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Book SynopsisExamines the interaction of the Truman administration in U.S. and five Bolivian governments in years leading up to Victor Paz Estenssoro's National Revolution, focusing on negotiations over the price of tin.Trade Review“Deeply researched, deftly written, and replete with insight, The Truman Administration and Bolivia is an exemplary study in several respects. Glenn Dorn is as comfortable explaining the intricacies of Bolivian politics and society as he is analyzing the contradictory goals of U.S. foreign policy in the early Cold War. In so doing, he makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Truman as leader of the Free World. Moreover, he establishes himself as one of the leading scholars of inter-American relations of his generation.”—William O. Walker III,author of National Security and Core Values in American History“Glenn Dorn’s new book is an important breakthrough for scholars of inter-American relations. In the late 1940s, worker and middle-class demands for better economic well-being, as well as democracy, in Bolivia clashed with the U.S. conclusion that only a ‘liberal constitutional oligarchy’ would provide for crucially important, pro-U.S. stability in the centrally located Andean nation. Employing underutilized, multilingual, multi-archival sources, Dorn’s book will be instrumental in helping scholars understand why the 1940s proved especially important for Bolivia (which would erupt in revolution in 1952) and how and why the United States attempted to secure its hegemony over Latin America in the early Cold War.”—James F. Siekmeier,West Virginia University“With due attention to the intrigues of Bolivian politics and the tricky diplomacy of tin, Glenn Dorn, packing a justified moral outrage, tackles the limits of ‘good neighborliness’ in inter-American affairs when greed is in the mix. This crisply written study should stand as a warning to those who bleed natural resources from poor countries without a care for the consequences.”—Alan McPherson,University of Oklahoma“The sexenio—the six years between the violent overthrow of populist military president Gualberto Villarroel in 1946 and the rise of the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR) in 1952—has been examined by many studies as a backdrop to Bolivia’s national revolution, but no published treatment of the period in English or Spanish is as thorough as this one. Glenn Dorn makes a valuable contribution to the historiographies of Bolivia, of Truman foreign policy, and of Latin American–U.S. relations in the early Cold War. His book adds several important new archival sources to the study of the period, balancing them nicely, and tells the story with exceptional organizational clarity. Each chapter clearly develops Bolivia’s domestic dynamics during the period and looks at how a conflict-ridden bureaucracy in Washington generally worsened the situation. The lack of a coherent overriding policy meant that Truman turned over a complete mess to Eisenhower. Dorn says it well: ‘In the end, the Truman administration’s dealings with Bolivia must be considered a failure on almost every level. They were, however, an instructive failure, exposing many of the flaws of the early Cold War policies of the United States in South America.’”—Kenneth Lehman,Hampden-Sydney College“Having conducted comprehensive multi-archival, multinational research, Glenn Dorn provides a fascinating account of the maddening complexities of inter-American relations during the early Cold War. The Truman administration opposed economic nationalism and communism and wanted democracy and development for Latin Americans. But as Dorn deftly demonstrates, the administration proved to be confused and vacillating, unable to choose between these often conflicting goals. The administration further permitted congressional committees and independent government agencies to undermine its policies for Bolivia. The ‘tin war’ undermined U.S. allies and helped precipitate the Bolivian revolution that the Truman administration dreaded. This is a model case study written with empathy for U.S. and Bolivian political actors and long-suffering Bolivian miners.”—Stephen G. Rabe,University of Texas at Dallas“Glenn Dorn’s new book . . . represents a major contribution to the study of . . . two interlocking aspects of pre-revolutionary Bolivian history. His authoritative analysis, moreover, is undergirded by the exhaustive research that he has conducted in the US, Bolivian and Argentine diplomatic archives; indeed, almost all the source citations refer to primary documents.In sum, Glenn Dorn’s work makes a singular contribution to the study of US–Bolivian relations during the sexenio, a crucial means to gaining a fuller understanding of the paradoxical post-1952 US–MNR rapprochement that has been the subject of much scholarly debate; it also broadens our perspective on the Truman administration’s overall policy towards the region at a time when the vaunted principles of the Good Neighbor Policy were fast giving way to the exigencies of the Cold War.”—Philip Chrimes International Affairs“Glenn Dorn has provided us with an important and insightful study based on extensive archival research. . . . The book is warmly recommended for any scholar working on Bolivia, the Truman Administration, or the international tin industry, and is a must-read for those of us fortunate enough to be interested in all three.”—Mats Ingulstad Journal of American CultureTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1 Villarroel: April 1945–July 19462 Junta: July 1946–March 19473 Hertzog: March 1947–May 19494 Urriolagoitia: May 1949–June 19505 To the Mamertazo: July 1950–May 19516 Ballivián: May 1951–April 19527 Paz Estenssoro: April 1952–January 1953ConclusionEpilogueNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTraces the development of the American book trade from the colonial era through the twentieth century. Explores the technological, historical, cultural, political, and personal forces that shaped the trade, paying particular attention to the contributions of the German bookseller Frederick Leypoldt and his journal Publishers Weekly.Trade Review“This well-researched title will attract literary historians, particularly fans of early American history because of the connections Hruschka makes between British literature and the mindset of the New World settlers. . . . The book will also appeal to readers whose careers touch the book industry intimately; it will engage publishers and printers with its discussion of early copyright and book manufacturing technologies. Librarians will also be attracted by the story surrounding some of their own core trade publications, including Publishers Weekly and Library Journal.”—Angela Colmenares Journal of American CultureTable of ContentsContents Preface AcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations 1 Creating New Worlds2 Inventing America in the English Book Trade 3 Creating Book Trades in English America 4 Creating German Books in the New World 5 Re-creating the London Book Trade in the United States6 Revolutions in American Book Production Technology7 Transplanting the German Book Trade to the United States8 The Evolution of the American Book Business 9 Becoming a German Bookseller in the United States10 Creating a German Bookstore in Philadelphia 11 The Evolution of an American Publisher 12 Creating an Independent American Publisher 13 Imposing Order on the American Book Trade 14 Creating the Office of Publishers’ Weekly 15 Celebrating the Book Trade in the New World 16 The End of the Beginning 17 Inventing the Future American Book TradeNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines the functioning of credit markets in Mexico, through the agency of notaries, during the Yucatan region’s nineteenth-century henequen export boom. Explores the mobilization of capital and the creation of credit markets before banks existed.Trade Review“The Making of a Market is a work with high intellectual standards and is written in engaging and pleasant prose. It offers a relevant contribution to the social sciences, especially in regard to the social nature of credit markets. Juliette Levy illustrates, with concrete examples, how social interactions and economic decisions articulate the early formation of a financial system.”—Gustavo Del Angel,Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, A.C.“How does an economy finance long-term investment before the existence of banks? Most scholarship on finance and economic development would argue that such a feat was difficult if not impossible, at least not on a meaningful scale. Juliette Levy’s fine book turns that received wisdom on its head by demonstrating that the Yucatán’s henequen boom at the turn of the twentieth century—one of the major commodity booms of its time—managed to mobilize substantial financial resources without such formal financial intermediaries. This outstanding work of economic history convincingly argues that personal credit filled the gap, channeling money from savers to borrowers through their shared connections with notaries. In Levy’s analysis, notaries come to life in their role as agents of change. Through detailed study of their interactions with the men and women of the Yucatán, as recorded in their ledgers, they become tangible, three dimensional, and personal. Like Margaret Chowning’s fine work on Michoacán, this book offers a compelling argument for detailed archival research into personal wealth and its role in transforming Mexico.”—Anne Hanley,Northern Illinois University“This is a thoughtful econometric analysis of the development of credit markets in late nineteenth-century Yucatán, Mexico. Juliette Levy's argument is at once straightforward and innovative. Levy is certainly not the first scholar to make use of Yucatán's rich notarial archives, but no one has made better or more systematic use of this type of documentation.”—Allen Wells,Bowdoin College“Juliette Levy's study of informal credit networks before the rise of formal financial institutions and their role in the development of Yucatán's commercial agriculture makes an important contribution not only to Mexico's economic history but also to the understanding of the role of traditional personal finance in other premodern economies, such as the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East. In addition, the book successfully integrates hard economic analysis based on rigorous research in the archives with socio-legal history, highlighting the role of women and notaries in a web of interpersonal financial transactions. As such, this book makes a unique contribution to economic and social history on a global scale.”—Fariba Zarinebaf,University of California, Riverside, author of Crime and Punishment in Istanbul, 1700–1800Table of ContentsContentsList of Figures and TablesAcknowledgments1 Introduction2 The Local Becomes Global: From Caste War to Henequen Boom3 Usury, Ethnicity, and the Market: National Laws and Local Effects4 What Do Notaries Do? The Formal and Informal Roles of Notaries5 Credit the Wife: Marital Property Regimes and Credit Markets6 Monopoly, Continuity, and Change: The Case of José Anacleto Patrón Zavalegui7 ConclusionAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisBuilding on a feminist conception of individual autonomy, explores the obligation of the state to foster autonomy in its citizens, particularly the most vulnerable, through social service delivery. Draws on both successful and less successful examples of service delivery to generate a theoretical account of the autonomy-fostering state.Trade Review“Elizabeth Ben-Ishai’s work speaks in important ways both to normative theories of the liberal state and to ongoing conversations about the design and implementation of public policy. Her work reconstructs a notion of autonomy, usefully positioning this centerpiece of liberal commitments not as a mere bulwark against the state but as a kind of standard by which we can assess which forms of state interventions are quite compatible, and perhaps even required, in order to foster autonomy. Ben-Ishai’s work is conceptually sophisticated and commendably ambitious.”—Julie White,Ohio University“Elizabeth Ben-Ishai’s book makes an important and illuminating contribution to the literature on the social and political dimensions of autonomy. By showing how the state can either foster or impair autonomy through social welfare service delivery, Fostering Autonomy adds considerable empirical depth to theoretical debates about relational autonomy.”—Catriona Mackenzie,Macquarie University“In this superb and timely analysis, Elizabeth Ben-Ishai explains why states should strive to foster autonomy and how social service systems can be used to pursue this goal. Blending theoretical insights with careful empirical observations, Ben-Ishai challenges us to rethink our conceptions of citizenship, autonomy, and the state. Her relational approach yields a powerful critique of prevailing assumptions and practices. It also provides valuable conceptual resources for thinking about where we should go from here.”—Joe Soss,University of Minnesota“The most striking thing about Elizabeth Ben-Ishai’s book is the way she skillfully moves between the conceptual and the concrete, using theory to reflect upon the implications of public policy and using studies of public policy implementation to build and rebuild theory. In doing this, Fostering Autonomy brings together two concerns that have long occupied feminist and democratic theorists: autonomy and the role of the state. . . . [Ben-Ishai’s] attention to the lived experience of individuals as they engage with the state is a wonderful example of practical political theorizing that has the potential to expand and enrich democratic politics for us all.”—Elizabeth K. Markovits Perspectives on PoliticsTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments 1 Introduction 2 Toward a Revised Conception of Social Citizenship: An Autonomy-Focused Model 3 The New Paternalism: Rethinking State Intervention and Autonomy 4 Taking Responsibility: PRWORA’s Limits to Immigrant Access 5 “Coordinated Fragmentation” and Domestic Violence Services 6 Embodied Recognition, Ascriptive Autonomy, and Harm Reduction 7 Conclusion NotesBibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExamines Nietzsche's approach to what he called "the tragic age of the Greeks" as the foundation not only for his attack upon the birth of philosophy during the "Socratic era," but also for his overall critique of Western culture.Trade Review“Nietzsche wrote that he sought to find a way into the ancient world, and added, "I have perhaps found a new way." In this book, Ahern (Univ. of New Brunswick, Fredericton) follows Nietzsche's thread. He argues that the key to Nietzsche's aesthetics is his understanding of "Dionysian pessimism," which inspires tragic wisdom. He also points out that Nietzsche's philosophy is hard to grasp in rational categories because it is itself an expression of the same tragic wisdom that he describes in The Birth of Tragedy and elsewhere. . . . This is a scholarly work, written in a thoughtful, intelligent way. As part of the "Literature and Philosophy" series, it considers both literary and philosophical perspectives on Nietzsche. The author provides insight into "tragic wisdom" and explores its ramifications.”—R. White Choice“The Smile of Tragedy is a valuable addition to the literature on Nietzsche. The book is clearly argued and well written, with an abundance of references to the primary sources seamlessly integrated into the text. Particularly impressive is the concise and sustained development of the exposition, the arc of which unfolds without loss of shape or focus.”—Malcolm Bull,University of OxfordTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. Dionysian Pessimism2. The Good and Beautiful Body I The Risk of Virtue II An Outline for a Physiology of Aesthetics3. The Socratic Cure for Life I The Twilight of Ecstasy and the Birth of “Happiness” II Apollo Democratized: The Birth of “Aesthetics”Tomorrow and the Day After TomorrowNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines the movement for labor reform among domestic workers in Latin America. Explores how domestic workers' mobilization, strategic alliances, and political windows of opportunity can lead to improved rights.Trade Review“As Blofield incisively chronicles, until recently, household servants and nannies, who compose 15 percent of the economically active female population in Latin America, were systematically denied basic labor protections. But in country after country, their advocates have improved their lot by making good use of democratic processes.”—Richard Feinberg Foreign Affairs“Blofield offers a powerful corrective to the persistent invisibility of domestic workers—one [of] the most important sectors for female employment in Latin America—in existing labor and Latin American studies. In this empirically-rich study of how and why formally democratic states have recently passed important legislation to protect the labor rights of domestic workers, Blofield also makes a passionate normative case for ending legal discrimination against domestic workers throughout the region.”—Elizabeth Quay Hutchison Perspectives on Politics“Blofield has created an impressive and comprehensive addition to our understanding of the politics behind recognition, legislative struggles of marginalized workers and contemporary inequality and class in Latin America, when fought for in the legislature, lived out on the street and fully realised in the home.”—Katherine Eva Maich Journal of Latin American Studies“This book explores a long-neglected topic at the intersection of class and gender inequalities in Latin America: the struggle for equal rights by women employed as domestic workers. Merike Blofield dissects the multiple forms of discrimination and exploitation to which female domestic workers are subjected, and she analyzes their efforts—and those of their political allies—to secure legal reforms that recognize basic rights in Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, and Uruguay. Her study is a major contribution to the scholarly understanding of the politics of inequality in Latin America, and it is an essential starting point for anyone who wants to understand the potential for change in highly unequal class and gender relations.”—Kenneth M. Roberts,Cornell University“Merike Blofield’s well-crafted book tackles an understudied yet highly relevant topic, offering a finely nuanced analysis of why domestic workers’ rights are ignored despite decades of democracy in Latin America. Care Work and Class breaks new ground by revealing the conditions under which legal reform occurs, but it also shows when and why laws that protect domestic workers are actually enforced. The book combines empirical richness with careful comparative analysis and is crucial reading for anyone interested in the politics of equality policies in Latin America and beyond.”—Susan Franceschet,University of Calgary“Merike Blofield’s superb study fills an exceptionally large hole in the broader literatures on inequality and gender and politics in Latin America, which have almost entirely ignored domestic workers. Providing both a panoramic overview of the inequalities faced by Latin America’s most exploited class and four rich case studies, Blofield shows the importance of organization from below, frames that resonate, and political opportunities for success in the fight for equal labor rights. This timely study gives us valuable insights into what the future holds for the almost entirely female and ethnically marginalized domestic workers of Latin America and for the politics of care.”—Christina Ewig,University of Wisconsin–Madison“This book not only contributes to but also helps unite several burgeoning bodies of scholarship, including the literature on gender (and to a lesser degree ethnic) politics in Latin America, the literature on labor law reform and enforcement in Latin America, and the broader literature on social protection regimes in the region. It pays attention to an important population that has rarely been studied (i.e., domestic workers), and it presents a wholly new body of evidence derived from fieldwork in four countries.”—Andrew Schrank,University of New Mexico“Overall, [Merike Blofield] does an excellent job of highlighting a significant challenge in Latin America—one that has been overlooked in related literature—while putting it in a regional and historical context.”—Alana Miller Journal of International Affairs“In Care Work and Class, political scientist Merike Blofield examines the systematic exclusion of domestic workers from labor protections across Latin America and the process by which a number of countries have moved toward equal treatment. From the first page, I was immediately drawn into this book and wanted to read more. The introduction and first chapter are brilliantly written, deftly moving between describing the uniqueness of the Latin American context and demonstrating the relevance of this case far beyond the borders of the region, between providing an overview of Latin America as a region and attending to national differences, and between making a compelling argument for the particularities of the case of domestic work and an equally convincing case that there are important insights about a growing range of care occupations to be gained from an examination of domestic service. The first section provides a rich intersectional analysis of the position of domestic workers in the labor market as well as their exclusion from a number of potentially relevant social movements—in particular, movements for women’s rights, indigenous rights, and labor rights. In the second section, Blofield presents detailed case studies of four countries that have achieved full or partial equality for domestic workers. Her conclusion includes insights for care scholars as well as for scholars of social movements who are interested in the central question of the book: in the face of such an overwhelming imbalance of power and resources, when do the interests of domestic workers win over those of their employers?”—Mignon Duffy Signs“[Care Work and Class] is a fascinating book that provides an important perspective to those of us who are immersed in US-based scholarship, which tends to focus on Latin American domestic workers primarily in their roles as an immigrant labor force here in the United States.”—Mignon Duffy SignsTable of ContentsContentsList of Tables Preface and Acknowledgments List of Acronyms Introduction1 Domestic Workers in Latin America Toda 2 Overcoming Elite Resistance 3 Working in Chronic Informality4 Bolivia and Costa Rica: Social Mobilization and Reform from the Bottom Up 5 Uruguay and Chile: Basic Universalism Versus Top-Down Incrementalism Conclusion Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisA biography of Philadelphia physician S. Weir Mitchell. Examines his life and his interactions with many prominent nineteenth-century Americans, including Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jane Addams, Winifred Howells, Edith Wharton, William Osler, Mary Putnam Jacobi, Walt Whitman, and Andrew Carnegie.Trade Review“Cervetti has produced an elegantly written, incredibly detailed, and impressively comprehensive narrative of Mitchell’s journey from the insecure son of an overbearing father to the highly esteemed and influential researcher and clinician in physiology and neurology to a kind of medical public intellectual and literat[us].”—Richard A. Meckel Journal of American History“[S. Weir Mitchell, 1829–1914] is the first comprehensive, postfeminist biography of Mitchell. . . . Cervetti’s book is sure to become the biography of record.”—David G. Schuster Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography“This book is the first modern, reliable biography of S. Weir Mitchell based on thorough research and careful, scholarly use of a wide range of primary sources. The research and interpretation here are highly original. Nancy Cervetti's biography uses new information about Mitchell to provide a complex and fascinating interpretation of his life, his work, and his significance to American literature and culture.”—Gregory Eiselein,Kansas State University“Nancy Cervetti shows us the ‘whole’ S. Weir Mitchell as he revealed himself through his unpublished autobiography and copious correspondence. She has mined a veritable mountain of primary sources, including Mitchell’s scientific papers, and elegantly integrated them all into this beautifully written biography. Cervetti’s original approach to Mitchell’s work provides readers with a treasure trove of information about his family life, research career, literary aspirations, and travels. The precious primary source materials shine like gems in the setting of Cervetti’s helpful historical context.”—Lisa A. Long,North Central College“The name of Silas Weir Mitchell shades discussions of medicine, feminist literature, and the social, scientific, and literary conversations at the dawn of the twentieth century. Over a half century has elapsed since the last substantive biography of a man who ‘built a powerhouse of a life,’ as Nancy Cervetti describes Mitchell. She has written a stunning, holistic survey of Mitchell’s work from Civil War neurology to his insights in psychiatry and hysteria, his popular literature, and his antagonism toward women’s rights. Cervetti’s fascinating biography communicates Mitchell’s ‘keen sense of life as a performance’ and will inspire new scholarship and appeal to a readership as broad as Mitchell’s own reading publics.”—Robert Hicks,Mütter Museum and Historical Medical Library, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia“You will find many Mitchells in Nancy Cervetti’s book: rambunctious boy, unfocused youth, budding physician, committed experimentalist, pioneering neurologist, bibliophile, poet, novelist, socialite, fisherman, medical graybeard, feted celebrity, and cultural Polonius. The threads Cervetti uses to weave the fabric of his life are his need to write and his attitude toward women. They stitch together a fascinating nineteenth-century life, with its successes, failures, and contradictions.”—Charles Greifenstein,American Philosophical Society“[Nancy Cervetti’s] product, a well-organized, polished, scholarly work, is a great contribution to American medical history. . . . Like one of Mitchell’s best novels, this biography deserves a wide readership.”—I. Richman Choice“Cervetti has given readers a freshly researched, beautifully written portrait of a vital figure who, for better and worse, towered over his age.”—Helen L. Horowitz Bulletin of the History of Medicine“Cervetti’s professional, personal, political, and psychological analysis of S. Weir Mitchell provides insight into the social and political climate of the nineteenth century and serves as a useful case study within the larger context of American medicine and culture.”—Savannah L. Williamson Social History of MedicineTable of Contents ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on the Text Introduction 1 Family Matters2 Letters Home 3 The Young Physiologist 4 War’s Awful Harvest 5 Wind and Tide 6 Pandora’s Box 7 The Apple or the Rose 8 The Literary Physician 9 Combat Zones 10 Great Doctor, Poet, and Salmon Killer 11 Winter’s Sorrow 12 The New Century Epilogue Notes BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisExplores the dynamics of African American engagements with the Holy Odu, the unwritten sacred scriptures of the West African Ifa Orisha tradition. Examines the experiences of selected practitioners, focusing on the ways in which the divinatory narrative and associated mythology impact self-understanding and worldview.Trade Review“Well-crafted case studies like Divining the Self are important contributions to the process of bringing religious studies into compatibility with the lived religious and scriptural practices of participants. Traditionally, scholars have focused on the text itself to find meanings based on words and concepts in order to claim religious relevance. This study looks beyond print and inscription by focusing on an influential oral and (relatively recently) written corpus in use among a participant population that outnumbers many ‘mainline’ Christian denominations.”—Grey Gundaker,Duane A. and Virginia S. Dittman Professor of American Studies and Anthropology, College of William and Mary“Captivating! Velma Love has crafted a very fine study of the Odu in diaspora. The historical, ethnographic work here fulfills the important promise of the Signifying (on) Scriptures model. Anyone interested in the social life of scriptures will value this book.”—James S. Bielo,author of Words upon the Word and Emerging Evangelicals“Velma Love’s Divining the Self is an excellent ethnography of Ifa divination tradition in the African American community of Oyotunji Village in South Carolina and in New York City. In this innovative book, Love provides an in-depth exploration of how a community of believers constructs a new identity for itself by digging deep and tapping into the spiritual source and ‘orature’ of the Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria. The theoretical and methodological frameworks she deploys inspire fresh ways of thinking about non-textual religion, identity construction, race, gender, and community life in modern contexts. This is a book that will interest a diverse group of scholars in folklore and literature, mythology, spirituality, and African and African American studies, to mention just a few.”—J. K. Olupona,Professor of African Religious Traditions, Harvard Divinity School“The breadth that Love manages to achieve in a work of this brief length is impressive. It takes account of festivals and archetypes, as well as Caribbean and West African traditions and their performances and revision in African American communities in the US.”—K. M. Simmons Choice“This historical context for researchers of contemporary Ifa/Orisha tradition in the United States remains vital, as well as being simply enjoyable reading for practitioners of Yoruba religion.”—Daniel Foor Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan StudiesTable of ContentsContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction 1 Mythic Origins and Cultural Practices2 Orisha Archetypes, Cultural Memory, and the Odu 3 Divining the Self4 Symbols and Signposts for the Journey5 Powers of the Mothers 6 Oshun, Yemonja, and Oya ConclusionNotes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn The House of Blackwood, David Finkelstein exposes for the first time the successes and failures of this onetime publishing powerhouse. The value of the archive Finkelstein studies is its completeness, the depth of the ledger material, and the extraordinary longevity of the firm.Trade Review“The House of Blackwood is one of the best studies of a publishing house to be produced since book history was reinvented a couple of decades ago. Perceptively applying theory to archives, Finkelstein’s study illuminates the publisher’s relations to authors, and much more—it shows how successive generations of Blackwoods responded to familial, economic, trade, workshop, and political pressures, the changing demographics of readers, and the altered conditions of publishing in Edwardian Britain. It is a pleasure to read and a model for future work in the field.”—Robert L. Patten,Rice University“The House of Blackwood offers as much meat for the nineteenth-century historian, the student of business history—even present-day publishing executives!—as it does for the literary critic.”—Julie Dawson ForeWord Reviews“[The book’s] examination of balance-sheets, together with the close reading of correspondence and memoirs, makes an engaging as well as important contribution to our knowledge of the Victorian culture of the book.”—Leslie Howsam The Library“This monograph is a further important addition to [Penn State Press’s] significant series on the history of the book.”—William Baker Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America“I should finally mention that this is an exceptionally well documented study.”—Alan Boehm Libraries and Culture“The House of Blackwood is an engaging and extremely valuable piece of research that will benefit literary scholars and publishing historians for years to come.”—Karen Carney Sharp News“Elegantly designed and illustrated, beautifully written, and full of fresh material presented in a lively manner, The House of Blackwood is a notable addition to Victorian publishing history.”—Solveig C. Robinson Victorian Periodicals ReviewTable of ContentsContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Setting the Scene 2. Finding Success: Blackwood’s, 1860–1879 3. Africa Rewritten: The Case of John Hanning Speke 4. Reade Revised: A Woman Hater and the Women’s Medical Movement 5. Shifting Ground: Blackwood’s, 1880–1912 6. Creating House Identities: Nineteenth-Century Publishing Memoirs and the Annals of a Publishing House 7. “A Grocer’s Business”: William Blackwood IIIand the Literary Agents Conclusion Appendices 1-3: Introduction Appendix 1. Blackwood & Sons Publishing Statistics, 1860–1910 Appendix 2. Blackwood’s Magazine Sales, 1856–1915 Appendix 3. Margaret Oliphant Sales, 1860–1897 Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRomney is the best fictional portrayal of "Gilded Age" Philadelphia, brilliantly capturing Wister's vision of old-money, aristocratic society gasping its last before the onrushing vulgarity of the nouveaux riches. Published for the first time, is the complete fragment of Romney together with two of his other unpublished Philadelphia works.Trade Review“Romney is a delightfully surprising and important contribution to our understanding of Owen Wister, of Philadelphia and its Main Line suburbs, and of American literature in the early twentieth century. Readers will be intrigued to find that Wister anticipates in this unfinished novel, by more than seventy years, the thesis put forth by E. Digby Baltzell in his Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia. For anyone wishing to come to terms with the Philadelphia story, this is a ‘must-read’ book.”—David R. Contosta,Author of Suburb in the City: Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, 1850-1990“Owen Wister’s Romney, edited and annotated with extraordinary precision by James A. Butler, is an unexpected and most valuable contribution to two important matters. One is our knowledge of Owen Wister, through this—hitherto practically unavailable—book. The other is the very content of this unfinished Wister work, essentially a novel of manners, set in Philadelphia society of the 1880s. Philadelphia has been a nearly ideal setting for a novel of manners but, for various reasons, during two centuries few of them have been forthcoming. Romney, unfinished as it is, is a substantial exception-which is why it ought to be read by everyone interested in the history of Philadelphia and of Philadelphians.”—John Lukacs “An unfinished third novel, with three additional essays, about a contentedly corrupt belle epoque Philadelphia-where the famed Wister (1860-1938) went west to cure his depression after William Dean Howells rejected his first attempts at fiction. The result of that hegira, The Virginian, is considered America’s finest western. In his introduction, Butler (English/LaSalle) contends that Wister’s third novel, which biographers have mistakenly called Monopolis (after Wister’s name for his fictional Philadelphia), was intended to be Wister’s reply to friend Theodore Roosevelt’s objection about the xenophobic cynicism in Wister’s second novel, Lady Baltimore, an Edith Wharton/Henry James critique of southern aristocracy. Wister wrote Roosevelt that Dividends in Democracy, later titled after its hero, Romney Hythe, was to be, in Wister’s words, ‘a picture of Philadelphia, and its passing from the old world to the new order; the hero of no social position, married to a wife of good social position elsewhere, and turning out to be superior to his wife.’ The 48,000-word fragment he produced-before abandoning it after WWI journalism, unsuccessful forays into politics, and the death of his wife sank him again into despair-begins in 1911, then flashes back to 1880s Philadelphia, rooting the entanglement of early Main Line society in the greed and corruption surrounding the Pennsylvania Railroad. Alas, Romney himself, though discussed, remains unborn when the pages run out. Like Wharton’s best work, the unfinished Romney, along with Wister’s essays about Philadelphia society, remains striking for its examination of American social pathologies that, despite changes in ethnic, cultural and technological composition, remain virulently prevalent today.”—Kirkus Reviews“Romney ought to be read by anyone with an interest in American history, in the price of ‘progress,’ in comic literature, or in the timeless tension between ‘old’ and ‘new’ money.”—Bill Eichenberger Columbus Dispatch“The Virginian we know. But not this raucous, lively, enjoyable and, alas, unfinished novel published for the first time in 2002.”—Bill Eichenberger Columbus Dispatch“Thanks in great part to superb editing by Butler, this volume is a welcome addition to the Wister canon. Romney would have taken its place alongside The Virginian (1902) and Lady Baltimore (1906) . . . but he never completed it.The novel occasionally brings to mind the work of Howells, James, and Henry Adams, and Wister’s thesis anticipates the urban-contrast arguments of E. Digby Baltzell’s Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia (1979). Nicely illustrated, with an introduction, notes, chronology, and appendixes detailing other pertinent works, this book is highly recommended at all levels.”—J. J. Wydeven Choice“Like Wharton’s best work, the unfinished Romney, along with Wister’s essays about Philadelphia society, remains striking for its examination of American social pathologies that, despite changes in ethnic, cultural, and technological composition, remain virulently prevalent today.”—Kirkus Reviews

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Book SynopsisThe essays in this volume reconsider the impact of the Civil War on Pennsylvania and the way its memory remains alive even today. These ten essays include courage on the battlefield but reflect the current trends to understand the motivations of soldiers and the impact of war on civilians, rather than focusing solely on battles or leadership.Trade Review“A valuable contribution to the literature on the American Civil War. I know of no volume that contains as many key insights into Pennsylvania’s role in the war.”—J. Matthew Gallman,Gettysburg College“This work fills a void in the historiography of the state of Pennsylvania in the Civil War. The essays are superbly researched and nicely written. Many very nicely reproduced illustrations add to the attractiveness of the book. You don’t have to be a Pennsylvanian to find this book of interest. I can highly recommend this work to fill a void in the history of the country’s greatest conflict.”—Michael A. Cavanaugh Civil War News

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Book SynopsisMaiorino treats this picaresque narrative as a prism for exploring econopoetics, a term he uses to foreground the ways in which literary and economic modes of production feed off one another. His approach introduces readers to the world of common people of Renaissance Spain even as it affords abundant insights into the significance of this classic.Trade Review“This scholarship is clear, concise, pithy, and powerful.”—Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance“Giancarlo Maiorino's new book is an important, complex, and suggestive study that foregrounds the many contexts of the picaresque. . . . The book will become a standard reference for all students of picaresque narratives.”—Frederick de Armas,University of Chicago“Maiorino successfully shifts the discussion of Renaissance texts in particular and of literature in general from heroes of the upper or even the middle classes to the ‘common people.’ He accomplishes this by returning us to an early form of the novel and the prototype of picaresque fiction, the Lazarillo de Tormes, taking this early ‘novel’ as the starting point for a wide-ranging and stimulating discussion of various tropes and images that will lead toward a greater understanding of the ways in which aesthetic and socioeconomic factors figure in literary texts.”—James Mandrell,Brandeis UniversityTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIllustrationsPart I In the Belly of Indigence1. Econopoetics and the Great Chain of HandoutsPart II Starved to Death2. The Mousetrap: The Price of Staying Alive3. Inconspicuous Consumption: Of Toothpicks and LeftoversPart III Out of Laceria4. The Water Carrier: From Subsistence to Prosperity5. The Economic Culture of Toledan ProvechoPart IV The Price of Onomastics6. Lázaro de Tormes: What’s in a Name?7. Will Lazarus Ever Be a Wage Earner? Part V Dividends of the Mind8. The Cost of Education: A Tale of Two Cities9. The Economy of Genre10 At the Margins: Whose Renaissance? Works CitedIndex of NamesIndex

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