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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