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ne of the most sustained and vigorous public debates today is about the value—and, crucially, the price—of college. O But an unspoken, outdated assumption underlies all sides of this debate: if a young person works hard enough, they’ll be able to get a college degree and be on the path to a good life. That’s simply not true anymore, says Sara Goldrick-Rab, and with Paying the Price, she shows in damning detail exactly why. Quite simply, “Goldrick-Rab’s important book should college is far too expensive for many people today, and the confusing be read by policymakers, students, and mix of federal, state, institutional, and private financial aid leaves count- parents. She explains clearly how access less students without the resources they need to pay for it. Drawing on to college has been narrowed by rising an unprecedented study of 3,000 young adults who entered public col- costs, how elected officials have dodged leges and universities in Wisconsin in 2008 with the support of federal their responsibility to maintain access, aid and Pell Grants, Goldrick-Rab reveals the devastating effect of these and what we must do to save the Ameri- shortfalls. Half the students in the study left college without a degree, can Dream—the promise that all have while less than twenty percent finished within five years. The cause of equal opportunity to succeed.” their problems, time and again, was lack of money. Unable to afford —Diane Ravitch tuition, books, and living expenses, they worked too many hours at outside jobs, dropped classes, took time off to save money, even went SEPTEMBER 368 p., 17 figures, 21 tables 6 x 9 without adequate food or housing. In a heartbreaking number of cases, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40434-9 Cloth $27.50/£19.50 they simply left school—not with a degree, but with crippling debt. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40448-6 We can fix this problem. Goldrick-Rab closes the book by laying EDUCATION out a number of possible solutions, including a public sector–focused “first degree free” program. What’s not an option, this powerful, polemical book shows, is doing nothing, and continuing to crush the college dreams of a generation of young people.

Sara Goldrick-Rab is coeditor of Reinventing Financial Aid: Charting a New Course to College Affordability and has written on education issues for the New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, and other publications. She is professor of higher education and sociology at Temple University.

general interest 1 SARA LAWRENCE-LIGHTFOOT Growing Each Other Up When Our Children Become Our Teachers

rom growing their children, parents grow themselves, learn- ing the lessons their children teach. “Growing up,” then, is as F much a developmental process of parenthood as it is of child- hood. While countless books have been written about the challenges of parenting, nearly all of them position the parent as instructor and support-giver, the child as learner and in need of direction. But the “In a beautifully written book, full of in- parent-child relationship is more complicated and reciprocal; over sights from the author and the people she time it transforms in remarkable, surprising ways. As our children interviews, Lawrence-Lightfoot teaches grow up and we grow older, what used to be a one-way flow of instruc- us how important it is for parents to be tion and support, from parent to child, becomes instead an exchange. open to learning from their children. She We begin to learn from them. teaches us that when we open our mouths With Growing Each Other Up, MacArthur Prize–winning sociologist to speak, we should be sure that our ears, and educator Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot offers an intimately detailed, our minds, and our hearts are open too. emotionally powerful account of that experience. Building her book This may be the key to being a success- on a series of in-depth interviews with parents around the country, she ful parent and also to being a successful offers a counterpoint to the usual parental development literature that teacher, doctor, or supervisor.” mostly concerns the adjustment of parents to their babies’ rhythms —Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice: and the ways parents weather the storms of their teenage progeny. The Why More is Less focus here is on the lessons emerging and adult children, ages 15 to 35, teach their parents. What do we take from them and incorporate into SEPTEMBER 296 p. 6 x 9 our worldviews? ISBN-13: 978-0-226-18840-9 Cloth $27.50/£19.50 Growing Each Other Up is rich in the voices of actual parents telling E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-37727-8 PSYCHOLOGY EDUCATION their own stories of raising children and their children raising them; watching that fundamental connection shift over time. Parents and chil- dren of all ages will recognize themselves in these evocative and moving accounts and look at their own growing up in a revelatory new light.

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot is the author of eleven books, including, most recently, Exit: The Endings That Set Us Free. She is the Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education at Harvard University.

2 general interest ROGER EBERT The Great Movies IV With an Introduction by Chaz Ebert and a Foreword by Matt Zoller Seitz

o film critic has ever been as influential—or as beloved— as Roger Ebert. Over more than four decades, he built a Nreputation writing reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times and, later, arguing onscreen with rival Chicago Tribune critic Gene Siskel and later Richard Roeper about the movies they loved and loathed. But Ebert went well beyond a mere “thumbs up” or “thumbs down.” Readers could always sense the man behind the words, a man with interests beyond film and a lifetime’s distilled wisdom about the larger Praise for the Great Movies collections world. Although the world lost one of its most important critics far too “Ebert’s take-no-prisoners essays packed early, Ebert lives on in the minds of moviegoers today, who continually with insidery insights will send movie lov- find themselves debating what he might have thought about a current ers back to the sofa for a second look at movie. old favorites like Cool Hand Luke and My The Great Movies IV is the fourth—and final—collection of Roger Fair Lady while introducing more offbeat Ebert’s essays, comprising sixty-two reviews of films ranging from the picks like Sansho the Bailiff and Pixote.” silent era to the recent past. From films like The Cabinet of Caligari and —Parade Viridiana that have been considered canonical for decades to movies only recently recognized as masterpieces to Superman, The Big Lebowski, “Ebert offers informed critical appraisals, and Pink Floyd: The Wall, the pieces gathered here demonstrate the as well as background on the movies’ critical acumen seen in Ebert’s daily reviews and the more reflective making and significance, that make these and wide-ranging considerations that the longer format allowed him pieces rewarding for film buffs and ideal to offer. Ebert’s essays are joined here by an insightful foreword by film introductions for first-time viewers.” —Booklist critic Matt Zoller Seitz, the current editor-in-chief of the official Roger Ebert website, and a touching introduction by Chaz Ebert. SEPTEMBER 288 p. 6 x 9 A fitting capstone to a truly remarkable career, The Great Movies IV ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40398-4 will introduce newcomers to some of the most exceptional movies ever Cloth $27.50/£19.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40403-5 made, while revealing new insights to connoisseurs as well. FILM

Roger Ebert (1942–2013) was a Pulitzer Prize–winning film critic for the Chi- cago Sun-Times. In 1975, he teamed up with Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune to host the popular Sneak Previews movie review program on PBS, which he continued for more than thirty-five years, including at Tribune Entertain- ment and Disney/Buena Vista Television. He is the author of numerous books, including Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert; the Great Movies collections; and a memoir, Life Itself. general interest 3 WAYNE C. BOOTH, GREGORY G. COLOMB, JOSEPH M. WILLIAMS, JOSEPH BIZUP, and WILLIAM T. FITZGERALD The Craft of Research Fourth Edition With a New Preface

ith more than three-quarters of a million copies sold since its first publication, The Craft of Research has helped genera- W tions of researchers at every level—from first-year under- graduates to advanced graduate students to research reporters in busi- ness and government—learn how to conduct effective and meaningful

“While seeking to help the book speak research. Conceived by seasoned researchers and educators Wayne C. to new generations of researchers, we Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams, this fundamental have also striven to honor and retain the work explains how to find and evaluate sources, anticipate and respond perspective, content, and voice that have to reader reservations, and integrate these pieces into an argument made The Craft of Research a recognized that stands up to reader critique. classic. Those who are familiar with ear- The fourth edition has been thoroughly but respectfully revised lier editions will discover that this edition by Joseph Bizup and William T. FitzGerald. It retains the original is faithful to the book’s vision and overall five-part structure, as well as the sound advice of earlier editions, but structure. At the same time, each chapter reflects the way research and writing are taught and practiced today. has been thoroughly updated to reflect Its chapters on finding and engaging sources now incorporate recent the contemporary landscape of research.” developments in library and Internet research, emphasizing new tech- —from the preface niques made possible by online databases and search engines. Bizup and FitzGerald provide fresh examples and standardized terminology Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, to clarify concepts like argument, warrant, and problem. and Publishing Following the same guiding principle as earlier editions—that the OCTOBER 336 p., 19 halftones, 7 line drawings, skills of doing and reporting research are not just for elite students but 8 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-23956-9 for everyone—this new edition retains the accessible voice and direct Cloth $45.00x/£31.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-23973-6 approach that have made The Craft of Reasearch a leader in the field of Paper $18.00/£12.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-23987-3 research reference. With updated examples and information on evalu- REFERENCE ating and using contemporary sources, this beloved classic is ready for Previous edition ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06566-3 the next generation of researchers.

4 general interest “A well-constructed, articulate reminder of how important fundamental questions of style and approach, such as clar- Changes to this ity and precision, are to all research.” edition include —Times Literary Supplement

◆ Extended coverage of new “I recommend it to my students . . . and keep a copy close at research techniques made hand as the first option offered to students who ask, ‘Just possible by online databases how should I begin my research?’” and search engines —Business Library Review ◆ Enhanced discussion of the value of online sources and how “For those writers in search of solid research to fuel their to assess their reliability writing, this well-structured, accessible, and affordable

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“Accessible, readable, and jargon-free. . . . The Craft of ◆ Differentiation of the activities Research pays close attention to readers’ needs and of research, argument, and anxieties.” writing —Teaching in Higher Education

Wayne C. Booth (1921–2005) was the George M. Pullman Distinguished Ser- vice Professor Emeritus in English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. His many books include The Rhetoric of Fiction and For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals, both published by the University of Chicago Press. Gregory G. Colomb (1951–2011) was professor of English at the University of Virginia and the author of Designs on Truth: The Poetics of the Augustan Mock- Epic. Joseph M. Williams (1933–2008) was professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago and the author of Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace. Joseph Bizup is associate professor in the Department of English at Boston University. He is coeditor of the thirteenth edition of the Norton Reader and editor of the eleventh edition of Williams’s Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace. William T. FitzGerald is assistant professor in the Department of English at Rutgers University.

general interest 5 NATASHA K. WARIKOO The Diversity Bargain And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities

e’ve heard plenty from politicians and experts on affirma- tive action and higher education about how universities W should intervene—if at all—to ensure a diverse but deserv- ing student population. But what about those for whom these issues matter the most? In this book, Natasha K. Warikoo deeply explores “Drawing on in-depth interviews with a di- how students themselves think about merit and race at a uniquely verse sample of undergraduate students, pivotal moment: after they have just won the most competitive game of Warikoo offers an insightful reading of their lives and gained admittance to one of the world’s top universities. what elite students have to say about What Warikoo uncovers—talking with both white students and admissions, merit, and race, as well as students of color at Harvard, Brown, and Oxford—is absolutely illumi- provocative observations about the role nating, and some of it is positively shocking. As she shows, many elite and effectiveness of different kinds of white students understand the value of diversity abstractly, but they diversity programs and the differences ignore the real problems that racial inequality causes and that diversity between the United States and United programs are meant to solve. They stand in fear of being labeled a rac- Kingdom. Exploring the various ‘racial ist, but they are quick to call foul should a diversity program appear at frames’ that students use to make sense all to hamper their own chances for advancement. The most troubling of the relationship between merit and result of this ambivalence is what she calls the “diversity bargain,” in race, she offers a powerful contribution to which white students reluctantly agree with affirmative action as long ongoing debates about affirmative action as it benefits them by providing a diverse learning environment. And and higher education.” as Warikoo shows, universities play a big part in creating these situa- —Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández, University of Toronto tions. The way they talk about race on campus and the kinds of diver- sity programs they offer have a huge impact on student attitudes.

OCTOBER 320 p., 8 tables 6 x 9 Ultimately, this book demonstrates just how slippery the notions of ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40014-3 Cloth $26.00/£18.00 race, merit, and privilege can be. In doing so, it asks important ques- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40028-0 tions not just about college admissions but what the elite students who EDUCATION have succeeded at it—who will be the world’s future leaders—will do with the social inequalities of the wider world.

Natasha K. Warikoo is associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is the author of Balancing Acts: Youth Culture in the Global City. 6 general interest JIM ENDERSBY Orchid A Cultural History

t once delicate, exotic, and elegant, orchids are beloved for their singular, instantly recognizable beauty. Found in nearly A every climate, the many species of orchids have carried sym- bolic weight in countless cultures over time. The ancient Greeks associated them with fertility and thought that a parent who ingested the orchid root could determine the gender of a child. During the Victorian era, orchids became deeply associated with romance and seduction. And in twentieth-century hard-boiled detective stories, they transformed into symbols of decadence, secrecy, and cunning. What is it about the orchid that has enthralled the imagination for so many NOVEMBER 288 p., 15 color plates, 45 halftones 61/14 x 91/14 centuries? And why do they still provoke so much wonder? To answer, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-37632-5 Cloth $30.00 Jim Endersby offers a unique cultural history of this captivating family E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42703-4 of plants. NATURE SCIENCE Following the stories of orchids throughout history, Endersby divides our attraction to them into four key themes: science, empire, sex, and death. He explore how these have shaped orchids and how or- chids, in return, have shaped our own investigations and associations. When it comes to empire, for instance, orchids are a prime example of the exotic riches sought by Europeans as they shaped their plans for colonization. Endersby also reveals how Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution became intimately entangled with the story of the orchid as he investigated their methods of cross-pollination. Orchids—perhaps because of their extraordinarily diverse colors, shapes, and sizes— have also bloomed repeatedly in films, novels, plays, and poems, from Shakespeare to science fiction, from thrillers to elaborate modernist novels. Featuring many gorgeous illustrations from the collection of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Orchid: A Cultural History tells, for the first time, the extraordinary story of orchids and our prolific inter- est in them. It is a tale sure to enchant not only gardeners and plant collectors, but anyone curious about the flower’s obsessive hold on the imagination in history, cinema, literature, and more.

Jim Endersby is a reader in the history of science at the University of Sussex. He is the author of A Guinea Pig’s History of Biology and Imperial Nature: Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science. general interest 7 LEONARD BARKAN Berlin for Jews A Twenty-First-Century Companion

hat is it like to travel to Berlin today, particularly as a Jew, and bring with you the baggage of history? And what hap- W pens when an American Jew, raised by a secular family, falls in love with Berlin not in spite of his being a Jew but because of it? The answer is Berlin for Jews. Part history and part travel companion, Leonard Barkan’s personal love letter to the city shows how its long Jewish heritage, despite the atrocities of the Nazi era, has left an inspir- ing imprint on the vibrant metropolis of today. Barkan, voraciously curious and witty, offers a self-deprecating “What a delight this book is! Unlike all guide to the history of Jewish life in Berlin, revealing how, begin- those companions and all those travel ning in the early nineteenth century, Jews became prominent in the guides, here is a real companion with whom arts, the sciences, and the city’s public life. With him, we tour the you want to journey: witty, conflicted, ivy-covered confines of the Schönhauser Allee cemetery, where many amused, amusing, insightful, smart. distinguished Jewish Berliners have been buried, and we stroll through This book provides a wonderful sense of Bayerisches Viertel, an elegant neighborhood created by a Jewish de- how place and stories go together—all veloper that came to be called Berlin’s “Jewish Switzerland.” We travel touched with an elegant melancholy for back to the early nineteenth century to the salon of Rahel Varnhagen, a lost world and our part in making its a Jewish society doyenne, who frequently hosted famous artists, writ- memory still sing.” ers, politicians, and the occasional royal. Barkan also introduces us to —Simon Goldhill, James Simon, a turn-of-the-century philanthropist and art collector, author of Freud’s Couch, Scott’s Buttocks, Brontë’s Grave and we explore the life of Walter Benjamin, who wrote a memoir of his childhood in Berlin as a member of the assimilated Jewish upper

OCTOBER 256 p., 35 halftones, 2 maps 6 x 9 middle class. Throughout, Barkan muses about his own Jewishness, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-01066-3 Cloth $27.50/£19.50 while celebrating the rich Jewish culture on view in today’s Berlin. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-01083-0 A winning, idiosyncratic travel companion, Berlin for Jews offers a TRAVEL HISTORY way to engage with German history, to acknowledge the unspeakable while extolling the indelible influence of Jewish culture.

Leonard Barkan is the Class of 1943 University Professor at Princeton, where he teaches in the Department of Comparative Literature and holds appoint- ments in art and archaeology, English, and classics. His books include The Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis and the Pursuit of Paganism and Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture.

8 general interest DAVID M. ENGEL The Myth of the Litigious Society Why We Don’t Sue

hy do Americans seem to sue at the slightest provocation? The answer may surprise you: we don’t! For every “Whip- W lash Charlie” who sees a car accident as a chance to make millions, for every McDonald’s customer who pursues a claim over a too-hot cup of coffee, many more Americans suffer injuries but make no claims against those responsible or their insurance companies. The question is not why Americans sue but why we don’t sue more often, and the answer can be found in how we think about injury and personal “Engel provides an important counterpoint responsibility. to the rampant irresponsible reporting on David M. Engel demolishes the myth that America is a litigious civil justice, arguing persuasively that the society. The sobering reality is that the vast majority of injury vic- oft-repeated claims about the litigious tims—more than nine out of ten—rely on their own resources, family society are wrong. We’re a nation of lump- and friends, and government programs to cover their losses. When ers—not a nation of litigants—and Engel real people experience serious injuries, they don’t respond as rational shows both why this is so and why our actors. Trauma and pain disrupt their thoughts, and potential claims tendency to ‘lump it’ is a serious problem are discouraged by negative stereotypes that pervade American televi- for us all.” sion and popular culture. (Think Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad, who —Tom Baker, keeps a box of neck braces in his office to help clients exaggerate their author of The Medical Malpractice Myth injuries.) We’re taught to accept setbacks stoically and not blame some- Chicago Series in Law and Society one else. But this tendency to “lump it” doesn’t just hurt the victims; it hurts us all. We risk losing these claims as a way to quickly identify SEPTEMBER 248 p., 5 figures, 1 table 51/2 x 81/2 unsafe products and practices. Because injuries disproportionately fall ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30504-2 on people with fewer resources, the existing framework also creates a Cloth $24.00/£17.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30518-9 social underclass whose needs must be met by government programs CURRENT EVENTS LAW all citizens shoulder. It’s time for America to have a more responsible discussion about injuries and the law. With The Myth of the Litigious Society, Engel takes readers clearly and powerfully through what we really know about injury victims and concludes with recommendations for how we might improve the situation.

David M. Engel is the Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Buffalo, SUNY, and the author, coauthor, or editor of eight books, includ- ing Rights of Inclusion, also published by the University of Chicago Press. general interest 9 R. J. NELSON Dirty Waters Confessions of Chicago’s Last Harbor Boss

n 1987, the city of Chicago hired a former radical college chaplain to clean up rampant corruption on the waterfront. R. J. Nelson Ithought he was used to the darker side of the law—he had been followed by federal agents and wiretapped due to his antiwar stances in the sixties—but nothing could prepare him for the wretched bog that constituted the world of a Harbor Boss. Director of Harbors and Marine Services was a position so mired in corruption that its previous four directors ended up in federal prison. Nelson inherited angry con- “Dirty Waters is an insider’s account of stituents, prying journalists, shell-shocked employees, and a tobacco- what has become known as the ‘Chicago stained office still bearing a busted door that had been smashed in by Way,’ the corruption at the very heart of the FBI. Undeterred, Nelson made it his personal mission to become a the city’s political machine. This book is “pneumacrat,” a public servant who, for the common good, always fol- an honest, fascinating, and often star- lows the spirit—if not always the letter—of the law. tling story of how politics, bribery, and Dirty Waters is a wry, no-holds-barred memoir of Nelson’s time just plain ineptitude often plagued the controlling some of the city’s most beautiful spots while facing some ‘City That Works.’ ” of its ugliest traditions. A guide like no other, Nelson takes us through —Dominic A. Pacyga, author of Slaughterhouse: Chicago’s Chicago’s beloved “blue spaces” and deep into the city’s political Union Stock Yard and the World It Made morass. He reveals the different moralities underlying three mayoral administrations, from Harold Washington to Richard M. Daley, and Chicago Visions and Revisions navigates us through the gritty mechanisms of the Chicago machine.

OCTOBER 304 p., 16 halftones, 6 maps 6 x 9 He also deciphers the sometimes insular world of boaters and their ISBN-13: 978-0-226-33449-3 Cloth $25.00/£17.50 fraught relationship with their land-based neighbors. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-33452-3 Ultimately, Dirty Waters is a tale of morality, of what it takes to be a AMERICAN HISTORY POLITICAL SCIENCE force for good in the world and what struggles come from trying to stay ethically afloat in a sea of corruption.

R. J. Nelson is a former Superintendent of Special Services and Director of Harbors and Marine Services for the Chicago Park District, positions he held from 1987 to 1994. He is also the retired CEO of the Hammond (Indiana) Port Authority. His other positions included vice president of Grebe Shipyard in Chicago, administrator at the University of Chicago, and chaplain at Cor- nell University. He lives in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago.

10 general interest GEORGE ADE The Old-Time Saloon Not Wet—Not Dry, Just History Introduced and Annotated by Bill Savage

ancy a tipple? Then pull up a stool, raise a glass, and dip into this delightful paean to the grand old saloon days of yore. F Written by Chicago-based journalist, playwright, and all-round wit George Ade in the waning years of Prohibition, The Old-Time Saloon is both a work of propaganda masquerading as “just history” and a hilarious exercise in nostalgia. Featuring original illustrations along “Much about nineteenth-century saloons with a new introduction from Bill Savage, Ade’s book takes us back to may have been sordid and squalid, but the long-gone men’s clubs of earlier days, when beer was a nickel, the Ade knew how to find their charm, even pretzels were polished, and the sardines were free. their joy. He’s a wonderful reading com- Praise for Ade panion—and I bet he would have been “Ade was an American humorist who wrote literature for daily pretty great to drink with, too.” newspapers, back when such a thing could be imagined. . . . He was —Daniel Okrent, author of Last Call poet laureate of the live ones, and a distant ancestor of Rocky and Bull- winkle.”—Luc Sante, HiLobrow “Ade amuses with his dry humor on a wet “Ade writes the present little volume as an expert to inform the topic. . . . The book discusses every phase young of the sin and wickedness they missed by being born too late.” of the saloon and every type of saloon, —New York Times from the ornate and opulent place, like the Waldorf or the Knickerbocker, to the Born and educated in Indiana but a long-time Chicagoan, George Ade dive on the corner and the old-fashioned (1866–1944) was a prolific journalist, a Broadway playwright, and a humor- ist whose newspaper columns, Fables in Slang and Stories of the Streets and roadhouse.” of the Town, were syndicated nationally, collected in books, and produced —Brooklyn Daily Eagle as films, some of which Ade directed. Bill Savage is associate professor of instruction in the Department of English at Northwestern University, as well as a bartender emeritus. NOVEMBER 224 p., 4 halftones, 8 line drawings 5 x 73/8 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41230-6 Paper $15.00/£10.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41244-3 HISTORY

general interest 11 JOSEPH NIGG The Phoenix An Unnatural Biography of a Mythical Beast

rising triumphantly from the ashes of its predecessor, the phoenix has been an enduring symbol of resilience and A renewal for thousands of years. But how did this mythical bird become so famous that it has played a part in cultures around the world and throughout human history? How much of its story do we actually know? Here to offer a comprehensive biography and engaging (un)natural history of the phoenix is Joseph Nigg, esteemed expert on otherworldly creatures—from dragons to gryphons to sea monsters. Beginning in ancient Egypt and traveling around the globe and “Nigg’s The Phoenix is as singular as its through the centuries, Nigg’s epic narrative takes readers on a brilliant subject. With intelligence, grace, and tour of the cross-cultural lore of this famous, yet little-known, immortal sound scholarship, he has restored this bird. Seeking both the similarities and the differences in the phoenix’s extraordinary beast to its rightful place in many myths and representations, Nigg describes its countless permu- the universal library.” tations over millennia, including legends of the Chinese “phoenix,” —Alberto Manguel, author of The Dictionary which was considered one of the sacred creatures that presided over of Imaginary Places China’s destiny; classical Greece and Rome, where it can be found in the writings of Herodotus and Ovid; nascent and medieval Chris- OCTOBER 416 p., 27 halftones, tianity, in which it came to embody the resurrection; and in Europe 17 line drawings 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-19549-0 during the Renaissance, when it was a popular emblem of royals. Nigg Cloth $35.00/£24.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-19552-0 examines the various phoenix traditions, the beliefs and tales associ- HISTORY SCIENCE ated with them, their symbolic and metaphoric use, the skepticism and speculation they’ve raised, and their appearance in religion, bestiaries, and even contemporary popular culture, in which the ageless bird of renewal is employed as a mascot and logo, including for our own Uni- versity of Chicago. Never beset by hardship or defeated by death, the phoenix is the ultimate icon of hope and rebirth. And in The Phoenix: An Unnatural Biography of a Mythical Beast, it finally has its due—a complete chronicle worthy of such a fantastic and phantasmal creature. This entertaining and informative look at the life and transformation of the phoenix will be the authoritative source for anyone fascinated by folklore and mythol- ogy, re-igniting our curiosity about one of myth’s most enduring beasts.

Joseph Nigg’s other books include The Book of Fabulous Beasts, How to Raise and Keep a Dragon, and Sea Monsters: A Voyage around the World’s Most Beguiling Map, 12 general interest the last also published by the University of Chicago Press. He lives in Denver. STEVEN VOGEL Why the Wheel Is Round Muscles, Technology, and How We Make Things Move

here is no part of our bodies that fully rotates—be it a wrist or ankle or arm in a shoulder socket, we are made to twist T only so far. And yet, there is no more fundamental human invention than the wheel—a rotational mechanism that accomplishes what our physical form cannot. Throughout history, humans have developed technologies powered by human strength, complementing the physical abilities we have while overcoming our weaknesses. Provid- Praise for The Life of a Leaf ing a unique history of the wheel and other rotational devices, like “Vogel celebrates serendipitous discov- cranks, cranes, carts, and capstans, Why the Wheel Is Round examines eries and ideas, describing his own in the contraptions and tricks we have devised in order to more efficiently detail, and shows the general reader just move—and move through—the physical world. how exciting science can be. The central Steven Vogel combines his engineering expertise with his remark- theme of The Life of a Leaf is extracting able curiosity about how things work to explore how wheels and other the extraordinary from the ordinary. In a mechanisms were, until very recently, powered by the push and pull way, Vogel’s view is that science is at its of the muscles and skeletal systems of humans and other animals. Why heart simple—and great fun. I couldn’t the Wheel Is Round explores all manner of treadwheels, hand-spikes, agree more.” gears, and more, as well as how these technologies diversified into such —Nature things as hand-held drills and hurdy-gurdies. Surprisingly, a number of these devices can be built out of everyday components and materi- “This book is a happy reminder that sci- als, and Vogel’s accessible and expansive book includes instructions ence can become much less daunting in and models so that inspired readers can even attempt to make their the hands of an enthusiastic teacher.” own muscle-powered technologies, like trebuchets and ballista. —London Review of Books Appealing to anyone fascinated by the history of mechanics and technology as well as to hobbyists with home workshops, Why the Wheel OCTOBER 352 p., 81 halftones, 64 line drawings 6 x 9 Is Round offers a captivating exploration of our common technologi- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38103-9 cal heritage based on the simple concept of rotation. From our leg Cloth $35.00/£24.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38117-6 muscles powering the gears of a bicycle to our hands manipulating a SCIENCE mouse on a roller ball, it will be impossible to overlook the amazing feats of innovation behind our daily devices.

Steven Vogel (1940–2015) was James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of biology at Duke University. His books include Cats’ Paws and Catapults, Glimpses of Crea- tures in Their Physical Worlds, and The Life of a Leaf, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press. general interest 13 ROBERT T. MICHAEL The Five Life Decisions How Economic Principles and 18 Million Millennials Can Guide Your Thinking

hoices matter. And in your teens and twenties, some of the biggest life decisions come about when you feel the least pre- C pared to tackle them. Economist Robert T. Michael won’t tell you what to choose. In-

“What do you get when you cross an stead, he’ll show you how to make smarter choices. Michael focuses on esteemed economics scholar with the five critical decisions we all face about college, career, partners, health, trials and tribulations of everyday life? and parenting. He uses these to demonstrate how the science of scar- The answer: this guide, by the University city and choice—concepts used to guide major business decisions and of Chicago’s Robert T. Michael. The Five shape national legislation—can offer a solid foundation for our own Life Decisions offers readers a crash lives. Employing comparative advantage can have a big payoff when course, a deep dive into highly technical picking a job. Knowing how to work the marketplace can minimize economic concepts by applying them to uncertainty when choosing a partner. And understanding externali- the pragmatic, real-world choices that ties—the ripple of results from our actions—can clarify the if and when young people have to make.” of having children. —Beth Kobliner, Michael also brings in data from the National Longitudinal Survey author of Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties of Youth, a scientific sample of 18 million millennials in the United States that tracks more than a decade of young adult choices and con-

AUGUST 232 p., 22 tables 6 x 9 sequences. As the survey’s longtime principal investigator and project ISBN-13: 978-0-226-35444-6 director, Michael shows that the aggregate decisions can help us Paper $20.00/£14.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-35458-3 understand what might lie ahead along many possible paths—offering SELF-HELP ECONOMICS readers insights about how their own choices may turn out. There’s no singular formula for always making the right choice. But the adaptable framework and rich data at the heart of The Five Life Decisions will help you feel confident in whatever you decide.

Robert T. Michael is the founding dean and Eliakim Hastings Moore Distin- guished Service Professor Emeritus of the Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago. He is also a senior fellow at the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago. His eight books in- clude the coauthored Sex, Love, and Health in America: Private Choices and Public Policies and Allocation of Income within the Household, both from the University of 14 general interest Chicago Press. ALTHEA MCDOWELL ALTEMUS Big Bosses A Working Girl’s Memoir of Jazz Age America Edited and Annotated and with an Afterword by Robin F. Bachin

I told these estimable gentlemen that I was a maiden and living with my parents; that I was a graduate of Vassar and post-graduate of Smith; that my reputation was beyond reproach and gave them Beau’s letter to show that I knew something about business.

harp, resourceful, and with a style all her own, Althea McDowell Altemus embodied the spirit of the independent working Swoman of the Jazz Age. In her memoir, Big Bosses, she vividly “A lively account of the daily lives of recounts her life as a secretary for prominent (but thinly disguised) celebrities and politicians, industry titans employers in Chicago, Miami, and New York. Alongside her we rub elbows and working women in Jazz Age America. with movie stars, artists, and high-profile businessmen, and experience . . . It is a detective story, with disguised lavish estate parties that routinely defied the laws of Prohibition. names that demand that the reader hunt Beginning with her employment as a private secretary to James for clues to uncover the true identities Deering of International Harvester, whom she describes as “probably of the subjects she describes. It is an the world’s oldest and wealthiest bachelor playboy,” Altemus tells us exposé of the lives of some of the most much about high society during the time, taking us inside Deering’s prominent businessmen in the 1920s, as glamorous Miami estate, Vizcaya, an Italianate mansion worthy of Altemus provides firsthand accounts of Gatsby himself. Later, we meet her other notable employers, includ- their comings and goings, daily routines, ing Samuel Insull, president of Chicago Edison; New York banker S. personal foibles, and, of course, their W. Straus; and real estate developer Fred F. French. We cinch up our romantic lives.” trenchcoats and head out sleuthing in Chicago, hired by the wife of a big —Robin F. Bachin, from the afterword boss to find out how he spends his evenings (with, it turns out, a mistress hidden in an apartment within his office). Altemus was a struggling DECEMBER 192 p., 29 halftones 51/2 x 81/2 single mother, a fact she had to keep secret from her employers, and she ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42359-3 Cloth $45.00x/£31.50 reveals the difficulties of being a working woman at the time and the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42362-3 dangers—sexual and otherwise—that she and others faced. Paper $15.00/£10.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42376-0 Big Bosses provides a one-of-a-kind peek inside the excitement, BIOGRAPHY AMERICAN HISTORY Published in collaboration with the Vizcaya extravagances, and the challenges of being a working woman roaring Museum and Gardens through the ’20s.

Althea McDowell Altemus (1885–1965) was born into a family of factory workers in Woodstock, Illinois. She was married in 1910 and divorced in 1917, prompting her to work as a secretary in the years that followed. Robin F. Bachin is the Charlton W. Tebeau Associate Professor of History and assistant provost for civic and community engagement at the University of Miami. general interest 15 TED CONOVER Immersion A Writer’s Guide to Going Deep

ver three and a half decades, Ted Conover has ridden the rails with hoboes, crossed the border with Mexican immi- O grants, guarded prisoners in Sing Sing, and inspected meat for the USDA. His books and articles chronicling these experiences, including the award-winning Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, have made him one of the premier practitioners of immersion reporting. In immersion reporting—a literary cousin to ethnography, travel writing, and memoir—the writer fully steps into a new world or cul- ture, participating in its trials, rites, and rituals as a member of the group. The end results of these firsthand experiences are familiar to “Immersion is a tricky business, and us from bestsellers such as Nickel and Dimed and Behind the Beautiful there’s clearly a need for savvy guidance Forevers. But in a world of wary strangers, where does one begin? from a wise, experienced practitioner. Conover distills decades of knowledge into an accessible resource Who better than Conover? With five im- aimed at writers of all levels. He covers how to “get into” a community, mersion books to his credit and articles how to conduct oneself once inside, and how to shape and structure published in the country’s most prestigious the stories that emerge. Conover is also forthright about the ethics and magazines, he’s one of the world’s most consequences of immersion reporting, preparing writers for the sur- accomplished immersion journalists.” —Jack Hart, prises that often surface when their piece becomes public. Through- author of Storycraft: The Complete Guide out, Conover shares anecdotes from his own experiences as well as to Writing Narrative Nonfiction from other well-known writers in this genre, including Alex Kotlowitz,

Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, Anne Fadiman, and Sebastian Junger. It’s a deep in-the-trenches book and Publishing that all aspiring immersion writers should have in hand as they take that first leap into another world. NOVEMBER 192 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41616-8 Cloth $55.00x/£38.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-11306-7 Ted Conover is a journalist and associate professor of journalism at New York Paper $18.00/£12.50 University. His book Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing won the National Book Critics E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-11323-4 Circle Award in 2000 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Conover is also REFERENCE the author of Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America’s Hoboes; Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders with America’s Mexican Migrants; Whiteout: Lost in Aspen; and The Routes of Man: Travels in the Paved World. He regularly writes for the New York Times, Harper’s, the Atlantic, and many other publications.

16 general interest ROBERT J. RICHARDS and MICHAEL RUSE Debating Darwin

harles Darwin is easily the most famous scientist of the modern age, and his theory of evolution is constantly refer- C enced in many contexts by scientists and non-scientists alike. And yet, despite how frequently his ideas are evoked, there remains a surprising amount we don’t know about the father of modern evolu- tionary thinking, his intellectual roots, and the science he produced. Debating Darwin seeks to change that, bringing together two leading Darwin scholars—Robert J. Richards and Michael Ruse—to engage in a spirited and insightful dialogue. Examining key disagreements about Darwin that continue to confound even committed Darwinists, Richards and Ruse offer sur- prisingly divergent views on the origins and nature of Darwin and his “This engaging dialogue between Richards ideas. Ruse argues that Darwin was quintessentially British and that and Ruse is both an excellent, accessible the roots of his thought can be traced back to the eighteenth century, summary of two distinguished schol- particularly to the Industrial Revolution and thinkers such as Adam arly careers of research on Darwin and Smith and Thomas Robert Malthus. Ruse argues that when these influ- evolution and a source of fresh insights. ences are appreciated, we can see how Darwin’s work in biology is an Although the authors situate Darwin’s extension of their theories. In contrast, Richards presents Darwin as a life and thought in two very different more cosmopolitan, self-educated man, influenced as much by French cultural contexts—German romanticism and particularly German thinkers. Above all, argues Richards, it was (Richards) and English gentlemanly Alexander von Humboldt who both inspired Darwin and gave him the society (Ruse)—the reader is struck more conceptual tools that he needed to find and formulate his evolutionary by how compatible and instructive these hypotheses. Together, the authors show how the reverberations of the accounts are for understanding Darwin’s contrasting views on Darwin’s influences can be felt in theories about thought as a rich and fertile source of the nature of natural selection, the role of metaphor in science, and subsequent inspiration and debate. A the place of God in Darwin’s thought. highly recommended introduction to the Revealing how much there still is to investigate and interrogate topic for students and general readers about Darwin’s ideas, Debating Darwin concludes with a jointly authored and an entertaining read for veterans of chapter that brings this debate into the present, focusing on human the Darwin wars.” —David Sepkoski, evolution, consciousness, religion, and morality. This will be powerful, author of Rereading the Fossil Record essential reading for anyone seeking a comprehensive understanding of modern-day evolutionary science and philosophy. SEPTEMBER 320 p., 21 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38442-9 Cloth $30.00/£21.00 Robert J. Richards is the Morris Fishbein Distinguished Service Professor in E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38439-9 History of Science at the University of Chicago. Michael Ruse is director of the SCIENCE Program in the History and Philosophy of Science at Florida State University.

general interest 17 FORREST STUART Down, Out, and Under Arrest Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row

n his first year working in Los Angeles’s Skid Row, Forrest Stuart was stopped on the street by police fourteen times. Usually for Idoing little more than standing there. Juliette, a woman he met during that time, has been stopped by police well over one hundred times, arrested upward of sixty times, and has given up more than a year of her life serving week-long jail “Stuart’s extraordinary field work in sentences. Her most common crime? Simply sitting on the sidewalk— LA’s Skid Row sheds new light on the an arrestable offense in LA. regulation of the urban poor in the Why? What purpose did those arrests serve, for society or for Juliette? twenty-first century. This is urban How did we reach a point where we’ve cut support for our poorest citi- ethnography at its best.” zens, yet are spending ever more on policing and prisons? That’s the —Mitchell Duneier, author of Ghetto: The Invention complicated, maddening story that Stuart tells in Down, Out, and Under of a Place, the History of an Idea Arrest, a close-up look at the hows and whys of policing poverty in the contemporary United States. What emerges from Stuart’s years of field- SEPTEMBER 352 p., 13 halftones, 2 maps 6 x 9 work—not only with Skid Row residents, but with the police charged ISBN-13: 978-0-226-37081-1 Cloth $27.50/£19.50 with managing them—is a tragedy built on mistakes and misplaced E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-37095-8 priorities more than on heroes and villains. He reveals a situation SOCIOLOGY where a lot of people on both sides of this issue are genuinely trying to do the right thing, yet often come up short. Sometimes, in ways that do serious harm. At a time when distrust between police and the residents of disad- vantaged neighborhoods has never been higher, Stuart’s book helps us see where we’ve gone wrong, and what steps we could take to begin to change the lives of our poorest citizens—and ultimately our society itself—for the better.

Forrest Stuart is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Chicago.

18 general interest ALEXANDRA CHASIN Assassin of Youth A Kaleidoscopic History of Harry J. Anslinger’s War on Drugs

ommissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics from its establishment in 1930 until his retirement in 1962, Harry J. C Anslinger was to drug enforcement what J. Edgar Hoover was to crime more generally. Anslinger was best known for his relentless prosecution of drug offenders and his particular animus for marijuana users. But what made Anslinger who he was, and what cultural trends did he amplify and institutionalize? Having just passed the hundredth anniversary of the Harrison Act—which consolidated prohibitionist drug policy and led to the carceral state we have today—and as public “Assassin of Youth is an extraordinary doubts about the drug war continue to grow, now is the perfect time to book: part biography, part cultural evaluate the social, cultural, and political legacy of America’s first drug history, part lyric essay, part critique czar. of a century of public policy—and from In Assassin of Youth, Alexandra Chasin gives us a lyrical, digres- beginning to end a singular experiment sive, funny, and ultimately riveting quasi-biography of Anslinger. Her in literary form. In a voice that is by turns treatment of the man, his times, and the world that arose around and rhythmic, interpretative, interrogative, through him is part cultural history, part lyrical meditation. Each ruminative, and digressive, Chasin makes of the short, kaleidoscopic chapters is anchored in a historical docu- daring leaps through space and time, ment—a piece of legislation, a court decision, a cartoon from the Wasp, showing us things about Harry Anslinger a photo of a rumrunner—and engages personages, presumptions, and the origins of prohibitionist drug insights, and blind spots past and present to illuminate Anslinger and policies that no one has shown us before. his world. From the Pharmacopeia of 1820 to the Pennsylvania Railroad Chasin’s prose is absorbing. Her point, to early film star Wally Reid, and taking in gangster lives, CIA opera- timely, even urgent.” tives, and popular detective stories, Chasin covers impressive ground. —James Goodman, author of But Where Is the Lamb? Assassin of Youth is as riotous and loose a history of drug laws as can be Imagining the Story of Abraham and Isaac imagined—and yet it culminates in an arresting and precise portrait of where drug prohibition has gotten us. OCTOBER 352 p., 75 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-27697-7 Today, even as marijuana is slowly being legalized, we have not yet Cloth $35.00/£24.50 fully reckoned with the haze of influences and mentalities that have E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-27702-8 BIOGRAPHY AMERICAN HISTORY enabled our long embrace of severe punishments for drug possession and use. Chasin here shows us the deep, twisted roots of our love and our hatred for drugs of all sorts.

Alexandra Chasin is associate professor of literary studies at Eugene Lang College, the New School. She is the author of several books of fiction and nonfiction. general interest 19 SIMON GOLDHILL A Very Queer Family Indeed Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain

“We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love story of anything like the usual kind.”

o begins A Very Queer Family Indeed, which introduces us to the extraordinary Benson family. Edward White Benson became SArchbishop of Canterbury at the height of Queen Victoria’s “This bold, erudite, and highly original reign, while his wife, Mary, was renowned for her wit and charm—the book takes as its principal subject the prime minister once wondered whether she was “the cleverest woman vast literary output of an extraordinary in England or in Europe.” The couple’s six precocious children includ- Victorian family—that of Archbishop ed E. F. Benson, celebrated creator of the Mapp and Lucia novels, and Edward W. Benson and his wife and Margaret Benson, the first published female Egyptologist. children, almost all of whom published What interests Simon Goldhill most, however, is what went on extensively. Goldhill makes a series of behind the scenes, which was even more unusual than anyone could brilliant forays into Victorian discussions imagine. Inveterate writers, the Benson family spun out novels, essays, of sex and sexuality, of religious belief and thousands of letters that open stunning new perspectives—includ- and doubt, and of topics as engaging and ing what it might mean for an adult to kiss and propose marriage to a complexly shaded as ‘discretion’ and ‘in- twelve-year-old girl, how religion in a family could support or destroy discretion.’ A Very Queer Family Indeed is, relationships, or how the death of a child could be celebrated. No all told, a remarkable achievement—one other family has left such detailed records about their most intimate that is both beautifully written and com- moments, and in these remarkable accounts, we see how family life pulsively readable.” and a family’s understanding of itself took shape during a time when —Christopher Lane, author of The Age of Doubt: Tracing the psychoanalysis, scientific and historical challenges to religion, and new Roots of Our Religious Uncertainty ways of thinking about society were developing. This is the story of the Bensons, but it is also more than that—it is the story of how society OCTOBER 344 p., 8 halftones 6 x 9 transitioned from the high Victorian period into modernity. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39378-0 Cloth $35.00/£24.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39381-0 Simon Goldhill is professor of Greek and the director of the Centre for BIOGRAPHY HISTORY Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Cam- bridge. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the author of many books, including Freud’s Couch, Scott’s Buttocks, Brontë’s Grave; How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today; and Love, Sex & Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives, all also published by the University of Chicago Press.

20 general interest JULIA L. FOULKES A Place for Us West Side Story and New York

rom its Broadway debut to the Oscar-winning film to countless

amateur productions, West Side Story is nothing less than an F American touchstone—an updating of Shakespeare located in a vividly realized, rapidly changing postwar New York. That vision of postwar New York is at the heart of Julia L. Foulkes’s A Place for Us. A lifelong fan of the show, Foulkes became interested in its history when she made an unexpected discovery: parts of the iconic film version were shot on the demolition site of what would ultimately be part of the Lincoln Center redevelopment—a crowning jewel of postwar urban renewal. Foulkes interweaves the story of the creation of the musical and film with the remaking of the Upper West Side “A Place for Us tells a new story about one and the larger tale of New York’s postwar aspirations. Making unprec- of American theater’s most important edented use of choreographer Jerome Robbins’s revelatory papers, she plays. A skillful historian, Foulkes delves shows the crucial role played by the political commitments of Robbins deeply into the archive to recover the and his fellow gay, Jewish collaborators, Leonard Bernstein and Arthur details and dynamics of West Side Story Laurents: their determination to evoke life in New York as it was actu- from its conception and production to its ally lived helped give West Side Story its unshakable sense of place even film adaptation and global circulation. In as it put forward a vision of a new, vigorous, determinedly multicul- doing so, she connects that story to the tural American city. contemporaneous events and cultural anxieties that made the musical both Beautifully written and full of surprises for even the most dedi- timely and timeless.” cated West Side Story fan, A Place for Us is a love letter to an American —Shane Vogel, classic. University of Indiana

Julia L. Foulkes is professor of history at the New School in New York and the OCTOBER 272 p., 53 halftones 6 x 9 author of Modern Bodies: Dance and American Modernism from Martha Graham to ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30180-8 Alvin Ailey and To the City: Urban Photographs of the New Deal. Cloth $30.00/£21.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30194-5 FILM STUDIES MUSIC

general interest 21 ROBERT HARIMAN and JOHN LOUIS LUCAITES The Public Image Photography and Civic Spectatorship

lthough the media environment has changed dramatically in recent years, one thing at least remains true: photographs are A everywhere. From professional news photos to smartphone selfies, images have become part of the fabric of modern life. And that may be the problem. Even as photography bears witness, it provokes anxieties about fraudulent representation; even as it evokes compas- sion, it prompts anxieties about excessive exposure. Parents and pundits alike worry about the unprecedented media saturation that transforms society into an image world. And yet a great news photo “A timely treatise that takes stock of can still stop us in our tracks, and the ever-expanding photographic contemporary theory and attends to the archive documents an era of continuous change. undervalued ways in which photography By confronting these conflicted reactions to photography, Robert helps us understand what it means to be Hariman and John Louis Lucaites make the case for a fundamental modern in the twenty-first century.” shift in how we understand photography and public culture. In place —Liam Kennedy, of suspicions about the medium’s capacity for distraction, deception, author of Afterimages: Photography and US Foreign Policy and manipulation, they suggest how it can provide resources for demo- cratic communication and thoughtful reflection about contemporary

NOVEMBER 352 p., 48 color plates 6 x 9 social problems. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-34293-1 Cloth $35.00/£24.50 The key to living well in the image world is to unlock photography E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-34309-9 from viewing habits that inhibit robust civic spectatorship. Through PHOTOGRAPHY AMERICAN HISTORY insightful interpretations of dozens of news images, The Public Image reveals how the artistry of the still image can inform, challenge, and guide reflection regarding endemic violence, environmental degrada- tion, income inequity, and other chronic problems that will define the twenty-first century. By shifting from conventional suspicions to a renewed encounter with the image, Hariman and Lucaites challenge us to see more deeply on behalf of a richer life for all and to acknowledge our obligations as spectators who are, crucially, also citizens.

Robert Hariman is professor of rhetoric and public culture in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. John Louis Lucaites is provost professor of rhetoric and public culture in the Department of English at Indiana University. Together they are the authors of No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy.

22 general interest PEGGY MACNAMARA Nature’s Portraits A Coloring Book of Scales, Tails, Furs, and Wings

hen it comes to color, nothing can surpass the vast palette found in nature, from a bright green leaf in a sun-dappled W forest to the rich red feathers of a cardinal and the muted greens, ambers, and browns that make up the shell of a tortoise. Wildlife artist Peggy Macnamara has been recreating the natural world through her drawings and paintings for decades, and, with Nature’s

Portraits, she invites the rest of the world to join her. AUGUST 128 p., 60 halftones 81/4 x 93/4 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-43155-0 Nature’s Portraits offers sixty of Macnamara’s detailed drawings that Paper $15.00/£10.50 can be brought brilliantly to life with nothing more than a few colored NATURE COLORING BOOKS pencils or crayons and a sense of wonder about the world around us. Many of the drawings depict animals as they might appear in their natural habitats—like a tree frog; a dashing, playful fox; a snowy owl poised for flight; a sauntering jaguar; and a watchful herd of giraffe. These wild furry and feathered friends are joined by animals found in museums, including Sue, the Field Museum’s resident Tyrannosaurus rex. Each illustration is captioned with a brief scientific description of the species pictured. Combining inspiration from natural history with a calming, creative activity, Nature’s Portraits encourages us to take a closer look at what we miss when we don’t take the time to stop and look with deep appreciation at the bounty of the natural world around us.

Peggy Macnamara is adjunct associate professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; artist-in-residence and associate of the zool- ogy program at the Field Museum; instructor at the Field Museum, Chicago Public Libraries Nature Connection, and Art Institute family programs; and the author of several books, including, most recently, The Art of Migration, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

general interest 23 Life Pig Last Lake ALAN SHAPIRO REGINALD GIBBONS

Alan Shapiro’s newest book of poetry is situated at the in- In his tenth book of poems, Reginald Gibbons immerses tersection between private and public history, as well as in- the reader in many different places and moments of inten- dividual life and the collective life of middle-class America sity, including a lake in the Canadian north, a neighbor- in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Whether writing hood in Chicago, the poet Osip Mandelstam’s midnight of about an aged and dying parent or remembering incidents social cataclysm and imagination, a horse caravan in Texas, from childhood and adolescence, Shapiro attends to the and an archaeological dig on the steppes near the Volga world in ways that are as deeply personal as they are recog- River. Last Lake begins with a cougar and ends with bees; nizable and freshly social—both timeless and utterly of this it speaks in two ways—with reminiscence, meditation, and particular moment. memorial, and with springing leaps of image and thought.

Alan Shapiro has published many books, including Reel to Reel, Reginald Gibbons is the Frances Hooper Professor of Arts and a Pulitzer Prize finalist. A member of the American Academy of Humanities at Northwestern University. His poetry collections Arts and Sciences, he is the William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished include National Book Award finalist Creatures of a Day and Slow Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Trains Overhead: Chicago Poems and Stories, the latter also published Hill. A new collection of essays, That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless by the University of Chicago Press. Concentration, is also available this fall from the University of Chicago Press. OCTOBER 96 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41745-5 Paper $18.00 SEPTEMBER 96 p. 51/2 x 81/2 /£12.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40417-2 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41759-2 Paper $18.00/£12.50 POETRY E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40420-2 POETRY

24 general interest Chicago’s Block Clubs How Neighbors Shape the City AMANDA I. SELIGMAN

What do you do if your alley is strewn ment’s twenty-first-century community with garbage after the sanitation truck policing program. Recognizing that comes through? Or if you’re tired of many neighborhood problems are too the rowdy teenagers next door keep- big for one resident to handle—but too ing you up all night? Is there a vacant small for the city to keep up with—city lot on your block accumulating weeds, residents have for more than a century needles, and litter? For a century, Chi- created clubs to establish and maintain cagoans have joined block clubs to ad- their neighborhood’s particular social dress problems like these that make dynamics, quality of life, and appear- daily life in the city a nuisance. When ance. Omnipresent yet evanescent, neighbors work together in block clubs, block clubs are sometimes the major playgrounds get built, local crime is outlets for community organizing in monitored, streets are cleaned up, and the city—especially in neighborhoods Historical Studies of Urban America every summer is marked by the festivi- otherwise lacking in political strength ties of day-long block parties. and clout. Drawing on the stories of SEPTEMBER 312 p., 19 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38571-6 In Chicago’s Block Clubs, Amanda I. hundreds of these groups from across Cloth $90.00x/£63.00 Seligman uncovers the history of the the city, Seligman vividly illustrates ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38585-3 block club in Chicago—from its origins what neighbors can—and cannot—ac- Paper $30.00s/£21.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38599-0 in the Urban League in the early 1900s complish when they work together. AMERICAN HISTORY through to the Chicago Police Depart- POLITICAL SCIENCE

Amanda I. Seligman is professor of history and urban studies at the University of Wisconsin– Milwaukee. She is the author of Block by Block: Neighborhoods and Public Policy on Chicago’s West Side and is an editor of the Historical Studies of Urban America series.

Executing Freedom The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States DANIEL LACHANCE

In the mid-1990s, as public trust in big campaign speeches, true crime classics government was near an all-time low, like In Cold Blood, and films like Dead 80% of Americans told Gallup that they Man Walking, Daniel LaChance shows supported the death penalty. Why did how attitudes toward the death penalty people who didn’t trust government to have reflected broader shifts in Ameri- regulate the economy or provide daily cans’ thinking about the relationship services nonetheless believe that it between the individual and the state. should have the power to put its citizens Emerging from the height of 1970s dis- to death? illusion, the simplicity and moral power That question is at the heart of of the death penalty became a potent Executing Freedom, a powerful, wide- symbol for many Americans of what ranging examination of the place of government could do—and LaChance the death penalty in American cul- argues, fascinatingly, that it’s the very OCTOBER 272 p., 9 halftones, 1 line drawing 6 x 9 ture and how it has changed over the failure of capital punishment to live up ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06669-1 years. Drawing on an array of sources, to that mythology that could prove its Cloth $35.00s/£24.50 including congressional hearings and eventual undoing in the United States. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06672-1 AMERICAN HISTORY Daniel LaChance is assistant professor of history at Emory University. POLITICAL SCIENCE

special interest 25 JASON REID Get Out of My Room! A History of Teen Bedrooms in America

eenage life is tough. You’re at the mercy of parents, teachers, and siblings, all of whom insist on continuing to treat you like T a kid and refuse to leave you alone. So what do you do when it all gets to be too much? You retreat to your room (and maybe slam the door). Even in our era of Snapchat and hoverboards, bedrooms remain “During the nineteenth century, room a key part of teenage life, one of the only areas where a teen can exert arrangements for children—particularly control and find some privacy. And while these separate bedrooms teenagers—changed dramatically, with only became commonplace after World War II, the idea of the teen the unusual turn toward separate rooms. bedroom has been around for a long time. With Get Out of My Room!, In Get Out of My Room!, Reid documents Jason Reid digs into the deep historical roots of the teen bedroom and the causes of this change: shifts in its surprising cultural power. He starts in the first half of the nine- prosperity, demographics, and, particu- teenth century, when urban-dwelling middle-class families began to larly, the advice of experts. He traces this consider offering teens their own spaces in the home, and he traces trend across social groups, touching on that concept through subsequent decades, as social, economic, cultur- gender, class, and race. Along the way, al, and demographic changes caused it to become more widespread. Reid picks up concomitants of this trend: Along the way, Reid shows us how the teen bedroom, with its stuffed patterns of decoration, technology and animals, movie posters, AM radios, and other trappings of youthful consumer goods, entertainments, paren- identity, reflected the growing involvement of young people in Ameri- tal concerns, and parental anxiety over can popular culture, and also how teens and parents, in the shadow of sex and drugs. It’s a comprehensive and ongoing social changes, continually negotiated the boundaries of this compelling assessment of a major shift intensely personal space. in the history of socialization and family Richly detailed and full of surprising stories and insights, Get Out relations.” of My Room! is sure to offer insight and entertainment to anyone with —Peter Stearns, wistful memories of their teenage years. (But little brothers should George Mason University definitely keep out.)

DECEMBER 320 p., 10 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40921-4 Jason Reid, a historian of childhood and youth, teaches at Ryerson University Cloth $45.00s/£31.50 in Toronto. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40935-1 AMERICAN HISTORY

26 special interest Charles Ellis Johnson and the Erotic Mormon Image MARY CAMPBELL

On September 25, 1890, the fourth mail-order erotica, shooting and selling Mormon prophet, Wilford Woodruff, stereoviews that he referred to as his publicly instructed his followers to aban- “spicy pictures of girls.” Situating these don polygamy. In doing so, he initiated images and more within the religious, a process that would fundamentally artistic, and legal culture of turn-of- alter the Latter-day Saints and their the-century America, Campbell reveals faith. Trading the most integral ele- the unexpected ways in which they ments of their belief system for national worked in concert to bring the Saints acceptance, the Mormons re-created back into the nation’s mainstream after themselves as model Americans. the scandal of polygamy. Mary Campbell tells the story of Engaging, interdisciplinary, and this remarkable religious transforma- deeply researched, Charles Ellis Johnson NOVEMBER 192 p., 10 color plates, tion in Charles Ellis Johnson and the Erotic and the Erotic Mormon Image demon- 75 halftones 81/2 x 11 Mormon Image. One of the church’s fa- strates the profound role that pictures ISBN-13: 978-0-226-37369-0 Cloth $45.00s/£31.50 vorite photographers, Johnson (1857– played in the creation of both the mod- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41017-3 1926) spent the 1890s and early 1900s ern Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- AMERICAN HISTORY RELIGION taking pictures of Mormonism’s most day Saints and the modern American revered figures and sacred sites. At the nation. same time, he did a brisk business in Mary Campbell is assistant professor of art history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Evangelical Gotham Religion and the Making of New York City, 1783–1860 KYLE ROBERTS

At first glance, evangelical and Gotham town, evangelicals stood ready to build seem like an odd pair. What does a meetinghouses. As the city’s financial movement of pious converts and re- center emerged and solidified, evan- formers have to do with a city notorious- gelicals capitalized on the resultant ly full of temptation and sin? More than wealth, technology, and resources to you might think, says Kyle Roberts, who expand their missionary and benevo- argues that religion must be considered lent causes. When they began to feel alongside immigration, commerce, and that the city’s morals had degenerated, real estate scarcity as one of the forces evangelicals turned to temperance, that shaped the New York City we know Sunday school, prayer meetings, anti- today. slavery causes, and urban missions to In Evangelical Gotham, Roberts ex- reform their neighbors. The result of plores the role of the urban evangelical these efforts was Evangelical Gotham— Historical Studies of Urban community in the development of New a complicated and contradictory world America York between the American Revolution whose influence spread far beyond the OCTOBER 352 p., 32 halftones, 7 maps, and the Civil War. As developers pre- shores of Manhattan. 8 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38814-4 pared to open new neighborhoods up- Cloth $50.00s/£35.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38828-1 Kyle Roberts is assistant professor of public history and new media at Loyola University Chicago and director of the Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project. AMERICAN HISTORY RELIGION

special interest 27 The Fixers Devolution, Development, and Civil Society in Newark, 1960–1990 JULIA RABIG

Stories of Newark’s postwar decline meet—people who devised ways to work are easy to find. But in The Fixers, Julia with limited resources and pull together Rabig supplements these tales of misery the threads of a patchwork welfare state. with the story of the many imaginative Rabig argues that fixers play dual challenges to the city’s decline mount- roles. They support resistance, but also ed by Newark’s residents and suburban mediation; they fight for reform, but neighbors. In these pages, we meet also more radical and far-reaching al- the black nationalists whose dynamic ternatives; they rally others to a collec- organizing elected African American tive cause, but sometimes they broker candidates in unprecedented numbers. factions. Fixers reflect longer traditions There are tenants who mounted a his- of organizing while responding to the Historical Studies of Urban America toric rent strike to transform public demands of their times. In so doing, they housing and renegade white Catholic end up fixing (like a fixative) a new and OCTOBER 336 p., 15 halftones, 1 table 6 x 9 priests who joined black laywomen to enduring pattern of activist strategies, re- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38831-1 pioneer the construction of low-income forms, and institutional expectations—a Cloth $45.00s /£31.50 housing and influence housing policy. pattern we continue to see today. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38845-8 These are just a few of the “fixers” we AMERICAN HISTORY AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES Julia Rabig is a lecturer of history at Dartmouth College. She is coeditor of The Business of Black Power: Community Development, Capitalism, and Corporate Responsibility in Post-War America.

A Peaceful Conquest Woodrow Wilson, Religion, and the New World Order CARA LEA BURNIDGE

A century after his presidency, Woodrow attention to the role of religion than does Wilson remains one of the most com- previous scholarship, Burnidge shows pelling and complicated figures ever to how Wilson’s blend of Southern evan- occupy the Oval Office. A political out- gelicalism and social Christianity be- sider, Wilson brought to the presidency came a central part of how America saw a distinctive, strongly held worldview, itself in the world, influencing seem- built on powerful religious traditions ingly secular policy decisions in sub- that informed his idea of America and tle, lasting ways. Ultimately, Burnidge its place in the world. makes a case for Wilson’s religiosity as With A Peaceful Conquest, Cara Lea one of the key drivers of the emergence Burnidge presents the most detailed of the public conception of America’s OCTOBER 232 p., 9 halftones 6 x 9 analysis yet of how Wilson’s religious unique, indispensable role in interna- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-23231-7 tional relations. Cloth $45.00s/£31.50 beliefs affected his vision of American E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-23245-4 foreign policy, with repercussions that As the presidential election cycle AMERICAN HISTORY RELIGION lasted into the Cold War and beyond. once again raises questions of Ameri- Framing Wilson’s intellectual develop- ca’s place in the world, A Peaceful Con- ment in relationship to the national quest offers a fascinating excavation of religious landscape, and paying greater its little-known roots.

Cara Lea Burnidge is assistant professor of religion at the University of Northern Iowa.

28 special interest Mothers on the Move Reproducing Belonging between Africa and Europe PAMELA FELDMAN-SAVELSBERG

The massive scale and complexity of of their lives—at a hometown associa- international migration today tends tion’s year-end party, a celebration for to obscure the nuanced ways migrant a new baby, a visit to the Foreigners’ families seek a sense of belonging. In Office, and many others—as well as this book, Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg the stories they tell one another, Feld- takes readers back and forth between man-Savelsberg enlivens our thinking Cameroon and Germany to explore about migrants’ lives and the networks how migrant mothers—through the and repertoires that they draw on to careful and at times difficult manage- find stability and, ultimately, belong- ment of relationships—juggle belong- ing. Placing women’s individual voices ing in multiple places at once: their new within international social contexts, country, their old country, and the dia- this book unveils new, intimate links be- sporic community that bridges them. tween the geographical and the genera- NOVEMBER 280 p., 15 halftones, 1 table 6 x 9 Feldman-Savelsberg introduces read- tional as they intersect in the dreams, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38974-5 ers to several Cameroonian mothers, frustrations, uncertainties, and resolve Cloth $90.00x/£63.00 each with her own unique history, of strong women holding families to- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38988-2 Paper $30.00s/£21.00 concerns, and voice. Through scenes gether across continents. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38991-2 Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg is the Broom Professor of Social Demography and Anthropol- ANTHROPOLOGY AFRICAN STUDIES ogy at Carleton College. She is the author of Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs and the editor of Reproduction, Collective Memory, and Generation in Africa.

When We Imagine Grace Black Men and Subject Making SIMONE C. DRAKE

Simone C. Drake spent the first several own stories. Against a backdrop of cri- decades of her life learning how to love sis, Drake brings forth the narratives and protect herself, a black woman, of black men who have imagined grace from the systems designed to facilitate for themselves. We meet African Ameri- her harm and marginalization. But can cowboy, Nat Love, and Drake’s own when she gave birth to the first of her grandfather, who served in the first three sons, she quickly learned that black military unit to fight in World black boys would need protection from War II. Synthesizing black feminist and these very same systems—systems dead black masculinity studies, Drake ana- set on the static, homogenous represen- lyzes black fathers and daughters, the tations of black masculinity perpetu- valorization of black criminals, and ated in the media and our cultural dis- the denigration and celebration of gay course. men, including Cornelius Eady, An- AUGUST 248 p., 21 halftones 6 x 9 In When We Imagine Grace, Drake toine Dodson, and Kehinde Wiley. With ISBN-13: 978-0-226-36383-7 Cloth $105.00x/£73.50 borrows from Toni Morrison’s Beloved a powerful command of its subjects and ISBN-13: 978-0-226-36397-4 to bring imagination to the center of a passionate dedication to hope, When Paper $35.00s/£24.50 black masculinity studies—allowing We Imagine Grace gives us a new way of E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-36402-5 individual black men to exempt them- seeing and knowing black masculin- AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES AMERICAN HISTORY selves and their fates from a hateful, ity—sophisticated in concept and brac- ignorant society and open themselves ingly vivid in telling. up as active agents at the center of their

Simone C. Drake is associate professor of African American and African studies at Ohio State University. She is the author of Critical Appropriations: African American Women and the Construction of Transnational Identity. special interest 29 DANIEL L. EVERETT Dark Matter of the Mind The Culturally Articulated Unconscious

s it in our nature to be altruistic, or evil, to make art, use tools, or create language? Is it in our nature to think in any particular I way? For Daniel L. Everett, the answer is a resounding no: it isn’t in our nature to do any of these things because human nature does not exist—at least not as we usually think of it. Flying in the face of major trends in evolutionary psychology and related fields, he offers a provocative and compelling argument in this book that the only thing “Everett draws on his own deep insights humans are hardwired for is freedom: freedom from evolutionary in- gained from living and working in non- stinct and freedom to adapt to a variety of environmental and cultural Western cultures in order to make a contexts. powerful argument for the influence of Everett sketches a blank-slate picture of human cognition that culture on unconscious forces that under- focuses not on what is in the mind but, rather, what the mind is lie human behavior and the individual’s in—namely, culture. He draws on years of field research among the sense of self. After decades of a field Amazonian people of the Pirahã in order to carefully scrutinize vari- derailed by ethnocentric, instinct-based ous theories of cognitive instinct, including Noam Chomsky’s founda- views of language and the mind, the cog- tional concept of universal grammar, Freud’s notions of unconscious nitive sciences need the sort of informed forces, Adolf Bastian’s psychic unity of mankind, and works on massive analyses his book offers of the relation- modularity by evolutionary psychologists such as Leda Cosmides, John ships among culture, cognition, and Tooby, Jerry Fodor, and Steven Pinker. Illuminating unique charac- language as they are embodied in speech teristics of the Pirahã language, he demonstrates just how differently and gesture.” —Elena Levy, various cultures can make us think and how vital culture is to our University of Connecticut cognitive flexibility. Outlining the ways culture and individual psychol- ogy operate symbiotically, he posits a Buddhist-like conception of the NOVEMBER 400 p., 6 halftones, cultural self as a set of experiences united by various apperceptions, 18 line drawings, 2 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07076-6 episodic memories, ranked values, knowledge structures, and social Cloth $40.00s/£28.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40143-0 roles—and not, in any shape or form, biological instinct. ANTHROPOLOGY LINGUISTICS The result is a fascinating portrait of the “dark matter of the mind,” one that shows that our greatest evolutionary adaptation is adaptability itself.

Daniel L. Everett is the dean of arts and sciences at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He is the author of many books, including Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes; Language: The Cultural Tool; and Linguistic Fieldwork: A Student Guide. His life and work is also the subject of a documentary film, The 30 special interest Grammar of Happiness. Ours to Lose When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City AMY STARECHESKI

Though New York’s Lower East Side to- ment through a close look at a diverse day is home to high-end condos and hip group of Lower East Side squatters who restaurants, it spent decades as an infa- occupied abandoned city-owned build- mous site of blight, open-air drug deal- ings in the 1980s, fought to keep them ing, and class conflict—an emblematic for decades, and eventually began a example of the tattered state of 1970s long, complicated process to turn their and ’80s Manhattan. illegal occupancy into legal cooperative Those decades of strife, however, ownership. Amy Starecheski not only also gave the Lower East Side some- tells a little-known New York story, she thing unusual: a radical movement that also shows how property shapes our blended urban homesteading and Eu- sense of ourselves as social beings and ropean-style squatting into something explores the ethics of homeownership never before seen in the United States. and debt in post-recession America. NOVEMBER 344 p., 13 halftones 6 x 9 Ours to Lose tells the story of that move- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39980-5 Cloth $90.00x/£63.00 Amy Starecheski is associate director of the Oral History Master of Arts program at ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39994-2 Paper $30.00s Columbia University. /£21.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40000-6 ANTHROPOLOGY HISTORY

Patterns in Circulation Cloth, Gender, and Materiality in West Africa NINA SYLVANUS

In this book, Nina Sylvanus tells a as a status marker that has dominated captivating story of global trade and the visual economy of West African cross-cultural aesthetics in West Africa, markets. Although most wax cloth is showing how a group of Togolese wom- produced in China today, it continues en—through the making and circula- to be central to the expression of West tion of wax cloth—became influential African women’s identity and power. agents of taste and history. Traveling As Sylvanus shows, wax cloth expresses deep into the shifting terrain of textile more than this global motion of goods, manufacture, design, and trade, she capital, aesthetics, and labor—it is a follows wax cloth around the world and form of archive where intimate and through time to unveil its critical role national memories are stored, always in colonial and postcolonial patterns of ready to be reanimated by human exchange and value production. touch. By uncovering this crucial aspect NOVEMBER 224 p., 10 color plates, of West African material culture, she 18 halftones 6 x 9 Sylvanus brings wax cloth’s unique ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39719-1 and complex history to light: born as enriches our understanding of global Cloth $90.00x/£63.00 a nineteenth-century Dutch colonial trade, the mutual negotiations that ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39722-1 Paper $30.00s effort to copy Javanese batik cloth for drive it, and how these create different /£21.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39736-8 Southeast Asian markets, it was reborn forms of agency and subjectivity. ANTHROPOLOGY AFRICAN STUDIES Nina Sylvanus is assistant professor of anthropology at Northeastern University.

special interest 31 JEAN COMAROFF and JOHN L. COMAROFF The Truth about Crime Sovereignty, Knowledge, Social Order

n this book, renowned anthropologists Jean and John L. Coma- roff make a startling but absolutely convincing claim about our I modern era: it is not by our arts, our politics, or our science that we understand ourselves—it is by our crimes. Surveying an astonish- ing range of forms of crime and policing—from petty thefts to the multibillion-dollar scams of too-big-to-fail financial institutions to the collateral damage of war—they take readers into the disorder of the late modern world. Looking at recent transformations in the trian- “The Comaroffs’s constant articulation of gulation of capital, the state, and governance that have led to an era sparkling ethnographic vignettes, well- where crime and policing are ever more complicit, they offer a power- documented statistical data, and highly ful meditation on the new forms of sovereignty, citizenship, class, race, imaginative insights makes for a truly law, and political economy of representation that have arisen. effervescent argumentation, creative and, at the same time, thoroughly docu- To do so, the Comaroffs draw on their vast knowledge of South mented. With this combination they offer Africa, especially, and its struggle to build a democracy founded on a powerful book that newly addresses a the rule of law out of the wreckage of long years of violence and op- theme that is becoming central all over pression. There they explore everything from the fascination with the world: our increasing obsession with the supernatural in policing to the extreme measures people take (in)security.” to prevent home invasion, drawing illuminating comparisons to the —Peter Geschiere, United States and United Kingdom. Going beyond South Africa, they author of Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust offer a global criminal anthropology that attests to criminality as the constitutive fact of contemporary life, the vernacular by which politics DECEMBER 336 p., 9 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42488-0 are conducted, moral panics voiced, and populations ruled. Cloth $85.00x/£59.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42491-0 The result is a disturbing but necessary portrait of the modern era, Paper $27.50s/£19.50 one that asks critical new questions about how we see ourselves, how we E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42507-8 ANTHROPOLOGY AFRICAN STUDIES think about morality, and how we are going to proceed as a global society.

Jean Comaroff is the Alfred North Whitehead Professor of African and Afri- can American Studies and of Anthropology and an Oppenheimer Fellow in African Studies at Harvard University, where John L. Comaroff is the Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropol- ogy and an Oppenheimer Fellow in African Studies. Both honorary professors at the University of Cape Town, they have authored and coauthored many books, several together, including Of Revelation and Revolution (Volumes 1 and 2), Law and Disorder in the Postcolony, and Ethnicity Inc., all published by the University of Chicago Press, and, most recently, Theory from the South: Or, How 32 special interest Euro-America is Evolving toward Africa. Affective Circuits African Migrations to Europe and the Pursuit of Social Regeneration Edited by JENNIFER COLE and CHRISTIAN GROES

Affective Circuits brings together essays by remain back home. They also show the an international group of well-known an- complex ways that emotions become thropologists to place the migrant fam- entangled in these exchanges. Exam- ily front and center. Moving between Af- ining how these circuits operate in do- rica and Europe, the book explores the mains of social life ranging from child many ways migrants sustain and rework fosterage to binational marriages, from family ties and intimate relationships at coming-of-age to healing and religious home and abroad. It demonstrates how rituals, the book also registers the tre- their quotidian efforts—on such a mass mendous impact of state officials, laws, scale—contribute to a broader process and policies on migrant experience. To- of social regeneration. gether these essays paint an especially The contributors point to the inter- vivid portrait of new forms of kinship NOVEMBER 352 p., 23 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40501-8 at a time of both intense mobility and secting streams of goods, people, ideas, Cloth $105.00x/£73.50 and money as they circulate between ever-tightening borders. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40515-5 African migrants and their kin who Paper $35.00s/£24.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40529-2 Jennifer Cole is an anthropologist and professor in the Department of Comparative Human ANTHROPOLOGY AFRICAN STUDIES Development at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Forget Colonialism and Sex and Salvation, and coeditor of Love in Africa, the latter two published by the University of Chicago Press. Christian Groes is an anthropologist and associate professor in the Depart- ment of Culture and Identity at Roskilde University in Denmark. He is the author of Trans- gressive Sexualities and coeditor of Studying Intimate Matters.

African Futures Essays on Crisis, Emergence, and Possibility Edited by BRIAN GOLDSTONE and JUAN OBARRIO

Civil wars, corporate exploitation, in various social and cultural forms AIDS, and Ebola—but also democracy, emerging on the continent today: the burgeoning cities, and unprecedented reconfiguration of the urban, the ef- communication and mobility: the fu- florescence of signs and wonders and ture of Africa has never been more gospels of prosperity, the assorted uncertain. Indeed, that future is one techniques of legality and illegality, of the most complex issues in contem- lotteries and Ponzi schemes, apocalyp- porary anthropology, as evidenced by tic visions, a yearning for exile, and the incredible wealth of ideas offered many other phenomena. Bringing to- in this landmark volume. A consortium gether social, political, religious, and comprised of some of the most impor- economic viewpoints, the book reveals tant scholars of Africa today, this book not one but multiple prospects for the surveys an intellectual landscape of op- future of Africa. In doing so, it offers a NOVEMBER 264 p., 1 halftone, 1 table posed perspectives in order to think pathbreaking model of pluralistic and 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40224-6 within the contradictions that charac- open-ended thinking and a powerful Cloth $90.00x/£63.00 terize this central question: Where is tool for addressing the vexing uncer- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40238-3 Africa headed? tainties that underlie so many futures Paper $30.00s/£21.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40241-3 The experts in this book address around the world. ANTHROPOLOGY AFRICAN STUDIES Africa’s future as it is embedded with-

Brian Goldstone is an anthropologist and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University. Juan Obarrio is assistant professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University and the author of The Spirit of the Laws in Mozam- bique, published by the University of Chicago Press. special interest 33 Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited New Answers to Old Questions Edited by JOANNA BLASZCZAK, ANASTASIA GIANNAKIDOU, DOROTA KLIMEK-JANKOWSKA, and KRZYSZTOF MIGDALSKI

Over the past several decades, linguistic well-studied languages have cultivated theorizing of tense, aspect, and mood a sense of predictability in patterns (TAM), along with a growing body of over time. As the editors and contribu- crosslinguistic studies, have revealed tors of Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited complexity in the data that challenges prove, however, this predictability and traditional distinctions and treatments stability vanish in the study of lesser- of these categories. Mood, Aspect, Modal- known patterns and languages. The ten ity Revisited argues that it’s time to re- provocative essays gathered here pres- visit our conventional assumptions, and ent fascinating cutting-edge research reconsider our foundational questions: that demonstrates that the traditional What exactly is a linguistic category? grammatical distinctions are ultimately OCTOBER 400 p., 17 halftones, What kinds of categories do labels such fluid—and perhaps even illusory. De- 15 line drawings, 14 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-36352-3 as “subjunctive,” “imperative,” “future,” veloping groundbreaking and highly Cloth $70.00s/£49.00 and “modality” truly refer to? In short, original theories, contributors in this E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-36366-0 how categorical are categories? Current volume seek out to unravel more gen- LINGUISTICS literature assumes a straightforward eral, fundamental principles of TAM link between grammatical category and that can help us better understand the semantic function, and descriptions of nature of linguistic representations.

Joanna Blaszczak is professor at the Institute of English Studies at University of Wrocław, Poland. Anastasia Giannakidou is professor of linguistics at the University of Chicago. “Inheritance of Loss is an excellent Dorota Klimek-Jankowska is assistant professor at the Institute of English Studies at the book, offering a unique, original, University of Wrocław, Poland. Krzysztof Migdalski is assistant professor at the Institute of English Studies at the University of Wrocław, Poland. and cogent account of the legacy of Japanese colonialism in China from a contemporary anthropological and historical perspective. Koga Inheritance of Loss has collected fascinating infor- China, Japan, and the Political Economy of Redemption mation from Chinese survivors, after Empire descendants, Japanese tourists, YUKIKO KOGA Korean residents, academics, officials, and other ordinary citizens How do contemporary generations to create special economic zones, while come to terms with losses inflicted unexpectedly unearthing chemical from her numerous interviews, by imperialism, colonialism, and war weapons abandoned by the Japanese Im- casual conversations, in-depth that took place decades ago? How do perial Army at the end of World War II. exchanges, and careful evaluation descendants of perpetrators and vic- Inheritance of Loss ethnographically of extant historical materials.” tims establish new relations in today’s chronicles these sites of colonial inheri- —Rey Chow, globalized economy? With Inheritance tance—tourist destinations, corporate Duke University of Loss, Yukiko Koga approaches these zones, and mustard gas exposure sites— questions through the unique lens of to illustrate deeply entangled attempts Studies of the Weatherhead East inheritance, focusing on Northeast by ordinary Chinese and Japanese to Asian Institute China, the former site of the Japanese reckon with their shared yet contested NOVEMBER 328 p., 37 halftones 6 x 9 puppet state Manchukuo, where mu- pasts. In her explorations of everyday ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41194-1 nicipal governments now court Japa- life and economy, Koga directs us to see Cloth $85.00x/£59.50 nese as investors and tourists. As China ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41213-9 how structures of violence and injustice Paper $27.50s/£19.50 transitions to a market-oriented society, that occurred after the demise of the E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41227-6 this region is restoring long-neglected Japanese Empire compound the losses ANTHROPOLOGY HISTORY colonial-era structures to boost tourism that later generations must account for and inviting former colonial industries and inevitably inherit.

Yukiko Koga is assistant professor of anthropology at Hunter College of the City University 34 special interest of New York. Provisional Authority “A fascinating, rich, and resonant book. I know of no study that Police, Order, and Security in India brings such an acute ethnographic BEATRICE JAUREGUI sensibility to bear on police sta- tions and structures as social As we know all too well, policing as a of authority at the same time that they global form is often fraught with ex- are asked to extend that authority into institutions, or on those who work cessive violence, corruption, and even any number of both official and unof- and live within those institutions. criminalization. These sorts of prob- ficial tasks. Her ethnography of their This is an engagingly written and lems are especially omnipresent in everyday life and work demonstrates exceptionally thought-provoking postcolonial nations such as India, that police authority is provisional in study, one that both illuminates a where Beatrice Jauregui has spent sev- several senses: shifting across time and consequential—and often highly eral years studying the day-to-day lives space, subject to the availability and of police officers in its most populous movement of resources, and dependent contested—contemporary Indian state, Uttar Pradesh. In this book, she upon shared moral codes and relentless institution and provides a meth- offers an empirically rich look at the instrumental demands. In the end, she odological and interpretive model great puzzle of police authority in con- shows that police authority in India is for thinking in subtle and genera- temporary India and its relationship to not a vulgar manifestation of raw power tive ways about institutions of all social order, democratic politics, and or the violence of law but, rather, a con- types—and in a wide range of state security. tingent social resource relied upon in Jauregui explores the paradoxi- different ways to help realize human settings.” cal demands placed on Indian police, needs and desires in a pluralistic, post- —Donald Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz who are routinely charged with abuses colonial democracy.

Beatrice Jauregui is assistant professor at the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Stud- NOVEMBER 240 p., 22 halftones 6 x 9 ies at the University of Toronto. She is coeditor of the Handbook of Global Policing and Anthro- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40367-0 pology and Global Counterinsurgency, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press. Cloth $95.00x/£66.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40370-0 Paper $35.00s/£24.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40384-7 ANTHROPOLOGY ASIAN STUDIES

That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration ALAN SHAPIRO

More than a gathering of essays, That sketches affectionate portraits of his Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentra- early teachers, revisits the deaths of his tion is part memoir, part literary criti- brother and sister, and examines poems cism, and an artful fusion of the two. that have helped him navigate troubled It is an intimate portrait of a life in po- times. Integrating storytelling and liter- etry that only Alan Shapiro could have ary analysis so seamlessly that art and written. life become extensions of each other, In this book, Shapiro brings his Shapiro embodies in his lively prose the characteristic warmth, humor, and very qualities he celebrates in the po- many years as both poet and teacher ems he loves. to bear on questions surrounding two Brimming with wit and insight, this preoccupations: the role of conven- is a book for poets, students and schol- OCTOBER 192 p. 51/2 x 81/2 tions—of literary and social norms—in ars of poetry, teachers of literature, and ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41681-6 Cloth $90.00x/£63.00 how we fashion our identities on and everyone who cares about the literary ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41695-3 off the page; and how suffering both arts and how they illuminate our per- Paper $25.00s/£17.50 requires and resists self-expression. He sonal and public lives. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41700-4 LITERATURE Alan Shapiro has published many books, including Reel to Reel, a Pulitzer Prize finalist. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the William R. Kenan Jr. Dis- tinguished Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A new collection of poetry, Life Pig, is also available this fall from the University of Chicago Press. special interest 35 DARBY ENGLISH 1971 A Year in the Life of Color

rt historian Darby English is celebrated for working against the grain and plumbing gaps in historical narratives. In A this book, he explores the year 1971, when two exhibitions opened that brought modernist painting and sculpture into the burn- ing heart of black cultural politics: Contemporary Black Artists in America, shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and The DeLuxe Show, an integrated abstract art exhibition presented in a renovated movie theater in a Houston ghetto. 1971 takes an insightful look at many black artists’ desire to gain DECEMBER 312 p., 47 color plates, freedom from overt racial representation, as well as their efforts to fur- 26 halftones 7 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-13105-4 ther that aim through public exhibitions. Amid calls to define a “black Cloth $40.00s/£28.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-27473-7 aesthetic” or otherwise settle the race question, these experiments with ART AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES modernist art favored cultural interaction and instability. Contempo- rary Black Artists in America highlighted abstraction as a stance against normative approaches, while The DeLuxe Show positioned abstraction in a center of urban blight. The power and social importance of these experiments, English argues, came partly from color’s special status as a racial metaphor and partly from investigations of color that were un- derway in formalist American art and criticism. From Frank Bowling to Virginia Jaramillo, Sam Gilliam to Peter Bradley, black modernists and their supporters rose above the demand to represent or be represent- ed, compromising nothing in their appeals for racial reconciliation. At a time when many debates about identity sought closure, these exhibitions offered openings; when icons and slogans touted simple solutions, they chose difficulty. But above all, as English demonstrates in this provocative book, these exhibitions and artists responded with optimism rather than cynicism to the surrounding culture’s preoccu- pation with color.

Darby English is the Carl Darling Buck Professor of Art History at the Univer- sity of Chicago. He is the author of How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness. PETER BRADLEY (B.1940), HEMMING, ACRYLIC 1971. ON CANVAS, 108 X 84 IN. CM). X 213.4 (274.3 COURTESY OF THE ARTIST.

36 special interest CAROLINE A. JONES The Global Work of Art World’s Fairs, Biennials, and the Aesthetics of Experience

lobal biennials have proliferated in the contemporary art world, but artists’ engagement with large-scale international Gexhibitions has a much longer history that has influenced the present in important ways. Going back to the earliest world’s fairs in the nineteenth century, this book argues that “globalism” was incu- “This is a wide-ranging and ambitious bated in a century of international art contests, and today constitutes account of the history of biennial-style an important tactic for practicing artists. exhibitions. Displaying Jones’s broad As world’s fairs brought millions of attendees into contact with knowledge of exhibition history, the his- foreign cultures, products, and processes, artworks became juxtaposed tory of philosophy, and current theoreti- in a “theater of nations,” which challenged artists and critics to think cal debates, The Global Work of Art covers outside their local academies for the first time. From Gustave Cour- great ground and should be of interest to bet’s rebel pavilion near the official art exhibit at the 1855 French art historians, historians of exhibitions, World’s Fair to curator Beryl Madra’s choice of London-based Cypriot curatorial studies students, and curators. Hussein Chalayan for the off-site Turkish pavilion at the 2006 Venice Here is a significant contribution to the Biennale, artists have used these exhibitions to reflect on contempo- study of contemporary art.” rary art, speak to their own governments back home, and challenge —Alexander Dumbadze, author of Bas Jan Ader: Death Is Elsewhere the wider geopolitical realm—changing art and art history along the way. Ultimately, Caroline A. Jones argues, the modern appetite for experience and event structures, which were cultivated around the art OCTOBER 400 p., 37 color plates, at these earlier expositions, have now come to constitute contemporary 128 halftones 81/2 x 11 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-29174-1 art itself, producing encounters that transform the public and force us Cloth $65.00s/£45.50 to reflect critically on the global condition. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-29188-8 ART HISTORY

Caroline A. Jones is professor in the History, Theory, and Criticism section of the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of several books, including Machine in the Studio: Constructing the Postwar American Artist and Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg’s Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

special interest 37 “This is a brilliant book. Brisman Albrecht Dürer and the Epistolary Mode revives theoretical issues about modernity and its new, self- of Address SHIRA BRISMAN aware pictorial attentiveness to audiences, while remaining fully Art historians have long looked to let- of sixteenth-century missives, Brisman engaged with the historical context ters to secure biographical details; clar- explains how these issues of sending out of which Dürer emerges in his ify relationships between artists and and receiving informed Dürer’s artis- own path-breaking ‘moment.’ She patrons; and present artists as modern, tic practices. His success, she contends, ultimately reveals the significance self-aware individuals. This book takes was due in large part to his develop- a novel approach: focusing on Albrecht ment of pictorial strategies—an episto- of producing and distributing print Dürer, Shira Brisman is the first to ar- lary mode of address—marked by a di- culture in the modern world, with gue that the experience of writing, rect and intimate appeal to the viewer, Dürer as the initial—essentially as sending, and receiving letters shaped an appeal that also acknowledges the the initiating—courier.” how he treated the work of art as an distance and delay that defers the mes- —Larry Silver, agent for communication. sage before it can reach its recipient. University of Pennsylvania In the early modern period, before As images, often in the form of prints, the establishment of a reliable postal coursed through an open market, and JANUARY 320 p., 49 color plates, system, letters faced risks of intercep- artists lost direct control over the sale 86 halftones 7 x 10 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-35475-0 tion and delay. During the Reforma- and reception of their work, Germany’s Cloth $55.00s/£38.50 tion, the printing press threatened to chief printmaker navigated the new ter- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-35489-7 expose intimate exchanges and blur rain by creating in his images a balance ART HISTORY the line between public and private life. between legibility and concealment, in- Exploring the complex travel patterns timacy and public address.

Shira Brisman is assistant professor of art history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Building Histories The Archival and Affective Lives of Five Monuments in Modern Delhi MRINALINI RAJAGOPALAN

Building Histories offers innovative ac- framed as objective “archival” truths, counts of five medieval monuments these histories were meant to erase or in Delhi—the Red Fort, Rasul Numa marginalize the powerful and persis- Dargah, Jama Masjid, Purana Qila, and tent affective appropriations of the Qutb complex—tracing their modern monuments by groups who often ex- lives from the nineteenth century into isted outside of the center of power. By the twentieth. analyzing these archival and affective Mrinalini Rajagopalan argues that histories together, Rajagopalan works the modern construction of the history to redefine the historic monument— of these monuments entailed the care- far from a symbol of a specific past, the South Asia Across the Disciplines ful selection, manipulation, and regu- monument is shown in Building Histories NOVEMBER 272 p., 10 color plates, lation of the past by both the colonial to be a culturally mutable object with 51 halftones, 1 table 7 x 10 and later postcolonial states. Although multiple stories to tell. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-28347-0 Cloth $55.00s/£38.50 Mrinalini Rajagopalan is assistant professor in the Department of History of Art and Archi- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-33189-8 tecture at the University of Pittsburgh. ARCHITECTURE ASIAN STUDIES

38 special interest D. A. MILLER Hidden Hitchcock

o filmmaker has more successfully courted mass-audience understanding than Alfred Hitchcock, and none has been Nstudied more intensively by scholars. In Hidden Hitchcock, D. A. Miller does what seems impossible: he discovers what has remained unseen in Hitchcock’s movies, a secret style that imbues his films with a radical duplicity. Focusing on three films—Strangers on a Train, Rope, and The Wrong Man—Miller shows how Hitchcock anticipates, even demands a “Too- Close Viewer.” Dwelling within us all and vigilant even when every- thing appears to be in good order, this Too-Close Viewer attempts to see more than the director points out, to expand the space of the film and the duration of the viewing experience. And, thanks to Hidden “Clever and elegant, this super close-up Hitchcock, that obsessive attention is rewarded. In Hitchcock’s visual look at just a few moments in Strangers puns, his so-called continuity errors, and his hidden appearances (not on a Train, Rope, and The Wrong Man to be confused with his cameos), Miller finds wellsprings of enigma. goes to the heart of what it means to Hidden Hitchcock is a revelatory work that not only shows how little ‘view’ and ‘read’ any film—and by exten- we know this most well-known of film-makers, but also how near such sion, any work of representational art. too-close viewing comes to cinephilic madness. Because it brings the issue of interpreta- tion back to the table, I would recommend D. A. Miller is professor in the graduate school at the University of California, Hidden Hitchcock to everyone who cares Berkeley. His recent books include 8½ and Jane Austen, or the Secret of Style. In about the value and power of movies.” 2013, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. —Dudley Andrew, Yale University

AUGUST 208 p., 54 halftones 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-37467-3 Cloth $27.50s/£19.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-37470-3 FILM STUDIES

special interest 39 Boystown Sex and Community in Chicago JASON ORNE With Photography by Dylan Stuckey

In neighborhoods such as Chelsea or In their original form, though, gaybor- the Castro, gay areas are becoming hoods like this one don’t celebrate dif- normal. Straight people flood in. Gay ferences; they create them. By fostering people flee. Scholars call this transfor- a space outside the mainstream, gay mation assimilation, and some argue spaces allow people to develop an al- that we—gay and straight alike—are ternative culture—a queer culture that becoming “post-gay.” Jason Orne ar- celebrates sex. gues that rather than post-gay, America Orne spent three years doing field- is becoming “post-queer,” losing the work in Boystown, searching for ways to radical lessons of sex. ask new questions about the connective In Boystown, Orne takes readers on power of sex and about what it means DECEMBER 288 p., 29 halftones, a detailed, lively journey through Chica- to be not just gay, but queer. The re- 1 line drawing 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41325-9 go’s Boystown, which serves as a model sult is the striking Boystown, illustrated Cloth $90.00x/£63.00 for gayborhoods around the country. throughout with street photography by ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41339-6 The neighborhood, he argues, has Dylan Stuckey. It is your tour guide to Paper $30.00s/£21.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41342-6 become an entertainment district—a the real Boystown, then, where sex func- GAY AND LESBIAN STUDIES gay Disneyland—where people get lost tions as a vital center and an antidote to SOCIOLOGY in the magic of the night and where assimilation. straight white women can “go on safari.”

Jason Orne is assistant professor of sociology at Drexel University and coauthor of An Invita- tion to Qualitative Fieldwork.

Learning from Shenzhen China’s Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City Edited by MARY ANN O’DONNELL, WINNIE WONG, and JONATHAN BACH

This multidisciplinary volume, the tors explore how the post-Mao Chinese first of its kind, presents an account of appropriation of capitalist logic led to China’s contemporary transformation a dramatic remodeling of the Chinese via one of its most important yet over- city and collective life in China today. looked cities: Shenzhen, located just These essays show how urban villages north of Hong Kong. In recent decades, and informal institutions enabled so- Shenzhen has transformed from an ex- cial transformation through case stud- perimental site for economic reform ies of public health, labor, architecture, into a dominant city at the crossroads gender, politics, education, and more. of the global economy. The first of Chi- Offering scholars and general readers na’s special economic zones, Shenzhen alike an unprecedented look at one of DECEMBER 360 p., 24 halftones 6 x 9 is today a UNESCO City of Design and the world’s most dynamic metropolises, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40109-6 the hub of China’s emerging technol- this collective history uses the urban Cloth $100.00x/£70.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40112-6 ogy industries. case study to explore critical problems Paper $35.00s/£24.50 Bringing China studies into dia- and possibilities relevant for modern- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40126-3 logue with urban studies, the contribu- day China and beyond. ASIAN STUDIES HISTORY Mary Ann O’Donnell is an independent artist-ethnographer and cofounder of the Hand- shake 302 Art Space in Shenzhen. Winnie Wong is assistant professor of rhetoric and his- tory of art at the University of California, Berkeley. Jonathan Bach is associate professor and chair of global studies at the New School in New York.

40 special interest LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The Complete Tragedies Volumes 1 and 2

dited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, the Complete Works of ELucius Annaeus Seneca offers authoritative, modern English translations of the writings of the Stoic philosopher and playwright (4 BCE–65 CE). The two volumes of The Complete Tragedies presents all of his dramas, expertly rendered by preeminent scholars and translators. The first volume contains Medea, The Phoenician Women, Phaedra, The Trojan Women, and Octavia. The second volume includes Oedipus, Hercules Mad, Hercules on Oeta, Thyestes, and Agamemnon. High standards of accuracy, clarity, and style are maintained throughout the transla- tions, which render Seneca into verse with as close a correspondence, The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca line for line, to the original as possible, and with special attention paid to meter and overall flow. In addition, each tragedy is introduced by its translator offering reflections on the work’s context and meaning. Volume 1 Translated by Shadi Bartsch, Susanna Notes are provided for the reader unfamiliar with the culture and his- Braund, Alex Dressler, and Elaine Fantham tory of classical antiquity. Accordingly, The Complete Tragedies will be of DECEMBER 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 use to a general audience and professionals alike, from the Latinless ISBN-13: 978-0-226-74823-8 Cloth $45.00s student to scholars and instructors of comparative literature, classics, /£31.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-37226-6 philosophy, drama, and more. CLASSICS LITERATURE

Shadi Bartsch is the Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago. Her books include, most recently, Persius: A Study in Food, Philosophy, and the Figural, also published by the University of Volume 2 Chicago Press. Susanna Braund is the Canada Research Chair in Latin Poetry Translated by Shadi Bartsch, Susanna and its Reception at the University of British Columbia. She has published Braund, and David Konstan extensively on Roman satire, Latin epic poetry, and Seneca. Alex Dressler is DECEMBER 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 assistant professor of classics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Elaine ISBN-13: 978-0-226-01360-2 Fantham, Giger Professor of Latin at Princeton University from 1986 to 1999, Cloth $45.00s/£31.50 has written many books and commentaries on Latin literature. David Konstan is E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-01374-9 professor of classics at New York University and the author of over ten books on CLASSICS LITERATURE classical antiquity.

special interest 41 “This is an important work for Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw students of the history and theory Animals, Language, Sensation of rhetoric. Hawhee makes an ex- DEBRA HAWHEE emplary case of the human-animal relationship as a rhetorical model We tend to think of rhetoric as a solely dialogue with animal studies, one of for sensation and perception, human art. After all, only humans can the most vibrant areas of interest in hu- providing readers with a concep- use language artfully to make a point, manities today. By removing humanity tual vocabulary that enables a the very definition of rhetoric. and human reason from the center of our study of argument, Hawhee frees rigorous discussion of nonrational Yet when you look at ancient and early modern treatises on rhetoric, up space to study and emphasize other elements of rhetoric. What follows what you find is surprising: they’re crucial components of communication, is an explanation and pedagogy of crawling with animals. With Rhetoric in like energy, bodies, and sensation. style that is more concretely and Tooth and Claw, Debra Hawhee explores Drawing on thinkers from Aristot- pragmatically rhetorical than any this unexpected aspect of early think- le to Erasmus, Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw scholarship to date.” ing about rhetoric, going on from there tells a new story of the discipline’s his- —Gregory Clark, to examine the enduring presence of tory and development, one animated by author of Civic Jazz: American nonhuman animals in rhetorical theo- the energy, force, liveliness, and diver- Music and Kenneth Burke on ry and education. In doing so, she not sity of our relationships with our “part- the Art of Getting Along only offers a counter-history of rhetoric ners in feeling,” other animals. but also brings rhetorical studies into DECEMBER 256 p., 3 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39817-4 Debra Hawhee is the McCourtney Professor of Civic Deliberation and professor of English Cloth $45.00s/£31.50 and communication arts and sciences at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39820-4 Moving Bodies: Kenneth Burke at the Edges of Language and Bodily Arts: Rhetoric and Athletics in CLASSICS PHILOSOPHY Ancient Greece.

Nollywood The Creation of Nigerian Film Genres JONATHAN HAYNES

Nigeria’s Nollywood has rapidly grown form of popular culture; it produces a into one of the world’s largest film in- flood of stories, repeating the ones that dustries, radically altering media en- mean the most to its broad audience. vironments across Africa and in the He interprets these generic stories and diaspora; it has also become one of the cast of mythic figures within them: African culture’s most powerful and the long-suffering wives, the business consequential expressions, powerfully tricksters, the Bible-wielding pastors, shaping how Africans see themselves the kings in their traditional regalia, and are seen by others. With this book, the glamorous young professionals, Jonathan Haynes provides an accessible the emigrants stranded in New York and authoritative introduction to this or London, and all the rest. Based on vast industry and its film culture. more than twenty years of research, OCTOBER 416 p., 9 halftones, 3 tables Haynes describes the major Nige- Haynes’s survey of Nollywood’s history 6 x 9 rian film genres and how they relate to and genres is unprecedented in scope, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38781-9 Nigerian society—its values, desires, while his book also vividly describes Cloth $105.00x/£73.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38795-6 anxieties, and social tensions—as the landmark films, leading directors, and Paper $35.00s/£24.50 country and its movies have developed the complex character of this major E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38800-7 together over the turbulent past two branch of world cinema. AFRICAN STUDIES FILM STUDIES decades. As he shows, Nollywood is a

Jonathan Haynes is professor of English at Long Island University in Brooklyn. The recipi- ent of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he is coauthor of Cinema and Social Change in West Africa and the editor of Nigerian Video Films.

42 special interest The Dignity of Commerce Markets and the Moral Foundations of Contract Law NATHAN B. OMAN

Why should the law care about enforc- are about more than simple economic ing contracts? We tend to think of a efficiency. To do business with others, contract as the legal embodiment of we must demonstrate understanding of a moral obligation to keep a promise. their needs. This ability to see the world When two parties enter into a transac- from another’s point of view inculcates tion, they are obligated as moral beings key virtues that support a liberal society. to play out the transaction in the way Markets also provide a context in which that both parties expect. But this over- people can peacefully cooperate in the looks a broader understanding of the absence of political, religious, or ideo- moral possibilities of the market. The logical agreement. Finally, the material enforcement of contracts is seen as im- prosperity generated by commerce has portant to maintaining a kind of social an ameliorative effect on a host of social arrangement, and today’s contracts ills, from racial discrimination to envi- NOVEMBER 304 p. 6 x 9 serve a fundamental role in the func- ronmental destruction. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41552-9 Cloth $50.00s/£35.00 tioning of society. The first book to place the moral E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41566-6 With The Dignity of Commerce, Na- status of the market at the center of the LAW ECONOMICS than B. Oman argues persuasively justification for contract law, The Dig- that well-functioning markets are mor- nity of Commerce is sure to elicit serious ally desirable in and of themselves and discussion about this central area of le- thus a fit object of protection through gal studies. contract law. Markets, Oman shows,

Nathan B. Oman is professor of law at William and Mary Law School.

Experiencing Other Minds in the Courtroom “A first-rate, original piece of scholarship, Experiencing Other NEAL FEIGENSON Minds in the Courtroom breaks new Sometimes the outcome of a legal case In Experiencing Other Minds in the and exciting ground in the field of can depend upon sensory evidence Courtroom, Neal Feigenson turns the tort law. Feigenson’s erudition is known only to the person who expe- courtroom into a forum for exploring extraordinary. . . . This lucid book riences it, such as the buzzing sound the profound philosophical, psycho- will be useful for law teachers and heard by a plaintiff who suffers from logical, and legal ramifications of our helpful for legal practitioners, from tinnitus as the alleged result of an ac- efforts to know what other people’s cident. Increasingly lawyers, litigants, conscious experiences are truly like. plaintiff and defense lawyers to and expert witnesses are attempting Drawing on an array of disciplines from judges who are faced with ruling, to recreate these sensations in the cognitive psychology to media studies commenting, and instructing juries courtroom, using new digital technolo- and science and technology studies, on such evidence. It is a very impor- gies to offer evidence that purports to Feigenson harnesses real examples of tant contribution.” simulate litigants’ subjective experi- digitally simulated subjective percep- —Neil Vidmar, ences and thus to help jurors know— tions to tease out the ways in which the Duke University School of Law not merely know about—what it is like epistemological value of this evidence to be inside a litigant’s mind. But with is affected by who creates it, how it is DECEMBER 240 p., 11 halftones, 1 table these advances in courtroom evidentia- made, and how it is presented. Through 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41373-0 ry practice comes a host of questions: his close scrutiny of the different kinds Cloth $45.00s/£31.50 Can anyone really know what it is like of simulations and the different knowl- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41387-7 to have another person’s perceptual edge claims they make, Feigenson is LAW experiences? Why should courts admit able to suggest best practices for how these simulations as evidence? And how we might responsibly incorporate such might these simulations alter the ways evidence in the courtroom, thereby im- in which judges and jurors do justice? proving the quality of justice for all.

Neal Feigenson is associate dean and professor in the Quinnipiac University School of Law. He is the author of Legal Blame and coauthor of Law on Display. He lives in Woodbridge, CT. special interest 43 ALI BEHDAD Camera Orientalis Reflections on Photography of the Middle East

n the decades after its invention in 1839, photography was inextricably linked to the Middle East. Introduced as a crucial I tool for Egyptologists and Orientalists who needed to document their archaeological findings, the photograph was easier and faster to produce in intense Middle Eastern light—making the region one of the original sites for the practice of photography. A pioneering study “Behdad maps an important position in de- of this intertwined history, Camera Orientalis traces the Middle East’s bates about the political efficacy of pho- influences on photography’s evolution, as well as photography’s effect tographs. Rightly insisting on the central- on Europe’s view of “the Orient.” ity of ‘the Orient’ to early practitioners, Considering a range of Western and Middle Eastern archival mate- he redirects our vision to the formative rial from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Ali Beh- role of the camera in the uneasy careers dad offers a rich account of how photography transformed Europe’s of Europe’s empires. The contact zones distinctly Orientalist vision into what seemed objective fact, a transfor- created by the embrace of photography mation that proved central to the project of European colonialism. At by local elites provide a rich counter- the same time, Orientalism was useful for photographers from both point, revealing not ‘resistance’ but the regions, as it gave them a set of conventions by which to frame exotic vivid realization that the camera’s ‘image Middle Eastern cultures for Western audiences. Behdad also shows repertoires’ were a conduit to power. This how Middle Eastern audiences embraced photography as a way to fore- is a salutary contribution to the study of ground status and patriarchal values while also exoticizing other social photography as a global practice, one classes. that has always exceeded Europe and the An important examination of previously overlooked European and narrow confines of nation states.” Middle Eastern photographers and studios, Camera Orientalis demon- —Christopher Pinney, University College London strates that, far from being a one-sided European development, Ori- entalist photography was the product of rich cultural contact between the East and the West. SEPTEMBER 224 p., 4 color plates, 80 halftones 7 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-35637-2 Cloth $90.00x/£63.00 Ali Behdad is the John Charles Hillis Professor of Literature at the University ISBN-13: 978-0-226-35640-2 of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Belated Travelers: Orientalism in Paper $30.00s/£21.00 the Age of Colonial Dissolution and A Forgetful Nation: On Immigration and Cultural E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-35654-9 Identity in the United States. PHOTOGRAPHY

44 special interest Bleak Liberalism AMANDA ANDERSON

Why is liberalism so often dismissed that liberalism has engaged sober and by thinkers from both the left and the even stark views of historical develop- right? To those calling for wholesale ment, political dynamics, and human transformation or claiming a monopoly and social psychology. From Charles on “realistic” conceptions of humanity, Dickens’s Bleak House and Hard Times liberalism’s assured progressivism can to E. M. Forster’s Howards End to Do- seem hard to swallow. Bleak Liberalism ris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook, this makes the case for a renewed under- literature demonstrates that liberalism standing of the liberal tradition, show- has inventive ways of balancing socio- ing that it is much more attuned to the logical critique and moral aspiration. complexity of political life than conven- A deft blend of intellectual history and tional accounts have acknowledged. literary analysis, Bleak Liberalism reveals Amanda Anderson examines ca- a richer understanding of one of the nonical works of high realism, political most important political ideologies of DECEMBER 192 p. 6 x 9 novels from England and the United the modern era. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92351-2 Cloth $75.00x/£52.50 States, and modernist works to argue ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92352-9 Paper $25.00s/£17.50 Amanda Anderson is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and English at E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92353-6 Brown University. She is the author of several books, including, most recently, The Way We LITERATURE PHILOSOPHY Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of Theory.

Cultural Graphology Writing after Derrida JULIET FLEMING

“Cultural Graphology” could be the important lesson to survive from Der- name of a new human science: this was rida’s early work is that we do not know Derrida’s speculation when, in the late what writing is. Channeling Derrida’s 1960s, he imagined a discipline that thought into places it has not been seen combined psychoanalysis, deconstruc- before, she takes on topics such as er- tion, and a commitment to the topic of rors, spaces, and print ornaments that writing. He never undertook the proj- have hitherto been marginal to our ac- ect himself, but he did leave two brief counts of print culture and excavates sketches of how he thought cultural gra- the long-forgotten reading practice of phology might proceed. In this book, cutting printed books. Proposing radi- Juliet Fleming picks up where Derrida cal deformations to the meanings of left off. Using his early thought and the fundamental and apparently simple SEPTEMBER 176 p., 12 halftones psychoanalytic texts to which it is ad- terms such as “error,” “letter,” “surface,” 51/2 x 81/2 dressed to examine the print culture of and “cut,” Fleming opens up exciting ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39042-0 Cloth $30.00s/£21.00 early modern England, she drastically new pathways into our understanding E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39056-7 unsettles our knowledge of the key ve- of the book as a material and cultural LITERATURE PHILOSOPHY hicle of modern writing: the book. object. Fleming shows that the single most

Juliet Fleming is associate professor of English and director of the MA program in English at New York University. She is the author of Graffiti and the Writing Arts of Early Modern England.

special interest 45 Imagining Extinction The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species URSULA K. HEISE

We are currently facing the sixth mass its scientific and legal dimensions, is extinction of species in the history of shaped by cultural assumptions about life on Earth, biologists claim—the first what is valuable in nature and what is one caused by humans. Activists, film- not. These assumptions are hardwired makers, writers, and artists are seeking into even seemingly neutral tools such to bring the crisis to the public’s atten- as biodiversity databases and laws for tion through stories and images that the protection of endangered species. use the strategies of elegy, tragedy, epic, Heise shows that the conflicts and con- and even comedy. Imagining Extinction is vergences of biodiversity conservation the first book to examine the cultural with animal welfare advocacy, environ- frameworks shaping these narratives mental justice, and discussions about and images. the Anthropocene open up a new vi- AUGUST 288 p., 3 color plates, Ursula K. Heise argues that under- sion of multispecies justice. Ultimately, 13 halftones, 2 tables 6 x 9 standing these stories and symbols is in- Imagining Extinction demonstrates that ISBN-13: 978-0-226-35802-4 biodiversity, endangered species, and Cloth $82.50x/£57.50 dispensable for any effective advocacy ISBN-13: 978-0-226-35816-1 on behalf of endangered species. More extinction are not so much scientific Paper $27.50s/£19.50 than that, she shows how biodiversity questions as issues of histories, cul- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-35833-8 conservation, even and especially in tures, and values. LITERATURE SCIENCE Ursula K. Heise is the Marcia H. Howard Professor in the Department of English and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her books include Chronoschisms: Time, Narrative, and Postmodernism and Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global.

Doctoring Traditions Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Sciences PROJIT BIHARI MUKHARJI

Like many of the traditional medi- tion of these devices, including ther- cines of South Asia, Ayurvedic practice mometers, watches, and microscopes, changed dramatically in the later nine- Mukharji shows, ultimately led to a teenth and early twentieth centuries. dramatic reimagining of the body. The With Doctoring Traditions, Projit Bihari new Ayurvedic body that emerged by Mukharji offers a close look at that the 1930s, while different from the bio- transformation, upending the widely medical body, was nonetheless largely held yet little-examined belief that it compatible with it. The more incompat- was the result of the introduction of ible elements of the old Ayurvedic body Western anatomical knowledge and ca- were then rendered therapeutically in- daveric dissection. defensible and impossible to imagine in Rather, Mukharji reveals, what in- practice. The new Ayurvedic medicine, SEPTEMBER 376 p., 7 halftones, stigated those changes were a number therefore, was the product not of an 9 line drawings 6 x 9 embrace of Western approaches, but of ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38179-4 of small technologies that were intro- Cloth $135.00x/£94.50 duced in the period by Ayurvedic phy- a creative attempt to develop a viable ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38313-2 sicians, men who were simultaneously alternative to the Western tradition by Paper $45.00s /£31.50 Victorian gentlemen and members of a braiding together elements drawn from E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38182-4 particular Bengali caste. The introduc- both the West and the East. HISTORY MEDICINE Projit Bihari Mukharji is the Martin Meyerson Assistant Professor in Interdisciplinary Stud- ies at the University of Pennsylvania, the author of Nationalizing the Body: The Market, Print and Daktari Medicine and coeditor of Medical Marginality in South Asia: Situating Subaltern Therapeutics and Crossing Colonial Historiographies: Histories of Colonial and Indigenous Medi- cines in Transnational Perspective.

46 special interest Contesting Medical Confidentiality Origins of the Debate in the United States, Britain, and Germany ANDREAS-HOLGER MAEHLE

Medical confidentiality is a cornerstone medical secrecy first came under pres- of effective public health systems, and sure from demands of disclosure in for centuries societies have struggled the name of public health. Maehle to maintain the illusion of absolute pri- structures his study around three rep- vacy. In this age of health databases and resentative questions of the time that increasing connectedness, however, the remain salient today: Do physicians confidentiality of patient information is have a privilege to refuse court orders rapidly becoming a concern at the fore- to reveal confidential patient details? front of worldwide ethical and political Is there a medical duty to report illegal debate. procedures to the authorities? Should In Contesting Medical Confidentiality, doctors breach confidentiality in or- Andreas-Holger Maehle travels back to der to prevent the spread of disease? OCTOBER 168 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40482-0 the origins of this increasingly relevant Considering these debates through a Cloth $40.00s/£28.00 issue. He offers the first comparative unique historical perspective, Contest- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40496-7 analysis of professional and public de- ing Medical Confidentiality illuminates MEDICINE HISTORY bates on medical confidentiality in the the ethical issues and potentially grave United States, Britain, and Germany consequences that continue to stir up during the late nineteenth and early public debate. twentieth centuries, when traditional

Andreas-Holger Maehle is professor of history of medicine and medical ethics at Durham University in England.

Therapeutic Revolutions Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century Edited by JEREMY A. GREENE, FLURIN CONDRAU, and ELIZABETH SIEGEL WATKINS

When asked to compare the practice histories and ethnographies span three of medicine today to that of a hundred continents and use the lived experi- years ago, most people will respond ences of physicians and patients, con- with a story of therapeutic revolution: sumers and providers, and marketers back then we had few effective rem- and regulators to reveal the tensions edies, now we have more (and more between universal claims of therapeu- powerful) tools to fight disease, from tic knowledge and the actual ways they antibiotics to psychotropics to steroids have been used and understood in spe- to anticancer agents. cific sites, from postwar West German This collection challenges the his- pharmacies to twenty-first century Ni- torical accuracy of this revolutionary gerian street markets. By asking us to narrative and offers instead a more nu- rethink a story we thought we knew, OCTOBER 320 p., 4 halftones, 8 line drawings, 5 tables 6 x 9 anced account of the process of thera- Therapeutic Revolutions offers invaluable ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39073-4 peutic innovation and the relationships insights to historians, anthropologists, Cloth $110.00x/£77.00 between the development of medicines and social scientists of medicine. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39087-1 Paper $40.00s/£28.00 and social change. These assembled E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39090-1 Jeremy A. Greene is professor of medicine and the history of medicine and the Elizabeth MEDICINE HISTORY Treide and A. McGehee Harvey Chair in the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Flurin Condrau is professor and director of the Institute and Museum of the History of Medicine at the University of Zurich. Elizabeth Siegel Watkins is dean of the Graduate Division, vice chancellor of Student Academic Affairs, and professor of the history of health science at the University of California, San Francisco. special interest 47 A Democratic Theory of Judgment LINDA M. G. ZERILLI

In this sweeping look at political and and those that try to find transcenden- philosophical history, Linda M. G. tal, rational values to anchor judge- Zerilli unpacks the tightly woven core ment. Looking at Kant through the lens of Hannah Arendt’s unfinished work of Arendt, Zerilli develops the notion of on a tenacious modern problem: how a public conception of truth, and from to judge critically in the wake of the there she explores relativism, histori- collapse of inherited criteria of judg- cism, and universalism as they shape ment. Engaging a remarkable breadth feminist approaches to judgment. Fol- of thinkers, including Ludwig Witt- lowing Arendt even further, Zerilli ar- genstein, Leo Strauss, Immanuel Kant, rives at a hopeful new pathway—seeing Frederick Douglass, John Rawls, Jürgen the collapse of philosophical criteria Habermas, Martha Nussbaum, and for judgment not as a problem but a way many others, Zerilli clears a hopeful to practice judgment anew as a world- OCTOBER 400 p. 6 x 9 path between an untenable universal- building activity of democratic citizens. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39784-9 ism and a cultural relativism that forever The result is an astonishing theoretical Cloth $105.00x/£73.50 defers the possibility of judging at all. argument that travels through—and ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39798-6 Paper $35.00s/£24.50 Zerilli deftly outlines the limita- goes beyond—some of the most impor- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39803-7 tions of existing debates, both those tant political thought of the modern POLITICAL SCIENCE that concern themselves with the im- period. possibility of judging across cultures

Linda M. G. Zerilli is the Charles E. Merriam Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and professor of gender and sexuality studies at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Signifying Woman: Culture and Chaos in Rousseau, Burke, and Mill and Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.

News The Politics of Illusion Tenth Edition W. LANCE BENNETT

For more than thirty years, News: The W. Lance Bennett’s thoroughly revised Politics of Illusion has not simply reflect- tenth edition offers the most up-to- ed the political communication field— date guide to understanding how and it has played a major role in shaping it. why the media and news landscapes Today, the familiar news organizations are being transformed. It explains the of the legacy press are operating in a mix of old and new, and points to pos- fragmenting and expanding media- sible outcomes. Where areas of change verse that resembles a big bang of pro- are clearly established, key concepts liferating online competitors that are from earlier editions have been revised. challenging the very definition of news There are new case studies, updates on itself. Audience-powered sites such old favorites, and insightful analyses of SEPTEMBER 304 p., 3 line drawings 6 x 9 as the Huffington Post and Vox blend how the new media system and novel ISBN-13: 978-0-226-34486-7 conventional political reporting with kinds of information and engagement Paper $35.00x/£24.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-34505-5 opinion blogs, celebrity gossip, and are affecting our politics. As always, other ephemera aimed at getting clicks News presents fresh evidence and argu- POLITICAL SCIENCE Previous edition ISBN-13: and shares. At the same time, the rise ments that invite new ways of thinking 978-0-226-34052-4 of serious investigative organizations about the political information system such as ProPublica presents yet a dif- and its place in democracy. ferent challenge to legacy journalism.

W. Lance Bennett is professor of political science and the Ruddick C. Lawrence Professor of Communication at the University of Washington. 48 special interest FRANCES E. LEE Insecure Majorities Congress and the Perpetual Campaign

s Democrats and Republicans continue to vie for political advantage, Congress remains paralyzed by partisan conflict. A That the last two decades have seen some of the least produc- tive Congresses in recent history is usually explained by the grow- ing ideological gulf between the parties, but this explanation misses another fundamental factor influencing the dynamic. In contrast to politics through most of the twentieth century, the contemporary Democratic and Republican parties compete for control of Congress at “With Insecure Majorities, Lee explores relative parity, and this has dramatically changed the parties’ incen- one of the most important questions for tives and strategies in ways that have driven the contentious partisan- understanding American national politics ship characteristic of contemporary American politics. today: how can we explain the emergence With Insecure Majorities, Frances E. Lee offers a controversial new of the highly partisan contemporary perspective on the rise of congressional party conflict, showing how Congress? With creativity and analytical the shift in competitive circumstances has had a profound impact on rigor, she offers a compelling alterna- how Democrats and Republicans interact. For nearly half a century, tive to the conventional wisdom that Democrats were the majority party, usually maintaining control of increased ideological polarization has the presidency, the House, and the Senate. Under such uncompeti- driven the conflict between the congres- tive conditions, scant collective action was exerted by either party sional parties. Lee argues instead that toward building or preserving a majority. Beginning in the 1980s, the ‘struggle for institutional power’ that changed, and most elections since have offered the prospect of increases incentives for highly partisan a change of party control. Lee shows, through an impressive range of behavior and lowers incentives for legis- interviews and analysis, how competition for control of the government lating solutions.” drives members of both parties to participate in actions that promote —Sarah Binder, their own party’s image and undercut that of the opposition, includ- George Washington University ing the perpetual hunt for issues that can score political points by putting the opposing party on the wrong side of public opinion. More SEPTEMBER 248 p., 5 halftones, often than not, this strategy stands in the way of productive bipartisan 23 line drawings, 18 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40899-6 cooperation—and it is also unlikely to change as long as control of the Cloth $90.00x/£63.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40904-7 government remains within reach for both parties. Paper $30.00s/£21.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40918-4 POLITICAL SCIENCE Frances E. Lee is professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. She is the author of three books, most recently Beyond Ideology: Politics, Principles, and Partisanship in the US Senate, also pub- lished by the University of Chicago Press. special interest 49 Partisans and Partners The Politics of the Post-Keynesian Society JOSH PACEWICZ

There’s no question that Americans are politics in favor of becoming apolitical bitterly divided by politics. But in Par- or embracing outside-the-beltway can- tisans and Partners, Josh Pacewicz finds didates. Pacewicz sees this change com- that our traditional understanding of ing not from politicians and voters, but red/blue, right/left, urban/rural divi- from the fundamental reorganization sion is too simplistic. of the community institutions in which Wheels-down in Iowa—that most political parties have traditionally been important of primary states—Pacewicz rooted. Weaving together major themes looks to two cities, one traditionally in American political history—includ- Democratic, the other traditionally Re- ing globalization, the decline of orga- publican, and finds that younger voters nized labor, loss of locally owned indus- are rejecting older-timers’ strict po- tries, uneven economic development, NOVEMBER 392 p., 2 line drawings, litical affiliations. A paradox is emerg- and the emergence of grassroots popu- 14 tables 6 x 9 ing—as the dividing lines between list movements—Partisans and Partners ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40255-0 Cloth $105.00x/£73.50 America’s political parties have sharp- is a timely and comprehensive analysis ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40269-7 ened, Americans are at the same time of American politics as it happens on Paper $35.00s/£24.50 growing distrustful of traditional party the ground. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40272-7 POLITICAL SCIENCE Josh Pacewicz is assistant professor of sociology and urban studies at Brown University.

“Strategic Party Government repre- Strategic Party Government sents a significant advance in the study of Congress. Koger and Lebo Why Winning Trumps Ideology present a well-argued and persua- GREGORY KOGER and MATTHEW J. LEBO sive theoretical perspective and Why is Congress mired in partisan po- policies their party is advocating. They provide a variety of new empirical larization? The conventional answer is do so in the belief that party leaders angles on the classic question that members of Congress and their and voters will reward them for win- of how and why parties matter in constituencies fundamentally disagree ning—or at least trying to win—these Congress.” with one other along ideological lines. legislative contests. And as the parties —John W. Patty, But Gregory Koger and Matthew J. present increasingly united fronts, par- University of Chicago Lebo uncover a more compelling rea- tisan competition intensifies and pres- son that today’s political leaders devote sure continues to mount for a strong Chicago Studies in American Politics so much time to conveying their party’s party-building strategy—despite consid- positions, even at the expense of basic erable disagreement within the parties. JANUARY 224 p., 40 figures, 16 tables government functions: Both parties 6 x 9 By bringing this powerful but un- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42457-6 want to win elections. derappreciated force in American poli- Cloth $90.00x/£63.00 In Strategic Party Government, Koger tics to the forefront, Koger and Lebo ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42460-6 provide a new interpretation of the Paper $30.00s/£21.00 and Lebo argue that Congress is now E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42474-3 primarily a forum for partisan competi- problems facing Congress that is cer- POLITICAL SCIENCE tion. In order to avoid losing, legislators tain to reset the agenda for legislative unite behind strong party leaders, even studies. when they do not fully agree with the

Gregory Koger is associate professor of political science at the University of Miami. He is the author of Filibustering: A Political History of Obstruction in the House and Senate, also pub- lished by the University of Chicago Press. Matthew J. Lebo is professor of political science at Stony Brook University, where he also directs the Center for Behavioral Political Science.

50 special interest Edited by PAUL REITTER, CHAD WELLMON, “A valuable sourcebook for scholars of and LOUIS MENAND higher education.” —Michael S. Roth, President of Wesleyan University

The Rise of the “With this book, Menand, Reitter, and Wellmon provide a rich and complex Research University historical context that not only helps us understand where modern universities A Sourcebook came from but also the scope of their fundamental mission.” —John W. Boyer, he modern research university is a global institution with a Dean of the College at the rich history that stretches into an ivy-laden past, but for as University of Chicago and author of The University of Chicago: A History T much as we think we know about that past, most of the writ- ings that have recorded it are scattered across archives and, in many cases, have yet to be translated into English. With this book, Paul JANUARY 400 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41468-3 Reitter, Chad Wellmon, and Louis Menand bring a wealth of these im- Cloth $97.50x/£68.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41471-3 portant texts together, assembling a fascinating collection of primary Paper $32.50s/£23.00 sources—many translated into English for the first time—that outline E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41485-0 EDUCATION what would become the university as we know it. The editors focus on the development of American universities such as Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, and the Universities of Chi- cago, California, and Michigan. Looking to Germany, they translate a number of seminal sources that formulate the shape and purpose of the university and place them next to hard-to-find English-language texts that took the German university as their inspiration, one that they creatively adapted, often against stiff resistance. Enriching these texts with short, insightful essays that contextualize their importance, the editors offer an accessible portrait of the early research university, one that provides invaluable insights not only into the historical devel- opment of higher learning but also its role in modern society.

Paul Reitter is professor of Germanic languages and literature and director of the Humanities Institute at Ohio State University. He is the author of several books, including The Anti-Journalist, published by the University of Chicago Press. Chad Wellmon is associate professor in the department of Germanic languages and literatures at the University of Virginia. He is the author, most recently, of Organizing Enlightenment. Louis Menand is a staff writer at the New Yorker as well as the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English at Har- vard University. He is the author of several books, including the Pulitzer–Prize winning The Metaphysical Club.

special interest 51 “Phillips has addressed the issues A Companion to John Dewey’s in Dewey’s magnum opus with clar- ity, humor, and insight—such as Democracy and Education D. C. PHILLIPS I have not witnessed in any other publication. Phillips has relied on This year marks the centenary of John often prevent contemporary readers Dewey throughout his professional Dewey’s magnum opus, Democracy and from fully understanding it. Where life, and this experience allows him Education. Despite its profound im- Dewey sorely needs a detailed example to give, chapter by chapter, crystal portance as a foundational text in to illustrate a point—and the times are clear commentaries that get right education, it is notoriously difficult many—Phillips steps in, presenting to the heart of Dewey’s key mes- and—dare we say it—a little dry. In this cases from his own classroom experi- charming and often funny compan- ences. Where Dewey casually refers to sages.” ion, noted philosopher of education D. the works of people like Hegel, Her- —Richard Pring, C. Phillips goes chapter by chapter to bart, and Locke—common knowledge, University of Oxford bring Dewey to a twenty-first-century apparently, in 1916—Phillips fills in audience. Drawing on more than fifty the necessary background. And where NOVEMBER 184 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40823-1 years of thinking about this book—and Dewey gets convoluted or is even flat- Cloth $68.00x/£47.50 on his own experiences as an educa- out wrong, Phillips does what few other ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40837-8 tor—he lends it renewed clarity and a scholars would do: he takes Dewey to Paper $22.50s/£16.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40840-8 personal touch that proves its lasting task. The result is a lively accompani- EDUCATION importance. ment that helps us celebrate and be en- Phillips bridges several critical riched by some of the most important pitfalls of Democracy and Education that ideas ever offered in education.

D. C. Phillips is professor emeritus of education and philosophy at Stanford University, where he has also served as associate dean and interim dean of the Graduate School of Education. He is the author or editor of many books, including, most recently, the Encyclo- pedia of Educational Theory and Philosophy.

Connecting in College How Friendship Networks Matter for Academic and Social Success JANICE M. MCCABE

We all know that good study habits, credit for. They can also vary widely. supportive parents, and engaged in- Some students have only one tight-knit structors are all keys to getting good group, others move between several, grades in college. But as Janice M. Mc- and still others seem to meet someone Cabe shows in this illuminating study, new every day. Some students separate there is one crucial factor determining their social and academic lives, while a student’s academic success that most others rely on friendships to help them of us tend to overlook: who they hang do better in their coursework. McCabe out with. Surveying a range of different explores how these dynamics lead to kinds of college friendships, Connecting different outcomes and how they both in College details the fascinatingly com- influence and are influenced by larger NOVEMBER 216 p., 15 halftones, 2 line drawings, 11 tables 6 x 9 plex ways students’ social and academic factors such as social and racial in- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40949-8 lives intertwine and how students at- equality. She then looks toward the fu- Cloth $90.00x/£63.00 tempt to balance the two in their pur- ture and how college friendships affect ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40952-8 Paper $30.00s/£21.00 suit of straight As, good times, or both. early adulthood, ultimately drawing E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40966-5 As McCabe and the students she her findings into a set of concrete solu- EDUCATION talks to show, the friendships we forge tions to improve student experiences in college are deeply meaningful, more and better guarantee success in college meaningful than we often give them and beyond.

Janice M. McCabe is assistant professor of sociology at Dartmouth College. 52 special interest BENJAMIN JUSTICE and COLIN MACLEOD Have a Little Faith Religion, Democracy, and the American Public School

ince their beginnings nearly two centuries ago, public schools have been embroiled in heated controversies over religion’s S place in the education system. In this book, Benjamin Justice and Colin Macleod take up this significant history of conflict with renewed clarity and astonishing breadth. Moving from the American Revolution to the present—from the common schools of the nineteenth century to the charter schools of the twenty-first—they offer one of the most comprehensive assessments of religion and education in America ever published. From Bible readings and school prayer to teaching evolution and “Understanding and responding to the cultivating religious tolerance, Justice and Macleod consider the key religious (or non-religious) other is a issues and colorful characters that have shaped the way American critical component of public education schools have negotiated religious pluralism. While schools and poli- in a democracy, especially today. By cies have not always advanced tolerance and understanding, Justice neglecting religious topics, many schools and Macleod point to the many efforts Americans have made to both miss an important opportunity to develop acknowledge the importance of faith to so many citizens and respect public reason, which requires exposure to democratic ideals that insist upon a reasonable separation of church different beliefs and ideas. With sensi- and state. Finally, they apply the lessons of history and political phi- tive awareness to the difficulties this can losophy to an analysis of three critical areas of religious controversy in present for teachers, this book offers a public education today: student-led religious observances in extracur- balanced and necessary look at the differ- ricular activities, the tensions between freedom of expression and the ent sides of the issue, formulating a clear need for inclusive environments, and the shift from democratic control and convincing democratic rationale for of schools to loosely regulated charter and voucher programs. addressing religion in our schools.” Altogether Justice and Macleod show how the interpretation of —Walter Feinberg, coauthor of For the Civic Good educational history through the lens of democratic theory offers both a richer understanding of past disputes and new ways of addressing History and Philosophy of Education contemporary challenges. NOVEMBER 192 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40031-0 Benjamin Justice is an associate professor at the Rutgers Graduate School of Cloth $68.00x/£47.50 Education. He is the editor of The Founding Fathers, Education, and the Great ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40045-7 Contest and author of The War That Wasn’t: Religious Conflict and Compromise Paper $22.50s/£16.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40059-4 in the Common Schools of New York State, 1865–1900. Colin Macleod is associate EDUCATION professor of philosophy and law at the University of Victoria. He is the author, editor, or coeditor of several books, including Liberalism, Justice, and Markets and The Nature of Children’s Well-Being.

special interest 53 The Right to Difference French Universalism and the Jews MAURICE SAMUELS

Universal equality is a treasured politi- Samuels demonstrates that Jewish cal concept in France, but recent anxi- difference has always been essential to ety over the country’s Muslim minority the elaboration of French universal- has led to an emphasis on a new form of ism, whether as its foil or as proof of universalism, one promoting loyalty to its reach. He traces the development the nation at the expense of all ethnic of this discourse through key moments and religious affiliations. This timely in French history, from debates over book offers a fresh perspective on the granting Jews civil rights during the debate by showing that French equal- Revolution, through the Dreyfus Affair ity has not always demanded an era- and Vichy, and up to the rise of a “new sure of differences. Through close and antisemitism” in recent years. By recov- contextualized readings of the way that ering the forgotten history of a more NOVEMBER 264 p., 1 halftone 6 x 9 major novelists, philosophers, filmmak- open, pluralistic form of French univer- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39705-4 ers, and political figures have struggled salism, Samuels points toward new ways Cloth $45.00s/£31.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39932-4 with the question of integrating Jews of moving beyond current ethnic and EUROPEAN HISTORY JEWISH STUDIES into French society, Maurice Samuels religious dilemmas and argues for a draws lessons about how the French more inclusive view of what constitutes have often understood the universal in political discourse in France. relation to the particular.

Maurice Samuels is the Betty Jane Anlyan Professor of French and director of the Yale Pro- gram for the Study of Antisemitism at Yale University. He is the author of The Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France and Inventing the Israelite: Jewish Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France.

The Sins of the Fathers Germany, Memory, Method JEFFREY K. OLICK

National identity and political legiti- where the devastation and atrocities of macy always involve a delicate balance two world wars have weighed heavily in between remembering and forgetting. virtually every moment and aspect of All nations have elements in their past political life. The Sins of the Fathers con- that they would prefer to pass over— fronts that difficulty head-on, explor- the catalog of failures, injustices, and ing the variety of ways that Germany’s horrors committed in the name of na- leaders since 1949 have attempted to tions, if fully acknowledged, could cre- meet this challenge, with a particular ate significant problems for a country focus on how those approaches have trying to move on and take action in changed over time. Jeffrey K. Olick as- Chicago Studies in Practices of the present. Yet denial and forgetting serts that other nations are looking to Meaning carry costs as well. Germany as an example of how a soci-

NOVEMBER 496 p., 16 halftones, Nowhere has this precarious bal- ety can confront a dark past—casting 2 tables 6 x 9 ance been more potent, or important, Germany as our model of difficult col- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38649-2 than in the Federal Republic of Germany, lective memory. Cloth $50.00s/£35.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38652-2 Jeffrey K. Olick is professor of sociology and history at the University of Virginia. He is the EUROPEAN HISTORY SOCIOLOGY author of The Politics of Regret: On Collective Memory and Historical Responsibility and In the House of the Hangman: The Agonies of German Defeat, 1943–49, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.

54 special interest The Value of Labor “Lampland is quite possibly the The Science of Commodification in Hungary, 1920–1956 deepest theoretical thinker in MARTHA LAMPLAND the anthropology and history of Eastern Europe. One of her great At the heart of today’s fierce politi- modeling, using Hungary’s unique accomplishments in this book is cal anger over income inequality is a vantage point to show how theories, the rejection of the standard divi- feature of capitalism that Karl Marx policies, and techniques for commodi- sion of the region into pre- and famously obsessed over: the commodi- fying agrarian labor that were born post-Communism paradigms. fication of labor. Most of us think wage- in the capitalist era were adopted by Instead, she uncovers important labor economics is at odds with socialist the socialist regime as a scientifically thinking, but as Martha Lampland ex- designed wage system on cooperative continuities in the development of plains in this fascinating look at twenti- farms. Paying attention to the specific the science and economics of labor, eth-century Hungary, there have been historical circumstances of Hungary, offering a completely original, new moments when such economics actu- she explores the ways economists and view of the ‘sovietization’ process ally flourished under socialist regimes. the abstract notions they traffic in can in Eastern Europe.” Exploring the region’s transition from both shape and be shaped by local con- —Katherine Verdery, a capitalist to a socialist system—and ditions, and she compellingly shows City University of New York the economic science and practices that how labor can be commodified in the endured it—she sheds new light on the absence of a labor market. The result is AUGUST 368 p., 11 halftones, 5 tables two most polarized ideologies of mod- a unique account of economic thought 6 x 9 ern history. that unveils hidden but necessary conti- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31460-0 Paper $40.00s/£28.00 Lampland trains her eye on the nuities running through the turbulent E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31474-7 twentieth century. scientific claims of modern economic EUROPEAN HISTORY SOCIOLOGY Martha Lampland is associate professor of sociology and faculty director of the Science Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author or editor of several books, including Standards and their Stories and The Object of Labor, the latter pub- lished by the University of Chicago Press.

“McKenna cleverly takes the reader on a journey through the landscape of Baguio, moving in a series of American Imperial Pastoral elegant chapters from the road The Architecture of US Colonialism in the Philippines to architecture to marketplace to REBECCA TINIO MCKENNA country club, much in the same way colonial officials moved through In 1904, renowned architect Daniel construction, and use of Baguio, mak- the landscape in the early twentieth Burnham, the Progressive Era urban ing visible the physical shape, labor, and century. Empire is a complicated planner, set off for the Philippines, the sustaining practices of the US’s new em- new US colonial acquisition. Charged pire—especially the dispossessions that business and the field of history with designing environments for the underwrote market expansion. In the needs more books like this one to occupation government, Burnham set process, she demonstrates how colonial- shed light on how American impe- out to convey the ambitions and the ists conducted market-making through rialism changed the Philippines in dominance of the regime, drawing on state-building and vice versa. Where the wake of the Spanish-American neo-classical formalism for the Pacific much has been made of the racial dy- War and beyond.” colony. The spaces he created, most no- namics of US colonialism in the region, —David Brody, tably in the summer capital of Baguio, McKenna emphasizes capitalist practices author of Visualizing American gave physical form to American rule and design ideals—giving us a fresh and Empire: Orientalism and and its contradictions. nuanced understanding of the Ameri- Imperialism in the Philippines In American Imperial Pastoral, Rebecca can occupation of the Philippines. Tinio McKenna examines the design, DECEMBER 272 p., 22 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41776-9 Rebecca Tinio McKenna is assistant professor of history at the University of Notre Dame. Cloth $45.00s/£31.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41793-6 AMERICAN HISTORY ASIAN STUDIES

special interest 55 Beheading the Saint Nationalism, Religion, and Secularism in Quebec GENEVIÈVE ZUBRZYCKI

Through much of its existence, Québec’s for a public contesting of the dominant neighbors called it the “priest-ridden ethno-Catholic conception of French province.” Today, however, Québec soci- Canadian identity and, via the violent ety is staunchly secular, with a modern rejection of Catholic symbols, the ar- welfare state built on lay provision of so- ticulation of a new, secular Québécois cial services—a transformation rooted identity. From there, Zubrzycki extends in the “Quiet Revolution” of the 1960s. her analysis to the present, looking at In Beheading the Saint, Geneviève the role of Québécois identity in recent Zubrzycki studies that transformation debates over immigration, the place of through a close investigation of the an- religious symbols in the public sphere, nual Feast of St. John the Baptist of June and the politics of cultural heritage— 24. The celebrations of that national issues that also offer insight on similar NOVEMBER 224 p., 8 color plates, holiday, she shows, provided a venue debates elsewhere in the world. 54 halftones, 1 line drawing 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39154-0 Geneviève Zubrzycki is associate professor of sociology at the University of Michigan. She is Cloth $105.00x /£73.50 the author of The Crosses of Auschwitz: Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland, also ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39168-7 published by the University of Chicago Press. Paper $35.00s/£24.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39171-7 HISTORY SOCIOLOGY

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Before Nature Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science FRANCESCA ROCHBERG

In the modern West, we take for granted From a modern, Western perspective, that what we call the “natural world” a world not conceived somehow within confronts us all and always has—but we the framework of physical nature is are wrong. Before Nature is an exploration difficult—if not impossible—to imag- of that almost unimaginable time when ine. Yet, as Rochberg lays out, ancient there was no such thing as “nature”—no Assyro-Babylonian investigations of word, reference, or sense for it. regularity and irregularity, norms and Long before the concept of nature anomalies clearly established an axis of formed, our ancestors in ancient Assyria knowledge between the knower and an and Babylonia developed the cuneiform intelligible, ordered world. Rochberg is script, the earliest system of writing the first scholar to make a case for how used for documenting and observing exactly we can understand cuneiform OCTOBER 392 p., 1 halftone, 1 table 6 x 9 the world in a way not wholly dissimilar knowledge, prediction, and explana- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40613-8 tion in relation to science—without Cloth $55.00s/£38.50 to our modern science. With Before Na- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40627-5 ture, Francesca Rochberg explores that recourse to later ideas of nature. Sys- SCIENCE HISTORY Assyro-Babylonian knowledge tradition tematically examining the whole of and shows how it relates to the history Mesopotamian science, Before Nature will of science, despite not being focused open up surprising new pathways for around a conscious category of nature. studying the history of science.

Francesca Rochberg is professor of Near Eastern studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

56 special interest Crossing Parish Boundaries Race, Sports, and Catholic Youth in Chicago, 1914–1954 TIMOTHY B. NEARY

Controversy erupted in spring 2001 religions from Chicago’s racially seg- when Chicago’s mostly white South- regated neighborhoods to take part in side Catholic Conference youth sports sports and educational programming. league rejected the application of the Tens of thousands of boys and girls predominantly black St. Sabina grade participated in basketball, track and school. Fifty years after Brown v. Board field, and the most popular sport of all, of Education, interracialism seemed boxing, which regularly filled Chicago stubbornly unattainable, and the na- Stadium with roaring crowds. The his- tional spotlight once again turned to tory of Bishop Sheil and the CYO shows the history of racial conflict in Catho- a cosmopolitan version of American lic parishes. It’s widely understood that Catholicism, one that is usually over- midcentury, working class, white ethnic shadowed by accounts of white ethnic Catholics were among the most virulent Catholics aggressively resisting the ra- Historical Studies of Urban America racists, but, as Crossing Parish Boundaries cial integration of their working-class OCTOBER 272 p., 26 halftones 6 x 9 shows, that’s not the whole story. neighborhoods. By telling the story of ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38876-2 In this book, Timothy B. Neary Catholic-sponsored interracial coop- Cloth $45.00s/£31.50 reveals the history of Bishop Bernard eration within Chicago, Crossing Parish E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38893-9 Sheil’s Catholic Youth Organization Boundaries complicates our understand- HISTORY RELIGION (CYO), which brought together thou- ing of northern urban race relations in sands of young people of all races and the mid-twentieth century.

Timothy B. Neary is associate professor of history at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island. Oscar Wilde Prefigured Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750–1900 DOMINIC JANES

“I do not say you are it, but you look it, interests through clothing, style, and and you pose at it, which is just as bad,” deportment since the mid-eighteenth Lord Queensbury challenged Oscar century. He supplements the well- Wilde in the courtroom—which erupted established narrative of the inscrip- in laughter—accusing Wilde of posing tion of sodomitical acts into a homo- as a sodomite. What was so terrible sexual label and identity at the end of about posing as a sodomite, and why was the nineteenth century by teasing out Queensbury’s horror greeted with such the means by which same-sex desires amusement? In Oscar Wilde Prefigured, could be signaled through visual dis- Dominic Janes suggests that what di- play in Georgian and Victorian Britain. vided the two sides in this case was not Wilde, it turns out, is not the starting so much the question of whether Wilde point for public queer figuration. He was or was not a sodomite, but whether is the pivot by which Georgian figures NOVEMBER 288 p., 63 halftones 6 x 9 or not it mattered that people could ap- and twentieth-century camp stereotypes ISBN-13: 978-0-226-35864-2 Cloth $40.00s/£28.00 pear to be sodomites. For many, intima- meet. Drawing on the mutually rein- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39655-2 tions of sodomy were simply a part of the forcing phenomena of dandyism and HISTORY GAY AND LESBIAN STUDIES amusing spectacle of sophisticated life. caricature of alleged effeminates, Janes Oscar Wilde Prefigured is a study of examines a wide range of images drawn the prehistory of this “queer moment” from theater, fashion, and the popular in 1895. Janes explores the complex press to reveal new dimensions of iden- ways in which men who desired sex tity politics, gender performance, and with men in Britain had expressed such queer culture.

Dominic Janes is professor of modern history at Keele University, United Kingdom. He is the author of several books, including most recently Visions of Queer Martyrdom from John Henry Newman to Derek Jarman, also published by the University of Chicago Press. special interest 57 Reckoning with Matter Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage MATTHEW L. JONES

From Blaise Pascal in the 1600s to ing, testing, and building calculating Charles Babbage in the first half of the machines. He explores the writings of nineteenth century, inventors struggled philosophers, engineers, and craftspeo- to create the first calculating machines. ple, showing how they thought about All failed—but that doesn’t mean we technical novelty, their distinctive ar- can’t learn from the trail of ideas, corre- eas of expertise, and ways they could spondence, machines, and arguments coordinate their efforts to argue that they left behind. the conceptions of creativity and mak- In Reckoning with Matter, Matthew ing they exhibited are often more in- L. Jones draws on the remarkably ex- cisive—and more honest—than those tensive and well-preserved records of that dominate our current legal, politi- OCTOBER 336 p., 54 halftones, 1 table the quest to explore the concrete pro- cal, and aesthetic culture. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41146-0 cesses involved in imagining, elaborat- Cloth $35.00s/£24.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41163-7 Matthew L. Jones is the James R. Barker Professor of Contemporary Civilization in the Department of History at Columbia University and the author of The Good Life in the HISTORY Scientific Revolution,

The Rural Modern Reconstructing the Self and State in Republican China KATE MERKEL-HESS

Discussions of China’s early twentieth- desire for an agenda for social and po- century modernization efforts tend to litical change rooted in rural Chinese focus almost exclusively on cities, and traditions and institutions. She traces the changes, both cultural and indus- efforts to remake village education, so- trial, seen there. As a result, the com- cial and cultural life, economics, and munist peasant revolution appears as a politics, analyzing how these efforts decisive historical break. Kate Merkel- contributed to a new, inclusive vision Hess corrects that misconception by of rural Chinese political life. Merkel- demonstrating how crucial the coun- Hess argues that as China sought to tryside was for reformers in rural China redefine itself politically and culturally, long before the success of the commu- such rural reform efforts played a ma- nist revolution. jor role, and tensions that thus emerged SEPTEMBER 264 p., 10 halftones 6 x 9 In The Rural Modern, Merkel-Hess between rural and urban ways deeply ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38327-9 shows that Chinese reformers and intel- informed social relations, government Cloth $40.00s/£28.00 policies, and subsequent efforts to cre- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38330-9 lectuals created a modernity that was not the foreign and new modernity of ate a modern nation during the com- HISTORY ASIAN STUDIES Shanghai and other cities, but instead munist period. one that captured the Chinese people’s

Kate Merkel-Hess is assistant professor of history and Asian studies at Penn State Univer- sity. She has written for the Times Literary Supplement and the Los Angeles Review of Books, and she is coeditor of China in 2008: A Year of Great Significance.

58 special interest Chance in Evolution Edited by GRANT RAMSEY and CHARLES H. PENCE

Bringing together biologists, philoso- Subsequent chapters detail the role of phers of science, and historians of sci- chance in contemporary evolutionary ence, Chance in Evolution is the first theory—in particular, in connection book to untangle the far-reaching ef- with the concepts of genetic drift, mu- fects of chance, contingency, and ran- tation, and parallel evolution—as well domness on the evolution of life. as recent empirical work in the experi- The book begins by placing chance mental evolution of microbes and in in historical context, starting with the paleobiology. By engaging in collabora- ancients and moving through Darwin tion across biology, history, philosophy, and his contemporaries, document- and theology, this book offers a com- ing how the understanding of chance prehensive and synthetic overview both changed as Darwin’s theory of evolu- of the history of chance in evolution tion by natural selection developed into and of our current, best understand- the Modern Synthesis, and how the ac- ing of the impact of chance on life on OCTOBER 384 p., 10 halftones, ceptance of chance in Darwinian theory earth. 5 line drawings 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40174-4 affected theological resistance to it. Cloth $125.00x/£87.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40188-1 Grant Ramsey is a BOFZAP Research Professor in the Institute of Philosophy at Katholieke Paper $45.00s/£31.50 Charles H. Pence Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. is assistant professor in the Department of E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40191-1 Philosophy and Religious Studies at Louisiana State University. SCIENCE

Evolutionary Theory “Diverse as the chapters are, linking A Hierarchical Perspective commentaries help to make this perhaps the best-integrated edited Edited by NILES ELDREDGE, TELMO PIEVANI, EMANUELE SERRELLI, volume I have seen. It is a concep- and ILYA TËMKIN tually homogeneous, truly unusual work that represents the state of The natural world is infinitely complex entists seeking to understand the way and hierarchically structured, with complex biological systems work and the art in the realm of hierarchy- smaller units forming the components evolve. driven evolutionary theory and will of progressively larger systems: mol- Coedited by one of the founders move this field ahead in a signifi- ecules make up cells, cells comprise tis- of hierarchy theory and featuring a cant way.” sues and organs that are, in turn, parts diverse and renowned group of con- —Ian Tattersall, of individual organisms, which are unit- tributors, this volume provides an in- American Museum of Natural History ed into populations and integrated into tegrated, comprehensive, cutting-edge yet more encompassing ecosystems. In introduction to the hierarchy theory SEPTEMBER 320 p., 12 halftones, the face of such awe-inspiring complex- of evolution. From sweeping historical 15 line drawings, 4 tables 6 x 9 ity, there is a need for a comprehensive, reviews to philosophical pieces, theo- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42605-1 Cloth $105.00x/£73.50 non-reductionist evolutionary theory. retical essays, and strictly empirical ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42622-8 Having emerged at the crossroads of chapters, it reveals hierarchy theory as a Paper $35.00s/£24.50 paleobiology, genetics, and develop- vibrant field of scientific enterprise that E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42619-8 mental biology, the hierarchical ap- holds promise for unification across the SCIENCE proach to evolution provides a unifying life sciences and offers new venues of perspective on the natural world and empirical and theoretical research. offers an operational framework for sci-

Niles Eldredge is an emeritus curator in the Division of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History. Telmo Pievani is professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Padua. Emanuele Serrelli is a fellow at the University of Milano-Bicocca. Ilya Tëmkin is associate professor of biology at Northern Virginia Community College and a research associate at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. All four are members of the Hierarchy Group. special interest 59 Evolution Made to Order Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America HELEN ANNE CURRY

In the mid-twentieth century, Ameri- speed up evolution. Focusing on three can plant breeders, frustrated by their key technologies—x-rays, colchicine, dependence on natural variation in and radioisotopes—it is an immersive creating new crops and flowers, eagerly journey through the scientific and so- sought technologies that could extend cial worlds of midcentury genetics and human control over nature. Their plant breeding and a compelling explo- search led them to celebrate a series of ration of American cultures of innova- strange tools: an x-ray beam directed at tion. As Curry reveals, the creation of dormant seeds; a drop of chromosome- genetic technologies was deeply entan- altering colchicine on a flower bud; a gled with other areas of technological piece of radioactive cobalt in a field of innovation—from electromechanical OCTOBER 320 p., 29 halftones 6 x 9 growing crops. According to scientific to chemical to nuclear. Providing vital ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39008-6 Cloth $45.00s/£31.50 and popular reports of the time, these historical context for current world- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39011-6 mutation-inducing methods would gen- wide ethical and policy debates over SCIENCE erate variation on demand, in turn al- genetic engineering, Evolution Made to lowing breeders to genetically engineer Order is an important study of biologi- crops and flowers to order. cal research and innovation in America In Evolution Made to Order, Helen that will interest modern biotechnolo- Anne Curry traces the history of gists, biologists, and breeders, as well as America’s pursuit of tools that could historians of science and technology.

Helen Anne Curry is a lecturer of history and philosophy of science at the University of Cambridge.

Plant Evolution An Introduction to the History of Life KARL J. NIKLAS

Although plants comprise more than las’s Plant Evolution offers fresh insight 90% of all visible life, and land plants into these differences. Following up and algae collectively make up the most on his landmark book The Evolutionary morphologically, physiologically, and Biology of Plants, Niklas incorporates ecologically diverse group of organisms data from more than a decade of new on earth, books on evolution instead research in the flourishing field of mo- tend to focus on animals. This organ- lecular biology, conveying not only why ismal bias has led to an incomplete and the study of evolution is so important, often erroneous understanding of evo- but also why the study of plants is es- lutionary theory. Because plants grow sential to our understanding of evolu- and reproduce differently than ani- tionary processes. Niklas shows us that mals, they have evolved differently, and investigating the intricacies of plant AUGUST 560 p., 144 color plates, generally accepted evolutionary views development, the diversification of 16 halftones, 24 line drawings, 20 tables applied to them often fail to hold. early vascular land plants, and larger 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-34200-9 Tapping such wide-ranging topics patterns in plant evolution is not just a Cloth $120.00x/£84.00 as genetics, gene regulatory networks, botanical pursuit: it is vital to our com- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-34214-6 phenotype mapping, and multicellular- prehension of the history of all life on Paper $45.00s/£31.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-34228-3 ity, as well as palaeobotany, Karl J. Nik- this green planet. SCIENCE Karl J. Niklas is the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Plant Biology and a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow in the Plant Biology Section of the School of Integrative Plant Sci- ence at Cornell University. He is the author of Plant Biomechanics, Plant Allometry, and The Evolutionary Biology of Plants, and coauthor of Plant Physics, all published by the University of Chicago Press. He lives in Ithaca, NY. 60 special interest Science, Conservation, and National Parks “An exciting contribution that will be of interest to park managers around Edited by STEVEN R. BEISSINGER, DAVID D. ACKERLY, HOLLY DOREMUS, the world. Addressing important and GARY E. MACHLIS themes like the potential transition As the US National Park Service marks swers to a number of key conservation from an extensive to an intensive its centennial in 2016, parks and pro- questions, such as: How should stew- economy and what that means for tected areas worldwide are under in- ardship address climate change, urban parks and biodiversity, the authors creasing threat from a variety of factors. encroachment and pollution, and inva- do a nice job exploring the differ- In the face of rapid environmental and sive species? How can society, especially ent strategies for setting goals and cultural changes, Science, Conservation, youth, become more engaged with na- managing national parks.” and National Parks gathers a group of ture and parks, and are there models to —Eleanor J. Sterling, renowned scholars—including Edward guide interactions between parks and American Museum of Natural History O. Wilson, Jane Lubchenco, Thomas their neighbors? What are appropri- Dietz, and Monica Turner, among ate conservation objectives for parks in DECEMBER 416 p., 51 halftones, many others—who seek to address the Anthropocene? Charting a course 13 tables 6 x 9 these problems and, in so doing, to se- for the parks of the next century, Sci- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42295-4 Cloth $130.00x/£91.00 cure a future for protected areas that ence, Conservation, and National Parks is ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42300-5 will push forward the frontiers of bio- certain not only to catalyze the contin- Paper $45.00s/£31.50 logical, physical, and social science in ued evolution of US park conservation E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42314-2 and for parks. policy, but also to be an inspiration for SCIENCE Examining the major challenges parks, conservation, and management of parks and protected areas through- worldwide. out the world, contributors provide an-

Steven R. Beissinger is professor of conservation biology in the Department of Environ- mental Science, Policy, and Management and in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, David D. Ackerly is professor in the Department of Integrative Biology and an associate curator in the Jepson Herbarium, and Holly Doremus is the James H. House and Hiram H. Hurd Professor of Environmental Regulation in the School of Law, all at the University of Cali- fornia, Berkeley. Gary E. Machlis is university professor of environmental sustainability at Clemson University and science advisor to the director of the National Park Service. Documenting the World Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record Edited by GREGG MITMAN and KELLEY WILDER

Imagine the twentieth century without and film made in the scientific quest to photography and film. Its history would document the world. Drawing on schol- be absent of images that define his- ars from the fields of art history, visual torical moments and generations: the anthropology, and science and technol- death camps of Auschwitz, the assassi- ogy studies, the chapters in this book nation of John F. Kennedy, the Apollo explore how this documentation—from lunar landing. It would be a history, in the initial recording of images, to their other words, of just artists’ renderings acquisition and storage, to their circula- and the spoken and written word. To tion—has altered our lives, our ways of inhabitants of the twenty-first century, knowing, our social and economic rela- deeply immersed in visual culture, such tionships, and even our surroundings. a history seems insubstantial, impre- Far beyond mere illustration, photogra- cise, and even, perhaps, unscientific. phy and film have become an integral, OCTOBER 288 p., 27 color plates, Documenting the World is about the transformative part of the world they 40 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-12911-2 material and social life of photographs seek to show us. Cloth $35.00s/£24.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-12925-9 Gregg Mitman is the Vilas Research and William Coleman Professor of History of Science, Medical History, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He SCIENCE HISTORY is the author of Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes, Reel Nature: America’s Romance with Wildlife on Film, and The State of Nature: Ecology, Community, and American Social Thought. Kelley Wilder is a reader in photographic history at the Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester. She is the author of Photography and Science. special interest 61 Biotechnology and Society An Introduction HALLAM STEVENS

With Biotechnology and Society, Hallam ics; biosecurity; and even biotech art. Stevens provides an up-to-date primer Taken as a whole, the book presents a to help us understand the interactions clear, authoritative picture of the rela- of biotechnology and society and the tionship between biotechnology and debates, controversies, fears, and hopes society today, and how our conceptions that have shaped how we think about (and misconceptions) of it could shape bodies, organisms, and life in the twen- future developments. It will be an es- ty-first century. Stevens addresses such sential volume for students and scholars topics as genetically modified foods, working with biotechnology, while still cloning, and stem cells; genetic testing being accessible to the general reader and the potential for discrimination; interested in the details behind breath- fears of (and, in some cases, hopes less news stories about biotech’s prom- SEPTEMBER 352 p., 28 halftones, for) designer babies; personal genom- ise and perils. 2 line drawings, 3 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04596-2 Hallam Stevens is assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore Cloth $90.00x/£63.00 and the author of Life Out of Sequence: A Data-Driven History of Bioinformatics. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04601-3 Paper $30.00s/£21.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04615-0 SCIENCE CURRENT EVENTS

Making Jet Engines in World War II Britain, Germany, and the United States HERMIONE GIFFARD

Our stories of industrial innovation gines than the others, did so largely as tend to focus on individual initiative replacements for more expensive piston and lone breakthroughs. With Making engines. Britain, however, produced Jet Engines in World War II, Hermione relatively few engines—but, by shifting Giffard uses the case of the develop- emphasis to design rather than produc- ment of jet engines to offer a different tion, found itself at war’s end holding way of understanding technological an unrivaled range of designs. The US innovation, revealing the complicated emphasis on development, meanwhile, mix of factors that go into any decision built an institutional basis for postwar to pursue an innovative, and therefore production. Taken together, Giffard’s risky, technology. accounts make a powerful case for a Giffard compares Germany, Brit- more nuanced understanding of tech- OCTOBER 336 p., 34 halftones, ain, and the United States, showing nological innovation, one that takes 2 line drawings, 3 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38859-5 that each approached jet engines in dif- into account the influence of the many Cloth $45.00s/£31.50 ferent ways because of its own particu- organizational factors that play a part E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38862-5 lar war aims and industrial expertise. in the journey from idea to finished SCIENCE HISTORY Germany, which produced more jet en- product.

Hermione Giffard is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of History and Art History at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

62 special interest Messages from Islands “What a lovely book. . . . Given Hanski’s standing in the field and A Global Biodiversity Tour all that he has done for our under- ILKKA HANSKI standing of how the natural world works and what we can and should From a small island in the Baltic Sea biodiversity crisis? What are extinction to the large tropical islands of Borneo thresholds and extinction debts? What be doing to preserve what’s left of and Madagascar, Messages from Islands can the biodiversity hypothesis tell us it, he should be given carte blanche is a global tour of these natural, water- about rapidly increasing allergies, asth- to publish whatever book he wants bound laboratories. In this career- ma, and other chronic inflammatory to write. Luckily for all of us, the spanning work, Ilkka Hanski draws disorders? The world’s largest island, book that he has written is one of upon the many islands on which he Greenland, for instance, is the starting the best tales of scientific discov- has performed fieldwork to convey key point for a journey into the benefits that themes in ecology. By exploring the is- humankind acquires from biodiversity, ery and understanding, and of the lands’ biodiversity as an introduction to including the staggering biodiversity humans who make those discover- general issues, Hanski helps us to learn of microbes in the ecosystems that are ies, that I have ever read.” how species and communities interact in closest to us—the ecosystems in our —Nathan J. Sanders, fragmented landscapes, how evolution guts, in our respiratory tracts, and un- University of Copenhagen generates biodiversity, and how this bio- der our skin. Conceptually oriented but diversity is maintained over time. grounded in an adventurous personal DECEMBER 272 p., 54 halftones, 2 tables 6 x 9 Beginning each chapter on a par- narrative, Messages from Islands is a land- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40630-5 ticular island, Hanski dives into reflec- mark work that lifts the natural myster- Cloth $100.00x/£70.00 tions on his own field studies before ies of islands from the sea, bringing to ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40644-2 Paper $32.50s/£23.00 light the thrilling complexities and con- going on to pursue a variety of ecologi- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40658-9 nections of ecosystems worldwide. cal questions, including: What is the SCIENCE

Ilkka Hanski is professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and director of the Metapop- All language rights available ulation Research Centre at the University of Helsinki. He is the author of Metapopulation excluding Finnish. Ecology, among several monographs and edited works.

Species and Speciation in the Fossil Record Edited by WARREN D. ALLMON and MARGARET M. YACOBUCCI

Although the species is one of the fun- within paleobiology of quantitative damental units of biological classifica- methods for documenting and analyz- tion, there is remarkably little consen- ing variation within fossil assemblages, sus among biologists about what defines contributors explore the challenges of a species, even within distinct sub-disci- recognizing and defining species from plines. The literature of paleobiology, fossil specimens—and offer potential in particular, is littered with qualifiers solutions. Addressing both the tempo and cautions about applying the term and mode of speciation over time, to the fossil record or equating such they show how with careful interpreta- species with those recognized among tion and a clear species concept, fossil living organisms. In Species and Specia- species may be sufficiently robust for tion in the Fossil Record, experts in the meaningful paleobiological analyses. field examine how they conceive of spe- Indeed, they demonstrate that the spe- cies of fossil animals and consider the cies concept, if more refined, could un- SEPTEMBER 384 p., 56 halftones, implications these different approaches earth a wealth of information about the 26 line drawings, 12 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-37744-5 have for thinking about species in the interplay between species origins and Cloth $65.00s/£45.50 context of macroevolution. extinctions, between local and global E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-37758-2 After outlining views of the Mod- climate change, and greatly deepen our SCIENCE ern Synthesis of evolutionary disci- understanding of the evolution of life. plines and detailing the development

Warren D. Allmon is director of the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, New York, and professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Cornell Uni- versity. Margaret M. Yacobucci is professor of geology at Bowling Green State University. special interest 63 Data-Centric Biology A Philosophical Study SABINA LEONELLI

In recent decades, there has been a ma- analysis of the epistemology of data. In jor shift in the way researchers process analyzing the rise, internal dynamics, and understand scientific data. Digital and potential impact of data-centric bi- access to data has revolutionized ways ology, she draws on scholarship across of doing science in the biological and diverse fields of science and the hu- biomedical fields, leading to a data-in- manities—as well as her own original tensive paradigm for research that uses empirical material—to pinpoint the innovative methods to produce, store, conditions under which digitally avail- distribute, and interpret huge amounts able data can further our understand- of data. In Data-Centric Biology, Sabina ing of life. What, under these new con- Leonelli probes the implications of ditions, counts as scientific evidence? these advancements and confronts the And how do we actually turn data into NOVEMBER 288 p., 8 halftones 6 x 9 questions they pose. Are we witnessing new knowledge? ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41633-5 Cloth $105.00x/£73.50 the rise of an entirely new scientific Bridging the divide between his- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41647-2 epistemology? If so, how does that alter torians, sociologists, and philosophers Paper $35.00s/£24.50 the way we study and understand life— of science, Data-Centric Biology offers a E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41650-2 including ourselves? nuanced account of an issue that is of SCIENCE PHILOSOPHY Leonelli is the first scholar to use fundamental importance to our un- a study of contemporary data-inten- derstanding of contemporary scientific sive science to provide a philosophical practices.

Sabina Leonelli is associate professor of philosophy and history of science at the University of Exeter.

Sentimental Savants Philosophical Families in Enlightenment France MEGHAN K. ROBERTS

Though the public may retain a hoary their families and domestic lives, even image of the lone scientific or philo- going so far as to test out their ideas— sophical genius generating insights from education to inoculation—on in isolation, scholars discarded it long their own children. Meghan K. Roberts ago. In reality, the families of scientists delves into the lives and work of such and philosophers in the Enlightenment major figures as Denis Diderot, Émi- played a substantial role, not only mak- lie Du Châtelet, the Marquis de Con- ing space for inquiry within the home dorcet, Antoine Lavoisier, and Jérôme but also assisting in observing, translat- Lalande to paint a striking portrait of ing, calculating, and illustrating. how sentiment and reason interacted in Sentimental Savants is the first book the eighteenth century to produce not OCTOBER 240 p., 4 halftones 6 x 9 to explore the place of the family among only new kinds of knowledge but new ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38411-5 the savants of the French Enlighten- kinds of families as well. Cloth $45.00s/£31.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38425-2 ment, a group that openly embraced SCIENCE HISTORY Meghan K. Roberts is assistant professor of history at Bowdoin College.

64 special interest Unfreezing the Arctic Science, Colonialism, and the Transformation of Inuit Lands ANDREW STUHL

In recent years, journalists and envi- a compelling narrative voice, Stuhl ronmentalists have pointed urgently to weaves together a wealth of distinct the melting Arctic as a leading indica- episodes into a transnational history tor of the growing effects of climate of the North American Arctic, proving change. While climate change has un- that a richer understanding of its social leashed profound transformations in and environmental transformation can the region, most commentators distort only come from studying the region’s these changes by calling them unprec- past. Drawing on historical records and edented. In reality, the landscapes of extensive ethnographic fieldwork, as the North American Arctic—as well as well as time spent living in the North- relations among scientists, Inuit, and west Territories, he closely examines federal governments—are products of the long-running interplay of scientific the region’s colonial past. And even as exploration, colonial control, the tes- NOVEMBER 224 p., 13 halftones, 1 line drawing 6 x 9 policy analysts, activists, and scholars timony and experiences of Inuit resi- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41664-9 alike clamor about the future of our dents, and multinational investments Cloth $35.00s/£24.50 world’s northern rim, too few truly un- in natural resources. A rich and timely E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41678-6 derstand its history. portrait, Unfreezing the Arctic offers a SCIENCE HISTORY In Unfreezing the Arctic, Andrew comprehensive look at scientific activity Stuhl brings a fresh perspective to this across the long twentieth century. defining challenge of our time. With

Andrew Stuhl is assistant professor of environmental studies at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania. Why Birds Matter Avian Ecological Function and Ecosystem Services Edited by ÇAGˇAN H. S¸ EKERCIOGˇLU, DANIEL G. WENNY, and CHRISTOPHER J. WHELAN

While avian enthusiasts have noted ue should inform conservation. Chap- that birds eat fruit, carrion, and pests; ters explore the role of birds in such spread seed and fertilizer; and polli- important ecological dynamics as scav- nate plants, among other services, they enging, nutrient cycling, food-chains, have rarely asked what birds are worth and plant-animal interactions—all in economic terms. In Why Birds Mat- seen through the lens of human well- ter, an international collection of orni- being—to show that quantifying avian thologists, botanists, ecologists, conser- ecosystem services is crucial when for- vation biologists, and environmental mulating contemporary conservation economists seeks to quantify avian eco- strategies. Both elucidating challenges system services—the myriad benefits and providing examples of specific eco- that birds provide to humans. system valuations and guidance for cal- AUGUST 368 p., 31 halftones, 6 line drawings, 8 tables 6 x 9 The first book to approach eco- culation, the contributors propose that ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38246-3 system services from an ornithologi- in order to advance avian conservation, Cloth $135.00x/£94.50 cal perspective, Why Birds Matter asks we need to appeal not only to hearts ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38263-0 Paper $45.00s/£31.50 what economic value we can ascribe to and minds, but also to wallets. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38277-7 those services, if any, and how this val- SCIENCE Çagˇan H. S¸ekerciogˇlu is professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Utah and distinguished visiting fellow at Koç University of Istanbul. Daniel G. Wenny is senior landbird biologist at the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory and visiting research scholar at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley. Christopher J. Whelan is visiting research associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. special interest 65 “A tour de force that characterizes the Zebra Stripes biology, morphology, physiology, TIM CARO and behavior of the equid genus as a starting point for examining From eminent biologists like Alfred temperature regulation. It is a chal- in detail the unique features of its Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin lenge to test these proposals on large striped members. . . . Zebra Stripes to famous authors such as Rudyard animals living in the wild, but using a is an easy read, full of authoritative Kipling in his Just So Stories, many peo- combination of careful observations, documentation from the literature ple have asked, “Why do zebras have simple field experiments, comparative stripes?” There are many explanations, information, and logic, Caro is able to bolstered by clever experiments but until now hardly any have been seri- weigh up, scientifically, the pros and (with Caro putting himself literally ously addressed or even tested. In Zebra cons of each idea. Eventually—driven in a zebra’s shoes—or actually a Stripes, Tim Caro takes readers through by experiments showing that biting flies pelt), and constructed in a didactic, a decade of painstaking fieldwork ex- avoid landing on striped surfaces, ob- hypothetical, deductive way that amining the significance of black-and- servations that striping is most intense gives it credibility. Its complete- white striping and, after systematically where biting flies are abundant, and by dismissing every hypothesis for these his knowledge of zebras’ susceptibility ness and attention to detail will markings with new data, he arrives at a to biting flies and vulnerability to the make it a must read.” surprising conclusion: zebra’s markings diseases that flies carry—Caro reaches —Daniel I. Rubenstein, are nature’s defense against biting fly his conclusion. Not just a tale of one sci- Princeton University annoyance. entist’s quest to solve a classic mystery of Popular explanations for stripes biology, Zebra Stripes is also a testament DECEMBER 320 p., 32 color plates, 28 halftones, 55 tables 6 x 9 range from camouflage to confusion of to the tremendous value of longitudi- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41101-9 predators, social facilitation, and even nal research in behavioral ecology. Cloth $45.00s/£31.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41115-6 Tim Caro is professor of wildlife biology at the University of California, Davis. He is also the SCIENCE author of Cheetahs of the Serengeti Plains: Group Living in an Asocial Species and Antipredator Defenses in Birds and Mammals, both published by the University of Chicago Press, as well as Conservation by Proxy: Indicator, Umbrella, Keystone, Flagship, and Other Surrogate Species. Displaying Death and Animating Life Human-Animal Relations in Art, Science, and Everyday Life JANE C. DESMOND

The number of ways in which humans ies, and even at a professional confer- interact with animals is almost incal- ence for writers of obituaries. She goes culable. From beloved household pets behind the scenes at zoos, wildlife to the steak on our dinner tables, the clinics, and meetings of pet cemetery fur in our closets to the Babar books on professionals. We journey with her as our shelves, taxidermy exhibits to lo- she meets Kanzi, the bonobo artist, cal zoos, humans have complex, deep, and a host of other animal-artists—all and dependent relationships with the of whom are preparing their artwork animals in our ecosystems. In Display- for auction. Throughout, Desmond ing Death and Animating Life, Jane C. moves from a consideration of the vi- Desmond puts those human-animal sual display of unindividuated animals, relationships under a multidisciplinary to mourning for known animals, and Animal Lives lens, focusing on the less obvious, and finally to the marketing of artwork by revealing the individualities and subjec- individual animals. The first book in AUGUST 312 p., 26 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-14405-4 tivities of the real animals in our every- the new Animal Lives series, Displaying Cloth $90.00x/£63.00 day lives. Death and Animating Life is a landmark ISBN-13: 978-0-226-14406-1 Desmond, a pioneer in the field of study, bridging disciplines and reach- Paper $30.00s/£21.00 ing across divisions from the humani- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-37551-9 animal studies, builds the book on a NATURE number of case studies. She conducts ties and social sciences to chart new ter- research on-site at major museums, ritories of investigation. taxidermy conventions, pet cemeter-

Jane C. Desmond is professor of anthropology and gender and women’s studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Staging Tourism, also pub- 66 special interest lished by the University of Chicago Press. KIRIN NARAYAN Everyday Creativity Singing Goddesses in the Himalayan Foothills With a Foreword by Philip V. Bohlman

irin Narayan’s imagination was captured the very first time that, as a girl visiting the Himalayas, she heard Kangra K women join their voices together in song. Returning as an anthropologist, she became fascinated by how they spoke of sing- ing as a form of enrichment, bringing feelings of accomplishment, companionship, happiness, and even good health—all benefits of the “everyday creativity” she explores in this book. Part ethnography, part “Fluid, readable, and evocative, Everyday musical discovery, part poetry, part memoir, and part unforgettable Creativity is enriched by Narayan’s trade- portraits of creative individuals, this unique work draws on an associa- mark: a painterly mastery of charming, tion across forty years, and brings the Himalayan foothill region of descriptive prose. We might almost forget Kangra in North India alive in sight and sound while celebrating the that we are reading anthropology—yet incredible powers of music in our lives. her deep insights are gracefully woven With rare and captivating eloquence, Narayan portrays Kangra throughout.” songs about difficulties in the lives of goddesses and female saints as a —Ann Grodzins Gold, path to well-being. Like the intricate geometries of mandalu patterns coauthor of In the Time of Trees and Sorrows drawn in courtyards or the subtle balance of flavors in a meal, well- crafted songs offer a variety of deeply meaningful benefits: as a way of Big Issues in Music making something of value, as a means of establishing a community of NOVEMBER 256 p., 9 halftones 6 x 9 shared pleasure and skill, as a path through hardships and limitations, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40742-5 and as an arena of renewed possibility. Everyday Creativity makes big the Cloth $75.00x/£52.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40756-2 small world of Kangra song and opens up new ways of thinking about Paper $25.00s/£17.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40773-9 what creativity is to us and why we are so compelled to engage it. MUSIC ANTHROPOLOGY

Kirin Narayan is professor in the School of Culture, History, and Language in the College of Asia and the Pacific at Australia National University. She is the author of several books, including My Family and Other Saints and Alive in the Writing, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

special interest 67 Cherubino’s Leap In Search of the Enlightenment Moment RICHARD KRAMER

For the Enlightenment mind, from Mo- on the grand stage of opera, at the in- ses Mendelssohn’s focus on the moment tense moment of recognition in Gluck’s of surprise at the heart of the work of Iphigénie en Tauride and the exquisitely art to Herder’s imagining of the seismic introverted phrase that complicates moment at which language was discov- Cherubino’s daring escape in Mozart’s ered, it is the flash of recognition that Figaro. Finally, the tears of the discon- nails the essence of the work, the blink solate Konstanze in Mozart’s Entführung of an eye in which one’s world changes. inspire a reflection on the tragic aspect In Cherubino’s Leap, Richard Kramer of the composer’s operatic women. unmasks such prismatic moments in a Other players from literature and the range of iconic instrumental works by arts—Diderot, Goethe, Lessing among Emanuel Bach, Haydn, and Mozart; in them—enrich the landscape of this OCTOBER 224 p., 17 halftones, 51 line drawings 6 x 9 the musical engagement with the formi- journey through the Enlightenment ISBN-13: 978-0-226-37789-6 dable odes of Friedrich Klopstock; and, imagination. Cloth $45.00s/£31.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38408-5 Richard Kramer is distinguished professor emeritus of music at the Graduate Center of the MUSIC City University of New York. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the author of the award-winning Distant Cycles: Schubert and the Conceiving of Song, also published by the University of Chicago Press, and Unfinished Music.

Seventeenth-Century Opera and the Sound of the Commedia dell’arte EMILY WILBOURNE

In this book, Emily Wilbourne boldly sound-in-performance aspect of com- traces the roots of early opera back to media dell’arte theater—specifically, the sounds of the commedia dell’arte. the use of dialect and verbal play— Along the way, she forges a new history produced an audience that was accus- of Italian opera, from the court pieces tomed to listening to sonic content of the early seventeenth century to the rather than simply the literal meaning public stages of Venice more than fifty of spoken words. This, Wilbourne sug- years later. gests, shaped the musical vocabularies Wilbourne considers a series of of early opera and facilitated a musical- case studies structured around the ization of Italian theater. most important and widely explored Highlighting productive ties be- operas of the period: Monteverdi’s lost tween the two worlds, from the audi- NOVEMBER 256 p., 5 halftones, L’Ar i a nn a , as well as his Il Ritorno d’Ulisse ences and venues to the actors and sing- 37 line drawings, 4 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40157-7 and L’incoronazione di Poppea; Mazzochi ers, this work brilliantly shows how the Cloth $55.00s/£38.50 and Marazzoli’s L’Egisto, ovvero Chi sof- sound of commedia performance ulti- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40160-7 fre speri; and Cavalli’s L’Ormindo and mately underwrote the success of opera MUSIC L’Ar t e m i si a . As she demonstrates, the as a genre.

Emily Wilbourne is assistant professor of musicology at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

68 special interest Message to Our Folks “By taking us into the inner life of the Ensemble, Steinbeck elo- The Art Ensemble of Chicago quently demonstrates the ways in PAUL STEINBECK which the group’s lifelong engage- This year marks the golden anniversary beck combines musical analysis and his- ment with multiple African-Amer- of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, the torical inquiry to give us the definitive ican, avant-garde, non-Western, flagship band of the Association for the study of the Art Ensemble. In the book, and popular musical traditions Advancement of Creative Musicians. he proposes a new theory of group im- was manifested in their unique Formed in 1966 and flourishing until provisation that explains how the band sound, as well as explaining how 2010, the Art Ensemble distinguished members were able to improvise together and why they gained such a large itself by its unique performance prac- in so many different styles while also tices—members played hundreds of drawing on an extensive repertoire of and diverse following among audi- instruments on stage, recited poetry, notated compositions. Steinbeck exam- ences throughout the world. This performed theatrical sketches, and ines the multimedia dimensions of the is an important addition to jazz wore face paint, masks, lab coats, and Art Ensemble’s performances and the scholarship.” traditional African and Asian dress. ways in which their distinctive model —Nicholas Gebhardt, The group, which built a global audi- of social relations kept the group per- author of Going for Jazz: Musical ence and toured across six continents, forming together for four decades. Mes- Practices and American Ideology presented their work as experimental sage to Our Folks is a striking and valu- performance art, in opposition to the able contribution to our understanding DECEMBER 336 p., 18 halftones, jazz industry’s traditionalist aesthetics. of one of the world’s premier musical 85 line drawings 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-37596-0 groups. In Message to Our Folks, Paul Stein- Cloth $40.00s/£28.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-37601-1 Paul Steinbeck is assistant professor of music theory at Washington University in St. Louis. MUSIC He is coauthor of Exercises for the Creative Musician, as well as a bassist, composer, and recording artist.

Sound Knowledge Music and Science in London, 1789–1851 Edited by JAMES Q. DAVIES and ELLEN LOCKHART

What does it mean to hear scientifical- General History of Music, a four-volume ly? What does it mean to see musically? study of music around the globe, and This volume uncovers a new side to the extending to the Great Exhibition of long nineteenth century in London, a 1851, where musical instruments were hidden history in which virtuosic musi- assembled alongside the technologies cal entertainment and scientific discov- of science and industry in the immense ery intersected in remarkable ways. glass-encased collections of the Crystal Sound Knowledge examines how sci- Palace. Importantly, as the contribu- entific truth was accrued by means of vi- tions show, both the power of science sual and aural experience, and, in turn, and the power of music relied on per- how musical knowledge was located in formance, spectacle, and experiment. relation to empirical scientific practice. Ultimately, this volume sets the stage James Q. Davies and Ellen Lockhart for a new picture of modern discipli- NOVEMBER 256 p., 34 halftones, 4 line drawings, 1 table 6 x 9 gather work by leading scholars to ex- narity, shining light on an era before ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40207-9 plore a crucial sixty-year period, begin- the division of aural and visual knowl- Cloth $55.00s/£38.50 ning with Charles Burney’s ambitious edge. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40210-9 MUSIC James Q. Davies is associate professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Romantic Anatomies of Performance. Ellen Lockhart is assistant professor of musicology at the University of Toronto.

special interest 69 The Tango Machine Musical Culture in the Age of Expediency MORGAN JAMES LUKER

In Argentina, tango isn’t just the na- Luker traces the diverse and of- tional music—it’s a national brand. ten contradictory ways tango is used But ask any contemporary Argentine if in Argentina in activities ranging from they ever really listen to it and chances state cultural policy making to its ex- are the answer is no: tango hasn’t been port abroad as a cultural emblem, from popular for more than fifty years. In the expanding nonprofit arts sector to this book, Morgan James Luker ex- tango-themed urban renewal projects. plores that odd paradox by tracing the He shows how projects such as these are many ways Argentina draws upon tango not peripheral to an otherwise “real” as a resource for a wide array of eco- tango—they are the absolutely central nomic, social, and cultural—that is to means by which the values of this mu- say, non-musical—projects. In doing so, sical culture are cultivated. By richly Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology he illuminates new facets of all musical detailing the interdependence of aes-

OCTOBER 216 p., 3 line drawings 6 x 9 culture in an age of expediency when thetic value and the regimes of cultural ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38540-2 the value and meaning of the arts is management, this book sheds light on Cloth $90.00x/£63.00 less about the arts themselves and more core conceptual challenges facing criti- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38554-9 about how they can be used. cal music scholarship today. Paper $30.00s/£21.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38568-6 Morgan James Luker is associate professor of music at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. MUSIC

“A highly sophisticated and wel- Tigers of a Different Stripe come engagement with the shifting Performing Gender in Dominican Music terrain of genre and gender in the SYDNEY HUTCHINSON merengue típico of the Dominican

Republic. Spanning forty years, Tigers of a Different Stripe takes read- instrumentalist—Hutchinson details a Tigers of a Different Stripe explores ers inside the unique world of meren- complex nexus of class, race, and artistic a series of key artists and performers gue típico, a traditional music of the tradition that unsettles the typical binary and makes a much-needed, deeply Dominican Republic. While in most between the masculine and feminine. insightful, and timely addition to genres of Caribbean music women usu- She sketches the portrait of the classic ally participate as dancers or vocalists, male figure of the tíguere, a dandified the ethnomusicological literature on in merengue típico they are more often but sexually aggressive and street-smart gender in the Caribbean.” instrumentalists and even bandlead- “tiger,” and she shows how female musi- —Michael Largey, ers—something nearly unheard of in cians have developed a feminine coun- author of Vodou Nation the macho Caribbean music scene. terpart: the tíguera, an assertive, sen- Examining this cultural phenomenon, sual, and respected female figure who Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology Sydney Hutchinson offers an unexpect- looks like a woman but often plays and NOVEMBER 248 p., 22 halftones, ed and fascinating account of gender in even sings like a man. Through these 14 line drawings, 6 tables 6 x 9 Dominican art and life. musical figures and studies of both ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40532-2 Drawing on over a decade of field- straight and queer performers, she Cloth $105.00x/£73.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40546-9 work in the Dominican Republic and unveils rich ambiguities in gender con- Paper $35.00s/£24.50 New York among musicians, fans, and struction in the Dominican Republic E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40563-6 patrons of merengue típico—not to men- and the long history of a unique form MUSIC tion her own experiences as a female of Caribbean feminism.

Sydney Hutchinson is assistant professor of ethnomusicology at Syracuse University. She is the editor of Salsa World and author of From Quebradita to Duranguense.

70 special interest Building a New Educational State “The story of southern educa- tion development indicates that Foundations, Schools, and the American South foundations will not be effective at JOAN MALCZEWSKI imposing a new vision of education onto existing systems without the Building a New Educational State ex- South. Black education was an impor- amines the dynamic process of black tant component of this national agen- support of states, citizens, and pri- education reform during the Jim Crow da. Through extensive efforts to create vate stakeholders. Both foundation era in North Carolina and Mississippi. a more centralized and standard system officials and education reformers Through extensive archival research, of public education aimed at bringing have much to gain by creating Joan Malczewski explores the initiatives isolated and rural black schools into programs that are transparent and of foundations and reformers at the the public system, schools became im- inclusive of state interests, elite top, the impact of their work at the state portant places for expanding the ca- and local level, and the agency of south- pacity of state and local governance. political actors, and local commu- erners—including those in rural black When foundations realized they could nities. Reformers at every level of communities—to demonstrate the im- not unilaterally impose their educa- governance might learn from the portance of schooling to political de- tional vision on the South, particularly public-private collaborations that velopment in the South. Along the way, in black communities, they began to developed in the South in the early Malczewski challenges us to reevaluate collaborate with locals, thereby open- twentieth century.” the relationships among political actors ing political opportunity in rural areas. involved in education reform. Unfortunately, while foundations were —from the Conclusion Malczewski presents foundation effective at developing the institutional configurations necessary for education DECEMBER 352 p. 6 x 9 leaders as self-conscious state builders ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39462-6 and policy entrepreneurs who aimed to reform, they were less successful at im- Cloth $55.00s/£38.50 promote national ideals through a pub- plementing local programs consistently E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39476-3 lic system of education—efforts they due to each state’s distinctive political EDUCATION POLITICAL SCIENCE believed were especially critical in the and institutional context.

Joan Malczewski is assistant professor of history and social studies at New York University. Best Laid Plans Cultural Entropy and the Unraveling of AIDS Media Campaigns TERENCE E. MCDONNELL

We see it all the time: organizations designed campaigns are undergoing strive to persuade the public to change “cultural entropy”: the process through beliefs or behavior through expensive, which the intended meanings and uses expansive media campaigns. Design- of cultural objects fracture into alter- ers painstakingly craft clear, resonant, native meanings, new practices, failed and culturally sensitive messaging that interactions, and blatant disregard. Us- will motivate people to buy a product, ing AIDS media campaigns in Accra, support a cause, vote for a candidate, Ghana, as its central case study, the or take active steps to improve their book walks readers through best-prac- health. But once these campaigns leave tice, evidence-based media campaigns the controlled environments of focus that fall totally flat. Female condoms groups, advertising agencies, and stake- are turned into bracelets, AIDS posters AUGUST 264 p., 38 halftones, holder meetings to circulate, the public become home decorations, red ribbons 1 line drawing 6 x 9 interprets and distorts the campaigns fade into pink under the sun—to name ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38201-2 Cloth $105.00x/£73.50 in ways their designers never intended a few failures. These damaging cul- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38215-9 or dreamed. In Best Laid Plans, Terence tural misfires are not random. Rather, Paper $35.00s/£24.50 E. McDonnell explains why these at- McDonnell makes the case that these E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38229-6 tempts at mass persuasion often fail so disruptions are patterned, widespread, SOCIOLOGY AFRICAN STUDIES badly. and inevitable—indicative of a broader McDonnell argues that these well- process of cultural entropy.

Terence E. McDonnell is the Kellogg Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame. special interest 71 Working Law Courts, Corporations, and Symbolic Civil Rights LAUREN B. EDELMAN

Since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, are policies and procedures that are virtually all companies have put antidis- largely symbolic and fail to dispel long- crimination policies in place. Although standing patterns of discrimination. these policies represent some progress, Even more troubling, these meanings women and minorities remain under- of the law that evolve within companies represented within the workplace as a tend to eventually make their way back whole and even more so when you look into the legal domain, inconspicuously at high-level positions. They also tend influencing lawyers for both plain- to be less well paid. How is it that dis- tiffs and defendants and even judges. crimination remains so prevalent in the When courts look to the presence of American workplace despite the wide- antidiscrimination policies and person- spread adoption of policies designed to nel manuals to infer fair practices and Chicago Series in Law and Society prevent it? to the presence of diversity training

NOVEMBER 312 p., 26 figures, 4 tables One reason for the limited success programs without examining whether 6 x 9 of antidiscrimination policies, argues these policies are effective in combat- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40062-4 Lauren B. Edelman, is that the law ing discrimination and achieving racial Cloth $90.00x/£63.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40076-1 regulating companies is broad and am- and gender diversity, they wind up con- Paper $30.00s/£21.00 biguous, and managers therefore play doning practices that deviate consider- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40093-8 a critical role in shaping what it means ably from the legal ideals. SOCIOLOGY LAW in daily practice. Often, what results

Lauren B. Edelman is the Agnes Roddy Robb Professor of Law and professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. A past president of the Law and Society Association, she is coeditor of two books, most recently The Legal Lives of Private Organizations.

Housekeeping by Design Hotels and Labor DAVID BRODY

One of the great pleasures of staying in a labor stays hidden. We see the incred- hotel is spending time in a spotless, neat, ible amount of hard physical work that and organized space that you don’t have is involved in cleaning and preparing to clean. That doesn’t, however, mean a room, how spaces, furniture, and the work disappears—when you’re not other objects are designed to facilitate looking, someone else is doing it. a smooth flow of hidden labor, and, With Housekeeping by Design, David crucially, how that design could be im- Brody introduces us to those people— proved for workers and management the housekeepers whose labor keeps alike if front-line staff were involved in the rooms clean and the guests happy. the design process. After reading this Through unprecedented access to staff fascinating exposé of the ways hotels OCTOBER 216 p., 24 halftones, at several hotels, Brody shows us just work—or don’t for housekeepers—one 2 line drawings 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38909-7 how much work goes on behind the thing is certain: checking in will never Cloth $85.00x/£59.50 scenes—and how much management be the same again. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38912-7 goes out of its way to make sure that Paper $27.50s/£19.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38926-4 David Brody is associate professor of design studies at Parsons School of Design, the New SOCIOLOGY School. He is the author of Visualizing American Empire: Orientalism and Imperialism in the Philippines, also published by the University of Chicago Press, and coeditor of Design Studies: A Reader.

72 special interest Intersectional Inequality Race, Class, Test Scores, and Poverty CHARLES C. RAGIN and PEER C. FISS

For over twenty-five years, Charles C. Herrnstein and Charles Murray’s The Ragin has developed Qualitative Com- Bell Curve. In contrast to prior work, parative Analysis and related set-ana- Ragin and Fiss bring an intersectional lytic methods as a means of bridging approach to the evidence, analyzing qualitative and quantitative methods of the different ways that advantages and research. Now, with Peer C. Fiss, Ragin disadvantages combine in their im- uses these impressive new tools to un- pact on life chances. Moving beyond ravel the varied conditions affecting controversy and fixed policy positions, life chances. the authors propose sophisticated new Ragin and Fiss begin by taking methods of analysis to underscore the up the controversy regarding the rela- importance of attending to configu- tive importance of IQ test scores ver- rations of race, gender, family back- sus socio-economic background on ground, educational achievement, and life chances, a debate that has raged related conditions when addressing so- since the 1994 publication of Richard cial inequality in America today. NOVEMBER 192 p., 9 line drawings, 46 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41437-9 Charles C. Ragin is Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Cloth $75.00x/£52.50 Irvine. He is the author of many books, including Redesigning Social Inquiry, also published ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41440-9 by the University of Chicago Press. Peer C. Fiss is associate professor of management and Paper $25.00s/£17.50 organization at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41454-6 He is coeditor of Configurational Theory and Methods in Organizational Research. SOCIOLOGY POLITICAL SCIENCE

Gringo Gulch Sex, Tourism, and Social Mobility in Costa Rica MEGAN RIVERS-MOORE

The story of sex tourism in the Gringo each group as involved in a complicated Gulch neighborhood of San José, Costa process of class mobility that must be Rica could be easily cast as the exploita- situated within the sale and purchase of tion of poor local women by privileged leisure and sex. These interactions op- North American men—men who are erate within an almost entirely unregu- in a position to take advantage of the lated but highly competitive market be- vast geopolitical inequalities that make yond the reach of the state—bringing a Latin American women into suppliers distinctly neoliberal cast to the market. of low-cost sexual labor. But in Gringo Throughout the book, Rivers-Moore in- Gulch, Megan Rivers-Moore tells a more troduces us to remarkable characters— nuanced story, demonstrating that all Susan, a mother of two who doesn’t the actors intimately entangled in the regret her career of sex work; Barry, a AUGUST 248 p., 10 halftones, 1 line sex tourism industry—sex workers, sex teacher and father of two from Virginia drawing, 1 table 6 x 9 tourists, and the state—use it as a strat- who travels to Costa Rica to escape his ISBN-13: 978-0-226-37338-6 egy for getting ahead. loveless, sexless marriage; Nancy, a legal Cloth $90.00x/£63.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-37341-6 Rivers-Moore situates her ethnog- assistant in the Department of Labor Paper $32.50s/£23.00 raphy at the intersections of gender, who is shocked to find out that prostitu- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-37355-3 race, class, and national dimensions in tion is legal and still unregulated. Gringo SOCIOLOGY the sex industry. Instead of casting sex Gulch is a fascinating and groundbreak- workers as hapless victims and sex tour- ing look at sex tourism, Latin America, ists as neoimperialist racists, she reveals and the neoliberal state.

Megan Rivers-Moore is assistant professor at the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

special interest 73 House Full Indian Cinema and the Active Audience LAKSHMI SRINIVAS

India is the largest producer and con- and industry insiders, Srinivas brings sumer of feature films in the world, far the moviegoing experience to life, re- outstripping Hollywood in the number vealing a kind of audience that, far of movies released and tickets sold every from passively consuming the images year. Cinema quite simply dominates on the screen, is actively engaged with Indian popular culture, and has for them. People talk, shout, whistle, cheer; many decades exerted an influence that others sing along, mimic, or dance; at extends from clothing trends to music times audiences even bring some of tastes to everyday conversations, which the ritual practices of Hindu worship is peppered with dialogue quotes. into the cinema, propitiating the stars With House Full, Lakshmi Srinivas onscreen with incense and camphor. takes readers deep into the moviegoing The picture Srinivas paints of Indian Fieldwork Encounters and experience in India, showing us what filmgoing is immersive, fascinating, Discoveries it’s actually like to line up for a hot tick- and deeply empathetic, giving us an et and see a movie in a jam-packed the- unprecedented understanding of the SEPTEMBER 312 p., 16 halftones, 1 table 6 x 9 ater with more than a thousand seats. audience’s lived experience—an aspect ISBN-13: 978-0-226-36142-0 Building her account on countless trips of Indian film studies that has been Cloth $112.50x/£79.00 to the cinema and hundreds of hours of largely overlooked. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-36156-7 Paper $37.50s/£26.50 conversation with film audiences, fans, E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-36173-4 Lakshmi Srinivas is associate professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts, SOCIOLOGY FILM STUDIES Boston.

Midnight Basketball Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy DOUGLAS HARTMANN

Midnight basketball may not have been American youth and young men. In invented in Chicago, but the City of Big Midnight Basketball, Hartmann traces Shoulders—home of Michael Jordan the history of the program and the pol- and the Bulls—is where it first came icy transformations of the period, while to national prominence. And it’s also exploring the racial ideologies, cultural where Douglas Hartmann first began tensions, and institutional realities that to think seriously about the audacious shaped the entire field of sports-based notion that organizing young men to social policy. Drawing on extensive run around in the wee hours of the fieldwork, the book also brings to life night—all trying to throw a leather ball the actual, on-the-ground practices of through a metal hoop—could consti- midnight basketball programs and the tute meaningful social policy. young men that the programs intended AUGUST 304 p. 6 x 9 Organized in the 1980s and ’90s to serve. In the process, Midnight Bas- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-37484-0 Cloth $105.00x/£73.50 by dozens of American cities, late-night ketball offers a more grounded and nu- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-37498-7 basketball leagues were designed for anced understanding of the intricate Paper $35.00s/£24.50 social intervention, risk reduction, and ways sports, race, and risk intersect and E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-37503-8 crime prevention targeted at African interact in urban America. SOCIOLOGY SPORTS Douglas Hartmann is professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Race, Culture, and the Revolt of the Black Athlete, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

74 special interest Sophistry and Political Philosophy Protagoras’ Challenge to Socrates ROBERT C. BARTLETT

One of the central challenges to con- and political teachings, while the “The- temporary political philosophy is the aetetus,” offers a distillation of his theo- apparent impossibility of arriving at any retical and epistemological arguments. commonly agreed upon “truths.” As Ni- Taken together, the two dialogues dem- etzsche observed in his Will to Power, the onstrate that Protagoras is attracted to currents of relativism that have come to one aspect of conventional morality— characterize modern thought can be the nobility of courage, which in turn said to have been born with ancient is connected to piety. This insight leads sophistry. If we seek to understand the Bartlett to a consideration of the similar- strengths and weaknesses of contempo- ities and differences in the relationship rary radical relativism, we must there- of political philosophy and sophistry to fore look first to the sophists of antiq- pious faith. Bartlett’s superb exegesis of- uity—the most famous and challenging fers a significant tool for understanding SEPTEMBER 272 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39428-2 of whom is Protagoras. the history of philosophy, but, in tracing Cloth $40.00s/£28.00 With Sophistry and Political Philoso- Socrates’s response to Protagoras’ teach- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39431-2 phy, Robert C. Bartlett provides the first ings, Bartlett also builds toward a richer PHILOSOPHY POLITICAL SCIENCE close reading of Plato’s two-part presen- understanding of both ancient sophistry tation of Protagoras. In the “Protago- and what Socrates meant by “political ras,” Plato sets out the sophist’s moral philosophy.”

Robert C. Bartlett is the Behrakis Professor of Hellenic Political Studies at Boston Col- lege. He is the author or editor of seven books, including The Idea of Enlightenment, Plato’s “Protagoras” and “Meno,” and Xenophon’s The Shorter Socratic Writings, and cotranslator of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Nietzsche’s Earth Great Events, Great Politics GARY SHAPIRO

We have Nietzsche to thank for some of Nietzsche’s prescient vision of today’s the most important accomplishments massive human mobility and his criti- in intellectual history, but as Gary Sha- cism of the nation state’s desperate piro shows in this unique look at Ni- efforts to sustain its exclusive rule by etzsche’s thought, the nineteenth-cen- declaring emergencies and states of tury philosopher actually anticipated exception. Shapiro then explores Ni- some of the most pressing questions etzsche’s vision of a transformed gar- of our own era. Putting Nietzsche into den earth and the ways it sketches an conversation with contemporary phi- aesthetic of the Anthropocene. He con- losophers such as Deleuze, Agamben, cludes with an explanation of the deep Foucault, Derrida, and others, Shapiro political structure of Nietzsche’s “phi- links Nietzsche’s powerful ideas to top- losophy of the Antichrist,” by relating it ics that are very much on the contempo- to traditional political theology. By tri- SEPTEMBER 264 p. 6 x 9 rary agenda: globalization, the nature angulating Nietzsche between his time ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39445-9 of the livable earth, and the geopoliti- and ours, between Bismarck’s Germany Cloth $45.00s/£31.50 cal categories that characterize people and post-9/11 America, Nietzsche’s Earth E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39459-6 and places. invites readers to rethink not just the PHILOSOPHY Shapiro explores Nietzsche’s rejec- philosopher himself but the very direc- tion of historical inevitability and its tion of human history. idea of the end of history. He highlights

Gary Shapiro is the Tucker-Boatwright Professor Emeritus of Humanities and Philosophy at the University of Richmond. He is the author of many books, including Earthwards: Robert Smithson and Art after Babel and Archaeologies of Vision: Foucault and Nietzsche on Seeing and Saying. special interest 75 Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed A Philosophical Guide ALFRED L. IVRY

A classic of medieval Jewish philosophy, guide to the Guide—one that makes it Maimonides’s Guide of the Perplexed is as comprehensible and exciting to even influential as it is difficult and demand- those relatively unacquainted with Mai- ing. Not only does the work contain con- monides’s thought, while also offering trary—even contradictory—statements, an original and provocative interpreta- but Maimonides deliberately wrote in tion that will command the interest of a guarded and dissembling manner in scholars. Ivry offers a chapter-by-chap- order to convey different meanings to ter exposition of the widely accepted different readers, with the knowledge Shlomo Pines translation of the text that many would resist his bold reformu- along with a clear paraphrase that clar- lations of God and his relation to man- ifies the key terms and concepts. Cor- kind. As a result, for all the acclaim the responding analyses take readers more SEPTEMBER 312 p. 6 x 9 Guide has received, comprehension of it deeply into the text, exploring the phil- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39512-8 Cloth $50.00s/£35.00 has been unattainable to all but a few in osophical issues it raises, many dealing E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39526-5 every generation. with metaphysics in both its ontological RELIGION PHILOSOPHY Drawing on a lifetime of study, Al- and epistemic aspects. fred L. Ivry has written the definitive

Alfred L. Ivry is professor emeritus in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Stud- ies and the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. He is the author, editor, or translator of nine books. Most recently, he edited Averroes’s Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s “De Anima” in both Arabic and Hebrew critical editions, as well as supplying an English-language translation.

The Philosophy Scare The Politics of Reason in the Early Cold War JOHN MCCUMBER

From the rise of formalist novels that was met with widespread protest charg- championed the heroism of the indi- ing him as an atheist. Drawing on Ot- vidual to the proliferation of abstract to’s case, McCumber details the hugely art as a counter to socialist realism, the successful conservative efforts that, by years of the Cold War had a profound 1960, had all but banished the existen- impact on American intellectual life. tialist and pragmatist paradigms—not As John McCumber shows in this fas- to mention Marxism—from philoso- cinating account, philosophy, too, was phy departments all across the country, hit hard by the Red Scare. Detailing replacing them with an approach that the immense political pressures that valorized scientific objectivity and free reshaped philosophy departments in markets and which downplayed the midcentury America, he shows just how anti-theistic implications of modern OCTOBER 224 p. 6 x 9 radically politics can alter the course of thought. As he shows, while there have ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39638-5 Cloth $45.00s/£31.50 intellectual history. since been many instances of definitive E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39641-5 McCumber begins with the story and even explosive rejection of this con- PHILOSOPHY POLITICAL SCIENCE of Max Otto, whose appointment to the servative trend, its effects can still be UCLA Philosophy Department in 1947 seen at American universities today.

John McCumber is Distinguished Professor of Germanic Languages at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of many books, including On Philosophy: Notes from a Crisis and Poetic Interaction: Language, Freedom, Reason, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.

76 special interest Collective Memory and the Historical Past JEFFREY ANDREW BARASH

There is one critical way we honor great the symbolic configurations of collec- tragedies: by never forgetting. Collec- tive memory have undergone with the tive remembrance is as old as human rise of new technologies of mass com- society itself, serving as an important munication. He provocatively demon- source of social cohesion, yet as Jeffrey strates how such technologies’ capacity Andrew Barash shows in this book, it to simulate direct experience—espe- has served novel roles in a modern era cially via the image—makes more pal- otherwise characterized by discontinu- pable the limitations of collective mem- ity and dislocation. Drawing on recent ory and the opacity of the historical theoretical explorations of collective past. Thwarting skepticism, however, he memory, he elaborates an important eventually looks to literature—specifi- new philosophical basis for it, one that cally writers such as Marcel Proust, Wal- unveils important limitations to its ter Scott, and W. G. Sebald—to uncover scope in relation to the historical past. subtle nuances of temporality that might NOVEMBER 280 p., 15 halftones 6 x 9 offer inconspicuous emblems of a past ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39915-7 Crucial to Barash’s analysis is a Cloth $45.00s/£31.50 look at the radical transformations that historical reality. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39929-4 Jeffrey Andrew Barash is a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and PHILOSOPHY HISTORY professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Amiens in France. He is the author or editor of many books, including, most recently, Martin Heidegger and the Problem of Histori- cal Meaning and The Social Construction of Reality, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.

The Distressed Body Rethinking Illness, Imprisonment, and Healing DREW LEDER

Bodily pain and distress come in many to the capitalist and Cartesian models forms. They can well up from within at that rule modern medicine. Similarly, times of serious illness, but the body he looks at the root paradigms of our can also be subjected to harsh treat- penitentiary and factory farm systems ment from outside. The medical sys- and the way these produce distressed tem is often cold and depersonalized, bodies, asking how such institutions and much worse are conditions experi- can be reformed. Collaborating with enced by prisoners in our age of mass people ranging from a prominent car- incarceration and by animals trapped diologist to long-term inmates, he ex- in our factory farms. In this pioneer- plores alternative environments that ing book, Drew Leder offers bold new can better humanize—even spiritual- ways to rethink how we create and treat ize—the way we treat one another, of- OCTOBER 304 p. 6 x 9 distress, clearing the way for more hu- fering a very different vision of medical, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39607-1 mane social practices. criminal justice, and food systems. Ulti- Cloth $90.00x/£63.00 Leder draws on literary examples, mately Leder proposes not just new an- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39610-1 Paper $30.00s/£21.00 clinical and philosophical sources, his swers to important bioethical questions E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39624-8 medical training, and his own struggle but new ways of questioning accepted PHILOSOPHY MEDICINE with chronic pain. He levies a challenge concepts and practices.

Drew Leder, MD, is professor of Western and Eastern philosophy at Loyola University Mary- land. He is the author or editor of many books, including The Body in Medical Thought and Practice and The Absent Body, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.

special interest 77 The Timeliness of George Herbert Mead Edited by HANS JOAS and DANIEL R. HUEBNER

George Herbert Mead is widely con- and the history of the natural and social sidered one of the most influential sciences. American philosophers of the twen- Edited by well-respected Mead tieth century, and his work remains scholars Hans Joas and Daniel R. Hueb- vibrant and relevant to many areas of ner, the volume as a whole makes a co- scholarly inquiry today. The Timeliness herent statement that places Mead in of George Herbert Mead brings together a dialogue with current research, push- range of scholars who provide detailed ing these domains of scholarship for- analyses of Mead’s importance to inno- ward while also revitalizing the grow- vative fields of scholarship, including ing literature on an author who has an cognitive science, environmental stud- ongoing and major influence on sociol- ies, democratic epistemology, social ogy, psychology, and philosophy. ethics, non-teleological historiography, OCTOBER 368 p., 1 halftone, 1 table 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-37694-3 Hans Joas is the Ernst Troeltsch Professor for the Sociology of Religion at the Humboldt Cloth $65.00x/£45.50 University of Berlin and professor of sociology and social thought at the University of Chi- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-37713-1 cago. He is the author of many books, including The Sacredness of the Person: A New Genealogy PHILOSOPHY SOCIOLOGY of Human Rights. Daniel R. Huebner is assistant professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the author of Becoming Mead: The Social Process of Aca- demic Knowledge. Together, Joas and Huebner prepared Mind, Self, and Society: The Definitive Edition, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Strange Tales of an Oriental Idol An Anthology of Early European Portrayals of the Buddha Edited by DONALD S. LOPEZ JR.

We tend to think that the Buddha has venturers, merchants, missionaries, always been seen as the compassionate theologians, and colonial officers, this sage admired around the world today, volume contains a wide range of por- but until the nineteenth century, Eu- traits of the Buddha. The descriptions ropeans often regarded him as a ne- are rarely flattering, as all manner of farious figure, an idol worshipped by reports—some accurate, some inaccu- the pagans of the Orient. Donald S. rate, and some garbled—came to cir- Lopez Jr. offers here a rich sourcebook culate among European savants and ec- of European fantasies about the Bud- centrics, many of whom were famous in dha drawn from the works of dozens of their day but are long forgotten in ours. authors over fifteen hundred years, in- Taken together, these accounts present cluding Clement of Alexandria, Marco a fascinating picture, not only of the Buddhism and Modernity Polo, St. Francis Xavier, Voltaire, and Buddha as he was understood and mis- Sir William Jones. understood for centuries, but also of his NOVEMBER 288 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-49318-3 Featuring writings by soldiers, ad- portrayers. Cloth $90.00x/£63.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39123-6 Donald S. Lopez Jr. is the Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist Paper $27.50s/£19.50 and Tibetan Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39106-9 of Michigan. His many books include the companion volume to this title, From Stone to RELIGION ASIAN STUDIES Flesh: A Short History of the Buddha, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

78 special interest Edited by MICHAEL LEMAHIEU and KAREN ZUMHAGEN-YEKPLÉ Wittgenstein and Modernism

udwig Wittgenstein famously declared that philosophy “ought really to be written only as a form of poetry,” and he even de- L scribed the Tractatus as “philosophical and, at the same time, literary.” But no book has really followed up on these claims, espe- cially as they relate to the special literary and artistic period in which Wittgenstein worked. This book offers the first collection to address the rich, vexed, and often contradictory relationship between modern- ism—the twentieth century’s predominant cultural and artistic move- ment—and Wittgenstein, one of its preeminent and most enduring “The absence of extensive debate about philosophers. In doing so it offers rich new understandings of both. the fruitfulness of reading Wittgenstein Michael LeMahieu and Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé bring together through the lens of the idea of modern- scholars in both twentieth-century philosophy and modern literary ism—or about the value of looking at studies to put Wittgenstein into dialogue with some of modernism’s artistic modernism in the light of Wittgen- most iconic figures, including Samuel Beckett, Saul Bellow, Walter stein’s philosophy—is notable to anyone Benjamin, Henry James, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Adolf Loos, Robert with even a casual interest in these Musil, Wallace Stevens, and Virginia Woolf. The contributors touch matters. This book creates a space in on two important aspects of Wittgenstein’s work and modernism itself: which these cross-readings can happen, form and medium. They discuss issues ranging from Wittgenstein and and I find it difficult to imagine a richer or poetics to his use of numbered propositions in the Tractatus as a vir- more successful contribution. Address- tuoso performance of modernist form; from Wittgenstein’s persistent ing a wide range of thinkers, texts, and metaphoric use of religion, music, and photography to an exploration topics, this ambitious and arresting vol- of how he and Henry James both negotiated the relationship between ume should be widely discussed across the aesthetic and the ethical. disciplines.” —Alice Crary, Covering many other fascinating intersections of the philosopher author of Inside Ethics and the arts, this book offers an important bridge across the disciplin- ary divides that have kept us from a fuller picture of both Wittgenstein DECEMBER 336 p. 6 x 9 and the larger intellectual and cultural movement of which he was a ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42037-0 Cloth $105.00x/£73.50 part. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42040-0 Paper $35.00s/£24.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42054-7 Michael LeMahieu is associate professor of English and director of the Pearce PHILOSOPHY LITERATURE Center for Professional Communication at Clemson University. He is the author of Fictions of Fact and Value. Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé is assistant profes- sor of English at Tulane University.

special interest 79 Christianity and Race in the American South A History PAUL HARVEY

The history of race and religion in the Harvey chronicles the diversity and American South is infused with trage- complexity in the intertwined histories dy, survival, and water—from St. Augus- of race and religion in the South, dat- tine on the shores of Florida’s Atlantic ing back to the first days of European Coast to the swampy mire of Jamestown settlement. He presents a history rife to the floodwaters that nearly destroyed with strange alliances, unlikely paral- New Orleans. Determination, resis- lels, and far too many tragedies, along tance, survival, even transcendence, the way illustrating that ideas about shape the story of race and southern the role of churches in the South were Christianities. In Christianity and Race in critically shaped by conflicts over slav- the American South, Paul Harvey gives us ery and race that defined southern life a narrative history of the South as it inte- more broadly. Race, violence, religion, Chicago History of American grates into the story of religious history, and southern identity remain a volatile Religion fundamentally transforming our under- brew, and this book is the persuasive

NOVEMBER 264 p., 1 table 6 x 9 standing of the importance of American historical examination that is essential ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41535-2 Christianity and religious identity. to making sense of it. Cloth $40.00s/£28.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41549-9 Paul Harvey is professor of history and presidential teaching scholar at the University of RELIGION AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES Colorado, Colorado Springs. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America.

Death Be Not Proud The Art of Holy Attention DAVID MARNO

The seventeenth-century French phi- thought, as an idea occurring to him. losopher Nicolas Malebranche thought But while the thought must feel like an that philosophy could learn a valuable unexpected event for the speaker, the lesson from prayer, which teaches us poem itself is a careful preparation for how to attend, wait, and be open for it. And the key to this preparation is what might happen next. Death Be Not attention, the only state in which the Proud, the inaugural book in the Class speaker can perceive the doctrine as a 200 series, explores the precedents of cognitive gift. Malebranche’s advice by reading John Along the way, Marno illuminates Donne’s poetic prayers in the context of why attention is required in Christian what David Marno calls the “art of holy devotion in the first place, and uncovers attention.” a tradition of battling distraction that Class 200: New Studies in If, in Malebranche’s view, attention spans from ascetic thinkers and Church Religion is a hidden bond between religion and Fathers to Catholic spiritual exercises philosophy, devotional poetry is the and Protestant prayer manuals. As a DECEMBER 384 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41597-0 area where this bond becomes visible. study of how Donne’s poetry appropri- Cloth $40.00s/£28.00 Marno shows that in works like “Death, ates this tradition, Death Be Not Proud E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41602-1 be not proud,” Donne’s most trium- contributes to discussions about early RELIGION LITERATURE phant poem about the resurrection, the modern English devotional poetry and goal is to allow the poem’s speaker to to broader studies of Christian devo- experience a given doctrine as his own tion’s relevance for secular thought.

David Marno is assistant professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. 80 special interest Landscapes of the Secular Law, Religion, and American Sacred Space NICOLAS HOWE

“What does it mean to see the Ameri- ence and its implications for our lives can landscape in a secular way?” asks as citizens. In American society—nomi- Nicolas Howe at the outset of this in- nally secular but committed to permit- novative, ambitious, and wide-ranging ting a diversity of religious beliefs and book. It’s a surprising question because expressions—such questions become of what it implies: we usually aren’t see- all the more fraught and can lead to ing American landscapes through a difficult, often unsatisfying compro- non-religious lens, but rather as inflect- mises regarding how to interpret and ed by complicated, little-examined con- inhabit our public lands and spaces. cepts of the sacred. A serious commitment to secularism, Fusing geography, legal scholar- Howe shows, forces us to confront the ship, and religion in a potent analysis, profound challenges of true religious Howe shows how seemingly routine diversity in ways that often will have SEPTEMBER 248 p., 8 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-37677-6 questions about how to look at a sun- their ultimate expression in our built Cloth $40.00s/£28.00 rise or a plateau, or how to assess what environment. This provocative explo- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-37680-6 a mountain is both physically and ideo- ration of some of the fundamental as- RELIGION LAW logically, lead to complex arguments pects of American life will help us see about the nature of religious experi- the land, law, and society anew.

Nicolas Howe is assistant professor of environmental studies at Williams College. He is coauthor of Climate Change as Social Drama: Global Warming in the Public Sphere.

The Religion of Existence “There are very few scholarly books that are also page-turners, but we Asceticism in Philosophy from Kierkegaard to Sartre have one in The Religion of Exis- NOREEN KHAWAJA tence. The reading of Kierkegaard is epiphanic, as is the connection The Religion of Existence reopens an old three philosophers, she argues, we ob- that Khawaja carefully threads be- debate on an important question: What serve how ascetic norms have shaped tween pietism and existentialism. was existentialism? one of the twentieth century’s most At the heart of existential philoso- powerful ways of thinking about iden- Written with a feather touch, this phy, Noreen Khawaja argues, is a story tity and difference—the idea that the amazing study calls for a recalibra- about secular thought experimenting “true” self is not simply given but some- tion of our understanding of the with the traditions of European Prot- thing that each of us is responsible for relation between Kierkegaard, producing. estantism. This book explores how a Heidegger, and Sartre.” distinctly Protestant asceticism formed Engaging with many central fig- —Gordon Marino, the basis for the chief existentialist ures in modern European thought, St. Olaf College ideal, personal authenticity, which is this book will appeal to philosophers reflected in approaches ranging from and historians of European philosophy, NOVEMBER 312 p., 1 line drawing 6 x 9 Kierkegaard’s religious theory of the scholars of modern Christianity, and ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40451-6 self to Heidegger’s phenomenology of those working on problems at the inter- Cloth $45.00s/£31.50 everyday life to Sartre’s global mission section of religion and modernity. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40465-3 of atheistic humanism. Through these RELIGION PHILOSOPHY

Noreen Khawaja is assistant professor of religious studies at Yale University.

special interest 81 Law and the Economy in Colonial India TIRTHANKAR ROY and ANAND V. SWAMY

Since the economic reforms of the British colonial rule. They show how In- 1990s, India’s economy has grown rap- dia inherited an elaborate legal system idly. To sustain growth and foreign in- from the British colonial administra- vestment over the long run requires a tion, which incorporated elements from well-developed legal infrastructure for both British Common Law and indige- conducting business, including cheap nous institutions. The British struggled and reliable contract enforcement and with limited capacity to enforce their secure property rights. But it’s widely laws and an insufficient knowledge of acknowledged that India’s legal infra- the enormous diversity and differentia- structure is in urgent need of reform, tion within Indian society. A disorderly plagued by problems, including slow body of laws, not conducive to produc- enforcement of contracts and land tion and trade, evolved over time. Roy laws that differ from state to state. How and Swamy’s careful analysis not only Markets and Governments in has this situation arisen, and what can sheds new light on the development of Economic History boost business confidence and encour- legal institutions in India, but also of-

SEPTEMBER 256 p., 3 halftones, age long-run economic growth? fers insights for India and other emerg- 8 line drawings, 15 tables 6 x 9 Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. ing countries through a look at what ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38764-2 Swamy trace the beginnings of the cur- fosters the types of institutions that are Cloth $45.00s/£31.50 key to economic growth. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38778-9 rent Indian legal system to the years of ECONOMICS HISTORY Tirthankar Roy is professor of economic history at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of India in the World Economy: From Antiquity to the Present and The Economic History of India 1857–1947. Anand V. Swamy is professor of economics at Williams College. He is coeditor of A New Economic History of Colonial India. Innovation Equity Assessing and Managing the Monetary Value of New Products and Services ELIE OFEK, EITAN MULLER, and BARAK LIBAI

From drones to wearable technology launch to the moment they became to Hyperloop pods that can poten- everyday products to the phase where tially travel more than seven hundred consumers moved on to the “next big miles per hour, we’re fascinated with thing.” They identify key patterns in new products and technologies that how consumers adopt innovations and seem to come straight out of science integrate these with marketing scholar- fiction. But, innovations are not only ship on how companies manage their fascinating, they’re polarizing, as, all customer base by attracting new cus- too quickly, skepticism regarding their tomers, keeping current customers sat- commercial viability starts to creep in. isfied, and preventing customers from And while fortunes depend on people’s switching to competitors’ products and OCTOBER 352 p., 7 halftones, ability to properly assess their prospects services. In doing so, the authors pro- 29 line drawings, 25 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-61829-6 for success, no one can really agree on duce concrete models that powerfully Cloth $55.00s/£38.50 how to do it, especially for truly radical predict how the marketplace will re- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39414-5 new products and services. spond to innovations, providing a much BUSINESS ECONOMICS In Innovation Equity, Elie Ofek, more authoritative way to estimate Eitan Muller, and Barak Libai analyze their potential monetary value, as well how a vast array of past innovations per- as a framework for making it possible to formed in the marketplace—from their achieve that value.

Elie Ofek is the T. J. Dermot Dunphy Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Eitan Muller is professor of marketing at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University and the Arison School of Business of the Interdisciplin- ary Center Herzliya in Israel. Barak Libai is professor of marketing at the Arison School of 82 special interest Business at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya in Israel. The Fama Portfolio Selected Papers of Eugene F. Fama Edited and with an Introduction by JOHN H. COCHRANE and TOBIAS J. MOSKOWITZ

Few scholars have been as influential key questions in finance, both as an in finance and economics as University academic field and an industry: How is of Chicago professor Eugene F. Fama. information reflected in asset prices? Over the course of a brilliant and pro- What is the nature of risk that scares ductive career, Fama has published people away from larger returns? Does more than one hundred papers filled lots of buying and selling by active man- with diverse, highly innovative contri- agers produce value for their clients? butions. The Fama Portfolio provides for the first Publishing soon after the fiftieth time a comprehensive collection of his anniversary of Fama’s appointment to work and includes introductions and the University of Chicago and his re- commentary by the book’s editors, ceipt of the Nobel Prize in Economics, John H. Cochrane and Tobias J. Mos- NOVEMBER 592 p., 2 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42684-6 kowitz, as well as by Fama’s colleagues, The Fama Portfolio offers an authorita- Cloth $110.00x/£77.00 tive compilation of Fama’s central pa- themselves top scholars and successful E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42698-3 practitioners in finance. These essays pers. Many are classics, including his BUSINESS ECONOMICS now-famous essay on efficient capital emphasize how the ideas presented in markets. Others, though less famous, Fama’s papers have influenced later are even better statements of his cen- thinking in financial economics, often tral ideas. Fama’s research considers for decades.

John H. Cochrane is a distinguished senior fellow at both the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago. He is also a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, an adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute, and a research associate of the NBER. He is the author of Asset Pricing. Tobias J. Moskowitz is the Fama Family Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, a principal and consultant at AQR Capital Management, and a “With nary a graph or algebraic ex- research associate of the NBER. pression, Winter does an excellent job of explaining complex issues Issues in Law and Economics and technical material in an admira- bly clear and accessible way, using HAROLD WINTER cases to motivate topics across the Is file-sharing destroying the music in- offs involved in each issue and assessing major common law fields—torts, dustry? Should the courts encourage the economic evidence from scholarly contracts, property, and crime— breach of contract? Does the threat of research before exploring how this re- and showing how economists think malpractice lawsuits cause doctors to search may be used to guide policy about legal issues by boiling them provide too much medical care? Do recommendations. The book is divided down to fundamental economic judges discriminate when sentencing? into four sections, covering the basic With Issues in Law and Economics, Har- practice areas of property, contracts, problems.” old Winter takes readers through these torts, and crime, with a fifth section de- —Thomas J. Miceli, and other recent and controversial voted to a concise introduction to the author of The Economic Approach to Law questions. In an accessible and engaging topic of behavioral law and economics. manner, Winter shows how these legal is- Each chapter concludes with a series JANUARY 240 p. 6 x 9 sues can be reexamined through the use of thought-provoking discussion ques- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-24959-9 of economic analysis. Using real-world tions that provide readers the opportu- Cloth $85.00x/£59.50 cases to highlight issues, Winter offers nity to further explore important ideas ISBN-13: 978-0-226-24962-9 Paper $27.50s/£19.50 step-by-step analysis, guiding readers and concepts. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-24976-6 through the identification of the trade- ECONOMICS LAW Harold Winter is professor of economics at Ohio University. He is the author of several books, including Trade-Offs: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning and Social Issues, also pub- lished by the University of Chicago Press.

special interest 83 Derivatives and the Wealth of Societies Edited by BENJAMIN LEE and RANDY MARTIN

Derivatives were responsible for one of deep backgrounds in finance, social the worst financial meltdowns we have science, art, and the humanities to ever seen, one from which we have not create a new way of understanding de- yet fully recovered. However, they are rivative finance that does justice to its likewise capable of generating some social and cultural dimensions. They of the most incredible wealth we have offer a two-pronged analysis. First, they ever seen. This book asks how we might develop a social understanding of the ensure the latter while avoiding the derivative that casts it in the light of an- former. Looking past the usual argu- thropological concepts such as the gift, ments for the regulation or abolition of ritual, play, dividuality, and performa- derivative finance, it asks a more prob- tivity. Second, they develop a derivative ing question: what kinds of social insti- understanding of the social, using fi- tutions and policies would we need to nancial concepts such as risk, hedging, OCTOBER 312 p., 19 halftones, put in place to both avail ourselves of optionality, and arbitrage to uncover 6 line drawings 6 x 9 the derivative’s wealth production and new dimensions of contemporary so- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39266-0 make sure that production benefits all cial reality. In doing so, they construct Cloth $90.00x/£63.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39283-7 of us? a necessary, renewed vision of derivative Paper $30.00s/£21.00 To answer that question, the con- finance as a deeply embedded aspect not E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39297-4 tributors to this book draw upon their just of our economics but our culture. ANTHROPOLOGY ECONOMICS Benjamin Lee is a University Professor of Anthropology and Philosophy at the New School and the author or coauthor of many books, including Financial Derivatives and the Globaliza- tion of Risk. Randy Martin (1957–2015) was professor of art and policy at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and the author of many books, including An Empire of Indifference.

“Neufeld’s account of the develop- ment of electricity markets in the Selling Power United States clearly outlines the Economics, Policy, and Electric Utilities Before 1940 problems stemming from the indus- JOHN L. NEUFELD try’s character as a natural monop- oly. This book will be of interest to We remember Thomas Edison as the try is not—and cannot be—economi- economic historians, energy econo- inventor of the incandescent light bulb, cally efficient. Most industries are kept but he deserves credit for an even more by law in a state of fair competition, but mists, scholars of both historic and singular invention that profoundly the capital necessary to start an elec- modern industrial organization, changed the way the world works: the tric company is so substantial that few historians of the progressive era, modern electric utility industry. Edi- companies can enter the market and and political scientists interested son’s light bulb was the first to work compete. Therefore, the natural state in better understanding the rise of within a system where a utility gener- of the electric utility industry since its inception has been a monopoly subject government in industries.” ated electricity and distributed it to customers. The story of how electric to government oversight. These char- —Carl Kitchens, Florida State University utilities went in one generation from acteristics and electricity’s importance prototype to an indispensable part of created sharp political controversies, most Americans’ lives is a story about and changing public policies have dra- Markets and Governments in matically changed the industry’s struc- Economic History the relationships between political and technological change. ture to an unparalleled extent. Neufeld NOVEMBER 336 p., 7 halftones, John L. Neufeld offers a compre- outlines the struggles that shaped the 26 line drawings, 9 tables 6 x 9 hensive historical treatment of the eco- industry’s development, and shows how ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39963-8 Cloth $60.00s/£42.00 nomics that shaped electric utilities. electric utilities provide insight into the E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39977-5 Compared with most industries, the or- design of economic institutions, includ- ECONOMICS AMERICAN HISTORY ganization of the electric utility indus- ing today’s new large-scale markets.

John L. Neufeld is professor of economics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

84 special interest Economics of Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States Volumes 1 and 2 Edited by ROBERT A. MOFFITT

Few government programs in the Unit- levels of expenditure, many others have ed States are as controversial as those grown, including Medicaid, the Earned designed to help the poor. From tax Income Tax Credit, the Supplemen- credits to medical assistance, the size tal Nutrition Assistance Program, and and structure of the American safety subsidized housing programs. For each net is an issue of constant debate. program, the contributors describe its These two volumes update the origins and goals, summarize its history earlier Means-Tested Transfer Programs in and current rules, and discuss recipients’ the United States with a discussion of the characteristics, and the types of benefits many changes in means-tested govern- they receive. ment programs and the results of new This is an invaluable reference for National Bureau of Economic research over the past decade. While researchers and policy makers that fea- Research Conference Report some programs that experienced fall- tures detailed analyses of many of the ing outlays in the years prior to the most important transfer programs in Volume 1 previous volume have remained at low the United States. NOVEMBER 464 p., 12 halftones, 35 line drawings, 37 tables 6 x 9 Robert A. Moffitt is the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins ISBN-13: 978-0-226-37047-7 University with a joint appointment at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. He is a Cloth $110.00x/£77.00 research associate of the NBER. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-37050-7 ECONOMICS POLITICAL SCIENCE

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special interest 85 TIM CLYDESDALE The Purposeful Graduate Why Colleges Must Talk to Students about Vocation

e all know that higher education has changed dramati- cally over the past two decades. Historically a time of W exploration and self-discovery, the college years have been narrowed toward an increasingly singular goal—career training—and college students these days forego the big questions about who they are and how they can change the world and instead focus single-mindedly “Some fifteen years ago, the Lilly Endow- on their economic survival. In The Purposeful Graduate, Tim Clydesdale ment funded a massive experiment to see elucidates just what a tremendous loss this is, for our youth, our uni- what happened when colleges asked stu- versities, and our future as a society. At the same time, he shows that dents to think critically about how they it doesn’t have to be this way: higher education can retain its higher might lead meaningful lives. . . . Through cultural role, and students with a true sense of purpose—of personal, careful examination of the Lilly grants and cultural, and intellectual value that cannot be measured by a wage— follow-up research, including personal in- can be streaming out of every one of its institutions. terviews, Clydesdale now makes the case The key, he argues, is simple: direct, systematic, and creative for all colleges—not just those religiously programs that engage undergraduates on the question of purpose. affiliated ones that were part of the Lilly Backing up his argument with rich data from a Lilly Endowment grant experiment—to talk to their students that funded such programs on eighty-eight different campuses, he about living meaningful lives.” shows that thoughtful engagement of the notion of vocational calling —Inside Higher Ed by students, faculty, and staff can bring rewards for all those involved: greater intellectual development, more robust community involvement, SEPTEMBER 320 p., 6 line drawings, 6 tables 6 x 9 and a more proactive approach to lifelong goals. Nearly every institu- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41888-9 tion he examines—from internationally acclaimed research universi- Paper $18.00/£12.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-23648-3 ties to small liberal arts colleges—is a success story, each designing EDUCATION SOCIOLOGY and implementing its own program that provides students with deep Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-23634-6 resources that help them to launch flourishing lives. Flying in the face of the pessimistic forecast of higher education’s emaciated future, Clydesdale offers a profoundly rich alternative, one that can be achieved if we simply muster the courage to talk with stu- dents about who they are and what they are meant to do.

Tim Clydesdale is professor of sociology at the College of New Jersey. He is the author of The First Year Out: Understanding American Teens after High School. 86 paperbacks MICHAEL CORBALLIS The Wandering Mind What the Brain Does When You’re Not Looking

he point of this piece of writing is to get you to pick up this book. But what if it takes us a few sentences to explain? What T if we need to go into some detail? Are you even going to be paying attention by that point, or will your mind already have wan- dered off somewhere, not caring a whit about the book you’re holding in your hand? “Book of the Week. . . . Conversational, It’s pretty likely. In fact, some studies suggest that we spend as sincere, and amusing. . . . Engaging.” much as fifty percent of our waking life failing to focus on the task at —Times Higher Education hand. But does that represent a problem? Michael Corballis doesn’t think so, and with The Wandering Mind, he shows us why, rehabilitat- “Although The Wandering Mind is a ing woolgathering and revealing its incredibly useful effects. Drawing conversational essay, it doesn’t wander. on the latest research from cognitive science and evolutionary biol- Corballis distills to essentials. Memory, ogy, Corballis shows us how mind-wandering not only frees us from thinking about the future, reading other moment-to-moment drudgery, but also from the limitations of our people, storytelling, dreams, hallucina- immediate selves. Mind-wandering strengthens our imagination, fuel- tions, and creativity each get a chapter.” ing the flights of invention, storytelling, and empathy that underlie our —Weekly Standard shared humanity; furthermore, he explains, our tendency to wander back and forth through the timeline of our lives is fundamental to our OCTOBER 184 p., 1 halftone 6 x 9 very sense of ourselves as coherent, continuing personalities. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41891-9 Paper $16.00/£11.00 Full of unusual examples and surprising discoveries, The Wandering E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-23875-3 SCIENCE Mind mounts a vigorous defense of inattention—even as it never fails Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-23861-6 to hold the reader’s attention.

Michael Corballis is professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Auck- land, New Zealand, and the author of many books, including A Very Short Tour of the Mind: 21 Short Walks around the Human Brain.

paperbacks 87 CHARLES L. PONCE DE LEON That’s the Way It Is A History of Television News in America

hen critics decry the current state of our public discourse, one reliably easy target is television news. It’s too dumbed- W down, they say; it’s no longer news but entertainment, celebrity-obsessed and vapid. The critics may be right. But, as Charles L. Ponce de Leon explains in That’s the Way It Is, TV news has always walked a fine line between hard news and fluff. The familiar story of decline fails to acknowledge real changes in the media and Americans’ news-consuming habits, “As television news becomes more par- while also harking back to a golden age that, on closer examination, tisan, more emotional, and leans more is revealed to be not so golden after all. Ponce de Leon traces the toward the trivial, the blame usually entire history of televised news, from the household names of the late falls on venal media moguls and cynical 1940s and early ’50s, like Eric Sevareid, Edward R. Murrow, and Walter journalists. That’s the Way It Is reminds Cronkite, through the rise of cable, the political power of Fox News, us that the structure of the competitive and the satirical punch of Colbert and Stewart. He shows us an indus- environment, government regulation, try forever in transition, where newsmagazines and celebrity profiles and most importantly the preferences vie with political news and serious investigations. The need for ratings of the audience have always shaped the success—and the lighter, human interest stories that can help bring news we see on TV. This is an important it—as Ponce de Leon makes clear, has always sat uneasily alongside a book because it reminds us that even if real desire to report hard news. we don’t like the picture, we are actually Highlighting the contradictions and paradoxes at the heart of TV looking in a mirror.” news, and telling a story rich in familiar figures and fascinating anec- —Jack Fuller, former editor and publisher dotes, That’s the Way It Is will be the definitive account of how television of the Chicago Tribune has shown us our history as it happens.

SEPTEMBER 352 p., 15 halftones 6 x 9 Charles L. Ponce de Leon is associate professor of history and American studies ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42152-0 at California State University Long Beach. Paper $17.00/£12.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-25609-2 AMERICAN HISTORY Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47245-4

88 paperbacks JOHN M. KINDER Paying with Their Bodies American War and the Problem of the Disabled Veteran

hristian Bagge, an Iraq War veteran, lost both his legs in a roadside bomb attack on his Humvee in 2006. Months after Cthe accident, outfitted with sleek new prosthetic legs, he jogged alongside President Bush for a photo op at the White House. The photograph served many functions, one of them being to revive faith in an American martial ideal—that war could be fought without permanent casualties, and that innovative technology could easily “Kinder offers an impressive analysis. repair war’s damage. When Bagge was awarded his Purple Heart, how- . . . Although much of the book centers on ever, military officials asked him to wear pants to the ceremony, saying the years surrounding WWI, which Kinder that photos of the event should be “soft on the eyes.” Defiant, Bagge views as pivotal in terms of how Ameri- wore shorts. cans viewed and employed the disabling America has grappled with the questions posed by injured veterans effects of war, it draws important and since its founding, and with particular force since the early twentieth useful comparisons to current-day events century: What are the nation’s obligations to those who fight in its as well. Kinder’s work is a fascinating and name? And when does war’s legacy of disability outweigh the na- much-needed addition not only to disabil- tion’s interests at home and abroad? In Paying with Their Bodies, John ity history, but also to the history of war M. Kinder traces the complicated, intertwined histories of war and and US society. Highly recommended.” disability in modern America. Focusing in particular on the decades —Choice surrounding World War I, he argues that disabled veterans have long been at the center of two competing visions of American war: one that “An unflinching look at the true cost of highlights the relative safety of US military intervention overseas; the battlefield bloodshed.” —Tom Glenn, other indelibly associating American war with injury, mutilation, and Washington Independent Review of Books suffering. Kinder brings disabled veterans to the center of the Ameri- can war story and shows that when we do so, the history of American SEPTEMBER 368 p., 41 halftones, war over the last century begins to look very different. War can no 3 line drawings, 1 table 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42071-4 longer be seen as a discrete experience, easily left behind; rather, its Paper $20.00/£14.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-21012-4 human legacies are felt for decades. AMERICAN HISTORY The first book to examine the history of American warfare through Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-21009-4 the lens of its troubled legacy of injury and disability, Paying with Their Bodies will force us to think anew about war and its painful costs.

John M. Kinder is associate professor of American studies and history at Oklahoma State University. paperbacks 89 EDWARD H. MILLER Nut Country Right-Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy

n the morning of November 22, 1963, President Kennedy told Jackie as they set off for Dallas, “We’re heading into nut Ocountry today.” That day’s events ultimately obscured and revealed just how right he was: Oswald was a lone gunman, but the city that surrounded him was full of people who hated Kennedy and every- thing he stood for, led by a powerful group of ultraconservatives who would eventually remake the Republican Party in their own image. In Nut Country, Edward H. Miller tells the story of that trans- “Well-researched and briskly written. formation, showing how a group of far-right businessmen, religious . . . A timely, intelligent, and penetrating leaders, and political operatives developed a potent mix of hard-line book.” anticommunism, biblical literalism, and racism to generate a violent —Sam Tanenhaus, populism—and widespread power. Though those figures were seen as New York Times Book Review extreme in Texas and elsewhere, mainstream Republicans found them- selves forced to make alliances or tack to the right on topics like seg- “An insightful examination of a political regation. As racial resentment fueled the national Republican Party’s shift that endures to this day.” —Publishers Weekly divisive but effective “Southern Strategy,” the power of the extreme conservatives rooted in Texas grew. “Lively. . . . Miller’s is the rare book that Drawing direct lines from Dallas to DC, Miller’s captivating history one might wish a little longer.” offers a fresh understanding of the rise of the new Republican Party —Bookforum and the apocalyptic language, conspiracy theories, and ideological rigidity that remain potent features of our politics today. AUGUST 256 p., 24 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42121-6 Paper $18.00/£12.50 Edward H. Miller is adjunct professor of history at Northeastern University in E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-20541-0 Boston. AMERICAN HISTORY POLITICAL SCIENCE Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-20538-0

90 paperbacks GEORGE LAKOFF Moral Politics How Liberals and Conservatives Think Third Edition With a New Preface and Afterword

hen Moral Politics was first published two decades ago, it redefined how Americans think and talk about politics W through the lens of cognitive political psychology. Today, George Lakoff’s classic text has become all the more relevant, as liber- als and conservatives have come to hold even more vigorously opposed views of the world, with the underlying assumptions of their respective worldviews at the level of basic morality. Even more so than when Lakoff wrote, liberals and conservatives simply have very different, Praise for the previous editions deeply held beliefs about what is right and wrong. “Moral Politics isn’t just an ‘issue-by-issue Lakoff reveals radically different but remarkably consistent con- debate.’ . . . [It’s an] unusual mix of judi- ceptions of morality on both the left and right. Moral worldviews, like cious scholarship, tendentious journal- most deep ways of understanding the world, are unconscious—part ism, and inflammatory wake-up call.” of our “hard-wired” brain circuitry. When confronted with facts that —San Francisco Chronicle don’t fit our moral worldview, our brains work automatically and un- consciously to ignore or reject these facts, and it takes extraordinary “Lakoff, the cognitive linguist, under- openness and awareness of this phenomenon to pay critical attention stands how you understand. In Moral to the vast number of facts we are presented with each day. For this Politics, he deftly applies that seemingly new edition, Lakoff has added a new preface and afterword, extending arcane understanding to the heart of his observations to major ideological conflicts since the book’s origi- American politics. . . . Even those who nal publication, from the Affordable Care Act to the wars in Iraq and disagree with him will profit deeply from Afghanistan, the recent financial crisis, and the effects of global warm- encountering his challenging ideas.” ing. One might have hoped such massive changes would bring people —Christian Science Monitor together, but the reverse has actually happened; the divide between liberals and conservatives has become stronger and more virulent. AUGUST 512 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41129-3 To have any hope of bringing mutual respect to the current social Paper $26.00s/£18.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41132-3 and political divide, we need to clearly understand the problem and POLITICAL SCIENCE make it part of our contemporary public discourse. Moral Politics offers Previous edition ISBN-13: 978-0-226-46771-9 a much-needed wake-up call to both the left and the right.

George Lakoff is distinguished professor of cognitive science and linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author or coauthor of nu- merous books, including Metaphors We Live By and Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things, both also published by the University of Chicago Press.

paperbacks 91 MADDALENA BEARZI Dolphin Confidential Confessions of a Field Biologist

ho hasn’t fantasized about the unique thrill of working among charismatic and clever dolphins in the wild? Now W we no longer have to rely solely on our imaginations. With Dolphin Confidential, Maddalena Bearzi invites all of us shore- bound dreamers to join her and travel alongside the dolphins. In this fascinating account, she takes us inside the world of a marine scientist and offers a firsthand understanding of marine mammal behavior, as

“Bearzi offers a compelling tale of her well as the frustrations, delights, and creativity that make up dolphin career, all written in arresting present research. tense. Bearzi wants to inspire others to In this intimate narrative, Bearzi recounts her experiences at sea, become involved with conservation. . . . In tracing her own evolution as a woman and a scientist from her earliest this tale of intellectual pursuit and study, travails to her transformation into an advocate for conservation and Bearzi asks the reader to do as she has dolphin protection. These compelling, in-depth descriptions of her done while also working for the animals’ fieldwork also present a captivating look into dolphin social behavior protection: ‘The more I learn about my and intelligence. The central part of the book is devoted to the met- fellow animals, the more I feel the need to ropolitan bottlenose dolphins of California, as Bearzi draws on her protect them in their natural state.’” extensive experience to offer insights into the daily lives of these crea- —Publishers Weekly tures—as well as the difficulties involved in collecting the data that transform hunches into hypotheses and eventually scientific facts. The

AUGUST 216 p., 71 line drawings 6 x 9 book closes by addressing the critical environmental and conservation ISBN-13: 978-0-226-41860-5 Paper $18.00/£12.50 problems facing these magnificent, socially complex, highly intelligent, E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04018-9 and emotional beings. SCIENCE Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04015-8 An honest, down-to-earth analysis of what it means to be a marine biologist in the field today, Dolphin Confidential offers an entertaining, refreshingly candid, and always informative description of life among the dolphins.

Maddalena Bearzi has studied the ecology and conservation of marine mam- mals and sea turtles for over twenty years. She is founder of the Los Angeles Dolphin Project in California, cofounder of the Ocean Conservation Society, and coauthor of Beautiful Minds: The Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins. She lives in Los Angeles.

92 paperbacks ILYA SOMIN The Grasping Hand Kelo v. City of New London and the Limits of Eminent Domain

n June 23, 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that the city of New London, Connecticut, could condemn fifteen residen- Otial properties in the Fort Trumbull area and transfer them to a new private owner. The use of eminent domain to take private property for public works is generally considered a permissible “public use” under the Fifth Amendment. In New London, however, the land was condemned to promote private “economic development.” “Somin’s thorough rebuttal of the con- Ilya Somin argues that Kelo represents a serious—and danger- stitutional reasoning and philosophical ous—error. Not only are economic development and closely related implications of the Supreme Court’s Kelo blight condemnations unconstitutional under most theories of legal decision demonstrates why that ruling interpretation, they also tend to victimize the poor and the politi- was a constructive disaster.” —George F. Will cally weak, and to destroy more economic value than they create. Kelo exemplifies these patterns: the neighbors who chose to fight their evic- “Somin provides a fine tour of the case tions had little political power, while the influential Pfizer Corporation and of the intellectual history of eminent- played an important role in persuading officials to proceed with the domain law. More important, he provides project. In the end, the poorly conceived development plan failed: the a framework for thinking about the future condemned land lies empty to this day. A notably unpopular verdict, of eminent domain and private property. Kelo triggered an unprecedented political backlash, with forty-five . . . Somin has written an important book states passing new laws intended to limit the use of eminent domain. that maps the road ahead for those who But many of the new state laws turned out to impose few or no genu- believe that individual freedom cannot be ine constraints. The Kelo backlash led to significant progress, but not separated from the protection of private nearly as much as it would first appear. property.” Despite its outcome, the closely divided ruling in Kelo shattered —Edward Glaeser, what many believed to be a consensus that virtually any condemna- Wall Street Journal tion qualifies as a public use. With controversy over this issue sure to continue, The Grasping Hand offers an analysis of the case alongside a NOVEMBER 336 p., 6 halftones, 1 line drawing, 10 tables 6 x 9 history of the meaning of public use and the use of eminent domain ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42216-9 and an evaluation of options for reform. Paper $20.00/£14.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-25674-0 LAW Ilya Somin is professor of law at the George Mason University School of Law. Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-25660-3 He is the author of Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter and writes regularly for the popular Volokh Conspiracy blog.

paperbacks 93 TODD MAY A Significant Life Human Meaning in a Silent Universe

hat makes for a good life, or a beautiful one, or, perhaps most important, a meaningful one? Throughout history W most of us have looked to our faith, our relationships, or our deeds for the answer. But in A Significant Life, philosopher Todd May offers an exhilaratingly new way of thinking about these ques- tions, one deeply attuned to life as it actually is: a work in progress, a journey—and often a narrative. Offering moving accounts of his own life and memories alongside rich engagements with philosophers from Aristotle to Heidegger, he shows us where to find the significance of our lives: in the way we live them. “A thoughtful, widely accessible, and com- prehensive account of meaning in life. . . . May starts by looking at the fundamental fact that life unfolds over As someone well acquainted with work on time, and as it does so, it begins to develop certain qualities, certain life’s meaning composed by professional themes. Our lives can be marked by intensity, curiosity, perseverance, philosophers, I have profited from read- or many other qualities that become guiding narrative values. These ing May’s book, especially his discussion values lend meanings to our lives that are distinct from—but also of what can confer (substantial) meaning interact with—the universal values we are taught to cultivate, such as on a person’s life. I especially recommend goodness or happiness. Offering a fascinating examination of a broad his work in virtue of it being a ‘good read,’ range of figures—from music icon Jimi Hendrix to civil rights leader avoiding technicalities and reflecting on Fannie Lou Hamer, from cyclist Lance Armstrong to The Portrait of a everyday examples with insight.” Lady’s Ralph Touchett to Claus von Stauffenberg, a German officer —Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews who tried to assassinate Hitler—May shows that narrative values offer a rich variety of criteria by which to assess a life, specific to each of us

AUGUST 240 p. 51/2 x 81/2 and yet widely available. They offer us a way of reading ourselves, who ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42104-9 Paper $18.00/£12.50 we are, and who we might like to be. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-23570-7 Clearly and eloquently written, A Significant Life is a recognition PHILOSOPHY Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-23567-7 and a comfort, a celebration of the deeply human narrative impulse by which we make—even if we don’t realize it—meaning for ourselves. It offers a refreshing way to think of an age-old question, of, quite simply, what makes a life worth living.

Todd May is Class of 1941 Memorial Professor of the Humanities at Clemson University. He is the author of many books, including Friendship in an Age of Economics, Contemporary Movements and the Thought of Jacques Rancière, and Death.

94 paperbacks DAVID S. SHIELDS Southern Provisions The Creation and Revival of a Cuisine

outhern food is America’s quintessential cuisine. From creamy grits to simmering pots of beans and greens, we think we know S how these classic foods should taste. Yet the southern food we eat today tastes almost nothing like the dishes our ancestors enjoyed, because the varied crops and livestock that originally defined this cuisine have largely disappeared. Now a growing movement of chefs and farmers is seeking to change that by recovering the rich flavor and diversity of southern food. At the center of that movement is historian David S. Shields, who has spent over a decade researching early “There are loads of delicious staple produce American agricultural and cooking practices. In Southern Provisions, he and grains that were once essential to eat- reveals how the true ingredients of southern cooking have been all but ing in the South that are now extinct—or forgotten and how the lessons of its current restoration and recultiva- severely endangered. That’s why Shields tion can be applied to other regional foodways. is trying to revive the best-tasting produce Shields’s turf is the southern Lowcountry, from the peanut patches and grains from Southern history and of Wilmington, North Carolina to the sugarcane fields of the Georgia bring them back to life (and our dinner Sea Islands and the citrus groves of Amelia Island, Florida. He takes us tables).” on a historical excursion to this region, drawing connections among —Bon Appetit plants, farms, growers, seed brokers, vendors, cooks, and consumers over time. Shields begins by looking at how professional chefs during “Shields, refreshingly, sees taste as an the nineteenth century set standards of taste that elevated southern end in itself. He insists that he does not cooking to the level of cuisine. He then turns to the role of food markets want simply to revive tradition, but provi- in creating demand for ingredients and enabling conversation between sion today’s chefs with the quality ingredi- producers and preparers. Next, his focus shifts to the field, showing ents enjoyed by their predecessors.” how the key ingredients—rice, sugarcane, sorghum, benne, cottonseed, —Times Literary Supplement peanuts, and citrus—emerged and went on to play a significant role in commerce and consumption. Shields concludes with a look at the chal- OCTOBER 416 p., 23 halftones, 1 line drawing, 2 tables 6 x 9 lenges of reclaiming both farming and cooking traditions. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42202-2 Paper $19.00/£13.50 From Carolina Gold rice to white flint corn, the ingredients of E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-14125-1 authentic southern cooking are returning to fields and dinner plates, COOKING and with Shields as our guide, we can satisfy our hunger both for the Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-14111-4 most flavorful regional dishes and their history.

David S. Shields is the Carolina Distinguished Professor and the McClintock Pro- fessor of Southern Letters at the University of South Carolina and chairman of the Carolina Gold Rice Foundation. His other books include Still: American Silent Motion Picture Photography, also published by the University of Chicago Press. paperbacks 95 JOHN DURHAM PETERS The Marvelous Clouds Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media

hen we speak of clouds these days, it is as likely that we mean data clouds or network clouds as cumulus or stratus. W In their sharing of the term, both kinds of clouds reveal an essential truth: that the natural world and the technological world are not so distinct. In The Marvelous Clouds, John Durham Peters ar- gues that though we often think of media as environments, the reverse “The book is, on one level, an ambitious is just as true—environments are media. re-writing—a re-synthesis, even—of con- Peters defines media expansively as elements that compose the hu- cepts of media and culture. On another, man world. Drawing from ideas implicit in media philosophy, Peters ar- it is a rich and entertaining compendium gues that media are more than carriers of messages: they are the very of arcana, covering everything from ship- infrastructures combining nature and culture that allow human life to wrighting to planetary motion, from bone thrive. Through an encyclopedic array of examples from the oceans to evolution to calendrical design. Ultimate- the skies, The Marvelous Clouds reveals the long prehistory of so-called ly, it is nothing less than an attempt at a new media. Digital media, Peters argues, are an extension of early history of Being, from an unusually brisk, practices tied to the establishment of civilization such as mastering cheerful, and pragmatic Heideggerian.” fire, building calendars, reading the stars, creating language, and es- —Los Angeles Review of Books tablishing religions. New media do not take us into uncharted waters, but rather confront us with the deepest and oldest questions of society “A highly original book. . . . This is a and ecology: how to manage the relations people have with themselves, deeply philosophical and beautifully writ- others, and the natural world. ten account of the modes of being of all A wide-ranging meditation on the many means we have employed things and their interrelationships.” —Independent to cope with the struggles of existence—from navigation to farming, meteorology to Google—The Marvelous Clouds shows how media lie at the very heart of our interactions with the world around us. Peters’s AUGUST 416 p., 4 halftones, 3 line drawings, 1 table 6 x 9 book will not only change how we think about media but provide a new ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42135-3 Paper $20.00/£14.00 appreciation for the day-to-day foundations of life on earth that we so E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-25397-8 often take for granted. PHILOSOPHY MEDIA STUDIES Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-25383-1 John Durham Peters is the A. Craig Baird Professor of Communication Studies All language rights available excluding Chinese. at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Speaking into the Air and Courting the Abyss, both also published by the University of Chicago Press. He lives in Iowa City.

96 paperbacks The Invention of Culture “Not likely to be forgotten for some ROY WAGNER time to come.” Enlarged Edition —Reviews in Anthropology With a New Foreword by Tim Ingold OCTOBER 208 p. 6 x 9 In anthropology, a field that is known trol, meaning and context, he builds a ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42328-9 for its critical edge and intellectual agil- theory that insists on the importance of Paper $25.00s/£17.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42331-9 ity, few books manage to maintain both creativity, placing people-as-inventors historical value and contemporary rel- at the heart of the process that creates ANTHROPOLOGY evance. Roy Wagner’s The Invention of culture. In an elegant twist, he shows Culture, originally published in 1981, is that those very processes ultimately one. produce the discipline of anthropology Wagner breaks new ground by itself. arguing that culture arises from the This new edition, with a foreword dialectic between the individual and by Tim Ingold, puts the book in context the social world. Rooting his analysis of current debates and makes an unim- in the relationship between invention peachable case for its status as a classic and convention, innovation and con- in the field.

Roy Wagner is professor of anthropology at the University of Virginia.

Now in Paperback “In his extraordinary Dreaming and Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Historical Consciousness in Island Greece, Charles Stewart offers a Island Greece wholly new way of thinking about CHARLES STEWART dreams in their social contexts . . . and Stewart has a gripping story On publication in 2012, Dreaming and dug and found several icons and hu- Historical Consciousness in Island Greece man remains, and at night the ancient to tell.” quickly met wide acclaim. It tells an owners of them would speak to them —Time Literary Supplement extraordinary story of spiritual fervor, in dreams. The inhabitants built the prophecy, and the ghosts of the distant church and in the years since have ex- NOVEMBER 288 p., 32 halftones 51/2 x 81/2 past coming alive in the present. This perienced further waves of dreams and ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42524-5 new paperback brings it to the wider startling prophecies. Today, Kóronos Paper $22.50s/£15.50 audience that it deserves. is the site of one of the largest annual E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42538-2 Charles Stewart tells the story of pilgrimages in the Mediterranean. Tell- ANTHROPOLOGY the inhabitants of Kóronos, on the ing this fascinating story, Stewart draws Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-983-53222-4 Greek island of Naxos, who, in the on his long-term fieldwork and original 1830s, began experiencing dreams in historical sources to explore dreaming which the Virgin Mary instructed them as a mediator of historical change, while to search for buried Christian icons widening the understanding of histori- nearby and build a church to house cal consciousness and history itself. the ones they found. Miraculously, they

Charles Stewart is professor of anthropology at University College London. He is the author of Demons and the Devil and the editor of Colonizing the Greek Mind?

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paperbacks 99 AUTHOR INDEX University of Chicago Press New Publications Fall 2016 Ade/The Old-Time Saloon, 11 Feldman-Savelsberg/Mothers on Lee/Insecure Majorities, 49 Ragin/Intersectional Inequality, Allmon/Species and Speciation in the Move, 29 LeMahieu/Wittgenstein and 73 the Fossil Record, 63 Ferrarin/The Powers of Pure Modernism, 79 Rajagopalan/Building Histories, Altemus/Big Bosses, 15 Reason, 99 Leonelli/Data-Centric Biology, 64 38 Anderson/Bleak Liberalism, 45 Fleming/Cultural Graphology, 45 Lopez Jr./From Stone to Flesh, 98 Ramsey/Chance in Evolution, 59 Barash/Collective Memory and Foulkes/A Place for Us, 21 Lopez Jr./Strange Tales of an Reed/Light in Germany, 98 the Historical Past, 77 Gennari/Blowin’ Hot and Cool, 99 Oriental Idol, 78 Reid/Get Out of My Room!, 26 Barkan/Berlin for Jews, 8 Gibbons/Last Lake, 24 Luker/The Tango Machine, 70 Reitter/The Rise of the Research Bartlett/Sophistry and Political Giffard/Making Jet Engines in Macnamara/Nature’s Portraits, University, 51 Philosophy, 75 World War II, 62 23 Richards/Debating Darwin, 17 Bearzi/Dolphin Confidential, 92 Goldhill/A Very Queer Family Maehle/Contesting Medical Rivers-Moore/Gringo Gulch, 73 Behdad/Camera Orientalis, 44 Indeed, 20 Confidentiality, 47 Roberts/Evangelical Gotham, 27 Beissinger/Science, Conserva- Goldrick-Rab/Paying the Price, 1 Mahoney/Wasting a Crisis, 99 Roberts/Sentimental Savants, 64 tion, and National Parks, 61 Goldstone/African Futures, 33 Malczewski/Building a New Edu- Rochberg/Before Nature, 56 Bennett/News, 48 Gordon/From Power to Prejudice, cational State, 71 Roy/Law and the Economy in Blaszczak/Mood, Aspect, 98 Marno/Death Be Not Proud, 80 Colonial India, 82 Modality Revisited, 34 Greene/Therapeutic Revolutions, May/A Significant Life, 94 Rudwick/Earth’s Deep History, 98 Booth/The Craft of Research, 47 McCabe/Connecting in College, Sekercioglu/Why Birds Matter, 65 Fourth Edition, 4 Hanski/Messages from Islands, 52 Samuels/The Right to Difference, Braun/The Birth of Insight, 99 63 McCumber/The Philosophy Scare, 54 Brinig/Lost Classroom, Lost Com- Hariman/The Public Image, 22 76 Seligman/Chicago’s Block Clubs, munity, 98 Harris/Capital Culture, 99 McDonnell/Best Laid Plans, 71 25 Brisman/Albrecht Dürer and the Hartmann/Midnight Basketball, McKenna/American Imperial Seneca/The Complete Tragedies, Epistolary Mode of Address, 38 74 Pastoral, 55 Volume 1 & 2, 41 Brody/Housekeeping by Design, Harvey/Christianity and Race, 80 Merkel-Hess/The Rural Modern, Shapiro/Life Pig, 24 72 Hawhee/Rhetoric in Tooth and 58 Shapiro/Nietzsche’s Earth, 75 Bruff/Untrodden Ground, 99 Claw, 42 Michael/The Five Life Decisions, Shapiro/That Self-Forgetful Per- Bruno/Surface, 98 Haynes/Nollywood, 42 14 fectly Useless Concentration, 35 Bunzl/In Search of a Lost Avant- Heise/Imagining Extinction, 46 Michaels/The Beauty of a Social Shields/Southern Provisions, 95 Garde, 98 Highsmith/Demolition Means Problem, 98 Somin/The Grasping Hand, 93 Burnidge/A Peaceful Conquest, Progress, 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Comaroff/The Truth about Crime, Jauregui/Provisional Authority, 35 ies, 57 Arrest, 18 32 Joas/The Timeliness of George Nelson/Dirty Waters, 10 Stuhl/Unfreezing the Arctic, 65 Conover/Immersion, 16 Herbert Mead, 78 Neufeld/Selling Power, 84 Sylvanus/Patterns in Circulation, Corballis/The Wandering Mind, 87 Jones/Reckoning with Matter, 58 Nigg/The Phoenix, 12 31 Coyne/Heidegger’s Confessions, Jones/The Global Work of Art, 37 Niklas/Plant Evolution, 60 Vogel/Why the Wheel Is Round, 99 Justice/Have a Little Faith, 53 O’Donnell/Learning from 13 Curry/Evolution Made to Order, 60 Khawaja/The Religion of Exis- Shenzhen, 40 von Humboldt/Views of Nature, Davies/Sound Knowledge, 69 tence, 81 Ofek/Innovation Equity, 82 98 Desmond/Displaying Death and Kinder/Paying with Their Bodies, Olick/The Sins of the Fathers, 54 Wagner/The Invention of Culture, Animating Life, 66 89 Oman/The Dignity of Commerce, 97 Drake/When We Imagine Grace, Koga/Inheritance of Loss, 34 43 Warikoo/The Diversity Bargain, 6 29 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Feigenson/Experiencing Other Lee/Derivatives and the Wealth of Rabig/The Fixers, 28 Minds in the Courtroom, 43 Societies, 84 University of Chicago Press New Publications Fall 2016 TITLE INDEX 1971/English, 36 Dirty Waters/Nelson, 10 Lost Classroom, Lost Community/ The Craft of Research/Booth, et A Companion to John Dewey’s Displaying Death and Animating Brinig, Garnett, 98 al., 4 Democracy and Education/ Life/Desmond, 66 Maimonides’ “Guide of the Per- The Dignity of Commerce/Oman, Phillips, 52 Doctoring Traditions/Mukharji, 46 plexed”/Ivry, 76 43 A Democratic Theory of Documenting the World/Mitman, Making Jet Engines in World War The Distressed Body/Leder, 77 Judgment/Zerilli, 48 Wilder, 61 II/Giffard, 62 The Diversity Bargain/Warikoo, 6 A Peaceful Conquest/Burnidge, 28 Dolphin Confidential/Bearzi, 92 Making Marie Curie/Wirtén, 98 The Fama Portfolio/Fama, 83 A Place for Us/Foulkes, 21 Down, Out, and Under Arrest/ Message to Our Folks/Steinbeck, The Five Life Decisions/Michael, A 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98 Evolutionary Theory/Eldredge, et Nietzsche’s Earth/Shapiro, 75 The New Math/Phillips, 98 Assassin of Youth/Chasin, 19 al., 59 Nollywood/Haynes, 42 The Old-Time Saloon/Ade, 11 Before Nature/Rochberg, 56 Executing Freedom/LaChance, 25 Nut Country/Miller, 90 The Philosophy Scare/McCumber, Beheading the Saint/Zubrzycki, 56 Experiencing Other Minds in the Orchid/Endersby, 7 76 Berlin for Jews/Barkan, 8 Courtroom/Feigenson, 43 Oscar Wilde Prefigured/Janes, 57 The Phoenix/Nigg, 12 Best Laid Plans/McDonnell, 71 Four Last Songs/Hutcheon, 99 Ours to Lose/Starecheski, 31 The Powers of Pure Reason/ Big Bosses/Altemus, 15 From Power to Prejudice/Gordon, Partisans and Partners/Pacewicz, Ferrarin, 99 Biotechnology and Society/ 98 50 The Public Image/Hariman, Stevens, 62 From Stone to Flesh/Lopez Jr., 98 Patterns in Circulation/Sylvanus, Lucaites, 22 Bleak Liberalism/Anderson, 45 Get Out of My Room!/Reid, 26 31 The Purposeful Graduate/Clydes- Blowin’ Hot and Cool/Gennari, 99 Gringo Gulch/Rivers-Moore, 73 Paying the Price/Goldrick-Rab, 1 dale, 86 Boystown/Orne, 40 Growing Each Other Up/Lawrence- Paying with Their Bodies/Kinder, The Religion of Existence/ Building a New Educational Lightfoot, 2 89 Khawaja, 81 State/Malczewski, 71 Have a Little Faith/Justice, Plant Evolution/Niklas, 60 The Right to Difference/Samuels, Building Histories/Rajagopalan, 38 Macleod, 53 Provisional Authority/Jauregui, 35 54 Camera Orientalis/Behdad, 44 Heidegger’s Confessions/Coyne, Radium and the Secret of Life/ The Rise of the Research Univer- Capital Culture/Harris, 99 99 Campos, 98 sity/Reitter, et al., 51 Chance in Evolution/Ramsey, Hidden Hitchcock/Miller, 39 Reckoning with Matter/Jones, 58 The Rural Modern/Merkel-Hess, 58 Pence, 59 House Full/Srinivas, 74 Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw/ The Sins of the Fathers/Olick, 54 Charles Ellis Johnson and the Housekeeping by Design/Brody, Hawhee, 42 The Tango Machine/Luker, 70 Erotic Mormon Image/Campbell, 72 Science, Conservation, and Na- The Timeliness of George Herbert 27 Huxley’s Church and Maxwell’s tional Parks/Beissinger, et al., 61 Mead/Joas, Huebner, 78 Cherubino’s Leap/Kramer, 68 Demon/Stanley, 98 Selling Power/Neufeld, 84 The Truth about Crime/Comaroff, Chicago’s Block Clubs/Seligman, Imagining Extinction/Heise, 46 Sentimental Savants/Roberts, 64 32 25 Immersion/Conover, 16 Seventeenth-Century Opera and The Value of Labor/Lampland, 55 Christianity and Race in the In Search of a Lost Avant-Garde/ the Sound of the Commedia The Wandering Mind/Corballis, 87 American South/Harvey, 80 Bunzl, 98 dell’arte/Wilbourne, 68 Therapeutic Revolutions/Greene, Collective Memory and the His- Influences/Quinlan-McGrath, 98 Sophistry and Political et al., 47 torical Past/Barash, 77 Inheritance of Loss/Koga, 34 Philosophy/Bartlett, 75 Tigers of a Different Stripe/ Conceptualizing Capitalism/ Innovation Equity/Ofek, et al., 82 Sound Knowledge/Davies, Hutchinson, 70 Hodgson, 99 Insecure Majorities/Lee, 49 Lockhart, 69 Unfreezing the Arctic/Stuhl, 65 Connecting in College/McCabe, 52 Inside the Presidential Debates/ Southern Provisions/Shields, 95 Untrodden Ground/Bruff, 99 Contesting Medical Confidential- Minow, LaMay, 98 Species and Speciation/Allmon, Views of Nature/von Humboldt, 98 ity/Maehle, 47 Insurgent Democracy/Lansing, 99 Yacobucci, 63 Wasting a Crisis/Mahoney, 99 Crossing Parish Boundaries/ Intersectional Inequality/Ragin, Strange Tales of an Oriental Idol/ When We Imagine Grace/Drake, Neary, 57 Fiss, 73 Lopez Jr., 78 29 Cultural Graphology/Fleming, 45 Issues in Law and Economics/ Strategic Party Government/ Why Birds Matter/Sekercioglu, et Dark Matter of the Mind/Everett, Winter, 83 Koger, Lebo, 50 al., 65 30 Landscapes of the Secular/Howe, Surface/Bruno, 98 Why the Wheel Is Round/Vogel, 13 Data-Centric Biology/Leonelli, 64 81 That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Use- Wittgenstein and Modernism/Le- Death Be Not Proud/Marno, 80 Last Lake/Gibbons, 24 less Concentration/Shapiro, 35 Mahieu, Zumhagen-Yekplé, 79 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