Social and cultural history Books

Book SynopsisThe realignment of the social order that occurred over the course of the Sung dynasty set the pattern for Chinese society over most of the later imperial era. Bossler examines that realignment from the perspective of specific families, using data on Sung elitesgrand councilors who led the bureaucracy and locally prominent gentlemen in Wu-chou.Trade ReviewBeverly J. Bossler’s study of the marriage and kinship practices of grand councilors and the Wu-chou local elite falls within the scope of the social history of China in the seventh to thirteenth centuries. Largely relying on privately commissioned funerary inscriptions of mostly men and some women, Bossler marshals ample documentary evidence to confirm an important theme in current scholarship: the transformation and expansion of the educated class from aristocratic pedigree to the political elite, whose survival depended on success in the civil service examinations, local economic clout, property base, and marriage alliances...The author’s contribution lies in providing informative marriage data from screening the large number of funerary inscriptions, the data confirms that marriage was ‘an integrating force in society’ and that public office has a close connection to social and financial status. -- Jennifer W. Jay * American Historical Review *The title here is telling: ‘relations’ is mostly about relatives—the bonds of kinship and marriage among the upper classes of the Sung dynasty and its implications for our understanding of society and polity. An impressive level of industriousness is reflected in the canvassing of widely scattered and difficult to read primary sources, but the author’s astute analysis of those sources is even more impressive, as she steers her own course through some difficult academic terrain. -- Richard L. Davis * Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies [UK] *Documenting the interaction among kinship, social status, and bureaucratic position in both Northern and Southern Sung China, Beverly Bossler’s book, a revision of her 1991 dissertation, makes an important contribution to continuing debate on the nature of the Sung elite. This debate has ramifications well beyond the boundaries of Sung studies since, as Bossler states, the social order established during the Sung ‘set the pattern for Chinese society throughout much of the later imperial period.’ By carefully examining biographical data on two groups—men who held high-ranking offices at the Sung court and men who were locally prominent but had little or no involvement in the bureaucracy—Bossler sets out to test and refine a reigning paradigm of Sung social history...The picture that comes into sharper focus with Bossler’s study is one in which the rise of a family—even within a single generation—could be due to the actions of one or two individuals. In this enterprise especially, she succeeds in conveying the ’very human stories’ she seeks to tell. -- Linda Walton * Journal of Asian Studies *Bossler’s study of Sung social history is based on an analysis of the funerary inscriptions of northern Sung families that produced men who, as grand councilors, reached the pinnacle of political success, and on locally prominent people, mostly southern Sung, from Wu-chou (in modern Chekiang)...Meticulously documented and extensively annotated, this book deeply engages current scholarship and illuminates issues also of significance to students of later periods. -- C. Schirokauer * Choice *

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Book SynopsisA century after the Great War, the experiences of civilians and soldiers in the Middle East during those years have faded from memory. A Land of Aching Hearts traverses ethnic, class, and national borders to recover the personal stories of those who endured this cataclysmic event, and their profound sense of sacrifices made in vain.Trade ReviewA detailed account of the political and cultural events that occurred in the Middle East just before and during World War I. It concerns the way in which Arabs were caught up in Europe’s first major war of the twentieth century, and how this proved to be a turning point in Middle Eastern history, but one not of the Arab peoples’ own making…What is startling, though, is how so much of what World War I unleashed—struggles over identity, sectarian or otherwise, national border disputes, rights of minorities, the place of women in society—still reverberates to this day… Fawaz explores the war’s effect on the region’s ordinary people: fishermen, villagers, entrepreneurs, émigrés, soldiers and draft dodgers are woven into a rich tapestry. She takes us aboard ships and into train stations, along the lines outside bakeries and into crowded prison camps. These are the vantage points from which Fawaz observes the scope and scale of the war. In minute detail, she recounts the devastation it wrought, including the way common catastrophes of locusts, famine and disease were exacerbated by the exploits of Europeans, such as the prolonged Anglo-French naval blockade. Fawaz is always at pains to present the ingenuities and the tenacity of ordinary Arab people under these pressures… As Fawaz does, [historians] should draw on local sources, languages and experiences to restore the Middle East’s full complexity rather than reinforcing the blinkered, one-sided narrative of butchers and beheaders. -- Tom Finn * The Nation *Magnificent… [Fawaz] write[s] perceptively and sympathetically about a complex and sophisticated society unfamiliar to most Americans… [She] recounts the effects of the Great War upon a Middle East grown prosperous and relatively free during a period of industrialization and Ottoman political decline. -- Robin Darling Young * Commonweal *Intensely moving… [Fawaz] does an astounding amount of research into primary sources that haven’t to my knowledge been synthesized before to an extent this masterful. Great figures stride through the history of the Middle East in the years of the First World War and its aftermath… But the main focus of Fawaz’s book is the plight of ordinary people caught up in the often calamitous changes the war swept into the entire remains of the Ottoman Empire… Her book is a first-rate work of historical investigation, but it also functions as a kind of doleful question mark shadowing the present day, which has the dubious advantage of being able to see live video feed of the disruptions and sufferings being inflicted on the descendants of the same ordinary folk Fawaz so skillfully uncovers. -- Steve Donoghue * Open Letters Monthly *Drawing on poetry, plays, and works of contemporary fiction, Fawaz supplements traditional historical sources the better to capture the experience and popular memory of the Great War. The result is one of the finest social histories of war in the modern Middle East yet published. -- Eugene Rogan * Middle East Journal *[Fawaz] write[s] as vividly and knowledgeably about political developments as about land tenure. [She] bring[s] ordinary men and women as well as military and political leaders to life…The long devastating war that destroyed this last Muslim Empire also killed off many dreams and plans, and Fawaz pays homage to them by salvaging the stories of ordinary men and women whose lives were cut short or changed forever. -- Donna Robinson Divine * New Rambler *In A Land of Aching Hearts, Fawaz gives us, not a chronological account of the Great War in the Middle East, but rather a look at the war as it was experienced by and as it affected the peoples of the region, a seriously neglected subject… A Land of Aching Hearts would make interesting reading for anyone interested in the origins of the modern Middle East, the Great War, or the human experience of war. -- A. A. Nofi * Strategy Page *Fawaz argues that the Great War was a socially transformational experience that, like the contemporary political transformation, is fundamental to understanding the region’s societies today…Fawaz describes the era of modernity and change which began before the war, summarizes the war’s major military campaigns in the region, and touches on various individual accounts of the conflict. She also examines the impacts on daily life caused by the war, including widespread famine, increased crime, decreased wealth, increased unemployment, and the large scale evasion of conscription. * Publishers Weekly *World War I changed the history of Europe, but left an even more indelible impression on the Middle East. The conflicts that tear at the region today—the struggles over freedom, land, and identity—all have their roots in the Great War. In this landmark account, Fawaz paints a vivid picture of how the war swept over the Middle East and forever changed its face. Smart, well-written, and brimming with insight, A Land of Aching Hearts stands apart from other histories because it insists on the war's relevance for today’s world. -- Vali Nasr, author of The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in RetreatA profoundly impressive book that sets a new standard for the social history of World War I. A Land of Aching Hearts does justice to the history of the people of the Middle East by focusing upon a side of the war that has received little attention. From stories of battles, political infighting, and the machinations of profiteers to heartbreaking images of famine, poverty, and disease, Fawaz covers the entirety of the war experience. By placing local events within their regional and international contexts, she shows how a new Middle East emerged after the fighting ceased. -- Abdul-Karim Rafeq, College of William and MaryA magisterial account of the manifold ways in which exposure to, and participation in, the fighting shaped the lives of peoples and societies in the Arab world…Fawaz has produced an excellent account packed with information that will provide enduring value to scholars, students, and the general public. Current policymakers would also do well to engage with the book’s major themes as they grapple with a region in the renewed throes of upheaval…It is to be hoped that officials and onlookers from the region and beyond absorb the rich pickings offered by Fawaz of the conflict that effectively created the modern Middle East but also laid the foundations of many of its subsequent fissures. -- Kristian Coates Ulrichsen * International Journal of Middle East Studies *A fine history of the Middle East in the Great War which shows the extent of the suffering of the region, the mass hunger, the starvations, the plagues of locusts. -- Robert Fisk * The Independent *

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Book SynopsisLeandra Ruth Zarnow tells the inspiring and timely story of Bella Abzug, a New York politician who brought the passion and ideals of 1960s protest movements to Congress. Abzug promoted feminism, privacy protections, gay rights, and human rights. Her efforts shifted the political center, until more conservative forces won back the Democratic Party.Trade ReviewReading about how the mostly female volunteers steamrollered the traditional New York Democratic machine, feel free to think of [Abzug] as a middle-aged, Jewish, Vietnam-era version of Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. That would please Zarnow, who sees a whole lot of similarities between our era and the 1970s, when Democratic progressives were going head-to-head against establishment moderates for control of the party’s agenda. -- Gail Collins * New York Times Book Review *Every bit as vigorous and truth-telling as its subject, U.S. congresswoman and invaluable public gadfly Bella Abzug, who argued loudly and persuasively for gender equality, environmental common sense, gay rights, and a generally more compassionate public sector. It’s a first-rate political biography. * Christian Science Monitor *[Should] be required reading for every freshman. Every politician. Every woman and, of course, every man…A tightly focused story about the political contributions of Abzug, who devoted her life to making American society less sexist and racist. It is a story that, in its selflessness and heroism, is unimaginable today…Zarnow offers such a rich history. -- Rachel Shteir * Los Angeles Review of Books *One of the most beloved and derided politicians of the late twentieth century. She was as famous for her anger (nicknames included ‘Battling Bella’ and ‘Hurricane Bella’) as she was for her unwavering commitment to a set of political principles, among them pacifism, racial equality, and grassroots organizing…Abzug’s career, Zarnow argues, helps us understand the course charted by female politicians today. -- Maggie Doherty * New York Review of Books *A compelling portrait of a woman who pursued her goals with a single-minded intensity that is inspiring, perhaps all the more so owing to the focus on Abzug’s home life and marriage, which was equal in a way that is unusual even today…A fascinating ride through some of the fastest-paced politics of the 1960s with a larger-than-life character. * Kirkus Reviews *Zarnow sketches a vibrant picture of Abzug’s tumultuous era and draws apt comparisons between her firebrand subject and the latest crop of progressive congresswomen. * Publishers Weekly *Battling Bella is political biography at its best. Meticulously researched and exciting to read, the book fully acquaints readers with this passionate, pragmatic, and polarizing champion of social justice and her lasting impact on the women’s movement, the Democratic Party, and the history of the United States. -- Marjorie Spruill, author of Divided We Stand: The Battle Over Women’s Rights and Family Values That Polarized American PoliticsIn telling Abzug’s story, Leandra Zarnow gives us a cogent re-evaluation of how progressive social moments brought their energy and ideas into the Democratic Party and the Congress during the 1960s and 1970s. Readers struggling against the current subversion of freedom and democracy in the U.S. and abroad will find in ‘Battling Bella’ a member of the resistance worthy of rediscovery. -- Jane Sherron De Hart, author of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A LifeThis riveting biography could not be more timely. Bella Abzug’s career provides a crucial link in the histories of radicalism, feminism, and electoral politics from the 1930s to the 1990s. Through deep research, thorough historical grounding, and a lively writing style, Zarnow has produced a compelling account of a powerful female politician who fought for peace, racial justice, and gender equality. -- Estelle B. Freedman, author of No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of WomenBella Abzug speaks to our times from this well-wrought biography by historian Leandra Zarnow. Abzug knew progressive change is a not a sprint but a lifetime struggle in which racial and gender equity, economic justice, and peace belong together. From the hard times of the red scare to the glory days of left liberalism in the 1960s and ’70s and right through the reaction that followed, she marshaled grassroots energy to embolden her liberal colleagues with her signature flair, modeling the kind of courage we so need now. -- Nancy MacLean, author of Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America[Abzug’s] five-decade political career, reconstructed beautifully in a new biography by Leandra Ruth Zarnow, reveals the peregrinations of American leftism during the twentieth century…[This] impressive political biography ultimately raises crucial questions for our own time. -- Dylan Gottlieb * Gotham *Engagingly written, Battling Bella places Abzug firmly in the context of her time—the contentious politics of the 1970s—as well as positions her as a trailblazer whose brash style anticipated the personality-driven culture of the 21st century…With her big hats and her beaming smile and her short temper and her blunt honesty, she becomes in Zarnow’s handling an intensely admirable flesh-and-blood character. * Christian Science Monitor *Engaging and deeply researched…Because of the wide sweep of Abzug’s life and Zarnow’s masterful contextualization, it offers an insightful overview of American political history from the 1930s through the 1970s. -- Tamar W. Carroll * Canadian Journal of History *

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Book SynopsisJoel Cabrita tells the story of Zionism, which began in a utopian community near Chicago in 1900. Its faith-healing spiritualism, uplifting pan-racialism, and missionary zeal resonated with marginalized urban working-class whites and blacks in both the United States and Southern Africa. Today Zionism is Southern Africa’s largest religious movement.Trade ReviewThe People’s Zion is an outstanding book, and the topic it explores—the origins and evolution of so-called ‘Zionist’ churches in South Africa—is important and remarkably under-studied. Original, well researched, conceptually sophisticated, and just very, very smart. -- James T. Campbell, Stanford UniversityCabrita has produced a meticulously researched and engagingly written piece of scholarship. It is to my knowledge the first work to pull together the entire Zion movement from its origins in mid-nineteenth-century Australia to turn-of-the-twentieth-century America to twentieth- and twenty-first-century southern Africa. The People’s Zion promises not only to be an important contribution to Southern African Studies, but to open up new roads of inquiry for scholars and general readers alike. -- Stephen W. Martin, King’s University, Edmonton, CanadaDrawing on archives in South Africa, Swaziland, Sweden, and Illinois, this remarkable book tells an altogether unlikely story. It features an Australian preacher who, in the late nineteenth century, established a Christian utopia in tiny Zion, Illinois, a town which was to be the launching pad for one of southern Africa’s leading Christian movements. The People’s Zion brings to light a whole network of textual, intellectual, and theological exchange that drew American midwesterners into close dialogue with co-travelers in southern Africa. In so doing, Cabrita places African Christians at the center of the history of global Christianity. -- Derek Peterson, University of MichiganOffers an amazing wealth of details on the Zionist movement, covering three continents and several decades…A must-read for all scholars interested in the history of Christianity in South Africa as well as those interested in global networks of Holiness Christianity and nonconformism, their institutional expansion and social adaptation. -- Katharina Wilkens * African Studies Review *Offers several explanations [for Zionism’s popularity in Johannesburg], such as its appeal to the poor, its disavowal of racial and ethnic differences, and its use of faith healing at a time of skepticism towards mainstream medicine. * The Economist *

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Book SynopsisIn charting the growth of gleaming shopping centers and refurbished brownstones in Harlem, Brian Goldstein shows that gentrification was not imposed on an unwitting community by opportunistic developers or outsiders. It grew from the neighborhood’s grassroots, producing a legacy that benefited some longtime residents and threatened others.Trade Review[A] meticulously researched account of Harlemites’ efforts to exercise control over their area since the urban crisis of the 1960s… Full of telling details. [This] is not a popular history but a work of rigorous scholarship. -- Benjamin George Friedman * Times Literary Supplement *Intensely detailed, this important historical analysis reads not like a play-by-play account but rather like a drama, due to the author’s strong sense of narrative. The story is deeply relevant today as the processes of gentrification and the resistance to those processes continue to produce and reproduce urban spaces across the U.S. and throughout New York City, including Harlem. Goldstein investigates how structures of racism, paternalism, and the creative destruction wrought by capitalism intersect in this iconic ‘underserved’ neighborhood, and how residents fought—and fight—to retain a degree of autonomy. The author skillfully links events in Harlem to the broader black power and civil rights movements, and to shifting political regimes. This volume covers a considerable span, from the early 1960s during the heyday of blanket ‘urban revitalization,’ which threatened to clear swaths of ‘urban blight,’ to the late 1990s. -- A. B. Audant * Choice *The Roots of Urban Renaissance is a social and political history of the built environment. In it, Goldstein tells the story of Harlem’s gentrification from the inside out: rather than chronicle the experiences of migrants to the neighborhood, he recovers the points of view of the people who were already there…[It] is a pleasure to read and a major contribution to urban studies, to the history of the black freedom struggle, and to twentieth-century American social and political history writ large. -- Tracy Neumann * American Historical Review *The most fascinating question posed again and again by Harlem residents, and echoed throughout Goldstein’s book, is what the streets of Harlem should look like, who should design them, and who gets to inhabit them…His point, essentially, is to debunk the idea that the gentrification of Harlem was solely imposed by outside developers and investors…Goldstein illustrates well how Harlemites not only asked, but thoroughly engaged. Although the results were mixed, it’s impossible to deny how the neighborhood was radically shaped by the opinions, persistence, and ingenuity of the people who actually lived there. -- Emily Nonko * Architects Newspaper *The metamorphosis of Harlem since the mid-twentieth century has been remarkable. A symbol of urban crisis and a black power utopia, it was reshaped both by advocates of community participation and by the forces of global capitalism. With attention to the ironies of urban renewal, community control, black power, and privatization, Goldstein takes us on a surprising, unpredictable, and revelatory tour of one of America’s most famous neighborhoods. -- Thomas J. Sugrue, author of The Origins of the Urban CrisisA fascinating book that will make a major impact on our understanding of Harlem and the life of the American city. The Roots of Urban Renaissance is a must-read for those interested in urban design and politics, the civil rights movement, and African American history. -- Suleiman Osman, author of The Invention of Brownstone BrooklynWe’ve waited far too long for a book like Goldstein’s. We see, through his efforts, how debates over community control, modernist and insurgent architecture, and public/private partnerships owe much of their ongoing salience to the experience of redevelopment in Harlem. Indeed, if the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s captures a distinctive cultural flowering, the Harlem of the 1960s and 1970s, in Goldstein’s able hands, similarly stands in for America. -- N. D. B. Connolly, author of A World More ConcreteGoldstein shows us how the neighborhood that nurtured Malcolm X also gave birth to one of the first community development corporations in the United States, helping readers to understand the multifarious and shifting forces—from self-determination and radical democratization, to privatization and gentrification—that ultimately created the Harlem we know today. By knowing Harlem, Goldstein demonstrates, we can better understand the complex histories of the inner city in the last decades of the twentieth century. -- Dianne Harris, author of Little White Houses

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Book SynopsisProstitute, apostle, evangelistthe conversion of Mary Magdalene from sinner to saint is one of the Christianity's most compelling stories. Less appreciated is the critical role the Magdalene played in remaking modern Christianity. Margaret Arnold shows that the Magdalene inspired devotees eager to find new ways to relate to God and the Church.Trade ReviewArnold presents a meticulously researched account of the figure of the Magdalene as late-medieval piety gave way to the age of reform. -- Elizabeth Bruenig * New York Review of Books *Arnold poses important questions about the roles of women in the Reformation and the ways in which Mary Magdalene was appropriated as a model. Indeed, the diverse ways in which Mary was a source of spiritual authority, enabling female writers to explore a range of crucial issues, is one of the book’s most significant contributions. The analysis is crisp and insightful, and Arnold has a sharp eye for continuities and change. -- Bruce Gordon, Yale Divinity SchoolThe Magdalene in the Reformation considers all aspects of this formidable New Testament figure across both Protestant and Catholic Reformations. As she traces women writers and religious activists who used Mary Magdalene to explore their own relationship to Christianity, Arnold convincingly demonstrates the important role Mary played for women regardless of their confessional persuasion. -- Jane Tylus, Yale UniversityPromises to change our understanding of Reformation history and women’s place in it. Rather than a simple loss or win for women, the Reformation depicted here is filled with ambivalence, conflict, and negotiation when it comes to women’s roles. Arnold shows the Magdalene was a powerful figure for debating contemporary issues for women in the church, state, and family. -- Melissa Sanchez, University of PennsylvaniaScholars interested in the evolving character of the Biblical Mary will relish Arnold’s lucid text. * Publishers Weekly *

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Book SynopsisJessica Lynne Pearson explores the collision between imperial and international visions of health and development in French Africa as postwar decolonization movements gained strength. The consequences of putting politics above public health continue to play out in constraints placed on international health organizations half a century later.Trade ReviewPearson’s deeply researched and elegantly written book demonstrates that international organizations played a defining role in reshaping empire in the postwar period. Her work compellingly argues that the United Nations and the World Health Organization provided templates for universal rights and health for all, even colonial subjects. The Colonial Politics of Global Health will be an invaluable addition to our understanding of the French Empire, decolonization, and global health initiatives. -- Jennifer Johnson, Brown UniversityA smart, persuasive study of one of the most influential chapters in the history of twentieth-century Africa. This impressive work poses an intriguing question: how did imperial powers in sub-Saharan Africa interact with new international humanitarian organizations providing oversight of colonial governance after World War II? Pearson is to be commended for taking on such a challenging topic and for telling a fascinating, human story in such an accessible way. -- Alice L. Conklin, The Ohio State UniversityAn important, thought-provoking book that uses global health as a prism through which to understand tensions between colonial powers and international organizations like the World Health Organization in late colonial Africa. Pearson skillfully shows how decolonization converged with a wide array of attempts to stem disease made by French doctors, colonial officials, and world health representatives in Africa. -- Nancy Rose Hunt, University of Michigan[A] probing account…Focusing on the area of public health, Pearson shows that France sought to reap the benefits of the World Health Organization’s operations in Africa, even as it pursued its own health-care policies in its colonies. France’s efforts, Pearson argues, succeeded in maintaining French influence over UN policies in West Africa even after the country’s former colonies had won their independence. -- Nicolas van de Walle * Foreign Affairs *Shows how the World Health Organization’s origins and development in Africa and the politics of the postwar period of decolonization were intimately intertwined. -- Laura Jane McGough * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *

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Book SynopsisBenjamin Hopkins develops a new theory of colonial administration: frontier governmentality. This system placed indigenous peoples at the borders of imperial territory, where they could be both exploited and kept away. Today’s “failed states” are a result. Condemned to the periphery of the global order, they function as colonial design intended.Trade ReviewBy asserting that the frontier did not close and vanish—as his precursor Frederick Jackson Turner so famously did in 1893—Hopkins challenges one of our hoariest understandings of frontier zones. What he reveals is that the frontier, and its violence, can be found wherever imperial soldiers are sent—wherever they imagine the local people over the horizon as inhabiting ‘Indian country’…Hopkins [succeeds] in leaving readers with an enduring sense of the palimpsest of empires that continues to structure our contemporary world. -- Karl Jacoby * Public Books *His most expansive project yet, tracing the global diffusion of frontier governing practices from northwest India, to South Africa, to the American west, and finally Argentina.…An eminently readable book that balances its theoretical and conceptual contributions with truly ground-breaking insight into the globalization of frontier governmentality. -- Martin J. Bayly * Critical Asian Studies *An outstanding book, with an original and clearly articulated argument well supported by evidence from an impressive array of archives around the world. Informed by the logic of empire and capitalism, frontier governmentality locked those at the margins of empire into a relationship of dependency with no prospect for economic betterment. Hopkins tells a gripping story well. His provocative contention that violence created colonial empires but sustains postcolonial states ought to stir up debate. -- Ayesha Jalal, author of The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global PoliticsThis is an ambitious and important book. The concept of ‘frontier governmentality’ is a very engaging and largely persuasive idea with broad applicability. Hopkins provides us with new ways to think about the relationship between the center and periphery, and the ambitious comparative dimension—along with the refusal to flatten differences—makes this a work that will command a wide readership in the fields of British Empire, Central and South Asia, and world history, but will also speak directly to those who study indigenous peoples, colonialism and post-colonialism, and global borderlands. -- Andrew Graybill, author of Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier

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Book SynopsisGive and Take offers a new history of government in Tokugawa Japan (1600–1868), one that focuses on ordinary subjects: merchants, artisans, villagers, and people at the margins of society. Maren Ehlers explores how high and low people negotiated and collaborated with each other as they addressed the problem of poverty in early modern Japan.

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Book SynopsisThrough engaging characters—China-bound missionaries, an Indo-Persian diplomat, a Turkish exile in India, a French teacher in America, Arab students in Moscow, a Japanese woman writer in Europe—Illusion and Disillusionment examines travel writing beyond colonialism, imperialism, and Orientalism, focusing on the experience of travel itself.

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Book SynopsisPopular culture assumes that women are born to shop and that cities invite their trade. But downtowns were not always welcoming to women. Emily Remus turns to Chicago at the turn of the last century to chronicle an unheralded revolution in women’s rights that took place not at the ballot box but in the streets and stores of the business district.Trade ReviewAs suburban shopping malls and more recently e-commerce eclipse commercial downtowns, the department stores and theaters that once anchored them are disappearing. Remus’s wonderful book has much to teach us about the past, present, and future of downtown. Not only did rising consumption reshape the built environment of central cities in the late nineteenth century, but so too did battles over who belonged—or did not—in this new public space. As the metropolitan landscape shifts again today, Remus’s fascinating insights into the past remind us that much more is at stake than simply where we shop. -- Lizabeth Cohen, author of A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar AmericaA Shoppers’ Paradise creatively reframes our understanding of consumer culture. Through a series of brilliantly executed case studies of women in commercial public spaces in Chicago, Emily Remus highlights the interaction of pleasure, power, and danger. Drawing on forgotten conflicts over hats, hoop skirts, drinking, and other subjects, Remus highlights the political nature of debates about the right to consume. With special attention to legal cases, this book brings to life a rich and original archive. There is no book on consumer culture quite like this delightful and erudite study. -- Lawrence B. Glickman, author of Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in AmericaA Shoppers’ Paradise is an original and convincing contribution to our understanding of gender and public space in American cities. Remus argues that elite and middle-class women’s use of the public downtown landscape of theaters, cafes, shops, and the street as sites of consumption and pleasure over time transformed common awareness about the purpose of the downtown and women’s rights to the city as citizens. -- Jessica Ellen Sewell, author of Women and the Everyday City: Public Space in San Francisco, 1890–1915Helps to demonstrate how women participated in the transformation of Chicago’s culture simply by establishing their presence in public spaces. -- Linda Levitt * PopMatters *An engrossing and interdisciplinary study…Remus makes a compelling argument about affluent women’s impact on public space and vividly describes how they were central to the development of a thriving culture of consumption. With perceptive attention to the physical world(s) of moneyed women, the book adds to the literature not only on Chicago and urban history, but gender, the built environment, and material culture. -- Kathleen Daly * New England Journal of History *

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Book SynopsisExplores the legal and social evolution of Russia's agricultural population, the types of peasant status, and the multifaceted nature of the master-peasant relationship.

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Book SynopsisRe-evaluates theories of state, property, race, and economics against Latin American experiences. This book seeks to deepen our understanding of Latin America and the problems it faces. It tests social science paradigms against a variety of cases, and attempts to pursue a generalizable map of the social world.Trade Review"No previous review of theory comes close to this book's range and daring. Its audience should include not only Latin Americanists, but students of social theory and of development in general."—Charles Tilly, Columbia University"The Other Mirror succeeds in providing a highly stimulating account of the dialectics between general theory and history. It will have a much-needed positive impact on Latin American studies and its place in general social theory."—Mauricio A. Font, The Graduate Center and Queens College, City University of New YorkTable of ContentsPREFACE ix CONTRIBUTORS xi INTRODUCTION: Miguel Angel Centeno and Fernando Lopez-Alves PART I: Creating an Economy 25 CHAPTER ONE Jeremy Adelman: Institutions, Property, and Economic Development in Latin America 27 CHAPTER TWO Paul Gootenberg: Hijos of Dr. Gerschenkron: "Latecomer" Conceptions in Latin American Economic History 55 CHAPTER THREE Steven Topik: Karl Polanyi and the Creation of the "Market Society" 81 CHAPTER FOUR Veronica Montecinos and John Markoff: From the Power of Economic Ideas to the Power of Economists 105 PART II: The State and Democracy 151 CHAPTER FIVE Fernando Lopez-Alves: The Transatlantic Bridge: Mirrors, Charles Tilly, and State Formation in the River Plate 153 CHAPTER SIX Alan Knight: The Modern Mexican State: Theory and Practice 177 CHAPTER SEVEN Jorge I. Dominguez: Samuel Huntington and the Latin American State 219 CHAPTER EIGHT J. Samuel Valenzuela: Class Relations and Democratization: A Reassessment of Barrington Moore's Model 240 PART III: Living and Belonging 287 CHAPTER NINE Miguel Angel Centeno: The Disciplinary Society in Latin America 289 CHAPTER TEN Robert M. Levine: Michel de Certeau and Latin America 309 CHAPTER ELEVEN Claudio Lomnitz: Nationalism as a Practical System: Benedict Anderson's Theory of Nationalism from the Vantage Point of Spanish America 329 INDEX 361

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Book SynopsisArgues that Latinos are not newcomers in the United States by documenting a network of Spanish-language cultural activity in the nineteenth century. Juxtaposing poems and essays by both powerful and peripheral writers, this title proposes a major revision of the 19th-century US canon and its historical contexts.Trade ReviewHonorable Mention for the John Hope Franklin Publication Prize "Gruesz's [provides] lucid justification for directing students of nineteenth-century U.S. literature to ponder the efforts that certain North American writers made, in the 1820s and 30s, to foster a hemispheric consciousness and then, in the face of expansionist militarism during and after the 1840s, to mark out oppositional stances based on claims of distinctiveness concerning such things as religion, trade practices and philosophies of life... [A] rich and suggestive undertaking."--Barbara Ryan, H-Amstdy "Gruesz's interesting study of 19th century Spanish language print culture in the US recognizes the contributions made by Latino poets and journalists to both US literary history and the construction of a Latino identity."--Choice "Ambassadors had me revising my American Literature syllabus before I had finished reading the Introduction."--Barbara Ryan, H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsPREFACE ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xix Chapter 1 "Alone with the Terrible Hurricane": The Occluded History of Transamerican Literature 1 Geografa Nueva: An Alternate History of the American World System 7 Citizen, Ambassador: Stations of Literary Representation 13 The Transamerican Archive: Poetry as Daily Practice 20 Vernacular Authorship, or the Imitator's Agency 25 Chapter 2 The Chain of American Circumstance: From Niagara to Cuba to Panama 30 Meditations on Niagara: Transnational Pilgrims and the American Sublime 30 The Cuban Star over New York: Heredia's Translated Nationhood 39 Republics in Chains: From Bryant's Prairies to the Mexican Meseta 48 Vistas del Infierno: The Racial Dilemma of Maria del Occidente 61 Chapter 3 Tasks of the Translator: Imitative Literature, the Catholic South, and the Invasion of Mexico 71 "A Mist of Lurid Light": Translation Practice in the Americas 71 Ecos de Mexico: Whittier, Longfellow, and the Case against Expansion 87 Converting Evangeline to Evangelina 94 In the Vernacular: Translation on the Border 100 Chapter 4 The Mouth of a New Empire: New Orleans in the Transamerican Print Trade 108 New Orleans, Capital of the (Other) Nineteenth Century 108 The Fertile Crescent: Whitman's Immersion in the "Spanish Element" 121 Reading La Patria: Hispanophone Print Culture and the Annexation Question 136 Songs of the Exile: The Laud Poets and Quintero's Pearls 145 Chapter 5 The Deep Roots of Our America: Two New Worlds, and Their Resistors 161 Diplomatic License: Pombo in New York 163 Staging Gender on the California Borderlands 176 Brave Mundo Nuevo: The Marketing of Transnational Spanish Culture 186 Most Faithful Fidel: Guillermo Prieto's Reconstruction Travelogue 196 CODA The Future's Past: Latino Ghosts in the U.S. Canon 205 NOTES 213 WORKS CITED 255 INDEX 279

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Book SynopsisA companion to "Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt", this book contains the voices of the poor themselves, found in documents heretofore largely ignored. It provides access to the attitudes and philanthropic activities of the charitable, alongside the dramatic writings of the poor themselves.Trade ReviewMark R. Cohen, Winner of the 2010 Goldziher Prize, The Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations at Merrimack CollegeTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Note xiii PART ONE: LETTERS ABOUT THE POOR AND ABOUT CHARITY Introduction 3 Chapter One: Basic Themes 15 Chapter Two:Taxonomy: Structure and Conjuncture 32 Chapter Three: The Foreign Poor 47 Chapter Four: Indigent Captives and Refugees 68 Chapter Five: Debt and the Poll Tax 73 Chapter Six: Women and Poverty 83 Chapter Seven: Letters Regarding Public Charity 95 PART TWO: CHARITY LISTS Chapter Eight: Alms Lists 107 Chapter Nine: Donor Lists 164 PART THREE: EPILOGUE Chapter Ten: Poverty and Charity in the Fourteenth Century 191 List of Geniza Texts 199 Bibliography 203 Index 209

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Book SynopsisDescribes the diverse histories and the processes of Greek Jews that worked to make them emerge as a Greek collective. This book follows the Jews as they left Greece - as deportees to Auschwitz or emigres to Palestine/Israel and New York's Lower East Side.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2010 Prix Alberto Benveniste Winner of the 2009 Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League Winner of the 2008 National Jewish Book Award in Sephardic Culture, Jewish Book Council Honorable Mention for the 2009 Edmund Keeley Book Prize, Modern Greek Studies Association "With this innovative, soundly researched work Professor K. E. Fleming has filled a long-standing need for the story of Greek Jewry to be told fully."--Jewish Book World "What is a Greek Jew? Fleming pursues this question through various Jewish experiences (Romaniot and Sephardi) during the stages of the emerging modern Greek national identity. Her well-written, gripping story argues that 'Greek Jew' is actually a phantom term that emerged formally only in 1920 with governmental recognition of the Salonika community, and developed among young Jews during the 1930s, later concretizing in the Nazi concentration camps and the Jewish Diasporas to Palestine and the U.S."--S. Bowman, Choice "This book is an excellent effort to explain the quandary of the Jews of Greece during the country's turbulent 200-year history."--Jay Levinson, Jewish Tribune "This is not a 'religious book' meant to inspire. It is the very well told story of a once flourish Jewish community whose history must never be forgotten."--Jay Levinson, Jewish Magazine "K. E. Fleming has produced an insightful historical overview of the Jewish presence in Greece from the establishment of the Greek state in the early nineteenth century to the post-Holocaust era... [U]ntil the appearance of Fleming's work there was no overarching account of the Jewish experience in modern Greece, and this book fills that lacuna extremely well."--Alexander Kitroeff, American Historical Review "This fascinating book examines the concepts of identity and nationality as experienced by Jews, while paying tribute to those who were lost in World War II and to the righteous gentiles who saved the remnants of the community. Professor Fleming has written an important work on a little-known subject. It belongs in all academic Judaic collections."--Barbara M. Bibel, Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter "This volume, which displays solid scholarly standards, is also highly interesting as it follows the multiple destinies of these Jewish groups and demonstrates how complex Jewish history is--how diverse and how difficult to categorize. Fleming has succeeded in escaping preconceived attitudes and in treating the object of her investigation with detachment but also with the empathy required for all genuinely good research projects."--Esther Benbassa, Journal of Modern History "[A]n absorbing story, well told and referenced, and a worthy winner of [the] Runciman Award."--Michael Llewellyn Smith, Hellenic ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi CHAPTER 1: Introduction 1 PART I: Independence and Expansion 13 CHAPTER 2: After Independence: "Old Greece" 15 CHAPTER 3: "New Greece": Greek Territorial Expansion 32 PART II: The "Sephardic Republic": Salonika to 1923 49 CHAPTER 4: Salonika to 1912 51 CHAPTER 5: Becoming Greek: Salonika, 1912-23 67 PART III: Normalization to Destruction 89 CHAPTER 6: Interwar Greece: Jews under Venize'los and Metaxas 91 CHAPTER 7: Occupation and Deportation: 1941-44 110 PART IV "The Greeks": Greek Jews beyond Greece 145 CHAPTER 8: Auschwitz-Birkenau 147 CHAPTER 9: Trying to Find Home: Jews in Postwar Greece 166 CHAPTER 10: Hellenized at Last: Greek Jews in Palestine/Israel 190 CHAPTER 11: Conclusion: Greek Jewish History--Greek or Jewish? 205 Notes 215 Index 265

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Book SynopsisExplores the Latino presence in the United States. This book also debunks common myths about Silicon Valley. Based on oral histories as well as archival research, it shows how San Jose, Santa Clara, and other northern California locales played a critical role in the ongoing development of Latino politics.Trade Review"Pitti is a scholar with an eye for the telling detail and a passion for social justice that turns his monograph into both a saga and a manifesto."--Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Pitti's book ... serves to correct a Mexican American historiography that has focused almost exclusively on southern California. Pitti argues that northern California has been too dynamic economically to be ignored by historians of ethnic minorities. His analysis focuses on the entwining of economic development, racism, and the formation of racialized Mexican communities over two centuries."--Donna R. Gabaccia, American Historical Review

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Book SynopsisTraces the global, national, and local origins of the conflict between Muslims and Jews in France, challenging the belief that rising anti-Semitism in France is rooted solely in the unfolding crisis in Israel and Palestine.Trade Review"Mandel offers new perspectives on the factors at play in deteriorating Jewish-Muslim interactions. She challenges theories that concentrate on the Middle East and argues that they obscure dynamics in France that have more directly influenced the situation. This concise account, which highlights instances of interethnic cooperation, is chronologically organized and underscores how the legacy of French colonialism created separate paths for the thousands of North African Muslims and Jews that settled in France because of decolonization."--Choice "I found this an enjoyable and illuminating read... [I]t is a worthwhile book which illuminates one of the pressing problems of our time."--Ruth Barbour, Open History "Muslims and Jews in France is a remarkably concise and clear analysis of the complex relationship and mutual constitution of the two communities. Mandel has a knack for making the paradoxes of her subjects accessible, making this book necessary reading for anyone interested in contemporary French history and politics, Jewish history and Muslim-Jewish relations: instead of just lamenting the news, it allows us to think through it critically."--Arthur Asseraf, French History "Muslims and Jews in France is a most in-depth, sophisticated piece of work that warrants a lot of attention and needs to be read; particularly in light of an on-going conflict where there appears to be no end in sight."--David Marx, David Marx: Book Reviews "For those who prefer thoughtful historical analysis to slogans, Mandel's book is one place to turn. What one finds is that post-war Jewish life in Europe in general, and France in particular, belies the tidy narrative still being constructed."--Simon J. Rabinovitchm, Haaretz "[A] masterful analysis."--Jean-Philippe Dedieu, Sociology "Muslims and Jews in France: A History of Conflict, by Maud Mandel, offers a valuable historical portrait of relations between the two most significant religious minorities in France, and Europe, Jews and Muslims."--Shana Cohen, Journal of Muslims in Europe "In this balanced and sensitive study, Mandel offers a detailed assessment of the development of Muslim-Jewish relations from the immediate post-war years to the late 1980s... Mandel's thoughtful analysis raises important questions for future research. Overall, this is a valuable consideration of a complex topic, and one that will be of benefit both to historians of decolonisation and left-wing mobilisation, and also to those more broadly interested in the controversies which continue to fire the French political imagination."--J. Wardhaugh, English Historical Review "Based on exhaustive research, Muslims and Jews in France condenses half a century of complex inter-ethnic relations in a little more than hundred and fifty pages of text (with 80 pages of notes!) and succeeds in giving a clear picture of the interaction between these two minority communities in France. Recommended to all academic libraries."--Roger S. Kohn, Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews "Outstanding... A significant achievement."--Richard S. Fogarty, American Historical Review "Lucid... [An] important new book."--Lisa Moses Leff, Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Chapter One. Colonial Policies, Middle Eastern War, and City Spaces: Marseille in 1948 15 Chapter Two. Decolonization and Migration: Constructing the North African Jew 35 Chapter Three. Encounters in the Metropole: The Impact of Decolonization on Muslim-Jewish Life in France in the 1950s and 1960s 59 Chapter Four. The 1967 War and the Forging of Political Community 80 Chapter Five. Palestine in France: Radical Politics and Hardening Ethnic Allegiances, 1968-72 100 Chapter Six. Particularism versus Pluriculturalism: The Birth and Death of the Anti-Racist Coalition 125 Conclusion 153 Abbreviations 157 Notes 159 Index 241

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Book SynopsisPresents a synthetic history of the family in Germany and northern France during the High Middle Ages. Concentrating on the special roles of mothers and children, this book advances efforts to write a comparative Jewish-Christian social history. It provides an analysis of the history of Jewish families in medieval Ashkenaz.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2008 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Gender Studies, Association for Jewish Studies Winner of the 2005 Koret Jewish Book Award in History, Koret Foundation Runner-Up for the 2005 National Jewish Book Award in Women's Studies category, Jewish Book Council "Baumgarten's writing of Ashkenaz medieval history as seen through a gender perspective advances a more inclusive reading of Jewish history."--Jewish Book World "[T]horoughly researched and lucidly written... Baumgarten has opened an erudite and well-constructed window into an area of Jewish life ... that has long eluded sustained productive treatment by modern scholarship. She has advanced the field considerably in this estimable work."--Ephraim Kanarfogel, American Historical Review "[Baumgarten's] scholarship is thorough and meticulous, and her judgment is intelligent and reliable... She has thus made a major contribution in so carefully and convincingly delineating the interconnections of medieval Jewish and Christian family life."--Sarah Lipton, Medieval Review "In Elisheva Baumgarten's erudite and captivating chronicle of Jewish family life in the Middle Ages, several surprising revelations may cause us to rethink our presumptions about medieval Jewish women... Baumgarten displays not only mastery of Jewish sources, but a considerable familiarity with Christian texts and anthropological literature."--David Wolpe, The Jerusalem PostTable of ContentsIllustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xv Introduction 1 Chapter One. Birth 21 Chapter Two. Circumcision and Baptism 55 Chapter Three. Additional Birth Rituals 92 Chapter Four. Maternal Nursing and Wet Nurses: Feeding and Caring for Infants 119 Chapter Five. Parents and Children: Competing Values 154 Conclusions 184 Notes 191 Glossary 241 Bibliography 243 Index 269

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Book SynopsisDuring the Civil War, Americans from homefront to battlefront played baseball as never before. This work gives us a commentary of the growth and transformation of baseball. It shows that the game was a vital part of the lives of many a soldier and civilian - and that baseball's popularity had everything to do with surging American nationalism.Trade Review"Kirsch examines the emerging organizational sophistication of urban and collegiate baseball on the home front, and he sketches out the social and racial contours of what was already often seen as the national game... A careful scholar, he savors using evidence to demolish myth."--Choice "The book is a pleasure to read, and deserves numerous votes for the current literary All-Star Game."--David Wee, American Historical Review "George P. Kirsch has written an interesting, readable book about the sport's growth during the Civil War that teaches readers how the game evolved into the national pastime."--Jeff Diamant, Newark Star-Ledger "Although baseball shares the public stage with other sports nowadays, it is still the professional sport most prominent in American historical consciousness. George B. Kirsch's book offers an intriguing look at the very early years of baseball, which were intertwined with the crucible of the Civil War... Overall, this is a solid examination of the subject and will be of interest to sports and baseball historians, in particular, but also those scholars and general readers interested in the social history of the Civil War."--John Sickels, Civil War HistoryTable of ContentsPREFACE ix CHAPTER ONE: The Rise of Baseball 1 CHAPTER TWO: Battlefront 28 CHAPTER THREE: Home Front 48 CHAPTER FOUR: Players and Clubs 66 CHAPTER FIVE: Championship Competition and Commercialization 93 CHAPTER SIX: The War's Legacy 113 EPILOGUE 131 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY 137 INDEX 141

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Book SynopsisHow we die reveals much about how we live. This book traces the history of euthanasia in the United States to show how changing attitudes toward death reflect new and troubling ways of experiencing pain, hope, and freedom. It shows how over time, the term came to mean a death blessed by the grace of God, and later, medical hastening of death.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2006 Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association "However we seek to achieve it, in the end what we most hope for is a good death. For his help in pushing us to think about what this means, Professor Lavi deserves our undying gratitude."--Joanna Reiver, Journal of Legal Medicine "Lavi helped explain what the inhabitants of Christendom understood implicitly for centuries. He is right: We have forgotten how to die."--Michael A. Flannery, The Journal of American History "[V]ery well-researched and elegantly written... [T]hought-provoking and worthwhile reading."--Marcia L. Meldrum, Journal of the American Medical Association "Lavi explains how dying has moves from 'art' to 'technique,' from an experience overseen by a minister and family to one of 'technique' overseen by doctors and constructed by law... Lavi's work represents the best of sociolegal scholarship: it is impressive for its clear conceptualization, its marshalling of an impressive array of historical and cultural evidence, and its lucid, clear, and elegant writing... As a model of concerned and rigorous scholarship, Lavi's book is exemplary."--Alfonso Morales, Law & Society Review "This book, The Modern Art of Dying: A History of Euthanasia in the United States provides valuable background information about the end of life, especially related to euthanasia. It provides comprehensive and extensive references and case histories of ways of dying and euthanasia, to the field of gerontology, and to those working with individuals of all ages in a terminal state. This book is geared for all the people who are interested in the issue of euthanasia... This book is very valuable to Christian scholars. Also, readers with religious beliefs and legal systems which differ from those in the United States may find this book very resourceful in helping them to understand why euthanasia is such an important issue in American Judeo-Christian culture and law."--Suk-Young Kang, Ph.D., Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life and Palliative Care "Lavi's book contributes to this ongoing discussion by providing a valuable, thoughtful, and concise history of euthanasia in the United States. His book takes us back to the 18th century Methodists, to see how 'the art of dying' gradually became 'technique.' He does a superb job of bringing together insights from several disciplines (history, religion, social science, law, philosophy) which help us to understand the issues involved by showing how art, technology, medicine, religion and social policy have contributed to the situation we find ourselves in today."--Bob Lane, Metapsychology Online ReviewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: The Ethics of the Deathbed: Euthanasia from Art to Technique 1 Chapter One: The Holy Craft of Dying: The Birth of the Modern Art of Dying 14 Chapter Two: Medical Euthanasia: From Aiding the Dying to Hastening Death 41 Chapter Three: Legalizing Euthanasia: The Role of Law and the Rule of Technique 75 Chapter Four: Euthanasia as Public Policy: The Euthanasia Society of America 99 Chapter Five: Lethal Dosing: Technique beyond the Law 126 Chapter Six: Mercy Killing: The Limits of Technique 144 Epilogue: Art and Technique, Death and Freedom 163 Appendix: Mercy Killing: Case History 173 Notes 181 Bibliography 211 Index 223

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Book SynopsisDoes Obama's presidency signal the end of race in American life? This title examines the paradox of race in Barack Obama's America and how President Obama intends to deal with it. It assesses the culture and politics of race in the age of Obama, and of our prospects for a postracial America.Trade ReviewFinalist for the 2010 National Book Award, The University of Memphis, Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change "Distinguished civil rights historian and sociologist Sugrue (Sweet Land of Liberty) follows Barack Obama's intellectual journey and political education from his student years in the late 1970s through his first years as president, offering an insightful and fresh glimpse of Obama through three lenses--as intellectual, politician, and policy maker--and with three essays. While David Remnick's comprehensive The Bridge bears thematic similarities, Sugrue offers a pithy and readable survey of some of the same terrain--the path that 'rooted the rootless Hawaiian in the history of the Southern freedom struggle' and the formation of his politics that favored 'reconciliation over confrontation.' Sugrue addresses Obama's Chicago years and the evolution of his thinking on class. And the final essay assesses Obama as candidate and president. Particularly noteworthy is Sugrue's attention to Obama's post-Jeremiah Wright controversy speech in 2008 ('the most learned disquisition on race from a major political figure ever') and a splendid illumination of the roles played by books (particularly the work of William Julius Wilson), by mentors (political and clerical), and by family (especially Michelle Obama's) in Obama's ascent."--Publishers Weekly "His work adds missing nuance and complexity to the discussion of the history of race and its present societal scars. Readers looking for simple answers or reasons to believe we are in a postracial America will be severely disappointed, as they should be. Readers willing to engage the complexity of race in contemporary American life and politics will find Sugrue's observations insightful and, at times, appropriately depressing."--Amy Black, Books & Culture "Sugrue examines Obama's race speech during the presidential campaign that reflected the impulses of 'a more perfect union' and explores major themes of racial divisions, including the moral equivalence of black anger and white backlash."--Vernon Ford, Booklist "Thomas Sugrue's fine book offers a cogent and powerful explanation for [the] mismatch between expectations and reality. He situates Barack Obama's personal racial and political odyssey in a richly textured history of race, class, and politics in the late twentieth century, and in Sugrue's deft and elegant prose, Obama's political biography becomes a lens through which American politics and race relations come into clearer view... [T]he persistence of racial inequality in an apparently "post-racial" world--that is perhaps the most profound challenge facing American politics and society, and Sugrue's book is an essential guide to those who seek to answer that challenge."--Robert C. Lieberman, Political Science QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 CHAPTER I: "This Is My Story": Obama, Civil Rights, and Memory 11 CHAPTER II: Obama and the Truly Disadvantaged: The Politics of Race and Class 56 CHAPTER III: "A More Perfect Union"? The Burden of Race in Obama's America 92 Acknowledgments 139 Notes 141

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Convincing, compelling, and--perhaps most importantly--concise. Spending just few pages at a time on each novel, Nord and DiBattista's readings are close but not confining, and compact enough to illuminate the overall narrative without dragging it down. Readers acquainted with the writers discussed, who range chronologically from Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte to Nadine Gordimer and Marilynne Robinson, will eagerly await their favorite books' four pages of fame. The book's style makes it accessible to less seasoned readers expanding their literary knowledge."--Publishers Weekly "A thoughtful and lively romp... While it is a tall order to compress 200 years into the same number of pages, the authors succeed admirably. Their introduction to the characters, plotlines and insights of this creative and quirky group is like a smorgasbord of appetisers reminding hungry readers just how tasty these cuisines are... At Home in the World performs an extraordinary service. It shows that women deserve to be read as commentators on the world of affairs."--Elizabeth Cobbs, Times Higher EducationTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xiii INTRODUCTION The Peripatetics 1 1 Adventure 12 2 Emancipation 43 3 Pioneers 78 4 War 110 5 Politics 162 6 Multinationals 197 CONCLUSION Promised Lands 247 Notes 253 Suggestions for Further Reading 265 Index 271

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Book SynopsisAncient Greek literature, Athenian civic ideology, and modern classical scholarship have all worked together to reinforce the idea that there were three neatly defined status groups in classical Athens--citizens, slaves, and resident foreigners. But this book--the first comprehensive account of status in ancient democratic Athens--clearly lays outTrade Review"Kamen offers a brief, sensible, inexpensive, and generally persuasive survey of the spectrum of status in Athens... [K]amen's well-annotated, sensible survey is an excellent place for scholars and advanced students to start research on any of these groups."--Choice "[T]his is a stimulating and important book. It will prove indispensable reading for anyone interested in ancient Athenian society and an essential item in reading lists for academic courses. Kamen takes a fresh look at the texture of Athenian society, and given the breadth of material covered she does an excellent job in demonstrating its multifarious nature in a clear and accessible style."--Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, Scripta Classica IsraelicaTable of ContentsPreface ix Conventions and Abbreviations xi INTRODUCTION Spectrum of Statuses 1 CHAPTER 1 Chattel Slaves 8 CHAPTER 2 Privileged Chattel Slaves 19 CHAPTER 3 Freedmen with Conditional Freedom 32 CHAPTER 4 Metics (Metoikoi) 43 CHAPTER 5 Privileged Metics 55 CHAPTER 6 Bastards (Nothoi) 62 CHAPTER 7 Disenfranchised Citizens (Atimoi) 71 CHAPTER 8 Naturalized Citizens 79 CHAPTER 9 Full Citizens: Female 87 CHAPTER 10 Full Citizens: Male 97 CONCLUSION Status in Ideology and Practice 109 Bibliography 117 Index Locorum 135 General Index 141

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Book SynopsisDetails how Americans have traditionally relied on narratives to address what it means to be strong, morally responsible individuals and to explain why some people are more successful than others - in short, to help us make sense of our lives. This title argues that these narratives have done little to help Americans confront new challenges.Trade Review"In American Mythos, Wuthnow provides an important reminder that amid the din of the culture wars, our storytelling matters; and that America is a story best told from the bottom up."--Robert K. Vischer, Commonweal "Stimulating and ... disturbing because it challenges the reader to confront some unsettling truths about who we are, what we believe, and what we must do if we are truly to become a great nation... Wuthnow concludes with a call for Americans to engage in reflective democracy, thinking deeply about our values, and how we might better live by them. Highly recommended."--Thomas J. Baldino, Library Journal "I cannot sufficiently praise and recommend American Mythos. In its supple mining of data and its perspicacity about American culture and institutions, it ranks with Robert Bellah's Habits of the Heart and Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone as ground-breaking interpretive social science."--John A. Coleman, America "Robert Wuthnow carefully examines the narratives that have been instrumental in constructing the cultural identity of the United States...[He] presents a study of the cultural dynamics of American culture that could serve as a model for the studies of other cultures."--Donald J. Dietrich, European Legacy "This book contains keen reflections that make it well worth reading. Wuthnow gives a compelling account of the transformation of American society from an era of conformity in the 1950s to an era of good feelings today... American Mythos is a significant contribution, especially to the current debate over immigration."--David Fott, Perspectives on Politics "American Mythos provides a very thoughtful and insightful analysis of contemporary American national identity. Wuthnow shows a keen sensitivity ... that allows him to get to the core of what it means to become American. The lessons learned are enormously illuminating."--Manuel A. Vasquez, Theology TodayTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 CHAPTER 1: Deep Culture and Democratic Renewal 12 CHAPTER 2: Quandaries of Individualism 38 CHAPTER 3: The Justice of Privilege 79 CHAPTER 4: Self-Made Men and Women 104 CHAPTER 5: In America,All Religions Are True 128 CHAPTER 6: Ethnic Ties That Bind (Loosely) 163 CHAPTER 7: Saving Ourselves from Materialism 192 CHAPTER 8: Venues for Reflective Democracy 218 Appendix 235 Notes 239 Selected Bibliography 263 Index 277

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Book SynopsisIn 1940, Phoenix was a small, agricultural city of sixty-five thousand, and the Navajo Reservation was an open landscape of scattered sheepherders. Forty years later, Phoenix had blossomed into a metropolis of 1.5 million people and the territory of the Navajo Nation was home to two of the largest strip mines in the world. Five coal-burning power pTrade ReviewWinner of the 2016 George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental History Winner of the 2015 Caughey Western History Prize, Western History Association Winner of a 2015 Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association Winner of the 2015 David J. Weber-Clements Prize, Western History Association Winner of the 2015 Hal K. Rothman Prize, Western History Association "Power Lines is an important contribution to urban, environmental, and western history."--Adam Rome, Journal of American History "A complex and provocative analysis."--Julie Cohn, Environmental History "Needham's disciplined focus on the mechanisms of power in the modern Southwest does much to clarify the origins of modern America--and to demonstrate the utter centrality of indigenous people to that story."--James Rice, AlterNative "Needham's work is remarkable in its ability to draw together a range of actors, sites, scales, and technologies involved in the uneven development of not just Phoenix or the Navajo, but the entire Southwest. By making these connections visible, Power Lines is an important piece of scholarship for those interested in how energy, and electricity in particular, shapes the lives of people located in very different, yet connected, locations."--Conor Harrison, Planning Perspectives "[A] tremendous accomplishment. By weaving together a swarm of previously disconnected histories and historiographies, Power Lines offers a bracing new perspective on energy, development, politics, and protest in the modern Southwest."--Thomas G. Andrews, Western Historical Quarterly "A remarkably complex, sophisticated look at the causes and consequences of metropolitan growth in the American Southwest in the mid-twentieth century... Power Lines achieves a very impressive, relatively concise synthesis of the expansion of the use of electricity in Phoenix in the mid-twentieth century while at the same time introducing original research."--Ben Ford, H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Beyond the Crabgrass Frontier 1 Part I: Fragments Chapter 1: A Region of Fragments 23 Part II: Demand Chapter 2: The Valley of the Sun 55 Chapter 3: Turquoise and Turboprops 91 Part III: Supply Chapter 4: Modernizing the Navajo 123 Chapter 5: Integrating Geographies 157 Part IV: Protest Chapter 6: The Living River 185 Chapter 7: A Piece of the Action 213 Conclusion: "Good Bye, Big Sky": Coal and Postwar America 246 Abbreviations of Sources and Collections 259 Notes 261 Index 311

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Book SynopsisMost studies of ancient Greek politics focus on formal institutions such as the political assembly and the law courts. This book suggests that Greek literature reveals traces of popular culture that can be further illuminated by comparison with later historical periods.Trade Review"[F]ascinating."--William Fitzgerald, Times Literary Supplement "[T]his book is certainly a welcome opening salvo for exploring the culture of subaltern groups in antiquity."--Kostas Vlassopoulos, Sehepunkte "This book deserves the careful consideration of every serious Greek historian. Forsdyke has chosen her case studies well, and each one makes for a fascinating discussion. Most importantly, her methodological approach is very effective and should introduce many ancient historians to new avenues of research even where ancient sources are sparse... The main text reads clearly and offers enough (but not too much) introductory and general material to appeal to the non-specialist reader."--Matthew A. Sears, Bryn Mawr Classical Review "[A] most stimulating study of various aspects of Greek popular culture. As one who has tried to do the same, in a rather less 'scientific' way, I can only salute her achievement."--John Dillon, PolisTable of ContentsFigures ix Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xiii INTRODUCTION 1. Peasants, Politics, and Popular Culture 3 PART ONE: DISCOURSES 2. Slaves Tell Tales: The Culture of Subordinate Groups in Ancient Greece 37 3. Pigs, Asses, and Swine: Obscenity and the Popular Imagination in Ancient Sicyon 90 PART TWO: PRACTICES 4. Revelry and Riot in Ancient Megara: Democratic Disorder or Ritual Reversal? 117 5. Street Theater and Popular Justice in Ancient Greece 144 EPILOGUE 6. Conclusion 173 Notes 179 Bibliography 239 Index Locorum 261 General Index 265

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Book SynopsisExplores the notion of yellowness and shows that this label originated not in early travel texts or objective descriptions, but in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scientific discourses on race. This title weaves together multiple narratives to tell the complex history of a problematic term.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2013 Academia Sinica Scholarly Monograph Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences "Illuminating."--Choice "Michael Keevak has given us a wonderful, even riveting, deep-historical account of how people in Asia (particularly East Asia) came to be seen as yellow... [T]he book is a welcome and important addition to the growing literature on 'race' imaginaries, such as whiteness, blackness, and more. Readers will learn a whole lot, as I did, from Keevak's historical account ... of the evolution of Western racism."--Magnus Fiskesjo, Journal of World History "Becoming Yellow is not always an easy read, but Michael Keevak skillfully presents and examines a number of important yet highly contentious issues and terminologies on racial thinking. His book is thus full of sensible quotation marks and--understandably--the author's own qualifications regarding racial designations such as the use of 'surprising'. For those interested in the western history of racial thinking, this is a convincing introduction to the origin, construction and development of a remarkably persistent European stereotype of East Asia."--Tjalling Halbertsma, Asian Studies Review "Becoming Yellow is a fascinating read, partly due to its intriguing subject matter, partly due to the author's treatment of it... Readers, ... will profit much from Keevak's analysis of literary, scientific, and medical discourses. In particular, they will learn invaluable lessons about the mechanics of racial thinking and about how little seemingly scientific 'truths' are based on biological or empirical facts."--Ralf Hertel, Anglistik "The virtue of this work is its thorough examination of the nuances and usages of specific color terms over time."--Alexandra Cook, British Journal for the History of ScienceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: No Longer White: The Nineteenth-Century Invention of Yellowness 1 Chapter 1: Before They Were Yellow: East Asians in Early Travel and Missionary Reports 23 Chapter 2: Taxonomies of Yellow: Linnaeus, Blumenbach, and the Making of a "Mongolian" Race in the Eighteenth Century 43 Chapter 3: Nineteenth-Century Anthropology and the Measurement of "Mongolian" Skin Color 70 Chapter 4: East Asian Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Medicine: The Mongolian Eye, the Mongolian Spot, and"Mongolism"101 Chapter 5: Yellow Peril: The Threat of a "Mongolian" Far East, 1895-1920 124 Notes 145 Works Cited 175 Index 211

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Book SynopsisFor centuries, Jews lived in areas that are now part of Greece. But Greek Jews as a nationalized group existed in substantial number only for a few short decades - from the Balkan Wars (1912-13) until the Holocaust, in which more than 80 percent were killed. This book offers a comprehensive English-language history of Greek Jews.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2010 Prix Alberto Benveniste Winner of the 2009 Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League Winner of the 2008 National Jewish Book Award in Sephardic Culture, Jewish Book Council Honorable Mention for the 2009 Edmund Keeley Book Prize, Modern Greek Studies Association "With this innovative, soundly researched work Professor K. E. Fleming has filled a long-standing need for the story of Greek Jewry to be told fully."--Jewish Book World "What is a Greek Jew? Fleming pursues this question through various Jewish experiences (Romaniot and Sephardi) during the stages of the emerging modern Greek national identity. Her well-written, gripping story argues that 'Greek Jew' is actually a phantom term that emerged formally only in 1920 with governmental recognition of the Salonika community, and developed among young Jews during the 1930s, later concretizing in the Nazi concentration camps and the Jewish Diasporas to Palestine and the U.S."--S. Bowman, Choice "This book is an excellent effort to explain the quandary of the Jews of Greece during the country's turbulent 200-year history."--Jay Levinson, Jewish Tribune "This is not a 'religious book' meant to inspire. It is the very well told story of a once flourish Jewish community whose history must never be forgotten."--Jay Levinson, Jewish Magazine "K. E. Fleming has produced an insightful historical overview of the Jewish presence in Greece from the establishment of the Greek state in the early nineteenth century to the post-Holocaust era... [U]ntil the appearance of Fleming's work there was no overarching account of the Jewish experience in modern Greece, and this book fills that lacuna extremely well."--Alexander Kitroeff, American Historical Review "This fascinating book examines the concepts of identity and nationality as experienced by Jews, while paying tribute to those who were lost in World War II and to the righteous gentiles who saved the remnants of the community. Professor Fleming has written an important work on a little-known subject. It belongs in all academic Judaic collections."--Barbara M. Bibel, Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter "This volume, which displays solid scholarly standards, is also highly interesting as it follows the multiple destinies of these Jewish groups and demonstrates how complex Jewish history is--how diverse and how difficult to categorize. Fleming has succeeded in escaping preconceived attitudes and in treating the object of her investigation with detachment but also with the empathy required for all genuinely good research projects."--Esther Benbassa, Journal of Modern History "[A]n absorbing story, well told and referenced, and a worthy winner of [the] Runciman Award."--Michael Llewellyn Smith, Hellenic ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi CHAPTER 1: Introduction 1 PART I: Independence and Expansion 13 CHAPTER 2: After Independence: "Old Greece" 15 CHAPTER 3: "New Greece": Greek Territorial Expansion 32 PART II: The "Sephardic Republic": Salonika to 1923 49 CHAPTER 4: Salonika to 1912 51 CHAPTER 5: Becoming Greek: Salonika, 1912-23 67 PART III: Normalization to Destruction 89 CHAPTER 6: Interwar Greece: Jews under Venize'los and Metaxas 91 CHAPTER 7: Occupation and Deportation: 1941-44 110 PART IV "The Greeks": Greek Jews beyond Greece 145 CHAPTER 8: Auschwitz-Birkenau 147 CHAPTER 9: Trying to Find Home: Jews in Postwar Greece 166 CHAPTER 10: Hellenized at Last: Greek Jews in Palestine/Israel 190 CHAPTER 11: Conclusion: Greek Jewish History--Greek or Jewish? 205 Notes 215 Index 265

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Book SynopsisWas there ever really a black-Jewish alliance in twentieth-century America? And if there was, what happened to it? This book answers these questions, drawing a portrait of what was less an alliance than a tumultuous political engagement - but one that energized the civil rights revolution, and affected the course of American politics as a whole.Trade ReviewCo-Winner of the 2006 Saul Viener Book Prize, American Jewish Historical Society One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2006 "[Greenberg's] smart and comprehensive analysis ... is one of the best of a spate of new books on this topic, with her fine research and careful delineation of the facts."--Publishers Weekly "The vexed topic of black-Jewish relations in 20th-century America requires a brave writer, and Greenberg confronts the issue with honesty and dedication. While she provides ample evidence that the golden age of cooperation between the two groups wasn't as harmonious as generally believed, she also provides numerous examples of cohesion during the more fraught times. Greenberg is not only adept at uncovering little-known controversies and victories; her brief exposition of the famous New York City teachers' strike in the late 1960s, an incident widely credited with bringing to a boil simmering black-Jewish tensions, is a masterpiece of compression and insight."--Atlantic Monthly "Greenberg's most impressive achievement is the way she weaves the story of black-Jewish relations into the larger history of American liberalism in the twentieth century...While the likelihood of another 'golden age' of black-Jewish relations seems remote, what is certain is that Greenberg's book will be essential reading for anyone interested in this complex relationship and in the history of American liberalism more broadly."--Eric L. Goldstein, American Historical Review "Troubling the Waters gives textured life to more than 100 years of civil rights efforts and offers a window into the complex, political decision-making of courageous and often admirable individuals."--Jane Gordon, Diverse "[Cheryl Greenberg] provides extremely detailed histories of Jewish and African American civil rights efforts, together and as separate communities... [F]or the scholar and political tactician, the volume is a goldmine of information... [T]his book is likely to become one of the classic histories of black-Jewish relations in the United States."--Jewish Book World "Greenberg's is one of the best of a spate of new books on this topic, with her fine research and careful delineation of the facts."--Press-Enterprise "Essential reading for understanding ethnic/race relations and Jewish identity... Greenberg offers the best study on black-Jewish relations and one that will stand as a classic in the field."--Ronald H. Bayor, Southern Jewish History "Cheryl Greenberg's view is that Black and Jewish interests and priorities have been fundamentally different all along but did, during a particular period, overlap sufficiently... Cheryl Greenberg has certainly helped to provide ... a clearer understanding [of the Black-Jewish relationship] with this well-written, well-researched book, which is chock full of information and sensible analysis by a thoughtful, sensitive, and sympathetic writer."--Yankl Stillman, Jewish Currents "Greenberg's history is both synthetic and original, especially in its coverage of the last thirty-five years... Troubling the Waters is a painstakingly researched, impressively documented, well-written, and important contribution to the field."--Dominic J. Capeci Jr., Journal of American History "[Greenberg's] book is lucid in its exposition, balanced in its tone, and generous in its sympathies. Writing from a resolutely liberal perspective, she has built upon and outclasses all previous scholarship on the history of the black-Jewish encounter in twentieth-century America."--Stephen J. Whitfield, Jewish History "Cheryl Greenberg's book stands as an exemplar of scholarship not just in American Jewish history and in African American history, but also in the history of American liberalism which in many ways is the key force which dominates the narrative here."--Hasia R. Diner, Modernism/Modernity "In Troubling the Waters: Black Jewish Relations in the American Century, Greenberg has done more than write a book that will be of interest to students of Jewish-American history or the African American experience. She has instead produced a work--ambitious in scope and thoughtful in tone--that will be of enormous value to those interested in the broader history of postwar America and the rise of modern liberalism."--Alan Petigny, Reviews in American History "[A]n admirably balanced, fairly unsentimental account of a former entente. Greenberg ... approaches the topic with eyes wide open in an attempt to plumb its complexities."--Sheldon Kirschner, Canadian Jewish News "Troubling the Waters is the most complete attempt to unravel the complicated history of black-Jewish relations during the 20th century."--Edward S. Shapiro, Congress MonthlyTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER ONE: Settling In 15 CHAPTER TWO: Of Our Economic Strivings 48 CHAPTER THREE: Wars and Rumors of Wars 74 CHAPTER FOUR: And Why Not Every Man? 114 CHAPTER FIVE: Red Menace 169 CHAPTER SIX: Things Fall Apart 205 ABBREVIATIONS 257 NOTES 261 INDEX 339

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Book SynopsisLos Angeles has attracted intense attention as a 'world city' characterized by multiculturalism and globalization. This work highlights the role African Americans and Japanese Americans played in the social and political struggles that remade twentieth-century Los Angeles.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2008 Albert J. Beveridge Book Award, American Historical Association Winner of the 2008 Book Award in History, Association for Asian American Studies "During 'the white years' in LA history, you might think Asian immigrant groups and black migrants from the South lived in separate worlds. The truth is more complicated: sometimes they were pitted against each other, sometimes they fought--and sometimes they joined forces... Those competitions and alliances are the subject of Scott Kurashige's fascinating and important new book."--Jon Wiener, The Nation "Scott Kurashige's impressive investigation of the interactions between Japanese Americans and African Americans in mid-twentieth-century Los Angeles covers a tremendous amount of historical ground... Clearly, there are stories still to be told here, but we are fortunate that Kurashige has given us an insightful and wide-ranging investigation into how leaders of two subaltern communities navigated the dangerous waters of race in a twentieth-century American city."--Jeremiah B. C. Axelrod, Journal of American History "This excellent study demonstrates the value of multiethnic studies for urban history."--J. Borchert, Choice "The ... book ... is clearly written and enjoyable--and merits the attention of those interested in the history of Los Angeles, the West, and black and Japanese Americans."--Shana Bernstein, Southern California Quarterly "Scott Kurashige's fine study advances the creation of a fully multi-cultural American history... On a personal note, as a Japanese American from the Crenshaw district, this reviewer found Shifting Grounds to be consistently enlightening about familiar individuals, organizations, and events, both Japanese American and African American."--Dean S. Toji, California History "Shifting Grounds is a refreshing new look at race relations in Southern California and is not bogged down with academic lingo, making it an easy read for the general public."--Martha Nakagawa, Nichi Bei Times "Kurashige has ventured into uncharted territory and deserves much praise and applause for advancing our understanding of one of the most important, but often overlooked, cities in American history."--John Putman, Reviews in American History "The Shifting Grounds of Race is a carefully researched comparative work that makes a significant contribution to the scholarship of immigration, race relations, and urbanization."--Allison Varzally, Pacific Historical Review "Set in 20th century Los Angeles, Scott Kurashige offers a sweeping historical narrative that allows the reader to experience, as the book is titled, 'the shifting grounds of race'... It promises to become a benchmark for future scholarship in comparative race and ethnic relations and U.S. urban history."--Yuichiro Onishi, Journal of African American History "Scott Kurashige has written a book of major importance in American urban history... Kurashige's central and singular strength comes from his intimate knowledge of the communities and neighborhoods he writes about... In addition to the broader history of Los Angeles, Kurashige has made a valuable contribution to the history of Japanese Americans by documenting the urban story of internment during World War II. In doing so, he presents an unprecedented level of detail and richness behind individuals and institutions that mobilized for and against internment."--Edward J. W. Park, Journal of Public and International Affairs "Based on an extraordinary range of sources and addressing multiple fields of study, The Shifting Grounds of Race reveals cogently the promises and limitations of anti-racist struggles of the past and the interpretive and political possibilities of what Kurashige calls 'multiethnic history.' ... Kurashige's original framework--the triangulated racialization of whites, blacks, and Japanese Americans over many decades--and meticulous social histories of Black and Japanese Angelenos identify and demystify the many overlapping dialectics of race find class in shaping the twentieth century and beyond."--Moon-Ho Jung, Western Historical Quarterly "The Shifting Grounds of Race is ... a provocative, fascinating read. It convincingly argues that the political strategies adopted by African Americans and Japanese Americans were profoundly shaped by broader political, organizational and economic factors. It also injects Japanese Americans, and Nissei in particular, squarely into the history of Los Angeles. Kurashige's emphasis on Japanese Americans adds another important layer to our understanding of racial politics and urbanization in the United States."--Daisy Rooks, Against the Current "Scott Kurashige's book ... [is] based on impressive historical scholarship, and I can recommend [it] as a fascinating read."--David O. Sears, Perspectives on Politics "Kurashige's book is still a work that deserves careful reading and wide application in our own research and classrooms."--Chris Friday, American Historical Review "Kurashige is to be commended for taking on the politically laden concept of multiculturalism and digging under it to show us the shifting grounds of racial politics and doing so in a way that is both specific to Los Angeles but with clear, far reaching implications for American class and ethnic relations. As such, this book is not an exercise in geographic determinism but a complex intervention into the agonizing social and political history of integration and race formation in the United States."--Sarah Schrank, Journal of Social History "By underscoring the interactions and histories of multiple communities, this remarkable book diversifies and problematizes readers' understanding of race relations and offers a glimpse into America's multiracial future. This reviewer highly recommends it."--Matthew C. Whitaker, The HistorianTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix List of Tables xi Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Constructing the Segregated City 13 Chapter 2: Home Improvement 36 Chapter 3: Racial Progress and Class Formation 64 Chapter 4: In the Shadow of War 91 Chapter 5: Japanese American Internment 108 Chapter 6: The "Negro Victory" Movement 132 Chapter 7: Bronzeville and Little Tokyo 158 Chapter 8: Toward a Model Minority 186 Chapter 9: Black Containment 205 Chapter 10: The Fight for Housing Integration 234 Chapter 11: From Integration to Multiculturalism 259 Conclusion 286 Abbreviations 295 Notes 297 Acknowledgments 331 Index 333

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Book SynopsisRevises the conventional view that the Jewish experience in medieval Spain - over the century before the expulsion of 1492 - was one of despair, persecution, and decline. Focusing on the town of Morvedre in the kingdom of Valencia, this title shows how and why Morvedre's Jewish community revived and flourished in the wake of the violence of 1391.Trade ReviewRunner-Up for the 2005 National Jewish Book Award in History, Jewish Book Council "In his eloquent style, [Meyerson] highlights the complex inner workings of a multicultural society such as that of medieval Morvedre, and presents a new methodology that other Hispanists should apply to their studies."--Choice "Mark D. Meyerson constructs a subtle understanding of Spain before the Expulsion. He details not only the political relationship between the kings and 'their' Jews, but even more interestingly, the complex relationship between open Jews and the conversos of 1391."--Jewish Book World "Making a signal contribution to our knowledge of the Jews of medieval Spain is surely no easy matter. Mark D. Meyerson has performed precisely such a service in these two valuable volumes. All those concerned with the history of the medieval Iberian peninsula and/or its Jews are deeply indebted to him."--Robert Chazan, Ecclesiastical History "Elegantly conceived and painstakingly documented, Mark D. Meyerson's A Jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Spain stands as a strong and solid contribution both to medieval Iberian history and Jewish history... Meyerson has given the Jews of Morvedre a historical agency and a uniquely human subjectivity that would otherwise have remained silent."--Horacio Chiong Rivero, Sixteenth Century Journal "This more than authoritative book might not bequeath all the right answers, but it most certainly asks all the right questions."--David Marx, davidmarx.co.uk "This is the most detailed history yet written of any Jewish community in Mediterranean Spain, in the town of Morvedre in the Kingdom of Valencia."--GlennW. Olsen, European LegacyTable of ContentsFigures and Maps ix Acknowledgments xi Note on Names and Money xiii Abbreviations xv Introduction 1 Chapter One On the Edge of Desolation 22 Chapter Two Revival in the Shadow of Valencia 65 Chapter Three Wine, Money,and Mobility 109 Chapter Four Jews and Muslims 143 Chapter Five The Politics of Plenty 157 Chapter Six Converts and Kinsfolk 184 Chapter Seven Chill Wind from Castile 225 Concluding Remarks 240 Glossary 247 Bibliography 249 Index 263

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Book SynopsisTraces the rise of Jewish secularism through the visionary writers and thinkers who led its development. Presenting the history of Judaism from the Bible onwards, this book shows how the secular tradition these visionaries created is a uniquely Jewish one, and how the emergence of Jewish secularism was not merely a response to modernity.Trade Review"Lucid and winsome."--John Wilson, Books & Culture "There are not many contemporary Jewish scholars who could offer such succinct and at the same time penetrating analysis of such a variety of secular Jewish thinkers, writers, and artists... David Biale's Not in the Heavens is a useful and fascinating account of the development of modern, secular alternatives. In demonstrating the variety and depth of modern secular thought, Biale has no doubt advanced our appreciation of this formidable tradition. As an introduction to modern Jewish thought in general, and Jewish secularism in particular, his book is likely to be required reading for the foreseeable future."--Steven Frankel, H-Net Reviews "While readers may have been exposed to many of the ideas presented here, they may not be aware of their origins. For that reason, the book is a significant contribution to Jewish scholarship in many disciplines, most notably history and philosophy. While the text is serious, it is not ponderous, and the author takes time to explain the concepts. It should be purchased by academic libraries. The book should also be of interest to serious lay readers, and is recommended for larger synagogue libraries. Includes notes and index."--Fred Isaac, AJL Newsletter "Biale covers a wide range of figures and the diverse approaches to secularism that stand behind modern modes of Jewish identification. This is a well-researched, cogently argued, and clearly presented volume."--Choice "In this stimulating and original book... Biale's genealogical investigation uncovers a wealth of connections between ideas espoused by a varied group of Jewish scholars, thinkers, and artists."--Robert M. Seltzer, Studies in Contemporary JewryTable of ContentsPreface ix Introduction: Origins 1 Chapter 1: God: Pantheists, Kabbalists, and Pagans 15 Chapter 2: Torah: The Secular Jewish Bible 59 Chapter 3: Israel: Race, Nation, or State 92 Chapter 4: Israel: History, Language, and Culture 135 Conclusion: God, Torah, and Israel 176 Epilogue: Legacy 181 Notes 195 Index 221

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Book SynopsisPrevalent among classicists today is the notion that Greeks, Romans, and Jews enhanced their own self-perception by contrasting themselves with the so-called Other - Egyptians, Phoenicians, Ethiopians, Gauls, and other foreigners. This book demonstrates how the ancients found connections rather than contrasts.Trade ReviewShortlisted for the 2012 Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League "[T]he range of research, and the depth of thought, are extraordinary. Gruen has taken on a massively important subject, and he has brought a genuinely new perspective to the scholarly conversation."--Emily Wilson, New Republic "[Gruen] is at his best when he dissects Greco-Roman perceptions of the Jews and the Jewish reception of Greco-Roman culture and accommodation with the world of the goyim."--Choice "Rethinking the Other in Antiquity, by Erich S. Gruen, out this month from Princeton University Press, like all excellent scholarship massages the mind in useful new directions... Gruen's mission ... is to unpack the contrary story, far less told: 'that Greeks, Romans, and Jews (who provide us with almost all the relevant extant texts) had far more mixed, nuanced, and complex opinions about other peoples.' In the main text and many useful footnotes of this info-packed but never boring study, Gruen accomplishes that."--Carlin Romano, Chronicle Review "Anthropologists should seriously consider Gruen's case, and it would be wonderful if this appreciation of and openness to different peoples and cultures could somehow enter into contemporary politics and culture."--Jack David Eller, Anthropology Review Database "Rethinking the Other is an extremely valuable departure from a scholarly viewpoint that has threatened to become ossified of late, and as such is very worthwhile to everyone involved in the study of ancient conceptions of foreignness and belonging."--Antti Lampinen, ARCTOS "Erich Gruen's Rethinking the Other in Antiquity is a book that, for one reason or another, desperately needed to be written, ideally by someone possessing G.'s authoritative command of the vast array of sources indicative of ancient knowledge of, and interest in, foreign peoples... The result is a provocative, wide-ranging and thoroughly engaging volume that is both beautifully produced--with copious footnotes, helpful indices and handsome book-jacket featuring a (highly apposite) janiform vase--and (very) reasonably priced. The latter is fortuitous since it will automatically become a set text for courses touching on ancient self-conception and relations with foreign peoples and mandatory reading for anyone researching these and cognate fields."--Joseph Skinner, Journal of Roman Studies "Rethinking the Other in Antiquity amounts to a major reassessment of an important topic. In light of the voluminous evidence Gruen assembles, it seems untenable to contend that Greek, Roman, and Jewish views of other cultures can be reduced to self-serving stereotypes and denigrations. Hopefully his book will help usher in more nuanced and charitable perspectives."--Eric Adler, European LegacyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 PART I. IMPRESSIONS OF THE "OTHER" CHAPTER ONE: Persia in the Greek Perception: Aeschylus and Herodotus 09 Aeschylus' Persae 09 Herodotus 21 Some Visual Representations 40 CHAPTER TWO: Persia in the Greek Perception: Xenophon and Alexander 53 Xenophon's Cyropaedia 53 Alexander and the Persians 65 CHAPTER THREE: Egypt in the Classical Imagination 76 Herodotus 76 Diodorus 90 Assorted Assessments 99 Plutarch 111 CHAPTER FOUR: Punica Fides 115 The Hellenic Backdrop 116 In the Shadow of the Punic Wars 122 The Manipulation of the Image 132 The Enhancement of the Image 137 CHAPTER FIVE: Caesar on the Gauls 141 Prior Portraits 141 The Caesarian Rendering 147 CHAPTER SIX: Tacitus on the Germans 159 Germans and Romans 159 Interpretatio Romana? 169 CHAPTER SEVEN: Tacitus and the Defamation of the Jews 179 The Question 180 Tacitean Irony 187 CHAPTER EIGHT: People of Color 197 Textual Images 197 Visual Images 211 PART II. CONNECTIONS WITH THE "OTHER" CHAPTER NINE: Foundation Legends 223 Foundation Tales as Cultural Thievery 224 Pelops 227 Danaus 229 Cadmus 233 Athenians and Pelasgians 236 Rome, Troy, and Arcadia 243 Israel's Fictive Founders 250 CHAPTER TEN: Fictitious Kinships: Greeks and Others 253 Perseus as Multiculturalist 253 Athens and Egypt 265 The Legend of Nectanebos 267 Numidians and the Near East 272 CHAPTER ELEVEN: Fictitious Kinships: Jews and Others 277 The Separatist Impression 277 The Bible's Other Side 287 Ishmaelites and Arabs 299 Jews and Greeks as Kinsmen 302 CHAPTER TWELVE: Cultural Interlockings and Overlappings 308 Jews and Greeks as Philosophers 308 Jewish Presentations of Gentiles 325 Phoenicians and Greeks 341 Roman Adaptation and Appropriation 343 Conclusion 352 Bibliography 359 Index of Citations 385 Subject Index 403

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Book SynopsisFrom the dawn of writing in Sumer to the sunset of the Islamic empire, this title traces four thousand years of speculation on the origins of civilization. It looks at the ways the conquerors and those they conquered reshaped their myths of civilization's origins in response to the social and political consequences of empire.Trade Review"McCants's richly textured analysis points to some cultural anomalies that can lead to provocative reflections."--Donald J. Dietrich, European LegacyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Chapter One: Gifts of the Gods: The Origins of Civilization in Ancient Near Eastern and Greek Mythology 10 Chapter Two: The Beneficent Sky God: Cultural History in the Qur'an 29 Chapter Three: Who Was First? Protography and Discovery Catalogs 57 Chapter Four: Inventing Nations: Postconquest Native Histories of Civilization's Origins 85 Chapter Five: "The Sciences of the Ancients": Speculation on the Origins of Philosophy, Medicine, and the Exact Sciences 120 Conclusion 145 Bibliography 149 Index 167

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Book SynopsisExamines the role of race and immigration in the development of the American social welfare system by comparing how blacks, Mexicans, and European immigrants were treated by welfare policies during the Progressive Era and the New Deal.Trade ReviewCo-Winner of the 2014 Barrington Moore Book Award, Comparative and Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association Winner of the 2013 Distinguished Book Award, Latina/o Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association Winner of the 2013 Thomas and Znaniecki Best Book Award, International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association Co-Winner of the 2013 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association Winner of the 2012 Award for Best Book in Latino Politics, Latino Caucus of the American Political Science Association Winner of the 2012 C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems "Thoroughly researched and well written, the book enhances the literature on immigration and ethnicity."--Choice "Three Worlds of Relief covers new territory in social welfare history and will interest academics and students in the field. Of particular importance to the social work profession is the author's attention to the role that social workers played in advocating both for progressive legislation and practice, except in the West and Southwest."--Marguerite G. Rosenthal, Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare "Three Worlds of Relief reminds us that welfare policies must be measured by their implementation and effects as well as their intent. State and local authorities have the power to accentuate or to mute ethnic and racial biases in ways that undermine or enhance the mission of dispensing benefits impartially. Students, scholars, and practitioners concerned with the problem of inequality in the welfare state will find this book illuminating."--Lara Vapnek, Journal of Children and Poverty "Fox's scholarship provides a detailed and rich portrait of how racism and race-based nativism, in conjunction with political and economic interests, shaped the design and implementation of U.S. welfare policies... [T]his book is necessary reading for advanced scholars of U.S. social policy, welfare, poverty, and race and immigration and is highly recommended for graduate courses on these topics as well as historical and comparative methods."--Ellen Reese and Michael Walker, American Journal of Sociology "Fox has set a scholarly agenda for a new social history of the American welfare state that will integrate the Southwest into a story largely about the Deep South and Northeast and that will bring Mexican immigrants into narratives told largely in black-and-white. Most importantly, this book and the work that will follow it has the potential to show how essential an active welfare state is to making immigration a driver of individual economic opportunity and national economic growth."--Jeffrey Helgeson, Southwestern Historical Quarterly "Fox's work is intended to inject new perspective into current debates about relief, citizenship, and state aid. It succeeds in reframing our understanding of the origins of the welfare state, and deserves to be widely read by scholars of immigration history, political history, and social history."--Sarah Elvins, Labour "[T]his is an excellent book that will intrigue scholars and provoke subsequent scholarship and debate. The book could be used effectively in a wide variety of graduate seminars in several disciplines. Reading this book is well worth the investment as there is so much new here, it is so well written, and it is such a great model for excellent historical scholarship. Scholars in many areas should (and probably will) read this book and debate its richness and complexity."--David Brady, Journal of Social History "The analysis is both historically rich and analytically sharp."--Elisabeth S. Clemens, Social Forces "Refreshing and provocative... I would like to see this book be mandatory reading for all social workers. To that end it would be an excellent addition to courses like Introduction to Social Welfare Policy and Social Work Practice with Latinos. This book would also be a valuable resource for Latino Studies courses like Latino History, or Public Policy courses like Immigration Policy and Immigration Public Policy and Workers Rights."--Arianna Martinez, Latino StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Abbreviations xi Chapter 1: Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State 1 Chapter 2: Three Worlds of Race, Labor, and Politics 19 Chapter 3: Three Worlds of Relief 52 Chapter 4: The Mexican Dependency Problem 73 Chapter 5: No Beggar Spirit 95 Chapter 6: Deporting the Unwelcome Visitors 124 Chapter 7: Repatriating the Unassimilable Aliens 156 Chapter 8: A Fair Deal or a Raw Deal? 188 Chapter 9: The WPA and the (Short-Lived) Triumph of Nativism 214 Chapter 10: A New Deal for the Alien 250 Chapter 11: The Boundaries of Social Citizenship 281 Abbreviations in the Notes 295 Notes 299 Index 371

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Book SynopsisDiscusses about Irish nationalism and how Irish nationalists developed their own conception of the Irish race. This book begins with an exploration of the discourse of race - from the nineteenth - century belief that 'race is everything' to the argument that there are no races.Trade Review"This is ... a most impressive study, not only for its breathtaking scope and Nelson's command of such vast and varied scholarship but for pointing to many unexplored directions for future comparative and transnational studies. This book is a welcome addition to the literature on Irish nationalism and on the construction of group identity."--Patrick Furlong, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics "Nelson's book is a timely chronology of the quest by both foreigners and the Irish themselves to define and redefine race and identity."--Lar Joye, History Ireland "Irish Nationalists and the Making of the Irish Race is ... a wide-ranging work rooted in large volumes of both primary and secondary sources. It succeeds in broadening our understanding of Irish identity by digging up new and interesting intellectual connections between Irish nationalists and the outside world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."--Cian McMahon, New Hibernia Review "The whole book ... rests on a solid base of original research and analysis. Even when we may be familiar in outline with some of the incidents [Nelson] recounts ... this book enriches our understanding."--Patrick Maume, Irish Historical Studies "This is an important book that will chart a way forward to a fuller and more complex understanding of the role of race in Irish nationalist ideology."--Michael de Nie, American Historical Review "For anyone interested in the development of an Irish national identity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and its connection to the popular racial ideologies of the same period, this book is an essential starting point."--David T. Gleeson, Journal of British Studies "His book is a welcome and important addition to the subject of Irish nationalism."--Sean Farrell Moran, HistorianTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Part 1. The Making of the Irish Race Prologue: Arguing about (the Irish) Race 3 Chapter 1. "The blood of an Irishman": The English Construction of the Irish Race, 1534-1801 17 Chapter 2. Celts, Hottentots, and "white chimpanzees": The Racialization of the Irish in the Nineteenth Century 30 Part 2. Ireland, Slavery, and Abolition Chapter 3. "Come out of such a land, you Irishmen": Daniel O'Connell, American Slavery, and the Making of the Irish Race 57 Chapter 4. "The Black O'Connell of the United States": Frederick Douglass and Ireland 86 Part 3. Ireland and Empire Chapter 5. "From the Cabins of Connemara to the Kraals of Kaffirland": Irish Nationalists, the British Empire, and the "Boer Fight for Freedom" 121 Chapter 6. "Because we are white men": Erskine Childers, Jan Christian Smuts, and the Irish Quest for Self-Government, 1899-1922 148 Part 4. Ireland and Revolution Chapter 7. Negro Sinn Feiners and Black Fenians: "Heroic Ireland" and the Black Nationalist Imagination 181 Chapter 8. "The Irish are for freedom everywhere": Eamon de Valera, the Irish Patriotic Strike, and the"last white nation ... deprived of its liberty" 212 Epilogue: The Ordeal of the Irish Republic 242 Notes 259 Index 323

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Book SynopsisPresents a picture of daily life in the Middle Ages as it was experienced by ordinary people. Suitable for general readers, this title describes how these vulnerable people confronted life, from birth to death, including childhood, marriage, work, sex, food, illness, religion, and the natural world.Trade Review"This is a wonderful book--the product of a lifetime's immersion in the documents and artefacts that survive from the 1,000 years that we call the 'Middle Ages.'... In the end, Fossier concludes, 'I felt like saying all this, and that is enough.' More than enough, when a book as absorbing and challenging as this is the result."--Helen Castor, Times Higher Education "This remarkable book ... belongs with William Manchester's A World Lit Only by Fire as a window into a world so far removed from us and yet still very much present today."--Nick Schulz, National Review "Fossier writes with a passion that makes this amazing period of European history come alive for any reader interested in medieval or social history."--Library Journal "[A] grand-scale, breathless, dizzying tour, whisking us through a labyrinth of concepts, texts, authors and centuries in pursuit of the lives of the ordinary people who make up the world of medieval Europe."--Juanita Feros Ruys, Australian "The subject of this skillful, elegantly produced translation of Ces gens du Moyen Age is immensely important and represents the culmination of a lifetime of work by one of the leading French medievalists of his generation. Fossier examines 'ordinary life' under a series of illuminating thematic headings: the physical being of man himself, growth from childhood to adulthood, private life, the workplace, and death. But he also considers external and psychological categories, such as the weather, trees, animals, memory, expression, faith, and salvation. In doing so, Fossier has been careful not to impose the arbitrary divisions of modern society upon a civilization that know no such compartmentalization, doing readers a great service."--Choice "The result is a sweeping new vision of the Middle Ages that will entertain and enlighten readers."--Spartacus Educational "The immense value of a book like this lies in its latent ability to stimulate readers--be they historians professional or amateur--to ask stimulating questions. If a reader drinks in Fossier's readable, intriguing discussion of medieval lay-learning, and learns enough from his wide-ranging discussion to ask a question either of Fossier or of the medieval sources, he has made great progress."--Emily A. Winkler, Oxonian Review "Fossier draws upon over four decades of experience in the social history of medieval France to produce what is an immensely wide ranging, eclectic and engaging study of human life from conception to burial."--Carol Hoggart, ParergonTable of ContentsPreface ix Part One: MAN AND THE WORLD Chapter 1: Naked Man 3 A Fragile Creature 3 An Ungainly Being 3 Fairly Content with Himself 5 But Are There Nonetheless Nuances? 8 But a Threatened Creature 11 Does Man Really Know Himself? 11 "Abnormal" Assaults on Man 16 The Illness That Lies in Wait 19 The Black Death 23 Can Those Men Be Counted? 27 Chapter 2: The Ages of Life 37 From the Child to the Man 38 Expecting a Baby 38 When the Child Arrives 41 "Childhoods" 44 The Child in the Midst of the Family 48 Man in His Private Life 51 As Time Goes By 52 Nourishing the Body 59 The Shaping of Taste 67 Adorning the Body 69 Man, Woman, and the Others 77 The Two Sexes Face-to-Face 78 Sexual Concerns 82 Living by the Fire and by the Pot 87 The Chains of Marriage 91 ... And Their Locks 96 Kin 102 ... And "Relations" 107 The Workplace 108 The House 109 ... And What Was Found in the House 115 Man Is Born to Toil 117 But What Work? 121 And Tools? 127 The End of Life 131 The Elderly 132 The "Passage" 136 After Death 139 Chapter 3: Nature 145 The Weather 145 The Paleo-Environment 146 What Did They See or Feel? 149 Fire and Water 154 Fire, the Symbol of Life and Death 154 Saving and Beneficent Water 157 The Sea, Horrible and a Temptress 160 The Products of the Earth 164 Mastering the Soil 165 Making the Earth Render 168 Grasses and Vines 171 The Trees and the Forest 175 The Forest, Overwhelming and Sacred 175 The Forest, Necessary and Nourishing 180 And the People of the Forest? 183 Chapter 4: And the Animals? 186 Man and Beast 187 Fear and Disgust 187 Respect and Affection 189 Knowing and Understanding 194 What Are the Beasts? 195 Penetrating This World 198 Utilize and Destroy 202 The Services of the Beast 203 Killing: Man's Job 208 A Contrasting Balance Sheet 215 Part Two: MAN IN HIMSELF Chapter 5: Man in Himself 223 Living in a Group 224 Why Come Together? 225 How to Assemble? 229 Where to Gather? 235 Laughter and Games 246 Precautions and Deviations 252 Order and the "Orders" 254 Peace and Honor 260 Law and Power 265 Gaps 276 And People from Elsewhere 285 Chapter 6: Knowledge 292 The Innate 293 Memory 293 The Imaginary 298 Measurement 303 Acquisitions 310 Act, Image, Word 312 Writing 317 What to Learn? 323 And Where? 329 Expression 335 Who Wrote and What Did They Write? 336 For Whom and Why Did Authors Write? 341 The Artist's Part 343 Chapter 7: And the Soul 348 Good and Evil 350 The End of Dualism 351 Virtue and Temptation 356 Sin and Pardon 362 Faith and Salvation 365 Dogma and the Rites of Medieval Christian Faith 366 The Church 371 The Other World 376 Conclusion 382

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Book SynopsisUncovers the story of the Tape family in post-gold rush, racially explosive San Francisco. The author paints a picture of how the role of immigration broker allowed patriarch Jeu Dip (Joseph Tape) to both protest and profit from discrimination, and of the Tapes as the first of a new social type - middle-class Chinese Americans.Trade Review"[A] fresh portrait of Chinese immigrants, America and the past century ... deceptively novelistic and evocative... [A]n absorbing story."--Anderson Tepper, New York Times Book Review "Ngai fashions a terrifically readable, compelling work about the little-known middle-class in the Chinese immigrant experience."--Publishers Weekly "[F]ascinating... With meticulous research into the Tapes' daily lives, [Ngai] sheds light on the choices certain family members made to secure a future for themselves and their children."--Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times "Ngai paints a vivid picture of an exceptional Chinese American family making its own history while ably weaving the Tape family saga into the history of Chinese exclusion... [This] is an important contribution to the history of Chinese America."--Robert G. Lee, Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsPreface to the Paperback Edition viii Author's Note x Tape Family Tree xiv Maps xv Part I : Strivings (1864-1883) 1. The Lucky One 3 2. The First Rescue 14 3. Joseph and Mary 24 Part II : School Days (1884-1894) 4. "That Chinese Girl" 43 5. Chinatown's Frontier 58 Part III: Native Sons and Daughters (1895-1904) 6. Suburban Squire 71 7. Two Marriages 83 8. The Chinese Village 95 Part IV: The Interpreter Class (1905-1917) 9. Blood and Fire 119 10. In Pursuit of Smugglers 135 11. Modern Life 150 12. The Trial 161 13. "Sailors Should Go Ashore" 173 Part V : Reinventions (1917-1950) 14. The New Daughter-in-Law 189 15. Loss 201 16. Service 207 Epilogue 223 Glossary of Chinese Names 231 Acknowledgments 233 Notes 235 Appendix: Documents from the Chinese Exclusion Era 277 Index 315

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Book SynopsisDemonstrating that similarities between Jewish and Christian art in the Middle Ages were more than coincidental, Cultural Exchange meticulously combines a wide range of sources to show how Jews and Christians exchanged artistic and material culture. Joseph Shatzmiller focuses on communities in northern Europe, Iberia, and other Mediterranean societTrade Review"Clearly, this book is only the beginning of a series of works dedicated to the study of material links between medieval Jewish and Christian communities and of the interdependence they unveil. And we can only hope that its successors will keep up the high standards of writing and methodological expertise established in Cultural Exchange by Joseph Shatzmiller."--Andor Kelenhegyi, European Review of HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Preface xi Introduction 1 Part 1 Pawnbrokers: Agents of Cultural Transmission 5 Chapter 1 Financial Activities in the Medieval Marketplace 7 Chapter 2 Securities for Loans: Church Liturgical Objects 22 Chapter 3 High Finance: Urban and Princely Pledges 45 Part 2 Human Imagery in Medieval Ashkenaz 59 Chapter 4 The Decorated Home of the Rabbi of Zurich 61 Chapter 5 German Jews and Figurative Art: Appreciation and Reservation 73 Part 3 At the Marketplace: Professionals in the Service of the "Other" 111 Chapter 6 Christian Artists and Jewish Patronage 113 Chapter 7 Jewish Craftsmanship at the Service of the Church 141 Conclusions 158 Appendix Jewish Traditions and Ceremonies: How Original? 162 Select Bibliography 167 Index 177

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Book SynopsisThe diverse cultures of the Caribbean have been shaped as much by hurricanes as they have by diplomacy, commerce, or the legacy of colonial rule. In this panoramic work of social history, Stuart Schwartz examines how Caribbean societies have responded to the dangers of hurricanes, and how these destructive storms have influenced the region's historTrade ReviewWinner of the 2015 Gustav Ranis International Book Prize, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University Honorable Mention for the 2015 ASLI Choice Award in History, Atmospheric Science Librarians International Honorable Mention for the 2016 Marysa Navarro Best Book Prize, New England Council on Latin American Studies (NECLAS) Shortlisted for the 2015 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, McGill University "[A] deeply scholarly work. It is also engaging to read."--J. R. McNeill, Wall Street Journal "[F]inely researched ... [a] fascinating story."--Adrian Barnett, New Scientist "[A] remarkable book."--James Attlee, Independent "[A] fascinating, extremely well-researched book."--Philip Hoare, Times Higher Education "The author weaves a tapestry that traces the emergence of a collective awareness of this hazard during colonization of the Americas, and considers the consequences of storm damage and catastrophes for politics, economics, geography, and life in general in the modernization of both island and continental nations of the realm."--Choice "Schwartz's book offers a refreshing perspective and is an important contribution to the study of the region's hazards and societies."--Johannes Bohle, H-Soz-u-Kult "Schwartz's versatility as a historian is on full display in this erudite, accessible, and ultimately essential book."--Kris Lane, Reviews in American History "A master synthesizer... Schwartz ... does a herculean job of studying the impact that hurricaneshave had on the Greater Caribbean since the days of Columbus to Katrina."--Douglas Brinkley, Environmental History "Sea of Storms provides the most comprehensive synthesis of the history of hurricanes to date, not just for the Caribbean but for the extended realm of the greater Caribbean."--Liz Skilton, Journal of American History "Sea of Storms is a book of Braudelian ambition by a master of the trade. The story is as engrossing as it is momentous."--Jordan E. Lauhon, Journal of Interdisciplinary History "Schwartz synthesizes the stormy Caribbean's commonalities, continuities, and ruptures with an often brilliant concision and illuminating eye."--Shawn W. Miller, American Historical Review "Sea of Storms is the product of decades of original research, a synthesis of the knowledge of hurricanes and their effects, a handbook for students and established scholars hoping to craft their own studies on hurricanes, and a summary of the multidisciplinary literature to date. It is exemplary scholarship and is indispensable for anyone who hopes to learn more about historic hurricanes or intends to employ disasters as theoretical models in their own work."--Sherry Johnson, Journal of Historical Geography "A magisterial work that is at once a history of the impact of a recurring natural phenomenon in a vulnerable geographical zone, and a social, political, and economic history of the Caribbean area from the time of early European settlement to the twentieth century... A superb book, rich in detail yet clear in its argument. Schwartz's vast research and knowledge of Latin American history have allowed him to integrate cultural history, popular music, art, and poetry into the story. Sea of Storms joins new work on the social and political implications of natural phenomena, but it also serves as a fine synthetic history of the Caribbean region."--Ann Zulawski, The AmericasTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xxiii Chapter 1. Storms and Gods in a Spanish Sea 1 Chapter 2. Melancholy Occasions: Hurricanes in a Colonial World 33 Chapter 3. War, Reform, and Disaster 70 Chapter 4. Calamity, Slavery, Community, and Revolution 110 Chapter 5. Freedom, Sovereignty, and Disasters 145 Chapter 6. Nature and Politics at the Century's Turn 192 Chapter 7. Memories of Disaster in a Decade of Storms 226 Chapter 8. Public Storms, Communal Action, and Private Grief 272 Chapter 9. Ancient Storms in a New Century 319 Abbreviations 339 Notes 341 Bibliography of Works Consulted 393 Index 427

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Co-Winner of the Peter Dobkin Hall History of Philanthropy Book Prize, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA)""Elegant and original. . . . Hollinger's book is a comprehensive history of American Protestant missionaries abroad, but it is also the more important story of how a religious and cultural movement overcame its own provincialism."---John Kaag, Wall Street Journal"Hollinger’s latest book, Protestants Abroad, traces the lives and activities of thousands of mainline American Protestant missionaries and, importantly, their children, from the early twentieth century into the 1960s. In its deft interweaving of personal stories and historical argument, it is the most accomplished piece of prose yet written by an exceptionally accomplished scholar."---John T. McGreevy, Commonweal"Thoroughly researched and well crafted, this is a reminder of the influence that liberal, cosmopolitan Protestant intellectuals have had on American life." * Publishers Weekly *"Too often collected essays lack coherence--not so here. As a reader, each essay opened up new horizons of thought, but Hollinger's own intellectual drive to narrate the twists and turns between the vernacular and the ecumenical traditions of Protestantism give the volume a propinquity that is powerful. This is a superb work of scholarship, a passionate intellectual argument without spite, and an invitation to think, which is the highest compliment one can pay to a scholar."---James K. Wellman, Sociology of Religion"Hollinger tells a fascinating and illuminating history, and I commend it highly."---Ryan Hoselton, The Gospel Coalition"A major contribution in the overlapping historiographies of American religious history, transnational history, cultural history, and intellectual history."---Albert Wu, H-Diplo Roundtable Review"The product of prodigious research over many years. . . . This rich work casts light on such diverse subjects as the feminism of Pearl Buck . . . the interrogation of Japanese Prisoners of War in World War II, the relationship of The King and I to its purported source, and the rise of Area Studies."---John A. Thompson, H-Diplo Roundtable Review"One of the most important books about religion in twentieth-century America to appear in the last decade. . . . A book that will reshape the way we think about the historical arc of American Protestantism in this period."---Joe Creech, The Cresset"No one has done more than Hollinger to put mainline American Protestantism on the map of 20th-century American cultural and intellectual history, and this book adds an important chapter to that impressive legacy."---Robert Westbrook, Christian Century"A major contribution to a wide range of subfields of American history."---Andrew Preston, American Historical Review"This book maps its own territory, with carefully drawn detail and a steady hand."---Intellectual History Book Review, Elesha Coffman"Protestants Abroad is a monumental achievement. The most conspicuous feature is the breadth of the research. Hollinger seems to have read every relevant primary and secondary text he could find. The book is monumental is a second way. It sets a benchmark for the clarity of its prose . . . . The book is monumental in a third way, and that is the forcefulness and persuasiveness of its argument. Hollinger contends that modern US history—especially the decades stretching from the 1930s through the 1960s—is helpfully examined by viewing it through the lens of missionary history."---Grant Wacker, Church History

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Book SynopsisNellie Dowell was a match factory girl in Victorian London who spent her early years consigned to orphanages and hospitals. Muriel Lester, the daughter of a wealthy shipbuilder, longed to be free of the burden of money and possessions. Together, these unlikely soulmates sought to remake the world according to their own utopian vision of Christ's teTrade ReviewWinner of the 2015 NAVSA Best book of the Year Award, North American Victorian Studies Association Winner of the 2015 Stansky Prize, North American Conference on British Studies One of HistoryBuff.com's 10 Can't-Miss History Books of 2015 "In The Match Girl and the Heiress, inspired by a cache of private writings that reveal a profound relationship between two women activists, [Koven] delves deep into the historical record to build an intriguing story of cross-class devotion--between the social reformer Muriel Lester and 'a half-orphaned Cockney' factory worker named Nellie Dowell."--Nina Burleigh, New York Times Book Review "[F]ascinating... The great virtue of Koven's approach is his constant probing of surfaces. He is never content simply to mention a school, a hospital, a factory, without examining the policies or commercial pressures, the attitudes of the public, the actual daily round and the experience of those who lived or worked there, asking what it felt like, emotionally and physically... [This] imaginative book, at once an immaculate social and religious history and an intriguing exercise in life-writing, gives both the heiress and the match girl their due."--Jenny Uglow, New York Review of Books "[M]eticulously researched."--Caroline Moorhead, Times Literary Supplement "Rutgers University historian Koven (Slumming) has fashioned a scholarly yet highly readable jewel that tackles the big issues of early-20th-century England in an intimate way. Through the lives of Muriel Lester and Nellie Dowell, he brilliantly illuminates the growth of global capitalism, a revolutionary 'God is love' Christian theology, war and pacifism, feminism and sexuality, and class and gender relations."--Publishers Weekly, starred review "Koven demonstrates how these women changed the world's attitude toward the poor."--Kirkus "Koven's book sets Nellie and Muriel's relationship in the context of the religion and politics of their era... [T]he most memorable parts are about the unique relationship between these two women. It also serves as a timely reminder of how cruel life was for the poor when there was no welfare state to act as a safety net."--Rachel Trethewey, Independent "Koven's book sensitively uses a personal relationship to examine both the hopes and the failures of the attempts to cross class boundaries at a time and place where they ruled supreme."--Margaret Quamme, Columbus Dispatch "The Match Girl and the Heiress is a tale of two intertwined lives, but it is also a story of many places, thoughtfully and richly realized... At the heart of this excellent work is an engrossing, sensitive, and thoughtful story of history, theology, politics, and genuine love."--James Norton, Christian Science Monitor "Seth Koven's new book is a bold, brilliant and deeply moving account of [Lester's and Dowell's] contrasting lives... It is Koven's evident admiration for the imagination and conviction involved in the struggle to live ethically that makes this book such a terrific read."--Nadia Valman, Times Higher Education "Seth Coven who has poured considerable research into this work, has given us much food for thought... The Match Girl And The Heiress deserves a thorough read and is both entertaining and thought-provoking."--Clare O'Beara, Fresh Fiction "Remarkable reading... Muriel and Nellie shine through the pages of The Match Girl and the Heiress."--John Rennie, East End Life "Koven's book is finely researched and detailed as it traces the cross?fertilisation of nonconformist religious movements with those of the early socialist, pacifist and suffragette elements of East London's political radicalism."--The New English Landscape "[An] impressive work of painstaking and imaginative scholarship... Rich, critical, and warm-hearted, The Match Girl and the Heiress will be inspiring and provoking historians of affective emotion, social work, immanence theology, and fraternalism for some time to come."--Geoff A.C. Ginn, Health and History "Koven makes a convincing argument that love and its emotions are worthy of serious consideration within histories of politics of this period... Koven's methodology for filling in the blanks and reconstructing Dowell's life leads to rich and rewarding readings of institutions and other cultural texts."--Angharad Eyre, Journal of Victorian Culture "Congratulations to Seth Koven for his comprehensive research into the history of Kingsley Hall. An academic work and while not a light read, provides a fascinating insight into the beginnings of the labour movement trades unionism, Christian socialism, pacifism, and the fives and times of those who worked with great conviction for better social conditions."--Doreen Kendall, Stone Stories "While it's hard enough to recover the lives of women from centuries past, it's an even greater challenge to recover the lives--the full, complex, interior lives--of the working poor. And when a central figure is at once poor and a woman? That Koven has produced such a vivid and detailed rendering of [Nellie] Dowell's life is remarkable in and of itself... Koven's illuminating readings of [Nellie's] letters form what I would argue is one of the most powerful analyses of an early-century poor woman's interior life... His achievement is significant."--Lisa Rodensky, Women's Review of Books "Koven's book is a detailed and nuanced exploration of sincere attempts by dedicated Christians to find better and more equitable ways to live."--Lynn MacKay, Labour-Le Travail "[The Match Girl and the Heiress] is a model for how micro history can tease out macro historical processes... A beautiful account of a time and a place, and however rich and complex the analysis, its arguments and conclusions are not only accessible to a broad readership but have implications that transcend the narrow interests of historians of modern Britain... [A] wonderful read."--Nadja Durbach, American Historical Review "Seth Koven has done a remarkable job in shining a light on a hitherto hidden aspect of the multi-faceted story of the main protagonists."--Rosemary Taylor, East London History Society Newsletter "Koven combines masterful analysis and compelling narrative to create an unforgettable story of the friendship between Muriel Lester, the wealthy social activist, and Nellie Dowell, a match factory worker, in late Victorian London."--Theresa Kaminski, History Buff "Koven's book will fascinate not only readers interested in the history of this period but anyone who has mused on how to practice a Christian social ethic in a society which seems hostile to it... [The Match Girl and the Heiress] beautifully illustrates both the 'mighty force' of 'Christian revolutionary love' and its inherent limits."--Michael Ledger-Lomas, Books & Culture "[An] absorbing narrative."--Andrew Stone, New Zealand Herald "Seth Koven's The Match Girl and the Heiress ... extends richly into a range of related contexts, from match production to Christian Science. Koven's scholarship is astonishing in its depth and conscientiousness: he proceeds sensitively and ethically, always alert to the limits of interpretation."--Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, Public Books "[An] inventive book."--Helen Rogers, Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 CHAPTER ONE Victorian Childhoods and Two Victorian Children 21 The Education of Nellie Dowell 23 The Apprenticeship of Muriel Lester 57 Conclusions: The Challenges of Unlearning 75 CHAPTER TWO Capitalism, from Below and Down Under: The Global Traffic in Matches and Match Girls 77 The Work of the Match Girl in Victorian Culture 79 How Match Factory Women Became Match Girls 85 Match Girls' Militant: Why the Bell's Match Factory Strike of 1893/94 Failed 95 Metropolitan Match Girls Abroad: Immoral Circulations of Matches and Match Girls 104 Conclusions 130 CHAPTER THREE "Being a Christian" in Edwardian Britain 135 "God Is Love" 137 Foundational Fables, Ethical Awakening 154 God's Empire 171 From Paupers to Citizens 177 Conclusions 181 CHAPTER FOUR Body Biographies in War and Peace 184 Taking Nellie's Temperature 186 Narrating Nellie 190 "You don't look near so well really" 201 Muriel Lester's Spiritual Therapeutics 212 Bodies at War 219 Grammars of Difference, Erotics of Illness in Nellie's Letters to Muriel 226 "Why it is I don't know" 237 Conclusions: Dialects for the Heart 252 CHAPTER FIVE Love and Christian Revolution 256 Henry Lester's Gift 261 Feminisms at War 274 Reconciliation and Christian Revolution 288 "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you" 301 Telling the Truth, Becoming an Heiress 315 Conclusions 328 Afterlives 330 Manuscript Sources 353 Notes 357 Index 435

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Book SynopsisExamines how trade unionism has waxed and waned in the nation's political and moral imagination, among both devoted partisans and intransigent foes. This book takes us all the way to the organizing fever of Los Angeles, where the labor movement stands at the center of the effort to transform millions of new immigrants into alert citizen unionists.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2003 Philip Taft Labor History Award, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2002 "A remarkable accomplishment... Lichtenstein provides an authoritative account of labor's decline, an agenda for its renewal and an argument for the necessity of its revitalization if American democracy is to thrive in coming years. The result is a brilliant historical introduction to today's labor movement and the perils and possibilities that confront it... If American labor's fortunes do improve, no recent book will have made a greater contribution to its revival."--Joseph A. McCartin, The Washington Post "Obituaries of the labor movement, or at least predictions of its impending demise, are familiar to readers of the popular and business presses and various academic tomes. However one comes down on the issues of the prospects for labor's revival or the desirablity of democratizing the workplace, the country's recent economic crisis has made the labor question again worth debating vigorously. State of the Union is an excellent start."--Eric Arnesen, Chicago Tribune "Absorbing... Lichtenstein's voice--and book--deserves a hearing in the marketplace of ideas."--Karen R. Long, Plain Dealer "Thought-provoking... State of the Union is a history written with a purpose--to encourage and energize a struggling labor movement, and to remind its leaders, and the reader, of the power of big ideas."--Michael Wald, Monthly Labor Review "This is an important, timely book whose focus on ideas and ideology offers a fresh perspective that is sure to generate useful debate over labor's historical choices and current status... Lichtenstein has performed a most valuable service in his astute delineation of the specific historical circumstances that have both advanced and eroded the union idea during the twentieth century."--Robert Bussel, Industrial and Labor Relations Review "A century ago labor issues were at the heart of American politics... How could the rights of citizens be protected as the power of capital grew and workers toiled under undemocratic conditions for large private corporations? Historian Nelson Lichtenstein's State of the Union superbly surveys and analyzes how these dilemmas were temporarily resolved in an unsatisfactory way in the middle of the 20th Century. Labor struggles didn't disappear entirely, but largely disappeared from public debate--and have once again become as relevant as during the Progressive Era."--David Moberg, In These Times "A fascinating survey of twentieth-century American labor. Unlike many such works, Nelson Lichtenstein's synthesis is a pleasure to read; passionate, shrewd in its judgments, and comprehensive."--Lawrence B. Glickman, Journal of American History "A book to be greatly admired and recommended. Lichtenstein has talked in forthright and keen ways fractious debates among scholars as well as historical and ongoing fractures of American society... The power of his book lies not in prescription, but rather in [Lichtenstein's] acute, erudite and provocative historical analysis."--Walter Licht, EH.NET "A richly documented and well-written book."--Stanley Arnowitz, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Lichtenstein has written a thought-provoking book that seeks to put the American labor movement's fate into a broad context... His wide reading, fresh insights, and coherent narrative make this volume one of this year's most important works of labor history."--Choice "As an inquiry into 'labor' as a 20th-century idea and ideal, Lichtenstein's book is a thoughtful attempt to link labor's record with the capricious history of identity politics and ideological change. An unabashed partisan on the matter, Lichtenstein maintains that an energetic and forceful labor movement is essential to the economic system and, indeed, to American democracy itself."--Jennifer Szalai, New Statesman "Lichtenstein provides a knowledgeable overview of the signal events since the Wagner Act of 1935... An informed analytical history."--Booklist "While labor's nascent grassroots internationalism remains overshadowed by flag waving displays of 'national unity,' trade unionists have yet to be rewarded for their patriotism, even with a modest boost in unemployment benefits... Into this bleak landscape arrives State of the Union, Nelson Lichtenstein's intellectual history of labor's past 100 years... The author's views are informed by both scholarship and activism"--Steve Early, The NationTable of ContentsPreface to the 2013 Edition ix Preface and Acknowledgments xxxi Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Reconstructing the 1930s 20 Chapter 2: Citizenship at Work 54 Chapter 3: A Labor-Management Accord? 98 Chapter 4: Erosion of the Union Idea 141 Chapter 5: Rights Consciousness in the Workplace 178 Chapter 6: A Time of Troubles 212 Chapter 7: Reorganizing the House of Labor 246 Chapter 7: Obama's America: Liberalism without Unions? 246 Notes 297 Index 345

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