AMERICAN STUDIES
American Studies Encounters the Middle East edited by Alex Lubin and Marwan M. Kraidy (University of North Carolina Press; 326 pages; $85 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Writings by American, Arab, and other scholars on such topics as Moroccan rap, the reception of American discourse on the Egyptian revolution, and drones and the imperial gaze.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Japanese American Ethnicity: In Search of Heritage and Homeland Across Generations by Takeyuki Tsuda (New York University Press; 321 pages; $89 hardcover, $30 paperback). Draws on fieldwork in San Diego and Phoenix in a study of how Japanese-Americans from the second to fourth generations negotiate their relationship to their cultural heritage.
Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds by Lisa Messeri (Duke University Press; 238 pages; $84.95 hardcover, $23.95 paperback). Draws on fieldwork at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah; a NASA research center in Silicon Valley; and other settings in a study of how astronomers, geologists, and computer scientists envision and map the Red Planet.
Violent Becomings: State Formation, Sociality, and Power in Mozambique by Bjorn Enge Bertelsen (Berghahn Books; 332 pages; $110 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Draws on fieldwork in central Mozambique’s Manica province.
ARCHAEOLOGY
A Bronze Age Landscape in the Russian Steppes: The Samara Valley Project edited by David W. Anthony and others (University of New Mexico Press; 560 pages; $89). Reports on joint U.S.-Russian archaeological research on seasonal and permanent Late Bronze Age settlements in the Russian steppes; documents a surprisingly limited role for agriculture in the Srubnaya and Andronovo cultures (1900--1200 BC).
Perspectives on the Ancient Maya of Chetumal Bay edited by Debra S. Walker (University Press of Florida; 380 pages; $89.95). Archaeological research on Cerro Maya, Oxtankah, Santa Rita Corozal, and other sites ringing the bay, which is located on the southern coast of the Yucatan peninsula and borders both Belize and Mexico.
ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Stories in Gilded Frames: Dutch Seventeenth-Century Paintings With Biblical and Mythological Subjects by Lyckle de Vries (Amsterdam University Press, distributed by University of Chicago Press; 184 pages; $59.95). Examines 100 works of the narrative genre.
CLASSICAL STUDIES
On Duties by Marcus Tullius Cicero, translated by Benjamin Patrick Newton (Cornell University Press; 248 pages; $89.95 hardcover, $22.95 paperback). Translation, with interpretive essay, of a key text by the Roman orator and statesman.
Traces of the Past: Classics between History and Archaeology by Karen Bassi (University of Michigan Press; 256 pages; $70). Topics include the contest between objects in Aristophanes’ Frogs.
DANCE
Agnes de Mille: Telling Stories in Broadway Dance by Kara Anne Gardner (Oxford University Press; 231 pages; $35). Examines the work of the American choreographer and choreographer-director from the 1940s through the 1960s, with a focus on the musicals Oklahoma!, One Touch of Venus, Bloomer Girl, Carousel, Brigadoon, and Allegro.
ECONOMICS
Prosperity for All: How to Prevent Financial Crises by Roger E.A. Farmer (Oxford University Press; 277 pages; $24.95). Argues for the creation of a sovereign wealth fund to stabilize aggregate fluctuations in the stock market.
FILM STUDIES
Carceral Fantasies: Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America by Alison Griffiths (Columbia University Press; 440 pages; $40). Examines the earliest cinematic images of prisons and punishment (mostly before 1915), as well as how films came to be shown to male and female inmates betwen 1909 and 1922.
Hidden Hitchcock by D.A. Miller (University of Chicago Press; 186 pages; $27.50). Focuses on Strangers on a Train, Rope, and The Wrong Man in a study of a hidden elements in Hitchcock’s films that playfully engage the “Too Close Viewer.”
The Komedi Bioscoop: The Emergence of Movie-Going in Colonial Indonesia, 1896-1914 by Dafna Ruppin (John Libbey, distributed by Indiana University Press; 360 pages; $38). Traces the rise of a local culture of movie-going, enabled by touring exhibitors, in what was the Dutch East Indies.
FOLKLORE
Material Vernaculars: Objects, Images, and Their Social Worlds edited by Jason Baird Jackson (Indiana University Press; 202 pages; $85 hardcover, $30 paperback). Essays on such topics as scrapbooking, folk art produced by the elderly, and the temporary shelters built during the Jewish festival of Sukkot.
HISTORY
Across the Ussuri Kray: Travels in the Sikhote-Alin Mountains by Vladimir K. Arsenyev, translated by Jonathan C. Slaght (Indiana University Press; 454 pages; $85 hardcover, $35 paperback). Annotated translation of writings by the Russian explorer and naturalist (1872-1930), who documented the nature and peoples of a remote region of Russia’s Far East, including the disappearing cultures of the Nanai and Udege.
American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 by Alan Taylor (W.W. Norton & Company; 681 pages; $37.50). Sets the creation of the United States in the wider context of the competing British, French, and Spanish empires, as well as the interests and holdings of indigenous populations.
The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de’ Medici by Catherine Fletcher (Oxford University Press; 308 pages; $29.95). Explores the life and cultural afterlife of a son born in 1510 to Lorenzo de’ Medici, Duke of Urbino, and a dark-skinned maid; describes how despite his illegitimacy, he was groomed for power, rose to become Duke of Florence, but was assassinated in 1537.
A Book of Conquest: The “Chachnama” and Muslim Origins in South Asia by Manan Ahmed Asif (Harvard University Press; 250 pages; $45). Challenges traditional interpretations of the origins and content of a 13th-century text that tells the story of Chach, the Brahmin ruler of Sind, and his kingdom’s eventual conquest by a Muslim general in AD 712; argues that the text was originally Persian, not Arabic, and is a work of sophisticated political theory combining both Indic and Islamic elements.
The Civil War Letters of Alexander McNeill, 2nd South Carolina Infantry Regiment edited by Mac Wyckoff and transcribed by Cora Lee Godsey Starling (University of South Carolina Press; 672 pages; $38.99). Edition of letters written by a South Carolina merchant from April 17, 1861 to May 2, 1865 to a young woman who would eventually become his wife; documents his experiences at Bull Run (First Manassas), Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, and other battles.
The Codex Fori Mussolini: A Latin Text of Italian Fascism by Hans Lamers and Bettina Reitz-Joosse (Bloomsbury Academic; 139 pages; $108). Edition and translation, with commentary, of a text written in Latin by the classicist Aurelio Giuseppe Amatucci that in 1932 was placed inside the base of a marble obelisk with the intent of shaping future perceptions of Fascism.
Collecting Food, Cultivating People: Subsistence and Society in Central Africa by Kathryn M. de Luna (Yale University Press; 332 pages; $85). Draws on linguistic, archaeological, and other data to document the significance of “bushcraft"---hunting, fishing, and foraging---for precolonial farming societies of south-central Africa over three millennia.
Columbus, Ohio: Two Centuries of Business and Environmental Change by Mansel G. Blackford (Ohio State University Press; 256 pages; $69.95). Focuses on approaches to water and land use in the city since its founding in 1812.
The Commander: Fawzi al-Qawuqji and the Fight for Arab Independence 1914-1948 by Laila Parsons (Hill & Wang; 295 pages; $28). Traces the life of a Lebanese-born Arab nationalist who fought the British as a young officer in the Ottoman Army, helped lead the Arab Revolt of 1936 in Palestine, and commanded the Arab Liberation Army in the Arab-Israeli War of 1948.
Elvis’s Army: Cold War GIs and the Atomic Battlefield by Brian McAllister Linn (Harvard University Press; 444 pages; $29.95). Discusses the gap in the post-World War II Army between the military’s ideal of warfare and personnel motivated largely by conscription.
From Huronia to Wendakes: Adversity, Migrations, and Resilience, 1650-1900 edited by Thomas Peace and Kathryn Magee Labelle (University of Oklahoma Press; 242 pages; $34.95). Essays on the Wendat or Wyandot peoples of southern Ontario and their fate after dispersal as far south as Kansas and Oklahoma.
Henry the Young King, 1155-1183 by Matthew Strickland (Yale University Press; 472 pages; $40). Traces the life of the Plantagenet monarch, who at 15 was created a co-ruler with his father, was later incited to rebellion against his father and his brother, but never came to hold actual power.
Henry V: The Conscience of King by Malcolm Vale (Yale University Press; 308 pages; $35). A revisionist view of the English monarch (1386-1422) that emphasizes his hands-on role as pious and dutiful ruler, as well as his art patronage and work as a composer.
Historical Style: Fashion and the New Mode of History, 1740-1830 by Timothy Campbell (University of Pennsylvania Press; 363 pages; $65). Considers how an awareness of fashion trends and their cycles were linked to a growing modern consciousness of history and change.
The History of The Hudson River Valley: From the Civil War to Modern Times by Vernon Benjamin (Overlook Press; 625 pages; $45). Completes a two-volume history of the New York region that draws on both scholarly and personal perspectives.
Intimate Bonds: Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic by Jennifer L. Palmer (University of Pennsylvania Press; 267 pages; $45). Explores household relations across racial lines in 18th-century France as well as in the city of La Rochelle and the western province of Saint-Domingue (later Haiti).
Japan After 3/11: Global Perspectives on the Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Meltdown edited by Pradyumna P. Karan and Unryu Suganuma (University Press of Kentucky; 477 pages; $60). Writings by geographers, economists, and others on the impact of the March 11, 2011, earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear plant disaster on Japan’s northeastern coast; topics include damage, radioactive contamination, rebuilding dilemmas, and comparative discussion of disasters in China, India, and New Zealand.
The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright by Ann M. Little (Yale University Press; 286 pages; $40). Traces the multilingual and border-crossing life of a New England woman (1696-1780) captured at 7 by the Wabanaki Indians, converted to Catholicism in the tribe, and enrolled at 12 in a French-Canadian Ursuline convent where she eventually became mother superior.
Mr. Mothercountry: The Man Who Made the Rule of Law by Keally McBride (Oxford University Press; 199 pages; $39.95). A study of James Stephen, who as colonial undersecretary and counsel in the Colonial Office, reviewed and approved, or discarded, virtually every law in the British Empire between 1814 and 1844.
New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America by Wendy Warren (W.W. Norton & Company; 343 pages; $29.95). Documents how the Atlantic slave trade benefited the New England colonies; also discusses Indians of the region who were sold into slavery in the Caribbean.
The Power of Place: Rulers and Their Palaces, Landscapes, Cities, and Holy Places by David Rollason (Princeton University Press; 458 pages; $49.95). Documents how power was conveyed through palaces, cities, and other settings across Europe from the first to the 16th centuries.
The Revolutionary Imaginations of Greater Mexico: Chicana/o Radicalism, Solidarity Politics, and Latin American Social Movements by Alan Eladio Gomez (University of Texas Press; 294 pages; $90 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Topics include links between Mexican Maoists and Chicano revolutionaries in South Texas in the 1970s.
A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War by Williamson Murray and Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh (Princeton University Press; 602 pages; $35). Combines scholarly and military perspectives in a study that emphasizes the distinct martial cultures of North and South, and the conflict’s role in the rise of modern warfare.
Stories of Civil War in El Salvador: A Battle Over Memory by Erik Ching (University of North Carolina Press; 362 pages; $32). Contrasts the views of four “memory communities” in El Salvador: civilian elites, military officers, guerrilla commanders, and working-class and poor “testimonialists.”
This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy by Matthew Karp (Harvard University Press; 360 pages; $29.95). Discusses slaveholders as statesmen before the Civil War and describes their efforts to use American diplomacy to protect slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the Republic of Texas.
Vietnam: A New History by Christopher Goscha (Basic Books; 552 pages; $35). A study of Vietnam since antiquity, with a focus on the 19th and 20th centuries.
HISTORY OF SCIENCE
Heredity Explored: Between Public Domain and Experimental Science, 1850-1930 edited by Staffan Muller-Wille and Christina Brandt (MIT Press; 472 pages; $49). Essays on heredity as an aspect of social and scientific concern during the period; topics include concepts of gender in genetics and Anglo-American critiques of cousin marriage.
LABOR STUDIES
The Spirit of Marikana: The Rise of Insurgent Trade Unionism in South Africa by Luke Sinwell and Siphiwe Mbatha (Pluto Press, distributed by University of Chicago Press; 208 pages; $99 hardcover, $30 paperback). A study of union activism in the platinum mining industry, including an incident on August 16, 2012, in which 24 mineworkers were killed by police in what became known as the Marikana massacre.
LAW
At Home in Two Countries: The Past and Future of Dual Citizenship by Peter J. Spiro (New York University Press; 190 pages; $40). Traces the history of dual citizenship as something once reviled and now largely accepted.
The Chief Justice: Appointment and Influence edited by David J. Danelski and Artemus Ward (University of Michigan Press; 451 pages; $90). Writings that apply social-science theory to understanding the appointment, office, powers, and influence of the Chief Justice of the United States, both on the Supreme Court and in the wider political culture.
Courts without Borders: Law, Politics, and U.S. Extraterritoriality by Tonya L. Putnam (Cambridge University Press; 330 pages; $99.99). Develops a theory of domestic court behavior to explain variation in the external enforcement of American law; topics include intellectual property, human rights, transnational governance, and international antitrust.
The Great Yazoo Lands Sale: The Case of Fletcher v. Peck by Charles F. Hobson (University Press of Kansas; 256 pages; $45 hardcover, $19.95 paperback). Discusses an 1810 case that marked the first time the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the action of a state was in violation of the Constitution.
Military Justice in the Modern Age edited by Alison Duxbury and Matthew Groves (Cambridge University Press; 446 pages; $125). Offers country-specific and regional essays by scholars and practitioners on military justice systems in flux; settings discussed include Australia, Britain, Canada, and the Netherlands.
LINGUISTICS
Are Some Languages Better than Others? by R.M.W. Dixon (Oxford University Press; 272 pages; $40). Develops an abstract view of an ideal language---presumed non-existent---and considers whether existing languages can be deemed better or worse than others given the presence or absence of various grammatical and other elements.
The Social Life of the Japanese Language: Cultural Discourse and Situated Practice by Shigeko Okamoto and Janet S. Shibamoto-Smith (Cambridge University Press; 352 pages; $110). Discusses the historical construction of language norms and its relationship to actual language use in contemporary Japan; focuses on honorifics and politeness, gendered language, and standard Japanese and regional dialects.
LITERATURE
C. S. Lewis on Politics and the Natural Law by Justin Buckley Dyer and Micah J. Watson (Cambridge University Press; 170 pages; $44.99). A study of the English author’s Christian engagement with politics, with a focus on natural law; topics include his Lockean liberalism.
Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature edited by Isabel Jaen and Julien Jacques Simon (Oxford University Press; 240 pages; $74). Draws on theories of perception, intentionality, and immersion in fiction in essays on Don Quixote as well as other texts from plays to conduct manuals.
The Complete Poems of George Whalley edited by Michael John DiSanto (McGill-Queen’s University Press; 360 pages; US$49.95). Edition of published and unpublished works by the Canadian modernist (1915-83), who is best known as a poet of World War II.
Fragments for a History of a Vanishing Humanism edited by Myra Seaman and Eileen A. Joy (Ohio State University Press; 281 pages; $99.95). Topics include problems with periodizations in which Renaissance humanism overcomes the medieval, and postpostmodern posthumanism overcomes the Enlightenment subject.
The Harlem Renaissance and the Idea of a New Negro Reader by Shawn Anthony Christian (University of Massachusetts Press; 141 pages; $90 hardcover, $25.95 paperback). Draws on newspapers, journals, and anthologies in a study of how black authors, editors, and others spoke directly to their fellow African-Americans to cultivate an interest in literature.
Lacan, Psychoanalysis, and Comedy edited by Patricia Gherovici and Manya Steinkoler (Cambridge University Press; 265 pages; $99.99). Essays on such topics as Lacan, Freud, and Marx on the economy of jokes; eros, wit, and chaperon-testing in Henry James’s “The Chaperon”; and Measure for Measure in light of Slavoj Zizek’s Lacanian dialectics.
“Margaret Garner": The Premiere Performances of Toni Morrison’s Libretto edited by La Vinia Delois Jennings (University of Virginia Press; 240 pages; $49.50). Documents the staging and reception of an 2005 opera in which Morrison’s libretto told the story of Margaret Garner, a fugitive slave who, about to be captured, cut the throat of her young daughter to prevent the girl’s return to bondage.
A Scarlet Pansy by Robert Scully, edited by Ronald J. Corber (Fordham University Press; 280 pages; $90 hardcover, $19.95 paperback). Unexpurgated edition of a 1932 novel that celebrates an androgynous gender nonconformist Fay Etrange who moves from small-town Pennsylvania to New York City and becomes a self-declared “oncer,” never tricking with the same man twice.
Seven Demon Stories from Medieval Japan by Noriko T. Reider (Utah State University Press; 292 pages; $33.95). Translations, with commentary, of medieval stories about oni (demons and ogres), whose themes continue to influence Japanese popular culture today.
MUSIC
Children’s Home Musical Experiences Across the World edited by Beatriz Ilari and Susan Young (Indiana University Press; 216 pages; $70 hardcover, $30 paperback). Research focusing on seven-year-olds from middle-class families in Brazil, Britain, Denmark, Greece, Israel, Kenya, the Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, South Africa,Taiwan, and the United States.
PHILOSOPHY
Accuracy and the Laws of Credence by Richard Pettigrew (Oxford University Press; 238 pages; $74). Defends central tenets of Bayesian epistemology.
Aristotle on Political Community by David J. Riesbeck (Cambridge University Press; 332 pages; $120). Describes how the Greek philosopher’s view of political community and authority is coherent with his aristocratic standards of justice.
The Miracle Myth: Why Belief in the Resurrection and the Supernatural Is Unjustified by Larry Shapiro (Columbia University Press; 168 pages; $27.95). Offers a philosophical challenge to the notion that a belief in miracles can be justified.
Plotinus and Epicurus: Matter, Perception, Pleasure edited by Angela Longo and Daniela Patrizia Taormina (Cambridge University Press; 254 pages; $99.99). Essays on how and why Plotinus, founder of neo-Platonism in the third century AD, drew on ancient Epicureanism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Against Democracy by Jason Brennan (Princeton University Press; 288 pages; $29.95). A critique of what is termed “democratic triumphalism”; argues instead for experimentation with epistocracy, or the rule of the knowledgeable.
Drawdown: The American Way of Postwar edited by Jason W. Warren (New York University Press; 310 pages; $89 hardcover, $30 paperback). Writings on Americans’ mixed records in handling the drawing down of military forces, at home and abroad, since Colonial era conflicts; topics include downsizing after Vietnam as an example of a “good drawdown.”
Egypt Beyond Tahrir Square edited by Bessma Momani and Eid Mohamed (Indiana University Press; 185 pages; $80 hardcover, $28 paperback). Writings by Egyptian scholars on such topics as the rise and fall of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egyptian media, labor, and intellectuals, and the role of the nation’s Coptic Christians.
From Washington to Moscow: US-Soviet Relations and the Collapse of the USSR by Louis Sell (Duke University Press; 424 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $27.95 paperback). Combines scholarly and practitioner perspectives in a study of U.S.-Soviet relations between 1972 and 1991 and the end of the Cold War.
The Gendered Executive: A Comparative Analysis of Presidents, Prime Ministers, and Chief Executives edited by Janet M. Martin and MaryAnne Borrelli (Temple University Press; 296 pages; $94.50 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Essays on such topics as the symbolic effects of female heads of state and government.
Presidents on Political Ground: Leaders in Action and What They Face by Bruce Miroff (University Press of Kansas; 208 pages; $29.95). Discusses American presidents in relation to five fields of struggle: the media, economic interests, political coalitions, domestic policy, and foreign policy.
The Progressives’ Century: Political Reform, Constitutional Government, and the Modern American State edited by Stephen Skowronek, Stephen M. Engel, and Bruce Ackerman (Yale University Press; 529 pages; $100). Writings by political scientists and other scholars on the at-times problematic legacy of Progressivism for law, party politics, and governance.
Twists of Fate: Multiracial Coalitions and Minority Representation in the US House of Representatives by Vanessa C. Tyson (Oxford University Press; 186 pages; $35). Draws on statistical, interview, and other data in a study of how House members from racial minority groups work to exercise influence and combat marginalization.
PSYCHOLOGY
Becoming Who I Am: Young Men on Being Gay by Ritch C. Savin-Williams (Harvard University Press; 322 pages; $27.95). Examines the identity and experiences of young gay men through interviews with both teenagers and young men in their 20s.
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Principles of Housing Finance Reform edited by Susan M. Wachter and Joseph Tracy (University of Pennsylvania Press; 282 pages; $65). Proposes long-term solutions for the problems of the housing-finance system in the United States.
RELIGION
Epiphanius of Cyprus: A Cultural Biography of Late Antiquity by Andrew S. Jacobs (University of California Press; 299 pages; $95). Challenges the marginalization of the fourth-century bishop in accounts of late antiquity.
My Perfect One: Typology and Early Rabbinic Interpretation of Song of Songs by Jonathan Kaplan (Oxford University Press; 225 pages; $74). Examines interpretations of the biblical book by rabbinic sages known as the Tannaim during the first centuries of the Common Era.
RHETORIC
“Guiguzi,” China’s First Treatise on Rhetoric: A Critical Translation and Commentary translated by Hui Wu, with commentaries by Hui Wu and C. Jan Swearingen (Southern Illinois University Press; 180 pages; $40). Translation, with commentary, of a treatise by a Chinese recluse scholar active in the fourth century BC.
Rethinking Rhetorical Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy: The Living Art of Michael C. Leff edited by Antonio de Velasco, John Angus Campbell, and David Henry (Michigan State University Press; 509 pages; $39.95). Edition of writings by the American rhetorician (1941-2010).
SOCIOLOGY
Best Laid Plans: Cultural Entropy and the Unraveling of AIDS Media Campaigns by Terence E. McDonnell (University of Chicago Press; 257 pages; $105 hardcover, $35 paperback). Focuses on a campaign in Accra, Ghana, in a study of how HIV/AIDS prevention programs can misfire, succumbing to “cultural entropy,” or the breakdown into unintended trajectories.
Migrant Deaths in the Arizona Desert: La vida no vale nada edited by Raquel Rubio-Goldsmith and others (University of Arizona Press; 312 pages; $24.95). Multidisciplinary writings by scholars, activists, and artists on migrant deaths and disappearances in the borderlands.
Speaking Truth to Power: Confidential Informants and Police Investigations by Dean A. Dabney and Richard Tewksbury (University of California Press; 224 pages; $85 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Draws on fieldwork in two major metropolitan police departments’ narcotics, homicide, and street-level vice divisions.
THEATER
Alienation Effects: Performance and Self-Management in Yugoslavia, 1945-91 by Branislav Jakovljevic (University of Michigan Press; 392 pages; $95 hardcover, $39.95 paperback). Traces links among what is termed artistic, political, and economic performance in the former Yugoslavia.
In Place of a Show: What Happens Inside Theatres When Nothing is Happening by Augusto Corrieri (Bloomsbury Academic; 198 pages; $94). Combines scholarly and personal perspectives in a discussion of four theaters bereft of their original purpose: the Cuvillies-Theater in Munich, the Dalston Theatre in London, the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, Italy, and Teatro Amazonas in the northern Brazilian city of Manaus.
WOMEN’S STUDIES
Czech Feminisms: Perspectives on Gender in East Central Europe edited by Iveta Jusova and Jirina Siklova (Indiana University Press; 344 pages; $80 hardcover, $30 paperback). Writings by scholars, activists, and others on such topics as reproductive rights, NGOs, anarchofeminism, LGBT issues, and other realms in the pre- and post-1989 era.
