Weekly Book List, October 26, 2018

ANTHROPOLOGY

Migrants and City-Making: Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration by Ayse Caglar and Nina Glick Schiller (Duke University Press; 296 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $25.95 paperback). Offers comparative ethnographic perspectives on migrants in Mardin, Turkey; Manchester, New Hampshire; and Halle (Saale) Germany.

ARCHAEOLOGY

Beardmore: The Viking Hoax That Rewrote History by Douglas Hunter (McGill-Queen’s University Press; 520 pages; US$34.95). Examines the aftermath of the alleged discovery of a Viking grave near Beardmore, Ontario, in 1931; traces the controversy and eventual debunking that followed after 1936 when its contents were acquired and displayed by the Royal Ontario Museum, whose director had vouched for their authenticity.

The Long Journeys Home: The Repatriations of Henry ‘Opukaha‘ia and Albert Afraid of Hawk by Nick Bellantoni (Wesleyan University Press, distributed by University Press of New England; 334 pages; $28.95). Discusses the disinterment, identification, and repatriation of the remains of two young men, one Native Hawaiian, one Oglala Lakota, who had died in Connecticut in 1818 and 1900, respectively.

Puebloan Societies: Homology and Heterogeneity in Time and Space edited by Peter M. Whiteley (SAR Press/University of New Mexico Press; 368 pages; $49.95). Combines insights from archaeology, ethnology, and linguistic anthropology in essays on major Pueblo societies; topics include the bridge between kinship and “clan” in the Tewa Pueblos of New Mexico.

ART AND ARCHITECTURE

The Art of Solidarity: Visual and Performative Politics in Cold War Latin America edited by Jessica Stites Mor and Maria del Carmen Suescun Pozas (University of Texas Press; 318 pages; $90 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Essays on artistic production in transnational solidarity movements that connected the peoples of the Americas since the 1940s, with a special focus on the Cold War era.

Graphic Culture: Illustration and Artistic Enterprise in Paris, 1830-1848 by Jillian Lerner (McGill-Queen’s University Press; 264 pages; US$49.95). Discusses caricature, celebrity portraits, fashion plates, advertising, and other aspects of day-to-day visual culture in July Monarchy Paris.

COMMUNICATION

Adventures in Shondaland: Identity Politics and the Power of Representation edited by Rachel Alicia Griffin and Michaela D.E. Meyer (Rutgers University Press; 278 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $32.95 paperback). Essays on the work of the famed writer and producer Shonda Rhimes, who is best known as the “showrunner” of such hits as Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal.

CULTURAL STUDIES

The Thorny Path: Pornography in Early Twentieth-Century Britain by Jamie Stoops (McGill-Queen’s University Press; 312 pages; US$34.95). Examines local and transnational aspects of the British pornography trade---production, distribution, and consumption---from 1900 to 1945.

ECONOMICS

The Economics of Philanthropy: Donations and Fundraising edited by Kimberley Scharf and Mirco Tonin (MIT Press; 288 pages; $32). Pays particular attention to direct and indirect motives for giving and volunteering.

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Inevitably Toxic: Historical Perspectives on Contamination, Exposure, and Expertise edited by Brinda Sarathy, Vivien Hamilton, and Janet Farrell Brodie (University of Pittsburgh Press; 280 pages; $34.95). Interdisciplinary writings on “normalized toxicity” and related phenomena linked to the exposure of bodies in the United States, Canada and Japan to radiation, industrial waste, and pesticides.

FILM STUDIES

Transmedia Creatures: Frankenstein’s Afterlives edited by Francesca Saggini and Anna Enrichetta Soccio (Bucknell University Press, distributed by Rutgers University Press; 280 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Interdisciplinary essays by international scholars on the cultural afterlives of Mary Shelley’s famed novel in film, literature, and other realms.

GAY AND LESBIAN STUDIES

Familiar Perversions: The Racial, Sexual, and Economic Politics of LGBT Families by Liz Montegary (Rutgers University Press; 192 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $26.95 paperback). Topics include the family equality movement’s relationship to neoliberalism and the policing of sexual cultures.

HISTORY

The Alchemy of Slavery: Human Bondage and Emancipation in the Illinois Country, 1730-1865 by M. Scott Heerman (University of Pennsylvania Press; 239 pages; $45). Explores the varied forms of bondage practiced in the region, including the creation of a population of enslaved people of African and Native American descent known as “French Negroes.”

Becoming Lincoln by William W. Freehling (University of Virginia Press; 384 pages; $29.95). Focuses on the president’s youth and pre-war adulthood, including his difficult family life and career setbacks.

Breaking the Banks: Representations and Realities in New England Fisheries, 1866-1966 by Matthew McKenzie (University of Massachusetts Press; 208 pages; $90 hardcover, $28.95 paperback). Focuses on the shifting fortunes of Boston’s haddock fleet in a study of how gaps between the cultural representation and industrial reality of New England fisheries have hindered necessary regulation.

Forging Communities: Food and Representation in Medieval and Early Modern Southwestern Europe edited by Montserrat Piera (University of Arkansas Press; 352 pages; $75 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Essays on bond-forming through the sharing of food and drink in settings from ceremonial feasts to domestic meals; focuses on the Iberian peninsula, with additional discussion of France and Italy.

The Forgotten Front: The Eastern Theater of World War I, 1914 - 1915 edited by Gerhard P. Gross (University Press of Kentucky; 444 pages; $80). Includes previously untranslated writings by scholars who discuss the First World War, and its remembrance, from German, central European, and Eastern European perspectives.

Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America edited by Damian Alan Pargas (University Press of Florida; 334 pages; $90). Essays on the experiences of fugitive slaves that draw distinctions among sites of formal, semi-formal, and informal freedom in Canada, the U.S. North and South, Mexico, and the Caribbean.

The Harvest of American Racism: The Political Meaning of Violence in the Summer of 1967 edited by Robert Shellow (University of Michigan Press; 163 pages; $65 hardcover, $19.95 paperback). Includes the first publication of a controversial report prepared in 1967 by social scientists for the LBJ-initiated Kerner Commission, then suppressed by commission staff.

Humanism in Ruins: Entangled Legacies of the Greek-Turkish Population Exchange by Asli Igsiz (Stanford University Press; 344 pages; $90 hardcover, $27.95 paperback). Examines the events and legacy of a 1923 population exchange in which Muslims in Greece were resettled in Turkey and Greek Orthodox Christians in Turkey were moved to Greece.

The South of the Mind: American Imaginings of White Southernness, 1960--1980 by Zachary J. Lechner (University of Georgia Press; 232 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $28.95 paperback). Draws on literature, film, music, politics, and other realms to show how ideas of a tradition-bound South shaped Americans’ views of themselves during the cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 70s.

HISTORY OF SCIENCE

Solid State Insurrection: How the Science of Substance Made American Physics Matter by Joseph D. Martin (University of Pittsburgh Press; 312 pages; $49.95). Documents the pivotal role played in the Cold War era by research into the physical properties of solid matter, despite its receiving less prestige and public attention than particle and nuclear physics.

LAW

Beyond the Borders of the Law: Critical Legal Histories of the North American West edited by Katrina Jagodinsky and Pablo Mitchell (University Press of Kansas; 368 pages; $50 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Focuses on issues of race, gender, property, citizenship, justice, and reform in essays on the overlapping legal systems of western borderlands---including state, federal, tribal, municipal, and transnational.

LITERATURE

American Literary History and the Turn toward Modernity edited by Melanie V. Dawson and Meredith L. Goldsmith (University Press of Florida; 288 pages; $85). Essays that document the elasticity and plurality of American literature from 1880 to 1930; authors discussed include Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, Laura Jean Libbey, Jessie Fauset, Mary Austin, and Jack London.

Domestications: American Empire, Literary Culture, and the Postcolonial Lens by Hosam Aboul-Ela (Northwestern University Press; 241 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Juxtaposes, among other phenomena, Paul Bowles and the birth of the American “Third World” novel and the critique of Orientalism put forth in the work of such North African intellectuals as Abdallah Laroui, Abdullah Saaf, and Fatema Mernissi.

Five Hard Pieces: Translations and Readings of Five Long Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva by Diana Lewis Burgin (University of Massachusetts Press; 264 pages; $24.95). Explores allusions to alchemy, oneiromancy and Kabbalah in five long works by the 20th-century Russian poet ---Astride a Red Steed, Mountain Poem, At/tempting Room, Stairs, and Air Poem.

Harvester of Hearts: Motherhood under the Sign of Frankenstein by Rachel Feder (Northwestern University Press; 181 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Combines scholarly and personal perspectives in a study of how Mary Shelley’s experience of motherhood and maternal loss shaped Frankenstein and Shelley’s companion work Mathilda, a novel confiscated by her father that went unpublished until 1959.

Language between God and the Poets: Ma‘na in the Eleventh Century by Alexander Key (University of California Press; 274 pages; $34.95). Describes a conceptual vocabulary shared by the Islamic thinkers ar-Raghib al-Isfahani, Ibn Furak, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), and Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani based on the words ma‘na and haqiqah.

Nabokov and Indeterminacy: The Case of “The Real Life of Sebastian Knight” by Priscilla Meyer (Northwestern University Press; 200 pages; $120 hardcover, $39.95 paperback). Describes how a structure of subtextual references in Nabokov’s first English-language novel, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, sheds light on his later works Lolita and Pale Fire.

Poetics and Praxis “After” Objectivism edited by W. Scott Howard and Broc Rossell (University of Iowa Press; 240 pages; $85). Writings that discuss late-20th and early 21st-century poetry in terms of the legacy of Objectivism, beginning with Louis Zukovsky’s foundational essays on the movement in 1931.

PHILOSOPHY

Being and the Cosmos: From Seeing to Indwelling by Robert E. Wood (Catholic University of America Press; 136 pages; $34.95). Defends a speculative view of the cosmos that both draws on the ancient Greeks and corresponds with holism in contemporary physics.

Liberty and the Pursuit of Knowledge: Charles Renouvier’s Political Philosophy of Science by Warren Schmaus (University of Pittsburgh Press; 208 pages; $34.95). A study of the French thinker that examines his politically engaged philosophy of science and his liberal challenge to monarchy and religious authority.

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Are Markets Moral? edited by Arthur M. Melzer and Steven J. Kautz (University of Pennsylvania Press; 264 pages; $49.95). Multidisciplinary writings on the relationship of capitalism and morality, from assertions of capitalism’s inherent immorality to the position that morality demands the economic freedom of capitalism.

The End of Strategic Stability? Nuclear Weapons and the Challenge of Regional Rivalries edited by Lawrence Rubin and Adam N. Stulberg (Georgetown University Press; 314 pages; $110.95 hardcover, $36.95 paperback). Writings on how such current and potential nuclear powers as the United States, Russia, China, India, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia view strategic stability and the use or non-use of nuclear weapons.

The Political Thought of the Civil War edited by Alan Levine, Thomas W. Merrill, and James R. Stoner Jr. (University Press of Kansas; 436 pages; $39.95). Essays by scholars in political science, history, and literature on key political and constitutional debates of the period, including issues that have relevance for our time.

The Politics of Millennials: Political Beliefs and Policy Preferences of America’s Most Diverse Generation by Stella M. Rouse and Ashley D. Ross (University of Michigan Press; 334 pages; $80). Combines qualitative and quantitative data on the politics of Americans born from the early 1980s to the late 1990s.

Push Back, Move Forward: The National Council of Women’s Organizations and Coalition Advocacy by Laura R. Woliver (Temple University Press; 220 pages; $99.50 hardcover, $32.95 paperback). A fieldwork-based study of the NCWO, a group that emerged from increased coalition building in the wake of the defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment.

The Reputational Imperative: Nehru’s India in Territorial Conflict by Mahesh Shankar (Stanford University Press; 233 pages; $70). A study of how reputational concerns on the world stage affect state conduct in territorial disputes; focuses on India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, and his failure to resolve the Kashmir dispute with Pakistan and territorial issues with China.

Russia Abroad: Driving Regional Fracture in Post-Communist Eurasia and Beyond edited by Anna Ohanyan (Georgetown University Press; 220 pages; $36.95). Essays that develop a theory of regional fracture, as opposed to integration, and show how Russia applies such an approach to keep countries on its periphery weak and in Moscow’s orbit.

The Whips: Building Party Coalitions in Congress by C. Lawrence Evans (University of Michigan Press; 384 pages; $85 hardcover, $39.95 paperback). Traces the actions and strategies of party whips in Congress since the 1950s; sources include nearly 30,000 pages from the personal papers of former House and Senate leaders and members.

PUBLIC POLICY

Food and Poverty: Food Insecurity and Food Sovereignty Among America’s Poor edited by Leslie Hossfeld, E. Brooke Kelly, and Julia Waity (Vanderbilt University Press; 264 pages; $79.95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Writings on such topics as urban “food deserts,” food-insecure seniors, family food-spending profiles, and the power of private-public partnerships to alleviate hunger.

RELIGION

Desegregating Dixie: The Catholic Church in the South and Desegregation, 1945-1992 by Mark Newman (University Press of Mississippi; 512 pages; $90 hardcover, $30 paperback). Traces the responses of black and white Catholics to desegregation efforts during the period; topics include the wide scope of black Catholics’ involvement in the civil-rights movement.

RHETORIC

Field Rhetoric: Ethnography, Ecology, and Engagement in the Places of Persuasion edited by Candice Rai and Caroline Gottschalk Druschke (University of Alabama Press; 304 pages; $54.95). Combines methodological, theoretical, and practical perspectives in writings on an ethnographic or field-based turn in rhetorical studies; topics include Iowa farmers and the rhetoric of agricultural stewardship.

The Interruption That We Are: The Health of the Lived Body, Narrative, and Public Moral Argument by Michael J. Hyde (University of South Carolina Press; 224 pages; $49.99). Explores interruption as a catalyst for moral reflection and behavior.

SPORTS STUDIES

Muscle on Wheels: Louise Armaindo and the High-Wheel Racers of Nineteenth-Century America by M. Ann Hall (McGill-Queen’s University Press; 248 pages; US$49.95). A study of high-wheel bicycle racing in the 1880s and early 90s that focuses on Louise Armaindo, one of Canada’s first female professional athletes.

THEATER

Off Sites: Contemporary Performance Beyond Site-Specific by Bertie Ferdman (Southern Illinois University Press; 212 pages; $38). Examines five ways in which artists have challenged the conventions of site-specific theater; productions discussed include Private Moment by David Levine, Geyser Land by Mary Ellen Strom and Ann Carlson, Jim Findlay’s Dream of the Red Chamber, and Lola Arias’s Mi Vida Despues.

WOMEN’S STUDIES

Delivered by Midwives: African American Midwifery in the Twentieth-Century South by Jenny M. Luke (University Press of Mississippi; 176 pages; $90 hardcover, $30 paperback). Examines the role of race in maternity care in a study of the experiences of African-American midwives and their clients in the Deep South; topics include how practices attacked by the medical establishment are being drawn on today.