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Nothing” 53 Ellis et al.: Manual of Leaf Architecture
36 Kaufman: Consuming Visions 51 Gray: Milton and the Victorians
32 Lehrich: The Occult Mind 51 Hampton: Fictions of Embassy
36 Lerner: Hysterical Men 39 Kahler: Networked Politics
34 Valensi: The Birth of the Despot 38 Leheny: Think Global, Fear Local
29 McGuinness: Path of Empire
6 Papa: Staged Action
FEBRUARY 3 Preble: The Power Problem
31 Adams and Adams: Chapters of Erie 18 Sidorick: Condensed Capitalism
31 Andrews: Our Earliest Colonial Settlements 40 Thompson: Channels of Power
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and the Historian 48 Wolf and Denzin, eds.: Romance and Love
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55 Hughes: Dependent Communities 33 Bouchard: Holy Entrepreneurs
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30 Lewis: From Newgate to Dannemora 21 Brown: Glamour in Six Dimensions
44 Urban Studies 44 Pinstrup-Andersen and Cheng, eds.: 4 Cushing and Drescher: Agitate!
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ILLUSTRATIONS cover “Together we win: Get behind your labor-management committee.” Artist Unknown, War Production Board, circa 1944 (see pages 4–5).
Page 4 Art from Agitate! Educate! Organize!: “Taking out the scabs: A big job for the 80s,” Doug Minkler, 1984. “Farmworkers Demand: Don’t Fence Us Out!” David Loewenstein,
Workforce Development Institute, Bread and Roses Cultural Project, SEIU 1199, Justseeds 2007. Page 5 Art from Agitate! Educate! Organize!: “Boycott Campbell’s Condemned
Cream of Exploitation Soup,” artist unknown, FLOC Support Group, 1984. “Gap Traditional,” (jeans tag). Jean Carlu derivative, designer unknown, Gap Incorporated, circa
1985. “Knock him out! Labor can do it,” Bill Seaman, National Labor Service (American Jewish Committee); CIO Committee to Abolish Racial Discrimination, 1945. “Hudson-
Mohawk May Day 2007,” Josh MacPhee, Hudson Mohawk May Day Organizing Committee, 2007. Page 7 Thomas Malaby’s Second Life home. Page 8 Mount Vernon privy
(photograph by Michael Olmert), George Washington Birthplace National Monument, reconstructed kitchen interior (photograph by Michael Olmert). Page 14 “Kimanzi”
secteur, Rwanda, 2004. Photograph by Lee Ann Fujii. Page 20 By Florence Finkelsztajn’s Yiddish bakery (photograph by David Caron). Page 21 Gilbert Seehausen cellophane
gown in Fall 1933 Esquire. Page 24 S. P. Dubinin as the Russian captive, and E. G. Chikbaidze as the Circassian maiden who sets him free, in the 1938 Leningrad ballet adaption
of Pushkin’s “Prisoner of the Caucasus.” Page 25 “They helped him out,” Krokodil, 10 January 1960. Courtesy SSEES Library, London. “Programja,” Pravda, 7 August 1961.
Courtesy SSEES Library, London. Page 53 Sample illustration from Manual of Leaf Architecture: Euphorbiaceae Macaranga bicolor (detail). Page 54 Oxybelis aeneus (Horsewhip)
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My Word!
Plagiarism and College Culture
Susan D. Blum

“Classroom Cheats Turn to Computers.” “Student Essays on Internet

Offer Challenge to Teachers.” “Faking the Grade.” Headlines such
as these have been blaring the alarming news of an epidemic of
plagiarism and cheating in American colleges: more than 75 percent
of students admit to having cheated; 68 percent admit to cutting and
pasting material from the Internet without citation.

Professors are reminded almost daily that many of today’s college

students operate under an entirely new set of assumptions about
originality and ethics. Practices that even a decade ago would have
been regarded almost universally as academically dishonest are now
commonplace. Is this development an indication of dramatic shifts
in education and the larger culture? In a book that dismisses hand-
wringing in favor of a rich account of how students actually think and
act, Susan D. Blum discovers two cultures that exist, often uneasily,
side by side in the classroom.

Relying extensively on interviews conducted by students with students, “Susan D. Blum is genuinely interested in
My Word! presents the voices of today’s young adults as they muse understanding her students and brings
about their daily activities, their challenges, and the meanings of their great care and compassion to her discus-
college lives. Outcomes-based secondary education, the steeply ris- sion of plagiarism. She generously draws on
ing cost of college tuition, and an economic climate in which higher student interview segments throughout My
education is valued for its effect on future earnings above all else: Word! to illuminate today’s campus climate.
These factors each have a role to play in explaining why students might I especially like that Blum locates acts of
pursue good grades by any means necessary. These incentives have cheating within the wider sociocultural
arisen in the same era as easily accessible ways to cheat electronically context rather than regarding them simply
as failures of personal morality.”
and with almost intolerable pressures that result in many students
being diagnosed as clinically depressed during their transition from —Cathy Small,
childhood to adulthood. author of My Freshman Year

However, Blum suggests, the real problem of academic dishonesty

arises primarily from a lack of communication between two distinct
cultures within the university setting. On one hand, professors and
administrators regard plagiarism as a serious academic crime, an
ethical transgression, even a sin against an ethos of individualism and
originality. Students, on the other hand, revel in sharing, in multiplic-
ity, in accomplishment at any cost. Although this book is unlikely to
reassure readers who hope that increasing rates of plagiarism can
be reversed with strongly worded warnings on the first day of class,
My Word! opens a dialogue between professors and their students
that may lead to true mutual comprehension and serve as the basis
for an alignment between student practices and their professors’ Susan D. Blum is Associate Professor of
expectations. Anthropology at the University of Notre
Dame. She is the author, most recently,
of Lies That Bind: Chinese Truth, Other
Truths and editor of Making Sense of
Language: Readings in Culture and Com-
munication.

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China 2020
How Western Business Can—and Should—Influence
Social and Political Change in the Coming Decade
Michael A. Santoro

Chinese society is plagued by many problems that have a direct impact

on its current and future business and political environment—worker
/2/ rights, product safety, Internet freedom, and the rule of law. Drawing on
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A and pace of economic, social, and political change. Of special interest
is Santoro’s assessment of the role of multinational corporations in
fostering or undermining social and political progress. Santoro of-
fers a fresh and innovative way of thinking about two questions that
have preoccupied Western observers for decades. What will be the
effect of economic reform and prosperity on political reform? How
can companies operate with moral integrity and ethics in China? In
China 2020, Santoro unifies these hitherto separate questions and
“In this great book, Michael A. Santoro demonstrates that moral integrity (or lack of it) by Western business
adds in significant and important ways to will have a profound impact on whether economic privatization and
the dialogue over the economic reforms in growth usher in greater democracy and respect for human rights.
China and how these reforms give rise to
China 2020 also offers a novel vision of China’s future economic
many complexities in the areas of politics
and human rights.”
and political development. Santoro rejects the conventional view that
China will muddle through the next decade with incremental social
—Doug Guthrie, and political changes. Instead he argues that China will follow one or
New York University two widely divergent potential outcomes. It might continue to progress
steadily toward greater prosperity, democracy, and respect for human
rights, but it is also highly likely that China will instead fall backward
economically and into an ever more authoritarian regime. The next
decade will be one of the most important in the history of China, and,
owing to China’s global impact, the history of the modern world. China
2020 describes various tectonic social and political battles going on
within China. The outcomes of these struggles will depend on a number
of powerful indigenous forces as well as the decisions and actions of
individual Chinese citizens. Santoro strongly believes that Western
businesses can—and should—influence these developments.

Michael A. Santoro is Associate Profes-

sor of Business Ethics at the Rutgers
Business School. He is the author of
Profits and Principles: Global Capitalism
and Human Rights in China, also from
Cornell.

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The Power Problem

How American Military Dominance
Makes Us Less Safe, Less Prosperous, and Less Free
Christopher A. Preble

Numerous polls show that Americans want to reduce our military pres-
ence abroad, allowing our allies and other nations to assume greater
responsibility both for their own defense and for enforcing security in
their respective regions. In The Power Problem, Christopher A. Preble
explores the aims, costs, and limitations of the use of this nation’s
military power; throughout, he makes the case that the majority of
Americans are right, and the foreign policy experts who disdain the
public’s perspective are wrong. Preble is a keen and skeptical observer
of recent U.S. foreign policy experiences, which have been marked
by the promiscuous use of armed intervention. He documents how
the possession of vast military strength runs contrary to the original
intent of the Founders, and has, as they feared, shifted the balance
of power away from individual citizens and toward the central govern-
ment, and from the legislative and judicial branches of government
to the executive.

In Preble’s estimate, if policymakers in Washington have at their

disposal immense military might, they will constantly be tempted to
overreach, and to redefine ever more broadly the “national interest.”
Preble holds that the core national interest—preserving American
security—is easily defined and largely immutable. Possessing vast
military power in order to further other objectives is, he asserts, illicit
and to be resisted. Preble views military power as purely instrumental:
if it advances U.S. security, then it is fulfilling its essential role. If it
does not—if it undermines our security, imposes unnecessary costs,
and forces all Americans to incur additional risks—then our military
power is a problem, one that only we can solve. As it stands today,
Washington’s eagerness to maintain and use an enormous and expen-
sive military is corrosive to contemporary American democracy.

Christopher A. Preble is Director of For-

eign Policy Studies at the Cato Institute
and a former commissioned officer in
also from cornell the U.S. Navy. He is the author of John F.
Kennedy and the Missile Gap and Exiting
Corporate Warriors
The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry Iraq: Why the U.S. Must End the Military
Updated Edition Occupation and Renew the War against
Al Qaeda.
P. W. Singer
CORNELL STUDIES IN SECURITY AFFAIRS
Cowinner of the Gladys M. Kammerer Award given
a series edited by Robert J. Art, Robert Jervis,
by the American Political Science Association and Stephen M. Walt
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Agitate! Educate! Organize!

American Labor Posters
Lincoln Cushing and Timothy W. Drescher

“We seek to inform as well as to celebrate. The best posters about

American workers and the jobs at which they labor make up a visually
fascinating body of work that rewards our attention. The posters were
produced with a dual purpose: to entertain and to inform. They were
also vehicles for working people to present themselves visually, which is
rarely as straightforward as it might seem because the labor force itself
is not monolithic. Nor are the posters about just paid or wage labor. They
repeatedly demonstrate that labor issues include both the workplace and
the outside community and often portray families and neighbors, not just
fellow workers.”—from Agitate! Educate! Organize!

In Agitate! Educate! Organize!, Lincoln Cushing and Timothy W. Drescher

share their vast knowledge about the rich graphic tradition of labor
posters. Lavish full-color reproductions
of more than 250 of the best posters
that have emerged from the American
labor movement ensure that readers will
want to return again and again to this vi-
sually fascinating treasury of little-known
images from the American past. Some of
the posters were issued by government
programs and campaigns; some were
devised by unions as recruiting tools
or strike announcements; others were
generated by grassroots organizations
focused on a particular issue or group
of workers—all reveal much about the
diverse experiences of working people
in the United States.

Lincoln Cushing is the author of Revo-

lucion! Cuban Poster Art and coauthor
of Chinese Posters: Art from the Great
Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Timo-
thy W. Drescher is the author of San
Francisco Bay Area Murals and a coedi-
tor of San Francisco Labor Landmarks
Guidebook.

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American labor posters are widely scattered, difficult to locate, and

rarely archived. Cushing and Drescher examined several thousand
such images in the course of their research, guaranteeing a truly
representative selection. The presentation of the posters is the-
matic, with a brief history of activist graphic media followed by
chapters on Dignity and Exploitation; Health and Safety; Women;
Race and Civil Rights; War, Peace and Internationalism; Solidarity
and Organizing; Strikes and Boycotts; Democracy, Voting, and
Patriotism; History, Heroes, and Martyrs; and Culture. Along with
the stunning color images, the text contributes to a much deeper
understanding of the politics, history,
artistry, and impact of this genre
of activist art and the importance
of the labor movement in the
transformation of American
society over the course of the
twentieth century.

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Staged Action
Six Plays from the American Workers’ Theatre
Edited by Lee Papa

With this anthology of six plays, Lee Papa reintroduces readers and
performers to a largely forgotten American theatrical genre from the
1920s and 1930s, the workers’ theatre movement. In an introduction
that gives background on the workers’ theatre movement and traces
its influence on American drama, from David Mamet and August Wilson
to the work of Anna Deavere Smith and Vermont’s Bread and Puppet
Theatre, Papa explains the criteria for his selection of plays. Papa’s
section introductions provide historical, cultural, and literary context
for each of the plays.

The first two plays in the anthology—Processional by John Howard

Lawson and Upton Sinclair’s Singing Jailbirds—reflect the large-scale
arrests of strikers and union organizers during and after World War I.
The next two plays were produced at labor colleges. Bonchi Friedman’s
1926 play The Miners combines expressionism and realism in a drama
about a violent strike that has an unusual female union leader as its
hero. In Mill Shadows by Tom Tippett, a town changes from a simple
“In Staged Action, Lee Papa is addressing industrial village into a place of rebellion and eventually a union com-
an area of theater history that is woefully munity. The last two plays are representative of those produced by
neglected and unrepresented in academic
the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. In contrast to Irwin
literature. He has done a true service for the
Swerdlow’s one-act agitprop In Union There Is Strength, the musical
general public as well as students of theater
revue Pins and Needles—until Oklahoma the most successful musi-
by giving us access to these plays.”
cal on Broadway—is a collection of satirical sketches that parodies
—Mark Plesent, workers’ theatre while simultaneously taking on serious issues like
Working Theater the treatment of blue- and white-collar workers and the rise of fas-
cism overseas.

Lee Papa is Assistant Professor of

Drama Studies in the Department of also from cornell
English at the College of Staten Island/ New Working-Class Studies
CUNY. Edited by John Russo and Sherry Lee Linkon
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Making Virtual Worlds

Linden Lab and Second Life
Thomas Malaby

The past decade has seen phenomenal growth in the development

and use of virtual worlds. In one of the most notable, Second Life,
millions of people have created online avatars in order to play games,
take classes, socialize, and conduct business transactions. Second
Life offers a gathering point and the tools for people to create a new
world online. Too often neglected in popular and scholarly accounts
of such groundbreaking new environments is the simple truth that,
of necessity, such virtual worlds emerge from physical workplaces
marked by negotiation, creation, and constant change. Thomas Malaby
spent a year at Linden Lab, the real-world home of Second Life, observ-
ing those who develop and profit from the sprawling, self-generating
system they have created.

Some of the challenges created by Second Life for its developers

were of a very traditional nature, such as how to cope with a business
that is growing more quickly than existing staff can handle. Others
are seemingly new: How, for instance, does one regulate something
that is supposed to run on its own? Is it possible
simply to create a space for people to use and
then not govern its use? Can one apply these
same free-range/free-market principles to the of-
fice environment in which the game is produced?
“Lindens”—as the Linden Lab employees call
themselves—found that their efforts to prompt
user behavior of one sort or another were fraught
with complexities, as a number of ongoing pro-
cesses collided with their own interventions.

Malaby thoughtfully describes the world of Linden

Lab and the challenges it faced while he was
conducting his in-depth ethnographic research
there. He shows how the workers of a very young
but quickly growing company were themselves
caught up in ideas about technology, games, and
organizations, and struggled to manage not only
their virtual world but also themselves in a nonhierarchical fashion.
In exploring the practices the Lindens employed, he questions what
was at stake in their virtual world, what a game really is (and how
people participate), and the role of the unexpected in a product like
Second Life and an organization like Linden Lab.

Thomas Malaby is Associate Professor

of Anthropology at the University of
Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He is the author
of Gambling Life: Dealing in Contingency
in a Greek City.

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Kitchens, Smokehouses,
and Privies
Outbuildings and the Architecture of Daily Life
in the Eighteenth-Century Mid-Atlantic
Michael Olmert

In Kitchens, Smokehouses, and Privies, Michael Olmert takes us

into the eighteenth-century backyards of colonial America. He
explores the many small outbuildings that can still be found at
obscure rural farmsteads throughout the Tidewater and greater
mid-Atlantic, in towns like Williamsburg and Annapolis, and at
elite plantations such as Mount Vernon and Monticello.

These structures were designed to support the performance of

a single task: cooking food; washing clothes; smoking meat;
storing last winter’s ice; or keeping milk, cheese, and cream
fresh. Privies and small offices are also addressed, as is the
dovecote, in which doves were raised for their eggs, squab
meat, feathers, and fertilizer. Often, these little buildings were
clustered in such a way as to resemble a small village, knit together by
similar design details and building materials: they were all constructed
in weatherboards or in brick, for instance, or were arranged in a single
file or positioned at the four corners of the yard.

In this appealing book, featuring nearly a hundred crisp black-and-

white photographs, Olmert explains how these well-made buildings
actually functioned. He is riveted by the history of outbuildings: their
architecture, patterns of use, folklore, and even their literary pres-
ence. In two appendixes he also considers octagonal and hexagonal
structures, which had special significance, both doctrinal and cultural,
in early America.

Archaeologists and historians still have many questions about the

design and function of outbuildings—questions that are often difficult
to answer because of the ephemeral nature of these structures; they
were not documented—any more than laundry rooms and storage
units inspire rhapsodies today. Olmert’s book, deeply grounded in
scholarship, eminently readable, and profusely illustrated, takes these
buildings seriously and gives them the attention they deserve.

Michael Olmert teaches English Litera-

ture at the University of Maryland. He
has won three Emmys for writing docu-
mentaries and is a regular contributor
to Colonial Williamsburg magazine. He
is also the author of The Smithsonian
Book of Books and Milton’s Teeth and
Ovid’s Umbrella: Curiouser and Curiouser
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The Mirror, the Window,

and the Telescope
How Renaissance Linear Perspective
Changed Our Vision of the Universe
Samuel Y. Edgerton

“Samuel Y. Edgerton’s work is the best embodiment of an integrated ap-

proach to perspective, blending historical and geometric concerns into one
narrative. Edgerton knows perspective very well, and he makes perspective
drawings himself. At the same time this is not the sort of mathematically
inclined writing that reduces perspective to a series of geometric tricks. This
book is full of careful scholarship, and Edgerton does not forget the Christian
contexts of Renaissance perspective. He also resists the ‘new wave of art
criticism’ that sees perspective as a minor technical invention, soaked in
an abandoned ideology of naturalism. Edgerton celebrates perspective as a
‘positive idea’: he cares about what perspective has accomplished in Western
culture, from mapping and exploration to the latest achievements of digital
astronomy. This book is a concise summary of his work, and a reliable and
up-to-date introduction to the subject. Read this first, and the rest of the
literature will make sense: read the other literature first, and perspective
may remain in a fog of intimidating mathematics and metaphorics.”—James
Elkins, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

In The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope, Samuel Y. Edgerton brings
fresh insight to a subject of perennial interest to the history of art and
science in the West—the birth of linear perspective. Edgerton retells
the fascinating story of how perspective emerged in early fifteenth-
century Florence, growing out of an artistic and religious context in
which devout Christians longed for divine presence in their daily lives.
And yet, ironically, its discovery would have a profound effect not only
on the history of art but on the history of science and technology,
ultimately undermining the very medieval Christian cosmic view that
gave rise to it in the first place.

Among Edgerton’s cast of characters is Filippo Brunelleschi, who first

demonstrated how a familiar object could be painted in a picture ex-
actly as it appeared in a mirror reflection. Brunelleschi communicated
the principles of this new perspective to his artist friends Donatello,
Masaccio, Masolino, and Fra Angelico. But it was the humanist scholar
Leon Battista Alberti who codified Brunelleschi’s perspective rules
into a simple formula that even mathematically disadvantaged artists
could understand. By looking through a window the geometric beau-
ties of this world were revealed without the theological implications Samuel Y. Edgerton is Amos Lawrence
of a mirror reflection. Alberti’s treatise, “On Painting,” spread the new Professor of Art History Emeritus at Wil-
concept throughout Italy and transalpine Europe, even influencing later liams College. He is the author of many
scientists including Galileo Galilei. In fact, it was Galileo’s telescope, books, including Theaters of Conversion:
called at the time a “perspective tube,” that revealed the earth to be Religious Architecture and Indian Arti-
not a mirror reflection of the heavens, as Brunelleschi had advocated, sans in Colonial Mexico and The Heritage
but just the other way around. of Giotto’s Geometry: Art and Science on
the Eve of the Scientific Revolution.
Building on the knowledge he has accumulated over his distinguished
career, Edgerton has written the definitive, up-to-date work on linear
perspective, showing how this simple artistic tool did indeed change FEBRUARY, 224 pages, 105 halftones, 6 x 9
our present vision of the universe. Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4758-7
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$19.95s/£10.95
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A Room of Their Own

The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections
Edited by Nancy E. Green and Christopher Reed

Although of another place and time, the Bloomsbury group confronted

issues that are remarkably current: international crises, war, the value
of craft in an industrialized world, women’s rights, environmental protec-
tion, and the search for the true, the good, and the beautiful in their art
and their lives. A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American
Collections, an exhibition catalog produced by the Herbert F. Johnson
Museum of Art at Cornell University, examines the group’s responses
to these issues, providing a valuable mirror on how people can address
similar concerns today. A hundred years after the Bloomsbury group was
established, their story still resonates and brings together a variety of
interests across many artistic and intellectual pursuits.

The exhibition will include two hundred watercolors, drawings, books

from the Hogarth Press, decorative works from the Omega Workshops,
and other works.

The exhibition catalog features essays by several lead-

ing Bloomsbury scholars. Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina,
author of a major 1995 Carrington biography, provides
a personal overview of artistic Bloomsbury. Nancy E.
Green, the Johnson Museum curator and orga-
nizer of the exhibition, explores the Victorian-era
influence on sisters Virginia Woolf and Vanessa
Bell. Mark Hussey’s essay discusses the cultural
differences behind how British and American
audiences experience Virginia Woolf and the
Bloomsbury group. Benjamin Harvey offers “An
Appreciation of Bloomsbury’s Books and Blocks.”
Christopher Reed presents personal stories
behind many of the prominent Bloomsbury col-
lectors in North America. The book is illustrated
with full-color plates of the two hundred exhibited
works, as well as numerous color figures of com-
parative works and documentary photographs.

Nancy E. Green is the Gale and

Exhibition Itinerary
Ira Drukier Curator of Prints,
This catalog accompanies an exhibition organized by the Herbert F. Johnson
Drawings, and Photographs
Museum of Art at Cornell University.
at the Herbert F. Johnson Mu-
Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
seum of Art, Cornell University. December 18, 2008–April 5, 2009
Christopher Reed is Associate
Professor of English and Vi- Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
July 18–October 18, 2009
sual Culture at The Pennsylvania
State University. Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, California
November 7–December 13, 2009
Distributed for the Herbert F. Johnson Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Museum of Art, Cornell University January 15–March 14, 2010

Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts

JANUARY, 272 pages, 301 color and April 3–June 15, 2010
black-and-white illustrations, 8 x 10
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Icons of the Desert

Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya
Roger Benjamin

Icons of the Desert is an exhibition catalog produced by the

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University for a
show featuring forty-nine “dot-paintings” produced by Aboriginal
artists from the settlement of Papunya in the Western Desert
of Australia. Dot-painting has become an art instantly as-
sociated with Aboriginal Australia. In the more than thirty-five
years since the advent of this movement, Papunya works have
been widely exhibited and acquired by private collectors and
museums in Australia, and increasingly abroad. Icons of the
Desert is the first book to focus on the founding expressions of
Papunya art. It examines their origins in the paintings produced
in Papunya during the years 1971 to 1973, after the Sydney
schoolteacher Geoffrey Bardon provided Aboriginal men with
art materials and encouraged them to paint on Masonite, against the
wishes of Australian government officials. Exhibition Itinerary
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
These paintings claim a unique status. Only around six hundred were Cornell University
made. They are also the first painted works to transfer the designs of Ithaca, New York
January 10–April 5, 2009
desert ceremonial imagery to a permanent surface. Beyond this rarity
and historical significance, however, the visual qualities of Papunya Fowler Museum of Cultural History
boards make them a uniquely appealing body of work. They have the University of California
Los Angeles, California
freshness of trial and error, of experiment by artists who were sea- April 27–August 3, 2009
soned in other media adjusting to an unfamiliar format. Icons of the
Grey Art Gallery
Desert is illustrated with full-color plates of the forty-nine exhibited New York University
works by such great artists as Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Johnny New York, New York
Warangkula Tjupurrula, and Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri. In addition, it fea- September 1–December 5, 2009
tures numerous color figures of comparative works and documentary
photographs of the original artists at work, some never before pub-
lished, and a chronological catalog documenting the works’ history
and iconography, edited by project curator Roger Benjamin.

The leading Indigenous curator in the field, Hetti Perkins, contributed

the preface. Roger Benjamin authored the lead essay, which situ-
ates the works in their historical and cultural context. Fred Myers,
an internationally renowned cultural anthropologist who undertook
his doctoral research at Papunya when the movement was still in
formation, has written an essay on the stylistic development of one
of the painting men he knew personally, Shorty Lungkarta Tjungurrayi.
Vivien Johnson, the most prominent Australian author on Western and
Central Desert art, writes on a second important artist in the collec- Roger Benjamin is Research Professor
tion, Charlie Tarawa Tjungurrayi. In addition, the memories of relatives in Art History and Actus Foundation
of deceased painters in the exhibition are presented in the form of Lecturer in Aboriginal Art at the Power
an interview conducted by Dick Kimber, who was a schoolteacher at Institute Foundation for Art & Visual
Papunya in 1971 when the paintings were first produced. Culture, University of Sydney.

Distributed for the Herbert F. Johnson

Museum of Art, Cornell University

FEBRUARY, 192 pages, more than 100 color

and black-and-white illustrations, 11 x 11
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The North American Porcupine

Second Edition
Uldis Roze

Praise for the first edition—

“The variety, power, and pleasure of modern natural history shines brightly in
this book. Long and sympathetic watching, radio tracking, chemical analysis
. . . are all part of this naturalist’s ingenious and peaceable arsenal of inquiry
into the lives of porcupines.”—Scientific American

“Rarely does one encounter scientific writing that is at the same time au-
thoritative, full of well-documented data, and yet as readable as this book.
It is good literature as well as good science. Readers almost feel as though
they are looking over the shoulder of the observer, feeling his discomfort
at the cold and rain, his excitement when something new and unexpected
happens, and sharing in the sadness over the demise or misfortune of an
animal that had long ago become a friend.”—Quarterly Review of Biology

The North American porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum) is universally

recognizable, yet has a complex biology that continues to fascinate.
This large-bodied, slow-moving herbivore is found in coniferous and
mixed forested areas through much of the northern and western
“This is an engaging and interesting book
United States and in Canada. The porcupine would be ill equipped
that will be of interest to general readers
to avoid any sort of predator were it not for its most distinguishing
and specialists alike. The new material in
the second edition of The North American
feature—a unique natural defensive system of thousands of sharp,
Porcupine—especially the information on barbed, multipurpose quills, which are marvels of evolutionary adapta-
defense reactions and Uldis Roze’s up-close tion. Intrigued by the porcupines after he discovered them gnawing at
observations derived by following the life of the plywood of his Catskills cabin, the biologist Uldis Roze has spent
a single individual—is informative and adds twenty-five years tracking and studying this solitary animal.
new dimensions.”
His firsthand observations are a revelation; throughout the second
—Bernd Heinrich, edition of his classic work on the subject, he shows how much can be
author of Winter World learned by “following a porcupine in the woods.” Quill design, defensive
and Mind of the Raven reactions, foraging, reproduction, and life cycle are among the topics
illuminated by Roze in this fine example of forest ecology. Roze’s com-
prehensive knowledge of this important mammal will interest wildlife
managers in addition to a wide audience of natural history readers.

The penultimate chapter, in which the author rehabilitates an orphaned

porcupine he names Musa, teaching her to climb trees and forage,
shows the scientific insights that come from such pursuits—such
as the discovery of clay-eating in the porcupine diet—but also the
pure joy and excitement of gaining a window into the world of the
porcupine. Roze’s writing beautifully unites scientific research with
a naturalist’s fascination with the outdoor world and the lives of his
Uldis Roze is Professor Emeritus of subjects: Each animal he encounters is “a teacher, a storyteller of
Biology at Queens College. He is the the woods, a complexifier and adorner of the world.”
author of The Living Earth: An Introduc-
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N ew in P aperback !

Plutonium
A History of the World’s Most Dangerous Element
Jeremy Bernstein

“Plutonium is a strong candidate for the weirdest, most fascinating, and

most frightening element in the periodic table. For it to be the subject of
a book by the acclaimed physicist turned science writer Jeremy Bernstein
promises a great deal. Plutonium does not disappoint, even for those who
think they are already familiar with the evolution of nuclear science during
the twentieth century.”—Physics World

“Bernstein’s book should play a useful role by helping demystify plutonium

and by encouraging interested members of the public and Congress to start
constructing a more rational policy to deal with the dangers posed by this
man-made element.”—American Scientist

“Irony and drama shape Bernstein’s accounts of amazing feats of scientific

deduction and world-endangering secrets, which give way to a sobering
overview of the environmental damage caused by plutonium-producing
reactors and the enormous threats embodied in today’s global plutonium
inventory.”—Booklist
“In Plutonium, Jeremy Bernstein acknowl-
“Running through a spectrum of Nobel Prize winners, Bernstein grippingly edges that everything connected with the
portrays the race to develop the first nuclear weapon during World War II element is complicated, and that includes
as well as the interplay among the global personalities involved. Readers plutonium itself and its history. Its discovery
learn that this hazardous element, good for nothing but nuclear weapon in 1941 by Glenn Seaborg and Arthur Wahl
production, continues to hold us hostage with the threat of nuclear terrorism.” is part of a much bigger story in which each
—Library Journal part becomes a story in itself.”
“None of Jeremy Bernstein’s devoted New Yorker readers were surprised —Nature
that he brought J. Robert Oppenheimer to life in his compelling biography,
Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma. But bringing plutonium to life—making
the 94th element as interesting as ‘the father of the atomic bomb’—is sci- “Bernstein spins an accessible, insightful
ence writing that borders on literary magic.”—Martin J. Sherwin, coauthor of description of how the great scientists
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Curie, Bohr, Rutherford, and Fermi, among
winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Biography others, deconstructed the atom through a
combination of individual brilliance, a spirit
When plutonium was first manufactured at Berkeley in the spring of of collaboration, and serendipity.”
1941, there was so little of it that it was not visible to the naked eye.
It took a year to accumulate enough so that one could actually see —Publishers Weekly
it. Now so much has been produced that we don’t know what to do
to get rid of it. We have created a monster.

The history of plutonium is as strange as the element itself. When

scientists began looking for it, they did so simply in the spirit of inquiry,
not certain whether there were still spots to fill on the periodic table.
But the discovery of fission made it clear that this still-hypothetical Jeremy Bernstein was a staff writer at
element would be more than just a scientific curiosity—it could be the New Yorker for thirty-five years and
the main ingredient of a powerful nuclear weapon. is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the
Stevens Institute of Technology. His
In his history of this complex and dangerous element, the noted books include Oppenheimer: Portrait of
physicist Jeremy Bernstein describes the steps that were taken to an Enigma.
transform plutonium from a laboratory novelty into the nuclear weapon
that destroyed Nagasaki. This is the first book to weave together the
many strands of plutonium’s story, explaining not only the science but MARCH, 216 pages, 34 halftones, 5 1/8 x 8 1/2
Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7517-7
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(cloth edition ISBN 978-0-3091-0296-4)
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Killing Neighbors
Webs of Violence in Rwanda
Lee Ann Fujii

“Lee Ann Fujii has written a thoughtful, eloquent book that powerfully en-
gages the complexity of the Rwandan genocide. Through careful local-level
research and through presenting many fascinating personal accounts, Fujii
sheds light on the genocide, challenges much conventional wisdom, and
develops a novel argument about the importance of performance, social
ties, and group dynamics in how Rwanda’s genocide unfolded. This is a ter-
rific book that should be widely read by students of violence, ethnicity, and
African politics.”—Scott Straus, author of The Order of Genocide

In the horrific events of the mid-1990s in Rwanda, tens of thousands

of Hutu killed their Tutsi friends, neighbors, even family members.
That ghastly violence has overshadowed a fact almost as noteworthy:
that hundreds of thousands of Hutu killed no one. In a transformative
revisiting of the motives behind and specific contexts surrounding
the Rwandan genocide, Lee Ann Fujii focuses on individual actions
rather than sweeping categories. Fujii argues that ethnic hatred and
fear do not satisfactorily explain the mobilization of Rwandans one
“Killing Neighbors incorporates a sophis- against another.
ticated approach to historical factors and
Fujii’s extensive interviews in Rwandan prisons and two rural com-
gives voice to people ‘in the hills’ as well
munities form the basis for her claim that mass participation in the
as to political leaders. It makes a much-
genocide was not the result of ethnic antagonisms. Rather, the social
needed contribution both to the field of
Rwandan studies and of genocide studies, context of action was critical. Strong group dynamics and established
substituting data for ideology and local local ties shaped patterns of recruitment for and participation in the
voices for political tracts. Understanding genocide. This web of social interactions bound people to power hold-
how genocide happens requires more stud- ers and killing groups. People joined and continued to participate in
ies such as this.” the genocide over time, Fujii shows, because killing in large groups
conferred identity on those who acted destructively. The perpetrators
—David Newbury, of the genocide produced new groups centered on destroying prior
Smith College
bonds by killing kith and kin.

Lee Ann Fujii is Assistant Professor

of Political Science and International
Affairs and Program Coordinator of
the International Politics cohort of the
Women’s Leadership Program at George
Washington University.

JANUARY, 224 pages, 2 tables, 1 map,

2 line drawings, 3 halftones, 6 x 9
Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4705-1
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The Golden Triangle

Inside Southeast Asia’s Drug Trade
Ko-lin Chin

The Golden Triangle region that joins Burma, Thailand, and Laos is
one of the global centers of opiate and methamphetamine production.
Opportunistic Chinese businessmen and leaders of various armed
groups are largely responsible for the manufacture of these drugs.
The region is defined by the apparently conflicting parallel strands
of criminality and efforts at state building, a tension embodied by a
group of individuals who are simultaneously local political leaders, drug
entrepreneurs, and members of heavily armed militias. Ko-lin Chin, a
Chinese American criminologist who was born and raised in Burma,
conducted five hundred face-to-face interviews with poppy growers,
drug dealers, drug users, armed group leaders, law-enforcement au-
thorities, and other key informants in Burma, Thailand, and China.

The Golden Triangle provides a lively portrait of a region in constant

transition, a place where political development is intimately linked to
the vagaries of the global market in illicit drugs. Chin explains the
nature of opium growing, heroin and methamphetamine production, “The Golden Triangle provides a richly
drug sales, and drug use. He also shows how government officials detailed account of drug production, use,
who live in these areas view themselves not as drug kingpins, but as trade, and enforcement in the region. Ko-lin
people who are carrying the responsibility for local economic develop- Chin’s individual site narratives of the Wa
ment on their shoulders. residents are unique.”

—David Steinberg,
Georgetown University

also from cornell

Wages of Crime
Black Markets, Illegal Finance,
and the Underworld Economy
Revised Edition
R. T. Naylor
2005, 400 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-8960-0 $21.95s/£14.95 Ko-lin Chin is Professor of Criminal
OCSA Justice at Rutgers University. He is the
author of several books, including Heijin:
Organized Crime, Business, and Politics in
Taiwan; Smuggled Chinese: Clandestine
Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists
The Violent Politics of Modern Japan, Immigration to the United States; and
1860–1960 Chinatown Gangs: Extortion, Enterprise,
Eiko Maruko Siniawer and Ethnicity.
2008, 288 pages, 9 halftones, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4720-4 $39.95s/£21.95
MARCH, 296 pages, 11 tables, 2 maps, 6 x 9
Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4666-5
$65.00x/£35.95
Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7521-4
$22.50/£12.50
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Foreclosed
High-Risk Lending, Deregulation, and the Undermining
of America’s Mortgage Market
Dan Immergluck

Over the last two years, the United States has observed, with some
horror, the explosion and collapse of entire segments of the housing
market, especially those driven by subprime and alternative or “exotic”
home mortgage lending. The unfortunately timely Foreclosed explains
the rise of high-risk lending and why these newer types of loans—and
their associated regulatory infrastructure—failed in substantial ways.
Dan Immergluck narrates the boom in subprime and exotic loans,
recounting how financial innovations and deregulation facilitated
excessive risk-taking, and how these loans have harmed different
populations and communities.

Immergluck, who has been working, researching, and writing on issues

tied to housing finance and neighborhood change for almost twenty
years, has an intimate knowledge of the promotion of homeowner-
ship and the history of mortgages in the United States. The changes
to the mortgage market over the past fifteen years—including the
“Foreclosed is accessible, comprehensive, securitization of mortgages and the failure of regulators to maintain
informative, and insightful. It provides a control over a much riskier array of mortgage products led, he finds,
critical but balanced analysis of the current inexorably to the current crisis.
mortgage crisis, its origins, consequences,
and solutions. It is very well written and After describing the development of generally stable and risk-limiting
will appeal to a broad audience including mortgage markets throughout much of the twentieth century, Fore-
policymakers, policy analysts, bankers, and closed details how federal policymakers failed to regulate the new high-
lawyers. Dan Immergluck’s recommenda- risk lending markets that arose in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
tions couldn’t be more timely.” The book also examines federal, state, and local efforts to deal with
the mortgage and foreclosure crisis of 2007 and 2008. Immergluck
—Alex Schwartz,
draws upon his wealth of experience to provide an overarching set of
Milano The New School
principles and a detailed set of policy recommendations for “righting
for Management
the ship” of U.S. housing finance in ways that will promote afford-
able yet sustainable homeownership as an option for a broad set of
households and communities.

Dan Immergluck is Associate Professor

of City and Regional Planning at Georgia
Institute of Technology. He is the author,
most recently, of Credit to the Commu-
also from cornell
nity: Community Reinvestment and Fair
Lending Policy in the U.S. Immergluck Chasing the American Dream
has testified before the U.S. Congress, New Perspectives on
the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Affordable Homeownership
federal agencies, and state and local Edited by William M. Rohe
and Harry L. Watson
legislative bodies.
2007, 328 pages, 33 tables, 18 charts/graphs,
3 maps, 5 halftones, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7361-6 $24.95s/£16.95
JUNE, 272 pages, 6 x 9
Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4772-3
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This Could Be the Start

of Something Big
How Social Movements for Regional Equity
Are Reshaping Metropolitan America
Manuel Pastor Jr., Chris Benner,
and Martha Matsuoka

For nearly two decades, progressives have been dismayed by the

steady rise of the right in U.S. politics. Often lost in the gloom and
doom about American politics is a striking and sometimes underana-
lyzed phenomenon: the resurgence of progressive politics and move-
ments at a local level. Across the country, urban coalitions, including
labor, faith groups, and community-based organizations, have come
together to support living wage laws and fight for transit policies that
can move the needle on issues of working poverty. Just as striking
as the rise of this progressive resurgence has been its reception
among unlikely allies. In places as diverse as Chicago, Atlanta, and
San Jose, the usual business resistance to pro-equity policies has
changed, particularly when it comes to issues like affordable hous-
ing and more efficient transportation systems. To see this change
and its possibilities requires that we recognize a new thread running
through many local efforts: a perspective and politics that emphasizes
“regional equity.”

Manuel Pastor Jr., Chris Benner, and Martha Matsuoka offer their
analysis with an eye toward evaluating what has and has not worked
in various campaigns to achieve regional equity. The authors show how
momentum is building as new policies addressing regional infrastruc-
ture, housing, and workforce development bring together business
and community groups who share a common desire to see their city
and region succeed. Drawing on a wealth of case studies as well as Manuel Pastor Jr. is Professor of
their own experience in the field, Pastor, Benner, and Matsuoka point Geography and American Studies &
out the promise and pitfalls of this new approach, concluding that Ethnicity and Director of the Program
what they term social movement regionalism might offer an important for Environmental and Regional Equity
contribution to the revitalization of progressive politics in America. at the University of Southern California.
He is the coauthor of books including
Up Against the Sprawl and Regions That
Work. Chris Benner is Chair of the Com-
munity Development Graduate Group
and Associate Professor of Community
and Regional Development at the Univer-
sity of California Davis. He is the author
of Work in the New Economy. Benner and
Pastor are coauthors with Laura Leete
also from cornell of Staircases or Treadmills. Martha
City Bound Matsuoka is Assistant Professor in the
How States Stifle Urban Innovation Urban and Environmental Policy Depart-
Gerald E. Frug and David J. Barron ment at Occidental College.
2008, 280 pages, 6 x 9
Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4514-9 $35.00s/£19.50
MARCH, 248 pages, 3 tables, 2 charts/graphs,
3 maps, 6 x 9
Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4721-1
$59.95x/£33.50
Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7462-0
$19.95s/£9.95
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Condensed Capitalism
Campbell Soup and the Pursuit of Cheap Production
in the Twentieth Century
Daniel Sidorick

Corporations often move factories to areas where production costs,

notably labor, taxes, and regulations, are sharply lower than in the
original company hometowns. Not every company, however, followed
this trend. One of America’s most iconic firms, the Campbell Soup
Company, was one such exception: it found ways to achieve low-cost
production while staying in its original location, Camden, New Jersey,
until 1990.

The first in-depth history of the Campbell Soup Company and its work-
ers, Condensed Capitalism is also a broader exploration of strategies
that companies have used to keep costs down besides relocating
to cheap labor havens: lean production, flexible labor sourcing, and
uncompromising antiunionism. Daniel Sidorick’s study of a classic firm
that used these methods for over a century has, therefore, special
relevance in current debates about capital mobility and the shifting
powers of capital and labor.
“The union at Campbell Soup’s Camden Sidorick focuses on the engine of the Campbell empire: the soup
plant was one of the most remarkable pro- plants in Camden where millions of cans of food products rolled off
gressive unions in the mid-twentieth century.
the production line daily. It was here that management undertook mas-
Daniel Sidorick’s superb Condensed Capital-
sive efforts to drive down costs so that the marketing and distribution
ism tells us about its accomplishments, as
functions of the company could rely on a limitless supply of products
well as the impact of late-twentieth-century
to sell at rock-bottom prices. It was also here that thousands of soup
capitalism on its demise.”
makers struggled to gain some control over their working lives and
—Roger Horowitz, livelihoods, countering company power with their own strong union
University of Delaware local. Campbell’s low-cost strategies and the remarkable responses
these elicited from its workers tell a story vital to understanding today’s
global economy. Condensed Capitalism reveals these strategies and
their consequences through a narrative that shows the mark of great
economic and social forces on the very human stories of the people
who spent their lives filling those familiar red-and-white cans.

also from cornell

Transnational Tortillas
Race, Gender, and Shop-Floor Politics
in Mexico and the United States
Carolina Bank Muñoz
Daniel Sidorick is Adjunct Assistant Pro-
An ILR Press Book
fessor of History at Temple University.
2008, 216 pages, 2 tables, 1 chart/graph, 6 x 9
Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7422-4 $18.95s/£10.50
APRIL, 312 pages, 10 halftones, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4726-6
$29.95s/£16.50
Regional/New Jersey

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Circles of Exclusion
The Politics of Health Care in Israel
Dani Filc, MD
Foreword by Quentin Young, MD

In its early years, Israel’s dominant ideology led to public provision of

health care for all Jewish citizens—regardless of their age, income,
or ability to pay. However, the system has shifted in recent decades,
becoming increasingly privatized and market-based. In a familiar
paradox, the wealthy, the young, and the healthy have relatively easy
access to health care, and the poor, the old, and the very sick confront
increasing obstacles to medical treatment.

In Circles of Exclusion, Dani Filc, both a physician and a human rights

activist, forcefully argues that in present-day Israel, equal access to
health care is constantly and systematically thwarted by a regime that
does not extend an equal level of commitment to the well-being of
all residents of Israel, whether Jewish, Israeli Palestinians, migrant
workers, or Palestinians in the Occupied Territories.

Filc explores how Israel’s adoption of a neoliberal model has pushed

the system in a direction that gives priority to the strongest and rich- “Circles of Exclusion does more than char-
est individuals and groups over the needs of society as a whole, and acterize the changing nature of the Israeli
to profit and competition over care. Filc pays special attention to the health care system and the impact of these
repercussions of policies that define citizenship in a way that has changes. By tracing the institutional, politi-
serious consequences for the health of groups of Palestinians who cal, and ideological processes that influence
are Israeli citizens—particularly the Bedouins in the unrecognized the health of Israelis, Dani Filc also presents
villages—and to the ways in which this structure of citizenship affects a measured but powerful critique of the
choices and actions of the Israeli leader-
the health of migrant workers.
ship in recent decades. Filc documents how
The health care situation is even more dire in the Occupied Ter- ideology, law, and politics have pushed both
ritories, where the Occupation, especially in the last two decades, Jewish Israeli citizens and other groups—
has negatively affected access to medical care and the health of non-Jewish citizens, migrant workers and
Palestinians. Filc concludes his book with a discussion of how human refugees, and Palestinians in the Occupied
rights, public health, and economic imperatives can be combined to Territories—farther from the hope of enjoy-
produce a truly equal health care system that provides high-quality ing what he calls ‘the right to health.’”
services to all Israelis. —Sarah S. Willen,
Harvard Medical School

Dani Filc, MD, is Senior Lecturer in the

Department of Politics and Government
at Ben Gurion University and Chairman
of Physicians for Human Rights–Israel.
Quentin Young, MD, is Chairman of
the Health & Medicine Policy Research
also from cornell Group.
Differential Diagnoses
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A Comparative History of Health Care Problems of Health Care Work
and Solutions in the United States and France a series edited by Suzanne Gordon
Paul V. Dutton and Sioban Nelson
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My Father and I
The Marais and the Queerness of Community
David Caron

“It is a living museum of a long-gone Jewish life and, supposedly, a tes-

timony to the success of the French model of social integration. It is a
communal home where gay men and women are said to stand in defiance
of the French model of social integration. It is a place of freedom and
tolerance where people of color and lesbians nevertheless feel unwanted
and where young Zionists from the suburbs gather every Sunday and
sometimes harass Arabs. It is a hot topic in the press and on television.
It is open to the world and open for business. It is a place to be seen and
a place of invisibility. It is like a home to me, a place where I feel both
safe and out of place and where my father felt comfortable and alienated
at the same time. It is a place of nostalgia, innovation, shame, pride,
and anxiety, where the local and the global intersect for better and for
worse. And for better and for worse, it is a French neighborhood.”—from
My Father and I

Mixing personal memoir, urban studies, cultural history, and literary

criticism, as well as a generous selection of photographs, My Father
“My Father and I is beautifully written and
and I focuses on the Marais, the oldest surviving neighborhood of
often quite moving. David Caron’s superb Paris. It also beautifully reveals the intricacies of the relationship
book uses the private as a template to between a Jewish father and a gay son, each claiming the same
analyze the public: his own story intersects neighborhood as his own. Beginning with the history of the Marais
with history and the result is a critical tour and its significance in the construction of a French national identity,
de force.” David Caron proposes a rethinking of community and looks at how
Jews, Chinese immigrants, and gays have made the Marais theirs.
—Lawrence D. Kritzman,
These communities embody, in their engagement of urban space, a
Dartmouth College
daily challenge to the French concept of universal citizenship that
denies them all political legitimacy.

Caron moves from the strictly French context to more

theoretical issues such as social and political archa-
ism, immigration and diaspora, survival and haunting,
the public/private divide, group friendship as metaphor
for unruly and dynamic forms of community, and found-
ing disasters such as AIDS and the Holocaust. Caron
also tells the story of his father, a Hungarian Jew and
Holocaust survivor who immigrated to France and once
called the Marais home.

David Caron is Associate Professor of

French and Women’s Studies at the
University of Michigan. He is the author
of AIDS in French Culture: Social Ills,
Literary Cures.

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Glamour in Six Dimensions

Modernism and the Radiance of Form
Judith Brown

Glamour is an alluring but elusive concept. We most readily associate

it with fashion, industrial design, and Hollywood of the Golden Age,
and yet it also shaped the language and interests of high modern-
ism. In Glamour in Six Dimensions Judith Brown looks at the historical
and aesthetic roots of glamour in the early decades of the twentieth
century, arguing that glamour is the defining aesthetic of modernism.
In the clean lines of modernism she finds the ideal conditions for
glamour—blankness, polish, impenetrability, and the suspicion of
emptiness behind it all.

Brown focuses on several cultural products that she argues helped

to shape glamour’s meanings: the most significant perfume of the
twentieth century, Chanel No. 5; the idea of the Jazz Age and its
ubiquitous cigarette; the celebrity photograph; the staging of primi-
tivism; and the invention of a shimmering plastic called cellophane.
Alongside these artifacts, she takes up the development, refinement,
and analysis of glamour
in Anglo-American poetry, “This sophisticated, informed, and visually
film, fiction, and drama of stunning book makes a significant and
the period. Glamour in Six original contribution to the New Modernist
Dimensions thus asks its Studies. Judith Brown’s premise that glam-
our inheres in the very problem of modern-
reader to see the proximity
ist form is entirely original and manages
between the vernacular and
to sustain a line of argument extending
elite cultures of modern-
from Greta Garbo to Conrad to cellophane.
ism, and particularly how
Glamour in Six Dimensions is marked by
glamour was animated by Brown’s sheer innovative genius.”
artists working at the cross-
roads of the mundane and —Jane Garrity,
the extraordinary: Wallace University of Colorado
Stevens, F. Scott Fitzgerald,
Virginia Woolf, Josephine “Glamour in Six Dimensions is fabulous-
Baker, D. H. Lawrence, Ger- smart, original, and fun to read all at once,
trude Stein, Nella Larsen, as knowledgeable and authoritative as it
and others. is elegant and charming. It has a place on
my list of books that fundamentally redefine
modernist culture.”

—Jesse Matz,
Kenyon College

also from cornell

Surrealism and
the Art of Crime
Jonathan P. Eburne
Judith Brown is Assistant Professor of
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History and Its Limits

Human, Animal, Violence
Dominick LaCapra

Dominick LaCapra’s History and Its Limits articulates the relations

among intellectual history, cultural history, and critical theory, exam-
ining the recent rise of “Practice Theory” and probing the limitations
of prevalent forms of humanism. LaCapra focuses on the problem of
understanding extreme cases, specifically events and experiences
involving violence and victimization. He asks how historians treat
and are simultaneously implicated in the traumatic processes they
attempt to represent. In addressing these questions, he also inves-
tigates violence’s impact on various types of writing and establishes
a distinctive role for critical theory in the face of an insufficiently
discriminating aesthetic of the sublime (often unreflectively amalgam-
ated with the uncanny).

In History and Its Limits, LaCapra inquires into the related phenomenon
of a turn to the “postsecular,” even the messianic or the miraculous,
in recent theoretical discussions of extreme events by such promi-
nent figures as Giorgio Agamben, Eric L. Santner, and Slavoj Žižek.
“In History and Its Limits, Dominick LaCapra In a related vein, he discusses Martin Heidegger’s evocative, if not
addresses some of the most important enchanting, understanding of “The Origin of the Work of Art.” LaCapra
issues facing intellectual and cultural histo- subjects to critical scrutiny the sometimes internally divided way in
rians today (our understanding of violence, which violence has been valorized in sacrificial, regenerative, or re-
current trends in animal studies, and the demptive terms by a series of important modern intellectuals on both
place of theory in history) and does so in the far right and the far left, including Georges Sorel, the early Walter
a way that is provocative, engaging, and Benjamin, Georges Bataille, Frantz Fanon, and Ernst Jünger.
instructive. History and Its Limits is a must-
read for current and aspiring intellectual Violence and victimization are prominent in the relation between the
and cultural historians as well as all those human and the animal. LaCapra questions prevalent anthropocentrism
with an interest in critical inquiry.” (evident even in theorists of the “posthuman”) and the long-standing
quest for a decisive criterion separating or dividing the human from the
—Ethan Kleinberg,
animal. LaCapra regards this attempt to fix the difference as misguided
author of Generation Existential:
and potentially dangerous because it renders insufficiently problematic
Heidegger’s Philosophy in France,
the manner in which humans treat other animals and interact with
1927–1961
the environment. In raising the issue of desirable transformations in
modernity, History and Its Limits examines the legitimacy of normative
limits necessary for life in common and explores the disconcerting
role of transgressive initiatives beyond limits (including limits blocking
the recognition that humans are themselves animals).

Dominick LaCapra is Bryce and Edith

Bowmar Professor of Humanistic Stud-
ies and Professor of History and Com-
parative Literature at Cornell University. also from cornell
He is the author or editor of twelve History in Transit
other books published by Cornell, includ- Experience, Identity, Critical Theory
ing History in Transit and History and Dominick LaCapra
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The Serf, the Knight,

and the Historian
Dominique Barthélemy
Translated from the French by
Graham Robert Edwards

“Dominique Barthélemy is in my book the most interesting histo-

rian of the middle ages writing today in France, or possibly anywhere
else. He combines the best of the French intellectual tradition with
a deep understanding of what Anglophone anthropology and legal
studies have to offer. His persuasive pen draws readers to approve
the unexpected beauties his imagination and broad learning con-
stantly elicit from his texts. The fertility of his mind seems unceasing.”
—Paul Hyams, Cornell University

“The term ‘feudal society’ is a caricature. It was invented by nineteenth-

century historians to capture a particular period in French history, that of
the retreat of monarchy (and thus of state authority) and the supposed
tyranny of fiefdoms. It had its uses. As caricatures go, it was no worse than
many others. But it was both reductionist and unbalanced. Among other
things, it reduced society to bonds of dependency that were ritualized and
personalized, and it imagined a scenario of quasi-independent castles,
“Dominique Barthélemy’s willingness to
each with its own knights, existing in a state of continuous warfare with
challenge received opinion marks an impor-
one another. It largely ignored other links and networks, and it overlooked
tant contribution which all those interested
the fact that warfare between neighbors was intermittent and limited.
in medieval France at a critical period will
Meanwhile, in the real world, apart from such conflict—though sometimes
find stimulating.”
through it—social construction was going on.”—Dominique Barthélemy
—Times Literary Supplement,
In a collection of combative essays, updated for this new translation, reviewing the French edition
Barthélemy presents a sharply revisionist account of the history of
France around the Year 1000. He challenges the view, developed in
the enormously influential writings of Georges Duby and others, that
France underwent a kind of revolution at the millennium that trans-
formed it into the classic feudal, or seigneurial, society we know from
a host of college textbooks. Barthélemy advances his own original
views, positing a much more complex and incremental evolution, and
maintaining that the post-Carolingian world was more dynamic and
creative than Duby and his successors have held.

Barthélemy’s view requires historians to radically rethink their notions

of the history of serfs and nobles, of the so-called Peace of God move- Dominique Barthélemy is Professor of
ments, of the influence (indeed, even the existence) of millenarian Medieval History at Paris–IV (Sorbonne)
fears, and of the nature of the legal system in early medieval Europe. and director of studies at the Ecole
Moreover, it challenges the utility of the term “feudalism” itself, and of Pratique des hautes études. Among his
our notion that Europe of the High Middle Ages was a “feudal society.” other works is Chevaliers et miracles:
Originally published in French by Fayard, this book has generated loud la violence et le sacré dans la société.
debate on both sides of the Atlantic. In addition to having been revised Graham Robert Edwards is the transla-
throughout, the Cornell edition contains a new preface, concluding tor of Order and Exclusion: Cluny and
chapter, and bibliography. Christendom Face Heresy, Judaism, and
Islam (1000–1150) by Dominique Iogna-
Prat, also from Cornell.

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The Captive and the Gift

Cultural Histories of Sovereignty
in Russia and the Caucasus
Bruce Grant

The Caucasus region of Eurasia, wedged in between the Black and

Caspian Seas, encompasses the modern territories of Armenia, Azer-
baijan, and Georgia, as well as the troubled republic of Chechnya in
southern Russia. A site of invasion, conquest, and resistance since
the onset of historical record, it has earned a reputation for fearsome
violence and isolated mountain redoubts closed to outsiders. Over
extended efforts to control the Caucasus area, Russians have long
mythologized stories of their countrymen taken captive by bands of
mountain brigands.

In The Captive and the Gift, the anthropologist Bruce Grant explores
the long relationship between Russia and the Caucasus and the
means by which sovereignty has been exercised in this contested
area. Taking his lead from Aleksandr Pushkin’s 1822 poem “Prisoner
of the Caucasus,” Grant explores the extraordinary resonances of the
themes of violence, captivity, and empire in the Caucasus through
mythology, poetry, short stories, ballet, opera, and film.

Grant argues that while the recurring Russian captivity narra-

tive reflected a wide range of political positions, it most often
and compellingly suggested a vision of Caucasus peoples as
thankless, lawless subjects of empire who were unwilling to
acknowledge and accept the gifts of civilization and protection
extended by Russian leaders. Drawing on years of field and
archival research, Grant moves beyond myth and mass culture
to suggest how real-life Caucasus practices of exchange, by
contrast, aimed to control and diminish rather than unleash and
increase violence.

The result is a historical anthropology of sovereign forms that

underscores how enduring popular narratives and close readings
of ritual practices can shed light on the management of pluralism
in long-fraught world areas.

Bruce Grant is Associate Professor of

Anthropology at New York University. He
also from cornell
is the author of In the Soviet House of
Culture: A Century of Perestroikas. Empire of Nations
Ethnographic Knowledge and
Culture and Society after Socialism the Making of the Soviet Union
a series edited by Bruce Grant and Nancy Ries Francine Hirsch
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Khrushchev’s Cold Summer

Gulag Returnees, Crime, and the Fate of Reform after Stalin
Miriam Dobson

“In this remarkable book, Miriam Dobson offers a strikingly original and “Based on myriad personal stories, Khrush-
fascinating perspective on the de-Stalinization process. At the center of chev’s Cold Summer never loses sight of the
her captivating narrative is the dismantling of the Gulag and the impact— big picture. Effectively using the medium
social, cultural, psychological—of former prisoners on Soviet society during of letter writing to the authorities, Miriam
the Khrushchev years. Her keen analysis provokes us to think anew about Dobson tells a human and often moving
Khrushchev’s leadership, the discourses of exclusion and inclusion in the story of the revived and crushed hopes,
USSR, and everyday life after Stalin.”—Golfo Alexopoulos, author of Stalin’s compassion and cruel indifference, zeal
Outcasts: Aliens, Citizens, and the Soviet State and apathy, ideological concerns, and petty
calculations that formed Soviet life.”
Between Stalin’s death in 1953 and 1960, the government of the
Soviet Union released hundreds of thousands of prisoners from the —Amir Weiner,
Gulag as part of a wide-ranging effort to reverse the worst excesses Stanford University
and abuses of the previous two decades
and revive the spirit of the revolution.
This exodus included not only victims of
past purges but also those sentenced for
criminal offenses. In Khrushchev’s Cold
Summer Miriam Dobson explores the
impact of these returnees on communi-
ties and, more broadly, Soviet attempts to
come to terms with the traumatic legacies
of Stalin’s terror.

Confusion and disorientation undermined

the regime’s efforts at recovery. In the
wake of Stalin’s death, ordinary citizens
and political leaders alike struggled to make sense of the
country’s recent bloody past and to cope with the complex
social dynamics caused by attempts to reintegrate the large
influx of returning prisoners, a number of whom were hardened
criminals alienated and embittered by their experiences within
the brutal camp system.

Drawing on private letters as well as official reports on the

party and popular mood, Dobson probes social attitudes
toward the changes occurring in the first post-Stalin decade.
Throughout, she features personal stories as articulated in
the words of ordinary citizens, prisoners, and former prisoners.
At the same time, she explores Soviet society’s contradictory
responses to the returnees and shows that for many the
immediate post-Stalin years were anything but a breath of spring air
after the long Stalinist winter.
Miriam Dobson is Lecturer in Modern
History at the University of Sheffield.
She is the coeditor of Reading Primary
Sources: The Interpretation of Texts
from Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century
History.

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Becoming a Woman
in the Age of Letters
Dena Goodman

“Reading Dena Goodman’s creative exploration of French culture and gender

history is always a treat. In Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters Good-
man turns her attention to the iconic Enlightenment practice of letter writing
and plunges deep into the intimate material details of how four particular
women in eighteenth-century France experienced the culture of reading
and writing letters. Interpreting a broad variety of cultural artifacts from
portraits of female letter writers to letter-writing manuals, inkwells, station-
ary, and writing desks, Goodman reveals a detailed picture of how female
letter writers participated in both the burgeoning material and consumer
culture of eighteenth-century France and the domestic sphere of family and
friendship.”—Jennifer Jones, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Over the course of the eighteenth century in France, increasing

numbers of women, from the wives and daughters of artisans and
merchants to countesses and queens, became writers—not authors,
and not mere signers of names, but writers of letters. Taking as her
“This wonderful book is essential reading inspiration a portrait of an unknown woman writing a letter to her
for anyone interested in women and the children by French painter Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Dena Goodman
Enlightenment. Dena Goodman brings challenges the deep-seated association of women with love letters
together diverse areas of inquiry to focus and proposes a counternarrative of young women struggling with the
on the issue of letter writing and its role in challenges of the modern world through the mediation of writing. In
the formation of a woman’s sense of self Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters, Goodman enters the lives
in eighteenth-century France. Becoming a
and world of these women, drawing on their letters, the cultural history
Woman in the Age of Letters, which is based
of language and education, and the material culture of letter writing
on truly impressive original research, is writ-
itself: inkstands, desks, and writing paper.
ten in an elegant, accessible style.”
Goodman follows the lives of elite women from childhood through
—Mary Sheriff,
The University of North Carolina their education in traditional convents and modern private schools
at Chapel Hill and into the shops and interior spaces in which epistolary furnish-
ings and furniture were made for, sold to, and used by women who
took pen in hand. Stationers set up fashionable shops, merchants
developed lines of small writing desks, and the furnishings and floor
plans of homes changed to accommodate women’s needs. It was as
writers and consumers that women entered not only shops but also
Dena Goodman is Lila Miller Collegiate the modern world that was taking shape in Paris and other cities.
Professor of History and Women’s Although many women, from major novelists, painters, and educators
Studies at the University of Michigan. to schoolgirls and their mothers as well as Parisian tourists and other
She is the author of The Republic of shoppers, come to life in this book, Goodman focuses on four bodies
Letters: A Cultural History of the French of epistolary work by little-known women: the letters of Genevieve de
Enlightenment and Criticism in Action: Malboissière, Manon Phlipon, Catherine de Saint-Pierre, and Sophie
Enlightenment Experiments in Political Silvestre. These letters allow Goodman to explore how particular girls
Writing, both from Cornell, and the edi- of different social positions came to womanhood through letter writing.
tor or coeditor of several other books She shows how letter writing expanded women’s horizons even as it
including, most recently, Furnishing the deepened their ability to reflect on themselves.
Eighteenth Century.
The analysis of more than one hundred illustrations—from paintings
by major Dutch and French artists to inkstands and writing desks,
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Citizen Bachelors
Manhood and the Creation of the United States
John Gilbert McCurdy

In 1755 Benjamin Franklin observed “a man without a wife is but half

a man” and since then historians have taken Franklin at his word. In
Citizen Bachelors, John Gilbert McCurdy demonstrates that Franklin’s
comment was only one side of a much larger conversation. Early
Americans vigorously debated the status of unmarried men and this
debate was instrumental in the creation of American citizenship.

In a sweeping examination of the bachelor in early America, McCurdy

fleshes out a largely unexamined aspect of the history of gender. Single
men were instrumental to the settlement of the United States and for
most of the seventeenth century their presence was not particularly
problematic. However, as the colonies matured, Americans began to
worry about those who stood outside the family. Lawmakers began to
limit the freedoms of single men with laws requiring bachelors to pay
higher taxes and face harsher penalties for crimes than married men,
while moralists began to decry the sexual immorality of unmarried
men. But many resisted these new tactics, including single men who
“John Gilbert McCurdy considers the politi-
reveled in their hedonistic reputations by delighting in sexual horseplay
cal history of bachelors in all the colonies
without marital consequences. At the time of the Revolution, these
and over the course of the entire colonial
conflicting views were confronted head-on. As the incipient American
period through the Revolutionary era. He
state needed men to stand at the forefront of the fight for indepen-
makes use of all sorts of evidence, including
dence, the bachelor came to be seen as possessing just the sort of statutes, popular literature, demographic
political, social, and economic agency associated with citizenship in data, and tax records. He describes a clear
a democratic society. When the war was won, these men demanded trajectory of the rise and fall of unequal
an end to their unequal treatment and, sometimes grudgingly, the treatment of bachelors in eighteenth-
citizen bachelor was welcomed into American society. century America and persuasively suggests
that this history is an important piece of
Drawing on sources as varied as laws, diaries, political manifestos,
the larger story of gender and democratic
and newspapers, McCurdy shows that in the course of the seventeenth
revolution. All scholars of early American
and eighteenth centuries the bachelor was a simultaneously suspi-
manhood as well as of gender and citizen-
cious and desirable figure: suspicious because he was not tethered
ship should read this engaging book.”
to family and household obligations yet desirable because he was
free to study, devote himself to political office, and fight and die in —C. Dallett Hemphill,
battle. He suggests that this dichotomy remains with us to this day author of Bowing to Necessities:
and thus it is in early America that we find the origins of the modern- A History of Manners
day identity of the bachelor as a symbol of masculine independence. in America
McCurdy also observes that by extending citizenship to bachelors,
the founders affirmed their commitment to individual freedom, a
commitment that has subsequently come to define the very essence
of American citizenship.

John Gilbert McCurdy is an Assistant

Professor of History at Eastern Michigan
University.

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Playing for Keeps

A History of Early Baseball
20th Anniversary Edition with a New Preface
Warren Goldstein

“Goldstein sees clearly that baseball’s history is not only linear—that is, its
events unfold chronologically—but also cyclical—that is, the same things
tend to happen again and again. This repetition binds each generation of
fans to the preceding ones and makes the emotional response to the game
so intense. In the late 1850s, baseball was a club-based sport enjoyed by
artisans, clerks, and shopkeepers who played for fun. Two decades later,
it was a business run by owners and managers who employed players in
an effort to make a profit. Goldstein analyzes the hows and whys of this
transformation.”—Sporting News

“Baseball remains our paradise lost, a perpetual disappointment, where the

best hitters make outs two-thirds of the time and the home team seldom
if ever makes it to October. One of the many virtues of Warren Goldstein’s
Playing for Keeps is that it explains why we continue to care, our hopes
eternally and absurdly renewed each spring and dashed each autumn.
. . . This is a marvelous book, tightly structured, entertaining, beautifully
written; and, like the best social history, it focuses on the particular (the
“Rich in delicious information, Playing for
story of baseball) to enlarge our understanding of the general (American
Keeps argues that the first years of baseball
society and culture).”—The Nation
established patterns of double thinking that
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makes the Cornell case a striking example of the friction
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Mind of Prophecy
Magic in Theory The Cedar of
and Practice Lebanon Vision
from the Mongol
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the human mentality.”—American Historical Review
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understand the apocalyptic tradition and its enduring
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popularity in European history.
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ligion at Boston University. He is the author of The Humanities Emeritus at Northwestern University. He is
Language of Demons and Angels: Cornelius Agrippa’s the author of books including The Age of Adversity, The
Occult Philosophy. Heresy of the Free Spirit, and The Feast of Saint Abraham
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of the Americas. Craton has
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intense affection between William and Mary which was not
and a Fellow at Oriel College.
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Consuming Hysterical
Visions Men
Mass Culture and War, Psychiatry,
the Lourdes Shrine and the Politics of
Trauma in Germany,
Suzanne K.
1890–1930
Kaufman
Paul Lerner
“This is a sophisticated, eru-
dite, and provocative study “Hysterical Men is one of
of one of the world’s most the most significant pub-
enduringly popular modern lications in the history of
sites of Christian worship. psychiatry to date. As such,
Suzanne Kaufman offers a my recommendation of this
compelling explanation for its longevity and for the ever- book is unreserved. My only advice is to read it.”—Isis
growing market for mass-produced religious objects even
“Paul Lerner’s book fills a substantial hole in war literature by
today. Refusing to condescend to her subjects, in particular
providing the first scholarly, authoritative account of German
the thousands of desperate women who made their often-
psychiatry’s role in the First World War: a
painful way to the shrine, Kaufman has produced an impor-
story just as dramatic as the familiar
tant book that will be of great interest not just to historians
British ‘shell-shock’ saga, and his-
of France but to anyone interested in the role of religion in
torically far more significant. Lerner Winner of the
the modern world.”—American Historical Review Cheiron Book Prize
has distilled his material into a
“Consuming Visions is an engaging entrée into the ways in clear, well-organized and thoroughly
which the reappropriated ‘traditions’ and popular religiosity documented narrative.”—Times
that the Lourdes shrine spawned challenged the growing Literary Supplement
secularism and anticlericalism of fin-de-siècle France. Kauf-
“Lerner takes on the critical issue of whether soldiers
man is especially good at showing how the Lourdes medical
who suffer trauma on the front lines are to be treated as
bureau, charged with verifying cures, was a particularly in-
unfortunates who have reached their breaking point or
spired and effective means of engaging the modern culture.
malingerers who have failed a test of character. This is a
Kaufman also explores well the complicated role women
first-rate book, speaking to issues that return with every war.”
played in the shrine’s growth. The experience of Lourdes
—Foreign Affairs
chronicled by Kaufman might hold answers for our own
day as we struggle to rediscover our traditions in the light “Hysterical Men contributes importantly to the history of
of postmodern realities.”—America psychiatry and medicine and to the histories of Germany,
modern Europe, and the Great War; it examines issues im-
“This book provides an insightful and persuasive argument
portant to social policy and gender studies. By this standard,
for the centrality of Lourdes to the development of modern
too, it is very well done. The topic is large, complex, and
France.”—H-France Review
important, and Lerner handles it with rigor, skill, and clarity.
Plastic Madonnas, packaged holy tours, and biblical This is a very good and very important book.”—American
theme parks can arouse discomfort, laughter, and even Historical Review
revulsion in religious believers and nonbelievers alike.
Scholars, too, often see the intermingling of religion
and commerce as a corruption of true spirituality.
Suzanne K. Kaufman challenges these assumptions
in her examination of the Lourdes pilgrimage in late
nineteenth-century France. Consuming Visions offers Paul Lerner is Associate Professor of History at the
new ways to interpret material forms of worship, female University of Southern California. He is coeditor of
piety, and modern commercial culture. Traumatic Pasts: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma in the
Modern Age.

Suzanne K. Kaufman is Associate Professor of History Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry
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In Defense China’s
of Christian Longest
Hungary Campaign
Religion, Nationalism, Birth Planning in the
and Antisemitism, People’s Republic,
1890–1944 1949–2005
Paul A. Hanebrink Tyrene White

“In his excellent and tersely “China’s Longest Campaign

argued book, Paul A. Hane- is filled with fascinating
brink shows that the church data; local examples; bal-
paved the way for the de- anced and insightful assess-
struction of Hungary’s Jews. ments of struggles between
From the 1880s, Catholic intellectuals and priests helped Chinese Communist Party factions; and interesting and
create an ideology of the Hungarian ‘Christian nation’ that clearly drawn administrative detail derived from numerous
cast Jews as hostile to Hungary’s interests. The nationalism interviews with officials, cadres, and local people. What
reached obsessive proportions after World War I, when Hun- emerges is a sense of the vicissitudes of the effort, and, at
gary lost two-thirds of its territory. Previously, the country’s least initially, of the willingness to exact a terrible price from
secular elites had integrated Jews into Hungarian society millions of women in order to lower the population growth
as a counterweight to other ethnicities, like Rumanians, rate in contemporary China.”—China Quarterly
Slovaks, and Serbs. But when these groups got their own
“Tyrene White’s careful reading of documentary evidence
states, Jews became Hungary’s only significant minority.
from the 1950s leads to a nuanced and interesting picture
As such, they became the target of scapegoating.”—John
of internal debates within the Chinese leadership and
Connelly, Commonweal
among intellectuals about birth-control issues in a period
“Hanebrink brings together important questions concerning prior to mandatory family planning. When discussing chang-
nationalism, religion, and the ever-present issue of anti- es in mandatory family planning in the 1980s, White is able
semitism. The novel aspect of Hanebrink’s work is to place to rely on local evidence she collected, particularly in rural
religion at the center of the definition of nation and thereby Hubei, on changes in the implementation of the policies she
connect it to the growth of antisemitism.”—Slavic Review describes.”—Martin K. Whyte, Harvard University

“I agree with Paul A. Hanebrink that modern nationalism, “Tyrene White knows as much about the one-child policy in
rather than leaving old-fashioned religion and religiosity China as anyone around. The narrative of China’s Longest
behind, today often forms a partnership with it and that in Campaign is presented in rich yet always pleasurably read-
Hungary, religiosity was a concomitant part of nationalism. able detail, and the research on which it is based is solid
Hanebrink is right that, until now, no one has adequately and comprehensive. White’s analysis is cast, cleverly, in
demonstrated the overwhelming importance of antisemitism terms of a compelling set of puzzles: why would, and how
in formulating Catholic nationalist policy. Today, when there could, the state undertake so unpopular a policy at a time
seems to be an international effort to awaken the Vatican of considerable political uncertainty, flux, and retrenchment?
and the Catholic Church in general to its responsibility for She offers an important, insightful correction to some of our
the ‘success’ of the Nazi Holocaust project, Hanebrink’s best grassroots-centered theories of resistance and political
contribution on the complex Hungarian solution is crucial.” change.”—Marc Blecher, Oberlin College
—István Deák, Columbia University

Paul A. Hanebrink is Associate Professor of History at Tyrene White is Associate Professor of Political Science
Rutgers University. at Swarthmore College.

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Failure Think
to Protect Global,
America’s Sexual Fear Local
Predator Laws Sex, Violence,
and the Rise of and Anxiety in
the Preventive State Contemporary Japan
Eric S. Janus David Leheny
“Failure to Protect is a vi-
“Leheny’s is a clear-headed
tally important book that
take on the recent social tur-
demonstrates how we have
moil in Japan. His effective
drastically undermined the
use of personal anecdotes
protections of our Constitu-
and the wide-ranging mate-
tion by creating a class of citizens for whom these protec-
rial, including Japanese popular publications, combined with
tions no longer apply. The book raises this question: if one
his accessible writing style, makes this book good classroom
class of citizens can be excluded from the Bill of Rights,
reading.”—Journal of Anthropological Research
what other classes can also be excluded later on? This book
should be essential reading for lawyers, law students, and “Leheny has written a provocative and highly readable trea-
those who care about preserving our liberties.”—Charles tise on the impact of international norms in Japan. Focusing
Reich, author of The Greening of America on the norms against child prostitution and those of antiter-
rorism, Leheny shows how these norms were internalized in
“Janus argues that sexual predator laws reflect a conserva-
Japan against the background of widespread local fears that
tive backlash against hard lessons learned from the feminist
did not exactly correspond to those that had inspired the
movement about the systematic nature of sexual violence in
international norms.”—Journal of Japanese Studies
society. He identifies misconceptions about recidivism and
questions ‘actuarial’ approaches that assign a static risk rat- “David Leheny’s book vividly illustrates how vague and not-
ing to an individual and ignore changes from treatment, aging, so-vague fear is pervasive in post–Cold War and post-9/11
or altered circumstances.”—Chronicle of Higher Education Japanese society.”—Takashi Inoguchi, Chuo University

“Eric S. Janus explores sexual predator laws from three “Insightful social science is rarely such fun. Think Global, Fear
perspectives: public safety, civil liberties, and effective gov- Local reveals how broadly accepted global norms against
ernment. He moves beyond the quick and easy arguments child prostitution and terrorism get transformed by anxiety-
used both to defend and attack these laws, seeking policy ridden Japanese policymakers into powerful weapons used
solutions that can reduce sexual violence without scarring to attack peripheral, though admittedly vexing, domestic
our constitutional values.”—Roxanne Lieb, Director, Wash- demons. Leheny’s wry wit and Runyonesque characteriza-
ington State Institute for Public Policy tions make this a delicious romp through the back alleys
of contemporary Japan in the quest to learn how ‘good
In Failure to Protect, Eric S. Janus exposes the real- norms go bad.’ Read this book; you won’t be disappointed.”
ity of the laws designed to prevent sexual crimes. —T. J. Pempel, University of California, Berkeley
He contends that aggressive measures such as civil
commitment and Megan’s Law, which are designed to “David Leheny’s brilliant book shows how global norms are
restrain sex offenders before they can commit another transformed in Japan by officials in the law enforcement and
crime, are bad policy and do little to actually reduce security fields who seek expanded state powers to target
sexual violence. Further, these new laws make use national problems and offer credible solutions. This analysis
of approaches that violate important principles of reveals the cultural politics through which solutions resonate
with and amplify local constructions of threats, anxieties,
liberty and may lead to the expansion of a dangerous
villains, and scapegoats.”—Kay Warren, Brown University
preventive state government. Janus discusses serious
alternatives and how best to overcome the political
obstacles to achieving rational policy.
David Leheny is the Henry Wendt III ’55 Professor of
Eric S. Janus is President and Dean of William Mitchell East Asian Studies at Princeton University. He is the
College of Law. He is the author of Law and Mental Health author of The Rules of Play: National Identity and the
Professionals and Civil Commitment in Minnesota. Shaping of Japanese Leisure, also from Cornell.

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Networked Forced to Be Good

Politics Why Trade Agreements Boost Human Rights
Agency, Power, Emilie M. Hafner-Burton
and Governance
“Why have human rights provisions increasingly been at-
Edited by tached to preferential trade agreements in recent years?
Miles Kahler Forced to Be Good is the best single treatment of the issue
I have read.”—Daniel Drezner, Tufts University
The concept of network
has emerged as an intel- Preferential trade agreements have become common
lectual centerpiece for our ways to protect or restrict access to national markets
era. Network analysis also in products and services. The United States has signed
occupies a growing place trade agreements with almost two dozen countries as
in many of the social sci- close as Mexico and Canada and as distant as Morocco
ences. In international relations, however, network has and Australia. The European Union has done the same.
too often remained a metaphor rather than a powerful In addition to addressing economic issues, these agree-
theoretical perspective. In Networked Politics, a team of ments also regulate the protection of human rights. In
political scientists investigates networks in important Forced to Be Good Emilie M. Hafner-Burton tells the
sectors of international relations, including human story of the politics of such agreements and of the
rights, security agreements, terrorist and criminal ways in which governments pursue market integration
groups, international inequality, and governance of the policies that advance their own political interests,
Internet. They treat networks as either structures that including human rights.
shape behavior or important collective actors. In their
How and why do global norms for social justice become
hands, familiar concepts, such as structure, power, and
international regulations linked to seemingly unrelated
governance, are awarded new meaning.
issues, such as trade? Hafner-Burton finds that the
C ontributors process has been unconventional. Efforts by human
Peter Cowhey, University of California, San Diego • Mette rights advocates and labor unions to spread human
Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, University of Cambridge and Sidney rights ideals, for example, do not explain why American
Sussex College, Cambridge • Zachary Elkins, University of and European governments employ preferential trade
Texas at Austin • Emilie M. Hafner-Burton, Princeton Uni-
agreements to protect human rights. Instead, most of
versity • Miles Kahler, University of California, San Diego •
Michael Kenney, Pennsylvania State University • David A. the regulations protecting human rights are codified
Lake, University of California, San Diego • Alexander H. in global moral principles and laws only because they
Montgomery, Reed College • Milton Mueller, Syracuse serve policymakers’ interests in accumulating power
University School of Information Studies and Delft Univer- or resources or solving other problems. Otherwise,
sity of Technology • Kathryn Sikkink, University of Minne-
sota • Janice Gross Stein, University of Toronto • Wendy H. demands by moral advocates are tossed aside.
Wong, University of Toronto • Helen Yanacopulos, Open
And, as Hafner-Burton shows, even the inclusion
University
of human rights protections in trade agreements is
no guarantee of real change, because many of the
governments that sign on to fair trade regulations op-
Miles Kahler is Rohr Professor of Pacific International
pose such protections and do not intend to force their
Relations and Professor of Political Science at the
implementation. Ultimately, Hafner-Burton finds that,
School of International Relations and Pacific Studies,
despite the difficulty of enforcing good regulations
University of California, San Diego. He is the author of
and the less-than-noble motives for including them,
Leadership Selection and the Major Multilaterals and
trade agreements that include human rights provisions
International Institutions and the Political Economy of
have made a positive difference in the lives of some
Integration and coeditor of Governance in a Global
of the people they are intended—on paper, at least—
Economy.
to protect.
Cornell Studies in Political Economy
a series edited by Peter J. Katzenstein
Emilie M. Hafner-Burton is Assistant Professor of Poli-
tics and International Affairs at Princeton University.
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Hierarchy in Channels
International Relations of Power
David A. Lake The UN Security
Council and U.S.
“David A. Lake effectively and convincingly argues that in- Statecraft in Iraq
ternational politics is characterized not by anarchy, as the
Alexander
received wisdom and theory in the field hold, but rather by hi-
Thompson
erarchical relations among states. He develops the concept
of relational hierarchy, by which a pair of states agree for one
“Channels of Power address-
to accept the authority of the other to their mutual benefit,
es an important and fascinat-
and applies it to understand the hierarchical relations cre-
ing issue using an innovative
ated by the United States during and after the Cold War.”
argument, careful theoretical
—James D. Morrow, University of Michigan reasoning, and sound empiri-
International relations are generally understood as a cal evidence. Alexander Thompson’s book will stand out as
realm of anarchy in which countries lack any superior a particularly valuable contribution to the literature on the
authority and interact within a Hobbesian state of na- Security Council, Iraq, and U.S. statecraft. Given the clarity
and accessibility of Thompson’s argument and evidence,
ture. In Hierarchy in International Relations, David A.
Channels of Power should find its way into undergraduate
Lake challenges this traditional view, demonstrating
classrooms.”—Darren Hawkins, Brigham Young University 
that states exercise authority over one another in in-
ternational hierarchies that vary historically but are still When President George W. Bush launched an invasion
pervasive today. of Iraq in March of 2003, he did so without the explicit
approval of the Security Council. His father’s administra-
Revisiting the concepts of authority and sovereignty,
tion, by contrast, carefully funneled statecraft through
Lake offers a novel view of international relations in
the United Nations and achieved Council authorization
which states form social contracts that bind both domi-
for the U.S.-led Gulf War in 1991. The history of Ameri-
nant and subordinate members. The resulting hierar-
can policy toward Iraq displays considerable variation
chies have significant effects on the foreign policies of
in the extent to which policies were conducted through
states as well as patterns of international conflict and
the UN and other international organizations.
cooperation. Focusing largely on U.S.-led hierarchies
in the contemporary world, Lake provides a compelling In Channels of Power, Alexander Thompson surveys U.S.
account of the origins, functions, and limits of political policy toward Iraq, starting with the Gulf War, continuing
order in the modern international system. The book is a through the interwar years of sanctions and coercive
model of clarity in theory, research design, and the use disarmament, and concluding with the 2003 invasion
of evidence. Motivated by concerns about the declining and its long aftermath. He offers a framework for un-
international legitimacy of the United States following derstanding why powerful states often work through
the Iraq War, Hierarchy in International Relations offers international organizations when conducting coercive
a powerful analytic perspective that has important policies—and why they sometimes choose instead to
implications for understanding America’s position in work alone or with ad hoc coalitions. The conventional
the world in the years ahead. wisdom holds that because having legitimacy for their
actions is important for normative reasons, states
seek multilateral approval. Channels of Power offers
a rationalist alternative to these standard legitima-
David A. Lake is Professor of Political Science at the
tion arguments, one based on the notion of strategic
University of California, San Diego. His previous books
information transmission: When state actions are
include Power, Protection, and Free Trade: International
endorsed by an independent organization, this sends
Sources of U.S. Commercial Strategy, 1887–1939 (also
politically crucial information to the world community,
from Cornell) and Entangling Relations: American For-
both leaders and their publics, and results in greater
eign Policy in Its Century, as well as eight edited or
international support.
coedited volumes.
Alexander Thompson is Assistant Professor of Political
Cornell Studies in Political Economy Science at The Ohio State University
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Bringing Outsiders In Border Games

Transatlantic Perspectives on Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide
Immigrant Political Incorporation Second Edition
Edited by Jennifer Hochschild Peter ANDREAS
and John Mollenkopf
Praise for the first edition—
For immigrants, politics can play a significant role in de-
“Provocative and highly persuasive.”—The Nation
termining whether and how they assimilate. In Bringing
Outsiders In, leading social scientists present individual “Required reading for anyone with an interest in U.S.-Mexico
cases and work toward a comparative synthesis of how relations and the American West.”—Bloomsbury Review
immigrants affect—and are affected by—civic life on
“Andreas provides an excellent overview of the topic of
both sides of the Atlantic. smuggling and makes interesting comparisons between
Just as in the United States, large immigrant minor- U.S.-Mexico border control and policing in Eastern and
ity communities have been emerging across Europe. Southern Europe.”—Library Journal
Attending to how local and national states encourage “This outstanding book is a much-needed addition to the
or discourage political participation, the authors as- literature on the policing of international boundaries.”
sess the relative involvement of immigrants in a wide —Professional Geographer
range of settings. Jennifer Hochschild and John Mol-
“A slim, smart book that explains the paradoxical develop-
lenkopf provide a context for the particular cases and
ments that have gripped the border since NAFTA.”—Journal
comparisons and draw a set of analytic and empirical
of American History
conclusions regarding incorporation.
“Andreas offers a broad overview of smuggling immigrants
C ontributors and drugs into the U.S. from Mexico and intensified en-
Richard Alba, The Graduate Center of the City University forcement efforts. On a broader scale, Andreas looks at
of New York • Sandro Cattacin, University of Geneva •
international trends in smuggling and border enforcement
Gianni D’Amato, Swiss Forum on Migration • Jan Willem
Duyvendak, University of Amsterdam • Nancy Foner, in Europe.”—Booklist
Hunter College and The Graduate Center of the City Uni-
In an updated and expanded edition of his essential
versity of New York • Luis Fraga, University of Washington •
Jennifer Hochschild, Harvard University • Christian Joppke, 2000 book about shifts in how borders are perceived
American University of Paris • Gallya Lahav, State University and patrolled, Peter Andreas brings the story into the
of New York at Stony Brook • Marco Martiniello, University present day. The second edition of Border Games
of Liege • Michael Minkenberg, New York University and places the continued sharp escalation of border polic-
European University Viadrina • Lorraine Minnite, Barnard
College and Columbia University • Tariq Modood, Univer- ing in the context of a transformed post-September
sity of Bristol • John Mollenkopf, The Graduate Center of 11 security environment. As Andreas demonstrates, in
the City University of New York • Eva Østergaard-Nielsen, some ways it is still the same old border game—but
Autonomous University of Barcelona • Adrian Pantoja, more difficult to manage, with more players, played out
Pitzer College • Trees Pels, Verwey-Jonker Institute for
on a bigger stage, and with higher stakes and collateral
Social Research • Rally Rijkschroeff, Verwey-Jonker Institute
for Social Research • Reuel Rogers, Northwestern damage. Andreas continues to help readers understand
University • Peter Schuck, Yale Law School and New York the changing practice and politics of policing national
University Law School • Raphael Sonenshein, California boundaries in the twenty-first century.
State University, Fullerton • Janelle Wong, University of
Southern California
Peter Andreas is Associate Professor of Political Sci-
ence and International Studies at Brown University.
Jennifer Hochschild is Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of He is the author of Blue Helmets and Black Markets:
Government and Professor of African and African Ameri- The Business of Survival in the Siege of Sarajevo, also
can Studies at Harvard University. Her books include from Cornell, coauthor of Drug War Politics: The Price
Facing Up to the American Dream. John Mollenkopf is of Denial, and the coeditor of The Rebordering of North
Director of the Center for Urban Research at The Gradu- America and The Wall Around the West.
ate Center of the City University of New York, where he
Cornell Studies in Political Economy
is also Distinguished Professor of Political Science and a series edited by Peter J. Katzenstein
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Rebels without Borders Whose Ideas Matter?

Transnational Insurgencies in World Politics Agency and Power in Asian Regionalism
Idean Salehyan Amitav Acharya

“Rebels without Borders is an interesting and important “Amitav Acharya has led the way in thinking not only about
contribution to the study of civil war. Idean Salehyan’s argu- the international relations of Southeast Asia but also about
ment provides real insights into the causes and conduct of how to conceptualize international security more generally.
such conflicts.”—Stephen Saideman, McGill University This is another important contribution from him, with fasci-
nating new historical material on the evolution of ASEAN.”
Rebellion, insurgency, civil war—conflict within a society —Stephan Haggard, University of California, San Diego
is customarily treated as a matter of domestic politics
and analysts generally focus their attention on local Asia is a crucial battleground for power and influence
causes. Yet fighting between governments and opposi- in the international system. It is also a theater of new
tion groups is rarely confined to the domestic arena. experiments in regional cooperation that could redefine
“Internal” wars often spill across national boundar- global order. Whose Ideas Matter? is the first book to
ies, rebel organizations frequently find sanctuaries in explore the diffusion of ideas and norms in the interna-
neighboring countries, and insurgencies give rise to tional system from the perspective of local actors, with
disputes between states. In Rebels without Borders, Asian regional institutions as its main focus.
which will appeal to students of international and
There’s no Asian equivalent of the EU or of NATO. Why
civil war and those developing policies to contain the
has Asia, and in particular Southeast Asia, avoided
regional diffusion of conflict, Idean Salehyan examines
such multilateral institutions? Most accounts focus on
transnational rebel organizations in civil conflicts, utiliz-
U.S. interests and perceptions or intraregional rivalries
ing cross-national datasets as well as in-depth case
to explain the design and effectiveness of regional insti-
studies.  He shows how external Contra bases in Hon-
tutions in Asia such as SEATO, ASEAN, and the ASEAN
duras and Costa Rica facilitated the Nicaraguan civil
Regional Forum. Amitav Acharya instead foregrounds
war and how the Rwandan civil war spilled over into the
the ideas of Asian policymakers, including their re-
Democratic Republic of the Congo, fostering a regional
sponse to the global norms of sovereignty and noninter-
war. He also looks at other cross-border insurgencies,
vention. Asian regional institutions are shaped by con-
such as those of the Kurdish PKK and Taliban fighters
testations and compromises involving emerging global
in Pakistan. Salehyan reveals that external sanctuar-
norms and the preexisting beliefs and practices of local
ies feature in the political history of more than half of
actors. Acharya terms this perspective “constitutive
the world’s armed insurgencies since 1945, and are
localization” and argues that international politics is
also important in fostering state-to-state conflicts. 
not all about Western ideas and norms forcing their
way into non-Western societies while the latter remain
Rebels who are unable to challenge the state on its
passive recipients. Rather, ideas are conditioned and
own turf look for mobilization opportunities abroad.
accepted by local agents who shape the diffusion of
Neighboring states that are too weak to prevent rebel
ideas and norms in the international system. Acharya
access, states that wish to foster instability in their
sketches a normative trajectory of Asian regionalism
rivals, and large refugee diasporas provide important
that constitutes an important contribution to the
opportunities for insurgent groups to establish exter-
global sovereignty regime and explains a remarkable
nal bases. Such sanctuaries complicate intelligence
continuity in the design and functions of Asian regional
gathering, counterinsurgency operations, and efforts
institutions.
at peacemaking.
Amitav Acharya is Professor of International Affairs at
American University, Washington, D.C. He was Professor
of Global Governance at the University of Bristol. He
Idean Salehyan is Assistant Professor of Political is the author of Constructing a Security Community in
Science at the University of North Texas. He is also a Southeast Asia and The Quest for Identity and coeditor
research associate at the John Goodwin Tower Center of Crafting Cooperation.
for Political Studies, Southern Methodist University and
at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo.  Cornell Studies in Political Economy
a series edited by Peter J. Katzenstein

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 P olitics

Federations Farmers on Welfare

The Political Dynamics of Cooperation The Making of Europe’s
Common Agricultural Policy
Chad Rector
Ann-Christina L. Knudsen
“Federations is a joy to read and provides an extremely
useful framework for understanding why countries choose “Farmers on Welfare is an important work that provides the
this form of alliance. Chad Rector’s clear explanation builds most detailed account to date of the creation of the Common
on the broad literature on cooperation and the narrower lit- Agricultural Policy. Employing newly tapped archival sources,
erature on institutional choice and federalism and adds the Ann-Christina L. Knudsen challenges much of the received
exquisite dimension of elucidating not simply why countries wisdom about the formation of the CAP and, in doing so, of-
federate but why they choose this option over self-sufficiency fers valuable new insights into the nature of European politics
or joining an international organization.”—Carol S. Weissert, and about policymaking in general.”—Adam Sheingate, The
editor of Publius: The Journal of Federalism Johns Hopkins University

Why would states ever give up their independence to In 2007 the farm subsidies of the European Union’s
join federations? While federation can provide more Common Agricultural Policy took over 40 percent of
wealth or security than self-sufficiency, states can in the entire EU budget. How did a sector of diminishing
principle get those benefits more easily by cooperat- social and economic importance manage to maintain
ing through international organizations such as alli- such political prominence? The conventional answer
ances or customs unions. Chad Rector develops a new focuses on the negotiations among the member states
theory that states federate when their leaders expect of the European Community from 1958 onwards. That
benefits from closer military or economic cooperation story holds that the political priority, given to the CAP,
but also expect that cooperation via an international as well as its long-term stability, resides in a basic
organization would put some of the states in a vulner- devil’s bargain between French agriculture and Ger-
able position, open to extortion from their erstwhile man industry.
partners. The potentially vulnerable states hold out,
In Farmers on Welfare, a landmark new account of
refusing to join alliances or customs unions, and only
the making of the single largest European policy ever,
agreeing to military and economic cooperation under
Ann-Christina L. Knudsen suggests that this accepted
a federal constitution.
narrative is rather too neat. In particular, she argues,
Rector examines several historical cases: the mak- it neglects how a broad agreement was made in the
ing of a federal Australia and the eventual exclusion 1960s that related to national welfare state policies
of New Zealand from the union; the decisions made aiming to improve incomes for farmers. Drawing on
within Buenos Aires and Prussia to build Argentina extensive archival research from a variety of political
and Germany largely through federal contracts rather actors across the Community, she illustrates how and
than conquests; and the failures of postindependence why this supranational farm regime was created in the
unions in East Africa and the Caribbean. 1960s, and also provides us with a detailed narrative
history of how national and European administrations
gradually learned about this kind of cooperation. By
tracing how the farm welfare objective was gradually
implemented in other common policies, Knudsen of-
fers an alternative account of European integration
history.

Chad Rector is Assistant Professor of Political Science

and International Affairs at The George Washington Ann-Christina L. Knudsen is Associate Professor in the
University. Department of European Studies at Aarhus University,
Denmark.

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Case Studies in Food Policy Streetwise for Book Smarts

for Developing Countries Grassroots Organizing and
Education Reform in the Bronx
Volume I: Policies for Health, Nutrition, Food
Consumption, and Poverty Celina Su

Volume II: Domestic Policies for Markets, “Streetwise for Book Smarts is a completely novel and
Production, and Environment provocative take on an extremely important topic. Its great
strength arises from Celina Su’s street-level research style.
Volume III: Institutions and International This book should be read by community organizers, founda-
Trade Policies tion officers, and policymakers as well as political scientists,
sociologists, urban anthropologists, and scholars of com-
Edited by Per Pinstrup-Andersen munity organizing.”—Dennis Shirley, Boston College
and Fuzhi Cheng
In Streetwise for Book Smarts, Celina Su examines
The food problems now facing the world—scarcity and the efforts of parents and students who sought to
starvation, contamination and illness, overabundance improve the quality of education in their local schools
and obesity—are both diverse and complex. What by working with grassroots organizations and taking
are their causes? How severe are they? Why do they matters into their own hands. In these organizations,
persist? What are the solutions? The authors of the everyday citizens pursued not only education reform
more than sixty international case studies contained but also democratic accountability and community
in these three volumes approach the food system with empowerment. These groups had similar resources
a multidisciplinary perspective. In three volumes that and operated in the same political context, yet their
serve as valuable teaching tools, they call upon the strategies and tactics were very different: while some
wisdom of disciplines including economics, nutrition, focused on increasing state and city aid to their schools,
sociology, anthropology, environmental science, medi- others tried to change the way the schools themselves
cine, and geography to create a holistic picture of the operated. Some coalitions sought accommodation with
state of the world’s food systems today. administrators and legislators; others did not.
The authors focus in on specific cases from all corners The events Su describes began with a series of stab-
of the globe to cover topics including drought and soil bings in Bronx high schools during the 2003–2004
conservation; land allocation and cooperative market- school year. After this rash of violence, several
ing efforts; and food safety measures and advertising grassroots groups cited the need for additional safety
policies. In documenting past successes and failures, patrols. Mothers from one school spoke of how they
these case studies provide a valuable foundation for had previously protested until they got extra officers,
future research and efforts to create truly successful a fairly scarce resource in New York public schools, at
and sustainable food policy. their local elementary school. Others asserted that
not all the safety patrol officers already in place were
treating students humanely.
Per Pinstrup-Andersen is the H. E. Babcock Professor
of Food, Nutrition, and Public Policy, the J. Thomas Clark Parent organizations and school officials proposed and
Professor of Entrepreneurship, and Professor of Applied mobilized behind a range of remedies. These divergent
Economics at Cornell University and Professor of Agri- responses shed light on the ways in which the choices
cultural Economics at Copenhagen University. He is the made by each organization mattered. By learning from
2001 World Food Prize Laureate. His more than 400 pub- Su’s close observation of four activist groups in the
lications include the coauthorship of Seeds of Contention. Bronx, including Mothers on the Move and Sistas and
Fuzhi Cheng is a Commodity Trading Research Analyst at Brothas United, we can better understand strategies
Noble Group based in Stamford, Connecticut. that may ultimately lead to better and safer schools ev-
erywhere and help to revitalize American democracy.
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1/
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 labor

Healing Together Building

The Labor-Management Partnership More
at Kaiser Permanente
Effective
Thomas A. Kochan, Adrienne E. Eaton,
Robert B. McKersie, and Paul S. Adler
Unions,
Second
Kaiser Permanente is the largest managed care organi-
zation in the country and has the most complex labor-
Edition
management partnership ever created in the United Paul F. Clark
States. This book tells the story of that partnership—how
it started, how it grew, who made it happen, and the les- Praise for the
sons to be learned from its successes and complications. first edition—
With twenty-seven unions and an organization as complex “Paul Clark has taken years
as 8.6-million-member Kaiser Permanente, establishing of behavioral science studies about unions and applied them
the partnership was not a simple task and maintaining to the modern-day challenges faced by organized labor. Build-
it has proven to be extraordinarily challenging. ing More Effective Unions is an excellent resource on organiz-
ing issues, retaining members, building proper union culture,
Thomas A. Kochan, Adrienne E. Eaton, Robert B. McKer-
political action communication, and grievance procedures.”
sie, and Paul S. Adler have been tracking the evolution
—George Apaliski, National Education Association, retired
of the partnership between Kaiser Permanente and
the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions ever since “This book is full of information on how to engage members in
2001. They review the history of health care labor rela- ways that build greater commitment and loyalty to the union.
tions and present a profile of Kaiser Permanente as it Every union would benefit from the ideas in this book.”—Mary
has developed over the years. They then delve into the Lehman MacDonald, Director AFT Healthcare
partnership, discussing its achievements and struggles, “Clark’s approach delights students from various unions
including the negotiation of the most innovative collec- and backgrounds.”—Greg Giebel, First Provost National
tive bargaining agreements in the history of American Labor College
labor relations. They conclude with an assessment of
the Kaiser partnership’s effect on the larger health care “Paul Clark offers a lot of practical and commonsense advice
system and its implications for labor-management rela- for union officials who are looking for ways to get members
tions in other industries. interested and involved in their unions.”—James M. Warren,
Director, LIUNA (Laborers) Education Department
Thomas A. Kochan is George M. Bunker Professor of
Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Paul F. Clark believes union leaders should take ad-
His many books include Up in the Air, also from Cornell. vantage of the valuable discoveries made in behavioral
Adrienne E. Eaton is Professor of Labor Studies and science, and, in Building More Effective Unions, he of-
Employment Relations at the School of Management fers a straightforward account of how they can do so.
and Labor Relations, Rutgers University—The State The second edition provides an updated discussion of
University of New Jersey. She is the coeditor of Employ- important lessons behavioral science holds for labor
ment Dispute Resolution and Worker Rights in the Chang- organizations. It also provides new examples of how
ing Workplace, also available from Cornell. Robert B. unions and their leaders have benefited from putting the
McKersie is Professor Emeritus at the MIT Sloan School principles outlined in the first edition into practice.
of Management. His books include Strategic Negotia-
Paul F. Clark is Professor of Labor Studies and Industrial
tions, also from Cornell. Paul S. Adler is Professor of
Relations at Pennsylvania State University. He has served
Management and Organization at the Marshall School
as an education and research consultant for more than
of Business, UCLA. He is the coeditor most recently of
twenty-five national and numerous local unions. He is the
The Firm as a Collaborative Community.
coeditor of Forging a Union of Steel: Philip Murray, SWOC,
Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
and the United Steelworkers and Collective Bargaining in
a series edited by Suzanne Gordon and Sioban Nelson the Private Sector, both from Cornell.

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anthropology

Fieldwork Is Not The Patriotism of Despair

What It Used to Be Nation, War, and Loss in Russia
Learning Anthropology’s Method Serguei Alex. Oushakine
in a Time of Transition
“The Patriotism of Despair is a detailed presentation
Edited by James D. Faubion of aspects of provincial Russian life—military, patriotic,
and George E. Marcus psychological, interpersonal, academic, economic, and
others—that could only have been revealed by the author’s
Over the past two decades anthropologists have focus on the discourses and practices of trauma, sacrifice,
been challenged to rethink the nature of ethnographic tragedy, and loss.”—Dale Pesmen, author of Russia and
research, the meaning of fieldwork, and the role of Soul: An Exploration
ethnographers. Ethnographic fieldwork has cultural,
social, and political ramifications that have been The sudden dissolution of the Soviet Union altered the
much discussed and acted upon, but the training of routines, norms, celebrations, and shared understand-
ethnographers still follows a very traditional pattern; ings that had shaped the lives of Russians for genera-
this volume engages and takes its point of departure tions. It also meant an end to the state-sponsored,
in the experiences of ethnographers-in-the-making that nonmonetary support that most residents had lived
encourage alternative models for professional training with all their lives. How did Russians make sense of
in fieldwork and its intellectual contexts. these historic transformations? Serguei Alex. Oush-
akine offers a compelling look at postsocialist life in
The work done by contributors to Fieldwork Is Not Russia. In Barnaul, a major industrial city in southwest-
What It Used to Be articulates, at the strategic point of ern Siberia that has lost 25 percent of its population
career-making research, features of this transformation since 1991, many Russians are finding that what binds
in progress. Setting aside traditional anxieties about them together is loss and despair.
ethnographic authority, the authors revisit fieldwork with
fresh initiative. In search of better understandings of The Patriotism of Despair examines the aftermath of the
the contemporary research process itself, they assess collapse of the Soviet Union, graphically described in
the current terms of the engagement of fieldworkers spray paint by a graffiti artist in Barnaul: “We have no
with their subjects, address the constructive, open- Motherland.” Once socialism disappeared as a way of
ended forms by which the conclusions of fieldwork understanding the world, what replaced it in people’s
might take shape, and offer an accurate and useful minds? Once socialism stopped orienting politics and
description of what it means to become—and to be— economics, how did capitalism insinuate itself into
an anthropologist today. routine practices? Serguei Alex. Oushakine offers a
compelling look at postsocialist life in noncosmopoli-
C ontributors tan Russia. He introduces readers to the “neocoms”:
Lisa Breglia, George Mason University • Jae A. Chung, people who mourn the loss of the Soviet economy and
Aalen University • James D. Faubion, Rice University • the remonetization of transactions that had not involved
Michael M. J. Fischer, MIT • Kim Fortun, Rensselaer Poly-
technic Institute • Jennifer A. Hamilton, Hampshire College • the exchange of cash during the Soviet era.
Christopher M. Kelty, UCLA • George E. Marcus,
Moving from economics into military conflict and person-
University of California, Irvine • Nahal Naficy, Rice Uni-
versity • Kristin Peterson, University of California, Irvine • al loss, Oushakine also describes the ways in which vet-
Deepa S. Reddy, University of Houston–Clear Lake erans of the Chechen war and mothers of soldiers who
died there have connected their immediate experiences
with the country’s historical disruptions. The country, the
James D. Faubion is Professor of Anthropology at nation, and traumatized individuals, Oushakine finds,
Rice University and the author of books including The are united by their vocabulary of shared pain.
Shadows and Lights of Waco. George E. Marcus is
Chancellor’s Professor of Anthropology at the University
Serguei Alex. Oushakine is Assistant Professor of Slavic
of California, Irvine; coauthor with Fernando Mascar-
Languages and Literatures at Princeton University.
enhas of Ocasião: The Marquis and the Anthropologist,
a Collaboration; and the author of books including Culture and Society after Socialism
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classics M edieval studies

The Care of the Dead Enemies and Familiars

in Late Antiquity Slavery and Mastery in
Fifteenth-Century Valencia
éric Rebillard
Translated from the French by Debra Blumenthal
Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings
“Enemies and Familiars is a terrific piece of work that pro-
and Jeanine Routier-Pucci
vides complete and bold new vistas on the lives of slaves
“Éric Rebillard’s important work fills a gap in the field of late during the transition to modernity and on the eve of the
antiquity by addressing burial customs and the development Atlantic slave trade. The archival evidence deployed by
of early Christian communities in the West. His innovative Debra Blumenthal is unusually rich and abundant. I have
research integrates complex historical and archaeological seldom seen a book with such a wealth of truly interesting
sources in a way that changes our perspective of the role material, nor have I often seen such evidence so artfully
of the church in this period.”—Bonnie Effros, Binghamton used.”—Teofilo F. Ruiz, UCLA
University (State University of New York) A prominent Mediterranean port located near Islamic
“The Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity offers a fresh and territories, the city of Valencia in the late fifteenth cen-
challenging examination of how the Church came to be tury boasted a slave population of pronounced religious
involved in cemeteries.”—John S. Kloppenborg, University and ethnic diversity: captive Moors and penally enslaved
of Toronto Mudejars, Greeks, Tartars, Russians, Circassians, and a
growing population of black Africans. By the end of the
In the translation of his provocative Religion et Sépulture:
fifteenth century, black Africans comprised as much as
L’Église, les vivants et les morts dans l’Antiquité tardive,
40 percent of the slave population of Valencia.
Éric Rebillard challenges many long-held assumptions
about early Christian burial customs. For decades schol- Debra Blumenthal explores the social and human
ars of early Christianity have argued that the Church dimensions of slavery in this religiously and ethnically
owned and operated burial grounds for Christians as pluralistic society. Enemies and Familiars traces the var-
early as the third century. Through a careful reading ied experiences of Muslim, Eastern, and black African
of primary sources including legal codes, theological slaves from capture to freedom. After describing how
works, epigraphical inscriptions, and sermons, Rebil- men, women, and children were enslaved and brought
lard shows that there is little evidence to suggest that to the Valencian marketplace, this book examines the
Christians occupied exclusive or isolated burial grounds substance of slaves’ daily lives: how they were sold
in this early period. In fact, as late as the fourth and and who bought them; the positions ascribed to them
fifth centuries the Church did not impose on the faithful within the household hierarchy; the sorts of labor they
specific rituals for laying the dead to rest. In the prepara- performed; and the ways in which some reclaimed
tion of Christians for burial, it was usually next of kin and their freedom. Scrutinizing a wide array of archival
not representatives of the Church who were responsible sources, Blumenthal investigates what it meant to be
for what form of rite would be celebrated, and evidence a slave and what it meant to be a master at a critical
from inscriptions and tombstones shows that for the moment of transition. Arguing that the dynamics of
most part Christians didn’t separate themselves from the master-slave relationship both reflected and de-
non-Christians when burying their dead. According to termined contemporary opinions regarding religious,
Rebillard it would not be until the early Middle Ages that ethnic, and gender differences, Blumenthal’s close
the Church gained control over burial practices and that study of the day-to-day interactions between masters
“Christian cemeteries” became common. and their slaves not only reveals that slavery played a
central role in identity formation in late medieval Iberia
but also offers clues to the development of “racialized”
Éric Rebillard is Professor of Classics and History at
slavery in the early modern Atlantic world.
Cornell University. He is the author of In hora mortis and
editor of L’Année philologique on the Internet. Elizabeth
Trapnell Rawlings is an independent translator. Jeanine Debra Blumenthal is Associate Professor of History at
Routier-Pucci is Senior Lecturer of Spanish Language The University of California at Santa Barbara.
at Cornell University.
Conjunctions of Religion and Power
in the Medieval Past
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“Speak Romance and Love

Useful in Late Medieval and
Words Early Modern Iceland
or Say Essays in Honor of Marianne Kalinke
Nothing” Edited by Kirsten Wolf
Old Norse Studies and Johanna Denzin

Joseph Harris “The world of romance is often fraught with difficulties.

Edited by Lovers are parted and have to struggle to be reunited,
Susan E. Deskis monsters or evil stepmothers have to be defeated,
and Thomas D. Hill and the strength of one’s devotion to God or the Virgin
Mary has to be demonstrated. As all lovers of a good
This selection by Susan E. Deskis and Thomas D. Hill romance know, the protagonist is always rewarded for
of twelve of Joseph Harris’s most important essays his or her kindness, wit, hard work, and perseverance.”
underscores the range of his work from critical read- —from the Introduction
ings of canonical texts to philological elucidation of Old Marianne Kalinke made profound contributions in Old
Norse and Old English literary works to discussions of Norse–Icelandic literature. This volume in her honor fea-
larger theoretical issues such as oral theory. One of tures new essays by fourteen authors on the theme of
the central problems of medieval literary scholarship Old Norse–Icelandic romance and love. Several chapters
is the aesthetics of traditional and oral literature, and examine love with special focus on the ways in which
how and whether one can meaningfully discuss the the Sagas of Icelanders differ from courtly romances;
literary history of an oral genre. Harris’s studies of tragic and comic elements of Icelandic tales of love; and
such topics as the Old Norse short narrative and of the the differing societal roles of women and men. Other
Masterbuilder tale focus precisely on such problems chapters explore the intersection of folklore, mythology,
and offer brilliant readings of specific texts as well as and romance; the role of dwarfs in fourteenth-century Ice-
models of literary historical discourse. landic romances; and the characteristics that distinguish
“Speak Useful Words or Say Nothing” also shows that heroic epics from romances. Religious love is highlighted
Harris’s work frequently bridges the divide between the in chapters on sacred and hagiographic texts.
Latin and Christian sources and the native vernacular
contributors
traditions that together found their way into Old Norse
Theodore M. Andersson, Indiana University • Úlfar
and Old English literature. Bragason, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies •
Robert Cook, University of Iceland • Johanna Denzin,
Columbia College of Missouri • Matthew J. Driscoll, Univer-
sity of Copenhagen and The Arnamagnaean Institute •
Margrét Eggertsdóttir, Árni Magnússon Institute for
Icelandic Studies • Shaun F. D. Hughes, Purdue University •
Ármann Jakobsson, University of Iceland • Jenny Jochens,
Towson University • John Lindow, University of Califor-
nia, Berkeley • Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir, Árni Magnússon
Institute for Icelandic Studies • Margaret Clunies Ross,
University of Sydney • Sverrir Tómasson, Árni Magnússon
Institute for Icelandic Studies • Kirsten Wolf, University of
Joseph Harris is the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of Wisconsin–Madison
English Literature and Professor of Folklore at Harvard
University. Susan E. Deskis is Associate Professor
of English at Northern Illinois University. Thomas D. Kirsten Wolf is Professor of Scandinavian Studies at
Hill is Professor of English and Medieval Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Johanna Denzin
Cornell University. is Assistant Professor of English at Columbia College
of Missouri.
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Children Future Tense

Bound The Culture
of Anticipation
to Labor in France between
The Pauper the Wars
Apprentice System
in Early America Roxanne
Panchasi
Edited by Ruth
Wallis Herndon “Roxanne Panchasi’s deft
and John E. Murray consideration of Paris as a
site of anticipation, where
The history of early Amer- past and future might well
ica cannot be told without have to carry out a fight to
considering unfree labor. At the center of this history the death, is quite intriguing indeed. In Future Tense, she brings
are African and Native American adults forced into slav- imagination and an impressive variety of sources to bear on
ery; the children born to these unfree persons usually her argument that anticipation about the future is as much
inherited their parents’ status. Immigrant indentured about the present doing the anticipating as it is about the
servants, many of whom were young people, are widely future being anticipated.”—Leonard V. Smith, author of The
recognized as part of early American society. Less fa- Embattled Self: French Soldiers’ Testimony of the Great War
miliar is the idea of free children being taken from the In the years between the world wars, French intellectu-
homes where they were born and put into bondage. als, politicians, and military leaders came to see certain
Binding out pauper apprentices was a widespread practice encounters—between human and machine, organic
throughout the colonies—poor, illegitimate, orphaned, and artificial, national and international culture—as
abandoned, or abused children were raised to adulthood premonitions of a future that was alternately unsettling
in a legal condition of indentured servitude. Children Bound and utopian. Skyscrapers, airplanes, and gas masks
to Labor show the various ways in which pauper appren- were seen as traces in the present of a future world,
tices were important to the economic, social, and political its technologies, and its possible transformations. In
structure of early America. In considering the practice in Future Tense, Roxanne Panchasi illuminates both the
English, Dutch, and French communities in North America anxieties and the hopes of a period when many French
from the mid-seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth people—traumatized by what their country had already
century, Children Bound to Labor even suggests that it was suffered—seemed determined to anticipate and shape
notable as a positive means of maintaining social stability the future.
and encouraging economic development. Future Tense, which features many compelling illus-
trations, depicts experts proposing the prosthetic
C ontributors
enhancement of the nation’s bodies and homes;
Monique Bourque, Willamette University • Holly Brewer,
North Carolina State University • Gillian Hamilton, Uni- architects discussing whether skyscrapers should be
versity of Toronto • Ruth Wallis Herndon, Bowling Green banned from Paris; military strategists creating a mas-
State University • Steve Hindle, University of Warwick • Paul sive fortification network, the Maginot Line; and French
Lachance, University of Ottawa • Timothy J. Lockley, Uni- delegates to the League of Nations declaring their
versity of Warwick • Gloria L. Main, University of Colorado,
Boulder • John E. Murray, University of Toledo • Jean B. opposition to the artificial international language Es-
Russo, Historic Annapolis Foundation • Jean Elliott Russo, peranto. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Panchasi
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Dictionary of Pennsylvania Legislators • T. Stephen Whitman, ritorial security, as well as changing understandings of
Mount St. Mary’s University
a French civilization many believed to be threatened by
Americanization. Panchasi makes clear that memories
Ruth Wallis Herndon is Associate Professor of History of the past—and even nostalgia for what might be lost
at Bowling Green State University. She is the author of in the future—were crucial features of the culture of
Unwelcome Americans. John E. Murray is Professor of anticipation that emerged in the interwar period.
Economics at University of Toledo. He is the author of
Origins of American Health Insurance. Roxanne Panchasi is Associate Professor of History
at Simon Fraser University.

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The Odd Man Karakozov Shake-

Imperial Russia, Modernity, speare’s
and the Birth of Terrorism
Foreign
Claudia Verhoeven
Worlds
“Claudia Verhoeven is a masterful thinker, and The Odd Man National and
Karakozov is a beautifully written, provocative, and impor- Transnational
tant book that will be widely read. Verhoeven demonstrates Identities in the
that Karakozov’s attempt on the life of Alexander II inau- Elizabethan Age
gurated a new form of modern terrorist political violence.”
—Kevin M. F. Platt, University of Pennyslvania Carole Levin
and John Watkins
On April 4, 1866, just as Alexander II stepped out
of Saint Petersburg’s Summer Garden, a young man “Carole Levin and John Watkins move beyond current
named Dmitry Karakozov pulled out a pistol and shot at debates about the status of early modern studies vis-à-vis
the tsar. He missed, but his “unheard-of act” changed historicism to offer an original and much-needed book that
the course of Russian history—and gave birth to the truly brings together the fields of literature and history.”
revolutionary political violence known as terrorism. —Rebecca Lemon, author of Treason by Words

Based on clues pulled out of the pockets of Karako- In Shakespeare’s Foreign Worlds, Carole Levin and
zov’s peasant disguise, investigators concluded that John Watkins focus on the relationship between the
there had been a conspiracy so extensive as to have London-based professional theater associated with
sprawled across the entirety of the Russian empire William Shakespeare and an unprecedented European
and the European continent. Karakozov was said to experience of geographic, social, and intellectual mobil-
have been a member of “The Organization,” a social- ity. Shakespeare’s plays bear the marks of exile and
ist network at the center of which sat a secret cell of exploration, rural depopulation, urban expansion, and
suicide-assassins: “Hell.” It is still unclear how much shifting mercantile and diplomatic configurations. He fills
of this conspiracy theory was actually true, but of the his plays with characters testing the limits of personal
thirty-six defendants who stood accused during what identity: foreigners, usurpers, outcasts, outlaws, scolds,
was Russia’s first modern political trial, all but a few shrews, witches, mercenaries, and cross-dressers.
were exiled to Siberia, and Karakozov himself was Through parallel discussions of Henry VI, The Taming of
publicly hanged on September 3, 1866. the Shrew, and The Merchant of Venice, Levin and Watkins
Because Karakozov was decidedly strange, sick, and argue that Shakespeare’s centrality to English national
suicidal, his failed act of political violence has long consciousness is inseparable from his creation of the for-
been relegated to a footnote of Russian history. In eign as a category asserting dangerous affinities between
The Odd Man Karakozov, however, Claudia Verhoeven England’s internal minorities and its competitors. Levin
argues that it is precisely this neglected, exceptional is particularly interested in Shakespeare’s responses to
case that sheds new light on the origins of terrorism. In marginalized sectors of English society. Watkins situates
characterizing Karakozov’s as an essentially modernist Shakespeare in the context of broadly European histori-
crime, Verhoeven traces how his act affected Russian cal movements.Together they narrate the emergence of
culture, including such touchstones as Repin’s art and the foreign as a category that might be applied both
Dostoevsky’s literature. to “strangers” from other countries and to native-born
English men and women who resisted conformity to an
By looking at the history that produced Karakozov and, increasingly narrow sense of English identity.
in turn, the history that Karakozov produced, Verhoeven
shows terrorism as a phenomenon inextricably linked Carole Levin is Willa Cather Professor of History at the
to the foundations of the modern world: capitalism, University of Nebraska. She is the author of several
enlightened law and scientific reason, ideology, technol- books, including Dreaming the English Renaissance.
ogy, new media, and above all, people’s participation John Watkins is Professor of English, Italian Studies,
in politics and in the making of history. and Medieval Studies at the University of Minnesota.
He is the author most recently of Representing Elizabeth
Claudia Verhoeven is Assistant Professor of Modern
in Stuart England.
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Fictions of Embassy Milton and

Literature and Diplomacy the Victorians
in Early Modern Europe
Erik Gray
Timothy Hampton
“The idea behind this gracefully written, very original book
“Addressing topics both political and aesthetic, particularly has something in common with the Milton it finds behind
those created by international relations in which the norm Victorian writers. Like the great poet by the middle of the
is negotiation rather than war, Fictions of Embassy illus- nineteenth century, Gray’s topic is hidden in plain sight: obvi-
trates important developments in early modern statecraft.” ous to the point where it has become practically invisible to
—Constance Jordan, Claremont Graduate University literary history, and therefore all the more surprising when
Gray draws it out of thin air and makes it present to critical
Historians of early modern Europe have long stressed
consciousness. Gray possesses outstanding talents for the
how new practices of diplomacy that emerged during the
job he has undertaken—analytic ingenuity in close reading,
period transformed European politics. Fictions of Embas-
a patient and well-stocked memory, an ear judicious in the
sy is the first book to examine the cultural implications
detection of echoes that signify, and a light touch in setting
of the rise of modern diplomacy. Ranging across two and them forth for literary-historical understanding.”—Herbert
a half centuries and half a dozen languages, Timothy Tucker, University of Virginia
Hampton opens a new perspective on the intersection
of literature and politics at the dawn of modernity. The Victorian period was a golden age for the study
of Milton. Yet the influence of Milton on poetry, and
Hampton argues that literary texts use scenes of on literature more generally, during the period is often
diplomatic negotiation to explore the relationship obscure. Victorian writers rarely display the overt,
between politics and aesthetics, between the world self-conscious engagement with Milton that typified so
of political rhetoric and the dynamics of literary form. much Romantic writing earlier in the nineteenth century.
The diplomatic encounter is a scene of cultural ex- In Milton and the Victorians Erik Gray argues that this
change and linguistic negotiation. Literary depictions shift represents not a breach but an expansion: if Mil-
of diplomacy offer occasions for reflection on the ton’s influence seems less remarkable than before, it
definition of genre, on the power of representation, on is due not to his absence but to his pervasiveness.
the limits of rhetoric, on the nature of fiction making
itself. Conversely, discussions of diplomacy by jurists, Through detailed consideration of works by Elizabeth
political philosophers, and ambassadors deploy the Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, Matthew Arnold,
tools of literary tradition to articulate new theories Alfred Tennyson, and George Eliot, Gray shows how
of political action. Hampton addresses these topics Victorian writers tended to draw upon the less sub-
through a discussion of the major diplomatic writers lime, more understated elements of Milton’s writings.
between 1450 and 1700—Machiavelli, Grotius, Gen- In tracing the characteristically oblique influence of
tili, Guicciardini—and through detailed readings of Milton on Victorian authors, Gray also draws attention
literary works that address the same topics—works to important aspects of Milton’s own work, notably the
by Shakespeare, More, Rabelais, Montaigne, Tasso, way it often depicts power being exerted indirectly. Gray
Corneille, Racine, and Camoens. He demonstrates thus proposes new and nuanced models of literary
that the issues raised by diplomatic theorists helped relations, while offering original and elegant readings
shape the emergence of new literary forms, and that both of Milton’s poetry and of major works of Victorian
literature provides a lens through which we can learn literature.
to read the languages of diplomacy.

Timothy Hampton is Professor of French and holds the

Bernie H. Williams Chair of Comparative Literature at
the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author
of Writing from History: The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Erik Gray is Assistant Professor of English and Com-
Renaissance Literature and Literature and Nation in parative Literature at Columbia University. He is the
the Sixteenth Century: Inventing Renaissance France, author of The Poetry of Indifference: From the Romantics
both from Cornell. to the Rubáiyát.

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Thinking through A Genealogy

the Mothers of Literary
Reimagining Women’s Biographies Multiculturalism
Janet Beizer Christopher Douglas
“Janet Beizer’s exploration of relationships both real and As an anthropology student studying with Franz Boas,
imagined between mothers and daughters, women and their Zora Neale Hurston recorded African American folklore,
feminist biographers and critics, is a wide-ranging medita- studied voodoo, talked with the last ex-slave to survive
tion on the possibilities and difficulties of recuperating past
the Middle Passage, and collected music. Her ethno-
lives, especially those veiled in obscurity, either through the
graphic work would serve as the basis for her novels
repressions of patriarchy or through a determined stance
and other writings.
of secrecy on the part of the subject herself.”—Rosemary
Lloyd, author of Shimmering in a Transformed Light In A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism, Christopher
Douglas uncovers the largely unacknowledged role
If questions of subjectivity and identification are at stake
played by ideas from sociology and anthropology in
in all biographical writing, they are particularly trenchant
nourishing the politics and forms of minority writers
for contemporary women biographers of women. Often,
from diverse backgrounds. Douglas divides the history
their efforts to exhume buried lives in hope of finding
of multicultural writing in the United States into three
spiritual foremothers awaken maternal phantoms that
periods. The first, which spans the 1920s and 1930s,
must be embraced or confronted. Do women writing in
features minority writers such as Hurston and D’Arcy
fact have any greater access to their own mothers’ lives
McNickle, who were indebted to the work of Boas and
than to the lives of other women whose stories have
his attempts to detach culture from race. The second
been swept away like dust in the debris of the past?
period, from 1940 to the mid-1960s, was a time of
In Thinking through the Mothers, Janet Beizer surveys
assimilation and integration, as seen in the work of
modern women’s biographies and contemplates alterna-
authors such as Richard Wright, Jade Snow Wong,
tives to an approach based in lineage and the form of
John Okada, and Ralph Ellison, who were influenced
thought that emphasizes the line, the path, hierarchy,
by currents in sociological thought. The third period
unity, resemblance, reflection, and the aesthetic—
focuses on the writers we associate with contempo-
mimesis—that depends on these ideas.
rary literary multiculturalism, including Toni Morrison,
Through close readings of memoirs and fictions N. Scott Momaday, Frank Chin, Ishmael Reed, and Gloria
about mothers, Beizer explores how biographers of Anzaldúa. Douglas shows that these more recent writ-
the women who came before rehearse and rewrite ers advocated a literary nationalism that was based
relationships to their own mothers biographically as on a modified Boasian anthropology and that laid the
they seek to appropriate the past in a hybrid genre pluralist grounds for our current conception of literary
she calls “bio-autography.” Thinking through the Moth- multiculturalism.
ers features the work of George Sand and Colette and
Ultimately, Douglas’s “unified field theory” of multicul-
spans such varied figures as Gustave Flaubert, Julian
tural literature brings together divergent African Ameri-
Barnes, Louise Colet, Eunice Lipton, Vladimir Nabokov,
can, Asian American, Mexican American, and Native
Huguette Bouchardeau, and Christa Wolf. Beizer seeks
American literary traditions into one story: of how we
an alternative to women’s “salvation biography” or
moved from thinking about groups as races to thinking
“resurrection biography” that might resist nostalgia,
about groups as cultures—and then back again.
be attentive to silence, and reinvent the means to
represent the lives of precursors without appropriating
traditional models of genealogy.

Janet Beizer is Professor of Romance Languages and

Literatures at Harvard University and the author of Ven- Christopher Douglas is Associate Professor of Eng-
triloquized Bodies: Narratives of Hysteria in Nineteenth- lish at the University of Victoria. He is the author of
Century France, also from Cornell, and Family Plots: Reciting America: Culture and Cliché in Contemporary
Balzac’s Narrative Generations. American Fiction.

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Manual of Leaf Seedlings of Barro Colorado

Architecture Island and the Neotropics
Beth Ellis, Douglas C. Daly, Nancy C. Garwood
Leo J. Hickey, Kirk R. Johnson, Illustrated by Margaret Tebbs
John D. Mitchell, Peter Wilf, Foreword by Robin B. Foster
and Scott L. Wing
Knowledge of seedling ecology is essential for under-
The Manual of Leaf Architecture is an essential ref- standing the local abundance, distribution, and dynam-
erence for describing, comparing, and classifying the ics of individual species and plant populations, for
leaves of flowering plants. This manual, illustrated deciphering the mechanisms responsible for the high
with dozens of line drawings and more than 300 species diversity in tropical forests, and for developing
photographs of prepared stained leaves, provides a sound management and conservation plans for tropical
framework with comparative examples allowing consis- forests. In this monumental work of botany, Nancy C.
tent and detailed description of both modern and fossil Garwood provides the first comprehensive guide to
leaves. This one-of-a-kind resource will be invaluable to a seedlings in the American tropics, using Barro Colorado
broad range of people who work with plants, from paleo- Island in Panama as an emblematic locale.
botanists to systematists to tropical ecologists.
The review of Neotropical seedlings from 229 plant
The Manual allows for the description and identifica- families is the heart of the book. Descriptions sum-
tion of plants independently of their flowers, offering marize information from 1,243 genera gleaned from
especially useful assistance in the case of fossil accounts of nearly 3,000 species. Families of all major
leaves (usually found in isolation) and tropical plants, Neotropical woody plants are covered, as well as those
whose flowering cycles can be brief and irregular, and that are mostly herbs, aquatic species, parasites and
whose fruits and flowers may be difficult to access. It saprophytes. This is the largest compendium of infor-
provides long-needed guidelines for characterizing the mation on tropical seedlings published to date.
organization, shape, venation, and margins of the leaves
This guide to the seedling flora of Barro Colorado Island
of flowering plants. Beginning with a set of illustrated
includes illustrations of and keys to 775 species of for-
definitions of leaf characters, this manual proceeds to
est trees, shrubs, lianas, vines, herbs, epiphytes, hemi-
define and illustrate the variations on each of these
epiphytes, and “weedy” plants typical of forest margins
characters. The system presented here is based on
and clearings. All genera and 75 percent of the species
a widely tested scheme that has been significantly
covered occur broadly across the Neotropics. There are
expanded and refined through the detailed examination
numerous illustrated examples for the family accounts
of thousands of living and fossil leaves
and key characters needed to identify dicot and monocot
Beth Ellis is a research scientist at the Denver Museum seedlings are also described and illustrated, supple-
of Nature & Science. Douglas C. Daly is Director of mented with an illustrated glossary of descriptive terms.
the Institute of Systematic Botany at the New York Paired with superb and intricate illustrations by Margaret
Botanical Garden. Leo J. Hickey is a Professor and Tebbs, arranged in 255 plates, Garwood’s work enables
Curator in the Department of Geology and Geophysics tropical ecologists, botanists, and systematists to identify
at Yale University. Kirk R. Johnson is Vice President Neotropical seedlings that have not yet developed the
of Research and Collections and Chief Curator at the diagnostic characteristics of the parent plants.
Denver Museum of Nature & Science. John D. Mitchell Nancy C. Garwood is Adjunct Professor of Plant
is a Research Fellow at the New York Botanical Gar- Biology at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
den. Peter Wilf is Associate Professor of Geosciences Margaret Tebbs is a freelance botanical illustrator.
at Pennsylvania State University. Scott L. Wing is Robin B. Foster is Adjunct Curator of Vascular Plants
Research Scientist and Curator in the Department of and Conservation Ecologist in the Environmental and
Paleobiology at the Smithsonian Institution. Conservation Programs at the Field Museum.
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Snakes
Ecology and Conservation
Edited by Stephen J. Mullin
and Richard A. Seigel

Destruction of habitat due to urban sprawl, pol-

lution, and deforestation has caused population
declines or even extinction of many of the world’s
approximately 2,600 snake species. Furthermore,
misconceptions about snakes have made them
among the most persecuted of all animals, despite
the fact that less than a quarter of all species are
venomous and most species beneficially control
rodent pests. It has become increasingly urgent,
therefore, to develop viable conservation strategies
for snakes and to investigate their importance as
monitors of ecosystem health and indicators of
habitat sustainability.

In the first book on snakes written with a focus

on conservation, editors Stephen J. Mullin and
Richard A. Seigel bring together leading herpe-
tologists to review and synthesize the ecology,
conservation, and management of snakes world-
wide. These experts report on advances in current
research and summarize the primary literature,
presenting the most important concepts and
techniques in snake ecology and conservation. The
“Snakes: Ecology and Conservation is an common thread of conservation unites the twelve chapters, each of
important and excellent book. The choice which addresses a major subdiscipline within ecology. Applied topics
of topics is timely and each chapter offers such as methods and modeling and strategies such as captive rearing
something novel.” and translocation are also covered. Each chapter provides an essen-
—Harry W. Greene, tial framework and indicates specific directions for future research,
author of Snakes: making this a critical reference for anyone interested in vertebrate
The Evolution of Mystery in Nature conservation generally or for anyone implementing conservation and
management policies concerning snake populations.

C ontributors
Omar Attum, Indiana University Southeast • Steven J. Beaupre, University
of Arkansas • Xavier Bonnet, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique •
Stephen J. Mullin is Associate Professor Frank T. Burbrink, College of Staten Island–The City University of New York •
of Biological Sciences at Eastern Illinois Gordon M. Burghardt, University of Tennessee • Todd A. Castoe, University
University. Richard A. Seigel is Profes- of Colorado • David Chiszar, University of Colorado • Michael E. Dorcas,
Davidson College • Lara E. Douglas, University of Arkansas • Christopher L.
sor and Chair of Biological Sciences at Jenkins, Project Orianne, Ltd. • Glenn Johnson, State University of New
Towson University and the author or edi- York at Potsdam • Michael Hutchins, The Wildlife Society • Richard B. King,
tor of several books, including Snakes: Northern Illinois University • Bruce A. Kingsbury, Indiana University–Purdue
Ecology and Behavior, Snakes: Ecology University Fort Wayne • Thomas Madsen, University of Wollongong
(Australia) • Stephen J. Mullin, Eastern Illinois University • James B. Murphy,
and Evolutionary Biology, and The Garter
National Zoological Park • Charles R. Peterson, Idaho State University •
Snakes: Evolution and Ecology. Kent A. Prior, Parks Canada • Richard A. Seigel, Towson University •
Richard Shine, University of Sydney • Kevin T. Shoemaker, College of
A COMSTOCK BOOK Environmental Science and Forestry–State University of New York • Patrick J.
Weatherhead, University of Illinois • John D. Willson, University of Georgia

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His Political Writings
Edited by Sinh Vinh

Phan Châu Trinh (1872–1926) was the earliest pro-

ponent of democracy and popular rights in Vietnam.
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Portrait of the Burmese Journalist, Being Muslim Selected Essays
Journal Kyaw U Chit Maung Fiction by Muslim Filipinos O. W. Wolters
Journal Kyaw Ma Ma Lay Edited by Coeli Barry Edited by Craig J. Reynolds
Translated by Ma Thanegi A collection of the classic essays of
This landmark collection brings together
The story of eight years in the brief life of a range of short fiction written by Muslim O. W. Wolters, reflecting his radiant and
Journal Kyaw U Chit Maung, a courageous Filipinos over nearly seven decades, begin- meticulous lifelong study of premodern

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Burmese journalist and editor. His political ning in the 1940s. Southeast Asia, its literature, trade, gov-
analyses helped guide the nation during a ernment, and vanished cities. Included
turbulent era marked by internal struggles Copublished with Anvil Publishing, Inc., is an intellectual biography by the editor,
to establish a democracy independent of Philippines. which covers Wolters’s professional lives
Britain in the late 1930s and the Japanese 2008, 216 pages, 6 x 9 as a member of the Malayan Civil Service
Occupation of the 1940s. Cloth ISBN 978-0-87727-606-7 and, later, as a scholar.

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2008, 205 pages, 4 illustrations, 7 x 10 Paper ISBN 978-0-87727-605-0 2008, 236 pages, 8 illustrations, 7 x 10
Cloth ISBN 978-0-87727-777-4 $19.95x/£10.95 USA Cloth ISBN 978-0-87727-773-6
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Views of Seventeenth- Thailand Friends and Exiles

Century Vietnam The Politics of Despotic Paternalism A Memoir of the Nutmeg Isles and
Christoforo Borri on Cochinchina Revised Edition the Indonesian Nationalist Movement
and Samuel Baron on Tonkin Thak Chaloemtiarana Des Alwi
Edited and annotated by Olga Dror In 1958, Marshal Sarit Thanarat became Edited by Barbara S. Harvey
and K. W. Taylor prime minister of Thailand following a Des Alwi tells of his childhood on the
This volume introduces two of the earliest bloodless coup. This book offers a compre- eastern Indonesian island of Banda, where
writings about Vietnam to appear in the hensive study of Sarit’s paternalistic, mili- he was befriended and adopted by the two
English language. The reports come from taristic regime, which laid the foundations nationalist leaders, Mohammad Hatta and
narrators who are viewing different parts for Thailand’s support of the US military Sutan Sjahrir. He describes his experi-
of Vietnam at an early stage of European campaign in Southeast Asia. ences during the Japanese Occupation
involvement in the region. and his involvement in the underground
2007, 284 pages, 46 photographs, struggle for Independence.
2006, 290 pages, 4 maps, 13 line drawings 17 tables, 1 map, 1 diagram, 7 x 10
(plates), 7 x 10 Cloth ISBN 978-0-87727-772-9 2008, 172 pages, 21 illustrations, 7 x 10
Cloth ISBN 978-0-87727-771-2 $46.95x/£32.50 Cloth ISBN 978-0-87727-774-3
$46.95x/£32.50 Paper ISBN 978-0-87727-742-2 $41.95x/£23.50
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Possessed by the Spirits No Other Road to Take Nguyễn Cochinchina

Mediumship in Contemporary The Memoirs of Southern Vietnam in the Seventeenth
Vietnamese Communities Mrs. Nguyễn Thị Định and Eighteenth Centuries
Edited by Karen Fjelstad Seventh Printing Li Tana
and Nguyen Thi Hien Translated by Mai Elliot In this historical reassessment of south-
Essays examining the resurgence of the The memoir of a woman whose strength, ern Vietnam and its distinct culture, Li
Mother Goddess religion among contem- courage, and intelligence had a profound Tana illuminates the resourceful qualities
publications

porary Vietnamese following the economic impact on Vietnamese histor y. Mrs. of the Đáng Trong pioneers, develops a
“Renovation” period in Vietnam. Anthro- Nguyễn Thị Định was an active leader meticulous analysis of the Nguyễn trade
pologists explore the forces that compel against the Diệm regime, was appointed and taxation systems, and, in the process,
individuals to become mediums and the to the leadership committee of the Na- redefines the chief cause of the Tây Sơn
social repercussions of their decisions. tional Liberation Front (NLF), and served as rebellion.
Chairman of the South Vietnam Women’s
2006, 194 pages, 17 photographs, 1998, 194 pages, 2 maps, 20 tables,
1 table, 7 x 10 Liberation Association. 3 diagrams, 7 x 10
Cloth ISBN 978-0-87727-171-0 Paper ISBN 978-0-87727-722-4
1998, 108 pages, 3 photographs,
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Paper ISBN 978-0-87727-102-4

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Spirited Politics Southern Vietnam The Industry of

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Religion and Public Life in under the Reign of Marrying Europeans

Contemporary Southeast Asia Minh Ma. ng (1820–1841) VŨ Tro . ng Phu.ng
Edited by Andrew C. Willford Central Policies and Local Response Translated by Thúy Tranviet
and Kenneth M. George
Choi Byung Wook Written in the 1930s, this book reports
Covering material from Indonesia, Malay- and expands on the author’s meetings with
This study of nineteenth-century Vietnam
sia, Thailand, and the Philippines, these North Vietnamese women who had made
focuses on interactions between the
essays explore the calamities and ironies an “industry” of marrying European men.
Vietnamese king, Minh Mạng, and the het-
of Southeast Asian identity politics, exam- It is notable for its sharp observations,
erogeneous southern region of the country,
ining the ways in which religion and politics pointed humor, and unconventional mix of
which he sought to bring more firmly under
are made to serve each other. nonfictional and fictional narration, as well
state control through a series of polices
2005, 210 pages, 11 photographs, 7 x 10 intended to “Vietnamize” the populace and as its attention to voice.
Paper ISBN 978-0-87727-737-8 unite north and south. 2006, 74 pages, 7 x 10
$23.95x/£16.50
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Southeast Asia | Religion | Politics 2004, 232 pages, 11 photographs, 2 maps, $20.95x/£14.50
12 tables, 7 x 10 Paper ISBN 978-0-87727-140-6
Paper ISBN 978-0-87727-138-3 $13.95x/£9.50
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Laskar Jihad The Indonesian Violence and the State

Islam, Militancy, and Supreme Court in Suharto’s Indonesia
the Quest for Identity in A Study of Institutional Collapse Edited and with
Post-New Order Indonesia Sebastiaan Pompe an Introduction by
Noorhaidi Hasan Benedict R. O’G. Anderson
Since the fall of Indonesian president
An in-depth study of the militant Islamic Suharto, a major focus of the country’s These essays investigate institutionalized
Laskar Jihad movement and its links to reformers has been the corrupt and inef- violence in New Order Indonesia and the

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international Muslim networks and ideo- ficient judicial system. Within the context ongoing legacy Suharto’s dictatorship has
logical debates. This analysis is grounded of a history of the Supreme Court in post- conferred on the nation. The collection
in extensive research and interviews with independence Indonesia, Sebastiaan Pom- includes papers on East Timor, Aceh, Biak,
Salafi leaders and activists who sup- pe analyzes the causes of the judiciary’s the police, and the Indonesian military,
ported jihad throughout the Moluccas. failure over the last five decades. among other topics.
2006, 274 pages, 1 map, 15 photographs, 2001, 248 pages, 1 map, 7 x 10

southeast
2005, 494 pages, 21 photographs,
1 diagram, 7 x 10 4 tables, 4 diagrams, 7 x 10 Paper ISBN 978-0-87727-729-3
Cloth ISBN 978-0-87727-770-5 Cloth ISBN 978-0-87727-739-2 $23.95x/£16.50
$46.95x/£32.50 $62.95x/£43.50 Indonesia | Politics | Contemporary History
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Southeast Asia over History, Culture, and Fear and Sanctuary

Three Generations Region in Southeast Burmese Refugees in Thailand
Essays Presented to Asian Perspectives Hazel J. Lang
Benedict R. O’G. Anderson Revised Edition An examination of the plight of the refu-
Edited by James T. Siegel O. W. Wolters gees of Burma’s protracted civil war, many
and Audrey R. Kahin of whom have fled across the border into
A new edition of this classic study of
In honor of Benedict Anderson’s profound Thailand. This study looks at the chang-
mandala Southeast Asia. The revised
contributions to the field, the editors ing nature of the refugee situation and
book includes a substantial, retrospec-
have collected essays from a number of the responses of the parties involved,
tive postscript examining contemporary
the many scholars who studied with him. including the United Nations, the refugees
scholarship that has contributed to the
These articles deal with the literature, themselves, and governments in both
understanding of Southeast Asian history
politics, history, and culture of Southeast Bangkok and Rangoon.
since 1982.
Asia.
2002, 240 pages, 7 x 10
1999, 275 pages, 1 map, 7 x 10
2003, 398 pages, 7 photographs, Paper ISBN 978-0-87727-731-6
Paper ISBN 978-0-87727-725-5
8 drawings, 3 tables, 2 maps, 7 x 10 $23.95x/£16.50
$22.95x/£15.95
Paper ISBN 978-0-87727-735-4 Burma and Thailand |
Southeast Asia | History
$27.95x/£19.50 Contemporary History
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William E. Caplin James Hepokoski James Webster & Formenlehre
Three Methodological Reflections

M U S I CA L William E. Caplin, James Hepokoski,

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F O RM S In Musical Form, Forms & Formenlehre, three eminent music theorists
F O RM E N - reflect on the fundamentals of “musical form.” They discuss how to
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ster’s method of “multivalent analysis” respectively. Each part begins
with a basic essay by one of the three authors. Subsequently, the two
opposing authors comment on issues and analyses they consider to
William E. Caplin is James McGill Pro- be problematic or underdeveloped, in a style that ranges from the
fessor of Music Theory at McGill Univer- gently critical to the overtly polemical. Finally, the author of the initial
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James Hepokoski is Professor of Music refine his own fundamental ideas on musical form.
at Yale University. He is the coauthor
of Elements of Sonata Theory. James
Webster is Goldwin Smith Professor of
Music at Cornell University. He is the
author of Haydn’s “Farewell” Symphony
and the Idea of Classical Style. Pieter
Bergé is Professor of Musicology at
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

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Fluid Flesh
The Body, Religion
and the Visual Arts
Edited by Barbara Baert

How do we relate the body we have and the bodies we

see to the mind, or to the soul? Fluid Flesh addresses
the relationship between the body, religion, and the
visual arts, which is one of both love and tension. Are
we able (and allowed) to think of the divine in a cor-
poreal way? Isn’t artistic expression, which originated
from both the human mind and body, intrinsically a
bodily matter? 

Featuring an introduction from James Elkins, Fluid

Flesh covers an array of topics including the visual as a spiritual C ontributors
medium today; iconophilia and iconoclasm in the past and present; Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Prince
the human body, religion and contemporary lifestyles; and premodern Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-
Christian Understanding and Georgetown
and postmodern perspectives on anatomy and the visual arts. Several University • Barbara Baert, Katholieke
authors address the presentation of the human form in Christian art Universiteit Leuven • Ralph Dekoninck,
and ask whether the body may be present in religious art even without Université Catholique de Louvain • Jan
figuration. The authors highlight the intertwined and powerful roles of De Maeyer, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
both the image and the body within a contemporary culture that has • Renaat Devisch, Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven • James Elkins, School of the Art
seemingly devalued language (in favor of the image) and has renewed a Institute of Chicago • Jan Koenot, Faculty
“sinful” conception of the body as in constant need of improvement. of Philosophy of the Centre Sèvres, Paris
• Ann-Sophie Lehmann, Utrecht University
also of interest • Regina Ammicht Quinn, University of
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Tübingen • Catrien Santing, Rijks-

Series editors:
This book examines a recurrent question in recent literature on the use of the Barbara Baert
Jan Baetens
photographic medium in contemporary art. It is concerned with the multi-
Hilde Van Gelder
formity of ways the photograph manifests itself in diverse artistic practices

universiteit Groningen • Hilde Van Gelder,

today and with the consequences of this situation for photography’s criti- Assistant editor:
cal potential. Central to this discussion is the question whether photography Jan De Vuyst
has a hybrid or chameleonic character because it can be part of entirely
Managing editor:
different mixed-media works of art. Furthermore, issues are raised such as if Rein Deslé
the photo-image nowadays mainly serves as a useful tool to make a renewed

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

kind of ‘tableaux’, often marked by a rather noncommittal and ‘poetic’ visual
imagery. When photographic practices aim at raising a critical debate on the Volume 1:
Els Vanden Meersch.

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internal workings of the artistic system itself or on broader social problems, is
Paranoid Obstructions (2004)
the photograph then able to distinguish itself from a merely ‘political’ state-
ment or a pamphlet? A distinguished variety of authors, all specialists in the
Volume 2:
field of contemporary photography, offer their viewpoints on this debate. Hilde Van Gelder (ed.)
Constantin Meunier.

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The Critical Position of the Photographic Medium Hilde Van Gelder (ed.)

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In the Name of Mozart.
in Contemporary Art Photographs by Malou Swinnen (2006)
Hilde Van Gelder & Helen Westgeest (eds)

Volume 4:
Hilde Van Gelder is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the Jan Baetens and Hilde Van Gelder (eds)
K.U.Leuven. Her research concentrates on postwar art and photography Critical Realism in Contemporary Art.
Around Allan Sekula’s Photography (2006)
Helen Westgeest is Assistant Professor at the Department of Modern and
Contemporary Art History and Theory of Photography at the University of Leiden in
the Netherlands Volume 5:
Patricia Allmer and Hilde Van Gelder (eds)
Contributors: T.J. Demos, Simon Faulkner, Cliff Lauson, Susan Laxton, Anne Marsh, Collective Inventions: Surrealism in Belgium (2007)
Alexandra Moschovi, Alexander Streitberger, Helen Westgeest, Mechtild Widrich

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Surrealism in Belgium Photographic Medium
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Paper ISBN 978-90-5867-592-7 Art and Iconology at the Katholieke Uni-
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The Trans- The Maritain Factor

formation Taking Religion into Interwar Modernism
of the Edited by Rajesh Heynickx
and Jan De Maeyer
Christian
Churches By studying the reception and perception of the French
in Western Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain, this book ar-
gues that European modernist artists and intellectuals
Europe sought a primordial finality in Catholicism. The French
(1945–2000) poet, writer, and surrealist filmmaker Jean Cocteau
converted under the influence of Maritain. For the
Edited by painters Gino Severini, a pioneer of Futurism, and Otto
Leo Kenis, Van Rees, one of the first Dadaists—both converts—
Jaak Billiet, and Patrick Pasture Maritain played the role of spiritual counselor. And
when the promoter of abstract art Michel Seuphor
Research continues to show that the Christian religion embraced Catholic faith in the 1930s, he, too, had
is gradually disappearing from the public, cultural, and extensive contact with Maritain. For all of them, the
social spheres in Western Europe. Even on the individual dictum of the Irish poet Brian Coffey, once a doctoral
level, institutionalized religion is becoming increasingly student under Maritain, applied: modern art needs a
marginalized. New forms of religious life and community, Thomist conceptual framework.
however, may point toward a resurgence of Christian
churches in postmodern Europe. This book focuses However, the contributions in The Maritain Factor also
on the complex transformations Christian churches in show that, besides admiration, Maritain provoked irri-
Western Europe have undergone since World War II. tation with his theories. Walter Benjamin for example,
could only look at Maritain as a charlatan who was out
C ontributors to place modern art under the glass bell jar of Catholi-
Jaak Billiet, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven • André Birmelé, cism. The authors demonstrate that Catholic thought
Université Marc Bloch–Strasbourg • Jon Butler, Yale Univer-
was not just one aspect of the manifold varieties of
sity • Bart Cambré, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven • Philippe
Chenaux, Pontificia Universitas Lateranensis • Wilhelm modernist discourses and practices, but in fact offered
Damberg, Ruhr-Universität Bochum • Karel Dobbelaere, a basis to organize and structure this multiplicity in the
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven • Etienne Fouilloux, Univer- 1920s and 1930s.
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sité Lyon 2, France • Jan Grootaers, Katholieke Universiteit

Leuven • Gerd-Rainer Horn, University of Warwick • Anton C ontributors
Houtepen, Universiteit Utrecht • Anne-Marie Korte, Philippe Chenaux, Pontifical Lateran University, Rome • Jan
Universiteit Utrecht • Hugh McLeod, University of Birming- De Maeyer, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven • Michael Einfalt,
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ham • Patrick Pasture, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven • Universität Freiburg • Jason Harding, University of Durham •
Joachim Schmiedl, Philosophische-Theologische Hoch- Rajesh Heynickx, Universiteit Antwerpen and Sint-Lucas
schule Vallendar • Hans Ucko, World Council of Churches • Brussel-Gent • Zoë Marie Jones, Duke University • Ewoud
Johan Verstraeten, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven • Liliane Kieft, Dutch Institute for War Documentation in Amster-
Voyé, U.C. Louvain • Lodewijk Winkeler, Radboud dam (NIOD) and Universiteit Utrecht • Mathijs Sanders,
Universiteit Nijmegen Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen • Stephen Schloesser,
Boston College and Weston Jesuit School of Theology •
Stéphane Symons, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven • Cécile
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Leo Kenis is Professor in History of Church and Theol- Vanderpelen-Diagre, Université Libre de Bruxelles • James
ogy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Jaak Billiet Matthew Wilson, University of Notre Dame
is Emeritus Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven. He is a member of the central coordination
team of the European Social Survey. Patrick Pasture Rajesh Heynickx teaches Art History at Universiteit
is Associate Professor in History at the Katholieke Antwerpen and at Sint-Lucas Architectuur Gent-Brussel.
Universiteit Leuven, where he coordinates the research Jan De Maeyer is Director of KADOC (Documentation
unit Modernity & Society 1800–2000 (MoSa). and Research Center for Religion, Culture and Society),
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
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in Vitreous
Materials Studies in Archaeological Sciences
Edited by
Patrick Degryse, Editor-in-Chief
Julian Henderson,
and Greg Hodgins Patrick Degryse
Centre for Archaeological Sciences,
For all artifacts that are Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
to serve as archaeologi- E-mail: [email protected]
cal evidence, the study of
the provenance, produc-
tion technology, and trade of raw materials must be Editorial Board
based on archaeometry. Currently, these questions are
addressed by the use of radiogenic isotope analysis. Ian Freestone, Cardiff University
The book captures the state of the art in this rapidly Carl Knappett, University of Toronto
advancing field. It includes methodological papers on
isotope analysis, innovative applications of several Andrew Shortland, Cranfield University, UK
isotope systems to current questions in glass and
Manuel Sintubin, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
glaze research, and advances in the knowledge of the
economy of vitreous materials. Marc Waelkens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

C ontributors
Y. Barkoudah, Syrian European University • Patrick De-
gryse, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven • David De Muynck, The series Studies in Archaeological Sciences presents
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven • David Dungworth, English state-of-the-art methodological, technical, and material sci-
Heritage • Jane Evans, British Geological Survey • Ian ence contributions to Archaeological Sciences. The series
Freestone, Cardiff University • Yael Gorin-Rosen, Israel aims to reconstruct the integrated story of human and
Antiquities Authority • Julian Henderson, University of material culture through time and testifies to the necessity
Nottingham • Greg Hodgins, University of Arizona • Hans of inter- and multidisciplinary research in cultural heritage
(d.j.) Huisman, RACM • Francisco Laborda, University of studies. Studies in Archaeological Sciences aims to publish
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Josefina Pérez-Arantegui, University of Zaragoza • Jens Sch- ence of academic readers in fields such as Archaeology,
neider, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven • Andrew Shortland, Archaeological Sciences, History, Conservation, and Cultural
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Getty Conservation Institute • Sophie Wolf graphs and tables in black-and-white. All contributions are
submitted to international peer review. The editors would
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please contact Prof. Patrick Degryse (Editor-in-Chief) or one
of the editorial board members.
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Humanistica Lovaniensia Spanish Humanism on the

Journal of Neo-Latin Studies (Volume LVII) Verge of the Picaresque
Editorial Board: Gilbert Tournoy, Juan Maldonado’s Ludus Chartarum,
Dirk Sacré, Monique Mund-Dopchie, Pastor Bonus and Bacchanalia
and Jan Papy Edited with introduction,
Humanistica Lovaniensia: Journal of Neo-Latin Studies,
translation, and notes by
published annually, is the leading journal in the field of
Warren S. Smith and Clark Colahan
medieval, Renaissance, and modern Latin. As well as
The sixteenth-century humanist Juan Maldonado in his
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Adams, Charles Francis 31 Faubion, James D., ed. 46 Wordsworth, The 35 trans. 64
Adams, Henry 31 Federations 43 Making Virtual Worlds 7 Snakes 54
Adler, Paul S. 45 Fictions of Embassy 51 Malaby, Thomas 7 Spanish Humanism on the Verge of
Agitate! Educate! Organize! 4–5 Fieldwork Is Not What It Used Manual of Leaf Architecture 53 the Picaresque 64
Andreas, Peter 41 to Be 46 Marcus, George E., ed. 46 “Speak Useful Words or Say
Andrews, Charles M. 31 Filc, Dani, MD 19 Maritain Factor, The 62 Nothing” 48
Autobiography of a Farm Boy 30 Fluid Flesh 61 Matsuoka, Martha 17 Staged Action 6
Babey, E., ed. 65 Forced to Be Good 39 McCurdy, John Gilbert 27 Streetwise for Book Smarts 44
Baert, Barbara, ed. 61 Foreclosed 16 McGuinness, Aims 29 Struggle for Empire 33
Barthélemy, Dominique 23 Francisci de Marchia 65 McKersie, Robert B. 45 Su, Celina 44
Becoming a Woman in the Age From Newgate to Dannemora 31 Milton and the Victorians 51 Suarez-Nani, Tiziana, ed. 65
of Letters 26 Fujii, Lee Ann 14 Mirror, the Window, and the Sword, Miter, and Cloister 33
Beizer, Janet 52 Future Tense 49 Telescope, The 9 Syncategoremata 64
Benjamin, Roger 11 Garwood, Nancy C. 53 Mitchell, John D. 53 Tebbs, Margaret, illus. 53
Benner, Chris 17 Genealogy of Literary Mollenkopf, John 41 Testing the Chains 34
Bergé, Pieter, ed. 60 Multiculturalism, A 52 Mullin, Stephen J., ed. 54 Think Global, Fear Local 38
Bernstein, Jeremy 13 Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse Mund-Dopchie, Monique, Thinking through the Mothers 52
Billiet, Jaak, ed. 62 Syntaxis 65 ed. 64 This Could Be the Start of
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Blum, Susan D. 1 Goldberg, Eric J. 33 Musical Form, Forms, and Thompson, Alexander 40
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Border Games, 2nd ed. 41 Goldstein, Warren 28 My Father and I 20 Tournoy, Gilbert, ed. 64
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Caron, David 20 Herndon, Ruth Wallis, ed. 49 Papa, Lee 6 Whose Ideas Matter? 42
Case Studies in Food Policy for Heynickx, Rajesh, ed. 62 Papy, Jan, ed. 64 Wilf, Peter 53
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Cheng, Fuzhi, ed. 44 History and Its Limits 22 Phan Châu Trinh and His Political Wood, Allen W. 35
Children Bound to Labor 49 Hochschild, Jennifer 41 Writings 56
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Clark, Paul F. 45 Hysterical Men 36 Power Problem, The 3 Archaeology 63
Colahan, Clark, ed. and Icons of the Desert 11 Powers of Prophecy, The 32 Art 4–5, 8–11, 61–62
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Crane, Elaine Forman 29 Janus, Eric S. 38 Rebels without Borders 42 30, 31 35
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