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ART (blue sheets)
Stephen Bann Distinguished Images Spring 2013 Prints and the Visual Economy in Nineteenth‐Century France
Ivan Brunetti Aesthetics Spring 2013 A Memoir
Kaira M. Cabañas The Myth of Nouveau Réalisme Spring 2013 Art and the Performative in Postwar France
Caroline Evans The Mechanical Smile Spring 2013 Modernism and the First Fashion Shows in France and America, 1900‐1929
Tatiana Flores Mexico’s Revolutionary Avant‐Gardes Spring 2013 From Estridentismo to ¡30‐30!
Kate Irvin and Artist/Rebel/Dandy Spring 2013 Laurie Brewer (eds) Men of Fashion
Sarah E. James Common Ground Spring 2013 Photography in Germany during the Cold War
Ellen G. Landau Mexico and American Modernism Spring 2013
Sarah Blake McHam Pliny and the Artistic Culture of the Spring 2013 Italian Renaissance The Legacy of the “Natural History”
Alex Potts Experiments in Modern Realism Spring 2013 World Making in Postwar European and American Art
Diane Radycki Paula Modersohn‐Becker Spring 2013 The First Modern Woman Artist
Valerie Steele and Shoe Obsession Spring 2013 Colleen Hill
AUTOBIOGRAPHY & BIOGRAPHY (pink sheets)
Saul Friedländer Franz Kafka Spring 2013 The Poet of Shame and Guilt
Raphael Lemkin and Totally Unofficial Spring 2013 Donna‐Lee Frieze (ed) The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin
Yehudah Mirsky Rav Kook Spring 2013 Everything is Rising
Arvind Sharma Gandhi Spring 2013 A Spiritual Biography
Denys Turner Thomas Aquinas Spring 2013 A Portrait
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS (pale blue sheets)
Timothy Beardson Fading Giant Spring 2013 Why China Will Not Replace America as the World Superpower
Anupam Chander The Electronic Silk Road Spring 2013 How the Web Binds the World Together in Trade
Stephen D. King When the Money Runs Out Spring 2013 The End of Western Affluence
CURRENT AFFAIRS (grey sheet)
Philip Shishkin Restless Valley Spring 2013 Revolution, Murder and Intrigue in the Heart of Central Asia
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES & SCIENCE (pale green sheets)
Michael B. Bracken Risk, Chance, and Causation Spring 2013 Investigating the Origins and Treatment of Disease
Peter Crane Ginkgo Spring 2013 The Tree That Time Forgot
Clive Hamilton Earthmasters Spring 2013 The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering
Jay Ingram Fatal Flaws Spring 2013 How a Misfolded Protein Baffled Scientists and Changed the Way We Look at the Brain
Kuntala Lahiri‐Dutt Dancing with the River Spring 2013 and Gopa Samanta People and Life on the Chars of South Asia
HISTORY (salmon sheets)
David Caute Isaac and Isaiah Spring 2013 The Politics of History
Roger Cooter Writing History in the Age of Spring 2013 with Claudia Stein Biomedicine
D.G. Hart Calvinism Spring 2013 A History
Brian P. Levack The Devil Within Spring 2013 Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West
Patrick Smith Time No Longer Spring 2013 Americans After the American Century
LITERARY CRITICISM (red sheet)
Terry Eagleton How to Read Literature Spring 2013
POLITICS (yellow sheets)
Joshua Kurlantzick Democracy in Retreat Spring 2013 The Revolt of the Middle Class and the Worldwide Decline of Representative Government
Richard Rosecrance Merger of Powers Spring 2013 How a Transatlantic Union Can Prevent War and Revive the West
Jay Winter and Population, Fear, and Uncertainty Spring 2013 Michael S. Teitelbaum The Global Spread of Fertility Decline
RELIGION (green sheets)
Timothy Luckritz Marquis Transient Apostle Spring 2013 Paul, Travel, and the Rhetoric of Empire
Mona Siddiqui Christians, Muslims, and Jesus Spring 2013
Ziony Zevit What Really Happened in the Garden of Spring 2013 Eden?
PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED HIGHLIGHTS (white sheets)
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DISTINGUISHED IMAGES
Prints and the Visual Economy in Nineteenth‐Century France
Stephan Bann
This multifaceted book reviews the vast range of types of printmaking that flourished in France during the 19th century. Studies of this period’s printmaking tend to be confined to histories of individual processes, such as lithography or steel engraving. This study surveys the field as a whole and discusses the relationships between the various media in the context of an overall “visual economy.”
Lithography, etching, and engraving are all examined through astute scholarship on the era’s most influential artists, including Hyacinthe Aubry‐Lecomte, Léopold Flameng, Ferdinand Gaillard, Aimé de Lemud, Félix Nadar, and Charles Waltner. Rather than simply tracing the rise of Modernism in the 19th century, Distinguished Images reconstitutes the period’s cultural milieu through a series of case studies written with an eye to overarching forces at play. The result is the most original analysis of printmaking to appear in many years—a striking new account of a system in which printmaking, printmakers, and art critics played heretofore unrecognised or misunderstood roles.
Stephen Bann is emeritus professor and senior research fellow, Bristol University, UK. He is among the most distinguished art historians working today, not least because of his range of interests, but also because of his influence among art theorists. He is the author or editor of some 18 books. His most recent ones are Art and the Early Photographic (National Gallery Washington, 2011) and Painting History (National Gallery London, 2010).
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Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 Reproducing the Mona Lisa
Chapter 2 Representing Normandy
Chapter 3 Nadar in retrospect
Chapter 4 Is Lithography an art?
Chapter 5 Exit Etching
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AESTHETICS
A Memoir
Ivan Brunetti
Born to working‐class parents in a small town in Italy, and reared in Chicago, Ivan Brunetti was drawn to cartoons and comic strips from an early age. Finding inspiration in Spider‐Man and Peanuts, he began crafting his own stories and gradually developed a unique style that he applied to imaginative, sometimes shocking subjects. The dark humour of his graphic novels earned him a cult following, yet his illustrations have had broad appeal. Now recognised as an award‐winning cartoonist and illustrator, Brunetti has published his work in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and McSweeney’s, among others.
This eye‐popping illustrated autobiography by Brunetti traces his artistic trajectory and output, from youthful doodles to his latest cover illustrations and comic strips. Aesthetics: A Memoir unearths a trove of previously unpublished materials, including working drawings, sketches for cartoons, book covers, personal photographs, dan items from the artist’s collection of toys and handmade objects. In an introductory essay and captions, Brunetti explains—in a voice that is as quirky, smart, and clear as his drawings—his creative process and aesthetic sensibility. This overarching retrospective conveys Brunetti’s philosophy of life and cartooning through his keen words and unforgettable images.
Ivan Brunetti has published several graphic novels and taught courses on editorial illustration and comics at the University of Chicago and Columbia College Chicago. He is the author of the Eisner‐Award‐winning Cartooning and the editor of the two‐volume Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories all published by Yale in 2011, 2006 and 2008 respectively.
Publication: Spring 2013 Size: 197 x 191mm Pages: 112 Illustrations: 20 black and white; 120 colour
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Front Endpapers Pages 1‐12 Photo essay of items from studio and collections (with front matter interspersed)
Pages 13‐17 Introduction (includes accompanying illustrations)
Pages 18‐25 Bound Sketch books and other sketch‐based projects
Pages 18‐57 New Yorker covers and comics strips (2007‐2012), as well as other comics, illustrations, and design projects from that same period
Pages 58‐78 Formalism and Abstractions
Pages 79‐93 Arts and Crafts (sculptures, assemblages, prints)
Pages 94‐115 Childhood: juvenilia, various projects based on childhood memories, and inspirational items from Brunetti’s toy collection
Pages 116‐120 Concluding photo essay of items from Brunetti’s studio and collections Back Endpapers
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THTHE MY OF NOUVEAU REALISME
Art and the Performative in Postwar France
Kaira M. Cabañas
On October 27, 1960, art critic Pierre Restany named a group of Paris‐based artists the “Nouveaux Réalistes” (New Realists) in a founding declaration that stated, “The New Realists recognise their collective singularity. New Realism = new perceptual approaches of the real.” Besides Restany, this group included Arman, François Dufrêne, Raymond Hains, Yves Klein, Martial Raysse, Daniel Spoerri, Jean Tinguely, and Jacques Villeglé. Their work incorporated consumer objects and new media in response to the postwar period’s painterly modes and its burgeoning consumer and industrial society. However, they did not share a common avant‐ garde strategy.
The Myth of Nouveau Réalisme is a critical reassessment of this important neo‐avant‐garde movement. Kaira M. Cabañas offers an interdisciplinary account of their work and challenges the ideas of Restany, who mandated a “direct appropriation of the real.” Cabañas posits that, for the Nouveaux Réalistes, realism engaged performative practices to produce alternative social meanings.
Kaira M. Cabañas is lecturer in the department of art history and archaeology, Columbia University. She is the editor of and contributor to Seven Circles / Seven Sounds: Lothar Baumgarten (Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2009), Common Love, Aesthetics of Becoming (Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, 2011), and Specters of Artaud, Language and the sArt (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 2012).
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Direct Appropriation of the Real
Chapter 2 Let This Be Said and Done
Chapter 3 Archaeological Abductions
Chapter 4 How Real Is Realism in Actuality?
Chapter 5 Screen Performances
Afterword
Notes
Index
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THE MECHANICAL SMILE
Modernism and the First Fashion Shows in France and America, 1900‐1929
Caroline Evans
Around the turn of the 20th century, the desire to see clothing in motion flourished on both sides of the Atlantic: models tangoed, slithered, swaggered, and undulated before customers in couture houses and department stores. The Mechanical Smile traces the history of the earliest fashion shows in France and the United States from their origins in the 1880s to 1929, situating them in the context of modernism and the rationalisation of the body. Fashion shows came into being concurrently with film, and this book explores the connections between fashion and early cinema, which arguably functioned as what Walter Benjamin calls “new velocities”—forces that altered the rhythms of modern life.
Using significant new archival evidence, The Mechanical Smile shows how so‐called “mannequin parades” employed abstraction and expressionism to translate business and management methods into visual seduction. Caroline Evans argues for an expanded definition of modernism as both gestural and performative, drawing on literary and performance theory rather than relying on art and design history. The fashion show, Evans posits, is a singular nodal point where the disparate histories of commerce, modernism, gender, and the body converge.
Caroline Evans is professor of fashion history and theory at Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, a constituent college of the University of the Arts, London. She is also a visiting professor at the Centre for Fashion Studies, Stockholm University. Her previous books include Fashion at the Edge and The London Look both published by Yale in 2003 and 2005 respectively.
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Introduction
Part I The Fashion Show
Chapter 1 Prehistory: Nineteenth‐century Fashion Modelling
Chapter 2 Paris 1900‐1914: the Rationalization of the Body
Chapter 3 1900‐1914: French Fashion on the World Stage
Chapter 4 America 1900‐1917: Show Business
Chapter 5 1914‐1919: Wartime Paris and the Nationalization of the Body
Chapter 6 1919‐1929: Fashion in Motion
Part II The Mannequin
Chapter 7 Architecture: Factories of Elegance
Chapter 8 Audiences: The Commerce of the Look
Chapter 9 Objects: Industrial Smiles
Chapter 10 Prolepsis: Future Bodies
Chapter 11 Movement: The Mannequin Walk
Chapter 12 Flow: the Mannequin Pose
Postscript Balancing the Books: Between the Legacy of the Fashion Show and the Inheritance of the Mannequin
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MEXICO’S REVOLUTIONARY AVANT‐GARDES
From Estridentismo to ¡30‐30!
Tatiana Flores
In December 1921, the poet Manuel Maples Arce (1898–1981) papered the walls of Mexico City with his manifesto Actual No. 1, sparking the movement Estridentismo (Stridentism). Inspired by Mexico’s rapid modernisation following the Mexican Revolution, the Estridentistas attempted to overturn the status quo in Mexican culture, taking inspiration from contemporary European movements and methods of expression.
Mexico’s Revolutionary Avant‐Gardes provides a nuanced account of the early‐twentieth‐ century moment that came to be known as the Mexican Renaissance, featuring an impressive range of artists and writers. Relying on extensive documentary research and previously unpublished archival materials, Tatiana Flores expands the conventional history of Estridentismo by including its offshoot movement ¡30‐30! and underscoring Mexico’s role in the broader development of modernism worldwide. Focusing on the inter‐relationship between art and literature, she illuminates the complexities of post‐revolutionary Mexican art at a time when it was torn between formal innovation and social relevance.
Tatiana Flores is assistant professor of art history at Rutgers University. A specialist in twentieth‐century Latin American and contemporary art, Tatiana Flores has contributed to journals including Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, ReVista: The Harvard Review of Latin America, and Woman’s Art Journal. She regularly writes for Art Nexus, where she serves as editorial advisor. She is also active as an independent curator, having organised exhibitions on contemporary painting and Latin American art. This is her first book.
Publication: Spring 2013 Size: 254 x 203mm Pages: 376 Illustrations: 122 black and white; 48 colour
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Manifesto
Chapter 2 The Murals
Chapter 3 Dialogues with Artists
Chapter 4 A Literary Interlude
Chapter 5 The Paradox of the Primitive and the Modern
Chapter 6 A Provincial Avant‐Garde?
Chapter 7 The Lessons of ¡30–30!
Epilogue
Notes
Index
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ARTIST/REBEL/DANDY
Men of Fashion
Edited by Kate Irvin and Laurie Brewer: with essays by Kate Irvin, Laurie Brewer, Christopher Breward, and Monica L. Miller
The image of the dandy, the distinctively dressed figure described by Thomas Carlyle in the 1830s as “the clothes‐wearing man,” has pervaded Western culture for over two centuries. Through their choice of garments and their distinct personas, artist‐dandies have created a history of innovative and beautifully crafted menswear that continues to influence the contemporary fashion world.
Beginning with the imposing figure of elegant dandy George “Beau” Brummell (1778–1840), Artist/Rebel/Dandy traces artist‐dandies throughout the 19th andh 20t centuries. A series of essays defines and characterises the dandy, exploring the role of craftsmanship in men’s fashion, the dandy’s role as both fashion plate and caricature, the dandy in literature, the male consumer, and the contemporary urban dandy. Cameos provide brief presentations of individual artist‐ dandies, with contributions by Scott Schuman (the “Sartorialist”) on fashion mogul Luciano Barbera, Philip Hoare on filmmaker John Waters, and Merlin Holland on writer Oscar Wilde.
This lavishly illustrated book will accompany an exhibition at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum from April to August 2013.
Kate Irvin is curator of costumed an textiles at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum. Laurie Brewer is curatorial assistant of costume and textiles at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum. Christopher Breward is a widely published historian of fashion. Monica L. Miller is associate professor of English at Barnard College.
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Director’s Foreword and Acknowledgments by John W. Smith Preface by Thom Browne
Introduction by Kate Irvin and Laurie Anne Brewer Muses on Beau Brummell by Glenn O’Brien Muses on Baudelaire by Patti Smith
Fabricating a Dream: Two Centuries of Sketching and Defining the Dandy by Kate Irvin Muses on Oscar Wilde by Merlin Holland Muses on W.E.B. Du Bois by Horace D. Ballard, Jr. Muses on Max Beerbohm by Mark Samuels Lasner
The Politics of Fashion and the Pleasures of Youth: Young Men and Their Clothes 1814‐1914 by Christopher Breward Muses on Cecil Beaton by Hugo Vickers Muses on Andy Warhol by Daniela Morera Muses on Malcolm McLaren by Andrew Wilson
The Material Education of the Dandy: From Beau Brummell to the Tweed Run by Laurie Anne Brewer Muses on Luciano Barbera by Scott Schumann Muses on John Waters by Philip Hoare Muses on Sebastian Horsley by Viktor Wynd Muses on Motofumi “Poggy” Kogi by Derick Miller
“Fresh‐Dressed Like a Million Bucks”: Black Dandyism and Hip‐Hop by Monica L. Miller Muses on Ouigi Theodore by Gigi Gray Muses on Guy Hills by James Sherwood Muses on Waris Ahluwalia by Dirk Standen
Plates Select Bibliography Author Biographies Photography Credits
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COMMON GROUND
Photography in Germany during the Cold War
Sarah E. James
This ambitious publication is the first book to thoroughly evaluate the photography that emerged during Germany’s political and geographic division from the 1950s to the 1980s. With richly illustrated and exhaustively researched analyses of photographic projects from East and West Germany, including exhibitions, photo‐essays, private archives, and photo‐books, Common Ground constructs a comparative perspective that highlights similarities and differences between documentation on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
Sarah E. James places German post‐war photography in the context of Soviet, American, and French photographic developments; the specific cultural experiences of the Cold War; and the shifting politics of German identity. By reconsidering the relationship between divergent cultures of the pre‐war Weimar period and the Cold War era, Common Ground prompts new readings of major figures such as Bernd and Hilla Becher, Karl Blossfeldt, and August Sander, as well as historically neglected figures such as Karl Pawek, Evelyn Richter, and Rudolf Shäfer. The result is a groundbreaking study of the political and pedagogical functions of photographic documentary.
Sarah E. James is lecturer, history of art, at University College London. Over the past eight years she has gained a fairly high profile as an art critic, reviewing exhibitions in Berlin and London for publications including Frieze, Photoworks, Art Monthly and Art Review, and writing many feature essays on photography. She is regularly invited to give public lectures and talks at art institutions, and acted as the consultant on the first major exhibition of East German photography in the UK, Do not Refreeze: Photography Behind the Berlin Wall, in 2007. This is her first book.
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Introduction Between Images: Photography’s Social Form
Chapter 1 Cold War Primers: German Identity and Photography in the Postwar Period
Chapter 2 A Post‐Fascist Family of Man? Karl Pawek’s Cold War Photo‐Essay and its Stereoscopic Vision
Chapter 3 Evelyn Richter’s Exact Seeing: The Public and Private Faces of East Germany
Chapter 4 Bernd and Hilla Becher: Re‐enchanting the Everyday and Resisting Reification?
Chapter 5 Rudolf Schäfer: The Dead‐End of Portraiture and the Socialist Self
Epilogue Michael Schmidt: Making German History Strange
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MEXICO AND AMERICAN MODERNISM
Ellen G. Landau
In the years between the two world wars, the enormous vogue of ʺthings Mexicanʺ reached its peak. Along with the popular appeal of its folkloric and pictorialist traditions, Mexican culture played a significant role in the formation of modernism in the United States. Mexico and American Modernism analyses the complex social, intellectual, and artistic ramifications of interactions between avant‐garde American artists and Mexico during this critical period.
In this insightful book, Ellen G. Landau looks beyond the well‐known European influences on modernism. Instead, she probes the lesser‐known yet powerful connections to Mexico and Mexican art that can be seen in the work of four acclaimed American mid‐century artists: Philip Guston (1913–1980), Robert Motherwell (1915–1991), Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988), and Jackson Pollock (1912–1956). Landau details how these artistsʹ relationships with the Mexican muralists, expatriate Surrealists, and leftist political activists of the 1930s and 1940s affected the direction of their art. Her analysis of this aesthetic cross‐fertilization provides an important new framework for understanding the emergence of Abstract Expressionism and the New York School as a whole.
Ellen G. Landau is Andrew W. Mellon professor of the humanities at Case Western Reserve University. She has taught in the Cleveland Museum of Art/CWRU joint programme in art history since 1982. Recognised as the leading expert on Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, she specialises in twentieth‐century American and European art and theory, especially Abstract Expressionism. Her previous books include Reading Abstract Expressionism (Yale, 2005) and Jackson Pollock (Abrams, 2010).
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Preface
Acknowledgments
Part One The 1930s, Mexico, Art, and Politics
Chapter 1 Body Si(gh)ting: Noguchi, Mexico, and Martha Graham
Chapter 2 Envisioning History: Philip Guston and Reuben Kadish in Morelia
Part Two The 1940s, Mexico, and Abstract Expressionism
Chapter 3 Reinventing Muralism: Pollock, Mexican Art, and the Origins of Action Painting
Chapter 4 Motherwell, Mexico, and Surrealism Revised
Chapter 5 Abstract Expressionism and Modernist Identity
Chapter 6 Conclusion
Notes
Index
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PLINY AND THE ARTISTIC CULTURE OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
The Legacy of the “Natural History”
Sarah Blake McHam
Pliny’s Natural History (A.D. 77–79) served as an indispensable guide to and exemplar of the ideals of art for Renaissance artists, patrons, and theorists. Bearing the imprimatur of antiquity, Natural History gave permission to do art on a grand scale, to prize it, and to see it as an incomparable source of prestige and pleasure.
In Pliny and the Artistic Culture of the Italian Renaissance, Sarah Blake McHam surveys Pliny’s influence, from Petrarch, the first figure to recognize Pliny’s relevance to understanding the history of Greek art and its reception by the Romans, to Vasari and late‐16th‐century theorists. McHam charts the historiography of Latin and Italian manuscripts and early printed copies of the Natural History to trace the dissemination of its contents to artists from Donatello and Ghiberti to Michelangelo and Titian. Meanwhile, benefactors commissioned works intended to emulate the prototypes Pliny described, aligning themselves with the great patrons of antiquity.
This is a richly illustrated, comprehensive reference work of social history, myth making, iconography, theory, and criticism.
Sarah Blake McHam is professor of art history at Rutgers University. She is one of the contributors to Tullio Lombardo and Venetian High Renaissance Sculpture (National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009).
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List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Preface and Acknowledgements
Part I Introduction Chapter 1 The Art History of a Book on Science Part II Pliny and the Natural History Chapter 2 Pliny’s Career; The Scope of the Natural History and its Reception in Antiquity and the Middle Ages Chapter 3 Pliny on Ancient Art: The Contents of the Natural History, Books 33‐37 Part III Reception of the Natural History in Fourteenth‐Century Italy Chapter 4 Petrarch’s Pliny Chapter 5 Following Petrarch: The Widening Influence of Pliny on Fourteent‐Century Readers and Artists Part IV The Influence of the Natural History in late Fourteenth‐ and Fifteenth‐Century Italy Chapter 6 Collection Illuminating and Critiquing the Natural History in Fifteenth‐Century Italy Chapter 7 Alberti, Ghiberti, and the Early Florentine Response to Pliny Chapter 8 Pliny as an Inspiration for Fifteenth‐Century Humanists, Educators, Patrons, and Artists in North Italy Part V The Natural History in the Age of Incunables, 1469‐1500 Chapter 9 Pliny in Print and in Stone Chapter 10 Mantegna and Leonardo Strive to be a New Apelles Chapter 11 Pliny Spurs the Development of New Subject Matters Chapter 12 The Plinian Signature as a Badge of Prestige Part VI Pliny and Sixteenth‐Century Italian Art Chapter 13 Pliny and the Formation of Art Collections in Florence Chapter 14 Laocoön, Or Pliny Vindicated Chapter 15 Beyond Laocoön: Plinian Anecdotes as Inspiration for Subjects and Commissions Part VII Pliny and Sixteenth‐Century Italian Art Theory Chapter 16 Early Sixteenth‐Century Theoretical Writers Chapter 17 Vasari and Pliny as Historians of Art Chapter 18 Theoretical Treatises After Vasari Part VIII Conclusion Chapter 19 Summing Up Pliny’s Legacy
Appendix 1 Chart of Plinian Anecdotes and Renaissance Citations Appendix 2 Artists and Works Using the Plinian Signature Notes Bibliography Index
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EXPERIMENTS IN MODERN REALISM
World Making in Postwar European and American Art
Alex Potts
Abstraction played a vital role in the art of the 20th century, particularly during the decades immediately following the Second World War. Alex Potts argues, however, that a post‐war commitment to abstraction existed alongside an equally powerful dedication to realism, as an impulse to engage with the everyday and political realities of the world motivated artists who were simultaneously devoted to the study of their artistic process and medium.
Experiments in Modern Realism is a decidedly polemical account of the realist impulses of this period, as seen through a refreshingly unpredictable range of artists. This unique book gives equal weight to developments in Europe and the United States, and works by canonical and lesser‐known artists on both sides of the Atlantic are juxtaposed in groundbreaking analyses of abstract and representational art. Engaging the fields of history, literature, politics, cultural studies, and art history, this is a remarkable study of postwar art from one of the most important voices in art history today.
Alex Potts has been collegiate professor, history of art, University of Michigan since 2002. In 2008 he was Slade lecturer of fine art at the University of Oxford, and gave a series of eight public lectures (the Slade lectures); ‘Art and Non‐Art: Experiments in Modern Realism 1945‐1965’. These lectures formed the basis of his book. He is the author of Flesh and the Ideal and Sculptural Imagination both published by Yale respectively in 1994 and 2001.
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Introduction Chapter 1 The Case for Realism 1.1 Realism and Abstraction 1.2 Process, Materiality and Mimesis 1.3 Political Engagement and Artistic Realism Painting and the Substance of Things Chapter 2 The New Painting in America 2.1 Reference and Radical Abstraction – Pollock 2.2 Interiority and Exteriority – Matta 2.3 Residues of the Everyday – de Kooning Chapter 3 Vernacular Modernism in Europe 3.1 Worlds Real and Imaginary – Wols 3.2 Materiality ‐ Dubuffet New Realism Chapter 4 New Brutalism and the ‘As Found’ 4.1 The Independent Group’s Realist Anti‐Formalism 4.2 Banham’s New Brutalism 4.3 Hamilton’s Pop Realism 4.4 Paolozzi’s Machine Age Realism Chapter 5 New Realism and Pop Art 5.1 New Realism as an Artistic Movement 5.2 American Pop: Grunge, Glitz and Flatness 5.3 German Capitalist Realism Assemblage Chapter 6 Composite Painting 6.1 Montage – Rosenquist 6.2 Combines and Assemblage – Rauschenberg 6.3 Painterly Constellations ‐ Twombly Chapter 7 Assemblages and World Making 7.1 Consumer Commodities and Tableaux of Modern Life 7.2 Pictures in Space and Comic Book Narratives 7.3 Political Art and Reality’s Uncensored Continuum Happenings, Actions, Hybrid Practices Chapter 8 Art and Life: Happenings 8.1 The Theatre of Objects – Oldenburg 8.2 Happenings ‐ Kaprow 8.3 Capitalism and Everyday Life 8.4 Art/Non‐Art Chapter 9 Hybrid Practices and Political Art 9.1 Parody and Paradox – Beuys 9.1 Flux and Inertia ‐ Art and Capital 9.3 Political Commitment and Alternative Practices – Jorn and Beuys 9.4 Artistic Process and Political Reality
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PAULA MODERSOHN‐BECKER
The First Modern Woman Artist
Diane Radycki
Considered one of the most important of the early German modernists, the painter Paula Modersohn‐Becker (1876–1907) challenged traditional representations of the female body in art. She was the first modern woman artist to paint herself nude, as well as mothers and children nude. She also created the first self‐portrait while pregnant in the history of art. Modersohn‐ Becker painted the life she was living as a woman and artist and led the way for generations of women artists. Tragically, her life and career were cut short at age thirty‐one, following complications from childbirth.
Diane Radycki examines the artist’s fascinating biography, including her friendships with poet Rainer Maria Rilke and sculptor Clara Westhoff; her personal anguish, including years in an unconsummated marriage, a disappointing affair, and irresolution about motherhood. Radycki also details the genres of Modersohn‐Becker’s work: figure (especially nudes), still life, and landscape; and the reception of her work following her death.
As the first English‐language publication on the artist in over two decades, this book is the authoritative source on Modersohn‐Becker, who Radycki convincingly portrays as the first significant woman artist in the history of modernism.
Diane Radycki is associate professor of art history at Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She served as editor and translator of The Letters and Journals of Paula Modersohn‐Becker (Lightning Source, 1980).
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Beginning and End Chapter 1 In My Beginning Is My End
Photo Album
Chapter 2 In My End Is My Beginning
Part II Mittel (Middle, Means, Medium) Chapter 3 Home and School
Chapter 4 Paris Immer Wieder, “Again and Again”
Chapter 5 Worpswede Toujours, “Always”
Part III: I Painted This Chapter 6 Still Life and Figure
Chapter 7 The Crisis, as Told in Portraits, Self‐Portraits, Letters, and Memoirs
Chapter 8 The Nude
Part IV Beginning and End Continued Chapter 9 Her Star To Be Born
Chapter 10 Her Self to Die
Appendix Chronology Notes Photo Credits Index
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SHOE OBSESSION
Valerie Steele and Colleen Hill
This fabulously illustrated book explores western culture’s fascination with extravagant and fashionable shoes. Over the past decade, shoe prices and heels have reached new heights. Paying $2,000 for a pair of shoes is becoming ‘normal’, while four‐inch heels are considered ‘short’. Shoe design has become increasingly central to fashion, with fashion companies paying ever more attention to shoes and other accessories. High‐heeled shoes, in particular, have become the fashion accessory of the twenty‐first century.
Co‐written by one of the world’s leading historians of fashion and an authority on fashion accessories, the book features approximately 150 pairs of the most extreme and ultra‐fashionable styles of the past 12 years, including work by such prominent designers as Manolo Blahnik, Pierre Hardy, Christian Louboutin and Bruno Frisoni for Roger Vivier, as well as shoes by influential design houses such as Azzedine Alaia, Balenciaga, Alexander McQueen, and Prada. Avant‐garde styles by up‐and‐coming designers such as Japan’s Kei Kagami and Noritaka Tatehana are also highlighted.
Extreme and fantastical shoes are prominently featured in fashion journalism and editorials, but there has been little in‐depth writing about their importance in a larger context. Shoe Obsession examines such styles in relation to the history of high heels, the role of shoes as a reflection of their wearers’ personality traits, and the importance of shoes in art and exhibitions.
Valerie Steele is director and chief curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, where she has organised more than twenty exhibitions since 1997. She is the author or the co‐author of more than a dozen books, including Fifty Years of Fashion, Corset, and Daphne Guinness, all published by Yale in 1997, 2001, and 2011 respectively. Colleen Hill is associate curator of accessories of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Over the past four years, she has curated or co‐curated seven exhibitions. These include Seduction, His & Hers and Sporting Life.
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Foreword and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Show Obsession by Valerie Steele
Heel Appeal: A History of Elevated Shoes by Colleen Hill
Catalogue
Bibliography
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FRANZ KAFKA
The Poet of Shame and Guilt
(Jewish Lives Series)
Saul Friedländer
Franz Kafka was the poet of his own disorder. Throughout his life he struggled with a pervasive sense of shame and guilt that left traces in his daily existence—in his many letters, extensive diaries, and especially in his fiction. This stimulating book investigates some of the sources of Kafka’s personal anguish and its complex reflections in his imaginary world.
In his query, Saul Friedländer probes major aspects of Kafka’s life (family, Judaism, love and sex, writing, illness, and despair) that until now have been skewed by posthumous censorship. Contrary to Kafka’s dying request that all his papers be burned, Max Brod, Kafka’s closest friend and literary editor, published and edited the author’s novels and other works soon after his death in 1924. Friedländer shows that, when reinserted in Kafka’s works, deleted segments lift the mask of “sainthood” frequently attached to the writer and thus restore previously hidden aspects of his individuality.
Saul Friedländer is a renowned historian of the Holocaust and in 2008 won the Pulitzer Prize for the second volume of his influential work The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939‐1945 (Harper Collins, 2007). He is distinguished emeritus professor of history and Club 39 endowed chair in holocaust studies at UCLA. Friedländer was born in Prague and spent his boyhood in Nazi‐occupied France.
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Introduction
Part I “Prague doesn’t let go…”
Chapter 1 The Son
Chapter 2 ‘The Dark Complexity of Judaism’
Chapter 3 Love, Sex, and Fantasies
Part II ‘The Reward of Serving the Devil’
Chapter 4 A Night Journey
Chapter 5 The Writer and His Worlds
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The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin
Raphael Lemkin, edited by Donna‐Lee Frieze
Among the greatest intellectual heroes of modern times, Raphael Lemkin lived an extraordinary life of struggle and hardship, yet altered human rights history and redefined the world’s understanding of war crimes. He invented the concept and word “genocide” and propelled the idea into international legal status. His major work, Axis Rule in Occupied Europe is considered one of the most important texts on international criminal law in the twentieth century. An uncommonly creative pioneer in ethical thought, he twice was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Although Lemkin died alone and in poverty, he left behind a model for a life of activism, a legacy of major contributions to international law, and—not least—an unpublished autobiography. Presented here for the first time is his own account of his life, from boyhood on a small farm in Poland with his Jewish parents, to his perilous escape from Nazi Europe, through his arrival in the U.S. and rise to influence as an academic, thinker, and revered lawyer of international criminal law.
Raphael Lemkin (1900‐1959), U.S. jurist and Holocaust survivor, served as adviser to the U.S. War Department during World War II and played a crucial role in the discussions leading to the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Donna‐Lee Frieze teaches a graduate unit on genocide at Deakin University in Melbourne and lectures frequently on the Holocaust and genocide. She has digitised Lemkin’s entire autobiography, the original of which is held in the New York Public Library.
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Acknowledgments Foreword Preface
Introduction The “Insistent Prophet”
Chapter 1 Early Years
Chapter 2 The Flight: 1939
Chapter 3 The Flight: 1939‐1940
Chapter 4 A Refugee in Lithuania, Latvia and Sweden
Chapter 5 From Sweden to the United States
Chapter 6 First Impressions of America: April‐June 1941
Chapter 7 Alerting the World to Genocide
Chapter 8 The Birth of the Convention
Chapter 9 Geneva 1948
Chapter 10 Paris 1948
Chapter 11 Climbing a Mountain Again
Chapter 12 Nearing the End
Notes Bibliography Index
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OKRAV KO
Everything is Rising
(Jewish Lives Series)
Yehudah Mirsky
Rav Abraham Isaac Kook (1865‐1935) was one of the most influential—and controversial— rabbis of the twentieth century. A maverick thinker, he combined strict traditionalism with an embrace of modernity and its heresies, Orthodoxy and tolerance, scholasticism and ecstasy, and passionate nationalism with profound universalism. Though little‐remembered outside the Orthodox world to which he belonged, his life and teachings are essential to understanding Israeli politics, contemporary Jewish spirituality, and modern Jewish thought. This welcome biography, the first in English in 60 years, offers a full, insightful portrait of the man and his many lasting contributions.
A thinker of great vision and erudition, Kook was a philosopher, mystic, poet, jurist, communal leader, and saint. He became the first chief rabbi of Jewish Palestine and the founding theologian of religious Zionism. He struggled to understand and shape his revolutionary times, and his life and writings vibrate with the deepest, defining tensions of Jewish life and thought. In this volume, Yehudah Mirsky clears away widespread misunderstandings of Kook’s complex thought and shines new light on his leadership, his personality, and his worldview.
Yehudah Mirsky is a writer, scholar, and activist. He served in the U.S. State Department’s human rights bureau in the Clinton Administration as special advisor. He has written widely on politics, theology and culture for a number of publications including The New Republic and The Economist. He is a contributing editor of the Jerusalem Report and is on the editorial board of Eretz Acheret.
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Introduction
Chapter 1 Latvia and Lithuania: Crossroads (1865‐1904)
Chapter 2 Jaffa I: Walking in Sunlight (1904‐1914)
Chapter 3 Jaffa II: The Fogs of Purity (1904‐1914)
Chapter 4 St. Gallen and London: The Gruesome Rites of Spring (1914‐1919)
Chapter 5 Jerusalem: Things Fall Apart (1919‐ 1935)
Conclusion Afterlight
Postscript
Bibliographic Essay
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GANDHI
A Spiritual Biography
Arvind Sharma
In his Autobiography, Gandhi wrote, “What I want to achieve, – what I have been striving and pining to achieve these thirty years – is self‐realisation, to see God face to face…All that I do by way of speaking and writing, and all my ventures in the political field, are directed to this same end.” While hundreds of biographies and histories have been written about Gandhi (1869‐ 1948), nearly all of them have focused on the political, social, or familial dimensions of his life. Very few, in recounting how Gandhi led his country to political freedom, have viewed his struggle primarily as a search for spiritual liberation.
Shifting the focus to the understudied subject of Gandhi’s spiritual life, Arvind Sharma re‐ narrates the story of Gandhi’s biography through this lens. Illuminating unsuspected dimensions of Gandhi’s inner world and uncovering their surprising connections with his outward actions, Sharma explores the eclectic religious atmosphere in which Gandhi was raised, his belief in reincarnation, his conviction that morality and religion are synonymous, his attitudes toward tyranny and freedom, and perhaps most importantly, the mysterious source of his power to establish new norms of human conduct.
This book enlarges our understanding of one of history’s most profoundly influential figures, a man whose trust in the power of the soul helped liberate millions.
Arvind Sharma, professor of comparative religion at McGill University, is a leading scholar of Hinduism. His work is focused on comparative religion, Hinduism, and the role of women in religion. His most significant publications include Our Religions (Harper Collins, 1994) and Women in World Religions (South Asia Books, 1995), both of which have been used in courses.
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Introduction
Part One Chapter 1 Birth and Adolescence
Chapter 2 Child Marriage
Chapter 3 God Enters Gandhi’s Life
Chapter 4 Gandhi in London
Chapter 5 Gandhi and Raychand
Chapter 6 Gandhi’s Conversion Experience
Chapter 7 Out of Africa
Chapter 8 Spiritual Warfare
Chapter 9 Touching the Untouchable
Chapter 10 Fighting Fire with Light
Part Two Chapter 11 Mahatma Gandhi and Ramana Maharshi
Chapter 12 Spiritual Temptations
Chapter 13 Spiritual Serendipity
Chapter 14 Beefing Up Vegetarianism
Chapter 15 The Sex Life of a Celibate
Chapter 16 The Bhagavad Gita: Gandhi’s Other Mother
Chapter 17 Gandhi, God, and Goodness
Chapter 18 Demythologizing and Analyzing Gandhi
Chapter 19 Gandhi’s Spiritual Biography and Contemporary History
Notes
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THOMAS AQUINAS tA Portrai
Denys Turner
Leaving so few traces of himself behind, Thomas Aquinas seems to defy the efforts of the biographer. Highly visible as a public teacher, preacher, and theologian, he nevertheless has remained nearly invisible as man and saint. What can be discovered about this man, his mind, and his soul? In this short, compelling biography, Denys Turner clears away the haze of time and brings Thomas vividly to life for contemporary readers—those unfamiliar with the saint as well as those well acquainted with his teachings.
Building on the best biographical scholarship available today and reading Thomas’ texts with piercing acuity, Turner seeks the point at which the man, the mind, and the soul of Thomas Aquinas intersect. Reflecting upon Thomas as a materialist, a man of Christian Trinitarian faith, a thinker, and a man of faith, Turner provides a more detailed human portrait than ever before of one of the most influential philosophers and theologians in all of Western thought.
This is an engaging and illuminating portrait of Thomas the thinker, teacher, son, student, saint and historical figure.
Denys Turner, who was previously Norris‐Hulse professor of divinity at Cambridge University, is now Horace Pitkin professor of historical theology eat Yal University. He has written widely on political theory and social theory in relation to Christian theology, as well as on Medieval thought. His recent Cambridge lecture “How to be an Atheist” was picked up by the BBC for their programme “The Atheist Tapes”, now widely circulated on the web. He is the author of many books, including, most recently, Julian of Norwich, Theologian (Yale, 2011).
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 A Dominican
Chapter 2 A Materialist
Chapter 3 The Soul
Chapter 4 God
Chapter 5 Friendship and Grace
Chapter 6 Grace, Desire, and Prayer
Chapter 7 Christ
Chapter 8 Eucharist and Eschatology
Epilogue The Secret of St. Thomas
Notes Further Reading Index
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FADING GIANT
Why China Will Not Replace America As The World Superpower
Timothy Beardson
While dozens of recent books and articles have predicted the near‐certainty of China’s rise to global supremacy, this book boldly counters such widely‐held assumptions. Timothy Beardson brings to light the daunting array of challenges that today confront China, as well as the inadequacy of the leadership’s responses. Threats to China come from many fronts, Beardson shows, and by their number and sheer weight these problems will thwart the nation’s ambition to take over as the world’s “Number 1 power.”
Drawing on extensive research and experience living and working in Asia over the last 35 years, the author spells out the details of China’s situation: an inexorable demographic future of remorseless ageing, extreme gender disparity, a shrinking labour force, and even a falling population. Also, the nation faces social instability, a devastated environment, a low‐tech economy with inadequate innovation, the absence of an effective welfare safety net, an ossified governance structure, and radical Islam lurking at the borders. Beardson’s nuanced, first‐hand look at China acknowledges its historic achievements while tempering predictions of its imminent hegemony with a no‐nonsense dose of reality.
Timothy Beardson founded and ran Crosby International Holdings, the largest investment bank in the Far East. Since the late 1990s he has been a frequent speaker on political, economic, environmental, and strategic issues at such forums as the World Economic Forum at Davos and at universities like Oxford, Yale and Beijing. This is his first book.
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Introduction Facing Multiple Challenges
Chapter 1 The Broken Economic Model
Chapter 2 The Making of Today’s China
Chapter 3 The Elusive Knowledge Economy
Chapter 4 Finance
Chapter 5 Social Welfare: Missing Umbrella
Chapter 6 The Environment
Chapter 7 Social Stability
Chapter 8 Civil Stability
Chapter 9 Identity: Future of State and Party
Chapter 10 America and China: Common Interests, Mutual Antagonism
Chapter 11 Great Power Relationships
Chapter 12 Central Asia
Chapter 13 Undeclared War in the Fourth Dimension?
Chapter 14 Frictional Frontiers
Chapter 15 China in the World
Chapter 16 Outcomes
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THE ELECTRONIC SILK ROAD
How the Web Binds the World Together in Trade
Anupam Chander
In the ancient world, when the legendary Silk Road established trade between Asia and the civilisations of Europe and the Mediterranean, treasure‐laden caravans made their arduous way through deserts and mountain passes. Today a transformation in global commerce is under way again, this time by means of the far more easily‐travelled electronic Silk Road. Cyber‐trade makes it possible for people anywhere in the world to provide or receive services without leaving home, yet such convenience brings with it a plethora of policy and legal questions— questions that, until now, have gone unanswered.
In this book, cyber‐law expert Anupam Chander provides the first thorough discussion of the laws and policies that relate to global electronic commerce. Analyzing Facebook’s IPO, Google’s difficulties in China, the activities of Wikileaks, and other up‐to‐the‐minute examples, the author offers insights into the difficulties of regulating trade that occurs in cyberspace and into the reasons behind past regulatory blunders. Chander then lays out a clear framework for future laws and policies, showing how nations can dismantle barriers to digital trade while also protecting national and individual interests.
This highly readable book offers a rigorous examination of how global trade over the Internet is currently regulated, and how it should be regulated.
Anupam Chander is law professor at the University of California, Davis School of Law, and director at the California International Law Center. He writes widely on issues of international economic law and cyberlaw. He is the author of Securing Privacy in the Internet Age (Stanford University Press, 2007) and Fred Korematsu (Carolina Academic Press, 2011).
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Introduction Tracing a Silk Road Through Cyberspace
Chapter 1 The New Global Division of Labour
Chapter 2 Western Entrepôt: Silicon Valley
Chapter 3 Western Entrepôt: Bangalore
Chapter 4 Pirates of Cyberspace
Chapter 5 Facebookistan
Chapter 6 Freeing Trade in Cyberspace
Chapter 7 Handshakes Across the World
Chapter 8 Glocalization and Harmonization
Chapter 9 Last Stop: Middle Kingdom
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WHEN THE MONEY RUNS OUT
The End of Western Affluence
Stephen D. King
The Western world has experienced extraordinary economic progress throughout the last six decades, a prosperous period so extended that continuous economic growth has come to seem normal. But such an era of continuously‐rising living standards is an historical anomaly, economist Stephen D. King warns, and the current stagnation of Western economies threatens to reach crisis proportions in the not‐so‐distant future.
Praised for the “dose of realism” he provided in his book Losing Control, King follows up in this volume with a plain‐spoken assessment of where the West stands today. It is not just the end of an age of affluence, he shows. We have made promises to ourselves that are only achievable through ongoing economic expansion. The future benefits we expect—pensions, healthcare, and social security, for example—may be larger than tomorrow’s resources. And if we reach that point, which promises to be broken, who will lose out? The lessons of history offer compelling evidence that political and social upheaval are often born of economic stagnation. King addresses these lessons with a multi‐faceted plan that involves painful—but necessary—steps toward a stable and just economic future.
Stephen D. King is group chief economist and global head of economics and asset allocation research at HSBC. A member of the UK government’s Asia Task Force, he writes regularly for the Financial Times, The Times, and the Independent, and makes frequent appearances on television and radio. He is the author of Losing Control (Yale, 2010).
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Introduction In Denial
Chapter 1 Taking Progress for Granted
Chapter 2 The Bloated West, the Dynamic Rest
Chapter 3 The Seeds of Destruction
Chapter 4 Safe Assets No More
Chapter 5 The International Dimension: Claims Without Borders
Chapter 6 Lessons from History
Chapter 7 How to Fix the Problem
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RESTLESS VALLEY
Revolution, Murder and Intrigue in the Heart of Central Asia
Philip Shishkin
It sounds like the stuff of a fiction thriller: two revolutions, a massacre of unarmed civilians, a civil war, a drug‐smuggling highway, brazen corruption schemes, contract hits, and larger‐than‐ life characters who may be villains. . .or heroes. . .or possibly both. Yet this book is not a work of fiction. It is instead a gripping, first‐hand account of Central Asia’s unfolding history from 2005 to the present.
Philip Shishkin, a prize‐winning journalist with extensive on‐the‐ground experience in the tumultuous region above Afghanistan’s northern border, focuses mainly on Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. Both nations have struggled with the enormous challenges of post‐Soviet independent statehood; both became entangled in America’s Afghan campaign when U.S. military bases were established within their borders. At the same time, the region was developing into a key smuggling hub for Afghanistan’s booming heroin trade. Through the eyes of local participants—the powerful and the powerless—Shishkin reconstructs how Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have ricocheted between extreme repression and democratic strivings, how alliances with the U.S. and Russia have brought mixed blessings, and how Stalin’s legacy of ethnic gerrymandering incites conflict even now.
Philip Shishkin spent a decade as a staff reporter of The Wall Street Journal, most of it as a foreign correspondent. He ran the newspaper’s Baghdad bureau during the height of Iraq’s sectarian war and has reported from Turkey, Syria, Afghanistan and Central Asia. Starting in 2010, he became a fellow at the Asia society, focusing on Central Asia. This is his first book.
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Chapter 1 The Tulip Revolution (Kyrgyzstan 2005)
Chapter 2 On the Heroin Highway (drug smuggling and addiction in Central Asia)
Chapter 3 Anatomy of a Massacre (Uzbekistan 2005)
Chapter 4 The Dark Years in Kyrgyzstan (2005 – 2010)
Chapter 5 The Land of Perpetual Revolution (Kyrgyzstan 2010)
Chapter 6 The Financier Vanishes and Other Tales of Post‐Revolution Kyrgyzstan (2010 ‐ 2012)
Chapter 7 Dreams of Gold and Golf: (mining gold and playing golf in Kyrgyzstan)
Chapter 8 Restless Valley (Ethnic cleansing in Southern Kyrgyzstan, 2010‐2011)
Chapter 9 Deeper into the Darkness (Uzbekistan, 2005‐2010)
Chapter 10 A Quiet Revolutionary (From Kyrgyzstan to the Arab Spring, survey of global uprising, by way of an epilogue)
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RISK, CHANCE, AND CAUSATION
Investigating the Origins and Treatment of Disease
Michael B. Bracken
Should we worry about an increased risk of illness when using certain carpet cleaners? How do we assess the benefits of dietary supplements? What is meant by increased risk in the first place? Dr. Michael Bracken, a leader and innovator in the field of epidemiology, and a highly regarded member of the Yale faculty, explains how evidence‐based medicine separates hype from hypothesis and helps evaluate treatment “breakthroughs” in this informative new book. He looks at risk, chance, and causation using a state‐of‐the‐art, evidence‐based perspective.
Specialists and lay audiences will enjoy this book, which is based upon Dr. Bracken’s forty‐plus years of experience studying the causes of disease, and how to evaluate the benefits and harms of treatment. Dr. Bracken is a founder of evidence‐based medicine and published one of the first textbooks on the subject.
Michael B. Bracken is the Susan Dwight Bliss professor of epidemiology at Yale University. He has taught at Yale for 40 years, published over 330 scientific papers, and directed numerous scientific investigations into a wide range of diseases. Bracken’s earliest work laid the foundation for perinatal epidemiology, which describes the health of pregnancies, successful birth and illness in newborn babies. He is the author of Perinatal Epidemiology and Effective Care of the Newborn Infant, both published by OUP in 1984 and 1992 respectively.
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Chapter 1 Risk, Chance and Causation: Investigating the Origins and Treatment of Disease
Chapter 2 Chance and Randomness
Chapter 3 Risk
Chapter 4 Randomization and Clinical Trials
Chapter 5 More Trials and some Tribulations
Chapter 6 Studies of Harm
Chapter 7 Screening, Diagnosis and Prognosis
Chapter 8 A Statistical Sojourn
Chapter 9 Disease Clusters
Chapter 10 Genetics and the Genome
Chapter 11 The Study of Mankind is Man: Reflections on Animal Research
Chapter 12 Celebrity Trumps Science
Chapter 13 Replication and Pooling
Chapter 14 Bias in Publication and Reporting
Chapter 15 Causes
Chapter 16 Ultimate Causation
Notes
Bibliography and Further Reading
Index
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GINKGO
The Tree That Time Forgot
Peter Crane
Perhaps the world’s most distinctive tree, Ginkgo has outlived every one of its relatives. Stubbornly unchanged for more than two hundred million years, it is today a beloved resident around the world, prized for its elegant beauty as well as its usefulness and spiritual significance. Yet the species barely survived the great Ice Ages, and Ginkgo’s reprieve came only with the arrival of people in Asia some 50,000 years ago. This engaging book tells the entire fascinating story of the tree that people saved from extinction—a story that offers hope for other botanical biographies whose conclusions remain uncertain.
Drawing inspiration from a historic Ginkgo that has thrived in London’s Kew Gardens since the 1760s, renowned botanist Peter Crane explores the evolutionary history of the species from its origin on the planet through its proliferation, drastic decline, and ultimate resurgence. Crane also highlights the cultural and social significance of the Ginkgo: its medicinal and nutritional uses, its power as a source of artistic and religious inspiration, and its modern contribution to urban street aesthetics. Readers of this extraordinarily interesting book will be drawn to the nearest Ginkgo, where they may observe first‐hand the beauty of the oldest tree on Earth.
Peter Crane is the Carl W. Knobloch Jr., dean of the school of forestry and environmental studies and professor of botany at Yale University. His research focuses on the diversity of plant life, including its origin and fossil history, current status, and conservation and use, rand fo which he has a long and distinguished record of journal articles and scholarly books. He has been director of the Field Museum in Chicago (1992‐1999), director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew (1999‐2006), and serves on the boards of various foundations, trusts, and botanical gardens. Among his publications are The Origin and Early Diversification of Land Plants (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997) and The Origins of Angiosperms and Their Biological Consequences (CUP, 1987).
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Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1 Prologue
Chapter 2 The Living Tree
Chapter 3 Origin and Prehistory
Chapter 4 Decline and Resilience
Chapter 5 History
Chapter 6 Use
Chapter 7 Future
List of Common Plant Names Used in the Text and Latin Equivalents
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
About the Author
Index
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EARTHMASTERS
The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering
Clive Hamilton
This book goes to the heart of the unfolding reality of the twenty‐first‐century: international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have all failed and before the end of the century Earth is projected to be warmer than it has been for 15 million years. The question, “can the crisis be avoided?” has been superseded by a more frightening one, “what can be done to prevent the devastation of the living world?” And the disturbing answer, now under wide discussion both within and outside the scientific community, is to seize control of the very climate of the Earth itself.
Clive Hamilton begins by exploring the range of technologies now being developed in the field of geoengineering‐‐the intentional, enduring, large‐scale manipulation of Earth’s climate system. He lays out the arguments for and against climate engineering, and reveals the extent of vested interests linking researchers, venture capitalists, and corporations. He then examines what it means for human beings to be making plans to control the planet’s atmosphere, probes the uneasiness we feel with the notion of exercising technological mastery over nature, and challenges the ways we think about ourselves and our place in the natural world.
Clive Hamilton is vice‐chancellor’s chair and professor of public ethics, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University, Canberra. His previous books include Requiem for a Species (Routledge, 2010) and Growth Fetish (Macmillan, 2004).
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Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Why Geoengineering?
Chapter 2 Sucking Carbon
Chapter 3 Blocking Sunlight
Chapter 4 The Players and the Public
Chapter 5 Promethean Dreams
Chapter 6 Atmospheric Geopolitics
Chapter 7 Ethical Anxieties
Chapter 8 This Goodly Frame
Notes
Index
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FATAL FLAWS
How a Misfolded Protein Baffled Scientists and Changed the Way We Look at the Brain
Jay Ingram
Most people have never heard of prions. Indeed, most are only barely aware of the diseases caused by them, except, perhaps, for mad cow disease. Yet prions are the stuff of a revolutionary science, a science that might lead to cures for some of humankindʹs most devastating diseases.
Fatal Flaws is a scientific detective story about this elusive protein, starting with the discovery of kuru, a disease unique to New Guinea in the 1950s that baffled scientists and carried with it whispers of cannibalism. Kuru began a scientific stampede to seek out the agent of this mysterious disease, the prion, a misfolded protein whose existence some of the worldʹs top scientists still find difficult to accept. Today, the subject of prions remains controversial, yet the proteins might promise new treatments for some of the most intractable brain diseases, ones that affect millions around the planet, including Parkinsonʹs, ALS and Alzheimerʹs.
In Fatal Flaws, Jay Ingram unties a complicated interweaving of biology, medicine, human tragedy, surprise and disbelief in the world of prions, and he unravels some of historyʹs most stunning revelations about disease, the brain and infection.
Jay Ingram is an award‐winning science author, writer, and broadcaster, and one of Canada’s best‐known science popularisers. He co‐hosted and produced Daily Planet on Discovery Channel Canada from 1995 to 2011 and Quirks and Quarks on CBC Radio from 1979 to 1992, during which time the programme received two ACTRA Awards. He is the author of numerous books, including Theatre of the Mind (Harper Collins Canada, 2005), The Velocity of Honey (Penguin Canada, 2004), The Science of Everyday Life (Penguin Canada, 1989) and The Burning House (Penguin Canada, 1994), which won the 1995 Canadian Science Writers Book Award.
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Introduction
Chapter 1 The Mystery of Kuru Chapter 2 Barflies and Flatworms Chapter 3 Cannibalism Chapter 4 Igor and Bill Chapter 5 The Life of a Cell Chapter 6 The Death of a Cell Chapter 7 When Is a Virus Not a Virus? Chapter 8 Creutzfeldt‐Jakob Disease Chapter 9 Magnificent Molecules Chapter 10 Protein Origami Chapter 11 Stanley Prusiner’s Heresy Chapter 12 An Infectious Idea Chapter 13 A Portrait of the Prion Chapter 14 Mad Cow Disease Chapter 15 Mad Cow in Humans Chapter 16 The Americas Chapter 17 Into the Wild Chapter 18 Origins Chapter 19 Cats but Not Dogs Chapter 20 Alzheimer’s Disease Chapter 21 Parkinson’s Disease Chapter 22 Lou Gehrig’s Disease Chapter 23 Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Chapter 24 And in the End . . .
Acknowledgments Notes Index
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DANCING WITH THE RIVER
People and Life on the Chars of South Asia
Kuntala Lahiri‐Dutt and Gopa Samanta
Dancing with the River offers an intimate glimpse into the microcosmic world of “hybrid landscapes”, which has become an increasingly popular topic among geographers and environmentalists in recent years. It focuses on chars—the part land, part water, low‐lying sandy masses that exist within the riverbeds in the flood plains of lower Bengal. Lahiri‐Dutt and Samanta show how chars, both as real‐life examples and as metaphors, straddle the conventional categories of land and water, and how people who live on them fluctuate between legitimacy and illegitimacy. The result is a study of human habitation in the nebulous space between land and water, and a new way of thinking about land, people, and their ways of life.
This book will make readers reconsider the view that land and water form two different elements of the physical environment; it will encourage the rethinking of ideas of security and vulnerability as absolute, measurable, and equally applicable to everyone; and finally, it will revise the concept of adaptation to a changing environment as a long‐term project rather than being a day‐to‐day and contingent affair that is continually in flux.
Dancing with the River describes the hybrid lives of the char people, who make a living, intimately adjusting with the river and its changeable moods and live each day as best as they possibly can, which allows us to rethink our previously held notions of resilience, vulnerability and adaptation to change.
Kuntala Lahiri‐Dutt is a fellow in resource management in the Asia‐Pacific Programme at the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. Her first book, In Search of a Homeland (Minerva, 1990), was turned into a documentary film by the BBC. aGop Samanta is reader in geography at the University of Burdwan, India. Her current research involves rural poverty and the usefulness of microfinance in empowering women in India and is financed by the Australia‐India Institute of Melbourne University.
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Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Chapter 1 Introducing the Chars: Where Lands Float on Water
Chapter 2 Char Jage: A Char Rises
Chapter 3 Controlling the River to Free‐up Land
Chapter 4 Bhitar o Bahir Katha: Inside and Outside Stories of Chars and the Mainland
Chapter 5 Silent Footfalls: Peopling the Chars
Chapter 6 Living with Risk: Beyond Vulnerability/Security
Chapter 7 Livelihoods Defined by Water: Nadir Sathe Baas
Chapter 8 Living with Chars, Drifting with Rivers
Appendixes
Notes
Glossary
References
Index
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ISAAC AND ISAIAH
The Politics of History
David Caute
Rancorous and highly public disagreements between Isaiah Berlin and Isaac Deutscher escalated to the point of cruel betrayal in the mid‐1960s, yet surprisingly the details of the episode have escaped historians’ scrutiny. In this gripping account of the ideological clash between the two most influential scholars of Cold War politics, David Caute uncovers a hidden story of passionate beliefs, unresolved antagonism, and the high cost of treachery to both victim and perpetrator.
Though Deutscher (1907‐1967) and Berlin (1909‐1997) had much in common—each arrived in England in flight from totalitarian violence, quickly mastered English, and found entry into the Anglo‐American intellectual world of the 1950s—Berlin became one of the presiding voices of Anglo‐American liberalism, while Deutscher remained faithful to his Leninist heritage, resolutely defending Soviet conduct despite his rejection of Stalin’s tyranny.
Caute combines vivid biographical detail with an acute analysis of the issues that divided these two icons of the Cold War debates, and he brings to light for the first time the full severity of Berlin’s action against Deutscher.
David Caute is an author, novelist, playwright, historian and journalist. He was a Henry fellow at Harvard and a prize fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. Among his books are The Fellow Travellers (Yale, 1988), Sixty‐Eight (Hamilton, 1988), The Dancer Defects (OUP, 2003) and Politics and the Novel during the Cold War (Transaction, 2010).
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Acknowledgments Preface Introduction A Conversation in All Souls
Part One Isaac and Isaiah Chapter 1 Berlin: a Life Chapter 2 Deutscher: a Life Chapter 3 The Issues
Part Two Cold War History Chapter 4 Marx and Marxism Chapter 5 What is History? Chapter 6 A Portrait of Stalin Chapter 7 Images of Lenin Chapter 8 Trotsky the Prophet Chapter 9 Berlin, Christopher Hill – and Deutscher
Part Three What is Liberty? Chapter 10 Two Concepts of Liberty Chapter 11 The Hedgehog and the Fox
Part Four Russia by Day and by Night Chapter 12 Anna Akhmatova Chapter 13 Boris Pasternak
Part Five Cold War Allegiances Chapter 14 The Cold War and the People’s Democracies Chapter 15 Orwell and the Renegades Chapter 16 Post‐Stalin Russian: the Prophecies
Part Six The Pax Americana Chapter 17 An Anglo‐American Chapter 18 The New Left and Vietnam
Part Seven To Be a Jew Chapter 19 Two Jewish Heritages Chapter 20 Zionism Chapter 21 The Banality of Evil: Berlin and Arendt
Part Eight A Seat at the Same Table Chapter 22 The Sussex Letters
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WRITING HISTORY IN THE AGE OF BIOMEDICINE
Roger Cooter with Claudia Stein
Roger Cooter has a reputation for robust interventions in the history of science and medicine— for asking ‘so what?’ This book is no exception with its supply of critiques of the historiography of medicine, the body, bioethics, biopower, and neurobiology. After identifying the crucial place of the new life sciences in the humanities today, and their bearing on history‐writing in particular, it traces the various turns that have gone before ‐‐ from the social and the cultural to the somatic and the visual. What connects them? How have they morphed? And how are they now being affected by moves to the ‘material’ and the ‘posthuman’?
However, Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine is more than a set of essays written over the past decade (four of them co‐authored by Claudia Stein). It is also a personal intellectual narrative, and a call to arms. Through the book’s introduction and the prefaces accompanying each of the essays, Cooter reflects on his own passage from a broadly neo‐Marxist to a broadly neo‐Foucauldian identity. In the face of the very real threat to survival of academic history today, he argues for the urgent need for historians to conceptualize the practice history as a form of critique that involves continuous reassessment of the historian’s own and always ongoing position.
Roger Cooter is Wellcome professorial fellow at the Centre for the history of medicine at the University College London, where he specialises in the social history of ideas in science and medicine from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. He is the author of The Cultural Meaning of Popular Science (CUP, 1984), Surgery and Society in Peace and War (Macmillan, 1993), and dozens of edited volumes and essays on alternative medicine, the idea of accidents, child health, war and medicine, and (with John Pickstone) Medicine in the Twentieth Century (Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000). Claudia Stein is associate professor of history at the University of Warwick and currently the director of its Centre for the history of medicine. She is the author of Negotiating the French Pox in Early‐Modern Germany (Ashgate, 2009).
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Preface
Chapter 1 The End? History‐Writing in an Age of Biomedicine (and Before)
Chapter 2 Anticontagionism and History’s Medical Record
Chapter 3 “Framing” the End of the Social History of Medicine
Chapter 4 The Turn of the Body
Chapter 5 Coming into Focus: Posters, Power, and Visual Culture
Chapter 6 Visual Objects and Universal Meanings: Aids Posters, “Globalization”, and History
Chapter 7 The Biography of Disease
Chapter 8 Inside the Whale: Bioethics in History and Discourse
Chapter 9 Cracking Biopower
Chapter 10 The New Poverty of Theory: Material Turns in a Latourian World
Bibliography
Index
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CALVINISM
A History
D. G. Hart
This briskly‐told history of Reformed Protestantism takes these churches through their entire 500‐year history—from sixteenth‐century Zurich and Geneva to modern locations as far‐flung as Seoul and Sao Paulo. D. G. Hart explores specifically the social and political developments that enabled Calvinism to establish a global presence.
Hart’s approach features significant episodes in the institutional history of Calvinism that are responsible for its contemporary profile. He traces the political and religious circumstances that first created space for Reformed churches in Europe and later contributed to Calvinism’s expansion around the world. He discusses the effects of the American and French Revolutions on ecclesiastical establishments as well as nineteenth and twentieth‐century communions, particularly in Scotland, the Netherlands, the U.S., and Germany, that directly challenged church dependence on the state.
Raising important questions about secularisation, religious freedom, privatisation of faith, and the place of religion in public life, this book will appeal not only to readers with interests in the history of religion but also in the role of religion in political and social life today.
D. G. Hart is visiting professor of history, Hillsdale College, and former director of the Institute for they Stud of American Evangelicals, Wheaton College. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including most recently From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin (Eerdmans, 2011).
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Introduction
Chapter 1 Big Empires, Small Beginnings
Chapter 2 The Limits of Reform
Chapter 3 Pockets of Strength
Chapter 4 Reformed Orthodoxy and Its Discontents
Chapter 5 Colonial Expansion
Chapter 6 The Immigrant Church
Chapter 7 Reformation Adjusted
Chapter 8 Reformation Revived
Chapter 9 Missions
Chapter 10 Kirk Disrupted
Chapter 11 Neo‐Calvinism in the Netherlands
Chapter 12 American Presbyterians And Fundamentalism
Chapter 13 Karl Barth and The Politics of Neo‐Orthodoxy
Conclusion
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THE DEVIL WITHIN
Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West
Brian P. Levack
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the era of the Reformation, thousands of Europeans were thought to be possessed by demons. In response to their horrifying symptoms—violent convulsions, displays of preternatural strength, vomiting of foreign objects, displaying contempt for sacred objects, and others—exorcists were summoned to expel the evil spirits from victims’ bodies. This compelling book focuses on possession and exorcism in the Reformation period, but also reaches back to the fifteenth century and forward to our own times.
Entire convents of nuns in French, Italian, and Spanish towns, 30 boys in an Amsterdam orphanage, a small group of young girls in Salem, Massachusetts—these are among the instances of demon possession in the United States and throughout Europe that Brian Levack closely examines, taking into account the diverse interpretations of generations of theologians, biblical scholars, pastors, physicians, anthropologists, psychiatrists, and historians. Challenging the commonly held belief that possession signals physical or mental illness, the author argues that demoniacs and exorcists—consciously or not—are following scripts encoded in their various religious cultures, and their performances can only be understood in those contexts.
Brian P. Levack is John E. Green Regents professor in history, University of Texas at Austin, and author of the best‐selling book, The Witch‐Hunt in Early Modern Europe (Longman, 1995).
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Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Making Sense of Demonic Possession
Chapter 2 Possession and Exorcism in Christian Antiquity
Chapter 3 Possession in Christian Demonology
Chapter 4 Expelling the Demon
Chapter 5 Demonic Possession and Illness
Chapter 6 The Performance of the Possessed
Chapter 7 The Demoniac in Society
Chapter 8 The Demoniac and the Witch
Chapter 9 Demonic Possession in the Age of Reason
Chapter 10 Demonic Possession: Past and Present
Chapter 11 Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
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TIME NO LONGER
Americans After the American Century
Patrick Smith
Americans cherish their national myths, some of which go back to the country’s founding years. But the time for nostalgia, illusions, and grand nation‐building plans has gone by, Patrick Smith observes in this original book. Americans must choose between a mythical idea of themselves, their nation, and their global “mission,” on the one hand, and an idea of America rooted in historical consciousness and historical fact on the other. To cling to old myths will ensure America’s decline, Smith warns, and he demonstrates with deep historical insight why a new mindset is essentiale as th United States finds its place on the stage of the twenty‐first century.
In four illuminating essays, Smith discusses America’s unusual (and dysfunctional) relation with history, the Spanish‐American War and the roots of American imperial ambition, the Cold War years and the effects of fear and power on the American psyche, and the uneasy years from 9/11 to the present. Offering a new perspective on America’s current dilemmas, Smith also offers hope for change through a clearer view of the facts of American history.
Patrick Smith has been a correspondent, editor, commentator, critic, and essayist for nearly forty years. Among his publications are Japan: A Reinterpretation (Pantheon/Vintage, 1997), which won an Overseas Press Club award and the Kiriyama Book Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and Somebody Else’s Century (Pantheon, 2010).
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Introduction Between Myth and History
Chapter 1 History Without Memory
Chapter 2 A Culture of Representation
Chapter 3 Cold War Man
Chapter 4 Time and Time Again
An Acknowledgment
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HOW TO READ LITERATURE
Terry Eagleton
Terry Eagleton is arguably Britain’s most influential living literary theorist. His blockbuster Literary Theory: An Introduction has sold hundreds of thousands of copies in its many editions and is still the go‐to guide for all English literature students. How to Read Literature is something of a humbler, more personable companion to that textbook and, indeed, to The Event of Literature.
Eagleton guides the reader through five essential topics – Openings, Character, Narrative, Interpretation and Value – illuminating his points with practical examples drawn from a range of novels, poetry and plays. It is a masterclass in what to read, and how: from Shakespeare to Brecht, Chaucer to Keats, Hardy to Nabokov, tackling key issues surrounding the role of the reader, literature’s relation to reality, and what makes literature ‘great’, among others. Eagleton is sure‐footed and engaging in both micro and macro aspects, using detailed textual scrutiny to examine the big questions of meaning and value. And there is as much self‐deprecating humour as there are displays of virtuoso analysis and opinion.
There is no other book which tackles the subject of literature and the practice of literary criticism in such an appealing and stimulating way. Sparkling with ideas and insights, and playfully provocative on every page, How to Read Literature will delight all bibliophiles.
Terry Eagleton is distinguished professor of English literature, University of Lancaster, UK. He is the author of more than 40 books, spanning the fields of literary theory, post‐modernism, politics, ideology, and religion, including the seminal Literary Theory: An Introduction (University of Minnesota, 1996). His last four books, The Event of Literature, Why Marx Was Right, On Evil, and Reason, Faith and Revolution, have all been published by Yale in 2012, 2011, 2010 and 2009 respectively.
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Preface
Chapter 1 Openings
Chapter 2 Character
Chapter 3 Narrative
Chapter 4 Interpretation
Chapter 5 Value
Index
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DEMOCRACY IN RETREAT
The Revolt of the Middle Class and the Worldwide Decline of Representative Government
Joshua Kurlantzick
Since the end of the Cold War, the assumption among most political theorists has been that as nations develop economically, they will also become more democratic – especially if a vibrant middle class takes root. This assumption underlies the expansion of the European Union and much of American foreign policy, bolstered by such examples as South Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan, and even to some extent Russia. Where democratisation has failed or retreated, aberrant conditions take the blame: Islamism, authoritarian Chinese influence, or perhaps the rise of local autocrats.
But what if the failures of democracy are not exceptions? In this thought‐provoking study of democratisation, Joshua Kurlantzick proposes that the spate of retreating democracies, one after another over the last two decades, is not just a series of exceptions. Instead, it reflects a new and disturbing trend: democracy in worldwide decline. The author investigates the state of democracy in a variety of countries, why the middle class has turned against democracy in some cases, and whether the decline in global democratisation is reversible.
Joshua Kurlantzick is a fellow at the Council on foreign relations, where he studies Southeast Asia and democratisation, as well as global views on human rights and democracy. He is a frequent contributor to publications including Time, The New Republic, The American Prospect, and Mother Jones. He is the author of Charm Offensive (Yale, 2007).
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Chapter 1 Democracy Goes In Reverse
Chapter 2 How We Got Here
Chapter 3 The Fourth Wave
Chapter 4 It’s the Economy, Stupid: The Consensus Fails
Chapter 5 The Middle Class Revolts
Chapter 6 Graft, Graft, and More Graft
Chapter 7 The China Model
Chapter 8 The Autocrats Strike Back
Chapter 9 Failure of the Emerging Powers
Chapter 10 Failure of the West
Chapter 11 Prescriptions for the Future
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MERGER OF POWERS
How a Transatlantic Union Can Prevent War and Revive the West
Richard Rosecrance
After two centuries of ascent, the United States finds itself in economic decline. Some advise America to cure its woes alone. But the road to isolation leads inevitably to the end of U.S. leadership in the international system, warns Richard Rosecrance in this bold and novel book. Instead, Rosecrance calls for the United States to join forces with the European Union and create a transatlantic economic union. Such a U.S.‐Europe community would unblock arteries of trade and investment, rejuvenate the West, and enable Western countries to deal with East Asian challenges from a position of unity and economic strength.
Exploring the possibilities for such a merger, the European Union offers a means of creating larger units without recourse to force. A connection between Europe and North America could eventually grow into an agglomeration of states, drawing China and the East into a new network of countries. In this way East will eventually join the West. Through this great merger the author offers a positive vision of the future in which members of a tightly knit Western alliance regain economic health and attract Eastern nations to join a new and worldwide international order.
Richard Rosecrance is distinguished research professor of political science, UCLA, and senior fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. His previous books include The Rise of the Trading State and The Rise of the Virtual State both published by Basic Books, in 1986 and 2000 respectively.
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Preface
Chapter 1 The Size of States
Chapter 2 The Rise of the East
Chapter 3 The Decline and Return of the West
Chapter 4 The Unification of the United States and the Integration of the West
Chapter 5 The Trauma of Power Transition
Chapter 6 Market Clusters Augment Size
Chapter 7 The Problem in China
Chapter 8 Alternatives
Chapter 9 How the West Attracts China and the World
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POPULATION, FEAR, AND UNCERTAINTY
The Global Spread of Fertility Decline
Jay Winter and Michael S. Teitelbaum
Population, Fear, and Uncertainty is the third in a series of books Winter and Teitelbaum have written on population movements in historical perspective. Following The Fear of Population Decline and A Question of Numbers: High Migration, Low Fertility and National Identity, the present book takes the discussion of population and politics into the twenty‐first century and into the globalising world. With the exception of Africa and the Middle East, declining fertility is now a world‐wide phenomenon. So are exaggerated claims and fears about the implications of these trends. This book shows how politics inflects and distorts discussions of fertility decline in very different contexts, from Chinese villages to European cities to the U.S.‐Mexican border. In every case, politics, from the family to the neighbourhood, to the town, to the city, to the region, to the state, is an integral part of demographic history. This book tries to show how this is so.
Using insights from Ulrich Beck and other writers on the risk society, Winter and Teitelbaum provide a guide to an explosive issue of vital public interest worldwide.
Jay Winter is the Charles J. Stille professor of history at Yale and the author of many books, including Dreams of Peace and Freedom, Remembering War and The Great War and the 20th Century, all published by Yale in 2006 and 2000 respectively. Michael S. Teitelbaum is Wertheim fellow at Harvard Law School and a senior adviser at the Alfred P. Sloan foundation in New York. He is a demographer, with research interests that include the causes and consequences of very low fertility rates; the processes and implications of international migration; and patterns and trends in science and engineering labour markets in the U.S. and elsewhere. He is the author or editor of many books including Political Demography, Demographic Engineering (Berghahn Books, 2001) and Threatened Peoples, Threatened Borders (W. W. Norton, 1995).
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Preface
Chapter 1 Globalization and Demography
Chapter 2 European Population: Interpretation and Anxieties
Chapter 3 Islam in Europe
Chapter 4 The China Trajectory
Chapter 5 India: Contrasts and Contentions
Chapter 6 Japan: Family Structure, Abortion, and Fertility since 1945
Chapter 7 The North American Society
Chapter 8 Conclusion
Appendixes
Index
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TRANSIENT APOSTLE
Paul, Travel, and the Rhetoric of Empire
Timothy Luckritz Marquis
In a significant revaluation of Paul’s place in the early Christian story, Timothy Luckritz Marquis explores the theme of travel in the apostle’s correspondence. He casts Paul’s rhetorical strategies against the background of Augustus’s age, when Rome’s wealth depended on conquests abroad, the international commerce they facilitated, and the incursion of foreign customs and peoples they brought about.
In so doing, Luckritz Marquis provides an explanation for how Paul created, maintained, and expanded his local communities in the larger, international Jesus movement and shows how Paul was a product of the material forces of his day.
Timothy Luckritz Marquis is assistant professor of New Testament at Moravian theological Seminary in Bethlehem, PA. He received his PhD from the Religious Studies Department at Yale and was a lecturer at the University of North Carolina Greensboro from 2006 to 2009. This is his first book.
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Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1 Traveling Leaders of the American Mediterranean
Chapter 2 Travel, Suicide, and Self‐Construction
Chapter 3 The Wandering, Foreign God of Israel
Chapter 4 Delivering the Spirit
Chapter 5 Whether Home or Away
Chapter 6 Ambassadors of God’s Empire
Conclusion
Notes
Index
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CHRISTIANS, MUSLIMS, AND JESUS
Mona Siddiqui
Prophet or messiah, the figure of Jesus serves as both the bridge and the barrier between Christianity and Islam. In this accessible and revelatory book, Muslim scholar and popular commentator Mona Siddiqui explores the theological links between the two religions, showing how Islamic thought has approached and responded to Jesus and Christological themes from its earliest days to modern times. The author finds that the philosophical overlap between the two religions is greater than previously imagined, and this being so, her book brings with it the hope of improving interfaith communication and understanding.
Through a careful analysis of selected works by major Christian and Muslim theologians during the formative, medieval, and modern periods of both religions, Siddiqui focuses on themes including revelation, prophesy, salvation, redemption, grace, sin, eschatology, law, and love. How did some become the defining characteristics of one faith and not the other? Which—and why—do some translate between the two religions? With a nuanced and carefully considered analysis of critical doctrines of Christianity and Islam, the author provides a refreshing counterpoint to contemporary polemical arguments and makes an important contribution to reasoned interfaith conversation.
Mona Siddiqui is professor of Islamic and inter‐religious studies, Divinity School, Edinburgh University. Born in Pakistan and educated in England and Scotland, her areas of specialism are early Islamic thought, and classic and contemporary legal and ethical issues in Islam. She is a well‐known and popular lecturer and broadcaster in the UK, being a regular contributor to “Thought for the Day” and “Sunday” on BBC Radio 4, and to The Times, The Scotsman, The Guardian, Sunday Herald and (since February 2007, as its first regular Muslim columnist) The Tablet. Her previous books include How to Read the Qur’an (Granta, 2007), a four‐volume edited collection Islam (Sage, 2010) and The Good Muslim (CUP, 2012).
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Introduction
Chapter 1 The End of Prophecy
Chapter 2 God as One: Early Debates
Chapter 3 Scholastic, Medieval and Poetic Debates
Chapter 4 Reflections on Mary
Chapter 5 Monotheism and the Dialectics of Love and Law
Chapter 6 Conclusion: Reflections on the Cross
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WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN?
Ziony Zevit
The Garden of Eden story, one of the most famous narratives in Western history, is typically read as an ancient account of original sin and humanity’s fall from divine grace. In this highly innovative study, Ziony Zevit argues that this is not how ancient Israelites understood the early biblical text. Drawing on such diverse disciplines as biblical studies, geography, archaeology, mythology, anthropology, biology, poetics, law, linguistics, and literary theory, he clarifies the worldview of the ancient Israelite readers during the First Temple period and elucidates what the story likely meant in its original context.
Most provocatively, he contends that our ideas about original sin are based upon misconceptions originating in the Second Temple period under the influence of Hellenism. He shows how, for Ancient Israelites, the story was really about how humans achieved ethical discernment. He argues further that Adam was not made from dust and that Eve was not made from Adam’s rib.
With serious scholarship brushed lightly with humour, Zevit presents a robust model of interdisciplinary research that unsettles much of what has been taken for granted about the story and its meaning for more than two millennia.
Ziony Zevit is distinguished professor of Biblical literature and Northwest Semitic languages at the American Jewish University. He has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Lady Davis Fellowship Trust, and the American Schools of Oriental Research for his substantial publications in Near Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean epigraphy, texts, and traditions. He lectures widely and has appeared on PBS and BBC programmes. His most recent book is The Religions of Ancient Israel (Continuum, 2001).
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List of illustrations A Preface About “Really” Acknowledgments Introduction The Fall is With Us Always
Part I Now and Then Chapter 1 The Fall in Interpretation Chapter 2 The Fall in the Hebrew Bible Chapter 3 Who wrote the Garden Story and When? Chapter 4 What is a Reader‐Response Approach to Interpreting the Garden Story? Chapter 5 Reading, Presenting, and Evaluating the Garden Story
Part II Before Then Chapter 6 A Down to Earth Story (Gen 2:4‐7) Chapter 7 Why Eden? Why a Garden? Where were the Trees (Gen 2:8‐10)? Chapter 8 Where in the World Was Eden (Gen 2:10‐14)? Chapter 9 The Gardener and His Tasks (Gen 2:15) Chapter 10 The Second Commandment (Gen 2:16‐17) Chapter 11 The First Social Welfare Program (Gen 2:18‐20) Chapter 12 The First Lady (Gen 2:21‐23) Chapter 13 Why the “therefore” (Gen 2:24)? Chapter 14 How Bare Is Naked (Gen 2:25)? Chapter 15 Clever Conversation and Conspicuous Consumption (Gen 3:1‐6) Chapter 16 Dressing Up for a Dressing Down (Gen 3:7‐11) Chapter 17 Interrogation and Negotiation (Gen 3:11‐13) Chapter 18 Procreation in the Garden (Gen 3:14‐19 + Gen 4:1‐2) Chapter 19 Not a Leg to Stand On: The Serpent’s Sentence and the Culture of “Curse” (Gen 3:14‐15) Chapter 20 No Bundle of Joy: Hawwa’s Sentence and Israelite Predilections in Legal Reasoning (Gen 3:16) Chapter 21 Toil and Trouble: Adam’s Sentence and the Rights of Laborers (Gen 3:17‐19) Chapter 22 Out of the Garden (Gen 3:20‐24)
Part III Then and Now Chapter 23 A Basket of Fruit: The Essential Plot of the Garden Story Chapter 24 The Garden Story in Translation and Some of Its Literary Features Chapter 25 Allusions to the Garden Story in the Hebrew Bible Chapter 26 Contra the Common Interpretation Chapter 27 Looking Back from Beyond the Tower of Babel
Appendix Transliteration for Tourists in the Garden Endnotes Bibliography Index
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INTERACTION OF COLOR
Josef Albers
This paperback edition of Josef Albersʹs masterwork in 20th‐ century art education presents a significantly expanded selection of 40 colour studies alongside Albers’s original unabridged text, demonstrating such principles as colour relativity, intensity, and temperature; vibrating and vanishing boundaries; and the illusions of transparency and reversed grounds.
Praise: ʺThe most comprehensive and intelligent . . . book we have yet on this subject. It is an indispensable volume for the artist, architect, or teacher who finds a greater challenge in discovery than in a ʹsafeʹ color system.ʺ—Architectural Forum
ʺThe publication of this famous book in paperback is an event . . . it is clearly written and easy to understand. . . . This book ought to be owned by any serious student or teacher, regardless of the kind of painting he does.ʺ—The Artist
ʺThe best introduction to Albersʹs work—Albersʹs own Interaction of Color, which I highly recommend.ʺ—New York Magazine
ʺWill a paperback version preserve the original value of Albersʹ text? . . . The answer is an enthusiastic yes, for here is a book which belongs in the studio and classroom that for years has been available only in the best university.ʺ—Arts Review
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A LITTLE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
William Bynum
Filled with stories of men and women who asked endless questions about the world and found exciting answers through scientific discovery, this spirited volume invites readers of all ages on a journey through the history of science.
Praise: “I wish there had been such a book when I was a child. Bill Bynumʹs Little History of Science may be short but it tells a grand story: all of science lightly placed in ever‐ changing historical and philosophical contexts, but presented in a single arc from Empedocles to Tim Berners‐Lee, Galen to Thomas Hunt Morgan, alchemy to insulin, the steam engine to the particle accelerator. It is a book I will be recommending for many years to come.” – Christopher Potter, author of You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe
“Well done Bill Bynum, a master of the scientific ordinance from the Big Bang to the Digital Age.” – David Bellamy
“Science is not a dry recitation of data; itʹs thousands of years of questions that people have posed about the universe. In A Little History of Science, William Bynum ably distills this human saga into a delightfully clear tale. It may be little, but it manages to find room for galaxies, computers, chemistry, evolution and much more.” – Carl Zimmer, author of A Planet of Viruses
“Small, but perfectly formed. In this little history, Bill Bynum has done a splendid job of weaving all the material into a narrative that is easy to understand. You will not find a better summary of the history of science.”—Bernard Wood, author of Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction
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THE EVENT OF LITERATURE
Terry Eagleton
One of the most influential literary critics explores anew the discipline to which he has devoted his career, reconsidering previous stances while offering fresh takes on much‐studied books and literary theories.
Praise: “Throughout the book, Eagleton writes with his customary felicity (his aphorism, for example, on significant affinities in Wittgenstein’s theory of family resemblances, ‘a tortoise resembles orthopaedic surgery in that neither can ride a bicycle’, is a delight).”—Stuart Kelly, The Guardian
“In this book Eagleton offers a shrewd historical synthesis of the interaction between literature and the common culture.”—Iain Finlayson, The Times
“This guidebook, which steers us confidently through some of the thickets of literary theory, is of the companionable and clever variety…the skill of the writing is its cultivation of a kind of companionability, the relaxed but alert mood of an intelligence at ease into which Eagleton lulls you.” — Shahidha Bari, Times Higher Education
“Written with his characteristic wit, verve and insight, The Event of Literature marks a new chapter in the developing thought of our pre‐eminent literary theorist”– The London Review of Books
“The Event of Literature, like every offering from Eagleton, is a dazzling intellectual adventure, which owes as much to Eagleton’s style as it does to his conclusions.” – The Englewood Review of Books
ʺThe Event of Literature provides an engaging overview of the key questions regarding the nature of literature and of the various answers provided by literary theory.ʺ— Liana Giorgi, New York Journal of Books
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WHY PHOTOGRAPHY MATTERS AS ART AS NEVER BEFORE
Michael Fried
The world famous art historian shows how and why contemporary photographs contribute in an essential and unprecedented way to the debate about photography as an art, and how recent photography relates to the art of the past.
Praise: Selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2009
Shortlisted for the 2009 Sir Bannister Fletcher Award presented by the Authors’ Club
ʺFriedʹs book ‐ more than any other I have read ‐ challenges its readers to interpret more cogently the resurgence of the tableau in photographic form. The gauntlet has been tossed.ʺ—Robin Kelsey, Artforum
ʺMichael Fried addresses this complex and impenetrable subject with élan … A triumph and a useful road map to examine and navigate the new idioms in contemporary photography.ʺ – PhotoIcon
ʺMr. Fried trains his lucid mind and prose on the work of Jeff Wall, Thomas Struth and other contemporary figures. The knotty arguments here call for a readerʹs undivided attention, but they reward it.ʺ—Richard B. Woodward, The Wall Street Journal
ʺFried is a persuasive advocate [of modern photography] … His book draws on art history and philosophy to study a dozen contemporary photographers, whose work proves to have more in common than you first supposed … Of the Bechersʹ typological studies of industrial structures, Fried says they encourage ʹa more discerning and acute kind of seeingʹ. His book does that too.ʺ— Andrew Mead, Architectʹs Journal
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AN EMPIRE OF ICE
Edward J. Larson
This riveting account of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration by Pulitzer Prize‐winning historian Edward Larson restores these expeditionsʹ status as grand endeavours of science.
Praise: “An Empire of Ice reflects exhaustive digging and reaches well beyond the standard source materials. . . . Larson provides enough fresh perspective that even devotees of polar literature will learn things.”—Jennifer Kingson, New York Times Book Review
“Extremely well written and documented, An Empire of Ice is a gripping account that reads almost like a thriller.”—J.D. Ives, Choice
“A far more interesting and richer account than we have had thus far. . . . Larson has written a fascinating book, one sure to force a rethinking of the Scott‐Amundsen race as well as reconsiderations that will include science as a driving force in Antarctic and indeed polar exploration.” —Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis, Science Magazine
“…… [An] enlightening and entertaining new book, An Empire of Ice, seeks to rescue the exploits of Edwardian derring‐do from the condescension of posterity by showing us how much more there was to what his subtitle refers to as the heroic age of Antarctic science.”—Robert J.Mayhew, Times Higher Education
“In this fascinating book…..Larson’s intriguing accounts begin to reveal the bigger picture of early scientific research in Antarctica and its place in European geopolitics of the time.”—Michael Bravo, New Scientist
ʺThe author provides an undeniably exciting account without overpowering the reader with too much detail. Fans of these explorers, science heads, and armchair travelers will find this a worthwhile and thrilling read.ʺ—Mike Rogers, Library Journal
“A hugely refreshing book... This book is beautifully written and brings a refreshing perspective... a welcome addition to the literature that will help the general understanding of the British Heroic Age expeditions and is a ʹmust readʹ book for anyone with an interest in the period.ʺ—David M. Wilson, Geographical
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ROBESPIERRE
Peter McPhee
Was Robespierre a heroic martyr or a bloodthirsty tyrant? This book combines new research and a deep understanding of the French Revolution to provide a fresh and nuanced portrait of one of historyʹs most controversial figures.
Praise: “A fine piece of work. McPhee has a sure command of the period, has mastered the voluminous sources on Robespierre, and writes a clean, robust prose.ʺ—David Bell,The New Republic
“McPhee brilliantly evokes the weaknesses as well as the strengths of this thin‐ skinned, diminutive figure, who suffered recurrent bouts of nervous exhaustion and withdrew from the fray at vital moments. As this stimulating book shows, those who come to play a leading part in times of upheaval are shaped by events rather than controlling them.”—Malcolm Crook, BBC History Magazine
“A wonderful, convincing study, splendidly analytical and evocative, and beautifully penned.”– John Merriman, author of A History of Modern Europe and Dynamite Club
“Peter McPhee’s fine new life of Robespierre relies on the first hand, day‐to‐day accounts rather than the posthumous vilification and hagiography, and in it emerges a quite different portrait of the man.”—Stuart Kelly, The Scotsman
ʺA thorough and well‐written account of Robespierre’s life…a solid contribution to the scholarship of this key figure of the French revolution.”—Kirkus Reviews
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CONTESTING DEMOCRACY
Jan‐Werner Müller
With special focus on Fascism and Stalinism and their legacies, the author illuminates both the twentieth centuryʹs ideological extremes and how Europeans built lasting liberal democracies in the second half of the century.
Praise: “There is no chapter of the twentieth century’s European political thought that is not luminously analysed in this superbly written, lucidly argued and immensely engaging book.”— Vladimir Tismaneanu, International Affairs
ʺ [An] impressive survey of 20th‐century European political thought.”—Tony Barber, Financial Times
“[An] excellent book…..Müller provides an insightful and comprehensive overview of the development of political ideas in 20th‐century Europe that takes in Fascism, Communism, social democracy, liberalism, and much else.” —Jeremy Jennings, Standpoint Magazine
“[A] fine study of the impact of mass democracy on European political cultures.”— David Marquand, The New Statesman
“The most innovative parts of this admirably thorough and comprehensive book deal with the not so liberal roots of the liberal political institutions and practices that came to fruition in post‐war Europe. What strikes me is the balanced treatment of developments in Western and Eastern Europe.” – Jürgen Habermas
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1688
Steven Pincus
In this bold new narrative history Steve Pincus argues that England’s Glorious Revolution was a fundamental turning point in the making of the modern world.
Praise: Awarded the 2010 Gustav Ranis International Book Prize by the MacMillan Center
Winner of the 2010 Morris D. Forkosch Prize given by the American Historical Association
Bronze Medal winner for the 2010 Independent Publishers Book Awards in the History category
Won Honourable Mention in the non‐fiction category for the 2009 New England Book Festival
“Few [historians] are more inventive than Yale’s Steve Pincus. His 1688 shows dazzlingly that what was once celebrated or indeed mocked as the “Glorious Revolution” was far more violent, more complex, more transformative … than we have usually thought.” One of the History books of the year, chosen by Stephen Howe in The Independent
“ 1688ʹs ambitious scope should secure it a broad audience … Pincus marshals an impressive array of evidence to support his case ‐ indeed he has done an astonishing amount of archival research and the book … is compelling and forcefully argued … [Pincus] also manages to write in a way that is both contentious and thought‐ provoking … It is a book that will prompt intense historical debate for many years to come.ʹ – Ted Vallance, New Statesman
ʹWith exhaustive reference to contemporary sources, Mr Pincus explodes in succession each of the myths about the Glorious Revolution … Mr Pincusʹs cogently argued account of what really happened during Englandʹs revolution destroys many comforting notions that have prevailed for more than 200 years. At the same time it leaves the reader with something much more exciting: a new understanding of the origins of the modern, liberal state.ʹ – The Economist
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THE ART OF NOT BEING GOVERNED
James C. Scott
The acclaimed author James Scott adopts a radically different approach to history to tell the story of the deliberately stateless peoples who occupy a vast track of land in Asia called Zomia.
Praise: Bronze medal winner of the ForeWord Magazine 2009 Book of the Year Award in the Political Science category
Winner of the 2010 Fukuoka Asian Academic Prize, given by the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize Committee
Winner of the 2010 John K. Fairbank Book Prize, given by the American Historical Association
Winner of the 2010 Bernard Schwartz Book Award, given by the Asia Society
Winner of the 2010 John K. Fairbank Book Prize given by the American Historical Association
Chosen as A Best Book of 2009, Jesse Walker, managing editor, Reason
ʺThis book may well become a cult classic.ʺ—Sanjay Subrahmanyam, London Review of Books
“Scott’s panoramic view will no doubt enthrall many readers . . . one doesn’t have to see like a Zomian nor pretend to be an anarchist to appreciate the many insights in James Scott’s book.”— Grant Evans, Times Literary Supplement
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IN GOD’S SHADOW
Michael Walzer
One of America foremost political thinkers offers important insights on the political views of the writers of the Bible and investigates how they illuminate important moral issues in our own time.
Praise: “In God’s Shadow is elegant and erudite. Anyone interested in assessing the ideas about politics, government and law in the Bible should read it.” Glenn C. Altschuler, Jerusalem Post
ʺThis book deals with the breadth of foundational themes of the Hebrew Bible. Michael Walzer provides a vibrant perspective, and innovative and refreshing reading of the ancient book of books.ʺ—Israel Knohl, author of The Sanctuary of Silence
ʺWalzer’s guide through the text of the Hebrew Bible is magnificent: a many‐layered, elegant, sympathetic but unapologetic examination of covenants, legal codes, kingship, prophecy, exile, holy war, and social justice ‘in God’s shadow’. It is nothing less than an account of how the Israelites came to define themselves as Jews.ʺ— Nancy Rosenblum, author of On the Side of the Angels
ʺIn this remarkable, wise and elegant book, Michael Walzer, one of the greatest political theorists of our time, examines brilliantly the diverse dimensions of Biblical politics, its institutions and struggles. It raises as well the ultimate question of the possibility to carve a human political realm in the Shadow of God. Scholars and students of the Bible will learn a great deal from the fresh an original reading of biblical traditions, and it will inspire anyone who is interested in the relationship between politics and religion.ʺ—Moshe Halbertal, author of On Sacrifice
ʺWalzer is a great portraitist of biblical political ideas such as power, authority, hierarchy and war—warts and all. His depiction is beautifully conceived and beautifully written. It is a very good book on The Good Book.ʺ —Avishai Margalit, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
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Front Cover: Ivan Brunetti, Cartoonists on Music (illustration for special section of The Comics Journal, 2002). From: Aesthetics: A Memoir by Ivan Brunetti.