January/February 2016
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JOURNALISM CONTEMPORARY ISSUES “This volume, rich in information, is not for the casual reader, but is recommended as a valuable compilation of research and analysis that will help concerned readers track the evolution of anti-Semitism and determine which trends are most worrisome.” —Publishers Weekly
“A very important book on a very, very frightening development that was barely to be imagined as recently as a few years ago.” —Edward Alexander, author of The Holocaust and the War of Ideas
“A source book that will be of special value to those who see and are concerned about the new antiSemitism.” —Kirkus Reviews ALSO OF INTEREST:
Deciphering the New Antisemitism EDITED BY ALVIN H. ROSENFELD Deciphering the New Antisemitism addresses the increasing prevalence of antisemitism on a global scale. Antisemitism takes on various forms in all parts of the world, and the essays in this wide-ranging volume deal with many of them: European antisemitism, antisemitism and Islamophobia, antisemitism and antiZionism, and efforts to demonize and delegitimize Israel. Contributors are an international group of scholars who clarify the cultural, intellectual, political, and religious conditions that give rise to antisemitic words and deeds. These landmark essays are noteworthy for their timeliness and ability to grapple effectively with the serious issues at hand. ALVIN H. ROSENFELD holds the Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies and is Professor of English and Founding Director of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism at Indiana University Bloomington. He is editor of Resurgent Antisemitism: Global Perspectives (IUP, 2013) and author of The End of the Holocaust (IUP, 2011), among other books.
Worldwide Rights Contemporary Issues, Judaica 560 pages, 2 tables, 6 x 9 3
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ASIA “An original, interdisciplinary, superbly well researched analysis of the PRC under the gun of the global, modern, and Eurocentric ‘IPR regime’ and offers an alternative and to me very compelling way to do cultural studies, bringing the question of culture into relation with the state and nation under globalization.” —Daniel Vukovich, author of China and Orientation: Western Knowledge Production and the PRC
“Yang offers a ‘best set of practices’ for cultural studies of global processes and artifacts. Here, particular case studies, examples, and contexts of nation-branding and counterfeit culture are closely and carefully described and then expertly analyzed and critiqued. Yang shows that it is in the realm of culture and cultural production that the workings, problems, and contestations of globalization are most clearly enacted.” —Stephanie DeBoer, Indiana University, author of Coproducing Asia ALSO OF INTEREST:
Faked in China Nation Branding, Counterfeit Culture, and Globalization FAN YANG Faked in China is a critical account of the cultural challenge faced by China following its accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001. It traces the interactions between nation branding and counterfeit culture, two manifestations of the globalizing Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) regime that give rise to competing visions for the nation. Nation branding is a state-sanctioned policy, captured by the slogan “From Made in China to Created in China,” which aims to transform China from a manufacturer of foreign goods into a nation that creates its own IPR-eligible brands. Counterfeit culture is the transnational making, selling, and buying of unauthorized products. This cultural dilemma of the postsocialist state demonstrates the unequal relations of power that persist in contemporary globalization. FAN YANG is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Worldwide Rights Asia, Cultural Studies 256 pages, 7 b&w illus., 6 x 9 4
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CULTURAL STUDIES “An unruly—and much-needed—model for how to do the archive differently.” —Scott Herring, author of The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture
“A finely wrought collection of curiosities, The Year’s Work in the Oddball Archive presents a surprising and original contribution that stretches our understanding of what constitutes an archive and how to best make use of it. By playing with notions of collecting and cataloging, this anthology offers a range of investigations into detritus and forgotten ephemera, each of which resolutely resists straight-forward methodologies, remaining all the while serious and deeply engaged.” —Colin Dickey, co-editor of The Morbid Anatomy Anthology
The Year’s Work in the Oddball Archive EDITED BY JONATHAN P. EBURNE AND JUDITH ROOF
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The modern age is no stranger to the cabinet of curiosities, the freak show, or drawer full of odds and ends. These collections of oddities engagingly work against the rational order of the conventional archive to be found in a university, corporation, or governmental holding. In form, methodology, and content, The Year’s Work in the Oddball Archive offers a counterargument to more reasoned forms of archiving the avant-garde (or the post-avant-garde), the perverse, the off, the bent, the absurd, the quirky, the weird, and the queer. It positions itself within the history of mirabilia displays launched by curiosity cabinets in the mid15th century and which continues to the present day. These oddball archives (or perhaps counter-archives) are to be found in unexpected places—the doorways of Katrina homes, the cavity of a cow, the remnants of extinct animals, or an Internet site—and they offer up “alternate modes of knowing” to the traditional archive. JONATHAN P. EBURNE is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Penn State. He is the author of Surrealism and the Art of Crime. JUDITH ROOF is William Shakespeare Chair of English at Rice University and author of many books on feminism and contemporary culture.
Worldwide Rights Cultural Studies, Popular Culture 400 pages, 17 b&w illus., 6.125 x 7 5
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MEMOIR “This Is Only a Test exposes our fears—real and fake, invented and imbedded—of disasters. Through Hollars’s own experiences, research, and rememberings, he examines how our fears are often unfounded or inflated, even created. B. J. Hollars is in a field all of his own.” —Jill Talbot, author of The Way We Weren’t: A Memoir
“In a series of short, entertaining essays, Hollars meditates on natural disaster and fatherhood. He tells of disasters he has been a party to...while cleverly relating them to his experience of fatherhood. The point being, it seems, that becoming a father is its own kind of natural disaster, but with more positive results...A great collection to dip into or read sequentially, this book is surprisingly sunny, given its subject matter.” —Library Journal ALSO OF INTEREST:
This Is Only a Test B. J. HOLLARS On April 27, 2011, just days after learning of their pregnancy, B. J. Hollars, his wife, and their future son endured the onslaught of an EF-4 tornado. There, while huddled in a bathtub in their Alabama home, mortality flashed before their eyes. With the last of his computer battery, Hollars began recounting the experience, and would continue to do so in the following years, writing his way out of one disaster only to find himself caught up in another. Tornadoes, drownings, and nuclear catastrophes force him to acknowledge the inexplicable, while he attempts to overcome his greatest fear—the impossibility of protecting his newborn son from the world’s cruelties. Hollars creates a constellation of grief, tapping into the rarely acknowledged intersection between fatherhood and fear, sacrifice and safety, and the humbling effect of losing control of our lives. B. J. HOLLARS is author of two award-winning nonfiction books, Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence and the Last Lynching in America and Opening the Doors: The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa, as well as Sightings (IUP, 2013) and Dispatches from the Drownings: Reporting the Fiction of Nonfiction. He is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
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Worldwide rights Memoir, Essays 180 pages, 5.25 x 8
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MIDDLE EAST “An extremely interesting story, deftly told and beautifully written . . . . Makes an important contribution to our understanding of Syrian history.” —Peter Sluglett, National University of Singapore
“[A] book that will be both immediately valuable to scholars and teachers, and a significant contribution to historical scholarship on the cultural history of modern Syria. . . . In light of the endlessly unfolding tragedy in Syria, this kind of careful historical scholarship is increasingly important, and likely to become unfortunately rare. . . . [F]ill[s] one of many gaps in the historiography of modern and contemporary Syria.” —Max Weiss, Princeton University
“[A]n important contribution to understanding twentieth-century Syrian history, and particularly to understanding how and why post-Mandate Syria turned to authoritarianism rather than democracy.” —Andrea Stanton, University of Denver
Syria’s Democratic Years
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Citizens, Experts, and Media in the 1950s KEVIN W. MARTIN The years 1954–1958 in Syria are popularly known as “The Democratic Years,” a brief period of civilian government before the consolidation of authoritarian rule. Kevin W. Martin provides a cultural history of the period and argues that the authoritarian outcome was anything but inevitable. Examining the flourishing broadcast and print media of the time, he focuses on three public figures, experts whose professions—law, the military, and medicine—projected modernity and modeled the new Arab citizen. This experiment with democracy, however abortive, offers a model of governance from Syria’s historical experience that could serve as an alternative to dictatorship. KEVIN W. MARTIN is Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University.
Worldwide Rights Middle East 248 pages, 15 b&w illus., 6 x 9 7
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JOURNALISM “At Home with Ernie Pyle rescues a portion of Pyle’s work that would likely have been lost for good and adds substantially to the documentary record of his home state. Perhaps most important, it delivers a wonderful reading experience to all who treasure the work of this singular American writer.” —James Tobin, author of Ernie Pyle’s War
“Johnson has compiled Pyle’s Indiana-centric columns. The writing holds up well. It’s simple and clear. By now the pieces are of historic interest, too.” —Indianapolis Star
“The legendary Hoosier journalist reveals, with touching candor and haunting prose, a deep spiritual connection to his state of birth—and the people who raised him there.” —Indianapolis Monthly ALSO OF INTEREST:
At Home with Ernie Pyle ERNIE PYLE EDITED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY OWEN V. JOHNSON As anyone who has read his legendary WWII reporting knows, Ernie Pyle had an uncanny ability to connect with his readers, seeking out stories about the common people with whom he felt a special bond. A master of word painting, Pyle honed the skills that would win him a 1944 Pulitzer Prize for his battlefront reporting by traveling across America, writing columns about the people and places he encountered. At Home with Ernie Pyle celebrates Pyle’s Indiana roots, gathering for the first time his writings about the state and its people. These stories preserve a vivid cultural memory of his time. In them, we discover the Ernie Pyle who was able to find a piece of home wherever he wandered. By focusing on his family and the lives of people in and from the Hoosier state, Pyle was able to create a multifaceted picture of the state as it slowly transformed from a mostly rural, agrarian society to a modern, industrial one. Here is the record of a special time and place created by a master craftsman, whose work remains vividly alive three quarters of a century later. OWEN V. JOHNSON is Associate Professor Emeritus of IU Journalism, The Media School, Indiana University Bloomington.
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Worldwide Rights Journalism, Essays 368 pages, 12 b&w illus., 6 x 9
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MIDDLE EAST “When I set out to shoot a CNN documentary on the demise of holy water in the Holy Land, I scoured bookstores and search engines for the best resource material available. A few chapters into Barbara’s work, I knew I’d found my definitive source. She kindly agreed to join our production as an expert and guide and from the wadis of Jordan to the top of Masada, we were fortunate to soak up her knowledge and passion. The Dead Sea is a place few people forget but often misunderstand. This book changes that dynamic, empowering explorers and pilgrims alike with insight and context.” —Bill Weir, CNN Anchor
“A rare, full-bodied study . . . [that] combines fresh, imaginative writing and serious research. I cannot imagine another trip to this, the lowest point on earth, without the Kreiger book in hand.” —Baltimore Jewish Times, reviewing a previous edition or volume
The Dead Sea and the Jordan River BARBARA KREIGER
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For centuries travelers have been drawn to the stunning and mysterious Dead Sea and Jordan River, a region which is unlike any other on earth in its religious and historical significance. In this exceptionally engaging and readable book, Barbara Kreiger chronicles the natural and human history of these storied bodies of water, drawing on accounts by travelers, pilgrims, and explorers from ancient times to the present. She conveys the blend of spiritual, touristic, and scientific motivations that have driven exploration and describes the modern exploitation of the lake and the surrounding area through mineral extraction and agriculture. Today, both lake and river are in crisis, and stewardship of these water resources is bound up with political conflicts in the region. The Dead Sea and the Jordan River combines history, literature, travelogue, and natural history in a way that makes it hard to put down. BARBARA KREIGER is Creative Writing Concentration Chair and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program at Dartmouth College. Her other publications include Divine Expectations: An American Woman in Nineteenth-Century Palestine. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Smithsonian Magazine, and other publications.
Worldwide Rights Middle East, History 272 pages, 41 b&w illus., 6 x 9
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GLOBAL STUDIES “Gille offers a highly original take on globalization processes in Europe . . . Very accessibly written, it should appeal to a wide audience, including those who are interested in globalization, the European Union, Eastern Europe, contemporary social theory, and agrifood studies.” —Rachel Schurman, author of Fighting for the Future of Food: Activists versus Agribusiness in the Struggle over Biotechnology
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Paprika, Foie Gras, and Red Mud The Politics of Materiality in the European Union ZSUZSA GILLE In this original and provocative study, Zsuzsa Gille examines three scandals that have shaken Hungary since it joined the European Union: the 2004 ban on paprika due to contamination, the 2008 boycott of Hungarian foie gras by animal rights activists, and the “red mud” spill of industrial waste in 2010, Hungary’s worst environmental disaster. In each case, Gille analyzes how practices of production and consumption were affected by the proliferation of new standards and regulations that came with entry into the EU. She identifies a new modality of power—the materialization of politics, or achieving political goals with the seemingly apolitical tools of tinkering with technology and infrastructure—and elucidates a new approach to understanding globalization, materiality, and transnational politics. ZSUZSA GILLE is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. She is author of From the Cult of Waste to the Trash Heap of History: The Politics of Waste in Socialist and Postsocialist Hungary (IUP, 2007), editor (with Maria Todorova) of Post-Communist Nostalgia, and author (with Michael Burawoy et al.) of Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections and Imaginations in a Postmodern World.
Worldwide Rights Sociology, Global Studies 176 pages, 6 b&w illus., 2 tables, 6 x 9 10
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RAILROADS & TRANSPORTATION “Lewis has done the impossible—written an engaging and very human story about a railroad bankruptcy. This book is essential reading for those interested in a turbulent time when freight railroading came close to being nationalized.” —Jim McClellan, Senior Vice President at Norfolk Southern (retired)
“Derailed by Bankruptcy should be required reading in every law school, especially for students who aspire to become corporate attorneys. Howard H. Lewis provides valuable insights into the creation of Conrail and interesting observations of Drew Lewis before he became chairman of the Union Pacific.” —Rush Loving, author of The Men Who Loved Trains
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Derailed by Bankruptcy Life after the Reading Railroad HOWARD H. LEWIS FOREWORD BY JOHN C. SPYCHALSKI What happened when the US government stopped investing in railroads and started investing in highways and air travel? By the late 1970s, six major eastern railroads had declared bankruptcy. Although he didn’t like trains, Howard H. Lewis became the primary lawyer for the Reading Railroad during its legendary bankruptcy case. Here, Lewis provides a frank account of the high-intensity litigation and courtroom battles over the US government’s proposal to form Conrail out of the six bankrupt railroads, which meant taking the Reading’s property, leaving the railroad to prove its worth. After five grueling years, the case was ultimately settled for $186 million—three times the original offer from the US government—and Lewis became known as a champion defender of both the railroad industry and its assets. HOWARD H. LEWIS, a graduate of Harvard Law School, has practiced law for over 50 years.
Worldwide Rights Railroads & Transportation, Business & Economics 144 pages, 6 x 9 11
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ESSAYS “Thoughtful and insightful, Rafferty deftly and playfully weaves cultural and personal narrative into a book that is not just enlightening, but a pure pleasure to read.” —Sheryl St. Germain, author of Navigating Disaster: Sixteen Essays of Love and a Song of Despair
“In this riveting debut collection of lyric essays. . . Rafferty’s empathetic analysis sheds light on topics many might find superfluous or an afterthought . . . The author delves deep into the heart of past atrocities while probing the motivations of the living to memorialize, and he comes to some provocative conclusions. . .Though fixed on what remains of some of history’s darkest moments, Rafferty’s essays, both gripping and wonderfully reflective, illuminate.” —Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) ALSO OF INTEREST:
Hallow This Ground COLIN RAFFERTY Beginning outside the boarded-up windows of Columbine High School and ending almost twelve years later on the fields of Shiloh National Military Park, Hallow This Ground revolves around monuments and memorials—physical structures that mark the intersection of time and place. In the ways they invite us to interact with them, these sites teach us to recognize our ties to the past. Colin Rafferty explores places as familiar as his hometown of Kansas City and as alien as the concentration camps of Poland in an attempt to understand not only our common histories, but also his own past, present, and future. Rafferty blends the travel essay with the lyric, the memoir with the analytic, in this meditation on the ways personal histories intersect with History, and how those intersections affect the way we understand and interact with Place. COLIN RAFFERTY teaches creative writing at the University of Mary Washington.
Worldwide Rights Essays 208 pages, 5.25 x 8 12
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MIDDLE EAST “Merih Erol’s careful examination of the prominent church cantors of this period, their opinions on Byzantine, Ottoman and European musics as well as their relationship with both the Patriarchate and wealthy Greeks of Istanbul presents a detailed picture of a community trying to define their national identity during a transition.” —Mehmet Ali Sanlikol, author of The Musician Mehters
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Greek Orthodox Music in Ottoman Istanbul Nation and Community in the Era of Reform MERIH EROL During the late Ottoman period (1856–1922), a time of contestation about imperial policy toward minority groups, music helped the Ottoman Greeks in Istanbul define themselves as a distinct cultural group. A part of the largest non-Muslim minority within a multi-ethnic and multi-religious empire, the Greek Orthodox educated elite engaged in heated discussions about their cultural identity, Byzantine heritage, and prospects for the future, at the heart of which were debates about the place of traditional liturgical music in a community that was confronting modernity and westernization. Merih Erol draws on archival evidence from ecclesiastical and lay sources dealing with understandings of Byzantine music and history, forms of religious chanting, the life stories of individual cantors, and other popular and scholarly sources of the period. Audio examples keyed to the text are available online at www.ethnomultimedia.org. MERIH EROL is Onassis Foundation Visiting Faculty in the Department of History at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. She has been a visiting scholar at Harvard and Princeton Universities, the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, and the Center for Advanced Study, Sofia.
Worldwide Rights Middle East, Ethnomusicology, History 304 pages, 12 b&w illus., 6 x 9
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AFRICA
Readings in the International Relations of Africa EDITED BY TOM YOUNG These readings in international relations in Africa grapple with the continent’s changing place in the world. The essays confront issues such as the increasing tempo of armed conflict, the tendency of Western states and agencies to intervene in African settings, the presence of China, and the health of African states and their ability to participate in the global economy. Questions regarding sovereignty, leading regional actors, conflict and resolution, and the neoliberal African renaissance add to the broad thematic coverage presented in this timely volume. TOM YOUNG teaches politics and international relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Worldwide Rights Africa, Political Science 400 pages, 5 maps, 1 table, 7 x 10
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RUSSIA & EASTERN EUROPE “An original and well-researched study of the incorporation of the Bashkir lands and their transformation into a Russian imperial region over the course of three and a half centuries. Steinwedel argues that the history of Bashkiria exposes a number of the empire’s achievements as a multiethnic society. . . . He draws out both important shifts and abiding continuities in the history of the region [and] by employing a multi-dimensional approach, covering a range of intersecting topics, provides a fuller appreciation for the region. He also does a nice job pointing out the useful commonalities and differences between the Bashkir lands and other parts of the empire, making a compelling case for Bashkiria’s importance for understanding larger processes.” —Willard Sunderland, author of Taming the Wild Field: Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe ALSO OF INTEREST:
Threads of Empire Loyalty and Tsarist Authority in Bashkiria, 1552–1917 CHARLES STEINWEDEL Threads of Empire examines how Russia’s imperial officials and intellectual elites made and maintained their authority among the changing intellectual and political currents in Eurasia from the mid-16th century to the revolution of 1917. The book focuses on a region 750 miles east of Moscow known as Bashkiria. The region was split nearly evenly between Russian and Turkic language speakers, both nomads and farmers. Ufa province at Bashkiria’s core had the largest Muslim population of any province in the empire. The empire’s leading Muslim official, the mufti, was based there, but the region also hosted a Russian Orthodox bishop. Bashkirs and peasants had different legal status, and powerful Russian Orthodox and Muslim nobles dominated the peasant estate. By the 20th century, industrial mining and rail commerce gave rise to a class structure of workers and managers. Bashkiria thus presents a fascinating case study of empire in all its complexities and of how the tsarist empire’s ideology and categories of rule changed over time. CHARLES STEINWEDEL is Associate Professor of History at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago.
Worldwide Rights Russia & Eastern Europe 344 pages, 5 b&w illus., 6 maps, 6 x 9
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PHILOSOPHY “A wide-ranging and impassioned text that argues for the ongoing relevance of pragmatism in contemporary life. John J. Stuhr reminds us that philosophy should be measured by the degree that it abandons the armchair and ventures outside of the narrow confines of the academy to inspire, motivate, and enact concrete change in oneself, others, and the wider world.” —Megan Craig, author of Levinas and James: Toward a Pragmatic Phenomenology
“How might philosophers speak from and to experiences that are based on values and habits that are destructive for the ends they intend? Speak in ways that encourage and support constructive transformations of those obstructive ways of life? John J. Stuhr develops a head-on confrontation with many habitual types of Western philosophical thought as he wrestles with fundamental questions of language, philosophical method, communal life, and personal transformations.” —Charles E. Scott, Vanderbilt University ALSO OF INTEREST:
Pragmatic Fashions Pluralism, Democracy, Relativism, and the Absurd JOHN J. STUHR John J. Stuhr, a leading voice in American philosophy, sets forth a view of pragmatism as a personal work of art or fashion. Stuhr develops his pragmatism by putting pluralism forward, setting aside absolutism and nihilism, opening new perspectives on democracy, and focusing on love. He creates a space for a philosophy that is liable to failure and that is experimental, pluralist, relativist, radically empirical, radically democratic, and absurd. Full color illustrations enhance this lyrical commitment to a new version of pragmatism. JOHN J. STUHR is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and American Studies and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Emory University. He is author of Pragmatism, Postmodernism, and the Future of Philosophy and editor of 100 Years of Pragmatism: William James’s Revolutionary Philosophy (IUP, 2010).
Worldwide Rights Philosophy 288 pages 6 x 9, 45 color illus. 16
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PHILOSOPHY “Skillfully places James’s work in cultural and historical context, richly exploring how pragmatism functioned and continues to function as a mode of American cultural rhetoric as the U.S. struggles to understand itself in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.” —Shannon Sullivan, author of Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism
“Continues and adds to a rich conversation among American philosophers concerning the origins of pragmatism and its possibilities for the future.” —William Gavin, University of Southern Maine
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William James, Pragmatism, and American Culture DEBORAH WHITEHEAD William James, Pragmatism, and American Culture focuses on the work of William James and the relationship between the development of pragmatism and its historical, cultural, and political roots in 19th-century America. Deborah Whitehead reads pragmatism through the intersecting themes of narrative, gender, nation, politics, and religion. As she considers how pragmatism helps to explain the United States to itself, Whitehead articulates a contemporary pragmatism and shows how it has become a powerful and influential discourse in American intellectual and popular culture. DEBORAH WHITEHEAD is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Worldwide Rights Philosophy 240 pages 6 x 9, 1 table 17
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EDUCATION
“Offers an extensive examination of ‘critical reading’ in terms of what it is, how it is understood both by students and faculty from a range of disciplinary angles, how it is taught, and how it could be taught when informed by research. What is most valuable is the fact that the authors’ conclusions are anchored in and derived from actual student reading activity. . . . An important contribution to scholarship.” —Patricia Donahue, Lafayette College
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Critical Reading in Higher Education Academic Goals and Social Engagement
KAREN MANARIN, MIRIAM CAREY, MELANIE RATHBURN, AND GLEN RYLAND. FOREWORD BY PAT HUTCHINGS Faculty often worry that students can’t or won’t read critically, a foundational skill for success in academic and professional endeavors. “Critical reading” refers both to reading for academic purposes and reading for social engagement. This volume is based on collaborative, multidisciplinary research into how students read in first-year courses in subjects ranging from scientific literacy through composition. The authors discovered the good (students can read), the bad (students are not reading for social engagement), and the ugly (class assignments may be setting students up for failure) and they offer strategies that can better engage students and provide more meaningful reading experiences. KAREN MANARIN is Associate Professor of English at Mount Royal University. MIRIAM CAREY is Associate Professor of Policy Studies and in the Academic Development Centre at Mount Royal University. MELANIE RATHBURN is Associate Professor of Biology and General Education at Mount Royal University. GLEN RYLAND is Assistant Professor in the Department of General Education, Faculty of Teaching and Learning at Mount Royal University.
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Worldwide Rights Education 208 pages, 9 b&w illus., 6 x 9
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EDUCATION
“This book provides a careful study not only of the ways that faculty development changes teachers’ conceptions of student learning and how to foster it, but what those changes actually yield in student achievement. At a time of major pressures for higher education institutions to defend their value and account for their outcomes, this book could not be more welcome.” —Chris M. Anson, North Carolina State University
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Faculty Development and Student Learning Assessing the Connections WILLIAM CONDON, ELLEN R. IVERSON, CATHRYN A. MANDUCA, CAROL RUTZ, AND GUDRUN WILLETT. FOREWORD BY MARY TAYLOR HUBER AFTERWORD BY RICHARD HASWELL This volume reports the results of a multi-year study to assess how students’ learning is affected by faculty members’ efforts to become better teachers. The authors show that faculty participation in professional development activities positively affects classroom pedagogy, student learning, and the overall culture of teaching and learning in a college or university. WILLIAM CONDON is Professor of English at Washington State University. He is co-author of Writing the Information Superhighway and Assessing the Portfolio: Principles for Theory, Practice, and Research. ELLEN R. IVERSON is Director of Evaluation at the Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College. CATHRYN A. MANDUCA is Director of the Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College. CAROL RUTZ is Director of the Writing Program at Carleton College. GUDRUN WILLETT is Project Director for the Tracer Project and an associate at Ethnoscapes Global, LLC.
Worldwide Rights Education 208 pages, 4 b&w illus., 16 tables, 6 x 9
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LITERARY CRITICISM & THEORY “Definitely original in its approach, since it combines a conceptual approach with a more applied one. The book is a serious contribution to the field of mapping spatial narratives and to a better understanding of the production and spatial structure of fictional places.” —Sébastien Caquard, Concordia University
“It will likely be the indispensable touchstone for any future work in these areas with respect to Australian cultural studies.” —Robert T. Tally, Texas State University
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Imagined Landscapes Geovisualizing Australian Spatial Narratives JANE STADLER, PETA MITCHELL, AND STEPHEN CARLETON Imagined Landscapes teams geocritical analysis with digital visualization techniques to map and interrogate films, novels, and plays in which space and place figure prominently. Drawing upon A Cultural Atlas of Australia, a database-driven interactive digital map used to identify patterns of representation in Australia’s cultural landscape, the book presents an integrated perspective on the translation of space across narrative forms and pioneers new ways of seeing and understanding landscape. Among the items discussed are Wake in Fright, a novel by Kenneth Cook, adapted iconically to the screen; the Australian North as a mythic space; and spatial and temporal narrative shifts in retellings of the story of Alexander Pearce, an escaped convict who gained notoriety for resorting to cannibalism. JANE STADLER is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies in the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland, Australia. PETA MITCHELL is Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology. STEPHEN CARLETON is Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication and Arts, University of Queensland.
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Worldwide Rights Literary Criticism & Theory 272 pages 6 x 9, 11 b&w illus., 14 maps
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