Cultural studies Books
Stanford University Press Niklas Luhmanns Modernity
Book SynopsisThis book is an introduction to the nature of modernity as envisioned by Germany's leading social theorist of the late twentieth century, Niklas Luhmann. For Luhmann, modernity is neither an Enlightenment project nor a ludic rejection of that project, but rather the pre-condition of all our deliberations, the structure within which our semantics makes sense, even as we think we celebrate (or mourn) its passing. Rather than viewing modernity as a disease for which we seek a cure, Luhmann poses it as a question to which we continually devise incomplete and partial answers. When we grow impatient with the contingency and indeterminacy that is thus forced upon us and seek solace in community, religion (orthodox or civic), consensus, and a universal vision of the good life, we grow impatient with modernity itself.The book injects concepts derived from Luhmann's influential systems theory (complexity, contingency, and enforced selectivity; system differentiation, self-referential cTable of ContentsA note on translations; Introduction: paradise lost, modernity regined; 1. Theories of complexity, complexities of theory; 2. Injecting noise into the system; 3. Constructivism as a two-front war; 4. In search of the Lyotard Archipelago; 5. The limit of modernity and the logic of exclusion; 6. Immanent systems, transcendental temptations, and the limits of ethics; 7. Locating the political; Appendix; Notes; Index.
£26.99
Stanford University Press Off StageOn Display
Book SynopsisTen scholars with diverse geographical, theoretical, and topical interests take a close, critical look at the vexed relationship between public identities and the intimate spheres in which they are made. They ask how scholars and activists can engage more creatively with problems encountered on this awkward terrain.Trade Review"The problem of intimacy and mediation is a fascinating and vital one for contemporary anthropology, particularly as more and more ethnographers come to engage with public cultural forms and processes. To the best of my knowledge, no other work has tackled this problem in such depth and from such a variety of perspectives. This work fills a significant gap in the literature on the ethnography of public culture." -Dominic Boyer,Cornell University "This is a book of major importance in relation to the intellectual, practical, and political problems that have beset the field of anthropology. It recognizes the dangerous politics of cultural revelation, but insists that the alternative-the refusal to recognize cultural realities in favor of a bland discourse of identities-is unsatisfactory." -Sherry Ortner,Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University
£26.99
Stanford University Press The Chosen Body
Book SynopsisThis book examines how the social and cultural paradigms of contemporary Israel are articulated through the body. To construct a panoramic view of how the Israeli body is chosen, regulated, cared for, and ultimately made perfect, the author draws upon some twenty years of ethnographic research in Israel in a range of subjects. These include premarital and prenatal screening, the regulation of the body and its imagery among appearance-impaired children and their families, the screening and sanctifying of the body as part of the bereavement and commemoration of fallen soldiers, and the discourse of the chosen body as it surfaces during terrorist attacks, military socialization, war, and the peace process. Trade Review"The Chosen Body demonstrates that passionate scholarship is not an oxymoron . . . . [This] is a great ethnography of how societies shape bodies, but its importance as a work of moral testimony may be even greater." -- Canadian Journal of Sociology Online"The Chosen Body is thought-provoking and has far-reaching importance and relevance for all students of human behavior." -- The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
£22.79
Stanford University Press Foreign Bodies
Book SynopsisBuilding on the critical foundations established by Edward Said in Orientalism, Foreign Bodies examines the relationship between the Orientalist tradition in French art and literature and France''s colonial history. It focuses on a central dimension of this exchange: the prevalent figure of the oriental woman, and the interplay of race and gender in both domestic and colonial history. It also offers a genealogy of contemporary French attitudes to Islamic culture, in which beliefs about sexuality and gender relations continue to occupy a privileged place.The author examines the extent to which the rhetorical status and political implications of Orientalism register the changing circumstances of French colonial activity, tracing the convergence, or divergence, of colonial practice and the literary record. She also argues against the tendency, in both historical and theoretical writing on colonialism, to divide center from margins, metropolitan from colonial. InsteTrade Review"This well-researched book is one of the most stimulating studies of French Orientalism and colonial discourse in decades. . . . At a time of historic East-West tensions, this book advances understanding of cultural politics and the politics of Orientalism, in particular. Recommended for upper-division undergraduates through faculty."—Choice"Whether in the case of Montesquieu's De l'Esprit des lois or his Lettres persanes, whether in the instance of the Oriental tale by Diderot or Gautier's Le Roman de la momie, Dobie demonstrates with aplomb the interplay between context and text. Her approach is wide-ranging and creative, drawing adeptly from psychoanalysis in her detection of 'foot fetishism' in the writing of Gautier, and in her description of the phenomenon of 'displacement' in the works of Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, and others."—H-Net Reviews"Foreign Bodies provides perceptive readings of the selected texts. Dobie deftly uses a deconstructive approach to point [out] the ambivalence that lurks within the representations of the Oriental woman that she chooses to analyze."—Julia Simon, Comparative Literature Studies"Foreign Bodies is a provocative book, revealing both intriguing connections and disconnections."—H-France Book Reviews
£21.59
Stanford University Press The Global Silicon Valley Home
Book SynopsisThe economic boom of the 1990s that led to the rapid rise of computer hardware and software companies (on both sides of the Pacific Rim) also led to the rise of a trans-Pacific commuter culture, a culture in which thousands of Taiwanese-born high-tech engineers realized that they could greatly increase their career opportunities by establishing a life-style that allowed them and their families to regularly commute between two homes, one in Silicon Valley and the other in Taiwan. The Global Silicon Valley Home takes a close look at how participants in the jet-set, wired-to-the-Net, trans-Pacific commuter culture have invented new ways of thinking about how their homes reflect their personal identities.Trade Review"Chang's nuanced readings of her subjects' self-narratives and physical settings provide a new wealth of detail concerning the material manifestations of mobile lives." -- The International History ReviewTable of ContentsContents Preface: All Leaves Fall Back to Their Roots 000 Memories and Identities Chapter 1. Returning Home in the Information Age 000 Chapter 2. Toward the Trans-Pacific Home 000 People Chapter 3. Made By Taiwan: The Trans-Pacific Commuters 000 Chapter 4. The Emerging Transnational Family Life 000 Chapter 5. Transcultural Lifestyles Across the Pacific Rim 000 Communities Chapter 6. Ranch 99: A Virtual Chinatown 000 Chapter 7. Heaven and Hell: Silicon Valley in Hsinchu Science Park 000 Chapter 8. Building a Global City in My Backyard 000 Homes Chapter 9. Mirror Homes 000 Chapter 10. Homes Across the Water 000 Chapter 11. Leaving and Returning in Trans-Pacific Commuter Culture 000 Notes 000 References 000 Index 000
£52.20
Stanford University Press Powers of the Secular Modern
Book SynopsisFor more than three decades, Talal Asad has been engaged in a distinctive critical exploration of the conceptual assumptions that govern the West's knowledgesespecially its disciplinary and disciplining knowledgesof the non-Western world. The essays that make up this volume treat diverse aspects of this remarkable body of work. Among them: the relationship between colonial power and academic knowledge; the historical shifts giving shape to the complexly interrelated categories of the secular and the religious, and the significance of these shifts in the emergence of modern Europe; and aspects of human embodiment, including some of the various ways that pain, emotion, embodied aptitude, and the senses connect with and structure cultural practices. While the specific themes and arguments addressed by the individual contributors range widely, the essays cohere in a shared orientation of both critical engagement and productive extension. Note that this is not a festschrift, nor a celebrTrade Review"The nine essays in this powerful book offer students and mentors alike a window into a theoretical and practical arena that is all too regularly ignored today by pundits and exploitative "studies" on Islam and religion in general."—American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences"While centrally about secularization, this volume is much more than that. Asad's work and the essays engaging him here offer nothing short of an anthropology of the modern. Many issues are broached, leaving the reader with a dazzling array of issues to explore. This is interdisciplinary engagement at its best. An invaluable text for scholars and students working across the social sciences."—Victoria Hattam, New School for Social ResearchTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc2:1 Introduction: The Anthropological Skepticism of Talal Asad @tocca:David Scott and Charles Hirschkind 000 @toc2:2 Secularization Revisited: A Reply to Talal Asad @tocca:Jose Casanova 000 @toc2:3 What is an "Authorizing Discourse"? @tocca:Steven C. Caton 000 @toc2:4 Fasting for Laden: The Politics of Secularization in Contemporary India @tocca:Partha Chatterjee 000 @toc2:5 Europe: A Minor Tradition @tocca:William E. Connolly 000 @toc2:6 Secularism and the Argument from Nature @tocca:Veena Das 000 @toc2:7 On General and Divine Economy: Talal Asad's Genealogy of the Secular and Emmanuel Levinas's Critique of Capitalism, Colonialism, and Money @tocca:Hent de Vries 000 @toc2:8 The Tragic Sensibility of Talal Asad @tocca:David Scott 000 @toc2:9 The Grammar of Redemption @tocca:George Shulman 000 @toc2:10 Subjects and Agents in the history of Imperialism and Resistance @tocca:Jon E. Wilson 000 @toc2:11 Responses @tocca:Talal Asad 000 @toc4:Appendix: The Trouble of Thinking: An Interview with Talal Asad @tocca:David Scott 000 @toc4:Talal Asad: A Bibliography @tocca:Zainab Saleh 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Contributors 000 Index 000
£91.80
Stanford University Press Creating Wealth and Poverty in Postsocialist
Book SynopsisPresents an up-to-date look at the social processes and consequences of China's rapid economic growth.Trade Review"This book's contribution ... is the detailed depiction of the mechanisms that affect Chinese society as it undergoes a rapid transformation in the post colonial period. Despite some flaws, this is the most comprehensive and insightful books in recent years to address the issue of social inequality in globalizing China."—Pun Nagi, The China Journal "The book indeed maps a wide range of social inequality in China: age, gender, class, sector, and regional inequality .... The value of the book for researchers in the field of social stratification actually lies in its variety."—Xiaodan Zhang, China Quarterly"This is the best and most comprehensive volume to have been published on social inequality in contemporary China in quite some time. Non of the chapters disappoint, and all contributions are of consistently high quality. Every sociologist and political scientist, as well as many economists, specializing in China will have to react to this book, and every library should acquire it."—William Hurst, Journal of Asian Studies"The [book] is of high quality."—Dominique Tyl, Chinese Cross Currents."Addressing key issues in debates related to market transition in China, this comprehensive, unique collection will no doubt have audiences in many disciplines. It is the only recent volume of its kind, and the caliber of the contributors guarantees visibility."—Lisa Keister, Duke University"A group of prominent scholars use fresh survey data and in-depth ethnographic analysis and examine a broad range of issues relating to economic and social changes in contemporary China. This timely volume contains some unexpected and fascinating findings which provide new perspectives for understanding a rapidly evolving society." —Wenfang Tang, University of PittsburghTable of ContentsCONTENTS List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments List of Contributors POVERTY, WEALTH, and STRATIFICATION: THE INTERCONNECTIONS Chapter.1 Poverty and Wealth in Postsocialist China: An Overview Deborah Davis and Wang Feng Chapter 2 Market vs. Social Benefits: Explaining China's Changing Income Inequality Qin Gao and Carl Riskin Chapter 3 Market and Gender Pay Equity: Have Chinese Reforms Narrowed the Gap? Philip N. Cohen and Wang Feng Chapter 4 The Two Faces of Luxury: Gender and Generational Inequality in a Beijing Hotel Eileen Otis Chapter 5 The Changing Structure of Employment in Contemporary China Peter Evans and Sarah Staveteig POSTSOCIALIST POWER AND PROPERTY RELATIONS Chapter 6 Institutional Basis of Socialist Stratification in Transitional China Liu Xin Chapter 7 Rethinking Corporatist Bases of Stratification in Rural China Xueguang Zhou Chapter 8 Creating Wealth: Land Seizure, Local Government and Farmers Zhou Feizhou Chapter 9 Resolution Mechanisms for Land Rights Disputes Zhang Jing POSTSOCIALIST LIFE CHANCES Chapter 10 Regional Inequality in China: Mortality and Health Yong Cai Chapter 11 Beyond Cost: Rural Perspectives on Barriers to Education Emily Hannum and Jennifer Adams Chapter 12 Urban Occupational Mobility and Employment Institutions Yanjie Bian INTERPRETING POSTSOCIALIST WEALTH AND POVERTY Chapter 13 Social Contours of Distributive Injustice Feelings in Contemporary China Chunping Han and Martin King Whyte Chapter 14 From Inequality to Inequity: Popular Conception of Social (In)justice in Beijing Ching Kwan Lee Chapter 15 Social Stratification: The Legacy of the Late Imperial Past R. Bin Wong Notes References Index
£89.10
Stanford University Press Creating Wealth and Poverty in Postsocialist
Book SynopsisPresents an up-to-date look at the social processes and consequences of China's rapid economic growth.Trade Review"This book's contribution ... is the detailed depiction of the mechanisms that affect Chinese society as it undergoes a rapid transformation in the post colonial period. Despite some flaws, this is the most comprehensive and insightful books in recent years to address the issue of social inequality in globalizing China."—Pun Nagi, The China Journal "The book indeed maps a wide range of social inequality in China: age, gender, class, sector, and regional inequality .... The value of the book for researchers in the field of social stratification actually lies in its variety."—Xiaodan Zhang, China Quarterly"This is the best and most comprehensive volume to have been published on social inequality in contemporary China in quite some time. Non of the chapters disappoint, and all contributions are of consistently high quality. Every sociologist and political scientist, as well as many economists, specializing in China will have to react to this book, and every library should acquire it."—William Hurst, Journal of Asian Studies"The [book] is of high quality."—Dominique Tyl, Chinese Cross Currents."Addressing key issues in debates related to market transition in China, this comprehensive, unique collection will no doubt have audiences in many disciplines. It is the only recent volume of its kind, and the caliber of the contributors guarantees visibility."—Lisa Keister, Duke University"A group of prominent scholars use fresh survey data and in-depth ethnographic analysis and examine a broad range of issues relating to economic and social changes in contemporary China. This timely volume contains some unexpected and fascinating findings which provide new perspectives for understanding a rapidly evolving society." —Wenfang Tang, University of PittsburghTable of ContentsCONTENTS List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments List of Contributors POVERTY, WEALTH, and STRATIFICATION: THE INTERCONNECTIONS Chapter.1 Poverty and Wealth in Postsocialist China: An Overview Deborah Davis and Wang Feng Chapter 2 Market vs. Social Benefits: Explaining China's Changing Income Inequality Qin Gao and Carl Riskin Chapter 3 Market and Gender Pay Equity: Have Chinese Reforms Narrowed the Gap? Philip N. Cohen and Wang Feng Chapter 4 The Two Faces of Luxury: Gender and Generational Inequality in a Beijing Hotel Eileen Otis Chapter 5 The Changing Structure of Employment in Contemporary China Peter Evans and Sarah Staveteig POSTSOCIALIST POWER AND PROPERTY RELATIONS Chapter 6 Institutional Basis of Socialist Stratification in Transitional China Liu Xin Chapter 7 Rethinking Corporatist Bases of Stratification in Rural China Xueguang Zhou Chapter 8 Creating Wealth: Land Seizure, Local Government and Farmers Zhou Feizhou Chapter 9 Resolution Mechanisms for Land Rights Disputes Zhang Jing POSTSOCIALIST LIFE CHANCES Chapter 10 Regional Inequality in China: Mortality and Health Yong Cai Chapter 11 Beyond Cost: Rural Perspectives on Barriers to Education Emily Hannum and Jennifer Adams Chapter 12 Urban Occupational Mobility and Employment Institutions Yanjie Bian INTERPRETING POSTSOCIALIST WEALTH AND POVERTY Chapter 13 Social Contours of Distributive Injustice Feelings in Contemporary China Chunping Han and Martin King Whyte Chapter 14 From Inequality to Inequity: Popular Conception of Social (In)justice in Beijing Ching Kwan Lee Chapter 15 Social Stratification: The Legacy of the Late Imperial Past R. Bin Wong Notes References Index
£21.59
Stanford University Press Special Relations
Book SynopsisA study of Anglo-American cultural and countercultural exchange from the mid Fifties to the mid-Seventies, Special Relations explores aspects of London modernism, the anti-war movement, student rebellion, black power, the second-wave feminist and gay liberation movements, and transatlantic nostalgia.Trade Review"Special Relations emphasizes the way America shaped late twentieth-century Britain socially, politically, and culturally. It is an exciting, provocative, and original contribution to the history of modern Britain, one that deserves a great deal of attention." -- Stephen Brooke * York University *"This is a major work of historical interpretation, strongly revisionist in its approach and cogently argued. A skeptical critic, Malchow offers an unsentimental, nuanced approach that eschews naïve anglophilia or American triumphalism. An American scholar who has closely observed life in Britain over many years, his personal experience clearly informs a work that is more insightful than any other on the subject." -- Fred Leventhal * Boston University *
£52.70
Stanford University Press Modern Girls on the Go
Book SynopsisThis collection brings together diverse analyses of women in Japan-including department store elevator girls, tour bus guides, airline stewardesses, soldiers, soccer players, beauty queens, and educators-who have been intimately involved in the practices and professions of modernity.Trade Review"Modern Girls on the Go takes us around Japan and around the world to discover how Japanese women have represented and shaped the technologies of modernity—among them capitalism, print culture, consumerism, and transportation systems—throughout the twentieth century and beyond . . . This is a book not only important to scholars engaged in the study of Japanese women's and gender history, but also excellent for classroom use at both the undergraduate and graduate level."—Elyssa Faison, Journal of Japanese Studies"The volume highlights the importance of interdisciplinary analysis to fully understand a complex phenomenon in an unprecedentedly shifting era—the phenomenon of 'historical and cultural contingency.' This collection also clearly depicts what working outside the home meant to these modern girls, showing how to step boldly out of the shadows of gender norms. Japanese women were engaged in gendered labor. This book mirrors these women's diligent efforts and pride in their occupations, which provided an innovative and meaningful life beyond their home—as many girls moved to the public sphere on a quest for independence and a new persona."—Maku Yoshida, Asian Studies Review"In Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan, editors Alisa Freedman, Laura Miller, and Christine R. Yano have compiled an important collection on women and work in the 20th and 21st centuries Japan . . . As a result of the interdisciplinary structure of this collection, the assembled essays offer useful contributions to a variety of fields and are accessible to academic and general readers alike. The editors organized the volume into four sections . . . this organization of chapters serves to guide the reader through distinct sociohistorical periods while masterfully weaving together the connections between 'gender', 'mobility', and 'labor' throughout Japan's period of modernization . . . It is difficult to pinpoint any shortcomings in the volume; rather, it only left this reader wanting more . . . In reading Freedman, Miller, and Yano's outstanding collection, one hopes that these two debates will cease to be seen as oppositional pathways for Japanese women, and that—following in their 'modern girl' predecessors' footsteps—they will take the lead in moving Japan into a more prosperous and egalitarian era."—Kristie Collins, Social Science Japan Journal"Broad in scope, Modern Girls on the Go will be of use to students of gender, mobility, labor, and visual media within the field of Japanese studies, as well as to anthropologists and scholars interested in hybrid or interdisciplinary research methods. Spanning Japan's modernization era to the present day, the scholarship presented here is a valuable reminder of the light a historical approach can shed on anthropological study . . . This edited volume draws some truly original conclusions and offers an ambitious and far-reaching account of the methods and theories with which we may approach the image of the modern girl. Modern Girls on the Go is a valuable contribution to extant scholarship which indicates the future collaborative potential of a variety of disciplines within Japanese studies."—Jennifer Coates, The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology"[A] serious contribution to intercultural studies and gender sensitivities—scholarly, well written, and often moving. . . . Highly recommended."—R. B. Lyman Jr., Choice"This interdisciplinary volume pays serious attention to women's occupations that have been given short shrift. From shop girls to soccer players, these essays show women venturing out across the decades, with the meaning of 'modern' changing as the women themselves challenge the times in which they live. Through these pages, one can see how Japan's 'modern girls' of the historical past still resonate in the present."—Glenda S. Roberts, Waseda University"Wave goodbye to your stereotypes of Japanese working women. This innovative and insightful collection reveals how stewardesses, dancehall girls, and other women in motion challenged social norms and reshaped gender roles in Japan's modern transformation. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplinary perspectives, these essays are sophisticated, eye-opening, and endlessly fascinating."—William M. Tsutsui, author of Godzilla on My Mind
£20.89
Stanford University Press After La Dolce Vita
Book SynopsisThis book chronicles the demise of the supposedly leftist Italian cultural establishment during the long 1980s. During that time, the nation''s literary and intellectual vanguard managed to lose the prominence handed it after the end of World War II and the defeat of Fascism. What emerged instead was a uniquely Italian brand of cultural capital that deliberately avoided any critical questioning of the prevailing order. Ricciardi criticizes the development of this new hegemonic arrangement in film, literature, philosophy, and art criticism. She focuses on several turning points: Fellini''s futile, late-career critique of Berlusconi-style commercial television, Calvino''s late turn to reactionary belletrism, Vattimo''s nihilist and conservative responses to French poststructuralism, and Bonito Oliva''s movement of art commodification, Transavanguardia. Trade Review"There is no sweetness, lightness, weakness, or softness in Ricciardi's indictment, but hard facts and bitter truths piled up to heavy conclusions: Italy's intellectual life is the very culprit of a historical process of progressive civic and social degeneration that has led to the catastrophe that many have called Berlusconi's Italy. A very courageous book." * Roberto M. Dainotto Duke University *"A bold and timely scholarship for all Italian literary or cultural enthusiasts and scholars." -- Greta Aart * Cerise Press *
£89.10
Stanford University Press The Schooled Society
Book SynopsisThe Schooled Society shows how mass education interjects itself and its ideologies into culture at large: from the dynamics of social mobility, to how we measure intelligence, to the values we promote.Trade Review"In a little over 100 years, formal education has gone from the privilege of an elite few to a standard life phase. Conventional analyses view this 'massification' as the inevitable response to increasingly complex societies and economies. David Baker explores formal education as a social-cultural force in its own right, pointing to its profound effects on diverse social institutions and world cultural ideologies. The Schooled Society offers a powerful alternative perspective on the global educational revolution."—Maria Charles, University of California, Santa Barbara"The Schooled Society argues that education is more cultural than functional and more authoritative than instrumental. It constitutes the very groundwork of contemporary society as much as it serves particular needs and interests. This path-breaking book offers a rich, encompassing, global perspective on education, even as it articulates an educationally-grounded vision of contemporary society itself."—David John Frank, University of California, Irvine"The Schooled Society is one of the most important books in the sociology of education in quite some time. It provides an original, rigorous, and well-supported application of neo-institutional theory and covers an enormous amount of material. The author takes on some of the most accepted aspects of both conflict and functionalist theory and in doing so provides what is at times a controversial take on mass education, democracy, K-12 and higher education, cognition, and a number of other topics. It will solidify his reputation as one of today's leading sociologists of education and comparative and international education."—Alan R. Sadovnik, Rutgers University
£91.80
Stanford University Press Globalizing Knowledge
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Globalizing Knowledge is a tour de force, grappling with one of the most important challenges of our time—how to develop and mobilize knowledge produced in the university for global problems, and to do so in an equitable way. Michael Kennedy commands an enormous experience in promoting global networks of knowledge, and is well-versed in the debates about their possibilities and limitations." -- Michael Burawoy, University of California"Kennedy argues masterfully that the urgent project of building global knowledge can and should preserve the richness and texture of vernacular ways of knowing. He demonstrates simultaneously his intense commitment to the engaged, context-sensitive social science and keen awareness of the intellectual and ethical dilemmas unavoidable in the production of universally germane knowledge." -- Jan Kubik, Professor and Director, School of Slavonic and East European Studies * University College London *"Drawing upon his vast experiences and wide readings, Michael Kennedy has written a cogent and compelling book on the globalization of knowledge(s) and of universities. At once empirically rich and theoretically provocative, it is a necessary book for our challenging and confusing times." -- John Lie, University of California"Path-breaking in its depth and sophistication, Globalizing Knowledge makes a key contribution to an evolving field of research and conceptualization. We need new categories of analysis, which Michael Kennedy now gives us, to work with the growing mass of data about our global condition." -- Saskia Sassen * Columbia University, author of Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy *"Michael Kennedy's wise reflections on—and broad experience in working through—some of the key issues at stake in our new global knowledge economy are timely and critical. Kennedy provides readers with important insight into what global knowledge should genuinely mean at a time of pervasive (if also clichéd) globalization. Globalizing Knowledge offers fascinating perspectives on issues of monumental significance not just to our societies, polities, and economies but also our planet." -- Nicholas B. Dirks, Chancellor, University of California * Berkeley *"In a changing world, Michael Kennedy introduces an innovative theoretical framework to increase equality in modern countries while also preserving liberty and freedom. Case studies focusing on different countries allow the reader to better understand the context of Kennedy's ideas." -- Ricardo Lagos Escobar * Former President of Chile *"Information has become the most powerful global asset. With this book, Michael Kennedy makes a plea to all to reach beyond the existing limitations of both academic and political imaginations to seek new socio-political transformations. As long as there is a willingness to consciously explore alternatives, humanity will be able to fulfill the promises of a progress, resulting in a better world for all. Globalizing Knowledge is a major contribution." -- Alfred Gusenbauer * Former Chancellor of Austria *"University presidents have said that globalization was a goal for at least two decades. It is now a reality that is rapidly changing higher education. But with all the attention to student flows, rankings, competition, and fundraising, the primary importance of globalizing knowledge can be forgotten. Michael Kennedy's book puts the focus where it needs to be: on how intellectuals and universities work in different global contexts to inform publics and educate students and how the global organization of academic work shapes both knowledge itself and the responsibilities of intellectuals. These are issues that academics can't afford to ignore." -- Craig Calhoun, President * London School of Economics and Political Science *
£28.80
John Wiley & Sons We Do Not Want the Gates Closed between Us
Book SynopsisIn the 1860s and 1870s, the US government forced most western Native Americans to settle on reservations. These ever-shrinking pieces of land were meant to relocate, contain, and separate these Native peoples. This book tells the story of how Native Americans resisted this effort by building vast intertribal networks.
£19.76
LSU Press Remediating Region
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£28.45
MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni Celluloid China
Book SynopsisThis work is an introduction to the cinema of mainland China from the early 1930s to the early 1990s. Emphasizing both film contexts and film texts, this study covers a broad cinematic analysis that includes investigations of cultural, cross-cultural, social, ethnic and political issues.
£31.46
MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni Teaching Performance Studies
Book SynopsisAn organized treatment of performance studies theory, practice and pedagogy. The 18 essays by scholars and educators seek to reflect the emergent and contested nature of performance studies, a field that looks at the broad range of human performance from everyday conversation to formal theatre.Trade Reviewrecounts a wide variety of teaching methods, experiences, theories, and approaches. All of it fits under the big performance studies tent.... An elusive, playful, embodied, multifaceted, protean operation: Teaching performance studies is very much a creative art. - Richard Schechner, from the ForewordTable of ContentsIntroduction - The Power of Transformation in Performance Studies Pedagogy, Nathan Stucky and Cynthia Wimmer; Theatre Studies/Cultural Studies/Performance Studies - The Three Unities, Joseph Roach; Critical Performative Pedagogy - Fleshing Out the Politics of Liberatory Education, Elyse Lamm Pineau; Speaking of God - Performance Pedagogy in the Theological School, Richard F. Ward; The Queer Performance that Will Have Been - Student-Teachers in the Archive, Craig Gringrich-Philbrook; Performance Theory in an Anthropology Programme, William O. Beeman; The Poetics and Politics of Practice - Experience, Embodiment, and the Engagement of Scholarship, Michelle Kisliuk; Performance Studies, Pedagogy, and Bodies in/as the Classroom, Judith Hamera; Deep Embodiment - The Epistemology of Natural Performance, Nathan Stucky; Action, Structure, Task and Emotion - Theories of Acting, Emotion, and Performer Training from a Performance Studies Perspective, Phillip B. Zarrilli; Performing the Mystory - A Textshop in Autoperformance, Michael S. Bowman and Ruth Laurion Bowman; Teaching in the Borderlands, Joni L. Jones; The Dialogics of Performance and Pedagogy, Arthur J. Sabatini; Improvising Disciplines - Performance Studies and Theatre, Linda M. Park-Fuller; ""I Dwell in Possibility - "" -Teaching Consulting Applications for Performance Studies, Cynthia Wimmer; Performative In(ter)ventions - Designing Future Technologies Through Synergetic Performance, Eric Dishman; Theatre of the Oppressed with Students of Privilege - Practising Boal in the American College Classroom, Bruce McConachie; Performance Studies, Neuroscience, and the Limits of Culture, John Emigh.
£31.46
Northwestern University Press Language Beyond Postmodernism Saying and Thinking
Book SynopsisEugene Gendlin's contribution to the theory of language is the focus of this collection of essays Each essay is followed by a comment from Gendlin himself. The work investigates how concepts grow out of experience, and compares Gendlin's work to that of Wittgenstein, Dilthey and Heidegger.
£29.96
Northwestern University Press Siberia Siberia
Book SynopsisThis work offers an account of the Russians' 400 years of experience in Siberia. Rasputin looks at the the peculiar physical and character traits of the Siberian Russian type, and at the gap between dreams and reality that have plagued Russians in Siberia.
£18.36
Northwestern University Press Future Crossings Literature Between Philosophy
Book SynopsisA collection of essays exploring the future of literary studies by focusing on the relationship between literary theory, philosophy, and cultural studies. The essays aim to break the boundaries separating philosophy and literature.
£27.96
Northwestern University Press When Russia Learned to Read Literacy and Popular
Book SynopsisLate Imperial Russia's revolution in literacy touched nearly every aspect of daily life and culture, from social mobility and national identity to the sensibilities and projects of the country's writers. This title tells the story of this profound transformation of culture, custom and belief.Table of ContentsUses of Literacy; Primary Schooling; The Literature of the Lubok; Periodicals, Installment Adventures and Potboilers; Bandits - Ideas of Freedom and Order; Nationalism and National Identity; Science and Superstition; Success; The Educated Response - Literature for the People.
£22.36
Northwestern University Press Style and Time Essays on the Politics of
Book SynopsisOffers a sustained meditation on the role of interruption in modernity. This book departs from and elaborates an important but overlooked dimension of Walter Benjamin's discourse: the question of style as it bears upon temporality and spatiality. This work suggests that the time has come to revise existing paradigms.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Style, Time, and Appearance; Part 1. Working through Walter Benjamin; 1. Benjamin's Modernity; 2. Being Roman Now: The Time of Fashion. A Commentary on Walter Benjamin's ""Theses on the Philosophy of History"" XIV; 3. Benjamin's Style: The Style that is not Jugendstil; Part 2. Unforeseen Appearances; 4. The ""Place"" of Cosmopolitan Architecture; 5. ""In What Style Should We Build?"" The Style of Cosmopolitan Architecture; 6. Refugees, Cosmopolitanism, and the Place of Citizenship; 7. The Matter of a Materialist Philosophy of Art: Bataille's Manet.
£22.46
Northwestern University Press Immaterial Archives An African Diaspora Poetics of Loss FlashPoints
Book SynopsisIn this innovative study, Jenny Sharpe moves beyond the idea of art and literature as an alternative archive to the historical records of slavery and its aftermath. Immaterial Archives explores instead the intangible phenomena of affects, spirits, and dreams that Caribbean artists and writers introduce into existing archives.
£29.71
University of Pennsylvania Press Postmodern Apocalypse
Book SynopsisFrom accounts of the Holocaust, to representations of AIDS, to predictions of environmental disaster; from Hal Lindsey's fundamentalist 1970s bestseller The Late Great Planet Earth, to Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man in 1992, the sense of apocalypse is very much with us. In Postmodern Apocalypse, Richard Dellamora and his contributors examine apocalypse in works by late twentieth-century writers, filmmakers, and critics.
£25.19
University of Pennsylvania Press Renaissance Culture and the Everyday
Book SynopsisIn Renaissance Culture and the Everyday, scholars illuminate the sometimes surprising issues at stake in such common matters of daily life as mirrors, books, horses, money, laundry baskets, graffiti, embroidery, and food during the Renaissance in England and on the Continent.Trade Review"A lively and illuminating collection of essays that extends the recent trend away from a concentration on structures of state power and religious authority and toward the domestic, the local, and the ordinary. But the ordinary, in the skillful analyses brought together in this volume, proves to be extraordinarily charged with conflict, strangeness, and dramatic intensity. Fumerton and Hunt have assembled some of the most interesting voices in Renaissance studies today." * Stephen Greenblatt *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Books and Readers in Early Modern England
Book SynopsisBooks and Readers in Early Modern England examines readers, reading, and publication practices from the Renaissance to the Restoration. The essays draw on an array of documentary evidence—from library catalogs, prefaces, title pages and dedications, marginalia, commonplace books, and letters to ink, paper, and bindings—to explore individual reading habits and experiences in a period of religious dissent, political instability, and cultural transformation.Chapters in the volume cover oral, scribal, and print cultures, examining the emergence of the public spheres of reading practices. Contributors, who include Christopher Grose, Ann Hughes, David Scott Kastan, Kathleen Lynch, William Sherman, and Peter Stallybrass, investigate interactions among publishers, texts, authors, and audience. They discuss the continuity of the written word and habits of mind in the world of print, the formation and differentiation of readerships, and the increasing influence of pubTrade Review"Showcasing an innovative, interdisciplinary group of essays, Books and Readers in Early Modern England will interest scholars of bibliography, collections studies, literature, and history. This book should also prove useful in the classroom. . . . It is only fitting that a book so productively devoted to the history of textual consumption should itself appeal to a wide audience." * Albion. *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Sensible Flesh
Book SynopsisAs histories of corporeal experience in the period become at one more specific and more focused, this signal collection will stand as a tribute to the general power of such a particular focus.-Studies in English LiteratureTrade Review"Once explored, the importance of touch seems too obvious to have been neglected for as long as it has." * Leah Marcus, Vanderbilt University *"This fascinating collection of essays on the subject of touch in early modern culture makes a timely contribution to our understanding of the body in the early modern period." * Sexualities *"Elizabeth Harvey has developed a brilliant idea for a collection into a successful multidisciplinary exploration of the complex individual and cultural phenomena known as touch. . . . As histories of corporeal experience in the period become at one more specific and more focused, this signal collection will stand as a tribute to the general power of such a particular focus." * Studies in English Literature *"A probing exploration of the construction of touch in early modern Western culture, which both historicizes tactility and sensualizes history. . . . Critical reading for anyone interested in pursing a full-bodied 'archaeology of perception.'" * Senses and Society *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Inscription and Erasure
Book SynopsisThe fear of oblivion obsessed medieval and early modern Europe. Stone, wood, cloth, parchment, and paper all provided media onto which writing was inscribed as a way to ward off loss. And the task was not easy in a world in which writing could be destroyed, manuscripts lost, or books menaced with destruction. Paradoxically, the successful spread of printing posed another danger, namely, that an uncontrollable proliferation of textual materials, of matter without order or limit, might allow useless texts to multiply and smother thought. Not everything written was destined for the archives; indeed, much was written on surfaces that allowed one to write, erase, then write again.In Inscription and Erasure, Roger Chartier seeks to demonstrate how the tension between these two concerns played out in the imaginative works of their times. Chartier examines how authors transformed the material realities of writing and publication into an aesthetic resource exploited for poetic,Trade Review"This elegant and learned study constitutes a significant addition to Roger Chartier's well-known work on the history of the book in western culture." * Timothy Hampton, H-France Review *"Chartier unites literary analysis with material history to reveal how representations survive. . . . The book takes up subjects from the eleventh-century French abbot Baudri de Bourgueil to the eighteenth-century encyclopedist Denis Diderot. . . . Chartier's singular achievement is to claim authority over a wide range of practices and to focus on their common anxieties and ambitions." * SHARP News *"Any progress achieved within a humanistic discipline that crosses boundaries to neighboring fields has the potential both to find unexplored objects of study and to raise new questions. Inscription and Erasure disputes the long-standing division between the interpretation of texts and the description of the material supports and socio-historical environments in which texts appeared and circulated." * MLN *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Aesthetic Mystery and the Materialities of the Written Chapter One. Wax and Parchment: The Poems of Baudri de Bourgueil Chapter Two. Writing and Memory: Cardenio's Librillo Chapter Three. The Press and Fonts: Don Quixote in the Print Shop Chapter Four. Handwritten Newsletters, Printed Gazettes: Cymbal and Butter Chapter Five. Talking Books and Clandestine Manuscripts: The Travels of Dyrcona Chapter Six. Text and Fabric: Anzoletto and Philomela Chapter Seven. Commerce in the Novel: Damilaville's Tears and the Impatient Reader Epilogue: Diderot and His Pirates Notes Index
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University of Pennsylvania Press Faux Real
Book SynopsisFrom Leatherette to Naugahyde, men and women have devoted enormous energy to making fake leather seem real. Faux Real explores this borderland of the almost-real, the ersatz, and the fake, illuminating a centuries-old culture war between the authentic and the imitative.Trade Review"A sound researcher and an engaging writer. . . . Kanigel intelligently takes time to address the philosophical question of the importance of faux versus real." * Publishers Weekly *"Fantastic cultural history. Smart and sensual prose. You'll never look at your Manolos the same way again." * Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash *"Kanigel's book is an easy and pleasurable read. . . . A tribute to leather's physical and tactile properties and to humankind's ingenuity and persistence in attempting to imitate them." * Design and Culture *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Sunbelt Rising The Politics of Space Place and
Book SynopsisThis volume examines patterns of growth, government organization, and cultural representation that created a new region across the nation's southern rim following World War II. Essays explain how ideology and political economy restructured space within the Sunbelt, making the landscape and lives of its inhabitants more uniformly metropolitan.Trade Review"This well-written and insightful book mirrors the very region it attempts to understand. While certain shared commonalities exist, one is most struck by the differences between locations and the rich diversity of people and experiences. . . . The real strength of Sunbelt Rising is the innovative scholarship found within its pages." * Western Historical Quarterly *"An important and insightful anthology for scholars interested in the socioeconomic, cultural, and political history of the American Sunbelt. . . . Replete with innovation, thoughtful analysis, and mature synthesis, Sunbelt Rising should quickly become a go-to test for scholars interested in the region's social and political culture." * Journal of Southern History *"Sunbelt Rising represents the maturation of a new generation of scholarship on the Sunbelt. Drawing on recent work in metropolitan history, urban planning, economics, and political science, these scholars reach provocative conclusions on issues of race, religion, politics, and economic development that see beyond established regional boundaries. Altogether an impressive volume." * Bruce Schulman, author of The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Politics, and Society *"Sunbelt Rising provides fresh perspectives on established subjects, including racial division, boosterism and growth politics, and the making of modern conservatism. It also pushes the discussion in new and interesting directions, bringing in issues like energy development, Native American policy, prison construction, and evangelical entrepreneurs, among others." * Kevin M. Kruse, author of White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism *Table of ContentsIntroduction I. CONSTRUCTING REGION Chapter 1. Sunbelt Boosterism: Industrial Recruitment, Economic Development, and Growth Politics in the Developing Sunbelt —Elizabeth Tandy Shermer Chapter 2. Strom Thurmond's Sunbelt: Rethinking Regional Politics and the Rise of the Right —Joseph Crespino Chapter 3. Big Government and Family Values: Political Culture in the Metropolitan Sunbelt —Matthew D. Lassiter Chapter 4. Religion and Political Behavior in the Sunbelt —Lyman A. Kellstedt and James L. Guth II. CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE SUNBELT Chapter 5. From the Southwest to the Nation: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Los Angeles —Shana Bernstein Chapter 6. Sunbelt Civil Rights: Urban Renewal and the Follies of Desegregation in Greater Miami —N. D. B. Connolly Chapter 7. Racial Liberalism and the Rise of the Sunbelt West: The Defeat of Fair Housing on the 1964 California Ballot —Daniel Martinez HoSang III. CONTINGENT PLACES Chapter 8. Sunbelt Lock-Up: Where the Suburbs Met the Super-Max —Volker Janssen Chapter 9. Sunbelt Imperialism: Boosters, Navajos, and Energy Development in the Metropolitan Southwest —Andrew Needham Chapter 10. Real Estate and Race: Imagining the Second Circuit of Capital in Sunbelt Cities —Carl Abbott PART IV. THE GLOBAL SUNBELT Chapter 11. The Marketplace Missions of S. Truett Cathy, Chick-fil-A, and the Sunbelt South —Darren E. Grem Chapter 12. Tortilla Politics: Mexican Food, Globalization, and the Sunbelt —Laresh Jayasanker Chapter 13. Latinos in the Sunbelt: Political Implications of Demographic Change —Sylvia Manzano Notes List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Enchantment
Book SynopsisThis book examines charisma as the force in art, literature, and film that engages the reader's or viewer's consciousness and inspires admiration and imitation. Thirteen chapters analyze the workings of charisma and its effects, ranging from Homer to Woody Allen.Trade Review"In a wide-ranging and stimulating study, C. Stephen Jaeger argues that charisma is the sublime in human presence. . . . Jaeger makes a good case for the enchantment of the reader or spectator, a thread that enables him both to bring together very different cultural artefacts and to conclude with a plea that enchantment should be integral to education." * Modern Language Review *"Enchantment is, as usual with Jaeger's books, extremely rich in terms of fascinating hypotheses and cues for discussion. The style is always clear and eloquent, and the authors and the works discussed cover a very wide span of time, from Homer to Federico Fellini and Woody Allen." * Philosophical Inquiries *"C. Stephen Jaeger's magnificent, generous, and wide-ranging study has at its heart all that which is life-affirming. At every turn we encounter vigorous, eloquent, and intellectually consistent challenges to the division of art and experience. Readers in and between many disciplines will find this deeply perceptive account of the magical workings of enchantment, charisma, and the sublime in texts, images and bodies, empowering and uplifting. It cannot fail to influence the next generation of thought about the arts and media more generally." * Paul Binski, University of Cambridge *"Enchantment formulates a compelling theory of charismatic art as an alternative to our Western preoccupation with mimesis and hermeneutics. With the learning, passion, and verve familiar from his distinguished medieval scholarship, Jaeger's argument ranges magisterially from the body art of primitive cultures, through Classical epic, medieval sculpture, pedagogy and romance (the high point of charismatic culture in the West), all the way to Rilke and American cinema." * Jane K. Brown, University of Washington *"An intelligent, thought-provoking, and compelling discussion of the phenomenon of personal charisma and its transformative effects. C. Stephen Jaeger takes the reader through a stunning series of examples from literature, the visual arts, and film across a very broad historical range, from classical antiquity to the present. Throughout, he presents his claims in highly communicative and inviting prose. A sheer pleasure to read." * John T. Hamilton, Harvard University *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Charisma and Art Chapter 2. Living Art and Its Surrogates: The Genesis of Charismatic Art Chapter 3. Odysseus Rising: The Homeric World Chapter 4. Icon and Relic Chapter 5. Charismatic Culture and Its Media: Gothic Sculpture and Medieval Humanism Chapter 6. Romance and Adventure Chapter 7. Albrecht Dürer's Self-Portrait (1500): The Face and Its Contents Chapter 8. Book Burning at Don Quixote's Chapter 9. Goethe's Faust and the Limits of the Imagination Chapter 10. The Statue Changes Rilke's Life Chapter 11. Grand Illusions: Classic American Cinema Chapter 12. Lost Illusions: American Neorealism and Hitchcock's Vertigo Chapter 13. Woody Allen: Allan Felix's Glasses and Cecilia's Smile Conclusion Notes Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Heart of the Mission
Book SynopsisAn illustrated, in-depth examintion of the avant-garde and politically radical Latino art of San Francisco's Mission DistrictIn The Heart of the Mission, Cary Cordova combines urban, political, and art history to examine how the Mission District, a longtime bohemian enclave in San Francisco, has served as an important place for an influential and largely ignored Latino arts movement from the 1960s to the present. Well before the anointment of the Mission School by art-world arbiters at the dawn of the twenty-first century, Latino artists, writers, poets, playwrights, performers, and filmmakers made the Mission their home and their muse. The Mission, home to Chileans, Cubans, Guatemalans, Mexican Americans, Nicaraguans, Puerto Ricans, and Salvadorans never represented a single Latino identity. In tracing the experiences of a diverse group of Latino artists from the 1940s to the turn of the century, Cordova connects wide-ranging aesthetics to a variety of social movements and activist Trade Review"Cary Cordova's The Heart of the Mission is a complex, necessary book . . . Cordova's impressive research, which includes extensive archival excavation, artist interviews, and urban fieldwork, reveals an important and previously unexplored history of local activism practiced through Latino poster art, which spread word of the struggles of insurgent movements such as the Nicaraguan Sandinistas; Salvadoran diasporic art; the cultural politics of Día de los Muertos; and the founding of galleries and community art centers." * Journal of American History *"A definitive history of Latina/o art, production and community formation in San Francisco's Mission District." * Social History *"Cordova's excellent book stands as a significant contribution to many fields, and scholars across disciplines will find tremendous value in it." * Western Historical Quarterly *"Cordova tells a deeply compelling story about social and culturaltransformation in the Mission District in the twentieth century. Her book is worth reading for anumber of reasons, not the least of which is that The Heart of the Mission fills important gaps inpopular narratives about the history of California, San Francisco, sixties radicalism, the lineage ofLatino creative culture in America, and even postmodernism . . . [T]he book is a powerful testimony to the historical influence ofSan Francisco's Latino artists and activists on the culture of the city. And, crucially, it contextualizesthe dramatic changes currently sweeping through the heart of the Mission and the fights that arebeing waged to stop them." * H-California *"This is a wonderful book that is felicitously written, passionately argued, and full of information that is otherwise difficult to find. Cary Cordova's study fills a major gap in the current literature on Latino arts movements in the United States, as well as in the cultural history of San Francisco and California." * Richard Cándida Smith, University of California, Berkeley *"Cary Cordova has unearthed some truly fascinating archival material. Challenging the dominance of a certain type of Chicano art and identity politics, she expands the chronology and geography of Latino Art in the United States to include 1950s tango and jazz and contemporary AIDS activism." * A. Joan Saab, University of Rochester *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Fragments of Empire
Book SynopsisHistorians, by relying on biased sources, have perpetuated the acceptance of a privileged perspective on imperial British history.Trade Review"In Fragments of Empire indenture becomes a lens through which empire, in all its complexity and vastness, comes into view. This is an empire that one does not see usually, an empire better described as a single constellation that arises in the imbrication of different spaces, levels, practices, and ideas. I cannot say enough about the importance of this idea, for it forces us to rethink current notions of colonialism and imperialism."" * Gyan Prakash, Princeton University *"A landmark study. The book gives a completely new reading of the cultural, racial, and economic dynamics of indentured Indian labour in the British Caribbean. The book is nothing less than a wake-up call to postcolonial theorists." * EHR *"Fragments offers a new and refreshing perspective, taking us beyond chronology to a thorough examination of some of the macroconsiderations which tied together an early attempt at globalization. . . . Any attempt to understand this present must be based on that past. Fragments of Empire successfully unravels much of that complicated past, making sense of a tangled maze of imperialistic devices. In this sense it is a very useful continuation of our understanding of worldwide diasporas." * International Review of Social History *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Uncommon Dominion
Book SynopsisFrom 1211 until its loss to the Ottomans in 1669, the Greek island we know as Crete was the Venetian colony of Candia. Ruled by a paid civil service fully accountable to the Venetian Senate, Candia was distinct from nearly every other colony of the medieval period for the unprecedented degree to which the colonial power was involved in its governance.Yet, for Sally McKee, the importance of the Cretan colony only begins with the anomalous manner of the Venetian state''s rule. Uncommon Dominion tells the story of Venetian Crete, the home of two recognizably distinct ethnic communities, the Latins and the Greeks. The application of Venetian law to the colony made it possible for the colonial power to create and maintain a fiction of ethnic distinctness. The Greeks were subordinate to the Latins economically, politically, and juridically, yet within a century of Venetian colonization, the ethnic differences between Latin and Greek Cretans in daily material life were signifiTrade Review"Sally McKee's magisterial book on the character of Venetian dominion in fourteenth-century Crete contributes immensely to our understanding of that neglected subject. Moreover, the book is a thought-provoking examination of this specific case history in relation to the origins and nature of Western colonialism." * International History Review *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Marriage Sex and Civic Culture in Late Medieval
Book SynopsisUsing extensive evidence from archival documents from both the ecclesiastical court system and the records of city and royal government, as well as advice manuals, chronicles, moral tales, and liturgical texts, McSheffrey examines how marital and sexual relationships were woven into the fabric of late medieval London.Trade Review"A superb book, not only in terms of its sympathy with the evidence and concern for context but in showing us that our knowledge of how the church courts interacted with society must be based on more local case-studies of this kind." * EHR *Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I. LAW AND SOCIAL PRACTICE IN THE MAKING OF MARRIAGE IN LATE MEDIEVAL LONDON Chapter 1. Making a Marriage Chapter 2. Courtship and Gender Chapter 3. By the Father's Will and the Friends' Counsel Chapter 4. Gender, Power, and the Logistics of Marital Litigation Chapter 5. Place, Space, and Respectability PART II. GOVERNANCE, SEX, AND CIVIC MORALITY Chapter 6. Governance Chapter 7. Gender, Sex, and Reputation Conclusion: Sex, Marriage, and Medieval Concepts of the Public Appendix: Legal Sources Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£49.30
University of Pennsylvania Press From Paris to Pompeii
Book SynopsisThrough the iconic example of Pompeii, and the spell this city cast on the early nineteen-century French Romantic imagination, From Paris to Pompeii shows how an archaeological gaze arose in response to a secular anxiety of memory loss and helped define our modern relationship to history.Trade Review"A rich, well-informed, and engaging analysis that combines the aesthetic, the epistemological, the historical, and the political in a way that is both original and strong. This book opens up new perspectives on frequently studied authors, and it makes very useful associations between very different levels of literary and scientific productions." * Jacques Neefs, The Johns Hopkins University and Paris 8 Université de Vincennes à Saint-Denis *"Enterprising and intriguing." * TLS *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction Neoclassical Pompeii 1. The Antiquarian Comes of Age 2. The Archaeological Turn 3. The Specular Past 4. Body Politics 5. Lost Worlds and the Archive 6. The Uses of Archaeology Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Consuming Pleasures
Book SynopsisBetween 1950 and 1972, American and European writers came to envision consumer culture in fresh, provocative ways. Across national boundaries, they shifted attention from condemnation to critical appreciation, critiqued cultural hierarchies and moralistic approaches, and explored the symbolic processes by which individuals and groups communicate.Trade Review"Consuming Pleasures offers a brilliant survey of major transatlantic thinkers. Horowitz is an accomplished historian who has mastered, in stunning depth and breadth, the literature on each of his principal subjects. Lucid, elegant, and engaging." * Howard Brick, author of Transcending Capitalism: Visions of a New Society in Modern American Thought *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Understanding Consumer Culture in the Post-World War II World Chapter 1. For and Against the American Grain Chapter 2. Lost in Translation Chapter 3. Crossing Borders Chapter 4. Reluctant Fascination Chapter 5. Literary Ethnography of Working-Class Life Interlude Chapter 6. Pop Art from Britain to America Chapter 7. From Workers and Literature to Youth and Popular Culture Chapter 8. Class and Consumption Chapter 9. Sexuality and a New Sensibility Chapter 10. Learning from Consumer Culture Conclusion: The World of Pleasure and Symbolic Exchange List of Abbreviations Notes Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Jet Sex
Book SynopsisVictoria Vantoch takes us on a fascinating journey into the golden era of air travel. The Jet Sex explores the much-mythologized stewardess within the context of the Cold War, globalization, and the emerging culture of glamour to reveal how beauty and sexuality were critical to national identity and international politics.Trade Review"The Jet Sex is an impressive study of the stewardess as an American icon and a real human being. Those of us who came of age in the 1950s and 1960s can't help but remember her appeal as a model of beauty and of service in the magical realm of flying. Written in sprightly and compelling prose, the book should appeal both to scholars and to the general public." * Lois Banner, author of Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox *"An original, evocative, and informative work that explores provocative questions about the place of the stewardess in American culture. With a flair for storytelling and for capturing the experiences of individual stewardesses, Victoria Vantoch also gives us a rich description of the development of a profession, the development of an industry, and the curious ways in which gender factored in at every turn." * Jennifer Scanlon, author of Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Flying Nurses, Lady Pilots, and the Rise of Commercial Aviation Chapter 2. The Rise of the Stewardess Chapter 3. Breaking the Race Barrier Chapter 4. A New Jet-Winged World Chapter 5. Vodka, Tea, or Me? Chapter 6. From Warm-Hearted Hostesses to In-Flight Strippers Chapter 7. Beautiful Beehives and Feminist Consciousness Notes Index Note on Sources Acknowledgments
£27.90
University of Pennsylvania Press Blind Impressions
Book SynopsisAs bibliographers or book historians, we perform our work by changing the function of the objects we study. We rarely pick up an Aldine edition to read one of the classical texts it contains. . . . Print culture, under this notion, is not a medium for writing or thought but a historical object of study; our bibliographical field, our own concoction, becomes the true referent of the objects we define as its foundation.—From the IntroductionWhat is a book in the study of print culture? For the scholar of material texts, it is not only a singular copy carrying the unique traces of printing and preservation efforts, or an edition, repeated and repeatable, or a vehicle for ideas to be abstracted from the physical copy. But when the bibliographer situates a book copy within the methods of book history, Joseph A. Dane contends, it is the known set of assumptions which govern the discipline that bibliographic arguments privilege, repeat, or challenge. Book history, he writes, isTrade Review"Dane not only enlivens his text with the refreshing polemical cast with which bibliographers from Housman to Greg and Tanselle have become deservedly well known, but also spices his discussion with arresting contemporary references. . . . The historical range, critical acuity and cumulative evidence from various sources, genres and media make the books a rich resource on any bibliographer's shelves." * SHARP News *Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I. WHAT IS PRINT? Chapter 1. Paleography Versus Typography Chapter 2. "Ca. 1800": What's in a Date? Chapter 3. Bibliographers of the Mind PART II. ON THE MAKING OF LISTS Chapter 4. Herman R. Mead's Incunabula in the Huntington Library and the Notion of "Typographical Value" Chapter 5. Catchtitles in English Books to 1550 Chapter 6. An Editorial Propaedeutic PART III. IRONIES OF HISTORY AND REPRESENTATION: THEME AND VARIATION Playing Bibliography III.1. Book History and Book Histories: On the Making of Lists III.2. Meditation on the Composing Stick III.3. The Red and the Black III.4. Fragments III.5. The Nature and Function of Scholarly Illustration in a Digital World III.6. Art of the Mind Notes Principal Sources Cited Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Heart of the Mission
Book SynopsisThe Heart of the Mission is the first in-depth examination of the Latino arts renaissance in San Francisco's Mission District in the latter twentieth century. Using evocative oral histories and archival research, Cordova highlights the rise of a vibrant intellectual community grounded in avant-garde aesthetics and radical politics.Trade Review"Cary Cordova's The Heart of the Mission is a complex, necessary book . . . Cordova's impressive research, which includes extensive archival excavation, artist interviews, and urban fieldwork, reveals an important and previously unexplored history of local activism practiced through Latino poster art, which spread word of the struggles of insurgent movements such as the Nicaraguan Sandinistas; Salvadoran diasporic art; the cultural politics of Día de los Muertos; and the founding of galleries and community art centers." * Journal of American History *"A definitive history of Latina/o art, production and community formation in San Francisco's Mission District." * Social History *"Cordova's excellent book stands as a significant contribution to many fields, and scholars across disciplines will find tremendous value in it." * Western Historical Quarterly *"Cordova tells a deeply compelling story about social and culturaltransformation in the Mission District in the twentieth century. Her book is worth reading for anumber of reasons, not the least of which is that The Heart of the Mission fills important gaps inpopular narratives about the history of California, San Francisco, sixties radicalism, the lineage ofLatino creative culture in America, and even postmodernism . . . [T]he book is a powerful testimony to the historical influence ofSan Francisco's Latino artists and activists on the culture of the city. And, crucially, it contextualizesthe dramatic changes currently sweeping through the heart of the Mission and the fights that arebeing waged to stop them." * H-California *"This is a wonderful book that is felicitously written, passionately argued, and full of information that is otherwise difficult to find. Cary Cordova's study fills a major gap in the current literature on Latino arts movements in the United States, as well as in the cultural history of San Francisco and California." * Richard Cándida Smith, University of California, Berkeley *"Cary Cordova has unearthed some truly fascinating archival material. Challenging the dominance of a certain type of Chicano art and identity politics, she expands the chronology and geography of Latino Art in the United States to include 1950s tango and jazz and contemporary AIDS activism." * A. Joan Saab, University of Rochester *
£70.55
University of Pennsylvania Press Women at the Wheel
Book SynopsisWomen at the Wheel shows how stereotypes of women as uninterested in automobiles and, more perniciously, as poor drivers, has little basis in historical reality. However, Katherine J. Parkin argues that in American culture women are still considered imposters when they are at the wheel.Trade ReviewWomen at the Wheel is a remarkable tour de force. The book sweeps through the twentieth century and into current times to examine how American women have been associated with the car. The scale of the coverage is awesome, and the sources are both numerous and diverse . . . Katherine Parkin has combined the traditional diligence of the historian digging through archives and libraries with the technology of the internet to create an analysis which should appeal not only to academics, but to a much wider audience. * The Journal of Transport History *[T]ranscends historical narration, offering a meditation on gender roles and power relations . . . Women at the Wheel does a wonderful job of analyzing the relationship of women to automobiles. * Business History Review *Parkin challenges many of our historical notions about women and driving, especially in the early period, and her work adds greatly to the ongoing conversation about automobility in the United States . . . Woman at the Wheel adds depth to well-known stories and brings a fresh perspective to the table. * Technology and Culture *Now I understand why I so often end up in the passenger seat! Katherine Parkin has convinced me that driving-and all that surrounds it-is one of the most gendered experiences in American history. Women at the Wheel reads like a romp through American popular culture, but Parkin's claims are well worth taking seriously. * Beth Bailey, author of Sex in the Heartland *Buying, driving, and fixing cars has always been a highly gendered experience, as Katherine Parkin shows in this engaging and richly researched narrative. But when the focus is shifted from an experience overwhelmingly understood to be male to what it was like for women at the wheel, a deeper meaning is revealed: the ongoing power imbalance between women and men. * Susan Ware, author of Game, Set, Match: Billie Jean King and the Revolution in Women's Sports *If you've ever wondered just what it was that drove Thelma and Louise over a cliff, you need to read this book. In her fascinating work of historical scholarship, Katherine Parkin uses twentieth-century popular culture-from lowbrow to high, from the front pages of newspapers to the poetry of e.e. cummings, from an interview with Newt Gingrich to the fiction in magazines-to demonstrate how American men tried to stop American women from discovering the empowerment possibilities that lay 'behind the wheel.' * Ruth Schwartz Cowan, author of More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave *Women at the Wheel takes a novel approach to exploring-and debunking-the tired but persistent clichés about women's ineptitude behind the wheel. Katherine Parkin's examination of archival and popular sources reveals how both cars and drivers have been gendered in fascinating and provocative ways. * Jennifer Scanlon, author of Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Governing Bodies
Book SynopsisAmericans are generally apprehensive about what they perceive as big government—especially when it comes to measures that target their bodies. Soda taxes, trans fat bans, and calorie counts on menus have all proven deeply controversial. Such interventions, Rachel Louise Moran argues, are merely the latest in a long, albeit often quiet, history of policy motivated by economic, military, and familial concerns. In Governing Bodies, Moran traces the tension between the intimate terrain of the individual citizen''s body and the public ways in which the federal government has sought to shape the American physique over the course of the twentieth century.Distinguishing her subject from more explicit and aggressive government intrusion into the areas of sexuality and reproduction, Moran offers the concept of the advisory state—the use of government research, publicity, and advocacy aimed at achieving citizen support and voluntary participation to realize social goalTrade Review"Deeply researched and engagingly written, Governing Bodies offers a nuanced and provocative account of the role of the U.S. government in managing the physical fitness of its citizens. Rachel Louise Moran provides a new perspective on American political history and state development." * Marisa Chappell, Oregon State University *"Governing Bodies offers an authoritative and compelling account of the century-long effort to ensure that America's citizenry was physically fit. Tracing the story from the evolution of the calorimeter to warnings that Americans were a 'Nation of Weaklings' during the Cold War to WIC in the 1970s, Moran pays careful attention to the intersection of state, society, and political culture that framed this set of public policies. For much of the twentieth century, Americans were enticed, rather than coerced, into shaping up." * Brian Balogh, University of Virginia *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Weight of the Nation Chapter 1. The Advisory State World War I Made: Scientific Nutrition and Scientific Mothering Chapter 2. Boys into Men: Depression-Era Physique in the Civilian Conservation Corps Chapter 3. Men into Soldiers: World War II and the Conscripted Body Chapter 4. Selling Postwar Fitness: Advertising, Education, and the President's Council Chapter 5. Wasted Bodies: Emaciation and the War on Poverty Chapter 6. Poor Choices: Weight, Welfare, and WIC in the 1970s Conclusion. Governing American Bodies Notes Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Commerce of Vision
Book SynopsisWhen Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in 1837 that Our Age is Ocular, he offered a succinct assessment of antebellum America''s cultural, commercial, and physiological preoccupation with sight. In the early nineteenth century, the American city''s visual culture was manifest in pamphlets, newspapers, painting exhibitions, and spectacular entertainments; businesses promoted their wares to consumers on the move with broadsides, posters, and signboards; and advances in ophthalmological sciences linked the mechanics of vision to the physiological functions of the human body. Within this crowded visual field, sight circulated as a metaphor, as a physiological process, and as a commercial commodity. Out of the intersection of these various discourses and practices emerged an entirely new understanding of vision.The Commerce of Vision integrates cultural history, art history, and material culture studies to explore how vision was understood and experienced in the first half of the niTrade Review"[Brownlee's] ostensible quarry is an antebellum visual culture that developed around the intersecting concerns of ophthalmology and optometry, reform physiology, and a rapidly expanding market economy, but he sees vision as more than the mere sum of its parts. Brownlee’s analysis reaches beyond the usual metaphors of nineteenth-century vision as possessing, knowing, or controlling, analyzing the 'economy of the eyes' as a shifting field that is at once physiological, commercial, political, and cultural, and almost always attended by doubt and ambiguity...The Commerce of Vision matches the undeniable richness and complexity of antebellum America’s ocularity with deft, close readings that will bear repeated examination." * Panorama *"Brownlee has identified an important and rich topic, one that opens up other avenues for scholars to explore. In addition, his interdisciplinary approach provides an excellent model of how to bridge cultural and scientific history and understand vision at both a conceptual and physiological level. The Commerce of Vision is at once a major contribution to the history of visual culture in antebellum America and a call for continued work on this history, especially given its continuing relevance to our own digitally saturated world." * Literature & History *"[A]n elegantly written and extremely interesting study of a range of visual artefacts, including newspapers, paintings, photographs, caricatures, eye glasses, paper money and signboards, among others. Brownlee effectively weaves together a number of thematic threads to create a cohesive investigation of how people in antebellum America looked, learned to look differently and dealt with failures related to vision, both physiological and ideological." * Social History of Medicine *"The Commerce of Vision is an original, rich, and engaging study of an antebellum culture intrigued by questions of seeing and visual representation yet unsettled by the energies of rapidly expanding urban and market economies. Ranging over visual, material, and archival evidence-from paintings and daguerreotypes to broadsides, typeface, and newspapers, from ophthalmology and eyeglasses to paper currency and signboards-it will interest readers in visual and material culture studies, American studies, and the history of science." * Wendy Bellion, University of Delaware *Table of ContentsIntroduction. An Ocular Age: Vision in a World of Surfaces PART I. THE PROBLEM OF VISION Chapter 1. Ophthalmology, Popular Physiology, and the Market Revolution in Vision Chapter 2. Vision, Eyewear, and the Art of Refraction PART II. THE CHAOS OF PRINT Chapter 3. Broadsides, Display Types, and the Physiology of the Moving Eye Chapter 4. Signboards, Vision, and Commerce in the Antebellum City PART III. PAINTING, PRINT, PERCEPTION Chapter 5. The Optics of Newspaper Vision Chapter 6. Paper Money, Spectral Illusions, and the Limits of Vision Notes Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Slantwise Moves
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Slantwise Moves is an important contribution to a materialist history and analysis of the ideological work of amusement cultures in the United States . . . While scholars narrowly focused on video games may find the promise of some terms unfulfilled, Guerra presents a nuanced set of readings that has something to offer every scholar working along on the diagonal line of literature, games, and history." * Modern Philology *"Guerra offers an important advance in thinking about games in relation to the major currents of American history. More than a reflection of ideology or a product of social relations, games are sites where individuals could rehearse and transform their repertoires of social life." * American Journal of Play *"Slantwise Moves recovers forgotten nineteenth-century games from obscurity and interprets them as part of a history of American selfhood or agency, reading them against and in relation to other nineteenth-century cultural productions. This important and original book will prove compelling for Americanists, especially scholars of nineteenth-century literature and the history of the book, but will also find readers among anyone with an interest in games and game studies." * Lisa Gitelman, New York University *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Gu Hongmings Eccentric Chinese Odyssey
Book SynopsisKnown for his ultraconservatism and eccentricity, Gu Hongming (1857-1928) remains one of the most controversial figures in modern Chinese intellectual history. A former member of the colonial elite from Penang who was educated in Europe, Gu, in his late twenties, became a Qing loyalist and Confucian spokesman who also defended concubinage, footbinding, and the queue. Seen as a reactionary by his Chinese contemporaries, Gu nevertheless gained fame as an Eastern prophet following the carnage of World War I, often paired with Rabindranath Tagore and Leo Tolstoy by Western and Japanese intellectuals.Rather than resort to the typical conception of Gu as an inscrutable eccentric, Chunmei Du argues that Gu was a trickster-sage figure who fought modern Western civilization in a time dominated by industrial power, utilitarian values, and imperialist expansion. A shape-shifter, Gu was by turns a lampooning jester, defying modern political and economic systems and, at other times, an aveTrade Review"Du's goal is to help us understand the influences that produced such a paradoxical character. In the end, as Du acknowledges, Gu Hongming stubbornly defies analysis. Still, her account of his life is fascinating, particularly for what it reveals about global currents of thought in the early twentieth century . . . The book's real strength is in its exploration of a transnational history of ideas that emphasizes the global nature of circuits of intellectual exchange in the early twentieth-century." * Modern Chinese Literature and Culture *"Gu Hongming matters, as this engaging and sophisticated book shows, because in an age when he has been 'revived as an icon of Chinese nationalism and cultural conservatism', and when 'clash of civilization' essentialisms are grasped at ever more fervently, there is great value in this sort of study of how East and West became 'coconstructed concepts that are fundamentally interactive and mutually transformative', how they are 'imagined together'." * Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies *"Gu Hongming is one of the most controversial and complicated figures in modern Chinese history. Chunmei Du has the broad knowledge, multiple language skills, and keen understanding required to situate Gu and the cultural phenomenon he represented in the international intellectual environment of his time." * Xiaoping Cong, University of Houston *"Gu Hongming's Eccentric Chinese Odyssey is the place to start for anyone interested in intellectual idiosyncrasy or cultural polemics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Gu Hongming, who was born in Penang, educated in Scotland, and made a career out of China, fit no mold except that of his own making, much to the chagrin of his contemporaries and biographers. With concision and clarity, Chunmei Du traces this legendary figure's unique trajectories and legacies, not least as a shape-shifting performer attuned to the enduring allure of cultural authenticity." * Christopher Rea, author of The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China *Table of ContentsChapter 1. An Inscrutable Eccentric PART I. INTELLECTUAL JOURNEY Chapter 2. In Search of the Spirit of the Chinese People Chapter 3. The Rise of a Spokesman from the East Chapter 4. Clash of Religions PART II. PSYCHOLOGICAL PASSAGE Chapter 5. How an Imitation Western Man Became a Chinaman Again Chapter 6. Projections on a Chinese Screen Chapter 7. To Reverence the King Chapter 8. A Trickster's Trip on a Möbius Strip Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Free and Natural
Book SynopsisFrom Naked Juice to nude yoga, contemporary society is steeped in language that draws a connection from nudity to nature, wellness, and liberation. This branding promotes a free and natural lifestyle to mostly white and middle-class Americans intent on protecting their own bodiesand those of society at largefrom overwork, environmental toxins, illness, conformity to body standards, and the hyper-sexualization of the consumer economy. How did the naked body come to be associated with naturalness, and how has this notion influenced American culture?Free and Natural explores the cultural history of nudity and its impact on ideas about the body and the environment from the early twentieth century to the present. Sarah Schrank traces the history of nudity, especially public nudity, across the unusual eras and locations where it thrivedincluding the California desert, Depression-era collectives, and 1950s suburban nudist communitiesas well as the more predictable beaches and resorts. She alsTrade Review"This excellent book examines nudity and changing American notions of the body from the early twentieth century to the present . . . Well-researched, well-written, accessible, and fascinating, Free and Natural deserves a wide scholarly and popular readership." * Southern California Quarterly *"Sarah Schrank's excellent new book Free and Natural charts the evolution of nudism in the United States . . . American history, Schrank teaches us, can be chronicled on our attitudes toward naked bodies, which reflect the forward march of capitalism more than any sort of radicalism." * Pacific Historical Review *"Uncovering truths about the meaning of the body that are not as self-evident as its unadorned form would claim, Sarah Schrank's Free and Natural is a lively, enlightening book authored by an accomplished historian at the height of her powers." * Whitney Strub, Rutgers University-Newark *"A rich narrative and rewarding read, Free and Natural reveals the long backstories behind contemporary debates about our bodily selves and provocatively reframes the study of 'the body' as deeply enmeshed in multiple strands of modern cultural history-notably, the shifting beliefs about nature and environment as well as public and private space." * Phoebe S. K. Young, University of Colorado Boulder *Table of ContentsIntroduction. On Being Free and Natural Chapter 1. Welcome to the Nudist Colony Chapter 2. Naked at Home Chapter 3. Therapeutic Nudist Retreats Chapter 4. Swinging Suburbs Chapter 5. How to Free a Beach Chapter 6. Naked Lifestyle Consumerism Epilogue. Bodies Out of Place Notes Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Laid Waste
Book SynopsisAfter humble beginnings as faltering British colonies, the United States acquired astonishing wealth and power as the result of what we now refer to as modernization. Originating in England and Western Europe, transplanted to the Americas, then copied around the world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this process locked together science and technology, political democracy, economic freedom, and competitive capitalism. This has produced for some populations unimagined wealth and material comfort, yet it has also now brought the global environment to a tipping point beyond which life as we know it may not be sustainable. How did we come to endanger the very future of life on earth in our heedless pursuit of wealth and happiness?In Laid Waste!, John Lauritz Larson answers that question with a 350-year review of the roots of an American culture of exploitation that has left us free, rich, and without an honest sense of how this crisis came to be. Larson undertakesTrade Review"Laid Waste! is an easily digestible read...Larson is an exemplary writer who conveys history with clarity, whether discussing wilderness, indigeneity, race, class, labor, profit, and/or Manifest Destiny...[The] stellar epilogue highlights the goals of the edition: to try to challenge the fatalism that is entrenched in the current narratives of climate change, the application of history in overcoming that fatalism to work the problem of global warming, and the creation of a more sustainable society that can overcome false consciousness created through centuries-long and naturalizing narratives of 'improvement' that involved aspects of profitable 'exploitation.'" * Journal of American Culture *"John Lauritz Larson's Laid Waste! is extraordinary for its erudition, literary power, moral passion, and, most of all, its sweeping historical analysis of America's 'culture of exploitation' and its disposition to treat the natural world as nothing more than a source of wealth to be stripped for private gain. It is an outstanding example of the unique value of good history in diagnosing the root causes of a contemporary problem and sketching the outlines of what must change to address it." * Harry Watson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill *"Laid Waste! is a brilliant capstone to a remarkable series of publications by John Lauritz Larson that share a common thread: a close analysis of the conditions and ramifications of economic development in American history in the nineteenth century. Here Larson exposes a 'culture of exploitation' beneath modernization that has ravaged the environment in the name of liberty and progress and now threatens the very existence of life on earth. This is an important book, and we ignore its passionate call for change at our peril." * James Farr, Purdue University *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Art Wars The Politics of Taste in
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Rachel Klein's compelling, beautifully written, and insightful study adds importantly to our understanding of the complex historical relationship between art, nation-building, and the rise of individual-oriented consumer culture in nineteenth-century America. A smart, nuanced work that is also highly engaging and readable, Art Wars shows us that ideas of art and democracy have long been intertwined." * Alice Fahs, University of California, Irvine *"Art Wars provides a welcome addition to cultural and intellectual histories of New York in the nineteenth century by bringing together the history of antebellum art institutions like the American Art-Union and museums like the Metropolitan that came into being in the 1870s. Rachel Klein links these institutional stories to larger political and cultural transformations that accompanied the rise of industrial capitalism that so dramatically changed a city like New York. Art Wars will be a very important addition to the history of art institutions and the historiography of taste in the United States as well as to the intellectual and cultural histories of cities in the nineteenth century." * Jeffrey Trask, Things American: Art Museums and Civic Culture in the Progressive Era *Table of ContentsIntroduction. The Importance of Taste: Intellectual Roots 1 Chapter 1. Paintings in Public Life: The Rise of the American Art-Union Chapter 2. The Limits of Cultural Stewardship: The Fall of the American Art-Union Chapter 3. Art and Industry: Debates of the 1850s Chapter 4. The Art of Decoration and the Transformation of Stewardship: The Making of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Chapter 5. Metropolitan Museum on Trial: Antiquities, Expertise and the Problem of Race Chapter 6. The Battle for Sundays at the Museum Epilogue. Edith Wharton's Museum Notes Index Acknowledgments
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