Weekly Book List, May 5, 2017

ANTHROPOLOGY

Crafting Wounaan Landscapes: Identity, Art, and Environmental Governance in Panama’s Darien by Julie Velasquez Runk (University of Arizona Press; 313 pages; $55). Examines the agency of the Wounaan people in a region, the Darien, that has been at the center of disputes over environmental governance.

Moving by the Spirit: Pentecostal Social Life on the Zambian Copperbelt by Naomi Haynes (University of California Press; 194 pages; $65 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Explores the interplay of Pentecostalism and the economic and other aspirations of believers in the mining region.

Shari’ah on Trial: Northern Nigeria’s Islamic Revolution by Sarah Eltantawi (University of California Press; 253 pages; $85 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Combines historical, ethnographic, and other perspectives in a study of why Nigerians in the 12 northern states of Hausaland took to the streets in 1999 to demand the return of strict Islamic law.

The Space of Boredom: Homelessness in the Slowing Global Order by Bruce O’Neill (Duke University Press; 280 pages; $94.95 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Discusses boredom and downward mobility in a study of homeless men and women in Bucharest, Romania, in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.

ARCHAEOLOGY

The People of Palomas: Neandertals from the Sima de las Palomas del Cabezo Gordo, Southeastern Spain edited by Erik Trinkhaus and Michael J. Walker (Texas A&M University Press; 278 pages; $60). Research on the human fossil assemblage found at the site, in Murcia.

ART AND ARCHITECTURE

Bruce Goff: Architecture of Discipline in Freedom by Arn Henderson (University of Oklahoma Press; 312 pages; $45). Topics include Frank Lloyd Wright, Claude Debussy, and the American West as influences on the architect (1904-82).

CLASSICAL STUDIES

Gift and Gain: How Money Transformed Ancient Rome by Neil Coffee (Oxford University Press; 296 pages; $74). A study of Rome from prehistory to the early empire that shows how a system of gifts and favors was displaced by a more contractual and commercial culture.

ECONOMICS

Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought by Andrew W. Lo (Princeton University Press; 483 pages; $37.50). A study of market efficiency and its failures that draws on insights from psychology, evolutionary biology, artificial intelligence, and neuroscience.

Founder of Modern Economics: Paul A. Samuelson: Volume 1: Becoming Samuelson, 1915-1948 by Roger E. Backhouse (Oxford University Press; 736 pages; $34.95). First book in a two-volume intellectual biography of the American economist.

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Green Capitalism: Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century edited by Hartmut Berghoff and Adam Rome (University of Pennsylvania Press; 298 pages; $65). Writings by business historians and environmental historians on the responses of businesses to environmental challenges since the early 20th century; topics include the infamous plastic six-pack ring, a product created to minimize waste but resulting in greater environmental damage.

Living with Lead: An Environmental History of Idaho’s Coeur D’Alenes, 1885-2011 by Bradley D. Snow (University of Pittsburgh Press; 288 pages; $28.95). Focuses on the small city of Kellogg in a study of a region in Idaho in which mining has meant both economic survival and environmental destruction.

Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained: Rethinking City-River Relations edited by Martin Knoll, Uwe Lubken, and Dieter Schott (University of Pittsburgh Press; 413 pages; $45.95). Includes topics ranging from how cities have attempted to control or restore rivers to rivers’ representations in novels, songs, and other culture; waterways discussed include the Thames, Seine, Ganges, Neva, Elbe, Rhine, Chicago, and Cuyahoga Rivers.

FILM STUDIES

African Filmmaking: Five Formations edited by Kenneth W. Harrow (Michigan State University Press; 314 pages; $32.95). Writings on Egyptian, Maghrebian, South African, Francophone, and Anglophone African cinema.

HISTORY

Beyond the Inquisition: Ambrogio Catarino Politi and the Origins of the Counter-Reformation by Giorgio Caravale, translated by Don Weinstein (University of Notre Dame Press; 436 pages; $60). Uses an intellectual biography of the Italian prelate, theologian, and jurist (1484-1553) to explore the diversity of the Catholic Counter-Reformation.

The Blood Contingent: The Military and the Making of Modern Mexico, 1876--1911 by Stephen B. Neufeld (University of New Mexico Press; 383 pages; $95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Examines barracks life for the lowest echelons of the army of Porfirio Diaz.

Clerical Households in Late Medieval Italy by Roisin Cossar (Harvard University Press; 232 pages; $49.95). Contrasts the reports clerics gave of their households to the church, and actual domestic arrangements in which they might live with their mothers, a female domestic partner, children, servants, and slaves.

The Dooleys of Richmond: An Irish Immigrant Family in the Old and New South by Mary Lynn Bayliss (University of Virginia Press; 328 pages; $34.95). Discusses the wealthy, philanthropic immigrant family of John and Sarah Dooley whose son James, one of nine children, became a key figure in the industrialization of the New South.

From Goodwill to Grunge: A History of Secondhand Styles and Alternative Economies by Jennifer Le Zotte (University of North Carolina Press; 325 pages; $85 hardcover, $27.95 paperback). Examines secondhand clothing as sold in thrift stores, garage sales, and flea markets, and its emergence for some as an aesthetic and political statement.

God’s Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America by Louis S. Warren (Basic Books; 479 pages; $35). Emphasizes the modernity of the religious and wider movement from its origins in 1889 through and beyond U.S. forces’ massacre of some 200 Ghost Dancers at Wounded Knee in 1890.

John William McCormack: A Political Biography by Garrison Nelson (Bloomsbury Academic; 910 pages; $40). A biography of the Massachusett Democrat who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1928 to 1971, and in a succession of leadership positions culminating in Speaker.

My Brother’s Keeper: George McGovern and Progressive Christianity by Mark A. Lempke (University of Massachusetts Press; 231 pages; $90 hardcover, $28.95 paperback). Documents the politician’s role in promoting a religious left in a study examining his evangelical childhood, Social Gospel views, and “conscientious Methodism.”

Osaka Modern: The City in the Japanese Imaginary by Michael P. Cronin (Harvard University Asia Center, distributed by Harvard University Press; 232 pages; $39.95). Examines the Japanese city of Osaka as reflected in literature and cinema from the 1920s to the 1950s; focuses on writings by Tanizaki Jun’ichiro, Oda Sakunosuke, and Yamasaki Toyoko, and films by Toyoda Shiro and Kawashima Yuzo.

Second World War British Military Camouflage: Designing Deception by Isla Forsyth (Bloomsbury Academic; 229 pages; $114). Pays particular attention to Hugh Cott (1900-87), a Scottish zoologist and scientific illustrator turned camoufleur.

Silk Stockings and Socialism: Philadelphia’s Radical Hosiery Workers From the Jazz Age to the New Deal by Sharon McConnell-Sidorick (University of North Carolina Press; 280 pages; $85 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). A study of the American Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers and its representation of workers in the hosiery mills of the city’s Kensington district; describes its blend radical politics and youth culture in the organizing of dances and parties, as well as strikes and picket lines.

Stalinism Reloaded: Everyday Life in Stalin-City, Hungary by Sandor Horvath, translated by Thomas Cooper (Indiana University Press; 298 pages; $80 hardcover, $35 paperback). Examines the everyday lives of citizens in Sztalinvaros, a new town intended to be a model community for Communist society of the 1950s.

Starving for Justice: Hunger Strikes, Spectacular Speech, and the Struggle for Dignity by Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval (University of Arizona Press; 305 pages; $55). Combines archival and interview material in a study of student hunger strikes at the University of California at Los Angeles, UC-Santa Barbara, and Stanford University by Chicano and Latino students in the 1990s.

Stilwell and Mountbatten in Burma: Allies at War, 1943-1944 by Jonathan Templin Ritter (University of North Texas Press; 274 pages; $29.95). Examines the relationship between U.S. Gen. Joseph “Vinegar Joe” Stilwell and British Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten; disputes the notion that Stilwell needlessly sacrificed men in the 1944 campaign out of hatred for the British.

Strange Bird: The Albatross Press and the Third Reich by Michele K. Troy (Yale University Press; 440 pages; $40). Discusses an English-language press that printed and sold British and American fiction---including edgy modernist authors---in inexpensive paperbacks in Nazi Germany.

“The Touch of Civilization": Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization by Steven Sabol (University Press of Colorado; 298 pages; $65). Compares U.S. efforts to assimilate and dominate the Sioux with Russian efforts to control the Kazakhs of the Eurasian Steppe.

LABOR STUDIES

Teacher Strike! Public Education and the Making of a New American Political Order by Jon Shelton (University of Illinois Press; 280 pages; $95 hardcover, $27.95 paperback). Focuses on Newark, St. Louis, and three other cities in a study of how a wave of teacher strikes in the 1960s and 70s eroded the liberal-labor coalition in the United States and contributed to a growing negative perception of unions.

LAW

On the Side of the Angels: Canada and the United Nations Commission on Human Rights by Andrew S. Thompson (University of British Columbia Press; 248 pages; US$89.95). Evaluates Canada’s record, good and bad, on the commission from 1946 to 2006.

LITERATURE

Bilingual Brokers: Race, Literature, and Language as Human Capital by Jeehyun Lim (Fordham University Press; 240 pages; $90 hardcover, $25 paperback). Focuses on the Asian-American and Latino writers Younghill Kang, Carlos Bulosan, Americo Paredes, Maxine Hong Kingston, Richard Rodriguez, Chang-rae Lee, Julia Alvarez, and Ha Jin.

Dis-Orienting Planets: Racial Representations of Asia in Science Fiction edited by Isiah Lavender III (University Press of Mississippi; 256 pages; $65). Writings on depictions of Asia and Asians in sci-fi literature, film, and fandom; works discussed include Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story, Chang-rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea, and Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl.

Ground-Work: English Renaissance Literature and Soil Science edited by Hillary Eklund (Duquesne University Press; 296 pages; $70). Ecocritical essays on symbolic and material representations of soil in literature; texts discussed include Richard Carew’s Survey of Cornwall, Shakespeare’s Richard II, and book 3 of Spenser’s Faerie Queene.

The Letters of Mark Twain and Joseph Hopkins Twichell edited by Harold K. Bush, Peter Messent, and Steve Courtney (University of Georgia Press; 512 pages; $44.95). Edition of the complete texts of all known correspondence exchanged between Twain and a close friend who was a Congregationalist minister in Hartford.

Mad Heart Be Brave: Essays on the Poetry of Agha Shahid Ali edited by Kazim Ali (University of Michigan Press; 238 pages; $75 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Scholarly and other writings on the Kashmiri-born poet (1949-2001), who left India for the United States in 1976.

MUSIC

Beyond Bach: Music and Everyday Life in the Eighteenth Century by Andrew Talle (University of Illinois Press; 360 pages; $45). Examines both amateur and professional aspects of the music world in 18th-century Germany, including the work of contemporaries more popular with the public than Bach.

The Jazz Republic: Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany by Jonathan O. Wipplinger (University of Michigan Press; 348 pages; $80 hardcover, $39.95 paperback). Topics include the reception given by Weimar critics and public to such visiting musicians as Sam Wooding and Paul Whiteman, and Theodor Adorno’s controversial rejection of jazz.

The Necessity of Music: Variations on a German Theme by Celia Applegate (University of Toronto Press; 416 pages; US$90 hardcover, $39.95 paperback). Explores the centrality of music to German social life from the 18th to the 20th centuries.

PHILOSOPHY

The Enigma of Reason by Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber (Harvard University Press; 352 pages; $29.95). Combines philosophy and psychology to offer an interactionist perspective on reason, emphasizing its use to justify beliefs and actions to others.

Moral Judgments as Educated Intuitions by Hanno Sauer (MIT Press; 312 pages; $50). Uses a concept of “educated intuitions” to describe the interplay of reasoning and emotion in moral judgments.

Quasi-Things: The Paradigm of Atmospheres by Tonino Griffero, translated by Sarah De Sanctis (State University of New York Press; 189 pages; $85). Translation of a 2013 work on an ontological category termed quasi-things that regards emotions as atmospheres.

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Ambitious Politicians: The Implications of Career Ambition in Representative Democracy by Patrik Ohberg (University Press of Kansas; 168 pages; $50 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Examines what motivates Swedish politicians with aspirations to the highest levels of parliamentary office.

Empowered by Design: Decentralization and the Gender Policy Trifecta by Meg Rincker (Temple University Press; 210 pages; $92.50 hardcover, $32.95 paperback). Uses case studies of Britain, Poland, and Pakistan to examine under what conditions decentralization reforms lead to greater political representation for women.

The Liberal Consensus Reconsidered: American Politics and Society in the Postwar Era edited by Robert Mason and Iwan Morgan (University Press of Florida; 298 pages; $89.95). Essays that reevaluate Godfrey Hodgson’s notion of a postwar “liberal consensus” as outlined in his 1976 book America in Our Time; topics include the Democratic Party’s crisis of identity in the 1950s.

Socrates and Alcibiades: Plato’s Drama of Political Ambition and Philosophy by Ariel Helfer (University of Pennsylvania Press; 304 pages; $59.95). Examines Plato’s portrayal of the nature and corruptibility of political ambition in his three accounts of Socrates’ pupil Alcibiades.

RELIGION

Bonhoeffer’s Reception of Luther by Michael P. DeJonge (Oxford University Press; 281 pages; $95). Argues that the martyred German theologian understood his thinking to be Lutheran, and therefore should be examined as such; topics include how the Lutheran two-kingdoms tradition informs his view of war, peace, and political resistance.

The Financing of John Wesley’s Methodism c.1740-1800 by Clive Murray Norris (Oxford University Press; 311 pages; $95). Draws on local and national records in a study of the financing of the Protestant movement as it emerged in the British Isles; topics include chapel construction, missions, and the movement’s publishing arm, the Book Room.

“The Gospel According to the Hebrews” and “The Gospel of the Ebionites” edited by Andrew Gregory (Oxford University Press; 344 pages; $170). A study of the two non-canonical gospel texts that challenges the need for a postulated Gospel of the Nazoreans.

Islam: An American Religion by Nadia Marzouki, translated by C. Jon Delogu (Columbia University Press; 266 pages; $35). Translation of a French study of how Islam has become an American religion, including through the actions of Muslims working to claim their rights; pays particular attention to controversies between 2008 and 2013.

The Qur’an and “Adab": The Shaping of Literary Traditions in Classical Islam edited by Nuha Alshaar (Oxford University Press/Institute for Ismaili Studies; 636 pages; $95). Essays on the Muslim holy book in poetry, mirrors for princes, oratory, and other expressions of the literary tradition known as adab.

Sensing World, Sensing Wisdom: The Cognitive Foundation of Biblical Metaphors by Nicole L. Tilford (Society of Biblical Literature; 246 pages; $49.95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Focuses on Proverbs, Job, and Qoheleth to propose a theory of how common experiences of seeing, hearing, eating, and walking developed into abstract metaphors for knowledge and wisdom.

The Testimony of the Spirit: New Essays edited by R. Douglass Geivett and Paul K. Moser (Oxford University Press; 282 pages; $99 hardcover, $35 paperback). Essays on such topics as the testimony of the spirit in biblical literature, conscience and the voice of God, and insights from psychology and neuroscience on spiritual testimony.

The Theology of Louis Massignon: Islam, Christ, and the Church by Christian S. Krokus (Catholic University of America Press; 272 pages; $65). Draws on previously untranslated materials in a study of the French theologian (1883-1962), his lifelong study of Islam, and his view of a Christological nexus between the two faiths.

The War Against al-Qaeda: Religion, Policy, and Counter-narratives by Nahed Artoul Zehr (Georgetown University Press; 232 pages; $64.95 hardcover, $32.95 paperback). Examines the theology of Al-Qaeda and related groups, including the links between strategy and religious ideas in a leading jihadist text, Al-Suri’s Global Islamic Resistance Call.

When Art Disrupts Religion: Aesthetic Experience and the Evangelical Mind by Philip Salim Francis (Oxford University Press; 203 pages; $29.95). Documents how encounters with painting, literature, and other arts transformed the religious identities of 82 evangelicals; draws on interviews with and writings by students at Bob Jones University and at the Oregon Extension, a study-away program in the Oregon Cascades for students from conservative Christian colleges.

SOCIOLOGY

Alternative Sociologies of Religion: Through Nonwestern Eyes by James V. Spickard (New York University Press; 315 pages; $89 hardcover, $27 paperback). Examines the presumptions that shape Western sociology of religion and considers, through thought experiments, how the field might be different if it had arisen in Confucian China, the North Africa of 14th-century Muslim scholar Ibn Khaldun, or among the Navajo.

Parkour and the City: Risk, Masculinity, and Meaning in a Postmodern Sport by Jeffrey L. Kidder (Rutgers University Press; 197 pages; $95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Offers a sociological perspective on the sport, in which participants run, jump, climb, flip, and vault through city environments, creatively appropriating their surroundings.

Resilient Gods: Being Pro-Religious, Low Religious, or No Religious in Canada by Reginald W. Bibby (University of British Columbia Press; 280 pages; US$85). Discusses Canada’s current religious landscape less in terms of polarization than flux.

THEATER

Marionette Plays From Northern China translated and edited by Fan Pen Li Chen (State University of New York Press; 333 pages; $95). Translation of plays from a once-flourishing genre of puppet theater in dynastic northern China, now continued by a handful of troupes in Heyang County of Shaanxi province.

URBAN STUDIES

Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization in the United States edited by Domenic Vitiello and Thomas J. Sugrue (University of Pennsylvania Press; 208 pages; $49.95). Writings on immigrants as a revitalization force in cities and suburbs, including their impact on housing and labor markets; topics include Bridgeport, Conn., and Paterson and Passaic, N.J., as sources of low-wage labor for surrounding areas.

WOMEN’S STUDIES

Finding Feminism: Millennial Activists and the Unfinished Gender Revolution by Alison Dahl Crossley (New York University Press; 233 pages; $89 hardcover, $28 paperback). A study of feminist activists at the University of California at Santa Barbara, the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and Smith College.