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Weekly Book List, April 8, 2016

Compiled by Nina C. Ayoub
April 3, 2016
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AMERICAN STUDIES

Afterimages: Photography and U.S. Foreign Policy by Liam Kennedy (University of Chicago Press; 220 pages; $45). Considers how photojournalists have sought to frame the actions and impact of U.S. foreign policy and how their work engages the American worldview; discusses Vietnam, Somalia, the Balkans, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other settings.

Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps Since World War II by A. Naomi Paik (University of North Carolina Press; 312 pages; $29.95). Focuses on the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, HIV-positive Haitian refugees detained at Guantanamo Bay in the early 1990s, and detainees in the “war on terror,” also at Guantanamo.

ANTHROPOLOGY

Engaging with Strangers: Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands by Debra McDougall (Berghahn Books; 287 pages; $120). Draws on fieldwork on Ranongga to describe a cosmopolitan “stranger sociality” that has characterized encounters with outsiders in the Solomons over the past 200 years.

The Life of Ten Bears: Comanche Historical Narratives collected by Francis Joseph Attocknie, edited by Thomas W. Kavanagh (University of Nebraska Press; 227 pages; $65). Edition of accounts of the Comanche leader Ten Bears (circa 1790-1872) collected by his great-great grandson.

“We Are All Cannibals” and Other Essays by Claude Levi-Strauss, translated by Jane Marie Todd (Columbia University Press; 159 pages; $28). Essays by the French anthropologist written for an Italian newspaper between 1989 and 2000.

Who Knows Tomorrow? Uncertainty in North-Eastern Sudan by Sandra Calkins (Berghahn Books; 269 pages; $120). Explores responses to different degrees and forms of unpredictability among the Rashaida of the lower Atbara area of the northern River Nile State.

ART AND ARCHITECTURE

Arthur Dove: Always Connect by Rachael Z. DeLue (University of Chicago Press; 311 pages; $45). A study of the American painter (1880-1946) that explores his inspirations beyond landscape to language, social interaction, and science and technology.

The Chatter of the Visible: Montage and Narrative in Weimar Germany by Patrizia C. McBride (University of Michigan Press; 252 pages; $90 hardcover, $39.95 paperback). Examines form as discourse in photo montage work by artists linked with Dadaism, Constructivism, and the New Objectivity.

Framing Majismo: Art and Royal Identity in Eighteenth-Century Spain by Tara Zanardi (Penn State University Press; 250 pages; $94.95). Examines visual and literary representations of the majo and the maja, male and female examples of a popular aesthetic of Spanish identity known as majismo and appropriated by Spanish elites.

Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts: From Kishida Ryusei to Miyazaki Hayao by Michael Lucken, translated by Francesca Simkin (Columbia University Press; 248 pages; $60). Challenges notions of Japanese art as derivative through a study of works in four genres: paintings of Reiko by Kishida Ryusei, Akira Kurosawa’s film Ikiru, Araki Nobuyoshi’s novel Sentimental Journey---Winter, and Miyazaki Hayao’s anime film Spirited Away.

Jan Gossart and the Invention of Netherlandish Antiquity by Marisa Anne Bass (Princeton University Press; 211 pages; $49.95). Focuses on mythological nudes by Gossart (circa 1478-1532) in a study of the painter’s championing of an alternative Netherlandish antiquity.

Polish Media Art in an Expanded Field by Aleksandra Kaminska (Intellect Books, distributed by University of Chicago Press; 220 pages; $36). Examines the politics of art from the period 2004-09, the first five years of Poland’s membership in the E.U.

CLASSICAL STUDIES

Constantine and the Cities: Imperial Authority and Civic Politics by Noel Lenski (University of Pennsylvania Press; 448 pages; $79.95). Discusses coins, inscriptions, legal pronouncements, and other phenomena in a study of how the Emperor’s conversion to Christianity was received and negotiated at the local level of the empire’s cities.

COGNITIVE SCIENCE

Cognitive Unconscious and Human Rationality edited by Laura Macchi, Maria Bagassi, and Riccardo Viale (MIT Press; 385 pages; $54). Writings on the role of implicit, unconscious thinking in reasoning and creativity.

COMMUNICATION

New Korean Wave: Transnational Cultural Power in the Age of Social Media by Dal Yong Jin (University of Illinois Press; 240 pages; $95 hardcover, $25 paperback). Examines social, technological, and other factors behind the global popularity of Hallyu, a collective name for South Korean music, film, and other media.

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Now the Chips Are Down: The BBC Micro by Alison Gazzard (MIT Press; 206 pages; $38). A study of the BBC Microcomputer, a machine introduced by the broadcaster, along with Acorn Computers, as part of a computer literacy project in 1982.

DANCE

Choreographies of 21st Century Wars edited by Gay Morris and Jens Richard Giersdorf (Oxford University Press; $99 hardcover, $39.95 paperback). Topics include the French-Algerian choreographer Rachid Ouramdane’s investigation of torture in his Ordinary Witnesses, and training rituals, embodied masculinity, and the Israeli soldier.

ECONOMICS

Finding Time: The Economics of Work-Life Conflict by Heather Boushey (Harvard University Press; 343 pages; $29.95). Argues that addressing the economic security needs and work-life balance issues of American families are key to prosperity.

The Money Problem: Rethinking Financial Regulation by Morgan Ricks (University of Chicago Press; 345 pages; $45). Topics include links between financial crises and “shadow banks,” here defined as entities that use large quantities of short term debt to fund a portfolio of financial assets and that are not charter deposit banks.

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Battleground Alaska: Fighting Federal Power in America’s Last Wilderness by Stephen Haycox (University Press of Kansas; 264 pages; $27.95). Focuses on four battles, beginning with the establishment of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the 1950s.

The Blue and the Green: A Cultural Ecological History of an Arizona Ranching Community by Jack Stauder (University of Nevada Press; 416 pages; $39.95). Combines archival and oral-historical sources in a study of ranching in Blue, Ariz., and the impact of federal regulation and later, outside environmentalist groups.

New Earth Politics: Essays From the Anthropocene edited by Simon Nicholson and Sikina Jinnah (MIT Press; 442 pages; $68 hardcover, $34 paperback). Topics include the best role for scholars in a world faced with environmental crisis, whether as knowledge providers or as activists directly engaged.

Sea of Sand: A History of Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve by Michael M. Geary (University of Oklahoma Press; 280 pages; $29.95). Discusses a nearly 30-square-mile region of sand dunes in south-central Colorado that was designated a national monument in 1932 and park in 2004.

A World to Live In: An Ecologist’s Vision for a Plundered Planet by George M. Woodwell (MIT Press; 227 pages; $29.95). Disputes the notion that we can continue to use fossil fuels and adapt to climate change.

FILM STUDIES

Aesthetics of Displacement: Turkey and its Minorities on Screen by Ozlem Koksal (Bloomsbury Academic; 228 pages; $120). Topics include the depiction of Armenian, Kurdish, and Greek minorities in such films as Ararat, Journey to the Sun, and Waiting for the Clouds.

Berlin Replayed: Cinema and Urban Nostalgia in the Postwall Era by Brigitta B. Wagner (University of Minnesota Press; 299 pages; $105 hardcover, $30 paperback). A study of Berlin-set cinema that provokes nostalgia for the city’s past; focuses on films made in the 1920s, the pre-wall 50s, the late 80s and early 90s, and the early 2000s.

Mediamorphosis: Kafka and the Moving Image edited by Shai Biderman and Ido Lewit (Wallflower Press, distributed by Columbia University Press; 360 pages; $90 hardcover, $30 paperback). Essays on cinematic aspects of Kafka’s work, as well as adaptations and influences of his writings; topics include cinematic sound in Kafka’s “The Burrow,” and how the Canadian director David Cronenberg “outKafkas” Kafka.

GAY AND LESBIAN STUDIES

Sexual States: Governance and the Struggle over the Antisodomy Law in India by Jyoti Puri (Duke University Press; 222 pages; $84.95 hardcover, $23.95 paperback). Examines how the regulation of sexuality figures in the power and legitimizing efforts of the Indian state; focuses on efforts to rewrite section 377 of India’s Penal Code, which is used to prosecute homosexual behavior and other activities deemed perverse.

GENDER STUDIES

Beyond Machismo: Intersectional Latino Masculinities by Aida Hurtado and Mrinal Sinha (University of Texas Press; 251 pages; $85 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Focuses on an emerging feminist consciousness among young, educated Latino men.

GEOGRAPHY

The Geographies of Social Movements: Afro-Colombian Mobilization and the Aquatic Space by Ulrich Oslender (Duke University Press; 290 pages; $94.95 hardcover, $25.95 paperback). Draws on fieldwork in and near Guapi in a study of social activism and place-based identity of black communities in the lowland rainforest region of Colombia’s Pacific coast.

HISTORY

Belonging to the Nation: Inclusion and Exclusion in the Polish-German Borderlands, 1939-1951 by John J. Kulczycki (Harvard University Press; 402 pages; $49.95). Compares the Nazi regime’s efforts to identify Polish citizens with German heritage after the 1939 annexation of western Poland with Poland’s efforts to identify Germans of Polish heritage when it gained eastern German territories after the war.

The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism: Race and the Politics of Dislocation by Reza Zia-Ebrahimi (Columbia University Press; 291 pages; $60). Focuses on the late 19th-century writings of Fath’ali Akhundzadeh and Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani, two intellectuals whose nationalist vision cast pre-Islamic Iran as a golden age, and Islam and Arabs as alien.

Harry and Arthur: Truman, Vandenberg, and the Partnership That Created the Free World by Lawrence J. Haas (Potomac Books/University of Nebraska Press; 313 pages; $29.95). Examines the collaboration between the new Democratic president and the Michigan Republican, a Senate leader on foreign policy.

Islamist Terrorism in Europe: A History by Petter Nesser (Oxford University Press; 371 pages; $29.95). Focuses on a period bookended by the Air France hijacking in Algeria in December 1994 and the attacks on the Paris office of Charlie Hebdo in January 2015.

Lloyd Gaines and the Fight to End Segregation by James W. Endersby and William T. Horner (University of Missouri Press; 379 pages; $36.95). Discusses a 1938 U.S. Supreme Court case that involved an African-American man denied admission to the University of Missouri law school, based on his race, and that set the stage for other rulings up through Brown v. Board.

The Moral Mapping of Victorian and Edwardian London: Charles Booth, Christian Charity, and the Poor-but-Respectable by Thomas R.C. Gibson-Brydon, edited by Hillary Kaell and Brian Lewis (McGill-Queen’s University Press; 264 pages; US$100 hardcover, US$34.95 paperback). Explores “moral segregation” during the era through a study of interviews with some 1,800 churchmen and women for the religion section of Booth’s 17-volume The Life and Labour of the People in London.

The Second Coming of the Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s by William Rawlings (Mercer University Press; 311 pages; $29). Focuses on the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, an organization formed in 1915 that adopted costumes and symbols from The Birth of a Nation and became, in the 1920s, a significant political movement.

Smuggling: Seven Centuries of Contraband by Simon Harvey (Reaktion Books, distributed by University of Chicago Press; 333 pages; $39). Examines the interplay of smuggling and exploration by emerging colonial powers, smuggling and empire building, and the politics and economics of smuggling at varied scales in the contemporary era.

Tom Paine’s Iron Bridge: Building a United States by Edward G. Gray (W.W. Norton & Company; 235 pages; $26.95). A study of the Common Sense author’s ultimately unsuccessful project to build a bridge spanning the Schuykill River at Philadelphia.

Wealth Woman: Kate Carmack and the Klondike Race for Gold by Deb Vanasse (University of Alaska Press; 325 pages; $24.95). Explores the Klondike Gold Rush through the tumultuous life of a Tagish Indian woman, born Shaaw Tlaa, who was wife, sister, and aunt to the men who made the initial find in 1896 that sparked the stampede.

When Wheat Was King: The Rise and Fall of the Canada-UK Grain Trade by Andre Magnan (University of British Columbia Press; 216 pages; US$99). Focuses on Canada’s wheat trade with Britain beginning in the late 19th century in a study of the rise and decline of the Canadian prairies as breadbasket to the world.

INTELLECTUAL HISTORY

One Hundred Million Philosophers: Science of Thought and the Culture of Democracy in Postwar Japan by Adam Bronson (University of Hawai’i Press; 267 pages; $59). A study of the Institute for the Science of Thought, a group that envisioned a democratic Japan as home to one hundred million philosophers.

LITERATURE

Azure: Poems and Selections From the “Livre” by Stephane Mallarme, translated by Blake Bronson-Bartlett and Robert Fernandez (Wesleyan University Press, distributed by University Press of New England; 203 pages; $17.95). Includes previously untranslated selections from the French poet’s unfinished “Livre.”

Beyond Nation: Time, Writing, and Community in the Work of Abe Kobo by Richard F. Calichman (Stanford University Press; 275 pages; $65). A critical study of the Japanese writer that focuses on The Woman in the Dunes (1962), The Face of Another (1964), and The Frontier Within, a series of essays from 1968-69.

Borrowed Voices: Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination by Jennifer Glaser (Rutgers University Press; 216 pages; $90 hardcover, $27.95 paperback). Describes “racial ventriloquism” or speaking for nonwhite America, as a hallmark of Jewish-American fiction; also discusses film, magazines, and graphic novels.

Confronting Evil: The Psychology of Secularization in Modern French Literature by Scott M. Powers (Purdue University Press; 262 pages; $45). Links the problem of evil to the persistence of religious elements in writings by Baudelaire, Zola, Huysmans, and Celine.

Exiles: A Critical Edition by James Joyce, edited by A. Nicholas Fargnoli and Michael Patrick Gillespie (University Press of Florida; 368 pages; $74.95). Combines a restored, scholarly edition of Joyce’s only extant play with critical essays on the work.

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AMERICAN STUDIES

Afterimages: Photography and U.S. Foreign Policy by Liam Kennedy (University of Chicago Press; 220 pages; $45). Considers how photojournalists have sought to frame the actions and impact of U.S. foreign policy and how their work engages the American worldview; discusses Vietnam, Somalia, the Balkans, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other settings.

Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps Since World War II by A. Naomi Paik (University of North Carolina Press; 312 pages; $29.95). Focuses on the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, HIV-positive Haitian refugees detained at Guantanamo Bay in the early 1990s, and detainees in the “war on terror,” also at Guantanamo.

ANTHROPOLOGY

Engaging with Strangers: Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands by Debra McDougall (Berghahn Books; 287 pages; $120). Draws on fieldwork on Ranongga to describe a cosmopolitan “stranger sociality” that has characterized encounters with outsiders in the Solomons over the past 200 years.

The Life of Ten Bears: Comanche Historical Narratives collected by Francis Joseph Attocknie, edited by Thomas W. Kavanagh (University of Nebraska Press; 227 pages; $65). Edition of accounts of the Comanche leader Ten Bears (circa 1790-1872) collected by his great-great grandson.

“We Are All Cannibals” and Other Essays by Claude Levi-Strauss, translated by Jane Marie Todd (Columbia University Press; 159 pages; $28). Essays by the French anthropologist written for an Italian newspaper between 1989 and 2000.

Who Knows Tomorrow? Uncertainty in North-Eastern Sudan by Sandra Calkins (Berghahn Books; 269 pages; $120). Explores responses to different degrees and forms of unpredictability among the Rashaida of the lower Atbara area of the northern River Nile State.

ART AND ARCHITECTURE

Arthur Dove: Always Connect by Rachael Z. DeLue (University of Chicago Press; 311 pages; $45). A study of the American painter (1880-1946) that explores his inspirations beyond landscape to language, social interaction, and science and technology.

The Chatter of the Visible: Montage and Narrative in Weimar Germany by Patrizia C. McBride (University of Michigan Press; 252 pages; $90 hardcover, $39.95 paperback). Examines form as discourse in photo montage work by artists linked with Dadaism, Constructivism, and the New Objectivity.

Framing Majismo: Art and Royal Identity in Eighteenth-Century Spain by Tara Zanardi (Penn State University Press; 250 pages; $94.95). Examines visual and literary representations of the majo and the maja, male and female examples of a popular aesthetic of Spanish identity known as majismo and appropriated by Spanish elites.

Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts: From Kishida Ryusei to Miyazaki Hayao by Michael Lucken, translated by Francesca Simkin (Columbia University Press; 248 pages; $60). Challenges notions of Japanese art as derivative through a study of works in four genres: paintings of Reiko by Kishida Ryusei, Akira Kurosawa’s film Ikiru, Araki Nobuyoshi’s novel Sentimental Journey---Winter, and Miyazaki Hayao’s anime film Spirited Away.

Jan Gossart and the Invention of Netherlandish Antiquity by Marisa Anne Bass (Princeton University Press; 211 pages; $49.95). Focuses on mythological nudes by Gossart (circa 1478-1532) in a study of the painter’s championing of an alternative Netherlandish antiquity.

Polish Media Art in an Expanded Field by Aleksandra Kaminska (Intellect Books, distributed by University of Chicago Press; 220 pages; $36). Examines the politics of art from the period 2004-09, the first five years of Poland’s membership in the E.U.

CLASSICAL STUDIES

Constantine and the Cities: Imperial Authority and Civic Politics by Noel Lenski (University of Pennsylvania Press; 448 pages; $79.95). Discusses coins, inscriptions, legal pronouncements, and other phenomena in a study of how the Emperor’s conversion to Christianity was received and negotiated at the local level of the empire’s cities.

COGNITIVE SCIENCE

Cognitive Unconscious and Human Rationality edited by Laura Macchi, Maria Bagassi, and Riccardo Viale (MIT Press; 385 pages; $54). Writings on the role of implicit, unconscious thinking in reasoning and creativity.

COMMUNICATION

New Korean Wave: Transnational Cultural Power in the Age of Social Media by Dal Yong Jin (University of Illinois Press; 240 pages; $95 hardcover, $25 paperback). Examines social, technological, and other factors behind the global popularity of Hallyu, a collective name for South Korean music, film, and other media.

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Now the Chips Are Down: The BBC Micro by Alison Gazzard (MIT Press; 206 pages; $38). A study of the BBC Microcomputer, a machine introduced by the broadcaster, along with Acorn Computers, as part of a computer literacy project in 1982.

DANCE

Choreographies of 21st Century Wars edited by Gay Morris and Jens Richard Giersdorf (Oxford University Press; $99 hardcover, $39.95 paperback). Topics include the French-Algerian choreographer Rachid Ouramdane’s investigation of torture in his Ordinary Witnesses, and training rituals, embodied masculinity, and the Israeli soldier.

ECONOMICS

Finding Time: The Economics of Work-Life Conflict by Heather Boushey (Harvard University Press; 343 pages; $29.95). Argues that addressing the economic security needs and work-life balance issues of American families are key to prosperity.

The Money Problem: Rethinking Financial Regulation by Morgan Ricks (University of Chicago Press; 345 pages; $45). Topics include links between financial crises and “shadow banks,” here defined as entities that use large quantities of short term debt to fund a portfolio of financial assets and that are not charter deposit banks.

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Battleground Alaska: Fighting Federal Power in America’s Last Wilderness by Stephen Haycox (University Press of Kansas; 264 pages; $27.95). Focuses on four battles, beginning with the establishment of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the 1950s.

The Blue and the Green: A Cultural Ecological History of an Arizona Ranching Community by Jack Stauder (University of Nevada Press; 416 pages; $39.95). Combines archival and oral-historical sources in a study of ranching in Blue, Ariz., and the impact of federal regulation and later, outside environmentalist groups.

New Earth Politics: Essays From the Anthropocene edited by Simon Nicholson and Sikina Jinnah (MIT Press; 442 pages; $68 hardcover, $34 paperback). Topics include the best role for scholars in a world faced with environmental crisis, whether as knowledge providers or as activists directly engaged.

Sea of Sand: A History of Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve by Michael M. Geary (University of Oklahoma Press; 280 pages; $29.95). Discusses a nearly 30-square-mile region of sand dunes in south-central Colorado that was designated a national monument in 1932 and park in 2004.

A World to Live In: An Ecologist’s Vision for a Plundered Planet by George M. Woodwell (MIT Press; 227 pages; $29.95). Disputes the notion that we can continue to use fossil fuels and adapt to climate change.

FILM STUDIES

Aesthetics of Displacement: Turkey and its Minorities on Screen by Ozlem Koksal (Bloomsbury Academic; 228 pages; $120). Topics include the depiction of Armenian, Kurdish, and Greek minorities in such films as Ararat, Journey to the Sun, and Waiting for the Clouds.

Berlin Replayed: Cinema and Urban Nostalgia in the Postwall Era by Brigitta B. Wagner (University of Minnesota Press; 299 pages; $105 hardcover, $30 paperback). A study of Berlin-set cinema that provokes nostalgia for the city’s past; focuses on films made in the 1920s, the pre-wall 50s, the late 80s and early 90s, and the early 2000s.

Mediamorphosis: Kafka and the Moving Image edited by Shai Biderman and Ido Lewit (Wallflower Press, distributed by Columbia University Press; 360 pages; $90 hardcover, $30 paperback). Essays on cinematic aspects of Kafka’s work, as well as adaptations and influences of his writings; topics include cinematic sound in Kafka’s “The Burrow,” and how the Canadian director David Cronenberg “outKafkas” Kafka.

GAY AND LESBIAN STUDIES

Sexual States: Governance and the Struggle over the Antisodomy Law in India by Jyoti Puri (Duke University Press; 222 pages; $84.95 hardcover, $23.95 paperback). Examines how the regulation of sexuality figures in the power and legitimizing efforts of the Indian state; focuses on efforts to rewrite section 377 of India’s Penal Code, which is used to prosecute homosexual behavior and other activities deemed perverse.

GENDER STUDIES

Beyond Machismo: Intersectional Latino Masculinities by Aida Hurtado and Mrinal Sinha (University of Texas Press; 251 pages; $85 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Focuses on an emerging feminist consciousness among young, educated Latino men.

GEOGRAPHY

The Geographies of Social Movements: Afro-Colombian Mobilization and the Aquatic Space by Ulrich Oslender (Duke University Press; 290 pages; $94.95 hardcover, $25.95 paperback). Draws on fieldwork in and near Guapi in a study of social activism and place-based identity of black communities in the lowland rainforest region of Colombia’s Pacific coast.

HISTORY

Belonging to the Nation: Inclusion and Exclusion in the Polish-German Borderlands, 1939-1951 by John J. Kulczycki (Harvard University Press; 402 pages; $49.95). Compares the Nazi regime’s efforts to identify Polish citizens with German heritage after the 1939 annexation of western Poland with Poland’s efforts to identify Germans of Polish heritage when it gained eastern German territories after the war.

The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism: Race and the Politics of Dislocation by Reza Zia-Ebrahimi (Columbia University Press; 291 pages; $60). Focuses on the late 19th-century writings of Fath’ali Akhundzadeh and Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani, two intellectuals whose nationalist vision cast pre-Islamic Iran as a golden age, and Islam and Arabs as alien.

Harry and Arthur: Truman, Vandenberg, and the Partnership That Created the Free World by Lawrence J. Haas (Potomac Books/University of Nebraska Press; 313 pages; $29.95). Examines the collaboration between the new Democratic president and the Michigan Republican, a Senate leader on foreign policy.

Islamist Terrorism in Europe: A History by Petter Nesser (Oxford University Press; 371 pages; $29.95). Focuses on a period bookended by the Air France hijacking in Algeria in December 1994 and the attacks on the Paris office of Charlie Hebdo in January 2015.

Lloyd Gaines and the Fight to End Segregation by James W. Endersby and William T. Horner (University of Missouri Press; 379 pages; $36.95). Discusses a 1938 U.S. Supreme Court case that involved an African-American man denied admission to the University of Missouri law school, based on his race, and that set the stage for other rulings up through Brown v. Board.

The Moral Mapping of Victorian and Edwardian London: Charles Booth, Christian Charity, and the Poor-but-Respectable by Thomas R.C. Gibson-Brydon, edited by Hillary Kaell and Brian Lewis (McGill-Queen’s University Press; 264 pages; US$100 hardcover, US$34.95 paperback). Explores “moral segregation” during the era through a study of interviews with some 1,800 churchmen and women for the religion section of Booth’s 17-volume The Life and Labour of the People in London.

The Second Coming of the Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s by William Rawlings (Mercer University Press; 311 pages; $29). Focuses on the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, an organization formed in 1915 that adopted costumes and symbols from The Birth of a Nation and became, in the 1920s, a significant political movement.

Smuggling: Seven Centuries of Contraband by Simon Harvey (Reaktion Books, distributed by University of Chicago Press; 333 pages; $39). Examines the interplay of smuggling and exploration by emerging colonial powers, smuggling and empire building, and the politics and economics of smuggling at varied scales in the contemporary era.

Tom Paine’s Iron Bridge: Building a United States by Edward G. Gray (W.W. Norton & Company; 235 pages; $26.95). A study of the Common Sense author’s ultimately unsuccessful project to build a bridge spanning the Schuykill River at Philadelphia.

Wealth Woman: Kate Carmack and the Klondike Race for Gold by Deb Vanasse (University of Alaska Press; 325 pages; $24.95). Explores the Klondike Gold Rush through the tumultuous life of a Tagish Indian woman, born Shaaw Tlaa, who was wife, sister, and aunt to the men who made the initial find in 1896 that sparked the stampede.

When Wheat Was King: The Rise and Fall of the Canada-UK Grain Trade by Andre Magnan (University of British Columbia Press; 216 pages; US$99). Focuses on Canada’s wheat trade with Britain beginning in the late 19th century in a study of the rise and decline of the Canadian prairies as breadbasket to the world.

INTELLECTUAL HISTORY

One Hundred Million Philosophers: Science of Thought and the Culture of Democracy in Postwar Japan by Adam Bronson (University of Hawai’i Press; 267 pages; $59). A study of the Institute for the Science of Thought, a group that envisioned a democratic Japan as home to one hundred million philosophers.

LITERATURE

Azure: Poems and Selections From the “Livre” by Stephane Mallarme, translated by Blake Bronson-Bartlett and Robert Fernandez (Wesleyan University Press, distributed by University Press of New England; 203 pages; $17.95). Includes previously untranslated selections from the French poet’s unfinished “Livre.”

Beyond Nation: Time, Writing, and Community in the Work of Abe Kobo by Richard F. Calichman (Stanford University Press; 275 pages; $65). A critical study of the Japanese writer that focuses on The Woman in the Dunes (1962), The Face of Another (1964), and The Frontier Within, a series of essays from 1968-69.

Borrowed Voices: Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination by Jennifer Glaser (Rutgers University Press; 216 pages; $90 hardcover, $27.95 paperback). Describes “racial ventriloquism” or speaking for nonwhite America, as a hallmark of Jewish-American fiction; also discusses film, magazines, and graphic novels.

Confronting Evil: The Psychology of Secularization in Modern French Literature by Scott M. Powers (Purdue University Press; 262 pages; $45). Links the problem of evil to the persistence of religious elements in writings by Baudelaire, Zola, Huysmans, and Celine.

Exiles: A Critical Edition by James Joyce, edited by A. Nicholas Fargnoli and Michael Patrick Gillespie (University Press of Florida; 368 pages; $74.95). Combines a restored, scholarly edition of Joyce’s only extant play with critical essays on the work.

Feminism and Avant-Garde Aesthetics in the Levantine Novel: Feminism, Nationalism, and the Arabic Novel by Kifah Hanna (Palgrave Macmillan; 198 pages; $95). Focuses on works by Ghada al-Samman, Sahar Khalifeh, and Hoda Barakat.

How Myth Became History: Texas Exceptionalism in the Borderlands by John E. Dean (University of Arizona Press; 224 pages; $50). Draws on literary, historical, and other texts in a study of competing Mexican, Mexican-American, and Anglo narratives of the borderlands from the Texas Declaration of Independence to the Mexican Revolution.

1915 Diary of S. An-sky: A Russian Jewish Writer at the Eastern Front translated by Polly Zavadivker (Indiana University Press; 208 pages; $28). Annotated translation of the two surviving fragments of wartime diaries kept by the writer and ethnographer when he worked to aid Jewish civilians under Russian military occupation in Galicia.

Ornament as Crisis: Architecture, Design, and Modernity in Hermann Broch’s “The Sleepwalkers” by Sarah McGaughey (Northwestern University Press; 232 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Examines how architecture and architectural debates figure in the German writer’s Schlafwandler trilogy.

The Poetics of Commemoration: Skaldic Verse and Social Memory, c. 890-1070 by Erin Michelle Goeres (Oxford University Press; 194 pages; $100). Traces the varied ways in which Skaldic poets responded to the death of kings in the Viking Age; texts discussed include the Ynglingatal, Eiriksmal and Hakonarmal, and poems written for Kings Olafr Tryggvason, Olafr Haraldsson, and the Jarls of the Orkney Islands.

Reconsidering the Emergence of the Gay Novel in English and German by James P. Wilper (Purdue University Press; 201 pages; $45). Sets four gay novels---Edward Prime Stevenson’s Imre, Thomas Manns Death in Venice, E.M. Forster’s Maurice, and John Henry Mackay’s Der Puppenjunge---in wider cultural context, including the aftermath of the Wilde trials and developments in German sexology.

The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder edited by William Anderson (Harper; 395 pages; $26.99). Documents the writer’s life from 1894 to 1956.

This Distracted Globe: Worldmaking in Early Modern Literature edited by Marcie Frank, Jonathan Goldberg, and Karen Newman (Fordham University Press; 243 pages; $110 hardcover, $32 paperback). Essays on materiality, sociality, and universality; topics include material culture in Spenser, Marlowe, and Elizabeth Cary.

Unorthodox Beauty: Russian Modernism and Its New Religious Aesthetic by Martha M.F. Kelly (Northwestern University Press; 304 pages; $120 hardcover, $39.95 paperback). Focuses on Blok, Kuzmin, Akhmatova, and Pasternak in a study of how Russian modernist poets drew on liturgical tradition.

Willie: The Life of Willie Morris by Teresa Nicholas (University Press of Mississippi; 159 pages; $20). Draws on previously untapped sources in a biography of the Mississippi-born writer and editor (1934-1999).

MUSIC

American Luthier: Carleen Hutchins---the Art and Science of the Violin by Quincy Whitney (ForeEdge/University Press of New England; 290 pages; $35). A biography of the Massachusetts-born luthier (1911-2009), a former science teacher turned self-taught pioneer in violin-making and violin acoustics.

The Melody of Time: Music and Temporality in the Romantic Era by Benedict Taylor (Oxford University Press; 312 pages; $55). Uses compositions from Beethoven to Elgar to explore music as a window onto the problematics of human time; topics include Schubert and memory and nostalgia.

PHILOSOPHY

Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception by Bence Nanay (Oxford University Press; 214 pages; $65). Draws distinctions between distributed and non-distributed attention.

Chinese Philosophy on Teaching and Learning: “Xueji” in the Twenty-First Century edited by Xu Di and Hunter McEwan (State University of New York Press; 172 pages; $70). Combines a new translation of the ancient Chinese text with essays on the work from both Chinese and Western perspectives; topics include the classical image of the Confucian teacher from the Analects and the Xueji.

Husserl’s Missing Technologies by Don Ihde (Fordham University Press; 157 pages; $85 hardcover, $24 paperback). Discusses the German philosopher’s phenomenology and his notion of science.

Kant and Aristotle: Epistemology, Logic, and Method by Marco Sgarbi (State University of New York Press; 282 pages; $80). Documents how the German philosopher drew on the Aristotelian tradition of the University of Konigsberg.

Kropotkin and the Anarchist Intellectual Tradition by Jim Mac Laughlin (Pluto Press, distributed by University of Chicago Press; 269 pages; $110 hardcover, $30 paperback). Examines the life and thought of the Russian anarchist thinker Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921).

Preparation for Natural Theology: With Kant’s Notes and the Danzig Rational Theology Transcript by Johann August Eberhard and Immanuel Kant, edited and translated by Courtney D. Fugate and John Hymers (Bloomsbury Academic; 279 pages; $145). Combines a translation of the theology textbook by Eberhard, with Kant’s notes on the text and the Danzig transcript of Kant’s course on rational theology.

Rousseau and the Problem of Human Relations by John M. Warner (Penn State University Press; 255 pages; $79.95). Examines the French philosopher’s view of sexual love, friendship, and political association and how each fails to resolve the problem of self-interest in relationships, leading to a divided person.

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Afro-Politics and Civil Society in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil by Kwame Dixon (University Press of Florida; 173 pages; $74.95). Uses Bahia’s capital city as a case study of the emergence of Afro-Brazilian activism.

Conventional Wisdom: The Alternate Article V Mechanism for Proposing Amendments to the U.S. Constitution by John R. Vile (University of Georgia Press; 288 pages; $49.95). Discusses the as-yet-unused right of state legislatures to petition Congress to call a constitutional convention where amendments may be proposed; argues that the states and Congress could limit such gatherings to a single topic and that feared runaway conventions are unlikely.

Making Immigrant Rights Real: Nonprofits and the Politics of Integration in San Francisco by Els de Graauw (Cornell University Press; 248 pages; $89.95 hardcover, $22.95 paperback). Documents the success of immigrant-serving nonprofit organizations in the areas of labor rights, municipal IDs, and language access.

Muted Modernists: The Struggle over Divine Politics in Saudi Arabia by Madawi Al-Rasheed (Oxford University Press; 199 pages; $55). Examines writings by Salman al -Awdah and others in a minority of Islamist thinkers in Saudi Arabia termed modernist and tanwiri or promoters of enlightenment.

New Order and Progress: Development and Democracy in Brazil edited by Ben Ross Schneider (Oxford University Press; 307 pages; $99 hardcover, $31.95 paperback). Writings on themes of governance, development strategy, social change, and political representation; topics include the reinvention of state capitalism in the country from 1970 to 2012.

Principle and Prudence in Western Political Thought edited by Christopher Lynch and Jonathan Marks (State University of New York Press; 387 pages; $90). Pays particular attention to Leo Strauss, with writings as well on such thinkers and statesmen as Machiavelli, Hume, Locke, Hegel, Rousseau, Pericles, Jefferson, and Lincoln.

Roots of Russia’s War in Ukraine by Elizabeth A. Wood and others (Woodrow Wilson Center Press/Columbia University Press; 147 pages; $25). Offers perspectives on the origins of the continuing conflict, which began in February 2014; topics include Ukraine’s plan to pursue a free-trade agreement with the EU, and the role of Vladimir Putin’s symbolic politics, including cultivation of his macho image.

The Star and the Stripes: A History of the Foreign Policies of American Jews by Michael N. Barnett (Princeton University Press; 348 pages; $35). Describes how the American experience, historically, has promoted a preference for liberalism and pluralism among American Jews and considers how that figures in tensions between tribalism and cosmopolitanism in their views of foreign policy.

PSYCHOLOGY

Adoption Beyond Borders: How International Adoption Benefits Children by Rebecca J. Compton (Oxford University Press; 235 pages; $27.95). Uses research on the impact of institutionalization on development and other data to defend international adoption as a valid option for child welfare.

RELIGION

The Afterlife of Sai Baba: Competing Visions of a Global Saint by Karline McLain (University of Washington Press; 262 pages; $45). Examines the devotional movement centered on Sai Baba (1836-1918), an Indian holy man from Shirdi, Maharashtra, who has followers among Hindus, Muslims, Christians, and other faiths.

Jewish Radical Ultra-Orthodoxy Confronts Modernity, Zionism and Women’s Equality by Motti Inbari (Cambridge University Press; 279 pages; $99.99). Focuses on the views of Amram Blau (1894-1974), founder of the anti-Zionist Jerusalemite Neturei Karta, and Yoel Teitelbaum (1887-1979), head of the Satmar Hasidim in New York.

Mors Britannica: Life Style and Death Style in Britain Today by Douglas J. Davies (Oxford University Press; 428 pages; $50). A study of attitudes and practices linked to death in Britain today, including the demise of celebrity figures.

The Newark Earthworks: Enduring Monuments, Contested Meanings edited by Lindsay Jones and Richard D. Shiels (University of Virginia Press; 352 pages; $69.50 hardcover, $35 paperback). Writings by archaeologists, religious studies scholars, and others on a series of geometrical mounds built nearly 2,000 years ago in the Ohio Valley.

The Qur’an and its Readers Worldwide: Contemporary Commentaries and Translations edited by Suha Taji-Farouki (Oxford University Press; 600 pages; $99). Includes essays on Qur’anic exegesis and translation from across the Muslim world, beginning with Mehmed Dzemaludin Causevic in early 20th-century Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Receptions of Newman edited by Frederick D. Aquino and Benjamin J. King (Oxford University Press; 264 pages; $110). Writings by scholars in theology, philosophy, history, and education on responses to the writings and thought of Cardinal John Henry Newman.

Religions of the Constantinian Empire by Mark Edwards (Oxford University Press; 365 pages; $49.50). Topics include Christians’ efforts to construct their own philosophy in opposition to Platonism.

Sin, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation: Christian and Muslim Perspectives edited by Lucinda Mosher and David Marshall (Georgetown University Press; 176 pages; $26.95). Topics include forgiveness and redemption in Christian understanding, and the concept of sin in the Qur’an in light of the story of Adam.

SOCIOLOGY

Engineers of Jihad: The Curious Connection Between Violent Extremism and Education by Diego Gambetta and Steffen Hertog (Princeton University Press; 192 pages; $29.95). Develops a theory of why there is a disproportionate representation of engineers among militant Islamists.

From Steel to Slots: Casino Capitalism in the Postindustrial City by Chloe E. Taft (Harvard University Press; 325 pages; $39.95). Combines historical and ethnographic perspectives in a study of the rise of casino gambling as a mainstay of the economy of Bethlehem, Pa., a city once synonymous with the steel industry.

Made to Hear: Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf Children by Laura Mauldin (University of Minnesota Press; 215 pages; $87.50 hardcover, $25 paperback). Uses a concept of “ambivalent medicalization” to examine the experiences of mothers who choose what is described as the multi-year process of cochlear implantation for their deaf children.

Negotiating Identities: Anglophones Teaching and Living in Quebec by Diane Gerin-Lajoie (University of Toronto Press; 232 pages; US$55). Draws on life histories and survey data in a study of language as a political force for Anglophone teachers both in and out of the classroom; includes comparisons with Francophone Ontarians.

We Shall Not Be Moved/No nos moveran: Biography of a Song of Struggle by David Spener (Temple University Press; 166 pages; $49.50 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Traces the history and uses of the anthem, from its probable origins as a Protestant revival song from the early 19th century through its use in labor, civil-rights, student, and other movements.

SPORTS STUDIES

Ball Don’t Lie: Myth, Genealogy, and Invention in the Cultures of Basketball by Yago Colas (Temple University Press; 226 pages; $79.50 hardcover, $19.95 paperback). Emphasizes creativity and innovation in a critique of popular myths about basketball since the game’s beginnings.

Why Would Anyone Do That? Lifestyle Sport in the Twenty-First Century by Stephen C. Poulson (Rutgers University Press; 224 pages; $90 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Combines scholarly and personal perspectives in a study of the appeal and commodification of “extreme” mountain biking, the Ironman Triathlon, and other “lifestyle sports.”

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