Geography Books
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Scale and Geographic Inquiry
Book SynopsisThis book is the first contemporary book to compare and integrate the various ways geographers think about and use scale across the spectrum of the discipline and includes state-of-the-art contributions by authoritative human geographers, physical geographers and GIS specialists. Provides a state of the art survey of how geographers think about scale. Brings together recent interest in scale in human and physical geography, as well as geographic information science Places competing concepts of scale side by side in order to compare them. The introduction and conclusion, by the editors, explores the common ground. Trade Review"…engages incisively with what consideration of scale can offer to a wide range of crucial social, physical, and cartographic issues – from environmental monitoring to urban development – and provides an essential starting point in terms of the uses and meanings of the concept." John Agnew, University of California Los Angeles "This volume is both timely and welcome. As society faces a new world order that reflects the increasing tension and simultaneity between local and global forces, it is essential to lay the foundations toward a comprehensive ‘theory of scale’. This volume, through its integration and contemplation of disparate ideas drawn from the spectrum of geographical perspectives, is a crucial first step toward that grand agenda." Bernie Bauer, University of Southern California "This is a fascinating book...it covers an intimidating array of subjects but shows how one aspect - scale - can affect all of them in surprisingly similar ways. The depth and breadth of coverage makes the text an invaluable one." Dr Paul Ganderton, Teaching Ecology News. "This book is important reading for all geographers based on its catholic content and because it provides a lens into our diverse discipline. Few edited collections contain such consistently strong chapters. Scale and Geographic Enquiry is recommended for all geographers, especially graduate students and their instructors." The Geographical JournalTable of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. List of Contributors. Preface. Introduction: Scale And Geographic Inquiry: Robert B. Mcmaster And Eric Sheppard (University Of Minnesota, University Of Minnesota). 1. Fractals And Scale In Environmental Assessment And Monitoring: Nina Siu-Ngan Lam (Louisiana State University). 2. Population And Environment Interactions: Spatial Considerations In Landscape Characterization And Modeling: Stephen J. Walsh, Kelley A. Crews-Meyer, Thomas W. Crawford, William F. Welsh (University Of North Carolina, University Of Texas, Gettysburg College, University Of North Carolina). 3 Crossing The Divide: Linking Global And Local Scales In Human-Environment Systems: William E. Easterling And Colin Polsky (Penn State University, Harvard University). 4. Independence, Contingency, And Scale Linkage In Physical Geography: Jonathan D. Phillips (University Of Kentucky). 5. Embedded Scales In Biogeography: Susy S. Ziegler, Gary M. Pereira, Dwight A. Brown (All At University Of Minnesota). 6. Scaled Geographies: Nature, Place, And The Contested Politics Of Scale: Erik Swyndegouw (University Of Oxford). 7. Scales Of Cybergeography: Michael F. Goodchild (University Of California). 8. A Long Way From Home: Domesticating The Social Production Of Scale: Sallie Marston (University Of Arizona). 9. Scale Bending And The Fate Of The National: Neil Smith (City University Of New York). 10. Is There A Europe Of Cities? Peter Taylor (Loughborough University). 11. The Politics Of Scale And Networks Of Spatial Connectivity: Transnational Interurban Networks And Rescaling Of Political Governance In Europe: Helga Leitner (University Of Minnesota). 12. Scale And Geographic Inquiry: Contrasts, Intersections, And Boundaries: Robert B. Mcmaster And Eric Sheppard (University Of Minnesota, University Of Minnesota). Index.
£42.70
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Geography of the Internet Industry
Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking book analyses the geography of the commercial Internet industry. It presents the first accurate map of Internet domains in the world, by country, by region, by city, and for the United States, by neighborhood. Demonstrates the extraordinary spatial concentration of the Internetindustry.Trade Review“This book is a welcome addition to the burgeoning literature on the geography of the information society ... The parallels drawn to related booms and busts of earlier eras demonstrate that the novelty of the ‘new’ economy is as mythical as the ‘end’ of geography in the information age.” Eric Sheppard, University of Minnesota "Traces the Internet industry from its beginnings … the best picture yet of the Internet boom of the 1990s, its decline in 2000 and 2001, and its stability and slower growth since.” Edward J. Malecki, The Ohio State University “An authoritative and engaging account of contemporary urban-regional economic development in the information age, that has real explanatory power much like Jean Gottmann’s Megalopolis had in the 1960s. The Geography of the Internet Industry deserves a place on the reading lists of anyone serious about understanding the recent past of the Internet.” Martin Dodge, University College London “I urge everyone who has a chance to read this book because it is fluent and well constructed, especially given that it is based on a thesis. Unlike most theses, the joins do not show, and this makes for an exciting journey through its pages.” Michael Batty University College LondonTable of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. List of Maps. Series Editor's Preface. Acknowledgments. 1 Uncovering the Geography of the Internet Industry. 2 Origins and Shape of the Internet. 3 Mapping the Internet Industry. 4 Economic Clusters, Knowledge Management and Venture Capital. 5 Connecting Venture Capital to the Geography of the Internet Industry. 6 Finance and the Brokering of Knowledge. 7 Foundation for the Dot-com Boom. 8 Panning for Digital Gold. 9 Dot-com Hangover?. Bibliography. Appendix A – Measuring The Internet Industry. Appendix B – Interview Methodology and Geographic Definitions. Notes. References. Index.
£83.66
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Cultural Economy Reader
Book SynopsisThis Reader brings together the exciting and innovative work that has appeared in the last 10 years in the growing field of cultural economy. * Brings together exciting and innovative work from the last ten years in the emerging field of cultural economy.Trade Review"Even a good old Chicago School economist can find much in the book to widen her horizons. That ‘the economy’ is embedded in social relations and is linguistic and is ethical is obvious to any student of society. Yet Samuelsonian economics denies all this. The Reader should open eyes all round." Deirdre McCloskey, University of Illinois at Chicago "This is a terrific collection! Amin and Thrift have brought together a rich set of studies to make the case that in economic life, calculation is cultural. Across a wonderful range of settings – from financial exchanges to supermarkets – this lively volume is essential reading for anyone studying economic sociology." David Stark, University of Columbia "Amin and Thrift's reader is an indispensable purchase for those who research and teach on the economy-culture problematic. Its 22 essays represent the wide diversity of viewpoints that have emerged this last decade or so - theoretically, topically and politically ... There really is something in here for everybody, and I think this book should be read by those wishing to know more about the culture-economy debate, as well as those familiar with its main contours ... I dare you not to buy it." Noel Castree, Cultural GeographiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. . Part I: Production. 1. A Mixed Economy of Fashion Design (Angela McRobbie). 2. Net-Working for a Living: Irish Software Developers in the Global Workplace (Seán Ó’Riain). 3. Instrumentalizing the Truth of Practice (Katie Vann and Geoffrey C. Bowker). 4. The Economy of Qualities (Michel Callon, Cécile Méadel and Vololona Rabeharisoa). Part II: Finance and Money. 5. Inside the Economy of Appearances (Anna Tsing). 6. Physics and Finance: S-Terms and Modern Finance as a Topic for Science Studies (Donald MacKenzie). 7. Traders' Engagement with Markets: A Postsocial Relationship (Karin Knorr Cetina and Urs Bruegger). Part III: Regulation. 8. Varieties of Protectors (Frederico Varese). 9. The Agony of Mammon (Lewis H. Lapham). 10. Governing by Numbers: Why Calculative Practices Matter (Peter Miller). Part IV: Commodity Chains. 11. African/Asian/Uptown/Downtown (P. Stoller). 12. Retailers, Knowledges and Changing Commodity Networks: The Case of the Cut Flower Trade (A. Hughes). 13. Culinary Networks and Cultural Connections: A Conventions Perspective (Jonathan Murdoch and Mara Miele). Part V: Consumption. 14. Making Love in Supermarkets (Daniel Miller). 15. Window Shopping at Home: Classifieds, Catalogues and New Consumer Skills (Alison. J. Clarke). 16. What’s in a Price? An Ethnography of Tribal Art at Auction (Haidy Geismar). 17. It’s Showtime: On the Workplace Geographies of Display in a Restaurant in Southeast England (Philip Crang). Part VI: Economy of Passions. 18. Feeling Management: From Private to Commercial Uses (Arlie Hochschild). 19. Negotiating the Bar: Sex, Money and the Uneasy Politics of Third Space (Lisa Law). 20. A Joint’s a Joint (S. Denton and R. Morris). 21. Marking Time with Nike: The Illusion of the Durable (Celia Lury). Index.
£40.80
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Geographies of British Modernity Space and
Book Synopsis* The first collection to explore the contribution that geographical thinking can make to our understanding of modern Britain. * Contains thirteen essays by leading scholars in the geography and history of twentieth--century Britain. * Focuses on how and why geographies of Britain have formed and changed over the past century.Trade Review'Through the appropriately "modern" concepts of survey, site and identity, Gilbert, Matless and Short offer us an enticing set of precise vignettes, framing a geographical interpretation of British modernity. This book sketches an agenda for what will be an enduring preoccupation among historical geographers in "millennial" Britain.' Denis Cosgrove, University of California, Los Angeles "This landmark volume stands as the first work of historical geography to cover the whole span of the twentieth century. Through the analysis of broad patterns of change and the close scrutiny of particular spaces the contributors draw out the contours of British modernity since 1900 and demonstrate the vitality of contemporary historical geography." Miles Ogborn, Queen Mary College, University of London Table of ContentsSeries Editors' Preface. Acknowledgements. List of Contributors. 1. Historical Geographies Of British Modernity: Brian Short, David Gilbert And David Matless (University Of Sussex; Royal Holloway, University Of London; University Of Nottingham). Part I: Surveying British Modernity:. 2. A Century Of Progress? Inequalities In British Society 1901-2000: Danny Dorling (University Of Leeds). 3. The Conservative Century? Geography And Conservative Electoral Success During The Twentieth Century: Ron Johnston, Charles Pattie, Danny Dorling And David Rossiter (University Of Bristol; University Of Sheffield; University Of Leeds; University Of Leeds). 4. Mobility In The Twentieth Century: Substituting Commuting For Migration? Colin G. Pooley (Lancaster University). 5. Qualifying The Evidence - Perceptions Of Rural Change In Britain In The Second Half Of The Twentieth Century: Alun Howkins (University Of Sussex). Part II: Sites Of British Modernity:. 6. ‘A Power For Good Or Evil’: Geographies Of The M1 In Late-Fifties Britain: Peter Merriman (University Of Reading). 7. A New England: Landscape, Exhibition And Remaking Industrial Space In The 1930s: Denis Linehan (University College, Cork). 8. A Man’s World? Masculinity And Metropolitan Modernity At Simpson Piccadilly: Bronwen Edwards (London College Of Fashion, London Institute). 9. Mosques, Temples And Gurdwaras: New Sites Of Religion In Twentieth-Century Britain: Simon Naylor And James R. Ryan (University Of Bristol; Queen’s University, Belfast). Part III: Geography, Nation, Identity:. 10. ‘Stop Being So English’: Suburban Modernity And National Identity In The Twentieth Century: David Gilbert And Rebecca Preston (Royal Holloway, University Of London; Royal College Of Art). 11. Nation, Empire And Cosmopolis: Ireland And The Break With Britain: Gerry Kearns (University Of Cambridge). 12. British Geographical Representations Of Imperialism And Colonial Development In The Early And Mid-Twentieth Century: Robin A. Butlin (University Of Leeds). Afterword: Emblematic Landscapes of the British Modern: David Matless, Brian Short and David Gilbert. Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Designing Cities
Book SynopsisDesigning Cities is the first reader to be published in the thriving field of urban design. It has been assembled to appeal to a broad range of readers interested in how the design of cities comes about. Provides a complex and integrated perspective on the field of urban design. Carefully structured, so that students will gain an understanding of the theoretical context from which urban design has emerged. Includes work by Manuel Castells, David Harvey, Christian Norberg-Schultz, Peter Marcuse and others. Table of ContentsPart I: Theory:. 1.The Process of Urban Social Change: Manuel Castells. 2. The Economic Currency of Architectural Aesthetics: Paul Walter Clarke. 3. The Post modern Debate over Urban Form: Sharon Zukin. Part II: History:. 4. The New Historical Relationship Between Space and Society: Manuel Castells. 5. Urban Landscapes as Public History: Dolores Hayden. 6. Harmonies of Urban Design and Discords of City Form: Abraham Akkerman. Part III: Philosophy:. 7. Social Justice, Postmodernism and the City: David Harvey. 8. The Phenomenon of Place: Christian Norberg Schulz. 9. Recapturing the Center: Mark Gottdeiner. Part IV: Politics:. 10. Why are the Design and Development of Public Spaces Significant for Cities?: A. Madanipour. 11. Cast in Stone: Monuments, Geography and Nationalism: N. Johnson. 12. Reflections on Berlin : The Meaning of Construction and the Construction of Meaning: Peter Marcuse. 13. Tilted Arc and the Uses of Democracy: Rosalyn Deutsche. Part V: Culture:. 15. Place-Form and Cultural Identity: Kenneth Frampton. 16. The Urban Landscape: Sharon Zukin. Part VI: Gender:. 17. Sexuality and Urban Space. A Framework for Analysis: L. Knopp. 18. Gender Symbols and Urban Landscapes: Liz Bondi. 19. What Would a Non Sexist City Be Like?: Dolores Hayden. Part VII: Environment:. 20. The Concept of Sustainability and its Relationship to Cities: Peter Newman and John Kenworthy. 21. Conservation as Preservation or as Heritage : Two Answers and Two Paradigms: G. H. Ashworth. 22. Zoopolis: Jennifer Wolch. Part VIII: Aesthetics:. 23. Aesthetic Theory: Jon Lang. 24. The Urban Artefact as a work of Art: Aldo Rossi. 25. Aesthetic Ideology and Urban Design: Barbara Rubin. Part IX: Typologies:. 26. The Third Typology: Anthony Vidler. 27. Typological and Morphological Elements of the Concept of Urban Space: Rob Krier. 28. Heterotopia Deserta: Sarah Chaplin. Part X: Pragmatics:. 29. The Design Professions and the Built Environment in a Postmodern Epoch: Paul Knox. 30. A Catholic Approach to Organizing what Urban Designers Should Know: Anne Vernez Moudon.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd David Harvey
Book SynopsisThis book critically interrogates the work of David Harvey, one of the world''s most influential geographers, and one of its best known Marxists. Considers the entire range of Harvey''s oeuvre, from the nature of urbanism to environmental issues. Written by contributors from across the human sciences, operating with a range of critical theories. Focuses on key themes in Harvey''s work. Contains a consolidated bibliography of Harvey''s writings. Trade Review"The debates in David Harvey: A Critical Reader highlight the importance of thinking about space as something materially produced and in process ... The discussion also leads to considerations of the urban as a way of life. The tension between these two strands makes this anthology fertile ground for attempts at a synthesis." Radical Philosophy "David Harvey: A Critical Reader is a landmark assessment of the work, and diverse influences, of this leading geographer-cum-social theorist. No stodgy hagiography, the Reader presents a series of punchy, personal, political, and often profound reflections on four decades of Harvey’s contributions. In locating Harvey and his interlocutors, the Reader also suggestively maps out the shifting terrain of critical thinking around the spatialities of late capitalism." Jamie Peck, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Few contemporary thinkers have been untouched by David Harvey, even in opposition, as this collection of brilliant essays attests. And, after the critics’ scalpels have done their bit of nip and tuck, he comes off still looking rather well for his age." R. A. Walker, University of California, Berkeley "The Critical Reader offers a set of inspiring and non-hagiographic reflections on the intellectual legacy of David Harvey that will be an invaluable read not only for geographers but for all social scientists committed to the pursuit of a critical and transformative understanding of the world." Ugo Rossi, Universita L’Orientale of Naples, Italy Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors. 1 Troubling Geographies (Derek Gregory, University of British Columbia). 2 Between Deduction and Dialectics: David Harvey on Knowledge (Trevor Barnes, University of British Columbia). 3 David Harvey and Marxism (Alex Callinicos, University of York). 4 Dialectical Materialism: Stranger than Friction (Marcus Doel, University of Wales Swansea). 5 Differences that Matter (Melissa Wright, The Pennsylvania State University). 6 David Harvey on Cities (Sharon Zukin, Brooklyn College, NY). 7 Dialectical Space-Time: Harvey on Space (Eric Sheppard, University of Minnesota). 8 Spatial Fixes, Temporal Fixes, and Spatio-Temporal Fixes (Bob Jessop, Lancaster University). 9 Globalization and Primitive Accumulation: The Contributions of David Harvey's Dialectical Marxism (Nancy Hartsock, University of University of Washington). 10 Towards a New Earth and a New Humanity: Nature, Ontology, Politics (Bruce Braun, University of Minnesota). 11 David Harvey: A Rock In A Hard Place (Nigel Thrift, University of Oxford). 12 Messing with 'the Project' (Cindi Katz, Graduate Center of the City University of New York). 13 The Detour of Critical Theory (Noel Castree, University of Manchester). 14 Space as a Key Word (David Harvey, Graduate Center of the City University of New York). David Harvey: List of Publications. Bibliography. Index.
£54.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd David Harvey
Book SynopsisCritically interrogates the work of David Harvey, one of the world's most influential geographers, and one of its best known Marxists. This title considers the entire range of Harvey's oeuvre, from the nature of urbanism to environmental issues. It also contains a consolidated bibliography of Harvey's writings.Trade Review"The debates in David Harvey: A Critical Reader highlight the importance of thinking about space as something materially produced and in process ... The discussion also leads to considerations of the urban as a way of life. The tension between these two strands makes this anthology fertile ground for attempts at a synthesis." Radical Philosophy "David Harvey: A Critical Reader is a landmark assessment of the work, and diverse influences, of this leading geographer-cum-social theorist. No stodgy hagiography, the Reader presents a series of punchy, personal, political, and often profound reflections on four decades of Harvey’s contributions. In locating Harvey and his interlocutors, the Reader also suggestively maps out the shifting terrain of critical thinking around the spatialities of late capitalism." Jamie Peck, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Few contemporary thinkers have been untouched by David Harvey, even in opposition, as this collection of brilliant essays attests. And, after the critics’ scalpels have done their bit of nip and tuck, he comes off still looking rather well for his age." R. A. Walker, University of California, Berkeley "The Critical Reader offers a set of inspiring and non-hagiographic reflections on the intellectual legacy of David Harvey that will be an invaluable read not only for geographers but for all social scientists committed to the pursuit of a critical and transformative understanding of the world." Ugo Rossi, Universita L’Orientale of Naples, Italy Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii 1 Introduction: Troubling Geographies 1Derek Gregory 2 Between Deduction and Dialectics: David Harvey on Knowledge 26Trevor Barnes 3 David Harvey and Marxism 47Alex Callinicos 4 Dialectical Materialism: Stranger than Friction 55Marcus Doel 5 Differences that Matter 80Melissa Wright 6 David Harvey on Cities 102Sharon Zukin 7 David Harvey and Dialectical Space- time 121Eric Sheppard 8 Spatial Fixes, Temporal Fixes and Spatio- Temporal Fixes 142Bob Jessop 9 Globalization and Primitive Accumulation: The Contributions of David Harvey’s Dialectical Marxism 167Nancy Hartsock 10 Towards a New Earth and a New Humanity: Nature, Ontology, Politics 191Bruce Braun 11 David Harvey: A Rock in a Hard Place 223Nigel Thrift 12 Messing with ‘the Project’ 234Cindi Katz 13 The Detour of Critical Theory 247Noel Castree 14 Space as a Keyword 270David Harvey David Harvey: List of Publications 295 Bibliography 303 Index 318
£18.99
John Wiley and Sons Ltd GIS A Short Introduction
Book SynopsisThis guide enables students of human geography to take a critical look at the set of practices, hardware and software that are together described as GIS. A guide to GIS for students of human geography. Outlines the distinct approaches to inquiry employed in GIS and illustrates their relevance for human geographers. Traces the history of GIS and human geography from 1970 to the present. Illustrates the challenges of data collection, classification in the context of multiple stakeholders and epistemological approaches. Tracks the use of GIS in applied contexts through the stages of problem definition, data acquisition and classification, choice of software, spatial analysis and graphic output. Includes an inventory of tools and information related to GIS, including web-based resources. Supported by a website, www.blackwellpublishing.com/scTrade Review“Geography and non-geography students interested in GIS should read this book. It is an important contribution that elegantly illuminates GIS systems and GIS science. By giving close attention to the details of rigorous GIS analysis, the impact of GIS on society, and the relationship of GIS to geographic epistemologies and social theory, Schuurman provides a unique and up-to-date summary of the field.” Eric Sheppard, University of Minnesota "This is an excellent choice for an introductory undergraduate GIS class, and it should also be required reading for all critics who have dismissed GIS as being purely technical enterprise. It takes the reader through the nuts and bolts of GIS concepts while at the same time scrutinizing its intellectual and social implications. The discussion of GIS applications, highlighted by contemporary case studies, does an admiral job of conveying the curious messiness of actual GIS practice" Stacy Warren, Eastern Washington University. "Schuurman develops an intellectual and practical history of the field and of the technology....the book offers insights into the development of our field that have recieved little coverage in other venues. Further, Schuurmann offers excellent examples of reflexivity in GIS practice, showing how we might make the social processes of GIS use more transparent to ourselves and to others." Progress in Human Geography, Vol 29/1, 2005 Table of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. Series Editor's Preface. Author's Acknowledgements. 1.Introducing The Identities Of GIS. 2.GIS, Human Geography, And The Intellectual Territory Between Them. 3.The Devil Is In The Data: Collection, Representation, And Standardization. 4.Bringing It All Together Using GIS To Analyse And Model Spatial Phenomena. 5.Where Do I Go From Here? GIS Training And Research. References. Index.
£30.35
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Reading Economic Geography
Book SynopsisThe 1990s saw an explosion in research in the area of economic geography. "A Companion to Economic Geography" surveys this field and this volume is designed both to complement it, providing the historical context for the discussions in it. It can also be used as a stand-alone text.Trade Review"...represents some of the most important milestones in the development of contemporary economic geography....an essential reference point for beginners and specialists alike." Gordon L. Clark, University of Oxford "Brings to life the vibrancy, excitement and passion of economic geography. Crisp and provocative introductions divide the reader into five thematic sections, and the selections themselves will spark debate in the classroom. This will be required reading in any serious undergraduate geography program and a coveted resource for students at any level." Altha Cravey, University of North Carolina "This is a wonderful showcase of the depth and breadth of the vibrant and unruly field that is economic geography. Although nominally an accompaniment to A Companion to Economic Geography, this book more than stands on its own merits as a critical journey through some of the most important moments and impulses of economic geography thinking." Andrew Leyshon, University of Nottingham "...manages to combine a strong sense of the intellectual diversity of contemporary economic geography with an awareness of the key questions whic define the scope of the discipline." Keith Chapman, University of AberdeenTable of ContentsIntroduction: Reading Economic Geography. Part I: Worlds of Economic Geography. Editor's Introduction: Paradigms Lost. 1. The Difference A Generation Makes. (David Harvey). 2. Industry And Space: A Sympathetic Critique Of Radical Research. (R. A. Sayer). 3. An Institutionalist Perspective On Regional Economic Development. (Ash Amin). 4. Refiguring The Economic In Economic Geography. (Nigel Thrift and Kris Olds). 5. The Economy, Stupid! Industrial Policy Discourse And The Body Economic. (J. K. Gibson-Graham). Part II: Realms of Production. Editor's Introduction: Problematizing Production. 6. Is There A Service Economy? The Changing Capitalist Division Of Labor. (R. Walker). 7. Uneven Development: Social Change And Spatial Divisions Of Labour. (Doreen Massey). 8. Flexible Production Systems And Regional Development: The Rise Of The New Industrial Spaces In North America And Western Europe. (A. J. Scott). 9. Global-Local Tensions: Firms And States In The Global Space-Economy. (Peter Dicken). 10. The Politics Of Relocation: Gender, Nationality, And Value In A Mexican Maquiladora. (M. W. Wright). Part III: Resource Worlds. Editor's Introduction: Producing Nature. 11. Nature, Economy And The Cultural Politics Of Theory: The 'War Against The Seals' In The Bering Sea, 1870-1911. (Noel Castree). 12. Modernity And Hybridity: Nature, Regeneracionismo, And The Production Of The Spanish Waterscape, 1890-1930. (Erik Swyngedouw). 13. Oil As Money: The Devil's Excrement And The Spectacle Of Black Gold. (Michael J. Watts). 14. Converting The Wetlands, Engendering The Environment: The Intersection Of Gender With Agrarian Change In The Gambia. (Judith Carney). 15. Nourishing Networks: Alternative Geographies Of Food. (Sarah Whatmore And Lorraine Thorne). Part IV: Social Worlds. Editor's Introduction: Bringing In The Social. 16. Bringing The Qualitative State Into Economic Geography. (Phillip O'Neill). 17. Territories, Flows And Hierarchies In The Global Economy. (M. Storper). 18. Contesting Works Closures In Western Europe's Old Industrial Regions: Defending Place Or Betraying Class? (Ray Hudson And David Sadler). 19. Class And Gender Relations In The Local Labor Market And The Local State. (Ruth Fincher). 20. Thinking Through Work: Gender, Power And Space. (Linda Mcdowell). Part V: Spaces of Circulation. Editor's Introduction: From Distance To Connectivity. 21. The End Of Geography Or The Explosion Of Place? Conceptualizing Space, Place And Information Technology. (Stephen Graham). 22. Best Practice? Geography, Learning And The Institutional Limits To Strong Convergence. (M. Gertler). 23. Blood, Thicker Than Water: Interpersonal Relations And Taiwanese Investment In Southern China. (Y. Hsing). 24. From Registered Nurse To Registered Nanny: Discursive Geographies Of Filipina Domestic Workers In Vancouver, B.C. (Geraldine Pratt). 25. Discourse And Practice In Human Geography. (Erica Schoenberger). Consolidated Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to the City
Book SynopsisA Companion to the City provides the reader with an indispensable and authoritative overview of the key debates, controversies, and questions concerning the city from a variety of theoretical vantage points with an international perspective. * Indispensable companion for students of the City.Trade Review"...covers everything from the role of dance in shaping cities to race and class in South Africa to the application of military techniques to city planning." (The Observer, 19 June 2011) "Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson's Companion to the City is a wonderful compendium of some of the best writing on cities and urbanism. It covers a wide range of approaches encompassing the city in literature, planning, representations of the city, policy and analysis. It truly is a 'companion' and like all good companions has always something relevant to say whatever the reader's mood or whatever s/he is searching for." Professor Elizabeth Wilson, previously of University of North London "This is a first-class read, useful for architects and planners as well as for students of the city. A state-of-the-art book." Richard Sennett, London School of Economics and Political Science "This is a substantial, well illustrated volume in five parts [...] The editors have certainly succeeded in their aim to 'create a multidiscplinary approach to cities' in compiling their 'companion'." Stephen Royle, Queen's University BelfastTable of ContentsList of Contributors. List of Illustrations. Introduction. Part I: Imagining Cities 1 City Imaginaries: Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson. 2. Three Urban Discourses: John Rennie Short. 3. Putting Cities First: Re-mapping the Origins of Urbanism: Ed Soja. 4. Photourbanism: Planning the City from Above and from Below: Anthony Vidler. 5. The Immaterial City: Representation, Imagination and Media Technologies: James Donald. 6. Film, Representation and Naples: Lesley Caldwell. 7. The City as an Imperial Centre: Imagining London in two Caribbean Novels: Riad Akbur. 8. Sleepwalking the Modern City: Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud in the World of Dreams: Steve Pile. 9. Contested Images of the City. City as Locus of Status, Capitalist Accumulation and Community - Competing Cultures in Southeast Asian Societies: Patrick Guinness. Part II: The Economy and the City 10. City Economies: Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson. 11. The Economic Base of Contemporary Cities: Ash Amin. 12. Flexible Marxism and the Metropolis: Andy Merrifield. 13. Mono Centric and Poli Centric: New Urban Forms and Old Urban Paradigms: William A. V. Clark. 14. Ups and Downs in the Global City: London and New York at the Millennium: Susan S. Fainstein and Michael Harloe. 15. Analytic Borderlands: Economy and Culture in the Global City: Saskia Sassen. 16. Turbulence and Sedimentation in the Labour Markets of Late 20th Century Metropoles: Nick Buck and Ian Gordon. 17. Informational Cities: Bob Catterall. 18. Diaspora Chinese Capital and Asia Pacific Urban Development: Chung-Tong Wu. 19. Capitalizing on Havana: The Return of the Repressed in a Late Socialist Society: Charles Rutheiser. 20. Urban Transformation in the Capitals of the Baltic: Innovation Culture and Finance: Philip Cooke, Erik Terk, Raite Karnite, Giedrius Blagnys. Part III: Cities of Division and Difference 21. City Differences: Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson. 22. Postcolonialism, Representation and the City: Anthony King. 23. Cities of Polarisation and Marginalization: Peter Marcuse. 24. Citizenship, Multiculturalism and the European City: Alisdair Rogers. 25. Working out the Urban: Gender Relations and the City: Liz Bondi and Hazel Christie. 26. The Sexual Geography of the City: Frank Mort. 27. From the Other Side of the Tracks: Dual Cities, Third Spaces, and the Urban Uncanny in Contemporary Discourses of 'Race' and Class: Phil Cohen. 28. Gentrification, Post-Industrialism and Industrial and Occupational Restructuring in Global Cities: Chris Hamnett. 29. Worlds Apart and Together: Trial by Space in Istanbul: Kevin Robins and Asu Aksoy. 30. Value Conflicts, Identity Construction and Urban Change: Lily Kong. Part IV: Public Cultures and Everyday Space 31. City Publics: Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson. 32. The Social Constitution of the Public Realm: Richard Sennett. 33. City Life and the Senses: John Urry. 34. With Child to see Any Strange Thing: Everyday Life in the City: Nigel Thrift. 35. Walter Benjamin, Cosmopolitanism and the Narratives of City Spaces: Michael Keith. 36. "X Marks the Spot: Times Square Dead or Alive?: M. Christine Boyer. 37. Walking and Performing 'The City': A Melbourne Chronicle: Katherine Gibson and Ben Rossiter. 38. The Street Politics of Jackie Smith: John Paul Jones III. 39. Everyday Life in Bangkok: Annette Hamilton. 40. Streetchildren in Yogyakarta: Social/ Spatial Exclusion in the Public Spaces of the City: Harriot Beazley. 41. Cyberspace and the City: The Virtual City in Europe: Alessandro Aurigi and Steve Graham. Part V: Urban Politics and Urban Interventions 42. City Interventions: Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson. 43. Planning in Relational Space and Time: Responding to New Urban Realities: Patsy Healey. 44. The Social Construction of Urban Policy: Allan Cochrane. 45. Urban Planning in the Late Twentieth Century: Patrick Troy. 46. Varied Legacies of Modernism in Urban Planning: Alan Mabin. 47. The Environment of the City ... or the Urbanisation of Nature: Erik Swyngedouw and Maria Kaika. 48. Power and Urban Poltics Revisited: The Uses and Abuses of North American Urban Political Economy: Alan Harding. 49. Social Justice and the City: Equity, Cohesion and the Politics of Space: Fran Tonkiss. 50. Property Relations and Planning in European Urban Development: Michael Edwards. 51. The Politics of Universal Provision of Public Housing: Chua Beng-Huat. 52. Reintegrating the Apartheid City? Urban Policy and Urban Restructuring in Durban: Alison Todes. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Companion to Economic Geography
Book SynopsisThis companion presents students of human geography with an essential collection of original essays providing a key to understanding the sub-discipline of economic geography.Trade Review"This is an instant classic, a landmark that scholars and graduate students will return to for decades to come. Physically and bibliographically, this presentation is state of the art. A "must" addition to all social science collections worldwide." P.O. Muller, University of Miami "The Companion, then, is intended to provide a state of the art review of the ideas, concepts, and theories that are current in economic geography... This is a uniformly high quality collection that I wholeheartedly recommend to interested undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers alike, whether they term themselves 'economic geographers' or not. The chapters work well as stand alone resources, and equally, the structure of the book into five separate but interlinked 'realms' provides a good overall coherence." Environment and Planning A. "The Companion adopts a rather conventional organization of subsequent chapters that will fit with many course syllabi, moving from "Realms of Production" through "Resource Worlds" and "Social Worlds" to "Spaces of Circulation"." Peter O. Muller, Annals of the Association of American Geographers "This is an impressive and very welcome volume. The editors and authors have done a great job and the rest of us should be grateful for the fact that this rich collection of papers is accessible" Environment and Planning D. "...manages to combine a strong sense of the intellectual diversity of contemporary economic geography...with an awareness of the key questions which define the scope of the discipline." Keith Chapman, Univesity of AberdeenTable of ContentsContributors. Figures and Tables. Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction: The Art of Economic Geography: Trevor J. Barnes and Eric Sheppard. Part I: Worlds of Economic Geography:. 2. Inventing Anglo-American Economic Geography, 1889-1960: Trevor J. Barnes. 3. The Modeling Tradition: Paul S. Plummer. 4. The Marxian Alternative: Historical-Geographical Materialism and the Political Economy of Capitalism: Erik Swyngedouw. 5. Feminism and Economic Geography: Gendering Work and Working Gender: Ann M. Oberhauser. 6. Institutional Approaches in Economic Geography: Ron Martin. 7. Poststructural interventions: J. K. Gibson-Graham. Part II: Realms of Production:. 8. The Geography of Production: Richard A. Walker. 9. Places of work: Jamie Peck. 10. Industrial Districts: Ash Amin. 11. Competition in Space and between Places: Eric Sheppard. 12. Urban and Regional Growth: Peter Sunley. 13. Geography and Technological Change: David L. Rigby. Part III: Resource Worlds:. 14. Resources: Dean M. Hanink. 15. Agriculture: Brian Page. 16. Political Ecology: Michael Watts. 17. The Production of Nature: Noel Castree. 18. Single Industry Resource Towns: Roger Hayter. Part IV: Social Worlds:. 19. Family, work and consumption: mapping the borderlands of economic geography: Nicky Gregson. 20. Concepts of class in contemporary economic geography: David Sadler. 21. Labor Unions and Economic Geography: Andrew Herod. 22. State and Governance: Joe Painter. 23. Creating the Corporate World: Strategy and Culture, Time and Space: Erica Schoenberger. 24. Networks of Ethnicity: Katharyne Mitchell. Part V: Spaces of Circulation:. 25. The Economic Geography of Global Trade: Richard Grant. 26. Money and Finance: Andrew Leyshon. 27. The Political Economy of International Labor Migration: Helga Leitner. 28. Transportation: Hooked on Speed, Eyeing Sustainability: Susan Hanson. 29. Telecommunications and Economic Space: Barney Warf. 30. International Political Economy: Michael Webber. Index.
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Harvard University Press Many Thousands Gone The First Two Centuries of
Book SynopsisA leading historian of southern and African-American life traces the evolution of black society in America from its creation in the early 17th century through the American Revolution. Berlin reveals the diverse forms that slavery and freedom assumed before cotton was king.Trade ReviewThe American Constitution chose slavery...and the nation justified the choice by formulating an ideology that made blacks into something less than human beings. The result, as historian Ira Berlin argues in a new book on slavery, Many Thousands Gone, is that African slavery became "no longer just one of many forms of subordination—a common enough circumstance in a world ruled by hierarchies—but the foundation on which the social order rested." -- Ellis Cose * Newsweek *Ira Berlin's magisterial [book] is a story of slavery in evolutionary perspective...As a comprehensive study of early North American slavery the work is unexcelled and will be a boon to students and scholars alike. -- Daniel C. Littlefield * Slavery and Abolition *In [Many Thousands Gone], Berlin emphasises that slavery, too often treated by historians as a static institution, was in fact constantly changing. The range of subjects is impressive—from work patterns to family life, naming practices, religions, race relations and modes of resistance. But by organising his account along the axes of space and time, Berlin gives coherence to what would otherwise have been an account overwhelming by its detail and complexity...Many Thousands Gone is likely to remain for years to come the standard account of the first two centuries of slavery in the area that became the United States. -- Eric Foner * London Review of Books *Berlin's study is the best account we have of the beginnings of servitude in America. It is also a reminder of slavery's adaptability. The notion that it was necessarily tied to the production of export staples is false. -- Howard Temperley * Times Literary Supplement *Occasionally we are rewarded with a brave soul willing to impose shape and direction on what has become, for many, a prodigiously confusing historiography. Ira Berlin, like the very best historians who have tackled the problem, brings to the task a formidable record as a researcher and writer in more specialised areas of slave and post-slave studies. The result of Berlin's labours is a vital book, not simply in making sense of historical complexity, but in advancing a new and distinctive argument about the shaping of North America...[Many Thousands Gone has] a sophisticated argument that imposes shape on historical diversity without in the least riding roughshod over the specific local and regional differences that fragment the American slave experience. This is a deceptive book, for it is not simply a general account of slavery in North America. It is a subtle—and beautifully written—argument about the phases of slave history and of that sharp differentiation across time and place that makes slavery so hard to contain within a more generalised format...What emerges is the most original and most persuasive overall study of North American slavery for a very long time...[Many Thousands Gone] is moreover a book with powerful implications for anyone interested in the wider history of America. It is, quite simply, a book of major importance for all historians of North America. -- James Walvin * Times Higher Education Supplement *Many Thousands Gone will challenge just about everything you thought you knew about slavery, especially its dawning...Through this honest and responsible work, perhaps we can begin decoding our Pavlovian responses to the buried racial and experiential triggers we dare not analyze. -- Debra Dickerson * Village Voice *Ira Berlin provides a sweeping survey of slavery and black life in North America...from the early 17th into the early 19th centuries. The result is the best general history we now have of the "peculiar institution" during its first 200 years. Many Thousands Gone is a remarkable book, one that beautifully integrates two centuries of history over a wide geographical area. It is a benchmark study from which students will learn and with which scholars will grapple for many years to come. -- Peter Kolchin * Los Angeles Times *Many Thousands Gone is an imaginatively conceived, brilliantly executed academic history of the experience of African-Americans, from their arrival in Jamestown in 1619, through the early decades of the nineteenth century. With clarity and sympathetic attention, Berlin depicts how, with regional and historical variations, blacks in North America employed a variety of stratagems to confront modify, ameliorate, and even surmount their degraded condition as slaves...Berlin's knowledge of slave life in America is little short of encyclopedic. On virtually every page he illuminates how and to what extent African-Americans in different times and places strove "to negotiate" the terms of their servitude with their masters...This book seems destined to define the terms of discussion for many years to come. -- Haim Chertok * Jerusalem Post *When Americans think about slavery—and try to work through its legacy—they're operating from a misleadingly narrow image: the cotton plantations of the deep South. So says Berlin, who chronicles the slave experience in the 200 years—1619 to 1819—that preceded the antebellum period. It's a horrific picture, but a complex one too, including the dramatically different lives of the first Creole slaves, the long northern enthusiasm for slavery, and ever-present patterns of resistance and renegotiation. * Globe and Mail *In Many Thousands Gone, Ira Berlin tells the complex and neglected story of American slavery from 1619 through about 1810. It is a story most Americans do not know...Berlin has written a sweeping history that builds upon the pioneering work of John Hope Franklin, John Blassingame, Eugene Genovese, Herbert Gutman and Edmund Morgan, and shines as both a comprehensive and astute synthesis of current scholarship and as an original contribution to the field. -- James L. Swanson * Chicago Tribune *In his pathbreaking book on slavery's first two centuries in America, Ira Berlin argues that our historical memory is incomplete, based almost entirely on 19th-century portraits of the "peculiar institution." Underscoring differences within the North American slave experience over time and place, Berlin paints a much more complex picture of slavery's origins and formative years...[and] skillfully unravels slavery's complex evolution. Berlin's foremost contribution is his nuanced analysis of the creolization process. His book is the best study of black life before the "plantation revolution" and its mainspring, slavery, which locked African Americans into an inferior class defined by color...Race, then, as Berlin reminds us, like class, is the product of a particular kind of social construction. It required major demolition—the Civil War—to begin to renovate the structure that slavery and racism built. -- John David Smith * News and Observer *As Ira Berlin makes abundantly clear, racism was an ideology crucial for creating an intellectual and emotional climate that would allow slavery to exist. It gave an institution, albeit a "peculiar" one, the required veneer of "reason"...Berlin explodes several myths and sets in their place a history that honors the complexity of the American past with an unswerving, unsentimental gaze. One myth that Berlin seizes is that of the Old South, the common belief that slavery was for the most part situated below the Mason-Dixon Line. Slavery became a southern phenomenon only after 200 years of American history. These 200 years are Berlin's subject, as he tracks the black presence throughout early America, emphasizing in vivid detail the diversity of slave existence, urban and rural. He underscores the fact that as America was being constructed by slave labor, slaves were living their own lives and creating their own culture, a syncretic mix of African origins...Berlin's argument, and it is brilliantly posed, is that slavery, with all its resonance, haunts America even as the new century is about to begin. -- Michelle Cliff * San Jose Mercury News *Berlin offers a complex picture of how slaves etched out small freedoms under dire circumstances in early America. Their existence was defined by religion, family structure and African inheritance—not just the fact that they were slaves. Many Thousands Gone is not an apology for slavery, but a testament to the willpower of a people to define their own lives under the most dismal conditions. -- Ronald D. Lankford * Roanoke Times *Rather than focus on slavery in the antebellum South, Berlin provides a revealing look at the diverse lives and cultures of the early slaves. * Washington Post Book World *In this masterly work, Ira Berlin has demonstrated that earlier North American slavery had many different forms and meanings that varied over time and from place to place. Slavery and race did not have a fixed character that endured for centuries but were constantly being constructed or reconstructed in response to changing historical circumstances. Many Thousands Gone illuminates the first 200 years of African-American history more effectively than any previous study. -- George M. Fredrickson * New York Times Book Review *This meticulous scholarly study demonstrates how and why slavery took different forms at different times in different colonies and states, and describes the kinds of autonomy that slaves were able to wrest from their masters under each variant of the system. Berlin also stresses slaves' skills and acumen, not to palliate the evil of slavery but to show slaves as something other than victims--as competent, often exceptionally able, men and women. * New Yorker *Ira Berlin, one of this nation's foremost scholars on the slave era...presents a thorough and extensive examination of early slavery...[He] considers the evolution of slavery, and the changing nature of how slaves were treated. Though he never understates the violence and domination practiced by slaveholders, Berlin introduces the notion that slavery during its first two centuries was a "negotiated relationship," even if that relationship was "so profoundly asymmetrical" that most discount even the "notion of negotiation" between the owner and the owned. -- Renée Graham * Boston Sunday Globe *In Many Thousands Gone, Ira Berlin has produced an intriguing and compelling new interpretation that is one of the most significant books about slavery in several years...Berlin's work is an impressive and masterfully written narrative. He provides a clearer picture of slavery, which has often been clouded by imprecise accounts. As he astutely concludes, slavery's effects still persist as an unwelcome guest in American society. -- John A. Hardin * Lexington Herald Leader *By concentrating on slavery in North America from the early years of settlement through the Revolution, Ira Berlin restores historical depth and a human face to a field usually mired in angry polemic and narrow quanitification. This rich and well-written narrative—the best book on American slavery since Eugene Genovese's Roll, Jordan, Roll—challenges traditional accounts...Many Thousands Gone shows how we must place American history and the contemporary American dilemma of race and cultural heritage in the hemispheric and Atlantic context to comprehend fully America's peculiarities and uniqueness. * Foreign Affairs *Today's correct historian can be as guilty of over simplification as yesterday's apologist for slavery, but Berlin scrupulously resists any such temptations. His emphasis is on subtlety and complexity...According to Berlin the history of the first two of slavery's three centuries in North America reveals nothing so much as change, ambiguity and "messy, inchoate reality." For this reason alone his book has great value and importance; it is also lucid, measured and entirely persuasive...Indeed, for all the oppression it documents, Many Thousands Gone can be read not as a chronicle of denial and enslavement but as evidence of the irresistible impulse for freedom. In this sense Berlin's book is an affirmation, not merely of the fortitude and dignity of the slaves (a matter of grave concern to many of today's historians) but of the capacity of American democracy--despite its shortcomings--to live up to its promises. -- Jonathan Yardley * Washington Post *[Top 10 Pick for 1998, Nonfiction Category, Christian Science Monitor][This is] a monumental, sweeping study of the evolution of America's "peculiar institution" from the earliest white settlement through the early Republic period. Berlin, one of the foremost historians of American slavery, has written an addition to the canon of essential works on the subject...Many Thousands Gone makes clear that slavery at no point achieved the "stable maturity" that many historians have ascribed to the 19th century period. -- Neal M. Rosendorf * Christian Science Monitor *Ira Berlin has helped to shape the recent literature on slavery in the United States...Many Thousands Gone represents Mr. Berlin's most ambitious undertaking to date and a sharp temporal departure from his previous books, for he has backtracked from the 19th century to write a 200-year history of slavery on the North American mainland that begins with the African background to England's settlement of the colonial Chesapeake in the early 17th century...[He] has written a major synthesis that will surely draw praise from the academy. -- Robert L. Paquette * Washington Times *In each society and in each generation slaves adjusted and adapted to their conditions. Blacks never were exclusively the hapless victims of the "white devil" of history or the obsequious Sambos of the "Gone With The Wind" model. Berlin's greatest achievement is finally correcting the misconceptions black and white Americans have about how slavery operated in this nation. -- Gregory Kane * Baltimore Sun *Berlin, who has already contributed significantly to the literature, here brings together in a magisterial synthesis much of what has now been learned about slave life during its first two centuries within the present United States...Berlin's achievement is to order the resulting variety by identifying four different regions with four different economies (the Chesapeake, the eastern tidewater from South Carolina to Florida, the Mississippi Valley, and the North) and by dividing the social developments of two centuries in each region into three periods, which he designates as the charter generations, the plantation generations, and the Revolutionary generations, stopping short of the heyday of slavery in the antebellum decades of the nineteenth century. -- Edmund S. Morgan * New York Review of Books *Synthesizing a generation of scholarship, Berlin provides a sweeping survey of slavery and black life in North America (the European colonies that became the United States) from the early 17th into the early 19th centuries. The result is the best general history we now have of the 'peculiar institution' during its first 200 years...Many Thousands Gone is a remarkable book, one that beautifully integrates two centuries of history over a wide geographical area. It is a benchmark study from which students will learn and with which scholars will grapple for many years to come. -- Peter Kolchin * Los Angeles Times Book Review *An original, eye-opening study in which Berlin most persuasively argues that slavery was no monolithic institution but one that evolved in different ways in different places, and did not become the 'slave society' so well known to students of American history until relatively late in its long, painful development. -- Jonathan Yardley * Washington Post Book World *No general synthesis existed to pull all of [the] fragments of scholarship together and present a coherent narrative of the first two centuries of North American slavery—until now. Ira Berlin's splendid study tells us what we need to know about how the peculiar institution of antebellum America got that way over the previous 200 years. The scholarship of this study is astonishing. Berlin appears to have read every secondary source and every published primary source—not all of this in English—relevant to the subject. Yet this burden of scholarship does not weigh down the text with dull, heavy prose. Quite the contrary; Berlin has accomplished a small miracle of organization, compression, and skillful exposition...Many Thousands Gone is essential reading for all those interested in the history of African Americans and of race relations in this country. Berlin writes this history more from the viewpoint of the slaves than that of the master. This is all to the good, for it helps redress the balance of most studies of slavery. Black people herein are not merely victims; they help make their own history, a history in which many of them gained freedom and formed a distinctive culture long before the Emancipation Proclamation. Indeed, this is as much a history of freedom as of slavery, a story of success against the odds as well as a story of exploitation and cruelty. -- James M. McPherson * Journal of Blacks in Higher Education *[Berlin] draws on recent scholarship to sketch in the contours of the slave experience in colonial Florida and Louisiana, reminding us that the ancestors of many black Americans learned to speak Spanish or French long before they ever heard English. Berlin paints deftly with a broad brush, and his trim narrative is informed and gripping...Berlin documents the high hopes for freedom, the desperate attempts to gain liberty, and the deep sense of disappointment and betrayal that led slaves to form conspiracies from Richmond, Virginia to Pointe Coupee, Louisiana. -- Peter H. Wood * Brightleaf *Berlin crafts a deft synthesis of the many regional studies that have slowly been changing our understanding of slavery...No one before Berlin has made sense of these works altogether, as a unified field of inquiry. There is originality in Berlin's synthesis, as historical events and cultural tendencies take on new and fresh meanings. Further, his distillation of the burgeoning field is highly valuable. It is a brilliant summary for general readers and newcomers to the field; it will be a standard work for graduate students preparing for exams, and many a burdened faculty member who needs a quick overview in order to prepare lectures will dog-ear its pages. -- Joyce E. Chaplin * Reviews in American History *Many Thousands Gone is an investigation of the ways in which freedom and slavery were negotiated between slaves and slave owners, making the point that no matter how powerful the slave owner became, the culture and the actions of the slave were never completely in his power. Thus, the history of slavery becomes, in part, a history of strategies--some partial failures, some partial successes--for establishing African American self-determination in a time of slavery...By beginning with the assumption that slavery was not one thing but was instituted and experienced in a variety of distinct ways, Many Thousands Gone allows readers to glimpse a more nuanced picture of the strivings and accomplishments of the souls and bodies caught in slavery's meshes, enriching rather than compromising the understanding of the institution's true harmful nature. -- Thomas Cassidy * Magill's Literary Annual *In his pathbreaking book on slavery's first two centuries in America, Ira Berlin argues that our historical memory is incomplete, based almost entirely on 19th-century portraits of the 'peculiar institution.' Underscoring differences within the North America slave experience over time and place, Berlin paints a much more complex picture of slavery's origins and formative years. -- John David Smith * Raleigh News & Observer *This important study successfully synthesizes insights of the past 40 years while advancing new scholarship which emphasizes the shifting definition of both race and slavery in North America...Many Thousands Gone is a well-written, provocative reappraisal of the first 200 years of North American slavery. -- Marion Lucas * Bowling Green News *[Many Thousands Gone] is a serious study that the general public will find interesting and useful...As an introduction to the new history of slavery in North America, especially in the long era prior to the 'Old South,' one could do little better than to buy this book. -- Douglas B. Chambers * The Commercial Appeal *A noted historian with other books on slavery, Mr. Berlin focuses in this latest work on what slavery meant during the 1600s and 1700s. And one of his major points, carefully documented and argued, is that slavery and race then were not always what we think of them as being now...What's refreshing about his analysis is how many layers of African-American life he is able to penetrate. Drawing upon Dutch, French, Spanish and English documents, he looks globally at how the African diaspora of slaves shaped North American communities. -- Meta G. Carstarphen * Dallas Morning News *Berlin has written an imaginative, detailed account of American slavery from its origins at the beginning of the 17th century through the Revolution...A major contribution to the study of slavery in the United States. -- Anthony O. Edmonds * Library Journal *Many Thousands Gone...is a sweeping scholarly study of four kinds of slave society...those in the Northern colonies, the Chesapeake Bay area, the Carolina low country, and the lower Mississippi valley...One of Mr. Berlin's most striking realizations....[was how] slaves had had such different experiences of slavery. Some had been skilled laborers, others small farmers, still others plantation workers...'What Ira has done is to etch the patterns,' says Ronald Hoffman, director of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, in Williamsburg, Virginia. 'He's developed a model of how slavery changed that's going to be enormously important'...More than just highlighting diversity, the patterns that Mr. Berlin draws in his scholarship also throw into relief changes in the nature of slavery...Eric Foner, a professor of history at Columbia University, says, 'In a way that no one else has done, Berlin takes the entire area of what became the United States and gives us a genuine transcontinental perspective. That has tremendous force in driving home the point that slavery was never static, but an evolving institution...The field today is ripe for broad debate and Berlin's superb synthesis is just the work to spark it.' -- Karen J. Winkler * Chronicle of Higher Education *Through his scholarship and leadership, Ira Berlin has recast the way we conceive of the history of African Americans and their relationship to other Americans...Covering a vast terrain and chronological span, the author gives us a fuller portrayal of slavery's formative stages in this country than we have ever possessed. The book is a work of synthesis, harvesting the research and insights of hundreds of historians who have focused on one place, time, or issue. Though the book contains no original archival research, it is a rare student of the American past who will not be surprised by something in virtually every chapter. It is the pattern of slavery that is significant here, the variations and consistencies across the continent and across the centuries. Berlin follows no one historiographical tradition, but weaves among several, taking the best of each...[The] combination of context and change, as well as negotiation and material grounding, gives Berlin a nuanced, yet powerful way of understanding slavery. The keys for Berlin's interpretation are not simple and familiar ones such as 'race' or 'capitalism,' but distinctly complicated conceptions with which we have become familiar in this decade: negotiation, complexity, agency, multiplicity, indeterminacy, and interaction. Berlin manages to portray slavery as both fundamentally important and highly contingent, an analytical juggling act that would have failed in less skillful hands. -- Edward L. Ayers * The Historian *The history of slavery in North America is not as simple, clear-cut or tidy as is often believed. That is the message of this impeccably presented history of American slavery from 1619, when John Rolfe brought 'twenty Negars' to the Jamestown colony, to the 1820s, when the spirit of emancipation began to take hold in the North...[Berlin's] distinctions have continuing resonance, as [he] shows that once a society with slaves became a slave society, all blacks--free or not--could come to be regarded as slaves: in short, how an economic system became racism...The book holds many surprises gleaned from the facts, whether in its portrait of New York as a major slave city or its descriptions of free enterprise at work among slaves. The economic and historical research presented here is impressive. But what gives the book an additional dimension is its deftly employed social insights. * Publishers Weekly *Rather than focus on the much studied slavery of the antebellum South, Berlin examines the earlier history of slavery throughout North America and how it affected the consequent nature and evolution of the peculiar institution...He traces the first African presence in the Americas to a 'charter generation' that was multilingual and multicultural, through the 'plantation generation' that adjusted its African culture to the various regions of the U.S., and, finally, the 'revolutionary generation' that began to challenge U.S. ideals of liberty and freedom in the face of slavery. Throughout this fascinating book, Berlin deftly outlines the human negotiations that went on even in so unequal a relationship as master-slave. -- Vanessa Bush * Booklist *In a real contribution to the literature of American slavery, Berlin sketches the complex evolution of that institution in the American colonies and the early US...[He] traces the development of a 'society with slaves'—that is, in which slavery was a marginal institution that represented only one among many labor sources—into a 'slave society' in which slavery was not only central to the economy but formed the basis of all social institutions...A cogently argued, well-researched narrative that points to the complex nature of American slavery, the falsity of many of our stereotypes, and the unique world wrought by the slaves themselves. * Kirkus Reviews *Berlin's adept mixture of economic and social history enlarges our understanding of colonial slavery and contributes fascinating new insights...[N]ovel insights permeate nearly every page...Authoritative, original, beautifully organized and composed, Many Thousands Gone is a striking combination of black history and the study of the evolution of slavery. Any reader intrigued by the tumultuous, shifting account of early American slavery and the people who made it need look no further than this state-of-the-art achievement by a masterful historian. -- Graham Russell Hodges * America *Berlin repeatedly recalibrates the received story of slavery, all the while revising the record with numerous therapeutic reinterpretations...To see enslaved people as Berlin does, that is sequentially as the charter generations, the plantation generations, and the revolutionary generations, is to see them as different populations facing different concerns at different times. In this way he restores to millions of black people a degree of personhood that is finally profoundly liberating. For if enslaved people are seen as participating actively in their own social formation, they are then granted fundamental humanity that the proponents of chattel slavery tried so hard to eradicate. * American Studies International *[Berlin presents] a full-scale interpretation of the complexity and diversity of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century African-American slave life and work. His five-hundred-page book,Many Thousands Gone, is the most comprehensive study yet produced of the first two centuries of slavery in North America. Berlin is, of course, well qualified for his ambitious task, for he has spent his entire career studying American slavery and facilitating the work of other scholars in this field...Berlin has his own distinctive argument, which endows the book with originality and power. -- Richard S. Dunn * William and Mary Quarterly *In this book, Berlin, has produced a masterly synthesis of the vast body of research hundreds of scholars have done on the first two centuries of slavery in British, French, and Spanish North America, a portrait of highly fortuitous change that should leave a telltale stamp on all future treatments of New World slavery. -- David Brion Davis * American Historical Review *Table of Contents* Prologue: Making Slavery, Making Race * Societies with Slaves: The Charter Generations * Emergence of Atlantic Creoles in the Chesapeake * Expansion of Creole Society in the North * Divergent Paths in the Lowcountry * Devolution in the Lower Mississippi Valley * Slave Societies: The Plantation Generations * The Tobacco Revolution in the Chesapeake * The Rice Revolution in the Lowcountry * Growth and the Transformation of Black Life in the North * Stagnation and Transformation in the Lower Mississippi Valley * Slave and Free: The Revolutionary Generations * The Slow Death of Slavery in the North * The Union of African-American Society in the Upper South * Fragmentation in the Lower South * Slavery and Freedom in the Lower Mississippi Valley * Epilogue: Making Race, Making Slavery * Tables * Abbreviations * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index
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Harvard University Press Soul by Soul Life Inside the Antebellum Slave
Book SynopsisTaking us inside the New Orleans slave market, Walter Johnson transforms the statistics of this chilling trade into the human drama of traders, buyers, and slaves, negotiating sales that would alter the life of each. What emerges is not only the brutal economics of trading but the vast and surprising interdependencies among the actors involved.Trade ReviewThe focus of this fine book, which is at once doggedly scrupulous and quietly passionate, is the slave market that operated in New Orleans in the years before the Civil War… An area of recent and still tentative study has to do with the effect the slaves had on the people who bought and sold them; to this Johnson makes important and original contributions… In what it tells us about the slaves, Soul by Soul adds more detail to what is by now a staggering body of information. It is in telling us more about what slavery did to the men and women who stood on the privileged side of the divide that Johnson performs his most useful service. Slavery brutalized its victims, but it also corrupted its masters. It was, in every single regard, unspeakable. -- Jonathan Yardley * Washington Post Book World *A forceful reminder that life in the Crescent City after the battle wasn't all toleration… [This is an] elegant and intelligent book. -- Nicholas Lemann * New Yorker *Just when readers might have thought nothing new could be written about slavery, Walter Johnson's behind-the-scenes look at the New Orleans slave market unmasks the brutalities of trafficking in human flesh in a terrifying, unforgettable manner. Mr. Johnson's carefully researched saga picks up after the 1808 U.S. ban on trans-Atlantic slave trading. Far from shutting down slavery, the prohibition simply boosted domestic slave trafficking… Soul by Soul gives context to its content, making it a fascinating 'insider's' view of a world created by slavery. -- Meta G. Carstarphen * Dallas Morning News *[Soul by Soul has] an interesting and compelling argument… Where Johnson succeeds…[is in] using the New Orleans slave market, its contents and its customers as a way to understand a culture that no longer exists. -- Matthew DeBord * Salon *Johnson's extremely rich and subtle work, the first in-depth look at the slave markets, never lets the reader forget the reality that this was a trade in human beings… Among the most striking and important aspects of the book is the way Johnson makes clear the resistance of enslaved African-Americans to becoming mere items of property… Johnson teaches us that, despite the insistence of white slaveholders that slaves were simply possessions, enslaved African-Americans routinely asserted their humanity and forced slaveholders to take this into account when bringing people to market. At the same time that Johnson keeps the spotlight squarely on the humanity of enslaved African-Americans, he also presents a complicated account of those who went to the markets to buy… Anyone interested in American history must strive to understand something about slavery, and as Johnson shows us, the event of the sale of one human being to another is at the center of the story of slavery. The horror of that transaction remains so powerful that even today descendants of its victims, as well as of its perpetrators, are still trying to comprehend it. Walter Johnson's important book makes a valuable contribution to that endeavor. -- Judith Weisenfeld * Newsday *Walter Johnson has gone where no historian has gone before: inside the slave markets of the antebellum South… Johnson, through his book, has spoken for the unknown thousands who couldn't speak for themselves… Johnson has given a voice to those voiceless slaves whose descendants owe it to their ancestors to read this book. -- Gregory Kane * Baltimore Sun *A challenging, eye-opening study that deserves a wide audience… Johnson delves into the contradictions and complexities that arise when human beings are treated as commodities… He gets inside the heads of slaves, traders and buyers in order to explore the desires, fears and strategies they brought to this inhuman transaction… Soul by Soul shines a penetrating light on the brutal heart of the South's peculiar institution. -- Fritz Lanham * Houston Chronicle *Soul by Soul is a stunning excavation of the past, a book that is sure to be read and debated for years to come. Walter Johnson creates a common identity for the slaves by letting their voices give shape to the narrative. In an age such as ours, so premised on individual liberty, the author performs a kind of moral autopsy on the mindset of slave owning. -- Jason Berry * Gambit Weekly *Johnson tells us many things about [the] commodification of human beings, some of which you probably know and others that are more surprising… Johnson's book covers wide territory, from the petty encounters of small slave traders to the extraordinary power of slavery in the southern economy. -- Peter Walker * Financial Times *Johnson provides the fullest, most penetrating examination of the antebellum slave market to date. Using slave narratives, court records, planters' letters, and more, Johnson enters the slave pens and showrooms of the New Orleans slave market to observe how slavery turned men and women into merchandise and how slaves resisted such efforts to steal their humanity. He tracks the slaves from their march to the market to the terrifying moments of sale and adaptation to new masters, places, and work. Johnson's original, important, and brilliantly presented book makes a case for the slave market as 'best place to see slavery.' It was there that self-interest, concepts of race, and the slave 'community' came together to reveal how white men traded their own souls for a stake in human property. An essential book for anyone who wants to understand why slavery matters. -- Randall M. Miller * Library Journal *This extraordinary study is a flesh-and-blood daily history of the slave market. Johnson takes readers inside the Dixie slave pens and traders' coffles (long rows of slaves manacled and chained to one another)… Using former slave survivors' narratives, letters written by slaveholders, docket records of cases of disputed slave slaves and Southern medical and agricultural journals, Johnson interweaves the voices of traders, buyers, auctioneers and the slaves themselves… The evil business of slavery has seldom been exposed with so much humanity and insight as in this eloquent study, scholarly yet wholly accessible, a compelling cross-sectional microcosm of millions of human tragedies. * Publishers Weekly *Johnson selected the operations of the market to depict the variegated processes that turned a person into a commodity. Sales could be complicated transactions. Their objects, the enslaved persons, could always ruin value by escape or suicide, and consequently traders and purchasers of people sometimes conceded minimal humanity to placate those in their thrall. Organized with a blessed eschewal of academese, Johnson's work is a superior examination of the speculation in slaves as individuals conducted it. -- Gilbert Taylor * Booklist *[Johnson] shows that the slaves were able to shape, albeit in small measure, the outcomes of sales… [He] illuminates not just the slaves, but the white Southerners who bought and sold then, offering particular insight into the ways white people constructed their own identities by dreaming of the slaves they would one day buy… A refreshing, elegantly written angle on antebellum slavery. * Kirkus Reviews *The slave pen lay at the depths of slavery's hell, and no one has explored that abyss better than Walter Johnson. Soul by Soul brilliantly bares the base meaning of chattel bondage—and by extension antebellum Southern society—by inspecting the mechanism that produced and reproduced slavery in the nineteenth-century United States and in the process defined slave, slave trader, and slaveholder. -- Ira Berlin, author of Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North AmericaWalter Johnson's lucid and breathtaking book uses the spectacle of the slave market to open new windows onto the history and peculiarities of American capitalist culture. He persuasively shows that masters were not simply buying labor but fantasies—fantasies of power, control, pleasure, even their own perceived benevolence. This is why the slave market was like no other market in the history of modern capitalism, and why Soul by Soul is like no other book. -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working ClassSoul by Soul mercilessly demonstrates why the slave South built high walls around its auction blocks. It then tears down those walls. In insisting on the centrality of slave sales in antebellum Southern life, Johnson precisely captures the logic, complexity, brutality, falsity and, above all, the drama of a world built around a market in human beings. -- David Roediger, editor of Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means To Be WhiteAs central as the slave trade was to the experience of slavery, there has been no in-depth study of the daily life of the trade. Walter Johnson fills the conspicuous void. With this original and innovative book, Johnson skillfully unveils the manipulations and the negotiations of the slave market. Soul by Soul tells a unique and compelling story. -- Deborah Gray White, author of Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation SouthJohnson takes us inside the New Orleans slave market, the largest and busiest in the South, and discovers that the buyers and sellers of slaves could easily mix the language and values associated with paternalism and commercialism. Unlike later historians, they saw no conflict between their needs for status and sound business practice… [Johnson] advances the original and potentially controversial argument that to be truly 'white' in the Old South one had to own slaves. -- George M. Fredrickson * New York Review of Books *It is not often that we get an academic monograph as smart and well-written as this one. On almost every page Johnson has something fresh and original to say about the old chestnuts of historical debate: paternalism, honor, miscegenation, slave culture. Soul by Soul reaffirms the importance of making sure our graduate programs remain open to even the most outlandish intellectual fads, which very often are honest efforts to see the world in new ways. -- Lawrence N. Powell * Times-Picayune *What distinguishes Soul by Soul from other recent works on the experience of slavery, and, indeed, the history of the antebellum South, is the innovative use of court records. Johnson…begins by asserting the importance of seeing the moment of sale through the eyes of the people who were sold and not just through the eyes of slaveowners and traders. A careful reading of the voluminous quantity of published slave narratives forms the foundation of the volume but much of the insight comes from an exploration of roughly two hundred disputed slave transactions that were brought before the Louisiana Supreme Court… No research is without flaws, and no scholar impervious to the claim that something should have been done differently. Johnson carefully crafts his narrative to acknowledge the strengths and weaknesses of his evidence… By focusing on the moment of sale, and analyzing what it meant to both slaveowner and slave, Soul by Soul establishes itself as perhaps the most innovative work on slavery published in the last twenty-five years. -- Robert Wolff * H-Net Reviews *Soul by Soul is the first modern study to deal specifically with the workings of the American slave market. This is the subject that the defenders of slavery preferred not to discuss. Instead, they liked to emphasize the paternalistic aspects of slavery—the natural bonds linking master and servant and the cradle-to-grave care that distinguished the lot of the Southern bondsman from that of the Northern 'wage slave'… This is an important book, well researched and clearly written. It describes how slaves were bought and sold, and what these transactions meant for the parties involved. It shows that, even at the best of times, slaves lived in the shadow of the slave market. -- Howard Temperley * Times Literary Supplement *Soul by Soul is an important contribution to the historiography of slavery. -- Adam Linker * BlackBookshelf.com *This book should not be read in part or assigned as a casual reference. It stands as a whole, an effort to reconstruct a sense of an entire way of life by focusing on one scene in detail. Meticulously researched and copiously annotated, Soul by Soul is at once well written and accessible to any serious minded YA reader. * Kliatt *A richly textured history of human trade in the antebellum South, covering a period during which some two million slave sales were meticulously recorded. Johnson's haunting study centers on New Orleans, the site of North America's largest slave market… Johnson looks at the roles played by slaves, traders, and slaveholders in the nasty enterprise of selling life… The title of Johnson's book is not casually chosen, for he seeks to grasp the impact of slavery on the very souls of everyone it touched. This ambition takes his work beyond that of historians who have traced the trajectory of the slave trade through commercial records only. -- Randal M. Jelks * Books & Culture *This excellent book provides a wealth of new details about the buying and selling of black people in the antebellum South and remarkable insights into the minds of both the seller and the sold. * Arkansas Historical Quarterly *Johnson examines the economics of the internal slave trade as well as the interdependencies among the actors involved. Focusing on New Orleans, which had the largest trade in the country, he analyzes the philosophies and nuances of the trade as well as the centrality of the trade in the lives of slaves and slaveholders alike. * Law and Social Inquiry *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Person with a Price The Chattel Principle Between the Prices Making a World Out of Slaves Turning People into Products Reading Bodies and Marking Race Acts of Sale Life in the Shadow of the Slave Market Epilogue: Southern History and the Slave Trade Abbreviations Notes Acknowledgments Index
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Harvard University Press Dancing in the Street
Book SynopsisDetroit in the 1960s was a city with a pulse: people were marching in step with Martin Luther King, Jr.; dancing in the street with Martha and the Vandellas; facing off with city police. Through it all, Motown provided the beat. Here is the story of Motownas musical style and entrepreneurial phenomenonand of its relationship to Motor Town, USA.Trade ReviewThe publication of Dancing in the Streets, is an interesting one for an academic press; there's no shortage of general-audience books on the famed soul label, and other books have plumbed the immediate political ramifications of Berry Gordy's family-loan-turned-empire. But Smith aims not to glorify Motown as a can-do parable of black business, but to define it wholly--as a flawed microcosm of Detroit as much as one of black America. At once symptom and synecdoche, Motown is in her eyes the inevitable sum of its influences that somehow reenacted Detroit's external struggles on its own Grand Street stage. -- Peter Rubin * Boston Book Review *In her scholarly, informative, Dancing in the Street, Suzanne E. Smith reconsiders Motown, not just as the background music of the city's struggles but as a component of black Detroit's march for civil rights and social justice. -- Renée Graham * Boston Globe *Dancing in the Street is a wonderful blend of thorough research, firsthand interviews and an impassioned discussion of the music which keeps the book far away from the suffocating reaches of the academy. Smith, a Detroit native, has found in Motown's apparent order (its arrangements, performers and beats) the perfect juxtaposition to Detroit's growing disorder (in the riots, police violence and cultural devastation of urban renewal). * Detroit Metro Times *Though we would all count Stevie Wonder, Martha and the Vandellas and Marvin Gaye among Motown's greatest recording artists, Suzanne E. Smith would add another: Martin Luther King Jr...[Smith] is correct when she says it has become all but impossible to separate what happened in Detroit in the 1960s from the music that was playing when it did: as Norman Whitfield, the producer who replaced Holland-Dozier-Holland as the label's primary hitmaker, put it in a song he wrote for the Temptations, it was a 'Ball of Confusion.' Thirty years later, we're still unraveling it, and Dancing in the Street affords valuable insights to those of us who were there and those of us who weren't...It is fascinating reading for anyone who believes the sound of young America was not incompatible with the sound of struggle. -- Terry Lawson * Detroit Free Press *[Dancing in the Street discovers] a new approach to what had seemed an exhausted subject. [Suzanne Smith's] self-imposed task is to draw back from the larger picture of Motown's conquest of the international market, setting the company in its immediate context in Detroit, the community from which it emerged and after which it was named, and examining its relationship with the civil-rights struggle...[This book] adds a new dimension to our understanding of the forces that created music which has already outlasted the long hot summers for which it was designed. -- Richard Williams * Times Literary Supplement *In telling the story of the [Motown] label in its habitat, and telling it as an everyday tale of race in America, Suzanne Smith performs an act of historical rescue. -- Andrew Blake * The Independent *Now, thanks to the publication of the fascinating Dancing in the Street music fans as well as lovers of social history can grasp for the first time the unique nature of Detroit's daily social scheme and its impact on the lives of those who embodied the Motown Sound during the parallel cresting of the civil rights movement...Smith takes readers into the heretofore unexamined sphere of Detroit's sidewalk-level social ferment from Motown's founding in 1958 on through the city's devastating riots in 1967 and the related early-'70s flight from its precincts of the two enterprises central to its modern identity...If you've never heard about the Concept East Theater; or of WCHB, the first radio station built, owned, and operated by African-Americans; or never knew about organizations like the League of Revolutionary Black Workers; or the Freedom Now Part (the first all-black political party in the nation), Smith's text will explain their rich legacies. -- Timothy White * Billboard *Smith performs a valuable service in showing that Gordy, rather than being the rugged individualist often depicted, was the product of a hard-working and supportive family, one that had displayed a relentless self-help ethic for generations...To be sure, Smith is mainly concerned with the larger issues, but she does a good job of giving behind-the-scenes glimpses of the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder and other Motown myths. While capitalism worked very well for Motown and its principles, Smith concludes, it was a far less effective system in exposing and eradicating the roots of racism. -- Edward Morris * Foreword Magazine *Suzanne E. Smith investigates the connections between music and a positive force: civil rights. Smith's compelling work depicts the exponential growth of the Motown recording company and reveals its role in shaping the civil rights movement in the urban North. * Publisher's Weekly *A finely rendered history of the storybook success of the 'Motown Sound,' arguably the most resonant cultural development of its time, within the localized context of urban turmoil and the civil-rights struggle...Relying on primary sources and on the recollections of Motown's acts, employees, and session players, Smith touchingly captures the industrious determination of a cultural community whose ambitions were underwritten by social cohesion and a generations-strong work ethic...She captures the spirit of this exciting time by focusing on individuals (Nat King Cole, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Motown discoveries like the Supremes and Marvin Gaye) whose actions were central to their era's cultural and civil-rights triumphs. More sobering is her re-creation of events leading to Detroit's 1967 riots, when intransigents on both sides of the color line overrode more moderate, conciliatory factions, leading the city toward a conflagration that permanently sundered the region's black and white communities. This reconstruction of Motown's meteoric popular rise during an era of fractious social division is compelling and informative for both aficionados of the music and students of American urban history. * Kirkus Reviews *That Detroit birthed a black music style, Motown, that conquered the white market at a time of unprecedented racial and social upheaval has attracted much comment. Investigation, Smith observes, has concentrated on how a black company, Motown Records, succeeded with white audiences and on the civil rights movement's effect on that success by fostering 'broader cultural integration.' Smite probes deeper...Tough stuff for a pop music book, but Smith answers rationally and evocatively in a serious book about the music biz that is excellent for pop music collections and downright obligatory for serious pop culture collections. * Booklist *Smith argues that [Motown's] immensely successful black-owned, Detroit-based corporation had an ambivalent attitude towards the changes brought about by Civil Rights campaigners in the 1960s: its music was designed for a multiracial audience, yet engaged with African-American politics. * Financial Times *Smith places Motown in its immediate context in the Detroit black community from which it emerged. She presents a focussed account of the city in the grip of social and political change. It is the approach which will endear the book to readers of both music journalism and historical narrative...Smith has used the rich tapestry of the Motown sound to present a truly exceptional book. It is well-argued and thought-provoking. -- J. Ahmed * Awaaz *Dancing in the Street, by Suzanne E. Smith, explores 1960s Motown music and culture against the backdrop of Detroit itself. She contrasts the racism that greeted migrating black auto workers with the shrewd way Motown created upbeat music that seemed to erase color lines. As Smith sees it, music and culture had to meet. -- David Hinckley * New York Daily News *While music in white society was seen as a diversion from the real world, Smith argues that in the black community it constituted daily life. Weighty, thorough stuff. -- Lois Wilson * Q Magazine *By pulling back "the veil of nostalgia that enshrouds" the Motown sound, Professor Smith provides a clearer and more realistic view of the accomplishments and limitations of Motown, the sound and the company. The study concludes that Motown's historical legacy encompasses outstanding contributions to the history of popular music, to the history of Black capitalism and to the history of the civil rights movement and race relations...This thoughtful and well-documented study will help readers to understand how "cultural politics" operates at grass-roots level. It will also provide them with an informative account of the Motown sound of the 1960s. * Race Relations Archive *Smith details the connection between the rise and success of Motown Records and the more specific histories of Detroit's civil rights struggles Dancing in the Street does and excellent job of detailing the fine line between the production of goods and the ideology behind that production. Suzanne Smith gives the reader an interesting history of Detroit in the1960s and of Motown and its cultural and musical impact, but she also provides a road map for other studies that seek to use culture as a means to understand larger historical situations. -- Kenneth J. Bindas * Historical Review *Suzanne Smith's wonderful new book, Dancing in the Streets: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit, seeks to resituate the Motown sound within the history of the Motor City and, more broadly, to reconnect it to the larger historical moment of African American activism that was the 1960s. As Smith reminds us, a Motown hit like 'Dancing in the Street' was 'never just a party song'. From the outset Smith's engaging narrative immerses readers in the fascinating tale of how Motown rose from its humble beginnings in Detroit to become a corporate conglomerate far from its Motor City roots she must be given tremendous credit for identifying just how powerful and malleable this record company was as a symbol of the tumultuous 1960s. -- Heather Ann Thompson * Labor History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: "Can't Forget the Motor City" "In Whose Heart There Is No Song, To Him the Miles Are Many and Long": Motown and Detroit's Great March to Freedom "Money (That's What I Want)": Black Capitalism and Black Freedom in Detroit "Come See About Me": Black Cultural Production in Detroit "Afro-American Music, without Apology": The Motown Sound and the Politics of Black Culture "The Happening": Detroit, 1967 "What's Going On?" Motown and New Detroit Conclusion: "Come Get These Memories" Notes Acknowledgments Index
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Harvard University Press thetransformationofpalestinianpoliticsfromrevoluti
Book SynopsisA comprehensive overview and analysis of the Palestinians' move from revolutionary movement to state, The Transformation of Palestinian Politics outlines the difficulties in the transition now underway arising from Palestinian history, society, and diplomatic agreements.Trade ReviewBarry Rubin’s timely Transformation of Palestinian Politics provides a superb and weighty account of the complexities of the Palestinian problem and the significant impediments to state-building… As deputy director of the Begin–Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Rubin is well acquainted with Palestinian political life, having written several notable books on the subject. In his most recent effort, he carefully delineates the path of transition or pre-statehood for the current PA—complete will all its bumps and turns… Rubin covers in rich and penetrating detail the deleterious effects of the fledgling Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) on the Arafat-led government-in-training, the rising expectations of a long-suffering and dispossessed people and the controversial issues of democratic development and respect for human rights. -- Peter McKenna * Washington Post Book World *In this judicious and thoughtful book, Rubin describes the Palestinian’s slow walk towards statehood, one riddled with contradictions and burdened by deep-seated historical animosities. Analyzing both the Palestinians’ noticeable failures and surprising successes, Rubin offers a prognosis for the future with the measured optimism of someone who has watched the conflict unfold from up-close for some time. -- Kate Cambor * Boston Book Review *In his excellent The Transformation of Palestinian Politics, Rubin wants critics of Yassar Arafat and the Palestinian Authority to temper their disparaging comments with a hefty dose of reality: Specifically, he says, there will be no Palestinian state without a peace agreement with Israel and a solid institutional foundation… Rubin is well qualified to chronicle the path of transition or pre-statehood, with its unpredictable twists and turns. By specifically homing in on the transitional, or embryonic phase, Rubin seeks to situate legitimate criticisms of the 1993–95 Oslo Accords within the context of incredibly complex and difficult growing pains for an essentially interim government. -- Peter McKenna * Globe and Mail *Rubin…manages a balanced presentation of all the many different players in this ongoing Palestinian drama—Yasir Arafat, the PLO, Hamas, the many Israeli political groupings, the Arab states, the United States, and the international community. With nine detailed but succinct chapters, this book is an eminently readable achievement. -- L. Carl Brown * Foreign Affairs *[A]n objective, even sympathetic, account of Palestinian politics since 1993. -- Sol Schindler * Washington Times *Barry Rubin, deputy director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University, is a keen observer of the Middle East. The Transformation of Palestinian Politics is a cogent analysis of the challenges facing the Palestinian Authority today. -- Sheldon Kirshner * Canadian Jewish News *Excellent. Rubin has taken up a subject that is seemingly familiar (Palestinians feature almost daily in the news) but is in fact unknown (how the Palestinian Authority actually operates). There is nothing remotely comparable to this book in English. He writes about obscure but vital aspects of the Palestinian Authority with a sure hand. The greatest strength of the book lies in its providing new information in a clear context. Rubin’s sources are excellent, his judgment reliable. The writing style is solid. The study significantly advances knowledge about its subject matter. -- Daniel Pipes * Middle East Quarterly *In this highly readable book, Rubin examines the prospect of Palestinian statehood… Drawing on an impressive array of English, Hebrew, and Arabic sources, the author explores a complicated maze of interaction between Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian Authority and its internal opponents. Crucially, the book also places the Palestinian Authority’s struggle in the context of Israeli and regional politics. -- Nader Entessar * Library Journal *Rubin is the first to take a detailed and systematic look at the issues—not surprising given that the subject did not exist before 1994—and therein lies the main contribution of the book. He provides an interesting overview of what will undoubtedly be a subject of continuing investigation over the years. The book should be of considerable interest to students of Middle Eastern, and especially Palestinian and Israeli–Palestinian politics. Rubin presents a balanced (even sympathetic) account of the challenges facing the Palestinian Authority, shows how relatively stable post-revolutionary institutions have already been built, and concludes with a sanguine view of the prospects for successful state-building in the future. The book is argued in a fairly persuasive fashion, the organization is logical, the scholarship is sound (no polemics or distortion of evidence), and the conclusions are judicious. -- Mark A. Heller, Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv University[A] fair treatment of the subject, the transformation of the PLO from a military–political organization to the force behind the establishment of a Palestinian state. Rubin is well informed, and the book is based on a wide selection of Arabic language sources, as well as Israeli and English language. -- Walter Laqueur, Center for Strategic and International StudiesTable of ContentsPreface The Rulers, the Ruled, and the Rules The Palestinian Legislative Council Democracy, Stability, and Human Rights The Polity and the People The New Palestinian Political Elite The Palestinian Opposition The Palestinian Authority and the Middle East Thinking about Israel and the United States Recognizing Facts, Creating Facts Appendixes: Palestinian Authority Cabinets, 1994-1998 Membership of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) The Fatah Central Committee The PLO Executive Committee (EC) Middle East States and the Palestinian Authority Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
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Harvard University Press Abolitionists Abroad American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa
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Harvard University Press The Miners Canary
Book SynopsisLike the canaries that alerted miners to a poisonous atmosphere, issues of race point to underlying problems in society that ultimately affect everyone, not just minorities. Now, in a powerful and challenging book, Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres propose a radical new way to confront race in the twenty-first century.Trade ReviewGuinier and Torres issue a clarion call for the progressive possibilities of racial politics in the twenty-first century. The Miner's Canary convincingly demonstrates the positive role that racial identification has played and can continue to play in expanding, deepening, and enriching American democracy. -- Melissa Nobles, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe Miner's Canary is conceptually imaginative and politically inspiring. It is generously inclusive where other accounts of race and power are harshly exclusive. Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres combine sober analysis and models of democratic activism. -- Nancy L. Rosenblum, author of Liberalism and the Moral LifeLani Guinier and Gerald Torres sing a powerful song in lyrical, accessible, sophisticated tones: Race exists, race positively shapes identity, and organizing around race can save our society. To those who want to join their voices to what must become a swelling harmony, here are the first stanzas. For those afraid of the future, here is a hymn of hope. -- Ian F. Haney López, author of White by Law: The Legal Construction of RaceRejecting the unacceptable choice between colorblindness and identity politics, Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres show us how race consciousness can mobilize people across racial categories to confront structural injustice on issues ranging from education to union organizing, from voting rights to prisons. Inspiring, learned, and compellingly written. -- Gerald Frug, author of City Making: Building Communities Without Building WallsCompassion permeates this thoughtful analysis. Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres show us how Americans of all races and ethnicities can draw upon African Americans' positive racial identity, which is rooted in solidarity and the ability to see problems that are systemic. Yes, we can advance democracy by all becoming "black," in the sense of building upon our culture's race consciousness. -- Nell Irvin Painter, author of Sojourner Truth: A Life, A SymbolAs the stunningly insightful stories in The Miner's Canary make clear, the primary racial challenge of the twenty-first century is to convince white people that social ills adversely affecting people of color disadvantage whites as well. Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres argue persuasively that progress can come through cooperative efforts for reform rather than race-related resistance to it. -- Derrick A. Bell, author of Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of RacismIn this outstanding, trenchant, and ultimately uplifting book, Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres demonstrate how a racial order still profoundly structures the life chances of all Americans, and convincingly argue that racially based social movements have historically, and can again, promote a truly egalitarian society. The Miner's Canary is sure to become required reading for all those who seek to understand the racial divide as well as those who care about the future of the American polity. -- Michael C. Dawson, author of Behind the Mule: Race and Class in African-American PoliticsI recommend this book to every thoughtful U.S. citizen. We all need to get a better analytic grip on the phenomenon of "race." We all need to rethink outdated democratic systems. We all need help in organizing human action across lines of division. The Miner's Canary shows how the experiences of people of color are a key diagnostic tool, drawing attention to flaws in the existing system and galvanizing practical ways to change it for the better. Guinier and Torres have got it exactly right. -- Jane J. Mansbridge, author of Beyond Adversary DemocracyThe Miner's Canary is thoughtful, provocative, and timely. It persuasively develops the idea of "political race," a concept that identifies racial literacy as a new way to think about social change in American society. This book will challenge the very way we think about race, justice, and the political system in America. -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author of Colored People: A MemoirLegal scholars Guinier and Torres invite the public to consider, among other indicators, the plight of young black men, long the primary targets of racial profiling on the part of law-enforcement agencies...Those who insist that American courts dispense justice equally get a stern lesson with statistics the authors cite to the contrary, while civil-rights activists will find much to motivate them in the authors' prescriptions, which include grassroots political organizing, consensus building, "enlisting race to resist hierarchy", and other measures. A useful, provocative, wounded critique of the status quo. * Kirkus Reviews *Mixing myriad personal examples with hard data and analysis of biased news reports, Guinier and Torres cogently and forcefully argue that "color-blinded" solutions are not "attaining racial justice and ensuring a healthy democratic process"...[The authors] grapple intelligently and with passionate wit with such explosive topics as racial profiling and the elusiveness of racial identification and identity...making this one of the most provocative and challenging books on race produced in years. * Publishers Weekly *Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres consider how blacks' own perceptions of their plight might lead to a new political movement. In The Miner's Canary, Guinier and Torres argue that rather than internalize their social dysfunction as being their "own fault," many blacks have developed a critical perspective on "the system." Refusing to accept the mythology of the American Dream--"that those who succeed or fail invariably do so according to their individual merit"--blacks "appreciate the necessity and efficacy of collective political struggle"...Guinier and Torres announce a bold agenda: "to use the experiences of people of color as the basis for fundamental social change that will benefit not only blacks and Hispanics but other disadvantaged social groups." -- James Forman Jr. * Washington Post *Deep in the mines, a distressed canary is a warning that there's poison in the air. Professor Lani Guinier...and Gerald Torres...contend that in America, race is like a miner's canary: Injustices experienced by people of color warn of systemic toxins that threaten everyone...In a passionate call for social change and progressive action, Guinier and Torres convincingly argue that a colorblind approach to deeply entrenched problems does not work; it only inhibits democratic engagement and reinforces existing power structures. Citing the Rev Martin Luther King Jr.'s message that freeing black people from injustice will free America itself, Torres and Guinier urge progressives to use racial awareness as an entryway to political activism. -- Rob Mitchell * Boston Herald *How can a book that advocates for something as ethereal-sounding as the "magical realism of political race" amount to a powerfully reasoned and concretely grounded call for the proliferation of multiracial coalitions in challenges to inequality and exclusion in American society? Law professors Guinier and Torres have managed to do so in their gracefully written book, which is both an analysis of the distinctive contours of the post-Civil Rights Era's racial fault lines and a manifesto for a politics that is decidedly color conscious. Indeed, the purpose of the book is to challenge not simply the calls for colorblindedness on the part of conservatives, but more significantly, similar calls on the part of political leftists. -- P. Kivisto * Choice *Table of ContentsPrologue 1. Political Race and Magical Realism 2. A Critique of Colorblindness 3. Race as a Political Space 4. Rethinking Conventions of Zero-Sum Power 5. Enlisting Race to Resist Hierarchy 6. The Problem Democracy Is Supposed to Solve 7. Whiteness of a Different Color? 8. Watching the Canary Notes Acknowledgments Index
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Harvard University Press The Cold War and the Color Line
Book SynopsisThe Cold War and the Color Line is the first comprehensive examination of how the Cold War intersected with the final destruction of global white supremacy. Thomas Borstelmann pays close attention to the two Souths—Southern Africa and the American South—as the primary sites of white authority’s last stand.Trade Review[Borstelmann traces] the constellation of racial challenges each administration faced (focusing particularly on African affairs abroad and African American civil rights at home), rather than highlighting the crises that made headlines… By avoiding the crutch of ‘turning points’ for storytelling convenience, he makes a convincing case that no single event can be untied from a constantly thickening web of connections among civil rights, American foreign policy, and world affairs. -- Jesse Berrett * Village Voice *Borstelmann…analyzes the history of white supremacy in relation to the history of the Cold War, with particular emphasis on both African Americans and Africa. In a book that makes a good supplement to Mary Dudziak’s Cold War Civil Rights, he dissects the history of U.S. domestic race relations and foreign relations over the past half-century… This book provides new insights into the dynamics of American foreign policy and international affairs and will undoubtedly be a useful and welcome addition to the literature on U.S. foreign policy and race relations. Recommended. -- Edward G. McCormack * Library Journal *In rich, informing detail enlivened with telling anecdote, Cornell historian Borstelmann unites under one umbrella two commonly separated strains of the U.S. post-WWII experience: our domestic political and cultural history, where the Civil Rights movement holds center stage, and our foreign policy, where the Cold War looms largest… No history could be more timely or more cogent. This densely detailed book, wide ranging in its sources, contains lessons that could play a vital role in reshaping American foreign and domestic policy. * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsPreface Prologue 1. Race and Foreign Relations before 1945 2. Jim Crow's Coming Out 3. The Last Hurrah of the Old Color Line 4. Revolutions in the American South and Southern Africa 5. The Perilous Path to Equality 6. The End of the Cold War and White Supremacy Epilogue Notes Archives and Manuscript Collections Index
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Harvard University Press Tears of Longing
Book SynopsisInformed by theories of nostalgia, collective memory, cultural nationalism, and gender, this book draws on the author's extensive fieldwork in probing the practice of identity-making and the processes at work when Japan becomes Japan.
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Harvard University Press An Early Tibetan Survey of Buddhist Literature
Book SynopsisThis study and edition of Bcom Idan ral gri's (12271305) Bstan pa rgyas pa rgyan gyi nyi 'od was likely composed in the late 13th century. It is a systematic list of Sutras, Tantras, Shastras, and related genres translated primarily from Sanskrit and other Indic languages, holding a vital place in the history of Buddhist literature.
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Harvard University, Asia Center China Made
Book SynopsisIn the early 20th century, China began to import and then to manufacture thousands of consumer goods. Politicians feared trade deficits. Intellectuals feared loss of national sovereignty. And manufacturers wondered how they could survive a flood of cheap imports. Gerth argues that the responses of these groups helped foster modern nationalism.
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Harvard University Press Proving the Way Conflict and Practice in the
Book SynopsisKokugaku, or nativism, was an important intellectual movement from the 17th19th century in Japan, and its worldview remains influential. McNally's primary goal is to restore historicity to the study of nativism by recognizing Atsutane's role in the creation and perpetuation of an enduring intellectual tradition.
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Harvard University, Asia Center Gendering Modern Japanese History Harvard East
Book SynopsisThe sixteen chapters in this volume treat men as well as women, theories of sexuality as well as gender prescriptions, and same-sex as well as heterosexual relations in the period from 1868 to the present. Separately, each chapter examines how Japanese have (en)gendered their ideas, institutions, and society.
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Harvard University Press The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran
Book SynopsisA 1978 CIA analysis firmly concluded that the shah of Iran would remain on the throne for the foreseeable future. One hundred days later the shah was overthrown by a popular revolution. The CIA was not alone in its myopia, as Kurzman reveals; Iranians themselves considered a revolution inconceivable until it actually occurred.Trade ReviewIn the world of politics, a true revolution is the perfect storm--rare and uniquely destructive. Can the social scientist comprehend and perhaps even predict the course of such a complex phenomenon? Charles Kurzman takes a cool, dispassionate look at the many explanations of the Iranian revolution and finds them inadequate. Drawing on an impressive range of original research, he argues that mass revolutionary movements become viable suddenly--and unpredictably--as perceptions of potential success acquire popular acceptance. This book is a major addition to the literature on the Iranian revolution--and revolution in general. -- Gary Sick, former member of the National Security Council staff, and Adjunct Professor of International Affairs at Columbia UniversitySociologist Kurzman addresses five familiar sets of explanations about why the Iranian revolution took place--political, organizational, cultural, economic, and military arguments--and finds each valuable but flawed, offering instead an 'anti-explanation' that foregrounds anomaly and characterizes the revolutionary moment as confusing, unstable, and as unpredictable for participants as it is for outside observers. Despite this, optimism is in order; there is, after all, exciting potential in moments in which the unthinkable suddenly becomes thinkable. -- Brendan Driscoll * Booklist *When Elias Canetti, the Nobel-prize winning theorist, spoke of a people's 'propensity to incendiarism,' he had in mind one of the most dangerous traits of mass gatherings: their potential for unpredictable combustibility. Iran's Islamic revolution, like many other uprisings, was a consummate instance of this, Kurzman argues, and he continues in Canetti's tradition by using the Shah's overthrow to engage in his own meditation on crowds and power. Kurzman's investigation propelled him to the Islamic republic, where he conducted countless interviews, in an attempt to chart the eddies and undercurrents of one of the world's most complex and sudden social upheavals...The result is a thought-provoking combination of journalism and analysis that offers an atypical juxtaposition of voices: shopkeepers, lawyers and high school students share their views on what happened, as do academics and policymakers. * Publishers Weekly *[Kurzman's] book examines the Islamic revolution in the light of social sciences. It is a valuable insight into what he considers one of the most far-reaching events of the 20th century. -- Shusha Guppy * Times Higher Education Supplement *Charles Kurzman has presented a meticulous anatomy of the Iranian revolution and has dexterously treated the anomalies usually inherent in revolutions...The author shifts through revolution theories and shows with pages and pages of documentation and references how they related to the Iranian revolution or missed it. Kurzman's opus is certainly a valuable contribution to the historiography and sociological analysis of an important revolution of our age that led to a large scale politicization of Islam in those parts of the world where this religion prevailed. -- Syfi Tashan * Journal of Third Word Studies *Charles Kurzman has produced the definitive account of the Islamic Revolution. No serious historian can write about these events without consulting his 10-page essay on available source material in The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran. * Middle East Quarterly *
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Harvard University, The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Philanthropy and Social Change in Latin America
Book SynopsisLatin America is a profoundly philanthropic region with deeply rooted traditions of solidarity with the less fortunate. This volume brings together groundbreaking perspectives on such diverse themes as corporate philanthropy, immigrant networks, and new grant-making and operating foundations with corporate, family, and community origins.
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Harvard University, The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Titu Cusi
Book SynopsisFirst written in 1570, this work, now published in modern Spanish with an English translation, followed more than a decade of negotiations and skirmishes between Inqa rebels and Spanish officials who were tasked with finding a solution to integrate these independently governed territories under Spanish colonial rule.
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Harvard University Press Advertising Tower
Book SynopsisThis book examines responses of Japanese authors to the aesthetic transformation of Tokyo influenced by the activities of Japanese advertisers in the early 20th century. Gardner shows how modernist works offer new constructions of subjectivity amid the social and technological changes that provided the ground for the appearance of mass media.Trade ReviewWilliam Gardner's Advertising Tower will be a staple of modern Japanese literary studies for years to come. The author's command of his subject ranges across a broad thematic terrain, moving from the rarefied problems of poetic form to the geography of empire, from the roots of anarchism to the history of commercial advertising...It is Gardner's effort to appreciate the link between "mass culture" as a formal problem and "the masses" as a historical reality that sets his work apart...Every book contains a record of where an author has been and a foreshadowing of where she might go. Advertising Tower bespeaks an education under the tutelage of some of the world's best teachers of Japanese literature; it also hints at promising books ahead. I look forward to William Gardner's next one. -- Gregory Golley * Journal of Japanese Studies *
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Harvard University, Asia Center Worldly Stage
Book SynopsisThe goal of Worldly Stage is to show how the theater acquired the figurative power to animate diverse aspects of literati cultural production. Conceptions of theatrical spectatorship, Sophie Volpp argues, helped shape a discourse on social spectatorship that suggested how a discerning person might evaluate the performance of status.
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Harvard University, Asia Center The Beauty and the Book Women and Fiction in
Book SynopsisThis study of Chinese women in the book trade begins with three case studies, each of which probes one facet of the relationship between women and fiction in the early 19th century. Building on these studies, the second half of the book focuses on the many sequels to the Dream of the Red Chamber and the significance of this novel for women.
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Harvard University, Asia Center The Heart of Time
Book SynopsisKnight describes modern Chinese fiction’s unique contribution to ethical and literary debates over the possibility for meaningful moral action. By analyzing discourses of agency and fatalism and the ethical import of narrative structures, the author explores how representations of determinism and moral responsibility changed over the 20th century.
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Harvard University Press Collaboration
Book SynopsisStudies of collaboration have changed how the history of World War II in Europe is written, but for China and Japan this aspect of wartime conduct has remained largely unacknowledged. In a bold new work, Timothy Brook breaks the silence surrounding the sensitive topic of wartime collaboration between the Chinese and their Japanese occupiers.Trade ReviewA fascinating book that offers a wealth of material on issues and events that are not well known. The prose is informal and engaging, bringing the reader into the problems Brook faced in researching such a sensitive topic. The stories he explores are part both of a distinctive Chinese history and a common (and difficult) history of conquest and rule in the twentieth century. -- R. Bin Wong, Director, UCLA Asia InstituteBrook has written a very rich study, drawing on exceptional primary sources, that brings forward new facts and deals with burning issues. -- Marie-Claire Bergère, author of Sun Yat-senBrook has with great care taken up the sensitive topic of Chinese collaboration with the Japanese conquerors during the Sino-Japanese War--a subject that the Chinese are still hesitant to address. His study concentrates on local collaboration in the Yangtze delta region in Shanghai's hinterland, avoiding the more shocking cases of puppet regimes in north and northeast China and the 'national government' in Nanjing. China, unlike France after World War II, had no chance to work out the moral and psychological issues related to collaboration, and even today outrage at Japanese atrocities obscures questions of Chinese collaboration. Brook builds his thoughtful analysis on Japanese archival documents, Chinese memoirs, and interviews. By concentrating on the local level, he makes vivid the personal relationships between Chinese and Japanese administrators as they dealt with day-to-day problems. He concludes that there was no shortage of Chinese elites ready to work for the Japanese, but that the relationship remained complicated and tense. -- Lucian Pye * Foreign Affairs *[A] finely researched and subtly nuanced study of collaboration in the Lower Yangtze Valley during the initial year of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-45... What is remarkable is that Professor Brook has uncovered from both the Chinese and Japanese sides archival and memoir literature of a quality that allows him to present case studies that illuminate the ambiguities and complexities of collaboration, not to mention the essential mechanics of how it was sought and arranged...This work is not only a major contribution to the history of the Sino-Japanese War and that of modern China; it also makes an invaluable addition to the comparative history of wartime collaboration through recounting the Chinese experience of survival under the occupation state. -- David P. Barrett * Chinese Historical Review *Timothy Brook's superb book is an example of the doing and writing of history at its best...In addition to painting a compelling picture of the multileveled and multidirectional complexity and ambiguity of politics and society under the occupation, Brook's work is studded with notable insights...Brook's writing style is at the same time urbane and engaging. In sum, this is an excellent study and a great read as well. -- R. Keith Schoppa * American Historical Review *Timothy Brook's study of wartime collaboration between Chinese local elites and Japanese army agents is a welcome and necessary part of the new historical thinking about wartime China...Brook's book is a meticulously researched, subtly argued, and courageous study of a still delicate topic. It will be of value to all readers who wish to explore the dynamics of the 1937-45 Sino-Japanese War in more detail, and adds depth and maturity to a field that has sometimes seemed the prisoner of the type of nationalist paradigms that Brook seeks to undermine. -- Rana Mitter * International History Review *Timothy Brook has produced a superb book about the vexed problem of collaboration...Of all the studies of collaboration—or those that touch on it—in East Asian studies, Brook’s provides us with the most interesting perspective. One of the book’s great strengths is the clear and methodical way in which it proceeds through its historical investigation. Brook hews closely to his principal sources and texts, which he both utilizes and interrogates. He cross-examines Chinese and Japanese, collaborative and denunciatory, occupier and resistor texts, often with regard to the same phenomenon, if not the same event or person. Yet Brook is sufficiently a stylist that this procedure rarely lapses into a dry, judicial mode of inquiry. At the same time, the conclusions he draws feel remarkably faithful to his methodology. -- Prasenjit Duara * The China Journal *
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Harvard University Press Grassroots Political Reform in Contemporary China
Book SynopsisObservers often note the glaring contrast between China's economic progress and its stalled political reforms. This volume, written by experienced scholars, explores a range of grassroots effortsinitiated by the state and society aliketo restrain corrupt behavior and enhance the accountability of local authorities.Trade ReviewThis volume indicates the nature of political reform and protest that have accompanied China’s rapid economic development of recent years. In 12 chapters, 14 social scientists from North America, Hong Kong, and China report on a variety of grassroots efforts designed to restrain arbitrary and corrupt official behavior, and to make local government officials more accountable to the public. Based on fieldwork conducted throughout China, the scholars examine cases of village and township elections, fiscal problems of local government, traditional local social institutions, homeowners’ groups, legal aid, labor, and environmental protest, as well as opportunities and limitations on media reporting of official behavior...The volume provides fascinating material on the dynamics of grassroots protests, and is an able companion to Kevin J. O’Brien and Linjiang Li’s Rightful Resistance in Rural China. -- G.A. McBeath * Choice *Elizabeth Perry and Merle Goldman’s new edited volume on grassroots political reform offers a wide-ranging look at local-level governance issues in China today. The collection’s clear strengths are both its scope and the strong empirical work of its contributors. The individual chapters attest to extensive field research, where impressive research access has enabled innovative and careful research designs, yielding new and provocative insights into local politics change in China today. -- Amy Hanser * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction: Historical Reflections on Grassroots Political Reform in China Elizabeth J. Perry and Merle Goldman 2. Village Elections, Transparency, and Anticorruption: Henan and Guangdong Provinces Richard Levy 3. The Implementation of Village Elections and Tax-for-Fee Reform in Rural Northwest China John James Kennedy 4. Fiscal Crisis in China's Townships: Causes and Consequences Jean C. Oi and Zhao Shukai 5. Direct Township Elections Lianjiang Li 6. The Struggle for Village Public Goods Provision: Informal Institutions of Accountability in Rural China Lily L. Tsai 7. Inadvertent Political Reform via Private Associations: Assessing Homeowners' Groups in New Neighborhoods Benjamin L. Read 8. Civil Resistance and Rule of Law in China: The Defense of Homeowners' Rights Yongshun Cai 9. "Hope for Protection and Hopeless Choices": Labor Legal Aid in the PRC Mary E. Gallagher 10. Is Labor a Political Force in China? Ching Kwan Lee 11. Between Defiance and Obedience: Protest Opportunism in China Xi Chen 12. In Search of the Grassroots: Hydroelectric Politics in Northwest Yunnan Ralph Litzinger 13. Public Opinion Supervision: Possibilities and Limits of the Media in Constraining Local Officials Yuezhi Zhao and Sun Wusan Notes Contributors Acknowledgments
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Harvard University, Asia Center Between Dreams and Reality
Book SynopsisPark argues that the mukwa—Korea’s state military examination—was not only the primary means of recruiting aristocrats as new members of the military bureaucracy, but also a way for the ruling elite to partially satisfy the status aspirations of marginalized regional elites, secondary status groups, commoners, and manumitted slaves.
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Harvard University Press From Comrade to Citizen The Struggle for Political Rights in China
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Harvard University, Asia Center Articulating Citizenship
Book SynopsisThis book reconstructs civic education and citizenship training in secondary schools in the lower Yangzi region during the Republican era. It analyzes how students used the tools of civic education to make themselves into young citizens, and explores the complex social and political effects of educated youths' civic action.
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Harvard University, Asia Center Competition over Content
Book SynopsisDe Weerdt examines how occupational, political, and intellectual groups shaped curricular standards and examination criteria during the Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279), and how these standards in turn shaped political and intellectual agendas. This book reframes the debate over the civil service examinations and their place in the imperial order.
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Harvard University, Asia Center Amid the Clouds and Mist Chinas Colonization of
Book SynopsisThis book examines how China's three late imperial dynastiesthe Yuan, Ming, and Qingconquered, colonized, and assumed control of the southwest. Herman highlights the indigenous response to China's colonization of the southwest, particularly that of the Nasu Yi people of western Guizhou and eastern Yunnan, who left an extensive written record.
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Harvard University Press Death by a Thousand Cuts OIP
Book SynopsisIn Beijing in 1904, multiple murderer Wang Weiqin became one of the last to suffer the extreme punishment known as lingchi, called by Western observers “death by a thousand cuts.” This is the first book to explore the history, iconography, and legal contexts of Chinese tortures and executions from the 10th century until lingchi’s abolition in 1905.Trade ReviewAn ambitious, important book that will stimulate wide reflection. The authors explore the most infamous of Chinese tortures, tracing the ways in which the concept of 'death by a thousand cuts' took on a life of its own in European discourse about China, as well as in China's discourse about itself. Not the least of the book's virtues is the way it dismantles hasty judgments and received ideas about Chinese culture, ideas that leak from past to present, from the judicial realm to other areas of human activity. Its interdisciplinary reach and the brio with which it is carried out are remarkable. -- Haun Saussy, author of Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Cultural ChinaThis original and ambitious work reaches out to a wide audience. It aims to explain the general position of 'torture' in the Chinese legal system and the specific roles of the extreme punishment known as lingchi, 'death by slicing,' in Chinese political practice. The authors draw on an impressive range of materials as well as an unusual variety of visual images to situate the practice of lingchi in Chinese history, world history, and Western imaginations. The book is revelatory on Georges Bataille's uncertain role in his famous work presenting Chinese death by slicing amidst European practices. The reconstruction of the history of the lingchi practice itself is nuanced and judicious. -- R. Bin Wong, author of China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European ExperienceIn 1904, a French photographer documented the Chinese practice of lingchi, a form of execution that involved slicing off limbs and pieces of flesh. Europeans recoiled from what appeared to be a gruesome, lingering death, citing it as evidence of a uniquely Oriental ruthlessness. This fascinating study argues, however, that lingchi was not entirely about physical suffering--the victim was typically sedated with opium, and killed early in the process--but about a "loss of somatic integrity," the posthumous shame of having been reduced to body parts. Crimes that merited lingchi ranged from killing a paternal grandparent to, in at least one case, cheating on taxes. Throughout, the authors do their best to downplay the exoticism of their subject, pointing to such Western practices as drawing (disembowelling) and quartering (dismembering): "It is hard to see much distinction in degrees of cruelty." * New Yorker *I highly recommend Death by a Thousand Cuts as a book that offers a broad introduction to a history and a culture by concentrating on a single subject. -- Steve Noyes * Vancouver Sun *The authors present a nuanced picture of state-imposed execution and, without at any time condoning, succeed in their goal of contextualizing lingchi in relation to Western forms of punishment, noting the availability of the death penalty for a variety of relatively trivial offences in 18th-century England, as well as the appalling conditions that prevailed on prison ships that sailed from England to Australia...At a time when the debate about what constitutes acceptable forms of physical punishment, as well as the thorny question of a divergence between Western and Asian concepts of human rights, is so prevalent, this challenging and important work will appeal not solely to Sinologists, but to legal historians and students of visual representation. -- Julian Ward * Times Higher Education Supplement *[This book is] a rude awakening to jolt us from the overused numbness and put us face to face with the origin of the phrase, the torture of lingchi. Because history has been sanitized by countless retellings of television drama and simplified texts, the practice of torture is often misunderstood, even by those of us who thought we knew such things. In this notable book, the authors delve into historical archives to produce documents, photos and analyses that are more nuanced than a Hong Kong movie of torture fest, such as the legendary Chinese Torture Chamber Story. Approached by a Western perspective, the authors debunk the traditional Western notion that ruthless executions were rooted in the Chinese culture. Yet, the details they use are not for the faint of heart. -- Raymond Zhou * China Daily *Foucault's work explicitly informs Death by a Thousand Cuts but the purpose of this new book is different from that of the French philosopher. This fascinating and necessarily appalling study describes how photographs of the executed man were circulated by French soldiers and other westerners in the imperial capital and the images added to others of "oriental despotism." Be warned: this is a close reading of lingchi and its significance, which means it contains plenty of toe-curling descriptions of slicing flesh and gougings. Not for the faint-hearted, it offers an engaging insight into the way China's highest legal punishment came to feed into western notions of imperial China as a cruel society. -- Clifford Coonan * South China Post *This is a learned and educational book. -- Jonathan Mirsky * Literary Review *This elegant and innovatively transnational book is intent on restoring lingchi to the legal, moral, and political context in which it made some kind of sense--this is a history of violence that refuses to take the place of pain and violence in human life as timeless...With judicious analysis, imaginative reconstructions from difficult and sparse sources, and a compelling sense of injustice driving it all, the book is gripping. -- Priya Satia * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. The Execution of Wang Weiqin 2. The Laws of Punishment in Late-Imperial China 3. The Origins and Legitimacy Problems of Lingchi 4. Lingchi in the Ming Dynasty 5. Tormenting the Dead 6. Chinese Torture in the Western Mind 7. Qing Executions and European Supplices 8. Georges Bataille and the Supplice Chinois 9. Retrospective Notes Bibliography Index
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Harvard University, Asia Center Some Assembly Required
Book SynopsisBased on the author's fieldwork in Zhejiang, this book explores the emergence and success of township and village enterprises in China. This study also examines how ordinary rural residents have made sense of and participated in the industrialization engulfing them in recent decades.
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Harvard University, Asia Center Uchida Hyakken
Book SynopsisThe literary career of Uchida Hyakken (18891971) encompassed a wide variety of styles and genres. This book takes up Hyakken's fiction and essays written during Japan's prewar years to investigate the intersection of his literature with the material and discursive surroundings of the time.
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Harvard University Press Islamicate Sexualities Translations across
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Harvard University Press The Two Princes of Calabar
Book SynopsisIn 1767, two princes of a ruling family in Old Calabar, on the slave coast of Africa, were captured by English slavers. The princes were themselves slavers, betrayed by African competitorsand so began their own odyssey of enslavement. Their story, written in their own hand, survives as a rare firsthand account of the Atlantic slave experience.Trade ReviewIn his brief, informative and wide-ranging account, Mr. Sparks uses the two princes’ capture and release as a prism through which to view the religion, commerce, literature and roguery of the time, on both sides of the ocean. It helps to be reminded that nothing in the past is quite so simple—so black and white—as moralists might like it to be. -- Stuart Ferguson * Wall Street Journal *The Two Princes of Calabar is an excellent brief study of late 18th-century West African slaving culture, the trans-Atlantic slave trade, British Methodism and the efforts of religious British to abolish the slave trade. -- Robert Waters * The Times-Picayune *This deserves to be read by specialists and by general students of Atlantic history, not only because it underlines the brutality of slavery but also because it offers fascinating glimpses into the fluidity of identities in Atlantic history and into how, consciously or otherwise, Africans helped to promote British abolitionism. -- David Richardson * Times Higher Education Supplement *While researching a topic in early Methodism, Sparks discovered letters by former slaves to Charles Wesley. The writers were brothers from an elite family in a slave-trading community on the Bight of Biafra. During a 1767 conflict with another slave-trading clan—an altercation abetted by English slave merchants—the two were seized by a slave-ship captain and launched on a seven-year struggle to get home… Seamlessly weaving great chunks of eighteenth-century documentation into the narrative, Sparks makes the brothers’ saga an absorbing true-life adventure. -- Ray Olson * Booklist *Randy Sparks’s The Two Princes of Calabar is a great story. Great not only in that it is an extraordinary adventure that captures the drama, pathos, anguish, and ultimately the tragedy of the African slave trade, but also great in that it brings together all of the elements of the meeting of Africans, Europeans, and the Americans in the Atlantic. -- Ira Berlin, author of Generations of CaptivityRandy Sparks’s Two Princes adds significantly to our growing knowledge of the complexity of human experiences of the Atlantic era, particularly those of people originating in Africa. This engagingly written study adds Ephraim Robin John and Ancona Robin John to the bare two dozen or so known individuals who managed, in spite of the silencing anonymity of enslavement in Africa, to leave records, in their own voices, of the often surprising stories of their lives. -- Joseph Miller, T. Cary Johnson, Jr., Professor of History, University of VirginiaRandy Sparks has done a great service to Atlantic History. The Two Princes of Calabar effectively integrates African and Atlantic history into an engaging and enlightening narrative. He succeeds in making the life of the Niger Delta trading states accessible to the general reader and brings their deep and remarkably sophisticated relationships with Europe to light with great style. -- John Thornton, author of Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic WorldThis is a remarkable account of remarkable events. Of the millions of Africans ensnared by Atlantic slavery, a mere handful returned home. Randy Sparks’s vivid exposition is about two African princes, slaves and slave traders, who found their way back to Africa. It is a tumultuous story but given persuasive coherence by Sparks’s forensic researches and arresting prose. What he has produced is a finely-crafted miniature: a glimpse, via the lives of two men, into the broader contours of the enslaved Atlantic. The result is a literary treat which raises as many questions as it answers, and which provokes, instructs—and entertains. -- James Walvin, Professor of History, University of YorkTable of ContentsPrologue 1. "A Very Bloody Transaction": Old Calabar and the Massacre of 1767 2. "Nothing But Sivellety and Fare Trade": Old Calabar and the Impact of the Slave Trade on an African Society 3. "This Deplorable Condition": The Robin Johns' Enslavement in British America 4. "We Were Free People": Bristol, the English Courts, and the Question of Slavery 5. "A Very Blessed Time": The Robin Johns and English Methodism 6. "We Go Home to Old Calabar": The Robin Johns' Legacy in Old Calabar and England Notes Acknowledgments Index
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Harvard University Press A Hundred Horizons The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire OIP
Book SynopsisThis book takes us to the shores of the Indian Ocean, in a brilliant reinterpretation of how culture developed and history was made at the height of the British raj. Bose explores the social and economic webs of these shores from 1850–1950, finding evidence of the interdependence of the peoples from the Middle East to East Africa to Southeast Asia.Trade ReviewSugata Bose has brought together social, cultural and political history to create a superb study of the peoples of the Indian Ocean littoral during the age of European imperialism and anti-colonial nationalism. This is a major contribution to the history of India, Southeast and West Asia and it provides a critical plane of analysis between histories of 'globalization' and histories of regions. -- Christopher Bayly, co-author of Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945Sugata Bose has opened up new horizons in oceanic history that provide contemporary globalization with rich cultural genealogies and social geographies. This is interdisciplinary and interregional history at its best: the great global themes of migration, trade networks, and political sovereignty are explored with a scholar's scrutiny and a storyteller's eye. This is a work of impeccable research and considerable imaginative reach. -- Homi Bhabha, Harvard UniversitySugata Bose presents a lyrical, subtly contentious blend of poetry, political economy, and accounts of pilgrims, capitalists, writers, workers, imperialists, soldiers, scholars, and revolutionaries, to analyze the modern Indian Ocean as an ever-changing, transregional space and to formulate a judicious historical critique of territorial nationalism, US empire, and popular ideas about globalization. -- David Ludden, author of India and South Asia: A Short HistorySugata Bose has given us an excellent historical study, which is both interesting in itself (even for non-historians) and full of contemporary relevance for understanding an important ancestry of present-day globalization. -- Amartya SenThrough the voyages and voices of sea-going South Asians in modern times, A Hundred Horizons offers a new perspective on the major upheavals of the nineteenth and twentieth century. Sugata Bose eloquently recovers the Indian Ocean as an important space for both anti-colonial action and universalist aspiration. -- Kären Wigen, Stanford UniversityBose focuses on the 18th and 19th centuries, following dhows and steamships linking the subaltern and the elite: we meet indentured labourers, itinerant traders, devout pilgrims, soldiers fighting imperial wars, but we also glimpse Ghandi and Tagore...Bose rejects linear narrative, letting his stories follow their path. This fluidity makes the book unique. -- Salil Tripathi * The Independent *A bold, timely, at times overambitious book, Bose seeks to carry the ocean's history firmly into the nineteenth and early twentieth century...It is thought-provoking, and it creatively suggests how many more histories of the Indian Ocean still remain to be written. -- David Arnold * Times Literary Supplement *This book transcends maritime history and makes a much wider contribution to historical practice...[and] deserves a very wide readership...It has relevance for Indian Ocean studies certainly in its interpretation of the last two centuries. However, it has a wider significance, for it critiques the fashionable notion of globalization, and shows how a concentration on a less ambitious yet still all-encompassing unit, that is an interregional area such as the Indian Ocean, may often be a more revealing unit to analyse. -- Michael Pearson * International Journal of Maritime History *A Hundred Horizons [is] a profoundly hopeful book, not only in its message but also in the further diverse histories of the Indian Ocean world that it seeks to provoke. -- Ned Bertz * Journal of World History *A Hundred Horizons is an empirically rich work based on a careful and creative use of primary sources. The author couches his arguments in social theory, but does so in a graciously understated way. Heavy theorizing never muddles the narrative, and the writing remains crisp and accessible. In this regard, Bose is perhaps singularly successful: It is difficult to imagine another work that could have garnered comparable back-cover praise from such a diverse array of writers as Amartya Sen, Christopher Bayly, and Homi Bhabha. -- Martin M. Lewis * Geographical Review *Table of ContentsPreface 1. Space and Time on the Indian Ocean Rim 2. The Gulf between Precolonial and Colonial Empires 3. Flows of Capitalists, Laborers, and Commodities 4. Waging War for King and Country 5. Expatriate Patriots: Anticolonial Imagination and Action 6. Pilgrims' Progress under Colonial Rules 7. A Different Universalism? Oceanic Voyages of a Poet as Pilgrim Conclusion: The Indian Ocean Arena in the History of Globalization Notes Index
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Harvard University Press Jerusalem City of Longing
Book SynopsisJerusalem is more than a tourist site—every square mile is layered with historical significance, religious intensity, and extraordinary stories shaped by religion, war, and monumentality. Goldhill takes on this archaeology of human imagination, hope, and disaster to provide a tour through the history of this image-filled and ideology-laden city.Trade ReviewSimon Goldhill has written an elegant and evocative multi-religious history of Jerusalem. Rock by rock, myth by myth, the book guides the reader through an exhilarating visit to the city, exposing its magnetism and fragility, its light and darkness. -- Sari Nusseibeh, author of Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian LifeA fascinating journey through Jerusalem's most memorable places—and among its most colorful personalities, and epoch-making events. Simon Goldhill is a master historian and expert guide who reveals much that is unexpected about this revered, fought-over, and often misunderstood city. Engaging in tone, superbly written, and admirably even-handed, this book offers a compelling new portrait of the many souls of Jerusalem. -- Neil Asher Silberman, co-author of The Bible UnearthedGoldhill...provides an illuminating archeological, architectural and historical guide to Jerusalem's most important holy and secular sites from biblical times to the present...This is a highly knowledgeable and beautifully written look at both the "heavenly" and the "earthly" Jerusalem. * Publishers Weekly *Goldhill depicts a city that has transcended the often violent claims and controversies of its historical figures, revealing the many forgotten people who seek daily accommodation within its walls. Indirectly, as "more than another history," this work helps to explain how religious faith has brought layers of different civilizations to a very special place. -- Zachary T. Irwin * Library Journal *Goldhill takes the reader on a tour of recent digs in Jerusalem, visits important buildings, provides fresh readings of texts and discusses competing theories with consummate learning and expository skill...Jerusalem: City of Longing is chock-a-block with entertaining anecdotes--many, alas, tall tales--about this most solemn of cities...The chief merits of this book, which should attract a broad readership, are the zestful vivacity with which Goldhill explores Jerusalem's ancient ruins and texts and the mixture of scholarship that he...injects into his discussion of the unholy history of the holy city. -- Bernard Wasserstein * Times Higher Education Supplement *[A] pleasing archaeological history of Israel's capital city. Jerusalem: City of Longing is a meticulously researched study of how the city came to be built and rebuilt by successive faith communities and conquerors...The maps are uncluttered, the photographs breathtaking. Not the least virtue of Goldhill's volume is its remarkably balanced account of the Mandate, and of how Jerusalem came to be divided, and then reunited once more. -- Geoffrey Alderman * Jewish Chronicle *In Jerusalem: City of Longing, [Goldhill] serves up a playful pastiche of a book, peppered with enchanting anecdotes, that places Jerusalem at the world's centre...The history of a city is more about interruptions, contests and heart-wrenching agonies. This is the kind of history Goldhill presents, and it is the main reason his book distinguishes itself among the many others on Jerusalem...A valuable guide for visitors, current residents and even for people who can only dream of ever visiting. -- Kornel Zathureczky * Montreal Gazette *Why a new book on Jerusalem? No one will raise that question after reading this magnificent history and guide...[Goldhill‘s] extensive knowledge about Jerusalem make[s] this book a joy to read and re-read. -- Morton I. Teicher * Jerusalem Post *Part history, part archaeology, part travel guide to Jerusalem's holy sites and public buildings, this is an indispensable and enjoyable book for anyone interested in understanding the crucial role the city has played in the history of the three major monotheistic religions...Writing with humor and an eye for detail, Goldhill also exposes the myths behind claims made by the various religious denominations who have staked out the different sections of Jerusalem. -- J. Fischel * Choice *Table of Contents* Preface * The Center of the Christian World * The Center of Jewish Jerusalem * The Center of Muslim Jerusalem * The Old City * The Oldest City * The Victorian City * The Modern City * Bibliography * Acknowledgments * Illustration Credits * Index
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Harvard University Press Sovereignty at the Edge Macau and the Question
Book SynopsisHow have conceptions and practices of sovereignty shaped how Chineseness is imagined? This ethnography addresses this question through the example of Macau, a southern Chinese city that was a Portuguese colony from the 1550s until 1999.Trade ReviewAnthropologist Clayton examines how identity manifested itself in Macau in the years leading up to its reversion to China in 1999, as the Portuguese administration attempted to foster a unique Sino-Western character...Clayton's account is highly anecdotal and personal--the first-person pronoun is used liberally--as well as thoughtful and nuanced. -- R. E. Entenmann * Choice *Table of ContentsMaps and Figures Notes on Conventions Introduction 1. Sort-of Sovereignties 2. Outlaw Tales 3. The Nonexistent Macanese 4. Educating Locals 5. Culture in Ruins 6. The Rubbish Heap of History 7. Outlawed Tales Conclusion Notes Glossary of Cantonese Characters Works Cited Index
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Harvard University, Asia Center Superstitious Regimes
Book SynopsisWe live in a world shaped by secularism—the separation of numinous power from political authority and religion from public political, social, and economic realms. This book explores the modern recategorization of religious practices and people and examines how state power affected the religious lives and physical order of local communities.Trade ReviewSuperstitious Regimes offers a penetrating analysis of the complex confrontation between the Chinese Nationalist regime and the many faces of Chinese religion, largely during the Nanjing Decade...The broad outlines of this struggle are well known, at least to scholars of Chinese religion. Nedostup's signal contribution is to examine in much greater detail a number of case studies from the Nationalists' base area in Jiangsu, grounding her work in an impressive variety of legal cases, archival materials, memoirs, newspapers, and magazines. Her efforts on this front are nothing short of herculean...This is a superb study, deserving of wide readership. Its evidence and insights should be incorporated into more general studies of the Republican period, which have tended to treat religion as a side story. For scholars and China-watchers fascinated by the current religious revival in China, this volume is yet another proof that the Communists inherited rather than created their religious problems, and a model of the sort of research we should attempt to carry out in the context of contemporary China. Finally, Superstitious Regimes is a profound reflection on the nature and limits of secularism as part and parcel of the experience of modernity. -- David Ownby * Journal of Asian Studies *Nedostup is a historian of modern Chinese politics, particularly of the Kuomintang (KMT); she explores the formation and the effects of the KMT's religious policies in order to shed new light on processes of state building and social reforms. But, in stark contrast to the many previous historians who have broached such topics in rather naive ways, she has a solid and nuanced understanding of what religion actually was in Republican-period Chinese society and never confuses ideological categories with social practice. She has notably taken stock of the most recent research on Republican-period redemptive societies (by Prasenjit Duara, David Ownby, and David Palmer) and has thus been able to astutely critique the characterizations of such religious groups by politicians. Her work is therefore extremely useful for scholars in the fields of religious studies and political, intellectual, and social history. For this alone, Nedostup's study is a historiographical milestone that demonstrates that the subject of religion is entering mainstream scholarship on Chinese modern history. That this milestone reflects an impressive command of a staggering body of primary and secondary literature, features sophisticated theorizations, and is rendered in finely crafted prose, speaks further to the importance and desirability of Superstitious Regimes... The state side of the story has been masterfully told by Nedostup, and it is very unlikely that her work will be superseded any time soon. -- Vincent Goossaert * Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies *Table of ContentsTables, Maps, and Figures Note on Romanization and Measurements 1. Introduction: Religion, Modernity, Nationalism Part I: Of Legislation and ling 2. Inventing Religion 3. Temples and the Redefinition of Public Life Part II: Material Motives 4. Jiangsu Temples as Target and Tactic 5. Idealized Communities and the Religious Remainder Part III: Transactional Modernity 6. Embodying Superstition 7. Affective Regimes 8. Conclusion: Superstition's Legacy Appendix: Three Major KMT Laws on Temples Notes Works Cited Index
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Harvard University, Asia Center Empire of Texts in Motion
Book SynopsisThe constant movement of peoples, ideas, and texts in the Japanese empire at the turn of the twentieth century created numerous literary contact nebulae. This book analyzes three of them: semicolonial Chinese, occupied Manchurian, and colonial Korean and Taiwanese transculturations of Japanese literature.Trade Review[An] extraordinary encyclopedic enterprise. -- T. S. Yamada * Choice *Table of ContentsConventions Introduction: Empire, Transculturation, and Literary Contact Nebulae 1. Travel, Readerly Contact, and Writerly Contact in the Japanese Empire Part I: Interpretive and Interlingual Transculturation 2. Transcultural Literary Criticism in the Japanese Empire 3. Multiple Vectors and Early Interlingual Transculturations of Japanese Literature 4. From Cultural Innovation to Total War Part II: Intertextual Transculturation 5. Intertextuality, Empire, and East Asia 6. Spotlight on Suffering 7. Reconceptualizing Relationships: Individuals, Families, Nations 8. Questions of Agency: Raising Responsibility, Parodying Persistence, and Rethinking Reform Epilogue: Postwar Intra-East Asian Dialogues and the Future of Negotiating Transculturally Notes Works Cited Index
£42.46
Harvard University Press Global Interdependence The World after 1945
Book SynopsisGlobal Interdependence provides a new account of world history from the end of WWII to the present, an era when transnational communities challenged the long domination of the nation-state. Leading scholars elucidate the political, economic, cultural, and environmental forces that have shaped the planet in the past sixty years.Trade ReviewMost world histories of the post-1945 era place the Cold War and the rise of American power at the center of the story. In this impressive new work, Iriye and his collaborators focus on the deeper trends that have unsettled and reshaped the contemporary world system… In Iriye’s inspiring historical vision, trans-nationalism has helped usher in a more stable and peaceful world. -- G. John Ikenberry * Foreign Affairs *Indispensible for anyone interested in the modern world. -- W. B. Whisenhunt * Choice *
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