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American Contact
Objects of Intercultural Encounters and the Boundaries of Book History
Edited by Rhae Lynn Barnes & Glenda Goodman
Material Texts
August 2024 456pp 60 b&w hft
9781512825770 £67.00/ $74.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
American Contact explores the dynamics of intercultural encounters through the medium of material texts. Taken together, the essays shed new light on the material practices of communicating power and resistance, subjection and survivance, in contact zones of America.
Contesting Indonesia
Islamist, Separatist, and Communal Violence since 1945
Kirsten E. Schulze
Cornell Modern Indonesia Project October 2024 300pp 1 map
9781501777677 £32.00/ $36.95 PB
9781501777660 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Contesting Indonesia explains Islamist, separatist and communal violence across Indonesian history since 1945. In a sweeping argument that connects endemic violence to a national narrative, Kirsten E. Schulze finds that the outbreak of violence is related to competing local notions of the national imaginary as well as contentious belonging.
Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence
A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal
Tithi Bhattacharya
August 2024 232pp 6 illus.
9781478030713 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781478026464 £92.00/ $102.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Bhattacharya introduces readers to the multifarious habits and personalities of Bengal’s traditional ghosts and investigates and mourns their eventual extermination. Reading literature alongside the colonial archive, Bhattacharya uncovers a new reordering of science and faith from the middle of the nineteenth century.
Colonialism and Literature
An Affective Narratology
Patrick Colm Hogan
Frontiers of Narrative
January 2025 308pp 19 illus., 1 chart, index
9781496241047 £58.00/ $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Hogan has argued that a few story genres—heroic, romantic, sacrificial, and others—recur prominently across separate literary traditions and play a prominent role in the fashioning of poltcolonization literature. Crucially, colonizers and colonized people commonly understand and explain their situation in terms of these narrative structures. Hogan explores this with theoretical and literary analysis.
Disintegrating Empire
Algerian Family Migration and the Limits of the Welfare State in France
Elise Franklin
France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization
October 2024 278pp 4 illus., 1 table, 2 graphs, index
9781496233141 £58.00/ $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Examines the entangled histories of the French welfare state, migration from Algeria, and the French social workers who mediated between the state and their Algerian clients. This book explores the relationship between colonial citizens and migrants of newly independent countries.
Inside Tenement Time
Suss, Spirit, and Surveillance
Kezia Page
Critical Caribbean Studies
November 2024 178pp 1 color and 3 b&w images
9781978837881 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781978837898 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Covering the long historical arc of the twentieth to the 21 centuries, Inside Tenement Time uses Jamaica as a case study to examine moments of crisis and particular spaces, especially urban yard enclaves and their environs, in the Caribbean encounter with surveillance.
9781978827950
Laboring in the Shadow of Empire
Race, Gender, and Care Work in Portugal
Celeste Vaughan Curington
Inequality at Work: Perspectives on Race, Gender, Class, and Labor
September 2024 236pp 7 b&w figure and 1 table
£36.00/ $39.95 PB
9781978827967 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines the everyday lives of an African descendant care service workforce that labors in an ostensibly “anti-racial” Europe and against the backdrop of the Portuguese colonial empire.
Postcolonial Hauntings
Play and Transnational Feminism
Sushmita Chatterjee
Dissident Feminisms
September 2024 208pp 6 b&w photos
9780252088087 £21.99/ $25.00 PB
9780252045981 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Often examined separately, play and hauntings in fact act together to frame postcolonial issues. Chatterjee showcases their braided workings in social and political fabrics, going to the heart of conundrums within transnational postcolonial. Insightful and stimulating, this book centers play and hauntings as a braided ethics for postcolonial transnational struggles.
Religion, Modernity, and the Global Afterlives of Colonialism
Edited by Atalia Omer & Joshua Lupo
Contending Modernities
September 2024 236pp
9780268208486 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9780268208479 £90.00/ $100.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Even though the formal structures of colonialism have crumbled, with some exceptions, European colonial ideology continues to operate across the globe. This book shows the devastating impact of colonialism and how its reach has turned inward to erode the colonizer’s own systems.
Moroccan Modernism
Holiday Powers
New African Histories
December 2024 392pp 80 color images and hfts
9780821425800
£32.00/ $36.95 PB
9780821425794 £90.00/ $99.95 HB
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Casablanca School artists shaped the Moroccan experience of modernism through their visual arts activism. Here Powers explores their work to advances a novel reading of Moroccan modernism that is rooted in its cosmopolitan national context and in the transnational anticolonial, pan-African, and pan-Arab intellectual movements that defined the era.
Precarious Eating
Narrating Environmental Harm in the Global South
Ben Jamieson Stanley
December 2024 272pp 10 b&w illus.
9781517915803 £23.99/ $28.00 PB 9781517915797 £100.00/ $112.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
By highlighting authors, activists, and environments of the global South, Precarious Eating joins with scholarship from postcolonial, decolonial, Indigenous, and Black studies to underscore how capitalism and empire shape our planetary environmental crisis.
Republic of Indians
Empires of Indigenous Law in the Early American South
Bradley J. Dixon
Early American Studies
December 2024 320pp 14 b&w illus., 2 maps
9781512826425 £40.00/ $45.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
A history of the Native Southerners who challenged European empires from the inside, Republic of Indians explores how Indigenous leaders wrote their principles into Spanish and English law. Dixon shows how petitions contributed to American political thought and how these “subjects” gave meaning to the modern idea of tribal sovereignty.
Revolutionary Papers
Edited by Mahvish Ahmad, Koni Benson & Hana Morgenstern
September 2024 250pp 31 pages
9781478029922 £11.99/ $14.00 PB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Topics covered include periodicals and other print ephemera as crucial sites of leftist, anti-imperial, and anti-colonial critical production; counter-political ideas and counter-cultural practices aiming to end empire and colonial rule or challenge authoritarian states and majorities; and oppositional networks, critical concepts, and alternative artistic practices that link local concerns to global revolutionary praxis.
Soldier's Paradise
Militarism in Africa after Empire
Samuel Fury Childs Daly
October 2024 304pp 7 illus.
9781478030836 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478026594 £97.00/ $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Using legal records, archival documents, and memoirs Samuel Fury Childs Daly tells the story of how Africa’s military dictators tried to transform their societies into martial utopias, and failed.
In a moment when militarism is again on the rise in Africa, Daly describes not just where it came from, but why it lasted so long.
The Great Power of Small Nations
Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South
Elizabeth N. Ellis
Early American Studies
November 2024 336pp 11 illus., 7 maps
9781512827071 £25.99/ $29.95 NIP
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
The Great Power of Small Nations tackles questions of Native power past and present and provides a fresh examination of the formidable and resilient Native nations who helped shape the modern Gulf South.
Society of the Righteous
Ibadhi Muslim Identity and Transnationalism in Tanzania
Kimberly T. Wortmann
Framing the Global
October 2024 272pp 15 b&w illus., 1 map
9780253071156 £38.00/ $42.00 PB
9780253071149 £81.00/ $90.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Wortmann shifts the discussion of global Muslim religion and politics beyond the usual concerns with tradition versus modernity, contestations between various branches of Islam, and the global war on terror.
State of Fear
Policing a Postcolonial City
Joshua Barker
September 2024 328pp
9781478030768 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478026525 £97.00/ $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Focusing on the city of Bandung, and synthesizing insights from indepth ethnographic, historical, and theoretical work, Barker reveals how authoritarianism can take root not just from the top down but also the bottom up.
The Pitfalls of Family Rule
Patronage Norms, Family Overreach, and Political Crisis in Kazakhstan and Beyond
Barbara Junisbai
February 2025 222pp 5 charts, 3 graphs
9781501779060 £44.00/ $48.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
In The Pitfalls of Family Rule, Barbara Junisbai questions the conceptual divide separating democracy from non-democracy, as well as the conceptual divide separating "strong" authoritarian rulers from "weak" ones. Focusing on patronage, endemic to post-Soviet Eurasia, but also present the world over, she untangles the spoils agreements that bind elites to strong-man presidents.
