Weekly Book List, April 22, 2016

Compiled by Nina C. Ayoub APRIL 17, 2016

ANTHROPOLOGY

Coercive Concern: Nationalism, Liberalism, and the Schooling of Muslim Youth by Reva Jaffe-Walter (Stanford University Press; 215 pages; $85 hardcover, $27.95 paperback). Examines the stereotypes and assumptions that shape the treatment of Muslim youth by teachers and peers in a Danish school where more than 40 percent of the students are of immigrant descent.

Planning Families in Nepal: Global and Local Projects of Reproduction by Jan Brunson (Rutgers University Press; 150 pages; $80 hardcover, $26.95 paperback). Draws on fieldwork in the Kathmandu Valley in a study of how Hindu Nepali women, across two generations, negotiate competing messages regarding family size and composition.

Remediation in Rwanda: Grassroots Legal Forums by Kristin Conner Doughty (University of Pennsylvania Press; 312 pages; $65). Explores issues of coercion, resistance, and reconciliation through a study of three legal settings in post-genocide Rwanda: courts called inkiko gacaca, mediation committees called comite y'abunzi, and a legal-aid clinic.

Stigma and Culture: Last Place Anxiety in Black America by J. Lorand Matory (University of Chicago Press; 529 pages; $90 hardcover, $30 paperback). Documents a process of stratification among people of African descent in the United States, including among econmic elites and among African and Caribbean immigrants; draws on research at Howard, Harvard, Duke, and other universities, and on their alumni networks.

ARCHAEOLOGY

The Ancient Urban Maya: Neighborhoods, Inequality, and Built Form by Scott R. Hutson (University Press of Florida; 256 pages; $84.95). Documents the dense settlement of many Mayan cities and considers what enticed people to live in their confines despite the hazards.

A Tale of Three Villages: Indigenous-Colonial Interactions in Southwestern Alaska, 1740--1950 by Liam Frink (University of Arizona Press; 184 pages; $55). Combines archaeological, ethnoecological, and archival data in a study of cultural change in the region, with a focus on the villages of Kashunak, Qavinaq, and Old Chevak.

ART AND ARCHITECTURE

The Grid and the River: Philadelphia's Green Places, 1682-1876 by Elizabeth Milroy (Penn State University Press; 418 pages; $64.95). Examines the history and representation of the city's parks, woodlands, and waterways and the efforts to keep Philadelphia in accordance with William Penn's vision of a "greene country towne."

Industry and Intelligence: Contemporary Art Since 1820 by Liam Gillick (Columbia University Press; 140 pages; $35). Emphasizes artists' engagement with incremental developments in science, politics, and technology.

John Vassos: Industrial Design for Modern Life by Danielle Shapiro (University of Minnesota Press; 288 pages; $122.50 hardcover, $35 paperback). A biography of the American industrial designer and artist (1898-1985), who was known for his work on the first mass-produced TVs.

CLASSICAL STUDIES

Virgil and Joyce: Nationalism and Imperialism in the "Aeneid" and "Ulysses" by Randall J. Pogorzelski (University of Wisconsin Press; 178 pages; $65). Documents the influence of the epic on the 1922 novel and draws parallels between Joyce writing during the Irish War of Independence and Virgil in the wake of civil war.

ECONOMICS

Economic Change in Modern Indonesia: Colonial and Post-colonial Comparisons by Anne Booth (Cambridge University Press; 270 pages; $89.99 hardcover, $29.99 paperback). Examines the long-term factors that have impeded economic development in Indonesia, a state with a per-capita GDP that has fallen behind that of neighbors Malaysia and Thailand.

Innovation Networks and the New Asian Regionalism: A Knowledge Platform on Economic Productivity by Hans-Peter Brunner (Edward Elgar Publishing; 208 pages; $120). Focuses on Asia in a study of drivers for economic integration; includes comparative discussion of the Baltic Sea Region.

Ireland, Small Open Economies and European Integration: Lost in Transition by Daniel Begg (Palgrave Macmillan; 238 pages; $105). Focuses on Ireland in comparison with Finland, the Netherlands, and Denmark (the last not in the euro zone).

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains by Dan Flores (University Press of Kansas; 222 pages; $24.95). Combines scholarly and personal perspectives in a study of the ecology of the region and the fate of bison, wolves, grizzlies, wild horses, and other animals.

Ecuador's Environmental Revolutions: Ecoimperialists, Ecodependents, and Ecoresisters by Tammy L. Lewis (MIT Press; 282 pages; $65 hardcover, $30 paperback). Covers 1978 to 2015 in a study of four phases in the movement for sustainable development in a country where today environmentalism competes with the need for petroleum revenues.

Forests Are Gold: Trees, People, and Environmental Rule in Vietnam by Pamela D. McElwee (University of Washington Press; 283 pages; $90 hardcover, $30 paperback). Combines archival and ethnographic perspectives in a study of forest management in Vietnam since the early 20th century.

FILM STUDIES

Abstinence Cinema: Virginity and the Rhetoric of Sexual Purity in Contemporary Film by Casey Ryan Kelly (Rutgers University Press; 196 pages; $90 hardcover, $26.95 paperback). Discusses theTwilight saga, The Forty Year Old Virgin, The Possession, Taken, and other films in a study of a sex-negative turn in Hollywood.

GENDER STUDIES

Vita Sexualis: Karl Ulrichs and the Origins of Sexual Science by Ralph M. Leck (University of Illinois Press; 328 pages; $60). A study of the pioneering German sexologist (1825-95).

HISTORY

The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War by Jonathan Dimbleby (Oxford University Press; 530 pages; $34.95). Discusses the control of the North Atlantic and its shipping lanes as key to Allied victory.

Bonds of Union: Religion, Race, and Politics in a Civil War Borderland by Bridget Ford (University of North Carolina Press; 424 pages; $45). Discusses the Ohio-Kentucky borderlands from 1830 to 1865.

The Chicago Freedom Movement: Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Activism in the Northedited by Mary Lou Finley and others (University Press of Kentucky; 495 pages; $45). Essays that evaluate the impact of an organizational effort, beginning in 1965, to bring King's approach to housing and other struggles in Chicago.

Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890 by Hilary Green (Fordham University Press; 272 pages; $125 hardcover, $35 paperback). Examines how blacks in Richmond and Mobile, and their white allies, created and sustained public schools after the Civil War.

Legal Codes and Talking Trees: Indigenous Women's Sovereignty in the Sonoran and Puget Sound Borderlands, 1854-1946 by Katrina Jagodinsky (Yale University Press; 335 pages; $40). Uses six case studies to examine how indigenous women in the Southwestern and Pacific Northwest regions challenged the U.S. legal system in a struggle for individual and tribal rights.

The Missouri River Journals of John James Audubon edited by Daniel Patterson (University of Nebraska Press; 520 pages; $75). Edition, with commentary, of three major fragments of journals previously thought to have been destroyed; documents Audubon's appetite for hunting during the 1843 expedition and challenges notions of his conversion to conservationism.

New Histories of the Andaman Islands: Landscape, Place and Identity in the Bay of Bengal, 1790--2012 by Clare Anderson, Madhumita Mazumdar, and Vishvajit Pandya (Cambridge University Press; 333 pages; $99.99). Topics include the South Asian islands as a British penal colony.
Philip Pendleton Barbour in Jacksonian America: An Old Republican in King Andrew's Court by William S. Belko (University of Alabama Press; 280 pages; $59.95). A biography of the Virginia politician and jurist who joined the U.S. Supreme Court in 1836.

The Press and Slavery in America, 1791-1859: The Melancholy Effect of Popular Excitementby Brian Gabrial (University of South Carolina Press; 256 pages; $49.95). Examines public debate on slavery in the context of news accounts of five major slave revolts or conspiracies.

Slavery and Politics: Brazil and Cuba, 1790-1850 by Rafael Marquese, Tamis Parron, and Marcia Berbel, translated by Leonardo Marques (University of New Mexico Press; 362 pages; $95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Translation of a Portuguese-language study on a period of transformation for both slave systems.

The Sleeping Sovereign: The Invention of Modern Democracy by Richard Tuck (Cambridge University Press; 306 pages; $84.99 hardcover, $27.99 paperback). Discusses Bodin, Hobbes, and Rousseau in a study of distinctions between sovereignty and government, as well as the modern history of the constitutional referendum.

Two Civil Wars: The Curious Shared Journal of a Baton Rouge Schoolgirl and a Union Sailor on the USS "Essex" edited by Katherine Bentley Jeffrey (Louisiana State University Press; 296 pages; $38). Annotated edition, with commentary, of a notebook that begins with journal entries from 1859 to 1861 by a student at St. Mary's Academy, and then curiously continues, under a new title page, with a sailor's account of three years of engagements by the Essex on the Mississippi.

What Is Global History? by Sebastian Conrad (Princeton University Press; 299 pages; $29.95). Traces the growth of a historiographical approach that focuses on global connectedness; topics include space and time in global history, and the politics of the emerging discipline.

HISTORY OF SCIENCE

Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums by Samuel J. Redman (Harvard University Press; 373 pages; $29.95). A study of American museums' collection and display of human remains as the motivation for "bone rooms" shifted from an interest in racial classification to the study of human origins and evolution.

INTELLECTUAL HISTORY

The Gumilev Mystique: Biopolitics, Eurasianism, and the Construction of Community in Modern Russia by Mark Bassin (Cornell University Press; 380 pages; $89.95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Traces the controversial legacy and influence of the historian, ethnographer, and geographer Lev Nikolaevich Gumilev (1912-92).

LITERATURE

Armed Ambiguity: Women Warriors in German Literature and Culture in the Age of Goethe by Julie Koser (Northwestern University Press; 264 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Draws on novels, drama, journalism, and other texts in a study of women's bodies as a "semiotic battleground" for cultural, political, and social agendas in German-speaking lands.

The Immigrant Kitchen: Food, Ethnicity, and Diaspora by Vivian Nun Halloran (Ohio State University Press; 184 pages; $74.95). Considers food memoirs by newcomers and their descendants as reflections of the immigrant experience in the United States; authors discussed include Madhur Jaffrey, Kim Sunee, and Diana Abu-Jaber.

Poisonous Muse: The Female Poisoner and the Framing of Popular Authorship in Jacksonian America by Sara L. Crosby (University of Iowa Press; 258 pages; $65). Focuses on the years 1820 to 1845 in a study of how writers used the figure of the female poisoner to contest the nature of authorship.

Selling Shakespeare: Biography, Bibliography, and the Book Trade by Adam G. Hooks (Cambridge University Press; 216 pages; $99.99). A study of Shakespeare's life in print that examines the authorial persona and reputation created, bought, and sold by the early modern book trade; topics include the quartos, the First Folio, and the London printer William Jaggard.

Shakespeare, Revenge Tragedy and Early Modern Law: Vindictive Justice by Derek Dunne (Palgrave Macmillan; 229 pages; $95). Considers how Titus Andronicus, Antonio's Revenge, The Revenger's Tragedy, and other plays engage aspects of England's legal system.

The Shamrock and the Cross: Irish American Novelists Shape American Catholicism by Eileen P. Sullivan (University of Notre Dame Press; 360 pages; $30). Uses more than 30 novels from the 1830s to the 1870s to document how Irish immigration transformed American Catholic culture.

Walker Percy's "The Moviegoer" at Fifty: New Takes on an Iconic American Novel edited by Jennifer Levasseur and Mary A. McCay (Louisiana State University Press; 200 pages; $48). Essays on Percy's debut novel, including its influences from Augustine, Cervantes, Dostoevsky, and Heidegger, and its significance to cinema.

World Beats: Beat Generation Writing and the Worlding of U.S. Literature by Jimmy Fazzino (Dartmouth College Press/University Press of New England; 272 pages; $85 hardcover, $40 paperback). Offers a transnational perspective on the Beats that examines their political engagement in the face of Cold War and colonialist ideologies; includes discussion of such marginalized figures as Philip Lamantia, Ted Joans, and Brion Gysin.

MUSIC

The African Imagination in Music by Kofi Agawu (Oxford University Press; 372 pages; $99 hardcover, $27.95 paperback). Explores core features of music from the continent.

Bach's Major Vocal Works: Music, Drama, Liturgy by Markus Rathey (Yale University Press; 234 pages; $35). Focuses on the Magnificat, Christmas Oratorio, St. John Passion, B Minor Mass, and oratorios for Easter Sunday and Ascension Day.

Music and Capitalism: A History of the Present by Timothy D. Taylor (University of Chicago Press; 217 pages; $90 hardcover, $30 paperback). Discusses the interplay of neoliberal capitalism, globalization, new techologies, and other forces in reshaping the production, distribution, and consumption of music.

PHILOSOPHY

Consciousness in Locke by Shelley Weinberg (Oxford University Press; 240 pages; $74). Considers how the British philosopher's view of consciousness figures in his theories of knowledge, moral agency, and personal identity.

David Hume's Humanity: The Philosophy of Common Life and Its Limits by Scott Yenor (Palgrave Macmillan; 210 pages; $110). Argues that the Scottish thinker's reputation as a skeptic is greatly exaggerated.

The Epistemic Life of Groups: Essays in the Epistemology of Collectives edited by Michael S. Brady and Miranda Fricker (Oxford University Press; 255 pages; $74). Essays on such topics as fault and no-fault responsibility for implicit prejudice, and collective belief, Thomas Kuhn, and the string-theory community.

From Personality to Virtue: Essays on the Philosophy of Character edited by Alberto Masala and Jonathan Webber (Oxford University Press; 262 pages; $74). Topics include character's relationship to reason and will, and whether character is relevant to discussions of punishment in a liberal order.

In-Between: Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self by Mariana Ortega (State University of New York Press; 281 pages; $85). Draws on writings by Gloria Anzaldua, Maria Lugones, and Linda Martin Alcoff.

Merleau-Ponty and the Ethics of Intersubjectivity by Anya Daly (Palgrave Macmillan; 351 pages; $95). Uses the French philosopher's work on "the Other" to examine issues of ethics and ethical failure.

Of Reality: The Purposes of Philosophy by Gianni Vattimo, translated by Robert T. Valgenti (Columbia University Press; 235 pages; $35). Writings by the Italian philosopher on Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the constraints of a normative call to realism.

Reality Making edited by Mark Jago (Oxford University Press; 200 pages; $65). Writings in metaphysics on issues of grounding, fundamentality, and essence.

Why Philosophy Matters for the Study of Religion--and Vice Versa by Thomas A. Lewis (Oxford University Press; 177 pages; $34.95). Topics include comparative religious ethics, and the importance of history to the philosophy of religion.

A World in Ruins: Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1943 by Maurice Blanchot, translated by Michael Holland (Fordham University Press; 310 pages; $125 hardcover, $39 paperback). Translation of reviews by the French thinker from a single year under Vichy rule.

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Innovative Congressional Minimum Standards Preemption Statutes by Joseph F. Zimmerman (State University of New York Press; 160 pages; $75). Focuses on environmental issues in a study of Congress's use of a mechanism that allows state and local jurisdictions a certain amount of regulatory discretion.

Leadership Organizations in the House of Representatives: Party Participation and Partisan Politics by Scott R. Meinke (University of Michigan Press; 248 pages; $70). Traces changes in the role of whip organizations and party committees in recent decades.

Maritime Strategy and Global Order: Markets, Resources, Security edited by Daniel Moran and James A. Russell (Georgetown University Press; 368 pages; $69.95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Essays on such topics as the warship since the end of the Cold War, and globalization, resource dependency, and maritime security in the 21st century.

New Explorations into International Relations: Democracy, Foreign Investment, Terrorism, and Conflict by Seung-Whan Choi (University of Georgia Press; 336 pages; $84.95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Evaluates 10 widely cited empirical studies in a discussion of the need of greater scientific and statistical rigor, including replication studies, in the discipline of IR.

Rival Reputations: Coercion and Credibility in US-North Korea Relations by Van Jackson (Cambridge University Press; 228 pages; $99.99). Uses the "logic of reputation" to examine patterns of rivalry in U.S.-North Korean relations from the 1960s to 2010.

Why Regional Parties? Clientelism, Elites, and the Indian Party System by Adam Ziegfeld (Cambridge University Press; 310 pages; $99.99). Draws on fieldwork in Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal in a study of what accounts for the success of regional parties in India, where in recent decades they have won at least 40 percent of the vote.

PSYCHOLOGY

Beauty and Sublimity: A Cognitive Aesthetics of Literature and the Arts by Patrick Colm Hogan (Cambridge University Press; 298 pages; $110). Combines perspectives from neuroscientific research and philosophy to explore aesthetic response.

RELIGION

Big Dreams: The Science of Dreaming and the Origins of Religion by Kelly Bulkeley (Oxford University Press; 352 pages; $29.95). Links the origins of religion to phenomenon of "big dreams"---elaborate dreams that can include vivid imagery, intense emotion, and a sense of being connected to powerful forces.

The Christian Schism in Jewish History and Jewish Memory by Joshua Ezra Burns (Cambridge University Press; 304 pages; $99.99). Considers how Jews in the ancient world came to see Christianity as something other than a variant of Judaism.

Fundamentalism, Fundraising, and the Transformation of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1919--1925 by Andrew C. Smith (University of Tennessee Press; 249 pages; $46). Topics include how fundamentalist ideas spread through the post-World War I "Seventy-Five Million Campaign."

Medical Aphorisms, Treatises 16-21: A Parallel Arabic-English Edition by Maimonides, edited and translated by Gerrit Bos (Brigham Young University Press, distributed by University of Chicago Press; 204 pages; $89.95). Fourth book in a critical edition of the 12th-century rabbi and philosopher's best known medical work.

Prophecy without Contempt: Religious Discourse in the Public Square by Cathleen Kaveny (Harvard University Press; 451 pages; $49.95). Explores the rhetoric of the jeremiad or prophetic indictment in American political discourse.

RHETORIC

Green Voices: Defending Nature and the Environment in American Civic Discourse edited by Richard D. Besel and Bernard K. Duffy (State University of New York Press; 370 pages; $95). Essays on speeches about nature and the environment by John Muir, Aldo Leopold, Theodore Roosevelt, Rachel Carson, Edward Abbey, and others.

Theodore Roosevelt, Conservation, and the 1908 Governors' Conference by Leroy G. Dorsey (Texas A&M University Press; 160 pages; $29.95). Focuses on how the president popularized the idea of conservation at a speech delivered at the May 1908 conference.

SOCIOLOGY

Border Lives: Fronterizos, Transnational Migrants, and Commuters in Tijuana by Sergio Chavez (Oxford University Press; 203 pages; $85 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Examines work strategies in the borderlands, including Tijuanenses who cross daily or weekly to work in the United States, or who pursue work on both sides.

Human Rights in Canada: A History by Dominique Clement (Wilfrid Laurier University Press; 233 pages; US$24.99). A study of human rights and social change in Canada with a focus on the 1970s.

THEATER

Places for Happiness: Community, Self, and Performance in the Philippines by William Peterson (University of Hawai'i Press; 255 pages; $59). Offers a performance-studies perspective on mass street dancing and on Passion plays and processions.

WOMEN'S STUDIES

The Salome Ensemble: Rose Pastor Stokes, Anzia Yezierska, Sonya Levien, and Jetta Goudalby Alan Robert Ginsberg (Syracuse University Press; 363 pages; $65 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Traces the lives of an activist, a novelist, a screenwriter, and an actress linked through their roles in the book-then-movie Salome of the Tenements.

Tongue of Fire: Emma Goldman, Public Womanhood, and the Sex Question by Donna M. Kowal (State University of New York Press; 224 pages; $75). A study of the famed anarchist's speeches and writings that explores her influence on ideas of sexuality and gender.

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