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Andrew Shryock and Daniel Lord Smail
Deep History The Architecture of Past and Present With Contributions by Timothy Earle, Gillian Feeley-Harnik, Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Clive Gamble, April McMahon, John C. Mitani, Hendrik Poinar, Mary C. Stiner, and Thomas R. Trautmann “Ranging across the disciplines, this truly collaborative team points toward a fundamental new way of thinking about history.” Lynn Hunt, author of Measuring Time, Making History
“In recent decades, history as a discipline has increasingly portrayed humans as an exception in the story of life, as though all other life forms were part of nature but humans somehow were not, or not quite. This book issues a profound and timely challenge to that implicit assumption.” Dipesh Chakrabarty, author of Provincializing Europe
Humans have always been interested in their origins, but historians have been reluctant to write about the long stretches of time before the invention of writing. In fact, the deep past was left out of most historical writing almost as soon as it was discovered. This breakthrough book, as important for readers interested in the present as in the past, brings science into history to offer a dazzling new vision of humanity across time. Team-written by leading experts in a variety of fields, it maps events, cultures, and eras across millions of years to present a new scale for understanding the human body, energy and ecosystems, language, food, kinship, migration, and more. Combining cutting-edge social and evolutionary theory with the latest discoveries about human genes, brains, and material culture, Deep History invites scholars and general readers alike to explore the dynamic of connectedness that spans all of human history.
Andrew Shryock is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan (UC Press), winner of the Middle Eastern Studies Association’s Albert Hourani Award, among other books. Daniel Lord Smail is Professor of History at Harvard University. Among his books is On Deep History and the Brain (UC Press), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science and Technology. An Ahmanson Foundation Book in the Humanities NOVEMBER 336 pages, 6 x 9”, 10 b/w photographs, 15 line illustrations, 2 maps, 2 tables World History/Evolution/Anthropology World cloth 978-0-520-27028-2 $29.95/£20.95
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Annette Lareau
Unequal Childhoods Class, Race, and Family Life SECOND EDITION WITH AN UPDATE A DECADE LATER Praise for the previous edition: “A fascinating study.” Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers: The Story of Success
“Lareau’s work is well known among sociologists, but neglected by the popular media. And that’s a shame because through her close observations and careful writings—in books like Unequal Childhoods— Lareau has been able to capture the texture of inequality in America.” David Brooks, New York Times
“This is a great book. Few studies have the rich, intensive ethnographic focus on family of Unequal Childhoods.” Diane Reay, American Journal of Sociology
“Through textured and intimate observation, Lareau takes us into separate worlds of pampered, but overextended, middle-class families and materially stressed, but relatively relaxed, working-class and poor families to show how inequality is passed on across generations.”
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C. Wright Mills Award Finalist, Society for the Study of Social Problems Sociology of Culture Section Best Book Award, American Sociological Association William J. Goode Best Book Length Contibution to Family Sociology Award, American Sociological Association 2004 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, American Sociological Association Section on Children and Youth
The first edition of Unequal Childhoods was an instant classic, portraying in riveting detail the unexpected ways in which social class influences parenting in white and African-American families. A decade later, Annette Lareau has revisited the same families and interviewed the original subjects to examine the impact of social class in the transition to adulthood.
Annette Lareau is the Stanley I. Sheerr Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of many books, including Home Advantage: Social Class and Parental Intervention in Elementary Education. SEPTEMBER 468 pages, 6 x 9”, 1 b/w photograph, 5 tables Marriage & Family/Cross Ethnic/Education World paper 978-0-520-27142-5 $24.95sc/£16.95
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Daniel L. Selden
Hieroglyphic Egyptian An Introduction to the Language and Literature of the Middle Kingdom This book offers a comprehensive, self-contained introduction to one of the oldest known recorded languages—Hieroglyphic Egyptian. Unlike other approaches, it is geared toward learning to read one of the masterpieces of Middle Egyptian literature, the story “Shipwrecked Sailor,” written around 2200 bce. The text’s eighteen lessons–organized around such topics as the body, flora, fauna, titles, administration, religion, sexuality, and warfare—cover all the basic grammar and syntax of Middle Egyptian. The book includes exercises for each chapter, sign lists, and Egyptian/English and English/Egyptian dictionaries defining all the words and phrases used in the lessons, as well as a new edition of the tale “Shipwrecked Sailor,” with facing commentary. Although the overall approach is literary, Hieroglyphic Egyptian also can be used as an introduction to reading other material, such as biographical inscriptions, religious texts, historical annals, and mathematical or medical papyri. The text is suitable for classroom use, as well as for those who want to learn independently.
“The Great Goddess”
Daniel L. Selden, Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and co-editor of Innovations of Antiquity, has written widely on classical literatures of the Mediterranean and Near East. JANUARY 216 pages, 7 x 10”, 5 b/w photographs, 2 maps Language/Ancient Literature/Middle Eastern Studies World cloth 978-0-520-26733-6 $29.95/£20.95
“A Pretty Cow”
“A Vile Husband”
“Brave Children”
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Philip L. Fradkin
Everett Ruess His Short Life, Mysterious Death, and Astonishing Afterlife “Fradkin tells Ruess’s story with empathy for both the restless son and the bereaved mother and with great attunement to the communities his story passes through.” Rebecca Solnit, author of Infinite City “This is the definitive account of a Western American legend. Fradkin helps us understand that deeply American search for the heart of the wilderness.” Donald Worster, author of A Passion for Nature
Ruess on the rail with his dog Curly, riding a burro. Courtesy Special Collections Department, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah.
Philip L. Fradkin is the author of twelve highly praised books, including Wallace Stegner and the American West, The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906: How San Francisco Nearly Destroyed Itself, and (with Alex L. Fradkin) The Left Coast: California on the Edge, all from UC Press.
Everett Ruess was twenty years old when he vanished into the canyonlands of southern Utah, spawning the myth of a romantic desert wanderer that survives to this day. It was 1934, and Ruess was in the fifth year of a quest to record wilderness beauty in works of art whose value was recognized by such contemporary artists as Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, and Edward Weston. From his home in Los Angeles, Ruess walked, hitchhiked, and rode burros up the California coast, along the crest of the Sierra Nevada, and into the deserts of the Southwest. In the first probing biography of Everett Ruess, acclaimed environmental historian Philip Fradkin goes beyond the myth to reveal the realities of Ruess’s short life and mysterious death and finds in the artist’s astonishing afterlife a lonely hero who persevered.
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Peter F. Sale
Our Dying Planet An Ecologist’s View of the Crisis We Face Coral reefs are on track to become the first ecosystem actually eliminated from the planet. So says leading ecologist Peter F. Sale in this crash course on the state of the planet. Sale draws from his own extensive work on coral reefs, and from recent research by other ecologists, to explore the many ways we are changing the earth and to explain why it matters. Weaving into the narrative his own firsthand field experiences around the world, Sale brings ecology alive while giving a solid understanding of the science at work behind today’s pressing environmental issues. He delves in to topics including overfishing, deforestation, biodiversity loss, use of fossil fuels, population growth, and climate change while discussing the real consequences of our growing ecological footprint. Most important, this passionately written book emphasizes that a gloom-and-doom scenario is not inevitable, and as Sale explores alternative paths, he considers the ways in which science can help us realize a better future.
Peter F. Sale is Assistant Director, Institute for Water, Environment, and Health at United Nations University and University Professor Emeritus at the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada. He is the author of The Ecology of Fishes on Coral Reefs, Coral Reef Fishes, and Marine Metapopulations. A Stephen Bechtel Fund Book in Ecology and the Environment SEPTEMBER 346 pages, 6 x 9”, 12 b/w photographs, 8 line illustrations Ecology/Conservation/Marine Biology World cloth 978-0-520-26756-5 $34.95/£24.95
The Deepwater Horizon explosion. Image courtesy U.S. Coast Guard Visual information Gallery.
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SueEllen Campbell
The Face of the Earth Natural Landscapes, Science, and Culture With Alex Hunt, Richard Kerridge, Tom Lynch, Ellen Wohl, and others “To comprehend climate change via arts and humanities as well as science and engineering demands either a Leonardo da Vinci or the gentle audacity and magisterial breadth of SueEllen Campbell.” Richard C. J. Somerville, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
“A masterful combination of the precision and power of the sciences with the lyricism and insight of the humanities. Campbell and her colleagues have succeeded by braiding clear, accurate scientific explanation with forays into mythological and literary expressions of the human relationship to Earth.” Michael P. Branch, editor of John Muir’s Last Journey
This lively book sweeps across dramatic and varied terrains—volcanoes and glaciers, billabongs and canyons, prairies and rain forests—to explore how humans have made sense of our planet’s marvelous landscapes. In a rich weave of scientific, cultural, and personal stories, The Face of the Earth examines mirages and satellite images, swamp-dwelling heroes and Tibetan nomads, cave paintings and popular movies, investigating how we live with the great shaping forces of nature— from fire to changing climates and the intricacies of adaptation. The book illuminates subjects as diverse as the literary life of hollow Earth theories, the links between the Little Ice Age and Frankenstein’s monster, and the spiritual allure of deserts and their scarce waters. Including vivid, on-the-spot accounts by scientists and writers in Saudi Arabia, Australia, Alaska, England, the Rocky Mountains, Antarctica, and elsewhere, The Face of the Earth charts the depth and complexity of our interdependence with the natural world.
SueEllen Campbell is Professor in the Department of English at Colorado State University. She is the author of Even Mountains Vanish: Searching for Solace in An Age of Extinction and Bringing the Mountain Home, among other books. AUGUST 332 pages, 6 x 9” Environment/Geology/Literature World cloth 978-0-520-26926-2 $65.00tx/£45.95 paper 978-0-520-26927-9 $26.95/£18.95
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Tad Hershorn
Norman Granz The Man Who Used Jazz for Justice Foreword by Oscar Peterson “Norman Granz was renowned as a vivid force in jazz history. Yet until this magisterial, deeply researched biography, there has been no fullscale inside account of the achievement and combats of this often larger-than-life personality who, without playing an instrument, was so swingingly instrumental in making jazz an international language.” Nat Hentoff, author of At the Jazz Band Ball
Tad Hershorn is an archivist at the Institute for Jazz Studies at Rutgers University. A Roth Family Foundation Music in America Book OCTOBER 496 pages, 6 x 9”, 24 b/w photographs Jazz/American Music/Biography World cloth 978-0-520-26782-4 $34.95/£24.95
“Any book on my life would start with my basic philosophy of fighting racial prejudice. I loved jazz, and jazz was my way of doing that,” Norman Granz told Tad Hershorn during the final interviews given for this book. Granz, who died in 2001, was iconoclastic, independent, immensely influential, often thoroughly unpleasant—and one of jazz’s true giants. Granz played an essential part in bringing jazz to audiences around the world, defying racial and social prejudice as he did so, and demanding that African American performers be treated equally everywhere they toured. In this definitive biography, Hershorn recounts Granz’s story: creator of the legendary jam session concerts known as Jazz at the Philharmonic; founder of the Verve record label; pioneer of live recordings and worldwide jazz concert tours; manager and recording producer for numerous stars, including Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson.
The spring 1947 Jazz at the Philharmonic tour in Buffalo, New York. From left to right, Coleman Hawkins, Buck Clayton, Hank Jones, Flip Phillips, Granz, Willie Smith, Helen Humes, and Trummy Young. Flip Phillips Collection/Courtesy Hank O’Neal.
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Clark Terry
Clark The Autobiography of Clark Terry With Gwen Terry With a Preface by Quincy Jones, a Foreword by Bill Cosby, and an Introduction by David Demsey “Clark Terry is the epitome of jazz trumpet, of jazz, and of human kindness. We all love him deeply. And forever.” Wynton Marsalis “Now, at last, in this memoir of his storied career, Clark Terry swingingly personifies the multidimensional jazz life. He writes as he plays—the very sounds and rhythms of surprise!” Nat Hentoff, author of At the Jazz Band Ball
“Clark Terry is the unique voice in America’s creative art form called jazz. His friends and admirers cover the whole planet.” Jimmy “Little Bird” Heath
Compelling from cover to cover, this is the story of one of the most recorded and beloved jazz trumpeters of all time. With unsparing honesty and a superb eye for detail, Clark Terry, born in 1920, takes us from his impoverished childhood in St. Louis, Missouri, where jazz could be heard everywhere, to the smoke-filled small clubs and carnivals across the Jim Crow South where he got his start, and on to worldwide acclaim. Terry takes us behind the scenes of jazz history as he introduces scores of legendary greats—Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie, Dinah Washington, Doc Severinsen, Ray Charles, Thelonious Monk, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Coleman Hawkins, Zoot Sims, and Dianne Reeves, among many others. Terry also reveals much about his own personal life, his experiences with racism, how he helped break the color barrier in 1960 when he joined the Tonight Show band on NBC, and why—at ninety years old—his students from around the world still call and visit him for lessons.
Clark Terry’s illustrious career—as an innovative trumpeter and flugelhornist, horn designer, leading jazz educator, and composer—has covered an epic span of jazz history. Winner of the 2010 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and an NEA Jazz Master, in addition to his many other accolades and awards, Terry is the author of Let’s Talk Trumpet: From Legit to Jazz and The Interpretation of the Jazz Language, both with Phil Rizzo. A George Gund Foundation Book in African American Studies OCTOBER 320 pages, 6 x 9”, 35 b/w photographs and 1 map Jazz/Autobiography World cloth 978-0-520-26846-3 $34.95/£24.95
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Ben Fong-Torres
The Rice Room Growing Up Chinese-American from Number Two Son to Rock ’n’ Roll UPDATED AND EXPANDED EDITION Praise for the first edition: “Ben Fong-Torres ran and wrote the music section of Rolling Stone and at the same time kept his other foot in the dark, secret world of San Francisco’s Chinatown. It’s an amazing story.” Jann Wenner “I am a fifty-three-year-old Caucasian woman, and I feel as if a fortyseven-year-old Chinese man has just told my story—and that of a generation of Americans. Thank you, Ben.” Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane “Ben Fong-Torres’s voice rocked over the radio waves and a whole generation listened to one of the pioneer voices to break out of Chinatown. Now Fong-Torres fills his memoir with worlds of feeling, both tender and tragic, to reveal the fire behind that voice.” Fae Myenne Ng, author of Bone
An instant bestseller when originally published in 1994, this expanded and updated edition of The Rice Room tells of growing up with a double identity—Chinese and American. Ben Fong-Torres was torn between an alluring American lifestyle—including Elvis and rock ’n’ roll—and the traditional cultural heritage his proud immigrant parents struggled to instill in their five children. Now illustrated with personal family photographs as well as photos of the author with various celebrities, Fong-Torres’s life story is rounded out with a new final chapter.
Ben Fong-Torres is the author of many books, including Becoming Almost Famous: My Back Pages in Music, Writing, and Life;; Not Fade Away: A Backstage Pass to 20 Years of Rock & Roll;; and The Hits Just Keep On Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio. SEPTEMBER 296 pages, 6 x 9”, 28 b/w photographs Autobiography/Asian American Studies/American Music World paper 978-0-520-26968-2 $21.95/£14.95
Ben Fong-Torres as a DJ on KSAN. Photo by Fred Morales, Jr.
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Paul J. Karlstrom
Peter Selz Sketches of a Life in Art “In Sketches of a Life in Art, it’s clear that Peter Selz uniquely sees painting as if from within the artist himself, not as an outside observer (as when he describes the ‘internal look’ of a Mark Rothko painting). And a moving Life it is.” Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet Laureate of San Francisco and author of How to Paint Sunlight
Paul J. Karlstrom, former West Coast Regional Director of the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, is the editor of On the Edge of America: California Modernist Art, 1900–1950 (UC Press) and a coeditor of Asian American Art: A History, 1860–1970.
This absorbing biography, often conveyed through Peter Selz’s own words, traces the journey of a Jewish-German immigrant from Hitler’s Munich to the United States and on to an important career as a pioneer historian of modern art. Paul J. Karlstrom illuminates key historical and cultural events of the twentieth century as he describes Selz’s extraordinary career—from Chicago’s Institute of Design (New Bauhaus), to New York’s Museum of Modern Art during the transformative 1960s, and as founding director of the University Art Museum at UC Berkeley. Karlstrom sheds light on the controversial viewpoints that at times isolated Selz from his colleagues but nonetheless affirmed his conviction that significant art was always an expression of deep human experience. The book also links Selz’s long life story—featuring close relationships with such major art figures as Mark Rothko, Dore Ashton, Willem de Kooning, Sam Francis, and Christo—with his personal commitment to political engagement.
A Simpson Book in the Humanities JANUARY 321 pages, 6 x 9”, 27 b/w photographs Art History/Architectural History/California & the West World cloth 978-0-520-26935-4 $34.95/£24.95
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John E. McDonough
Inside National Health Reform This indispensable guide to the Affordable Care Act, our new national health care law, lends an insider’s deep understanding of policy to a lively and absorbing account of the extraordinary—and extraordinarily ambitious—legislative effort to reform the nation’s health care system. Dr. John E. McDonough, DPH, a health policy expert who served as an advisor to the late Senator Edward Kennedy, provides a vivid picture of the intense effort required to bring this legislation into law. McDonough clearly explains the ACA’s inner workings, revealing the rich landscape of issues, policies, and controversies embedded in the law yet unknown to most Americans. In his account of these historic events, McDonough takes us through the process from the 2008 presidential campaign to the moment in 2010 when President Obama signed the bill into law. At a time when the nation is taking a second look at the ACA, Inside National Health Reform provides the essential information for Americans to make informed judgments about this landmark law.
John E. McDonough, DPH, MPA, is a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and the first Joan H. Tisch Distinguished Fellow in Public Health at Hunter College of the City University of New York. He is the author of Experiencing Politics: A Legislator’s Stories of Government and Health Care (UC Press). California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public, 22 SEPTEMBER 310 pages, 6 x 9”, 12 b/w photographs, 9 tables Health Care Policy/History of Medicine World cloth 978-0-520-27019-0 $29.95/£20.95
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Constance M. Lewallen and Karen Moss
State of Mind New California Art circa 1970 With additional essays by Julia Bryan-Wilson and Anne Rorimer “There is not a trace of the provincial nor the apologetic in the tone of the State of Mind texts. Rather there is a justified claim for the sophisticated originality of this Californian art.” Moira Roth, editor and contributor, The Amazing Decade
“An essential overview of the rich and complex moment when California assumed its role as a leading center for the kind of adventurous and progressive art that has come to define a generation and a region. An unmatched source of hard-to-find primary images combined with thought-provoking critical essays.” David Ross, chairman of the MFA program in Art Practice at the School of Visual Arts
State of Mind, the lavishly illustrated companion book to the exhibition of the same name, investigates California’s vital contributions to Conceptual art—in particular, work that emerged in the late 1960s among scattered groups of young artists. The essays reveal connections between the northern and southern California Conceptual art scenes and argue that Conceptualism’s experimental practices and an array of then-new media—performance, site-specific installations, film and video, mail art, and artists’ publications—continue to exert an enormous influence on artists working today.
Constance M. Lewallen is adjunct curator at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the author of several UC Press titles, including Ant Farm 1968–1978 and A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s. Karen Moss is adjunct curator at the Orange County Museum of Art. Copub: University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Orange County Museum of Art State of Mind is part of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945–1980, an initiative of the Getty Foundation OCTOBER 320 pages, 9 x 9”, 123 b/w photographs, 64 color illustrations American Art/Modern & Contemporary Art World cloth 978-0-520-27061-9 $39.95/£27.95
Exhibition dates: Orange County Museum of Art, October 9, 2011—January 22, 2012 UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, February 29—June 17, 2012 Asco (Glugio “Gronk” Nicadro, Patssi Valdez, Willie Hérron III, Harry Gamboa Jr.), First Supper (After a Major Riot), 1972;; performance documentation (l to r Valdez, Humberto Sandoval, Hérron, and Gronk). Courtesy Harry Gamboa Jr. Photo © 1974 Harry Gamboa Jr.
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Edited by Robin Clark
Phenomenal California Light, Space, Surface Foreword by Hugh M. Davies “The Light and Space movement—of great importance to my development as a young artist—is far more than a valid art historical reference. It translates matters of psychology, phenomenology, criticality, emotional investment, and now-ness into an immaterial language that is both subversive and compelling. Light and Space is as contemporary as ever.” Olafur Eliasson
During the 1960s and 1970s, a loosely affiliated group of Los Angeles artists—including Peter Alexander, Mary Corse, Robert Irwin, and Bruce Nauman—more intrigued by questions of perception than by the crafting of discrete objects, embraced light as their primary medium. Whether by directing the flow of natural light, embedding artificial light within objects or architecture, or playing with light through the use of reflective, translucent, or transparent materials, each of these artists created situations capable of stimulating heightened sensory awareness in the receptive viewer. Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface companion book to the exhibition of the same name, explores and documents the unique traits of the phenomenologically engaged work produced in Southern California during those decades and traces its ongoing influence on current generations of international artists.
Robin Clark is Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Hugh M. Davies is Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Copub: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Phenomenal is part of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945–1980, an initiative of the Getty Foundation SEPTEMBER 256 pages, 9 x 9”, 100 color illustrations, 75 b/w photographs American Art/Modern & Contemporary Art/Western Art World cloth 978-0-520-27060-2 $39.95/£29.95
Exhibition dates: Museum of Contemprary Art, San Diego September 25, 2011–January 22, 2012
Doug Wheeler, RM 669, 1969. Sprayed lacquer on vacuum-formed Plexiglas and white UV neon light, 96 x 96 in. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Purchased with funds provided by Bullock’s/Bullocks Wilshire. ©1969 Doug Wheeler.
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CALIFORNIA STUDIES IN FOOD AND CULTURE considers the relationship between food and culture from a range of disciplines and approaches including anthropology, sociology, history, economics, philosophy, and women’s studies. The series seeks to broaden the audience for serious scholarship as well as to celebrate food as a means of understanding the world. Series Editor: Darra Goldstein.
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Jamie Goode and Sam Harrop, MW
Authentic Wine Toward Natural and Sustainable Winemaking Naturalness is a hot topic in the wine world. But what exactly is a “natural wine”? For this pioneering book, best-selling wine writer Jamie Goode has teamed up with winemaker and Master of Wine Sam Harrop to explore the wide range of issues surrounding authenticity in wine. They begin by emphasizing that wine’s diversity, one of its strengths, is currently under threat from increasingly homogenized commercial wines that lack a sense of place. Drawing on a global array of examples and anecdotes, Goode and Harrop examine complex concepts—terroir, biodynamics, and sustainability—in clear language. They also discuss topics including cultured and wild yeasts, wine “faults,” the carbon footprint of the wine industry, “natural” as a marketing concept, and more. Authentic Wine illuminates a subject of great interest to wine producers, consumers, and anyone wondering where the wine industry is headed.
Jamie Goode, a former scientific editor, is wine writer for the Sunday Express and a contributor to magazines including The World of Fine Wine and Wines & Vines. His website, www.wineanorak.com, is one of the world’s most visited wine sites. His first book, The Science of Wine: From Vine to Glass (UC Press) won the Glenfiddich Drink Book of the Year Award. Sam Harrop is a Master of Wine, qualified winemaker, and independent winemaking consultant. He co-founded Domaine Matassa and Litmus Wines, and is a co-chairman of the International Wine Challenge. SEPTEMBER 240 pages, 7 x 10”, 55 b/w photographs, 3 line illustrations, 5 tables Wine/Environment World cloth 978-0-520-26563-9 $29.95/£20.95
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David Hanson and Edwin Marty
Breaking Through Concrete Building an Urban Farm Revival Photographs by Michael Hanson “Finally, a book on the full continuum of urban agriculture in America, replete with inspiring images of the people and places behind today’s city-grown food. Hanson and Marty tell these stories with such admiration for their subjects you’ll want to bestow hero status on city farmers.” Darrin Nordahl, author of Public Produce “Breaking Through Concrete will satisfy readers hungry for a broad perspective on urban agriculture. The beautiful stories and photographs of successful programs throughout North America, combined with practical “how to” guides, provides a valued resource for practitioners, advocates, scholars, and gardeners.” Laura Lawson, author of City Bountiful
People have always grown food in urban spaces—on windowsills and sidewalks, and in backyards and neighborhood parks—but today, urban farmers are leading an environmental and social movement that is transforming our national food system. To explore this agricultural renaissance, brothers David and Michael Hanson and urban farmer Edwin Marty document twelve successful urban farm programs, from an alternative school for girls in Detroit to a backyard food swap in New Orleans and a restaurant supply garden on a rooftop in Brooklyn. Each beautifully illustrated essay offers practical advice for budding farmers, such as composting and keeping livestock in the city, decontaminating toxic soil, even changing zoning laws.
David Hanson is a freelance writer and photographer. Edwin Marty is a founder of Jones Valley Urban Farm in Birmingham, Alabama. Michael Hanson is an award-winning travel photographer.
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LEFT: East 13th Street Garden, Denver CO. ABOVE: Jonas Valley Urban Farm, Birmingham, AL. Photos by Michael Hanson.
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Gerald Asher
A Vineyard in My Glass “Gerald Asher brought to Gourmet the magazine’s most literate, scholarly, and civilized column. For a balanced view, a true feel for wine’s values, he has no peer. And he is always a joy to read.” Hugh Johnson, author of A Life Uncorked and The World Atlas of Wine
“Gerald Asher is amongst the most erudite men I know. With an exceptional palate, he appreciates wines of great elegance, subtlety, and finesse, and his writings capture the essence of many fine wines.” Christian Moueix, Établissements Jean-Pierre Moueix “Wine can occasionally be silken textured, as can its prose, in Gerald Asher’s hands. He is the Maestro, the Doyen, and my inspiration since the 1970s.”
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Gerald Asher is the author of The Pleasures of Wine, Vineyard Tales, Wine Journal, and On Wine. As an international wine merchant, he was decorated by the French government in 1974 for his contribution to French viticulture was named Outstanding Wine Professional of the Year by the James Beard Foundation in 2001, and was inducted into the Culinary Institute of America’s Vintners Hall of Fame in 2009. SEPTEMBER 284 pages, 6 x 9”, 3 maps Wine/Viticulture World cloth 978-0-520-27033-6 $29.95/£20.95
Gerald Asher, who served as Gourmet’s wine editor for thirty years, has drawn together this selection of his essays, published in Gourmet and elsewhere, for the collective insight they give into why a wine should always be an expression of a place and a time. Guiding the reader through twenty-seven diverse wine regions in France, Italy, Spain, Germany, and California, he shows how every wine worth drinking is a reflection of its terroir—in the broadest sense of that untranslatable word. In evocative reminiscences of wines, winemakers, and the meals he has had with them, he weaves together climate, terrain, and local history, sharing his knowledge and experience so skillfully that we learn as we are entertained and come to understand, gradually, that the meaning and pleasure of a wine lie always in the context of its origin and in the concurrence of where, how, and with whom we enjoy it.
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Reading between the Wines With a New Preface “A consequential book, rich in ideas and powerful in feeling.” Eric Asimov, New York Times
“The most uplifting wine book of the year.... A wonderful antidote to the points-and-lifestyle wine coverage.” Jancis Robinson MW, Jancisrobinson.com
“A broad, insistent and eloquent meditation on wine.... Not many wine books make you think, or laugh out loud; this does both.” Decanter “Theise, well-known for his lyrical wordsmithing, avoids the usual memoir take and instead pens a rhapsody to the wines he loves, and to the very beauty of wine itself.” Jon Bonné, San Francisco Chronicle
Acclaimed importer and wine guru Terry Theise, long known for his top-notch portfolio and his illustrious writing, now offers this opinionated, idiosyncratic, and beautifully written testament to wine. What constitutes beauty in wine, and how do we appreciate it? What role does wine play in a soulful, sensual life? Can wines of place survive in a world of globalized styles and 100-point scoring systems? In his highly approachable style, Theise describes how wine can be a portal to aesthetic, emotional, even mystical experience—and he frankly asserts that these experiences are most likely to be inspired by wines from artisan producers.
Finalist, Drinks Literature, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards Finalist, André Simon Food and Drink Book Awards Terry Theise, winner of the James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Wine and Spirits Professional, is an importer of boutique wines from Germany, Austria, and Champagne. OCTOBER 200 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/4” Hardcover published 2010 (978-0-520-26533-2) Wine/Viticulture/Memoir World paper 978-0-520-27149-4 $17.95/£12.50
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GENERAL INTEREST
Julie Guthman
Weighing In Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism “A bold, compelling challenge to conventional thinking about obesity and its fixes, Weighing In is one of the most important books on food politics to hit the shelves in a long time.” Susanne Freidberg, author of Fresh: A Perishable History
“This groundbreaking book calls into question the ubiquitous claim that ‘good food’ will solve the social and health dilemmas of today. Combining political economic analysis, cultural critique, and clear explanation of scientific discoveries, the author challenges our deeply held convictions about society, food, bodies, and environments.”
EDUCATED PALATES
Becky Mansfield, editor of Privatization: Property and the Remaking of Nature-Society Relations
Julie Guthman is Associate Professor in the Community Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California (UC Press). California Studies in Food & Culture. 32 JANUARY 225 pages, 6 x 9”, 2 maps, 1 table Food/Sociology World cloth 978-0-520-26624-7 $60.00tx/£41.95 paper 978-0-520-26625-4 $24.95/£16.95
Weighing In takes on the “obesity epidemic,” challenging many widely held assumptions about its causes and consequences. Julie Guthman examines fatness and its relationship to health outcomes to ask if our efforts to prevent “obesity” are sensible, efficacious, or ethical. She also focuses the lens of obesity on the broader food system to understand why we produce cheap, over-processed food as well as why we eat it. Guthman takes issue with the currently touted remedy to obesity—promoting food that is local, organic, and farm fresh. While such fare may be tastier and grown in more ecologically sustainable ways, this approach can also reinforce class and race inequalities and neglect other possible explanations for the rise in obesity, including environmental toxins. Arguing that ours is a political economy of bulimia—one that promotes consumption while also insisting upon thinness—Guthman offers a complex analysis of our entire economic system.
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Tasty Tributes and Awards
Best Food Literature Book from the United States, Gourmand Awards
Best Book from the United States on Matching Food and Wine, Gourmand Awards
Edited by Darra Goldstein
Evan Goldstein
Winner in the Reference and Scholarship category, 2010 James Beard Foundation Book Award
The Gastronomica Reader
Daring Pairings
Oretta Zanini De Vita
Finalist in the Culinary History Cookbook Award category, International Association of Culinary Professionals
A Master Sommelier Matches Distinctive Wines with Recipes from His Favorite Chefs
Encyclopedia of Pasta
William Woys Weaver
World cloth 978-0-520-25522-7 $29.95/£20.95
Culinary Ephemera
James Beard Foundation Literary Award; Award for Excellence in Professional/ Scholarly Publishing, Association of American Publishers; Harry Chapin Media Award, World Hunger Year
Wine Book of the Year, Georges Duboeuf; Winner in the Beverage category, 2010 James Beard Foundation Book Award; Best U.S. Wine Book, Gourmand Awards
Best Book in Food Reference /Technical category, International Association of Culinary Professionals
Winner in Culinary History, International Association of Culinary Professionals Cookbook Awards
Edited by Paul Freedman
Jeri Quinzio
Randall Grahm
Food
Of Sugar and Snow
Marion Nestle
Been Doon So Long
The History of Taste
A History of Ice Cream Making
World cloth 978-0-520-25939-3 $39.95/£27.95
World cloth 978-0-520-25478-7 $34.95/£24.95
Food Politics How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health
A Randall Grahm Vinthology
United States, Canada, Philippines cloth 978-0-520-25476-3 $39.95
World cloth 978-0-520-25956-0 $34.95/£24.95
Revised and Expanded Edition World paper 978-0-520-25403-9 $19.95/£13.95
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An Illustrated History World cloth 978-0-520-25977-5 $39.95/£27.95
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GENERAL INTEREST
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CALIFORNIA GENERAL & THE INTEREST WEST
Edited by Lance Newman
The Grand Canyon Reader “I’ve been on his raft in the Grand Canyon, so I can attest to the fact that Lance Newman can row through both the currents of the Colorado River and the many literary tributaries that have given us great literature on this most unique of American places. His superb anthology gives us splendid selections that carry the reader along on the current of the best and most varied nature writing.” Rebecca Solnit, author of Infinite City
“Demonstrating an impressively refreshing range of perspectives and experiences, this is a remarkable anthology of five hundred years of human interaction with the canyon.” Michael Branch, coauthor of The Height of Our Mountains
This superb collection brings together some of the most powerful and compelling writing about the Grand Canyon—stories, essays, and poems written across five centuries by people inhabiting, surviving, and attempting to understand what one explorer called the “Great Unknown.” The Grand Canyon Reader includes traditional stories from native tribes, reports by explorers, journals by early tourists, and contemporary essays and stories by such beloved writers as John McPhee, Ann Zwinger, Edward Abbey, Terry Tempest Williams, Barry Lopez, Linda Hogan, and Craig Childs. Lively tales from unschooled river runners, unabashedly popular fiction, and memoirs stand alongside finely crafted literary works to represent the full range of human experience in this wild, daunting, and inspiring landscape.
Lance Newman, Professor of English at Westminster College, has worked as a Grand Canyon river guide for twenty years. He is the author of Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature as well as two chapbooks of poems, 3by3by3 and Come Kanab: A Little Red Songbook. A Simpson Book in the Humanities OCTOBER 256 pages, 6 x 9”, 4 b/w drawings Literature/Environment/California & The West World cloth 978-0-520-27078-7 $50.00tx/£34.95 paper 978-0-520-27079-4 $19.95/£13.95
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CALIFORNIA GENERAL & THE INTEREST WEST
Keith Heyer Meldahl
Rough-Hewn Land A Geologic Journey from California to the Rocky Mountains “Unfold a map of North America,” Keith Heyer Meldahl writes, “and the first thing to grab your eye is the bold shift between the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains.” In this absorbing book, Meldahl takes readers on a 1000-mile-long field trip back through more than 100 million years of deep time to explore America’s most spectacular and scientifically intriguing landscapes. He places us on the outcrops, rock hammer in hand, to examine the evidence for how these roughhewn lands came to be. We see California and its gold assembled from pieces of old ocean floor and the relentless movements of the Earth’s tectonic plates. We witness the birth of the Rockies. And we investigate the violent earthquakes that continue to shape the region today. Into the West’s geologic story, Meldahl also weaves its human history. As we follow the adventures of John C. Frémont, Mark Twain, the Donner party, and other historic characters, we learn how geologic forces have shaped human experience in the past and how they direct the fate of the West today.
Keith Heyer Meldahl is Professor of Geology at Mira Costa College in southern California. He is the author of Hard Road West: History and Geology on the Gold Rush Trail. NOVEMBER 288 pages, 7 x 10”, 55 b/w photographs, 41 line illustrations, 24 maps, 1 table Natural History/Earth Science/California & the West World cloth 978-0-520-25935-5 $34.95/£24.95
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Peter Boag
Re-Dressing America’s Frontier Past “An important, persuasive, and fascinating intervention in the literature on the American frontier.” Lisa Duggan, author of The Twilight of Equality? Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy
“This book by the foremost historian of sexuality in the American West is a classic before its time.” John R. Wunder, coeditor of Spain and the Plains and Reconfigurations of Native North America
Americans have long cherished romantic images of the frontier and its colorful cast of characters, where the cowboys are always rugged and the ladies always fragile. But in this book, Peter Boag opens an extraordinary window onto the real Old West. Delving into countless primary sources and surveying sexological and literary sources, Boag paints a vivid picture of a West where cross-dressing—for both men and women—was pervasive, and where easterners as well as Mexicans and even Indians could redefine their gender and sexual identities. Boag asks, why has this history been forgotten and erased? Citing a cultural moment at the turn of the twentieth century—when the frontier ended, the United States entered the modern era, and homosexuality was created as a category—Boag shows how the American people, and thus the American nation, were bequeathed an unambiguous heterosexual identity.
Peter Boag holds the Columbia Chair in the History of the American West at Washington State University. He is the author of Environment and Experience: Settlement Culture in NineteenthCentury Oregon and Same Sex Affairs: Constructing and Controlling Homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest, both from UC Press. OCTOBER 304 pages, 6 x 9”, 12 b/w photographs United States History/California & the West/ Queer Studies World cloth 978-0-520-27062-6 $39.95sc/£27.95
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CALIFORNIA & THE WEST
Robert C. Stebbins and Samuel M. McGinnis
Ariel Rubissow Okamoto and Kathleen M. Wong
Field Guide to Amphibians and Reptiles of California
Natural History of San Francisco Bay
REVISED EDITION
This user-friendly guide is the only complete resource that identifies and describes all the amphibians and reptiles—salamanders, frogs and toads, lizards, snakes, and tortoises and turtles—that live in California. The species are described in richly detailed accounts that include range maps, lifelike color paintings by Robert C. Stebbins, clear drawings of various life stages including eggs, notes on natural history, and conservation status. Easy-to-use keys for every order help identify species, and informative chapters cover more general topics including evolution, habitat loss, and photography. Throughout, anecdotes and observations reveal new insights into the lives of California’s abundant but often hidden amphibians and reptiles. Robert C. Stebbins is Professor Emeritus of Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley and a curator emeritus of the University’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. Samuel M. McGinnis is Professor Emeritus of Biology at California State University, East Bay.
This complete primer on San Francisco Bay is a multifaceted exploration of an extraordinary, and remarkably resilient, body of water. Bustling with oil tankers, laced with pollutants, and crowded with forty six cities, the bay is still home to healthy eelgrass beds, young Dungeness crabs and sharks, and millions of waterbirds. Written in an entertaining style for a wide audience, Natural History of San Francisco Bay delves into an array of topics including fish and wildlife, ocean and climate cycles, endangered and invasive species, and the path from industrialization to environmental restoration. Ariel Rubissow Okamoto is the author of books and articles about San Francisco Bay, California water history, and national parks. Kathleen M. Wong is the science writer for the UC Natural Reserve System. California Natural History Guides, 102 SEPTEMBER 368 pages, 5 x 8”, 133 color photographs, 14 b/w photographs, 19 line drawings, 20 color maps, 5 tables Natural History/Conservation/California & the West World cloth 978-0-520-26825-8 $65.00tx/£00.00 paper 978-0-520-26826-5 $24.95/£00.00
California Natural History Guides, 103 OCTOBER 544 pages, 5 x 8”, 126 color photographs, 148 color illustrations, 70 line illustrations, 144 maps Natural History/Herpetology/California & the West World cloth 978-0-520-24466-5 $70.00tx/£00.00 paper 978-0-520-27051-0 $29.95/£00.00
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POETRY
Virgil
Ian Hamilton Finlay
The Gnat and Other Minor Poems of Virgil
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Translated by David R. Slavitt Foreword by Gordon Williams “Light-hearted poems, some obscene, some studies in vitriol, a miniature epic about a gnat, a recipe for a salad that gave the United States its motto, e pluribus unum—these are poems that have come down to us under the name of great Virgil. David Slavitt’s free versions bring them to life, capturing their wit and flair.” —David Konstan, author of The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks
These delightful poems—by turns whimsical, beautiful, and vulgar—seem to have primarily survived because they were attributed to Virgil. But in David R. Slavitt’s imaginative and appealing translations, they stand firmly on their own merits. Slavitt brings to this little-known body of verse a fresh voice, vividly capturing the tone and style of the originals while conveying a lively sense of fun. David R. Slavitt has been lauded for his translations, including Propertius in Love and De Rerum Natura, both from UC Press.
Selections Edited and with an Introduction by Alec Finlay “I consider this book, long overdue, to be a milestone in publishing.” Marjorie Perloff, author of The Futurist Moment and Unoriginal Genius
“Ian Hamilton Finlay was an entirely original, and continuously challenging, voice in the poetry of the English-speaking world.” Stephen Bann, author of Ways Around Modernism
This volume surveys the life and work of the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, who is best known for his extraordinary garden, Little Sparta, a unique “poem of place,” in which poetry, sculpture, and horticulture intersect. This book directs sustained attention to Finlay the verbal artist, revealing the full breadth and richness of his poetics. It illuminates the evolution from his early years of composing plays, stories, and lyrical poems to his discovery of Concrete poetry and his emergence as a key figure in the international avant-garde of the 1960s. Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006) was an acclaimed Scottish poet and artist. Alec Finlay is an artist and poet.
A Joan Palevsky Book in Classical Literature Poets for the Millennium, 8 AVAILABLE 86 pages, 6 x 8” Classical Literature/Ancient Poetry/World Poetry World cloth 978-0-520-26765-7 $21.95/£14.95
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art
Edited by Debra Burchett-Lere
Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings, 1946–1994 With featured essay by William C. Agee
This innovative and long-awaited catalogue raisonné brings together, for the first time, all the known paintings on canvas and panel of California-born abstract expressionist Sam Francis (1923–1994) and offers a comprehensive chronicle of his artistic journey. One of the twentieth century’s leading interpreters of light and color, Francis maintained studios not only in New York and Los Angeles, but also in Paris, Bern, and Tokyo, making his reach truly international. Elegantly boxed, the Sam Francis catalogue raisonné includes a richly illustrated book with informative texts and two DVDs with authoritative entries for the canvas and panel paintings in an easily browsable, groundbreaking format. It offers the ultimate reference on this artist and a vital research tool.
• Color images and documentation for all 1,850-plus paintings on canvas and panel by Francis (hundreds reproduced for the first time) on two DVDs • A lavish book with an extended essay by Francis scholar William C. Agee and a biographical timeline by catalogue raisonné editor Debra Burchett-Lere • Rare footage of Francis at work, writings by the artist, and descriptions of his studios and techniques • Access to electronic updates as they become available • Extensive bibliography and exhibition histories
Debra Burchett-Lere is Director and Curator of the Sam Francis Foundation. William Agee, Evelyn Kranes Kossak Professor of Art History at Hunter College, City University of New York, is the author of Sam Francis: Paintings 1947–1990 and contributor to many books, including Patrick Henry Bruce, American Modernist: A Catalogue Raisonné. Copub: Sam Francis Foundation SEPTEMBER BOOK: 344 pages, 10 x 12”, 141 color illustrations, 83 b/w photographs DVDs: 1,911 entries, 20 texts, 2 films, 2,000+ color & 2,000+ b/w illustrations Modern & Contemporary Art World cloth 978-0-520-26430-4 $495.00rf/£345.00
Francis at work, 1980. Photo by Meibao D. Nee.
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ART/LITERATURE
Kara Walker, Untitled, 1994–95. Cut paper on canvas, 48 x 54 inches, 121.9 x 137.2 cm. Courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York. From A House Divided.
Portrait of Janus-faced Napoleon Bonaparte, - turban, c. sporting French bicorne and Mamluk 1798–1801. From Disarming Words
Anne Middleton Wagner
Shaden M. Tageldin
A House Divided
Disarming Words
American Art since 1955
Empire and the Seductions of Translation in Egypt
In this exhilarating book, Anne Middleton Wagner challenges readers to rethink the work of a range of post–World War II artists—Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Maya Lin, Bruce Nauman, and Agnes Martin among them—and thus to re-assess the relationship of art to politics and social life. The art of U.S. empire, she argues, is marked by deep dividedness. Painters and sculptors seemed entranced by American symbols, yet used them to enigmatic ends— exuberant, nightmarish, or both. Nor could postwar culture decide if it preserved sites devoted to productive withdrawal—for artists, the special zone called the studio—or simply maintained a margin where numbed subjects rehearsed the rites of vanished selfexpression. This book charts the to-and-fro in recent American art between acknowledging the facts of nation and consumerism and searching for meaningful models. And it shows that this process engages—even structures—national history and the citizen’s self. Anne Middleton Wagner is Class of 1936 Chair Emerita of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of California, Berkeley, and The Henry Moore Foundation Research Curator at Tate. An Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Book JANUARY 240 pages, 6 x 8”, 39 color images, 79 halftones American Art/Modern & Contemporary Art World cloth 978-0-520-26847-0 $70.00tx/£48.95 paper 978-0-520-27097-8 $34.95sc/£24.95
In a book that radically challenges conventional understandings of the dynamics of cultural imperialism, Shaden M. Tageldin unravels the complex relationship between translation and seduction in the colonial context. Shaden M. Tageldin is Associate Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. FlashPoints, 5 AVAILABLE 352 pages, 6 x 9”, 9 b/w photographs Literature/Middle Eastern Studies/Literary Theory World paper 978-0-520-26552-3 $39.95tx/£24.95
Stephanie H. Jed
Wings for Our Courage Gender, Erudition, and Republican Thought This highly original study reorganizes the concept of republicanism in history—and at the same time offers a new theoretical framework for understanding the work of the scholar and the social structures of archives, libraries, and erudition in which she is inscribed. Stephanie H. Jed is Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. FlashPoints, 6 AVAILABLE 272 pages, 6 x 9”, 5 b/w photographs Literature/History World paper 978-0-520-26769-5 $34.95tx/£24.95
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MUSIC
Todd Decker
John Mowitt
Music Makes Me
Radio
Fred Astaire and Jazz
Essays in Bad Reception
Fred Astaire: one of the great jazz artists of the twentieth century? Astaire is best known for his brilliant dancing in the movie musicals of the 1930s, but in Music Makes Me, Todd Decker argues that Astaire’s work as a dancer and choreographer—particularly in the realm of tap dancing—made a significant contribution to the art of jazz. Decker examines the full range of Astaire’s work in filmed and recorded media, from a 1926 recording with George Gershwin to his 1970 blues stylings on television, and analyzes Astaire’s creative relationships with the greats, including George and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, and Johnny Mercer. He also highlights Astaire’s collaborations with African American musicians and his work with lesser known professionals—arrangers, musicians, dance directors, and performers.
In a wide-ranging, cross-cultural, and transhistorical assessment, John Mowitt examines radio’s central place in the history of twentieth-century critical theory. A communication apparatus that was a founding technology of twentieth-century mass culture, radio drew the attention of theoretical and philosophical writers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Lacan, and Frantz Fanon, who used it as a means to disseminate their ideas. For others, such as Martin Heidegger, Theodor Adorno, and Raymond Williams, radio served as an object of urgent reflection. Mowitt considers how the radio came to matter, especially politically, to phenomenology, existentialism, Hegelian Marxism, anticolonialism, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies. The first systematic examination of the relationship between philosophy and radio, this provocative work also offers a fresh perspective on the role this technology plays today.
Todd Decker is Assistant Professor of Music at Washington University in St. Louis. A Roth Family Foundation Music in America Book AVAILABLE 376 pages, 6 x 9”, 19 b/w photographs, 5 tables, 7 music examples American Music/Jazz/Cinema & Film Studies World cloth 978-0-520-26888-3 $65.00tx/£44.95 paper 978-0-520-26890-6 $29.95sc/£20.95
John Mowitt is Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. A Fletcher Jones Foundation Humanities NOVEMBER 280 pages, 6 x 9” Media Studies/Critical Theory/Philosophy World cloth 978-0-520-27049-7 $65.00tx/£44.95 paper 978-0-520-27050-3 $26.95sc/£18.95
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Astaire dancing with drumsticks, in “History of the Beats”, from Daddy Long Legs. From Music Makes Me
Radio Marconi, by Jaroslav Rossler. Courtesy Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague. From Radio.
MUSIC
Eric Drott
Leta E. Miller
Music and the Elusive Revolution
Music and Politics in San Francisco
Cultural Politics and Political Culture in France, 1968–1981
From the 1906 Quake to the Second World War
In May 1968, France teetered on the brink of revolution as a series of student protests spiraled into the largest general strike the country has ever known. In the forty years since, May ’68 has come to occupy a singular place in the modern political imagination, not just in France but across the world. Eric Drott examines the social, political, and cultural effects of May ’68 on a wide variety of music in France, from the initial shock of 1968 through the “long” 1970s and the election of Mitterrand and the socialists in 1981. Drott’s detailed account of how diverse music communities developed in response to 1968 and his pathbreaking reflections on the nature and significance of musical genre come together to provide insights into the relationships that link music, identity, and politics.
This lively history immerses the reader in San Francisco’s musical life during the first half of the twentieth century, showing how a fractious community overcame virulent partisanship to establish cultural monuments such as the San Francisco Symphony (1911) and Opera (1923). Leta Miller draws on primary source material and firsthand knowledge of the music to argue that a utopian vision counterbalanced partisan interests and inspired cultural endeavors, including the San Francisco Conservatory, two world fairs, and America’s first municipally owned opera house. Miller demonstrates that rampant racism, initially directed against Chinese laborers (and their music), reappeared during the 1930s in the guise of labor unrest as WPA music activities exploded in vicious battles between administrators and artists, and African American and white jazz musicians competed for jobs in nightclubs.
Eric Drott is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Texas. California Studies in 20th-Century Music, 12
Woodcut of Henry Kimball Hadley (1872– 1937), first conductor of the San Francisco Symphony, by Howard Jacob Simon. From Music and Politics in San Francisco.
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Leta E. Miller is Professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Cruz. A Roth Family Foundation Music in America Book OCTOBER 336 pages, 6 x 9”, 25 b/w photographs, 30 musical examples, 13 tables, 3 maps American Music/Classical Music/California & the West World cloth 978-0-520-26891-3 $49.95sc/£34.95
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MUSIC
Andrew Dell’Antonio
Stephen Rumph
Listening as Spiritual Practice in Early Modern Italy
Mozart and Enlightenment Semiotics
The early seventeenth century, when the first operas were written and technical advances with far-reaching consequences— such as tonal music—began to develop, is also notable for another shift: the displacement of aristocratic music-makers by a new professional class of performers. In this book, Andrew Dell’Antonio looks at a related phenomenon: the rise of a cultivated audience whose skill involved listening rather than playing or singing. Drawing from contemporaneous discourses and other commentaries on music, the visual arts, and church doctrine, Dell’Antonio links the new ideas about cultivated listening with other intellectual trends of the period: humanistic learning, contemplative listening (or watching) as an active spiritual practice, and musical mysticism as an ideal promoted by the Church as part of the Catholic Reformation.
In this groundbreaking, historically informed semiotic study of late eighteenthcentury music, Stephen Rumph focuses on Mozart to explore musical meaning within the context of Enlightenment sign and language theory. Illuminating his discussion with French, British, German, and Italian writings on signs and language, Rumph analyzes movements from Mozart’s symphonies, concertos, operas, and church music. He argues that Mozartian semiosis is best understood within the empiricist tradition of Condillac, Vico, Herder, or Adam Smith, which emphasized the constitutive role of signs within human cognition. Recognizing that the rationalist model of neoclassical rhetoric has guided much recent work on Mozart and his contemporaries, Rumph demonstrates how the dialogic tension between opposing paradigms enabled the composer to negotiate contradictions within Enlightenment thought.
Andrew Dell’Antonio is Professor in the Musicology/ Ethnomusicology Division at the University of Texas at Austin, Butler School of Music.
Stephen Rumph is Associate Professor of Music History at the University of Washington.
An Ahmanson Foundation Book in the Humanities
An Ahmanson Foundation Book in the Humanities
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Detail of Guido Reni’s, Saint Francis Comforted by the Musician Angel, ca. 1606–7. Oil on copperplate. Collection of Sir Denis Mahon, currently in the Pinacoteca Municipale, Bologna. From Listening as Spiritual Practice in Early Modern Italy.
CINEMA
Edited by Daniel Goldmark and Charlie Keil
Funny Pictures Animation and Comedy in Studio-Era Hollywood
Sheet music from 1922. Courtesy David A. Jasen. From Funny Pictures.
This collection of essays explores the link between comedy and animation in studioera cartoons, from filmdom’s earliest days through the twentieth century. Written by a who’s who of animation authorities, Funny Pictures offers a stimulating range of views on why animation became associated with comedy so early and so indelibly and illustrates how animation and humor came together at a pivotal stage in the development of the motion picture industry. To examine some of the central assumptions about comedy and cartoons and to explore the key factors that promoted their fusion, the book analyzes many of the key filmic texts from the studio years that exemplify animated comedy. Funny Pictures also looks ahead to show how this vital American entertainment tradition still thrives today in works ranging from The Simpsons to the output of Pixar. Daniel Goldmark is Associate Professor of Music at Case Western Reserve University. Charlie Keil is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto. An Ahmanson Foundation Book in the Humanites AUGUST 320 pages, 6 x 9”, 30 b/w photographs Animation/Cinema & Film Studies/Television World cloth 978-0-520-26723-7 $65.00tx/£44.95 paper 978-0-520-26724-4 $26.95sc/£18.95
Miriam Bratu Hansen
Cinema and Experience Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno—affiliated through friendship, professional ties, and argument—developed an astute philosophical critique of modernity in which technological media played a key role. This book explores in depth their reflections on cinema and photography from the Weimar period up to the 1960s. Miriam Bratu Hansen brings to life an impressive archive of known and, in the case of Kracauer, less known materials and reveals surprising perspectives on canonic texts, including Benjamin’s artwork essay. Her lucid analysis extrapolates from these writings the contours of a theory of cinema and experience that speaks to questions being posed anew as moving-image culture evolves in response to digital technology. The late Miriam Bratu Hansen was Ferdinand Schevill Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago and the founding chair of what is now the Department of Cinema and Media Studies. Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism, 44 OCTOBER 368 pages, 6 x 9” Cinema & Film Studies/Art & Society World cloth 978-0-520-26559-2 $70.00tx/48.95 paper 978-0-520-26560-8 $29.95sc/£20.95
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SOCIOLOGY
Ann Morning
Mignon R. Moore
The Nature of Race
Invisible Families
How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference
Gay Identities, Relationships, and Motherhood among Black Women
What do Americans think “race” means? What determines one’s race—appearance, ancestry, genes, or culture? How do education, government, and business influence our views on race? To unravel these complex questions, Ann Morning takes a close look at how scientists are influencing ideas about race through teaching and textbooks. Drawing from in-depth interviews with biologists, anthropologists, and undergraduates, Morning explores different conceptions of race—finding, for example, that while many sociologists now assume that race is a social invention or “construct,” anthropologists and biologists are far from such a consensus. Widening the debate about race beyond the pages of scholarly journals, The Nature of Race dissects competing definitions in straightforward language to reveal the logic and assumptions underpinning today’s claims about human difference.
Mignon R. Moore brings to light the family life of a group that has been largely invisible—gay women of color—in a book that challenges long-standing ideas about racial identity, family formation, and motherhood. Drawing from interviews and surveys of one hundred black gay women in New York City, Invisible Families explores the ways that race and class have influenced how these women understand their sexual orientation, find partners, and form families. In particular, the study looks at the ways in which the past experiences of women who came of age in the 1960s and 1970s shape their thinking, and have structured their lives. Challenging generalizations about lesbian families, Invisible Families reveals experiences within black American and Caribbean communities as it asks how people with multiple stigmatized identities imagine and construct an individual and collective sense of self.
Ann Morning is Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at New York University.
Mignon R. Moore is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Moms with Their Children. From Invisible Families.
SOCIOLOGY
Jennifer F. Hamer
Abandoned in the Heartland Work, Family, and Living in East St. Louis
Photo by Odell Mitchell. From Abandoned in the Heartland.
Urban poverty, along with all of its poignant manifestations, is moving from city centers to working-class and industrial suburbs in contemporary America. Nowhere is this more evident than in East St. Louis, Illinois. Once a thriving manufacturing and transportation center, East St. Louis is now known for its unemployment, crime, and collapsing infrastructure. Abandoned in the Heartland takes us into the lives of East St. Louis’s predominantly African American residents to find out what has happened since industry abandoned the city and jobs, quality schools, and city services disappeared, leaving people isolated and imperiled. Illustrated with historical and contemporary photographs showing how the city has changed over time, this book offers a powerful vision of the transformed circumstances of life in one American suburb. Jennifer F. Hamer is Associate Professor in the Department of African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A George Gund Foundation Book in African American Studies SEPTEMBER 280 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/4”, 20 b/w photographs Sociology/Urban Studies/African American Studies World cloth 978-0-520-26931-6 $60.00tx/£41.95 paper 978-0-520-26932-3 $24.95sc/£16.95
Mary C. Waters, Patrick J. Carr, Maria J. Kefalas, and Jennifer Holdaway, Editors
Coming of Age in America The Transition to Adulthood in the Twenty-First Century What is it like to become an adult in twentyfirst-century America? This book takes us to four very different places—New York City, San Diego, rural Iowa, and Saint Paul, Minnesota—to explore the dramatic shifts in coming-of-age experiences across the country. Drawing from in-depth interviews with people in their twenties and early thirties, it probes experiences and decisions surrounding education, work, marriage, parenthood, and housing. The first study to systematically explore this phenomenon from a qualitative perspective, Coming of Age in America offers a clear view of how traditional patterns and expectations are changing, of the range of forces that are shaping these changes, and of how young people themselves view their lives. Mary C. Waters is M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. Patrick J. Carr is Associate Professor at Rutgers University. Maria J. Kefalas is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Saint Joseph’s University. Jennifer Holdaway is Program Director and China Representative at the Social Science Research Council. SEPTEMBER 240 pages, 6 x 9”, 4 line illustrations, 6 tables Sociology/Ethnic Studies/Urban Studies World cloth 978-0-520-27092-3 $60.00tx/£41.95 paper 978-0-520-27093-0 $24.95sc/£16.95
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SOCIOLOGY
Rebecca M. Blank
Changing Inequality Rebecca Blank offers the first comprehensive analysis of an economic trend that has been reshaping the United States over the past three decades: rapidly rising income inequality. In clear language, she provides an overview of how and why the level and distribution of income and wealth has changed since 1979, sets this situation within its historical context, and investigates the forces that are driving it. Among other factors, Blank looks closely at changes within families, including women’s increasing participation in the work force. The book includes some surprising findings, considers what can be done to address this trend, and also explores the question: why should we be concerned about this phenomenon? Rebecca M. Blank is former Robert Kerr Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and former Dean of the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Wildavsky Forum Series, 8 AUGUST 220 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/4”, 34 line illustrations, 13 tables Economics/Sociology/Public Policy World cloth 978-0-520-26692-6 $60.00tx/£41.95 paper 978-0-520-26693-3 $24.95sc/£16.95
Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, Vivian Louie, and Roberto Suro, editors
Writing Immigration Scholars and Journalists in Dialogue Bringing nuance, complexity, and clarity to a subject often seen in black and white, Writing Immigration presents a unique interplay of leading scholars and journalists working on the contentious topic of immigration. In a series of powerful essays, the contributors reflect on how they struggle to write about one of the defining issues of our time. Their essays explore topics including illegal immigration, state and federal mechanisms for immigration regulation, enduring myths and fallacies regarding immigration, immigration and the economy, immigration and education, the adaptations of the second generation, and more. Together, these writings give a clear sense of the ways in which scholars and journalists enter, shape, and sometimes transform this essential yet unfinished national conversation. Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco is The Ross University Professor at New York University. Vivian Louie is Associate Professor of Education at Harvard University. Roberto Suro is Professor of Journalism in the Annenberg School of Communication. SEPTEMBER 256 pages, 6 x 9”, 2 line illustrations Immigration/Sociology/Journalism World cloth 978-0-520-26717-6 $60.00tx/£41.95 paper 978-0-520-26718-3 $24.95sc/£16.95
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SOCIOLOGY
The office wall in Jennifer Venditti’s JV8INC casting studio. Photo courtesy Jennifer Venditti. From Pricing Beauty.
Ashley Mears
Rene Almeling
Pricing Beauty
Sex Cells
The Making of a Fashion Model
The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm
Sociologist Ashley Mears takes us behind the brightly lit runways and glossy advertisements of the fashion industry in this insider’s study of the world of modeling. Mears, who worked as a model in New York and London, draws on observations as well as extensive interviews with male and female models, agents, clients, photographers, stylists, and others, to explore the economics and politics—and the arbitrariness—behind the business of glamour. Exploring a largely hidden arena of cultural production, she shows how the right “look” is discovered, developed, and packaged to become a prized commodity. She examines how models sell themselves, how agents promote them, and how clients decide to hire them. An original contribution to the sociology of work in the new cultural economy, Pricing Beauty offers rich, accessible analysis of the invisible ways in which gender, race, and class shape worth in the marketplace.
Unimaginable until the twentieth century, the clinical practice of transferring eggs and sperm from body to body is now the basis of a bustling market. In Sex Cells, Rene Almeling provides an inside look at how egg agencies and sperm banks do business. Although both men and women are usually drawn to donation for financial reasons, Almeling finds that clinics encourage sperm donors to think of the payments as remuneration for an easy “job.” Women receive more money but are urged to regard egg donation in feminine terms, as the ultimate “gift” from one woman to another. Sex Cells shows how the gendered framing of paid donation, as either a job or a gift, not only influences the structure of the market but also profoundly affects the individuals whose genetic material is being purchased.
Ashley Mears is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University. An Authors Imprint Book SEPTEMBER 340 pages, 6 x 9”, 13 b/w photographs, 5 line illustrations, 7 tables Sociology/Labor Studies/Fashion World cloth 978-0-520-26033-7 $65.00tx/£44.95 paper 978-0-520-27076-3 $26.95sc/£18.95
Rene Almeling is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Yale University. SEPTEMBER 256 pages, 6 x 9”, 4 line illustrations, 5 tables Marriage & Family/Women’s Studies/Medical Anthropology World cloth 978-0-520-27095-4 $60.00tx/£41.95 paper 978-0-520-27096-1 $24.95sc/£16.95
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SOCIOLOGY/CLASSICS
Debra Lattanzi Shutika
Gregory Nagy
Beyond the Borderlands Homer the Preclassic Migration and Belonging in the United States and Mexico Over the last three decades, migration from Mexico to the United States has moved beyond the borderlands to diverse communities across the country, with the most striking transformations in American suburbs and small towns. This study explores the challenges encountered by Mexican families as they endeavor to find their place in the U.S. by focusing on Kennett Square, a small farming village in Pennsylvania known as “The Mushroom Capital of the World.” In a vividly detailed narrative based on extensive fieldwork among Mexican migrants and their American neighbors, Debra Lattanzi Shutika explores issues of belonging and displacement that are central concerns for residents in communities that have become new destinations for Mexican settlement. Debra Lattanzi Shutika is a Folklorist and Associate Professor of English at George Mason University. AUGUST 292 pages, 6 x 9”, 6 b/w photographs, 4 line illustrations, 2 maps Anthropology/Latin American Studies/Immigration World cloth 978-0-520-26958-3 $65.00tx/£44.95 paper 978-0-520-26959-0 $26.95sc/£18.95
Homer the Preclassic considers the development of the Homeric poems—in particular the Iliad and Odyssey—during the time when they were still part of the oral tradition. Gregory Nagy traces the evolution of rival “Homers” and the different versions of Homeric poetry in this pretextual period, reconstructed over a time frame extending back from the sixth century bce to the Bronze Age. Accurate in their linguistic detail and surprising in their implications, Nagy’s insights conjure the Greeks’ nostalgia for the imagined “epic space” of Troy and for the resonances and distortions this mythic past provided to the various Greek constituencies for whom the Homeric poems were so central and definitive. Gregory Nagy is the Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies and the Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. Sather Classical Lectures, 67 A Joan Palevsky Book in Classical Literature AUGUST 418 pages, 6 x 9”, 14 b/w photographs and 2 maps Classics/Literature World cloth 978-0-520-25692-7 $60.00sc/£41.95
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Philip Thibodeau
Edited by Margaret M. Miles
Playing the Farmer
Cleopatra
Representations of Rural Life in Vergil’s Georgics
A Sphinx Revisited
Playing the Farmer reinvigorates our understanding of Vergil’s Georgics, a vibrant work written by Rome’s premier epic poet shortly before he began the Aeneid. Setting the Georgics in the social context of its day, Philip Thibodeau for the first time connects the poem’s idyllic, and idealized, portrait of rustic life and agriculture with changing attitudes toward the countryside in late Republican and early Imperial Rome. He argues that what has been seen as a straightforward poem about agriculture is in fact an enchanting work of fantasy that elevated, and sometimes whitewashed, the realities of country life. Drawing from a wide range of sources, Thibodeau shows how Vergil’s poem reshaped agrarian ideals in its own time, and how it influenced Roman poets, philosophers, agronomists, and orators. Playing the Farmer brings a fresh perspective to a work that was praised by Dryden as “the best poem by the best poet.”
Cleopatra—a brave, astute, and charming woman who spoke many languages, entertained lavishly, hunted, went into battle, eliminated siblings to consolidate her power, and held off the threat of Imperial Rome to protect her country as long as she could—continues to fascinate centuries after she ruled Egypt. These wide-ranging essays explore such topics as Cleopatra’s controversial trip to Rome, her suicide by snake bite, and the afterlife of her love potions. They view Cleopatra from the Egyptian perspective, and examine the reception in Rome of Egyptian culture, especially of its religion and architecture. They discuss films about her, and consider what inspired Egyptomania in early modern art. Together, these essays illuminate Cleopatra’s legacy and illustrate how it has been used and reused through the centuries.
Philip Thibodeau is Associate Professor of Classics at Brooklyn College.
Margaret M. Miles is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Classical Studies at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and Professor of Art History and Classics at the University of California at Irvine.
A Joan Palevsky Book in Classical Literature
A Joan Palevsky Book in Classical Literature
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RELIGION
David M. Freidenreich
Foreigners and Their Food Constructing Otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Law Foreigners and Their Food explores how Jews, Christians, and Muslims conceptualize “us” and “them” through rules about the preparation of food by adherents of other religions and the act of eating with such outsiders. David M. Freidenreich analyzes the significance of food to religious formation, elucidating the ways ancient and medieval scholars use food restrictions to think about the “other.” Freidenreich illuminates the subtly different ways Jews, Christians, and Muslims perceive themselves, and he demonstrates how these distinctive self-conceptions shape ideas about religious foreigners and communal boundaries. This work, the first to analyze change in this area over time across the legal literatures of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, makes pathbreaking contributions to the history of interreligious intolerance and to the comparative study of religion. David M. Freidenreich is the Pulver Family Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at Colby College. An S. Mark Taper Foundation Book in Jewish Studies AUGUST 321 pages, 6 x 9”, 1 b/w photograph, 10 line illustrations Jewish Studies/Christianity/Islam/Food Studies World cloth 978-0-520-25321-6 60.00sc/£41.95
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HISTORY
Pablo Tac
Sydney L. Iaukea
Pablo Tac, Indigenous Scholar
The Queen and I
Writing on Luiseño Language and Colonial History, c. 1840 Edited and Introduced by Lisbeth Haas, with Art by James Luna
James Tac, by Catherine L. Nelson-Rodriguez (Luiseño/Wailaki/Choctaw) La Jolla Band of Indians. From Pablo Tac, Indigenous Scholar.
This volume makes available a remarkable body of writings, the only indigenous account of early nineteenth-century California. Written by Pablo Tac, this work on Luiseño language and culture offers a new approach to understanding California’s colonial history. Born and raised at Mission San Luis Rey, near San Diego, Pablo Tac became an international scholar. He traveled to Rome, where he studied Latin and other subjects, and produced these historical writings for the Vatican Librarian Cardinal Giuseppe Mezzofanti. In this multifaceted volume, Tac’s study is published in the original languages and in English translation. Lisbeth Haas introduces Tac’s life and discusses the importance of the record he left, while Luiseño artist James Luna considers Tac’s contemporary significance. Lisbeth Haas is Professor of History and Chair of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, author of Conquests and Historical Identities in California, 1769–1936 (UC Press). James Luna is an internationally known American Indian contemporary artist of Payomkowishum decent, he is a member of the La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians. NOVEMBER 256 pages, 6 x 9”, 29 b/w photographs History/Native American Studies/California & The West World cloth 978-0-520-26189-1 $49.95sc/£34.95
A Story of Dispossessions and Reconnections in Hawai‘i’ In this exposé Sydney L. Iaukea ties personal memories to newly procured political information about Hawai‘i’s crucial Territorial era. Spurred by questions surrounding intergenerational property disputes in her immediate family, she delves into Hawai‘i’s historical archives. There she discovers the central role played by her great-great-grandfather in the politics of late-nineteenth- and early-twentiethcentury Hawai‘i’—in particular, Curtis P. Iaukea’s trusted position with the Hawai‘ian Kingdom’s last ruling monarch, Queen Lili‘uokalani. As Iaukea charts her ancestor’s efforts to defend a culture under siege, she reveals astonishing legal and legislative maneuvers that show us how capitalism reshaped cultural relationships. She finds resonant parallels and connections between her own upbringing in Maui’s housing projects, her family’s penchant for hiding property, and the Hawai‘ian peoples’ loss of their country and lands. Sydney L. Iaukea holds a PhD in political science with a specialty in Hawai‘i’ politics. An Authors Imprint Book NOVEMBER 248 pages, 6 x 9”, 13 b/w photographs, 1 map Cross-Ethnic Studies/Autobiography/Post-Colonial Studies World cloth 978-0-520-27066-4 $60.00tx/£41.95 paper isbn $24.95sc/£16.95
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HISTORY
Andrew Gordon
Fabricating Consumers The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan Since its early days of mass production in the 1850s, the sewing machine has been intricately connected with the global development of capitalism. Andrew Gordon traces the machine’s remarkable journey into and throughout Japan, where it not only transformed manners of dress, but also reshaped patterns of daily life, class structure, and the role of women. As he explores the selling, buying, and use of the sewing machine in the early to mid-twentieth century, Gordon finds that its history is a lens through which we can examine the modern transformation of daily life in Japan. Both as a tool of production and as an object of consumer desire, the sewing machine is entwined with the emergence and ascendance of the middle class, of the female consumer, and of the professional home manager as defining elements of Japanese modernity. Andrew Gordon is Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History at Harvard University. His previous books include Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan (UC Press). Asia: Local Studies/Global Themes, 19 A Philip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian Studies NOVEMBER 271 pages, 6 x 9”, 35 b/w photographs, 1 table History/Japan/Business World cloth 978-0-520-26785-5 $49.95sc/£34.95
Edited by Sabine Frühstück and Anne Walthall
Recreating Japanese Men The essays in this groundbreaking book explore the meanings of manhood in Japan from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. Recreating Japanese Men examines a broad range of attitudes regarding properly masculine pursuits and modes of behavior. It charts breakdowns in traditional and conventional societal roles and the resulting crises of masculinity. Contributors address key questions about Japanese manhood ranging from icons such as the samurai to marginal men including hermaphrodites, robots, techno-geeks, rock climbers, shop clerks, soldiers, shoguns, and more. In addition to bringing historical evidence to bear on definitions of masculinity, contributors provide fresh analyses on the ways contemporary modes and styles of masculinity have affected Japanese men’s sense of gender as authentic and stable. Sabine Frühstück is Professor of Modern Japanese Culture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Anne Walthall is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. OCTOBER 300 pages, 6 x 9”, 16 b/w photographs, 3 tables East Asian Studies/Men & Masculinity World cloth 978-0-520-26737-4 $65.00tx/£44.95 paper 978-0-520-26738-1 $26.95sc/18.95
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Cover of the May 1909 inagural issue of Fujinkai (Woman’s World). Courtesy Tokyo University Meiji Shinbun Zasshi Bunko. From Fabricating Consumers.
From Recreating Japanese Men.
HISTORY
Shaanxi women learn to plow, 1959. From Gender of Memory.
Gail Hershatter
Tong Lam
The Gender of Memory
A Passion for Facts
Rural Women and China’s Collective Past
Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation State, 1900– 1949
What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group—rural women—at the center of the inquiry? In this book, Gail Hershatter explores changes in the lives of seventy two elderly women in rural Shaanxi province during the revolutionary decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Interweaving these women’s life histories with insightful analysis, Hershatter shows how Party-state policy became local and personal, and how it affected women’s agricultural work, domestic routines, activism, marriage, childbirth, and parenting—even their notions of virtue and respectability. The women narrate their pasts from the vantage point of the present and highlight their enduring virtues, important achievements, and most deeply harbored grievances. In showing what memories can tell us about gender as an axis of power, difference, and collectivity in 1950s rural China and the present, Hershatter powerfully examines the nature of socialism and how gender figured in its creation. Gail Hershatter is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Asia Pacific Modern, 8 A Philip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian Studies AUGUST 488 pages, 6 x 9”, 8 b/w photographs, 2 maps East Asian Studies/Women’s Studies World cloth 978-0-520-26770-1 $49.95sc/£34.95
In this pathbreaking book, Tong Lam examines the emergence of the “culture of fact” in modern China, showing how elites and intellectuals sought to transform the dynastic empire into a nation-state, thereby ensuring its survival. Lam argues that an epistemological break away from traditional modes of understanding the observable world began around the turn of the twentieth century. Tracing the neo-Confucian school of evidentiary research and the modern departure from it, Lam shows how, through the rise of the social survey, “the fact” became a basic conceptual medium and source of truth. In focusing on China’s social survey movement, A Passion for Facts analyzes how information generated by a range of research practices—census, sociological investigation, and ethnography—was mobilized by competing political factions to imagine, manage, and remake the nation. Tong Lam is Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto. Asia Pacific Modern, 9 NOVEMBER 250 pages, 6 x 9”, 7 b/w photographs, 1 line illustration East Asian Studies/East Asian History World cloth 978-0-520-26786-2 $60.00sc/£41.95
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HISTORY
T. Fujitani
Edited by Peter Duus and Kenji Hasegawa
Race for Empire Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War II Race for Empire offers a challenging and profound reinterpretation of nationalism, racism, and wartime mobilization during the Asia-Pacific war. In parallel case studies—of Japanese Americans mobilized to serve in the United States army and of Koreans recruited or drafted into the Japanese military—T. Fujitani examines the U.S. and Japanese empires as they struggled to manage racialized populations while waging total war. Fujitani probes governmental policies and analyzes representations of these soldiers—on film, in literature, and in archival documents—to reveal how characteristics of racism, nationalism, capitalism, gender politics, and the family changed on both sides. He demonstrates that the United States and Japan became increasingly alike over the course of the war, perhaps most tellingly in their common attempts to disavow racism even as they reproduced it in new ways and forms. T. Fujitani is Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. Asia Pacific Modern, 7 A Philip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian Studies NOVEMBER 460 pages, 6 x 9”, 23 b/w photographs, 2 maps, 6 tables East Asian History/East Asia World cloth 978-0-520-26223-2 $65.00sc/£44.95
Rediscovering America Japanese Perspectives on the American Century In this extraordinary collection of writings, covering the period from 1878 to 1989, a wide range of Japanese visitors to the United States offers vivid and sometimes surprising perspectives on Americans and American society. Peter Duus and Kenji Hasegawa have selected essays and articles by Japanese from many walks of life: writers and academics, bureaucrats and priests, politicians and journalists, businessmen, philanthropists, artists. Their views often reflect power relations between America and Japan, particularly during the wartime and postwar periods, but all of them deal with common themes—America’s origins, its ethnic diversity, its social conformity, its peculiar gender relations, its vast wealth, and its cultural arrogance—making clear that while Japanese observers often regarded the U.S. as a mentor, they rarely saw it as a role model. Peter Duus is Professor Emeritus of History at Stanford University. Kenji Hasegawa is Assistant Professor of History at Yokohama National University. Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power, 19 A Philip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian Studies SEPTEMBER 349 pages, 6 x 9”, 16 drawings United States History/Asian Sudies World cloth 978-0-520-26843-2 $65.00tx/£44.95 paper 978-0-520-26845-6 $26.95sc/£18.95
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Henry Sugimoto, “Goodby My Son.” Courtesy Hirasaki National Resource Center, Japanese American National Museum. From Race for Empire.
Cover of Tokyo Puck 2, no. 22, November 1, 1906. “Japan to Uncle Sam: ‘Look here, old man, how unbecoming your whiskers are. You had better shave them a little.” From Rediscovering America.
HISTORY
Veronika Fuechtner
Maia Ramnath
Berlin Psychoanalytic
Haj to Utopia
Psychoanalysis and Culture in Weimar Republic Germany and Beyond
How the Ghadar Movement Chartered Global Radicalism and Attempted to Overthrown the British Empire
One hundred years after the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute was established, this book recovers the cultural and intellectual history connected to this vibrant organization and places it alongside the London Bloomsbury group, the Paris Surrealist circle, and the Viennese fin-de-siècle as a crucial chapter in the history of modernism. Taking us from World War I Berlin to the Third Reich and beyond to 1940s Palestine and 1950s New York—and to the influential work of the Frankfurt School—Veronika Fuechtner traces the network of artists and psychoanalysts that began in Germany and continued in exile. In particular, she explores the lives and works of Alfred Döblin, Max Eitingon, Georg Groddeck, Karen Horney, Richard Huelsenbeck, Count Hermann von Keyserling, Ernst Simmel, and Arnold Zweig. Veronika Fuechtner is Associate Professor of German Studies at Dartmouth College. Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism, 43 SEPTEMBER 224 pages, 6 x 9”, 10 b/w photographs European History/Psychology/Art History World cloth 978-0-520-25837-2 $49.95sc/£34.95
In Haj to Utopia, Maia Ramnath tells the dramatic story of Ghadar, the Indian anticolonial movement that attempted overthrow of the British Empire. Founded by South Asian immigrants in California, Ghadar—translated as “mutiny”—quickly became a global presence in East Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and East Africa. Ramnath brings this epic struggle to life as she traces Ghadar’s origins to the Swadeshi Movement in Bengal, its establishment of headquarters in Berkeley, California, and its fostering by anarchists in London, Paris, and Berlin. Linking Britain’s declaration of war on Germany in 1914 to Ghadar’s declaration of war on Britain, Ramnath vividly recounts how 8,000 rebels were deployed from around the world to take up the battle in Hindustan. Haj to Utopia demonstrates how far-flung freedom fighters managed to articulate a radical new world order out of seemingly contradictory ideas. Maia Ramnath teaches Global Histories at New York University. California World History Library, 19 DECEMBER 304 pages, 6 x 9”, 3 maps World History/South Asian History World cloth 978-0-520-26954-5 $65.00tx/£44.95 paper 978-0-520-26955-2 $26.95sc/£18.95
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HISTORY
Nayan Shah
Parna Sengupta
Stranger Intimacy
Pedagogy for Religion
Making the Legal Borderlands of North America
Missionary Education and the Fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal
In exploring an array of intimacies between strangers, this book reveals how human relationships, dignity, and collaborations are experienced among global migrants. Nayan Shah takes a novel approach by examining both the legal histories of hundreds of interracial marriages involving South Asians and the countless court cases documenting illicit sexual contact between South Asian men and white, Chinese, and Native American men. Shah illuminates a stunning, transient world of heterogeneous social relations. At the same time, he demonstrates how the United States and Canada, in collusion with each other, actively sought to exclude and dispossess nonwhite “races.” Stranger Intimacy reveals the intersections between capitalism, the state’s treatment of immigrants, sexual citizenship, and racism in the first half of the twentieth century. Nayan Shah is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego, and the author of Contagious Divides (UC Press). American Crossroads, 31 NOVEMBER 346 pages, 6 x 9”, 14 b/w photographs and 6 maps United States History/Cross-Ethnic Studies World cloth 978-0-520-27085-5 $65.00tx/£44.95 paper 978-0-520-27087-9 $26.95sc/£18.95
Offering a new approach to the study of religion and empire, this innovative book challenges a widespread myth of modernity —that Western rule has had a secularizing effect on the non-West—by looking closely at missionary schools in Bengal. Parna Sengupta examines the period from 1850 to the 1930s and finds that modern education effectively reinforced the place of religion in colonial India. Debates over the mundane aspects of schooling, rather than debates between religious leaders, transformed the everyday definitions of what it meant to be a Christian, Hindu, or Muslim. Speaking to our own time, Sengupta concludes that today’s Qur’an schools are not, as has been argued, throwbacks to a premodern era. She argues instead that Qur’an schools share a pedagogical frame with today’s Christian and Muslim schools, a connection that plays out the long history of this colonial encounter. Parna Sengupta is Associate Director of Stanford Introductory Studies at Stanford University. AUGUST 216 pages, 6 x 9” South Asian History/Hinduism/Islam World cloth 978-0-520-26829-6 $65.00tx/£44.95 paper 978-0-520-26831-9 $26.95sc/£18.95
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Group including Indian immigrants at the Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Frank, Alberta, ca. 1903. Library and Archives of Canada, M.T. Good/Mabel Tinkiss Good Collection, PA-125114. From Stranger Intimacy.
HEALTH
Edited by Phil Brown, Rachel Morello-Frosch, Stephen Zavestoski, and the Contested Illness Research Group
Contested Illnesses Citizens, Science, and Health Social Movements The politics and science of health and disease remain contested terrain among scientists, health practitioners, policy makers, industry, communities, and the public. Stakeholders in disputes about illnesses or conditions disagree over their fundamental causes as well as how they should be treated and prevented. This thought-provoking book crosses disciplinary boundaries by engaging with both public health policy and social science, asserting that science, activism, and policy are not separate issues and showing how the contribution of environmental factors in disease is often overlooked. Phil Brown, founder of the Contested Illnesses Research Group at Brown University, is Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies. Rachel Morello-Frosch is Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management and the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. Stephen Zavestoski is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Environmental Studies Program at the University of San Francisco.
Robert N. Proctor
Golden Holocaust Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition The cigarette is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. It is also one of the most beguiling, thanks to more than a century of manipulation at the hands of tobacco industry chemists. In Golden Holocaust, Robert N. Proctor draws on reams of formerly secret industry documents to explore how the cigarette came to be the most widely used drug on the planet, with six trillion sticks sold per year. He paints a harrowing picture of tobacco manufacturers conspiring to block the recognition of tobacco-cancer hazards, even as they ensnare legions of scientists and politicians in a web of denial. Proctor reveals heretofore untold stories of fraud and subterfuge, and he makes the strongest case to date for a simple yet ambitious remedy: a ban on the manufacture and sale of cigarettes. Robert N. Proctor is Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. JANUARY 779 pages, 6 x 9”, 40 b/w photographs Subject/Subject/Subject World cloth 978-0-520-27016-9 $49.95sc/£34.05
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Mural by Marta Ayala. From Contested Illness.
Harvard brand candy cigarettes from the 1960s. Private collection. From Golden Holocaust.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Carla Bellamy
Pamela E. Klassen
The Powerful Ephemeral
Spirits of Protestantism Medicine, Healing, and Liberal Christianity
Everyday Healing in an Ambiguously Islamic Place The violent partitioning of British India along religious lines and ongoing communalist aggression have compelled Indian citizens to contend with the notion that an exclusive, fixed religious identity is fundamental to selfhood. Even so, Muslim saint shrines, known as dargāhs, attract a religiously diverse range of pilgrims. In this accessible and groundbreaking ethnography, Carla Bellamy traces the long-term healing processes of Muslim and Hindu devotees of a complex of dargāhs in northwestern India. Drawing on pilgrims’ narratives, ritual and everyday practices, archival documents, and popular publications in Hindi and Urdu, Bellamy considers questions about the nature of religion in general and Indian religion in particular. The Powerful Ephemeral offers not only a humane, highly readable portrait of dargāh culture but also new insight into notions of selfhood and religious difference in contemporary India. Carla Bellamy is Assistant Professor of South Asian Religion at Baruch College. South Asia Across the Disciplines AUGUST 298 pages, 6 x 9”, 10 b/w photographs, 2 maps Islam/Hinduism/Cultural Anthropology World cloth 978-0-520-26280-5 $65.00tx/£44.95 paper 978-0-520-26281-2 $26.95sc/£18.95
This exciting work offers an innovative analysis of the politics of body, mind, and spirit among North American liberal Protestants over the course of the twentieth century. Pamela Klassen shows how a global array of healing therapies—such as telepathy and yoga—found their way into Protestant practice. Liberal Protestants of the early decades sought to convert “the heathen” by combining modern medicine with evangelism in Christian missions that were both scientific and imperialistic. By the century’s end they viewed this “healing mission” as pathological both politically and therapeutically. Klassen shows how Protestant encounters with a variety of bodily therapies helped them to cultivate a new “supernatural liberalism” in which religious difference was to be celebrated, not obliterated. Pamela E. Klassen is Associate Professor in the Department and Centre for the Study of Religion and Director of the Religion in the Public Sphere Initiative at the University of Toronto. The Anthropology of Christianity, 13 AVAILABLE 334 pages, 6 x 9”, 15 b/w photographs Christianity/Anthropology of Religion World cloth 978-0-520-24428-3 $65.00tx/£44.95 paper 978-0-520-27099-2 $26.95sc/£18.95
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ANTHROPOLOGY
Graham M. Jones
Hans Lucht
Trade of the Tricks
Darkness before Daybreak
Inside the Magician’s Craft From risqué cabaret performances to engrossing after-hours shop talk, Trade of the Tricks offers an unprecedented look inside the secretive subculture of modern magicians. Entering the flourishing Paris magic scene as an apprentice, Graham M. Jones gives a firsthand account of how magicians learn to perform their astonishing deceptions. He follows the day-to-day lives of some of France’s most renowned performers, revealing not only how secrets are created and shared, but also how they are stolen and destroyed. In a book brimming with humor and surprise, Jones shows how today’s magicians marshal creativity and passion in striving to elevate their amazing skill into high art. The book’s lively cast of characters includes female and queer performers whose work is changing the face of a historically masculine genre. Graham M. Jones is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. SEPTEMBER 312 pages, 6 x 9”, 15 b/w photographs Global Anthropology/Linguistic Anthropology World cloth 978-0-520-27046-6 $65.00tx/£44.95 paper 978-0-520-27047-3 $26.95sc/£18.95
African Migrants Living on the Margins in Southern Italy Today This riveting book chronicles the lives of a group of fishermen from Ghana who took the long and dangerous journey to Southern Italy in search of work in a cutthroat underground economy. A story that illuminates the nature of high-risk migration around the world, Darkness before Daybreak reveals the challenges and experiences of these international migrants who, like countless others, are often in the news but are rarely understood. Hans Lucht tells how these men live on the fringes of society in Naples, what the often deadly journey across the Sahara Desert and Mediterranean Sea involved, and what their lives in the fishing village of Senya Beraku—where there are no more fish—were like. Asking how these men find meaning in their experiences, Lucht addresses broader existential questions surrounding the lives of economic refugees and their death-defying struggle for a life worth living. Hans Lucht is a Danish journalist, writer, and anthropologist at the University of Copenhagen. DECEMBER 358 pages, 6 x 9”, 1 map Immigration/Europe/Africa World cloth 978-0-520-27071-8 $60.00tx/£41.95 paper 978-0-520-27073-2 $24.95sc/£16.95
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Gaëtan Bloom, portrait of a victim. Photo by Zakary Belamy. From Trade of the Tricks.
Photo by Christian Vium (from the series “Clandestine,” www.christianvium.com.) From Darkness before Daybreak.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Erik Mueggler
The Paper Road Archive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of West China and Tibet This exhilarating book interweaves the stories of two early twentieth-century botanists to explore the collaborative relationships each formed with Yunnan villagers in gathering botanical specimens from the borderlands between China, Tibet, and Burma. Erik Mueggler introduces Scottish botanist George Forrest, who employed Naxi adventurers in his fieldwork from 1906 until his death in 1932. We also meet American Joseph Francis Charles Rock, who, in 1924, undertook a dangerous expedition to Gansu and Tibet with the sons and nephews of Forrest’s workers. Mueggler describes how the Naxi workers and their Western employers rendered the earth into specimens, notes, maps, diaries, letters, books, photographs, and ritual manuscripts. Drawing on an ancient metaphor of the earth as a book, Mueggler provides a sustained meditation on what can be copied, translated, and revised, and what can be folded back into the earth. Erik Mueggler is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. A Philip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian Studies NOVEMBER 346 pages, 6 x 9”, 45 b/w photographs Asian Anthropology/Botany/East Asian History World cloth 978-0-520-26902-6 $70.00tx/£48.95 paper 978-0-520-26903-3 $29.95sc/£20.95
Arthur Kleinman, Yunxiang Yan, Jing Jun, Sing Lee, Everett Zhang, Pan Tianshu, Wu Fei, and Guo Jinhua
Deep China The Moral Life of the Person What Anthropology and Psychiatry Tell Us about China Today Deep China investigates the emotional and moral lives of the Chinese people as they adjust to the challenges of modernity. Sharing a medical anthropology and cultural psychiatry perspective, the authors delve into intimate and sometimes hidden areas of personal life and social practice to observe and narrate the drama of Chinese individualization. The essays explore the remaking of the moral person during China’s profound social and economic transformation, unraveling the shifting practices and struggles of contemporary life. Arthur Kleinman is Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard University;; Yunxiang Yan is a Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles;; Jing Jun is a Professor at Tsinghua University (Beijing);; Sing Lee is a Professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong;; Everett Zhang is a Professor at Princeton University;; Pan Tianshu is a Professor at Fudan University (Shanghai);; Wu Fei and Guo Jinhua are Professors at Peking University (Beijing). SEPTEMBER 289 pages, 6 x 9” Health Care Policy/Medical Anthropology/Asian Studies World cloth 978-0-520-26944-6 $65.00tx/£44.95 paper 978-0-520-26945-3 $26.95sc/£18.95
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Li Shichen with pheasant. From The Paper Road.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Miriam Ticktin
Casualties of Care Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France This book explores the unintended consequences of compassion in the world of immigration politics. Miriam Ticktin focuses on France and its humanitarian immigration practices to argue that a politics based on care and protection can lead the state to view issues of immigration and asylum through a medical lens. Examining two “regimes of care”—humanitarianism and the movement to stop violence against women—Ticktin asks what it means to permit the sick and sexually violated to cross borders while the impoverished cannot. She demonstrates how, in an inhospitable immigration climate, unusual pathologies can become the means to residency papers, making conditions like HIV, cancer, and select experiences of sexual violence into distinct advantages for would-be migrants. Ticktin’s analysis also indicts the inequalities forged by global capitalism that drive people to migrate, and the state practices that criminalize the majority of undocumented migrants at the expense of care for the exceptional few. Miriam Ticktin is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the New School for Social Research. AVAILABLE 275 pages, 6 x 9”, 10 b/w photographs, 3 tables Medical Anthropology/Immigration & Emigration World cloth 978-0-520-26904-0 $65.00tx/£44.95 paper 978-0-520-26905-7 $26.95sc/£18.95
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Photos of sans-papiers, May 2008. From Casualties of Care.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Omri Elisha
Christine J. Gardner
Moral Ambition
Making Chastity Sexy
Mobilization and Social Outreach in Evangelical Megachurches
The Rhetoric of Evangelical Abstinence Campaigns
In this evocative ethnography, Omri Elisha examines the hopes, frustrations, and activist strategies of American evangelical Christians as they engage socially with local communities. Focusing on two Tennessee megachurches, Moral Ambition reaches beyond political controversies over issues such as abortion, same-sex marriage, and public prayer to highlight the ways that evangelicals at the grass roots of the Christian Right promote faith-based causes intended to improve the state of social welfare. The book shows how these ministries both help churchgoers embody religious virtues and create provocative new opportunities for evangelism on a public scale. Elisha challenges conventional views of U.S. evangelicalism as narrowly individualistic, elucidating instead the inherent contradictions that activists face in their efforts to reconcile religious conservatism with a renewed interest in compassion, poverty, racial justice, and urban revivalism.
Even though they are immersed in sexsaturated society, millions of teens are pledging to remain virgins until their wedding night. How are evangelical Christians persuading young people to wait until marriage? Christine J. Gardner looks closely at the language of the chastity movement and discovers a savvy campaign that has shifted from a negative “just say no” approach to a positive one: “just say yes” to great sex within marriage. Making Chastity Sexy sheds new light on a strategy that has successfully recast a traditionally feminist idea—“my body, my choice”—into a powerful message, but one that Gardner suggests may ultimately reduce evangelicalism’s transformative power. Focusing on the United States, her study also includes a comparative dimension by examining the export of this evangelical agenda to sub-Saharan Africa.
Omri Elisha is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Queens College, City University of New York. The Anthropology of Christianity, 12
Christine J. Gardner is Associate Professor of Communication at Wheaton College. AUGUST 253 pages, 6 x 9”, 1 table Christianity/Popular Culture/Rhetoric World cloth 978-0-520-26727-5 $60.00tx/£41.95 paper 978-0-520-26728-2 $24.95sc/£16.95
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ANTHROPOLOGY/SCIENCE
Edited by Richard G. Lesure
Early Mesoamerican Social Transformations Archaic and Formative Lifeways in the Soconusco Region Between 3500 and 500 bc, the social landscape of ancient Mesoamerica was completely transformed. At the beginning of this period, the mobile lifeways of a sparse population were oriented toward hunting and gathering. Three millennia later, protourban communities teemed with people. These essays by leading Mesoamerican archaeologists examine developments of the era as they unfolded in the Soconusco region along the Pacific coast of Mexico and Guatemala, a region that has emerged as crucial for understanding the rise of ancient civilizations in Mesoamerica. The contributors explore topics including the gendered division of labor, changes in subsistence, the character of ceremonialism, the emergence of social inequality, and large-scale patterns of population distribution and social change. Together, they demonstrate the contribution of Soconusco to cultural evolution in Mesoamerica and challenge what we thought we knew about the path toward social complexity. Richard G. Lesure is Associate Professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. OCTOBER 318 pages, 7 x 10”, 25 b/w photographs, 27 line illustrations, 16 tables Archaeology/Anthropology/Latin America World cloth 978-0-520-26899-9 $75.00sc/£52.00
Brett K. Sandercock, Kathy Martin, and Gernot Segelbacher, Editors
Ecology, Conservation, and Management of Grouse Grouse—an ecologically important group of birds that include capercaillie, prairie chickens, and ptarmigan—are distributed throughout the forests, grasslands, and tundra of Europe, Asia, and North America. Today, many grouse populations are in decline, and the conservation and management of these charismatic birds is becoming a global concern. This volume summarizes current knowledge of grouse biology in 25 chapters contributed by 80 researchers from field studies around the world. Organized in four sections—Spatial Ecology, Habitat Relationships, Population Biology, and Conservation and Management—the chapters explore topics including the impacts of climate change, energy development, and harvest, and offer new evidence for life-history changes in response to human activities. Brett K. Sandercock is Associate Professor in the Division of Biology at Kansas State University. Kathy Martin is Professor in the Department of Forest Sciences and Director of the Centre for Alpine Studies at the University of British Columbia. Gernot Segelbacher is Lecturer at the University of Freiburg in Germany. Studies in Avian Biology, 39 SEPTEMBER 368 pages, 7 x 10”, 4 b/w photographs, 60 line illustrations, 11 maps, 65 tables Ornithology/General Ecology/Conservation World cloth 978-0-520-27006-0 $70.00tx/£48.95
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Cherla-, Cuadros-, Jocotal-, Chonchas-phase figurines from the Cuauhtémoc zone. From Early Mesoamerican Social Transformation
SCIENCE
Edited by Jeffrey V. Wells
Eric D. Forsman et al.
Boreal Birds of North America
Population Demography of Northern Spotted Owls
A Hemispheric View of Their Conservation Links and Significance Reaching from interior Alaska across Canada to Labrador and Newfoundland, North America’s boreal forest is the largest wilderness area left on the planet. It is critical habitat for billions of birds; more than 300 species regularly breed there. After the breeding season, many boreal birds migrate to seasonal habitats across the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America. This volume brings together new research on boreal bird biology and conservation. It highlights the importance of the region to the global avifauna and to the connectivity between the boreal forest and ecoregions throughout the Americas. The contributions showcase a unique set of perspectives on the migration, wintering ecology, and conservation of bird communities that are tied to the boreal forest. Jeffrey V. Wells is Science and Policy Director of the Boreal Songbird Initiative and a Cornell University Visiting Fellow. Studies in Avian Biology, 41 OCTOBER 160 pages, 7 x 10”, 1 b/w photograph, 9 line illustrations, 18 maps, 20 tables Ornithology/Ecology/Conservation World cloth 978-0-520-27100-5 $39.95tx/£27.95
The Northern Spotted Owl, a threatened species that occurs in coniferous forests in the western United States, has become a well-known environmental symbol. But how is the owl actually faring? This book contains the results of a long-term effort by a large group of leading researchers to document population trends of the Northern Spotted Owl. The study was conducted on eleven areas in the Pacific Northwest from 1985 to 2008, and its objectives were both to evaluate population trends and to assess relationships between reproductive rates and recruitment of owls and covariates such as weather, habitat, and the invasion of a closely related species, the Barred Owl.
Clutch of Surf Scoters eggs. USGS photo by E. Palm. From Boreal Birds of North America.
Eric D. Forsman, who collaborated with a team of twenty seven researchers to produce this report, is a Wildlife Biologist with the USDA Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest Research Station, and also holds a courtesy faculty position as an Associate Professor in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Oregon State University. Studies in Avian Biology, 40 AUGUST 118 pages, 7 x 10”, 20 line illustrations, 37 tables Ornithology/Ecology/Conservation World cloth 978-0-520-27008-4 $39.95tx/£27.95
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Northern Spotted Owl. Photo by Patrick Kolar. From Population of Northern Spotted Owl.