associate professor of sociology at Boston College. She is the author of Cloth $70.00x/£41.00 Managing Mexico: Economists from Nationalism to Neoliberalism and coauthor of Economy/Society: ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03365-5 Markets, Meanings, and Social Structure. Paper $25.00s/£14.50 POLITICAL SCIENCE ECONOMICS

31 Re-announcing Michael Camille The Gargoyles of Notre Dame Medievalism and the Monsters of Modernity

ost of the seven million people who visit the cathedral

of Notre Dame in Paris each year probably do not re- “The celebrated medievalist Michael Malize that the legendary gargoyles adorning this medieval Camille takes on the modern era in this masterpiece were not constructed until the nineteenth century. The sweeping and brave book—with stag- first comprehensive history of these world-famous monsters,The Gar- geringly original results. Exploring the goyles of Notre Dame argues that they transformed the iconic thirteenth- indispensability of the monstrous to the century cathedral into a modern monument. modern, The Gargoyles of Notre Dame is Michael Camille begins his long-awaited study by recounting at once a meditation on the valences of architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc’s ambitious restoration of the structure modernity and a rumination on the mean- from 1843 to 1864, when the gargoyles were designed, sculpted by the ings attributed to the Middle Ages and little-known Victor Pyanet, and installed. These gargoyles, Camille the cathedral itself in the later nineteenth contends, were not mere avatars of the Middle Ages, but rather fresh century.” creations—symbolizing an imagined past—whose modernity lay pre- —Hollis Clayson, author of Paris in Despair: cisely in their nostalgia. He goes on to map the critical reception and Art and Everyday Life under Siege many-layered afterlives of these chimeras, notably in the works of such artists and writers as Charles Méryon, Victor Hugo, and photographer june 456 p., 370 halftones 81/2 x 91/4 Henri Le Secq. Tracing their eventual evolution into icons of high ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09245-4 Cloth $49.00s/£29.00 kitsch, Camille ultimately locates the gargoyles’ place in the twentieth- ART ARCHITECTURE century imagination, exploring interpretations by everyone from Winslow Homer to the Walt Disney Company. Lavishly illustrated with more than three hundred images of its monumental yet whimsical subjects, The Gargoyles of Notre Dame is a must-read for historians of art and architecture and anyone whose imagination has been sparked by the lovable monsters gazing out over Paris from one of the world’s most renowned vantage points.

Michael Camille (1958–2002) was professor of art history at the University of Chicago. His many books include The Medieval Art of Love and Mirror in Parchment.

32 “The lack of female leadership in the The Motherless State United States is a serious puzzle. Women’s Political Leadership and American Democracy To solve it, this subtle and sophisti- Eileen McDonagh cated book examines the very idea of the state and how the policies it American women attain more profes- Explaining that equal rights alone enacts shape public attitudes that sional success than most of their coun- do not ensure equal access to political lead to the exclusion of women terparts around the world, but—Hillary office, Eileen McDonagh shows that from national political office. The Clinton and Sarah Palin notwithstand- electoral gender parity also requires Motherless State fills a major gap ing—they lag surprisingly far behind public policies that represent maternal in the national political arena. Women traits. Most other democracies, she dem- in the literature on women and politi- held only 15 percent of U.S. congres- onstrates, view women as more suited to cal leadership in the United States.” sional seats in 2006, a proportion that govern because their governments have —Ruth O’Brien, ranks America behind eighty-two other taken on maternal roles through social Graduate Center of the countries in terms of females elected to welfare provisions, gender quotas, or City University of New York legislative office. A compelling explo- the continuance of symbolic hereditary ration of this deficiency, The Motherless monarchies. The United States has not April 336 p., 8 line drawings, 23 tables 6 x 9 State reveals why the United States dif- adopted such policies, and until it does, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-51454-3 fers from comparable democracies that McDonagh insightfully warns, Ameri- Cloth $75.00x/£44.00 routinely elect far more women to their can women run for office with a trou- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-51455-0 Paper $25.00s/£14.50 national governing bodies and chief ex- bling disadvantage. POLITICAL SCIENCE ecutive positions. WOMEN’S STUDIES Eileen McDonagh is professor of political science at Northeastern University and visiting scholar at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University.

“The prospects for public delibera- Talking Together tion represent this generation’s variation on the classic question Public Deliberation and Political Participation in America of whether ordinary citizens are Lawrence R. Jacobs, Fay Lomax Cook, and Michael Delli Carpini actually capable of self-govern- Challenging the conventional wisdom formal gatherings—a surprising two- ment. Talking Together brings new that Americans are less engaged than thirds of Americans regularly partici- empirical data to bear on this major ever in national life and the democrat- pate in public discussions about such issue. A well-crafted study based ic process, Talking Together paints the pressing issues as the Iraq War, eco- on research by three of the field’s most comprehensive portrait available nomic development, and race relations. leading scholars, this book will be of public deliberation in the United Pinpointing the real benefits of public States and explains why it is important discourse while considering arguments of great interest to political scien- to America’s future. that question its importance, Talking tists, psychologists, sociologists, The authors’ original and extensive Together presents an authoritative and and anyone else whose work deals research reveals how, when, and why cit- clear-eyed assessment of deliberation’s with political participation.” izens talk to each other about the issues function in American governance. In —M. Stephen Weatherford, of the day. They find that—in settings the process, it offers concrete recom- University of California, ranging from one-on-one conversations mendations for increasing the power of Santa Barbara to e-mail exchanges to larger and more talk to foster political action.

June 240 p., 10 line drawings, Lawrence R. Jacobs is the Mondale Chair and director of the Center for the Study of Politics 29 tables 6 x 9 and Governance at the Hubert Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38986-8 Fay Lomax Cook is director of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern Cloth $60.00x/£35.50 University. Michael Delli Carpini is dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38987-5 the University of Pennsylvania. Paper $21.00s/£12.50 POLITICAL SCIENCE

33 Tim Dean Unlimited Intimacy Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking

arebacking—when gay men deliberately abandon condoms and embrace unprotected sex—has incited a great deal of shock, Boutrage, anger, and even disgust, but very little contemplation. Purposely flying in the face of decades of safe-sex campaigning and HIV/AIDS awareness initiatives, barebacking is unquestionably radical behavior, behavior that most people would rather condemn than understand. Thus the time is ripe for Unlimited Intimacy, Tim Dean’s riveting investigation into barebacking and the distinctive subculture “Unlimited Intimacy is novel, fascinating, that has grown around it. insightful, and courageous. Tim Dean Audacious and undeniably provocative, Dean’s profoundly re- convincingly argues that confronting flective account is neither a manifesto nor an apology; instead, it is a head-on a sexual subculture that is alien searching analysis that tests the very limits of the study of sex in the to most readers, and understanding the twenty-first century. Dean’s extensive research into the subculture pro- fantasies that propel it, is a very good vides a tour of the scene’s bars, sex clubs, and Web sites; offers an ex- way of stimulating thought—not only plicit but sophisticated analysis of its pornography; and documents his about that subculture, but about one’s own personal experiences in the culture. But ultimately, it is HIV that own choices and behavior, and about the animates the controversy around barebacking, and Unlimited Intimacy general social process of demonizing and explores how barebackers think about transmitting the virus— pathologizing certain sexual practices.” especially the idea that deliberately sharing it establishes a new net- —Martha Nussbaum work of kinship among the infected. According to Dean, intimacy makes us vulnerable, exposes us to emotional risk, and forces us to May 256 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-13938-8 drop our psychological barriers. As a committed experiment in intima- Cloth $55.00x/£32.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-13939-5 cy without limits—one that makes those metaphors of intimacy quite Paper $19.00s/£11.00 literal—barebacking thus says a great deal about how intimacy works. GAY AND LESBIAN STUDIES Written with a fierce intelligence and uncompromising nerve, Unlimited Intimacy will prove to be a milestone in our understanding of sexual behavior.

Tim Dean is professor of English and director of the Humanities Institute at the University at Buffalo. He is the author or editor of several books, including Beyond Sexuality, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

34 “This is an extremely erudite The Empire of Civilization book that clearly illustrates Brett The Evolution of an Imperial Idea Bowden’s mastery of a wide variety Brett Bowden of philosophical and historical sources. There is a lot of very The term civilization comes with consid- a stage-managed account of history that interesting material here that erable baggage, dichotomizing people, legitimizes imperialism, uniformity, is of enormous relevance to any cultures, and histories as civilized—or and conformity to Western standards, contemporary intellectual reader not. While the idea of civilization has culminating in a liberal-democratic attempting to place the concepts been deployed throughout history to global order. Along the way, Bowden ex- justify all manner of interventions and plores the variety of confrontations and of ‘civilization’ and ‘civilizations’ in sociopolitical engineering, few schol- conquests—as well as those peoples their proper historical contexts.” ars have stopped to consider what the and places excluded or swept aside— —Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, concept actually means. Here, Brett undertaken in the name of civilization. American University Bowden examines how the idea of Concluding that the “West and the civilization has informed our thinking rest” have more commonalities than April 288 p. 6 x 9 about international relations over the differences, this provocative and en- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06814-5 Cloth $45.00s/£26.50 course of ten centuries. gaging book ultimately points the way POLITICAL SCIENCE HISTORY From the Crusades to the colonial toward an authentic intercivilizational era to the global war on terror, this dialogue that emphasizes cooperation sweeping volume exposes civilization as over clashes.

Brett Bowden is a senior lecturer in politics at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra.

“Polyphonic Federalism is a very Polyphonic Federalism interesting and important book, proposing a provocative new con- Toward the Protection of Fundamental Rights Robert A. Schapiro ception of federalism in the United

States. It will make a very impor- The relationship between the states tends that contemporary views of fed- tant contribution to the current dis- and the national government is among eralism are plagued by outmoded du- cussion of the functioning of, and the most contested issues in the Unit- alist notions that seek to separate state the purposes behind, our system of ed States. And questions about where and federal authority. Instead, Scha- constitutional federalism.” power should reside, how decisions piro proposes a polyphonic model that should be made, and how responsibility emphasizes the valuable interaction of —Robert Williams, Rutgers School of Law should be allocated have been central state and federal law, one that more to the American experiment in feder- accurately describes the intersecting

April 240 p. 6 x 9 alism. In Polyphonic Federalism, Robert realities of local and national power. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73662-4 A. Schapiro defends the advantages of Through an analysis of several legal Cloth $45.00s/£26.50 multiple perspectives in government, and policy debates, Polyphonic Federal- LAW POLITICAL SCIENCE arguing that the resulting “polyphony” ism demonstrates how a multifaceted creates a system that is more efficient, government can best realize the poten- democratic, and protective of liberties. tial of federalism to protect fundamen- This groundbreaking volume con- tal rights.

Robert A. Schapiro is professor of law at Emory University School of Law.

35 The Shadow and the Act “This is an extraordinary book. Muyumba’s pathbreaking account Black Intellectual Practice, Jazz Improvisation, of Ellison, Baraka, and Baldwin’s and Philosophical Pragmatism aesthetic theories and the connec- Walton M. Muyumba tion between those theories and African American politics is creative Though often thought of as rivals, Ralph on jazz to the philosophical tradition of and convincing.” Ellison, James Baldwin, and Amiri Ba- pragmatism, particularly its support for raka shared a range of interests, espe- more freedom for individuals and more —Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Princeton University cially a passion for music. Jazz, in par- democratic societies. He examines the ticular, was a decisive influence on their way they responded to and elaborated 1 1 July 192 p. 5 /2 x 8 /2 thinking, and, as The Shadow and the Act on that lineage, showing how they sig- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-55423-5 reveals, they drew on their insights into nificantly broadened it by addressing Cloth $48.00x/£28.00 the creative process of improvisation the African American experience, espe- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-55424-2 Paper $18.00s/£10.50 to analyze race and politics in the civil cially its aesthetics. Ultimately, Muyum- AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES rights era. In this inspired study Walton ba contends, the trio enacted pragmatist LITERARY CRITICISM M. Muyumba situates these thinkers as principles by effectively communicating a jazz trio, demonstrating how Ellison, the social and political benefits of Afri- Baraka, and Baldwin’s individual works can Americans fully entering society, form a series of calls and responses with thereby compelling America to move each other. closer to its democratic ideals. Muyumba connects their writings

Walton M. Muyumba is associate professor of English at the University of North Texas.

The Scene of Harlem Cabaret Race, Sexuality, Performance Shane Vogel

Harlem’s nightclubs in the 1920s and Claude McKay, Wallace Thurman, and ’30s were a crucible for testing society’s Ethel Waters expanded the possibilities racial and sexual limits. Normally tacit of blackness and sexuality in America,

divisions were there made spectacularly resulting in a queer nightlife that flour- COURTESY NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY public in the vibrant, but often fraught, ished in music, in print, and on stage. relationship between performer and Deftly combining performance April 264 p., 14 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-86251-4 audience. The cabaret scene, Shane Vo- theory, literary criticism, historical Cloth $60.00x/£35.50 gel contends, also played a key role in research, and biographical study, The ISBN-13: 978-0-226-86252-1 the Harlem Renaissance by offering an Scene of Harlem Cabaret brings this rich Paper $22.00s/£13.00 alternative to the politics of sexual re- moment in history to life, while explor- AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES GAY AND LESBIAN STUDIES spectability and racial uplift that sought ing the role of nightlife performance as to dictate the proper subject matter for a definitive touchstone for understand- Some permissions need to black arts and letters. Individually and ing the racial and sexual politics of the be cleared for translation. collectively, luminaries such as Duke El- early twentieth century. lington, Lena Horne, Langston Hughes,

Shane Vogel is assistant professor of English at Indiana University.

36 Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California Charlotte Brooks

Between the early 1900s and the late advocated the latter group’s access to 1950s, the attitudes of white Califor- middle-class life and the residential ar- nians toward their Asian American eas that went with it. But as they trans- neighbors evolved from outright hos- formed Asian Americans into a “model tility to relative acceptance. Charlotte minority,” whites purposefully ignored Brooks examines this transformation the long backstory of Chinese and Japa- through the lens of California’s urban nese Americans’ early and largely failed courtesy los angeles public library housing markets, arguing that the per- attempts to participate in public and Historical Studies of Urban ceived foreignness of Asian Americans, private housing programs. As Brooks America which initially stranded them in segre- tells this multifaceted story, she draws

May 328 p., 8 halftones, gated areas, eventually facilitated their on a broad range of sources in multiple 9 line drawings, 1 table 6 x 9 integration into neighborhoods that re- languages, giving voice to an array of ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07597-6 jected other minorities. community leaders, journalists, activ- Cloth $40.00s/£23.50 Against the backdrop of cold war ists, and homeowners—and insightfully HISTORY efforts to win Asian hearts and minds, conveying the complexity of racialized whites who saw little difference between housing in a multiracial society. Asians and Asian Americans increasingly

Charlotte Brooks is assistant professor of history at Baruch College, City University of New York.

“Taken together, the essays in this volume are transformative—and excellent across the board. They African American Urban History since collectively propel the historiogra- World War II phy of the postwar era in profitable Edited by Kenneth L. Kusmer and Joe W. Trotter directions. They push against the most staid boundaries of urban Historians have devoted surprisingly lit- tackle such topics as the real estate in- history, they break out of the black- tle attention to African American urban dustry’s discriminatory practices, the white binary that ensnares so much history of the postwar period, especial- movement of middle-class blacks to the of African American history, and ly compared with earlier decades. Cor- suburbs, and the influence of black ur- recting this imbalance, African American ban activists on national employment they juxtapose different objects Urban History since World War II features and social welfare policies. Another of study in a way that establishes an exciting mix of seasoned scholars group of contributors examines these this book as a wonderfully realized and fresh new voices whose combined themes through the lens of gender, interdisciplinary examination of efforts provide the first comprehensive chronicling deindustrialization’s dis- the past.” assessment of this important subject. proportionate impact on women and —Jonathan Holloway, The first of this volume’s five women’s leading roles in movements for Yale University groundbreaking sections focuses on social change. Concluding with a set of black migration and Latino immigra- essays on black culture and consump- Historical Studies of Urban tion, examining tensions and alliances tion, this volume fully realizes its goal America that emerged between African Ameri- of linking local transformations with August 512 p., 5 line drawings, cans and other groups. Exploring the the national and global processes that 16 tables 6 x 9 challenges of residential segregation affect urban class and race relations. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-46509-8 and deindustrialization, later sections Cloth $83.00x/£49.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-46510-4 Kenneth L. Kusmer is professor of history at Temple University. Joe W. Trotter is the Mellon Paper $30.00s/£17.50 Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University. AMERICAN HISTORY

37 Lawrence B. Glickman Buying Power A History of Consumer Activism in America

ar from ephemeral consumer trends, buying green and avoiding sweatshop-made clothing represent the most recent points on Fa centuries-long continuum of American consumer activism. A sweeping and definitive history of this political tradition,Buying Power traces its lineage back to our nation’s founding, revealing that Ameri- cans used purchasing power to support causes and punish enemies long before the word boycott even entered our lexicon. Taking the Boston Tea Party as his starting point, Lawrence B. Glickman argues that the rejection of British imports by revolutionary “In this major, learned, and ambitious patriots inaugurated a continuous series of consumer boycotts, cam- book, Lawrence Glickman weaves to- paigns for safe and ethical consumption, and efforts to make goods gether social, cultural, and intellectual more broadly accessible. He explores abolitionist-led efforts to eschew history to show how consumer activism slave-made goods, African American consumer campaigns against Jim has, since the mid-eighteenth century, Crow, a 1930s refusal of silk from fascist Japan, a range of contempo- waxed and waned but never disappeared. rary boycotts, and emerging movements like fair trade and slow food. Glickman has an incomparable grasp of Uncovering previously unknown episodes and analyzing famous events the entire sweep of the history of con- from a fresh perspective, Glickman emphasizes both change and consumer society, and Buying Power is the tinuity in the long tradition of consumer activism. In the process, he most influential, wide-ranging, nuanced, illuminates moments when its multifaceted trajectory intersected with provocative, original, and commanding fights for political and civil rights. He also sheds new light on activism’s book on the subject in recent memory. It relationship with the consumer movement, which gave rise to lobbies will shape discussions of American politi- like the National Consumers League and Consumers Union as well as cal and social history for years to come.” —Daniel Horowitz, ill-fated legislation to create a federal Consumer Protection Agency. author of The Anxieties of Affluence A powerful corrective to the notion that a consumer society de- grades and diminishes its citizenry, Buying Power provides a new lens July 416 p., 35 halftones, 1 table 6 x 9 through which to view the history of the United States. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-29865-8 Cloth $45.00s/£26.50 AMERICAN HISTORY Lawrence B. Glickman is professor of history at the University of South Caro- lina. He is the author of A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society.

38 Contributors include The Paleobiological Revolution Francisco J. Ayala, Richard Essays on the Growth of Modern Paleontology Bambach, Michael Benton, Edited by David Sepkoski and Michael Ruse Derek Briggs, Richard Fortey, Anthony Hallam, Jack Horner, Paleontology has long had a troubled in biology and emerged as paleobiol- David Jablonski, J. William relationship with evolutionary biology, a first-rate discipline central to ogy. Suffering from a reputation as a evolutionary studies. Schopf, James W. Valentine, second-tier science and conjuring im- This incredible ascendance of this and Tim White ages of fossil collectors and amateurs once-maligned science to the vanguard who dig up bones, paleontology was of a field is chronicled in The Paleobio- May 496 p., 29 halftones, marginalized even by Darwin himself, logical Revolution. Pairing contributions 13 line drawings, 6 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-74861-0 who worried that incompleteness in the from some of the leading actors of the Cloth $65.00s/£38.00 fossil record would be used against his transformation with overviews from his- SCIENCE theory of evolution. But with the estab- torians and philosophers of science, the lishment of the modern synthesis in essays here capture the excitement of Some permissions need to the 1940s and the pioneering work of the seismic changes in the discipline. In be cleared for translation. George Gaylord Simpson, Ernst Mayr, so doing, David Sepkoski and Michael and Theodosius Dobzhansky, as well as Ruse harness the energy of the past to the subsequent efforts of Stephen Jay call for further study of the conceptual Gould, David Raup, and James Valen- development of modern paleobiology. tine, paleontology became embedded

David Sepkoski is assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina Wilm- ington. Michael Ruse is the Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University and the author or editor of nearly thirty books, including The Darwinian Revolu- tion, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Contributors include Becoming Historians James M. Banner, Jr., Edited by James M. Banner, Jr. and John R. Gillis John R. Gillis, Linda Gordon, David A. Hollinger, Rhys Isaac, In this unique collection, the memoirs social history, and public history—that Temma Kaplan, Franklin W. of eleven historians provide a fascinat- cleared paths in the academy and made Knight, Maureen Murphy ing portrait of a formative generation the study of the past more capacious of scholars. Born around the time of and broadly relevant. In these stories— Nutting, Dwight T. Pitcaithley, World War II, these influential histori- skillfully compiled and introduced Paul Robinson, and Joan ans came of age just before the upheav- by James M. Banner, Jr. and John R. Wallach Scott als of the 1960s and ’70s and helped Gillis—aspiring historians will find in- to transform both their discipline and spiration and guidance, experienced May 312 p. 6 x 9 the broader world of American higher scholars will see reflections of their own ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03656-4 education. The self-inventions they dilemmas and struggles, and all readers Cloth $70.00x/£41.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03658-8 thoughtfully chronicle led, in many will discover a rare account of how to- Paper $25.00s/£14.50 cases, to the invention of new fields— day’s seasoned historians embarked on HISTORY including women’s and gender history, their intellectual journeys.

James M. Banner, Jr., cofounder of the National History Center and the History News Ser- vice, is historian-in-residence at American University. John R. Gillis is professor emeritus of history at Rutgers University.

39 D. Bradford Hunt Blueprint for Disaster The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing

ow considered a dysfunctional mess, Chicago’s public housing projects once housed residents who described them as Nparadise. So what went wrong? To answer this complicated question, D. Bradford Hunt traces public housing’s history in Chicago from its New Deal roots through current mayor Richard M. Daley’s Plan for Transformation. In the process, he chronicles the Chicago “The United States still endures a low- Housing Authority’s own transformation from the city’s most progres- and moderate-income housing crisis, as sive government agency to its largest slumlord. revealed by the current economic crisis Challenging explanations that attribute the projects’ decline to precipitated by subprime mortgage loans racial discrimination and real estate interests, Hunt argues that well- to marginal homebuyers. The story of intentioned but misguided policy decisions—from design choices to America’s less-than-glorious endeavor to maintenance contracts—paved the road to failure. Moreover, admin- address the problem of ‘one-third of a istrators who fully understood the potential drawbacks did not try to nation ill-housed’ is an important one, halt such deeply flawed projects as Cabrini-Green and the Robert Tay- and Blueprint for Disaster greatly contrib- lor Homes. These massive high-rise complexes housed unprecedented utes to its illumination. This is an impres- numbers of children but relatively few adults, engendering disorder sive exploration of why public housing that pushed out the working class and, consequently, the rents needed unfolded in the late twentieth century as to maintain the buildings. The resulting combination of fiscal crisis, an almost universally condemned policy.” managerial incompetence, and social unrest plunged the CHA into a —John F. Bauman, quagmire from which it is still trying to emerge. University of Southern Maine If those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it, Historical Studies of Urban America Blueprint for Disaster is an urgent reminder of the havoc failed policy can wreak on our most vulnerable citizens. July 352 p., 28 halftones, 4 line drawings, 1 table 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-36085-0 D. Bradford Hunt is associate dean and associate professor of social science at Cloth $35.00s/£20.50 Roosevelt University in Chicago. AMERICAN HISTORY

40 “Taking the Xhosa cattle killing as Bulletproof her focus, Wenzel offers something beautifully paradoxical: a new, anti- Afterlives of Anticolonial Prophecy in South Africa and Beyond canonical canon of South African writing. Concerned with historical Jennifer Wenzel and literary ‘failures,’ this work is a In 1856 and 1857, in response to a ecy that Jennifer Wenzel explores in profound reflection on the fragmen- prophet’s command, the Xhosa people Bulletproof. tary and spectral (but not therefore of southern Africa killed their cattle Wenzel examines literary and his- any less compelling) nature of and ceased planting crops; the result- torical texts to show how writers have echoes, influences, and prophe- ing famine cost tens of thousands of manipulated images and ideas associ- cies. A work of sophistication and lives. Much like other millenarian, anti- ated with the cattle killing—harvest, colonial movements—such as the Ghost intellectual ambition, Bulletproof sacrifice, rebirth, devastation—to speak Dance in North America and the Birsa to their contemporary predicaments. is a timely and innovative interven- Munda uprising in India—these actions Widening her lens, Wenzel also looks at tion in postcolonial studies.” were meant to transform the world and how past failure can both inspire and —Rita Barnard, liberate the Xhosa from oppression. constrain movements for justice in the University of Pennsylvania Despite the movement’s momentous present, and her brilliant insights into failure to achieve that goal, the event the cultural implications of prophecy July 304 p., 6 halftones, 1 map 6 x 9 has continued to exert a powerful pull will fascinate readers across a wide va- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-89347-1 on the South African imagination ever riety of disciplines. Cloth $72.00x/£42.50 since. It is these afterlives of the proph- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-89348-8 Paper $26.00s/£15.50 Jennifer Wenzel is assistant professor of English at the University of Michigan. ANTHROPOLOGY AFRICAN STUDIES

“A superb book filled with erudition. The Heroic City The brio of the writing conveys Paris, 1945–1958 Wakeman’s passion for her topic, Rosemary Wakeman which is all to the good since Paris is so personal a subject. Wake- The Heroic City is a sparkling account of Wakeman analyzes the public life man has assembled an impressive the fate of Paris’s public spaces in the of the city from a variety of perspec- amount of information about post- years following Nazi occupation and tives. A reemergence of traditional war Paris and has brought it to life joyful liberation. Countering the tradi- customs led to the return of festivals, with her energetic prose.” tional narrative that Paris’s public land- street dances, and fun fairs, while vio- scape became sterile and dehumanized lent protests and political marches, the —David P. Jordan, author of Transforming Paris in the 1940s and ’50s, Rosemary Wake- housing crisis, and the struggle over man instead finds that the city’s streets decolonization signaled the political

July 400 p., 31 halftones 6 x 9 overflowed with ritual, drama, and realities of postwar France. The work ISBN-13: 978-0-226-87023-6 spectacle. With frequent strikes and of urban planners and architects, the Cloth $35.00s/£20.50 protests, young people and students on output of filmmakers and intellectu- EUROPEAN HISTORY parade, North Africans arriving in the als, and the day-to-day experiences of capital of the French empire, and ra- residents from all walks of life come dio and television shows broadcast live together in this vibrant portrait of a from the streets, Paris continued to be flamboyant and transformative mo- vital terrain. ment in the life of the City of Light.

Rosemary Wakeman is associate professor of history and director of the Urban Studies Program at Fordham University and the author of Modernizing the Provincial City: Toulouse 1945–1975.

41 Sound Diplomacy Music and Emotions in German-American Relations, 1850–1920 Jessica Gienow-Hecht ORCHESTRA HONY MP

Between 1850 and 1910, the United interactions between America and Ger- SY States was a rising star in the internation- many, Jessica Gienow-Hecht uncovers CHICAGO al arena, and several European nations the remarkable history of the musician , sought to strengthen their ties to the re- as a cultural symbol of German cosmo- public through cultural means. France politanism. Seen as sexually attractive ARCHIVES capitalized on its art, Britain on its social and emotionally expressive, German ties and literature, and Germany pro- players and conductors acted as an ROSENTHAL moted classical music. Sound Diplomacy army of informal ambassadors for their THE retraces these efforts to export culture home country, and Gienow-Hecht ar- as an instrument of nongovernmental gues that their popularity in the United COURTESY diplomacy, paying particular attention States paved the way for an emotional May 304 p., 24 halftones, to the role of conductors. elective affinity that survived broken 6 line drawings 6 x 9 Delving into a treasure trove of treaties and several wars and continues ISBN-13: 978-0-226-29215-1 Cloth $45.00s/£26.50 archives that document cross-cultural to the present. HISTORY MUSIC Jessica Gienow-Hecht is a Heisenberg Fellow of the German Research Council teaching at the University of Frankfurt and the author of Transmission Impossible: American Journalism as Cultural Diplomacy in Postwar Germany, 1945–1955.

In Excess Sergei Eisenstein’s Mexico CITY ICO X E

Masha Salazkina , M

During the 1920s and ’30s, Mexico at- ect within the twin contexts of postrevo- COLLECTION ASE tracted an international roster of art- lutionary Mexico and the ideas of such B ists and intellectuals—including Orson contemporaneous thinkers as Walter DATA

Welles, Katherine Anne Porter, and Leon Benjamin. In doing so, Salazkina ex- OLIVIER Trotsky—who were drawn to the heady plains how Eisenstein’s engagement tumult engendered by battling cultural with Mexican mythology, politics, and Cinema and Modernity Series ideologies in an emerging center for art deeply influenced his ideas, particu- March the avant-garde. Against the backdrop larly about sexuality. She also uncovers ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73414-9 of this cosmopolitan milieu, In Excess re- the role Eisenstein’s bisexuality played Cloth $40.00s/£23.50 constructs the years that the renowned in his creative thinking and identifies FILM studies Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein spent in his use of the baroque as an important the country to work on his controversial turn toward excess and hybrid forms. film¡Que Viva México! Beautifully illustrated with rare pho- Illuminating the inextricability tographs, In Excess provides the most of Eisenstein’s oeuvre from the global complete genealogy available of major cultures of modernity and film, Masha shifts in this modern master’s theories Salazkina situates this unfinished proj- and aesthetics.

Masha Salazkina is assistant professor of Russian and film and media studies at Colgate University.

42 “What is truly original about Con- Contested Medicine tested Medicine is that, by using Cancer Research and the Military the science studies approach ap- Gerald Kutcher plied to a specific historical case, Kutcher shows not only how ethics In the 1960s University of Cincinnati ald Kutcher explores post–World War II were constitutive of the shape of radiologist Eugene Saenger infamously cancer trials, the efforts of the govern- experimental work on cancer at its conducted human experiments on pa- ment to manage clinical ethics, and the inception but how both of these tients with advanced cancer to examine important role of military investigations things were mutually changed over how total body radiation could treat in the development of an effective treat- time.” the disease. But, under contract with ment for childhood leukemia. Whereas the Department of Defense, Saenger most histories of human experimenta- —Christopher Lawrence, Wellcome Trust Centre for also used those same patients as proxies tion judge research such as Saenger’s the History of Medicine, for soldiers to answer questions about against idealized practices, Contested University College London combat effectiveness on a nuclear bat- Medicine eschews such an approach and tlefield. considers why Saenger’s peers and later May 240 p. 6 x 9 Using the Saenger case as a means critics had so much difficulty reaching ISBN-13: 978-0-226-46531-9 an unambiguous ethical assessment. Cloth $35.00s/£20.50 to reconsider cold war medical trials, Contested Medicine examines the inher- Kutcher’s engaging investigation offers SCIENCE MEDICINE ent tensions at the heart of clinical stud- an approach to clinical ethics and re- ies of the time. Emphasizing the deeply search imperatives that lays bare many intertwined and mutually supportive re- of the conflicts and tensions of the post- lationship between cancer therapy with war period. radiation and military medicine, Ger-

Gerald Kutcher is Dean’s Professor of the History of Medicine at Binghamton University.

Accident Prone A History of Technology, Psychology, and Misfits of the Machine Age John C. Burnham

Technology demands uniformity from cidents coevolved with the rise of the human beings who encounter it. People insurance industry and trends in twen- encountering technology, however, dif- tieth-century psychology. After World fer from one another. Thinkers in the War I, psychologists determined that early twentieth century, observing the some people are more accident prone awful consequences of interactions be- than others. This designation signaled tween humans and machines—death a shift in social strategy toward mini- by automobiles or dismemberment by mizing accidents by diverting particular factory machinery, for example—de- people away from dangerous environ- veloped the idea of accident proneness: ments. By the 1960s and ’70s, however, the tendency of a particular person to the idea of accident proneness gradu- June 304 p., 46 halftones, have more accidents than most people. ally declined, and engineers developed 1 line drawing 6 x 9 In tracing this concept from its birth new technologies to protect all people, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08117-5 Cloth $40.00s/£23.50 to its disappearance at the end of the thereby introducing a hidden, but radi- twentieth century, Accident Prone offers cal, egalitarianism. HISTORY SCIENCE a unique history of technology focused Accident Prone is an ambitious in- not on innovations but on their unin- tellectual analysis of the birth, growth, tended consequences. and decline of an idea that will interest Here, John C. Burnham shows that anyone who wishes to understand how as the machine era progressed, the Western societies have grappled with the physical and economic impact of ac- human costs of modern life.

John C. Burnham is research professor of history at the Ohio State University and the author of many books, including, most recently, What Is Medical History?

43 Richard G. Klein The Human Career Human Biological and Cultural Origins

Third Edition

ince its publication in 1989, The Human Career has proved to be an indispensable tool in teaching human origins. This substan- Stially revised third edition retains Richard G. Klein’s innovative approach while showing how cumulative discoveries and analyses over the past ten years have significantly refined our knowledge of human evolution. Praise for previous editions Klein chronicles the evolution of people from the earliest pri- mates through the emergence of fully modern humans within the past “If you only have one book that deals with 200,000 years. His comprehensive treatment stresses recent advances human evolution, this is definitely the one in knowledge, including, for example, ever more abundant evidence to choose.” that fully modern humans originated in Africa and spread from there, —Jean-Jacques Hublin, Nature replacing the Neanderthals in Europe and equally archaic people in Asia. With its coverage of both the fossil record and the archaeologi- “By far the best book of its kind.” cal record over the 2.5 million years for which both are available, The —Henry McHenry, Evolution Human Career demonstrates that human morphology and behavior evolved together. Throughout the book, Klein presents evidence for June 976 p., 272 line drawings, 49 tables alternative points of view but does not hesitate to make his own posi- 7 x 10 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-43965-5 tion clear. Cloth $75.00x/£44.00 In addition to outlining the broad pattern of human evolution, SCIENCE The Human Career details the kinds of data that support it. For the third Italian language rights already licensed. edition, Klein has added numerous tables and a fresh citation system designed to enhance readability, especially for students. He has also included more than fifty new illustrations to help lay readers grasp the fossils, artifacts, and other discoveries on which specialists rely. With abundant references and hundreds of images, charts, and diagrams, this new edition is unparalleled in its usefulness for teaching human evolution.

Richard G. Klein is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. His books include Ice-Age Hunters of the Ukraine and, with Kathryn Cruz-Uribe, The Analysis of Animal Bones from Archaeological Sites, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

44 “Modern Nature is a wonderful book. Modern Nature Lynn Nyhart’s lucid prose, breadth The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany of scholarship, overall historical Lynn K. Nyhart sweep, and wealth of insights combine to produce a model study. In Modern Nature, Lynn K. Nyhart traces entation toward classification. While A highly original work.” the emergence of a “biological perspec- this new biological perspective would —Richard W. Burkhardt Jr., tive” in late nineteenth-century Ger- eventually grow into the academic dis- University of Illinois many that emphasized the dynamic cipline of ecology, Modern Nature lo- at Urbana-Champaign relationships among organisms, and cates its roots outside the universities, between organisms and their environ- in a vibrant realm of populist natural April 368 p., 44 halftones, 1 table 6 x 9 ment. Examining this approach to history inhabited by taxidermists and ISBN-13: 978-0-226-61089-4 nature in light of Germany’s fraught zookeepers, schoolteachers and muse- Cloth $45.00s/£26.50 urbanization and industrialization, as um reformers, amateur enthusiasts and HISTORY SCIENCE well as the opportunities presented by nature protectionists. new and reforming institutions, she Probing the populist beginnings argues that rapid social change drew of animal ecology in Germany, Nyhart attention to the role of social relation- unites the history of popular natural ships and physical environments in ren- history with that of elite science in a dering a society—and nature—whole, new way. In doing so, she brings to light functional, and healthy. a major orientation in late nineteenth- This quintessentially modern view century biology that has long been of nature, Nyhart shows, stood in stark eclipsed by Darwinism. contrast to the standard naturalist’s ori-

Lynn K. Nyhart is professor of history of science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the author of Biology Takes Form: Animal Morphology and the German University, 1800– 1900, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Secret Science Spanish Cosmography and the New World María M. Portuondo

The discovery of the New World raised and monetary value that royal scien- many questions for early modern sci- tists were charged with safeguarding entists: What did these lands contain? from foreign and internal enemies. Where did they lie in relation to Eu- Cosmography was thus a secret science,

MAP OF THE STRAIT OF MAGELLAN FROM ALONSO DE SANTA CRUZ, ISLARIO GENERAL rope? Who lived there, and what were but despite the limited dissemination their inhabitants like? Imperial expan- of this body of knowledge, royal cos- April 352 p., 10 color plates, sion necessitated changes in the way mographers applied alternative episte- 14 halftones, 5 line drawings, 5 tables 6 x 9 such scientific knowledge was gathered, mologies and new methodologies that ISBN-13: 978-0-226-67534-3 and Spanish cosmographers in particu- changed the discipline, and, in the pro- Cloth $45.00s/£26.50 lar were charged with turning their ob- cess, how Europeans understood the HISTORY servations of the New World into a body natural world. of knowledge that could be used for Secret Science promises to enhance governing the largest empire the world our understanding of early modern had ever known. science and the scientific revolution As María M. Portuondo here by shedding light on a nation that has shows, this cosmographic knowledge long been in the shadow of the Black had considerable strategic, defensive, Legend.

María M. Portuondo is assistant professor of history of science at the Johns Hopkins University.

45 Essay on the Geography of Plants Alexander v o n Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland Edited and with an Introduction by Stephen T. Jackson Translated by Sylvie Romanowski

The legacy of Alexander von Humboldt Darwin and Wallace, this work appears (1769–1859) looms large over the natu- here for the first time in a complete ral sciences. His 1799–1804 research ex- English-language translation. Covering pedition to Central and South America far more than its title implies, it repre- April 256 p., 1 color plate, with botanist Aimé Bonpland set the sents the first articulation of an inte- 9 halftones, 7 tables, 1 poster 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-36066-9 course for the great scientific surveys grative “science of the earth,” encom- Cloth $45.00s/£26.50 of the nineteenth century and inspired passing most of today’s environmental SCIENCE such essayists and artists as Emerson, sciences. Ecologist Stephen T. Jackson Goethe, Thoreau, Poe, and Frederic introduces the treatise and explains its Edwin Church. enduring significance two centuries af- The chronicles of the expedition ter its publication. The edition also in- were published in Paris after Hum- cludes a poster-sized color reproduction boldt’s return, and first among them of the Mt. Chimborazo tableau, an icon was the 1807 Essay on the Geography of in the history of science and scientific Plants. Among the most cited writings graphics. in natural history, after the works of

Stephen T. Jackson is professor of botany and ecology at the University of Wyoming. Sylvie Romanowski is associate professor of French literature at Northwestern University.

The Disordered Police State “A truly groundbreaking book, strikingly original. Its argument German Cameralism as Science and Practice incisively and convincingly chal- Andre Wakefield lenges an entire century of received opinion about its topic. One of the Probing the relationship between Ger- of the prince’s most secret affairs; as man political economy and everyday such, it was an essentially dishonest en- most enjoyable and innovative fiscal administration, The Disordered terprise. reads I’ve had in a long time.” Police State focuses on the cameral sci- In an entertaining series of case —Alix Cooper, ences—a peculiarly German body of studies on mining, textiles, forestry, Stony Brook University knowledge designed to train state offi- and universities, Wakefield portrays cials—and in so doing offers a new vi- cameralists in their own gritty terms. May 208 p., 3 halftones, 3 tables 6 x 9 sion of science and practice during the The result is a revolutionary new un- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-87020-5 seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. derstanding of how the sciences cre- Cloth $45.00s/£26.50 Andre Wakefield shows that the camer- ated and maintained an image of the EUROPEAN HISTORY al sciences were at once natural, tech- well-ordered police state in early mod- nological, and economic disciplines, ern Germany. In raising doubts about but, more importantly, they also were the status of these German sciences of strategic sciences, designed to procure the state, Wakefield ultimately ques- patronage for their authors and good tions many of our accepted narratives publicity for the German principali- about science, culture, and society in ties in which they lived and worked. early modern Europe. Cameralism, then, was the public face

Andre Wakefieldis associate professor of history at Pitzer College in Claremont, California, and is the editor and translator, with Claudine Cohen, of the first English edition of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s Protogaea, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

46 “This book will be useful to anyone Maternal Effects in Mammals studying maternal effects in any Edited by Dario Maestripieri and Jill M. Mateo species, as well as to everyone

studying mammals. The importance Evolutionary maternal effects occur nal Effects in Mammals reflects advances of the issues the editors consider whenever a mother’s phenotypic traits in genomic, ecological, and behavioral is not just restricted to maternal directly affect her offspring’s pheno- research, as well as new understandings effects, and their application is type, independent of the offspring’s of the evolutionary interplay between not just restricted to mammals. genotype. Some of the phenotypic traits mothers and their offspring. Dario that result in maternal effects have a Maestripieri and Jill M. Mateo bring Maternal Effects in Mammals will genetic basis, whereas others are envi- together a learned group of contribu- be highly influential. It will set the ronmentally determined. For example, tors to synthesize the vast literature tone for research on maternal ef- the size of a litter produced by a mam- on a range of species, highlight evolu- fects for many years to come.” malian mother—a trait with a strong tionary processes that were previously —Stephen M. Shuster, genetic basis—can affect the growth overlooked, and propose new avenues Northern Arizona University rate of her offspring, while a mother’s of research. Maternal Effects in Mammals dominance rank—an environmentally will serve as the most comprehensive July 352 p., 9 halftones, determined trait—can affect the domi- compendium on and stimulus for inter- 11 line drawings, 10 tables 6 x 9 nance rank of her offspring. disciplinary treatments of mammalian ISBN-13: 978-0-226-50119-2 Cloth $90.00x/£53.00 The first volume published on the maternal effects. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-50120-8 subject in more than a decade, Mater- Paper $35.00s/£20.50

SCIENCE Dario Maestripieri is professor of comparative human development, neurobiology, and evolutionary biology at the University of Chicago and the author of Macachiavellian Intelligence: How Rhesus Macaques and Humans Have Conquered the World. Jill M. Mateo is assistant professor of comparative human development and evolutionary biology at the University of Chicago.

“Hermanowicz offers a rich, Lives in Science textured, nuanced look into the How Institutions Affect Academic Careers shifting worlds of American Joseph C. Hermanowicz academic science, the key institutions in which it comes to be, and What can we learn when we follow peo- age. His candid interviews with his sub- the lives of the people who bring it ple over the years and across the course jects, meanwhile, shed light on the ways into being. Lives in Science will be of their professional lives? Joseph C. career goals are and are not met, on the important and exciting for scholars Hermanowicz asks this question specifi- frustrations of the academic profession, concerned with academic or scien- cally about scientists and answers it here and on how one deals with the boredom tific careers and the sociology of by tracking fifty-five physicists through and stagnation that can set in once one different stages of their careers at a va- is established. knowledge and education.” riety of universities across the country. An in-depth study of American —Anna Neumann, Teachers College, He explores these scientists’ shifting higher education professionals elo- Columbia University perceptions of their jobs to uncover quently told through their own words, the meanings they invest in their work, Hermanowicz’s keen analysis of how April 319 p., 1 line drawing, 29 tables when and where they find satisfaction, institutions shape careers will appeal to 6 x 9 how they succeed and fail, and how the anyone interested in life in academia. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-32761-7 rhythms of their work change as they Cloth $45.00s/£26.50 SCIENCE SOCIOLOGY 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 published by the University of Chicago Press.

47 Framing Finance “Framing Finance looks at the history of finance from a completely new The Boundaries of Markets and Modern Capitalism perspective, combining sociology, Alex Preda history, economics, and literary As the banking crisis and its effects on the course of the eighteenth and nine- and cultural studies. Drawing on the world economy have made plain, teenth centuries groups associated with his original historical data, Preda the stock market is of colossal impor- stock exchanges in New York, London, proposes several innovative theo- tance to our livelihoods. In Framing Fi- and Paris managed to redefine finance retical ideas and concepts that may nance, Alex Preda looks at the history of as a scientific pursuit grounded in ob- well become household notions in the market to figure out how we arrived servational technology. But Preda also writings on finance.” at a point where investing is not only notes that as the financial data in which —Karen Knorr Cetina, commonplace, but critical, as market they trafficked became ever more dif- University of Chicago fluctuations threaten our plans to send ficult to understand, charismatic specu- our children to college or retire com- lators emerged whose manipulations of July 304 p., 1 line drawing, 1 table fortably. the market undermined the benefits of 6 x 9 As Preda discovers through ex- widespread investment. And so, Framing ISBN-13: 978-0-226-67931-0 Finance ends with an eye on the future, Cloth $65.00x/£38.00 tensive research, the public was once ISBN-13: 978-0-226-67932-7 much more skeptical. For investing to proposing a system of public financial Paper $25.00s/£14.50 become accepted, a deep-seated prej- education to counter the irrational ele- SOCIOLOGY ECONOMICS udice against speculation had to be ments that still animate the appeal of overcome, and Preda reveals that over finance.

Alex Preda is a reader in sociology at the University of Edinburgh, the author of AIDS, Rhetoric, and Medical Knowledge, and coeditor of The Sociology of Financial Markets.

Distinguishing Disability “This is a timely book on the important issue of the role of social class Parents, Privilege, and Special Education differences in how parents cope Colin Ong-Dean with a special education diagnosis.” —Annette Lareau, Students in special education programs Colin Ong-Dean reveals that this pow- University of Pennsylvania can have widely divergent experiences. er is generally available only to those For some, special education amounts parents with the money, educational April 208 p., 7 line drawings, 4 tables to a dumping ground where schools background, and confidence needed to 6 x 9 unload problem students, while for oth- make effective claims about their chil- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-63000-7 Cloth $54.00x/£32.00 ers, it provides access to services and ac- dren’s disabilities and related needs. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-63001-4 commodations that drastically improve Ong-Dean documents this class divide Paper $19.00s/£11.00 chances of succeeding in school and by examining a wealth of evidence, in- EDUCATION SOCIOLOGY beyond. Distinguishing Disability argues cluding historic rates of learning dis- that this inequity in treatment is direct- ability diagnosis, court decisions, and ly linked to the disparity in resources advice literature for parents of disabled possessed by the students’ parents. children. In an era of expanding spe- Since the mid-1970s, federal law cial education enrollment, Distinguish- has empowered parents of public ing Disability is a timely analysis of the school children to intervene in virtu- way this expansion has created new ally every aspect of the decision making kinds of inequality. involved in special education. However,

Colin Ong-Dean is assistant project scientist in the Department of Education Studies at the University of California, San Diego.

48 Hong Kong Migrant Lives, Landscapes, and Journeys Caroline Knowles and Douglas Harper

In 1997 the United Kingdom returned in Hong Kong have become intimately control of Hong Kong to China, ending connected with another small minority the city’s status as one of the last rem- group there: immigrants from South- nants of the British Empire and initiat- east Asia. The lives, journeys, and sto- ing a new phase for it as both a modern ries of these two groups bring to life a city and a hub for global migrations. place where the past continues to reso- Hong Kong is a tour of the city’s postcolo- nate for all its residents, even as the city nial urban landscape, innovatively told hurtles forward into a future marked by through fieldwork and photography. transience and transition. By skillfully Caroline Knowles and Douglas blending ethnographic and visual ap- Harper’s point of entry into Hong Kong proaches, Hong Kong offers a fascinat- is the unusual position of the British ing guide to a city that is at once unique July 320 p., 101 halftones, 2 maps 7 x 10 expatriates who chose to remain in the in its recent history and exemplary of ISBN-13: 978-0-226-44856-5 city after the transition. Now a relatively our globalized present. Cloth $50.00x/£29.50 insignificant presence, British migrants ISBN-13: 978-0-226-44857-2 Paper $19.00s/£11.00 Caroline Knowles is professor of sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and the SOCIOLOGY author of Race and Social Analysis. Douglas Harper is professor of sociology at Duquesne University and the author of Changing Works: Visions of a Lost Agriculture.

“This is one of the most original Political Spiritualities works in the social sciences that The Pentecostal Revolution in Nigeria I’ve read in several years. Through her energetic prose, exceptional Ruth Marshall fieldwork, and mastery of the After an explosion of conversions to being born again as a chance for Nige- scientific literature, Marshall offers Pentecostalism over the past three de- rians to realize the promises of politi- a new perspective on religious cades, tens of millions of Nigerians now cal and religious salvation made during actions and social and political claim that “Jesus is the answer.” But if the colonial and postcolonial eras. Her transformations in sub-Saharan Jesus is the answer, what is the ques- astute analysis of this religious trend Africa, while also making a major tion? What led to the movement’s dra- sheds light on Nigeria’s contemporary matic rise and how can we make sense politics, postcolonial statecraft, and the contribution to the historical and of its social and political significance? everyday struggles of ordinary citizens comparative sociology of religion.” In this ambitiously interdisciplinary coping with poverty, corruption, and —Jean-François Bayart, study, Ruth Marshall draws on years of inequality. author of The Illusion of fieldwork and grapples with a host of im- Cultural Identity Pentecostalism’s rise is truly global, portant thinkers—including Foucault, and Political Spiritualities persuasively ar-

April 368 p. 6 x 9 Agamben, Arendt, and Benjamin—to gues that Nigeria is a key case in this ISBN-13: 978-0-226-50712-5 answer these questions. phenomenon while calling for new ways Cloth $65.00x/£38.00 To account for the movement’s of thinking about the place of religion ISBN-13: 978-0-226-50713-2 Paper $24.00s/£14.00 success, Marshall explores how Pente- in contemporary politics. costalism presents the experience of ANTHROPOLOGY RELIGION Ruth Marshall is assistant professor in the Department and Centre for the Study of Religion and the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto.

49 Joanna Merwood-Salisbury Chicago 1890 The Skyscraper and the Modern City

hicago’s first skyscrapers are famous for projecting the city’s modernity around the world. But what did they mean Cat home, to the Chicagoans who designed and built them, worked inside their walls, and gazed up at their facades? Answering this multifaceted question, Chicago 1890 reveals that early skyscrapers offered hotly debated solutions to the city’s toughest problems and, in “Chicago 1890 presents a new perspective the process, fostered an urban culture that spread across the country. on the skyscraper and the city, revising An ambitious reinterpretation of the works of Louis Sullivan, and extending our view of Chicago’s place Daniel Burnham, and John Wellborn Root, this volume uses their in modern architecture. Joanna Merwood- towering achievements as a lens through which to view late nineteenth- Salisbury very effectively links three of century urban history. Joanna Merwood-Salisbury sheds new light on the most important early skyscrapers to many of Chicago’s defining events—including violent building trade contemporaneous thought, speculation, strikes, the Haymarket bombing, the World’s Columbian Exposition, and debates about the modernizing city. and Burnham’s Plan of Chicago—by situating the Masonic Temple, the In doing so, she illuminates the environ- Monadnock Building, and the Reliance Building at the center of the ment of imagination and experiment that city’s cultural and political crosscurrents. surrounded the skyscrapers, a kaleido- While architects and property owners saw these pioneering scopic world that couldn’t have diverged structures as manifestations of a robust American identity, immigrant further from the way that twentieth-century laborers and social reformers viewed them as symbols of capitalism’s modernists later presented it.” inequity. Illuminated by rich material from the period’s popular press —Gail Fenske, author of The Skyscraper and the City and professional journals, Merwood-Salisbury’s chronicle of this con- tentious history reveals that the skyscraper’s vaunted status was never Chicago Architecture and Urbanism as inevitable as today’s skylines suggest. 1 March 208 p., 89 halftones 8 /2 x 11 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-52078-0 Joanna Merwood-Salisbury is assistant professor in the Department of Cloth $45.00s/£26.50 Architecture, Interior Design and Lighting at Parsons The New School ARCHITECTURE for Design.

50 The Perils of Belonging “This is an ambitious, astute, and timely effort to address one of the Autochthony, Citizenship, and Exclusion in Africa and Europe most interesting and potentially Peter Geschiere troubling trends in our contemporary world, namely, the rise of Despite being told that we now live in economic and political changes follow- a cosmopolitan world, more and more ing the end of the cold war fostered anx- politically charged passions about people have begun to assert their identi- iety over migration. For Cameroonians, belonging. Geschiere’s judicious ties in ways that are deeply rooted in the the question of who belongs where rises and incisive analysis offers a model local. These claims of autochthony— to the fore in political struggles be- of how an academic investigation meaning “born from the soil”—seek tween different tribes, while the Dutch can shed light on a major global to establish an irrefutable, primordial invoke autochthony in fierce debates problem.” right to belong and are often employed over the integration of immigrants. —Daniel Jordan Smith, in politically charged attempts to ex- This fascinating comparative perspec- Brown University clude outsiders. In The Perils of Belong- tive allows Geschiere to examine the ing, Peter Geschiere traces the concept emotional appeal of autochthony—as April 304 p., 1 table 6 x 9 of autochthony back to the classical pe- well as its dubious historical basis—and ISBN-13: 978-0-226-28964-9 riod and incisively explores the idea in to shed light on a range of important is- Cloth $60.00x/£35.50 two very different contexts: Cameroon sues, such as multiculturalism, national ISBN-13: 978-0-226-28965-6 Paper $22.00s/£13.00 and the Netherlands. citizenship, and migration. ANTHROPOLOGY In both countries, the momentous

Peter Geschiere is professor of African anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and the author of The Modernity of Witchcraft: Politics and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa.

Fighting Like a Community “This is an exceptionally well- written book with a narrative pull Andean Civil Society in an Era of Indian Uprising that captures the reader’s imagi- Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld nation and makes it a joy to read. Colloredo-Mansfeld presents a The indigenous population of the Ec- Drawing on fifteen years of field- provocative take on indigenous uadorian Andes made substantial po- work, Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld ex- activism, the moral complexity of litical gains during the 1990s in the plores these differences and the con- wake of a dynamic wave of local activ- flicts they engendered in a variety of communities and civil society, and ism. The movement renegotiated land communities. From protestors con- the ways neoliberal reforms are development laws, elected indigenous fronting the military during a national experienced and challenged by candidates to national office, and suc- strike to a migrant family fighting to Andean peoples.” cessfully fought for the constitutional get a relative released from prison, —Edward Fischer, redefinition of Ecuador as a nation Colloredo-Mansfeld recounts dramatic Vanderbilt University of many cultures. Fighting Like a Com- events and private struggles alike to munity argues that these remarkable demonstrate how indigenous power in June 224 p., 20 halftones, 5 maps, achievements paradoxically grew out Ecuador is energized by disagreements 4 figures, 2 tables 6 x 9 of the deep differences—in language, over values and priorities, eloquently ISBN-13: 978-0-226-11402-6 Cloth $64.00x/£ 37.50 class, education, and location—that contending that the plurality of An- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-11403-3 began to divide native society in the dean communities, not their unity, has Paper $23.00s/£13.50 1960s. been the key to their political success. ANTHROPOLOGY

Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld is associate professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of The Native Leisure Class: Consumption and Cultural Creativity in the Andes, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

51 “Herzfeld draws on his formidable Evicted from Eternity scholarly acumen and his vast The Restructuring of Modern Rome ethnographic experience to craft an Michael Herzfeld analysis that is truly distinguished. Evicted from Eternity deserves to Modern Rome is a city rife with contra- wrenching dislocation caused by rapid be acknowledged for what it is: a dictions. Once the seat of ancient glory, economic, political, and social change. masterpiece.” it is now often the object of national Evicted from Eternity tells the story of the —Douglas R. Holmes, contempt. It plays a significant part on gentrification of Monti—once the ar- author of Integral Europe: the world stage, but the concerns of its chitecturally stunning home of a com- Fast Capitalism, residents are often deeply parochial. munity of artisans and shopkeepers Multiculturalism, Neofascism And while they live in the seat of a world now displaced by an invasion of rapa- religion, Romans can be vehemently cious real estate speculators, corrupt of- March 368 p., 6 halftones, 1 map 6 x 9 anticlerical. These tensions between ficials, dithering politicians, deceptive ISBN-13: 978-0-226-32911-6 the past and the present, the global and clerics, and shady thugs. As Herzfeld Cloth $75.00x/£44.00 the local, make Rome fertile ground for picks apart the messy story of Monti’s ISBN-13: 978-0-226-32912-3 Paper $27.50s/£16.00 studying urban social life, the construc- transformation, he ranges widely over ANTHROPOLOGY tion of the past, the role of religion in many aspects of life there and in the daily life, and how a capital city relates rest of the city, richly depicting the to the rest of the nation. uniquely local landscape of globaliza- Michael Herzfeld here focuses on tion in Rome. Rome’s historic Monti district and the

Michael Herzfeld is professor of anthropology at Harvard University and the author of nine previous books, including, most recently, The Body Impolitic: Artisans and Artifice in the Global Hierarchy of Value, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

The Complete Danteworlds A Reader’s Guide to the Divine Comedy Guy P. Raffa

Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy has, de- and his many years of teaching the spite its enormous popularity and im- poem to undergraduates, The Complete portance, often stymied readers with its Danteworlds charts a simultaneously geo- multitudinous characters, references, graphical and textual journey, canto by and themes. But until the publication canto, region by region, adhering close- in 2007 of Guy Raffa’s guide to the Infer- ly to the path taken by Dante himself no, students lacked a suitable resource through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. to help them navigate Dante’s under- This invaluable reference also features world. With this new guide to the entire study questions, illustrations of the Divine Comedy, Raffa provides readers— realms, and regional summaries. Inter- experts in the Middle Ages and Renais- preting Dante’s poem and his sources, sance, Dante neophytes, and everyone Raffa fashions detailed entries on each 1 1 June 336 p., 4 halftones 5 /2 x 8 /2 in between—with a map of the entire character encountered as well as on ISBN-13: 978-0-226-70269-8 poem, from the lowest circle of Hell to many significant historical, religious, Cloth $70.00x/£41.00 the highest sphere of Paradise. and cultural allusions. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-70270-4 Paper $25.00s/£14.50 Based on Raffa’s original research LITERARY CRITICISM Guy P. Raffa is associate professor of Italian at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the Some permissions need to author of Danteworlds: A Reader’s Guide to the “Inferno,” also published by the University of be cleared for translation. Chicago Press.

52 John L. and Jean Comaroff Ethnicity, Inc.

n Ethnicity, Inc. anthropologists John L. and Jean Comaroff analyze a new moment in the history of human identity: its rampant Icommodification. Through a wide-ranging exploration of the changing relationship between culture and the market, they address a pressing question: Wherein lies the future of ethnicity? Their account begins in South Africa, with the incorporation of an ethno-business in venture capital by a group of traditional African chiefs. But their horizons are global: Native American casinos; Scot- land’s efforts to brand itself; a Zulu ethno-theme park named Shaka- land; a world religion declared to be intellectual property; a chiefdom made into a global business by means of its platinum holdings; San “Bushmen” with patent rights potentially worth millions of dollars; “The Comaroffs are among the very finest nations acting as commercial enterprises; and the rapid growth of anthropologists working anywhere in the marketing firms that target specific ethnic populations are just some of world today. As genuine leaders of the the diverse examples that fall under the Comaroffs’ incisive scrutiny. discipline, every new book they publish These phenomena range from the disturbing through the intriguing is an event and this one is no exception. to the absurd. Through them, the Comaroffs trace the contradictory Ethnicity, Inc. will be a watershed for effects of neoliberalism as it transforms identities and social being anyone looking for new ways to explain across the globe. our neoliberal world. This extraordinarily lucid book is one of the most ambitious, Ethnicity, Inc. is a penetrating account of the ways in which ethnic wide-ranging, and thought-provoking populations are remaking themselves in the image of the corpora- pieces of anthropological scholarship tion—while corporations coopt ethnic practices to open up new mar- written over the last few decades; it sets kets and regimes of consumption. Intellectually rigorous but leavened a standard other scholars can only hope with wit, this is a powerful, highly original portrayal of a new world to emulate.” being born in a tectonic collision of culture, capitalism, and identity. —Matti Bunzl, University of Illinois at John L. Comaroff is the Harold W. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Urbana-Champaign Anthropology at the University of Chicago and a research professor at the American Bar Foundation. Jean Comaroff is the Bernard E. and Ellen C. Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning Sunny Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory at the University of Chicago. Both April 236 p., 15 color plates 6 x 9 are honorary professors at the University of Cape Town. Together they have ISBN-13: 978-0-226-11471-2 coauthored or coedited numerous books, including Of Revelation and Revolu- Cloth $52.00x/£30.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-11472-9 tion, volumes 1 and 2; Ethnography and the Historical Imagination; Millennial Paper $19.00s/£11.00 Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism; and Law and Disorder in the Postcolony. ANTHROPOLOGY

53 Love in Africa Edited by Jennifer Cole and Lynn M. Thomas

s In recent years, scholarly interest in amine a variety of countries and range HOR love has flourished. Historians have ad- in time from the 1930s to the present,

HE A UT dressed the rise of romantic love and the contributors collectively argue for

Y OF T marriage in Europe and the United the importance of paying attention to ES T R U States, while anthropologists have ex- the many different cultural and histori- CO plored the ways globalization has re- cal strands that constitute love in Africa. June 256 p., 17 halftones 6 x 9 shaped local ideas about those same Covering such diverse topics as the re- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-11352-4 topics. Yet love in Africa has been pe- ception of Bollywood movies in 1950s Cloth $63.00x/£ 37.00 culiarly ignored, resulting in a serious Zanzibar, the effects of a Mexican tele- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-11353-1 Paper $23.00s/£13.50 lack of understanding about this vital novela on young people’s ideas about ANTHROPOLOGY AFRICAN STUDIES element of social life—a glaring omis- courtship in Niger, the models of ro- sion given the intense focus on sexual- mance promoted by South African and ity in Africa in the wake of HIV/AIDS. Kenyan magazines, and the complex Love in Africa seeks both to under- relationship between love and money stand this failure to consider love and in Madagascar and South Africa, Love to begin to correct it. In a substantive in Africa is a vivid and compelling look introduction and eight essays that ex- at love’s role in African society.

Jennifer Cole is associate professor of comparative human development at the University of Chicago and the author of Forget Colonialism? Sacrifice and the Art of Memory. Lynn M. Thomas is associate professor of history at the University of Washington and the author of Politics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction, and the State in Kenya.

Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan Politics and the Body in a Squatter Settlement Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf

Over twenty years of civil war in pre- these settlements are utterly abject, dominantly Christian Southern Sudan and instead she discovers a dynamic

eries,” 2007 has forced countless people from their culture where many women play an ac- homes. Transforming Displaced Women tive role in fighting for peace and so-

isplaced S in Sudan examines the lives of women cial change. Abusharaf also examines who have forged a new community in the way women’s bodies are politicized a shantytown on the outskirts of Khar- by their displacement, analyzing issues toum, the largely Muslim, heavily Arabi- such as religious conversion, marriage, zed capital in the north of the country. and female circumcision. Sudanese-born anthropologist Ro- An urgent dispatch from the on-

isaam a. abdelhafiez, from “The D gaia Mustafa Abusharaf delivers a rich going humanitarian crisis in north- ethnography of this squatter settlement eastern Africa, Transforming Displaced July 176 p., 18 halftones 6 x 9 based on personal interviews with dis- Women in Sudan will be essential for ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00199-9 placed women and careful observation anyone concerned with the interrelat- Cloth $55.00x/£32.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00200-2 of the various strategies they adopt to ed consequences of war, forced migra- Paper $20.00s/£12.00 reconstruct their lives and livelihoods. tion, and gender inequality. ANTHROPOLOGY AFRICAN STUDIES Her findings debunk the myth that

Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf is associate professor of anthropology in the Department of Social Sciences at Qatar University and a visiting scholar in the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School.

54 Contemporary Athletics and “Contemporary Athletics and Ancient Greek Ideals is an original, fasci- Ancient Greek Ideals nating, and well-argued book. It is Daniel A. Dombrowski written with great clarity. The ease with which Daniel Dombrowski is Despite their influence in our culture, proving one’s body—that remain just sports inspire dramatically less philo- as relevant in our sports-obsessed age as able to move between the elucida- sophical consideration than such os- they were in ancient Greece. Bringing tion of ancient Greek ideals and tensibly weightier topics as religion, these concepts to bear on contemporary the context of twenty-first-century politics, or science. Arguing that ath- concerns, Dombrowski considers such sports is very impressive.” letic playfulness coexists with serious questions as whether athletic competi- —Michael McNamee, underpinnings, and that both demand tion can be a moral substitute for war, Swansea University more substantive attention, Daniel A. whether it necessarily constitutes war by 1 1 Dombrowski harnesses the insights of other means, and whether it encourages April 174 p. 5 /2 x 8 /2 ancient Greek thinkers to illuminate fascist tendencies or ethical virtue. The ISBN-13: 978-0-226-15546-3 Cloth $35.00s/£20.50 contemporary athletics. first volume to philosophically explore Dombrowski contends that the twenty-first-century sports in the context CLASSICS PHILOSOPHY ideas of Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus of its ancient predecessor, Contemporary shed important light on issues—such Athletics and Ancient Greek Ideals reveals as the pursuit of excellence, the con- that their relationship has great and cept of play, and the power of accept- previously untapped potential to inform ing physical limitations while also im- our understanding of human nature.

Daniel A. Dombrowski is professor of philosophy at Seattle University.

The Commerce of War “The Commerce of War is a fresh and innovative addition to Latin literary Exchange and Social Order in Latin Epic studies. It makes an important Neil Coffee contribution to our appreciation

Latin epics such as Virgil’s Aeneid, Lu- the Aeneid, customary gift and favor ex- of Lucan’s civil war epic and par- can’s Civil War, and Statius’s Thebaid changes are undermined by characters ticipates in contemporary debates addressed Roman aristocrats whose who view human interaction as short- about heroism in Virgil’s Aeneid dealings in gifts, favors, and payments term and commodity-driven. Civil War and the dystopic worldview of Sta- defined their conceptions of social or- takes the next logical step, illuminating tius’s Thebaid. I found it extremely der. In The Commerce of War, Neil Coffee how Romans cope once commercial stimulating.” argues that these exchanges play a cen- greed has supplanted traditional values. —Alison Keith, tral yet overlooked role in epic depic- Concluding with the Thebaid, which fo- University of Toronto tions of Roman society. cuses on the problems of excessive con-

Tracing the collapse of an aristo- sumption rather than exchange, Cof- April 304 p. 6 x 9 cratic worldview across all three poems, fee closes his powerful case that these ISBN-13: 978-0-226-11187-2 Coffee highlights the distinction they poems constitute far-reaching critiques Cloth $50.00s/£29.50 draw between reciprocal gift giving of Roman society during its transition CLASSICS among elites and the more problem- from republic to empire. atic behaviors of buying and selling. In

Neil Coffee is assistant professor of classics at the University at Buffalo.

55 Contributors Petrarch Teodolinda Barolini, Susanna A Critical Guide to the Complete Works Barsella, Theodore J. Cachey Edited by Victoria Kirkham and Armando Maggi Jr., Stefano Carrai, Paolo Cherchi, Stefano Cracolici, Although Francesco Petrarca (1304– classical culture, his devout Christianity, Fabio Finotti, William J. 1374) is best known today for his Italian his public celebrity, and his struggle for Kennedy, Timothy Kircher, poetry, he was also a philosopher, his- inner peace, this encyclopedic volume torian, orator, and one of the foremost covers both Petrarch’s Italian and Latin Victoria Kirkham, Dennis classical scholars of his age. Petrarch: writings and the various genres in which Looney, Armando Maggi, A Critical Guide to the Complete Works is he excelled: poem, tract, dialogue, ora- Simone Marchesi, David Marsh, the only comprehensive, single-volume tion, and letter. A biographical intro- Ronald L. Martinez, E. Ann source to which anyone—scholar, stu- duction and chronology anchor the Matter, Giuseppe F. Mazzotta, dent, or general reader—can turn for book, making Petrarch an invaluable Justin Steinberg, Giuseppe information on each of Petrarch’s works, resource for specialists in Italian, com- its place in the poet’s oeuvre, and a criti- parative literature, history, classics, reli- Velli, David Wallace, Lynn Lara cal exposition of its defining features. gious studies, the Middle Ages, and the Westwater, and Ronald G. Witt A sophisticated but accessible hand- Renaissance. book that illuminates Petrarch’s love of April 576 p., 8 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-43741-5 Victoria Kirkham is professor of Romance languages at the University of Pennsylvania. She Cloth $50.00s/£29.50 is the author of three books, most recently of Fabulous Vernacular: Boccaccio’s “Filocolo” and the Art of Medieval Fiction. Armando Maggi is professor of Romance languages and a member LITERARY CRITICISM CLASSICS of the Committee on History of Culture at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, including Satan’s Rhetoric and In the Company of Demons, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

“Apocryphal, American Lorca! Invit- Apocryphal Lorca ing us to consider how one culture reads another—how American Translation, Parody, Kitsch poets read Spain through Lorca Jonathan Mayhew and Lorca through Spain—Jonathan Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) The book examines how Lorca in Mayhew has given us an infor- had an enormous impact on the gen- English translation has become a spe- mative, thoughtful, fascinating, eration of American poets who came of cifically American poet, adapted to and often funny journey through age during the cold war, from Robert American cultural and ideological de- translation, parody, and kitsch. Duncan and Allen Ginsberg to Robert siderata—one that bears little resem- No one could be better qualified to Creeley and Jerome Rothenberg. In blance to his original corpus, or even study Lorca’s work as ‘generative large numbers, these poets have not his Spanish legacy. As Mayhew assesses only translated his works, but written Lorca’s considerable influence on the device’ in English-language poetry imitations, parodies, and pastiches— American literary scene of the latter and get at the mystery of how and along with essays and critical reviews. half of the twentieth century, he un- what a poet can mean in a different Jonathan Mayhew’s Apocryphal Lorca is covers fundamental truths about con- cultural context.” an exploration of the afterlife of this temporary poetry, the uses and abuses —Christopher Maurer, legendary Spanish writer in the poetic of translation, and Lorca himself. editor of Lorca’s Collected Poems culture of the United States.

April 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 Jonathan Mayhew is associate professor of Spanish at the University of Kansas. He is ISBN-13: 978-0-226-51203-7 the author of four books, most recently of The Twilight of the Avant-Garde: Spanish Poetry, Cloth $45.00s/£26.50 1980–2000. LITERARY CRITICISM

56 Novel Violence A Narratography of Victorian Fiction Garrett Stewart

Victorian novels, Garrett Stewart ar- context, he makes a powerful case for gues, hurtle forward in prose as violent the centrality of verbal conflict to the as the brutal human existence they experience of reading Victorian novels. chronicle. In Novel Violence, he explains He also maps his finely wrought argu- how such language assaults the norms ment on the spectrum of influential of written expression and how, in doing theories of the novel—including those so, it counteracts the narratives it simul- of Georg Lukács and Ian Watt—and May 288 p., 1 halftone 6 x 9 taneously propels. tests it against Edgar Allan Poe’s anti- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77458-9 Cloth $45.00s/£26.50 Immersing himself in the trou- novelistic techniques. In the process, LITERARY CRITICISM bling plots of Charles Dickens, Anne Stewart shifts critical focus toward the Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas grain of narrative and away from more Hardy, Stewart uses his brilliant new abstract analyses of structure or cultur- method of narratography to trace the al context, revealing how novels achieve microplots of language as they un- their semantic and psychic effects and fold syllable by syllable. By pinpoint- unearthing, in prose, something akin ing where these linguistic narratives to poetry. collide with the stories that give them

Garrett Stewart is the James O. Freedman Professor of Letters in the Department of English at the University of Iowa. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, Framed Time: Toward a Postfilmic Cinema, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

The Feminism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman Sexualities, Histories, Progressivism Judith Allen

Famous for her short fiction—most no- renowned writer’s theories of sexuality tably “The Yellow Wallpaper”—Char- and evolutionary analyses of androcen- lotte Perkins Gilman also produced a tric, or male-dominated, culture. These vast body of nonfiction in tandem with ideas, Allen shows, informed Gilman’s her work as a Progressive-era feminist many contributions to the suffrage reformer. Rooted in groundbreaking movement, the fight to abolish regu- research on Gilman’s extensive corre- lated prostitution, and efforts to legal- spondence, publications, and speeches, ize birth control. Restoring a previously carrie chapman cutt collection, bryn mawr college library this keenly argued intellectual biogra- overlooked public intellectual to her Women in Culture and Society preeminent place in Progressive-era phy reconstructs her controversial out- Series put and the heady context in which she politics and the history of feminism at produced it. home and abroad, Allen’s landmark June 448 p., 48 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-01462-3 Judith Allen provides the first study provides the fullest account avail- Cloth $85.00x/£50.00 comprehensive assessment of Gilman’s able of Gilman’s consequential life and ISBN-13: 978-0-226-01463-0 complicated feminism by exploring the profoundly influential work. Paper $35.00s/£20.50 WOMEN’S STUDIES Judith Allen is professor of history at Indiana University. AMERICAN HISTORY

57 A Transnational Poetics “In A Transnational Poetics, Jahan Jahan Ramazani Ramazani continues to address an obvious but persistent imbalance in Poetry is often viewed as culturally Lorna Goodison, and Agha Shahid the American academy’s under- homogeneous—“stubbornly national,” Ali, Ramazani reveals the many ways standing of world Anglophone lit- in T. S. Eliot’s phrase, or “the most pro- in which modern and contemporary erature. A distinguished success.” vincial of the arts,” according to W. H. poetry in English overflows national —Michael North, Auden. But in A Transnational Poetics, borders and exceeds the scope of na- University of California, Jahan Ramazani uncovers the ocean- tional literary paradigms. Through a Los Angeles straddling energies of the poetic imag- variety of transnational templates— ination—in modernism and the Har- globalization, migration, travel, genre, May 240 p. 6 x 9 lem Renaissance; in post–World War II influence, modernity, decolonization, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-70344-2 Cloth $29.00s/£17.00 North America and the North Atlantic; and diaspora—he discovers poetic con- and in ethnic American, postcolonial, nection and dialogue across nations LITERARY CRITICISM and black British writing. Cross-cul- and even hemispheres. Exceptionally tural exchange and influence are, he wide-ranging in scope yet rigorously argues, among the chief engines of po- focused on particulars, A Transnational etic development in the twentieth and Poetics demonstrates how poetic analy- twenty-first centuries. sis can foster an aesthetically attuned Reexamining the work of a wide transnational literary criticism that is array of poets, from Eliot, Yeats, and at the same time alert to modernity’s Langston Hughes to Elizabeth Bishop, global condition.

Jahan Ramazani is the Edgar F. Shannon Professor and chair of the Department of English at the University of Virginia. He is coeditor of The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contem- porary Poetry and the author of three books, including, most recently, The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

“The writings of Allen Grossman have a devoted following and True-Love are accorded a nearly legendary Essays on Poetry and Valuing status by poets and scholars of Allen Grossman poetry alike. With True-Love, his readers will have an opportunity True-Love is the fulfillment of revered religious authority upon truth, and the to follow the development of his poet-critic Allen Grossman’s long ser- ultimate challenge posed by the fact of thinking about the contrary forces vice to poetry in the interests of hu- death itself. To these challenges he re- of violence and beholding at work manity. Poetry’s singular mission is to sponds with eloquent and rigorous ar- bind love and truth together—love that guments, drawing on wide resources of in all poetic making and reception. desires the beloved’s continued life, learning and his experience as master- This paradoxical and ‘bitter logic,’ knotted with the truth of life’s contin- poet and teacher. Grossman’s readings perennially yoking destruction to gency—to help make us more present of Wordsworth, Hart Crane, Paul Celan, recognition, is treated in these to each other. and others focus on poems that interro- essays with a depth and rigor that In the spirit of Blake’s vow of “men- gate the real or enact the hard bargains could only come out of the lifetime tal fight,” Grossman contends with that literary representation demands. of thought Grossman has brought challenges to the validity of the poetic True-Love is destined to become an es- imagination, from Adorno’s maxim “No sential book wherever poetry and criti- to it.” poetry after Auschwitz,” to the claims of cism sustain one another. —Susan Stewart, Princeton University Allen Grossman is emeritus professor of humanities at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of eleven books of poems, including, most recently, Descartes’ Loneliness, and May 208 p., 11 halftones 6 x 9 three books of criticism. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30973-6 Cloth $66.00x/£39.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30974-3 Paper $24.00s/£14.00

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58 “Jody Enders’s Murder by Accident Murder by Accident offers an extraordinary amalgam of Medieval Theater, Modern Media, Critical Intentions historical work and contemporary Jody Enders theory. We have here, as in her earlier work, richly detailed evocations Over fifty years ago, it became unfash- misunderstanding—of theater. Murder of the social world of medieval ionable—even forbidden—for students by Accident revisits the legal, moral, ethi- spectacle. But we also have the of literature to talk about an author’s cal, and aesthetic limits of the living arts theoretical and ethical concerns intentions for a given work. In Murder by of the past, pairing them with examples that her historical readings raise Accident, Jody Enders boldly resurrects from the present, whether they be reality the long-disgraced concept of inten- television, snuff films, the “accidental” brought front and center. This book tionality, especially as it relates to the live broadcast of a suicide on a Los Ange- engages issues critical to anyone theater. les freeway, or an actor who jokingly fired interested in art or in accountabil- Drawing on four fascinating medi- a stage revolver at his temple, causing ity (legal and moral)—that is, all eval events in which a theatrical perfor- his eventual death. This book will force of us.” mance precipitated deadly consequences, scholars and students to rethink their as- —Julie Stone Peters, Enders contends that the marginaliza- sumptions about theory, intention, and Harvard University tion of intention in critical discourse is performance, both past and present. a mirror for the marginalization—and May 288 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-20783-4 Jody Enders is professor of French and theater at the University of California, Santa Cloth $45.00s/£26.50 Barbara. She is the author of three books, including Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends, also published by the University of Chicago Press. LITERARY CRITICISM

59 Dreaming in Books The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age Andrew Piper

At the opening of the nineteenth centur y, Examining novels, critical editions, publishing houses in London, New York, gift books, translations, and illustrated Paris, Stuttgart, and Berlin produced books, as well as the communities who books in ever greater numbers. But it made them, Dreaming in Books tells a was not just the advent of mass printing wide-ranging story of the book’s identi- that created the era’s “bookish” culture. ty at the turn of the nineteenth century. courtesy pierpont morgan library According to Andrew Piper, romantic In so doing, it shows how many of the writers played a crucial role in adjusting most pressing modern communicative April 320 p., 28 halftones, 5 maps 6 x 9 readers to this increasingly international concerns are not unique to the digital ISBN-13: 978-0-226-66972-4 and overflowing literary environment. age but emerged with a particular sense Cloth $35.00s/£20.50 Learning how to use and want books oc- of urgency during the bookish upheav- LITERARY CRITICISM curred through more than the techno- als of the romantic era. In revisiting the logical, commercial, or legal conditions book’s rise through the prism of ro- that made the growing proliferation of mantic literature, Piper aims to revise books possible; the making of such bib- our assumptions about romanticism, liographic fantasies was importantly a the medium of the printed book, and, product of the symbolic operations con- ultimately, the future of the book in our tained within books as well. so-called digital age.

Andrew Piper is assistant professor of German studies and associate member of the depart- ments of art history and communications studies at McGill University.

Plague Writing in Early Modern England Ernest B. Gilman

During the seventeenth century, Eng- for the plague as an instrument of di- land was beset by three epidemics of vine justice fundamentally threatened the bubonic plague, each outbreak the core of Christian belief. Gilman claiming between a quarter and a third also trains his critical eye on the works . courtesy art resource

of the population of London and other of Jonson, Donne, Pepys, and Defoe, ints a urban centers. Surveying a wide range which, he posits, can be more fully un- of responses to these epidemics—ser- derstood when put into the context of mons, medical tracts, pious exhorta- this century-long project to “write out” tions, satirical pamphlets, and political the plague. Ultimately, Plague Writing commentary—Plague Writing in Early in Early Modern England is more than a Modern England brings to life the many compendium of artifacts of a bygone and complex ways Londoners made era; it holds up a distant mirror to re- virgin And child enthroned with s sense of such unspeakable devastation. flect our own condition in the age of vasari, Ernest B. Gilman argues that the AIDS, super viruses, multi-drug resistant plague writing of the period attempted tuberculosis, and the hovering threat of April 253 p., 19 halftones 6 x 9 a global flu pandemic. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-29409-4 unsuccessfully to rationalize the cata- Cloth $35.00s/£20.50 strophic and that its failure to account LITERARY CRITICISM Ernest B. Gilman is professor of English at New York University. He is the author of three books, including Iconoclasm and Poetry in the English Reformation, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

60 Capturing the German Eye American Visual Propaganda in Occupied Germany Cora Sol Goldstein

Shedding new light on the American raphy, and the fine arts while censoring campaign to democratize Western Ger- images that contradicted their political many after World War II, Capturing the messages. Goldstein reveals how this German Eye uncovers the importance of U.S. cultural policy in Germany was cultural policy and visual propaganda shaped by three major factors: compe- to the U.S. occupation. tition with the USSR, fear of alienat- courtesy of u.s. holocaust memorial museum Cora Sol Goldstein skillfully evokes ing German citizens, and American April 272 p., 25 halftones 6 x 9 Germany’s political climate between domestic politics. Explaining how the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30169-3 1945 and 1949, adding an unexpected Americans used images to discredit the Cloth $40.00s/£23.50 dimension to the confrontation be- Nazis and, later, the Communists, she HISTORY POLITICAL SCIENCE tween the United States and the USSR. illuminates the instrumental role of vi- During this period, the American oc- sual culture in the struggle to capture cupiers actively vied with their Soviet German hearts and minds at the advent counterparts for control of Germany’s of the cold war. visual culture, deploying film, photog-

Cora Sol Goldstein is associate professor of political science at California State University, Long Beach.

“Clearly and incisively written, this SpecLab book provides digital humanities Digital Aesthetics and Projects in Speculative Computing with a much-needed critique. It Johanna Drucker gives the field guidance for its ever- faster-approaching futures and Nearly a decade ago, Johanna Drucker Artists’ Books Online to the as yet un- documents SpecLab’s important cofounded the University of Virginia’s realized ’Patacritical Demon, an interac- critical and interpretive interven- SpecLab, a digital humanities labora- tive tool for exposing the structures that tions in humanities research and tory dedicated to risky projects with underlie our interpretations of text. Illu- teaching.” serious aims. Here she explores the im- minating the kind of future such experi- —John Cayley, plications of these radical efforts to use ments could enable, SpecLab functions Brown University critical practices and aesthetic princi- as more than a set of case studies at the ples against the authority of technology intersection of computers and humanis- April 288 p., 28 halftones, based on analytic models of knowledge. tic inquiry. It also exemplifies Drucker’s 16 line drawings, 4 tables 6 x 9 Inspired by the imaginative fron- contention that humanists must play a ISBN-13: 978-0-226-16507-3 tiers of graphic arts and experimental role in designing models of knowledge Cloth $70.00x/£41.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-16508-0 literature and the technical possibilities for the digital age—models that will de- Paper $25.00s/£14.50 of computation and information man- termine how our culture will function in SCIENCE ART agement, the projects Drucker engages years to come. range from Subjective Meteorology to

Johanna Drucker is the Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of several books, including Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

61 Tracks across Continents, Paths “An excellent accomplishment. Douglas Puffert has analyzed ex- through History haustively the evolution of the vari- The Economic Dynamics of Standardization in Railway Gauge ous diverse railway track gauges Douglas J. Puffert since the emergence of ‘modern’ steam locomotives and wrought A standard track gauge—the distance Drawing on the economic theory iron rails in the 1820s. No other between the two rails—enables connect- of path dependence, and grounded in book has attempted to compile, ing railway lines to exchange traffic. But economic, technical, and institutional use, and interpret such a variety of despite the benefits of standardization, realities, this innovative volume traces early North American railways used six how early historical events, and even id- historical information on gauges different gauges extensively, and even iosyncratic personalities, have affected and employ this kind of economic today breaks of gauges at national bor- choices of gauges ever since, despite theory and modeling to explain it.” ders and within such countries as India changing technology and understand- —Bradley Lewis, and Australia are expensive burdens on ings of which gauges are optimal. Puff- Union College commerce. In Tracks across Continents, ert also uses this history to develop new Paths through History, Douglas J. Puffert insights in the theory of path depen- February 320 p., 21 line drawings, offers a global history of railway track dence. Tracks across Continents, Paths 14 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-68509-0 gauges, examining early choices and through History will be essential reading Cloth $55.00s/£32.50 the dynamic process of diversity and for anyone interested in how history ECONOMICS HISTORY standardization that resulted. and economics inform each other. Some permissions need to Douglas J. Puffert teaches economics at the King’s College, New York. be cleared for translation.

Lineages of Despotism and Development “Matthew Lange has produced an exceptional work of theoretical and British Colonialism and State Power methodological synthesis. He com- Matthew Lange bines the insights of Peter Evans, Michael Mann, and Max Weber into Traditionally, social scientists have as- cratization and inclusiveness, which sumed that past imperialism hinders contributed to implementing devel- a coherent and convincing expla- the future development prospects of opment policy during late colonial- nation for the divergent impact of colonized nations. Challenging this ism and independence. On the other British colonialism on long-term widespread belief, Matthew Lange hand, Lange finds that indirect British human development. . . . With argues in Lineages of Despotism and De- rule created weak, patrimonial states this book, Lange has established velopment that countries once under that preyed on their own populations. himself as a leading voice in the direct British imperial control have de- Firmly grounded in the tradition of veloped more successfully than those comparative-historical analysis while growing interdisciplinary debates that were ruled indirectly. offering fresh insight into the colonial on colonialism’s developmental Combining statistical analysis with roots of uneven development, Lineages legacies.” in-depth case studies of former British of Despotism and Development will inter- —Dan Slater, colonies, this volume argues that di- est economists, sociologists, and politi- University of Chicago rect rule promoted cogent and coher- cal scientists alike. ent states with high levels of bureau- April 260 p., 9 line drawings, 20 tables 6 x 9 Matthew Lange is assistant professor of sociology at McGill University. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47068-9 Cloth $45.00s/£26.50

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62 “There is no disputing that The The Patent Crisis and How the Courts Patent Crisis and How the Courts Can Solve It is a tour de force. No Can Solve It Dan L. Burk and Mark A. Lemley one else has done as comprehensive a job of summarizing today’s Patent law is crucial to encourage tech- ferently. Industry tailoring is the only patent theories nor done more to nological innovation. But as the patent way to provide an appropriate level of bring them together than Burk and system currently stands, diverse indus- incentive for each industry. Lemley. This book will certainly be tries from pharmaceuticals to software Burk and Lemley illustrate the bar- a success on almost any terms.” to semiconductors are all governed by riers to innovation created by the catch- —Thomas B. Nachbar, the same rules even though they in- all standards in the current system. Le- University of Virginia novate very differently. The result is a gal tools already present in the patent School of Law crisis in the patent system, where pat- statute, they contend, offer a solution— ents calibrated to the needs of prescrip- courts can tailor patent law, through May 224 p., 6 tables 6 x 9 tion drugs wreak havoc on information interpretations and applications, to suit ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08061-1 technologies and vice versa. According Cloth $45.00s/£26.50 the needs of various types of businesses. to Dan L. Burk and Mark A. Lemley The Patent Crisis and How the Courts Can LAW ECONOMICS in The Patent Crisis and How Courts Can Solve It will be essential reading for those Solve It, courts should use the tools the seeking to understand the nexus of eco- patent system already gives them to nomics, business, and law in the twenty- treat patents in different industries dif- first century.

Dan L. Burk is Chancellor’s Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine. Mark A. Lemley is the William H. Neukom Professor of Law at Stanford University and of counsel at Keker & Van Nest.

“This is an imaginative and sophis- Bringing in the Future ticated treatment of a tremen- Strategies for Farsightedness and Sustainability in dously important, albeit extremely Developing Countries complicated, collection of topics. William Ascher Few authors could have carried this off as well as Ascher, given his Humans are plagued by shortsighted Asia, and Latin America, Ascher ap- long and varied career as both a thinking, preferring to put off work plies strategies such as the creation distinguished policy scientist and on complex, deep-seated, or difficult and scheduling of tangible and in- problems in favor of quick-fix solutions tangible rewards, cognitive exercises responsible practitioner. Indeed, to immediate needs. When short-term to increase the understanding of lon- he virtually draws on almost every- thinking is applied to economic devel- ger-term consequences, self-restraint thing he knows as he classifies, opment, especially in fragile nations, mechanisms to protect long-term com- inventories, and assesses dozens the results—corruption, waste, and mitments and enhance credibility, and of different ways, means, and strat- faulty planning—are often disastrous. restructuring policy-making processes egies to promote what he terms In Bringing in the Future, William As- to permit greater influence of long- cher draws on the latest research from term considerations. Featuring theo- ‘farsightedness.’ ” psychology, economics, institutional retically informed research findings —Garry D. Brewer, Yale School of Management design, and legal theory to suggest and sound policy examples, this vol- strategies to overcome powerful obsta- ume will assist policy makers, activists,

April 288 p., 8 tables 6 x 9 cles to long-term planning in develop- and scholars seeking to understand ISBN-13: 978-0-226-02916-0 ing countries. how the vagaries of human behavior Cloth $75.00x/£44.00 Drawing on cases from Africa, affect international development. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-02917-7 Paper $27.50s/£16.00 William Ascher is the Donald C. McKenna Professor of Government and Economics at ECONOMICS Claremont McKenna College. The latest of his numerous books are Guide to Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy and Revitalizing Political Psychology.

63 Social Security Policy in a Changing Environment Edited by Jeffrey R. Brown, Jeffrey B. Liebman, and David A. Wise

This volume analyzes the changing eco- care costs, as well as the uncertain na- nomic and demographic environment ture of future demographic, economic, National Bureau of Economic in which social insurance programs and social trends—including marriage Research Conference Report benefiting elderly households will oper- and divorce rates and female participa- ate. It also explores how these ongoing tion in the labor force. Recognizing the June 520 p., 114 line drawings, 54 tables 6 x 9 trends will affect future beneficiaries, ambiguity of the environment in which ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07648-5 under both the current Social Security the Social Security system must oper- Cloth $110.00x/£64.50 program and potential reform options. ate and evolve, this landmark book ex- ECONOMICS An esteemed group of economists plores factors that policy makers must probes the challenge posed to Social consider in designing policies that are Security by an aging population. The resilient enough to survive in an eco- researchers examine trends in private nomically and demographically uncer- sector retirement saving and health tain society.

Jeffrey R. Brown is the William G. Karnes Professor in the Department of Finance and director of the Center for Business and Public Policy in the College of Business at the Uni- versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also serves as associate director of the NBER Retirement Research Center. Jeffrey B. Liebman is Malcolm Wiener Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and a research associate of the NBER. David A. Wise is the John F. Stambaugh Professor of Political Economy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and director of the programs on aging and health care at the NBER.

Producer Dynamics New Evidence from Micro Data Edited by Timothy Dunne, J. Bradford Jensen, and Mark J. Roberts

The Census Bureau has recently begun employment dynamics; firm dynam- releasing official statistics that measure ics in nonmanufacturing industries National Bureau of Economic the movements of firms in and out of such as retail, health services, and ag- Research Studies in Income and business and workers in and out of jobs. riculture; employer-employee turnover Wealth The economic analyses in Producer Dy- from matched worker/firm data sets; namics exploit this newly available data and turnover in international markets. MARCH 624 p., 92 line drawings, to address issues in industrial organiza- Producer Dynamics will serve as an in- 142 tables 6 x 9 tion, labor, growth, macroeconomics, valuable reference for economists and ISBN-13: 978-0-226-17256-9 Cloth $125.00x/£73.50 and international trade. policy makers seeking to understand ECONOMICS This innovative volume brings the links between firms and workers, together a group of renowned econo- and the sources of economic dynamics, mists to probe topics such as firm dy- in the age of globalization. namics across countries; patterns of

Timothy Dunne is a senior economic advisor in the research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. J. Bradford Jensen is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, associate professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, and a research associate of the NBER. Mark J. Roberts is professor of economics at Penn State University and a research associate of the NBER.

64 Financial Sector Development in the Pacific Rim Edited by Takatoshi Ito and Andrew K. Rose

The reform in Asian financial sectors— various East Asian and Pacific nations, National Bureau of Economic especially in banking and stock mar- this volume examines the institutional Research East Asia Seminar on kets—has been remarkable since the factors influencing financial innova- Economics currency crisis of 1997–98. East Asia tion, the consequences of financial de- is now a major player in international velopment, widespread consolidation April 400 p., 79 line drawings, 80 tables 6 x 9 finance, providing serious competition occurring through mergers and acqui- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38684-3 to the more traditional financial cen- sitions, and the implementation of pol- Cloth $99.00x/£58.00 ters of London and New York. Finan- icy reform. Financial Sector Development ECONOMICS cial Sector Development in the Pacific Rim in the Pacific Rim offers the compara- provides a rich collection of theoretical tive analysis necessary to answer broad and empirical analyses of the growing questions about economic development capital markets in the region. and the future of Asia itself. Bringing together authors from

Takatoshi Ito is professor of economics at the University of Tokyo and a research associate of the NBER and the Tokyo Center for Economic Research. Andrew K. Rose is the Bernard T. Rocca Jr. Professor of International Trade, director of the Clausen Center for International Business and Policy at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, and a research associate of the NBER.

International Trade in Services and Intangibles in the Era of Globalization Edited by Marshall Reinsdorf and Matthew J. Slaughter

Quantitative measures of international property. National Bureau of Economic exchange have historically focused on A distinguished team of contribu- Research Studies in Income and trade in tangible products or capital. tors analyzes the challenges involved Wealth However, services have recently become in measuring trade in intangibles, the June 400 p., 35 line drawings, a larger portion of developed econo- comparative advantages enjoyed by U.S. 98 tables 6 x 9 mies and international trade, and their service industries, and the heightened ISBN-13: 978-0-226-70959-8 role will only increase in the future. In international competition for jobs, cap- Cloth $99.00x/£58.00 International Trade in Services and Intan- ital investment, economic growth, and ECONOMICS gibles in the Era of Globalization, Marshall tax revenue that results from trade in Reinsdorf and Matthew J. Slaughter services. This comprehensive volume examine new and emerging patterns will be necessary reading for schol- of trade, especially the growing impor- ars seeking to understand the rapidly tance of transactions involving services changing global economy. or intangible assets such as intellectual

Marshall Reinsdorf is a senior research economist at the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis. Matthew J. Slaughter is professor of international economics at the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, and a research associate of the NBER.

65 Developments in the Economics of Aging Edited by David A. Wise

The number of Americans eligible to as factors influencing work and retire- receive Social Security benefits will in- ment decisions at older ages, changes crease from forty-five million to nearly in life satisfaction associated with re- eighty million in the next twenty years. tirement, and the shift in responsibility National Bureau of Economic Retirement systems must therefore for managing retirement assets from Research Conference Report adapt to meet the demands of the larg- professional money managers of tradi- April 432 p., 109 line drawings, est aging population in our nation’s tional pension plans to individual ac- 96 tables 6 x 9 history. In Developments in the Economics count holders of 401(k)s. Developments ISBN-13: 978-0-226-90335-4 of Aging, David A. Wise and a distin- in the Economics of Aging also addresses Cloth $99.00x/£58.00 guished group of analysts examine the the complicated relationship between ECONOMICS economic issues that will confront policy health and economic status, including makers as they seek to design policies why health behaviors vary across popu- to protect the economic and physical lations and how socioeconomic mea- health of these older Americans. sures correlate with health outcomes. The volume looks at such topics

David A. Wise is the John F. Stambaugh Professor of Political Economy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and director of the programs on aging and health care at the NBER.

Science and Engineering Careers in the United States An Analysis of Markets and Employment Edited by Richard B. Freeman and Daniel L. Goroff

In the early 2000s, there was an up- that determine the supply of PhDs, the National Bureau of Economic surge of national concern over the state career paths they follow after gradua- Research Conference Report of the science and engineering job mar- tion, and the creation and use of knowl- ket that sparked a plethora of studies, edge as it is reflected by the amount of June 400 p., 50 line drawings, 76 tables 6 x 9 commission reports, and a presidential papers and patents produced. A dis- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-26189-8 initiative, all stressing the importance tinguished team of contributors also Cloth $99.00x/£58.00 of maintaining American competitive- explores the tensions between industry ECONOMICS ness in these fields.Science and Engineer- and academe in recruiting graduates, ing Careers in the United States is the first the influx of foreign-born doctorates, major academic study to probe the is- and the success of female doctorates. sues that underlie these concerns. Science and Engineering Careers in the Unit- This volume provides new informa- ed States will raise new questions about tion on the economics of the postgradu- stimulating innovation and growth in ate science and engineering job market, the American economy. addressing such topics as the factors

Richard B. Freeman holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard Univer- sity. He is director of the Labor Studies Program at the NBER and is the author of over thirty-five books. Daniel L. Goroff is professor of mathematics and economics at Harvey Mudd College and codirector of the Sloan Scientific and Engineering Workforce Project based at the NBER.

66 Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 9 Edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern

Innovation Policy and the Economy pro- the impact of science and technology vides a forum for research on the in- on economic growth. Issues covered in teractions among public policy, the Volume 9 include Congressional R & D National Bureau of Economic innovation process, and the economy. spending on the physical sciences, in- Research Innovation Policy and The distinguished contributors cover tellectual property as a bargaining en- the Economy all types of policy that affect the ability vironment, pricing patents, and market of an economy to achieve scientific and design and innovation. June 176 p., 2 line drawings, 2 tables 6 x 9 technological progress or that affect ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40071-6 Cloth $58.00x/£34.00 Josh Lerner is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business ECONOMICS School, with a joint appointment in the finance and entrepreneurial management units, and a research associate of the NBER. Scott Stern is associate professor of management and strategy at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and a research associate of the NBER.

NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2008, Volume 23 Edited by Daron Acemoglu, Kenneth Rogoff, and Michael Woodford

National Bureau of Economic The NBER Macroeconomics Annual pro- of fields, address the timing of labor Research Macroeconomics Annual vides a forum for important debates market expansions, macroeconomic dy-

April 440 p., 41 line drawings 6 x 9 in contemporary macroeconomics and namics in the Euro area, public health ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00204-0 major developments in the theory of and the GDP, the role of technological Cloth $90.00x/£53.00 macroeconomic analysis and policy. progress in the formation of house- economics The papers and accompanying holds, carry trades and currency crises, discussions in NBER Macroeconomics An- and new approaches to analyzing mon- nual 2008, which include contributions etary policy. from leading economists from a variety

Daron Acemoglu is the Charles P. Kinderberger Professor of Applied Economics at the Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology and a research associate of the NBER. Kenneth Rogoff is the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and professor of economics at Harvard University and a research associate of the NBER. Michael Woodford is the John Bates Clark Professor of Political Economy at Columbia University and a research associate of the NBER.

NBER International Seminar on

National Bureau of Economic Macroeconomics 2008, Volume 5 Research International Seminar on Edited by Jeffrey A. Frankel and Christopher Pissarides Macroeconomics

June 500 p., 60 line drawings 6 x 9 The distinguished International Semi- of the Euro, reflections on monetary ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10732-5 nar on Macroeconomics has met annu- policy in the open economy, firm-size Cloth $90.00x/£53.00 ally in Europe for thirty years. The 2008 distribution and cross-country income ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10733-2 Paper $55.00s/£32.50 papers from that meeting discuss the differences, and exchange rates and economics employment effects of workweek regu- the margin of trade. lation in France, trade pricing effects

Jeffrey A. Frankel is the James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and a research associate of the NBER. Christopher Pissarides holds the Norman Sosnow Chair in Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

67 Meditations on the Incarnation, Passion, and Death of Jesus Christ

Catharina Regina v o n Greiffenberg Edited and Translated by Lynne Tatlock The Other Voice in Early Read by Protestants and Catholics translates for the first time into English alike, Catharina Regina von Greiffen- excerpts from the first two sets of thirty- Modern Europe berg (1633–94) was the foremost Ger- six meditations, restoring Catharina to man woman poet and writer in the her rightful place in print. These medi- seventeenth-century German-speaking tations foreground the roles of women world. Privileged by her social station in the life of Jesus Christ—including and education, she published a large accounts of women at the Incarnation April 350 p., 10 halftones 6 x 9 body of religious writings under her and the tomb—and in scripture in gen- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-86487-7 own name to a reception unequaled eral. Tatlock’s selections give the mod- Cloth $75.00x/£44.00 by any other German woman during ern reader a sense of the structure and ISBN-13: 978-0-226-86489-1 Paper $27.00s/£16.00 her lifetime. But once the popularity of nature of Catharina’s devotional writ- HISTORY RELIGION devotional writings as a genre waned, ings, highlighting the alternative they Catharina’s works went largely unread offer to the male-centered view of early until scholars devoted renewed atten- modern literary and cultural production to them in the twentieth century. tion during her day, and redefining the For this volume, Lynne Tatlock role of women in Christian history.

Lynne Tatlock is the Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis.

Requirements for Certification of Teachers, Counselors, Librarians, Administrators for Elementary and Secondary Schools, Seventy-fourth Edition, 2009–2010 Edited by Elizabeth A. Kaye and Jeffrey J. Makos

1 This annual volume offers the most Requirements for Certification is a valuable July 296 p. 8 /2 x 11 complete and current listings of the resource, making much-needed knowl- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42861-1 Cloth $53.00x/£31.00 requirements for certification of a wide edge available in one straightforward education reference range of educational professionals at volume. the elementary and secondary levels.

Elizabeth A. Kaye specializes in communications as part of her coaching and consulting practice. She has edited Requirements for Certification since the 2000–2001 edition. Jeffrey J. Makos is a freelance writer and editor based in Chicago.

68 Osiris, Volume 24 Science, Technology, and National Identity Edited by Carol E. Harrison and Ann Johnson

This latest volume of Osiris, “Science, possession of scientific and technologi- Osiris Technology, and National Identity,” cal resources is a marker of national 3 May 350 p. 6 /4 x 10 explores the ways in which modern character: the first states to develop this ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31778-6 science and the nation-state have in- power nexus of science, technology, Paper $33.00s/£19.50 teracted since the Enlightenment. The and bureaucracy went on to become SCIENCE HISTORY contributors argue for the formative globally dominant and widely imitated. role of science and technology in the This volume traces the significance of creation of national identity, and with this relationship from its beginnings in examples drawn from Eastern and the West to its dissemination into the Western nation-states, they argue that postcolonial world.

Carol E. Harrison is associate professor of history at the University of South Carolina. Ann Johnson is assistant professor of history at the University of South Carolina.

The Supreme Court Review, 2008 Edited by Dennis J. Hutchinson, David A. Strauss, and Geoffrey R. Stone

For forty-eight years, The Supreme Court Recent volumes have considered such Supreme Court Review Review has been lauded for providing issues as the 2000 presidential election, 1 1 May 400 p. 6 /8 x 9 /4 authoritative discussion of the Court’s cross burning, federalism and state sov- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-36253-3 most significant decisions. The Review ereignty, the United States v. American Cloth $65.00x/£38.00 is an in-depth annual critique of the Su- Library Association case, failed Supreme LAW ECONOMICS preme Court and its work, at the fore- Court nominations, and numerous First front of studies of the origins, reforms, and Fourth Amendment cases. and interpretations of American law.

Dennis J. Hutchinson is a senior lecturer in law and the William Rainey Harper Professor in the College, master of the New Collegiate Division, and associate dean of the College, all at the University of Chicago. David A. Strauss is the Harry N. Wyatt Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. Geoffrey R. Stone is the Harry Kalven Jr. Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, where he has been a member of the law faculty since 1973.

The Supreme Court Economic Review, Volume 17 Edited by Lloyd R. Cohen and Daniel D. Polsby

Supreme Court Economic Review The Supreme Court Economic Review is tributions employ explicit or implicit an interdisciplinary journal that seeks economic reasoning for the analysis of 1 1 June 300 p. 6 /8 x 9 /4 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-11240-4 to provide a forum for scholarship in legal issues, with special attention to Cloth $50.00x/£29.50 law and economics, public choice, and Supreme Court decisions and questions LAW ECONOMICS constitutional political economy. Its of judicial process and institutional de- approach is wide-ranging, and con- sign.

Lloyd R. Cohen is professor of law at George Mason University School of Law, where he teaches wills, trusts and estates, and statistics for lawyers, as well as several courses in applied economics. Daniel D. Polsby is dean and Foundation Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law. He joined the faculty of the law school in 1999 after serving twenty-three years on the faculty of law at Northwestern University, most recently as the Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law.

69 David Bevington This Wide and Universal Theater Shakespeare in Performance, Then and Now

any readers first encounter Shakespeare’s plays in a book rather than a theater. Yet Shakespeare was through and Mthrough a man of the stage. So what do we lose when we leave Shakespeare the practitioner behind, and what do we learn when we think about his plays as dramas to be performed? David Bevington answers these questions with This Wide and Uni- versal Theater, which explores how Shakespeare’s plays were produced “Bevington makes interesting, nuanced both in his own time and in succeeding centuries. Making use of and original points about staging and in- historical documents and the play scripts themselves, Bevington brings terpretation that reveal the dynamism and Shakespeare’s original stagings to life. He explains how the Elizabe- complexity of Shakespeare’s canon.” than playhouse conveyed a sense of place using minimal scenery, from —Financial Times the Forest of Arden in As You Like It to the tavern in Henry IV, Part I. Moving beyond Shakespeare’s lifetime, Bevington shows the prodi- “Even veteran Shakespeareans will profit gious lengths to which eighteenth- and nineteenth-century companies from the varied reminders of how impor- went to produce spectacular effects, from flying witches inMacbeth to tant performance and staging have always terrifying storms punctuating King Lear. To bring the book into the been to the interpretation of the plays.” —Renaissance Quarterly present, Bevington considers recent productions on both stage and screen, when character and language have taken precedence over spectacle. This volume brings a lifetime of study to bear on a remarkably May 256 p., 53 halftones 6 x 9 underappreciated aspect of Shakespeare’s art. 2007 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04479-8 Paper $16.00s/£9.50 “An eminent Shakespeare scholar and author, Bevington offers a DRAMA LITERARY CRITICISM concise, lucid, and unique overview of the history of Shakespeare in Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-04478-1 various modes of performance, from stage to film to television.” —Choice

David Bevington is the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1967. The author of numerous books, he is also the editor of the twenty- nine volumes of The Bantam Shakespeare and The Complete Works of Shakespeare.

70 Devah Pager Marked Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration

early every job application asks it: have you ever been con- victed of a crime? For the hundreds of thousands of young Nmen leaving American prisons each year, their answer to that question may determine whether they can find work and begin rebuilding their lives. The product of an innovative field experiment,Marked gives us our first real glimpse into the tremendous difficulties facing ex-offenders in the job market. Devah Pager matched up pairs of young men, ran-

“How do you tell when a democracy is domly assigned them criminal records, then sent them on hundreds dead? When concentration camps spring of real job searches throughout the city of Milwaukee. Her applicants up and everyone shivers in fear? Or is it were attractive, articulate, and capable—yet ex-offenders received less when concentration camps spring up and than half the callbacks of the equally qualified applicants without no one shivers in fear because everyone criminal backgrounds. Young black men, meanwhile, paid a particu- knows they’re not for ‘people like us.’ . . . larly high price: those with clean records fared no better in their job Devah Pager uses a simple technique to searches than white men just out of prison. Such shocking barriers to show how mass incarceration has undone legitimate work, Pager contends, are an important reason that many the small amount of racial progress ex-prisoners soon find themselves back in the realm of poverty, un- achieved in the 1960s and ’70s.” derground employment, and crime that led them to prison in the first —Nation place. “Using scholarly research, field research in Milwaukee, and APRIL 264 p., 18 halftones, graphics, [Pager] shows that ex-offenders, white or black, stand a very 5 line drawings 6 x 9 2007 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-64484-4 poor chance of getting a legitimate job. . . . Both informative and Paper $16.00/£9.50 convincing.”—Library Journal AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES CURRENT EVENTS “Marked is that rare book: a penetrating text that rings with moral Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-64483-7 concern couched in vivid prose—and one of the most useful sociologi- cal studies in years.”—Michael Eric Dyson

Devah Pager is associate professor of sociology at Princeton University.

71 An American Travesty “Franklin Zimring is one of the preeminent legal scholars in the Legal Responses to Adolescent Sexual Offending United States today, and this Franklin E. Zimring exceptional, meticulous book With a Foreword by Francis A. Allen shows why such status is so richly An American Travesty is the first scholarly forceful critique of current politics and deserved.” book in half a century to analyze the practices. . . . I would recommend this —Journal of Sociology justice system’s response to sexual mis- book for anyone interested in rethink- and Social Welfare conduct by children and adolescents ing the fundamental questions of how in the United States. Writing with a re- our courts and systems should respond Adolescent Development and Legal freshing dose of common sense, Frank- to these cases.”—Law and Politics Book Policy lin E. Zimring discusses our society’s Review April 224 p., 21 figures, 4 tables 6 x 9 failure to consider the developmental “One of the most important new 2004 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-98358-5 status of adolescent sex offenders. Too books in the field of juvenile justice. . . . Paper $20.00s/£12.00 often, he argues, the American legal Zimring offers a thoughtful, research- LAW system ignores age and developmental based analysis of what went wrong with Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-98357-8 status when adjudicating young sexual legal policy development.”—Barry Kris- offenders, in many cases responding as berg, president, National Council on they would to an adult. Crime and Delinquency “An opinionated, articulate, and

Franklin E. Zimring is the William G. Simon Professor of Law at the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of numerous books, including, most recently, The Great American Crime Decline, and coeditor of A Century of Juvenile Justice, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.

The Microsoft Case “An excellent, detailed summary of the U.S. legal issues in the Depart- Antitrust, High Technology, and Consumer Welfare ment of Justice prosecution of Mi- William H. Page and John E. Lopatka crosoft. . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice In 1998 the United States Department gue that, at critical points, the legal sys- of Justice and state antitrust agencies tem failed consumers by overrating gov- April 368 p., 2 halftones, 2 tables charged that Microsoft was monopoliz- ernment’s ability to influence outcomes 6 x 9 ing the market for personal computer in a dynamic market. This ambitious 2007 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-64464-6 Paper $22.50s/£13.00 operating systems. More than ten years book is essential reading for business, later, the case is still the defining anti- law, and economics scholars as well as LAW trust litigation of our era. William H. anyone else interested in the ways that Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-64463-9 Page and John E. Lopatka’s The Microsoft technology, economics, and antitrust Case contributes to the debate over the law have interacted in the digital age. future of antitrust policy by examining “This book will become the gold the implications of the litigation from standard for analysis of the monopo- the perspective of consumer welfare. lization cases against Microsoft. . . . The authors trace the development No serious student of law or economic of the case from its conceptual origins policy should go without reading it.” through the trial and the key decisions —Thomas C. Arthur, Emory University on both liability and remedies. They ar-

William H. Page is the Marshall M. Criser Eminent Scholar at the University of Florida’s Levin School of Law. John E. Lopatka is the A. Robert Noll Distinguished Professor of Law at Penn State University’s Dickinson School of Law.

72 “This massive, handsomely de- The Selected Poetry and Prose of signed, and copiously illustrated volume is the best possible intro- Andrea Zanzotto duction to Zanzotto’s work, giving A Bilingual Edition as it does an excellent impression Andrea Zanzotto Edited and Translated by Patrick Barron of the scale of his achievement.” With additional Translations by Ruth Feldman, Thomas J. Harrison, —Choice Brian Swann, John P. Welle, and Elizabeth A. Wilkins

March 482 p., 12 halftones, 41 line drawings 6 x 9 Andrea Zanzotto is widely considered generous selection of photographs and 2007 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-97885-7 Italy’s most influential living poet. The art, this volume brings an Italian mas- Paper $27.50s/£16.00 first comprehensive collection in thirty ter to vivid life for American readers. POETRY years to translate this master European “Now, in this book, American Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-97884-0 poet for an English-speaking audience, readers can get a just sense of Zan- The Selected Poetry and Prose of Andrea zotto’s true range and extraordinary Zanzotto includes the very best poems originality.”—Eric Ormsby, New York from fourteen of his major books of Sun verse and a selection of thirteen essays “What I love here is the sense of that helps illuminate themes in his po- a voice directly speaking. Throughout etry as well as elucidate key theoretical these translations, indeed from early underpinnings of his thought. Assem- to late, the great achievement seems bled with the collaboration of Zanzotto to be the way they achieve a sense of himself and featuring a critical intro- urgent address.”—Eamon Grennan, duction, thorough annotations, and a American Poet

Patrick Barron is assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts–Boston. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Award, the Rome Prize, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for the translation of the poetry of Andrea Zanzotto.

“Sallis has written a unique work The Verge of Philosophy that combines philosophical analy- John Sallis sis with a heartfelt reflection on his friendship with Derrida.” The Verge of Philosophy is both an explo- cussion of his many public and private —Library Journal ration of the limits of philosophy and philosophical conversations with Derri- a memorial for John Sallis’s longtime da over the decades of their friendship. April 176 p. 51/2 x 81/2 friend and interlocutor Jacques Der- This volume thus simultaneously serves 2007 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73431-6 to mourn and remember a friend and Paper $17.00s/£10.00 rida. The centerpiece of the book is an extended examination of three sites in to push forward the deeply searching PHILOSOPHY Derrida’s thought: his interpretation of discussions that lay at the very heart of Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-73430-9 Heidegger regarding the privileging of that friendship. Italian language rights the question; his account of the Platon- “All of John Sallis’s work is essen- already licensed. ic figure of the good; and his interpre- tial, but this book in particular is re- tation of Plato’s discourse on the cru- markable. . . . Sallis shows better than cial notion of the chora, the originating anyone I have ever read what it means space of the universe. to practice philosophy on the verge.”— Sallis’s reflections are given added Walter Brogan, Villanova University weight—even poignancy—by his dis-

John Sallis is the Frederick J. Adelmann Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. He is the author of many books, including, most recently, Transfigurements: On the True Sense of Art, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

73 A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago “Hecht is attempting to do for Chi- cago something of what Dickens Ben Hecht did for London; he stands appalled Illustrated by Herman Rosse With a new Introduction by Bill Savage before the spectacle of the streets with their tumultuous, mysterious In 1921 Ben Hecht wrote a column for 1920s Chicago in all its furor, intensity, throngs.” the Chicago Daily News that his editor and absurdity. —New York Times called “journalism extraordinary; jour- “The hardboiled audacity and wit nalism that invaded the realm of litera- that became Hecht’s signature as Hol- June 304 p., illustrated throughout ture.” Hecht’s collection of sixty-four of lywood’s most celebrated screenwriter 6 x 9 these pieces, illustrated with striking ISBN-13: 978-0-226-32274-2 are conspicuous in these vignettes. Paper $15.00/£9.00 pen drawings by Herman Rosse, is a Most of them are comic and sardonic, LITERATURE timeless caricature of urban American some strike muted tragic or somber at- life in the jazz age. From the glittering mospheric notes. . . . The best are time- opulence of Michigan Avenue to the less character sketches that have taken darkest ruminations of an escaped con- on an added interest as shards of social vict, from captains of industry to im- history.”—L. S. Klepp, Voice Literary migrant day laborers, Hecht captures Supplement

Ben Hecht (1894–1964) was a reporter and columnist for the Chicago Daily Journal and the Chicago Daily News as well as a playwright, novelist, short story writer, and scriptwriter.

Inclusion The Politics of Difference in Medical Research Steven Epstein

With Inclusion, Steven Epstein argues prominence of these inclusive practices that strategies to achieve diversity in has offered hope to traditionally un- medical research mask deeper prob- derserved groups, Epstein argues that lems, ones that might require a differ- it has drawn attention away from the ent approach and different solutions. tremendous inequalities in health that Formal concern with this issue, are rooted not in biology but in society. Epstein shows, is a fairly recent phe- “Epstein’s use of theory to demon- nomenon. Until the mid-1980s, sci- strate how public policies in the health entists often studied groups of white, profession are shaped makes this book middle-aged men—and assumed that relevant for many academic disciplines. conclusions drawn from studying them . . . Highly recommended.”—Choice would apply to the rest of the popula- “A balanced analysis of the posi- Chicago Studies in Practices of tion. But struggles involving advocacy tive and negative effects of institutional Meaning groups, experts, and Congress led to changes on groups that are tradition- reforms that forced researchers to di- ally underrepresented in biomedical June 424 p., 2 line drawings 6 x 9 versify the population from which they research.”—New England Journal of Med- 2007 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-21310-1 Paper $19.00s/£11.00 drew for clinical research. While the icine CURRENT EVENTS MEDICINE Steven Epstein is professor of sociology and director of the Science Studies Program at the Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-21309-5 University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge and coauthor of Learning by Heart: AIDS and Schoolchildren in America’s Some permissions need to Communities. be cleared for translation.

74 “Agendas and Instability in Ameri- Agendas and Instability in American Politics can Politics reminds us that ideas, Second Edition institutions, and (yes) politics all Frank R. Baumgartner and Bryan D. Jones matter. . . . It is at once a grand With a new Introduction synthesis of the past and a pathbreaking work against which future When Agendas and Instability in Ameri- policy too narrowly as the result of cozy studies will be measured.” can Politics appeared fifteen years ago, and dependable arrangements among —American Political Science Review, offering a profoundly original account politicians, interest groups, and the on the first edition of how policy issues rise and fall on the media. Baumgartner and Jones provide national agenda, the Journal of Politics a different interpretation by taking the May 368 p., 40 line drawings, predicted that it would “become a land- long view of several issues—including 24 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03947-3 mark study of public policy making and nuclear energy, urban affairs, smoking, Cloth $69.00x/£40.50 American politics.” That prediction and auto safety—to demonstrate that ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03949-7 proved true, and in this long-awaited bursts of rapid, unpredictable policy Paper $23.00x/£13.50 second edition, Frank R. Baumgartner change punctuate the patterns of sta- POLITICAL SCIENCE and Bryan D. Jones refine their influ- bility more frequently associated with Simplified Chinese language ential argument and expand it to il- government. Featuring a new introduc- rights already licensed. luminate the workings of democracies tion and two additional chapters, this beyond the United States. updated edition ensures that their find- The authors retain all the sub- ings will remain a touchstone of policy stance of their contention that short- studies for many years to come. term, single-issue analyses cast public

Frank R. Baumgartner is the Miller-LaVigne Professor of Political Science at Penn State Uni- versity. Bryan D. Jones is the J. J. Pickle Chair in Congressional Studies in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. They are coauthors of several books, including The Politics of Attention, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

“[This book] belongs in every Lectures on Buildings research library. Ronan’s book will Mark Ronan do more [than other books on the With a new Introduction subject] to initiate the already motivated reader into current In mathematics, “buildings” are geo- sets and an excellent bibliography that metric structures that represent groups will prove invaluable to students new research on buildings and groups.” of Lie type over an arbitrary field. This to the field. Lectures on Buildings will —Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society concept is critical to physicists and find a grateful audience among those mathematicians working in discrete doing research or teaching courses on mathematics, simple groups, and alge- Lie-type groups, on finite groups, or on july 216 p., 42 figures 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-72499-7 braic group theory, to name just a few discrete groups. Paper $27.00s/£16.00 areas. “Ronan’s account of the classifica- mathematics Almost twenty years after its origi- tion of affine buildings is both interesting nal publication, Mark Ronan’s Lectures and stimulating, and his book is highly on Buildings remains one of the best in- recommended to those who already have troductory texts on the subject. A thor- some knowledge and enthusiasm for the ough, concise introduction to math- theory of buildings.”—Bulletin of the Lon- ematical buildings, it contains problem don Mathematical Society

Mark Ronan is emeritus professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Honorary Professor of Mathematics at University College London. He is the author of Symmetry and the Monster.

75 A General History of Quadrupeds The Figures Engraved on Wood Thomas Bewick With a new Foreword by Yann Martel

In the late eighteenth century, the published in 1790, showcases Bewick’s British took greater interest than ever groundbreaking engraving techniques before in observing and recording all that allowed text and images to be pub- aspects of the natural world. Travelers lished on the same page. From anteaters and colonists returning from far-flung to zebras, armadillos to wolverines, this lands provided dazzling accounts of delightful volume features engravings May 542 p., 331 line drawings 6 x 9 such exotic creatures as elephants, ba- of over four hundred animals alongside ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04481-1 Cloth $55.00x/£32.50 boons, and kangaroos. The engraver descriptions of their characteristics as ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04480-4 Thomas Bewick (1753–1828) harnessed scientifically understood at the time. Paper $19.00/£11.00 this newfound interest by assembling Quadrupeds reaffirms Bewick’s place in NATURe ART the most comprehensive illustrated history as an incomparable illustrator, guide to nature of his day. one whose influence on natural history A General History of Quadrupeds, first and book printing still endures today.

Thomas Bewick was a master of book illustration and wood engraving from Newcastle upon Tyne, England. His many works include the History of British Birds.

Rethinking Expertise Harry Collins and Robert Evans

What does it mean to be an expert? lic make use of science and technology In Rethinking Expertise, Harry Collins before there is consensus in the scien- and Robert Evans offer a radical new tific community? This book has wide perspective on the role of expertise in implications for public policy and for the practice of science and the public those who seek to understand science evaluation of technology. and benefit from it. Collins and Evans present a Peri- “Starts to lay the groundwork for odic Table of Expertises based on the solving a critical problem—how to re- idea of tacit knowledge—knowledge store the force of technical scientific that we have but cannot explain. They information in public controversies, then look at how some expertises are without importing disguised political used to judge others, how laypeople agendas.”—Nature

judge between experts, and how cre- “A rich and detailed ‘periodic March 176 p., 8 halftones, dentials are used to evaluate them. table’ of expertise . . . full of case 6 line drawings, 5 tables 6 x 9 Throughout, Collins and Evans ask an studies, anecdotes and intriguing 2007 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-11361-6 Paper $22.50s/£13.00 important question: how can the pub- experiments.”—Times Higher Education SCIENCE SOCIOLOGY Harry Collins is distinguished research professor of sociology and director of the Center Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-11360-9 for the Study of Knowledge, Expertise, and Science at Cardiff University. He is the author of, most recently, Gravity’s Shadow and, with Trevor Pinch, Dr. Golem, both published by the Portuguese language rights University of Chicago Press. Robert Evans is a reader in sociology at the Cardiff School of already licensed for Brazil Social Sciences. only.

76 Praise for Seth Benardete The Tragedy and Comedy of Life “A most extraordinary man, a schol- Plato’s Philebus ar and a philosopher. . . . His books Seth Benardete . . . are there for people who want to fly to strange places without In The Tragedy and Comedy of Life, Seth but by mixing pleasure and pain with buying a ticket and without being Benardete focuses on the idea of the mind in such a way that the philosophic frisked by security guards.” good in what is widely regarded as one life emerges as the only possible human of Plato’s most challenging and com- life. —Harvey Mansfield, Weekly Standard plex dialogues, the Philebus. Tradition- Benardete combines a probing and ally the Philebus is interpreted as affirm- challenging commentary that subtly March 272 p., 3 line drawings 6 x 9 ing the doctrine that the good resides mirrors and illuminates the complexi- 1993 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04276-3 in thought and mind rather than in ties of this dialogue with the finest Eng- Paper $27.50s/£16.00 pleasure or the body. Benardete chal- lish translation of the Philebus yet avail- PHILOSOPHY CLASSICS lenges this view, arguing that Socrates able. The result is a work that will be of Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-04239-8 vindicates the life of the mind over the great value to classicists, philosophers, life of pleasure not by separating the Simplified Chinese language and political theorists alike. rights already licensed. two and advocating a strict asceticism, Seth Benardete (1930–2001) was a classicist and philosopher who taught at New York University and the New School. He is the author of many books.

“Benardete puts together, following The Rhetoric of Morality and Philosophy Platonic clues, what the dialogues Plato’s Gorgias and Phaedrus keep apart. . . . This bare sketch . . . cannot indicate the book’s rich Seth Benardete texture and fluidity of thought, The Rhetoric of Morality and Philosophy, Gorgias as a dialogue about the rheto- sensitivity to the nuances of Greek, one of the most groundbreaking works ric of morality, Benardete turns to the originality, and difficulty.” of twentieth-century Platonic studies, is Phaedrus as a discourse about genuine —Canadian Philosophical Reviews now back in print for a new generation rhetoric, namely the science of eros, or of students and scholars to discover. true philosophy. This novel interpre- March 216 p., 31 figures 6 x 9 In this volume, distinguished classicist tation addresses numerous issues in 1991 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04241-1 Seth Benardete interprets and pairs Plato studies: the relation between the Paper $25.00s/£14.50 two important Platonic dialogues, the structure of the Gorgias and the image philosophy classics Gorgias and the Phaedrus, illuminating of soul/city in the Republic, the relation Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-04240-4 Socrates’ notion of rhetoric and Plato’s between the structure of Phaedrus and conception of morality and eros in the the concept of eros, and Socrates’ no- human soul. tion of ignorance, among others. Following his discussion of the

Seth Benardete (1930–2001) was a classicist and philosopher who taught at New York University and the New School. He is the author of many books.

77 “Crisis of the House Divided has Crisis of the House Divided shaped the thought of a generation An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates of Abraham Lincoln and Civil War Fiftieth Anniversary Edition scholars.” Harry V. Jaffa —Mark E. Needly Jr., With a new Introduction Civil War History Crisis of the House Divided is the standard Lincoln’s significance as a political April 480 p. 5 x 8 historiography of the Lincoln-Douglas thinker.”—T. Harry Williams, Annals of 1959 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39118-2 Paper $24.00/£14.00 debates. Harry V. Jaffa provides the the American Academy of Political and So- AMERICAN HISTORY definitive analysis of the political prin- cial Sciences Previous ISBN: 978-0-226-39113-7 ciples that guided Lincoln from his re- “A searching and provocative anal- entry into politics in 1854 through his ysis of the issues confronted and the Senate campaign against Douglas in ideas expounded in the great debates. 1858. To mark the fiftieth anniversary . . . A book which displays such learn- of the original publication, Jaffa has ing and insight that it cannot fail to provided a new introduction. excite the admiration even of scholars “An important book about one who disagree with its major arguments of the great episodes in the history of and conclusions.”—D. E. Fehrenbacher, the sectional controversy. It breaks American Historical Review new ground and opens a new view of

Harry V. Jaffa is the Henry Salvatori Research Professor of Political Philosophy Emeritus at Claremont McKenna College. He is the author or coauthor of many books, including Shakespeare’s Politics, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

“A terrific book, one that should Selling the Race have a long historiographical Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940–1955 influence. . . . All social scientists Adam Green and humanists will find Green’s book worthy of a serious and close In Selling the Race, Adam Green tells the By presenting African Americans as reading.” story of how black Chicagoans were at agents, rather than casualties, of mo- —H-Net Reviews the center of a national movement in dernity, Green ultimately reenvisions the 1940s and ’50s, a time when Afri- urban existence in a way that will reso- Historical Studies of Urban America can Americans across the country first nate with anyone interested in race, cul- started to see themselves as part of a ture, or the life of cities. may 320 p., 31 halftones 6 x 9 2006 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30640-7 single culture. Along the way, he offers “Green emphasizes the vibrant, Paper $20.00s/£12.00 fascinating reinterpretations of such positive cultural life of black Chicago. AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY events as the 1940 American Negro Ex- . . . Recommended.”—Choice Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-30641-4 position, the rise of black music and the “Much like the race sellers and buy- culture industry that emerged around Some permissions need to ers in his book, Green imagines a much it, the development of the Associated be cleared for translation. wider horizon of innovative ideas that Negro Press and the founding of John- shaped a national race culture.”—Jour- son Publishing, and the outcry over the nal of Illinois History 1955 lynching of Emmett Till.

Adam Green is associate professor of history at the University of Chicago.

78 After God Mark C. Taylor

Religion, Mark C. Taylor argues in After radical reconceptualization of religion God, is more complicated than either its and Taylor’s most pathbreaking work defenders or critics think and, indeed, yet, bringing together various strands is much more influential than any of us of theological argument and cultural realize. Our world, Taylor maintains, is analysis four decades in the making. shaped by religion even when it is least “The distinguishing feature of obvious. Faith and value, he insists, are Taylor’s career is a fearless, or perhaps unavoidable and inextricably interrelat- reckless, orientation to the new and to ed for believers and nonbelievers alike. whatever challenges orthodoxy. . . . Tay- The first comprehensive theology of cul- lor’s work is playful, perverse, rarefied, ture since the pioneering work of Paul ingenious, and often brilliant.”—New Tillich, After God redefines religion for York Times Magazine our contemporary age. This volume is a Religion and Postmodernism Series Mark C. Taylor is professor of religion and chair of the Department of Religion at Columbia March 496 p., 27 line drawings, University. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Hiding and Disfiguring: 13 tables 6 x 9 Art, Architecture, Religion, both published by the University of Chicago Press. 2007 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-79171-5 Paper $20.00s/£12.00 RELIGION Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-79169-2 Spanish language rights already licensed.

Subversive Sounds Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans Charles Hersch

Subversive Sounds probes New Orleans’s fluent in a variety of musical traditions history, uncovering a web of racial inter- from diverse ethnic sources. These en- connections and animosities that was counters with other music and races instrumental to the creation of a vital subverted their own racial identities American art form—jazz. Drawing on and changed the way they played— oral histories, police reports, newspa- a musical miscegenation that, in the per accounts, and vintage recordings, shadow of Jim Crow, undermined the Charles Hersch brings to vivid life the pursuit of racial purity and indelibly neighborhoods and nightspots where transformed American culture. jazz was born. “More than timely. . . . Hersch or- This volume shows how musicians chestrates voices of musicians on both such as Jelly Roll Morton, Nick La Roc- sides of the racial divide in underscor- april 304 p., 14 halftones, 2 maps 6 x 9 ca, and Louis Armstrong negotiated ing how porous the music made the 2007 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-32868-3 New Orleans’s complex racial rules to boundaries of race and class.”—New Paper $22.50s/£13.00 pursue their craft and how, in order Orleans Times-Picayune MUSIC AMERICAN HISTORY to widen their audiences, they became Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-32867-6 Charles Hersch is professor of political science at Cleveland State University and the author of Democratic Artworks: Politics and the Arts from Trilling to Dylan.

79 “A remarkably learned volume that Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic provides an excellent introduction to a long-neglected area of study in World, 1500–1800 the English-speaking world. Khaled El-Rouayheb . . . A trenchant, insightful, and Attitudes toward homosexuality in the concept of homosexuality. even brilliant book.” premodern Arab-Islamic world are com- “Meticulously researched, lucidly —Gay and Lesbian Review monly depicted as schizophrenic—it was written, nuanced, and brilliantly con- visible and tolerated on one hand, pro- ceived, the book forthrightly takes on april 224 p. 6 x 9 hibited by Islam on the other. Khaled complex issues surrounding the culture 2005 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-72989-3 Paper $20.00s/£12.00 El-Rouayheb argues that this apparent of same-sex eroticism that existed in the paradox is based on the anachronistic Arabic-speaking lands of the early mod- HISTORY GAY AND LESBIAN STUDIES assumption that homosexuality is a time- Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-72988-6 ern Ottoman Empire. . . . An important less, self-evident fact to which a particular book by an excellent scholar.”—Journal French language rights culture reacts with some degree of toler- of Religion already licensed. ance or intolerance. Drawing on poetry, “Rectifies many . . . prejudices and biographical literature, medicine, dream misinterpretations in a masterly interpretation, and Islamic texts, he shows fashion.”—Bulletin of the School of Orien- that the culture of the period lacked the tal and African Studies

Khaled El-Rouayheb is assistant professor of Islamic intellectual history in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University.

“Here is a painstaking and posi- Major Themes of the Qur’an tive effort to think through the Second Edition Qur’an beyond the verse by verse, Fazlur Rahman tediously grammatical, scrutiny With a new Foreword by Ebrahim Moosa which many have employed in past centuries.” Fazlur Rahman (1919–88), one of the once well informed and basically real- —Kenneth Cragg, most important Muslim scholars of the istic about the reigning myths of mod- Middle East Journal twentieth century, devoted his career ern secularist society. He is also a clear to helping students understand the writer capable of disarming simplicity june 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-70286-5 Qur’an’s teachings about God, man, and tightly reasoned, technically de- Paper $18.00s/£10.50 and society. Back in print for a new gen- tailed argument.”—Patrick D. Gaffney, RELIGION eration of students and scholars to dis- Journal of Religion cobe cover, Major Themes of the Qur’an is his “An event that needs to be given introduction to one of the richest texts close attention. What is more, the in the history of religious thought. In book would seem to deserve attention this classic work, Rahman unravels the for another reason: its aim to provide Qur’an’s complexities with the deep at- an introduction to the content of the tachment of a Muslim educated in Is- Qur’an, something which most would lamic schools and the clarity of a schol- agree has been sorely lacking until ar who taught for decades in the West. now.”—Andrew Rippin, Bulletin of the “[Rahman] is a mature thinker, at School of Oriental and African Studies

Fazlur Rahman (1919–88) was the Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Islamic Thought at the University of Chicago. He was the author of ten books, including Islam and Modernity and Islam, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

80 Guide to Subjects

African American History 78 Law 15, 28, 35, 63, 69, 72

African American Studies 13, 36, 71 Literary Criticism 24, 36, 52, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 70 African Studies 41, 54 Literature 2, 74 American History 11, 37, 38, 40, 57, 78, 79 Mathematics 75

Anthropology 27, 41, 49, 51, 52, 53, 54 Medicine 43, 74

Architecture 32, 50 Military History 9

Art 7, 8, 32, 61, 76 Music 42, 79

Business 16 Nature 1, 76

Classics 55, 56, 77 Philosophy 7, 29, 30, 55, 73, 77

Current Events 9, 14, 15, 28, 71, 74 Poetry 19, 20, 21, 24, 73

Drama 17, 70 Political Science 10, 29, 31, 33, 35, 61, 75 Economics 31, 48, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69 Reference 3, 17, 18, 22, 68

Education 25, 26, 48, 68 Religion 49, 68, 79, 80

European History 41, 46 Science 1, 3, 5, 6, 30, 39, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 61, 69, 76 Film Studies 42 Sociology 25, 47, 48, 49, 62, 76 Gay and Lesbian Studies 34, 80 Sports 13 History 5, 12, 35, 39, 42, 43, 45, 61, 62, 68, 80 Women’s Studies 33, 57