Weekly Book List, September 30, 2016

AMERICAN STUDIES

American Mobilities: Geographies of Class, Race, and Gender in US Culture by Julia Leyda (Transcript-Verlag, distributed by Columbia University Press; 215 pages; $45). Explores images of American mobility in film and literature from the Depression through the early Cold War.

Cold War Ruins: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes by Lisa Yoneyama (Duke University Press; 320 pages; $94.95 hardcover, $22.95 paperback). Examines what is termed a “transborder redress culture” to address Japanese war crimes, including cases that have involved U.S. courts.

Divided Sovereignties: Race, Nationhood, and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century America by Rochelle Raineri Zuck (University of Georgia Press; 304 pages; $49.95). Draws on literary and other realms in a study of “divided sovereignty” as a notion engaged by Cherokees, African-Americans, Irish-Americans, and Chinese immigrants.

ANTHROPOLOGY

Ghost Protocol: Development and Displacement in Global China edited by Carlos Rojas and Ralph A. Litzinger (Duke University Press; 260 pages; $94.95 hardcover, $25.95 paperback). Writings by anthropologists and other scholars on Chinese capitalism as haunted by the socialist legacy; topics include migrant labor, dams and displacement, and real estate in Shanghai.

Landscapes of Accumulation: Real Estate and the Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary India by Llerena Guiu Searle (University of Chicago Press; 313 pages; $85 hardcover, $27.50 paperback). An ethnographic study of urban transformation for elites in India that examines the encounter between international investors and their Indian intermediaries.

Staying at Home: Identities, Memories and Social Networks of Kazakhstani Germans by Rita Sanders (Berghahn Books; 256 pages; $110). Draws on fieldwork in Taldykorgan in a study of ethnic Germans in Kazakhstan who, unlike a majority of their community, have remained in post-Soviet Kazakhstan rather than emigrate to Germany.

ARCHAEOLOGY

Cuban Archaeology in the Caribbean edited by Ivan Roksandic (University Press of Florida; 288 pages; $84.95). Includes research that develops a new theory of mainland migration into the Caribbean.

ART AND ARCHITECTURE

The Creation of Eve and Renaissance Naturalism: Visual Theology and Artistic Invention by Jack M. Greenstein (Cambridge University Press; 267 pages; $99.99). Discusses Andrea Pisano, Lorenzo Chiberti, and other sculptors in a study of the problem that confronted Renaissance artists seeking to depict Eve’s extractive creation from Adam.

BUSINESS

Streaming, Sharing, Stealing: Big Data and the Future of Entertainment by Michael D. Smith and Rahul Telang (MIT Press; 215 pages; $29.95). Examines innovations that have been transforming the film, television, music, and publishing industries.

CLASSICAL STUDIES

Pax Romana: War, Peace, and Conquest in the Roman World by Adrian Goldsworthy (Yale University Press; 513 pages; $32.50). Examines Rome’s peace through dominance and the rebellious, cooperative, and other responses of its subject peoples.

COMMUNICATION

Celebricities: Media Culture and the Phenomenology of Gadget Commodity Life by Anthony Curtis Adler (Fordham University Press; 250 pages; $100 hardcover, $28 paperback). Discusses Marx, Heidegger, and Althusser in relation to hyperconsumerism in late capitalism.

German Television: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives edited by Larson Powell and Robert R. Shandley (Berghahn Books; 234 pages; $90). Writings on television in West and East Germany, as well as the reunited republic; topics include heritage, Heimat, and the “TV event.”

Narratives of Crisis: Telling Stories of Ruin and Renewal by Matthew W. Seeger and Timothy L. Sellnow (Stanford University Press; 199 pages; $90 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Discusses crisis events and competing narratives of blame, heroism, suffering, renewal, and memorial.

CULTURAL STUDIES

Re-thinking Ressentiment: On the Limits of Criticism and the Limits of Its Critics edited by Jeanne Riou and Mary Gallagher (Transcript-Verlag, distributed by Columbia University Press; 214 pages; $40). Essays on the concept, borrowed from French, of ressentiment and its relation to critique; topics include the Austrian-born writer and Auschwitz survivor Jean Amery and his use of the concept as the basis of rethinking of morality based on the experience of the victim.

ECONOMICS

Capital without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent by Brooke Harrington (Harvard University Press; 381 pages; $29.95). Draws on interviews and participant-observation in a study of the work of wealth managers as they use offshore banks, shell corporations, and other methods to shield their clients from taxes and other obligations.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Path to Free Trade in the Asia-Pacific edited by Peter C.Y. Chow (Edward Elgar Publishing; 320 pages; $135). Pays particular attention to Taiwan’s TPP membership and its effects on the U.S. economy.

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

From Workshop to Waste Magnet: Environmental Inequality in the Philadelphia Region by Diane Sicotte (Rutgers University Press; 251 pages; $90 hardcover, $26.95 paperback). Examines demographic, economic, regulatory, and other factors linked to the concentration of environmental degradation in certain pockets of the metro region.

FILM STUDIES

New Maricon Cinema: Outing Latin American Film by Vinodh Venkatesh (University of Texas Press; 238 pages; $95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Discusses a new wave of cinema from the region that promotes affective relationships between viewers and queer-identified characters.

Smutty Little Movies: The Creation and Regulation of Adult Video by Peter Alilunas (University of California Press; 334 pages; $85 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Discusses cultural, legal, and other aspects of the adult film industry’s move away from theaters to video production for private purchase or rental.

HISTORY

Abenaki Daring: The Life and Writings of Noel Annance, 1792-1869 by Jean Barman (McGill-Queen’s University Press; 392 pages; US$39.95). Documents the experiences of a Quebec-born Abenaki Indian who, educated at Dartmouth College, found himself caught between indigenous and white worlds.

American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism, 1867-1940 by Thomas W. Simpson (University of North Carolina Press; 229 pages; $85 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Links a shift away from Mormon separatism to the attendance of elite universities by hundreds of church youth during the period.

Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Indigenous Histories, Memories, and Reclamations edited by Jacqueline Fear-Segal and Susan D. Rose (University of Nebraska Press; 398 pages; $70). Writings on a boarding school in Carlisle, Pa., founded in 1879, whose more than 10,500 students over its history were taken from almost every Indian people in the United States; combines scholarly essays on the school with writings by descendants of students there, activists, and others.

Charles Gates Dawes: A Life by Annette B. Dunlap (Northwestern University Press; 336 pages; $40 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). A biography of the American statesman, who served as vice president under Calvin Coolidge and won the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in renegotiating World War I reparations.

Containing Balkan Nationalism: Imperial Russia and Ottoman Christians, 1856-1914 by Denis Vovchenko (Oxford University Press; 343 pages; $74). Discusses a movement to create an independent Bulgarian Orthodox Church, setting Bulgarian Orthodox Christians outside the jurisdiction of Constantinople.

Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island by Christy Clark-Pujara (New York University Press; 224 pages; $40). Examines Rhode Island’s extensive economic ties to slavery, including in rum production and in the manufacture of “negro cloth,” a coarse material made to clothe slaves in the South.

Engines of Diplomacy: Indian Trading Factories and the Negotiation of American Empire by David Andrew Nichols (University of North Carolina Press; 272 pages; $85 hardcover, $32.95 paperback). Discusses a system of federal-government-funded trading outposts, known as factories, that purchased and sold animal pelts and other wares and was intended to strengthen ties between Indian peoples and the fledgling U.S. republic.

Incarnations: A History of India in Fifty Lives by Sunil Khilnani (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 449 pages; $30). Uses 50 famous and lesser-known figures, beginning with the Buddha, to trace India’s history since ancient times.

Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion by Gareth Stedman Jones (Harvard University Press; 750 pages; $35). An intellectual biography of the German thinker and revolutionary that sets him in the political and philosophical context of 19th-century industrializing Europe.

Kentucky Rebel Town: The Civil War Battles of Cynthiana and Harrison County by William A. Penn (University Press of Kentucky; 400 pages; $45). Discusses a Kentucky county that saw more military action during the Civil War than any other area of the state.

The Merchant of Havana: The Jew in the Cuban Abolitionist Archive by Stephen Silverstein (Vanderbilt University Press; 205 pages; $55). Examines the interplay of abolitionism and anti-Semitism in 19th-century Cuba with the industrialization of the island’s economy.

Modern Religion, Modern Race by Theodore Vial (Oxford University Press; 277 pages; $74). Draws on Kant, Herder, and Schliermacher in a study of race and religion as basic conceptual building blocks for modernity and the modern self.

Money, Power, and Influence in Eighteenth-Century Lithuania: The Jews on the Radziwill Estates by Adam Teller (Stanford University Press; 310 pages; $70). Focuses on the rise of Jews in the grain-alcohol production and trade.

Muslims Beyond the Arab World: The Odyssey of “Ajami” and the Muridiyya by Fallou Ngom (Oxford University Press; 306 pages; $99). Discusses the Muridiyya Sufi movement in Senegal, founded by Ahmadu Bamba Mbakke (1853-1927) and its use of Wolof-language texts rendered in Ajami, a modified form of Arabic script.

New Deal Cowboy: Gene Autry and Public Diplomacy by Michael Duchemin (University of Oklahoma Press; 316 pages; $34.95). Discusses the actor-singer as a promoter of Roosevelt’s New Deal and foreign policies.

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 42: 16 November 1803 to 10 March 1804 edited by James P. McClure and others (Princeton University Press; 752 pages; $125). Documents a period that saw the full acquisition of Louisiana (named by the president as the Orleans Territory), Congress’s passage of the 12th Amendment, a diplomatic spat over seating arrangements at dinner parties, and Jefferson’s first testing of a double-penned writing box he called a polygraph.

Railroads and American Political Development: Infrastructure, Federalism, and State Building by Zachary Callen (University Press of Kansas; 257 pages; $39.95). Focuses on the Land Grant Act of 1850 in a study of the federal role in building America’s rail system, and, in turn, how the railroads expanded the power of the national government.

Restaurant Republic: The Rise of Public Dining in Boston by Kelly Erby (University of Minnesota Press; 151 pages; $79 hardcover, $22.50 paperback). Traces the expansion of public dining in 19th-century Boston; argues that restaurants, divided along class, racial, and other lines, helped Bostonians become more comfortable with deepening social stratification.

The Rural Modern: Reconstructing the Self and State in Republican China by Kate Merkel-Hess (University of Chicago Press; 241 pages; $40). Documents how reformers and intellectuals outside the Communist movement worked to reform rural China in the 1920s and 30s.

Settler Jamaica in the 1750s: A Social Portrait by Jack P. Greene (University of Virginia Press; 304 pages; $39.50). Offers commentaries on an extensive base of quantitative data from the decade.

The Threshold of Manifest Destiny: Gender and National Expansion in Florida by Laurel Clark Shire (University of Pennsylvania Press; 273 pages; $49.95). Focuses on white women in a study of gender ideology and the transformation of Florida after the United States acquired the territory from Spain, in 1821.

Wartime Captivity in the Twentieth Century: Archives, Stories, Memories edited by Anne-Marie Pathe and Fabien Theofilakis (Berghahn Books; 330 pages; $130). Essays on prisoners of war, with a focus on the two world conflicts; topics include German treatment of Jewish POWs from Allied forces.

When the Fences Come Down: Twenty-First-Century Lessons from Metropolitan School Desegregation by Genevieve Siegel-Hawley (University of North Carolina Press; 236 pages; $25.95). Focuses on the outcomes of policies designed to overcome divides between cities and suburbs; draws on data from Richmond, Va.; Louisville, Ky.; Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C.; and Chattanooga, Tenn. between 1990 and 2010.

LABOR STUDIES

Deregulating Desire: Flight Attendant Activism, Family Politics, and Workplace Justice by Ryan Patrick Murphy (Temple University Press; 242 pages; $94.50 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Examines how feminist and LGBT concerns have shaped union activism among flight attendants since the 1970s.

Our Unions, Our Selves: The Rise of Feminist Labor Unions in Japan by Anne Zacharias-Walsh (ILR Press/Cornell University Press; 240 pages; $89.95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Examines the rise of women-only labor unions in Japan, the challenges they face, and their involvement in transnational collaboration.

LAW

Ending Zero Tolerance: The Crisis of Absolute School Discipline by Derek W. Black (New York University Press; 236 pages; $24.95). Examines the educational and other impacts of schools’ zero-tolerance policies and argues for judicial review and intervention.

The Myth of the Litigious Society: Why We Don’t Sue by David M. Engel (University of Chicago Press; 232 pages; $24). Examines why the vast majority of Americans who suffer serious injuries fail to sue or to even consider legal action.

LINGUISTICS

Language Between Description and Prescription: Verbs and Verb Categories in Nineteenth-Century Grammars of English by Lieselotte Anderwald (Oxford University Press; 335 pages; $99). Uses a qualitative and quantitative analysis of 258 grammar books from Britain and North America to examine 19th-century grammar writers’ awareness of linguistic change; topics include variable past-tense forms and the BE-perfect.

LITERATURE

The Cry of the Renegade: Politics and Poetry in Interwar Chile by Raymond B. Craib (Oxford University Press; 271 pages; $35). Explores the wider cultural and political context surrounding the arrest, imprisonment, torture, and death of the “firecracker poet” Jose Domingo Gomez Rojas, a young anarchist whose funeral in October 1920 saw tens of thousands take to the streets in Santiago.

Distraction: Problems of Attention in Eighteenth-Century Literature by Natalie M. Phillips (Johns Hopkins University Press; 304 pages; $50). Draws on cognitive science in a study of how novelists in the 1700s viewed and depicted the wandering mind.

Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism edited by Meredith L. Goldsmith (University Press of Florida; 280 pages; $79.95). Essays on the American author’s work and its links with the idea of cosmopolitanism; topics include anarchism in The Children, Orientalism, modernism, and gender in Wharton’s late novels, and Italy and the “saturated gaze” in The Custom of the Country.

Geographies of Love: The Cultural Spaces of Romance in Chick- and Ladlit by Christian Lenz (Transcript Verlag, distributed by Columbia University Press; 355 pages; $45). Applies theories from cultural geography in a study of romance and the spatial worlds of British, Australian, and Indian “chicklit” and “ladlit.”

The Labor of Literature: Democracy and Literary Culture in Modern Chile by Jane D. Griffin (University of Massachusetts Press; 218 pages; $85 hardcover, $25.95 paperback). Explores alternative forms of literary publication that emerged in defiance of state censorship during the Pinochet era.

Malady and Genius: Self-Sacrifice in Puerto Rican Literature by Benigno Trigo (State University of New York Press; 224 pages; $85). Applies psychoanalytic theory in a study of the recurrent theme of self-sacrifice in Puerto Rican literature since the mid-20th century; draws on Frantz Fanon, Kelly Oliver, and Julia Kristeva.

Reading the Market: Genres of Financial Capitalism in Gilded Age America by Peter Knight (Johns Hopkins University Press; 315 pages; $50). Draws on fiction, investment guides, newspaper columns, and other media in a study of how Americans made sense of the stock market in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

A Refugee From His Race: Albion W. Tourgee and His Fight Against White Supremacy by Carolyn L. Karcher (University of North Carolina Press; 464 pages; $34.95). A biographical study of the writer and jurist (1838-1905) that focuses on his activism on behalf of African-Americans.

Russian Realisms: Literature and Painting, 1840--1890 by Molly Brunson (Northern Illinois University Press; 263 pages; $59). Explores links between art and literature in the rise of Russian realism, including those between the masterworks of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky and the paintings of Ilya Repin and other Wanderers.

Secular Chains: Poetry and the Politics of Religion from Milton to Pope by Philip Connell (Oxford University Press; 304 pages; $90). Discusses Milton, Dryden, Pope, and other writers in a study of the relationship between poetry and religious controversy in England between 1649 and 1745.

Un/Translatables: New Maps for Germanic Literatures edited by Bethany Wiggin and Catriona MacLeod (Northwestern University Press; 324 pages; $120 hardcover, $39.95 paperback). Essays on German, Yiddish, Dutch, and Afrikaans literature and what are termed “trajectories” into Hebrew, Arabic, Mandarin, Japanese, English, and Scots; topics include translating Goethe and Rilke across the Cold War divide in China.

MUSIC

Giacomo Puccini and His World edited by Arman Schwartz and Emanuele Senici (Princeton University Press; 350 pages; $80 hardcover, $35 paperback). Writings on the life and work of the Italian composer (1858-1924), including analyses of all his operas from Manon Lescaut to the unfinished Turandot; topics include his Orientalism, interactions with Italian Fascism, and engagement with photography and cinema.

Haydn’s Sunrise, Beethoven’s Shadow: Audiovisual Culture and the Emergence of Musical Romanticism by Deirdre Loughridge (University of Chicago Press; 291 pages; $55). Examines how music of the late 18th and early 19th centuries was shaped by the rise of new optical technologies and practices, including magnifying instruments and peepshows.

Nothing But Love in God’s Water: Black Sacred Music From Sit-Ins to Resurrection City by Robert Darden (Penn State University Press; 334 pages; $34.95). Completes a two-volume study of the importance of “protest spirituals” and freedom songs to black struggle in the United States.

PHILOSOPHY

Aquinas’s Theory of Perception: An Analytic Reconstruction by Anthony J. Lisska (Oxford University Press; 353 pages; $99). Draws on contemporary analytic philosophy in a study of the medieval thinker’s theory of sensation and perception; topics include the role of phantasms in “inner sense.”

The Limits of Moral Authority by Dale Dorsey (Oxford University Press; 233 pages; $74). Argues that the fact that a given act is required from a moral perspective does not in itself decide whether one ought to perform it or if it is rational or permissible.

Wittgenstein and Interreligious Disagreement: A Philosophical and Theological Perspective by Gorazd Andrejc (Palgrave Macmillan; 280 pages; $95). Focuses on the conflicting interpretations of George Lindbeck, David Tracy, and David Burrell.

Words Fail: Theology, Poetry, and the Challenge of Representation by Colby Dickinson (Fordham University Press; 114 pages; $90 hardcover, $25 paperback). Focuses on writings by Jacques Derrida, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, and Giorgio Agamben.

POLITICAL SCIENCE

The Antiegalitarian Mutation: The Failure of Institutional Politics in Liberal Democracies by Nadia Urbinati and Arturo Zampaglione, translated by Martin Thom (Columbia University Press; 191 pages; $35). Translation of a 2013 Italian study that examines the threat to democracy of increasing economic inequality and anti-migrant and immigrant sentiment.

Corridors of Power: The Politics of Environmental Aid to Madagascar by Catherine A. Corson (Yale University Press; 305 pages; $85). Offers an ethnographic perspective on “neoliberal conservation” through a critique of a U.S. A.I.D program intended to protect biodiversity in the southeast African island nation.

Dictators and Democrats: Masses, Elites, and Regime Change by Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman (Princeton University Press; 396 pages; $99.50 hardcover, $32.95 paperback). Combines statistical and qualitative approaches in a study of 78 cases of democratic transitions and 25 reversions to authoritarian rule since 1980.

Friendship Reconsidered: What It Means and How It Matters to Politics by P.E. Digeser (Columbia University Press; 361 pages; $65). Examines the relationship of friendship and politics at levels conceptual, individual, institutional, and international.

Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics by Nicole Hemmer (University of Pennsylvania Press; 320 pages; $34.95). A study of conservative media activism from the 1940s through the 1970s, with a focus on the broadcaster Clarence Manion, the book publisher Henry Regnery, and the magazine publisher William Rusher.

Philanthropy in Democratic Societies: History, Institutions, Values edited by Rob Reich, Chiara Cordelli, and Lucy Bernholz (University of Chicago Press; 325 pages; $90 hardcover, $30 paperback). Topics include philanthropy and democratic ideals, reparative justice and the moral limits of discretionary philanthropy, and the “free provider problem” of private provision of public responsibilities.

A Quiet Evolution: The Emergence of Indigenous-Local Intergovernmental Partnerships in Canada by Christopher Alcantara and Jen Nelles (University of Toronto Press; 184 pages; US$32.95). Examines intergovernmental agreements between indigenous communities and local governments across Canada, with case studies from Ontario, Quebec, and the Yukon Territory.

RELIGION

Beyond Jihad: The Pacifist Tradition in West African Islam by Lamin Sanneh (Oxford University Press; 352 pages; $34.95). Focuses on clerical practices in a study of the historical introduction of Islam to West Africa and the peaceful assimilation that characterized its spread.

The Burning Bush: Writings on Jews and Judaism by Vladimir Solovyov, edited and translated by Gregory Yuri Glazov (University of Notre Dame Press; 628 pages; $65). Translation, with commentary, of writings by a Russian Christian philosopher who was a leading voice for Jewish rights in czarist Russia.

The Decolonial Abyss: Mysticism and Cosmopolitics from the Ruins by An Yountae (Fordham University Press; 180 pages; $90 hardcover, $25 paperback). Develops a theology to address the collective experience of colonial violence; draws on the motif of the abyss as it figures in neo-Platonic mysticism, German idealism, and Afro-Caribbean philosophy.

Empirical Models Challenging Biblical Criticism edited by Raymond F. Person Jr. and Robert Rezetko (Society of Biblical Literature; 415 pages; $71.95 hardcover, $51.95 paperback). Topics include the Old Greek and the Masoretic text of Daniel 5, problem of literary unity in the study of oral traditions, and division markers as evidence for the editorial growth of biblical texts.

Enoch and the Synoptic Gospels: Reminiscences, Allusions, Intertextuality edited by Loren T. Stuckenbruck and Gabriele Boccaccini (Society of Biblical Literature; 447 pages; $82.95 hardcover, $62.95 paperback). Writings on how traditions found in the non-canonical Book of Enoch aid in the understanding of Matthew, Mark, and Luke.

Heart Religion: Evangelical Piety in England and Ireland, 1690-1850 edited by John Coffey (Oxford University Press; 232 pages; $105). Essays on such topics as dreaming and emotion in early evangelical religion.

Indian Pilgrims: Indigenous Journeys of Activism and Healing with Saint Kateri Tekakwitha by Michelle M. Jacob (University of Arizona Press; 184 pages; $50). Examines cultural, environmental, and other activism by devotees of the first North American Indian to be canonized as a Roman Catholic saint.

Joseph: Portraits Through the Ages by Alan T. Levenson (Jewish Publication Society, distributed by University of Nebraska Press; 283 pages; $32.95). Examines interpretations of the biblical character from his initial appearance in Genesis through the work of ancient, medieval, and modern commentators.

The Last Rabbi: Joseph Soloveitchik and Talmudic Tradition by William Kolbrener (Indiana University Press; 227 pages; $55). Applies psychoanalytic and other perspectives to examine the life, legacy, and internal conflicts of the American Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist, and philosopher (1903-93).

The Media and Religious Authority edited by Stewart M. Hoover (Penn State University Press; 296 pages; $79.95). Combines theoretical writings with case studies on such topics as religious authority and social-media branding, evangelical media for youth and religious authority in Brazil, and moral identity and new media in Moroccan Islam.

RHETORIC

Good God But You Smart! Language Prejudice and Upwardly Mobile Cajuns by Nichole E. Stanford (Utah State University Press; 307 pages; $29.95). A study of Cajuns in Louisiana who choose to self-censor, speaking Standard rather than Cajun English.

SOCIOLOGY

Outsourced Children: Orphanage Care and Adoption in Globalizing China by Leslie K. Wang (Stanford University Press; 190 pages; $85 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Topics include how Western adoption of Chinese children, mainly of healthy girls, serves as a source of international resources for orphanages caring for the remaining, mostly special needs children.

Windows Into the Soul: Surveillance and Society in an Age of High Technology by Gary T. Marx (University of Chicago Press; 404 pages; $90 hardcover, $35 paperback). Offers a phenomenological perspective on how surveillance is experienced by both subject and agent.

URBAN STUDIES

Urban Nomads Building Shanghai: Migrant Workers and the Construction Process by Ulrike Bronner and Clarissa Reikersdorfer (Columbia University Press; 135 pages; $40). Discusses two groups of people key to Shanghai’s transformation: Chinese migrant construction workers and architects and other international business migrants.