Regional / International studies Books

Book SynopsisLying up a nation traces the evolution of black music from the time of slavery to the modern era, showing how its history has always been dependent on the interplay of races.

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Book SynopsisKinshasa is now the second largest urban area in sub-Saharan Africa, with a population around five million. The authors trace the impact on women's lives of social, economic and demographic changes that have resulted from the rapid expansion of the city.

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Book SynopsisWhat did it mean to be a man in colonial Latin America? This work provides a comprehensive analysis of how males, and specifically homosexual males, were represented in ares under both Spanish and Portugese control.

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Book SynopsisWhat did it mean to be a man in colonial Latin America? This work provides a comprehensive analysis of how males, and specifically homosexual males, were represented in ares under both Spanish and Portugese control.

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Book SynopsisFrom the public outing of Ellen DeGeneres to the murder of Matthew Shepard, gay lives and images have moved onto the centre stage of American public life. Combining personal stories with analysis, this book argues that we live in a time where gays are seen, but not necessarily heard.

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Book SynopsisArgues that, where neoliberal policies have fostered social division rather than security and prosperity, Muedans have, in fact, used sorcery discourse to assess and sometimes overturn reforms, advancing alternative visions of a world transformed.Trade Review"Kupilikula is one of the finest examinations of contemporary sorcery that I have read. The writing is clear and unencumbered. The ethnography is rich and nuanced. By the end of the book, the reader has a significantly more profound comprehension of the thorny thicket of contemporary African politics. This is a major contribution to African studies, political anthropology, and the anthropology of religion." - Paul Stoller, West Chester University and Temple University"

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Book SynopsisReconstructs the history of South Asian Tantra from the medieval period. This book contains translations from over a dozen Tantras. It is useful for those seeking to understand Tantra and the crucial role it has played in South Asian history, society, culture, and religion.Trade Review"Kiss of the Yogini is one of the few good, interesting books about Tantra, a passionately argued work that transforms scholarly understanding of its subject.... By reconstructing the medieval South Asian Kaula and Tantric traditions that involved sexual practices, David White hopes to restore the dignity and autonomy of the people who invented them and continue to practise them. This monumental scholarly work does precisely that." - Wendy Doniger, Times Literary Supplement"

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Book SynopsisIllustrates the cultural significance of film and its power as a vehicle for social change. This book reveals the intricacies of the cultural movement and explores its connections to other art forms such as photography, drama, and literature. It looks at the cultural history of Chinese through the lens of this seminal moment in Shanghai cinema.Trade Review"An Amorous History of the Silver Screen will be an instant classic. This lively yet rigorous work of original scholarship reconfigures the field of Chinese silent cinema. It constitutes an exciting new work at the cutting edge of the emergent transnational field of Chinese cinema studies." - Chris Berry, editor of Chinese Films in Focus"

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Book SynopsisIllustrates the cultural significance of film and its power as a vehicle for social change. This book reveals the intricacies of the cultural movement and explores its connections to other art forms such as photography, drama, and literature. It looks at the cultural history of Chinese through the lens of this seminal moment in Shanghai cinema.Trade Review"An Amorous History of the Silver Screen will be an instant classic. This lively yet rigorous work of original scholarship reconfigures the field of Chinese silent cinema. It constitutes an exciting new work at the cutting edge of the emergent transnational field of Chinese cinema studies." - Chris Berry, editor of Chinese Films in Focus"

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Book SynopsisSince 1991, Canada has provided Ukraine with ongoing political and economic assistance. Never was this policy pursued with more urgency than in 2014, when Russian aggression prompted the Canadian government to elevate its support for Ukraine to a foreign policy priority. Although the move is often described as a radical departure, Bohdan Kordan and Mitchell Dowie contend that it was consistent with Canada''s security interests and political and historical identity. In this calculation the worldview of Prime Minister Stephen Harper also figured prominently. Canada and the Ukrainian Crisis offers a timely explanation of the dynamic interaction between key factors - at the international, national, and individual levels - that shaped the Canadian government''s response and imbued it with an unusual degree of urgency. Explaining the nature of the crisis and why it elicited such a forceful reaction from the Harper government, Kordan and Dowie assert that Canada''s decision to side openly witTrade Review"Canada and the Ukrainian Crisis manages, in one slim volume, to provide a helpful overview and in-depth analysis of the conflict and Canada's reaction, to discuss the factors determining such a response, and to make a contribution to a 'neorealist' theory of international relations." Serhy Yekelchyk, University of Victoria and author of The Conflict in Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know

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Book SynopsisSince 1991, Canada has provided Ukraine with ongoing political and economic assistance. Never was this policy pursued with more urgency than in 2014, when Russian aggression prompted the Canadian government to elevate its support for Ukraine to a foreign policy priority. Although the move is often described as a radical departure, Bohdan Kordan and Mitchell Dowie contend that it was consistent with Canada''s security interests and political and historical identity. In this calculation the worldview of Prime Minister Stephen Harper also figured prominently. Canada and the Ukrainian Crisis offers a timely explanation of the dynamic interaction between key factors - at the international, national, and individual levels - that shaped the Canadian government''s response and imbued it with an unusual degree of urgency. Explaining the nature of the crisis and why it elicited such a forceful reaction from the Harper government, Kordan and Dowie assert that Canada''s decision to side openly witTrade Review"Canada and the Ukrainian Crisis manages, in one slim volume, to provide a helpful overview and in-depth analysis of the conflict and Canada's reaction, to discuss the factors determining such a response, and to make a contribution to a 'neorealist' theory of international relations." Serhy Yekelchyk, University of Victoria and author of The Conflict in Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know

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Book SynopsisForty per cent of the world’s population lives in federal countries, each facing their own crises and successes. Rethinking Decentralization explores what makes a successful federal government by centering the unique role of public attitude in maintaining the fragile institutions of federalism.Trade Review“Rethinking Decentralization breaks new theoretical ground in its multidimensional understanding of subsidiarity. Showcasing his deep knowledge on the peculiarities of eight different countries, Jacob Deem elegantly weaves his findings into case-specific narratives. There is no other book on this subject with the same conceptual, theoretical, historical, and empirical breadth.” Sean Mueller, University of Lausanne and author of Theorising Decentralisation: Comparative Evidence from Subnational Switzerland

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Book SynopsisForty per cent of the world’s population lives in federal countries, each facing their own crises and successes. Rethinking Decentralization explores what makes a successful federal government by centering the unique role of public attitude in maintaining the fragile institutions of federalism.Trade Review“Rethinking Decentralization breaks new theoretical ground in its multidimensional understanding of subsidiarity. Showcasing his deep knowledge on the peculiarities of eight different countries, Jacob Deem elegantly weaves his findings into case-specific narratives. There is no other book on this subject with the same conceptual, theoretical, historical, and empirical breadth.” Sean Mueller, University of Lausanne and author of Theorising Decentralisation: Comparative Evidence from Subnational Switzerland

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Book SynopsisAn All-Consuming Century is a rich history of how market goods came to dominate American life over the hundred years between 1900 and 2000 and why for the first time in history there are no practical limits to consumerism.Trade ReviewThe best survey yet written of the history of modern American consumer society... Avoiding the extremes of celebration and condemnation that too often pass for analysis, Cross's searching book is imbued with a generous concern for the revival of an active, democratic and participatory public sphere. -- Lawrence B. Glickman The Nation Cross shows how 'private, widespread and ephemeral commodity culture'has altered daily life, 'especially how people relate to nature and to one another.'The author of fine historical studies of various aspects of consumer culture, Cross is particularly well placed to undertake such a daunting task. Journal of American History By telling the story of how consumerism trumped social forces from Prohibition to the Simplicity movement, Cross brilliantly re-evaluates the bonds of family and community sold off to pay for the stuff with which we now populate our lives. San Francisco Chronicle It takes a historian to provide an appreciation of how far Americans have wandered from the days when consumerism was slightly suspect, and Gary Cross is superbly up to the task. -- Alan Wolfe The New Republic Cross has done prodigious work on the era that redefined the pursuit of happiness as the unbounded desire for goods. Building on an impressive range of scholarship, he lays out the sinews of a dazzling 100 years of American productivity chock full of the economic equivalents of flying rugs and magic lamps. -- Tom Engelhardt Los Angeles Times Book Review [An] absorbing cultural history of how Americans' personal and public identities have evolved in relationship with consumer goods. Publishers Weekly This readable modern history is enlivened. The Economist Thought-provoking... Cross has offered a perceptive view of how American identities have evolved and are perceived in relation to a thriving consumer culture. -- Margaret Walsh, University of Nottingham History The great merit of this book is that it characterizes consumerism as a social and political force. Unlike many critics who simply reduce consumerism to the individual pursuit of material comfort, Cross casts it as a compelling ideology that concretely expresses the major ideals that have guided the last century: liberty and democracy. -- Norman Wirzba Christian ReflectionTable of ContentsPreface 1. The Irony of a Century 2. Setting the Course, 1900--1930 3. Promises of More, 1930--1960 4. Coping with Abundance 5. A New Consumerism, 1960--1980 6. Markets Triumphant, 1980--2000 7. An Ambiguous Legacy Index

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Book SynopsisExplores the relationship among identity, interests, and foreign policy, employing contemporary Jordan to explore the changing dynamics of the Arab regional system. This book emphasizes the print media as a barometer of public opinion - one that affects the decision-making of political leaders.Trade Review"The depth of research for this book is simply superb, and the text of the empirical chapters demonstrates this while still flowing smoothly and cogently...For the empirical detail alone, this book should be required reading for all students of Jordanian politics." -- Middle East Journal "Table of Contents1. State Interests and Public Spheres 2. The Public Sphere Structure of International Politics 3. Who Says Jordan Is Palestine? 4. Jordan Is Jordan: Jordanian Debates over Jordanian-Palestinian Relations 5. Jordan in the Gulf Crisis: The Construction of Public Opinion 6. The Jordanian-Israeli Peace Process: Publicity, Interests, and Bargaining 7. New Jordan, New Middle East? 8. Abandoning Iraq? 9. Identity and the Politics of Public Spheres

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Book SynopsisWhat constitutes black studies and where does this discipline stand at the end of the twentieth century? In this wide-ranging and original volume, Manning Marable -- one of the leading scholars of African American history -- gathers key materials from contemporary thinkers who interrogate the richly diverse content and multiple meanings of the collective experiences of black folk.Trade ReviewMarable has brought together incisive minds who display a willingness to be forhtright in their criticisms, yet who are clearly deeply invested in the future of African American Studies... An essential read for those committed to maintaining a black racial presence on campuses in the US as well as elsewhere. Ethnic and Racial StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Black Studies and the Black Intellectual Tradition, by Manning Marable One: Theorizing the Black World: Race in the Postcolonial, Post-Civil Rights Era 1. Toward an Effective Antiracism, by Nikhil Pal Singh 2. The Political Moment in Jamaica: The Dimensions of the Hegemonic Dissolution, by Brian Meeks 3. Sandoms and Other Exotic Women: Prostitution and Race in the Caribbean, by Kamala Kempadoo 4. Race and Revolution in Cuba: African-American Perspectives, by Manning Marable 5. The Fire This Time: Harlem and Its Discontents at the Turn of the Century, by Johanna Fernandez 6. Crack Cocaine and Harlem's Health., by Beverly Xaviera Watkins and Mindy Thompson Fullilove Two: Mapping African-American Studies 7. African-American Studies and the "Warring Ideals": The Color Line Meets the Borderlands, by Johnnella E. Butler 8. The Future of Black Studies: Political Communities and the "Talented Tenth", by Joy James 9. Black Studies and the Question of Class, by Bill Fletcher Jr. 10. Black Studies: A Critical Reassessment, by Maulana Karenga 11. Black Studies Revisited, by Martin Kilson 12. Theorizing Black Studies: The Continuing Role of Community Service in the Study of Race and Class, by James Jennings 13. A Debate on Activism in Black Studies, by Henry Louis Gates Jr. & Manning Marable Three: Afrocentrism and Its Critics 14. Afrocentrism, Race, and Reason., by Molefi Kete Asante 15. Afrocentrics, Afro-elitists, and Afro-eccentrics: The Polarization of Black Studies Since the Students Struggles of the Sixties, by Melba Joyce Boyd 16. Reclaiming Culture: The Dialectics of Identity, by Leith Mullings 17. Afrocentrism, Culture Nationalism, and the Problem with Essentialist Definitions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality, by Barbara Ransby 18. Afrocentricity and the American Dream, by Lee D. Baker 19. Multinational, Multicultural America Versus White Supremacy, by Amiri Baraka Four: Race And Ethnicity in American Life 20. The Problematic of Ethnic Studies, by Manning Marable 21. Prophetic Alternatives: A Conversation with Cornel West 22. Race in American Life: A Conversation with John Hope Franklin

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Book SynopsisWhat constitutes black studies and where does this discipline stand at the end of the twentieth century? In this wide-ranging and original volume, Manning Marable -- one of the leading scholars of African American history -- gathers key materials from contemporary thinkers who interrogate the richly diverse content and multiple meanings of the collective experiences of black folk.Trade ReviewMarable has brought together incisive minds who display a willingness to be forhtright in their criticisms, yet who are clearly deeply invested in the future of African American Studies... An essential read for those committed to maintaining a black racial presence on campuses in the US as well as elsewhere. Ethnic and Racial StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Black Studies and the Black Intellectual Tradition, by Manning Marable One: Theorizing the Black World: Race in the Postcolonial, Post-Civil Rights Era 1. Toward an Effective Antiracism, by Nikhil Pal Singh 2. The Political Moment in Jamaica: The Dimensions of the Hegemonic Dissolution, by Brian Meeks 3. Sandoms and Other Exotic Women: Prostitution and Race in the Caribbean, by Kamala Kempadoo 4. Race and Revolution in Cuba: African-American Perspectives, by Manning Marable 5. The Fire This Time: Harlem and Its Discontents at the Turn of the Century, by Johanna Fernandez 6. Crack Cocaine and Harlem's Health., by Beverly Xaviera Watkins and Mindy Thompson Fullilove Two: Mapping African-American Studies 7. African-American Studies and the "Warring Ideals": The Color Line Meets the Borderlands, by Johnnella E. Butler 8. The Future of Black Studies: Political Communities and the "Talented Tenth", by Joy James 9. Black Studies and the Question of Class, by Bill Fletcher Jr. 10. Black Studies: A Critical Reassessment, by Maulana Karenga 11. Black Studies Revisited, by Martin Kilson 12. Theorizing Black Studies: The Continuing Role of Community Service in the Study of Race and Class, by James Jennings 13. A Debate on Activism in Black Studies, by Henry Louis Gates Jr. & Manning Marable Three: Afrocentrism and Its Critics 14. Afrocentrism, Race, and Reason., by Molefi Kete Asante 15. Afrocentrics, Afro-elitists, and Afro-eccentrics: The Polarization of Black Studies Since the Students Struggles of the Sixties, by Melba Joyce Boyd 16. Reclaiming Culture: The Dialectics of Identity, by Leith Mullings 17. Afrocentrism, Culture Nationalism, and the Problem with Essentialist Definitions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality, by Barbara Ransby 18. Afrocentricity and the American Dream, by Lee D. Baker 19. Multinational, Multicultural America Versus White Supremacy, by Amiri Baraka Four: Race And Ethnicity in American Life 20. The Problematic of Ethnic Studies, by Manning Marable 21. Prophetic Alternatives: A Conversation with Cornel West 22. Race in American Life: A Conversation with John Hope Franklin

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Book SynopsisFedwa Malti-Douglas reveals how The Starr Report exposed the cultural tendencies, desires, and taboos of Americans while it disrobed the most powerful man in the world. Fraught with assumptions about gender and sexuality, the report reflects a strategy to use Clinton's "body natural" to undermine his "body politic."Trade ReviewWriting with wit, verve, and sharp perception, Fedwa Malti-Douglas provides fresh ways of understanding the Starr Report in relation to lasting issues of gender relations, narrative technique, and attitudes toward the body. Her deft cultural and textual analysis will give her readers lasting insight as well as immediate pleasure. -- Patricia Meyer Spacks, author of Advocacy in the Classroom I read The Starr Report with horrified fascination. With force and brio, the brilliant Fedwa Malti-Douglas tells us why. Stripped bare, the body of The Starr Report is very, disturbingly American. -- Catharine R. Stimpson, Director, MacArthur Fellows Program A masterful dissection of a politically and culturally crucial document. -- Henry Louis Gates Jr.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note Introduction 1. The Mighty Morphin Report 2. Organization as Obsession 3. He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not: The Geographies of Lust 4. The Great Facilitator: Or, How to "Currie" Favor 5. Are We Having Fun Yet? 6. Fall Into the Gap: Or, The Starr Report Introduces Popeye to Bill Clinton 7. How Is a Sexual Encounter a Sexual Encounter? 8. "I Love the Narrative!" 9. My Body, My Gender 10. An American Postmodern Conclusion: The President's Two Bodies and the Politics of Masquerade Index

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Book SynopsisA sourcebook for readers and scholars interested in Japan from eighteenth century to post-World War II period. It presents writings from modern Japan's philosophers, religious figures, writers, and political leaders. It also offers introductory essays and commentary to assist in understanding documents' historical setting and significance.Trade ReviewGreatly expanded with the addition of many new sources, and the compilers did a wonderful job in organizing. -- Nam-Lin Hur Pacific Affairs Sources of Japanese Tradition will perform a useful function... and the volumes should find a place on library shelves wherever Japanese history is taught. -- Sandra Wilson Japanese StudiesTable of ContentsPreface Part IV The Tokugawa Peace 20. Ieyasu and the Founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate, by Willem Boot Ieyasuis Revenge and Compassion 21. Confucianism in the Early Tokugawa Period, by Willem Boot Fujiwara Seika and the Rise of Neo-Confucianism Hayashi Razan The Later History of the Hayashi Family School The Way of Heaven 22. The Spread of Neo-Confucianism in Japan Yamazaki Ansai and Zhu Xi Studies, by Barry Steben The Mito School, by Barry Steben Kaibara Ekken: Human Nature and the Study of Nature, by Mary Evelyn Tucker The Oyomei (Wang Yangming) School in Japan, by Barry Steben Kumazawa Banzan: Confucian Practice in Seventeenth-Century Japan, by Ian James McMullen Nakae Tojuis Successors in the Oyomei School, by Barry Steben 23. The Evangelic Furnace: Japanis First Encounter with the West, by J. S. A. Elisonas European Documents A Christian Critique of Shinto Alexandro Valignanois Japanese Mission Policy A Jesuit Priestis Observations of Women Japanese Documents The Anti-Christian Edicts of Toyotomi Hideyoshi Fabian Fucan Pro and Contra A Buddhist Refutation of Christianity 24. Confucian Revisionists, by Wm. Theodore de Bary and John A. Tucker Fundamentalism and Revisionism in the Critique of Neo-Confucianism Yamaga Soko and the Civilizing of the Samurai, by John A. Tucker Ito Jinsaiis School of Ancient Meanings, by John A. Tucker Ogyu Sorai and the Return to the Classics Muro Kyusois Defense of Neo-Confucianism 25. Varieties of Neo-Confucian Education Principles of Education Yamazaki Ansai, by John A. Tucker Kaibara Ekken, by Mary Evelyn Tucker The Shizutani School, by Mary Evelyn Tucker The Merchant Academy of Kaitokudo, by Tetsuo Najita Lecture on the Early Chapters of the Analects and Mencius Items of Understanding, 1727 Items of Understanding, 1758 Ogyu Soraiis Approach to Learning, by Richard Minear Hirose Tansois School System, by Marleen Kassel 26. Popular Instruction Ishida Baiganis Learning of the Mind and the Way of the Merchant, by Janine Sawada The House Codes of Tokugawa Merchant Families The Testament of Shimai Soshitsu The Code of the Okaya House Ihara Saikaku Mitsui Takafusa Muro Kyuso Hosoi Heishu How to Behave at Temple Schools 27. The Vocabulary of Japanese Aesthetics III, by Donald Keene Chikamatsu Monzaemon 28. Haiku and the Democracy of Poetry as a Popular Art, by Donald Keene Matsuo Basho Issa 29. "Dutch Learning," by Grant Goodman Engelbert Kaempfer Sugita Genpaku Otsuki Gentaku Shiba Kokan 30. Eighteenth-Century Rationalism Arai Hakuseki's Confucian Perspective on Government and Society, by Kate Nakai The Function of Rites The Evolution of Japanese History Hakuseki's View of Christianity and the West Hakuseki's Approach to Fiscal Policy and Trade Tominaga Nakamotois Historical Relativism Ando Shoeki's Ecological Community Miura Baien's Search for a New Logic, by Rosemary Mercer "The Origin of Price" Baien's System of "Logic" Space and Time Heaven-and-Earth Is the Teacher Jori and Science Kaiho Seiryo and the Laws of Economics 31. The Way of the Warrior II The Debate over the Ako Vendetta, by John A. Tucker and Barry Steben Okado Denpachiro Religious Nuances of the Ako Case, by John A. Tucker and Barry Steben Hayashi Razan Hayashi Hoko Muro Kyuso Ogyu Sorai Sato Naokata Asami Keisai Dazai Shundai Goi Ranshu Fukuzawa Yukichi The Ako Vendetta Dramatized, by Donald Keene Hagakure and the Way of the Samurai, by Barry Steben 32. The National Learning Schools, by Peter Nosco Kada no Azumamaro Kamo no Mabuchi Motoori Norinaga Love and Poetry Good and Evil in The Tale of Genji Hirata Atsutane Okuni Takamasa 33. Buddhism in the Tokugawa Period Suzuki Shosan, by Royall Tyler Takuan Soho, by William Bodiford Bankei Hakuin Ekaku Jiun Sonja Paul Watt 34. Orthodoxy, Protest, and Local Reform The Prohibition of Heterodox Studies The Kansei Edict The Justification for the Kansei Edict The Later Wang Yangming (Oyomei) School, by Barry Steben Sato Issai Oshio Heihachiro Agrarian Reform and Cooperative Planning Ninomiya Sontoku 35. Forerunners of the Restoration Rai Sanyo and Yamagata Daini: Loyalism Rai Sanyo's Unofficial History, by Barry Steben Yamagata Daini's New Thesis, by Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi Honda Toshiaki: Ambitions for Japan Sato Nobuhiro: Totalitarian Nationalism 36. The Debate over Seclusion and Restoration The Later Mito School The Opening of Japan from Within Sakuma Shozan: Eastern Ethics and Western Science Yokoi Shonan: Opening the Country for the Common Good Yoshida Shoin: Death-Defying Heroism Fukuzawa Yukichi: Pioneer of Westernization Reform Proposals of Sakamoto Ryoma, Saigo Takamori, and Okubo Toshimichi Sakamoto Ryoma: Eight-Point Proposal Letter from Saigo Takamori and Okubo Toshimichi on the Imperial Restoration Part V Japan, Asia, and the West 37. The Meiji Restoration, by Fred G. Notehelfer The Abolition of Feudalism and the Centralization of the Meiji State The Leaders and Their Vision The Iwakura Mission Consequences of the Iwakura Mission: Saigo and Okubo on Korea The Meiji Emperor 38. Civilization and Enlightenment, by Albert Craig Fukuzawa Yukichi Enlightenment Thinkers of the Meirokusha: On Marriage Mori Arinori Kato Hiroyuki Fukuzawa Yukichi Sakatani Shiroshi Tsuda Mamichi Nakamura Masanao: China Should Not Be Despised 39. Popular Rights and Constitutionalism, by James Huffman Debating a National Assembly, 1873-1875 Itagaki Taisuke Nakamura Masanao Representative Assemblies and National Progress, February 1879 Defining the Constitutional State, 1876-1883 Ito Hirobumi Okuma Shigenobu Chiba Takasaburo Nakae Chomin The Emergence of Political Parties Itagaki Taisuke Fukuchi Gen'ichiro Okuma Shigenobu Ozaki Yukio Bestowing the Constitution on the People, 1884-1889 Controlling the Freedom and People's Rights Movement The Meiji Constitution 40. Education in Meiji Japan, by Richard Rubinger Views in the Early Meiji Period Iwakura Tomomi and Aristocratic Education Kido Takayoshi and Ito Hirobumi on Universal Education Fukuzawa Yukichi and Education The First Meiji School System The Confucian Critique Motoda Eifu and Emperor-Centered Education Tani Tateki's Critique of the West Nakamura Masanao's Synthesis of East and West Mori Arinori and the Later Meiji School System Inoue Kowashi and Patriotic Training The Imperial Rescript on Education Teachers and Reform from Below State Control over Textbooks The Education of Women in the Meiji Period 41. Nationalism and Pan-Asianism State Shinto, by Helen Hardacre The Idea of Shinto as a National Teaching The Divinity of the Emperor The Patriotic Meaning of Shrines State Shinto in the Colonies of Imperial Japan Tokutomi Soho: A Japanese Nationalistis View of the West and Asia, by Fred G. Notehelfer Supporting the Imperial State and Military Expansion Okakura Kakuzo: Aesthetic Pan-Asianism, by Aida Yuan Wong Yanagi Muneyoshi and the Kwanghwa Gate in Seoul, Korea 42. The High Tide of Prewar Liberalism, by Arthur E. Tiedemann Democracy at Home Minobe Tatsukichi: The Legal Foundation for Liberal Government Yoshino Sakuzo: Democracy as minpon shugi Kawai Eijiro: A Rebuke to the Military Ishibashi Tanzan: A Liberal Business Journalist Kiyosawa Kiyoshi: Why Liberalism? Ienaga Saburo: The Formation of a Liberal Peaceful Cooperation Abroad Shidehara Kijuro: Conciliatory Diplomacy Yamamuro Sobun: Call for a Peaceful Japan 43. Socialism and the Left, by Andrew Barshay The Early Socialist Movement Anarchism Kotoku Shusui Kagawa Toyohiko Socialism and the Left Osugi Sakae Kaneko Fumiko Marxism The Debate About Japanese Capitalism Kawakami Hajime Yamada Moritaro Uno Kozo Marxist Cultural Criticism Tosaka Jun Nakano Shigeharu The Tenko Phenomenon 44. The Rise of Revolutionary Nationalism, by Marius Jansen Japan and Asia Agitation by Assassination The Plight of the Countryside Kita Ikki and the Reform Wing of Ultranationalism The Conservative Reaffirmation Watsuji Tetsuro 45. Empire and War, by Peter Duus The Impact of World War I: A Conflict Between Defenders and Opponents of the Status Quo A Plan to Occupy Manchuria The Economic Need for Expansion Hashimoto Kingoro Konoe Fumimaro National Mobilization Army Ministry Konoe Fumimaro The Imperial Rule Assistance Association Spiritual Mobilization Economic Mobilization The Greater East Asia War The Decision for War with the United States The War's Goals The Greater East Asia Conference Defeat Part VI. Postwar Japan 46. The Occupation Years, 1945-1952, by Marlene Mayo Initial Official Policies, American and Japanese A New Basic Document: The 1947 Constitution Introducing a New Civil Code The New Educational System Labor Unions Rural Land Reform Economic Stabilization and Reconstruction Reconstructing Japan as a Nation of Peace and Culture Morito Tatsuo Yokota Kisaburo Regaining Sovereignty in a Bipolar World Some Japanese Views of the War Kurihara Sadako Oe Kenzaburo Tanaka Kotaro 47. Democracy and High Growth, by Andrew Gordon The Movement Against the Separate Treaty and the U.S.- Japan Military Alliance The Government's View of the Economy in 1956: "The 'postwar' is over" The Transformation of the Postwar Monarchy Two Views of the Security Treaty Crisis of 1960 Maruyama Masao Yoshimoto Takaaki The Consumer Revolution in Postwar Japan, 1960 The Economic Planning Agency's New Long-Range Economic Plan of Japan, 1961-1970 Environmental Activism in Postwar Japan: Minamata Disease Bulldozing the Archipelago: The Politics of Economic Growth The Philosophy of Japanese Labor Management in the High-Growth Era The Japanese Middle Class at the End of the Twentieth Century Part VII. Aspects of the Modern Experience 48. The New Religions, by Helen Hardacre Kurozumikyo Tenrikyo Omoto Deguchi Nao Deguchi Onisaburo Reiyukai kyodan Soka gakkai Makiguchi Tsunesaburo Toda Josei Ikeda Daisaku 49. Japan and the World in Cultural Debate Uchimura Kanzo Natsume Soseki Nishida Kitaro Endo Shusaku Mishima Yukio Oe Kenzaburo 50. Gender Politics and Feminism, by Brett de Bary Gender and Modernization Magazines for Women's Education Women and Labor Hiratsuka Raicho and the Bluestocking Society Postwar Japanese Feminism Aoki Yayoi and Ecofeminism Matsui Yayori and Asian Migrant Women in Japan Ueno Chizuko and the Cultural Context of Japanese Feminism Saito Chiyo and Japanese Feminism 51. Thinking with the Past: History Writing in Modern Japan, by Carol Gluck New Histories in Meiji Japan Taguchi Ukichi Shigeno Yasutsugu Kume Kunitake Marxist History Writing Writing About the Meiji Restoration Tokutomi Soho Noro Eitaro Nakamura Masanori Banno Junji Bito Masahide Shiba Ryotaro A High-School History Textbook Alternative Histories Ifa Fuyu Yanagita Kunio Takamure Itsue Maruyama Masao Irokawa Daikichi Yasumaru Yoshio The Asia-Pacific War in History and Memory Maruyama Masao Ienaga Saburo Oe Kenzaburo Fujiwara Akira Kobayashi Yoshinori Ishizaka Kei Twentieth-Century Design Stamps Rethinking the Nation Amino Yoshihiko Kano Masanao Arano Yasunori and Colleague

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Book SynopsisChallenges the notion that anti-Westernism in the Muslim world is a political and Offers a perspective on how religious tradition and the experience of European colonialism interacted with Muslim and non-Muslim discontent with globalization, the international order, and modernization.Trade ReviewThis volume is a rich intellectual history revealing the fascinating ways in which Pan-Islamism and Pan-Asianism were intertwined. -- Matthew Connelly, associate professor of history, Columbia University Cemil Aydin has written a fascinating book of exceptional scholarly quality. It explores elegantly, with impressive learning, the responses of Japanese and Ottoman civilizations to the West in the period 1880 to 1945. This study in the history of ideas is surprisingly relevant to such current concerns as 'the clash of civilizations' and 'the future of world order.' -- Richard A. Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice, emeritus, and emeritus professor of politics and international affairs, Princeton University Cemil Aydin presents a profound analysis of anti-Westernism that transcends simplistic polemics about 'why they hate us' and offers a significant contribution to understanding intercultural relations in the modern era. Combining expertise in Middle Eastern and Asian studies, Aydin joins a clear global perspective with an in-depth historical study. The result is a comprehensive understanding of one of the major themes of modern global affairs. -- John Voll, professor of Islamic history and associate director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University [Aydin] has a sure grasp of what is fundamental and what is merely of the moment. -- Lucian W. Pye Foreign Affairs Required reading for anyone researching the history of anti-Western ideology in Asia. -- Sven Saaler Pacific Affairs The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia should become required reading. H-Diplo Aydin's book offers a thorough and nuanced portrayal of Pan-Asian and Pan-Islamic thought. -- Michael Facius H-Soz-u-Kult ...an impressive work. -- Michael Farquhar Journal of Global History Aydin convincingly demonstrates that the evolution of anti-Westernisms cannot be divorced from non-Western intellectual and political engagement with concepts, ideals and values originating in Western modernity. Journal of Ottoman StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction2. The Universal West: Europe Beyond Its Christian and White Race Identity (1840–1882) 3. The Two Faces of the West: Imperialism Versus Enlightenment (1882–1905) 4. The Global Moment of the Russo-Japanese War: The Awakening of the East/Equality with the West (1905–1912)5. The Impact of WWI on Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asianist Visions of World Order 6. The Triumph of Nationalism? The Ebbing of Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Visions of World Order During the 1920s 7. The Revival of a Pan-Asianist Vision of World Order in Japan (1931–1945) 8. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCemil Aydin challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in the Muslim world is a reaction to the liberal democratic values of the West. He compares Ottoman Pan-Islamic and Japanese Pan-Asian visions of world order from the middle of the nineteenth century through World War II, focusing on the agency and achievements of non-Western intellectuals.Trade ReviewThis volume is a rich intellectual history revealing the fascinating ways in which Pan-Islamism and Pan-Asianism were intertwined. -- Matthew Connelly, associate professor of history, Columbia UniversityCemil Aydin has written a fascinating book of exceptional scholarly quality. It explores elegantly, with impressive learning, the responses of Japanese and Ottoman civilizations to the West in the period 1880 to 1945. This study in the history of ideas is surprisingly relevant to such current concerns as 'the clash of civilizations' and 'the future of world order.' -- Richard A. Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice, emeritus, and emeritus professor of politics and international affairs, Princeton UniversityCemil Aydin presents a profound analysis of anti-Westernism that transcends simplistic polemics about 'why they hate us' and offers a significant contribution to understanding intercultural relations in the modern era. Combining expertise in Middle Eastern and Asian studies, Aydin joins a clear global perspective with an in-depth historical study. The result is a comprehensive understanding of one of the major themes of modern global affairs. -- John Voll, professor of Islamic history and associate director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown UniversityAydin . . . identifies both deep currents in Asian intellectual history and popular views of power and politics. He has a sure grasp of what is fundamental and what is merely of the moment. -- Lucian W. Pye * Foreign Affairs *Required reading for anyone researching the history of anti-Western ideology in Asia. -- Sven Saaler * Pacific Affairs *[A]n impressive work. -- Michael Farquhar * Journal of Global History *An extremely well-researched book, bursting with arguments and insights . . . [that] will be a boon for scholars who are interested in East-West relations. * Ethics & International Affairs *The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia should become required reading. * H-Diplo *Aydin's book offers a thorough and nuanced portrayal of Pan-Asian and Pan-Islamic thought. -- Michael Facius * H-Soz-u-Kult *Aydin convincingly demonstrates that the evolution of anti-Westernisms cannot be divorced from non-Western intellectual and political engagement with concepts, ideals and values originating in Western modernity. * Journal of Ottoman Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction2. The Universal West: Europe Beyond Its Christian and White Race Identity (1840–1882) 3. The Two Faces of the West: Imperialism Versus Enlightenment (1882–1905) 4. The Global Moment of the Russo-Japanese War: The Awakening of the East/Equality with the West (1905–1912)5. The Impact of WWI on Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asianist Visions of World Order 6. The Triumph of Nationalism? The Ebbing of Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Visions of World Order During the 1920s 7. The Revival of a Pan-Asianist Vision of World Order in Japan (1931–1945) 8. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA collection of English-language readings on Japan. Containing materials on history, society, politics, education, philosophy, and religion, this text features an introduction to Japanese civilization. It also covers the Tokugawa period to 1868 and addresses the spread of neo-Confucianism and Buddhism and the encounters of Japan and the West.Table of ContentsPreface Explanatory Note Chronology Contributors Part IV. The Tokugawa Peace 20. Ieyasu and the Founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate, by Willem Boot 21. Confucianism in the Early Tokugawa Period, by Willem Boot 22. The Spread of Neo-Confucianism in Japan 23. The Evangelic Furnace: Japan's First Encounter with the West, by J. S. A. Elisonas 24. Confucian Revisionists, by Wm. Theodore de Bary and John A. Tucker 25. Varieties of Neo-Confucian Education 26. Popular Instruction 27. "Dutch Learning," by Grant Goodman 28. Eighteenth-Century Rationalism 29. The Way of the Warrior II 30. The National Learning Schools, by Peter Nosco 31. Buddhism in the Tokugawa Period 32. Orthodoxy, Protest, and Local Reform 33. Forerunners of the Restoration 34. The Debate over Seclusion and Restoration Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOffers rare insights into popular experiences from the war’s troubled beginnings through Japan’s disastrous defeat in 1945 and the new beginning it heraldedTrade ReviewGrassroots Fascism reveals, through the careful culling, instructive reading, and lucid contextualizing of an array of documents, a broad range of Japanese voices speaking of their experiences in wartime. It is a necessary book for understanding how life was lived and felt and articulated during these difficult years. -- Alan Tansman, University of California, Berkeley The translation of Yoshiaki Yoshimi's unprecedented Grassroots Fascism makes available his compelling narrative of popular participation in the actuality of Japanese fascism before and during the Pacific War. Although this classic work concentrates on how ordinary people were enlisted into Japan's fascist project, it also shows in rich detail the role they were willing to play as agents at the level of everyday life. Yoshimi's book joins a post-Cold War historiographical tradition that once more recognizes the necessity to take fascism seriously as a global conjunctural event. -- Harry Harootunian, Columbia University These searing and honest accounts drawn from the diaries and memoirs of ordinary Japanese soldiers and civilians make abundantly clear the brutality of the Japanese Imperial Army. They also reveal the suffering, the blind devotion, the gradually emerging seeds of doubt, and finally both the catharsis and the disillusionment that came with the collapse of the empire. Ethan Mark's excellent historiographic introduction places Yoshimi's work in the context of postwar Japan's long process of coming to terms with its imperialist past. A crucial contribution to our understanding of modern Japan. -- Jordan Sand, Georgetown University Yoshimi skillfully shows how people, who were initially opposed to the military government's policies, ultimately became fervent collaborators with the fascists and committed atrocities in various parts of the Asia Pacific during World War II. Yoshimi also challenges the difficult question of why the Japanese failed to develop a strong sense of war responsibility for victims of the Asian war despite their dire experiences. A valuable volume for comprehending why Japan as a nation is still unable to resolve the problem of war responsibility. -- Toshi Yuki Tanaka, author of Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II Ethan Mark's elegant translation... is sure to add a crucial level of complexity to the global scholarly discourse on the nature of Japan's war, and indeed on the social mechanics of war in general... Insightful, eminently readable. H-Net Japan This is an important work that anyone with an interest in historical disputes in East Asia should read. -- Lanxin Xiang Survival [Grassroots Fascism] offers a comprehensive narrative of the situation from the beginning of the war in Asia to the early days following surrender to the Allied forces. -- Eric Brittingham The Japan Times Drawing from an impressive array of primary sources... the book provides one of the richest articulations of the voices, beliefs, and attitudes developed by million of Japanese as they moved from their villages to the expanding boundaries of the wartime empire. Japanese Studies Ethan Mark deserves praise for translating this seminal work and for supplying a valuable introductory essay setting it in the broader context of Japanese scholarship. Asian Affairs This chronicle of wartime mentalities from the bottom up is essential reading for anyone interested in fascism conceptually and the Asia-Pacific Theater of World War II. It testifies to Yoshimi's unflinching scholarship and his ongoing quest to promote serious debate about Japan's wartime past. -- Eri Hotta World War II This book will enliven our classrooms and enrich historiographical discourses on war, empire, and fascism both within and beyond Japanese history Pacific Historical ReviewTable of ContentsTranslator's Introduction: The People in the War 1. From Democracy to Fascism 2. Grassroots Fascism 3. The Asian War 4. Democracy from the Battlefield Postscript Notes Index

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Book SynopsisConducting interviews with first-, second-, and third-generation members of Syria's Palestinian community, Anaheed Al-Hardan follows the evolution of the Nakba—the central signifier of the Palestinian refugee past and present—in Arab intellectual discourses, Syria's Palestinian politics, and the community's memorialization.Trade ReviewPalestinians in Syria is an original exploration of the evolution of memories of the traumatic events of the Nakba which affected the entire Arab population of Palestine in 1948. It skillfully traces how understanding of the valence and meaning of these events has changed over time. This book also constitutes the first major study of the Palestinian community in Syria, and it takes on added importance in light of the violent displacement of most of this community during the bitter fighting in and around Yarmouk camp near Damascus. -- Rashid Khalidi, author of Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness This extremely important and timely book provides a vivid portrait of the Palestinian refugee community in Syria-a community now dispersed by the war in that country. In its detailed analysis of Palestinian memories and histories of the devastating events of 1948, this study succeeds in demonstrating how the socially and economically integrated Palestinians in Syria were somehow different from other Palestinian refugees in the region. Although this book is about the Catastrophe of 1948, it is also about the Palestinian catastrophe in Syria today. -- Dawn Chatty, author of Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East What drives Palestinians in Syria is not the events of the Nakba but rather Nakba memories transferred through three generations, from those who experienced it up to the young of today. Anaheed Al-Hardan places her own identity as a third-generation refugee at the center of her thinking about uprooting and of her interactions with participants in her study, and she reflects critically on how this affected her research. She also carried out her research in a Palestinian exile region hardly touched by other researchers and has managed to incorporate effects of the ongoing civil war that has re-displaced thousands of Palestinian refugees in a new uprooting. -- Rosemary Sayigh, author of Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries An important and timely addition to the growing body of Nakba scholarship. Middle East Eye Provides a fascinating insight into a community now almost completely obliterated. Middle East Media and Book Reviews Online Especially in view of the impossibility of doing comparable research today, this book will be a valuable reference for years to come. -- Sally Bland The Jordan Times Palestinians in Syria is a well-researched, timely contribution to scholarship on refugees,memory, and the nakba. International Journal of Middle East Studies Palestinians in Syria is a must-read for scholars of Middle Eastern and Palestine Studies and an essential contribution to these fields for several reasons. Firstly, it is groundbreaking by its very nature as this is the first comprehensive academic monograph dedicated to the Palestinian community in Syria. Journal of Holy Land and Palestine StudiesTable of ContentsNote on Transliteration and Names Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: The Catastrophe of 1948, the Catastrophes of Today 1. The Nakba in Arab Thought 2. The Palestinian Refugee Community in Syria 3. The Right of Return Movement and Memories for the Return 4. Narrating Palestine, Transmitting Its Loss 5. The Guardians' Communities and Memories of Catastrophes 6. Second- and Third-Generation Postmemories of Palestine and Narratives on Nakba Memory Conclusion: The Catastrophes of Today, the Catastrophe of 1948 Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this book-length interview, Olivier Roy, a leading expert on political Islam, tells the story of how his many adventures and discoveries have shaped his understanding of the Islamic world. In Search of the Lost Orient is both a significant intellectual autobiography and a compelling travelogue.Trade ReviewOlivier Roy is one of the most important analysts of political Islam working today, arguably the single most insightful voice in a vast field. In Search of the Lost Orient provides a complete intellectual life story and argues that empirical research and a focus on concrete social practices must be the basis by which Islam and its intersection with politics must be understood. An engagingly written, impressive book that provides a rare and unique view of political Islam and one of its major thinkers. -- Benjamin Brower, University of Texas at AustinTable of ContentsForeword, by Olivier Mongin and Jean-Louis SchlegelPart I. Preamble1. Hitchhiking from Paris to Kabul: A Look Back at a DeparturePart II. From Louis-le-Grand to Dreux Via Afghanistan2. Louis-le-Grand, the May 1968 Revolution, and Learning Persian3. Louis-le-Grand, Normale sup’, and the Crisis of the Humanities4. Oriental Scents: From Yemen to China5. Return to the Fold6. Postcards and American Pool7. Professor at Dreux: Leftist, Away from Paris, and Happy8. Out of SchoolPart III. The Afghan Decade9. Once Again, and for Real, Afghanistan10. On Foot, on Horseback, and Wearing a Burka in Wartime Afghanistan11. Blue Helmets and Russian Bombs12. The Failure of Political Islam13. War Experience: Prisoners and Bandits14. Jihad15. The Afghan CircusPart IV. The Central Asia Decade16. A Soviet Invitation to Central Asia17. A Diplomatic Passport18. The Expert and the Politician19. Marriage: The Orient Lost and FoundPart V. Cultures and the Universally Human: Toward Holy Ignorance20. The Crisis of Cultures and the Universal21. What Was Good About Orientalism22. Against the Secularists’ Essentialism23. The Decade 2000–2010: Where Were You on September 11, 2001?Part VI. The Importance of a Religious Genealogy24. Portrait of a Young Protestant in the 1950s and ’60s25. Can One Think One’s Own Life?Epilogue: A Story to End All StoriesNotes

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Book SynopsisMohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar traces half a century of shifting Islamist doctrines, demonstrating that religious narratives in Iran can change rapidly, frequently, and dramatically in accordance with elites’ threat perceptions. Religious Statecraft constructs a new picture of Iranian politics in which power drives Islamist ideology.Trade ReviewContinually changing narratives, based on individual, factional, or regime interests, rather than any consistent or immutable commitment to Islamic teachings and principles, define the ebbs and flows of Iran's postrevolutionary politics. As Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar puts it, 'there is no such thing as political Islam. There is, however, a politics of Islam.' Through meticulous and extensive use of official, semiofficial, independent, and oppositional media, both in Iran and abroad, Religious Statecraft illustrates and persuasively proves this argument. -- Ali Banuazizi, Boston CollegeTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: The Politics of Islam1. The Factional Causes and Religious Consequences of Politics2. A Shi’a Theory of the State3. The “Islamic” Revolution4. Institutionalizing Velayat-e Faqih5. The Hostage Crisis: The Untold Account of the Communist Threat6. Religion and Elite Competition in the Iran–Iraq War7. The Metamorphosis of Islamism After the War8. The Factional Battle Over Khomeini’s Velayat-e Faqih9. Media, Religion, and the Green Movement10. Historical Revisionism and Regional Threats11. The Domestic Sources of Nuclear PoliticsConclusionNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisLong a bastion of antigovernment feeling, the Ozark region today is home to fervent strains of conservative-influenced sentiment. Does rural heritage play an exceptional role in the perpetuation of these attitudes? Have such outlooks been continuous? J. Blake Perkins searches for the roots of rural defiance in the Ozarks--and discovers how it changed over time. Eschewing generalities, Perkins focuses on the experiences and attitudes of rural people themselves as they interacted with government from the late nineteenth century through the twentieth century.He uncovers the reasons local disputes and uneven access to government power fostered markedly different reactions by hill people as time went by. Resistance in the earlier period sprang from upland small farmers'' conflicts with capitalist elites who held the local levers of federal power. But as industry and agribusiness displaced family farms after World War II, a conservative cohort of town business elites, local political offiTrade Review"Hillbilly Hellraisers challenges the seemingly uncontroversial claim that antigovernment sentiment has enjoyed exception continuity among rural working-class Americans." --Journal of Appalachian Studies"This is a very good book about the roots of resistance and rebellion in the Arkansas Ozarks in response to federal government attempts to effect social and economic change in the region from the late 19th to the early 21st century. . . . Highly recommended."--OzarksWatch"Hillbilly Hellraisers represents an important contribution to rural history and a valuable narrative of those who struggled to confront the changes that reshaped the region. It's strongest moments derive from the individual stories of those who sought to hold on to their farms and their traditional modes of living."--Arkansas Review "Perkins produces an engaging political history of the communities in the Ozark Mountain region of northwest Arkansas. . . . While steeped in local history, this book also provides insights into how rural people react to federalism. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice"This is an important book, one that fills a much-needed historiographic niche, and one that opens the door for further study into the political culture of not only the Arkansas Ozarks, but rural America as a whole."--Elder Mountain: Journal of Ozark Studies"Perkins should earn applause for his spirited, well researched, provocative study." --Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Reviews"Hillbilly Hellraisers would benefit anyone interested in the roots of US rural poverty and our contemporary politics of division." --Missouri Historical Review"Perkins has written a smart, provocative, and important book." --Journal of the Gilded Age & Progressive Era "Perkins writes with verve, humor, and minimal jargon, focusing tightly on his thesis. This insightful addition to the University of Illinois Press's Working Class in American History series makes a welcome contribution to local and regional history." --The Journal of American History "Put Hillbilly Hellraisers on your bookshelf, next to other works about rural radicalism and conservatism." --American Historical Review "Perkins has meticulously researched the development of populism and the resulting defiance of the yeomanry of the Arkansas Ozarks. . . . By avoiding generalities, the author breaks through easy stereotypes to arrive at the specific circumstances that led to the development of the conservative Ozarker mindset." --Kansas History "In an age of deepening political and cultural divisions between the rural and urban sections of the United States, studies that seek to explain the source of rural conservative anti-elite and antigovernment politics are needed more than ever. Perkin's contribution definitely advances our understanding of this phenomenon." --Labor "Hillbilly Hellraisers is an important study because it sheds light on the failures of rural reforms that bred discontent. Perkins's detailed investigations uncover highly localized power dynamics, while his century-long scope reveals the broader evolution of resistance to federal power." --Rural History "Hillbilly Hellraisers is a stunningly original work that manages to clarify the actions of a misunderstood people at the same time that it reasserts complexity into their allegedly simple lives. Blake Perkins reminds us that regional stories have national, even universal, significance, but to truly appreciate that significance we have to first approach the stories of Ozarkers and other regional groups on their own terms and on their own turf. A must-read for anyone studying the Upland South and for those seeking a fuller understanding of the changing nature of antigovernment protest."--Brooks Blevins, author of Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the Upland South "Using the Arkansas Ozarks as a case study, J. Blake Perkins sheds new light on the rise of antigovernment conservatism in rural America during the twentieth century. Well written and thoroughly researched, his book is a welcome addition to the study of modern politics."--Bruce E. Stewart, author of Blood in the Hills: A History of Violence in Appalachia

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Hillbilly Hellraisers challenges the seemingly uncontroversial claim that antigovernment sentiment has enjoyed exception continuity among rural working-class Americans." --Journal of Appalachian Studies"This is a very good book about the roots of resistance and rebellion in the Arkansas Ozarks in response to federal government attempts to effect social and economic change in the region from the late 19th to the early 21st century. . . . Highly recommended."--OzarksWatch"Hillbilly Hellraisers represents an important contribution to rural history and a valuable narrative of those who struggled to confront the changes that reshaped the region. It's strongest moments derive from the individual stories of those who sought to hold on to their farms and their traditional modes of living."--Arkansas Review "Perkins produces an engaging political history of the communities in the Ozark Mountain region of northwest Arkansas. . . . While steeped in local history, this book also provides insights into how rural people react to federalism. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice"This is an important book, one that fills a much-needed historiographic niche, and one that opens the door for further study into the political culture of not only the Arkansas Ozarks, but rural America as a whole."--Elder Mountain: Journal of Ozark Studies"Perkins should earn applause for his spirited, well researched, provocative study." --Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Reviews"Hillbilly Hellraisers would benefit anyone interested in the roots of US rural poverty and our contemporary politics of division." --Missouri Historical Review"Perkins has written a smart, provocative, and important book." --Journal of the Gilded Age & Progressive Era "Perkins writes with verve, humor, and minimal jargon, focusing tightly on his thesis. This insightful addition to the University of Illinois Press's Working Class in American History series makes a welcome contribution to local and regional history." --The Journal of American History "Put Hillbilly Hellraisers on your bookshelf, next to other works about rural radicalism and conservatism." --American Historical Review "Perkins has meticulously researched the development of populism and the resulting defiance of the yeomanry of the Arkansas Ozarks. . . . By avoiding generalities, the author breaks through easy stereotypes to arrive at the specific circumstances that led to the development of the conservative Ozarker mindset." --Kansas History "In an age of deepening political and cultural divisions between the rural and urban sections of the United States, studies that seek to explain the source of rural conservative anti-elite and antigovernment politics are needed more than ever. Perkin's contribution definitely advances our understanding of this phenomenon." --Labor "Hillbilly Hellraisers is an important study because it sheds light on the failures of rural reforms that bred discontent. Perkins's detailed investigations uncover highly localized power dynamics, while his century-long scope reveals the broader evolution of resistance to federal power." --Rural History "Hillbilly Hellraisers is a stunningly original work that manages to clarify the actions of a misunderstood people at the same time that it reasserts complexity into their allegedly simple lives. Blake Perkins reminds us that regional stories have national, even universal, significance, but to truly appreciate that significance we have to first approach the stories of Ozarkers and other regional groups on their own terms and on their own turf. A must-read for anyone studying the Upland South and for those seeking a fuller understanding of the changing nature of antigovernment protest."--Brooks Blevins, author of Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the Upland South "Using the Arkansas Ozarks as a case study, J. Blake Perkins sheds new light on the rise of antigovernment conservatism in rural America during the twentieth century. Well written and thoroughly researched, his book is a welcome addition to the study of modern politics."--Bruce E. Stewart, author of Blood in the Hills: A History of Violence in Appalachia

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Book SynopsisFocusing on Romania from 1945 to 2016, Socialist Heritage explores the socialist state's attempt to create its own heritage, as well as the legacy of that project. Contrary to arguments that the socialist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe aimed to erase the pre-war history of the socialist cities, Emanuela Grama shows that the communist state in Romania sought to exploit the past for its own benefit. The book traces the transformation of a central district of Bucharest, the Old Town, from a socially and ethnically diverse place in the early 20th century, into an epitome of national history under socialism, and then, starting in the 2000s, into the historic center of a European capital. Under socialism, politicians and professionals used the district's historic buildings, especially the ruins of a medieval palace discovered in the 1950s, to emphasize the city's Romanian past and erase its ethnically diverse history. Since the collapse of socialism, the cultural and economic value ofTrade ReviewThe volume presents a nuanced analysis of material heritage and its strategic use during the socialist period in Romania's capital city Bucharest and its continued legacy today. What is refreshing in this book, apart from the careful documentation and wealth of archival sources consulted, is the fact that the author brought together sources from fields that are not seemingly directly connected to heritage studies. Grama gracefully moves across different areas through with her use of secondary sources, bringing together urban planning, political studies, economic and social analyses. Grama also brings together key anthropological research studies on Romania, both national and international. -- Cristina Clopot * International Journal of Heritage Studies *The strengths of this book are the breadth of the data sources, which have enabled the author to uncover in detail how change in a particular historic urban landscape is shaped by broader issues of power and identity (in both socialist and post-socialist contexts). Socialist Heritage will be of interest to postgraduate students and academic researchers in disciplines such as history, anthropology, human geography, urban studies and sociology. For anybody wanting to understand Bucharest's Old Town there is no better source available. Indeed, over the course of 25 years I have frequently wandered around the Old Town and found myself asking "why is it like this?". Now, after reading Socialist Heritage, I know. -- Duncan Light * Eurasian Geography and Economics *Grama does a brilliant job bringing this story to our attention and explaining why we should care about it. Her book deserves to be widely read. * Survival *An outstanding contribution in the field of anthropology of heritage. -- Dana Domsodi * Sociologia *Grama takes us through a journey of how the heritage discourse was first constructed and operationalized through archaeological, historiographic, and urban planning activities under state socialism, and then repurposed as well as contested after 1989, with results that show profound fissures in the ability to deploy "heritage" as a successful legitimating tool. . . . Overall, the book offers a vivid and provocative analysis of the politics of urban planning in Bucharest after World War II. The arc of the narrative highlights the huge gaps between policy makers and citizens who bear the brunt of these heritage entrepreneurs' ambitions for power and money. -- Maria Bucur * ANTHROPOLOGICAL QUARTERLY *The book is beautifully written, and readers from different disciplinary backgrounds interested in topics as diverse as socialism and postsocialism, the materiality of the state and city, architecture and its political power, including the making of urban heritage, will find enough to enrich their own reflections. -- Antonela Capelle Pogacean * H-Urban *Emanuela Grama's Socialist Heritage: The Politics of Past and Place in Romania is a compelling exploration of heritage making as state-making through the lens of the postwar and postcommunist transformations of Bucharest's Old Town. . . . A theoretically dense but engagingly written book, Socialist Heritage is a must-read not only for specialists of (post)socialist Romania and eastern Europe, but also for students and researchers of nationalism, urbanization and heritage making, history (re)writing, the role of experts under socialism, postcommunist efforts of Europeanization, and privatization as gentrification, or ruination as commodification. -- Diana Georgescu * Slavic Review *This book is well-grounded in empirical data, especially archival (for the socialist period) and ethnographic (for both socialist and especially postsocialist circumstances)—the interpretation of the sources and the extracts from the documents and interlocutors' statements vividly reveal discourses of politics, experts and residents related to the Old Town's (re)making, and not just regarding the area's heritage. -- Srdjan Radovic * Comparative Southeast European Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Tensed Urban Visions: Making Bucharest into a Socialist Capital2. Matters of State: Archaeology, Materiality, and State-Making 3. Time-Travelling Houses and Histories Made Invisible 4. Lipstick and Lined Pockets: Strategic Devaluation and Postsocialist Wealth 5. Displacements: Property, Privatization, and Precarity in a Europeanizing CityConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisMixing It Up brings together the observations of ten noted voices who have experienced multiracialism first-hand.Trade Review"These essays do a wonderful job of blending theory and practice... This collection embraces a number of tensions [that] raise provocative questions about the nature of identity and the relationship between identity and social justice... This collection should have broad appeal." Diane Raymond, Dean and Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies, Simmons CollegeTable of Contents Preface (Naomi Zack) Acknowledgments Introduction (SanSan Kwan and Kenneth Speirs) I. Issues and Trends 1. American Mixed Race: The United States 2000 Census and Related Issues (Naomi Zack) 2. Misceg-narrations (Raquel Scherr Salgado) II. Multiracial Subjects 3. A Passionate Occupant of the Transnational Transit Lounge (Adrian Carton) 4. Miscegenation and Me (Richard Guzman) 5. "What Is She Anyway?": Rearranging Bodily Mythologies (Orathai Northern) 6. Resemblance (Alice White) 7. "Brown Like Me": Explorations of a Shifting Self (Stefanie Dunning) 8. Toward a Multiethnic Cartography: Multiethnic Identity, Monoracial Cultural Logic, and Popular Culture (Evelyn Alsultany) 9. Keeping Up Appearances: Ethnic Alien-Nation in Female Solo Performance (Cathy Irwin and Sean Metzger) 10. Against Erasure: The Multiracial Voice in Cherríe Moraga's Loving in the War Years (Carole DeSouza) About the Contributors

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Book SynopsisAn ethnography of the Coeur d'Alene Indians of Idaho focusing on the bonds between a people and the landscape of their traditional homeland.Table of ContentsForeword by Ernie Stensgar, MXw Qin Acknowledgments Introduction to Schitsu’umsh Landscape 1. Since Time Immemorial: precontact society 2. Winds of Change: contact history 3. Preparing the World 4. Receiving the Gifts 5. Sharing the Gifts It’s Home: Conclusion Appendix A: research considerations Appendix B: List of plants and animals Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAs the twenty-first century begins, tens of millions of people participate in devotions to the spirits called Orisa. This book explores the emergence of Orisa devotion as a world religion, one of the most remarkable and compelling developments in the history of the human religious quest.Trade ReviewShaped by the transatlantic slave trade, Christianity, Islam, colonialism, and, now, globalization, Yoruba religious culture remains dynamic and inspirational. This volume goes beyond the usual tendency in Diaspora studies to focus on cultural retention. It is a significant contribution. - Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome, Brooklyn College, City University of New York

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Book SynopsisLike the history of women, dance has been difficult to capture as a historical subject. This volume sheds light on women's roles as performers of dance, choreographers, shapers of aesthetic trends, and patrons of dance in Italy, France, England, and Germany before 1800.Trade ReviewA fascinating collection that illuminates women's early work in dance with fresh information and keen insights. - Sandra Noll Hammond, professor emerita and director of dance, University of Hawai'i ""Women's Work is a welcome addition to the sparse body of scholarly work that concentrates on dance practices and the accomplishments of women before 1800. But this intriguing volume is also replete with thought-provoking discussions that resonate far beyond its early dance time frame, probing issues that are well worthy of discussion within the larger framework of dance history."" - Elizabeth Aldrich

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Book SynopsisAmerica emerged from the Reagan years transformed: socially, politically, technologically, and economically. This book tracks the changes of the 1980s in the context of Ronald Reagan's policies and convictions, providing a portrait of a president and of the watershed decade over which he presided.Trade Review"Ehrman's work deserves to become one of the standard reference works for the Reagan period." Steven F. Hayward, Weekly Standard "John Ehrman combines meticulous research, intellectual honesty, originality, and common sense to produce an interpretation of the Reagan era that is illuminating, refreshing, and highly readable." Glen Jeansonne, Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Mr. Ehrman has... produced a fascinating tableau of the Reagan era... A brilliant new book, fully deserving its place on the Reagan bookshelf." Robert M. Smalley, Washington Times"

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Book SynopsisThe first book to examine the transformation of sporting cultures in South America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuriesTrade Review“This book offers deep and nuanced insight into the sporting world in South America and is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the intricate dance between sports, globalization, urbanization, culture, and identity. It will guide scholars and aficionados through the early years of South American sports, and will become a classic.”—Christopher Gaffney, New York University“Matthew Brown’s excellent book on the development of sport in South America before 1930 is not just for sports historians. His pathbreaking study provides significant insights on several sociocultural themes that are central to modern Latin American history—race, gender, neocolonialism, violence, and social discipline.”—Rory M. Miller, author of Britain and Latin America in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries“There is no such thing as a definitive history, but this first history of sports in South America is simply brilliant and unmatched. Matthew Brown has written a reference work for scholars and amateurs.”— Pablo Alabarces, University of Buenos Aires“This book shows how South America’s preexisting sporting cultures intertwined and shaped global sporting history from 1862 until 1930. Brown’s insightful attention to local and touring sporting practices, experiences, and debates suggest new paths toward the decolonization of sports history.”—Ingrid Johanna Bolívar Ramirez, University of the Andes (Bogotá)

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Book SynopsisThe Moral Lives of Israelis explores the last ten years of life in Israel, a sixty-one-year-old country that has never not been in a state of war. The last words given to David Berlin by his father, a Sabra who had fought for Israel's independence, were not words of love for his son and his grandchildren, but this command: Look after my little country. These words set off a huge voyage of exploration and remembrance for Berlin.      The result is a thrilling blend of memoir, reportage and original thinking on the place of Israel in the world. The fundamental question that floats over every page of this passionate book is, with so many missteps and in a region deeply fraught with antagonism, racism and misunderstanding, how can Israel move forward? After many dead ends and twists and turns, it is the nineteenth-century visionary father of Zionism, Theodor Herzl, who ultimately sparks Berlin's dream for Israel in the twenty-first century--i

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Book SynopsisAn investigative journalist uncovers a hidden custom in Afghanistan that will transform your understanding of what it means to grow up as a girl.  “An astonishingly clear picture of this resourceful, if imperfect, solution to the problem of girlhood in a society where women have few rights and overwhelming restrictions.”—The Boston Globe In Afghanistan, a culture ruled almost entirely by men, the birth of a son is cause for celebration and the arrival of a daughter is often mourned as misfortune. A bacha posh (literally translated from Dari as “dressed up like a boy”) is a third kind of child—a girl temporarily raised as a boy and presented as such to the outside world. Jenny Nordberg, the reporter who broke the story of this phenomenon for the New York Times, constructs a powerful and moving account of those secretly living on the other side of a deeply segregated society where wom

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Book Synopsis'India and Pakistan' provides an historical understanding of the chequered process of nation-building in the subcontinent. In particular, Talbot examines the role of 'parochial' allegiances and the impact of contemporary processes of economic and cultural globalisation on nationalist and localist allegiances.Trade Review'A thoughtful and up-to-date account that will be of great value to all those interested in the history of nationalism in South Asia.' English Historical Review '...a pithy commentary on the formation of modern national identities in the subcontinent.' Commonwealth and Comparative PoliticsTable of ContentsThe impact of the west and the rise of Indian nationalism; the Hindu tradition and nationalist ideology; competing identities in colonial India; the achievement of nationhood; nation, state and society in post-independence India and Pakistan.

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Book SynopsisIt took a quarter-century of bad strategy, including more than a dozen years of Western air attacks and invasions in the Middle East, to bring the so-called Islamic State into existence. Can we somehow manage to avoid the well-trodden path of overreacting to the provocations of Islamist extremists?       With the rise of ISIS, a new style of terrorism that publicly gloats over acts of extreme cruelty has reawakened the fears of the global audience. But in Don't Panic, Gwynne Dyer argues that the advent of Islamic State and its clones does not substantially raise the risk of major terrorist attacks in Western countries. It does, however, pose a grave threat to the Arab countries of the Middle East. In Don't Panic, Dyer first explains why the Middle East has become the global capital of terrorism. He then examines how terrorist organisations in the Arab world have evolved over time, with particular emphasis on the events of

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Book SynopsisThe problem with the history of twentieth-century Europe is that everyone thinks they know it. The great stories of the century - the two world wars, the rise and fall of Nazism and communism, female emancipation - seem self-evidently important. But behind the grand narratives, the politics and the ideologies, lies another history: the history of forces that shaped the lives of individual Europeans.That is the thrust of Richard Vinen''s magisterial survey of this uniquely destructive and creative century. It argues that there is no single history that encompasses the experience of all Europeans, but rather a multiplicity of different, partially interlocking, histories. Some of these histories are told here in a book which seeks to root the generalisations of large-scale analysis in the concrete - and sometimes incongruous - details of individual lives. Challenging, informing and revealing, this is history writing at its finest.Trade ReviewFascinating and immensely readable...often sums up key moments in soundbite phrases that imprint themselves beautifully on the memory. * GLASGOW SUNDAY HERALD *Beautifully written, and can be confidently recommended to anyone seeking to make sense of our recent history. * DAILY TELEGRAPH *A master of telling fact and illuminating insight, Vinen somehow manages to be both opinionated and objective. * Andrew Roberts *I admired [A HISTORY IN FRAGMENTS] very much indeed. It struck me as a tour de force, as impressive in its collation of little-known facts as in its presentation of fresh and always intelligent interpretation. * Anthony Howard *

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