ANTHROPOLOGY
Cynical Citizenship: Gender, Regionalism, and Political Subjectivity in Porto Alegre, Brazil by Benjamin Junge (University of New Mexico Press; 304 pages; $65). Offers an ethnographic perspective on political subjectivity among grassroots political leaders in the Brazilian city during the later period of Workers’ Party rule.
Islam and Law in Lebanon: Sharia within and without the State by Morgan Clarke (Cambridge University Press; 337 pages; $99.99). Covers both Sunni and Shi’ite traditions in a study of how sharia or Islamic law is invoked both within and outside Lebanon’s state legal system.
Landscapes of Activism: Civil Society, HIV and AIDS Care in Northern Mozambique by Joel Christian Reed (Rutgers University Press; 227 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Draws on fieldwork in the northern coastal province of Pemba in a study of problematic aspects of local HIV/AIDS activism.
Lawyering an Uncertain Cause: Immigration Advocacy and Chinese Youth in the US by Michele Statz (Vanderbilt University Press; 235 pages; $69.95 hardcover, $27.95 paperback). A work in the anthropology of law that examines “cause lawyering” on behalf of undocumented youth from Fujian Province involved in removal proceedings in the United States.
Marked Women: The Cultural Politics of Cervical Cancer in Venezuela by Rebecca G. Martinez (Stanford University Press; 278 pages; $90 hardcover, $27.95 paperback). Draws on fieldwork at two oncology hospitals in Caracas in a study of the class, race, and gender politics that shaped women’s experience of cervical cancer in Venezuela from the neoliberal 1990s to the Chavez and Maduro eras.
Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil: Black Women’s Perspectives on Love, Respect, and Kinship by Melanie A. Medeiros (Rutgers University Press; 222 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Offers an ethnographic perspective on rural, working-class women’s experiences and perceptions of courtship, marriage, and divorce.
New Geospatial Approaches to the Anthropological Sciences edited by Robert L. Anemone and Glenn C. Conroy (School for Advanced Research/University of New Mexico Press; 280 pages; $49.95). Writings on the applications of GIS techniques in cultural anthropology, archaeology, paleoanthropology, and other subfields.
Remote Freedoms: Politics, Personhood and Human Rights in Aboriginal Central Australia by Sarah E. Holcombe (Stanford University Press; 364 pages; $90 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Draws on fieldwork among the Anangu in a study of tensions and contradictions that shape human-rights work in remote indigenous communities.
Rules, Paper, Status: Migrants and Precarious Bureaucracy in Contemporary Italy by Anna Tuckett (Stanford University Press; 178 pages; $85 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Examines the navigation of Italy’s immigration bureaucracy by migrants and their advocates; topics include how social knowledge of the system can both benefit and backfire.
Traditions, Traps and Trends: Transfer of Knowledge in Arctic Regions edited by Jarich Oosten and Barbara Helen Miller (University of Alberta Press; 384 pages; US$39.95). Writings on the dissemination of cultural knowledge among the Inuit of northern Canada and Greenland and the Northern Sami of Scandinavia.
ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Fanny Palmer: The Life and Works of a Currier & Ives Artist by Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein, edited by Diann Benti (Syracuse University Press; 408 pages; $60). A biography of the English-born artist Frances Bond Palmer (1812-76), a leading lithographer for Currier & Ives.
COMMUNICATION
Alternate Roots: Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Genealogy Media by Christine Scodari (University Press of Mississippi; 160 pages; $70). Combines scholarly and personal perspectives to analyze a surging popular interest in genealogy, manifest in such media and phenomena as DNA-testing services and Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s TV series Finding Your Roots.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Suspect Citizens: What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tell Us About Policing and Race by Frank R. Baumgartner, Derek A. Epp, and Kelsey Shoub (Cambridge University Press; 277 pages; $99.99 hardcover, $24.99 paperback). Draws on data from every traffic stop conducted in North Carolina from 2002 to 2016.
CULTURAL STUDIES
The Burden of Over-representation: Race, Sport, and Philosophy by Grant Farred (Temple University Press; 225 pages; $99.50 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Examines representational burdens and the over-determined self in relation to Jackie Robinson’s profane comments to black Dodgers fans at a spring-training game and two other “racial moments” in sports.
Transforming Contagion: Risky Contacts among Bodies, Disciplines, and Nations edited by Breanne Fahs and others (Rutgers University Press; 240 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Interdisciplinary essays on contagion as a topic in and well beyond biomedicine; topics include fears of the diseased immigrant.
DISABILITY STUDIES
Autistic Disturbances: Theorizing Autism Poetics from the “DSM” to “Robinson Crusoe” by Julia Miele Rodas (University of Michigan Press; 256 pages; $75 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Uses canonical literary works to explore the aesthetics of repetition, monologue, list-making, and other verbal practices characteristic of autism; authors discussed include Daniel Defoe, Charlotte Bronte, Walt Whitman, Gertrude Stein, and Andy Warhol.
ECONOMICS
Manipulating Globalization: The Influence of Bureaucrats on Business in China by Ling Chen (Stanford University Press; 207 pages; $50). Analyzes variations in the outcomes of local governments’ coalitions with business; draws on in-depth interviews as well as on quantitative data on hundreds of Chinese cities and thousands of companies.
FILM STUDIES
Architectures of Revolt: The Cinematic City Circa 1968 edited by Mark Shiel (Temple University Press; 234 pages; $99.50 hardcover, $36.95 paperback). Discusses filmmaking from agit-prop to mainstream in essays on the intersection of cinema, the urban landscape, and mass protest in and around 1968; focuses on Paris, Berlin, Milan, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and Tokyo.
The Films of Jess Franco edited by Antonio Lazaro-Reboll and Ian Olney (Wayne State University Press; 372 pages; $29.99). Essays on the Spanish filmmaker Jesus “Jess” Franco (1930-2013), who was known for surprisingly poetic work in horror and exploitation cinema; topics include his blend of horror and eroticisim.
Godard and the Essay Film: A Form That Thinks by Rick Warner (Northwestern University Press; 288 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Focuses on the French filmmaker in a study of essayistic cinema, as well as the nature of essayistic spectatorship; includes comparative discussion of such filmmakers as Harun Farocki and Agnes Varda.
Tough Ain’t Enough: New Perspectives on the Films of Clint Eastwood edited by Lester D. Friedman and David Desser (Rutgers University Press; 231 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $28.95 paperback). Topics include the politics of Eastwood’s police movies, race in his films, the depiction of women, and the actor-director as film-score composer.
FOLKLORE
Expressions of Sufi Culture in Tajikistan by Benjamin Gatling (University of Wisconsin Press; 216 pages; $69.95). Examines the daily lives and practices of ordinary Muslim men aspiring to become Sufi mystics in the Central Asian nation.
HISTORY
Bread, Justice, and Liberty: Grassroots Activism and Human Rights in Pinochet’s Chile by Alison J. Bruey (University of Wisconsin Press; 312 pages; $79.95). Combines oral-historical and archival sources in a study of grassroots activism in poorer sectors of Chile’s capital, Santiago.
The Cold War at Home and Abroad: Domestic Politics and US Foreign Policy Since 1945 edited by Andrew L. Johns and Mitchell B. Lerner (University Press of Kentucky; 320 pages; $60). Essays on the Cold War era that reflect the methodological diversity of diplomatic history in the past 20 years.
The Decision Was Always My Own: Ulysses S. Grant and the Vicksburg Campaign by Timothy B. Smith (Southern Illinois University Press; 249 pages; $34.50). Analyzes the Union general’s eight key decisions during his effort to take the Mississippi port city in a campaign that began in October 1862 and, after multiple attempts, ended in victory in July 1863.
Emirate, Egyptian, Ethiopian: Colonial Experiences in Late Nineteenth-Century Harar by Avishai Ben-Dror (Syracuse University Press; 352 pages; $70 hardcover, $39.95 paperback). Discusses Egyptian forces’ 1875 takeover of Harar, a then-sovereign emirate in what is now eastern Ethiopia.
Engines of Rebellion: Confederate Ironclads and Steam Engineering in the American Civil War by Saxon T. Bisbee (University of Alabama Press; 264 pages; $59.95). Combines research in history and nautical archaeology in a study of steam engineering in Confederate warships with American-built machinery; disputes the notion that the South’s ironclads were inherently defective.
A Family and Nation Under Fire: The Civil War Letters and Journals of William and Joseph Medill edited by Georgiann Baldino (Kent State University Press; 248 pages; $34.95). Edition of previously unpublished letters and diaries by two members of a prominent Illinois family---Major William Medill, and his older brother Joseph Medill, a co-owner of the Chicago Tribune and founding member of the Republican Party who corresponded with Abraham Lincoln.
The Fate of the New Man: Representing and Reconstructing Masculinity in Soviet Visual Culture, 1945--1965 by Claire E. McCallum (Northern Illinois University Press; 324 pages; $60). Focuses on the representation of the Soviet man as soldier and later father in the postwar period.
Freedom in White and Black: A Lost Story of the Illegal Slave Trade and Its Global Legacy by Emma Christopher (University of Wisconsin Press; 256 pages; $29.95). Draws on court documents, including the testimony of five former slaves, in a study of British slavers operating illegally in what is now Liberia in the aftermath of the 1808 abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.
A History of the Ozarks, Volume 1: The Old Ozarks by Brooks Blevins (University of Illinois Press; 312 pages; $34.95). First book in a three-volume study of the region and its people, beginning in the deep geologic past.
Marriage and Fatherhood in the Nazi SS by Amy Carney (University of Toronto Press; 320 pages; US$90 hardcover, US$34.95 paperback). Discusses SS men as husbands and fathers under eugenicist policies intended to promote suitable marriages, big families, and the creation of a family community of the racial elite.
Native But Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands by Brenden W. Rensink (Texas A&M University Press; 304 pages; $40). Contrasts the experience of Crees and Chippewas who crossed the border from Canada to Montana, and Yaquis who migrated from Mexico to Arizona.
The Papers of Robert Treat Paine, Volume 4: 1778-1786 edited by Edward W. Hanson (Massachusetts Historical Society, distributed by University of Virginia Press; 400 pages; $75). Documents Paine’s time as Massachusetts’ attorney general, concluding with treason cases in the wake of Shays’s Rebellion.
The Plunder: The 1898 Anti-Jewish Riots in Habsburg Galicia by Daniel Unowsky (Stanford University Press; 246 pages; $65). Analyzes the origins, events, and aftermath of anti-Jewish riots by peasants and townspeople in western Galicia, a region comprising parts of present-day Poland and Ukraine.
Quill and Cross in the Borderlands: Sor Maria de Agreda and the Lady in Blue, 1628 to the Present by Anna M. Nogar (University of Notre Dame Press; 468 pages; $60). Explores the interplay of life and legend in a study of history, folklore, literature, and art linked to a 17th-century Spanish nun said to have appeared to tribes in colonial New Mexico to teach them Catholicism.
The Scots Irish of Early Pennsylvania: A Varied People by Judith Ridner (Temple University Press/Pennsylvania Historical Association; 158 pages; $19.95). Emphasizes the socioeconomic diversity of the Scots-Irish in Pennsylvania, with a focus on migration from 1720 to 1820.
Southern White Ministers and the Civil Rights Movement by Elaine Allen Lechtreck (University Press of Mississippi; 326 pages; $90 hardcover, $30 paperback). Examines activism of varying degrees from and beyond the pulpit by ministers from seven denominations.
To Swim with Crocodiles: Land, Violence, and Belonging in South Africa, 1800-1996 by Jill E. Kelly (Michigan State University Press; 342 pages; $49.95). Combines archival and oral-historical sources in a study of how people of the Table Mountain region drew on the cultural tradition of ukuhonza, a form of affiliation that binds chiefs and subjects.
HISTORY OF MEDICINE
Diploma Mill: The Rise and Fall of Dr. John Buchanan and the Eclectic Medical College of Pennsylvania by David Alan Johnson (Kent State University Press; 320 pages; $35.95). Discusses a late-19th-century scandal surrounding a Philadelphia college that had issued thousands of questionable medical diplomas, and whose leader, facing authorities, attempted to fake his own death and flee the country.
The Racial Divide in American Medicine: Black Physicians and the Struggle for Justice in Health Care edited by Richard D. deShazo (University Press of Mississippi; 215 pages; $40). Writings on black physicians in Mississippi and the struggle for equity in health and health care.
HISTORY OF SCIENCE
Nature’s Prophet: Alfred Russel Wallace and His Evolution from Natural Selection to Natural Theology by Michael A. Flannery (University of Alabama Press; 260 pages; $44.95). A study of the English naturalist that examines the shift in his thought from natural selection to a theistic view of evolution, imbuing nature with purpose and spiritual significance; documents his changing views in writings from 1843 to his death, in 1913.
LAW
A Sociology of Justice in Russia edited by Marina Kurkchiyan and Agnieszka Kubal (Cambridge University Press; 308 pages; $110). Writings that use the concept of an “administerial model of justice” to examine the everyday workings of Russia’s legal system.
Transforming Gender Citizenship: The Irresistible Rise of Gender Quotas in Europe edited by Eleonore Lepinard and Ruth Rubio-Marin (Cambridge University Press; 486 pages; $115 hardcover, $39.99 paperback). Writings on the adoption of gender quotas in political and other realms in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden.
LITERATURE
The Art of Objects: The Birth of Italian Industrial Culture, 1878-1928 by Luca Cottini (University of Toronto Press; 290 pages; US$75). Discusses watches, bicycles, gramophones, cigarettes, toys, and other objects as represented in art and literature of the period.
Arthur C. Clarke by Gary Westfahl (University of Illinois Press; 224 pages; $99 hardcover, $25 paperback). Traces the career of the British science-fiction writer, from forgotten juvenilia to writings intended for a final novel, The Last Theorem.
Beginning at the End: Decadence, Modernism, and Postcolonial Poetry by Robert Stilling (Harvard University Press; 392 pages; $39.95). Examines the role of aestheticism in postcolonial literature.
Circulating Queerness: Before the Gay and Lesbian Novel by Natasha Hurley (University of Minnesota Press; 312 pages; $108 hardcover, $27 paperback). Proposes a much longer history for the gay and lesbian novel.
Cultures of the Fragment: Uses of the Iberian Manuscript, 1100-1600 by Heather Bamford (University of Toronto Press; 272 pages; US$75). Uses texts from five Iberian literary traditions---among them Hispano-Arabic and Hispano-Hebrew poetry--- to explore the role of fragments in Iberian manuscript culture, including their purposeful creation for practical, intellectual, and spiritual purposes.
The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment by Tita Chico (Stanford University Press; 242 pages; $60). Topics include the key role of metaphoric thinking and forms of “literary knowledge” in scientific realms during the period.
Gears and God: Technocratic Fiction, Faith, and Empire in Mark Twain’s America by Nathaniel Williams (University of Alabama Press; 224 pages; $44.95). Describes how late-19th-century novels centered on technology and exploration reflected Americans’ religious preoccupations; topics include dime-novel series featuring Frank Reade.
Hallaj: Poems of a Sufi Martyr by Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj, translated by Carl W. Ernst (Northwestern University Press; 272 pages; $18.95). Translation and study of 117 poems in Arabic by a Sufi mystic whose work was suppressed after his execution in Baghdad in 922; documents his legacy for later poets, including the Persian master Rumi.
Hearing Things: The Work of Sound in Literature by Angela Leighton (Harvard University Press; 278 pages; $35). Draws on literary, epistolary, and philosophical realms in a study of how authors perceive the ear as key to the writing and reading of the silent text; focuses on the poets Tennyson, Yeats, Frost, Walter de la Mare, Stevens, Bishop, Jorie Graham, and Alice Oswald.
The Letters of Oliver Goldsmith edited by Michael Griffin and David O’Shaughnessy (Cambridge University Press; 232 pages; $89.99). Scholarly edition of the 18th-century author’s letters; documents tensions between the London-based writer’s Irish identity and his cosmopolitan ambitions, and sheds light on such figures in his circle as Samuel Johnson and David Garrick.
Middle English Mouths: Late Medieval Medical, Religious and Literary Traditions by Katie L. Walter (Cambridge University Press; 268 pages; $99.99). Draws on theological, pastoral, medical, and other writings in a study of the centrality of the mouth to Middle English thought; authors discussed include Chaucer, Julian of Norwich, William Langland, and John Lydgate.
Reconsidering Boccaccio: Medieval Contexts and Global Intertexts edited by Olivia Holmes and Dana E. Stewart (University of Toronto Press; 400 pages; US$90). Essays on the 14th-century Florentine writer, including his views on friendship, his treatment of women, and his work in relation to Persian and Arabic literature.
Shakespeare and the Legacy of Loss by Emily Hodgson Anderson (University of Michigan Press; 232 pages; $70). Focuses on David Garrick in a study of how 18th-century actors, artists, and authors dealt with the ephemeral nature of performance.
The Sublime South: Andalusia, Orientalism, and the Making of Modern Spain by Jose Luis Venegas (Northwestern University Press; 240 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Topics include the intranational impact of Orientalism as Spanish artists and intellectuals assimilated Romantic notions of Andalusia as Spain’s “Orient.”
PHILOSOPHY
Human Embryos, Human Beings: A Scientific and Philosophical Approach by Samuel B. Condic and Maureen L. Condic (Catholic University of America Press; 285 pages; $29.95). A discussion of the ontological status of the human embryo that offers a philosophical and scientific defense of “immediate hominization,” or the view that a human being is present from the moment of fertilization onward.
Plato as Critical Theorist by Jonny Thakar (Harvard University Press; 392 pages; $39.95). Examines the relationship between Plato’s politics and his metaphysics and develops an idealist vision of philosopher-citizens for today’s liberal democracies.
The Powers of Sensibility: Aesthetic Politics through Adorno, Foucault, and Ranciere by Michael Feola (Northwestern University Press; 182 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Draws on the three European philosophers in a discussion of political agency and the role of aesthetic sensory modes in emancipatory politics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Dynasties and Democracy: The Inherited Incumbency Advantage in Japan by Daniel M. Smith (Stanford University Press; 359 pages; $65). A study of the persistence of political dynasties in democracies; focuses on Japan, where such family connections are said to have characterized more than a quarter of all legislators in recent years.
Geopolitical Economy: The South Korean FTA Strategy by Jonathan Krieckhaus (University of Michigan Press; 192 pages; $65). Examines South Korea’s strategies in forming free-trade agreements with the three major players in the world economy: the United States, China, and the European Union.
Globalization Under and After Socialism: The Evolution of Transnational Capital in Central and Eastern Europe by Besnik Pula (Stanford University Press; 258 pages; $65). Traces a movement toward export-oriented and globally integrated economies beginning in the 1970s that eased the way for foreign direct investment after the events of 1989.
Whatever Happened to Party Government? Controversies in American Political Science by Mark Wickham-Jones (University of Michigan Press; 432 pages; $90). Draws on oral histories, previously unpublished documents, and other sources in a study of Toward a More Responsible Two-Party System, a controversial report released by the American Political Science Association in 1950 that was attacked in draft with arguments it should be suppressed.
POPULAR CULTURE
Comics and Adaptation edited by Benoit Mitaine, David Roche, and Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot, translated by Aarnoud Rommens and David Roche (University Press of Mississippi; 238 pages; $70). Translation of a 2015 French collection of essays on comics as both sources and products of adaptation; includes case studies of both well- and lesser-known American, Belgian, French, Italian, and Spanish comics.
RELIGION
From the Mountains to the Cities: A History of Buddhist Propagation in Modern Korea by Mark A. Nathan (University of Hawai’i Press; 206 pages; $62). A study of p’ogyo, an active movement for the revitalization of Buddhist institutions in Korea that began in the early 20th century following a period of repression.
RHETORIC
The Bad Sixties: Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture, Antiwar, and Black Power Movements by Kirsten Hoerl (University Press of Mississippi; 192 pages; $70). Examines fictionalized depictions of 1960s activism in in mainstream television and film, with a focus on their dismissive view of dissent as a means of pursuing progressive social change.
Disorder in the Court: Morality, Myth, and the Insanity Defense by Andrea L. Alden (University of Alabama Press; 208 pages; $54.95). Explores the interplay of legal and medical discourse in a rhetorical analysis of the insanity defense as it evolved from 1843, and the trial of Daniel McNaughtan, to 1984 and the aftermath of case against John Hinckley Jr.
SOCIAL WORK
New Brunswick Before the Equal Opportunity Program: History Through a Social Work Lens by Laurel Lewey, Louis J. Richard, and Linda M. Turner (University of Toronto Press; 256 pages; US$70). Examines social services in the Canadian province before and after Equal Opportunity reforms instituted in the 1960s; draws on interviews with the earliest Acadian social workers.
SOCIOLOGY
Forging the Ideal Educated Girl: The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia by Shenila Khoja-Moolji (University of California Press; 148 pages; $34.95). Examines the politics of education reform in colonial India and Pakistan.
The Supernatural in Society, Culture, and History edited by Dennis Waskul and Marc Eaton (Temple University Press; 262 pages; $99.50 hardcover, $34.50 paperback). Essays on such topics as fortune telling, belief in ghosts, “legend tripping,” cryptozoology, and alien-abduction narratives.
SPORTS STUDIES
Walter Camp and the Creation of American Football by Roger R. Tamte (University of Illinois Press; 408 pages; $24.95). A biography of the Connecticut-born sportsman (1859-1925) known as the “father of American football.”
THEATER
Gaming the Stage: Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater by Gina Bloom (University of Michigan Press; 320 pages; $80 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Examines the significance of scenes of gaming in early modern theater, including in such plays as The Tempest, Arden of Faversham, A Woman Killed With Kindness, and A Game at Chess.
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