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Europe
America and the Making of an Independent Ireland
Animation Behind the Iron Curtain Eleanor Cowen
September 2020 212pp 49 color illus., 50 b&w illus. 9780861967452 £24.99 / $32.00 PB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
A History Francis M. Carroll
The Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series January 2021 312pp 12 b&w illus., 3
Animation Behind the Iron Curtain is a journey of discovery into the world of Soviet era animation from Eastern Bloc countries. How Irish Americans responded to the movement This excursion into Soviet era animation brings to light magnificent art, ruminations on the human for Irish independence and pressurised the US condition, and celebrations of innocence and joy. government to intervene on the side of Ireland. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
b&w tables 9781479805655 £27.99 / $35.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Between Empire and Nation
Bowling for Communism
Muslim Reform in the Balkans Milena Methodieva
Urban Ingenuity at the End of East Germany Andrew Demshuk
Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe January 2021 352pp 9781503613379 £54.00 / $65.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
October 2020 272pp 40 b&w halftones, 1 map 9781501751660 £33.00 / $39.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Between Empire and Nation tells the story of the transformation of the Muslim community in modern Bulgaria during a period of imperial dissolution, conflicting national and imperial enterprises, and the emergence of new national and ethnic identities.
Illustrates how civic life functioned in Leipzig, East Germany, on the eve of the 1989 Revolution. Explores acts of “urban ingenuity” like local communist officials’ construction of a palatial bowling alley without Berlin’s knowledge.
“Can You Run Away from Sorrow?”
Canada and Ireland
A Political and Diplomatic History Philip J. Currie
Mothers Left Behind in 1990s Belgrade Ivana Bajic-Hajdukovic
October 2020 284pp 22 b&w photos 9780774863285 £20.99 / $35.95 NIP UBC PRESS
October 2020 156pp 9780253050069 £19.99 / $25.00 PB 9780253050045 £62.00 / $75.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Canadians have been involved in, intrigued by, and frustrated with Irish politics, from the 1860s to the present. This intriguing The fall of Yugoslavia in the 1990s led citizens to look for a better life elsewhere. This powerful and study sheds light on countries’ relationship, revealing the origins, trials, and successes of the moving work reveals the impact that waves of intimate and at times turbulent connection emigration from Serbia had on families, between the two nations. particularly on elderly mothers who stayed. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
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Comrades Betrayed
Diagnosing Dissent
Rebecca Ayako Bennette
Jewish World War I Veterans under Hitler Michael Geheran
October 2020 240pp 1 map 9781501751202 £33.00 / $39.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History October 2020 312pp 22 b&w hts., 1 map 9781501751011 £27.99 / $34.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Based on archival research that constitutes the largest study of psychiatric patient files from 1914 to 1918, Diagnosing Dissent examines the important space that wartime psychiatry provided soldiers expressing objection to the war.
Presents a major challenge to the prevailing view that Jewish veterans were left isolated by 1938. Many Jewish former combatants believed that Germany would never betray them. Nonetheless the Holocaust was a horrific reality.
Divining Nature
Foresters, Borders, and Bark Beetles
Aesthetics of Enchantment in Enlightenment France Tili Boon Cuillé
The Future of Europe’s Last Primeval Forest Eunice Blavascunas
December 2020 320pp 9781503613362 £54.00 / $65.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
September 2020 236pp 20 b&w illus., 1 map 9780253049605 £18.99 / $24.00 PB 9780253049582 £62.00 / $75.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Enlightenment remains widely associated with the rise of scientific progress and the loss of religious faith, a dual tendency that is thought to have contributed to the disenchantment of the world. Tili Boon Cuillé questions the accuracy of this narrative by investigating the fate of the marvelous in the age of reason.
An intimate ethnographic account of Europe’s last primeval forest, gathered in more than 20 years of research, to untangle complex forest conflicts between protection and use.
Forms of Life
Hiding the Guillotine
Aesthetics and Biopolitics in German Culture Andreas Gailus
Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought September 2020 408pp 9781501749810 £23.99 / $29.95 PB 9781501749803 £95.00 / $115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Argues that the neglect of aesthetics in most contemporary theories of biopolitics has resulted in an overly restricted conception of life; it should instead be attuned to the interplay and conflict between its many dimensions and forms.
Public Executions in France, 1870–1939 Emmanuel Taïeb, Translated by Sarah-Louise Raillard, Foreword by Mitchel P. Roth
November 2020 306pp 1 b&w line drawing, 3 graphs 9781501750946 £41.00 / $49.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Exposes the rituals and the theatre of the death penalty. Tells us who watched, who participated, and who criticized (and ultimately brought an end to) a spectacle the state called “punishment”.
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In Good Faith
In the Manner of the Franks
Arabic Translation and Translators in Early Modern Spain Claire M. Gilbert
Hunting, Kingship, and Masculinity in Early Medieval Europe Eric J. Goldberg
October 2020 320pp 10 illus. 9780812252460 £58.00 / $69.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
The Middle Ages Series August 2020 384pp 63 illus. 9780812252354 £72.00 / $89.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Gilbert uses the notion of “fiduciary translation” to illuminate the ways in which Arabic-Spanish translators in early modern Spain made themselves indispensable for the administration of the empire, despite the animosity Arabic speakers faced in the age of the Inquisition.
A history of hunting from the fourth through the tenth centuries. Goldberg focuses on elite men and the role of hunting in articulating kingship, status, and manhood in the post-Roman world.
Jews and Germans
Knowing Fictions
Promise, Tragedy, and the Search for Normalcy Guenter Lewy
Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World Barbara Fuchs
October 2020 282pp 17 photos, 2 illus., 1 table 9780827615038 £27.99 / $35.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Haney Foundation Series November 2020 208pp 3 hts. 9780812252613 £44.00 / $55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
The only book in English to delve fully into the history and challenges of the German-Jewish relationship, from before the Holocaust to the present day. Explores if the relationship was ever truly reciprocal, how it has evolved since the Holocaust, and what can it become.
Barbara Fuchs engages the picaresque as a set of literary strategies that interrogate the mechanisms of truth-telling itself and shows how picaresque texts effectively encouraged readers to adopt a critical stance toward the truth claims implicit in the forms of authoritative discourse proliferating in Imperial Spain.
Living by the Sword
Love, Power, and Gender in SeventeenthCentury French Fairy Tales
Weapons and Material Culture in France and Britain, 600– 1600 Kristen Brooke Neuschel
Bronwyn Reddan
November 2020 242pp 18 b&w hts., 4 color plates 9781501752124 £18.99 / $23.95 PB 9781501753336 £43.00 / $49.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Women and Gender in the Early Modern World December 2020 270pp 1 illus., 2 tables, 2 graphs, 6 appendixes 9781496216151 £54.00 / $65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Draws on diverse sources from archaeology, military and social history, literature, and beyond to inspire readers (including collectors and reenactors) to stretch the boundaries of what they know as the “war and culture” genre.
How the women writers who dominated the first French fairy-tale vogue used the genre to critique the power dynamics of courtship and marriage.
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Mobilizing Black Germany
Remaking Islam in African Portugal
Lisbon—Mecca—Bissau Michelle Johnson
Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement Tiffany N. Florvil
Framing the Global September 2020 202pp 26 b&w illus. 9780253049773 £28.99 / $24.00 PB 9780253049766 £66.00 / $80.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
December 2020 296pp 9780252085413 £20.99 / $26.95 PB 9780252043512 £88.00 / $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
When Guinean Muslims leave their homeland, they encounter radically new versions of Islam and new approaches to religion more generally. In Remaking Islam in African Portugal, Michelle C. Johnson explores the religious lives of these migrants in the context of diaspora.
A rare in-depth look at how queer and straight women shaped the Black German movement in the 1980s and 1990s. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Reproductive Citizens
Subscription Theater
Gender, Immigration, and the State in Modern France, 1880– 1945 Nimisha Barton
Democracy and Drama in Britain and Ireland, 18801939 Matthew Franks
September 2020 306pp 16 b&w hts. 9781501749636 £45.00 / $54.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Material Texts September 2020 296pp 7 illus. 9780812252477 £72.00 / $89.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Shows how France welcomed immigrants, mobilizing naturalization and welfare assistance to ensure they would bear French-assimilated children, and how immigrants often agreed to this bargain because they, too, stood to gain.
Asks why many turn-of-the-century British and Irish citizens joined subscription lists, and argues that subscribers shaped how we value audience and repertoire. A fresh look at the relationship between ephemera, drama, and democracy.
The Albert Memmi Reader
The Book of Books
Biblical Interpretation, Literary Culture, and the Political Imagination from Erasmus to Milton Thomas Fulton
Albert Memmi, Edited by Jonathan Judaken & Michael Lejman
France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization February 2021 384pp 9781496203236 £66.00 / $80.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
December 2020 400pp 30 illus. 9780812252668 £60.00 / $75.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Fulton charts the recovery, interpretation, and reuse of scripture in early modern English literary culture, exploring uses of the Bible as a combination of text and paratext that was continually transformed for political purposes.
This anthology presents Albert Memmi’s insights on the legacies of the colonial era, critical theories of race, and his own story as a French writer of Tunisian and Jewish descent.
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The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature
The Jewish Eighteenth Century
A European Biography, 1700– 1750 Shmuel Feiner Translated by Jeffrey M. Green
Writing the Unspeakable Joseph Valente & Margot Gayle Backus Foreword by Fintan O’Toole
Olamot Series in Humanities and Social Sciences December 2020 548pp 9780253049469 £33.00 / $40.00 PB 9780253049452 £79.00 / $95.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Irish Culture, Memory, Place December 2020 296pp 4 color illus., 16 b&w illus. 9780253053183 £21.99 / $28.00 PB 9780253053176 £58.00 / $70.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
The twisting, fascinating world of the first half of the 18th century, as seen by the Jews of Europe.
Valente and Backus examine modern cultural responses to child sex abuse in Ireland.
The Military Enlightenment
The Memory Work of Jewish Spain
Daniela Flesler & Adrián Pérez Melgosa
War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon Christy L. Pichichero
Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies December 2020 390pp 49 b&w illus. 9780253050120 £41.00 / $49.00 PB 9780253050106 £83.00 / $100.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
January 2021 318pp 16 b&w hts., 2 maps 9781501752063 £21.99 / $27.95 PB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Spains’s 2015 granting of nationality to the descendants of Jews expelled in 1492 is part of the country’s ongoing “re-discovery” of its Jewish heritage. This book examines the implications of this trend via analysis of a comprehensive range of cultural practices and political initiatives.
Discovers that the Geneva Conventions, PTSD, the military “band of brothers,” and soldierly heroism all found their antecedents in the 18-century French armed forces.
The Spirit of French Capitalism
The Truth Society
Science, Disinformation, and Politics in Berlusconi’s Italy Noelle Molé Liston
Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment Charly Coleman
Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge November 2020 228pp 14 b&w hts. 9781501750793 £20.99 / $25.95 PB 9781501750786 £95.00 / $115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times
January 2021 376pp 9781503614826 £21.99 / $28.00 PB 9781503608436 £74.00 / $90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Scrutinizes Italy's late twentieth century political culture, particularly the impact of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Examines how this truth-bending political era made science, logic, and rationality ideas that needed saving.
Drawing on the economic writings of 18-century French theologians, historian Charly Coleman uncovers the surprising influence of the Catholic Church on the development of capitalism.
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The Visigothic Kingdom in Iberia
Writing Occupation
Jewish Émigré Voices in Wartime France Julia Elsky
Construction and Invention Santiago Castellanos
October 2020 288pp 8 illus. 9780812252538 £64.00 / $79.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture December 2020 304pp 9781503613676 £56.00 / $65.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Reading early medieval Spanish documents that are little known to many Anglophone scholars, including records of church councils, sermons, and letters, Santiago Castellanos charts the formation of the Visigothic kingdom in Iberia and how it was later reinvented from the episcopal point of view.
This book examines the Jewish émigré writers who continued to write in their adopted language during the Nazi occupation of France. Elsky argues that these writers reexamined both their Jewishness and their place as authors in France through the language in which they wrote.
Between Two Millstones, Book 2
A Fugitive Modernism Marc Caplan
Exile in America, 1978-1994 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Translated by Clare Kitson & Melanie Moore Foreword by Daniel J. Mahoney
German Jewish Cultures January 2021 344pp 9780253052001 £33.00 / $40.00 PB 9780253051981 £82.00 / $95.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Caplan explores the encounter between Eastern European Jews and German culture following World War I. Concentrating on a group of avantgarde Yiddish writers working in Berlin during the Weimar Republic, Caplan examines how these writers became central to modernist aesthetics.
The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Series November 2020 680pp 9780268109004 £27.99 / $39.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s literary memoirs of his years in the West after his exile from the USSR.
Fyodor Dostoevsky—The Gathering Storm (1846– 1847)
Gender, Pleasure, and Violence
The Construction of Expert Knowledge of Sexuality in Poland Agnieszka Kościańska
A Life in Letters, Memoirs, and Criticism Thomas Gaiton Marullo
New Anthropologies of Europe January 2021 320pp 9780253053091 £35.00 / $42.00 PB 9780253053084 £77.00 / $90.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies November 2020 270pp 9781501751851 £36.00 / $42.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Kościańska explores how the collapse of socialism in Poland brought both restrictions in gender rights and new opportunities.
Second of three volumes; a diary-portrait of his early years drawn from the letters, memoirs, and criticism of the writer, plus others’ testimony.
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Russia
Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin
God, Tsar, and People
Haunted Empire
The Political Culture of Early Modern Russia
Gothic and the Russian Imperial Uncanny Valeria Sobol
Daniel B. Rowland Foreword by Russell E. Martin
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies September 2020 216pp 4 b&w hts., 1 map 9781501750571 £41.00 / $49.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies November 2020 420pp 47 b&w hts., 14 b&w line drawings, 1 chart 9781501753725 £23.99 / $29.95 PB 9781501752094 £95.00 / $115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Combines theories of empire and colonialism with close readings of literary texts. Explores how Gothic horror arises from the threating ambiguity of Russia’s past and present, producing what Sobol terms “the imperial uncanny.”
Presents a nuanced picture of Russian political thought during the two centuries before Peter the Great came to power.
Heart of Reality
March 1917
Essays on Beauty, Love, and Ethics Vladimir Sergeyevich Soloviev Edited & translated by Vladimir Wozniuk
The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 1 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Translated by Marian Schwartz
The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Series October 2020 688pp 9780268102661 £22.99 / $29.00 NIP UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
September 2020 264pp 9780268108939 £27.99 / $35.00 NIP UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Wozniuk offers a lucid translation, careful annotations, and a substantive introduction that make many of Soloviev’s writings accessible for the first time to an English-speaking audience.
Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s epic work, published to commemorate the centenary of the Russian Revolution.
Museums of Communism
Nested Nationalism
Making and Unmaking Nations in the Soviet Caucasus Krista A. Goff
New Memory Sites in Central and Eastern Europe Edited by Stephen M. Norris
January 2021 306pp 20 b&w hts. 9781501753275 £41.00 / $49.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
November 2020 440pp 89 b&w illus. 9780253050328 £33.00 / $40.00 PB 9780253050304 £83.00 / $100.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on extensive archival and oral history research conducted in Armenia, To guide the wider narrative, many former Azerbaijan, Dagestan, Georgia, and Moscow, Goff communist countries constructed museums argues that Soviet nationality policies produced chronicling their experiences. This book explores recursive, nested relationships between majority the intersection of history, commemoration, and and minority nationalisms and national victimization evident in museums built after 1991. identifications in the USSR.
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Not According to Plan
Russian Colonization of Alaska
Filmmaking under Stalin Maria Belodubrovskaya
Baranov’s Era, 1799–1818 Andrei Val’terovich Grinëv Translated by Richard L. Bland
November 2020 266pp 6 b&w hts., 1 chart 9781501752025 £19.99 / $24.95 PB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Reveals the limits on the power of even the most repressive totalitarian regimes to create and control propaganda. A revisionist account of Soviet filmmaking between 1930 and 1953, highlighting the extent to which it remained stubbornly artisanal in its methods.
November 2020 306pp 6 photos, 6 illus., 1 map, 8 tables, 1 glossary, 2 appendixes 9781496222169 £58.00 / $70.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
First comprehensive study of the origin and evolution of the Russian state and Russians’ colonization of Siberia and North America. Draws on political economy, history, and ethnography.
Solzhenitsyn and American Culture
Storytelling in Siberia
The Olonkho Epic in a Changing World Robin P Harris
The Russian Soul in the West Edited by David P. Deavel & Jessica Hooten Wilson
Folklore Studies in Multicultural World October 2020 256pp 9780252085529 £22.99 / $30.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Series
October 2020 400pp 9780268108250 £50.00 / $60.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Olonkho, the epic narrative and song tradition of Reconsiders Solzhenitsyn’s work from a variety of Siberia’s Sakha people, declined almost to perspectives—his faith, his politics, the influences extinction in the Soviet era. Harris records how and context of his literature. Provides a prophetic the Sakha have used the Masterpiece program to vision for current confusion over universal ideals. revive olonkho, restoring their cultural identity. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
The Hungry Steppe
The Things of Life
Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan Sarah Cameron
Materiality in Late Soviet Russia Alexey Golubev
November 2020 294pp 14 b&w hts., 4 maps 9781501752018 £19.99 / $24.95 PB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
December 2020 264pp 18 b&w hts. 9781501752889 £33.00 / $39.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
A social and cultural history of material objects and spaces during the late socialist era. It traces the biographies of Soviet things, examining how the material world of the late Soviet period influenced Soviet people’s gender roles, habitual choices, social trajectories, and imaginary aspirations.
Examines the Kazakh famine of 1930–33 where more than 1.5 million people perished, a quarter of Kazakhstan’s population. Drawing upon state and Communist party documents, as well as oral history and memoir accounts in Russian and in Kazakh, Cameron reveals this brutal story and its devastating consequences for Kazakh society.
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Unity in Faith?
Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000–1900
Edinoverie, Russian Orthodoxy, and Old Belief, 1800–1918 James White
A Sourcebook Edited by Valerie A. Kivelson & Christine D. Worobec
November 2020 282pp 9780253049728 £27.99 / $35.00 PB 9780253049704 £65.00 / $75.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies November 2020 516pp 13 b&w halftonets, 2 maps 9781501750656 £25.99 / $32.95 PB 9781501750649 £99.00 / $115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Recent Highlights: Europe
In Unity in Faith?, James White’s study of edinoverie offers an unparalleled perspective of the complex triangular relationship between the state, the Orthodox Church, and religious minorities in imperial Russia.
The first systematic overview of witchcraft laws and trials from medieval times to the late 1800s.
Alternative Globalizations
Dark Finance
Illiquidity and Authoritarianism at the Margins of Europe Fabio Mattioli
Eastern Europe and the Postcolonial World Edited by James Mark, Artemy M. Kalinovsky & Steffi Marung
June 2020 248pp 9781503612938 £20.99 / $26.00 PB 9781503611658 £70.00 / $85.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
February 2020 352pp 12 b&w illus., 3 b&w tables 9780253046512 £40.00 / $48.00 PB 9780253046505 £83.00 / $100.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Dark Finance offers one of the first ethnographic accounts of financial expansion and its political impacts in Eastern Europe.
This collection is the first to explore alternative forms of globalization across the socialist world during the Cold War.
Derry City
Osnabrück Station to Jerusalem
Memory and Political Struggle in Northern Ireland Margo Shea
Hélène Cixous Translated by Peggy Kamuf Foreword by Eva Hoffman
June 2020 348pp 9780268107932 £45.00 / $55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
February 2020 144pp 9780823287628 £18.99 / $24.95 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines Catholic Derry from the turn of the twentieth century to the end of the 1960s and the start of the Troubles. Provides an account of the cultural, political, and social history using archival research, oral histories, landscape analysis, and public speeches and shows how communities maintain their agency in the midst of political and cultural conflict.
An account of Cixous’s remarkable journey to her mother’s birthplace and of the Jewish community of a German town that was wiped out in the Holocaust. Drawn from the stories told to Cixous by her mother and grandmother, this literary work reimagines fragments of their stories.
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Remains of Socialism
The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume II
Memory and the Futures of the Past in Postsocialist Hungary Maya Nadkarni July 2020 252pp 13 b&w hts. 9781501750182 £22.99 / $28.95 PB 9781501750175 £95.00 / $115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
A Novel Peter Weiss Translated by Joel Scott
February 2020 336pp 9781478006992 £21.99 / $27.95 PB 9781478006145 £87.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Remains of Socialism, Maya Nadkarni investigates the changing fates of the socialist past in postsocialist Hungary. She introduces the concept of “remains”—both physical objects and cultural remainders—to analyze all that Hungarians sought to leave behind after the end of state socialism.
Appearing in English for the first time, the second volume of Weiss’s novel depicts anti-fascist resistance, radical proletarian political movements and the relationship between art and resistance from the late 1930s to World War II.
The Birth of Solidarity
The Burden of the Past
The History of the French Welfare State François Ewald Edited by Melinda Cooper Translated by Timothy Scott Johnson
History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Ukraine Edited by Anna Wylegała & Małgorzata GłowackaGrajper
February 2020 320pp 9780253046710 £37.00 / $45.00 PB 9780253046703 £83.00 / $100.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
May 2020 304pp 9781478008231 £21.99 / $27.95 PB 9781478007715 £87.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
The works collected in The Burden of the Past focus on commemorative practices, the politics of history, and the way memory influences Ukrainian politics, identity, and culture.
Recent Highlights: Russia
One of the most important historical and philosophical studies of the rise of the welfare state, appearing here in English for the first time.
Journeys through the Russian Empire
Mixed Messages
Mediating Native Belonging in Asian Russia Kathryn E. Graber
The Photographic Legacy of Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky William Craft Brumfield
July 2020 528pp 409 illus., incl. 398 in color 9781478006022 £41.00 / $49.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
This lavishly illustrated volume features images by early-twentieth-century photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky juxtaposed against photographs by William Craft Brumfield. Documents Russia’s architectural, artistic, and cultural heritage.
August 2020 288pp 18 b&w hts., 3 maps 9781501750519 £23.99 / $29.95 PB 9781501750502 £95.00 / $115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Focusing on language and media in Asian Russia, particularly in Buryat territories, engages debates about the role of minority media in society, alternative visions of modernity, and the impact of media on everyday language use.
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