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African American Law 31 Studies 12 Literary Criticism 20, African Studies 68 48–51, 53, 64 American History 1, Literature 2, 10–11 18, 38–41, 60 Mathematics 71 Anthropology 35, 62, Media 52 68–69 Medicine 39 Architecture 47 Music 21, 56 Art 3, 19–20, 36, 48, 70 Nature 4–5, 8–9, 17 Asian Studies 56, Philosophy 43–46, 53, 61–62 64, 67, 70 Biography 3, 37 Photography 4–5, 8–9, 52 Business 23 Poetry 26–27 Classics 2, 42, 46, 53 Political Science 12–13, Criminology 71–72 24, 30, 32–34, 44, 67 Current Events 52, 56 Psychology 34, 54 Economics 22, 34, 62, Reference 13, 25 71–72 Religion 47, 53, 60–64 Education 54–55 Science 6, 14–16, 23, European History 22, 34, 36, 43, 45, 57–59 42, 69–70 Sociology 30, 32, 43, Film Studies 56 63–67, Gay & Lesbian Travel 10, 15 Studies 50, 60, 63 History 7, 16–17, 28, 30, 36–39, 42, 44, 51, Cover design by Alice Reimann Catalog design by Mary Shanahan 54, 57–59, 61, 66 Di av d Welky The Thousand-Year Flood The Ohio-Mississippi Disaster of 1937

n the early days of 1937, the Ohio River, swollen by heavy winter rains, began rising. And rising. And rising. By the time the waters Icrested, the Ohio and Mississippi had climbed to record heights. Nearly four hundred people had died, while a million more had run from their homes. The deluge caused more than half a billion dollars of damage at a time when the Great Depression still battered the nation. Timed to coincide with the flood’s seventy-fifth anniversary,The Thousand-Year Flood is the first comprehensive history of one of the “David Welky has done a prodigious job of most destructive disasters in American history. David Welky first shows reminding us about the horror inflicted by how decades of settlement put Ohio valley farms and towns at risk and the Ohio-Mississippi flood of 1937. At its how politicians and planners repeatedly ignored the dangers. Then he heart, The Thousand-Year Flood is a Great tells the gripping story of the river’s inexorable rise: residents fled to Depression story not unlike the Dust Bowl refugee camps and higher ground, towns imposed martial law, prison- tragedy. His scholarship is impeccable. ers rioted, Red Cross nurses endured terrifying conditions, and FDR Highly recommended!” —Douglas Brinkley, dispatched thousands of relief workers. In a landscape fraught with author of The Great Deluge dangers—from unmoored gas tanks that became floating bombs to powerful currents of filthy floodwaters that swept away whole towns— Nmrove be 384 p., 18 halftones, 2 maps people hastily raised sandbag barricades, piled into overloaded row- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-88716-6 Cloth $27.50/£18.00 boats, and marveled at water that stretched as far as the eye could see. AMERICAN HISTORY In the flood’s aftermath, Welky explains, New Deal reformers, utopian dreamers, and hard-pressed locals restructured not only the flood- stricken valleys, but also the nation’s relationship with its waterways, changes that continue to affect life along the rivers to this day. A striking narrative of danger and adventure—and the mix of heroism and generosity, greed and pettiness that always accompany disaster—The Thousand-Year Flood breathes new life into a fascinating yet little-remembered American story.

David Welky is associate professor of history at the University of Central Arkansas and the author of Everything Was Better in America: Print Culture in the Great Depression and The Moguls and the Dictators: Hollywood and the Coming of World War II.

general interest 1 Translated by Richmond Lattimore The Iliad of Homer Newly Updated With a new Introduction and Notes by Richard Martin

Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilleus and its devastation.

or sixty years, that’s how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore’s faithful translation—the gold stan- F dard for generations of students and general readers. This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore’s Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first century—while leaving thepoem as firmly rooted in ancient Greece as ever. Lattimore’s elegant, fluent “Perhaps closer to Homer in every way verses—with their memorably phrased heroic epithets and remarkable than any other version made in English.” fidelity to the Greek—remain unchanged, but classicist Richard Martin —Peter Green, has added a wealth of supplementary materials designed to aid new New Republic generations of readers. A new introduction sets the poem in the wider context of Greek life, warfare, society, and poetry, while line-by-line “The feat is so decisive that it is reason- notes at the back of the volume offer explanations of unfamiliar terms, able to foresee a century or so in which information about the Greek gods and heroes, and literary apprecia- nobody will try again to put the Iliad in tion. A glossary and new maps round out the book. English verse.” —Robert Fitzgerald The result is a volume that actively invites new readers into Homer’s poem, helping them to understand the worlds in which he and his “Each new generation is bound to pro- heroes lived—and thus enabling them to marvel, as so many have for duce new translations. [Lattimore] has centuries, at Hektor and Ajax, Paris and Helen, and the devastating done better with nobility, as well as with rage of Achilleus. accuracy, than any other modern verse Richmond Lattimore (1906–84) was a poet, translator, and longtime profes- translator. In our age we do not often find sor of Greek at Bryn Mawr College. Richard Martin is the Antony and Isabelle a fine scholar who is also a genuine poet Raubitschek Professor of Classics at Stanford University. and who takes the greatest pains over the work of translation.” —Hugh Lloyd-Jones, New York Review of Books

Semept ber 528 p., 2 maps 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47048-1 Cloth $35.00s/£22.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47049-8 Paper $15.00/£9.50 LITERATURE CLASSICS

2 general interest Facr n o Mormando Bernini His Life and His Rome

culptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680) was the last of the universal Sartistic geniuses of early modern Italy, placed by both contemporaries and posterity in the same exalted company as Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. And his artistic vision remains palpably present today, through the countless statues, fountains, and buildings that transformed Rome into the Baroque theater that continues to enthrall tourists. It is perhaps not surprising that this artist who defined the Ba- roque should have a personal life that itself was, well, baroque. As “Franco Mormando’s fascinating book is a Franco Mormando’s dazzling biography reveals, Bernini was a man welcome addition to the Bernini litera- driven by many passions, possessed of an explosive temper and a ture. It is both a biography of the artist hearty sex drive, and he lived a life as dramatic as any of his creations. and a portrait of Roman Baroque culture. Drawing on archival sources, letters, diaries, and—with a suitable Though written for a general audience, skepticism—a hagiographic account written by Bernini’s son (who it reveals an impressive command of the portrays his father as a paragon of virtue and piety), Mormando leads specialist scholarship—in art history, us through Bernini’s feuds and love affairs, scandals and sins. He sets literature, and history. Mormando wears Bernini’s raucous life against a vivid backdrop of Baroque Rome, bus- his learning lightly, writing with anima- tling and wealthy, and peopled by churchmen and bureaucrats, popes tion, carefully pacing his anecdotes, and and politicians, schemes and secrets. making the whole as entertaining as it is The result is a seductively readable biography, stuffed with stories informative.” and teeming with life—as wild and unforgettable as Bernini’s art. No —Pamela Jones, one who has been bewitched by the Baroque should miss it. University of Massachusetts, Boston

Franco Mormando is associate professor of Italian at Boston College and the Nmrove be 416 p., 43 halftones 6 x 9 author of several books. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-53852-5 Cloth $35.00/£22.50 BOGRA I PHY ART

general interest 3 Pitro Naskrecki Relics Travels in Nature’s Time Machine Foreword by Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier

n any night in early June, if you stand on the right beaches of America’s East Coast, you can travel Oback in time all the way to the Jurassic. For as you watch, thousands of horseshoe crabs will emerge from the foam and scuttle up the beach to their spawning grounds, as they’ve Praise for The Smaller Majority done, nearly unchanged, for more than 440 million years. “Imagine Gulliver just back from Lilliput. Horseshoe crabs are far from That is the entirely pleasurable feeling a the only contemporary mani- reader will have after traveling through festation of Earth’s distant past, The Smaller Majority. Among the spine- and in Relics, world-renowned less wonders captured in macrophotos zoologist and photographer Piotr are giraffe weevils, tiger beetles, ant Naskrecki leads readers on an un- lions, shovel-snouted lizards and even a believable journey through those ghost-crab, dancing. . . . Small is beauti- lingering traces of a lost world. ful—and powerful, too.” With camera in hand, he travels —Patti Hagan, Wall Street Journal the globe to create a words-and- pictures portrait of our planet like no other, a time-lapse tour Nmrove be 384 p., 414 color plates 91/4 x ISBN-13: 978-0-226-56870-6 that renders Earth’s colossal Cloth $45.00/£29.00 NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY age comprehensible, visible in creatures and habitats that have persisted, nearly untouched, for hundreds of millions of years.

4 general interest “Relics is an exciting, adventure-filled, and scientifically important presentation by one of the world’s best naturalists and photographers.” — E. O. Wilson

Naskrecki begins by defining the concept of a relic—a creature or habitat that, while acted upon by evolution, remains remarkably similar to its earliest manifestations in the fossil record. Then he pulls back the Cambrian curtain to reveal relic after eye-popping relic: katydids, ancient reptiles, horsetail ferns, majestic magnolias, and more, all depicted through stunning photographs and first-person accounts of Naskrecki’s time studying them and watching their interactions in their natural habitats. Then he turns to the habitats themselves, traveling to such remote locations as the Atewa Plateau of Africa, the highlands of Papua New Guinea, and the lush fern forests of New Zealand—a group of relatively untrammeled ecosystems that are the current end point of staggeringly long, uninterrupted histories that have made them our Praise for The Smaller Majority best entryway to understanding what the pre-human world looked, felt, “This is more than a collection of excel- sounded, and even smelled like. lent photographs and words—it is The stories and images of Earth’s past assembled in Relics are one person’s private view of the small beautiful, breathtaking, and unmooring, plunging the reader into the majority’s world, one person’s ardent, hitherto incomprehensible reaches of deep time. We emerge changed, even passionate, attempt to help others astonished by the unbroken skein of life on Earth and attentive to the get closer and understand the wildlife in hidden heritage of our planet’s past that surrounds us. miniature that surrounds us all. And his passion is infectious.” Piotr Naskrecki is an entomologist and a research associate with the Museum —Richard Jones, of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. He is the author of The Smaller BBC Wildlife Majority.

general interest 5 Allene Ev rett and Thomas Roman Time Travel and Warp Drives A Scientific Guide to Shortcuts through Time and Space

ci-fi makes it look so easy. Receive a distress call from Alpha Centauri? No problem: punch the warp drive and you’re there Sin minutes. Facing a catastrophe that can’t be averted? Just pop back in the timestream and stop it before it starts. But for those of us not lucky enough to live in a science-fictional universe, are these ideas merely flights of fancy—or could it really be possible to travel through “ In recent years, a number of books have time or take shortcuts between stars? taken on real science that sounds like Cutting-edge physics may not be able to answer those questions science fiction. Unfortunately, most are yet, but it does offer up some tantalizing possibilities. In Time Travel frothy concoctions that leave the seri- and Warp Drives, Allen Everett and Thomas Roman take readers on a ous reader unsatisfied. This is all the clear, concise tour of our current understanding of the nature of time more reason to celebrate the arrival of and space—and whether or not we might be able to bend them to our Time Travel and Warp Drives—a deeply will. Using no math beyond high school algebra, the authors lay out informed, richly detailed yet immensely an approachable explanation of Einstein’s special relativity, then move readable account of science at the fron- through the fundamental differences between traveling forward and tiers, by two physicists who know the backward in time and the surprising theoretical connection between territory. In a wonderfully written and going back in time and traveling faster than the speed of light. They especially timely account, Allen Everett survey a variety of possible time machines and warp drives, including and Thomas Roman share with us what wormholes and warp bubbles, and, in a dizzyingly creative chapter, they’ve learned. Time Travel and Warp imagine the paradoxes that could plague a world where time travel was Drives deserves a place on the shelf be- possible—killing your own grandfather is only one of them! tween Greene’s The Elegant Universe and Hawking’s A Brief History of Time.” Written with a light touch and an irrepressible love of the fun of —David Toomey, sci-fi scenarios, but firmly rooted in the most up-to-date science,Time author of The New Time Travelers: A Journey to the Frontiers of Physics Travel and Warp Drives will be a delightful discovery for any science buff or armchair chrononaut.

D reCEMbe 272 p., 33 halftones, Allen Everett is professor emeritus of physics at Tufts University. Thomas Roman 9 line drawings 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-22498-5 is a professor in the Mathematical Sciences Department at Central Connecticut Cloth $30.00/£19.50 State University. Both have taught undergraduate courses in time-travel physics. SCIENCE

6 general interest S uSAnna B. Hecht The Scramble for the Amazon and the Lost Paradise of Euclides da Cunha

he fortunes of the late nineteenth century’s imperial and industrial powers depended on a single raw material—rubber T —with only one source: the Amazon basin. And so began the scramble for the Amazon, a decades-long conflict that found Britain, France, Belgium, and the United States fighting with and against the “Hecht’s wonderfully ambitious book new nations of Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil for the forest’s riches. In the unveils an unknown chapter in the history midst of this struggle, Euclides da Cunha, engineer, journalist, geog- of the Amazon—indeed, the history of the rapher, political theorist, and one of Brazil’s most celebrated writers, world. It would be important if it merely led a survey expedition to the farthest reaches of the river, among the showed how da Cunha, almost unknown world’s most valuable, dangerous, and little-known landscapes. to Americans but one of Latin America’s The Scramble for the Amazon tells the story of da Cunha’s terrifying greatest writers, was also a significant journey, the unfinished novel born from it, and the global strife that figure in political and environmental his- formed the backdrop for both. Haunted by his broken marriage, da tory. But it uses da Cunha and his unfin- Cunha trekked through a beautiful region thrown into chaos by guer- ished masterwork to show how Amazonia rilla warfare, starving migrants, and native slavery. All the while, he played a central role in global politics a worked on his masterpiece, a nationalist synthesis of geography, phi- century before rock stars began staging losophy, biology, and journalism he named the Lost Paradise. Da Cunha ‘save the rain forest’ concerts. As a bonus intended his epic to unveil the Amazon’s explorers, spies, natives, and to readers, her translations of da Cunha’s brutal geopolitics, but, as Susanna B. Hecht recounts, he never com- brilliant Amazonian writings are excel- pleted it—his wife’s lover shot him dead upon his return. lent, and the sadly moving love story at At once the biography of an extraordinary writer, a masterly the center of his life—key to understand- chronicle of the social, political, and environmental history of the ing his work—is artfully woven into the Amazon, and a superb translation of the remaining pieces of da Cunha’s rest of the material.” project, The Scramble for the Amazon is a work of thrilling intellectual —Charles C. Mann, ambition. author of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus

Susanna B. Hecht is professor in the School of Public Affairs and the Institute of the Environment at the University of California, Los Angeles, and coau- D reCEMbe 600 p., 53 halftones, 14 maps, thor, with Alexander Cockburn, of The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers, 2 tables 61/8 x 91/4 and Defenders of the Amazon. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-32281-0 Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 HISTORY

general interest 7 Chrt is ian Ziegler Deceptive Beauties The World of Wild Orchids With an Introduction by Michael Pollan and a Foreword by Natalie Angier

onfucius called them the “king of fragrant plants,” and John Ruskin condemned them as “prurient C apparitions.” Across the centuries, orchids have captivated us with their elaborate exoticism, their powerful perfumes, and their sublime seductiveness. “The moment that the orchid stumbled But the disquieting beauty of orchids is an unplanned marvel of upon one of the keys to human desire and evolution, and the story of orchids is as captivating as any novel. As used it to unlock our hearts, it conquered acclaimed writer Michael Pollan and National Geographic photographer a whole new world—our world—and Christian Ziegler spin tales of orchid conquest in Deceptive Beauties: enlisted a vast new crew of credulous ani- The World of Wild Orchids, we learn how these flowers can survive and mals more than happy to do its bidding. thrive in the harshest of environments, from tropical cloud forests to Let’s face it: we’re all orchid dupes now.” —Michael Pollan, the Arctic, from semideserts to rocky mountainsides; how their shapes, from the Introduction colors, and scents are, as Darwin put it, “beautiful contrivances” meant to dupe pollinating male insects in the strangest ways. What other

8 general interest flowers, after all, can mimic the pheromones and even appearance “Orchid flowers have long been under- of female insects, so much so that some male bees prefer sex with the stood to be ridiculously fascinating, and orchids over sex with their own kind? this book shows just that, gorgeously. And insects aren’t the only ones to fall for the orchids’ charms. They certainly merit the ‘Oh my’ reputation Since the “orchidelirium” of the Victorian era, humans have braved they have acquired over the centuries. But, the wilds to search them out and devoted copious amounts of time and the problem for us mere mortals is that money propagating and hybridizing, nurturing and simply gazing at even if most lucky, we only bump into one them. This astonishing book features over 150 unprecedented color in the wild every now and then. And here photographs taken by Christian Ziegler himself as he trekked through you have many of their kinds all at once, wilderness on five continents to capture the diversity and magnificence as though you were incredibly lucky in the of orchids in their natural habitats. His intimate and astonishing im- forest, though of course there is no place ages allow us to appreciate up close nature’s most intoxicating and or date on earth when you can see them deceptive beauties. like this. This new look is a fantastic and fantasmatic companion for any day when

C hristian Ziegler is a biologist-turned-photographer specializing in tropical you are lucky enough to encounter one natural history. He is a frequent contributor to National Geographic Magazine, of these flowers, so unique as to turn any GEO, and Smithsonian, among others. He is an associate for communication flower show into oatmeal.” with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and a founding fellow of —Dan Janzen, Department of Biology, the International League of Conservation photographers. University of Pennsylvania

Semept ber 176 p., 165 color plates 11 x ISBN-13: 978-0-226-98297-7 Cloth $45.00/£29.00 NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY

general interest 9 Sio m n Goldhill Freud’s Couch, Scott’s Buttocks, Brontë’s Grave

he Victorian era was the high point of literary tourism. Writers such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Sir Walter Scott Tbecame celebrities, and readers trekked far and wide for a glimpse of the places where their heroes wrote and thought, walked and talked. Even Shakespeare was roped in, as Victorian entrepreneurs transformed quiet Stratford-upon-Avon into a combination shrine and tourist trap.

Praise for Love, Sex & Tragedy Stratford continues to lure tourists today, as do many other sites

“Love, Sex & Tragedy is great, and great of literary pilgrimage throughout Britain. And our modern age could fun, the kind of book you find yourself have no better guide to such places than Simon Goldhill. In Freud’s reading out to your other half as you go Couch, Scott’s Buttocks, Brontë’s Grave, Goldhill makes a pilgrimage to along—a sparkling, erudite, and amusing Sir Walter Scott’s baronial mansion, Wordsworth’s cottage in the Lake remedy for our collective historical amne- District, the Brontë parsonage, Shakespeare’s birthplace, and Freud’s sia, a book that persuasively argues that office in Hampstead. Traveling, as much as possible, by methods avail- without an understanding of our classical able to Victorians—and gamely negotiating distractions ranging from roots we are stumbling in the dark, miss- broken bicycles to a flock of giggling Japanese schoolgirls—he tries ing vital information about who we really to discern what our forebears were looking for at these sites, as well as are and why we do the things we do.” what they have to say to the modern mind. What does it matter that —Zadie Smith Emily Brontë’s hidden passions burned in this specific room? What does it mean that Scott self-consciously built an extravagant castle suitable for Culture Trails: Adventures in Travel Ivanhoe—and star-struck tourists visited it while he was still living there?

Semept ber 160 p., 12 halftones, 1 map Or that Freud’s meticulous recreation of his Vienna office is now a me- 1 1 5 /2 x 8 /2 ticulously preserved museum of itself? Or that Shakespeare’s birthplace ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30131-0 Cloth $22.50/£14.50 features student actors declaiming snippets of his plays . . . in the garden tral ve literature of a house where he almost certainly never wrote a single line? Goldhill brings to these inquiries his trademark wry humor and a lifetime’s engagement with literature. The result is a travel book like no other, a reminder that even today, the writing life still has the power to inspire.

Simon Goldhill is professor of Greek literature and culture and fellow and director of studies in classics at King’s College, Cambridge, as well as director of the Cambridge Victorian Studies Group. He is the author of Love, Sex, & Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives. 10 general interest Dr mit y SaMAROv Hack Stories from a Chicago Cab

abdrivers and their yellow taxis are as much a part of the cityscape as the high-rise buildings and the subway. We hail Cthem without thought after a wearying day at the office or an exuberant night on the town. And, undoubtedly, taxi drivers have stories to tell—of farcical local politics, of colorful passengers, of changing neighborhoods and clandestine shortcuts. No one knows a city’s streets—and thus its heart—better than its cabdrivers. And from behind the wheel of his taxi, Dmitry Samarov has seen more of Chicago than most Chicagoans could hope to experience in a lifetime. An artist and painter trained at the School of the Art Institute of “Fact: I first rode in Dmitry’s cab when he Chicago, Samarov began driving a cab in 1993 to make ends meet, was driving in Boston in 1993. He owned and he’s been working as a taxi driver ever since. In Hack: Stories from a the first cellular phone thatI ever saw, Chicago Cab, he recounts tales that will delight, surprise, and sometimes and he has been broadcasting back from shock even the most seasoned urbanite. We follow Samarov through the strange frontier of hack life ever the rhythms of a typical week, as he waits hours at the garage to pick since. He’s a good driver, but more than up a shift, ferries comically drunken passengers between bars, deliv- that, he’s as skilled a navigator of the ers prostitutes to their johns, and inadvertently observes drug deals. forgotten American city as you’ll find, and There are long waits with other cabbies at O’Hare, vivid portraits of his writing is funny, grim, humane, and street corners and their regular denizens, amorous Cubs fans celebrat- welcome.” ing after a game at Wrigley Field, and customers who are pleasantly —John Hodgman, surprised that Samarov is white—and tell him so. Throughout, Sama- author of More Information than You Require rov’s own drawings—of his fares, of the taxi garage, and of a variety of Chicago street scenes—accompany his stories. In the grand tradition 1 1 of Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, Mike Royko, and Studs Terkel, Dmitry O rcTObe 184 p., 66 halftones 5 /2 x 8 /2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73473-6 Samarov has rendered an entertaining, poignant, and unforgettable Cloth $20.00/£13.00 LITERATURE vision of Chicago and its people.

Dmitry Samarov earned his BFA in painting and printmaking at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1993 and began driving a cab that same year. His work has been shown at the Chicago Tourism Center, the Merchandise Mart, the Bowery Gallery, and Brandeis University. Samarov is the creator of the blog Hack, stories from which have been featured in the Chicago Reader and elsewhere.

general interest 11 Mica h el C. Dawson Not in Our Lifetimes The Future of Black Politics

n the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, polls revealed that only 20 percent of African Americans believed that racial equality for I blacks would be achieved in their lifetime. But following the election of Barack Obama, that number leaped to more than half. Did that dramatic shift in opinion really reflect a change in the vitality of black politics—and hope for improvement in the lives of African Americans? Or was it a onetime surge brought on by the euphoria of an extraordi-

“Taking his patient and prescient eye nary election? to modern events, Dawson gives us a With Not in Our Lifetimes, Michael C. Dawson shows definitively clear-eyed look at black America. The that it is the latter: for all the talk about a new post-racial America, popular wish to believe the races are the fundamental realities of American racism—and the problems (finally) equal is unsettled in this sober facing black political movements—have not changed. He lays out a and illuminating account of black political nuanced analysis of the persistence of racial inequality and structural thought. What DuBois gave us 100 years disadvantages, and the ways that whites and blacks continue to see the ago, Dawson offers us today: an empa- same problems—the disastrous response to Katrina being a prime thetic but critical look at race relations example—through completely different, race-inflected lenses. In fact, in America today. This is social scientific argues Dawson, the new era heralded by Obama’s election is more truth-telling at its best.” racially complicated, as widening class gaps among African Americans —Sudhir Venkatesh, and the hot-button issue of immigration have the potential to create author of Gang Leader for a Day new fissures for conservative and race-based exploitation. Bringing his account up to the present with a thoughtful analysis of the rise of the Nmrove be 232 p., 1 halftone, 4 line drawings, 16 tables 6 x 9 Tea Parties and the largely successful “blackening” of the president, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-13862-6 Cloth $26.00/£17.00 Dawson ultimately argues that black politics remains weak—and that P OLITICAL SCIENCE achieving the dream of racial and economic equality will require the AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES sort of coalition-building and reaching across racial divides that have always marked successful political movements. Polemical but clear-eyed, passionate but pragmatic, Not in Our Lifetimes will force us to rethink our easy assumptions about racial progress—and begin the hard work of creating real, lasting change.

Michael C. Dawson is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago and the author of Black Visions and Behind the Mule: Race, Class, and African American Politics.

12 general interest Mica h el Barone and Chuck McCutcheon The Almanac of American Politics 2012

o matter how you voted in the 2010 election, both Democrats and Republicans can agree that there is one indispensable Nguide to people, politics, and power in Washington. The Almanac of American Politics is the gold standard—the book everyone involved, invested, or interested in American politics must have on their reference shelf. As in previous editions, the 2012 Almanac includes profiles of “The Bible of American politics.” every member of Congress and every governor. It offers in-depth and —George Will completely up-to-date narrative profiles of all 50 states and 435 House districts, covering everything from economics to history to, of course, “The single best reference there is for politics. The new edition also contains Michael Barone’s sharp-eyed Congress and Washington specifically analysis of the 2010 congressional elections, detailing significant and the country generally.” trends, redistricting initiatives, and the like. —Jim Lehrer Full of maps, census data, and information on topics ranging from campaign expenditures to voting records to interest group ratings, the Semept ber 1744 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03807-0 2012 Almanac of American Politics presents everything you need to know Cloth $110.00s/£71.00 about American politics in snappy prose and framed by cogent analysis. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03808-7 Paper $85.00/£55.00 “Real political junkies get two Almanacs: one for the home and one REFERENCE political science for the office.”—Chuck Todd, NBC “It’s simply the oxygen of the political world. We have the most dog-eared copy in town.”—Judy Woodruff, PBS News Hour “Michael Barone is to politics what statistician-writer Bill James is to baseball, a mix of historian, social observer, and numbers cruncher who illuminates his subject with perspective and a touch of irreverence.”—Chicago Tribune “Indispensable . . . this compendium of statistics and information has gone as far as humanly possible.”—Washington Post

Michael Barone is a senior writer at U.S. News and World Report and a Fox News Channel contributor. His most recent book is Our First Revolution: The Remark- able British Upheaval That Inspired America’s Founding Fathers. Chuck McCutcheon has worked as a reporter for Congressional Quarterly and the Newhouse News Service. He has been coeditor of Congressional Quarterly’s Politics in America and is the author of Nuclear Reactions. general interest 13 T hOMAS Hockey How We See the Sky A Naked-Eye Tour of Day and Night

azing up at the heavens from our backyards or a nearby field, most of us see an undifferentiated mess of stars—if, G that is, we can see anything at all through the glow of light pollution. Today’s casual observer knows far less about the sky than did our ancestors, who depended on the sun and the moon to tell them the time and on the stars to guide them through the seas. Nowadays, we don’t need the sky, which is good, because we’ve made it far less “ Entertaining and very readable, How We accessible, hiding it behind the skyscrapers and excessive artificial See the Sky presents an up-to-date ap- light of our cities. proach to what a dedicated visual observ- How We See the Sky gives us back our knowledge of the sky, offering er can hope to understand by carefully a fascinating overview of what can be seen there without the aid of a monitoring the sky. In addition it provides telescope. Thomas Hockey begins by scanning the horizon, explaining a wealth of information that informs the how the visible universe rotates through this horizon as night turns reader about celestial phenomena. In this to day and season to season. Subsequent chapters explore the sun’s respect, it follows in a long tradition of and moon’s respective motions through the celestial globe, as well as astronomical handbooks and celestial the appearance of solstices, eclipses, and planets, and how these are viewing guides, many of which are now accounted for in different kinds of calendars. In every chapter, Hockey dated.” introduces the common vocabulary of today’s astronomers, uses —Jay Holberg, University of Arizona examples past and present to explain them, and provides conceptual tools to help newcomers understand the topics he discusses.

O rcTObe 224 p., 66 halftones 6 x 9 Packed with illustrations and enlivened by historical anecdotes and ISBN-13: 978-0-226-34576-5 literary references, How We See the Sky reacquaints us with the wonders Cloth $60.00x/£39.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-34577-2 to be found in our own backyards. Paper $20.00/£13.00 SCIENCE Thomas Hockey is professor of astronomy at the University of Northern Iowa.

14 general interest Chrn is Li der Science on Ice Four Polar Expeditions

olar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which Phas been devised,” wrote Apsley Cherry-Gar- rard of his time with the 1910 Scott expedition to the South Pole. And that’s how most of us still imagine polar expeditions: stolid men with ice riming their “Science on Ice gives the reader a glimpse beards drawing sledges and risking death for scientific into the challenges of conducting field knowledge. But polar science has changed drastically over the past research in the extreme and isolated century—as Chris Linder shows us, brilliantly, with Science on Ice. environments of the Arctic and Antarctic. An oceanographer and award-winning photographer, Linder I came away with a new appreciation of chronicles four polar expeditions in this richly illustrated volume: to both the risks and adventures scientists a teeming colony of Adélie penguins, through the icy waters of the experience, the creativity and adaptabil- Bering Sea in spring, beneath the pack ice of the eastern Arctic Ocean, ity they must possess to work in difficult and over the lake-studded surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Each conditions, and most of all, the fact that trip finds Linder teamed up with a prominent science journalist, and they are normal human beings with a together their words and pictures reveal the day-to-day details of how strong sense of curiosity that fuels their science actually gets done at the poles. Breathtaking images of the work. This book will help us understand stark polar landscape alternate with gritty, close-up shots of scientists these distant reaches of our world, and working in the field, braving physical danger and brutal conditions, it has enormous potential to spark the and working with remarkable technology designed to survive the minds of future would-be scientists.” poles—like robotic vehicles that chart undersea mountain ranges—as —Amy Gulick, photographer and author of they gather crucial information about our planet’s distant past, and Salmon in the Trees: Life in the risks that climate change poses for its future. Alaska’s Tongass Rain Forest The result is a combination travel book and paean to the hard work and dedication that underlies our knowledge of life on earth. decemr be 288 p., 157 color plates 11 x 8 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-48247-7 Science on Ice takes readers to the farthest reaches of our planet; science Cloth $40.00/£26.00 has rarely been more exciting—or inspiring. SCIENCE TRAVEL

C hris Linder is a research associate in the Woods Hole Oceanographic In- stitution’s Physical Oceanography Department and a professional freelance photographer.

general interest 15 Ali son Winter Memory Fragments of a Modern History

icture your twenty-first birthday. Did you have a party? If so, do you remember who was there? Now step back: how clear are P those memories? Should we trust them to be accurate, or is there a chance that you’re remembering incorrectly? And where have the many details you can no longer recall gone? Are they hidden some- where in your brain, or are they lost forever? Such questions have fascinated scientists for hundreds of years, and, as Alison Winter shows in Memory: Fragments of a Modern History, the answers have changed dramatically in just the past century. Tracing Praise for Mesmerized the cultural and scientific history of our understanding of memory,

“Winter combines a flair for storytelling Winter explores early metaphors that likened memory to a filing cabi- with a scrupulous attention to historical net; later, she shows, that cabinet was replaced by the image of a reel evidence, offering a history at once intellec- of film, ever available for playback. That model, too, was eventually tually satisfying and, well, mesmerizing.” superseded, replaced by the current understanding of memory as the —Publishers Weekly result of an extremely complicated, brain-wide web of cells and systems that together assemble our pasts. Winter introduces us to innovative “A captivating inquiry into a bizarre and scientists and sensationalistic seekers, and, drawing on evidence rang- neglected mystical phenomenon.” ing from scientific papers to diaries to movies, explores the way that —Kirkus Reviews new understandings from the laboratory have seeped out into psychiatrists’ offices, courtrooms, and the culture at large. Along the way,

Nmrove be 312 p., 32 halftones, she investigates the sensational battles over the validity of repressed 6 line drawings, 1 table 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-90258-6 memories that raged through the 1980s and shows us how changes in Cloth $30.00/£19.50 technology—such as the emergence of recording devices and comput- HISTORY SCIENCE ers—have again and again altered the way we conceptualize, and even try to study, the ways we remember. Packed with fascinating details and curious episodes from the con- voluted history of memory science, Memory is a book you’ll remember long after you close its cover.

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.

16 general interest D. Graham Burnett The Sounding of the Whale Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century

rom the Bible’s “Canst thou raise leviathan with a hook?” to Captain Ahab’s “From Hell’s heart I stab at thee!,” from the Ftrials of Job to the legends of Sinbad, whales have breached in the human imagination as looming figures of terror, power, confusion, and mystery. In the twentieth century, however, our understanding of and “The wait is over. We finally have a com- relationship to these superlatives of creation underwent some astonish- prehensive, brilliantly written chronicle ing changes, and with The Sounding of the Whale, D. Graham Burnett of science in the history of whaling— tells the fascinating story of the transformation of cetaceans from or whaling in the history of science. grotesque monsters, useful only as wallowing kegs of fat and fertilizer, D. Graham Burnett’s leviathanic opus to playful friends of humanity, bellwethers of environmental devasta- covers everything you ever wanted to tion, and, finally, totems of the counterculture in the Age of Aquarius. know—or didn’t know you wanted to When Burnett opens his story, ignorance reigns: even Nature was know—about the biology, conservation, misclassifying whales at the turn of the century, and the only biologi- politics, and history of what is perhaps cal study of the species was happening in gruesome Arctic slaughter- man’s most troubled relationship with houses. But in the aftermath of World War I, an international effort wild animals. This masterly study eclipses to bring rational regulations to the whaling industry led to an explo- every cetological work that precedes it. sion of global research—regulations that, while well-meaning, were Well, maybe not Moby-Dick.” quashed, or widely flouted, by whaling nations, the first shot in a battle —Richard Ellis, that continues to this day. The book closes with a look at the remark- author of The Great Sperm Whale able shift in public attitudes toward whales that began in the 1960s, as environmental concerns and new discoveries about whale behavior J aNUARY 728 p., 16 color plates, 86 halftones, 18 line drawings 6 x 9 combined to make whales an object of sentimental concern and public ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08130-4 adulation. Cloth $45.00/£29.00 HISTORY NATURE A sweeping history, grounded in nearly a decade of research, The Sounding of the Whale tells a remarkable story of how science, politics, and simple human wonder intertwined to transform the way we see these behemoths from below.

D. Graham Burnett is professor of history and history of science at Princeton University. He is an editor at Cabinet magazine, as well as the author of four books, including A Trial by Jury, Trying Leviathan, and Masters of All They Sur- veyed, the last published by the University of Chicago Press. general interest 17 Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen American Nietzsche A History of an Icon and His Ideas

f you were looking for a philosopher likely to appeal to Ameri- cans, Friedrich Nietzsche would be far from your first choice. IAfter all, in his blazing career, Nietzsche took aim at nearly all the foundations of modern American life: Christian morality, the Enlight- enment faith in reason, and the idea of human equality. Despite that, for more than a century Nietzsche has been a hugely popular—and surprisingly influential—figure in American high and popular culture alike. In American Nietzsche, Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen delves deeply “This is a superb book, widely and imagi- into Nietzsche’s thought, and America’s reception of it, to tell the story natively researched, boldly argued, and of his curious appeal. Beginning her account as far back as Emerson, vigorously written. The story it tells is whom the seventeen-year-old Nietzsche read obsessively, she shows how compelling and populated by a fascinat- Nietzsche’s ideas first burst on American shores at the turn of the twen- ing array of characters, including almost tieth century, and how they continued to alternately invigorate and everyone of importance in nineteenth- shock Americans throughout the century to come. She also traces out and twentieth-century American intellec- the broader intellectual and cultural contexts in which a wide array tual history: including Emerson, William of commentators—academic and armchair philosophers, theologians James, Santayana, Mencken, and a host and atheists, romantic poets and hard-nosed empiricists, and political of lesser folk.” ideologues and apostates from the Left and the Right—drew insight and —Jackson Lears inspiration from Nietzsche’s claims for the death of God, his challenge to universal truth, and his insistence on the interpretive nature of all human Nmrove be 448 p., 21 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-70581-1 thought and belief. At the same time, she explores how his image as an Cloth $30.00/£19.50 iconoclastic immoralist was put to work in American popular culture, AMERICAN HISTORY making Nietzsche an unlikely posthumous celebrity capable of inspiring teenagers and scholars alike. A heady examination of a powerful, but little-explored undercur- rent of twentieth-century American culture, American Nietzsche dramatically recasts our understanding of American intellectual life—and puts Nietzsche squarely at its heart.

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

18 general interest Jma es Cuno Museums Matter In Praise of the Encyclopedic Museum

he concept of an encyclopedic museum was born of the Enlightenment, a manifestation of society’s growing belief Tthat the spread of knowledge and the promotion of intellectual inquiry were crucial to human development and the future of a rational society. But in recent years, museums have been under attack, with critics arguing that they are 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 director of the Praise for Who Owns Antiquity? Art Institute of Chicago, replies with a resounding “No!” He takes us “An impassioned argument for what Cuno on a brief tour of the modern museum, from the creation of the British calls the ‘cosmopolitan aspirations’ of Museum—the archetypal encyclopedic collection—to the present, when encyclopedic museums. By this he means major museums host millions of visitors annually and play a major role not only collecting and showing art from in the cultural lives of their cities. Along the way, Cuno acknowledges every place and era, but also, and more the legitimate questions about the role of museums in nation-building crucially, the promotion of an essential and imperialism, but he argues strenuously that even a truly national kind of cultural pluralism. . . . Whatever museum like the Louvre can’t help but open visitors’ eyes and minds one makes of Cuno’s thesis, it brings into to the wide diversity of world cultures and the stunning art that is our focus some urgent questions—for muse- common heritage. Engaging with thinkers such as Edward Said and ums and for archaeology—that have yet to Martha Nussbaum, and drawing on examples from the politics of India be given much attention.” to the destruction of the Bramiyan Buddhas to the history of trade —Hugh Eakin, and travel, Cuno makes a case for the encyclopedic museum as a truly New York Review of Books cosmopolitan institution, promoting tolerance, understanding, and a shared sense of history—values that are essential in our ever more The Rice University Campbell Lectures globalized age. D reCEMbe 152 p., 4 color plates, 10 half- Powerful, passionate, and to the point, Museums Matter is the tones 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-12677-7 product of a lifetime of working in and thinking about museums; no Cloth $22.00/£14.00 museumgoer should miss it. ART Some permissions will need James Cuno has been president and the Eloise W. Martin Director of the Art to be cleared for a translated Institute of Chicago since 2004. He is the author of Who Owns Antiquity? Muse- edition. ums and the Battle over Our Ancient Heritage and coauthor or coeditor of several other books.

general interest 19 K hennet Gross Puppet An Essay on Uncanny Life

he puppet can entertain or terrify, evoke the innocence of childhood, or become a magical entity, able to negotiate with Tghosts and gods. Puppets are often creepy things, inanimate while also full of spirit, alive with gesture and voice. In this haunting and beautiful book, Kenneth Gross takes us on a meditative journey through the world of puppet theater, exploring the mysterious fascination of these unsettling objects. Engaging particular aspects of the puppet, from its blunt grotes- querie to its talent for metamorphosis, Gross teases out their meanings,

“ You have in your hands a uniquely showing us the puppet in the guise of angel, seducer, demon, and beautiful book, a book of uncommon destroyer. On a global tour of puppets onstage, he takes us to the brilliance and lucidity. As wondrous as raucous Punch and Judy show, the sacred shadow theater of Bali, and the theaters of marvels it describes, its experimental theaters in the United States and Europe where puppets leaps and mutabilities provide a thrilling enact everything from Shakespearean tragedy to surrealist fables of adventure in imaginative thinking. ‘How discovery and loss. At the same time, he explores the puppet in poetry are we devoured by the things we make?’ and fiction—including Collodi’s cruel, wooden Pinocchio; puppetlike it asks. ‘And when might that devouring characters in Dickens and Kafka; Rilke’s innocent puppet-angels; and save us?’ My copy burns brightly on my the dark puppeteering of Philip Roth’s Micky Sabbath—as well as in favorite shelf, beside The Poetics of Space, the work of artists such as Joseph Cornell and Paul Klee. A lovely, Eccentric Spaces, and In Praise of Shadows expressive book about re-seeing what we know, or what we think we . . . a treasure!” know, Puppet evokes the startling power of puppets as mirrors of the —Rikki Ducornet, uncanny in art and life. author of Gazelle and The Fan-Maker’s Inquisition Kenneth Gross teaches English at the University of Rochester and is the author, most recently, of Shylock Is Shakespeare, also published by the University of Chicago Press. O rcTObe 224 p., 4 color plates, 24 halftones 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30958-3 Cloth $25.00/£16.00 ART LITERARY CRITICISM

20 general interest Ben jamin Cawthra Blue Notes in Black and White Photography and Jazz

iles Davis, supremely cool behind his shades. Billie Holiday, eyes closed and head tilted back in full cry. John Coltrane, Mone hand behind his neck and a finger held pensively to his lips. These iconic images have captivated jazz fans nearly as much as the music has. Jazz photographs are visual landmarks in American history, acting as both a reflection and a vital part of African Ameri- can culture in a time of immense upheaval, conflict, and celebration. “Benjamin Cawthra, writing with grace Charting the development of jazz photography from the swing era of and a formidable command of jazz his- the 1930s to the rise of black nationalism in the ’60s, Blue Notes in Black tory and American culture, makes us and White is the first of its kind: a fascinating account of the partner- see the sounds, the social relations, and ship between two of the twentieth century’s most innovative art forms. the myths of jazz as he ably uncovers Benjamin Cawthra introduces us to the great jazz photogra- the personal and institutional networks phers—including Gjon Mili, William Gottlieb, Herman Leonard, of musicians, writers, magazines, and Francis Wolff, Roy DeCarava, and William Claxton—and their strug- record companies in which jazz photog- gles, hustles, styles, and creative visions. We also meet their legendary raphy developed. Even as Blue Notes in subjects, such as Duke Ellington, sweating through a late-night jam Black and White casts a sharp eye on pho- session for the troops during World War II, and Dizzy Gillespie, stylish tographic aesthetics, it also works as a in beret, glasses, and goatee. Cawthra shows us the connections among groundbreaking history of jazz criticism. the photographers, art directors, editors, and record producers who At its best, this excellent book serves as a crafted a look for jazz that would sell magazines and albums. And on model for a multisensory music criticism: the other side of the lens, he explores how the musicians shaped their while reading it, I often felt I was hearing public images to further their own financial and political goals. the music more deeply.” This mixture of art, commerce, and racial politics resulted in a —John Gennari, author of Blowin’ Hot and Cool: rich visual legacy that is vividly on display in Blue Notes in Black and Jazz and Its Critics White. Beyond illuminating the aesthetic power of these images,

Cawthra ultimately shows how jazz and its imagery served a crucial NO r VEMbe 392 p., 65 halftones 7 x 10 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09875-3 function in the struggle for civil rights, making African Americans Cloth $45.00/£29.00 proudly, powerfully visible. MUSIC Some permissions will need Benjamin Cawthra is assistant professor of history and associate director of the to be cleared for a translated Center for Oral and Public History at California State University, Fullerton. edition.

general interest 21 D soUGla W. Allen The Institutional Revolution Measurement and the Economic Emergence of the Modern World

ew events in the history of humanity rival the Industrial Revolu- tion. Following its onset in eighteenth-century Britain, sweep- F ing changes in agriculture, manufacturing, transportation, and technology began to gain unstoppable momentum throughout Europe, North America, and eventually much of the world, with profound effects on socioeconomic and cultural conditions. “Douglas W. Allen has written a brilliant In The Institutional Revolution, Douglas W. Allen offers a carefully and challenging book that puts the researched and thought-provoking account of how dramatic changes measurement problem in the foreground in institutions—the formal and informal rules that govern a society— to convincingly explain the logic of pre- resulted from the unprecedented economic development that took modern institutions—institutions that place during the Industrial Revolution. Fundamental to these changes the typical modern person, until reading were the many significant improvements in the ability to measure Allen, views as the embodiment of chaos, performance—whether of government officials, laborers, or naval inefficiency, corruption, and ineptitude. officers—thereby reducing the amount of variance in daily affairs. The Institutional Revolution contains a Offering fascinating insight into how institutions address the cost of wealth of historical information that any- monitoring others, Allen provides readers along the way with an un- one with an interest in history will find derstanding of the critical roles of seemingly bizarre institutions, from interesting and often delightful.” —Thráinn Eggertsson, dueling to the purchase of one’s rank in the British Army. New York University Engagingly written, The Institutional Revolution traces the dramatic shift from premodern institutions based on patronage, purchase, and Markets and Governments in Economic History personal ties toward modern institutions based on standardization, merit, and wage labor. Nmrove be 296 p., 2 line drawings, 1 table 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-01474-6 Douglas W. Allen is the Burnaby Mountain Professor of Economics at Simon Cloth $30.00/£19.50 Fraser University in Canada. He is the author of numerous books, including ECONOMICS EUROPEAN HISTORY The Nature of the Farm: Contracts, Risk, and Organization in Agriculture.

22 general interest S hally Smit Hughes Genentech The Beginnings of Biotech

n the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of I Wall Street, raising over $38 million in its initial public stock offering. Lacking marketed products or substantial profit, the firm nonetheless saw its share price escalate from $35 to $89 in the first few minutes of trading, at that point the largest gain in stock market history. Coming at a time of economic recession and declining technological competitiveness in the United States, the event provoked banner headlines and ignited a period of speculative frenzy over biotechnology as a revolutionary means for creating new and better kinds “Sally Smith Hughes skillfully describes of pharmaceuticals, untold profit, and a possible solution to national the improbable creation, difficult adoles- economic malaise. cence, immense prosperity, and eventual Drawing from an unparalleled collection of interviews with early foundering of Genentech, the first biotech biotech players, Sally Smith Hughes offers the first book-length history behemoth. It’s a great tale, with a cast of this pioneering company. Hughes provides intimate portraits of of fabulous characters and surprising the people significant to Genentech’s science and business, including episodes, ranging from Palo Alto to Wall co-founders Herbert Boyer and Robert Swanson, and in doing so sheds Street. This is an outstanding book that new light on how personality affects the growth of science. By placing should appeal to Nobel laureates as Genentech’s founders, followers, opponents, victims, and beneficiaries well as hedge-fund barons and ordinary in context, Hughes also demonstrates how science interacts with com- citizens.” mercial and legal interests and university research, and with govern- —Daniel S. Greenberg, author of Science for Sale and ment regulation, venture capital, and commercial profits. Tech Transfer: Science, Money, Integrating the scientific, the corporate, the contextual, and the Love, and the Ivory Tower personal, Genentech tells the story of biotechnology as it is not often Synthesis told, as a risky and improbable entrepreneurial venture that had to overcome a number of powerful forces working against it. O rcTObe 216 p., 19 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-35918-2 Cloth $25.00/£16.00 Sally Smith Hughes is a historian of science at the Bancroft Library at the SCIENCE BUSINESS University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Virus: A History of the Concept and the creator of an extensive collection of in-depth oral histories on bioscience, biomedicine, and biotechnology.

general interest 23 Szau nne Mettler The Submerged State How Invisible Government Policies Undermine American Democracy

eep your government hands off my Medicare!” Such comments spotlight a central question animating Suzanne Met- K tler’s provocative and timely book: why are many Americans unaware of government social benefits and so hostile to them in principle, even though they receive them? The Obama administration has been criticized for its inability to convey how much it has accomplished “Americans want government policies to for ordinary citizens. Mettler argues that this difficulty is not merely a be transparent, straightforward, and fair, failure of communication; rather it is endemic to the formidable pres- but many social programs are confusing ence of the “submerged state.” and opaque and shower benefits dispro- In recent decades, federal policy makers have increasingly portionately on the well-to-do. In this shunned the outright disbursing of benefits to individuals and fami- timely, penetrating, and highly readable lies and favored instead less visible and more indirect incentives and book, Suzanne Mettler illuminates the subsidies, from tax breaks to payments for services to private compa- hidden government benefits and sub- nies. These submerged policies, Mettler shows, obscure the role of sidies that comprise our ‘submerged government and exaggerate that of the market. As a result, citizens state’ and demonstrates how its murky are unaware not only of the benefits they receive, but of the massive ad- operation impairs democratic practice vantages given to powerful interests, such as insurance companies and and weakens civic engagement.” the financial industry. Mettler analyzes three Obama reforms—student —Eric M. Patashnik, University of Virginia aid, tax relief, and health care—to reveal the submerged state and its consequences, demonstrating how structurally difficult it is to enact Chicago Studies in American Politics policy reforms. She concludes with recommendations for reform to help make hidden policies more visible and governance more compre- O rcTObe 176 p., 19 line drawings, 4 tables 6 x 9 hensible to all Americans. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-52164-0 Cloth $45.00x/£29.00 The sad truth is that many American citizens do not know how ISBN-13: 978-0-226-52165-7 Paper $15.00/£9.50 major social programs work—or even whether they benefit from them. P OLITICAL SCIENCE Suzanne Mettler’s important new book will bring government policies back to the surface and encourage citizens to reclaim their voice in the political process.

Suzanne Mettler is the Clinton Rossiter Professor of American Institutions at Cornell University. Her most recent book is Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation. 24 general interest Ptr a icia Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi Reclaiming Fair Use How to Put Balance Back in Copyright

n the increasingly complex and combative arena of copyright in the digital age, record companies sue college students over peer- Ito-peer music sharing, YouTube removes home movies because of a song playing in the background, and filmmakers are denied a distribution deal when some permissions “i” proves undottable. Patricia Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi chart a clear path through the confusion “The Supreme Court has told us that fair by urging a robust embrace of a principle long embedded in copyright use is one of the ‘traditional safeguards’ law, but too often poorly understood—fair use. By challenging the of the First Amendment. As this book widely held notion that current copyright law has become unwork- makes abundantly clear, nobody has done able and obsolete in the era of digital technologies, Reclaiming Fair better work making sure that safeguard Use promises to reshape the debate in both scholarly circles and the is actually effective than Aufderheide and creative community. Jaszi. The day we have a First Amendment This indispensable guide distills the authors’ years of experience Hall of Fame, their names should be there advising documentary filmmakers, English teachers, performing arts engraved in stone.” scholars, and other creative professionals into no-nonsense advice and —Lewis Hyde, practical examples for content producers. Reclaiming Fair Use begins author of Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership by surveying the landscape of contemporary copyright law—and the dampening effect it can have on creativity—before laying out how A uGUST 232 p., 1 table 6 x 9 the fair-use principle can be employed to avoid copyright violation. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03227-6 Cloth $50.00x/£32.50 Finally, Aufderheide and Jaszi summarize their work with artists and ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03228-3 professional groups to develop best practice documents for fair use Paper $17.00/£11.00 REFERENCE and discuss fair use in an international context. Appendixes address common myths about fair use and provide a template for creating the reader’s own best practices. Reclaiming Fair Use will be essential reading for anyone concerned with the law, creativity, and the ever-broadening realm of new media.

Patricia Aufderheide is professor in the School of Communication at Ameri- can University and director of the Center for Social Media. She is the author of, most recently, Documentary: A Very Short Introduction. Peter Jaszi is professor of domestic and international copyright law at the Washington College of Law, American University, where he directs the Glushko-Samuelson Intellec- tual Property Law Clinic. He is coauthor of Copyright Law. general interest 25 Rbto er Pack Laughter Before Sleep

ne of America’s most eminent nature poets, Robert Pack has won the acclaim of writers, critics, and readers from OStephen Jay Gould to Mark Strand. In his latest collection, Laughter Before Sleep, Pack carries on his themes of family and friends, responsibility to the natural world of evolved diversity, the transience of life, the fragility of happiness, and the consolations offered by art and music. Laughter Before Sleep weighs the nature of endings from the perspective of old age and embraces the humor and play of memory that keep “Pack’s poems may be characterized as mortality at bay. As we are carried along with Pack’s lyrical, sensitive, exhibiting eloquent pathos, and they and intelligent verse, he takes us on a moving but often comic journey show a mature, deeply seasoned courage toward the end of life. In the opening section, Pack composes poems to surmount suffering in their exaltation that meditate upon a sense of his own diminishing and the meaning of the common life. Laughter Before Sleep of absences. The middle sections form episodes of a memoir in verse, returns Pack to Frost’s hard wisdom of moving from family to history and back again, reflecting on the power stoic endurance and to the music of that of anecdote to shape a life in retrospect. With the final section, Pack endurance: a somber joy.” recalls his unfulfilled plan to raise penguins in Montana, offers a pan- —Harold Bloom egyric on Darwin’s nose, and makes the mistake of trying to impress a police officer with a book of poems.

O rcTObe 160 p., 1 line drawing 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-64419-6 Filled with charm and wit but also with philosophical melancholy, Paper $18.00s/£11.50 Laughter Before Sleep is a superb addition to the poet’s oeuvre. P OETRY

Robert Pack is the Abernethy Professor of Literature and Creative Writing Emeritus at Middlebury College, where he taught for thirty-four years and di- rected the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He lives in Missoula and teaches at the Honors College of the University of Montana. He is author of eighteen books of poems, most recently of Elk in Winter and Still Here, Still Now, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

26 general interest “ In my opinion, Phoenix Poets—which includes David Ferry, Turner Cassity, Donald Davie, Alan Shapiro, and the like—is second to none.” —Richard Wilbur Counter-Amores Contradance Jennifer Clarvoe Jh o n Peck

Counter-Amores I.2 I Hear You Calling Proof (from New York Sonnets) Than brandished fire yet will I prove more strong— Upturned, her face demanded that mine be truthful— I burn unshaken, burn and die day-long. gambit reversed. The porch of an uptown church The hooked fish, torn, must learn to slip the bait framed her cowl, towering wreckage by a tower Teasing the hook let go before too late. whose door hung bolted. From some ripe depth Not with you, but against you, love, I bruise came her hoarse blessing, then the aperture My mouth, manage myself such pain I choose. shut once more, creases near her eyes as deltas I will this torment as I can’t will love fanning to gulfs across a mind, a world. From you or me—what can a body prove? Alms, alma, trauma, tremendum, lorn, learn: what book Though neither yours nor love’s, still I’m a slave. binds their leaves? Not the boulevardier’s album Untie me from myself—I’m yours to have. of glancing encounters. Daughter of disasters curling wholly inward, nestle thy babe, Jennifer Clarvoe’s second book, Counter-Amores, wrestles with your rotting shawl hanging lank, let the hot wind and against love. The poems in the title series talk back to billow it soprano, though not for thee Ovid’s Amores, and, in talking back, take charge, take delight, such releases just yet, not here, not now. and take revenge. They suggest that we discover what we love by fighting, by bringing our angry, hungry, imperfect selves In a country where much of the prominent poetry seeks to af- into the battle. Like a man who shouts for the echo back from firm the fleeting present and its changing values, John Peck’s a cliff, or the scientist who teaches her parrot to say, “I love poetry comes as an important, if unlikely, gift. Peck’s verse you,” or the philosopher who wonders what it is like to be a deals the cards of the fragmentary, ideogramic, juxtaposi- bat, or Temple Grandin’s lucid imaginings of the last mo- tional, and elliptical through the deck of normally discursive ments of cattle destined for slaughter, the speakers in these syntax. Echoing late high Modernism, Peck’s work, in the poems seek to find themselves in relation to an ever-widening words of novelist Joseph McElroy, is “a way of seeing things,” circle of unknowable others. Yearning for “the sweet cool hum confident “in the packed vividness of the referential.” Avoid- of fridge and fluorescent that sang ‘home,’” we’re as likely to ing the narrow identity- or group-specific viewpoint of some find “fifty-seven clicks and flickering channels pitched to the of his contemporaries, Peck invites us to enter the larger hu- galaxy.” Song itself becomes a site for gorgeous struggle, just manscape and unearth with him unnoticed connections to as bella means both “beautiful” and “wars.” our shared past and to one another. In Contradance, his ninth collection, Peck’s passion for inquiry and historical reflection Praise for Invisible Tender has never been stronger or more beautifully embodied. “The textures of Invisible Tender—the edgy shimmer of quartz, Praise for John Peck the cool vulnerability of silk—are exhilarating. Clarvoe’s can- ny perspectives, glistening details, and unnerving surprises “John Peck may be the best American poet whose name you’ve are a constant delight. Her book places her at once in the star- never heard of.”—Peter Campion, Poetry ry company of poets like Elizabeth Bishop and May Swenson. I “The best free-verse writers we have today are probably August am moved and thrilled to know, here is the real thing, a poet.” Kleinzahler and John Peck.”—Clive Wilmer, Notre Dame Review —J. D. McClatchy John Peck is a freelance editor and translator and a practicing Jennifer Clarvoe is professor of English at Kenyon College. She is the Jungian analyst. He is the author of eight books of poems, most author of Invisible Tender. recently of Red Strawberry Leaf: Selected Poems, 1994–2001, published in the Phoenix Poets series by the University of Chicago Press, and a O rcTObe 88 p. 51/2 x 81/2 cotranslator of C. G. Jung’s The Red Book. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-10928-2 Paper $18.00s/£11.50 O rcTObe 88 p. 6 x 9 POETRY ISBN-13: 978-0-226-65292-4 Paper $18.00s/£11.50 POETRY

general interest 27 E dited by Stephan Palmié and Francisco A. Scarano The Caribbean A History of the Region and Its Peoples

ombining fertile soils, vital trade routes, and a coveted strategic location, the islands and surrounding continental Clowlands of the Caribbean were one of Europe’s earliest and most desirable colonial frontiers. The region was colonized over the course of five centuries by a revolving cast of Spanish, Dutch, French, and English forces, who imported first African slaves and later Asian indentured laborers to help realize the economic promise of sugar, C ontributors include coffee, and tobacco. The Caribbean: A History of the Region and Its Peoples Hilary McD. Beckles offers an authoritative one-volume survey of this complex and fascinat- O. Nigel Bolland ing region. Philip Boucher This groundbreaking work traces the Caribbean from its pre- Laurent Dubois Columbian state through European contact and colonialism to the Alison Games rise of US hegemony and the economic turbulence of the twenty-first Winston James century. The volume begins with a discussion of the region’s diverse Aisha Khan geography and challenging ecology and features an in-depth look at Philip Morgan the transatlantic slave trade, including slave culture, resistance, and Brenda Gayle Plummer ultimately emancipation. Later sections treat Caribbean nationalist Pedro L. San Miguel movements for independence and struggles with dictatorship and Jalil Sued-Badillo socialism, along with intractable problems of poverty, economic Dale Tomich stagnation, and migrancy. Written by a distinguished group of contributors, The Caribbean is O rcTObe 624 p., 71 halftones, 2 figures, 1 table 7 x 10 an accessible yet thorough introduction to the region’s tumultuous heri- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-64506-3 tage that offers enough nuance to interest scholars across disciplines. Cloth $95.00x/£61.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-64508-7 In its breadth of coverage and depth of detail, it will be the definitive Paper $35.00s/£22.50 HISTORY guide to the region for years to come.

Stephan Palmié is professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago, specializing in Afro-Caribbean cultures. He is the author of Wizards and Sci- entists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition. Francisco A. Scarano is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, specializing in the Caribbean and Latin America. He is the author of Puerto Rico: Cinco siglos de historia.

28 general interest Books of Special Interest “Disciplining the Poor is a landmark Disciplining the Poor book on the governance of poverty Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race in the United States, the most J oe SoSS, Richard C. Fording, and Sanford F. Schram important such work since Piven and Cloward’s Regulating the Poor, Disciplining the Poor lays out the un- signed state operations around market written a generation ago, and an derlying logic of contemporary pov- principles; to impose market discipline, exemplar of multi-method social erty governance in the United States. core state functions—from war to wel- science research.” The authors argue that poverty gov- fare—have been contracted out to —Andrea Louise Campbell, ernance—how social welfare policy private providers. The authors seek to Massachusetts Institute choices get made, how authority gets clarify the origins, operations, and con- of Technology exercised, and how collective pursuits sequences of neoliberal paternalism as get organized—has been transformed a mode of poverty governance, tracing Chicago Studies in American Politics in the United States by two significant its impact from the federal level, to the developments. The rise of paternalism state and county level, down to the dif- november 384 p., 45 line drawings, 1 map, 1 table 6 x 9 has promoted a more directive and ferences in ways frontline case workers ISBN-13: 978-0-226-76876-2 supervisory approach to managing take disciplinary actions in individual Cloth $75.00x/£48.50 the poor. This has intersected with a cases. The book also addresses the com- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-76877-9 Paper $25.00s/£16.00 second development: the rise of neo- plex role race has come to play in con- p oLITICAL science sociology liberalism as an organizing principle temporary poverty governance. of governance. Neoliberals have rede-

Joe Soss is the Cowles Professor for the Study of Public Service in the Hubert H. Hum- phrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. Richard C. Fording is professor in and chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Alabama. Sanford F. Schram teaches social theory and policy in the Graduate School of Social Work and Research at Bryn Mawr College.

“Through a comprehensive review The Arc of War of the literature, The Arc of War Origins, Escalation, and Transformation presents an interesting and J ack S. Levy and William R. Thompson important argument that there is a coevolutionary process at work In this far-reaching exploration of the ment—all of which create changing during warfare, whereby political evolution of warfare in human history, incentives for states and other actors. economy, military organization, Jack S. Levy and William R. Thompson They conclude that those actors that weapons, and the threat environ- provide insight into the perennial ques- adapt survive, and those that do not are eliminated. In modern times, war- ment are all endogenous.” tions of why and how humans fight. Beginning with the origins of warfare fare between major powers has become —David Sobek, Louisiana State University among foraging groups, The Arc of War exceedingly costly and therefore quite draws on a wealth of empirical data rare, while lesser powers are too weak

October 280 p., 11 line drawings, to enhance our understanding of how to fight sustained and decisive wars or 43 tables 6 x 9 war began and how it has changed over to prevent internal rebellions. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47628-5 time. The authors point to the complex Conceptually innovative and his- Cloth $90.00x/£58.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47629-2 interaction of political economy, politi- torically sweeping, The Arc of War rep- Paper $27.00s/£17.50 cal and military organization, military resents a significant contribution to the P OLITICAL SCIENCE HISTORY technology, and the threat environ- existing literature on warfare.

Jack S. Levy is the Board of Governors’ Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University and coauthor, with William R. Thompson, of Causes of War. William R. Thompson is Distin- guished Professor and the Donald A. Rogers Professor of Political Science at Indiana Uni- versity. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including Coping with Terrorism.

30 special interest Leo Katz Why the Law Is So Perverse

onundrums, puzzles, and perversities: these are Leo Katz’s stock-in-trade, and in Why the Law Is So Perverse, he focuses Con four fundamental features of our legal system, all of which seem to not make sense on some level and to demand explanation. First, legal decisions are essentially made in an either/or fashion—guilty or not guilty, liable or not liable, either it’s a contract or it’s not—but reality is rarely that clear-cut. Why aren’t there any in-between verdicts? Second, the law is full of loopholes. No one seems to like them, but somehow they cannot be made to disappear. Why? Third, legal systems are loath to punish certain kinds of highly im- “Why the Law Is So Perverse is a terrific moral conduct while prosecuting other far less pernicious behaviors. book. It is original in its general concep- What makes a villainy a felony? Finally, why does the law often prohibit tion and creative in all the particularities what are sometimes called win-win transactions, such as organ sales or of its execution. And in bringing the social surrogacy contracts? choice argument to the law and legal problems, Katz has made an important Katz asserts that these perversions arise out of a cluster of logical and novel academic contribution.” difficulties related to multicriterial decision making. The discovery of —Bruce Chapman, these difficulties dates back to Condorcet’s eighteenth-century explo- University of Toronto ration of voting rules, which marked the beginning of what we know today as social choice theory. Condorcet’s voting cycles, Arrow’s Theo- Semept ber 256 p., 1 line drawing 6 x 9 rem, Sen’s Libertarian Paradox—every seeming perversity of the law ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42603-7 Cloth $35.00s/£22.50 turns out to be the counterpart of one of the many voting paradoxes LAW that lie at the heart of social choice. Katz’s lucid explanations and apt examples show why they resist any easy resolutions. The New York Times Book Review called Katz’s first book “a fascinating romp through the philosophical side of the law.” Why the Law Is So Perverse is sure to provide its readers a similar experience.

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

special interest 31 “A major paradigmatic contribution Man Is by Nature a Political Animal relevant well beyond political sci- Evolution, Biology, and Politics ence, Man Is by Nature a Political Edited by Peter K. Hatemi and Rose McDe rMOTT Animal provides a primer of what has been happening at the inter- In Man Is by Nature a Political Animal, haviors, psychophysiological methods section of political science, biol- Peter K. Hatemi and Rose McDermott and research, and the wealth of insight ogy, and cognitive neuroscience for bring together a diverse group of con- generated by recent research on the the past twenty years. Hatemi and tributors to examine the ways in which human brain. Through this approach, McDermott have put together a for- evolutionary theory and biological the book reveals the biological bases of midable group of the most creative research are increasingly informing many previously unexplained variances analyses of political behavior. Focus- within the extant models of political scholars in the discipline, each of ing on the theoretical, methodological, behavior. whom has attempted to show how and empirical frameworks of a variety The diversity of methods discussed the various methodologies and of biological approaches to political and variety of issues examined here theoretical frameworks operate.” attitudes and preferences, the authors will make this book of great interest to —John M. Orbell, consider a wide range of topics, includ- students and scholars seeking a com- University of Oregon ing the comparative basis of political prehensive overview of this emerging behavior, the utility of formal model- approach to the study of politics and October 352 p., 20 line drawings, ing informed by evolutionary theory, behavior. 27 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31909-4 the genetic bases of attitudes and be- Cloth $80.00x/£51.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31910-0 Peter K. Hatemi is a research fellow at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Paper $27.50s/£18.00 Sydney and the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics. Rose McDermott is professor of political science at Brown University and the Katherine Hampson Bessell POLITICAL SCIENCE SOCIOLOGY Fellow in Political Science at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard Uni- versity. She is the author of numerous books, including Presidential Leadership, Illness, and Decision Making.

“Boaz Atzili presents a very interest- Good Fences, Bad Neighbors ing, well-researched, and coun- Border Fixity and International Conflict terintuitive argument that carries Bazz o At ili important policy implications and

should be emphasized in the litera- Border fixity—the proscription of for- ing to the evolution of strong states— ture about international security.” eign conquest and the annexation of and its presence to the survival of weak —Idean Salehyan, homeland territory—has, since World ones. What results from this norm, he University of North Texas War II, become a powerful norm in argues, are conditions that make inter- world politics. This development has nal conflict and the spillover of inter- December 320 p., 2 halftones, been said to increase stability and state war more likely. Using a compari- 5 line drawings, 5 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03135-4 peace in international relations. Yet, son of historical and contemporary Cloth $90.00x/£58.00 in a world in which it is unacceptable case studies, Atzili sheds light on the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03136-1 to challenge international borders relationship between state weakness Paper $30.00s/£19.50 by force, sociopolitically weak states and conflict. His argument that under P OLITICAL SCIENCE remain a significant source of wide- some circumstances an international spread conflict, war, and instability. norm that was established to preserve In this book, Boaz Atzili argues the peace may actually create condi- that the process of state building has tions that are ripe for war is sure to long been influenced by external terri- generate debate and shed light on the torial pressures and competition, with dynamics of continuing conflict in the the absence of border fixity contribut- twenty-first century.

Boaz Atzili is assistant professor in the School of International Service, American University.

32 special interest K evin J. McM aHOn Nixon’s Court His Challenge to Judicial Liberalism and Its Political Consequences

ost analysts have deemed Richard Nixon’s challenge to the judicial liberalism of the Warren Supreme Court a failure, M “a counterrevolution that wasn’t.” Nixon’s Court offers an al- ternative assessment. Kevin J. McMahon reveals a Nixon whose public rhetoric was more conservative than his administration’s actions and whose policy toward the Court was more subtle than previously recognized. Viewing Nixon’s judicial strategy as part political and part legal, McMahon argues that Nixon succeeded substantially on both counts. “This book is fascinating, original, and Many of the issues dear to social conservatives, such as abortion important. It adds a rich case study to and school prayer, were not nearly as important to Nixon. Conse- the literature that claims politicians use quently, his nominations for the Supreme Court were chosen primarily courts to advance their electoral and to advance his “law and order” and school desegregation agendas— policy aims. McMahon deploys multiple agendas the Court eventually endorsed. But there were also political sources of evidence to reveal how Nixon motivations to Nixon’s approach: he wanted his judicial policy to be shifted the Supreme Court to the right conservative enough to attract white southerners and northern white on school desegregation and law and ethnics disgruntled with the Democratic Party but not so conservative order as a successful electoral strategy, as to drive away moderates in his own party. In essence, then, he used bringing white southerners and ethnic his criticisms of the Court to speak to members of his “Silent Majority” Catholics into the Republican fold and in hopes of disrupting the long-dominant New Deal Democratic coalition. profoundly reshaping American politics.” For McMahon, Nixon’s judicial strategy succeeded not only in —Terri Peretti, shaping the course of constitutional law in the areas he most desired Santa Clara University but also in laying the foundation of an electoral alliance that would dominate presidential politics for a generation. O rcTObe 336 p., 9 line drawings, 18 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-56119-6 K evin J. McMahon is the John R. Reitemeyer Associate Professor of Political Cloth $29.00s/£20.00 Science at Trinity College. He is the author or editor of four books, including P OLITICAL SCIENCE Reconsidering Roosevelt on Race, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

special interest 33 “Alex Mesoudi argues very persua- Cultural Evolution sively that the way we think and act is enormously influenced by How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture and Synthesize the Social Sciences the culture in which we live and that the major elements of modern Alex Mesoudi culture—science, technology, law, Charles Darwin changed the course focuses on the ways cultural phenomena music, and religion—have evolved of scientific thinking by showing how can be studied scientifically—from theo- over time in a quite concrete sense evolution accounts for the stunning di- retical modeling to lab experiments, ar- of the term. His book is a very good versity and biological complexity of life chaeological fieldwork to ethnographic read.” on earth. Recently, there has also been studies—and shows how apparently dis- —Richard R. Nelson, increased interest in the social sciences parate methods can complement one Columbia University in how Darwinian theory can explain another to the mutual benefit of the human culture. various social science disciplines. Along September 280 p., 11 line drawings, Covering a wide range of topics, in- the way, the book reveals how new in- 2 tables 6 x 9 cluding fads, public policy, the spread of sights arise from looking at culture from ISBN-13: 978-0-226-52043-8 Cloth $85.00x/£55.00 religion, and herd behavior in markets, an evolutionary angle. Cultural Evolution ISBN-13: 978-0-226-52044-5 Alex Mesoudi shows that human cul- provides a thought-provoking argument Paper $27.50s/£18.00 ture is itself an evolutionary process that that Darwinian evolutionary theory can Psychology SCIENCE exhibits the key Darwinian mechanisms both unify different branches of inquiry of variation, competition, and inheri- and enhance understanding of human tance. This cross-disciplinary volume behavior.

Alex Mesoudi is a lecturer in psychology at Queen Mary, University of London.

“Bo Rothstein asks what high- quality government can and should The Quality of Government be, and gives us multiple reasons to care about the answers he pro- Corruption, Social Trust, and Inequality in poses. The Quality of Government International Perspective is a theoretically sophisticated and B o RoTHSTein imaginative discussion of issues that have needed a fresh look for The relationship between government, between the quality of government and some time.” virtue, and wealth has held a special important economic, political, and so- fascination since Aristotle, and the im- cial outcomes. Focusing on the effects —Michael Johnston, Colgate University portance of each frames policy debates of government policies, he argues that today in both developed and develop- unpredictable actions constitute a se-

September 280 p., 14 halftones, ing countries. While it’s clear that low- vere impediment to economic growth 2 line drawings, 14 tables 6 x 9 quality government institutions have and development—and that a basic ISBN-13: 978-0-226-72956-5 tremendous negative effects on the characteristic of quality government Cloth $80.00x/£51.50 health and wealth of societies, the cri- is impartiality in the exercise of power. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-72957-2 Paper $27.50s/£18.00 teria for good governance remain far This is borne out by cross-sectional from clear. analyses, experimental studies, and in- P OLITICAL SCIENCe ECONOMICS In this pathbreaking book, lead- depth historical investigations. Timely ing political scientist Bo Rothstein and topical, The Quality of Government tack- provides a theoretical foundation for les such issues as political legitimacy, empirical analysis on the connection social capital, and corruption.

Bo Rothstein is the August Röhss Chair in Political Science at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, Social Traps and the Problem of Trust.

34 special interest Mica h el Taussig I Swear I Saw This Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own

Swear I Saw This records visionary anthropologist Michael Tauss- ig’s reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty I years of travels in Colombia. Taking as a starting point a drawing he made in Medellin in 2006—as well as its caption, “I swear I saw this”—Taussig considers the fieldwork notebook as a type of modernist literature and the place where writers and other creators first work out the imaginative logic of discovery. Notebooks mix the raw material of observation with reverie, juxtaposed, in Taussig’s case, with drawings, watercolors, and news- Praise for What Color Is the Sacred? paper cuttings, which blend the inner and outer worlds in a fashion “In the course of reflecting on shamanism reminiscent of Brion Gysin and William Burroughs’s surreal cut-up and the Native cultures of the Americas, technique. Focusing on the small details and observations that are lost and the relationship of symbolism, drugs, when writers convert their notes into finished pieces, Taussig calls for and color, and introducing such interest- new ways of seeing and using the notebook as form. Memory emerges ing concepts as ‘preemptively apocalyptic as a central motif in I Swear I Saw This as he explores his penchant to knowledge’ and the bodily unconscious- inscribe new recollections in the margins or directly over the original ness, the author offers no less than an entries days or weeks after an event. This palimpsest of afterthoughts ethnology of color. . . . It is also beauti- leads to ruminations on Freud’s analysis of dreams, Proust’s thoughts fully poetic, thoroughly rational, and an on the involuntary workings of memory, and Benjamin’s theories of excellent read.” history—fieldwork, Taussig writes, provokes childhood memories with —Choice startling ease. I Swear I Saw This exhibits Taussig’s characteristic verve and intel- “Michael Taussig has done it again. As lectual audacity, here combined with a revelatory sense of intimacy. with his previous books, Taussig has pro- He writes, “drawing is thus a depicting, a hauling, an unraveling, and duced a unique account that takes readers being impelled toward something or somebody.” Readers will exult in on a journey—this time into the ‘color of joining Taussig once again as he follows the threads of a tangled skein history’—that is electrifying, surprising, of inspired associations. at times disconcerting and unsettling, but ultimately inspiring.” —American Anthropologist Michael Taussig is the Class of 1933 Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author of ten books, including What Color Is the Sacred?, Walter Benjamin’s Grave, and My Cocaine Museum, all published by the Univer- 1 1 sity of Chicago Press. D reCEMbe 176 p., 30 halftones 5 /2 x 8 /2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-78982-8 Cloth $48.00x/£31.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-78983-5 Paper $16.00s/£10.50 ANTHROPOLOGY special interest 35 ns a Picturing the Book of Nature l org a Image, Text, and Argument in Sixteenth-Century Human

ourtesy of the ourtesy Anatomy and Medical Botany C Sachiko Kusukawa

Because of their spectacular, natural- Kusukawa begins with a survey of

le figure (c. 1508). istic pictures of plants and the human the technical, financial, artistic, and a , A dissection of the princip i body, Leonhart Fuchs’s De historia stir- political conditions that governed fem nc i a pium and Andreas Vesalius’s De humani the production of printed books dur- astle. C corporis fabrica are landmark publica- ing the Renaissance. It was during the

ndsor tions in the history of the printed book. first half of the sixteenth century that i l system of a eonardo da V L But as Picturing the Book of Nature makes learned authors began using images in on. rteri i

a clear, they do more than bear witness their research and writing, but because brary, W brary, Li to the development of book publish- the technology was so new, there was a oyal oyal nd the

Illustrat a R ing during the Renaissance and to the great deal of variety of thought—and prominence attained by the fields of often disagreement—about exactly what january 304 p., 121 color plates, 16 halftones, 2 tables 7 x 10 medical botany and anatomy in Euro- images could do. Kusukawa investigates ISBN-13: 978-0-226-46529-6 pean medicine. Sachiko Kusukawa ex- the works of Fuchs, Gessner, and Vesa- Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 amines these texts, as well as Conrad lius in light of these debates, scrutinizing HISTORY SCIENCE Gessner’s unpublished Historia planta- the scientists’ treatment of illustrations rum, and demonstrates how their illus- and tracing their motivation for includ- Some permissions will trations were integral to the emergence ing them in their works. What results is need to be cleared for a translated edition. of a new type of argument during this a fascinating and original study of the period—a visual argument for the sci- visual dimension of scientific knowledge entific study of nature. in the sixteenth century.

Sachiko Kusukawa is a fellow in the history and philosophy of science at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. She is the author of The Transformation of Natural Philosophy: The Case of Philip Melanchthon.

Visible Empire Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment D aniela Bleichmar then a e d. H i Between 1777 and 1816, botanical ex- ages a window into the worlds of En- peditions crisscrossed the vast Spanish lightenment science, visual culture, ca, Madr i

ér empire in an ambitious project to sur- and empire. Through innovative inter- Am vey the flora of much of the Americas, disciplinary scholarship that bridges ndios gentiles (16. I the Caribbean, and the Philippines. the histories of science, visual culture, While these voyages produced written and the Hispanic world, Bleichmar texts and compiled collections of speci- uses these images to trace two related abrera, 16. C

ourtesy Museo de ourtesy histories: the little-known history of C mens, they dedicated an overwhelming guel i proportion of their resources and en- scientific expeditions in the Hispanic

ng. M Enlightenment and the history of vi- i ergy to the creation of visual materials. ns ), 1763. a nt i European and American naturalists sual evidence in both science and ndi Pa I and artists collaborated to manufac- administration in the early modern December 288 p., 99 color plates, ture a staggering total of more than Spanish empire. As Bleichmar shows, 2 halftones, 1 table 83/4 x 91/2 13,000 botanical illustrations. Yet these in the Spanish empire visual episte- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05853-5 Cloth $55.00s/£35.50 images have remained largely over- mology operated not only in scientific SCIENCE ART looked—until now. contexts but also as part of an imperial In this lavishly illustrated volume, apparatus that had a long-established Daniela Bleichmar gives this archive tradition of deploying visual evidence its due, finding in these botanical im- for administrative purposes.

Daniela Bleichmar is assistant professor in the Departments of Art History and History at 36 special interest the University of Southern California. Jefr t f ey Ab American Egyptologist The Life of James Henry Breasted and the Creation of His Oriental Institute

ames Henry Breasted (1865–1935) had a career that epitomizes our popular image of the archaeologist. Daring, handsome, and Jcharismatic, he traveled on expeditions to remote and politically unstable corners of the Middle East, helped identify the tomb of King decemr be 584 p., 128 halftones, 4 maps Tut, and was on the cover of Time magazine. But Breasted was more 7 x 10 than an Indiana Jones—he was an accomplished scholar, academic en- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-00110-4 Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 trepreneur, and talented author who brought ancient history to life not BOGRA I PHY HISTORY just for students but for such notables as Teddy Roosevelt and Sigmund Some permissions will need Freud. to be cleared for a translated edition. In American Egyptologist, Jeffrey Abt weaves together the disparate strands of Breasted’s life, from his small-town origins following the Civil War to his evolution into the father of American Egyptology and the founder of the Oriental Institute in the early years of the University of Chicago. Abt explores the scholarly, philanthropic, diplomatic, and religious contexts of his ideas and projects, providing insight into the origins of America’s most prominent center for Near Eastern archaeology. An illuminating portrait of the nearly forgotten man who demystified ancient Egypt for the general public, American Egyptologist restores James Henry Breasted to the world and puts forward a brilliant case B reasted and son Charles, ca 1901. Courtesy of the Oriental for his place as one of the most important scholars of modern times. Institute, University of Chicago.

Jeffrey Abt is associate professor in the James Pearson Duffy Department of Art and Art History at Wayne State University. He is the author of A Museum on the Verge: A Socioeconomic History of the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1885–2000.

special interest 37 “Peel has written the first work of Miss Cutler and the Case of the twenty-first-century history, and it stands as a model of how histo- Resurrected Horse rians think and write multivocal Social Work and the Story of Poverty in America, accounts of the past. Convincing, Australia, and Britain Mark Peel provocative, and a pleasure to read.” Social workers produced thousands of responded to poverty, Mark Peel draws —Daniel Walkowitz, case files about the poor during the a picture of social work that is based New York University interwar years. Analyzing almost two in the sometimes fraught encounters thousand such case files and traveling between the poor and their interpret- Historical Studies of Urban America from Boston, Minneapolis, and Port- ers. He uses dramatization to bring December 360 p. 6 x 9 land to London and Melbourne, Miss these encounters to life—joining Miss ISBN-13: 978-0-226-65363-1 Cutler and the Case of the Resurrected Horse Cutler and that resurrected horse are Cloth $49.00s/£31.50 is a pioneering comparative study that Miss Lindstrom and the fried potatoes HISTORY examines how these stories of poverty and Mr. O’Neil and the seductive cli- were narrated and reshaped by ethnic ent—and to give these people a voice. diversity, economic crisis, and war. Adding new dimensions to the study of Probing the similarities and dif- charity and social work, this book is es- ferences in the ways Americans, Aus- sential to understanding and tackling tralians, and Britons understood and poverty in the twenty-first century.

Mark Peel is professor of modern cultural and social history and head of the School of His- tory at the University of Liverpool. A former professor of history at Monash University, he is the author of three books, most recently The Lowest Rung: Voices of Australian Poverty.

Capitalism Takes Command The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America Contributors Sean Patrick Adams, E dited by Michael Zakim and Gary J. Kornblith Jean-Christophe Agnew, Most scholarship on nineteenth-century the economy, but also that the revolu- Edward E. Baptist, Elizabeth America’s transformation into a market tion was not confined to the destruc- Blackmar, Christopher Clark, society has focused on consumption, ro- tion of an agrarian past. As business Gary J. Kornblith, Jonathan manticized visions of workers, and anal- ceaselessly revised its own practices, Levy, Jeffrey Sklansky, Amy ysis of firms and factories. Building on a new demographic of private bank- Dru Stanley, Tamara Plakins but moving past these studies, Capital- ers, insurance brokers, investors in Thornton, Robert E. Wright, ism Takes Command presents a history of securities, and start-up manufacturers, family farming, general incorporation among many others, assumed center and Michael Zakim laws, mortgage payments, inheritance stage, displacing older elites and forms practices, office systems, and risk man- of property. Explaining how capital January 384 p., 10 halftones, agement—an inventory of the means by became an “ism” and how business 4 line drawings, 3 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-45109-1 which capitalism became America’s new became a political philosophy, Capital- Cloth $90.00x/£58.00 revolutionary tradition. ism Takes Command brings the economy ISBN-13: 978-0-226-45110-7 This multidisciplinary collection back into American social and cultural Paper $30.00s/£19.50 of essays argues not only that capital- history. AMERICAN HISTORY ism reached far beyond the purview of

Michael Zakim is associate professor of history at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men’s Dress in the American Republic, 1760–1860, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Gary J. Kornblith is professor of history at Oberlin College and the author of Slavery and Sectional Strife in the Early American Republic, 1776–1821.

38 special interest Behind Closed Doors “Behind Closed Doors is a novel and IRBs and the Making of Ethical Research important addition to the literature on the governance of experimen- Laura Stark tation on human subjects. It will appeal to academic scholars in the Although the subject of federally man- of human subjects. Stark argues that dated Institutional Review Boards the model of group deliberation that history of science and medicine, (IRBs) has been extensively debated, we gradually crystallized during this period sociology, bioethics, and postwar actually do not know much about what reflected contemporary legal and medi- American history.” takes place when they convene. The cal conceptions of what it meant to be —Gerald Kutcher, story of how IRBs work today is a story human, what political rights human sub- author of Contested Medicine: about their past as well as their present, jects deserved, and which stakeholders Cancer Research and the Military and Behind Closed Doors is the first book were best suited to decide. She then ex- to meld firsthand observations of IRB plains how the historical contingencies Morality and Society Series meetings with the history of how rules that shaped rules for the treatment of December 248 p., 13 halftones, for the treatment of human subjects human subjects in the postwar era guide 1 line drawing, 1 table 6 x 9 were formalized in the United States in decision making today—within hospi- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77086-4 the decades after World War II. tals, universities, health departments, Cloth $85.00x/£55.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77087-1 Drawing on extensive archival and other institutions in the United Paper $27.50s/£18.00 States and across the globe. Meticulous- sources, Laura Stark reconstructs the AMERICAN HISTORY MEDICINE daily lives of scientists, lawyers, adminis- ly researched and gracefully argued, Be- trators, and research subjects working— hind Closed Doors will be essential reading and “warring”—on the campus of the for sociologists and historians of science National Institutes of Health, where they and medicine, as well as policy makers first wrote the rules for the treatment and IRB administrators.

L aura Stark is assistant professor in the Program in Science in Society and the Department of Sociology at Wesleyan University.

Cancer on Trial “This remarkable book charts the Oncology as a New Style of Practice emergence of a clinical field—medical oncology—for which experimen- Pet ter Kea ing and Alberto Cambrosio tal protocols have become routin- Until the early 1960s, cancer treatment and Alberto Cambrosio explore how ized as a form of normal practice. consisted primarily of surgery and radi- practitioners established a new style Cancer on Trial will make a lasting ation therapy. Most practitioners then of practice, at the center of which contribution to the sociology of viewed the treatment of terminally ill lies the clinical cancer trial. Far from scientific knowledge, the history cancer patients with heroic courses of mere testing devices, these trials have of clinical practice, and the under- chemotherapy as highly questionable. become full-fledged experiments that standing of the networked basis of The randomized clinical trials that to- have redefined the practices of clini- day sustain modern oncology were rel- cians, statisticians, and biologists. Ke- biomedical research.” atively rare and prompted stiff oppo- ating and Cambrosio investigate these —Jeremy A. Greene, Harvard University sition from physicians loath to assign trials and how they have changed since patients randomly to competing treat- the 1960s, all the while demonstrat- February 424 p., 24 halftones, ments. And yet today these trials form ing their significant impact on the 28 line drawings 6 x 9 the basis of medical oncology. How did progression of oncology. A novel look ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42891-8 such a spectacular change occur? How at the institution of clinical cancer re- Cloth $40.00s/£26.00 did medical oncology pivot from a non- search and therapy, this book will be MEDICINE HISTORY entity and, in some regards, a reviled warmly welcomed by historians, sociol- practice to the central position it now ogists, and anthropologists of science Some permissions will need to be cleared for a occupies in modern medicine? and medicine, as well as clinicians and translated edition. In Cancer on Trial Peter Keating researchers in the cancer field.

Peter Keating is professor of history at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Alberto Cambrosio is professor in the Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill Univer- sity. Together, they are the authors of Exquisite Specificity: The Monoclonal Antibody Revolution and Biomedical Platforms: Realigning the Normal and the Pathological in Late Twentieth-Century Medicine. special interest 39 “ Caroline Frank’s arguments span Objectifying China, Imagining America continents and oceans as they offer a richly diverse history that Chinese Commodities in Early America Caroline Frank is rightly global in scope, packed with illuminating details that fit With the ever-expanding presence of than just Britain and Europe. together like a disciplinary puzzle- China in the global economy, Americans Frank not only recovers the wide- in-the-making.” more and more look east for goods and spread presence of Chinese commodi- —Robert St. George, trade. But as Caroline Frank reveals, this ties in early America and the impact University of Pennsylvania is not a new development. China loomed of East Indies trade on the nature of as large in the minds—and account American commerce, but also explores December 280 p., 49 halftones, books—of eighteenth-century Ameri- 1 line drawing, 2 tables 6 x 9 the role of this trade in American state ISBN-13: 978-0-226-26027-3 cans as it does today. Long before they formation. She argues that to under- Cloth $75.00x/£48.50 had achieved independence from Brit- stand how Chinese commodities fueled ISBN-13: 978-0-226-26028-0 ain and were able to sail to Asia them- the opening acts of the Revolution, we Paper $25.00s/£16.00 selves, American mariners, merchants, must consider the power dynamics of AMERICAN HISTORY and consumers were aware of the East the American quest for china—and Indies and preparing for voyages there. China—during the colonial period. Focusing on the trade and consumption Filled with fresh and surprising in- of porcelain, tea, and chinoiserie, Frank sights, this ambitious study adds new shows that colonial Americans saw them- dimensions to the ongoing story of selves as part of a world much larger America’s relationship with China.

C aroline Frank is an independent scholar, visiting lecturer in the Department of History at Brown University, and historian for the Greene Farm Archaeology Project.

Slaves Waiting for Sale le, on of i Sa Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade Mur a ie D. McI nnis iting for a the collect m ro ves W

F In 1853, Eyre Crowe, a young British world of abolitionism. Tracing Crowe’s a l S artist, visited a slave auction in Rich- trajectory from Richmond across the e, , 1861. w a mond, Virginia. Harrowed by what he American South and back to Lon- ro C

irgini witnessed, he captured the scene in don—where his paintings were exhib- V yre nz. i E e

H sketches that he would later develop ited just a few weeks after the start of l of i into a series of illustrations and paint- the Civil War—Maurie D. McInnis il- eta ichmond, eresa D R T ings, including the culminating paint- luminates not only how his abolition- ing, Slaves Waiting for Sale, Richmond, ist art was inspired and made, but also December 312 p., 12 color plates, 125 halftones 7 x 10 Virginia. how it influenced the international ISBN-13: 978-0-226-55933-9 This innovative book uses Crowe’s public’s grasp of slavery in America. Cloth $40.00s/£26.00 paintings to explore the texture of the With nearly 140 illustrations, Slaves AMERICAN HISTORY slave trade in Richmond, Charleston, Waiting for Sale brings a fresh perspec- and New Orleans, the evolving iconog- tive to the American slave trade and raphy of abolitionist art, and the role abolitionism as we enter the sesquicen- of visual culture in the transatlantic tennial of the Civil War.

Maurie D. McInnis is professor in the McIntire Department of Art and associate dean for the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia. She is the author of The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston.

40 special interest In the Watches of the Night “In the Watches of the Night is an en- grossing history of how illuminat- Life in the Nocturnal City, 1820–1930 ing the night forced changes in all Peter C. Baldwin kinds of nocturnal behavior, from work routines and city amusements Before skyscrapers and streetlights spread of modern police forces and the glowed at all hours, American cities fell emergence of late-night entertainment, to night scavengers collecting the into inky blackness with each setting to the era of electricity, when social contents of privies and farmers’ of the sun. But over the course of the campaigns sought to remove women markets bringing in perishables in nineteenth and early twentieth centu- and children from public areas at night. the cool of the night air.” ries, new technologies began to light up While many people celebrated the tran- —Patricia Cohen, streets, sidewalks, buildings, and pub- sition from darkness to light as the ar- University of California, lic spaces. Peter C. Baldwin’s evocative rival of twenty-four hours of daytime, Santa Barbara book depicts the changing experience Baldwin shows that certain social pat- of the urban night over this period, vis- terns remained, including the danger Historical Studies of Urban America iting a host of actors—scavengers, news- of street crime and the skewed gender January 304 p., 16 halftones 6 x 9 boys, and mashers alike—in the noctur- profile of night work. Sweeping us from ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03602-1 nal city. concert halls and brothels to streetcars Cloth $40.00s/£26.00 Baldwin examines work, crime, and industrial forges, In the Watches of AMERICAN HISTORY transportation, and leisure as he moves the Night is an illuminating study of a through the gaslight era, exploring the vital era in American urban history.

Peter C. Baldwin is associate professor of history at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of Domesticating the Street: The Reform of Public Space in Hartford, 1850–1930.

Southern Stalemate “Well written and engaging, this Five Years without Public Education in book richly chronicles an incident Prince Edward County, Virginia that has been underexplored in Chr isTOPHer Bonastia the vast civil rights movement literature.” In 1959, Virginia’s Prince Edward Beginning in 1951 when black —David Cunningham, Brandeis University County closed its public schools rather high school students protested un- than obey a court order to desegregate. equal facilities and continuing For five years, black children were left through the return of whites to public December 328 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06389-8 to fend for themselves while the courts schools in the 1970s and 1980s, Bonas- Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 decided if the county could continue to tia describes the struggle over educa- AMERICAN HISTORY deny its citizens public education. In- tion during the civil rights era and the vestigating this remarkable and nearly human suffering that came with it, as forgotten story of local, state, and fed- well as the inspiring determination of eral political confrontation, Christo- black residents to see justice served. pher Bonastia recounts the test of wills Artfully exploring the lessons of the that pitted resolute African Americans Prince Edward saga, Southern Stalemate against equally steadfast white segre- unearths new insights about the evolu- gationists in a battle over the future of tion of modern conservatism and the public education in America. politics of race in America.

C hristopher Bonastia is associate professor of sociology at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, as well as associate director of the Lehman Scholars Program and Macaulay Honors College at Lehman University. He is the author of Knocking on the Door: The Federal Government’s Attempt to Desegregate the Suburbs.

special interest 41 “Full of gems—unfamiliar docu- A History of Trust in Ancient Greece ments, novel interpretations, Steven Johnstone unexpected collocations, provocative claims—that offer an extremely An enormous amount of literature ex- speeches given in Athenian courts, his- valuable contribution to our knowl- ists on Greek law, economics, and politi- tories of Athenian democracy, comic edge of the ancient Greeks’ mental cal philosophy. Yet no one has written a writings, and laws inscribed on stone world.” history of trust, one of the most funda- to examine how these systems worked. —Victoria Wohl, mental aspects of social and economic He analyzes their potentials and limita- University of Toronto interaction in the ancient world. In this tions and how the Greeks understood fresh look at antiquity, Steven John- and critiqued them. In providing the October 272 p. 6 x 9 stone explores the way democracy and first comprehensive account of these ISBN-13: 978-0-226-40509-4 markets flourished in ancient Greece pervasive and crucial systems, A His- Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 not so much through personal relation- tory of Trust in Ancient Greece links Greek classics history ships as through trust in abstract sys- political, economic, social, and intellec- tems—including money, standardized tual history in new ways and challenges measurement, rhetoric, and haggling. contemporary analyses of trust and civil Focusing on markets and demo- society. cratic politics, Johnstone draws on

Steven Johnstone is associate professor of history at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Disputes and Democracy: The Consequences of Litigation in Ancient Athens.

“Peoples on Parade breaks new Peoples on Parade ground in two increasingly Exhibitions, Empire, and Anthropology in prominent fields in the history of Nineteenth-Century Britain science: popularization and race. It Sdhra ia Qu eshi also transcends simple equations between exotic human displays In May 1853, Charles Dickens paid a Peoples on Parade provides the first and racist oppression, unpacking visit to the “savages at Hyde Park Cor- substantial overview of these human the complex social, political, and ner,” an exhibition of thirteen imported exhibitions in nineteenth-century Brit- personal negotiations which made Zulus performing cultural rites rang- ain. Sadiah Qureshi tells the story of these shows such an important ing from songs and dances to a “witch- how such shows developed into com- hunt” and marriage ceremony. Dickens mercially successful entertainments, part of nineteenth-century public was not the only Londoner intrigued their lasting scientific importance, and culture.” by these living “savages”: such shows the diverse ways in which they were —Ralph O’Connor, proved to be some of the most popu- experienced and interpreted by the University of Aberdeen lar public entertainments of their day. showmen, performers, and patrons.

September 384 p., 18 color plates, By the end of the century, performers Through Qureshi’s vibrant storytelling 117 halftones 7 x 10 were being imported by the hundreds and stunning images, readers will see ISBN-13: 978-0-226-70096-0 and housed in purpose-built “native” how human exhibitions have left behind Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 villages for months at a time, delighting an institutional legacy both in the for- EURO PEAN HISTORY the masses and allowing scientists and mation of early anthropological inquiry Published with the support of the Getty journalists the opportunity to reflect on and in the creation of broader public at- Foundation racial difference, foreign policy, slavery, titudes toward racial difference. missionary work, and empire.

Sadiah Qureshi is an affiliated scholar in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and senior research fellow in the Cambridge Victorian Studies Group.

42 special interest Michael Polanyi and His Generation “This is a sure-handed, polymathic study of a distinguished polymath. Origins of the Social Construction of Science Michael Polanyi and His Genera- Mr a y Jo Nye tion is an impressive intellectual achievement, a book that will be In Michael Polanyi and His Generation, Stalinism and Fascism, and increased Mary Jo Nye investigates the role that demands for applications of science to read with pleasure and profit by Michael Polanyi and several of his con- industry and social welfare. multiple audiences.” temporaries played in the emergence At the center of this struggle was —Alan J. Rocke, of the social turn in the philosophy of Polanyi, who Nye contends was one of Case Western Reserve University science. This turn involved seeing sci- the first advocates of this new concep- ence as a socially based enterprise that tion of science. Nye reconstructs Po- October 416 p., 17 halftones, 2 line drawings 6 x 9 does not rely on empiricism and rea- lanyi’s scientific and political milieus in ISBN-13: 978-0-226-61063-4 son alone but on social communities, Budapest, Berlin, and Manchester from Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 behavioral norms, and personal com- the 1910s to the 1950s and explains P HILOSOPHY SCIENCE mitments. Nye argues that the roots of how he and other natural scientists and the social turn are to be found in the social scientists of his generation—in- scientific culture and political events cluding J. D. Bernal, Ludwik Fleck, Karl of Europe in the 1930s, when scientific Mannheim, and Robert K. Merton— intellectuals struggled to defend the and the next, such as Thomas Kuhn, universal status of scientific knowledge forged a politically charged philosophy and to justify public support for science of science, one that newly emphasized in an era of economic catastrophe, the social construction of science.

Mary Jo Nye is the Thomas Hart and Mary Jones Horning Professor of the Humanities Emerita and professor of history emerita at Oregon State University. She is the author of several books, including, most recently, Blackett: Physics, War, and Politics in the Twentieth Century.

Not Under My Roof “With grace and style, Amy Schalet presents a forceful and convincing Parents, Teens, and the Culture of Sex argument about the divergent Acamy S h let cultural approaches to sexuality,

For American parents, teenage sex is Tracing the roots of the parents’ socialization of adolescents, and something to be feared and forbidden: divergent attitudes, Amy Schalet reveals conceptions of citizenship in the most would never consider allowing how they grow out of their respective United States and the Nether- their children to have sex at home, and conceptions of the self, relationships, lands, probing deep-seated value sex is a frequent source of family con- gender, autonomy, and authority. She differences that play out in the flict. In the Netherlands, where teenage provides a probing analysis of the way management of sex. Nuanced, pregnancies are far less frequent than family culture shapes not just sex but in the United States, parents aim above also alcohol consumption and parent- well documented, and remarkably all for family cohesiveness, often per- teen relationships. Avoiding caricatures persuasive, Not Under My Roof is mitting young couples to sleep together of permissive Europeans and puritani- an exemplary study.” and providing them with contracep- cal Americans, Schalet shows that the —Frank Furstenberg, tives. Drawing on extensive interviews Dutch require self-control from teens University of Pennsylvania with parents and teens, Not Under My and parents, while Americans guide Roof offers an unprecedented, intimate their children toward autonomous November 280 p., 9 tables 6 x 9 account of the different ways that girls adulthood at the expense of the family ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73618-1 Cloth $85.00x/£55.00 and boys in both countries negotiate bond. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73619-8 love, lust, and growing up. Paper $29.00s/£18.50 SOCIOLOGY Amy Schalet is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

special interest 43 “An excellent work with an original Regimens of the Mind and challenging thesis that is articulated with admirable clar- Boyle, Locke, and the Early Modern Cultura Animi Tradition ity. Regimens of the Mind will Sorana Corneanu make a major contribution to our In Regimens of the Mind, Sorana Cor- ordering, and educating the mind to- understanding of the history of neanu proposes a new approach to the ward an ethical purpose, an idea she science, philosophy, and religion in epistemological and methodological tracks back to the ancient tradition of seventeenth-century England.” doctrines of the leading experimental cultura animi. Corneanu traces this idea —Peter Harrison, philosophers of seventeenth-century through its early modern revival and University of Oxford England, an approach that considers illustrates how it organizes the experi- their often overlooked moral, psycho- mental philosophers’ reflections on the December 312 p. 6 x 9 logical, and theological elements. Cor- discipline of judgment, the study of na- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-11639-6 neanu focuses on the views about the ture, and the study of Scripture. Cloth $50.00s/£32.50 pursuit of knowledge in the writings of It is through this lens, the author HISTORY PHILOSOPHY Robert Boyle and John Locke, as well as suggests, that the core features of the in those of several of their influences, early modern English experimental including Francis Bacon and the early philosophy—including its defense of Royal Society virtuosi. She argues that experience, its epistemic modesty, its their experimental programs of inquiry communal nature, and its pursuit of fulfill the role of regimens for curing, “objectivity”—are best understood.

Sorana Corneanu is a researcher in early modern studies at the Research Center for the Foundations of Modern Thought, University of Bucharest, where she is also a lecturer in the Department of English.

“Post-structuralists have long mined Nietzsche’s Enlightenment the works of Nietzsche’s middle The Free-Spirit Trilogy of the Middle Period period in their efforts to employ Puaca l Fr n o Nietzsche as an advocate of their deconstructionist enterprise. Paul While much attention has been lav- the Enlightenment, these works mark Franco shows us in a wonder- ished on Friedrich Nietzsche’s earlier a sharp departure from Nietzsche’s ful fashion why their reading is and later works, those of his so-called earlier, more romantic writings, and middle period have been generally ne- differ in important ways from his later, mistaken and in doing so reveals glected, perhaps because of their aph- more prophetic writings, beginning a Nietzsche who is much more oristic style or perhaps because they with Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The Ni- friendly to the Enlightenment and are perceived to be inconsistent with etzsche these works reveal is radically the humanist tradition than is the rest of his thought. With Nietzsche’s different from the popular image of generally imagined. It is the best Enlightenment, Paul Franco gives this him and even from the Nietzsche de- book I know of on this period of crucial section of Nietzsche’s oeuvre picted in much of the secondary litera- its due, offering a thoughtful analysis ture; they reveal a rational Nietzsche, Nietzsche’s thought.” of the three works that make up the one who preaches moderation instead —Michael Allen Gillespie, Duke University philosopher’s middle period: Human, of passionate excess and Dionysian All too Human; Daybreak; and The Gay frenzy. Franco concludes with a wide-

October 296 p. 6 x 9 Science. ranging examination of Nietzsche’s ISBN-13: 978-0-226-25981-9 It is Nietzsche himself who suggests later works, tracking how his outlook Cloth $40.00s/£26.00 that these works are connected, saying changes from the middle period to P HILOSOPHY POLITICAL SCIENCE that their “common goal is to erect a the later and how the commitment to new image and ideal of the free spirit.” Fran- reason and intellectual honesty in his co argues that in their more favorable middle works continues to inform his attitude toward reason, science, and final writings.

Paul Franco is professor of government at Bowdoin College and the author of Michael Oakeshott: An Introduction, Hegel’s Philosophy of Freedom, and The Political Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott. 44 special interest Moralizing Technology “Peter-Paul Verbeek’s insightful analysis invites us to attend more Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things carefully to the ways we practice Peter-Paul Verbeek our moralities, not only with other people and nature but also among Technology permeates nearly every as- ing the interaction of humans and and through the artifacts that have pect of our daily lives. Cars enable us technology. Drawing from Heidegger to travel long distances, mobile phones and Foucault, as well as from philoso- become our children, siblings, par- help us to communicate, and medical phers of technology such as Don Ihde ents, aunts, uncles, and cousins, devices make it possible to detect and and Bruno Latour, Peter-Paul Verbeek with all the love-hate relationships cure diseases. But these aids to exis- locates morality not just in the human typical of family life.” users of technology but in the interac- tence are not simply neutral instru- —Carl Mitcham, ments: they give shape to what we do tion between us and our machines. Ver- Colorado School of Mines and how we experience the world. And beek cites concrete examples, including because technology plays such an active some from his own life, and compel- September 200 p., 1 line drawing, role in shaping our daily actions and lingly argues for the morality of things. 2 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-85291-1 decisions, it is crucial, Peter-Paul Ver- Rich and multifaceted, and sure to be Cloth $75.00x/£48.50 beek argues, that we consider the moral controversial, Moralizing Technology will ISBN-13: 978-0-226-85293-5 dimension of technology. force us all to consider the virtue of new Paper $25.00s/£16.00 Moralizing Technology offers exactly inventions and to rethink the rightness PHILOSOPHY SCIENCE that: an in-depth study of the ethical of the products we use every day. No Dutch language rights. dilemmas and moral issues surround-

Peter-Paul Verbeek is professor in the Department of Philosophy and director of the international master’s program in philosophy of science, technology, and society, both at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, and extraordinary professor of philosophy at Delft University of Technology. He is the author of What Things Do: Philosophical Reflections on Technology, Agency, and Design.

Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, and Torture “Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, A Philosophical Analysis and Torture adds much to current discussion of a great many issues. Fzoffrit Allh Fritz Allhoff broadens the torture The general consensus among phi- exploring the infamous ticking time- and terrorism debate, deftly ana- losophers is that the use of torture is bomb scenario. After carefully consid- lyzes exceptionalism and absolut- never justified. In Terrorism, Ticking ering these issues from a purely philo- ism, probes the ticking time-bomb Time-Bombs, and Torture, Fritz Allhoff sophical perspective, he turns to the scenario to surprising and con- demonstrates the weakness of the case empirical ramifications of his argu- troversial effect, and offers novel against torture; while allowing that ments, addressing criticisms of torture empirical data and a trenchant torture constitutes a moral wrong, he and analyzing the impact its adoption nevertheless argues that, in exception- could have on democracy, institutional interpretation of complex legal al cases, it represents the lesser of two structures, and foreign policy. The issues.” evils. crucial questions of how to justly au- —Michael L. Gross, Allhoff does not take this position thorize torture and how to set limits University of Haifa lightly. He begins by examining the on its use make up the final section of way terrorism challenges traditional this timely, provocative, and carefully January 288 p., 6 line drawings, 2 tables 6 x 9 norms, discussing the morality of vari- argued book. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-01483-8 ous practices of torture, and critically Cloth $35.00s/£22.50 P HILOSOPHY Fritz Allhoff is associate professor of philosophy at Western Michigan University and a senior research fellow at the Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at Australian National University. He is coauthor of What Is Nanotechnology and Why Does It Matter? and the editor or coeditor of numerous volumes, including Wine & Philosophy, Physicians at War, and The Philosophy of Science.

special interest 45 “Aristotle’s Politics deals insight- Aristotle’s Politics fully, even masterfully, with the Living Well and Living Together core philosophical issues that lie at Eugene Garver the heart of our being as social and political animals. Whoever reads “Man is a political animal,” Aristotle as- treatise, Garver finds, reveals a signifi- and studies this book carefully serts near the beginning of the Politics. cant, practical role for philosophy to will grow in political subtlety and In this novel reading of one of the foun- play in politics. Philosophers present intellectual maturity, adding to his dational texts of political philosophy, arguments about issues—such as the or her store of understanding the Eugene Garver traces the surprising right and the good, justice and modes wisdom of a scholar who has spent implications of Aristotle’s claim and ex- of governance, the relation between plores the treatise’s relevance to ongo- the good person and the good citizen, years plumbing the meaning and ing political concerns. Often dismissed and the character of a good life—that the message of one of the land- as overly grounded in Aristotle’s spe- politicians must then make appealing marks of human inquiry.” cific moment in time, in fact the Politics to their fellow citizens. Completing —Lenn E. Goodman, challenges contemporary understand- Garver’s trilogy on Aristotle’s unique Vanderbilt University ings of human action and allows us to vision, Aristotle’s Politics yields new ways better see ourselves today. of thinking about ethics and politics, October 328 p. 6 x 9 Close examination of Aristotle’s ancient and modern. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-28402-6 Cloth $40.00s/£26.00 E ugene Garver is the Regents Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Saint John’s University PHILOSOPHY CLASSICS and adjunct professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of several books, including Aristotle’s Rhetoric: An Art of Character and Confronting Aristotle’s Ethics: Ancient and Modern Morality, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

“This book presents an incisive Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization reading of Spinoza as the philoso- Hsaa na Sharp pher whose renaturalization of the human opens up new ways of think- There have been many Spinozas over institutions are never merely products ing about individuality, collectiv- the centuries: atheist, romantic pan- of human intention or design, but out- ity, and power. Spinoza has finally theist, great thinker of the multitude, comes of the complex relationships become indispensable for femi- advocate of the liberated individual, among natural forces beyond our nist, postcolonial, and antiracist and rigorous rationalist. The common control. This lack of a metaphysical or struggles!” thread connecting all of these clashing moral division between humanity and perspectives is Spinoza’s naturalism, the rest of nature, Sharp contends, can —Elizabeth Grosz, Rutgers University the idea that humanity is part of na- provide the basis for an ethical and po- ture, not above it. litical practice free from the tendency September 240 p. 6 x 9 In this sophisticated new interpre- to view ourselves as either gods or beasts. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-75074-3 tation of Spinoza’s iconoclastic philos- Sharp’s groundbreaking argument Cloth $40.00s/£26.00 ophy, Hasana Sharp draws on his un- critically engages with important con- P HILOSOPHY compromising naturalism to rethink temporary thinkers—including deep human agency, ethics, and political ecologists, feminists, and race and criti- practice. Sharp uses Spinoza to outline cal theorists—making Spinoza and the a practical wisdom of “renaturaliza- Politics of Renaturalization vital for a wide tion,” showing how ideas, actions, and range of scholars.

Hasana Sharp is assistant professor of philosophy at McGill University.

46 special interest Jsho ep M. Siry Beth Sholom Synagogue Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern Religious Architecture

n a suburb just north of Philadelphia stands Beth Sholom Syna- gogue, Frank Lloyd Wright’s only synagogue and one of his finest Ireligious buildings. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 2007, Beth Sholom was one of Wright’s last completed projects, and for “One of the few authentic scholars in the years it has been considered among his greatest masterpieces. field of Wright studies, Joseph M. Siry But its full story has never been told. Beth Sholom Synagogue pro- has once again made a major contribution vides the first in-depth look at the synagogue’s conception and realiza- to our understanding of the architect’s tion in relation to Wright’s other religious architecture. Beginning ideas and buildings. Set in the context of with Wright’s early career at Adler and Sullivan’s architectural firm in Wright’s designs for religious architec- Chicago and his design for Unity Temple and ending with the larger ture, Siry’s brilliant, clear, and thoroughly works completed just before or soon after his death, Joseph M. Siry documented monograph is the definitive skillfully depicts the architect’s exploration of geometric forms and work on the magisterial Beth Sholom structural techniques in creating buildings for worshipping communi- Synagogue. This beautifully written book ties. Siry also examines Wright’s engagement with his clients, whose pri- is indispensable for our grasp of the orities stemmed from their denominational identity, and the effect this architect’s late work.” had on his designs—his client for Beth Sholom, Rabbi Mortimer Cohen, —Anthony Alofsin, worked with Wright to anchor the building in the traditions of Judaism University of Texas even as it symbolized the faith’s continuing life in postwar America.

With each of his religious projects, Wright considered questions of social decemr be 736 p., 10 color plates, 295 halftones 81/2 x 11 history and cultural identity as he advanced his program for an expres- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-76140-4 sive, modern American architecture. His search for a way to combine Cloth $65.00s/£42.00 ARCHITECTURE RELIGION these agendas culminated in Beth Sholom, where the interplay of light, form, and space create a stunning and inspiring place of worship. Filled with illustrations, this remarkable book takes us deep inside the synagogue’s design, construction, and reception to bring us an illuminating portrait of the crowning achievement of this important aspect of Wright’s career.

Joseph M. Siry is professor of art history and American studies at Wesleyan University. He is the author of three books: The Chicago Auditorium Building: Adler and Sullivan’s Architecture and the City and Carson Pirie Scott: Louis Sullivan and the Chicago Department Store, both published by the University of Chicago Press, and Unity Temple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Architecture for Liberal Religion. special interest 47 S uSAn Stewart The Poet’s Freedom A Notebook on Making

hy do we need new art? How free is the artist in making? And why is the artist, and particularly the poet, a figure W of freedom in Western culture? The MacArthur Award– winning poet and critic Susan Stewart ponders these questions in The Poet’s Freedom. Through a series of evocative essays, she not only argues that freedom is necessary to making and is itself something made, but also shows how artists give rules to their practices and model a self- determination that might serve in other spheres of work. Praise for Susan Stewart Stewart traces the ideas of freedom and making through insightful “Susan Stewart is an investigator of readings of an array of Western philosophers and poets—Plato, Homer, linguistic nuance and a new metaphysics, Marx, Heidegger, Arendt, Dante, and Coleridge are among her key par excellence. . . . I believe she is one of sources. She begins by considering the theme of making in the Hebrew the finest poets of the last fifty years.” Scriptures, examining their account of a god who creates the world —John Kinsella, Salt Magazine and leaves humans free to rearrange and re-form the materials of nature. She goes on to follow the force of moods, sounds, rhythms, imag- “Stewart’s meditations on the history of es, metrical rules, rhetorical traditions, the traps of the passions, and poetry and the poetic are in themselves the nature of language in the cycle of making and remaking. Through- an original contribution to the philosophy out the book she weaves the insight that the freedom to reverse any act of culture.” of artistic making is as essential as the freedom to create. —Hayden White, A book about the pleasures of making and thinking as means of author of Figural Realism life, The Poet’s Freedom explores and celebrates the freedom of artists who, working under finite conditions, make considered choices and Nmrove be 264 p. 6 x 8 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77386-5 shape surprising consequences. This engaging and beautifully written Cloth $75.00x/£48.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77387-2 notebook on making will attract anyone interested in the creation of Paper $22.50s/£14.50 art and literature. LITERARY CRITICISM ART

Susan Stewart, a poet, critic, and translator, is the Avalon Foundation Uni- versity Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University. Her most recent books of poems—Red Rover, Columbarium (which won the National Book Crit- ics Circle Award), and The Forest—and works of criticism, The Open Studio and Poetry and the Fate of the Senses, are all published by the University of Chicago Press.

48 special interest The Conflagration of Community Fiction before and after Auschwitz J. Hillis Miller

“After Auschwitz to write even a single Schindler’s List, McEwan’s Black Dogs, poem is barbaric.” The Conflagration of Spiegelman’s Maus, and Kertész’s Fate- Community challenges Theodor Ador- lessness—with Kafka’s novels and Mor- no’s famous statement about aesthetic rison’s Beloved, asking what it means production after the Holocaust, argu- to think of texts as acts of testimony. ing for the possibility of literature to Throughout, Miller questions the reso- bear witness to extreme collective and nance between the difficulty of imag- personal experiences. J. Hillis Miller ining, understanding, or remember- considers how novels about the Holo- ing Auschwitz—a difficulty so often a caust relate to fictions written before theme in records of the Holocaust— and after it, and uses theories of com- and the exasperating resistance to munity from Jean-Luc Nancy and Der- clear, conclusive interpretation of these rida to explore the dissolution of com- novels. The Conflagration of Community is September 304 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-52721-5 munity bonds in its wake. an eloquent study of literature’s value Cloth $90.00x/£58.00 Miller juxtaposes readings of to fathoming the unfathomable. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-52722-2 books about the Holocaust—Keneally’s Paper $29.00s/£18.50 LITERARY CRITICISM J. Hillis Miller is Distinguished Research Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of many books and articles on literature and literary theory, most recently of For Derrida.

Proust among the Nations From Dreyfus to the Middle East Ju acq eline Rose

Known for her far-reaching examina- subsequent creation of Israel. Following tions of psychoanalysis, literature, and Proust’s heirs, Beckett and Genet, and a politics, Jacqueline Rose has in recent host of Middle Eastern writers, artists, years turned her attention to the Israel- and filmmakers, Rose traces the shift- Palestine conflict, one of the most enduring dynamic of memory and identity ing and apparently intractable conflicts across the crucial and ongoing cultural of our time. In Proust among the Nations, links between Europe and Palestine. A she takes the development of her thought powerful and elegant analysis of the re- on this crisis a stage further, revealing it sponsibility of writing, Proust among the as a distinctly Western problem. Nations makes the case for literature as In a radical rereading of the Drey- a unique resource for understanding fus affair through the lens of Marcel political struggle and gives us new ways Proust in dialogue with Freud, Rose to think creatively about the violence in November 256 p., 4 halftones offers a fresh and nuanced account of the Middle East. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-72578-9 the rise of Jewish nationalism and the Cloth $35.00s/£22.50 Jacqueline Rose is professor of English at Queen Mary, University of London. She is the LITERARY CRITICISM author of many books, including The Last Resistance, The Question of Zion, and Albertine: A Novel.

special interest 49 “Well-articulated, intelligent, and The Unrepentant Renaissance written with the ease and confidence of a mature scholar. There From Petrarch to Shakespeare to Milton is nothing in this book that isn’t Richard Strier freshly thought through in an ener- Who during the Renaissance could much recent scholarship has allowed. getic and open way.” have dissented from the values of rea- The Unrepentant Renaissance coun- —Gordon Braden, son and restraint, patience and humil- University of Virginia ters the prevalent view of the period as ity, rejection of the worldly and the dominated by the regulation of bodies physical? These widely articulated val- October 328 p. 6 x 9 and passions, aiming to reclaim the Re- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77751-1 ues were part of the inherited Christian naissance as an era happily churning Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 tradition and were reinforced by key with surprising, worldly, and self-asser- LITERARY CRITICISM elements in the Renaissance, especially tive energies. Reviving the perspective the revival of Stoicism and Platonism. of Jacob Burckhardt and Nietzsche, This book is devoted to those who did Strier provides fresh and uninhibited dissent from them. Richard Strier re- readings of texts by Petrarch, More, veals that many long-recognized major Shakespeare, Ignatius Loyola, Mon- texts did question the most traditional taigne, Descartes, and Milton. Strier’s values and uncovers a Renaissance far lively argument will stir debate through- more bumptious and affirmative than out the field of Renaissance studies.

Richard Strier is the Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor in the Depart- ment of English and in the College at the University of Chicago. He has coedited several interdisciplinary essay collections and is the author of two books, Resistant Structures: Par- ticularity, Radicalism, and Renaissance Texts, and Love Known: Theology and Experience in George Herbert’s Poetry, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.

“There is no book now available that Kiss My Relics makes the arguments that Rollo is advancing with anything near the Hermaphroditic Fictions of the Middle Ages force of Kiss My Relics. Through it, Dil av d Rol o one is introduced to complex but Conservative thinkers of the early Mid- ments, however, some authors began to rewarding arguments about lan- dle Ages conceived of sensual gratifica- validate fiction as a medium for truth guage theory and representation, tion as a demonic snare contrived to and a source of legitimate enjoyment, and the interplay between Latin debase the higher faculties of human- while others began to explore and de- and the vernacular, England and ity, and they identified pagan writ- fend the pleasures of opulent rhetoric. the continent, and religious and ing as one of the primary conduits of Here David Rollo examines two such pagan literary traditions.” decadence. Two aspects of the pagan texts—Alain de Lille’s De planctu Natu- legacy were treated with particular dis- rae and Guillaume de Lorris and Jean —William Burgwinkle, King’s College, trust: fiction, conceived as a devious de Meun’s Roman de la Rose—arguing University of Cambridge contrivance that falsified God’s order; that their authors, in acknowledging and rhetorical opulence, viewed as a the liberating potential of their irregu- October 240 p., 1 halftone 6 x 9 vain extravagance. Writing that offered lar written orientations, brought about ISBN-13: 978-0-226-72461-4 these dangerous allurements came to a nuanced reappraisal of homosexuali- Cloth $35.00s/£22.50 be known as “hermaphroditic” and, by ty. Rollo concludes with a consideration LITERARY CRITICISM the later Middle Ages, to be equated of the influence of the latter on Chau- GAY AND LESBIAN studies with homosexuality. cer’s Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale. At the margins of these develop-

David Rollo is associate professor of English, with a joint appointment in the Department of French and Italian, at the University of Southern California. He is the author of two books, most recently of Glamorous Sorcery: Magic and Literacy in the High Middle Ages.

50 special interest Cruelty and Laughter “One of the most original, readable, educational, and entertaining Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental books in the field of eighteenth- Eighteenth Century century studies I have read in the Simon Dickie past decade.” —Helen Deutsch, Eighteenth-century British culture is of- pository of jokes about cripples, blind University of California, ten seen as polite and sentimental—the men, rape, and wife-beating. He also Los Angeles product of an emerging middle class. discovers epigrams about scurvy and Simon Dickie overturns these notions one-act farces about hunchbacks in love November 360 p., 15 halftones 6 x 9 in Cruelty and Laughter, a wildly enjoy- and reveals that all of these exposed ISBN-13: 978-0-226-14618-8 Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 able but shocking plunge into the for- the limits of compassion of the period. gotten comic literature of the era. Be- Everyone—rich and poor, women as well LITERARY CRITICISM HISTORY neath the veneer of civilization, Dickie as men—laughed along. In the process, uncovers a rich strain of cruelty cours- he expands our understanding of many ing through the period that reminds of the century’s major authors, includ- us just how slowly ordinary sufferings ing Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, became worthy of sympathy. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Tobias Dickie delves into an enormous Smollett, Frances Burney, and Jane Aus- archive of jestbooks, comic periodicals, ten. Cruelty and Laughter is an engaging, farces, variety shows, and minor comic far-reaching study of the other side of novels that amount to a bottomless re- culture in eighteenth-century Britain.

Simon Dickie is associate professor of English at the University of Toronto.

Enlightenment Orientalism “Without question, Enlightenment Orientalism is an illuminating, per- Resisting the Rise of the Novel suasive, and provocative revalua- S sriniva Aravamudan tion of eighteenth-century fiction.” —Robert Markley, Srinivas Aravamudan here reveals how of philosophers such as Voltaire, Mon- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Oriental tales, pseudo-ethnographies, tesquieu, and Diderot in France, and sexual fantasies, and political satires writers such as Defoe, Swift, and Gold- December 352 p., 13 halftones 6 x 9 took Europe by storm during the eigh- smith in Britain. Aravamudan shows ISBN-13: 978-0-226-02448-6 teenth century. Naming this body of that Enlightenment Orientalism was Cloth $85.00x/£55.00 fiction Enlightenment Orientalism, a significant movement that criticized ISBN-13: 978-0-226-02449-3 he poses a range of urgent questions irrational European practices even Paper $29.00s/£18.50 that uncovers the interdependence of while sympathetically bridging differ- LITERARY CRITICISM Oriental tales and domestic fiction, ences among civilizations. A sophisti- thereby challenging standard scholarly cated reinterpretation of the history narratives about the rise of the novel. of the novel, Enlightenment Orientalism More than mere exoticism, Orien- is sure to be welcomed as a landmark tal tales fascinated ordinary readers as work in eighteenth-century studies. well as intellectuals, taking the fancy

Srinivas Aravamudan is professor of English, Romance studies, and in the literature program at Duke University.

special interest 51 “Touching Photographs is a series Touching Photographs of memorably profound excursions Margaret Olin into the defining techniques of modernity. A wonderful, beautifully Photography does more than sim- from intimate relationships between written book.” ply represent the world. It acts in the viewers and photographs to interac- —Christopher Pinney, world, connecting people to form relations around larger communities, ana- University College, London tionships and shaping relationships to lyzing how photography affects the way create communities. In this beautiful people handle cataclysmic events like february 328 p., 37 color plates, 84 halftones 7 x 10 book, Margaret Olin explores photog- 9/11. Along the way, she shows us James ISBN-13: 978-0-226-62646-8 raphy’s ability to “touch” us through a VanDerZee’s Harlem funeral portraits, Paper $35.00s/£22.50 series of essays that shed new light on dusts off Roland Barthes’s family album, P HOTOGRAPHY MEDIA photography’s role in the world. takes us into Walker Evans and James Some permissions will Olin investigates the publication Agee’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, and need to be cleared for a of photographs in mass media and lit- logs on to online photo albums. With translated edition. erature, the hanging of exhibitions, the over one hundred illustrations, Touch- posting of photocopied photographs of ing Photographs is an insightful contribu- lost loved ones in public spaces, and the tion to the theory of photography, visual intense photographic activity of tour- studies, and art history. ists at their destinations. She moves

Margaret Olin is a senior research scholar in the Divinity School with joint appointments in the Departments of History of Art and Religious Studies and in the Program in Judaic Studies at Yale University. ty of

i Human Rights In Camera ce vi ers er iv

S S hAROn Sliwinski n U on i at ng, i m From the fundamental rights pro- Sharon Sliwinski considers a se- neer i claimed in the American and French ries of historical events, including the ng E

onal Infor declarations of independence to the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and the Ho- i erkeley B at

N 1948 Universal Declaration of Human locaust, to illustrate that universal hu- a, i

arthquake arthquake Rights and Hannah Arendt’s furious man rights have come to be imagined E forn i

ourtesy ourtesy al critiques, the definition of what it means through aesthetic experience. The cir- C for C to be human has been hotly debated. culation of images of distant events, she October 192 p., 29 halftones 6 x 9 But the history of human rights—and argues, forms a virtual community be- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-76275-3 their abuses—is also a richly illustrated tween spectators and generates a sense Cloth $65.00x/£42.00 one. Following this picture trail, Human of shared humanity. Joining a growing ISBN-13: 978-0-226-76276-0 Paper $22.50s/£14.50 Rights In Camera takes an innovative ap- body of scholarship about the cultural proach by examining the visual images forces at work in the construction of hu- PHOTOGRAPHY CURRENT EVENTS that have accompanied human rights man rights, Human Rights In Camera is a Some permissions will struggles and the passionate responses novel take on this potent political ideal. need to be cleared for a people have had to them. translated edition. Sharon Sliwinski is assistant professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies and the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario.

52 special interest Saints Contributors Faith without Borders Marc Blanchard, Daniel Boya- Edited by Françoise Meltzer and Jas´ Elsner rin, Simon Coleman, Arnold Davidson, Michael A. Di While the modern world has largely ness is personified, Saints takes us on a Giovine, Simon Ditchfield, Jas´ dismissed the figure of the saint as a photo tour of Graceland and the cult of Elsner, Neil Forsyth, Lawrence throwback, we remain fascinated by Elvis and explores the changing political Jasud, Aviad Kleinberg, Julia excess, marginality, transgression, and takes on Joan of Arc in France. It shows us Kristeva, Roberto Maniura, porous subjectivity—categories that the self-fashioning of culture through the define the saint. In this collection, reevaluation of saints in late-antique Ju- Jean-Luc Marion, Françoise Françoise Meltzer and Jas´ Elsner bring daism and Counter-Reformation Rome, Meltzer, Bernard Rubin, David together top scholars from across the and it questions the political intent of Tracy, and Malika Zeghal humanities to reconsider our denial of underlying claims to spiritual attainment saintliness and examine how modernity of a Muslim sheikh in Morocco and of A Critical Inquiry Book returns to the lure of saintly grace, en- Sephardism in Israel. Populated with the ergy, and charisma. likes of Francis of Assisi, Teresa of Avila, November 432 p., 6 color plates, 26 halftones 6 x 9 Addressing such problems as how and Padre Pio, this book is a fascinating ISBN-13: 978-0-226-51992-0 saints are made, the use of saints by po- inquiry into the status of saints in the Paper $29.00s/£18.50 litical and secular orders, and how holi- modern world. RELIGION PHILOSOPHY

Françoise Meltzer is the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, where she is also professor at the Divinity School and in the Col- lege, and chair of the Department of Comparative Literature. Meltzer is the author of five books, most recently of Seeing Double: Baudelaire’s Modernity, and coeditor of the journal Critical Inquiry. Jas´ Elsner is the Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Art at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, and visiting professor of art history at the University of Chicago. Elsner’s most recent solo-authored book is Roman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text.

The Lucretian Renaissance “An excellent and beautifully written Philology and the Afterlife of Tradition book, The Lucretian Renaissance Geard r PaSSAnnante narrates fiendishly tricky, obscure, and complex matter normally With The Lucretian Renaissance, Gerard By tracing this elemental analogy accessible only to the erudite— Passannante offers a radical rethink- through the fortunes of Lucretius’s On philologists, Renaissance scholars, ing of a familiar narrative: the rise of the Nature of Things, Passannante ar- and historians of the book—with materialism in early modern Europe. gues that the philosophy of atoms and the lightness of touch of a story- Passannante begins by taking up the the void reemerged in the Renaissance teller.” ancient philosophical notion that the as a story about reading and letters—a —James I. Porter, world is composed of two fundamen- story that materialized in texts, in their University of California, Irvine tal opposites: atoms, as the philoso- physical recomposition, and in their pher Epicurus theorized, intrinsically scattering. October 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 unchangeable and moving about the From the works of Virgil and Mac- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-64849-1 void; and the void itself, or nothing- robius to those of Petrarch, Montaigne, Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 ness. Passannante considers the fact Bacon, Spenser, and Newton, The Lu- LITERARY CRITICISM CLASSICS that this strain of ancient Greek philos- cretian Renaissance recovers a forgotten ophy survived and was transmitted to history of materialism in humanist Translation rights will need to be cleared for chapter 2. the Renaissance primarily by means of thought and scholarly practice and asks a poem that had seemingly been lost— us to reconsider one of the most endur- a poem insisting that the letters of the ing questions of the period: what does alphabet are like the atoms that make it mean for a text, a poem, and philoso- up the universe. phy to be “reborn”?

Gerard Passannante is assistant professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Maryland.

special interest 53 “With creative new arguments about Madness Is Civilization anti-psychiatry and its connec- When the Diagnosis Was Social, 1948–1980 tions to intellectual radicalism on Michael E. Staub both the left and the right, this is a valuable contribution to American In the 1960s and ’70s, the popular di- in influence of psychodynamic theories intellectual history.” agnosis for America’s problems was advanced by Theodor Adorno, R. D. —David Herzberg, that society was becoming a madhouse. Laing, Thomas Szasz, and others, along author of Happy Pills in America: In this intellectual and cultural his- with the rise of radical therapy and psy- From Miltown to Prozac tory, Michael E. Staub examines a time chiatric survivors movements. He shows

October 248 p., 8 halftones 6 x 9 when many believed insanity was a sane how these theories of anti-psychiatry ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77147-2 reaction to absurd social conditions, held unprecedented sway over an enor- Cloth $40.00s/£26.00 psychiatrists were agents of repression, mous range of medical, social, and po- HISTORY PSYCHOLOGY asylums were labor camps for society’s litical debates until a bruising backlash undesirables, and mental illness was a against these theories effectively dis- concept with no medical basis. torted them into caricatures. The first Staub explores the general con- study to explain how social diagnostic sensus that societal ills—from family thinking emerged, Madness Is Civiliza- dynamics and childrearing to the Viet- tion casts new light on the politics of the nam War and racism—were the roots of postwar era. mental illness. He chronicles the surge

Michael E. Staub is professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York and the author of Torn at the Roots: The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America.

“This important book makes a Opting Out compelling argument that the con- Losing the Potential of America’s Young Black Elite tinuing presence of racism in US Maya A. Beasley society decisively and negatively affects the careers of some of our Why has the large income gap between public and one private. Beasley iden- most talented black college stu- blacks and whites persisted for decades tifies a set of complex factors behind dents. Beasley shows that the rac- after the passage of civil rights legisla- these students’ career aspirations, in- ism faced by talented blacks of this tion? More specifically, why do African cluding the anticipation of discrimi- generation is qualitatively different Americans remain substantially under- nation in particular fields; the racial than previous ones as she weaves represented in the highest-paying pro- composition of classes, student groups, fessions, such as science, engineering, and teaching staff; student values; and together a history of black social information technology, and finance? the availability of opportunities to net- mobility that is often misinter- A sophisticated study of racial disparity, work. Ironically, Beasley also discovers, preted and not well known among Opting Out examines why some talented campus policies designed to enhance educators and policy makers.” black undergraduates pursue lower- the academic and career potential of —Barbara Schneider, paying, lower-status careers despite be- black students often reduce the diversity Michigan State University ing amply qualified for more prosper- of their choices. Shedding new light on and the University of Chicago ous ones. the root causes of racial inequality, Opt- To explore these issues, Maya A. ing Out will be essential reading for par- December 232 p., 8 line drawings, Beasley conducted in-depth interviews ents, educators, students, scholars, and 1 table 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04013-4 with black and white juniors at two of policy makers. Cloth $70.00x/£45.00 the nation’s most elite universities, one ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04014-1 Paper $25.00s/£16.00 Maya A. Beasley is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and a member of the EDUCATION advisory board of the Institute for African Studies at the University of Connecticut.

54 special interest P hilip W. Jackson What Is Education?

ne day in 1938, John Dewey addressed a room of professional educators and urged them to take up the task of “finding O out just what education is.” Reading this lecture in the late 1940s, Philip W. Jackson took Dewey’s charge to heart and spent the next sixty years contemplating his words. The stimulating result of a lifetime of thinking about educating, What Is Education? is a profound philosophical exploration of how we transmit knowledge in human society and how we think about accomplishing that vital task. Most contemporary approaches to education follow a strictly empirical track, aiming to discover pragmatic solutions for teachers and school administrators. Jackson argues that we need to learn not just how to improve on current practices but also how to think about what “This is some of the very best educa- education means—in short, we need to answer Dewey by constantly tional—or philosophical—writing I have rethinking education from the ground up. Guiding us through the read. Bearing the hallmarks of a modern many facets of Dewey’s comments, Jackson also calls on Hegel, Kant, classic, What Is Education? is a remark- and Paul Tillich to shed light on how a society does, can, and should able book, sometimes personal, always transmit truth and knowledge to successive generations. Teasing out scholarly, about the nature of reading and the implications in these thinkers’ works ultimately leads Jackson to interpretation and about the aims of edu- the conclusion that education is at root a moral enterprise. cation as a truth-generating activity as At a time when schools increasingly serve as a battleground for well as a personal quest. Through his use ideological contests, What Is Education? is a stirring call to refocus of philosophy, pedagogy, and even in his our minds on what is for Jackson the fundamental goal of education: innovative interpretations of poets such making students as well as teachers—and therefore everyone—better as Wallace Stevens, Jackson displays the people. qualities Dewey promoted, namely a truly engaged, inquiring mind.” Philip W. Jackson is the David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor —Walter Feinberg, Emeritus in the Departments of Education and Psychology and in the College University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, including Life in Classrooms, The Practice of Teaching, and John Dewey and the Philosopher’s Task.

D reCEMbe 136 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38938-7 Cloth $25.00s/£16.00 EDUCATION

special interest 55 “ Kernfeld’s rich and stimulating Pop Song Piracy book makes a significant contri- Disobedient Music Distribution since 1929 bution to current debates over Barry Kernfeld technology, copying, piracy, and the political economy of the music The music industry’s ongoing battle unsuccessful they published their own. industry. He clarifies not just the against digital piracy is just the latest Pop Song Piracy shows that this pattern history of legal and illegal music skirmish in a long conflict over who has of disobedience, prohibition, and as- copying but also the arguments the right to distribute music. Starting similation recurred in each conflict about these practices and the com- with music publishers’ efforts to stamp over unauthorized music distribution, plicated relationships that have out bootleg compilations of lyric sheets from European pirate radio stations in 1929, Barry Kernfeld’s Pop Song Piracy to bootlegged live shows. Beneath this resulted among the law, corpora- details nearly a century of disobedient pattern, Kernfeld argues, there exists a tions, entrepreneurs, consumers, music distribution, from song sheets to complex give and take between distri- and the media.” MP3s. bution methods that merely copy ex- —Simon Frith, In the 1940s and ’50s, Kernfeld isting songs (such as counterfeit CDs) University of Edinburgh reveals, song sheets were succeeded by and ones that transform songs into new fake books, unofficial volumes of melo- products (such as file sharing). Ulti- October 312 p., 11 halftones, mately, he contends, it was the music 7 line drawings 6 x 9 dies and lyrics for popular songs that ISBN-13: 978-0-226-43182-6 were a key tool for musicians. Music industry’s persistent lagging behind in Cloth $90.00x/£58.00 publishers attempted to wipe out fake creating innovative products that led to ISBN-13: 978-0-226-43183-3 Paper $29.00s/£18.50 books, but after their efforts proved the very piracy it sought to eliminate. MUSIC CURRENT EVENTS Barry Kernfeld is on the staff of the Historical Collections and Labor Archives in the Spe- cial Collections Library of the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of The Story of Fake Books: Bootlegging Songs to Musicians and What to Listen for in Jazz, and he is the editor of The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.

“This dazzling and wide-reaching Conjugations book will be of interest to scholars Marriage and Form in New Bollywood Cinema not only in cinema studies, but Saangit Gopal more generally, those interested in postcoloniality, feminism and Bollywood movies have been long Gopal argues that the form of the gender, and the nation-state in known for their colorful song-and- conjugal duo in movies reflects other South Asia.” dance numbers and knack for combin- social forces in India’s new consum- —Jigna Desai, ing drama, comedy, action-adventure, erist and global society. She takes a University of Minnesota and music. But when India entered the daring look at recent Hindi films and global marketplace in the early 1990s, movie trends—the decline of song- South Asia Across the Disciplines its film industry transformed radically. and-dance sequences, the upgraded Production and distribution of films status of the horror genre, and the November 240 p., 41 halftones 6 x 9 became regulated, advertising and mar- rise of the multiplex and multi-plot— ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30425-0 Cloth $69.00x/£44.50 keting created a largely middle-class to demonstrate how these relation- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30426-7 audience, and films began to fit into ships exemplify different formulas of Paper $22.50s/£14.50 genres like science fiction and horror. contemporary living. A provocative FILM studies ASIAN STUDIES In this bold study of what she names account of how cultural artifacts can ind/sa New Bollywood, Sangita Gopal con- embody globalization’s effects on intends that the key to understanding timate life, Conjugations will shake up these changes is to analyze films’ evolv- the study of Hindi film. ing treatment of romantic relationships.

Sangita Gopal is associate professor of English at the University of Oregon. She is coeditor of Global Bollywood: Transnational Travels of Hindi Film Music.

56 special interest The Pontecorvo Affair “This book makes a valuable contribution to our understanding A Cold War Defection and Nuclear Physics of Bruno Pontecorvo’s work as a Simone Turchetti physicist, of his political activities, and of the circumstances surround- In the fall of 1950, newspapers around to silence. In the years since, some have the world reported that the Italian- downplayed Pontecorvo’s knowledge ing his defection to the Soviet born nuclear physicist Bruno Pon- of atomic weaponry, while others have Union in 1950.” tecorvo and his family had mysteriously claimed him as part of a spy ring that —John Krige, disappeared while returning to Britain infiltrated the Manhattan Project. Georgia Institute of Technology from a holiday trip. Because Pontecor- The Pontecorvo Affair draws from vo was known to be an expert working newly disclosed sources to challenge December 272 p., 19 halftones 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-81664-7 for the UK Atomic Energy Research previous attempts to solve the case, of- Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 Establishment, this raised immediate fering a balanced and well-documented HISTORY SCIENCE concern for the safety of atomic secrets, account of Pontecorvo, his activities, especially when it became known in the and his possible motivations for defect- No Italian language rights. following months that he had defected ing. Along the way, Simone Turchetti to the Soviet Union. Was Pontecorvo reconsiders the place of nuclear physics a spy? Did he know and pass sensitive and nuclear physicists in the twentieth information about the bomb to Soviet century and reveals that as the disci- experts? At the time, nuclear scientists, pline’s promise of military and indus- security personnel, Western govern- trial uses came to the fore, so did the ment officials, and journalists assessed enforcement of new secrecy provisions the case, but their efforts were incon- on the few experts in the world special- clusive and speculations quickly turned izing in its application.

Simone Turchetti is an independent research fellow at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine at the University of Manchester.

The Enigma of the Aerofoil “A masterpiece of writing and research. David Bloor brings his Rival Theories in Aerodynamics, 1909–1930 varied background to the table, Di av d Bloor writing the only book that describes a wonderful mixture of the Why do aircraft fly? How do their wings Bloor probes a neglected aspect of this support them? In the early years of avia- important period in the history of avia- scientific, historical, philosophi- tion, there was an intense dispute be- tion. Bloor draws upon papers by the cal, and sociological forces that tween British and German experts over participants—their restricted techni- help to explain the ‘enigma’ of the the question of why and how an aircraft cal reports, meeting minutes, and per- aerofoil.” wing provides lift. The British, under sonal correspondence, much of which —John D. Anderson Jr., the leadership of the great Cambridge has never before been published—and National Air and Space Museum, mathematical physicist Lord Rayleigh, reveals the impact that the divergent Smithsonian Institution produced highly elaborate investiga- mathematical traditions of Cambridge tions of the nature of discontinuous and Göttingen had on this great de- November 608 p., 97 halftones 6 x 9 flow, while the Germans, following bate. Bloor also addresses why the Brit- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06094-1 Cloth $110.00x/£71.00 Ludwig Prandtl in Göttingen, relied on ish, even after discovering the failings ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06095-8 the tradition called “technical mechan- of their own theory, remained resistant Paper $35.00s/£22.50 ics” to explain the flow of air around to the German circulation theory for HISTORY SCIENCE a wing. Much of the basis of modern more than a decade. The result is es- aerodynamics emerged from this re- sential reading for anyone studying the Some permissions will markable episode, yet it has never been history, philosophy, or sociology of sci- need to be cleared for a translated edition. subject to a detailed historical and so- ence or technology—and for all those ciological analysis. intrigued by flight. In The Enigma of the Aerofoil, David

David Bloor is professor emeritus in the Science Studies Unit at the University of Edin- burgh. He is the author of Knowledge and Social Imagery and coauthor of Scientific Knowledge: A Sociological Analysis, both published by the University of Chicago Press. special interest 57 All the Fish in the Sea

sh. Maximum Sustainable Yield and the Failure of i Fisheries Management ng a f i Carmel Finley llet i

son f Between 1949 and 1955, the State De- Carmel Finley reveals that the falli- mp

ho partment pushed for an international bility of MSY lies at its very inception— T . F

m fisheries policy grounded in maximum as a tool of government rather than a i ll

i sustainable yield (MSY). The concept science. The foundational doctrine of W is based on a confidence that scientists the MSY emerged at a time when the September 208 p., 16 halftones, can predict, theoretically, the largest US government was using science to 3 line drawings 6 x 9 catch that can be taken from a spe- promote and transfer Western knowl- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-24966-7 cies’ stock over an indefinite period. edge and technology, and to ensure Cloth $35.00s/£22.50 And while it was modified in 1996 that American ships and planes would SCIENCE HISTORY with passage of the Sustained Fisher- have free passage through the world’s ies Act, MSY is still at the heart of mod- seas and skies. Finley charts the history ern American fisheries management. of US fisheries science using MSY as her As fish populations continue to crash, focus, and in particular its application to however, it is clear that MSY is itself not halibut, tuna, and salmon fisheries. Fish sustainable. Indeed, the concept has populations the world over are threat- been widely criticized by scientists for ened, and All the Fish in the Sea will help ignoring several key factors in fisheries sound warnings of the effect of any man- management and has led to the devas- agement policies divested from science tating collapse of many fisheries. itself.

C armel Finley teaches in the Department of History at Oregon State University. She is coeditor of Two Paths toward Sustainable Forests: Public Values in Canada and the United States.

“A very impressive volume. I found The Comparative Approach in Evolutionary myself again and again wanting to revisit many old questions and ex- Anthropology and Biology plore just as many new ones—truly Chare l s L. Nunn delicious food for thought.” Comparison is fundamental to evolu- creates a means of testing adaptive hy- —William L. Jungers, Stony Brook University tionary anthropology. When scientists potheses and generating new ones. study chimpanzee cognition, for exam- With this book, Charles L. Nunn August 424 p., 20 halftones, ple, they compare chimp performance intends to ensure that evolutionary 111 line drawings, 14 tables 6 x 9 on cognitive tasks to the performance anthropologists and organismal biolo- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-60898-3 of human children on the same tasks. gists have the tools to realize the po- Cloth $120.00x/£77.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-60899-0 And when new fossils are found, such tential of comparative research. Nunn Paper $35.00s/£22.50 as those of the tiny humans of Flores, provides a wide-ranging investigation SCIENCE scientists compare these remains to of the comparative foundations of other fossils and contemporary hu- evolutionary anthropology in past and mans. Comparison provides a way to present research, including studies of draw general inferences about the evo- animal behavior, biodiversity, linguis- lution of traits and has long been the tic evolution, allometry, and cross-cul- cornerstone of efforts to understand tural variation. He also points the way biological and cultural diversity. Indi- to the future, exploring the new phy- vidual studies of fossilized remains, liv- logeny-based comparative approaches ing species, or human populations are and offering a how-to manual for sci- the essential units of analysis in a com- entists who wish to incorporate these parative study; bringing these elements new methods into their research. into a broader comparative framework

C harles L. Nunn is associate professor in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. He is coeditor of Evolution of Sleep: Phylogenetic and Functional Perspectives 58 special interest and coauthor of Infectious Diseases in Primates: Behavior, Ecology and Evolution. Fictions of the Cosmos phicum Science and Literature in the Seventeenth Century a rance. F

Furédériq e Aït-Touati mundi a osmogr Translated by Susan Emanuel C chin onale de Ma i os ( ysterium

In today’s academe, the fields of sci- ing writings of Kepler, Godwin, Hooke, m M os ence and literature are considered Cyrano, Cavendish, Fontenelle, and C ler, p e othèque nat i unconnected, one relying on raw data others, Frédérique Aït-Touati shows K bl and fact, the other focusing on fiction. that it was through the telling of sto- Bi During the period between the Renais- ries—such as accounts of celestial on. Model of the

sance and the Enlightenment, however, journeys—that the Copernican hy- i ). Johannes lis ). ourtesy of ourtesy a the two fields were not so distinct. Just pothesis, for example, found an onto- C

as the natural philosophers of the era logical weight that its geometric models rtifici Illustrat a (1596). were discovering in and adopting from did not provide. Aït-Touati draws from literature new strategies and tech- both cosmological treatises and fictions October 264 p., 5 halftones, niques for their discourse, so too were of travel and knowledge, as well as per- 2 line drawings, 2 tables 6 x 9 poets and storytellers finding inspira- sonal correspondences, drawings, and ISBN-13: 978-0-226-01122-6 Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 tion in natural philosophy, particularly instruments, to emphasize the multiple SCIENCE HISTORY in astronomy. borrowings between scientific and liter- A work that speaks to the history ary discourses. This volume sheds new No French language rights. of science and literary studies, Fictions light on the practices of scientific inven- of the Cosmos explores the evolving re- tion, experimentation, and hypothesis lationship that ensued between fiction formation by situating them according and astronomical authority. By examin- to their fictional or factual tendencies.

Frédérique Aït-Touati is a teaching fellow in French at St John’s College at the University of Oxford. Susan Emanuel has translated many books from French, including The End of Sacrifice: Religious Transformations in Late Antiquity, by Guy G. Stroumsa, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Creating a Physical Biology Contributors The Three-Man Paper and Early Molecular Biology Richard H. Beyler, Brandon E dited by Phillip R. Sloan and Brandon Fogel Fogel, Daniel J. McKaughan, Nils Roll-Hansen, Phillip R. In 1935 geneticist Nikolai Timoféeff- audience in the What is Life? lectures of Sloan, and William C. Summers Ressovsky, radiation physicist Karl physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1944. G. Zimmer, and quantum physicist Despite its historical impact on October 320 p., 9 halftones, Max Delbrück published “On the the biological sciences, the paper has 11 line drawings, 14 tables 6 x 9 Nature of Gene Mutation and Gene remained largely inaccessible because ISBN-13: 978-0-226-76782-6 Structure,” known subsequently as it was only published in a short-lived Cloth $105.00x/£68.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-76783-3 the “Three-Man Paper.” This seminal German periodical. Creating a Physical Paper $35.00s/£22.50 paper advanced work on the physical Biology makes the Three Man Paper SCIENCE HISTORY exploration of the structure of the available in English for the first time. gene through radiation physics and Brandon Fogel’s translation is accom- suggested ways in which physics could panied by an introductory essay by reveal definite information about gene Fogel and Phillip R. Sloan and a set of structure, mutation, and action. Rep- essays by leading historians and phi- resenting a new level of collaboration losophers of biology that explore the between physics and biology, it played context, contents, and subsequent in- an important role in the birth of the fluence of the paper, as well as its im- new field of molecular biology. The pa- portance for the wider philosophical per’s results were popularized for a wide analysis of biological reductionism.

Phillip R. Sloan is professor emeritus in the Program of Liberal Studies and the Program in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame. Brandon Fogel is the Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Division of Humanities at the University of Chicago. special interest 59 “Imagine a book that treats reli- Ecce Homo gion and eroticism not as sworn The Male-Body-in-Pain as Redemptive Figure enemies or cycling debaters but as Kent L. Brintnall twin arts. A book for which images of sexed bodies are not records or Images of suffering male bodies per- ity, Kent L. Brintnall also argues that replacements so much as devices meate Western culture, from Francis they reveal the vulnerability of men’s of an ecstatic redemption. You Bacon’s paintings and Robert Map- bodies and open them up to eroticiza- have found that book. In it, Kent plethorpe’s photographs to the bat- tion. Locating the roots of our cultural Brintnall retells the Christian saga tered heroes of action movies. Drawing fascination with male pain in the cru- of male suffering through Holly- on perspectives from a range of disci- cifixion, he analyzes the way narratives plines—including religious studies, of Christ’s death and resurrection both wood action films, Mapplethorpe’s gender and queer studies, psychoanaly- support and subvert cultural fanta- most scandalous photographs, and sis, art history, and film theory—Ecce sies of masculine power and privilege. the gurgling paintings of Francis Homo explores the complex, ambiguous Through stimulating readings of works Bacon.” meanings of the enduring figure of the by Georges Bataille, Kaja Silverman, —Mark D. Jordan, male-body-in-pain. and more, Brintnall delineates the re- Harvard University Acknowledging that representa- demptive power of representations of tions of men confronting violence and male suffering and violence. October 256 p., 12 halftones 6 x 9 pain can reinforce ideas of manly tenac- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07469-6 Cloth $95.00x/£61.50 K ent L. Brintnall is assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies and affiliate ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07470-2 professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of North Carolina Paper $32.50s/£21.00 at Charlotte. RELIGION GAY AND LESBIAN studies

“Imaginative and rewarding, this is Secularism in Antebellum America an exemplary instance of interdis- Jho n Lardas Modern ciplinary historical inquiry. A brilliant, groundbreaking book.” Ghosts. Railroads. Sing Sing. Sex ma- Modern frames his study around —John Corrigan, chines. These are just a few of the phe- the dread, wonder, paranoia, and man- Florida State University nomena that appear in John Lardas ic confidence of being haunted, argu- Modern’s pioneering account of reli- ing that experiences and explanations Religion and Postmodernism gion and society in nineteenth-century of enchantment fueled secularism’s December 344 p., 23 halftones 6 x 9 America. This book uncovers surpris- emergence. The awareness of spec- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-53323-0 ing connections between secular ide- tral energies coincided with attempts Cloth $40.00s/£26.00 ology and the rise of new technolo- to tame the unruly fruits of secular- RELIGION AMERICAN HISTORY gies that opened up new ways of being ism—in the cultivation of a spiritual Some material will religious. Exploring the eruptions of self among Unitarians, for instance, need to be cleared for religion in New York’s penny presses, or in John Murray Spear’s erotic long- translation. the budding fields of anthropology ings for a perpetual motion machine. and phrenology, and Moby-Dick, Mod- Combining rigorous theoretical in- ern challenges the strict separation quiry with beguiling historical arcana, between the religious and the secular Modern unsettles long-held views of that remains integral to discussions religion and the methods of narrating about religion today. its past.

John Lardas Modern is assistant professor of religious studies at Franklin and Marshall College. He is the author of The Bop Apocalypse: The Religious Visions of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs.

60 special interest Bonds of the Dead “Bonds of the Dead contains a wealth of fascinating information Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary that reminds us that human societ- Japanese Buddhism ies rely on religion to confront the Mark Michael Rowe insurmountable problem of death.” —William Bodiford, Despite popular images of priests seek- account of how religious, political, so- University of California, ing enlightenment in snow-covered cial, and economic forces in the twen- Los Angeles mountain temples, the central concern tieth century led to the emergence of of Japanese Buddhism is death. For that new funerary practices in Japan and Buddhism and Modernity reason, Japanese Buddhism’s social and how, as a result, the care of the dead November 256 p., 10 halftones, economic base has long been in mor- has become the most fundamental 2 line drawings, 2 tables 6 x 9 tuary services—a base now threatened challenge to the continued existence of ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73013-4 by public debate over the status, treat- Japanese temple Buddhism. Far from Cloth $85.00x/£55.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73015-8 ment, and location of the dead. Bonds marking the death of Buddhism in Ja- Paper $29.00s/£18.50 of the Dead explores the crisis brought pan, Rowe argues, funerary Buddhism RELIGION ASIAN STUDIES on by this debate and investigates what reveals the tradition at its most vibrant. changing burial forms reveal about the Combining ethnographic research ways temple Buddhism is perceived and with doctrinal considerations, this is a propagated in contemporary Japan. fascinating book for anyone interested Mark Michael Rowe offers a crucial in Japanese society and religion.

Mark Michael Rowe is associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at McMaster University in Ontario.

River Jordan “Brave and insightful, River Jordan is a rare pleasure: an intriguing and The Mythology of a Dividing Line intellectually adventurous book R achel Havrelock bolstered by Havrelock’s sparkling writing.” As the site of several miracles in the Promised Land. Both Israelis and Pal- —Susannah Heschel, Jewish and Christian traditions, the estinians claim the Jordan as a neces- Dartmouth College Jordan is one of the world’s holiest riv- sary boundary of an indivisible home- ers. It is also the major political and land. Examining the Hebrew Bible december 320 p., 15 halftones 6 x 9 symbolic border contested by Israelis alongside ancient and modern maps ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31957-5 and Palestinians. Combining biblical of the Jordan, Havrelock chronicles Cloth $40.00s/£26.00 and folkloric studies with historical the evolution of Israel’s borders based RELIGION HISTORY geography, Rachel Havrelock explores on nationalist myths while uncover- how the complex religious and mytho- ing additional myths that envision Is- logical representations of the river rael as a bi-national state. These other have shaped the current conflict in the myths, she proposes, provide roadmaps Middle East. for future political configurations of Havrelock contends that the in- the nation. Ambitious and masterly in tractability of the Israeli-Palestinian its scope, River Jordan brings a fresh, conflict stems from the nationalist provocative perspective to the ongoing myths of the Hebrew Bible, where the struggle in this violence-riddled region. Jordan is defined as a border of the

Rachel Havrelock is assistant professor in the Jewish Studies Program and the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is coauthor of Women on the Biblical Road: Ruth, Naomi, and the Female Journey.

special interest 61 “Economic Origins of Roman Chris- Economic Origins of Roman Christianity tianity takes us on a sweeping Robert B. Ekelund Jr. and Robert D. Tollison tour of a millennium, introducing us to Saint Paul as entrepreneur, In the global marketplace of ideas, few concepts of risk, cost, and benefit can the Nicaean Council as product realms spark as much conflict as reli- account for the demand for religion. strategy, and Charlemagne and gion. For millions of people, it is an in- Then, drawing on the economics of Pope Leo III as masters of vertical tegral part of everyday life as reflected networking, entrepreneurship, and integration. Using economic mod- by a widely divergent supply of practices industrial organization, the book explains Christianity’s rapid ascent. Like els, the authors narrate a history of and philosophical perspectives. Yet, historically, the marketplace has not al- a business, the church developed sound religion that adds a new dimension ways been competitive. While the early business strategies that increased its to our typical view of the political, Common Era saw competition between market share to a near monopoly in the military, and theological origins of Christianity, Judaism, and the many pa- medieval period. This book offers a fas- Christianity. There is much here for gan cults, Roman Christianity eventu- cinating look at the dynamics of Christi- economists to ponder and enough ally came to dominate Western Europe. anity’s rise, as well as how aspects of the church’s structure—developed over the storytelling to keep history buffs Using basic concepts of economic theory, Robert B. Ekelund Jr. and Rob- first millennium—illuminate a number going.” ert D. Tollison explain the origin and of critical problems faced by the church —Larry Witham, subsequent spread of Roman Christi- today. author of Marketplace of the Gods: How Economics Explains Religion anity, showing first how the standard Robert B. Ekelund Jr. is the Catherine and Edward Lowder Eminent Scholar Emeritus of august 264 p., 1 line drawing, 6 Economics at Auburn University. He is the author of numerous books, including The Mar- tables 6 x 9 ketplace of Christianity with Robert D. Tollison and Robert F. Hébert. Robert D. Tollison is the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-20002-6 C. Wilson Newman Professor of Economics at Clemson University. Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 ECONOMICS RELIGION

“Sensitive, sympathetic, and very Unfinished Gestures well-written, Unfinished Gestures Devada¯sı¯s, Memory, and Modernity in South India moves the debate about devada¯sı¯s Dehav s Soneji in a new and interesting direction

and will be the standard bearer in Unfinished Gestures presents the social thetic roots of their performances, and the field. Soneji’s ethnographic and cultural history of courtesans in the political efficacy of social reform work supports his historical claims South India who are generally called in their communities. and brings to life the poignancy of devada¯sı¯s, focusing on their encounters Poignantly narrating the history contemporary devada¯sı¯s’ lives.” with colonial modernity in the nine- of these women, Soneji argues for the —Janaki Bakhle, teenth and early twentieth centuries. recognition of aesthetics and perfor- Columbia University Following a hundred years of vocifer- mance as a key form of subaltern self- ous social reform, including a 1947 presentation and self-consciousness. South Asia Across the Disciplines law that criminalized their lifestyles, Ranging over courtly and private salon the women in devada¯sı¯ communities performances of music and dance by November 312 p., 48 halftones, contend with severe social stigma and devada¯sı¯s in the nineteenth century, 6 line drawings 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-76809-0 economic and cultural disenfranchise- the political mobilization of devada¯sı¯ Cloth $72.00x/£46.50 ment. Adroitly combining ethnograph- identity in the twentieth century, and ISBN-13: 978-0-226-76810-6 ic fieldwork with historical research, the post-reform lives of women in Paper $24.00s/£15.50 Davesh Soneji provides a comprehen- these communities today, Unfinished ANTHROPOLOGY ASIAN STUDIES sive portrait of these marginalized Gestures charts the historical fissures ind/sa women and unsettles received ideas that lie beneath cultural modernity in about relations among them, the aes- South India.

Davesh Soneji is associate professor of South Asian religions at McGill University. He is coeditor of Performing Pasts: Reinventing the Arts in Modern South India and editor of Bharatanatyam: A Reader.

62 special interest Seeking the Straight and Narrow “Seeking the Straight and Narrow explores with sensitivity, respect, Weight Loss and Sexual Reorientation in Evangelical America and nuance the ways participants Lynne Gerber focus on the problems of the body and its unruly desires. A thor- Losing weight and changing your sexu- what exactly they do to lose weight or al orientation are both notoriously dif- go straight, and how they make sense of oughly original book, it absolutely ficult to do successfully. Yet many faith- the program’s results—or, frequently, enriches our understanding of the ful evangelical Christians believe that their lack. Gerber notes the differenc- significance of the straight body— thinness and heterosexuality are godly es and striking parallels between the in both senses of that term—in ideals—and that God will provide reli- two programs, and, more broadly, she American Christian culture.” able paths toward them for those who traces the ways that other social insti- —Amy Farrell, fall short. Seeking the Straight and Narrow tutions have attempted to contain the Dickinson College is a fascinating account of the world of excesses associated with fatness and evangelical efforts to alter our strongest homosexuality. Challenging narratives November 296 p. 6 x 9 bodily desires. that place evangelicals in constant op- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-28811-6 Drawing on fieldwork at First position to dominant American values, Cloth $90.00x/£58.00 Place, a popular Christian weight-loss Gerber shows that these programs re- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-28812-3 Paper $29.00s/£18.50 program, and Exodus International, flect the often overlooked connection RELIGION a network of ex-gay ministries, Lynne between American cultural obsessions GAY AND LESBIAN studies Gerber explores why some Christians and Christian ones. feel that being fat or gay offends God,

L ynne Gerber is a lecturer in the religious studies department and research fellow in the Religion, Politics, and Globalization Program at the University of California, Berkeley.

The Nuptial Deal “Decades from now, when historians reflect on today’s same-sex mar- Same-Sex Marriage and Neo-Liberal Governance riage debate, The Nuptial Deal will J aye Cee Whitehead provide an empirically based narrative of what was really going on Since the 1990s, gay and lesbian civil and spousal immigration to lower in- in the lives and minds of activists rights organizations have increasingly surance rates and taxes. As Jaye Cee and of ordinary people caught up focused on the right of same-sex cou- Whitehead makes plain, debates over ples to marry, which represents a major the definition and purpose of mar- in the political and personal hopes change from earlier activists’ rejection riage indicate how thoroughly neo- and struggles over marriage in the of the institution. Centering on the ev- liberalism has pervaded American cul- United States.” eryday struggles, feelings, and thoughts ture. Indeed, Whitehead concludes, —Christopher Carrington, of marriage equality activists, The Nup- the federal government’s resistance San Francisco State University tial Deal explores this shift and its con- to same-sex marriage stems not from nections to the transformation of the “traditional values” but from fear of December 208 p. 6 x 9 United States from a welfare state to a exposing marriage as a form of gover- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-89528-4 neo-liberal one in which families carry nance rather than a natural expression Cloth $65.00x/£42.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-89529-1 the burden of facing social problems. of human intimacy. Paper $24.00s/£15.50

Governance and marriage are now A fresh take on the terms and sociology firmly entwined. Fighting for access to stakes of the debate over same-sex mar- GAY AND LESBIAN studies marriage means fighting for specific riage, The Nuptial Deal is also a probing legal benefits, which include every- look at the difficult choices and com- thing from medical decision-making promises faced by activists.

Jaye Cee Whitehead is assistant professor of sociology at Pacific University in Oregon.

special interest 63 “A learned and well-written book Imagination, Meditation, and Cognition in about the philosophy of imagination and the late-medieval practice the Middle Ages of devotional meditation. Karnes’s Mic helle Karnes argument is powerful and convinc- In Imagination, Meditation, and Cogni- amoris, Piers Plowman, and Nicholas ing, and makes a valuable addition tion in the Middle Ages, Michelle Karnes Love’s Myrrour, among others, and ar- to a lively field in current medieval revises the history of medieval imagi- gues that the cognitive importance studies.” nation with a detailed analysis of its that imagination enjoyed in scholastic —Nicholas Watson, role in the period’s meditations and philosophy informed its importance Harvard University theories of cognition. Karnes here un- in medieval meditations on the life derstands imagination in its technical, of Christ. Emphasizing the cognitive October 288 p., 1 table 6 x 9 philosophical sense, taking her cue significance of both imagination and ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42531-3 from Bonaventure, the thirteenth-cen- the meditations that relied on it, she Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 tury scholastic theologian and philoso- revises a long-standing association of LITERARY CRITICISM PHILOSOPHY pher who provided the first sustained imagination with the Middle Ages. account of how the philosophical In her account, imagination was not imagination could be transformed into simply an object of suspicion but also a devotional one. Karnes examines Bo- a crucial intellectual, spiritual, and lit- naventure’s meditational works, the erary resource that exercised consider- Meditationes vitae Christi, the Stimulis able authority.

Michelle Karnes is assistant professor of English at Stanford University.

“Living Faith offers a thoughtful Living Faith parsing of religious ‘coping’ as a Everyday Religion and Mothers in Poverty multidimensional and multidirec- Ssau n Crawford Sullivan tional phenomenon. It usefully con- ceptualizes religious practices that Scholars have made urban mothers liv- services, due to logistical challenges are salient to the book’s subjects ing in poverty a focus of their research or because they feel stigmatized and as well as to broader religious pub- for decades. These women’s lives can unwanted at church. Yet, she discov- lics. This highly original treatment be difficult as they go about searching ers, religious faith often plays a strong of the role of religion in the lives for housing and decent jobs and strug- role in their lives as they contend with gling to care for their children, while and try to make sense of the challenges of low-income women will be read surviving on welfare or working at low- they face. Supportive religious congre- widely, and for a very long time, wage service jobs and sometimes facing gations prove important for women by students of inequality, religion, physical or mental health problems. who are involved, she finds, but un- gender, urban institutions, welfare But until now little attention has been derstanding everyday religion entails policy, and more.” paid to an important force in these exploring beyond formal religious or- —Omar McRoberts, women’s lives: religion. ganizations. University of Chicago Based on in-depth interviews with Offering a sophisticated analysis of women and pastors, Susan Crawford how faith both motivates and at times Morality and Society Series Sullivan presents poor mothers’ often constrains poor mothers’ actions, Liv- overlooked views. Recruited from a va- ing Faith reveals the ways it serves as a November 288 p. 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-78160-0 riety of social service programs, most lens through which many view and in- Cloth $78.00x/£50.50 of the women do not attend religious terpret their worlds. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-78161-7 Paper $26.00s/£17.00 Susan Crawford Sullivan is assistant professor of sociology and an Edward Bennett Williams SOCIOLOGY RELIGION Fellow at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

64 special interest Rbto er J. Sampson Great American City Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect With a Foreword by William Julius Wilson

or over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have F us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regardless of our surroundings, while other theories place us at the mercy of global forces beyond our control. These two perspectives “Great American City will not only change dominate contemporary views of society, but by rejecting the impor- the way we think about neighborhood tance of place they are both deeply flawed. Based on one of the most effects, it also sets a new standard for ambitious studies in the history of social science, Great American City social scientific inquiry.I ndeed, in my argues that communities still matter because life is decisively shaped judgment, this is one of the most compre- by where you live. hensive and sophisticated empirical stud- To demonstrate the powerfully enduring impact of place, Robert J. ies ever conducted by a social scientist. Sampson presents here the fruits of over a decade’s research in Chica- The scope of this very readable and pre- go combined with his own unique personal observations about life in cisely worded book boggles the mind.” the city, from Cabrini Green to Trump Tower, and Millennium Park to —William Julius Wilson, from the Foreword the Robert Taylor Homes. He discovers that neighborhoods influence a remarkably wide variety of social phenomena, including crime, health, Nmrove be 512 p., 6 halftones, civic engagement, home foreclosures, teen births, altruism, leadership 46 line drawings, 14 maps, 1 table 6 x 9 networks, and immigration. Even national crises cannot weaken the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73456-9 Cloth $27.50s/£18.00 power of place, Sampson finds, as he analyzes the consequences of the SOCIOLOGY Great Recession and its aftermath, bringing his magisterial study up to the fall of 2010. Following in the influential tradition of the Chicago School of urban studies but updated for the twenty-first century,Great American City is at once a landmark research project, a commanding argument for a new theory of social life, and the story of an iconic city.

Robert J. Sampson is the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Har- vard University and coauthor of Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points through Life and Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70.

special interest 65 Contributors Social Knowledge in the Making Andrew Abbott, Daniel Bre- Edited by Charles Camic, Neil Gross, and Michèle Lamont slau, Charles Camic, Karen Knorr Cetina, Crystal Fleming, Over the past quarter century, re- of diverse forms of social knowledge. A Anthony T. Grafton, Neil searchers have successfully explored stellar cast of multidisciplinary scholars the inner workings of the physical and addresses topics such as the changing Gross, Johan Heilbron, Katri biological sciences using a variety of practices of historical research, an- Huutoniemi, Sarah E. Igo, social and historical lenses. Inspired thropological data collection, library Sheila Jasanoff, Andrew by these advances, the contributors to usage, peer review, and institutional Lakoff, Michèle Lamont, Social Knowledge in the Making turn their review boards. Turning to the world Rebecca Lemov, Grégoire attention to the social sciences, broadly beyond the academy, other essays focus Mallard, Laura Stark, and construed. The result is the first com- on global banks, survey research orga- prehensive effort to study and under- nizations, and national security and Marilyn Strathern stand the day-to-day activities involved economic policy makers. Social Knowl- in the creation of social-scientific and edge in the Making is a landmark volume September 464 p., 4 line drawings, related forms of knowledge about the for a new field of inquiry, and the bold 6 tables 6 x 9 social world. new research agenda it proposes will be ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09208-9 Cloth $90.00x/£58.00 The essays collected here tackle a welcomed in the social sciences, the hu- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09209-6 range of previously unexplored ques- manities, and a broad range of nonaca- Paper $30.00s/£19.50 tions about the practices involved in demic settings. SOCIOLOGY the production, assessment, and use

C harles Camic is the John Evans Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University and the author or editor of several volumes, including, most recently, Essential Writings of Thorstein Veblen. Neil Gross is associate professor of sociology at the University of British Columbia and the author of Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher. Michèle Lamont is the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, professor of sociology, and professor of African and African American studies at Harvard University. Her most recent book is How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment.

“The Roots of Radicalism brings to The Roots of Radicalism bear both rich historical cases and Tradition, the Public Sphere, and Early Nineteenth-Century comparative reflections on one of Social Movements the central theoretical debates in Craig Calhoun sociology and history. Through his deep and broad analysis of protest The story of the rise of radicalism in industrial culture and attachments to in the early nineteenth century, the early nineteenth century has of- place and local communities, as well Calhoun develops an important ten been simplified into a fable about as the ways in which journalists who and contrarian contribution to the progressive social change. The diverse had been pushed out of “respectable” debate over collective action that social movements of the era—religious, politics connected to artisans and other political, regional, national, antislavery, workers. Calhoun shows how much pub- has heretofore been dominated by and protemperance—are presented as lic recognition mattered to radical move- the imagery of individual rational mere strands in a unified tapestry of la- ments and how religious, cultural, and actors.” bor and democratic mobilization. Tak- directly political—as well as economic— —Elisabeth S. Clemens, ing aim at this flawed view of radicalism concerns motivated people to join up. University of Chicago as simply the extreme end of a single Reflecting two decades of research into dimension of progress, Craig Calhoun social movement theory and the history January 416 p., 2 tables 6 x 9 emphasizes the coexistence of different of protest, The Roots of Radicalism offers ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09084-9 kinds of radicalism, their tensions, and compelling insights into the past that Cloth $75.00x/£48.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-09086-3 their implications. can tell us much about the present, from Paper $25.00s/£16.00 The Roots of Radicalism reveals the American right-wing populism to demo- HISTORY SOCIOLOGY importance of radicalism’s links to pre- cratic upheavals in North Africa.

C raig Calhoun is president of the Social Science Research Council, the University Profes- sor of the Social Sciences at New York University, and founding director of its Institute for Public Knowledge. He is the author of several books, including Nations Matter: Culture, History, and the Cosmopolitan Dream and Neither Gods nor Emperors: Students and the Struggle for 66 special interest Democracy in China. Doctors and Demonstrators “Doctors and Demonstrators is an innovative, thorough, and expertly How Political Institutions Shape Abortion Law in the United States, Britain, and Canada designed work of political analysis. Drew Halfmann There is much to admire here, but one of the most important ele- Since Roe v. Wade, abortion has been view, and a private health care system ments is the use of a comparative a continually divisive political issue in contributed to the public definition of historical approach to an issue of the United States. In contrast, it has abortion as an individual right rather legal policy. Halfmann sets up an remained primarily a medical issue in than a medical necessity. Meanwhile, intriguing puzzle—why are abor- Britain and Canada despite the coun- Halfmann explains, the porous struc- tion politics in the United States, tries’ shared heritage. Doctors and Dem- ture of American political parties gave Britain, and Canada so different?— onstrators looks beyond simplistic cul- pro-choice and pro-life groups the op- tural or religious explanations to find portunity to move the issue onto the po- and provides a subtle yet clear and out why abortion politics and policies litical agenda. A groundbreaking study powerful explanation.” differ so dramatically in these other- of the complex legal and political fac- —John Skrentny, wise similar countries. tors behind the evolution of abortion University of California, San Diego Drew Halfmann argues that po- policy, Doctors and Demonstrators will be litical institutions are the key. In the vital for anyone trying to understand August 336 p., 27 halftones 6 x 9 this contentious issue. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31342-9 United States, federalism, judicial re- Cloth $105.00x/£68.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31343-6 Drew Halfmann is assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Davis. Paper $35.00s/£22.50

SOCIOLOGY POLITICAL SCIENCE

Interpretation and Social Knowledge “Interpretation and Social Knowl- edge offers an accessible mapping On the Use of Theory in the Human Sciences of the epistemological debates that Isaac Ariail Reed have seized the attention of our most formidable scholars over the For the past fifty years anxiety over the and Habermas, Isaac Ariail Reed de- past fifty years, and more impor- problem of naturalism has driven delineates three epistemic modes of so- bates in social theory. One side pursues cial research: realism, normativism, tantly, it provides a nuanced under- the idea of social science as another and interpretivism. Reed argues that standing of how social inquiry can kind of natural science, while the other the last mode provides a way forward and should proceed.” radically rejects the possibility of objec- for an anti-naturalist sociology that —John R. Hall, tive and explanatory knowledge. All of overcomes the opposition between in- University of California, Davis the various developments in social sci- terpretation and explanation and uses entific theory since then have reflected theory to build concrete, historically September 216 p., 12 line drawings 51/2 x 81/2 this dichotomy between naturalism specific causal explanations of social ISBN-13: 978-0-226-70673-3 and postmodernism. Interpretation and phenomena. Both an examination of Cloth $60.00x/£39.00 Social Knowledge suggests a third way, re- and a theoretical meditation on how ISBN-13: 978-0-226-70674-0 framing this debate and offering a syn- social investigators do their work, Inter- Paper $20.00s/£13.00 thetic vision that sets out a new under- pretation and Social Knowledge is an inge- SOCIOLOGY PHILOSOPHY standing of sociological interpretation. nious and fruitful exploration of what Analyzing the work of writers such makes the human sciences uniquely as Theda Skocpol, Clifford Geertz, capable of revealing and explaining Leela Gandhi, Roy Bhaskar, Foucault, our world.

I saac Ariail Reed is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder and coeditor of Culture, Society, and Democracy: The Interpretive Approach and Meaning and Method: The Cultural Approach to Sociology.

special interest 67 “Sophisticated, historically and The Accompaniment philosophically grounded, and Assembling the Contemporary engaging, Rabinow’s vision of what Paul Rabinow anthropology might be provides food for thought and deserves care- In this culmination of his search for largely spent engaging in a series of ful consideration and debate.” anthropological concepts and practices intensive experiments in collaborative —Richard Price, appropriate to the twenty-first century, research and often focused on cutting- College of William and Mary Paul Rabinow contends that to make edge work in synthetic biology. He sense of the contemporary anthropolo- candidly details the successes and fail- October 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-70169-1 gists must invent new forms of inquiry. ures of shifting his teaching practice Cloth $63.00x/£40.50 He begins with an extended rumina- away from individual projects, placing ISBN-13: 978-0-226-70170-7 tion on what he gained from two of his greater emphasis on participation over Paper $21.00s/£13.50 formative mentors: Michel Foucault observation in research, and designing ANTHROPOLOGY and Clifford Geertz. Reflecting on and using websites as a venue for col- their lives as teachers and thinkers, as laboration. Analyzing these endeavors well as human beings, he poses ques- alongside his efforts to apply an anthro- tions about their critical limitations, pological lens to the natural sciences, their unfulfilled hopes, and the lessons Rabinow lays the foundation for an he learned from and with them. ethically grounded anthropology ready This spirit of collaboration ani- and able to face the challenges of our mates The Accompaniment, as Rabinow contemporary world. assesses the last ten years of his career,

Paul Rabinow is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of numerous books, including Marking Time: On the Anthropology of the Contempo- rary, Anthropos Today: Reflections on Modern Equipment, and French DNA: Trouble in Purgatory.

“This is an indispensable guide to I Say to You understanding the distinctive place Ethnic Politics and the Kalenjin in Kenya of Kalenjin nationalism in Kenyan Gbr a ielle Lynch politics and the recent post-election violence as well as the role of In 2007 a disputed election in Kenya relevance, and popular appeal of the ethnicity in Africa more broadly. erupted into a two-month political cri- Kalenjin identity as well as its violent Lynch is superb in explaining both sis that led to the deaths of more than potential. the persistent dissension within a thousand people and the displace- Uncovering the Kalenjin’s roots, the Kalenjin as well as the way ment of almost seven hundred thou- Gabrielle Lynch examines the ways in sand. Much of the violence fell along unity was achieved in the context which ethnic groups are socially con- ethnic lines, the principal perpetra- structed and renegotiated over time. of the ethnic logic of Kenyan poli- tors of which were the Kalenjin, who She demonstrates how historical narra- tics, the dynamics of which she has lashed out at other communities in the tives of collective achievement, migra- exceptional insight into.” Rift Valley. What makes this episode tion, injustice, and persecution con- —Adam Ashforth, remarkable compared to many other stantly evolve. As a consequence, ethnic University of Michigan instances of ethnic violence is that the identities help politicians mobilize Kalenjin community is a recent con- support and help ordinary people lay November 296 p., 2 maps, 14 tables struct: the group has only existed since claim to space, power, and wealth. This 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-49804-1 the mid-twentieth century. Drawing on kind of ethnic politics, Lynch reveals, Cloth $80.00x/£51.50 rich archival research and vivid oral tes- encourages a sense of ethnic difference ISBN-13: 978-0-226-49805-8 timony, I Say to You is a timely analysis and competition, which can spiral into Paper $27.50s/£18.00 of the creation, development, political violent confrontation and retribution. ANTHROPOLOGY AFRICAN STUDIES Gabrielle Lynch is a senior lecturer in Africa and the politics of development at the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds.

68 special interest Children of the Greek Civil War “This remarkable study breaks Refugees and the Politics of Memory new ground in several areas: in its methodology, its style, and Lorn i g M. Danforth and Riki Van Boeschoten its topic. Balanced to an impressive degree, Children of the Greek At the height of the Greek Civil War in Marshaling archival records, oral 1948, thirty-eight thousand children histories, and ethnographic fieldwork, Civil War succeeds magnificently were evacuated from their homes in the authors analyze the evacuation in showing the parallels between the mountains of northern Greece. process, the political conflict surround- the experiences of the two sides The Greek Communist Party relocated ing it, the children’s upbringing, and in a way that is moving as well as half of them to orphanages in Eastern their fates as adults cut off from their analytically compelling.” Europe, while their adversaries in the parents and their homeland. They also —Michael Herzfeld, national government placed the rest in give voice to seven refugee children Harvard University children’s homes elsewhere in Greece. who poignantly recount their child-

A point of contention during the Cold hood experiences and heroic efforts to December 336 p., 11 halftones, 4 War, this controversial episode contin- construct new lives in diaspora commu- maps 6 x 9 ues to fuel tensions between Greeks and nities throughout the world. A much- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-13598-4 Cloth $80.00x/£51.50 Macedonians and within Greek society needed corrective to previous historical ISBN-13: 978-0-226-13599-1 itself. Loring M. Danforth and Riki Van accounts, Children of the Greek Civil War Paper $25.00s/£16.00 Boeschoten present here for the first is also a searching examination of the ANTHROPOLOGY EUROPEAN HISTORY time a comprehensive study of the two enduring effects of displacement on evacuation programs and the lives of the the lives of refugee children. Greek language rights children they forever transformed. unavailable.

L oring M. Danforth is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Anthropology at Bates College and the author of several books, including, most recently, The Macedonian Conflict: Ethnic Nationalism in a Transnational World. Riki Van Boeschoten is associate professor of social anthropology and oral history at the University of Thessaly, Greece, and the author of From Armatolik to People’s Rule: Investigation into the Collective Memory of Rural Greece (1750–1949).

special interest 69 “Bold and innovative in its conceptu- French Primitivism and the Ends of Empire, alization and execution, this book persuasively argues for the crucial 1945–1975 Daniel J. Sherman role of primitivism in French culture and society following the end of For over a century, the idea of primitiv- ar testing in French Polynesia—Daniel World War II.” ism has motivated artistic modernism. J. Sherman shows how primitivism, a —Leora Auslander, Focusing on the three decades after collective fantasy born of the colonial University of Chicago World War II, known in France as “les encounter, proved adaptable to a post- trentes glorieuses” despite the loss of colonial, inward-looking age of mass September 312 p., 10 color plates, 51 halftones 61/8 x 91/4 most of the country’s colonial empire, consumption. Following the likes of ISBN-13: 978-0-226-75269-3 this probing and expansive book ar- Claude Lévi-Strauss, André Putman, Cloth $45.00s/£29.00 gues that primitivism played a key role and Jean Dubuffet through decorat- EUROPEAN HISTORY ART in a French society marked by both eco- ing magazines, museum galleries, and nomic growth and political turmoil. Tahiti’s pristine lagoons, this interdis- In a series of chapters that consider ciplinary study provides a new perspec- significant aspects of French culture— tive on primitivism as a cultural phe- including the creation of new museums nomenon and offers fresh insights into of French folklore and of African and the eccentric edges of contemporary Oceanic arts and the development of French history. tourism against the backdrop of nucle-

Daniel J. Sherman is professor of art history and adjunct professor of history at the Univer- sity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In addition to editing several books in critical museum studies, he is the author of Worthy Monuments: Art Museums and the Politics of Culture in Nine- teenth-Century France and The Construction of Memory in Interwar France, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press. “In brilliant fashion Velkley lays out a reading of Heidegger and Strauss that acknowledges the centrality Heidegger, Strauss, and the Premises of this neglected conversation to of Philosophy contemporary political thinking. On Original Forgetting Moreover, he makes a case for Ricardh L. Velkley attending to the dynamics of this

conversation as a radical question- In this groundbreaking work, Richard sophical tradition, Strauss took a wholly ing concerning the origins of the L. Velkley examines the complex philo- separate path, spurning modernity and human situation within the ‘cave’ sophical relationship between Martin pursuing instead a renewal of Socratic of political life. Heidegger, Strauss, Heidegger and Leo Strauss. Velkley political philosophy. Velkley rejects this and the Premises of Philosophy argues that both thinkers provide reading and maintains that Strauss’s searching analyses of the philosophical engagement with the challenges posed offers a fresh, bold approach to tradition’s origins in radical question- by Heidegger—as well as by modern timely philosophical questions ing. For Heidegger and Strauss, the philosophy in general—formed a cru- and does so with equanimity and recovery of the original premises of cial and enduring framework for his grace.” philosophy cannot be separated from lifelong philosophical project. More —Charles Bambach, rethinking the very possibility of genu- than an intellectual biography or a mere University of Texas, Dallas ine philosophizing. charting of influence, Heidegger, Strauss, Common views of the influence of and the Premises of Philosophy is a profound November 208 p. 6 x 9 Heidegger’s thought on Strauss suggest consideration of these two philosophers’ ISBN-13: 978-0-226-85254-6 reflections on the roots, meaning, and Cloth $40.00s/£26.00 that, after being inspired early on by Heidegger’s dismantling of the philo- fate of Western rationalism. P HILOSOPHY Richard L. Velkley is the Celia Scott Weatherhead Professor of Philosophy at Tulane Univer- sity and the author of Being after Rousseau: Philosophy and Culture in Question and Freedom and the End of Reason: On the Moral Foundation of Kant’s Critical Philosophy.

70 special interest More Concise Algebraic Topology “All researchers in algebraic topology should have at least a passing Localization, Completion, and Model Categories acquaintance with the material J. Peter May and Kathleen Ponto treated in this book, much of which does not appear in any of the stan- With firm foundations dating only pological spaces, model categories, and dard texts.” from the 1950s, algebraic topology is Hopf algebras. —Kathryn Hess, a relatively young area of mathemat- The first half of the book sets out Ecole Polytechnique ics. There are very few textbooks that the basic theory of localization and Fédérale de Lausanne treat fundamental topics beyond a first completion of nilpotent spaces, using course, and many topics now essential the most elementary treatment the au- Chicago Lectures in Mathematics to the field are not treated in any text- thors know of. It makes no use of sim- book. J. Peter May’s A Concise Course in plicial techniques or model categories, January 384 p. 6 x 9 Algebraic Topology addresses the stan- and it provides full details of other nec- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-51178-8 Cloth $65.00x/£42.00 dard first course material, such as fun- essary preliminaries. With these topics MATH eMATICS damental groups, covering spaces, the as motivation, most of the second half basics of homotopy theory, and homol- of the book sets out the theory of model ogy and cohomology. In this sequel, categories, which is the central organiz- May and his coauthor, Kathleen Ponto, ing framework for homotopical algebra cover topics that are essential for alge- in general. Examples from topology and braic topologists and others interested homological algebra are treated in par- in algebraic topology, but that are not allel. A short last part develops the basic treated in standard texts. They focus on theory of bialgebras and Hopf algebras. the localization and completion of to-

J. Peter May is professor of mathematics at the University of Chicago and the author of several books, including A Concise Course in Algebraic Topology and Simplicial Objects in Algebraic Topology, both in the Chicago Lectures in Mathematics series. Kathleen Ponto is assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Kentucky.

Controlling Crime Strategies and Tradeoffs E dited by Philip J. Cook, Jens Ludwig, and Justin McCrary

Criminal justice expenditures have ics considered here are criminal jus- more than doubled since the 1980s, tice system reform, social policy, and National Bureau of Economic dramatically increasing costs to the government policies affecting alcohol Research Conference Report public. With state and local revenue abuse, drugs, and private crime pre- shortfalls resulting from the recent re- vention. Particular attention is paid October 720 p., 55 line drawings, 41 tables 6 x 9 cession, the question of whether crime to the respective roles of both the pri- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-11512-2 control can be accomplished either vate sector and government agencies. Cloth $110.00x/£71.00 with fewer resources or by investing Through a broad conceptual frame- ECONOMICS CRIMINOLOGY those resources in areas other than the work and a careful review of the rel- criminal justice system is all the more evant literature, this volume provides relevant. insight into the important trends and Controlling Crime considers alterna- patterns of some of the interventions tive ways to reduce crime that do not that may be effective in reducing sacrifice public safety. Among the top- crime.

Philip J. Cook is the ITT/Terry Sanford Professor of Public Policy at Duke University, where he is also senior dean for faculty and research. He is a research associate of the NBER. Jens Ludwig is the McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law, and Public Policy at the University of Chicago, director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, and a research associate of the NBER. Justin McCrary is professor of law at the Uni- versity of California, Berkeley, and a faculty research fellow of the NBER. All three editors codirect the Working Group on the Economics of Crime at the NBER. special interest 71 Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth Geography, Institutions, and the Knowledge Economy E dited by Dora L. Costa and Naomi R. Lamoreaux

The conditions for sustainable growth monopolization of resources by the and development are among the most political elite limits incentives for ordi- National Bureau of Economic debated topics in economics, and the nary people to invest in human capital Research Conference Report consensus is that institutions matter or technological discovery. Among the October 488 p., 27 line drawings, greatly in explaining why some econo- topics discussed are the development 69 tables 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-11634-1 mies are more successful than others of credit markets in France, the evolu- Cloth $110.00x/£71.00 over time. Understanding Long-Run Eco- tion of transportation companies in the ECONOMICS nomic Growth explores the relationship United Kingdom and the United States, between economic conditions, growth, and the organization of innovation in and inequality, with a focus on how the the United States.

Dora L. Costa is professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles; associate director of the California Population Research Center; and a research associate and director of the Cohort Studies Working Group at the NBER. Naomi R. Lamoreaux is professor of economics and history at Yale University, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a research associate of the NBER.

Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 25 E dited by Jeffrey R. Brown

In light of the very public debate on the economy taxation; research on implicit federal budget this year between Demo- taxes on work from Social Security and crats and Republicans, the economic Medicare; an analysis of how future National Bureau of Economic ramifications of tax policy are now increases in aggregate health care ex- Research Tax Policy and the more than ever a focus of national at- penditures will affect future tax rates Economy tention. This volume is thus an invalu- required to support Medicare and Med- AUGUST 200 p. 6 x 9 able tool, publishing current academic icaid; and analyses of the implications ISBN 13: 978-0-226-07657-7 research findings on taxation and gov- of large and sustained budget deficits Cloth $60.00x/£39.00 ernment spending. The papers collect- on the economy. ISBN 13: 978-0-226-07659-1 Paper $20.00x/£13.00 ed here include a review of current fuel

economics 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 40 Crime and Justice in Scandanavia E dited by Michael Tonry and Tapio Lappi-Seppälä

Crime and Justice Since 1979 the Crime and Justice series and authoritative look ever available at has presented a review of the latest in- criminal justice policies, practices, and SEPTEMBER 525 p. 6 x 9 ISBN 13: 978-0-226-80882-6 ternational research, providing exper- research in the Nordic countries. Top- Cloth $75.00x tise to enhance the work of sociologists, ics range from the history of violence criminology psychologists, criminal lawyers, justice through juvenile delinquency, juvenile scholars, and political scientists. justice, and sentencing to controversial Volume 40, Crime and Justice in Scan- contemporary policies on prostitution, dinavia, offers the most comprehensive victims, and organized crime.

Michael Tonry is director of the Institute on Crime and Public Policy and the Bennett Chair in 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. Tapio Lappi-Seppälä is 72 special interest the director general of the National Research Institute for Legal Policy in Helsinki. Contact Information

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Abt/American Egyptologist, 37 Dickie/Cruelty and Laughter, Lynch/I Say to You, 68 Sampson/Great American City, 51 65 Aït-Touati/Fictions of the May/More Concise Algebraic Cosmos, 59 Ekelund Jr./Economic Origins Topology, 71 Schalet/Not Under My Roof, of Roman Christianity, 62 43 Allen/The Institutional McInnis/Slaves Waiting for Revolution, 22 Everett/Time Travel and Warp Sale, 40 Sharp/Spinoza and the Politics Drives, 6 of Renaturalization, 46 Allhoff/Terrorism, Ticking McMahon/Nixon’s Court, 33 Time-Bombs, and Torture, 45 Finley/All the Fish in the Sea, Sherman/French Primitiv- 58 Meltzer/Saints, 53 ism and the Ends of Empire, Aravamudan/Enlightenment Mesoudi/Cultural Evolution, 34 1945–1975, 70 Orientalism, 51 Franco/Nietzsche’s Enlighten- ment, 44 Mettler/The Submerged State, Siry/Beth Sholom Synagogue, Atzili/Good Fences, Bad 24 47 Neighbors, 32 Frank/Objectifying China, Imagining America, 40 Miller/The Conflagration of Sliwinski/Human Rights In Aufderheide/Reclaiming Fair Community, 49 Camera, 52 Use, 25 Garver/Aristotle’s Politics, 46 Gerber/Seeking the Straight Modern/Secularism in Antebel- Sloan/Creating a Physical Baldwin/In the Watches of the and Narrow, 63 lum America, 60 Biology, 59 Night, 41 Goldhill/Freud’s Couch, Scott’s Mormando/Bernini, 3 Soneji/Unfinished Gestures, Barone/The Almanac of Buttocks, Brontë’s Grave, 10 62 American Politics 2012, 13 Naskrecki/Relics, 4 Gopal/Conjugations, 56 Soss/Disciplining the Poor, 30 Beasley/Opting Out, 54 Nunn/The Comparative Ap- Gross/Puppet, 20 proach in Evolutionary Anthro- Stark/Behind Closed Doors, Bleichmar/Visible Empire, 36 39 Halfmann/Doctors and Demon- pology and Biology, 58 Bloor/The Enigma of the strators, 67 Nye/Michael Polanyi and His Staub/Madness Is Civilization, Aerofoil, 57 54 Hatemi/Man Is by Nature a Generation, 43 Bonastia/Southern Stalemate, Political Animal, 32 Olin/Touching Photographs, 52 Stewart/The Poet’s Freedom, 41 48 Havrelock/River Jordan, 61 Pack/Laughter Before Sleep, Brintnall/Ecce Homo, 60 Hecht/The Scramble for the 26 Strier/The Unrepentant Re- naissance, 50 Brown/Tax Policy and the Amazon and the Lost Paradise Palmié/The Caribbean, 28 Economy, Volume 25, 72 of Euclides da Cunha, 7 Sullivan/Living Faith, 64 Passannante/The Lucretian Burnett/The Sounding of the Hockey/How We See the Sky, Renaissance, 53 Taussig/I Swear I Saw This, Whale, 17 14 35 Peck/Contradance, 27 Calhoun/The Roots of Homer/The Iliad of Homer, 2 Tonry/Crime and Justice, Radicalism, 66 Peel/Miss Cutler and the Case Volume 40, 72 Hughes/Genentech, 23 of the Resurrected Horse, 38 Camic/Social Knowledge in Jackson/What Is Education?, Turchetti/The Pontecorvo Qureshi/Peoples on Parade, 42 the Making, 66 55 Affair, 57 Rabinow/The Accompaniment, Cawthra/Blue Notes in Black Johnstone/A History of Trust in Velkley/Heidegger, Strauss, 68 and White, 21 Ancient Greece, 42 and the Premises of Philosophy, 70 Clarvoe/Counter-Amores, 27 Karnes/Imagination, Medita- Ratner-Rosenhagen/American Nietzsche, 18 Cook/Controlling Crime, 71 tion, and Cognition in the Verbeek/Moralizing Technol- Middle Ages, 64 Reed/Interpretation and Social ogy, 45 Corneanu/Regimens of the Knowledge, 67 Mind, 44 Katz/Why the Law Is So Per- Welky/The Thousand-Year verse, 31 Rollo/Kiss My Relics, 50 Flood, 1 Costa/Understanding Long- Keating/Cancer on Trial, 39 Run Economic Growth, 72 Rose/Proust among the Na- Whitehead/The Nuptial Deal, Kernfeld/Pop Song Piracy, 56 tions, 49 63 Cuno/Museums Matter, 19 Kusukawa/Picturing the Book Rothstein/The Quality of Gov- Winter/Memory, 16 Danforth/Children of the Greek of Nature, 36 ernment, 34 Civil War, 69 Zakim/Capitalism Takes Com- Levy/The Arc of War, 30 Rowe/Bonds of the Dead, 61 mand, 38 Dawson/Not in Our Lifetimes, 12 Linder/Science on Ice, 15 Samarov/Hack, 11 Ziegler/Deceptive Beauties, 8 University of Chicago Press New Publications Fall 2011 TITLE INDEX

The Accompaniment/ Deceptive Beauties/ Laughter Before Sleep/ Relics/Naskrecki, 4 Rabinow, 68 Ziegler, 8 Pack, 26 River Jordan/Havrelock, All the Fish in the Sea/ Disciplining the Poor/ Living Faith/Sullivan, 64 61 Finley, 58 Soss, Fording, Schram, 30 The Lucretian Renais- The Roots of Radicalism/ The Almanac of American Doctors and Demonstra- sance/Passannante, 53 Calhoun, 66 Politics 2012/Barone, tors/Halfmann, 67 Madness Is Civilization/ Saints/Meltzer, Elsner, 53 McCutcheon, 13 Ecce Homo/Brintnall, 60 Staub, 54 Science on Ice/Linder, 15 American Egyptologist/ Man Is by Nature a Economic Origins of Roman The Scramble for the Abt, 37 Political Animal/Hatemi, Christianity/Ekelund Jr., Amazon and the Lost McDermott, 32 American Nietzsche/ Tollison, 62 Paradise of Euclides da Ratner-Rosenhagen, 18 The Enigma of the Memory/Winter, 16 Cunha/Hecht, 7 The Arc of War/Levy, Aerofoil/Bloor, 57 Michael Polanyi and His Secularism in Antebellum Thompson, 30 Enlightenment Oriental- Generation/Nye, 43 America/Modern, 60 Aristotle’s Politics/Garver, ism/Aravamudan, 51 Miss Cutler and the Case Seeking the Straight and 46 Fictions of the Cosmos/ of the Resurrected Horse/ Narrow/Gerber, 63 Peel, 38 Behind Closed Doors/ Aït-Touati, 59 Slaves Waiting for Sale/ Stark, 39 French Primitivism and Moralizing Technology/ McInnis, 40 Verbeek, 45 Bernini/Mormando, 3 the Ends of Empire, Social Knowledge in the Beth Sholom Synagogue/ 1945–1975/Sherman, 70 More Concise Algebraic Making/Camic, Gross, Siry, 47 Freud’s Couch, Scott’s Topology/May, Ponto, 71 Lamont, 66 Blue Notes in Black and Buttocks, Brontë’s Grave/ Museums Matter/Cuno, 19 The Sounding of the White/Cawthra, 21 Goldhill, 10 Nietzsche’s Enlighten- Whale/Burnett, 17 Genentech/Hughes, 23 Bonds of the Dead/Rowe, ment/Franco, 44 Southern Stalemate/ 61 Good Fences, Bad Nixon’s Court/McMahon, Bonastia, 41 Neighbors/Atzili, 32 Cancer on Trial/Keating, 33 Spinoza and the Politics Cambrosio, 39 Great American City/ Not in Our Lifetimes/ of Renaturalization/Sharp, Capitalism Takes Com- Sampson, 65 Dawson, 12 46 mand/Zakim, Kornblith, Hack/Samarov, 11 Not Under My Roof/ The Submerged State/ 38 Heidegger, Strauss, and Schalet, 43 Mettler, 24 The Caribbean/Palmié, the Premises of The Nuptial Deal/White- Tax Policy and the Econo- Scarano, 28 Philosophy/Velkley, 70 head, 63 my, Volume 25/Brown, 72 Children of the Greek A History of Trust in Objectifying China, Imag- Terrorism, Ticking Time- Civil War/Danforth, Van Ancient Greece/John- ining America/Frank, 40 Bombs, and Torture/ Boeschoten, 69 stone, 42 Opting Out/Beasley, 54 Allhoff, 45 The Comparative Ap- How We See the Sky/ Peoples on Parade/ The Thousand-Year Flood/ proach in Evolutionary Hockey, 14 Qureshi, 42 Welky, 1 Anthropology and Biol- Human Rights In Camera/ Picturing the Book of Time Travel and Warp ogy/Nunn, 58 Sliwinski, 52 Nature/Kusukawa, 36 Drives/Everett, Roman, 6 The Conflagration of I Say to You/Lynch, 68 The Poet’s Freedom/ Touching Photographs/ Community/Miller, 49 I Swear I Saw This/ Stewart, 48 Olin, 52 Conjugations/Gopal, 56 Taussig, 35 The Pontecorvo Affair/ Understanding Long-Run Contradance/Peck, 27 The Iliad of Homer/Homer, Turchetti, 57 Economic Growth/Costa, Controlling Crime/Cook, 2 Pop Song Piracy/Kernfeld, Lamoreaux, 72 Ludwig, McCrary, 71 Imagination, Meditation, 56 Unfinished Gestures/ Counter-Amores/Clarvoe, 27 and Cognition in the Proust among the Soneji, 62 Creating a Physical Middle Ages/Karnes, 64 Nations/Rose, 49 The Unrepentant Renais- Biology/Sloan, Fogel, 59 In the Watches of the Puppet/Gross, 20 sance/Strier, 50 Crime and Justice, Volume Night/Baldwin, 41 The Quality of Govern- Visible Empire/Bleichmar, 40/Tonry, Lappi-Seppälä, 72 The Institutional Revolu- ment/Rothstein, 34 36 Cruelty and Laughter/ tion/Allen, 22 Reclaiming Fair Use/Auf- What Is Education?/ Dickie, 51 Interpretation and Social derheide, Jaszi, 25 Jackson, 55 Cultural Evolution/ Knowledge/Reed, 67 Regimens of the Mind/ Why the Law Is So Mesoudi, 34 Kiss My Relics/Rollo, 50 Corneanu, 44 Perverse/Katz, 31