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FALL/WINTER 2019 CATALOG

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Solid State The Story of “Abbey Road” and the End of the Beatles Kenneth Womack Foreword by Al an Parsons

Acclaimed Beatles historian Kenneth Womack offers the most definitive account yet of the writing, recording, mixing, and reception of Abbey Road.

In February 1969, the Beatles began working on what became their final album together. Abbey Road introduced a number of new techniques and technologies to the Beatles’ sound, and included “Come Together,” “Something,” and “Here Comes the Sun,” which all emerged as classics.

Womack’s colorful retelling of how this landmark album was written and recorded is a treat for fans of the Beatles. Solid State takes readers back to 1969 and into EMI’s Abbey Road Studio, which boasted an advanced solid state transistor mixing desk.

Womack focuses on the dynamics between John, Paul, George, Ringo, and producer George Martin and his team of engineers, who set aside (for the most part) the tensions and conflicts that had arisen on previous albums to create a work with an innovative (and, among some fans and critics, controversial) studio-bound sound that prominently included the new Moog synthesizer, among other novelties.

As Womack shows, Abbey Road was the culmination of the instrumental skills, recording equipment, and artistic vision that the band and George Martin had developed since their early days in the same studio seven years earlier. A testament to the group’s creativity and their producer’s ingenuity, Solid State is required reading for all fans of the Beatles and the history of rock ’n’ roll.

K enneth Womack’s previous books about the Beatles include Long and Winding Roads and The Beatles Encyclopedia. He is also the author of the acclaimed two-volume biography of Sir George Martin, Maximum Volume and Sound Pictures. Womack is Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at Monmouth University, where he also serves as Professor of English. Follow him on Twitter @KennethAWomack and visit kennethwomack.com for more Beatles history and insight.

OCTOBER

$26.95t hardcover 978-1-5017-4685-7 296 pages, 6 x 9, 12 b&w halftones

“Impeccably researched, Solid State is an accurate history not only of the characters and personnel involved in the Beatles’ final album (including myself, I am pleased to add), but also digs deeper behind the scenes into the technical aspects of the recording equipment and the musical instruments used by the Fab Four in the production of this timeless LP. . . . You will become aware of many hitherto unknown facts about the making of Abbey Road and the events that led to the eventual demise of the greatest rock band that ever was.”— Alan Parsons, from the Foreword

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Cornell ‘77 The Music, the Myth, and the Magnificence of the Grateful Dead’s Concert at Barton Hall Peter Conners $21.95t hardcover 978-1-5017-0432-1 CORNELLPRESS.CORNELL.EDU

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The Last Card Inside George W. Bush’s Decision to Surge in Iraq edited by Timothy Andrews Sayle, Jeffrey A. Engel, Hal Brands, & William Inboden

This is the real story of how George W. Bush came to double-down on Iraq in the highest stakes gamble of his entire presidency.

Drawing on extensive interviews with nearly thirty senior officials, including President Bush himself, The Last Card offers an unprecedented look into the process by which President Bush overruled much of the military leadership and many of his trusted advisors, and authorized the deployment of roughly 30,000 additional troops to the warzone in a bid to save Iraq from collapse in 2007.

In The Last Card we have access to the deliberations among the decision-makers on Bush’s national security team as they embarked on that course and is a portrait of leadership—firm and daring if flawed—in the Bush White House.

The personal perspectives from men and women who served at the White House, Foggy Bottom, the Pentagon, and in Baghdad, are complemented by critical assessments written by leading scholars in the field of international security. Taken together, the candid interviews and probing essays are a first draft of the history of the surge and new chapter in the history of the American presidency.

Timothy Andrews Sayle is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto.

Jeffrey A. Engel is Director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University.

“The Last Card provides an extraordinarily useful collective oral history of the decision-making leading to the ‘surge,’ and offers a set of incisive essays that critique and assess the decision and process that led to it.”

—Melvyn P. Leffler, University of Virginia, author of Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism “The Last Card is an exhaustively researched account of how President George W. Bush made the decision to conduct the Surge in Iraq. Readers will find this a gripping description of how the president made one of the toughest calls of his time in office.”—General David Petraeus, (US Army, Ret.), Commander of the Surge in Iraq , US Central Command, and Coalition Forces in Afghanistan

Hal Brands is Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

William Inboden is Executive Director and William Powers, Jr., Chair of the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin.

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$34.95t hardcover 978-1-5017-1518-1 416 pages, 6 x 9, 4 maps, 2 charts 2

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Why Intelligence Fails Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War Robert Jervis $19.95t paperback 978-0-8014-7806-2

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The Day After Why America Wins the War but Loses the Peace Brendan R. Gallagher

Since 9/11, why have we won smashing battlefield victories only to botch nearly everything that comes next? In the opening phases of war in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, we mopped the floor with our enemies. But in short order, things went horribly wrong.

We soon discovered we had no coherent plan to manage the “day after.” This helped set the stage for an extraordinary historical moment in which America’s role in the world, along with our commitment to democracy at home and abroad, have become subject to growing doubt. With the benefit of hindsight, can we discern what went wrong? Why have we had such great difficulty planning for the aftermath of war?

In The Day After, Brendan Gallagher—an Army lieutenant colonel with multiple combat tours to Iraq and Afghanistan, and a Princeton PhD—seeks to tackle this vital question. Gallagher argues there is a tension between our desire to create a new democracy and our competing desire to pull out as soon as possible. Our leaders often strive to accomplish both to keep everyone happy. But by avoiding the tough underlying decisions, it fosters an incoherent strategy. This makes chaos more likely.

The Day After draws on new interviews with dozens of civilian and military officials, ranging from US cabinet secretaries to four-star generals. Striking at the heart of what went wrong in our recent wars, and what we should do about it, Gallagher asks whether we will learn from our mistakes, or provoke even more disasters? Human lives, money, elections, and America’s place in the world hinges on the answer.

Brendan R. Gallagher is a US Army lieutenant colonel in the 75th Ranger Regiment with seven completed tours to Iraq and Afghanistan. He received the General George C. Marshall award as the top US graduate at the Army Command and General Staff College, and is currently a battalion commander. He holds a PhD in public and international affairs from Princeton.

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$32.95t hardcover 978-1-5017-3962-0 320 pages, 6 x 9

“The Day After asks why America has so often won the war but lost the peace that followed. Brendan Gallagher’s answers are correct and timeless: Postwar is harder than war. Beware of magical thinking.

Learn from history. His book is a good reference for heads of state, scholars, and soldiers.”—Lieutenant Colonel John Nagl, US Army (Ret.), author of Knife Fights “A thought-provoking, intensively-researched, and compelling account (and cautionary tale) of the enormous challenges of the ‘post-conflict’ phases of America’s major post-9/11 interventions—by a true soldier-scholar who served on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan and then carefully studied those conflicts.”

—General David Petraeus, US Army (Ret.) “The Day After is a searing indictment of American strategic incompetence. This book will make you angry—and it should.”— Gideon Rose, author of How Wars End ALSO OF INTEREST

Welcome to the Suck Narrating the American Soldier’s Experience in Iraq Stacey Peebles $31.00s hardcover 978-0-8014-4946-8 CORNELLPRESS.CORNELL.EDU

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The Nuclear Spies America’s Atomic Intelligence Operation against Hitler and Stalin Vince Houghton

Why did the US intelligence services fail so spectacularly to know about the Soviet Union’s nuclear capabilities following World War II? As Vince Houghton, historian and curator of the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC, shows us, that disastrous failure came just a few years after the Manhattan Project’s intelligence team had penetrated the Third Reich and knew every detail of the Nazi ‘s plan for an atomic bomb. What changed and what went wrong?

Houghton’s riveting retelling of this fascinating case of American spy ineffectiveness in the then new field of scientific intelligence provides us with a new look at the early years of the Cold War. During that time, scientific intelligence quickly grew to become a significant portion of the CIA budget as it struggled to contend with the incredible advance in weapons and other scientific discoveries immediately after World War II. As Houghton shows, the abilities of the Soviet Union’s scientists, its research facilities and laboratories, and its educational system became a key consideration for the CIA in assessing the threat level of its most potent foe. Sadly, for the CIA scientific intelligence was extremely difficult to do well. For when the Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb in 1949, no one in the American intelligence services saw it coming.

Vince Houghton is Historian and Curator at the International Spy Museum. He taught courses in Cold War history and intelligence history at the University of Maryland and is the host and creative director of Spycast, the Spy Museum’s popular podcast. His work has been published widely in such media as Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The Economist, Vanity Fair, and many others.

“The Nuclear Spies deftly navigates the decisions made, for better or worse, by World War II–era American intelligence agencies. This book [adds to our] understanding of scientific intelligence as a tool for national security.”—Valerie Plame, former covert CIA Operations Officer “Vince Houghton is clearly well versed in the history and the intelligence challenges about which he is writing, resulting in an illuminating and valuable book.”—Richard Immerman, Temple University, author of The Hidden Hand “The Nuclear Spies is a valuable contribution to the history of science and, in particular, the emergence of scientific intelligence as a national security tool. . . and is critical for our current and future scientific intelligence programs.”—John C. Browne, Los Alamos National Laboratory

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$27.95t hardcover 978-1-5017-3959-0 244 pages, 6 x 9 4

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The Ultimate Enemey British Intelligence and Nazi Germany, 1933–1939 Wesley K. Wark $25.95st paperback 978-0-8014-1821-1

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Special Duty A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community Richard J. Samuels

The prewar history of the Japanese intelligence community demonstrates how having power over much, but insight into little can have devastating consequences. Its postwar history—one of limited Japanese power despite growing insight—has also been problematic for national security.

In Special Duty Richard J. Samuels dissects the fascinating history of the intelligence community in Japan. Looking at the impact of shifts in the strategic environment, technological change, and past failures, he probes the reasons why Japan has endured such a roller-coaster ride when it comes to intelligence gathering and analysis, and concludes that the ups and downs of the past century—combined with growing uncertainties in the regional security environment—have convinced Japanese leaders of the critical importance of striking balance between power and insight. Using examples of excessive hubris and debilitating bureaucratic competition before the Asia-Pacific War, the unavoidable dependence on US assets and popular sensitivity to security issues after World War II, and the tardy adoption of image-processing and cyber technologies, Samuels’ bold book highlights the century-long history of Japan’s struggles to develop a fully functioning and effective intelligence capability, and makes clear that Japanese leaders have begun to reinvent their nation’s intelligence community.

Richard J. Samuels is Ford International Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Einstein Visiting Fellow at the Free University of Berlin. His books have won prizes from the American Political Science Association, the Association for Asian Studies, and the Society for Italian Historical Studies.

His most recent book is 3.11: Disaster and Change in Japan. Follow him on Twitter @dicksamuelsMIT.

“This is a truly wonderful book written by a leading and highly respected scholar in the field of Japanese security and politics.

It offers much needed insight to academics and policymakers alike as they seek to understand the changes in Japan’s security choices.”

—Sheila Smith, Council on Foreign Relations, author of Intimate Rivals “Special Duty is a timely book, and a suitable next installment in Richard Samuels’ influential oeuvre on modern Japanese security policy.”

—Michael Green, Georgetown University, author of Arming Japan “This book is a masterpiece that incisively analyzes the Japanese intelligence community and its activities. I learned a lot from this book. I think that Japan wants to overcome the various problems facing its intelligence and become a part of the Five Eyes as soon as possible.”

—Satoshi Morimoto, Former Minister of Defense, Japan ALSO OF INTEREST

OCTOBER

$32.95t hardcover 978-1-5017-4158-6 384 pages, 6 x 9, 22 b&w halftones, 5 b&w line drawings

The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere When Total Empire Met Total War Jeremy A. Yellen $45.00s hardcover 978-1-5017-3554-7 CORNELLPRESS.CORNELL.EDU

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The Kosher Capones A History of Chicago’s Jewish Gangsters Joe Kraus

The Kosher Capones tells the fascinating story of Chicago’s Jewish gangsters from Prohibition into the 1980s. Author Joe Kraus traces these gangsters through the lives, criminal careers, and conflicts of Benjamin “Zuckie the Bookie” Zuckerman, last of the independent West Side Jewish bosses, and Lenny Patrick, eventual head of the Syndicate’s “Jewish wing.”

These two men linked the early Jewish gangsters of the neighborhoods of Maxwell Street and Lawndale to the notorious Chicago Outfit that emerged from Al Capone’s criminal confederation. Focusing on the murder of Zuckerman by Patrick, Kraus introduces us to the different models of organized crime they represented, a raft of largely forgotten Jewish gangsters, and the changing nature of Chicago’s political corruption. Hard-tobelieve anecdotes of corrupt politicians, seasoned killers, and in-over-their-heads criminal operators spotlight the magnitude and importance of Jewish gangsters to the story of Windy City mob rule.

With an eye for the dramatic, The Kosher Capones takes us deep inside a hidden society and offers glimpses of the men who ran the Jewish criminal community in Chicago for more than sixty years.

“An engaging story about the history of Jewish gangsters in Chicago.”—Elizabeth Dale, University of Florida, author of The Chicago Trunk Murder

Joe K raus is Chair of the Department of English and Theatre at the University of Scranton. He is co-author of An Accidental Anarchist, and his scholarly and creative work has appeared widely. He lives in Shavertown, PA, with his wife and three sons.

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$26.95t hardcover 978-1-5017-4731-1 296 pages, 6 x 9, 15 b&w halftones 6

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Sacrifice My Life in a Fascist Militia Alessandro Orsini $26.95t hardcover 978-1-5017-0983-8

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The Liberty Hyde Bailey Gardener’s Companion Essential Writings Libert y Hyde Bailey edited by John A. Stempien & John Linstrom

“Every family can have a garden.”—Liberty Hyde Bailey Finally, the best and most accessible garden writings of perhaps the most influential literary gardener of the twentieth century have been brought together in one book. Philosopher, poet, naturist, educator, agrarian, scientist, and garden lover par excellence Liberty Hyde Bailey built a reputation as the Father of Modern Horticulture and evangelist for what he called the “garden-sentiment”—the desire to raise plants from the good earth for the sheer joy of it and for the love of the plants themselves. Bailey’s perennial call to all of us to get outside and get our hands dirty, old or young, green thumb or no, is just as fresh and stirring today as then.

Full of timeless wit and grace, The Liberty Hyde Bailey Gardener’s Companion collects essays and poems from Bailey’s many books on gardening, as well as from newspapers and magazines from the era. Whether you’ve been gardening for decades or are searching for your first inspiration, Bailey’s words will make an ideal companion on your journey.

Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858–1954) grew up on a farm in Michigan and went on to become Dean of the College of Agriculture at Cornell University, Chair of the Country Life Commission under President Theodore Roosevelt, and the “Father of Modern Horticulture.” He authored more than seventy books, published thousands of articles, and founded countless organizations.

John Stempien teaches history in Lowell, Michigan, and served as the first director of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum from 2006–2012.

John Linstrom is a writer and doctoral candidate in English.

He edited the centennial edition of Bailey’s The Holy Earth.

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$26.95t hardcover 978-1-5017-4023-7 318 pages, 6 x 9, 21 b&w halftones, 1 b&w line drawing, 1 chart

“Liberty Hyde Bailey spoke to an early generation of environmentalists, and this collection brings his affection for plants and nature to contemporary ears.

His affection is contagious, at once enthusiastic and practical, a powerful, lovely tool to help rekindle connections to the world that feeds us body and soul.”— Amy Halloran, author of The New Bread Basket “In lyrical poetry and prose, Bailey, the ‘Father of Modern Horticulture,’ takes us through the cycles of nature, from the blossoms of his beloved apple trees in the spring, to the ripening of gourds in the fall, to the snow falling on the greenhouse in winter. We marvel as his enticing prose illuminates the holiness of the earth and of the growing things nearest at hand.”— Mary Swander, Poet Laureate of Iowa, author of Farmscape

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The Birds at My Table Why We Feed Wild Birds and Why It Matters Darryl Jones $19.95t paperback 978-1-5017-1078-0 CORNELLPRESS.CORNELL.EDU

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The Natural History of The Bahamas A Field Guide Dave Currie, Joseph M. Wunderle, Jr., Ethan Freid, David N. Ewert, D. Jean Lodge

Take this book with you on your next trip to the Bahamas or the Turks and Caicos Islands or keep it close to hand in your travel library. The Natural History of the Bahamas offers the most comprehensive coverage of the terrestrial and coastal flora and fauna on the islands of the Bahamas archipelago, as well as of the region’s natural history and ecology. Readers will gain an appreciation for the importance of conserving the diverse lifeforms on these special Caribbean islands.

A detailed introduction to the history, geology, and climate of the islands. Beautifully illustrated, with more than seven hundred color photographs showcasing the diverse plants, fungi, and animals found on the Bahamian Archipelago.

Dr. Dave Currie is former Field Director of Kirtland’s Warbler Research and Training Project, The Bahamas, and former adjunct Research Wildlife Biologist with International Institute of Tropical Forestry, USDA Forest Service.

Joseph M. Wunderle, Jr., is the Wildlife Team Leader and a Research Wildlife Biologist with the International Institute of Tropical Forestry, USDA Forest Service, Puerto Rico.

Ethan Freid is Chief Botanist at the Leon Levy Native Plant Preserve on Eleuthera.

David N. Ewert is an Avian Conservation Scientist with American Bird Conservancy and Lecturer at the University of Michigan Biological Station.

D. Jean Lodge is an Adjunct Faculty in the Departments of Plant Pathology, Odum School of Ecology and Plant Biology, at the University of Georgia.

“The Natural History of the Bahamas fills a void in the literature on the avian and terrestrial species found there and is an overall excellent guide.”

—Sandra D. Buckner, Past President of the Bahamas National Trust “The authors have written an excellent book, one that is needed by island residents and educators, visitors, tourism businesses, researchers, and visiting scientists alike.”

—Kathleen Sullivan Sealey, University of Miami “Every science classroom in the Bahamas, no matter what grade level, should have at least one copy of The Natural History of the Bahamas.”

—David Steadman, Curator, Florida Museum of Natural History, and author of Extinction and Biogeography of Tropical Pacific Birds

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Reptiles of Costa Rica A Field Guide $34.95t paperback 978-1-5017-1367-5 Twan Leenders 552 pages, 6 x 9, 768 color photos, 7 b&w line drawings, 1 map, 1 chart $35.00t paperback 978-1-5017-3953-8

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Caribbean Coast Costa Rica Regional Guides Yazmín Ross & Luciano Capelli

Costa Rica is much more than a verdant paradise. It’s a land of diverse landscapes and cultures. This collection of regional guides reveals unknown facets of Costa Rica and helps travelers understand what makes this country so unique.

This guide introduces the Caribbean coast, which offers an embarrassment of riches. Pristine rainforests, waterways, and turtle nesting sites attract tourists to Tortuguero in the north, while tropical waters, charming hotels, and Afro-Caribbean culture draw visitors to the south.

Includes a colorful fold-out map of key tourist destinations.

Yazmín Ross is a renowned author of books for children and adults about her adopted country Costa Rica.

Luciano Capelli has produced award-winning books about the culture and natural history of Costa Rica.

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OCTOBER

$17.95t paperback 978-1-5017-3929-3 64 pages, 9.37 x 8.46, 80 color photos, 10 color line drawings OCR

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Hidden Kingdom The Insect Life of Costa Rica Piotr Naskrecki $34.95t paperback 978-1-5017-0471-0 CORNELLPRESS.CORNELL.EDU

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Guanacaste Costa Rica Regional Guides María Montero & Luciano Capelli

Costa Rica is much more than a verdant paradise. It’s a land of diverse landscapes and cultures. This collection of regional guides reveals unknown facets of Costa Rica and helps travelers understand what makes this country so unique.

In this guide we introduce Guanacaste, a place of world-renowned surf spots and great natural beauty. It is a country within a country, with its own distinct climate, culture, and identity.

The cradle of the nation’s folkloric traditions, it is also the place that witnessed the rebirth of the last tract of tropical dry forest in the Americas.

Includes a colorful fold-out map of key tourist destinations.

María Montero is a journalist and poet who contributed to Ojalá’s recent publication Cocos Island.

Luciano Capelli has produced award-winning books about the culture and natural history of Costa Rica.

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OCTOBER

$17.95t paperback 978-1-5017-3927-9 66 pages, 9.37 x 8.46, 79 color photos, 8 color line drawings, 1 map OCR 10

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Amphibians of Costa Rica A Field Guide Twan Leenders $35.00t paperback 978-1-5017-0062-0

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Monteverde & Arenal Costa Rica Regional Guides María Montero & Luciano Capelli

Costa Rica is much more than a verdant paradise. It’s a land of diverse landscapes and cultures. This collection of regional guides reveals unknown facets of Costa Rica and helps travelers understand what makes this country so unique.

From the magic of the cloud forest—with its quetzals and volcanoes—to a birdwatcher’s paradise in the northern plains of the country, the twin destinations of Monteverde and Arenal offer more to see and do than any other pair of tourist destinations in Costa Rica.

Includes a colorful fold-out map of key tourist destinations.

María Montero is a journalist and poet who contributed to Ojalá’s recent publication Cocos Island.

Luciano Capelli has produced award-winning books about the culture and natural history of Costa Rica.

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OCTOBER

$17.95t paperback 978-1-5017-3928-6 64 pages, 9.37 x 8.46, 76 color photos, 8 color line drawings OCR

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National Parks of Costa Rica Gregory Basco & Robin Kazmier $50.00t hardcover 978-0-8014-5401-1 CORNELLPRESS.CORNELL.EDU

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One Hundred Autobiographies A Memoir David Lehman

In One Hundred Autobiographies, poet and scholar David Lehman applies the full measure of his intellectual powers to cope with a frightening diagnosis and painful treatment for cancer. No matter how debilitating the medical procedures, Lehman wrote every day during chemotherapy and in the aftermath of radical surgery. With characteristic riffs of wit and imagination, he transmutes the details of his inner life into a prose narrative rich in incident and mental travel. The reader journeys with him from the first dreadful symptoms to the sunny days of recovery.

This “fake memoir,” as he refers ironically to it, features one-hundred short vignettes that tell a life story. One Hundred Autobiographies is packed with insights and epiphanies that may prove as indispensable to aspiring writers as Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet.

Set against the backdrop of Manhattan, Lehman summons John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Edward Said, and Lionel Trilling among his mentors. Dostoyevsky shows up, as does Graham Greene. Keith Richards and Patti Hansen put in an appearance, Edith Piaf sings, Clint Eastwood saves the neighborhood, and the Rat Pack comes along for the ride. These and other avatars of popular culture help Lehman to make sense of his own mortality and life story.

One Hundred Autobiographies reveals a stunning portrait of a mind against the ropes, facing its own extinction, surviving and enduring.

David Lehman, a contributing editor of The American Scholar, has served as quizmaster of “Next Line, Please” since the journal launched the digital feature in May 2014. His books include Playlist, Poems in the Manner of . . . , and Sinatra’s Century.

Lehman is the editor of The Oxford Book of American Poetry and series editor of The Best American Poetry, which he founded in 1988. He divides his time between New York City and Ithaca, New York.

OCTOBER

$22.95t hardcover 978-1-5017-4645-1 244 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 12

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Next Line, Please Prompts to Inspire Poets and Writers edited by David Lehman $18.95t paperback 978-1-5017-1500-6

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Metropolitan Fetish African Sculpture and the Imperial French Invention of Primitive Art John Warne Monroe

From the 1880s to 1940, French colonial officials, businessmen and soldiers, returning from overseas postings, brought home wooden masks and figures from Africa. This imperial and cultural power-play is the jumping-off point for a story that travels from sub-Saharan Africa to Parisian art galleries; from the pages of fashion magazines, through the doors of the Louvre, to world fairs and international auction rooms; into the apartments of avant-garde critics and poets; to the streets of Harlem, and then full-circle back to colonial museums and schools in Dakar, Bamako, and Abidjan.

John Warne Monroe guides us on this journey, one that goes far beyond the world of Picasso, Matisse, and Braque, to show how the Modernist avant-garde and the European colonial project influenced each other in profound and unexpected ways.

Metropolitan Fetish reveals the complex trajectory of African material culture in the West and provides a map of that passage, tracing the interaction of cultural and imperial power. A broad and far-reaching history of the French reception of African art, it brings to life an era in which the aesthetic category of “primitive art” was invented.

John Warne Monroe is Associate Professor of History at Iowa State University. He is the author of Laboratories of Faith.

“While traditional African art continues to capture new audiences, John Monroe tells the fascinating story of how it all began.

We meet the avant-garde visionaries who looked beyond the ethnographic, re-classifying African material culture as ‘Art.’ A book full of historical pioneers you will want to get to know.”

—Bruno Claessens, European Director of African Art, Christie’s “This is a profoundly important book. Elegantly written and lavishly illustrated, Metropolitan Fetish will establish itself as a landmark in the history of the reception of African art in the West.”

—Christopher B. Steiner, author of African Art in Transit

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$45.00t hardcover 978-1-5017-3635-3 384 pages, 7 x 10, 117 b&w halftones, 1 map, 10 color plates

Incidental Archaeologists French Officers and the Rediscovery of Roman North Africa Bonnie Effros $49.95s hardcover 978-1-5017-0210-5 CORNELLPRESS.CORNELL.EDU

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Nothing Succeeds Like Failure The Sad History of American Business Schools Steven Conn

Do business schools actually make good on their promises of “innovative,” “outside-the-box” thinking to train business leaders who will put society ahead of money-making? Do they help society by making better business leaders? No, they don’t, Steven Conn asserts, and what’s more they never have.

In throwing down a gauntlet on the business of business schools, Conn’s Nothing Succeeds Like Failure examines the frictions, conflicts, and contradictions at the heart of these enterprises and details the way business schools have failed to resolve them. Beginning with founding of the Wharton School in 1881, Conn measures these schools’ aspirations against their actual accomplishments and tells the full and disappointing history of missed opportunities, unmet aspirations, and educational mistakes. Conn then poses a set of crucial questions about the role and function of American business schools. The results aren’t pretty.

Posing a set of crucial questions about the function of American business schools, Nothing Succeeds Like Failure is pugnacious and controversial. Deeply researched and fun to read, Nothing Succeeds Like Failure argues that the impressive façades of business school buildings resemble nothing so much as collegiate versions of Oz. Conn pulls back the curtain to reveal a story of failure to meet the expectations of the public, their missions, their graduates, and their own lofty aspirations of producing moral and ethical business leaders.

“Nothing Succeeds Like Failure is a brilliant and long-overdue puncturing of the business school mystique. Conn vividly outlines the creation and growth of the business school culture on America’s university campuses. That culture helped deliver the Great Depression, the Great Recession, gaping inequality, the corporate titan perp walk and, of course, Donald Trump while it helped wreck the best parts of American capitalism. Conn’s skewering is delicious. I just hope he has tenure.”

—Brian Alexander, author of Glass House “Nothing Succeeds Like Failure is timely, quite funny, and written by a first-rate historian.”

—Christopher P. Loss, Vanderbilt University

Steven Conn is W. E. Smith Professor of History at Miami University. He is author of numerous books, including, most recently, Americans Against the City.

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HISTORIES OF AMERICAN EDUCATION

OCTOBER

$32.95s hardcover 978-1-5017-4207-1 280 pages, 6 x 9

The Instrumental University Education in Service of the National Agenda after World War II Ethan Schrum $47.95s hardcover 978-1-5017-3664-3 CORNELLPRESS.CORNELL.EDU

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Yellow Star, Red Star Holocaust Remembrance after Communism Jelena Subotic

Yellow Star, Red Star asks why Holocaust memory continues to be so deeply troubled—ignored, appropriated, and obfuscated—throughout Eastern Europe, even though it was in those lands that most of the extermination campaign occurred. As part of accession to the European Union, Jelena Subotic shows, East European states were required to adopt, participate in, and contribute to the established Western narrative of the Holocaust.

This requirement created anxiety and resentment in post-communist states: Holocaust memory replaced communist terror as the dominant narrative in Eastern Europe, focusing instead on predominantly Jewish suffering in World War II. Influencing the European Union’s own memory politics and legislation in the process, post-communist states have attempted to reconcile these two memories by pursuing new strategies of Holocaust remembrance. The memory, symbols, and imagery of the Holocaust have been appropriated to represent crimes of communism.

Yellow Star, Red Star presents in-depth accounts of Holocaust remembrance practices in Serbia, Croatia, and Lithuania, and extends the discussion to other East European states. The book demonstrates how countries of the region used Holocaust remembrance as a political strategy to resolve their contemporary “ontological insecurities”—insecurities about their identities, about their international status, and about their relationships with other international actors. As Subotic concludes, Holocaust memory in Eastern Europe has never been about the Holocaust or about the desire to remember the past, whether during communism or in its aftermath. Rather, it has been about managing national identities in a precarious and uncertain world.

Jelena Subotic is Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University in Atlanta. She is the author of Hijacked Justice and numerous scholarly articles.

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“Yellow Star, Red Star is a passionate and engaging study of the politics of Holocaust memory in Eastern Europe after communism. Jelena Subotić has produced a first-rate piece of scholarship and one that’s refreshingly enjoyable to read.”

—Jeffrey Kopstein, University of California, Irvine, author of Intimate Violence “Jelena Subotić pulls no punches in showing how contemporary problems in Eastern Europe—the rise of the far-right, revival of WWII-era fascist ideologies, emergence of extreme nationalist and populist rhetoric—can be linked to the criminalization of communist and antifascist past. This is an outstanding book.”

—Jovan Byford, Open University, author of Denial and Repression of Antisemitism

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Intimate Violence Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust Jeffrey S. Kopstein & Jason Wittenberg $29.95s hardcover 978-1-5017-1525-9

M I L I TA R Y H I S T O R Y

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The Stuff of Soldiers A History of the Red Army in World War II through Objects Brandon M. Schechter

The Stuff of Soldiers uses everyday objects to tell the story of the Great Patriotic War as never before. Brandon Schechter attends to a diverse array of things—from spoons to tanks—to show how a wide array of citizens became soldiers, and how the provisioning of material goods separated soldiers from civilians.

Through a fascinating examination of leaflets, proclamations, newspapers, manuals, letters to and from the front, diaries, and interviews, The Stuff of Soldiers reveals how the use of everyday items made it possible to wage war. The dazzling range of documents showcases ethnic diversity, women’s particular problems at the front, and vivid descriptions of violence and looting.

Each chapter features a series of related objects: weapons, uniforms, rations, and even the knick-knacks in a soldier’s rucksack. These objects narrate the experience of people at war, illuminating the changes taking place in Soviet society over the course of the most destructive conflict in recorded history.

Schechter argues that spoons, shovels, belts, and watches held as much meaning to the waging of war as guns and tanks. In The Stuff of Soldiers, he describes the transformative potential of material things to create a modern culture, citizen, and soldier during World War II. Brandon M. Schechter is the Elihu Rose Scholar in Modern Military History at New York University.

“The Stuff of Soldiers is the most important recent contribution, in any language, to the history of the Red Army in World War II. I read it in one sitting and was consistently engaged.”

—Mark Edele, author of Stalin’s Defectors “One of the best books about Soviet military life to appear in a long time.

Among its many remarkable features is the way the author introduces non-Russian and women’s voices to his story. The Stuff of Soldiers is beautifully written, with often cinematic scope, and hard to put down.”

—Mark von Hagen, author of Soldiers in the Proletarian Dictatorship “Based on prodigious research in the Soviet archives, The Stuff of Soldiers interrogates dozens of objects within soldiers’ grasp – from headgear to underwear, and spoons to tobacco – for their uses and meanings.

The result is a fascinating retelling of how the Red Army fared in the Great Patriotic War.” —Lewis Siegelbaum, co-editor of Empire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands

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Skis in the Art of War K. B. E. E. Eimeleus tr ansl ated and edited by William D. Fr ank with additional commentary by E. John B. Allen

K. B. E. E. Eimeleus was ahead of his time with his advocacy of ski training in the Russian armed forces. Employing terminology never before used in Russian to describe movements with which few were familiar, Skis in the Art of War gives a breakdown of the latest techniques at the time from Scandinavia and Finland.

Eimeleus’s work is an early and brilliant example of knowledge transfer from Scandinavia to Russia within the context of sport.

Nearly three decades after he published his book, the Finnish army, employing many of the ideas first proposed by Eimeleus, used mobile ski troops to hold the Soviet Union at bay during the Winter War of 1939–40, and in response, the Soviet government organized a massive ski mobilization effort prior to the German invasion in 1941. The Soviet counteroffensive against Nazi Germany during the winter of 1941–42 owed much of its success to the Red Army ski battalions that had formed as a result of the ski mobilization.

In this lucid translation that includes most of the original illustrations, scholar and biathlon competitor William D. Frank collaborates with E. John B. Allen, arguably the world’s preeminent authority on ski history.

K. B. E. E. Eimeleus (Carl Bror Emil Aejmelaeus-Äimä) served at the highest levels of the Finnish government after independence until his death in 1935.

William D. Frank is the author of Everyone to Skis!

“This book embraces larger issues, including the history of sport, the history of local ingenuity in overcoming the challenges of climate, the history of adapting specialized skills and resources to military use, and the life history of a fascinating figure in the world of sports.”

—Bruce W. Menning, University of Kansas, author of Bayonets Before Bullets “Impressive. Eimeleus’s book appears to have been read and understood by the Red Army General Staff as they raised and equipped ski troops in the 1920s and 1930s and especially during their so-called Great Patriotic War.” —David M. Glantz, founder and former director of the US Army’s Foreign Military Studies Office

E. John B. Allen is author of numerous articles, films, and books, including From Skisport to Skiing and Culture and Sport of Skiing from Antiquity to World War II.

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Everyone to Skis!

Revisiting the Remains of America’s Jewish Vacationland William D. Frank $39.95t hardcover 978-0875804767

BIOGRAPHY

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Thomas Mann’s War Literature, Politics, and the World Republic of Letters Tobias Boes

In Thomas Mann’s War, Tobias Boes traces how the acclaimed and bestselling author became one of America’s most prominent anti-fascists and the spokesperson for a German cultural ideal that Nazism had perverted.

Thomas Mann, winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in literature and author of such world-renowned novels as Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain, began his self-imposed exile in the United States in 1938, having fled his native Germany in the wake of Nazi persecution and public burnings of his books.

Mann embraced his role as a public intellectual, deftly using his literary reputation and his connections in an increasingly global publishing industry to refute Nazi propaganda. As Boes shows, Mann undertook successful lecture tours of the country and penned widely-read articles that alerted US audiences and readers to the dangers of complacency in the face of Nazism’s existential threat. Spanning four decades, from the eve of World War I, when Mann was first translated into English, to 1952, the year in which he left an America increasingly disfigured by McCarthyism, Boes establishes Mann as a significant figure in the wartime global republic of letters.

“Thomas Mann’s War is a beautiful and erudite book based on new international archival research. It creatively connects Thomas Mann’s politics in American exile with the media politics of his time.

By exploring issues such as practices of lecturing, translation or publication, it uncovers the ways Mann was reinvented politically and aesthetically as a writer.”

—Veronika Fuechtner, Dartmouth College, author of Berlin Psychoanalytic

Tobias Boes is Associate Professor of German at the University of Notre Dame. He is author of Formative Fictions.

Follow him on Twitter @tobiasboes.

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Books As Weapons Propaganda, Publishing, and the Battle for Global Markets in the Era of World War II John B. Hench $29.95s paperback 978-1-5017-0565-6 CORNELLPRESS.CORNELL.EDU

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Food for All in Africa Sustainable Intensification for African Farmers Gordon Conway, Ousmane Badiane, & K atrin Glatzel

Africa requires a new agricultural transformation that is appropriate for Africa, that recognizes the continent’s diverse environments and climates, and that takes into account its histories and cultures while benefiting rural smallholder farmers and their families.

In this boldly optimistic book, Sir Gordon Conway, Ousmane Badiane, and Katrin Glatzel describe the key challenges faced

by Africa’s smallholder farmers and present the concepts and practices of Sustainable Intensification (SI) as opportunities to sustainably transform Africa’s agriculture sector and the livelihoods of millions of smallholders. The way forward, they write, will be an agriculture sector deeply rooted within SI: producing more with less, using fertilizers and pesticides more prudently, adapting to climate change, improving natural capital, adopting new technologies, and building resilience at every stage of the agriculture value chain.

Food for All in Africa envisions a virtuous circle generated through agricultural development rooted in SI that results in greater yields, healthier diets, improved livelihoods for farmers, and sustainable economic opportunities for the rural poor that in turn generate further investment. It describes the benefits of digital technologies for farmers and the challenges of transforming African agricultural policies and creating effective and inspiring leadership.

Food for All in Africa demonstrates why we should take on the challenge and provides ideas and methods through which it can be met.

Sir Gordon Conway is Professor of International Development at Imperial College London. He is author of T he Doubly Green Revolution and One Billion Hungr y.

“Food for All in Africa is truly gripping and provides an easy-to-follow pictoral exposition that will facilitate access by policy makers. This work, synthesizing core findings from the decades of experience of the preeminent expert authors in the areas of sustainable agriculture, is both welcome and important.”

—Steven Haggblade, Michigan State “Food for All in Africa is very impressive.

Elegant and readable, it is a significant contribution to the discussion of food security in Africa.”

—Charles Godfray, University of Oxford Ousmane Badiane is recipient of the Africa Food Prize (2015) and Director for Africa at the International Food Policy Research Institute.

Katrin Glatzel is Program Head of the Malabo Montpellier Panel program at the International Food Policy Research Institute’s Africa Regional Office in Dakar, Senegal.

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One Billion Hungry Can We Feed the World?

Gordon Conway $24.95t paperback 978-0-8014-7802-4

CLASSICS

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The Life of Alcibiades Dangerous Ambition and the Betrayal of Athens Jacqueline de Romilly tr ansl ated by Elizabeth Tr apnell R awlings

This biography of Alcibiades, the charismatic Athenian statesman and general (c. 450–404 BC) who achieved both renown and infamy during the Peloponnesian War, is both an extraordinary adventure story and a cautionary tale that reveals the dangers that political opportunism and demagoguery pose to democracy.

As Jacqueline de Romilly brilliantly documents, Alcibiades’s life is one of wanderings and vicissitudes, promises and disappointments, brilliant successes and ruinous defeats. Born into a wealthy and powerful family in Athens, Alcibiades was a student of Socrates and disciple of Pericles, and he seemed destined to dominate the political life of his city—and his tumultuous age.

Romilly shows, however, that he was too ambitious. Haunted by financial and sexual intrigues and political plots, Alcibiades was exiled from Athens, sentenced to death, recalled to his homeland, only to be exiled again. He defected from Athens to Sparta and from Sparta to Persia and then from Persia back to Athens, buffeted by scandal after scandal, most of them of his own making. A gifted demagogue and, according to his contemporaries, more handsome than the hero Achilles, Alcibiades is also a strikingly modern figure, whose seductive celebrity and dangerous ambition anticipated current crises of leadership.

Jacqueline de Romilly (1913–2010) was a distinguished scholar of Greek history and culture. In 1973, she became Chair of Greek at the College de France, the first woman nominated to this prestigious institution. In 1988, she was elected to the Académie Française as the second woman member, after Marguerite Yourcenar. Romilly was an A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell from 1974 to 1980.

“Jacqueline de Romilly’s study of Alcibiades astonishingly succeeds in arousing in the reader the same feelings as those undoubtedly once experienced by the Athenian public before this extraordinary person. Her book inspires not only wonder at Alcibiades’s varied talents and admiration at his ability to seduce those around him but also anxiety about his ambitions and fear for the risks he takes. With its sudden reversals—victories followed by terrible defeats, resounding successes as well as the most bitter failures—Romilly’s book possesses the color of an epic with accents of tragedy.”— Revue des Études Grecques

Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings is a freelance translator of texts in French, working since 1992. She has degrees from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the University of Iowa.

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The Mind of Thucydides Jacqueline de Romilly $19.95s paperback 978-1-5017-1482-5 CORNELLPRESS.CORNELL.EDU

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No Useless Mouth Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution Rachel B. Herrmann

In the era of the American Revolution, the rituals of diplomacy between the British, Patriots, and Native Americans featured gifts of food, ceremonial feasts, and a shared experience of hunger. When diplomacy failed, Native Americans could destroy food stores and cut off supply chains in order to assert authority.

Black colonists also stole and destroyed food to ward off hunger and carve out tenuous spaces of freedom. Hunger was a means of power and a weapon of war.

In No Useless Mouth Rachel B. Herrmann argues that Native Americans and formerly enslaved black colonists ultimately lost the battle against hunger and the larger struggle for power because white British and United States officials curtailed the abilities of men and women to fight hunger on their own terms.

By describing three interrelated behaviors—food diplomacy, victual imperialism, and victual warfare—the book shows that, during this tumultuous period, hunger prevention efforts offered strategies to claim power, maintain communities, and keep rival societies at bay.

Herrmann shows how Native Americans, free blacks, and enslaved peoples were “useful mouths”—not mere supplicants for food, without rights or power—who used hunger for cooperation and violence, and took steps to circumvent starvation. Her wide-ranging research on black Loyalists, Iroquois, Cherokee, Creek, and Western Confederacy Indians demonstrates that hunger creation and prevention were tools of diplomacy and warfare available to all people involved in the American Revolution.

Placing hunger at the center of these struggles foregrounds the contingency and plurality of power in the British Atlantic during the Revolutionary Era. Rachel B. Herrmann is Lecturer in Modern American History at Cardiff University. She is the editor of To Feast on Us as Their Prey.

“No Useless Mouth combines an Atlantic perspective with a close scrutiny of struggles and negotiations over food and hunger. Rachel B. Herrmann’s sharp eye for the nuances of symbolic communication and keen ear for the languages used to legitimate inequality yield fresh and valuable insights.”— Michael A. LaCombe, Adelphi University, and author of Political Gastronomy “Rachel B. Herrmann has written the definitive study of the political uses of hunger and food in the Revolutionary Atlantic. In No Useless Mouth she asks us to reconsider the traditional narrative of decline of Native American and African Americans at the dawn of the US National era.”—Ann M. Little, Colorado State University, and author of The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright “Rachel B. Herrmann shows that control of food could be a tool of imperial war and, just as important, how Native and African Americans shaped their own destinies through their efforts to maintain food supplies. No Useless Mouth should be required reading for those concerned with the politics of food, past and present.”— Peter C. Mancall, University of Southern California, and author of Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic

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Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles Americans in Nineteenth-Century Fiji Nancy Shoemaker

Full of colorful details and engrossing stories, Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles shows that the aspirations of individual Americans to be recognized as people worthy of others’ respect was a driving force in the global extension of United States influence shortly after the nation’s founding.

Nancy Shoemaker contends that what she calls extraterritorial Americans constituted the vanguard of a vast, early US global expansion. Using as her site of historical investigation nineteenth-century Fiji, the “cannibal isles” of American popular culture, she uncovers stories of Americans looking for opportunities to rise in social status and enhance their sense of self.

Prior to British colonization in 1874, extraterritorial Americans had, she argues, as much impact on Fiji as did the British. While the American economy invested in the extraction of sandalwood and sea slugs as resources to sell in China, individuals who went to Fiji had more complicated, personal objectives.

Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles considers these motivations through the lives of the three Americans who left the deepest imprint on Fiji: a runaway whaleman who settled in the islands, a sea captain’s wife, and a merchant. Shoemaker’s book shows how ordinary Americans living or working overseas found unusual venues where they could show themselves worthy of others’ respect—others’ approval, admiration, or deference.

Professor Nancy Shoemaker of the University of Connecticut is a historian of Native American history. Her books include A Strange Likeness, Native American Whalemen and the World, and an edited collection of historical documents and oral histories called Living with Whales. While investigating whaling history, she broadened her interests to include the history of the US in the world, especially in the Pacific.

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“In this significant study, Nancy Shoemaker reconstructs the history of early American encounters in the Fiji islands. Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles raises important questions and builds on original research to recover voices that had been erased from the historical record.”

—Dane Morrison, Salem State University “Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles is accomplished in its storytelling and rich narrative detail. Nancy Shoemaker has written a model for transnational scholarship.”

—Brian Rouleau, Texas A&M University “Now one of our most daring and interesting historians of indigenous peoples and colonialism asks how the pursuit of respect helped propel US expansion into the Pacific. Nancy Shoemaker’s answers pry open the personal motivations that helped power a world of transformation and trauma in the nineteenth century. An engrossing, elegant, and important book.”

—Brian DeLay, University of California, Berkeley

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Mettray A History of France’s Most Venerated Carceral Institution Stephen A. Toth

The Mettray Penal Colony was a private reformatory without walls, established in France in 1840 for the rehabilitation of young male delinquents. Foucault linked its opening to the most significant change in the modern status of prisons and now, at last, Stephen Toth takes us behind the gates to show how the institution legitimized France’s repression of criminal youth and added a unique layer to the nation’s carceral system.

Drawing on insights from sociology, criminology, critical theory, and social history, Stephen Toth dissects Mettray’s social anatomy, exploring inmates’ experiences. More than 17,000 young men passed through the reformatory before its closure, and Toth situates their struggles within changing conceptions of childhood and adolescence in modern France. Mettray demonstrates that the colony was an ill-conceived project marked by internal contradictions. Its social order was one of subjection and subversion, as officials struggled for order and inmates struggled for autonomy.

Toth’s formidable archival work exposes the nature of the relationships between, and among, prisoners and administrators. He explores the daily grind of existence: living conditions, discipline, labor, sex, and violence. Thus, he gives voice to the incarcerated, not simply to the incarcerators, whose ideas and agendas tend to dominate the historical record. Mettray is, above all else, a deeply personal illumination of life inside France’s most venerated carceral institution.

Stephen A. Toth is Associate Professor of Modern European History at Arizona State University. His research examines the history of incarceration, most particularly the evolution of the prison in modern France and the Francophone world. He is the author of Beyond Papillon and numerous scholarly articles. He has been the recipient of research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Philosophical Society.

“Mettray is among the leading books on the subject of youth, penal institutions, and gender. Toth reveals how the utopian expectations of its planners foundered in myriad ways.”

—Robert Nye, Oregon State University, editor of Sexuality “Toth’s book is the first to use the voices of the inmates themselves, as well as the detailed records of the most important penal institution of its time. This is groundbreaking analysis.”

—Barbara Arneil, University of British Columbia, author of Domestic Colonies “Toth shows how discipline both functioned and failed to function, and how prisoners resisted. Based on exemplary archival research, Mettray evokes the experience of inmates with real depth.”

—Clifford Rosenberg, City College of New York, author of Policing Paris

NOVEMBER

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Lethal Provocation The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria Joshua Cole

Part murder mystery, part social history of political violence, Lethal Provocation is a forensic examination of the deadliest peacetime episode of anti-Jewish violence in modern French history. Joshua Cole reconstructs the 1934 riots in Constantine, Algeria, in which tensions between Muslims and Jews were aggravated by right-wing extremists, resulting in the deaths of twenty-eight people.

Animating the unrest was Mohamed El Maadi, a soldier in the French army. Later a member of a notorious French nationalist group that threatened insurrection in the late 1930s, El Maadi became an enthusiastic supporter of France’s Vichy regime in World War II, and finished his career in the German SS. Cole cracks the “cold case” of El Maadi’s participation in the events, revealing both his presence at the scene and his motives in provoking violence at a moment when the French government was debating the rights of Muslims in Algeria. Local police and authorities came to know about the role of provocation in the unrest and killings and purposely hid the truth during the investigation that followed. Cole’s sensitive history brings into high relief the cruelty of social relations in the decades before the war for Algerian independence.

Joshua Cole is Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He teaches nineteenth and twentieth century European history and has published work on gender and the history of the population sciences, colonial violence, and the politics of memory in France, Algeria, and Germany. His book The Power of Large Numbers was selected as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2000 by Choice Magazine. He is also coauthor, with Carol Symes, of Western Civilizations.

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“Lethal Provocation is a tour de force. Here, at last, is a book worthy of the importance and complexity of the Constantine riots of 1934: a major and long-misunderstood event of modern French, Algerian, and Jewish history. Carefully researched and brilliantly contextualized, it deserves a wide audience.”

—Ethan B. Katz, University of California, Berkeley, author of The Burdens of Brotherhood “Cole’s powerful narrative of the tragic events of 1934 compels historians of empire to rethink categories, approaches, and methodologies. His deep research into, and reflection on, ‘French’ North Africa sets a new standard for Colonial Studies.”

—Julia Clancy-Smith, University of Arizona, author of Mediterraneans

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Migration in the Time of Revolution China, Indonesia, and the Cold War Taomo Zhou

Migration in the Time of Revolution examines how two of the world’s most populous countries interacted between 1945 and 1967, when the concept of citizenship was contested, political loyalty was in question, identity was fluid, and the boundaries of political mobilization were blurred. Taomo Zhou asks probing questions of this important period in the histories of the People’s Republic of China and Indonesia. What was it like to be a youth in search of an ancestral homeland that one had never set foot in, or an economic refugee whose expertise in private business became undesirable in one’s new home in the socialist state? What ideological beliefs or practical calculations motivated individuals to commit to one particular nationality while forsaking another?

As Zhou demonstrates, the answers to such questions about “ordinary” migrants are crucial to a deeper understanding of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Through newly declassified documents from the Chinese Foreign Ministry Archives and oral history interviews, Migration in the Time of Revolution argues that migration and the political activism of the ethnic Chinese in Indonesia were important historical forces in the making of governmental relations between Beijing and Jakarta after World War II. Zhou highlights the agency and autonomy of individuals whose life experiences were shaped by but also helped shape the trajectory of bilateral diplomacy. These ethnic Chinese migrants and settlers were, Zhou contends, not passively acted upon but actively responding to the developing events of the Cold War. This book bridges the fields of diplomatic history and migration studies by reconstructing the Cold War in Asia as social processes from the ground up.

“Based on extensive research in Chinese and Indonesian sources, Migration in the Time of Revolution is the best study of Sino-Indonesian relations during the Cold War in the English language and may well remain so for years to come.”

—Gregg Brazinsky, The George Washington University, and author of Winning the Third World “Migration in the Time of Revolution is an impressive work of high caliber, and represents a significant contribution to knowledge on modern China, Chinese migration, modern Indonesia and modern Southeast Asia.”

—Glen Peterson, University of British Columbia, and author of Overseas Chinese in the People’s Republic of China

Taomo Zhou is Assistant Professor in the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University. Follow her on Twitter @taomo_zhou.

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The Medieval Economy of Salvation Charity, Commerce, and the Rise of the Hospital Adam J. Davis

In The Medieval Economy of Salvation, Adam J. Davis shows how the burgeoning commercial economy of western Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, alongside an emerging culture of Christian charity, led to the establishment of hundreds of hospitals and leper houses. Focusing on the county of Champagne, he looks at the ways in which charitable organizations and individuals—townspeople, merchants, aristocrats, and ecclesiastics—saw in these new institutions a means of infusing charitable giving and service with new social significance and heightened expectations of spiritual rewards.

Hospitals served as visible symbols of piety and, as a result, were popular objects of benefaction. They also presented lay women and men with new penitential opportunities to personally perform the works of mercy, which many embraced as a way to earn salvation. At the same time, these establishments served a variety of functions beyond caring for the sick and the poor; as benefactors donated lands and money to them, hospitals became increasingly central to local economies, supplying loans, distributing food, and acting as landlords. In tracing the rise of the medieval hospital during a period of intense urbanization and the transition from a gift economy to a commercial one, Davis makes clear how embedded this charitable institution was in the wider social, cultural, religious, and economic fabric of medieval life.

Adam J. Davis is Professor of History and Associate Director of the Lisska Center for Scholarly Engagement at Denison University, in Granville, Ohio. He is the author of The Holy Bureaucrat.

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“The Medieval Economy of Salvation is excellent and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the religious and social concerns that gave rise to the ‘hospital revolution’ of the twelfth and thirteenth century.”

—Sharon Farmer, UC Santa Barbara, author of The Silk Industries of Medieval Paris “The Medieval Economy of Salvation is an intelligent book. Adam J. Davis, with great erudition and talent, masterfully gives the social phenomenon of the Medieval hospital the attention it deserves.”

—François Touati, University FrançoisRabelais of Tours, author of Yves de Chartres (1040–1115) “Using an annaliste’s all-encompassing approach, Adam Davis displays impressive command of the history of religion, economic change, and social relations in thirteenth-century France. The Medieval Economy of Salvation will be of great interest to historians of medieval Europe, and beyond.”

—Miri Rubin, Queen Mary University of London, author of The Middle Ages

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Fighting for Virtue Justice and Politics in Thailand Duncan McCargo

Fighting for Virtue investigates how Thailand’s judges were tasked by the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) in 2006 with helping to solve the country’s intractable political problems— and what happened next. Across the last decade of Rama IX’s rule, Duncan McCargo examines the world of Thai judges: how they were recruited, trained, and promoted, and how they were socialized into a conservative world view that emphasized the proximity between the judiciary and the monarchy.

McCargo delves into three pivotal freedom of expression cases that illuminate Thai legal and cultural understandings of sedition and treason, before examining the ways in which accusations of disloyalty made against controversial former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra came to occupy a central place in the political life of a deeply polarized nation. The author navigates the highly contentious role of the Constitutional Court as a key player in overseeing and regulating Thailand’s political order before concluding with reflections on the significance of the Bhumibol era of “judicialization” in Thailand. In the end, posits McCargo, under a new king, who appears far less reluctant to assert his own power and authority, the Thai courts may now assume somewhat less significance as a tool of the monarchical network.

“Fighting for Virtue is quite detailed and rich, and will appeal to anyone interested in Thai politics. It should be assigned reading in courses on Thai politics, Southeast Asian comparative politics, and law courses.”

—Thak Chaloemtiarana, author of Read Till It Shatters “Fighting for Virtue reflects Duncan McCargo’s important and long recognized ability to identify matters of great salience and to interpret them in ways that have a lasting impact on the study of contemporary Thailand.”

—Michael J. Montesano, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore

Duncan McC argo is Director of the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen. He is author of Tearing Apart the Land, which won the inaugural Bernard Schwartz Book Prize from the Asia Society in 2009.

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Strategies for Governing Reinventing Public Administration for a Dangerous Century Alasdair Roberts

With the fields of public administration and public management suffering a crisis of relevance, Alasdair Roberts offers a provocative assessment of their shortfalls. The two fields, he finds, no longer address urgent questions of governance in a turbulent and dangerous world.

Strategies for Governing offers a new path forward for research, teaching, and practice. Leaders of states, Roberts writes, are constantly reinventing strategies for governing. Experts in public administration must give advice on the design as well as execution of strategies that are effective, robust, and principled. Strategies for Governing challenges us to reinvigorate public administration and public management, preparing the fields for the challenges of the twenty-first century.

Alasdair Roberts is Director of the School of Public Policy and Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is author of America’s First Great Depression and The End of Protest. Follow him on Twitter @alasdairroberts.

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“Alasdair Roberts is one of the most thoughtful scholars working in public administration today, and Strategies for Governing is an important and challenging book. It will be an instant classic—a must-read for established researchers and budding scholars.”

—Donald F. Kettl, University of Texas at Austin, author of The Politics of the Administrative Process, 7th Edition “Just in time, Alasdair Roberts makes a provocative argument urging public administration to return to basics.

Strategies for Governing rediscovers the field’s roots and describes a conceptual and practical route back to relevance in public life!”

—Mary E. Guy, University of Colorado, Denver, author of Essentials of Public Service

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Warlord Survival The Delusion of State Building in Afghanistan Romain Malejacq

How do warlords survive and even thrive in contexts that are explicitly set up to undermine them? How do they rise after each fall? Warlord Survival answers these questions. Drawing on hundreds of in-depth interviews in Afghanistan between 2007 and 2018, with ministers, governors, a former vice-president, warlords and their entourages, opposition leaders, diplomats, NGO workers, and local journalists and researchers, Romain Malejacq provides a full investigation of how warlords adapt and explains why weak states like Afghanistan allow it to happen.

Malejacq follows the careers of four warlords in Herat, Sheberghan, and Panjshir—Ismail Khan, Abdul Rashid Dostum, Ahmad Shah Massoud, and Mohammad Qasim Fahim. He shows how they have successfully negotiated complicated political environments to survive ever since the beginning of the Soviet-Afghan war. The picture he paints in Warlord Survival is one of astute political entrepreneurs with a proven ability to organize violence.

Warlords exert authority through a process in which they combine, instrumentalize, and convert different forms of power to prevent the emergence of a strong, centralized state. But, as Malejacq shows, the personal relationships and networks fundamental to the authority of Ismail Khan, Dostum, Massoud, and Fahim are not necessarily contrary to bureaucratic state authority. In fact, these four warlords, and others like them, offer durable and flexible forms of power in unstable, violent countries.

“Warlord Survival is given heft by the richness of the data, the care with which the data has been curated, and the way in which it has been combined with potent sociological insights. This book will acquire a cherished place on the bookshelves of security and development professionals.”

—Jesse Driscoll, University of California, San Diego, author of Warlords and Coalition Politics in Post-Soviet States “Romain Malejacq has written an excellent study of considerable importance, sophisticated and accessible. It significantly advances our understanding of the problems that international actors have encountered in trying to promote new political structures in Afghanistan since 2001.”

—William Maley, Australian National University, author of Transition in Afghanistan

Romain Malejacq is Assistant Professor at the Centre for International Conflict Analysis & Management at Radboud University Nijmegen. Follow him on Twitter @afghanopoly.

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Super Bomb Organizational Conflict and the Development of the Hydrogen Bomb Ken Young & Warner R. Schilling

Super Bomb unveils the story of the events leading up to President Harry S. Truman’s 1950 decision to develop a “super,” or hydrogen, bomb. That fateful decision and its immediate consequences are detailed in a diverse and complete account built on newly released archives and previously hidden contemporaneous interviews with more than sixty political, military, and scientific figures who were involved in the decision.

Ken Young and Warner R. Schilling present the expectations, hopes, and fears of the key individuals who lobbied for and against developing the H-bomb. They portray the conflicts that arose over the H-bomb as rooted in the distinct interests of the Atomic Energy Commission, the Los Alamos laboratory, the Pentagon and State Department, the Congress, and the White House. But as they clearly show, once Truman made his decision in 1950, resistance to the H-bomb opportunistically shifted to new debates about the development of tactical nuclear weapons, continental air defense, and other aspects of nuclear weapons policy. What Super-Bomb reveals is that in many ways the H-bomb struggle was a proxy battle over the morality and effectiveness of strategic bombardment and the role and doctrine of the US Strategic Air Command.

The late K en Young was Professor of Public Policy at King’s College, London. He was a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Academy of Social Sciences and the author of The American Bomb in Britain.

The late Warner R. Schilling was James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations Emeritus at Columbia University, where he taught for six decades and served as director of Columbia’s Institute of War and Peace Studies. He published books and articles on civil-military relations, military technology, nuclear strategy, and the role of science in foreign policy.

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“Super Bomb brings new evidence to bear on an important historical issue and engages in detail with the existing scholarship. This is a work of high quality.”

—David Holloway, Stanford University, author of Stalin and the Bomb “Super Bomb portrays conflicts that arose as rooted in the distinct interests of several institutions through whose channels politics flowed, resulting in a truly bravura performance, providing both generalists and specialists a better understanding of the world in which we live.”—Joseph M. Siracusa, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University

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Russian Conservatism Paul Robinson

Paul Robinson’s Russian Conservatism examines the history of Russian conservative thought from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. As he shows, conservatism has made an underappreciated contribution to Russian national identity, to the ideology of Russian statehood, and to Russia’s social-economic development. Robinson charts the contributions made by philosophers, politicians, and others during the Imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet periods. Looking at cultural, political, and social-economic conservatism in Russia, he discusses ideas and issues of more than historical interest. Indeed, what Russian Conservatism demonstrates is that such ideas are helpful in interpreting Russia’s present as well as its past and will be influential in shaping Russia’s future, for better or for worse, in the years to come.

For the past two centuries Russian conservatives have sought to adapt to the pressures of modernization and westernization and, more recently, globalization, while preserving national identity and political and social stability. Through Robinson’s research we can now understand how Russian conservatives have continually proposed forms of cultural, political, and economic development seen as building on existing traditions, identity, forms of government, and economic and social life, rather than being imposed on the basis of abstract theory and foreign models.

Paul Robinson is Professor of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. He is author and editor of numerous works on Russian and Soviet history, including Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich, Supreme Commander of the Russian Army, which won the Society for Military History’s distinguished book award for biography.

“With Robinson’s book in hand, readers will be able to determine with which current strand of conservatism a given politician in Putin’s Russia may be affiliated and will also be able to grasp references to earlier Russian conservative thinkers. Robinson’s book will be valuable to lay readers and to policymakers alike.”

—Gary Hamburg, Claremont McKenna College, author most recently of Russia’s Path toward Enlightenment “An excellent overview of the history of Russian conservatism. Scholars of nineteenth-century thought will find this book a useful synthesis, and it will help readers interested in post-Soviet Russia understand the historical antecedents of the ideas circulating in Russia today.”

—Alexander M. Martin, University of Notre Dame, author most recently of Enlightened Metropolis

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Life is Elsewhere Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800–1917 Anne Lounsbery

In Life Is Elsewhere, Anne Lounsbery shows how nineteenth-century Russian literature created an imaginary place called “the provinces”—a place at once homogeneous, static, anonymous, and symbolically opposed to Petersburg and Moscow. Lounsbery looks at a wide range of texts, both canonical and lesser-known, in order to explain why the trope has exercised such enduring power, and what role it plays in the larger symbolic geography that structures Russian literature’s representation of the nation’s space. Using a comparative approach, she brings to light fundamental questions that have long gone unasked: how to understand, for instance, the weakness of literary regionalism in a country as large as Russia? Why the insistence, from Herzen through Chekhov and beyond, that all Russian towns look the same?

In a literary tradition that constantly compared itself to a western European standard, Lounsbery argues, the problem of provinciality always implied difficult questions about the symbolic geography of the nation as a whole. This constant awareness of a far-off European model helps explain why the provinces, in all their supposed drabness and predictability, are a topic of such fascination for Russian writers—why these anonymous places are in effect so important and meaningful, notwithstanding the culture’s nearly unremitting emphasis on their nullity and meaninglessness.

Anne Lounsbery teaches Russian literature at New York University. She has published numerous articles on Russian and comparative literature and is the author of Thin Culture, High Art.

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“Life is Elsewhere is that rare book that reveals an essential truth no one has noticed before. The Russian provinces, Russia’s provincialism, and the entirety of the Russian cultural landscape will never look the same.”

—Yuri Slezkine, University of California Berkeley, author of The House of Government “Lounsbery manages to seamlessly integrate consistently interesting textual analysis with philosophical and metaphysical perspectives on Russian culture.”

—Ilya Vinitsky, Princeton University, author of Vasily Zhukovsky’s Romanticism and the Emotional History of Russia

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Repowering Cities Governing Climate Change Mitigation in New York City, Los Angeles, and Toronto Sara Hughes

City governments are rapidly becoming society’s problem solvers.

As Sara Hughes shows, nowhere is this more evident than in New York City, Los Angeles, and Toronto, where the cities’ governments are taking on the challenge of addressing climate change.

Repowering Cities focuses on the specific issue of reducing urban greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and develops a new framework for distinguishing analytically and empirically the policy agendas city governments develop for reducing GHG emissions, the governing strategies they use to implement these agendas, and the direct and catalytic means by which they contribute to climate change mitigation. Hughes uses her framework to assess the successes and failures experienced in New York City, Los Angeles, and Toronto as those agenda-setting cities have addressed climate change. She then identifies strategies for moving from incremental to transformative change by pinpointing governing strategies able to mobilize the needed resources and actors, build participatory institutions, create capacity for climate-smart governance, and broaden coalitions for urban climate change policy.

“Sara Hughes’s Repowering Cities fills a crucial niche in thriving academic discussions on climate change at the city level. Her fine-grained analysis is fantastic. This is a valuable book in any course about planning for climate change.”

—Richardson Dilworth, Drexel University, author of The Urban Origins of Suburban Autonomy “The conceptualization and execution of Repowering Cities are terrific, and provide readers with a deep understanding of why, how, and to what effect cities have mobilized to mitigate the effects of climate change.”

—Michael J. Rich, Emory University, coauthor of Collaborative Governance for Urban Revitalization

Sara Hughes is Assistant Professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. She is co-editor of Climate Change and Cities. Follow her on Twitter @ sara_hughes_TO.

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Hematologies The Political Life of Blood in India Jacob Copeman and Dwaipayan Banerjee

In this ground-breaking account of the political economy and cultural meaning of blood in contemporary India, Jacob Copeman and Dwaipayan Banerjee examine how the giving and receiving of blood has shaped social and political life. Hematologies traces how the substance congeals political ideologies, biomedical rationalities, and activist practices.

Using examples from anti-colonial appeals to blood sacrifice as a political philosophy to contemporary portraits of political leaders drawn with blood, from the use of the substance by Bhopali children as a material of activism to biomedical anxieties and aporias about the excess and lack of donation, Hematologies broaches how political life in India has been shaped through the use of blood and through contestations about blood. As such, the authors offer new entryways into thinking about politics and economy through a “bloodscape of difference”: different sovereignties; different proportionalities; and different temporalities.

These entryways allow the authors to explore the relation between blood’s utopic f lows and political clottings as it moves through time and space, conjuring new kinds of social collectivities while reanimating older forms, and always in a ref lexive relation to norms that guide its proper f low.

Jacob Copeman is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. He is author of Veins of Devotion.

Dwaipayan Banerjee is Assistant Professor in the program on Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Follow him on Twitter @dwai_banerjee.

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“Hematologies is an astute, learned, and ground-breaking account of the political economy and cultural meaning of blood in contemporary India, the product of a powerful, cogent collaboration between two prominent and exciting thinkers.”

—Rachel Berger, Concordia University, author of Ayurveda Made Modern “Jacob Copeman and Dwaipayan Banerjee have written a deeply insightful book on the potent symbolism and political significance of blood.”

—Joseph Alter, University of Pittsburgh, author of Gandhi’s Body

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Precarious Times Temporality and History in Modern German Culture Anne Fuchs

In Precarious Times, Anne Fuchs explores how works of German literature, film, and photography reflect on the profound temporal anxieties precipitated by contemporary experiences of atomization, displacement, and fragmentation that bring about a loss of history and of time itself and is peculiar to our current moment. The digital age places premiums on just-in-time deliveries, continual innovation, instantaneous connectivity, and around-the-clock availability. While some celebrate this 24/7 culture, others see it as profoundly destructive to the natural rhythm of day and night—and to human happiness. Have we entered an era of a perpetual present that depletes the future and erodes our grasp of the past?

Beginning its examination around 1900, when rapid modernization was accompanied by comparably intense reflection on changing temporal experience, Precarious Times provides historical depth and perspective to current debates on the “digital now.” Expanding the focus and terminology of time and speed, Fuchs deploys such concepts as attention, slowness and lateness to emphasize the uneven quality of time around the world.

Anne Fuchs is Professor and Director of the University College Dublin Humanities Institute, Ireland. She is the author of After the Dresden Bombing, Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse, Die Schmerzensspuren der Geschichte.

“Anne Fuchs interrupts conventional, deterministic accounts of modern temporality, mechanization, and modernization with her meticulous accounts of the work of postmodern German image and text artists. A wide-ranging and compelling review of photography, film, and fiction from the Wende through the refugee crisis of 2015 and its aftermath.”

—Jane O. Newman, University of California, Irvine “Fuchs’s rich and important study energizes the theoretical discussions of time. Her sensitive readings reconnect time to space and provide historical depth for contemporary expressions across a wide range of literary texts, works of photography and films. By probing their aesthetic pulse, the author reveals the highly precarious quality of time as cultural frame, connector of social life and measure of individual experience.”

—Aleida Assmann, University of Konstanz

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Is Time Out of Joint?

On the Rise and Fall of the Modern Time Regime Aleida Assman tr ansl ated by Sar ah Clift

Is, as Hamlet once complained, time out joint? Have the ways we understand the past and the future—and their relationship to the present—been reordered? The past, it seems, has returned with a vengeance: as aggressive nostalgia, as traumatic memory, or as atavistic origin narratives rooted in nation, race, or tribe.

The future, meanwhile, has lost its utopian glamor, with the belief in progress and hope for a better future eroded by fears of ecological collapse.

In this provocative book, Aleida Assmann argues that the apparently solid moorings of our temporal orientation have collapsed within the span of a generation. To understand this profound cultural crisis, she reconstructs the rise and fall of what she calls “time regime of modernity” that underpins notions of modernization and progress, a shared understanding that is now under threat. Is Time Out of Joint? assesses the deep change in the temporality of modern Western culture as it relates to our historical experience, historical theory, and our life-world of shared experience, explaining what we have both gained and lost during this profound transformation.

Aleida Assman was until 2014 Chair of English Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Konstanz. She is the author of several books that have been translated into English, including most recently, Cultural Memory and Western Civilization. With her husband Jan, she was awarded the prestigious 2017 Balzan Prize for Collective Memory and the 2018 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.

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“Since the 1970s, Aleida Assmann has been one of the most distinguished and prominent figures in transatlantic academia, working at the intersections of critical theory, literary and cultural studies, and memory studies. This book in particular is timely and urgent.”—Kirk Wetters, Yale University, author of Demonic History from Goethe to the Present “As one of Germany’s leading humanist intellectuals, Aleida Assmann is an authoritative voice on cultural and historical change.”—Michael Rothberg, UCLA, author of The Implicated Subject

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Empire’s Mobius Strip Historical Echoes in Italy’s Crisis of Migration and Detention Stephanie Malia Hom

Italy’s current crisis of Mediterranean migration and detention has its roots in early twentieth century imperial ambitions.

Empire’s Mobius Strip investigates how mobile populations were perceived to be major threats to Italian colonization, and how the state’s historical mechanisms of control have resurfaced, with greater force, in today’s refugee crisis.

What is at stake in Empire’s Mobius Strip is a deeper understanding of the forces driving those who move by choice and those who are moved. Stephanie Malia Hom focuses on Libya, considered Italy’s most valuable colony, both politically and economically. Often perceived as the least of the great powers, Italian imperialism has been framed as something of “colonialism lite.” But Italian colonizers carried out genocide between 1929–33, targeting nomadic Bedouin and marching almost 100,000 of them across the desert, incarcerating them in camps where more than half who entered died, simply because the Italians considered their way of life suspect. There are uncanny echoes with the situation of the Roma and migrants today. Hom explores three sites, in novella-like essays, where Italy’s colonial past touches down in the present: the island, the camp, and the village.

Stephanie Malia Hom is Executive Director of the Acus Foundation. She is author of The Beautiful Country and tweets @ empirestrip.

“A lyrical and important work that moves between the realms of reportage, historical analysis, and political reflection to illuminate the ongoing crisis of migration in Italy. In both form and content, the text is a hybrid: elegant in its simplicity and brilliant in its execution.”— Pamela Ballinger, University of Michigan, author of History in Exile “Exploring the historical and contemporary treatment of undesirables by Italian authorities, Stephanie Malia Hom unearths the imperial formations buried beneath the rhetoric of the modern nation state. Her study of forced migration in the contemporary Mediterranean is perfectly timed and destined to become a classic of the transnational turn in Italian Studies.”—Claudio Fogu, University of California Santa Barbara, author of The Historic Imaginary

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Empire’s Labor The Global Army That Supports U.S. Wars Adam Moore

In a dramatic unveiling of the little-known world of contracted military logistics, Adam Moore examines the lives of the global army of laborers who support US overseas wars. Empire’s Labor brings us the experience of the hundreds of thousands of men and women who perform jobs such as truck drivers and administrative assistants at bases located in warzones in the Middle East and Africa. He highlights the changes the US military has undergone since the Vietnam War, when the ratio of contractors to uniformed personnel was roughly 1:6. In Afghanistan it has been as high as 4:1. This growth in logistics contracting represents a fundamental change in how the US fights wars, with the military now dependent on a huge pool of contractors recruited from around the world. It also, Moore demonstrates, has social, economic, and political implications that extend well beyond the battlefields.

Focusing on workers from the Philippines and Bosnia, two major sources of “third country national” (TCN) military labor, Moore explains the rise of large-scale logistics outsourcing since the end of the Cold War; describes the networks, infrastructures, and practices that span the spaces through which people, information, and goods circulate; and reveals the experiences of foreign workers, from the hidden dynamics of labor activism on bases, to the economic and social impacts these jobs have on their families and the communities they hail from. Through his extensive fieldwork and interviews, Moore gives voice to the agency and aspirations of the many thousands of foreigners who labor for the US military.

Adam Moore is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is author of Peacebuilding in Practice. Follow him on Twitter @ConflictGeo. THIS BOOK IS ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN OPEN ACCESS MONOGRAPH THROUGH CORNELL OPEN AND TOME.

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“Empire’s Labor is a beautifully written, essential book exposing the labor and labor exploitation underpinning the military industrial complex, US empire, and the corporations fueling permanent war.”—David Vine, Professor of Anthropology, American University, author of Base Nation

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Labor in the Time of Trump Edited by Jasmine Kerrissey, Eve Weinbaum, Clare Hammonds, Tom Juravich, & Dan Clawson

Labor in the Time of Trump critically analyzes the right-wing attack on workers and unions and offers strategies to build a working–class movement.

While President Trump’s election in 2016 may have been a wakeup call for labor and the Left, the underlying processes behind this shift to the right have been building for at least forty years. The contributors show that only by analyzing the vulnerabilities in the right-wing strategy can the labor movement develop an effective response.

Essays in the volume examine the conservative upsurge, explore key challenges the labor movement faces today, and draw lessons from recent activist successes.

The editors of this book are faculty members of the Labor Center and Sociology Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Combined, they have dozens of books and articles that analyze the labor movement, work, and politics.

They regularly work with unions and worker centers, and they teach graduate courses in labor studies, economics, history, organizing, and union campaigns.

“This book offers a timely, needed, and original set of interpretations of the political moment in which we live. The emphasis here is not on theoretical debates but rather on practical political analysis and the construction of alternatives.”—Nik Theodore, University of Illinois at Chicago

Contributors: Donald Cohen, founder and executive director of In the Public Interest; Bill Fletcher, Jr., author of Solidarity Divided; Shannon Gleeson, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations; Sarah Jaffe, co-host of Dissent Magazine’s Belabored podcast; Cedric Johnson, University of Illinois at Chicago; Jennifer Klein, Yale University; Gordon Lafer, University of Oregon’s Labor Education and Research Center; Jose La Luz, labor activist and public intellectual; Nancy MacLean, Duke University; MaryBe McMillan, President of the North Carolina state AFL-CIO; Jon Shelton, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay; Lara Skinner, The Worker Institute at Cornell University; Kyla Walters, Sonoma State University

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Campus Counterspaces Black and Latinx Students’ Search for Community at Historically White Universities Micere Keels

Frustrated with the flood of news articles and opinion pieces that were skeptical of minority students’ “imagined” campus microaggressions, Micere Keels, a professor of comparative human development, set out to provide a detailed account of how racial-ethnic identity structures Black and Latinx students’ college transition experiences.

Tracking a cohort of more than five hundred Black and Latinx students since they enrolled at five historically white colleges and universities in the fall of 2013 Campus Counterspaces finds that these students were not asking to be protected from new ideas. Instead, they relished exposure to new ideas, wanted to be intellectually challenged, and wanted to grow. However, Keels argues, they were asking for access to counterspaces—safe spaces that enable radical growth. They wanted counterspaces where they could go beyond basic conversations about whether racism and discrimination still exist. They wanted time in counterspaces with likeminded others where they could simultaneously validate and challenge stereotypical representations of their marginalized identities and develop new counter narratives of those identities.

In this critique of how universities have responded to the challenges these students face, Keels offers a way forward that goes beyond making diversity statements to taking diversity actions.

Micere K eels is Associate Professor in Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. She is also the founding director of the Trauma Responsive Educational Practices project.

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“This is an excellent book that offers a significant contribution to the existing literature. A sense of the trajectory of Latinx and Black students’ transitions is a new contribution that is needed in the field.”—Rachelle Winkle-Wagner, Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin– Madison, author of The Unchosen Me “The authors bring an important, specific focus to a number of populations that are often left less considered. The book is well written and engaging, drawing on data that were clearly gathered with great care— the interviews are moving, intimate, and reflect a crucial rapport and trust.”— Elizabeth Lee, Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at Ohio University, author of Class and Campus Life

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Rituals of Care Karmic Politics in an Aging Thailand Felicit y Aulino

End-of-life issues are increasingly central to discussions within medical anthropology, the anthropology of political action, and the study of Buddhist philosophy and practice. Felicity Aulino’s Rituals of Care speaks directly to these important anthropological and existential conversations. Against the backdrop of global population aging and increased attention to care for the elderly, both personal and professional, Aulino challenges common presumptions about the universal nature of “caring.” The way she examines particular sets of emotional and practical ways of being with people, and their specific historical lineages, allows Aulino to show an inseparable link between forms of social organization and forms of care.

Unlike most accounts of the quotidian concerns of such activities as two sisters taking care of their bedridden elderly mother—the everyday activities of providing care in a rapidly aging society—Rituals of Care brings attention to corporeal processes. More specifically, Aulino explores care in practice.

Moving from vivid descriptions of the embodied routines at the heart of home caregiving to depictions of care practices in more general ways—care for one’s group, care of the polity—it develops the argument that religious, social, and political structures are embodied, through habituated action, in practices of providing for others. Under the watchful treatment of Aulino, care becomes a powerful foil for understanding recent political turmoil and structural change in Thailand, proving embodied practice to be a vital vantage point for phenomenological and political analyses alike.

“Rituals of Care disturbs in all the right ways. It disturbs our sense of what a self is and what it means to care for someone in the last stretches of life. It disturbs us sensorially by placing bodily caring practices front and center, so we can no longer pretend such practices have no relevance for cultural history or theory.”— Lisa Stevenson, McGill University, author of Life Beside Itself “Felicity Aulino’s Rituals of Care is evocative and engaging. It provides in-depth ethnographic descriptions and develops a theory of care, morality, and subjectivity that is clear and excellently discussed.”— Joanna Cook, University College London, author of Meditation in Modern Buddhism

Felicity Aulino is a Five-College Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is co-editor of Radical Egalitarianism, and you can follow her on Twitter @stinkicity.

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Driving toward Modernity Cars and the Lives of the Middle Class in Contemporary China Jun Zhang

In Driving toward Modernity, Jun Zhang ethnographically explores the entanglement between the rise of the automotive regime and emergence of the middle class in South China. Focusing on the Pearl River Delta, one of the nation’s wealthiest regions, Zhang shows how private cars have shaped everyday middle-class sociality, solidarity, and subjectivity, and how the automotive regime has helped make the new middle classes of the People’s Repblic of China. By carefully analyzing how physical and social mobility intertwines, Driving toward Modernity paints a nuanced picture of modern Chinese life, comprising the continuity and rupture as well as the structure and agency of China’s great transformation.

Jun Zhang is Assistant Professor of Asian and International Studies at City University of Hong Kong.

“Jun Zhang has written an excellent, lively ethnography of car consumption, driving, and parking in contemporary China that offers a significant contribution for understanding the booming car market and conflicts over urban space.”—Beth Notar, author of Displacing Desire “Driving toward Modernity is a timely and fascinating ethnography that is wellcrafted and highly accessible. Rich in detail, it makes a welcome contribution to China Studies by shedding new light on an important domain—cars.”—Li Zhang, author of In Search of Paradise “In this rich ethnography of the emergence of the automotive regime in contemporary China, Jun Zhang traces masterfully the contested evolution of the competing interests of state control, consumption regimes and freedom. . . . It reveals how the auto industry has long been at the centre of the state’s developmental agenda.”—Luigi Tomba, author of The Government Next Door

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Difference and Orientation An Alexander Kluge Reader Alexander Kluge edited by Richard L angston

Alexander Kluge is one of contemporary Germany’s leading intellectuals and artists. A key architect of the New German Cinema and a pioneer of auteur television programming, he has also cowritten three acclaimed volumes of critical theory, published countless essays and numerous works of fiction, and continues to make films even as he expands his video production to the internet. Despite Kluge’s five decades of work in philosophy, literature, television, and media politics, his reputation outside of the German-speaking world still largely rests on his films of the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s.

With the aim of introducing Kluge’s heterogeneous mind to an Anglophone readership, Difference and Orientation assembles thirty of his essays, speeches, glossaries, and interviews, revolving around the capacity for differentiation and the need for orientation toward ways out of catastrophic modernity. This landmark volume brings together some of Kluge’s most fundamental statements on literature, film, pre- and post-cinematic media, and social theory, nearly all for the first time in English translation. Together, these works highlight Kluge’s career-spanning commitment to unorthodox, essayistic thinking.

“Alexander K luge, born in Germany in 1932, is a writer, philosopher, filmmaker, lawyer, and television and video producer.

His books in English include History and Obstinacy, and Public Sphere and Experience (both with Oskar Negt).

Richard L angston is Associate Professor of German Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Visions of Violence and translator of History and Obstinacy.

“Richard Langston has assembled a remarkable collection of essays and interviews by Alexander Kluge that introduces English-speaking readers to a different Kluge than they are familiar with. The excellent translations capture the incisiveness, range, and wit of one of the most intelligent, prolific, and creative minds in contemporary Europeean history.”—Christopher Pavsek, Simon Fraser University, author of The Utopia of Film “Alexander Kluge’s colossal oeuvre sets out to shepherd both Theodor W. Adorno’s and Walter Benjamin’s Frankfurt School into the twenty-first century. Richard Langston’s anthology provides Englishlanguage readers with an essential compendium containing five decades of Kluge’s reflections on Critical Theory’s poetical potential.”—Rainer Stollmann, University of Bremen

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Divided Allies Strategic Cooperation against the Communist Threat in the Asia-Pacific during the Early Cold War Thomas K. Robb & David James Gill

By directly challenging existing accounts of post-World War II relations among the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, Divided Allies is a significant contribution to transnational and diplomatic history.

At its heart, Divided Allies examines why strategic cooperation among these closely allied Western powers in the Asia-Pacific region was limited during the early Cold War. Thomas K. Robb and David James Gill probe the difficulties of security cooperation as the leadership of these four states balanced intramural competition with the need to develop a common strategy against the Soviet Union and the new communist power, the People’s Republic of China.

Robb and Gill expose contention and disorganization among non-communist allies in the early phase of containment strategy in the Asia-Pacific. In particular, the authors note the significance of economic, racial, and cultural elements to planning for regional security and they highlight how these domestic matters resulted in international disorganization. Divided Allies shows that, amidst these contentious relations, the antipodean powers Australia and New Zealand occupied an important role in the region and successfully utilized quadrilateral diplomacy to advance their own national interests, such as the crafting of the 1951 ANZUS collective security treaty.

As fractious as were allied relations in the early days of NATO, Robb and Gill demonstrate that the post-World War II Asia-Pacific was as contentious, and that Britain and the commonwealth nations were necessary partners in the development of early global Cold War strategy.

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“Divided Allies changes the way we think about existing Cold War history. Thomas K. Robb and David James Gill’s work will spark substantial research, and the book will be a rich resource for scholars in international relations, diplomatic history, and regional studies.”—Jarrod Hayes, University of Massachusetts and MIT

Thomas K. Robb is Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is author of Jimmy Carter and the Anglo-American “Special Relationship” and A Strained Partnership?

David James Gill is Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham. He is author of Britain and the Bomb.

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Heaven’s Wrath The Protestant Reformation and the Dutch West India Company in the Atlantic World D. L. Noorlander

Heaven’s Wrath explores the religious thought and religious rites of the early Dutch Atlantic world. D. L. Noorlander argues that the Reformed Church and the West India Company forged and maintained a close union, with considerable consequences across the seventeenth century.

Noorlander argues that the church-company union encouraged destructive military operations against Catholic enemies abroad and divisive campaigns against sinners and religious nonconformers in colonial courts. Religious fervor, violence, and intolerance imposed financial and demographic costs that the small Dutch Republic and its people-strapped colonies could not afford. At the same time, the Reformed Church in the Netherlands undermined its own religious mission by trying to control from afar colonial hires, publications, and organization.

Noorlander’s argument in Heaven’s Wrath questions core assumptions about why the Dutch failed to establish a durable empire in America. He downplays the usual commercial explanations and places the focus instead on the tremendous expenses incurred in Calvinist-backed war and the Reformed Church’s meticulous, worried management of colonial affairs.

By pinpointing the issues that hampered the size and import of the Dutch Atlantic world, Noorlander is poised to revise standard notions about the organization and aims of the Dutch empire, the culture of the West India Company, and the very shape of Dutch society.

D. L. Noorlander is Assistant Professor of History at the State University of New York at Oneonta. Follow him on Twitter @ DLNoorlander.

“This is an impressive, ambitious study that will change the conversation about religion, trade, and imperial expansion in the case of the Dutch. Heaven’s Wrath exceeds all other work on the topic.”— Evan Haefeli, Texas A&M University, author of New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty “D. L. Noorlander has written an effective, strongly argued examination of the Dutch Republic and the colonial enterprise of the West India Company.”—Hans Krabbendam, Radboud University, author of Freedom on the Horizon “Heaven’s Wrath shows D. L. Noorlander’s mastery of the theme connecting the Dutch West India Company and the Reformed Church. This is work of the highest quality.”—Willem Frijhoff, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, author of Fulfilling God’s Mission

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The Afterlives of the Terror Facing the Legacies of Mass Violence in Postrevolutionary France Ronen Steinberg

The Afterlives of the Terror explores how those who experienced the mass violence of the French Revolution struggled to come to terms with it. Focusing on the Reign of Terror, Ronen Steinberg challenges the presumption that its aftermath was characterized by silence and enforced collective amnesia. Instead, he shows that there were painful, complex, and sometimes surprisingly honest debates about how to deal with its legacies.

As The Afterlives of the Terror shows, revolutionary leaders, victims’ families, and ordinary citizens argued about accountability, retribution, redress, and commemoration. Drawing on the concept of transitional justice and the scholarship on the major traumas of the twentieth century, Steinberg explores how the French tried, but ultimately failed, to leave this difficult past behind. He argues that it was the same democratizing, radicalizing dynamic that led to the violence of the Terror, which also gave rise to an unprecedented interrogation of how society is affected by events of enormous brutality. In this sense, the modern question of what to do with difficult pasts is one of the unanticipated consequences of the eighteenth century’s age of democratic revolutions.

Ronen Steinberg is Assistant Professor of History at Michigan State University.

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“The Afterlives of the Terror is a superb work of scholarship that breaks new interpretive ground. Combining exhaustive research with engrossing storytelling, Steinberg’s analysis of a major topic in the history of the French Revolution is noteworthy for its originality and its lucid prose.”— Patrick H. Hutton, University of Vermont, author of The Memory Phenomenon in Contemporary Historical Scholarship “Steinberg’s effort to put the Reign of Terror in the context of present-day concerns with transitional justice and the ‘working through’ of collective trauma is a new approach that produces productive insights, both about the French Revolution and about modern revolutions and genocides.”—Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky, author of Concise History of the Haitian Revolution

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Violence as Usual Policing and the Colonial State in German Southwest Africa Marie Muschalek

Slaps in the face, kicks, beatings, and other forms of run-of-themill violence were a quotidian part of life in German Southwest Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century. Unearthing this culture of normalized violence in a settler colony, Violence as Usual uncovers the workings of a powerful state that was built in an improvised fashion by low-level state representatives.

Marie A. Muschalek’s fascinating portrayal of the daily deeds of African and German men enrolled in the colonial police force called the Landespolizei is a historical anthropology of police practice and the normalization of imperial power. Replete with anecdotes of everyday experiences both of the policemen and of colonized people and settlers, Violence as Usual reexamines fundamental questions about the relationship between power and violence. Muschalek gives us a new perspective on violence beyond the solely destructive and the instrumental. She overcomes, too, the notion that modern states operate exclusively according to modes of rationalized functionality. Violence as Usual offers an unusual assessment of the history of rule in settler colonialism and an alternative to dominant narratives of an ostensibly weak colonial state.

“Violence as Usual greatly expands our understanding of colonial relations on the frontier—a well-crafted work of history.”— Matthew P. Fitzpatrick, Flinders University, author of Liberal Imperialism in Germany

Marie A. Muschalek is Lecturer and Researcher in History at the University of Freiburg. She is co-founder of a public history project on German’s colonial past, which can be viewed online at kolonialismusimkasten.de.

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Mass Vaccination Citizens’ Bodies and State Power in Modern China Mary Augusta Brazelton

While the eradication of smallpox has long been documented, not many know the Chinese roots of this historic achievement.

In this revelatory study, Mary Augusta Brazelton examines the People’s Replublic of China’s public health campaigns of the 1950s to explain just how China managed to inoculate almost six hundred million people against this and other deadly diseases.

Mass Vaccination tells the story of the people, materials, and systems that built these campaigns, exposing how, by improving the nation’s health, the Chinese Communist Party quickly asserted itself in the daily lives of all citizens. This crusade had deep roots in the Republic of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War, when researchers in China’s southwest struggled to immunize as many people as possible, both in urban and rural areas. But its legacy was profound, providing a means for the state to develop new forms of control and of engagement. Brazelton considers the implications of vaccination policies for national governance, from rural health care to Cold War-era programs of medical diplomacy.

By embedding Chinese medical history within international currents, she highlights how and why China became an exemplar of primary health care at a crucial moment in global health policy.

Mary Augusta Brazelton is University Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.

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“By challenging the conventional understanding of the celebrated ‘Chinese model’ of public health, Mass Vaccination succeeds brilliantly in revealing how the Chinese state developed a stunning capability to protect, as well as to control, life.”—Sean Hsiang-Lin Lei, Academia Sinica, author of Neither Donkey nor Horse “Well-written and impressively researched, Mass Vaccination will engage scholars of modern Chinese history, history of science and medicine, and global health.

It also offers a unique perspective on the history of the PRC and the role of ‘medical diplomacy’ in its international engagements during the 1960s and ’70s.”— Daniel Asen, Rutgers University–Newark, author of Death in Beijing

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Financial Stabilization in Meiji Japan The Impact of the Matsukata Reform Steven J. Ericson

With a new look at the 1880s financial reforms in Japan, Steven J. Ericson’s Financial Stabilization in Meiji Japan overturns widely held views of the program carried out by Finance Minister Matsukata Masayoshi. As Ericson shows, rather than constituting an orthodox financial-stabilization program—a sort of precursor of the “neoliberal” reforms promoted by the IMF in the 1980s and 1990s—Matsukata’s policies differed in significant ways from both classical economic liberalism and neoliberal orthodoxy.

The Matsukata financial reform has become famous largely for the wrong reasons, and Ericson sets the record straight. He shows that Matsukata intended to pursue fiscal retrenchment and budget-balancing when he became finance minister in late 1881. Various exigencies, including foreign military crises and a worsening domestic depression, compelled him instead to increase spending by running deficits and floating public bonds.

Though he drastically reduced the money supply, he combined the positive and contractionary policies of his immediate predecessors to pull off a program of “expansionary austerity” paralleling state responses to financial crisis elsewhere in the world both then and now.

Through a new and much-needed recalibration of this pivotal financial reform, Financial Stabilization in Meiji Japan demonstrates that, in several ways, ranging from state-led export promotion to the creation of a government-controlled central bank, Matsukata advanced policies that were more in line with a nationalist, developmentalist approach than with a liberal economic one. Ericson shows that Matsukata Masayoshi was far from a rigid adherent of classical economic liberalism.

“Steven Ericson’s study of Matsukata Masayoshi—’Japan’s Hamilton’—is a work of fundamental importance for understanding the history of modern Japan as well as for understanding the history of modern capitalism. It is the kind of deeply grounded history that scholars will continue to refer to for generations.”— Mark Metzler, author of Capital as Will and Imagination

Steven J. Ericson is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Dartmouth College. He is author of The Sound of the Whistle and co-editor of The Treaty of Portsmouth and Its Legacies.

Follow him on Twitter @ericson_steven.

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Dismantlings Words against Machines in the American Long Seventies Mat t Tierney

“For the master’s tools,” the poet Audre Lorde wrote, “will never dismantle the master’s house.” Dismantlings is a study of literary, political, and philosophical critiques of the utopian claims about technology in the Long Seventies, the decade and a half before 1980. Following Alice Hilton’s 1963 admonition that the coming years would bring humanity to a crossroads—“machines for HUMAN BEINGS or human beings for THE MACHINE”— Matt Tierney explores wide-ranging ideas from science fiction, avant-garde literatures, feminist and anti-racist activism, and indigenous eco-philosophy that may yet challenge machines of war, control, and oppression.

Dismantlings opposes the language of technological idealism with radical thought of the Long Seventies, from Lorde and Hilton to Samuel R. Delany and Ursula K. Le Guin to Huey P. Newton, John Mohawk, and many others. This counter-lexicon retrieves seven terms for the contemporary critique of technology: Luddism, a verbal and material combat against exploitative machines; communion, a kind of togetherness that stands apart from communication networks; cyberculture, a historical conjunction of automation with racist and militarist machines; distortion, a transformative mode of reading and writing; revolutionary suicide, a willful submission to the risk of political engagement; liberation technology, a synthesis of appropriate technology and liberation theology; and thanatopography, a mapping of planetary technological ethics after Auschwitz and Hiroshima. Dismantlings restores revolutionary language of the radical Long Seventies for reuse in the digital present against emergent technologies of exploitation, subjugation, and death.

Matt Tierney is Assistant Professor of English at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of What Lies Between.

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“Dismantlings offers a luminous engagement with a period of theoretical and artistic ferment too often neglected in contemporary literary theory. Tierney skillfully elucidates the poetic, activist, and theoretical strands of the period, offering a window into the past potential and present promise of 1970’s feminist, anti-racist, anti-colonial understandings of technology and society.”—Alexis Shotwell, Carleton University, author of Knowing Otherwise

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Civil Vengeance Literature, Culture, and Early Modern Revenge Emily L. King

What is revenge, and what purpose does it serve? On the early modern English stage, depictions of violence and carnage—the duel between Hamlet and Laertes that leaves nearly everyone dead or the ghastly meal of human remains served at the end of Titus Andronicus—emphasize arresting acts of revenge that upset the social order. Yet the subsequent critical focus on a narrow selection of often bloody “revenge plays” has overshadowed subtler and less spectacular modes of vengeance present in early modern culture.

In Civil Vengeance, Emily L. King offers a new way of understanding early modern revenge in relation to civility and community. Rather than relegating vengeance to the social periphery, she uncovers how facets of society—church, law, and education—relied on the dynamic of retribution to augment their power such that revenge emerges as an extension of civility. To revise the lineage of revenge literature in early modern England, King rereads familiar revenge tragedies (including Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge and Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy) alongside a new archive that includes conduct manuals, legal and political documents, and sermons. Shifting attention from episodic revenge to quotidian forms, Civil Vengeance provides new insights into the manner by which retaliation informs identity formation, interpersonal relationships, and the construction of the social body.

“Emily L. King makes an ambitious and successful attempt to change our understanding of the concept of revenge in early modern English literary and cultural discourse. This book is refreshing, and offers a worthy reframing of the usual study of revenge plays.”—Marcela Kostihová, Hamline University, author of Shakespeare in Transition

Emily L. K ing is Assistant Professor of English at Louisiana State University.

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Constructing Allied Cooperation Diplomacy, Payments, and Power in Multilateral Military Coalitions Marina E. Henke

How do states overcome problems of collective action in the face of human atrocities, terrorism and the threat of weapons of mass destruction? How does international burden-sharing in this context look like: between the rich and the poor; the big and the small? These are the questions Marina E. Henke addresses in her new book Constructing Allied Cooperation. Through qualitative and quantitative analysis of eighty multilateral military coalitions, Henke demonstrates that coalitions do not emerge naturally. Rather, pivotal states deliberately build them. They develop operational plans and bargain suitable third parties into the coalition, purposefully using their bilateral and multilateral diplomatic connections—what Henke terms diplomatic embeddedness—as a resource. As Constructing Allied Cooperation shows, these ties constitute an invaluable state capability to engage others in collective action: they are tools to construct cooperation.

The theory and evidence presented by Henke force us to revisit the conventional wisdom on how cooperation in multilateral military operations comes about. The author generates new insights with respect to who is most likely to join a given multilateral intervention, what factors inf luence the strength and capacity of individual coalitions, and what diplomacy and diplomatic ties are good for. Moreover, as the Trump administration promotes an “America First” policy and withdraws from international agreements and the United Kingdom completes Brexit, Constructing Allied Cooperation is an important reminder that international security cannot be delinked from more mundane forms of cooperation; multilateral military coalitions thrive or fail depending on the breadth and depth of existing social and diplomatic networks.

Marina E. Henke is Assistant Professor of International Relations and the Co-Chair of the War & Society Working Group at Northwestern University.

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“Constructing Allied Cooperation will be a valuable resource for those interested in multilateral military coalitions and international security cooperation more generally. It combines theoretical innovation with rich empirical work.”— Alexander Thompson, Ohio State University, and author of the awardwinning Channels of Power “Marina E. Henke’s book is intriguing, interesting, and provocative. Her ability to insightfully explain the transactional nature of relationships between large and small actors attempting to complete their coalitions reveals in great detail the complicated nature of international coalition building.”—Jeffrey A. Engel, Southern Methodist University, and author of When the World Seemed New

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Arguing about Alliances The Art of Agreement in Military-Pact Negotiations Paul Poast

Why do some attempts to conclude alliance treaties end in failure?

From the inability of European powers to form an alliance that would stop Hitler in the 1930s, to the present inability of Ukraine to join NATO, states frequently attempt but fail to form alliance treaties. In Arguing about Alliances, Paul Poast sheds new light on the purpose of alliance treaties by recognizing that such treaties come from negotiations, and that negotiations can end in failure.

In a book that bridges Stephen Walt’s Origins of Alliances and Glenn Snyder’s Alliance Politics, two classic works on alliances, Poast identifies two conditions that result in non-agreement: major incompatibilities in the internal war plans of the participants, and attractive alternatives to a negotiated agreement for various parties to the negotiations. As a result, Arguing about Alliances focuses on a group of states largely ignored by scholars: states that have attempted to form alliance treaties but failed. Poast suggests that to explain the outcomes of negotiations, specifically how they can end without agreement, we must pay particular attention to the wartime planning and coordinating functions of alliance treaties. Through his exploration of the outcomes of negotiations from European alliance negotiations between 1815 and 1945, Poast offers a typology of alliance treaty negotiations and establishes what conditions are most likely to stymie the attempt to formalize recognition of common national interests.

“Arguing about Alliances makes an essential argument for the need to understand the context within which alliances are negotiated, and moves the literature forward.”—Mark J. C. Crescenzi, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, author of Of Friends and Foes “Paul Poast shows how the study of international alliances and international conflict more generally can benefit from understanding when states fail to agree on alliance. Poast’s work is exemplary.”— Douglas M. Gibler, University of Alabama, author of The Territorial Peace

Paul Poast is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He is author of The Economics of War and co-author of Organizing Democracy. Follow him on Twitter @ProfPaulPoast.

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Tempting Fate Why Nonnuclear States Confront Nuclear Opponents Paul C. Avey

Why would countries without nuclear weapons even think about fighting nuclear-armed opponents? A simple answer is that no one believes nuclear weapons will be used. But that answer fails to consider why nonnuclear state leaders would believe that in the first place. In this superb unpacking of the dynamics of conflict under conditions of nuclear monopoly, Paul C. Avey argues that the costs and benefits of using nuclear weapons create openings that weak nonnuclear actors can exploit.

Tempting Fate uses four case studies to show the key strategies available to nonnuclear states: Iraqi decision-making under Saddam Hussein in confrontations with the United States; Egyptian leaders’ thinking about the Israeli nuclear arsenal during wars in 1969–70 and 1973; Chinese confrontations with the United States in 1950, 1954, and 1958; and a dispute that never escalated to war, the Soviet-United States tensions between 1946 and 1948 that culminated in the Berlin Blockade. Those strategies include limiting the scope of the conflict, holding chemical and biological weapons in reserve, seeking outside support, and leveraging international non-use norms. Counterintuitively, conventionally weak nonnuclear states are better positioned to pursue these strategies than strong ones, so that wars are unlikely when the nonnuclear state is powerful relative to its nuclear opponent. Avey demonstrates clearly that nuclear weapons cast a definite but limited shadow, and while the world continues to face various nuclear challenges, understanding conflict in nuclear monopoly will remain a pressing concern for analysts and policymakers.

Paul C. Avey is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech.

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“Nonnuclear countries sometimes attack states armed with nuclear weapons despite the belief that nuclear arsenals protect countries. Tempting Fate provides a thought-provoking explanation for why this happens, offers a significant contribution to our understanding of conflict dynamics in the shadow of nuclear weapons, and is required reading for anyone interested in nuclear deterrence.”—Matthew Fuhrmann, Texas A&M University, and author of Atomic Assistance

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Amoral Communities Collective Crimes in Time of War Mila Dragojevic

In Amoral Communities, Mila Dragojevic examines how conditions conducive to atrocities against civilians are created during wartime in some communities. She identifies the exclusion of moderates and the production of borders as the main processes.

In these places, political and ethnic identities become linked and targeted violence against civilians becomes both tolerated and justified by the respective authorities as a necessary sacrifice for a greater political goal.

Dragojevic augments the literature on genocide and civil wars by demonstrating how violence can be used as a political strategy, and how communities, as well as individuals, remember episodes of violence against civilians. The communities on which she focuses are Croatia in the 1990s and Uganda and Guatemala in the 1980s. In each case Dragojevic considers how people who have lived peacefully as neighbors for many years are suddenly transformed into enemies, yet intracommunal violence is not ubiquitous throughout the conflict zone; rather, it is specific to particular regions or villages within those zones. Reporting on the varying wartime experiences of individuals, she adds depth, emotion, and objectivity to the historical and socioeconomic conditions that shaped each conflict.

Furthermore, as Amoral Communities describes, the exclusion of moderates and the production of borders limit individuals’ freedom to express their views, work to prevent the possible defection of members of an in-group, and facilitate identification of individuals who are purportedly a threat. Even before mass killings begin, Dragojevic finds, these and similar changes will have transformed particular villages or regions into amoral communities, places where the definition of crime changes and violence is justified as a form of self-defense by perpetrators.

““Mila Dragojević’s book significantly contributes to our understanding of local-level violence, civil war and insurgencies, and the wars in Croatia and Bosnia.”—V.P. Gagnon Jr., Ithaca College, author of the prize-winning The Myth of Ethnic War “Amoral Communities is methodologically innovative as it takes the respondents’ understanding of violence seriously—not as a ‘test’ of preexisting deductive theory, but as an actual explanation. It is a wonderful contribution to the comparative study of ethnic violence.”—Jelena Subotić, Georgia State University, author of Hijacked Justice

Mila Dragojevic is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of the South. She is author of The Politics of Social Ties.

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A Satellite Empire Romanian Rule in Southwestern Ukraine, 1941–1944 Vladimir Solonari

A Satellite Empire is an in-depth investigation of the political and social history of the area in southwestern Ukraine under Romanian occupation during World War II. Transnistria was the only occupied Soviet territory administered by a power other than Nazi Germany, a reward for Romanian participation in Operation Barbarossa.

Vladimir Solonari’s invaluable contribution to World War II history focuses on three main aspects of Romanian rule of Transnistria: with fascinating insights from recently opened archives, Solonari examines the conquest and delimitation of the region, the Romanian administration of the new territory, and how locals responded to the occupation. What did Romania want from the conquest? The first section of the book analyzes Romanian policy aims and its participation in the invasion of the USSR. Solonari then traces how Romanian administrators attempted, in contradictory and inconsistent ways, to make Transnistria “Romanian” and “civilized” while simultaneously using it as a dumping ground for 150,000 Jews and 20,000 Roma deported from a racially cleansed Romania. The author shows that the imperatives of total war eventually prioritized economic exploitation of the region over any other aims the Romanians may have had. In the final section, he uncovers local responses in terms of collaboration and resistance, in particular exploring relationships with the local Christian population, which initially welcomed the occupiers as liberators from Soviet oppression but eventually became hostile to them. Ever increasing hostility towards the occupying regime buoyed the numbers and efficacy of pro-Soviet resistance groups.

Vladimir Solonari is Associate Professor of History at the University of Central Florida. He is author of Purifying the Nation, as well as of articles on Romanian, Moldovan, and Soviet history.

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“A Satellite Empire is a path-breaking work as the first English-language study on the social history of Romanian-occupied southwestern Ukraine, and as a unique and valuable addition to the literature on the Holocaust in Romania.”—Dennis Deletant, Georgetown University, author of Ceausescu and the Securitate “Vladimir Solonari has written the standard work on the Governorate of Transnistria. A Satellite Empire emphasizes nuance, ambiguity, and complexity, helping to make sense of contradictions that have confused and muddled historians in the past.”—Roland Clark, University of Liverpool, author of award-winning Holy Legionary Youth

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The House of Hemp and Butter A History of Old Riga Kevin C. O’Connor

Founded as an ecclesiastical center, trading hub, and intended capital of a feudal state, Riga was Old Livonia’s greatest city and its indispensable port. Because the city was situated in what was initially remote and inhospitable territory, surrounded by pagans and coveted by regional powers like Poland, Sweden, and Muscovy, it was also a fortress encased by a wall.

The House of Hemp and Butter begins in the twelfth century with the arrival to the eastern Baltic of German priests, traders, and knights, who conquered and converted the indigenous tribes and assumed mastery over their lands. It ends in 1710 with an account of the greatest war Livonia had ever seen, one that was accompanied by mass starvation, a terrible epidemic, and a flood of nearly Biblical proportions that devastated the city and left its survivors in misery.

Readers will learn about Riga’s people—merchants and clerics, craftsmen and builders, porters and day laborers—about its structures and spaces, its internal conflicts and its unrelenting struggle to maintain its independence against outside threats.

The House of Hemp and Butter is an indispensable guide to a quintessentially European city located in one of the continent’s more remote corners.

“O’Connor has an attractive and highly readable writing style and his account has no ‘national’ axe to grind and thus strikes a fair balance between the relative significance of the various nationalities that populated the city in the 500year period he surveys. For tourists planning to visit the city, he explains how contemporary physical features— location, suburbs, churches, street names in the medieval part of the city—are in part linked to the events of these early centuries.”—Andrejs Plakans, Professor Emeritus, Iowa State University, author of A Concise History of the Baltic States

K evin C. O’Connor is Professor of History at Gonzaga University. He is author of a number of books, including, The History of the Baltic States, Culture and Customs of the Baltic States, and Intellectuals and Apparatchiks.

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Stuck on Communism Memoir of a Russian Historian Lewis H. Siegelbaum

This memoir by one of the foremost scholars of the Soviet period spans three continents and more than half a century—from the 1950s when Lewis Siegelbaum’s father was a victim of McCarthyism up through the implosion of the Soviet Union and beyond.

Siegelbaum recreates journeys of discovery and self-discovery in the tumult of student rebellion at Columbia University during the Vietnam War, graduate study at Oxford, and Moscow at the height of détente. His story takes the reader into the Soviet archives, the coalfields of eastern Ukraine, and the newly independent Uzbekistan.

An intellectual autobiography that is also a biography of the field of Anglophone Soviet history, Stuck on Communism is a guide for how to lead a life on the Left that integrates political and professional commitments. Siegelbaum reveals the attractiveness of Communism as an object of study and its continued relevance decades after its disappearance from the landscape of its origin.

Through the journey of a book that is in the end a romance, Siegelbaum discovers the truth in the notion that no matter what historians take as their subject, they are always writing about themselves.

Lewis H. Siegelbaum is Jack and Margaret Sweet Professor Emeritus of History at Michigan State University. His books include Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1935–1941, and the award-winning Cars for Comrades. He co-authored with Jim von Geldern the award-winning website “Seventeen Moments in Soviet History,” Stalinism as a Way of Life with Andrei Sokolov, and Broad is My Native Land with Leslie Page Moch.

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“This book is a generational portrait, an extended historiographical essay, and an occasional guide for graduate students whose uniqueness and strength rests in its hybridity. How I wish this book had been available to me when I began graduate school! Throughout, it is engaging and enjoyable to read.”—Erik R. Scott, University of Kansas, author of Familiar Strangers “Few in the field have brought the unique perspectives and deep dives into the archives that Siegelbaum has delivered to inform us about the fraught history of the USSR. He leads us through his personal evolution from student in the Cold War decades to mature scholar unafraid to swim against the Russophobic and antiSoviet currents of much of the public and even the profession.”—Ronald Grigor Suny, University of Michigan, author ofThe Soviet Experiment

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Chronicles in Stone Preservation, Patriotism, and Identity in Northwest Russia Victoria Donovan

Chronicles in Stone is a study of the powerful and pervasive myth of the Russian Northwest, its role in forming Soviet and Russian identities, and its impact on local communities. Combining detailed archival research, participant observation and oral history work, it explores the transformation of three northwestern Russian towns from provincial backwaters into the symbolic homelands of the Soviet and Russian nations.

The book’s central argument is that the Soviet state exploited the cultural heritage of the Northwest to craft patriotic narratives of the people’s genius, heroism and strength that could bind the nation together after 1945. Through sustained engagement with local voices, it reveals the ways these narratives were internalized, revised, and resisted by the communities living in the region.

Donovan provides an alternative lens through which to view the rise of Russian patriotic consciousness in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, adding a valuable regional dimension to our knowledge of Russian nation building and identity politics.

“Chronicles in Stone is highly original, timely, and important. The Putin Administration has used history selectively to create new national narratives and forge patriotic unity. Donovan shows that this has been a process with a history of its own.”—Karl D. Qualls, author of From Ruins to Reconstruction

Victoria Donovan is a Lecturer at the University of St Andrews. She is the author of research articles in Antropologicheskii forum, Slavic Review, Slavonica and Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. She is a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker and the recipient of a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award.

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The Virtues of Economy Governance, Power, and Piety in Late Medieval Rome James A. Palmer

The humanist perception of fourteenth-century Rome as a slumbering ruin awaiting the Renaissance and the return of papal power has cast a long shadow on the historiography of the city. Challenging this view, James A. Palmer argues that Roman political culture underwent dramatic changes in the late Middle Ages, with profound and lasting implications for city’s subsequent development. The Virtues of Economy examines the transformation of Rome’s governing elites as a result of changes in the city’s economic, political, and spiritual landscape.

Palmer explores this shift through the history of Roman political society, its identity as an urban commune, and its onceand-future role as the spiritual capital of Latin Christendom.

Tracing the contours of everyday Roman politics, The Virtues of Economy reframes the reestablishment of papal sovereignty in Rome as the product of synergy between papal ambitions and local political culture. More broadly, Palmer emphasizes Rome’s distinct role in evolution of medieval Italy’s city-communes.

James A. Palmer is Assistant Professor of History at Florida State University. Follow him on Twitter @Jamespqr77.

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“The Virtues of Economy is an engaging book in which the author draws on rich social and religious material to illuminate the fascinating and understudied culture of fourteenth-century Rome.”—Carol Lansing, University of California, Santa Barbara, author of Passion and Order “The Virtues of Economy is cohesive and compelling, a much-needed contribution to the literature on late medieval Rome.”— Carrie Beneš, New College of Florida, author of Urban Legends

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Suspect Saints and Holy Heretics Disputed Sanctity and Communal Identity in Late Medieval Italy Janine Larmon Peterson

In Suspect Saints and Holy Heretics Janine Larmon Peterson investigates regional saints whose holiness was contested. She scrutinizes the papacy’s toleration of unofficial saints’ cults and its response when their devotees challenged church authority about a cult’s merits or the saint’s orthodoxy. As she demonstrates, communities that venerated saints increasingly clashed with popes and inquisitors determined to erode any local claims of religious authority.

Local and unsanctioned saints were spiritual and social fixtures in the towns of northern and central Italy in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. In some cases, popes allowed these saints’ cults; in others, church officials condemned the saint and/or their followers as heretics. Using a wide range of secular and clerical sources—including vitae, inquisitorial and canonization records, chronicles, and civic statutes—Peterson explores who these unofficial saints were, how the phenomenon of disputed sanctity arose, and why communities would be willing to risk punishment by continuing to venerate a local holy man or woman. She argues that the Church increasingly restricted sanctification in the later Middle Ages, which precipitated new debates over who had the authority to recognize sainthood and what evidence should be used to identify holiness and heterodoxy.

The case studies she presents detail how the political climate of the Italian peninsula allowed Italian communities to use saints’ cults as a tool to negotiate religious and political autonomy in opposition to growing papal bureaucratization.

“Suspect Saints and Holy Heretics is a significant contribution in how we think about responses to political and social change in Italy during the later Middle Ages. A great achievement and worthwhile book.”—Lezlie Knox, Marquette University, author of Creating Clare of Assisi “Janine Larmon Peterson has written a book of excellent quality that grapples directly with a wide range of aspects related to sanctity in the Middle Ages.

Considerable thought has gone into this book, and it shows.”—George Ferzoco, University of Bristol, co-editor of A Companion to Catherine of Siena

Janine L armon Peterson is Associate Professor of History at Marist College. She is the Medieval Europe Editor for the Database of Religious History, and has published in Past & Present, Scriptorium, Traditio, and Viator.

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Bishops and the Politics of Patronage in Merovingian Gaul Gregory I. Halfond

Following the dissolution of the Western Roman Empire, local Christian leaders were confronted with the problem of how to conceptualize and administer their regional churches. As Gregory Halfond shows, the bishops of post-Roman Gaul oversaw a transformation in the relationship between church and state. He shows that by constituting themselves as a corporate body, the Gallic episcopate was able to wield significant political influence on local, regional, and kingdom-wide scales.

Gallo-Frankish bishops were conscious of their corporate membership in an exclusive order, the rights and responsibilities of which were consistently being redefined and subsequently expressed through liturgy, dress, physical space, preaching, and association with cults of sanctity. But as Halfond demonstrates, individual bishops, motivated by the promise of royal patronage to provide various forms of service to the court, often struggled, sometimes unsuccessfully, to balance their competing loyalties.

However, even the resulting conflicts between individual bishops did not, he shows, fundamentally undermine the Gallo-Frankish episcopate’s corporate identity or integrity. Ultimately, Halfond provides a far more subtle and sophisticated understanding of church-state relations across the early medieval period.

Gregory I. Halfond is Associate Professor of History at Framingham State University. His prior books include The Archaeology of Frankish Church Councils, AD 511–768 and The Medieval Way of War.

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“Bishops and the Politics of Patronage in Merovingian Gaul shines new light on an important but unevenly treated topic. It will be a valuable addition to reading lists on Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages at all levels.”—James T. Palmer, University of St. Andrews, author of The Apocalypse in the Early Middle Ages “Gregory I. Halfond provides an intriguing study on the history of the church in the Merovingian kingdom. He shows convincingly how the formation of the first Catholic kingdom in the post-Roman west engendered a new sense of solidarity among the members of the Merovingian episcopate as well as new ideas about the nature of the church and its relation to the state.”—Helmut Reimitz, Princeton University, author of History, Frankish Identity and the Framing of Western Ethnicity, 550-850

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The Lay Saint Charity and Charismatic Authority in Medieval Italy, 1150–1350 Mary Harvey Doyno

In The Lay Saint, Mary Harvey Doyno investigates the phenomenon of saintly cults that formed around pious merchants, artisans, midwives, domestic servants, and others in the medieval communes of northern and central Italy. Drawing on a wide array of sources—vitae documenting their saintly lives and legends, miracle books, religious art, and communal records—Doyno uses the rise of and tensions surrounding these civic cults to explore medieval notions of lay religiosity, charismatic power, civic identity, and the church’s authority in this period.

Although claims about laymen’s and laywomen’s miraculous abilities challenged the church’s expanding political and spiritual dominion, both papal and civic authorities, Doyno finds, vigorously promoted their cults. She shows that this support was neither a simple reflection of the extraordinary lay religious zeal that marked late medieval urban life nor of the Church’s recognition of that enthusiasm. Rather, the history of lay saints’ cults powerfully illustrates the extent to which lay Christians embraced the vita apostolic—the ideal way of life as modeled by the Apostles—and of the church’s efforts to restrain and manage such claims.

Mary Harvey Doyno is Assistant Professor in the Humanities and Religious Studies Department at California State University, Sacramento.

“The Lay Saint offers the first substantive interpretation of the rise, development, and decline of the phenomenon of ‘lay sanctity’ in medieval Italy. It will become the book on medieval lay sanctity.”— Maureen C. Miller, University of California, Berkeley, author of Clothing the Clergy “This elegant, appealing book will be one that historians want to grapple with, as it weaves a rich and nuanced portrait of the challenges posed by lay religious life.”—Laura Ackerman Smoller, University of Rochester, author of The Saint and the Chopped-Up Baby

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Visions of Deliverance Moriscos and the Politics of Prophecy in the Early Modern Mediterranean May te Green-Mercado

In Visions of Deliverance, Mayte Green-Mercado traces the circulation of Muslim and crypto-Muslim apocalyptic texts known as joferes through formal and informal networks of merchants, Sufis, and other channels of diffusion among Muslims and Christians across the Mediterranean from Constantinople and Venice to Morisco towns in eastern Spain. The movement of these prophecies from the eastern to the western edges of the Mediterranean illuminates strategies of Morisco cultural and political resistance, reconstructing both productive and oppositional interactions and exchanges between Muslims and Christians in the early modern Mediterranean.

Challenging a historiography that has primarily understood Morisco apocalyptic thought as the expression of a defeated group that was conscious of the loss of their culture and identity, Green-Mercado depicts Moriscos not simply as helpless victims of Christian oppression but as political actors whose use of endtimes discourse helped define and construct their society anew.

Visions of Deliverance helps us understand the implications of confessionalization, forced conversion, and assimilation in the early modern period and the intellectual and theological networks that shaped politics and identity across the Mediterranean in this era.

Mayte Green-Mercado is Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University–Newark. She has published articles in Medieval Encounters and the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient.

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“This is an innovative study, one that is sorely needed in the broader study of the premodern Apocalypse, which tends to be largely Christian-centered.

This work is a major contribution to scholarship in its argument, broadly, but specifically in its focus on Iberia and on apocalyptic expectations in the Morisco communities.”—Michael A. Ryan, University of New Mexico, editor of Companion to the Premodern Apocalypse “A Morisco Apocalypse is of high quality, based on extensive research and clearly written. It utilizes both inquisitorial records, heretofore the main source for our understanding of the Moriscos, as well as the aljamiado literature to make a strong case for the importance of prophecies in shaping and defining an unstable Morisco population.”—Ben Ehlers, University of Georgia, author of Between Christians And Moriscos

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I, the Poet First-Person Form in Horace, Catullus, and Propertius K athleen McCarthy

First-person poetry is a familiar genre in Latin literature. Propertius, Catullus, and Horace deployed the first-person speaker in a variety of ways that either bolster or undermine the link between this figure and the poet himself. In I, the Poet, Kathleen McCarthy offers a new approach to understanding the ubiquitous use of a first-person voice in Augustan-age poetry, taking on several of the central debates in the field of Latin literary studies—including the inheritance of the Greek tradition, the shift from oral performance to written collections, and the status of the poetic “I-voice.”

In light of her own experience as a twenty-first century reader, for whom Latin poetry is meaningful across a great gulf of linguistic, cultural, and historical distances, McCarthy positions these poets as the self-conscious readers of and heirs to a long tradition of Greek poetry, which prompted them to explore radical forms of communication through the poetic form. Informed in part by the “New Lyric Studies,” I, the Poet will appeal not only to scholars of Latin literature but to readers across a range of literary studies who seek to understand the Roman contexts which shaped canonical poetic genres.

“I, The Poet is an elegant and exceptionally interesting book about an important topic in Latin literature, and I strongly recommend it.”—Andrew Feldherr, Princeton University, author of Playing Gods

K athleen McC arthy is Professor of Classics at University of California, Berkeley. She is author of Slaves, Masters, and the Art of Authority in Plautine Comedy.

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Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830–1930 Judith Surkis

During more than a century of colonial rule over Algeria, the French state shaped and reshaped the meaning and practice of Muslim law by regulating it and circumscribing it to the domain of family law, while applying the French Civil Code to appropriate the property of Algerians. In Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830–1930, Judith Surkis traces how colonial authorities constructed Muslim legal difference and used it to deny Algerian Muslims full citizenship. In disconnecting Muslim law from property rights, French officials increasingly attached it to the bodies, beliefs, and personhood.

Surkis argues that powerful affective attachments to the intimate life of the family and fantasies about Algerian women and the sexual prerogatives of Muslim men, supposedly codified in the practices of polygamy and child marriage, shaped French theories and regulatory practices of Muslim law in fundamental and lasting ways. Women’s legal status in particular came to represent the dense relationship between sex and sovereignty in the colony. This book also highlights the ways in which Algerians interacted with and responded to colonial law. Ultimately, this sweeping legal genealogy of French Algeria elucidates how “the Muslim question” in France became—and remains—a question of sex.

Judith Surkis is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is author of Sexing the Citizen.

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“Sex, Law, and Sovereignty opens up new ways to understand debates about religious and sexual pluralism, and marvelously demonstrates how attention to the paradoxical effects of instability and the workings of transgression, scandal, and crisis, lead to critical analytic perspectives.”—Todd Shepard, Johns Hopkins University, author of Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962–1979 “This is a masterful study of the ways in which sex and law were inextricably intertwined in the elaboration of French rule in Algeria. Its great virtue is to demonstrate in careful detail, with an impressive range of material (from court records to novels), exactly how the conquest of Algeria repeatedly challenged the very ideals of the secular universalism in whose name colonization was carried out.”—Joan Wallach Scott, author of Sex and Secularism

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Rough Draft Cold War Military Manpower Policy and the Origins of Vietnam-Era Draft Resistance Amy J. Rutenberg

Rough Draft draws the curtain on the race and class inequities of the Selective Service during the Vietnam War. Amy J. Rutenberg argues that policy makers’ idealized conceptions of Cold War middle-class masculinity directly affected whom they targeted for conscription and also for deferment. Federal officials believed that college educated men could protect the nation from the threat of communism more effectively as civilians than as soldiers. The availability of deferments for this group mushroomed between 1945 and 1965, making it less and less likely that middle-class white men would serve in the Cold War army. Meanwhile, officials used the War on Poverty to target poorer and racialized men for conscription in the hopes that military service would offer them skills they could use in civilian life.

As Rutenberg shows, manpower policies between World War II and the Vietnam War had unintended consequences. While some men resisted military service in Vietnam for reasons of political conscience, most did so because manpower polices made it possible. By shielding middle-class breadwinners in the name of national security, policymakers militarized certain civilian roles—a move that, ironically, separated military service from the obligations of masculine citizenship and, ultimately, helped kill the draft in the United States.

Amy J. Rutenberg is Assistant Professor of History at Iowa State University. Follow her on Twitter @amyjay401.

“Lively and accessible, Rough Draft challenges the conventional wisdom about Americans’ commitment to military service, the motivations behind Vietnamera draft resistance, and the construction of appropriate roles for men in post-World War II society. It will be read by armchair historians and students of military and gender studies alike.”—Heather Stur, University of Southern Mississippi, author of The U.S. Military and Civil Rights Since World War II “A superb addition to any course evaluating the relationships between war and American society. Well-written and tightly argued, Rutenberg illuminates the problems of social mobilization into the armed forces during the Cold War era, all the while contesting the popular memory of the ‘Greatest Generation.’”—Gregory A. Daddis, Chapman University, author of Westmoreland’s War

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Sentiment, Reason, and Law Policing in the Republic of China on Taiwan Jeffrey T. Martin

What if the job of police was to cultivate the political will of a community to live with itself (rather than enforce law, keep order, or fight crime)? In Sentiment, Reason, and Law, Jeffrey T. Martin describes a world where that is the case.

The Republic of China on Taiwan spent nearly four decades as a single-party state under dictatorial rule (1949–1987) before transitioning to liberal democracy. Here, Martin describes the social life of a neighborhood police station during the first rotation in executive power following the democratic transition. He shows an apparent paradox of how a strong democratic order was built on a foundation of weak police powers, and demonstrates how that was made possible by the continuity of an illiberal idea of policing. His conclusion from this paradox is that the purpose of the police was to cultivate the political will of the community rather than enforce laws and keep order.

As Sentiment, Reason, and Law shows, the police force in Taiwan exists as an “anthropological fact,” bringing an order of reality that is always, simultaneously and inseparably, meaningful and material. Martin unveils the power of this fact, demonstrating how the politics of sentiment that took shape under autocratic rule continued to operate in everyday policing in the early phase of the democratic transformation, even as a more democratic mode of public reason and the ultimate power of legal right were becoming more significant.

Jeffrey T. Martin is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Follow him on Twitter @jematica.

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“Through an ethnography of policing in a recently democratized state, Sentiment, Reason, and Law offers a deep, nuanced, and exhaustively researched analysis of policing as a fraught but integral aspect of any democracy. This book is intricate, grounded, and engaging.”—Anya Bernstein, University at Buffalo School of Law “Against the classical idea that the police are an apolitical law enforcement institution entitled to the legitimate use of force, Jeffrey Martin shows, through his lively ethnography of a Taiwanese precinct, that, deeply rooted in their illiberal national past, the police resort to affective solidarities and mediated compromises much more than to legal instruments and violent actions. His book thus provides a fascinating addition to contemporary theories of policing.”— Didier Fassin, Institute for Advanced Study, author of Enforcing Order

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Street Sovereigns Young Men and the Makeshift State in Urban Haiti Chelsey L. Kivland

How do people improvise political communities in the face of state collapse—and at what cost? Street Sovereigns explores the risks and rewards taken by young men on the margins of urban Haiti who broker relations with politicians, state agents, and NGO workers in order secure representation, resources, and jobs for themselves and neighbors. Moving beyond mainstream analyses that understand these groups—known as baz (base)—as apolitical, criminal gangs, Chelsey Kivland argues that they more accurately express a novel mode of street politics that has resulted from the nexus of liberalizing orders of governance and development with longstanding practices of militant organizing in Haiti.

Kivland demonstrates how the baz exemplifies an innovative and effective platform for intervening in the contemporary political order, while at the same time reproducing gendered and generational hierarchies and precipitating contests of leadership that exacerbate neighborhood insecurity. Still, through the continual effort to reconstitute a state that responds to the needs of the urban poor, this story offers a poignant lesson for political thought: one that counters prevailing conceptualizations of the state as that which should be flouted, escaped, or dismantled. The baz project reminds us that in the stead of a vitiated government and public sector the state resurfaces as the aspirational bedrock of the good society. “We make the state,” as baz leaders say.

Chelsey L. K ivland is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. Follow her on Twitter @ChelseyKivland.

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Spacious Minds Trauma and Resilience in Tibetan Buddhism Sara E. Lewis

Spacious Minds argues that resilience is not a mere absence of suffering. Sara E. Lewis’s research reveals how those who cope most gracefully may indeed experience deep pain and loss. Looking at the Tibetan diaspora, she challenges perspectives that liken resilience to the hardiness of physical materials, suggesting people should “bounce back” from adversity. More broadly, this ethnography calls into question the tendency to use trauma as an organizing principle for all studies of conflict where suffering is understood as an individual problem rooted in psychiatric illness.

Beyond simply articulating the ways that Tibetan categories of distress are different from biomedical ones, Spacious Minds shows how Tibetan Buddhism frames new possibilities for understanding resilience. Here, the social and religious landscape encourages those exposed to violence to see past events as impermanent and illusory, where debriefing, working-through, or processing past events only solidifies suffering and may even cause illness. Resilience in Dharamsala is understood as sems pa chen po, a vast and spacious mind that does not fixate on individual problems, but rather uses suffering as an opportunity to generate compassion for others in the endless cycle of samsara. A big mind view helps to see suffering in life as ordinary. And yet, an intriguing paradox occurs. As Lewis deftly demonstrates, Tibetans in exile have learned that human rights campaigns are predicated on the creation and circulation of the trauma narrative; in this way, Tibetan activists utilize foreign trauma discourse, not for psychological healing, but as a political device and act of agency.

Sara E. L ewis is Associate Professor of Contemplative Psychotherapy and Buddhist Psychology at Naropa University. Follow her on Twitter @DeathRebirthLab.

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“The book makes a significant contribution in broadening our understanding of resilience from a cross-cultural perspective, and also in deepening our understanding of a significant facet of Tibetan Buddhist culture in a nuanced, respectful and non-tokenistic way.”—Gerald Roche, University of Melbourne

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Rebel Politics A Political Sociology of Armed Struggle in Myanmar’s Borderlands David Brenner

Rebel Politics analyzes the changing dynamics of the civil war in Myanmar, one of the most entrenched armed conflicts in the world. Since 2011, a national peace process has gone handin-hand with escalating ethnic conflict. The Karen National Union (KNU), previously known for its uncompromising stance against the central government of Myanmar, became a leader in the peace process after it signed a ceasefire in 2012. Meanwhile, the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) returned to the trenches in 2011 after its own seventeen-year-long ceasefire broke down. To understand these puzzling changes, Brenner conducted ethnographic fieldwork among the KNU and KIO, analyzing the relations between rebel leaders, their rank-andfile, and local communities in the context of wider political and geopolitical transformations. Drawing on Political Sociology, Rebel Politics explains how revolutionary elites capture and lose legitimacy within their own movements and how these internal contestations drive the strategies of rebellion in unforeseen ways. Brenner presents a novel perspective that contributes to our understanding of contemporary politics in Southeast Asia, and to the study of conflict, peace and security, by highlighting the hidden social dynamics and everyday practices of political violence, ethnic conflict, rebel governance and borderland politics.

David Brenner is Lecturer in International Relations at Goldsmiths, University of London. Follow him on Twitter @DavBrenner.

“Rebel Politics is underpinned by years of extraordinary fieldwork, including unprecedented access to the leaders of some of Myanmar’s ethnic-minority rebel groups. It is a pathbreaking book, essential reading not only for Myanmar-watchers but also anyone interested in insurgencies and state formation.”—Lee Jones, Queen Mary University of London, author of Societies Under Siege “David Brenner’s book ought to be mandatory reading for any practitioner or academic interested in the issues of peacebuilding, conflict resolution, and borderlands development in Myanmar specifically, and in the country’s social processes and politics more widely.”— Karin Dean, Tallinn University

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Activists in Transition Progressive Politics in Democratic Indonesia Edited by Thushara Dibley & Michele Ford

Activists in Transition examines the relationship between social movements and democratization in Indonesia. Collectively, progressive social movements have played a critical role over in ensuring that different groups of citizens can engage directly in—and benefit from—the political process in a way that was not possible under authoritarianism. However, their individual roles have been different, with some playing a decisive role in the destabilization of the regime and others serving as bell-weathers of the advancement, or otherwise, of Indonesia’s democracy in the decades since. Equally important, democratization has affected social movements differently depending on the form taken by each movement during the New Order period. The book assesses the contribution that nine progressive social movements have made to the democratization of Indonesia since the late 1980s, and how, in turn, each of those movements has been influenced by democratization.

Thushara Dibley is Lecturer in Asian Studies and Deputy Director of Sydney Southeast Asia Centre. Follow her on Twitter @thushdibley.

Michele Ford is Professor of Southeast Asian Studies and Director of Sydney Southeast Asia Centre. Follow her on Twitter @MicheleSSEAC.

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“Activists in Transition makes a strong contribution to the literature on political change in Indonesia—and Southeast Asia more broadly—in providing comprehensive and up-todate information on the nature and fate of progressive politics in Indonesia.”— Jane Hutchison, Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University “Each chapter is broadly historical, showing the long sweep of change over the forty years or so from the mid New Order to the present day. Activists in Transition is well documented, clearly structured, pleasingly written, and authoritative.”— Gerry van Klinken, KITLV and University of Amsterdam

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The Republic of Vietnam, 1955–1975 Vietnamese Perspectives on Nation Building edited by Tuong Vu & Sean Fear

Through the voices of senior officials, teachers, soldiers, journalists, and artists, The Republic of Vietnam, 1955–1975, presents us with an interpretation of “South Vietnam” as a passionately imagined nation in the minds of ordinary Vietnamese, rather than merely as an expeditious political construct of the United States government.

The moving and honest memoirs collected, translated, and edited here by Tuong Vu and Sean Fear describe the experiences of war, politics, and everyday life for people from many walks of life during the fraught years of Vietnam’s Second Republic, leading up to and encompassing what Americans generally call the “Vietnam War.” The voices gift the reader a sense of the authors’ experiences in the Republic and their ideas about the nation during that time. The light and careful editing hand of Vu and Fear reveals that far from a Cold War proxy struggle, the conflict in Vietnam featured a true ideological divide between the communist North and the non-communist South.

“This valuable collection includes perspectives that have been consistently overlooked in the historiography of the War. Readers are afforded not only South Vietnamese perspectives, but also those of civil servants, soldiers, police officers, educators, writers, artists, and journalists.

This is also one of the few works in which South Vietnamese women’s voices are heard.”—Van Nguyen-Marshall, Trent University

Tuong Vu is Director Asian Studies and Associate professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon. He is a former editor of Journal of Vietnamese Studies and the author of numerous books, including, Vietnam’s Communist Revolution and Paths to Development in Asia Sean Fear is a Lecturer in International History at the University of Leeds.

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Fifty Years in the Karen Revolution in Burma The Soldier and the Teacher Ralph & Sheera edited by Stephanie Olinga-Shannon

Fifty Years in the Karen Revolution in Burma is about commitment to an ideal, individual survival and the universality of the human experience. A memoir of two tenacious souls, it sheds light on why Burma/Myanmar’s decades-long pursuit for a peaceful and democratic future has been elusive. Simply put, the aspirations of Burma’s ethnic nationalities for self-determination within a genuine federal union runs counter to the idea of a unitary state orchestrated and run by the dominant majority Burmans, or Bamar.

This seemingly intractable dilemma of opposing visions for Burma is personified in the story of Saw Ralph and Naw Sheera, two prominent ethnic Karen leaders who lived—and eventually left—”the Longest War,” leaving the reader with insights on the cultural, social, and political challenges facing other non-Burman ethnic nationalities.

Fifty Years in the Karen Revolution in Burma is also about the ordinariness and universality of the challenges increasingly faced by diaspora communities around the world today. Saw Ralph and Naw Sheera’s day to day lives—how they fell in love, married, had children—while trying to survive in a precarious war zone—and how they had to adapt to their new lives as refugees and immigrants in Australia will resound with many.

Saw R alph retired as Brigadier General of the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), the military branch of the Karen National Union.

Naw Sheera is a school teacher and former leader in the Karen Women’s Organization (KWO).

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Can Science and Technology Save China? edited by Susan Greenhalgh & Li Zhang

This timely book offers readers a fresh and close look at the politics of science-making and how everyday practices and ethics of science, medicine, and technology are profoundly reshaping the regime of life, governing, and society in contemporary China.

In contrast with the utopian dreams of national rejuvenation through modern science, the contributors unpack the on-theground reality of living increasingly threatened by numerous problems embedded in public health, mental well-being, and environmental challenges. They explore how scientists, doctors, technicians, therapists, and other experts grapple with these issues as well as how ordinary people respond to these challenges in their pursuit of the good life.

Examining diverse domains affecting Chinese people’s lives, from mental health, obesity intervention, experimental medicine, waste management, to air pollution, public health, and environmental justice, the authors uncover the logics, tensions, contradictions in these practices that are conditioned by multiple shifting forces—state power, rapid commercialization, globally circulating scientific knowledges, multinational capital, gender, and class relations. By foregrounding the notion of “governing through science,” and the contested role of science and technology as instrument of change, Can Science and Technology Save China? asks important questions regarding what science and technology can do to transform China, as well as their limits and unintended consequences.

“Some of the topics are incredibly original and demonstrate the vitality of this emerging field, and this edited volume is a very important contribution to studies of China’s science and technology.”—Mei Zhan, University of California, Irvine “Can Science and Technology Save China? not only will fill in the gap in the literature but also is unique scholarship that examines the science question—the role of science in the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation or the fulfillment of China dream— at the center of the study of contemporary Chinese society.”—Cong Cao, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Susan Greenhalgh is the John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society in the department of Anthropology at Harvard University.

L i Zhang is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California-Davis.

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LABOR STUDIES

Dust and Dignity Domestic Employment in Contemporary Ecuador Erynn Masi de Casanova foreword by Ma ximina Sal azar

What makes domestic work a bad job, even after efforts to formalize and improve working conditions? Erynn Masi de Casanova’s case study, based partly on collaborative research conducted with Ecuador’s pioneer domestic workers’ organization, examines three reasons for persistent exploitation. First, the tasks of social reproduction are devalued. Second, informal work arrangements escape regulation. And third, unequal class relations are built into this type of employment. Accessible to advocates and policymakers as well as academics, this book provides both theoretical discussions about domestic work and concrete ideas for improving women’s lives.

Drawing on workers’ stories of lucha, trabajo, and sacrificio—struggle, work, and sacrifice—Dust and Dignity offers a new take on an old occupation. From the intimate experience of being a body out of place in an employer’s home, to the common work histories of Ecuadorian women in different cities, to the possibilities for radical collective action at the national level, Casanova shows how and why women do this stigmatized and precarious work and how they resist exploitation in the search for dignified employment. From these searing stories of workers’ lives, Dust and Dignity identifies patterns in domestic workers’ experiences that will be helpful in understanding the situation of workers elsewhere and offers possible solutions for promoting and ensuring workers’ rights that have relevance far beyond Ecuador.

Erynn Masi de Casanova is Professor of Sociology at the University of Cincinnati. She is author of Making Up the Difference and Buttoned Up. With Afshan Jafar, she co-edited the books Bodies without Borders and Global Beauty, Local Bodies.

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“Erynn Masi de Casanova’s astute analysis of private household workers in Guayaquil, Ecuador is a terrific study, and will find a ready audience among scholars of domestic labor, Latin America, labor studies, and sociology.”—Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara, and coauthor of the prize-winning Caring for America “This well-researched and well-written book makes an important contribution to the understanding of the work, struggles and sacrifice of working poor women, not just paid domestic workers and not just in Ecuador. In presenting and analyzing the findings of her grounded research in this compelling book, Casanova provides insightful answers to the two questions she sought to answer: why domestic work is particularly bad work and what can be done to improve the working conditions of domestic workers or create pathways out of domestic work.”—Marty Chen, WIEGO

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Disrupting Deportability Transnational Workers Organize Leah F. Vosko

In an original and striking study of migration management in operation, Disrupting Deportability highlights obstacles confronting temporary migrant workers in Canada seeking to exercise their labor rights. Leah F. Vosko explores the effects of deportability on Mexican nationals participating in Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP).

Vosko follows the decade-long legal and political struggle of a group of Mexican SAWP migrants in British Columbia to establish and maintain meaningful collective representation.

Her case study reveals how modalities of deportability—such as termination without cause, blacklisting, and attrition—destabilize legally authorized temporary migrant agricultural workers.

Through this detailed exposé, Disrupting Deportability concludes that despite the formal commitments to human, social, and civil rights to which migration management ostensibly aspires, the design and administration of this “model” temporary migrant work program produces conditions of deportability, making the threat possibility of removal ever-present.

Leah F. Vosko is Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy of Gender and Work at York University in Toronto. She is author of Managing the Margins and Temporary Work.

“Disrupting Deportability is prescient and innovative. This high-quality work is full of outstanding qualitative research in the sociology of labor and will appeal to readers in and beyond the disciplines of sociology and labor studies.”—Immanuel Ness, City University of New York, author of Southern Insurgency “Disrupting Deportability is a must read for anyone interested in migrant labor, politics, and the state.”—Shannon Gleeson, Cornell University, author of Precarious Claims “How do temporary migrant worker programs utilize the threat of deportation to generate flexibility? To what extent can these programs be resisted and transformed? In pursuing these vital questions, this impressive book will change the way we think about temporary migration and deportation.”—William Walters, Carleton University, author of The Production of Secrecy

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Take Back Our Future An Eventful Sociology of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement edited by Ching Kwan Lee & Ming Sing

In a comprehensive and theoretically novel analysis, Take Back Our Future unveils the causes, processes, and implications of the 2014 seventy-nine-day occupation movement in Hong Kong known as the Umbrella Movement. The essays presented here by a team of experts with deep local knowledge ask: how and why had a world financial center known for its free-wheeling capitalism transformed into a hotbed of mass defiance and civic disobedience?

Take Back Our Future argues that the Umbrella Movement was a response to China’s internal colonization strategies— political disenfranchisement, economic subsumption, and identity reengineering—in post-handover Hong Kong. The contributors outline how this historic and transformative movement formulated new cultural categories and narratives, fueled the formation and expansion of civil society organizations and networks both for and against the regime, and spurred the regime’s turn to repression and structural closure of dissent. Although the Umbrella Movement was fraught with internal tensions, Take Back Our Future demonstrates that the movement politicized a whole generation of people who had no prior experience in politics, fashioned new subjects and identities, and awakened popular consciousness.

Ching Kwan Lee is Professor of Sociology at the University of California-Los Angeles. She is author of The Specter of Global China.

Ming Sing is Associate Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is author of Hong Kong’s Tortuous Democratization.

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“Take Back Our Future is an exceptionally strong and convincing edited volume that does an excellent job of situating the struggle in the literature on social movements and contributes to the development of the theory.”—Jeffrey Wasserstrom, University of California, Irvine, coauthor of China in the 21st Century “Take Back Our Future is a wonderful collection of essays focused on 2014’s Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong. This collection will likely become a definitive statement on one of the 21st century’s most spectacular moments of social unrest.”—Eli Friedman, Cornell University, author of Insurgency Trap

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POLITICAL SCIENCE

Constitutional Dysfunction on Trial Congressional Lawsuits and the Separation of Powers Jasmine Farrier

In an original assessment of all three branches, Jasmine Farrier reveals a new way in which the American federal system is broken. Turning away from the partisan narratives of everyday politics, Constitutional Dysfunction on Trial diagnoses the deeper and bipartisan nature of imbalance of power that undermines public deliberation and accountability, especially on war powers.

By focusing on the lawsuits brought by Congressional members that challenge presidential unilateralism, Farrier provides a new diagnostic lens on the permanent institutional problems that have undermined the separation of powers system in the last five decades, across a diverse array of partisan and policy landscapes.

As each chapter demonstrates, member lawsuits are an outlet for frustrated members of both parties who cannot get their House and Senate colleagues to confront overweening presidential action through normal legislative processes. But these lawsuits often backfire—leaving Congress as an institution even more disadvantaged. Farrier argues these suits are more symptoms of constitutional dysfunction than the cure. Constitutional Dysfunction on Trial shows federal judges will not and cannot restore the separation of powers system alone. Fifty years of congressional atrophy cannot be reversed in court.

“Constitutional Dysfunction on Trial is a work of the highest quality, one that will be influential on the most significant issues involved in national government powers.”— Richard Pious, Barnard College, author of Why Presidents Fail “Jasmine Farrier is an established scholar with a well-deserved reputation for excellent work and creative approaches to long-standing problems: this book is no exception, and will make an important contribution by asking why the courts can’t be part of the discussion on unrestrained presidential power.”—Chris Edelson, American University, author of Power without Constraint

Jasmine Farrier is Chair and Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Louisville. She is author of Passing the Buck and Congressional Ambivalence.

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From Mobility to Accessibility Transforming Urban Transportation and Land-Use Planning Jonathan Levine, Joe Grengs, & Louis A. Merlin

In From Mobility to Accessibility, an expert team of researchers flips the tables on the standard models for evaluating regional transportation performance. Jonathan Levine, Joe Grengs, and Louis A. Merlin argue for an “accessibility shift” whereby transportation planning, and the transportation dimensions of land-use planning, would be based on people’s ability to reach destinations, rather than on their ability to travel fast.

Existing models for planning and evaluating transportation, which have taken vehicle speeds as the most important measure, would make sense if movement were the purpose of transportation. But it is the ability to reach destinations, not movement per se, that people seek from their transportation systems. While the concept of accessibility has been around for the better part of a century, From Mobility to Accessibility shows that the accessibility shift is compelled by the fundamental purpose of transportation.

The book argues that the shift would be transformative to the practice of both transportation and land-use planning but is impeded by many conceptual obstacles regarding the nature of accessibility and its potential for guiding develop/ment of the built environment. By redefining success in transportation, the book provides city planners, decisionmakers, and scholars a path to reforming the practice of transportation and land-use planning in modern cities and metropolitan areas.

Jonathan Levine researches and teaches transportation and land-use planning at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Zoned Out. Joe Grengs is Chair and Associate Professor in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Michigan.

Louis A. Merlin investigates transportation and land-use systems with (hopefully) clever mathematical methods.

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“From Mobility to Accessibility will have lasting influence on urban justice, and be of great interest for courses in regional transportation planning, policy, and planning theory.”—Gwen Urey, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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GERMAN STUDIES

Competing Germanies Nazi, Antifascist, and Jewish Theater in German Argentina, 1933–1965 Robert Kelz

Following World War II, German antifascists and nationalists in Buenos Aires believed theater was crucial to their highly politicized efforts at community-building. Competing Germanies tracks the paths of several stage actors from European theaters to Buenos Aires and explores how two of Argentina’s most influential immigrant groups, German nationalists and antifascists (Jewish and non-Jewish), clashed on the city’s stages.

Competing Germanies reveals interchange and even mimicry between antifascist and nationalist German cultural institutions. Furthermore, performances at both theaters also fit into contemporary invocations of diasporas, including taboos and postponements of return to the native country, connections among multiple communities, and forms of longing, memory, and (dis)identification. Sharply divergent at first glance, their shared condition as cultural institutions of emigrant populations caused the antifascist Free German Stage and the nationalist German Theater to adopt parallel tactics in community-building, intercultural relationships, and dramatic performance.

Its cross-cultural, polyglot blend of German, Jewish, and Latin American studies gives Competing Germanies a wide, interdisciplinary academic appeal and offers a novel intervention in Exile studies through the lens of theater, in which both victims of Nazism and its adherents remain in focus.

Robert K elz is Associate Professor of German and Associate Director of International Studies at the University of Memphis.

He is co-author of Paul Walther Jacob y las Musicas Prohibidas durante el Nazismo.

“Competing Germanies is an insightful, lucid, and highly compelling book.

It will appeal to a wide audience in German and European studies, theater and performance studies, migration studies, Jewish studies, and historians with an interest in immigration in South America.”—Patricia Anne Simpson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, author of Reimagining the European Family “Robert Kelz’s Competing Germanies is an outstanding accomplishment. It represents a new stage of scholarship about German exile literature where the political and cultural confrontations of a period are seen in their full complexity.”—Frank Trommler, University of Pennsylvania, author of The German-American Encounter

SIGNALE: MODERN GERMAN LETTERS, CULTURES, AND THOUGHT

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Theaters of Pardoning Bernadet te Meyler

From Gerald Ford’s preemptive pardon of Richard Nixon and Donald Trump’s claims that as president he could pardon himself to the posthumous royal pardon of Alan Turing, the power of the pardon has a powerful hold on the political and cultural imagination. In Theaters of Pardoning, Bernadette Meyler traces the roots of contemporary understandings of pardoning to tragicomic “theaters of pardoning” in the drama and politics of seventeenth-century England. Shifts in how pardoning was represented on the stage and discussed in political tracts and in Parliament reflected the transition from a more monarchical and judgment-focused form of the concept to an increasingly parliamentary and legislative vision of sovereignty.

Meyler shows that on the English stage, individual pardons of revenge subtly transformed into more sweeping pardons of revolution, from Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, where a series of final pardons interrupts what might otherwise have been a cycle of revenge, to later works like John Ford’s The Laws of Candy and Philip Massinger’s The Bondman, in which the exercise of mercy prevents the overturn of the state itself. In the political arena, the pardon as a right of kingship evolved into a legal concept, culminating in the idea of a general amnesty, the “Act of Oblivion,” for actions taken during the English Civil War. Reconceiving pardoning as law-giving effectively displaced sovereignty from king to legislature, a shift that continues to attract suspicion about the exercise of pardoning. Only by breaking the connection between pardoning and sovereignty that was cemented in seventeenth-century England, Meyler concludes, can we reinvigorate the pardon as a democratic practice.

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“Theaters of Pardoning brilliantly demonstrates the close link between sovereignty and pardoning in English law.

Bernadette Meyler’s deep knowledge, combined with her breathtaking breadth and depth, has resulted in a truly remarkable project.”—Julia R. Lupton, University of California, Irvine, author of Shakespeare Dwelling “I read this book with real interest and genuine excitement about its interventions in the field of Shakespeare studies and the larger fields of law, literature, and political philosophy. Theaters of Pardoning is elegant, persuasive, and impressive.”— Henry S. Turner, Rutgers University, author of The Corporate Commonwealth

Bernadette Meyler is Carl and Sheila Spaeth Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Curriculum and Professor (by courtesy) of English at Stanford University. She is the co-editor of New Directions in Law and Literature. Follow her on Twitter @MeylerBernie.

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LITER ARY STUDIES

Illegible A Novel Sergey Gandlevsky tr ansl ated by Susanne Fusso

Sergey Gandlevsky’s 2002 novel Illegible has a double time focus, centering on the immediate experiences of Lev Krivorotov, a twenty-year-old poet living in Moscow in the 1970s, as well as his retrospective meditations thirty years later after most of his hopes have foundered. As the story begins, Lev is involved in a tortured affair with an older woman and consumed by envy of his more privileged friend and fellow beginner poet Nikita, one of the children of high Soviet functionaries who were known as “golden youth.”

In both narratives, Krivorotov recounts with regret and self-castigation the failure of a double infatuation, his erotic love for the young student Anya and his artistic love for the poet Viktor Chigrashov. When this double infatuation becomes a romantic triangle, the consequences are tragic.

In Illegible, as in his poems, Gandlevsky gives us unparalleled access to the atmosphere of the city of Moscow and the ethos of the late Soviet and post-Soviet era, while at the same time demonstrating the universality of human emotion.

Sergey Gandlevsky is widely recognized as one of the most important living Russian poets and prose writers and has received numerous literary prizes.

“The quality of the translation is superb.

The work captures Soviet and anti-Soviet language, themes, and the ambience of the time and the place, but it does not ‘read like a translation.’ The naturalness of the language is stunning.”—Sarah Pratt, University of Southern California, author of Nikolai Zabolotsky “The translation is excellent, the notes informative. Gandlevsky’s novella provides insight into the everyday life of Russian/ Soviet poets and writers who were part of the unofficial culture of the 1970s.”— Alexandra Smith, University of Edinburgh

Susanne Fusso is Marcus L. Taft Professor of Modern Languages and Professor of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at Wesleyan University. Her most recent book is Editing Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy.

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LABOR STUDIES

Employment and Disability Issues, Innovations, and Opportunities edited by Susanne M. Bruyère

Nearly three decades after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), people with disabilities continue to be significantly underrepresented in the American Labor force.

This loss of talent to U.S. organizations and restriction of opportunities for millions of workers have broader implications for civil society. People denied access to the workforce are limited in their ability to contribute to the economy and to their communities, heightening their reliance on public support systems and reducing the number of people participating in community life.

This LERA volume focuses on the employment of individuals with disabilities. Its purpose is to review the current employment situation for Americans with disabilities, place it in the context of the U.S. regulatory system, describe current issues, identify ways that employers are approaching possible remediation of these issues, and identify emerging concerns and opportunities. A multi-disciplinary team of researchers and practitioners provide a broad-based overview of related issues, approaches, and opportunities. This volume will be useful to a wide array of professionals, including labor and employment relations attorneys and specialists; human resource, diversity and inclusion, and equal employment opportunity professionals; as well as organizational leaders, managers, and supervisors who are seeking to improve employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities both here and abroad.

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Memory on My Doorstep Chronicles of the Bataclan Neighborhood, Paris, 2015–2016 Sarah Gensburger

On November 13, 2015, three gunmen opened fire in the Bataclan concert hall at 50 Boulevard Voltaire in Paris and subsequently held the venue under a three-hour siege. This was the largest in a series of coordinated terrorist attacks that eventually killed 130 people and injured 500. During the aftermath of these attacks, expressions of mourning and trauma marked and invariably transformed the urban landscape. Sarah Gensburger, a sociologist working on social memory and its localization, lives with her family on the Boulevard Voltaire and has been studying the city of Paris as her primary field site for several years. This time, memorialization was taking place on her doorstep. Both a diary and an academic work, this book is a chronicle of this grassroots memorialization process and an in-depth analysis of the way it has been embedded in the everyday lives of the author, neighbors, other Parisians and tourists.

“Awkwardly brilliant. This book offers an important intervention into what it means to create histories of the contemporary.”— French Voices Committee

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Sarah Gensburger is a senior researcher in social sciences at the French National Center for Scientific Research-CNRS and a member of the executive committee of the international Memory Studies Association.

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Radicalisation A Marginal Phenomenon or a Mirror to Society?

Edited by Noel Clycq, Christiane Timmerman, Dirk Vanheule, Rut Van Caudenberg & Stien Ravn

Radicalisation is a topical and a much-discussed concept in current European societies. Its use in policy and societal discourses, such as media coverage and educational contexts, is very sensitive. This thought-provoking collection of essays critically addresses the topic of radicalisation from different angles, combining discipline-specific insights from the fields of sociology, philosophy, history, religious studies, and media studies, with new empirical data.

The authors step away from readily available explanations and rethink the notion of ‘the radical’. Rather than merely focusing on individuals or ideologies, they advocate for a contextual perspective that allows to consider the complex interaction between individuals, groups, and institutions, both at a national and international level. Radicalisation: A Marginal Phenomenon, or a Mirror to Society? provides the reader not only with much-needed knowledge of the complex nature of the concept of radicalisation, but also offers insights into the various ways radicalisation processes can be triggered, prevented, or addressed.

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Noel Clycq is research professor at the research group Edubron of the department of Training and Education Studies at the University of Antwerp. He studies issues of diversity and identity and the governance of learning in an era of globalization.

Christiane Timmerman was professor and head of the Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS) at the University of Antwerp.

Dirk Vanheule is professor of law, dean of the Faculty of Law, and chairperson of CeMIS at the University of Antwerp.

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Contributors: Rik Coolsaet (Ghent University), Stiene Ravn (University of Antwerp), Tom Sauer (University of Antwerp), Jessika Soors (KU Leuven), François Levrau (University of Antwerp), Janiv Stamberger (University of Antwerp), Ward Nouwen (University of Antwerp), Rut Van Caudenberg (University of Antwerp), Noel Clycq (University of Antwerp), Thomas Frissen (KU Leuven), Kevin Smets (Vrije Universiteit Brussel / University of Antwerp), Leen d’Haenens (KU Leuven), Kristof Verfaillie (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Sofie De Kimpe (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Marc Cools (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Karel Van Nieuwenhuyse (KU Leuven)

Rut Van Caudenberg is a joint PhD candidate at the Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies, University of Antwerp, and at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Stien R avn is a PhD researcher at the Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS) at the University of Antwerp.

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Images of Immigrants and Refugees Media Representations, Public Opinion and Refugees’ Experiences Edited by Leen d’Haenens, Willem Joris & François Heinderyckx

The topic of migration has become particularly contentious in national and international debates. Media have a discernable impact on overall societal attitudes towards this phenomenon.

Polls show time and again that immigration is one of the most important issues occupying people’s minds. This book examines the dynamic interplay between media representations of migrants and refugees on the one hand and the governmental and societal (re)actions to these on the other. Largely focusing on Belgium and Sweden, this collection of interdisciplinary research essays attempts to unravel the determinants of people’s preferences regarding migration policy, expectations towards newcomers, and economic, humanitarian and cultural concerns about immigration’s effect on the majority population’s life. Whilst migrants and refugees remain voiceless and highly underrepresented in the legacy media, this volume allows their voices to be heard.

Contributors: Leen d’Haenens (KU Leuven), Willem Joris (KU Leuven), Paul Puschmann (KU Leuven/Radboud University Nijmegen), Ebba Sundin (Halmstad University), David De Coninck (KU Leuven), Rozane De Cock (KU Leuven), Valériane Mistiaen (Université libre de Bruxelles), Lutgard Lams (KU Leuven), Stefan Mertens (KU Leuven), Olivier Standaert (UC Louvain), Hanne Vandenberghe (KU Leuven), Koen Matthijs (KU Leuven), Kevin Smets (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Jacinthe Mazzocchetti (UC Louvain), Lorraine Gerstmans (UC Louvain), Lien Mostmans (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), and François Heinderyckx (Université libre de Bruxelles)

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Leen d’Haenens is professor in Communication Science at the Institute for Media Studies at the KU Leuven. Her research interests include digital media and youth, media, and ethnic minorities.

Willem Joris is postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Media Studies at the KU Leuven, and guest professor in Communication Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).

François Heinderyckx is professor at Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and Dean of the Faculty of Literature, Translation and Communication. His research experience is deeply rooted in news media across cultures.

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The Leopard, the Lion, and the Cock Colonial Memories and Monuments in Belgium Mat thew G. Stanard

The degree to which the late colonial era affected Europe has been for long underappreciated, and only recently have European countries started to acknowledge not having come to terms with decolonization. In Belgium, the past two decades have witnessed a growing awareness of the controversial episodes in the country’s colonial past. This volume examines the longterm effects and legacies of the colonial era on Belgium after 1960, the year the Congo gained its independence, and calls into question memories of the colonial past by focusing on the meaning and place of colonial monuments in public space.

The book foregrounds the enduring presence of “empire” in everyday Belgian life in the form of permanent colonial markers in bronze and stone, lieux de mémoire of the country’s history of overseas expansion. By means of photographs and explanations of major pro-colonial memorials, as well as several obscure ones, the book reveals the surprising degree to which Belgium became infused with a colonialist spirit during the colonial era. Another key component of the analysis is an account of the varied ways that both Dutch- and French-speaking Belgians approached the colonial past after 1960, treating memorials variously as objects of veneration, with indifference, or as symbols to be attacked or torn down.

The book provides a thought-provoking reflection on culture, colonialism, and the remainders of empire in Belgium after 1960.

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Matthew G. Stanard is Professor of History at Berry College.

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“This book is timely and will certainly be a useful contribution to the public debate. It presents, for the first time, an impressive overview of the colonial remnants in the Belgian land and cityscape.”—Guy Vanthemsche, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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Lumumba in the Arts Edited by Mat thias De Groof

It is no coincidence that a historical figure such as Patrice Emery Lumumba, independent Congo’s first prime minister, who was killed in 1961, has lived in the realm of the cultural imaginary and occupied an afterlife in the arts. After all, his project remained unfinished and his corpse unburied. The figure of Lumumba has been imagined through painting, photography, cinema, poetry, literature, theatre, music, sculpture, fashion, cartoons and stamps, and also through historiography and in public space.

Reverting to either beatifying or diabolising his persona, no art form has been able to escape and remain indifferent to Lumumba. Artists observe the memory and the unresolved suffering that inscribed itself both upon Lumumba’s body and within the history of Congo. If Lumumba – as an icon – lives on today, it is because the need for decolonisation does as well.

Rather than seeking to unravel the truth of actual events surrounding the historical Lumumba, this book engages with his representations. What is more, it considers every historiography as inherently embedded in iconography. Film scholars, art critics, historians, philosophers, and anthropologists discuss the rich iconographic heritage inspired by Lumumba.

Furthermore, Lumumba’s Iconography in the Arts offers unique testimonies by a number of artists who have contributed to Lumumba’s polymorphic iconography, such as Marlène Dumas, Luc Tuymans, Raoul Peck, and Tshibumba Matulu, and includes contributions by such highly acclaimed scholars as Gayatri Spivak, Johannes Fabian, Bogumil Jewsiewicky, and Elikia M’Bokolo.

Contributors: Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda (artist), Bogumil Jewsiewicki (em., Université Laval), Christopher L. Miller (Yale University), Elikia M’Bokolo (EHESS), Gayatri Spivak (Columbia University), Gert Huskens (ULB), Idesbald Goddeeris (KU Leuven), Isabelle de Rezende (Central Washington University), Jean Tshonda Omasombo (Africa Museum), Johannes Fabian (em., University of Amsterdam), Julien Truddaïu (CEC), Karen Bouwer (University of San Francisco), Léon Tsambu (University of Kinshasa), Luc Tuymans (artist), Mark Sealy (Autograph – ABP), Marlène Dumas (artist), Pedro Monaville (NYU), Pierre Petit (ULB), Piet Defraeye (University of Alberta), Raoul Peck (artist), Robbert Jacobs (artist), Rosario Giordano (Università della Calabria), Tshibumba Matulu (artist), Véronique Bragard (UCLouvain), Zana Etambala (AfricaMuseum)

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Matthias De Groof is a scholar and filmmaker. He became Fulbright scholar at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Postdoctoral Fellow (FWO) at the University of Antwerp and Fellow at the Collegium for Advanced Studies in Helsinki. His latest films

include ‘Lobi Kuna’ (2018), ‘Diorama’ (2018) and ‘Palimpsest’ (2019).

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The Housing Project Discourses, Ideals, Models, and Politics in 20th-Century Exhibitions Edited by Gaia Caramellino & Stéphanie Dadour

Throughout the twentieth century housing displays have proven to be a singular genre of architectural and design exhibitions.

By crossing geographies and adopting multiple scales of observation—from domestic space to urban visions—this volume investigates a set of unexplored events devoted to housing and dwelling, organised by technical, professional, cultural or governmental institutions from the interwar years to the Cold War. The book offers a first critical assessment of twentieth-century housing exhibits and explores the role of exhibitions in the codification of notions of domesticity, social models, policies, and architectural and urban discourse. At the intersection of housing studies and the history of exhibitions, The Housing Project not only offers a novel angle on architectural history but also enriches scholarly perspectives in urban studies, cultural and media history, design, and consumption studies.

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Gaia Caramellino is assistant professor of architectural history at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano. She is a member of the Board of the PhD in “Architecture. History and Project”, Politecnico di Torino.

Stéphanie Dadour is associate professor of history and theory of architecture at the École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Grenoble. She is a member of Laboratoire des Métiers de l’Histoire de l’Architecture (ENSAG) and of Laboratoire Architecture, Culture et Société (ENSA Paris-Malaquais UMR AUSser).

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Contributors: Tamara Bjazic Klarin (Institute of Art History, Zagreb), Gaia Caramellino (Politecnico di Milano), John Crosse (Independent Scholar), Stéphanie Dadour (ENSA Grenoble, MHAevt/EA 7445, ACS/UMR AUSser), Rika Devos (Université Libre de Bruxelles, BATir Department), Fredie Floré (KU Leuven), Johanna Hartmann (Institute for Art History–Film Studies–Art Education, University of Bremen), Erin McKellar (Royal Holloway, University of London), Laetitia Overney (ENSA Paris-Belleville, IPRAUS/UMR AUSser 3329), José Parra (University of Alicante), Mathilde Simonsen (Oslo School of Architecture and Design), Eva Storgaard (University of Antwerp), Ludovica Vacirca (Independent Scholar)

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Brokers of Modernity East Central Europe and the Rise of Modernist Architects, 1910–1950 Martin Kohlrausch

The first half of the twentieth century witnessed the rise of modernist architects. Brokers of Modernity reveals how East Central Europe turned into one of the re-eminent testing grounds of the new belief system of modernism. By combining the internationalism of the CIAM organization and the modernising aspirations of the new states built after 1918, the reach of modernist architects extended far beyond their established fields. Yet, these architects paid a price when Europe’s age of extremes intensified. Mainly drawing on Polish, but also wider Central and Eastern European cases, this book delivers a pioneering study of the dynamics of modernist architects as a group, including how they became qualified, how they organized, communicated and attempted to live the modernist lifestyle themselves. In doing so, Brokers of Modernity raises questions concerning collective work in general and also invites us to examine the social role of architects today.

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Martin Kohlrausch is professor of European political history and head of the research unit Modernity and Society at the KU Leuven.

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Mapping Landscapes in Transformation Multidisciplinary Methods for Historical Analysis Edited by Thomas Coomans, Bieke Cat toor, & Krista De Jonge

The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised historical research on cultural landscapes. One of today’s major challenges, however, concerns the concepts and tools to be deployed for mapping processes of transformation— that is, interpreting and imagining the relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes, both in space and in time, at micro- and macro-scale. The opening up of increasingly diverse collections of source material, often incomplete and difficult to interpret, has led to methodologically innovative experiments.

Mapping Landscapes in Transformation gathers experts from different disciplines, active in the fields of historical geography, urban and landscape history, and heritage conservation. They are specialised in a wide variety of space–time contexts, including regions within Europe, Asia, and the Americas, and periods from antiquity to the 21st century.

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Thomas Coomans is professor of architectural history and heritage conservation at the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering Science, KU Leuven.

Bieke Cattoor is tenure track professor of landscape architecture at the Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft.

K rista De Jonge is professor of architectural history and head of the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering Science, KU Leuven.

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“The aim is to advance cartographic practices. Collectively, the essays make a major contribution to the literature. Most valuable is their variety, which range from conceptual/theoretical to methodological.

Most essays focus on a project and discuss relevant applications in enough detail and with enough well-chosen illustrations that readers will gain an appreciation of the value of an approach.”—David J. Bodenhamer, IUPUI

Contributors: Karl Beelen (Karlsruhe IT), John Bintliff (Leiden University / Edinburgh University), Bieke Cattoor (TU Delft), Jill Desimini (Harvard University), Cecilia Furlan (TU Delft / KU Leuven), Ian Gregory and Christopher Donaldson (Lancaster University), Joanna Taylor (University of Manchester), Piraye Hacigüzeller, Frank Vermeulen and Devi Taelman (Ghent University), Ralf Vandam and Jeroen Poblome (KU Leuven), Reinout Klaarenbeek (KU Leuven), Sanne Maekelberg (KU Leuven), Steffen Nijhuis (TU Delft), Cristina Purcar (TU Cluj-Napoca), Changxue Shu (KU Leuven, FWO), Bram Vannieuwenhuyze (University of Amsterdam), May Yuan and Arlo McKee (University of Texas, Dallas)

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“Disassembled” Images Allan Sekula and Contemporary Art Edited by Alexander Streitberger & Hilde Van Gelder

“Disassembled” Images takes as a point of departure Allan Sekula’s productive approach of disassembling elements in order to reassemble them in alternative constellations. Some of the most pressing issues of our time, such as human labor in a globalized economy or the claim for radical democracy, are recurrent themes in Sekula’s oeuvre and are investigated by a wide range of experts in this book. Addressing a variety of artworks, both

by Sekula and other artists, the collected essays focus on three crucial aspects within recent politically engaged art: collecting as a tool for representing folly and madness, the confrontation of the maritime space of ecological disasters and geopolitical processes with alternative models of solidarity, and what Sekula named “critical realism” as a reflective method in search of new social agencies and creative freedom. A text–image portfolio by Marco Poloni completes this profound reflection on Sekula’s influential legacy within contemporary visual art.

Contributors: Anthony Abiragi (University of Colorado), Barbara Baert (KU Leuven), Edwin Carels (School of Arts KASK/HoGent/M HKA), Ronnie Close (American University in Cairo), Bart De Baere (M HKA), Stefanie Diekmann (Hildesheim University), Carles Guerra (Fundació Antoni Tàpies), Clara Masnatta (ICI Berlin), W. J. T. Mitchell (University of Chicago), Marco Poloni (Berlin), Anja Isabel Schneider (KU Leuven/ M HKA), Stephanie Schwartz (University College London), Jonathan Stafford (Nottingham Trent University), Alexander Streitberger (UC Louvain), Hilde Van Gelder (KU Leuven), Benjamin Young (Parsons School of Design)

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Alexander Streitberger is professor of art history at the UCLouvain Hilde Van Gelder is professor of art history at the KU Leuven.

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Sensorial Aesthetics in Music Practices Edited by K athleen Coessens

The Western history of aesthetics is characterised by tension between theory and practice. Musicians listen, play, and then listen more profoundly in order to play differently, adapt the body, and sense the environment. They become deeply involved in the sensorial qualities of music practice. Artistic practice refers to the original meaning of aesthetics—the senses. Whereas Baumgarten and Goethe explored the relationship between sensibility and reason, sensation and thinking, later philosophers of aesthetics deemed the sensorial to be confused and unreliable and instead prioritised a cognitive or objective approach.

Written by authors from the fields of philosophy, composition, performance, and artistic practice, Sensorial Aesthetics in Music Practices repositions aesthetics as a domain of the sensible and explores the interaction between artists, life, and environment.

Aesthetics becomes a field of sensorial and embodied experience involving temporal and spatial influences, implicit knowledge, and human characteristics.

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K athleen Coessens is director of the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and associate researcher at the Orpheus Institute, Ghent.

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Contributors: Kathleen Coessens (Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, Orpheus Institute), Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen), Michaël Levinas (Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris), Fabien Lévy (Hochschule für Musik Detmold), Lasse Thoresen (Norwegian Academy of Music), Vanessa Tomlinson (Queensland Conservatorium of Music), Salomé Voegelin (University of the Arts London)

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Futures of the Contemporary Contemporaneity, Untimeliness, and Artistic Research Edited by Paulo de Assis & Michael Schwab

Futures of the Contemporary explores different notions and manifestations of “the contemporary” in music, visual arts, art theory, and philosophy. In particular, the authors in this collection of essays scrutinise the role of artistic research in critical and creative expressions of contemporaneity. When distinguished from “the contemporaneous” of a given historical time, “the contemporary” becomes a crucial concept, promoting or excluding objects and practices according to their ability to diagnose previously unnoticed aspects of the present. In this sense, the contemporary gains a critical function, involving particular modes of relating to history and one’s own time.

Written by major experts from fields such as music performance, composition, art theory, visual arts, art history, critical studies, and philosophy, this book offers challenging perspectives on contemporary art practices, the temporality of artistic works and phenomena, and new modes of problematising the production of art and its public apprehension.

Contributors: Andrew Prior (University of Plymouth), Babette Babich (Fordham University), Geoff Cox (Fine Art at Plymouth University / Aarhus University), Heiner Goebbels (Justus Liebig University), Jacob Lund (Aarhus University), Michael Schwab (Orpheus Institute), Pal Capdevila (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Paulo de Assis (Orpheus Institute), Peter Osborne (Kingston University London), Ryan Nolan (University of Plymouth), Zsuzsa Baross (Trent University)

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Paulo de Assis is a senior research fellow at the Orpheus Institute (Belgium).

Michael Schwab is the editor-in-chief of the Journal for Artistic Research (JAR).

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Knighthood and Society in the High Middle Ages Edited by David Crouch & Jeroen Deploige

In popular imagination few phenomena are as strongly associated with medieval society as knighthood and chivalry. At the same time, and due to a long tradition of differing national perspectives and ideological assumptions, few phenomena have continued to be the object of so much academic debate. In this volume leading scholars explore arious aspects of knightly identity, taking into account both commonalities and particularities across Western Europe. Knighthood and Society in the High Middle Ages addresses how, between the eleventh and the early thirteenth centuries, knighthood evolved from a set of skills and a lifestyle that was typical of an emerging elite habitus, into the basis of a consciously expressed and idealised chivalric code of conduct. Chivalry, then, appears in this volume as the result of a process of noble identity formation, in which some five key factors are distinguished: knightly practices, lineage, crusading memories, gender roles, and chivalric didactics.

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David Crouch is former Professor of Medieval History at the University of Hull and a Fellow of the British Academy.

Jeroen Deploige is Professor of Medieval History at Ghent University and member of the Belgian Royal Historical Commission.

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Contributors: Dominique Barthélemy (Sorbonne and EPHE, Paris), David Crouch (University of Hull), Jeroen Deploige (Ghent University), John D. Hosler (U.S. Army Command and General Staff College), Sara McDougall (City University of New York), Jean-François Nieus (University of Namur), Eljas Oksanen (Portable Antiquities Scheme, London), Nicholas Paul (Fordham University), Jörg Peltzer (Heidelberg University), Nicolas Ruffini-Ronzani (University of Namur), Louise Wilkinson (Canterbury Christ Church University), Claudia Wittig (Ghent University)

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War, State, and Society in Liège How a Small State of the Holy Roman Empire Survived the Nine Year’s War (1688– 1697) Roeland Goorts

War, State and Society in Liège is a fascinating case study of the consequences of war in the Prince-Bishopric of Liège and touches upon wider issues in early modern history, such as small power diplomacy in the seventeenth century and during the Nine Years’ War. For centuries, the small semi-independent Holy Roman Principality of Liège succeeded in preserving a non-belligerent role in European conflicts. During the Nine Years’ War (1688–1697), however, Liège’s leaders had to abolish the practice of neutrality.

For the first time in its early modern history, the Prince-Bishopric had to raise a regular army, reconstruct ruined defence structures, and supply army contributions in both money and material.

The issues under discussion in War, State and Society in Liège offer the reader insight into how Liège politically protected its powerful institutions and how the local elite tried to influence the interplay between domestic and external diplomatic relationships.

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Roeland Goorts, PhD, studied at the KU Leuven and the University of Reading. His research focuses on medieval and early modern military history, especially in the Prince-Bishopric of Liège.

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As German as Kafka Identity and Singularity in German Literature around 1900 and 2000 Lene Rock

Countless literary endeavours by ‘new Germans’ have come into the spotlight of academic research since the turn of the 21st century. Yet ‘minority writing’ and its distinctive renegotiation of traditional concepts of cultural identity are far from a recent phenomenon in German literature. More than a hundred years ago, German-Jewish writers put a clear stamp on German modernism and were intensely engaged in various cultural and political discourses on Jewish identity.

This book is the first to unfold literary parallels between these two riveting periods in German cultural history. Drawing on the philosophical oeuvre of Jean-Luc Nancy, a comparative reading of texts by, amongst others, Beer-Hofmann, Kermani, Özdamar, Roth, Schnitzler, and Zaimoglu examines similar literary approaches to the thorny issue of cultural identity in either period, while developing an overarching perspective on the ‘politics of literature.’

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Lene Rock obtained a PhD in Literature from KU Leuven, and is currently employed at KU Leuven Libraries.

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Research in Outdoor Education Volume 17 Edited by Tim O’Connell & Garret t Hutson

Research in Outdoor Education is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal seeking to support and further outdoor education and its goals, including personal growth and moral development, team building and cooperation, outdoor knowledge and skill development, environmental awareness, education and enrichment, and research that directly supports systematic assessment and/ or evidence-based advances in outdoor education.

Research in Outdoor Education is intended to appeal to researchers, practitioners, teachers and post-secondary students through the exploration and discussion of diverse perspectives on the theoretical, empirical, and practical aspects of outdoor education in its broadest sense.

For author guidelines or to submit a manuscript, contact: Tim O’Connell (toconnell@brocku.ca) Brock University Dept. of Recreation & Leisure Studies 1812 Sir Isaak Brock Way St. Catharines ON L2S 3A1 Canada

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Indonesia Journal Volume 106

Number 106

October 2018

edited by Joshua Barker and Eric Tagliacozzo

Indonesia is a semi-annual journal devoted to the timely study of Indonesia’s culture, history, government, economy, and society. It features original scholarly articles, interviews, translations, and book reviews. Published since April 1966, the journal provides area scholars and interested readers with contemporary analyses of Indonesia and an extensive archive of research pertaining to the nation and region. the journal is published by Cornell University’s Southeast Asia Program and Cornell University Press.

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Since 1932, New York History has served as the foremost scholarly journal on the state’s past. New York History, now under the leadership of the Cornell University Press, and working closely with staff from the New York State Museum, seeks to unify the diverse field of New York State history and meet the needs of a growing historical community that includes scholars, public historians, museum professionals, local government historians, and those seeking an in-depth look at the Empire State’s history.

New York History strives to promote and interpret the state’s history through the publication of historical research and case studies dealing with New York State, as well as, its relationship to national and international events. New York History, published twice a year, presents articles dealing with every aspect of New York State history, and reviews of books, exhibitions, and media projects with a New York focus. The Editorial Board actively solicits articles, essays, reports from the field and case studies that support this mission.

Editorial Board: Robert Chiles, Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Maryland; Devin Lander, New York State Historian;Jennifer Lemak, Chief Curator of History, New York State Museum; Michael J. McGandy, Senior Editor, Cornell University Press (ex officio); Aaron Noble, Senior Historian and Curator, New York State Museum

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If God Meant to Interfere American Literature and the Rise of the Christian Right Christopher Douglas

The rise of the Christian Right took many writers and literary critics by surprise, trained as we were to think that religions waned as societies became modern. In If God Meant to Interfere, Christopher Douglas shows that American writers struggled to understand and respond to this new social and political force.

Religiously inflected literature since the 1970s must be understood in the context of this unforeseen resurgence of conservative Christianity, he argues, a resurgence that realigned the literary and cultural fields.

Among the writers Douglas considers are Marilynne Robinson, Barbara Kingsolver, Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael Reed, N. Scott Momaday, Gloria Anzaldúa, Philip Roth, Carl Sagan, and Dan Brown. Their fictions engaged a wide range of topics: religious conspiracies, faith and wonder, slavery and imperialism, evolution and extraterrestrial contact, alternate histories and ancestral spiritualities. But this is only part of the story. Liberal-leaning literary writers responding to the resurgence were sometimes confused by the Christian Right’s strange entanglement with the contemporary paradigms of multiculturalism and postmodernism—leading to complex emergent phenomena that Douglas terms “Christian multiculturalism” and “Christian postmodernism.” Ultimately, If God Meant to Interfere shows the value of listening to our literature for its sometimes subterranean attention to the religious and social upheavals going on around it.

Christopher Douglas is Professor of English at the University of Victoria. He is the author of A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism.

“If God Meant to Interfere is full of surprises. Above all, Douglas takes time to tell stories, which is all too rare in literary scholarship. . . . A compelling and consistently surprising book for anyone interested in the relationship between literature and religion.”—Modern Fiction Studies “If God Meant to Interfere is effectively two essay collections with a powerful argument uniting its halves in critical conversation.”— American Literary History “If God Meant to Interfere is a rich and complex treatment of three sociocultural movements that are rarely examined in combination, but should and will be, thanks largely to this book.”—Religion & Literature

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The Political Writings, Vol. II “Political Regime” and “Summary of Plato’s Laws” Alfarabi tr ansl ated by Charles E. But terworth

Alfarabi (ca. 870–950) founded the great tradition of Aristotelian/Platonic political philosophy in medieval Islamic and Arabic culture. In this second volume of political writings, Charles E. Butterworth presents translations of Alfarabi’s Political Regime and Summary of Plato’s “Laws,” accompanied by introductions that discuss the background for each work and explore its teaching.

In addition, the texts are carefully annotated to aid the reader in following Alfarabi’s argument. An Arabic-English/English-Arabic glossary allows interested readers to verify the way particular words are translated. Throughout, Butterworth’s method is to translate consistently the same Arabic word by the same English word, rendering Alfarabi’s style in an unusually faithful and yet approachable manner.

Charles E. Butterworth is Emeritus professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park.

“Accurate and very readable. . . . We are much indebted to Butterworth, who has undertaken this mission with admirable responsibility.”—Speculum “Butterworth brilliantly combines in one volume the theoretical agenda of the Political Regime and the practical concerns of the Summary. This volume is an excellent contribution to Alfarabi scholarship and should be most welcome to anyone interested in Islamic philosophy.”—The Review of Politics “Butterworth here offers . . . a commendable, skilled rendition of the Summary of Plato’s Laws.”—Journal of the History of Philosophy “Butterworth richly deserves to be congratulated for providing advanced students and scholars with authoritative, reliable, and readable translations of Alfarabi’s important political writings.”—Choice

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Making the Unipolar Moment U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the PostCold War Order Hal Brands FOREIGN AFFAIRS OUTSTANDING NEW BOOK, 2017

In the late 1970s, the United States often seemed to be a superpower in decline. Battered by crises and setbacks around the globe, its post–World War II international leadership appeared to be draining steadily away. Yet just over a decade later, by the early 1990s, America’s global primacy had been reasserted in dramatic fashion. The Cold War had ended with Washington and its allies triumphant; democracy and free markets were spreading like never before. The United States was now enjoying its “unipolar moment”—an era in which Washington faced no near-term rivals for global power and inf luence, and one in which the defining feature of international politics was American dominance. How did this remarkable turnaround occur, and what role did US foreign policy play in causing it? In this important book, Hal Brands uses recently declassified archival materials to tell the story of American resurgence.

Brands weaves together the key threads of global change and US policy from the late 1970s through the early 1990s, examining the Cold War struggle with Moscow, the rise of a more integrated and globalized world economy, the rapid advance of human rights and democracy, and the emergence of new global challenges like Islamic extremism and international terrorism. Brands reveals how deep structural changes in the international system interacted with strategies pursued by Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush to usher in an era of reinvigorated and in many ways unprecedented American primacy. Making the Unipolar Moment provides an indispensable account of how the post–Cold War order that we still inhabit came to be.

Hal Brands is Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He is author of What Good Is Grand Strategy?

“Hal Brands has catapulted into the foremost ranks of a new generation of US strategic thinkers.”—Foreign Affairs “If you want to see how far we came from the edge of ruin—and how far we’re falling from the achievements of the 1990s—this carefully researched book is essential reading.”—The Federalist’s Notable Books of 2016 “Making the Unipolar Moment is an impressive work of historical research, analysis, and interpretation. It is also an indispensable resource that points towards areas of new inquiry for scholars who seek to understand the central debates about structure, strategy, and power in US foreign relations.”—Diplomatic History “In this beautifully crafted, cogent, and thoroughly researched book, Hal Brands offers a compelling explanation for this stunning reversal of US fortunes.”—Journal of American History

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Citizen Bachelors Manhood and the Creation of the United States John Gilbert McCurdy

In a sweeping examination of the bachelor in early America, McCurdy fleshes out a largely unexamined aspect of the history of gender. McCurdy shows that in the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the bachelor was a simultaneously suspicious and desirable figure: suspicious because he was not tethered to family and household obligations yet desirable because he was free to study, devote himself to political office, and fight and die in battle. He suggests that this dichotomy remains with us to this day and thus it is in early America that we find the origins of the modern-day identity of the bachelor as a symbol of masculine independence. McCurdy also observes that by extending citizenship to bachelors, the founders affirmed their commitment to individual freedom, a commitment that has subsequently come to define the very essence of American citizenship.

John Gilbert McCurdy is Professor of History at Eastern Michigan University.

“McCurdy has done a marvelous job of highlighting the newborn independence of early American bachelors.”—American Historical Review “McCurdy succeeds brilliantly in showing how the legal standing of ‘bachelors’ changed over the course of the colonial and revolutionary eras. . . . Drawing enlightening comparisons between New England, the Chesapeake, and Pennsylvania, he is able to show how laws across the colonies were moving in a similar direction . . . [as they] collectively began to carve a space for adult single men in society. McCurdy also unearths some fascinating snapshots of the subjective experience of bachelorhood.”—Rodney Hessinger, Men and Masculinities “Extensively researched and lucidly written. . . . An illuminating and substantial work which should be of interest to historians of gender relations in early modern England, colonial British America, and the early American republic.”—The English Historical Review

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Priests of Prosperity explores the unsung revolutionary campaign to transform postcommunist central banks from command-economy cash cows into Western-style monetary guardians. Juliet Johnson conducted more than 160 interviews in seventeen countries with central bankers, international assistance providers, policymakers, and private-sector finance professionals over the course of fifteen years. She argues that a powerful transnational central banking community concentrated in Western Europe and North America integrated postcommunist central bankers into its network, shaped their ideas about the role of central banks, and helped them develop modern tools of central banking.

Johnson’s detailed comparative studies of central bank development in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia, and Kyrgyzstan take readers from the birth of the campaign in the late 1980s to the challenges faced by central bankers after the global financial crisis. As the comfortable certainties of the past collapse around them, today’s central bankers in the postcommunist world and beyond find themselves torn between allegiance to their transnational community and its principles on the one hand and their increasingly complex and politicized national roles on the other. Priests of Prosperity will appeal to a diverse audience of scholars in political science, finance, economics, geography, and sociology as well as to central bankers and other policymakers interested in the future of international finance, global governance, and economic development.

Juliet Johnson is Professor of Political Science at McGill University. She is the author of Priests of Prosperity and former editor of the Review of International Political Economy.

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“How timely is Priests of Prosperity, which highlights not only the intricacies of central bank development and practice but also the role of an international community of banks in shaping this development. The book provides an illuminating comparison of central bank evolution and transformation across a number of postcommunist countries, including Hungary, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia.”—Business History Review “Provides a unique theoretical framework for institutional emulation and a welldeveloped analysis of the diffusion of central bank independence throughout the postcommunist countries. It will be read and valued by experts and anyone working on the political economy of transition, central bank independence, or institutional emulation worldwide.”—Slavic Review “A substantively significant and exciting contribution to the field of comparative political economy and to the understanding of postcommunist societies’ transformation.”—Perspectives on Politics

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Untold Futures Time and Literary Culture in Renaissance England J. K. Barret

In Untold Futures, J. K. Barret locates models for recovering the variety of futures imagined within some of our most foundational literature. These poems, plays, and prose fictions reveal how Renaissance writers embraced uncertain potential to think about their own present moment and their own place in time.

The history of the future that Barret reconstructs looks beyond futures implicitly dismissed as impossible or aftertimes defined by inevitability and fixed perspective. Chapters on Philip Sidney’s Old Arcadia, Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, Antony and Cleopatra, and Cymbeline, and John Milton’s Paradise Lost trace instead a persistent interest in an indeterminate, earthly future evident in literary constructions that foreground anticipation and expectation.

Barret argues that the temporal perspectives embedded in these literary texts unsettle some of our most familiar points of reference for the period by highlighting an emerging cultural self-consciousness capable of registering earthly futures predicated on the continued sameness of time rather than radical ruptures in it. Rather than mapping a particular future, these writers generate imaginative access to a range of futures. Barret makes a strong case for the role of language itself in emerging conceptualizations of temporality.

J. K. Barret is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin.

“Untold Futures offers persuasive close analysis of the literary techniques and devices through which Barret suggests these writers were constantly ‘capturing, pacing, arranging and reimagining linear time’. . . .

This book succeeds in making us question not only the fixity of future times, but the very terms we use to describe this period in history itself.”—Renaissance Quarterly “A smart and daring work of scholarship that speaks to some of the most pressing issues in the study of sixteenth and seventeenth-century literature today. Untold Futures should be read by anybody for whom the ‘literary’ in literary history still makes a difference, and should be required to be read by everybody for whom it does not.”—Shakespeare Quarterly “Thought-provoking, insightful, and carefully crafted. . . . Barret credits literature itself for constructing new modes of temporality.”— Journal of British History “Barret’s way of thinking and challenging the habitual perceptions of time are groundbreaking.”—The Sixteenth Century Journal

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Crossing Broadway Washington Heights and the Promise of New York City Robert W. Snyder

Crossing Broadway tells how disparate groups overcame their mutual suspicions to rehabilitate housing, build new schools, restore parks, and work with the police to bring safety to streets racked by crime and fear. It shows how a neighborhood once nicknamed “Frankfurt on the Hudson” for its large population of German Jews became “Quisqueya Heights”—the home of the nation’s largest Dominican community.

The story of Washington Heights illuminates New York City’s long passage from the Great Depression and World War II through the urban crisis to the globalization and economic inequality of the twenty-first century. Washington Heights residents played crucial roles in saving their neighborhood, but its future as a home for working-class and middle-class people is by no means assured. The growing gap between rich and poor in contemporary New York puts new pressure on the Heights as more affluent newcomers move into buildings that once sustained generations of wage earners and the owners of small businesses.

Crossing Broadway is based on historical research, reporting, and oral histories. Its narrative is powered by the stories of real people whose lives illuminate what was won and lost in northern Manhattan’s journey from the past to the present. A tribute to a great American neighborhood, this book shows how residents learned to cross Broadway—over the decades a boundary that has separated black and white, Jews and Irish, Dominican-born and American-born—and make common cause in pursuit of one of the most precious rights: the right to make a home and build a better life in New York City.

“In Crossing Broadway Robert Snyder eloquently traces the demographic metamorphosis of upper Manhattan and invokes what the sociologist Robert J. Sampson called ‘collective efficacy’ to explain the community’s uplifting but bittersweet comeback.”—The New York Times “Amazing.”—Brian Lehrer, The Brian Lehrer Show “A fascinating new book.”—Errol Louis, Inside City Hall, NY1

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The Politics of Punishment Prison Reform in Russia, 1863–1917 Bruce F. Adams

Drawing from a wide range of materials, including previously untapped archival sources, Adams examines for the first time how Russia’s Main Prison Administration was created, the number of prisoners it managed in what types of prisons, and what it accomplished. While providing a thorough account of prison management at a crucial time in Russia’s history, he explores broader discussions of reform within Russia’s government and society, especially after the Revolution of 1905, when arguments on such topics as parole and probation boiled into the arena of raucous public debate.

Bruce F. Adams is the author of Tiny Revolutions in Russia: Twentieth-Century Soviet and Russian History in Anecdotes (2005, paperback 2007). He is also the editor of two volumes and of the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet, and Eurasian History.

He was a member of the history department at the University of Louisville 1981 until his death in 2008.

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“On the basis of largely unexplored archival documents, Bruce F. Adams follows the struggle of state officials to create penal institutions that met the standards established in Western Europe and the United States.”—The American Historical Review “Those who are interested in the history of prisons and how societies have dealt with crime will find the book of considerable interest, but it has a much wider appeal as well, because it is one of the most detailed and careful studies of how the late imperial bureaucracy dealt with a significant issue.”—Slavic Review “On the basis of substantial archival research, Adams describes in tremendous detail the complex social and intellectual milieu that underlay the struggle for reform of Russia’s prisons, as well as the tortuous administrative and legislative process by which it developed.”—The Russian Review

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“Follow the Flag” A History of the Wabash Railroad Company H. Roger Grant

“Follow the Flag” offers the first authoritative history of the Wabash Railroad Company, a once vital interregional carrier. This book provides more than traditional business history. Noted transportation historian H. Roger Grant captures the human side of the Wabash, ranging from the medical doctors who created an effective hospital department to the worker-sponsored social events. And Grant has not ignored the impact the Wabash had on businesses and communities in the “Heart of America.”

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Railroad historians and those interested in American business and economic development will find much to intrigue and inform them.”—The Journal of American History ”One of the best in the genre of traditional corporate history. For historians of transportation, business, labor, or even medicine, there is much to recommend it. If only we had histories of the several dozen other major US railroads that were as good as this one.”—Technology and Culture “Follow the Flag reaffirms Roger Grant’s status as one of the preeminent historians of transportation in the United States. . . .

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Thucydides, Hobbes, and the Interpretations of Realism Laurie M. Johnson

This original study has been consistently cited by scholars of international relations who explore the roots of realism in Thucydides’s history and the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes.

While acknowledging that neither thinker fits perfectly within the confines of international relations realism, Laurie Johnson proposes Hobbes’s philosophy is more closely aligned with it than Thucydides’s.

L aurie M. Johnson is Professor of Political Science at Kansas State University.

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Roger Martin du Gard and Maumort The Nobel Laureate and his Unfinished Creation Benjamin Franklin Martin

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Roger Martin du Gard was one of the most famous writers in the Western world. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1937, and his works, especially Les Thibault, a multivolume novel, were translated into English and read widely. Today, this close friend of André Gide, Albert Camus, and André Malraux is almost unknown, largely because he left unfinished the long project he began in the 1940s, Lieutenant Colonel de Maumort. With the expert narration that distinguishes all of his books, Martin creates a blend of intellectual history, family drama, and biography.

Benjamin Franklin Martin is Professor of History Emeritus at Louisiana State University. He is the author of six previous books, among them, Years of Plenty, Years of Want (NIU Press 2013). He has been a consulting scholar to the Jewish Museum in New York for the celebrated exhibition “The Dreyfus Affair: Art, Truth and Justice,” and a featured contributor to documentaries by The History Channel.

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Machiavelli’s Three Romes Religion, Human Liberty, and Politics Reformed Vickie B. Sullivan

Machiavelli’s ambiguous treatment of religion has fueled a contentious and long-standing debate among scholars. Whereas some insist that Machiavelli is a Christian, others maintain he is a pagan. Sullivan mediates between these divergent views by arguing that he is neither but that he utilizes elements of both understandings arrayed in a wholly new way. In this illuminating study, Sullivan shows Machiavelli’s thought to be a highly original response to what he understood to be the crisis of his times.

Vickie B. Sullivan is the Cornelia M. Jackson Professor of Political Science at Tufts University.

“Vickie Sullivan’s book is an important and useful contribution to this literature. It combines meticulous scholarship with provocative and insightful analysis.”— American Political Science Review “Sullivan advances the novel proposition that Machiavelli is the enemy of all religion. . . . an important new study, cogently argued and beautifully written”—The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

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A Activists in Transition, 74 Adams, Bruce F., 109 Afterlives of Terror, The, 48 Alfarabi, 103 Allen, E. John B., 18 Amoral Communities, 57 Anne Lounsbery, 34 Arguing about Alliances, 55 As German as Kafka, 100 Assis, Paulo de, 97 Assman, Aleida, 38 Aulino, Felicity, 43 Avey, Paul C., 56 B Badiane, Ousmane, 20 Bailey, Liberty Hyde, 7 Banerjee, Dwaipayan, 36 Barret, J. K., 107 Bishops and the Politics of Patronage in Merovingian Gaul, 64 Brands, Hal, 2, 104 Brazelton, Mary Augusta, 50 Brenner, David, 73 Brokers of Modernity, 93 Bruyère, Susanne M., 86 Butterworth, Charles E., 103

Deploige, Jeroen, 98 Dibley, Thushara, 74 Difference and Orientation, 45 “Disassembled” Images, 95 Dismantlings, 52 Disrupting Deportability, 79 Divided Allies, 46 Donovan, Victoria, 61 Douglas, Christopher, 102 Doyno, Mary Harvey, 65 Dragojevic, Mila, 57 Driving toward Modernity, 44 Dust and Dignity, 78 E Eimeleus, K. B. E. E., 18 Empire’s Labor, 40 Empire’s Mobius Strip, 39 Employment and Disability, 86 Engel, Jeffrey A., 2 Ericson, Steven J., 51 Ewert, David N., 8

F Farrier, Jasmine, 81 Fear, Sean, 75 Fifty Years in the Karen Revolution in Burma, 76 Fighting for Virtue, 29 C Financial Stabilization in Meiji Japan, Campus Counterspaces, 42 51 Can Science and Technology Save China?, “Follow the Flag”, 110 77 Food for All in Africa, 20 Capelli, Luciano, 9–11 Ford, Michele, 74 Caramellino, Gaia, 92 Frank, William D., 18 Caribbean Coast, 9 Freid, Ethan, 8 Casanova, Erynn Masi de, 78 From Mobility to Accessibility, 82 Cattor, Bieke, 94 Fuchs, Anne, 37 Chronicles in Stone, 61 Futures of the Contemporary, 97 Citizen Bachelors, 105 G Civil Vengeance, 53 Gallagher, Brendan R., 3 Clawson, Dan, 41 Gandlevsky, Sergey, 85 Clift, Sarah, 38 Gensburger, Sarah, 87 Clycq, Noel, 88 Gill, David James, 46 Coessens, Kathleen, 96 Glatzel, Katrin, 20 Cole, Joshua, 26 Goorts, Roeland, 99 Competing Germanies, 83 Grant, H. Roger, 110 Conn, Steven, 15 Green-Mercado, Mayte, 66 Constitutional Dysfunction on Trial, 81 Greenhalgh, Susan, 77 Constructing Allied Cooperation, 54 Grengs, Joe, 82 Conway, Gordon, 20 Guancaste, 10 Coomans, Thomas, 94 Copeman, Jacob, 36 Crossing Broadway, 108 Crouch, David, 98 Currie, Dave, 8

D Dadour, Stéphanie, 92 Davis, Adam J., 28 Day After, The, 3 De Groof, Matthias, 91 d’Haenens, Leen, 89 De Jonge, Krista, 94

H Halfond, Gregory I., 64 Hammonds, Clare, 41 Heaven’s Wrath, 47 Heinderyckx, Francois, 89 Hematologies, 36 Henke, Marina A., 54 Herrmann, Rachel B., 23 Hom, Stephanie Malia, 39 Houghton, Vince, 4 House of Hemp and Butter, The, 59 Housing Project, The, 92

Hughes, Sara, 35 Hutson, Garrett, 99 I I, the Poet, 67 If God Meant to Interfere, 102 Illegible, 85 Images of Immigrants and Refugees, 89 Inboden, William, 2 Is Time Out of Joint?, 38 J Joe Kraus, 6 Johnson, Juliet, 106 Johnson, Laurie M., 111 Joris, Willem, 89 Juravich, Tom, 41 K Keels, Micere, 42 Kelz, Robert, 83 Kerrissey, Jasmine, 41 King, Emily L., 53 Kivland, Chelsey L., 71 Kluge, Alexander, 45 Knighthood and Society in the High Middle Ages, 98 Kohlrausch, Martin, 93 Kosher Capones, The, 6 L Labor in the Time of Trump, 41 Langston, Richard, 45 Last Card, The, 2 Lay Saint, The, 65 Lee, Ching Kwan, 80 Lehman, David, 12 Leopard, the Lion, and the Cock, The, 90 Lethal Provocation, 26 Levine, Jonathan, 82 Lewis, Sara E., 72 Liberty Hyde Bailey Gardeners Companion, The, 7 Life is Elsewhere, 34 Life of Alcibiades, The, 21 Linstrom, John, 7 Lodge, Jean, 8 Lumumba’s Iconography in the Arts, 91 M Machiavelli’s Three Romes, 113 Making the Unipolar Moment, 104 Malejacq, Romain, 31 Mantoan, Frederica, 95 Mapping Landscapes in Transformation, 94 Martin, Benjamin Franklin, 112 Martin, Jeffrey T., 70 Mass Vaccination, 50 McCargo, Duncan, 29 McCarthy, Kathleen, 67 McCurdy, John Gilbert, 105 Medieval Economy of Salvation, The, 28 Memory on My Doorstep, 87 Merlin, Louis A., 82

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Metropolitan Fetish, 13 Mettray, 25 Meyler, Bernadette, 84 Migration in the Time of Revolution, 27 Monroe, John Warne, 13 Montero, María, 10–11 Monteverde & Arenal, 11 Moore, Adam, 40 Muschalek, Marie, 49 N Natural History of The Bahamas, The, 8 New York History, Vol. 100, No. 1, 100 No Useless Mouth, 23 Noorlander, D. L., 47 Nothing Succeeds Like Failure, 15 Nuclear Spies, The, 4 O O’Connell, Tim, 99 O’Connor, Kevin C., 59 Olinga-Shannon, Stephanie, 76 One Hundred Autobiographies, 12 P Palmer, James A., 62 Parsons, Alan, 1 Peterson, Janine Larmon, 63 Poast, Paul, 55 Political Writings, The, 103 Politics of Punishment, The, 109 Precarious Times, 37 Priests of Prosperity, 106 Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles, 24 R Radicalisation, 88 Ralph, Saw, 76 Rawlings, Elizabeth Trapnell, 21 Rebel Politics, 73 Repowering Cities, 35 Republic of Vietnam, 1955–1975, The, 75 Research in Outdoor Education, Vol. 17, 99 Rituals of Care, 43 Robb, Thomas K., 46 Roberts, Alasdair, 30 Robinson, Paul, 33 Rock, Lene, 100 Roger Martin du Gard and Maumort, 112 Romilly, Jacqueline de, 21 Ross, Yazmín, 9 Rough Draft, 69 Russian Conservatism, 33 Rutenberg, Amy J., 69 S Salazar, Maximina, 78 Samuels, Richard J., 5 Satellite Empire, A, 58 Sayle, Timothy Andrews, 2 Schechter, Brandon M., 17 Schilling Warner R., 32 Schwab, Michael, 97

Sensorial Aesthetics in Music Practices, 96 Sentiment, Reason, and Law, 70 Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830–1930, 68 Sheer, Naw, 76 Shoemaker, Nancy, 24 Siegelbaum, Lewis H., 60 Sing, Ming, 80 Skis in the Art of War, 18 Snyder, Robert W., 108 Solid State, 1 Solonari, Vladimir, 58 Spacious Minds, 72 Special Duty, 5 Stanard, Matthew G., 90 Steinberg, Ronen, 48 Stempien, John A., 7 Strategies for Governing, 30 Street Sovereigns, 71 Streitberger, Alexander, 95 Stuck on Communism, 60 Stuff of Soldiers, The, 17 Subotic, Jelena, 16 Sullivan, Vickie, B., 113 Super Bomb, 32 Surkis, Judith, 68 Suspect Saints and Holy Heretics, 63 T Take Back Our Future, 80 Tempting Fate, 56 Theaters of Pardoning, 84 Thomas Mann’s War, 19 Thucydides, Hobbes, and the Interpretations of Realism, 111 Tierney, Matt, 52 Timmerman, Christiane, 88 Tobias Boes, 19 Toth, Stephen A., 25 U Untold Futures, 107 V Van Caudenberg, Rut, 88 Van Gelder, Hilde, 95 Vanheule, Dirk, 88 Violence as Usual, 49 Virtues of Economy, The, 62 Visions of Deliverance, 66 Vosko, Leah F., 79 Vu, Tuong, 75 W War, State, and Society in Liège, 99 Warlord Survival, 31 Weinbaum, Eve S., 41 Womack, Kenneth, 1 Wunderlie, Jr., Joseph M., 8 Y Yellow Star, Red Star, 16 Young, Ken, 32

Z Zhang, Jun, 44 Zhang, Li, 77 Zhou, Taomo, 27

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