HISTORY
The Italian Invert
A Gay Man’s Intimate Confessions to Émile Zola EDITED BY MICHAEL ROSENFELD WITH WILLIAM A. PENISTON Translated by Nancy Erber and William A. Peniston “A brilliant archival discovery, a triumph of careful scholarship, an unsuspected episode in modern literature, a moving testimony about sex and love, and a fascinating, previously censored chapter in the history of sexuality.” —David Halperin, W. H. Auden Distinguished University Professor, University of Michigan
In the late 1880s, a young Italian aristocrat made an astonishing confession to the novelist Émile Zola. In a series of revealing letters, he frankly described his sexual experiences with other men. Judging it too controversial, Zola gave it to a young doctor, who in 1896 published a censored version. After the Italian came across this book, he wrote an unapologetic letter to the doctor defending his right to love and to live as he wished. This is the first complete, unexpurgated version in English of this remarkable queer autobiography. MICHAEL ROSENFELD
holds two doctorates, one in French
literature and civilization from the Sorbonne Nouvelle–Paris 3 University and one in French language and literature from the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. WILLIAM A. PENISTON
is the retired librarian and archivist
at the Newark Museum of Art, as well as a historian of France. NANCY ERBER
is professor emerita of modern languages
and literature at the City University of New York.
Eurasian Crossroads
A History of Xinjiang
Revised and updated edition JAMES A. MILLWARD
“Eurasian Crossroads remains the best introduction to the history of this region. It draws out key phenomena and questions for each period, building from ecology and archaeology to ethnic politics. This edition includes an accessible analysis of contemporary events in context. This book was once pathbreaking—today it is essential.” —Eric Schluessel, author of Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia
Eurasian Crossroads is an engaging and comprehensive account of Xinjiang’s history and people from earliest times to the present day. This revised and updated edition features new empirically grounded and balanced analysis of developments in the region up to the present, focusing on the circumstances of the Uyghur and Xinjiang peoples. JAMES A. MILLWARD
is professor of intersocietal history
at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. His books include The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction (2013) and Beyond the Pass: Economy, Ethnicity and Empire in Qing Xinjiang, 1759–1864 (1998).
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