ANTHROPOLOGY
Deaf to the Marrow: Deaf Social Organizing and Active Citizenship in Viet Nam by Audrey C. Cooper (Gallaudet University Press; 256 pages; $85). Draws on fieldwork in and around Ho Chi Minh City.
Elusive Adulthoods: The Anthropology of New Maturities edited by Deborah Durham and Jacqueline Solway (Indiana University Press; 205 pages; $70 hardcover, $30 paperback). Ethnographic writings on the marking and predicaments of adulthood in settings in Botswana, Uganda, Papua New Guinea, Russia, Sudan, Sri Lanka, and China.
Everyday Life in Global Morocco by Rachel Newcomb (Indiana University Press; 180 pages; $60 hardcover, $30 paperback). Explores changes in diet, marriage, childbearing, work, and other realms through a study of a middle-class extended family in urban Morocco.
Meanings of Maple: An Ethnography of Sugaring by Michael A. Lange (University of Arkansas Press; 191 pages; $69.95 hardcover, $27.95 paperback). Offers an ethnographic perspective on maple syrup and its making as process, product, and cultural identity in Vermont.
Private Oceans: The Enclosure and Marketisation of the Seas by Fiona McCormack (Pluto Press, distributed by University of Chicago Press; 184 pages; $38). Draws on fieldwork in New Zealand, Iceland, Ireland, and Hawaii in a study of neoliberalism and contemporary fisheries quota systems.
The Traffic in Hierarchy: Masculinity and Its Others in Buddhist Burma by Ward Keeler (University of Hawai’i Press; 333 pages; $65). Combines an ethnographic study of life in a Buddhist monastery with discussion of Burmese gender ideology and the contrasting consequences, for example, of men and women opting for monasticism.
ARCHAEOLOGY
Landscapes of Social Transformation in the Salinas Province and the Eastern Pueblo World edited by Katherine A. Spielmann (University of Arizona Press; 253 pages; $65). Research on social change in a province in what is now New Mexico between AD 1100 and 1500.
A World View of Bioculturally Modified Teeth edited by Scott E. Burnett and Joel D. Irish (University Press of Florida; 336 pages; $110). Writings on past and present-day practices of tooth modification in cultures from the Americas, Africa, Asia, Oceania, and Europe, including filing, inlays, dyeing, and removal.
ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Art and Production by Boris Arvatov, edited by John Roberts and Alexei Penzin (Pluto Press, distributed by University of Chicago Press; 146 pages; $28). First English edition of a 1926 work by a philosopher and art theorist whose writings figured heavily in the split in Soviet Constructivism; argues for the devolution of artistic skills to the realms of production and the factory.
Lettered Artists and the Languages of Empire: Painters and the Profession in Early Colonial Quito by Susan Verdi Webster (University of Texas Press; 416 pages; $50). Draws on previously unpublished archival material in a study of more than 50 painters who worked in Quito (Ecuador) between 1550 and 1650.
Public Art in South Africa: Bronze Warriors and Plastic Presidents edited by Kim Miller and Brenda Schmahmann (Indiana University Press; 315 pages; $90 hardcover, $40 paperback). Focuses on the years 1999 to 2015 in essays on art from statues and memorials to performances and billboards; topics include how South Africans have dealt with public art from the apartheid past.
CLASSICAL STUDIES
Empire and Ideology in the Graeco-Roman World: Selected Papers by Benjamin Isaac (Cambridge University Press; 382 pages; $120). Essays by the Israeli historian, including some previously unpublished writings; topics include Roman ideas of control and integration, and attitudes toward foreigners and minorities, including Jews.
Pax and the Politics of Peace: Republic to Principate by Hannah Cornwell (Oxford University Press; 254 pages; $95). Explores changes in the meaning of peace in Roman political discourse during the tumultuous period from 50 BC to AD 75.
DANCE
New Orleans Carnival Balls: The Secret Side of Mardi Gras, 1870-1920 by Jennifer Atkins (Louisiana State University Press; 264 pages; $38). Focuses on dance in a study of the post-parade private and lavish balls held by the city’s old-line krewes or carnival organizations.
ECONOMICS
Innovation in Developing and Transition Countries edited by Alexandra Tsvetkova and others (Edward Elgar Publishing; 264 pages; $140). Includes essays on Argentina, Armenia, Bolivia, Brazil, Hungary, Malaysia, Nigeria, Tunisia, and other countries.
EDUCATION
The Fight for America’s Schools: Grassroots Organizing in Education edited by Barbara Ferman (Harvard Education Press; 200 pages; $60 hardcover, $30 paperback). Focuses on mid-Atlantic cities and suburbs in a study of grassroots efforts by parents, teachers, and others in opposition to market-based reforms in education.
FILM STUDIES
Are You Watching Closely? Cultural Paranoia, New Technologies, and the Contemporary Hollywood Misdirection Film by Seth Friedman (State University of New York Press; 264 pages; $90). Discusses Memento, The Sixth Sense, Inception, and other films that encourage retrospective reinterpretation, often through rewatching and online discussion.
Native Apparitions: Critical Perspectives on Hollywood’s Indians edited by Steve Pavlik, M. Elise Marubbio, and Tom Holm (University of Arizona Press; 248 pages; $32.95). Films discussed include John Ford’s The Searchers, Terence Malick’s The New World, Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto, James Cameron’s Avatar, and varied portrayals of Native American servicemen on film.
FOLKLORE
Recasting Folk in the Himalayas: Indian Music, Media, and Social Mobility by Stefan Fiol (University of Illinois Press; 248 pages; $95 hardcover, $25 paperback). Examines the lives of upper-caste, upper-class Gahrwali artists who produce folk music; contrasts the settings of Himalayan villages and Delhi recording studios.
GAME STUDIES
Super Power, Spoony Bards, and Silverware: The Super Nintendo Entertainment System by Dominic Arsenault (MIT Press; 226 pages; $29.95). Examines the architecture, marketing, and cultural impact of the gaming platform, with particular attention to the “16-bit console wars” of 1989-95.
HISTORY
Architect of Air Power: General Laurence S. Kuter and the Birth of the US Air Force by Brian D. Laslie (University Press of Kentucky; 236 pages; $39.95). A biography of an officer (1905-79) described as having influenced every stage of the development of an independent U.S. Air Force.
At the Altar of Lynching: Burning Sam Hose in the American South by Donald G. Mathews (Cambridge University Press; 347 pages; $99.99 hardcover, $29.99 paperback). Examines the interplay of lynching and evangelical religion in the South in a study of the mutilation and killing in 1899 of a black laborer named Sam Hose who was accused of the murder of his white employer in Coweta County, Ga.
Carter G. Woodson: History, the Black Press, and Public Relations by Burnis R. Morris (University Press of Mississippi; 192 pages; $65). Documents how the historian (1875-1950) used black newspapers and public-relations techniques to popularize black history.
Dardanelle and the Bottoms: Environment, Agriculture, and Economy in an Arkansas River Community, 1819-1970 by Mildred Diane Gleason (University of Arkansas Press; 430 pages; $69.95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Traces the history and unraveling, by the 1940s, of a reciprocal relationship between the town of Dardanelle, Ark., and a nearby farming area known as the Dardanelle Bottoms.
Demolition on Karl Marx Square: Cultural Barbarism and the People’s State in 1968 by Andrew Demshuk (Oxford University Press; 256 pages; $74). Draws on previously untapped sources in a study of the East German regime’s destruction of Leipzig’s medieval University Church on May 30, 1968, in a planned demolition that elicited nearly a decade of public protest.
The Election of 1860: “A Campaign Fraught with Consequences” by Michael F. Holt (University Press of Kansas; 272 pages; $29.95). Disputes, among other things, the characterization of the 1860 presidential election as a referendum on slavery.
Forgotten under a Tropical Sun: War Stories by American Veterans in the Philippines, 1898--1913 by Joseph P. McCallus (Kent State University Press; 280 pages; $39.95). A study of memoirs and autobiographies from officers and enlisted members of the the U.S. Army, Navy, and Marines during the Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War, and Moro Rebellion.
Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919 by Mike Wallace (Oxford University Press; 1,182 pages; $45). Discusses the city from its formal expansion and consolidation through exponential growth, and its rise as a global financial capital.
A History of Boxing in Mexico: Masculinity, Modernity, and Nationalism by Stephen D. Allen (University of New Mexico Press; 272 pages; $65). Describes how the sport shaped Mexican identity from 1945 to 1982.
Omar Nelson Bradley: America’s GI General, 1893-1981 by Steven L. Ossad (University of Missouri Press; 460 pages; $36.95). A biography of the Missouri-born general, who held commands in World War II and the onset of the Korean War, and served as the first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant by Charles W. Calhoun (University Press of Kansas; 728 pages; $39.95). A study of the former Union general’s leadership and policies during a two-term “embattled” presidency.
Solzhenitsyn: The Historical-Spiritual Destinies of Russia and the West by Lee Congdon (Northern Illinois University Press; 180 pages; $39). Sets the dissident writer’s return to the Orthodox Christianity of his childhood in the wider context of the shifting fortunes of religion in Soviet Russia and beyond.
Toronto’s Fighting 75th in the Great War: A Prehistory of the Toronto Scottish Regiment by Timothy J. Stewart (Wilfrid Laurier University Press; 526 pages; US$59.99). Traces the history of a Canadian battalion formed in 1915 that spent three years in northeastern France and northwestern Belgium, fighting in some of the bloodiest battles of World War I.
The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present by Ronald Hutton (Yale University Press; 360 pages; $30). Topics include how ideas of witchcraft in ancient times, in the Near East, in shamanic Eurasia, and other settings may have influenced medieval views of witches; also examines witches in the British Isles in relation to “Celticity,” animals (as in familiars), and beliefs about fairies.
LABOR STUDIES
The Emerging Industrial Relations of China edited by William Brown and Chang Kai (Cambridge University Press; 266 pages; $110). Research primarily by young Chinese scholars, focusing on developments in labor relations since 2010.
LAW
Incitement on Trial: Prosecuting International Speech Crimes by Richard Ashby Wilson (Cambridge University Press; 374 pages; $79.99 hardcover, $34.99 paperback). Examines the treatment under international law of instances when politicians and other public figures foment ethnic, national, racial or religious hatred, inciting listeners to acts of violence; develops a new risk assessment model for speech.
LITERATURE
At the Burning Abyss: Experiencing the Georg Trakl Poem by Franz Fuhmann, translated by Isabel Fargo Cole (Seagull Books, distributed by University of Chicago Press; 303 pages; $27.50). Translation of the 20th-century German writer’s 1982 account of his encounter with the work of the Austrian poet (1887-1914).
Complete Film Criticism: Reviews, Essays, and Manuscripts by James Agee, edited by Charles Maland (University of Tennessee Press; 1,037 pages; $99). Scholarly edition of the American writer’s published and unpublished writings on film.
The Good Bohemian: The Letters of Ida John edited by Rebecca John and Michael Holroyd (Bloomsbury Academic; 331 pages; $35). Edition of letters that document the life and unconventional marriage of Ida John (1877-1907), the first wife of the Welsh painter Augustus John, who accepted her husband’s mistress, Dorelia McNeill, into their household.
James Wright: A Life in Poetry by Jonathan Blunk (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 496 pages; $40). A biography of the American poet (1927-80), whose work frequently addressed the people of the Ohio River steel town of his youth.
John Donne and Baroque Allegory: The Aesthetics of Fragmentation by Hugh Grady (Cambridge University Press; 236 pages; $99.99). Applies Walter Benjamin’s theory of baroque allegory to The Anniversaries, the Songs and Sonnets, and other works by the English poet (1672-1731).
Literary Activism: Perspectives edited by Amit Chaudhuri (Oxford University Press; 369 pages; $45). Pays particular attention to Indian literature and publishing, including the bilingual English-Marathi poet Arun Kolatkar (1931-2004) and his circle.
The People of Godlbozhits by Leyb Rashkin, translated by Jordan Finkin (Syracuse University Press; 480 pages; $75 hardcover, $39.95 paperback). Translation of a satirical Yiddish novel set in a Polish shtetl and originally published in 1936.
Postcolonial Parabola: Literature, Tactility, and the Ethics of Representing Trauma by Jay Rajiva (Bloomsbury Academic; 208 pages; $110). Focuses on literature from South Africa, India, and Sri Lanka in an exploration of the representation of postcolonial trauma and the embodied experience of reading; pairs works such as Jyotirmoyee Devi’s The River Churning and J.M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron.
The Practices of Hope: Literary Criticism in Disenchanted Times by Christopher Castiglia (New York University Press; 223 pages; $89 hardcover, $28 paperback). Draws on Granville Hicks, Lewis Mumford, C.L.R. James, Constance Rourke, and other 20th-century intellectuals to develop a revitalized form of critique that engages such terms as nation, liberalism, humanism, and symbolism.
Shadow and Substance: Eucharistic Controversy and English Drama across the Reformation Divide by Jay Zysk (University of Notre Dame Press; 424 pages; $100 hardcover, $45 paperback). A study of Eucharistic discourse and ideas of body and sign in relation to English drama of the Reformation period.
The Shakespearean Forest by Anne Barton, edited by Hester Lees-Jeffries (Cambridge University Press; 200 pages; $99.99). Edition of writings by the Shakespearean scholar (1933-2013) that represent her final book; explores the evocative power of woodlands in works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and includes related discussion of court pageants, treatises on forestry, and chronicle history.
Somebody Telling Somebody Else: A Rhetorical Poetics of Narrative by James Phelan (Ohio State University Press; 304 pages; $89.95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Uses a variety of literary works to argue for a shift away from viewing narrative as a structure, and toward viewing it as a rhetorical action in which a teller selectively communicates.
The Spiritual Imagination of the Beats by David Stephen Calonne (Cambridge University Press; 244 pages; $99.99). Explores esoteric, occult, alchemical, shamanistic, mystical and magical traditions in the work of 11 beat authors, including such less-studied figures as Diane di Prima, Bob Kaufman, Philip Lamantia, and Philip Whalen.
Writing After Postcolonialism: Francophone North African Literature in Transition by Jane Hiddleston (Bloomsbury Academic; 291 pages; $114). Uses writings from Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco to examine changing views of postcolonial as a concept decades after independence.
MUSIC
Alan Bush, Modern Music, and the Cold War: The Cultural Left in Britain and the Communist Bloc by Joanna Bullivant (Cambridge University Press; 287 pages; $99.99). Draws on newly recent documents from the MI5 in a study of the British composer, musician, and Communist activist (1900-95), who, ostracized in Cold-War Britain, premiered four major operas in East Germany.
Animation, Plasticity, and Music in Italy, 1770-1830 by Ellen Lockhart (University of California Press; 232 pages; $65). Uses the trope of the statue animated by music to explore the reciprocal influence between Enlightenment ideas and Italian music and theater.
George P. Knauff’s “Virginia Reels” and the History of American Fiddling by Chris Goertzen (University Press of Mississippi; 256 pages; $65). Uses Knauff’s 1839 compilation of fiddle tunes to examine the past and present of Southern fiddling.
Music and Belonging Between Revolution and Restoration by Naomi Waltham-Smith (Oxford University Press; 264 pages; $65). Draws on deconstructive theories in a study of instrumental music by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.
Time in the Blues by Julia Simon (Oxford University Press; 272 pages; $74). Combines the perspectives of scholar and musician in a discussion of temporality in blues music, as, for example, on time as related to themes of waiting, addiction, and prison.
PHILOSOPHY
Hegel on Second Nature in Ethical Life by Andreja Novakovic (Cambridge University Press; 236 pages; $99.99). Discusses the roles of habit and reflection in the German philosopher’s account of subjective freedom in an objectively rational social order.
Kantian Ethics, Dignity and Perfection by Paul Formosa (Cambridge University Press; 230 pages; $99.99). Discusses the German philosopher’s ethics as an ethics of dignity, with particular attention to links among dignity, perfection, and vulnerability.
Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy by Todd McGowan (Northwestern University Press; 232 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Explores comedy from the perspectives of thinkers as diverse as Aristotle, Hegel, Freud, Bergson, and Alenka Zupancic, then develops and illustrates a psychanalytic approach centered on the interplay of lack and excess.
The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World by Michael Ignatieff (Harvard University Press; 263 pages; $27.95). Focuses on the ordinary virtues of trust, tolerance, forgiveness, reconciliation, and resilience in a meditation on the globalization of ethics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Building the Bloc: Intraparty Organization in the US Congress by Ruth Bloch Rubin (Cambridge University Press; 350 pages; $99.99 hardcover, $34.99 paperback). Combines archival and interview data in a study of how intraparty organizations help dissidents in Congress exert influence over their party leadership and the chamber at large; includes eight case studies since the early 20th century.
How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump by Laura Briggs (University of California Press; 286 pages; $29.95). Topics include how public conversations about race, immigration, gay marriage, and other issues center on questions of children, households, and families.
Japan, South Korea, and the United States Nuclear Umbrella: Deterrence After the Cold War by Terence Roehrig (Columbia University Press; 259 pages; $90 hardcover, $30 paperback). Examines how the U.S. nuclear umbrella has figured in defense and security planning in Japan and South Korea; describes the umbrella as more of a political signal and identifies strategic and other reasons why an American president is highly unlikely to ever use nuclear weapons in defense of those allies.
Just War Theory and Civilian Casualties: Protecting the Victims of War by Marcus Schulzke (Cambridge University Press; 250 pages; $99.99). Argues that military powers have a duty to provide medical treatment, financial compensation, and other assistance to civilians they attack during wars.
The Myth of Independence: How Congress Governs the Federal Reserve by Sarah Binder and Mark Spindel (Princeton University Press; 282 pages; $35). Examines Congress’s complex and at times hidden role in driving the evolution of the Fed since its founding in 1913 in the wake of the Panic of 1907.
The Politics of Secularism: Religion, Diversity, and Institutional Change in France and Turkey by Murat Akan (Columbia University Press; 357 pages; $65). Compares the trajectories of secularism in both societies; topics include debates over the Islamic headscarf in France, and over state-salaried imams and religion in school curriculum in Turkey.
Rival Power: Russia in Southeast Europe by Dimitar Bechev (Yale University Press; 300 pages; $27.50). Documents the pragmatism and opportunism shaping both sides in a study of Russian influence in the Balkans, Greece, and Turkey.
When Proliferation Causes Peace: The Psychology of Nuclear Crises by Michael D. Cohen (Georgetown University Press; 304 pages; $104.95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Argues that while the acquisition of nuclear weapons emboldens states toward coercion and aggression, that behavior moderates over time; focuses on the Soviet Union and Pakistan, with briefer case studies of the United States, China, and India.
Who Speaks for the Poor? Electoral Geography, Party Entry, and Representation by Karen Long Jusko (Cambridge University Press; 218 pages; $99.99). Uses case studies of Britain, Canada, Sweden and the United States to analyze differences in the political and partisan representation of low-income voters, including factors that affect the introduction of new parties; topics include why the U.S. has no low-income people’s party.
POPULAR CULTURE
The Expanding Art of Comics: Ten Modern Masterpieces by Thierry Groensteen, translated by Ann Miller (University Press of Mississippi; 258 pages; $65). Translation of a 2015 French study of works from Hugo Pratt’s Ballad of the Salt Sea (1967-69) to Jens Harder’s The Grand Narrative: Alpha, Beta (2009, 2014).
Framing Fan Fiction: Literary and Social Practices in Fan Fiction Communities by Kristina Busse (University of Iowa Press; 258 pages; $45). New and previously published writings on fan fiction as a shared interpretive practice, an individual and collective erotic engagement, and a point of contention for fan communities.
PSYCHOLOGY
Cognitive Motivation: From Curiosity to Identity, Purpose and Meaning by David Beswick (Cambridge University Press; 396 pages; $124). Develops a new theory of curiosity and other forms of cognitive motivation.
The Fear Factor: How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, and Everyone In-Between by Abigail Marsh (Basic Books; 302 pages; $28). Draws on data from fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) to examine sensitivity to others’ fear as a critical element for altruism.
RELIGION
John and Judaism: A Contested Relationship in Context edited by R. Alan Culpepper and Paul N. Anderson (Society of Biblical Literature; 442 pages; $60.95). Topics include the Gospel of John as a source for first-century Judaism; tensions in Matthean and Johannine soteriology or doctrine of salvation; and anti-Semitism and religious violence as misinterpretations of the fourth Gospel.
Making Amulets Christian: Artefacts, Scribes, and Contexts by Theodore de Bruyn (Oxford University Press; 286 pages; $85). Uses a study of Greek amulets with Christian elements in late antique Egypt to examine how inscribed incantations changed as Christianity became more established in the Roman empire.
Mixed Feelings and Vexed Passions: Exploring Emotions in Biblical Literature edited by F. Scott Spencer (Society of Biblical Literature; 394 pages; $49.95). Essays on such topics as Joseph’s brothers as a prototype of biblical hate, the pride of Babylon in Isaiah 47, joy in Luke, and why the Johannine Jesus weeps at the tomb of Lazarus.
Muhammad’s Heirs: The Rise of Muslim Scholarly Communities, 622--950 by Jonathan E. Brockopp (Cambridge University Press; 248 pages; $99.99). Draws on manuscripts and other materials from the ancient mosque-library of Kairouan, Tunisia, in a study of Muslim scholars’ rise to power and influence.
Pilgrimage as Moral and Aesthetic Formation in Augustine’s Thought by Sarah Stewart-Kroeker (Oxford University Press; 262 pages; $85). Discusses Augustine’s view of Christian life as a peregrinatio or pilgrimage and his integration of morality and beauty in Christ.
The Prologues on Easter of Theophilus of Alexandria and (Cyril) edited by Alden A. Mosshammer (Oxford University Press; 194 pages; $125). Translations, with commentary, of newly reconstructed texts by Theophilus, patriarch of Alexandria from 385-412) and Cyril, his successor, patriarch from 412 to 444.
The Sacrificial Laws of Leviticus and the Joseph Story by Calum Carmichael (Cambridge University Press; 210 pages; $99.99). Argues that the laws in Leviticus 1-10 are ancient lawgivers’ responses to the troubling story of Joseph and his brothers.
Speaking Qur’an: An American Scripture by Timur R. Yuskaev (University of South Carolina Press; 192 pages; $44.99). Documents how the Muslim holy book has become an American text through the translation and interpretations of preachers, scholars, and activists, including Amina Wadud and Hamza Yusuf.
SOCIOLOGY
Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France by Jean Beaman (University of California Press; 168 pages; $34.95). Focuses on the marginalization experienced by middle-class and upwardly mobile children of North African immigrants, despite their educational and other achievements.
Leader Communities: The Consecration of Elites in Djursholm by Mikael Holmqvist (Columbia University Press; 274 pages; $90 hardcover, $30 paperback). Uses the affluent and exclusive Stockholm suburb to explore what are termed “leader communities” and their reproduction of a society’s elites.
THEATER
Shakespeare’s Two Playhouses: Repertory and Theatre Space at the Globe and the Blackfriars, 1599--1613 by Sarah Dustagheer (Cambridge University Press; 236 pages; $99.99). A comparative study of acoustic, visual, and other performance conditions at the two sites.
Watching War on the Twenty-First Century Stage: Spectacles of Conflict by Clare Finburgh (Bloomsbury Academic; 355 pages; $102). Discusses Black Watch, Honour Bound, Minefield, and other plays in a study of how 21st-century British drama engages the spectacle of war; draws on the theories of Guy Debord, Jean Baudrillard, Marie-Jose Mondzain, and Hans-Thies Lehmann.
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