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A Winning Dialect
Reinventing Linguistic Tradition in Rural Norway
Thea R. Strand
Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
June 2024 160pp 6 b&w illus., 2 b&w maps, 5 b&w figures
9781487545963 £18.99/ $24.95 PB
9781487545956 £52.00/ $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
A Winning Dialect tells the story of linguistic and cultural change in rural Norway over the last two decades.
From 1st April 2024
Ambivalent Pleasures
Soft Drugs and Embodied Anxiety in Early Modern Europe
Scott K. Taylor
August 2024 318pp 9 b&w halftones
9781501775468 £45.00/ $49.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Taylor shows how the novel experience of consuming psychotropic drugs like sugar, chocolate, coffee and opium embodied Europeans' anxieties about race and empire, religious strife, shifting notions of class and gender roles, and the moral implications of urbanization and global trade.
Automotive Empire
How Cars and Roads Fueled European Colonialism in Africa
Andrew Denning
July 2024 324pp 43 b&w halftones, 14 maps
9781501775369 £48.00/ $53.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Andrew Denning uncovers how roads and vehicles began to transform colonial societies across Africa, but rarely in the manner Europeans expected. Like seafaring ships and railroads, automobiles and roads were more than a mode of transport—they organized colonial spaces and structured the political, economic, and social relations of empire, both within African colonies and between colonies and the European metropole.
Agents without Empire
Mobility and Race-Making in Sixteenth-Century France
Antónia Szabari
March 2024 288pp 23 b/w illus.
9781531506674 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781531506667 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores race making in this period of European history in the context of diplomatic reposts, travel accounts, natural history, propaganda, religious literature, poetry, theater, fiction, and cheap print. It intervenes in conversations in whiteness studies, race theory, theories of agency and matter, and the history of diplomacy and spying to offer a new account of race making in early modern Europe.
An Ordinary Life?
The Journeys of Tonia Lechtman, 1918–1996
Anna Müller
Polish and Polish-American Studies Series
March 2024 376pp
9780821425435 £24.99/ $28.95 NIP
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
A Jew, Pole, daughter, mother, wife, Communist, migrant, Holocaust survivor, and refugee driven to fight for a better world. Ordinary or anything but? In Tonia Lechtman’s life, the lofty and the quotidian intertwined, making everything she did both monumental and mundane. Who was she?
Berlin and the Cold War
Edited by Seth Givens and Ingo TrauschweizerContributions by Walter Momper
Baker Series in Peace and Conflict Studies
June 2024 232pp 14 b&w illus.
9780821425343 £36.00/ $39.95 PB
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
With a focus on Berlin, this assessment of transatlantic relations since 1945 emphasizes the importance of diplomacy and long-term conflict management at a time when many commentators speculate about a new cold war developing.
Between the Wires
The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Lviv
Waitman Wade Beorn
August 2024 390pp 28 photographs, 4 illus., 2 maps, 3 tables, index
9781496237590 £63.00/ $70.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
The history of Janowska, one of the deadliest concentration camps in the Holocaust, is told for the first time by bringing together neverbefore-seen evidence and painstakingly detailed research from archives in seven countries and in as many languages.
Bodies beyond Labels
Finding Joy in the Shadows of Imperial Spain
Edited by Frederick A. de Armas and Daniel Holcombe
Toronto Iberic
July 2024 336 pp 25 b&w illus.
9781487556891 £66.00/ $85.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Bodies beyond Labels presents an affirmative view of joy and non-labelled expressions of gender, sexuality, and performativity in the Spanish empire.
From 1st April 2024
Cartographies of Disappearance
Vestiges of Everyday Life in Literature
Enric Bou
Toronto Iberic
October 2024 320 pp 13 colour illus., 2 b&w illus.
9781487554675 £56.00/ $70.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Cartographies of Disappearance sheds light on representations of everyday life in an Iberian context.
From 1st April 2024
Defining and Defying Borders
Tracing Hispanism across Literary Magazines
Vanessa Marie Fernández
LATINOAMERICANA
March 2024 206 pp
9781487548629 £56.00/ $70.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Defining and Defying Borders describes how journals, magazines, and newspapers chart the complex postcolonial relationship between Spain and Latin America during the modernist era.
From 1st April 2024
Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain
Edited by Susan Larson
Toronto Iberic
July 2024 200 pp 44 b&w illus., 1 b&w table
9781487529109 £69.00/ $90.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain examines the evolution of domestic space through an analysis of the media-driven concept of comfort.
From 1st April 2024
Democratic Quality in Southern Europe
France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain
Tiago Fernandes
Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development
May 2024 370pp 49 b&w illus., 10 tables
9780268207755 £58.00/ $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Fueled by new data from the Varieties of Democracy project, Democratic Quality in Southern Europe takes a close look at the democratic trajectories of France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain over the past fifty years. Despite similar beginnings, they have experienced significant variations in the way their democracies have evolved.
Glory
The Gospel of Judas, A Novel Giuseppe Berto Translated by Gregory Conti Foreword by Alessandro Vettori
Other Voices of Italy
March 2024 240pp
9781978839571 £14.99/ $29.95 PB
9781978839588 £63.00/ $69.95 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Christ’s nemesis Judas Iscariot remains a shadowy figure in the four canonical gospels, which give contradictory reasons for why this rogue disciple betrays Christ. But how would Judas himself explain his motives? In Glory, Italian modernist Giuseppe Berto’s final novel, Judas finally tells his side of the story.
Jewish Cattle Traders in the German Countryside, 1919–1939
Economic Trust and Antisemitic Violence
Stefanie Fischer
March 2024 374pp 22 b&w illus.
9780253068729 £44.00/ $49.00 PB
9780253068712 £81.00/ $90.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores the social and economic networks in which this group operated and the informal but durable bonds between Jewish cattle traders and farmers that not even incessant Nazi attacks could break.
Maricas
Queer Cultures and State Violence in Argentina and Spain, 1942–1982
Javier Fernández-Galeano
Engendering Latin America
June 2024 322pp
9781496239556 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781496234971 £89.00/ $99.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Traces the erotic lives and legal battles of Argentine and Spanish queer people, who despite state repression and sexual violence, carved out their own spaces in metropolitan and rural cultures between the 1940s and the 1980s.
Italian Forgers
The Art Market and the Weight of the Past in Modern Italy
Carol Helstosky
May 2024 258pp 8 b&w halftones
9781501774577 £49.00/ $54.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Weaves a compelling narrative about the history of Italian identity, forgery, and the value of the past. Helstosky brings historical perspective to the study of art forgery and art fraud. She reveals how historical circumstances and structural imbalances of cultural power shaped the market for art and antiquities and amplified incidents of art deception and forgery scandals.
Life, Brazen and Garish A Tale of Three Women
Dacia Maraini
Translated by Elvira G. Di
Fabio Foreword by Sara Teardo
Other Voices of Italy
April 2024 162pp
9781978839731 £14.99/ $26.95 PB
9781978839748 £59.00/ $65.95 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Ofers a fresh take on the epistolary novel, telling the story of a family through the fragmented and disparate perspectives of daughter, mother, and grandmother. Yet even as each woman endures her private struggles, the Cascadeis forge a solidarity that transcends generations.
Monuments Decolonized
Algeria's French Colonial Heritage
Susan Slyomovics
Worlding the Middle East
July 2024 368pp
9781503639485 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781503632899 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
"Statuomania" overtook Algeria beginning in the nineteenth century. But following Algeria's independence in 1962, these monuments took on different meaning and some were "repatriated" to France. Slyomovics follows the afterlives of Frenchbuilt war memorials in Algeria and those taken to France. She analyzes the colonial nostalgia, dissonant heritage, and ongoing decolonization and iconoclasm of these works of art.
Naturalism's Imaginary Museum, French Art, and the Eclectic Nineteenth Century
Sara Pappas
University of Toronto Romance Series
October 2024 312 pp 60 colour illus., 5 b&w illus.
9781487549008 £56.00/ $70.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Analysing the works of literary naturalists writing about art, this book argues for the importance of disorder in the French art world in the nineteenth century.
From 1st April 2024
Of Memory and the Misplaced
Irish Immigrant Life Writing in the United States
Sarah O'Brien
Irish Culture, Memory, Place
January 2024 344pp
9780253067883 £45.00/ $50.00 PB
9780253067876 £90.00/ $100.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Considers the endurance and nature of Irish American memory across the twentieth century. Guided by 30 memoirs written between 1900 and 1970, Sarah O'Brien shows the prevalence of intimate and taboo themes in ordinary immigrants' writing, such as domestic violence, same-sex love, and famine-induced trauma.
Performing Parenthood
Non-Normative Fathers and Mothers in Spanish Narrative and Film
Heather Jerónimo
Toronto Iberic
August 2024 256 pp 9 b&w illus.
9781487554217 £56.00/ $70.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Drawing on examples from literature and film, Performing Parenthood explores the multiplicity within non-normative familial constructions in Spain. From 1st April 2024
Nordic Utopia
African Americans in the Twentieth Century
Edited by Leslie Anne Anderson with Ethelene Whitmire, Temi Odumosu, and Ryan Thomas Skinner
July 2024 112pp 64 color illus.
9798987929346 £45.00/ $50.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
During the twentieth century, Black Americans visited and lived in Nordic countries, studying, working, and seeking adventure, love, freedom to explore sexuality, and distance from Jim Crow segregation. Nordic Utopia captures these journeys and reflects on how some African Americans have called and continue to call Nordic countries home.
One Word Shapes a Nation
Integration Politics in Germany
Johanna Schuster-Craig
German and European Studies
August 2024 424 pp
9781487551179 £31.00/ $39.95 PB
9781487551162 £73.00/ $95.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
One Word Shapes a Nation examines the cultural, political, social, and economic influences on German integration politics, the field of public policy that shapes attitudes toward immigrants and refugees. From 1st April 2024
Perilous Passions
Ethics and Emotion in Early Modern Spain
Hilaire Kallendorf
Toronto Iberic
June 2024 400 pp 18 colour illus., 4 b&w illus.
9781487527037 £80.00/ $100.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Perilous Passions explores the ethical implications of emotion in Spanish Golden Age theatre.
From 1st April 2024
Petrarch's Penitential Psalms and Prayers
Edited and translated by Demetrio S. Yocum by Francesco PetrarcaWilliam and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature
May 2024 146pp
9780268207854 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Intricately crafted poetic and devotional works, presented in facing Latin/English format. In his extensive introduction, Yocum situates these compositions within their historical, literary, and religious contexts, deftly drawing connections to classical texts, the Bible and writings of the church fathers, and Petrarch’s own life, work, and poetics.
Politicizing Islam in Austria
The Far-Right Impact in the Twenty-First Century
Farid Hafez and Reinhard Heinisch
March 2024 228pp 1 b&w figure, 23 tables
9781978830448 £31.00/ $35.95 PB
9781978830455 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS
UNIVERSITY PRESS
In their innovative study, Hafez and Heinisch show how the far-right Austrian Freedom Party adapted anti-Muslim discourse to their political purposes and how that discourse was then appropriated by the conservative center-right Austrian People’s Party.
Queer Obscenity
Erotic Archives in Dictatorial Spain
Javier Fernandez Galeano
July 2024 264pp
9781503639508 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781503638754 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Under Spain's twentieth-century dictators, state agents not only attempted to prevent the circulation of obscenity, but also contradictorily engaged in curation initiatives that have bequeathed us an extensive queer pornographic archive. Galeano demonstrates how the incongruities of the Primo de Rivera (1923–1930) and Franco (1939–1975) regimes were manifested in the regulation of erotic material cultures.
Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World
Kristie Flannery
The Early Modern Americas
May 2024 320pp 9 b/w illus., 3 maps, 2 tables
9781512825749 £49.00/ $55.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
This book offers a new interpretation of Spanish colonial rule in the Philippine islands. Drawing on the rich archives of Spain’s Asian empire, it explains how piracy is the key to the longevity of Spain’s Asian empire. It also offers important insight into piracy’s impact on the trajectory of globalization and European imperial expansion in maritime Asia.
Portraying Authorship
Juan Manuel and the Rhetoric of Authority
Anita Savo
Toronto Iberic
May 2024 304 pp 17 b&w illus.
9781487553234 £66.00/ $85.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
This book investigates how a noted fourteenth-century Castilian writer developed and disseminated a concept of individual authorship. From 1st April 2024
Reading
Typographically
Immersed in Print in Early Modern France
Geoffrey Turnovsky
Stanford Text Technologies
June 2024 304pp
9781503637214 £63.00/ $70.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Exploring key evolutions in print in 17th- and 18thcentury France, from typeface, print runs, and format to editorial organization and punctuation, this book argues that typographic developments upholding the transparency of the printed medium were decisive for the ascendancy of immersive reading as a dominant paradigm that shaped modern perspectives on reading and literacy.
Red Tape
Radio and Politics in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1969
Rosamund Johnston
Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
March 2024 312pp
9781503638693 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781503635166 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In socialist Eastern Europe, radio simultaneously produced state power and created the conditions for it to be challenged. Johnston explores the dynamic between radio reporters and the listeners in Czechoslovakia who liked and trusted them while recognizing that they produced both propaganda and entertainment.
Sentimental Empiricism
Politics, Philosophy, and Criticism in Postwar France
Davide Panagia
June 2024 288pp 8 b&w illustrations
9781531506711 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781531506704 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Panagia’s book reconsiders the legacy of eighteenth and nineteenth century radical empiricism and moral sentimentalism for the intellectual formation of the generation of postwar French thinkers whose work came to dominate Anglophone conversations across the humanities under the guise of “French theory.”
Silicon Valley Imperialism
Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times
Erin McElroy
March 2024 296pp 16 illustrations
9781478030218 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781478025962 £94.00/ $104.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research in Romania and the United States, McElroy exposes the mechanisms through which the appeal of Silicon Valley techno-capitalism devours space and societies, displaces residents and generating extreme income inequality, in order to expand its reach.
Redreaming the Renaissance
Essays on History and Literature in Honor of Guido Ruggiero
Edited by Mary Lindemann and Deanna ShemekThe Early Modern Exchange
May 2024 284pp 7 color, 7 b&w images
9781644533369 £56.00/ $62.95 PB
9781644533376 £134.00/ $150.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Seeks to remedy the dearth of conversations between scholars of history and literary studies by building on the pathbreaking work of Guido Ruggiero to explore thecross-fertilization between these two disciplines, using the textual world of theItalian Renaissance as proving ground.
Shifting Lines, Entangled Borderlands
Mobilities and Migration along the Prussian Eastern Railroad
Jan Musekamp
March 2024 314pp 33 b&w illus.
9780253068927 £36.00/ $40.00 PB
9780253068910 £76.00/ $85.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Shifting Lines, Entangled Borderlands investigates the dichotomy between a globalizing world and tighter border control in 19th-century Central and Eastern Europe, focusing on the Royal Prussian Eastern Railroad (Ostbahn) between the 1830s and 1930s. The line was initially planned as a major internal modernizing project to connect Prussia's capital of Berlin to East Prussia's provincial capital of Königsberg (today's Kaliningrad).
Sovereignty and Contestation
Practices of Pluralism in Canada and the European Union Keith Cherry
June 2024 240 pp
9781487558376 £27.99/ $37.50 PB
9781487556181 £66.00/ $85.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Sovereignty and Contestation compares practices of pluralism in Europe and Canada, exploring how transnational integration and Indigenous resurgence are reshaping our concepts of law, social order, and justice.
From 1st April 2024
The Age of Subtlety
Nature and Rhetorical Conceits in Early Modern Europe
Javier Patiño Loira
The Early Modern Exchange
June 2024 278pp 3 color, 12 b&w images
9781644533444 £54.00/ $59.95 PB
9781644533451 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
A craze for intricate metaphors, referred to as conceits, permeated all forms of communication in 17thcentury Italy and Spain, reshaping reality in highly creative ways. The Age of Subtlety situates itself at the crossroads of rhetoric, poetics, and the history of science, analyzing technical writings on conceits by such scholars as Baltasar Gracián, Matteo Peregrini, and Emanuele Tesauro.
The Caravaggio Syndrome
A Novel Alessandro Giardino
Translated by Joyce Myerson and Alessandro Giardino
Other Voices of Italy
April 2024 206pp 4 b&w, 4 color images
9781978839496 £14.99/ $27.95 PB
9781978839502 £62.00/ $68.95 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
When art historian Leyla meets feckless young computer technician Pablo at a party, she quickly becomes pregnant with his child.There’s only one problem: she can’t stand him.And one more problem: her student Michael wants Pablo for himself.
The Rise and Fall of the Italian Communist Party
A Transnational History
Silvio Pons
Stanford-Hoover Series on Authoritarianism
August 2024 408pp
9781503638839 £63.00/ $70.00
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Analyzing the rise and fall of the Italian Communist Party as a case study in the global history of communism, Silvio Pons considers a wide range of relational and temporal contexts, from the practices of internationalism to the training of militants and leaders, and to networks established not only in Europe but also in the colonial and postcolonial world.
The Arts of Encounter
Christians, Muslims, and the Power of Images in Early Modern Spain
Catherine Infante
Toronto Iberic
May 2023 264 pp 18 b&w illus.
9781487556457 £27.99/ $37.50 PB UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
The Arts of Encounter uncovers the significant role of religious images in literature, offering a new approach to understanding Christian-Muslim relations in early modern Spain.
From 1st April 2024
The Ethnographic Optic
Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and the Turn Inward in 1960s French Cinema
Laure Astourian
New Directions in National Cinemas
June 2024 328pp 87 color illus., 50 b&w illus.
9780253069597 £34.00/ $38.00 PB
9780253069580 £72.00/ $80.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Traces the surprising role of ethnography in French cinema in the 1960s and examines its place in several New Wave fictions and cinéma vérité documentaries during the final years of the French colonial empire. Featuring some of the most canonical and best-loved films of the French tradition, such as Breathless and La Jetée.
The Pedagogical Writings of Marguerite Long
A Reassessment of Her Impact on the French School of Piano
John Ellis
March 2024 344pp 4 b&w photos, 2 line drawings, 1327 printed music items
9780253068576 £72.00/ $80.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Marguerite Long, the most important French female pianist of the 20th century, left her stamp on a whole epoch of musical life in Paris. These translations of her pedagogical works, Le Piano and La Petite Méthode de piano, provide a window to the old French school of pianism as modernized by Long.
The Revolting Masses
José Ortega y Gasset’s Liberalism Against Populism
Brendon Westler
June 2024 256pp
9781512826005 £54.00/ $59.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
José Ortega y Gasset (1883–1955) was a Spanish philosopher and essayist best known for The Revolt of the Masses, first translated into English in 1932. Westler’s book reconstructs Ortega’s political theory, underscoring its historical origins as well as the ways in which it might be instructive to us today.
The Rock of Arles
Richard Klein
February 2024 176pp 16 illus.
9781478025726 £21.99/ $24.95 PB
9781478020981 £85.00/ $94.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Richard Klein tells the millenniaspanning history of the city of Arles, France, from the perspective of the limestone eminence upon which it sits, showing how the city has always had a spirit that contested the reactionary conservative forces of the Church and nobility that governed it for fifteen centuries.
The Stones of Venice
John Ruskin
Edited by William McKeown
Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
August 2024 896pp 55 b&w illus.
9781487547196 £104.00/ $130.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
This updated and unabridged edition of The Stones of Venice introduces new readers to John Ruskin’s classic Victorian text.
From 1st April 2024
