Decolonisation Books

Book SynopsisHelps understand the civilization in South Asia and how leading thinkers there have looked at life, the traditions of their ancestors, and the world they live in. This book explains the particular settings in which these thinkers have expressed their ideas about religious, social, political, and economic questions.Table of Contents1. Cosmic and Ritual Order in Vedic Literature 2. The Ultimate Reality in the Upanishad 3. The Basic Doctrines of Jainism 4. Jain Philosophy and Political Thought 5. Theravada Buddhism 6. Mahayana Buddhism: "The Greater Vehicle" 7. The Vehicle of the Thunderbolt and the Decline of Buddhism in India 8. Dharma: The First End of Man (R.N.D.) 9. Artha: The Second End of Man (R.N.D.) 10. Kama: The Third End of Man (V.R., revised) 11. Moksha: The Fourth End of Man 12. The Songs of Medievel Hindu Devotion (V.R., revised) 13. The Foundations of Islam in India 14. The Muslim Ruler in India 15. Islamic Mysticism in India 16. Sikhism: Faith and Practice

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of the pig in Judeo-Christian culture and European anti-semitism, this work chronicles its cultural and religious character. The author details the folkloric beliefs still found among both provincial and urban Europeans.Trade ReviewFabre-Vassas's work in particular illuminates the fear of otherness that, as a dimension of human consciousness, underlies the relationship between those who are persecuted and those who persecute... The extensive and detailed research in The Singular Beast provides ample evidence of how Jewishness became imbued with all manner of hateful traits... Through ethnography and text, Fabre-Vassas offers a rich and nuanced protrait of anti-Semitic beliefs and practices that remained deeply embedded in twentieth-century European society. -- Janet Liebman Jacobs Religious Studies Review [A] masterful demonstration of the role of the pig as that animal which, because of its own natural and cultural anomalousness, came so powerfully to symbolize the dialectic of identity and difference obtaining between Christians and Jews. -- David Gordon White Journal of Religion A stunning compendium of porcine and theological folklore... With remarkable acuity, The Singular Beast shows how the pig, the Jew and the Christian have been locked in a fatal and macabre pas de trois for the past two millenniums. Times Literary Supplement Fabre-Vassas argues that the cultural tension between those who did and those who did not eat pork helps set the stage for a murderous anti-Semitism... Taking her cue from Claude Levi-Strauss, [she] studied the culinary habits of southern France, and the way in which the pig began to be associated with the Jew in the anti-Semitic imaginings of peasant culture, and by implication the rest of Europe. The New York Times Fabre-Vassas... has written an examination of Christian attitudes toward Jews, particularly during the Middle Ages... [I]n the historical anti-Semitic literature, the Jews were associated with the pig's lowly traits... Fabre-Vassas offers a solid, scholarly study. Library JournalTable of ContentsOne. An Anological Being One. The Red Men Two. Children's Stories Three. The Circle of Metamorphoses Two. From One Blood To the Next Four. The Jew's Sow Five. Red Easter Six. Old Jews, Young Christians Seven. The Little Jew Three. Christian Flesh Eight. The Return of the Pig Nine. Blood and Soul Ten. The Bone That Sings. The Time of Sacrifice

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Book SynopsisOffers the best essays from the acclaimed collection originally published in French. This monumental work examines how and why events and figures become a part of a people's collective memory, how rewriting history can forge new paradigms of cultural identity, and how the meaning attached to an event can become as significant as the event itself.Trade ReviewThis is an indispensable guide to understanding France and the French. As usual, Arthur Goldhammer's translation is superb. Foreign Affairs This unusual book deals fascinatingly with everything from the creation of the rousing anthem "La Marseillaise" to the changing role of Joan of Arc in France's collective memory. Even the Eiffel Tower shines forth in surprising new facets. Chicago Tribune Provides arresting genealogies of a number of the major cleavages in French history, with chapters on the embattled relationship of Jews to the French republic, the peculiar affinities of Gaulism and Communism, and... Paris' haughty condescension toward la province... Without resorting to polemics, the volume reminds us that the image of the French past is confected as much out of amnesia as out of memory. Lingua Franca A magisterial attempt to define what it is to be French. Times Literary Supplement A magnificent achievement... [The essays included] are the high-carat jewels of the project. The New RepublicTable of ContentsIntroduction - Pierre Nora Part I: Emblems1. The Three Colors: Neither White nor Red, Raoul Girardet2. La Marseillaise: War or Peace, Michel Vovelle3. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, Mona Ozouf4. Bastille Day: From Dies Irae to Holiday, Christian Almavi Part II: Major Sites1. Lascaux, Jean-Paul Demoule2. Reims, City of Coronation, Jacques Le Goff3. The Louvre, Royal Residence and Temple of the Arts, Jean-Pierre Babelon4. Versailles, the Image of the Sovereign, Edouard Pommier5. The Pantheon, The Ecole Normale of the Dead, Mona Ozouf6. The Eiffel Tower, Henry Loyette7. Verdun, Antoine Prost Part III: Identifications1. The Gallic Cock, Michael Pastoureau2. Joan of Arc, Michael Winock3. Descartes, Francois Azouvi4. Paris, A Traversal from East to West, Maurice Agulhon5. The Genius of the French Language, Marc Fumaroli6. The Era of Commemoration, Pierre Nora Notes Index of NamesIndex of Subjects

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Book SynopsisA political, social, cultural, and economic portrait of a city at the centre of the Middle East peace negotiations. This work discusses Jerusalem's administration and demography, urban planning and housing, its three religious communities, and the role of the international community in Jerusalem.Trade ReviewThe Politics of Jerusalem Since 1967 is, in fact, about much more than politics: it is particularly valuable for its treatment of demography, planning, housing, and services-important but hitherto unstudied subjects. Dumper is cool and fair-minded in his analysis of British, Israeli, Jordanian, Palestinian, and international policies concerning the Holy City. This book should be required reading for anyone concerned with or involved in the Arab-Israeli peace process. I know of no other study that throws more light on the complex and central issue of Jerusalem. -- Michael C. Hudson, Georgetown University

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Book SynopsisAn unsettling reflection on the twentieth century in its twilight hours in which we are asked to rethink our assumptions about universalism and humanism. While many people look to humanist ideals as a deterrent to nationalist chauvinism, Finkielkraut challenges the abstract idea of universalism by describing the terrible crimes "civilized" Europe has committed in its name.Trade ReviewTo approach these fundamental questions in Finkielkraut's way, which is argumentative, honest, and yet indirect and evocative, you have to write well...Finkielkraut writes very well, elegantly and yet clearly. -- Adam Morton TLS Finkielkraut musters three millenia of thinkers to grapple with a century of horrors and somehow his account lifts our spirits and helps us find some measure of renewal. -- Richard Weisberg Finkielkraut writes with great skill... often poetic and moving... a significant book. -- Brian C. Anderson First ThingsTable of Contents1. Who Is Like Unto Me? 2. The Glamorous Appeal of the Common Noun 3. The Triumph of the Will 4. The Irony of History 5. Humanitarian Amends 6. Of Angels and Men

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Book SynopsisThis work carefully scrutinizes the emotional and intellectual attitudes of the Victorian era.Trade ReviewWinner of the 1957 Christian Gauss Award given by Phi Beta Kappa"The most thorough and comprehensive study of its subject that has yet been written. . . . Here is a full and intelligent analysis of the different facets of that many-sided thing, the Victorian mind and soul. An important part of this analysis is the relating of one attitude and tendency to another, so that, although some are contradictory, the agreements and the discords and their causes are made intelligible. The analysis is supported everywhere by rich and often fresh documentation. Mr. Houghton writes with vigor and clarity. The book seems to me a large and solid contribution to the understanding of Victorian civilization and Victorian literature."—Douglas Bush

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Book SynopsisThe author of this text claims that psychoanalysis offers in its clinical goals and its vision of possibility, insight into the nature of subjectivity and the quality of good relations with others. It continues centuries of reflection and imagination about the good life.Trade Review"A ture contribution to analytic knowledge that merits reading by both analysts and cultural anthropologists." Warren S. Poland, Psychoanalytic Quarterly "An engagingly sincere piece of soulsearching by a widely respected psychological theorist... Three cheers for Nancy Chodorow for doing what she can to move the elephantine Freudian establushment a few inches closer to a psychology of joyous diversity." Theodore Roszak, San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle"

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Book Synopsis"The best explanation that I have seen for our distinctive combination of faith, hope and naiveté concerning the governmental process." —Michael Kamman, Washington PostTrade Review"[A] provocative new study. . . . In a series of brilliant chapters, [Morgan] probes the myths that sustained eighteenth-century American notions of liberty." -- Keith Thomas - New York Review of Books"Edmund S. Morgan . . . [is] a man with a rare gift for telling the story of the past simply and elegantly without sacrificing its abundant complexity. . . . The story he tells is of enormous interest and importance." -- Pauline Meier - New York Times Book Review

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Book SynopsisThe New York Times bestseller that reminded us what it means to be an American is more timely than ever in this updated and enlarged edition, including "Schlesinger's Syllabus," an annotated reading list of core books on the American experience.

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Book SynopsisThe whole is harmony, not discord. Based on fourteen years of research involving nearly 50,000 managerial respondents and on the authors' extensive experience in international business, this book compares the cultural values of more than forty nations.Trade Review"An important book.. illuminates the darkness around the elusive concept of 'culture' with a rich theoretical texture, and with powerful illustrations. On top of that it is written with wit and brio thoroughly engaging." -- WARREN BENNIS "It's a remarkable combination of intellectual theory and practical advice... and it shows a human perspective and insight which must be relevant to any company or chief executive. I've no doubt it will have an important influence on management thinking." - ANTHONY SAMPSON "...You will gain fascinating insights into literature , philosophy, economics, ancient and modern history and obscure Japanese films. It is not like a management book at all. I recommend it." (Daily Telegraph, 7th December 2000) "There are lots of fascinating stories about how we differ, and we are encouraged to respect all forms of diversity. The book will give people working internationally a deeper level of understanding of the issues, pitfalls and potential ways to reconcile cultural differences at work." (People Management, 7th December 2000) "This book really does have some excellent material in it and there is much to be gained from reading it." (European Business Forum, January 2001) "The authors write beautifully and this work is one of the most clearly and elegantly written management books in many years...." (Journal of General Management, Vol. 26/3, Spring 2001) "I have read many books on the topic. Few have been as brilliant, creative or useful. Building Cross-Cultural Competence is in a league of its own." (CISV Interspectives (A journal on Transcultural Education) Vol.18, 2001) "...essential reading for all concerned with the challenges of global intercultural management..." (Long Range Planning, Vol.34 2001) "Beautifully written and well organized- It initiates a new category of cultural studies." - RUSSELL L. ACKOFF "A fascinating work, Highly recommended for those seeking to understand, and to benefit from, a deeper understanding of cultural adversity and change in a complex world." -- MARK HAYNES DANIELLWer in einer multikulturellen Gesellschaft Zufriedenheit schaffen will, muß die Trennung zwischen den Einzelkulturen überwinden und interkulturelle Kompetenz entwickeln. Das moderne Unternehmen befindet sich im Spannungsfeld entgegengesetzter Werte, die es zu vereinen gilt, lautet die Forderung der Autoren. Sie widersprechen protektionistischem Denken in der Überzeugung, dass nur ein Miteinander in Toleranz und Unvoreingenommenheit das Beste aus allen Welten zusammenbringt. Erfolgreiche Manager müssen in beide Richtungen blicken: "Was wir klar sehen, fehlt dem Fremden; was der Fremde klar sieht, fehlt uns." Fazit: Es geht um ganzheitliches, vernetztes Denken. Markt & Mittelstand 2001Table of ContentsIntroduction. Universalism-Particularism: The Dilemma. Reconciling Universalism and Particularism: Stories and Cases. Individualism-Communitarianism: The Dilemma. Reconciling Individualism and Communitarianism: Stories and Cases. Specificity-Diffuseness: The Dilemma. Reconciling Specificity and Diffuseness: Stories and Cases. Achieved-Ascribed Status: The Dilemma. Reconciling Achieved with Ascribed Status: Stories and Cases. Inner Direction versus Outer Direction: The Dilemma. Reconciling Inner and Outer Direction: Stories and Cases. Sequential and Synchronous Time: The Dilemma. Reconciling Sequential and Synchronous Time: Stories and Cases. Appendix 1 - Dilemma Theory and Its Origins. Appendix 2 - Exercises in Reconciliation. Appendix 3 - Measuring Transcultural Competence: Old and New. Questionnaries. Appendix 4 - The Space Between Dimensions. Bibliography. Filmography. Index.

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Book SynopsisShows how bureaucracy sustained the Habsburg Empire while inciting economists, legal theorists, and socialists to urge reform. This title examines how Vienna's coffeehouses, theaters, and concert halls stimulated creativity together with complacency. It explores the fin-de-siecle world view known as Viennese Impressionism.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I. Habsburg Bureacracy: Inertia versus Reform Part II. Aestheticism at Vienna Part III. Positivism and Impressionism: An Unlikely Symbiosis Part IV. Bohemian Reform Catholicism Part V. The Hungarian Cult of Illusion Part VI. Soothsayers of Modernity Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive documentation of Weimar culture, history and politics. It explores Germany's relationship to democracy, ideologies of 'reactionary modernism', the rise of the 'New Woman', Bauhaus architecture, the tradition of cabaret and urban entertainment, and the situation of Jews, intellectuals and workers during the emergence of fascism.Trade Review"A mosaic panorama. . . . Interweaving classic texts with a wealth of excavated matter, [the editors] have done a great service to anyone interested in what modernism was and, through reinterpretation, may yet become." * San Francisco Chronicle *"The Weimar Republic Sourcebook will almost certainly transform the way the intellectual legacy of the Weimar Republic is thought about and taught in the English-speaking world." * Modernism/modernity *"Unquestionably, The Weimar Republic Sourcebook is a wonderful resource. . . . Courses on German culture could easily be built around the book's chapters. In addition, it should be on the reading list of all prospective anthologists." * H-German *"This is an essential book for anyone teaching a course on the Weimar Republic, and advanced students should be advised to purchase it." * German History *Table of ContentsPreface A NEW DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS 1. The Legacy of the War I. Ernst Simmel, War Neuroses and "Psychic Trauma" (1918) 2. The Treaty of Versailles: The Reparations Clauses (1919) 3· Count Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau, Speech of the German Delegation, Versailles (1919) 4· Ernst Troeltsch, The Dogma of Guilt (1919) 5· Paul von Hindenburg, The Stab in the Back (1919) 6. Social Democratic Party (SPD), Appeal for a General Strike (1920) 7· Willi Wolfradt, The Stab-in-the-Back Legend? (1922) 8. Ernst Junger, Fire (1922) 9· Kurt Tucholsky, The Spirit of 1914 (1924) 10. Carl Zuckmayer, Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (1929) II. Ernst von Salomon, The Outlawed (1929) 12. Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, Why War? (1933) 2. Revolution and the Birth of the Republic 13. Spartacus Manifesto (1918) 14. Heinrich Mann, The Meaning and Idea of the Revolution (1918) 15. Rosa Luxemburg, Founding Manifesto of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) (1918) 16. The Constitution of the German Republic (1919) 17. Count Harry Kessler, On Ebert and the Revolution (1919) 18. Wilhelm Hausenstein, Remembering Eisner (1919-1920) 19. Theodor Heuss, Democracy and Parliamentarism: Their History, Their Enemies, and Their Future (1928) 20. Bernhard Prince von Bulow, Revolution in Berlin (1931) 3. Economic Upheaval: Rationalization, Inflation, and Depression 21. Das Tagebuch, Editorial on the Occupation of the Ruhr (1923) 22. Friedrich Kroner, Overwrought Nerves (1923) 23. The Dawes Committee Report (1924) 24. Ernst Neckarsulmer, Hugo Stinnes (1925) 25. Rudolf Hilferding, The Organized Economy (1927) 26. Erich Schairer, Alfred Hugenberg (1929) 27. B. Traven, Bank Failures (1929) 28. Erwin Kupzyk, Postwar Concentration in the German Iron Industry (1930) 29. Hans Ostwald, A Moral History of the Inflation (1931) 30. Rolf Wagenfiihr, The Inflation Boom (1932) 31. Franz von Papen, Speech to the Lausanne Conference (1932) 32. Heinrich Hauser, The Unemployed (1933) 4. Coming to Terms with Democracy 33· Friedrich Meinecke, The Old and the New Germany (1918) 34· Ernst Troeltsch, The German Democracy (1918) 35· Max Weber, Politics as a Vocation (1918) 36. Kurt Tucholsky, We Nay-Sayers (1919) 37· Emil Julius Gumbel, Four Years of Political Murder (1922) 38. German Center Party Program (I 922) 39· Thomas Mann, The German Republic (1922) 40. Das Tagebuch, Editorial on the Anniversary of the Death of Walther Rathenau (1923) 41. Carl von Ossietzky, Defending the Republic: The Great Fashion (1924) 42. Social Democratic Party (SPD) Program (1925) 43· German People's Party (DVP) Program (1931) . 44· Kurt Tucholsky, For Carl von Ossietzky (1932) 5. The Rise of Nazism 45· Alfred Rosenberg, The Russian Jewish Revolution (1919) 46. Adolf Bartels, The Struggle of the Age (1920) 47· German Workers' Party (DAP), The Twenty-Five Points (1920) 48. Joseph Goebbels, National Socialism or Bolshevism? (1925) 49· Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (1927) 50. R.W. Darre, Marriage Laws and the Principles of Breeding (1930) 51. Joseph Goebbels, Why Are We Enemies of the Jews? (1930) 52. Adolf Hitler, Address to the Industry Club (1932) 53· German Farmer You Belong to Hitler! Why? (1932) 54· Joseph Goebbels, Fighting League for German Culture (1932) 55· Count Harry Kessler, On the Nietzsche Archive and the German Elections (1932) 6. The Struggle against Fascism 56. Ernst Bloch, Hitler's Force (1924) 57· Thomas Mann, An Appeal to Reason (1930) s8. Walter Benjamin, Theories of German Fascism (1930) 59· Heinrich Mann, The German Decision (1931) 60. Lion Feuchtwanger, How Do We Struggle against a Third Reich? (1931) 61. Communist Party of Germany, Open Letter (1931) 62. Joseph Roth, Cultural Bolshevism (1932) Paul Tillich, Ten Theses (1932) 64. Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin, National Socialism: A Menace (1932) PRESSURE POINTS OF SOCIAL LIFE 7. White-Collar Workers: Mittelstancl or Middle Class? 65. Hans Georg, Our Stand at the Abyss ( 1921) 66. Margot Starke, The Bank Clerk ( 1923) 67. Fritz Schroder, The Labor Market for White-Collar Workers (1924) 68. Wilhelm Kalveram, Rationalization in Business Management (1929) 69. Hilde Walter, The Misery of the "New Mittelstand" (1929) 70. Siegfried Kracauer, Shelter for the Homeless (1930) 71. Theodor Geiger, The Old and New Middle Classes (1932) 8. The Rise of the New Woman 72. Marianne Weber, The Special Cultural Mission of Women (1919) 73· Die Kommunistin, Manifesto for International Women's Day (1921) 74. Manfred Georg, The Right to Abortion (1922) 75· Gabriele Tergit, Paragraph 218: A Modern Gretchen Tragedy (1926) Alfred Polgar, The Defenseless: A Conversation between Men (1928) 77· Max Brod, Women and the New Objectivity ( 1929) 78. Elsa Herrmann, This is the 1\'ew Woman (1929) 79· Textile Workers, My Workday, My Weekend (1930) 80. Hilde Walter, Twilight for Women? (1931) 81. Women's Work and the Economic Crisis (1931) 82. Else Kienle, The Kienle Case (1931) 83. Siegfried Kracauer, Working Women (1932) 84. Alice Ruhle-Gerstel, Back to the Good Old Days? (1933) 9. Forging a Proletarian Culture 85. A. R., On Proletarian Culture (1920) 86. Otto Ruhle, The Psyche of the Proletarian Child (1925) 87. Larissa Reissner, Schiffbek (1925) 88. Willi Munzenberg, Conquer Film! ( 1925) 89. Friedrich Wolf, Art is a Weapon! (1928) 90. Walter Benjamin, Program for a Proletarian Children's Theater (1928) 91. Johannes R. Becher, Our Front (1928) 92. A Survey on Proletarian Writing (1929) 93· Otto Biha, The Proletarian Mass Novel (1930) 94· Hanns Eisler, Progress in the Workers' Music Movement (1931) 95· Georg Lukacs, Willi Bredel's Novels (1931) 96. League of Proletarian-Revolutionary Writers, To All Proletarian-Revolutionary Writers, To All Workers' Correspondents (1931) 97· Giinther D. Dehm, Berlin Workers' District (n. d.) 10. The Jewish Community: Renewal, Redefinition, Resistance 98. Martin Buber, Nationalism (1921) 99· Efraim Frisch, Jewish Sketches (1921-1922) 100. Arnold Zweig, The Countenance of Eastern European Jews (1922) 101. S. Steinberg, What We Strive For (1922) 102. Das Tagebuch, Editorial, The German Spirit (1924) 103. Franz Rosenzweig, The New Thinking (1925) I04. Edgar Marx, Ideological Self-determination of Bar Kochba: The New Year of the Jewish Gymnastics and Sports Association Bar Kochba ( 1927) 105. Joseph Roth, Wandering Jews (1927) 106. Theodor Lessing, Jewish Self-Hatred (1930) 107. Gershom Scholem, On the 1930 Edition of Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption (1931) 108. Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith, Flyer (1932) 109. Carl von Ossietzky, Anti-Semites (1932) INTELLECTUALS AND THE IDEOLOGIES OF THE AGE 11. Redefining the Role of the Intellectuals 110. Gertrud Baumer, The "Intellectuals" (1919) 111. Alfred Dahlin, The Writer and the State (1921) 112. Franz W. Seiwert and Franz Pfemfert, The Function of Intellectuals in Society and Their Task in the Proletarian Revolution (1923) 113. Alfred Weber, The Predicament of Intellectual Workers (1923) 114. Hans Zehrer, The Revolution of the Intelligentsia (1929) 115. Karl Mannheim, Ideology and Utopia (1929) 116. Hannah Arendt, Philosophy and Sociology: On Karl Mannheim's Ideology and Utopia (1930) 117. Ernst von Salomon, We and the Intellectuals (1930) 118. Walter Benjamin, Left-Wing Melancholy (1931) 119· Siegfried Kracauer, On the Writer (1931) 12. Critical Theory and the Search for a New Left 120. Karl Radek, Leo Schlageter: The Wanderer in the Void (1923) 121. Karl Korsch, Marxism and Philosophy (1923) 122. Max Horkheimer, The Impotence of the German Working Class (1927) 123· Max Horkheimer, The State ·of Contemporary Social Philosophy and the Tasks of an Institute for Social Research (1931) 124. Wilhelm Reich, Politicizing the Sexual Problems of Youth (1932) 125. Leo Lowenthal, On the Sociology of Literature (1932) 126. Ernst Thalmann, The SPD and NSDAP are Twins (1932) 127. Social Democratic Party (SPD), The Iron Front for a United Front! (1932) 13. Revolution from the Right 128. Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, The Third Empire (1923) 129. Carl Schmitt, On the Contradiction between Parliamentarism and Democracy (1926) 130. Ernst Niekisch, Where We Stand (1926) 131. Berlin Stahlhelm Manifesto (1927) 132. Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Literature as the Spiritual Space of the Nation (1927) 133· Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political (1927) 134· A molt Bronnen, German Nationalism, German Theater (1931) 135· Hans Freyer, Revolution from the Right (1931) 136. German National People's Party (DNVP) Program (1931) 137· Edgar J. Jung, Germany and the Conservative Revolution (1932) 14. Cultural Pessimism: Diagnoses of Decline 138. Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West (1918) 139· Count Hermann Keyserling, The Culture of Making It Easy for Oneself (1920) 140. Willy Hellpach, The Catholic Cultural Offensive and Political Catholicism (1924-1925) 141. Hermann Hesse, The Longing of Our Time for a Worldview (1926) 142. Martin Heidegger, Being and Time (1927) 143· Ernst Junger, On Danger (1931) 144· Karl Jaspers, The Spiritual Situation of the Age (1931) 145· Ernst Junger, The Worker: Domination and Form (1932) 146. Franz von Papen, German Cultural Policy (1932) 147. Gottfried Benn, After Nihilism (1932) 148. Ludwig Bauer, The Middle Ages, 1932 (1932) 149. Alfred Doblin, May the Individual Not Be Stunted by the Masses (1932) THE CHALLENGE OF MODERNITY 15. Imagining America: Fordism and Technology 150. Rudolf Kayser, Americanism (1925) 151. Stefan Zweig, The Monotonization of the World (1925) 152. Friedrich von Gottl-Ottlilienfeld, Fordism (1926) 153. Friedrich Sieburg, Worshipping Elevators (1926) 154· Siegfried Kracauer, The Mass Ornament (1927) 155· Adolf Halfeld, America and the New Objectivity (1928) 156. Fdix Stossinger, The Anglicization of Germany (1929) 157. Otto Bauer, Rationalization and the Social Order (1931) 16. Berlin and the Countryside 158. Ludwig Finckh, The Spirit of Berlin (1919) 159· Math eo Quinz, The Romanic Cafe (1926) 160. Kurt Tucholsky, Berlin and the Provinces (1928) 161. Franz Hessel, The Suspicious Character (1929) 162. Egan Erwin Kisch, We Go to a Cafe Because ... (1930) 163. Wilhelm Stapel, The Intellectual and His People (1930) 164. Harold Nicolson, The Charm of Berlin (1932) 165. Martin Heidegger, Creative Landscape: Why Do We Stay in the Provinces? (1933) 17. Designing the New World: Modern Architecture and the Bauhaus 166. Bruno Taut, A Program for Architecture (1918) 167. Walter Gropius, Program of the Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar (1919) 168. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architecture and the Will of the Age (1924) 169. Walter Gropius and Paul Schultze-Naumburg, Who is Right? Traditional Architecture or Building in New Forms (1926) 170. Hannes Meyer, The New World (1926) 171. Adolf Behne and Paul Westheim, The Aesthetics of the Flat Roof (1926-1927) 172. Rudolf Arnheim, The Bauhaus in Dessau (1927) 173· Erich Mendelsohn, Why This Architecture? (1928) 174. Marcel Breuer, Metal Furniture and Modern Spatiality (1928) 18. Housing for the Masses 175. Bruno Taut, The Earth is a Good Dwelling (1919) 176. Martin Wagner, Path and Goal (1920) 177. Bruno Taut, The New Dwelling: The Woman as Creator (1924) 178. Grete Lihotzky, Rationalization in the Household (1926-1927) 179· Dr. N., A Contemporary Garden City (1927) 180. Edgar Wedepohl, The Weissenhof Settlement (1927) 181. Marie-Elisabeth Luders, A Construction, Not a Dwelling (1927) 182. The Stuttgart W erkbund Houses (1929) 183. Otto Steinicke, A Visit to a New Apartment (1929) 19. From Dada to the New Obiectivity: Art and Politics 184. November Group Circular (1918) 185. November Group Manifesto (1918) 186. Work Council for Art Manifesto (1919) 187. Wilhelm Hausenstein, Art at this Moment (1919-1920) 188. Raoul Hausmann, The German Philistine Gets Upset (1919) 189. John Heartfield and George Grosz, The Art Scab (1920) 190. Richard H uelsenbeck, Dada Tours (1920) 191. Max Beckmann, Creative Credo (1920) 192. Adolf Behne, On the 1922 Russian Art Exhibition in Berlin (1922) 193· Carl Einstein, Otto Dix (1923) 194· Gustav Hartlaub, Introduction to "New Objectivity": German Painting since Expressionism (1925) 195· Franz Roh, Post-Expressionist Schema (1925) 196. Misch Orend, Magical Realism (1928) 197. Paul Schultze-Naumburg, Art and Race (1928) 198. George Grosz, Among Other Things, a Word for German Tradition (1931) CHANGING CONFIGURATIONS OF CULTURE 20. Literature: High and Low 199· Max Brod, Franz Kafka's Posthumous Writings (1924) 200. Hermann von Wedderkop, Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain (1925) 201. Egon Erwin Kisch, Preface to The Racing Reporter (1925) 202. Walter Benjamin, Filling Station (1928) 203. Alfred Doblin, Ulysses by Joyce (1928) 204. Erich Knauf, Book Clubs (1929) 205. Gina Kaus, The Woman in Modern Literature (1929) 206. Erich Kastner, Prosaic Digression (1929) 207. Kurt Pinthus, Masculine Literature (1929) 208. Heinrich Mann, Detective Novels (1929) 209. Arnold Zweig, Is There a Newspaper Novel? (1929) 210. Gottfried Benn, The New Literary Season (1931) 211. Friedrich Sieburg, Champagne: Notes on the Literature of High Society (1931) 212. Lion Feuchtwanger, The Novel of Today Is International (1932) 213. Gunter Eich, Remarks on Lyric Poetry (1932) 21. Theater, Politics, and the Public Sphere 214. Leopold Jessner, To the Directors of the German Theater (1918) 215. Siegfried Jacobsohn, Theater-and Revolution? (1919) 216. Siegfried Jacobsohn, Wilhelm Tell (1919) 217. Herbert Jhering, The Dramatist Bert Brecht (1922) 218. Hanns Johst, The Drama and the National Idea (1922) 219. Bertolt Brecht, More Good Sports (1926) 220. Leopold Jessner, Bertolt Brecht, and Fritz Kortner, Is the Drama Dying? (1926) 221. Bertolt Brecht, Difficulties of the Epic Theater (1927) 222. Lion Feuchtwanger, Bertolt Brecht Presented to the British (1928) 223. Friedrich Wolf, The Stage and Life (1929) 224. Erwin Piscator, The Documentary Play (1929) 225. Max Reinhardt, On Actors (1930) 226. Das rote Sprachrohr, How Does One Use Agitprop Theater? (1930) 227. Alfred Kemenyi, Measures Taken at the GroBes Schauspielhaus (1931) 22. The Roaring Twenties: Cabaret and Urban Entertainment 228. Alice Gerstel, Jazz Band (1922) 229. Frank Warschauer, Berlin Revues (1924) 230. Maximilian Sladek, Our Show (1924) 231. Ferdinand Hager, The Flight of the "Blue Bird" (1924) 232. Katharina Rathaus, Charleston: Every Age Has the Dance It Deserves (1926) 233. Ivan Goll, The Negroes Are Conquering Europe (1926) 234. Joseph Goebbels, Around the Gedachtniskirche (1928) 235. Erich Kastner, The Cabaret of the Nameless (1929) 236. Curt Moreck, We Will Show You Berlin (1930) 237. Siegfried Kracauer, Girls and Crisis (1931) 238. Friedrich Hollaender, Cabaret (1932) 23. Music for Use: Gebrauchsmusik and Opera 239· Frank Warschauer, Jazz: On Whiteman's Berlin Concerts (1926) 240. Kurt Weill, Zeitoper (1928) 241. H. H. Stuckenschmidt, Short Operas (1928) 242. Kurt Weill, Correspondence about The Threepenny Opera (1929) 243· Paul Hindemith and Walter Gropius, For the Renewal of Opera (1929) 244· Hanns Gutman, Music for Use (1929) 245. Alban Berg, On My Wozzeck (1929) 246. Arnold Schoenberg, My Public (1930) 247. Ernst Krenek, New Humanity and Old Objectivity (1931) 248. Theodor W. Adorno, Mahagonny (1932) 24. New Mass Media: Radio and Gramophone 249. Kurt Weill, Dance Music (1926) 250. H. H. Stuckenschmidt, Mechanical Music (1926) 251. Otto Alfred Palitzsch, Broadcast Literature (1927) 252. Kurt Tucholsky, Radio Censorship (1928) 253. Theodor W. Adorno, The Curves of the Needle (1928) 254· Frank Warschauer, The Future of Opera on the Radio (1929) 255· Arno Schirokauer, Art and Politics in Radio (1929) 256. Arnolt Brannen, Radio Play or Literature? (1929) 257. W. The Writer Speaks and Sings on Gramophone Records (1929) 258. M. M. Gehrke and Rudolf Arnheim, The End of the Private Sphere (1930) 259. Bertolt Brecht, The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication (1932) 25. Cinema from Expressionism to Social Realism 260. Herbert Jhering, An Expressionist Film (1920) 261. Curt Rosenberg, Fridericus Rex (1923) 262. Fritz Lang, The Future of the Feature Film in Germany (1926) 263. Willy Haas, Metropolis (1927) 264. Walter Benjamin, A Discussion of Russian Filmic Art and Collectivist Art in General (1927) 265. Bela Balazs, Writers and Film (1929) 266. Emil Jannings, Romanticizing the Criminal in Film (1929) 267. Siegfried Kracauer, The Blue Angel (1930) 268. Erich Pommer, Writers and the Sound Film (1931) 269. Gabriele Tergit, Fritz Lang's M: Filmed Sadism (1931) 270. Siegfried Kracauer, The Task of the Film Critic (1932) THE TRANSFORMATION OF EVERYDAY LIFE 26. Visual Culture: Illustrated Press and Photography . 271. Edlef Koppen, The Magazine as a Sign of the Times (1925) 272. August Sander, Remarks on My Exhibition at the Cologne Art Union (1927) 273. Kurt Korff, The Illustrated Magazine (1927) 274. Albert Renger-Patzsch, Joy before the Object (1928) 275. Johannes Molzahn, Stop Reading! Look! (1928) 276. Werner Graff, Foreword to Here Comes the New Photographer/ (1929) 277. Willi Warstat, Photography in Advertising (1930) 278. Raoul Hausmann, Photomontage (1931) 279. Alfred Kemenyi, Photomontage as a Weapon in Class Struggle (1932) 27. Visions of Plenty: Mass Consumption, Fashion, and Advertising 280. Boycott of French Fashion Goods (1923) 281. Enough is Enough! Against the Masculinization of Woman (1925) 282. Hanns Kropff, Women as Shoppers (1926) 283. Ernst Lorsy, The Hour of Chewing Gum (1926) 284. Hans Siemsen, The Literature of Nonreaders (1926) 285. Vicki Baum, People of Today (1927) 286. Auto-Magazin, Editorial Statement (1928) 287. Anita, Sex Appeal: A New Catchword for an Old Thing (1928) 288. Wolf Zucker, Art and Advertising (1929) 289. Franz Hessel, On Fashion (1929) 290. Stephanie Kaul, Whose Fault Is the Long Dress? (1931) 291. Liselotte de Booy [Miss Germany 1932], Wasted Evenings (1932) 28. The Cult of the Body: Lebensreform, Sports, and Dance 292. Adolf Koch, The Truth about the Berlin Nudist Groups (1924) 293. Felix Hollaender, Ways to Strength and Beauty (1924) 294. Hans Suren, Man and Sunlight (1925) 295· Artur Michel, Flying Man (1926) 296. Fritz Wildung, Sport is the Will to Culture (1926) 297· Ernst Preiss, Physical Fitness-A National Necessity (1926) 298. Wolfgang Graeser, Body Sense: Gymnastics, Dance, Sport (1927) 299· Mary Wigman, Dance and Gymnastics (1927) 300. Herbert Jhering, Boxing (1927) 301. Marieluise Fleisser, The Athletic Spirit and Contemporary Art: An Essay on the Modern Type (1929) 302. Valeska Gert, Dancing (1931) 303. Carl Diem, The German Academy for Gymnastics (1932) 29. Sexuality: Private Rights versus Social Norms 304. Kurt Hiller, The Law and Sexual Minorities (1921) 305. Guidelines of the German Association for the Protection of Mothers (1922) 306. Hugo Bettauer, The Erotic Revolution (1924) 307. Magnus Hirschfeld, Sexual Catastrophes (1926) 308. Lola Landau, The Companionate Marriage (1929) 309. League for Human Rights, Appeal to All Homosexual Women (1929) 310. Helene Stocker, Marriage as a Psychological Problem (1929) 311. Magnus Hirschfeld, The Development and Scope of Sexology (1929) 3I2. Grete Ujhely, A Call for Sexual Tolerance (1930) 313· Alfred Doblin, Sexuality as Sport (1931) 314. Kurt Tucholsky, Rohm (1932) 315. Walter von Hollander, Birth Control-A Man's Business! (1932) 30. On the Margins of the Law: Vice, Crime, and the Social Order 316. Thomas Wehrling, Berlin Is Becoming a Whore (1920) 317. Carl Ludwig Schleich, Cocaineism (1921) 318. Ernst Engelbrecht and Leo Heller, Night Figures of the City (1926) 319. Ernst Engelbrecht and Leo Heller, Opium Dens (1926) 320. Margot Klages-Stange, Prostitution (1926) 321. E. M. Mungenast, The Murderer and the State (1928) 322. Artur Landsberger, The Berlin Underworld (1929) 323. Franz Alexander and Hugo Staub, The Criminal and His Judges (1929) 324. Willi Proger, Sites of Berlin Prostitution (1930) 325. Georg Fuchs, We Prisoners: Memories of Inmate No. 2911 (1931) 326. Sigmund Freud and Oswald Spengler, Responses to Fuchs, We Prisoners (1931) 327. Siegfried Kracauer, Murder Trials and Society (1931) Biographies Political Chronology Selected Bibliography Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisThis book on Latin American social and cultural developments, as well as politics and economics is revised and brought up to date with chapters on the great upheavals of the 1980s. The book received the Gold Medal of the Commonwealth Club of California for outstanding literary achievement.Table of ContentsPREFACE TO FOURTH EDITION PROLOGUE 1. The Mayas: "Greeks of the New World" 2. The Incas: Children of the Sun 3· The Toltec-Aztec Culture 4· The New World Meets the Old World's Cross and Sword 5· The Halls of Montezuma 6. Pizarro's Exploits in the "Empire of the Sun" 7· The Conquest of Chile 8. Colombia Yields to the "Knight of ElDorado" 9· Conquest of the River Plate 10. Brazil: Land of No Lure 11. Iberians and Indians 12. The Division of Lands and Labor 13. The Empire Consolidated 14. Trade Monopoly and Pirates 15. Flowering of the Missions 16. The Church as Inquisitor and Moral Censor 17. Gold and Silver in Foreign Coffers 18. The Brazilian Colossus Begins to Move Forward 19. Struggle over Possession of the Behemoth 20. After the Banner into the Sertao 21. The Feudal Pattern of Colonial Society 22. Life in the Colonial Towns 23. The Beginnings of Colonial Culture 24. Colonial Belles-Lettres 25. Architecture and the Fine Arts 26. Rebellion of the Beast Below 27. Chile Emerges behind the Araucanian Frontier 28. The Argentine Pampas: Cradle of a Great People 3 29. Brazilian Plantation Life Yields to the Lure of Gold 30. Abortive Rebellions in South America 31. Revolt of the Classes 32. Liberator of the North 33· Revolution in the South 34· Argentina Parts Company with Spain 35· San Martin: Protector of Peru 36. The Two Generals Meet at Guayaquil 37· The Cry from Dolores 38. Men of Destiny 39· Brazil Escapes the Chaos of Revolution 40. The Democratic Emperor of Brazil 41. Paraguay as a Symbol of Perpetual Despotism 42· The Spirit of Argentine Nationality I. THE CITY; RIVADAVIA II. THE PAMPAS; TilE GAUCHO 43· Juan Manuel de Rosas: Tyrant of the Argentine 44· Sarmiento: Civilian President 45· The Paraguayan War 46. Venezuela and Colombia under Caudillo Rule 47· The Andean Republics I. BOLMA: A SICK PEOPLE II. ECUADOR: A THEOCRACY III. PERU: SOCIETY OF SLAVE AND MASTER 48. Chile: Democracy of the Oligarchy 49· Santa Anna Loses Half of Mexico so. Benito Juarez: Indian President 51. Porfirio Diaz: Bread or the Club 52. Ariel and Caliban 53. The Twentieth Century: Deep Womb, Dark Flower 54. The Postwar Years MEXICO GUATEMALA EL SALVADOR COSTA RICA NICARAGUA HONDURAS PANAMA CUBA VENEZUELA COLOMBIA ECUADOR PERU BOLIVIA CHILE ARGENTINA PARAGUAY AND URUGUAY BRAZIL 55. The Contemporary Scene 56. Inter-American Relations Today REFERENCES BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INDEX

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays by anthropologists on the subject of ritualized homosexuality. Their studies in cross-cultural variations in homosexual behaviour in a non-Western culture area indicate that contemporary theories of sex and gender development need revision.Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Paperback Edition Editor's Preface 1 Gilbert H. Herdt Ritualized Homosexual Behavior in the Male Cults of Melanesia, 1862-1983: An Introduction 2 Michael R. Allen Homosexuality, Male Power, and Political Organization in North Vanuatu: A Comparative Analysis 3 J. Van Baal The Dialectics of Sex in Marind-anim Culture 4 Gilbert H. Herdt Semen Transactions in Sambia Culture 5 Kenneth E. Read The Nama Cult Recalled 6 Eric Schwimmer Male Couples in New Guinea 7 Laurent Serpenti The Ritual Meaning of Homosexuality and Pedophilia among the Kimam-Papuans of South Irian Jaya 8 Arve S0rum Growth and Decay: Bedamini Notions of Sexuality 9 Shirley Lindenbaum Variations on a Sociosexual Theme in Melanesia Bibliography Contributors Index Maps 1 New Guinea and adjacent islands 2 Vanuatu (New Hebrides) 3 Southwest New Guinea (lrian Jaya) Map of Melanesia frontispiece

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Book SynopsisThe nations of Latin America came into being without a strong sense of national purpose and identity. This book offers a cultural history of one nation's efforts to determine its nature, its destiny, and its place among the nations of the world.Table of ContentsPreface 1. Prelude to Nationhood 2. Mariano Moreno 3· Populism, Federalism, and the Gauchesque 4· The Rivadavians 5· The Generation of 1837, Part One 6. The Generation of 1837, Part Two 7· Alberdi and Sarmiento: The Widening Breach 8. Bartolome Mitre and the Gallery of Argentine Celebrities 9. Roots of Argentine Nationalism, Part One 10. Roots of Argentine Nationalism, Part Two Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOn the morning of January 24, 1848, James W Marshall discovered gold in California. The news spread across the continent, launching hundreds of ships and hitching a thousand prairie schooners. This title demonstrates that in its far-reaching repercussions, it was the most significant event in the first half of the nineteenth century.Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION ONE CALIFORNIA'S GOLDEN REVOLUTION: Enormous Wealth and Great Confusion TWO GOLD FEVER: The Beginning THREE "THIS IS A HARD THING, THIS BREAKING UP OF FAMILIES" Gold and Its Personal Costs FOUR JOURNEY AND ARRIVAL: Coming to California, Coming to Terms FIVE OLD BONDS AND NEW ALLEGIANCES: "Me and john Stick Together Like Wood Ticks" SIX THE SCARCITY OF WOMEN: '1 Have Not Spoken to a Lady for Five Months" SEVEN "I COULD SELL SOME OF THE FURNITURE" Adjustments in the East EIGHT OCCUPATIONS: The 49ers Begin Work NINE ''THE REAL ARGONAUTS OF 49" Life and Leisure in the Gold Fields TEN THE URBAN 49ERS: '.It Very Good Chance to Make Money in This City" ELEVEN WOMEN IN THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH: Duty, Adventure, and Opportunity TWELVE HARSH REALITIES: Hard Luck and Hard Labor in the Gold Fields THIRTEEN '' CAPITALISTS WILL TAKE HOLD '' : High-Stakes Investments and Deferred Returns FOURTEEN THREATS FROM WITHIN, THREATS FROM WITHOUT: Fear, Hostility, and Violence in the Gold Rush FIFTEEN WAITING: A Permanent Condition SIXTEEN LOST LOVE, LOST FAMILIES SEVENTEEN THE PERMANENT LURE OF SUCCESS, THE ENDURING SHAME OF FAILURE: "When a Person Gits to California It Is Hard to Say or Tell When He Gets Away" EIGHTEEN THE RIPPLES SUBSIDE: The End of the Gold Rush NINETEEN "THE DAYS OF OLD, THE DAYS OF GOLD, THE DAYS OF FORTY-NINE" The Gold Rush and Memory HISTORIANS AND SOURCES NOTES

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Book SynopsisNothing has generated more controversy in the social sciences than the turn toward culture, variously known as the linguistic turn, culturalism, or postmodernism. This book examines the impact of the cultural turn on two prominent social science disciplines, history and sociology.Table of ContentsCONTRIBUTORS: Richard Biernacki Caroline Bynum Steven Feierman Karen Halttunen Margaret C. Jacob Sonya O. Rose Jerrold Seigel William H. Sewell Jr. Margaret R. Somers Hayden White

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Book SynopsisCinema and the Wealth of Nations explores how media principally in the form of cinema was used during the interwar years by elite institutions to establish and sustain forms of liberal political economy beneficial to their interests. It examines the media produced and circulated by institutions such as states, corporations, and investment banks, as well as the emergence of a corporate media industry and system supported by state policy and integral to the establishment of a new consumer system. Lee Grieveson sketches a genealogy of the use of media to encode liberal political and economic power across the period that saw the United States eclipse Britain as the globally hegemonic power and the related inauguration of new forms of liberal economic globalization. But this is not a distant history. Cinema and the Wealth of Nations examines a foundational conjuncture in the establishment of media forms and a media system instrumental in, and structural to, the emergence and expansion of a world system that has been-and continues to be-brutally violent, unequal, and destructive.Trade Review"Lee Grieveson’s bold historical analysis of the relationship between media and capital is nothing if not timely. . . . [He] deepens the scholarship on cinema’s social role beyond the dominant art and entertainment paradigms." * Reviews in History *"A monumental achievement, a book that invites scholars to rethink what it means to research and write film history." * JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies *"Few recent books in film and media studies can match the ambition Lee Grieveson set himself with Cinema and the Wealth of Nations: Media, Capital, and the Liberal World System, and even fewer have delivered in the way Grieveson does. Nothing less than a comprehensive reconceptualisation of the discipline is on the agenda . . . in which political economy replaces aesthetics at the centre of our concerns, and in which questions of corporate ownership, state policy and class hegemony form the core of research in the field. . . . [It's a] rare breed of academic text: one that leaves the reader vivified at the end, as Grieveson’s final chapter whizzes from the techno-futurism of the 1939 World Fair, through the cinema’s insertion into the military-industrial complex in the Cold War and onto the fully automated drone-logic of contemporary capitalist media." * Senses of Cinema *"A beacon for future research, Grieveson’s Cinema and the Wealth of Nations will undoubtedly become one of the most significant monographs in the field of media history and political economy, and provide an indispensable resource, not only in terms of its valuable content, but also its grand scope, ambitious synthesis, and urgent message." * Film-Philosophy *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. The Silver Screen and the Gold Standard 2. The Panama Caper 3. Empire of Liberty 4. Liberty Bonds 5. The State of Extension 6. The Work of Film in the Age of Fordist Mechanization 7. The Pan-American Road to Happiness and Friendship 8. Highways of Empire 9. League of Corporations 10. The Silver Chains of Mimesis 11. The Golden Harvest of the Silver Screen 12. Welfare Media 13. The World of Tomorrow—Today! Notes Sources and Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe king of radio comedy from the Great Depression through the early 1950s, Jack Benny was one of the most influential entertainers in twentieth-century America. A master of comic timing and an innovative producer, Benny, with his radio writers, developed a weekly situation comedy to meet radio's endless need for new material, at the same time integrating advertising into the show's humor. Through the character of the vain, cheap everyman, Benny created a fall guy, whose frustrated struggles with his employees addressed mid-century America's concerns with race, gender, commercialism, and sexual identity. Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley contextualizes her analysis of Jack Benny and his entourage with thoughtful insights into the intersections of competing entertainment media and argues that transmedia stardom, branded entertainment, and virality are, in fact, the newest versions of key elements in the history of American popular culture.Trade Review"By discussing in depth the ways the show was and wasn’t distributed during and after its initial run (including the balance of radio stations carrying the show vs. TV stations carrying the show throughout the ‘50s), Fuller-Seeley makes the book itself an intermedia experience, encouraging readers to contribute to the vital work of media archiving." * Splitsider *“…a deeply researched and powerfully argued analysis of Benny’s persona, productions, distribution, advertising, and sponsorship from the early 1930s through the late 1950s. …It is a must-read for scholars seeking to understand the inner workings, products, and impact of mass media and intermedia develop­ment, consumer culture, and celebrity culture during the heyday of mid-twentieth-century American commercial radio broadcasting and how to write about such issues incisively and inclusively.” * The Journal of American History *"Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley’s monograph on Jack Benny provides the first full-length scholarly account of the comedian’s influential broadcasting career, which began in 1932 and ended with his death in 1974. As well as discussing his film and television work, she presents an extremely detailed analysis of Benny’s long-running, but largely overlooked, multifaceted radio program (1932–1955) which she calls his ‘greatest achievement’." * Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 • Becoming Benny: Th e Development of Jack Benny’s Character-Focused Comedy for Radio 2 • “What Are You Laughing at, Mary?” Mary Livingstone’s Comic Voice 3 • Masculine Gender Identity in Jack Benny’s Humor 4 • Eddie Anderson, Rochester, and Race in 1930s Radio and Film 5 • Rochester and the Revenge of Uncle Tom in the 1940s and 1950s 6 • Th e Commercial Imperative: Jack Benny, Advertising, and Radio Sponsors 7 • Jack Benny’s Intermedia Juggling of Radio and Film 8 • Benny at War with the Radio Critics 9 • Jack Benny’s Turn Towards Television Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book creates a space in which trauma of all kinds can be explored and confronted." * Film Matters *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Documenting the “Residue of Battle” 1. “Imaging the Mind”: Military Psychiatry Meets Documentary Film 2. Solemn Venues: War Trauma and the Expanding Nontheatrical Realm 3. Selling “Psycho Films”: Trauma Cinema and the Military-Industrial Complex 4. Psychodocudramatics: Role-Playing War Trauma from the Hospital to Hollywood 5. “Casualties of the Spirit”: Let There Be Light and Its Contexts Conclusion: Traumatic Returns Notes Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisForced to contend with unprecedented levels of psychological trauma during World War II, the United States military began sponsoring a series of nontheatrical films designed to educate and even rehabilitate soldiers and civilians alike.Traumatic Imprintstraces the development of psychiatric and psychotherapeutic approaches to wartime trauma by the United States military, along with links to formal and narrative developments in military and civilian filmmaking. Offering close readings of a series of films alongside analysis of period scholarship in psychiatry and bolstered by research in trauma theory and documentary studies, Noah Tsika argues that trauma was foundational in postwar American culture. Examining wartime and postwar debates about the use of cinema as a vehicle for studying, publicizing, and even what has been termed working through war trauma, this book is an original contribution to scholarship on the military-industrial complex.Trade Review"This book creates a space in which trauma of all kinds can be explored and confronted." * Film Matters *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Documenting the “Residue of Battle” 1. “Imaging the Mind”: Military Psychiatry Meets Documentary Film 2. Solemn Venues: War Trauma and the Expanding Nontheatrical Realm 3. Selling “Psycho Films”: Trauma Cinema and the Military-Industrial Complex 4. Psychodocudramatics: Role-Playing War Trauma from the Hospital to Hollywood 5. “Casualties of the Spirit”: Let There Be Light and Its Contexts Conclusion: Traumatic Returns Notes Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLev Kuleshov (18991970) was the first aesthetic theorist of the cinema. An outstanding figure in the montage school, he was a key influence on Eisenstein and Pudovkin. Kuleshov was the first to see clearly that montagethe assemblage and alternation of shotswas the very essence and structure of cinematic expression, often overriding the significance of the content of the shots themselves. Deriving his insights from close study of American films (particularly D. W. Griffith's), Kuleshov used his experience in prerevolutionary Russian films and his wartime efforts in Soviet documentaries to conduct experiments in film acting and montage. He developed an editing method later referred to as the Kuleshov effect that juxtaposed shots to evoke new meanings from the combinations. In one experiment, he intercut identical shots of an actor's neutral face with shots of a bowl of soup, a child in a coffin, and a sunny landscape to evoke different emotional responses from the audience. Kuleshov also synthesized a nonexistent woman from close-ups of different parts of several women and created artificial landscapes by intercutting shots of locations separated by great distances. Kuleshov taught at the Soviet film school and was a well-known director of features, and Kuleshov on Film contains essays on both the theoretical and practical sides of filmmaking. Influenced by Futurism, Russian Formalism, and structural linguistics, Kuleshov's analysis can now be seen as semiotic, presaging studies of film as a system of signs. As a Marxist and structuralist, Kuleshov examined form and content with a materialist approach. The translator's extensive introduction discusses Kuleshov's use of signs, typage, and other structuralist concepts and places him in the development of semiotic thought. It also provides intriguing biographical detail on Kuleshov's conflicts with advocates of socialist realism, who attempted to stamp out the artistic and theoretical innovations of the early revolutionary years, and establishes Kuleshov's position as one of the great figures in the evolution of film. Kuleshov on Film is essential reading for everyone seriously concerned with the cinema. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.

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Book SynopsisZygmunt Baumana s powerful and persuasive study of the postmodern perspective on ethics is particularly welcome. For Bauman the great issues of ethics have lost none of their topicality: they simply need to be seen, and dealt with, in a wholly new way. Our era, he suggests, may actually represent a dawning, rather than a twilight, for ethics.Trade Review"Bauman must be given credit for placing what Kant called the mysteries of 'moral law inside me' as the ultimate riddle of morality. His criticism of all moral theories that reduce morality to the utilitarian rational choice of social actors is convincing." Jose Casanova, New School for Social ResearchTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. Moral Responsibilities, Ethical Rules. 2. The Elusive Universality. 3. The Elusive Foundations. 4. The Moral Party of Two. 5. Beyond the Moral Party. 6. Social Spaces: Cognitive, Aesthetic, Moral. 7. Private Morals, Pubic Risks. 8. An Overview: In the End is the Beginning. Index.

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Book SynopsisArgues that race is integral to the conceptual, philosophical and material emergence of the modern nation state, and to its ongoing management. This book shows that debates and struggles about race in a wide variety of societies are really about the nature of political constitution and community.Trade Review"Goldberg offers a compelling, historically grounded and powerful set of analytic tools to understand the pernicious synergy on which racisms and modern states have thrived. The Racial State offers that rare form of engaged scholarship speaks to the theoretical and the everyday, that joins analytic innovation and nuance, political commitment, and historical breadth." (Ann Laura Stoler, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor) "The Racial State is a worthy contribution, following Omi and Winant's theory, to our understanding of modern racial formation. Commanding the canon of political philosophy and legal theory, Goldberg provides us with a thorough account of how racial distinction, exclusion, management and terror have been historically the reason and practice of the modern state." (Lisa Lowe, University of California, San Diego)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction: The State of Race Theory. 1. States of Racial Distinction. 2. The Time of Racial States. 3. The State of Liberalism’s Limits. 4. Racial Rule. 5. Racial States. 6. Legislating Race. 7. States of Whiteness. 8. Raceless States. 9. Conclusion: Stating the Difference. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of media studies. It sets out the range of approaches to decoding media texts, and engages with a number of approaches to media institutions, detailing the key debates that have taken place around them.Trade Review"Written in a clear and concise manner this introductory textbook offers a comprehensive overview of the central theoretical, empirical and analytical debates and issues in contemporary media studies. This is a valuable resource for undergraduate students on media studies or media-related courses who are new to the field; and those more familiar with its debates and issues." Sharon Lockyer, BookendsTable of ContentsIntroduction IX Part I Texts 1 How the Media Communicate 3 Media forms and conventions 4 Different mediums, different conventions: The X-Files 5 Suggestions for further work 11 2 Reading Media Images 13 Mise-en-scène analysis13 Semiotic analysis 19 The problems with textual analysis 27 Suggestions for further work 28 3 Ideology 29 What is ideology? 29 Althusser 31 Hegemony 33 Suggestions for further work 38 4 Representation 39 Representation: a definition 39 Stereotypes 40 Content analysis 44 A hegemonic approach 47 Images of youth 49 Suggestions for further work 56 5 Genre 57 Genre: a definition 57 Genre and production 58 Genre and film 60 Genre study and film criticism 61 Genre and television 62 The television western 62 Genre and ideology 63 Suggestions for further work 65 6 Narrative 66 Narrative models: some definitions 67 Conventions of narrative across media forms 68 Why is narrative important to the media industry? 69 Structuralism and narrative theory 71 The impact of structuralism on film studies 77 The problems with structuralist narrative models 78 Suggestions for further work 79 7 Intertextuality 80 Definitions 80 Postmodernism and intertextuality 81 Intertextuality and advertising 83 Intertextuality, politics and popular music 84 Intertextuality and film genre 85 Suggestions for further work 87 Part II Institutions 8 Approaches to Media Institutions 91 What is a media institution? 91 Critical approaches to media institutions 94 Media institutions in the context of globalization 103 Suggestions for further work 106 9 Public Service Broadcasting and the Market 107 The development of broadcasting in Britain 107 Information as a commodity not a service 119 Deregulation and consumer choice 120 The future: responses to change 121 Suggestions for further work 122 10 Media Professionalism and Codes of Practice 123 The professional: definitions 123 Occupational ideologies 125 Professional practice and newsroom studies 126 Professionalism and political conflict 129 Suggestions for further work 131 11 Independent Media 132 What is an independent? 132 Media structures 133 British television 135 Community radio 136 Independent cinema exhibition 138 Independent film distribution in the UK 140 Undercurrents 141 Suggestions for further work 143 Part III Audiences 12 Conceptualizing and Measuring Media Audiences 147 Conceiving the audience: television schedules 147 Measuring media audiences 151 Suggestions for further work 155 13 The Effects of the Media on Audience Groups 156 What are the aims of effects research? 156 The historical development of the effects tradition 157 The limitations of effects research 160 An early challenge to the effects tradition: uses and gratifications 161 The dominance of effects research in the 1990s 163 Suggestions for further work 167 14 Contexts of Media Consumption 168 The developmental context of the cultural studies approach 169 The cultural studies challenge to the power of the text 171 The cultural studies turn to ‘lived’ contexts of consumption 174 The power relations of media reception and technology 178 Cultural studies and consumption 181 Suggestions for further work 183 15 Minority Audiences and the Media 184 What do we mean by minority? 184 Black women as cultural readers 185 Sexual minorities and the media 187 Star images and gay men 189 Fans and fan culture 191 Suggestions for further work 193 16 New Technologies and Media Audiences 194 Technology and society 194 The development of colour cinema 196 Media technology and the individual 199 Suggestions for further work 202 17 Media Consumption and Social Status 203 Theories of consumption and social distinction 204 Television: a case study of a ‘vulgar’ medium 207 Media technologies, taste and social status 209 Suggestions for further work 214 18 Public Participation in the 1990s 215 The increase in audience participation in the 1990s 215 The ideological implications of ‘talk’ for audiences 219 Suggestions for further work 225 Epilogue: Research Methods in Media Studies 227 What do we mean by research? 227 Researching for assignments 228 Establishing objectives 228 Selecting relevant material 231 Using libraries 233 Writing up 235 Conclusion 239 Bibliography 242 Index 251

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Book Synopsis* Gathers key anthropological and interdisciplinary writings on genocide together for the first time and explores attempts to define genocide. * Traces the history of genocide in the 20th century with discussion of the Holocaust, and examples from Bosnia, Cambodia, Africa, and Latin America.Trade Review"An excellent contribution to the field of genocide studies: lucid, wide-ranging, and accessible; should be a core text in any course on genocide." Roger W. Smith, The College of William and Mary "This volume, edited and ably introduced by an important scholar of genocide, is an especially timely and important contribution to a growing field. Essential international documents coupled with an excellent collection of previously published articles attempt to explain genocide and related state violence as the first step towards prevention. This fine book is especially suitable for undergraduate and graduate courses." Carole Nagengast, University of New Mexico "This Reader will be useful for college teachers and novice administrators. Each contribution examines dramatic and controversial issues of immediate concern. While the collection addresses genocidal disasters, its emphasis is on the differences among them, and the varied interpretations that have been made of their causes and their consequences." Journal of the Royal Anthropological InstituteTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Introduction: Genocide and Anthropology 1Alexander Laban Hinton Part I: Conceptual Foundations 25 1. Genocide 27Raphaël Lemkin 2. Text of the UN Genocide Convention 43 3. Genocide: Its Political Use in the Twentieth Century 48Leo Kuper 4. Genocide: A Sociological Perspective 74Helen Fein 5. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil 91Hannah Arendt 6. Modernity and the Holocaust 110Zygmunt Bauman Part II: Genocide, History, and Modernity 135 7. Victims of Progress 137John H. Bodley 8. Culture of Terror – Space of Death: Roger Casement's Putumayo Report and the Explanation of Torture 164Michael Taussig 9. National Socialist Germany 19Eric R. Wolf Part III: Manufacturing Difference and "Purification" 209 10. "Ethnic Cleansing": A Metaphor for Our Time? 211Akbhar S. Ahmed 11. Imagined Communities and Real Victims: Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in Yugoslavia 231 Robert M. Hayden 12. A Head for an Eye: Revenge in the Cambodian Genocide 254Alexander Laban Hinton 13. Dead Certainty: Ethnic Violence in the Era of Globalization 286Arjun Appadurai Part IV: Coping and Understanding 305 14. Fear as a Way of Life 307Linda Green 15. The Myth of Global Ethnic Conflict 334John R. Bowen 16. Speechless Emissaries: Refugees, Humanitarianism, and Dehistoricization 344Liisa H. Malkki Appendix: Websites on Genocide 368 Index 370

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Book Synopsis* Judith Butler, author of influential books such as Gender Trouble, has built her international reputation as a theorist of power, gender, sexuality and identity. * Organized in active collaboration between Judith Butler and Sara Salih.Trade Review"Judith Butler is quite simply one of the most probing, challenging, and influential thinkers of our time. The Judith Butler Reader provides an exemplary selection from across the whole range of Butler's writings: gender identity, performativity, subjectivity, discursive power, kinship, and critique. In making available in one place the full breadth of Butler's thought, Salih's reader will prove an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike." J. M. Bernstein, New School for Social Research "These important essays represent the aspirational and analytic agendas of Judith Butler's remarkable work. Hers is a unique voice of courage and conceptual ambition that addresses public life from the perspective of psychic reality, encouraging us to acknowledge the solidarity and the suffering through which we emerge as subjects of freedom." Homi K. Bhabha, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction. Section 1: Sex, Gender Performativity, and the Matter of Bodies. 1. Variations on Sex and Gender: Beauvoir, Wittig, Foucault (1987). 2. Excerpts from Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France (1987). 3. Excerpts from Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990). 4. Imitation and Gender Insubordination (1990). 5. Excerpt from Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of ‘Sex’ (1993). Section 2: Fantasy, Censorship, and Discursive Power. 6. The Force of Fantasy: Mapplethorpe, Feminism, and Discursive (1990). 7. Endangered/Endangering: Schematic Racism and White Paranoia (1993). 8. Excerpt from Excitable Speech: A Poltics of the Performative (1997). Section 3: Subjection, Kinship, and Critique. 9. Excerpt from The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection (1997). 10. Excerpt from Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left (2000). 11. Excerpt from Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death (2000). 12. What Is Critique? An Essay on Foucault’s Virtue (2001). Section 4: Making Difficulty Clear. 13. Changing the Subject: Judith Butler's Politics of Radical Resignification: Gary A. Olsen and Lynn Worsham. Index

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Book SynopsisThe Nietzsche Reader brings together in one volume substantial selections from the entire body of Nietzsche's writings, together with illuminating commentary on Nietzsche's life and importance, and introductions to his major works and philosophical ideas. .Trade Review"Intended to introduce students to Nietzsche’s writings, the Reader is of considerable value. It includes comprehensive selections from Nietzsche’s early, middle and late writings in English. The chronological presentation of the selections is particularly useful in helping students to appreciate Nietzsche’s philosophical development." International Journal of Philosophical Studies “The Nietzsche Reader offers an extremely comprehensive collection of Nietzsche’s philosophical writings, ranging from his youthful essays on fate to the pithy, epochal books written in the twilight of his sanity. Perfect for classroom use, in any number of courses across a variety of academic disciplines.” Daniel W. Conway, The Pennsylvania State University “Thorough yet manageable, this Reader is an excellent introduction to Nietzsche. The editors’ balanced commentary is accessible to the novice while still engaging for scholars. This book is a great contribution to Nietzsche studies.” Kathleen Higgins, University of Texas AustinTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgments. General Introduction. A Chronology Friedrich Nietzsche.. Part I: Beginnings. Introduction. 1. Fate and History: Thoughts (1862). 2. Freedom of Will and Fate (1862). 3. My Life (1863). 4. On Moods (1864). 5. On Schopenhauer (1868).. Part II: Early Writings. Introduction. 6. The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music (1872). 7. The Greek State (1871-2). 8. Homer's Contest (1872). 9. Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks (1873). 10. On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense (1873). 11. On the Utility and Liability of History for Life (1874). 12. Schopenhauer as Educator (1874).. Part III: The Middle Period. Introduction. 13. Human, All to Human: A Book for Free Spirits, volume 1 (1878). 14. Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality (1881). 15. The gay Science (1881). 16. Notes from 1881.. Part IV: Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Introduction. 17. Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One (1883-5).. Part V: The Later Writings. Introduction. 18. Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (1886). 19. The Gay Science, Book V (1887). 20. European Nihilism (1887). 21. On the Genealogy of Morality: A Polemic (1887). Introduction. 22. The Case of Wagner: A Musicians' Problem (1888). 23. Twilight o the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer (1888). 24. The Anti-Christ: Curse on Christianity (1888). 25. Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is (1888). 26. Four Letters (1888-9). A Guide to Further Reading. Index.

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Book SynopsisDiscusses areas in which the colonial impact has generally been overlooked. This book contains essays, which form an exploration of the ways in which the British discovery, collection, and codification of information about Indian society contributed to colonial cultural hegemony and political control.Table of ContentsForewordAcknowledgments1Introduction32The Command of Language and the Language of Command163Law and the Colonial State in India574The Transformation of Objects into Artifacts, Antiquities, and Art in Nineteenth-Century India765Cloth, Clothes, and Colonialism: India in the Nineteenth Century106Notes163Index181

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Book SynopsisIntroduces the cosmopolitan intellectual life of Athens, a centerless city of multiplicities and fragmentations, a city on the 'margins of Europe' recovering from the repressive rule of a military junta.Trade Review"Modern Greek Lessons seeks to invent a new form for expressing the complexity and ambivalence toward the past, toward Europe, toward the United States, and toward themselves that members of the educated Greek elite struggle with individually and jointly. This is an important contribution from a young scholar who will unquestionably be one of the leading voices of his generation."—Paul Rabinow"A skilled and compelling writer in the mode of the civilized sojourner. . . . Faubion deals brilliantly with a wide range of topics from contemporary Greek literature to sexuality."—George Marcus, Rice UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface: Terms And DefinitionsIntroduction For the Time Being: Some Notes on the Manners of Modern Lives3Pt. IReviewing Athens211Model Improbabilities: Athens at First Sight232Remembering and Remodeling: The Metaleptic Metropolis64Pt. IIAnother Modernity993Crossing the Threshold: Notes on Conflict at a Certain Greek Airport1014Sovereignty and Its Discontents1225"Everything Is Possible": Notes on the Greek Modern139Pt. IIIAfter the Colonels: Projects of Self-Definition and Self-Formation Since 19741576The Self Made: Developing a Postnational Character1597The Works of Margharita Karapanou: Literature as a Technology of Self-Formation1848Men Are Not Always What They Seem: From Sexual Modernization toward Sexual Modernity213Epilogue: After the Present242Notes249Bibliography271Index289

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Book SynopsisExplains a culture's sociology through the simple issue of the choice of clothing. This book shows, through a tour of the rise of the ready-made fashion industry in France, how clothing can not only reflect but also beliefs, values, and aspirations.Trade Review"A fascinating and amusing examination of social attitudes."--The Times Literary Supplement "The overall thesis that emerges is both limpid and profound; as far as clothing is concerned, we still belong to the nineteenth century."--Liberation "[Perrot] glides through the dressing rooms and bedrooms of the Second Empire, inspects armoires, haunts the department stores and the fitting rooms of couturiers and tailors, lives with fashionable women and tarts, bankers, and 10-franc-a-month shop assistants."--Le Nouvel observateur "Perrot puts a serious and persuasive case for the importance of clothing to understanding the aesthetic and moral values of the nineteenth-century middle-class... Immensely learned, yet written with great delicacy and lightness of touch, it remains the best account available of the meaning, and eventual triumph, of the bourgeois trouser--that most resilient and universal survival of nineteenth-century Europe's dominance of the globe."--John Adamson, Sunday Telegraph "A fascinating book: not so much a history of clothing, as a history of French society seen through its fashions and its clothes."--Sharif Gemie, Modern & Contemporary France "Fashion history is not about hemlines, it is about the nuts and bolts of living. It is because he accepts this fact that Perrot's examination of a period so germane to our own is valuable."--Colin McDowell, Sunday Times (London)Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction3IToward a History of Appearances6IIClothing's Old and New Regimes15IIIThe Vestimentary Landscape of the Nineteenth Century26IVTraditional Trades and the Rise of Ready-Made Clothing36VThe Department Store and the Spread of Bourgeois Clothing58VINew Pretensions, New Distinctions80VIIThe Imperatives of Propriety87VIIIDeviations from the Norm124IXInvisible Clothing143XThe Circulation of Fashions167Conclusion189Notes193Bibliography253Index267

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Book SynopsisHow has the Japanese government persuaded its citizens to save substantial portions of their incomes? How did the public come to support legalized prostitution as in the national interest? The author helps us to understand this mobilizing spirit as he taps into the intimate relationships everyday Japanese have with their government.Trade Review"Molding Japanese Minds is history at its best; with a thorough command of original sources and scholarship, both in Japanese and other languages, Garon demonstrates that social policy was not solely government-or bureaucracy-driven."--Times Literary Supplement "An excellent book... Garon has chosen his subject well and... he handles it with balance and authority."--Patrick Smith, The NationTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAbbreviationsPrefaceSocial Management: An Introduction3Pt. 1State and Society Before 194523Ch. 1The Evolution of "Japanese-Style" Welfare25Ch. 2Defining Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy60Ch. 3The World's Oldest Debate? Regulating Prostitution and Illicit Sexuality88Ch. 4Integrating Women into Public Life: Women's Groups and the State115Pt. 2Social Management in Postwar Japan147Ch. 5Re-creating the Channels of Moral Suasion149Ch. 6Sexual Politics and the Feminization of Social Management178Ch. 7Managing Spiritual Life and Material Well-being206Epilogue231Notes239Bibliography273Interviews298Index299

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Book SynopsisDocuments Russian efforts to appropriate Western solutions to the problem of economic backwardness since the time of Catherine the Great. This book describes Russian Westernization - which emphasized German as well as Anglo-US economics. It raises questions about core values of Western culture and how cultural values and priorities are determined.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction3Ch. 1The True West: England, France, and Germany9Ch. 2In the Light and Shadow of the West: Progress in the Age of Enlightenment34Ch. 3The Lessons of Western Economics: Support or Challenge to the Status Quo?61Ch. 4Universalism and Its Discontents: The Laws of History, Economics, and Human Progress93Ch. 5Intersections of Western and Russian Culture: Russian Historical Economics112Ch. 6Capturing the "Essence" of Marx: The Emergence of Orthodox Marxism132Ch. 7In Search of the True West: England, Denmark, and Germany147Ch. 8The Demise of Economic Pluralism: Constructing a Twentieth-Century Model for Progress and Development166Ch. 9Cultures of Modernization on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century: Notes toward a Conclusion181Notes199Selected Bibliography257Index289

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Book SynopsisFamiliar terms such as culture wars, multiculturalism, moral majority, and family values all suggest a society fragmented by the issue of cultural diversity. So does any social solidarity exist among Americans? This book explores ideological differences, theoretical disputes, social processes, and institutional change.Trade ReviewDiversity and Its Discontents is an excellent addition to the literature on multiculturalism... -- Jose Luis Sanchez Multicultural Review

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Book SynopsisHow does law transform family, sexuality, and community in the fractured social world characteristic of the colonizing process? This title reveals how, in Hawai'i, indigenous Hawaiian law was displaced by a transplanted Anglo-American law as global movements of capitalism, Christianity, and imperialism swept across the islands.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2002 Williard Hurst Prize in Legal HistoryTable of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi A NOTE ON LANGUAGE AND TERMINOLOGY xiii ONE Introduction 3 PART ONE: ENCOUNTERS IN A CONTACT ZONE: NEW ENGLAND MISSIONARIES, LAWYERS, AND THE APPROPRIATION OF ANGLO-AMERICAN LAW, 1820-1852 TWO The Process of Legal Transformation 35 THREE The First Transition: Religious Law 63 FOUR The Second Transition: Secular Law 86 PART TWO: LOCAL PRACTICES OF POLICING AND JUDGING IN HILO, HAWAI'I FIVE The Social History of a Plantation Town 117 Six Judges and Caseloads in Hilo 145 SEVEN Protest and the Law on the Hilo Sugar Plantations 207 EIGHT Sexuality, Marriage, and the Management of the Body 221 NINE Conclusions 258 APPENDIXES A CASES FROM HILO DISTRICT COURT 269 B ACCOMPANYING TABLES 325 NOTES 331 REFERENCES 349 INDEX 365

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