Weekly Book List, June 22, 2018

AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

Black Public History in Chicago: Civil Rights Activism from World War II into the Cold War by Ian Rocksborough-Smith (University of Illinois Press; 248 pages; $99 hardcover, $28 paperback). Documents how leftist educators, archivists, and others in the city used the celebration and commemoration of black public history for explicitly political ends.

ANTHROPOLOGY

Learning to Become Turkmen: Literacy, Language, and Power, 1914-2014 by Victoria Clement (University of Pittsburgh Press; 302 pages; $28.95). Combines history and ethnography to examine the intersection of language, education, and cultural power in Turkmenistan before, during, and after the Soviet era.

Talking Indian: Identity and Language Revitalization in the Chickasaw Renaissance by Jenny L. Davis (University of Arizona Press; 192 pages; $50). An ethnographic study of language revitalization in the Chickasaw Nation.

Words of Passage: National Longing and the Imagined Lives of Mexican Migrants by Hilary Parsons Dick (University of Texas Press; 328 pages; $90 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Draws on fieldwork in the small industrial city of Uriangato, in the state of Guanajuato, in a study of how discourse on migration affects even those who do not migrate.

ART AND ARCHITECTURE

The Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture: The Birth of the French School, 1648--1793 by Christian Michel, translated by Chris Miller (Getty Research Institute; 424 pages; $75). Translation of a 2012 French-language study of an institution that governed the arts in France for nearly 150 years with what is termed a near monopoly on artistic training and exhibition.

The Americas Revealed: Collecting Colonial and Modern Latin American Art in the United States edited by Edward J. Sullivan (Penn State University Press; 224 pages; $69.95). Essays that set the private and institutional collecting of colonial and modern Latin American art in the wider context of the region’s cultural and political relations with the United States.

Dialogue on the Errors and Abuses of Painters by Giovanni Andrea Gilio, edited by Michael Bury, Lucinda Byatt, and Carol M. Richardson, translated by Michael Bury and Lucinda Byatt (Getty Research Institute; 280 pages; $55). First full English translation of the Italian cleric’s 1564 treatise, in which six protagonists debate issues of representation in art, with particular attention to sacred subjects and Michelangelo’s fresco of the Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel.

Nazi Exhibition Design and Modernism by Michael Tymkiw (University of Minnesota Press; 320 pages; $140 hardcover, $35 paperback). Examines Nazi experimentation in exhibition design, with a focus on industrial exhibitions, art exhibitions staged for factory workers, exhibitions that vilified the Jewish-Bolshevist enemy, and Leistungsschauen, or “achievement shows” that celebrated the accomplishments of the regime.

The Politics of Painting: Fascism and Japanese Art during the Second World War by Asato Ikeda (University of Hawai’i Press; 192 pages; $60). Focuses Yokoyama Taikan, Yasuda Yukihiko, Uemura Shoen, and Fujita Tsuguharu, and their paintings, respectively, of Mount Fuji, samurai, beautiful women, and countryside.

CLASSICAL STUDIES

Hip Sublime: Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition edited by Sheila Murnaghan and Ralph M. Rosen (Ohio State University Press; 304 pages; $79.95). Essays on Beat writers’ appropriation of models from Greek and Roman classics; among Beat and linked writers discussed are Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Philip Whalen, Kenneth Rexroth, Ed Sanders, Robert Duncan, and Diane di Prima, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, and Charles Bukowski.

CULTURAL STUDIES

The Republic of Games: Textual Culture between Old Books and New Media by Elyse Graham (McGill-Queen’s University Press; 184 pages; US$100 hardcover, US$19.95 paperback). Discusses the impact of embedding game structures into digital platforms for the production and circulation of texts.

ECONOMICS

American Default: The Untold Story of FDR, the Supreme Court, and the Battle over Gold by Sebastian Edwards (Princeton University Press; 288 pages; $29.95). A study of the “great debt default,” which began in 1933 as Roosevelt ordered Americans to sell their gold holdings to the government, abandoned the gold standard, annulled all “gold clauses” from future and past contracts, and devalued the dollar.

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism by Keith Makoto Woodhouse (Columbia University Press; 392 pages; $35). Focuses on Earth First! in a study of the thought and actions of radical environmentalists in the United States.

Slick Policy: Environmental and Science Policy in the Aftermath of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill by Teresa Sabol Spezio (University of Pittsburgh Press; 248 pages; $27.95). Discusses an oil spill off the coast of California in January 1969 that mobilized environmentalists and spurred major legislation in the U.S. Congress dealing with pollution; also discusses the development of new scientific methods for detecting chemical pollution.

HISTORY

Arizona’s Deadliest Gunfight: Draft Resistance and Tragedy at the Power Cabin, 1918 by Heidi J. Osselaer (University of Oklahoma Press; 294 pages; $29.95). Traces the origins, events, and aftermath of a shootout that occurred in February 1918 at a remote cabin in the Galiuro Mountains, where Jeff Power and his sons, who refused to register for the draft, confronted a local sheriff and two deputies; draws on previously untapped records and on interviews with descendants.

Buying Time: Debt and Mobility in the Western Indian Ocean by Thomas F. McDow (Ohio University Press; 364 pages; $80 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Draws on previously unstudied Arabic contracts in an analysis of a network that connected the region.

Clearer Than Truth: The Polygraph and the American Cold War by John Philipp Baesler (University of Massachusetts Press; 309 pages; $90 hardcover, $30.95 paperback). Examines the polygraph machine as both a symbol and tool of U.S. Cold War policy.

Dreams for Lesotho: Independence, Foreign Assistance, and Development by John Aerni-Flessner (University of Notre Dame Press; 306 pages; $55). Focuses on how the people of Lesotho, from ordinary citizens to political leaders, viewed development as key to their vision of independence both before and after the hand-over of power from Britain in 1966.

The Escape Line: How the Ordinary Heroes of Dutch-Paris Resisted the Nazi Occupation of Western Europe by Megan Koreman (Oxford University Press; 416 pages; $29.95). A study of the Dutch-Paris escape line, a network active between 1942 and 45 that smuggled Dutch Jews and others through France to Switzerland.

Ghosts of the Somme: Commemoration and Culture War in Northern Ireland by Jonathan Evershed (University of Notre Dame Press; 314 pages; $55). Combines ethnography and history in a study of the Battle of the Somme’s significance to Ulster Loyalists.

Glory in Their Spirit: How Four Black Women Took On the Army During World War II by Sandra M. Bolzenius (University of Illinois Press; 248 pages; $99 hardcover, $19.95 paperback). Discusses four African-American privates in the Women’s Army Corps---Mary Green, Anna Morrison, Johnnie Murphy, and Alice Young---who went on strike with other WACs over discriminatory job assignments and were court-martialed for their actions.

Inventing the Immigration Problem: The Dillingham Commission and Its Legacy by Katherine Benton-Cohen (Harvard University Press; 342 pages; $29.95). Discusses a commission created in 1907 that sent social scientists across the country to study immigrants in an effort that produced 41 volumes of reports and a list of recommendations that supported continued Asian exclusion and other restrictions.

Our Country: Northern Evangelicals and the Union during the Civil War Era by Grant R. Brodrecht (Fordham University Press; 288 pages; $140 hardcover, $40 paperback). Describes how during the war and Reconstruction, many northern evangelicals subordinated their concerns for slaves and former slaves in favor of restored Union and vision of a Christian America.

Penitentiaries, Punishment, and Military Prisons: Familiar Responses to an Extraordinary Crisis During the American Civil War by Angela M. Zombek (Kent State University Press; 312 pages; $45). Documents how military prisons, Union and Confederate, were influenced by the existing practices of penitentiaries in their respective states.

Pennies for Heaven: The History of American Synagogues and Money by Daniel Judson (Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England; 256 pages; $95 hardcover, $35 paperback). Explores the shifting priorities of Jewish communities through a study of how synagogues have raised money, financed buildings, and paid clergy since 1728.

Remembering Cold Days: The 1942 Massacre of Novi Sad and Hungarian Politics and Society, 1942-1989 by Arpad von Klimo (University of Pittsburgh Press; 256 pages; $27.95). Discusses the killing of between three and four thousand civilians, mainly Serbians and Jews, by Hungarian soldiers and gendarmes at Novi Sad over a period of three days in January 1942.

Remembering World War I in America by Kimberly J. Lamay Licursi (University of Nebraska Press; 300 pages; $55). Uses an analysis of cultural artifacts to document a general apathy among Americans about the war in the decades that immediately followed the conflict; focuses on histories, memoirs, fiction, and film.

Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century by James Loeffler (Yale University Press; 362 pages; $32.50). Links Zionism and the movement for international human rights through a study of five Jewish human-rights activists: Hersch Zvi Lauterpacht, Jacob Blaustein, Rabbi Maurice Perlzweig, Jacob Robinson, and Peter Benenson.

Sediments of Time: On Possible Histories by Reinhart Koselleck, translated and edited by Sean Franzel and Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann (Stanford University Press; 280 pages; $90 hardcover, $27.95 paperback). Contains previously untranslated writings by the German historian (1923-2006), including on his theory of historical repetition, duration, and acceleration.

Sixteenth President-in-Waiting: Abraham Lincoln and the Springfield Dispatches of Henry Villard, 1860--1861 edited by Michael Burlingame (Southern Illinois University Press; 392 pages; $45.50). Edition of writings on Lincoln by a journalist described as the only full-time correspondent for out-of-town newspapers in Springfield, where he reported on the president-elect’s activities in the Illinois capital during the months before his departure for Washington.

Soldiers of the Nation: Military Service and Modern Puerto Rico, 1868-1952 by Harry Franqui-Rivera (University of Nebraska Press; 372 pages; $90). Describes how military service by Puerto Rican men shaped ideas of identity and development on the island.

Thunder in the Argonne: A New History of America’s Greatest Battle by Douglas V. Mastriano (University Press of Kentucky; 441 pages; $34.95). A history of the Meuse-Argonne offensive in France, which began on September 26, 1918, and ended with the Armistice in November.

HISTORY OF SCIENCE

Kew Observatory and the Evolution of Victorian Science, 1840--1910 by Lee T. Macdonald (University of Pittsburgh Press; 336 pages; $45). Focuses on the Victorian era at the London observatory, when it became a center for the sciences of geomagnetism, meteorology, solar physics, and standardization.

LAW

The Greatest and the Grandest Act: The Civil Rights Act of 1866 from Reconstruction to Today edited by Christian G. Samito (Southern Illinois University Press; 296 pages; $45). Essays by historians and legal scholars on 1866 act, which declared that all persons born in the United States were citizens without regard to race, color, or previous condition of slavery; topics include its impact in Reconstruction-era Kentucky, Missouri, and South Carolina.

The Prohibition Era and Policing: A Legacy of Misregulation by Wesley M. Oliver (Vanderbilt University Press; 265 pages; $69.95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Documents how rules of criminal procedure were shaped by public responses to idiosyncrasies of policing during the Prohibition era.

Seeking Accountability for the Unlawful Use of Force edited by Leila Nadya Sadat (Cambridge University Press; 646 pages; $110 hardcover, $34.99 paperback). Topics include the expanded jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court in the Hague over the crime of aggression.

Syria, the Strength of an Idea: The Constitutional Architectures of Its Political Regimes by Karim Atassi (Cambridge University Press; 514 pages; $120 hardcover, $39.99 paperback). Analyzes 25 Syrian constitutions, including permanent, draft, and other texts, since the Damascus Program prepared by the Syrian Congress in 1919.

LINGUISTICS

The Creole Debate by John H. McWhorter (Cambridge University Press; 173 pages; $76.99 hardcover, $22.99 paperback). Defends the exceptionalism of creoles and their status as genuinely new languages.

Indigenous Languages, Politics, and Authority in Latin America: Historical and Ethnographic Perspectives edited by Alan Durston and Bruce Mannheim (University of Notre Dame Press; 265 pages; $55). Writings on how indigenous languages in Latin America have functioned as instruments of social and political order since the 16th century; topics include Quechua-language government propaganda in 1920s Peru.

LITERATURE

Above the American Renaissance: David S. Reynolds and the Spiritual Imagination in American Literary Studies edited by Harold K. Bush and Brian Yothers (University of Massachusetts Press; 288 pages; $90 hardcover, $28.95 paperback). Essays that use Reynolds’s acclaimed 1989 work, Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville, as a model and provocation to explore spiritual aspects of 19th-century American literature;

America’s Dark Theologian: The Religious Imagination of Stephen King by Douglas E. Cowan (New York University Press; 272 pages; $30). Explores the American writer’s questioning treatment of religion in Carrie, Misery, and other of his horror fiction.

Arms and the Woman: Classical Tradition and Women Writers in the Venetian Renaissance by Francesca D’Alessandro Behr (Ohio State University Press; 292 pages; $89.95). Focuses on Moderata Fonte and Lucrezia Marinella in a study of the reception of the classical tradition in works by Venetian women writers of the early modern era; describes how the two used their knowledge of Virgil, Ovid, and Aristotle to envision egalitarian societies.

Battle Lines: Canadian Poetry in English and the First World War by Joel Baetz (Wilfrid Laurier University Press; 190 pages; US$85). Focuses on Helena Coleman, John McCrae, Robert Service, Frank Prewett, and W.W.E. Ross in a study of the contested figure of the Canadian soldier in World War I poetry.

George Sand by Martine Reid, translated by Gretchen van Slyke (Penn State University Press; 280 pages; $29.95). Translation of a 2013 French biography of the writer.

In Search of the Sacred Book: Religion and the Contemporary Latin American Novel by Anibal Gonzalez (University of Pittsburgh Press; 224 pages; $27.95). Traces religion’s role in Latin American literature and various writers’ efforts to sacralize the novel; authors discussed include Jorge Luis Borges, Maria Luisa Bombal, Alejo Carpentier, Juan Rulfo, Julio Cortazar, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Jose Lezama Lima, as well as such “desacralizers” as Elena Poniatowska and Roberto Bolano.

J. D. Salinger and the Nazis by Eberhard Alsen (University of Wisconsin Press; 175 pages; $24.95). Examines the impact of Salinger’s military service, with a focus on the Counter Intelligence Corps; topics include the evolution of what is termed his eventual non-judgmental view of the Nazis.

LeAnne Howe at the Intersections of Southern and Native American Literature by Kirstin L. Squint (Louisiana State University Press; 192 pages; $40). A critical study of the Choctaw writer and scholar (b. 1951).

Lingua Cosmica: Science Fiction from around the World edited by Dale Knickerbocker (University of Illinois Press; 272 pages; $99 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Essays on authors described as among the vanguard of international science fiction, including Daina Chaviano, Jacek Dukaj, Jean-Claude Dunyac, Andreas Eschbach, Angelica Gorodischer, Sakyo Komatsu, Liu Cixin Laurent McAllister, Yves Meynard, Jean-Louis Trudel, Olatunde Osunsanmi, Johanna Sinisalo, and Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.

The Migrant Canon in Twenty-First-Century France by Oana Sabo (University of Nebraska Press; 228 pages; $50). Explores the themes, forms, reception, and establishment “consecration” of such writers as Mathias Enard, Milan Kundera, Dany Laferriere, Henri Lopes, Andrei Makine, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, and Alice Zeniter.

Narratology and Ideology: Negotiating Context, Form, and Theory in Postcolonial Narratives edited by Divya Dwivedi, Henrik Skov Nielsen, and Richard Walsh (Ohio State University Press; 292 pages; $59.95). Essays on postcolonial narratology, with a focus on South Asian literature; authors discussed include Indra Sinha, Salman Rushdie, Mulk Raj Anand, Mohsin Hamid, Jhumpa Lahiri, and N.S. Madhavan.

Novelization: From Film to Novel by Jan Baetens, translated by Mary Feeney (Ohio State University Press; 202 pages; $74.95). Discusses the more-unusual trajectory of adaptation in which an original film or screenplay is transformed into a novel; focuses on six French examples, beginning with Pierre Bost’s novelization of Carl Dreyer’s Joan of Arc.

Other Englands: Utopia, Capital, and Empire in an Age of Transition by Sarah Hogan (Stanford University Press; 280 pages; $60). Offers a Marxist perspective on 16th- and 17th-century utopian literature’s range of responses to emergent capitalism; authors analyzed include More, Bacon, Spenser, Sir Thomas Smith, Gabriel Plattes, Milton, Isabella Whitney, and Aemelia Lanyer.

Rebecca Harding Davis: A Life Among Writers by Sharon M. Harris (West Virginia University Press; 493 pages; $59.99). A biography of the West Virginia writer (1831-1910), whose early work “Life in the Iron Mills” is viewed as a pioneering work of realism.

The Remarkable Kinship of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Ellen Glasgow by Ashley Andrews Lear (University Press of Florida; 256 pages; $29.95). A study of the correspondence of the two writers, the much older Glasgow in urban Virginia, and Rawlings in rural Florida; draws on material for what Rawlings intended as a biography of her friend.

Robert Duncan and the Pragmatist Sublime by James Maynard (University of New Mexico Press; 211 pages; $65). Explores the American poet’s shifting understanding of excess and links his poetic process to the pragmatist tradition of James, Dewey, and Whitehead.

Uncle Tom: From Martyr to Traitor by Adena Spingarn (Stanford University Press; 208 pages; $40). Traces the changing reception of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel, including the use of “Uncle Tom” as a slur in black political rhetoric beginning in the 1910s.

Visible Dissent: Latin American Writers, Small U.S. Presses, and Progressive Social Change by Teresa V. Longo (University of Iowa Press; 148 pages; $80). Focuses on Curbstone, Seven Stories, and City Lights in a discussion of small literary presses and their publishing of Latin American and U.S. Latino authors.

We Met in Paris: Grace Frick and Her Life With Marguerite Yourcenar by Joan E. Howard (University of Missouri Press; 488 pages; $45). A biography of the American translator (1903-79), who introduced English-language readers to Yourcenar, her lover, with her translation of the French author’s Memoirs of Hadrian (1954).

MUSIC

Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement by Naomi Andre (University of Illinois Press; 296 pages; $99 hardcover, $27.95 paperback). Focuses on the United States and South Africa in a study of black composers, performers, audiences, and representations, with particular attention to From the Diary of Sally Hemings, Porgy and Bess, diverse stagings of Carmen, and Winnie, an opera on Winnie Mandela.

A&R Pioneers: Architects of American Roots Music on Record by Brian Ward and Patrick Huber (Vanderbilt University Press; 480 pages; $39.95). Focuses on men and women who scouted and signed American roots performers in the interwar period, shaping their repertoires and marketing their music.

PHILOSOPHY

The Art of Gratitude by Jeremy David Engels (State University of New York Press; 190 pages; $80). Examines how gratitude has been construed as a debt in the Western tradition, and considers how this market logic has informed neoliberalism; draws on Eastern philosophies to offer an alternative view of gratitude as thankfulness.

Political Philosophy and the Republican Future: Reconsidering Cicero by Gregory Bruce Smith (University of Notre Dame Press; 428 pages; $55). Argues for a return to what is termed the phenomenological and “architectonic” understanding of political philosophy exemplified by Cicero.

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Brokering Peace in Nuclear Environments: U.S. Crisis Management in South Asia by Moeed Yusuf (Stanford University Press; 280 pages; $65). Uses crises in relations between India and Pakistan to examine the potential role of third-party intervention in managing threats of nuclear war.

Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics by Jamila Michener (Cambridge University Press; 236 pages; $84.99 hardcover, $24.99 paperback). Examines how Americans experience and understand dramatic, state-by-state variations in the administration and generosity of Medicaid programs; considers how this aspect of federalism affects political participation and democratic citizenship.

The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be: The 2016 Presidential Election in the South edited by Branwell DuBose Kapeluck and Scott E. Buchanan (University of Arkansas Press; 332 pages; $34.95). Writings on the election in 11 states of the “deep” and “rim” South.

Peacekeeping in South Lebanon: Credibility and Local Cooperation by Vanessa F. Newby (Syracuse University Press; 240 pages; $60 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Uses the everyday operations of UNIFIL, the United Nations Interim Force, to examine the role played by four distinct forms of credibility in peacekeeping operations.

Regional Pathways to Nuclear Nonproliferation by Wilfred Wan (University of Georgia Press; 208 pages; $59.95). Discusses reorienting nonproliferation efforts to the regional level, identifying the challenges specific to each region.

Reshaping the Political Arena in Latin America: From Resisting Neoliberalism to the Second Incorporation edited by Eduardo Silva and Federico M. Rossi (University of Pittsburgh Press; 360 pages; $32.95). Focuses on Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Venezuela.

Tyranny Comes Home: The Domestic Fate of U.S. Militarism by Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail R. Hall (Stanford University Press; 264 pages; $85 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Discusses tactics and technologies the U.S. government uses in foreign military interventions that are then employed by the state and law enforcement at home.

RELIGION

Augustine Our Contemporary: Examining the Self in Past and Present edited by Willemien Otten and Susan E. Schreiner (University of Notre Dame Press; 476 pages; $70). Essays on St. Augustine and his influence on notions of the self, interiority, and personal identity from medieval times to postmodernity.

Biblical Porn: Affect, Labor, and Pastor Mark Driscoll’s Evangelical Empire by Jessica Johnson (Duke University Press; 246 pages; $94.95 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Offers an ethnographic perspective on the rise and fall of Driscoll’s Mars Hill Church, focusing on its home base in Seattle.

Divine Currency: The Theological Power of Money in the West by Devin Singh (Stanford University Press; 288 pages; $85 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Examines links between money and Christian theology, with a focus on early Christianity and the Church Fathers of late antiquity.

Generating Generosity in Catholicism and Islam: Beliefs, Institutions, and Public Goods Provision by Carolyn M. Warner and others (Cambridge University Press; 298 pages; $99.99 hardcover, $39.99 paperback). Draws on research on Catholics and Muslims in France, Ireland, Italy, and Turkey in a study of how the beliefs and institutions of both faiths prompt adherents to help others.

Inhabiting the World: Identity, Politics, and Theology in Radical Baptist Perspective by Ryan Andrew Newson (Mercer University Press; 220 pages; $35). Engages and extends the work of the theologian James Wm. McClendon Jr. (1924-2000) into neuroscience, political theology, and other realms.

RHETORIC

From Hysteria to Hormones: A Rhetorical History by Amy Koerber (Penn State University Press; 256 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $39.95 paperback). Identifies both departures and continuities in how the early 20th-century discovery of hormones affected the understanding of women’s bodies; topics include the persistence of hysterical neurosis as a diagnostic category.

The Rhetorical Invention of Diversity: Supreme Court Opinions, Public Arguments, and Affirmative Action by M. Kelly Carr (Michigan State University Press; 310 pages; $49.95). Discusses amici briefs, intrachamber dialogue, and other influences on Justice Lewis F. Powell’s opinion in the landmark affirmative-action case Regents of the U. of California v. Bakke.

SOCIOLOGY

Better Safe Than Sorry: How Consumers Navigate Exposure to Everyday Toxics by Norah MacKendrick (University of California Press; 252 pages; $85 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Explores the class and gender politics of “precautionary consumption” or “green shopping,” and shows how the strategy does little to promote environmental oversight and the mitigation of risk.

Judge and Punish: The Penal State on Trial by Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, translated by Lara Vergnaud (Stanford University Press; 224 pages; $85 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Translation of a 2016 French sociological work on justice and punishment in liberal democracies, with particular attention to France; combines theoretical perspectives with accounts of trials set against the wider context of state power.

Making Cars in the New India: Industry, Precarity and Informality by Tom Barnes (Cambridge University Press; 261 pages; $99.99 hardcover, $44.99 paperback). Draws on fieldwork in India’s National Capital Region in an interdisciplinary economic sociology study of labor -management relations in the automobile industry; considers why that sector has experienced such a high level of industrial, social, and political conflict in recent years.

A Place to Call Home: Immigrant Exclusion and Urban Belonging in New York, Paris, and Barcelona by Ernesto Casteneda (Stanford University Press; 232 pages; $85 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Draws on ethnographic and interview data from the three cities to examine how location can affect immigrant integration; compares the experiences of Latino and North African immigrants, both documented and undocumented.

SPORTS STUDIES

Pigskin Nation: How the NFL Remade American Politics by Jesse Berrett (University of Illinois Press; 304 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Discusses professional football’s rise as America’s most popular sport, with a focus on the interplay of football, politics, and culture between 1966 and 1974.

THEATER

Californios, Anglos, and the Performance of Oligarchy in the U.S. West by Andrew Gibb (Southern Illinois University Press; 268 pages; $45). Uses realms from theater proper to such “performances” as weddings to describe how the Spanish-speaking elites of Mexican California enacted oligarchy and influenced their Anglo successors.

WOMEN’S STUDIES

We Are Dancing for You: Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women’s Coming-of-Age Ceremonies by Cutcha Risling Baldy (University of Washington Press; 208 pages; $90 hardcover, $30 paperback). Combines scholarly and personal perspectives in a study of the revival of the Flower Dance among the Hupa of northwestern California.