AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES
The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland by Robyn C. Spencer (Duke University Press; 260 pages; $89.95 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Draws on FBI files, interviews with rank-and-file members, and other data in a study of the political evolution of the Panthers in the California city where the party was founded; documents how the group’s internal politics and the repressive policies of COINTELPRO affected the group through its 16-year history.
AMERICAN STUDIES
In the Name of the Mother: Italian Americans, African Americans, and Modernity From Booker T. Washington to Bruce Springsteen by Samuele F.S. Pardini (Dartmouth College Press/University Press of New England; 296 pages; $95 hardcover, $40 paperback). Explores the racial in-betweeness of Italian Americans in a study of links between black intellectuals and Italian-American writers and artists.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Farm Labor Struggles in Zimbabwe: The Ground of Politics by Blair Rutherford (Indiana University Press; 278 pages; $85 hardcover, $35 paperback). Draws on field research at a horticultural farm east of Harare in a study of a farm-labor struggle that overlapped with the start of mass occupation and takeover of white-owned farms.
Pathways that Changed Myanmar by Matthew Mullen (Zed Books; 262 pages; $95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Examines how ordinary Burmese experienced the upheavals in their country in 2010-11.
ARCHAEOLOGY
About Antiquities: Politics of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire by Zeynep Celik (University of Texas Press; 268 pages; $85 hardcover, $27.95 paperback). Examines interactions among Westerners, Ottoman officials, and local laborers in a study of the interplay of archaeology and empire-building at the turn of the 20th century.
Caligula’s Barges and the Renaissance Origins of Nautical Archaeology Under Water by John M. McManamon (Texas A&M University Press; 288 pages; $65). Traces the history of efforts to raise two Roman vessels from the bottom of Lake Nemi, just south of Rome, beginning with a cardinal’s commission to an engineer around 1446 and ending in 1928, when Mussolini ordered the lake drained to retrieve the ships.
Setting the Table: Ceramics, Dining, and Cultural Exchange in Andalucia and La Florida by Kathryn L. Ness (University Press of Florida; 147 pages; $79.95). Examines cultural identity and exchange in the Spanish colonial empire through a study of ceramics from 18th-century household sites in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, and St. Augustine, Florida.
ART AND ARCHITECTURE
A Saving Science: Capturing the Heavens in Carolingian Manuscripts by Eric M. Ramirez-Weaver (Penn State University Press; 312 pages; $89.95). Explores the cultural significance of astronomy in Frankish society through a study of the art in the Handbook of 809, a manuscript painted around 830 for Bishop Drogo of Metz, one of Charlemagne’s sons.
CLASSICAL STUDIES
Ctesias’ “Persica” and Its Near Eastern Context by Matt Waters (University of Wisconsin Press; 176 pages; $64.95). Discusses a history of Assyria and Persia written by Ctesias, a Greek historian who served as physician to the Persian King Artaxerxes II.
Democracy’s Slaves: A Political History of Ancient Greece by Paulin Ismard, translated by Jane Marie Todd (Harvard University Press; 206 pages; $35). A study of the demosioi, slaves who were owned by the city-state in Athens, rather than by private citizens, were allowed certain privileges, and who fulfilled key administrative and other roles, including accounting, archiving, court recording, and policing.
Studies on the Text of Suetonius’ “De uita Caesarum” by Robert A. Kaster (Oxford University Press; 332 pages; $55). Focuses on the author’s choices as editor of a new edition of the Latin text that departs from the standard (1907) edition by Maximilian Ihm.
DISABILITY STUDIES
Curative Violence: Rehabilitating Disability, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Korea by Eunjung Kim (Duke University Press; 312 pages; $94.95 hardcover, $25.95 paperback). Examines images of disabled bodies and narratives of cure in Korean folklore, literature, visual culture, politics, and other realms since the 1930s.
ECONOMICS
Endangered Economies: How the Neglect of Nature Threatens Our Prosperity by Geoffrey Heal (Columbia University Press; 227 pages; $35). Documents the importance of environmental protection to achieving long-term economic growth.
FILM STUDIES
The Red and the Black: American Film Noir in the 1950s by Robert Miklitsch (University of Illinois Press; 312 pages; $95 hardcover, $28 paperback). Documents the persistence of noir in what is here termed the genre’s forgotten decade; spotlights such films as DOA, Niagara, and Kiss Me Deadly.
Sociology on Film: Postwar Hollywood’s Prestige Commodity by Chris Cagle (Rutgers University Press; 188 pages; $80 hardcover, $26.95 paperback). Topics include links between the visual style and social aspirations of such social-problem films as Gentleman’s Agreement and The Lost Weekend.
FOLKLORE
The Phoenix: An Unnatural Biography of a Mythical Beast by Joseph Nigg (University of Chicago Press; 487 pages; $35). Traces the lore on the immortal bird since ancient times, beginning in Egypt, and explores the creature’s symbolic and metaphoric uses.
Yo’ Mama, Mary Mack, and Boudreaux and Thibodeaux: Louisiana Children’s Folklore and Play by Jeanne Pitre Soileau (University Press of Mississippi; 192 pages; $65). Traces changes in children’s rhymes, teasing, and other folk play over the past several decades in New Orleans and south Louisiana.
HISTORY
Arnost Frischer and the Jewish Politics of Early 20th-Century Europe by Jan Lanicek (Bloomsbury Academic; 265 pages; $114). Uses a biography of the Jewish nationalist (1887-1954) to examine Jewish politics in Bohemia and Moravia, later Czechoslovakia, during the first half of the 20th century.
Battle for Belorussia: The Red Army’s Forgotten Campaign of October 1943 - April 1944 by David M. Glantz with Mary Elizabeth Glantz (University Press of Kansas; 758 pages; $39.95). Discusses an early failed attempt to liberate Belorussia that preceded ultimate success in June 1944 and cost more than 700,000 casualties.
Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times by Ann Laura Stoler (Duke University Press; 436 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $28.95 paperback). Develops an approach to recognizing the impact of colonial history in the present.
Fire and Ice: Li Cunxu and the Founding of the Later Tang by Richard L. Davis (Hong Kong University Press; 256 pages; $60). A study of the 10th-century warrior king.
Florida’s Civil War: Terrible Sacrifices by Tracy J. Revels (Mercer University Press; 197 pages; $29). A study of wartime life on the home front in Confederate Florida, with particular attention to women, slaves, and Unionists.
Foreigners Under Mao: Western Lives in China, 1949--1976 by Beverley Hooper (Hong Kong University Press; 292 pages; $60). Draws on interviews, letters, memoirs, and other sources in a study of six different groups of foreigners in Maoist China, including “foreign comrades,” Korean War POWs who rejected repatriation, foreign correspondents, diplomats from Western countries that recognized the PRC, foreign experts, and language students.
From Victory to Stalemate: The Western Front, Summer 1944 Decisive and Indecisive Military Operations, Volume 1 by C.J. Dick (University Press of Kansas; 456 pages; $39.95). Focuses on American, British, and Canadian operations in France and the Low Countries.
A Historian in Exile: Solomon ibn Verga, “Shevet Yehudah,” and the Jewish-Christian Encounter by Jeremy Cohen (University of Pennsylvania Press; 248 pages; $65). Discusses a popular Hebrew book first published in 1554 by a historian who was among those expelled from Spain and Portugal in the 1490s; focuses on how it bridges medieval and early modern worldviews.
How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage: Power and Succession in the History Plays by Peter Lake (Yale University Press; 666 pages; $37.50). Focuses on how the playwright engaged the politics and culture of his era, including doctrinal controversies and issues of uncertain succession in the monarchy.
Imperial Bandits: Outlaws and Rebels in the China-Vietnam Borderlands by Bradley Camp Davis (University of Washington Press; 288 pages; $90 hardcover, $30 paperback). A study of the Black Flags and rival bandit groups in the region during the second half of the 19th century.
Losing Binh Dinh: The Failure of Pacification and Vietnamization, 1969-1971 by Kevin M. Boylan (University Press of Kansas; 366 pages; $34.95). Uses a study of operations in the key South Vietnamese province to challenge supporters of the “lost victory” hypothesis concerning the conduct of the war after the Tet Offensive.
Moderates: The Vital Center of American Politics, From the Founding to Today by David S. Brown (University of North Carolina Press; 352 pages; $34.95). Asserts the pivotal role played by centrist leaders, ideas, and alliances in American politics, including John Adams, Thedore Roosevelt, and Bill Clinton.
Nemesis: The First Iron Warship and Her World by Adrian G. Marshall (National University of Singapore Press, distributed by University of Chicago Press; 325 pages; $28). Traces the history of the ship, built for the East India Company, and examines its role in expanding British power in East Asia.
Not Fit to Stay: Public Health Panics and South Asian Exclusion by Sarah Isabel Wallace (University of British Columbia Press; 292 pages; US$99). Examines the actions of physicians, union leaders, politicians, journalists, and others in fomenting unsubstantiated public-health concerns to justify the prevention of South Asian immigration British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and California between 1900 and 1920.
A Peaceful Conquest: Woodrow Wilson, Religion, and the New World Order by Cara Lea Burnidge (University of Chicago Press; 219 pages; $45). A study of how President Wilson’s personal religious beliefs---a blend of Southern evangelicalism and social Christianity---shaped U.S. foreign policy in ways that persist to the present.
Vatican II Behind the Iron Curtain edited by Piotr H. Kosicki (Catholic University of America Press; 248 pages; $65). Focuses on Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Yugoslavia in essays on the Council’s impact on Catholics under Communism.
HISTORY OF SCIENCE
Field Life: Science in the American West during the Railroad Era by Jeremy Vetter (University of Pittsburgh Press; 504 pages; $49.95). Examines the dynamics of four modes of field scinece, involving surveys, lay networks, quarries, and stations, in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains from the late 1860s to 1920.
LINGUISTICS
The Rise and Fall of Ergativity in Aramaic: Cycles of Alignment Change by Eleanor Coghill (Oxford University Press; 381 pages; $105). Traces changes in “argument alignment” in the 3,000-year history of the Semitic language.
The Semiotics of Emoji: The Rise of Visual Language in the Age of the Internet by Marcel Danesi (Bloomsbury Academic; 197 pages; $82 hardcover, $22.95 paperback). Topics include the diminuitive symbols’ implications for literacy and communication.
LITERATURE
Anti-Book: On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing by Nicholas Thoburn (University of Minnesota Press; 368 pages; $105 hardcover, $30 paperback). Explores experimental forms of writing and publishing political thought, including Valerie Solanas’s SCUM Manifesto, Guy Debord’s Memoires, and the works of Wu Ming (pseudonym for a group of Italian authors).
At the Mercy of Their Clothes: Modernism, the Middlebrow, and British Garment Culture by Celia Marshik (Columbia University Press; 247 pages; $60). Focuses on the mackintosh, the evening gown, the fancy-dress costume, and secondhand garments in a study of clothing and the objectification of individuals in British literature and wider culture.
The Groove of the Poem: Reading Philippe Beck by Jacques Ranciere, translated by Drew S. Burk (University of Minnesota Press; 100 pages; $24.95). Translation of the French philosopher’s work on the contemporary French poet.
How to Revise a True War Story: Tim O’Brien’s Process of Textual Production by John K. Young (University of Iowa Press; 257 pages; $55). Draws on O’Brien’s archived papers in a study of the revision, retelling, and other compositional practices of the American writer, who is known for The Things They Carried and other works linked to the Vietnam War.
Ireland’s Immortals: A History of the Gods of Irish Myth by Mark Williams (Princeton University Press; 578 pages; $39.50). Draws on literature in Irish and English in a study of representations of the island’s pagan deities since the medieval era.
Natures in Translation: Romanticism and Colonial Natural History by Alan Bewell (Johns Hopkins University Press; 416 pages; $60). Examines writings by such figures as Erasmus Darwin, Gilbert White, William Bartram, William Wordsworth, John Clare, and Mary Shelley.
The Portuguese-Speaking Diaspora: Seven Centuries of Literature and the Arts by Darlene J. Sadlier (University of Texas Press; 286 pages; $90 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). A study of literary and artistic works linked to the Portuguese empire and diaspora beginning with Camoes’s 10-canto poem Os lusiadas (1572).
Recoding World Literature: Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany’s Pact with Books by B. Venkat Mani (Fordham University Press; 348 pages; $100 hardcover, $28 paperback). Focuses on Germany in a study of how the proliferation of world literature in a society, through translation, publication, and circulation, reflects a nation’s relation with print culture.
Romantic Mediations: Media Theory and British Romanticism by Andrew Burkett (State University of New York Press; 195 pages; $85). Topics include the indebtedness of Mary Shelley and Frankenstein to developments in late 18th- and early 19th-century information and media.
Writing Beloveds: Humanist Petrarchism and the Politics of Gender by Aileen A. Feng (University of Toronto Press; 272 pages; US$65). Explores a politically inflected precursor to the poetic movement known as Renaissance Petrarchism.
MUSIC
Cherubino’s Leap: In Search of the Enlightenment Moment by Richard Kramer (University of Chicago Press; 224 pages; $45). Explores key musical and poetic moments in works by C.P.E. Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Komstock, and Gluck.
Loft Jazz: Improvising New York in the 1970s by Michael C. Heller (University of California Press; 272 pages; $85 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). A study of avant-garde jazz musicians who developed alternative venues in abandoned warehouses and factories of lower Manhattan.
PHILOSOPHY
Felix Ravaisson: Selected Essays edited by Mark Sinclair (Bloomsbury Academic; 346 pages; $114 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Includes previously untranslated essays on Stoicism, metaphysics, Pascal, the Venus de Milo, and other topics by the French philosopher (1813-1900), who was celebrated by such thinkers as Bergson and Heidegger.
Feminist Theory After Deleuze by Hannah Stark (Bloomsbury Academic; 140 pages; $94 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Topics include the implications of the French philosopher’s view of difference for a critique of identity politics.
Marx’s Inferno: The Political Theory of “Capital” by William Clare Roberts (Princeton University Press; 282 pages; $37.50). Discussses Capital as modeled on Dante’s Inferno, with Marx casting himself as Virgil guiding the proletariat through the workings of capitalism and reimagining republican ideas of freedom.
Reasons Why by Bradford Skow (Oxford University Press; 195 pages; $70). Argues that a theory of explanation should rather be a theory of why-questions.
Wilfrid Sellars, Idealism, and Realism: Understanding Psychological Nominalism edited by Patrick J. Reider (Bloomsbury Academic; 196 pages; $114). Essays on the American philosopher and his wedding of analytic realism and German idealism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Ethics and Cyberwarfare: The Quest for Responsible Security in the Age of Digital Warfare by George Lucas (Oxford University Press; 187 pages; $34.95). Discusses evidentiary, ethical, and other considerations in an analysis of the threat of “state-sponsored hacktivism.”
Paternalism Beyond Borders edited by Michael N. Barnett (Cambridge University Press; 362 pages; $99.99 hardcover, $34.99 paperback). Essays on the power politics of humanitarian action, including in such realms as aid, asylum, and human rights.
Popular Democracy: The Paradox of Participation by Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Ernesto Ganuza (Stanford University Press; 213 pages; $85 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). A study of why efforts to promote citizen involvement in policy making have had little impact on actual reform; focuses on an approach first developed in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and spread around the world.
The Power of Systems: How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War World by Egle Rindzeviciute (Cornell University Press; 312 pages; $49.95). A study of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, a think tank established in Laxenburg, Austria, in 1972 by the U.S. and Soviet governments to advance scientific collaboration.
The Promise and Challenge of Party Primary Elections: A Comparative Perspective by William P. Cross and others (McGill-Queen’s University Press; 256 pages; US$110 hardcover, US$32.95 paperback). Focuses on Canada and Israel in a study of the practice of primary elections outside the United States.
Protection Amid Chaos: The Creation of Property Rights in Palestinian Refugee Camps by Nadya Hajj (Columbia University Press; 214 pages; $50). Traces the evolution of a system of property rights in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan, including its increased formalization over time.
Where Did the Revolution Go? Contentious Politics and the Quality of Democracy by Donatella della Porta (Cambridge University Press; 410 pages; $99.99 hardcover, $34.99 paperback). Combines oral historical and other qualitative, and quantitative, approaches in a study of the varied outcomes of popular mobilization; focuses on a comparison between Central and Eastern Europe in 1989 and the Arab world in 2011.
RELIGION
Architects of Buddhist Leisure: Socially Disengaged Buddhism in Asia’s Museums, Monuments, and Amusement Parks by Justin Thomas McDaniel (University of Hawai’i Press; 288 pages; $68). Topics include a Buddhist ecumenism reflected in such sites as Lek Wiriyaphan’s Sanctuary of Truth in Thailand and Suoi Tien amusement park in Saigon.
Desiring Divinity: Self-deification in Early Jewish and Christian Mythmaking by M. David Litwa (Oxford University Press; 239 pages; $99). Examines the varied representation of six figures described as self-deifiers: Adam and Lucifer in the Hebrew Bible, Yaldabaoth in Gnostic mythology, Jesus in the Gospel of John, Simon of Samaria in Acts, and Allogenes in the Gnostic Nag Hammadi text.
Mimesis and Atonement: Rene Girard and the Doctrine of Salvation edited by Michael Kirwan and Sheelah Trefle Hidden (Bloomsbury Academic; 185 pages; $110). Writings by scholars from Catholic, Evangelical, Orthodox, and Jewish backgrounds who consider Girard’s mimetic theory in relation to Christ’s death and related theological issues.
Neither in Dark Speeches Nor in Similitudes: Reflections and Refractions Between Canadian and American Jews edited by Barry L. Stiefel and Hernan Tesler-Mabe (Wilfrid Laurier University Press; 239 pages; US$39.99). Essays by Canadian and American scholars who compare the Jewish experience in both countries since the late 18th century.
New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures edited by Tony Burke and Brent Landau (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing; 585 pages; $75). Annotated edition of 30 apocryphal works in the vein of gospels, acts, epistles, and apocalypses, whose composition dates from the second century AD to early in the second millennium.
Revelation: Towards a Christian Interpretation of God’s Self-Revelation in Jesus Christ by Gerald O’Collins (Oxford University Press; 229 pages; $40). Topics include the role of human freedom in accepting in faith God’s self-revelation.
SOCIOLOGY
Chinese Encounters in Southeast Asia: How People, Money, and Ideas Are Changing a Region edited by Pal Nyiri and Danielle Tan (University of Washington Press; 296 pages; $90 hardcover, $30 paperback). Writings by anthropologists and other scholars on Chinese influence in Southeast Asia and responses by societies in the region; topics include how new migrants and capital from China are affecting ethnic Chinese in Cambodia.
Inequality and African-American Health: How Racial Disparities Create Sickness by Shirley A. Hill (Policy Press of the University of Bristol, distributed by University of Chicago Press; 194 pages; $110 hardcover, $32.95 paperback). Draws on interview and other data in a study of how racial disadvantage affects the health of African-Americans.
Life, Emergent: The Social in the Afterlives of Violence by Yasmeen Arif (University of Minnesota Press; 253 pages; $105 hardcover, $30 paperback). Explores the afterlives of violence in four settings: Sierra Leone after an 11-year civil war; Gujarat and Delhi, India, after instances of communal violence; and Lebanon after the civil war of 1975-89, and in the wake of Israel’s 2006 bombing of Beirut suburbs.
Prison Worlds: An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition by Didier Fassin (Polity Press; 382 pages; $79.95 hardcover, $28.95 paperback). Draws on a four-year study of a short-stay prison in France.
Race and the Politics of Deception: The Making of an American City by Christopher Mele (New York University Press; 179 pages; $89 hardcover, $27 paperback). Examines the racial politics of waterfront development in Chester, Pa.
The Rhetoric of Hindu India: Language and Urban Nationalism by Manisha Basu (Cambridge University Press; 228 pages; $99.99). Uses the writings of such figures as Arun Shourie, Swapan Dasgupta, Chetan Bhagat, and Amish Tripathi to trace the rise of the right-wing Hindu nationalist rhetoric known as metropolitan Hindutva.
THEATER
Clowning as Social Performance in Colombia: Ridicule and Resistance by Barnaby King (Bloomsbury Academic; 277 pages; $114). Focuses on Bogota in a “co-performative” ethnographic study of clowns and clowning in Colombia, from street antics to practice for political and other ends.
