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Book SynopsisThe California Gold Rush is thought to exemplify the Wild West, yet miners were expert organizers. Driven by property interests, they enacted mining codes, held criminal trials, and decided claim disputes. But democracy and law did not extend to foreigners and Indians, and miners were hesitant to yield power to the state that formed around them.Trade ReviewAndrea McDowell’s engaging study of the ensuing Gold Rush challenges Wild West stereotypes and explains how the miners who poured into California built workable forms of self-government. * Financial Times *An important law and economics study of an ‘anarchistic’ episode, going much deeper than some earlier accounts on matters involving Native Americans, fairness of trials, dispute resolution, miner-mining company interactions, and more. -- Tyler Cowen * Marginal Revolution *[This] book does admirable work unearthing overlooked dimensions of U.S. democracy and frontier law, while enriching our understanding of a storied chapter of American history. -- John Suval * Civil War Book Review *The California mining camps are legendary experiments in self-government. McDowell mines thousands of primary narratives to separate fact from fable and extracts a precise and elegant account of how the miners made laws and enforced them by means of meetings conducted by parliamentary procedure. We the Miners is expert and authoritative on details of miners’ property law and criminal law and of mining technology, and unsparingly detailed about their cruelty to outsiders like Mexicans and Native Americans. It is not likely that there will ever be a better history of the law of the Gold Rush than this one. -- Robert W. Gordon, Emeritus, Stanford Law SchoolRooted in the bold and intriguing idea that the organizational skills of California mining camps transcended the originality of their legal ideas, We the Miners is a provocative, well-argued book. McDowell goes beyond the old question of the nature of mining codes to the processes of meeting and decisionmaking in mining camps, especially in the miners’ use of American ‘parliamentary procedure as a form of governance.’ This wide-ranging, carefully researched work also explores the impact of mining codes on Native Americans and Spanish-speaking miners. Gracefully written with passion as well as fairness, it will appeal to a broad audience. -- Donald J. Pisani, author of Water, Land, and Law in the West: The Limits of Public Policy, 1850–1920

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Book SynopsisThis first detailed study of the bishops of Florence tells the story of a dynamic Italian lordship during the most prosperous period of the Middle Ages. Drawing upon a rich base of primary sources, Dameron demonstrates that the nature of the Florentine episcopal lordship results from the tension between seigneurial pressure and peasant resistance.Trade ReviewThis seems to me an impressive piece of work: conceptually ambitious, immensely learned… The author sets out to comprehend the history of episcopal lordship, the evolution of social order and elites in Florentine Tuscany, and the nature of socio-economic change. These are big bites…but Mr. Dameron’s control of the sources is formidable and he comes to interesting and plausible conclusions. -- T. N. Bisson, Harvard UniversityDameron has unearthed a quantity of new detail, combined it in a fresh, convincing exposition, and at the same time developed some useful comparisons and contrasts with other parts of Italy. -- Philip J. Jones, University of OxfordTable of ContentsPreface Maps Introduction 1. The Emergence of the Patrilineage and the Conflict with Episcopal Interests 2. The Bishop, the City, and the Contado in the Twelfth Century 3. Rural Communes and the Challenge to Episcopal Hegemony in the Countryside, 1180-1250 4. Episcopal Property and the Transformation of Florentine Society, 1250-1320 Conclusion Abbreviations Appendix A. Chronology of Florentine Bishops to 1321 Appendix B. Comparison of a Bullettone Entry with Its Model Appendix C. Episcopal Castelli in the Diocese of Florence, 1000-1250 Appendix D. Entries in the Bullettone According to Date, Region, and Type Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Qing dynasty office purchase system (juanna), which allowed individuals to pay for government appointments, was regarded in traditional Chinese historiography as inherently corrupt and anti-meritocratic. Lawrence Zhang's groundbreaking study of a broad selection of new archival and other printed evidence contradicts this widely held assessment.Trade ReviewWith exacting research and sweeping vision, Lawrence Zhang has offered the most sophisticated study yet written of how the Qing state and Chinese society negotiated the path to office. By showing that the examination system can only be understood in relation to office purchase, Power for a Price becomes one of those rare books that genuinely transforms our understanding of late imperial China. -- Matthew W. MoscaLawrence Zhang's book is the most important study of Qing-dynasty official recruitment and elite formation to appear within the last twenty years. Zhang demonstrates that, as part of the strategic portfolio of many of the era's most successful officials and lineages, the purchase of degrees, offices, and shortcuts to appointment complemented Confucian education and examination success. Far from being the stigmatized last resort of exam failures in the desperate last decades of the dynasty, direct purchase of degrees and offices in fact constituted a regular, approved practice right through the Qing, providing a steady source of revenue (not unlike the sale of bonds) that enabled the imperial state to tap private wealth by promising repayment through future appointment. Far from being a betrayal of social mobility, the relatively low price of the lower degrees and offices made purchase a far more realistic route to upward mobility than examination alone, which tended to reinforce and reproduce elite status. This book will be required reading for all historians of China. -- Matthew Sommer

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Book SynopsisBy shedding light on a long-forgotten epigraphic genre called genealogical steles that flourished in North China during the Mongol Empire, or Yuan Dynasty (12711368), Genealogy and Status explores the ways the conquered Chinese people understood and represented the alien Mongol ruling principles and kinship through their own cultural tradition.Trade ReviewPerhaps the most striking feature of Genealogy and Status is its extraordinary command of epigraphic materials. …The appendices…represent a wealth of information in themselves and will no doubt become an indispensable epigraphic reference for anyone interested in north China during the Jin and Yuan periods. Of course, Genealogy and Status is not just an epigraphic compendium, but also a fine-grained consideration of elite formation, office-holding, and kinship in northern China. This book is a most welcomed addition to the study of north China under Mongol rule. -- David Robinson * Journal of Chinese History *

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Book SynopsisIn 1699, Cotton Mather authored the first Spanish-language text in the English New World: a religious tract aimed at evangelizing readers across the Spanish Americas. Kirsten Silva Gruesz uses Mather's text to explore complex overlaps of race, ethnicity, and language in the early Americas, which continue to govern Latina/o/x belonging today.Trade ReviewIn her revolutionary new book,…Gruesz sets aside Mather the witch hunter to center him instead in a fascinating new story about race…It is Gruesz’s thrillingly literary focus on a single text—spinning out as much significance as she has convincingly shown it deserves—that makes her new consideration of him so rewarding. -- Joseph Rezek * Los Angeles Review of Books *A fascinating expedition into matters of race, language, and religion…That Gruesz can so convincingly link the miniscule actions of a late seventeenth-century printer in Boston with the huge contemporary issue of ethno-racial ambiguity in the US indicates the range and ambition of her book, fully achieved. -- Peter Hulme * American Literary History *As [Gruesz] revisits the life and writings of Mather especially as connected to his La Fe del Christiano, she illustrates that his significance went well beyond the basic religious world of New England, entangling him in the broader, imperial context of the early modern world. -- Richard Bailey * H-Net Reviews *A new narrative about race and ideas, as well as practices, of belonging, with deep and explicit implications for Latina/o/x history today…Gruesz’s ambitious and innovative book—both a macro history of language, ideas, and circulation and a micro history of Mather, his household, and his interactions with Native and Black people—should be widely read. -- Alejandra Dubcovsky * New England Quarterly *Extraordinary…In many ways [Gruesz] expands what the biography of a text can achieve and shows how many aims it can encompass…Every early Americanist, from any discipline, should certainly read the introduction. Most should read the book in full. All will find insightful material to spur further studies. [This book] contains important lessons for us all. -- Abram Van Engen * William & Mary Quarterly *Immersive and eye-opening…Meticulously researched and elegantly written, this is an essential reconsideration of the historical and contemporary place of the Spanish language and ‘Brown identity’ in the U.S. * Publishers Weekly *One of the most exciting and illuminating books I have read this century. Just when our nation’s institutions of historical memory are being called to account for their role in constructing entrenched systems of racialization, Gruesz reminds us that the political status of Latinx people in the United States remains profoundly unclear. Brilliantly combining historical, archival, and literary work, this book shows her to be a singular figure in American Studies today. -- Ramón Saldívar, author of The Borderlands of CultureA stunningly researched and original take on Cotton Mather. Kirsten Silva Gruesz replaces entrenched US origins stories with a transformative account of labor, race, and nation. In so doing, she locates English-speaking America in a series of richly hemispheric new contexts. -- Sarah Rivett, author of Unscripted AmericaKirsten Silva Gruesz has produced a magisterial study that fundamentally reimagines the complex relationship between colonial British North America and colonial Spanish America. Coupling extensive archival research with sensitive readings of multilingual texts, she traces not only the dialogue among criollo elites throughout the Americas, but also the deep imprints of Indigenous and African peoples on linguistic, religious, and material practices that continue to bear on our own lives today. -- John Morán González, author of Border RenaissanceA brilliant, essential, and moving book. In Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons, Kirsten Silva Gruesz offers her own enduring lessons on language, translation, and latinidad for a new generation of Americanists. -- Anna Brickhouse, author of The Unsettlement of AmericaThis dazzling book does so much at once. By humanizing the oft-maligned Cotton Mather, it restores the complexity of an important thinker, wrestling with global events at a pivotal moment for America’s identity and his own. In so doing, it also situates New England in a much wider Atlantic world filled with people speaking Spanish and many other languages. Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons deepens our history in every imaginable way. -- Ted Widmer, author of Lincoln on the Verge

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Book SynopsisThe Medicine Rite is performed by medicine men upon the initiation of a member to their cult. Presenting a transcription of the Medicine Rite, the most sacred ritual of the Winnebago Indians, this work captures a poetic source of profound importance to the understanding of mystical experience.

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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--frequently through hostile stereotypes, distortions, and caricature. In this provocative book, Erich Gruen demonstratesTrade 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 SynopsisRacisms is the first comprehensive history of racism, from the Crusades to the twentieth century. Demonstrating that there is not one continuous tradition of racism, Francisco Bethencourt shows that racism preceded any theories of race and must be viewed within the prism and context of social hierarchies and local conditions. In this richly illustrTrade Review"[A]nalytically sophisticated... Bethencourt tacks deftly between cultural and social history. His binocular vision marks Racisms out from most previous studies."--David Armitage, Times Literary Supplement "Bethencourt, professor of history at King's College London, examines how expansion abroad shaped European systems of ethnic prejudice in a tour de force spanning the Americas, West Africa, India, and other colonial environs."--Publishers Weekly "[W]ell worth reading."--Christie Davies, Standpoint "Francisco Bethencourt's Racisms could not be more timely ... Bethencourt's incisive analysis ought to be compulsory reading in the think tanks, chanceries and ministries of the developed world."--Maria Misra, Prospect "To understand what fuelled such racist ideologies and practices, I can think of no better book than Francisco Bethencourt's Racisms. It is an ambitious, bold project... Bethencourt addresses the 'scientific' turn in racial classification systems. There is a vast literature on the ideas of influential men such as ... Charles Darwin and many others. However, Bethencourt's summary is the clearest and most sophisticated to date... [An] impressive book."--Joanna Bourke, New Statesman "[A]mbitious and wide-ranging... Racisms['s] cataloguing of successive centuries of poisonous bigotry, of tangled, self-serving myth and murderous victimisation, creates a powerful cumulative effect. To chart some of my own emotions while reading it: anger; pain, disgust and sorrow. This is an unlovely history. But a necessary one that appears, sadly for the wrong reasons, at the right time."--Ekow Eshun, Independent "As a comparative study of colonial behaviour Racisms is astonishing... Readers of Racisms will learn a great deal about the colonial encounters that brought people of different regions, religions, 'skin colors,' and 'ethnicities' into contact with each other during the long centuries of European expansion."--David Nirenberg, Literary Review "Epic in scale and ringing with authority."--Steven Carroll, Age "Although Bethencourt's writings are grounded in academia, Racisms is a highly accessible and lively account that should appeal to a wide audience--a work that, while not being too sophisticated for the average person to read and appreciate for the multiple insights that it provides, makes for just as worthy an undergraduate text."--Lois Henderson, BookPleasures.com "For those who are already working on racism, or who are at the very least acquainted with it, the book should prove a very useful tool in locating specific work within a larger historical landscape. It serves as a very strong call to open one's historical horizons, both temporally and geographically, which can only improve one's work. In this sense, Racisms is well worth reading. It represents a welcome contribution to the growing body of work on the topic by debunking some very persistent myths about it."--Philippe-Andre Rodriguez, Oxonian Review "In this richly illustrated study, Bethencourt defines racism as prejudice based on ethnic descent that is supported by discriminatory measures driven by political motivations... Although Europe constitutes Bethencourt's focal point, he draws on examples of racism from Africa, Asia, and the Americas as points of comparison and context."--Choice "Bethencourt has done an admirable job sifting through history to produce this broad survey of the evolution of racial thought, always tying each development back to the political projects it was meant to facilitate and thereby illustrating the emptiness of race as an ontological category. Racisms not only pulls regularly from primary sources, such as travel narratives or scientific reports, but it is also richly peppered with images that bring to life the shifting perception of race through the centuries."--Guy Lancaster, Journal of History and Cultures "Racisms is a weighty tome in every sense of the word: the book reflects the scholarship and attention to detail of the dedicated academic as well as the writing of a man deeply sensitive to the moral and ethical issues involved."--Ed Standhaft, Methodist Recorder "This is a richly illustrated work--in terms of both historical material and visual images--that creates an interesting departure for further enquiry into a deeply challenging subject."--Shu Cao, International Affairs "Racisms is a superb monograph, well served by excellent illustrations."--Survival "No short review can do justice to this dazzlingly learned and ambitious book."--Stephen J. Whitfield, Patterns of Prejudice "Bethencourt has assessed copious sources and studies, making his book as helpful as instructive."--Stefanie Affeldt, Malte Hinrichsen, Wulf D. Hund, Archiv fuer Sozialgeschichte "This beautifully produced and richly illustrated book is a complex cross between an erudite essay on Western ideas about cultural, ethnic, religious, and racial differences, and a detailed accounting of European history and European contact with the rest of the world since the Middle Ages."--Stuart B. Schwartz, New West Indian Guide "Francisco Bethencourt's magisterial study Racisms: From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century, offers an original contribution to this historiographical debate... Bethencourt's encyclopaedic research and sensitive and detailed analysis of 73 visual sources that guide each section will indubitably make this study invaluable for framing discussions on the long history of discrimination throughout European cores and peripheries."--Chloe Ireton, European History QuarterlyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix List of Maps xii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Part I The Crusades 11 Chapter 1 From Greek to Muslim Perceptions 13 Chapter 2 Christian Reconquest 19 Chapter 3 Universalism: Integration and Classification 37 Chapter 4 Typologies of Humankind and Models of Discrimination 48 Part II Oceanic Exploration 63 Chapter 5 Hierarchies of Continents and Peoples 65 Chapter 6 Africans 83 Chapter 7 Americans 101 Chapter 8 Asians 117 Chapter 9 Europeans 137 Part III Colonial Societies 159 Chapter 10 Ethnic Classification 163 Chapter 11 Ethnic Structure 181 Chapter 12 Projects and Policies 204 Chapter 13 Discrimination and Segregation 216 Chapter 14 Abolitionism 228 Part IV The Theories of Race 247 Chapter 15 Classifications of Humans 252 Chapter 16 Scientific Racialism 271 Chapter 17 Darwin and Social Evolution 290 Part V Nationalism and Beyond 307 Chapter 18 The Impact of Nationalism 309 Chapter 19 Global Comparisons 335 Conclusions 365 Notes 375 Index 423

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year"

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Honorable Mention for the ASLE Ecocritical Book Award, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment""Honorable Mention for the 2017 James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association"

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Pfeifer’s painstaking analysis of the personalities and careers of her protagonists brings to life the power brokers, the holy men and the social climbers. . . . Backed up by a persuasive bibliography of published and unpublished sources, Empire of Salons presents a definitive picture of this age."---David Chaffetz, Asian Review of Books"This book . . . offers a focused perspective on an institution that, until this time, has been well-known but has not seen a dedicated work that outlines and explains it to this standard."---Gemma Masson, World History Encyclopedia"Highly recommended."---I. Blumi, Choice

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2017"

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shortlisted for the American Library in Paris Book Award""Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize, McGill University""Winner of the PROSE Award in European History, Association of American Publishers""Winner of the Leo Gershoy Award, American Historical Association""Rothschild rightly rejects what she describes as an ‘ideological’ division of the dead by historians between ‘important’—the people with substantial records—and ‘the unimportant . . . who can be counted, but cannot be understood.' Rather, as this book demonstrates, a focus on the ‘ordinary’ can offer new perspectives on periods of extraordinary change."---Laura O’Brien, Times Literary Supplement ​​​​​​​"[An Infinite History] is a family history unlike any other because of the way Rothschild tells it. . . . By starting with the names and tracing them over space and especially time, Rothschild not only upends the usual methods of study but also compels a rethinking of many prevailing views about the politics, economy, and society of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France."---Lynn Hunt, New York Review of Books"Captivating. . . . One of the most successful attempts to put Ginzburg and Poni’s ‘science of the lived’ into action."---David A. Bell, The Nation"[A] remarkable inquiry into the town of Angoulême, in southwestern France, beginning with the story of 'an inquisitive, illiterate woman, Marie Aymard,' and five generations of her extended family in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: the sort of history that has been exceedingly hard to tell, and therefore not often told." * Harvard Magazine *"Emma Rothschild leaves no stone unturned in her quest to trace one family through centuries and five generations... this is an inspiring and enjoyable demonstration of what can be achieved by skill, perseverance and a bit of luck." * Family Tree Magazine *"This innovative study of ordinary people in a French provincial town is a remarkable achievement of both painstaking research and historical imagination . . . . the result is a fascinating exercise in history from below, a history of chance encounters and social networks, of ambition and opportunity."---Alan Forrest, Family and Community History"This is a tremendously engaging book which reads, paradoxically, like a capacious nineteenth-century novel. And not least because of its elusive dénouements and the absence of an authorial omniscience straining our suspension of disbelief, it is enriched by the certainty, validated by scholarship of the highest quality, that none of it is invented."---Robert Lethbridge, Journal of European Studies"An Infinite History is a remarkable book, an experimental work of great methodological originality that also manages to inform and delight. . . . A stimulating experiment in historical writing."---William H. Sewell, Journal of Modern History

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the James P. Hanlan Book Prize, New England Historical Association"

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Silver Medal in Biography, Independent Publisher Book Awards""Winner of the Book-of-the-Year Award, Journal of the American Revolution""Finalist in History, ForeWord Reviews’ INDIES Book of the Year Awards""Readers will find an engaging book that provides a unique look at Hamilton’s life as well as the history of Jews in the Revolution and early national period. . . . [An] innovative study that illuminates previously obscured details of Alexander Hamilton’s childhood." * Journal of the American Revolution *"Ingenious. . . . Por­wanch­er impres­sive­ly draws on pri­ma­ry sources in half a dozen lan­guages."---Stephen Whit­field, Jewish Book Council"Remarkable, informative, and thorough."---Mike Fink, Providence Journal"Radical. . . . Porwancher’s prose is extraordinarily bright."---Adam Jortner, Reviews in American History"Innovative. . . . An invaluable contribution."---Nan Goodman, American Nineteenth Century History"Very well-written."---Alexander J. Groth, Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs

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Book SynopsisFocusing on history, courageous LGBTQ+ plaintiffs, and the careful work of legal activists, Before Bostock illustrates how the courts can expand LGBTQ+ rights when legislators are more resistant, and it adds to our understanding about contemporary judicial policymaking in the context of statutory interpretation.Table of Contents Acknowledgments 1. LGBTQ Rights, Statutory Interpretation, and Judicial Policymaking 2. The History of LGBTQ Rights, Sex, and title VII 3. Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins and the Shift in title VII Interpretation 4. Transgender Tights and Price Waterhouse 5. Sexual Orientation, Price Waterhouse, and Oncale 6. Bostock, Stephens, and Zarda in the Lower Federal Courts 7. The Supreme Court's Seemingly Minimalist but Remarkably Consequential Decision Notes Index

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Inside Ethnic Families is a rich and lively ethnography that describes the perceptions, illusions, and life experiences of three generations of Portuguese-Canadians. Edite Noivo provides an insider's perspective on a number of family-related issues, ranging from housework and ageing to gender relations and family violence.

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Book SynopsisExamines contact stories from indigenous and newcomer populations from New Zealand and throughout North America. This book argues that we are in the contact zone, struggling to understand the meaning of contact between indigenous and settler populations. It is suitable for scholars and students in Canadian history and First Nations studies.Trade ReviewThe essays provide a fascinating surf of “first contacts” from New Zealand, England, southern Africa, and the Pacific Northwest, from the eighteenth century to today […]. A plentiful range of new approaches to the genre of the contact narrative distinguishes this impressively interdisciplinary collection, with contributions from historians, anthropologists, linguists, and literary critics. -- Sophie McCall * Canadian Literature, No.197 *Myth & Memory injects an interesting and crucial “new” narrative into the historical record. -- Kelly Chaves * The Northern Mariner, Vol.XIX, No.1 *This convincing and solid collection encourages assessment and reassessment of contact narratives. … Ten scholars from various fields, including history, anthropology, linguistics, and literature, engage in this informative work. …Edited by University of Victoria historian John Sutton Lutz, the chapters in Myth and Memory integrate a number of global indigenous perspectives. Lutz’s extensive insight regarding native and newcomer relations provides a solid basis for editorial expertise of this compendium. -- Corinne George, Simon Fraser University * H-Canada *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Myth Understandings: First Contact, Over and Over Again / John Lutz1. Close Encounters of the First Kind / J. Edward (Ted) Chamberlin2. First Contact as a Spiritual Performance: Encounters on the North American West Coast / John Lutz3. Reflections on Indigenous History and Memory: Reconstructing and Reconsidering Contact / Keith Carlson4. Poking Fun? Humour and Power in Kaska Contact Narratives / Patrick Moore5. Herbert Spencer, Paul Kane, and the Making of “The Chinook” / I.S. MacLaren6. Performing Paradox: Narrativity and the Lost Colony of Roanoke / Michael Harkin7. Stories at the Margins: Toward a More Inclusive Historiography / Wendy Wickwire8. When the White Kawau Flies / Judith Binney9. The Interpreter as Contact Point: Avoiding Collisions in Tlingit America / Nora and Richard DauenhauerNotesBibliographyContributors

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Book SynopsisIn Settler Aesthetics, Mishuana Goeman examines Terrence Malick’s film The New World (2005) and the Pocahontas narrative, analyzing the settler structures and regimes of power that sustain colonialism and empire.Trade Review“Settler Aesthetics is an energetic book that engages critical Indigenous and settler-colonial concepts through a case study of The New World as set in historical, gendered, and political (tribal, federal, state) contexts. Mishuana Goeman assembles a persuasive critique of the film and a justified defense of Indigenous peoples, homelands, and cultures in Virginia.”—Dustin Tahmahkera, author of Cinematic Comanches: “The Lone Ranger” in the Media BorderlandsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Editors’ Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Spectacle of Originary Moments 1. The Consumption of Mythic Romance and Innocence 2. Settler Aesthetics and the Making of Cinematic Geographies 3. Filmic Apologies and Indigenous Labor 4. The “New World” of Race, U.S. Law, and the Politics of Recognition Conclusion: Undoing the Spectacle Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this expansive and engaging narrative William Acree guides readers through the deep history of popular entertainment before turning to circus culture and rural dramas that celebrated the countryside on stage.

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Book Synopsis2024 Catholic Media Association Book Award Winner in History The Jewish community of Rome is the oldest Jewish community in Europe. It is also the Jewish community with the longest continuous history, having avoided interruptions, expulsions, and annihilations since 139 BCE. For most of that time, Jewish Romans have lived in close contact with the largest continuously functioning international organization: the Roman Catholic Church. Given the church’s origins in Judaism, Jews and Catholics have spent two thousand years negotiating a necessary and paradoxical relationship. With engaging stories that illuminate the history of Jews and Jewish-Catholic relations in Rome, Intimate Strangers investigates the unusual relationship between Jews and Catholics as it has developed from the first century CE to the present in the Eternal City. Fredric Brandfon innovatively frames these relations through an anthropological lens: how the idea and language of familTrade Review"A fascinating and readable history that's essential for those interested in Jewish or Italian history."—Library Journal“[During] two millennia, the Jews of Rome both thrived and endured extreme hardship, their fate alternately buffeted by persecution and acceptance. . . . Frederic Brandfon skillfully tackles these stark contradictions. . . . [His book is] rich in detail.”—Jewish Book Council"This is a scholarly work that any enthusiast of Jewish history will enjoy. Recommended for academic libraries as well as Jewish high school, community, and synagogue libraries."—Association of Jewish Libraries“A fascinating story of the Jews’ unique resilience and strength living in Rome without interruption for twenty-two centuries.”—Riccardo Shemuel Di Segni, chief rabbi of Rome“An absolutely new approach. Investigating an unusual relationship—the one between Jews and Catholics that in Rome could develop uninterruptedly over almost two thousand years—Intimate Strangers frames it anthropologically while revealing notable knowledge about the life of Jews in Rome and their mutual relationships with the Catholic world. This is a well-written, well-documented, and well-argued book.”—Gabriela Yael Franzone, coordinator of the Department of Heritage and Culture of the Jewish Community of Rome“An engaging and sometimes surprising exploration of the intriguing history of Rome.”—Mark Kurlansky, author of thirty-five books, including Cod, Salt, and The Importance of Not Being Ernest“Most involving. There is always fascinating new material on the next page.”—Judith Roumani, author of Jews in Southern Tuscany during the Holocaust: Ambiguous RefugeTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Giannina’s Glance 1. An Inconvenient Liaison: The Triumph of Titus and His Affair with Berenice 2. “Who Is a Jew?”: Jews, Pagans, Proselytes, and God-Fearers in the Roman Catacombs 3. A Torah for the Pope: Jewish Participation in Papal Processions 4. Houseguests and Humanists: Philosophers, Poets, Prostitutes, and Pilgrims in Late Medieval and Renaissance Rome 5. Divorce, Roman Style: The Ghetto 6. Love, Death, and Money: Daily Life in Sixteenth-Century Rome 7. “Till the Conversion of the Jews”: Church Attempts at Forced Baptism 8. Trading Places: Papal Exiles and Jewish Emancipations during the Nineteenth Century 9. Backyard Exiles: The Jews in Fascist Rome 10. The Other Knock on the Door: Jews and Catholics during the Nazi Occupation of Rome 11. The Arch of Titus Redux: Israel and Vatican II in Postwar Rome Conclusion: A Walk through the Ghetto Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFor decades, artists and architects have struggled to relate to the Holocaust in visual form, resulting in memorials that feature a diversity of aesthetic strategies. In Memory Passages, Natasha Goldman analyzes both previously-overlooked and internationally-recognized Holocaust memorials in the United States and Germany from the postwar period to the present, drawing on many historical documents for the first time. From the perspectives of visual culture and art history, the book examines changing attitudes toward the Holocaust and the artistic choices that respond to it. The book introduces lesser-known sculptures, such as Nathan Rapoport's Monument to the Six Million Jewish Martyrs in Philadelphia, as well as internationally-acclaimed works, such as Peter Eisenman's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin. Other artists examined include Will Lammert, Richard Serra, Joel Shapiro, Gerson Fehrenbach, Margit Kahl, and Andy Goldsworthy.Archival documents and interviews with cTrade Review"[Goldman] balances the analysis of the visual form and stylistic evolution of these [Holocaust] memorials from figurative to conceptualist, with a particularly interesting in-depth analysis of the societal and political context in which they were created.... [E]xcellently researched, full of rich historic detail.... [T]his book provides great insight into the history of Holocaust memorials, as well as and perhaps most relevantly for social scientists, the relationship between collective and embodied memory and the visual form."—Visual Studies "Memory Passages is a fascinating study of Holocaust memorial art in Germany (East, West, and united Germany) and the United States. Its fascination lies, first, in the sheer range of memorials covered.... Second, Goldman’s study is fascinating because it focuses on the broader visual and textual fields of Holocaust memorials, as well as their particular aesthetics, and thus situates them within art-historical developments, the biographies of the sculptors, and the shifting political perceptions of what was deemed desirable or not desirable to write on the plaques.... [An] excellent book.”— H-Diplo

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Book SynopsisGeorge Lipsitz's classic book The Possessive Investment in Whiteness argues that public policy and private prejudice work together to create a possessive investment in whiteness that is responsible for the racialized hierarchies of our society. Whiteness has a cash value: it accounts for advantages that come to individuals through profits made from housing secured in discriminatory markets, through the unequal educational opportunities available to children of different races, through insider networks that channel employment opportunities to the friends and relatives of those who have profited most from past and present discrimination, and especially through intergenerational transfers of inherited wealth that pass on the spoils of discrimination to succeeding generations. White Americans are encouraged to invest in whiteness, to remain true to an identity that provides them with structured advantages. In this twentieth anniversary edition, Lipsitz provides a new introduction and updTrade Review"Lipsitz’s 20th-anniversary reissue has only shown how prescient and important this book was from first press.... Weaving together literary references, scientific studies, and court cases, and using well-known contemporary events like Hurricane Katrina, police killings of young African-American men, the Charleston massacre, and many historical events that may be lesser known, he illustrates how white fear and failure are the sources for the development of ethnonationalism. Summing Up: Highly recommended."--Choice

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Book SynopsisModern Migrations, Black Interrogations uses reflections on the Black experience to consider the “unasked question of blackness” in modern migration and movement. The editors and contributors use the lens of Black Studies to show how migration—compelled by force or suggestion, from the transatlantic African slave trade to the Great Migration and the current refugee crisis—has been structured to reinforce white supremacy. Focusing on antiblackness in immigration and examining restrictions on freedom of movement and on settling alike, chapters address how Black im/mobility operates and how it can be distinguished from that of the migrant and the colonial settler, as well as from the transgressive mobilities of Indigenous populations. Looking at blackness, borders and border practices, and displacement, Modern Migrations, Black Interrogations investigates racialized boundaries that determine immigration policy, citizenship, legality, and iTrade Review“In modernity, from the transatlantic slave trade to today, the ‘migration’ of Black people is incommensurable with that of others. As Modern Migrations, Black Interrogations argues and demonstrates, reckoning with antiblackness and Blackness fundamentally destabilizes conventional histories, categories, meanings, and politics. Wide-ranging yet penetrating, the book’s theoretical, empirical, and literary analyses pose a bracing challenge to all academics, policymakers, and activists concerned with mobility.”—Moon-Kie Jung, Coeditor of Antiblackness and author of Beneath the Surface of White Supremacy: Denaturalizing U.S. Racisms Past and Present“The editors and contributors to this volume give migration studies a much-needed shake-up. Theoretically rich and analytically tight, its wide-ranging chapters probe and expose the unacknowledged extent to which antiblackness shapes the way we think and talk about the movement of people. Rather than just implicating the usual suspects, Modern Migrations, Black Interrogations calls on well-meaning humanitarians—scholars, activists, and the like—to wipe the smudge of antiblackness from our lens. This is a bold and important book.”—Jamie Longazel, Associate Professor of Law and Society at John Jay College, affiliated faculty in the International Migration Studies program at the CUNY Graduate Center, and coeditor of Migration and Mortality: Social Death, Dispossession, and Survival in the Americas (Temple)

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Book SynopsisUsing extensive archival and demographic research, Barr explores both the impressive Swedish legacy in Canada and the reasons for their invisibility as an immigrant community.Trade Review'Elinor Barr's book is a long overdue study of the history of Swedish Immigration to Canada... It is undoubtedly an important step in understanding the significance of the Swedish immigrant experience for Canadian history.' 'Elinor Barr's book is a long overdue study of the history of Swedish Immigration to Canada... It is undoubtedly an important step in understanding the significance of the Swedish immigrant experience for Canadian history.' -- Kailey Hansson Canadian Historical Review vol 97:02:2016 'Elinor Barr provides an encyclopedic overview of Swedish immigrants to Canada... This is a comprehensive history that will be a catalyst for further inquiry.' -- Lori Ann Lahlum Labour/Le Travail vol 77 spring 2016Table of Contents1. Under an Invisibility Cloak 2. Emigration from Sweden, Immigration to Canada 3. Immigrants 4. Settlement Patterns 5. Religion 6. World Wars 7. The Swedish Press 8. The Depression, Strikes and Unions 9. Earning a Living 10. A Woman's Place 11. Swedishness in Canada 12. Links with Sweden 13. Language, Discrimination and Assimilation 14. Literature 15. Emerging Visibility

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Book SynopsisLiberated, licentious, or merely liberal, the sexual freedoms of Germany’s Weimar Republic have become legendary. The home of the world’s first gay rights movement, the republic embodied a progressive, secular vision of sexual liberation. Immortalized – however misleadingly – in Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin Stories and the musical Cabaret, Weimar’s freedoms have become a touchstone for the politics of sexual emancipation.Yet, as Laurie Marhoefer shows in Sex and Weimar Republic, those sexual freedoms were only obtained at the expense of a minority who were deemed sexually disordered. In Weimar Germany, the citizen’s right to sexual freedom came with a duty to keep sexuality private, non-commercial, and respectable.Sex and the Weimar Republic examines the rise of sexual tolerance through the debates which surrounded “immoral” sexuality: obscenity, male homosexuality, lesbianism, Trade Review'This is a clear, beautifully written, and - unlike many North American books on German history - superbly edited book (German phrases, concepts, and names are error-free)...This valuable contribution should put to rest the long-lasting thesis that sexuality was responsible for the decadence of the first German republic.' -- Norman Domeier H-Soz-Kult April 2016 'In her highly original and wide-ranging study, Laurie Marhoefer makes a number of provocative and persuasive arguments regarding the character and significance of sexual politics in the Weimar Republic... A multifaceted and analytically rigorous contribution.' -- Kirsten Leng German History, vol 34:03:2016 'In her excellent book, Marhoefer has certainly succeeded in drawing attention to what she calls the "complexity and ugliness" of homosexual emancipation. At the same time, she ends up reproducing a dynamic common in the field of gay, lesbian, and queer history.' -- Craig Griffiths H-Histsex November 2016 "Laurie Marhoefer has written an important book that will be of interest not only to those who work on twentieth-century Germany and on the history of sexuality, but that also offers a valuable background to German sexual politics today, where same-sex unions have existed since 2001, while same-sex marriage and same-sex adoption are still the subject of heated debate." -- Katja Hausten Times Literary Supplement, April 1, 2016 'Splendid study...Laurie Marhoefer encourages the reader to think carefully along with her, and one cannot ask for more than that in this engaging first book.' -- Geoffrey J. Giles Canadian Journal of History vol 51:03:2016 'Marhoefer's book will be an excellent addition to graduate collections in German history and cultural studies, European studies, and history of sexuality... The book will also make fine addition to upper-division undergraduate courses.' -- B. Boovy Choice Magazine vol 53:10:2016Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Opening Night of the Institute for Sexual Science, July 1919 1. Homosexual Emancipation, Censorship, and the Revolution of 1918/9 2. Lesbianism, Reading, and Law 3. Female Prostitution, Modern Heterosexuality, and the 1927 Venereal Disease Law 4. Male Prostitution, Homosexual Emancipation, and the 1929 Vote to Repeal the Sodomy Law 5. "The Third Sex Greets the Third Reich!" The Rohm Scandal, 1931-2 6. The Politics of "Immoral" Sexuality in the Fall of the Weimar Republic and the Rise of the Nazis Conclusion: The Weimar Settlement on Sexual Politics

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Book SynopsisIn this revised and expanded edition of Medicine Stories, Aurora Levins Morales weaves together the insights and lessons learned over a lifetime of activism to offer a new theory of social justice, bringing clarity and hope to tangled, emotionally charged social issues in beautiful and accessible language.Trade Review"Morales’s book is an excellent tool for understanding some of the dynamics of social justice movements and should be part of activists’ survival kits against despair." -- Nylca J. Muñoz Sosa * Monthly Review *“Perhaps the most directly significant contribution of Medicine Stories...is Levins Morales’s framing of oppression as the most widespread and systematically reproduced source of trauma.... Medicine Stories maps the intimate and collective pathways of survival that communities and individuals find in the face of violence and injustice....” -- Corinne Lajoie * Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies *Table of ContentsLibation v The Ground on Which I Stand Ecology Is Everything 3 Bigger Is Better 10 My Feminism 18 Identity and Solidarity 34 The Power of Story 42 The Truths Our Bodies Tell 47 The Historian as Curandera False Memories: Trauma and Liberation 55 The Historian as Curandera 69 Night Flying: Power, Memory, and Magic 89 What Race Isn't: Teaching about Racism 95 Raícism: Rootedness as Spiritual and Political Practice 99 The Politics of Childhood 104 Speaking in Tongues On Not Writing English 111 Forked Tongues: On Not Speaking Spanish 115 Certified Organic Intellectual 121 Ban Me! 127 Tribes The Tribe of Guarayamín 133 Taíno Citizenship 140 Speaking of Antisemitism 145 BDS and Me 154 Puerto Ricans and Jews 157 Privilege and Loss Class, Privilege, and Loss 175 Nadie la Tiene: Land, Ecology, and Nationalism 179 Torturers 192 Histerimonia: Declarations of a Trafficked Girl, or Why I Couldn't Write This Essay 197 The Long Haul Building Radical Soil 207 Circle Unbroken: The Politics of Inclusion 211 Tai: A Yom Kippur Sermon, 5778/2017 217 A Note From the Author 223 Index 225

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Book SynopsisIn Cartographic Memory, Juan Herrera maps 1960s Chicano movement activism in the Latinx neighborhood of Fruitvale in Oakland, California, showing how activists there constructed a politics forged through productions of space. From Chicano-inspired street murals to the architecture of restaurants and shops, Herrera shows how Fruitvale's communities and spaces serve as a palpable, living record of movement politics and achievements. Drawing on oral histories with Chicano activists, ethnography, and archival research, Herrera analyzes how activism has shaped Fruitvale. Herrera examines the ongoing nature of activism through nonprofit organizations and urban redevelopment projects like the Fruitvale Transit Village that root movements in place. Revealing that the social justice activism in Fruitvale fights for a space that does not yet exist, Herrera brings to life contentious politics about the nature of Chicanismo, Latinidad, and belonging while foregrounding the lasting social and material legacies of movements so often relegated to the past.Trade Review“In Cartographic Memory, Juan Herrera carefully and elegantly examines Chicano movement activism and its legacies in Oakland, California’s Fruitvale neighborhood. . . . In these two ways—its analysis of the movement’s dynamic production of space, and in its focus on Oakland—Cartographic Memory is a signal achievement.” -- Laura Barraclough * Society and Space *"This book will helpfully inform the next generation of geographers, activists, and students on the crucial impact space has on social movements, and the ways social movements shape space and place." -- Aída R. Guhlincozzi * Environment, Space, Place *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Putting Fruitvale on the “Map” 1 1. Making Place 31 2. The Other Minority 61 3. Revolution Interrupted 89 4. Development for the People! 114 5. Mapping Interlinkages 144 Conclusion. Activism in Space-Time 171 Notes 197 References 219 Index 231

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Book SynopsisIn ¡Presente! Diana Taylor asks what it means to be physically and politically present in situations where it seems that nothing can be done. As much an act, a word, an attitude, a theoretical intervention, and a performance pedagogy, Taylor maps ¡presente! at work in scenarios ranging from conquest, through colonial enactments and resistance movements, to present moments of capitalist extractivism and forced migration in the Americas. ¡Presente!—present among, with, and to; a walking and talking with others; an ontological and epistemic reflection on presence and subjectivity as participatory and relational, founded on mutual recognition—requires rethinking and unlearning in ways that challenge colonial epistemologies. Showing how knowledge is not something to be harvested but a process of being, knowing, and acting with others, Taylor models a way for scholarship to be present in political struggles.Trade Review“Diana Taylor advances a timely and necessary theorization of the politics of performance, delivering nuanced and heartfelt analysis of the creative strategies of artists and activists who labor to intervene in historical and contemporary injustices across the Americas. Showcasing Taylor as a scholar, activist, and accomplice present at the site of performance, ¡Presente! is an intellectually brilliant and crucial model of politically engaged theory.” -- Ramón H. Rivera-Servera, coeditor of * Blacktino Queer Performance *“A major project drawn from a life's work of travel, searching, introspection, and unceasing political commitment to and collaborations with artists and activists, ¡Presente! is a work of great power, poetics, and political impact.” -- Josh Kun, University of Southern California Annenberg School of Communication"For a work so theoretically rigorous, ¡Presente! stands out for its wide legibility. By foregoing unnecessary academic jargon and taking pains to explain her own ethical entanglements in plain English, Taylor’s scholarship makes for a surprisingly smooth read, though it is at times heartbreaking: she does not minimize the grimmer aspects of her subject matter, which include devastating accounts of kidnappings, torture, and genocide. The uninitiated reader will find her writing clear and unpretentious, and may discover that her gloss of the postcolonial canon does much to demystify." -- Sam Adrien Smith * Full Stop *"A valuable meditation on what it means to practice the responsibility of writing through social relations, on creating new ways of doing and being in academia, performance, and life." -- Analola Santana * Theatre Survey *"A call for a new spirit of militancy to see what is missing, learn to unlearn, and energize the fight." -- Angela Marino * Performance Research *"¡Presente! will quickly, and aptly, be assigned in classrooms and discussed by students, artists, and activists who will take up the politics of presence in their practices. Taylor challenges us to reexamine what we believe we know, how we know, and the obligations and responsibilities that accompany such knowledge." -- Kimberly Skye Richards * TDR *"Taylor writes an excellent study that encourages the reader to take a walk with her. . . . This book collects past Encuentros and invites all of us to be ¡presente!" -- Paola S. Hernández * Theatre Journal *"¡Presente! is a vital and timely text that speaks critically to our current national rhetoric." -- Karina Gutiérrez * Modern Drama *"Taylor gives us a deeply captivating book that takes us on a journey across a substantial period, across sites, archives and personal memories. This book is lucidly written and is highly accessible, providing a rich treasure trove of stories and concepts for scholars in performance studies, Latin American and hemispheric studies, Native Studies, Latinx, Chicana/o studies, de- and anticolonial studies, memory, affect, trauma, gender, queer and trans studies. The readers will appreciate and find particularly instructive its method for writing presences, conceptual interventions as well as provocations." -- Adwaita Banerjee * Space and Polity *Table of ContentsPrologue: Jumping the Fence ix 1. ¡Presente! 1 2. Enacting Refusal: Political Animatives 45 3. Camino Largo: The Zapatistas' Long Road toward Autonomy 67 4. Making Presence 105 5. Traumatic Memes 127 6. We Have Always Been Queer 153 7. Tortuous Routes: Four Walks through Villa Grimaldi 175 8. Dead Capital 203 9. The Decision Dilemma 226 Epilogue 245 Notes 251 Bibliography 299 Index 321

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Book SynopsisIn Sexual Hegemony Christopher Chitty traces the five-hundred year history of capitalist sexual relations by excavating the class dynamics of the bourgeoisie's attempts to regulate homosexuality. Tracking the politicization of male homosexuality in Renaissance Florence, Amsterdam, Paris, and London between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as twentieth-century New York City, Chitty shows how sexuality became a crucial dimension of the accumulation of capital and a technique of bourgeois rule. Whether policing male sodomy during the Medici rule in Florence or accusing the French aristocracy of monstrous sexuality in the wake of the French Revolution, the bourgeoisie weaponized both sexual constraint and sexual freedom in order to produce and control a reliable and regimented labor class and subordinate it to civil society and the state. Only by grasping sexuality as a field of social contention and the site of class conflict, Chitty contends, can we embark on a politics that destroys sexuality as a tool and an effect of power and open a front against the forces that keep us unfree.Trade Review“In this theoretically sophisticated and historically rigorous book, Christopher Chitty builds a compelling argument for an approach to the history of sexuality that is embedded in property relations, economic crises, and political institutions. The result is a modernized History of Sexuality that speaks to contemporary concerns with increasing forms of precarity. A work ahead of its time, Sexual Hegemony makes an uncannily prescient and powerful intervention. Its importance and brilliance cannot be overstated.” -- Petrus Liu, author of * Queer Marxism in Two Chinas *“[Sexual Hegemony] is extraordinary, even singular—and my hope is that it will change the way we think about sexuality and anticapitalist struggle alike.” -- Christopher Nealon, from the Introduction"Both a labor of love and a collaboration across the frontier of death, Sexual Hegemony is one of that desire’s most uniquely affecting expressions." -- Josephine Livingstone * The New Republic *“Sexual Hegemony is not a theory of sexuality but a history of it. It’s a history of the people who were left out of previous histories and who more closely resemble the same people left out of the modern, mainstream gay and lesbian movement…. In Chitty’s history, queerness is criminality and vice versa, and until we undo the stigmatization of those working against the regime of property and its armed wing, the state, our gender and sexuality will be, in Chitty’s phrase, only ‘partially emancipated.’… The implications of Chitty’s history are not just for those who study the broad movements of capitalism but also those who live within it now.” -- Adam Fales * Homintern *“Homosexuality is a modern invention, and 150 years later, we’re still arguing about what it means and where it came from, and whether it was invented at all. It is, to quote Andrew Holleran, ‘like a boarding school in which there are no vacations.’ Chitty invites us to burn the boarding school down, and in the ashes, with history as our guide, to build something for everyone.” -- Ben Miller * The Baffler *“Christopher Chitty’s Sexual Hegemony, an ambitious retelling of the history of capitalism through the politics of gay sex...suggests new substantive and methodological directions for the history of homosexuality—directions that could transform the meaning of queer politics in our moment.” -- Kate Redburn * Dissent Magazine *"Sexual Hegemony is thought provoking, theoretically intricate, and wide-ranging. Likely to become a significant text for advanced students and scholars of gender and sexuality studies, history, and philosophy. Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty." -- L. Hengehold * Choice *“Max Fox has done an excellent job in bringing together Chitty’s work and editing the texts into a coherent volume that (I have no doubt) will go down as a classic in queer history and political theory.” -- Matthew J. Cull * Women, Gender & Research *“Sexual Hegemony . . . is a book clearly shaped by the financial crisis of 2008, the failures of neoliberalism, and the supposed successes of gay rights activism in much of the developed world. . . . His work stands as an incitement for scholars to probe the entanglements of sexuality and capital in the past and in our own rapidly changing world.” -- Samuel Clowes Huneke * Journal of Social History *“Chitty’s passion and engagement are evident on every page. Few academic works attest so strongly to a young scholar’s desire to make sense of the world in all its complexity. It is fortunate that Chitty wrote as much as he did and that Max Fox and others made sure that what he wrote made it into print.” -- Ian Frederick Moulton * Journal of the History of Sexuality *“Chitty’s work opens many possibilities for postcolonial, decolonial and geographically grounded analysis. As a researcher of Chinese queer politics, Chitty provides a way of thinking about sexuality within East Asia’s long tradition of intersovereign trades, market civilization and proletarianization. . . . Sexual Hegemony will rock the world of Marxism as well as queer theory in the Anglophone academia.” -- Ian L Tian * Sexualities *“Among Sexual Hegemony’s most striking interventions is Chitty’s insistence (one supported by a rich historical archive) that heterosexism is a tool of class struggle rather than a prejudice rooted in morality or religion. . . . SexualHegemony takes no easy guesses at the shape future sexual solidarities will take. Instead, it offers a usable past that helps us think better about what it might look like to build them.” -- Heather Berg * GLQ *Table of ContentsForeword / Max Fox vii Introduction / Christopher Nealon 1 Part I: Sexual Hegemonies of Historical Capitalism 1. Homosexuality and Capitalism 21 2. Sodomy and the Government of Cities 42 3. Sexual Hegemony and the Capitalist World System 73 4. Homosexuality and Bourgeois Hegemony 106 Part II. Homosexuality and the Desire for History 5. Historicizing the History of Sexuality 141 6. Homosexuality as a Category of Bourgeois Society 167 Notes 193 Index 217

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Book SynopsisJennifer C. Nash examines how the figure of the Black mother has become a powerful political category synonymous with crisis, showing how they are often rendered into one-dimensional symbols of tragic heroism and the ground zero of Black life.Trade Review“Viewing Black motherhood as a trending political site, Jennifer C. Nash boldly pushes Black feminists to reflect critically on their own embrace of crisis rhetoric that casts Black maternal bodies as mere symbols of state violence marked by suffering, trauma, and grief. While powerfully arguing we risk reproducing Black mothers as problems in need of intervention and relying on low-wage Black birthworkers to save them, Nash points to ways we can theorize new forms of Black maternal freedom that refuse confinement to a marketed crisis frame.” -- Dorothy Roberts, author of * Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty *“Investigating the fraught position in which Black mothers find themselves and the complex ways they engage with the discourse of crisis that is attached to them, Birthing Black Mothers will generate a wonderfully complex debate in Black feminism. The difficult conversations that Jennifer C. Nash’s arguments will incite are well worth the discomfort. This brilliant book is the most exciting piece of scholarship I have read this year.” -- Khiara M. Bridges, author of * The Poverty of Privacy Rights *"[An] essential examination of Black motherhood and its layered complexities of representation, performance, gaze, critique, precarity and politics." -- Karla Strand * Ms. *"Birthing Black Mothers is a highly relevant and accessible work that will appeal to students interested in various aspects of Black motherhood, as well as to a broader audience outside academia. Jennifer Nash's depiction of the contemporary crisis enriches ongoing debates around Black motherhood." -- Etyelle Pinheiro de Araujo * E3W Review of Books *"Birthing Black Mothers is an insightful and important analysis of black motherhood in the contemporary moment. . . . Nash’s most significant contribution lies in the questions she asks of black feminists; what happens when 'Black feminist innovations' are absorbed by the very institutions they are meant to challenge? What are the consequences of getting a rickety seat at an intrinsically unjust table?" -- Patricia Hamilton * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Birthing Black Women is essential reading for those interested in reproductive justice, Black feminism, public health, and media studies." -- Jennifer Musial * Resources for Gender and Women's Studies *"The contemporary content and ingenious writing style of the author create numerous points to engage students in various subjects ranging from reproductive rights to social class, thus making it perfect for both undergraduate and graduate students. The book would easily lend itself to a women’s and gender studies or sociology program, but facilitators would be remiss to ignore the social movement underpinnings, making it ideal for political science or criminal justice courses with an emphasis on inequality, social justice, and race." -- Shauntey James * Gender & Society *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. The Afterlives of Malaysia Goodson, or Black Mothering in Crisis 1 1. Black Gold: Remaking Black Breasts in an Era of Crisis 31 2. In the Room: Birthwork by Women of Color in a State of Emergency 69 3. Black Maternal Aesthetics: The Making of a Noncrisis Style 103 4. Writing Black Motherhood: Black Maternal Memoirs and Economies of Grief 133 Conclusion. The Afterlives of Jazmine Headley 173 Coda. "All Mothers Were Summoned when George Floyd Called Out for His Mama" 179 Notes 187 Bibliography 209 Index 235

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Book SynopsisIn Disaffected Xine Yao explores the racial and sexual politics of unfeeling—affects that are not recognized as feeling—as a means of survival and refusal in nineteenth-century America. She positions unfeeling beyond sentimentalism''s paradigm of universal feeling. Yao traces how works by Herman Melville, Martin R. Delany, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Sui Sin Far engaged major sociopolitical issues in ways that resisted the weaponization of white sentimentalism against the lives of people of color. Exploring variously pathologized, racialized, queer, and gendered affective modes like unsympathetic Blackness, queer female frigidity, and Oriental inscrutability, these authors departed from the values that undergird the politics of recognition and the liberal project of inclusion. By theorizing feeling otherwise as an antisocial affect, form of dissent, and mode of care, Yao suggests that unfeeling can serve as a contemporary political straTrade Review“Just when it seemed there could be nothing more to say about nineteenth-century sentimentalism, Xine Yao comes along with this powerhouse of a book. She exposes sentimentalism’s sly trick: a white supremacy exerted through an appearance of empathy that is actually the policing of feeling itself. Stunningly argued and refreshingly contrarian, Disaffected showcases what is most exciting about nineteenth-century American literary studies today while making important connections to emerging conversations in studies of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.” -- Britt Rusert, author of * Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture *“Against the affective economy in which white pain demands racialized consolation and white sympathy extorts racialized gratitude and emotional labor, Xine Yao’s original study examines ‘disaffection’ as a powerful practice that refuses the affective obligations of the nineteenth-century liberal social order. To be ‘disaffected’ is more than the absence of feeling—it is rather to feel otherwise, to refuse affective coercion, to stay with the negativity of unfeeling and to interrupt its rehabilitation, and more importantly, to invent counterpractices of sociality and care from below.” -- Lisa Lowe, author of * The Intimacies of Four Continents *"Disaffected is a remarkable achievement that asks readers for 'reciprocity' in the 'mutual, uneven process of knowledge-making, meaning-making, community-building' that emerges from the withholdings and disclosures of unfeeling." -- Benjamin Hulett * Synapsis *"The history of emotions has not seen the likes of this book before and its importance cannot be overstated. At the very least, the introductory chapter should make it on to every syllabus." -- Rob Boddice * Emotions *"One of the marvels of this book is how Yao allows ideas and images to resonate and return across her readings, even as she approaches each text on its own terms. . . . Yao’s broader achievement in Disaffected is to theorize and exemplify a disaffected reading practice that unsettles the assumptions inherited from the tradition of sentimentalism." -- Nicholas Spengler * Leviathan *"This is an excellent, thought-provoking monograph, which is sure to leave its mark on a wide range of disciplines and fields." -- Jonathan D. S. Schroeder * American Literary History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Disaffected from the Culture of Sentiment 1 1. The Babo Problem: White Sentimentalism and Unsympathetic Blackness in Herman Melville's Benito Cereno 29 2. Feeling Otherwise: Martin R. Delany, Black-Indigenous Counterintimacies, and the Possibility of a New World 70 3. The Queer Frigidity of Professionalism: White Women Doctors, the Struggle for Rights, and the Marriage Plot 107 4. Objective Passionless: Black Women Doctors and Dispassionate Strategies of Uplifting Love 138 5. Oriental Inscrutability: Sui Sin Far, Chinese Faces, and the Modern Apparatuses of U.S. Immigration 171 Coda. Notes toward a Disaffected Manifesto beyond Survival 208 Notes 211 Bibliography 243 Index

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Book SynopsisMin Hyoung Song articulates a climate change-centered reading practice that foregrounds how literature, poetry, and essays help us to better grapple with our everyday encounters with climate change.Trade Review“Coining climate lyricism, Min Hyoung Song recuperates collective agency as a mingling of attention, perception, and responsiveness. He doesn’t skirt the despair of climate catastrophe but, rather, reckons with it to find reasons to continue. The book follows its own lyrical flow as it integrates personal reflections from pandemic lockdown with readings of literary texts informed by ecocriticism and critical race theory. Song shows that questions of racist exclusion and harm are never far from questions of environmental thriving, just as the struggles of climate crisis are never far away even when they are not explicit on the page.” -- Heather Houser, author of * Infowhelm: Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data *“Min Hyoung Song presents a thrilling and powerfully argued case for literature and poetry as a means of cultivating sustained attention to climate change in this tumultuous time. Using an innovative framework to draw forth the complex and multifaceted ways climate change becomes apprehensible, Climate Lyricism will undoubtedly make a significant impact on conversations in ecocriticism, contemporary literary studies, and studies of climate change.” -- Margaret Ronda, author of * Remainders: American Poetry at Nature’s End *"Song poses a fascinating question: how do poems and works of fiction that do not appear to be about climate change—particularly those more explicitly engaged with race—show traces of the ongoing ecological crisis? Song’s sources are contemporary and well chosen. . . . Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." * Choice *"Song’s engagement with writers of color throughout Climate Lyricism offers an important, compelling, and original intervention into both lyric studies and ecocriticism because historically, both of these fields have tended to center white voices and texts." -- Heather Milne * ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment *"Climate Lyricism provides valuable insights into how climate change affects different communities and cultures, including Asian Americans. It encourages readers to appreciate nature’s beauty and take action against climate change while emphasizing the need for solidarity among different ethnic groups when tackling environmental issues. This book is particularly relevant to Asian Americans as it urges them to play an active role in addressing this global challenge." -- Ang Li * Society for US Intellectual History *Table of ContentsIntroduction. The Practice of Sustaining Attention to Climate Change 1 Part I. Scope 1. What is Denial? Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Teju Cole’s Open City, and Sally Wen Mao’s “Occidentalism” 19 2. Why Revive the Lyric? Claudia Rankine’s Citizen and Craig Santos Perez’s “Love in a Time of Climate Change” 38 3. Why Stay with Bad Feelings? Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic and Tommy Pico’s IRL 65 4. How Should I Live? Inattention and Everyday-Life Projects 80 Part II. Breath 5. What’s Wrong with Narrative? The Promises and Disappointments of Climate Fiction 101 6. Where Are We Now? Scalar Variance, Persistence, Swing, and David Bowie 121 Part III. Urgency 7. The Scale of the Everyday, Part 1: The Keeling Curve, Frank O’Hara, and Bernadette Mayer 141 8. The Scale of the Everyday, Part 2: Ada Limón, Tommy Pico, and Solmaz Sharif 159 9. The Global Novel Imagines the Afterlife: George Saunders, J.M. Coetzee, and HanKang 180 Conclusion. The Foreign Present—Who Are We to Each Other? 201 Acknowledgments 213 Notes 217 Bibliography 233 Index 243

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Book SynopsisIn Racist Love Leslie Bow traces the ways in which Asian Americans become objects of anxiety and desire. Conceptualizing these feelings as “racist love,” she explores how race is abstracted and then projected onto Asianized objects. Bow shows how anthropomorphic objects and images such as cartoon animals in children’s books, home décor and cute tchotchkes, contemporary visual art, and artificially intelligent robots function as repositories of seemingly positive feelings and attachment to Asianness. At the same time, Bow demonstrates that these Asianized proxies reveal how fetishistic attraction and pleasure serve as a source of anti-Asian bias and violence. By outlining how attraction to popular representations of Asianness cloaks racial resentment and fears of globalization, Bow provides a new means of understanding the ambivalence surrounding Asians in the United States while offering a theory of the psychological, affective, and symbolic dynamics of Trade Review“Thought-provoking and illuminating. Professor Bow’s analysis is both broad ranging and a deep dive into culture, history, psychology, and much more. Her work provides context, vocabulary, and insight—a powerful framework for understanding.” -- Charles Yu, author of * Interior Chinatown *“This book comes at a timely juncture—the latest reckoning of anti-Asian violence—and its analysis of the critical interplay of racial affects is deeply welcome. But Leslie Bow also asks much more of the reader in an incisive treatment that is vast in scope yet consistently uncompromising. If it has been possible until now to foster a sense of the inhuman contingencies of Asianness, Racist Love finally disabuses us of intrahuman fantasies of racial feeling and shows us how objects matter.” -- Mel Y. Chen, author of * Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect *"In Racist Love, Leslie Bow deep dives and shows how Asians and Asian Americans are reduced to objects of anxiety and desire in the United States." -- Casey Cha * International Examiner *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Racist Love 1 1. Racial Transitional Objects: Anthropomorphic Animals and Other Asian Americans 25 2. Racist Cute: Caricature, Kawaii Style, and the Asian Thing 69 3. Asian ● Female ● Robot ● Slave: Techo-Orientalism after #MeToo 108 4. On the Asian Fetish and The Fantasy of Equality 153 Conclusion. Racist Hate, Racial Profiling, Pokémon at Auschwitz 191 Acknowledgments 201 Notes 205 References 237 Index 253

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Book SynopsisTodd Carmody explores how the idea that work is inherently meaningful was reinforced and tasked to those who lived on the margins and needed assistance during nineteenth-century America.Trade Review"Work Requirements is a creative, persuasive, and well-crafted analysis of the representational labor undergirding our “work society”. It is essential reading for anyone seeking to contest this mode of social organization." -- Karen M. Tani * International Journal of Social History *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Signs Taken for Work 1 1. The Pensioner’s Claim 33 2. The Beggar’s Case 74 3. The Work of the Image 119 4. Institutional Rhythms 172 Coda. Remaking Reciprocity 214 Acknowledgments 221 Notes 225 Bibliography 289 Index 315

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Book SynopsisKelli Moore traces the political origins of the concept of domestic violence through visual culture in the United States, showing how it is rooted in the archive of slavery.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Authenticating Domestic Violence: Image and Feeling in Abolitionist Media 25 2. Battered Women in a Cybernetic Milieu 61 3. Authenticating Testimony in the Domestic Violence Courtroom 92 4. Incorporating Camp in Criminal Justice 122 Conclusion 155 Coda 173 Notes 179 Bibliography 211 Index 227

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Book SynopsisDrawing from archives and cultural productions from the United States, the Caribbean, and Europe, Lorgia García Peña considers Black Latinidad in a global perspective in order to chart colonialism as an ongoing sociopolitical force.Trade Review"García Peña offers an innovative way of thinking about Latinidad and Blackness … Translating Blackness offers significant contributions to the field of Latina/o studies." -- Annaliese Martinez * Latino Studies *"García Peña pushes the reader to consider sites that lie outside the common migratory routes of Black Latinx individuals. Bringing together the fields of Black and Latinx studies, García Peña ... offers a transnational conceptualization of Black Latinidad that goes beyond its academic theorization in the U.S. context." -- Shreya Parikh * Lateral *Table of ContentsNote on Terminology ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Race, Colonialism, and Migration in the Global Latinx Diaspora 1 Part I. On Being Black and Citizen: Latinx Colonial Vaivenes 1. A Full Stature of Humanity: Latinx Difference, Colonial Musings, and Black Belonging during Reconstruction 29 2. Arthur Schomburg’s Haiti: Diaspora Archives and the Epistemology of Black Latinidad 79 Part II. Black Feminist Contradictions in Latinx Diasporas 3. Against Death: Black Latina Rebellion in Diasporic Community 113 4. The Afterlife of Colonial Gender Violence: Black Immigrant Women’s Life and Death in Postcolonial Italy 153 5. Second Generation Interruptions: Archives of Black Belonging in Postcolonial Diaspora 193 Conclusion: Confronting Global Anti-immigrant Antiblackness 233 Notes 241 Bibliography 279 Index 303

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