ANTHROPOLOGY
An Ethnography of Hunger: Politics, Subsistence, and the Unpredictable Grace of the Sun by Kristin D. Phillips (Indiana University Press; 207 pages; $75 hardcover, $28 paperback). Draws on fieldwork in the Singida region in a study of how farmers in central Tanzania negotiate the politics of subsistence.
ART AND ARCHITECTURE
The Art of Curating: Paul J. Sachs and the Museum Course at Harvard by Sally Anne Duncan and Andrew McClellan (Getty Research Institute; 261 pages; $49.95). Documents the impact on American art museums of a year-long program offered by Sachs through the university’s fine-arts department from 1921 to 1948.
Centering Modernism: J. Jay McVicker and Postwar American Art by Louise Siddons (University of Oklahoma Press; 313 pages; $45). Counters the coastal focus in accounts of American avant-garde art through a study of the Oklahoma painter, sculptor, and printmaker (1911-2004) and his contributions to international modernism.
COMMUNICATION
Coping with Illness Digitally by Stephen A. Rains (MIT Press; 230 pages; $35). A study of how patients use digital media to cope with illness, including gathering information, sharing with fellow sufferers, and communicating with care providers.
ECONOMICS
A Crisis of Beliefs: Investor Psychology and Financial Fragility by Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Schleifer (Princeton University Press; 264 pages; $29.95). Focuses on the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the 2008 economic crisis in a study of how investor beliefs shape financial markets.
Rediscovering Economic Policy as a Discipline by Nicola Acocella (Cambridge University Press; 422 pages; $105 hardcover, $34.99 paperback). Defends government intervention as a response to market failure and examines, internationally, the history and practice of economic policy as a discipline.
FILM STUDIES
Foundational Films: Early Cinema and Modernity in Brazil by Maite Conde (University of California Press; 310 pages; $85). Discusses films produced during the First Republic (1889-1930) and the ways in which cinema was involved in Brazil’s wider modernization.
HISTORY
Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management by Caitlin Rosenthal (Harvard University Press; 295 pages; $35). Traces the development of quantitative management practices on plantations in the South and in the West Indies.
Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain by Charlotte Greenhaigh (University of California Press; 264 pages; $85 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Combines an account of the changing lives of the elderly in 20th-century Britain with discussion of Peter Townsend and other social scientists who studied and shaped policy toward the aged.
Crush: The Triumph of California Wine by John Briscoe (University of Nevada Press; 345 pages; $34.95). Traces the history of viticulture in California since 1769, culminating in the triumph of California wines in a blind taste test in Paris in 1976.
Czech Refugees in Cold War Canada by Jan Raska (University of Manitoba Press; 240 pages; US$31.95). Topics include organizations formed by political refugees in an effort to influence events in Czechoslovakia or shape Canadian policy toward their former homeland.
Daytime Stars: A Poet’s Memoir of the Revolution, the Siege of Leningrad, and the Thaw by Olga Berggolts, translated and edited by Lisa A. Kirschenbaum (University of Wisconsin Press; 224 pages; $34.95). Translation of a memoir by the Soviet poet (1910-75) written during the post-Stalin “thaw.”
Dear China: Emigrant Letters and Remittances, 1820--1980 by Gregor Benton and Hong Liu (University of California Press; 288 pages; $85 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Examines the forms, contents, and system of conveyance of qiaopi---letters sent together with a remittance by Chinese migrants in diaspora.
The Embattled Vote in America: From the Founding to the Present by Allan J. Lichtman (Harvard University Press; 336 pages; $27.95). Criticizes the Founders’ decision to leave voting rights to the discretion of individual states and describes how politics have shaped the expansion and contraction of the franchise over time.
Howard Zinn’s Southern Diary: Sit-ins, Civil Rights, and Black Women’s Student Activism by Robert Cohen (University of Georgia Press; 270 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Draws on and presents a diary kept by the scholar that documents the civil-rights activism of students in Atlanta, including Spelman College, where Zinn taught history until he was fired, in 1963, for supporting the movement.
In Their Own Best Interest: A History of the U.S. Effort to Improve Latin Americans by Lars Schoultz (Harvard University Press; 392 pages; $35). Examines the bureaucratic culture developed in the service of a paternalistic ideology of uplift since the Progressive Era.
Interrupted Odyssey: Ulysses S. Grant and the American Indians by Mary Stockwell (Southern Illinois University Press; 256 pages; $34.50). Traces the shifting history of President Grant’s Indian policy, beginning with the approach crafted with his friend and military secretary Ely Parker, a Seneca Indian placed in charge of the Office of Indian Affairs.
The Letters of Mary Penry: A Single Moravian Woman in Early America edited by Scott Paul Gordon (Penn State University Press; 320 pages; $84.95). Edition of more than 70 of the letters of an unmarried Welsh immigrant (1735-1804), who was a convert to the Moravian church and writes of her experiences living in a Moravian community in Pennsylvania.
The Medal of Honor: The Evolution of America’s Highest Military Decoration by Dwight S. Mears (University Press of Kansas; 328 pages; $34.95). Traces changes in the nomination, selection, and qualification of medal recipients since the award’s beginnings in the Civil War.
Syrian and Lebanese Patricios in Sao Paulo: From the Levant to Brazil by Oswaldo Truzzi, translated by Ramon J. Stern (University of Illinois Press; 256 pages; $99 hardcover, $30 paperback). First English translation of an influential 1995 book by the Brazilian sociologist; focuses on Sao Paulo in a study of the largely urban settlement, beginning in the 1890s, of Syrian and Lebanese immigrants in Brazil and those groups’ rise in the business sector.
INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
Outsider Theory: Intellectual Histories of Unorthodox Ideas by Jonathan P. Eburne (University of Minnesota Press; 464 pages; $120 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Discusses the occult, pseudoscience, outsider art, and other realms in a study of the role of outlandish and marginalized ideas in contemporary intellectual history.
LAW
Enforcing Exclusion: Precarious Migrants and the Law in Canada by Sarah Grayce Marsden (University of British Columbia Press; 224 pages; US$90). Discusses Canadian laws and policies that exclude migrant workers and others without full immigration status from social benefits and workplace protections afforded citizens and permanent residents.
LITERATURE
Gardenland: Nature, Fantasy, and Everyday Practice by Jennifer Wren Atkinson (University of Georgia Press; 254 pages; $59.95). Explores the hidden societal and other visions projected in American garden writing, from novels to nature writing to horticultural publications.
The German Epic in the Cold War: Peter Weiss, Uwe Johnson, and Alexander Kluge by Matthew D. Miller (Northwestern University Press; 272 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Focuses on Weiss’s The Aesthetics of Resistance, Johnson’s Anniversaries, and Kluge’s Chronicle of Feelings in a study of responses in fiction to the physical and ideological divisions of postwar Germany.
Literary Impostors: Canadian Autofiction of the Early Twentieth Century by Rosmarin Heidenreich (McGill-Queen’s University Press; 352 pages; US$125 hardcover, US$37.95 paperback). Focuses on six authors who fabricated the identities that made them famous, including Sylvester Long, Winnifred Eaton, and Edith Eaton, who wrote, respectively, under the names Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, Onoto Watanna, and Sui Sin Far.
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry by Imani Perry (Beacon Press; 256 pages; $26.95). Traces the life and activism of the American writer (1930-65).
The Physics of Possibility: Victorian Fiction, Science, and Gender by Michael Tondre (University of Virginia Press; 240 pages; $45). Links science and literature in a study of Victorian mathematical physics, the discourse of probability, and novels by such authors as Dickens and Eliot.
Seeming Human: Artificial Intelligence and Victorian Realist Character by Megan Ward (Ohio State University Press; 216 pages; $64.95). Uses the Turing test, cybernetics, and other elements of mid-20th-century AI to explore character in novels by such writers as Gaskell, Oliphant, Trollope, Hardy, and James.
Sticky Rice: A Politics of Intraracial Desire by Cynthia Wu (Temple University Press; 194 pages; $94.50 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Examines representations of male same-sex desire and intraracial intimacy in such works as John Okada’s No-No Boy and Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt.
Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question of World Literature by Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado (Northwestern University Press; 233 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $39.95 paperback). Examines a cosmopolitan aesthetics in Mexican fiction since the late 1970s in the wider context of the construct of world literature.
MUSIC
Citizen Azmari: Making Ethiopian Music in Tel Aviv by Ilana Webster-Kogen (Wesleyan University Press, distributed by University Press of New England; 176 pages; $80 hardcover, $26.95 paperback). Focuses on new musical styles generated by Israeli-born Ethiopian-Israelis in a study of how music figures in the negotiation of an uncertain status in Israeli society.
PHILOSOPHY
The Aristotelian Tradition of Natural Kinds and Its Demise by Stewart Umphrey (Catholic University of America Press; 260 pages; $75). Examines Aristotle’s account of species, its treatment by Aquinas, William of Ockham, and other Scholastic philosophers, and its eventual overthrow in early modern and modern science and philosophy.
Neoliberalism’s Demons: On the Political Theology of Late Capital by Adam Kotsko (Stanford University Press; 165 pages; $75 hardcover, $22.95 paperback). Offers a philosophical perspective on neoliberalism as a complete worldview; argues, among other things, that rising right-wing populism reinforces neoliberalism’s most destructive features.
Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation With the Western Tradition by Souleymane Bachir Diagne, translated by Jonathan Adjemian (Columbia University Press; 136 pages; $26). Documents Muslim thinkers’ questioning of beliefs and arguments both within and outside the Islamic tradition since Avicenna.
Philosophy, Writing, and the Character of Thought by John T. Lysaker (University of Chicago Press; 224 pages; $35). Considers how the varied forms and motifs of writing used in philosophy---such as dialogue, aphorism, and essay---figure in philosophizing itself.
Suffering and Virtue by Michael S. Brady (Oxford University Press; 178 pages; $55). Defends a view of suffering as key to the cultivation and expression of many forms of virtue, both individual and social.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Brazil’s Long Revolution: Radical Achievements of the Landless Workers Movement by Anthony Pahnke (University of Arizona Press; 296 pages; $65). Examines the origins, history, strategies, and impact of the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra.
Frenemies: How Social Media Polarizes America by Jaime E. Settle (Cambridge University Press; 316 pages; $39.99). Focuses on the “News Feed” and other inherent features and common uses of Facebook in a study of how social media has exacerbated political divisions.
Israel’s Long War with Hezbollah: Military Innovation and Adaptation Under Fire by Raphael D. Marcus (Georgetown University Press; 320 pages; $110.95 hardcover, $36.95 paperback). Traces the Israeli Defense Forces’ evolving tactics against the Lebanese Shi’ite group since the latter’s formation in the wake of Israel’s 1982 invasion of south Lebanon.
The Politics of Lists: Bureaucracy and Genocide under the Khmer Rouge by James A. Tyner (West Virginia University Press; 264 pages; $99.99 hardcover, $29.99 paperback). Explores the interplay of recordkeeping and power under the genocidal Cambodian regime.
Unrivaled: Why America Will Remain the World’s Sole Superpower by Michael Beckley (Cornell University Press; 232 pages; $29.95). Uses an analysis of long-term trends in the global balance of power over centuries to argue that U.S. dominance will persist.
The Virtue of Nationalism by Yoram Hazony (Basic Books; 285 pages; $30). Defends the world’s organization into sovereign nation-states as necessary for the safeguarding of liberty.
POPULAR CULTURE
Gary Larson and “The Far Side” by Kerry D. Soper (University Press of Mississippi; 224 pages; $90 hardcover, $25 paperback). A critical study of the American cartoonist (b. 1950), from his comedic art to his business strategies.
RELIGION
From Indra’s Net to Internet: Communication, Technology, and the Evolution of Buddhist Ideas by Daniel Veidlinger (University of Hawai’i Press; 288 pages; $68). Examines how communications networks have figured in the spread and development of Buddhist ideas since Buddhism’s origins in ancient India.
God’s Library: The Archaeology of the Earliest Christian Manuscripts by Brent Nongbri (Yale University Press; 403 pages; $35). Focuses on early Christian manuscripts as archaeological artifacts and shows how an emphasis on their physicality reveals mistaken assumptions in textual scholarship.
RHETORIC
Inventing Hebrews: Design and Purpose in Ancient Rhetoric by Michael Wade Martin and Jason A. Whitlark (Cambridge University Press; 318 pages; $99.99). Argues that Hebrews “disjointed arrangement"---a model common in Greco-Roman rhetoric--- is key to the New Testament text’s understanding.
SOCIOLOGY
Gone Home: Race and Roots through Appalachia by Karida L. Brown (University of North Carolina Press; 256 pages; $29.95). Draws on interviews with current and former residents of Harlan County, Ky., in a study that documents the lives of African-Americans in Appalachia’s coal country.
The Grind: Black Women and Survival in the Inner City by Alexis S. McCurn (Rutgers University Press; 200 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $25.95 paperback). Documents the experiences of both adolescents and adult women in Oakland, Calif.
Undocumented Politics: Place, Gender, and the Pathways of Mexican Migrants by Abigail Leslie Andrews (University of California Press; 306 pages; $85 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Draws on fieldwork in Oaxaca, Mexico, and barrios of southern California in a study of political agency among undocumented immigrants.
THEATER
Discoveries on the Early Modern Stage: Contexts and Conventions by Leslie Thomson (Cambridge University Press; 274 pages; $99.99). Examines two forms of discovery---disguise-discovery and discovery scenes---as performance conventions in theater by Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
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