AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES
Freedom, Inc. and Black Political Empowerment by Micah W. Kubic (University of Missouri Press; 291 pages; $75). A study of the black political organization Freedom, Inc., of Kansas City, Mo., from its founding in 1962 to its role in municipal elections in 2007.
AGRICULTURE
More Than Just Food: Food Justice and Community Change by Garrett M. Broad (University of California Press; 276 pages; $65 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Examines the work of food-justice groups, including Community Services Unlimited, a South Los Angeles organization founded as the nonprofit arm of the Southern California Black Panther Party.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Early Inuit Studies: Themes and Transitions, 1850s-1980s edited by Igor Krupnik (Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press; 592 pages; $49.95). Writings by American, Canadian, Danish, French, and Russian scholars on the history, since the 1850s, of what was once known as Eskimology.
How Traditions Live and Die by Olivier Morin (Oxford University Press; 300 pages; $99 hardcover, $39.95 paperback). Translation of a 2011 French work on cultural transmission that challenges previous theorists’ emphasis on human powers of imitation.
Why the Porcupine Is Not a Bird: Explorations in the Folk Zoology of an Eastern Indonesian People by Gregory Forth (University of Toronto Press; 384 pages; US$85 hardcover, US$36.95 paperback). Examines the naming and classification of animals among the Nage people of central Flores.
ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Helio Oiticica: Folding the Frame by Irene V. Small (University of Chicago Press; 293 pages; $45). A critical study of the Brazilian artist (1937-80) that focuses on how his works either perform or invite actions of folding, building, making, wearing.
The Modernist Architecture of Samuel G. and William B. Wiener: Shreveport, Louisiana, 1920-1960 by Karen Kingsley and Guy W. Carwile (Louisiana State University Press; 200 pages; $45). Discusses the Wiener brothers’ commercial, residential, and institutional architecture in the Louisiana city as one of the earliest clusters of modernist buildings by American-born architects.
Remote Avant-Garde: Aboriginal Art Under Occupation by Jennifer Loureide Biddle (Duke University Press; 265 pages; $94.95 hardcover, $26.95 paperback). Examines how acrylic “witness paintings,” grass sculptures, stop-motion animation, and other arts figure in the struggles of Aboriginal communities of Australia’s central and western desert.
BIOLOGY
Coevolution of Life on Hosts: Integrating Ecology and History by Dale H. Clayton, Sarah E. Bush, and Kevin P. Johnson (University of Chicago Press; 320 pages; $120 hardcover, $45 paperback). Focuses on lice on birds and mammals in a study of the co-evolution that occurs between host and parasite species.
The Origin of Higher Taxa: Palaeobiological, Developmental, and Ecological Perspectives by T.S. Kemp (University of Chicago Press; 320 pages; $120 hardcover, $40 paperback). Develops a reinterpretation of macroevolution, or evolution above the species level.
CLASSICAL STUDIES
Landscape and the Spaces of Metaphor in Ancient Literary Theory and Criticism by Nancy Worman (Cambridge University Press; $99.99). Explores links among figurative discourse, style, and landscape, as with the role of the river Ilisus in Plato’s Phaedrus.
COMMUNICATION
Dead Matter: The Meaning of Iconic Corpses by Margaret Schwartz (University of Minnesota Press; 140 pages; $87.50 hardcover, $25 paperback). Focuses on Lincoln, Lenin, and Eva Peron as “bodies of the nation”; Princess Diana and Michael Jackson as “tabloid bodies,” and Emmett Till and Hamza al-Khateeb as “martyred bodies.”
CRIMINOLOGY
Women Doing Life: Gender, Punishment and the Struggle for Identity by Lora Bex Lempert (New York University Press; 320 pages; $89 hardcover, $27 paperback). Draws on interviews with 72 women in a Michigan prison in a study that documents their efforts to create meaningful lives in the face of life sentences.
DANCE
Choreographing Copyright: Race, Gender, and Intellectual Property Rights in American Dance by Anthea Kraut (Oxford University Press; 305 pages; $95 hardcover, $35 paperback). A history of efforts to win copyright protection for choreography; discusses such canonical figures in ballet and modern as Agnes de Mille, Martha Graham, and George Balanchine, but also such marginalized figures as the black comic pantomimist Johnny Hudgins and the burlesque dancer Faith Dane.
ECONOMICS
The Future of Financial Regulation: Who Should Pay for the Failure of American and European Banks? by John Lybeck (Cambridge University Press; 594 pages; $49.99). Evaluates “bank resolutions” in Europe and the United States with the recent financial crisis.
Macroeconomics and Development: Roberto Frenkel and the Economics of Latin America edited by Mario Damill, Martin Rapetti, and Guillermo Rozenwurcel (Columbia University Press; 409 pages; $65). Essays on the work of the Argentine economist (b. 1943) in relation to pricing decisions, inflation and stabilization policy, development and income distribution in the region.
Measuring the Global Shadow Economy: The Prevalence of Informal Work and Labour by Colin C. Williams and Friedrich Schneider (Edward Elgar Publishing; 256 pages; $120). Examines the extent, nature, and determinants of shadow or informal sectors in developing, developed, and transitional economies.
Surviving Job Loss: Papermakers in Maine and Minnesota by Kenneth A. Root and Rosemarie J. Park (W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research; 251 pages; $19.99). Examines the experiences of workers displace after mill closings in Sartell, Minn., and Bucksport, Me.
EDUCATION
What We Learned: Two Generations Reflect on Tsimshian Education and the Day Schools by Helen Raptis and others (University of British Columbia Press; 224 pages; US$99). Documents the experiences of two generations of Tsimshian students---those born in the 1930s and 40s and those born in the 1950s and 60s---at day schools in northwestern British Columbia.
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Prairie Crossing: Creating an American Conservation Community by John Scott Watson (University of Illinois Press; 232 pages; $29.95). A study of a suburban development created on farmland near Chicago that preserved 69 percent of the land as open space.
GAY AND LESBIAN STUDIES
Out in the Periphery: Latin America’s Gay Rights Revolution by Omar G. Encarnacion (Oxford University Press; 243 pages; $99 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Focuses on local activists in Argentina, the first Latin American nation to legalize same-sex marriage; includes comparative discussion of Brazil, which despite a large gay-rights movement was superseded by its neighbor.
GENDER STUDIES
A History of Virility edited by Alain Corbin, Jean-Jacques Courtine, and Georges Vigarello, translated by Keith Cohen (Columbia University Press; 744 pages; $50). Writings on changing notions of manhood and virility since Greco-Roman times.
GEOGRAPHY
Selling the Serengeti: The Cultural Politics of Safari Tourism by Benjamin Gardner (University of Georgia Press; 256 pages; $79.95 hardcover, $25.95 paperback). Analyzes the impact of foreign-owned ecotourist and big-game-hunting interests on the Maasai of northern Tanzania.
HISTORY
Ambiguous Borderlands: Shadow Imagery in Cold War American Culture by Erik Mortenson (Southern Illinois University Press; 320 pages; $35). Discusses the imagery of shadows in American literary and popular culture of the 1950s and 60s.
Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America’s Founding Father by George Goodwin (Yale University Press; 365 pages; $32.50). Discusses the Boston-born Franklin’s formative 18 months in England as a young man, and his return, in 1757 to stay until the eve of the American Revolution.
Civil War Alabama by Christopher Lyle McIlwain Sr. (University of Alabama Press; 435 pages; $59.95). Documents class, regional, political, and other divisions in a study of how the state came to secede and experienced the war.
Community without Consent: New Perspectives on the Stamp Act edited by Zachary McLeod Hutchins (Dartmouth College Press/University Press of New England; 242 pages; $85 hardcover, $40 paperback). Multidisciplinary writings on such topics as slavery and British subjecthood in the Stamp Act crisis, 1764-1766.
Embracing Protestantism: Black Identites in the Atlantic World by John W. Catron (University Press of Florida; 302 pages; $74.95). Discusses free and enslaved blacks in the port towns of America, the Caribbean, and Africa and the ties created by their embrace of Methodist, Baptist, and Moravian churches.
Pew and the Picket Line: Christianity and the American Working Class edited by Christopher D. Cantwell, Heath W. Carter, and Janine Giordano Drake (University of Illinois Press; 249 pages; $95 hardcover, $28 paperback). Essays on such topics as Catholic social policy and resistance to the bracero program, and black freedom struggles and ecumenical activism in 1960s Chicago.
Reverence, Resistance and Politics of Seeing the Indian National Flag by Sadan Jha (Cambridge University Press; $99.99). Examines the colonial and postcolonial history of the flag as Indian nationalist and national icon.
Voices From the Front: An Oral History of the Great War by Peter Hart (Oxford University Press; 424 pages; $34.95). Draws on interviews the author carried out in the 1980s and early 90s with 183 British veterans of World War I.
The War after the War: The Struggle for Credibility during America’s Exit from Vietnam by Johannes Kadura (Cornell University Press; 272 pages; $45). Seeks to bridge both orthodox and revisionist perspectives on U.S. strategy following the cease fire of January 28, 1973.
HISTORY OF SCIENCE
Fine Lines: Vladimir Nabokov’s Scientific Art edited by Stephen H. Blackwell and Kurt Johnson (Yale University Press; 318 pages; $50). Documents the writer’s scientific contributions in more than 1,000 anatomical drawings he did of butterflies in an effort to understand the evolutionary diversity of Blues; includes 154 images along with essays by scientists and specialists on the Russian-born American writer.
LAW
The Jury in America: Triumph and Decline by Dennis Hale (University Press of Kansas; 464 pages; $39.95). Examines the history and dramatic decline of jury trials, and the recent decline of the institution in both civil and criminal court.
Law and the Modern Mind: Consciousness and Responsibility in American Legal Culture by Susanna L. Blumenthal (Harvard University Press; 385 pages; $45). Examines the relationship between consciousness and liability in American civil and criminal law, with a focus on the period from the Revolutionary era to the turn of the 20th century.
LINGUISTICS
Argument Licensing and Agreement by Claire Halpert (Oxford University Press; 296 pages; $99 hardcover, $39.95 paperback). Develops a theory of case licensing in Bantu languages, with particular illustrative attention to Zulu.
Inflectional Paradigms: Content and Form at the Syntax-Morphology Interface by Gregory Stump (Cambridge University Press; 239 pages; $99.99 hardcover, $34.99 paperback). Draws on data from French, Hua, Hungarian, Kashmiri, Latin, Nepali, Noon, Old Norse, Sanskrit, Turkish, Twi and other languages.
The Interaction of Focus and Givenness in Italian Clause Structure by Vieri Samek-Lodovici (Oxford University Press; 332 pages; $115 hardcover, $60 paperback). Challenges prevailing views of contrastive focalization in Italian.
LITERATURE
Calypso Magnolia: The Crosscurrents of Caribbean and Southern Literature by John Wharton Lowe (University of North Carolina Press; 544 pages; $95 hardcover, $39.95 paperback). Explores literary links between the two regions through a study of such writers as William Faulkner, Martin Delany, Zora Neale Hurston, George Lamming, Cristina Garcia, Edouard Glissant, and Madison Smartt Bell.
Continuing Bonds with the Dead: Parental Grief and Nineteenth-Century American Authors by Harold K. Bush (University of Alabama Press; 256 pages; $49.95). Discusses the death of a child as a before and point for Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, and W.E.B. Du Bois.
A Drama of the Southwest: The Critical Edition of a Forgotten Play by Jean Toomer, edited by Carolyn J. Dekker (University of New Mexico Press; 189 pages; $45). Edition of a previously unpublished 1935 play that draws on the writer’s experiences in Taos and has characters inspired by Mary Austin, Mabel Dodge Luhan Georgia O’Keeffe, and Toomer’s second wife, Marjorie Content.
The Entrapments of Form: Cruelty and Modern Literature by Catherine Toal (Fordham University Press; 172 pages; $85 hardcover, $25 paperback). Topics include cruelty and “exchanges” between French and American literature, including Poe’s influence on the legacy of Sade.
Female Piety and the Invention of American Puritanism by Bryce Traister (Ohio State University Press; 248 pages; $69.95). Discusses Anne Hutchinson, Mary Rowlandson, and others in a study of the reception of radical female piety in 17th-century New England.
The Fornes Frame: Contemporary Latina Playwrights and the Legacy of Maria Irene Fornes by Anne Garcia-Romero (University of Arizona Press; 256 pages; $24.95). Traces the influence of the Cuban-born playwright Fornes (b. 1930) on the work of Quiara Alegria Hudes, Elaine Romero, Cusi Cram, Caridad Svich, and Karen Zacarias.
Nation and Migration: The Making of British Atlantic Literature, 1765-1835 by Juliet Shields (Oxford University Press; 195 pages; $74). Focuses on Scottish, Irish, and Welsh contributions to a British Atlantic literature during the period; topics include the Irish uncanny and the American gothic, and the Welsh, the “Madoc myth,” and American westward migration.
The New Woman Gothic: Reconfigurations of Distress by Patricia Murphy (University of Missouri Press; 262 pages; $50). Explores gothic tropes in representations of the New Woman in British novels of the 1880s and 90s.
Raving at Usurers: Anti-Finance and the Ethics of Uncertainty in England, 1690-1750 by Dwight Codr (University of Virginia Press; 256 pages; $39.50). Topics include Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Fielding’s Tom Jones in relation to an “ethic of uncertainty” in anti-usury discourse.
Renaissance Posthumanism edited by Joseph Campana and Scott Maisano (Fordham University Press; 335 pages; $125 hardcover, $35 paperback). Essays that draw links between humanism between the 14th and 17th centuries and contemporary critical posthumanism; topics include Rabelais’s Gargantua, and the limits of painting and thresholds of the human in Titian’s Flaying of Marsyas.
Rough South, Rural South: Region and Class in Recent Southern Literature edited by Jean W. Cash and Keith Perry (University Press of Mississippi; 250 pages; $65). Essays on Larry Brown, William Gay, Kaye Gibbons, and other Southern writers whose careers began in recent decades and whose work often depicts a marginalized, rural working-class South.
Suddenly, the Sight of War: Violence and Nationalism in Hebrew Poetry in the 1940s by Hannan Hever (Stanford University Press; 288 pages; $65). Traces changes in the work of Hebrew-language poets in Palestine with the growing knowledge of the genocidal persecution of European Jews.
MUSIC
Indigenous Pop: Native American Music From Jazz to Hip Hop edited by Jeff Berglund, Jan Johnson, and Kimberli Lee (University of Arizona Press; 250 pages; $34.95). Topics include Mildred Bailey and American Indian jazz, folk and rock in the Red Power era, and the punk band Blackfire’s land-based ethics.
New Orleans Rhythm and Blues After Katrina: Music, Magic and Myth by Michael Urban (Palgrave Macmillan; 181 pages; 495). Draws on 56 interviews in a study of the 2005 disaster’s impact on the city’s R&B musicians.
PHILOSOPHY
About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Lectures at Dartmouth College, 1980 by Michel Foucault, translated by Graham Burchell (University of Chicago Press; 160 pages; $25). Translation of lectures given by the French philosopher in which he compared practices of self-examination and confession in Greco-Roman and early Christian monastic culture.
The Myth of the Moral Brain: The Limits of Moral Enhancement by Harris Wiseman (MIT Press; 340 pages; $38). Examines recent claims about the neurobiology of morality and disputes the notion of a “moral brain” that could be “enhanced” through technological or pharmaceutical engineering.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Asymmetry and International Relationships by Brantly Womack (Cambridge University Press; 260 pages; $99.99 hardcover, $34.99 paperback). Topics include how the United States has maintained primacy but not dominance since 2008.
Cheap Threats: Why the United States Struggles to Coerce Weak States by Dianne Pfundstein Chamberlain (Georgetown University Press; 288 pages; $64.95 hardcover, $32.95 paperback). Focuses on why weak states resist threats from the United States, despite a history of America following through; draws on an original dataset from 1945 to2007 and case studies of the Cuban missile crisis, Libya in 2011, and Iraq in 1991 and 2003.
On War and Democracy by Christopher Kutz (Princeton University Press; 332 pages; $39.95). Examines the moral justifications given by democracies to wage war and argues that democratic values can impede efforts to limit violence.
Trust Us: Reproducing the Nation and the Scandinavian Nationalist Populist Parties by Anders Hellstrom (Berghahn Books; 232 pages; $95). A study of the Sweden Democrats, the Danish People’s Party, and the Progress Party in Norway.
Unconditional Equality: Gandhi’s Religion of Resistance by Ajay Skaria (University of Minnesota Press; 389 pages; $105 hardcover, $30 paperback). Considers the divergence of Gujarati and English texts in a study of the Indian leader’s idea of satyagraha or passive resistance.
Varietals of Capitalism: A Political Economy of the Changing Wine Industry by Xabier Itcaina, Antoine Roger, and Andy Smith (Cornell University Press; 280 pages; $45). Draws on fieldwork in France, Spain, Italy, and Romania in a study of the origins and impact of a European Union-level shift in wine-industry policy.
RELIGION
Augustine’s Early Theology of Image: A Study in the Development of Pro-Nicene Theology by Gerald P. Boersma (Oxford University Press; 318 pages; $74). Argues that Augustine’s view of imago dei presents Christ as an equal likeness to God and the human person as an image of unequal likeness; documents how his views are a departure from the pro-Nicene theologies of Hilary of Poitiers, Marius Victorinus, and Ambrose of Milan.
The Divine Quest, East and West: A Comparative Study of Ultimate Realities by James L. Ford (State University of New York Press; 411 pages; $90). Compares visions of the divine in Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, and Christianity.
Making Martyrs East and West: Canonization in the Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches by Cathy Caridi (Northern Illinois University Press; 200 pages; $59). Draws on previously untapped Russian sources in a comparative study of the two churches’ canonization procedures.
A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume V: Probing the Authenticity of the Parables by John P. Meier (Yale University Press; 441 pages; $55). Argues that only the parables of the mustard seed, the evil tenants, the talents, and the great supper can be attributed to the “historical Jesus” with fair certainty.
Martyrs Mirror: A Social History by David L. Weaver-Zercher (Johns Hopkins University Press; 432 pages; $49.95). Discusses The Bloody Theater, or a collection of stories of Anabaptist martyrs compiled by a Dutch Mennonite minister in 1660; considers the text’s key role in Amish and Mennonite communities through today.
Patterns of Sin in the Hebrew Bible: Metaphor, Culture, and the Making of a Religious Concept by Joseph Lam (Oxford University Press; 308 pages; $74). Draws on linguistics and the philosophy of language in a study of metaphors of sin as burden; account; path or direction; and stain or impurity in the Hebrew Bible.
The Samaritans: A Profile by Reinhard Pummer (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing; 362 pages; $30). Examines the history, religion, and lives of the Samaritans, a people with roots in Samaria over thousands of years and known chiefly through Jesus’ parable in Luke.
Treasure in Heaven: The Holy Poor in Early Christianity by Peter Brown (University of Virginia Press; 192 pages; $22.95). Examines the legacy of monasticism in ancient Egypt and Syria in shaping views of monks working to support themselves.
RHETORIC
The Everest Effect: Nature, Culture, Ideology by Elizabeth Mazzolini (University of Alabama Press; 184 pages; $39.95). Links technology and ideology in a study of the Himalayan mountain’s changing status in Western culture.
SOCIOLOGY
Masculine Compromise: Migration, Family, and Gender in China by Susanne Y.P. Choi and Yinni Peng (University of California Press; 200 pages; $65 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Uses the life stories of 266 migrants in South China to explore the impact of the rural-to-urban move on traditional masculine roles of lover, husband, son, and father.
Undocumented Fears: Immigration and the Politics of Divide and Conquer in Hazleton, Pennsylvania (Temple University Press; 226 pages; $89.50 hardcover, $27.95 paperback). Discusses the city’s passage in 2006 of a local ordinance declaring English the official language and setting out penalties for hiring or renting to undocumented immigrants.
