AMERICAN STUDIES
Hemispheric Imaginations: North American Fictions of Latin America by Helmbrecht Breinig (Dartmouth College Press/University Press of New England; 390 pages; $95 hardcover, $45 paperback). Examines images of Latin America in the work of North American writers; topics include representations of the Mexican Revolution.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Affective Circuits: African Migrations to Europe and the Pursuit of Social Regeneration edited by Jennifer Cole and Christian Groes (University of Chicago Press; 354 pages; $105 hardcover, $35 paperback). Essays on such topics as transnational polygyny between Senegal and France.
Design Anthropological Futures edited by Rachel Charlotte Smith and others (Bloomsbury Academic; 288 pages; $114 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Essays by international scholars on the emerging interdisciplinary field.
Downed by Friendly Fire: Black Girls, White Girls, and Suburban Schooling by Signithia Fordham (University of Minnesota Press; 320 pages; $87.50 hardcover, $25 paperback). Draws on fieldwork in a suburban high school in upstate New York in a study of female-centered bullying.
In the Circle of White Stones: Moving through Seasons with Nomads of Eastern Tibet by Gillian G. Tan (University of Washington Press; 176 pages; $90 hardcover, $25 paperback). Draws on fieldwork across seasonal cycles with yak-herding people of Dora Karmo.
Punk and Revolution: Seven More Interpretations of Peruvian Reality by Shane Greene (Duke University Press; 235 pages; $84.95 hardcover, $23.95 paperback). Draws on the theories of Debord, Benjamin, and Bakhtin in new and previously published writings on punk culture in Lima.
CLASSICAL STUDIES
Thucydides and Political Order: Concepts of Order and the History of the Peloponnesian War edited by Christian R. Thauer and Christian Wendt (Palgrave Macmillan; 201 pages; $99). Topics include Greek international law in Thucydides, and Sallust’s reading of his Greek predecessor.
The Triumph of Empire: The Roman World from Hadrian to Constantine by Michael Kulikowski (Harvard University Press; 360 pages; $35). A study of Rome at the height of its power.
CRIMINOLOGY
Meth Wars: Police, Media, Power by Travis Linnemann (New York University Press; 304 pages; $89 hardcover, $30 paperback). Sets what has been termed America’s methamphetamine epidemic in the wider context of policing and other government interests.
ECONOMICS
The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization by Richard Baldwin (Harvard University Press; 344 pages; $29.95). Examines the consequences for developed and developing nations of two booms in globalization over the past two centuries.
EDUCATION
The Education of African Canadian Children: Critical Perspectives edited by Awad Ibrahim and Ali A. Abdi (McGill-Queen’s University Press; 248 pages; US$100 hardcover, US$32.95 paperback). Essays on the schooling of African-Canadian children since the mid-19th century; topics include debates today over whether Afrocentric schools are an answer to marginalization in mainstream schools.
Have a Little Faith: Religion, Democracy, and the American Public School by Benjamin Justice and Colin Macleod (University of Chicago Press; 180 pages; $68 hardcover, $22.50 paperback). Traces the relationship of religion and democracy in public schooling since the 19th-century common school.
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Vanishing Bees: Science, Politics, and Honeybee Health by Sainath Suryanarayanan and Daniel Lee Kleinman (Rutgers University Press; 176 pages; $80 hardcover, $26.95 paperback). Draws on interview and other data in a study of the competing perspectives of farmers, scientists, beekeepers, agrochemical companies, and government agencies on the factors behind Colony Collapse Disorder.
FILM STUDIES
Queer Cinema in the World by Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt (Duke University Press; 393 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $27.95 paperback). Topics include the role of film festivals, the Internet, and human rights campaigns in the circulation of queer cinema.
Reform Cinema in Iran: Film and Political Change in the Islamic Republic by Blake Atwood (Columbia University Press; 255 pages; $90 hardcover, $30 paperback). Examines films that reflected the reformist movement led by Mohammad Khatami, both as cultural minister and later as president.
HISTORY
The Art of Life in South Africa by Daniel Magaziner (Ohio University Press; 376 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Traces the history from 1952 to 1981 of an apartheid-era, government-run school for the training of African art teachers established in Indaleni in what is now KwaZulu-Natal.
Bison and People on the North American Great Plains: A Deep Environmental History edited by Geoff Cunfer and Bill Waiser (Texas A&M University Press; 272 pages; $60). Writings by historians, archaeologists, paleontologists, and other scholars who offer new perspectives on the near disappearance of the bison in the 19th century.
Contracultura: Alternative Arts and Social Transformation in Authoritarian Brazil by Christopher Dunn (University of North Carolina Press; 256 pages; $85 hardcover, $27.95 paperback). Topics include Bahia as the center for Brazil’s counterculture under the dictatorship of the 1960s and 70s.
The Europeanized Elite in Russia, 1762--1825: Public Role and Subjective Self edited by Andreas Schonle, Andrei Zorin, and Alexei Evstratov (Northern Illinois University Press; 371 pages; $45). Essays on such topics as the practice of personal finance and the problem of debt among the noble Russian elite.
The Fixers: Devolution, Development, and Civil Society in Newark, 1960-1990 by Julia Rabig (University of Chicago Press; 333 pages; $45). Topics include the activism of tenants of Stella Wright Homes, who in the early 1970s staged the longest rent strike in the history of U.S. public housing.
Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson by Timothy B. Smith (University Press of Kansas; 513 pages; $34.95). Discusses two battles early in the year that would be pivotal to the ultimate Union victory in the Mississippi Valley.
Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds by Leo Braudy (Yale University Press; 306 pages; $30). Uses monsters from nature (King Kong), created monsters (Frankenstein’s monster), monsters from within (Mr. Hyde), and monsters from the past (Dracula) in a study of how a four-part typology of the monstrous reflects four realms of cultural anxiety.
Inside Rwanda’s “Gacaca” Courts: Seeking Justice After Genocide by Bert Ingelaere (University of Wisconsin Press; 234 pages; $64.95). Draws on observations of 2,000 trials in a court system established after the 1994 genocide.
Lt. Spalding in Civil War Louisiana: A Union Officer’s Humor, Privilege, and Ambition by Michael D. Pierson (Louisiana State University Press; 208 pages; $38). Edition, with contextual and biographical commentary, of a long letter sent in July 1862 by a Union Army lieutenant in Algiers, La., to his former University of Vermont roommate.
On the Trail: A History of American Hiking by Silas Chamberlin (Yale University Press; 243 pages; $30). Draws on the archives of the Sierra Club, the Appalachian Mountain Club, and other groups in a study of the community and culture of hiking in the United States as it evolved from a pastime of urban elites in the 1800s to a mass phenomenon by the 1970s.
Remapping Second-Wave Feminism: The Long Women’s Rights Movement in Louisiana, 1950--1997 by Janet Allured (University of Georgia Press; 384 pages; $64.95). Combines archival and oral-historical perspectives in a study of women’s organizations, churches, and other forces shaping grassroots feminism in the South, with a focus on Louisiana.
The Sanitation of Brazil: Nation, State, and Public Health, 1889-1930 by Gilberto Hochman, translated by Diane Grosklaus Whitty (University of Illinois Press; 216 pages; $95 hardcover, $25 paperback). First English translation of the influential 1998 work on the formation and expansion of public-health efforts in Brazil.
Surge of Piety: Norman Vincent Peale and the Remaking of American Religious Life by Christopher Lane (Yale University Press; 212 pages; $28). Documents how the Presbyterian minister and best-selling author of The Power of Positive Thinking figured in an upsurge in American religiosity in the 1950s.
Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America by David J. Silverman (Harvard University Press; 371 pages; $29.95). Uses the concept of a “gun frontier” to trace the adoption of firearms by indigenous peoples of North American and the regional arms races that followed as different groups sought advantage.
Tibet in Agony, Lhasa 1959 by Jianglin Li, translated by Susan Wilf (Harvard University Press; 410 pages; $29.95). Discusses the Chinese Communist government’s brutal suppression of a Tibetan uprising in Lhasa in March 1959 in events that would see the exile of the Dalai Lama.
Tlacaelel Remembered: Mastermind of the Aztec Empire by Susan Schroeder (University of Oklahoma Press; 218 pages; $29.95). Documents the life of the Aztec leader (1398-1487).
Underground Petersburg: Radical Populism, Urban Space, and the Tactics of Subversion in Reform-Era Russia by Christopher Ely (Northern Illinois University Press; 324 pages; $39). Examines the underground movement in the city and its three-year campaign of violence, culminating in the assassination of Czar Alexander II.
HISTORY OF SCIENCE
The Science of Sympathy: Morality, Evolution, and Victorian Civilization by Rob Boddice (University of Illinois Press; 216 pages; $95 hardcover, $28 paperback). A study of how the first generation of Darwinists viewed and redefined sympathy, including in ways that bolstered eugenics.
HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY
Cycles of Invention and Discovery: Rethinking the Endless Frontier by Venkatesh Narayanamurti and Toluwalogo Odumosu (Harvard University Press; 170 pages; $24.95). Traces the history of what are termed the problematic categories of “basic” and “applied” and describes how they have hindered progress in science and engineering.
LABOR STUDIES
No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane F. McAlevey (Oxford University Press; 253 pages; $29.95). Links the decline of unions and progressive politics in recent decades to a shift from deep organizing to shallow mobilizing and a separation between labor and social movements; offers a dozen case studies to examine factors that promote or hinder success.
LAW
The Case of Rose Bird: Gender, Politics, and the California Courts by Kathleen A. Cairns (University of Nebraska Press; 344 pages; $36.95). A biography of the controversial California jurist, who in 1977 became the first female chief justice of the state supreme court, and in 1986 the first chief justice to ever be removed from that body.
What’s Wrong with the First Amendment? by Steve H. Shiffrin (Cambridge University Press; 225 pages; $29.99). A critique of what is termed “free speech idolatry” in the United States, privileging the First Amendment at the expense of equality, public health, and other values.
LINGUISTICS
Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race edited by H. Samy Alim, John R. Rickford, and Arnetha F. Ball (Oxford University Press; 362 pages; $34.95). Essays on such topics as the speech styles of Punjabi Londoners, performing ethnicity on Israeli TV, and the linguistic racialization of Asian-Americans.
LITERATURE
Chaucer, Gower, and the Affect of Invention by Steele Nowlin (Ohio State University Press; 234 pages; $99.95). Discusses the two medieval poets’ presentation of invention as an affective force.
Chaucer: Visual Approaches edited by Susanna Fein and David Raybin (Penn State University Press; 328 pages; $69.95). Essays that link Chaucer’s writings to various aspects of visual culture, medieval and modern.
A Cultural History of Underdevelopment: Latin America in the U.S. Imagination by John Patrick Leary (University of Virginia Press; 272 pages; $75 hardcover, $35 paperback). Draws on fiction, travel writing, development texts, photojournalism, and other sources in a study of U.S. images of Latin America since the mid-19th century.
The Drama of the American Short Story, 1800-1865 by Michael J. Collins (University of Michigan Press; 288 pages; $75). Examines theater as an unruly force shaping the evolution of the American short story; topics include Melville’s love of British drama.
Exemplary Novels by Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Edith Grossman, edited by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria (Yale University Press; 419 pages; $27.50). Scholarly edition of the Spanish author’s 1613 collection of 12 novellas.
Island of the Blue Dolphins: The Complete Reader’s Edition by Scott O’Dell, edited by Sara L. Schwebel (University of California Press; 237 pages; $29.95). Critical edition and study of the children’s classic, including two excised chapters published here for the first time; sheds new light on the 1960 novel’s composition, revision, and publishing history.
Measuring the Harlem Renaissance: The U.S. Census, African American Identity, and Literary Form by Michael Soto (University of Massachusetts Press; 224 pages; $90 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Juxtaposes U.S. Census and other government understandings of African-American identity with the views of black writers and intellectuals of the period.
Poetry and Poetics after Wallace Stevens edited by Bart Eeckhout and Lisa Goldfarb (Bloomsbury Academic; 273 pages; $120). Essays on such topics as hearing Stevens in Sylvia Plath, the poet’s musical legacy, and lateness and the question of late style in Stevens and A.R. Ammons.
Privately Empowered: Expressing Feminism in Islam in Northern Nigerian Fiction by Shirin Edwin (Northwestern University Press; 248 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Focuses on women’s personal engagement with Islam as expressed in novels by Zaynab Alkali, Abubakar Gimba, and Hauwa Ali,
The Selected Essays of Sean O’Faolain edited by Brad Kent (McGill-Queen’s University Press; 540 pages; US$120 hardcover, US$34.95 paperback). Edition of more than 50 unabridged essays by the Irish writer, critic, and public intellectual (1900-91); describes O’Faolain as writing in the tradition of post-Enlightenment European intellectuals, and thus beyond purely nationalist concerns.
Serious Daring: The Fiction and Photography of Eudora Welty and Rosamond Purcell by Susan Letzler Cole (University of Arkansas Press; 170 pages; $34.95). Juxtaposes Welty and Purcell as they initially practiced then turned away from the art form pursued by the other, while keeping elements of that early interest in their work.
MUSIC
The Tango Machine: Musical Culture in the Age of Expediency by Morgan James Luker (University of Chicago Press; 218 pages; $90 hardcover, $30 paperback). Offers an ethnographic perspective on how tango’s musical culture has been used for larger social, political, and economic ends in contemporary Buenos Aires.
PHILOSOPHY
Adorno and Existence by Peter E. Gordon (Harvard University Press; 230 pages; $29.95). Documents how the Frankfurt School theorist’s overall project is linked to his critique, and appreciation, of Kierkegaard, Husserl, and Heidegger.
Biopolitics and the Philosophy of Death by Paolo Palladino (Bloomsbury Academic; 279 pages; $29.95). Examines “biogerontological” understandings of aging and death and what is termed the shared ambition of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze to reconstruct philosophy sans transcendental metaphysics.
Human Existence and Transcendence by Jean Wahl, translated and edited by William C. Hackett (University of Notre Dame Press; 216 pages; $40). Translation of the French philosopher’s 1937 lecture as well as writings by Gabriel Marcel, Nicolai Berdyaev, and others weighing in on the debate it provoked.
Questions of Character edited by Iskra Fileva (Oxford University Press; 462 pages; $99 hardcover, $35 paperback). Essays on character by scholars in philosophy, psychology, economics, and law; topics include Kant on cultivating a good and stable will; traits and reason in the explanation of actions; and the intellectual virtues and just adjudication.
War as Paradox: Clausewitz and Hegel on Fighting Doctrines and Ethics by Youri Cormier (McGill-Queen’s University Press; 336 pages; US$110 hardcover, US$29.95 paperback). Discusses Hegel as a co-founder, with Carl von Clausewitz, of dialectical war theory.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Democracy for Hire: A History of American Political Consulting by Dennis W. Johnson (Oxford University Press; 591 pages; $39.95). Traces the history of professional political consultants, beginning with a husband-wife team in 1930s California who worked to destroy Upton Sinclair’s bid for governor.
A Most Enterprising Country: North Korea in the Global Economy by Justin V. Hastings (Cornell University Press; 240 pages; $29.95). Focuses on restaurants, weapons, and drug trafficking in a study of how the world’s most isolated state integrates itself in the global economy.
RELIGION
Fire Metaphors: Discourses of Awe and Authority by Jonathan Charteris-Black (Bloomsbury Academic; 238 pages; $128). A linguistic analysis of fire metaphors in religious and political discourse, beginning with the Abrahamic religions, Zororastrianism, and Hinduism.
The Ground Has Shifted: The Future of the Black Church in Post-Racial America by Walter Earl Fluker (New York University Press; 304 pages; $35). Topics include ways in which the black church must change if it is to remain central to African-American life.
The Making of a Salafi Muslim Woman: Paths to Conversion by Anabel Inge (Oxford University Press; 303 pages; $35). Draws on two-years of fieldwork in London in a study of the appeal of the extremely strict Muslim movement of Salafism or Wahabism to young women, many of whom are converts to Islam or were raised in a less conservative Muslim tradition.
Practicing Islam: Knowledge, Experience, and Social Navigation in Kyrgyzstan by David W. Montgomery (University of Pittsburgh Press; 219 pages; $28.95). Draws on survey data and in-depth interviews in a study of Islamic practice in the post-Soviet republic.
Shurat Legends, Ibadi Identities: Martyrdom, Asceticism, and the Making of an Early Islamic Community by Adam R. Gaiser (University of South Carolina Press; 223 pages; $54.99). Topics include commonalities between the martyrologies of early Islam and martyrdom narratives in Eastern Christianity, especially in Iraq.
Tracking the Master Scribe: Revision through Introduction in Biblical and Mesopotamian Literature by Sara J. Milstein (Oxford University Press; 244 pages; $99). Discusses the practice of ancient scribes of making changes in a manuscript in the course of transmission by adding something new to the front.
The Weight of Love: Affect, Ecstasy, and Union in the Theology of Bonaventure by Robert Glenn Davis (Fordham University Press; 232 pages; $100 hardcover, $28 paperback). Uses the writings of the Franciscan theologian St. Bonaventure to explore “affective devotion” in the high Middle Ages, including notions of full experience of the crucifixion.
The Work of Art: Rethinking the Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Michael Jackson (Columbia University Press; 235 pages; $40). Draws on psychoanalysis, philosophy, literature, and ethnographic work in Australia and West Africa in a discussion of the spiritually transformational and transitional impact of art.
RHETORIC
Craft Obsession: The Social Rhetorics of Beer by Jeff Rice (Southern Illinois University Press; 296 pages; $40). A study of how craft-beer producers use Twitter, Facebook, and other social media to tell stories about their product and passion.
Prison Power: How Prison Influenced the Movement for Black Liberation by Lisa M. Corrigan (University Press of Mississippi; 208 pages; $65). Offers rhetorical analyses of prison autobiographies by H. Rap Brown, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Assata Shakur.
SOCIOLOGY
On the Move: Changing Mechanisms of Mexico-U.S. Migration by Filiz Garip (Princeton University Press; 294 pages; $39.95). Documents the diverse motivations and patterns of Mexican migration in four major waves over the past 50 years; draws on survey data of more than 145,000 Mexicans and on in-depth interviews with 145.
The Prison School: Educational Inequality and School Discipline in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Lizbet Simmons (University of California Press; 216 pages; $85 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Discusses a New Orleans public school established by sheriff in 2002 on site at the Orleans Parish Prison, whose students are primarily poor African-American boys expelled under zero tolerance policies for minor infractions.
Undervalued Dissent: Informal Workers’ Politics in India by Manjusha Nair (State University of New York Press; 224 pages; $85). Draws on fieldwork in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh in a study of the divergent outcomes of two informal workers’ movements.
SPORTS STUDIES
Will Big League Baseball Survive? Globalization, the End of Television, Youth Sports, and the Future of Major League Baseball by Lincoln A. Mitchell (Temple University Press; 234 pages; $84.50 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Topics include the impact of the increased globalization of the game.
THEATER
Fritz Bennewitz in India: Intercultural Theatre with Brecht and Shakespeare by Joerg Esleben with Rolf Rohmer and David G. John (University of Toronto Press; 384 pages; US$70). A study of the East German director’s work in India between 1970 and 1994; includes translations of his writings, mostly previously unpublished, that reflect on stagings of plays by Brecht, Shakespeare, Goethe, Chekhov, and Volker Braun.
Performing Whitely in the Postcolony: Afrikaners in South African Theatrical and Public Life by Megan Lewis (University of Iowa Press; 272 pages; $55). Traces the changing theatrical and other performance of Afrikaner identity from the colonial to the postcolonial, post-apartheid period; topics include Pieter-Dirk Uys’s performance, in drag, as the socialite Evita Bezuidenhout.
URBAN STUDIES
Governing the Fragmented Metropolis: Planning for Regional Sustainability by Christina D. Rosan (University of Pennsylvania Press; 240 pages; $59.95). A study of land-use planning that draws on interviews with more than 90 local and regional policy makers in Boston, Denver, and Portland, Ore.
WOMEN’S STUDIES
Transnational Identities: Women, Art, and Migration in Contemporary Israel by Tal Dekel (Wayne State University Press; 171 pages; $36.99). Examines the work of female artists from the former Soviet Union, Ethiopia, and the Philippines reflects the migration experience to Israel.
