AMERICAN STUDIES
A Critical History of the New American Studies, 1970-1990 by Gunter H. Lenz, edited by Reinhard Isensee and others (Dartmouth College Press/University Press of New England; 248 pages; $95 hardcover, $40 paperback). Edition of a posthumously published work by a European scholar (1940-2012) who was one of the founders of transnational American Studies.
For the Children? Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State by Erica R. Meiners (University of Minnesota Press; 255 pages; $94.50 hardcover, $27 paperback). Examines how ideas of childhood and innocence shape ideas of the school-to-prison pipeline and other discourse on penal policy.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Beyond Indigeneity: Coca Growing and the Emergence of a New Middle Class in Bolivia by Alessandra Pellegrini Calderon (University of Arizona Press; 208 pages; $55). An ethnographic study of coca growers in Bolivia that explores their rejection of prevailing ethnic categories.
The Truth About Crime: Sovereignty, Knowledge, Social Order by Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff (University of Chicago Press; 347 pages; $85 hardcover, $27.50 paperback). Explores a preoccupation with crime and policing in late modernity; focuses on South Africa with comparative discussion of the United States, Britain, and other settings.
ART AND ARCHITECTURE
The Evolution of Taste in American Collecting by Rene Brimo, translated and edited by Kenneth Haltman (Penn State University Press; 392 pages; $79.95). Critical translation of the French art historian’s 1938 study of 18th- and 19th-century art patronage and collecting in the United States.
Nature’s Truth: Photography, Painting, and Science in Victorian Britain by Anne Helmreich (Penn State University Press; 272 pages; $89.95). Discusses John Everett Millais, Augustus John, P.H. Emerson, and other artists of the period who turned toward science under the call of “truth to nature.”
Practicable: From Participation to Interaction in Contemporary Art edited by Samuel Bianchini and Erik Verhagen (MIT Press; 930 pages; $50). Essays on artworks since the 1950s that invite audience interaction; artists discussed include Robert Rauschenberg, Bruce Nauman, Dan Graham, Marina Abramovic, and David Rokeby.
Turner: The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J.M.W. Turner by Franny Moyle (Penguin Press; 508 pages; $35). A biography of the British painter (1775-1851).
CLASSICAL STUDIES
The Boundaries of Art and Social Space in Rome: The Caged Bird and Other Art Forms by Frederick Jones (Bloomsbury Academic; 196 pages). Focuses on gardens, garden painting, tapestry, and the domestic caged bird in a study of cultural phenomena linked to the homes of aristocratic Romans in the late Republic.
COMMUNICATION
Isles of Noise: Sonic Media in the Caribbean by Alejandra Bronfman (University of North Carolina Press; 223 pages; $85 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Focuses on Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, and the Dominican Republic in a study that sets radio’s rapid rise in the Caribbean in the larger context of imperial power politics.
FILM STUDIES
Celluloid Pueblo: Western Ways Films and the Invention of the Postwar Southwest by Jennifer L. Jenkins (University of Arizona Press; 264 pages; $45). Examines representations of the Southwest in films produced by Western Ways Features, a company founded in 1936 by Charles Herbert, after 10 years of work at Fox studios, and his wife, Lucile.
Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the “Canterbury Tales” edited by Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh (Ohio State University Press; 286 pages; $94.95). Combines essays on why Chaucer is relatively rarely adapted for film or television with writings on the adaptations that exist, from BBC productions to soft-core pornography.
Re-Imagining DEFA: East German Cinema in its National and Transnational Contexts edited by Sean Allan and Sebastian Heiduschke (Berghahn Books; 366 pages; $130 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Writings on East Germany’s film industry and its post-unification legacy; topics include music in DEFA films, portrayals of East Asia, and the scandal over the 1957 East German-West German co-production Casino Affair.
GENDER STUDIES
Out of the Ordinary: A Life of Gender and Spiritual Transitions by Michael Dillon /Lobzang Jivaka, edited by Jacob Lau and Cameron Partridge (Fordham University Press; 272 pages; $34.95). First publication of the autobiography of a British physician and Buddhist monastic novice (1915-62) who underwent a hormonal and surgical transition from female to male between 1939 and 1949, as well as a spiritual transformation from Anglican to Buddhist in the Tibetan tradition.
Queer Theory: The French Response by Bruno Perreau (Stanford University Press; 288 pages; $85 hardcover, $25.95 paperback). Topics include how French opponents of gay marriage have targeted the gender theories of the American scholar Judith Butler.
GEOGRAPHY
Calculating Property Relations: Chicago’s Wartime Industrial Mobilization, 1940--1950 by Robert Lewis (University of Georgia Press; 280 pages; $84.95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Uses data on more than 600 federally funded sites in a study of the changing nature of government and industry relationships in the building and decommissioning of defense factories in World War II metropolitan Chicago.
In the Public’s Interest: Evictions, Citizenship, and Inequality in Contemporary Delhi by Gautam Bhan (University of Georgia Press; 308 pages; $89.95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Examines double standards in property laws through a study of mass evictions of some of the Indian capital’s poorest neighborhoods.
HISTORY
Activist Biology: The National Museum, Politics, and Nation Building in Brazil by Regina Horta Duarte, translated by Diane Grosklaus Whitty (University of Arizona Press; 264 pages; $55). First English translation of the Brazilian historian’s study of the museum’s role in Brazilian conservation.
American Child Bride: A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States by Nicholas L. Syrett (University of North Carolina Press; 354 pages; $34.95). Focuses on girls in a study of minor-aged marriage since the colonial era.
American Enlightenments: Pursuing Happiness in the Age of Reason by Caroline Winterer (Yale University Press; 355 pages; $35). Contrasts what 18th-century thinkers meant by enlightenment with mythologies of the founding period that emerged later.
American Jewry: A New History by Eli Lederhendler (Cambridge University Press; 331 pages; $34.99). A study of Jews in America since the colonial era, with particularly attention to foreign dimensions of that history.
Anglo-Native Virginia: Trade, Conversion, and Indian Slavery in the Old Dominion, 1646-1722 by Kristalyn Marie Shefveland (University of Georgia Press; 176 pages; $54.95). A study of English colonists’ creation of tributary status for indigenous allies and the category of “foreign Indians” for those non-allied; focuses on the Piedmont and southwestern coastal plain regions of the colony.
Charleston and the Emergence of Middle-Class Culture in the Revolutionary Era by Jennifer L. Goloboy (University of Georgia Press; 208 pages; $54.95). Uses merchants in the South Carolina port city to examine ambition and the ruthless pursue of profit in the early republic.
The Framers’ Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution by Michael J. Klarman (Oxford University Press; 865 pages; $39.95). Traces competing economic, political, and other interests that shaped the convention and the document.
Jewish Souls, Bureaucratic Minds: Jewish Bureaucracy and Policymaking in Late Imperial Russia, 1850-1917 by Vassili Schedrin (Wayne State University Press; 344 pages; $49.99). Focuses on mid-level Jewish bureaucrats who served the imperial Russian state both in St. Petersburg and Beyond the Pale of Settlement.
New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South by Claudrena N. Harold (University of Georgia Press; 208 pages; $54.95). Examines the South as a setting for black radicalism in the 1920s and 30s through a study of Garveyites, anti-imperialist protesters, and the militant unionists of A. Philip Randolph, among other activists.
Red Ellen: The Life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist by Laura Beers (Harvard University Press; 532 pages; $29.95). Pays particular attention to the international work of the Manchester-born leftist who helped found Britain’s Communist Party, became a member of Parliament, and is best known for leading the 300-mile Jarrow march of 200 of her constituents, unemployed steelworkers and shipbuilders, from Tynside to London to petition the government for assistance.
Religion, Gender, and Kinship in Colonial New France by Lisa J.M. Poirier (Syracuse University Press; 256 pages; $65 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Focuses on Etienne Brule, Joseph Chihoatenhwa, Therese Oionhaton, and Marie Rollet Hebert and the creation of new religious orientations in early 17th-century New France (now Quebec).
The Soviet Gulag: Evidence, Interpretation, and Comparison edited by Michael David-Fox (University of Pittsburgh Press; 434 pages; $49.95). Writings that document the scale, scope, and diversity of the Soviet camps, some far from Siberia, some with prisoners mingled in the local population, and some key to Soviet infrastructure projects, science, and other realms; includes comparative discussion of other concentration camps, including those of Nazi Germany, and the British in Africa and India.
Toussaint Louverture: A Revolutionary Life by Philippe Girard (Basic Books; 352 pages; $29.99). A biography of the Haitian revolutionary (1743-1803).
The War of 1948: Representations of Israeli and Palestinian Memories and Narratives edited by Avraham Sela and Alon Kadish (Indiana University Press; 232 pages; $25). Essays on historical narratives of the conflict, as well as representations in literature, art, visual media, historical museums, and landscapes; topics include the trauma of the nakba (catastrophe) in the work of the Haifa-born Palestinian writer Emile Habibi (1922-96).
INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
Public Intellectuals in the Global Arena: Professors or Pundits? edited by Michael C. Desch (University of Notre Dame Press; 418 pages; $55). Offers interdisciplinary and international perspectives on the role of public intellectuals; topics include the changes that have elevated economists and dethroned philosophers.
LINGUISTICS
Archi: Complexities of Agreement in Cross-Theoretical Perspective edited by Oliver Bond and others (Oxford University Press; 280 pages; $105). Writings on the complex system of agreement in Archi, an endangered language spoken in southern Daghestan, Russia.
LITERATURE
The Aesthetics and Ethics of Copying edited by Darren Hudson Hick and Reinold Schmucker (Bloomsbury Academic; 408 pages; $94). Writings by scholars in philosophy, law, art, and other fields; topics include artifact copies, art forgery, appropriating fictional characters, and self-plagiarism.
Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First-Century Culture by Annie McClanahan (Stanford University Press; 235 pages; $60). Traces American cultural responses to the 2008 financial crisis in novels, poems, photojournalism, and horror movies.
The Forked Juniper: Critical Perspectives on Rudolfo Anaya edited by Roberto Cantu (University of Oklahoma Press; 317 pages; $60 hardcover, $26.95 paperback). Essays on the contemporary Chicano author by literary scholars from Germany, Mexico, and the United States.
Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature by Gayle Rogers (Columbia University Press; 296 pages; $60). A study of Spanish and American networks of writers and translators after the Spanish-American War (1898), with particular attention to Ezra Pound, John Dos Passos, Miguel Unamuno, and Juan Ramon Jimenez.
Octavia E. Butler by Gerry Canavan (University of Illinois Press; 225 pages; $95 hardcover, $22 paperback). Draws on Butler’s personal papers in a study of the American science-fiction writer (1947-2006) working both within and against the canon of her genre.
Points of Departure: Samuel Weber Between Spectrality and Reading edited by Peter Fenves, Kevin McLaughlin, and Marc Redfield (Northwestern University Press; 289 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Essays on the work and influence of the British critic, with particular attention to his writings on the Ghost in Hamlet.
Reading African American Autobiography: Twenty-First-Century Contexts and Criticism edited by Eric D. Lamore (University of Wisconsin Press; 278 pages; $74.95). Essays on life writing by African-Americans since the 18th century, including those today in such formats as blogs and comics.
Savage Economy: The Returns of Middle English Romance by Walter Wadiak (University of Notre Dame Press; 200 pages; $45). Discusses “noble gift giving,” the ties of knights and commoners, and a broadening of the appeal of the medieval romance.
The Spanish Golden Age Sonnet by John Rutherford (University of Wales Press, distributed by University of Chicago Press; 264 pages; $140). Bilingual edition, with commentary, of more than 100 examples of the genre.
Transatlantic Aliens: Modernism, Exile, and Culture in Midcentury America by Will Norman (Johns Hopkins University Press; 263 pages; $45). Includes case studies of such figures as C. L. R. James, Theodor Adorno, George Grosz, Raymond Chandler, Simone de Beauvoir, Vladimir Nabokov, and Saul Steinberg.
Writing for Hire: Unions, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue by Catherine L. Fisk (Harvard University Press; 308 pages; $35). Focuses on why terms of authorship and authorial rights developed so differently in the film, television, and advertising industries of the mid-20th century.
MUSIC
A Song to Save the Salish Sea: Musical Performance as Environmental Activism by Mark Pedelty (Indiana University Press; 256 pages; $75 hardcover, $27 paperback). Examines the role of music in environmental activism, with a focus on the Cascadia region of coastal Washington and British Columbia.
PHILOSOPHY
Adorno’s Theory of Philosophical and Aesthetic Truth by Owen Hulatt (Columbia University Press; 245 pages; $60). Examines the relationship between the Frankfurt School thinker’s view of art and knowledge, linked to his idea of truth.
Essays on Paradoxes by Terence Horgan (Oxford University Press; 322 pages; $74). Includes new essays on Newcomb’s problem, the Sleeping Beauty problem, and epistemic probability.
Inclinations: A Critique of Rectitude by Adriana Cavarero (Stanford University Press; 224 pages; $70 hardcover, $19.95 paperback). Draws on works of art and philosophy to explore the moral and political significance of vertical posture, contrasting the figures of the “upright man” and the woman inclined to others.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Circuits of Faith: Migration, Education, and the Wahhabi Mission by Michael Farquhar (Stanford University Press; 269 pages; $45). A study of the Islamic University of Medina, in Saudi Arabia, and its role in the spread of the strict Wahabi mode of Islam.
PSYCHOLOGY
The Rationality Quotient: Toward a Test of Rational Thinking by Keith E. Stanovich, Richard F. West, and Maggie E. Toplak (MIT Press; 459 pages; $39). Draws distinctions between intelligence and the capacity for rational thinking and argues that the IQ test fails to measure the latter; develops an alternative assessment that has been tested on more than 4,000 people.
RELIGION
Allusive Soundplay in the Hebrew Bible by Jonathan G. Kline (Society of Biblical Literature; 155 pages; $42.95 hardcover, $27.95 paperback). Focuses on the theological themes of theodicy, judgment, and salvation in a study of biblical authors’ use of the literary device known as paronomasia.
Making Moderate Islam: Sufism, Service, and the “Ground Zero Mosque” Controversy by Rosemary R. Corbett (Stanford University Press; 287 pages; $85 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Focuses on the activities of New York-based Sufi Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and his wife, Daisy Khan.
SOCIOLOGY
Freedom from Work: Embracing Financial Self-Help in the United States and Argentina by Daniel Fridman (Stanford University Press; 236 pages; $90 hardcover, $27.95 paperback). Offers an ethnographic perspective, in both countries, of members of financial self-help groups and their books, games, seminars, and online forums; focuses on the Rich Dad, Poor Dad book series and a linked game called Cashflow.
SPORTS STUDIES
Of Gods and Games: Religious Faith and Modern Sports by William J. Baker (University of Georgia Press; 100 pages; $22.95). Discusses athletes, coaches, and sportswriters in a meditation on the intersection of sports and religion; examples include the evangelical baseball and football player Tim Tebow, and Shelly Pennefather, a professional basketball star who left the sport to become a cloistered nun.
Separate Games: African American Sport Behind the Walls of Segregation edited by David K. Wiggins and Ryan A. Swanson (University of Arkansas Press; 310 pages; $32.95). Essays on black America’s separate sporting culture under segregation, including black basketball’s New York Renaissance Five, the Turkey Bowl of black college football, and the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association.
THEATER
From Scenarios to Networks: Performing the Intercultural in Colonial Mexico by Leo Cabranes-Grant (Northwestern University Press; 208 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Draws on Bruno Latour’s Actor-Network theory in a study of performative culture in the Viceroyalty of New Spain from 1566 to 1690.
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