Weekly Book List, August 26, 2016

August 21, 2016

ANTHROPOLOGY

No Place for Grief: Martyrs, Prisoners, and Mourning in Contemporary Palestine by Lotte Buch Segal (University of Pennsylvania Press; 211 pages; $49.95). A study of Palestinian women who are the wives of men held in Israeli prisons or the widows of men who have died in the ongoing violence.

ARCHAEOLOGY

Charleston: An Archaeology of Life in a Coastal Community by Martha A. Zierden and Elizabeth J. Reitz (University Press of Florida; 350 pages; $34.95). Draws on excavations that document life in the South Carolina city from the 17th to the 19th centuries.

Lost City, Found Pyramid: Understanding Alternative Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific Practices edited by Jeb J. Card and David S. Anderson (University of Alabama Press; 272 pages; $54.95). Writings on pseudoarchaeology in popular culture and the potential and perils of archaeologists critically engaging the phenomenon.

The Powhatan Landscape: An Archaeological History of the Algonquian Chesapeake by Martin D. Gallivan (University Press of Florida; 288 pages; $79.95). A study of indigenous settlement in the Virginia region over two millennia from the arrival of the Algonquian to the Powhatans' clashes with English colonists.

ART AND ARCHITECTURE

Art & Language International: Conceptual Art between Art Worlds by Robert Bailey (Duke University Press; 240 pages; $84.95 hardcover, $23.95 paperback). A study of an arts collective founded in England in 1969 and active until 1977; focuses on Art & Language's New York section as well as collaborative work done in Australia, New Zealand, and (then) Yugoslavia.

Geo-Narratives of a Filial Son: The Paintings and Travel Diaries of Huang Xiangjian (1609-1673) by Elizabeth Kindall (Harvard University Asia Center, distributed by Harvard University Press; 481 pages; $89.95). Uses the work of an artist from the Suzhou elite and the term "geo-narrative" to recognize and describe what is identified as a previously unrecognized tradition of site paintings and explore their wider social significance.

Live Form: Women, Ceramics, and Community by Jenni Sorkin (University of Chicago Press; 304 pages; $45). Focuses on Marguerite Wildenhain, Mary Caroline Richards, and Susan Peterson, three potters who promoted ceramics as an avant-garde form.

CLASSICAL STUDIES

Pliny the Elder and the Emergence of Renaissance Architecture by Peter Fane-Saunders (Cambridge University Press; 491 pages; $135). Discusses the Roman writer's Naturalis historia as a source for Renaissance artists, architects, and scholars on ancient architectural practice and wonders.

Prostitutes and Matrons in the Roman World by Anise K. Strong (Cambridge University Press; 304 pages; $99.99). Draws on art, literature, and other sources in a study of the fluidity and mutability of the categories of whore and wife in Roman society.

COMMUNICATION

Media After Deleuze by Tauel Harper and David Savat (Bloomsbury Academic; 188 pages; $94 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Develops an approach to contemporary media grounded in the concepts of Deleuze and Guattari.

Mister Pulitzer and the Spider: Modern News from Realism to the Digital by Kevin G. Barnhurst (University of Illinois Press; 312 pages; $34.95). Traces changes in the nature of American journalism since the late 19th century.

EDUCATION

Making the Unequal Metropolis: School Desegregation and Its Limits by Ansley T. Erickson (University of Chicago Press; 416 pages; $40). Focuses on Nashville in a study of how school policies are linked to inequality in metropolitan areas.

FILM STUDIES

Invented Lives, Imagined Communities: The Biopic and American National Identity edited by William H. Epstein and R. Barton Palmer (State University of New York Press; 344 pages; $90). New and previously published writings on the American "biopic," with a focus on Houdini, Patton, The Great White Hope, Bound for Glory, Ed Wood, Basquiat, Pollock, Sylvia, Kinsey, Fur, Milk, J. Edgar, and Lincoln.

Projections of Memory: Romanticism, Modernism, and the Aesthetics of Film by Richard I. Suchenski (Oxford University Press; 320 pages; $99 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). A study of ambitious works of long-form cinema, with a focus on Gregory Markopoulos's Eniaios, Jacques Rivette's L'Amour fou and Out 1, and Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(s) du cinema.

GEOGRAPHY

Beyond the Kale: Urban Agriculture and Social Justice Activism in New York City by Kristin Reynolds and Nevin Cohen (University of Georgia Press; 224 pages; $79.95 hardcover, $25.95 paperback). Pays particular attention to women and people of color in a study of how New York's urban agriculture movement has challenged structural inequities.

HISTORY

Beating against the Wind: Popular Opposition to Bishop Feild and Tractarianism in Newfoundland and Labrador by Calvin Hollett (McGill-Queen's University Press; 480 pages; US$110 hardcover, US$44.95 paperback). Describes a popular Protestantism embraced by coastal populations in Labrador and Newfoundland in resistance to the Tractarianism movement in the Anglican Church and its championing by Edward Feild, second bishop of Newfoundland (from 1844 to 1876).

Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa by Ousmane Oumar Kane (Harvard University Press; 282 pages; $39.95). A study of major sites of Islamic learning in West Africa beyond the famous schools and archives of Timbuktu (in present-day Mali); covers the period since the introduction of Islam.

The Body or the Soul? Religion and Culture in a Quebec Parish, 1736-1901 by Frank A. Abbott (McGill-Queen's University Press; 386 pages; US$100). Draws on oral-historical and other sources in a study of religious and cultural life in the rural parish of St-Joseph-de-Beauce.

Buying a Bride: An Engaging History of Mail-Order Matches by Marcia A. Zug (New York University Press; 304 pages; $30). Examines the history of mail-order marriage, from the Tobacco Wives of the Jamestown Colony to contemporary practices; documents the increasingly negative perceptions of such unions, but also how such arrangements can empower women.

Crown, Church and Constitution: Popular Conservatism in England, 1815-1867 by Jorg Neuheiser (Berghahn Books; 310 pages; $110). A study of "conservatism from below" that examines the royalist, xenophobic, and anti-Catholic politics that were a counter-force to the radical reform politics of the period.

Dangerous Neighbors: Making the Haitian Revolution in Early America by James Alexander Dun (University of Pennsylvania Press; 342 pages; $45). Focuses on Philadelphia, an enclave of anti-slavery activity, in a study of Americans' varied responses to the revolution on the French colony of Saint Domingue and the creation of an independent Haiti.

Fascist Interactions: Proposals for a New Approach to Fascism and Its Era, 1919-1945 by David D. Roberts (Berghahn Books; 319 pages; $120). Discusses the study of fascism beyond the dominant cases of Italy and Germany.

Forging a Laboring Race: The African American Worker in the Progressive Imagination by Paul R.D. Lawrie (New York University Press; 230 pages; $50). Examines realms from actuaries and academe to factories and the military in a study of Progressive Era notions of the black worker in modernity.

Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence, 1914-1945 by Raz Segal (Stanford University Press; 211 pages; $65). Focuses the borderland region of the Subcarpathian Rus' in a study that focuses on Hungarian persecution of Jews, Roma, and Carpatho-Ruthenians.

Jefferson, Lincoln, and the Unfinished Work of the Nation by Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler (Southern Illinois University Press; 176 pages; $19.50). A comparative study of the two American presidents.

The Katangese Gendarmes and War in Central Africa: Fighting Their Way Home by Erik Kennes and Miles Larmer (Indiana University Press; 318 pages; $85 hardcover, $35 paperback). Discusses a force from a secessionist region of Congo, their exile in Angola, their involvement in regional conflicts, and their efforts to return home.

Known for My Work: African American Ethics from Slavery to Freedom by Lynda J. Morgan (University Press of Florida; 208 pages; $74.95). Traces the building of an African-American ethos of honest labor in the face of oppression.

The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia by Erika Monahan (Cornell University Press; 410 pages; $49.95). Uses the histories of three merchant families to examine trade as a key aspect of the Muscovy state's assertion of authority on the Siberian periphery; disputes the notion that the state placed a straitjacket on economic growth, and that Russian merchants were risk averse.

Northern Character: College-Educated New Englanders, Honor, Nationalism, and Leadership in the Civil War Era by Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai (Fordham University Press; 288 pages; $140 hardcover, $35 paperback). Examines the motivations of elite young men who rushed from colleges in the North to serve the Union in battle.

Partners of the Empire: The Crisis of the Ottoman Order in the Age of Revolutions by Ali Yaycioglu (Stanford University Press; 347 pages; $65). A study of institutional and other change in the empire in the late 18th and early 19th centuries; disputes notions of a linear transition between old and new, or from Eastern to Western institutions.

Pembroke: A Rural, Black Community on the Illinois Dunes by Dave Baron (Southern Illinois University Press; 234 pages; $26.50). Discusses a black community in a corner of rural Kankakee County, Ill., about 65 miles south of Chicago.

Precarious Paths to Freedom: The United States, Venezuela, and the Latin American Cold War by Aragorn Storm Miller (University of New Mexico Press; 278 pages; $65). Documents how forces of moderation in both Washington and Caracas combined to block both right- and left-wing extremism between 1958 and 1968 and to promote successive, competitive elections.

Sacred Violence in Early America by Susan Juster (University of Pennsylvania Press; 267 pages; $55). Discusses blood sacrifice, holy war, malediction, and iconoclasm in a study that links English colonists' violence to Europe's Wars of Religion.

Scythe and the City: A Social History of Death in Shanghai by Christian Henriot (Stanford University Press; 484 pages; $65). Examines how beliefs and practices concerning death changed from the late imperial period to the first decade of the People's Republic of China.

Show Thyself a Man: Georgia State Troops, Colored, 1865-1905 by Gregory Mixon (University Press of Florida; 419 pages; $79.95). Documents how black men used militia service in post-Civil War Georgia as a means of political and social betterment until the militias were disbanded by whites.

Time Travel: Tourism and the Rise of the Living History Museum in Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada by Alan Gordon (University of British Columbia Press; 384 pages; US$99). A study of Canada's living history museums from the 1930s through the 1970s, with particular attention to forces shaping them in the 60s and 70s.

Too Great a Burden to Bear: The Struggle and Failure of the Freedmen's Bureau in Texas by Christopher B. Bean (Fordham University Press; 320 pages; $140 hardcover, $40 paperback). Focuses on the motivations, ideas, and actions of men employed as sub-assistant commissioners in the Reconstruction-era bureaus.

LABOR STUDIES

From Mission to Microchip: A History of the California Labor Movement by Fred B. Glass (University of California Press; 544 pages; $70 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Sets the history of labor organizing in California in the context of the state's diverse population and status as a destination since the Gold Rush.

LAW

Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving through Deep Difference by John D. Inazu (University of Chicago Press; 176 pages; $29). Discusses the constitutional commitments and civic practices necessary to defend a healthy tradition of pluralism in the United States.

Exclusion from Public Space: A Comparative Constitutional Analysis by Daniel Moeckli (Cambridge University Press; 578 pages; $155). Focuses on Britain, the United States, and Switzerland in a comparative study of the rights and other issues raised by an increasing number of laws that allow the exclusion of the homeless, protesters, drug addicts, teenagers, and others from certain public spaces.

Homelessness in New York City: Policymaking from Koch to de Blasio by Thomas J. Main (New York University Press; 273 pages; $50). Examines how Mayors Koch, Dinkins, Giuliani, Bloomberg, and de Blasio have attempted to meet the city's obligation under 1979 litigation that guarantees a right to shelter.

LINGUISTICS

Grammaticalization and the Rise of Configurationality in Indo-Aryan by Uta Reinohl (Oxford University Press; 234 pages; $105). Traces the rise of postpositions in a study of Indo-Aryan language over three millennia with a focus on Vedic Sanskrit, Middle Indic Pali and Apabhramsha, Early New Indic Old Awadhi, and Hindi.

LITERATURE

The Contemporary Irish Detective Novel edited by Elizabeth Mannion (Palgrave Macmillan; 168 pages; $90). Essays on the work of such authors as Peter Tremayne, John Connolly, Declan Hughes, Ken Bruen, Brian McGilloway, Stuart Neville, Tana French, Jane Casey, and Benjamin Black.

Culinary Shakespeare: Staging Food and Drink in Early Modern England edited by David B. Goldstein and Amy Tigner (Duquesne University Press; 350 pages; $70). Topics include the social and religious associations of drink, and the economic implications of ingredients from foreign lands.

Goethe's Families of the Heart by Susan E. Gustafson (Bloomsbury Academic; 199 pages; $120). Documents how the German author challenges 18th-century conventions regarding families and relationships, portraying characters whose feelings of love pull them into a variety of affinities.

Literature and "Interregnum": Globalization, War, and the Crisis of Sovereignty in Latin America by Patrick Dove (State University of New York Press; 330 pages; $90). A study of end-of-millennium novels by Cesar Aira, Marcelo Cohen, Sergio Chejfec, Diamela Eltit, and Roberto Bolano.

Modernism and the Materiality of Texts by Eyal Amiran (Cambridge University Press; 192 pages; $99.99). Examines features of modernist texts that reflect their authors' anxieties and psychic crises; figures discussed include Gertrude Stein, Alice Toklas, P. G. Wodehouse, Conan Doyle, J. M. Barrie, George Herriman, and Sigmund Freud.

Narrative Subversion in Medieval Literature by E.L. Risden (McFarland & Company; 192 pages; $35). Works discussed include Beowulf, Piers Plowman, Le Morte D' Arthur, The Canterbury Tales, Troylus and Criseyde, 'Voluspa" and other Old Norse sagas, and Grail quest romances.

Object Lessons: The Novel as a Theory of Reference by Jami Bartlett (University of Chicago Press; 184 pages; $35). Draws on philosophical theories of reference in a study of novels by Meredith, Thackeray, Gaskell, and Murdoch.

Ornamental Aesthetics: The Poetry of Attending in Thoreau, Dickinson, and Whitman by Theo Davis (Oxford University Press; 245 pages; $65). Discusses the three writers' "ornamental aesthetics" as form of attention and thought that marks persons, objects, and the world and explores mental engagement.

Queer Philologies: Sex, Language, and Affect in Shakespeare's Time by Jeffrey Masten (University of Pennsylvania Press; 353 pages; $59.95). Examines terms and related rhetorics used to inscribe bodies, pleasures, affects, sexual acts, and identities in early modern English culture.

Sarah Waters and Contemporary Feminisms edited by Adele Jones and Claire O'Callaghan (Palgrave Macmillan; 248 pages; $90). Essays on the Welsh novelist that link her works to contemporary feminism and feminist theory; topics include female masculinity and butch subjectivity in Tipping the Velvet and The Night Watch.

They Have All Been Healed: Reading Robert Walser by Jan Plug (Northwestern University Press; 224 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Explores healing and salvation in the works of the Swiss-German modernist writer (1878-1956), including Snow White, The Walk, Jakob von Gunten, and The Robber.

Tropics of Vienna: Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire by Ulrich E. Bach (Berghahn Books; 143 pages; $80). Focuses on writings by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Lazar von Hellenbach, Theodor Hertzka, Theodor Herzl, Robert Muller, and Joseph Roth.

MUSIC

Rethinking Schubert edited by Lorraine Byrne Bodley and Julian Horton (Oxford University Press; 528 pages; $74). Revisionist essays on the Austrian composer's life, work, influence, and legacy; topics include disability, self-critique, and failure in Schubert's "Der Doppelganger," and the sensuous as a constructive force in his late works.

PHILOSOPHY

Free Will and Action Explanation: A Non-Causal, Compatibilist Account by Scott Sehon (Oxford University Press; 239 pages; $74). Defends a teleological rather than causal account of human action and agency, and applies that approach to a discussion of free will and responsibility.

The Making of Friedrich Nietzsche: The Quest for Identity, 1844--1869 by Daniel Blue (Cambridge University Press; 351 pages; $49.99). Draws on untranslated German scholarship in a study of the philosopher's youth, education, and self-fashioning.

Mortal Thought: Holderlin and Philosophy by James Luchte (Bloomsbury Academic; 201 pages; $112). A study of the German poet and thinker Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843) that focuses on his impact on later philosophy---in particular Nietzsche, the Frankfurt School, Heidegger, and poststructuralism.

POLITICAL SCIENCE

The Boundary Bargain: Growth, Development, and the Future of City-County Separation by Zachary Spicer (McGill-Queen's University Press; 200 pages; US$100 hardcover, US$27.95 paperback). Uses case studies of London, Guelph, and Barrie, Ontario, in a study of the workings, problems, and best practices of strict county-city separation in governance.

Obama and Kenya: Contested Histories and the Politics of Belonging by Matthew Carotenuto and Katherine Luongo (Ohio University Press; 240 pages; $49.95 hardcover, $22.95 paperback). Topics include how the East African nation's contested politics have shaped efforts to cast the president as a "son of the soil."

The Parliaments of Autonomous Nations edited by Guy Laforest and Andre Lecours (McGill-Queen's University Press; 312 pages; US$110 hardcover, US$34.95 paperback). Writings on how parliamentary bodies in Flanders, Quebec, Catalonia, Galicia, the Basque Country, Scotland, and Northern Ireland assert their minority nations' cultural identities and claims to self-determination; also examines the responses of central parliaments.

The Rise and Fall of the Miraculous Welfare Machine: Immigration and Social Democracy in Twentieth-Century Sweden by Carly Elizabeth Schall (Cornell University Press; 248 pages; $55). Traces the history of the Swedish welfare state since the 1920s, and considers the impact of greater diversity on the system.

RELIGION

The Cult of St Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins edited by Jane Cartwright (University of Wales Press, distributed by University of Chicago Press; 299 pages; $125). Essays on legends, art, and music inspired by the story in the third century of a British king's daughter and devout Christian who agreed to marry a pagan prince to save her father's kingdom, deferred the marriage by insisting on a final pilgrimage to Rome in the company of 11,000 virgins, and on the way back, was martyred with her companions in Cologne.

Echoes of Enlightenment: The Life and Legacy of the Tibetan Saint Sonam Peldren by Suzanne M. Bessenger (Oxford University Press; 296 pages; $99 hardcover, $35 paperback). Examines the hagiographical and literary agendas that shaped accounts of the female Buddhist figure (1328-72).

The Empress and the Heavenly Masters: A Study of the Ordination Scroll of Empress Zhang (1493) by Luk Yu-ping (Chinese University Press, distributed by Columbia University Press; 258 pages; $45). A study of a more-than 27-meter scroll that documents the ordination of Empress Zhang by a Heavenly Master of Zhengyi Daoism.

The Genesis of Liberation: Biblical Interpretation in the Antebellum Narratives of the Enslaved by Emerson B. Powery and Rodney S. Sadler Jr. (Westminister John Knox Press; 182 pages; $35). Examines the emancipatory appropriation of the King James Bible by such figures as Frederick Douglass, Solomon Bayley, and William Anderson.

God Being Nothing: Toward a Theogony by Ray L. Hart (University of Chicago Press; 272 pages; $45). Develops a view of God as perpetually in process, and continually generated from nothing.

The Greek "Historia Monachorum in Aegypto": Monastic Hagiography in the Late Fourth Century by Andrew Cain (Oxford University Press; 329 pages; $135). A study of the anonymous account written by one of seven monks who in September 394 left their Jerusalem monastery to journey to Egypt to visit a series of "monastic celebrities."

The Myth of Normative Secularism: Religion and Politics in the Democratic Homeworld by Daniel D. Miller (Duquesne University Press; 346 pages; $33). Draws on Husserl's generative phenomenology to develop a view of the relationship between religion and politics in a democratic society.

The Oxford Movement in Practice: The Tractarian Parochial World from the 1830s to the 1870s by George Herring (Oxford University Press; 368 pages; $120). A study of the Tractarian movement in the generation after John Henry Newman's Anglican-to-Roman Catholic conversion.

Religious Competition in the Greco-Roman World edited by Nathaniel P. DesRosiers and Lily C. Vuong (Society of Biblical Literature; 326 pages; $49.95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Focuses on themes of material culture, neo-Platonism, religious expertise, and relics in essays on competition and other points of contact among pagan, Christian, Jewish, philosophical, and early Islamic communities in late antiquity.

Selected Works of D.T. Suzuki, Volume III: Comparative Religion edited by Jeff Wilson and Tomoe Moriya (University of California Press; 320 pages; $49.95). Edition of letters, essays, and lectures about Christianity, Shinto, and other non-Buddhist religions by the Japanese thinker, who was a key figure in the introduction of Buddhism to the West; includes previously untranslated materials.

Spiritual Despots: Modern Hinduism and the Genealogies of Self-Rule by J. Barton Scott (University of Chicago Press; 280 pages; $45). Documents how Protestant missionaries spread anti-clerical rhetoric through British India, and how that "priestcraft" rhetoric became part of the discourse of Hindu reformers, with lasting religious and political effect.

Ye That Are Men Now Serve Him: Radical Holiness Theology and Gender in the South by Colin B. Chapell (University of Alabama Press; 256 pages; $54.95). Contrasts the South Baptist Convention and Methodist Episcopal Church with the Holiness movement in a study of how religion figured in Southern gender roles between 1877 and 1915.

RHETORIC

Antebellum American Women's Poetry: A Rhetoric of Sentiment by Wendy Dasler Johnson (Southern Illinois University Press; 248 pages; $40). Focuses on works by Frances Watkins Harper, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, and Julia Ward Howe in a study of how women used sentimental poetry as a voice in public debate.

Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things edited by Scot Barnet and Casey Boyle (University of Alabama Press; 280 pages; $59.95). Essays on the rhetorical interaction of material objects.

SOCIOLOGY

Becoming Black Political Subjects: Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in Colombia and Brazil by Tianna S. Paschel (Princeton University Press; 311 pages; $39.50). Combines archival and ethnographic perspectives in a study of how activists in both countries succeeded in bringing about legislation aimed at black populations.

The Servant Class City: Urban Revitalization versus the Working Poor in San Diego by David J. Karjanen (University of Minnesota Press; 312 pages; $98 hardcover, $28 paperback). Uses San Diego to examine the "poverty traps" created by low-paying jobs in the service sectors of cities centered on tourism.

Unsettled Americans: Metropolitan Context and Civic Leadership for Immigrant Integration edited by John Mollenkopf and Manuel Pastor (Cornell University Press; 328 pages; $89.95 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Focuses on New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Charlotte, Phoenix, San Jose, and California's "Inland Empire."

THEATER

The Soul of Pleasure: Sentiment and Sensation in Nineteenth-Century American Mass Entertainment by David Monod (Cornell University Press; 295 pages; $49.95). Focuses on minstrel acts, burlesques, and saloon variety shows in a study of how sentimentality figured in 19th-century entertainment.

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