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Southern Illinois University Press Rhetoric and Demagoguery
Book SynopsisProposes a definition of demagoguery based on her study of groups and cultures that have talked themselves into disastrously bad decisions. Patricia Roberts-Miller argues for seeing demagoguery as a way for people to participate in public discourse, and not necessarily as populist or heavily emotional.
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Southern Illinois University Press Lincoln and Citizenship
Book SynopsisThe concept of ‘fellow citizens’ for Abraham Lincoln encompassed different groups at different times. In this first book focused on the topic, Mark Steiner analyses and contextualizes Lincoln's evolving views about citizenship over the course of his political career.
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Southern Illinois University Press American Scenic Design and Freelance
Book SynopsisThe figure of the American theatrical scenic designer first emerged in the early twentieth century. This book tells the history of the field through the figures, institutions, and movements that helped create and shape the profession.Table of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Design Labor and Freelance Professionalism 1. The Unionized Artist: Organizing the Profession 2. The Celebrity Artist: Promoting the Designer 3. The Teaching Artist: Building University Curricula 4. The Consulting Artist: Serving the Needs of Others Conclusion: Legacies of Professionalism Bibliography Author Biography
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Southern Illinois University Press The Dark Days of Abraham Lincolns Widow as
Book SynopsisWritten in 1927 but barred from timely publication by the Lincoln family, The Dark Days of Abraham Lincoln’s Widow, as Revealed by Her Own Letters is based on nearly two dozen intimate letters written between Mary Lincoln and her close friend Myra Bradwell mainly during the former’s 1875 incarceration in an insane asylum.Trade Review “This is a complicated narrative about a complex woman. Rife with drama, the backstory, as told by writer Jason Emerson, is as compelling as the book itself. . . . In Pritchard and Emerson’s hands, Mary Todd Lincoln is no less enigmatic but just as fascinating as ever.”—Stacy A. Cordery, Journal of Illinois History “Reading these notes in conjunction with the reprinted letters, a more accurate account of Mary Lincoln’s insanity emerges. Rather than an unjustly imprisoned former First Lady, one finds a woman overwhelmed by grief and neuroses, grappling with the shadows enveloping her mind.”—Sarah Bischoff, The Journal of Southern History “The tale of Mary Lincoln’s mental derangement, her incarceration in a mental hospital, her release four months later, and her subsequent estrangement from her only surviving son forms one of the saddest chapters in the Lincoln family saga. When Jason Emerson wrote his revelatory study The Madness of Mary Lincoln (Southern Illinois University Press, 2007), he utilized valuable new letters he had discovered. In the present volume, he makes available the text of those documents and the dramatic story of their recovery from historical oblivion. Emerson deserves the thanks of all Lincolnians.”—Michael Burlingame, author of Abraham Lincoln: A Life “This companion to [Emerson’s The Madness of Mary Lincoln] contains both the voice of Mary herself as well as an account of the (largely successful) contemporary efforts to silence her. Those wishing to retrace Emerson’s detective work will find this illuminating.”—Patrick A. Lewis, The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society “Jason Emerson is a rising star in Lincoln studies, and this volume is further evidence that those of us who never tire of learning about the life and times of Abraham Lincoln are in his debt. This carefully crafted volume illuminates dark corners of Mary Lincoln’s life and enhances our understanding of the First Lady after that night at Ford’s Theatre.”—Michael S. Green, author of Lincoln and the Election of 1860 “Emerson portrays Mary realistically but sympathetically [and] dispels the old extreme stereotypes.”—Karen S. Campbell, editor for the Lincoln Society of Dayton, Let the Journeys Begin “Not only has Jason Emerson uncovered letters by Mary Lincoln, he has uncovered an entire manuscript by James and Myra Bradwell’s granddaughter, who tried to use her privileged position to sell the story to the less-discriminating press of her day. It is good to have the Pritchard manuscript in print at last, after eighty hidden years, to have both its insights and its embarrassing sororal prejudices. Emerson, by unearthing a new landmark in the historical treatment of the tragic Mary Lincoln, helps to reconfigure how we view the tragic ex-First Lady”—James M. Cornelius, curator of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum “With this edited volume, Jason Emerson makes an original and valuable contribution to our scholarly understanding of Mary Todd Lincoln’s later years. It succeeds and builds on the intriguing and fruitful detective work that the editor achieved in The Madness of Mary Lincoln, which provided the most important and original insights into her later years that have been produced in at least the preceding generation. The result is a long-missing yet vital puzzle piece that has long been missing that helps to complete our understanding of Mary Lincoln’s commitment proceedings and her eventual release and final difficult years.”—Kenneth Winkle, Thomas C. Sorenson Professor of American History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Southern Illinois University Press Pulling off the Sheets The Second Ku Klux Klan
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University of Pennsylvania Press Strategic Interaction
Book SynopsisThe two essays in this classic work by sociologist Erving Goffman explore the calculative, gamelike aspects of human interaction.Trade Review"The broad topic is communication directed specifically to situations like espionage and to situations like international politics. . . . Goffman deals with the topic descriptively, draws on a wide variety of sources, and uses analogy to demonstrate, clarify, and explain." * Choice *"Goffman is a great ethnologist. His tribe is mankind, his focus the face-to-face relations of everyday life, his method of observation a combination of naturalistic fieldwork and a wide reading in history, biography, manners, social science, and literature" * American Journal of Sociology *"Goffman is entranced with the subtleties of direct confrontation among people. His is the style of the essayist and of the miniaturist. In this book he selects, among others, the analogy of the game as an integrating device. . . . Goffman's games are verbal and phenomenological, dissecting the point/counterpoirt of, for instance, the doubts that people may have with respect to one another's motives under condition of actual or potential conflict." * Journal of Applied Behavioral Science *Table of ContentsPreface Expression Games: An Analysis of Doubts at Play Strategic Interaction
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University of Pennsylvania Press Witchcraft in Europe 4001700
Book SynopsisA thoroughly revised, greatly expanded edition of the most important documentary history of European witchcraft ever published.Trade Review"Revisions have made this anthology stronger and even more essential." * Choice *"Comprehensive, original, scholarly, philosophically searching, and meticulously prepared. . . . The volume, copiously illustrated, reveals the shocking impact of the belief in witches on Europe's Middle Ages, and examines the struggles of thinkers . . . to confront the phenomenon on rational terms. This is a major work in the genre." * Publishers Weekly, in a review of the first edition *"An indispensable source book." * Choice, in a review of the first edition *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Colonial Botany Science Commerce and Politics in
Book SynopsisA wide-ranging collection of essays on plants as market forces.Trade Review"Well illustrated and imaginatively written, this . . . superb collection surveys the leading edge of current approaches but also points towards future research." * Renaissance Studies *"This collection contributes importantly not only to scholarship on science and empire, but makes clear the diversity of colonial relationships and the myriad and complex ways in which scientific knowledge was made." * Renaissance Quarterly *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION —Londa Schiebinger and Claudia Swan I. COLONIAL GOVERNANCE AND BOTANICAL PRACTICES 1. Dominion, Demonstration, and Domination: Religious Doctrine, Territorial Politics, and French Plant Collection —Chandra Mukerji 2. Walnuts at Hudson Bay, Coral Reefs in Gotland: The Colonialism of Linnaean Botany —Staffan Müller-Wille 3. Mission Gardens: Natural History and Global Expansion, 1720-1820 —Michael T. Bravo 4. Gathering for the Republic: Botany in Early Republic America —Andrew J. Lewis II. TRANSLATING INDIGENOUS, CREOLE, AND EUROPEAN BOTANIES: LOCAL KNOWLEDGE(S), GLOBAL SCIENCE 5. Books, Bodies, and Fields: Sixteenth-Century Transatlantic Encounters with New World Materia Medica —Daniela Bleichmar 6. Global Economies and Local Knowledge in the East Indies: Jacobus Bontius Learns the Facts of Nature —Harold J. Cook 7. Prospecting for Drugs: European Naturalists in the West Indies —Londa Schiebinger 8. Linnaean Botany and Spanish Imperial Biopolitics —Antonio Lafuente and Nuria Valverde 9. How Derivative was Humboldt? Microcosmic Nature Narratives in Early Modern Spanish America and the (Other) Origins of Humboldt's Ecological Sensibilities —Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra III. CASH CROPS: MAKING AND REMAKING NATURE 10. The Conquest of Spice and the Dutch Colonial Imaginary: Seen and Unseen in the Visual Culture of Trade —Julie Berger Hochstrasser 11. Of Nutmegs and Botanists: The Colonial Cultivation of Botanical Identity —E. C. Spary 12. Out of Africa: Colonial Rice History in the Black Atlantic —Judith Carney IV. TECHNOLOGIES OF ACCUMULATION 13. Collecting Naturalia in the Shadow of Early Modern Dutch Trade" —Claudia Swan 14. Accounting for the Natural World: Double-Entry Bookkeeping in the Field —Anke te Heesen 15. Surgeons, Fakirs, Merchants, and Craftspeople: Making L'Empereur's Jardin in Early Modern South Asia —Kapil Raj 16. Measurable Difference: Botany, Climate, and the Gardener's Thermometer in Eighteenth-Century France —Marie-Noëlle Bourguet Notes List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Medical Humanitarianism Ethnographies of
Book SynopsisMedical Humanitarianism provides comparative ethnographies of the moral, practical, and policy implications of modern medical humanitarian practice. It offers twelve vivid case studies that challenge readers to reach a more critical and compassionate understanding of humanitarian assistance.Trade Review"This volume brings the intersections between humanitarian and global health interventions into relief. It offers detail, nuance, and complexity to debates that are out there, probing difficult situations and asking tough questions." * Miriam Ticktin, Professor of Anthropology, The New School for Social Research *"In light of the recent Ebola crisis, this book becomes even more prescient of the lessons that can be learnt by examining well-grounded ethnographies in comparative perspective for a more critical and compassionate understanding of humanitarian assistance." * Peter Piot, from the Foreword. *"What happens when humanitarian intentions collide with the realities of humanitarian action? The editors present twelve engaging and provocative ethnographies of humanitarian practice, that invite immersion, deep reflection, and call for constructive dialogue between scholarship and humanitarian practice" * Unni Karunakara, International President (2010-2013), Médecins Sans Frontières *Table of ContentsForeword —Peter Piot Bringing Life into Relief: Comparative Ethnographies of Humanitarian Practice —Sharon Abramowitz and Catherine Panter-Brick PART I. INTIMATE INTERVENTIONS: HEALTH WORKER EXPERIENCES IN HUMANITARIAN CONTEXTS Chapter 1. Dignity Under Extreme Duress: The Moral and Emotional Landscape of Local Humanitarian Workers in the Afghan-Pakistan Border Areas —Patricia Omidian and Catherine Panter-Brick Chapter 2. Compassion and Care at the Limits of Privilege: Haitian Doctors amid the Influx of Foreign Humanitarian Volunteers —Laura Wagner Chapter 3. Trust and Caregiving During a UNICEF-Funded Relief Operation in the Somali Region of Ethiopia —Lauren Carruth PART II. THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANITARIAN KNOWLEDGE, ETHICS, AND IMPERATIVES Chapter 4. Evidence and Narratives: Recounting Ongoing Violence in Darfur, Sudan —Alex de Waal Chapter 5. Life Beyond the Bubbles: Cognitive Dissonance and Humanitarian Impunity in Northern Uganda —Tim Allen Chapter 6. Staging a "Medical Coup"? Médecins Sans Frontières and the 2005 Food Crisis in Niger —Jean-Hervé Jézéquel PART III. STRONG STATES, WEAK STATES, AND CONTESTED HEALTH SOVEREIGNITIES Chapter 7. What Happens When MSF Leaves? Humanitarian Departure and Medical Sovereignty in Postconflict Liberia —Sharon Abramowitz Chapter 8. Humanitarianism and "Mobile Sovereignty" in Strong State Settings: Reflections on Medical Humanitarianism in Aceh, Indonesia —Byron J. Good, Jesse Hession Grayman, and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good Chapter 9. The British Military Medical Services and Contested Humanitarianism —Stuart Gordon PART IV. THE AFTERLIVES OF INTERVENTION Chapter 10. Anthropology and Medical Humanitarianism in the Age of Global Health Education —Peter Locke Chapter 11. The Creation of Emergency and Afterlife of Intervention: Reflections on Guinea Worm Eradication in Ghana —Amy Moran-Thomas Chapter 12. Medical NGOs in Strong States: Working the Margins of the Israeli Medical Bureaucracy —Ilil Benjamin Conclusion. A Measured Good —Peter Redfield List of Contributors Index
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Complete Old English Poems
Book SynopsisNow for the first time, the entire Old English poetic corpus is rendered into modern strong-stress, alliterative verse in a masterful translation by Craig Williamson. The Complete Old English Poems also features his essay on translation and noted medievalist Tom Shippey's introduction on the literary scope and vision of these timeless poems.Trade Review"Here a whole poetic culture is laid out in all its richness and variety. . . . The translations are not literal, nor are they intended to be, but they convey with flair the meanings and rhetorical intricacy of the originals. . . . This is an immense book, not just in size but also in achievement: it attests both to the sizeable extant corpus of Old English poetry and to the impressive energy and creativeness of Williamson as translator." * Times Literary Supplement *"What Williamson does is useful as well as beautiful . . . No more hunting about in volumes here and there, and what we have is attractively printed and presented. As literary entities, the translations are excellent. They are fresh, sensitive, and vigorous, avoiding the dead archaisms of many translators, yet still giving an impression of their ancient originals . . . What [Williamson] has done deserves a very warm welcome, as does Tom Shippey's Introduction, with stimulating paragraphs on poetry as the vehicle for eulogy or wisdom. Together, they open windows to let in sunshine and air. They show how, beyond the grim and stuffy classroom of philology, delightful gardens and wild moorlands await discovery." * Modern Language Review *"{A] rich and abundant resource. Craig Williamson has produced 'alliterative, strong stress' translations of the surviving corpus of Old English poetry, from the 3,182 lines of Beowulf to the single runic line inscribed on the Overchurch Memorial. The well-worn clichés of Anglo-Saxon Studies are applicable here: Williamson's task was monstrous; his labour was noble; his success is heroic. The Complete Old English Poems is the work of a lifetime." * Translation and Literature *"Craig Williamson's collection of Old English poems in verse translation is a treasure trove of wisdom, heroism, heartache, beauty and humour. The Complete Old English Poems contains recitations that are at once surprisingly familiar and provocatively strange for the modern reader . . . [W]ith its emphasis on artistry, musicality and entertainment, this collection should prove appealing to both the scholar and the student of Old English poetry, and anyone curious about the history of written, spoken and sung verse." * Anglia *"A magnificent contribution that overwhelms the reader with its beauty and its depth, The Complete Old English Poems is much-needed medicine for the soul." * Benjamin Bagby, performer of Beowulf and director of the medieval music ensemble Sequentia *"Craig Williamson's monumental volume takes us 'across the bridge of language that lifts / Over the river of years,' as his dedicatory poem promises. A brilliant poet himself, his translations seamlessly weave together modern and Old English language patterns, and his learned, helpful introductions allow the sophistication and beauty of each poem to be grasped anew. The volume is a gift to generations of medievalists, poetry lovers, and seekers-out of elusive mysteries." * Peggy A. Knapp, Carnegie Mellon University *"It is cause for celebration to have at last a translation of the entire Old English poetic corpus, moreover a rendering that is discerning, nuanced, and poetically crafted. The earliest English verse has never been such a delight to read." * R. D. Fulk, author of An Introductory Grammar of Old English, with an Anthology of Readings *"Craig Williamson's ambitious undertaking-translating the entire corpus of Old English poetry, in all its variety, ambiguity, and alterity-succeeds in providing both an unprecedented resource for scholars and a compelling point of entry into the Anglo-Saxon world for beginners. His introductory remarks to the collection as a whole and to each of the poems take us even further, into a subtle and timely manifesto for the value of the humanities and the work of 'hard listening' that can connect and engage people across profound differences. Like the audiences imagined by the Old English poems themselves, many readers now and in the future will be inspired by Williamson's learned, loving new articulation of old voices." * Elaine Tuttle Hansen, author of Reading Wisdom in Old English Poetry *Table of ContentsIntroduction, by Tom Shippey Note on the Texts, Titles, and Organization of the Poems List of Abbreviations On Translating Old English Poetry The Junius Manuscript —Introduction —Genesis (A and B) —Exodus —Daniel —Christ and Satan The Vercelli Book —Introduction —Andreas: Andrew in the Country of the Cannibals —The Fates of the Apostles —Soul and Body I —Homiletic Fragment I: On Human Deceit —The Dream of the Rood —Elene: Helena's Discovery of the True Cross The Exeter Book —Introduction —Christ I: Advent Lyrics —Christ II: The Ascension —Christ III: Judgment —Guthlac A —Guthlac B —Azarias: The Suffering and Songs of the Three Youths —The Phoenix —Juliana —The Wanderer —The Gifts of Men —Precepts: A Father's Instruction —The Seafarer —Vainglory —Widsith —The Fortunes of Men —Maxims I: Exeter Maxims (A, B, and C) —The Order of the World —The Rhyming Poem —Physiologus I: The Panther —Physiologus II: The Whale —Physiologus III: Partridge or Phoenix —Homiletic Fragment III: God's Bright Welcome —Soul and Body II —Deor —Wulf and Eadwacer —Riddles 1-57 —The Wife's Lament —Judgment Day I —Resignation A: The Penitent's Prayer —Resignation B: The Exile's Lament —The Descent into Hell —Almsgiving —Pharaoh —The Lord's Prayer I —Homiletic Fragment II: Turn Toward the Light —Riddles 28b and 58 —The Husband's Message —The Ruin —Riddles 59-91 Beowulf and Judith —Introduction —Beowulf —Judith The Metrical Psalms of the Paris Psalter and the Meters of Boethius —Introduction —The Metrical Psalms of the Paris Psalter —The Meters of Boethius The Minor Poems —Introduction —The Fight at Finnsburg —Waldere —The Battle of Maldon —The Poems of The Anglo-Saxon ChronicleThe Battle of Brunanburg (937)The Capture of the Five Boroughs (942)The Coronation of Edgar (973)The Death of Edgar (975)The Death of Alfred (1036)The Death of Edward (1065) —Durham —The Rune Poem —Solomon and Saturn I —Solomon and Saturn II —The Menologium: A Calendar Poem —Maxims II: Cotton Maxims —A Proverb from Winfrid's Time —Judgment Day II —The Rewards of Piety —The Lord's Prayer II —The Gloria I —The Lord's Prayer III —The Creed —Fragments of Psalms —The Kentish Hymn —Psalm 50 —The Gloria II —A Prayer —Thureth —The Book's Prologue to Aldhelm's De virginitate —The Seasons for Fasting —Cædmon's Hymn —Bede's Death Song —The Leiden Riddle —Latin-English Proverbs —The Metrical Preface to The Pastoral Care —The Metrical Epilogue to The Pastoral Care —The Metrical Preface to Gregory's Dialogues —Colophon to Bede's Ecclesiastical History —The Ruthwell Cross —The Brussels Cross —The Franks Casket —The Metrical CharmsCharm for Unfruitful LandNine Herbs CharmCharm Against a DwarfCharm for a Sudden StitchCharm for Loss of Property or CattleCharm for a Difficult or Delayed BirthCharm for the Water-Elf-DiseaseCharm for a Swarm of BeesCharm for a Theft of CattleCharm for Loss of Property or CattleJourney CharmCharm Against Wens (or Tumors) Additional Poems —Introduction —Additional Poems of The Anglo-Saxon ChronicleThe Accession of Edgar (959)Prince Edward's Return (1057)Malcolm and Margaret (1067)The Wedding Conspiracy Against King William (1075)The Rhyme of King William (1086)The Suffering Under King Henry (1104) —Captions for Drawings —Cnut's Song —Distich: Psalm 17:51 —Distich on Kenelm —Distich on the Sons of Lothebrok—Five Memorial Stone InscriptionsDewsbury Memorial (or Stone Cross)Falstone Hogback MemorialGreat Urswick MemorialOverchurch MemorialThornhill III Memorial —Genealogical Verse —Godric's Hymns —The Grave —Honington Clip —Instructions for Christians —Lament for the English Church (From the Worcester Fragments) —Lancashire Gold Ring —Metrical Psalms 90:15-95:2 —The Soul's Address to the Body (From the Worcester Fragments) —Sutton Disc Brooch —Two Marginalic Lines —Verse in a Charter —Verse in a Homily: The Judgment of the Damned —Verse Paraphrase of Matthew 25:41 —Verse Proverb in a Junius Homily —Verses in Vercelli Homily XXI Appendix of Possible Riddle Solutions Bibliography Index of Poem Titles Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Invention of Rivers
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The river city book genre is experiencing a boom. Da Cunha's book, however, is more primordial. It is hat rare combination of imagination, originality, and historic and theoretical rigour. It is the culmination of intensely methodical, patient, and attentive work of design research; often conjured, but seldom delivered to its full promise, as it is wonderfully here. The Invention of Rivers is an essential historical contribution to our future. It dares us to move toward an aspirational postcolonial moment of 'after rivers,' when they are returned, epistemologically and methodologically, to wetness. Where the Ganga's Descent transforms from the locks of Shiva's hair in river into the 'infinite strands of each individual hair' in the form of rain. In the midst of global existential climate flux, I cannot think of a more compelling, urgent challenge." * Planning Perspectives *"The Invention of Rivers is a radical and timely book that will stimulate considerable debate on matters of the greatest contemporary urgency." * Arjun Appadurai, New York University *"A highly original argument and extraordinary piece of scholarship that comes at a time when rain is behaving unpredictably and challenging humanity's attempt to contain it within banks. It offers an alternative way of thinking about our relationship with the hydrological cycle and of living with wetness." * Lindsay Bremner, University of Westminster *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction. River Literacy Chapter 1. Alexander's Eye and Ganga's Descent I. COURSE Chapter 2. River of Rivers Chapter 3. Separating Ganga II. SOURCE Chapter 4. Waters of Eden Chapter 5. Calibrating Ganga III. FLOOD Chapter 6. Ocean of Rain Chapter 7. Containing Ganga Conclusion. River Colonialism Notes Index Acknowledgments * * * * * Preface Working in the Lower Mississippi River Valley in the 1990s, I began to suspect that the line separating water from land exists by choice, a choice not in where it is seen in a shifting and dynamic terrain but in the fact that it is seen at all. At the time, Anuradha Mathur and I were investigating the line that held the Mississippi River to a place in the vast alluvial plain of its making. We traced this line to the early years of European occupation and forward from there to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when it was enforced by a hydraulic regime of levees, spillways, jetties, revetments, and cutoffs alongside a culture of prediction and modeling to prevent flood. We glimpsed the possibility at the time that Native Americans with whom Europeans clashed lived outside this "landscape of flood." Their habitation was not necessarily on riverbanks exposed to the flows and floods of an entity limited by a line; it was rather in an open field of wetness that rose and fell. In other words, their difference went further than seeing the Mississippi differently; they saw a different Mississippi, a Mississippi that was not a river to begin with. To me, this was not a fact to verify; it was an opportunity to entertain in design. Irrespective though of what it was, it began weakening the grip that the river and by extension, the line separating land from water, had on my imagination. In the years since Mississippi Floods was published, our practice has taken us to diverse places, all of which threw the line between land and water into question, whether it was in a riverbank, a coastline, or an edge of an impoundment of rain. In India, I found that this line does not just result in the exceptional flood; it results in an everyday chaos that passes for the informal, kitsch, and underdevelopment. It did not take long to see that as in the United States the line transgressed is not simply a line drawn; it is a line imposed. Furthermore, this line does not simply separate water from land; it creates water and land on either side of it as entities that can be commodified and as such coveted, made scarce and violated. Indeed, it is hard to miss the infrastructural presence of this line beneath the many pressing problems in India that are generally attributed to poverty, a colonial history, overpopulation, illiteracy, and so on. It is also hard to miss the fact that people need to be taught to see this line, draw it, and respect it. In other words, the line between land and water is not taken for granted. For the last five years I have sought to understand what it takes to separate water from land on the earth's surface, to naturalize this separation, and to impose it on people who today suffer the increasingly drastic consequences of its violation, particularly by the rains of the monsoon that refuse containment. The outcome is this book. It is an appreciation of the river as a remarkable feat of design made possible through the drawn line, a line that has had nothing less than nature constituted for its success, allowing it to recede into the ordinary, the everyday, and everything. Questioning it is not easy. It requires more than a critical stance, more than simply seeing things differently; it requires another ground all together, one that offers different things. I found this other ground in the rain of the monsoon, a wetness that is everywhere before it is water somewhere (separate from land). It does not run into rivers, nor is it harvested to assist a river-inspired infrastructure of pipes and canals; it rather operates a world without rivers, holding in everything across air, earth, and life before, if at all, flowing to the sea. I present it in this book as a world constituted in another moment of the hydrologic cycle when watery stuff is precipitating, seeping, soaking, evaporating, and transpiring in ways that defy delineation. Its otherness affords a worthy vantage from which to engage the world of rivers. As such, even as this book is about the making of rivers, it is also about the ground of habitation afforded by rain. Rain is another ground for constituting the past, present, and future. In the Ganges I found an interesting case study of precipitation that does not seem to want to form into a river or perhaps even be a river. Like other names on the Indian subcontinent that are classified as rivers, it keeps defying its so-called banks, erasing efforts to control its course and nullifying plans to clean its watery stuff. Many will balk at the idea of questioning the riverness of the Ganges. After all, there is little doubt that millions of people worship the Ganges as a river, rely upon a river for their infrastructural needs, and describe a river that is the lifeline of a unique civilization. However, is it possible that they look upon something that was introduced to the subcontinent, something that enforces a particular language of habitation with terms such as land and water that were not shared by people who lived here? The question is worth asking given that people in India apply the name Ganga, which is seen by scholars as the vernacular equivalent of Ganges, not just to a river but also to a ubiquity that they venerate through the icon of a goddess, a ubiquity that may well be a rain-driven wetness. Indeed, there is much between the lines of texts, behind the scenes of habitation, and in the interstices of everyday life in India to suggest that this Ganga continues to exist. However, it does so in the shadows as an "other" ground of experience with a difference that refuses to conform to rivers and river-based ideas such as the city, history, and development. By questioning the place to which a name refers and venturing another with its own terms of difference, this book follows in the tradition of my previous works with Anuradha Mathur, Mississippi Floods, Deccan Traverses, and Soak. All of them put another place to a name. In Soak, for example, we presented Mumbai as an estuary where the sea and monsoon are insiders against the conventional appreciation of it as an island where they are outsiders with the monsoon an annual visitor. The latter was how British colonists saw Mumbai and how it continues to be researched, historicized, governed, and planned. Positing an estuary was not just for the sake of the city's future, which to us would be better served in the face of climate change and sea-level rise; it was also for the sake of its past and present, which we suggested is better understood on the complex and fluid ground of an estuary. Besides, from our engagement with Mumbai, it seemed very likely that people here see their place in terms of an estuary, terms that have been lost in translation to the language of an island. Soak basically reinforced the idea that emerged in Mississippi Floods and was confirmed in Deccan Traverses, our project on Bangalore, which is that European colonialism did not just impose another way of seeing and knowing place; it imposed another place. It is then with an empathy for irreconcilable difference that this book raises the possibility that India is a rain-driven wetness rather than a land drained by rivers, which is how maps, textbooks, histories, plans, ecologies, and everyday conversation project it. Unlike places we have sought to reimage and reimagine in the past, the imposition in question here reaches far beyond the colonizing events of the last few centuries to possibly Alexander the Great, who came across the mountains from the rain shadow of Central Asia in the fourth century BCE with a geographically disciplined view of the earth's surface divided between water and land with a line that could be drawn in a map. It set the stage for rivers on the subcontinent and arguably laid the groundwork for the waves of colonization that followed, all of which survived and thrived on keeping water contained with a line. Today, the authority of the line continues in place even as it is increasingly out of place in everyday life, particularly during each monsoon. Is it possible for India to recover an appreciation for Ganga's Descent? The phrase recalls the fall of rain. But as this book seeks to make clear, it also necessarily calls for a defiance of Alexander's Eye, an eye that awaits the clarity of a fair-weather moment to separate water from land. Rain and river, in other words, are not merely two moments in the water cycle; they are moments that begin two inquiries, two infrastructures, two modes of design. The more one is pursued, the more it diverges from the other.
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University of Pennsylvania Press After Europe
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Few people question the conventional wisdom like Ivan Krastev." * George Soros *"Ivan Krastev's beautifully lucid After Europe packs an enormous amount of wisdom into a very short space. He helps us to understand the hostility to the European ideal in the UK and across the channel and to think about the challenges facing the EU in the near future." * Raymond Tallis in Times Literary Supplement's "Books of the Year" *"Satisfyingly intelligent on our predicament." * Michael Hofmann in Times Literary Supplement's "Books of the Year" *"Krastev is one of Europe's most interesting public intellectuals. In what is essentially a long essay he argues that the refugee crisis threatens to widen the gap between elites and voters in ways that threaten the future of the entire European project." * Gideon Rachman in Financial Times *"Ivan Krastev is one of the sharpest and most elegant political writers to emerge from Eastern Europe in recent years. In this slim volume, which is a treasure chest of striking observations and colorful vignettes, the Bulgarian commentator brings a distinctly East European sense of tragedy to Europe's multiple crises." * Sunday Times *"Ivan Krastev is one of Europe's leading thinkers, and After Europe offers a stark warning about the direction in which the continent is heading. Anyone who care about the future of the European project should read it carefully." * Madeleine K. Albright, Former U.S. Secretary of State *"Ivan Krastev is one of the most interesting thinkers of our time. A juggler of paradoxes, an assailer of conventional wisdoms-you may not always agree but you will never be bored. At once an antidote to foolish optimism and to resigned pessimism, this fascinating meditation on the collapse of Europe as we know it is classic Krastev." * Robert Kagan *"To read this book is to be in the company of one of the great European minds of today. With his characteristic combination of perceptiveness and sympathy, Ivan Krastev gives us in this learned essay just what we need to understand Europe's crisis-and to contemplate our own." * Timothy Snyder, Yale University *"Written with the author's characteristic verve, this bracing book offers a fresh understanding of the current crisis in Europe. Motivated by apprehension yet tinged with realistic optimism, it powerfully highlights why clashing solidarities, declining compassion, resurgent nationalism, and growing geographic divisions demand creative, perhaps surprising, acts of democratic guardianship." * Ira I. Katznelson, author of Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time *"Ivan Krastev's elegant and insightful volume establishes him as the most brilliant and iconoclastic thinker on Europe's future. This short aphoristic volume turns many of the established ways of looking at Europe on their head, bringing added depth to discussions of populism and Europe's political counterrevolution. At a time of pessimism, Krastev ends in a strangely optimistic way with his paean to the legitimacy that can come from the very act of survival." * Mark Leonard, European Council on Foreign Relations *
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Material Fall of Roman Britain 300525 CE
Book SynopsisTrade Review[A] readable and thought-provoking volume, which draws not only on a wide range of published works, but also on the wealth of information recorded in ‘grey literature’ fieldwork reports available on the archaeology data service (ADS). The author is to be congratulated for having spent more time than most engaging with this valuable archive and, it is to be hoped, drawing its existence to the attention of a wider audience. Fleming writes as a historian partly for historians, who are often unaware of how much archaeological evidence exists, but also in an attempt to bridge the other scholarly gap she rightly identifies, between Romanists and early medievalists. She also focuses on the lives of ordinary people instead of the warlords and saints of the written sources, which still colour popular perception of this period…[A]n interesting and stimulating book that provides an account of the unravelling of Roman Britain, clearly linked to the lives of those who experienced it. * Antiquity *This book marks a crucial step forward in understanding how to look at the massive changes wrought during the fifth century AD in the archaeology of what had been the areas of Britain under Roman rule, and consequently in understanding what was going on and why...This book is a very substantial achievement and will become a standard resource for ideas and information at all academic levels. * Plekos *Robin Fleming here provides an engaging and thought-provoking account of the end of Roman Britain and its immediate aftermath. The focus is on particular categories of material culture and their socio-economic context...[A]n extremely welcome addition to scholarly discourse, and is one that will be accessible also to students and the informed public. * Medieval Archaeology *What The Material Fall achieves is to present a new (and in places speculative) vision of Britain between the fourth and sixth centuries. It is fluently written and founded on a detailed understanding of a wide range of diverse evidence...[I]t offers new approaches that sidestep the tired and probably unresolvable discussions of continuity, discontinuity, and ethnicity. This is no mean achievement. These new approaches are desperately needed by a field of research that finds itself in a state of tension over its own identity. What the future holds, and which approach, or approaches, will shape research over the coming decades remains unclear. It’s an exciting time to work on Late Antiquity and the transition from Late Roman to Early Medieval. * American Journal of Archaeology *Fleming's approach to this era of significant change in British history is a refreshing take on the transitional period at the end of Roman Britain and the beginning of Saxon settlement...The work is a welcome addition to existing literature, operating as a happy medium between text-based analysis of material culture and the more analytical texts often devoted to individual elements of material culture. Overall, the book is an enjoyable and thought-provoking read. * The Classical Review *Robin Fleming uses evidence from archaeology to reassess the transition from the Roman to early medieval period in England. Critiquing previous approaches that have relied too heavily on written texts of later date, Fleming places emphasis instead on the changes in material conditions that impacted on the lives of ordinary people. This is an original and refreshing approach that has not previously been attempted on this scale. The Material Fall of Roman Britain, 300-525 CE is an extremely important and well-written book, and one that deserves a very broad readership. * Martin Millett, University of Cambridge *Table of ContentsContents Introduction. Down a Rabbit Hole? Chapter 1. The World the Annona Made Chapter 2. The Rise and Fall of Plants, Animals, and Places Chapter 3. Why Pots Matter Chapter 4. The Afterlife of Roman Ceramic and Glass Vessels Chapter 5. Pragmatic, Symbolic, and Ritual Use of Roman Brick and Quarried Stone Chapter 6. Metal Production Under and After Rome Chapter 7. Living with Little Corpses Chapter 8. Who Was Buried in Early Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries? Chapter 9. The Great Disentanglement Notes Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press No Wood No Kingdom Political Ecology in the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[An] impressive history...No Wood, No Kingdom tells complex stories about the connections between Atlantic ecologies, introducing a vital sense of contingency rather than inevitability. In doing so, it opens up urgent questions about how scarcity, the state, conservation, commerce, and colonialism interacted to transform environments at the dawn of English empire." * Journal of British Studies *"No Wood, No Kingdom is a triumph of Atlantic environmental history. This book fits into an emerging body of scholarship on environmental history across vast early America [and]... is indispensable for scholars of the early English Atlantic, environmental history, and historical political ecology." * H-Early America *"Pluymers demonstrates dedicated historical research throughout and manages to humanize historical figures while writing in the objective fashion of a responsible researcher....[A]n admirably nuanced work of political ecology and environmental history." * Global Maritime History *"[T]his book expertly links the history of concerns about timber scarcity with English dreams about the value of the Atlantic empire during the 17th century. Readers interested in both the Atlantic World, ideas of scarcity and cornucopianism, ecological imperialism, and forests in the English Atlantic will find this book very useful." * Labour/Le Travail *"In this welcome study of early modern English forestry and the ‘wooden world’ it sustained, Keith Pluymers uses the ‘political ecology’ of wood as a lens with which to examine the problem of how and why the English kingdom became an Atlantic political society during the seventeenth century...The substantial achievement of seeing Atlantic society as a whole in ecological terms highlights the value of an approach based on ‘political ecology.’" * Agricultural History *"No Wood, No Kingdom represents a major addition to the growing body of literature on the nexus of labor, technology, and environment in the early modern Atlantic World. By illuminating the experiences of diverse participants-including Royal foresters, naval officials, timber speculators, planters, enslaved Africans, indentured servants, and indigenous peoples-the book offers a compelling analysis of English efforts to control and manage forests and vital timber reserves in Ireland, Virginia, New England, and the Caribbean. The writing is refreshingly robust, explicating complex ideas in clear, brisk language. Essential reading to understand the profound human and ecological impacts of colonization during the 'age of timber.'" * Jennifer Anderson, author of Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America *
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University Press of Florida Shaping Identity in Medieval French Literature
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University Press of Florida In the Vortex of the Cyclone Selected Poems by
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University Press of Florida The Paradox of Paternalism
Book SynopsisExplains how women activists from across the political spectrum engaged with the state by working within both authoritarian regimes and inter-American networks, founding modern Dominican feminism, and contributing to the rise of twentieth-century women's liberation movements in the Global South.Trade Review“This worthy addition to gender relations literature allows Manley to elaborate on her premise of the utility of female participatory experiences in authoritarian regimes as a vehicle for feminist progress. . . . Highly recommended.”—Choice“Fills in the yawning lacunae concerning women’s roles during the reigns of the two infamous Dominican caudillos of the twentieth century. . . . This assiduously researched monograph deserves an audience beyond specialists in the Dominican Republic, to reach anyone interested in women and dictatorship.”—American Historical Review“Amply demonstrates the extent, limits, and iterations of maternalism, including Trujillista women’s promotion of state welfare for poor women and children, opposition women’s defense of their homes, families ripped apart by regime violence, and female governors’ community welfare activism under Balaguer.”—Hispanic American Historical Review”The book makes a significant contribution to the understanding of women’s political participation in the Dominican Republic during a long stretch of the twentieth century, focusing on women of both the right and the left, bot progovernment and antigovernment. The analysis is solid and methodical; the reading is engaging.”—New West Indian Guide""An exciting study that reveals the complexity of women's multiple political projects, as well as the importance of feminism--widely defined--as a powerful political force.""--Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney, author of The Politics of Motherhood""An engaging overview of the role played by women in supporting and contesting authoritarian regimes in the twentieth-century Dominican Republic.""--Nicola Foote, coeditor of Immigration and National Identities in Latin America""Tells the very important story of women's participation in Dominican politics from 1928 to 1978. It will quickly become a classic in the field of Latin American women's history.""--Victoria González-Rivera, author of Before the Revolution
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University of Minnesota Press Digital Art and Meaning
Book SynopsisHow to interpret and critique digital arts, in theory and in practice.Trade Review"Against an aesthetic thought that privileges erotics over hermeneutics and performative presence over meaning, Roberto Simanowski demonstrates in critical detail how the web has not spelt the end of interpretation, but has complicated it. Mobilizing the history and theory of the avant-garde from Apollinaire and Dada to situationsim and aleatoric poetry, he analyzes salient examples of digital art and literature, engaging with the ways in which code and programming, hypertext, collaborative writing, and interactive installations challenge notions of authorship and audience, reading and writing. A major work on the aesthetics of the digital media by a superb close reader who cuts across literary and media studies and opens up new dimensions for the humanities. A must read for programmers and humanists, engineers and artists alike." —Andreas Huyssen, Columbia University"In a tightly interlocked set of readings of representative works ranging from concrete poetry to interactive installations, Roberto Simanowski makes a compelling case for a re-fashioned semiotic analysis that attends to the meaning produced by the formal intricacies of the work itself as well as by external processes of production and reception. In Simanowski, digital art finds the thoughtful, incisive, and erudite reader it truly deserves." —Rita Raley, University of California, Santa BarbaraTable of ContentsPreface: Against the Embrace Introduction: Close Reading 1. Digital Literature 2. Kinetic Concrete Poetry 3. Text Machines 4. Interactive Installations 5. Mapping Art 6. Real-Time Web Sculpture Epilogue: Code, Interpretation, Avant-Garde Notes Bibliography Index
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Duke University Press Conflicted Antiquities Egyptology Egyptomania
Book SynopsisA cultural history of European and Egyptian interest in ancient Egypt and its material culture, from the early nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth.Trade Review“Conflicted Antiquities is superb, the definitive work on the place of ancient Egypt in the imaginations and politics of Europe and Egypt. Elliott Colla presents translations and analyses of Arabic literature not previously available, and he brings together for the first time European and modern Egyptian appropriations of and discourses on ancient Egypt. The range of materials that he analyzes is astounding and rich; the footnotes alone are worth the price of the book.” — Lila Abu-Lughod, author of Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt“Written in an engaging, thoughtful, and provocative style, Conflicted Antiquities provides a unique perspective on the ‘consumption’ of ancient Egypt. What makes it distinctive is Elliott Colla’s focus on Egyptian readings of the ancient past, an area which has been greatly neglected. Colla has much that is fresh and new to contribute, especially since the resources on which he draws are not widely known nor easy to get hold of.”— Stephanie Moser, author of Wondrous Curiosities: Ancient Egypt at the British Museum“Conflicted Antiquities presents an exhaustively researched and sharply written account of how Egyptian Pharaonic monuments, the sites and buildings that house them, and the personnel who have worked to uncover and care for them have acquired and changed meaning over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries. . . . Anyone who picks up Conflicting Antiquities will come away from its reading with a more complete understanding of the relationship between science and colonialism, of the politics inherent to modern tourism, and of the power of the ancients to shape the governing practices of the present. In every case, readers will be delighted by Colla’s prose, impressed with his erudition, and engaged by the connections he forges between the appropriated past and the contested present.” -- Lisa Pollard * International Journal of Middle East Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: The Egyptian Sculpture Room 1 1. The Artification of the Memnon Head 24 Ozymandias 67 2. Conflicted Antiquities: Islam’s Pharaoh and Emergent Egyptology 72 The Antiqakhana 116 3. Pharaonic Selves 121 Two Pharaohs 166 4. The Discovery of Tutankhamen’s Tomb: Archaeology, Politics, and Literature 172 Nahdat Misr 227 5. Pharaonism after Pharaonism: Mahfouz and Qutb 234 Conclusion 273 Notes 279 Bibliography 311 Index 329
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