Cultural studies Books

Book SynopsisAmerican Identities is a dazzling array of primary documents and critical essays culled from American history, literature, memoir, and popular culture that explore major currents and trends in American history from 1945 to the present.Trade Review“This unique collection has what students (and their teachers) will find absorbing, provocative, and useful in that perennial quest to locate ourselves in a world we may not have made but that we can understand and change.” Paul Lauter, Trinity CollegeTable of ContentsAlternative Contents by Genre x Preface: How to Use This Book xiii Acknowledgments xiv Introduction 1 Part I Identity, Family, And Memory 6 Understanding Identity 1 Identities and Social Locations: Who Am I? Who Are My People? 8Gwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa-Rey American Families in Historical Perspective 2 What We Really Miss About the 1950s 17Stephanie Coontz Memory and Community 3 Generational Memory in an American Town 29John Bodnar 4 Growing Up Asian in America 39Kesaya E. Noda Part II World War II And The Postwar Era 1940–1960 46 World War II and American Families 5 War Babies 48Maria Fleming Tymoczko 6 From Citizen 13660 56Mine´ Okubo The Cold War and Domestic Politics 7 Containment at Home: Cold War, Warm Hearth 65Elaine Tyler May 8 The Problem That Has No Name 71Betty Friedan 9 The Civil Rights Revolution, 1945–1960 78William H. Chafe 10 From Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic’s Life 84Alice Childress Family Migrations, Urban and Suburban 11 Songs of the Chicago Blues 90 12 Halfway to Dick and Jane: A Puerto Rican Pilgrimage 93Jack Agu¨eros 13 From Goodbye, Columbus 103Philip Roth Part III War And Social Movements, 1960–1975 112 The Civil Rights Movement 14 Letter from Birmingham City Jail 114Martin Luther King, Jr. 15 Message to the Grass Roots 119Malcolm X 16 Songs of the Civil Rights Movement 126 Student Activism 17 Port Huron Statement 130 Students for a Democratic Society 18 The Port Huron Statement at 40 134Tom Hayden and Richard Flacks The Vietnam War 19 From Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam 138Christian G. Appy 20 From Born on the Fourth of July 143Ron Kovic 21 From Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans 150Richard J. Ford III Black and Puerto Rican Power 22 Black Power: Its Need and Substance 158Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton 23 ‘‘Respect’’ 166Aretha Franklin 24 ‘‘Say It Loud (I’m Black and I’m Proud)’’ 168James Brown 25 13-Point Program and Platform 170Young Lords Party Women’s Lives, Women’s Rights 26 Sources of the Second Wave: The Rebirth of Feminism 174Sara M. Evans 27 Now Bill of Rights 185 National Organization for Women 28 The Liberation of Black Women 187Pauli Murray 29 Jessie Lopez De La Cruz: The Battle for Farmworkers’ Rights 192Ellen Cantarow The American Indian Movement 30 This Country Was a Lot Better Off When the Indians Were Running It 203Vine Deloria, Jr. The Occupation of Alcatraz Island 208 Indians of All Tribes The Gay Liberation Movement 31 Gay Liberation 212John D’Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman 32 The Fighting Irishman 218 A. Damien Martin 33 The Drag Queen 226Rey ‘‘Sylvia Lee’’ Rivera The New American Right 34 From Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right 233Lisa McGirr Part IV A Postindustrial And Global Society, 1975–2000 240 Deindustrializing America 35 From The Great U-Turn: Corporate Restructuring and the Polarizing of America 242Bennett Harrison and Barry Bluestone 36 From ‘‘It Ain’t No Sin To Be Glad You’re Alive’’: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen 249Eric Alterman 37 A Musical Representation of Work in Postindustrial America 254 38 Class in America: Myths and Realities (2000) 264Gregory Mantsios Marriage and Family: Modern and Postmodern 39 From Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood 272Kristin Luker 40 The Making and Unmaking of Modern Families 281Judith Stacey Multicultural America 41 From Jasmine 290Bharati Mukherjee 42 Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural 300Claudine Chiawei O’Hearn 43 From The Business of Fancydancing: Stories and Poems 305Sherman Alexie The United States as Borderlands 44 Through a Glass Darkly: Toward the Twenty-first Century 309Ronald Takaki 45 ‘‘To live in the Borderlands means you’’ 316Gloria Anzaldu´a 46 From No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies 318Naomi Klein Part V The Future Of Us All? 326 47 Brave New World: Gray Boys, Funky Aztecs, and Honorary Homegirls 328Lynell George 48 From The Future of Us All 335Roger Sanjek 49 The Society That Unions Can Build 348David Reynolds Text and Illustration Credits 359 Index 364

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Book Synopsis* The first collection to explore the contribution that geographical thinking can make to our understanding of modern Britain. * Contains thirteen essays by leading scholars in the geography and history of twentieth--century Britain. * Focuses on how and why geographies of Britain have formed and changed over the past century.Trade Review'Through the appropriately "modern" concepts of survey, site and identity, Gilbert, Matless and Short offer us an enticing set of precise vignettes, framing a geographical interpretation of British modernity. This book sketches an agenda for what will be an enduring preoccupation among historical geographers in "millennial" Britain.' Denis Cosgrove, University of California, Los Angeles "This landmark volume stands as the first work of historical geography to cover the whole span of the twentieth century. Through the analysis of broad patterns of change and the close scrutiny of particular spaces the contributors draw out the contours of British modernity since 1900 and demonstrate the vitality of contemporary historical geography." Miles Ogborn, Queen Mary College, University of London Table of ContentsSeries Editors' Preface. Acknowledgements. List of Contributors. 1. Historical Geographies Of British Modernity: Brian Short, David Gilbert And David Matless (University Of Sussex; Royal Holloway, University Of London; University Of Nottingham). Part I: Surveying British Modernity:. 2. A Century Of Progress? Inequalities In British Society 1901-2000: Danny Dorling (University Of Leeds). 3. The Conservative Century? Geography And Conservative Electoral Success During The Twentieth Century: Ron Johnston, Charles Pattie, Danny Dorling And David Rossiter (University Of Bristol; University Of Sheffield; University Of Leeds; University Of Leeds). 4. Mobility In The Twentieth Century: Substituting Commuting For Migration? Colin G. Pooley (Lancaster University). 5. Qualifying The Evidence - Perceptions Of Rural Change In Britain In The Second Half Of The Twentieth Century: Alun Howkins (University Of Sussex). Part II: Sites Of British Modernity:. 6. ‘A Power For Good Or Evil’: Geographies Of The M1 In Late-Fifties Britain: Peter Merriman (University Of Reading). 7. A New England: Landscape, Exhibition And Remaking Industrial Space In The 1930s: Denis Linehan (University College, Cork). 8. A Man’s World? Masculinity And Metropolitan Modernity At Simpson Piccadilly: Bronwen Edwards (London College Of Fashion, London Institute). 9. Mosques, Temples And Gurdwaras: New Sites Of Religion In Twentieth-Century Britain: Simon Naylor And James R. Ryan (University Of Bristol; Queen’s University, Belfast). Part III: Geography, Nation, Identity:. 10. ‘Stop Being So English’: Suburban Modernity And National Identity In The Twentieth Century: David Gilbert And Rebecca Preston (Royal Holloway, University Of London; Royal College Of Art). 11. Nation, Empire And Cosmopolis: Ireland And The Break With Britain: Gerry Kearns (University Of Cambridge). 12. British Geographical Representations Of Imperialism And Colonial Development In The Early And Mid-Twentieth Century: Robin A. Butlin (University Of Leeds). Afterword: Emblematic Landscapes of the British Modern: David Matless, Brian Short and David Gilbert. Index

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Book SynopsisThis major survey of Old Norse-Icelandic literature and culture demonstrates the remarkable continuity of Icelandic language and culture from medieval to modern times. Comprises 29 chapters written by leading scholars in the field Reflects current debates among Old Norse-Icelandic scholars Pays attention to previously neglected areas of study, such as the sagas of Icelandic bishops and the fantasy sagas Looks at the ways Old Norse-Icelandic literature is used by modern writers, artists and film directors, both within and outside Scandinavia Sets Old Norse-Icelandic language and literature in its wider cultural context Trade Review"In a series that already has a large number and wide range of excellent titles to its credit, I would venture opinion that this volume is one of its best...we have here a major publication of considerable value, not to mention its intrinsic interest. Obviously it will be a necessary acquisition for any specialist collection and for any academic collection where aspects of Old Norse literature and culture may be needed...this will also be a useful addition to major general collections." Reference Reviews "...its chapters are crammed full to bursting with facts and figures, references to primary and secondary sources, swift overviews of past scholarship, and (very importantly) present debates. This is ostensibly a reference book, to be consulted on particular issues and subjects. But as with all the best encyclopedias...browsing becomes addictive...Mc Turk's Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Studies is a great resource for the scholar or graduate student who may think, mistakenly, that he or she is familiar with this field." The Review of English Studies "No one could read the volume and not learn something, indeed a great deal" TLS “A comprehensive guide to Old Norse-Icelandic literature which functions as a basic reference work for scholars in neighboring disciplines, a reliable introduction for students, and an interesting and informative read for Old Norse scholars … a remarkable achievement and a valuable resource.” Carolyne Larrington, St John’s College, Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Maps xii Introduction 1 Rory McTurk 1 Archaeology of Economy and Society 7 Orri Vésteinsson 2 Christian Biography 27 Margaret Cormack 3 Christian Poetry 43 Katrina Attwood 4 Continuity? The Icelandic Sagas in Post-Medieval Times 64 Jón Karl Helgason 5 Eddic Poetry 82 Terry Gunnell 6 Family Sagas 101 Vésteinn Ólason 7 Geography and Travel 119 Judith Jesch 8 Historical Background: Iceland 870–1400 136 Helgi Þorláksson 9 Historiography and Pseudo-History 155 Stefanie Würth 10 Language 173 Michael Barnes 11 Late Prose Fiction (lygiso¨gur) 190 Matthew Driscoll 12 Late Secular Poetry 205 Shaun Hughes 13 Laws 223 Gudmund Sandvik and Jón Viðar Sigurðsson 14 Manuscripts and Palaeography 245 Guðvarður Már Gunnlaugsson 15 Metre and Metrics 265 Russell Poole 16 Orality and Literacy in the Sagas of Icelanders 285 Gísli Sigurðsson 17 Pagan Myth and Religion 302 Peter Orton 18 The Post-Medieval Reception of Old Norse and Old Icelandic Literature 320 Andrew Wawn 19 Prose of Christian Instruction 338 Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir 20 Rhetoric and Style 354 Þórir Óskarsson 21 Romance (Translated riddarasögur) 372 Jürg Glauser 22 Royal Biography 388 Ármann Jakobsson 23 Runes 403 Patrik Larsson 24 Sagas of Contemporary History (Sturlunga saga): Texts and Research 427 Úlfar Bragason 25 Sagas of Icelandic Prehistory (fornaldarsögur) 447 Torfi H. Tulinius 26 Short Prose Narrative (þáttr) 462 Elizabeth Ashman Rowe and Joseph Harris 27 Skaldic Poetry 479 Diana Whaley 28 Social Institutions 503 Gunnar Karlsson 29 Women in Old Norse Poetry and Sagas 518 Judy Quinn Index 536

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Book SynopsisSynthesizing theoretical contributions by Vygotsky, Bakhtin and Bourdieu, Holland and her co-authors examine the processes by which people are constituted as agents as well as subjects of culturally constructed, socially imposed worlds. They develop a theory of self-formation in which identities become the pivot between discipline and agency.Trade ReviewThis book brings a breath of fresh air into the otherwise unimaginative social discourse on 'social identity' that reigns in anthropology and psychology in our time. The perspective outlined in the book is a practice theory; practice conceived not merely as what human beings do, but also what they imagine in conjunction with doing. The authors restore the centrality of personal positioning in the contruction of cultural worlds, and bring anthropologists and psychologists together after their long intellectual separation. -- Jaan Valsiner, Clark UniversityIdentity and Agency in Cultural Worlds is a work of keen intelligence and originality, carefully and clearly written. The authors make an impressive argument about the way in which agency and structure are tangled up in each other, and provide a specific guide to sorting out their various skeins. An essential book for contemporary anthropological theory. -- Tanya Luhrmann, University of California, San DiegoInventive and interdisciplinary...an excellent volume that deserves a wide readership and will be of considerable interest to a number of psychology's researchers, theorists, practitioners, students, and subdisciplines. -- Mark A. Adams * Contemporary Psychology *(A) clear and informative account of how people reshape their sense of self, negotiate their cultural or "figured" world, and rebel against social norms The ethnographic examples include the efforts of undergraduate women to navigate the world of romance; the contested plights of women, especially lower-caste women in Nepal; creating an Alcoholics Anonymous identity by telling the right sort of narrative about one's life; the struggles to survive of persons suffering from mental disorders...Recommended at all levels. -- J.R. Bowen * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface I. On the Shoulders of Bakhtin and Vygotsky 1. The Woman Who Climbed Up the House 2. A Practice Theory of Self and Identity II. Placing Identity and Agency 3. Figured Worlds 4. Personal Stories in Alcoholics Anonymous 5. How Figured Worlds of Romance Become Desire III. Power and Privilege 6. Positional Identities 7. The Sexual Auction Block IV. The Space of Authoring 8. Authoring Selves 9. Mental Disorder, Identity, and Professional Discourse 10. Authoring Oneself as a Woman in Nepal V. Making Worlds 11. Play Worlds, Liberatory Worlds, and Fantasy Resources 12. Making Alternate Worlds in Nepal 13. Identity in Practice Notes References Credits Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA legendary little book, partly because its author died at the age of 37, but mostly because it stands as a virtually unique representative from its period of a consistently open-minded, moral, aesthetic, and political engagement with commercial culture. -- Louis MenandThe way we really feel about our lives' (and our movies, and our comic books) is precisely what [Warshow is trying to get at. European critics like Siegfried Krakauer or Theodor Adorno had tried to neutralize the mind-bending power of mass culture with big theories, but Warshow believed that his best weapon against ideology was his personal experience as a moviegoer and reader...A claim often made about Warshow is that with his affection for the less-than-highbrow arts and insistence on the audience's responses, he was a forerunner of what would become cultural studies. But...his most important attribute--and legacy--was a well-developed civic consciousness...He demanded of art, low or middle or high, that it be responsible...he made you understand that responsibility is inseparable from integrity. -- Judith Shulevitz * New York Times Book Review *[Warshow's] writing on film remains remarkably fresh...[He] wrote so well because he wrote so honestly about how movies affected him...[He] was unusually gifted in registering the emotional impact of such genres as the western and the gangster film, which he correctly saw as the myths of our society...Although movie-going is a solitary act, many critics write as if they are members of a gang, trying to please some clique or ideology outside the movie theater. Warshow refused to do this; he distrusted theories or methods that denied the immediacy of the movie-going experience. Because he remained true to his own response, and recorded these responses with great eloquence, his writing remains alive, against all odds. -- Jeet Heer * National Post *To read these pieces in any order whatsoever is to come into contact with a unique mind. Warshow wrote about literature, politics, art films, comic strips, the Jews, the theater, and, of course, American movies--the subject for which he is probably best remembered by many of his readers. To all these subjects he brought a sensibility that was in its own way extremely tough, at the same time most forgiving, and unblinkingly open to a very broad variety of human possibilities. -- Midge Decter * Commentary *The Immediate Experience, an anthology of Warshow's pop-cult criticism that first appeared posthumously in 1962, has now received a deluxe reissue, featuring thoughtful appreciations by David Denby and Stanley Cavell, along with eight previously uncollected essays. In addition to Warshow's extensive film writing, the book includes analytical discourses on subjects ranging from Arthur Miller and Clifford Odets to Franz Kafka and Gertrude Stein, to George Herriman's comic strip Krazy Kat...The Immediate Experience is not only a paradigm of trenchant film criticism, but also a fundamental text in the discipline of cultural studies.` -- Frank Halperin * Philadelphia City Paper *Warshow is considered to be an inspiration by popular contemporary critics like David Denby. Writing mostly in Commentary and Partisan Review, Warshow was one of the first American intellectuals to take Krazy Kat and Charlie Chaplin as a fact of life and engage seriously with popular culture. -- Daniel Belasco * Jewish Week *The Immediate Experience collects almost all we have of [Warshow's] supple mind. Long out of print, now reissued and expanded, it is likely to reestablish its author as a preeminent observer of American pop...Warshow was a pioneer, writing such stuff at a time when almost no one else was and writing it better than few have since. A brilliantly pithy sentence from the preface sums up his aim, states his influence, and points to the force of his prose: "A man watches a movie, and the critic must acknowledge that he is a man." -- Troy Patterson * Entertainment Weekly *The essays in The Immediate Experience remain a beacon, a light to begin to show the way to how we might escape our present cultural confusions. -- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt * Los Angeles Times *[Warshow] was a very influential mind of his times. This is a virtually all-inclusive anthology of his published writings. After a half-century, his political zeal now seems almost ridiculously naïve, but his appreciation of the important energies of popular culture--the vitality of the good stuff in the mass market--today seems prescient of many of today's soundly accepted values...This is both nostalgic and provocative social criticism. -- Michael Pakenham * Baltimore Sun *There are few critics whose work truly resonates with a reader...The Immediate Experience provides the most complete record available of the work of just such a critic, whose ability to inspire remains fully intact. -- Craig Teper * Variety *It's a joy to have The Immediate Experience back in print, and with eight new additions. (All are book reviews; they afford us the opportunity to judge Warshow's interaction with Kafka, Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and Shalom Aleichem)...The quality of Warshow's prose matches the quality of his thinking...Read Warshow and feel your mind expand. -- Steve Vineberg * Boston Phoenix *Table of ContentsRobert Warshow: Life And Works, By David Denby Editor's Foreword Introduction By Lionel Trilling Author's Preface PART 1: AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE 1. The Legacy of the 30's 2. Woofed With Dreams 3. Clifford Odets: Poet of the Jewish Middle Class 4. The "Idealism" of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg 5. Paul, the Honor Comics, and Dr. Wertham 6. E. B, White and the New Yorker 7. An Old Man Gone PART 2: AMERICAN MOVIES 8. The Gangster as Tragic Hero 9. Movie Chronicle: The Westerner

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Book SynopsisThe authors of this volume seek to approach the May Fourth movement of 1919 from novel perspectives and contribute to the ongoing critique of the movement. The essays are centered on the intellectual and cultural/historical motivations and practices behind May Fourth discourse.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an account of the surprising interaction between trauma and justice. Moving from texts by Arendt, Benjamin, Freud, Zola, and Tolstoy to the Dreyfus and Nuremberg trials, and the trials of O. J. Simpson and Adolf Eichmann, Felman argues that the adjudication of collective traumas in the 20th century transformed both culture and law.Trade ReviewI have always been an unconditional admirer of Shoshana Felman's critical writing. I don't recall ever having read a flat or flabby paragraph from her pen; rather, she hones her writing so perfectly that it enables her to make the most sensitive arguments in the strongest and clearest way. Her interest has always been in the coming to expression, under various names (madness, woman, trauma…) of what she here ends up calling, after Walter Benjamin, the "expressionless." In that respect her new book, as firmly and subtly written and as absorbing as her previous ones, forms something of a "capstone" to her work. She turns here to trials, and specifically to trials that are perceived as historic; such trials, she argues, are in a complex relation to collective traumas that they partially serve to contain and even silence, but which can also emerge from invisibility in them, sometimes transforming the law itself in the process. -- Ross Chambers, Distinguished Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of MichiganIn this extraordinarily engaging and provocative study, paradoxically, the failure of the trial may indicate its "speaking power." -- Harriet Murav * Comparative Literature Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Storyteller's Silence: Walter Benjamin's Dilemma of Justice 2. Forms of Judicial Blindness, or the Evidence of What Cannot Be Seen: Traumatic Narratives and Legal Repetitions in the O. J. Simpson Case and in Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata 3. Theaters of Justice: Arendt in Jerusalem, the Eichmann Trial, and the Redefinition of Legal Meaning in the Wake of the Holocaust 4. A Ghost in the House of Justice: Death and the Language of the Law Abbreviations Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe 18th-century Chinese novel Rulin waishi (The Unofficial History of the Scholars), Wu Jingzi’s (1701-54) ironic portrait of literati life, challenges the reader to come to grips with the mid-Qing debates over ritual and ritualism, and the construction of history, narrative, and lyricism.

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Book SynopsisIn the early 20th century, China began to import and then to manufacture thousands of consumer goods. Politicians feared trade deficits. Intellectuals feared loss of national sovereignty. And manufacturers wondered how they could survive a flood of cheap imports. Gerth argues that the responses of these groups helped foster modern nationalism.

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Book SynopsisOne of Us views conjoined twinning and other “abnormalities” from the point of view of people living with such anatomies, and considers these issues within the larger historical context of anatomical politics. This deeply thought-provoking and compassionate work exposes the extent of the social frame upon which we construct the “normal.”Trade Review[Dreger] questions whether difference has to be viewed as an impairment and whether impairment is tragic… Disability arises not from the impairment but from the response to it in those around, and so is socially induced… Dreger makes no claim to know all the answers but, by taking their side so eloquently, she invites us to see conjoined twins as ‘no more broken than the rest of us.’ This book is an eloquent and humane plea to see conjoined twins, and others with impairment and disability, as ‘us’ and not ‘them.’ -- Jonathan Cole * Nature *Conjoined twins serve as a metaphor for fundamental truths about what it is to be human. Much of the book’s power, much of its importance, derives from the ways in which the stories it tells resonate with the lives of those who are neither conjoined nor intersexual… Let’s hope the publication of this book leads to…a serious rethinking of all our rights to consent to treatment, to privacy and autonomy, and to life itself. It is because this book has something important to say to ‘normates’ about their own lives, as well as about the lives of conjoined twins, that it stands a real chance of changing how we think about those with atypical anatomies. -- David Wootton * London Review of Books *Part history of medicine, part consciousness-raising freak show, this surprisingly entertaining book examines cultural reactions to conjoined twins and other anatomical anomalies. Dreger argues that Victorians were more appreciative than moderns of people born ‘different,’ viewing them as ‘authorities on a unique and strangely attractive experience.’ Nowadays, pediatric surgeons so prize normalcy that they perform sexual surgery on infants without concern for adult function; they may also withhold information from parents, and even override their consent, when dealing with birth defects… [H]er examples persuasively make the case that the anatomically different feel normal to themselves. * New Yorker *Challenging widely held assumptions is never easy, but that is exactly what Alice Dreger does in this thought provoking and compassionate book… Dreger suggests that raising the political consciousness of all those with unusual anatomies will benefit them and help shift societal attitudes towards acceptance and integration rather than ‘normalisation.’ This discussion will become increasingly important as medical techniques offer more sophisticated means of detecting, eliminating or treating the ‘abnormal.’ * Bulletin of Medical Ethics *Alice Dreger brims with concern about social attitudes towards people who don’t fit the stereotype of what is ‘normal’ and how this is reflected in deformities in general and conjoinedness in particular. If we look beyond her message—that concepts of ‘normality’ are paradoxically both flexible and rigid (to suit a range of prejudices), notoriously artificial and therefore undesirable—we see she has a point. With copious references, she shows that many sets of joined twins were content with their duplex identity, caring deeply about each other and accommodating their often striking psychological and intellectual differences with an intimacy we singletons can hardly imagine. -- Bob Rickard * Fortean Times *In this thoughtful and provocative examination of conjoined twins and other unusual anatomies, Dreger argues that the medically invasive, almost invariably life-threatening separation surgeries are unnecessary and performed, usually, before the people involved are old enough to consent to them. She claims that, historically, most conjoined twins have preferred conjoinment to life as singletons, as Dreger calls those who aren’t conjoined. Rather than changing conjoined twins so that the rest of us can fit them into our construction of normal human anatomy, Dreger believes singletons ought to expand their understanding of anatomical normality to include conjoined twins—and people with cleft lips, intersex genitalia, and other unusual anatomical features. -- John Green * Booklist *Dreger has written a book that is insightful, compassionate, critical, and interesting. She shows how understanding the history of medicine is essential for critically developing current ethical medical protocols and reconstructing what is taken to be normal. -- N. A. McHugh * Choice *Providing historical and contemporary evidence that most adult conjoined twins do not desire to be separated, and that many surgeries are carried out on children too young to object, Domurat Dreger voices distaste for Americans’ failure to tolerate anatomical difference and instead fetishize individualism at all cost… This pithily provocative critique of medical paternalism and society’s blind spot vis-à-vis anatomical standards provides a valuable opportunity to ponder the high-profile surgeries on conjoined twins that most of us know only through the news headlines we habitually fail to question. * Publishers Weekly *Are we singletons simpletons? It may be so. The evidence Alice Dreger marshals in this impressively argued, immensely readable book, suggests that conjoined twins are often perfectly at home in their shared skin, a fact that stretches, if anything, only our assumptions about their double lives. In articulating the rights of the individual in the most intimate of corporations, Dreger makes a persuasive argument for changing society rather than people. Given the recent deaths of the Bijani sisters following separation surgery, Dreger’s contribution to the debate has become even more important. -- Jeffrey Eugenides, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for MiddlesexOne of Us is a fascinating, reasoned, and marvelous exploration of a subject we can’t help being drawn to. Alice Dreger’s book has forced me to rethink my most basic assumptions about the issue of identity and seperateness, for which I am most grateful. -- Abraham Verghese, author of The Tennis Partner and My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDSNot simply a study of conjoinment, Alice Dreger’s book makes a complex and subtle argument for why we should trouble the notion of normal—perhaps the most unchallenged, seemingly commonsensical, foundational idea of our particular place and historical moment. Questioning such an accepted and unexamined concept as normal and the practices that enforce it requires careful rhetorical strategies, subtle arguments, and intricate complexity. Dreger has done this remarkably well, always keeping her writing accessible and lively. More important, she recognizes and acknowledges the cultural logic most of us have absorbed that supports our understanding of conjoinment as a personal tragedy to be undone by medical intervention at any cost and our view of conjoined people as suffering intensely because they are not singletons. One of Us marks an important and original contribution. -- Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory University, author of Extraordinary BodiesDreger is a perceptive, warm, thought-provoking and at just the right times, humorous writer. Her goal—to transform the assumptions made about people born with unusual anatomies—is wonderful and essential, especially for a culture that wishes to embrace diversity. Although her focus is on the most extraordinary form of human anatomy, conjoined twins, she also explores intersex, dwarfism, gigantism and cleft lip in her effort to reform the ‘deformed’ narrative. She weaves these voices with her own, creating a powerful historical perspective on the intersection of anatomy, surgery and social identity. After reading this book, all readers will reflect on being ‘defective,’ on the myriad ways that the body is and is not our destiny. -- Jeanne McDermott, author of Babyface: A Story of Heart and BonesFrom the freak show to the talk show, from the operating theater to the courtroom, Dreger traces the history, ethics, and cultural meanings of our attitudes toward conjoined twins and other people with unusual anatomies. This compassionate and well-researched study is a fascinating and important contribution to medical ethics. -- Katharine Park, Harvard University, coauthor of Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1250–1750Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Limits of Individuality 2. Split Decisions 3. What Sacrifice 4. Freeing the Irish Giant 5. The Future of Anatomy Notes Acknowledgments Credits Index Illustrations 1. Eng and Chang Bunker as young men 2. The Bunker twins with two of their sons 3. Types of conjoinment 4. Laloo and his parasitic twin 5. Abigail and Brittany Hensel at play in the family home 6. Chang and Eng Bunker engaged in various pursuits 7. Lin and Win Htut before separation 8. Cover of AORN Journal, January 1982 9. The Two-Headed Boy of Bengal 10. Charles Byrne with two other giants and several people with dwarfism 11. Advertising pamphlet for Millie and Christina McCoy 12. Crouching Figure with Visible Skeleton, by Laura Ferguson

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Book SynopsisMiryam Sas explores the theoretical and cultural implications of Japanese experimental arts in a range of media, casting light on important moments in the arts from the 1960s to the early 1980s. This book also locates Japanese experimental arts in an extensive, sustained dialogue with key issues of contemporary critical theory.

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Book SynopsisMiracles occupied a unique place in medieval and Byzantine life and thought. This volume makes available three collections of miracle tales never before translated into English. They deepen our understanding of attitudes toward miracles and display the remarkable range of registers in which Greek could be written during the Byzantine period.

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Book SynopsisSonia Ryang casts new light on the study of North Korean culture and society by reading literary texts as sources of ethnographic data. Ryang focuses critical attention on three central themeslove, war, and selfthat reflect the nearly complete overlap of the personal, social, and political realms in North Korean society.

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Book SynopsisCultural Revolution Culture, often denigrated as pure propaganda, was liked not only in its heyday but continues to be enjoyed today. Considering this artmusic, stage works, posters, comics, literaturein its longue durée, Barbara Mittler suggests it builds on a tradition of earlier works, allowing for proliferation in contemporary China.Trade ReviewMittler’s groundbreaking study assesses Cultural Revolution arts—music, drama, opera, painting, comics, and literature—as more than propaganda, demonstrating that they were paradigm-shifting works that left indelible impacts on China’s artistic culture… Magisterial in scope, this book proves that art of the Cultural Revolution period was not an aberration but rather the most complete expression of trends that had begun in the early 20th century, when yearnings for a great hero first entered popular discourse. As the apotheosis of mass culture, the Cultural Revolution produced truly popular art that spoke to uneducated farmers and urbane intellectuals alike and was experienced in multiple ways that belie claims of hegemony. Accompanied by a website that includes further text, images, music, and video clips, this will serve as the definitive study of its genre for years to come. -- N. E. Barnes * Choice *

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Book SynopsisIn essays on issues from censorship to underground poetry, Baranczak explores the role that cultureand particularly literaturehas played in keeping the spirit of intellectual independence alive in Eastern and Central Europe.Table of ContentsBreathing Under Water Under Eastern Eyes E.E.: The Extraterritorial From Russia with Love The New Alrightniks Pontiffs and Repairmen The Cardinal and Communism Praying and Playing Walesa: The Uncommon Common Man On Adam Michnik The Absolute Horizon Censors and Sense Big Brother's Red Pencil Renouncing the Contract The Godfather, Part III, Polish Subtitles The State Artist Despair and Order Gombrowicz: Culture and Chaos The Face of Bruno Schulz A Masterpiece of Memory The Ecstatic Pessimist Fiction and Action A Russian Roulette Science Friction Wake Up to Unreality The Polish Complex Rhyme and Time Searching for the Real The Power of Taste Solitary Solidarity Shades of Gray The Ethics of Language Alone but Not Lonely Distance and Dialogue The Confusion of Tongues Tongue-Tied Eloquence: Notes on Language, Exile, and Writing "The Revenge of a Mortal Hand" Notes Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisIn a masterly commentary on the possibilities of education, Bruner reveals how education can usher children into their culture, though it often fails to do so. Bruner looks past the issue of achieving individual competence to the question of how education equips individuals to participate in the culture on which life and livelihood depend.Trade ReviewIn a breathless, lurching, yet somehow deeply consecutive career spanning nearly sixty years, Bruner has brushed against almost every line of thought in psychology and transformed a number of them...[This book] is dedicated to tracing out the implications of [the] view of narrative as "both a mode of thought and an expression of a culture's world view." There are inquiries into the teaching of science, into "folk pedagogy," into the collaborative nature of learning, and into the child's construction of "a theory of mind" to explain and understand other minds. Autism as the inability to develop such a theory, the formal features of narrative, culture as praxis, and the approaches to education of Vygotsky, Piaget, and Pierre Bourdieu, related to Bruner's but in some tension with it, are all discussed. So are recent developments in primatology, cross-cultural studies of education, IQ testing, the role of the teacher, "metacognition" ("thinking about one's thinking"), relativism, and the uses of neurology...[C]ultural psychology [is] evolving rapidly...At the climax of what is surely one of the most extraordinary and productive careers in the human sciences, a career of continuous originality and tireless exploration, Jerome Bruner may have produced a more revolutionary revolution than even he altogether appreciates. -- Clifford Geertz * New York Review of Books *[A] multi-disciplinary examination of the foundations of thought and human action...Bruner casts his nets widely, drawing on concepts and empirical examples from a broad variety of academic sources ranging from philosophy, rhetoric, and literature to paleontology and primatology. -- Michael Cole and Margaret Gallego * Journal of the Learning Sciences *[This is] an exceedingly important book for those of us who are responsible for schools. We all must read The Culture of Education and ponder its message...Bruner asks once again the big questions that lie behind human learning and thus formal schooling...Most important, Bruner's careful and often elegant arguments gently persuade us that some of the most deeply rooted contemporary ideas about schooling, and the policies and practices that flow from them, are as obsolete and wrong-headed as they are well-intentioned. -- Theodore R. Sizer * The American School Board Journal *As in everything Bruner writes...there is the stamp of imaginative energy, an exceptional breadth of reading and subtle thought. -- Liam Hudson * Nature *This is an enormously important book. It is a book of essays about education in which curriculum and standards and testing hardly get a mention although the issue of standards of conduct of professional educators is implicit throughout. It is a book which, if properly appreciated, would prepare the minds of educators at all levels to meet the challenge facing education now and over the next decades. The text is elegantly written and yet there is an almost desperate sense of urgency in the power of the arguments. It is a-political in a party sense whilst recognising that education is necessarily a political issue. It deals with profoundly complex matters in a clear and forthright way as one would expect of the author. It is free of rhetorical devices save the stridency of the arguments themselves...The book brings together, in coherent form, a vast collection of powerful ideas from a range of fields and brings them to bear on the challenge of education at all levels. It is a tour de force...a masterly foundation for those who have the courage to adopt a cultural approach to education. -- Charles DesForges * British Journal of Educational Psychology *Bruner is a legendary figure in psychology and education...[He] has been the embodiment of all that is right about the academic future, anticipating the field and laying the groundwork for those who followed...[Here] Bruner is once again leading the way to the reunification of mind, culture, and semiosis. We hope that the field is wise enough to follow. -- Donald J. Cunningham and Heather Sugioka * Culture, Education, and Semiotics *This original consideration of the link between education and culture lives up to the Bruner standard of insightful, provocative, and essentially hopeful discourse...In a long first essay he outlines a series of tenets, ranging from the need to foster self-esteem in children to the importance of the narrative mode by which children come to recognize themselves and find a place in the culture. The essays that follow enlarge on these themes with telling commentary on contemporary society. The last chapter spells out why Bruner feels that if psychology is to better understand human nature and the human condition it must master the interplay between biology and culture...The general reader will find this an exhilarating notion well supported by this wonderfully argued work. * Kirkus Reviews *Among readers serious about educational philosophy, Bruner's study will earn high praise. -- Bryce Christensen * Booklist *Table of ContentsPreface Culture, Mind, and Education Folk Pedagogy The Complexity of Educational Aims Teaching the Present, Past, and Possible Understanding and Explaining Other Minds Narratives of Science The Narrative Construal of Reality Knowing as Doing Psychology's Next Chapter Notes Credits Index

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Book SynopsisDistinguished psychologist Michael Cole, known for pioneering work in literacy, cognition, and human development, offers a multifaceted account of what cultural psychology is, what it has been, and what it can be. A rare synthesis of the theory and empirical work shaping the field, this book will be a major foundation for the emerging discipline.Trade ReviewMichael Cole argues that, just as fish do not see water because they swim in it, so humans do not see culture because we swim in it. The first part of the book is a fascinating tour of the early days of psychology. He argues that when psychology tried to become a science, it stopped thinking about the culture in which individuals operate. * New Scientist *Michael Cole’s latest book represents an impressive synthesis of the many disciplinary strands of cultural psychology, as well as an inspiration for this discipline… Cole’s tale is made even more compelling by the account of how he was able to address the concrete theoretical, methodological, and practical problems he and his colleagues encountered while trying to take culture into consideration in their research… Cole’s book should be of interest to a broad audience concerned with the systematic examination of culture and mind… All educators concerned with creating, evaluating, and sustaining productive environments for learning are likely to find both examples and analytic tools that may help them in their ventures. Cole’s subtitle calls cultural psychology a ‘once and future discipline.’ With this work, he offers a significant boost to the discipline’s future. * American Journal of Education *In a very readable, clear book, Cole uses the domain of cognitive development to show how a cultural framework can help us understand the dynamic interplay between individual, social, cultural, and historical lines of development… [It is] a convincing argument for why studying culture can open new horizons and frontiers. * American Journal of Psychology *Culture is back in psychology. Michael Cole, one of the most significant contributors to this movement, gives a thoughtful synthesis of his three decades of theoretical and empirical research in this book. Though mild-mannered in his writing, Cole’s proposal amounts to nothing less than a radical restructuring of the entire discipline of psychology as a scientific enterprise. Whether one agrees with him or not, anyone interested in the culture–mind relation should read it cover to cover. In fact, any psychologist, basic or applied, will be richly rewarded by a close reading of it… Cole’s cultural psychology is an impressive achievement with a promising future. * Contemporary Psychology *Michael Cole’s recent book is a fascinating combination of history, autobiography and monograph. It is written in just the way that psychology should be written. It is informed by the chequered past of this strange discipline, if indeed it is one. In the autobiographical sections the author takes us through his transformation from naïve paradigm dope to truly creative scientist. As a monograph the book consists of an exposition of ‘cultural psychology’ as a general theory of human thought and action, richly illustrated with empirical work conducted within that framework. It has the further merit of cross-referencing, so to say, some, though not all, of the other forms that the disciplinary matrix the author calls ‘cognitive psychology’ has taken in recent decades. Whenever one comes across a book of this depth and a record of this breadth of experiences, one is struck yet again by the amazing way that orthodox, methodological behaviourism and the naive cognitivist mainstream can continue to be pursued… In this remarkable book we have another volume to accompany the growing shelf-load of subtle and powerful studies that call into question the hegemony of methodological behaviourism, naïve experimentalism, the ‘quick fix’ for a few papers to support a tenure application, and mentalistic cognitivism with its hidden and quite implausible individual mental mechanisms… Let us hope that this book is widely read, and its message even more widely acted upon. * Culture & Psychology *[This book] throws…light on Max Velman’s belief that awareness should not be thought of in terms of happenings in the brain alone, but is rather located in ‘events as perceived’—in amalgams of the external world with brain activity. After reading Cole, there’s not much room for doubt that the cultural and social world of the experiencer, as well as the physical world, enters the amalgam. To reach a full understanding of conscious mind, culture must be given as much weight as neuroscience. * Journal of Consciousness Studies *Does experimental psychology face a cross-cultural crisis? Michael Cole believes so, and in his engaging and lucid book…he offers the beginning of a solution. Cultural Psychology covers a wide range of topics, sometimes retrospectively, other times with an eye towards the future, and consistently woven with the threads of his own experience—from early work in Liberia, to ongoing research in the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition at the University of California, San Diego. Discussion varies from the theoretical to the practical to the historical, all the while painting an engaging picture of a potentially reborn discipline… The result is an excellent integration of a widely diverse set of influences, arguing for the shortcomings of general psychology while providing a positive alternative, and demonstrating the practical application of this ‘second psychology.’ …[It] is not only an interesting and excellent piece of synthesis and scholarship, but also potentially important across the multiple disciplines of philosophy, education, cognitive science, and psychology. The book should therefore appeal to a wide audience, and rightly so… Overall, Cultural Psychology is an inspiring and prescient work. * Philosophical Psychology *In an increasingly diverse society, the neglect of cultural differences or their banishment as ‘extraneous variables’ should be troubling to psychologists, and Cole’s prescriptions for a new ‘cultural psychology’ are most welcome. * Library Journal *Herder, Wundt, Dilthey, Sapir, and all the ancestral spirits of cultural psychology must be smiling down at this book and pleased to see their once and future discipline alive and well in the writings of Michael Cole.A pathbreaking volume on cultural psychology by one of the modern masters of that subject. Full of riches.For those unconvinced by the mind as computer metaphor, for those unmoved by the all-too-easy creation of innate mental modules, for those who…believe that the truly unique aspects of human cognition are social and culturally constituted, this is the book!Nowhere will a reader find as rich and thorough a historical account of the origins and evolution of an approach that has become increasingly influential in American psychology.Cole has carried out a heroic task and, in his usual gracious style, he has moved cultural psychology a great distance forward.An immensely important book. Cole is a leading researcher and theorist whose work has for decades provided impetus for advancement in our understanding of culture and mind, and this volume offers readers a big step forward. In it, Cole integrates cultural and historical ideas with the traditional findings and approaches of psychology, and he relates very important theoretical concepts to empirical work on cognition and learning in everyday life. By coordinating cultural ideas with processes of individual development as well as species development, this volume helps move the field beyond the nature-nurture dichotomy. Cultural Psychology is a valuable contribution that is sorely needed.This clear and engaging introduction to cultural psychology will have a major impact on a wide range of readers, and its sociohistoric approaches to mind will bear reading and rereading at more advanced levels. Cultural Psychology promises to be a very important book.Table of ContentsForeword by Sheldon H. White Introduction Enduring Questions and Disputes Cross-Cultural Investigations Cognitive Development, Culture, and Schooling From Cross-Cultural Psychology to the Second Psychology Putting Culture in the Middle Phylogeny and Cultural History A Cultural Approach to Ontogeny The Cognitive Analysis of Behavior in Context Creating Model Activity Systems A Multilevel Methodology for Cultural Psychology The Work in Context Notes References Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewServes as a reminder that government brutality on the border is nothing new. In fact, it was the heart of the Texas Rangers’ mission a century ago. -- Lily Meyer * Los Angeles Review of Books *The Injustice Never Leaves You serves as a long-overdue reality check on the Texas Rangers’ legacy. Martinez traces the group’s history from its relatively humble beginnings in the 1830s—as a small band of armed men organized by Stephen F. Austin to protect settlers—to what it had become by the late 19th century: a state-sponsored terror squad directed to secure white racial hegemony along the Texas-Mexico border…As a renewed militarization of the border takes place, along with new state-sponsored crimes against migrants—see the Trump administration’s cruel family separation policies, for one—it’s an apt moment for this book’s hard lessons of non-textbook Texas history to go mainstream. -- Michael Sandlin * Texas Observer *A page-turner…Haunting…Martinez has written a book that bravely and convincingly urges us to think differently about Texas’s past. But she has also written a book that tells us something about the future we are creating right now. * Texas Monthly *One of Martinez’s most important contributions is to remind us that violence against nonwhites was not simply a matter of private citizens going out of control for private reasons…She links the experiences of Mexican-Americans to those of African-Americans, understanding that enforcing white racial supremacy, through violence and other means—disfranchisement and Jim Crow—goes to the very heart of the story of Texas. -- Annette Gordon-Reed * New York Review of Books *This is the book every Texan should read before casting their votes on border issues. It’s a sad, deeply disturbing account of the terrible atrocities and violence committed by Texas Rangers, law enforcement, and vigilantes against Tejanos and Mexicans in parts of rural Texas a little more than 100 years ago. This book should be standard curriculum in public schools and is a testament to the untold stories of so many who died and endured hardships and anti-Mexican violence at the hands of the government. * Dallas Observer *Absolutely amazing…A groundbreaking book that sheds light on the anti-Mexican violence along the Texas-Mexico border in the early part of the 20th century…No longer can the history of murder at the hands of the Texas Rangers and other law enforcement agencies be hidden. This book will prove to be the preeminent book that all others will consult when researching this period of history. Martinez’s scholarship is truly unparalleled. This one is an absolute must-read. -- Romeo Rosales * Book Riot *In 1915 and 1916, a time of revolutionary upheaval in Mexico, when refugees were streaming across the border, Texas Rangers and American soldiers declared open season on ethnic Mexicans in a time known as the ‘bandit wars.’ …Martinez explores a terrible history that reverberates today not only because of family memory and local curation…but also because so many of its particulars seem taken from current headlines as refugees continue to die in the desert… Timely and of considerable interest to students of borderlands history as well as of sociology. * Kirkus Reviews *A groundbreaking work that lays bare the horrific reign of terror inflicted on innocent Tejanos, mostly in the Valley, by the Texas Rangers and affiliated mobs during the 1910s. * Texas Observer *With eloquence and corazón, Monica Muñoz Martinez has crafted a magisterial study of state-sanctioned vigilante violence in rural Texas. Drawing on institutional archives, oral histories, and family records, she has uncovered horrific events whose deep trauma has carried across generations. She is the first historian to document the anti-lynching campaigns mobilized by Mexican Americans, especially widows seeking justice for their murdered husbands. The Injustice Never Leaves You is a rare, field-defining book that reminds us of the power of historical memory. -- Vicki L. Ruiz, author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century AmericaIn this important and haunting book, Martinez not only documents the painful reality of anti-Mexican violence in Texas, she reveals how, despite the best efforts of the perpetrators, this violence was prevented from fading into oblivion because of the grassroots historical traditions of Tejano communities. The Injustice Never Leaves You opens up significant new insights on everything from state-building along the U.S.–Mexico border to questions of collective memory and historical trauma. -- Karl Jacoby, author of Shadows at Dawn: An Apache Massacre and the Violence of HistoryThe border has always been a place upon which the United States has projected its fears, often at great cost to the people who live here. Much like the time recounted by Martinez, we are in a period of change in every area of life. Politicians have seized upon fears of change to lie about the border, demonize immigrants, and win elections. The history recovered in this book, which sheds light on the consequences of such rhetoric, is an important contribution to the truth. -- José Rodríguez, Texas State SenatorA masterful and sensitive work that reveals the ways in which ethnic Mexicans in Texas have dealt with the trauma of state-sanctioned police violence, mourned the loss of loved ones in their communities, and memorialized the victims by creating multigenerational records that counter state narratives. -- Neil Foley, author of Mexicans in the Making of AmericaThis compelling book about survival and reckoning examines the efforts of communities in the U.S.–Mexico borderlands to wrestle with the meaning of painful episodes of violence. A graceful writer and talented storyteller, Martinez shows the families’ determination to recover these histories and heal wounds that have lasted for generations. -- Geraldo Cadava, author of Standing on Common Ground: The Making of a Sunbelt BorderlandThrough impeccable archival work and a rich trove of oral history and other testimony, Martinez excavates the record of anti-Mexican violence along the U.S.–Mexico border in Texas. The Injustice Never Leaves You is also an indispensable study of the subtler violence along the border of memory and forgetting. A brilliant, important book on the specificities of border history but also on the very nature of ‘history’ itself. -- Matthew Frye Jacobson, author of The Historian’s Eye: Meditations on Photography, History, and the American PresentAn immensely powerful, haunting, and heartfelt book. It is a genuine page-turner that unflinchingly documents the history of violence and terror on the Texas-Mexico border…State racial terror and vigilantism worked hand in hand to establish a blueprint for sanctioned abuse and impunity. -- Ulices Piña * Latin American Research Review *

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe insightful historical narrative of the interplay between altruism and realism over the 20th century, the case studies, the trenchant analysis, and the clear, jargon-free exposition make this a highly recommended read. * Choice *In this subtle and searing critique of U.S. efforts to ‘uplift’ Latin America, Lars Schoultz challenges us to question the fundamental tenets of the development industry that became entrenched in the U.S. foreign policy bureaucracy over the last century. Deeply researched and beautifully written, In Their Own Best Interest is a sobering and thought-provoking meditation on U.S. relations with Latin America. -- Piero Gleijeses, author of Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976–1991Schoultz’s outstanding book does a monumental job of tracing Washington’s compulsion to improve our Latin American neighbors, whether they like it or not. Schoultz’s extraordinary account of U.S. policymaking over the last one hundred years is compelling, with a richness of detail and characters that bring the history alive. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of our relations with our neighbors to the south. -- William M. LeoGrande, coauthor of Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana

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Book SynopsisWinner of the Ray Allen Billington PrizeWinner of the Ellis W. Hawley PrizeWinner of the Sally and Ken Owens AwardWinner of the Vincent P. DeSantis Book PrizeWinner of the Caroline Bancroft History PrizeA powerful argument about racial violence that could not be more timely.Richard WhiteA riveting, beautifully written accountthat foregrounds Chinese voices and experiences. A timely and important contribution to our understanding of immigration and the border.Karl Jacoby, author of Shadows at DawnIn 1885, following the massacre of Chinese miners in Wyoming Territory, communities throughout California and the Pacific Northwest harassed, assaulted, and expelled thousands of Chinese immigrants. The Chinese Must Go shows how American immigration policies incited this violence, and how this gave rise to the concept of the alien in America. Our story begins in the 1850s, before federal border control established strict divisions between citizens and aliensand long before Congress passed theTrade ReviewThe Chinese Must Go shows how a country that was moving, in a piecemeal and halting fashion, toward an expansion of citizenship for formerly enslaved people and Native Americans, came to deny other classes of people the right to naturalize altogether…The stories of racist violence and community shunning are brutal to read. Lew-Williams particularly excels at invoking the psychological effects of the law on Chinese people living in the United States after the exclusion acts passed. -- Rebecca Onion * Slate *In her skillful retelling of the history of white workers’ violence against Chinese immigrants and the formulation of laws to first restrict, and then exclude, Chinese laborers from the United States in the mid-late 19th century, Beth Lew-Williams weaves a story of racial discrimination and nativism that continues to resonate today. -- Andrea Worden * South China Morning Post *With scrupulous research and conceptual boldness, Lew-Williams applies the nuances of a ‘scalar’ lens to contrast anti-Chinese campaigns at local, regional, and national levels, producing a social history that significantly remakes the well-established chronology of Chinese exclusion by highlighting the role of anti-Chinese violence and vigilantism in advancing immigration controls on the Chinese from goals of restriction to exclusion. -- Madeline Y. Hsu, author of Asian American History: A Very Short IntroductionThe Chinese Must Go presents a powerful argument about racial violence that could not be more timely. It shows why nineteenth-century pogroms against the Chinese in the American West resonate today. White nationalists targeted Chinese immigrants as threats to their homes and jobs and blamed the American government for failing to seal the borders. -- Richard White, author of The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865–1896Moving seamlessly from the local to the international, The Chinese Must Go offers a riveting, beautifully written new account of Chinese exclusion, one that foregrounds Chinese voices and experiences. A timely and important contribution to our understanding of immigration and the border. -- Karl Jacoby, Columbia UniversityAn original and compelling analysis of Chinese exclusion in the second half of the nineteenth century, analyzing how the outbreak of anti-Chinese violence in 1885 was both caused by and helped shape American immigration policies. -- Ray Allen Billington Prize JurySimultaneously a beautifully paced, moving read—a powerful and deeply humane account of the emergence of the racialized border, the consequences of which have echoed down to the present. -- Ellis W. Hawley Prize Jury

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Book SynopsisWhat was it like to travel while Black under Jim Crow? Mia Bay brings this dramatic history to life. With gripping stories and a close eye on the rail, bus, and airline operators who implemented segregation, she shows why access to unrestricted mobility has been central to the Black freedom struggle since Reconstruction and remains so today.Trade ReviewIn Traveling Black, Mia Bay’s superb history of mobility and resistance, the question of literal movement becomes a way to understand the civil rights movement writ large…Bay…is an elegant storyteller, laying out the stark stakes at every turn while also showing how discrimination wasn’t just a matter of crushing predictability but often, and more insidiously, a haphazard jumble of risks…Her excellent book deepens our understanding of not just where we are but how we got here. -- Jennifer Szalai * New York Times *American identity is inextricably linked to freedom of movement. But for much of the nation’s history, black Americans have been barred from fully enjoying this freedom…Based on firsthand accounts and comprehensive archival research, Traveling Black details the manifest ways in which black Americans responded to limitations on their mobility. * Smithsonian *Meticulously examines how, with the arrival of each successive form of transportation technology—from those stagecoaches and trains to cars to buses to planes—there was hope on the part of African Americans (and their allies) that the invention would result in a fairer and more equitable system. But each time, white supremacy found its way into the new sphere. * Car and Driver *Takes readers on a journey through the history of segregated travel to travel issues faced by contemporary African Americans…Bay provides a detailed historical account of the experiences of African American travelers…A [deep] examination of the history of legal changes pertaining to segregation in transportation. -- Maggie E. C. Jones * Technology and Culture *A deep dive into the history of Black resistance to travel segregation…Bay offers a wealth of detail, reminding readers that for every Rosa Parks there are thousands of less famous people engaged in the same struggle, all worthy of having their stories told. * Christian Century *Fantastic…both a richly detailed history of travel and transportation from the late nineteenth century to the 1960s that centers the experiences of Black travelers, and a deeply researched history of resistance to discrimination that brings to light those travelers’ active and ongoing efforts to demand equal treatment…Bay urges us to rethink our histories of this era in order to acknowledge a much longer and more extensive pattern of resistance than previously known. -- Joanna Grisinger * Jotwell *Important and disturbing…Filled with vivid first-person accounts, Traveling Black is a superb history that captures a shameful aspect of the American story. -- Joseph Barbato * New York Journal of Books *A well-guided scholarly journey through Black travel experiences from the antebellum period to the present…Effectively organized, carefully argued, and meticulously researched, Traveling Black makes a significant contribution to the literature by tracing how the struggle over segregated travel ultimately led to the desegregation of all public spaces—one of the most important achievements of the civil rights movement. -- Karen Kossie-Chernyshev * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *Bay gives us an insightful history of travel segregation for Black people from the late 19th century to the 1960s…You’ll come away from Bay’s book with the realization that for every Rosa Parks…there were countless and unknown Black men and women in segregated America who lived and traveled with determination, resistance, and dignity. * Fodor’s Travel *Disturbing and absorbing…From stagecoaches to iron horses to Cadillacs to the unfriendly skies, Black people in the U.S. have never been truly free to traverse the open road…Bay elevates the importance of the Black right to mobility in the struggle for civil rights. Not simply a record of oppression, the book also illuminates the determined spirit that underpins the fight for Black equality across the country, exploring the methods that Black people have used to subvert a racist system that persists today…A book that shocks, shames, and enlightens. * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) *Mia Bay is one of America’s foremost intellectual and social historians, and her deft treatment of the personal indignities and structural inequities that beset African American travelers rearranges our understanding of the racial dimensions of one of our country’s most sacred rights—the right of free movement. In Bay’s telling, Black travelers emerge as innovators and early adopters of new transportation technologies, out of both social necessity and a dogged commitment to resisting every limit placed on their right to self-determination. She reminds us, as the best historians always do, that for African Americans you cannot understand the destination without sustained attention to the journey. -- Brittney Cooper, author of Eloquent RageThis extraordinary book is a powerful addition to the history of travel segregation. Traveling Black reveals how travel discrimination transformed over time from segregated trains to buses and Uber rides. Mia Bay shows that Black mobility has always been a struggle. -- Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an AntiracistOne of the supposed hallmarks of a free democratic society is the ability to travel without restriction. That has not been the case for Black Americans. From slavery through Jim Crow and beyond they faced a plethora of rules, formal and informal, that made travel a daunting enterprise. Mia Bay is one of the outstanding historians of her generation, and she asks crucial questions: Why were so many of the early challenges to segregated travel brought by women? Why was travel by train and bus such a problem for the racial hierarchy, particularly in the South, and why did it become such a focal point of resistance? Timely and well written, Traveling Black offers a powerful new vision of the long arc of protest against racial segregation in America. -- Annette Gordon-Reed, author of The Hemingses of MonticelloIn America, freedom so often is ‘just another word for’ the right to go where we want to go. Yet as Mia Bay reveals in her dynamic history, African Americans have rarely enjoyed this right without the strings—or stings—of discrimination, whether by law or custom, intimidation, or outright violence. At the core of her story is the struggle over human dignity itself. Bay takes us on a journey from the caprices of the early color line in the antebellum North to the harrowing experiences of ‘driving while Black’ today. Bay shows that the civil rights movement has much deeper roots than many imagine and its movements have long tracked the battle for safe and equal access to the rights of passage. Traveling Black is well worth the fare. Indeed, it is certain to become the new standard on this important, and too often forgotten, history. -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author of Stony the RoadTraveling Black is a stunning achievement that promises to transform our understanding of the character and importance of segregated travel. Based on prodigious research, its richly textured and insightful narrative takes us on a fascinating and eye-opening journey of discovery along the roads and rails of Jim Crow America. -- Raymond Arsenault, author of Freedom RidersA comprehensive survey of the relationship between travel restrictions, racial segregation, and civil rights in America. * Publishers Weekly *

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Book SynopsisBy restoring interracial dimensions left out of accounts of the Harlem Renaissanceor blamed for corrupting itGeorge Hutchinson transforms our understanding of black (and white) literary modernism, interracial literary relations, and twentieth-century cultural nationalism in the United States.Trade ReviewA groundbreaking book...Much of what happened in the black creative world dovetailed with what was happening in the white artistic world, and vice versa. It's difficult to separate the two, although it has been fashionable in recent years to single out artists in both camps and argue--unconvincingly...that certain black artists sold their souls to white hegemony...The brilliance of [this book] emerges from Hutchinson's reconstruction of an era, especially his painstaking examination of the early years of the movement. Hardly a scrap of information has been ignored, and the rewards are plentiful...One finishes reading The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White with a sense of invigoration and hope. -- Charles R. Larson * Chicago Tribune *George Hutchinson's The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White is one of those historical works that utterly and meticulously overturns most previous understanding of its subject matter. Hutchinson places the Harlem Renaissance in a wider context than previous commentators have done. He shows how the pluralist ideas of the Harlemites were part of much broader cultural and intellectual developments that took in pragmatism, the new relativistic anthropology of Franz Boas and a turn toward regionalism in fiction...Hutchinson's enthusiasm for the pragmatist outlook gives the book an energy and urgency that takes it far beyond the bounds of its historical subject matter. It deserves to be read by all those interested not just in a crucial episode of American cultural history, but in the ideal and reality of multiculturalism. -- Adam Lively * Times Literary Supplement *The great service of George Hutchinson's comprehensive study is its unabashed willingness to acknowledge the many inconsistent philosophical and institutional influences on those who brought the Renaissance to life: all the `pragmatist philosophers, Boasian anthropologists, socialist theorists, and new journalists' in the background...A landmark in the field. -- Carlin Romano * Philadelphia Inquirer *Hutchinson's study moves the Harlem Renaissance from the periphery of American life to the center. His courageous and sophisticated redefinition of 'Americanness' subverts the comfortable Jim Crowism of the contemporary academic discourse. His approach to American Studies calls for disciples, critical disciples anxious to move beyond their mentor. -- Maria Diedrich * American Studies *George Hutchinson presents to us in black and white the role of both black and white intellectuals in the shaping of the Harlem Renaissance...[A] well-researched and scholarly work. * Indian Journal of American Studies *The greatest strength of The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White lies in the author's portrayal of the discussions of concepts of nation and race that took place in the twenties in the United States. Hutchinson insightfully reminds us that contemporary controversies on multiculturalism, the canon and African American literature were initiated and anticipated by the Harlem Renaissance authors...The interdisciplinary qualities of this study make it highly recommendable to a wide academic readership, especially those engaged in cultural studies, American history and literature. -- Pilar Sánchez Calle * Borderlines [UK] *Authoritative and challenging, complex yet lucid, this volume is a welcome addition to recent studies of the Harlem Renaissance and of American cultural pluralism more generally. Hutchinson has produced an elaborate cultural history of the interactions between those writers, editors, and publishers who helped create and sustain the image of the New Negro during the 1920s. -- Martin Padget * American Studies *Hutchinson's study opens necessary and provocative new critical directions. -- S. Bryant * Choice *A refreshingly original analysis of a pivotal period in American cultural history. This book, in my opinion, is the most detailed and subtle study of the complex interplay between text and context, black and white, high modernism and the vernacular, in short, the hybridity that was the Renaissance. -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsPart 1 American modernism, race and national culture: pragmatism and Americanism; the Americanization of "race" and "culture"; cultural pluralism and national identity; cultural nationalism and the lyrical Left. Part 2 The transformation of literary institutions: "The Crisis" and the nation's conscience; toward a new negro aesthetic; reading these United States - "The Nation" and "The New Republic"; the native arts of radicalism and/or race; V.F. Calverton, "The Modern Quarterly" and an anthology; mediating race and nation - the cultural politics of "The Messenger"; "Superior Intellectual Vaudeville" - "American Mercury"; black writing and modernist American publishing. Part III Producing "The New Negro": staging a Renaissance; "The New Negro" - an interpretation.

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Book SynopsisThis fifth and final volume of an award-winning series charts the changing inner history of our times from the tumult of World War I to the 1990s, when personal identity was released from its moorings in gender, family, social class, religion, politics and nationality.Trade ReviewA History of Private Life has been an immense undertaking… The series has deservedly attracted huge praise from historians of all hues for its scholarly imagination and beautiful presentation. It is thus an unusually strong recommendation to say that the final volume is worthy of its predecessors. -- Andrew Freeman * Financial Times *The wealth of materials is impressive, and Arthur Goldhammer’s skillful translation captures the contributors’ voices… Lavishly illustrated with well-captioned reproductions. -- Joseph Coates * Chicago Tribune *The text is leavened with an abundant display of imagery… The entire series amounts to a vast treasury of human thought and experience, a sourcebook of ideas and images. At times lyrical, then analytical, but always provocative… A tool for the analyst and the novelist as much as the historian and anthropologist. -- Jonathan Kirsch * Los Angeles Times *Together these five compact volumes cover much of the history of the classical world, and do so with both ease and authority. * Washington Post Book World *There’s something wonderfully audacious about the very concept of ‘History of Private Life,’ a five-volume study that seeks to reveal the most intimate details of everyday life over three millennia of Western European history. Here is one scholarly work in which the bathroom and the bordello figure as importantly as the storming of the Bastille or the defeat of Napoleon… A fascinating glimpse into the distant and exotic past. -- Jonathan Kirsch (reviewing the series) * Los Angeles Times *The new emphasis on the history of everybody has now been consecrated in [this] ambitious five-volume series…masterfully translated by Arthur Goldhammer… Copious illustrative materials—paintings, drawings, caricatures, and photographs, all cannily chosen and wittily captioned to display domestic life… Magnificent. -- Roger Shattuck * New York Times Book Review *

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Book SynopsisIn his chapters on contemporary queer theory, on Foucault and psychoanalysis, on the politics of sadomasochism, and on the image of “the gay outlaw” in works by Gide, Proust, and Genet, Bersani raises the exciting possibility that same-sex desire by its very nature can disrupt oppressive social orders.Trade ReviewPerhaps no one since Leo Bersani in "Is the Rectum a Grave?" has written so convincingly against the danger of homosexual assimilation as Leo Bersani in Homos...One of the strongest elements of [this book] is Bersani's attack on things which promote a `denial of sex,' whether it be sex acts themselves or, more importantly, the context in which those sex acts are made possible...Homos is a profound piece of imaginative literature. -- Dale Peck * Voice Literary Supplement *In Homos, Leo Bersani effectively attacks some sacred cows of gay cultural theory. Most obviously, he argues against the tenet that gay and lesbian identities are socially constructed and so ultimately (indeed, preferably) dissolvable...Refreshingly, [Bersani] also does not skate round sensitive questions such as the status of sadomasochism within gay sexual practice, and the tortuousness of the political liaison between gays and lesbians...Bersani emerges as our most persuasive advocate of homosexual identities that offer and require social resistance--he terms this "anticommunitarianism"--but also as perhaps the only writer in the field who convincingly brings together psychological and sociological accounts of sexuality. -- Richard Canning * New Statesman & Society *Bersani engages with questions which the gay movement cannot ignore. * Times Literary Supplement *In his provocative and sure-to-be-controversial book, Homos, Bersani argues for the need to preserve the 'otherness' that he maintains is the essential core of homosexual identity. -- David Wiegand * San Francisco Chronicle *Homos is one of the most interesting books to appear in lesbian and gay literature--in fact its vision is so broad that it places lesbian and gay readers centre stage in what could be a revolution. * Our Times *Leo Bersani, one of the most interesting, original and sophisticated of...literary historians, has written primarily on Modernism, from Baudelaire to Beckett and Genet, using Freud's metapsychology as a way of penetrating into the radical implications of their thought...[His] work...[is] a surprise and a revelation, both careful and highly original...It is deeply exciting to engage with Bersani's ideas. They allow us to open up traditional psychoanalytic theory, so that it is no longer a mere therapeutic strategy, and consequently a device for social control and homogeneity, but instead a larger perspective for understanding and valuing those possibilities and differences that can constitute human experience. -- Kenneth Lewes * Psychoanalytic Books *Homos is an extremely persuasive analysis of the "anticommunal" freedom made possible by "perverse" sexuality...Bersani's argument is at once subtle, even brilliant. -- Peggy Phelan * Contemporary Sociology *

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Book SynopsisThrough an exploration of contemporary Chinese popular religion from its cultural, social, and material perspectives, Wei-Ping Lin paints a broad picture of the dynamics of popular religion in Taiwan. Analyzing these aspects of religious practice in a unified framework, she traces their transformation as adherents move from villages to cities.Trade ReviewAn ethnographic work that weaves together description and theoretical discussion, Materializing Magic Power demonstrates the insights we achieve when we approach religious practices from the vantage of materiality. The book will give scholars who have been working on Chinese religious practices a new and promising framework in which to revisit ethnographic and archival sources. For the novice, it gives a thorough multi-sited introduction to popular religious life in all its contemporary complexities. Materializing Magic Power will appeal to those curious about religious practices, but will also engage anyone who wonders about material culture’s role in how we build lasting social relationships. -- D. J. Hatfield, Berklee College of MusicMaterializing Magic Power is a significant contribution to the anthropology of religion and to the study of religion in China. We have quite a few studies of rural religion in Taiwan (although this is particularly well done in Lin’s case), but almost nothing for any Chinese society that brings this level of ethnographic context to migrant religion. It is by far the best study of this kind that I have seen for any Chinese community, even though we have known how important migration has been. -- Robert P. Weller, Boston University

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Book SynopsisRichard III, Troilus and Cressida, and Antony and Cleopatra were figures of intense signification long before Shakespeare gave them new life. When he did, Charnes argues, he used them to explore notorious identitya new kind of infamy based not on the moral and ethical use value of legend but on a commodification of identity itself.Trade ReviewAn impressive virtuoso performance on an important topic in Shakespearean cultural studies… The book’s strengths lie in its ability to conduct clever textual analyses…couched in skillfully maneuvered, diverse theoretical contexts;…its generally rich and sophisticated tissue of associate, interdisciplinary European post-modernist discourses…and popular culture topics;…and its occasional penetrating historical and cultural generalizations… This is a prodigious first attempt and it deserves praise for that reason. In subject and ambition, it should make for serious reading in post-modernist Shakespeare. -- Imtiaz Habib * South Carolina Review *A dazzling and challenging book. -- Catherine Belsey, University of Wales College of CardiffCharnes’s writing is witty, and the book as a whole is wonderfully fresh, not only in the originality of its analysis, but also in its irreverence toward received opinion. -- Michael D. Bristol, McGill UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Belaboring the Obvious Reading the Monstrous Body in King Richard 3 2. "So Unsecret to Ourselves" Notorious Identity and the Material Subject in Troilus and Cressida 3. Spies and Whispers Exceeding Reputation in Antony and Cleopatra Conclusion Epilogue Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAge of Entanglement explores the connections that linked German and Indian intellectuals from the nineteenth century through the Second World War as they shared ideas, formed networks, and studied one another’s worlds. But, as Kris Manjapra shows, transnational intellectual entanglements are not inherently liberal or conventionally cosmopolitan.Trade ReviewAge of Entanglement is a superb and enriching work of intellectual history, presenting larger contexts, perceptions and connections to the understanding of European Germany and colonial‐nationalist India. -- B. Surendra Rao * The Hindu *Age of Entanglement is a brilliantly original story of the revolt of Indian and German intellectuals against the old world of the Pax Britannica. It is much more than a study of South Asian and European history. It is a landmark work in the emerging field of global intellectual history—a remarkable achievement. -- David Motadel * Literary Review *This magnificent history of intellectual exchange between India and Germany is valuable for many reasons. It redresses an odd imbalance in thinking about the influences that shaped Indian intellectual life and institutions in the early 20th century. As Manjapra demonstrates, German intellectual life was not only a major source of influence across almost all the disciplines in modern India; it also provided a different context for Indian and European dialogue outside the context of Empire… This deeply researched, well written, erudite book is rich in the kind of telling detail that far transcends the interest of the central argument… Its treatment of individual texts and thinkers is always pithy and precise; its eye for institutional detail sets it apart from conventional intellectual histories. It is an impressive achievement that once again reminds you of the complexities that go into the making of intellectual cultures. It is an important book in the rediscovery of the history of modern Indian intellectual life. -- Pratap Bhanu Mehta * Indian Express *Manjapra very carefully and expertly opens a window into two past struggles against hegemony, in Germany and India, struggles that were geographically separated but intellectually attached… [An] excellent work… The book should strongly appeal to a wide range of academic and nonacademic readers, and may be of particular interest to those studying world history, geopolitics, post-colonialism and development. -- Ankit Kumar * LSE Review of Books *A superb piece of global intellectual history that moves well beyond the boundaries of Europe and the British Empire. Manjapra shows that the imagination of German thinkers was never confined to Europe, and that Indian intellectuals were possessed of a global vision that transcended imperial boundaries. Age of Entanglement paves the way for a new kind of history of ideas. -- Sunil Amrith, author of Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of MigrantsA bold and fascinating work. Manjapra moves decidedly and elegantly beyond conventional frameworks by writing a truly global history of intellectual exchange between Germany and India. Age of Entanglement is an ambitious and convincing account of the ways in which both sides were linked to—and enabled and constrained by—the structures and politics of empire. -- Sebastian Conrad, author of German Colonialism: A Short History

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Book SynopsisHow to determine the theme of a text—can a focus on form be the theme? Can the motif be a formal category? What operations permit us to say that texts are variants of the same theme? The contributors challenge the dismissal of “merely” thematic approaches and offer different ways to tackle the issue of what a piece of writing is “about.”Trade ReviewThis interdisciplinary collection sets the most advanced poetic and ideological approaches side-by-side to resolve the ancient conflict between formalism and the study of content. As a corollary, Sollors’ anthology seeks to sweep away or at least rehabilitate the theoretically impoverished notion-hunting of certain feminists, many new historicists, and race/class/gender critics, to say nothing of second-generation Derrideans… The distinguished contributors…definitely place thematic criticism back on the agenda, and, at the same time, call for a higher level of humanistic discourse. * Virginia Quarterly Review *This study of thematics opens up afresh the problems of literary theory… It also might be an impetus to re-examine the history of postmodernist theory which has co-opted one aspect of thematics in response to modernism but appears to have blithefully ignored what remains problematic. -- John Stephen Martin * Ariel *This collection of essays on thematic criticism, edited by Werner Sollors, can be considered among the most successful and useful examples of the genre… The Return of Thematic Criticism gives a new turn to, and offers new points of observation on, a critical debate that has reached a phase of general confusion and has entered some blind alleys. It should stimulate a broad discussion of international scope, given the importance of the subject and the numbers of centers of research interested in it. The book can also be of notable help to scholars and students, for it can give new theoretical awareness to those who are engaged in some form of thematic criticism without having a theoretical awareness of what they do and without being bothered to consider the methodological problems involved. -- Remo Ceserani * Southern Humanities Review *This is a judicious, wide-ranging study. -- J. F. O’Malley * Choice *

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Book SynopsisTokyo Disneyland has been analyzed mainly as an example of the globalization of the American leisure industry and its organizational culture. Looking at how the park is experienced by employees, management, and visitors, Raz shows that rather than being an agent of Americanization, it is a simulated America showcased by and for the Japanese.Trade ReviewRaz’s study of Tokyo Disneyland (TDL) is a well-grounded case of domestication. The central question of the study is to examine how Walt Disney World, as a globalizing and imperialistic operation, has been reworked into the localized cultural networks of Japan… This book is a strong case of glocalization, collapsing the global and local. -- Eric K. W. Ma * Journal of Communication *Raz’s socio-anthropological study describes how a significant piece of American business, ideology, and fantasy has been remade in Japan. Raz challenges the popular idea of Tokyo Disneyland as being a cultural imperialism. Rather, he found that it has succeeded precisely because it has become Japanese while marketing itself as American… [A] fine ethnography. -- M. Y. Rynn * Choice *

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Book SynopsisLeo Ou-fan Lee gives us a wide-angle view of Shanghai culture in the making. He shows us the architecture and urban spaces in which the new commercial culture flourished, then guides us through the publishing and filmmaking industries that nurtured a whole generation of artists and established a bold new style in urban life known as modeng.Trade ReviewLee is at his strongest in discussing the inter-textuality of the various works he discusses in this section of the book, showing their relationship to both the European and Chinese literary traditions… Lee’s focus on republican-era Shanghai is a reminder of the renewed capacities of China’s largest city as a producer of the discourse of modernity in the post-Mao era. -- Antonia Finnane * Left History *The special flavor of prewar Shanghai emerges from these pages. Shanghai Modern is immensely rich in theoretical insights, and they emerge out of the dense, living portrait of old Shanghai, with its literary circles, dance-halls, movie theatres, façades, and streets. Lee makes you see how modern consciousness only exists in the circulation of forms, images, and ideas. The process is laid out before us in this rich and subtle description of the key epoch in the life of this tragic metropolis. -- Charles Taylor, McGill UniversityThis is the definitive study of the making of modern Shanghai. Leo Lee has remapped Shanghai’s cultural geography, marking out the intricate relations between city and coloniality in the 1930s. Admirably combining historical rigor with literary sensibility, it adumbrates an alternative style of cultural criticism for the new century. -- David Wang, Columbia UniversityThis is cultural history from inside out and from ground up. Lee reads the semiotics of Shanghai modernism with a stunning sensibility that evokes a cosmopolitan past when city streets were scenes of poetry rather than protests and when urban experience redefined the meaning of femininity. A major statement towards a new cultural history of modern China. -- Wen-hsin Yeh, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsPreface PART I: The Background of Urban Culture 1. Remapping Shanghai 2. The Construction of Modernity in Print Culture 3. The Urban Milieu of Shanghai Cinema 4. Textual Transactions: Discovering Literary Modernism through Books and Journals PART II: The Modern Literary Imagination: Writers and Texts 5. The Erotic, the Fantastic, and the Uncanny: Shi Zhecun's Experimental Stories 6. Face, Body, and the City: The Fiction of Liu Na'ou and Mu Shiying 7. Decadent and Dandy: Shao Xunmei and Ye Lingfeng 8. Eileen Chang: Romances in a Fallen City III. Reflections 9. Shanghai Cosmopolitanism 10. Epilogue: A Tale of Two Cities Notes Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisA View to a Death in the Morning shows us how hunting has figured in the Western imagination from the myth of Artemis to the tale of Bambi. This book will captivate readers on every side of the dilemma, from the most avid hunters to their most vehement opponents to those who simply wonder about the importance of hunting in human nature.Trade ReviewThere is every reason to believe that animal rights will become increasingly central to our political discourse in the next century. As this issue moves toward center stage, A View to a Death in the Morning will figure prominently...A razor-sharp analysis that succeeds in raising doubts about deeply rooted and widely shared assumptions concerning the position of human beings in nature. -- Robert Rydell * Science *In graceful prose, infused with wit, irony, and asides that lend unexpected and sometimes poignant relevance to his discussion, Cartmill tells an evocative story of human ambivalence about hunting and our relationship to the animals we kill and sometimes eat...This book is a marvelous piece of social history on a topic of wide significance. -- Bruce Winterhalder * American Scientist *[A] splendid book...A View to a Death in the Morning shows both past and present to be a lot more complicated than the slogans of simplistic ideologues. -- Betty Ann Kevles * Los Angeles Times *A stunning survey of society's attitudes toward hunting from classical literature through, inevitably, the greatest anti-hunting event of all time, the release of Walt Disney's Bambi...What [this book] does, with a breadth of literary scholarship and analysis that is most unusual in academic science, is trace society's ambivalence and polarization about hunting from classical Greece...through Rome...and on to the present day...Cartmill's consistent theme--which ties each era, each society, each viewpoint, together in a satisfying text--is his focus on a society's understanding of the relationship between human beings and nature itself. -- M. R. Montgomery * Boston Globe *This book is an elegant, erudite, stimulating essay on the history of Western ideas about humans and nature. -- Adam Kuper * Nature *Table of Contents1. The Killer Ape 2. The Rich Smell of Meat and Wickedness 3. Virgin Hun tresses and Bleeding Feasts 4. The White Stag 5. The Sobbing Deer 6. The Noise of Breaking Machinery 7. The Sorrows of Eohippus 8. The Sick Animal 9. The Bambi Syndrome 10. A Fatal Disease of Nature 11. The Spirit of the Beast 12. A View to a Death in the Morning NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INDEX

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Book SynopsisThroughout US history, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons. Joshua Bennett explores the place of animality in works by Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Jesmyn Ward, and other black writers, delving into the literary imagination and ethical concerns that emerge from being viewed as a subgenre of the human.Trade ReviewThis trenchant work of literary criticism examines the complex ways 20th- and 21st-century African American authors have written about animals. In Bennett’s analysis, Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Jesmyn Ward, and others subvert the racist comparisons that have ‘been used against them as a tool of derision and denigration.’…An intense and illuminating reevaluation of black literature and Western thought. -- Ron Charles * Washington Post *A gripping work…Bennett’s lyrical lilt in his sharp analyses makes for a thorough yet accessible read…Adds to a growing body of critical work that tackles social issues in relation to the realm of ‘nature,’ pushing back simultaneously against the whiteness of both literary studies and ecocriticism. -- Lydia Ayame Hiraide * LSE Review of Books *By turns leading-edge and unaffected, revelatory and understated, Bennett appears much less concerned to prove that his chops as a critic and theorist are equal to his poetic abilities…By way of close readings of some well-established, and a few wholly unnoticed, scenes of black/Animal apposition or relationality, Bennett’s Being Property shares in the ensemblic turn toward black ecological criticism and theory exploring blackness, animality, ground-life, and philosophical posthumanism…Bennett stands to add many more fans to the crowd of us who’ve relished his poetic talents over many years. -- Maurice Wallace * S-USIH: Society for U.S. Intellectual History *A tremendously illuminating study of how black writers wrestle with black precarity. Bennett’s refreshing and field-defining approach shows how both classic and contemporary African American authors undo long-held assumptions of the animal–human divide. -- Salamishah Tillet, author of Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post–Civil Rights ImaginationBennett writes so beautifully that it hurts. Imagine a world of animals—rats, cocks, mules, and dogs—that prompt renewed ways of seeing, thinking, and living beyond cages or chains. These absorbing, deeply moving pages bring to life a newly reclaimed ethics, and black feeling beyond the claims of property or propriety. -- Colin Dayan, author of With Dogs at the Edge of Life and The Law Is a White DogBeing Property Once Myself is destined to be an event. Exhilarating and original, it is as much a work of literary history as it is of literary theory, as much a poetic invocation as it is critical intervention, and as much about animals as it is about people, elegantly uniting the many singularities that constitute, collectively, black literary culture. -- Akira Mizuta Lippit, author of Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of WildlifeBennett makes an important contribution to the fields of Black studies and critical animal studies while offering a uniquely lyrical voice of literary criticism. -- Bénédicte Boisseron * American Literary History *

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Book SynopsisThe Cuban Economy in ?a New Era diagnoses the ills afflicting Cuba's economy and examines seven areas: macroeconomic policy, central planning, small and medium private enterprises, nonagricultural cooperatives, financing options for the new private sector, state enterprise management, and relations with international financial institutions.Trade ReviewWith the passing of Fidel Castro and the reestablishment of U.S.–Cuban relations, Cuba is poised for major change—but towards what? In The Cuban Economy in a New Era, we get a rare glimpse from the inside. Ten leading scholars from the island discuss critical factors in that transformation, including the major economic reforms to date, the key players (from new cooperatives to the emerging private sector), and the role of the formal financial sector and the challenges of innovation and planning. In the process, we get an invaluable first-hand view of how the Cuban economy really functions. To cap it all, as bookends, two long-time Cuban analysts, Harvard’s acclaimed Jorge Domínguez and Lorena Barberia of the Universidade de São Paulo, put this in perspective for us. This book is a key contribution, at precisely the right time. -- Michael Chu, Harvard Business School, and Managing Director and Co-Founder, IGNIA PartnersThis is an excellent volume that profoundly analyzes Raúl Castro’s economic reforms, including the documents of the VII PCC Congress in 2016, with solid and balanced evaluations of performance, and sound recommendations for the future. -- Carmelo Mesa-Lago, Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Economics and Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIt’s hard to say anything new about the 1960s, but Michael Schudson has done it—in a big way. An originally conceptualized and eye-opening history, The Rise of the Right to Know identifies the emergence of transparency or openness in the 1960s and ’70s as a leading principle in American political culture. Across a wide range of political and social spheres, he traces the historic shift in our culture from the hidden to the open, the elite to the populist, the expert to the personal, and the rarefied to the accessible—rooted in the liberal, democratic demand that citizens have a right to know about the decisions that shape their lives. This book made me rethink the postwar era and its importance as very few works of scholarship have. -- David Greenberg, Rutgers UniversityMichael Schudson makes a convincing argument that during [the Cold War era] an unprecedented culture of government openness emerged primarily in domestic institutions. Schudson recounts in detail how the public gained the right of access to government documents; to agencies’ predictions of the environmental consequences of their actions; to basic information about processed foods; and to the deliberations and individual votes of Congress. Thanks to Schudson’s own research and reporting, each of these accounts features an unexpected cast of characters, and each shows how big changes can begin with the actions of a few impassioned individuals. -- Mary Graham * American Prospect *[A] learned history. -- Jack Shafer * Bookforum *By piecing together the story of new laws on freedom of information, consumer labeling and environmental impact reports, [Schudson] shows that these laws were part of a longer, slower change, which began well before the Summer of Love. Law entrenched new information rights but nothing would have reached the statute book without a relaxation of the political and cultural climate… One of the many strengths of The Rise of the Right to Know is its insistent emphasis on culture and its interaction with law… What Schudson shows is that enforceable access to official information creates a momentum towards a better use of what is disclosed and a refinement of how disclosure is best done. -- George Brock * Times Literary Supplement *This book is a reminder that the right to know is not an automatic right. It was hard-won, and fought for by many unknown political soldiers. Even democratic governments do not necessarily consider that openness is a virtue and will resist attempts to prise the lid off their secrets as a matter of course. -- Monica Horten * LSE Review of Books *This book is illuminating on many levels… This is an optimistic book, suggesting that we are better off with our greater access to information. The book also is a refreshing clarification of history… This book is full of such great anecdotes, woven through an account that melds historical narrative, documentary excavation, ethnography, content analysis, personal insight, and intellectual reflection into a much larger story about the process of cultural change… Scholars, students, citizens—read it! -- Judy Polumbaum * Journal of Communication Inquiry *

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Book SynopsisIntroduces an area of scientific research: materials science. This book describes how scientists are inventing materials, ranging from synthetic skin, blood, and bone to substances that repair themselves and adapt to their environment, that swell and flex like muscles, that repel any ink or paint, and that capture and store the energy of the Sun.Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1998 "Let me state up front that Made to Measure ... is an outstanding book. Written for the general reader, it will also greatly appeal to specialists. If you are a solid-state physicist, chemist, materials scientist, engineer, science policy maker, or keen amateur scientist, then sell your shirt to buy it."--Colin Humphreys, New Scientist "Philip Ball offers a panorama of 1,001 new materials for the next century... His survey would make a good textbook for an introductory course in materials science. For the rest of us, the sheer range of examples is impressive."--Jon Turney, Financial Times "Philip Ball writes about the very modern science of materials... [He] is full of fascinating insights, and especially on the photonic side of things he really opens the reader's eyes... [His] book is the first to be entirely devoted to this field. That task has been very well accomplished, and the book is warmly recommended."--Robert W. Cahn, European Journal of PhysicsTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Art of Making3Ch. 1Light Talk: Photonic Materials15Ch. 2Total Recall: Materials for Information Storage63Ch. 3Clever Stuff: Smart Materials103Ch. 4Only Natural: Biomaterials143Ch. 5Spare Parts: Biomedical Materials209Ch. 6Full Power: Materials for Clean Energy244Ch. 7Tunnel Vision: Porous Materials282Ch. 8Hard Work: Diamond and Hard Materials313Ch. 9Chain Reactions: The New Polymers344Ch. 10Face Value: Surfaces and Interfaces384Bibliography429Figure Credits445Index447

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Book SynopsisExamining theories of human evolution and of prenatal hormonal determination of "gender-role" behavior, of sex differences in cognition, and of sexual orientation, the author shows how assumptions laden with social values affect the description, presentation, and interpretation of data.Trade Review"Helen Longino has written a timely book that fills a critical gap in the existing literature between philosophy of science and the social studies of science. Her exposition of scientific inquiry as a context-laden process provides the conceptual tools we need to understand how social expectations shape the development of science while at the same time recognizing the dependence of scientific inquiry on its interactions with natural phenomena. This is an important book precisely because there is none other quite like it."—Evelyn Fox Keller, author of Reflections on Gender and Science

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Book SynopsisPresents a world history and cultural theory of aesthetic surgery. This book discusses how people have reshaped their noses to repair the ravages of war and disease, to match prevailing ideas of beauty, and to avoid association with negative images of the Jew, the Irish, the Oriental, or the Black.Trade Review"A [wide-ranging] and enjoyable work... Gilman has an eye for detail, yet remains aware of the wider perspective. He also raises important questions... In [this] rich, elegant and beautiful [book] he shows that the history of aesthetic surgery is too important to be left to the surgeons."--Jonathan Cole, Times Literary Supplement "There is one theme that links all [Gilman's] work: how human beings construct images of others to define themselves... [He] has been unafraid to examine areas that academics have traditionally shied away from."--The New York Times "[A] readable and useful book... Through Mr. Gilman's long lens, the search for beauty and the fashion for plastic surgery are not a contemporary ill, but something older and more universal."--The Economist Review "[Gilman] tells a strange, macabre, and often richly comic story of shifting desires. His book shows a dazzling European erudition... There is now less furtiveness attached to aesthetic surgery. But the question remains--and Gilman asks it cleverly, humanely, and persistently--whether new appearances just gloss over old problems and often create new ones."--New York Review of Books "Far from the body representing immutable essences of beauty or horror, the history of aesthetic surgery confirms that the body bears witness to public ideologies of sexual and racial difference. And the body has its own invisible memories of tragedy from which, for some, aesthetic surgery offers the promise of transcendence."--Beatrix Campbell, The Independent "Bravely navigating the ethnic maze with admirable aplomb, ... [Sander Gilman] considers nearly every hyphenated group's American dream of becoming something else. He gets away with such brazenness ... by constantly offering entertaining literary and pop culture references upon which we can all hang our hats."--Margo Hammond, The New York Observer "A fascinating combination of text and illustration and of literary, medical, and scientific information. A thoughtful history by an author who knows his material well and has a sympathetic understanding of human beings as well as a lively sense of humor."--Booklist "A fascinating and provocative book."--Library Journal (starred review) "[Gilman's] fast-paced narrative blends cultural criticism with discussion of medical techniques and ethics in a thoughtful study that should appeal to both a lay and professional readership."--Publishers Weekly "With its bizarre amalgam of new developments in medicine and prevailing trends in fashion, "aesthetic surgery" is a phenomenon that begs for examination, and Gilman, as both historian and critic, proves equal to the task... Face-lifts, nose jobs, liposuction, decircumcision, buttocks implants, breast augmentation, and breast reduction, among other procedures, present themselves, Gilman dryly notes, as surgical cures for what is often essentially a psychological problem--a persistent sense of discontent."--Holly Brubach, The Atlantic Monthly "Gilman's research is thorough, his analysis thoughtful, and the presentation thought-provoking."--Choice "Rich in both detail and fascinating illustrations, Gilman's history shows aesthetic surgery as a response to the exigencies of contemporary cultures."--Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles, Isis "Making the Body Beautiful is an important contribution to our understanding of th emergence and significance of aesthetic surgery. It is a must for anyone concerned with our present cultural obsession with beauty and the makability of the body. And it provides a model for writing medical history that is not limited to charting the facts, but tries to understand their meaning as well."--Kathy Davis, Bulletin of the History of Medicine "A richly illustrated, delightfully crafted cultural history of aesthetic surgery ... An informative and captivating history of our attempts to make our bodies beautiful."--Londa Schiebinger, American Historical Review "Gilman tells a timely, yet previously largely untold tale. By presenting the complex interaction of ideas, social relations, technology, psychiatry (and the madness of doctors as well as patients), the author makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of our times."--Erika Bourguignon, The Antioch ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface xvii CHAPTER ONE: Judging by Appearances 3 What Is Aesthetic Surgery? 3 Why Is It Aesthetic Surgery? 8 Remaking the Self 16 "Passing" 21 Criminal Bodies 26 Gender Questions 31 "Before and After" 36 CHAPTER TWO: Victory over Disease 42 Amy and the Princess 42 The Syphilitic Nose 49 The Strange Case of Tristram Shandy 60 Renaissance Noses 66 A Cure from the Colonies 73 CHAPTER THREE: The Racial Nose 85 Enlightenment Noses 85 The Jewish Nose 88 Irish Noses 91 "Oriental" Noses-and Eyes 98 Black into White ill CHAPTER FOUR: Marks of Honor and Dishonor 119 Character Inscribed on the Face 119 Too-Jewish Ears and Noses 124 The Telltale Foreskin 137 Greek Ideals 144 CHAPTER FIVE: Noses at War 157 Fixing Shattered Faces 157 Patriotic Noses and Weimar Surgery 169 Nazi Noses 177 CHAPTER SIX: Assimilation in the Promised Lands 186 Helping Jews Become Americans 186 The Israeli Experience 199 The Importance of Being Barbra 202 CHAPTER SEVEN: After the Nose 206 Erotic Bodies 206 Buttocks Have Meaning 210 Big Breasts and Bellies 218 Small Breasts -- No Breasts? 237 CHAPTER EIGHT: The Wrong Body 258 Men with Breasts 258 Transsexual Surgery 268 The First Cut Is the Deepest 288 CHAPTER NINE: Dreams of Youth and Beauty 295 Beauty and Age 295 Post-Aesthetic Bodies 319 CONCLUSION: "Passing" as Human 329 Notes 335 Index 385

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Book SynopsisTesting the revisionist model of global regulatory governance on an unusually wide variety of cases, including the Internet, finance, genetically modified organisms, and intellectual property rights, this book shows why there is such disparity in the strength of international regulations.Trade Review"Rewarding... Mr. Drezner ... finds that the challenges of the future will be increasingly transnational. As globalization intensifies, the rewards for coordination will increase as well."--Economist "Important... Drezner shows that it is control of their own large domestic markets that give major states the ability to wield power in the global economy. His main contribution, however, is to explode a popular notion of globalization and thereby to set an agenda for the study of global regulatory politics."--G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs "All politics is global is a highly readable, authoritative, and well-investigated piece of political science literature on the globalization-global governance nexus. The explicit strength of the book is the logical and consistent development of the theory of regulatory outcomes, as well as the rigorous review of the scholarly literature. In this respect, it is strongly recommended to advanced graduate and doctoral students interested in the setting-up of game-theoretical models... [T]he detailed case studies enhance the book's attractiveness for a broader readership."--Jale Tosun, Cambridge Review of International Affairs "Among the many strengths of the book lie Drezner's skill in developing a clear and cogent analysis of state power in the global economy and the meticulous way he develops his argument for the key role state preference continues to play in international regulatory regimes... Drezner never wearies in his task of refining our understanding of international regulation and in providing a more lucid insight into the politics of great power preference. The result is a book that challenges popular notions of globalization by placing the power and interests of governments back into the centre stage of debate."--Stephen G. Hughes, International Affairs "All Politics is Global is a more than just a welcome contribution to current international relations scholarship... Drezner takes a fresh look at the role of the powerful states in governing the world economy. Using simple game-theory, he provides a convincing explanation for why the great powers (the US and the EU) have not lost their influential role. In doing so, the book makes a strong case against a growing literature in international relations that attributes a significant degree of agency to international organizations or transnational private actors in shaping international regulatory outcomes."--World Trade Review "Drezner makes an important contribution to the literature by bringing greater focus to the regulatory side of global governance in a small book that is well worth reading... Drezner is to be credited for bringing a much needed discussion about the global politics of the regulatory state to the forefront of International Relations theory and practice."--Rex B. Hughes, International Affairs "This is a detailed, scholarly book that explicates the arcane aspects of regulatory agreements. It won't crack the popular market. However, it will percolate and influence because it also explains quite well the 'big picture' elements of global trade and global regulation."--Austin Bay, Time Record NewsTable of ContentsList of Tables ix Preface xi Glossary of Acronyms xix PART I: THEORY CHAPTER ONE: Bringing the Great Powers Back In 3 CHAPTER TWO: A Theory of Regulatory Outcomes 32 CHAPTER THREE: A Typology of Governance Processes 63 PART II: PRACTICE CHAPTER FOUR: The Global Governance of the Internet 91 CHAPTER FIVE: Club Standards and International Finance 119 CHAPTER SIX: Rival Standards and Genetically Modified Organisms 149 CHAPTER SEVEN: The "Semi-Deviant" Case: TRIPS and Public Health 176 CHAPTER EIGHT: Conclusions and Speculations 204 Index 221

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Book SynopsisDoes globalization menace our cities? Are cities able to exercise democratic rule and strategic choice when international competition increasingly limits the importance of place? This book looks at the political responses of ten cities in North America and Western Europe as they grappled with the forces of global restructuring.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2003 Best Book in Urban Politics Award "This is a major study about western cities in the context of global capitalism and the large demographic shifts of the last thirty years. Through a mix of detailed empirical study and big conceptual questions the authors give us the instruments to capture and detect the ongoing weight of local politics in an exploding international marketplace that has made cities themselves an object for investment."--Saskia Sassen, editor of Global Networks, Linked Cities "An important comparative study of urban development process and politics... Savitch and Kantor's systematic study offers an array of explanations that are woven together to demonstrate several important concepts about planning policy and urban development."--Robyne S. Turner, Journal of the American Planning AssociationTable of ContentsList of Photographs ix List of Figures xi List of Tables xiii Preface xv Acknowledgments xix Chapter One: The Great Transformation and Local Choices 1 Chapter Two: Toward a Theory of Urban Development 29 Chapter Three: Ten Cities, Thirty Years 55 Chapter Four: Social- and Market-centered Strategies 101 Chapter Five: Driving and Steering Urban Strategy 149 Chapter Six: Dirigiste and Entrepreneurial Bargaining 171 Chapter Seven: Dependent Bargaining: Public and Private 223 Chapter Eight: Are Cities Converging? 267 Chapter Nine: Strategies for the International Marketplace 313 Chapter Ten: Conclusions: Cities Need Not Be Leaves in the Wind 346 Appendix: Sources and Notes for Figures and Tables 361 Source Notes 373 Glossary 391 Bibliography 395 Index 425

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Book SynopsisOn the night of the 2000 presidential election, Americans watched on television as polling results divided the nation's map into red and blue states. This title debunks these and other political myths. It includes easy-to-read graphics explaining the 2008 election. It is suitable for those seeking to make sense of fractured political landscape.Trade Review"Gelman and a group of fellow political scientists crunch numbers and draw graphs, arriving at a picture that refutes the [idea] ... of poor red-staters voting Republican against their economic interests. Instead, Gelman persuasively argues, the poor in both red states and blue still mostly vote Democratic, and the rich, nationally speaking, overwhelmingly vote Republican."--Leo Carey, New Yorker "Commentators on both the left and the right have theorized about why working-class Kansas farmers and latte-sipping Maryland suburbanites vote against their economic interests... The real paradox, [Gelman] says, is that while rich states lean Democratic, rich people generally vote Republican; while poor states lean Republican, poor people generally vote Democratic."--Alan Cooperman, Washington Post Book World "This is the Freakonomics-style analysis that every candidate and campaign consultant should read."--Robert Sommer, New York Observer "Gelman works his way, state by state, to help us better understand the relationship of class, culture, and voting. The book is a terrific read and offers much insight into the changing electoral landscape."--Sudhir Venkatesh, Freakonomics blog "[T]his book already analyzes far more data than do most. On that note, it is worth lauding another of this book's strengths: its rich graphical presentation of evidence. Its numerous figures often allow the reader to see the data and to draw one's own inferences, and they render the book accessible to those with little statistical training."--Gabriel S. Lenz, Public Opinion Quarterly "Although the book is stronger on description than interpretation, it raises important questions and presents its findings in a clear and readable fashion that encourages replication, critique, and elaboration... Red State, Blue State shows that much can be learned from applying serious quantitative analysis to popular ideas. It debunks popular misconceptions, but also reveals the limitations of most academic analyses."--David L. Weakliem, International Review of Modern SociologyTable of ContentsPART I: THE PARADOX 1 Chapter 1: Introduction 3 Chapter 2: Rich State, Poor State 8 Chapter 3: How the Talking Heads Can Be So Confused 24 PART II: WHAT'S GOING ON 41 Chapter 4: Income and Voting over Time 43 Chapter 5: Inequality and Voting 58 Chapter 6: Religious Reds and Secular Blues 76 Chapter 7: The United States in Comparative Perspective 94 PART III: WHAT IT MEANS 109 Chapter 8: Polarized Parties 111 Chapter 9: Competing to Build a Majority Coalition 137 Chapter 10: Putting It All Together 165 Afterword The 2008 Election 179 Notes and Sources 197 Index 241

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Book SynopsisIn the wake of the global financial crisis that began in 2007, faith in the rationality of markets has lost ground to a new faith in their irrationality. This title shows how the failure to abandon this assumption hinders our understanding of how markets work, why price swings help allocate capital to worthy companies.Trade ReviewFinalist for the 2011 Paul A. Samuelson Award, TIAA-CREF One of Financial Times (FT.com) non-fiction favourites commended by Martin Wolf, Financial Times chief economics commentator, for 2011 "The debate over how to re-regulate [markets and banks] to avoid another financial crisis is urgent and it cannot conclude without resolving the problem that economics' most basic assumption is flawed. [Beyond Mechanical Markets is one] of the most interesting contributions [to] find a new way to model markets."--John Authers, Financial Times "[Beyond Mechanical Markets] marshals a powerful argument that's bolstered by empirical reality: the eternal failures of mechanical forecasting; the sheer difficulty of beating the market with consistency; the unforeseeable ways that history unfolds... [It's approach] seeks to reach beneficial outcomes through flexible, empirical response to [changing] conditions."--Robert Teitelman, Huffington Post "[A] groundbreaking look at how to tame asset booms and busts... [O]f all the books I've read on the crisis that began in 2007, this one comes closest to laying foundation for a more pragmatic and genuinely useful school of economics."--James Pressley, Bloomberg News "[Beyond Mechanical Markets points to] a new international order [that] can save lives and stop currencies collapsing."--Anatole Kaletsky, The Times "[Beyond Mechanical Markets]'s criticisms are potent and its suggestions intriguing. It would be a pity if they were ignored by economists too busy working on their next theory of everything."--Keyur Patel, Financial World "The argument of this original and important book is that ... economic models still used by central banks and others are seriously misleading and basically useless in dealing with a real world in which individuals are making imperfect and unpredictable interpretations of economic events... The authors' practical recommendations for policy are interesting and they can hardly be accused of a lack of boldness."--Graham Bannock, Central Banking.com "In their provocative and fascinating new book ... Frydman and Goldberg's achievement ... as in their earlier work, is to enlarge the economist's toolkit and to show that there is something useful to be said about uncertainty after all."--Kevin D. Hoover, Journal of Economic MethodologyTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. xiii*What Went Wrong and What We Can Do about It, pg. 1*1. The Invention of Mechanical Markets, pg. 21*2.The Folly of Fully Predetermined History, pg. 41*3. The Orwellian World of "Rational Expectations", pg. 55*4.The Figment of the "Rational Market", pg. 71*5. Castles in the Air: The Efficient Market Hypothesis, pg. 81*6.The Fable of Price Swings as Bubbles, pg. 103*7. Keynes and Fundamentals, pg. 117*8. Speculation and the Allocative Performance of Financial Markets, pg. 149*9. Fundamentals and Psychology in Price Swings, pg. 163*10. Bounded Instability: Linking Risk and Asset-Price Swings, pg. 175*11. Contingency and Markets, pg. 195*12. Restoring the Market-State Balance, pg. 217*Epilogue, pg. 249*References, pg. 257*Index, pg. 273

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Book SynopsisExplains how poorly designed government guarantees for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac led to the debacle of mortgage finance in the United States, weighs different reform proposals, and provides practical recommendations. This book unravels the dizzyingly immense, highly interconnected businesses of Fannie and Freddie.Trade Review"[Guaranteed to Fail] is more multi-dimensional and nuanced than most other books on the bloody crossroads where real estate and banking meet... [The] authors show convincingly that the GSEs' subprime lending was not a noble idea that eventually went wrong or drifted into excesses--it was a fool's errand from the beginning."--Financial Times "[A] valuable book on how two quasi-public companies became 'the world's largest and most leveraged hedge fund'... A balanced study, [Guaranteed to Fail] rises above a clash between partisans on the right--who call the companies 'ground zero' in the meltdown--and those on the left who blame deregulation and Wall Street excess... Part primer, part policy prescription, the text explains in simple language what these entities are, how they got so big, and why we must fix them."--James Pressley, Bloomberg News "In Guaranteed to Fail, a quartet of New York University professors from its Stern School of Business, focus on the 'debacle of mortgage finance' that Fannie and Freddie helped create, and offer a plan for reform. In clear language, and with plenty of data to support their arguments, the authors provide a concise but comprehensive history of the GSEs--which alone makes their book worth reading."--Barron's "Guaranteed to Fail: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Debacle of Mortgage Finance, stands out among all the others... [I]t is one of the very few books to focus squarely on the ultimate cause of the crisis: US government housing policy and the role of the two government-backed mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae in giving effect to that policy."--Stephen Kirchner, The Conversation (Australia) "[T]hought-provoking."--Gillian Tett, Financial Times "[T]he authors provide a detailed template for reform."--The Economist "No one can accuse the authors of failing to offer solutions to the problems they so thoroughly document... One can only hope that some trace of the constructive approach of Guaranteed to Fail will inform the ongoing debate in Washington on the vitally important question of the future structure of the U.S. mortgage market."--Martin S. Fridson, Financial Analyst Journal "This book should, without question, play an important role in the policy discussion of how to reform the mortgage market. Its accessible explanation of the GSEs' growth and behavior, and its detail and care in suggesting the direction for housing finance to go--and how to get it there--are its strengths. In terms of audience, the book seems more oriented toward policy discussions than academic ones... As a whole, it provides a useful overview of the rise and fall of the GSEs, and is a worthwhile read for those interested in understanding the recent crisis."--Daniel K. Fetter, Journal of Economic Literature "[T]he scholarly NYU tome focuses on policy mistakes and perverse incentives... The Stern School economists [highlight the] 'race to the bottom' among mortgage lenders ... [who] responded by 'moving down the credit curve of increasingly shaky mortgage loans.' ... Bad lending begat worse lending."--Robert J. Samuelson, Claremont Review of Books "They combine in an ideal way research and political consulting, resulting in an easy-to-read book that nevertheless has the necessary in-depth analysis. The book is rich with quotes from the past suggesting that everybody should have seen the imminent disaster."--Rico von Wyss, Financial Markets and Portfolio Management "Guaranteed to Fail is one of the more comprehensive and informative books on the financial crisis. In addition to its relevance to the policy debate on homeownership and government guarantees, the book has numerous pedagogical strengths. Each chapter is well-organized, contains numerous charts and graphs, and has incredible detail regarding legislation, announcements, and media reports that impacted the housing market since the 1930s. The appendix, with a timeline of US housing finance milestones and a 32-page blueprint for reform, highlight the great effort that went into the creation of this work."--Cynthia Bansak and Peter Carpenter, Eastern Economic Journal "The [authors] combine in an ideal way research and political consulting, resulting in an easy-to-read book that nevertheless has the necessary in-depth analysis. The book is rich with quotes from the past suggesting that everybody should have seen the imminent disaster."--Rico von Wyss, Swiss Society for Financial Market ResearchTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Prologue 1 CHAPTER ONE: Feeding the Beast 11 CHAPTER TWO: Ticking Time Bomb 31 CHAPTER THREE: Race to the Bottom 41 CHAPTER FOUR: Too Big to Fail 61 CHAPTER FIVE: End of Days 80 CHAPTER SIX: In Bed with the Fed 99 CHAPTER SEVEN: How Others Do It 115 CHAPTER EIGHT: How to Reform a Broken System 132 CHAPTER NINE: Chasing the Dragon 165 EPILOGUE 178 Appendix: Timeline of U.S. Housing Finance Milestones 183 Notes 187 Glossary 207 Index 211

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Book SynopsisThere are over 1,000 McDonald's on French soil. And two Disney theme parks have opened near Paris in the last two decades. From McDonald's and Coca-Cola to free markets and foreign policy, this book looks closely at the conflicts and contradictions of France's relationship to American politics and culture.Trade Review"[R]equired reading for anyone interested in relations between the world's two oldest republics."--Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs "[D]emonstrates with chilling clarity the pattern of US hegemony."--David Hanley, Times Higher Education "In this erudite study examining Franco-American relationships in the 1980s-90s on foreign policy, economics, and popular culture, Kuisel shows that US domestic and foreign policies were a deterrent to France's national identity."--Choice "Richard Kuisel does a masterful job of highlighting and trying to make sense of numerous paradoxes surrounding the unique and complex French fears about Americanization at the turn of the millennium."--Sophie Meunier, H-Diplo Roundtable Reviews "[E]ven the most traditional practitioners of U.S. diplomatic history, and likewise U.S. foreign-policy makers, will have much to learn from this revealing and masterful account of the French 'ways.'"--Alessandro Brogi, H-Diplo Roundtable Reviews "[T]his is a marvelous book, a work of imaginative and sustained scholarship, bold and far-reaching in its scope, shrewd and incisive in its interpretation, a book in which the heady accumulation of detail in no way interferes with the elaboration of a clear big picture. One might question some aspects of certain conclusions, but there is no getting away from the fact that Kuisel is the absolute master of his subject. This is a book which will become a reference for scholars of France for generations to come."--Jolyon Howorth, H-Diplo Roundtable Reviews "Kuisel offers a highly engaging and meticulously documented analysis... Kuisel is ... very persuasive in elucidating why the USA serves as an indispensable foil for France."--Gino Raymond, French Studies "In a fitting sequel to his classic Seducing the French, Richard Kuisel offers a wide ranging and thought-provoking look at the final two decades of a century-long 'asymmetrical rivalry' between France and the United States. His portrait of the eighties and nineties--focusing especially on diplomatic, economic, and cultural conflicts--raises important questions about how scholars conceptualize anti-Americanism and its impact on policy making."--Richard Langer, Diplomatic History "Kuisel's superbly researched analysis adds depth and texture to big and small instances of French impatience with the unquestioned--and unquestioning might of the world's only remaining superpower at the close of the last century. American travelers will meet the book with knowing smiles, no doubt, while academics will be grateful for gaining perspective on the occasional grilling inflicted by French colleagues."--Doina Pasca Harsanyi, Historian "[F]uture historians ... will be indebted to Kuisel for this readable yet detailed analysis of French views on American politics, economics, and popular culture in the late twentieth century... [H]is long and meticulously researched work ... will become, as are his other works, a must-read for historians of society, culture, and diplomacy in the late twentieth-century."--Rebecca Pulju, H-France Forum "The French Way as a very important contribution... Kuisel offers a rich, even colorful, narrative of political history, international relations ... business and, to some extent cultural, history. That is no small feat... Kuisel deserves much praise for taking on a topic and an era that most of the rest of us, slipping back and forth between history and memory, experienced and therefore feel all too qualified to assess."--Stephen L. Harp, H-France Forum "Richard Kuisel clearly belongs to the most prominent American authors who are responsible for our current state of historical knowledge... Kuisel's book, which is conceptually challenging, methodologically sound, and empirically reliable, has much to offer."--Helke Rausch, H-France ForumTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xvii A Note on Anti-Americanism xix Chapter 1: America a la Mode: The 1980s 1 Chapter 2: Anti-Americanism in Retreat: Jack Lang, Cultural Imperialism, and the Anti-Anti-Americans 45 Chapter 3: Reverie and Rivalry: Mitterrand and Reagan-Bush 99 Chapter 4: The Adventures of Mickey Mouse, Big Mac, and Coke in the Land of the Gauls 151 Chapter 5: T aming the Hyperpower: The 1990s 209 Chapter 6: The French Way: Economy, Society, and Culture in the 1990s 271 Chapter 7: The Paradox of the Fin de Siecle: Anti-Americanism and Americanization 329 Reflections 377 Notes 391 Index 473

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Book SynopsisWhy has it been so difficult to move the relationship forward? What are the prospects for doing so in the future? Is the effort doomed to fail again and again? This title deals with these questions.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2014 Douglas Dillon Award, American Academy of Diplomacy One of Bloomberg Businessweek's Best Books of 2015, chosen by Daniel Fuss One of Bloomberg Businessweek's Best Books of 2014, chosen by Dan Fuss "In her largely chronological account of U.S.-Russian relations since 1990, Ms. Stent gives a comprehensive overview of the obstacles that have prevented a closer relationship."--Yascha Mount, Wall Street Journal "[L]ucid... [R]eadable and sometimes surprising."--Kirkus Reviews "[M]agisterial."--The Economist "[Stent's] compelling book provides perhaps the most comprehensive and sober--as well as sobering--assessment of relations across the past two decades."--Neil Buckley, Financial Times "Stent ... expertly condenses the past two decades of this tumultuous relationship with an insider's command of detail."--Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, Times Higher Education "In The Limits of Partnership, Stent ... clearly and carefully lays out the contentious issues that have divided the United States and Russia since the end of the Cold War."--Glenn C. Altschuler, Huffington Post "Until now, there have been no broad-based studies of the vexed contemporary U.S.-Russian relationship in English--or, for that matter, in Russian. This volume fills that void admirably."--Foreign Affairs "Truly outstanding."--Mark Adomanis, Forbes.com "[An] insightful and balanced assessment of two decades of post-Soviet interaction between Washington and Moscow... Stent draws many useful lessons from the ups-and-downs in the U.S.-Russian relationship."--Paul J. Saunders, National Interest "In her magisterial new book The Limits of Partnership, Angela Stent performs a great service by showing that the end of the Obama Reset is only one part of a much broader pattern that goes back to the end of the Soviet Union."--Donald N. Jensen, Institute of Modern Russia "Where Stent's narrative truly excels ... is in presenting the Russian side of the story. It does not fall victim to the understandable temptation to mock Yeltsin or Putin, but rather treats Russia as a U.S. partner with legitimate grievances. This is a particularly worthwhile contribution."--Heather Williams, War Studies Publications "The Limits of Partnership is a comprehensive and objective history and analysis. While dealing with the detailed complexity of the many issues involved, it does so in a clear, straightforward style. Although written before the present Ukrainian crisis, it is an indispensable source for understanding why this crisis has worsened our relationship with Russia."--Walter G. Moss, History News Network "A descriptive and integrative type of work, The Limits of Partnership contributes to a renewed understanding of the legacy of the Cold war, of the cultural mechanisms underlying its practices, the ebb and flow, the meanderings and limitations of ideology, viewed in transnational perspective. Stent's is without doubt a particularly apt and timely undertaking, one whose pertinence is fully probed by the crisis in Ukraine that sparked a proliferation of discourse on the 'new Cold War.' This is certainly a cogent political analysis of the postcommunist architecture in Europe as it profiles itself at this juncture in the twenty-first century."--Adriana Neagu, American, British and Canadian Studies "This is a remarkably even-handed account, in the best kind of way; it explains how each side has understood the serial breakdowns, and explains how the misperceptions on either side have allowed them to happen."--Robert Farley, Lawyers, Guns, & Money blog "Stent, former staffer at the National Intelligence Council and Department of State, has written a masterful analysis of US-Russian relations since the breakup of the Soviet Union... Written in a lively, engaging manner that is free of academic jargon, the book is accessible to readers from a variety of disciplines and academic levels... This book provides a complete and definitive rendering of the key events that have taken place in that relationship and deserves to be widely read."--Choice "[A] highly readable account of US foreign policy during the twenty-five years since the Berlin Wall came down, with respect not just to Russia, but the Eurasian continent generally."--David Warsh, Economic PrincipalsTable of ContentsIntroduction ix List of Acronyms xvii Prologue George H. W. Bush and Russia Reborn 1 Chapter One The Bill and Boris Show 13 Chapter Two Rethinking Euro-Atlantic Security 35 Chapter Three Bush and Putin in the Age of Terror 49 Chapter Four The Iraq War 82 Chapter Five The Color Revolutions 97 Illustrations following page 123 Chapter Six The Munich Speech 135 Chapter Seven From Kosovo to Georgia: Things Fall Apart 159 Chapter Eight Economics and Energy: The Stakeholder Challenge 177 Chapter Nine Reset or Overload? The Obama Initiative 211 Chapter Ten From Berlin to Damascus: Disagreements Old and New 235 Chapter Eleven The Limits of Partnership 255 Acknowledgments 275 List of Interviewees 279 Chronology of Major Events in U.S.-Russian Relations 283 Notes 293 Bibliography 321 Credits for Illustration Section 327 Index 329

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Book SynopsisIs the United States falling behind in the global race for scientific and engineering talent? Are US employers facing shortages of the skilled workers that they need to compete in a globalized world? This book offers careful examinations of the existing evidence and of its use by those involved in these debates.Trade Review"Falling Behind? makes a convincing case."--Andrew Hacker, New York Review of Books "[Teitelbaum's] discussion usefully pulls together previous work by him and others that shows that the existing funding model and practices of universities have uncoupled the supply of new scientists from the need for new scientists, particularly in the life sciences... Falling Behind? also illuminates a bigger picture: Scientists must recognize that the solution to low grant acceptance rates and poor job prospects for new scientists is not increased public funding for research."--Adam B. Jaffe, Science "[A]n outstanding and important new book... Falling Behind? ... brings desperately needed clarity and context to a crucial issue: the nation's much-ballyhooed but essentially fictitious 'shortage' of scientific talent. Drawing on Teitelbaum's decades of experience with labor and migration issues ... the book applies subtle analysis and encyclopedic knowledge to the task of understanding the dynamics of the scientific labor market... Every politician, policymaker, advocate, and ordinary citizen who wants to understand the reality and the genuine challenges currently facing American research and researchers ... should read and absorb what Teitelbaum terms as his book's 'core findings'... Fascinating and revealing nuggets stud the book, displaying the depth and originality of Teitelbaum's research... A review of this length can offer only a taste of the insight, information, and astute judgment that Teitelbaum brings to bear on the history, structure, prospects, and very real current problems of the U.S. scientific enterprise... [T]he book's precise exposition and granular detail make it valuable even for those who already are well versed. For the much larger number of people who are concerned about American science but unfamiliar with the dynamics and history of the scientific labor market, this book will be revelatory ... Teitelbaum's book should transform this important national conversation."--Beryl Lieff Benderly, Science Careers "Well-researched ... Teitelbaum begins Falling Behind by examining the many hyperbolic claims of the current so-called science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) crisis. He expertly dissects these assertions and clearly demonstrates the weak assumptions and sloppy reasoning underlying each... Especially useful is the light Teitelbaum shines on the many financial and political incentives that motivate industry, academia and government to proclaim an engineering and science crisis... A very useful addition to the science and engineering crisis literature."--Robert N. Charette, IEEE Spectrum "A rewarding read."--Alex Usher, Higher Education Strategy Associates "Teitelbaum shows how the U.S. government's science and technology policy has been marked by groundless scares, nonsensical rhetoric, interest-group politics, stop-and-go instability, and misaligned incentives. He does this in a well-documented, restrained, academic way, which gives much weight to his stringent criticisms."--Pierre Lemieux, Regulation Magazine "Readers with interests in science policy, careers or funding will find this book fascinating, although often disquieting. Teitelbaum's analyses of historical alarm/boom/bust cycles and (in particular) the NIH budget-doubling brouhaha are illuminating, and he has a knack for anticipating potential criticisms."--Margaret Harris, Physics World "The book provides an interesting history of US science and engineering workforce studies and actions, and sensible recommendations and principles given the ever-changing workforce."--Deborah Stine, Chemistry World "Despite policy differences that readers may have with Teitelbaum, the concerns he raises about booms and busts in the scientific workforce (due in large part to failures of public policy) should command broad interest."--Daniel Kuehn, Cato JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Chapter 1 Recent Alarms 7 Chapter 2 No Shortage of Shortages 25 Chapter 3 Beliefs, Interests, Effects 70 Chapter 4 The Influence of Employer and Other Interest Groups 87 Chapter 5 What Is the Market Really Like? Supply, Demand, Shortage, Surplus--and Disequilibria 118 Chapter 6 The Distinctive U.S. Academic Production Process 155 Chapter 7 International Comparisons: Glass Half-Full, Glass Half-Empty? 172 Chapter 8 Making Things Work Better 189 Appendix A Controversy about the Meaning of Sputnik 217 Appendix B Evolution of the National Institutes of Health 219 Appendix C "A Nation at Risk" and the Sandia Critique 221 Notes 225 Index 255

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Book SynopsisConflicting claims about culture are a familiar refrain of political life in the contemporary world. This book reasserts the case in favor of liberal multiculturalism by developing a new ethical defense of minority rights.Trade Review"Patten's book, well written, clear, and well argued, is now the best liberal case for recognition. It is also an important rethinking of the idea of liberal neutrality."--Jeff Spinner-Halev, The Review of PoliticsTable of ContentsPreface vii 1. Introduction: Liberalism and the Accommodation of Cultural Diversity 1 1.1. Competing Interpretations of Liberalism 1 1.2. Why the Case for Liberal Culturalism Needs to Be Restated 6 1.3. Four Distinctions, Plus One More 11 1.4. The Main Argument of the Book 27 1.5. Overview 34 2. Rethinking Culture: The Social Lineage Account 38 2.1. The Dilemma of Essentialism 38 2.2. The Critique of Essentialism 40 2.3. Cultural Continuity 45 2.4. The Social Lineage Account 50 2.5. Some Related Concepts 57 2.6. The Normative Significance of Culture: A First Glance 65 3. Why Does Culture Matter? 69 3.1. Options Disadvantage 69 3.2. Culture as Context of Choice 73 3.3. The Access Account 78 3.4. The Adequacy Account 92 3.5. Cultural Preservation versus Fair Treatment of Cultures 102 4. Liberal Neutrality: A Reinterpretation and Defense 104 4.1. An Unfashionable Idea 104 4.2. Neutrality as a Downstream Value 108 4.3. Conceptions of Neutrality 111 4.4. Institutions of Neutrality 119 4.5. The Fairness Justification of Neutrality 123 4.6. The Value of Self-Determination 131 4.7. Fairness and Neutral Treatment 137 5. Equal Recognition 149 5.1. Justice and Cultural Decline: Three Views 149 5.2. Recognition 156 5.3. Recognition and Justice 164 5.4. Equal Recognition versus Liberal Nationalism 171 5.5. The Objection from Expensive Tastes 177 5.6. Is Full Proceduralism Enough? 182 6. Equal Recognition and Language Rights 186 6.1. Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights 186 6.2. Three Kinds of Language Rights 188 6.3. Two Models: Nation Building and Language Preservation 192 6.4. The Equal Recognition Model 196 6.5. The Case for Equal Recognition 201 6.6. The Nation-Building Challenge 205 6.7. The Language Preservation Challenge--Weak Versions 210 6.8. The Language Preservation Challenge--Stronger Versions 216 6.9. Equal Recognition versus the Territoriality Principle 227 7. Democratic Secession from a Multinational State 232 7.1. Theories of Secession 232 7.2. The Failure-of-Recognition Condition 237 7.3. The Equal Recognition of National Identity 242 7.4. The Democracy Argument 256 7.5. The Confederal Alternative 261 7.6. Practical Implications 264 8. Immigrants, National Minorities, and Minority Rights 269 8.1. The Immigrant/National Minority Dichotomy 269 8.2. How Voluntary Is the Decision to Emigrate? 275 8.3. Are Cultural Rights Alienable? 281 8.4. Is the Receiving Society Acting Permissibly? 285 8.5. The Limits of Voluntary Acceptance 294 References 299 Index 311

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