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McGill-Queen's University Press Psychedelic New York
Book SynopsisAs LSD moves towards the medical mainstream, it continues to evoke powerful memories of the psychedelic sixties and west coast counterculture. In this lively account, Chris Elcock follows a different branch of psychedelic history one that is sprawling, layered, and centred on New York City. A major hub for the production and consumption of LSD and other hallucinogenic drugs, New York spawned a unique psychedelic culture that reverberated through the city, from psychoanalytic circles to artists' studios, Greenwich Village to Central Park. Based on years of archival research, interviews with former acid heads, and a range of cultural artifacts, Psychedelic New York shows how the postwar city was at the forefront of LSD medical research, the burgeoning of psychedelic art, drug-accompanied spiritual seeking, and a proliferation of drug subcultures. Elcock recounts stories of New Yorkers such as Holocaust survivor Nina Graboi and artist Isaac Abrams, whose lives were dramatTrade Review“Previous research on LSD in the US focused on California, but Elcock persuasively argues that New York City was at least as important. Recommended.” Choice
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John Wiley & Sons Countercurrents Womens Movements in Postwar
Book SynopsisCountercurrents rewrites the history of post-war feminism in Montreal by incorporating parallel social movements, such as Red Power, Black Power, and Quebec liberation, into the larger narrative of the women’s movement. Case studies compare and reflect on the histories and political work of various feminist groups in Quebec.Trade Review“Amanda Ricci's history of diverse Montreal feminist groups gives us a new perspective on contemporary feminist activism, expanding the history of feminism by giving sustained attention – if not pride of place – to minority or racialized women activists and organizations heretofore neglected in scholarship. Clear and complex, Countercurrents shows that the roots to this vast social movement run deeper than we thought, and that its aspirations and struggles go well beyond the borders of Quebec.” Denyse Baillargeon, Université de Montréal“Countercurrents is a rich monograph that co tributes to the interlocking histories of gender, race, and self-determination in contemporary Quebec. The book’s specific interest in space and place makes it useful for urban historians too.” Urban History Review
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McGill-Queen's University Press Fashioning Acadians
Book SynopsisWhat people wore in the distant past is often challenging to determine, owing to the disintegration of natural textiles and materials over time. Yet when new findings from archaeological excavations are compared with documentation about early Acadia, a fascinating picture of the society's early fashions is revealed.Fashioning Acadians is a history of clothesmaking and dress in Acadia from 1650 to 1750. Through the analysis of four Acadian settlements in what is now Nova Scotia, Hilary Doda uncovers the regional fashions and trends that had begun to emerge prior to the violence of the deportations of 1755. Men's and women's wardrobes are described from head to toe, from headdresses and hairstyles down to stockings and shoes, along with accessories such as buttons, buckles, and jewellery. While Acadians retained many aspects of the fashion systems of France, New France, and New England, a distinctive Acadian identity can be seen to take shape as their dress evolved andTrade Review“Fashioning Acadians is an innovative and path-breaking study that is not only a crucially important work in Acadian history but also a leading model of the importance of material culture analysis in early modern history more generally.” John G. Reid, Saint Mary's University and author of Essays on Northeastern North America: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries“A major contribution to the literature, this book will be a solid reference work for years to come for researchers of Canadian dress and culture. Hilary Doda’s methodology – of assessing the archaeological evidence for what is missing, and the documentary evidence for what is known – offers a great example for future studies on dress cultures for which little material evidence exists.” Linda Welters, University of Rhode Island and co-author of Fashion History: A Global View
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John Wiley & Sons Before Canada
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This collection builds upon earlier scholarship on Canada’s distant past and pushes resolutely at its boundaries. The variety of topics is dazzling, offering a valuable sample of current research on this elusive period of global history.” Margaret Conrad, University of New Brunswick and author of A Concise History of Canada
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Constructing Leisure Historical and Philosophical Debates
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Columbia University Press The Scaffolding of Sovereignty
Book SynopsisThe Scaffolding of Sovereignty deploys a comparative and theoretically rich conception of sovereignty to reconsider the different schemes on which it has been based or renewed, the public stages on which it is erected or destroyed, and the images and ideas on which it rests.Trade ReviewThat sovereign power is often fragile and never established once and for all is the startling proposition that organizes this spectacularly interesting sequence of investigations. Sovereignty is impossible to study, the essays propose, without attention to its ‘scaffolding,’ defined as all the symbolic management that power continually requires. Leaping across time and spanning the world, The Scaffolding of Sovereignty showcases scholarly gems that together reflect how the crown of sovereignty is kept in place—and sometimes slips. -- Samuel Moyn, author of Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal WorldThis volume showcases the best of global intellectual history. Sovereignty emerges as a complex force: aesthetically layered, politically mutable, historically contingent, and consistently elusive. At the same time, despite the apparent Eurocentrism of the concept's recent lineage, readers will come away convinced of the importance of sovereignty as an analytical category, key to making sense of political culture in world history and political thought in global context. -- Lauren Benton, author of A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400–1900Joining performance studies with philosophy, theology, and ethnography, the figure of the scaffold aptly evokes the symbolic supports and global visibility of sovereignty today. The contributors to this ambitious collection of essays fearlessly disclose recurrent features of sovereignty across time and space, often beginning immanently with the cosmic cartographies generated by particular regimes and projected in aesthetic displays, liturgical exercises, and citational enterprises that reveal common themes in the global drama of majesty. -- Julia Reinhard Lupton, University of California, IrvineThis is a wide-ranging, stimulating, challenging collection of essays. -- Jerrold Seigel, William J. Kenan, Jr., Professor of History Emeritus at New York University.Table of ContentsForeword, by Dick HowardEditors' Introduction, by Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Nicole JerrPart I. StagesPreface1. Sad Stories of the Death of Kings: Sovereignty and Its Constraints in Greek Tragedy and Elsewhere, by Glenn W. Most2. Contested Sovereignty: Heaven, the Monarch, the People, and the Intellectuals in Traditional China, by Yuri Pines3. Nurhaci's Gambit: Sovereignty as Concept and Praxis in the Rise of the Manchus, by Nicola Di Cosmo4. The Living Image of the People, by Jason FrankPart II. CourtsPreface5. Public Health, the State, and Religious Scholarship: Sovereignty in Idrīs al-Bidlīsī's Arguments for Fleeing the Plague, by Justin Stearns6. The Dancing Despot: Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the Performative Symbolism of Power, by Stanca Scholz-Cionca7. Liberal Constitutionalism and the Sovereign Pardon, by Bernadette Meyler8. The Vanishing Slaves of Paris: The Lettre de Cachet and the Emergence of an Imperial Legal Order in Eighteenth-Century France, by Miranda Spieler9. Re-touching the Sovereign: Biochemistry of Perpetual Leninism, by Alexei YurchakPart III. ActsPreface10. Hijra and Exile: Islam and Dual Sovereignty in Qing China, by Zvi Ben-Dor Benite11. The Neurology of Regicide: Decapitation Experiments and the Science of Sovereignty, by Cathy Gere12. The "Millennium" of 1857: The Last Performance of the Great Mughal, by A. Azfar Moin13. Exit the King? Modern Theater and the Revolution, by Nicole JerrPart IV. ShiftsPreface14. Revolution in Permanence and the Fall of Popular Sovereignty, by Dan Edelstein15. Exile Within Sovereignty: Critique of "The Negation of Exile" in Israeli Culture, by Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin16. Affective Sovereignty, International Law, and China's Legal Status in the Nineteenth Century, by Li Chen17. The Sovereignty of the New Man After Wagner: Artist and Hero, Symbolic History, and the Staging of Origins, by Stefanos GeroulanosList of ContributorsIndex
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Columbia University Press Education Under Mao
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Columbia University Press The Rise of the Marginal Utility School 18701889
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Columbia University Press Primitive Passions
Book SynopsisChow situates contemporary Chinese film within the broad context of Chinese history and culture, giving readers a glimpse of the unique shared identity that characterizes the current crop of outstanding filmmakers, such as Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou.Trade ReviewA rich and powerful work that provides both a dazzling synthesis of contemporary cultural theory and at the same time an exemplary critique of Chinese cinema. It is a book to be read and re-read and is thus highly recommended because it is more than a film book. It engages directly with the problems Chinese culture faces in a changing world. China Information
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Columbia University Press The Dream of a New Social Order
Book SynopsisThis study explores how magazines became the first mass medium in the USA and how they expressed a new American culture built on dreams of a better future. The author argues that the birth of the popular magazine at the turn of the 20th century laid the foundations of the modern consumer culture.
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Columbia University Press A Social and Religious History of the Jews
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Columbia University Press A Social and Religious History of the Jews Late Middle Ages and Era of European Expansion 12001650 Economic Catalyst Late Middle Ages Era of European Expansion 12001650
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Columbia University Press A Social and Religious History of the Jews
Book SynopsisDesigned to accompany the 18-volume reference work, this index contains the names, events and dates that appear in the last 9 volumes of the set. It includes a chronological table of principal events and personalities.
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Columbia University Press The Jews in America
Book SynopsisA controversial examination of the Jewish "success story" in American that questions notions of identity, assimilation, and ethnicity.Trade ReviewA useful and scrupulously fair account of what is a true American epic. The New York Times Book Review A trenchant history... Arthur Hertzberg is sounding an alarm that no Jew can afford to ignore if he cares about the survival of American Jewry. The Boston Globe [Hertzberg's] book, which is a product of lived experience as well as wide reading, springs from dedication rather than detachment. It is certainly an affectionate narrative of achievements and of the notable Jews identified with them. New York Review of Books
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Columbia University Press Sources of Chinese Tradition From Earliest Times
Book SynopsisA collection of primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of China, this text provides a resource for scholars and students and an introduction for general readers.Table of ContentsPart 1. The Chinese Tradition in Antiquity 1. The Oracle-Bone Inscriptions of the Late Shang Dynasty, by David N. Keightley 2. Classical Sources of Chinese Tradition, by Burton Watson, David S. Nivison, Irene Bloom 3. Confucius and the Analects, by Irene Bloom 4. Mozi: Utilitarianism, Uniformity, and Universal Love, by Burton Watson 5. The Way of Laozi and Zhuangzi 6. The Evolution of the Confucian Tradition in Antiquity 7. Legalists and Militarists Part 2. The Making of a Classical Culture 8. The Han Reaction to Qin Despotism 9. Syncretic Visions of State, Society, and Cosmos, by Harold Roth, Sarah Queen, Nathan Sivin 10. The Imperial Order and Han Syntheses 11. The Economic Order, by Burton Watson, Wm. Theodore deBary 12. The Great Han Historians, by Burton Watson Part 3. Later Daoism and Mahyana Buddhism in China 13. Learning of the Mysterious, by Richard John Lynn, Wing-tsit Chan, Irene Bloom 14. Daoist Religion, by Franciscus Verellen, Nathan Sivin, et al. 15. The Introduction of Buddhism, by Leon Hurvitz, Tsai Heng-ting 16. Schools of Buddhist Doctrine, by Leon Hurvitz, Burton Watson, Daniel Stevenson, George Tanabe, Wing-Tsit Chan 17. Schools of Buddhist Practice, by Leon Hurvitz, Daniel Stevenson, Philip B. Yampolsky, Chun-fang Yu Part 4. The Confucian Revival and Neo-Confucianism Social Life and Political Culture in the Tang The Confucian Revival in the Song Neo-Confucianism: The Philosophy of Human Nature and the Way of the Sage Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucian Program, by Wm. Theodore deBary Ideological Foundations of Late Imperial China, by Wm. Theodore deBary, Edward Farmer, John Dardess Neo-Confucian Education, by Wm. Thedore deBary Self and Society in the Ming Glossary Bibliography Pinyin to Wade-Giles Romanization Chart Index
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Columbia University Press The Columbia Guide to Modern Japanese History
Book SynopsisThe first all-inclusive, single-volume guide to the history of modern Japan-conveniently divided into easy-to-use sections that provide a narrative, topical compendium, resource guide, and selected documentsTrade ReviewThis is a very good book... [Allinson's] historical narrative is excellent. It is spare in the trivia that hinder general readers, and rich in analysis and interpretation. -- Louis G. Perez Journal of Asian History In the Columbia Guide, Gary Allinson has given us an innovative and reliable narrative and usable reference tools for Japan's modern history. It has practical value as an introduction to the study of Japan and as a reference volume for Japanologists. -- Thomas W. Burkman The Journal of Asian StudiesTable of ContentsI: Historical Narrative 1. Preserving Autonomy, 1850--1889 2. Integrating the Nation, 1890--1931 3. Fighting for Development, 1932--1973 4. Adapting to Affluence, 1974--Present II: Topical Compendium 1. Japan 2. Emperors 3. Political Leaders 4. Military Leaders 5. Business Leaders 6. Business Associations, Enterprises, and Firms 7. Bureaucracy 8. State-Guided Organizations 9. Political Parties 10. Opposition Movements 11. Education 12. Male Writers 13. Female Writers III: Resource Guide 1. Printed Resources 2. Visual Resources 3. Electronic Resources
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Columbia University Press The Political Lives of Dead Bodies
Book SynopsisSince 1989, scores of bodies across Eastern Europe have been exhumed and brought to rest in new gravesites. Verdery investigates why certain corpses have taken on political life in the turbulent times following the end of Communist Party rule.Trade ReviewA pithy, and highly readable, example of current anthropological approaches to national-level politics. The emergence of such a focus on national-level processes is one of the most important developments in the anthropological study of politics today. -- David I. Kertzer Journal of Interdisciplinary History Unusual and provocative... designed to provoke discussion and debate, rather than close it. Slavic and East European Journal Verdery certainly deserves praise for having opened up an intriguing (and understudied) topic. The book leaves us hoping for a sequel. -- Derek Bickerton The New York Times Book Review For those jaded by a view of nationalis as ' a matter of territorial borders, state-making, "constructionism", or resource competition,' Verdery's work offers welcome refreshment. Social Anthropology Were Verdery not one of the premier anthropologists and specialists on eastern Europe, most readers might not take seriously a book that the author herself half-jokingly calls a study in political necrophilia...But this exploration... is entirely serious. Foreign Affairs The affairs of Eastern Europe, and especially those of the lands that were once Yugoslavia, now hold the attention of the entire world. Verdery gives readers a new angle of vision on this troubled region. -- Carl L. Bankston III Commonweal Writing about a topic involving corpses and reburials presents its own challenges, and Verdery has mastered them admirably. Neither lurid nor cynical, neither too dry nor too sanctimonious, her prose is on the whole matter-of-factly, but not without lighthearted moments. -- Gerhard Sonnert Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism
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Columbia University Press Literature
Book SynopsisIn the tradition of Ruskin and Arnold, here's a witty, elegant essay on the contemporary academy by a renowned teacher, scholar, and former administrator.Trade ReviewAn investigative and practical treatise on the state of the humanities. -- John Axcelson, Columbia University The Wordsworth Circle Woodring eloquently shows how philosophical divisiveness combined with dwindling economic resourses has created upheaval in today's litearture departments. -- Ellen Sullivan Library Journal Woodring... happily resists the temptation to pen a polemical culture-wars screed. Instead, he combines a short history of his discipline with sensible recommendations for its future. Publishers Weekly
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Columbia University Press The Columbia History of Latinos in the United
Book SynopsisDavid Gutierrez and his contributors have produced this volume that provides interpretations of recent Latino history, including the six major groups, as well as insight into the major areas of contention and debate that characterize Latino scholarship in the early 21st century.Trade ReviewAuthoritative collection...wisely eschews neat conclusions. -- Cheryl Harris Sharman San Francisco Chronicle The book is a valuable contribution. -- Susan J. Freiband American Reference Books Annual It will become a major reference for graduate and faculty research...Highly recommended. Choice This is an important and much-needed anthology of 11 essays covering various aspects of recent (1960 to present) U.S. Latino history. -- Orlando Archibeque Reforma Newsletter This essay collection is informative, thought-provoking, and well-timed. Western Historical Quarterly Gutierrez provides a realistic and powerful interpretation of the Latino experience in America. This book is a must read for researchers, policymakers, community leaders, educators, and, indeed, anyone wishing to study the Latino experience and influence on American life. -- Carmen Izaguirre Monthly Labor ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction. Demography and the Shifting Boundaries of "Community": Reflections on "U.S. Latinos" and the Evolution of Latino Studies, by David. G. Gutierrez 1. Globalization, Labor Migration, and the Demographic Revolution: Ethnic Mexicans in the Late Twentieth Century, by David. G. Gutierrez 2. Social Polarization and Colonized Labor: Puerto Ricans in the United States, 1945-2000, by Kelvin A. Santiago-Valles and Gladys Jimenez-Munoz 3. Exiles, Immigrants, and Transnationals: The Cuban Communities of the United States, by Maria Cristina Garcia 4. Central American Immigrants: Diverse Populations, Changing Communities, by Norma Stoltz Chinchilla and Nora Hamilton 5. Transnational Ties and Incorporation: The Case of Dominicans in the United States, by Peggy Levitt 6. The Other "Other Hispanics": South American-Origin Latinos in the United States, by Marilyn Espitia 7. Gender and the Latino Experience in Late-Twentieth-Century America, by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo 8. From Barrios to Barricades: Religion and Religiosity in Latino Life, by Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo 9. U.S. Latino Expressive Cultures, by Frances R. Aparicio 10. The Continuing Latino Quest for Full Membership and Equal Citizenship: Legal Progress, Social Setbacks, and Political Promise, by Kevin R. Johnson 11. The Pressures of Perpetual Promise: Latinos and Politics, 1960-2003, by Louis DeSipio
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Columbia University Press Trekking Through History
Book SynopsisThe Huaorani of Ecuador lived as hunters and gatherers in the Amazonian rainforest for hundred of years, largely undisturbed by western civilization. This book provides description of Huaorani society and culture according to modern standards of ethnographic writing.Trade ReviewRival's fascinating ethnography demonstrates that ecological adaptation cannot be understood as resource extraction alone, it is deeply embedded in Huaorani identity, sociality, symbolism, and historicity... Rival's work represents an important contribution to this developing approach. -- Loretta Cormier Journal of Ethnobiology A superb job in addressing issues of native historicity. -- Michael A. Uzendoski Latin American Research Review [Rival's] rich ethnographic analysis and theoretical discussion provide key arguments and materials to re-think further Amazonian people's relationships to the environment. -- Luisa Elvira Belaunde, University of St Andrews Royal Anthropological InstituteTable of ContentsPreface Trekking in Amazonia The Upper Amazon from Omagua expansion to Zaparo collapse The time and space of Huaorani nomadic isolationism Harvesting the Forest's Natural Abundance Coming back to the Longhouse Eeme Festivals: Ceremonial Increase and Marriage Alliance Schools in the Rainforest Prey at the Center
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Columbia University Press The Refuge of Affections
Book SynopsisAmerican progressives - those middle-class citizens who support fundamental change in American life - have always presented a mystery. This work investigates the lives of such reformers as Charles and Mary Beard and Wesley Clair, to investigate their influences and inspiration.Trade ReviewOriginal and elegantly written. -- K. Walter Hickel Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Dorothy Whitney and Willard Straight 2. Mary Ritter and Charles Beard 3. Lucy Sprague and Wesley Clair Mitchell 4. War and the Progressive Family 5. The Narrative of Progress versus the Logic of Events Epilogue: The Rise and Fall of The Rise of American Civilization Works Cited
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Columbia University Press The Commerce of the Sacred
Book SynopsisOffers perspectives on the practices and beliefs of Greco-Roman Jews who lived outside of Palestine and beyond rabbinic control or influence. This book investigates their influence on early Christians and examines how the two communities defined themselves in relation to each another.Trade ReviewA very important contribution... an excellent textbook for undergraduate education and belongs in Judaica libraries. -- Rivka Ulmer Hebrew Studies
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Columbia University Press Gastropolis
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWhile New York may be the subject of more food writing than any other site in the United States, this volume will surprise, enchant, and enlighten. The collection shines. -- Frederick Kaufman, author of A Short History of the American Stomach Gastropolis is a fun read, specifically for those who have watched their culture rise and blossom in this great variegated city. Eats.com A veritable feast. -- Sam Roberts New York Times Gastropolis is a piled-high-to-bursting buffet, where emotionally charged memoirs of childhood meals are served up alongside highly detailed academic articles...enriching and illuminating. GastronomicaTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Fusion City: From Mt. Olympus Bagels to Puerto Rican Lasagna and Beyond, by Cara De Silva Part I. Places 1. The Lenapes: In Search of Pre-European Foodways in the Greater New York Region, by Anne Mendelson 1. The Food and Drink of New York from 1624 to 1898, by Andrew F. Smith 3. Digging for Food in Early New York City, by Nan A. Rothschild 4. My Little Town: A Brooklyn Girl's Food Voice, by Annie Hauck-Lawson Part II. People 5. The Empire of Food: Place, Memory, and Asian "Ethnic Cuisines," by Martin F. Manalansan IV 6. The Culinary Seasons of My Childhood, by Jessica B. Harris 7. The Chefs, the Entrepreneurs, and Their Patrons: The Avant-Garde Food Scene in New York City, by Fabio Parasecoli 8. Chow Fun City: Three Centuries of Chinese Cuisine in New York City, by Harley Spiller Part III. Trade 9. Hawkers and Gawkers: Peddling and Markets in New York City, by Suzanne Wasserman 10. Asphalt Terroir, by Joy Santlofer 11. The Soul of a Store, by Mark Russ Federman 12. Livin' la Vida Sabrosa: Savoring Latino New York, by Ramona Lee Perez and Babette Audant Part IV. Symbols 13. Cosa Mangia Oggi, by Annie Rachelle Lanzillotto 14. From the Big Bagel to the Big Roti? The Evolution of New York City's Jewish Food Icons, by Jennifer Berg 15. Cooking Up Heritage in Harlem, by Damian M. Mosley 16. Eating Out, Eating American: New York Restaurant Dining and Identity, by Mitchell Davis 17. Hungry City, by Janet Poppendieck and JC Dwyer Contributors Index
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Columbia University Press A Brief History of the Masses Three Revolutions
Book SynopsisDrawing on examples from literature, politics, philosophy, and additional pieces of art, this book reveals surprising parallels between the people's political representation and their aesthetic representation.Trade ReviewA compact yet comprehensive survey... Jonsson's globally wide-ranging and rich discussion raises important questions. Choice "From his detailed analyses of three monumental works of art, Stefan Jonsson constructs an erudite and elegant meditation on the developments of modern European art and literature, out of which emerges, throughout the course of the book, an intriguing and illuminating view of the possibilities of revolution and democracy that remain for us today. -- Michael HardtTable of ContentsList of Illustrations 1789: Jacques-Louis David, The Tennis Court Oath 1. Seizing the Floor 2. The Shadow of Democracy 3. The Number of People 4. The Swinish Multitude 5. Social Depths 6. The Hydra 7. Marianne 8. Les Miserables 9. The Barricade 10. Making Monkey 11. Smokescreens 12. Mass Grave 1889: James Ensor, Christ's Entry Into Brussels in 1889 13. The Crucified 14. The Belgian's Glory 15. Divorce 16. Hallucinations 17. Society Degree Zero 18. The Nigger 19. The Modern Breakthrough 20. Songs of the Fool 21. Homo Sacer 1989: Alfredo Jaar, They Loved It So Much, the Revolution 22. The Beloved 23. The Backside of the State 24. The Empty Throne 25. Political Violence 26. With Nails of Gold 27. Of Men and Beasts 28. Desperados 29. Autoimmunity 30. Saints 31. Complaints 32. The Baggage of the Barbarians 33. Departure Afterword Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Drinking History Fifteen Turning Points in the
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFull of rewarding details, each chapter of Drinking History tells a concise, compelling tale likely to inspire further, more expansive investigations. -- Evan Rail Times Literary Supplement This acts as a companion title to the author's Eating History title that was equally well-researched and well-written and well worth a read in its own right. Yum.fi Highly recommended Choice Engaging... Perfect for the college reader Register of the Kentucky Historical Society Engaging... Researchers focused on the food and beverage industry will also find a great resource in the fact-packed pages of Smith's book. Graduate Journal of Food StudiesTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Prologue 1. Colonial Diversity 2. An Essential Ingredient in American Independence 3. Tea Parties 4. Tarantula Juice 5. Cider's Last Hurrah 6. The Most Popular Drink of the Day 7. Nature's Perfect Food 8. The Most Delightful and Insinuating Potations 9. Unfermented Wine 10. The Temperance Beverage 11. To Root Out a Bad Habit 12. Youth Beverages 13. Judgment of Paris 14. The Only Proper Drink for Man 15. The Coffee Experience Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Women in Iraq
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewNoga Efrati's book is a most welcome addition to a number of recent studies of politics and society in Iraq under the mandate and monarchy that have demonstrated the richness of political and social life during that period. -- Peter Sluglett, University of Utah, author of Britain in Iraq: Contriving King and Country Looking at the past through the lens of the present and the present through the lens of the past, Noga Efrati effectively shows how under Western rule Iraqi women's rights became a victim not once but twice, in eerily similar circumstances. In the first half of the twentieth century, the British occupation and Hashemite monarchy it spawned used tribal and family law to make women second-class citizens, disenfranchising them in the process. Women's activists fought for their rights, Efrati tells us, just as those in American-occupied Iraq in the early twenty-first century fought for theirs, opposing political marginalization, retribalization, and communalization of family law. For anyone trying to understand the contradictions and casualties of occupation, Women in Iraq is a must-read. -- Beth Baron, City University of New York Efrati's book is a remarkable study that deserves much praise. -- Orit Baskin Taarii Newsletter
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Columbia University Press The Metamorphoses of Fat
Book SynopsisTracing the link between changing attitudes toward body size and modern conceptions of class, society, and self.Trade ReviewVigarello offers up a grande bouffe of food for thought, tracing the impact of evolving mores and medicines on society's perception of an often stigmatized condition. Nature Vigarello masterfully traces...the stigmatization of the fat person over time. Times Literary Supplement Overall, a useful resource on the sociology and history of obesity... Choice At once compelling and ground-breaking... this work represents all that is best in new histories of the body. Modern Language Review A brilliant piece of work... A great opening point to the many opaque aspects of the consequences of body size for the fate of individuals and societies for future historians to explore. Social History of Medicine Enjoyable and useful. Vigarello manages to deliver an impresive amount of material in less than two hundred pages... Thought-provoking and entertaining. Bulletin of the History of Medicine The most impressive history of corpulence to date... essential reading for anyone wishing to understand how our modern preoccupations with size, weight, health, beauty, and morality have changed over time. American Historical Review In short, the breadth and detail of the account presented here provides a valuable resource for researchers to begin to understand the multiplicity of approaches to fatness over time. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography Exceptionally well organized and presented, The Metamorphoses of Fat is a unique and seminal work of outstanding scholarship that is unreservedly recommended. Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1 1. The Prestige of the Big Person 2. Liquids, Fat, and Wind 3. The Horizon of Fault 4. The Fifteenth Century and the Contrasts of Slimming Part 2 5. The Shores of Laziness 6. The Plural of Fat 7. Exploring Images, Defining Terms 8. Constraining the Flesh Part 3 9. Inventing Nuance 10. Stigmatizing Powerlessness 11. Toning Up Part 4 12. The Weight of Figures 13. Typology Fever 14. From Chemistry to Energy 15. From Energy to Diets Part 5 16. The Dominance of Aesthetics 17. Clinical Obesity and Everyday Obesity 18. The Thin Revolution 19. Declaring "The Martyr" Part 6 Conclusion Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Creditworthy
Book SynopsisIn Creditworthy, Josh Lauer explores the evolution of credit reporting from from an industry that relied on personal knowledge to the modern consumer data industry. He highlights the role that commercial surveillance has played in monitoring Americans' economic lives.Trade ReviewWho deserves credit? Who is a prime borrower, and who is subprime? The stakes of these questions could not be higher: loans are essential to the education, transport, and housing of millions. Lauer has written a compelling history of how businesses assess creditworthiness, from nineteenth-century trade associations to contemporary data science mavens. Lucid and packed with fascinating detail, Creditworthy is an essential guide to the intersection of finance and surveillance. -- Frank Pasquale, University of Maryland Clearly written, well researched, and wide ranging, Creditworthy provides a fresh account of the evolution of credit agencies in the United States. By combining insights from business history and cultural studies, Lauer probes the sometimes unsettling role of corporate surveillance in the making of financial identity. -- Richard R. John, Columbia University At last! A book that drills down into the history of consumer credit-scoring and demonstrates its massive contribution to our daily experience of contemporary surveillance. Not just a vital chronicle of a hitherto hidden history but a principled account of what happens when human value is reduced to monetizing consumer details. Creditworthy penetrates to the core of contemporary capitalism's disturbing obsession with personal data. -- David Lyon, Queen's University, Canada Consumer credit reporting is ubiquitous, but its pioneering role in the surveillance of consumers has been poorly understood-until now. Josh Lauer has dug deep into the historical sources and marshaled his findings into a rich and cohesive narrative that encompasses business dynamics, social norms, technology, and regulation. This book will become the indispensable source on the history of both consumer credit reporting and the surveillance society. -- Rowena Olegario, University of Oxford Josh Lauer has written an important book for anyone interested in the history of consumer credit. Long before there were FICO scores, consumers' creditworthiness was being assessed and considered. Without the developments Lauer documents in this notable work, it is unlikely consumer credit would have exploded as it did in the early twentieth century. A must read! -- Martha Olney, University of California, Berkeley [A] fascinating study of the credit-rating industry's central role in creating the 'modern surveillance society.' ... Lauer's top-down economic history is a thorough, enlightening, and long-overdue contribution to the field. Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. “A Bureau for the Promotion of Honesty”: The Birth of Systematic Credit Surveillance2. Coming to Terms with Credit: The Nineteenth- Century Origins of Consumer Credit Surveillance3. Credit Workers Unite: Professionalization and the Rise of a National Credit Infrastructure4. Running the Credit Gantlet: Extracting, Ordering, and Communicating Consumer Information5. “You Are Judged by Your Credit”: Teaching and Targeting the Consumer6. “File Clerk’s Paradise”: Postwar Credit Reporting on the Eve of Automation7. Encoding the Consumer: The Computerization of Credit Reporting and Credit Scoring8. Database Panic: Computerized Credit Surveillance and Its Discontents9. From Debts to Data: Credit Bureaus in the New Information EconomyEpilogueNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press Time and the Other
Book SynopsisTime and the Other is a classic work that critically reexamined the relationship between anthropologists and their subjects and reoriented the approach literary critics, philosophers, and historians took to the study of humankind.Trade ReviewPraise for the first edition: "A radical epistemological critique of anthropological writing." -- George Marcus, University of California, Irvine "The confidence and optimism that Fabian expresses contributes in no small way to the exhilarating intellectual experience this book offers." -- Gauri Viswanathan, Columbia University xTable of ContentsForeword: Syntheses of a Critical Anthropology, by Matti Bunzl Preface to the Reprint Edition Preface and Acknowledgments 1. Time and the Emerging Other 2. Our Time, Their Time, No Time: Coevalness Denied 3. Time and Writing About the Other 4. The Other and the Eye: Time and the Rhetoric of Vision 5. Conclusions Postscript: The Other Revisited Notes References Cited Index
£27.00
Columbia University Press Autobiography of an Archive
Book SynopsisA scholar’s intellectual awakening set against the backdrop of two disciplines and many journeys.Trade ReviewA unique and compelling volume with a great deal of fascinating material and provocative observations. Nicholas B. Dirks's essays will be extremely influential for the large and growing public interested in India. -- David Szanton, University of California, Berkeley, and editor of The Politics of Knowledge: Area Studies and the Disciplines Using the conceit of an autobiography, this book dazzles with luminous reflections on the archive of knowledge on India. As a leading scholar of India in the American academy, Nicholas B. Dirks offers original insights on the history and politics of scholarship, on empire and its entailment in the production of knowledge, and on the career of history and anthropology as disciplines. Autobiography of an Archive showcases Dirks at his best as a scholar and cultural critic. -- Gyan Prakash, author of Mumbai Fables Nicholas B. Dirks has taken to heart the disciplinary alliance between Anthropology and History that Keith Thomas so fruitfully articulated in theory (and then pursued in practice) a half century ago. In these essays he artfully pursues it himself via an autobiographical unfolding of his own archival path of discovery as a scholar of India. The essays will be greatly admired not only for their knowledgeable, distinctive, and acute grasp of the difficult and well-mined phenomena of kingship and caste and colonialism but also for the sustained and detailed angle of sympathy and regard they present on those oppressed by that phenomena. -- Akeel Bilgrami, Columbia University Autobiography of an Archive is a compelling synthesis of his extraordinary career as a scholar, teacher, and institution builder. Nicholas B. Dirks's account of the interconnections between anthropology and history and his commitment to the internationalization of liberal learning make his book a vital contribution to contemporary discussions of globalization and education. -- Michael S. Roth, president, Wesleyan University Nicholas B. Dirks, with his consummate clarity and stylistic finesse, takes the reader on an autobiographical and historical journey to show both how history and culture are imbricated in the making of these fields and more generally to why history so matters to the future visions of the vitality and the openness we must embrace to understand our world today. -- Ann Laura Stoler, New School for Social Research An incredible book, a work that needs to be relished slowly... Anthropology News Taut, clear language, which, at times, becomes almost lyrical. H-NetTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Passage to India Part I. Autobiography 1. Annals of the Archive: Ethnographic Notes on the Sources of History 2. Autobiography of an Archive 3. Preface to the Second Edition of The Hollow Crown Part II. History and Anthropology 4. Castes of Mind 5. Ritual and Resistance: Subversion as a Social Fact 6. The Policing of Tradition: Colonialism and Anthropology in Southern India Part III. Empire 7. Imperial Sovereignty 8. Bringing the Company Back In: The Scandal of Early Global Capitalism 9. The Idea of Empire Part IV. The Politics of Knowledge 10. In Near Ruins: Cultural Theory at the End of the Century 11. G. S. Ghurye and the Politics of Sociological Knowledge 12. South Asian Studies: Futures Past Part V. University 13. Franz Boas and the American University: A Personal Account 14. Scholars and Spies: Worldly Knowledge and the Predicament of the University 15. The Opening of the American Mind Notes Permissions Index
£26.60
Columbia University Press The Con Men
Book SynopsisA hard-edged guide to New York City swindles, street life, and culture, through direct interviews with con artists and hustlers.Trade ReviewPart sociology, part psychology, and always interesting history, The Con Men is a valuable tool in understanding how this small community, living in a gray market, manages to survive in a society that for the most part rejects and disdains them. -- Patrick O'Reilly, author of Undue Influence: Cons, Scams, and Mind Control The Con Men is a revealing portrait of a critical but little known element of city life: the urban hustler. Terry Williams and Trevor B. Milton go deep and emerge with the goods, powerfully illuminating this subterranean world and the social lives of its inhabitants. At once timely, incisive, and poignant, this is a fascinating work of lasting importance. -- Elijah Anderson, author of Code of the Street and The Cosmopolitan Canopy Bold and illuminating... A thoroughly researched academic study accessible to general readers. Kirkus Reviews This terrific ethnography explains that cons and hustles are no longer the preserve of roguish proletarians in loud suits and painted ties. Everybody wants a bargain, and creative capitalism makes mugs of us all. -- Dick Hobbs Times Higher Education [Williams & Milton] bring the reader with them into places from Brooklyn to the Bronx that are supposed to be invisible to those not in the know... An engaging read. -- Malcolm Harris The New Republic A fascinating look at the New York underworld. Integrating history, social psychology and sociology, the authors provide an educated lens to examine some of the oldest cons in Manhattan, perpetuated by the hands of career schemers, counterfeiters, drug dealers and even the men and women in blue. It is an eye-opening initiation to the uninformed or the curious. -- Jeffrey S. Podoshen Consumption Markets & CultureTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Alibi: Portrait of a Con Man 2. City Cons and Hustles 3. The Con Crew 4. The Con Game as Street Theater 5. Petty Street Hustles 6. Canal Street as Venus Flytrap 7. The Numbers Game 8. New York Tenant Hustles 9. A Drug Hustle: The Crack Game 10. NYPD and the Finest Cons 11. Wall Street Cons Epilogue Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
£18.04
Columbia University Press Saffron Shadows and Salvaged Scripts
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn intriguing snapshot of Rangoon's (Yangon's) current literary scene, Ellen Wiles's potpourri includes statements by fiction writers and poets about their careers and work, as well as samples of that work. A welcome addition to our knowledge of a little-recognized but newly vibrant literary field. -- Ward Keeler, University of Texas at Austin Saffron Shadows and Salvaged Scripts is an engrossing, revelatory, and humane study of Burma through the eyes, minds, words, and hearts of its own writers. A country and a history which is so often mediated through commentary from the outside is brought to life from the inside out. Ellen Wiles's book is a feat of generosity, intelligent insight, and, above all, a love of the written word and a faith in that word to convey truth, beauty, and defiance. Saffron Shadows and Salvaged Scripts demands to be read not just by those who love Burma but by anyone who values the power of literature. -- Bidisha, writer and BBC broadcaster A fascinating exploration of censorship as experienced by nine writers of Myanmar over three generations. Ellen Wiles is to be commended for her deft account of the political and historical backdrop, but most of all for the grace with which she makes room for these authors to reflect on the marks left by censorship in their own words and works. -- Maureen Freely, president, English PEN This excellent book is the first one to tell the story of censorship under military rule in Myanmar through the words of its writers and to explore what has changed since our transition began. I am happy that it includes new translations, since not much of our contemporary literature has been translated well into English, and we want to start sharing it with the rest of the world. -- Zarganar, comedian, actor, and director A very welcome volume... It offers a fascinating slice of a variety of author-lives and literary experiences... Saffron Shadows and Salvaged Scripts neatly captures Burma right at the cusp of what might be a very dramatic change, and it will continue to be of interest both as an historical document(ation) and as a point of comparison for what is to come. -- M.A. Orthofer The Complete Review An engrossing and eye-opening book. -- Joe Treasure The Daily Star Wiles's readable account reveals the appalling depths of persecution writers faced... [A] refreshing, insightful book. Choice Ellen Wiles discusses the secret literary culture that developed under this regime and more recent developments by interviewing prominent writers and providing translations of their intriguing works for English speakers to discover, while also providing important context and a lasting sense of hope for the future of creativity in the country. World Literature Today Fascinating and informative... Saffron Shadows and Salvaged Scripts is a volume well worth reading if you are interested in Myanmar's literature in the context of the changing politics of the country in recent years. -- Robert H. Taylor Asian Studies Review Saffron Shadows and Salvaged Scripts, brilliantly captures the complicated history of literary life under successive military regimes and the forms it currently takes in the context of rapid change. -- Ken MacLean South Asian History and CultureTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Prologue Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Literary Life Under the Censorship Regime 2. Writers: The Older Generation Win Tin Shwegu May Hnin Pe Myint 3. Writers: The Middle Generation Ye Shan Ma Thida Zeyar Lynn 4. Writers: The Younger Generation Nay Phone Latt Pandora Myay Hmone Lwin 5. Conclusion: Literary Life in Transition Notes Bibliography Index
£42.50
Columbia University Press Lust on Trial
Book SynopsisAmy Werbel provides a colorful journey through professional censor Anthony Comstock’s career that doubles as a history of post-Civil War America’s risqué visual and sexual culture. Lust on Trial provides fresh insights into Comstock, the sexual habits of Americans during his era, and the complicated relationship between law and cultural change.Trade ReviewAn incisive history of the futility of censorship ... richly detailed. * Kirkus Reviews *An insightful and entertaining critical examination of the prominent American censor Anthony Comstock (1844-1915). . . . [a] fascinating, page-turning study. * Publishers Weekly *A thoughtful new addition to the literature on Comstock and 19th-century sexual mores. -- Anna J. Clutterbuck-Cook, Massachusetts Historical Soc. * Library Journal *[A] dense and enjoyable book. -- Anthony Mostrom * Los Angeles Review of Books *A richly detailed, deeply researched and lavishly illustrated account of Comstock’s career and legacy. * Times Literary Supplement *Making good use of recent monographic studies of mass media and the history of sexuality, the author, an associate professor of the history of art at the Fashion Institute of Technology, places the architect and chief executor of U.S. anti-obscenity law in a thick social and cultural context. -- Scott McLemee * Inside Higher Education *A work more relevant now than ever . . . [A] titillating manuscript. -- Marcela Micucci * The Gotham Center for New York City History *Meticulously researched study. -- Mary Campbell * Panorama *Amy Werbel probably now knows more about Anthony Comstock than anyone alive today. (And oh, how deliciously unpleasant some of that knowledge is!) There’s a sense of discovery that keeps this narrative moving. -- Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American UnreasonIn this vibrant history, Amy Werbel explores the legal and cultural battles surrounding the censorship of "obscene" materials in late nineteenth and early twentieth century New York. Lust on Trial not only mines the history of censorship and repression in a modernizing America, but also sheds light on its legacy for current debates. -- Nadine Strossen, author of HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship and immediate past president, American Civil Liberties Union (1991–2008)Amy Werbel's Lust on Trial offers a brilliant analysis of the life and times of Anthony Comstock, the fiercely religious moralist who led the national campaign to rid the United States of sexual expression from 1873 until his death in 1915. As Werbel powerfully demonstrates, Comstock's efforts to persuade the nation that such expression "corrupts the mind . . . and damns the soul" perilously threatened our nation's separation of church and state. This lesson in how religious fanaticism can destroy our freedom is now more important than ever. -- Geoffrey Stone, University of ChicagoIn this meticulously researched study, Amy Werbel traces the rise—and eventual decline—of the figure whose name became synonymous with censorship in nineteenth-century America. She delineates how Anthony Comstock’s policing of erotic imagery touched on diverse areas of the nation’s civic life, from religion, politics, and the law to art and popular culture. In so doing, she illuminates the distinctive commingling of prudishness and prurience that shapes the American cultural imagination to this day. -- Michael Lobel, Hunter CollegeIntensely researched and thought-provoking work. -- Christine Schultz-Richert, University of Alabama * Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy *Amy Werbel’s new study turns up other surprises that will make the work of interest to students of arthistory as well as readers with an interest in gender and LGBTQ history. * American Historical Review *A visually striking book. . . . Historians will appreciate Werbel’s attention to uncovering the stories of everyday Americans who found themselves in Comstock’s crosshairs, and her book will make a lively addition to undergraduate and graduate courses on the histories of art, obscenity, and sexuality. * H-SHGAPE *Werbel’s book is well worth reading; it adds to our understanding of the transformation of American culture in the early decades of the twentieth century. * Winterthur Portfolio *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1. Anthony Comstock, From Canaan to Gotham 2. Onward Christian Soldiers: Creating the Industry and Infrastructure of American Vice Suppression 3. Taming America’s “Rich” and “Racy” Underbelly (Volume I: 1871–1884)4. Artists, Libertarians, and Lawyers Unite: The Rise of the Resistance (Volume II: 1884–1895)5. New Women, New Technology, and the Demise of Comstockery (Volume III: 1895–1915)Conclusion: PostmortemAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsNotesSelected Books, Articles, and Digital ResourcesIndex
£27.00
Columbia University Press The Recovery Revolution The Battle Over
Book SynopsisPhenomena of Power delves into the sociohistorical manifestations of power and breaks through to its general structures. Popitz distinguishes the forms of the enforcement of power as well as of its stabilization and institutionalization, clearly articulating how the mechanisms of power work and how to track them in the social world.Trade ReviewUsing an impressive array of sources, Claire D. Clark meticulously and thoughtfully traces addiction treatment from Synanon's therapeutic communities in the 1960s to the surge of treatment centers in the twenty-first century. A magnificent achievement. -- W. J. Rorabaugh, University of Washington and author of American Hippies Clark provides the most authoritative account to date of the origins and evolution of modern drug treatment in the United States. Beautifully written, The Recovery Revolution embeds treatment developments in the social, political, and cultural moments from which they sprang instead of treating them out of context and provides real insight into the development of the modern, punitive system of criminal justice and the era of mass incarceration. -- Joseph Spillane, Professor and Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida The Recovery Revolution recounts the origins, history, and influence of modern 'therapeutic communities' as a treatment for addiction. It argues that these shrewdly marketed programs and their charismatic leaders played a central role in the shift of American drug policy away from traditional punitive responses and towards therapeutic responses starting with Synanon in the late 1950s... Clark's book is extensively and creatively researched, intelligently and fluidly written, and it performs a crucial task for modern drug historiography. -- David Herzberg, University of BuffaloTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction: The Roots of Revolution Part I: Revolution 1. Selling Synanon 2. Synanon Rashomon Part II: Co-optation 3. Selling the Second Generation 4. Left, Right, and Chaos Part III: Industrialization 5. Selling a Drug-Free America 6. Courts and Markets Conclusion: The Revolution's Aftermath Acknowledgments Appendix: Historical Actors List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press New Yorks Yiddish Theater
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA witty and absorbing demonstration of the interplay of minority and mainstream-with the minority culture here being of outsize influence over the larger culture of Broadway, Hollywood, and America. Kirkus Reviews The many photos of famous actors and comics, old posters, packed theaters, and stage scenes balance out the richly sourced text, making this a visually lively, comprehensive, and accessible addition to any collection on theater or Jewish American history and heritage. Booklist A comprehensive... readable and lavishly illustrated history of the Yiddish Theater... This essential book is an important addition to library collections focusing on theater, pop culture, and Jewish studies. Library Journal (starred review) A tribute in scholarly scrapbook form to a dramatic phenomenon that acculturated immigrant Jews and left a legacy often defined as New York humor. -- Sam Roberts The New York Times [A] scholarly scrapbook full of vivid illustrations that buttress essays from leading critics and historians. Haaretz A richly-illustrated approachable work about the Lower East Side's entertainment legacy. Southern Jewish Life [A] marvelous book. -- Norman J. Fedder Jewish Book Council A comprehensive guide... the book is as entertaining as New York's once-thriving Yiddish theater. -- Robert A. Cohn St. Louis Jewish Light Anyone interested in Yiddish New York will want to read New York's Yiddish Theater. Theater buffs will be delighted to the learn the connections between Yiddish theater and the American stage. The book is also highly recommended for anyone interested in American Jewish history. -- Rabbi Rachel Esserman The Reporter New York's Yiddish Theater serves as an excellent history through images, together with illuminating essays... This welcome publication also fills a long-felt need for an illustrated history of an important chapter in the city's musical life. -- Michael Ochs Notes: the Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association Prodigiously illustrated... This indispensable book is a fun read, easy to browse through, get lost in. It is no dry academic treatise, but a generous yet scholarly account of a now-vanished era of popular Yiddish culture. Highly recommended. -- Richard C. Norton Operetta Research CenterTable of ContentsDirector's Foreword, by Susan Henshaw Jones Overture: From the Bowery to Broadway, by Edna Nahshon 1. Yiddish New York, by Hasia Diner 2. Popular Yiddish Theater: Music, Melodrama, and Operetta, by Nahmha Sandrow 3. Jacob Gordin: The Great Reformer, by Barbara Henry 4. Pathbreakers and Superstars, by Edna Nahshon, Stefanie Halpern, and Joshua S. Walden Intermission 5. Maurice Schwartz and the Yiddish Art Theater Movement, by Edna Nahshon 6. Yiddish Political Theater: The Artef, by Edna Nahshon 7. Yiddish Theater and the Transformation of American Design, by Arnold Aronson 8. Modicut: The Yiddish Puppet Theater of Yosl Cutler and Zuni Maud, by Eddy Portnoy 9. Yiddish Vaudeville, by Edna Nahshon and Judith Thissen 10. Borscht Belt Entertainment, by Edna Nahshon 11. Tevye's Travels: From Yiddish Everyman to American Icon, by Alisa Solomon Finale: A Gallery of Stars of the American Yiddish Stage, by Stefanie Halpern and Edna Nahshon Editor's Acknowledgments List of Contributors Endnotes Selected Bibliography Index
£46.75
Columbia University Press Black Gods of the Asphalt
Book SynopsisA former streetball player who became an all-star Ivy Leaguer brings the sights and sounds, hopes and dreams of street basketball to life. Through interviews with and observations of urban basketball players, he composes a rare portrait of a passionate, committed, and resilient group of athletes and the transcendent experience of the game.Trade ReviewThis timely and groundbreaking book is about basketball as lived religion in some of America's most dangerous neighborhoods. But more centrally it is about grief expressed and hope conjured as seen through the lens of a stellar young scholar who has been there and through the eyes of young black men who, though weighed down by the forces of death, somehow rise above the asphalt. -- Stephen Prothero, author of Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars (Even When They Lose Elections) In this season where black male bodies are under attack, Black Gods of the Asphalt offers a profound narrative of survival, self-determination, and the urban swag of Boston's inner-city basketball courts as sites where religion is 'lived' and spiritual transformation occurs on a regular basis. Woodbine brilliantly posits that the 'ritual space of the asphalt' is where memory, hope, and healing converge to fight the systemic oppressive forces beyond the rim. This book is a slam dunk! -- Emmett G. Price III, editor of The Black Church and Hip Hop Culture: Toward Bridging the Generational Divide The stories in Black Gods of the Asphalt are rich and powerful and are woven together skillfully and beautifully. Onaje X. 0. Woodbine switches between his roles as participant and observer, by turns narrating and analyzing with great dexterity. -- Rebecca Alpert, author of Religion and Sports This narrative is more than academic prose; it is a deeply personal and poetic travel through the author's own story of racial struggle and the survival tactics of the players he befriends... In this majestic study of basketball as ritual, religion, and culture, Woodbine plunges into the courts of Boston with an insider's savvy to catalogue the urban sport's pulsating (and potentially transcendent) dialogue. Publishers Weekly (starred review) Woodbine's got game, on the court and on the page, and here he dunks emphatically. From the time we meet Shorty, a street-basketball legend, through a brief history of the game and its link (religion playing a large role) to young African American culture, we learn of basketball, and the many lives it memorializes, as we have in few other books. Booklist In this painful, beautiful nonfiction debut, scholar Onaje X. O. Woodbine uses a seamless mix of memoir, ethnography, and poetry to chronicle Boston's street basketball players seeking physical and spiritual grace through hoops. Boston Magazine In Black Gods of the Asphalt, the worlds of religion and hoops come together... Woodbine shares how the courts can be a place of healing, of ritual, of community, and even transcendence. -- Christie Storm Arkansas Democrat Gazette Black Gods of the Asphalt is likely to change your entire perspective of urban basketball. -- David Crumm Read The Spirit For the young men in Woodbine's book, street basketball disconnects players from daily life in a way that gives them joy... But, at the same time, inner city life literally enshrouds their game, and this tragedy is what Black Gods brings to life in vividly realized accounts of young men and the street ball tournaments they play. -- David Lipset Eephus A powerful and deeply moving work, Black Gods of the Asphalt reveals a world of redemption and hope rarely glimpsed from the outside. -- Diana L. Hayes National Catholic Reporter A thoughtful, passionate, and personal exploration. Boston GlobeTable of ContentsList of Illustrations "Enter the Chamber" Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Memory 1. "Last Ones Left" in the Game: From Black Resistance to Urban Exile 2. Boston's Memorial Games Part II: Hope 3. Jason, Hoops, and Grandma's Hands 4. C.J., Hoops, and the Quest for a Second Life Part III: Healing 5. Ancestor Work in Street Basketball 6. The Dunk and the Signifying Monkey Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
£52.88
Columbia University Press Altered States
Book SynopsisA nuanced portrait of a daring subculture that continues to push the limits of religious experience and intellectual possibility.Trade ReviewAltered States genuinely moves forward in laying a path for new, insightful, and valuable information on the American Buddhism that is developing in our global society. Douglas Osto's groundbreaking research will be appreciated by scholars, and his accessible style will be enjoyed by nonacademic readers. -- Charles Prebish, author of Luminous Passage: The Practice and Study of Buddhism in America Altered States deftly guides us through the neglected territory of psychedelic Buddhism. This is a fascinating story, full of vivid characters and supported by solid research. Still, I believe it makes a greater contribution by situating these practices and persons within the larger contexts of tantra, of American religion, and of cutting-edge neuropsychology and consciousness studies. The result is-to use le mot juste-mind blowing. -- Franz Metcalf, author of What Would Buddha Do?: 101 Answers to Life's Daily Dilemmas "[Altered States] mixes statistics and surveys, historical overview, personal experience, and ethnographic texture to uncover the intertwining history of two fast-growing movements in American spirituality... This overview will appeal to anyone interested in Buddhism, psychedelic possibilities, and understanding how both are forging a controversial new American religious experience. Publishers Weekly Provocative... The book is worth buying, reading, and quoting. PsycCritiquesTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Buddhism and the Psychedelic Connection 2. The Psychedelic Revolution 3. The Buddhist Revolution 4. Opening the Door: Psychedelics as a Gateway to Buddhist Practice 5. Closing the Door: The Fifth Precept and Graduating from Psychedelics 6. Keeping the Door Open: Psychedelics as an Adjunct to Buddhist Practice 7. Are Psychedelics "the True Dharma"?: Debates, Presuppositions, and Philosophical Issues Conclusions Postscript Notes Bibliography Index
£69.26
Columbia University Press Le Boogie Woogie Inside an AfterHours Club The
Book SynopsisThe sociologist Terry Williams returns to the cocaine culture of Harlem in the 1980s and '90s with an ethnographic account of a club he calls Le Boogie Woogie. He explores the life of a cast of characters that includes regulars and bar workers, dealers and hustlers, following social interaction around the club's active bar.Trade ReviewTerry Williams has already established himself as a master of gaining access to hard-to-reach, hidden, and vulnerable populations. He has done so again here, giving an in-depth look at a place with which most people will be totally unfamiliar in a vivid and compelling style. -- Richard E. Ocejo, author of Masters of Craft: Old Jobs in the New Urban EconomyWilliams, our twenty-first century griot with an unparalleled deftness for illuminating the most cavernous recesses of our humanity, weaves together exquisite prose, unburdened by self-consciousness or recriminations, pulsating with such delicious expectancy of nights lived reckless but free, tempered by a palpable compassion that renders the foreign familiar and lays bare the beautifully flawed souls buried beneath. -- Lawanna R. Kimbro, civil rights attorneyAn admirable effort to illuminate a hidden world that will be most useful to fellow researchers in the social sciences. * Kirkus Reviews *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. The Setting2. The Scene3. The Characters4. After-Hours NowConclusion: A Culture of RefusalAcknowledgmentsAppendix 1. Methodological AppendixAppendix 2. Field Note SamplesAppendix 3. Where Are They Now?GlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex
£71.25
Columbia University Press The Rise of Corporate Feminism
Book SynopsisHow did feminism in corporate America come to represent the individual success of the executive woman and not the collective success of the secretary? Allison Elias argues that feminist goals of advancing equal opportunity and promoting meritocracy unintentionally undercut the status and prospects of so-called pink-collar workers.Trade ReviewA best summer book of 2023: Business selection -- Andrew Hill * Financial Times *Elias has written one of the most engaging and original accounts of women in the workplace that I’ve ever read. -- Isabel Berwick * Financial Times *The Rise of Corporate Feminism could not be more timely. Elias directly confronts the tension between trying to advance gender equality while devaluing traditional women's work, fast-tracking women college graduates into management jobs while leaving secretaries and other clerical workers behind. She draws on fascinating case studies to explore whether workers' rights and women's rights can finally create more unified pathways for all women to succeed. A marvelous book! -- Anne-Marie Slaughter, author of Unfinished Business: Women Men Work FamilyWhy has movement toward gender equity at work been so slow? Allison Elias asks why “women’s jobs” were not merged into career paths leading upward. Why were secretaries with the skills to be managers kept on the sidelines? A riveting and eye-opening update of Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s classic Men and Women of the Corporation that should be required reading for every MBA and CEO. -- Frank Dobbin, coauthor of Getting to Diversity: What Works and What Doesn'tThis well-crafted history details an enduring feminist tension between individual meritocracy and working-class solidarity, between corporate ladder climbing and labor-based equality. Allison Elias brilliantly sets these struggles over gender equity within the rise of corporate interests in owning the question. The Rise of Corporate Feminism is a clear-eyed, well-researched, and greatly needed analysis of one of the most central—and neglected—issues in recent American history. -- Jefferson Cowie, author of Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working ClassIn The Rise of Corporate Feminism, Allison Elias provides a complex history of how corporate America bifurcated the feminist movement—creating policies that divided women into the largely white and educated on an upwardly mobile track and the rest segregated into low-paying dead-end clerical jobs. This masterful interdisciplinary study is a must-read for anyone who cares about gender equality at work. -- Rosemary Batt, Cornell UniversityIn a provocative and engaging analysis of the quintessentially “female” occupation of secretary, Elias shows how the contemporary women’s movement and corporate efforts to respond to anti-discrimination law unintentionally helped reinforce patterns of gender inequality at work. This is a compelling read for anyone interested in studying occupations, organizations, or workplace inequality. -- Pamela S. Tolbert, coauthor of Organizations: Structure, Process, and OutcomesAs college-educated women moved into management, the pink-collar jobs of their left-behind sisters sank in pay and status. In this revelatory, unflinching book, Elias charts the failures of corporate reform since the 1970s and shows how the past struggles of working women for better jobs and real opportunity offer a way forward. -- Dorothy Sue Cobble, author of For the Many: American Feminists and the Global Fight for Democratic EqualityElias’s book details the labor movement’s attempts to raise secretaries’ status and how feminism ultimately focused on getting college-educated women out of the secretariat and into the kinds of jobs their fathers held, leaving fewer elite women with dead-end careers. A poignant and telling tale about the results of American feminism’s lack of class consciousness. -- Joan Williams, author of Bias Interrupted: Creating Inclusion for Real and For GoodIn this well-written book, Elias makes extensive use of important archival holdings and mined oral history transcripts to good effect. She provides a sharp and incisive analysis of how gendered were job assignments, union organizing campaigns, and corporate policies. -- Dennis Deslippe, author of “Rights, not Roses”: Unions and the Rise of Working-Class FeminismElias’s wide-ranging narrative examines many groups and diverse sources to illuminate overlooked contingencies and offer new insights on gender, work, and rights in recent decades. * ILR Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Feminist or Secretary?2. At the Intersection of Sex Equality and Economic Justice3. The Progressional and Professional Paths Intertwined4. Overutilized and Underenforced5. The Decline of the Office Wife and the Rise of the “Automated Harem”6. Could Pink-Collar Workers “Save the Labor Movement”?7. A Feminist “Brand Called You”EpilogueAcknowledgmentsList of Archives and RepositoriesNotesIndex
£93.60
Columbia University Press The Rise of Corporate Feminism
Book SynopsisHow did feminism in corporate America come to represent the individual success of the executive woman and not the collective success of the secretary? Allison Elias argues that feminist goals of advancing equal opportunity and promoting meritocracy unintentionally undercut the status and prospects of so-called “pink-collar” workers.Trade ReviewA best summer book of 2023: Business selection -- Andrew Hill * Financial Times *Elias has written one of the most engaging and original accounts of women in the workplace that I’ve ever read. -- Isabel Berwick * Financial Times *The Rise of Corporate Feminism could not be more timely. Elias directly confronts the tension between trying to advance gender equality while devaluing traditional women's work, fast-tracking women college graduates into management jobs while leaving secretaries and other clerical workers behind. She draws on fascinating case studies to explore whether workers' rights and women's rights can finally create more unified pathways for all women to succeed. A marvelous book! -- Anne-Marie Slaughter, author of Unfinished Business: Women Men Work FamilyWhy has movement toward gender equity at work been so slow? Allison Elias asks why “women’s jobs” were not merged into career paths leading upward. Why were secretaries with the skills to be managers kept on the sidelines? A riveting and eye-opening update of Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s classic Men and Women of the Corporation that should be required reading for every MBA and CEO. -- Frank Dobbin, coauthor of Getting to Diversity: What Works and What Doesn'tThis well-crafted history details an enduring feminist tension between individual meritocracy and working-class solidarity, between corporate ladder climbing and labor-based equality. Allison Elias brilliantly sets these struggles over gender equity within the rise of corporate interests in owning the question. The Rise of Corporate Feminism is a clear-eyed, well-researched, and greatly needed analysis of one of the most central—and neglected—issues in recent American history. -- Jefferson Cowie, author of Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working ClassIn The Rise of Corporate Feminism, Allison Elias provides a complex history of how corporate America bifurcated the feminist movement—creating policies that divided women into the largely white and educated on an upwardly mobile track and the rest segregated into low-paying dead-end clerical jobs. This masterful interdisciplinary study is a must-read for anyone who cares about gender equality at work. -- Rosemary Batt, Cornell UniversityIn a provocative and engaging analysis of the quintessentially “female” occupation of secretary, Elias shows how the contemporary women’s movement and corporate efforts to respond to anti-discrimination law unintentionally helped reinforce patterns of gender inequality at work. This is a compelling read for anyone interested in studying occupations, organizations, or workplace inequality. -- Pamela S. Tolbert, coauthor of Organizations: Structure, Process, and OutcomesAs college-educated women moved into management, the pink-collar jobs of their left-behind sisters sank in pay and status. In this revelatory, unflinching book, Elias charts the failures of corporate reform since the 1970s and shows how the past struggles of working women for better jobs and real opportunity offer a way forward. -- Dorothy Sue Cobble, author of For the Many: American Feminists and the Global Fight for Democratic EqualityElias’s book details the labor movement’s attempts to raise secretaries’ status and how feminism ultimately focused on getting college-educated women out of the secretariat and into the kinds of jobs their fathers held, leaving fewer elite women with dead-end careers. A poignant and telling tale about the results of American feminism’s lack of class consciousness. -- Joan Williams, author of Bias Interrupted: Creating Inclusion for Real and For GoodIn this well-written book, Elias makes extensive use of important archival holdings and mined oral history transcripts to good effect. She provides a sharp and incisive analysis of how gendered were job assignments, union organizing campaigns, and corporate policies. -- Dennis Deslippe, author of “Rights, not Roses”: Unions and the Rise of Working-Class FeminismElias’s wide-ranging narrative examines many groups and diverse sources to illuminate overlooked contingencies and offer new insights on gender, work, and rights in recent decades. * ILR Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Feminist or Secretary?2. At the Intersection of Sex Equality and Economic Justice3. The Progressional and Professional Paths Intertwined4. Overutilized and Underenforced5. The Decline of the Office Wife and the Rise of the “Automated Harem”6. Could Pink-Collar Workers “Save the Labor Movement”?7. A Feminist “Brand Called You”EpilogueAcknowledgmentsList of Archives and RepositoriesNotesIndex
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Columbia University Press The Merchants Tale Yokohama and the
Book SynopsisIn a narrative history rich in colorful detail, Simon Partner uses the story of an ordinary merchant farmer as a vantage point onto sweeping social transformation and its unwitting agents. Partner’s history of Yokahama as a vibrant meeting place humanizes the story of Japan’s revolutionary 1860s and their profound consequences.Trade ReviewTo an already lively cast of Restoration characters—rascals and rebels, poets and fighters—The Merchant’s Tale adds a new voice: that of the rural entrepreneur. Long on dreams but short on capital, Chūemon decamped early to the treaty port of Yokohama, where he would scramble for years to gain a profitable foothold at the epicenter of Japan’s tumultuous encounter with the modern West. Simon Partner skillfully turns his letters home into a hair-raising romp across the Tokugawa/Meiji divide. A fresh take on a fascinating time. -- Karen E. Wigen, Stanford UniversityLike all Partner’s work, The Merchant's Tale is beautifully written, in an engaging style, with vivid vignettes that bring to life the time and place that is his focus. -- Andrew Gordon, Harvard UniversityCombining his finely honed skills as a storyteller with his deep knowledge of historical context, Partner paints a compellingly human picture of nineteenth-century Japan’s integration into the global economy, helping us understand the excitement and opportunities, as well as the risks and challenges that it opened up for those who decided to seek their fortunes in the bustling treaty port of Yokohama. The remarkable story of Shinohara Chūemon is essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in the origins of modern Japan. -- Daniel Botsman, Yale UniversityA vivid and accessible account of the events and places that helped to form modern Japan. * The American Historical Review *A Merchant’s Tale is beautifully written and contains many thoughtful insights into the relations between Japan and the West seen from the perspective of ordinary people. . . . It will become essential reading for students of nineteenth-century Japanese and world history. -- Anne Walthall * The Journal of Japanese Studies *Exceedingly accessible and rich in human detail. -- Eric C. Han * Journal of Asian Studies *The book's focus on proto-industrial development, humanized through the trials and successes of Chuemon's business ventures, offers a refreshing addendum to the sociopolitical histories that currently dominate the field. * Choice *Partner writes engaging and entertaining prose with great fluidity and authority. For anyone looking for an introduction into treaty port Yokohama, especially with sensitivity toward the Japanese predicament, Partner’s work is a great place to start the adventure. -- Simon Bytheway * H-Japan *A fascinating read. * The Historian *[An] enjoyable, beautifully-researched and fascinating account of Japan a few years after what Western writers are pleased to call its “opening” in 1853. * Asian Review of Books *Table of ContentsList of Tables and IllustrationsNotes on the TextAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Out of Thin Air (1859–1860)2. Years of Struggle (1860–1864)3. Prosperity (1864–1866)4. Transformation (1866–1873)Conclusion: The Power of a PlaceTablesNotesBibliographyIndex
£75.15
Columbia University Press The Merchants Tale Yokohama and the
Book SynopsisIn a narrative history rich in colorful detail, Simon Partner uses the story of an ordinary merchant farmer as a vantage point onto sweeping social transformation and its unwitting agents. Partner’s history of Yokahama as a vibrant meeting place humanizes the story of Japan’s revolutionary 1860s and their profound consequences.Trade ReviewTo an already lively cast of Restoration characters—rascals and rebels, poets and fighters—The Merchant’s Tale adds a new voice: that of the rural entrepreneur. Long on dreams but short on capital, Chūemon decamped early to the treaty port of Yokohama, where he would scramble for years to gain a profitable foothold at the epicenter of Japan’s tumultuous encounter with the modern West. Simon Partner skillfully turns his letters home into a hair-raising romp across the Tokugawa/Meiji divide. A fresh take on a fascinating time. -- Karen E. Wigen, Stanford UniversityLike all Partner’s work, The Merchant's Tale is beautifully written, in an engaging style, with vivid vignettes that bring to life the time and place that is his focus. -- Andrew Gordon, Harvard UniversityCombining his finely honed skills as a storyteller with his deep knowledge of historical context, Partner paints a compellingly human picture of nineteenth-century Japan’s integration into the global economy, helping us understand the excitement and opportunities, as well as the risks and challenges that it opened up for those who decided to seek their fortunes in the bustling treaty port of Yokohama. The remarkable story of Shinohara Chūemon is essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in the origins of modern Japan. -- Daniel Botsman, Yale UniversityA vivid and accessible account of the events and places that helped to form modern Japan. * The American Historical Review *A Merchant’s Tale is beautifully written and contains many thoughtful insights into the relations between Japan and the West seen from the perspective of ordinary people. . . . It will become essential reading for students of nineteenth-century Japanese and world history. -- Anne Walthall * The Journal of Japanese Studies *Exceedingly accessible and rich in human detail. -- Eric C. Han * Journal of Asian Studies *The book's focus on proto-industrial development, humanized through the trials and successes of Chuemon's business ventures, offers a refreshing addendum to the sociopolitical histories that currently dominate the field. * Choice *Partner writes engaging and entertaining prose with great fluidity and authority. For anyone looking for an introduction into treaty port Yokohama, especially with sensitivity toward the Japanese predicament, Partner’s work is a great place to start the adventure. -- Simon Bytheway * H-Japan *A fascinating read. * The Historian *[An] enjoyable, beautifully-researched and fascinating account of Japan a few years after what Western writers are pleased to call its “opening” in 1853. * Asian Review of Books *Table of ContentsList of Tables and IllustrationsNotes on the TextAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Out of Thin Air (1859–1860)2. Years of Struggle (1860–1864)3. Prosperity (1864–1866)4. Transformation (1866–1873)Conclusion: The Power of a PlaceTablesNotesBibliographyIndex
£999.99
Columbia University Press American Capitalism
Book SynopsisAmerican Capitalism presents cutting-edge research that makes capitalism a subject of historical inquiry. Venturing new angles on finance, debt, and credit; women's rights; slavery and political economy; labor; the racialization of capitalism; and the production of knowledge, it demonstrates the breadth and scope of the new history of capitalism.Trade ReviewSven Beckert and Christine Desan are leaders in the burgeoning history of capitalism field, and they have put together a volume of outstanding scholars whose essays, in their chronological reach and subject matter, show this new literature at its best. A very fine and promising collection. -- Steven Hahn, New York UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Making Markets1. The Capitalist Constitution, by Woody Holton2. What Was the Great Bull Market? Value, Valuation, and Financial History, by Julia Ott3. The New York City Fiscal Crisis and the Idea of the State, by Kim Phillips-FeinPart II. Claiming and Contesting Capitalism4. Utopian Capitalism, by Richard White5. The Sovereign Market and Sex Difference: Human Rights in America, by Amy Dru Stanley6. Negro Cloth: Mastering the Market for Slave Clothing in Antebellum America, by Seth Rockman7. Revulsions of Capital: Slavery and Political Economy in the Epoch of the Turner Rebellion, Virginia,1829–1832, by Christopher TomlinsPart III. “Knowing” Capital8. Risk, Uncertainty, and Data: Managing Risk in Twentieth-Century America, by Mary Poovey9. Representations of Capitalism in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, by Peter Knight10. Value of Life: Insurance, Slavery, and Expertise, by Michael RalphPart IV. Refiguring Space from the Local to the Global11. War by Other Means: Mercantilism and Free Trade in the Age of the American Revolution, by Eliga H. Gould12. “Innovative Solutions to Modern Agriculture”: Capitalist Farming, Global Competition, and the Devolution of the U.S. Rice Industry, by Peter A. Coclanis13. Importing the World’s Fair, by Michael Zakim14. Plantation Dispossessions: The Global Travel of Agricultural Racial Capitalism, by Kris ManjapraSelected BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex
£91.52
Columbia University Press American Capitalism
Book SynopsisAmerican Capitalism presents cutting-edge research that makes capitalism a subject of historical inquiry. Venturing new angles on finance, debt, and credit; women's rights; slavery and political economy; labor; the racialization of capitalism; and the production of knowledge, it demonstrates the breadth and scope of the new history of capitalism.Trade ReviewSven Beckert and Christine Desan are leaders in the burgeoning history of capitalism field, and they have put together a volume of outstanding scholars whose essays, in their chronological reach and subject matter, show this new literature at its best. A very fine and promising collection. -- Steven Hahn, New York UniversityThis stunning volume not only captures the most vibrant, challenging work in the history of capitalism, but also distills the central themes and defining contributions of the field. The essays speak to all historians, not just those working in the history of capitalism. A must-read. -- Laura F. Edwards, Duke UniversityAmerican Capitalism represents the coming of age of a field of historical research. Rarely, in any field, has one volume featured the work of so many talented and accomplished historians. Each chapter breaks fresh ground and proposes new lines of inquiry. The editors have assembled a landmark and agenda-setting book that no student of economic life in the United States can afford to ignore. -- Jonathan Levy, University of ChicagoFrom the creditor constitution to the market for slave clothing to early American mercantilist thinking, this deftly curated book samples some of the best work that the history of capitalism literature has to offer. Readers interested in new and provocative explorations of the politics, law, and culture enmeshed in American economic institutions need look no further. -- Suresh Naidu, Columbia UniversityFew historical subfields are more important and timely than the critical history of capitalism. In this volume, Sven Beckert and Christine Desan have assembled cutting-edge work on topics as diverse as slavery, credit, insurance and risk, financial crises, race, gender, agriculture, and law and regulation. These essays combine chronological breadth, analytical depth, and geographic scope, linking the micro and macro, the local and the global. Essential reading. -- Thomas J. Sugrue, New York UniversityAmerican Capitalism shows us the benefits of a broad approach to the study of capitalism, and scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds will learn much from its essays. -- John N. Blanton * The Gotham Center for New York History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Making Markets1. The Capitalist Constitution, by Woody Holton2. What Was the Great Bull Market? Value, Valuation, and Financial History, by Julia Ott3. The New York City Fiscal Crisis and the Idea of the State, by Kim Phillips-FeinPart II. Claiming and Contesting Capitalism4. Utopian Capitalism, by Richard White5. The Sovereign Market and Sex Difference: Human Rights in America, by Amy Dru Stanley6. Negro Cloth: Mastering the Market for Slave Clothing in Antebellum America, by Seth Rockman7. Revulsions of Capital: Slavery and Political Economy in the Epoch of the Turner Rebellion, Virginia,1829–1832, by Christopher TomlinsPart III. “Knowing” Capital8. Risk, Uncertainty, and Data: Managing Risk in Twentieth-Century America, by Mary Poovey9. Representations of Capitalism in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, by Peter Knight10. Value of Life: Insurance, Slavery, and Expertise, by Michael RalphPart IV. Refiguring Space from the Local to the Global11. War by Other Means: Mercantilism and Free Trade in the Age of the American Revolution, by Eliga H. Gould12. “Innovative Solutions to Modern Agriculture”: Capitalist Farming, Global Competition, and the Devolution of the U.S. Rice Industry, by Peter A. Coclanis13. Importing the World’s Fair, by Michael Zakim14. Plantation Dispossessions: The Global Travel of Agricultural Racial Capitalism, by Kris ManjapraSelected BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex
£26.68
Columbia University Press AfroDog
Book SynopsisBénédicte Boisseron investigates the relationship between race and the animal in the history and culture of the Americas and the black Atlantic, exposing a hegemonic system that compulsively links and opposes blackness and animality to measure the value of life.Trade ReviewDazzling in its reach and groundbreaking in its methodology, Afro-Dog redraws the contours of intellectual inquiry with dogs at the lead. Boisseron aims to rethink the hyper-legality of racism and the practice of inequality in ways that are radical and far-reaching. -- Colin Dayan, author of With Dogs at the Edge of LifeBénédicte Boisseron’s Afro-Dog hones in, acutely and in detail, on the often-unhappy convergence of 'animal' and 'black' in current and historical thought, deftly dismantling their rhetorical obfuscations while sacrificing neither 'the animal' nor 'the black.' Instead, she calls for attending to human-animal encounters through the lens of black and animal defiance, a kind of subversive interspecies alliance that could empower both. Brilliantly enlisting theoretical and critical voices in critical race studies, animal studies, Afropessimism, ecofeminism, and more, Boisseron brings a crucial Black Alantic and diasporic perspective to bear on blackness and the question of the animal to show, not that blackness and animality are comparable, but that black people and animals have been and are historically and concretely connected—most often in the form of 'man' and 'dog.' -- Carla Freccero, University of California, Santa CruzIn Afro-Dog, Boisseron brilliantly demonstrates how the relationship between race and personhood has been missing entirely from the current human/animal rights debate, resulting in the argument that animals constitute the new 'slaves.' In doing so she offers a long overdue exploration of the larger and more extended links in American and French culture where blackness and animality have become almost interchangeable in popular discourse. -- Sandra Gunning, University of MichiganAfro-Dog is a timely effort to tackle the fraught relations between posthumanism and postcolonialism and between animal studies and African American studies. Inflected by continental philosophy, Boisseron’s readings follow a historical trail of dogs from the Middle Passage to the Ferguson unrest in order to theorize a legacy of connections between racism and speciesism, but without posing a false analogy between the two. Especially insightful and important are her arguments about the potential dangers of intersectional analyses which 'risk reproducing what they mean to reject.' -- Kari Weil, author of Thinking Animals: Why Animal Studies Now?Afro-Dog is an amazing book! The animal is not 'the new black'; animals are not the new slaves; and animal studies is not heir to the postcolonial turn. Instead, racialization, specifically New World blackness, is now present in all things animal. Whether as large dogs imported to the Americas to attack indigenous and African rebels or their repressive use in Standing Rock and Ferguson, Bénédicte Boisseron brilliantly explores dogs as instrumental accessories in defining human essence as white, impelling readers to consider the fundamental relationship between challenging speciesism and transcending colonialism. A must-read for anyone interested in the study of animals, enslavement, and race. -- Jane Gordon, University of ConnecticutBoisseron documents and elaborates on the 'animalization' of blacks and the 'blackification' of animals, the two having often been treated the same by Euro-americans and in their laws....Recommended. * Choice *An engaging, synthetic, and quick read on the importance of understanding the flaws of privilege in the making of activist engagements. As such, it should be read by scholars of Atlantic slavery, racial identity, and the animal liberation movement. * H-Florida *Boisseron shows the interconnectedness of Blackness and the animal, both through how systems of oppression persistently associate Blackness and animality, and through how Caribbean and other non-European cultures relate in less controlling, less calcified ways to animals. * Environmental Humanities *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Blackness Without Analog1. Is the Animal the New Black?2. Blacks and Dogs in the Americas3. The Commensal Dog in a Creole Context4. Dog Ownership in the Diaspora5. The Naked Truth About Cats and BlacksCodaAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£999.99
Columbia University Press Vice Crime and Poverty
Book SynopsisVice, Crime, and Poverty traces the untold history of the concept of the underworld and its representations in popular culture. From the Parisian demimonde to Victorian squalor, from the slums of New York to the sewers of Buenos Aires, Dominique Kalifa deciphers the making of an image that has cast an enduring spell on its audience.Trade ReviewDominique Kalifa is one of the best French cultural historians of his generation and a worthy successor to Alain Corbin at the Sorbonne. Vice, Crime, and Poverty examines the urban ‘underworld,’ not in the twentieth-century sense of organized crime but as an imaginary shaped discursively in the nineteenth century by a widespread if morbid fascination with the apparent dangers of urban life. -- Edward Berenson, author of Europe in the Modern WorldThis is a lively and fun read. More than tracing the evolution of living conditions of the poor and indigent, Vice, Crime, and Poverty also represents an important contribution to the histoire des mentalités, telling us how different eras viewed the poor in terms of social changes at those times. The transnational aspect greatly enhances this study, making it a significant contribution to the field by offering insights into both European and American history. -- Venita Datta, author of Heroes and Legends of Fin-de-Siècle France: Gender, Politics, and National IdentityKalifa is the leading historian still teaching and writing about modern French history in France. In Vice, Crime, and Poverty, he shows how the lowest of the lower classes came to be represented by, or analogized with, indigenous colonized peoples. He offers interesting reflections on the successors of the inhabitants of the bas-fonds and the emergence of new designations for them, along with the internationalization of crime. Yet again, Kalifa provides much to discuss. -- John Merriman, author of Ballad of the Anarchist Bandits: The Crime Spree that Gripped Belle Epoque ParisKalifa’s research is virtuosic, incorporating every type of source under the sun—poetry, sociology, films, popular songs, literature, journalism—and is endlessly entertaining. -- Hadley Suter * Los Angeles Review of Books *An expertly drawn picture of a lost myth. . . . This accessible work should find ready use in the classroom and among a wide readership . . . interested in urban history, class, and nineteenth-century culture. * American Historical Review *A rich book. . . . Kalifa makes the case for the abundant possibilities in study of the social imaginary. * Journal of Social History *Kalifa extensively catalogs the language, imagery, and discursive forms in which the underworld has been evoked over time. * Journal of Modern History *In theory, we've left those ideas behind. In practice, the poor, the mentally ill, and those classified as deviant are all still seen too often as a single stigmatized mass, to be cured, saved, policed, condescended to, and enjoyed as lurid entertainment by those who consider themselves their social superiors. * Pacific Standard *A blurring of any distinction between the place and the population runs throughout the texts Kalifa draws on, which include novels, police memoirs, newspaper articles by undercover reporters and pleas by social reformers. * Inside Higher Ed *The breadth of insights contained in Vice, Crime, and Poverty is breathtaking. . . . Engaging, methodologically sophisticated, and thought-provoking. * H-France *Colorfully written, jargon free, and nicely translated, this volume suggests that every generation gets the underworld it needs. * Choice *Beautiful book, rich of literature, anecdotes, stories. . . . Highly recommended. * Al Femminile *Kalifa insightfully demonstrates how languages and vocabularies originating in the descriptions of the underworld by nineteenth-century contemporaries created inaccurate, misinformed, exaggerated, and sensationalized images of the poor and socially marginal. * Labor *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsForewordIntroductionPart I: The Advent of the Lower Depths1. In the Den of Horror2. Courts of Miracles3. “Dangerous Classes”Part II: Scenarios of Society’s Underside4. Empire of Lists5. The Disguised Prince6. The Grand Dukes’ Tour7. Poetic FlightPart III: Ebbing of an Imaginary8. Slow Eclipse of the Underworld9. Persistent Shadows10. Roots of FascinationConclusionNotesIndex
£20.90
Columbia University Press Fixing Landscape
Book SynopsisFixing Landscape reconsiders China’s Three Gorges Dam in relation to the aesthetic history of the Gorges region over more than two millennia, thereby offering radically new ways of thinking about cultural and spatial production in contemporary China.Trade ReviewAn intriguing study for scholars of cultural theory, particularly as it pertains to China. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *This genre-bending book lives up to its promise. -- Christian Sorace * Critical Inquiry *Poems and paintings build dams. This simple but powerful insight informs Corey Byrnes’ impressive book Fixing Landscape, a wonderfully detailed study weaving together 1,200 years of Chinese environmental, cultural, and artistic history. Byrnes traces representations of the Yangzi River, its surrounding landscape, and visions for its future through poems, paintings, political discourse, maps, films, and photographs, from the eighth-century poetry of Li Bai up to the construction of the Three Gorges Dam in 2012. Lucid and lyrical at the same time, Fixing Landscape shows how visions of the river’s transformation have been a millennium in the making, and plans for its damming over a century. Poets, travel writers, and politicians have made and remade the Yangzi into an oscillating symbol of tradition, modernization, nation-building, and Chinese character, and their portrayals themselves have become technologies through which the landscape is perceived, understood, and physically transformed. Byrnes’ work will stand beside Richard White’s path-breaking The Organic Machine, a study of the Columbia River, in its brilliance. It rivals Raymond Williams’ The Country and the City in its theoretical and temporal sweep and Haruo Shirane’s Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons in its historical ambition. Fixing Landscape is a must-read not only for those interested in Chinese environmental and cultural history, but for all scholars in the environmental humanities. -- Ursula K. Heise, University of California, Los AngelesIn this groundbreaking book, Corey Byrnes looks at the Three Gorges of the Yangzi River as a landscape in contestation: poetic topos versus political imaginary; geographical site versus spatial construct; ecological marvel versus developmental crisis. Navigating sources from Tang poetry to postsocialist cinema, from colonial reportage to local ethnography, Byrnes has created a compelling study of a river, a history, and an ecological system in crisis. This is a truly stimulating work. -- David Der-wei Wang, Harvard UniversitySpanning two millennia and multiple disciplines, Corey Byrnes' Fixing Landscape offers a beautifully written, diligently researched, and provocative account of how aesthetics move the material world. This book will be of interest to scholars of the environmental humanities, cultural geography, architecture, and art history, among others. -- Stephanie LeMenager, University of OregonThe Three Gorges have long inspired the cultural imagination of the Chinese people, from Du Fu and Li Bai's Tang Dynasty poetic odes to its beauty to Jia Zhangke’s twenty-first-century cinematic meditation on its ephemerality. Along the way, the region has become a symbol of natural perfection, progress and modernity, controversy and destruction, and the nation itself. In Fixing Landscape, Corey Byrnes deftly traces the intersecting political and artistic networks surrounding the Three Gorges and, through that process, brilliantly unveils a new tapestry of meaning. -- Michael Berry, University of California, Los AngelesFixing Landscape gives valuable new perspectives on the Three Gorges and far beyond, helping specialists and nonspecialists alike better understand how and why the Chinese have manipulated their environments so dramatically, as well as how and why societies around the world have been so doing for much of recorded human history. -- Karen Thornber, Harvard UniversityByrnes performs an erudite exposition of an understudied thesis - how landscape becomes “fixed” in the cultural imagination and built environment - by examining a very wide range of historical and contemporary media focused on one geographic site: the Three Gorges. -- Robin Visser, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsOrientationPassage I. DeparturePart I. A Landscape of Traces1. Tracing the Gorges2. From Trace to SitePassage II. One Thousand LiPart II. Reinscribing the Three Gorges3. Chinese Landscape4. Chinese LaborPassage III. One Thousand YearsPart III. For the Record5. A Record of the Trace6. Ink in the WoundPassage IV. Part of the MovementNotesBibliographyIndexColor Plates
£52.70
Columbia University Press Modern Things on Trial Islams Global and Material
Book SynopsisLeor Halevi tells the story of the Islamic trials of technological and commercial innovations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Shedding light on culture, commerce, and consumption in Cairo and other colonial cities, Modern Things on Trial is a groundbreaking account of Islam's material transformation in a globalizing era.Trade ReviewLeor Halevi's original study offers important perspectives on turn of the twentieth-century Islamic reformist thought in the context of changing relations between law and material history. He matches up instructive readings in legal opinions delivered in Cairo by Rashid Rida with innovative background research on the new products and technologies that prompted questions to him from around the Muslim world. -- Brinkley Messick, author of Sharīʿa Scripts: A Historical AnthropologyThis nuanced, meticulously researched, yet accessible study illuminates how significant early-twentieth-century debates on Islamic law often revolved around some surprisingly ordinary objects and how local anxieties and input shaped a reformist Islam with transregional appeal. Halevi's focus on the material dimensions of modern Islamic thought adds a very welcome and promising dimension to the scholarship in this field. -- Muhammad Qasim Zaman, author of Islam in Pakistan: A HistoryBy tracing the evolution of 'laissez-faire Salafism' in response to consumer concerns about the religious status of new commodities and technologies, Halevi positions Islam's modern reformation as driven more by materialist than ideational forces. This is a highly original rethinking of the old question of religion and modernity by looking at the material transformations—the 'modern things'—that Muslims acquired from the industrializing West. -- Nile Green, Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History, University of California, Los AngelesThis is a remarkable intervention by a pioneering scholar of Islamic law and material culture. Focusing on Rashid Rida, a leading light of modern Islamic reform, it highlights the material entanglements that catalyzed his legal rulings on novel commodities, technologies, and financial instruments. In place of dogmatism and idealism, what emerges is a riveting narrative of pragmatic and materialist accommodations in a period marked by the impact of capitalism, consumerism, and colonialism. This is revisionist history in the best sense. -- Finbarr Barry Flood, director of Silsila: Center for Material Histories, New York UniversityAn outstanding work that sets a new standard for the writing of modern Islamic intellectual history...this book will prove of enduring interest to researchers in Islamic law and modern Islamic thought, historians of the late imperial and early nation-state Muslim worlds, and students of the processes of globalization more generally. * American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences *Halevi sheds light on Islam’s relationship with modernity by offering an account of how Islamic revivalists first responded to modern transformations through religious and legal rulings. * Middle East Journal *This excellent book is paradigm shifting. . . Essential. * Choice *Halevi’s work contributes to the larger understanding of how Islamic reform in this period was often driven through thehistorical narrative of Riḍā as a reformer, illustrating a bottom-up process. * Arab Studies Quarterly *A fresh, lively, and materialist intervention against reductive readings of modern Islam. * Jadaliyya *By rejecting abstractions like “Westernization” and turning instead to how tangible things were weighed on the moral scale of sharia, Leor Halevi presents a bold and lucid new analysis of the making of modern Islam. * Los Angeles Review of Books *Halevi’s book charts the way for other scholars of law and history to write history grounded in an eclectic mix of materials in several languages from various archives around the world. * Law and Social Inquiry *Halevi’s compelling monograph is relevant to a large audience and should interest global historians and historians of empire as much as scholars of modern Islam. * American Historical Review *He not only weaves intellectual and economic history together but comes forth with a contribution that is as ground breaking and original regarding the development of a consumer culture as it is concerning legal reform. * Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies *The writing is clear, engaging, and accessible. In addition to classes on Islam, the arguments advanced heremay be pertinent to courses on theory in religious studies. * International Journal of Middle East Studies *It is a new way of looking at the issue of religion and modernity. Among other things, this book would be an excellent focus for graduates reading law and change in the modern Muslim world. * Technology and Culture *Table of ContentsList of Maps and FiguresAcknowledgmentsPrologue: The Parable of the Montgolfière and the Translation of Haleby’s CorpseIntroduction: Good Things Made Lawful: Euro-Muslim Objects and Laissez-Faire Fatwas1. The Toilet Paper Fatwa: Hygienic Innovation and the Sacred Law in the Late Imperial Era2. Fatwas for the Partners’ Club: A Global Mufti’s Enterprise3. In a Material World: European Expansion from Tripoli to Cairo4. Paper Money and Consummate Men: Capitalism and the Rise of Laissez-Faire Salafism5. The Qurʾan in the Gramophone: Sounds of Islamic Modernity from Cairo to Kazan6. Telegraphs, Photographs, Railways, Law Codes: Tools of Empire, Tools of Islam7. Arabian Slippers: The Turn to Nationalistic Consumption8. Lottery Tickets, Luxury Hotels, and Christian Experts: Economic Liberalism Versus Islamic Exclusivism in a Territorial FrameworkConclusionsNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
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