Weekly Book List, March 17, 2017

AGRICULTURE

Women in Agriculture: Professionalizing Rural Life in North America and Europe, 1880-1965 edited by Linda M. Ambrose and Joan M. Jensen (University of Iowa Press; 272 pages; $65). Writings on the rural sociologist Emily Hoag and other women who worked as agricultural researchers, producers, marketers, educators, and community organizers in North America, Britain, and the Netherlands.

ANTHROPOLOGY

Biomedical Entanglements: Conceptions of Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Society by Franziska A. Herbst (Berghahn Books; 241 pages; $120). Focuses on the Giri people and their experience of modern medicine, including at the rural Bunapas Health Center and the provincial Modilon General Hospital.

Children as Caregivers: The Global Fight Against Tuberculosis and HIV in Zambia by Jean Hunleth (Rutgers University Press; 194 pages; $95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Focuses on TB in a study of children as caregivers for guardians in George, a community on the margins of Zambia’s capital, Lusaka.

Children of the Welfare State: Civilising Practices in Schools, Childcare and Families by Laura Gilliam and Eva Gullov (Zed Books; 290 pages; $35). Draws on the theories of Norbert Elias in a study of socialization processes in Danish schools, day-care centers, and families.

Cooperatives, Grassroots Development, and Social Change: Experiences From Rural Latin America edited by Marcela Vasquez-Leon, Brian J. Burke, and Timothy J. Finan (University of Arizona Press; 250 pages; $39.95). Focuses on Paraguay, Brazil, and Colombia in writings that evaluate smallholder agricultural cooperatives as a development strategy in Latin America.

The Nature of the Path: Reading a West African Road by Marcus Filippello (University of Minnesota Press; 224 pages; $94 hardcover, $27 paperback). Examines how a sense of history and community for Yoruba-speaking Ohori is tied, mnemonically, to a road running through the Lama Valley in Southeastern Benin.

The Patient Multiple: An Ethnography of Healthcare and Decision-Making in Bhutan by Jonathan Taee (Berghahn Books; 220 pages; $110). A study of patients’ use of biomedical and traditional healing practices in the Himalayan kingdom.

Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work edited by Parin Dossa and Cati Coe (Rutgers University Press; 231 pages; $95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Writings on the social and emotional contributions of grandparents and other older people in families shaped by migration; topics include Chinese grandparents in Canada, and Italian grandparents in Australia.

ART AND ARCHITECTURE

Asking the Audience: Participatory Art in 1980s New York by Adair Rounthwaite (University of Minnesota Press; 265 pages; $108 hardcover, $27 paperback). Focuses on two projects: Martha Rosler’s If You Lived Here.. and Group Material’s Democracy.

Before Publication: Montage in Art, Architecture, and Book Design edited by Nanni Baltzer and Martino Stierli (Park Books, distributed by University of Chicago Press; 143 pages; $39). Discusses such figures as Tristan Tzara, Sergei Eisenstein, Ed Ruscha, and Muriel Cooper in essays on the conveying of visual meaning through montage.

Horace Vernet and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture edited by Daniel Harkett and Katie Hornstein (Dartmouth College Press/University Press of New England; 280 pages; $95 hardcover, $40 paperback). Essays on the life and work of the French painter (1789-1863).

James Rose by Dean Cardasis (University of Georgia Press; 140 pages; $26.95). A biography of the American landscape architect, who was expelled from Harvard in 1937 for refusing to design in the Beaux-Artes style and whose philosophies anticipated concepts of sustainability and other concerns today.

Paik’s Virtual Archive: Time, Change, and Materiality in Media Art by Hanna B. Holling (University of California Press; 248 pages; $65). A study of the Korean-born American video-art pioneer Nam June Paik (1932-2006); uses his work to explore issues of the conservation object in the wake of media art.

COMMUNICATION

The Assemblage Brain: Sense Making in Neuroculture by Tony D. Sampson (University of Minnesota Press; 245 pages; $112 hardcover, $28 paperback). Draws on Deleuze and Guattari to defend a vision of the brain that emerges from the non-locationist tradition of panpsychism.

Citizen Spies: The Long Rise of America’s Surveillance Society by Joshua Reeves (New York University Press; 229 pages; $30). Traces the history of government and allied efforts to urge Americans to spy and inform on their peers.

COMPUTER SCIENCE

The Systemic Image: A New Theory of Interactive Real-Time Simulations by Inge Hinterwaldner, translated by Elizabeth Tucker (MIT Press; 384 pages; $72). Translation of a 2010 German study of optic, acoustic, and other sensory aspects of dynamic computer simulations.

ECONOMICS

Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy by Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght (Harvard University Press; 400 pages; $29.95). Offers a history and defense of the idea of providing a basic income to all individuals regardless of means or activity.

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Yellowstone and the Smithsonian: Centers of Wildlife Conservation by Diane Smith (University Press of Kansas; 198 pages; $39.95 hardcover, $19.95 paperback). Discusses specimen exchange and other aspects of the relationship between the Washington-based institution and America’s first national park.

FILM STUDIES

Exception Taken: How France Has Defied Hollywood’s New World Order by Jonathan Buchsbaum (Columbia University Press; 393 pages; $105 hardcover, $35 paperback). A history of French efforts to counter Hollywood’s hegemony at the national, regional, and global levels; topics include the struggles over “cultural exceptions” in GATT trade agreements.

Hollywood Made in China by Aynne Kokas (University of California Press; 245 pages; $85 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Draws on research in Beijing, Shanghai, and Los Angeles in a study of Hollywood-Chinese collaborations and branding.

Pier Paolo Pasolini: Performing Authorship by Gian Maria Annovi (Columbia University Press; 258 pages; $60). Focuses on Pasolini’s later work, from the early 1960s to his murder, in 1975, in a study of the Italian film director’s construction of an antiauthoritarian authorial performance in his cinema, writing, and art.

HISTORY

Alexander Robey Shepherd: The Man Who Built the Nation’s Capital by John P. Richardson (Ohio University Press; 248 pages; $59.95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). A biography of the controversial businessman and civic leader, who transformed the infrastructure of Washington DC in the early 1870s as head of public works.

Cattle in the Backlands: Mato Grosso and the Evolution of Ranching in the Brazilian Tropics by Robert W. Wilcox (University of Texas Press; 323 pages; $45). Describes the Brazilian region as key to cattle ranching in the tropics, including the introduction of new breed, the Zebu.

Children of Reunion: Vietnamese Adoptions and the Politics of Family Migrations by Allison Varzally (University of North Carolina Press; 205 pages; $80 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Discusses the migration of Vietnamese adoptees and Amerasians to the United States since 1965, as well as later reunions in the homeland.

Curse on This Country: The Rebellious Army of Imperial Japan by Danny Orbach (Cornell University Press; 384 pages; $39.95). Documents a long history of rebellion in the Japanese Army that belies notions of blind obedience.

Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions by Paul E. Lovejoy (Ohio University Press; 432 pages; $90 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). A study of political change in the region from the late 18th to the mid-19th centuries; topics include the expansion of slavery in the Muslim states of the Sokoto Caliphate, Fuuta Jalon, and Fuuta Toro.

Lincoln, Congress, and Emancipation edited by Paul Finkelman and Donald R. Kennon (Ohio University Press; 288 pages; $45 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Writings on the path to the 13th Amendment; topics include the roles of Sen. Charles Sumner and Rep. Thaddeus Stevens.

Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History by Mona Hassan (Princeton University Press; 390 pages; $45). Examines the varied meanings of caliphate for Muslim scholars, historians, poets, and others over history through a study of reactions during two occasions of loss: the destruction of the Abbasid caliphate in Baghdad in 1258 and the end of the Ottoman caliphate in 1924.

Mexico’s Nobodies: The Cultural Legacy of the Soldadera and Afro-Mexican Women by B. Christine Arce (State University of New York Press; 331 pages; $95). Focuses on the soldadera, from female camp follower to militarily active woman, and the Mexican Revolution, as well as the figure of the mulata in Mexican popular culture.

Pershing’s Crusaders: The American Soldier in World War I by Richard S. Faulkner (University Press of Kansas; 758 pages; $39.95). Examines the attitudes and experiences of the American doughboy, with a focus on service in Belgium, France, and Germany.

The Sobibor Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance by Chris Webb (Ibidem, distributed by Columbia University Press; 519 pages; $45). Completes a trilogy on three Nazi death camps in Poland, with the others having been Belzec and Treblinka.

Tejano Tiger: Jose de los Santos Benavides and the Texas-Mexico Borderlands, 1823-1891 by Jerry D. Thompson (Texas Christian University Press, distributed by Texas A&M University Press; 414 pages; $29.95). Traces the life of the Laredo-born soldier and politician, who was the highest ranking Tejano in the Confederate Army, and at the height of his political career, the only Tejano in the Texas Legislature.

HISTORY OF MEDICINE

Experiments in Democracy: Human Embryo Research and the Politics of Bioethics by J. Benjamin Hurlbut (Columbia University Press; 359 pages; $65). Traces debates over human embryo research in the United States since the late 1960s.

HISTORY OF SCIENCE

Aaron Klug---A Long Way from Durban: A Biography by Kenneth C. Holmes (Cambridge University Press; 378 pages; $44.99). A biography of the South African-born scientist who won the 1982 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his pioneering work in structural molecular biology.

LAW

Israel and its Palestinian Citizens: Ethnic Privileges in the Jewish State edited by Nadim N. Rouhana (Cambridge University Press; 460 pages; $99.99 hardcover, $34.99 paperback). Writings on institutional differentiation between Jews and Arabs in Israel, including the legal structure of subordination; topics include how the years of military rule for Palestinians within the 1948 boundaries shaped later policy toward Arabs as citizens.

The New Eugenics: Selective Breeding in an Era of Reproductive Technologies by Judith Daar (Yale University Press; 265 pages; $40). Finds an echo of eugenics in barriers that block certain people’s access to reproductive technologies because of biases linked to class, race, and marital status.

LINGUISTICS

Building and Interpreting Possession Sentences by Neil Myler (MIT Press; 454 pages; $45). Defends solutions to what are termed the too-many-meanings and too-many-surface-structures puzzles of possession sentences; draws on original fieldwork on dialects of Quechua.

LITERATURE

Alice in Space; The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll by Gillian Beer (University of Chicago Press; 296 pages; $35). Sets the Alice books in the cultural and intellectual contexts of their time, including their author’s interests in logic, language, philosophy, literature, natural history, and other realms.

Challenging Communion: The Eucharist and Middle English Literature by Jennifer Garrison (Ohio State University Press; 207 pages; $119.95). Traces challenges to received ideas of the Eucharist in Robert Mannyng’s Handlyng Synne, Julian of Norwich’s A Revelation of Love, The Book of Margery Kempe, and other texts.

Drawing on the Victorians: The Palimpsest of Victorian and Neo-Victorian Graphic Texts edited by Anna Maria Jones and Rebecca N. Mitchell (Ohio University Press; 376 pages; $80). Writings by scholars in literary studies, cultural studies, and art history on such topics as Punch magazine in the 19th century, steampunk today, and Victorian graphic narrativity.

From Page to Place: American Literary Tourism and the Afterlives of Authors edited by Jennifer Harris and Hilary Iris Lowe (University of Massachusetts Press; 244 pages; $90 hardcover, $28.95 paperback). Essays on sites and practices linked to literary tourism in the United States; topics include the recent repatriation of Edith Wharton’s library to The Mount, her home in Lenox, Mass.

The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography by Edmund Gordon (Oxford University Press; 525 pages; $34.95). Traces the life of the British writer (1940-92).

John le Carre’s Post--Cold War Fiction by Robert Lance Snyder (University of Missouri Press; 189 pages; $50). Discusses 10 novels from The Night Manager (1993) to A Delicate Truth (2013).

Late Style and its Discontents: Essays in Art, Literature, and Music edited by Gordon McMullan and Sam Smiles (Oxford University Press; 270 pages; $90). Essays that challenge assumptions regarding work done in an artist’s, composer’s, or writer’s final phase of production, usually but not always coinciding with old age; figures discussed include George Oppen, Charles Darwin, Franz Schubert, Jane Austen, Claude Monet, and Pablo Picasso.

The Limits of Fabrication: Materials Science, Materialist Poetics by Nathan Brown (Fordham University Press; 296 pages; $40). Juxtaposes the fashioning or construction of meaning in poetry with construction in scientific and other realms; topics include Ronald Johnson’s ARK and geodesic architecture in nanoscale carbon chemistry.

Sarah Waters: Gender and Sexual Politics by Claire O’Callaghan (Bloomsbury Academic; 220 pages; $108). Combines feminist and queer theory in a study of the contemporary British novelist, whose best-known work is Tipping the Velvet; also examines Waters’s nonfiction and television adaptations of her writing.

Transfiguration: The Religion of Art in Nineteenth-Century Literature Before Aestheticism by Stephen Cheeke (Oxford University Press; 237 pages; $95). Focuses on how John Ruskin, Robert Browning, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Walter Pater engaged with Christian content in their writings about art.

MUSIC

Chinatown Opera Theater in North America by Nancy Yunhwa Rao (University of Illinois Press; 415 pages; $95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). A study of the performance of Cantonese opera in the 1920s in San Francisco and other settings.

PHILOSOPHY

The Banality of Heidegger by Jean-Luc Nancy, translated by Jeff Fort (Fordham University Press; 100 pages; $90 hardcover, $25 paperback). Translation of the French philosopher’s 2015 work on Heidegger’s anti-Semitism in the Black Notebooks; explores anti-Semitism as a form of self-hatred haunting the Christian West.

Does History Make Sense? Hegel on the Historical Shapes of Justice by Terry Pinkard (Harvard University Press; 272 pages; $49.95). Emphasizes Hegel’s view of subjectivity---and justice as freedom---in a defense of the Hegelian view of history.

The Intimate Universal: The Hidden Porosity Among Religion, Art, Philosophy, and Politics by William Desmond (Columbia University Press; 506 pages; $65). Defends a universalism in individual and social being that emerges in the relationship among the four realms.

On Knowing: The Social Sciences by Richard D. McKeon, edited by David B. Owen and Joanne K. Olson (University of Chicago Press; 441 pages; $120 hardcover, $40 paperback). Edition of lectures by the American philosopher (1900-85).

The Social and Political Philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft edited by Sandrine Berges and Alan Coffee (Oxford University Press; 247 pages; $74). Topics include the British thinker as an early relational autonomy theorist, her view of marriage as “virtue friendship,” and her ideas of children’s rights and animal ethics.

Television Antiheroines: Women Behaving Badly in Crime and Prison Drama edited by Milly Buonanno (Intellect Books; 295 pages; $45.50). Writings on women in American, British, Brazilian, and other crime and prison dramas, including The Wire, Orange is the New Black, Sons of Anarchy, The Sopranos, Mafiosa, and Salve Jorge.

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Biosecurity Dilemmas: Dreaded Diseases, Ethical Responses, and the Health of Nations by Christian Enemark (Georgetown University Press; 202 pages; $64.95 hardcover, $32.95 paperback). Focuses on pandemic influenza, drug-resistant tuberculosis, smallpox, Ebola, plague, and anthrax in a study of four ethical dilemmas that arise when dealing with disease in national or international security terms.

Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia by Alexander Cooley and John Heathershaw (Yale University Press; 290 pages; $40). Documents how the rulers of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Krgyzstan use Western financial, policing, and other networks to extend their power.

Implementing Term Limits: The Case of the Michigan Legislature by Marjorie Sarbaugh-Thompson and Lyke Thompson (University of Michigan Press; 376 pages; $85 hardcover, $44.95 paperback). Draws on 13 years of research in a study of the impact of the term-limit law passed for Michigan’s legislators in 1993; finds, among other things, a larger gap between lawmakers and their constituents and a knowledge gap when it comes to leadership positions.

Intellectual Radicalism After 1989: Crisis and Re-orientation in the British and the American Left by Sebastian Berg (Transcript Verlag, distributed by Columbia University Press; 338 pages; $55). Uses political journals to compare the impact of the collapse of the East Bloc on British and American leftist intellectuals; focuses on the New Left Review and Socialist Register in Britain and Dissent and The Monthly Review in the United States.

The Many Hands of the State: Theorizing Political Authority and Social Control edited by Kimberly J. Morgan and Ann Shola Orloff (Cambridge University Press; 422 pages; $99.99 hardcover, $34.99 paperback). Writings that attempt to bridge the disciplinary “silos” in theorizing the many roles of the state; topics include government visibility, taxation as the life blood of the modern liberal state, and states and gender justice.

Sandinista Nicaragua’s Resistance to US Coercion: Revolutionary Deterrence in Asymmetric Conflict by Hector Perla Jr. (Cambridge University Press; 241 pages; $99.99). A study of the FSLN’s strategies at home and abroad, including building a transnational opposition movement.

Singapore: Unlikely Power by John Curtis Perry (Oxford University Press; 329 pages; $29.95). Traces the history of the island nation.

Why Wilson Matters: The Origin of American Liberal Internationalism and Its Crisis Today by Tony Smith (Princeton University Press; 332 pages; $35). Examines Woodrow Wilson’s vision of America’s role in the world before and after he became president, and considers how his internationalism was later distorted by neo-Wilsonianism.

POPULAR CULTURE

Post-Millennial Gothic: Comedy, Romance, and the Rise of Happy Gothic by Catherine Spooner (Bloomsbury Academic; 213 pages; $122 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Explores contemporary appropriations of the Gothic in a romantic, celebratory, or humorous mode; topics include the Twilight book and film series, Tim Burton films, and Goth fashion.

Reading Lessons in Seeing: Mirrors, Masks, and Mazes in the Autobiographical Graphic Novel by Michael A. Chaney (University Press of Mississippi; 192 pages; $65). Uses Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan, and other works in a study of how graphic novels convey to readers how they ought to be read.

PSYCHOLOGY

Heinrich Kaan’s “Psychopathia Sexualis” (1844): A Classic Text in the History of Sexuality edited by Benjamin Kahan, translated by Melissa Haynes (Cornell University Press; 195 pages; $89.95 hardcover, $27.95 paperback). First English translation of the 1844 work by the Viennese physician (1816-93), a pioneer in sexology; topics include how Kaan’s work was shaped by Viennese psychiatry, the anti-onanism movement, and adaptations of Linnaean plant taxonomy.

RELIGION

Crow Jesus: Personal Stories of Native Religious Belonging edited by Mark Clatterbuck (University of Oklahoma Press; 262 pages; $29.95). Documents the beliefs and experiences of Catholics, Pentecostals, and Baptists among the Apsaalook (Crow) nation in southeastern Montana, including people who blend Christianity with Sun Dance, Peyote, and other indigenous traditions.

The Spirit and the Letter: Approaches to the Esoteric Interpretation of the Qur’an edited by Annabel Keeler and Sajjad Rizvi (Oxford University Press/Institute of Ismaili Studies; 538 pages; $95). Essays on esoteric exegesis in the Sufi, Ismaili, and other traditions, including Twelver Shi’i commentators and commentary by the philosopher Ibn Sina; covers the period since the ninth century.

Twenty Chapters by Dawud al-Muqammas, edited and translated by Sarah Stroumsa (Brigham Young University Press, distributed by University of Chicago Press; 370 pages; $79.95). Scholarly edition of the Judeo-Arabic text, with facing English translation of a work by a ninth-century scholar who converted from Judaism to Christianity and then back again.

SOCIOLOGY

Live and Let Live: Diversity, Conflict, and Community in an Integrated Neighborhood by Evelyn M. Perry (University of North Carolina Press; 232 pages; $85 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). A study of Riverwest, a racially and economically mixed neighborhood in what is described as “hypersegregated” Milwaukee.

Marriage Vows and Racial Choices by Jessica Vasquez-Tokos (Russell Sage Foundation; 372 pages; $35). Draws on in-depth interviews with nearly 50 couples in a study of Latinos’ decisions to marry within or outside the group.

Women of the Street: How the Criminal Justice-Social Services Alliance Fails Women in Prostitution by Susan Dewey and Tonia St. Germain (New York University Press; 274 pages; $89 hardcover, $30 paperback). Documents how false assumptions about street life, sex trading, and illicit drug use affect professionals’ relations with “street engaged women.”

URBAN STUDIES

Gateways to the World: Port Cities in the Persian Gulf edited by Mehran Kamrava (Oxford University Press; 282 pages; $35). Includes discussion of such lesser-known ports as Bandar Abbas in Iran and Mutrah in Oman.

The Roots of Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and the Struggle Over Harlem by Brian D. Goldstein (Harvard University Press; 383 pages; $39.95). Examines the local roots of gentrification in Harlem, as community-based organizations in the 1960s shifted direction decades later on development in the New York City district.