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Payback Signature Derrida The Case for Revenge Jacques Derrida Thane Rosenbaum Edited and with a Preface by Jay Williams ISBN-13: 978-0-226-72661-8 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92454-0 Cloth $26.00/£18.00 Paper $27.50s/£19.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04369-2 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92455-7 Cover design by Alice Reimann Catalog design by Alice Reimann and Mary Shanahan JAcques DerriDA The Death Penalty, Volume I Translated by Peggy Kamuf

n this newest installment in Chicago’s series of Jacques Derrida’s seminars, the renowned philosopher attempts one of his most Iambitious goals: the first truly philosophical argument against the death penalty. While much has been written against the death penalty, Derrida contends that Western philosophy is massively, if not always obviously, complicit with a logic in which a sovereign state has the right to take a life. Haunted by this notion, he turns to the key places where such logic has been established—and to the place it has been most The Seminars of Jacques Derrida effectively challenged: literature. With his signature genius and patient yet dazzling readings of an NOvEMBER 328 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-14432-0 impressive breadth of texts, Derrida examines everything from the Cloth $35.00s/£24.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09068-9 Bible to Plato to Camus to Jean Genet, with special attention to Kant PHILOSOPHY LITERARY CRITICISM and post–World War II juridical texts, to draw the landscape of death penalty discourses. Keeping clearly in view the death rows and execution chambers of the United States, he shows how arguments surrounding cruel and unusual punishment depend on what he calls an “anaes- Also published in The Seminars of Jacques Derrida series: thesial logic,” which has also driven the development of death penalty technology from the French guillotine to lethal injection. Confronting The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I a demand for philosophical rigor, he pursues provocative analyses of ISBN-13: 978-0-226-14429-0 Paper $22.50s/£16.00 the shortcomings of abolitionist discourse. Above all, he argues that the death penalty and its attendant technologies are products of a The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume II desire to put an end to one of the most fundamental qualities of our ISBN-13: 978-0-226-14430-6 Cloth $35.00s/£24.50 finite existence: the radical uncertainty of when we will die. Arriving at a critical juncture in history—especially in the United States, one of the last Christian-inspired democracies to resist abolition —The Death Penalty is both a timely response to an important ethical debate and a timeless addition to Derrida’s esteemed body of work.

Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) was director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, and professor of humanities at the Univer- sity of California, Irvine. He is the author of many books published by the University of Chicago Press. Peggy Kamuf is the Marion Frances Chevalier Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. She has written, edited, or translated many books, by Derrida and others, and is coeditor of the series of Derrida’s seminars at the University of Chicago Press. general interest 1 JoShUA MiTchell Tocqueville in Arabia Dilemmas in a Democratic Age

he Arab Spring, with its calls for sweeping political change, marked the most profound popular uprising in the Middle T East for generations. But if the nascent democracies born of these protests are to succeed in the absence of a strong democratic tradition, their success will depend in part on an understanding of how Middle Easterners view themselves, their allegiances to family and religion, and their relationship with the wider world in which they are increasingly integrated. “Tocqueville in Arabia is a profound medi- Many of these same questions were raised by Alexis de Tocqueville tation on students in different cultures in during his 1831 tour of America, itself then a rising democracy. Joshua the twenty-first century and the dif- Mitchell spent years teaching Tocqueville’s classic account, Democracy in ficulties faced by mature democracy in America, in America and the Arab Gulf and, with Tocqueville in Arabia, America and emerging democracy in the he offers a profound personal take. One of the reasons for the book’s Muslim Arab world. Flowing smoothly widespread popularity in the region is that its commentary on the from one issue to another, from personal challenges of democracy and the seemingly contradictory concepts of experience to works of political philoso- equality and individuality continue to speak to current debates. While phy, and from the United States to the Mitchell’s American students tended to value individualism and com- Arab Gulf and back again, Joshua Mitchell mercial self-interest, his Middle Eastern students had grave doubts succeeds marvelously in identifying the about individualism and a deep suspicion for capitalism, which they expectations, aspirations, and anxieties saw as risking the destruction of long-held loyalties and obligations. that characterize young people today, and Mitchell describes modern democratic man as becoming what Toc- he illuminates their common psychologi- queville predicted: a “distinct kind of humanity” that would be increas- cal and spiritual proclivities by means ingly isolated and alone. Whatever their differences, students in both of deft and succinct exposition of the worlds were grappling with a sense of disconnectedness that social ideas of Tocqueville, as well as Rousseau, media does little to remedy. Marx, and Smith.” —Peter Berkowitz, We live in a time rife with mutual misunderstandings between Stanford University America and the Middle East, and Tocqueville in Arabia offers a guide to the present, troubled times, leavened by the author’s hopes about the future. SEpTEmBER 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08731-3 Cloth $20.00/£14.00 Joshua Mitchell is professor of political theory in the Department of Govern- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08745-0 ment at Georgetown University. From 2005 to 2010, he taught first at George- CURRENT EVENTS town University’s School of Foreign Service in Qatar, and then at the Ameri- can University of Iraq, Sulaimani. He is the author of several books, including The Fragility of Freedom: Tocqueville on Religion, Democracy, and the American 2 general interest Future, also published by the University of Chicago Press. DorI Katz Looking for Strangers The True Story of My Hidden Wartime Childhood

ori Katz is a Jewish Holocaust survivor who thought that her lost childhood years in Belgium were irrecoverable. But after Da chance viewing of a documentary about hidden children in German-occupied Belgium, she realized that she might, in fact, be able to unearth those years. Looking for Strangers is the deeply honest record of her attempt to do so, a detective story that unfolds through one of the most horrifying periods in history in an attempt to under- “Looking for Strangers is absolutely com- stand one’s place within it. pelling, both deeply personal and histori- In alternating chapters, Katz resurrects her multiple pasts, setting cally important, giving us a glimpse of details from her mother’s stories that have captivated her throughout a small aspect, overlooked in the larger her life alongside an account of her own return to Belgium forty years chronicles, of Holocaust trauma and, at later—against her mother’s urgings—in search of greater clarity. She the same time, describing a quest that is reconnects her sharp but fragmented memories: being sent by her at once incredibly brave and penetrating- mother in 1942, at the age of three, to live with a Catholic family under ly honest. It is one of those rare memoirs, a Christian identity; then being given up, inexplicably, to an orphan- telling a story that is universal in its ap- age in the years immediately following the war. Only after that, amid peal and profound in its understanding.” postwar confusion, was she able to reconnect with her mother. Fol- —Barbara L. Estrin, lowing this trail through Belgium to her past places of hiding, Katz author of The American Love Lyric after Auschwitz and Hiroshima eventually finds herself in San Francisco, speaking with a man who claimed to have known her father in Auschwitz—and thus known his SEPtEmBER 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 end. Weighing many other stories from the people she meets along her ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05862-7 Cloth $22.50/£16.00 way—all of whom seem to hold something back—she attempts to stitch E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06333-1 thread after thread into a unified truth, to understand the countless BIOGRAPHY motivations and circumstances that determined her remarkable life. A story at once about self-discovery, the transformation of memory, a fraught mother-daughter relationship, and the oppression of millions, Looking for Strangers is a book of both historical insight and imagi- native grasp. It is a book in which the past, through its very mystery, becomes alive, immediate—of the most urgent importance.

Dori Katz is professor emeritus of modern languages and literature at Trinity College, Hartford, CT. She is the translator of several books from French and a poet. Her most recent collection of poems is Hiding in Other People’s Houses. general interest 3 Thomas P. Peschak Sharks and People Exploring Our Relationship with the Most Feared Fish in the Sea

t once feared and revered, sharks have captivated people since our earliest human encounters. Children and adults A alike stand awed before aquarium shark tanks, fascinated by the giant teeth and unnerving eyes. And no swim in the ocean is undertaken without a slight shiver of anxiety about the very real— and very cinematic—dangers of shark bites. But our interactions with sharks are not entirely one-sided: the threats we pose to sharks through fisheries, organized hunts, and gill nets on coastlines are more deadly and far-reaching than any bite. A contributing photographer to National Geographic, Thomas P. Peschak is best known for his unusual photographs of sharks—his iconic image of a great white shark following a researcher in a small yellow kayak is one of the most recognizable shark photographs in the world. The other images gathered here are no less riveting, bringing us as close as possible to sharks in the wild. Alongside the photographs, Sharks and People tells the compelling story of the natural history of sharks. Sharks have roamed the oceans for more than four hundred million years, and in this time they have never stopped adapting to the ever-changing world—their unique cartilage skeletons and array of super-senses mark them as one of the most evolved groups of animals. Scientists have recently discovered that sharks play an important role septemBer 256 p., 188 color plates 10 x 12 in balancing the ocean, including maintaining the health of coral ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04789-8 Cloth $45.00/£31.50 reefs. Yet, tens of millions of sharks are killed every year just to fill the e-book isBn-13: 978-0-226-04792-8 demand for shark fin soup alone. Today more than sixty species of science san sharks, including hammerhead, mako, and oceanic white-tip sharks, are listed as vulnerable or in danger of extinction. The need to understand the significant part sharks play in the oceanic ecosystem has never been so urgent, and Peschak’s photographs bear witness to the thrilling strength and unique attraction of sharks. They are certain to enthrall and inspire. 4 general interest In Sharks and People acclaimed wildlife photographer Thomas Peschak presents stunning photographs that capture the relationship between people and sharks around the globe.

Thomas P. Peschak is a fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers and a contributing photographer to National Geographic Maga- zine. He has won multiple World Press Photo and BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards. His other books include Currents of Contrast, South Africa’s Great White Shark, Wild Seas, Secret Shores of Africa, and Lost World. general interest 5 SaRah Elton Consumed Food for a Finite Planet

y 2050, the world population is expected to reach nine billion. And the challenge of feeding this rapidly growing population B is being made greater by climate change, which will increasingly wreak havoc on the way we produce our food. At the same time, we have lost touch with the soil—few of us know where our food comes from, let alone how to grow it—and we are at the mercy of multina- tional corporations who control the crops and give little thought to the damage their methods are inflicting on the planet. Our very future is at risk. In Consumed, Sarah Elton walks fields and farms on three conti- Praise for Locavore nents, not only investigating the very real threats to our food, but also “Embodying equal parts Michael Pollan telling the little-known stories of the people who are working against and Raj Patel, Sarah Elton has delivered time to create a new and hopeful future. From the mountains of south- a book that will enrich her readers, while ern France to the highlands of China, from the crowded streets of Nai- also challenging them to think about robi to the banks of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, we meet people what they eat. . . . Elton has built a power- from all walks of life who are putting together an alternative to the ful case for the potential to change our omnipresent industrial food system. In the arid fields of rural India we food system for the better.” meet a farmer who has transformed her community by selling organic —Quill & Quire food directly to her neighbors. We visit a laboratory in Toronto where scientists are breeding a new kind of rice seed that they claim will oCtoBEr 272 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09362-8 feed the world. We learn about Italy’s underground food movement; Cloth $25.00/£17.50 how university grads are returning to the fields in China, Greece, and E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09376-5 SCIENCE CookINg France; and how in Detroit, plots of vacant land planted with kale and CINd carrots can help us see what’s possible. Food might be the problem, but as Elton shows, it is also the solution. The food system as we know it was assembled in a few decades— and if it can be built that quickly, it can be reassembled and improved in the same amount of time. Elton here lays out the targets we need to meet by the year 2050. The stories she tells give us hope for avoiding a daunting fate and instead help us to believe in a not-too-distant future when we can all sit at the table.

Sarah Elton is the author of Locavore: From Farmers’ Fields To Rooftop Gardens— How Canadians Are Changing the Way We Eat. She has written for publications such as the New York Times, Atlantic, Maclean’s, and Globe and Mail and is the food columnist for CBC Radio’s Here & Now.

6 general interest PaDDy WOODWORTH Our Once and Future Planet Restoring the World in the Climate Change Century

he environmental movement is plagued by pessimism. And that’s not unreasonable: with so many complicated, seemingly T intractable problems facing the planet, coupled with a need to convince people of the dangers we face, it’s hard not to focus on the negative. But that paints an unbalanced—and overly disheartening—picture “This is a great piece of investigative jour- of what’s going on with environmental stewardship today. There are nalism, based on extensive research in success stories, and Our Once and Future Planet delivers a fascinating many countries, on a topic vital to the fu- account of one of the most impressive areas of current environmen- ture of people and biodiversity on Earth. tal experimentation and innovation: ecological restoration. Veteran Paddy Woodworth has captured the spirit investigative reporter Paddy Woodworth has spent years traveling the and detail of contemporary ecological globe and talking with people—scientists, politicians, and ordinary restoration, its strengths, weaknesses, citizens—who are working on the front lines of the battle against controversies, and especially its message environmental degradation. At sites ranging from Mexico to New of hope. I would commend this book to Zealand and Chicago to Cape Town, Woodworth shows us the striking all interested in the challenge of devising successes (and a few humbling failures) of groups that are attempting new ways of sustainably living with biodi- to use cutting-edge science to restore blighted, polluted, and otherwise versity in a rapidly changing world.” troubled landscapes to states of ecological health—and, in some of —Stephen D. Hopper, the most controversial cases, to particular moments in historical time, former CEO and chief scientist, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew before widespread human intervention. His firsthand field reports and interviews with participants reveal the promise, power, and limitations OCTOBER 544 p., 35 halftones 6 x 9 of restoration. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-90739-0 Cloth $35.00 Ecological restoration alone won’t solve the myriad problems fac- /£24.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08146-5 ing our environment. But Our Once and Future Planet demonstrates the NATURE SCIENCE role it can play, and the hope, inspiration, and new knowledge that can come from saving even one small patch of earth.

Paddy Woodworth was a staff journalist at the Irish Times from 1988 to 2002 and is the author of Dirty War, Clean Hands and The Basque Country.

general interest 7 MICHaeL RUSe The Gaia Hypothesis Science on a Pagan Planet

n 1965 English scientist James Lovelock had a flash of insight: the Earth is not just teeming with life; the Earth, in some sense, is life. IHe mulled this revolutionary idea over for several years, first with his close friend the novelist William Golding, and then in an extensive collaboration with the American scientist Lynn Margulis. In the early 1970s, he finally went public with the Gaia hypothesis, the idea that everything happens for an end: the good of planet Earth. Lovelock and Margulis were scorned by professional scientists, but the general Praise for The Darwinian Revolution public enthusiastically embraced Lovelock and his hypothesis. People “It is difficult to believe that yet another joined Gaia groups; churches had Gaia services, sometimes with new book on Darwin and the Darwinian Revo- music written especially for the occasion. There was a Gaia atlas, Gaia lution could add anything new or contain gardening, Gaia herbs, Gaia retreats, Gaia networking, and much any surprises. Michael Ruse’s book is an more. And the range of enthusiasts was—and still is—broad. exception on all counts. Darwin scholars In The Gaia Hypothesis, philosopher Michael Ruse, with his charac- and the general reader alike can learn teristic clarity and wit, uses Gaia and its history, its supporters and de- from it.” tractors, to illuminate the nature of science itself. Gaia emerged in the —David L. Hull, Nature 1960s, a decade when authority was questioned and status and dignity stood for nothing, but its story is much older. Ruse traces Gaia’s con-

“Useful and highly readable. . . . Skillfully nection to Plato and a long history of goal-directed and holistic—or organized and written with verve, imagi- organicist—thinking and explains why Lovelock and Margulis’s peers nation, and welcome touches of humor.” rejected it as pseudoscience. But Ruse also shows why the project was a —John C. Greene, success. He argues that Lovelock and Margulis should be commended Science for giving philosophy firm scientific basis and for provoking important scientific discussion about the world as a whole, its homeostasis or—in science • culture this age of global environmental uncertainty—its lack thereof. SEptEmBEr 288 p., 15 halftones, 5 line drawings 51/2 x 81/2 Melding the world of science and technology with the world of ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73170-4 feeling, mysticism, and religion, The Gaia Hypothesis will appeal to a Cloth $26.00/£18.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06039-2 broad range of readers, from students and scholars of the history and SCIENCE NEW AGE philosophy of science to anyone interested in New Age culture.

Michael Ruse is the Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy and director of the Program in the History and Philosophy of Science at Florida State University. He is the author or editor of nearly thirty books, including Science and Spirituality and The Darwinian Revolution, the latter published by the Uni- 8 general interest versity of Chicago Press. JonAthAn SIlvERtown The Long and the Short of It The Science of Life Span and Aging

verything that lives will die. That’s the fundamental fact of life. But not everyone dies at the same age: people vary wildly Ein their patterns of aging and their life spans—and that varia- tion is nothing compared to what’s found in other animal and plant species. A giant fungus found in Michigan has been alive since the Ice Age, while a dragonfly lives but four months, a mayfly half an hour. What accounts for these variations—and what can we learn from them that might help us understand, or better manage, our own aging? Praise for An Orchard Invisible With The Long and the Short of It, biologist and writer Jonathan Sil- “A fabulous book. . . . Jonathan Silvertown’s vertown offers readers a fascinating tour through the scientific study of skills are in telling stories. Expect won- longevity and aging. Dividing his daunting subject by theme—death, ders, too. . . . In this book, Silvertown has life span, aging, heredity, evolution, and more—Silvertown draws on produced a gem. . . . Read it as a gardener, the latest scientific developments to paint a picture of what we know scientist, food aficionado, historian, about how life span, senescence, and death vary within and across botanist, or naturalist, and you’ll not be species. At every turn, he addresses fascinating questions that have disappointed.” —Times Higher Education far-reaching implications: What causes aging, and what determines the length of an individual life? What changes have caused the average hu- “Seeds may look small and boring, yet man life span to increase so dramatically—fifteen minutes per hour— tricks, bribes and devious deceptions lie in the past two centuries? If evolution favors those who leave the most at the heart of their evolution, as ecolo- descendants, why haven’t we evolved to be immortal? The answers to gist Jonathan Silvertown entertainingly these puzzles and more emerge from close examination of the whole recounts in this fascinating celebration of natural history of life span and aging, from fruit flies to nematodes, the green world upon which all human life redwoods, and much more. depends.” The Long and the Short of It pairs a perpetually fascinating topic with —New Scientist, a wholly engaging writer, and the result is a book that will reward curi- Best Books of the Year ous readers of all ages.

OCtOBEr 192 p., 2 halftones, 1 table 1 1 Jonathan Silvertown is professor of ecology at the Open University, UK, and 5 /2 x 8 /2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-75789-6 the author or editor of numerous books, including, most recently, An Orchard Cloth $25.00/£17.50 Invisible, also published by the University of Chicago Press. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07210-4 SCIENCE

general interest 9 HENry GEE The Accidental Species Misunderstandings of Human Evolution

he idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually T has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being. Yet the metaphor has lodged itself in the contemporary imagination, and new fossil discoveries are often hailed in headlines as revealing the elusive transitional step, the moment when we stopped “With a delightfully irascible sense of being “animal” and started being “human.” In The Accidental Species, humor, Henry Gee reflects on our origin Henry Gee, longtime paleontology editor at Nature, takes aim at this and all the misunderstanding that we misleading notion, arguing that it reflects a profound misunderstand- impose on it. The Accidental Species is an ing of how evolution works and, when applied to the evolution of excellent primer on how—and how not—to our own species, supports mistaken ideas about our own place in the think about human evolution.” universe. —Carl Zimmer, Gee presents a robust and stark challenge to our tendency to see author of A Planet of Viruses ourselves as the acme of creation. Human exceptionalism, Gee argues,

is an error that can infect scientific thought. Touring the many fea- “The Accidental Species is at once an tures of human beings that have recurrently been used to distinguish eminently readable and important book. us from the rest of the animal world, Gee shows that our evolutionary Employing years of experience, sharp wit, outcome is one possibility among many, one that owes more to chance and great erudition, Henry Gee reveals than to an organized progression to supremacy. He starts with bipedal- how most of our popular conceptions ity, which he shows could have arisen entirely by accident, as a by- of evolution are wrong. Gee delights in product of sexual selection, moves on to technology, large brain size, shedding us of our assumptions to reveal intelligence, language, and, finally, sentience. He reveals each of these how science has the power to inform, attributes to be alive and well throughout the animal world—they are enlighten, and ultimately surprise.” —Neil Shubin, not, indeed, unique to our species. author of Your Inner Fish The Accidental Species combines Gee’s firsthand experience on the editorial side of many incredible paleontological findings with healthy OCtOBEr 240 p., 8 line drawings 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-28488-0 skepticism and humor to create a book that aims to overturn popular Cloth $26.00/£18.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04498-9 thinking on human evolution—the key is not what’s missing, but how SCIENCE we’re linked.

Henry Gee is a senior editor at Nature and the author of such books as Jacob’s Ladder, In Search of Deep Time, The Science of Middle-Earth, and A Field Guide to Dinosaurs, the last with Luis V. Rey. 10 general interest MArTin Geck Richard Wagner A Life in Music Translated by Stewart Spencer

est known for the challenging four-opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung, Richard Wagner (1813–83) was a conductor, libret- B tist, theater director, and essayist, in addition to being the composer of some of the most enduring operatic works in history, such as The Flying Dutchman, Tannhäuser, and Tristan and Isolde. Though his influence on the development of European music is indisputable, Wag- ner was also quite outspoken on the politics and culture of his time. To befit such a dynamic figure, acclaimed biographer Martin Geck offers here a Wagner biography unlike any other, one that strikes a unique “A fine biography. . . . This is the most balance between the technical musical aspects of Wagner’s composi- balanced account of Schumann’s life and tions and his overarching understanding of aesthetics. work for more than a generation, one that There are few, if any, scholars today who know more about Wagner makes us want to relisten to Schumann’s and his legacy than Geck, who builds upon his extensive research and music, knowing better the man behind it.” —Wall Street Journal, considerable knowledge as one of the editors of the Complete Works and on Robert Schumann the Complete Letters to offer a distinctive appraisal of the composer and his operas. Geck explores key ideas in Wagner’s life and works, while SEPtEMBER 416 p., 43 halftones, always keeping the music in the foreground. 37 line drawings 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92461-8 This year will mark the bicentennial of Wagner’s birth, and there Cloth $35.00/£24.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92462-5 is no better testament to the composer’s enduring influence than this BIOGRAPHY MUSIC fresh, vivid, and authoritative work. Richard Wagner: A Life in Music is a landmark study of one of music’s most important figures, offering something new to opera enthusiasts, Wagnerians, and anti-Wagnerians alike.

Martin Geck is professor of musicology at the Technical University of Dort- mund, Germany. His other books include Johann Sebastian Bach: Life and Work and Robert Schumann: The Life and Work of a Romantic Composer, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press. Stewart Spencer is an independent scholar and the translator of more than three dozen books.

general interest 11 MAttHew C. HUNteR Wicked Intelligence Visual Art and the Science of Experiment in Restoration London

n late seventeenth-century London, the most provocative images were produced not by artists, but by scientists. Magnified fly-eyes Idrawn with the aid of microscopes, apparitions cast on laboratory walls by projection machines, cut-paper figures revealing the “exact proportions” of sea monsters—all were created by members of the Royal Society of London, the leading institutional platform of the early Scientific Revolution.Wicked Intelligence reveals that these natural “No study in recent years on the arts in philosophers shaped Restoration London’s emergent artistic cultures by early modern Britain is as intelligent and forging collaborations with court painters, penning art theory, and de- inventive as Wicked Intelligence. Always signing triumphs of baroque architecture such as St Paul’s Cathedral. attuned to the elusiveness of objects and Offering an innovative approach to the scientific image-making their capacity to stimulate unexpected of the time, Matthew C. Hunter demonstrates how the Restoration thoughts, Matthew C. Hunter follows project of synthesizing experimental images into scientific knowledge, Latourian hybrids as they circulate as practiced by Royal Society leaders Robert Hooke and Christopher through Restoration experimental culture Wren, might be called “wicked intelligence.” Hunter uses episodes and brilliantly articulates the material involving specific visual practices—for instance, concocting a lethal intelligence at work in the Royal Society. amalgam of wax, steel, and sulfuric acid to produce an active model of Hunter’s writing is compelling and witty, a comet—to explore how Hooke, Wren, and their colleagues devised and this book exemplifies the very wicked representational modes that aided their experiments. Ultimately, intelligence that he traces through Resto- Hunter argues, the craft and craftiness of experimental visual prac- ration experimental philosophy.” tice both promoted and menaced the artistic traditions on which they —Michael Gaudio, University of Minnesota drew, turning the Royal Society projects into objects of suspicion in Enlightenment England.

sepTemBeR 304 p., 10 color plates, The first book to use the physical evidence of Royal Society experi- 66 halftones 7 x 10 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-01729-7 ments to produce forensic evaluations of how scientific knowledge Cloth $55.00s/£38.50 was generated, Wicked Intelligence rethinks the parameters of visual e-book isBn-13: 978-0-226-01732-7 ART science art, experimental philosophy, and architecture at the cusp of Britain’s imperial power and artistic efflorescence.

Matthew C. Hunter is assistant professor in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. He is coeditor of Beyond Mimesis and Convention: Representation in Art and Science and The Clever Object and an editor of Grey Room.

12 general interest RoBERt K. BAtChELoR London The Selden Map and the Making of a Global City, 1549–1689

f one had looked for a potential global city in Europe in the 1540s, the most likely candidate would have been Antwerp, which Ihad emerged as the center of the German and Spanish silver exchange as well as the Portuguese spice and Spanish sugar trades. It almost certainly would not have been London, an unassuming hub of the wool and cloth trade with a population of around 75,000, still trying to recover from the onslaught of the Black Plague. But by 1700 London’s population had reached a staggering 575,000—and it had developed its first global corporations, as well as relationships with “In the course of a tumultuous seven- non-European societies outside the Mediterranean. What happened in teenth century, London changed from the span of a century and a half? And how exactly did London trans- an energetic newcomer on the fringes form itself into a global city? of old Europe to a global center of trade, power, and interactive knowledge. In a London’s success, Robert K. Batchelor argues, lies not just with the work of amazing erudition and ambition, well-documented rise of Atlantic settlements, markets, and economies. Robert K. Batchelor shows how new forms Using his discovery of a network of Chinese merchant shipping routes of organization and knowledge of more on John Selden’s map of China as his jumping-off point, Batchelor Asian histories and languages shaped reveals how London also flourished because of its many encounters, this transformation.” engagements, and exchanges with East Asian trading cities. Transla- —John E. Wills, Jr., tion plays a key role in Batchelor’s study—translation not just of books, University of Southern California manuscripts, and maps, but also of meaning and knowledge across cultures—and Batchelor demonstrates how translation helped Lon- DecemBer 320 p., 43 halftones 6 x 9 don understand and adapt to global economic conditions. Looking ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08065-9 Cloth $45.00s/£31.50 outward at London’s global negotiations, Batchelor traces the develop- e-book ISBn-13: 978-0-226-08079-6 ment of its knowledge networks back to a number of foreign sources european HISTorY and credits particular interactions with England’s eventual political and economic autonomy from church and king. London offers a much-needed non-Eurocentric history of London, first by bringing to light and then by synthesizing the many external factors and pieces of evidence that contributed to its rise as a global city. It will appeal to students and scholars interested in the cultural politics of translation, the relationship between merchants and sovereigns, and the cultural and historical geography of Britain and Asia.

Robert K. Batchelor is associate professor of history at Georgia Southern Uni- versity. general interest 13 Edited by DiETER ROELSTRAETE The Way of the Shovel On the Archaeological Imaginary in Art

ontemporary art is often obsessed with the new, but it has recently begun to turn to projects centering on research and Cdelving into archives, all in the name of seeking and questioning historical truth. From filmmakers to sculptors to conceptualists, artists of all stripes are digging into the rubble of the past. In this catalog that accompanies an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Exhibition Schedule Art Chicago in the fall of 2013, Dieter Roelstraete gathers a diverse ◆ The Way of the Shovel: Art as range of international artists to explore the theme of melding archival Archaeology Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and experiential modes of storytelling—what he calls “the archaeologi- Chicago, iL cal imaginary”—particularly in the wake of 9/11. November 9, 2013–March 16, 2014 The Way of the Shovel offers a well-constructed balance among excursions into the situation of contemporary art, broad philosophical Artists included arguments around the subjects of history and the archive, and cultural Pamela Bannos, Lene Berg, Pierre analysis. Roelstraete’s opening essay maps the critical terrain, while Bismuth, Derek Brunen, Moyra Ian Alden Russell explores the roots of archaeology and its manifesta- Davey, Mariana Castillo Deball, tions in twentieth-century art, Bill Brown examines artistic practices Mark Dion, Stan Douglas, LaToya that involve historical artifacts and archival material, Sophie Berrebi Ruby Frazier, Cyprien Gaillard, offers a critique of the “document” as seen in art after the 1960s, and Raphael Grisey, Scott Hocking, Diedrich Diederichsen writes on the monumentalization of history in Rebecca Keller, Daniel Knorr, Goshka European art. The book features work by both established and young Macuga, Jean-Luc Moulène, Deiman- artists, and thoughtful entries by Roelstraete accompany the exhibition tas Narkevicius, Sophie Nys, Gabriel catalog, along with statements from artists Moyra Davey, Rebecca Keller, Orozco, Michael Rakowitz, Steve Joachim Koester, Hito Steyerl, and Zin Taylor. Rowell, Anri Sala, David Schutter, Hito The first exhibition to showcase this innovative approach to some Steyerl, Tony Tasset, and Zin Taylor of the most intriguing art of the past decade, The Way of the Shovel is indispensable for anyone seeking to understand the forces driving novEmbER 328 p., 80 color plates, contemporary art. 40 halftones 61/2 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09412-0 Cloth $45.00/£31.50 Dieter Roelstraete is the Manilow Senior Curator at the Museum of Contem- ART ARCHITECTURE porary Art Chicago and an editor of Afterall. He is the author of Richard Long: Copublished with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago A Line Made by Walking.

14 general interest Bernd STiegler Traveling in Place A History of Armchair Travel Translated by Peter Filkins

rmchair travel may seem like an oxymoron. Doesn’t travel require us to leave the house? And yet, anyone who has lost A herself for hours in the descriptive pages of a novel or the absorbing images of a film knows the very real feeling of having explored and experienced a different place or time without ever standing up from the couch. No passport, no currency, no security screening required— the luxury of armchair travel is accessible to us all. In Traveling in Place, Bernd Stiegler celebrates this convenient, magical means of transport in all its many forms. “Bernd Stiegler introduces us to a history Organized into twenty-one “legs”—or short chapters—Traveling of travelogues, all written by trailblazers in Place begins with a consideration of Xavier de Maistre’s 1794 Voyage who measure the span of their adventures autour de ma chambre, an account of the forty-two-day “journey around by the number of paces between the fire- his room” Maistre undertook as a way to entertain himself while under side armchair and the window casement. house arrest. Stiegler is fascinated by the notion of exploring the famil- Stiegler shows the degree to which the iar as though it were completely new and strange. He engages writers room of the writer has become a micro- as diverse as Roussel, Beckett, Perec, Robbe-Grillet, Cortázar, Kierkeg- cosm, already stocked with enough exotic aard, and Borges, all of whom show how the everyday can be brilliantly detail to place itself at the infinite dis- transformed. Like the best guidebooks, Traveling in Place is more inter- posal of our curiosity. The book suggests ested in the idea of travel as a state of mind than as a physical activity, that, no matter how far any wandering and Stiegler reflects on the different ways that traveling at home have sightseer might travel, what really em- manifested themselves in the modern era, from literature and film to barks upon the trek is our imagination.” the virtual possibilities of the Internet, blogs, and contemporary art. —Christian Bök, author of Euonia Reminiscent of the pictorial meditations of Sebald, but possessed of the intellectual playfulness of Calvino, Traveling in Place offers an NoVEmBER 272 p., 83 halftones 51/2 x 81/2 entertaining and creative Baedeker to journeying at home. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77467-1 Cloth $25.00/£17.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08115-1 Bernd Stiegler is professor of twentieth-century German literature and of TRAVEL LITERATURE literature and media at the University of Konstanz. Peter Filkins is a poet and teaches literature at Bard College.

general interest 15 Rosalind Williams The Triumph of Human Empire Verne, Morris, and Stevenson at the End of the World

n the early 1600s, in a haunting tale titled New Atlantis, Sir Francis Bacon imagined the discovery of an uncharted island, home to Ithe descendants of the lost realm of Atlantis, who had organized themselves to seek “the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the ef- fecting of all things possible.” Bacon’s make-believe island was not an “Engaging, highly informative, and en- empire in the usual sense, marked by territorial control; instead, it was tertaining. Rosalind Williams follows the the center of a vast general expansion of human knowledge and power. advice of the authors she discusses—of Rosalind Williams uses Bacon’s island as a jumping-off point to finding the right balance between factual explore the overarching historical event of our time: the rise and detail, narrative drive, and human inter- triumph of human empire. Confronting an intensely humanized est—yet presents a strikingly original world was a singular event of consciousness, which Williams explores and timely synthesis of literary history, through the lives and works of three writers of the late nineteenth cen- history of technology, and environmental tury: Jules Verne, William Morris, and Robert Louis Stevenson. As the history.” century drew to a close, these writers were unhappy with the direction —John Tresch, in which their world seemed to be headed and worried that organized University of Pennsylvania humanity would use knowledge and power for unworthy ends. In response, Williams shows, each engaged in a lifelong quest to make a SEpTEmBER 416 p., 4 color plates, 11 halftones 6 x 9 home in the midst of human empire, to transcend it, and most of all ISBN-13: 978-0-226-89955-8 Cloth $30.00/£21.00 to understand it. They accomplished this first by taking to the water: E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-89958-9 in life and in art, this shift offered them release from the condition of HISTORY LITERATURE human domination. At the same time, each writer experimented with romance and fantasy and how these traditions allowed them to express their growing awareness of the need for a new relationship between humans and Earth. As environmental consciousness rises in our time, along with evidence that our seeming control over nature is pathological and unpredictable, Williams’s history is one that speaks very much to the present.

Rosalind Williams is the Bern Dibner Professor of the History of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is past president of the Society for the History of Technology and the author of several books, most recently, Retooling: A Historian Confronts Technological Change. 16 general interest MIchael NorTh Novelty A History of the New

f art and science have one thing in common, it’s a hunger for the new—new ideas and innovations, new ways of seeing and depict- Iing the world. But that desire for novelty carries with it a fundamental philosophical problem: If everything has to come from something, how can anything truly new emerge? Is novelty even possible? In Novelty, Michael North takes us on a dazzling tour of more than two millennia of thinking about the problem of the new, from the puzzles of the pre-Socratics all the way up to the art world of the 1960s and ’70s. The terms of the debate, North shows, were established before Plato, and have changed very little since: novelty, philosophers “Novelty is an indispensable account of argued, could only arise from either recurrence or recombination. The the extraordinary persistence and power former, found in nature’s cycles of renewal, and the latter, seen most of ideas about novelty and the new in our clearly in the workings of language—between them we have accounted culture. It is very well researched, clearly for nearly all the ways in which novelty has been conceived of in West- written, and above all sustains a compel- ern history, including reformation, renaissance, invention, revolution, ling narrative. Michael North surveys and even evolution. As he pursues this idea through centuries and a wide field of intellectual and cultural across disciplines, North exhibits astonishing range, drawing on fig- history, and provides pithy, often witty, ures as diverse as Charles Darwin and Robert Smithson, Thomas Kuhn summaries of complex ideas. The result is and Ezra Pound, Norbert Wiener and Andy Warhol, all of whom offer a book that is bold in its claims, and sure different ways of grappling with the idea of originality. to stimulate discussion.” —Peter Middleton, Novelty, North demonstrates, remains a central problem of con- University of Southampton temporary science and literature—an ever-receding target that, in its complexity and evasiveness, continues to inspire and propel the mod- OCTOBER 256 p. 6 x 9 ern. A heady, ambitious intellectual feast, Novelty is rich with insight, a ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07787-1 Cloth $26.00/£18.00 masterpiece of perceptive synthesis. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07790-1 LITERARY CRITICISM PHILOSOPHY Michael North is professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of several books.

general interest 17 SErgio DE LA PAvA Personae A Novel

hen we asked Sergio De La Pava about his aims as a writer, he said, “I want every novel I write to depart significantly W into a new direction.” With Personae, he’s made good on that promise. Whereas De La Pava’s debut, the critically acclaimed A Naked Singularity, was a shaggy, baggy monster of a book, Personae, nearly five hundred pages shorter, is lean and sharp. A Naked Singularity locked us into the unforgettable voice of its protagonist, Casi, while Personae shimmers and shifts—among different perspectives, locations, narrative techniques. Praise for A Naked Singularity Yet at the same time, the two novels are clearly the work of the “A propulsive, mind-bending experience. same hand. The sheer energy of De La Pava’s sentences, his eye for . . . The novel’s chaotic sprawl, black absurd humor, his commitment to the idea of justice—all will be fa- humor, and madcap digressions make it miliar as they carry us from the tale of an obsessive, damaged psychic a thrilling rejoinder to the tidy story arcs detective consumed by a murder case into a Sartrean drama that raises portrayed on television and in most crime questions (and jokes) about responsibility, fate, death, and more. And fiction.” when De La Pava eventually returns us to the investigation, this time —Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal seen from the other side, the lives and deaths bound up in it feel all the more real and moving, even as solid answers slip away into mist. “A great American novel: large, ambitious, A Naked Singularity was one of the most lauded debut novels in

and full of talk.” years. The Wall Street Journal named it one of the ten best novels of the —Toronto Star year, and Shelf Awareness declared that it “heralded the arrival of a tremendous talent.” In some ways, despite its brevity, Personae is even “Exuberant, hyperverbal . . . a minor more surprising and challenging than A Naked Singularity—and, in its masterpiece of humor, paranoia, and even ambition and fierce intelligence, it’s proof that Sergio De La Pava is here flashy technique.” to stay. —Philadelphia City Paper

Despite extensive overtures from authors of trend pieces, Sergio De La Pava NOvEmBEr 224 p. 6 x 9 has not moved to Brooklyn. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07899-1 Paper $17.00/£12.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07904-2 FICTION

18 general interest Winnie Wong Van Gogh on Demand China and the Readymade

n the Guangdong province in southeastern China lies Dafen, a village that houses thousands of workers who paint Van Goghs, IDa Vincis, Warhols, and other Western masterpieces, producing an astonishing five million paintings a year. To write about life and work in Dafen, Winnie Wong infiltrated this world, investigating the claims of conceptual artists who made projects there; working as a dealer; apprenticing as a painter; surveying merchants in Europe, Asia, and America; establishing relationships with local leaders; and orga- OcTOBER 384 p., 27 color plates, 45 halftones 7 x 10 nizing a conceptual art show for the Shanghai World Expo. The result ISBN-13: 978-0-226-02475-2 Cloth $95.00x/£66.50 is Van Gogh on Demand, a fascinating book about a little-known aspect ISBN-13: 978-0-226-02489-9 Paper $35.00s of the global art world—one that sheds surprising light on our under- /£24.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-02492-9 standings of art, artists, and individual genius. ART ASIAN STUDIES Confronting difficult questions about the definition of art, the ownership of an image, and the meaning of imitation and appropria- tion, Wong shows how a plethora of artistic practices joins Chinese migrant workers, propaganda makers, and international artists together in a global supply chain of art and creativity. She examines how Berlin- based conceptual artist Christian Jankowski, who collaborated with Dafen’s painters to reimagine the Dafen Art Museum, unwittingly appropriated a photojournalist’s intellectual property. She explores how Zhang Huan, a radical performance artist from Beijing’s East

Village, prompted propaganda makers to heroize the female artists of io, 2012 TuD Dafen village. Through these cases, Wong shows how Dafen’s workers force us to reexamine our expectations about the cultural function of creativity and imitation, and the role of Chinese workers in redefining global art. workT in a Dafen s ices a Providing a valuable account of art practices in a period of pro- T found global cultural shifts and an ascendant China, Van Gogh on

Demand is a rich and detailed look at the implications of a world that Two appren can offer countless copies of everything that has ever been called “art.”

Winnie Wong is a junior fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. She lives in Cambridge, MA, and Shanghai.

general interest 19 SArAh KENNEl Charles Marville Photographer of Paris

harles Marville (1813–79) is widely acknowledged as one of the most talented photographers of the nineteenth century. CAccompanying a major retrospective exhibition at the Nation- al Gallery of Art to honor his bicentennial, Charles Marville: Photogra- pher of Modernity surveys the artist’s entire career. This beautiful book, which begins with the city scenes and architectural studies Marville Exhibition Schedule made throughout France and Germany in the 1850s, and also explores ♦ National Gallery of Art, his landscapes and portraits, as well as his photographs of Paris both Washington, DC September 29, 2013–January 5, 2014 before and after many of its medieval streets were razed to make way ♦ The Metropolitan Museum of Art, for the broad boulevards, parks, and monumental buildings we have New York come to associate with the City of Light. Commissioned to record the January 27–May 4, 2014 city in transition, Marville became the official photographer of Paris. ♦ National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Marville has long been an enigma in the history of photography, June 28–September 28, 2014 in part because many of the documents about his life were thought to have been lost in a fire that destroyed Paris’s city hall in 1871. Based on AuGusT 256 p., 170 color plates 91/2 x 11 meticulous research, this volume offers many new insights into Mar- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09278-2 Cloth $60.00/£42.00 ville’s personal and professional biography, including the central fact PHOTOGRAPHY that Marville was not his given name. Born Charles-François Bossu in Copublished with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC 1813, the photographer adopted the pseudonym when he began his career as an illustrator in the 1830s. With five essays by respected scholars, this book offers the first comprehensive examination of Marville’s 1870, – life and career and delivers the much-awaited public recognition his

1864 work so richly deserves. ent), M

Sarah Kennel is associate curator of photography at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. arrondisse HtH e navy, eig e navy, toN H NG rt, Washi al Gallery of a N Natio Hôtel deHôtel la Marine (Minister oft

20 general interest VIcTor BromBerT Musings on Mortality From Tolstoy to Primo Levi

ll art and the love of art,” Victor Brombert writes at the beginning of Musings on Mortality, “allow us to negate our A nothingness.” As a young man returning from World War II, Brombert came to understand this truth as he immersed himself in literature. Death can be found everywhere in literature, he saw, but literature itself is on the side of life. With delicacy and insight, Brombert traces the theme of mortality in the work of a group of authors who wrote during the past century and a half, teasing out and comparing their views of death as they emerged from different cultural contexts. “Musings on Mortality is a book suffused with wisdom and argued with the strong Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, Albert hand of a weathered and feeling literary Camus, Giorgio Bassani, J. M. Coetzee, and Primo Levi—these are scholar. To treat such tragic and inconsol- the writers whose works Brombert plumbs, illuminating their views able subject matter with such clarity and on the meaning of life and the human condition. But there is more to respect, with such equanimity and under- their work, he shows, than a pervasive interest in mortality: they wrote standing, is to levitate above it, in stoic not only of physical death but also of the threat of moral and spiritual courage and willed serenity. It is hard to death—and as the twentieth century progressed, they increasingly imagine such thematic criticism being reflected on the traumatic events of their times. He probes the indi- done better than here. What a beautiful vidual struggle with death, for example, through Tolstoy’s Ivan Ilych book.” and Mann’s Aschenbach, while he explores the destruction of whole —Thomas Harrison, civilizations in Bassani, Camus, and Primo Levi. Throughout the book, author of 1910: The Emancipation of Dissonance Brombert roots these writers’ reflections in philosophical meditations on mortality. Ultimately, he reveals that by understanding how these OCTOBER 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 authors wrote about mortality, we can grasp the full scope of their ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06235-8 literary achievement and vision. Cloth $24.00/£17.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07093-3 Drawing deeply from the well of Brombert’s own experience, Musings LITERARY CRITICISM on Mortality is more than mere literary criticism: it is a moving and elegant book for all to learn and live by.

Victor Brombert is the Henry Putnam University Professor Emeritus of Ro- mance and Comparative Literatures at Princeton University. He is the author of many books, including In Praise of Antiheroes: Figures and Themes in Modern European Literature, 1830–l980, also published by the University of Chicago Press, and the wartime memoir Trains of Thought.

general interest 21 FrAnk F. FurStEnBErg Behind the Academic Curtain How to Find Success and Happiness with a PhD

ore people than ever are going to graduate school to seek a PhD these days. When they get there, they discover a bewil- Mdering environment: a rapid immersion in their discipline, keen competition for resources, and uncertain options for their future, whether inside or outside of academia. Life with a PhD can begin to resemble an unsolvable puzzle. In Behind the Academic Curtain, Frank F. “A lot of academics are going to find in this Furstenberg offers a clear and user-friendly map to this maze. Drawing book just what they need to stimulate on decades of experience in academia, he provides a comprehensive, their own thinking and assessment of empirically grounded, and, most important of all, practical guide to their career, whatever stage they’re in. academic life. Everyone who has worked in an academic While the greatest anxieties for PhD candidates and postgrads are position knows what these problems are, often centered on getting that tenure-track dream job, each stage of sort of, but a large number of professors an academic career poses a series of distinctive problems. Furstenberg and scholars refuse to think about them divides these stages into five chapters that cover the entire trajectory or to consider, calmly and with some ref- of an academic life, including how to make use of a PhD outside of erence to realities, what they should do academia. From finding the right job to earning tenure, from manag- about them. Behind the Academic Curtain ing teaching loads to conducting research, from working on commit- will help them sort out what’s important tees to easing into retirement, he illuminates all the challenges and to them. It provides a humane perspective opportunities an academic can expect to encounter. Each chapter is on the insoluble dilemmas that inform a designed for easy consultation, with copious signposts, helpful sugges- scholarly life.” tions, and a bevy of questions that all academics should ask themselves —Howard S. Becker, author of Writing for Social Scientists throughout their career, whether at a major university, junior college, or a nonacademic organization. An honest and up-to-date portrayal Chicago Guides to Academic Life of how this life really works, Behind the Academic Curtain is an essential companion for any scholar, at any stage of his or her career. SEpTEmBER 224 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06607-3 Cloth $45.00x/£31.50 Frank F. Furstenberg is the Zellerbach Family Professor of Sociology Emeri- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06610-3 tus at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of many books, most Paper $15.00/£10.50 recently Destinies of the Disadvantaged: The Politics of Teenage Childbearing. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06624-0 EDUCATION REFERENCE

22 general interest MIchel AnTeby Manufacturing Morals The Values of Silence in Business School Education

orporate accountability is never far from the front page, and as the world’s most elite institution for business education, CHarvard Business School trains many of the future leaders of Fortune 500 companies. But how does HBS formally and informally ensure faculty and students embrace proper business standards? Mak- ing unprecedented use of his position as a Harvard Business School faculty member, Michel Anteby takes readers inside HBS in order to “In this first-rate organizational ethnogra- draw vivid parallels between the socialization of faculty and of students. phy, Michel Anteby describes the ethos In an era when many organizations are focused on principles of of a premier institution and how it shapes responsibility, Harvard Business School has long tried to promote the worldviews and moral rules-in-use of better business standards. Anteby’s rich account reveals the surprising its faculty, staff, and students.” —Robert Jackall, role of silence and ambiguity in HBS’s process of codifying morals and author of Moral Mazes: business values. As Anteby describes, at HBS specifics are often left The World of Corporate Managers unspoken; for example, teaching notes given to faculty provide much guidance on how to teach but are largely silent on what to teach. Manu- “Michel Anteby’s spare but well-chosen facturing Morals demonstrates how faculty and students are exposed to words offer an up-close and personal a system that operates on open-ended directives that require signifi- look at the inner workings of what many cant decision-making on the part of those involved, with little overt call the West Point of American capital- guidance from the hierarchy. Anteby suggests that this model—which ism. . . . Manufacturing Morals is a deft tolerates moral complexity—is perhaps one of the few that can adapt reimagining of organizational silence as and endure over time. sometimes a message, a provocation, a Manufacturing Morals is a perceptive must-read for anyone looking comfort, or an excuse.” —John Van Maanen, for insight into the moral decision-making of today’s business leaders MIT and those influenced by and working for them.

AUgUST 272 p., 18 halftones, Michel Anteby is associate professor and the Marvin Bower fellow in the orga- 1 line drawing, 2 tables 6 x 9 nizational behavior unit at Harvard Business School. He is the author of Moral ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09247-8 Cloth $25.00/£17.50 Gray Zones: Side Productions, Identity, and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09250-8 BUSINESS EDUCATION

general interest 23 Fred Turner The Democratic Surround Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties

e commonly think of the psychedelic ’60s as an explo- sion of creative energy and freedom that arose in direct W revolt against the early Cold War years. Yet, as Fred Turner reveals in The Democratic Surround, the decades that brought us the Ko- rean War and communist witch hunts also witnessed an extraordinary “In what will surely be a controversial turn toward explicitly democratic, open, and inclusive ideas of com- revision, Fred Turner maps the attempts munication and with them new, flexible models of social order. Surpris- of social scientists, industrial designers, ingly, he shows that it was this turn that brought us the revolutionary european expats and others to mold dem- multimedia and the wild-eyed individualism of the ’60s counterculture. ocratic personalities as a bulwark against authoritarianism, forming a civil founda- From the Museum of Modern Art in New York to the New Bauhaus tion upon which arose spatial media ex- in Chicago and Black Mountain College in North Carolina, Turner periments of the arts and counterculture shows how some of the most well-known artists and intellectuals of the of the 1960s. From an Americana more ’40s developed new models of media, new theories of interpersonal associated with Aaron Copeland comes and international collaboration, and new visions of an open, tolerant, the radical surround sound of John Cage; and democratic self in direct contrast to the repression and conformity from image management of psyches, associated with the fascist and communist movements. He then shows psychedelic media environments.” how their work shaped some of the most significant media events of —douglas Kahn, the Cold War and how by the end of the ’50s this vision of the demo- author of Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts cratic self and the media built to promote it would actually become part of the mainstream, even shaping American propaganda efforts in Europe. NOvEMBER 408 p., 39 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-81746-0 Cloth $32.50/£23.00 Overturning common misconceptions of these transformational E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06414-7 years, The Democratic Surround shows that the artistic and social radical- AMERICAN HISTORY ism of the ’60s grew out of the liberal ideas of Cold War America, a democratic vision that still underlies our hopes for digital media today.

Fred Turner is associate professor of communication at Stanford University. He is the author of Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War in American Memory and From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

24 general interest RIChARd M. WeAveR Ideas Have Consequences Expanded Edition With a new Foreword by Roger Kimball and Afterword by Ted J. Smith III

riginally published in 1948, at the height of post–World War II optimism and confidence in collective security,Ideas Have OConsequences uses “words hard as cannonballs” to present an unsparing diagnosis of the ills of the modern age. Widely read and debated at the time of its first publication, the book is now seen as one of the foundational texts of the modern conservative movement. “A profound diagnosis of the sickness of In its pages, Richard M. Weaver argues that the decline of West- our culture.” ern civilization resulted from the rising acceptance of relativism over —Reinhold Niebuhr absolute reality. In spite of increased knowledge, this retreat from the realist intellectual tradition has weakened the Western capacity to “Brilliantly written, daring, and radical. reason, with catastrophic consequences for social order and individual . . . It will shock, and philosophical shock rights. But Weaver also offers a realistic remedy. These difficulties are is the beginning of wisdom.” the product not of necessity but of intelligent choice. And, today, as —Paul Tillich decades ago, the remedy lies in the renewed acceptance of absolute reality and the recognition that ideas—like actions—have consequences. “Richard M. Weaver’s book is important; his explanation of the breakdown of mod- This expanded edition of the classic work contains a foreword ern man is the best in years.” by New Criterion editor Roger Kimball that offers insight into the rich —John Crowe Ransom intellectual and historical contexts of Weaver and his work and an afterword by Ted J. Smith III that relates the remarkable story of the decemBer 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 book’s writing and publication. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09006-1 Paper $18.00/£12.50 “This deeply prophetic book not only launched the renaissance of e-book isBn-13: 978-0-226-09023-8 philosophical conservatism in this country, but in the process gave us philosophy political science Previous edition ISBN-13: 978-0-226-87680-1 an armory of insights into the diseases besetting the national community that is as timely today as when it first appeared.Ideas Have Conse- quences is one of the few authentic classics in the American political tradition.”—Robert Nisbet

Richard M. Weaver (1910–63) was an American scholar, revered conservative, and professor of English and rhetoric at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, including The Ethics of Rhetoric and Visions of Order: The Cultural Crisis of Our Time.

general interest 25 NeiL HArris Capital Culture J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery of Art, and the Reinvention of the Museum Experience

merican art museums flourished in the late twentieth century, and the impresario leading much of this growth was A J. Carter Brown, director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, from 1969 to 1992. Along with S. Dillon Ripley, who served as Smithsonian secretary for much of that time, Brown reinvented the museum experience in ways that had important consequences for the cultural life of Washington and its visitors as well as for American “Meticulously researched and thought- museums in general. In Capital Culture, distinguished historian Neil fully written, Capital Culture places J. Harris provides a wide-ranging look at Brown’s achievement and the Carter Brown in his historical context and growth of museum culture during this crucial period. reveals the social, political, and economic issues he contended with during his long Harris combines his in-depth knowledge of American history and tenure at the National Gallery. Neil Harris culture with extensive archival research, interviewing dozens of key also brings to life the way Brown used his players to reveal how Brown’s showmanship transformed the National rivalry with Tom Hoving and later Philippe Gallery. At the time of the Cold War, Washington itself was growing de Montebello at the Metropolitan into a global destination, with Brown as its devoted booster. Harris Museum of Art to animate the National describes Brown’s major role in the birth of blockbuster exhibitions, Gallery and make it the cultural center of such as the King Tut show of the late 1970s and the National Gallery’s Washington, and for a time, the nation.” immensely successful Treasure Houses of Britain, which helped inspire —Glenn Lowry, similarly popular exhibitions around the country. He recounts Brown’s director, MoMA role in the creation of the award-winning East Building by architect I. M. Pei and the subsequent renovation of the West Building. Harris also OcTOBer 648 p., 43 halftones 6 x 9 explores the politics of exhibition planning, describing Brown’s court- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06770-4 Cloth $35.00/£24.50 ship of corporate leaders, politicians, and international dignitaries. e-book iSBn-13: 978-0-226-06784-1 AmericAn HiSTOrY ArT In this monumental book, Harris brings to life a dynamic era and exposes the creation of Brown’s impressive but costly legacy, one that changed the face of American museums forever.

Neil Harris is the Preston and Sterling Morton Professor Emeritus of History and of Art History at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, including The Artist in American Society; Humbug: The Art of P. T. Barnum; Cultural Excursions: Marketing Appetites and Cultural Tastes in Modern America; and The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age.

26 general interest MIChAeL BArone, ChuCK MCCuTCheon, SeAn Trende, and JoSh KrAuShAAr The Almanac of American Politics 2014

he Almanac of American Politics is the gold standard—the book that everyone involved, invested, or interested in American T politics must have on their reference shelf. Continuing the tradition of accurate and up-to-date information, the 2014 almanac includes new and updated profiles of every member of Congress and every state governor. These profiles cover everything from expendi- “The single best reference there is for tures to voting records, interest-group ratings, and, of course, politics. Congress and Washington specifically In-depth overviews of each state and house district are included as and the country generally.” well, along with demographic data, analysis of voting trends, and politi- —Jim Lehrer cal histories. The new edition contains Michael Barone’s sharp-eyed analysis of the 2012 election, both congressional and presidential, “It’s simply the oxygen of the political exploring how the votes fell and what they mean for future legislation. world. We have the most dog-eared copy The almanac also provides comprehensive coverage of the changes in town.” brought about by the 2010 census and has been reorganized to align —Judy Woodruff, with the resulting new districts. PBS NewsHour Like every edition since the almanac first appeared in 1972, the “A must for political junkies.” 2014 edition is helmed by veteran political analyst Michael Barone. —Los Angeles Times Together with Chuck McCutcheon, collaborator since 2012, and two new editors, Sean Trende, senior elections analyst for RealClearPolitics, “Superb, and so balanced that it is used by and Josh Kraushaar, managing editor at National Journal, Barone offers both sides of the political divide.” an unparalleled perspective on contemporary politics. —Economist Full of maps, census data, and detailed information about the

American political landscape, the 2014 Almanac of American Politics SEPTEmBER 1856 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10530-7 remains the most comprehensive resource for journalists, politicos, Cloth $115.00s/£80.50 business people, and academics. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10544-4 Paper $90.00/£63.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10558-1 Michael Barone is a senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner and REFERENCE POLITICAL SCIENCE a Fox News Channel contributor. Chuck McCutcheon is a freelance writer and editor in Washington, DC. Sean Trende is a senior elections analyst for RealClearPolitics. Josh Kraushaar is the managing editor of politics at National Journal.

general interest 27 NiCholas CarNes White-Collar Government The Hidden Role of Class in Economic Policy Making

ight of the last twelve presidents were millionaires when they took office. The figure is above fifty percent among current ESupreme Court justices, all nine of whom graduated from either Harvard or Yale. Millionaires also control Congress, where a background in business or law is the norm and the average member of the House or Senate has spent less than two percent of his or her adult “ ‘Where you stand depends on where you life in a working-class job. Why is it that most politicians in America sit’ is a maxim seldom applied to the are so much better off than the people who elect them—and does the economic backgrounds of legislators. social class divide between citizens and their representatives matter? But Nicholas Carnes’s eye-opening study With White-Collar Government, Nicholas Carnes answers this ques- shows social class and work experience tion with a resounding—and disturbing—yes. Legislators’ socioeco- to be key determinants in shaping how nomic backgrounds, he shows, have a profound impact not only on Congress and state legislatures write how they view the issues but also on the choices they make in office. laws and shape policies.” Scant representation from among the working class almost guarantees —Timothy Noah, author of The Great Divergence: that the policymaking process will be skewed toward outcomes that fa- America’s Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It vor the upper class. It matters that the wealthiest Americans set the tax rates for the wealthy, that white-collar professionals choose the mini- Chicago Studies in American Politics mum wage for blue-collar workers, and that people who have always had health insurance decide whether to help those without. And while NOvEmBEr 216 p., 61 line drawings, 8 tables 6 x 9 there is no one cause for this crisis of representation, Carnes shows ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08700-9 Cloth $50.00x/£35.00 that the problem does not stem from a lack of qualified candidates ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08714-6 from among the working class. The solution, he argues, must involve Paper $16.00/£11.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08728-3 a variety of changes, from the equalization of campaign funding to a POLITICAL SCIENCE shift in the types of candidates the parties support. If we want a government for the people, we have to start working toward a government that is truly by the people. White-Collar Government challenges long-held notions about the causes of political inequality in the United States and speaks to enduring questions about representation and political accountability.

Nicholas Carnes is assistant professor of public policy in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. He lives in Durham, NC, and he has worked 28 general interest as a busboy, dishwasher, and construction worker. Camilo José Vergara Harlem The Unmaking of a Ghetto With a Foreword by Timothy J. Gilfoyle

or more than a century, Harlem has been the epicenter of black America, the celebrated heart Fof African American life and culture—but it has also been a byword for the problems that have long plagued inner-city neighborhoods: poverty, crime, violence, Historical Studies of Urban America disinvestment, and decay.

Photographer Camilo José Vergara has been chronicling the NOvEMBER 312 p., 268 color plates 11 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-85336-9 neighborhood for forty-three years, and Harlem: The Unmaking of a Cloth $55.00/£38.50 Ghetto is an unprecedented record of urban change. Vergara began his E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03447-8 PHOTOGRAPHY AMERICAN HISTORY documentation of Harlem in the tradition of such masters as Helen Levitt and Aaron Siskind, and he later turned his focus on the neighborhood’s urban fabric, both the buildings that compose it and the life and culture embedded in them. By repeatedly returning to the same locations over the course of decades, Vergara is able to show us a community that is constantly changing—some areas declining, as longtime businesses give way to empty storefronts, graffiti, and garbage, while other areas gentrify, with corporate chain stores coming in to compete with the mom-and-pop shops. He also captures the ever-present street life of this densely populated neighborhood, from stoop gatherings to graffiti murals memorializing dead rappers to impersonators honor- ing Michael Jackson in front of the Apollo, as well as the growth of tourism and racial integration. Woven throughout the images is Vergara’s own account of his project and his experience of living and working in Harlem. Taken together, his unforgettable words and images tell the stories of how Harlem and its residents navigated the segregation, dereliction, and slow recovery of the closing years of the twentieth century and the boom and racial integration of the twenty-first. A deeply personal investigation,Harlem will take its place with the best portrayals of urban life.

Camilo José Vergara is a photographer and writer, a MacArthur fellow, and the author of many books. general interest 29 Andrew B. AyerS A Student’s Guide to Law School What Counts, What Helps, and What Matters

aw school can be a joyous, soul-transforming challenge that leads to a rewarding career. It can also be an exhausting, self- L limiting trap. It all depends on making smart decisions. When every advantage counts, A Student’s Guide to Law School is like having a personal mentor available at every turn. As a recent graduate and an appellate lawyer, Andrew B. Ayers “A Student’s Guide to Law School elo- knows how high the stakes are—he’s been there, and not only did he quently captures the journey of the novice survive the experience, he graduated first in his class. InA Student’s to the professional by focusing on how Guide to Law School he shares critical insights about how to make a law to immerse oneself in the culture of law. school journey successful. Originating in notes Ayers jotted down while Andrew B. Ayers aptly delves into ap- commuting to his first clerkship with then-Judge Sonia Sotomayor, and proaches to class work and studying for refined throughout his first years as a lawyer,A Student’s Guide offers a examinations without losing sight of the unique balance of insider’s knowledge and professional advice. larger goal of becoming a practice-ready Organized into four parts, the book begins with a section on tests and ethical professional—a connoisseur and grades, explaining what’s expected and exploring the choices of the law.” students must make on exam day. The second part discusses the skills —Catherine L. Carpenter, Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles needed to be a successful law student, giving the reader easy-to-use tools to analyze legal materials and construct clear arguments. The Chicago Guides to Academic Life third part contains advice on studying, classwork, and note-taking.

SEptEmBEr 208 p. 6 x 9 Ayers closes with a look beyond the classroom, showing students how ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06722-3 the choices they make in law school will affect their career—and even Cloth $42.00x/£29.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06705-6 determine the kind of lawyer they become. Paper $18.00/£12.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06719-3 The first law school guide written by a recent top-ranked graduate, LAW A Student’s Guide to Law School is relentlessly practical and thoroughly relevant to the law school experience of today’s students. With the tools and advice Ayers shares here, students can make the most of their investment in law school, and turn their valuable learning experiences into a meaningful career.

Andrew B. Ayers is an appellate lawyer in Albany, NY. He graduated first in his law school class at Georgetown in 2005 and clerked for the Honorable Sonia Sotomayor and the Honorable Gerard E. Lynch. 30 general interest Allen C. ShelTon Where the North Sea Touches Alabama

n a warm summer’s night in Athens, Georgia, Patrik Keim stuck a pistol into his mouth and pulled the trigger. Keim Owas an artist, and the room in which he died was an as- semblage of the tools of his particular trade: the floor and table were covered with images, while a pair of large scissors, glue, electrical tape, and some dentures shared space with a pile of old medical journals, butcher knives, and various other small objects. Keim had cleared a space on the floor, and the wall directly behind him was bare. His body “This is a beautiful and brilliant book. completed the tableau. Art and artists often end in tragedy and obscu- . . . The lives of Allen C. Shelton, Patrik rity, but Keim’s story doesn’t end with his death. Keim, Walter Benjamin, and many oth- A few years later, 180 miles from Keim’s grave, a bulldozer operator ers intersect in these pages, rubbing up uncovered a pine coffin in an old beaver swamp down the road from against each other, drawing on each other Allen C. Shelton’s farm. He quickly reburied it, but Shelton, a friend of to evoke layers upon layers of worlds in Keim’s who had a suitcase of his unfinished projects, became con- which objects, color, and texture are ev- vinced that his friend wasn’t dead and fixed in the ground, but moving erything. Shelton’s writing is masterful.” —Kathleen C. Stewart, between this world and the next in a traveling coffin in search of his author of Ordinary Affects incomplete work.

In Where the North Sea Touches Alabama, Shelton ushers us into SEpTEmBER 256 p., 18 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06364-5 realms of fantasy, revelation, and reflection, paced with a slow unfurling Cloth $60.00x/£42.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07322-4 of magical correspondences. Though he is trained as a sociologist, this is Paper $20.00/£14.00 a genre-crossing work of literature, a two-sided ethnography: one from E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06378-2 LITERATURE the world of the living and the other from the world of the dead. What follows isn’t a ghost story but an exciting and extraordinary kind of narrative. The psychosociological landscape that Shelton constructs for his reader is as evocative of Kafka, Bataille, and Benjamin as it is of Weber, Foucault, and Marx. Where the North Sea Touches Alabama is a work of sociological fictocriticism that explores not only the author’s relationship to the artist but his physical, historical, and social relationship to northeastern Alabama, in rare style.

Allen C. Shelton is an associate professor of sociology at Buffalo State College, SUNY, and the author of Dreamworlds of Alabama. He lives in Buffalo, New York, next to Billy Sunday’s first church and an old Italian grocery store, and within a half-mile of an abandoned nineteenth-century asylum. There are no pine trees. general interest 31 The Accounts katie peterson

Earth

I didn’t come here to make speeches. El Dorado I didn’t come here to make trouble. peter campion I didn’t come here to be somebody’s mother. I didn’t come here to make friends. Letter from Ohio I didn’t come here to teach. I didn’t come here to drag the space heater The green so green it must be chemical. from the house in summer with an extension Faint drift of charcoal smoke. Rock radio. cord out to the orchard because The pink azaleas thrusting at the blue. the peach trees we planted And all the same desires come crashing back: in a climate that couldn’t take them incredible X-ed out scenes and afterward didn’t thrive, couldn’t sweeten the whoosh of traffic surf, our bodies bathed their fruit in a place like this. in the whole sweep of towers and freeways and meadows of blanket flowers. I want it all: The death of a mother alters forever a family’s story of itself. heat puddle in the chest, moments like handfuls Indeed, it taxes the ability of a family to tell that story at all. of honeycomb, split, dribbling. . . . Enough. We’ve lived apart for weeks now and your voice The Accounts narrates the struggle to speak with any clear cracks from the cell reception, hums and dips understanding in the wake of that loss. The title poem at- and breaks for seconds, as evening peaks to orange tempts three explanations of the departure of a life from in the sycamores, and the need to see you stretches the earth—a physical account, a psychological account, into the days that follow: stray lifetime spent and a spiritual account. It is embedded in a long narrative in office rooms and parks and station halls sequence that tries to state plainly the facts of the last days of as they fall to the curve of earth, the ocean. the mother’s life, in a room that formerly housed a television, next to a California backyard. The visual focus of that In El Dorado, Peter Campion explores what it feels like to sequence, a robin’s nest, poised above the family home, sings live in America right now, at the beginning of the twenty- in a kind of lament, giving its own version of ways we can first century. Splicing cell-phone chatter with translations of see the transformation of the dying into the dead. In other ancient poems, jump-cutting from traditional to invented poems, called “Arguments,” two voices exchange uncertain forms, and turning his high-res lens on everything from box truths about subjects as high as heaven and as low as crime. stores to trout streams to airport lounges, Campion renders Grief is a problem that cannot be solved by thinking, but both personal and collective experience with capacious and that doesn’t stop the mind, which relentlessly carries on, subtle skill. trying in vain to settle its accounts. The death of a well-loved Praise for Peter Campion person creates a debt that can never be repaid. It reminds the “Because his language is so alive and spicy, Peter Cam- living of our own psychological debts to each other, and to the pion can write about almost anything and make it memora- dead. In this sense, the death of this particular mother and ble. His poems are equally at home in the cities of today and the transformation of this particular family are evocative of a in the wreck we’ve made of nature. Reading him, you feel the greater struggle against any changing reality, and the loss of whole weight of American poetry from Whitman through all beautiful and passing forms of order. Hart Crane to Kenneth Koch ennobling his lines and giving “The narrator of Katie Peterson’s book The Accounts has them both their form and their crackle.”—American Academy strayed into a myth in which no guiding figures remain, and of Arts and Letters with no way to prove or save herself. Who knew the complexity of grief could be drawn with such shocking simplicity and peter campion teaches in the MFA program at the University of Min- masterful depth?”—Mary Kinzie, A Poet’s Guide to Poetry nesota. He is the author of two previous collections of poems, Other People and The Lions, both published by the University of Chicago katie peterson is professor of the practice of poetry at Tufts Univer- Press. sity. She is the author of two other collections of poetry, This One OctOber 88 p. 51/2 x 81/2 Tree and Permission. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07711-6 september 88 p. 51/2 x 81/2 Paper $18.00/£12.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06266-2 e-book IsbN-13: 978-0-226-07725-3 Paper $18.00/£12.50 pOetrY e-book IsbN-13: 978-0-226-06283-9 pOetrY

32 general interest BOOKS OF SPECIAL INTEREST CHICAGO Prehistoric Future Max Ernst and the Return of Painting between the Wars RaLph ubL Translated by Elizabeth Tucker

One of the most admired artists of the simulate how a screen image or memo- twentieth century, Max Ernst was a pro- ry comes into the mind’s view. In addi- ponent of Dada and founder of surre- tion, Ernst scoured the past for obsolete alism, known for his strange, evocative scientific illustrations and odd adver- paintings and drawings. In Prehistoric tisements to illustrate the rapidity with Future, Ralph Ubl approaches Ernst like which time passes and to simulate the no one else has, using theories of the apprehension generated when rapid unconscious—surrealist automatism, flows of knowledge turn living culture Freudian psychoanalysis, the concept into artifact. Ultimately, Ubl reveals,

Max Ernst as PaintEr, ca. 1909 of history as trauma—to examine how Ernst was interested in the construction Ernst’s construction of collage departs and phenomenology of both collective NovEmBER 248 p., 4 color plates, from other modern artists. and individual modern history and 60 halftones 7 x 10 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82372-0 Ubl shows that while Picasso, memory. Shedding new light on Ernst’s Cloth $45.00s/£31.50 Braque, and Man Ray used scissors and working methods and the reasons that E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-02931-3 glue to create collages, Ernst employed his pieces continue to imprint them- ART techniques he himself had forged— selves in viewers’ memories, Prehistoric rubbing and scraping to bring images Future is an innovative work of critical forth onto a sheet of paper or canvas to writing on a key figure of surrealism.

Ralph ubl is professor of art history at the University of Basel in Switzerland. elizabeth Tucker translates German with a specialization in the history and theory of art and architecture. Her recent books include Las Vegas in the Rearview Mirror and Cindy Sherman: The Early Works, 1975–1977: Catalogue Raisonné.

Kurt Schwitters Space, Image, Exile Megan R. Luke

German artist Kurt Schwitters (1887– surveys Schwitters’s experiments in 1948) is best known for his pioneering shaping space and the development of work in fusing collage and abstrac- his Merzbau, describing his haphazard tion, the two most transformative in- studios in Scandinavia and the United novations of twentieth-century art. Kingdom and the smaller, quieter piec- Considered the father of installation es he created there. She makes a case art, Schwitters was also a theorist, a for the enormous relevance of Schwit- Dadaist, and a writer whose influence ters’s aesthetic concerns to contem- extends from Robert Rauschenberg porary artists, arguing that his later and Eva Hesse to Thomas Hirschhorn. work provides a guide to new narratives But while his early experiments in col- about modernism in the visual arts. jANuARy 352 p., 22 color plates, lage and installation from the interwar These pieces, she shows, were born of 98 halftones 7 x 10 period have garnered much critical artistic exchange and shaped by his ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08518-0 Cloth $55.00s/£38.50 acclaim, his later work has generally rootless life after exile, and they offer E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09037-5 been ignored. In the first book to fill a new way of thinking about the his- ART this gap, Megan R. Luke tells the fasci- tory of art that privileges itinerancy nating, even moving story of the work over identity and the critical power of produced by the aging, isolated artist humorous inversion over unambiguous under the Nazi regime and during his communication. Packed with images, years in exile. Kurt Schwitters completes the narrative Combining new biographical of an artist who remains a considerable material with archival research, Luke force today.

34 special interest Megan R. Luke is assistant professor of art history at the University of Southern California. Edited by Ron RapopoRT From Black Sox to Three-Peats A Century of Chicago’s Best Sports- writing from the Tribune, Sun-Times, and Other Newspapers

ears, Bulls, Cubs, Sox, Blackhawks—there’s no city like Chica- go when it comes to sports. Generation after generation, Chi- B cagoans pass down their almost religious allegiances to teams, stadiums, and players and their never-say-die attitude, along with the stories of the city’s best (and worst) sports moments. And every one of “This is a great book for a great sports those moments—every come-from-behind victory or crushing defeat— town.” has been chronicled by Chicago’s unparalleled sportswriters. —Mayor Rahm Emanuel In From Black Sox to Three-Peats, veteran Chicago sports columnist

Ron Rapoport assembles one hundred of the best pieces from the OcTOBER 256 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03660-1 Tribune, Sun-Times, Daily News, Defender, and other papers to tell the un- Paper $18.00/£12.50 forgettable story of a century of Chicago sports. From Ring Lardner to E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03674-8 SPORTS Rick Telander, Westbrook Pegler to Bob Verdi, Mike Royko to Wendell Smith, Melissa Isaacson to Brent Musburger, and on, this collection reminds us that Chicago sports fans have enjoyed a wealth of talent not just on the field, but in the press box as well. Through their stories we relive the betrayal of the Black Sox, the cocksure power of the ’85 Bears, the assassin’s efficiency of Jordan’s Bulls, the Blackhawks’ stunning reclamation of the Stanley Cup, and the Cubs’ century of futility. Sports are the most ephemeral of news events: once you know the outcome, the drama is gone. But every once in a while, there are those games, those teams, those players that make it into something more— and great writers can transform those fleeting moments into lasting stories that become part of the very identity of a city. From Black Sox to Three-Peats is Chicago history at its most exciting and celebratory. No sports fan should be without it.

Ron Rapoport was a sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times for more than twenty years and also wrote for the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Daily News, and the Associated Press. He served as the sports commentator for NPR’s Weekend Edition for two decades and has written a number of books about sports and entertainment.

special interest 35 ChRIS JoNeS Bigger, Brighter, Louder 150 Years of Chicago Theater as Seen by Chicago Tribune Critics

he first knownChicago Tribune theater review appeared on March 25, 1853. An anonymous notice, it shared the T page with two other announcements—one about a pair of thousand-pound hogs set to be slaughtered and another trumpeting the largest load of lumber ever to leave Chicago. “And thus Chicago’s priorities were starkly laid out right there on that page,” begins Chris “From Joseph Jefferson as Rip Van Winkle Jones in the introduction to this new collection. “Hog butcher for in 1868, to Claudia Cassidy (the notorious the world and windy self-promoter, specializing in commerce-driven critic of the ’40s and ’50s), to the Good- superlatives. The arts came a poor third. Critics would rail against that man Theatre’s The Iceman Cometh with perceived set of civic priorities for years.” Nathan Lane in 2012, Chris Jones writes The Chicago of today, on the other hand, is regarded as one of the a rich and rewarding history of Chicago world’s premier cities for theater, and no one has had a more consis- theater. It’s a must for any theatergoer.” tent front-row seat to its ascendance than the Chicago Tribune theater —Roy Leonard critics. Bigger, Brighter, Louder weaves together more than 150 years of Tribune reviews into a compelling narrative, pairing full reviews with “An invaluable addition to the history of commentary and history. With a sharp eye for telling details and a our city.” —Roche Schulfer, keen sense of historical context, Jones, longtime chief Tribune theater executive director critic, takes readers through decades of highs and lows, successes and of Goodman Theatre failures. The book showcases fascinating early reviews of actors and shows OctOBER 328 p., 16 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05926-6 that would go on to achieve phenomenal success, including a tryout Cloth $27.50/£19.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09071-9 of A Raisin in the Sun with newcomer Sidney Poitier and the first major DRAMA review of The Producers. It also delves into the rare and the unusual, such as a previously unpublished Tennessee Williams interview and a long conversation with Edward Albee’s mother. Bigger, Brighter, Louder offers a vital store of primary documents about Chicago arts and a riveting look at the history behind the city’s rise to theatrical greatness.

Chris Jones is chief theater critic for the Chicago Tribune, where he has re- viewed and commented on culture, the arts, politics, and entertainment for more than fifteen years. He is also adjunct professor at the Theatre School at 36 special interest DePaul University. ChriSTopher A. LubienSki and SArAh TheuLe LubienSki The Public School Advantage Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools

early the whole of America’s partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? NAnd for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we should educate our children. Policy makers have increasingly turned to market-based models to help improve our schools, believing that private institutions—because they are competitively NOvEmBEr 288 p., 4 line drawings, 28 tables 6 x 9 driven—are better than public ones. With The Public School Advantage, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08888-4 Cloth $50.00x/£35.00 Christopher A. and Sarah Theule Lubienski offer powerful evidence ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08891-4 Paper $18.00/£12.50 to undercut this belief, showing that public schools in fact outperform E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08907-2 private ones. EDUCATION Decades of research have shown that students at private schools score, on average, at higher levels than students do at public schools. Drawing on two large-scale, nationally representative databases, the Lubienskis show, however, that this difference is more than explained by demographics—private school students largely come from more privileged backgrounds, offering greater educational support. After correcting for demographics, the authors go on to show that gains in student achievement at public schools are at least as great and often greater than those at private ones, and the very mechanism that market-based reformers champion—autonomy—may be the crucial factor that prevents private schools from performing better. Alternatively, those practices that these reformers castigate, such as teacher certifica- tion and professional reforms of curriculum and instruction, turn out to have a significant effect on school improvement. Offering facts, not ideologies, The Public School Advantage reveals that education is better off when provided for the public by the public.

Christopher A. Lubienski is professor in the Department of Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham- paign. He is coeditor of The Charter School Experiment and School Choice Policies and Outcomes. Sarah Theule Lubienski is professor and associate dean of the Graduate College in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. special interest 37 PeTer John BroWnlee, SArAh BurnS, DIAne DIllon, DAnIel Greene, and SCoTT MAnnInG STevenS Home Front Daily Life in the Civil War North With a Foreword by Adam Goodheart

ore than one hundred and fifty years after Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still occupies a promi- M nent place in the national collective memory. Paintings and photographs, plays and movies, novels, poetry, and songs portray “‘The present is a year productive of the war as a battle over the future of slavery, focusing on Lincoln’s strange and surprising events,’ a newspa- determination to save the Union, or highlighting the cruelty of brother per editorialist wrote on July 4, 1861. ‘It is fighting brother. Battles and battlefields occupy us, too: Bull Run, one prolific of revolution and abounding Antietam, and Gettysburg all conjure up images of desolate landscapes in great and startling novelties. . . . We strewn with war dead. Yet battlefields were not the only landscapes are entering, to say the least, upon a new altered by the war. Countless individuals saw their daily lives upended and important epoch in the history of the while the entire nation suffered. world.’ Today, when we look at Civil War images across the gulf of a century and a Home Front reveals this side of the war as it happened, compre- half, it is clear that those war years would hensively examining the visual culture of the Northern home front. prove to be an era not just of revolution, Through contributions from leading scholars, we discover how the war but also of revelation: the passing of influenced household economies and the cotton industry; how the ab- timeworn realities and the intimation of sence of young men from the home changed daily life; how war relief things to come.” work linked home fronts and battlefronts; why Indians on the frontier —Adam Goodheart, were pushed out of the riven nation’s consciousness during the war author of 1861 years; and how wartime landscape paintings illuminated the nation’s past, present, and future. exhibition Schedule ♦ newberry library, A companion volume to a collaborative exhibition organized by Chicago the Newberry Library and the Terra Foundation for American Art, September 27, 2013–March 24, 2014 Home Front is the first book to expose the visual culture of a world far removed from the horror of war yet intimately bound to it.

SepTemBer 192 p., 90 color plates 81/2 x 101/2 Peter John Brownlee is associate curator at the Terra Foundation for American ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06185-6 Art. Sarah Burns is the Ruth N. Halls Professor Emerita in the Department of Cloth $35.00s/£24.50 e-book iSBn-13: 978-0-226-06574-8 the History of Art at Indiana University Bloomington. Diane Dillon is director of the Scholarly and Undergraduate Programs Department at the Newberry american HiSTOrY arT Library. Daniel Greene is vice president for research and academic programs at the Newberry Library and an affiliated faculty member of the history department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Scott Manning Stevens is director of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the Newberry Library. 38 special interest Philosophy of Pseudoscience Contributors Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem Jean Paul van Bendegem, Stefaan edited by maSSimo Pigliucci and maarten Boudry Blancke, Sheralee Brindell, Filip Buekens, Frank cioffi, carol e. What sets the practice of rigorously test- parents’ decisions to vaccinate children cleland, evan Fales, Barbara ed, sound science apart from pseudosci- and governments’ willingness to adopt Forrest, erich goode, Sven ove ence? In this volume, the contributors policies that prevent climate change. Hansson, noretta Koertge, seek to answer this question, known to Pseudoscience often mimics science, James ladyman, martin mahner, philosophers of science as “the demar- using the superficial language and thomas nickles, ronald l. num- cation problem.” This issue has a long trappings of actual scientific research bers, donald Prothero, michael history in philosophy, stretching as far to seem more respectable. Even a well- back as the early twentieth century and informed public can be taken in by such ruse, nicholas Shackel, michael the work of Karl Popper. But by the questionable theories dressed up as sci- Shermer, Johan de Smedt, Kon- late 1980s, scholars in the field began ence. Pseudoscientific beliefs compete rad talmont-Kaminski, daniel P. to treat the demarcation problem as with sound science on the health pages thurs, and John S. Wilkins impossible to solve and futile to pon- of newspapers for media coverage and der. However, the essays that Massimo in laboratories for research funding. Pigliucci and Maarten Boudry have as- Now more than ever the ability to sepa- AuguST 464 p., 1 halftone, 2 line drawings 6 x 9 sembled in this volume make a rousing rate genuine scientific findings from ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05179-6 case for the unequivocal importance of spurious ones is vital, and Philosophy of Cloth $105.00x/£73.50 reflecting on the separation between Pseudoscience provides ground for phi- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05196-3 Paper $35.00s/£24.50 pseudoscience and sound science. losophers, sociologists, historians, and E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05182-6 Moreover, the demarcation prob- laypeople to make decisions about what SCIENCE PHILOSOPHY lem is not a purely theoretical dilemma science is or isn’t. of mere academic interest: it affects

massimo Pigliucci is professor of philosophy at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He has written many books, including Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk and, most recently, Answers for Aristotle: How Science and Philosophy Can Lead Us to a More Meaningful Life. maarten Boudry is a postdoctoral fellow of the Flemish Fund for Scientific Research at Ghent University.

Life Out of Sequence “What happens to biology with computerization? Hallam Stevens’s A Data-Driven History of Bioinformatics compelling ethnographic and Hallam StevenS historical narrative shows how the Thirty years ago, biologists worked at from living organisms into DNA se- nature of the biological experiment laboratory benches, peering down mi- quencing machines, through software, has changed with the increasing croscopes, surrounded by petri dishes. and into databases, images, and scien- use of the tools of information Today, they are just as likely to be found tific publications. What he reveals is a technology in life science and in an office, poring over lines of code biology very different from the one of biomedicine.” on computers. The use of computers in predigital days: a biology that includes —Hannah landecker, biology has radically transformed who not only biologists but also highly in- university of california, biologists are, what they do, and how terdisciplinary teams of managers and los angeles they understand life. In Life Out of Se- workers; a biology that is more centered quence, Hallam Stevens looks inside this on DNA sequencing, but one that un- NOvEmBER 272 p., 19 halftones, new landscape of digital scientific work. derstands sequence in terms of dynam- 3 line drawings 6 x 9 ic cascades and highly interconnected ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08017-8 Stevens chronicles the emergence Cloth $90.00x/£63.00 of bioinformatics—the mode of work- networks. Life Out of Sequence thus offers ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08020-8 ing across and between biology, com- the computational biology community Paper $30.00s/£21.00 puting, mathematics, and statistics— welcome context for their own work E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08034-5 from the 1960s to the present, seeking while also giving the public a frontline SCIENCE HISTORY to understand how knowledge about perspective of what is going on in this life is made in and through virtual spac- rapidly changing field. es. He shows how scientific data moves

Hallam Stevens is assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. special interest 39 SARAH S. RicHARdSon Sex Itself The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome

uman genomes are 99.9 percent identical—with one prominent exception. Instead of a matching pair of X chromosomes, Hmen carry a single X, coupled with a tiny chromosome called the Y. Tracking the emergence of a new and distinctive way of thinking about sex represented by the unalterable, simple, and visually compelling binary of the X and Y chromosomes, Sex Itself examines the interaction between cultural gender norms and genetic theories of sex from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present, postgen- omic age. “Through a series of deeply researched case studies, Sarah S. Richardson shows Using methods from history, philosophy, and gender studies of how thoroughly gender ideologies perme- science, Sarah S. Richardson uncovers how gender has helped to shape ated twentieth- and twenty-first-century the research practices, questions asked, theories and models, and research on the so-called sex chromo- descriptive language used in sex chromosome research. From the earli- somes. An essential addition to feminist est theories of chromosomal sex determination, to the mid-century science studies.” hypothesis of the aggressive XYY supermale, to the debate about Y —Helen E. Longino, chromosome degeneration, to the recent claim that male and female Stanford University genomes are more different than those of humans and chimpanzees, Richardson shows how cultural gender conceptions influence the ge- NOvEmBER 312 p., 21 halftones, netic science of sex. 11 line drawings 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08468-8 Cloth $45.00s/£31.50 Richardson shows how sexual science of the past continues to E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08471-8 resonate, in ways both subtle and explicit, in contemporary research SCIENCE HISTORY on the genetics of sex and gender. With the completion of the Human Genome Project, genes and chromosomes are moving to the center of the biology of sex. Sex Itself offers a compelling argument for the importance of ongoing critical dialogue on how cultural conceptions of gender operate within the science of sex.

Sarah S. Richardson is assistant professor of the history of science and of studies of women, gender, and sexuality at Harvard University. She is coeditor of Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age. She lives in Chester, CT.

40 special interest Reading Darwin in Arabic, 1860–1950 “a novel and important contribution to our understanding of the global- MaRwa elshakRy ization of science in the nineteenth In Reading Darwin in Arabic, Marwa suffused with the anxieties of empire century. Marwa elshakry’s study Elshakry questions current ideas about and civilizational decline. The politics will appeal not only to scholars of Islam, science, and secularism by ex- of evolution infiltrated Arabic discus- the modern intellectual and politi- ploring the ways in which Darwin was sions of pedagogy, progress, and the cal history of the Middle east but read in Arabic from the late 1860s to very sense of history. They also led to also to an audience in the history of the mid-twentieth century. Borrowing a literary and conceptual transforma- from translation and reading studies tion of notions of science and religion science, especially those working and weaving together the history of sci- themselves. Darwin thus became a ve- on imperial and colonial histories ence with intellectual history, she ex- hicle for discussing scriptural exegesis, of science.” plores Darwin’s global appeal from the the conditions of belief, and cosmologi- —timothy Mitchell, perspective of several generations of cal views more broadly. The book also author of Colonising Egypt Arabic readers and shows how Darwin’s acquaints readers with Muslim and writings helped alter the social and Christian intellectuals, bureaucrats, and SEpTEmBER 440 p., 22 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00130-2 epistemological landscape of the Arab theologians, and concludes by explor- Cloth $45.00s/£31.50 learned classes. ing Darwin’s waning influence on public E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00144-9 Elshakry shows how, in an age of and intellectual life in the Arab world SCIENCE HISTORY massive regional and international po- after World War I. litical upheaval, these readings were

Marwa elshakry is associate professor in the Department of History at Columbia University, where she specializes in the history of science, technology, and medicine in the modern Middle East. She lives in New York.

Was Hitler a Darwinian? “these essays display the impressive range of Robert J. Richards’s Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory abilities as an intellectual historian RobeRt J. RichaRds and historian of science, as they explore the disparate sources of In tracing the history of Darwin’s ac- cal examination reveals that Darwin, in complishment and the trajectory of more traditional fashion, constructed darwinian thought in romanticism, evolutionary theory during the late nature with a moral spine and provided theology, ethics, aesthetics, and nineteenth and early twentieth centu- it with a goal: man as a moral creature. linguistics.” ries, most scholars agree that Darwin The book takes up many topics—in- —sander Gliboff, introduced blind mechanism into biol- cluding the character of Darwin’s chief indiana University ogy, thus banishing moral values from principles of natural selection and di- the understanding of nature. Accord- vergence, his dispute with Alfred Russel OCTOBER 272 p., 5 color plates, ing to the standard interpretation, the Wallace over man’s big brain, the role 33 halftones, 7 line drawings 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05876-4 principle of survival of the fittest has of language in human development, his Cloth $82.50x/£ 57.50 rendered human behavior, including relationship to Herbert Spencer, how ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05893-1 moral behavior, ultimately selfish. Few much his views had in common with Paper $27.50s/£19.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05909-9 doubt that Darwinian theory, especially Haeckel’s, and the general problem of as construed by the master’s German progress in evolution. Moreover, Rich- SCIENCE HISTORY disciple, Ernst Haeckel, inspired Hitler ards takes a forceful stand on the timely and led to Nazi atrocities. issue of whether Darwin is to blame for In this collection of essays, Robert Hitler’s atrocities. Was Hitler a Darwin- J. Richards argues that this orthodox ian? is intellectual history at its boldest. view is wrongheaded. A close histori-

Robert J. Richards is the Morris Fishbein Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Science and Medicine; professor in the Departments of History, Philosophy, and Psychology and in the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science; and director of the Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine, all at the University of Chi- cago. He is the author of numerous books, including, most recently, The Tragic Sense of Life, also published by the University of Chicago Press. He lives in Chicago. special interest 41 ConEVEry BolTon VAlEnCiUs The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes

rom December 1811 to February 1812, massive earthquakes shook the middle Mississippi Valley, collapsing homes, snapping F large trees mid-trunk, and briefly but dramatically reversing the flow of the continent’s mightiest river. For decades, people puzzled over the causes of the quakes, but by the time the nation began to recover from the Civil War, the New Madrid earthquakes had essentially been forgotten. “Through deep research, acute perception, and lovely writing, Conevery Bolton In The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes, Conevery Bolton Valencius has taken one of the great Valencius remembers this major environmental disaster, demonstrat- natural events of early America and made ing how events that have been long forgotten, even denied and ridi- of it a revelation of its time—its scientific culed as tall tales, were in fact enormously important at the time of practice and thinking and its people’s their occurrence, and continue to affect us today. Valencius weaves understanding of the land, of themselves, together scientific and historical evidence to demonstrate the vast role and even of their spirituality and relation the New Madrid earthquakes played in the United States in the early to the divine. A masterful blend of the his- nineteenth century, shaping the settlement patterns of early western tory of science and society.” Cherokees and other Indians, heightening the credibility of Tecumseh —Elliott West, and Tenskwatawa for their Indian League in the War of 1812, giving University of Arkansas force to frontier religious revival, and spreading scientific inquiry. Mov- ing into the present, Valencius explores the intertwined reasons—envi- OCTOBER 480 p., 26 halftones 6 x 9 ronmental, scientific, social, and economic—why something as con- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05389-9 Cloth $35.00s/£24.50 sequential as a major earthquake can be lost from public knowledge, E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05392-9 SCIENCE AMERICAN HISTORY offering a cautionary tale in a world struggling to respond to global climate change amid widespread willful denial. Engagingly written and ambitiously researched—both in the scientific literature and the writings of the time—The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes will be an important resource in environmental history, geology, and seismology, as well as history of science and medicine and early American and Native American history.

Conevery Bolton Valencius is assistant professor at the University of Massachu- setts Boston, where she teaches environmental history, history of science and medicine, and the American Civil War. She is the author of The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land. 42 special interest Animal Body Size “this diverse collection provides a Linking Pattern and Process across Space, Time, fascinating glimpse into a funda- and Taxonomic Group mental property of animal com- edited by FelisA A. smitH and s. KAtHleen lyons munities: the distribution of body sizes. With a stimulating integra- Galileo wrote that “nature cannot pro- order to uncover the patterns and caus- tion of ecology and paleobiology duce a horse as large as twenty ordinary al mechanisms of body size throughout that addresses the interplay of horses or a giant ten times taller than time and across the globe. The chapters structure, function, the environ- an ordinary man unless by miracle or represent diverse scientific perspectives ment, and evolutionary history, by greatly altering the proportions of and are divided into two sections. The this compilation is sure to appeal to his limbs and especially of his bones”— first includes chapters on insects, snails, a statement that wonderfully captures birds, bats, and terrestrial mammals a broad readership. By bringing to a long-standing scientific fascination and discusses the body size patterns of the forefront a suite of unanswered with body size. Why are organisms the these various organisms. The second questions, the contributors’ efforts size that they are? And what determines examines some of the factors behind, will motivate exciting new research their optimum size? and consequences of, body size pat- into how communities are struc- This volume explores animal body terns and includes chapters on commu- tured across space and through size from a macroecological perspec- nity assembly, body mass distribution, time.” tive, examining species, populations, life history, and the influence of flight and other large groups of animals in on body size. —rebecca terry, oregon state University Felisa A. smith is professor of biology at the University of New Mexico and lives in Santa Fe, NM. s. Kathleen lyons is a research scientist in the Department of Paleobiology at the AuguST 272 p., 16 halftones, National Museum of Natural History and lives in Arlington, VA. 26 line drawings, 24 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-01214-8 Cloth $50.00s/£35.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-01228-5 SCIENCE

Life Atomic “A fascinating portrait of the use A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine and meaning of radioisotopes in twentieth-century science and AngelA n. H. CreAger medicine, Angela n. H. Creager’s Life Atomic is serious, high-quality After World War II, the US Atomic En- transformations. Yet the government’s scholarship that contributes to our ergy Commission (AEC) began mass- attempt to present radioisotopes as producing radioisotopes, sending out marvelous dividends of the atomic age understanding of science over the nearly 64,000 shipments of radioactive was undercut in the 1950s by the fallout last century. this long-awaited materials to scientists and physicians by debates, as scientists and citizens recog- volume justifies the wait.” 1955. Even as the atomic bomb became nized the hazards of low-level radiation. —m. susan lindee, the focus of Cold War anxiety, radioiso- Creager reveals that growing conscious- University of Pennsylvania topes represented the government’s ef- ness of the danger of radioactivity did forts to harness the power of the atom not reduce the demand for radioiso- Synthesis for peace—advancing medicine, do- topes at hospitals and laboratories, OCTOBER 448 p., 35 halftones, mestic energy, and foreign relations. but it did change their popular repre- 21 line drawings 6 x 9 In Life Atomic, Angela N. H. Crea- sentation from a therapeutic agent to ISBN-13: 978-0-226-01780-8 Cloth $45.00s ger tells the story of how these radioiso- an environmental poison. She then /£31.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-01794-5 topes, which were simultaneously scien- demonstrates how, by the late twenti- SCIENCE AMERICAN HISTORY tific tools and political icons, transformed eth century, public fear of radioactivity biomedicine and ecology. Government- overshadowed any appreciation of the produced radioisotopes provided physi- positive consequences of the AEC’s pro- cians with new tools for diagnosis and vision of radioisotopes for research and therapy, specifically cancer therapy, and medicine. enabled biologists to trace molecular

Angela n. H. Creager is the Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History at Princeton Uni- versity. She is the author of The Life of a Virus and coeditor of Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicine, both published by the University of Chicago Press. special interest 43 scientists profiled Outsider Scientists samuel Butler, Noam chomsky, Routes to Innovation in Biology Edited by OrEN HarmaN and micHaEl r. DiEtricH Drew Endy, r. a. Fisher, Walter Goad, Félix d’Herelle, David Outsider Scientists describes the trans- teen thought-provoking biographical Hull, François Jacob, robert formative role played by “outsiders” in essays of some of the most remarkable macarthur, Gregor mendel, the growth of the modern life sciences. outsiders of the modern era, each writ- ilya metchnikoff, Elaine morgan, Biology, which occupies a special place ten by an authority in the respective louis Pasteur, linus Pauling, between the exact and human sciences, field. From Noam Chomsky using lin- has historically attracted many thinkers guistics to answer questions about brain George Price, Nicolas rashevsky, whose primary training was in other architecture, to Erwin Schrödinger con- Erwin schrödinger, John von fields: mathematics, physics, chemis- templating DNA as a physicist would, to Neumann, and Norbert Wiener try, linguistics, philosophy, history, an- Drew Endy tinkering with Biobricks to thropology, engineering, and even lit- create new forms of synthetic life, the NOvEmBER 376 p., 22 halftones, erature. These outsiders brought with outsiders featured here make clear just 4 line drawings 6 x 9 them ideas and tools that were foreign how much there is to gain from disre- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07837-3 Cloth $105.00x/£73.50 to biology, but which, when applied to specting conventional boundaries. In- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07840-3 biological problems, helped to bring novation, it turns out, often relies on Paper $35.00s/£24.50 about dramatic, and often surprising, importing new ideas from other fields. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07854-0 breakthroughs. Without its outsiders, modern biology SCIENCE HISTORY This volume brings together eigh- would hardly be recognizable.

Oren Harman is the chair of the Graduate Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel, and the author of The Man Who Invented the Chromo- some and The Price of Altruism. michael r. Dietrich is professor in the Department of Biologi- cal Sciences at Dartmouth College and coeditor of The Educated Eye. Together Harman and Dietrich are the editors of Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology.

Observing by Hand Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth Century Omar W. Nasim

Today we are all familiar with the iconic Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel; and , Vincent GoGh, Van T pictures of the nebulae produced by George Phillips Bond. Nasim focuses the Hubble Space Telescope’s digital on the ways in which these observers arry Nigh arry

T cameras. But there was a time, before created and employed their drawings the successful application of photogra- in data-driven procedures, from their 1889, with appears what to be as M51 its centerpiece The S phy to the heavens, in which scientists choices of artistic materials and tech- NOvEmBER 296 p., 85 halftones 6 x 9 had to rely on handmade drawings of niques to their practices and scientific ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08437-4 these mysterious phenomena. observation. He examines the ways in Cloth $45.00s/£31.50 which the act of drawing complement- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08440-4 Observing by Hand sheds entirely new light on the ways in which the pro- ed the acts of seeing and knowing, as SCIENCE HISTORY duction and reception of hand-drawn well as the ways that making pictures images of the nebulae in the nineteenth was connected to the production of sci- century contributed to astronomical entific knowledge. observation. Omar W. Nasim investi- An impeccably researched, care- gates hundreds of unpublished observ- fully crafted, and beautifully illustrated ing books and paper records from six piece of historical work, Observing by nineteenth-century observers of the Hand will delight historians of science, nebulae: Sir John Herschel; William art, and the book, as well as astrono- Parsons, the third Earl of Rosse; Wil- mers and philosophers. liam Lassell; Ebenezer Porter Mason;

Omar W. Nasim is a senior research fellow at the Chair for Science Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, a member of the Iconic Criticism project at the University of Basel, and the author of Bertrand Russell and the Edwardian Philosophers. 44 special interest Unearthing the Nation “a rich, innovative, and finely crafted historical study of Chinese Modern Geology and Nationalism in Republican China geology and society during the graCE YEn ShEn republican period. It creatively Questions of national identity have long how to serve China when China was still combines political history, cultural dominated China’s political, social, and searching for a stable national form. analyses, and the history of science cultural horizons. So in the early 1900s, Shen argues that Chinese geologists in tracing the development of the when diverse groups in China began overcame these obstacles by experi- Chinese geoscientific community to covet foreign science in the name menting with different ways to associate and related institutions, with spe- of new technology and modernization, the subjects of their scientific study, the cial attention to the transnational questions of nationhood came to the land and its features, with the object fore. In Unearthing the Nation, Grace Yen of their political and cultural loyalties. dimensions of the enterprise. It will Shen uses the development of modern This, in turn, led them to link national be recognized as a major contribu- geology to explore this complex rela- survival with the establishment of scien- tion not only to the history of Chi- tionship between science and national- tific authority in Chinese society. nese geology but also to modern ism in Republican China. The first major history of modern Chinese history and the history of Shen shows that Chinese geolo- Chinese geology, Unearthing the Nation modern science in general.” gists—in battling growing Western and introduces the key figures in the rise of —Zuoyue wang, Japanese encroachment of Chinese the field, as well as several key organiza- California State Polytechnic sovereignty—faced two ongoing chal- tions, such as the Geological Society of university, Pomona lenges: how to develop objective, inter- China, and explains how they helped nationally recognized scientific author- bring Chinese geology onto the world DECEmBER 272 p., 3 halftones 6 x 9 ity without effacing native identity, and stage. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09040-5 Cloth $45.00s/£31.50 grace Yen Shen is assistant professor of Chinese history at Fordham University. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09054-2 SCIENCE HISTORY Zookeeping An Introduction to the Science and Technology Edited by Mark D. IrwIn, John B. StonEr, and aaron M. CoBaugh

Zookeepers are responsible for the and aquarium animals. The editors, all care and welfare of animals in zoos and three experienced in zoo animal care aquariums and also serve as public am- and management, have put together a bassadors for the animals. As species ex- cohesive and broad-ranging book that tinction, environmental protection, an- tackles each of its subjects carefully and imal rights, and workplace safety issues thoroughly. The contributions cover come to the fore, zoos and aquariums professional zookeeping, evolution of need keepers who have the technical zoos, workplace safety, animal manage- expertise and scientific knowledge to ment, taxa-specific animal husbandry, keep animals healthy, educate the pub- animal behavior, veterinary care, pub-

lic, and create regional, national, and lic education and outreach, and con- of SyrACuSe’S roSAmonD AnDrew SAunDerS. CourteSy D. by Photo GifforD Zoo global conservation and management servation science. Using the newest communities. This textbook offers a techniques and research gathered from OCTOBER 816 p., 85 halftones, 55 line drawings, 48 tables 81/2 x 11 comprehensive and practical overview around the world, Zookeeping is a progres- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92531-8 of the profession geared toward new an- sive textbook that seeks to promote con- Cloth $95.00x/£66.50 imal keepers and anyone who needs a sistency and the highest standards within E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92532-5 foundational account of the topics most global zoo and aquarium operations. SCIENCE REFERENCE important to the day-to-day care of zoo

Mark D. Irwin is a licensed veterinarian and associate professor who leads the Zoo Technology program at Jefferson Community College, SUNY, in Watertown, NY, where he trains future zookeepers. John B. Stoner has decades of experience in zoo animal care as a keeper and animal care manager at the Toronto Zoo and is an adjunct faculty member of Sheridan College in Brampton, Ontario, where he teaches exotic animal science. aaron M. Cobaugh is associate professor and coordinator of the Animal Management program at Niagara County Community College, SUNY, in Sanborn, NY, where he teaches zoo-related courses that train future zookeepers, and is a former keeper himself. special interest 45 The Ornaments of Life Coevolution and Conservation in the Tropics Theodore h. FleminG and W. John Kress

The average kilometer of tropical rain- Synthesizing recent research by forest is teeming with life; it contains ecologists and evolutionary biologists, thousands of species of plants and Theodore H. Fleming and W. John animals. As The Ornaments of Life re- Kress demonstrate the tremendous veals, many of the most colorful and functional and evolutionary impor- eye-catching rainforest inhabitants— tance of these tropical pollinators and toucans, monkeys, leaf-nosed bats, and frugivores. They shed light on how hummingbirds, to name a few—are an these mutually symbiotic relationships important component of the infrastruc- evolved and lay out the current conser- ture that supports life in the forest. vation status of these essential species. These fruit-and-nectar eating birds and In order to illustrate the striking beauty mammals pollinate the flowers and dis- of these “ornaments” of the rainforest, perse the seeds of hundreds of tropical the authors have included a series of plants, and unlike temperate communi- breathtaking color plates and full-color Interspecific Interactions ties, much of this greenery relies exclu- graphs and diagrams. sively on animals for reproduction. SEptEmBEr 624 p., 98 color plates, 2 halftones, 15 line drawings, 53 tables 6 x 9 Theodore h. Fleming is professor emeritus of biology at the University of Miami in Coral ISBN-13: 978-0-226-25340-4 Gables, Florida. W. John Kress is a curator and research botanist as well as director of the Cloth $125.00x/£ 87.50 Consortium for Understanding and Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet at the Smithsonian ISBN-13: 978-0-226-25341-1 Institution. Paper $50.00s/£35.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-02332-8 SCIENCE

Science from Sight to Insight How Scientists Illustrate Meaning AlAn G. Gross and Joseph e. hArmon

John Dalton’s molecular structures. interaction between the visual and tex- Scatter plots and geometric diagrams. tual. With great insight and admirable Watson and Crick’s double helix. The rigor, the authors argue that scientific

duck-rabbit illusion, 1892 illusion, duck-rabbit way in which scientists understand the meaning itself comes from the complex world—and the key concepts that ex- interplay between the verbal and the vi- NovEmBEr 328 p., 92 halftones, 46 line drawings 6 x 9 plain it—is undeniably bound up in not sual in the form of graphs, diagrams, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06820-6 only words, but images. Moreover, from maps, drawings, and photographs. The Cloth $90.00x/£63.00 PowerPoint presentations to articles in authors use a variety of tools to probe ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06848-0 Paper $30.00s/£21.00 academic journals, scientific communi- the nature of scientific images, from E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06834-3 cation routinely relies on the relation- Heidegger’s philosophy of science to SCIENCE ship between words and pictures. Peirce’s semiotics of visual communica- In Science from Sight to Insight, Alan tion. Their synthesis of these elements G. Gross and Joseph E. Harmon present offers readers an examination of scien- a short history of the scientific visual, tific visuals at a much deeper and more and then formulate a theory about the meaningful level than ever before.

Alan G. Gross is professor of communication studies at the University of Minnesota—Twin Cities. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including The Rhetoric of Science and Starring the Text: The Place of Rhetoric in Science Studies. Joseph e. harmon works as a science writer and editor at Argonne National Laboratory. He is coauthor, with Alan G. Gross, of several books, including Communicating Science, The Scientific Literature: A Guided Tour, and The Craft of Scientific Communication. 46 special interest In Search of Mechanisms “Carl F. Craver and Lindley darden Discoveries across the Life Sciences eloquently describe the discovery CarL F. Craver and LindLey darden of mechanisms and reasoning about them and show how mecha- Neuroscientists investigate the mecha- biologists have used and will use again nisms provide an integrative way nisms of spatial memory. Molecular to reveal the mechanisms that produce, of understanding the unity of biologists study the mechanisms of pro- underlie, or maintain the phenomena biology. This book ranges across tein synthesis and the myriad mecha- characteristic of living things. They nisms of gene regulation. Ecologists discuss the questions that figure in many areas of biology and is highly study nutrient cycling mechanisms and the search for mechanisms, character- readable, with rich examples and a their devastating imbalances in estuar- izing the experimental, observational, minimum of philosophical jar- ies such as the Chesapeake Bay. In fact, and conceptual considerations used to gon. it substantially advances the much of biology and its history involves answer them, all the while providing philosophy and history of science, biologists constructing, evaluating, and examples from the history of biology and can seriously help biologists to revising their understanding of mecha- to highlight the kinds of evidence and nisms. reasoning strategies employed to assess understand their own work.” With In Search of Mechanisms, Carl F. mechanisms. At a deeper level, Craver and —Paul Thagard, University of Waterloo Craver and Lindley Darden offer both Darden pose a systematic view of what biology is, of how biology makes progress, of a descriptive and an instructional ac- OCtOBEr 256 p., 14 halftones, count of how biologists discover mech- how biological discoveries are and might 8 line drawings, 4 tables 6 x 9 anisms. Drawing on examples from be made, and of why knowledge of bio- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03965-7 across the life sciences and through the logical mechanisms is important for the Cloth $75.00x/£52.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03979-4 centuries, Craver and Darden compile future of the human species. Paper $25.00s/£17.50 an impressive toolbox of strategies that E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03982-4 SCIENCE PHILOSOPHY Carl F. Craver is associate professor in the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program at Washington University in St. Louis. Lindley darden is professor of philosophy at the Univer- sity of Maryland in College Park. She lives in Greenbelt, MD.

Coming to Mind “drawing sophisticated connections The Soul and Its Body between contemporary emergence theory and aristotelian ontology, Lenn e. Goodman and d. GreGory CarameniCo Lenn e. Goodman and d. Gregory

How should we speak of bodies and psychology, literature, and the arts as Caramenico employ a range of phil- souls? In Coming to Mind, Lenn E. well as the latest findings of cognitive osophical arguments and scientific Goodman and D. Gregory Caramenico psychology and brain science—Coming detail to argue for the reality of the pick their way through the minefields to Mind is a subtle manifesto of a new soul in an original and congenial of materialist reductionism to present humanism and an outstanding con- style. High marks.” the soul not as the brain’s rival but as its tribution to our understanding of the —Philip Clayton, partner. What acts, they argue, is what human person. Drawing on new and Claremont School of Theology is real. The soul is not an ethereal wisp classical understandings of perception, but a lively subject, emergent from the consciousness, memory, agency, and OCtOBEr 304 p., 1 line drawing 6 x 9 body but inadequately described in its creativity, Goodman and Caramenico ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06106-1 terms. frame a convincing argument for a dy- Cloth $45.00s/£31.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06123-8 Rooted in some of the richest phil- namic and integrated self capable of PHILOSOPHY osophical and intellectual traditions language, thought, discovery, caring, of Western and Eastern philosophy, and love.

Lenn e. Goodman is professor of philosophy and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. His books include Creation and Evolution; Islamic Humanism; In Defense of Truth; Jewish and Islamic Philosophy: Crosspollinations in the Classic Age; Avicenna; On Justice; and Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself. He lives in Nashville, TN. d. Gregory Caramenico is an independent scholar and researcher in New York City.

special interest 47 ABrAmo BASEvI The Operas of Giuseppe Verdi Translated by Edward Schneider with Stefano Castelvecchi Edited and with an Introduction by Stefano Castelvecchi

bramo Basevi published his study of Verdi’s operas in Flor- ence in 1859, in the middle of the composer’s career. The A first thorough, systematic examination of Verdi’s operas, it covered the twenty works produced between 1842 and 1857—from Nabucco and Macbeth to Il trovatore, La traviata, and Aroldo. But while Basevi’s work is still widely cited and discussed—and nowhere more

“Abramo Basevi’s The Operas of Giuseppe so than in the English-speaking world—no translation of the entire volume has previously been available. fills Verdi represents an extraordinary tes- The Operas of Giuseppe Verdi this gap, at the same time providing an invaluable critical apparatus timony to a new and important way of and commentary on Basevi’s book. writing music criticism in mid-nineteenth- century Italy, and Basevi’s terminology As a contemporary of Verdi and a trained musician, erudite schol- and expressions have served as the foun- ar, and critic conversant with current and past operatic repertories, dations for influential analytical methods. Basevi presented pointed discussion of the operas and their historical This translation is polished, elegant, and context, offering today’s readers a unique window into many aspects eminently accessible to a modern reader.” of operatic culture, and culture in general, in Verdi’s Italy. He wrote —Francesco Izzo, with precision on formal aspects, use of melody and orchestration, and University of Southampton other compositional features, which made his study an acknowledged model for the growing field of music criticism. Carefully annotated OCtOBEr 304 p., 1 table 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09491-5 and with an engaging introduction and detailed glossary by editor Cloth $55.00s/£38.50 Stefano Castelvecchi, this translation illuminates Basevi’s musical and E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09507-3 MUSIC historical references as well as aspects of his language that remain difficult to grasp even for Italian readers. Making Basevi’s important contribution to our understanding of Verdi and his operas available to a broad audience for the first time, The Operas of Giuseppe Verdi will delight scholars and opera enthusiasts alike.

Abramo Basevi (1818–85) was a composer, music promoter, scholar, and critic who played a major role in the cultural life of nineteenth-century Florence. He published extensively on music and philosophy and founded the periodi- cal L’a r m o ni a , in which his study of Verdi’s operas first appeared. Edward Schneider studied music at Oxford and has translated several books on music and cooking. Stefano Castelvecchi is a lecturer in music at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge. He is the editor of critical editions of works by Rossini and Verdi and the author of Sentimental 48 special interest Opera: Questions of Genre in the Age of Bourgeois Drama. AlExAndER R. GAlloWAy, EuGEnE ThAcKER, and McKEnziE WARK Excommunication Three Inquiries in Media and Mediation

lways connect—that is the imperative of today’s media. But what about those moments when media cease to function A properly, when messages go beyond the sender and receiver to become excluded from the world of communication itself—those messages that state: “There will be no more messages”? In this book, Alexander R. Galloway, Eugene Thacker, and McKenzie Wark turn our usual understanding of media on its head by arguing that these moments reveal the ways the impossibility of communication is integral to TRIOS communication itself—instances they call excommunication.

DECEMBEr 224 p., 2 tables 51/2 x 81/2 In three linked essays, Excommunication pursues this elusive topic ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92521-9 by looking at mediation in the face of banishment, exclusion, and her- Cloth $67.50x/£47.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92522-6 esy, and by contemplating the possibilities of communication with the Paper $22.50s/£16.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92523-3 great beyond. First, Galloway proposes an original theory of mediation MEDIA STUDIES PHILOSOPHY based on classical literature and philosophy, using Hermes, Iris, and the Furies to map out three of the most prevalent modes of mediation today—mediation as exchange, as illumination, and as network. Then, Thacker goes boldly beyond Galloway’s classification scheme by Also published in the TRIOS series examining the concept of excommunication through the secret link between the modern horror genre and medieval mysticism. Finally, The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology Wark evokes the poetics of the infuriated swarm as a queer politics of SlAvoj ŽiŽEK, ERic l. SAnTnER, heresy that deviates from both media theory and the traditional left. and KEnnETh REinhARd ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04520-7 Reexamining commonplace definitions of media, mediation, and Paper $26.00s/£18.00 communication, Excommunication offers a glimpse into the realm of the nonhuman to find a theory of mediation adequate to our present Occupy: Three Inquiries in Disobedience condition. W. j. T. MiTchEll, BERnARd E. hARcouRT, and MichAEl TAuSSiG Alexander R. Galloway is associate professor of media studies at New York ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04274-9 University. He is the author of four books on digital media and critical theory, Paper $15.00/£10.50 most recently, The Interface Effect. Eugene Thacker is associate professor in the School of Media Studies at the New School. He is the author of many books, including After Life, also published by the University of Chicago Press. McKenzie Wark is professor of liberal studies at the New School. His books include A Hacker Manifesto and Gamer Theory.

special interest 49 “Stanley rosen’s undertaking in The The Idea of Hegel’s Science of Logic Idea of Hegel’s ‘Science of Logic’ is Stanley roSen an important and unique contribution to philosophical literature. It Although Hegel considered Science Monism—which claims a singular es- closes an important circle to his of Logic essential to his philosophy, it sence for all things—ultimately leads to earlier and much-remembered has received scant commentary com- nihilism, while dualism, which claims pared with the other three books he multiple, irreducible essences, leads to work, Nihilism, a book that ana- published in his lifetime. Here philoso- what Rosen calls “the endless chatter of lyzed the problem announced by its pher Stanley Rosen rescues the Science the history of philosophy.” The Science title but was not as ambitious as to of Logic from obscurity, arguing that its of Logic, he argues, is the fundamental suggest a solution—it is precisely neglect is responsible for contemporary text to offer a new conception of ratio- this ambition to which this newest philosophy’s fracture into many differ- nalism that might overcome this philo- book returns.” ent and opposed schools of thought. sophical split. Leading readers through —omri Boehm, Through deep and careful analysis, Hegel’s book from beginning to end, new School Rosen sheds new light on the precise Rosen’s argument culminates in a mas- problems that animate Hegel’s over- terful chapter on the Idea in Hegel. By NOvEmBEr 544 p. 6 x 9 looked book and their tremendous sig- fully appreciating the Science of Logic ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06588-5 nificance to philosophical conceptions and situating it properly within Hegel’s Cloth $55.00s /£38.50 of logic and reason. oeuvre, Rosen in turn provides new E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06591-5 Rosen’s overarching question is tools for wrangling with the conceptual PHILOSOPHY how, if at all, rationalism can overcome puzzles that have brought so many other the split between monism and dualism. philosophers to disaster.

Stanley rosen is the Borden Parker Bowne Professor and University Professor Emeritus at Boston University. He is the author of many books, most recently Plato’s Republic: A Study.

“Deconstructing Dignity is an excel- Deconstructing Dignity lent book. It is well conceived and A Critique of the Right-to-Die Debate wonderfully executed. It not only Scott cutler SherShow intervenes in this particular debate on the right to die but takes up The right-to-die debate has gone on ments both supporting and denying important and long-standing con- for centuries, playing out most recently the right to die undermine their own cepts and problems in the history as a spectacle of protest surrounding unconditional concepts of human dig- of philosophy and culture; it dis- figures such as Terry Schiavo. InDecon - nity and the sanctity of life with a hid- structing Dignity, Scott Cutler Shershow den conditional logic, one often tied to mantles vapid truisms and opens offers a powerful new way of thinking practical economic concerns and the onto the possibility of a thought of about it philosophically. Focusing on scarcity or unequal distribution of med- life—and death—that is not always the concepts of human dignity and the ical resources. He goes on to examine already lost within life’s supposed sanctity of life, he employs Derridean the exceptional case of self-sacrifice, dignity and sanctity.” deconstruction to uncover self-contra- closing with a vision of a society—one —David e. Johnson, dictory and damaging assumptions that whose conditions we are far from meet- university at Buffalo, Suny underlie both sides of the debate. ing—in which the debate can finally Shershow examines texts from be resolved. A sophisticated analysis of DEcEmBEr 216 p., 1 halftone 6 x 9 Cicero’s De Officiis to Kant’s Ground- a heated topic, Deconstructing Dignity is ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08812-9 work of the Metaphysics of Morals to court also a masterful example of deconstruc- Cloth $37.50s/£26.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08826-6 decisions and religious declarations. tionist methods at work. PHILOSOPHY Through them he reveals how argu- Scott cutler Shershow is professor of English at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Puppets and “Popular” Culture and The Work and the Gift, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press, and is also coeditor of Marxist Shakespeares.

50 special interest RoBeRT B. PIPPIN After the Beautiful Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism

n his Berlin lectures on fine art, Hegel argued that art involves a unique form of aesthetic intelligibility—the expression of a dis- I tinct collective self-understanding that develops through historical time. Hegel’s approach to art has been influential in a number of different contexts, but in a twist of historical irony Hegel would die just before the most radical artistic revolution in history: modernism. In After the Beautiful, Robert B. Pippin, looking at modernist paintings by artists such as Édouard Manet and Paul Cézanne through Hegel’s lens, does what Hegel never had the chance to do. “There is a fair amount of philosophical While Hegel could never engage modernist painting, he did have literature about whether Hegel could an understanding of modernity, and in it art was “a thing of the past,” accommodate modern, post-1840s art no longer an important vehicle of self-understanding and no longer an within his philosophy, but that field usu- indispensable expression of human meaning. Pippin offers a sophisti- ally divides into the ‘Yes, he can,’ and ‘No, cated exploration of Hegel’s position and shows that, had Hegel known he cannot’ camps. Both camps generally how the social institutions of his day would ultimately fail to achieve argue on the basis of canonical Hegelian his own version of genuine equality—a mutuality of recognition—he texts, differing only on the implications would have had to explore a different role for art in modernity. After they draw from those texts. In After the laying this groundwork, Pippin goes on to illuminate the dimensions Beautiful, however, the historical Hegel of Hegel’s aesthetic approach via the works of Manet, drawing on art himself is drawn into criticism under historians T. J. Clark and Michael Fried, and concludes with a look at Robert B. Pippin’s contemporary interpre- Cézanne to explore the relationship between Hegel and the philoso- tation—called to alter his original account pher who would challenge Hegel’s account of both modernity and in certain key areas if he is to stay true to art—Martin Heidegger. his original program. This is a very ambi- Elegantly interweaving philosophy and art history, After the Beauti- tious way of doing philosophy, and Pippin ful is a stunning reassessment of the modernist project and what it pulls it off very well.” means in general for art to have a history. It is a testament, via Hegel, —Terry Pinkard, Georgetown University to the distinctive philosophical achievements of modernist art in the unsettled, tumultuous era we have inherited. NOvEmBER 184 p., 7 color plates, 36 halftones 6 x 9 Robert B. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07949-3 Cloth $30.00s in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philoso- /£21.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07952-3 phy, and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several PHILOSOPHY ART books, including Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy, also published by the University of Chicago Press, and, most recently, Fatalism in American Film Noir: Some Cinematic Philosophy.

special interest 51 “The Enduring Importance of Leo The Enduring Importance of Leo Strauss Strauss offers a major and provoca- laureNce lampert tive contribution to strauss scholarship, but this is not the most In The Enduring Importance of Leo Strauss, tant books and essays through this important thing it offers. laurence Laurence Lampert takes on the crucial exoteric lens, Lampert reevaluates not lampert makes a persuasive case task of separating what is truly impor- only Strauss but the philosophers— tant in the work of Leo Strauss from from Plato to Homer to Halevi to for the ‘new history of philosophy,’ the ephemeral politics associated with Nietzsche—with whom Strauss most which invites us to radically rethink his school. Lampert focuses on exo- deeply engaged. Ultimately he shows the whole ‘tradition.’ ” tericism—the use of artful rhetoric to that Strauss’s famous distinction be- —David Janssens, simultaneously communicate a socially tween ancient and modern thinkers is tilburg university responsible message to the public at primarily rhetorical, one of the great large and a more radical message of examples of Strauss’s own exoteric AuguSt 344 p. 6 x 9 philosophic truth to a smaller, more craft. Celebrating Strauss’s achieve- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03948-0 Cloth $55.00s/£38.50 intellectually fit audience. Largely for- ments but recognizing one main short- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03951-0 gotten after the Enlightenment, exo- coming—a lack of proper grounding in PHILOSOPHY tericism, he shows, deeply informed modern science, which Nietzsche would Strauss both as a reader and as a phi- remedy—Lampert illuminates Strauss losopher. as having even greater philosophic im- Examining Strauss’s most impor- portance than generally realized.

laurence lampert is professor emeritus of philosophy at Indiana University–Purdue Univer- sity Indianapolis. He is the author of several books, most recently How Philosophy Became Socratic, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

“The Romantic Absolute is an The Romantic Absolute excellent book. Dalia Nassar has a superb command of the very dif- Being and Knowing in Early German Romantic Philosophy, ficult materials she deals with and 1795 –1804 Dalia Nassar makes a strong case for the significance of ‘romantic philosophy’ The absolute was one of the most signifi- mantics’ concern with epistemology, by offering extensive readings of cant philosophical concepts in the early the other their concern with metaphys- Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg), nineteenth century, particularly for the ics. Through careful textual analysis Friedrich schlegel, and Friedrich German romantics. Its exact meaning and systematic reconstruction of the schelling. Not simply carving out a and its role within philosophical ro- work of three major romantics—Nova- manticism remain, however, a highly lis, Friedrich Schlegel, and Friedrich little niche but addressing the core contested topic among contemporary Schelling—Nassar shows that neither issue in Germany around 1800, she scholars. In The Romantic Absolute, Da- interpretation is fully satisfying. Rather, thinks along with these thinkers, lia Nassar offers an illuminating new she argues, one needs to approach the unfolding how they explore differ- assessment of the romantics and their absolute from both perspectives. Rescu- ent versions of the ‘absolute.’” understanding of the absolute. In doing these philosophers from frequent —John H. smith, ing so, she fills an important gap in the misunderstanding, and even dismissal, university of california, irvine history of philosophy, especially with she articulates not only a new angle on respect to the crucial period between the philosophical foundations of ro- DEcEmBEr 368 p. 6 x 9 Kant and Hegel. manticism but on the meaning and sig- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08406-0 Scholars today interpret philo- nificance of the notion of the absolute Cloth $50.00s/£35.00 sophical romanticism along two com- itself. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08423-7 PHILOSOPHY peting lines: one emphasizes the ro-

Dalia Nassar is assistant professor of philosophy at Villanova University and an Australian Research Council Fellow at the University of Sydney.

52 special interest Secular Powers “Julie e. Cooper has undertaken an Humility in Modern Political Thought impressive survey of the historical Julie e. Cooper and contemporary literatures to elucidate and explain the limita- Secularism is usually thought to con- thinkers of secularism tell a different tions posed by the mistaken pre- tain the project of self-deification, in story. Analyzing the writings of Hobbes, sumption that self-aggrandizement which humans attack God’s authority Spinoza, and Rousseau at the moment is a corollary of secularization. an in order to take his place. Julie E. Coo- of secularity’s inception, she shows that erudite and truly excellent study, per overturns this conception through all three understood that acknowledg- an incisive analysis of the early modern ing one’s limitations was a condition of Secular Powers is positioned to justifications for secular politics. While successful self-rule. And while all three make an extremely important she agrees that secularism is a means invited humans to collectively build and contribution to contemporary of empowerment, she argues that we sustain a political world, their invita- arguments about the fortunes and have misunderstood the sources of tions did not amount to self-deification. possibly the future of secularism in secular empowerment and the kinds of Cooper establishes that secular politics political life.” strength to which it aspires. as originally conceived does not require —Samantha l. Frost, a choice between power and vulnerabil- Contemporary understandings of university of illinois secularism, Cooper contends, have ity. Rather, it challenges us—today as at urbana-Champaign been shaped by a limited understanding then—to reconcile them both as essen- of it as a shift from vulnerability to pow- tial components of our humanity. DECEmBER 256 p. 6 x 9 er. But the works of the foundational ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08129-8 Cloth $40.00s/£28.00 Julie e. Cooper is assistant professor of political science at the University of Chicago. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08132-8 PHILOSOPHY POLITICAL SCIENCE

al-Ghaza¯lı¯’s Moderation in Belief “Given the significance of al-Ghaza¯lı¯ as one of the leading Muslim think- al-Ghaza¯li¯ ers in the Sunni world, it’s remark- Translated by Aladdin M. Yaqub able that this important text has Centuries after his death, al-Ghaza¯lı¯ logical thought. not yet been available in english- remains one of the most influential The first complete English edition language translation in one place. figures of the Islamic intellectual tra- of Moderation in Belief, this new anno- aladdin M. Yaqub provides such a dition. Although he is best known for tated translation by Aladdin M. Yaqub translation, splendidly reconciling his Incoherence of the Philosophers, Mod- draws on the most esteemed critical the arabic texts and augmenting eration in Belief is his most profound editions of the Arabic texts and offers work of philosophical theology. In it, detailed commentary that analyzes and them with accurate notes that offer he offers what scholars consider to be reconstructs the arguments found in a helpful guide. This is sure to be- the best defense of the Ash‘arite school the work’s four treatises. Explanations come the standard english edition.” of Islamic theology that gained accep- of the historical and intellectual back- —oliver leaman, tance within orthodox Sunni theology ground of the texts also enable readers university of Kentucky in the twelfth century, though he also with a limited knowledge of classical diverges from Ash‘arism with his more Arabic to fully explore al-Ghaza¯lı¯ and OCTOBER 336 p. 6 x 9 rationalist approach to the Qur’an. To- this foundational text for the first time. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06087-3 Cloth $50.00s gether with The Incoherence of the Philoso- /£35.00 With the recent resurgence of in- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06090-3 phers, Moderation in Belief informs many terest in Islamic philosophy and the PHILOSOPHY RELIGION subsequent theological debates, and its conflict between philosophy and reli- influence extends beyond the Islamic gion, this new translation will be a wel- tradition, informing broader questions come addition to the scholarship. within Western philosophical and theo-

aladdin M. Yaqub is associate professor of philosophy at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Liar Speaks the Truth and An Introduction to Logical Theory.

special interest 53 Praise for the French edition The Economy of Glory “Close to two centuries after his From Ancien Régime France to the Fall of Napoleon death, napoleon continues to fas- RobERt moRRissEy cinate many French people. Why? A Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan great historian of ideas, the American Robert morrissey offers a wonderful From the outset of Napoleon’s career, challenge the leader faced in reconcil- explanation in this elegant, scholarly, the charismatic Corsican was coming the antagonistic values of virtue pared to mythic heroes of antiquity like and self-interest, heroism and equality. and fascinating work.” Achilles, and even today he remains He reveals that the economy of glory —Le Figaro Littéraire the apotheosis of French glory, a value was both egalitarian, creating the pos- deeply embedded in the country’s his- sibility of an aristocracy based on merit “this little book profoundly renews tory. From this angle, the Napoleonic rather than wealth, and traditional, our understanding of the political era can be viewed as the final chapter being deeply embedded in the history culture of the times.” in the battle of the Ancients and Mod- of aristocratic chivalry and the monar- —Études erns. In this book, Robert Morrissey chy—making it the heart of Napoleon’s presents a literary and cultural history politics of fusion. Going beyond Napo- DECEMBER 248 p., 7 halftones 6 x 9 of glory and its development in France leon, Morrissey considers how figures ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92458-8 and explores the “economy of glory” of French romanticism such as Chateau- Cloth $45.00s/£31.50 Napoleon sought to implement in an briand, Balzac, and Hugo constantly E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92459-5 attempt to heal the divide between the reevaluated this legacy of glory and its HISTORY LITERARY CRITICISM Old Regime and the Revolution. consequences for modernity. Available Examining how Napoleon saw for the first time in English, The Econo- glory as a means of escaping the im- my of Glory is a sophisticated and beauti- passe of Revolutionary ideas of radical fully written addition to French history. egalitarianism, Morrissey illustrates the

Robert morrissey is the Benjamin Franklin Professor of French Literature in the Depart- ment of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago and executive director of the France Chicago Center. He lives in Chicago. teresa lavender Fagan is a freelance translator living in Chicago. She has translated numerous books for the University of Chicago Press.

“Dreamland of Humanists is a deeply Dreamland of Humanists researched, well-structured, and el- Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School egantly written work of history that Emily J. lEvinE brings to life the city of Hamburg, a place which, thanks to its unique Called by Heinrich Heine a city of In Dreamland of Humanists, Emily J. Hanseatic economic and political dull and culturally limited merchants Levine considers not just these men, but traditions, served as a welcome where poets only go to die, Hamburg the historical significance of the time home for the Warburg library and would seem an improbable setting for and place where their ideas first took the three German Jewish intellectu- a major new intellectual movement. Yet form. Shedding light on the origins of their work in the Renaissance and the als most closely associated with it was there, at a new university in an unintellectual banking city at the end Enlightenment, Levine clarifies the so- its name. Emily J. levine should be of World War I, that a trio of innova- cial, political, and economic pressures commended.” tive thinkers emerged. Together, Aby faced by German-Jewish scholars on —Peter E. Gordon, Warburg, Ernst Cassirer, and Erwin the periphery of Germany’s intellec- author of Continental Divide: Panofsky developed new avenues of tual world. And by examining the role Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos thought in cultural theory, art history, that this context plays in our analysis of their ideas, Levine confirms that great NOvEMBER 400 p., 12 halftones 6 x 9 and philosophy, changing the course ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06168-9 of cultural and intellectual history not ideas—like great intellectuals—must Cloth $45.00s/£31.50 just in Weimar Germany, but through- come from somewhere. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06171-9 out the world. EUROPEAN HISTORY Emily J. levine is assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Greens- boro. Born in New York City, she lives in Durham, NC.

54 special interest The Rhetoric of Pregnancy “The Rhetoric of Pregnancy connects and extends important scholarly Marika Seigel With a Foreword by Jane Pincus conversations while advancing the ethical development of technical It is a truth widely acknowledged that care. She traces the manuals’ evolution documentation and the practices if you’re pregnant and can afford one, from early twentieth-century tomes that (health care and otherwise) this you’re going to pick up a pregnancy instructed readers to unquestioningly documentation shapes. Practi- manual. From What to Expect When turn their pregnancy management tioners, advocates, and pregnant You’re Expecting to Pregnancy for Dummies, over to doctors, to those of the wom- these guides act as portable mentors en’s health movement that encouraged women themselves will find this for women who want advice on how to readers to engage more critically with book accessible and instructive.” navigate each stage of pregnancy. Yet their care, to modern online sources —J. Blake Scott, few women consider the effect of these that sometimes serve commercial inter- author of Risky Rhetoric: AIDS and the Cultural Practices of HIV Testing manuals—how they propel their read- ests as much as the mother’s. ers into a particular system of care or The first book-length study of its DEcEMBER 192 p., 9 halftones, whether the manual they choose reflects kind, The Rhetoric of Pregnancy is a must- 17 line drawings 6 x 9 or contradicts current medical thinking. read for both users and designers of our ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07191-6 Using a sophisticated rhetorical prenatal systems—doctors and doulas, Cloth $35.00s/£24.50 analysis, Marika Seigel works to decon- scholars and activists, and anyone inter- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07207-4 struct pregnancy manuals while also ested in encouraging active, effective WOMEN’S STUDIES identifying ways to improve commu- engagement. nication about pregnancy and health

Marika Seigel is associate professor of rhetoric and technical communication at Michigan Technical University. She lives in Houghton, MI.

Fire under the Ashes “John Donoghue’s book is power- An Atlantic History of the English Revolution fully and beautifully written. he is John Donoghue a gifted writer with an impressive ability to recreate the poignancy Located in the crowded center of sev- radicals redefined themselves against and drama of the atlantic world of enteenth-century London, the rough the emergent economy of empire. the seventeenth century, and Fire community of Coleman Street Ward While some prominent revolutionar- under the Ashes is the best depic- was a hotbed of political and religious ies led England’s imperial expansion tion that i have read of the multiple unrest. There among diverse and con- by investing deeply in the slave trade tentious groups of puritans a seething and projects of colonial conquest, other strands of republicanism that de- republican underground developed as Coleman Street puritans crossed and veloped, emerged, and circulated in the political means to a more perfect recrossed the ocean as colonists and the 1630s.” Protestant Reformation. But while Cole- revolutionaries, circulating new ideas —alison games, man Street has long been recognized as about the liberty of body and soul. author of The Web of Empire: a crucial location of the English Revolu- These radicals promoted social justice English Cosmopolitans in an Age of Expansion, 1560–1660 tion, its importance to events across the as the cornerstone of a republican lib- Atlantic has yet to be explored. erty opposed to both political tyranny NOvEMBER 400 p., 9 halftones 6 x 9 In Fire under the Ashes, John Dono- and economic slavery, and their efforts, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-15765-8 ghue recovers the lasting significance Donoghue argues, provided the ideo- Cloth $45.00s/£31.50 of the radical ideas of Coleman Street logical foundations for the abolitionist E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07286-9 Ward by exploring their wider Atlantic movement that swept the Atlantic world HISTORY history and revealing how republican over a century later.

John Donoghue is associate professor at Loyola University Chicago, where he specializes in the history of the early modern Atlantic world. He lives in Chicago.

special interest 55 “in this fascinating and timely Until Choice Do Us Part study, Clare Virginia eby shines in Marriage Reform in the Progressive Era her ability to bring us closer to the Clare Virginia eBy emotional and cultural aspects of the Progressive era, and her argu- For centuries, people have been think- lis and anthropologist Elsie Clews Par- ment for marriage as a laboratory ing and writing—and fiercely debat- sons—who argued that spouses should is extremely compelling. Until ing—about the meaning of marriage. be “class equals” joined by private affec- Choice Do Us Part will make a ter- Today, politicians speak often of “de- tion, not public sanction—Eby guides rific addition to seminars on women fending” or “protecting” this institu- us through the stories of three liter- tion, but just a hundred years ago, ary couples—Upton and Meta Fuller and gender history, family history, Progressive-era reformers embraced Sinclair, Theodore and Sara White and the history of sexuality—not to marriage not as a time-honored reposi- Dreiser, and Neith Boyce and Hutchins mention a number of other disci- tory for conservative values, but as a Hapgood—who sought to reform mar- plines.” tool for social change. riage in their lives and in their writings, —Jennifer Fronc, In Until Choice Do Us Part, Clare Vir- with mixed results. With this focus on author of New York Undercover ginia Eby offers a new account of mar- the intimate side of married life, Eby riage as it appeared in fiction, journal- gives readers a view into a historical mo- DECEMBER 256 p., 12 halftones 6 x 9 ism, legal decisions, scholarly work, and ment that changed the nature of Amer- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08566-1 private correspondence at the start of ican marriage—and which continues to Cloth $80.00x/£56.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08583-8 the twentieth century. Beginning with shape marital norms today. Paper $27.50s/£19.50 reformers like sexologist Havelock El- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08597-5 AMERICAN HISTORY Clare Virginia eby is professor of English at the University of Connecticut. She is the author WOMEN’S STUDIES of Dreiser and Veblen, Saboteurs of the Status Quo and an editor of The Cambridge History of the American Novel.

“Teresa Barnett is interested in Sacred Relics the survival of public things and Pieces of the Past in Nineteenth-Century America personal and what they meant to Teresa BarneTT people. Drawing selectively but constructively upon the evidence, A piece of Plymouth Rock. A lock of plores the history of private collections episodes, and theories, Sacred George Washington’s hair. Wood from of items like these, illuminating how Relics is a very sophisticated and the cabin where Abraham Lincoln Americans view the past. She traces the polished piece of work, offering the was born. Various bits and pieces of relic-collecting tradition back to eigh- the past—often called “association teenth-century England, then on to ar- reader a clear sense of change over items”—may appear to be eccentric ticles belonging to the founding fathers time in the realm of reliquaries and odds and ends, but they are valued be- and through the mass collecting of ar- their keepers. There is no single cause of their connections to prominent tifacts that followed the Civil War. Ulti- work like it in Us historiography. people and events in American history. mately, Barnett shows how we can trace it will be a must-read in the fields Kept in museum collections large and our own historical collecting from the of cultural, intellectual, and social small across the United States, such ob- nineteenth century’s assemblages of jects are the touchstones of our popular the material possessions of great men history.” engagement with history. and women. —Michael Kammen, Cornell University In Sacred Relics, Teresa Barnett ex-

Teresa Barnett is director of the UCLA Center for Oral History Research, where she has SEpTEMBER 272 p. 6 x 9 worked for twenty years. She lives in Los Angeles. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05960-0 Cloth $40.00s/£28.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05974-7 HISTORY

56 special interest Protocols of Liberty “William B. Warner’s profoundly learned and well-timed Protocols Communication Innovation and the American Revolution of Liberty provides readers with a WilliaM B. Warner distant mirror for our own moment, returning us to the conditions of The fledgling United States fought a the shift in power by tracing the in- war to achieve independence from Brit- vention of a new political agency, the communication that determined ain, but as John Adams said, the real Committee of Correspondence; the de- the course of ‘Whig’ politics in revolution occurred “in the minds and velopment of a new genre for political the 1760s and 1770s and made the hearts of the people” before the armed expression, the popular declaration; american revolution possible.” conflict ever began. Putting the prac- and the emergence of networks for col- —eric slauter, tices of communication at the center of lective political action, with the Conti- University of Chicago this intellectual revolution, Protocols of nental Congress at its center. From the Liberty shows how American patriots— establishment of town meetings to the SEpTEMBER 320 p., 13 halftones, the Whigs—used new forms of commu- creation of a new postal system and, 14 line drawings 6 x 9 nication to challenge British authority finally, the Declaration of Indepen- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06137-5 Cloth $45.00s/£31.50 before any shots were fired at Lexing- dence, Protocols of Liberty reveals that E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06140-5 ton and Concord. communication innovations contrib- AMERICAN HISTORY To understand the triumph of the uted decisively to nation-building and LITERARY CRITICISM Whigs over the Brit-friendly Tories, Wil- continued to be key tools in later Amer- liam B. Warner argues that it is essen- ican political movements, like abolition tial to understand the communication and women’s suffrage, to oppose local systems that shaped pre-Revolution custom and state law. events in the background. He explains

William B. Warner is professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of three books, most recently, Chance and the Text of Experience: Freud, Nietzsche, and Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’. American Capitals A Historical Geography . Built . Built Christian Montès

State capitals are an indelible part of them through a single lens, in large the American psyche, spatial repre- part because of the differences in their

sentations of state power and national spatial and historical evolutionary pat- pitol: p rovidence, ri identity. Learning them by heart is a terns. Some have remained small, while rite of passage in grade school, a peda- others have evolved into bustling me- 2010 ontes, gogical exercise that emphasizes the tropolises, and Montès explores the dy- ssicist” cA

importance of committing place-names namics of change and growth. All but An clA to memory. But geographers have yet eleven state capitals were established to analyze state capitals in any depth. in the nineteenth century, thirty-five 1895–1904. photo: m c. In American Capitals, Christian Montès before 1861, but, rather astonishingly, “Americ An takes us on a well-researched journey only eight of the fifty states have main- University of Chicago Geography across America—from Augusta to Sac- tained their original capitals. Despite Research Papers ramento, Albany to Baton Rouge— their revered status as the most monu- shedding light along the way on the his- mental and historical cities in America, DECEMBER 392 p., 21 halftones, 6 line drawings, 42 tables 6 x 9 torical circumstances that led to their capitals come from surprisingly humble ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08048-2 appointment, their success or failure, beginnings, often plagued by instabil- Cloth $65.00s/£45.50 and their evolution over time. ity, conflict, hostility, and corruption. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08051-2 While all state capitals have a num- Montès reminds us of the period in gEOgRApHY AMERICAN HISTORY ber of characteristics in common—as which they came about, “an era of pio- symbols of the state, as embodiments neer and idealized territorial vision,” of political power and decision mak- coupled with a still-evolving American ing, as public spaces with private in- citizenry and democracy. terests—Montès does not interpret

Christian Montès is professor of geography at the Université Lumière Lyon 2. special interest 57 “this is an important book, one How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind that should be read not just by The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality historians of science but by anyone Paul Erickson, Judy l. klEin, lorrainE daston, rEbEcca lEmov, interested in the unique intellectual thomas sturm, and michaEl d. Gordin culture of cold War america.” —hunter heyck, In the United States at the height of the including the RAND Corporation, university of oklahoma Cold War, roughly between the end of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Cowles Com- OCTOBER 272 p., 19 halftones, World War II and the early 1980s, a new 17 line drawings 6 x 9 project of redefining rationality commission for Research and Economics, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04663-1 manded the attention of sharp minds, and the Council on Foreign Relations, Cloth $35.00s /£24.50 powerful politicians, wealthy founda- that played a key role in putting forth E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04677-8 tions, and top military brass. Its home a “Cold War rationality.” Decision mak- AMERICAN HISTORY SCIENCE was the human sciences—psychology, ers harnessed this picture of rational- sociology, political science, and econom- ity—optimizing, formal, algorithmic, ics, among others—and its participants and mechanical—in their quest to enlisted in an intellectual campaign to understand phenomena as diverse as figure out what rationality should mean economic transactions, biological evo- and how it could be deployed. lution, political elections, international How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind relations, and military strategy. The brings to life the people—Herbert Si- authors chronicle and illuminate what mon, Oskar Morgenstern, Herman it meant to be rational in the age of Kahn, Anatol Rapoport, Thomas nuclear brinkmanship. Schelling, and many others—and places,

Paul Erickson is assistant professor of history and science in society at Wesleyan University. Judy l. klein is professor of economics at Mary Baldwin College. lorraine daston is director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and visiting professor in the Commit- tee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. rebecca lemov is associate professor of the history of science at Harvard University. thomas sturm is a Ramón y Cajal Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. michael d. Gordin is professor of the history of science at Princeton University. Bitter Roots The Search for Healing Plants in Africa abEna dovE ossEo-asarE

For over a century, plant specialists Cryptolepis, and Hoodia. Through the worldwide have sought to transform stories of each plant, she shows that healing plants from African countries herbal medicine and pharmaceuti- into pharmaceuticals. And for equally cal chemistry have simultaneous and as long, conflicts over these medicinal overlapping histories that cross geo- plants have endured. In Bitter Roots, graphic boundaries. At the same time, Abena Dove Osseo-Asare draws on Osseo-Asare sheds new light on how publicly available records and extensive various interests have tried to manage interviews with scientists and healers in the rights to these healing plants and Ghana, Madagascar, and South Africa probes the challenges associated with in 1932 PhotograPh of a bottle of Squibb StroPhanthin tincture filled to interpret how African scientists and assigning ownership to plants and their healers, rural communities, and drug biochemical components. DECEMBER 288 p., 37 halftones, companies—including Pfizer, Bristol- 1 line drawing, 1 table 6 x 9 A fascinating examination of the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08552-4 Myers Squibb, and Unilever—have history of medicine in colonial and post- Cloth $105.00x/£73.50 sought since the 1880s to develop drugs colonial Africa, Bitter Roots will be indis- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08602-6 from Africa’s medicinal plants. pensable for scholars of Africa; historians Paper $35.00s/£24.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08616-3 Osseo-Asare recalls the efforts to interested in medicine, biochemistry, and SCIENCE HISTORY transform six plants into pharmaceu- society; and policy makers concerned ticals: rosy periwinkle, Asiatic penny- with drug access and patent rights. wort, grains of paradise, Strophanthus,

abena dove osseo-asare is assistant professor of history at the University of California, 58 special interest Berkeley. The Birth of Territory “this is a brilliant intellectual exegesis of the concept of terri- stuart EldEn tory that will be of wide interest Territory is one of the central political tailed account of the emergence of ter- in a range of academic fields, from concepts of the modern world and, in- ritory within Western political thought. international relations to historical deed, functions as the primary way the Looking at ancient, medieval, Renais- sociology and the history of politi- world is divided and controlled politi- sance, and early modern thought, Stu- cal thought.” cally. Yet territory has not received the art Elden examines the evolution of —John agnew, critical attention afforded to other cru- the concept of territory from ancient university of California, cial concepts such as sovereignty, rights, Greece to the seventeenth century to los angeles and justice. While territory continues determine how we arrived at our con- to matter politically, and territorial dis- temporary understanding. Elden ad- SEPTEmBER 488 p., 9 halftones, putes and arrangements are studied in dresses a range of historical, political, 6 line drawings 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-20256-3 detail, the concept of territory itself is and literary texts and practices, as well Cloth $90.00x/£63.00 often neglected today. Where did the as a number of key players—historians, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-20257-0 idea of exclusive ownership of a portion poets, philosophers, theologians, and Paper $30.00s/£21.00 of the earth’s surface come from, and secular political theorists—and in do- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04128-5 what kinds of complexities are hidden ing so sheds new light on the way the HISTORY GEOGRAPHY behind that seemingly straightforward world came to be ordered and how the definition? earth’s surface is divided, controlled, The Birth of Territory provides a de- and administered.

stuart Elden is professor of political geography at Durham University, UK, and social sciences director of Durham’s Institute of Advanced Study. He is the author of four books, including, most recently, Terror and Territory: The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty.

The Politics of Dialogic Imagination “The Politics of Dialogic Imagination is an extraordinarily sophisticated Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan and brilliant look at the political Katsuya Hirano effects of an emergent popular culture. the larger significance of In The Politics of Dialogic Imagination, within Edo’s cultural works that was Katsuya Hirano seeks to understand extremely potent in exposing contra- Katsuya Hirano’s ‘local’ study is why, with its seemingly unrivaled pow- dictions between the formal structure the way it demonstrates the actual er, the Tokugawa shogunate of early of the Tokugawa world and its rapidly politicality of cultural production modern Japan tried so hard to regulate changing realities. He goes on to look in its aptitude for generating new the ostensibly unimportant popular at the effects of this logic, examining forms of representation on a scale culture of Edo (present-day Tokyo)— policies enacted during the next era— infinitely more numerous than including fashion, leisure activities, the Meiji period—that mark a drastic prints, and theater. He does so by ex- reconfiguration of power and a new politics itself.” amining the works of writers and art- politics toward ordinary people under —Harry Harootunian, Weatherhead East asian institute, ists who depicted and celebrated the modernizing Japan. Deftly navigating Columbia university culture of play and pleasure associated Japan’s history and culture, The Politics with Edo’s street entertainers, vagrants, of Dialogic Imagination provides a sophis- Chicago Studies in Practices of actors, and prostitutes, whom Tokuga- ticated account of a country in the pro- Meaning wa authorities condemned as detrimen- cess of radical transformation—and of tal to public mores, social order, and the intensely creative culture that came NOvEmBER 304 p., 30 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06042-2 political economy. out of it. Cloth $75.00x/£52.50 Hirano uncovers a logic of politics ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06056-9 Paper $25.00s/£17.50 Katsuya Hirano is associate professor of history at Cornell University. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06073-6 HISTORY ASIAN STUDIES

special interest 59 “What Mastering the Niger achieves Mastering the Niger is hugely impressive as a contribu- James MacQueen’s African Geography and the Struggle tion to the history of geographical over Atlantic Slavery thought, the history of slavery and dAvid LAMbert abolitionism, and Atlantic history.” —robert Mayhew, In Mastering the Niger, David Lambert Lambert illustrates how Mac- University of bristol recalls Scotsman James MacQueen Queen’s geographical research began, (1778–1870) and his publication of A four decades before the publication of NOvEmBER 320 p., 28 halftones 6 x 9 New Map of Africa in 1841 to show that the New Map, when he was managing a ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07806-9 Cloth $50.00s/£35.00 Atlantic slavery—as a practice of subju- sugar estate on the West Indian colony E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07823-6 gation, a source of wealth, and a focus of Grenada. There MacQueen encoun- HISTORY CARTOGRAPHY of political struggle—was entangled tered slaves with firsthand knowledge with the production, circulation, and of West Africa, whose accounts would reception of geographical knowledge. form the basis of his geographical Without ever setting foot on the con- claims. Lambert examines the inspira- tinent, MacQueen took on the task of tions and foundations for MacQueen’s solving the “Niger problem,” that is, to geographical theory as well as its recep- successfully map the course of the river tion, arguing that Atlantic slavery and and its tributaries, and thus breathe life ideas for alternatives to it helped pro- into his scheme for the exploration, col- duce geographical knowledge, while onization, and commercial exploitation geographical discourse informed the of West Africa. struggle over slavery.

david Lambert is a reader of Caribbean history in the Department of History at the Univer- sity of Warwick, UK, and director of the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies. He is the author of White Creole Culture, Politics and Identity during the Age of Abolition and coeditor of Colonial Lives Across the British Empire. He lives in Reading, UK. “there are few people with such deep knowledge of the early career of sigmund Freud as Andreas Mayer, and probably no Freud Sites of the Unconscious scholar with his grasp of the his- Hypnosis and the Emergence of the Psychoanalytic Setting tory of science and medicine in late AndreAs MAyer nineteenth-century France, Austria, Translated by Christopher Barber and Germany. Here Mayer couples In the late nineteenth century, scien- Bernheim, stressing their divergent great erudition with methodologi- tists, psychiatrists, and medical prac- views on the relation between clinical cal innovations drawn from recent titioners began employing a new ex- practice and knowledge and their dif- science studies to skillfully reex- perimental technique for the study of ferent ways of deploying hypnosis. May- amine the key sites and experimen- neuroses: hypnotism. Though their ef- er then reconstructs the reception of tal cultures of hysteria, hypnosis, forts to transform hypnosis into a labo- French hypnotism in German-speaking and early psychoanalysis. Sites of ratory science failed, soon thereafter countries, arguing that Freud’s aban- Sigmund Freud took up the heritage of donment of hypnosis and subsequent the Unconscious is a tour de force hypnotism when establishing psycho- development of the psychoanalytic set- that marks an important advance in analysis. In Sites of the Unconscious, An- ting was less a flash of singular genius our understanding of the origins of dreas Mayer examines the relationship than a fitting response to the issues psychoanalysis.” between hypnosis and psychoanalysis, raised by the French controversies. —robert M. brain, showing how the theories and experi- In addition, Mayer addresses the University of british Columbia mental techniques of hypnosis paved distinctive features of Freud’s psycho- the way for the familiar psychoanalytic analytic setting, revealing how Freud’s SEPTEmBER 272 p., 14 halftones, setting established by Freud. couch emerged out of the clinical labo- 4 line drawings 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05795-8 Mayer analyzes Jean-Martin Char- ratories and private consulting rooms Cloth $45.00s/£31.50 cot’s research program in Paris and the of the practitioners of hypnosis. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05800-9 so-called Nancy school led by Hippolyte HISTORY PSYCHOLOGY Andreas Mayer is a research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He is coauthor of Dreaming By the Book. Christopher barber’s recent translations include Freud Verbatim and The Secession Talks. 60 special interest Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect “Luke Glanville provides a power- A New History ful corrective to the literature that Luke GLAnviLLe sees sovereignty—and particularly the right of nonintervention—as a In 2011, the United Nations Security sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, static norm in international poli- Council adopted Resolution 1973, au- and that states have since been account- tics, showing that there has always thorizing its member states to take mea- able to God, the people, and the inter- been an inherent tension between sures to protect Libyan civilians from national community. Over time, the rights and responsibilities and that Muammar Gadhafi’s forces. In invoking right to national self-governance came the ‘traditional’ meaning of sover- the “responsibility to protect,” the reso- to take priority over the protection of lution draws on the principle that sover- individual liberties, but the noninter- eignty became predominant only eign states are responsible and account- ventionist understanding of sovereignty at the end of world war ii. well- able to the international community for was only firmly established in the twen- written and deeply rooted in the the protection of their populations and tieth century, and it remained for only relevant literature, Sovereignty and specifies that the international com- a few decades before it was challenged the Responsibility to Protect makes munity can act to protect populations by renewed claims that sovereigns are a valuable contribution to scholar- when national authorities fail to do so. responsible for protection. The idea that sovereignty includes the Glanville traces the relationship ship in international relations.” responsibility to protect is often seen as between sovereignty and responsibil- —stacie Goddard, wellesley College a departure from the classic definition, ity from the early modern period to but it actually has deep historical roots. the present day, and offers a new his- DECEmBER 304 p. 6 x 9 In Sovereignty and the Responsibility tory with profound implications for the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07689-8 to Protect, Luke Glanville argues that present. Cloth $95.00x/£66.50 this responsibility extends back to the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07692-8 Paper $32.50s/£23.00 Luke Glanville is a fellow in the Department of International Relations at the Australian E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07708-6 National University. He lives in Canberra, Australia, and is coeditor of several books, in- POLITICAL SCIENCE HISTORY cluding Protecting the Displaced and The Responsibility to Protect and International Law.

Mixed Emotions “This is a big, bold book on an Beyond Fear and Hatred in International Conflict important subject. Andrew A. G. ross makes sweeping claims about Andrew A. G. ross emotion as a social process and In recent years, it has become increas- answer. The politically powerful play to illustrates his argument through ingly clear that emotion plays a central the public’s emotions to advance their three fascinating case studies. The role in global politics. For example, political aims, and such appeals to emo- big picture he presents is compel- people readily care about acts of ter- tion often serve to sustain existing val- ling, and it raises questions about rorism and humanitarian crises be- ues and institutions. But the affective how we currently understand cause they appeal to our compassion dimension can also produce profound global politics.” for human suffering. These struggles change, particularly when a struggle also command attention where social in the present can be shown to line up —Janice Gross stein, university of Toronto interactions have the power to produce with emotionally resonant events from or intensify the emotional responses of the past. Extending his findings to well- DECEmBER 240 p. 6 x 9 those who participate in them. studied conflicts, including the “war on ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07739-0 From passionate protests to poi- terror” and the violence in Rwanda and Cloth $85.00x/£59.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07742-0 gnant speeches, Andrew A. G. Ross the Balkans, Ross identifies important Paper $27.50s/£19.50 analyzes high-emotion events with an sites of emotional impact missed by ear- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07756-7 eye to how they shape public percep- lier research focused on identities and POLITICAL SCIENCE PSYCHOLOGY tion and finds that there is no single institutional interests.

Andrew A. G. ross is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and affiliated faculty with the Center for Law, Justice, and Culture at Ohio University. He lives in Baltimore, MD, and Athens, OH.

special interest 61 “Power in Concert offers a sophis- Power in Concert ticated theoretical argument The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Global Governance about the origins of international Jennifer Mitzen cooperation and speaks to some of the liveliest and most important How states cooperate in the absence five European states in the wake of the debates in the field—debates about of a sovereign power is a perennial Napoleonic wars to reduce the possibili- sources of international coopera- question in international relations. ty of recurrence. The Concert first insti- tion and changing state interests With Power in Concert, Jennifer Mitzen tutionalized the practice of jointly man- argues that global governance is more aging the balance of power, through its and strategies. Jennifer Mitzen than just the cooperation of states un- many successes, and Mitzen shows that has written an important book that der anarchy: it is the formation and the words and actions of state leaders will have far-reaching implications maintenance of collective intentions, or in public forums contributed to collec- in international relations and the joint commitments among states to ad- tive self-restraint and a shared commit- study of global governance.” dress problems together. The key mech- ment to problem solving—and at a time —Martha finnemore, anism through which these intentions when communication was considerably George Washington University are sustained is face-to-face diplomacy, more difficult than it is today. Despite which keeps states’ obligations to one the Concert’s eventual breakdown, the SEPTEmBER 272 p., 1 line drawing another salient and helps them solve practice it introduced—of face-to-face 6 x 9 problems on a day-to-day basis. diplomacy as a mode of joint problem ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06008-8 Cloth $90.00x/£63.00 Mitzen argues that the origins of solving—survived and is the basis of ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06011-8 this practice lie in the Concert of Eu- global governance today. Paper $32.50s /£23.00 rope, an informal agreement among E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06025-5 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jennifer Mitzen is associate professor of political science at Ohio State University. She lives in Columbus, OH.

“A rich account of constitutional Negotiating in Civil Conflict politics in iraq informed by the author’s firsthand knowledge of the Constitutional Construction and Imperfect Bargaining in Iraq major events. in contrast with the HAider AlA HAMoUdi view that emphasizes the United

States as the dominant actor in In 2005, Iraq drafted its first constitu- gues here that the terms of the Iraqi shaping and implementing the iraqi tion and held the country’s first demo- Constitution are sufficiently capacious Constitution, Haider Ala Hamoudi cratic election in more than fifty years. to be interpreted in a variety of ways, gives emphasis to local agency, Even under ideal conditions, drafting allowing it to appeal to the country’s arguing persuasively that the a constitution can be a prolonged pro- three main sects despite their deep dis- cess marked by contentious debate, and agreements. While some say that this Constitution was adapted to meet conditions in Iraq are far from ideal: ambiguity avoids the challenging com- local needs.” the country has long been racked by promises that ultimately must be made —tom Ginsburg, ethnic and sectarian conflict, which if the state is to survive, Hamoudi main- University of Chicago intensified following the American in- tains that to force these compromises vasion and continues today. This severe on issues of central importance to eth- NOVEmBER 280 p. 6 x 9 division, which often erupted into vio- nic and sectarian identity would almost ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31534-8 Cloth $95.00x/£66.50 lence, would not seem to bode well for certainly result in the imposition of one ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06882-4 the fate of democracy. So how is it that group’s views on the others. Drawing Paper $35.00s/£24.50 Iraq was able to surmount its sectarian- on the original negotiating documents, E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06879-4 ism to draft a constitution that speaks he shows that this feature of the Con- CURRENT EVENTS POLITICAL SCIENCE to the conflicting and largely incom- stitution was not an act of evasion, as patible ideological view of the Sunnis, is sometimes thought, but a mark of its Shi’ah, and Kurds? drafters’ awareness in recognizing the Haider Ala Hamoudi served in need to permit the groups the time nec- 2009 as an adviser to Iraq’s Constitu- essary to develop their own methods of tional Review Committee, and he ar- working with one another over time.

Haider Ala Hamoudi is associate professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He is the author of the memoir Howling in Mesopotamia and lives in Pittsburgh. 62 special interest Transition Scenarios “While there is no shortage of books China and the United States in the Twenty-First Century concerned with us-China relations and the potential for conflict with DAviD P. rAPkin and WilliAm r. ThomPson China’s rise, Transition Scenarios is China’s rising status in the global econ- possible scenarios for future relations the first to systematically employ a omy alongside recent economic stagna- between China and the United States. scenario-building or ‘forward rea- tion in Europe and the United States Each scenario is embedded within a soning’ methodology—and it does has led to considerable speculation that particular theoretical framework, invit- so carefully and to great effect, we are in the early stages of a transition ing readers to consider the assumptions advancing a growing literature in in power relations. Commentators have underlying it. Despite recent interest in tended to treat this transitional period the topic, the probability and timing of the field of international relations.” as a novelty, but history is in fact replete a power transition—and the processes —steve Chan, university of Colorado with such systemic transitions—some- that might bring it about—remain woe- times with perilous results. Can we pre- fully unclear. Rapkin and Thompson’s SEPTEMBEr 288 p., 4 line drawings, dict the future by using the past? And, application of the theoretical tools of 21 tables 6 x 9 if so, what might history teach us? international relations to crucial transi- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04033-2 With Transition Scenarios, David tions in history helps clarify the current Cloth $99.00x/£69.50 P. Rapkin and William R. Thompson situation and also sheds light on pos- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04047-9 Paper $35.00s/£24.50 sible future scenarios. identify some predictors for power E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04050-9 transitions and take readers through POLITICAL SCIENCE David P. rapkin is associate professor emeritus of political science at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. William r. Thompson is Distinguished Professor and the Donald A. Rog- ers Professor of Political Science at Indiana University. He lives in Bloomington, IN, and is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including The Arc of War, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Global Rivalries “With Global Rivalries, Amy A. Standards Wars and the Transnational Cotton Trade Quark offers a fascinating account of the evolution of standards Amy A. QuArk setting in the international cotton

As the economies of China, India, and ity that has become a potent symbol of trade, bringing this seemingly other Asian nations continue to grow, both the crisis of Western rule-making technocratic but intensely political these countries are seeking greater con- power and the potential for powerful process to life without sacrificing trol over the rules that govern interna- new rivals to supplant it. Quark traces the careful and erudite scholarship. tional trade. Setting the rules carries strategies for influencing rule-making more importantly, she shows con- with it the power to establish advantage, processes employed not only by national vincingly that these issues matter so it’s no surprise that everyone wants a governments but also by transnational seat at the table—or that negotiations over corporations, fiber scientists, and trade greatly in an increasingly global rules often result in stalemates at meetings associations from around the globe. marketplace.” of the World Trade Organization. Quark analyzes the efficacy of their ap- —susan k. sell, Nowhere is the conflict over rule proaches and the implications for more George Washington university setting more evident than in the sim- marginal actors in the cotton trade, including producers in West Africa. AuguST 312 p., 19 line drawings, mering “standards wars” over the rules 12 tables 6 x 9 that define quality and enable the ad- By placing the current contest ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05053-9 Cloth $95.00x/£66.50 judication of disputes. In Global Rival- within the historical development of ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05067-6 ries, Amy A. Quark explores the ques- the global capitalist system, Global Ri- Paper $35.00s/£24.50 tions of how rules are made, who makes valries highlights a fascinating interac- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05070-6 them, and how they are enforced, using tion of politics and economics. POLITICAL SCIENCE ECONOMICS the lens of cotton—a simple commod-

Amy A. Quark is assistant professor of sociology at the College of William and Mary.

special interest 63 “kevin arceneaux and Martin John- Changing Minds or Changing Channels? son debunk conventional wisdom concerning the divisive effects of Partisan News in an Age of Choice cable programming by showing kevin arceneaux and Martin Johnson that the availability of consumer We live in an age of media saturation, their exposure to partisan program- choice dampens the effects of ex- where with a few clicks of the remote— ming of their choice does not signifi- posure to partisan news sources on or mouse—we can tune in to program- cantly change their initial position. In a variety of beliefs and attitudes. ming where the facts fit our ideological fact, the opposite is true: viewers be- Changing Minds or Changing Chan- predispositions. But what are the politi- come more polarized when forced to watch programming that opposes their nels? will have a significant impact cal consequences of this vast landscape of media choice? Partisan news has beliefs. A much more troubling conse- on research in american politics been roundly castigated for reinforcing quence of the ever-expanding media and political communication for prior beliefs and contributing to the environment, the authors show, is that years to come.” highly polarized political environment it has allowed people to tune out the —shanto iyengar, we have today, but there is little evi- news: the four top-rated partisan news stanford university dence to support this claim, and much programs draw a mere three percent of of what we know about the impact of the total number of people watching Chicago Studies in American Politics news media come from studies that television. were conducted at a time when viewers Overturning much of the con- SEPTEmBEr 244 p., 38 figures, 31 tables 6 x 9 chose from among six channels rather ventional wisdom, Changing Minds or ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04727-0 than scores. Changing Channels? demonstrates that Cloth $75.00x/£52.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04730-0 Through a series of innovative ex- the strong effects of media exposure Paper $25.00s/£17.50 periments, Kevin Arceneaux and Mar- found in past research are simply not E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04744-7 tin Johnson show that such criticism applicable in today’s more saturated POLITICAL SCIENCE is unfounded. Americans who watch media landscape. cable news are already polarized, and

“with How Partisan Media Polar- kevin arceneaux is associate professor of political science and an affiliate of the Institute for Public Affairs at Temple University. Martin Johnson is associate professor in the Depart- ize America, Matthew Levendusky ment of Political Science and directs the Media and Communication Research Lab at the argues persuasively that partisan University of California, Riverside. media matter to political attitudes and behavior—and that their How Partisan Media Polarize America influence extends far beyond the Matthew Levendusky relatively few people who actually watch such programs. this is an Forty years ago, viewers who wanted to these claims. Drawing on experiments important contribution to a topic watch the news could only choose from and survey data, he shows that Ameri- among the major broadcast networks, cans who watch partisan programming that is critical to understanding all of which presented the same news do become more certain of their beliefs the present and future of political without any particular point of view. and less willing to weigh the merits communication in america, and Today we have a much broader array of of opposing views or to compromise. Levendusky brings together rigor- choices, including cable channels offer- And while only a small segment of the ous research with lively prose and ing a partisan take. With partisan pro- American population watches partisan compelling anecdotes.” grams gaining in popularity, some ar- media programs, those who do tend to —Matthew Baum, gue that they are polarizing American be more politically engaged, and their harvard university politics, while others counter that only effects on national politics are there- a tiny portion of the population watch- fore far-reaching. Chicago Studies in American Politics es such programs and that their viewers In a time when politics seem tend to already hold similar beliefs. doomed to partisan discord, How Par- SEPTEmBEr 208 p., 18 line drawings, 18 tables 6 x 9 In How Partisan Media Polarize tisan Media Polarize America offers a ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06896-1 America, Matthew Levendusky con- much-needed clarification of the role Cloth $75.00x/£52.50 firms—but also qualifies—both of partisan media might play. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06901-2 Paper $22.50s/£16.00 Matthew Levendusky is assistant professor of political science at the University of Pennsyl- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06915-9 vania and the author of The Partisan Sort: How Liberals Became Democrats and Conservatives Be- POLITICAL SCIENCE came Republicans, also published by the University of Chicago Press. He lives in Philadelphia.

64 special interest Making the News “Making the News sets forth the Politics, the Media, and Agenda Setting deceptively simple-sounding argument that the news agenda is Amber E. Boydstun ‘skewed’ so that few issues reach

Media attention can play a profound ten initiate alarm mode around a story, and remain on the front page. By role in whether or not officials act on a they also propel news outlets into the applying new methods to explain policy issue, but how policy issues make watchdog-like patrol mode around its these patterns irrefutably and on the news in the first place has remained policy implications—until the next big a broad scale, Amber E. Boydstun a puzzle. Why do some issues go viral news item breaks. What results from makes a valuable contribution to and then just as quickly fall off the ra- this pattern of fixation followed by rap- the literature on political communi- dar? How is it that the media can sustain id change is skewed coverage of policy public interest for months in a complex issues, with a few receiving the major- cation.” story like negotiations over Obamacare ity of media attention while others re- —Regina Lawrence, University of Texas at Austin while ignoring other important issues ceive none at all. Boydstun documents in favor of stories on “balloon boy”? this systemic explosiveness and skew August 240 p., 32 line drawings, With Making the News, Amber E. through analysis of media coverage 14 tables 6 x 9 Boydstun offers an eye-opening look across policy issues, including in-depth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06543-4 Cloth $75.00x/£52.50 at the explosive patterns of media at- looks at the waxing and waning cover- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06557-1 tention that determine which issues are age around two issues: capital punish- Paper $25.00s/£17.50 brought before the public. At the heart ment and the “war on terror.” E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06560-1 of her argument is the observation that Making the News shows how the seem- POLITICAL SCIENCE the media have two modes: an “alarm ingly unpredictable day-to-day decisions mode” for breaking stories and a “pa- of the newsroom produce distinct pat- trol mode” for covering them in greater terns of operation with implications— depth. While institutional incentives of- good and bad—for national politics.

Amber E. Boydstun is assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Davis. She lives in Davis, CA, and is coauthor of The Decline of the Death Penalty and the Discovery of Innocence.

Timing and Turnout How Off-Cycle Elections Favor Organized Groups Sarah F. Anzia

Public policy in the United States is tion is held, the low turnout in off-cy- December 280 p., 2 halftones, the product of decisions made by more cle years enhances the effectiveness of 13 line drawings, 28 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08678-1 than 500,000 elected officials, the vast their mobilization efforts and makes Cloth $90.00x/£63.00 majority of them elected on days other them a proportionately larger bloc. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08681-1 than Election Day. And because far few- Throughout American history, the is- Paper $30.00s/£21.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08695-8 er voters turn out for off-cycle elections, sue of election timing has been a con- POLITICAL SCIENCE that means the majority of officials in tentious one. Anzia’s book traces efforts America are elected by a politically mo- by interest groups and political parties tivated minority of Americans. Sarah F. to change the timing of elections to Anzia is the first to systemically address their advantage, resulting in the elec- the effects of election timing on politi- toral structures we have today. Ulti- cal outcomes, and her findings are eye- mately, what might seem at first glance opening. to be mundane matters of scheduling The low turnout for off-cycle elec- are better understood as tactics de- tions, Anzia argues, increases the influ- signed to distribute political power, de- ence of organized interest groups like termining who has an advantage in the teachers’ unions and municipal work- electoral process and who will control ers. While such groups tend to vote at government at the municipal, county, high rates regardless of when the elec- and state levels.

Sarah F. Anzia is assistant professor of public policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. She lives in Berkeley, CA. special interest 65 “Theoretically rich and innovative, The Politics of Belonging The Politics of Belonging tackles Race, Public Opinion, and Immigration its subject matter in an original and NaTalie Masuoka and JaNe JuNN thought-provoking manner, deftly weaving a historical narrative of The United States is once again expe- nation. The relationships between citi- the creation of america’s immigra- riencing a major influx of immigrants. zenship, race, and immigration drive tion laws with the country’s racial Questions about who should be admit- the politics of belonging in the United hierarchy.” ted and what benefits should be afford- States and represent a dynamic central —Marisa a. abrajano, ed to new members of the polity are to understanding patterns of contem- university of california, san Diego among the most divisive and controver- porary public opinion on immigra- sial contemporary political issues. tion policy. Beginning with a historical Chicago Studies in American Politics Using an impressive array of evi- analysis, the book documents why this is dence from national surveys, The Poli- the case by tracing the development of SEPTEmBEr 248 p., 16 figures, tics of Belonging illuminates patterns of immigration law and the formation of 15 tables 6 x 9 the American racial hierarchy. Then, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05702-6 public opinion on immigration and ex- Cloth $85.00x/£59.50 plains why Americans hold the attitudes through a comparative analysis of public ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05716-3 they do. Rather than simply character- opinion among white, black, Latino, and Paper $27.50s/£19.50 izing Americans as either nativist or Asian Americans, it identifies and tests E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05733-0 nonnativist, this book argues that con- the critical moderating role of racial cat- POLITICAL SCIENCE troversies over immigration policy are egorization and group identity on varia- best understood as questions of politi- tion in public opinion on immigration. cal membership and belonging to the

Natalie Masuoka is assistant professor of political science at Tufts University. She lives in Boston. Jane Junn is professor of political science at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She is coauthor of Education and Democratic Citizenship in America. “Traci Burch has tackled a public Trading Democracy for Justice issue that threatens the very basis of democracy—the tendency of Criminal Convictions and the Decline of Neighborhood criminal convictions to taint the Political Participation democratic involvement of those Traci Burch left behind—and done so in rigor- The United States imprisons far more average to chart demographic features ous and creative ways. Trading people, total and per capita, than any that include information about impris- Democracy for Justice is a splendid other country in the world. Among onment, probation, and parole, as well work of social science that will be the more than 1.5 million Americans as voter turnout and volunteerism. She widely read and cited and whose currently incarcerated, minorities and presents powerful evidence that living astonishing findings will expand the poor are disproportionately repre- in a high-imprisonment neighborhood our attention to the ways incarcera- sented. What’s more, they tend to come significantly decreases political partici- from just a few of the most disadvan- pation. Similarly, people living in these tion affects people beyond those taged neighborhoods in the country. neighborhoods are less likely to engage convicted of crimes.” While the political costs of this phe- with their communities through volun- —katherine cramer-Walsh, nomenon remain poorly understood, teer work. What results is the demobi- university of Wisconsin–Madison it’s become increasingly clear that the lization of entire neighborhoods and effects of this mass incarceration are the creation of vast inequalities—even Chicago Studies in American Politics much more pervasive than previously among those not directly affected by AuGuST 240 p., 11 halftones, thought, extending beyond those im- the criminal justice system. 50 line drawings, 22 tables 6 x 9 prisoned to the neighbors, family, and The first book to demonstrate the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06476-5 friends left behind. ways in which the institutional effects Cloth $75.00x/£52.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06493-2 For Trading Democracy for Justice, of imprisonment undermine already Paper $25.00s/£17.50 Traci Burch has drawn on data from disadvantaged communities, Trading E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06509-0 neighborhoods with imprisonment Democracy for Justice speaks to issues at POLITICAL SCIENCE SOCIOLOGY rates up to fourteen times the national the heart of democracy.

Traci Burch is assistant professor of political science at Northwestern University and research professor at the American Bar Association. She is coauthor of Creating a New 66 special interest Racial Order. She lives in Chicago. The Wartime President “William G. Howell, saul P. Jack- Executive Influence and the Nationalizing Politics of Threat man, and Jon c. rogowski continue William G. HoWell, saul P. Jackman, and Jon c. roGoWski the valuable and highly regarded line of presidency research that “It is the nature of war to increase the siderations. Thus, World War II and the integrates modern analytical executive at the expense of the legisla- post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan and Iraq techniques with deep substantive authority,” wrote Alexander Ham- significantly augmented presidential tive knowledge. no question in ilton in the Federalist Papers. The power, allowing the president to en- american politics is of greater balance of power between Congress act foreign and domestic policies that and the president has been a powerful would have been unattainable in times importance—or more timely—than thread throughout American political of peace. But, contrary to popular be- the power of the president and his thought since the time of the Founding lief, there are also times when war has relationship with congress, and Fathers. And yet, for all that has been little effect on a president’s influence in The Wartime President makes a written on the topic, we still lack a solid Congress. The Vietnam and Gulf Wars, clearly written and cutting-edge empirical or theoretical justification for for instance, did not nationalize our contribution that is sure to spur Hamilton’s proposition. politics nearly so much, and presidential further research.” For the first time, William G. influence expanded only moderately. Howell, Saul P. Jackman, and Jon C. Built on groundbreaking research, —steven callander, stanford university Rogowski systematically analyze the The Wartime President offers one of the question. Congress, they show, is more most significant works ever written on Chicago Series on International likely to defer to the president’s policy the wartime powers presidents wield at and Domestic Institutions preferences when political debates cen- home. ter on national rather than local con- SEPTEMBER 352 p., 18 line drawings, 31 tables 6 x 9 William G. Howell is the Sydney Stein Professor in American Politics at the Harris School of ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04825-3 Public Policy Studies and professor of political science in the College at the University of Cloth $90.00x/£63.00 Chicago. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including, most recently, Thinking ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04839-0 about the Presidency: The Primacy of Power and While Dangers Gather: Congressional Checks on Paper $30.00s/£21.00 Presidential War Powers. saul P. Jackman is a fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washing- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04842-0 ton, DC. Jon c. rogowski is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at POLITICAL SCIENCE Washington University in St. Louis. AMERICAN HISTORY

In Defense of Disciplines “i congratulate Jerry Jacobs for the rigor of his research and the Interdisciplinarity and Specialization in the Research University strenuousness of his arguments. Jerry Jacobs There is revealing new information and necessary clarity and clarifica- Calls for closer connections among dis- Jacobs offers a new theory of liberal arts ciplines can be heard throughout the disciplines such as biology, economics, tion in these pages. His critique world of scholarly research, from major and history that identifies the organiza- of some of the most egregious universities to the National Institutes of tional sources of their dynamism and assaults on the disciplines is Health. In Defense of Disciplines presents breadth. Illustrating his thesis with a especially noteworthy and the case a fresh and daring analysis of the argu- wide range of case studies, including studies are valuable. This is a book ment surrounding interdisciplinarity. the diffusion of ideas between fields, that we need.” Challenging the belief that blurring the creation of interdisciplinary schol- —Harvey J. Graff, the boundaries between traditional arly journals, and the rise of new fields author of The Dallas Myth: academic fields promotes more inte- that spin off from existing ones, Jacobs The Making and Unmaking grated research and effective teaching, upends many of the existing criticisms of an American City Jerry Jacobs contends that the promise to mount a powerful defense of the en- of interdisciplinarity is illusory and that during value of liberal arts disciplines. OCTOBER 328 p., 20 line drawings, critiques of established disciplines are This will become one of the anchors of 17 tables 6 x 9 often overstated and misplaced. the case against interdisciplinarity for ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06929-6 Cloth $90.00x/£63.00 Drawing on diverse sources of data, years to come. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06932-6 Paper $30.00s/£21.00 Jerry Jacobs is professor of sociology at the University of Pennyslvania. He is coauthor, with E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06946-3 Ann Boulis, of The Changing Face of Medicine: Women Doctors and the Evolution of Health Care in EDUCATION America and, with Kathleen Gerson, of The Time Divide: Work, Family, and Gender Inequality, among others. He lives near Philadelphia. special interest 67 “Realizing Educational Rights is Realizing Educational Rights an important book. It breaks new Advancing School Reform through Courts and Communities ground in the manner in which it annE nEwman weds theory and practice. anne newman lucidly puts into perspec- In Realizing Educational Rights, Anne shielded from the sway of partisan and tive the major writings on rights, Newman examines two educational majoritarian policy making far more deliberative democracy, judicial re- rights questions that arise at the inter- than it currently is. She then examines view, and social reform—advancing section of political theory, educational how educational rights are realized in thinking in each of these areas— policy, and law: What is the place of a our current democratic structure, of- and also develops an important right to education in a participatory fering two case studies of leading types conceptual framework that bridges democracy, and how can we realize this of rights-based activism: school finance right in the United States? Tracking litigation on the state level and the mo- the world of academic scholarship, these questions across both philosophi- bilization of citizens through communi- legal analysis, and community cal and pragmatic terrain, she addresses ty-based organizations. Bringing these organizing.” urgent moral and political questions, of- case studies together with rich philo- —michael a. Rebell, fering a rare, double-pronged look at ed- sophical analysis, Realizing Educational author of Courts and Kids ucational justice in a democratic society. Rights advances understanding of the Newman argues that an adequate relationships among moral and legal OCTOBEr 176 p. 6 x 9 rights, education reform, and demo- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07174-9 K–12 education is the right of all Cloth $30.00s/£21.00 citizens, as a matter of equality, and cratic politics. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07188-6 emphasizes that this right must be EDUCATION POLITICAL SCIENCE anne newman is a researcher at the University of California Center for Collaborative Re- search for an Equitable California. She is coauthor of Between Movement and Establishment: Organizations Advocating for Youth.

“Education Policy in Developing Education Policy in Developing Countries Countries raises the bar in terms Edited by Paul GlEwwE of what qualifies as a high-quality study. It goes in-depth into what Almost any economist will agree that ent and student incentives—the con- are perhaps the most important education plays a key role in determin- tributors synthesize an impressive di- and promising education policy ing a country’s economic growth and versity of data, paying special attention reforms, providing an unbiased and standard of living, but what we know to the gross imbalances in educational exhaustive review of the evidence about education policy in developing achievement that still exist between de- and thus a new benchmark that countries is remarkably incomplete veloped and developing countries. They and scattered over decades and across draw out clear implications for gov- hopefully will be followed in all publications. Education Policy in Develop- ernmental policy at a variety of levels, subsequent research on education ing Countries rights this wrong, taking conscious of economic realities such as policy in developing countries.” stock of twenty years of research to as- budget constraints, and point to crucial —Emiliana Vegas, sess what we actually know—and what areas where future research is needed. chief of the Education Division, we still need to learn—about effective Offering a wealth of insights into one of Inter-american Development Bank education policy in the places that need the best investments a nation can make, it the most. Education Policy in Developing Countries is DECEMBEr 360 p., 12 line drawings, 36 tables 6 x 9 Surveying many aspects of educa- an essential contribution to this most ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07868-7 tion—from administrative structures urgent field. Cloth $120.00x/£84.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07871-7 to the availability of health care to par- Paper $40.00s /£28.00 Paul Glewwe is professor in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07885-4 Minnesota and for thirteen years before that was a research economist at the World Bank. EDUCATION ECONOMICS He is the author or coeditor of several books, most recently Economic Growth, Poverty, and Household Welfare in Vietnam.

68 special interest Improvement by Design “Improvement by Design takes a fascinating look at an approach to The Promise of Better Schools and a period of educational reform DaviD K. Cohen, DonalD J. PeuraCh, Joshua l. Glazer, that has not been fully examined. Karen e. Gates, and simona GolDin By providing a powerful illustration of the weaknesses and turbulence One of the great challenges now fac- The authors identify four critical ing education reformers in the United puzzles that the successful programs that reformers continue to ignore at States is how to devise a consistent and were able to solve: design, implementa- their peril and cogently arguing for intelligent framework for instruction tion, improvement, and sustainability. the development of a much more that will work across the nation’s no- Pinpointing the specific solutions that sophisticated infrastructure to toriously fragmented and politically clearly improved instruction, they iden- support teaching and learning, the conflicted school systems. Various pro- tify the key elements that all successful book makes a valuable contribution grams have tried to do that, but only a reform programs share. Offering ur- few have succeeded. Improvement by De- gently needed guidance for state and to the literature.” sign looks at three different programs, local school systems as they attempt to —thomas hatch, seeking to understand why two of respond to future reform proposals, teachers College, Columbia university them—America’s Choice and Success Improvement by Design gets America one step closer to truly successful education for All—worked, and why the third— DECEmBEr 232 p. 6 x 9 Accelerated Schools Project—did not. systems. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08924-9 Cloth $80.00x/£56.00 David K. Cohen is the John Dewey Collegiate Professor of Education and professor of ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08938-6 education policy at the University of Michigan as well as visiting professor of education at Paper $27.50s/£19.50 Harvard University. He is the author of several books, most recently Teaching and Its Predica- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08941-6 ments. Donald J. Peurach is assistant professor of educational studies in the School of Educa- EDUCATION tion at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Seeing Complexity in Public Education. Joshua l. Glazer is visiting associate professor of education administration at the Graduate School of Education and Human Development at George Washington University. Karen e. Gates was a senior area specialist in the study of instructional improvement at the Uni- versity of Michigan. simona Goldin is a lecturer in the School of Education and a research specialist at the Teacher Education Initiative at the University of Michigan.

“Toxic Schools is an ambitious and Toxic Schools original treatment of violence in High-Poverty Education in New York and Amsterdam inner-city schools, distinguished Bowen Paulle by Bowen Paulle’s sophisticated integration of theoretical constructs Violent urban schools loom large in our and research in the South Bronx and throughout the discussion of his culture: for decades they have served as in Southeast Amsterdam, Toxic Schools the centerpieces of political campaigns is the first fully participatory ethno- empirical materials. this highly and as window dressing for brutal televi- graphic study of its kind and a searing instructive cross-site comparison sion shows and movies. Yet unequal ac- examination of daily life in two radical- will appeal not just to scholars of cess to quality schools remains the sin- ly different settings. What these schools education and school administra- gle greatest failing of our society—and have in common, however, are not the tors. it is relayed in such visceral one of the most hotly debated issues of predictable ideas about race and edu- terms that it will likely appeal to a our time. Of all the usual words used to cational achievement but the tragically describe nonselective city schools—seg- similar habituated stress responses of broad readership as well.” regated, unequal, violent—none comes students forced to endure the experi- —Peter ibarra, university of illinois at Chicago close to characterizing their systemic ence of constant vulnerability. From dysfunction in high-poverty neighbor- both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, Paulle hoods. The most accurate word is toxic. paints an intimate portrait of how stu- Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries When Bowen Paulle speaks of tox- dents and teachers actually cope, in OCTOBEr 352 p. 6 x 9 icity, he speaks of educational worlds real time, with the chronic stress, peer ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06638-7 Cloth $95.00x/£66.50 dominated by intimidation and anxi- group dynamics, and subtle power poli- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06641-7 ety, by ambivalence, degradation, and tics of urban educational spaces in the Paper $32.50s/£23.00 shame. Based on six years of teaching perpetual shadow of aggression. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06655-4 EDUCATION SOCIOLOGY Bowen Paulle teaches at the University of Amsterdam. A native New Yorker, he lives in the Netherlands. special interest 69 “in Job-Search Games, ofer sharone Job-Search Games develops a cogent, timely, and com- Chemistry, Self-Blame, and Unemployment Experiences pelling account of why american ofer sHarone employees blame themselves for their failure to secure employment Today 4.7 million Americans have been nizations, Ofer Sharone reveals how and why their israeli counterparts unemployed for more than six months. different labor-market institutions give engage in system blame instead. In France more than ten percent of the rise to job-search games like Israel’s sharone moves the discussion well working population is without work. résumé-based “spec games”—which are In Israel it’s above seven percent. And focused on presenting one’s skills to fit beyond global generalizations in Greece and Spain, that number ap- the job—and the “chemistry games” about the role of culture to make proaches thirty percent. Across the more common in the United States an important contribution to the developed world, the experience of un- in which job seekers concentrate on literature of joblessness.” employment has become frighteningly presenting the person behind the ré- —steven Vallas, common—and so are the seemingly sumé. By closely examining the specific author of Work: A Critique endless tactics that job seekers employ day-to-day activities and strategies of in their quest for new work. searching for a job, Sharone develops a NOvEMBEr 224 p., 1 line drawing, Job-Search Games delves beneath theory of the mechanisms that connect 3 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07336-1 these staggering numbers to explore objective social structures and subjec- Cloth $85.00x/£59.50 the world of job searching and un- tive experiences in this challenging ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07353-8 environment—and how these different Paper $27.50s/£19.50 employment across class and nation. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07367-5 Through in-depth interviews and ob- structures can lead to very different ex- SOCIOLOGY BUSINESS servations at job-search support orga- periences of unemployment.

ofer sharone teaches at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, where he is assistant professor of work and employment relations. He lives in Lexington, MA.

“Timely and topical, Post-Ethical Post-Ethical Society Society contributes to ongoing na- The Iraq War, Abu Ghraib, and the Moral Failure of the Secular tional soul-searching about who we Douglas V. PorPora, alexanDer nikolaeV, Julia Hagemann may, are and how we want to go about and alexanDer Jenkins sorting out our proper role in the world. This is not mere armchair We’ve all seen the images from Abu ion pages of American newspapers, philosophizing. Here we are pre- Ghraib: stress positions, US soldiers television commentary, and online dis- sented with totally solid, historical, kneeling on the heads of prisoners, cussion groups to offer the first empiri- and dehumanizing pyramids formed cal study of the national conversation publicly accessible, empirical data from black-hooded bodies. We have about the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the on subjects of major national and watched officials elected to our highest revelations of prisoner abuse at Abu international importance. i’m very offices defend enhanced interrogation Ghraib a year later. Post-Ethical Society is impressed.” in terms of efficacy and justify drone not just another shot fired in the ongo- —Christian smith, strikes in terms of retribution and de- ing culture war between conservatives university of notre Dame terrence. But the mainstream secular and liberals, but a pensive and ethically media rarely addresses the morality of engaged reflection of America’s feel- AUGUST 240 p., 20 tables 6 x 9 these choices, leaving us to ask individ- ings about itself and our actions as a na- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06249-5 ually: Is this right? tion. And while many writers and com- Cloth $45.00s/£31.50 mentators have opined about our moral E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06252-5 In this singular examination of place in the world, the vast amount of MEDIA STUDIES SOCIOLOGY the American discourse over war and torture, Douglas V. Porpora, Alexander empirical data amassed in Post-Ethical Nikolaev, Julia Hagemann May, and Society sets it apart—and makes its find- Alexander Jenkins investigate the opin- ings that much more damning.

Douglas V. Porpora is professor of sociology at Drexel University. His books include How Holocausts Happen and Landscapes of the Soul. alexander nikolaev is associate professor of communication at Drexel University. He is the author of International Negotiations and coeditor of Leading to the 2003 Iraq War and Ethical Issues in International Communication. Julia Hagemann may and alexander Jenkins are doctoral candidates at Drexel University. They all live in Philadelphia. 70 special interest Sexual Fields “in adam isaiah Green’s introduc- Toward a Sociology of Collective Sexual Life tory chapter, he lays out the evolution of his sexual fields formula- Edited by adam isaiah GrEEn tion. This alone is worth the price

The rise of urbanization and mass gether make a strong case for sexual of the book. But this volume also communication and the decoupling field theory as the first systematic theo- includes seven chapters written of sexuality from reproduction and retical innovation since queer theory in by real movers and shakers in the moral regulation have contributed to the sociology of sexuality. Expanding field of sexuality, each making the late modern expansion of special- on the work of Bourdieu, the contribu- interesting, substantive contribu- ized erotic worlds catering to a variety tors develop this distinctively sociologi- tions. Sexual Fields is certainly a of sexual tastes. Organized by appetites cal approach for analyzing collective and dispositions related to race, ethnic- sexual life, showing how these semiau- book that every scholar of sexuality, class, gender, and age, these arenas tonomous sites are where the sexual ity should own, and i would not be of sexual exploration become sites of life of our society resides today. And surprised if this were to become one stratification and dominion wherein ac- by coupling field theory with the eth- of the most cited volumes in the field tors vie for partners, social significance, nographic and theoretical expertise of of sexuality.” and esteem. These are what Adam Isa- some of the most important scholars of —Verta Taylor, iah Green calls sexual fields, and to sexual life at work today, Sexual Fields coauthor of Drag Queens help us to navigate them, he offers a offers a game-changing approach that at the 801 Cabaret groundbreaking new framework. will revolutionize how sociologists will To build on the sexual fields analyze and make sense of contempo- DECEmBEr 224 p., 3 line drawings, 1 table 6 x 9 framework, Green has gathered a dis- rary sexual life for years to come. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08485-5 tinguished group of scholars who to- Cloth $85.00x/£59.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08499-2 adam isaiah Green is associate professor of sociology at the University of Toronto. A native Paper $27.50s/£19.50 of New York City, he lives in Toronto. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08504-3 SOCIOLOGY The Birth of Insight “The Birth of Insight represents Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk an important addition to current Ledi Sayadaw scholarship on modern Burmese Buddhism, which has broader im- Erik Braun plications for our understanding of Insight meditation, which claims to texts in the early twentieth century. By contemporary Buddhism in south offer practitioners a chance to escape promoting the study of such abstruse and southeast asia and global all suffering by perceiving the true texts, Braun shows, Ledi was able to Buddhism generally. Engaging and nature of reality, is one of the most standardize and simplify meditation challenging, it restores the study of popular forms of meditation today. methods and make them widely acces- ‘texts’ to the repertoire of tools at The Theravada Buddhist cultures of sible—in part to protect Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia often see it Burma after the British takeover in our disposal for the critical exami- as the Buddha’s most important gift to 1885. Braun also addresses the question nation of the Burmese tradition.” humanity. In the first book to examine of what really constitutes the “modern” —Patrick Pranke, how this practice came to play such a in colonial and postcolonial forms of university of Louisville dominant—and relatively recent—role Buddhism, arguing that the emergence in Buddhism, Erik Braun takes read- of this type of meditation was caused Buddhism and Modernity by precolonial factors in Burmese cul- ers to Burma, revealing that Burmese NOvEmBEr 248 p., 6 halftones 6 x 9 Buddhists in the colonial period were ture as well as the disruptive forces of ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00080-0 pioneers in making insight meditation the colonial era. Offering a readable Cloth $45.00s/£31.50 indispensable to modern Buddhism. narrative of the life and legacy of one E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00094-7 Braun focuses on the Burmese of modern Buddhism’s most important rELIGION ASIAN STUDIES monk Ledi Sayadaw, a pivotal archi- figures, The Birth of Insight provides an tect of modern insight meditation, and original account of the development of explores Ledi’s popularization of the mass meditation. study of crucial Buddhist philosophical

Erik Braun is assistant professor in the Religious Studies Program at the University of Okla- homa. He lives in Norman, OK. special interest 71 GEnDUn CHopEL Grains of Gold Tales of a Cosmopolitan Traveler Translated by Thupten Jinpa and Donald S. Lopez Jr.

n 1941, philosopher and poet Gendun Chopel (1903–51) sent a large manuscript by ship, train, and yak across mountains and Ideserts to his homeland in the northeastern corner of Tibet. He would follow it five years later, returning to his native land after twelve years in India and Sri Lanka. But he did not receive the welcome he imagined: he was arrested by the government of the regent of the young Dalai Lama on trumped-up charges of treason. He emerged from prison three years later a broken man and died soon after. “Gendun Chopel’s Grains of Gold is the Gendun Chopel was a prolific writer during his short life. Yet he magnum opus of arguably the single most considered that manuscript, which he titled Grains of Gold, to be his brilliant Tibetan scholar of the twentieth life’s work, a book to delight his compatriots with tales of an ancient century, and the team of Donald S. Lopez Indian and Tibetan past, while alerting them to the wonders and dan- Jr. and renowned translator Thupten gers of the strikingly modern land abutting Tibet’s southern border, Jinpa is the ideal combination of talents the British colony of India. Now available for the first time in English, to expertly render its eclectic contents Grains of Gold is a unique compendium of South Asian and Tibetan into faithful but accessible English. This culture that combines travelogue, drawings, history, and ethnography. excellent translation will be enthusiasti- Gendun Chopel describes the world he discovered in South Asia, from cally (and gratefully) welcomed by both the ruins of the sacred sites of Buddhism to the Sanskrit classics he scholars and general readers.” learned to read in the original. He is also sharply, often humorously —Lauran Hartley, Columbia University critical of the Tibetan love of the fantastic, bursting one myth after another and finding fault with the accounts of earlier Tibetan pilgrims.

Buddhism and Modernity Exploring a wide range of cultures and religions central to the history of the region, Gendun Chopel is eager to describe to his Buddhist JANUARy 456 p., 74 line drawings 6 x 9 audience in Tibet all the new knowledge he gathered in his travels. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09197-6 Cloth $45.00s/£31.50 At once the account of the experiences of a tragic figure in Ti- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09202-7 ASIAN STUDIES RELIGION betan history and the work of an extraordinary scholar, Grains of Gold is an accessible, compelling book animated by a sense of discovery of both a distant past and a strange present.

Thupten Jinpa is adjunct professor at McGill University in Montreal. He has translated and edited numerous books and is the author, most recently, of Essential Mind Training. Donald S. Lopez Jr. is the Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at the University of Michigan.

72 special interest Harry L. Davis Why Are You Here and Not Somewhere Else

arry L. Davis joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 1963, and he has since become Hone of the most influential figures in executive education in the United States and abroad. He helped develop the first core leadership program of any top-rated MBA institution in the country and the Management Lab. Davis also helped Booth pioneer its first interna- AUgUSt 96 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-11113-1 tional campus in Barcelona in 1983, where he served as deputy dean Cloth $18.00s/£12.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-11662-4 for a decade. BUSINESS ECONOMICS On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Davis’s arrival at Copublished with the University of Chicago Booth School of Business the Booth School, Why Are You Here and Not Somewhere Else offers seven essays by Davis that offer new perspectives and contribute to a more well-rounded understanding of business education. Adapted from convocation addresses given by Davis at different points during his five-decade career, the essays encapsulate the spirit of business education at the Booth School, while at the same time providing encouraging, invaluable wisdom for those about to embark on business careers or take on leadership positions. Topics addressed range from the role of the university in the business world to the crucial role of intangible values in shaping one’s career. Davis has been a formative influence on more executives and leaders than perhaps any other business educator living today, and Why Are You Here and Not Somewhere Else provides a unique and valuable perspective on how leaders in business and elsewhere can shape and define their careers in new ways.

Harry L. Davis is the Roger L. and Rachel M. Goetz Distinguished Service Professor of Creative Management at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

special interest 73 PRiCe FiSHbaCK, JOnaTHan ROSe, and KenneTH SnOwden Well Worth Saving How the New Deal Safeguarded Home Ownership

he urgent demand for housing after World War I fueled a boom in residential construction that led to historic peaks T in home ownership. Foreclosures at the time were rare, and when they did happen, lenders could quickly recoup their losses by selling into a strong market. But no mortgage system is equipped to deal with credit problems on the scale of the Great Depression. As foreclosures quintupled, it became clear that the mortgage system “For Well Worth Saving, Price Fishback, of the 1920s was not up to the task, and borrowers, lenders, and real Jonathan Rose, and Kenneth Snowden estate professionals sought action at the federal level. have assembled compelling new data Well Worth Saving tells the story of the disastrous housing market to reassess the costs and benefits of during the Great Depression and the extent to which an immensely the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, popular New Deal relief program, the Home Owners’ Loan Corpo- developing the broader intellectual his- ration (HOLC), was able to stem foreclosures by buying distressed tory of housing support and relating their mortgages from lenders and refinancing them. Drawing on historical findings to the recent financial crisis in records and modern statistical tools, Price Fishback, Jonathan Rose, the United States and current govern- and Kenneth Snowden investigate important unanswered questions to ment programs aimed at providing relief provide an unparalleled view of the mortgage loan industry through- to distressed mortgage holders. This is a out the 1920s and early ’30s. Combining this with the stories of those well-executed and thorough work.” involved, the book offers a clear understanding of the HOLC within —Kris James Mitchener, Santa Clara University the context of the housing market in which it operated, including an examination of how the incentives and behaviors at play throughout National Bureau of Economic Research the crisis influenced the effectiveness of policy. Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Development More than eighty years after the start of the Great Depression, when politicians have called for similar programs to quell the current OCTOBEr 200 p., 14 line drawings, 10 tables 6 x 9 mortgage crisis, this accessible account of the Home Owners’ Loan ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08244-8 Corporation holds invaluable lessons for our own time. Cloth $35.00s/£24.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08258-5 ECONOMICS aMErICaN HISTOrY Price Fishback is the Thomas R. Brown Professor of Economics at the Uni- versity of Arizona and a research associate of the NBER. He is the author or editor of several books, including A Prelude to the Welfare State and Government and the American Economy, both also published by the University of Chicago Press. Jonathan Rose is an economist with the Federal Reserve Board of Gov- ernors and lives in Washington, DC. Kenneth Snowden is associate professor of economic history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a 74 special interest research associate of the NBER. Trade and Romance “both immensely erudite and fun to read, Michael Murrin’s Trade and Michael Murrin Romance chronicles three stages In Trade and Romance, Michael Murrin guages—including the works of Marco of europe’s premodern commercial examines the complex relations be- Polo, Geoffrey Chaucer, Matteo Ma- engagements with asia: the tra- tween the expansion of trade in Asia ria Boiardo, Luís de Camões, Fernão versing of the silk route, the arriv- and the production of heroic romance Mendes Pinto, Edmund Spenser, John al of the Portuguese in the indian in Europe from the second half of the Milton, and more—Murrin tracks nu- Ocean, and the exploration by eng- thirteenth century through the late sev- merous accounts by traders and mer- enteenth century. He shows how these chants through the literature, first on lishmen and russians of a northern tales of romance, ostensibly meant for the Silk Road, beginning in the mid- land route to china. Trade and the aristocracy, were important to the thirteenth century; then on the water Romance can be enjoyed not only growing mercantile class as a way to route to India, Japan, and China via by historians and literary scholars, gauge their own experiences in trav- the Cape of Good Hope; and, finally, for whom it will be essential read- eling to and trading in these exotic the overland route through Siberia to ing, but also by a broader educated locales. Murrin also looks at the role Beijing. All of these routes, originally that growing knowledge of geography used to exchange commodities, quick- public that shares Murrin’s interest played in the writing of the creative ly became paths to knowledge as well, in historical geography.” literature of the period, tracking how enabling information to pass, if some- —David Quint, accurate, or inaccurate, these writers times vaguely and intermittently, be- Yale university were in depicting far-flung destina- tween Europe and the Far East. These tions, from Iran and the Caspian Sea new tales of distant shores fired the OCTOBER 296 p., 6 halftones, 1 table 6 x 9 all the way to the Pacific. imagination of Europe and made their ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07157-2 With reference to an impressive way, with surprising accuracy, as Mur- Cloth $45.00s/£31.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07160-2 range of major works in several lan- rin shows, into the poetry of the period. LITERARY CRITICISM Michael Murrin is the Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service EUROPEAN HISTORY Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, the Department of Comparative Literature, and the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. He is the author of History and Warfare in Renaissance Epic, The Allegorical Epic, and The Veil of Allegory, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

Dante and the Limits of the Law “Written with grit and polemical brio, Justin steinberg’s book takes Justin steinberg readers into the technical world

In Dante and the Limits of the Law, Justin and that Dante’s otherworld repre- of medieval legal conventions as Steinberg offers the first comprehen- sents an ideal “system of exception.” Yet they appear and even shape the sive study of the legal structure crucial Dante saw this system as threatened on vast and detailed legal system of to Dante’s Divine Comedy. Steinberg re- earth by the dual crises of church and Dante’s Divine Comedy. Filling a veals how Dante imagines an afterlife Empire—the abuses and overreaching substantial lacuna in the critical dominated by elaborate laws, hierarchi- of the popes and the absence of an ef- bibliography of the Commedia, the cal jurisdictions, and rationalized pun- fective Holy Roman Emperor. In his ishments and rewards. Steinberg makes imagination of the afterlife, Steinberg cogent and absolutely persuasive the compelling case that Dante deliber- shows, Dante seeks to address this gap Dante and the Limits of the Law ately exploits this highly structured le- between the universal validity of Ro- makes a significant contribution to gal system to explore the phenomenon man law and the lack of a sovereign our understanding of the poem.” of exceptions to it, introducing Dante power to enforce it. Exploring the insti- —giuseppe Mazzotta, to crucial current debates about litera- tutional role of disgrace, the entwined Yale university ture’s relation to law, exceptionality, phenomena of judicial discretion and and sovereignty. artistic freedom, medieval ideas about OCTOBER 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 Examining how Dante probes the privilege and immunity, and the place ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07109-1 Cloth $40.00s/£28.00 limits of the law in this juridical other- of judgment in the poem, this is an el- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07112-1 egantly argued book that persuasively world, Steinberg argues that exceptions LITERATURE were vital to the medieval legal order brings to life Dante’s sense of justice.

Justin steinberg is associate professor of Italian literature in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Accounting for Dante: Urban Readers and Writers in Late Medieval Italy. special interest 75 “it is delightful to watch Jahan Poetry and Its Others ramazani do what he does best: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres delve into poets such as hopkins, Jahan raMazani Yeats, heaney, and Muldoon and show us the nitty-gritty of how What is poetry? Often it is under- the verbal precision of the law even as their verse works. anyone who stood as a largely self-enclosed verbal it separates itself from the law’s ratio- loves poetry is going to come away system—“suspended from any mutual nalism. But poetry’s most frequent in- from this book revitalized, pre- interaction with alien discourse,” in the terlocutors, he demonstrates, are news, pared to think complexly about the words of Mikhail Bakhtin. But in Poetry prayer, and song. Poets such as Wil- modes of address that poets em- and Its Others, Jahan Ramazani reveals liam Carlos Williams and W. H. Auden modern and contemporary poetry’s ani- refashioned poetry to absorb the news ploy, as well as the kinds of writing mated dialogue with other genres and while expanding its contexts; T. S. Eliot that they habitually echo, distort, discourses. Poetry generates rich new and Charles Wright drew on the intimacy take apart, and reassemble.” possibilities, he argues, by absorbing and of prayer though resisting its limits; —Brian M. reed, contending with its near verbal relatives. and Paul Muldoon, Rae Armantrout, University of Washington Exploring poetry’s vibrant ex- and Patience Agbabi have played with changes with other forms of writing, and against song lyrics and techniques. NOvEMBER 272 p., 1 halftone Ramazani shows how poetry assimi- Encompassing a cultural and stylistic 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08373-5 lates features of prose fiction but dif- range of writing unsurpassed by other Cloth $75.00x/£52.50 ferentiates itself from novelistic real- studies of poetry, Poetry and Its Others ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08356-8 ism; metabolizes aspects of theory and shows that we understand what poetry Paper $25.00s/£17.50 philosophy but refuses their abstract is by examining its interplay with what E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08342-1 procedures; and recognizes itself in it is not. LITERARY CRITICISM POETRY Jahan ramazani is the Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is the author of four books, most recently of A Transnational Poetics, also published by the University of Chicago Press. “Saree Makdisi has written a book Making England Western that in its central line of argument Occidentalism, Race, and Imperial Culture and its detail is thoroughly original Saree MakdiSi and compelling, deeply learned and

detailed, erudite and entertaining. The central argument of Edward Said’s lishman did not extend. The boundar- his skillful accounts of key roman- Orientalism is that the relationship be- ies between “us” and “them” began to tic writers and detailed knowledge tween Britain and its colonies was pri- take form during the romantic period, of english social history and place marily oppositional, based on contrasts when England became a desirable Oc- create a vivid picture of social life between conquest abroad and domestic cidental space, connected with but su- order at home. Saree Makdisi directly perior to distant lands. Delving into the and conditions that few literary challenges that premise in Making works of Wordsworth, Austen, Byron, analyses can boast.” England Western, identifying the con- Dickens, and others to trace an arc of —david T. Goldberg, vergence between the British Empire’s celebration, ambivalence, and criticism University of California, irvine civilizing mission abroad and a paral- influenced by these imperial dynam- lel mission within England itself, and ics, Makdisi demonstrates the extent to dECEMBER 304 p., 11 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92313-0 pointing to romanticism as one of the which romanticism offered both hopes Cloth $90.00x/£63.00 key sites of resistance to the imperial for and warnings against future devel- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92314-7 culture in Britain after 1815. opments in Occidentalism. Revealing Paper $30.00s/£21.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92315-4 Makdisi argues that there existed that romanticism provided a way to places and populations in both Eng- resist imperial logic about improve- LITERARY CRITICISM HISTORY land and the colonies that were thought ment and moral virtue, Making England of in similar terms—for example, there Western is an exciting contribution to were sites in England that might as well the study of both British literature and have been Arabia, and English people colonialism. to whom the idea of the freeborn Eng-

Saree Makdisi is professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of three books, including William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s, also published by the University of Chicago Press. 76 special interest The Future of Illusion “as we, in late modernity, grapple Political Theology and Early Modern Texts with our own theological-political predicament, Victoria Kahn fear- Victoria Kahn lessly interrogates early twentieth- In recent years, the rise of fundamen- the dialogue between these modern century engagements with many talism and a related turn to religion in and early modern figures can help us of the early modern authors who the humanities have led to a powerful rethink the contemporary problem of gave the religion-politics dilemma resurgence of interest in the problem political theology. Twentieth-century its definitive form. Kahn’s interpre- of political theology. In a critique of critics, she shows, saw the early modern tive moves and conclusions are this contemporary fascination with the period as a break from the older form always enlightening and often theological underpinnings of modern of political theology that entailed the politics, Victoria Kahn proposes a re- theological legitimization of the state. exciting. The Future of Illusion is turn to secularism—whose origins she Rather, the period signaled a new em- a timely, erudite, and well-argued locates in the art, literature, and politi- phasis on a secular notion of human book that will be an important cal theory of the early modern period— agency and a new preoccupation with intervention into contemporary and argues in defense of literature and the ways art and fiction intersected the debates over political theology.” art as a force for secular liberal culture. terrain of religion. Reclaiming a role for —John P. mccormick, Kahn draws on theorists such as the arts in contemporary debates about University of chicago Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss, Walter Ben- liberalism and political theology, The Fu- jamin, and Hannah Arendt and their ture of Illusion articulates a new defense dECEMBER 256 p. 6 x 9 readings of Shakespeare, Hobbes, Ma- of what Hans Blumberg called “the le- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08387-2 chiavelli, and Spinoza to illustrate that gitimacy” of our modern secular age. Cloth $45.00s/£31.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08390-2 Victoria Kahn is the Katharine Bixby Hotchkis Chair in English and professor of compara- LITERARY CRITICISM RELIGION tive literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Rhetoric, Pru- dence, and Skepticism in the Renaissance; Machiavellian Rhetoric: From the Counter-Reformation to Milton; and Wayward Contracts: The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640–1674.

Contributors Boccaccio Susanna barsella, todd boli, A Critical Guide to the Complete Works annelise brody, theodore J. Edited by Victoria KirKham, michaEl ShErbErg, cachey Jr., claude cazalé- and JanEt lEVariE Smarr bérard, James K. coleman, alison cornish, roberto Fedi, Long celebrated as one of “the Three their most salient features and innova- Elsa Filosa, Steven m. gross- Crowns” of Florence, Giovanni Boc- tions. Designed for readers at all levels, vogel, robert hollander, Jason caccio (1313–75) experimented widely it will appeal to scholars of literature, houston, David lummus, with the forms of literature. His prolific medieval and Renaissance studies, hu- Simone marchesi, ronald and innovative writings—which range manism and the classical tradition, as l. martinez, giuseppe maz- beyond the novella, from lyric to epic, well as European historians, art histo- from biography to mythography and rians, and students of material culture zotta, letizia Panizza, michael geography, from pastoral and romance and the history of the book. Anchored Papio, brian richardson, arielle to invective—became powerful models by an introduction and chronology, Saiber, Deanna Shemek, Jon for authors in Italy and across the Con- this volume contains contributions by Solomon, Jane tylus, Jonathan tinent. prominent Boccaccio scholars in the Usher, giuseppe Velli, David This collection of essays presents United States, as well as essays by con- Wallace, and Elissa Weaver Boccaccio’s life and creative output in tributors from France, Italy, and the its encyclopedic diversity. Exploring a United Kingdom. The year 2013, Boc- variety of genres, Latin as well as Ital- caccio’s seven-hundredth birthday, will JANuARY 520 p., 13 halftones 6 x 9 ian, it provides short descriptions of be an important one for the study of ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07918-9 all his works, situates them in his oeu- his work and will see an increase in aca- Cloth $50.00s/£35.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07921-9 vre, and features critical expositions of demic interest in reassessing his legacy. LITERARY CRITICISM HISTORY

Victoria Kirkham is professor emerita of Romance languages at the University of Pennsylva- nia. michael Sherberg is associate professor of Italian at Washington University in St. Louis. Janet levarie Smarr is professor of theater history and Italian studies at the University of California, San Diego. special interest 77 Artifact and Artifice Classical Archaeology and the Ancient Historian Jonathan M. hall

Is it possible to trace the footprints of material evidence that contributes to the historical Sokrates in Athens? Was our knowledge of antiquity unless it there really an individual named Romu- correlates with information gleaned lus, and if so, when did he found Rome? from texts. Dismantling the myth that ROmE

AT Is the tomb beneath the high altar of archaeological evidence cannot impart St. Peter’s Basilica home to the apostle information on its own, he illuminates

OSIANUS Peter? To answer these questions, we the methodological and political prin- S need both dirt and words—that is, ar- ciples at stake in using such evidence POLLO chaeology and history. Bringing the and describes how the disciplines of Of A two fields into conversation, Artifact and history and classical archaeology may PLE

TEm Artifice offers an exciting excursion into be enlisted to work together. He also the relationship between ancient his- provides a brief sketch of how the dis- jANUARY 256 p., 26 halftones, tory and archaeology and reveals the cipline of classical archaeology evolved 29 line drawings, 10 tables 81/2 x 11 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31338-2 possibilities and limitations of using ar- and considers its present and future Cloth $125.00x/£ 87.50 chaeological evidence in writing about role in historical approaches to antiq- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09698-8 the past. uity. Written in clear prose and packed Paper $45.00s/£31.50 with maps, photos, and drawings, Arti- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08096-3 Jonathan M. Hall employs a series fact and Artifice will be an essential book CLASSICS EUROPEAN HISTORY of well-known cases to investigate how historians may ignore or minimize for undergraduates in the humanities.

Jonathan M. hall is the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities and professor in the Departments of History and Classics and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of three books, most recently A History of the Archaic Greek World, ca. 1200–479 BCE.

Women and Weasels Mythologies of Birth in Ancient Greece and Rome Maurizio Bettini Translated by Emlyn Eisenach m)

If you told a woman her sex had a and visual moments that highlight the CO . shared, long-lived history with weasels, weasel’s many attributes. We learn of INLEY K she might deck you. But those familiar its legendary sexual and childbearing UCTIONS mC d with mythology know better: that the habits and symbolic association with COTT S connection between women and wea- witchcraft and midwifery, its role as a ,” BY

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EASEL based in the Greek myth of a midwife ability to slip in and out of tight spaces. W SCOTT . who tricked the gods to ease Heracles’s The weasel, Bettini reveals, is present INTER WWW ( “W birth—and was turned into a weasel at many unexpected moments in hu- by Hera as punishment. Following this man history, assisting women in labor OCTOBER 368 p., 28 halftones 6 x 9 story as it is retold over centuries in and thwarting enemies who might plot ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04474-3 Cloth $65.00s/£45.50 literature and art, Women and Weasels their ruin. With a parade of symbolic E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03996-1 takes us on a journey through mythol- associations between weasels and wom- CLASSICS LITERATURE ogy and ancient belief, revising our un- en—witches, prostitutes, midwives, derstanding of myth, heroism, and the sisters-in-law, brides, mothers, and he- status of women and animals in West- roes—Bettini brings to life one of the ern culture. Maurizio Bettini recounts most venerable and enduring myths of and analyzes a variety of key literary Western culture.

Maurizio Bettini is professor of classical philology at the Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy, and a regular visiting professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Cal- ifornia, Berkeley. emlyn eisenach is an independent scholar and translator and the author of Husbands, Wives, and Concubines: Marriage, Family, and Social Order in Sixteenth-Century Verona. 78 special interest Oedipus and the Sphinx “Oedipus and the Sphinx is a highly original, well-composed mas- The Threshold Myth from Sophocles through Freud to Cocteau terpiece. Writing in crystal-clear almut-BaRBaRa REngER prose, almut-Barbara Renger Translation by Duncan Alexander Smart and David Rice, with John T. Hamilton displays breathtaking erudition in reporting the cornerstones of the When Oedipus met the Sphinx on the lytic theory of Sigmund Freud and the road to Thebes, he did more than an- poetics of Jean Cocteau. Through her oedipus myth and its reception. swer a riddle—he spawned a myth that, readings, she highlights the ambiguous she delivers a beautiful contribu- told and retold, would become one of status of the Sphinx and reveals Oedi- tion to the general theory of myth Western culture’s central narratives pus himself to be a liminal creature, by unfolding the history of a single about self-understanding. Identifying providing key insights into Sophocles’s ‘big myth.’ Big myths require new the story as a threshold myth—in which portrayal and establishing a theoretical approaches and retellings, and the hero crosses over into an unknown framework that organizes evaluations and dangerous realm where rules and of the myth’s reception in the twenti- Renger delivers both a general limits are not known—Oedipus and the eth century. Revealing the narrative introduction to a core problem of Sphinx offers a fresh account of this of Oedipus and the Sphinx to be the religious studies and comparative mythic encounter and how it deals with very paradigm of a key transition expe- literature and a surprising new the concepts of liminality and otherness. rienced by all of humankind, Renger perspective on an old story.” Almut-Barbara Renger assesses situates myth between the competing —Eckart goebel, the story’s meanings and functions in claims of science and art in an engage- new york university classical antiquity—from its presence ment that has important implications in ancient vase painting to its absence for current debates in literary studies, SEPTEmBER 128 p., 4 halftones, 1 in Sophocles’s tragedy—before arriv- psychoanalytic theory, cultural history, table 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04808-6 ing at two of its major reworkings in and aesthetics. Cloth $25.00s/£17.50 European modernity: the psychoana- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04811-6 CLASSICS RELIGION almut-Barbara Renger is professor of ancient religion, culture, and their reception history at the Institute for the Scientific Study of Religion at the Freie Universität Berlin. She is the author or editor of several books and resides in Berlin.

The Social Life of Spirits “The Social Life of Spirits makes the argument of the ‘social life of Edited by Ruy BlanEs and Diana EspÍRito santo things’ go full circle, cogently arguing that immaterial spirits, just Spirits can be haunters, informants, pos- symbols, but as agents. like material things, should be ap- sessors, and transformers of the living, The contributors tour the spiritual but more than anything anthropologists globe—the globe of nonthings—in es- proached as social beings with a life have understood them as representa- says on topics ranging from the Holy and trajectory. going beyond beliefs tions of something else—symbols that Ghost in southern Africa to spirits of or representations, it proposes to articulate facets of human experience the “people of the streets” in Rio de Ja- describe spirits through their ef- in much the same way works of art do. neiro to dragons and magic in Britain. fects, asking how are spirits made The Social Life of Spirits challenges this Avoiding a reliance on religion and be- to happen and what do they make notion. By stripping symbolism from lief systems to explain the significance the way we think about the spirit world, of spirits, they reimagine spirits in a happen. this is a brilliant book.” the contributors of this book uncover rich network of social trajectories, ul- —Roger sansi, a livelier, more diverse environment of timately arguing for a new ontological university of london entities—with their own histories, moti- ground upon which to examine the in- NOvEmBER 296 p., 15 halftones 6 x 9 vations, and social interactions—provid- tangible world and its interactions with ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08163-2 ing a new understanding of spirits not as the tangible one. Cloth $90.00x/£63.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08177-9 Ruy Blanes is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Bergen and associate Paper $30.00s/£21.00 researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences in Lisbon. He is coeditor of Encounters of Body E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08180-9 and Soul in Contemporary Religious Practices: Anthropological Reflections. He lives in Bergen, ANTHROPOLOGY Norway. Diana Espírito santo is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Research Center in Anthropology at the New University of Lisbon. She lives in Lisbon, Portugal.

special interest 79 “in this highly original book, Bonnie Composing Japanese Musical Modernity C. Wade skillfully presents a com- Bonnie C. Wade plicated story by weaving together the connections between political When we think of composers like Mo- Wade examines the history of com- conditions, cultural environments, zart or Beethoven, we usually envision posers in Japanese society, looking at and social expectations. By focus- an isolated artist separate from the the creative and economic opportuni- ing on these connections between orchestra—someone alone in a study, ties that have sprung up around them— surrounded by staff paper—and in Eu- or that they forged—during Japan’s social domains, she establishes a rope and America this image generally astonishingly fast modernization. She dynamic scene that cannot easily has been accurate. For most of Japan’s shows that modernist Japanese com- be captured by single concepts musical history, however, no such role posers have not bought into the high such as modernization, westerniza- existed—composition and perfor- modernist concept of the autonomous tion, or globalization. she provides mance were deeply intertwined. Only artist, instead remaining connected to a study that is as much about when Japan began to embrace Western the people. Articulating Japanese mod- culture in the late nineteenth century ernism in this way, Wade tells a larger composers, music organizations, did the role of the composer emerge. story of international musical life, of and social history as it is about In Composing Japanese Musical Modernity, the spaces in which tradition and mo- the making of Japanese musical Bonnie C. Wade uses an investigation dernity are able to meet and, ultimately, modernity—a process that is still of this new musical role to offer new in- where modernity itself has been made. ongoing.” sights not just into Japanese music but —Frederick Lau, Japanese modernity at large. university of Hawaii at Ma¯noa Bonnie C. Wade is professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of many books, including Imaging Sound: An Ethnomusicological Study of Music, Art, Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology and Culture in Mughal India, also published by the University of Chicago Press, and, most recently, Music in Japan: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture. DECEMBEr 272 p., 1 halftone 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08521-0 Cloth $90.00x/£63.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08535-7 Paper $30.00s/£21.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08549-4 ETHNOMUSICOLOGY ASIAN STUDIES “on the surface, More Important More Important Than the Music Than the Music is an esoteric book, A History of Jazz Discography but Bruce d. epperson has suc- BruCe d. epperson cessfully managed to breathe life into the subject, weaving a story Today, jazz is considered high art, Epperson examines recorded jazz that opens up the field to a broader America’s national music, and the cata- from its careless handling as a novelty base of interest. He deals in fine log of its recordings—its discography— in the 1920s and ’30s, through the del- detail with the origins and develop- is often taken for granted. But behind uge of 12-inch vinyl in the middle of jazz discography is a fraught and highly the twentieth century, to the use of ment of jazz discography, providing colorful history of research, fanaticism, computers by today’s discographers. fascinating personal background and the simple desire to know who Though he focuses much of his atten- on the major figures as well as ad- played what, where, and when. This his- tion on comprehensive discographies, dressing foundational issues such tory gets its first full-length treatment he also examines the development of a as plagiarism. a major contribution in Bruce D. Epperson’s More Important variety of related listings, such as buy- to jazz studies.” Than the Music. Following the dedicated er’s guides and library catalogs, and he —eric Charry, few who sought to keep jazz’s legacy or- closes with a look toward discography’s Wesleyan university ganized, Epperson tells a fascinating future. From the little black book to the story of archival pursuit in the face of full-featured online database, More Im- negligence and deception, a tale that portant Than the Music offers a history OCTOBEr 304 p., 11 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06753-7 saw curses and threats regularly em- not just of jazz discography but of the Cloth $45.00s/£31.50 ployed, with fisticuffs and lawsuits only profoundly human desire to preserve E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06767-4 slightly rarer. history itself. MUSIC HISTOrY Bruce d. epperson is an attorney and independent scholar and member of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections. He is the author of Peddling Bicycles to America: The Rise of 80 special interest an Industry. He lives in Miami. Tristan’s Shadow “Tristan’s Shadow is an important, Sexuality and the Total Work of Art after Wagner highly intelligent, and ambitious study. rigorously researched, aDrian Daub blissfully unencumbered by ca- Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, and Siegfried. acoustics and the metaphysics of sexual nonical narratives, and written with Parsifal. Tristan und Isolde. Both revered difference. adrian Daub’s signature verve, this and reviled, Richard Wagner conceived Drawing on the discourses of psy- book provides a new, and entirely some of the nineteenth century’s most choanalysis, evolutionary biology, and compelling, account of German important operatic productions—and other developing fields of study that opera after Wagner. it will undoubt- created some of the most indelible informed Wagner’s world, Adrian Daub edly become standard reading in characters ever to grace the stage. But traces the influence of Gesamtkunst- over the course of his polarizing career, werk and eroticism from their classic musicology and opera studies, in Wagner also composed nearly twenty expressions in Tristan und Isolde into German studies and comparative volumes of writing on opera. His in- the work of the generation of compos- literature, and in the history of fluential concept ofGesamtkunstwerk — ers that followed, including Zemlinsky, sexuality.” the “total work of art”—famously and d’Albert, Schreker, and Strauss. For —ryan Minor, controversially offered a way to unify decades after Wagner’s death, Daub author of Choral Fantasies the different media of an opera into a writes, these composers continued to coherent whole. Less well-known, how- grapple with his ideas and with his over- DECEMBER 240 p. 6 x 9 ever, are Wagner’s strange theories on whelming legacy, trying in vain to write ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08213-4 Cloth $45.00s/£31.50 sexuality—like his ideas about erotic their way out from Tristan’s shadow. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08227-1 adrian Daub is assistant professor of German studies at Stanford University. He is the author MUSIC EUROPEAN HISTORY of Uncivil Unions: The Metaphysics of Marriage in German Idealism and Romanticism and Four- Handed Monsters: Four-Hand Piano Playing and the Making of Nineteenth Century Domestic Culture.

“Claire laurier Decoteau is at the forefront of the new global sociol- Ancestors and Antiretrovirals ogy. Her articulation of analysis The Bio-Politics of HIV/AIDS in Post-Apartheid South Africa with ethnographic detail is expert, Claire laurier DeCoteau yet reads effortlessly; her ability to view the political complexities of In the years since the end of apartheid, about how this came to pass. Decoteau South africa from a new theoretical South Africans have enjoyed a progres- traces the historical shifts in health sive constitution, considerable access policy after apartheid and describes angle is admirable; and her depth to social services for the poor and sick, their effects, detailing, in particular, of understanding about what is at and a booming economy that has made the changing relationship between bio- stake in the fight over aiDS is rel- their nation into one of the wealthiest medical and indigenous health care, evant to anyone who wonders how on the continent. At the same time, both at the national and the local level. power works all over the globe. South Africa experiences extremely Decoteau tells this story from the per- Ancestors and Antiretrovirals will unequal income distribution, and its spective of those living with and dying citizens suffer the highest prevalence of from AIDS in Johannesburg’s squatter be an iconic text for a new genera- HIV in the world. As Archbishop Des- camps. At the same time, she exposes tion of global work, and marks the mond Tutu has noted, “AIDS is South the complex and often contradictory emergence of a bold new theoreti- Africa’s new apartheid.” ways that the South African govern- cal voice in sociology.” In Ancestors and Antiretrovirals, ment has failed to balance the demands —isaac ariail reed, Claire Laurier Decoteau backs up Tu- of neoliberal capital with the consider- author of Interpretation and tu’s assertion with powerful arguments able health needs of its population. Social Knowledge

Claire laurier Decoteau is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Illinois at Chi- OCTOBER 368 p., 27 halftones, cago, where she teaches courses in social theory, the sociology of knowledge, and health 7 tables 6 x 9 and medicine. She lives in Chicago. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06445-1 Cloth $95.00x/£66.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06459-8 Paper $32.50s/£23.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06462-8 AFRICAN STUDIES SOCIOLOGY

special interest 81 “Religious Bodies Politic is an Religious Bodies Politic ethnographically detailed and Rituals of sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism theoretically ambitious work that anya BeRnstein boldly brings together three topics of anthropological inquiry that are Religious Bodies Politic examines the shows, certain people and their bodies usually kept apart: postsocialism, complex relationship between transna- became key sites through which Bury- Buddhism, and transnational- tional religion and politics through the ats conformed to or challenged Russian ism. anya Bernstein succeeds in lens of one cosmopolitan community in political rule. she presents particular untangling the surprising ways in siberia: Buryats, who live in a semiau- cases of these emblematic bodies— tonomous republic within Russia with a dead bodies of famous monks, tem- which Buddhism lies at the heart of large Buddhist population. Looking at porary bodies of reincarnated lamas, the ongoing restructuring of Buryat religious transformation among Bury- ascetic and celibate bodies of Buddhist social worlds, cultural forms, and ats across changing political econo- monastics, and dismembered bodies of political imaginaries in the wake of mies, Anya Bernstein argues that under lay disciples given as imaginary gifts to the collapse of state socialism and conditions of rapid social change— spirits—to investigate the specific ways the rise of global market capitalism.” such as those that accompanied the in which religion and politics have in- —morton axel Pedersen, Russian Revolution, the Cold War, and tersected. Contributing to the growing university of Copenhagen the fall of the soviet Union—Buryats literature on postsocialism and studies have used Buddhist “body politics” to of sovereignty that focus on the body, Buddhism and Modernity articulate their relationship not only Religious Bodies Politic is a fascinating with the Russian state, but also with the illustration of how this community em- NOvEMBER 272 p., 27 halftones, larger Buddhist world. ployed Buddhism to adapt to key mo- 6 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07255-5 During these periods, Bernstein ments of political change. Cloth $85.00x/£59.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07272-2 anya Bernstein is assistant professor of anthropology and social studies at Harvard University. Paper $27.50s/£19.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07269-2 ANTHROPOLOGY ASIAN STUDIES

“this remarkable ethnography of Economy of Words monetary policy making by central Communicative Imperatives in Central Banks bankers, and the academics with Douglas R. Holmes whom they engage intellectually, sets a new standard for the Markets are artifacts of language—so among others, and shows how bank of- anthropology of finance. up to now, Douglas R. Holmes argues in this deeply ficials have created a new monetary re- we have lacked a careful, detailed researched look at central banks and gime that relies on collaboration with account of how economic facts are the people who run them. Working at the public to achieve the ends of mon- the intersection of anthropology, lin- etary policy. Central bankers, Holmes performed that is rigorous and guistics, and economics, he shows how argues, have shifted the conceptual empirical enough to convince those central bankers have been engaging in anchor of monetary affairs away from whose intellectual propensities lie communicative experiments that pre- standards such as gold or fixed ex- elsewhere. Economy of Words is date the financial crisis and continue change rates and toward an evolving re- such a book.” to be refined amid its unfolding tur- lationship with the public, one rooted —annelise Riles, moil—experiments that do not merely in sentiments and expectations. Going author of Collateral Knowledge describe the economy, but actually cre- behind closed doors to reveal the intel- ate its distinctive features. lectual world of central banks, Economy DECEMBER 264 p., 3 line drawings Holmes examines the New York of Words offers provocative new insights 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08759-7 District Branch of the Federal Reserve, into the way our economic circumstanc- Cloth $85.00x/£59.50 the European Central Bank, Deutsche es are conceptualized and ultimately ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08762-7 Bundesbank, and the Bank of England, managed. Paper $27.50s/£19.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08776-4 Douglas R. Holmes is professor of anthropology at Binghamton University, sUNY. He is the ANTHROPOLOGY ECONOMICS author of Cultural Disenchantments: Worker Peasantries in Northeast Italy and Integral Europe: Fast-Capitalism, Multiculturalism, Neofascism.

82 special interest Peter Geschiere Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust Africa in Comparison

n Dante’s Inferno, the lowest circle of Hell is reserved for traitors, those who betrayed their closest companions. In a wide range of I literatures and mythologies such intimate aggression is a source of ultimate terror, and in Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust, Peter Geschiere sketches it as a central ember at the core of human relationships, one brutally revealed in the practice of witchcraft. Examining witchcraft in its variety of forms throughout the globe, he shows how this often misunderstood practice is deeply structured by intimacy and the pow- “Peter Geschiere presents a sensitive ers it affords. In doing so, he offers not only a comprehensive look at interpretation of witchcraft as both a dis- contemporary witchcraft but also a fresh—if troubling—new way to course and a lived reality, zooming into think about intimacy itself. his fine-grained fieldwork material and Geschiere begins in the forests of southeast Cameroon with the then zooming back out to give histori- Maka, who fear “witchcraft of the house” above all else. Drawing a cal, sociological, and political-economic variety of local conceptions of intimacy into a global arc, he tracks context. As in The Perils of Belonging, he notions of the home and family—and witchcraft’s transgression of takes what might seem to be exceptional them—throughout Africa, Europe, Brazil, and Oceania, showing that African circumstances and puts them in witchcraft provides powerful ways of addressing issues that are crucial conversation with comparable cases from to social relationships. Indeed, by uncovering the link between intima- other parts of the world, allowing him to cy and witchcraft in so many parts of the world, he paints a provocative clarify what is really at stake—not only in picture of human sociality that scrutinizes some of the most prevalent Africa, but all over the globe.” views held by contemporary social science. —Mike McGovern, author of Unmasking the State One of the few books to situate witchcraft in a global context, Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust is at once a theoretical tour de force and SEPTEmBER 312 p. 6 x 9 an empirically rich and lucid take on a difficult-to-understand spiritual ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04758-4 Cloth $75.00x/£52.50 practice and the private spaces it so greatly affects. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04761-4 Paper $25.00s/£17.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04775-1 Peter Geschiere is professor of African anthropology at the University of Am- ANTHROPOLOGY AFRICAN STUDIES sterdam. He is the author of many books, including, most recently The Perils of Belonging: Autochthony, Citizenship, and Exclusion in Africa and Europe, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

special interest 83 “The Scattered Family is a highly en- The Scattered Family gaging and well-researched book Parenting, African Migrants, and Global Inequality on a neglected topic that is sure to Cati Coe interest not only africanist scholars but anyone interested in transna- Today’s unprecedented migration of and dynamic set of familial concepts, tional migration and its effects on people around the globe in search of habits, relationships, and expecta- the family. exploring the nature of work has had a widespread and trou- tions—what she calls repertoires—that family ties, particularly those be- bling result: the separation of families. have developed over time, through pre- In The Scattered Family, Cati Coe offers a vious encounters with global capital- tween parents and children, among sophisticated examination of this phe- ism. Separated immigrant families, she Ghanaians who have emigrated nomenon among Ghanaians living in demonstrates, use these repertoires to to the United states and Britain Ghana and abroad. Challenging over- help themselves navigate immigration for work, Cati Coe contextualizes simplified concepts of globalization as law, the lack of child care, and a host of a host of carefully told narratives a wholly unchecked force, she details other problems, as well as to help raise within the realm of immigration law the diverse and creative ways Ghanaian children and maintain relationships the families have adapted long-standing best way they know how. Examining this and policy, addressing the lives of familial practices to a contemporary, complex interplay between the local and these migrants from a number of global setting. global, Coe ultimately argues for a re- different, intriguing angles.” Drawing on ethnographic and ar- thinking of what family itself means. —Jennifer Hasty, chival research, Coe uncovers a rich University of Pennsylvania Cati Coe is associate professor of anthropology at Rutgers University. She is the author of NOvEmBER 256 p., 8 halftones, Dilemmas of Culture in African Schools: Youth, Nationalism, and the Transformation of Knowledge, 2 maps, 4 tables 6 x 9 also published by the University of Chicago Press. She lives in Philadelphia. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07224-1 Cloth $85.00x/£59.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07238-8 Paper $27.50s/£19.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07241-8 AFRICAN STUDIES ANTHROPOLOGY

“Democracy against Development Democracy against Development realizes a lot of the promise of the new political anthropology of india. Lower Caste Politics and Political Modernity in Postcolonial India Jeffrey Witsoe’s ethnographic focus Jeffrey Witsoe ensures that the rich and diverse struggle over caste and its political Hidden behind the much-touted suc- linking locally powerful caste groups to forms can be revealed. He is able cess story of India’s emergence as an state institutions, which has effectively to show precisely how colonially economic superpower is another, far created a postcolonial patronage state. structured caste, as identity and more complex narrative of the nation’s He then looks at the rise of lower-caste recent history, one in which economic politics in one of India’s poorest and power, is reshaped in the working development is frequently countered by most populous states, Bihar, showing of indian democracy.” profoundly unsettling, and often vio- how this increase in democratic par- —Kalyanakrishnan sivaramakrishnan, lent, political movements. In Democracy ticipation has radically threatened the yale University against Development, Jeffrey Witsoe in- patronage state by systematically weak- vestigates this counternarrative, uncov- ening its institutions and disrupting South Asia Across the Disciplines ering an antagonistic relationship be- its development projects. By depicting OCTOBER 256 p., 1 line drawing, tween recent democratic mobilization democracy and development as they 8 tables 6 x 9 and development-oriented governance truly are in India—in tension—Witsoe ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06316-4 in India. reveals crucial new empirical and theo- Cloth $85.00x/£59.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06347-8 Witsoe looks at the history of co- retical insights about the long-term tra- Paper $27.50s/£19.50 lonialism in India and its role in both jectory of democratization in the larger E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06350-8 shaping modern caste identities and postcolonial world. ANTHROPOLOGY ASIAN STUDIES Jeffrey Witsoe is assistant professor of anthropology at Union College in Schenectady, NY.

84 special interest Housing and the Financial Crisis Edited by EdwaRd l. GlaEsER and todd sinai

Conventional wisdom held that housing American housing market, accounting prices couldn’t fall. But the spectacular for why certain areas experienced less boom and bust of the housing market volatility than others. It then exam- during the first decade of the twenty- ines the causes of the boom and bust, National Bureau of Economic first century and millions of foreclosed including the availability of credit, the Research Conference Report homeowners have made it clear that perceived risk reduction due to the se- auguSt 464 p., 125 line drawings, housing is no different from any other curitization of mortgages, and the in- 68 tables 6 x 9 asset in its ability to climb and crash. crease in lending from foreign sources. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03058-6 Cloth $110.00x/£77.00 Finally, it examines a range of policies Housing and the Financial Crisis E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03061-6 looks at what happened to prices and that might address some of the sources ECONOMICS construction both during and after the of recent instability. housing boom in different parts of the

Edward l. Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University and a research associate and director of the Working Group on Urban Economics at the NBER. todd sinai is associate professor of real estate and business economics and public policy at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a research associate of the NBER.

Globalization in an Age of Crisis Multilateral Economic Cooperation in the Twenty-First Century Edited by RobERt C. FEEnstRa and alan M. tayloR With an Afterword by Martin Wolf National Bureau of Economic Along with its painful economic costs, Prompted by these questions, Rob- Research Conference Report the financial crisis of 2008 raised con- ert C. Feenstra and Alan M. Taylor have cerns over the future of international brought together top researchers with JaNuary 552 p., 57 line drawings 6 x 9 policy making. As in recessions past, new policy makers and practitioners whose ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03075-3 Cloth $110.00x/£77.00 policy initiatives emerged that placed contributions consider the ways in E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03089-0 greater importance on protecting nation- which the global economic order might ECONOMICS al interests than promoting international address the challenges of globaliza- economic cooperation. Whether in fiscal tion that have arisen over the last two or monetary policies, the control of cur- decades and that have been intensified rencies and capital flows, the regulation by the recent crisis. Chapters in this of finance, or the implementation of pro- volume consider the critical linkages tectionist policies and barriers to trade, between issues, including exchange there has been an almost worldwide rates, global imbalances, and financial trend toward the prioritizing of national regulation, and plumb the political and economic security. But what are the un- economic outcomes of past policies for derlying economic causes of this trend, what they might tell us about the future and what can economic research reveal of global economic cooperation. about the possible consequences?

Robert C. Feenstra is professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Cali- fornia, Davis, where he also holds the C. Bryan Cameron Distinguished Chair in Interna- tional Economics. He is director of the International Trade and Investment Program of the NBER. alan M. taylor is the Souder Family Professor of Arts and Sciences in the Depart- ment of Economics at the University of Virginia and a research associate of the NBER.

special interest 85 Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 27 Edited by JEffrEy r. Brown

Tax policy was a central part of the re- enue and spending, the papers in this cent hyperpartisan debates over the volume are invaluable and timely tools “fiscal cliff.” In this political climate, it for anyone interested in moving beyond National Bureau of Economic is vital for rigorous empirical research the talking points to the hard numbers Research Tax Policy and the to elevate policy debates above the and thorough analyses published by Economy rhetoric. In keeping with the NBER’s America’s largest nonpartisan economic tradition of excellence, Volume 27 of research organization. This year’s vol- AuguSt 160 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09779-4 the Tax Policy and the Economy series ume features six papers by leading Cloth $60.00x/£42.00 facilitates a conversation between aca- scholars who bring their considerable E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09782-4 demic researchers and the Washington, expertise to bear on issues related to ECONOMICS DC, policy community to evaluate and education funding, labor supply, taxa- analyze tax and spending policy. But as tion, fiscal adjustments, and the overall our nation moves forward in its effort to US fiscal outlook. reduce the long-term gap between rev-

Jeffrey r. Brown is the William G. Karnes Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a research associate of the NBER.

Crime and Justice, Volume 42 Crime and Justice in America: 1975–2025 Edited by MichaEl Tonry

For the American criminal justice sys- for the timing of particular issues and tem, 1975 was a watershed year. Offend- research advances? What did science er rehabilitation and individualized reveal about crime and justice, and how sentencing fell from favor. The partisan did that knowledge influence policy? politics of “law and order” took over. Where are we now, and, perhaps even Among the results four decades later more important, where are we going? are the world’s harshest punishments The contributors to this volume and highest imprisonment rate. Policy bring unsurpassed breadth and depth makers’ interest in what science could of knowledge to bear in answering tell them plummeted just when scien- these questions. They include Philip J. tific work on crime, recidivism, and the Cook, Francis T. Cullen, Jeffrey Fagan, justice system began to blossom. Some David Farrington, Daniel S. Nagin, Pe- Crime and Justice policy areas—sentencing, gun vio- ter Reuter, Lawrence W. Sherman, and lence, drugs, youth violence—became OCtOBEr 400 p. 6 x 9 Franklin E. Zimring. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09751-0 evidence-free zones. In others—devel- For thirty-five years, the Crime and Cloth $90.00x/£63.00 opmental crime prevention, policing, Justice series has provided a platform E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09765-7 recidivism studies—evidence mattered. for the work of sociologists, psycholo- LAW Crime and Justice in America: 1975–2025 gists, criminal lawyers, justice scholars, tells how policy and knowledge did and and political scientists as it explores the did not interact over time and charts full range of issues concerning crime, prospects for the future. What accounts its causes, and its remedies.

Michael Tonry is director of the Institute on Crime and Public Policy and the McKnight Presi- dential Professor in Criminal Law and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota. He is also a senior fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement.

86 special interest Afterall Summer 2013, Issue 33 Edited by nuria Enguita Mayo, MElissa gronlund, pablo lafuEntE, andErs KrEugEr, and stEphaniE sMith

Since its launch in 1999, Afterall, a jour- amongst contemporary artists working nal of art, context, and inquiry, has across a range of media. Artists fea- offered in-depth considerations of the tured include Mark Leckey, Xavier Le work of contemporary artists, along Roy, Josef Dabernig, and Simryn Gill. with essays that broaden the context in Accompanying essays consider lecture- which to understand it. Published three performances as an emerging art form, times a year, Afterall also features essays the ubiquitous presence of television sets on art history and critical theory. and serials in recent exhibitions, and the Simryn Gill, my Own Private anGkOr #5, 2007–09, Issue 33 looks at the current in- reperformance of historical works by a Silver Gelatin Print, 39.4 x 37.5cm. PhOtOGraPh: Jenni carter. cOurteSy the artiSt terest in performance and gesture younger generation of artists. nuria Enguita Mayo is part of the program arteypensamiento at the Universidad Internacio- AvAilAble 130 p. 71/2 x 113/4 nal de Andalucía. Melissa gronlund teaches at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, ISBN-13: 978-1-84638-120-1 University of Oxford. pablo lafuente is managing editor of Afterall Books and One Work Paper $10.00/£7.00 Series and coeditor of Afterall and Afterall Books, Exhibition Histories Series. He is also associate curator at the Office for Contemporary Art Norway. anders Kreuger is a cura- ART tor at M HKA, Antwerp, and a writer currently based in Berlin. stephanie smith is deputy director and chief curator at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago.

Metropolitan Museum Journal Volume 47, 2012 Edited by the MEtropolitan MusEuM of art

The Metropolitan Museum Journal, issued Charles of France, canvas matches in annually by the Metropolitan Museum Vermeer, the life and work of Claude of Art, publishes original research on Simpol, the Bellangé Album, Thomas works in the Museum’s collections and Eakins’s The Chess Players, letters from the areas of investigation they repre- Costantino Ressman to William Riggs, sent. Volume 47 includes essays on the collectors of arms and armor in nine- Tell Basta Treasure, two Assyrian re- teenth-century Paris, and the Duc de liefs from the palace of Sargon II, the Dino Collection of Armor. Cloisters Annunciation by the Master of

AvAilAble 240 p., 284 color plates 81/2 x 11 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05912-9 Paper $82.00x/£ 57.50 ART

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Edited by Don ShArE and ChriSTiAn WiMAn The Open Door One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine

o celebrate the centennial of Poetry, editors Don Share and Christian Wiman combed the magazine’s vast archives to T create a new kind of anthology, energized by a self-imposed limitation to one hundred poems. Rather than attempting to be exhaustive or definitive—or even to offer the most familiar works—they have assembled a collection of poems that, in their juxtapositions, echo across a century of poetry. The result is an anthology like no other, a celebration of idiosyncrasy and invention, a vital monument to an institution that refuses to be static, and, most of all, a book that “A high-wire anthology of electric reso- lovers of poetry will devour, debate, and keep close at hand. nance. . . . The editors arranged poems by “With this collection, Share and Wiman want only to promote poets of the pantheon and poets over- the art of poetry, something they do exceedingly well. Highly looked, underrated, or new in pairings recommended.”—Library Journal, starred review and sequences of thrilling contrapuntal “A wonderful anthology. . . . In many ways this is a wonderfully dynamics. Christian Wiman’s opening democratic anthology—to get in, you don’t have to be famous, you just essay is titled ‘Mastery and Mystery,’ need to be good.”—National Post and those are, indeed, the forces at work “If readers would like to sample the genius and diversity of Ameri- here, inducing readers to marvel anew at can poetry in the last century, there’s no better place to start than The the strange impulse to write poetry and Open Door.”—World Literature Today the profound effort required to do it well.” —Booklist Don Share, senior editor of Poetry, is a poet and the author, editor, or translator of numerous books. Christian Wiman, editor of Poetry from 2003 to 2013, is the author of three books of poetry, a volume of essays, and a memoir. AuguST 224 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10401-0 Paper $15.00/£10.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-75073-6 POETRY Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-75070-5

88 paperbacks NeiL STeiNberg You Were Never in Chicago

“A rollicking newspaperman’s memoir . . . and a strong case for Second City exceptionalism.”—New York Times

n 1952 the New Yorker published a three-part essay by A. J. Li- ebling in which he dubbed Chicago the “Second City.” From I garbage collection to the skyline, nothing escaped Liebling’s withering gaze. Among the outraged responses from Chicago residents was one that Liebling described as the apotheosis of such criticism: a postcard that read, simply, “You were never in Chicago.” “A triumph.” Neil Steinberg has lived in and around Chicago for more than —Toronto Star three decades—ever since he left his hometown of Berea, Ohio, to attend Northwestern—yet he remains fascinated by the dynamics “Like Studs Terkel before him, Neil Stein- captured in Liebling’s anecdote. In You Were Never in Chicago, Stein- berg mixes memoir, history, and travel- berg weaves the story of his own coming-of-age as a young outsider ogue in You Were Never in Chicago as he who made his way into the inner circles and upper levels of Chicago takes readers along on an engaging tour journalism with a nuanced portrait of the city that would surprise even of the characters—and character—of his lifelong residents. adopted city, past and present.” Throughout, Steinberg never loses the curiosity and close observa- —American Way tion of an outsider, while thoughtfully considering how this perspective has shaped the city, and what it really means to belong. Intimate Chicago Visions and Revisions and layered, You Were Never in Chicago will be a welcome addition to AuGuST 256 p. 6 x 9 the bookshelves of all Chicagoans—be they born in the city or forever ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10415-7 Paper $15.00/£10.50 transplanted. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92427-4 AMERICAN HISTORY BIOGRAPHY Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77205-9 Neil Steinberg is a columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times, where he has been on staff since 1987. He is the author of seven books, including Drunkard: A Hard- Drinking Life and Hatless Jack: The President, the Fedora, and the History of Ameri- can Style.

paperbacks 89 Michael D. GorDin The Pseudoscience Wars Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe

he publication of Immanuel Velikovsky’s Worlds in Collision in 1950 was an event: the book was an instant best seller and Tlaunched Velikovsky on a long career as a writer and public figure opining on questions of science, history, myth, and more. But at the same time, Velikovsky and his theories—which claimed that ancient mythological and religious writings revealed Earth’s hitherto un- “Those who are interested in how bad known history of natural disasters and cosmic near-misses—were vigor- ideas start, how they diffuse, how they ously attacked by scientists, who saw them as unscientific nonsense. In covet and resist confrontation, and how The Pseudoscience Wars, Michael D. Gordin resurrects the largely forgot- they wax and wane in popularity over ten figure of Velikovsky and uses his strange career and surprisingly time will find much food for thought in influential writings to explore the changing definitions of the line that this gripping book.” separates legitimate scientific inquiry from what is deemed bunk and —Science to show how vital this question remains to us today. “A slyly funny writer. . . . Make no mistake: Michael D. Gordin’s “Scholarly and highly readable. . . . sympathies are not with the occult. His fascination with pseudoscience Michael D. Gordin’s historical analysis is more like a negative method: the experts define the boundaries of of pseudoscience remains disturbingly their domain by fending off the quacks. For Gordin, pseudoscience is relevant.” an instrument by which he takes the temperature of the past. . . . The —Nature Pseudoscience Wars is a relatively slim volume, but Gordin siphons into it an overwhelming amount of information.”—New Republic SEptEmBEr 304 p., 1 halftone 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10172-9 Paper $17.50/£12.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30443-4 Michael D. Gordin is professor of history at Princeton University and the au- SCIENCE thor of a number of books, including Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30442-7 the End of the Atomic Monopoly.

90 paperbacks AlAn Gilbert Black Patriots and Loyalists Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence

e commonly think of the American Revolution as simply the war for independence from British colonial rule. But, W of course, that independence actually applied to only a portion of the American population—African Americans would still be bound in slavery for nearly another century. Alan Gilbert asks us to rethink what we know about the Revolutionary War, to realize that while white Americans were fighting for their freedom, many black “Drawing on first-person accounts and Americans were joining the British imperial forces to gain theirs. other primary sources, Alan Gilbert tells Further, a movement led by sailors—both black and white—pushed an often inspiring but ultimately sad strongly for emancipation on the American side. There were actually story, since American slavery endured two wars being waged at once: a political revolution for independence and even expanded after the revolution. from Britain and a social revolution for emancipation and equality. Still, the personal stories of those who fought on the patriots’ side in an all- Gilbert presents persuasive evidence that slavery could have been black regiment and on the loyalist side abolished during the Revolution itself if either side had fully pursued in exchange for a promise of freedom the military advantage of freeing slaves and pressing them into com- are fascinating and informative. Gilbert bat, and his extensive research also reveals that free blacks on both convincingly asserts that their example sides played a crucial and underappreciated role in the actual fighting. eventually helped inspire other liberation Black Patriots and Loyalists contends that the struggle for emancipation movements in the Western Hemisphere.” was not only basic to the Revolution itself, but was a rousing force that —Booklist would inspire freedom movements like the abolition societies of the North and the black loyalist pilgrimages for freedom in Nova Scotia SEpTEMBER 392 p. 6 x 9 and Sierra Leone. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10155-2 Paper $17.50/£12.50 “An elegant and passionate writer, Alan Gilbert pulls no punches, E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-29309-7 and not surprisingly a number of white founders attract his censure.” AMERICAN HISTORY —Historian Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-29307-3

Alan Gilbert is a John Evans Professor in the Josef Korbel School of Interna- tional Studies at the University of Denver. He is the author of Marx’s Politics: Communists and Citizens, Democratic Individuality, and Must Global Politics Constrain Democracy? He lives with his wife, Paula, and their son, Sage, in the mountains of Morrison, Colorado.

paperbacks 91 STeVen Vogel The Life of a Leaf

n its essence, science is a way of looking at and thinking about the world. In The Life of a Leaf, Steven Vogel illuminates this approach, I using the humble leaf as a model. Whether plant or person, every organism must contend with its immediate physical environment, a world that both limits what organisms can do and offers innumer- able opportunities for evolving fascinating ways of challenging those limits. Here, Vogel explains these interactions, examining through the example of the leaf the extraordinary designs that enable life to adapt to its physical world. In Vogel’s account, the leaf serves as a biological everyman, an ordinary and ubiquitous living thing that nonetheless speaks volumes about our environment as well as its own. Thus in exploring the leaf’s “This is one of those books that power- world, Vogel simultaneously explores our own. fully, and often entertainingly, demystifies science.” “This book is a happy reminder that science can become much less —Nature daunting in the hands of an enthusiastic teacher.”—London Review of Books AUgUST 320 p., 47 color plates, “Steven Vogel capably demonstrates how a scientist can unite 18 halftones, 10 line drawings 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10477-5 micro and macro perspectives in looking at the natural world. . . . Paper $25.00/£17.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-85942-2 His firsthand account of many of his own experiments, and the joy NATURE SCIENCE with which he recounts them, brings the scientific process to life.” Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-85939-2 —Publishers Weekly “Steven Vogel’s obvious enthusiasm for the subject and his skill at writing shine through with clarity and joy.”—Library Journal

Steven Vogel is a James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of biology at Duke University. His most recent books include Cats’ Paws and Catapults and Glimpses of Creatures in Their Physical Worlds.

92 paperbacks LAwrence M. PrIncIPe The Secrets of Alchemy

n The Secrets of Alchemy, Lawrence M. Principe, one of the world’s leading authorities on the subject, brings alchemy out of the shad- I ows and restores it to its important place in human history and culture. By surveying what alchemy was and how it began, developed, and overlapped with a range of ideas and pursuits, Principe illuminates the practice. He vividly depicts the place of alchemy during its heyday in early modern Europe, and then explores how alchemy has fit into wider views of the cosmos and humanity, touching on its enduring place in literature, fine art, theater, and religion as well as its recent acceptance as a serious subject of study for historians of science. In ad- “An elegant, readable book, packed with dition, he introduces the reader to some of the most fascinating alche- information and revelation.” mists, such as Zosimos and Basil Valentine, whose lives dot alchemy’s —Anthony Grafton, Science long reign from the third century down to the present day. Through his exploration of alchemists and their times, Principe pieces together “Lawrence M. Principe has long been at closely guarded clues from obscure and fragmented texts to reveal the vanguard of scholars who seek to alchemy’s secrets, and—most exciting for budding alchemists—uses show that alchemists were really early them to recreate many of the most famous recipes in his lab, including chemists, not blindly struggling to turn those for the “glass of antimony” and “philosophers’ tree.” This unique substances into gold but operating, like approach brings the reader closer to the actual work of alchemy than scientists today, within an intellectual any other book. framework that guided their practical “The Secrets of Alchemy comes closer than any other single work to work. In The Secrets of Alchemy, an el- explaining the grounds—rational and empirical, as well as religious egantly written summary of two decades and wishful—for alchemy’s longevity. Lawrence M. Principe’s delight- of his own research, Principe describes ful writing style brings to life a depth of learning matched by few in this framework.” the field.”—Nature —Wall Street Journal

Lawrence M. Principe is the Drew Professor of the Humanities in the Depart- Synthesis ment of the History of Science and Technology and the Department of Chem- istry at Johns Hopkins University. His books include Alchemy Tried in the Fire: AuguST 296 p., 12 color plates, Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry, also published by the Univer- 23 halftones, 4 line drawings 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10379-2 sity of Chicago Press. Paper $15.00/£10.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92378-9 HISTORY SCIENCE Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-68295-2

paperbacks 93 William GErmano From Dissertation to Book Second Edition

When a dissertation crosses my desk, I usually want to grab it by its metaphorical lapels and give it a good shake. “You know something!” I would say if it could hear me. “Now tell it to us in language we can understand!”

ince its publication in 2005, From Dissertation to Book has helped thousands of young academic authors get their books beyond S the thesis committee and into the hands of interested publishers and general readers. Now revised and updated to reflect the Praise for the previous edition evolution of scholarly publishing, this edition includes a new chapter “With insight, compassion, and wit, arguing that the future of academic writing is in the hands of young William Germano has done all dissertation scholars who meet the broader expectations of readers rather than the writers (and dissertation supervisors) narrow requirements of academic committees. a great service. This book should be At the heart of From Dissertation to Book is the idea that revising the handed to the candidate at the conclusion dissertation is fundamentally a process of shifting its focus from the of all doctoral defenses.” concerns of a narrow audience—a committee or advisors—to those of —Eric Foner, Columbia University a broader scholarly audience that wants writing to be both informative and engaging. William Germano offers clear guidance on how to Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, do this, with advice on such topics as rethinking the table of contents, and Publishing taming runaway footnotes, and confronting the limitations of jargon.

OCtOBER 152 p., 4 line drawings, 3 tables Germano draws on his years of experience in both academia and 5 x 8 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06204-4 publishing to show writers how to turn a dissertation into a book that Paper $18.00/£12.50 an audience will actually enjoy, whether reading on a page or a screen. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06218-1 REFERENCE Germano also explores other, often overlooked, options for disserta- Previous edition ISBN-13: 978-0-226-28846-8 tions, such as journal articles or chapters in an edited work. With clear directions, engaging examples, and an eye for the idiosyncrasies of academic writing, From Dissertation to Book reveals to recent PhDs the secrets of careful and thoughtful revision—a skill that will be truly invaluable as they add “author” to their curriculum vitae.

William Germano is dean of the faculty of humanities and social sciences and professor of English literature at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Previously, he served as editor in chief at Columbia Univer- sity Press and vice president and publishing director at Routledge. 94 paperbacks RalPH W. TyleR Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction With a new Foreword by Peter S. Hlebowitsh

n 1949, a small book had a big impact on education. In just over one hundred pages, Ralph W. Tyler presented the concept that Icurriculum should be dynamic, a program under constant evaluation and revision. Curriculum had always been thought of as a static, set program, and in an era preoccupied with student testing, he offered the innovative idea that teachers and administrators should spend as much time evaluating their plans as they do assessing their students. “Ralph W. Tyler’s Basic Principles of Cur- riculum and Instruction provides school Since then, Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction has been a people with a way to act intelligently in the standard reference for anyone working with curriculum development. context of their profession. . . . Its lasting Although not a strict how-to guide, the book shows how educators can vitality has had everything to do with its critically approach curriculum planning, studying progress and retool- continuing relevance as a model for guiding when needed. Its four sections focus on setting objectives, selecting ing curriculum development efforts.” learning experiences, organizing instruction, and evaluating progress. —Peter S. Hlebowitsh, Readers will come away with a firm understanding of how to formulate from the foreword educational objectives and how to analyze and adjust their plans so that students meet the objectives. Tyler also explains that curriculum AUgUST 144 p., 1 table 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08650-7 planning is a continuous, cyclical process, an instrument of education Paper $13.00s/£9.00 that needs to be fine-tuned. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08664-4 EDUCATION This emphasis on thoughtful evaluation has kept Basic Principles of Previous edition ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82031-6 Curriculum and Instruction a relevant, trusted companion for over sixty years. And with school districts across the nation working feverishly to align their curriculum with Common Core standards, Tyler’s straightforward recommendations are sound and effective tools for educators working to create a curriculum that integrates national objectives with their students’ needs.

Ralph W. Tyler (1902–94) was professor of education and dean of the Division of the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. He also served as founding director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and chaired the committee that eventually developed the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

paperbacks 95 R. K. NaRayaN The Mahabharata A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic With a new Foreword by Wendy Doniger

he Mahabharata tells a story of such violence and tragedy that many people in India refuse to keep the full text in their Thomes, fearing that if they do, they will invite a disastrous fate upon their house. Covering everything from creation to destruction, this ancient poem remains an indelible part of Hindu culture and a landmark in ancient literature. Centuries of listeners and readers have been drawn to The Mahab- “R. K. Narayan makes this treasury of harata, which began as disparate oral ballads and grew into a sprawling Indian folklore and mythology readily epic. The modern version is famously long, and at more than 1.8 mil- accessible to the general reader. It is lion words—seven times the combined lengths of the Iliad and Odyssey an easy and pleasant introduction to a —it can be incredibly daunting. heterogeneous and complicated work. The language of Narayan’s translation is Contemporary readers have a much more accessible entry point to clear and direct; he captures the spirit of this important work, thanks to R. K. Narayan’s masterful translation the narrative.” and abridgement of the poem. Now with a new foreword by Wendy —Library Journal Doniger, as well as a concise character and place guide and a family tree, The Mahabharata is ready for a new generation of readers. As Wendy “R. K. Narayan is a trustworthy guide to Doniger explains in the foreword, “Narayan tells the stories so well the heart and mind of India.” because they’re all his stories.” He grew up hearing them, internalizing —Sunday Times their mythology, which gave him an innate ability to choose the right passages and their best translations.

ocTobER 216 p. 51/2 x 81/2 In this elegant translation, Narayan ably distills a tale that is both ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05165-9 Paper $17.00/£12.00 traditional and constantly changing. He draws from both scholarly E-book ISbN-13: 978-0-226-05747-7 analysis and creative interpretation and vividly fuses the spiritual with LITERATURE ASIAN STUDIES cobE the secular. Through this balance he has produced a translation that Previous edition ISBN-13: 978-0-226-56822-5 is not only clear, but graceful, one that stands as its own story as much as an adaptation of a larger work.

R. K. Narayan (1906–2001) was one of the most prominent Indian novelists of the twentieth century. His works include Mr. Sampath—The Printer of Malgudi, Swami and Friends, Waiting for Mahatma, and Gods, Demons, and Others, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

96 paperbacks JamEs Cuno Museums Matter In Praise of the Encyclopedic Museum

he concept of an encyclopedic museum was born of the En- lightenment, a manifestation of European society’s growing T belief that the spread of knowledge, promotion of intellectual inquiry, and trust in individual agency were crucial to human development and the future of a rational society. But in recent years, encyclopedic museums have been under attack as little more than relics and promoters of imperialism. Could it be that the encyclopedic museum has outlived its usefulness? With Museums Matter, James Cuno, president and CEO of the J. “Elegantly composed and provocative. . . . Paul Getty Trust and former president and director of the Art Institute Persuasive.” —Publishers Weekly of Chicago, replies with a resounding “No!” He takes us on a brief tour of the modern museum, from the creation of the British Museum— The Rice University Campbell Lectures the archetypal encyclopedic collection—to the present, when major museums host millions of visitors annually and play a significant role AuguST 160 p., 4 color plates, 10 halftones 51/2 x 81/2 in the cultural lives of their cities. Along the way, Cuno acknowledges ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10091-3 the legitimate questions about the role of museums in nation building Paper $15.00/£10.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-12680-7 and imperialism, but he argues strenuously that even a truly national ART museum like the Louvre can’t help but open visitors’ eyes and minds Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-12677-7 to the wide diversity of world cultures and the stunning art that is our common heritage. Ultimately Cuno makes a powerful case for the encyclopedic museum as a truly cosmopolitan institution, promoting tolerance, understanding, and a shared sense of history—values that are essential in our ever more globalized age.

James Cuno is president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust. He served as president and director of the Art Institute of Chicago from 2004 until 2011, the Courtauld Institute of Art from 2002 until 2004, and the Harvard University Art Museums from 1991 to 2002.

paperbacks 97 Beatrix Hoffman Health Care for Some Rights and Rationing in the United States since 1930

n Health Care for Some, Beatrix Hoffman offers an engaging and in-depth look at America’s long tradition of unequal access to I health care. She argues that two main features have character- ized the US health system: a refusal to adopt a right to care and a particularly American approach to the rationing of care. Health Care for Some shows that the haphazard way the US system allocates medical “Beatrix Hoffman’s rational, plainspoken services—using income, race, region, insurance coverage, and many analysis succeeds in clarifying the dis- other factors—is a disorganized, illogical, and powerful form of ration- course around a topic of pressing ing. And unlike rationing in most countries, which is intended to keep national importance, delineating parti- costs down, rationing in the United States has actually led to increased sans’ priorities, and discarding the costs, resulting in the most expensive health care system in the world. numerous distractions.” While most histories of US health care emphasize failed policy —Publishers Weekly reforms, Health Care for Some looks at the system from the ground up in order to examine how rationing is experienced by ordinary Ameri- AUgUST 360 p., 14 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10219-1 cans and how experiences of rationing have led to claims for a right Paper $17.50/£12.50 to health care. By taking this approach, Hoffman puts a much-needed E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-34805-6 CURRENT EVENTS human face on a topic that is too often dominated by talking heads. Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-34803-2 “Beatrix Hoffman’s goal is to encourage an honest debate about healthcare reform by identifying the varied forms of healthcare rationing. . . . It is a well-researched, readable primer on the development of the complex, fragmented US medical system. . . . Hoffman paints a striking picture of the human face of need.”—Times Higher Education “In the American political debate, everybody condemns the notion of ‘rationing’ health care. But Beatrix Hoffman’s meticulous history shows that rationing—by income, age, employment, etc.—has been, and remains, a central element of America’s medical system. She demonstrates that our various attempts at reform over the decades have kept the rationing mechanisms firmly in place.”—T. R. Reid, author of The Healing of America: The Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care

Beatrix Hoffman is professor in the Department of History at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insur- 98 paperbacks ance in Progressive America. MArGAret MorGAnroth Gullette Agewise Fighting the New Ageism in America

n Agewise, renowned cultural critic Margaret Morganroth Gullette reveals that much of what we dread about aging is actually the re- I sult of ageism—which we can, and should, battle as strongly as we do racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry. A bracing, controversial call for a movement of resistance, Agewise will surprise, enlighten, and, perhaps most important, bring hope to readers of all ages. “Important social criticism from a prominent scholar.”—Publishers Weekly “A must-read for anyone expecting to grow old in this culture— most of us, one hopes. Of particular interest are Gullette’s [chapters] “An instant classic. . . . Brilliant. . . . It will on cosmetic surgery, late-life sexuality, memory loss, and the suicide instantly transform the way people think of the feminist scholar Carolyn Heilbrun. . . . Gullette coined the term about aging and ageism.” —Times Higher Education ‘age studies,’ that is, a critical perspective on the entire life-course, and Agewise demonstrates that she is a master practitioner of the discipline. OCtOBEr 304 p., 2 halftones 6 x 9 She labels ignorance of old age ‘a social epidemic.’ This bias, she says, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10186-6 can be remedied not just by living, which is slow and uncertain, but by Paper $17.50/£12.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31075-6 raising one’s consciousness.”—Women’s Review of Books SELF-HELP PSYCHOLOGY Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31073-2 “Gullette has the uncanny ability to invite the reader to step close to aging bodies and souls and, then, remind us that we cannot slide into another’s life course; can never wrap ourselves in their experience of aging. It is this insight and her keen ability to turn a phrase that makes Agewise both excellent scholarship and a deeply readable and provoking book.”—Health

Margaret Morganroth Gullette is the author of three previous books, including Aged by Culture, which was chosen as a Notable Book of the Year by the Chris- tian Science Monitor, and Declining to Decline.

paperbacks 99 D. GrAHAM Burnett The Sounding of the Whale Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century

ver the course of the twentieth century, our understanding of and relationship to whales underwent astonishing O changes. With The Sounding of the Whale, D. Graham Bur- nett tells the fascinating story of the transformation of cetaceans from grotesque monsters, useful only as wallowing kegs of fat and fertilizer, to playful friends of humanity, bellwethers of environmental devasta- “A very good book.” tion, and, finally, totems of the counterculture in the Age of Aquarius. —Larry McMurtry, Harper’s A sweeping history, grounded in nearly a decade of research, The Sounding of the Whale tells a remarkable tale of how science, politics,

“A sweeping, important study of cetacean and simple human wonder intertwined to transform the way we see science and policy. . . . A gifted and often these behemoths from below. very funny writer, D. Graham Burnett “A remarkable book, an astounding piece of research.”—David bristles at the restrictions of academic Blackburn, Guardian rigor but does not abandon them. . . . “By questioning the very nature of our scientific interest in the His greatest service is to tell a story that whale, Burnett has set the tone for a new century of discovery—and, helps us understand the present-day one hopes, recovery.”—Nature political obstacles to addressing key “In other hands it might have yielded a story as dry as dust, but this environmental questions.” historian has an eye for small, telling details, resulting in an intriguing —New York Times Book Review book full of paradoxes and unlikely heroes.”—Tim Flannery, New York Review of Books SEpTEmBER 824 p., 16 color plates, 86 halftones, 18 line drawings 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10057-9 D. Graham Burnett is professor of history and history of science at Princeton Paper $30.00s/£21.00 University, where he teaches in the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08133-5 Humanities and directs graduate studies in the Program in History of Science. HISTORY NATURE He is an editor at Cabinet magazine and the author of four books. Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08130-4

100 paperbacks AlIson WInter Memory Fragments of a Modern History

he workings of memory have fascinated scientists for hundreds of years, and in Memory: Fragments of a Modern History, T Alison Winter shows that our understanding of them has changed dramatically in just the past century, with major consequences for science, medicine, and everyday life. Memories have been declared as reliable as sounds caught on tape, and they have been dismissed as inherently volatile. Researchers have tried to understand what we do when we remember by appealing to motion pictures, filing cabinets, and flashbulbs. Tracing the cultural and scientific history of such drastically opposed convictions, Winter introduces us to the inno- “Impressive. . . . Alison Winter has done an vative scientists, venturesome medical practitioners, determined police admirable job synthesizing many diverse interrogators, and, in some cases, incorrigible sensation seekers who sources into a tidy cultural history. . . . sought to master this mysterious power. Culminating in the climactic A compelling demonstration that the “memory wars” of the 1980s and ’90s, the story she tells illuminates not science of memory—like all science—is only the practices of science and medicine, but also a subject that is both a product of and an influence on the absolutely essential to how we all live our daily lives. culture from which it springs.” —Bookforum “A deft study of twentieth-century memory controversies.” —Jenny Diski, London Review of Books SEpTEmBER 336 p., 32 halftones, 1 table “A splendid book. One might even say a memorable book.” 6 x 9 —Toronto Globe and Mail ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08454-1 Paper $17.50/£12.50 “A riveting account of the past century of work on the science of E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-90260-9 HISTORY SCIENCE memory. . . . Masterful.”—Science Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-90258-6

Alison Winter is associate professor of history at the University of Chicago and the author of Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

paperbacks 101 Two Novels by PaUl ScOTT The Birds of Paradise The Chinese Love Pavilion

aul Scott is most famous for his much-beloved tetralogy The Raj Quartet, an epic that chronicles the end of the British rule in “The Birds of Paradise is a rare literary India with a cast of vividly and memorably drawn characters. bird, a novel that in a short space recre- P Inspired by Scott’s own time spent in India and Malaya during World ates a man’s lifetime. Using exotic back- War II, these two powerful novels provide valuable insight into how for- grounds, it manages to say something eign lands changed the British who worked and fought in them, hated useful about growing up—a process that and loved them. only children believe takes place mainly in childhood.” The Chinese Love Pavilion follows a young British clerk, Tom Brent, —Time who must track down a former friend—now suspected of murder—in Malaya. Tom faces great danger, both from the mysterious Malayan jungles and the political tensions between British officers, but the “One of the best English novels of its novel is perhaps most memorable for the strange, beautiful romance decade.” —Observer, between Tom and a protean Eurasian beauty whom he meets in the on The Chinese Love Pavilion eponymous Chinese Love Pavilion. A coming-of-age tale, The Birds of Paradise is the story of a boy and The Birds of Paradise his childhood friendship with the daughter of a British diplomat and SepTember 288 p. 51/2 x 81/2 the son of a raja. Scott artfully brings his young narrator’s voice to life ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08793-1 Paper $17.00/£12.00 with evocative language and an eye for detail, capturing the pangs of e-book ISbN-13: 978-0-226-08809-9 FICTION CObe childhood and the bittersweet fog of memory with nostalgic yet immediate prose. The Chinese Love Pavilion

1 1 SepTember 336 p. 5 /2 x 8 /2 Paul Scott (1920–78) was a British novelist best known for his series The Raj ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08843-3 Paper $17.00/£12.00 Quartet, which begins with The Jewel in the Crown and is also published by the e-book ISbN-13: 978-0-226-08857-0 University of Chicago Press. His other works include Staying On, winner of the FICTION CObe Man Booker Prize, and Six Days in Marapore.

102 paperbacks R. G. WAldeck Athene Palace Hitler’s “New Order” Comes to Rumania With a new Foreword by Robert D. Kaplan

n the day that Paris fell to the Nazis, R. G. Waldeck was checking into the swankiest hotel in Bucharest, the Athene OPalace. A cosmopolitan center during the war, the hotel was populated by Italian and German oilmen hoping to secure new business opportunities in Romania, international spies cloaked in fake identities, and Nazi officers whom Waldeck discovered to be intelligent but utterly bloodless. A German Jew and a reporter for Newsweek, Waldeck became a close observer of the Nazi invasion. As King Carol “The most vivid report, long or short, I first tried to placate the Nazis, then abdicated the throne in favor of have ever seen on Rumania . . . brilliantly his son, Waldeck was dressing for dinners with diplomats and cozying written and mercilessly barbed. An up to Nazi officers to gain insight and information. From her unique unusually skillful and readable book.” vantage, she watched as Romania, a country with a pro-totalitarian —Ralph Thompson, elite and a deep strain of anti-Semitism, suffered civil unrest, a Ger- New York Times man invasion, and an earthquake, before turning against the Nazis.

A striking combination of social intimacy and disinterested politi- SEPTEmBER 368 p., 1 map 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08633-0 cal analysis, Athene Palace evokes the elegance and excitement of the Paper $17.00/£12.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08647-7 dynamic international community in Bucharest before the world had EUROPEAN HISTORY mEmOIR come to grips with the horrors of war and genocide. Waldeck’s account strikingly presents the finely wrought surface of dinner parties, polite discourse, and charisma, while recognizing the undercurrents of violence and greed that ran through the denizens of the Athene Palace. “Excellent description and shrewd observation.”—Times Literary Supplement

R. G. Waldeck (1898–1982) was a German-American journalist and the author of several books, including Prelude to the Past.

paperbacks 103 “This series of enlightening medita- Book Was There tions on the experience and history Reading in Electronic Times of reading reveals what we are Andrew PiPer poised to gain and to lose with the advent of e-readers and related Much ink has been spilled lamenting tities, past and present, on page and on digital media. . . . Andrew Piper or championing the decline of printed screen, are the key to helping us under- books. In Book Was There, Andrew Piper stand the kind of reading we care about does a fine job of uncovering the shows that the rich history of reading and how new technologies will—and metaphors on which the rationality itself offers unexpected clues to what will not—change old habits. and logic of reading rest. . . . A fasci- lies in store for books—print or digi- Contending that our experience nating glance at the page as it was, tal. From medieval manuscript books of reading belies naive generalizations as it is, and as it might yet be.” to today’s interactive urban fictions, about the future of books, Book Was —Publishers Weekly Piper explores the manifold ways that There is an elegantly argued and thor- physical media have shaped how we oughly up-to-date tribute to the endur- AUgUST 208 p., 40 halftones read. In doing so, he uncovers the inti- ance of books in our ever-evolving digi- 51/2 x 81/2 mate connections we develop with our tal world. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10348-8 Paper $15.00/£10.50 reading materials—how we hold them, “Compelling. . . . Andrew Piper E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92289-8 play with them, and even where we read shows the apparent internet revolu- CURRENT EVENTS LITERATURE them—and shows how reading is in- tion as being a continuum of book Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-66978-6 terwoven with our experiences in life. culture.”—Financial Times Piper reveals that reading’s many iden-

Andrew Piper teaches German and European literature at McGill University.

“Andrew Piper has written a book about the nineteenth century’s Dreaming in Books romance with books, looking at the The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination many ways in which the physical in the Romantic Age character of a book and its illustra- Andrew PiPer tions shaped a reader’s avidity. Piper’s scholarly history is fueled At the turn of the nineteenth century, trated volumes, as well as the communi- publishing houses in London, New ties who made them, Dreaming in Books by a bookish ardor—you can feel York, Paris, Stuttgart, and Berlin pro- tells a wide-ranging story of the book’s the love that went into his foot- duced books in ever greater numbers. identity at the turn of the nineteenth notes. This writer’s thinking comes But it was not just the advent of mass century. In so doing, it shows how many straight out of the long afternoons printing that created the era’s “book- of the most pressing modern communi- he must have spent in the library, ish” culture. According to Andrew cative concerns are not unique to the digital age but emerged with a particu- pulling book after book off the Piper, romantic writing and writers played a crucial role in adjusting read- lar sense of urgency during the bookish shelves, experiencing the power not ers to this overflowing literary environ- upheavals of the romantic era. In revis- only of words but also of bindings, ment—learning how to use and to want iting the book’s rise through the prism typefaces, and illustrations.” books was importantly a product of the of romantic literature, Piper aims to —Jed Perl, symbolic operations contained within revise our assumptions about romanti- New Republic books. cism, the medium of the printed book, Examining novels, critical edi- and, ultimately, the future of the book AUgUST 320 p., 28 halftones, 5 maps tions, gift books, translations, and illus- in our so-called digital age. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10351-8 Paper $20.00s/£14.00 Andrew Piper teaches German and European literature at McGill University. E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-66974-8 LITERARY CRITICISM Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-66972-4

104 paperbacks The Earth on Show “the portrayal of the geological past Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802–1856 to a public hungry for drama and instruction is explored with great RaLph o’CoNNoR verve by Ralph o’Connor. . . . one At the turn of the nineteenth century, These authors—including men of sci- could argue that the awareness geology—and its claims that the earth ence, women, clergymen, biblical liter- of deep time has changed human had a long and colorful prehuman his- alists, hack writers, blackmailers, and perception of our place in the cos- tory—was widely dismissed as danger- prophets—borrowed freely from the mos more than any other discovery. ous nonsense. But just fifty years later, Bible, modern poetry, and the urban it was the most celebrated of Victorian entertainment industry, creating new anyone interested in how such new sciences. Ralph O’Connor tracks the forms of literature in order to transport ideas are promulgated at large will astonishing growth of geology’s pres- their readers into a vanished and alien enjoy o’Connor’s work.” tige in Britain, exploring how a new past. In exploring the use of poetry and —Richard a. Fortey, geohistory far more alluring than the spectacle in the promotion of popular Times Literary Supplement standard six days of Creation was as- science, O’Connor proves that geol- sembled and sold to the wider Bible- ogy’s success owed much to the literary NovEmBEr 542 p., 8 color plates, reading public. techniques of its authors. 89 halftones, 2 tables 7 x 10 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10320-4 Shrewd science writers, O’Connor “Undoubtedly a tour de force Paper $32.50s/£23.00 shows, marketed spectacular visions of and an outstanding success.”—David E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-61670-4 past worlds, piquing the public imagi- Oldroyd, Nuncius SCIENCE nation with glimpses of man-eating “This book is utterly brilliant.” Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-61668-1 mammoths, talking dinosaurs, and —Sharon Ruston, Byron Journal sea dragons spawned by Satan himself.

Ralph o’Connor is a lecturer in Irish-Scottish studies in the Department of History at the University of Aberdeen.

Putting Science in Its Place Geographies of Scientific Knowledge DaviD N. LiviNgstoNe

We are accustomed to thinking of sci- consumption of scientific knowledge, ence and its findings as universal. Af- using historical examples of the many ter all, one atom of carbon plus two of places where science has been prac- oxygen yields carbon dioxide in Ama- ticed. Livingstone first turns his atten- zonia as well as in Alaska; a scientist in tion to some of the specific sites where Bombay can use the same materials and science has been made—the labora- techniques to challenge the work of a tory, museum, and botanical garden, scientist in New York; and of course the to name some of the more conventional laws of gravity apply worldwide. Why, locales, but also places like the coffee- then, should the locations where sci- house and cathedral, ship’s deck and ence is done matter at all? David N. Liv- asylum, even the human body itself. In ingstone here puts that question to the each case, he reveals just how the space science • culture test with his fascinating study of how of inquiry has conditioned the investi- science bears the marks of its place of gations carried out there. Putting Science AuguSt 244 p., 31 halftones, 5 maps 6 x 9 production. in Its Place powerfully concludes by ex- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10284-9 Putting Science in Its Place establish- amining the remarkable mobility of sci- Paper $17.50/£12.50 es the fundamental importance of ge- ence and the seemingly effortless way it E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-48724-3 ography in both the generation and the moves around the globe. SCIENCE Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-48722-9 David N. Livingstone is professor of geography and intellectual history at Queen’s Univer- sity Belfast. A Fellow of the British Academy and a member of both the Academia Europaea and the Royal Irish Academy, he is the author of numerous books, including The Geographi- cal Tradition: Episodes in the History of a Contested Enterprise and Adam’s Ancestors: Race, Religion and the Politics of Human Origins.

paperbacks 105 Praise for Gravity’s Shadow Gravity’s Ghost and Big Dog “Harry collins is a distinguished Scientific Discovery and Social Analysis in the sociologist, and in Gravity’s Twenty-First Century Shadow he demonstrates why it HaRRy collins is important to go beyond superficial characterizations of science Gravity’s Ghost and Big Dog brings to life “Big Dog,” fully analyzed in this volume to study how groups of scientists science’s efforts to detect cosmic gravi- for the first time, and the “Equinox tational waves. These ripples in space- Event,” which was first chronicled by actually work. . . . This is a book time are predicted by general relativity, Collins in Gravity’s Ghost. He records that everyone who cares about the and their discovery will not only dem- the agonizing arguments that arose as future of science should read.” onstrate the truth of Einstein’s theo- the scientists worked out what they had —American Scientist ries but also transform astronomy. Al- seen and how to present it to the world, though no gravitational wave has ever along the way demonstrating how even “Harry collins has presented us been directly detected, the previous the most statistical of sciences rest on so- with an enthralling investigation five years have been an especially excit- cial and philosophical choices. Gravity’s ing period in the field. Here sociologist Ghost and Big Dog draws on nearly fifty into the way in which big science Harry Collins offers readers an unprec- years of fieldwork observing scientists advances. . . . a perfect case study edented view of gravitational wave re- at the American Laser Interferometer in the sociology of science.” search and explains what it means for Gravitational Wave Observatory and —Times Higher Education an analyst to do work of this kind. elsewhere around the world to offer an Collins was embedded with the inspired commentary on the place of OCtOBEr 392 p., 19 halftones, gravitational wave physicists as they science in society today. 7 line drawings, 4 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05229-8 confronted two possible discoveries— Paper $30.00s/£21.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05232-8 Harry collins is the Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology and director of the Cen- tre for the Study of Knowledge, Expertise, and Science at Cardiff University and a fellow of SCIENCE the British Academy. Among his numerous books are Gravity’s Shadow, Rethinking Expertise, and Tacit and Explicit Knowledge, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

“a welcome addition to the literature Infinite Nature on environmental discourse.” R. BRuce Hull —Quarterly Review of Biology In this impassioned and judicious work, sibility offered by technology and eco- “Infinite Nature takes the reader on a R. Bruce Hull argues that environmen- nomics, to the designs of nature envi- kaleidoscopic journey that provides talism will never achieve its goals unless sioned in philosophy, law, and religion. it sheds its fundamentalist logic. The Along the way, Hull maintains that a comprehensive and evocative movement is too bound up in polariz- the idea of nature is social: in order to description of the multiple per- ing ideologies that pit humans against reach the common ground where sus- spectives from which we observe, nature, conservation against devel- tainable and thriving communities are understand, and value nature. . . . opment, and government regulation possible, we must accept that many na- What prevail . . . are critical, bal- against economic growth. Only when tures can and do exist. anced, and well-informed positions.” we acknowledge the infinite perspec- “R. Bruce Hull serves as a highly —BioScience tives on how people should relate to competent guide, taking readers on nature will we forge solutions that are richly challenging journeys through AUgUSt 232 p., 1 line drawing, respectful to both humanity and the twelve dimensions of humanity’s rela- 2 tables 6 x 9 environment. tions with nature. . . . This work is a tour ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10222-1 Infinite Nature explores some of de force: a meticulously fair presenta- Paper $17.50s/£12.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10799-8 these myriad perspectives, from the sci- tion of issues that engage people’s deep- NAtUrE entific understandings proffered by an- est passions. . . . Highly recommended.” Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-35944-1 thropology, evolution, and ecology, to —Choice the promise of environmental respon-

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Miles Davis, supremely cool behind his —Down Beat shades. Billie Holiday, eyes closed and “Bold, ruminative and personal, head tilted back in full cry. Blue Notes in jazz music poses a challenge to the ace Black and White charts the development lensman that is answered repeatedly in of jazz photography from the swing era these pages. Namely, how to capture of the 1930s to the rise of black nation- the elusive internal makeup of any giv- alism in the ’60s. Through text and pho- en jazz musician in a two-dimensional tographs, Benjamin Cawthra provides a image that acts as a portal to the art- fascinating account of the partnership ist’s soul . . . Ideal reading while spin- between two of the twentieth century’s ning Monk or Kind of Blue. Four stars.” most innovative art forms. —MOJO “Benjamin Cawthra insightfully “In Blue Notes in Black and White, OCTObeR 392 p., 65 halftones 7 x 10 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10074-6 narrates the vast history of jazz—and you sense an author consumed and ex- Paper $30.00/£21.00 its turbulent love-hate relationship with cited by his subject. He’s synthesized MUSIC American culture. . . . To Cawthra, jazz loads of the literature and argument Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09875-3 photography genuinely captures a mo- around jazz, and he builds particular- ment in time—these images are ‘bench- ly on recent works of historiography.” marks’ in the metamorphosis of music.” —New York Times

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Apologies to Thucydides “Marshall sahlins’s complex book . . . [addresses] questions of his- Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa torical causation and agency using Marshall sahlins a wide variety of examples—including, at one point, Élian Gonzales Thucydides’s classic work on the history Fiji Islands to Bobby Thomson’s “shot and the 1951 new York Giants. the of the Peloponnesian War is the root heard round the world” for the 1951 complete ramifications of sahlins’s of Western conceptions of history— Giants to the history-making of Napo- including the ethnocentric idea that leon, he demonstrates again and again argument will be appreciated best Thucydides’s historiography was uni- the necessity of taking culture into ac- by anthropologists and historians. versally valid, applicable to all societies count in the creation of history—with even for the general reader, how- at all times. Here, however, Marshall apologies to Thucydides, who too often ever, Apologies to Thucydides has Sahlins takes on Thucydides’s history did not. much to offer, as an introduction to with a groundbreaking book that shows “This book is a paradigm of how an unfamiliar culture and as a new how different cultures develop differ- history and anthropology might be ent modes of historical production. brought together, to the mutual enrich- perspective on our own.” Ranging from the Peloponnesian War ment of both disciplines.”—American —New York Sun to the nineteenth-century fight over the Historical Review NOveMbeR 320 p., 19 halftones, Marshall sahlins is the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the 9 maps, 13 line drawings 6 x 9 University of Chicago. A member of the British Academy, he is the author of many books, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10382-2 including Culture and Practical Reason, How “Natives” Think, Islands of History, and What Kin- Paper $17.50s/£12.50 ship Is—And Is Not, all published by the University of Chicago Press. HISTORY ANTHROPOLOGY Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73400-2

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