ANTHROPOLOGY
Berlin, Alexanderplatz: Transforming Place in a Unified Germany by Gisa Weszkalnys (Berghahn Books; 214 pages; $60). Focuses on one of the city’s iconic public squares in an ethnographic study of transformation in unified Berlin.
Conjuring Crisis: Racism and Civil Rights in a Southern Military City by George Baca (Rutgers University Press; 196 pages; $72 hardcover, $25.95 paperback). An ethnographic study of urban politics and racial tensions in Fort Bragg and Fayetteville, N.C.
Credit Between Cultures: Farmers, Financiers, and Misunderstanding in Africa by Parker Shipton (Yale University Press; 335 pages; $55). Explores multiple forms of borrowing and lending in rural Africa; draws on fieldwork among the Luo people in western Kenya, as well as with development organizations.
Defying Displacement: Grassroots Resistance and the Critique of Development by Anthony Oliver-Smith (University of Texas Press; 289 pages; $55). Offers a global perspective on resistance to the uprooting of people for dams and other development projects.
Journey Into America: The Challenge of Islam by Akbar Ahmed (Brookings Institution Press; 528 pages; $29.95). Draws on field research in 75 cities in a study of the views and experiences of Muslims across the United States.
Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa After the Cold War by Charles Piot (University of Chicago Press; 200 pages; $20). Describes changes in the culture and politics of Togo in the post-cold war era; considers how this era challenges aspects of postcolonial theory.
Reconstructing Beirut: Memory and Space in a Postwar Arab City by Aseel Sawalha (University of Texas Press; 176 pages; $55). Uses a fishing port, cafes, an apartment building, and other settings to explore contested meanings of space in the Lebanese capital.
The Road to Evergreen: Adoption, Attachment Therapy, and the Promise of Family by Rachael Stryker (Cornell University Press; 208 pages; $59.95 hardcover, $19.95 paperback). An ethnographic study of the treatment of children with reactive attachment disorder, a condition that has been growing with the increased number of international adoptions of formerly institutionalized children; focuses on a center in Evergreen, Colo.
Theater in a Crowded Fire: Ritual and Spirituality at Burning Man by Lee M. Gilmore (University of California Press; 237 pages; $60 hardcover, $24.95 paperback; includes a DVD). An ethnographic study of the annual seven-day celebration in the Nevada desert, which culminates in the burning of a huge effigy.
Zimbabwe’s New Diaspora: Displacement and the Cultural Politics of Survival edited by JoAnn McGregor and Ranka Primorac (Berghahn Books; 286 pages; $80). Essays on displacement as a result of Zimbabwe’s continuing crisis, with a focus on diasporic communities in Britain and South Africa; also explores such topics as the revival of Rhodesian discourse.
ARCHAEOLOGY
Archaeological Approaches to Market Exchange in Ancient Societies edited by Christopher P. Garraty and Barbara L. Stark (University Press of Colorado, distributed by University of Oklahoma Press; 368 pages; $70). Writings that offer a comparative archaeological perspective on markets in Mesoamerica, the Andes, and East Africa.
City of the Ram-Man: The Story of Ancient Mendes by Donald B. Redford (Princeton University Press; 240 pages; $35). Traces the history of the ancient Egyptian port of Mendes (now Tel el-Rub’a), known in ancient times for a cult centering on a lascivious ram-god thought to have congress with women.
Sweet Cane: The Architecture of the Sugar Works of East Florida by Lucy B. Wayne (University of Alabama Press; 224 pages; $45 hardcover, $22.50 paperback). A work in historical archaeology that documents what was the center of Florida sugar production, before the East Florida industry was devastated by the Second Seminole War.
ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Copy, Archive, Signature: A Conversation on Photography by Jacques Derrida, edited by Gerhard Richter, translated by Jeff Fort (Stanford University Press; 105 pages; $45 hardcover, $16.95 paperback). First English translation and first full edition of the French philosopher’s conversation with two German thinkers: the theorist of photography Hubertus von Amelunxen and the literary and media theorist Michael Wetzel.
Empire of Landscape: Space and Ideology in French Colonial Algeria by John Zarobell (Penn State University Press; 196 pages; $95). Analyzes paintings and drawings that reflect French perceptions of Algeria, beginning with such early post-conquest works as Col. Jean-Charles Langlois’s Panorama of Algiers (1833).
Galleries of Friendship and Fame: A History of Nineteenth-Century American Photograph Albums by Elizabeth Siegel (Yale University Press; 203 pages; $50). Draws on previously untapped sources in a study of the marketing, use, and meaning of carte-de-visite and cabinet-card albums from 1861 to the rise of the snapshot.
Nomadic Narratives, Visual Forces: Gwen John’s Letters and Paintings by Maria Tamboukou (Peter Lang Publishing; 199 pages; $73.95). A study of the Welsh artist (1876-1939), sister to the painter Augustus John and lover of Rodin; draws on the theories of Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, and Adriana Cavarero.
Surviving Nirvana: Death of the Buddha in Chinese Visual Culture by Sonya S. Lee (Hong Kong University Press, distributed by University of Washington Press; 355 pages; $55). Analyzes representations of the Buddha’s nirvana in sculpture, mural, and other imagery from the sixth to the 12th centuries.
BUSINESS
The Appeal of Insurance edited by Geoffrey Clark and others (University of Toronto Press; 248 pages; US$50). Writings by business historians, sociologists, and others on the global growth and growing power of the insurance industry over the past three centuries.
CLASSICAL STUDIES
Cicero: Pro Sexto Roscio edited by Andrew R. Dyck (Cambridge University Press; 258 pages; $78 hardcover, $31.99 paperback). Translation, with commentary and Latin text, of Cicero’s successful defense of a man who was accused of parricide in 81 BC.
Civic Rites: Democracy and Religion in Ancient Athens by Nancy Evans (University of California Press; 296 pages; $60 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Describes how politics was intertwined with religious ritual in fifth-century Athens.
Delphi and Olympia: The Spatial Politics of Panhellenism in the Archaic and Classical Periods by Michael Scott (Cambridge University Press; 376 pages; $95). Documents the diversity and fluidity of activities at both sanctuaries and reevaluates the concept of panhellenism.
Livy on the Hannibalic War by D.S. Levene (Oxford University Press; 520 pages; $160). A study of the Roman historian’s sources, narrative, and approach in his “Third Decade” (Books 21-30).
Minoan Kingship and the Solar Goddess: A Near Eastern “Koine” by Nanno Marinatos (University of Illinois Press; 263 pages; $55). Explores religious symbolism on ancient Crete and examines links with ancient Syria, Anatolia, and Egypt.
Odes for Victorious Athletes by Pindar, translated by Anne Pippin Burnett (Johns Hopkins University Press; 128 pages; $45 hardcover, $20 paperback). Translation of the Greek poet’s victory songs.
Riot in Alexandria: Tradition and Group Dynamics in Late Antique Pagan and Christian Communities by Edward J. Watts (University of California Press; 312 pages; $55). Explores pagan-Christian interaction from the fourth to the early seventh centuries; topics include differing accounts of a riot in the Egyptian port in 486 after a group of pagan students attacked a Christian teenager who had insulted their teachers.
COGNITIVE SCIENCE
What Is Addiction? edited by Don Ross and others (MIT Press; 448 pages; $40). Writings on alcoholism, pathological gambling, and other forms of addiction by researchers in such fields as neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, genetics, and economics; topics include addiction as a breakdown in decision making.
COMMUNICATION
The Citizen Machine: Governing by Television in 1950s America by Anna McCarthy (New Press; 334 pages; $28.95). Considers how notions of a civic role for TV shaped the medium in its formative years.
Internet Policy in China: A Field Study of Internet Cafes by Helen Sun (Lexington Books; 317 pages; $80). Draws on interviews with operators and visitors of both legal and illegal Internet cafes, and describes government efforts to monitor and censor Net traffic.
The Magazine Century: American Magazines Since 1900 by David E. Sumner (Peter Lang Publishing; 242 pages; $119.95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Examines the rapid growth of magazines throughout the 20th century and analyzes the form’s current decline.
CULTURAL STUDIES
DanceHall: From Slave Ship to Ghetto by Sonjah Stanley Niaah (University of Ottawa Press; 232 pages; $65 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). A study of Jamaican dancehall music and culture, which emerged from poor areas of Kingston.
Mashed Up: Music, Technology, and the Rise of Configurable Culture by Aram Sinnreich (University of Massachusetts Press; 240 pages; $80 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Discusses music sampling, file sharing, and the like in terms of a new ethic of what is termed “configurable collectivism.”
ECONOMICS
Fixed Ideas of Money: Small States and Exchange Rate Regimes in Twentieth-Century Europe by Tobias Straumann (Cambridge University Press; 414 pages; $90). Focuses on the monetary histories of Austria, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland.
A Global Green New Deal: Rethinking the Economic Recovery by Edward B. Barbier (Cambridge University Press; 308 pages; $70 hardcover, $28.99 paperback). Considers ways of reviving the world economy with a eye toward sustainability and “green development.”
The Great Credit Crash edited by Martijn Konings (Verso; 398 pages; $26.95). New and previously published writings on the current financial crisis as a product of neoliberal capitalism.
EDUCATION
Homeroom Security: School Discipline in an Age of Fear by Aaron Kupchik (New York University Press; 288 pages; $35). Draws on field research across the country to argue that the zero-tolerance policies and harsh disciplinary practices adopted by American schools are hindering the goal of reducing student misbehavior and violence.
Horace Mann’s Troubling Legacy: The Education of Democratic Citizens by Bob Pepperman Taylor (University Press of Kansas; 192 pages; $34.95). Argues that Mann’s view of civic education marginalized the role of schools in training the intellect; links him to anti-intellectualism in American education.
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
The Aquaculture Controversy in Canada: Activism, Policy, and Contested Science by Nathan Young and Ralph Matthews (University of British Columbia Press; 304 pages; US$85). Analyzes a controversy over aquaculture as a growing industry in Canada; focuses on British Columbia.
The Flooded Earth: Our Future in a World Without Ice Caps by Peter D. Ward (Basic Books; 261 pages; $25.95). Considers the long-term impact of a rise in sea levels due to global warming.
FILM STUDIES
Cinema, Memory, Modernity: The Representation of Memory From the Art Film to Transnational Cinema by Russell J.A. Kilbourn (Routledge; 276 pages; $105). Contrasts representations of memory in both Hollywood filmmaking and international art-house cinema.
The Gendered Screen: Canadian Women Filmmakers edited by Brenda Austin-Smith and George Melnyk (Wilfrid Laurier University Press; 270 pages; US$29.95). Essays on the work of such filmmakers as Andrea Dorfman, Patricia Rozema, Mina Shum, and Lynne Stopkewich.
“Saturday Night Live,” Hollywood Comedy, and American Culture: From Chevy Chase to Tina Fey by Jim Whalley (Palgrave Macmillan; 234 pages; $80). Combines a history of SNL with a discussion of its performers’ crossover to Hollywood movies.
Sync: Stylistics of Hieroglyphic Time by James Tobias (Temple University Press; 304 pages; $59.50). Explores synchronized sound and image in cinema and media art through six case studies, beginning with Eisenstein’s Alexander Nevsky.
FOLKLORE
The Epic of Kelefaa Saane by Sirifo Camara, edited and translated by Sana Camara (Indiana University Press; 185 pages; $34.95). Mandinka transcription and first English translation of a recitation of an epic honoring a warrior prince, as recorded in Dakar, Senegal, in 1987.
HISTORY
The Adventuress: Murder, Blackmail, and Confidence Games in the Gilded Age by Virginia A. McConnell (Kent State University Press; 264 pages; $29.95). Traces the life of Minnie Walkup, a young woman tried in 1885 at age 16 for the murder of her husband, an Emporia, Kan., businessman, in a case that received national attention.
Becoming Imperial Citizens: Indians in the Late-Victorian Empire by Sukanya Banerjee (Duke University Press; 272 pages; $84.95 hardcover, $23.95 paperback). Draws on autobiography, fiction, election speeches, and other sources to examine how Indians conceived of citizenship in the British empire.
The Clash of Ideas in World Politics: Transnational Networks, States, and Regime Change, 1510-2010 by John M. Owen IV (Princeton University Press; 332 pages; $75 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Documents and analyzes recurrent waves of forcible regime change since the early modern period.
Confederate Minds: The Struggle for Intellectual Independence in the Civil War South by Michael T. Bernath (University of North Carolina Press; 412 pages; $39.95). Examines the efforts of writers, editors, and other “cultural nationalists” to free the South from the dependence on Northern print culture and educational systems.
Daniel Franks: Colonial Merchant by Mark Abbott Stern (Penn State University Press; 256 pages; $60). A biography of a Philadelphia merchant (1720-93), who was tried for treason.
Edmund J. Davis: Civil War General, Republican Leader, Reconstruction Governor by Carl H. Moneyon (Texas Christian University Press, distributed by Texas A&M University Press; 352 pages; $27.95). A biography of a Texas opponent of secession.
Evolving Nationalism: Homeland, Identity, and Religion in Israel, 1925-2005 by Nadav G. Shelef (Cornell University Press; 296 pages; $69.95 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Traces changes in Zionist and later Israeli discourse on three questions: where is the “land of Israel,” who should be Israeli, and what is the mission of Zionism.
Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri’s Civil War, 1861-1865 by Mark W. Geiger (Yale University Press; 306 pages; $50). Links the intensity of Missouri’s guerrilla conflict and the state’s anomalous Reconstruction experience to a financial conspiracy at the start of the Civi War.
The Flight of the Century: Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of American Aviation by Thomas Kessner (Oxford University Press; 313 pages; $27.95). Examines the events and lasting cultural impact of the aviator’s 33-hour flight from New York to Paris, beginning in the early morning of May 20, 1927.
Freud on Madison Avenue: Motivation Research and Subliminal Advertising in America by Lawrence R. Samuel (University of Pennsylvania Press; 218 pages; $29.95). Discusses Paul Lazarsfeld, Herta Herzog, Ernest Dichter, and other European-born researchers men who brought the tools of psychoanalysis to American advertising.
Greece: The Hidden Centuries: Turkish Rule from the Fall of Constantinople to Greek Independence by David Brewer (I.B. Tauris, distributed by Palgrave Macmillan; 308 pages; $28). Examines the experience of Ottoman rule for all levels of Greek society, beginning with the fall of Constantinople in 1453.
A Guerrilla Odyssey: Modernization, Secularism, Democracy, and the Fadai Period of National Liberation in Iran, 1971-1979 by Peyman Vahabzadeh (Syracuse University Press; 289 pages; $29.95). Combines archival and interview data in a study of the rise and fall of the Organization of Iranian People’s Fadai Guerrillas, a leftist group in armed struggle against the Shah.
Helen Taft: Our Musical First Lady by Lewis L. Gould (University Press of Kansas; 220 pages; $34.95). Draws on previously untapped sources in a biography of the First Lady (1861-1943) that emphasizes her patronage of music and theater.
Ireland: A History by Thomas Bartlett (Cambridge University Press; 625 pages; $34.99). Covers the island since prehistoric times.
James Madison Rules America: The Constitutional Origins of Congressional Partisanship by William F. Connelly Jr. (Rowman & Littlefield; 339 pages; $64.95). Examines tensions created by both parties’ duty to both campaign and govern.
The Johnson-Sims Feud: Romeo and Juliet, West Texas Style by Bill O’Neal (University of North Texas Press; 208 pages; $24.95). Discusses a marriage, divorce, and custody battle that provoked lethal violence in the early 20th century between two families with large property holdings in Scurry and Kent Counties; draws on interviews with descendants.
Kiev: Jewish Metropolis, a History, 1859-1914 by Natan M. Meir (Indiana University Press; 403 pages; $75 hardcover, $27.95 paperback). Examines political, religious, demographic, cultural, and other aspects of Kiev’s Jews, from the official readmission of Jews to the city to the beginning of World War I.
King Philip’s War: Colonial Expansion, Native Resistance, and the End of Indian Sovereignty by Daniel R. Mandell (Johns Hopkins University Press; 176 pages; $45 hardcover, $20 paperback). A history of the war that erupted in July 1675 between Indians and colonists in New England.
Lafayette: Prisoner of State by Paul S. Spalding (University of South Carolina Press; 401 pages; $59.95). A study of the five-year captivity of the French marquis and general by a coalition of Austrian and Prussian troops intent on invading France and restoring the French monarchy.
Nobody Turn Me Around: A People’s History of the 1963 March on Washington by Charles Euchner (Beacon Press; 226 pages; $26.95). Offers an hour-by-hour account of the event that brought more than 250,000 people to the capital on August 28, 1963.
Nuzi Texts and Their Uses as Historical Evidence by Maynard Paul Maidman (Society of Biblical Literature; 296 pages; $34.95). Transliteration, translation, and study of texts from Akkadian-language tablets dating from about 1475 to 1350 BC and excavated from Nuzi, a town buried beneath modern Yorghan Tepe in what is now northern Iraq.
The Purposes of Paradise: U.S. Tourism and Empire in Cuba and Hawai’i by Christine Skwiot (University of Pennsylvania Press; 256 pages; $39.95). Draws parallels between Cuba and Hawai’i as objects of U.S. imperial desire.
The Rise and Fall of the Scottish Cotton Industry, 1778-1914 by Anthony Cooke (Manchester University Press, distributed by Palgrave Macmillan; 237 pages; $89.95). Traces the shifting fortunes of Scotland’s premier industry at the time of the early Industrial Revolution.
The Strange Demise of British Canada: The Liberals and Canadian Nationalism, 1964-68 by C.P. Champion (McGill-Queen’s University Press; 336 pages; $95 hardcover, $32.95 paperback). Traces the debate between Prime Ministers John Diefenbaker and his successor, Lester Pearson, over British elements in Canada’s national representation; topics include Pearson’s push to replace the Union Jack with the Maple Leaf.
Strike! The Radical Insurrections of Ellen Dawson by David Lee McMullen (University Press of Florida; 239 pages; $65). A biography of the Scottish-born textile worker and activist (1900-67), who participated in major strikes in Passaic, N.J., New Bedford, Mass., and Gastonia, N.C., and who became the first woman to be elected to the national leadership of an American textile union.
An Unlikely Prince: The Life and Times of Machiavelli by Niccolo Capponi (Da Capo Press; 334 pages; $26). A biography of the Italian philosopher and statesman (1469-1527) that sets his life in the context of Florentine society.
We Cannot Remain Silent: Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States by James N. Green (Duke University Press; 440 pages; $94.95 hardcover, $26.95 paperback). Describes how a grassroots movement against the military junta that took power in 1964 laid the foundation for later campaigns against human-rights abuses in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and Central America.
HISTORY OF MEDICINE
Emerging Infectious Diseases and Society by Peter Washer (Palgrave Macmillan; 191 pages; $85). Discusses the identification and classification of more than 30 new infectious diseases since the early 1980s; sets the phenomenon in wider cultural context.
Women’s Bodies and Medical Science: An Inquiry Into Cervical Cancer by Linda Bryder (Palgrave Macmillan; 250 pages; $90). Discusses a scandal that erupted in 1987 in New Zealand when it was charged that some women were not fully treated for cervical cancer by physicians who wished to study the disease.
HISTORY OF SCIENCE
Michelangelo’s Finger: An Exploration of Everyday Transcendence by Raymond Tallis (Yale University Press; 166 pages; $25). Examines the centrality of the index finger and the act of pointing to human evolution and creativity.
The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness by Oren Harman (W.W. Norton & Company; 451 pages; $27.95). Traces the unconventional life of the American geneticist and polymath (1922-75), who explored altruism as a scientist and whose extreme renunciation of all possessions and material comforts culminated in his suicide.
INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography by John A. Hall (Verso; 400 pages; $49.95). A study of the Cambridge University philosopher and anthropologist (1925-95), who was born in Paris, brought up in Prague, and emigrated to Britain with the rise of Hitler in Germany.
LABOR STUDIES
Power in Coalition: Strategies for Strong Unions and Social Change by Amanda Tattersall (ILR Press/Cornell University Press; 224 pages; $59.95 hardcover, $21 paperback). Offers case studies of the public-education coalition in Sydney, the Ontario Health Coalition in Toronto, and the living-wage campaign of Chicago’s Grassroots Collaborative.
LAW
Getting in the Game: Title IX and the Women’s Sports Revolution by Deborah L. Brake (New York University Press; 287 pages; $39). Evaluates the long-term impact of the 1972 federal statute that banned sex discrimination in education.
In Brown’s Wake: Legacies of America’s Educational Landmark by Martha Minow (Oxford University Press; 304 pages; $24.95). Topics include the long-term influence of the 1954 Supreme Court decision on education at home and abroad.
A Republic of Statutes: The New American Constitution by William Eskridge and John Ferejohn (Yale University Press; 544 pages; $65). Offers a theory of constitutional law in which statutes supplement and may supplant the written Constitution.
To Secure the Liberty of the People: James Madison’s Bill of Rights and the Supreme Court’s Interpretation by Eric T. Kasper (Northern Illinois University Press; 301 pages; $40). Combines a study of the founder’s view of human nature and political philosophy with discussion of how U.S. Supreme Court justices have cited and interpreted his intent.
Twilight of Impunity: The War Crimes Trial of Slobadan Milosevic by Judith Armatta (Duke University Press; 545 pages; $39.95). An account of the events and legal issues of the Milosevic prosecution in the Hague, which began in 2002 and ended with the Serbian’s leader’s death, in 2006.
LITERATURE
Addressing the Letter: Italian Women Writers’ Epistolary Fiction by Laura A. Salsini (University of Toronto Press; 224 pages; US$55). Traces challenges to literary and cultural norms in epistolary fiction by writers from Orintia Romagnuoli Sacrati in the early 1800s to such recent authors as Natalia Ginzburg and Oriana Fallaci.
Byron and the Jews by Sheila A. Spector (Wayne State University Press; 244 pages; $59.95). Explores the poet’s interactions with the Jewish writers Isaac D’Israeli and Isaac Nathan, and considers how translations of Byron into Hebrew and Yiddish figured in three Jewish movements of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Byron and the Rhetoric of Italian Nationalism by Arnold Anthony Schmidt (Palgrave Macmillan; 206 pages; $80). Uses previously untranslated material in a study of the poet as an inspiration to Italian nationalism from the Risorgimento, or unification of Italy, through two world wars.
Coleridge’s Play of Mind by John Beer (Oxford University Press; 288 pages; $99). Explores 12 passages in the poet’s life in terms of a recurrent playful element in his consciousness.
The Collected Prose, 1948-1998 by Zbigniew Herbert, edited by Alissa Valles, translated by Michael March and others (Ecco/HarperCollins; 708 pages; $34.99). English edition of four works by the Polish poet and essayist (1924-98): Labyrinth on the Sea, Still Life With a Bridle, The King of the Ants, and Barbarian in the Garden.
Cuba and the Fall: Christian Text and Queer Narrative in the Fiction of Jose Lezama Lima and Reinaldo Arenas by Eduardo Gonzalez (University of Virginia Press; 320 pages; $69.50 hardcover, $32.50 paperback). Juxtaposes the two Cuban writers and considers them in relation to Christian motifs of fall and redemption.
Decentering Rushdie: Cosmopolitanism and the Indian Novel in English by Pranav Jani (Ohio State University Press; 275 pages; $49.95). Sets the work of Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, Arundhati Roy, and Nayantara Sahgal in the context of Indian debates about cosmopolitanism and the national question.
The Elegies of Ted Hughes by Edward Hadley (Palgrave Macmillan; 182 pages; $80). Explores the British poet’s links with the poetry of mourning, including works inspired by World War I and reacting to the suicides of his wife Sylvia Plath and his lover Assia Wevill.
Fictions of Well-Being: Sickly Readers and Vernacular Medical Writing in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain by Michael Solomon (University of Pennsylvania Press; 188 pages; $55). Traces the shaping of an audience for medical writing in the vernacular, in 14th through 16th-century Spain.
From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking by Dan Miron (Stanford University Press; 560 pages; $65). Develops a view of Yiddish and other modern Jewish literatures that emphasizes discontinuity, rather than seeing writers’ work as part of a continuum.
From the Modernist Annex: American Women Writers in Museums and Libraries by Karin Roffman (University of Alabama Press; 272 pages; $44.50). Focuses on Edith Wharton, Nella Larsen, Marianne Moore, and Ruth Benedict in a study of 19th- and early 20th-century female writers’ engagement with museums and libraries.
Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order by Charles Hill (Yale University Press; 368 pages; $27.50). Considers how literature can inform statecraft and diplomacy; draws on the scholar’s experience in the U.S. Foreign Service.
I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick by Laurence A. Rickels (University of Minnesota Press; 432 pages; $75 hardcover, $25 paperback). Explores the philosophical and psychoanalytic significance of the science-fiction writer’s work.
Imagining an English Reading Public, 1150-1400 by Katharine Breen (Cambridge University Press; 300 pages; $95). Explores literary and other realms in a study of the medieval concept of habitus, which linked internalized acquisition of Latin grammar to a more generalized virtue; describes how such links came to be associated with vernacular literature.
Jonathan Swift in Print and Manuscript by Stephen Karian (Cambridge University Press; 284 pages; $85). Considers how censorship and other concerns shaped Swift’s decisions on whether to circulate his work in print or in manuscript.
Modernism, Magazines, and the British Avant-Garde: Reading Rhythm, 1910-1914 by Faith Binckes (Oxford University Press; 272 pages; $99). Traces forces and debates shaping modernism through a study of two magazines: Rhythm and the Blue Review.
Modernist Avant-Garde Aesthetics and Contemporary Military Technology: Technicities of Perception by Ryan Bishop and John Phillips (Edinburgh University Press, distributed by Columbia University Press; 238 pages; $115). Juxtaposes military technology and the experimental literature, art, and music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Paper Pellets: British Literary Culture After Waterloo by Richard Cronin (Oxford University Press; 300 pages; $99). Focuses on Byron’s Don Juan, the novels of Sir Walter Scott, and the new literary magazines.
Pens and Needles: Women’s Textualities in Early Modern England by Susan Frye (University of Pennsylvania Press; 302 pages; $65). Traces links between visual and verbal texts for women trained in the arts of needlework and painting; also examines the staging of women’s relationship to textiles in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline and Othello.
Performing Masculinity edited by Rainer Emig and Antony Rowland (Berghahn Books; 240 pages; $85). Essays on masculinity as performed in literary and other realms, from Romantic-era poetry and ballet to rock and rock and virtual worlds.
The Poetics of Dante’s “Paradiso” by Massimo Verdicchio (University of Toronto Press; 178 pages; US$45). A canto-by-canto analysis of the poem that argues that Dante’s depiction of heaven embodies a sharp critique of a corrupt church and empire.
The Revolt of the Scribe in Modern Italian Literature by Thomas E. Peterson (University of Toronto Press; 360 pages; US$75). Analyzes works by such writers as Grazia Deledda and Giuseppe Ungaretti in a study of Italian authors who revolt against established norms.
Santa: A Novel of Mexico City by Federico Gamboa, translated and edited by John Charles Chasteen (University of North Carolina Press; 238 pages; $22.95). First English translation of a 1903 classic in Mexican literature that centers on a country girl pregnant and abandoned by her lover who becomes a sought-after courtesan.
Shakespeare and Biography by David Bevington (Oxford University Press; 192 pages; $29.95). Explores biographers’ varied takes on the playwright, beginning with Nicholas Rowe’s biography in the early 18th century.
Shakespeare, Sex, and Love by Stanley Wells (Oxford University Press; 228 pages; $27.95). Sets the playwright’s treatment of sexuality and love in the context of mores and scandals in Stratford and London.
Soldiers on the Cultural Front: Developments in the Early History of North Korean Literature and Literary Policy by Tatiana Gabroussenko (University of Hawai’i Press; 248 pages; $49). A study of North Korean literature from 1945 to 1960, including its short-lived engagement with Soviet conventions.
Vernacular Voices: Language and Identity in Medieval French Jewish Communities by Kirsten A. Fudeman (University of Pennsylvania Press; 254 pages; $59.95). Examines French as the meeting point of medieval Latin and medieval Hebrew culture; topics include why Jewish writers at times chose the vernacular over Hebrew in their work.
Winds of Will: Emily Dickinson and the Sovereignty of Democratic Thought by Paul Crumbley (University of Alabama Press; 344 pages; $53). Argues that the poet conveyed political views in both her poetry and correspondence through an emphasis on personal sovereignty and reader choice.
Yeats and Violence by Michael Wood (Oxford University Press; 243 pages; $35). A study of “Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen”; discusses the poem in relation to Yeats’s interest in the occult, poetic practice, and changing view of Irish nationalism.
MUSIC
British Music and Modernism, 1895-1960 edited by Matthew Riley (Ashgate Publishing Company; 329 pages; $114.95). Essays on such composers as Frank Bridge, Benjamin Britten, Gustav Holst, Walter Leigh, Elisabeth Lutyens, William Walton, and Vaughan Williams.
Different Drummers: Rhythm and Race in the Americas by Martin Munro (University of California Press; 280 pages; $65 hardcover, $27.50 paperback). Explores discourses on musical rhythm and race in Haiti from the revolution to the mid-20th century; Trinidad from the early 1800s to the 1940s; Martinique from the 1930s to the 1980s, and the United States in the civil-rights era.
Mamontov’s Private Opera: The Search for Modernism in Russian Theater by Olga Haldey (Indiana University Press; 354 pages; $44.95). Draws on previously unpublished sources in a study of Saava Mamontov (1841-1918), a railway tycoon who was founder, sponsor, and director of a private opera company that became one of Russia’s most important theatrical instiutions.
Mendelssohn and the Organ by William A. Little (Oxford University Press; 504 pages; $65). Discusses the composer’s deep affinity for the organ, despite a relative lack of compositions for the instrument.
The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824 by Harvey Sachs (Random House; 225 pages; $26). Combines scholarly and personal perspectives in a study of the composer’s final symphony.
Palestrina and the German Romantic Imagination: Interpreting Historicism in Nineteenth-Century Music by James Garratt (Cambridge University Press; 332 pages; $120 hardcover, $39.99 paperback). Focuses on music by the Italian composer Palestrina in a study of the revival of 16th-century music in the German Romantic era.
NURSING
Notes on Nightingale: The Influence and Legacy of a Nursing Icon edited by Sioban Nelson and Anne Marie Rafferty (Cornell University Press; 184 pages; $59.95 hardcover, $18.95 paperback). Topics include new understandings of Nightingale’s work in the Crimea and Britain’s colonies, her links to the evolving science of statistics, and debates over her legacy and historical reputation and persona.
PHILOSOPHY
After Herder: Philosophy of Language in the German Tradition by Michael N. Forster (Oxford University Press; 400 pages; $99). Discusses Herder (1744-1803) as the central figure in the German philosophy of language, long before Frege (1848-1925).
Another Freedom: The Alternative History of an Idea by Svetlana Boym (University of Chicago Press; 360 pages; $35). Traces the varied history of the idea of freedom from the Greeks to the present.
Dialectic and Dialogue by Dmitri Nikulin (Stanford University Press; 184 pages; $55 hardcover, $19.95 paperback). Links dialectic and dialogue, from Plato to Cusanus through Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Schleiermacher, and Gadamer.
Empathy in the Context of Philosophy by Lou Agosta (Palgrave Macmillan; 184 pages; $80). A study of the deep structure of empathy that draws on theories of Heidegger, Husserl, and John Searle.
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari: Intersecting Lives by Francois Dosse, translated by Deborah Glassman (Columbia University Press; 651 pages; $37.50). A dual biography of the two French philosophers---frequent intellectual collaborators who originally met in the aftermath of the upheavals of May 1968 when Deleuze was teaching at the University of Vincennes and Guattari was a political militant.
The Government of Self and Others: Lectures at the College de France, 1982-1983 by Michel Foucault, edited by Arnold I. Davidson, translated by Graham Burchell (Palgrave Macmillan; 402 pages; $30). Translation of lectures given by the French philosopher on parresia, or speech, and Greek philosophy, tragedy, and political theory.
Heidegger Among the Sculptors: Body, Space, and the Art of Dwelling by Andrew J. Mitchell (Stanford University Press; 144 pages; $50 hardcover, $17.95 paperback). Discusses the German philosopher’s writings on sculpture in the 1950s and 60s and their role in the formation of his later aesthetic theory.
Lawless Universe: Science and the Hunt for Reality by Joe Rosen (Johns Hopkins University Press; 208 pages; $75 hardcover, $30 paperback). Examines the relationship of science and metaphysics and criticizes claims that a “theory of everything” can explain all phenomena in nature.
Spinoza and the Specters of Modernity: The Hidden Enlightenment of Diversity From Spinoza to Freud by Michael Mack (Continuum; 222 pages; $120 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Focuses on Johann Gottfried Herder in a study of how later writers and thinkers reconfigured Spinoza’s ideas.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
African Americans in Global Affairs: Contemporary Perspectives edited by Michael L. Clemons (Northeastern University Press/University Press of New England; 385 pages; $85 hardcover, $35 paperback). Topics include the TransAfrica Forum, Colin Powell as foreign-policy dissenter, and the relative lack of African-American voices on such issues as Rwanda and Darfur.
After Number 10: Former Prime Ministers in British Politics by Kevin Theakston (Palgrave Macmillan; 269 pages; $90). Describes the political roles and influence, or lack thereof, of former prime ministers from Walpole to Blair.
The Bachelet Government: Conflict and Consensus in Post-Pinochet Chile edited by Silvia Borzutzky and Gregory B. Weeks (University Press of Florida; 240 pages; $69.95). Essays on Michelle Bachelet, Chile’s first female president, and on the political fortunes of the Concertacion, the coalition she represents.
Battle Over the Bench: Senators, Interest Groups, and Lower Court Confirmations by Amy Steigerwalt (University of Virginia Press; 304 pages; $45). Develops a framework for understanding when and how nominations are contested by senators and interest groups.
The Challenges of Global Business Authority: Democratic Renewal, Stalemate, or Decay? edited by Tony Porter and Karsten Ronit (State University of New York Press; 320 pages; $80). Writings on ways that transnational business can be held more accountable.
Democratic Peace in Theory and Practice edited by Steven W. Hook (Kent State University Press; 320 pages; $29.95). Writings on relations among democracies and on processes of democratization.
One Nation Under Siege: Congress, Terrorism, and the Fate of American Democracy by Jocelyn Jones Evans (University Press of Kentucky; 249 pages; $40). Describes how the attacks of September 11, 2001, prompted institutional, architectural, and other changes on Capitol Hill that have made Congress less accessible to the citizenry.
Rethinking Contemporary Warfare: A Sociological View of the Al-Aqsa Intifada by Eayal Ben-Ari and others (State University of New York Press; 204 pages; $70). Uses Israeli response to the Palestinian uprising known as the Al-Aqsa or Second Intifada (2000-06) to examine the challenges of irregular warfare.
The Socialist Alternative: Real Human Development by Michael A. Lebowitz (Monthly Review Press, distributed by New York University Press; 191 pages; $15.95). Develops a theory of socialist transition.
The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress by William Jelani Cobb (Walker & Company; 240 pages; $23). Topics include a shift in the black electorate away from the traditional leadership of the civil-rights movement.
Territory and Electoral Rules in Post-Communist Democracies by Daniel Bochsler (Palgrave Macmillan; 215 pages; $90). A study of elections and territorial aspects of party systems in 20 countries in Central and Eastern Europe.
The Trouble With the Congo: Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding by Severine Autessere (Cambridge University Press; 344 pages; $90 hardcover, $28.99 paperback). Draws on field research and more than 300 interviews in a study of the failed international intervention in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2003 to 2006.
RELIGION
Canaan to Corinth: Paul’s Doctrine of God and the Issue of Food Offered to Idols in 1 Corinthians 8:1-11:1 by Michael Li-Tak Shen (Peter Lang Publishing; 248 pages; $78.95). Examines distinctions Paul made between unclean food and food sacrificed to idols.
The Letters of Adam Marsh, Volume II edited by Hugh Lawrence (Oxford University Press; 344 pages; $190). Latin edition with translation of the letters of the 13th-century English Franciscan theologian whose correspondents included Queen Eleanor of Provence, Simon de Montfort, and Robert Grosseteste.
The New Metaphysicals: Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination by Courtney Bender (University of Chicago Press; 254 pages; $25). An ethnographic study of Swedenborgians and others in Cambridge, Mass., who identify more with spirituality than religion; draws parallels with 19th-century New England.
Taiwan’s Buddhist Nuns by Elise Anne DeVido (State University of New York Press; 188 pages; $75 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Traces the influence of clerical and lay women on Buddhism in Taiwan, identified as the country with the largest number of Buddhist nuns.
Trials: Of Antigone and Jesus by William Robert (Fordham University Press, distributed by New York University Press; 151 pages; $50). Explores a new mode of humanity engendered in the tragedy of the Greek heroine and applies it to a consideration of Jesus, as he is considered both mortal and divine.
SOCIOLOGY
Learning by Example: Imitation and Innovation at a Global Bank by David Strang (Princeton University Press; 284 pages; $35). Explores organizational change through a study of the “benchmarking” initiative of a bank that sent out 21 teams of managers to observe practices at other companies.
Livestock/Deadstock: Working With Farm Animals From Birth to Slaughter by Rhoda Wilkie (Temple University Press; 248 pages; $76.50 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Offers an ethnographic perspective on how workers on farms, in auction markets, and in slaughterhouses view their interactions with livestock.
Orderly Fashion: A Sociology of Markets by Patrik Aspers (Princeton University Press; 237 pages; $35). A study of social order in the global fashion industry, with an emphasis on the larger retailers’ roles as buyers.
Twins in Society: Parents, Bodies, Space, and Talk by Kate Bacon (Palgrave Macmillan; 221 pages; $90). Explores the experience of child twins, adult twins, and parents of twins, with a focus on Britain.
THEATER
Champagne Charlie and Pretty Jemima: Variety Theater in the Nineteenth Century by Gillian M. Rodger (University of Illinois Press; 261 pages; $80 hardcover, $28 paperback). Explores issues of class, sexuality, and race in variety musical theater, a precursor of vaudeville that emerged in the 1840s.
URBAN STUDIES
The Just City by Susan S. Fainstein (Cornell University Press; 232 pages; $29.95). Draws on the theories of John Rawls, Martha Nussbaum, and others to propose an idea of urban development grounded in diversity, democracy, and equity; evaluates New York, London, and Amsterdam.
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