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New York University Press At Home in NineteenthCentury America A
Book SynopsisFew institutions were as central to nineteenth-century American culture as the home. This book draws upon advice manuals, architectural designs, personal accounts, popular fiction, advertising images, and reform literature to revisit the variety of places Americans called home.Trade Review"One might think that there is nothing more to add to the conversation on the nineteenth-century American home. Amy G. Richter shows us just how wrong that assumption is. She has compiled rich and varied primary documents that represent and give voice to a diverse group of historical actors and spans a wide range of genres and historical interpretations." * The Journal of American History *"Amy Richter has put together a rich and wonderful set of documents that reveal the breadth and complexity of the nineteenth century conversation about the home in its practical and cultural dimensions. It reveals how central the home was in the changing meanings of gender, work, race, class, and ultimately the moral lifeand it clarifies this conversation. Her excellent introduction reveals the significance embedded in these documents. This terrific book is an invaluable resourceand it is a pleasure to read straight through." -- Thomas Bender,University Professor, New York University"Wisely edited, At Home in Nineteenth-Century America is a treasure house of voices. Listen to them, and hear a compelling array of hopes and fears about one of the deepest of human needsto have a home where the heart can be." -- Catharine R. Stimpson,University Professor, New York University"This is a marvelous collection! Drawing on recent scholarship in womens history, cultural history, and material culture, Richter advances an original, imaginative, and remarkably expansive interpretation of nineteenth-century domestic life. At Home in Nineteenth-Century America rewards readers with a rich and varied selection of sources that represent a multiplicity of voices, experiences, and genres all beautifully contextualized by Richters smart and accessible commentary." -- Wendy Gamber,Indiana University"At Home in Nineteenth-Century Americawill appeal to readers of cultural history, material culture, and womens history as well as scholars in history and the humanities, librarians, archivists, and students." * Journal of American Culture *"Historians and literary critics alike will find much to savor inAt Home in Nineteenth Century America The nineteenth-century home has never been more vexing, or more delightfully fraught, than it is in this fine collection." * Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, *"Editor and annotator Richter has done an admirable job selecting writings and graphics from a wide range of 19th-century sources and people.Richter masterfully provides a superb overview in only 232 text pages, targeted particularly for college students and general readers." * Choice *Table of ContentsContents 1. The Emergence of the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Ideal 11 2. The Persistence of Domestic Labor 52 3. Home, Civilization, and Citizenship 97 4. The American Home on the Move in the Age of Expansion 132 5. At Home in the Late Nineteenth-Century City 160 6. Dismantling the Victorian Ideal and the Future of Domesticity 199
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New York University Press SelfAnalysis in Literary Study Exploring Hidden
Book SynopsisThis text demonstrates how self-analysis can be a useful psychoanalytic approach to literary theory. It explores how the psyche affects intellectual discovery in the realm of applied psychoanalysis.
£55.50
New York University Press Feeling Global
Book SynopsisWhether global culture is merely a pale and sinister reflection of capitalist globalization is among the questions addressed in this text on nationalism, culturalism, and the role of intellectuals in the age of globalization.
£66.60
New York University Press AntiAmericanism
Book SynopsisThe history of anti-Americanism is as long and varied as the history of the United States. Contributors here provide substance and depth to the recent outburst of fast talk on the topic of anti-Americanism by analyzing its history and currency in five key global regions.Trade Review"This timely and thoroughly absorbing book is the best, most comprehensive and most critical survey of anti-Americanism available. A thoughtful antidote to the blah blah blah of CNN and network news, Anti-Americanism provides a subtle unpeeling of US global domination and multiple political and cultural responses to it. If you want to understand what the news is calling anti-Americanism, this is the book to read." -- Neil Smith,author of American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and The Prelude to Globalization"...splendid cover of which features a ravenous man-eating shark...some contributions-especially those by Mary Louise Pratt, Greg Grandin, Timothy Mitchell, Kristin Ross, and Rebecca Karl-are outstanding. Michtell, whose essay ‘American Power and Anti-Americanism in the Middle East’ is truly superb." * BookForum *Table of ContentsIntroduction; Andrew Ross and Kristin Ross; Part I - Latin America; Greg Grandin: The Narcissism of Violent Differences; Many Louise Pratt: Back Yard with Views; Ana Maria Dopico: The 3:10 to Yuma; George Yudice: U.S. Prepotencia: Latin Americans Respond; Part II - The Middle East; Timothy Mitchell: American Power and Anti-Americanism in the Middle East; Ella Shohat: A Conversation with Rashid Khalidi; Part III - Europe; Mary Nolan: Anti-Americanization in Germany; Kristin Ross: The French Declaration of Independence; Patrick Deer: The Dogs of War: Myths of British Anti-Americanism; Vangelis Calotychos: The Beekeeper, the Icon Painter, Family and Friends: "November 17" and the End of Greek History; Part IV - East Asia; Harry Harootunian: An "Etiquette of Anti-Americanism": Being Japanese in the American Imperium; Hyun Ok Park: Desires for North Korea; Rebecca E. Karl: China's Repressed Returns; Moss Roberts: "We Threaten the World": U.S. Foreign Policy through an Asian Lens; Part V - The United States; Linda Gordon: Hating Amerika: Anti-Americanism and the American Left; Andrew Ross: The Domestic Front; John Kuo Wei Tchen: Vigilante Americanism
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New York University Press The Collapse of Fortress Bush
Book SynopsisWhen the Bush presidency began to collapse, pundits were quick to tell a tale of the "imperial presidency" gone awry, a story of secretive, power-hungry ideologues who guided an arrogant president down the road to ruin. Here, the author reveals that the inside story of the failures of the Bush administration is both much more complex and alarming.Trade ReviewRoberts sound judgment and expertise in the field of public administration make this an excellent primer on governance in the Bush years. * Choice *To explain the actions of the Bush administration since 9/11, Roberts . . . offers a provocative and intriguing thesis: that the decisions made by Bush were tightly constrained by the American political system's & entrenched liberalism, and a prevailing culture of & neomilitarism. . . . [T]he book deserves a wide audience. It will likely raise many questions to pose to presidential candidates in this election cycle. Highly recommended for all libraries. -- Thomas J. Baldino * Library Journal *A trenchant analysis of the last eight years of American political history. . . . A work of rare insight that fills gaps glaringly evident in most public discourse. * Kirkus Reviews *Roberts book reminds us of a fundamental truth about modern democracies--governments and their opponents often have a vested interest in exaggerating the degree to which rhetoric has been transformed into reality. * Public Finance *A counterintuitive critique of why the Bush administration collapsed, both internationally and domestically. * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsPreface1 A Crisis of Authority2 Citizens and Aliens 3 Home Alone 4 Soothing the Market 5 Cakewalk 6 The Collapse of Fortress Bush7 Beyond the Imperial Presidency NotesIndex About the Author
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New York University Press On a Silver Platter
Book SynopsisThe contributors to this book examine how CD-ROMs offer alternatives to familiar places, especially classrooms. They argue that CD-ROMs are complex texts worthy of consideration for how they have changed our understanding of space and genre, and how they will affect the development of future media.
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New York University Press Bound By a Mighty Vow
Book SynopsisHistory of women's soroties - originally called fraternities - and how that shapes women's experiences in college.Trade ReviewTurk illuminates a previously neglected, marginal(ized) subject in her balanced assessment, showing how women's Greek letter fraternities reflected larger social currents: gracefully written and handsomely presented. * Choice *Turk presents a mostly balanced treatment of women's fraternities. She fills in gaps left behind by previous scholars. * American Historical Review *Turk paints an eloquent picture of how the bonds of sisterhood sustained these women and their fellow pioneers . . . Turk is to be commended for illuminating a neglected but relevant chapter in the history of women's education. * Library Journal *Table of ContentsContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Fraternities' Past and Historians' Present1 Of Serious Mind and Purpose: The First Generation of Fraternity Women 2 The Most Socially Eligible: "At Home" with the Second Generation of Fraternity Women 3 A National Society to Rank with the First in America: Expansion and Exclusion in the Women's Greek System4 In Search of Unity: Fostering "High Ideals" in the Face of Antifraternity Sentiment, 1910-1920 5 Once a Sister, Always a Sister: Fraternity Membership in the Postcollege Years 6 Bound by a Mighty Vow: The Costs and Bene?ts of Fraternity Membership, 1870-1920 Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
£66.60
New York University Press Americans Without Law The Racial Boundaries of
Book SynopsisArgues that the story of juridical racialism shows how race and citizenship served as a nexus for the professionalization of the social sciencesTrade ReviewCommendably and profoundly, the author maps the numerous uncharted waters of racial discrimination showing how anthropology and culture intermix with law to form wide-ranging and lasting policies of exclusion. * New York Law Review *A rich and exceptionally clear account of the meaning-making context and constitution of citizenship. -- Christine Harrington,Institute for Law and Society, New York UniversityAn enthralling mixture of personages and cases that reveals much about the intimate combining of law and American imperialism, including the complicities of scholarship. -- Peter Fitzpatrick,Birkbeck School of Law, University of LondonMark Weiner provides a rare and radical insight into the racial structures of American law. Reading this racial history through the rhetoric of case law decisionsjuridical racialismprovides a dramatic sense of the anthropological scope of what law has done and potentially continues to do. -- Peter Goodrich,Cardozo School of LawIt addresses a powerful topic. It is a conceptually creative piece of scholarship, forged from a sophisticated interdisciplinary viewpoint. * The Law and Politics Book Review *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction 1 Laws of Development, Laws of Land 2 Teutonic Constitutionalism and the Spanish-American War 3 The Biological Politics of Japanese Exclusion 4 Culture, Personality, and Racial Liberalism Conclusion Notes Index About the Author
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New York University Press In The Company Of Black Men The African
Book SynopsisSpanning three centuries, Craig Wilder's study shows that enslaved Africans provided the institutional foundation upon which African American religious, political and social culture flourished so successfully in New York City.Trade ReviewA beautifully researched, subtly argued exploration of the moral and intellectual life of New Yorks African American community in its first two hundred years. As Wilder shows how African societies provided a foundation for black religion, politics, and cultural institutions, he opens a new window on New York history. We hear the voice and aspirations of black New Yorkers as we have never heard them before. Written with verve, In the Company of Black Men repeatedly rewards its readers with fresh insights and provocative arguments that leaves one thinking long after it has been set aside. -- Elizabeth Blackmar,Columbia UniversityIn this groundbreaking and superbly written work Craig Wilder provides a gendered and richly textured discussion of the African origins of black political consciousness and moral traditions in the United States. Through a skillful comparative discussion of African associations in North America, the Caribbean, Brazil and Africa he demonstrates the connections between African systems of values and beliefs, masculinity and the black public sphere. This book is essential reading in African American history, Diaspora studies and American studies. -- Irma Watkins-Owens,author of Blood Relations: Caribbean Immigrants and the Harlem Community 1900-1930Though stony the road they trod, a small band of men developed and passed on an ethos of mutuality and collectivism brought from Africa. America owes a great debt to those men, and scholars owe a great debt to Craig Wilder, who has combined vast research and keen intelligence to tell their story. Wilders work will force a new look at a familiar landscape. Imaginean African city at the base of the Hudson! -- Noel Ignatiev,author of How the Irish Became WhiteIn the historiography on blacks in the colonial and antebellum periods, Craig Steven Wilders In the Company of Black Men stands out as one of the finest works of scholarship in the last decade. * Journal of American Ethnic History *Wilder explores cultural expression with and through African societies in New York City. . . . He follows them from their origin, through their heyday, to their decline as capitalist culture overwhelmed the voluntary tradition * Book News *
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New York University Press Contemporary Asian America second edition A
Book SynopsisOffers an overview of Asian American studies and the state of Asian America. This work exposes its readers to developments within the discipline, from its inception as part of the ethnic consciousness movement of the 1960s to the more contemporary theoretical and practical issues facing Asian America at the century's end.Trade Review"Contemporary Asian America addresses pressing issues and theoretical concerns of Asian Americans in the twenty-first century. Its wide range of coverage and high quality in the depth of its analysis make this volume valuable." -- Esther Ngan-ling Chow,American University"A highly useful collection of readings that trace the topography of contemporary Asian American studies and introduce the major themes and concerns in the field: social movement, immigration policy, racism and racialization, labor, gender and sexuality, and cultural expression. In this ambitious reader, Zhou and Gatewood bring together the histories and contemporary issues facing Asian Americans of different ethnic heritages, generations, and social class backgrounds." -- Elaine H. Kim,University of California, Berkeley"An impressive and comprehensive collection of theoretically grounded and historically rich accounts of the Asian American collective and specific experiences. Ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in Asian American Studies." -- Yen Le Espiritu,author of Asian American Women and Men: Labor, Laws, and Love"An outstanding collection of essays, representing some of the most insightful work being done in Asian American Studies today. The wide range of topics covered and the quality of the selections, make this an indispensable volume, both in terms of its substantive content and its theoretical sophistication." -- Lane Ryo Hirabayashi,University of Colorado, Boulder"Presents a valuable collection of readings that address the complexities of contemporary Asian American communities. Bringing together a wide range of scholars who work in the areas of history, sociology, gender and sexuality studies, critical race theory, transnationalism, and cultural studies, Contemporary Asian America will serve as the standard reader in courses dealing with the issues confronting contemporary Asian America for years to come." -- K. Scott Wong,co-editor of Claiming AmericaTable of ContentsPreface to the Second EditionPreface to the First Edition Introduction: Revisiting Contemporary Asian America Min Zhou and J. V. GatewoodPart I Claiming Visibility: The Asian American Movement and PoliticsPart II Traversing Borders: Contemporary Asian Immigration to the United StatesPart III Ties That Bind: The Immigrant Family and the Ethnic CommunityPart IV Struggling to Get Ahead: Economy and WorkPart V Sexuality in Asian AmericaPart VI Race and Asian American IdentityPart VII The Complexity of EthnicityPart VIII Confronting Adversity: Racism, Stereotyping, and ExclusionPart IX Behind the Model MinorityPart X Multiplicity, Citizenship, and Interracial Politics
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New York University Press The Fair Sex
Book SynopsisExamining the lives of three women - Mercy Otis Warren, Abigail Smith Adams, and Judith Sargent Murray, this book explains how their public and private actions represent the conflict of being a white woman, of being the recipient of both privilege and discrimination. It sheds light on the race and gender relations in the early American Republic.Trade ReviewThis book should be viewed as a jumping-off point to examine the theory of racial patriarchy at different times and places throughout American history. * The Journal of American History *Provides an excellent theory for understanding the mutual constitution of race and gender in the formation of & womens identity * Women & Politics *Combining methodologies from history and political science, Pauline Schloesser has developed a most sophisticated and convincing interpretation of how the founding fathers constructed a theory of racial patriarchy supported by an & ideology of the fair sex. Her analysis of the political thought of Mercy Warren, Abigail Adams, and Judith Sargent Murray demonstrates that even these three independent thinkers accepted the gender and ethnic hierarchy handed them by the founders in order to protect their own racial and class privilege as white women. -- Joan Hoff,Professor of History, College of William and MaryPauline Schloessers work on racial patriarchy is pathbreaking in its association of concepts that previously have been studied in near-isolation from each other. The book makes compelling use of primary sources, most notably private correspondence, to provide a sense of how women in elite positions saw themselves and their society in the context of both race and gender relations. The book establishes the presence of a social contract in which Anglo-American women were encouraged to accept subordination within an existing conservative order in exchange for a position of moral and intellectual superiority, most notably over non-whites. Schloessers innovative concept of racial patriarchy, along with an impressive foundation in research, make The Fair Sex a major work in political theory and American intellectual history. -- Patrick James,Political Science, University of Missouri ColumbiaSchloessers theory of racial patriarchy repositions America's founding mothers Mercy Warren, Abigail Adams, Judith Murrayat the intersections of racial privilege and gender oppression. Drawing on Habermass discourse theory, she reveals the racial contract implicit in their efforts to participate as equal citizens. The Fair Sex offers a new perspective on the intersections of class, gender, and race from the American Founding to the present day. -- Nancy S. Love,Associate Professor of Political ScienceTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments 1 Race, Gender, and Woman Citizenship in the American Founding 2 Toward a Theory of Racial Patriarchy3 The Ideology of the "Fair Sex" 4 The Philosopher Queen and the U.S. Constitution: Mercy Otis Warren as a Reluctant Signatory 5 From Revolution to Racial Patriarchy: The Political Pragmatism of Abigail Adams 6 Gleaning a Self between the Lines: Judith Sargent Murray and the American Enlightenment 7 Conclusion Epilogue Appendix Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
£70.30
New York University Press For a Significant Social Psychology
Book SynopsisM.Brewster Smith has been a pivotal figure in social psychology and personality studies for more than half a century. "For a Significant Social Psychology" collects Smith's most important writings, introduced by the author and presented thematically.Trade Review"This is a fascinating and important collection of articles by one of the most influential elder statesmen of social psychology. Not only does it provide valuable insights into the history of modern social psychology, it also points the way to a more significant future social psychology." -- Morton Deutsch E.L. ,Thorndike Professor Emeritus, Teachers College, Columbia University"It is hopeful, in troubled times, to find a social scientist in his ninth decade writing lucidly, self-critically, and wisely about the essential problems and potentialities of his chosen field. And it is an additional pleasure to find that the humanistic values of his youth are burnished rather than tarnished in his old age." * Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences *
£63.00
New York University Press Meeting the Enemy
Book SynopsisA pointed look at why the United States' frequent disregard of international law and institutions is met with high levels of approval by the American public.Trade Review... is a pointed look at why the United States frequent - if selective - disregard of international law and institutions is met with such high levels of approval, or at least complacency, by the American public. * Los Angeles Daily Journal *Saito has produced a synthesis that is thought-provoking and challenging, and it provides a welcome attempt to place the contemporary moment in the 'war on terror' into a much longer historical frame. Most of all, like all good critical scholarship, scholars and students can look to this book as a way to interrogate ones commitments about the American Project. * Law & Politics Book Review *A must read for those concerned about human dignity, justice, freedom from violence, and the rule of law in an increasingly interdependent world, Meeting the Enemy challenges the reader to consider the abnegative consequences of an exceptionalism openly embraced by elites in the Bush Administration and still fostered by an Obama Administration that is partly conflicted between rhetoric and deeds. -- Jordan J. Paust,author of Beyond the Law: The Bush Administrations Unlawful Responses in the WarMuch has been written about the theme of American exceptionalism. Few works, however, possess the richness, range and depth of Saitos superb and timely book, which provides new and disturbing insight into the origins and enduring character of this exceptionalismand its consequences for America and the world. -- Antony Anghie,SJ Quinney School of Law, University of UtahThis book will help readers understand the United States contradictory and often shocking role in the international legal community. A violator of international law from the day of its declaration of & independence, America, as Saito boldly points out, is indeed the enemy to colonized people within and beyond its borders. -- Sharon H. Venne,Chief Negotiator, Akaitcho Dene First NationTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: "A Distinctly American Internationalism" 1 Saving Civilization: The War on Terror 2 Civilizing the Other: Colonial Origins of International Law 3 "A City on a Hill": America as Exception 4 Establishing the Republic: First Principles and American Identity 5 A Manifest Destiny: Colonizing the Continent 6 American Imperial Expansion 7 Making the World Safe for Democracy 8 The New World Order and American Hegemony 9 Confronting American Exceptionalism Notes Works Cited List of Cases Index About the Author
£62.90
New York University Press The Left at War
Book SynopsisRevisits the major intellectual debates and key players of two decades, covering the terrain of left debates in the United States over foreign policy from the Balkans to 9/11 to Iraq, and over domestic policy from the culture wars of the 1990s to the question of what (if anything) is the matter with Kansas.Trade Review[E]ngaging and provocative. [Aims] to stimulate the Left through an injection of new ideas. To the extent that these ideas challenge what some see as core Leftist convictions, some on the Left - those who are content to stay the course and await the coming revolution - will not welcome them. But those who see the Left at a critical crossroads, who believe that its recent political failures have amplified the need for the Left to reinvent and revitalize itself, will certainly find these ideas worth consideration... [Berube has] done valuable work in clearing the way for a more intellectually innovative and politically effective Left. * Marx & Philosophy *Youll rejoice that theres such an intelligent and even-minded critic of the left who takes his principles seriously enough to challenge those who threaten to destroy them from within. * Bookforum *Bérubé links progressives inability to control the conversation on national security during the Bush administration to cultural studies failure to deliver on its promise of a vibrant New Left. And in the process, he also tries to imagine a newer and better onea left that both knows what is worth fighting for and how to fight for it. * American Prospect *If Berube succeeds in making leftists, from center-left politicians like Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank all the way out to the most radical anarchists, ponder the question of violence seriously, he will have done an inestimable service. That he attempts to do just that makes the most important book I have read in the past five years. -- John McGowan in SymplokeA rigorous, hard-hitting, and impressively detailed critique and account of the United States left during wartimeand at war with itself. It is far and away the most thoroughly reasoned and researched brief for a middle way between a predictably anti-imperialist left and a revoltingly hawkish liberalism, and in this it is immensely useful both as a guide to recent debates and as a sort of internationalist handbook. Rousing, engrossing, principled, and brave. -- Eric Lott,author of The Disappearing Liberal IntellectualAn incisive critique of the excesses of the political and academic left. Bérubé is uniquely positioned to diagnose the relationship between policy debates over the Iraq War and the fate of cultural studies in United States. The result is a fog-clearing argument for a new left internationalism centered on human rights and supranational institutions, and a timely reconsideration of Stuart Halls rich analysis of the rise of Thatcherism in England. This is an important and bracing book. -- Amanda Anderson,author of The Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of TheoryBérubé is the kind of critic, and the kind of advocate, that the Left desperately needs. I sometimes disagree with him, and then I argue with him in my head. I strongly recommend this practice: read him, learn from him, argue with him. It is a wonderfully bracing experience. -- Michael Walzer,editor, Dissent MagazineBérubés new book delivers an incredibly timely message of tough love to the American Left. On issue after issuefrom Afghanistan to Iraq to the domestic fronthe separates progressive myth from progressive reality. In the process he distinguishes good reasoning from bad among the major political writers of the last generation and gives us a fresh agenda for future work. -- Cary Nelson,University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignIndefatigably clear-minded and relentlessly researched, Bérubés The Left at War offers an invaluable excavation of just what has gone wrong, and occasionally right, with the academic/intellectual left in America. Anyone concerned with its future will be relying on this work for many years to come. -- Eric Alterman,author of Why Were LiberalsThe most important book I have read in the past fiver years. -- John McGowanTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: On Time 1 Nowhere Left to Go 2 Root Causes 3 Iraq: The Hard Road to Debacle 4 Cultural Studies and Political Crisis5 What Is This "Cultural" in Cultural Studies? Conclusion: Equality and Freedom Notes Works cited Index About the Author
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Syracuse University Press Abrahams Heirs Jews and Christians in Medieval
Book SynopsisThe author of this book recounts the history of the Ashkenazic Jewish experience in medieval western Europe from the 5th to 15th centuries, focusing on interaction between Jews and Christians during this formative period.Trade ReviewGlick's examination of the social experience of Jews living among Christians in medieval Europe is fascinating. . . . The Crusades, the Jews' relegation from merchants to moneylenders, and Jewish settlement in and subsequent expulsion from England allow Glick to realize his hypothesis. Glick makes this history come alive. An excellent choice for academic, seminary, and public libraries.
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University of Georgia Press Sunken Cities Sacred Cenotes and Golden Sharks
Book SynopsisNature and travel writer Bill Belleville has inspired and informed countless readers through his books and magazine articles. In these eighteen essays and articles Belleville takes us through Florida, the Caribbean, and Latin America in quest of the distinctive, the wondrous, the threatened, and the undiscovered.
£28.95
University of Georgia Press Agriculture Geology and Society in Antebellum
Book SynopsisThe centerpiece of this generously annotated book is the diary kept by the celebrated agricultural reformer Edmund Ruffin during the eight months in 1843 when, at the request of Governor James Henry Hammond, he conducted an economic survey of South Carolina, traveling to every corner of the state to examine the different farming methods in use and the resources available for their improvement.
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University of Georgia Press Reclaiming the Great World House The Global
Book SynopsisThe burgeoning terrain of Martin Luther King Jr. studies is leading to a new appreciation of his thought and its meaningfulness for the twenty-first-century world. This volume brings together an impressive array of scholars from various backgrounds and disciplines to explore the global significance of King - then, now, and in the future.Trade ReviewWe may need to understand the mission and the message of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. now more than ever before. Many try to define what he has meant to this country and the world but fall short. For those who yearn for his voice, this book provides an exceptional opportunity to hear from scholars who have studied him deeply and are keepers of his flame. This book is a chance to discover how King helped lead the fifty-year transformation of American society and the ways we can continue to demand respect for human dignity today.
£43.37
Ohio University Press Memoirs of a Bookman
Book SynopsisThese memoirs are the reminiscences of Jack Matthews: his adventures in seeking out, collecting, and reading old and rare books, along with reflections upon time, memory, and other mysteries.Trade Review“Matthews musters the enthusiasm of the newborn or born-again bibliomaniac while commanding the breadth and knowledge of a seasoned bookman.”“I read the book… with great enjoyment. Indeed there were moments when I could not put it down. The book is informative and entertaining. It is also philosophical. Matthews’ bookish doings exemplify a way of life. The book teaches the good lesson that interest breeds observation and observation breeds life. The life is wonderfully rich in goods, both material and moral. The voice of the writer is unique and appealing.”
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Ohio University Press A Paris Year
Book SynopsisThe Depression that follows the 1929 stock market crash is emptying Paris of many American expatriates. Two exceptions are Dorothy and James T. Farrell, the naïve young couple who have fled their home in Chicago for the fabled liberation that Paris seems to offer.In
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Ohio University Press Pebbles Monochromes and Other Modern Poems
Book SynopsisMetaphysical, agnostic, and ironic with a modernist voice.Trade Review“Howells’ reputation will continue to rest on his fiction and criticism, but of all his published writings, his poetry gives the most immediate sense of his state of mind and thus is essential to a full understanding of the writer in the last decades of his life. Flawlessly edited, this volume belongs in all college and university libraries.” * Choice *
£27.90
Ohio University Press West of the Border
Book SynopsisExpanding the scope of American borderland and frontier literary scholarship, West of the Border examines the writings of nineteenth- and turn-of-the-century Native, African, Asian, and Anglo American frontier writers.Trade Review[Lape] discusses a variety of works of interest to scholars in American and cultural studies, focusing on issues of culture, ethnicity, and stereotypes within Western frontier writing. Recommended for academic libraries and libraries with strong American studies collections. * Library Journal *Lape breaks new ground in multicultural and western studies with this superb interdisciplinary work. Defining the frontier as a place of contact between settled and advancing cultures, the author focuses on the perspectives of those who came into conflict with western Anglo settlement. * Choice *West of the Border is an informed and insightful study of the multicultural literature of the West that should contribute in significant ways to scholars’ understanding of the ways in which minorities negotiate identity in a hegemonic culture. * Ramapo College of New Jersey *
£49.50
Ohio University Press My Dearest Angel
Book SynopsisShe was the daughter of a circuit judge and state senator. He was the youngest son of Virginia’s Civil War governor and was a state legislator himself at the age of nineteen. Their courtship and marriage stands as a portrait of a bygone way of life unique to the American South during the first half of the twentieth century.
£33.15
Ohio University Press The Collected Works of William Howard Taft Volume
Book Synopsis“A time when panics seem far removed is the best time to prepare our financial system to withstand a storm. The most crying need this country has is a proper banking and currency system. The existing one is inadequate, and everyone who has studied the question admits it.”—WilliamTrade Review“A hundred years later, we can only envy a time when we could have a would-be president who could speak, knowingly, on, say, Roman (Civil) Law vs. Anglo-Saxon (Common) Law.”“The collection embodies the most significant among Tafts scholarly works, all of which were penned between his term as federal circuit court judge in the late nineteenth century and his tenure as the nations tenth chief justice of the United States Supreme Court. This collection is of value to the student of Taft, political progressivism, and moderate Republicanism.”
£49.50
Ohio University Press Stepping Forward
Book SynopsisA unique and important study, Stepping Forward examines the experiences of nineteenth- and twentieth-century black women in Africa and African diaspora communities from a variety of perspectives in a number of different settings.ThisTrade Review“Catherine Higgs provides an absorbing account of rival black women’s self-help organizations in Cape Province, South Africa, from 1922 to 1952 that considers issues of education and status, class and ethnicity, effects of male outmigration, and even marital infidelity!” * African Studies Review *
£43.50
Ohio University Press Hostels Sexuality and the Apartheid Legacy
Book SynopsisIn the last decade, the South African state has been transformed dramatically, but the stubborn, menacing geography of apartheid still stands in the way of that country’s visions of change. Environmentally degraded old homelands still scar the rural geography of South Africa.FormerlyTrade Review“An excellent example of anti-racist and anti-sexist works with strong, practical policy implications for development.”
£43.50
Ohio University Press Religion in Ohio
Book SynopsisReligion in Ohio tells the story of Ohio’s religious and spiritual heritage going back to the state’s ancient and historic native populations, the development of a wide variety of faith traditions in the years preceding the mid-twentieth century, and the arrival of many newer immigrants in the last fifty years.
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Ohio University Press The Grasinski Girls The Choices They Had and the
Book SynopsisThe Grasinski Girls were working-class Americans of Polish descent, born in the 1920s and 1930s, who created lives typical of women in their day. They went to high school, married, and had children. For the most part, they stayed home to raise their children. And they were happy doing that.Trade Review“Sociologist Mary Patrice Erdmans wrote a book which is gutsy, honest, innovative, and controversial…. The Grasinski Girls is a riveting read, highly recommended to scholars and the broader reading public alike.” * Journal of Social History *“Most intriguing is Erdmans’s exploration of the role of faith and religion for these women, an issue that is sorely overlooked in most scholarly fields…. Interestingly, though they may have turned away from Catholicism, these women’s narratives are suffused with a faith and optimism in life that appear almost anachronistic to a contemporary reader.” * Slavic and East European Journal *“By looking into working class women’s private, domestic lives, Erdmans shows an unusual perspective on the spaces where they forge their identities while they intermittently enter the public world of paid employment.” * American Studies *
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Ohio University Press Imperial Gullies
Book SynopsisOnce the grain basket for South Africa, much of Lesotho has become a scarred and degraded landscape. The nation’s spectacular erosion and gullying have concerned environmentalists and conservationists for more than half a century.Trade Review“Undoubtedly one of the most important books written to date on any part of the environmental history of Africa. It stands out in the discipline of environmental history in general as an unusually sophisticated work of great insight and explanatory power.”
£49.50
Ohio University Press In Pursuit of German Memory History Television
Book SynopsisThe collective memories of Nazism that developed in postwar Germany have helped define a new paradigm of memory politics. From Europe to South Africa and from Latin America to Iraq, scholars have studied the German case to learn how to overcome internal division and regain international recognition.InTrade Review“By juxtaposing his insightful readings of historiography with his analyses of mass media, Kansteiner makes even more powerfully clear how little impact historians have had on the public’s understanding of the Nazi past.... He does not tell us how to escape our marginal status; but throughout this important book, he forcefully reminds us of how marginal we are and how little attention we’ve paid to arenas, like television, where many more people learn about the past than in the books we write.” * Modern History *“Kansteiner has made an important contribution to the crowded and growing field of works that explore the way we look at the Federal Republic’s quest to find a way of remembering the perpetrators, victims, and bystanders of the twentieth century’s worst, and perhaps least comprehensible, crime.” * H-German *“Unlike other academic literatures that evolve only slowly, the study of working through the Holocaust in Germany has experienced continued change, now well into its third generation. Wulf Kansteiner’s new study provides an outstanding contribution to the literature.” * Holocaust and Genocide Stories *“An enlightening synthesis of the topic.” * Neue Politische Literatur *“Wulf Kansteiner's In Pursuit of German Memory is theoretically sophisticated and a model of empirical research. In a field too widely open to impressionistic essays, it represents an outstanding scholarly contribution.” * author of Nazi Germany and the Jews *“One of the most authoritative and inventive voices on the perpetually important issue of Germany’s relationship to the Nazi past. In Pursuit of German Memory... allows one to take full measure of Kansteiner’s impressive oeuvre and the methodological and thematic threads holding it together.”“This is a tour de force that is going to propel Professor Kansteiner into the front ranks of scholars in the fields of memory and postwar German history. It is empirically rich, cleverly organized, conceptually sophisticated, full of thoughtful and measured judgments and very well written. It pulls together a mass of material in a coherent and enlightening way. Many of the topics and controversies Kansteiner analyzes have been discussed before, but not so thoughtfully, and not within such a wide general and historical framework. We all have much to learn from the efforts of several generations of Germans to suppress, control and exploit the past for a wide mix of political and psychological reasons.” * author of The Tragic Vision of Politics *“Wulf Kansteiner’s In Pursuit of German Memory presents fascinating views on the various ways in which the catastrophic Nazi legacy has been handled in Germany after 1945. Combining originality with broad scope and in depth analysis, this is a major achievement.” * author of Constructing the Past *
£46.40
Ohio University Press Natures of Colonial Change Environmental
Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking study, Jacob A. Tropp explores the interconnections between negotiations over the environment and an emerging colonial relationship in a particular South African context—the Transkei—subsequently the largest of the notorious “homelands” under apartheid.InTrade Review“Jacob A. Tropp has written an impressive history of the state’s capture of forest resources in the Transkei, between 1880 and 1930.... His book’s central question is how a reading of the social interactions surrounding environmental access can reshape historical understanding.” * American Historical Review *“Tropp’s detailed case study of the KwaMatiwane area of the Transkei...is a major contribution to the historiography of the region.” * H-SAfrica *“This environmental history is a multi-layered social history that is deeply concerned with issues of politics, culture, and gender.”“A fascinating study of African responses to the colonial restrictions on access to designated government forests.”“Elegantly argued and lucidly written, this book illustrates the uneven process of dispossession that Africans suffered at the hands of a divided colonial administration.”
£49.50
Ohio University Press Natures of Colonial Change Environmental
Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking study, Jacob A. Tropp explores the interconnections between negotiations over the environment and an emerging colonial relationship in a particular South African context—the Transkei—subsequently the largest of the notorious “homelands” under apartheid.InTrade Review“Jacob A. Tropp has written an impressive history of the state’s capture of forest resources in the Transkei, between 1880 and 1930.... His book’s central question is how a reading of the social interactions surrounding environmental access can reshape historical understanding.” * American Historical Review *“Tropp’s detailed case study of the KwaMatiwane area of the Transkei...is a major contribution to the historiography of the region.” * H-SAfrica *“This environmental history is a multi-layered social history that is deeply concerned with issues of politics, culture, and gender.”“A fascinating study of African responses to the colonial restrictions on access to designated government forests.”“Elegantly argued and lucidly written, this book illustrates the uneven process of dispossession that Africans suffered at the hands of a divided colonial administration.”
£23.39
Ohio University Press Power in the Blood
Book SynopsisPower in the Blood: A Family Narrative traces Linda Tate’s journey to rediscover the Cherokee-Appalachian branch of her family and provides an unflinching examination of the poverty, discrimination, and family violence that marked their lives.Trade Review“I think Power in the Blood is a remarkable memoir, honestly and beautifully written despite the painful nature of some of the material. This is a big, human, and entirely revelatory book: it shows us all just how these things can happen, and how they can continue to happen down through generations. Linda Tate doesn’t really lay blame or make judgments; she shows real wisdom and compassion throughout.““As memoir, and as a meditation on the meaning of memoir, history, and the restorative powers of both, Power in the Blood is as moving and profound as any life story I’ve encountered in quite a while…. It’s a wonderful read.” * Appalachian Journal *“Linda Tate’s gripping family history is an amalgam of scholarly sleuthing, richly imaginative embellishment, and sheer psychological grit that delves deep into family legend to produce a narrative both reflective and transcending of the Appalachian region.” * Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine *“I highly recommend this book to anyone looking for a way to combine research with imagination to create complex, lifelike characters that will grip readers’ hearts from the get-go.…Tate provides an unflinching view of complicated, deeply flawed individuals, who inflict a great deal of pain on their families. At the same time, she maintains a tone of fairness and understanding, and in the end she shows how knowledge and honesty can heal the psyche.” * Memoir Mentor *“Yes, this is a family narrative, but it is suffused with the particularities of Appalachia and with telling universality as well.” * Appalachian Heritage *“An extraordinary family journey, highly recommended….” * Midwest Book Review *“(Tate) uses her imagination in the storying of these women’s lives, and she does a great job. But as an accomplished academic, she is no slouch when it comes to research, either. It is a unique talent to harness both the creative and the academic and make it sound as simple as stirring up a batch of cornbread.” * BookWomen *“Brutal honesty… Paragon of persistence… Blazing versatility… Role model for all family historians… These are a few of the cryptic notes I jotted as I read Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative, by Linda Tate. I was struck by the impact of the basic story, and my appreciation deepened as I considered the craft and research involved in writing this gripping six generation tale.” * Story Circle Book Reviews *“Power in the Blood works its way through a maze of trouble engendered by displacement and war in border regions. You begin to better appreciate Kitty Wells singing “It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tank Angels” and Dorothy Allison’s novel Bastard Out of Carolina. * Asheville Citizen-Times *“Tate threads the story of her father by hanging her text on females in the family, especially her great-great grandmother, great grandmother, and grandmother. Through them she skillfully weaves personal memories and family recollections (including those gleaned from newly met relatives). The author melds her personal memories, interviews, and formal research into an engaging story.” * Appalachian History blog *“The writing is lively and compelling and at times (Linda Tate) is painfully honest about childhood events. But it is the spare beauty of that honesty that makes this book extraordinary.” * Feast *
£37.50
Ohio University Press Unsettled Accounts Poems
Book SynopsisTo take the mess of life and make meaning from it is what all poets seek to do.Trade Review“These are the poems of a poet who takes his obligations seriously—obligations to his world, his family, his intellectual heritage: ‘The longing / in belongings lines up in rows of books, / a thousand titles of how owned I am.’ These highly musical poems, which include a generous helping of superbly crafted sonnets, are beautifully written, smart, and moving—rich in all the rewards poetry offers.”
£20.39
Ohio University Press The Tenets of Cognitive Existentialism
Book SynopsisIn The Tenets of Cognitive Existentialism, Dimitri Ginev draws on developments in hermeneutic phenomenology and other programs in hermeneutic philosophy to inform an interpretative approach to scientific practices.Trade Review“Ginev’s book is a skilfully crafted … account of an hermaneutic-phenomenological philosophy of science… worthy of a placement along the spectrum of possible approaches to the problems raised by the practices of the natural sciences.” * Metascience *
£49.50
Ohio University Press Standing Our Ground
Book SynopsisStanding Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal examines women’s efforts to end mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia.Trade Review“What a magnificent book! The author skillfully weaves theoretical discussions into a fast-paced narrative. Standing Our Ground is well written, well researched, and on solid theoretical ground. The book offers a unique lens: coal is a highly masculinized world, and Barry opens up a view of women’s roles and activism inside this world, which is often closed to outsiders.”“Barry exposes the coal industry's harsh effects on working-class women in Appalachia, revealing the symbiosis between gender oppression and environmental destruction. No passive victims, the women she profiles have become leading advocates for alternative energy.” * Ms. Magazine *“Standing Our Ground will appeal to a wide variety of scholars interested in intersectional analyses of social and environmental problems…at a time when so much of the climate change discourse is focused on broad solutions at the level of global environmental policy, Barry’s book is a crucial look into the lives of individuals living day to day with the consequences of our lifestyle and policy choices.” * Environmental Values *“(Standing Our Ground) highlights negatively stereotyped working-class white and nonwhite women in a ‘gendered articulation’ that speaks to diverse issues of class and disenfranchisement at a ‘global crossroads’ in history.” * Choice *“Standing Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal places the anti-mountaintop removal struggle squarely as a global issue with human and environmental costs. Barry successfully illustrates how local struggles in central Appalachia are indicative of a larger global movement for environmental justice.” * author of Bringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of Mountaintop Removal on Southern West Virginia Communities *
£52.80
Ohio University Press Americas Romance with the English Garden
Book SynopsisAmerica’s Romance with the English Garden is the story of the beginnings of the modern garden industry, which seduced the masses with its images and fixed the English garden in the mind of the American consumer; the story of tastemakers and homemakers, of savvy businessmen and a growing American middle class eager to buy their products.Trade Review“Nursery catalogues sell more than seeds and plants; they also sell dreams and aspirations…. Mickey has thoughtfully woven together an American landscape design history with a critical examination of how commercial interests and mass media shape our preferences, even in our humble backyards.” * Publishers Weekly *“This is an illuminating book packed with very readable results of dedicated and thoughtful research. It helps give a greater understanding of how and why English garden style has been admired in North America for such a long time.” * Gardens Illustrated *“Mickey convincingly demonstrates how catalog companies used advances in color printing, rural postal service, and railroad networks to reach a mass audience, uniformly promote the English ideal, and create demand for their own products. Thoroughly researched and footnoted, the book includes examples from powerful and enduring catalogs such as Burpee's but also from lesser-known and regional seed companies, including some from the burgeoning West.” * Library Journal *“In his wonderfully enlightening book, Thomas J. Mickey describes how the garden of this early period in this country became a cultural symbol for the American middle class. Also this period of our history was when our fascination with expanses of green lawn originated. If you read America’s Romance with the English Garden, you will be glad that you did. Better still, you could share it with a fellow gardening Anglophile.” * Focus on Flowers, Indiana Public Media *“America’s Romance with the English Garden is a must for gardening history collections, highly recommended.” * The Midwest Book Review *“If ‘the Redcoats are coming, the Redcoats are coming‘ was a rallying cry for freedom from foreign rule, independence from England was never achieved in one realm: the garden. In America’s Romance with the English Garden, Thomas Mickey details how the British landed in our landscapes and remain the dominant influence in the design and contents of American gardens today.” * Long Island Gardening Quarterly *“In this thoughtful, thoroughly researched book, writer and gardener Mickey explores Americans’ enduring love affair with the English style of gardening.” * Bostonia *“An engaging story that will delight almost any avid gardener, and it makes great summer reading.” * Garden Design Online *“With admirable ease and lucidity in America’s Romance with the English Garden, Thomas Mickey reveals the historical development of these strategies aimed at middle-class Americans anxious for enhanced social status…. America’s Romance with the English Garden is not only an informative delight to read, it is also (as suits a book about gardens) a delight to the eyes.” * Texas Gardener’s Seeds *“It was fascinating to read how the advent of the railroads and the U.S. Postal Service facilitated the delivery of seed catalogs and their products, and how inventions made it easier for them to produce literature filled with illustrations of those products within landscape settings.” * Susan’s In the Garden *“This is an excellent historical account of how the gardens of both countries share common roots (pun intended) and how they influenced each other. From colonial Williamsburg, to the heyday of American seed and nursery vendors using the railroads to ship their plants and seeds throughout the nation, this is an excellent read for any gardener interested in history on either side of the ‘pond'. Gardeners in the UK will find it as enlightening as those in the US.” * Dave’s Garden *“For readers interested in the history of American gardening, this book gives a tour worth taking.” * Home Greenhouse magazine *“With colorful reproductions of original catalog artwork, this engaging book conveys a wonderful insight into how … nursery companies had a profound and lasting influence on American garden design. There may be other books explaining America’s enchantment with the English garden style, but none, I’m sure, match the scope or contents of this one.”“Thoroughly researched and lushly illustrated, this book is more historical documentation than gardening guide, as it provides insight into the lasting impact of gardening advertising on American culture…. Though certainly a niche book for American history buffs and professional gardeners, America’s Romance with the English Garden will also appeal to readers interested in architecture, landscaping, design, botany, and English and American culture.” * ForeWord Reviews *“Thomas Mickey is both a historian of public relations and a passionate Master Gardener, and his engaging book is full of colorful personalities—both plants and humans.”“A penetrating look at the standardized English garden’s grip on the American imagination.”“I loved this meticulously researched guide through the history of American gardening. It’s fascinating to discover how much has changed in our gardens over the last 200 years, and how much has not.”
£18.89
American Mathematical Society Automated Theorem Proving After 25 Years
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAutomated theorem proving: a quarter century review by D. W. Loveland Citation to Hao Wang Computer theorem proving and artificial intelligence by H. Wang Citation to Lawrence Wos and Steven Winker Open questions solved with the assistance of AURA by L. Wos and S. Winker Some automatic proofs in analysis by W. W. Bledsoe Proof-checking, theorem-proving, and program verification by R. S. Boyer and J. S. Moore A mechanical proof of the turing completeness of pure LISP by R. S. Boyer and J. S. Moore Automating higher-order logic by P. B. Andrews, D. A. Miller, E. L. Cohen, and F. Pfenning Abelian group unification algorithms for elementary terms by D. Lankford, G. Butler, and B. Brady Combining satisfiability procedures by equality sharing by G. Nelson On the decision problem and the mechanization of theorem-proving in elementary geometry by W. Wen-Tsun Some recent advances in mechanical theorem-proving of geometries by W. Wen-Tsun Proving elementary geometry theorems using Wu's algorithm by S.-C. Chou Automated theory formation in mathematics by D. B. Lenat Student use of an interactive theorem prover by J. McDonald and P. Suppes.
£89.25
Duke University Press Phantasmic Radio
Book SynopsisThe alienation of the self, the annihilation of the body, the fracturing, dispersal, and reconstruction of the disembodied voice: the themes of modernism, even of modern consciousness, occur as a matter of course in the phantasmic realm of radio. This book explores the meaning of radio to the modern imagination.Trade Review"Phantasmic Radio is a real pleasure to read, both for its elegant style and its originality."—Michael Hardt, Duke University"Putting a stethoscope to the chest of mass-culture’s first darling medium, Alan Weiss draws radio art out of electomagnetic obscurity and onto the stage of current debates on subjectivity and technology, primitivism and vanguardism, psychology and textuality. Historically rich, astute, and argumentative, Phantasmic Radio charts the theoretical flutters in the land of lost bodies and drifting signals. It attends to the jarring and brilliant broadcast of ideas as they dance across our eardrums."—John Corbett, author of Extended Play
£59.25
Duke University Press Coming through the Fire
Book SynopsisAddresses the important issue of our time with insights forged by a lifetime of confronting racial oppression in America. This book explores the nature of biracial relationships, the issue of transracial adoption, violence particularly black-on-black violence the endangered black male, racism as power, and the relationship between Blacks and Jews.Trade Review“The first consciousness of race comes early. It is not something you learn in the same way you learn about stinging caterpillars or poison ivy. You do not have to learn it from some overt experience. It is a pervasive awareness, an insidious thing that seeps into the soil of consciousness, sending its toxic tendrils deep into the walls of the mind. It is like a mold, a blight. If you scrape it away here, you find it mockingly virulent there. Once the concept of race takes root in the mind, it is there to stay. You cannot run away from it because it is inside you. . . . In the South, where I was raised, the pervasive awareness of race was helped along by a series of ‘lessons’ learned in the process of growing up. These lessons were sometimes impromptu, and often impersonal, but they were never unplanned or unintended. They were always there in the arsenal of race and place waiting for the most effective moment for inculcation.”—From Coming through the FireTable of ContentsI. Notes on Race 1 II. The Fire in Alabama 11 III. Mind and Countermind: Race and Place in Context 39 IV. Polyps of Prejudice 69 V. Search for identity: The Whatness of Who 91 VI. Human Values and Inhuman Systems 113 VII. Into the Multiculture 135
£29.25
Duke University Press The Avenue Clayton City
Book SynopsisThe Avenue in author's fictional town is the principal residential street of the black community in Clayton City, a prototypical southern town languishing between the two world wars. This book creates with deft skill the drama that rises from the lives of the people of Clayton City.Trade Review“A gripping story.”—John Hope Franklin“In a direct line of descent from both Richard Wright’s Native Son and Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, C. Eric Lincoln’s The Avenue, Clayton City is one of the best written and most gripping accounts of the African American experience that I have encountered in years.”—Henry Louis Gates Jr.“Truly a masterpiece.”—James H. Cone
£23.79
Duke University Press Catholic Lives Contemporary America
Book SynopsisA collection of essays that focuses on Catholic lay practices not commonly recognised or, at times, officially sanctioned. It includes essays by novelist Mary Gordon on the sexual appeal of Bing Crosby's Father Chuck O'Malley character, and Robert A Orsi on the "sanctified cripple," Andrew Sullivan on homosexuality and piety.Trade Review"This collection informs, entertains, and challenges - with no apparent ideological axe to grind. Catholic Lives, Contemporary America is lively reading for those looking for a deeper take on the recent Catholic past and present." - James W. Arnold, St. Anthony MessengerTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Not-Just-Cultural Catholics / Thomas J. Ferraro 1 "Mildred, is it fun to be a cripple?": The Culture of Suffering in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Catholicism / Robert A. Orsi 19 Father Chuck: A Reading of Going My Way and The Bells of St. Mary's, or Why Priests Made Us Crazy / Mary Gordon 65 Clearing the Streets of the Catholic Lost Generation / James T. Fisher 76 Making It to Mepkin Abbey / Frank Lentricchia 104 The Intertextual Politics of Cultural Catholicism: Tiepolo, Madonna, Scorsese / Paul Giles 120 The Bitter Victory: Catholic Conservative Intellectuals in America, 1988–1993 / Patrick Allitt 141 Virtually Normal / Andrew Sullivan 171 Feminists and Patriarchs at the Catholic Church: Orthodoxy and Its Discontents / Mary Jo Weaver 187 The Double-Effect/Proportionalist Debate / Kathy Rudy 205 My Parents, My Religion, and My Writing / David Plante 222 A Homage to Mart and to the University Called Notre Dame / Stanley Hauerwas 227 A Pornographic Nun: An Interview with Camille Paglia / Thomas J. Ferraro 238 An Ancient Catholic: An Interview with Richard Rodriguez / Paul Crowley, S.J. 259 Contributors 267 Index 271
£20.99
Duke University Press Cupboards of Curiosity
Book SynopsisAmelie Hastie rethinks female authorship within film history by expanding the historical archive to include dollhouses, scrapbooks, memoirs, cookbooks, and ephemera.Trade Review“[A] very interesting new book. . . . Vacillating between memoir and history, Hastie shows that these women's personal scrapbooks—often seen as tangential to film history—provide vital links between ‘women and the margins of history into which they are often placed.’ A look back you can look forward to.” - Chris Watson, Santa Cruz Sentinel“This book transports easily and reads entertainingly. It examines important ideas from a conventional setting, reinventing them through a fresh perspective in a light, anecdotal tone.” - Maree Boyce, M/C Reviews“There is much to commend in Amelie Hastie's imaginative, innovative, and feminist study of the intersections between memory, film history, and critical theory. Above all, Cupboards of Curiosity reveals new possibilities for recovering the oeuvre of women engaged in the creation of American film.” - Nancy J. Rosenbloom, Journal of American History“Amelie Hastie’s Cupboards of Curiosity: Women, Recollection, and Film History is agile and meticulous. Hastie ranges across materials and objects which have remained on the edge of most accounts of film history. In this way, Cupboards of Curiosity is engaging and revealing. . . . Hastie’s curiosity about her topic is instilled in her reader who is asked to look inside the neglected cupboards of film history and, in doing so, herself become a collaborator.” - Jane Simon, Media International Australia“Feminist scholars have long been engaged in a project to recover lost female voices, and, obviously, this is especially challenging when looking at film actresses whose images were carefully manufactured by the Hollywood star system. Fortunately, these women left behind their own documents, as seemingly mundane as notes in the margin of a book, or as fantastical as a giant dollhouse. Their history resides in these records, and Hastie beautifully and respectfully lets them speak for themselves.” - Julie Anne Taddeo, Journal of Popular Culture“[A]n enjoyable read and important scholarly work. Where Hastie excels is in the interstices of chapters—the ways in which women by historical and cultural necessity have had to negotiate the slippage between collector-historian-critic to ultimately, through collaboration, emerge as expert.” - Cara L. Cardinale, Women’s Studies“Cupboards of Curiosity is an enormously significant and important study. Amelie Hastie’s reevaluations of female authorship are brilliant, and her approach to the ‘archive’ encourages just the kind of rethinking of established ideas that one associates with the very best kind of academic work.”—Judith Mayne, author of Framed: Lesbians, Feminists, and Media Culture“In Amelie Hastie’s meditative and original book, the era of silent film speaks through the writings and collections of the women who made the movies—stars, directors, writers—some forgotten, most remembered for their images, not their words. Hastie models her approach to writing and theorizing film history on the novel ways her subjects themselves made history: loving attention to the fleeting and the fragmentary illuminates theories of female agency within mass-mediated modernity.”—Patricia White, author of Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability “[A] very interesting new book. . . . Vacillating between memoir and history, Hastie shows that these women's personal scrapbooks—often seen as tangential to film history—provide vital links between ‘women and the margins of history into which they are often placed.’ A look back you can look forward to.” -- Chris Watson * Santa Cruz Sentinel *“[A]n enjoyable read and important scholarly work. Where Hastie excels is in the interstices of chapters—the ways in which women by historical and cultural necessity have had to negotiate the slippage between collector-historian-critic to ultimately, through collaboration, emerge as expert.” -- Cara L. Cardinale * Women's Studies *“Amelie Hastie’s Cupboards of Curiosity: Women, Recollection, and Film History is agile and meticulous. Hastie ranges across materials and objects which have remained on the edge of most accounts of film history. In this way, Cupboards of Curiosity is engaging and revealing. . . . Hastie’s curiosity about her topic is instilled in her reader who is asked to look inside the neglected cupboards of film history and, in doing so, herself become a collaborator.” -- Jane Simon * Media International Australia *“Feminist scholars have long been engaged in a project to recover lost female voices, and, obviously, this is especially challenging when looking at film actresses whose images were carefully manufactured by the Hollywood star system. Fortunately, these women left behind their own documents, as seemingly mundane as notes in the margin of a book, or as fantastical as a giant dollhouse. Their history resides in these records, and Hastie beautifully and respectfully lets them speak for themselves.” -- Julie Anne Taddeo * Journal of Popular Culture *“There is much to commend in Amelie Hastie's imaginative, innovative, and feminist study of the intersections between memory, film history, and critical theory. Above all, Cupboards of Curiosity reveals new possibilities for recovering the oeuvre of women engaged in the creation of American film.” -- Nancy J. Rosenbloom * Journal of American History *“This book transports easily and reads entertainingly. It examines important ideas from a conventional setting, reinventing them through a fresh perspective in a light, anecdotal tone.” -- Maree Boyce * M/C Reviews *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: The Collaborator: At the Cupboards of Film History 1 1. The Collector:Material Histories, Colleen Moore’s Dollhouse, and Ephemeral Recollection 19 2. The Historian: Autobiography, Memory, and Film Form 72 3. The Critic: Louise Brooks, Star Witness 104 4. The Expert: Celebrity Knowledge and the How-tos of Film Studies 155 Notes 195 Bibliography 225 Index 239
£63.75
Duke University Press Imperial Subjects
Book SynopsisHistorical investigations into how Iberian settlers, African slaves, Native Americans, and their multiethnic progeny understood their identities in colonial Latin America.Trade Review“The essays . . . offer important insights into the complicated processes of social formation in the colonies. . . . [H]istorians, as well as advanced undergraduate and graduate students, will find much to think about in this provocative work.” - Karen B. Graubart, Catholic Historical Review“This is a pioneering study of the constructions of socio-cultural identities in colonial Latin America. . . . [An] innovative collection of essays.” - David J. Robinson, Journal of Latin American Geography“While scholarly in content, these short essays are readable and could be included in an undergraduate syllabus. The volume is crisply edited; many of the essays refer to each other. I highly recommend the volume for college and graduate courses. The essays invite comparison of different regions, in addition to offering intriguing lessons about the multiple ways that identities evolved in the colonial era.” - Deborah Kanter, The Americas“This volume presents a superb collection of essays covering the muddled, confused, overlapping, and changing dimensions of identity-making in the Hispanic colonial empires of the New World. . . . The authors of these essays expose us to all these intensely real aspects of life in the Spanish and Portuguese empires of the Western Hemisphere. This volume should be required reading for those trying to understand how people related to one another, government, and institutions in these colonial empires.” - Sheldon Avenius, History: Reviews of New Books“It is imperative that historians incorporate a number of perspectives to enhance our understanding of this unique period, especially within the studies on race and identity. Imperial Subjects does just that. The respective authors approach the subject through a variety of perspectives, incorporating unique themes, all of which are backed by a solid archival research.” - Larry V. Larrichio, Colonial Latin American Historical Review“[T]his volume provides an excellent collection of well-researched and well-argued essays. Together they represent the most recent and cutting-edge scholarship on this topic. . . . The diversity in time period and geography make the collection highly useful to those researchers and scholars interested in comparative studies of race and ethnicity. The manageable length of each essay, in addition to the excellent introduction and conclusion, make this work an ideal text for introducing students to current research. Overall, the high calibre and diversity of research presented by Imperial Subjects make it a notable addition to the literature.” - Robert Schwaller and Matthew Restall, Social History“Grounded in solid archival research and informed by sound, up-to-date theoretical approaches, these essays break substantial new ground in showing how ‘ordinary’ people experienced living in the Spanish and Portuguese empires. Anyone wishing to sample the best in recent scholarship on colonial Latin America should begin with this book.”—Cheryl English Martin, author of Governance and Society in Colonial Mexico: Chihuahua in the Eighteenth Century“This excellent and necessary collection brings together some of the most important scholarship on race in colonial Latin America. Importantly, the contributors do not assume racial and ethnic identities to be static, nor do they take hybridity as a given. Rather, they examine the social identities that emerged from ‘contact points’ between institutions and individuals.”—Pete Sigal, author of From Moon Goddesses to Virgins: The Colonization of Yucatecan Maya Sexual Desire“The introduction to Imperial Subjects should be required reading for graduate students entering the field of colonial Latin American history.” -- Nicole von Germeten * Latin American Research Review *“This volume provides an excellent collection of well-researched and well-argued essays. Together they represent the most recent and cutting-edge scholarship on this topic. . . . The diversity in time period and geography make the collection highly useful to those researchers and scholars interested in comparative studies of race and ethnicity. The manageable length of each essay, in addition to the excellent introduction and conclusion, make this work an ideal text for introducing students to current research. Overall, the high calibre and diversity of research presented by Imperial Subjects make it a notable addition to the literature.” -- Robert Schwaller and Matthew Restall * Social History *“It is imperative that historians incorporate a number of perspectives to enhance our understanding of this unique period, especially within the studies on race and identity. Imperial Subjects does just that. The respective authors approach the subject through a variety of perspectives, incorporating unique themes, all of which are backed by a solid archival research.” -- Larry V. Larrichio * Colonial Latin American Historical Review *“The essays . . . offer important insights into the complicated processes of social formation in the colonies. . . . [H]istorians, as well as advanced undergraduate and graduate students, will find much to think about in this provocative work.” -- Karen B. Graubart * Catholic Historical Review *“This is a pioneering study of the constructions of socio-cultural identities in colonial Latin America. . . . [An] innovative collection of essays.” -- David J. Robinson * Journal of Latin American Geography *“This volume presents a superb collection of essays covering the muddled, confused, overlapping, and changing dimensions of identity-making in the Hispanic colonial empires of the New World. . . . The authors of these essays expose us to all these intensely real aspects of life in the Spanish and Portuguese empires of the Western Hemisphere. This volume should be required reading for those trying to understand how people related to one another, government, and institutions in these colonial empires.” -- Sheldon Avenius * History: Reviews of New Books *“While scholarly in content, these short essays are readable and could be included in an undergraduate syllabus. The volume is crisply edited; many of the essays refer to each other. I highly recommend the volume for college and graduate courses. The essays invite comparison of different regions, in addition to offering intriguing lessons about the multiple ways that identities evolved in the colonial era.” -- Deborah Kanter * The Americas *Table of ContentsForeword / Irene Silverblatt ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Racial Identities and Their Interpreters in Colonial Latin America / Andrew B. Fisher and Matthew D. O'Hara 1 1. Aristocracy on the Auction Block: Race, Lords, and the Perpetuity Controversy of Sixteenth-Century Peru / Jeremy Mumford 39 2. A Market of Identities: Women, Trade, and Ethnic Labels in Colonial Potosí / Jane E. Mangan 61 3. Legally Indian: Inquisitorial Readings of Indigenous Identity in New Spain / David Tavárez 81 4. The Many Faces of Colonialism in Two Iberoamerican Borderlands: Northern New Spain and the Eastern Lowlands of Charcas / Cynthia Radding 101 5. Humble Slaves and Loyal Vassals: Free Africans and Their Descendents in Eighteenth-Century Minas Gerais, Brazil / Mariana L. R. Dantas 115 6. Purchasing Whiteness: Conversations of the Essence of Parso-ness and Mulatto-ness at the End of Empire / Ann Twinam 141 7. Patricians and Plebians in Late Colonial Charcas: Identity, Representation, and Colonialism / Sergio Serulnikov 167 8. Conjuring Identities: Race, Nativeness, Local Citizenship, and Royal Slavery on an Imperial Frontier (Revisiting El Cobre, Cuba) / María Elena Díaz 197 9. Indigenous Citizenship: Liberalism, Political Participation, and Ethic Identity in Post-Independence Oaxaca and Yucatán / Karen D. Caplan 225 Conclusion / R. Douglas Cope 249 Bibliography 263 Contributors 291 Index 293
£999.99
Duke University Press Asian Biotech
Book SynopsisEthnographic analyses of emerging bioscientific enterprises in Asia, including genetically modified foods in China, clinical trials in India, and stem-cell research in Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan.Trade Review“Asian Biotech is a thoughtful examination of Asia’s biotechnology development. The call to understand this realm in terms of situated ethics and communities of fate is persuasive and invites the analysis of more cases to test the robustness of these concepts.” - Wen-Hua Kuo, The China Quarterly“[W]hat bioethicists could learn from anthropological investigations like those presented in this volume is that one should consider the social and cultural contexts in which the practice to be ethically assessed is embedded in order to understand the the practice more thoroughly. And it is this more thorough understanding which will lead to a more nuanced and better refined ethical judgment.” - Soraj Hongladarom, Genomics, Society, and Policy“I for one would strongly recommend this interesting volume to anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of biotech in Asia.” - Krishna Ravi Srinivas, Asian Biotech and Development Review“[T]his book performs coverage of a region and a complicated sector of the twenty-frst-century economy, and it will certainly prove useful to those interested in globalized medicine and the fast-changing norms regulating research in biomedicine.” - Thomas Cannavino, Cultural Critique“This timely and important collection by science-studies scholars provides fascinating glimpses into the ambitious efforts of several Asian countries to deploy biotechnologies to both generate economic growth and provide biosecurity in this age of global science and technology.” - Doogab Yi, Chemical Heritage“The need in science studies and anthropology for Asian Biotech would be hard to overstate. I was hungry for this book to use in my own teaching and writing, and the meal is as satisfying as I had anticipated. The theoretical framing is astute and generative, and the well-argued and diverse essays are thoroughly fleshed out historically and ethnographically. Nancy N. Chen, Aihwa Ong, and the contributors deserve our thanks. We have just run out of excuses for ongoing Western parochialism in science and technology studies and all of our kindred inquiries into biotechnology.”—Donna Haraway, author of When Species Meet“This exciting collection of ethnographic essays introduces readers to the deployment of specific biotechnologies in Asia, revealing their enmeshment with local and global politics and a situated ethics that extends to the good of families, communities, and nations, and not merely that of individuals. This book, harbinger of impending futures, demands introspection.”—Margaret Lock, author of Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death ”This is the first broad anthropological examination of the biotech movement across Asia. Especially useful are the efforts at understanding how biotechnology affects (and is affected by) major changes in moral experience and ethical imagination that are roiling Asian modernities. A pathbreaking exploration! This collection will be influential.”—Arthur Kleinman, Director, Asia Center, Harvard University“Asian Biotech is a thoughtful examination of Asia’s biotechnology development. The call to understand this realm in terms of situated ethics and communities of fate is persuasive and invites the analysis of more cases to test the robustness of these concepts.” -- Wen-Hua Kuo * The China Quarterly *“[T]his book performs coverage of a region and a complicated sector of the twenty-frst-century economy, and it will certainly prove useful to those interested in globalized medicine and the fast-changing norms regulating research in biomedicine.” -- Thomas Cannavino * Cultural Critique *“What bioethicists could learn from anthropological investigations like those presented in this volume is that one should consider the social and cultural contexts in which the practice to be ethically assessed is embedded in order to understand the the practice more thoroughly. And it is this more thorough understanding which will lead to a more nuanced and better refined ethical judgment.” -- Soraj Hongladarom * Genomics, Society and Policy *“I for one would strongly recommend this interesting volume to anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of biotech in Asia.” -- Krishna Ravi Srinivas * Asian Biotech and Development Review *“This timely and important collection by science-studies scholars provides fascinating glimpses into the ambitious efforts of several Asian countries to deploy biotechnologies to both generate economic growth and provide biosecurity in this age of global science and technology.” -- Doogab Yi * Chemical Heritage *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: An Analytics of Ethics and Biotechnology at Multiple Scales / Aihwa Ong 1 Part I. Excess and Opportunity The Experimental Machinery of Global Clinical Trials: Case Studies from India / Kaushik Sunder Rajan 55 Feeding the Nation: Chinese Biotechnology and Genetically Modified Foods / Nancy N. Chen 81 Part II. Bioventures Asian Regeneration? Nationalism and Internationalism in Stem Cell Research in South Korea and Singapore / Charis Thompson 95 Medical Tourism in Thailand / Ara Wilson 118 Near-Liberalism: Global Corporate Citizenship and Pharmaceutical Marketing in India / Stefan Ecks 144 Part III. Communities of Fate Governing through Blood: Biology, Donation, and Exchange in Urban China / Vincanne Adams, Kathleen Erwin, and Phouc V. Le 167 Lifelines: The Ethics of Blood Banking for Family and Beyond / Aihwa Ong 190 Embryo Controversies and Governing Stem Cell Research in Japan: How to Regulate Regenerative Futures / Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner 215 Part IV. Biosovereignty: Mappings of Chineseness Making Taiwanese (Stem Cells): Identity, Genetics, and Hybridity / Jennifer A. Liu 239 Chinese DNA: Genomics and Bionations / Wen-ching Sung 263 Afterword: Asia's Biotech Bloom / Nancy N. Chen 293 Bibliography 301 Contributors 319 Index 323
£110.20
Duke University Press Pictures and Progress
Book SynopsisFeaturing more than seventy images, Pictures and Progress brings to light the wide-ranging practices of early African American photographers, as well as the effects of photography on racialized thinking.Trade Review“I recommend Pictures and Progress for anyone who enjoys reading about the history of photography, African American history, or those who like to consider new ideas about photography as an art form. . . . [O]riginality, fresh ideas and a good pace of content make Pictures and Progress an excellent read.” - Mary Desjarlais, The Photogram“I recommend Pictures and Progress for anyone who enjoys reading about the history of photography, African American history, or those who like to consider new ideas about photography as an art form. . . . [O]riginality, fresh ideas and a good pace of content make Pictures and Progress an excellent read.” -- Mary Desjarlais * Photogram *“Pictures and Progress is an edited volume of essays that underscores the role of photography in the production of African American identity during the nineteenth and early twentieth century.... Its contributors are skillful scholars from diverse fields who employ a variety of critical practices to call attention to the cultural, social, and political aspects of early African American photography. These authors seek to disrupt the familiarity of photographs – more a means of persuasion than of proof – and emphasize the plurality of photographic practice during the ante- and postbellum periods.... Pictures and Progress is certainly recommended for art libraries that specialize in the history of photography or visual and material culture studies.” - Molly E. Dotson, Art Library Society of North America“Pictures and Progress is an edited volume of essays that underscores the role of photography in the production of African American identity during the nineteenth and early twentieth century.... Its contributors are skillful scholars from diverse fields who employ a variety of critical practices to call attention to the cultural, social, and political aspects of early African American photography. These authors seek to disrupt the familiarity of photographs – more a means of persuasion than of proof – and emphasize the plurality of photographic practice during the ante- and postbellum periods.... Pictures and Progress is certainly recommended for art libraries that specialize in the history of photography or visual and material culture studies.” -- Molly E. Dotson * ARLIS/NA Reviews *“With its emphasis on the often radical roles that black sitters and makers assumed in the history of photography, Pictures and Progress offers a bold approach to the study of American visual culture, one that places black agency at its center. Its intriguing and persuasive essays elucidate the importance of photography to the creation of free, black personhood in the 19th and early-20th centuries and reveal the myriad and sometimes surprising ways that such hands sought to wield “the pencil of nature” in an effort to assert self-possessed, and therefore revolutionary, subjectivities during an era in which the dominant culture preferred to represent them as otherwise.”—Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, author of Portraits of a People: Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century“[A] nuanced collection of essays. . . . that makes a significant contribution to our understanding of African Americans’ uses of photography in public dialogue by and about African Americans in the postemancipation era.” -- Tammy S. Gordon * History: Reviews of New Books *“Pictures and Progress offers a new understanding of visual representations of black Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through its compelling essays, this work reframes the archive of images of death, beauty, and suffering of black subjects in photography.”—Deborah Willis, New York University“Pictures and Progress is a welcome addition to the growing scholarship on African American photography. The contributors have painstakingly revisited a moment in time when African Americans considered still-photography liberating.” -- Christopher P. Lehman * Biography *“[T]his volume… will appeal equally to historians of photography and of the United States. Together, the essays in this book emphasize the act of thoughtful, visual scrutiny coupled with the desire to use photographs to make sense of a past that has often been overlooked.” -- Jasmine Alinder * Journal of Southern History *"[A] novel and often revelatory study of photography and black agency that will quickly become a foundational volume for scholars of U.S. photographic history." -- Martin A. Berger * Journal of American History *“All the contributions leave readers with ideas worth mulling over and researching further…. Highly recommended.” -- C. Chiarenza * Choice *"Pictures and Progress offers an important interdisciplinary analysis of the closely linked histories of photography and African American subjecthood." -- Megan Driscoll * CAA Reviews *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Pictures and Progress / Maurice O. Wallace and Shawn Michelle Smith 1 1. "A More Perfect Likeness": Frederick Douglass and the Image of the Nation / Laura Wexler 18 2. "Rightly Viewed": Theorizations of the Self in Frederick Douglass's Lecture on Pictures / Ginger Hill 41 3. Shadow and Substance: Sojourner Truth in Black and White / Augusta Rohrbach 83 Snapshot 1. Unredeemed Realities: Augustus Washington / Shawn Michelle Smith 101 4. Mulatta Obscura: Camera Tactics and Linda Brent / Michael Chaney 109 5. Who's Your Mama?: "White" Mulatta Genealogies, Early Photography, and Anti-Passing Narratives of Slavery and Freedom / P. Gabrielle Foreman 132 6. Out from Behind the Mask: Paul Laurence Dunbar, the Hampton Institute Camera Club, and Photographic Performance of Identity / Ray Sapirstein 167 Snapshot 2. Reproducing Black Masculinity: Thomas Askew / Shawn Michelle Smith 204 7. Louis Agassiz and the American School of Ethnoeroticism: Polygenesis, Pornography, and Other "Perfidious Influences" / Suzanne Schneider 211 8. Framing the Black Soldier: Image, Uplift, and the Duplicity of Pictures / Maurice O. Wallace 244 Snapshot 3. Unfixing the Frame(-up): A. P. Bedou / Shawn Michelle Smith 267 9. "Looking at One's Self through the Eyes of Others": W. E. B. Du Bois's Photographs for the Paris Exposition of 1900 / Shawn Michelle Smith 274 10. Ida B. Wells and the Shadow Archive / Leigh Raiford 299 Snapshot 4. The Photographer's Touch: J. P. Ball / Shawn Michelle Smith 321 11. No More Auction Block for Me! / Cheryl Finley 329 Bibliography 349 Contributors 369 Index 373
£22.79
Duke University Press When Biometrics Fail
Book SynopsisThis book examines the proliferation of surveillance technologies—such as facial recognition software and digital fingerprinting—that have come to pervade our everyday lives. Often developed as methods to ensure "national security," these technologies are also routinely employed to regulate our personal information, our work lives, what we buy, and how we live.Trade Review“Taking her cue from science and technology studies' methods and theories, where definitions of ‘success’ in connection with technological developments are long-standing topics of interest . . ., Magnet focuses on its counterpart, the issue of technological failure. In view of the fact that their often substandard performance seldom seems to play a role in government decisions on whether to opt for the large-scale implementation of biometrics (eg, the US-Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology system, or Europe's use of biometric passports), exposing whole populations to the consequences of their failure, these are timely questions. . . . [F]or those interested in the technology, its social implications and use in a number of US contexts, the details of Magnet's investigations are very much worth reading.” - Irma van der Ploeg, Times Higher Education Supplement“When Biometrics Fail offers a damning analysis of the technical problems that dog biometric identification, many of which stem from the premises on which individual difference is defined. . . . [A] useful synthesis of the activities contemporary biometric industry, providing a compelling dissection of how the idea of a science of biometrics fails, and a timely critique of an industry and its claims which exploit a misconception about the human body and use technological fetishism to posit the solution as a high tech – and therefore ethically unproblematic -solution to a range of problems that have serious political and humanitarian consequences.” - Hannah Drayson, Leonardo Reviews“The book allows the reader to ponder what sorts of assumptions about people, science, and society are at play when biometrics continues to have ongoing success, in light of its failure…. These and other interdisciplinary questions pertaining to late capitalism, identity, resistance, and the violence of identification, make up the crux of this rather accessible book… [I]nsightful in terms of its crisscrossing empirical analysis…. [I]t will be of great interest to scholars and nonscholars alike who are interested in identity, gender, and race relations, as well as the impact of technology on strategies of political resistance and moral regulation.” - Bianca Baggiarini, Canadian Review of Sociology“Overall, Magnet’s critique of biometric discourse and technologies is penetrating, relentless and often devastating. This is an enlightening, exquisitely critical book that should be required reading as much for neo-liberal policy-makers considering quick-fix technological solutions to systemic social and crime control problems as for students and scholars of criminology.” - Randy K. Lippert, Theoretical Criminology“Magnet's When Biometrics Fail sounds some compelling notes of caution about placing too much reliance on unthinking machines to do human beings' work.” - Rick Docksai, World Future Review“When Biometrics Fail is overwhelmingly persuasive, exhaustively researched, eloquently written, and full of mordant humor and bitter truth. Shoshana Amielle Magnet explains the history, science, and ideology of our contemporary biometric moment with great skill and insight. Everyone needs to read this book. An outstanding study of the informationalization of race, gender, and immigration.”—Lisa Nakamura, author of Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet“Impassioned, critical, and readable, When Biometrics Fail explores the underside of technologies that have been touted as a panacea for many of the discontents of post-9/11 society. Shoshana Amielle Magnet reveals the seldom-discussed impacts of these new technologies on people marginalized by race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality, and disability, and she challenges the commonplace assumption that human bodies can be reduced to a string of numbers.”—Simon A. Cole, author of Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification“When Biometrics Fail offers a damning analysis of the technical problems that dog biometric identification, many of which stem from the premises on which individual difference is defined. . . . [A] useful synthesis of the activities contemporary biometric industry, providing a compelling dissection of how the idea of a science of biometrics fails, and a timely critique of an industry and its claims which exploit a misconception about the human body and use technological fetishism to posit the solution as a high tech – and therefore ethically unproblematic -solution to a range of problems that have serious political and humanitarian consequences.” -- Hannah Drayson * Leonardo Reviews *“Taking her cue from science and technology studies' methods and theories, where definitions of ‘success’ in connection with technological developments are long-standing topics of interest . . ., Magnet focuses on its counterpart, the issue of technological failure. In view of the fact that their often substandard performance seldom seems to play a role in government decisions on whether to opt for the large-scale implementation of biometrics (eg, the US-Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology system, or Europe's use of biometric passports), exposing whole populations to the consequences of their failure, these are timely questions. . . . [F]or those interested in the technology, its social implications and use in a number of US contexts, the details of Magnet's investigations are very much worth reading.” -- Irma van der Ploeg, * Times Higher Education *“The book allows the reader to ponder what sorts of assumptions about people, science, and society are at play when biometrics continues to have ongoing success, in light of its failure…. These and other interdisciplinary questions pertaining to late capitalism, identity, resistance, and the violence of identification, make up the crux of this rather accessible book… [I]nsightful in terms of its crisscrossing empirical analysis…. [I]t will be of great interest to scholars and nonscholars alike who are interested in identity, gender, and race relations, as well as the impact of technology on strategies of political resistance and moral regulation.” -- Bianca Baggiarini * Canadian Review of Sociology *“Overall, Magnet’s critique of biometric discourse and technologies is penetrating, relentless and often devastating. This is an enlightening, exquisitely critical book that should be required reading as much for neo-liberal policy-makers considering quick-fix technological solutions to systemic social and crime control problems as for students and scholars of criminology.” -- Randy K. Lippert * Theoretical Criminology *“Magnet's When Biometrics Fail sounds some compelling notes of caution about placing too much reliance on unthinking machines to do human beings' work.” -- Rick Docksai * World Future Review *“Magnet’s theoretical reliance on corporeal fetishism while attending to failures, leads her to significant conclusions: first, the technology falsely imagines bodies as stable entities, and second, it intensifies inequalities. Of particular interest to sociologists is her focus, especially in the welfare chapter, on the human costs of the technologies. . . . The book is well organized and the archival material clearly presented. The introduction sets up the interesting question of how biometric technology codifies inequality, and subsequent chapters provide a convincing argument.” -- Emily Fairchild * Contemporary Sociology *“Shoshana Amielle Magnet provides great insight into the rise of biometrics and offers a nuanced study of the complex social shaping of surveillance technologies at the intersection of the security industrial complex, cultural discourse, and code. This is a welcome addition to cultural studies and media studies scholarship as it examines representation and identity in a novel site.” -- Peter A. Chow White * International Journal of Communication *“When Biometrics Fail succeeds in informing the audience about what underlies this evolving technology and its role in assigning identities to human beings. The author, Shoshana Amielle Magnet, has delicately dealt with the issue of science encroaching upon the territory of human rights and classifying people on the basis of race, gender and ethnicity.” -- Subrata S Satapathy * International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology *“Throughout the book, Magnet ably shifts the reader's perception and understanding of biometric failures— wide-ranging and 'endemic to their technological functioning'. Stressing the limitations of non-scientific language to describe biometric failures, Magnet uses many examples to effectively question the objectivity of the technology. Most intriguing is how the three case studies point out the irony of privatisation of security and the over-reliance of these very same biometric companies on state governments for their profitability.” -- Angela Marianne Kuga Thas * Media International Australia *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Imagining Biometric Security 1 1. Biometric Failure 19 2. I-Tech and the Beginnings of Biometrics 51 3. Criminalizing Poverty: Adding Biometrics to Welfare 69 4. Biometrics at the Border 91 5. Representing Biometrics 127 Conclusion. Biometric Failure and Beyond 149 Appendix 159 Notes 165 Bibliography 171 Index 199
£23.74
Watson-Guptill Manga Mania Shoujo
Book Synopsis
£999.99
