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Stanford University Press A Pueblo Divided
Book SynopsisThis book is a history of the conflict-ridden privatization of communal land in the pueblo of Papantla, a Mexican Indian village transformed by the fast growth of vanilla production and exports in the second half of the 19th century.Trade Review"A Pueblo Divided rethinks the history of Mexico during the nineteenth century from the perspective of one community. Its great innovation is to see evolving divisions and integrations within indigenous Papantla in the context of both the production of vanilla for a developing Atlantic export economy and the consolidation of the 'liberal' state via land privatizations and political interventions. Detailing the political and economic complexities of Papantla in Atlantic and Mexican national contexts simultaneously, Kour offers a model history." -- John Tutino * Georgetown University *"This book is a landmark in Mexican rural history." -- The Americas"This excellent study nicely contextualizes these socioeconomic transformations in Papantla, both historically and geographically. The research is exhaustive and detailed, yet the book is well written and clearly argued... Importantly, it rises above the too-often simplistic dichotomy of entrepreneurs and government officials versus victimized Indians." -- Hispanic American Historical Review"This is economic and business history at its best, committed not only to rigorous probing of the explanatory power of external factors like world commodity markets, but also to exposing and exploring the places where those factors lose their power to explain." -- Journal of Interdisciplinary History"Terrific—wonderfully researched, thoroughly original, and beautifully written. It may be the best book ever written on agrarian protest in Mexico; it will certainly transform the field." -- John Coatsworth * Columbia University *"It is no small achievement for any historian to be able to say something new about this important period of Mexican history. Emilio Kour's achievement in A Pueblo Divided is far greater than that. He has been able to contribute decisively to resolving one of the most controversial and debated issues for that period. Kour paints such a vivid picture of the life of the villagers, and above all of the uprisings, that it will be a pleasure to read even for people who are not primarily concerned with this subject. This book constitutes a brilliant work and a major breakthrough in the history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Mexico." -- Friedrich Katz * The University of Chicago *"Based on a mass of evidence, clearly structured and argued, A Pueblo Divided offers a lively and informative analysis of Papantla's vanilla boom and its many repercussions. This is an impressive and original study of an important topic, hitherto rather poorly understood, now, thanks to Kour and his indefatigable research, made accessible to students of Mexican History. It fills a significant gap." -- Alan Knight, St. Antony's College * Oxford *Table of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:List of Tables, Maps, and Charts 000 Acknowledgements 000 @toc2:Introduction 000 Chapter One The Culture and Commerce of Mexico's Vanilla 000 Chapter Two The Tecolutla River Basin 000 Chapter Three The Vanilla Economy 000 Chapter Four The End of Communal Landholding 000 Chapter Five The Experience of Conduenazgo 000 Chapter Six Division and Rebellion 000 Epilogue 000 Appendix 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Sources 000 Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Land tenure Mexico Papantla de Olarte History 19th century, Vanilla industry Mexico Papantla de Olarte History 19th century, Papantla de Olarte (Mexico) Economic conditions 19th century, Papantla de Olarte (Mexico) Social conditions 19th century, Papantla de Olarte (Mexico) History 19th century
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Stanford University Press One Homeland or Two
Book SynopsisThis book reveals how ethnicity and notions of a traditional homeland interact in shaping a community's values and images through a close look at the Kazakhs of Mongolia.Trade Review"Basing this book on extensive fieldwork and an impressive command of the relevant academic publications and original sources in three languages, Diener has produced a masterful study of the evolving ethno-political changes being experienced today by mongolia's Kazakh communities." -- CHOICE"So, One Homeland or Two? Each of the subjects finds his or her individual answer, but the plethora of answers assembled by Diener collectively form a set of lessons important to Inner and Central Asianists and to political and social scientists who work beyond state and regional boundaries." -- Rick Miller * Social and Cultural Geography *"While the literature on diaspora, homecoming, and homeland is vast, there is very little discussion of these issues and concepts as they relate to the Kazakhs. This book is of great import to the international migration field." -- Elzbieta M. Gozdziak * Georgetown University *
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Stanford University Press Normalizing Japan
Book SynopsisNormalizing Japan explains how politics and identity have interacted in postwar Japan to shape Japans distinctive security practices, offering a useful framework for understanding the important change taking place in Japanese security policy today.Trade Review"Andrew Oros' contribution to constructivist literature through his challenging of realist theories of international relations and rationalist understandings of domestic politics combine to make Normalizing Japan an important addition to international relations and comparative politics scholarship . . . In sum, the value of this book is twofold. The first lies in its empirical richness and description of compromises reached among domestic and international actors, while the second reflects its contribution to constructivist theory through charting the institutionalisation and evolution of Japan's security identity." -- Christopher K. Lamont * Political Studies Review *"Normalizing Japan definitely moves the scholarly debate forward and provides useful analytical tools for anyone trying to disentangle rhetoric from reality in Japanese security policy." -- Michael J. Green * Journal of Japanese Studies *"It is clear that a tremendous amount of hard work and research went into the creation of this book .... Credit must be given to Oros for writing a book that is completely borderless with respect to sources, whether text or interviews; he represents a new breed of Japan specialists who operate with equal facility in Japan and in their own countries . . . This book should be required reading for current and aspiring Japan specialist in the arena of politics and security." -- Tosh Minohara * Journal of Asian Studies *"A model of academic research Normalizing Japan is enhanced with seven major appendices, extensive notes, a 29-page bibliography, and a comprehensive index, making it an invaluable and strongly recommended addition to academic library Contemporary International Studies reference collections in general, and Japanese Governmental Studies reading lists in particular." -- The Midwest Book Review"This thoughtful, carefully argued study challenges the many Chicken Littles who warn that Japan is ready to break free of its post-war constraints." -- Leonard Schoppa * University of Virginia *"Andrew Oros has written an important book on one of the seminal questions in East Asian affairs. The character and impact of Japan's unique national security identity of antimilitarism--and its evolution today in a region where 'realist' forces are reasserting themselves is a challenging scholarly issue that also has real world significance. Normalizing Japan marshals impressive evidence to make careful and thoughtful arguments about the role of identity and history in Japanese national security decision making. The book is a welcome addition to a growing debate on the logic and pathways of Japan's postwar identity and foreign policy." -- G. John Ikenberry * Princeton University *"A well-crafted and innovative study of contested national identity. Oros shows how Japan's security identity, despite significant material changes in the domestic and international environment, remains rooted in domestic anti-militarism. He offers empirical benchmarks to suggest that so far Japan is normalizing but not nationalizing or permanently pacifying." -- Henry R. Nau * George Washington University *"This work effectively presents Japan's defensive orientation and practices as normal for the Japanese as they reflect the political negotiations and compromises that have shaped and continue to define the framework within which security decisions are made." -- CHOICE"...Represents a fine example of the synergy that can be created by drawing upon the strengths of both area studies and discipline. In short, this book stands out as one of the best additions to the field over recent years and represents another excellent contribution to what is shaping up to be a fine series in Asian security studies under the sponsorship of the East-West Center." -- Pacific Affairs
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University of Oklahoma Press Hungry Oklahoma
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Louisiana State University Press Hurricane Katrina in Transatlantic Perspective
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Louisiana State University Press A Louisiana Coastal Atlas
Book SynopsisThrough a wide range of demographic, economic, social, and environmental data, A Louisiana Coastal Atlas shows cartographically how the inherent resilience of coastal communities manifests itself over time.
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Louisiana State University Press Environmental Disaster in the Gulf South
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Louisiana State University Press Cityscapes of New Orleans
Book SynopsisExploring the Crescent City from the ground up, Richard Campanella takes us on a winding journey toward explaining the city's distinct urbanism and eccentricities. Campanella - a historical geographer - reveals the why behind the where, delving into the historical and cultural forces that have shaped the spaces of New Orleans for three centuries.
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Louisiana State University Press Lees Tigers Revisited
Book SynopsisUses letters, diaries, memoirs, newspaper articles, and muster rolls to provide a detailed account of the origins, enrollments, casualties, and desertion rates of the Army of Northern Virginia. Illustrations chart the Tigers' positions on key battlefields in the tumultuous campaigns throughout Virginia.
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LSU Press Bourbon Street
Book SynopsisA fascinating investigation into the mile-long urban space that is Bourbon Street, Richard Campanella’s comprehensive cultural history spans from the street’s inception during the colonial period through three tumultuous centuries, arriving at the world-famous entertainment strip of today.Trade ReviewIn this lively blend of narrative microhistory and data-driven urban geography, Tulane University geographer Richard Campanella takes readers on a guided tour of New Orleans's Bourbon Street, from its eighteenth-century origins on a French colonial planning map through its post–World War II transformation into the popular tourist attraction of today. . . . Campanella's close readings of archival records and painstakingly collected data offer valuable insights into Bourbon Street's origins and persistence as an iconic streetscape rooted in history, geography, and collective memory." - Journal of Southern History
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University of Pennsylvania Press Liberia
Book SynopsisLiberia, a small West African country that has been wracked by violence and civil war since 1989, seems a paradoxical place in which to examine questions of democracy and popular participation. Yet Liberia is also the oldest republic in Africa, having become independent in 1847 after colonization by an American philanthropic organization as a refuge for Free People of Color from the United States. Many analysts have attributed the violent upheaval and state collapse Liberia experienced in the 1980s and 1990s to a lack of democratic institutions and long-standing patterns of autocracy, secrecy, and lack of transparency. Liberia: The Violence of Democracy is a response, from an anthropological perspective, to the literature on neopatrimonialism in Africa.Mary H. Moran argues that democracy is not a foreign import into Africa but that essential aspects of what we in the West consider democratic values are part of the indigenous African traditions of legitimacy and politicTrade Review"Drawing on the author's ethnographic fieldwork in a Glebo community outside Harper, Liberia in the early 1980s, and her continued contact with Liberians in West Africa and in the diaspora, Liberia: The Violence of Democracy takes aim at the popular and scholarly tendency to treat violence and representative democracy as polar opposites. . . .Moran offers a compelling Africanist case study to be read in conjunction with the Europeanist political philosophy of thinkers like Jacques Rancière or Giorgio Agamben. This is, however, an extremely accessible book, and its greatest contribution may come if and when it is picked up by policymakers and the staff of international NGOs." * Journal of Contemporary African Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Liberia, Violence, and Democracy 1. The Case for Indigenous Democracy 2. Contested Histories 3. Civilization and the Liberian Nation 4. The Promise and Terror of Elections 5. The Lock on the Outhouse Door: Discourses of Development 6. The Crisis of Youth and the Promise of the Future 7. Conclusion: A Wedding and a Funeral References Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Manchuria Under Japanese Dominion
Book SynopsisFrom 1932 until the end of World War II, the Japanese established and maintained by bloody rule a puppet regime in the Chinese region of Manchuria. This region was composed of three northern provinces in China; the puppet ruler was the last Chinese Emperor, Pu Yi, and this rich industrial region was clearly coveted and managed by the Japanese as a critical element in their imperial dominion.Yamamuro Shin''ichi''s extraordinary book rereads this occupation under new light. The author shows that right-wing Japanese military and civilian groups thought of construction in this sparsely populated region as an effort to build a paradise on earth, with roots deep in Asian traditions. At the same time, Chinese and Korean populations in the region were abused by the Japanese military, and many Japanese were deliberately misinformed about what was being done in their name. Yamamuro examines the policies and events unfolding on the ground during this time. With close attention to the ChiTrade Review"Long-awaited . . . well done . . . elegant . . . timely." * Journal of Japanese Studies *Table of ContentsTranslator's Preface Introduction 1. Japan's "Sole Road for Survival": The Range of Views Within the Guandong Army over the Seizure of Manchuria and Mongolia 2. Transforming Manchuria-Mongolia into a Paradise for Its Inhabitants: Building a New State and Searching for State-Building Ideals 3. Toward a Model of Politics for the World: The Banner of Moral State Creation and the Formation of Manzhouguo Politics 4. "The Long-Term Policy of National Management Will Always Be in Unison with the Japanese Empire": The Paradise of the Kingly Way Stumbles and the Path Toward the Merging of Japan and Manzhouguo 5. Conclusion: Chimera, Reality, and Illusion Afterword Interview: How Shall We Understand Manchuria and Manzhouguo? Appendix: On the Historical Significance of Manchuria and Manzghouguo Chronology on the Modern History of Manchuria and East Asia Notes Index
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New York University Press Technomobility in China
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2014 Bonnie Ritter Book AwardWinner of the 2013 James W. Carey Media Research AwardAs unprecedented waves of young, rural women journey to cities in China, not only to work, but also to see the world and gain some autonomy, they regularly face significant institutional obstacles as well as deep-seated anti-rural prejudices. Based on immersive fieldwork, Cara Wallis provides an intimate portrait of the social, cultural, and economic implications of mobile communication for a group of young women engaged in unskilled service work in Beijing, where they live and work for indefinite periods of time.While simultaneously situating her work within the fields of feminist studies, technology studies, and communication theory, Wallis explores the way in which the cell phone has been integrated into the transforming social structures and practices of contemporary China, and the ways in which mobile technology enables rural young wTrade ReviewInTechnomobility in China, Wallis brings the story of young female migrant labourers to public attention. Their aspirations and the different strategies they use to & get by in the city cuts through the stereotype that they are passive vessels waiting for instruction. The thick descriptions accompanying Wallis arguments of the ideological, social and economic barriers that tend to limit the success of migrant workers efforts drive this point home: these barriers are neither necessary nor deterministic. Perhaps, just as Wallis gave back to the community while conducting her ethnography, her book will contribute to the improvement of the social and political conditions migrant labourers face. * Pacific Affairs *Wallis decision to study mobile phone use among the worlds largest migrant population possesses a natural affinity, which seems destined from the outset to deliver noteworthy findings. The resultant volume is made all the more remarkable owing to the surprising discovery that her participants young rural migrant women working in Beijings service sector are in fact defined by their experience of numerous forms of immobility. * Social Anthropology *An interesting, well-researched, and well-supported study. -- A. Heaphy * Choice *Cara Wallis has contributed a significant and unique piece of scholarship that enriches, sharpens, and humanizes our understanding of the techno-social and cultural transformations of our era and the concomitant grand narratives of Chinas rise and its attainment of globalized modernity. The work is not only highly sophisticated in its theoretical conceptualization, but also extremely rich in its empirical description. The analysis is careful, nuanced and always well-contextualized. This is a superb, insightful, and self-reflexive piece of scholarship. -- Yuezhi Zhao,Professor and Canada Research Chair in Political Economy of Global Communication, Simon Fraser UniveAn ethnographically rich and empathetic portrayal of the intricacies of life among young female migrants navigating the experience of & immobile mobility. Bringing together the best of cultural studies, communication and feminist scholarship, Wallis theoretically sophisticated ethnography is a welcome and valuable addition to our understanding of communication, mobility and contemporary China. -- Heather A. Horst,Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and co-author of The Cell PhoneCara Wallis is the perfect observer to help us understand mobile phone use among young Chinese working class women, dagongmei, who live and work in the major cities far away from their rural homes. Through rigorous field work, excellent access, and a sensitive ear, she offers unique insight into how mobile phones both liberate and subjugate these young women. This supple and theoretically grounded work demands our attention. -- Rich Ling,author of The Mobile Connection: The Cell Phone's Impact on SocietyTable of Contents1. Market Reforms, Global Linkages, and (Dis)continuity in Post-Socialist China 2. "My First Big Urban Purchase": Mobile Technologies and Modern Subjectivity3. Navigating Mobile Networks of Sociality and Intimacy 4. Picturing the Self, Imagining the World 5. Mobile Communication and Labor Politics
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University of Arizona Press Orientalism and Identity in Latin America
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University of Arizona Press Seriously Funny
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University of Minnesota Press The Spectral Jew
Book SynopsisThrough incisive readings of a range of medieval texts and informed by poststructuralist, queer, and feminist theories, this book traces the Jewish presence in Western Europe to show how the body, gender, and sexuality were at the root of the construction of medieval religious anxieties, inconsistencies, and instabilities.
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The University of Alabama Press Unitarianism in the Antebellum South The Other
Book SynopsisExamines Unitarianism's position as an influential religious movement in the early history of the Antebellum South. By looking at, among other things, benevolent societies, lay meetings, professional activity, intellectual forums, business partnerships, and literary correspondence, Macaulay sees a much greater Unitarian presence than has been previously recognized.Trade Review“Macaulay does an excellent job of showing how much northern and southern Unitarianism diverged in the antebellum period. His argument that southern Unitarianism should be considered an independent denominational and intellectual movement is a convincing contribution to southern religion history.” — Journal of Southern History“Trained in both theology and history, John Macaulay has provided in this work strong correctives to the commonly held views that southern Unitarianism was merely a New England offshoot and that southern religion was generally only of the heart, not the head. His book clearly demonstrates the errors in these overly simplistic, conventional views.” — Georgia Historical Quarterly“Macaulay's book deserves attention for its clear delineation of the intellectual and scriptural foundations of Unitarianism and, especially, for its common sense arguments on the ways social relationships made the few Unitarians a force in southern urban culture and benevolence.” — Florida Historical Quarterly""John Macaulay sculpts the southern face of antebellum American Unitarianism with clarity, empathy, and discernment. Macaulay's almost startling portrait resurrects one of the South's most elusive, itriguing spiritual groups even as it illustrates Unitarainism's unexpected adaptability in the South and the region's intriguing spiritual diverisity. This is a subtle, superbly researched, engagingly written book that rejuvenates a fascinating chapter of pre-Civil War southern history."" — Jon Butler, Yale University
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Ohio University Press Becoming the Voinovich School
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Duke University Press Reimagining the American Pacific
Book SynopsisExplores the creation of the Pacific Rim in the American imagination and how the concept has been adapted and resisted in Hawai'i, the Pacific Islands, New Zealand, and Australia. This title draws on theories of postmodernism, transnationality, and post-Marxist geography to contribute to the discussion of what constitutes 'global' and 'local'.Trade Review“At ease with the interface of the local and global, Rob Wilson flies in and out of Asia and the Pacific. As he rediscovers and redefines the continent, islands and waters, he constantly rereads America. Such a geographic venture is also an exercise in de-disciplining. Circulating freely among literature, culture, economics, politics, history, and media, Wilson’s imagination and judgment are shrewd, sardonic, zestful, zany, and delightful. Reimagining the American Pacific is a thoroughly rewarding book.”—Masao Miyoshi, University of California, San Diego“Lyrical and disruptive, Wilson's book masterfully dismantles multiple and contradictory imaginings of "the Pacific" and recovers the psychic longings, material histories, and politics that have variously produced the modern "Asia Pacific." This book wrenches American studies out of any lingering continent-bound complacency, gives a much needed broader scope to Asian American studies, and discloses crucial blind-spots in Asian area studies. Highly recommended for scholars in all these areas, as well as cultural studies in general.”—David Palumbo-Liu, author of Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial FrontierTable of ContentsPreface: Searching for “the Local”: Hawai‘i as Miss Universe? Introduction: “How Did You Find America?”: On Becoming Asia/Pacific 1. Imagining “Asia-Pacific” Today: Forgetting Colonialisms in the Magical Waters of the Pacific 2. American Trajectories into Hawai‘i and the Pacific: Imperial Mappings, Postcolonial Contestations 3. Megatrends and Micropolitics in the American Pacific: Tracing Some “Local Motions” from Mark Twain to Bamboo Ridge 4. Blue Hawai‘i: Bamboo Ridge as “Critical Regionalism” 5. Bloody Mary Meets Lois-Ann Yamanaka: Imagining Hawaiian Locality, from South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond 6. Shark God on Trial: Invoking Chief Ka-lani-o‘pu‘u in the Local/Indigenous/American Struggle for Place 7. Good-Bye Paradise: Theorizing Place, Poetics, and Cultural Production in the American Pacific 8. Becoming Global and Local in the U.S. Transnational Imaginary of the Pacific 9. Postmodern X: Honolulu Traces Coda: Part Italian, Part Many Things Else: Creating “Asia/Pacific” along a Honolulu-Taipei Line of Flight
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Duke University Press Postmodernism and China
Book SynopsisThis special issue seeks to examine the effect of postmodernism on Chinese intellectual and creative activity.Trade Review"Several articles offer unique insights into the chaotic and contradictory world of Chinese culture." -- Bonnie S. McDougall, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Postmodernism and China / Arif Dirlik and Xudong Zhang 1 I. Mapping the Postmodern 1. The Mapping of Chinese Postmodernity / Wang Ning 21 2. On Be(ij)ing in the World: "Postmodernism," "Globalization," and the Making of Transnational Space in China / Anthony D. King and Abidin Kusno 41 3. Postmodern Literary Discourse and Contemporary Public Culture in Taiwan / Ping-hiu Liao 68 4. Hong Kong, China, and the Question of Postcoloniality / Xiaoying Wang 89 II. Cultural Politics 5. Popular Culture and the Culture of the Masses in Contemporary China / Liu Kang 123 6. Global POSTmoderniIZATION: The Intellectual, the Artist, and China's Condition / Sheldon Hsiao-peng Lu 145 7. Becoming Cyborgian: Postmodernism and Nationalism in Contemporary Taiwan / Sebastian Hsien-hao Liao 175 III. Cultural Studies 8. Imagined Nostalgia / Dai Jinhua 205 9. The Mysterious Other: Postpolitics in Chinese Film / Chen Xiaoming 222 10. "Let Him Fucking See the Green Smoke Beneath My Groin": The Mythology of Chinese Rock / Jeroen de Kloet 239 11. Borrowed Modernity: History and the Subject in A Borrowed Life / Chao-yang Liao 275 12. Postmodernism and Hong Kong Cinema / Evans Chan 294 IV. Literary Interventions 13. Postmodernism and Chinese Novels of the Nineties / Zhang Yiwu 325 14. Women and the Discourse of Desire in Postrevolutionary China: The Awkward Postmodernism of Chen Ran / Wendy Larson 337 15. Melancholy against the Grain: Approaching Postmodernity in Wang Anyi's Tales of Sorrow / Xiaobing Tang 358 16. Whence and Whither the Postmodern/Post-Mao-Deng: Historical Subjectivity and Literary Subjectivity in Modern China / Xiaobin Yang 379 Epilogue: Postmodernism and Postsocialist Society—Historicizing the Present / Xudong Zhang 399 Selected Glossary of Terms and Titles 443 Contributors 445 Index 447
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Duke University Press Agrarian Environments
Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary exploration of the connections between the politics of environmental degradation and agrarian life in India.Trade Review“[T]he chapters in this book are very cogently argued, and combine to create a coherent whole. They raise important questions, relevant not only to India but also to many other countries in the world.” - Wolfgang Hoeschele, International Politics“Agrarian Environments makes a pathbreaking theoretical contribution. . . .” - Brian Caton, The Journal of Asian Studies“[A] stimulating and conceptually sophisticated critique of romanticized populist discourse on indigenous communities, women and environmental/agrarian management. . . . [T]he volume is likely to be of great interest and value to anyone with an interest in South Asian studies, development, environmental issues, gender or community-based resource management.” - Sarah Jewitt, The Journal of Peasant Studies[E]xtremely rich, both empirically and theoretically. . . . I cannot recommend it highly enough." - Ajantha Subramanian, American Ethnologist“This fine piece of interdisciplinary work attempts a fundamental reformulation of human-nature relationship. . . . Students of south Asia will find this book extremely rewarding. Given its theoretical profundity, it is a must read for all those having an interest in agrarian-environmental studies.” - Manish K. Thakur, Journal of Development Studies“Agrarian Environments is a volume of historically and empirically informed essays that represents a new generation of scholarship that promises to reshape the fields of agrarian and environmental studies. By confronting some of the received wisdoms that have separated the study of agriculture from that of the environment, this book opens up a whole range of new and refreshing questions that will be of relevance to scholars and policymakers in all parts of the world.”—Akhil Gupta, author of Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India“This volume brings a remarkable maturity of vision to the study of the environmental history and politics of India. Departing from the tired nature/culture dichotomy, it offers a fresh approach that situates the environment, agriculture, and politics within a single field. Our understanding of the politics of Indian environment and the academic field of environmental studies will never be the same after Agrarian Environments.”—Gyan Prakash, Princeton University“Agrarian Environments makes a pathbreaking theoretical contribution. . . .” -- Brian Caton * Journal of Asian Studies *“[A] stimulating and conceptually sophisticated critique of romanticized populist discourse on indigenous communities, women and environmental/agrarian management. . . . [T]he volume is likely to be of great interest and value to anyone with an interest in South Asian studies, development, environmental issues, gender or community-based resource management.” -- Sarah Jewitt * The Journal of Peasant Studies *“[T]he chapters in this book are very cogently argued, and combine to create a coherent whole. They raise important questions, relevant not only to India but also to many other countries in the world.” -- Wolfgang Hoeschele * International Politics *“This fine piece of interdisciplinary work attempts a fundamental reformulation of human-nature relationship. . . . Students of south Asia will find this book extremely rewarding. Given its theoretical profundity, it is a must read for all those having an interest in agrarian-environmental studies.” -- Manish K. Thakur * Journal of Development Studies *[E]xtremely rich, both empirically and theoretically. . . . I cannot recommend it highly enough." -- Ajantha Subramanian * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsForeword / James C. Scott vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Agrarian Environments / Arun Agrawal and K. Sivaramakrishnan 1 State Economic Policies and Changing Regional Landscapes in the Uttarakhand Himalaya, 1818–1947 / Haripriya Rangan 23 Colonial Influences on Property, Community, and Land Use in Kangra, Himachal Pradesh / J. Mark Baker 47 Environmental Alarm and Institutionalized Conservation in Himachal Pradesh, 1865–1994 / Vasant K. Saberwal 68 State Power and Agricultural Transformation in Tamil Nadu / Jenny Springer 86 Famine in the Landscape: Imagining Hunger in South Asian History, 1860–1990 / Darren C. Zook 107 Economic Rents and Natural Resources: Common Conflicts in Premodern India / Sumit Guha 132 Identities and Livelihoods: Gender, Ethnicity, and Nature in a South Bihar Village / Cecile Jackson and Molly Chattopadhyay 147 Regimes of Control, Strategies of Access: Politics of Forest Use in the Uttarakhand Himalaya, India / Shubhra Gururani 170 Pastoralism and Community in Rajasthan: Interrogating Categories of Arid Lands Development / Paul Robbins 191 Labored Landscapes: Agro-ecological Change in Central Gujarat, India / Vinay Gidwani 216 Reflections Agrarian Histories and Grassroots Development in South Asia / David Ludden 251 Cathecting the Natural / Ajay Skaria 265 Bibliography 277 Contributors 303 Index 307
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Duke University Press Burn This House
Book SynopsisWith Muslim, Croatian, and Serbian journalists and historians as contributors, this volume portrays the chain of events that led to the wars in the heart of Europe. It elucidates the Balkan tragedy while directing attention toward the anti-war movement and the work of the independent media that have largely been ignored by the US press.Trade Review“This glorious and expertly edited, collaborative volume is one of the best guides to understanding the Yugoslav war of 1991–1995, providing readable historical background and balanced analyses of the war.”—Sabrina P. Ramet, HMJ School of International Studies, University of Washington, SeattleTable of ContentsPreface - James Ridgeway, Village Voice, NY Introduction - Jasminka Udovicki, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston The making of Yugoslavia - Branka Prpa-Jovanovic, Institute of the History of Modern Serbia, Belgrade Tito: 1945-1980 - Mirko Tepavac The interlude: 1980-1990 - Jasminka Udovicki and Ivan Torov The media wars: 1987-1997 - Milan Milosevic The army's collapse - Stipe Sikavica Croatia: The first war - Ejub Stitkovac Bosnia and Hercegovina: The second war - Jasminka Udovicki and Ejub Stitkovac International aspects of the wars in former Yugoslavia - Susan L. Woodward, Brookings Institution The resistance in Serbia - Ivan Torov The opposition in Croatia - Sven Balas Conclusion - Jasminka Udovicki Bibliography; Contributors; Index
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Duke University Press Prayer Has Spoiled Everything
Book SynopsisBori are mischievous and invisible beings that populate the bush. Bori is also the practice of taming these forces in the context of possession ceremonies. This book offers an account of how this phenomenon intervenes in human lives, providing meaning for Mawri peasants confronted with cultural contradictions and socio-economic marginalisation.Trade Review“Masquelier locates cultural production at precise moments of colonial and postcolonial relations. The result is both an intimate, densely textured portrait of bori spirits and an exciting demonstration of how people attempt to formulate and appropriate the forces that have undermined their community.”— Michael Lambek, author of Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte: Local Discourses of Islam, Sorcery, and Spirit Possession“With its rich primary data about bori, its creativity and freshness, Prayer Has Spoiled Everything will be of enormous interest to Africanists and to religion scholars of many types.”—Karen McCarthy Brown, author of Mama Lola: A Voodou Priestess in BrooklynTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Terms Introduction 1. Bori, Power, and Identity in Dogondoutchi 2. Lost Rituals: Changing Topographies of Spirit/Human Interactions 3. Socializing the Spirit 4. The Everyday Life of Bori: Knowledge, Embodiment, and Quotidian Practice 5. Kinesthetic Appropriation and Embodied Knowledge: Babou Spirits and the Making of Value 6. Taking Hold of the Kasuwa; The Ritual Economy of Bori in the Market 7. The Mirrors of Maria: Sweetness, Sexuality, and Dangerous Consumption 8. Lightning, Death, and the Politics of Truth: The Spirits of Rain Conclusion: Continuities and Discontinuities in Bori Notes Bibliography Index
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Duke University Press China Urban
Book SynopsisOffers an account of China's cities and the place that urban space holds in China's imagination. This book emphasises the need to rethink the very meaning of the "urban" and the utility of urban-focused anthropological critiques during a period of unprecedented change on local, regional, national, and global levels.Trade Review“China Urban brings together some of the best new ethnographic work on the changing dynamics of time, space, and place in 1990s China. These essays take the reader into a wide range of localities, but always with an eye turned toward larger national and global transformations. China Urban also speaks to a wide range of debates in contemporary social and political theory, and it offers an innovative approach to the study of the urban in postsocialist China and elswhere. This volume is long overdue.”—Ralph Litzinger, author of Other Chinas: The Yao and the Politics of National Belonging“For readers interested in the intersections of space, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity, this book has a wealth of insights to ponder. And for those interested in the complexity, vibrancy, and challenges of today’s urban and urbanizing China, this book’s the ticket.”—Greg Guldin, author of What’s a Peasant to Do? Village Becoming Town in Southern ChinaTable of ContentsEditors' Acknowledgments Introduction Part One. Xia Hai: The Ethnographies of Work and Leisure Placing Practices: Transnational Network Marketing in Mainland China / Lyn Jeffery Guiding College Graduates to Work: Social Constructions of Labor Markets in Dalian / Lisa Hoffman Rock in a Hard Place: Music and the Market in Nineties Beijing / Robert Efird Part Two. Gender, Bodies, and Consumer Culture The Consuming Mother: Infant Feeding and the Feminine Body in Urban China / Suzanne Z. Gottschang Foreign Marriage, “Tradition,” and the Politics of Border Crossings / Constance Clark Making Dream Bodies in Beijing: Athletes, Fashion Models, and Urban Mystique in China / Susan Brownell Sex Tourism Practices on the Periphery: Eroticizing Ethnicity and Pathologizing Sex on the Lancang / Sandra Teresa Hyde Part Three. Negotiating Urban Spaces Health, Wealth, and the Good Life / Nancy N. Chen Railway Workers between Plan and Market / Lida Junghans Contesting Crime, Order, and Migrant Spaces in Beijing / Li Zhang Part Four. Expressions of the Urban Urbanity, Cosmopolitanism, Consumption / Louisa Schein Xiaxiang for the ‘90s: The Shanghai TV Rural Channel and Post-Mao Urbanity Amid Global Swirl / Tad Ballew Face in the Crowd: The Cultural Construction of Anonymity in Urban China / Ellen Hertz Bibliography Contributors Index
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Duke University Press A Not So Foreign Affair
Book SynopsisSuitable for those interested in cultural studies, film and video studies, American studies, twentieth century history, German studies, rhetoric, and sexuality studies, this book investigates the influence of images of Nazism on debates about sexuality that are central to contemporary American political rhetoric.Trade Review“Slane writes elegantly, clearly, and with a careful rigor out of which come startling observations. A Not So Foreign Affair situates itself within a new and very important field in which contemporary conservatism is given the same kind of sophisticated theoretical treatment as avant-garde work has received in the past.”—Linda Kintz, author of Between Jesus and the Market: The Emotions that Matter in Right-Wing America“This book had me riveted. With a careful balance of broad theoretical claims, historical specificity, and close textual readings, Slane makes connections across the history of sexuality and its surrounding political and cultural discourses that are indeed impressive. Hers is a subtle and penetrating critique.”—Sharon Willis, author of High Contrast: Race and Gender in Contemporary Hollywood FilmTable of ContentsList of Illustratioins Acknowledgments A Not So Foreign Affair: Introduction Section One: The Democratic Family 1. Nazi Nationalist Melodrama: Science, Myth, and Paternal Authority in Die Goldene Stadt 2. American Nationalist Melodrama: Tales of Hitler’s Children 3. “Family Values” and Naziana in Contemporary Right-wing Media Section Two: The Democratic Psyche 4. Nazism, Psychology, and the Making of Democratic Subjects 5. The American Nazi: Cold War Social Problem Films and National Psychobiography 6. Skinheads, Militiamen, and the Legacies of Failed Masculinity Section Three: Democratic Sex 7. The Iconology of the Sexy Nazi Woman: Marlene Dietrich as Political Palimpsest 8. Sexualized Nazis and Contemporary Popular Political Culture Epilogue Notes Bibliography
£27.90
Duke University Press Welcome to the Dreamhouse
Book SynopsisLooks at a range of commercial objects and phenomenon, from television and toys to comic books and magazines. The author looks at the often unspoken assumptions about class, nation, ethnicity, race, and sexual orientation that underscored both media images (like those of 1960s space missions) and social policies of the mass-produced suburb.Trade Review“Lynn Spigel’s Welcome to the Dreamhouse is quite simply superb. It is original, impeccably researched, dazzlingly intelligent, and prickling with humor.”—Julie D’Acci, author of Defining Women: Television and the Case of Cagney and Lacey“Spigel possesses one of the few indispensable voices in American cultural studies. She sees the complexity of popular culture where others have tended to see formula and repetition. This is a perfect anthology, one that reflects the intellectual growth of an important thinker and at the same time represents a coherent argument about an important topic.”—Henry Jenkins, author of From Barbie to Mortal CombatTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I. TV Households 1. The Suburban Home Companion: Television and the Neighborhood Ideal in Postwar America 2. Portable TV: Studies in Domestic Space Travel Part II. White Flight 3. From Domestic Space to Outer Space: The 1960s Fantastic Family Sit-Com Part III. Baby Boom Kids 5. Seducing the Innocent: Television and Childhood in Postwar America 6. Innocence Abroad: The Geopolitics of Childhood in Postwar Kid Strips Part IV. Living Room to Gallery 7. High Culture in Low Places: Television and Modern Art, 1950–1970 8. Barbies without Ken: Femininity, Feminism, and the Art-Culture System Part V. Rewind and Fast Forward 9. From the Dark Ages to the Golden Age: Women’s Memories and Television Reruns 10. Yesterday’s Future, Tomorrow’s Home Index
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Duke University Press The Exhaustion of Difference
Book SynopsisThe conditions for thinking about Latin America as a regional unit in transnational academic discourse have shifted over the past decades. In The Exhaustion of Difference Alberto Moreiras ponders the ramifications of this shift and draws on deconstruction, Marxian theory, philosophy, political economy, subaltern studies, literary criticism, and postcolonial studies to interrogate the minimal conditions for an effective critique of knowledge given the recent transformations of the contemporary world.What, asks Moreiras, is the function of critical reason in the present moment? What is regionalistic knowledge in the face of globalization? Can regionalistic knowledge be an effective tool for a critique of contemporary reason? What is the specificity of Latin Americanist reflection and how is it situated to deal with these questions? Through examinations of critical regionalism, restitutional excess, the historical genealogy of Latin American subalternism, testimonioTrade Review“The Exhaustion of Difference ‘pushes Latin Americanist fulfilment against its limits.’ The limits radiate out into the networks of subalternities, locationisms, Area Studies/Cultural Studies, globalization and transculturation—and beyond. In these pages high theory is at home with Latin American intellectual history and deft textual analysis.”—Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, author of A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present“With extreme clarity of argument and intellectual sophistication, this book subjects the field’s epistemic diagram to a radical questioning that upsets the sociological and literary conventionalism of Latin American thinking on identity and difference, globalization and locality, and culture and politics. The rigor and positional force with which this book deploys its polemical apparatus will alter the academic pathways of reflection on Latin America.”—Nelly Richard, Editor, Revista de Crítica CulturalTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Conditions of Latin Americanist Critique 1. Global Fragments 2. Negative Globality and Critical Regionalism 3. Theoretical Fictions and Fatal Conceits 4. Restitution and Appropriation 5. The National Popular in Antonio Candido and Jorge Luis Borges 6. The End of Magical Realism: Jose Maria Arguedas’s Passionate Signifier 7. The Aura of Testimonio 8. The Order of Order: On the Reluctant Culturalism of Anti-Subalternist Critiques 9. Hybridity and Double Consciousness Notes Works Cited Index
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Duke University Press The Futures of American Studies
Book SynopsisA state-of-the-art portrait of the field of American studies -- its interests and methodologies, its interactions with the social and cultural movements it describes and attempts to explain, and a compendium of likely directions the field will take in the future.Trade Review“The Futures of American Studies shapes a farsighted and richly provocative argument about the intellectual space, time, and politics of the cultures of American studies. It's a millennial work.”—Laura Wexler, author of Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S. Imperialism“Fascinating and provocative, this collection is sure to attract wide attention as the latest collective statement of the major directions in which ‘New Americanist’ scholarship is heading.”—Lawrence Buell, author of Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U.S. and BeyondTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Futures / Donald E. Pease and Robyn Wiegman 1 Posthegemonic What’s in a Name? / Jan Radway 45 The International within the National: American Studies and Asian American Critique / Lisa Lowe 76 The Future in the Present: Sexual Avant-Gardes and the Performance of Utopia / Jose Esteban Munoz 93 Manifest Domesticity / Amy Kaplan 111 C. L. R. James, Moby-Dick, and the Emergence of Transnational American Studies / Donald E. Pease 135 Comparativist Postnationalism, Globalism, and the New American Studies / John Carlos Rowe 167 Salesman in Moscow / Dana Heller 183 The Humanities in the Age of Expressive Individualism and Cultural Radicalism / Winfried Fluck 211 Autobiographies of Ex-White Men: Why Race is Not a Social Construction / Walter Benn Michaels 231 Color Blindness and Acting Out / Carl Gutierrez-Jones 248 Differential Whiteness Studies and the Paradox of Particularity / Robyn Wiegman 269 Identities and Identity Studies: Reading Toni Cade Bambara’s “The Hammer Man” / Lindon Barrett 305 Hemispheric Vertigo: Cuba, Quebec, and Other Provisional Reconfigurations of “Our” New America(s) / Ricardo L. Ortiz 327 Marriage as Treason: Polygamy, Nation, and the Novel / Nancy Bentley 341 Litigious Therapeutics: Recovering the Rights of Children / Gillian Brown 371 American Studies in the “Age of the World Picture”: Thinking the Question of Language / William V. Spanos 387 Counterhegemonic Work and Culture in American Studies / Michael Denning 419 “Sent for You Yesterday, Here You Come Today”: American Studies Scholarship and the New Social Movements / George Lipsitz 441 Toward a Dialogics of International American Culture Studies: Transnationality, Border, Discourses, and Public Culture(s) / Gunter H. Lenz 461 American Studies, American Politics, and the Reinvention of Class / Paul Lauter 486 The End of Academia: The Future of American Studies / Eric Cheyfitz 510 Nation dot com: American Studies and the Production of the Corporatist Citizen / Russ Castronovo 536 Afterword ConsterNation / Dana D. Nelson 559 Bibliography 581 Contributors 609 Index 613
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Duke University Press Reconstructing Dixie
Book SynopsisThe South has long played a central role in America's national imagination - the site of the trauma of slavery and of a vast nostalgia industry, alternatively the nation's moral other and its moral center. This title explores how ideas about the South function within American culture.Trade Review“Reconstructing Dixie is a wonderful book—feisty, original, filled with insights into the circulation of the South in contemporary consumerist and feminist space. With real aplomb Tara McPherson leaps into the fracas surrounding globalization, the new geography, the racialization of ’whiteness,’ and the controversies about the uses of gender analysis. The result is a book that could release ‘southern' studies from its limited academic terrain.”—Patricia Yaeger, author of Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women's Writing“Reconstructing Dixie is theoretically sophisticated in its view of southernness as a discursive construct and a cultural fantasy and in its analysis of the work regional nostalgia performs.”—Laura Kipnis, author of Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America“I was absolutely blown away by this book. Tara McPherson's readings of individual texts, ranging from Gone With the Wind to the Captain Confederacy comicbook series and Octavia Butler’s Kindred, are original, precise, and utterly convincing. She pulls to the surface the radically different ways each work deals with the critical nexus of regional, racial, class, and gender identities.”—Henry Jenkins, director of Comparative Media Studies, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyTable of ContentsIndex 311 Acknowledgments ix Dixie Then and Now: An Introduction 1 1. Romancing the South: A Tour of Lady’s Legacies, Academic and Otherwise 39 2. “Both Kinds of Arms”: The Civil War in the Present 95 3. Steel Magnolias, Fatal Flowers, and Designing Women: On the Limits of a Politics of Femininity in the Sun Belt South 149 4. Feeling Southern: Home, Guilt, and the Transformation of White Identity 205 Notes 257 Bibliography 293
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Duke University Press Look Away
Book SynopsisExamines what happens to our paradigms of the American south if we understand the south hemispherically, to include Latin America and the Caribbean. This work presents work by scholars in comparative literature, American studies, and Latin American studies.Trade Review“Look Away! is an important collection that expands the vocabularies and national symbol systems that scholars can deploy to think comparatively about the Americas. It is especially useful in breaking the binary between North and South that has so restricted southern literary and historical studies.”—Patricia Yaeger, author of Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women’s WritingTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction: Uncanny Hybridities / Jon Smith and Deborah Cohn 1 1. THE U.S. SOUTH AND THE CARIBBEAN A New World Poetics of Oblivion / George B. Handley 25 Delta Desterrados: Antebellum New Orleans and New World Print Culture / Kirsten Silva Gruesz 25 Slave Resistance on the Southeastern Frontier: Fugitives, Maroons, and Banditti in the Age of Revolution / Jane Landers 80 Martinique/Mississippi: Edouard Glissant and Relational Insularity / J. Michael Dash 94 Crossing the Mason-Dixon Line in Drag: The Narrative of Loreta Janet Velazquez, Cuban Women and Confederate Soldier / Jesse Aleman 110 Citizenship and Identity in the Exile: Autobiographies of Gustavo Perez Firmat / Steven Hunsaker 130 Travel and Transference: V.S. Naipaul and the Plantation Past / Leigh Anne Duke 150 2. RETHINKING RACE AND REGION Things Fall Apart: The Postcolonial Condition of Real Rock and The Leopard’s Spots / Scott Romine 175 This Race Which Is Not One: The “More Inextricable Compositeness” of William Faulkner’s South / John T. Matthews 201 Richard Wright: From the South to Africa---and Beyond / Richard King 227 Forward into the Past: California and the Contemporary White Southern Imagination / Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr. and Debra Rae Cohen 251 American Films/American Fantasies: Moviegoing and Regional Identity in Literature of the Americas / Lois Parkinson Zamora 268 3. WILLIAM FAULKNER AND LATIN AMERICA Wonder and the Wounds of “Southern” Histories / Stephanie Merrim 311 Southern Economies of Excess: Narrative Expenditure in William Faulkner and Carlos Fuentes / Wendy B. Faris 333 Cant Matter/Must Matter: Setting up the Loom in Faulknerian and Postcolonial Fiction / Philip Weinstein 355 "Wherein the South Differs from the North”: Tracing the Noncosmopolitan Aesthetic in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude / Dane Johnson 383 William Faulkner and the Cold War: The Politics of Cultural Marketing / Helen Oakley 405 William Faulkner, James Agee, and Brazil: The American South in Latin American Literature’s “Other” Tradition / Earl Fitz 419 4. FROM PLANTATION TO HACIENDA: GREATER MEXICO AND THE U.S. SOUTH Embodying Greater Mexico: Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton and the Reconstruction of the Mexican Question / John-Michael Rivera 451 Remembering the Hacienda: History and Memory in Jovita Gonzalez and Eve Raleigh’s Caballero: A Historical Novel / Vincent Perez 471 POSDATA Beyond Translation: Jorge Luis Borges Revamps William Faulkner / Ilan Stavans 495 Contributors 505 Index 511
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Duke University Press Look Away
Book SynopsisExamines what happens to our paradigms of the American south if we understand the "south" hemispherically, to include Latin America and the CaribbeanTrade Review“Look Away! is an important collection that expands the vocabularies and national symbol systems that scholars can deploy to think comparatively about the Americas. It is especially useful in breaking the binary between North and South that has so restricted southern literary and historical studies.”—Patricia Yaeger, author of Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women’s WritingTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction: Uncanny Hybridities / Jon Smith and Deborah Cohn 1 1. THE U.S. SOUTH AND THE CARIBBEAN A New World Poetics of Oblivion / George B. Handley 25 Delta Desterrados: Antebellum New Orleans and New World Print Culture / Kirsten Silva Gruesz 25 Slave Resistance on the Southeastern Frontier: Fugitives, Maroons, and Banditti in the Age of Revolution / Jane Landers 80 Martinique/Mississippi: Edouard Glissant and Relational Insularity / J. Michael Dash 94 Crossing the Mason-Dixon Line in Drag: The Narrative of Loreta Janet Velazquez, Cuban Women and Confederate Soldier / Jesse Aleman 110 Citizenship and Identity in the Exile: Autobiographies of Gustavo Perez Firmat / Steven Hunsaker 130 Travel and Transference: V.S. Naipaul and the Plantation Past / Leigh Anne Duke 150 2. RETHINKING RACE AND REGION Things Fall Apart: The Postcolonial Condition of Real Rock and The Leopard’s Spots / Scott Romine 175 This Race Which Is Not One: The “More Inextricable Compositeness” of William Faulkner’s South / John T. Matthews 201 Richard Wright: From the South to Africa---and Beyond / Richard King 227 Forward into the Past: California and the Contemporary White Southern Imagination / Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr. and Debra Rae Cohen 251 American Films/American Fantasies: Moviegoing and Regional Identity in Literature of the Americas / Lois Parkinson Zamora 268 3. WILLIAM FAULKNER AND LATIN AMERICA Wonder and the Wounds of “Southern” Histories / Stephanie Merrim 311 Southern Economies of Excess: Narrative Expenditure in William Faulkner and Carlos Fuentes / Wendy B. Faris 333 Cant Matter/Must Matter: Setting up the Loom in Faulknerian and Postcolonial Fiction / Philip Weinstein 355 "Wherein the South Differs from the North”: Tracing the Noncosmopolitan Aesthetic in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude / Dane Johnson 383 William Faulkner and the Cold War: The Politics of Cultural Marketing / Helen Oakley 405 William Faulkner, James Agee, and Brazil: The American South in Latin American Literature’s “Other” Tradition / Earl Fitz 419 4. FROM PLANTATION TO HACIENDA: GREATER MEXICO AND THE U.S. SOUTH Embodying Greater Mexico: Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton and the Reconstruction of the Mexican Question / John-Michael Rivera 451 Remembering the Hacienda: History and Memory in Jovita Gonzalez and Eve Raleigh’s Caballero: A Historical Novel / Vincent Perez 471 POSDATA Beyond Translation: Jorge Luis Borges Revamps William Faulkner / Ilan Stavans 495 Contributors 505 Index 511
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Duke University Press The Promise of the Foreign
Book SynopsisA study of the effects of translation practices and historical writings in the Philippines on questions of nationalismTrade Review“Following up on Contracting Colonialism, Vicente L. Rafael studies the Philippine nationalists’ failed attempts to lay claim to Spanish, and the emergence of a hungry Tagalog meaning-machine eager to ‘host the foreign in the familiar.’ Rafael takes his readers on an astonishing trip through the Philippine cultural archive, from vernacular comedia, epic and novel, to underground newspapers, speeches, and the captured documents of secret societies, examining language as an unstoppable producer of social and political possibilities, including the possibility of the national. No one grasps better than Rafael the ambiguous agency of language in colonialism and decolonization.”—Mary Louise Pratt, New York University“In the tradition of James Siegel and Benedict Anderson, Vicente L. Rafael has given us a daring book about the ambivalent origins of the nation in the Philippines. It will be loved and emulated by students of nationalism, Southeast Asia, and comparative literary studies everywhere. There is good reason for this, for it is a beautiful book, a book of readings for lovers of literature, a book about literature for the media age. Mostly, however, it is a book about the foreignness in us all: an unassailable refutation of nationalist ideologies of purity.”—Rosalind C. Morris, author of In the Place of Origins: Modernity and Its Mediums in Northern Thailand“This latest work is one of erudition and unique insight. What is characteristic of Rafael’s prose is not only its eloquence but the meticulous unpacking of every snippet of source material, which is mined for its heuristic value, propelling the argument towards often unique lateral understandings. This is a work that would be of great value to Philippinists in particular and to those who are interested in the development of nationalist thought in Southeast Asia more broadly.” -- Julius J. Bautista * Journal of Southeast Asian Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Preface xv Introduction: Forgiving the Foreign 1 1. Translation and Telecommunication: Castilian as Lingua Franca 17 2. The Phantasm of Revenge: On Rizal's Fili 36 3. The Call of Death: On Rizal's Noli 4. The Colonial Uncanny: The Foreign Lodged in the Vernacular 96 5. Making the Vernacular Foreign: Tagalog as Castilian 119 6. Pity, Recognition, and the Risks of Literature in Balagtas 132 7. "Freedom = Death": Conjurings, Secrecy, Revolution 159 Afterword: Ghostly Voices: Kalayaan's Address 183 Notes 191 Works Cited 213 Index 223
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Duke University Press Virtual Migration
Book SynopsisAn ethnographic analysis of the work of computer programmers in India working for the U.S. software industry illuminates the growing phenomenon of "virtual migration"Trade Review“Virtual Migration is an exciting, innovative, and brilliant examination of how software flows replace people flows. It joins the urgent effort now under way in the social sciences to map a new field of inquiry.”—Saskia Sassen, coeditor of Digital Formations: IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm“Virtual Migration is a phenomenal book on a very important topic. A. Aneesh not only describes, explains, and interprets the phenomena of ‘body shopping’ and virtual migration in the global software industry, with especial emphasis on India and the United States; he also provides a series of suggestions to improve policymaking in these rapidly changing areas of the global economy.”—Mauro F. Guillén, Dr. Felix Zandman Professor in International Management, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania“This is a brilliant and innovative intervention in the study of globalization that demonstrates how much the specific forms taken by global institutional arrangements and processes depend on the structure and design of computer code. Virtual Migration will be invaluable not only to students in science and technology studies but to scholars in all fields interested in the troubled politics of the global movement of capital, technology, and people.”—Akhil Gupta, author of Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India“Aneesh’s arguments are well-organized and effectively communicate the often jargon-ridden world of complex technologies for those who have yet to go virtual themselves. . . . Virtual Migration itself opens up a very real (as opposed to virtual) space for discussing new forms of migration, governance, and globalization in which geographic perspectives and voices still have much to contribute.” -- Angela Gray * Cultural Geographies *Table of Contents1. Of Code and Capital 1 2. Programming Globalization: Visions and Revisions 14 3. Body Shopping 37 4. Virtual Migration 67 5. Actions Scripts: Rule of the Code 100 6. Code as Money 133 7. Migrations: Nations, Capital, and the State 153 Appendix A: A Note on Method 165 Appendix B: Tables 171 Notes 175 Bibliography 179 Index 191
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Duke University Press Mobility without Mayhem
Book SynopsisWhile Americans prize the ability to get behind the wheel and hit the open road, they have not always agreed about what constitutes safe, decorous driving and who is capable of it. This title presents a cultural history of America's fear of and fascination with driving, from the mid-twentieth century to the present.Trade Review“Whether you think of the car as symbolizing freedom, or environmental degradation, you'll find Packer's book thought-provoking, even entertaining.” - Cliff Bellamy, Durham Herald-Sun"Packer's study of the cultural anxieties surrounding the automobile and the attempts to regulate this space (always in the name of ‘safety’) is quite exhaustive. . . . Packer's examination of the popularity of the Cadillac in African-American communities during this middle part of the 20th century." - Gerry Canavan, Independent Weekly“Safe driving . . . is not straightforward. Packer’s main insight is that the public’s attraction to the idea of safety makes it vulnerable to exploitation and manipulation by institutions. While his perspective often seems pessimistic, it is amply backed up, and its criticism of the intrusion of authority into our everyday lives is thought-provoking.” - Tim Roberts, M/C Reviews“Reading a book on traffic safety would seem to most to be a cure for insomnia. However, Jeremy Packer’s Mobility Without Mayhem: Safety, Cars, and Citizenship may well keep you up past your bedtime. . . . Packer’s informed and nuanced exploration of the relation of mobility to ideology in postwar America is comprehensive, provocative, and instructive. Check it out.” - Steven E. Alford, International Journal of Motorcycle Studies“Packer’s book succeeds in illuminating much about the public discourse on and cultural meaning of driving both past and present. In the process, he manages to call into question the fixation with managing risk that seems so all pervasive in American society in the era of the so-called War on Terror. Overall, the book makes a significant contribution to the growing scholarly literature on the automobile and the distinctive way of life it has helped to create. This is no small achievement.” - Steve Macek, International Journal of Communication“Packer’s work offers historians insightful analysis of postwar automobility. . . . The book is a fresh and important contribution to the history of mobility in the United States.” - Kathleen Franz, The Journal of American History“Engaging with lively debates in contemporary cultural studies, including critical geography, technological and social history, and popular culture studies, Jeremy Packer denaturalizes the common-sense assumptions that inform our culture’s conceptions of drivers and driving.”—Jeffrey Sconce, editor of Sleaze Artists: Cinema at the Margins of Taste, Style, and Politics“For all that the United States trumpets individualism, it is a nation of obedience—to church, kin, commodity, conquest, and, perhaps above all, car. Jeremy Packer takes us along a wild but always disciplined drive in the fast lane of cultural studies.”—Toby Miller, author of The Well-Tempered Self: Citizenship, Culture, and the Postmodern Subject“Packer’s book succeeds in illuminating much about the public discourse on and cultural meaning of driving both past and present. In the process, he manages to call into question the fixation with managing risk that seems so all pervasive in American society in the era of the so-called War on Terror. Overall, the book makes a significant contribution to the growing scholarly literature on the automobile and the distinctive way of life it has helped to create. This is no small achievement.” -- Steve Macek * International Journal of Communication *“Packer’s work offers historians insightful analysis of postwar automobility. . . . The book is a fresh and important contribution to the history of mobility in the United States.” -- Kathleen Franz * Journal of American History *“Reading a book on traffic safety would seem to most to be a cure for insomnia. However, Jeremy Packer’s Mobility Without Mayhem: Safety, Cars, and Citizenship may well keep you up past your bedtime. . . . Packer’s informed and nuanced exploration of the relation of mobility to ideology in postwar America is comprehensive, provocative, and instructive. Check it out.” -- Steven E. Alford * International Journal of Motorcycle Studies *“Safe driving . . . is not straightforward. Packer’s main insight is that the public’s attraction to the idea of safety makes it vulnerable to exploitation and manipulation by institutions. While his perspective often seems pessimistic, it is amply backed up, and its criticism of the intrusion of authority into our everyday lives is thought-provoking.” -- Tim Roberts * M/C Reviews *“Whether you think of the car as symbolizing freedom, or environmental degradation, you'll find Packer's book thought-provoking, even entertaining.” -- Cliff Bellamy * Durham Herald-Sun *"Packer's study of the cultural anxieties surrounding the automobile and the attempts to regulate this space (always in the name of ‘safety’) is quite exhaustive. . . . Packer's examination of the popularity of the Cadillac in African-American communities during this middle part of the 20th century." -- Gerry Canavan * Independent Weekly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Auto-Mobile America 1 1. The Crusade for Traffic Safety: Mobilizing the Suburban Dream 27 2. Hitching the Highway to Hell: Media Hysterics and the Politics of Youth Mobility 77 3. Motorcycle Madness: The Insane, the Profane, and Newly Tame 111 4. Communications Convoy: The CB and Truckers 161 5. Of Cadillacs and "Coon Cages": The Racing of Automobility 189 6. Raging with a Machine: Neoliberalism Meets the Automobile 231 7. Safety to Security: Future Orientations of Automobility 267 Notes 293 Works Cited 325 Index 341
£81.90
Duke University Press Transborder Lives
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Lynn Stephen’s multisited ethnography insightfully unpacks globalization from below, revealing the contours of cross-border communities as they reweave the social fabrics of twenty-first-century North America.”—Jonathan Fox, University of California, Santa Cruz“Where most research on things ‘transnational’ is anchored on one side of the border or the other, Transborder Lives is conceptually and empirically well grounded throughout the geographic, national, social, political, and economic spaces within which its subjects are dispersed in both Mexico and the United States.”—Michael Kearney, author of Changing Fields of Anthropology: From Local to Global“Transborder Lives confirms Stephen’s reputation as a leading contributor to North American transnational and migration studies. Stephen’s nuanced, empathetic—and, I would add, physically and temporally demanding—ethnographic work undergirds the study’s elegantly narrated exploration of how indigenous Oaxacans articulate and understand their own individual and collective experiences of daily routines. . .” -- Paul Allatson * American Ethnologist *“[Transborder Lives] is a must-read for anyone interested in indigenous migration to the United States, Oaxacan studies, political economy, the construction of race and ethnicity in a bi-national context, indigenous knowledges, and transborder studies writ large. And its clear prose makes it accessible to undergraduates as well as non-academics interested in policy studies. Certainly, for members of communities such as those described by Stephen, the book will be cherished as a historical and ethnographic document.” -- Lourdes Gutiérrez Nájera * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *“Stephen certainly knows her stuff. . . . The real intimacy and trust she shares with her respondents and her rich understanding of their lives come across powerfully in her frank conversations. Her commitment to telling migrants’ stories and to using social science to promote social change is also clear. . . . This book is valuable for many reasons. . . . Transborder Lives also does an excellent job of placing migration dynamics within the context of broader political-economic factors on both sides of the border and analyzing how these have changed over time.” -- Peggy Livett * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsIllustrations and Tables vii Preface ix Acknowledgments xix 1. Approaches to Transborder Lives 1 2. Transborder Communities in Political and Historical Context: Views from Oaxaca 35 3. Mexicans in California and Oregon 63 4. Transborder Labor Lives: Harvesting, Housecleaning, Gardening, and Childcare 95 5. Surveillance and Invisibility in the Lives of Indigenous Farmworkers in Oregon 143 6. Women’s Transborder Lives: Gender Relations in Work and Families 178 7. Navigating the Borders of Racial and Ethnic Hierarchies 209 8. Grassroots Organizing in Transborder Lives 231 9. Transborder Ethnic Identity Construction in Life and on the Net: E-Mail and Web Page Construction and Use 274 Conclusions 309 Epilogue: Notes on Collaborative Research 321 Notes 327 Works Cited 335 Index 359
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Duke University Press Redress for Historical Injustices in the United
Book SynopsisBrings together primary and secondary documents related to the reparations movement in the United States. While the movement is united in its goal of "repairing" the injustices to African Americans that have followed from the long history of slavery and Jim Crow, this title reveals the range of opinions as to the form that repair might take.Trade Review“A truly impressive achievement in its range of approaches, depth of analysis, and variety of sources, this book should immediately become the definitive text on the subject of reparations for black Americans.”— Charles W. Mills, John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, Northwestern University“It will be far harder to dismiss the deeply resonant and persistent demand for reparations in the wake of this remarkable collection of interdisciplinary research and historical documentation. This monumental work is ideal for teaching how history and policy intersect.”—David Roediger, Kendrick C. Babcock Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign“For educators, this book is fundamentally useful. . . . Most helpful for the classroom, though, is the final section of primary sources. These include federal acts and resolutions, state legislation, municipal resolutions, seminal documents from activist organizations, case studies of redress, and opinions from key lawsuits. I doubt there is another work that houses these reparations-specific documents with this level of precision. Nor is there one volume with as much intellectual depth and breadth on this crucial topic.” -- Robert Samuel Smith * Journal of Southern History *Table of ContentsPreface xiii Acknowledgments xix On Redress for Racial Injustice / Michael T. Martin and Marilyn Yaquinto 1 Part 1. Racial Inequality and White Privilege Racial Injustices in U.S. History and Their Legacy / David Lyons 33 Race Preferences and Race Privileges / Michael K. Brown, Martin Carnoy, Elliott Currie, Troy Duster, David B. Oppenheimer, Marjorie M. Shultz, and David Wellman 55 A Sociology of Wealth and Racial Inequality / Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro 91 Part 2. Law, Citizenship, and the State The Case for Reparations / Robert Fullinwider 121 Toward a Theory of Racial Reparations / James Bolner 134 The Constitutionality of Black Reparations / Boris L. Bittker and Roy L. Brooks 143 The Theory of Restitution: The African American Case / Richard America 160 Reparations to African Americans? / J. Angelo Corlett 170 Part 3. Reparations: Formation and Modes of Redress "A Day of Reckoning": Dreams of Reparations / Robin D. G. Kelley 203 Forty Acres, or, An Act of Bad Faith / Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie 222 The Economic Basis for Reparations to Black America / Robert S. Browne 238 The Political Economy of Ending Racism and the World Conference against Racism: The Economics of Reparations / William Darity Jr. and Dania Frank 249 The Rise of the Reparations Movement / Martha Biondi 255 Part 4. Case Studies of Injustice and Intervention Nineteenth-Century New York City's Complicity with Slavery: Documenting the Case for Reparations / Alan Singer 275 Railroads, Race, and Reparations / Theodore Kornweibel Jr. 294 Reparations: A Viable Strategy to Address the Enigma of African American Health / David R. Williams and Chiquita Collins 305 Residential Segregation and Persistent Urban Poverty / Douglas S. Massey 331 Part 5. Mobilizing Strategies The Politics of Racial Reparations / Charles P. Henry 353 The Case for U.S. Reparations to African Americans / Adrienne D. Davis 371 The Promises and Pitfalls of Reparations / Yusuf Nuruddin 379 Reparation as Reparations for Slavery and Jim Crow / Robert Johnson Jr. 402 What's Next? Japanese American Redress and African American Reparations / Eric K. Yamamoto 411 The Reparations Movement: An Assessment of Recent and Current Activism / Sam Anderson, Muntu Matsimela, and Yusuf Nuruddin 427 Reparations: Strategic Considerations for Black Americans / C. J. Munford 447 Tulsa Reparations: The Survivors' Story / Charles J. Ogletree Jr. 452 Race for Power: The Global Balance of Power and Reparations / Gerald Horne 469 Documents Section 1. Federal Acts and Resolutions 485 Section 2. State Legislation 518 Section 3. Municipal Resolutions 536 Section 4. Advocacy and Activism 559 Section 5. Case Studies of Redress 637 Section 6. Lawsuits 660 Selected Bibliography 673 Contributors 683 Acknowledgment of Copyrights 687 Index 691
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Duke University Press The Ecuador Reader
Book SynopsisIncluding Amazonian rainforests, Andean peaks, coastal lowlands, and the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador's geography is notably diverse. This book examines its history, culture, and politics, from many different perspectives. It addresses colonialism, independence, the nation's integration into the world economy, and its tumultuous twentieth century.Trade Review“The Ecuador Reader is a gateway for understanding the volatile and intriguing history of this complex, multicultural land. From José María Velasco Ibarra’s fiery populism to the politics of a contemporary beauty pageant, the book captures the rich diversity of the country’s past and present. It is a major contribution to the study of the Andean world.”—Catherine M. Conaghan, Queen’s University“The Ecuador Reader offers an intriguing glimpse of the diverse voices and perspectives through which Ecuadorians have engaged the social, political, and cultural challenges of crafting a modern nation. Compiled by two of the leading scholars of Ecuadorian cultural and political thought, the essays in this volume provide testimony to the diversity and creativity of the intellectuals, organizations, communities, and individuals who people Ecuadorian history. The discussions of identity, ethnicity, colonialism, development, culture, and the state found in these pages offer a unique starting point for exploring Ecuador’s historical path from being a colony on the edges of the Inca and Spanish empires to becoming a central player in modern Latin American political debates.”—Deborah Poole, Johns Hopkins UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 I. Conquest and Colonial Rule 9 II. A New Nation 101 III. The Rise of the Popular 159 IV. Global Currents 193 V. Domination and Struggle 281 VI. Cultures and Identities Redefined 341 Suggestions for Further Reading 423 Acknowledgment of Copyrights 427 Index 431
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Duke University Press The Indonesia Reader
Book SynopsisAn introduction to Indonesias history, culture, and politics, which brings together more than 150 selections, including journalists articles, explorers chronicles, photographs, poetry, stories, cartoons, drawings, letters, and speeches.Trade Review“Hellwig and Tagliacozzo . . . have collected a rich, engaging and broad array of sources which reveal Indonesia's distant past and this makes The Indonesia Reader of immense value to historians of all kinds.” - David Jansen, Contemporary Southeast Asia“[A]n extraordinary cornucopia of sources that illustrate some of the pivotal and unique moments in Indonesia’s life.” - Laura Noszlopy, IIAS Newsletter“Using narratives of history, culture and politics to approach Indonesia, The Reader provides a stimulating, challenging and provocative portrait presented through texts chosen on either because they pull apart the concept of ‘Indonesia’ or because they strengthen it. . . . The Indonesia Reader is a vital text. It is not only accessible for a generalist audience, but may also provide some more seasoned professionals with new perspectives through the many alternatives to the nationalistic interpretations of Indonesia that it presents.” - Andy Fuller, Inside Indonesia“What a pleasure to find such an attractive new reader, a boon to anyone who teaches about Indonesia, and for the students and travellers for which it was designed!” - David Reeve, Asian Studies Review“This is an excellent debut in a new series of World Readers from Duke University Press. With more than 150 selections, two leading Indonesia scholars have put together an original introduction to Indonesian society, politics, and culture. It achieves variety, yet remains coherent through its thematic selections. The Indonesia Reader is a well-made book in every sense: the translations, about one-fourth of them prepared for this book, are excellent; the contextualization before each selection is sharp yet not overbearing; and the production value is high. . . . [T]his reader will make for rewarding reading.” - Andrew Goss, Journal of World History“[I]t is of great value for instructors developing courses that include Indonesia in such fields as history, political science, or Asian studies. Those with a background in Indonesian studies should also enjoy the book, not least because it presents a wide range of viewpoints about the archipelago over time. . . . [T]he editors' cogent introductions for each excerpt help set the materials in context. Summing Up: Recommended. All academic levels/libraries.” - S. Maxim, Choice“Tineke Hellwig and Eric Tagliacozzo have woven together a variety of observations across time to help gain some insight into the astonishingly varied story of a fascinating nation. From reflections on the role of interoceanic trade, the flow of world religions, and the fight for independence and, ultimately, a just society, the book offers a key corpus of documents to debate and contextualize.”—Michael Laffan, Princeton University“With selections including scholarly pieces, manifestoes, interviews, speeches, and inscriptions, this volume captures the long sweep of the Indonesian archipelago’s history while emphasizing its spectacular diversity. This is a Reader that deserves to be read.”—Rudof Mrázek, University of Michigan“Reading [this] book is like exploring an eclectic, brightly colored museum-and leaving with a multifaceted understanding of one nation's history and cultures. . . . The primary sources included here are the book's gems; they range from fifth-century stone pillars and writings by travelers throughout many centuries to fiction, newspaper articles, manifestos, and more in the 20th and 21st centuries.” * Library Journal *“[A]n extraordinary cornucopia of sources that illustrate some of the pivotal and unique moments in Indonesia’s life.” -- Laura Noszlopy * IIAS Newsletter *“[I]t is of great value for instructors developing courses that include Indonesia in such fields as history, political science, or Asian studies. Those with a background in Indonesian studies should also enjoy the book, not least because it presents a wide range of viewpoints about the archipelago over time. . . . [T]he editors' cogent introductions for each excerpt help set the materials in context. Summing Up: Recommended. All academic levels/libraries.” -- S. Maxim * Choice *“Hellwig and Tagliacozzo . . . have collected a rich, engaging and broad array of sources which reveal Indonesia's distant past and this makes The Indonesia Reader of immense value to historians of all kinds.” -- David Jansen * Contemporary Southeast Asia *“This is an excellent debut in a new series of World Readers from Duke University Press. With more than 150 selections, two leading Indonesia scholars have put together an original introduction to Indonesian society, politics, and culture. It achieves variety, yet remains coherent through its thematic selections. The Indonesia Reader is a well-made book in every sense: the translations, about one-fourth of them prepared for this book, are excellent; the contextualization before each selection is sharp yet not overbearing; and the production value is high. . . . [T]his reader will make for rewarding reading.” -- Andrew Goss * Journal of World History *“Using narratives of history, culture and politics to approach Indonesia, The Reader provides a stimulating, challenging and provocative portrait presented through texts chosen on either because they pull apart the concept of ‘Indonesia’ or because they strengthen it. . . . The Indonesia Reader is a vital text. It is not only accessible for a generalist audience, but may also provide some more seasoned professionals with new perspectives through the many alternatives to the nationalistic interpretations of Indonesia that it presents.” -- Andy Fuller * Inside Indonesia *“What a pleasure to find such an attractive new reader, a boon to anyone who teaches about Indonesia, and for the students and travellers for which it was designed!” -- David Reeve * Asian Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 I. Early Histories II. Early Modern Histories III. Cultures in Collision IV. Through Travelers' Eyes V. High Colonial Indies VI. The Last Decades of the Indies VII. From Nationalism to Independence VIII. The Old Order, the New Order—Political Climate IX. Social Issues and Cultural Debates X. Intro the Twenty-First Century Suggestions for Further Reading 451 Acknowledgment of Copyrights 457 Index 465
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Duke University Press The Russia Reader
Book SynopsisAn introduction to the history, culture, and politics of the worlds largest country, from the earliest written accounts of the Russian people to today.Trade Review“For the reader who desires to take a first dip into Russian history and culture but is overwhelmed by the vast amount of work available, The Russia Reader is the ideal starting point.” - Viktoria Ivanyutina, The Moscow Times“If you purchase just one non-fiction book on Russia this year, make it this one. An eclectic, rich compendium of readings that covers a very broad swath of Russian history and culture. . . . Surely to be a popular choice for college survey courses on Russian history, this volume offers a wealth of knowledge for anyone with an interest in things Russian. And it does not require systematic reading, front to back. In fact, it rewards the serendipitous reader: no matter where you dip into it, you are sure to be enthralled.” - Paul E. Richardson, Russian Life“The Russia surveyed here is one that reveals the complex layers of history that have accumulated over time and the voices that Barker and Grant marshal in telling Russia’s history are engaging and innovative ones. . . . The Russia Reader should interest any . . . traveler looking for a rich introduction into the history, culture, and politics of Russia.” - Stephen M. Norris, Anthropology of East Europe Review“The Russia Reader is excellent. It is a tremendous introduction for the newcomer to Russian history and culture, and even the well-versed reader should find fascinating new material amongst the rich variety collected here.” - Mary Bailes, Scotland-Russia Review“This volume represents, in the truest sense of the phrase, a Herculean effort…In compiling an eclectic mixture of stand-alone articles and excerpts from existing and newly commissioned translations…, Adele Barker and Bruce Grant seek to provide a one-stop source for students and travelers. For the most part, they have succeeded admirably.” - Kathleen Parthé, Slavic and East European Journal“The Russia Reader provides a wonderful overview of Russian life and culture across the centuries, from the emergence of Muscovy and Russian Orthodoxy to the present day. The editors have done a remarkable job in selecting a range of texts that offer a sweeping overview of the complexity and passion of Russian life, and their brief introductions helpfully situate the texts. Whether readers follow the fate of Russia chronologically or use the book as a kaleidoscope to explore different facets of Russian life and culture, they will find a treasure trove of beautiful, dramatic, and tragic readings for exploring Russian history and culture across the ages.”—Peter Holquist, University of Pennsylvania“Adele Barker and Bruce Grant have selected a fascinating group of writings reflecting Russian reality, past and present, most by Russians themselves. The selections make absorbing reading and convey insights that penetrate the veil of mystery that has so long obscured the ‘Russian soul.’”—Jack F. Matlock Jr., United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1987–1991“The Russia Reader is excellent. It is a tremendous introduction for the newcomer to Russian history and culture, and even the well-versed reader should find fascinating new material amongst the rich variety collected here.” -- Mary Bailes * Scotland-Russia Review *“For the reader who desires to take a first dip into Russian history and culture but is overwhelmed by the vast amount of work available, The Russia Reader is the ideal starting point.” -- Viktoria Ivanyutina * Moscow Times *“If you purchase just one non-fiction book on Russia this year, make it this one. An eclectic, rich compendium of readings that covers a very broad swath of Russian history and culture. . . . Surely to be a popular choice for college survey courses on Russian history, this volume offers a wealth of knowledge for anyone with an interest in things Russian. And it does not require systematic reading, front to back. In fact, it rewards the serendipitous reader: no matter where you dip into it, you are sure to be enthralled.” -- Paul E. Richardson * Russian Life *“The Russia surveyed here is one that reveals the complex layers of history that have accumulated over time and the voices that Barker and Grant marshal in telling Russia’s history are engaging and innovative ones. . . . The Russia Reader should interest any . . . traveler looking for a rich introduction into the history, culture, and politics of Russia.” -- Stephen M. Norris * Anthropology of East Europe Review *“This volume represents, in the truest sense of the phrase, a Herculean effort…In compiling an eclectic mixture of stand-alone articles and excerpts from existing and newly commissioned translations…, Adele Barker and Bruce Grant seek to provide a one-stop source for students and travelers. For the most part, they have succeeded admirably.” -- Kathleen Parthé * Slavic and East European Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi General Introduction 1 I. Icons and Archetypes 13 II. From Kyiv through Moscovy 61 III. Reform to Revolution 97 IV. Far Pavilions: Siberia 151 V. A Changing Countryside 201 VI. Near Pavilions: The Caucasus 257 VII. Revolution 305 VIII. Building a New World from Old 351 IX. Rising Stalinism 401 X. The Great Terror 447 XI. The War Years 493 XII. the Thaw 537 XIII. Russians Abroad, Near and Far 573 XIV. Life under Advanced Socialism 615 XV. Things Fall Apart 667 XVI. Building a New World, Again 701 Acknowledgment of Copyrights and Sources 743 Suggestions for Further Reader 753 Index 765
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Duke University Press The Czech Reader
Book Synopsis The Czech Reader brings together more than 150 primary texts and illustrations to convey the dramatic history of the Czechs, from the emergence of the Czech state in the tenth century, through the creation of Czechoslovakia in 1918 and the Czech Republic in 1993, into the twenty-first century. The Czechs have preserved their language, traditions, and customs, despite their incorporation into the Holy Roman Empire, the Habsburg Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Third Reich, and the Eastern Bloc. Organized chronologically, the selections in The Czech Reader include the letter to the Czech people written by the religious reformer and national hero Jan Hus in 1415, and Charter 77, the fundamental document of an influential anticommunist initiative launched in 1977 in reaction to the arrest of the Plastic People of the Universe, an underground rock band. There is a speech given in 1941 by Reinhard Heydrich, a senior Nazi official and Deputy Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, as well as one written by VÁclav Havel in 1984 for an occasion abroad, but read by the Czech-born British dramatist Tom Stoppard, since Havel, the dissident playwright and future national leader, was not allowed to leave Czechoslovakia. Among the songs, poems, folklore, fiction, plays, paintings, and photographs of monuments and architectural landmarks are “Let Us Rejoice,” the most famous chorus from Bedrich Smetana’s comic opera The Bartered Bride; a letter the composer AntonÍn DvorÁk sent from New York, where he directed the National Conservatory of Music in the 1890s; a story by Franz Kafka; and an excerpt from Milan Kundera’s The Joke. Intended for travelers, students, and scholars alike, The Czech Reader is a rich introduction to the turbulent history and resilient culture of the Czech people. Trade Review“I consider The Czech Reader an important contribution for individuals who are seeking an introduction to the history and literary history of the Czech lands. For people on their travels to the Czech Republic, who are interested in knowing more about this small and interesting nation, this book will serve well. Also, undergraduate students interested in the history of Central Europe will find many important Czech texts translated into English here and this could further stimulate their interest in the Czech history. People who are familiar with the history of the Czech lands and academic researchers could also use this book. University lecturers can use the texts in seminars and lectures to provide background to the dry historical presentation of past events.” - Jan Láníĉek, History“The Czech Reader, a unique and vast compilation of Bohemian and Czechprimary sources for a general English speaking audience, will be welcomed by anybody interested in a Czech general history of Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, or the Czech Republic. In addition, the material may enrich any college survey course with a focus on the region of Central Europe. The book may also serve travelers who are looking for a deeper historical, political, and cultural understanding of the Czechs and their tumultuous history.” - Zbysek Brezina, History: Reviews of New Books“The editors have performed quite a service in making these materials available in English in one convenient location. Every university library should have a copy as should any instructor in the field.” - Andrew Drozd, Slavic and East European Journal“The Czech Reader is a real gem, an immensely informative, balanced, and up-to-date compendium on Czech history and culture.”—John Neubauer, University of Amsterdam“There is nothing comparable to The Czech Reader. It makes a unique and highly valuable contribution to understanding the Czech interpretation of their own history, of who they are and what historical events constituted them as a nation and a people.”—Silvia Tomášková, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill“I consider The Czech Reader an important contribution for individuals who are seeking an introduction to the history and literary history of the Czech lands. For people on their travels to the Czech Republic, who are interested in knowing more about this small and interesting nation, this book will serve well. Also, undergraduate students interested in the history of Central Europe will find many important Czech texts translated into English here and this could further stimulate their interest in the Czech history. People who are familiar with the history of the Czech lands and academic researchers could also use this book. University lecturers can use the texts in seminars and lectures to provide background to the dry historical presentation of past events.” -- Jan Láníĉek * History *“The Czech Reader, a unique and vast compilation of Bohemian and Czechprimary sources for a general English speaking audience, will be welcomed by anybody interested in a Czech general history of Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, or the Czech Republic. In addition, the material may enrich any college survey course with a focus on the region of Central Europe. The book may also serve travelers who are looking for a deeper historical, political, and cultural understanding of the Czechs and their tumultuous history.” -- Zbysek Brezina * History: Reviews of New Books *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xv Guide to Pronunciation xvii Introduction 1 I. Between Myth and History (The Premyslid Dynasty) 7 II. Navel of the Earth (Charles IV, 1316–1378) 31 III. Against Everyone (Hussite Revolution) 47 IV. Struggles for City, Court, Country (Vladislav II–Rudolph II) 67 V. Defeated Protestants, Victorious Catholics (Ferdinand II–Charles VI) 83 VI. From the Enlightenment to Romantic Nationalism (Maria Teresa–Revolution of 1848) 111 VII. Defeated Politicians, Victorious Intellectuals (1848–1867) 145 VIII. From National Self-Determination to Cosmopolitanism (1867–1918) 187 IX. The First Czechoslovak Republic (1918–1938) 239 X. Between Hitler and Stalin (1938–1948) 295 XI. "Ideal" Socialism (1948–1968) 335 XII. "Real" Socialism (1968–1989) 385 XIII. The Decades after the Velvet Revolution (1989–) 463 Epilogue 503 Suggestions for Further Reading 507 Acknowledgment of Copyright and Sources 521 Index 529
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Duke University Press River of Hope
Book SynopsisIn River of Hope, Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez examines state formation, cultural change, and the construction of identity in the lower Rio Grande region during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Trade Review"River of Hope not only documents the history of the Rio Grande area in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries but also provides a model for integrating the concerns of Chicana/o studies scholars, historians of the U.S. West, scholars of gender and ethnicity, theorists of state formation, and political scientists who study 'everyday forms of resistance.' An extraordinary contribution, the book opens up a wide-ranging discussion about the interplay between local and national discourses, particularly in places located on the peripheries of power and at times of rapid social, cultural, legal, and political change. This is genuinely original scholarship."—Susan Lee Johnson, author of Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush"River of Hope tells the complex story of how Spanish colonists settled Texas-Tamaulipas, how they became neglected Mexican citizens, and ultimately, how they were transformed into unwanted American citizens as subjects of the United States. In this rich and nuanced work, Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez illuminates the struggles over land, identity, and love as native nations, Spain, Mexico, and the United States competed for this terrain."—Ramón A. Gutiérrez, coeditor of Mexicans in California: Transformations and Challenges"A sweeping, path-breaking achievement, River of Hope will stand as a benchmark study of the borderlands for decades to come. It is a compelling political and social history of identity formations, community building, and overlapping conquests from the earliest Spanish colonial settlements to nineteenth-century Euro-American towns. Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez interrogates how the people who called las villas del norte home created meaning in their lives against a backdrop of state formation, disenfranchisement, and violence."—Vicki L. Ruiz, author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America“A first-rate analysis of the dynamic and varied ways that the inhabitants of the Rio Grande borderlands formulated their identities in relation to rapid and volatile geopolitical change.” -- Eric V. Meeks * American Historical Review *“Deeply researched and elegantly written, this book is a required purchase for any border studies collection. Summing Up: Essential.” -- J. A. Stuntz * Choice *“Scholars and students of western, borderlands, Native American, Chicana-Chicano, and gender history are the books[‘s] primary audience, but the explorations of identity, state power, individual agency, and gender will benefit scholars from a wide range of fields. … [It] provide[s] valuable insights into the uneven process of incorporation and the ways in which people negotiate their place between and in different empires and nation-states.” -- Alicia M. Dewey * History: Reviews of New Books *"[A]n excellent historical backdrop to Mexican American civil rights history and contemporary discussions of Latina/o citizenship. Valerio-Jimenez's superb study will animate courses and appeal to readers interested in southern, borderlands, and Chicana/o history." -- Mark Allan Goldberg * Journal of Southern History *“Overall, this book is a good example of borderland studies that examine state formation and the construction of identity. The author uses a wide array of sources and places the history of the settlers in the region in the context of changing political authorities…. [I]t is a solid contribution to Chicano studies and borderlands history.” -- Armando Alonzo * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *“In sum, River of Hope provides us with an empirically rich and wonderfully argued examination of an understudied area of the Mexico-U.S. border region.” -- Andrae Marak * Western Historical Quarterly *"Wonderfully researched and engagingly written, River of Hope deserves to be read alongside other classic regional case studies of nineteenth-century American political life." -- John Mckiernan-González * Hispanic American Historical Review *"This monograph delivers a pathbreaking analysis that leaves enough unexplored questions for future generations of scholars to elevate this borderland to one that should prove every bit as rich as the Mississippi River Delta, the Great Lakes, or the middle Rio Grande Valley." -- Morgan LaBin Veraluz * Journal of American Ethnic History *Table of ContentsList of Maps, Figures, and Tables ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Constructing Vecinos, Constructing Indios: Complex Interdependence 17 2. Fragmented Communities: Class and Gender Hierarchies 51 3. Opposing Forces: Political Loyalty and Trade 92 4. Bandidos or Citizens? Everyday Forms of Resistance to Political and Legal Changes 129 5. Divorcées, Rancheros, and Peons: Changing Class and Gender Relations 176 6. Contested Citizenship: The Enduring Roles of Race and Class 222 Conclusion 275 Notes 287 Bibliography 333 Index 355
£27.90
Duke University Press C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain
Book SynopsisChronicles the life and work of the Trinidadian intellectual and writer C L R James during his first extended stay in Britain, from 1932 to 1938. This book reveals the radicalizing effect of this critical period on James' intellectual and political trajectory.Trade Review"Høgsbjerg has produced an invaluable addition to both British and Caribbean labour scholarship and has written it in such an accessible way that its stirring and provocative narrative ought to inspire thought and action." -- Chris Searle * Morning Star *"This impressively researched, well-written and accessible book demonstrates that James's time in Britain was a period of fertile intellectual growth for this inspirational writer and activist." -- Brian Richardson * Socialist Review *"Christian Høgsbjerg’s C.L.R. James in Imperial Britain sets a new standard in James Studies for he has combed key archival sources bringing increased insight and factual detail to considerations of his life and work. . . . We find Christian Høgsbjerg’s C.L.R. James in his study literally on fire, not merely researching revolutionary history and writing cricket columns. With his sweater accidentally aflame from the heater in his small room, smoke fills the home where he is a guest but he doesn’t notice. Someone has to tell him: 'Nello you are on fire.' James doesn’t understand at first, and then anxiously replies: 'Oh my goodness, oh my goodness!' This is an apt tale to advertise the vibrant quality of C.L.R. James in Imperial Britain." -- Matthew Quest * Insurgent Notes *"More than any other contemporary writer on James, Christian Høgsbjerg appreciates how provisional and incomplete our understanding of this intellectual agenda has actually been. . . . Anyone with an interest in black protest, literary London, and/or left politics in the 1930s will enjoy this smart, factually grounded yet thematically rich biographical study." -- Kent Worcester * New Politics *"Høgsbjerg does a masterful job of recounting this history in tremendous detail. James himself is now an increasingly well-known figure, particularly in the fields of literary and postcolonial studies. Yet, as Høgsbjerg argues, the details of his life, particularly his political transformations and commitments, have preoccupied recent scholars rather less, and often to the detriment of their scholarship. It seems remarkable, indeed, that Høgsbjerg’s is the first detailed study of James’s years in Britain. . . ." -- Daniel Whittall * Antipode *“Høgsbjerg’s biography is an essential piece of the history of C.L.R. James. It is first and foremost an intellectual history which demonstrates how both theory and politics form and are formulated over years. And it provides proof that the revolution will not come without sustained intellectual engagement.” -- Yasmin Nair * Monthly Review *“This is an exceptional study and a necessary book for anyone concerned with understanding James’ life and work, or interested in the wider history of black radical and socialist politics in the twentieth century. As Høgsbjerg rightly concludes, James’ life and work remains, in many respects, an important resource of hope and inspiration for contemporary readers.” -- Andrew Smith * Race & Class *“There is a great deal to commend in this book — to both the expert and those newly introduced to James and his work. Thankfully, Høgsbjerg takes us from James’s classrooms in Trinidad to pub-crawls in London, and ultimately, to a world of exceedingly rich political activism and thought that often defies easy categorization. … For those looking to grasp today’s interconnected travails of racial, class, and cultural alienation brought about by the shortcomings of global capitalism and hyper-nationalism, they would do well to add Høgsbjerg’s delightful and poignant history to their shelves.” -- Saladin Ambar * Canadian Journal of History *"When James left Britain for the United States in 1938 he had moved from Victorian elitism to revolutionary socialism. This book expertly charts his development. It will not only be of value to C L R James scholars but to anyone who has an interest in British history." -- Rhys Williams * International Socialism *"Drawing upon under-utilized and newly-released sources, C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain interweaves the diverse strands of James’s thought and activism in a lucid account of this important moment in the life of one of the twentieth century’s most creative and original thinkers.... C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain offers further confirmation of the centrality of James’s writings to the archives of decolonization in the twentieth century." -- Marc Matera * Anthurium *“A magnificent contribution to our understanding of the twentieth-century Caribbean.” -- Bill Schwarz * Wasafiri *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Introduction. Revolutionaries, Artists, and Wicket-Keepers: C. L. R. James's Place in History 1 1. We Lived According to the Tenets of Matthew Arnold: Colonial Victorianism and the Creative Realism of the Young C. L. R. James 17 2. Red Nelson: The English Working Class and the Making of C. L. R. James 38 3. Imperialism Must Be Destroyed: C. L. R. James, Race, and Revolutionary Politics 65 4. The Humbler Type of Cricket Scribe: C. L. R. James on Sport, Culture, and Society 125 5. There Is No Drama Like the Drama of History: The Black Jacobins, Toussaint Louverture, and the Haitian Revolution 158 Conclusion. To Exploit a Larger World to Conquer: C. L. R. James's Intellectual Conquest of Imperial Britain 199 Notes 217 Bibliography 259 Index 283
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University of Pittsburgh Press Cuban Studies 53
Book SynopsisCuban Studies is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. In publication since 1970, and under Alejandro de la Fuente’s editorial leadership since 2013, this interdisciplinary journal covers all aspects of Cuban history, politics, culture, diaspora, and more.
£65.55
University of Missouri Press Bosnian Studies
Book SynopsisIlluminates how Bosnian migrant and diaspora scholars are contributing to the development of Bosnian Studies. The authors included in this volume are either writing from their (new) home bases in Australia, Austria, Canada, Switzerland, the UK, and the US, among others, or they have returned to Bosnia after a period of migration.Trade Review“The cruelty of war, the horror of genocide, and the suffering of displacement ruptured Bosnian society. This volume gathers together studies specifically by Bosnian scholars on that rupture and its aftermath. It examines a Bosnia that is local, in-between and global, a society scarred by war legacies but resilient, a culture enriching the world as it writes through its experiences. These are Bosnian studies for us all.”—Gerard Toal, Virginia Tech, Co-author of Bosnia Remade: Ethnic Cleansing and Its Reversal“This is an outstanding collection of thoughtful and deeply researched essays on diaspora, ethnicity, and politics in the contemporary Balkans. The volume stands as a very valuable synthesis of interdisciplinary scholarship that outlines and expands what ‘Bosnian Studies’ means today.” —Edin Hajdarpasic, Associate Professor of History, Loyola University Chicago, author of Whose Bosnia? Nationalism and Political Imagination in the Modern Balkans“Karabegovic and Karamehic-Oates make a compelling, if not obvious case for the emergent scholarly field in Bosnian Studies. Ironically, without the tragic and violent breakup of the former Yugoslavia, 'Bosnian Studies' as a concept may have never emerged. Genocide and the study of human rights are indeed a cornerstone to the establishment of this field of research distinctively intertwined with the study of diaspora experiences in all its realms. Bosnian Studies also makes a case for scholarly research in this burgeoning field through the lens of sociology, anthropology and psychology, which has been thus far dominated by political scientists and historians.”—Tanya Domi, Columbia University and the former Spokesperson of the OSCE Mission to BiH“Speaking as a genocide studies scholar, I found this collection of essays brilliant, beautifully written, and unlike anything I have ever read.”—Douglas Irvin-Erickson, George Mason University, author of RaphaËl Lemkin and the Concept of Genocide“Using a multitude of different methodologies, positionalities, scales, themes, and voices, the contributors to Bosnian Studies each uniquely show what an academic and personal commitment to a place—Bosnia and Herzegovina—looks like, feels like, and moves like.”—Azra Hromadžić, Syracuse University, author of Citizens of an Empty Nation: Youth and State-Making in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina
£68.25
University of Missouri Press Bosnian Studies
Book SynopsisIlluminates how Bosnian migrant and diaspora scholars are contributing to the development of Bosnian Studies. The authors included in this volume are either writing from their (new) home bases in Australia, Austria, Canada, Switzerland, the UK, and the US, among others, or they have returned to Bosnia after a period of migration.Trade Review“The cruelty of war, the horror of genocide, and the suffering of displacement ruptured Bosnian society. This volume gathers together studies specifically by Bosnian scholars on that rupture and its aftermath. It examines a Bosnia that is local, in-between and global, a society scarred by war legacies but resilient, a culture enriching the world as it writes through its experiences. These are Bosnian studies for us all.”—Gerard Toal, Virginia Tech, Co-author of Bosnia Remade: Ethnic Cleansing and Its Reversal“This is an outstanding collection of thoughtful and deeply researched essays on diaspora, ethnicity, and politics in the contemporary Balkans. The volume stands as a very valuable synthesis of interdisciplinary scholarship that outlines and expands what ‘Bosnian Studies’ means today.” —Edin Hajdarpasic, Associate Professor of History, Loyola University Chicago, author of Whose Bosnia? Nationalism and Political Imagination in the Modern Balkans“Karabegovic and Karamehic-Oates make a compelling, if not obvious case for the emergent scholarly field in Bosnian Studies. Ironically, without the tragic and violent breakup of the former Yugoslavia, 'Bosnian Studies' as a concept may have never emerged. Genocide and the study of human rights are indeed a cornerstone to the establishment of this field of research distinctively intertwined with the study of diaspora experiences in all its realms. Bosnian Studies also makes a case for scholarly research in this burgeoning field through the lens of sociology, anthropology and psychology, which has been thus far dominated by political scientists and historians.”—Tanya Domi, Columbia University and the former Spokesperson of the OSCE Mission to BiH“Speaking as a genocide studies scholar, I found this collection of essays brilliant, beautifully written, and unlike anything I have ever read.”—Douglas Irvin-Erickson, George Mason University, author of RaphaËl Lemkin and the Concept of Genocide“Using a multitude of different methodologies, positionalities, scales, themes, and voices, the contributors to Bosnian Studies each uniquely show what an academic and personal commitment to a place—Bosnia and Herzegovina—looks like, feels like, and moves like.”—Azra Hromadžić, Syracuse University, author of Citizens of an Empty Nation: Youth and State-Making in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina
£26.36
James Currey African Savannas
Book SynopsisThis work outlines the importance of local knowledge for understanding environmental change.African farmers and herders modify landscapes in far more subtle and unexpected ways than commonly depicted in environment and development debates. This interdisciplinary collection uses collaborative research from the major savanna regions which stretch across Africa to make its case, and covers topics such as land users and landscapes, pastoral ecologies and policy, producers and resources. Environmental thinking about Africa is dominated by narratives of degradation and chaos. The contributors demonstrate that the empirical foundations of such long-held views are shaky at best.Trade Review... African farmers appear as 'knowedgeable and responsible environmental managers, as actors rather than victims' .... the pragmatic focus on policy and on mis-conceptions of policy-makers, is both sound and useful... - -- Gregory Maddox * JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY *...students of African environmental change will find in this book richly detailed local studies that engage with broad debates... - -- Monica van Beusekom * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW *A very readable and nicely presented volume... the case studies detail much needed empirical work towards understanding the events and processes that lead to landscape change at the local and regional level. * LUCAS BULLETIN *Table of ContentsContents: I Introduction African savannas: contested images, contested realities: environment & society in African savannas by Thomas J. Bassett & Donald Crummey; II Longue Duree Changing land use & environmental fluctuations in the African savanna by Martin Williams; III Land Users & Landscapes Fire in the savanna: environmental change & land tenure reform in northern Cote d'Ivoire by Thomas J. Bassett, Zueli Koli Bi & Tiona Ouattara; Investing in soil quality: farmer responses to land scarcity in southwestern Burkina Faso by Leslie Gray; Farmer tree planting in Wallo, 1937-97 by Donald Crummey & Alex Winter-Nelson; The wild vegetation cover of western Burkina Faso: colonial policy & post-colonial developments by Mahir Saul, Jean-Marie Ouadba & Ouetian Bognounou; IV Pastoral Ecologies Rethinking interdisciplinary paradigms & the political ecology of pastoralism in East Africa by Peter D. Little; Pastoralism & highland savannas: Grassfields (Cameroon) & Ngorongoro (Tanzania) by Jean Boutrais; V Policy, Producers & Resources Ecological 'crisis' & resource management policy in Zimbabwe's communal lands by William Munro; Littering the landscape: environmental policy in northeast Ethiopia by Dessalegn Rahmato; Social differentiation, farming practices & environmental change in Mozambique by Merle L. Bowen, Alrindo Chilundo & Cesar A. Tique
£23.74
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Economics of East Asian Integration
Book SynopsisCovering a wide range of aspects surrounding economic integration in East Asia, this well-researched text will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students of development studies, regional economics and Asian studies. It will be of particular value to those on courses concerned with economic and regional integration.Table of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction Masahisa Fujita, Ikuo Kuroiwa and Satoru Kumagai PART I: FACTS AND THEORIES 1. A History of De Facto Economic Integration in East Asia Ikuo Kuroiwa and Satoru Kumagai 2. Analytical Framework for East Asian Integration (1): Industrial Agglomeration and Concentrated Dispersion Koji Nishikimi and Ikuo Kuroiwa 3. Analytical Framework for East Asian Integration (2): Evolution of Industrial Location and Regional Disparity Koji Nishikimi and Ikuo Kuroiwa PART II: INTEGRATION (1): PRODUCTION NETWORKS AND INNOVATION 4. International Production/Distribution Networks in East Asia Mitsuyo Ando 5. Theories on FDI and the Behavior of MNEs in East Asia Ho Yeon Kim and Toshitaka Gokan 6. Productivity, R&D, and Intellectual Property Rights in East Asia and India Kensuke Kubo PART III: INTEGRAION (2): AGRICULTURE, SERVICES, LABOR, AND MONEY 7. Agricultural Issues Related to East Asia’s Economic Integration Masayoshi Honma 8. Services Trade and Investment Liberalization Christopher Findlay 9. Economic Integration and International Migration in East Asia Tomohiro Machikita 10. Monetary Integration in East Asia Eiji Ogawa and Kentaro Kawasaki PART IV: DRIVERS OF INTEGRATION 11. Institutional Building for Economic Integration in East Asia: A Brief History Jiro Okamoto 12. Institutions and Policy Coordination for Further Integration Daisuke Hiratsuka 13. Economic Integration and the Expansion of Trade and Transport Networks Ikumo Isono 14. Infrastructure Connectivity for East Asia’s Economic Integration Biswa Nath Bhattacharyay PART V: COHESION AND SUSTAINABILITY 15. Economic Integration and Regional Disparities in East Asia Nobuaki Hamaguchi and Wei Zhao 16. Economic Integration and Poverty Hosaki Kono 17. Energy Bottlenecks and Cooperation Nobuhiro Horii 18. Trade and the Environment Michikazu Kojima and Etsuyo Michida 19. New Challenges and Directions for East Asian Integration Masahisa Fujita, Ikuo Kuroiwa and Satoru Kumagai Index
£158.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Regionalism Economic Integration and Security in
Book SynopsisThe prospects and value of economic integration and regionalism in Asia are increasingly evident in what could turn out to be âthe Asian Centuryâ. It is within this context that this important book explores the critical economic issues, security concerns and political themes pertinent to Asia in general, and to East Asia in particular.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction Jehoon Park 2. Towards Asia’s Century Guy Sorman 3. Exploring an Ideal New Economy for Asia: The Path from the One to the Many Chi-ha Kim 4. A Comparative Analysis on Regional Integration Communities and Implications for East Asia: A Regional Integration Index Approach Won-Ho Kim, Heungchong Kim and Jehoon Park 5. Multilateralizing East Asian Regionalism Inkyo Cheong 6. Inter-regional Trade, Intra-regional Trade, and Globalization based on Regionalization Shuji Matsuno 7. Lessons for East Asia: The EU Institutions – Catalyst for Integration? Fraser Cameron 8. The Role of the Benelux in the European Integration Process: Implications for East Asia Amy Verdun 9. Reducing Security Tensions in Northeast Asia: Lessons from Economics and Institutions T.J. Pempel 10. Regional Cooperation and the DPRK Nuclear Issue Wu Chunsi 11. US–China–EU ‘Grand Compromise’: In Search of a New Saviour? Alexander Zhebin 12. China’s Foreign Policy-Making in Post-Cold War East Asia with its Implications for Asian Regionalism Hochul Lee 13. Conclusion: Expanding the Perspective Beyond Political Economy Jehoon Park and Hyunsook Chung Index
£90.00
