AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES
The Color of Kink: Black Women, BDSM, and Pornography by Ariane Cruz (New York University Press; 320 pages; $89 hardcover, $30 paperback). Draws on feminist, queer, critical-race, and other theory in a study of representations of black women in pornography and the sexual subculture of BDSM since the 1930s.
Reverend Addie Wyatt: Faith and the Fight for Labor, Gender, and Racial Equality by Marcia Walker-McWilliams (University of Illinois Press; 292 pages; $95 hardcover, $28 paperback). A biography of the labor leader, civil-rights activist, feminist, and Church of God minister (1924-2012).
AMERICAN STUDIES
Innocent Experiments: Childhood and the Culture of Popular Science in the United States by Rebecca Onion (University of North Carolina Press; 226 pages; $85 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Traces the rise of children’s education in science, outside the classroom, since the 1950s through phenomena from science museums to home chemistry sets.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Fungible Life: Experiment in the Asian City of Life by Aihwa Ong (Duke University Press; 304 pages; $94.95 hardcover, $25.95 paperback). Contrasts the work and goals of biomedical centers in Singapore and China.
Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism by Elizabeth A. Povinelli (Duke University Press; 224 pages; $79.95 hardcover, $22.95 paperback). Draws on indigenous Australian cultural resistance and other phenomena to develop an alternative to Foucauldian biopolitics and ideas of power.
Mayan Literacy Reinvention in Guatemala by Mary J. Holbrock (University of New Mexico Press; 250 pages; $65). Draws on fieldwork in two highland villages in a study of a movement to introduce standardized alphabets and otherwise revitalize literacy in Mayan languages.
Radical Territories in the Brazilian Amazon: The Kayapo’s Fight for Just Livelihoods by Laura Zanotti (University of Arizona Press; 282 pages; $60). Examines the diverse strategies used in activism by the Amazonian people.
Rebuilding Shattered Worlds: Creating Community by Voicing the Past by Andrea L. Smith and Anna Eisenstein (University of Nebraska Press; 208 pages; $30). Offers an ethnographic perspective on collective memory in a study of how displaced residents recall “Syrian town,” a now-demolished neighborhood in Easton, Pa., that was made up of Lebanese-Americans, Italian-Americans, and African-Americans.
Regulating Style: Intellectual Property Law and the Business of Fashion in Guatemala by Kedron Thomas (University of California Press; 313 pages; $85 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Draws on fieldwork in the town of Tecpan in a study of Maya highlanders as both makers and consumers of knock-off brand fashion.
ARCHAEOLOGY
Gendered Labor in Specialized Economies: Archaeological Perspectives on Female and Male Work edited by Sophia E. Kelly and Traci Ardren (University Press of Colorado; 400 pages; $87 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Research on heightened craft specialization and the gendered division of labor in ancient and premodern economies in New and Old World settings; topics include the artisans of Terminal Classic Xuenkal in the Yucatan.
ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Architecture on Ice: A History of the Hockey Arena by Howard Shubert (McGill-Queen’s University Press; 328 pages; US$49.95). Traces the history, in four phases, of skating rinks and hockey arenas since the mid-19th century, including their adaptation for other uses.
For Folk’s Sake: Art and Economy in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia by Erin Morton (McGill-Queen’s University Press; 424 pages; US$110 hardcover, US$44.95 paperback). Discusses the work of Maud Lewis, Charles Atkinson, and other self-taught painters and woodcarvers in a study of the curation, collection, and cultural appeal of folk art in the province between 1967 and 1997.
Why Preservation Matters by Max Page (Yale University Press; 207 pages; $25). Considers how, 50 years after the passage of the 1966 National Historic Preservation Act, preservation can be rejuvenated and become more progressive; topics include taking a stand against gentrification and for environmental sustainability.
Working Conditions: The Writings of Hans Haacke edited by Alexander Alberro (MIT Press; 290 pages; $34.95). Edition of published and previously unpublished writings by the controversial German-born artist, who currently works in New York.
CLASSICAL STUDIES
Greek Myths in Roman Art and Culture: Imagery, Values and Identity in Italy, 50 BC--AD 250 by Zahra Newby (Cambridge University Press; 406 pages; $120). Topics include how changes in the use of mythological imagery in domestic and funerary art reflect a shift in Roman identity and values during the first two centuries AD.
ECONOMICS
The Nobel Factor: The Prize in Economics, Social Democracy, and the Market Turn by Avner Offer and Gabriel Soderberg (Princeton University Press; 400 pages; $35). Draws on previously untapped national bank archives in Sweden in a study of the origins, history, and influence of the Nobel Prize in economics.
Two Roads Diverge: The Transition Experience of Poland and Ukraine by Christopher A. Hartwell (Cambridge University Press; 528 pages; $99.99 hardcover, $39.99 paperback). Focuses on institutions in an analysis of the marked difference in the two countries’ economic performance in the post-socialist era.
Virtual Competition: The Promise and Perils of the Algorithm-Driven Economy by Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice E. Stucke (Harvard University Press; 356 pages; $29.95). Examines collusion and other dangers in algorithm-driven markets, including “behavioral discrimination” in which data on individual consumers is used to manipulate them into paying higher prices.
EDUCATION
Why Afterschool Matters by Ingrid A. Nelson (Rutgers University Press; 200 pages; $90 hardcover, $27.95 paperback). Uses case studies of 10 Mexican-American students who attended the same extracurricular program in California to identify factors that contribute to variation in the long-term outcomes of such programs for disadvantaged youth.
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Shifting Sands: The Restoration of the Calumet Area by Kenneth J. Schoon (Indiana University Press; 298 pages; $30). Discusses the creation of a national park in an area of northwest Indiana that is home to what was once the most polluted river in the country.
FILM STUDIES
Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility by Jonathan Goldberg (Duke University Press; 224 pages; $84.95 hardcover, $23.95 paperback). Topics include films by Todd Haynes and Rainer Werner Fassbinder that respond to director Douglas Sirks’ idea of the impossible situation in melodrama.
Monstrous Nature: Environment and Horror on the Big Screen by Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann (University of Nebraska Press; 270 pages; $50). Offers an ecocritical perspective on anthropomorphism, gendered landscapes, and other ways nature is depicted as monstrous in horror movies.
Pink 2.0: Encoding Queer Cinema on the Internet by Noah A. Tsika (Indiana University Press; 273 pages; $80 hardcover, $27 paperback). Topics include fan culture, piracy, and the digitally enabled mixing of queer cinema and pornography.
Regarding Life: Animals and the Documentary Moving Image by Belinda Smaill (State University of New York Press; 190 pages; $85). Examines representations of livestock and wildlife in realms from documentary to youtube and “naturecams”; topics include Arctic wildlife as symbols for environmentalism.
GAY AND LESBIAN STUDIES
Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left by Emily K. Hobson (University of California Press; 309 pages; $85 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Combines archival and oral-historical data in a study of the gay and lesbian left in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1969 to 1991.
GENDER STUDIES
Freedom without Permission: Bodies and Space in the Arab Revolutions edited by Frances S. Hasso and Zakia Salime (Duke University Press; 294 pages; $89.95 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Topics include the Women2Drive campaign in Saudi Arabia, the sexualization of female protesters in Bahrain’s Pearl Roundabout, and young women’s blogs in Egypt.
GEOGRAPHY
Indigenous Homelessness Perspectives from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand edited by Evelyn J. Peters and Julia Christensen (University of Manitoba Press, distributed by Michigan State University Press; 408 pages; US$39.95). Topics include a “three strikes” housing policy model and indigenous homelessness in Australia.
Lines in the Ice: Exploring the Roof of the World by Philip J. Hatfield (McGill-Queen’s University Press; 256 pages; US$44.95). Draws on maps, photographs, explorers’ diaries, and other sources in a visual history of major expeditions to the Arctic; also discusses indigenous cultural works.
HISTORY
Benevolent Empire: U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World’s Dispossessed by Stephen R. Porter (University of Pennsylvania Press; 290 pages; $65). Offers case studies of public and private aid to political refugees from World War I to Hungarians and Cubans during the Cold War.
Borderland Capitalism: Turkestan Produce, Qing Silver, and the Birth of an Eastern Market by Kwangmin Kim (Stanford University Press; 296 pages; $65). Examines the economic and political factors that led Muslim landowners in Central Asia to stay loyal to their Chinese imperial rulers.
Despite Cultures: Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan by Botakoz Kassymbekova (University of Pittsburgh Press; 272 pages; $28.95). Examines the imposition of official Soviet culture in Tajikistan during the 1920s and 30s.
The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory: How Civil War Bushwhackers Became Gunslingers in the American West by Matthew Christopher Hulbert (University of Georgia Press; 327 pages; $84.95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Examines how the irregular warfare of Civil War Kansas and Missouri was recast, in memory, to the Wild West of the American imagination.
A History of the ‘Alawis: From Medieval Aleppo to the Turkish Republic by Stefan Winter (Princeton University Press; 307 pages; $85 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Describes the Alawis’ birth in the 10th century as a central tendency, rather than offshoot, of Twelver Shia Islam, and disputes the notion that the sect was persecuted under the Ottoman empire.
The Holocaust in Croatia by Ivo Goldstein and Slavko Goldstein, translated by Nikolina Jovanovic (University of Pittsburgh Press; 736 pages; $39.95). Translation of a 2013 history of the fate of the Jewish community in Croatia, with a focus on Zagreb.
An International Civil War: Greece, 1943-1949 by Andre Gerolymatos (Yale University Press; 399 pages; $25). Draws on recently declassified documents from Greece, the United States, and British intelligence services.
New Politics in the Old South: Ernest F. Hollings in the Civil Rights Era by David T. Ballantyne (University of South Carolina Press; 208 pages; $34.99). A biography of the South Carolina Democrat that sets his career as governor and long-time U.S. senator (1966-2005) against the changing politics of the South.
An Oneida Indian in Foreign Waters: The Life of Chief Chapman Scanandoah, 1870-1953 by Laurence M. Hauptman (Syracuse University Press; 232 pages; $55 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). A biography of the Oneida Indian leader, who served in the U.S. Navy in the Spanish-American War, fought to protect Oneida land claims, and was known in his community as an inventor.
Politica: Nuevomexicanos and American Political Incorporation, 1821--1910 by Phillip B. Gonzales (University of Nebraska Press; 1,100 pages; $90). Draws on previously untapped sources in a study of New Mexican identity before, during, and after the shift from Mexican to U.S. rule.
The Pursuit of Ruins: Archaeology, History, and the Making of Modern Mexico by Christina Bueno (University of New Mexico Press; 267 pages; $95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Focuses on the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz in a study of Mexican government efforts to recast Mexican identity in terms of its Indian past.
The Quartermaster: Montgomery C. Meigs, Lincoln’s General, Master Builder of the Union Army by Robert O’Harrow Jr. (Simon & Schuster; 304 pages; $28). Documents the central role played in the Civil War of the Georgia-born, West Point-trained U.S. Army officer and civil engineer (1816-92).
Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs by Douglas Smith (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 817 pages; $35). Draws on previously neglected sources to trace both the life and legend of the peasant faith healer turned royal confidante in the final years of Russia’s czars.
The Sacred Cause of Union: Iowa in the Civil War by Thomas R. Baker (University of Iowa Press; 285 pages; $27.50). Topics include the conflict’s impact on the homefront, the combat performance of Iowa-recruited regiments, and a transformation in white Iowans’ views of black civil rights by war’s end.
Samurai to Soldier: Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan by D. Colin Jaundrill (Cornell University Press; 248 pages; $39.95). Discusses the Japanese soldier of the Meiji period as the culmination of a century of experimentation.
Socialist Churches: Radical Secularization and the Preservation of the Past in Petrograd and Leningrad, 1918-1988 by Catriona Kelly (Northern Illinois University Press; 413 pages; $59). Examines Soviet views of the architectural and artistic heritage embodied in historic churches in both cities.
Sons of the Mexican Revolution: Miguel Aleman and His Generation by Ryan M. Alexander (University of New Mexico Press; 264 pages; $95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Examines the socialization of the charismatic lawyer Aleman and others in a new generation of civilian officials in the wake of the 1946 presidential election;
The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy: How America’s Civil Religion Betrayed the National Interest by Walter A. McDougall (Yale University Press; 408 pages; $30). Criticizes the religious rhetoric that has characterized American foreign policy since the early republic.
Voices of Crime: Constructing and Contesting Social Control in Modern Latin America edited by Luz E. Huertas, Bonnie A. Lucero, and Gregory J. Swedberg (University of Arizona Press; 267 pages; $55). Topics include the cultural construction of drug users and drug trafficking in Chile between 1900 and 1950, and sexual violence in post-revolutionary Veracruz, Mexico.
Women in Civil War Texas: Diversity and Dissidence in the Trans-Mississippi edited by Deborah M. Liles and Angela Boswell (University of North Texas Press, distributed by Texas A&M University Press; 297 pages; $29.95). Includes essays on African-American, Mexican-American, and German-American women’s wartime experiences.
LAW
America’s War on Same-Sex Couples and their Families: And How the Courts Rescued Them by Daniel R. Pinello (Cambridge University Press; 344 pages; $99.99 hardcover, $34.99 paperback). Draws on 175 interviews with gay and lesbian couples in Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, and Wisconsin.
A Sociology of Transnational Constitutions: Social Foundations of the Post-National Legal Structure by Chris Thornhill (Cambridge University Press; 538 pages; $110). Discusses human-rights and other law created in the interaction of national and international courts.
LINGUISTICS
The Price of Linguistic Productivity: How Children Learn to Break the Rules of Language by Charles Yang (MIT Press; 261 pages; $45). Develops a quantitative, predictive theory of how children come to understand grammatical irregularities.
LITERATURE
Adulterous Nations: Family Politics and National Anxiety in the European Novel by Tatiana Kuzmic (Northwestern University Press; 229 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Focuses on Eliot’s Middlemarch, Fontane’s Effi Briest, Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, August Senoa’s The Goldsmith’s Gold, and Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Quo Vadis in a study of novels of adultery as metaphors for relations between colonizer and colonized.
The Afterlives of Roland Barthes by Neil Badmington (Bloomsbury Academic; 155 pages; $108). A study of the French literary theorist (1915-80) that focuses on Mourning Diary and other of his posthumously published works, including writings yet to be translated into English.
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1880-1883, Volume I edited by Michael Anesko, Greg W. Zacharias, and Katie Sommer (University of Nebraska Press; 384 pages; $95). Includes 122 letters written between June 6, 1800, and October 20, 1883, of which 67 are previously unpublished.
Golem: Modern Wars and Their Monsters by Maya Barzilai (New York University Press; 288 pages; $35). Draws on literature, film, theater, and other realms in a study of the mythology of the golem---animated clay monsters of Jewish mysticism and folklore---and their association in the early 20th century with war.
Imperfect Fit: Aesthetic Function, Facture, and Perception in Art and Writing since 1950 by Allen Fisher (University of Alabama Press; 300 pages; $49.95). New and previously published writiings on links between modern art and avant-garde poetry.
The Nemirovsky Question: The Life, Death, and Legacy of a Jewish Writer in 20th-Century France by Susan Rubin Suleiman (Yale University Press; 357 pages; $35). An intellectual biography of the writer, who was deported from France in 1942 and died at Auschwitz; topics include her daughters’ posthumous revival of her work, including the 2004 publication of Suite Francaise.
The Perversity of Things: Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction by Hugo Gernsback, edited by Grant Wythoff (University of Minnesota Press; 384 pages; $122.50 hardcover, $35 paperback). Edition of technical, literary, and other writings by the Luxembourg-born inventor, writer, and publisher who founded what is described as the first science-fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, in 1926, and whose first name, Hugo, was given to annual awards in the sci-fi genre.
Poetic Fragments by Karoline von Gunderrode, translated by Anna C. Ezekiel (State University of New York Press; 356 pages; $90). Bilingual edition of writings by the German poet, dramatist, and philosopher (1780-1806), which shed light on the reception of Indian, Persian, and Islamic thought in Europe.
Reading Together, Reading Apart: Identity, Belonging, and South Asian American Community by Tamara Bhalla (University of Illinois Press; 187 pages; $95 hardcover, $26 paperback). Explores issues of class, gender, and authenticity among members of a Network of South Asian Professionals book club in Washington DC engaging with transnational South Asian literature.
“The Soul Exceeds Its Circumstances": The Later Poetry of Seamus Heaney edited by Eugene O’Brien (University of Notre Dame Press; 394 pages; $50). Essays on thematic links in the work of the Irish poet in collections from Seeing Things (1991) to Human Chain (2010).
Spoiling the Stories: The Rise of Israeli Women’s Fiction by Tamar Merin (Northwestern University Press; 216 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). A study of “intersexual dialogue” in works by Yehudit Hendel, Amalia Kahana-Carmon, and Rachel Eytan.
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