
AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES
May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem by Imani Perry (University of North Carolina Press; 296 pages; $26). Explores the power and communal embrace of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” a song with lyrics by the poet James Weldon Johnson and music by his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Breaking the Shell: Voyaging from Nuclear Refugees to People of the Sea in the Marshall Islands by Joseph H. Genz (University of Hawai’i Press; 256 pages; $68). Describes how some Marshallese Islanders, made refugees by nuclear tests, reconnected with their people’s navigating traditions.
Chehalis Stories edited by Jolynn Amrine Goertz with the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation (University of Nebraska Press; 368 pages; $75). Edition of Coast Salish stories from western Washington collected and translated by the anthropologist Franz Boas in the early 20th century.
Maya Potters’ Indigenous Knowledge: Cognition, Engagement, and Practice by Dean E. Arnold (University Press of Colorado; 334 pages; $78). Draws on engagement theory in a study of traditional Maya potters in Ticul, Yucatan, Mexico.
To Be a Man Is Not a One-Day Job: Masculinity, Money, and Intimacy in Nigeria by Daniel Jordan Smith (University of Chicago Press; 272 pages; $82.50 hardcover, $27.50 paperback). Explores masculinity and the interconnections of how money figures for men in domains from marriage and fatherhood to politics; draws on fieldwork during a period of 25 years in Owerri and elsewhere in Nigeria’s southeast.
ARCHAEOLOGY
Ancient Psychoactive Substances edited by Scott M. Fitzpatrick (University Press of Florida; 328 pages; $95). Research on the use of stimulants, narcotics, and other mind-altering substances among ancients in the New and Old Worlds, from hunter-gatherers in Africa and Eurasia to Mayan royalty.
Constructing Power and Place in Mesoamerica: Pre-Hispanic Paintings from Three Regions edited by Merideth Paxton and Leticia Staines Cicero (University of New Mexico Press; 246 pages; $85). Essays on the iconography of power and place in paintings on architectural, manuscript, ceramic, and textile paintings in central Mexico, the Oaxaca region, and Maya areas in and beyond Mexico.
ART AND ARCHITECTURE
A Capsule Aesthetic: Feminist Materialisms in New Media Art by Kate Mondloch (University of Minnesota Press; 168 pages; $108 hardcover, $27 paperback). Focuses on immersive installations by Pipilotti Rist, Patricia Piccinini, and Mariko Mori in a study of works that offer new ways of experiencing our relationship to science and technology.
Creating Patzcuaro, Creating Mexico: Art, Tourism, and Nation Building under Lazaro Cardenas by Jennifer Jolly (University of Texas Press; 340 pages; $90 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Describes how the Michoacan town of Patzcuaro became a center for national tourism under the cultural patronage of President Cardenas, working with artists and intellectuals.
CLASSICAL STUDIES
Tragic Rites: Narrative and Ritual in Sophoclean Drama by Adriana E. Brook (University of Wisconsin Press; 240 pages; $99.95). Focuses on Ajax, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus.
ECONOMICS
The Great Property Fallacy: Theory, Reality, and Growth in Developing Countries by Frank K. Upham (Cambridge University Press; 151 pages; $96.99 hardcover, $24.99 paperback). Uses case studies from 16th-century England, 19th-century America, postwar Japan, and contemporary China and Cambodia to challenge the notion that stable legal property rights are necessary for economic growth.
Israel and the World Economy: The Power of Globalization by Assaf Razin (MIT Press; 208 pages; $40). Argues that Israel’s economy functions as counterexample to critics of globalization; topics include resilience in the face of the 2008 crisis.
Self-Regulation and Human Progress: How Society Gains When We Govern Less by Evan Osborne (Stanford University Press; 251 pages; $65). Describes the historical relationship between free-market ideas in economics and notions of the value of free speech and of self-correcting scientific inquiry; defends a fine-tuned version of such self-regulation for our increasingly complex society.
EDUCATION
Common Core: National Education Standards and the Threat to Democracy by Nicholas Tampio (Johns Hopkins University Press; 216 pages; $24.95). A critique of the national education standards in English and math for K-12; also discusses the Next Generation Sciences standards, the AP US History curriculum framework, and the National Sexuality Education standards.
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Beginning to End Hunger: Food and the Environment in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and Beyond by M. Jahi Chappell (University of California Press; 245 pages; $85 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Focuses on the activities of the Municipal Secretariat for Food Security, a program founded in 1993 in the city of Belo Horizonte, capital of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais; topics include the secretariat’s work with local, small family farmers.
Chemical Lands: Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America’s Grasslands since 1945 by David D. Vail (University of Alabama Press; 194 pages; $39.95). Focuses on the Great Plains in a study of how landowners, pilots, and weed scientists balanced environmental and economic concerns in the application of pesticides.
Green Wars: Conservation and Decolonization in the Maya Forest by Megan Ybarra (University of California Press; 200 pages; $85 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Argues that conservation policies that have dispossessed the Q’eqchi Maya of Guatemala’s Maya Forest, making them immigrants on their own land.
Open Spaces, Open Rebellions: The War over America’s Public Lands by Michael J. Makley (University of Massachusetts Press; 163 pages; $90 hardcover, $25.95 paperback). Traces conflicts over the use of public lands from the late 19th century to such contemporary events as the 2016 occupation of Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
The Shale Dilemma: A Global Perspective on Fracking and Shale Development edited by Shanti Gamper-Rabindran (University of Pittsburgh Press; 472 pages; $45). Writings by scholars and practitioners on shale-gas issues, with case studies from the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Poland, Argentina, China, and South Africa.
Where There’s Smoke: The Environmental Science, Public Policy, and Politics of Marijuana edited by Char Miller (University Press of Kansas; 242 pages; $29.95). Interdisciplinary writings on the environmental and other impacts of illegal marijuana production on private, public, and tribal land.
FILM STUDIES
Affective Images: Post-Apartheid Documentary Perspectives by Marietta Kesting (State University of New York Press; 278 pages; $95). Focuses on documentary photography and film in a study of immigration, gender, xenophobia, and other issues in post-apartheid South Africa; examines the work of such figures as Ernest Cole, Simphiwe Nkwali, Terry Kurgan, Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi, and Adze Ugah.
Main Street Movies: The History of Local Film in the United States by Martin L. Johnson (Indiana University Press; 294 pages; $90 hardcover, $36 paperback). A study of local film production across the United States since 1910, beginning with civic “booster” films and extending to fictional and other filmmaking featuring locals.
GAY AND LESBIAN STUDIES
How Places Make Us: Novel LBQ Identities in Four Small Cities by Japonica Brown-Saracino (University of Chicago Press; 352 pages; $105 hardcover, $35 paperback). An ethnographic study of lesbian, bisexual, and queer identity in Ithaca, N.Y., San Luis Obispo, Calif., Greenfield, Mass., and Portland, Me.; documents variations in how “local ecologies” shape the experience of being a sexual minority.
GEOGRAPHY
P’ungsu: A Study of Geomancy in Korea edited by Hong-key Yoon (State University of New York Press; 421 pages; $95). Interdisciplinary essays by scholars in geography, architecture, history, and other fields on the Korean geomantic tradition of p’ungsu, akin to Chinese fengshui.
HISTORY
Alone at the Altar: Single Women and Devotion in Guatemala, 1670-1870 by Brianna Leavitt-Alcantara (Stanford University Press; 297 pages; $65). Focuses on close ties formed between devout, non-elite single laywomen in Guatemala’s capital and the Catholic Church; documents how such alliances shaped local religion, late colonial reform, and ultimately popular conservatism in the independence era.
Berlin 1936: Sixteen Days in August by Oliver Hilmes, translated by Jefferson Chase (Other Press; 320 pages; $24.95). Translation of a 2016 German book on the Berlin Olympic games.
Beyond Freedom: Disrupting the History of Emancipation edited by David W. Blight and Jim Downs (University of Georgia Press; 208 pages; $79.95 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Essays on the contested meaning of freedom during and after slavery.
The Black Panther Party in a City Near You edited by Judson L. Jeffries (University of Georgia Press; 256 pages; $84.95 hardcover, $32.95 paperback). Focuses on Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, and Washington, D.C., in essays on Black Panther chapters and branches in cities outside the party’s founding base of Oakland, Calif; also discusses offices of the National Committee to Combat Fascism that became Black Panther entities.
The Chronicle of Andres by William of Andres, translated by Leah Shopkow (Catholic University of America Press; 448 pages; $75). Translation, with commentary, of a previously unpublished, 13th-century history of a French monastery; documents the author’s work to win the monastery’s freedom from its mother-house and his links to such luminaries as Pope Innocent III.
Congress and the People’s Contest: The Conduct of the Civil War edited by Paul Finkelman and Donald R. Kennon (Ohio University Press; 256 pages; $55 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Essays by scholars of law and history on how Congress played legislative catch-up for a war that began when it was not in session, and had mobilized more than 100,000 U.S. troops by the time it met.
The Diary of a Civil War Bride: Lucy Wood Butler of Virginia edited by Kristen Bell (Louisiana State University Press; 152 pages; $34.95). Documents life for a young, middle-class woman in Charlottesville whose husband served with the Second Florida Regiment and died at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
The First Twenty-Five: An Oral History of the Desegregation of Little Rock’s Public Junior High Schools edited by LaVerne Bell-Tolliver (University of Arkansas Press; 291 pages; $34.95). Documents the lives of 25 students who desegregated the Arkansas city’s five public junior highs in 1961 and 1962.
From Idols to Antiquity: Forging the National Museum of Mexico by Miruna Achim (University of Nebraska Press; 327 pages; $60 hardcover, $30 paperback). Explores the people, debates, and tensions that shaped the museum’s formation since its founding, by presidential decree, in 1825, shortly after independence.
Grave Landscapes: The Nineteenth-Century Rural Cemetery Movement by James R. Cothran and Erica Danylchak (University of South Carolina Press; 288 pages; $49.99). Traces a movement to create rural burial grounds to serve the needs of nearby growing cities, beginning in the 1830s with Mount Auburn outside Boston.
Hard Work Conquers All: Building the Finnish Community in Canada edited by Michel S. Beaulieu, David K. Ratz, and Ronald N. Harpelle (University of British Columbia Press; 252 pages; US$85). Essays on the cultural identities of Finnish-Canadians from successive waves of immigration; topics include ties to labor and socialist movements.
Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography by Robert Irwin (Princeton University Press; 272 pages; $29.95). Focuses on the famed Muslim thinker (1332-1406) as a devout Sufi mystic immersed in the occult and futurology.
Imagining Histories of Colonial Latin America: Synoptic Methods and Practices edited by Karen Melvin and Sylvia Sellers-Garcia (University of New Mexico Press; 283 pages; $65). Essays on such topics as regionalism in the study of Latin American history, reconstructing the worlds of colonial “subalterns,” and varied interpretive approaches to the same textual source, using an 18th-century handbook for new confessors.
In the Wake of War: Military Occupation, Emancipation, and Civil War America by Andrew F. Lang (Louisiana State University Press; 336 pages; $47.50). A study of how Union soldiers, volunteer and regular, white and black, viewed their role as occupiers.
Kentucky’s Rebel Press: Pro-Confederate Media and the Secession Crisis (University Press of Kentucky; 244 pages; $45). A study of the secessionist press in the border slave state, where at least 28 out of some 60 newspapers were pro-Confederate.
A Kingdom Divided: Evangelicals, Loyalty, and Sectionalism in the Civil War Era by April E. Holm (Louisiana State University Press; 288 pages; $47.50). A study of how border-state churches shaped antebellum divisions in the Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian denominations.
Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War: History, Fiction, Photography by Sebastiaan Faber (Vanderbilt University Press; 256 pages; $69.95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). New and previously published writings on how fiction, iconic photographs, and historiography have shaped perceptions of the 1936-39 conflict and its legacy.
Phantoms of the South Fork: Captain McNeill and His Rangers by Steve French (Kent State University Press; 312 pages; $39.95). A study of McNeill’s Rangers, a Confederate force led by John Hanson McNeill that employed guerrilla tactics in acts of sabotage, ambush, and capture, including the successful kidnapping of Union Generals George Crook and Benjamin Kelley from their hotels in Cumberland, Maryland.
Power Versus Law in Modern China: Cities, Courts, and the Communist Party by Qiang Fang and Xiaobing Li (University Press of Kentucky; 286 pages; $80). Analyzes Chinese citizens’ efforts to use the country’s courts to seek redress in cases concerning corruption, civil rights, property demolition, and other issues; focuses on four major cases between 1995 and 2013 in the cities of Wuhan, Xuzhou, Shanghai, and Chongqing.
Prairie Power: Student Activism, Counterculture, and Backlash in Oklahoma, 1962--1972 by Sarah Eppler Janda (University of Oklahoma Press; 218 pages; $29.95). Topics include how student activists drew on earlier traditions of socialist radicalism in the state, including the role models of Woody Guthrie, Oscar Ameringer, and the Wobblies.
The Rights of the Roma: The Struggle for Citizenship in Postwar Czechoslovakia by Celia Donert (Cambridge University Press; $99.99). Uses the Roma in Czechoslovakia (and later Czech and Slovak republics) as a case study of human rights and the role of socialist regimes in constructing social citizenship in postwar Eastern Europe; combines archival, oral-historical, and ethnographic data.
The Road to September 1939: Polish Jews, Zionists, and the Yishuv on the Eve of World War II by Jehuda Reinharz and Yaacov Shavit (Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England; 408 pages; $50). Disputes the notion that the world Zionist movement and the Yishuv (Jews in Palestine) failed to help Europe’s Jews escape their worsening situation before the war; focuses on Poland.
Routes of Compromise: Building Roads and Shaping the Nation in Mexico, 1917-1952 by Michael K. Bess (University of Nebraska Press; 206 pages; $60 hardcover, $30 paperback). Examines both foreign and domestic actors in a comparative study of the financing and building of roadways in the Mexican states of Nuevo Leon and Veracruz.
Sea of the Caliphs: The Mediterranean in the Medieval Islamic World by Christophe Picard, translated by Nicholas Elliott (Harvard University Press; 416 pages; $35). Challenges scholars who have downplayed the importance of seafaring to early Islam.
Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962-1979 by Todd Shepard (University of Chicago Press; 336 pages; $50). Documents how the sexual revolution in France was shaped by discourse on Arabs and the revolution in Algeria.
Strategies of Segregation: Race, Residence, and the Struggle for Educational Equality by David G. Garcia (University of California Press; 296 pages; $85 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Documents the struggles of blacks and Mexican-Americans in Oxnard, Calif., in the face of disparate treatment by the school system and linked to racially restrictive housing covenants; covers the period from 1903 to 1974.
To Belong in Buenos Aires: Germans, Argentines, and the Rise of a Pluralist Society by Benjamin Bryce (Stanford University Press; 223 pages; $65). Discusses Germans in a wave of immigration to Argentina in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; describes how the newcomers developed a distinct German-Argentine identity, with a focus on the topics of children, schooling, religion, language, and social welfare.
Travellers Through Empire: Indigenous Voyages From Early Canada by Cecilia Morgan (McGill-Queen’s University Press; 342 pages; US$39.95). Discusses the Ojibwe chief and Methodist minister Peter Jones and other indigenous people who traveled from Canada to Britain and elsewhere in the world in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
Tropical Travels: Brazilian Popular Performance, Transnational Encounters, and the Construction of Race by Lisa Shaw (University of Texas Press; 246 pages; $90 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Examines how ideas of race were negotiated in forms of popular performance in Brazil and in performances by Brazilians overseas; topics include samba and maxixe in Paris between 1910 and 1922.
Unsettling the West: Violence and State Building in the Ohio Valley by Rob Harper (University of Pennsylvania Press; 245 pages; $45). Examines the relationships among violence, colonization, and state building in a study of how government policies unsettled the Ohio Valley in the revolutionary era.
HISTORY OF MEDICINE
Visualizing Disease: The Art and History of Pathological Illustrations by Domenico Bertoloni Meli (University of Chicago Press; 288 pages; $55). Examines visual representations of disease states as a form distinct from anatomical illustration; covers the period from the Renaissance to the mid-19th century.
LABOR STUDIES
High Tech and High Touch: Headhunting, Technology, and Economic Transformation by James E. Coverdill and William Finlay (ILR Press/Cornell University Press; 204 pages; $95 hardcover, $21.95 paperback). Documents the continued value of headhunters’ skill in a labor market in which hiring and job searches are increasingly dominated by technology.
LAW
Defending the Masses: A Progressive Lawyer’s Battles for Free Speech by Eric B. Easton (University of Wisconsin Press; 288 pages; $79.95). A biography of Gilbert Roe, the chief trial attorney for the Free Speech League, a Progressive Era precursor of the ACLU; traces Roe’s efforts on behalf of such activists as Emma Goldman, Lincoln Steffens, Margaret Sanger, John Reed, and Eugene Debs, as well as his former law partner Senator Robert “Fighting Bob” La Follette.
Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Tax Opinions edited by Bridget J. Crawford and Anthony C. Infanti (Cambridge University Press; 354 pages; $110 hardcover, $35.99 paperback). Documents the impact of feminist analysis on statutory interpretation through essays by scholars and lawyers who reconsider tax-law rulings from 1903 to 2013; topics include tax benefits for married people, the tax treatment of tribal lands, and medical- and business-expense deductions.
Law, Reason, and Emotion edited by M.N.S. Sellers (Cambridge University Press; 244 pages; $110). Essays that dispute the notion that reason and emotion are conflicting values in law and argue that their interplay is the joint basis for justice.
LITERATURE
The Afterlife of Al-Andalus: Muslim Iberia in Contemporary Arab and Hispanic Narratives by Christina Civantos (State University of New York Press; 362 pages; $95). Explores the symbolism of Muslim Iberia in literature, drama, television and film from the Arab world, as well as from Spain and Argentina; topics include textual dialogue among Egyptian, Tunisian, and Spanish depictions of the 12th-century Andalusian thinker Ibn Rushd (Averroes) in a film, play, and television screenplay, respectively.
Archaeology of Babel: The Colonial Foundation of the Humanities by Siraj Ahmed (Stanford University Press; 280 pages; $90 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Explores historical studies of language, comparative literature, and the interplay of scholarly and sovereign power in a discussion asserting philology’s links to British colonial rule in India.
Eleanor Cameron: Dimensions of Amazement by Paul V. Allen (University Press of Mississippi; 232 pages; $65). A biography of the Canadian-born children’s book author and critic (1912-96).
Goodbye Christ? Religion, Masculinity, and the New Negro Renaissance by Peter Kerry Powers (University of Tennessee Press; 236 pages; $55). Examines tensions between religion and the worldview of such writers as W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Reverdy Ransom, and Frederick Cullen.
Kierkegaard, Literature, and the Arts edited by Eric Ziolkowski (Northwestern University Press; 324 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $39.95 paperback). Essays on the Danish philosopher’s engagement with literature, music, and other arts; topics include his Christian Bildungsroman, and the Postscript as anti-Hegelian, anti-theatrical drama.
Literary Primitivism by Ben Etherington (Stanford University Press; 218 pages; $65). Describes literary primitivism as an aesthetic project developed in reaction to the heights of imperialist expansion at the start of the 20th century; focuses on works by Aime Cesaire, Frantz Fanon, D.H. Lawrence, and Claude McKay.
Lyrical Strategies: The Poetics of the Twentieth-Century American Novel by Katie Owens-Murphy (Northwestern University Press; 219 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Explores American novels described here as suited to the reading strategies of lyric poetry; writers discussed include Gertrude Stein, Jean Toomer, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, and Cormac McCarthy.
Mastering the Marketplace: Popular Literature in Nineteenth-Century France by Anne O’Neil-Henry (University of Nebraska Press; 245 pages; $50). Juxtaposes the canonical author Balzac against such then-popular writers as Paul de Kock and Eugene Sue in a study of how 19th-century authors negotiated a growing literary marketplace and expanding reading public.
Middle English Marvels: Magic, Spectacle, and Morality in the Fourteenth Century by Tara Williams (Penn State University Press; 184 pages; $89.95). A study of how representations of magic in Middle English romance link spectacle, the supernatural, and morality.
Migrating Fictions: Gender, Race, and Citizenship in U.S. Internal Displacements by Abigail G.H. Manzella (Ohio State University Press; 264 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Explores literary reflections of U.S. internal migrations and displacements, with a focus on works by Zora Neale Hurston, Sanora Babb, Julie Otsuka, Helena Maria Viramonte, and Jesmyn Ward.
Producing Early Modern London: A Comedy of Urban Space, 1598--1616 by Kelly J. Stage (University of Nebraska Press; 342 pages; $55). Explores the staging of London and its surrounding areas in comedies by George Chapman, Thomas Dekker, William Haughton, Ben Jonson, John Marston, Thomas Middleton, and John Webster.
Senses of Style: Poetry before Interpretation by Jeff Dolven (University of Chicago Press; 240 pages; $75 hardcover, $25 paperback). Explores “ironies of style” and four “antitheses of style” in an experimental work of criticism grounded in the lives and work of the 16th-century English poet and diplomat Thomas Wyatt and one of Wyatt’s great admirers, the mid-20th-century poet Frank O’Hara.
Sovereign Stories and Blood Memories: Native American Women’s Autobiography by Annette Angela Portillo (University of New Mexico Press; 204 pages; $65). Analyzes a wide range of autobiographical discourse from 19th-century works to contemporary memoirs and social media; figures discusssed include Zirkala Sa, Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, Delfina Cuero, and Leslie Marmon Silko.
Spaces of Feeling: Affect and Awareness in Modernist Literature by Marta Figlerowicz (Cornell University Press; 172 pages; $55). A study of modernist novels and poems that portray the unsettling realization that others may be better interpreters of our affective experience than we are; focuses on works by Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, John Ashbery, Ralph Ellison, Marcel Proust, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sylvia Plath, and Wallace Stevens.
Think Like an Archipelago: Paradox in the Work of Edouard Glissant by Michael Wiedorn (State University of New York Press; 156 pages; $85). A study of the Martinican-born French writer (1928-2011) that describes his wide-ranging work in fiction, poetry, theater, and other realms as an explicit and coherent philosophical project; focuses on Glissant’s final two decades.
Thus I Lived with Words: Robert Louis Stevenson and the Writer’s Craft by Annette R. Federico (University of Iowa Press; 136 pages; $19). Draws on letters and other sources in a discussion of the Scottish author’s joy in words, including his love of reading and advice to writers.
Where the New World Is: Literature about the U.S. South at Global Scales by Martyn Bone (University of Georgia Press; 306 pages; $64.95). Draws on theories of human scale in geography in a study of how literature has “resituated” the South globally; authors discussed include Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, John Oliver Killens, Russell Banks, Erna Brodber, Cynthia Shearer, Ha Jin, Monique Truong, Lan Cao, Toni Morrison, Peter Matthiessen, Dave Eggers, and Laila Lalami.
Willful Submission: Sado-Erotics and Heavenly Marriage in Victorian Religious Poetry by Amanda Paxton (University of Virginia Press; 240 pages; $45). Discusses Victorian poetry that explores the darkly erotic aspects of religious devotion with motifs of suffering brides of Christ.
Woolf’s Ambiguities: Tonal Modernism, Narrative Strategy, Feminist Precursors by Molly Hite (Cornell University Press; 256 pages; $55). Compares Woolf’s writing with that of the novelist, feminist activist, and actress Elizabeth Robins (1862-1952) and argues that various of Woolf’s novels simultaneously borrow from and criticize Robins’s work; topics include Woolf’s changing attitude toward polemical fiction as reflected in her novel-essay The Pargiters.
Writing Herself into Being: Quebec Women’s Autobiographical Writings From Marie de l’Incarnation to Nelly Arcan by Patricia Smart (McGill-Queen’s University Press; 336 pages; US$110 hardcover, US$34.95 paperback). Translation of a 2014 French-language study of Quebec women’s struggle for autonomy and agency as reflected in autobiographies, diaries, autobiographical fiction, and other writings since the colonial founding of New France.
MUSIC
The Pop Palimpsest: Intertextuality in Recorded Popular Music edited by Lori Burns and Serge Lacasse (University of Michigan Press; 360 pages; $85). Topics include cover versions of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” the Beatles’ musical impact on the Electric Light Orchestra, and intertextual practices in music videos by Jay-Z, Eminem, and Kanye West that represent the artists as deified rap figures.
PHILOSOPHY
The Ambivalences of Rationality: Ancient and Modern Cross-Cultural Explorations by G.E.R. Lloyd (Cambridge University Press; 132 pages; $44.99). Draws on ancient Greek and Chinese thought in a critique of both universalist and relativist assumptions about rationality.
For Foucault: Against Normative Political Theory by Mark G.E. Kelly (State University of New York Press; 191 pages; $80). Sets Michel Foucault in confrontation with past and present political thinkers, including Marx, Lenin, Althusser, Deleuze, Rorty, Axel Honneth, and Raymond Geuss.
New Television: The Aesthetics and Politics of a Genre by Martin Shuster (University of Chicago Press; 272 pages; $85 hardcover, $27.50 paperback). Draws on such thinkers as Stanley Cavell, Hannah Arendt, and Martin Heidegger to offer a philosophical perspective on television as the modern art form; analyzes such shows as The Wire and Justified.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
The Alternate Route: Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones by Thomas Graham Jr. (Oregon State University Press; 320 pages; $35). Discusses nuclear-weapon-free zones as a potential pathway to world nuclear disarmament.
Challenged Hegemony: The United States, China, and Russia in the Persian Gulf by Steve A. Yetiv and Katerina Oskarsson (Stanford University Press; 264 pages; $90 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Disputes the notion that U.S. “capability” has declined in the region, despite challenges from rivals, and considers what American hegemony means for global oil security.
Democracy and Displacement in Colombia’s Civil War by Abbey Steele (Cornell University Press; 264 pages; $45). Draws on fieldwork in the Uraba region in a study of “political cleansing” during Colombia’s civil war, as in armed groups’ targeting people for displacement who are perceived as loyal to insurgents.
The End of Grand Strategy: US Maritime Operations in the Twenty-First Century by Simon Reich and Peter Dombrowski (Cornell University Press; 252 pages; $30). Uses case studies of six major naval operations, each reflecting a different major strategy, to argue against the prescriptive value of a single, over-arching approach.
Humanitarian Hypocrisy: Civilian Protection and the Design of Peace Operations by Andrea L. Everett (Cornell University Press; 284 pages; $55). Includes case studies of France in Rwanda, the United States in Darfur, and Australia in East Timor and Aceh in a study of the gap between the declared goals of peace operations and the resources committed.
The Party’s Primary: Control of Congressional Nominations by Hans J.G. Hassell (Cambridge University Press; 215 pages; $99.99 hardcover, $29.99 paperback). Uses data on nearly 3,000 House and Senate nomination contests over the past decade to document the continuing strong influence of party elites on American voters’ options; draws on interviews with candidates and party insiders.
Secession and Security: Explaining State Strategy against Separatists by Ahsan I. Butt (Cornell University Press; 293 pages; $39.95). Argues that states determine whether a separatist struggle will be peaceful, violent, or genocidal; focuses on the Ottoman Empire and Armenians, Pakistani reactions to Bengali and Baloch demands for independence, and India’s responses to secessionist movements in Kashmir, Punjab, and Assam.
Strategic Frames: Europe, Russia, and Minority Inclusion in Estonia and Latvia by Jennie L. Schulze (University of Pittsburgh Press; 288 pages; $31.95). Examines EU and Russian influence on policies toward Russian ethnic minorities in the two post-Soviet Baltic states.
We Decide! Theories and Cases in Participatory Democracy by Michael Menser (Temple University Press; 316 pages; $104.50 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Case studies include the Mondragon cooperative in northern Spain, and the Seikatsu Club Consumer Cooperative Union run by housewives in Japan.
POPULAR CULTURE
Subversive Spirits: The Female Ghost in British and American Popular Culture by Robin Roberts (University Press of Mississippi; 186 pages; $65). Explores representations of female ghosts in a wide range of American and British contexts, including heritage sites, theater, movies, literature, and television.
RELIGION
The Bible and Early Trinitarian Theology edited by Christopher A. Beeley and Mark E. Weedman (Catholic University of America Press; 280 pages; $75). Essays that set the fields of early Christian studies and biblical studies and patristics in dialogue; focuses on the Gospel of John, Paul’s writings, and their patristic interpretation.
Religion and Public Discourse in an Age of Transition: Reflections on Baha’i Practice and Thought edited by Geoffrey Cameron and Benjamin Schewel (Wilfrid Laurier University Press; 291 pages; US$39.99). Essays on such topics as the harmony of science and religion; religion, spiritual principles, and civil society; and Baha’i international community, the United Nations and gender equality.
Religious Agrarianism and the Return of Place: From Values to Practice in Sustainable Agriculture by Todd LeVasseur (State University of New York Press; 253 pages; $85). Combines theory and ethnography in a study of the “greening” of American religion; includes case studies of Koinonia Farm, an ecumenical Christian lay monastic community, and Hazon, a progressive Jewish environmental group.
Romans 7 and Christian Identity: A Study of the ‘I’ in its Literary Context by Will N. Timmins (Cambridge University Press; 238 pages; $99.99). Develops a theory of the speaking “I” in the New Testament chapter.
Satan and Apocalypse: And Other Essays in Political Theology by Thomas J.J. Altizer (State University of New York Press; 119 pages; $80). New and previously published writings on the Christian epic and revolutionary apocalyptic visions, beginning with a discussion of Milton in relation to Spinoza.
The Spirit of God: Short Writings on the Holy Spirit by Yves Congar, translated by Susan Mader Brown and others (Catholic University of America Press; 297 pages; $65). Contains eight previously untranslated essays on the Holy Spirit composed by the French Dominican friar and theologian between 1969 and 1985.
The Three Dynamisms of Faith: Searching for Meaning, Fulfillment, and Truth by Louis Roy (Catholic University of America Press; 236 pages; $34.95). Focuses on the theological thought of Thomas Aquinas, John Henry Newman, and Bernard Lonergan.
RHETORIC
Feminist Rhetorical Science Studies: Human Bodies, Posthumanist Worlds edited by Amanda K. Booher and Julie Jung (Southern Illinois University Press; 260 pages; $45). Essays on the rhetoric of science from a feminist perspective; topics include personhood and fetal ultrasound imaging, and the neuroscience of sex differences.
Vicente Ximenes, LBJ’s Great Society, and Mexican American Civil Rights Rhetoric by Michelle Hall Kells (Southern Illinois University Press; 346 pages; $40). Links the success of the Mexican-American rights activist turned Johnson administration official to the adaptability of his rhetoric for different audiences.
SOCIOLOGY
Frenemies: Feminists, Conservatives, and Sexual Violence by Nancy Whittier (Oxford University Press; 288 pages; $99 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Focuses on feminist and conservative activism on the issues of pornography, child sexual abuse, and the Violence Against Women Act.
Social by Nature: The Promise and Peril of Sociogenomics by Catherine Bliss (Stanford University Press; 291 pages; $29.95). Draws parallels between the emerging social science of sociogenomics and such long-discredited approaches as eugenics.
Stick Together and Come Back Home: Racial Sorting and the Spillover of Carceral Identity by Patrick Lopez-Aguado (University of California Press; 226 pages; $85 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Draws on fieldwork in Fresno, Calif., in a study of how the impact of how institutions sort prisoners, including by gang affiliations they may or may not have.
URBAN STUDIES
Coping with Adversity: Regional Economic Resilience and Public Policy edited by Harold Wolman and others (Cornell University Press; 278 pages; $95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Describes strategies that help or hinder a metropolitan area’s resilience in the face of both sudden economic shocks and long-term distress; combines discussion of all U.S. metro-area economies between 1978 and 2014 with a detailed look contrasting the resilience of Seattle, Charlotte, N.C., and Grand Forks, N.D. with the non-resilience of Cleveland, Detroit, and Hartford, Conn.
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