ANTHROPOLOGY
Encoding Race, Encoding Class: Indian IT Workers in Berlin by Sareeta Amrute (Duke University Press; 264 pages; $89.95 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Examines issues of class and race in “cognitive labor” through a study of Indian coders working under temporary permits in Germany.
Giving Life, Giving Death: Psychoanalysis, Anthropology, Philosophy by Lucien Scubla, translated by M.B. DeBevoise (Michigan State University Press; 420 pages; $29.95). Focuses on Freud, Levi-Strauss, and Rene Girard in a study of Western thinkers and the marginalization of the cultural and biological fact of maternity.
The Management of Hate: Nation, Affect, and the Governance of Right-Wing Extremism in Germany by Nitzan Shoshan (Princeton University Press; 300 pages; $80 hardcover, $32.95 paperback). An ethnographic study of young right-wing extremists in Berlin’s Treptow-Kopenick district, as well as the street social workers they encounter.
The Spirits of Crossbones Graveyard: Time, Ritual, and Sexual Commerce in London by Sondra L. Hausner (Indiana University Press; 224 pages; $80 hardcover, $28 paperback). Combines anthropology and history in a study of rituals held by sex workers and others at a graveyard in the London borough of Southwark to commemorate the souls of the “Winchester Geese"---medieval prostitutes denied Christian burial.
ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence by Lia Markey (Penn State University Press; 241 pages; $79.95). Documents how the Medici rulers’ collection of flora, fauna, artifacts, and imagery of and from the Americas influenced Italian art and culture.
Miranda July’s Intermedial Art: The Creative Class Between Self-Help and Individualism by Antje Czudaj (Transcript-Verlag, distributed by Columbia University Press; 224 pages; $40). Discusses the work of the American artist, writer, and filmmaker as reflective of the lives of the contemporary white Californian middle class.
CLASSICAL STUDIES
Oratory and Political Career in the Late Roman Republic by Henriette van der Blom (Cambridge University Press; 376 pages; $120). Offers case studies of Gaius Gracchus, Pompeius, Julius Caesar, Piso Caesoninus, Cato the Younger, and Marcus Antonius.
Theater and Spectacle in the Art of the Roman Empire by Katherine M.D. Dunbabin (Cornell University Press; 352 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $45 paperback). Examines representations of gladiators, chariot races, and other spectacles in Roman paintings, sculpture, mosaics, and luxury and ordinary objects.
ECONOMICS
Economic Catch-up and Technological Leapfrogging: The Path to Development and Macroeconomic Stability in Korea by Keun Lee (Edward Elgar Publishing; 392 pages; $150). Discusses South Korea’s economic rise in terms of charting a new path and leapfrogging rather than catching up to forerunners.
FILM STUDIES
Contemporary African Cinema by Olivier Barlet (Michigan State University Press; 452 pages; $39.95). Focuses on the filmmaking of the sub-Saharan continent in the 21st century.
Fantasies of Neglect : Imagining the Urban Child in American Film and Fiction by Pamela Robertson Wojcik (Rutgers University Press; 256 pages; $90 hardcover, $27.95 paperback). Explores the recurrent and persistent image of the self-sufficient urban child, rich and poor, since the early 20th century.
HISTORY
Divergent Memories: Opinion Leaders and the Asia-Pacific War by Gi-Wook Shin and Daniel Sneider (Stanford University Press; 356 pages; $85 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Combines interview data with analysis of phenomena from film to textbooks in a sociological study of ongoing disputes over the history of World War II in Asia.
Iran Without Borders: Towards a Critique of the Postcolonial Nation by Hamid Dabashi (Verso; 248 pages; $29.95). Explores cosmopolitan aspects of Iranian culture since the 18th century.
The Myth and Reality of German Warfare: Operational Thinking From Moltke the Elder to Heusinger by Gerhard P. Gross, edited by David T. Zabecki (University Press of Kentucky; 425 pages; $50). A study of the strengths and weaknesses of German operational thinking in five different armies from the mid-19th century to early NATO.
No Free Man: Canada, the Great War, and the Enemy Alien Experience by Bohdan S. Kordan (McGill-Queen’s University Press; 416 pages; US$39.95). Discusses Canada’s internment of some 8,000 civilians with ethnic ties to enemy nationalities during World War I.
A People Without a State: The Kurds from the Rise of Islam to the Dawn of Nationalism by Michael Eppel (University of Texas Press; 176 pages; $80 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Traces the history of the Kurds from the early medieval era to the dawn of nationalist activism in World War I.
Prelude to the Dust Bowl: Drought in the Nineteenth-Century Southern Plains by Kevin Z. Sweeney (University of Oklahoma Press; 304 pages; $34.95). A study of how plains settlement was shaped by four dry periods in the 1800s.
The Two Faces of Exclusion: The Untold Story of Anti-Asian Racism in the United States by Lon Kurashige (University of North Carolina Press; 304 pages; $34.95). Discusses politics, religion, academe, and business in a study of both sides of a debate over exclusionist policies toward Asian immigrants.
University, Court, and Slave: Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War by Alfred L. Brophy (Oxford University Press; 373 pages; $39.95). Focuses on the academy and the judiciary in a study of pro-slavery ideas in circulation in Southern society from 1831 to the war.
HISTORY OF MEDICINE
A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples by Randall M. Packard (Johns Hopkins University Press; 414 pages; $65 hardcover, $35 paperback). Focuses on U.S. colonialism in the Philippines and Americas in a study of the legacy of colonial-era medicine on global health interventions.
INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
Third World Studies: Theorizing Liberation by Gary Y. Okihiro (Duke University Press; 214 pages; $84.95 hardcover, $23.95 paperback). Traces the brief history of Third World studies as a field said to have emerged as a demand by a revolutionary student movement at San Francisco State University in 1968 and later set aside in favor of “ethnic studies.”
JOURNALISM
Deciding What’s True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism by Lucas Graves (Columbia University Press; 324 pages; $90 hardcover, $30 paperback). A newsroom-based study of fact-checking by FactCheck.org, founded in 2003 and Politifact and the Washington Post’s Fact Checker, established in 2007.
The Riot Report and the News: How the Kerner Commission Changed Media Coverage of Black America by Thomas J. Hrach (University of Massachusetts Press; 240 pages; $85 hardcover, $25.95 paperback). Examines the crafting of the report by a presidential commission that was established in July 1967 to examine the origins of unrest in urban black communities and was critical of the mainstream media.
LITERATURE
The British Soldier and His Libraries, c. 1822-1901 by Sharon Murphy (Palgrave Macmillan; 290 pages; $99.99). A study of libraries established by the East India Company and the British Army.
Conrad’s Shadow: Catastrophe, Mimesis, Theory by Nidesh Lawtoo (Michigan State University Press; 420 pages; $29.95). Topics include the author’s fascination with doubles.
Creating Flannery O’Connor: Her Critics, Her Publishers, Her Readers by Daniel Moran (University of Georgia Press; 264 pages; $39.95). Traces shifts in O’Connor’s public and critical reception, including responses to adaptations of her work for stage and screen; topics include how publisher Robert Giroux worked to promote O’Connor as an author dealing with universal themes.
Poets, Players, and Preachers: Remembering the Gunpowder Plot in Seventeenth-Century England by Anne James (University of Toronto Press; 424 pages; US$85). Discusses poetry, drama, and sermons in a study of literary responses to English authorities’ discovery on November 4, 1605, of an alleged Catholic plot to blow up Parliament.
Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus by Rebecca Gould (Yale University Press; 336 pages; $85). Combines literary and anthropological analysis in a comparative study of Georgian, Chechen, and Daghestani representations of “social banditry” and anticolonial insurgency.
MUSIC
Krautrock: German Music in the Seventies by Ulrich Adelt (University of Michigan Press; 246 pages; $85 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Topics include the redefinition of German identity in the music of Kraftwerk, Can, and Neu!
A Season of Singing: Creating Feminist Jewish Music in the United States by Sarah M. Ross (Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England; 296 pages; $85 hardcover, $40 paperback). Focuses on the work of such songwriters as Debbie Friedman, Linda Hirschhorn, and Rabbis Geela Rayzel Raphael and Hanna Tiferet Siegel.
PHILOSOPHY
Feminist Philosophies of Life edited by Hasana Sharp and Chloe Taylor (McGill-Queen’s University Press; 336 pages; US$110 hardcover, US$32.95 paperback). Topics include “thinking” ontology and sexual difference with Luce Irigaray and Gilbert Simonden, and Kierkegaard, Beauvoir, and existential life.
Fichte’s “Addresses to the German Nation” Reconsidered edited by Daniel Breazeale and Tom Rockmore (State University of New York Press; 288 pages; $90). Essays on education, nationalism, and other themes in a series of speeches given by the German philosopher at time when Berlin was under French occupation.
Heidegger, Philosophy, and Politics: The Heidelberg Conference edited by Mireille Calle-Gruber, translated by Jeff Fort (Fordham University Press; 120 pages; $85 hardcover, $23.95 paperback). Transcriptions of exchanges over a period of two days in February 1988 as the philosophers Jacques Derrida, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe came together to discuss Heidegger and debates over his ties to Nazism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
American Power and Liberal Order: A Conservative Internationalist Grand Strategy by Paul D. Miller (Georgetown University Press; 336 pages; $32.95). Combines scholarly and practitioner perspectives in a critique of calls for the United States to scale back its involvement in global affairs.
How China Escaped the Poverty Trap by Yuen Yuen Ang (Cornell University Press; 344 pages; $27.95). Describes the mutual adaptation of both government and markets in China in a study of the country’s development since 1978.
Insecure Majorities: Congress and the Perpetual Campaign by Frances E. Lee (University of Chicago Press; 266 pages; $90 hardcover, $30 paperback). Links the growing dysfunction and polarization in Congress to the perpetual struggle for control of two parties now at relative parity.
Investigating the President: Congressional Checks on Presidential Power by Douglas L. Kriner and Eric Schickler (Princeton University Press; 284 pages; $95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). A study of Congressional hearings as a check on executive power; draws on an analysis of nearly 13,000 days of such hearings from 1898 to 2014.
Sharing Knowledge, Shaping Europe: US Technological Collaboration and Nonproliferation by John Krige (MIT Press; 227 pages; $33). Examines U.S. efforts to use technological collaboration as a tool of soft power to prevent European countries from developing nuclear weapons programs.
RELIGION
Jacob Neusner: An American Jewish Iconoclast by Aaron W. Hughes (New York University Press; 319 pages; $35). A biography of the American scholar (b. 1932).
The Market as God by Harvey Cox (Harvard University Press; 307 pages; $26.95). Criticizes what is termed the deification of the market economy and draws parallels with the development of Christianity.
Pious Irreverence: Confronting God in Rabbinic Judaism by Dov Weiss (University of Pennsylvania Press; 291 pages; $69.95). Explores a tradition of protest in relationship to God in Judaism, exemplified first in the stories of Abraham, Job, and Jeremiah and developed in early rabbinical texts.
SOCIOLOGY
Beyond Monogamy: Polyamory and the Future of Polyqueer Sexualities by Mimi Schippers (New York University Press; 200 pages; $89 hardcover, $27 paperback). Combines scholarly and personal perspectives in a critique of compulsory monogamy and a discussion of the monogamous couple as central to white heteromasculine privilege.
Jacked Up and Unjust: Pacific Islander Teens Confront Violent Legacies by Katherine Irwin and Karen Umemoto (University of California Press; 256 pages; $85 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). A study of Native Hawaiaan, Samoan, and other Pacific Islander youth in two Hawaii high schools.
THEATER
Learning to Kneel: Noh, Modernism, and Journeys in Teaching by Carrie J. Preston (Columbia University Press; 369 pages; $35). Combines a study of Japanese noh theater’s influence on such figures as Yeats, Pound, Brecht, Beckett, and Britten with a discussion of the author’s own noh training.
Presidential Libraries as Performance: Curating American Character From Herbert Hoover to George W. Bush by Jodi Kanter (Southern Illinois University Press; 179 pages; $35). Examines the narratives generated by presidential libraries in their settings, architecture, spatial organization, and exhibitions.
WOMEN’S STUDIES
Getting Paid While Taking Time: The Women’s Movement and the Development of Paid Family Leave Policies in the United States by Megan A. Sholar (Temple University Press; 252 pages; $84.50 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Examines efforts to pass paid family leave at the state and national levels.
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