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The Diner Preference

Peggy Sue’s 50’s Diner in the desert town of Yermo, California, has a sign above the door that reads: “We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone—Regardless of who you are, who you think you are, who your daddy is, or how much money you make.” In diners, fur coats hang next to cowboy hats while Jaguars and junkers sit side by side in the parking lot. Diner patrons tend to be friendlier than customers in upscale restaurants, where they expect a different type of service. In fact, when people are spending more money, they often expect a servant. “I prefer working in diners,” said Sammi DeAngelis, a waitress at the Seville Diner in New Jersey. “I’ve done the fine dining where people think that because the checks are high,

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time. But computers have made it much easier; the waitress simply prints the check, and all the calculations are itemized instantly.

you’re supposed to kiss their butt. People who spend $200 for dinner think that you owe them something. I don’t care if the bill is $2 or $200, I treat everybody the same.” Most waitresses said they preferred working in a place with a large, regular clientele. When they worked at more upscale restaurants they missed the casual rapport with customers, and the staff always had to be ready to make a good first impression on strangers. But in a diner formalities are left at the door. In her Kentucky drawl, Mae Christmas said, “I could never work in a fancy restaurant. I’m too liable to holler at people and ask them if they want their usual when they come through the door. You can’t do that in a fancy place.” In diners, waitresses are also free to tell their customers exactly what they think about the latest political scandal or local gossip, whereas the staff in upscale restaurants is trained to keep conversation to a minimum and to never discuss religion, race, or politics.

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The People’s Team in the Workers’ State Robert Edelman In the informative, entertaining, and generously illustrated Spartak Moscow, a book that will be cheered by soccer fans worldwide, Robert Edelman finds in the stands and on the pitch keys to understanding everyday life under Stalin, Khrushchev, and their successors. Millions attended matches and obsessed about their favorite club, and their rowdiness on game day stood out as a moment of relative freedom in a society that championed conformity. This was particularly the case for the supporters of Spartak, which emerged from the rough proletarian Presnia district of Moscow and spent much of its history in fierce rivalry with Dinamo, the team of the secret police. To cheer for Spartak, Edelman shows, was a small and safe way of saying “no” to all that went on around them; to understand Spartak is to understand how soccer explains Soviet life.

Edelman covers the team from its days on the wild fields of prerevolutionary Russia through the post-Soviet period. Given its history, it was hardly surprising that Spartak adjusted quickly to the new, capitalist world of postsocialist Russia, going on to win the championship of the Russian Premier League nine times, the Russian Cup three times, and the CIS Commonwealth of Independent States Cup six times. In addition to providing a fresh and authoritative history of Soviet society as seen through its obsession with the world’s most popular sport, Edelman, a well-known sports commentator, also provides biographies of Spartak’s leading players over the course of a century and riveting play-by-play accounts of Spartak’s most important matches—including such highlights as the day in 1989 when Spartak last won the Soviet Elite League on a Valery Shmarov free kick at the ninety-second minute. Throughout, he palpably evokes what it was like to cheer for the “Red and White.”

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Champions of the Soviet Elite League twelve times and eleven-time winner of the USSR Cup, Spartak was founded and led for seven decades by the four Starostin brothers, the most visible of whom were Nikolai and Andrei. Brilliant players turned skilled entrepreneurs, they were flexible enough to constantly change their business model to accommodate the dramatic shifts in Soviet policy. Whether because of their own financial wheeling and dealing or Spartak’s too frequent success against state-sponsored teams, they were arrested in 1942 and spent twelve years in the gulag. Instead of facing hard labor and likely death, they were spared the harshness of their places of exile when they were asked by local camp commandants to coach the prisoners’ football teams. Returning from the camps after Stalin’s death, they took back the reins of a club whose mystique as the “people’s team” was only enhanced by its status as a victim of Stalinist tyranny.

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Counter Culture The American Coffee Shop Waitress Candacy A. Taylor “Career waitresses do more than just serve food. They are part psychiatrist, part grandmother, part friend, and they serve every walk of American life: from the retired and the widowed, to the wounded and the lonely, and from the working class to the wealthy. The classic diner waitress is an icon of American culture. This book takes a moment to honor and recognize waitresses’ contribution to our communities. Doing this project has helped me to redefine my perspective on life, work, and happiness. It has made me reevaluate the myth of the American dream that says you need to have an ‘important’ job to be happy.”—from Counter Culture

In large cities and small towns across the country, the best diners and coffee shops are more than just restaurants: they are neighborhood institutions that bring together communities. From the Gold ’N Silver Inn in Reno, Nevada, to the USA Country Diner in Windsor, New Jersey, these special places are not defined by their menus or décor but by the waitresses who have established bonds with their customers and their communities over years—and sometimes decades—of service. Counter Culture is a window into the lives of career waitresses who have worked in diners and coffee shops for up to sixty years. Since 2001, Candacy A. Taylor (a former waitress herself) has traveled more than 26,000 miles throughout the United States collecting stories of these “lifers,” as many waitresses aged fifty or over playfully call themselves. She interviewed fiftynine waitresses in forty-three towns and cities. Their compelling stories are complemented and enhanced by Taylor’s striking color photographs of the waitresses at work.

Taylor expected that the waitresses would feel overworked and underappreciated but was surprised and delighted to find that the opposite was true. The proud, capable waitresses Taylor interviewed loved their jobs and, even if given the opportunity, “wouldn’t do anything else.” Nearly all the waitresses said that the physical labor of waitressing helped them to age more gracefully and that the daily contact with customers and coworkers kept them socially engaged. Lifers generally The Waitressing 000 make Stigma more money from serving regular customers with whom they have T.I.P.S. To Insure Prompt Service 000 forged bonds over decades, and their seniority earns them respect from The Generation Gap 000 their coworkers and managers. Taylor’s sensitive and respectful portrayal Refusing to Retire 000 of career waitresses who have made their jobs into a rewarding lifetime List of Waitresses pursuit turns Counter Culture into an invaluable portrait of the continued and Other Interviewees 000 importance of community in our changing society. Sources 000

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“A loving ode to women who are the heart and few more miles than the counter waitress, and during those extra soul of America’s diners, Counter Culture is a miles she’s balanced heavy plates and carried hundreds of drinks, treasure for all who value food with character, increasing the opportunity for accidents. High maintenance customers who send her back and forth to the kitchen take a toll. A served by real characters. Its stories about common complaint among table servers is when they ask a large veteran waitresses are fun, poignant, and table of customers about drink refills and only one person answers yes. After walking across the restaurant to order the drink or to tremendously informative, including detailed make it herself at the drink station, walking back to the table, and information about the unique talents required for the job. The evocative photographs of these rare personalities and their workplaces are a siren call to hit the road and meet them while they’re still around.” —Jane and Michael Stern, Roadfood.com That’s really good for a waitress.’ And I said, ‘Well damn, I’ve been working here twenty-five years.” Virginia moved to Nevada specifically for the higher wages and because there were more union restaurant jobs. She said, “Being in a union house makes all the difference. It gives the workers even more control. If the restaurant is empty at 9:00 p.m. and our shift isn’t over until 11, the manager can’t send us home. We make every dollar coming to us.” Southern Nevada has some of the best earning opportunities for waitresses in the United States. They are paid a fair living wage along with health and retirement benefits. The culinary union is a powerful influence that creates a competitive environment which benefits restaurant workers. To compete with union houses, nonunion restaurants have to offer similar benefits. Most waitresses in other U.S. states have to work an office job at some time during

rants, but I never cared for ’em. I stayed with the diner because diners had better hours that worked with raising my kids. I worked on Wall Street from nine to five so when I got off work. I was able to go in for a six o’clock shift and work 6 pm to 6 am in the morning on the weekends. their career to have This medical insurance for their family. In Nevada, restaurant is probably sixty years old. It started out as a however, especially in thehot Vegas area, waitresses areaoffered a com-of steady customdrive-in dog stand. We have nice family plete health careers. (medical/dental/vision) andhere retirement package. A lot of people find us when they get off the turnpike on Susan said, “Here, waitressing as good tofrom school and their way downissouth. Weas getgoing people New York, Staten Island, getting your degree and being somebody. Just look at our bank accounts.” Waitresses don’t have to live in Nevada to reap special benefits from their employers. Geri Spinelli started working at the Melrose Diner in Philadelphia when she was a teenager. She said, “This is the best place to work. We average $6.10 an hour when the minimum wage for waitresses is about $2.38. We have a good health plan and hospitalization. We get a good salary, plus tips, a Christmas bonus and paid vacations. I’ll get three weeks of paid vacation this year. It’s great.”

“Thoughtful, compelling, and beautifully illustrated, Counter Culture is a worthy tribute to its subject—the uniquely talented women who have dedicated their lives to providing comfort and service along with that cup of joe.”

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setting it down, someone else will pipe up, “Oh, could I have a refill?” The waitress goes back, performs the same tasks, and returns to the table only to be sent away yet again for another drink refill. It’s no wonder that counter waitresses feel more efficient. The psychological satisfaction of getting so much done with half the effort gives her confidence and makes her job much easier. Practically every item found in a diner is designed to be functional for the customer and to make a waitress’s job easier and

Pennsylvania . . . all over. And they come back year after year. The first time they come, if they liked the food and if you make an impression on them, they’ll be back to see you. It may be a whole year, but they’ll be back. We also have a lot of customers who grew up in this area that have moved away and when they come home to see their families this is where they come, because it reminds them of their childhood. It means so much to them that we’re still here.

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On the Irish Waterfront The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York James T. Fisher Site of the world’s busiest and most lucrative harbor throughout the first half of the twentieth century, the Port of New York was also the historic preserve of Irish American gangsters, politicians, longshoremen’s union leaders, and powerful Roman Catholic pastors. This is the demimonde depicted to stunning effect in Elia Kazan’s On the Waterfront (1954) and into which James T. Fisher takes readers in this remarkable and engaging historical account of the classic film’s backstory.

“James T. Fisher’s treatment of the ‘Spiritual Front’ that brought the Irish Catholic priest Father John Corridan and the Jewish writer Budd Schulberg together in a common crusade for justice—and of their triumph, not on the waterfront, but on the silver screen— is scintillating. Fisher is a good writer and a very fine historian—intellectually sophisticated, indefatigable, wonderfully sensitive to human drama and foibles. On the Irish Waterfront covers an amazing amount of terrain. Urban, cultural, intellectual, and labor history all fall within Fisher’s purview and magnify the importance of his work.” —Bruce Nelson, author of Workers on the Waterfront and Divided We Stand

Fisher introduces readers to the real “Father Pete Barry” featured in On the Waterfront, John M. “Pete” Corridan, a crusading priest committed to winning union democracy and social justice for the port’s dockworkers and their families. A Jesuit labor school instructor, not a parish priest, Corridan was on but not of Manhattan’s West Side Irish waterfront. His ferocious advocacy was resisted by the very men he sought to rescue from the violence and criminality that rendered the port “a jungle, an outlaw frontier,” in the words of investigative reporter Malcolm Johnson. Driven off the waterfront, Corridan forged creative and spiritual alliances with men like Johnson and Budd Schulberg, the screenwriter who worked with Corridan for five years to turn Johnson’s Pulitzer Prize–winning 1948 newspaper exposé into a movie. Fisher’s detailed account of the waterfront priest’s central role in the film’s creation challenges standard views of the film as a post facto justification for Kazan and Schulberg’s testimony as ex-communists before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. On the Irish Waterfront is also a detailed social history of the New York/ New Jersey waterfront, from the rise of Irish American entrepreneurs and political bosses during the World War I era to the mid-1950s, when the emergence of a revolutionary new mode of cargo-shipping signaled a radical reorganization of the port. This book explores the conflicts experienced and accommodations made by an insular Irish-Catholic community forced to adapt its economic, political, and religious lives to powerful forces of change both local and global in scope.

James T. Fisher is Professor of Theology and American Studies, Fordham University. He is the author of Communion of Immigrants: A History of Catholics in America, Dr. America: The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley, 1927–1961, and The Catholic Counterculture in America, 1933–1962. Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America a series edited by R. Scott Appleby

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A Bird-Finding Guide to Costa Rica Barrett Lawson Marked by its superb natural beauty, Costa Rica has the greatest percentage of preserved land of any nation worldwide; nearly a third of the country is protected in national parks, reserves, and refuges. The wildlife that abounds in these tropical areas includes a stunning diversity of more than 820 bird species. In A Bird-Finding Guide to Costa Rica, Barrett Lawson offers detailed information that makes it easy for both expert and novice birders to plan and enjoy an exciting trip to this birders’ paradise. Lawson describes fifty-three of the best birding destinations in Costa Rica. Birders will appreciate the detailed descriptions of how to bird each area, as well as the site-specific lists—“Target Birds” and “Species to Expect.” The site descriptions are structured for ease of use and clarity; each provides a general introduction, exact driving directions, road maps, and lodging information. Other important elements include a general introduction to Costa Rica, an overview of tropical birds, sample itineraries, a comprehensive checklist to the birds of the country, and information about the best locations to find endemics and other sought-after species. The sites are grouped into six regions that reflect general patterns of avian distribution; this helps readers understand Costa Rica’s complex bird diversity as well as plan a dynamic trip. also

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A Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica F. Gary Stiles and Alexander F. Skutch Illustrated by Dana Gardner A Comstock Book 1989, 656 pages, 52 color plates, 43 halftones, 3 maps, 6 x 9 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-9600-4 $39.95t COBEE For more information, click on the cover image

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• Features fifty-three top birding locations from across the country. • “Species to Expect” lists inform readers of birds that can be found at featured sites; especially common birds are presented in bold. • “Target Birds” lists alert birders to rare and exciting species. • All bird lists include plate references to the two most respected field guides, A Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica by F. Gary Stiles and Alexander F. Skutch and The Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide by Richard Garrigues and Robert Dean (both also published by Cornell). • Eight sample itineraries and 107 maps are accompanied by information— birding times, driving times, and road indications—that will help readers customize their own itineraries. • Includes a complete checklist to the birds of the country with abundance ratings for eight representative sites.

Barrett Lawson, a graduate of Bowdoin College, lives and birds in Costa Rica. A Comstock Book

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Darfur and the Crisis of Governance in Sudan A Critical Reader Edited by Salah M. Hassan and Carina E. Ray Foreword by Andreas Eshete

C ontrib u tors Issam A. Abdel Hafiez • Musa Adam Abdul-Jalil • Abaker Mohamed Abuelbashar • Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf • Eric Kofi Acree • Ali B. Ali Dinar • Munzoul A.M. Assal • Alex de Waal • Atta El-Battahani • Kamal El-Gizouli • Abdel Monim Elgak • Abdullahi Osman El-Tom • Grant Farred • Adrienne Fricke • Fahima A. Hashimm • Salah M. Hassan • Amira Khairn • Mansour Khalid • Mahmood Mamdani • Carina E. Ray • Karin Willemse • Benaiah Yongo-Bure • Al-Tayib Zain Al-Abdin

Salah Hassan is Goldwin Smith Professor and Director of the Africana Studies and Research Center and professor of African and African Diaspora art history and visual culture, Department of History of Art and Visual Culture, Cornell University. Carina E. Ray is Assistant Professor of African and Black Atlantic History, History Department, Fordham University, and a monthly columnist for New African magazine. Andreas Eshete is Professor of Law and Philosophy, UNESCO Chair for Human Rights and Democracy, and President of Addis Ababa University.

The ongoing conflict in the western Sudanese region of Darfur has received unprecedented attention from the international media and human rights organizations, and it has captured the attention of millions of people around the world. Those seeking to learn about the conflict, as well as those who have reported on it, often rely on information produced by the various organizations that are addressing the humanitarian crises spawned by the conflict. In turn, most coverage of the Darfur crisis provides only a cursory understanding of the historical, economic, political, sociological, and environmental factors that contribute to the conflict. Moreover, the perspectives of the people of Darfur and the Sudan have not been adequately heard. As a result, Sudanese civil society’s active engagement in resolving the country’s problems goes unrecognized. Darfur and the Crisis of Governance in Sudan remedies this situation by bringing together a diverse group of contributors from Sudan and beyond—scholars, activists, NGO and aid workers, members of government and the Darfurian rebel movements, and artists—who share a deep knowledge of the situation in Darfur and Sudan. Together, they provide the most comprehensive, balanced, and nuanced account yet published of the conflict’s roots and the contemporary realities that shape the experiences of those living in the region. The cross-disciplinary dialogue fostered by Salah M. Hassan and Carina E. Ray yields a comprehensive understanding of the causes, manifestations, and implications of the ongoing conflict. Many of the contributors emphasize that despite the international attention Darfur has received, it is those within Darfur and Sudan—both in existing organizations and in newly formed alliances— who have taken the lead in seeking local solutions. This book features a portfolio of affecting full-color photographs of daily life in Darfur by the acclaimed photographer Issam A. Abdelhafiez and, significantly, an extensive appendix of official local and international documents about the conflict—laws, decrees, resolutions, reports, and governmental statements—that have shaped both the crisis and its global perception. Collected here for the first time, these documents are invaluable as primary sources for researchers, students, activists, NGOs, and anyone else trying to understand the complexities of the crisis. also

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The Life and Thought of Andrei Sakharov Jay Bergman The Soviet physicist, dissident, and human rights activist Andrei Sakharov (1921–1989) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975. The only Russian to have been so recognized, Sakharov in his Nobel lecture held that humanity had a “sacred endeavor” to create a life worthy of its potential, that “we must make good the demands of reason,” by confronting the dangers threatening the world, both then and now: nuclear annihilation, famine, pollution, and the denial of human rights. Meeting the Demands of Reason provides a comprehensive account of Sakharov’s life and intellectual development, focusing on his political thought and the effect his ideas had on Soviet society. Jay Bergman places Sakharov’s dissidence squarely within the ethical legacy of the nineteenth-century Russian intelligentsia, inculcated by his father and other family members from an early age. In 1948, one year after receiving his doctoral candidate’s degree in physics, Sakharov began work on the Soviet hydrogen bomb and later received both the Stalin and the Lenin prizes for his efforts. Although as a nuclear physicist he had firsthand experience of honors and privileges inaccessible to ordinary citizens, Sakharov became critical of certain policies of the Soviet government in the late 1950s. He never renounced his work on nuclear weaponry, but eventually grew concerned about the environmental consequences of testing and feared unrestrained nuclear proliferation. Bergman shows that these issues led Sakharov to see the connection between his work in science and his responsibilities to the political life of his country.

“In Meeting the Demands of Reason, Jay Bergman treats Andrei Sakharov not just as a scientist and activist, but as a complex subject whose scientific and political thinking were interrelated. Bergman is a fine writer and has an amazing grasp of Sakharov’s scientific, philosophical, and political work. His well-researched biography reminds us that Sakharov was an extraordinary physicist, a thought-provoking political essayist, a devoted defender of human rights, and a concerned citizen of a troubled nation.” —Kathleen E. Smith, author of Remembering Stalin’s Victims and Mythmaking in the New Russia

In the late 1960s, Sakharov began to condemn the Soviet system as a whole in the name of universal human rights. By the 1970s, he had become, with Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the most recognized Soviet dissident in the West, which afforded him a measure of protection from the authorities. In 1980, however, he was exiled to the closed city of Gorky for protesting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In 1986, the new Gorbachev regime allowed him to return to Moscow, where he played a central role as both supporter and critic in the years of perestroika. Two years after Sakharov’s death, the Soviet Union collapsed, and in the courageous example of his unyielding commitment to human rights, skillfully recounted by Bergman, Sakharov remains an enduring inspiration for all those who would tell truth to power. also

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“Bernstein grippingly portrays the race to develop the first nuclear weapon during World War II as well as the interplay among the global personalities involved. Readers learn that plutonium continues to hold us hostage with the threat of nuclear terrorism.”—Library Journal 2009, 216 pages, 34 halftones, 5 1/8 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7517-7 $17.95t/£11.95 OANZ

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The Eccentric Realist Henry Kissinger and the Shaping of American Foreign Policy Mario Del Pero During the 2008 election season, the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates both aspired to be understood as foreign policy “realists” in the mold of Henry Kissinger. Kissinger, who is distrusted on the neoconservative right for his skepticism about American exceptionalism and on the liberal left for his amoral, realpolitik approach, once again stood as the sage of foreign relations and the wise man who rises above partisan politics. In The Eccentric Realist, Mario Del Pero questions this depiction of Kissinger. Lauded as the foreign policy realist par excellence, Kissinger, as Del Pero shows, has been far more ideological and inconsistent in his policy formulations than is commonly realized.

“The Eccentric Realist is a remarkable piece of scholarship. By viewing Henry Kissinger both as a realist in the European tradition and as an American attuned to U.S. moral absolutism, Del Pero lays bare the inherent contradictions in the détente project and the causes for its ultimate failure. He also helps explain the rise of the neoconservative movement as a reaction against Kissingerian diplomacy.” —Odd Arne Westad, author of The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times

Del Pero considers the rise and fall of Kissinger’s foreign policy doctrine over the course of the 1970s—beginning with his role as National Security Advisor to Nixon and ending with the collapse of détente with the Soviet Union after Kissinger left the scene as Ford’s outgoing Secretary of State. Del Pero shows that realism then (not unlike realism now) was as much a response to domestic politics as it was a cold, hard assessment of the facts of international relations. In the early 1970s, Americans were weary of ideological forays abroad; Kissinger provided them with a doctrine that translated that political weariness into foreign policy. Del Pero argues that Kissinger was keenly aware that realism could win elections and generate consensus. Moreover, over the course of the 1970s it became clear that realism, as practiced by Kissinger, was as rigid as the neoconservativism that came to replace it. In the end, the failure of the détente forged by the realists was not the defeat of cool reason at the hands of ideologically motivated and politically savvy neoconservatives. Rather, the force of American exceptionalism, the touchstone of the neocons, overcame Kissinger’s political skills and ideological commitments. The fate of realism in the 1970s raises interesting questions regarding its prospects in the early years of the twenty-first century.

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How American Military Dominance Makes Us Less Safe, Less Prosperous, and Less Free Christopher A. Preble “Christopher Preble has a keen appreciation for the limits of military power, for the consequences of its misuse, and for the dangers of militarization. The Power Problem is simply terrific.”—Andrew J. Bacevich, author of The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism

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Jimmy Carter, His Advisors, and the Making of American Foreign Policy Betty Glad “An Outsider in the White House contributes significantly to presidential studies, diplomatic history, the study of the dynamics of policymaking, and international relations theory, especially as it bears on realism and idealism in foreign policy. Betty Glad’s impressively documented and vividly written book is full of fascinating anecdotes and therefore makes a compelling read.”—Fred I. Greenstein, Princeton University, author of The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to George W. Bush

Jimmy Carter entered the White House with a desire for a collegial staff that wanted to aid his foreign-policy decision making. He wound up with a “team of rivals” who contended for influence and who fought over his every move regarding relations with the USSR, the Peoples’ Republic of China, arms control, and other crucial foreign-policy issues. In two areas—the Camp David Accords and the return of the Canal to Panama— Carter’s successes were attributable to his particular political skills and the assistance of Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and other professional diplomats. The ultimate victor in the other battles was Carter’s national security advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, a motivated tactician. Carter, the outsider who had sought to change the political culture of the executive office, found himself dependent on the very insiders of the political and diplomatic establishment against whom he had campaigned. Based on recently declassified documents in the Carter Library, materials not previously noted in the Vance papers, and a wide variety of interviews, Betty Glad’s An Outsider in the White House is a rich and nuanced depiction of the relationship between policy and character. It is also a poignant history of damaged ideals. Carter’s absolute commitment to human rights foundered on what were seen as national security interests. New data from the archives reveal how Carter’s government sought the aid of Pope John Paul II to undercut the human-rights efforts of the El Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero. A moralistic approach toward the Soviet Union undermined Carter’s early desire to reduce East–West conflicts and cut nuclear arms. As a result, by 1980 the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) was in limbo, and a nuclear counterforce doctrine had been adopted. Near the end of Carter’s single term in office Vance stepped down as secretary of state, in part because Brzezinski’s “muscular diplomacy” had come to dominate Carter’s foreign policy. When Vance’s successor, Edmund Muskie, took over, the State Department was reduced to implementing policies made by Brzezinski and his allies. For Carter, the rivalry for influence in the White House was concluded and the results, as Glad shows, were a mixed record and an uncertain presidential legacy.

“An Outsider in the White House is nicely organized, carefully researched, and clearly written. Betty Glad provides a sophisticated and nuanced analysis about conflict among Carter’s foreign policy advisors and the gradual triumph of Brzezinski and his views regarding the Soviet Union and the Cold War. Glad’s comprehensive book provides balanced coverage of the foreign policy highlights of the Carter years.” —Robert A. Strong, author of Working in the World: Jimmy Carter and the Making of American Foreign Policy

Betty Glad is Olin D. Johnston Professor of Political Science Emerita at the University of South Carolina. She is the author of Jimmy Carter: In Search of the Great White House; Charles Evans Hughes and the Illusions of Innocence; and Key Pittman: The Tragedy of a Senate Insider. She is editor or coeditor of The Psychological Dimensions of War, The Russian Transformation, and other books. DECEMBER, 392 pages, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4815-7 $29.95s/£20.50 History/United States

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Frederic Edwin Church’s Views from Olana

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“The site is the result of a careful study of the river-banks, and commands so many views of varied beauty, that all the glories of the Hudson may be said to circle it.” —H. W. French, Art and Artists in Connecticut, 1879

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In 1609, Henry Hudson sailed up the river that now bears his name. The exhibition and its accompanying publication, Glories of the Hudson: Frederic Edwin Church’s Views from Olana, mark the quadricentennial of his discovery by highlighting Frederic Church’s sketches of the prospect from his hilltop home overlooking the river. Church made his first sketch of the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains from Red Hill—the south end of the proper ty that became his home, Olana—in 1845. Returning to the Hudson Valley in 1860 as the nation’s most famous and best-paid artist, Church settled on a farm on the lower slope of the Sienghenbergh, securing a splendid vantage point for studying, sketching, and painting the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains. Church never tired of the Hudson, documenting his passion in numerous paintings, oil sketches, and drawings, the best of which are featured in this catalog. The exhibit, organized by the Olana Partnership and the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, is on display at Olana in Hudson, New York, from May 23 to October 12, 2009. 2/2/09 12:28:58 PM

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scene is dominated by the large pink-bottomed summer cumulus clouds, recalling the spirit of Church’s earlier New York and New England paintings, as in New England Scenery (fig. 8). To his friend Palmer, anticipating the arrival of his son Walter to begin studying landscape painting, Church emphasized the clouds: “The country is so magnificent now there are so many cloud e⁄ects that I often wish he were here.” He added, generously, “My studio—advice and materials—& c. are all at Wallies disposal. . . .”92 Summer Sunset from Olana (fig. 44), painted from Bethune Road in a cool blue-purple palette, depicts the wide expanse of river and the e⁄ect produced after the retreat of a typical late-day summer thunderstorm in the Hudson Valley. The coming and going of summer storms, which sent down torrents of rain for an interlude and then resolved into clear sunshine, always caught Church’s attention: “We are having daily showers which clear up at evening with commendable regularity giving us gorgeous sunsets and twilights which are worth a pilgrimage to see.”93 By contrast, Looking West from Olana (fig. 45) embodies the warm glow of a hazy summer evening. Though inspired by the

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Um die ausgedehnten Erdwerke von «Stanwick Üblicherweise werden die Bronzen von Stanwick als Camp» in Nordengland ranken sich dramatische Materiallager eines Metallhandwerkers interpretiert Geschichten, die sich in der Mitte des 1. Jahrhunderts [Abb.33.3a-b]. Diese Deutung trägt jedoch einer zweiten n.Chr. abspielten und von römischer Seite überliefert Materialgruppe aus Eisen kaum Rechnung, nämlich sind. Sie erzählen von Ehebruch und Verrat, von der einer Lanzenspitze, einem Kettenpanzer und einem Entzweiung des britannischen Stammes der Briganten Schwert in seiner Scheide. Zusammen mit den und von Konspirationen mit und gegen die Römer. Brandspuren an verschiedenen Objekten sprechen sie Stanwick war damals Hauptort der Briganten, deren eher für die Deutung als Überreste aus einem Grab. Es Königin Cartimandua eine Hauptrolle im scheint also nicht ausgeschlossen, dass vor den Wällen intrigenreichen Drama spielte. von Stanwick ein vornehmer Brigant in voller Die eine riesige Fläche umfassenden Erdwälle Kriegsmontur seine letzte Ruhestätte gefunden hat. Auch wurden in jüngerer Zeit zu mehreren Malen das würde einer Datierung in die Zeit der römischen archäologisch untersucht, während die Entdeckung des Auseinandersetzungen nicht widersprechen. umfangreichen Metallhortes von Stanwick ungefähr im Felix Müller Jahre 1843 eher im Dunkeln liegt. Der genaue Fundort befindet sich einen knappen Kilometer außerhalb der Literatur: Wallanlagen, genauer auf dem Gemeindegebiet von Morna MacGregor: The Early Iron Age Metalwork Hoard from Stanwick, N.R. Yorks. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 28, 1962, S. 17–57. – E. Martyn Melsonby. Ein direkter Bezug zwischen der Vergrabung Jope: Early Celtic Art in the British Isles, Oxford 2000, bes. S. 268, 305–307. des Hortes und den Ereignissen um Cartimandua lässt sich kaum herstellen, obwohl sich beides etwa zur gleichen Zeit abspielte. Der überwiegende Teil der ursprünglich 146 catalogue celtes Marie3 8/10/08 17:10 Page 9 Fundnummern besteht aus Bronze. Darunter gibt es viele

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Einzelteile von der Pferdeschirrung: neben mindestens vier Trensen eine größere Anzahl von feingliedrigen Verbindungsstücken, die einst Ledergurte zierten oder miteinander verbanden. Charakteristisch sind die Ringformen mit dem eingespannten Ornamentwerk in der bekannten keltischen Art [Abb.33.1a–d]. Achsnägel und Nabenbeschläge stammen wohl von mehreren Wagen, vermutlich zweirädrigen Fahrzeugen, die zu Reise- und zu Kriegszwecken dienten. Teile ihrer hölzernen Wagenkästen waren offensichtlich mit Zierblechen verkleidet, wovon die feinen Nagellöcher auf mehreren Abdeckungen zeugen. Ein Paar Beschläge in feiner Treibarbeit besteht aus einer Maske mit menschlichen Zügen: Große drohende Augen und ein gegabelter, aufgezwirbelter Bart sind als aufgelöste Einzelteile symmetrisch zueinander angeordnet [Abb.33.2]. Höchste Vollendung in ihrer Abstraktion erfuhr jedoch die Applike mit dem Pferdegesicht, die als «Stanwick Horse» zum Begriff geworden ist [Abb.33.4]. Besonderes Kennzeichen ist der geschwungene Nasenrücken, dessen Grate in das Rund zweier großer Nüstern einbiegen; das Grundkonzept bilden zwei gegenläufige S-Formen, die Lyra. Die in einer Ebene liegenden, leicht schräg gestellten und tief gekerbten Augen verleihen dem Antlitz seinen ruhigen, etwas schläfrigen und fast schon menschlichen Zug.

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Merlin, the wizard of Arthurian legend, page 32 for Robin Hood by has been a source of enduring fasciStephen Knight nation for centuries. In this authoritative, entertaining, and generously illustrated book, Stephen Knight traces the myth of Merlin back to its earliest roots in the early Welsh figure of Myrddin. He then follows Merlin as he is imagined and reimagined through centuries of literature and art, beginning with Geoffrey of Monmouth, whose immensely popular History of the Kings of Britain (1138) transmitted the story of Merlin to Europe at large. He covers French and German as well as Anglophone elements of the myth and brings the story up to the present with discussions of a globalized Merlin who finds his way into popular literature, film, television, and New Age philosophy. “Stephen Knight’s interpretations of the Arthurian sources and characters are provocative and stimulating. Knight displays much erudition herein and evaluates the literary material in new and interesting ways.” —Christopher A. Snyder, author of The Britons and The World of King Arthur “Merlin is probably the most familiar character in the Arthurian legends, as his frequent appearances in popular culture attest. Stephen Knight’s wide-ranging, thorough, insightful, and comprehensive study of the figure of Merlin should become the standard resource on the well-known wizard. Knight shows real familiarity with the major traditions relating to the figure of Merlin and to Arthurian literature in general—which is no mean feat when covering such a large body of material.”

Knight argues that Merlin in all his guises represents a conflict basic to Western societies—the clash between knowledge and power. While the Merlin story varies over time, the underlying structural tension remains the same whether it takes the form of bard versus lord, magician versus monarch, scientist versus capitalist, or academic versus politician. As Knight sees it, Merlin embodies the contentious duality inherent to organized societies. In tracing the applied meanings of knowledge in a range of social contexts, Knight reveals the four main stages of the Merlin myth: Wisdom (early Celtic British), Advice (medieval European), Cleverness (early modern English), and Education (worldwide since the nineteenth century). If a wizard can be captured within the pages of a book, Knight has accomplished the feat.

—Alan Lupack, author of Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend

Stephen Knight is Distinguished Research Professor in English Literature at Cardiff University. He is the author of books including Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography, also from Cornell. NOVEMBER, 288 pages, 25 halftones, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4365-7 $27.95s/£18.95 Folklore 1 2

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The dukes of Burgundy ruled over a conglomeration of territories, each with its own political and legal traditions. Because their dynasty was relatively new and flanked by the much more powerful French kingdom and German empire, Burgundian dukes invested in lavish public ceremonial displays to assert their status and reinforce the court’s position as a center of power. The theater of Burgundian rule depended upon the display of ever more elaborate objects, from clothing and armor to furniture, tableware, tapestries, and paintings—many of which are of outstanding quality. Charles the Bold grew up on this ritualized stage, and his eventful life is reflected in the ceremonies and objects that conveyed his authority. Splendour of the Burgundian Court welcomes readers into that world. also

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With its remarkable and often spectacular selections, The Great Workshop illustrates the complex web of European artistic exchange and production. The book contains 250 full-color examples from well over one hundred European collections and essays from distinguished art historians who elucidate a long stretch of art history from the fall of the Roman Empire to the birth of the first great museums of Europe. 2008, 336 pages, 250 color illustrations, 9 x 11 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4710-5 $69.95t/£47.50 OBNL

Susan Marti curated the exhibition Charles the Bold (1433–1477) at the Historisches Museum Berne. Till-Holger Borchert curated the exhibition at the Bruggemuseum and Groeningemuseum Bruges. Gabriele Keck is Vice Director of the Historisches Museum Berne. Published by Mercatorfonds in cooperation with the Historisches Museum Berne, the Bruggemuseum and Groeningemuseum Bruges, and the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. Distributed in North America by Cornell University Press.

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An Intimate and Critical Account Lous Heshusius Clinical Commentary by Scott M. Fishman, MD Foreword by David B. Morris Chronic pain, which affects 70 million people in the United States alone—more than diabetes, cancer, and heart disease combined— is a major public health issue that remains poorly understood both within the health care system and by those closest to the people it afflicts. This book examines the experience of pain in ways that could significantly improve how patients and practitioners deal with pain. It is the first volume of a new collection of titles within the acclaimed Culture and Politics of Health Care Work series called How Patients Think, intended to give voice to the concerns of patients about their own medical care and the formulation of health policy.

“With Lous Heshusius as a guide, pain patients can learn much about the perils of a modern health-care odyssey. Health professionals can learn how an articulate middle-class female white patient thinks (with all that thinking entails) when her world is irreversibly altered by pain. She does not promise happy endings. Chronic pain is like that. From the rare intersection in this text between patient narrative and physician response, however, readers may construct a dialogue on pain in our time that cannot fail to bring plentiful opportunities for personal insight and professional enlightenment.”

Since surviving a near-fatal car accident, Lous Heshusius has suffered from chronic pain for more than a decade, forcing her to give up her career as a professor of education. Inside Chronic Pain, based in part on the pain journal Heshusius keeps, is a stunning memoir of a life lived in constant pain as well as an insightful and often critical account of the inadequacies of the health care system—from physicians to hospitals and health insurance companies—to understand chronic pain and treat those who suffer from it. Through her own frequently frustrating experiences, she shows how health care providers often ignore, deny, or incorrectly treat chronic pain at immense cost to both the patient and the health care system. She also offers cogent suggestions on improving the quality and outcome of chronic pain care and management, using her encounters with exceptional medical professionals as models.

—from the Foreword by David B. Morris

Inside Chronic Pain deals with pain’s dramatic and destructive effects on one’s sense of self and identity. It chronicles the chaos that takes place, the paralyzing effect of severe pain, the changes in personality that ensue, and the corrosive effects of severe pain on the ability to attend to day-to-day tasks. It describes how one’s social life falls apart and isolation takes over. It also relates moments of happiness and beauty and describes how rooting the self in the present is crucial in managing pain.

Lous Heshusius is Professor of Education at York University. David B. Morris is University Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is the author of many books, including The Culture of Pain. Dr. Scott M. Fishman is Chief of the Division of Pain Medicine and Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of California, Davis, and President of the American Pain Foundation. He is the author of several books, among them Listening to Pain and The War on Pain.

A unique feature of Inside Chronic Pain is the clinical commentary by Dr. Scott M. Fishman, president of the American Pain Foundation. Fishman has long tried to improve the lives of patients like Heshusius. His medical perspective on her very human narrative will help physicians and other clinicians better understand and treat patients with chronic pain.

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A Life with Alzheimer’s Aaron Alterra An ILR Press Book The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work

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Edited by Andrew I. Schafer, MD Throughout history, physicians have played a vital role in medical discovery. These physician-scientists devote the majority of their professional effort to seeking new knowledge about health and disease through research and represent the entire continuum of biomedical investigation. They bring a unique perspective to their work and often base their scientific questions on the experience of caring for patients. Physician-scientists also effectively communicate between researchers in the “pure sciences” and practicing health care providers. Yet there has been growing concern in recent decades that, due to complex changes, physician-scientists are vanishing from the scene. In this book, leading physician-scientists and academic physicians examine the problem from a variety of perspectives: historical, demographic, scientific, cultural, sociological, and economic. They make valuable recommendations that—if heeded—should preserve and revitalize the community of physician-scientists as the profession continues to evolve and boundaries between doctors and researchers shift. C ontrib u tors James M. Anderson, MD, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine • Ann J. Brown, MD, MHS, Duke University School of Medicine • Barry S. Coller, MD, Rockefeller University • Fabio Cominelli, MD, PhD, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine • Paul E. DiCorleto, PhD, Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine • Mark Donowitz, MD, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine • Stephen G. Emerson, MD, PhD, Haverford College • Gregory Germino, MD, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine • Stephen J. Heinig, Association of American Medical Colleges • Margaret K. Hostetter, MD, Yale University School of Medicine • Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil, University of Michigan Medical School • Kenneth Kaushansky, MD, MACP, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine • David Korn, MD, Harvard University and Harvard Medical School • Timothy J. Ley, MD, Washington University School of Medicine • Philip M. Meneely, PhD, Haverford College • David G. Nathan, MD, Harvard Medical School • Philip A. Pizzo, MD, Stanford University School of Medicine • Jennifer Punt, VMD, PhD, Haverford College • Andrew I. Schafer, MD, Weill Cornell Medical College and New York-Presbyterian Hospital • Alan L. Schwartz, MD, PhD, Washington University School of Medicine • Roy L. Silverstein, MD, Cleveland Clinic • Nancy J. Tarbell, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

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The Changing Face of Medicine Women Doctors and the Evolution of Health Care in America

Ann K. Boulis and Jerry A. Jacobs

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“Ann K. Boulis and Jerry A. Jacobs have written a must-read for any woman considering the medical profession! It will also make men sit up and take notice.” —Sanjay Gupta, Chief Medical Correspondent, CNN An ILR Press Book The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work 2008, 280 pages, 12 tables, 28 charts/graphs, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4446-3 $35.00s/£23.95

“In The Vanishing Physician-Scientist? Dr. Andrew I. Schafer makes the case that truly effective translational research can go from bench to bedside and back again in dynamic fashion; he describes a view of the future in which physician-scientists will be members of research teams. This book does an excellent job of placing physician-scientists in historical context and highlighting the fact that the problem of the endangered physician-scientist is not a new one. The Vanishing Physician-Scientist? outlines a long-term problem that is likely to get worse, and, most important, provides a number of possible solutions. Given the current constraints on NIH-funded research and an understandable retrenchment for funding by industry and foundations, its descriptions of strategies that have been successful in the past and are likely to be successful in the future are more valuable than ever.” —Glenn Bubley, MD, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Dr. Andrew I. Schafer is the E. Hugh Luckey Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and Physician-in-Chief at New York–Presbyterian Hospital. He is past president of the American Society of Hematology, the founding editor in chief of its publication, The Hematologist, and PresidentElect of the Association of Professors of Medicine. An ILR Press Book The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work a series edited by Suzanne Gordon and Sioban Nelson

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From Predators to Icons Exposing the Myth of the Business Hero Michel Villette and Catherine Vuillermot Translated from the French by George Holoch Foreword by John R. Kimberly In the popular imagination, the business media, and the schools of business and management that train new generations of entrepreneurs and executives, achieving extraordinary success in business is attributed to far-sighted individuals who have taken bold risks, provided innovative leadership, and introduced new products, services, or ideas superior to those of the competition. Amid the growing skepticism about the means by which vast amounts of wealth are accumulated and its consequences, however, this belief is long overdue for reevaluation. In From Predators to Icons, Michel Villette, a sociologist, and Catherine Vuillermot, a business historian, examine the careers of thirty-two of today’s wealthiest global executives—including Warren Buffett, Ingvar Kamprad, Bernard Arnault, Jim Clark, and Richard Branson—in order to challenge the conventional explanations for their extreme success and come to a better understanding of modern business practices. In contrast to the familiar image of the entrepreneur as a visionary with a plan, Villette and Vuillermot instead discover a far less dramatic process of improvised adaptations gradually assembled into a coherent course of conduct. And rather than being risk-takers, those who are most successful in business are risk-minimizers. Huge gains, these case studies reveal, are most reliably obtained in circumstances where the entrepreneur has established careful provisions for risk reduction. As for the view that innovation makes success possible, the authors find that because innovation is an expensive process that takes a long time to produce profits, innovators first of all require capital; instead, success makes innovation possible. The necessary resources, they show, are most often derived from what they provocatively term “predation”: ruthlessly taking advantage of imperfections, weaknesses, and vulnerabilities within the market or among competitors. Finally, From Predators to Icons considers the “practical ethics” implemented during the phase in which capital is most rapidly accumulated, as well as the social consequences of these activities.

Michel Villette is Professor of Sociology, AgroParisTech and EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), Paris. He is the author of several books in French. Catherine Vuillermot is Assistant Professor of Business History at L’Université de Franche Comté. John R. Kimberly is the Henry Bower Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies and Professor of Management, Health Care Systems, and Sociology at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. George Holoch previously translated Smoke & Mirrors, Inc. for Cornell.

Drawing on interviews with some of their subjects and, crucially, close readings of the authorized biographies and other hagiographic accounts of these figures, which eliminates the bias of malicious interpretations, Villette and Vuillermot provide revelatory insights about the creation and maintenance of business wealth that will be profitably read by both the captains and the critics of contemporary capitalism. also

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The Dynamics of White-Collar Crime Terry L. Leap

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Subprime Nation American Power, Global Capital, and the Housing Bubble Herman M. Schwartz In his exceedingly timely and innovative look at the ramifications of the collapse of the U.S. housing market, Herman M. Schwartz makes the case that worldwide, U.S. growth and power over the last twenty years has depended in large part on domestic housing markets. Mortgage-based securities attracted a cascade of overseas capital into the U.S. economy. High levels of private home ownership, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom, have helped pull in a disproportionately large share of world capital flows. As events since mid-2008 have made clear, mortgage lenders became ever more eager to extend housing loans, for the more mortgage packages they securitized, the higher their profits. As a result, they were dangerously inventive in creating new mortgage products, notably adjustable-rate and subprime mortgages, to attract new, mainly first-time, buyers into the housing market. However, mortgage-based instruments work only when confidence in the mortgage system is maintained. Regulatory failures in the U.S. S&L sector, the accounting crisis that led to the extinction of Arthur Andersen, and the subprime crisis that destroyed Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch and damaged many other big financial institutions have jeopardized a significant engine of economic growth. Schwartz concentrates on the impact of U.S. regulatory failure on the international economy. He argues that the “local” problem of the housing crisis carries substantial and ongoing risks for U.S. economic health, the continuing primacy of the U.S. dollar in international financial circles, and U.S. hegemony in the world system.

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High-Risk Lending, Deregulation, and the Undermining of America’s Mortgage Market Dan Immergluck

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“Foreclosed is a well-documented and engaging account of how the United States built and then, by dismantling safeguards and ignoring the consequences of unbridled complexity, destroyed one of the world’s most effective and democratic housing systems. The Obama administration should carefully consider Dan Immergluck’s suggestions for getting that system back on track and for bringing back the neighborhoods destroyed by misguided policies and practices of the past several decades.”—Ellen Seidman, New America Foundation 2009, 272 pages, 28 charts/graphs, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4772-3 $29.95s/£20.50

Herman M. Schwartz is Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia. He is the author of States vs. Markets: The Emergence of a Global Economy and In the Dominions of Debt: Historical Perspectives on Dependent Development and coeditor of several books, including most recently The Politics of Housing Booms and Busts. Cornell Studies in Money A series edited by Eric Helleiner and Jonathan Kirshner

SEPTEMBER, 288 pages, 8 line figures, 23 tables, 17 charts/graphs, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4812-6 $65.00x/£44.50 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7567-2 $24.95s/£16.95 Current Events

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War on Sacred Grounds Ron E. Hassner Sacred sites offer believers the possibility of communing with the divine and achieving deeper insight into their faith. Yet these sites’ spiritual and cultural importance can lead to competition as religious groups seek to exclude rivals from practicing potentially sacrilegious rituals in the hallowed space and wish to assert their own claims. Holy places thus create the potential for military, theological, or political clashes, not only between competing religious groups but also between religious groups and secular actors.

“Ron E. Hassner has drawn on a wide swath of secondary literature on conflicts in sacred spaces; he weaves these insights, along with theoretical insights from religious studies, sociology, and political science, into his discussion of substantive cases. The extremely topical and compelling subject of War on Sacred Grounds will attract the attention of policy analysts and journalists.” —Sumit Ganguly, author of Conflict Unending

In War on Sacred Grounds, Ron E. Hassner investigates the causes and properties of conflicts over sites that are both venerated and contested; he also proposes potential means for managing these disputes. Hassner illustrates a complex and poorly understood political dilemma with accounts of the failures to reach settlement at Temple Mount/Haram el-Sharif, leading to the clashes of 2000, and the competing claims of Hindus and Muslims at Ayodhya, which resulted in the destruction of the mosque there in 1992. He also addresses more successful compromises in Jerusalem in 1967 and Mecca in 1979. Sacred sites, he contends, are particularly prone to conflict because they provide valuable resources for both religious and political actors yet cannot be divided. The management of conflicts over sacred sites requires cooperation, Hassner suggests, between political leaders interested in promoting conflict resolution and religious leaders who can shape the meaning and value that sacred places hold for believers. Because a reconfiguration of sacred space requires a confluence of political will, religious authority, and a window of opportunity, it is relatively rare. Drawing on the study of religion and the study of politics in equal measure, Hassner’s account offers insight into the often-violent dynamics that come into play at the places where religion and politics collide.

“This is a brilliantly argued book. Ron E. Hassner offers an explanation for why religious sites become contested and why these conflicts are often very difficult to resolve, but reminds us that in some instances resolution is possible. War on Sacred Grounds is forcefully and vividly written.” —Daniel Philpott, author of Revolutions in Sovereignty

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Living Weapons Biological Warfare and International Security Gregory D. Koblentz “Biological weapons are widely feared, yet rarely used. Biological weapons were the first weapon prohibited by an international treaty, yet the proliferation of these weapons increased after they were banned in 1972. Biological weapons are frequently called ‘the poor man’s atomic bomb,’ yet they cannot provide the same deterrent capability as nuclear weapons. One of my goals in this book is to explain the underlying principles of these apparent paradoxes.”—from Living Weapons

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Targeting Civilians in War Alexander B. Downes

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“This is a magnificent work and towering achievement. With both innovative historical studies and comprehensive statistical analysis, Downes powerfully demonstrates an original and disturbing thesis—that democracies are just as likely as autocracies to target civilians in war, and even more so when they fear that they will lose. All scholars of international security and military history should read this book, and we would all benefit if policy advisors did also.”—James Kurth, Swarthmore College Cornell Studies in Security Affairs 2008, 328 pages, 23 tables, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4634-4 $29.95s/£25.50

“Living Weapons promises to stimulate attention and provoke thought on a very important topic. Gregory D. Koblentz writes clearly about the problems posed by biological weapons and provides particularly good summary accounts of the Soviet, Iraqi, and South African offensive programs.” —John D. Steinbruner, author of The Cybernetic Theory of Decision

Gregory D. Koblentz is Deputy Director, Biodefense Graduate Program, and Assistant Professor of Government and Politics in the Department of Public and International Affairs, George Mason University. He is coauthor of Tracking Nuclear Proliferation: A Guide in Map and Charts. Cornell Studies in Security Affairs a series edited by Robert J. Art, Robert Jervis, and Stephen M. Walt

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The Future of the Dollar Edited by Eric Helleiner and Jonathan Kirshner For half a century, the United States has garnered substantial political and economic benefits as a result of the dollar’s de facto role as a global currency. In recent years, however, the dollar’s preponderant position in world markets has come under challenge. The dollar has been more volatile than ever against foreign currencies, and various nations have switched to non-dollar instruments in their transactions. China and the Arab Gulf states continue to hold massive amounts of U.S. government obligations, in effect subsidizing U.S. current account deficits, and those holdings are a point of potential vulnerability for American policy.

“Eric Helleiner and Jonathan Kirshner have brought together an outstanding group of economists, historians, and political scientists to explore one of the most pressing questions in today’s global economy: whether the dollar will stay on top. This book is as important as it is timely.” —Daniel Drezner, Tufts University

Eric Helleiner is Professor of Political Science and CIGI Chair in International Political Economy at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo. He is the author of The Making of National Money and States and the Reemergence of Global Finance and coeditor of Economic Nationalism in a Globalizing World, all from Cornell. Jonathan Kirshner is Professor of Government at Cornell University. He is the author of Appeasing Bankers and Currency and Coercion. He is the editor of Monetary Orders, also from Cornell. Cornell Studies in Money A series edited by Eric Helleiner and Jonathan Kirshner

What is the future of the U.S. dollar as an international currency? Will predictions of its demise end up just as inaccurate as those that have accompanied major international financial crises since the early 1970s? Analysts disagree, often profoundly, in their answers to these questions. In The Future of the Dollar, leading scholars of the dollar’s international role bring multidisciplinary perspectives and a range of contrasting predictions to the question of the dollar’s future. This timely book provides readers with a clear sense of why such disagreements exist and it outlines a variety of future scenarios and the possible political implications for the United States and the world. C ontrib u tors David P. Calleo, Johns Hopkins University • Benjamin J. Cohen, University of California, Santa Barbara • Marcello de Cecco, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy • Eric Helleiner, University of Waterloo • Harold James, Princeton University and European University Institute • Jonathan Kirshner, Cornell University • Ronald I. McKinnon, Stanford University • Herman Schwartz, University of Virginia

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The IMF, the World Bank, and Their Borrowers Ngaire Woods “No other book provides such an elegant introduction to the principal lending operations of both the IMF and the World Bank. With exceptional clarity and grace, Ngaire Woods strikes a balance between analysis and constructive criticism. Her portrait of the contemporary evolution of the policies and practices of the IMF and World Bank seamlessly integrates an impressive range of research and journalistic coverage.”—Louis W. Pauly, author of Who Elected the Bankers?: Surveillance and Control in the World Economy.

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Affirmative Action for the Future James P. Sterba At a time when private and public institutions of higher education are reassessing their admissions policies in light of new economic conditions, Affirmative Action for the Future is a clarion call for the need to keep the door of opportunity open. In 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court’s Grutter and Gratz decisions vindicated the University of Michigan Law School’s affirmative action program while striking down the particular affirmative action program used for undergraduates at the university. In 2006 and 2008, state referendums banned affirmative action in some states while upholding it in others. Taking these developments into account, James P. Sterba draws on his vast experience as a champion of affirmative action to mount a new moral and legal defense of the practice as a useful tool for social reform. Sterba documents the level of racial and sexual discrimination that still exists in the United States and then, arguing that diversity is a public good, he calls for expansion of the reach of affirmative action as a mechanism for encouraging true diversity. In his view, we must include in our understanding of affirmative action the need to favor those who come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, regardless of race and sex. Elite colleges and universities could best facilitate opportunities for students from working-class and poor families, in Sterba’s view, by cutting back on legacy and athletic preferences that overwhelmingly benefit wealthy white applicants.

“James P. Sterba has thoroughly canvassed the subject of affirmative action, and his arguments in this book are very clear and compelling. Affirmative Action for the Future will be read eagerly by anyone interested in affirmative action and social justice, whether their primary focus is on philosophy, law, political science, race theory, or feminism.” —Anita M. Superson, author of The Moral Skeptic

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“I’m Not a Racist, But . . .” The Moral Quandary of Race Lawrence Blum Winner of the Social Philosophy Book of the Year Award given by the North American Society for Social Philosophy “This is a very thoughtful work on a sensitive subject, a good and practical work for all readers interested in race relations.”—Booklist For more information, click on the cover image

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The Racial Contract Charles W. Mills 1997, 192 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-8463-6 $17.95s/£14.95

James P. Sterba is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of twenty-five books, including  Affirmative Action and Racial Preference: A Debate,  Does Feminism Discriminate against Men—A Debate, Justice for Here and Now, and Terrorism and International Justice. He is also past president of the American Philosophical Association, Central Division, and several other philosophical organizations. SEPTEMBER, 152 pages, 1 table, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4607-8 $49.95x/£33.95 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7591-7 $17.95s/£11.95 Current Events | Law

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A New New Deal How Regional Activism Will Reshape the American Labor Movement Amy B. Dean and David B. Reynolds “Using case studies of successful partnerships, Amy B. Dean and David B. Reynolds paint a compelling picture of regional movements for a just and sustainable society. A New New Deal reinspires social activism and offers a modern road map to the labor movement.”—Rabbi David Saperstein, Director, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism

Amy B. Dean is a noted activist and social entrepreneur who served from 1993 to 2003 as the youngest elected leader of the AFL-CIO in  Silicon Valley. She is the founder of two national nonprofits,  Building Partnerships USA and Working Partnerships USA. She has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Fast Company, Le Monde, Mother Jones, El Pais, Business 2.0, and numerous local publications. David B. Reynolds is Labor Extension Coordinator at the Labor Studies Center of Wayne State University and a field organizer for Building Partnerships USA. He is author of Taking  the High Road: Communities Organize for Economic Change, Partnering for Change: Unions and Community Groups Build Coalitions for  Economic Justice, and Living Wage Campaigns: An Activist’s Guide to Building the Movement for Economic Justice, published by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. AN ILR Press Book A Century Foundation Book

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How Social Movements for Regional Equity Are Reshaping Metropolitan America Manuel Pastor Jr., Chris Benner, and Martha Matsuoka

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In A New New Deal, the labor movement leaders Amy B. Dean and David B. Reynolds offer a bold new plan to revitalize American labor activism and build a sense of common purpose between labor and community organizations. Dean and Reynolds demonstrate how alliances organized at the regional level are the most effective tool to build a voice for working people in the workplace, community, and halls of government. The authors draw on their own successes to offer in-depth, contemporary case studies of effective labor-community coalitions. They also outline a concrete strategy for building power at the regional level. This pioneering model presents the regional building blocks for national change. A diverse audience—both within the labor movement and among its allies— will welcome this clear, detailed, and inspiring presentation of regional power-building tactics, which include deep coalition-building, leadership development, policy research, and aggressive political action.

“Economic justice has long been the core goal of community organizing.   In the past decade, often below the radar screen of national politics,  effective movements have emerged within neighborhoods and, more importantly,  at the regional level. This Could Be The Start of Something Big provides a vivid account of some of these efforts and is an important contribution to new thinking about progressive politics.”—Paul Osterman, MIT Sloan School 2009, 272 pages, 3 tables, 2 charts/graphs, 3 maps, 6 x 9 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7462-0 $19.95s/£13.50

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Clandestine Crossings Migrants and Coyotes on the Texas-Mexico Border David Spener “Clandestine Crossings is both instructive and provocative in the best sense of the word. David Spener’s highly unique and important research and analysis will prompt a great deal of interest and deep engagement from readers in migration studies, border studies, and Chicano/a studies, as well as in anthropology, geography, political science, and sociology. There may be no one else in a position to combine the skills and knowledge that Spener has brought to this project with his willingness and ability to challenge hegemonic notions of coyotes and coyotaje—and, by extension, the U.S. boundary-enforcement apparatus. This book deserves as wide an audience as possible: what it has to offer is not only fascinating and unique but also of great importance.”—Joseph Nevins, author of Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid

Clandestine Crossings delivers an in-depth description and analysis of the experiences of working-class Mexican migrants at the beginning of the twenty-first century as they enter the United States surreptitiously with the help of paid guides known as coyotes. Drawing on ethnographic observations of crossing conditions in the borderlands of South Texas, as well as interviews with migrants, coyotes, and border officials, Spener details how migrants and coyotes work together to evade apprehension by U.S. law enforcement authorities as they cross the border. In so doing, he seeks to dispel many of the myths that misinform public debate about undocumented immigration to the United States. The hiring of a coyote, Spener argues, is one of the principal strategies that Mexican migrants have developed in response to intensified U.S. border enforcement. Although this strategy is typically portrayed in the press as a sinister organized-crime phenomenon, Spener argues that it is better understood as the resistance of working-class Mexicans to an economic model and set of immigration policies in North America that increasingly resemble an apartheid system. In the absence of adequate employment opportunities in Mexico and legal mechanisms for them to work in the United States, migrants and coyotes draw on their social connections and cultural knowledge to stage successful border crossings in spite of the ever greater dangers placed in their path by government authorities.

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Policing the U.S.–Mexico Divide Second Edition Peter Andreas Cornell Studies in Political Economy 2009, 200 pages, 1 map, 2 halftones, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7540-5 $19.95s/£13.50

David Spener is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Trinity University. He is the editor of Adult Biliteracy and coeditor of The U.S.-Mexico Border: Transcending Divisions, Contesting Identities and Free Trade and Uneven Development: The North American Apparel Industry after NAFTA. DECEMBER, 304 pages, 3 halftones, 5 tables, 2 charts/graphs, 3 maps, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4749-5 $65.00x/£44.50 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7589-4 $24.95s/£16.95 Current Events | Sociology

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Women’s Lives through War and Peace in Sierra Leone Chris Coulter During the war in Sierra Leone (1991–2002), members of various rebel movements kidnapped thousands of girls and women, some of whom came to take an active part in the armed conflict alongside the rebels. In a stunning look at the life of women in wartime, Chris Coulter draws on interviews with more than a hundred women to bring us inside the rebel camps in Sierra Leone. When these girls and women returned to their home villages after the cessation of hostilities, their families and peers viewed them with skepticism and fear, while humanitarian organizations saw them primarily as victims. Neither view was particularly helpful as they tried to resume normal lives after the war. Offering lessons for policymakers, practitioners, and activists, Coulter shows how prevailing notions of gender, both in home communities and among NGO workers, led, for instance, to women who had taken part in armed conflict being bypassed in the demilitarization and demobilization processes carried out by the international community in the wake of the war. Many of these women found it extremely difficult to return to their families, and, without institutional support, some were forced to turn to prostitution to eke out a living. Coulter weaves several themes through the work, including the nature of gender roles in war, livelihood options in war and peace, and how war and postwar experiences affect social and kinship relations.

War and Shadows Mai Lan Gustafsson

Vietnamese culture and religious traditions place the utmost importance on dying well: in old age, body unblemished, with surviving children, and properly buried and mourned. More than five million people were killed in the Vietnam War, many of them young, many of them dying far from home. Another 300,000 are still missing. Having died badly, they are thought to have become angry ghosts, doomed to spend eternity in a kind of spirit hell. Decades after the war ended, many survivors believe that the spirits of those dead and missing have returned to haunt their loved ones. In War and Shadows, the anthropologist Mai Lan Gustafsson tells the story of the anger of these spirits and the torments of their kin. Gustafsson’s rich ethnographic research allows her to bring readers into the world of spirit possession, focusing on the source of the pain, the physical and mental anguish the spirits bring, and various attempts to ameliorate their anger through ritual offerings and the intervention of mediums. Through a series of personal life histories, she chronicles the variety of ailments brought about by the spirits’ wrath, from headaches and aching limbs (often the same limb lost by a loved one in battle) to self-mutilation. In Gustafsson’s view, the Communist suppression of spirit-based religion after the fall of Saigon has intensified anxieties about the well-being of the spirit world. While shrines and mourning are still allowed, spirit mediums were outlawed and driven underground, along with many of the other practices that might have provided some comfort. Despite these restrictions, she finds, victims of these hauntings do as much as possible to try to lay their ghosts to rest.

Chris Coulter is a lecturer and researcher at Uppsala University and coauthor of Young Female Fighters in African Wars.

Mai Lan Gustafsson is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Christopher Newport University.

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Stories of the Soviet Experience Memoirs, Diaries, Dream Irina Paperno Beginning with glasnost in the late 1980s and continuing into the present, scores of personal accounts of life under Soviet rule, written throughout its history, have been published in Russia, marking the end of an epoch. In a major new work on private life and personal writings, Irina Paperno explores this massive outpouring of human documents to uncover common themes, cultural trends, and literary forms. The book argues that, diverse as they are, these narratives—memoirs, diaries, notes, blogs—assert the historical significance of intimate lives shaped by catastrophic political forces, especially the terror under Stalin and World War II. Moreover, these published personal documents create a community where those who lived through the Soviet era can gain access to the inner recesses of one another’s lives. This community strives to forge a link to the tradition of Russia’s nineteenth-century intelligentsia; thus the Russian “intelligentsia” emerges as an additional implicit subject of this book. The book surveys hundreds of personal accounts and focuses on two in particular, chosen for their exceptional quality, scope, and emotional power. Notes about Anna Akhmatova is the diary Lidiia Chukovskaia, a professional editor, kept to document the day-to-day life of her friend, the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. Evgeniia Kiseleva, a barely literate former peasant, kept records in notebooks with the thought of crafting a movie script from the story of her life. The striking parallels and contrasts between these two documents demonstrate how the Soviet state and the idea of history shaped very different lives and very different life stories. The book also analyzes dreams (most of them terror dreams) recounted in the diaries and memoirs of authors ranging from a peasant to well-known writers, a Party leader, and Stalin himself. History, Paperno shows, invaded their dreams, too.   With a sure grasp of Russian cultural history, great sensitivity to the men and women who wrote, and a command of European and American scholarship on life writing, Paperno places diaries and memoirs of the Soviet experience in a rich historical and conceptual frame. An important and lasting contribution to the history of Russian culture at the end of an epoch, Stories of the Soviet Experience also illuminates the general logic and specific uses of personal narratives.

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“The value and longevity of a book of personal ‘stories’ gathered from a traumatic era depends to a large extent on the scholarly wisdom, trustworthiness, and good taste of the gatherer. The stories must be singularly meaningful and at the same time representative; coherent for outsiders but not self-consciously crafted for them; and arranged under some unifying rubric that nevertheless does not depersonalize the subjects. Given the profusion of Soviet-era memoirs and diaries, such a book benefits from some new filter, information source, or angle of interpretation on the memorymaterial. Irina Paperno’s Stories of the Soviet Experience satisfies all these criteria at the highest level.” —Caryl Emerson, Princeton University

Irina Paperno teaches Russian literature and intellectual history at the University of California, Berkeley. Her publications include Suicide as a Cultural Institution in Dostoevsky’s Russia, also from Cornell, and Chernyshevsky and the Age of Realism: A Study in the Semiotics of Behavior. She is coeditor of several books, including Creating Life: The Aesthetic Utopia of Russian Modernism.

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Slavophile Empire Imperial Russia’s Illiberal Path Laura Engelstein “Laura Engelstein’s writing is always thoughtful and instructive. The essays in Slavophile Empire are a pleasure to read. They illuminate the battle that Russian thinkers and artists waged with one another and with the government to define the terms of Russia’s encounter with modernity and indeed to define what it meant to be Russian in a modern world whose categories of thought derived primarily from Europe.”—David L. Ransel, author of A Russian Merchant’s Tale

Twentieth-century Russia, in all its political incarnations, lacked the basic features of the Western liberal model: the rule of law, civil society, and an uncensored public sphere. In Slavophile Empire, the leading historian Laura Engelstein pays particular attention to the Slavophiles and their heirs, whose aversion to the secular individualism of the West and embrace of an idealized version of the native past established a pattern of thinking that had an enduring impact on Russian political life. Imperial Russia did not lack for partisans of Western-style liberalism, but they were outnumbered, to the right and to the left, by those who favored illiberal options. “Slavophile Empire has a clear logic and coherence: the divisions of law, religion, and art all revolve around the central question of identity and relationship to the ‘West.’ I found the chapters on Slavophiles and art especially stimulating and original.” —Gregory Freeze, author of The Parish Clergy in Nineteenth-Century Russia

In the book’s rigorously argued chapters, Engelstein asks how Russia’s identity as a cultural nation at the core of an imperial state came to be defined in terms of this antiliberal consensus. She examines debates on religion and secularism, on the role of culture and the law under a traditional regime presiding over a modernizing society, on the status of the empire’s ethnic peripheries, and on the spirit needed to mobilize a multinational empire in times of war. These debates, she argues, did not predetermine the kind of system that emerged after 1917, but they foreshadowed elements of a political culture that are still in evidence today.

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Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union Francine Hirsch Cowinner of the Council for European Studies First Book Award Winner of the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize given by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Winner of the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize given by the American Historical Association Culture and Society after Socialism 2005, 384 pages, 7 charts/graphs/maps, 20 halftones, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-8908-2 $27.95s/£23.50

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To the Tashkent Station Evacuation and Survival in the Soviet Union at War Rebecca Manley In summer and fall 1941, as German armies advanced with shocking speed across the Soviet Union, the Soviet leadership embarked on a desperate attempt to safeguard the country’s industrial and human resources. Their success helped determine the outcome of the war in Europe. To the Tashkent Station brilliantly reconstructs the evacuation of more than sixteen million Soviet civilians in one of the most dramatic episodes of World War II. Rebecca Manley paints a vivid picture of this epic wartime saga: the chaos that erupted in towns large and small as German troops approached, the overcrowded trains that trundled eastward, and the desperate search for sustenance and shelter in Tashkent, one of the most sought-after sites of refuge in the rear. Her story ends in the shadow of victory, as evacuees journeyed back to their ruined cities and broken homes. Based on previously unexploited archival collections in Russia, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan, To the Tashkent Station offers a novel look at a war that transformed the lives of several generations of Soviet citizens. The evacuation touched men, women, and children from all walks of life: writers as well as workers, scientists along with government officials, party bosses, and peasants. Manley weaves their harrowing stories into a probing analysis of how the Soviet Union responded to and was transformed by World War II. Over the course of the war, the Soviet state was challenged as never before. Popular loyalties were tested, social hierarchies were recast, and the multiethnic fabric of the country was subjected to new strains. Even as the evacuation saved countless Soviet Jews from almost certain death, it spawned a new and virulent wave of anti-Semitism. This magisterial work is the first in-depth study of this crucial but neglected episode in the history of twentieth-century population displacement, World War II, and the Soviet Union.

“The story of the mass evacuation of Soviet citizens during World War II has found its historian in Rebecca Manley. She has done an amazing job of tracking down sources, reconstructing the bureaucratic web of institutions and policies undergirding the evacuation process, and collecting a range of personal experiences of the evacuation from all sectors of society. The result is an extremely compelling narrative that reads beautifully. In Manley’s hands, the evacuation also serves as a kind of microcosm of Soviet politics and society. Most importantly, this is a story of the human experience of evacuation and war.” —Lynne Viola, author of The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin’s Special Settlements

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The Colony of New Netherland A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century America Jaap Jacobs The Dutch involvement in North America started after Henry Hudson, sailing under a Dutch flag in 1609, traveled up the river that would later bear his name. The Dutch control of the region was short-lived, but had profound effects on the Hudson Valley region. In The Colony of New Netherland, Jaap Jacobs offers a comprehensive history of the Dutch colony on the Hudson from the first trading voyages in the 1610s to 1674, when the Dutch ceded the colony to the English.

“The Colony of New Netherland is the definitive modern study of the early Dutch experience in North America.” —Jon Parmenter, author of The Edge of the Woods “Jaap Jacobs has read virtually everything about New Netherland, primary and secondary, in Dutch and English, and produced a model synthesis of social, political, and economic history for a colonial experience that has far too long been terra incognita. Jacobs is particularly strong in his ability to take a genuinely transatlantic perspective.” —Daniel K. Richter, author of The Ordeal of the Longhouse

Jaap Jacobs (Ph.D. Leiden University), an independent scholar and writer, has been Visiting Professor of Early American History at Ohio University and Quinn Foundation Senior Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and Quinn Foundation Visiting Professor in the Department of History at Cornell University.

As Jacobs shows, New Netherland offers a distinctive example of economic colonization and in its social and religious profile represents a noteworthy divergence from the English colonization in North America. Centered around New Amsterdam on the island of Manhattan, the colony extended north to present-day Schenectady, New York, east to central Connecticut, and south to the border shared by Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, leaving an indelible imprint on the culture, political geography, and language of the early modern mid-Atlantic region. Dutch colonists’ vivid accounts of the land and people of the area shaped European perceptions of this bountiful land; their own activities had a lasting effect on land use and the flora and fauna of New York State, in particular, as well as on relations with the Native people with whom they traded. Sure to become readers’ first reference to this crucial phase of American early colonial history, The Colony of New Netherland is a multifaceted and detailed depiction of life in the colony, from exploration and settlement through governance, trade, and agriculture. Jacobs gives a keen sense of the built environment and social relations of the Dutch colonists and closely examines the influence of the church and the social system adapted from that of the Dutch Republic. Although Jacobs focuses his narrative on the realities of quotidian existence in the colony, he considers that way of life in the broader context of the Dutch Atlantic and in comparison to other European settlements in North America. 

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Irish Americans, African Americans, and the Politics of Citizenship during the Civil War Era Christian G. Samito “Christian G. Samito recognizes the agency of displaced groups agitating for inclusion. Becoming American under Fire is a very good book on an important and timely topic.”—Christopher Waldrep, author of Roots of Disorder and The Many Faces of Judge Lynch

In Becoming American under Fire, Christian G. Samito provides a rich account of how African American and Irish American soldiers influenced the modern vision of national citizenship that developed during the Civil War era. By bearing arms for the Union, African Americans and Irish Americans exhibited their loyalty to the United States and their capacity to act as citizens; they strengthened their American identity in the process. Members of both groups also helped to redefine the legal meaning and political practices of American citizenship. For African American soldiers, proving manhood in combat was only one aspect of their quest for acceptance as citizens. As Samito reveals, by participating in courts-martial and protesting against unequal treatment, African Americans gained access to legal and political processes from which they had previously been excluded. The experience of African Americans in the military helped shape a postwar political movement that successfully called for rights and protections regardless of race. For Irish Americans, soldiering in the Civil War was part of a larger affirmation of republican government and it forged a bond between their American citizenship and their Irish nationalism. The wartime experiences of Irish Americans helped bring about recognition of their full citizenship through naturalization and also caused the United States to pressure Britain to abandon its centuries-old policy of refusing to recognize the naturalization of British subjects abroad. As Samito makes clear, the experiences of African Americans and Irish Americans differed substantially—and at times both groups even found themselves violently opposed—but they had in common that they aspired to full citizenship and inclusion in the American polity. Both communities were key participants in the fight to expand the definition of citizenship that became enshrined in constitutional amendments and legislation that changed the nation. also

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The Civil War and America’s Culture of Death Mark S. Schantz “The revival of a Classical martial code; a maniacally detailed vision of Heaven; a rural cemetery movement that guaranteed a safe resting place—all these things together, Schantz argues, prepared American soldiers for death on the battlefield. In his view, it wasn’t the bloody war that made the rituals; it was the rituals that enabled the bloody war.”—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker 2008, 264 pages, 30 halftones, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-3761-8 $24.95t/£20.95

“Becoming American under Fire makes an important contribution to the history of American citizenship. Christian G. Samito demonstrates that the Civil War military service of Irish and African Americans led them to make demands for full inclusion and it created a moral indebtedness on the part of the native-born white population that made opposing those demands difficult. No other book illuminates this subject as well as this one does.” —Lawrence F. Kohl, author of The Politics of Individualism

Christian G. Samito earned a law degree from Harvard Law School and a doctorate in American history from Boston College. He is the editor of Commanding Boston’s Irish Ninth: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Patrick R. Guiney, Ninth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry; “Fear Was Not in Him”: The Civil War Letters of Major General Francis C. Barlow, U.S.A.; and Changes in Law and Society During the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Legal History Documentary Reader. He edits a series about the legal history of the Civil War era, teaches at Boston College and Boston University School of Law, and practices law in Boston. DECEMBER, 312 pages, 8 halftones, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4846-1 $39.95s/£26.95 History/Civil War

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In the Shadow of FDR From Harry Truman to Barack Obama, Fourth Edition William E. Leuchtenburg

“William E. Leuchtenburg’s close examination of FDR’s presidential legatees has enabled him to demonstrate Roosevelt’s enormous beyond-the-grave influence. In the Shadow of FDR is a fine, perceptive work that constitutes a valuable coda for New Deal studies. Several pertinent insights help to contribute to discussions of the role of personalities in politics. This book is a refreshing contribution to studies of the presidency.” —American Historical Review

Praise for earlier editions— “In the Shadow of FDR shrewdly sets forth the special cruelty of the dilemma Roosevelt’s successors have all faced: ‘If he did not walk in FDR’s footsteps, he ran a risk of having it said that he was not a Roosevelt but a Hoover. Yet to the extent that he did copy FDR, he lost any chance of marking out his own claim to recognition.’”—New York Times Book Review “A stimulating and original survey of the political impact of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s image on his successors in the White House. Truman was resentful, Eisenhower suffered (in liberal eyes) by invidious comparison, Kennedy was ambivalent, Johnson celebratory, Nixon strangely admiring, Carter shallow in his use of FDR symbolism, and Reagan the first to turn his back on the New Deal.”—Foreign Affairs

A ghost has inhabited the Oval Office since 1945—the ghost of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR’s formidable presence has cast a large shadow on the occupants of that office in the years since his death, and an appreciation of his continuing influence remains essential to understanding the contemporary presidency. This new edition of In the Shadow of FDR has been updated to examine the presidency of George W. Bush and the first 100 days of the presidency of Barack Obama. The Obama presidency is evidence not just of the continuing relevance of FDR for assessing executive power but also of the salience of FDR’s name in party politics and policy formulation.

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The Personal President

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Power Invested, Promise Unfulfilled Theodore J. Lowi

William E. Leuchtenburg is William Rand Kenan Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Among his many books is Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932–1940, for which he was awarded the Bancroft Prize and the Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians. At the request of Lawrence Halprin, the architect, Leuchtenburg provided the majority of the quotations for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C. DECEMBER, 448 pages, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4855-3 $69.95x/£47.50 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7568-9 $24.95s/£16.95 History/United States 3 0

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“Lowi shrewdly describes how the President uses television and polls to commune directly with the masses. He gives a fascinating reading of the founders’ intentions regarding the Presidency.”—New York Times Book Review 1985, 240 pages, 6 x 9 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-9426-0 $19.95s/£16.95

Negotiating the Constitution

The Earliest Debates over Original Intent

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Joseph M. Lynch “Lynch looks to the first six Congresses to see how those who framed and ratified the Constitution actually understood it in practice; in the process, he provides a rich history of the constitutional tugs-of-war in the early republic. Lynch concludes that, because the founders themselves could not agree on the original intention behind the Constitution’s most important provisions, then one need not bother with a search for that intention.”—Times Literary Supplement 1999, 336 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7271-8 $22.95s/£19.50

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The Will to Imagine A Justification of Skeptical Religion J. L. Schellenberg

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“In this completion to his important trilogy, J. L.Schellenberg compellingly defends a critical and imaginative philosophy of religion against the contemporary tendencies of turning philosophy of religion into an analytical theology or of replacing it by a dogmatic naturalism. His rigorously argued nonnaturalist alternative breaks new ground.”—Ingolf U. Dalferth, Claremont Graduate University

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“J. L. Schellenberg throws much light on some central issues in the philosophy of religion and on important figures in its development such as Pascal, Kant, and James. He challenges us to take skeptical faith seriously, as a living alternative to traditional forms of religious belief and practice. The Will to Imagine is technically accomplished and offers insights into matters of human importance such as the pursuit of beauty. It will be a rewarding read for all students of the philosophy of religion.”—P. A. Byrne, King’s College London, editor of Religious Studies

The Will to Imagine completes J. L. Schellenberg’s trilogy in the philosophy of religion, following his acclaimed Prolegomena to a Philosophy of Religion and The Wisdom to Doubt. This book marks a striking reversal in our understanding of the possibility of religious faith. Where others treat religious skepticism as a dead end, Schellenberg argues that skepticism is the only point from which a proper beginning in religious inquiry—and in religion itself—can be made. For Schellenberg, our immaturity as a species not only makes justified religious belief impossible but also provides the appropriate context for a type of faith response grounded in imagination rather than belief, directed not to theism but to ultimism, the heart of religion. This new and nonbelieving form of faith, he demonstrates, is quite capable of nourishing an authentic religious life while allowing for inquiry into ways of refining the generic idea that shapes its commitments. A singular feature of Schellenberg’s book is his claim, developed in detail, that unsuccessful believers’ arguments can successfully be recast as arguments for imaginative faith. Out of the rational failure of traditional forms of religious belief, The Will to Imagine fashions an unconventional form of religion better fitted, Schellenberg argues, to the human species as it exists today and as we may hope it will evolve. also For more information, click on the title

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“J. L. Schellenberg is one of the most innovative philosophers of religion today. The Will to Imagine is rich with vigorous, challenging arguments on the limits of reason, skepticism, the nature of religious faith, belief, and the imagination, and a sustained, original defense of a combination of skepticism and eligious faith.”

The Wisdom to Doubt

A Justification of Religious Skepticism J. L. Schellenberg “This is a brilliant work, full of original thinking and unhurriedly persuasive argument.”—Terence Penelhum, University of Calgary 2007, 344 pages, 6 line drawings, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4554-5 $49.95s/£41.95

J. L. Schellenberg is Professor of Philosophy at Mount Saint Vincent University and Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Graduate Studies at Dalhousie University. He is the author of Prolegomena to a Philosophy of Religion, The Wisdom to Doubt: A Justification of Religious Skepticism, and Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason, all from Cornell. AUGUST, 280 pages, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4780-8 $45.00s/£30.50 Philosophy | Religion

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Robin Hood A Mythic Biography Stephen Knight

Winner of the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies

“Stephen Knight’s book documents the enormous scope of the myth—revolutionary, reactionary, chivalric, homosexual, patriotic, or whatever the audience will allow, even slapstick. A final mythic trait of Robinalia is its ability to parody itself. Errol Flynn defined the character for film: the animated Robin Fox in the Disney cartoon imitates Flynn, and his was the voice, uncredited, of Rabbit Hood in the 1949 Warner Brothers cartoon. Like any great myth, this is a tale that no one ever hears for the first time.”—London Review of Books

“Robin Hood, the outlaw and eternal ‘trickster,’ is still evolving, having long ago transcended his national and historical origins.” —Salon.com

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“Knight valiantly conveys everything said and done about our hero since the last quarter of the fourteenth century: every ballad, poem, novel, opera, movie and TV series—Robin Hood’s Disneyfication and feminization, spoofs, lampoons, Muppet and politically correct versions included. Such is the power of myth that this catalog yokes Robin Hood with Jesus Christ, Buddha, Santa Claus, King Arthur, the Knights Templar, Jesse James, the rural Australian outlaw Ned Kelly, Martin Luther King Jr. and the protean tricksters of North American aboriginal lore. If a ‘Hoodie’ ye be, thou shalt sally forth to liberate all the copies thou canst.”—Toronto Globe and Mail

The only figure in the original Dictionary of National Biography who is said never to have existed, Robin Hood has taken on an air of reality few historical figures achieve. His image in various guises has been put to use as a subject of ballads, nationalist rallying point, Disney cartoon fox, greenclad figure of farce, tabloid fodder, and template for petty criminals and progressive political candidates alike. In this engaging and deeply informed book Stephen Knight looks at the different manifestations of Robin Hood at different times and places in a mythic biography with a thematic structure. also

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Warfare in Feudal Europe, 730–1200

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John Beeler 1973, 288 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-9120-7 $23.95s/£20.50

Medieval Feudalism

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Carl Stephenson 1956, 127 pages, 7 halftones, 5 x 7 3/8 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-9013-2 $14.95s/£12.50

Stephen Knight is Distinguished Research Professor in English Literature at Cardiff University. He is the author of books including Merlin: Knowledge and Power through the Ages, also from Cornell.

Medieval Society Sidney Painter The Development of Western Civilization 1951, 109 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-9850-3 $12.95s/£10.95 For more information, click on the cover image

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Artillery of Heaven American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East Ussama Makdisi “Lucid and elegantly written, Ussama Makdisi’s Artillery of Heaven accomplishes two big things. First, while examining nineteenth-century American missionary encounters in the Arab Ottoman territories, it presents a model for a new kind of transnational history that sheds light on American engagement with the world. Second, and at a time when much of the Arab past has been ‘effectively demarcated . . . as a forbidden no-man’s-land’ because of fear of what ‘divisive narratives’ of the past may dredge up, it scrutinizes the raw history of the ‘multireligious world’ in the Ottoman region that is now Lebanon.”—Middle East Journal “Makdisi is certainly not the first to locate the origins of Arab nationalism within the missionary movement, but that’s not really his aim. Rather, he wants to demonstrate that progressive, secular, ecumenical ideas have prospered in Lebanon, only to be repeatedly eradicated by insiders and outsiders, each according to their own agenda.”—The Nation “This book is a remarkable tour de force. It establishes Ussama Makdisi’s place as one of the premier historians of the modern Arab world, of the Arab-American encounter, and of Lebanon. It represents the best kind of intercultural history, weaving seamlessly a narrative of missionary actions against their American background, and of Lebanese reactions in their Ottoman context. This book does both things, masterfully and apparWinner of the ently effortlessly.”—Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University

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Award given by the The complex relationship between America and the Arab Middle East Studies world goes back further than most people realize. In Artillery Association “Makdisi presents a simple of Heaven, Ussama Makdisi presents a foundational American but remarkable story of the encounter with the Arab world that occurred in the nineteenth first Protestant missionaries to century, shortly after the arrival of the first American Protestant the Middle East and of the life and missionaries in the Middle East. He tells the dramatic tale of the death of their Lebanese Maronite (Christian) conversion and death of As’ad Shidyaq, the earliest Arab convert follower, As’ad Shidyaq. Makdisi is a skilled to American Protestantism. The struggle over this man’s body and scholar equally comfortable with nuanced soul—and over how his story might be told—changed the actors and English and Arabic sources.” cultures on both sides.

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Path of Empire

Panama and the California Gold Rush Aims McGuinness

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“In Path of Empire, Aims McGuinness has crafted a well-conceived and painstakingly executed account of Panama in the face of U.S. imperialism. As far as Americans were concerned, Panama was simply a transit zone, and the efforts of interested parties— Panamanians, travelers, American capitalists—to take advantage of that fact form the meat of this book. By placing this story in his chosen context, McGuinness illustrates the true breadth of his topic.”—Journal of American History The United States in the World 2007, 264 pages, 7 halftones, 1 table, 6 maps, 6 x 9 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7538-2 $19.95s/£13.50

Ussama Makdisi is Professor of History and first holder of the Arab American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University. He is the author of The Culture of Sectarianism and coeditor of Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa. The United States in the World A series edited by Mark Philip Bradley and Paul A. Kramer

AUGUST, 280 pages, 10 halftones, 2 maps, 6x9 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7575-7 $19.95s/£13.50 (Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4621-4) History/Middle East

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Why France?

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American Historians Reflect on an Enduring Fascination Edited by Laura Lee Downs and Stéphane Gerson Afterword by Roger Chartier “Sixteen American historians tell us why they chose to become historians of France and what that country means to them—from their first scary encounters with the French language, archives, and bureaucrats to their enduring connections with French scholars, friends, and the French countryside.”—Natalie Zemon Davis, author of The Return of Martin Guerre and The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France “Why France? is good fun indeed, and can be savored like a fine wine.”—Nancy L. Green, author of Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work

Laura Lee Downs and Stéphane Gerson commissioned a diverse array of historians to write autobiographical essays in which they explore their intellectual, political, and personal engagements with France and its past. Why France? provides a rich and thought-provoking portrait of France, the Franco-American relationship, and a half-century of American intellectual life, viewed through the lens of the best scholarship on France. C ontrib u tors Ken Alder • John W. Baldwin • Edward Berenson • Herrick Chapman • Roger Chartier • Clare Haru Crowston • Barbara Diefendorf • Laura Lee Downs • Stéphane Gerson • Jan Goldstein • Lynn Hunt • Steven Kaplan • Thomas Kselman • Herman Lebovics • Robert Paxton • Todd Shepard • Leonard V. Smith • Gabrielle Spiegel • Tyler Stovall

Laura Lee Downs is Professor of History at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. She is the author of Manufacturing Inequality, also from Cornell, Childhood in the Promised Land, and Writing Gender History. Stéphane Gerson is Associate Professor of French and French Studies at New York University. He is the author of The Pride of Place, also from Cornell. Roger Chartier is a member of the Collège de France, Professor of History at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and the author of many books, including The Order of Books and Cultural History. NOVEMBER, 256 pages, 6 x 9 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7570-2 $21.95s/£14.95 (Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4414-2) History/France 3 4

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The Mirror of Antiquity American Women and the Classical Tradition, 1750–1900 Caroline Winterer

“The Mirror of Antiquity serves as a general history of classicism in the early United States as much as of a female version of classicism. On the one hand, there was talk about matronly virtue; on the other, there were revealing Grecian gowns and luxurious home furnishings. These effectively synthesized interconnections are demonstrated not only by Winterer’s graceful prose but also by the book’s excellent illustrations.”—American Historical Review “Equally conversant in intellectual history and material culture, Winterer offers a compelling portrait of the ‘superliterate’ women at the top of eighteenth- and early nineteenthcentury American society. Her sparkling, concise prose animates the book throughout, and generous illustration permits the reader to follow Winterer’s visual insights. To use the language that her subjects would have known, these attributes make The Mirror of Antiquity at once instructive and entertaining to read.”—Early American Literature “The Mirror of Antiquity deeply enriches current understanding as we can no longer see the discourse of and through the worlds of Greece and Rome in America as merely political, public, or masculine, or as an exclusively elite, white, and male endeavor. Winterer demonstrates in a remarkable and nuanced book how colonial, revolutionary, early republican, antebellum and Gilded-Age American women, each in their own distinct and ingenious ways, operated through and made use of this long-gone world in ever-changing circumstances.”—Journal of the Early Republic

In The Mirror of Antiquity, Caroline Winterer uncovers the lost world of American women’s classicism during its glory days from the eighteenth through the nineteenth centuries.

Caroline Winterer is Associate Professor of History at Stanford University. She is the author of The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780–1910. AUGUST, 256 pages, 42 halftones, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7579-5 $22.95s/£15.50 (Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4163-9) History/United States P R E S S

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Ariadne’s Thread

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A Guide to International Tales Found in Classical Literature William Hansen

Winner (Single Reference Humanities) of the AAP Professional/ Scholarly Publishing Division Award

“Hansen traces the origins of more than 100 folktales to their roots in the literature of antiquity. Ariadne’s Thread is a valuable source for classicists and students of folklore.” —Library Journal

“Of the many rewards in Hansen’s masterpiece, coverage and accessibility deserve special mention. Not just poets and mythographers, but historians, philosophers, travel writers, orators, grammarians, and novelists too are scoured for stories, yielding a treasury of tales. Far from merely a reference book, the volume mirrors the multiformity of its subject, making a fine text for advanced myth classes, a resource for scholars in comparative studies, and a delightful bedside reader.”—The Classical Review “Hansen’s narrative accounts are much more readable and convincing than the customary brief summaries in many indices or collections. If any readers wish to read the full version for themselves, bibliographical references point the way, but Hansen’s felicitous, abbreviated renderings will usually be sufficient. Whether one browses leisurely through Hansen’s compendium or searches it selectively with a specific purpose in mind, Ariadne’s Thread functions as both story book and reference work.”—Journal of American Folklore

From Cinderella to The Boy Who Cried Wolf to The Dragon Slayer to the Judgment of Solomon, certain legends, myths, and folktales are part of the oral tradition in countries around the world. In addition to their pervasiveness, these stories show an astonishing longevity; many such tales are found in classical antiquity. Ariadne’s Thread is a mini-encyclopedia of more than a hundred such international oral tales. It is invaluable not only to classicists and folklorists but also to a wide range of other readers who are interested in stories and storytelling.

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Rhodes in the Hellenistic Age Richard M. Berthold

“The most shining example of obstinate and triumphant eleutheria (freedom) in the Hellenistic period—in clearcut contrast to all the servility, flattery, and authoritarianism—is provided by Rhodes: how curious, then, that Richard M. Berthold’s Rhodes in the Hellenistic Age should be almost the only serious study devoted to this fascinating commercial republic. Berthold tells the story crisply and documents it well.” —Times Literary Supplement “By approaching the Hellenistic world from the special perspective of Rhodes, Berthold gives us a fascinating view of how foreign relations and policies may really have worked. . . . His account of the siege of Rhodes by Demetrius Poliorcetes in 305/4 b.c. is not only informative but also exciting reading.”—The Classical World

Richard M. Berthold retired as an Associate Professor of Classical History from the University of New Mexico. SEPTEMBER, 256 pages, 2 maps, 1 chart, 6 x 9 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7597-9 $24.95s/£16.95 (Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-1640-8) Classics For more information, click on the title

Seneca’s Hercules Furens A Critical Text with Introduction and Commentary Edited by John G. Fitch

“Fitch is not only accurate and learned (and this commentary represents an immense range of learning) but he has good judgment, and his introduction and more extended comments on separate scenes and choral odes show him to be a sensitive interpreter.”—Elaine Fantham, Princeton University

William Hansen is Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies and Folklore at Indiana University, Bloomington.

John G. Fitch is Professor Emeritus, Department of Greek and Roman Studies, University of Victoria. He is the editor of many texts by Seneca.

Myth and Poetics a series edited by Gregory Nagy

Cornell Studies in Classical Philology

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SEPTEMBER, 492 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7571-9 $45.00s/£30.50 (Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-1876-1) Classics

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Letters of a Ticonderoga Farmer

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Indian Affairs in Colonial New York

Selections from the Correspondence of William H. Cook and His Wife with Their Son, Joseph Cook, 1851–1885

The Seventeenth Century

Edited by Frederick G. Bascom

“This is a most important book on the history of contacts between American Indians and the colonial powers. It is a piece of ethnohistorical research and writing of the best sort.”—American Anthropologist

“The letters throw an illuminating and frequently a cheerful light on the rural life of northern New York in the latter half of the nineteenth century.”—New York History “The story told in these letters of a farmer and stock-raising father who invested everything in his one son until the latter was self-supporting at age thirty-eight is well worth preserving. Farming and finances and shrewd advice and some politics are the themes of these letters.”—American Historical Review

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Frederick G. Bascom was a journalist and attorney.

Allen W. Trelease is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He is the author of books including White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction and Making North Carolina Literate.

SEPTEMBER, 148 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7583-2 $16.95s/£11.50 Regional/New York

SEPTEMBER, 404 pages, 4 maps, 6 halftones, 6 x 9 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7564-1 $24.95s/£16.95 Regional/New York For more information, click on the title

A Pioneer Songster

Texts from the Stevens-Douglass Manuscript of Western New York, 1841–1856 Edited by Harold W. Thompson and Edith E. Cutting “Consummate scholarship, simplicity of presentation, humane warmth, and quick insight are what we have learned to expect from Harold Thompson. The songster he and Edith Cutting have assembled here is not meant for singing, but for the study of song repertory of a bygone era. As a document, A Pioneer Songster is a true pioneer.”—Journal of American Folklore

The Golden Age of Homespun Jared Van Wagenen Jr. Illustrated by Erwin H. Austin “The true links that bind Americans to their past may happily be found here. The Golden Age of Homespun has done more to present the manner of early American living than any similar book known to this reviewer.”—Carl Carmer, New York Times “Work and play, it is all here, and let us be particularly grateful that The Golden Age of Homespun is a most readable and delightful essay and history, written from life itself and from loving memory, on every page commending itself to those who honor the human spirit and the earth of its inheritance.”—Henry Beston, William and Mary Quarterly

Harold W. Thompson (1891–1963) was Goldwin Smith Professor of English at Cornell University and the first president of the New York Folklore Society. Edith E. Cutting is the author of several collections of New York State folklore, including Lore of an Adirondack County, published by Cornell University Press in 1944.

Jared van Wagenen Jr. was a farmer, a teacher of agriculture, a writer, a public servant, and a radio broadcaster. He was the author of Days of My Years.

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Irish Political Violence in New York City, 1870 and 1871

“This well-written and well-documented book reveals the explosive mixture of ethnicity and class in nineteenth-century American cities.”—Journal of American Ethnic History

Michael Gordon is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. SEPTEMBER, 288 pages, 2 maps, 1 line drawing, 9 halftones, 5 tables, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-8034-8 $24.95s/£16.95 (Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-2754-1) History/United States

The Earnest Men

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Republicans of the Civil War Senate Allan G. Bogue “Bogue has given us an excellent quantitative analysis of the politics of Civil War senators.”—Journal of American History “The Earnest Men is as much a guide to important research methods and a surpassing example of scrupulous reporting as it is a penetrating analysis of a dominant concept in Civil War history.”—Civil War History “In this important and well-written volume, Allan Bogue examines radical and conservative Republicanism in the Senate during the 37th Congress (1861–1863), documenting distinctions among the members and clarifying the factors that affected factionalism.”—American Studies

Allan G. Bogue is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. SEPTEMBER, 372 pages, 37 tables, 6 charts, 2 halftones, 2 line drawings, 6 1/4 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7569-6 $29.95s/£20.50 (Cloth ISBN 0-8014-1357-5) History/United States

The Politics of Race in New York The Struggle for Black Suffrage in the Civil War Era

Michael Gordon “Michael Gordon goes beyond the standard interpretation of the Orange riots and draws important distinctions between the two riots, tracing an intricate story of class, ethnicity, and politics in New York’s Gilded Age. Underpinning Gordon’s book is an unusual sensitivity concerning the study of popular disorder.”—Journal of American History

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Phyllis F. Field “In this excellent book, Phyllis F. Field brings quantitative sophistication to the study of politics and race. Historians concerned with the relationship between political ideology and emerging class distinctions will find Field’s analysis of the politics of race rewarding.”—American Historical Review

Phyllis F. Field is Associate Professor of History Emerita at Ohio University. SEPTEMBER, 268 pages, 8 maps, 45 tables, 6 x 9 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7563-4 $24.95s/£16.95 (Cloth ISBN 0-8014-1408-3) History/United States

The War against Proslavery Religion Abolitionism and the Northern Churches, 1830–1865 John R. McKivigan “McKivigan’s fine book has two central themes developed in tandem. One is the effort of abolitionists to convert clergymen and church people of the North to their cause. The other is the quarrel among the leaders of these churches over endorsement of abolitionist goals such as the denunciation of slaveholding as a sin against God and the cessation of Christian fellowship with congregations including slaveholders.”—American Historical Review

John R. McKivigan is Mary O’Brien Gibson Professor of History at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis. He is the author of Forgotten Firebrand: James Redpath and the Making of Nineteenth-Century America, also from Cornell, and the coeditor of several books. SEPTEMBER, 328 pages, 8 tables, 6 x 9 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7576-4 $29.95s/£20.50 (Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-1589-6) History/United States

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Uncovering Ways of War

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Undermining the Kremlin

U.S. Intelligence and Foreign Military Innovation, 1918–1941

America’s Strategy to Subvert the Soviet Bloc, 1947–1956

Thomas G. Mahnken

Gregory Mitrovich

“Mahnken has illuminated a significant but neglected topic. His important book will interest students of interwar military history and will be required reading for intelligence historians.”—Journal of Military History “Uncovering Ways of War is an important contribution to the scholarship on intelligence and its role in determining how militaries plan for future wars.”—Virginia Quarterly Review “An important argument rendered with deftness and economy and rich in insights for those contemplating more recent failures of intelligence.”—Foreign Affairs “Mahnken closes the book with an appreciation of today’s situation. The U.S. still requires good intelligence to survive, lessons from the past are still appropriate, and the problems of the future are still daunting. Intelligence failures in recent years show we still have not studied enough history nor learned the right lessons. This book is a good place to start.”—Air Power History

Intelligence operations face the challenging task of predicting the shape of future wars. This task is hindered by their limited ability to warn of peacetime foreign military innovation. Using formerly classified sources— in particular, the reports of military attachés and other diplomat-officers—Thomas G. Mahnken traces how America learned of military developments in Japan, Germany, and Great Britain in the period between the two world wars. Thomas G. Mahnken is Professor of Strategy at the U.S. Naval War College and Visiting Fellow at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University. He is coeditor of Paradoxes of Strategic Intelligence: Essays in Honor of Michael I. Handel and The Information Revolution in Military Affairs in Asia.

“Compelling and scrupulously researched.”—Newsweek (International Edition) “Reader s interested in the strategic implications of nuclear weapons during the Winner of the early Cold War will find UnderStuart L. Bernath Book Prize given by the mining the Kremlin instructive.” Society for Historians —Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists of American Foreign Relations

“Mitrovich makes a good case that aggressive covert attempts to weaken the Soviet system were a more significant and integrated part of high-level U.S. thinking than has generally been recognized. In the process he has produced a wealth of new research on key individuals, important policy debates, and incessant bureaucratic battles, which will be useful for anyone studying this critical period of the Cold War.”—Journal of Cold War Studies

Following the Allied victory in World War II, the United States turned its efforts to preventing the spread of Communism beyond Eastern Europe. Gregory Mitrovich argues, however, that the policy of containment was only the first step in a clandestine campaign to destroy Soviet power. Mitrovich reveals a range of previously unknown covert actions launched during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations. Through the aggressive use of psychological warfare, officials sought to provoke political crisis among key Soviet leaders, to incite nationalist tensions within the USSR, and to foment unrest across Eastern Europe. Mitrovich demonstrates that inspiration for these efforts originated not within the intelligence community but with individuals at the highest levels of policymaking in the U.S. government. Gregory Mitrovich is a Research Scholar at the Saltzman Institute for War and Peace Studies at Columbia University.

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Cornell Studies in Security Affairs a series edited by Robert J. Art, Robert Jervis, and Stephen M. Walt

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Organizations at War in Afghanistan and Beyond

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Namhee Lee

“Sinno knows a lot about Afghanistan and offers significant insights about organizations and strategy on which others will want

“A must-read for anybody interested in the political development of modern Korea.”—Mobilization

“This book is a fascinating and serious piece of scholarship that carries implicit policy warnings. It presents very important conclusions. Highly recommended.”—Choice

“In The Making of Minjung Namhee Lee examines actors and the sphere of social activism that contributed to democratization in South Korea. Lee provides an excellent analysis through which she illustrates the historically embedded notion of minjung, a social composite of oppressed people.”—H-Peace, H-Net Reviews

to build.”—Foreign Affairs

“Sinno’s finding should end the current search of U.S. policymakers for a “moderate Taliban” that can be broken off from the insurgency. The Taliban remains a formidable organization, and Organizations at War in Afghanistan and Beyond is a formidable account of why.”—Perspectives on Politics “Sinno has produced an insightful book. His emphasis on organizational theory will arm those who study conflict with a valuable perspective.”—Survival

While popular accounts of warfare, particularly of guerrilla wars and insurgencies, favor the roles of leaders or ideology, social-scientific analyses of these wars focus on aggregate categories such as ethnic groups, religious affiliations, socioeconomic classes, or civilizations. Challenging these constructions, Abdulkader H. Sinno closely examines the fortunes of the various factions in Afghanistan, including the mujahideen and the Taliban, that have been fighting each other and foreign armies since the 1979 Soviet invasion. Focusing on the organization of the combatants, Sinno offers a new understanding of the course and outcome of such conflicts.

“Lee gives special attention to the role of intellectual and student activists and labor organizers in challenging the existing political elite’s interpretation of the past, present, and future. Highly recommended.”—Choice

In this sweeping intellectual and cultural history of the minjung (“common people’s”) movement in South Korea, Namhee Lee shows how the movement arose in the 1970s and 1980s in response to a repressive authoritarian regime and grew out of a widespread sense that the nation’s “failed history” had left Korean identity profoundly incomplete. The Making of Minjung captures the movement in its many dimensions, presenting its intellectual trajectory as a discourse and its impact as a political movement, as well as raising questions about how intellectuals represented the minjung. Lee’s portrait is based on a wide range of sources: underground pamphlets, diaries, court documents, contemporary newspaper reports, and interviews with participants.

Abdulkader H. Sinno is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies at Indiana University. He was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2009.

Namhee Lee is Associate Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Hijacked Justice Dealing with the Past in the Balkans Jelena Subotic´

“Jelena Subotic´, by showing how and under which circumstances norms of justice are incorporated into domestic politics, does a great service to anyone who is thinking about issues of transitional justice in post-conflict societies. Hijacked Justice is very well conceived, organized, and carried out. Subotic shows clearly how international policies are used as resources by local political elites in the context of domestic contention.”—V. P. Gagnon Jr., author of The Myth of Ethnic War “Hijacked Justice is an excellent examination of an important issue. Drawing on a wealth of evidence, Jelena Subotic´ challenges the conventional wisdom that international litigation is the best means of achieving post-conflict reconciliation in war-torn regions. She makes a compelling case for the argument that such institutions can actually be counterproductive due to the fact that they may be used by domestic political entrepreneurs for political mobilization. The book shows how law and politics are deeply intertwined, and how understanding this relationship is essential for all those interested in establishing a lasting peace.”—Christopher Rudolph, author of National Security and Immigration

What is the appropriate political response to mass atrocity? In Hijacked Justice, Jelena Subotic´ traces the design, implementation, and political outcomes of institutions established to deal with the legacies of violence in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars. She finds that international efforts to establish accountability for war crimes in the former Yugoslavia have been used to pursue very different local political goals. Responding to international pressures, Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia have implemented various mechanisms of “transitional justice”—the systematic addressing of past crimes after conflicts end. Transitional justice in the three countries, however, was guided by ulterior political motives: to get rid of domestic political opponents, to obtain international financial aid, or to gain admission to the European Union. Subotic´ argues that when transitional justice becomes “hijacked” for such local political strategies, it fosters domestic backlash, deepens political instability, and even creates alternative, politicized versions of history.

Protection by Persuasion International Cooperation in the Refugee Regime Alexander Betts “Protection by Persuasion is eminently suitable for courses on refugees and forced migration; it contains a wealth of information and will have a broad audience among legal scholars as well as students in international relations.” —Susan Kneebone, Monash University “In the exceptionally well-researched Protection by Persuasion, Alexander Betts successfully argues that the international politics of refugee protection are shaped by an impasse between developing states in the South, where most refugees first seek asylum, and the developed states in the North that provide resources for refugee protection and/or offer refugee resettlement.”—Rey Koslowski, SUNY Albany

States located near crisis zones are most likely to see an influx of people fleeing from manmade disasters; African states, for instance, are forced to accommodate and adjust to refugees more often than do European states far away from sites of upheaval. Geography dictates that states least able to pay the costs associated with refugees are most likely to have them cross their borders. Therefore, refugee protection has historically been characterized by a North–South impasse. While Southern states have had to open their borders to refugees fleeing conflict or human rights abuses in neighboring states, Northern states have had little obligation or incentive to contribute to protecting refugees in the South. In recent years, however, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has sought to foster greater international cooperation within the global refugee regime through special conferences at which Northern states are pushed to contribute to the costs of protection for refugees in the South. These initiatives, Alexander Betts finds in Protection by Persuasion, can overcome the North–South impasse and lead to significant cooperation.

Jelena Subotic´ is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University. She was formerly a human rights coordinator for Open Society Institute and a contributor at Radio B-92 in Belgrade.

Alexander Betts is Hedley Bull Research Fellow, University of Oxford, and the coauthor of UNHCR: The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection into the Twenty-First Century.

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Security in the West

China, France, and Mexico Choose Global Liaisons, 1980–2000

Evolution of a Concept

Dorothy J. Solinger In this explicitly comparative work, Dorothy J. Solinger examines the effects of global markets on the domestic politics of major states. In the late 1970s, leaders around the world faced a need both to continue productive investment and to cut labor costs to compete internationally in a changed world market. To accommodate forces seemingly beyond their control they often opted to reduce social protections and benefits that citizens had come to expect, in the process recalibrating their established political-economic coalitions. For countries whose governance was built on a coalition between workers and the state, the political conundrum was particularly intense. States’ Gains, Labor’s Losses concentrates on three countries—China, France, and Mexico—where revolution-inspired political compacts between labor and the state had to be renegotiated. In all three cases, choices to forge a deepened dependence on international capital markets required the ruling parties to fire large numbers of workers and cut social benefits while attempting not to provoke widespread social unrest or even full-scale revolt among their supporters. China, France, and Mexico also shared strong legacies of protectionism and state intervention in the economy, so the decision of each to join a supranational economic organization (France and the EU, China and the GATT/WTO, Mexico and NAFTA) in the hope of alleviating crises of capital shortage involved submission to a new set of liberal economic rules that further compromised their sociopolitical compacts. Examining a fundamental question about the dynamics of globalization and worker protest through an innovative comparative perspective, States’ Gains, Labor’s Losses emphasizes the growing tensions and new compromises between the working class and their political leaders in the face of intense international economic pressures. Dorothy J. Solinger is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of books including Contesting Citizenship in Urban China: Peasant Migrants, the State, and the Logic of the Market, China’s Transition from Socialism, and Chinese Business under Socialism, and the editor or coeditor of a number of others. NOVEMBER, 224 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4777-8 $45.00s/£30.50 Political Science

Security in the West Evolution of a Concept Edited by Giampiero Giacomello and R. Craig Nation

The West—Europe, the United States and Canada, Australia and New Zealand—has long been a primary producer of security (for itself) and of insecurity (for itself and for others). Western discourse not only invented the term security but also expanded and reshaped it according to its own complex evolution. The goals of this volume are to analyze the evolution of the contested concept of security and to discuss how the concept of security has emerged as a “Western social enterprise.” The contributors to Security in the West address how Western conceptions of security have developed and changed since the end of the Cold War, the nature of new security challenges and their implications for the West, and the direction in which evolving concepts of security will lead the West and the entire global community. This book will be welcomed by scholars and practitioners of international security and international relations. C ontrib u tors Fabio Armao • Steve Blank • Fabrizio Coticchia • Johan Eriksson • Matthew Evangelista • Federica Ferrari • Giampiero Giacomello • Christopher Jones • Andrea Locatelli • R. Craig Nation • Niklas Schörnig • Francesco Strazzari • Simone Tholens

Giampiero Giacomello is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Dipartimento di Politica, Istituzioni, Storia, Università di Bologna. He is coeditor of International Relations and Security in the Digital Age. R. Craig Nation is Professor of Strategy and Director of Eurasian Studies at the U.S. Army War College since 1996. His books include War on War: The Zimmerwald Left and the Origins of Communist Internationalism; Black Earth, Red Star: A History of Soviet Security Policy, 1917–1991 (also from Cornell); and War in the Balkans 1991–2002. Distributed outside the European Union by Cornell University Press for the Catholic University of Milan Press/Vita e Pensiero

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Globalizing in Hard Times

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The Politics of Banking-Sector Opening in the Emerging World

War, Revenue, and State Building Financing the Development of the American State

Leonardo Martinez-Diaz “Leonardo Martinez-Diaz’s thoughts on the current economic situation in the United States and on the prospects of opening in China and India are of great contemporary interest. Globalizing in Hard Times is clear and straightforward; it will appeal to a wide range of political economists.”—Henry Laurence, Bowdoin College

In Globalizing in Hard Times, Leonardo Martinez-Diaz examines the sudden and substantial increase in crossborder ownership of commercial banks in countries where bank ownership had long been restricted by local rules. Many parties—the World Bank and the IMF, the world’s largest commercial banks, their home governments, and their negotiators—had been pushing for a relaxation of ownership rules since the early 1980s and into the 1990s, when bank profitability levels in advanced industrial societies went flat. In their hunt for higher returns on assets, the major banks looked to expand business overseas, but through the mid-1990s their efforts to impose more liberal ownership regimes in nationalist countries proved largely unsuccessful. Martinez-Diaz illustrates the ongoing political resistance to liberalized ownership rules in Mexico, Indonesia, Brazil, and South Korea. He then demonstrates the importance of a series of events—the Mexican crisis and the Brazilian banking shock in 1994–1995 and the Asian crisis of 1997–1998 among them—in finally knocking down barriers to foreign ownership of banks. After these upheavals, policymakers who were worried about their political survival—and who were sometimes pressed by the IMF and foreign governments— reshaped the regulatory environment in key emerging markets. Self-proclaimed global banks eagerly grasped the opportunity to expand their operations worldwide, but after the initial shock, domestic politics reasserted themselves, often diluting the new, liberal rules. Leonardo Martinez-Diaz is a political economy fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution. He is coeditor of Networks of Influence: Developing Countries in a Networked Global Order and of Brazil as an Economic Superpower? Understanding Brazil’s Changing Role in the Global Economy.

Sheldon D. Pollack “In the crisply written War, Revenue, and State Building, Sheldon D. Pollack analyzes the influence of internal and external variables on state formation and war-making in a systematic fashion. Pollack is adept at deploying his arguments and producing a narrative that allows the reader to draw his or her own conclusions.”—Andrew D. Grossman, Albion College “In War, Revenue, and State Building, Sheldon D. Pollack’s impressively comparative perspective ensures that this book could be put to good use in a number of courses on American political development. In Pollack’s view, the American state, which had virtually no tax capacity at its birth, has developed a very effective revenue system today—one largely shaped by the nation’s wartime experiences.”—David Brian Robertson, University of Missouri–St. Louis

In a relatively short time, the American state developed from a weak, highly decentralized confederation composed of thirteen former English colonies into the foremost global superpower. This remarkable institutional transformation would not have been possible without the revenue raised by a particularly efficient system of public finance, first crafted during the Civil War and then resurrected and perfected in the early twentieth century. That revenue financed America’s participation in two global wars as well as the building of a modern system of social welfare programs. Sheldon D. Pollack shows how war, revenue, and institutional development are inextricably linked, no less in the United States than in Europe and in the developing states of the Third World. He delineates the mechanisms of political development and reveals to us the ways in which the United States, too, once was and still may be a “developing nation.” War, Revenue, and State Building traces the sources of public revenue available to the American state at specific junctures of its history (in particular, during times of war), the revenue strategies pursued by its political leaders in response to these factors, and the consequential impact of those strategies on the development of the American state.

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Sheldon D. Pollack is Professor and Director of the Legal Studies Program, University of Delaware. He is the author of Refinancing America: The Republican Antitax Agenda and The Failure of U.S. Tax Policy: Revenue and Politics.

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Needed by Nobody Homelessness and Humanness in Post-Socialist Russia

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Tova Höjdestrand Homelessness became a conspicuous facet of Russian cityscapes only in the 1990s, when the Soviet criminalization of vagrancy and similar offenses was abolished. In spite of the host of social and economic problems confronting Russia in the demise of Soviet power, the social dislocation endured by increasing numbers of people went largely unrecognized by the state. Being homeless carries a special burden in Russia, where a permanent address is the precondition for all civil rights and social benefits and where homelessness is often regarded as a result of laziness and drinking, rather than external factors. In Needed by Nobody, the anthropologist Tova Höjdestrand offers a nuanced portrait of homelessness in St. Petersburg. Based on ethnographic work at railway stations, soup kitchens, and other places where the homeless gather. Höjdestrand describes the material and mental world of this marginalized population. They are, she observes, “not needed” in two senses. The state considers them, in effect, as noncitizens. At the same time they stand outside the traditionally intimate social networks that are the real safety net of life in postsocialist Russia. As a result, they are deprived of the prerequisites for dealing with others in ways that they themselves value as “decent” and “human.”

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The Old Faith and the Russian Land A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals Douglas Rogers The Old Faith and the Russian Land is a historical ethnography that charts the ebbs and flows of ethical practice in a small Russian town over three centuries. The town of Sepych was settled in the late seventeenth century by religious dissenters who fled to the forests of the Urals to escape a world they believed to be in the clutches of the Antichrist. Factions of Old Believers, as these dissenters later came to be known, have maintained a presence in town ever since. The townspeople of Sepych have also been serfs, free peasants, collective farmers, and, now, shareholders in a post-Soviet cooperative. Douglas Rogers traces connections between the town and some of the major transformations of Russian history, showing how townspeople have responded to a long series of attempts to change them and their communities: tsarist-era efforts to regulate family life and stamp out Old Belief on the Stroganov estates, Soviet collectivization drives and antireligious campaigns, and the marketization, religious revival, and ongoing political transformations of post-Soviet times.

Höjdestrand investigates the “world of waste”: Her interviews with homeless people show that the indigent have a very good idea of what others think of them and that they are liable to reproduce the stigma that is attached to them even as they attempt to negotiate it. This unique and often moving portrait of life on the margins of society in the new Russia ultimately reveals how human dignity may be retained in the absence of its very preconditions.

Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork and extensive archival and manuscript sources, Rogers argues that religious, political, and economic practice are overlapping arenas in which the people of Sepych have striven to be ethical—in relation to labor and money, food and drink, prayers and rituals, religious books and manuscripts, and the surrounding material landscape. He tracks the ways in which ethical sensibilities—about work and prayer, hierarchy and inequality, gender and generation—have shifted and recombined over time. Rogers concludes that certain expectations about how to be an ethical person have continued to orient townspeople in Sepych over the course of nearly three centuries for specific, identifiable, and often unexpected reasons. Throughout, he demonstrates what a historical and ethnographic study of ethics might look like and uses this approach to ask new questions of Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet history.

Tova Höjdestrand is Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University.

Douglas Rogers is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Yale University.

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Culture and Society after Socialism a series edited by Bruce Grant and Nancy Ries

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From Ruins to Reconstruction Urban Identity in Soviet Sevastopol after World War II Karl D. Qualls

“Karl D. Qualls demonstrates in detail not only the contest of authority over the design and execution of the rebuilding project but also the difficulties encountered in the shortage of workers and materials. Qualls demonstrates that the inhabitants preferred to show a historic heroic, military, naval, and emphatically Russian face to the world, rather than a strictly Soviet facade. This very Russian city, which houses both the Russian and the Ukrainian Black Sea fleets, is a source of friction between Russia and Ukraine even today. In exploring important issues of image and identity, Qualls has made admirable use of archives, newsreels, films, and interviews.” —Patricia Herlihy, author of The Alcoholic Empire

Sevastopol, located in present-day Ukraine but still home to the Russian Black Sea Fleet and revered by Russians for its role in the Crimean War, was utterly destroyed by German forces during World War II. In From Ruins to Reconstruction, Karl D. Qualls tells the complex story of the city’s rebuilding. Based on extensive research in archives in both Moscow and Sevastopol, architectural plans and drawings, interviews, and his own extensive experience in Sevastopol, Qualls tells a unique story in which the periphery “bests” the Stalinist center: the city’s experience shows that local officials had considerable room to maneuver even during the peak years of Stalinist control. Moscow planned to remake the ancient city on the heroic socialist model prized by Stalin and visited upon most other postwar Soviet cities and towns. In Sevastopol, however, the architects and city planners sent out from the center “went native,” deviating from Moscow’s blueprints to collaborate with local officials and residents, who seized control of the planning process and rebuilt the city in a manner that celebrated its distinctive historical identity. Though visually Russian (and still containing a majority Russian-speaking population), the rebuilt Sevastopol was in 1954 joined to Ukraine, which in 1991 became an independent state. In his concluding chapter, Qualls explores how the “Russianness” of the city and the presence of the Russian fleet affect relations between Ukraine, Russia, and the West.

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American Abyss Savagery and Civilization in the Age of Industry Daniel E. Bender “In American Abyss, Daniel E. Bender traces the ways in which the supposed mastery of racial knowledge helped to constitute and validate the ideas that large industrial enterprises and empires could be successfully managed. Bender’s leavening of intellectual history with the cultural, political, and social, and especially with the history of gender, shows how similar scientific ideas could undergird paeans to capital and some strains of revolutionary socialism—how they could give rise to immigrant baby contests as well as campaigns for sterilization.”—David R. Roediger, author of Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past

At the beginning of the twentieth century, industrialization both dramatically altered everyday experiences and shaped debates about the effects of immigration, empire, and urbanization. In American Abyss, Daniel E. Bender examines an array of sources—eugenics theories, scientific studies of climate, socialist theory, and even popular novels about cavemen—to show how intellectuals and activists came to understand industrialization in racial and gendered terms as the product of evolution and as the highest expression of civilization. Their discussions, he notes, are echoed today by the use of such terms as the “developed” and “developing” worlds. American industry was contrasted with the supposed savagery and primitivism discovered in tropical colonies, but observers who made those claims worried that industrialization, by encouraging immigration, child and women’s labor, and large families, was reversing natural selection. Factories appeared to favor the most unfit. There was a disturbing tendency for such expressions of fear to favor eugenicist “remedies.” Bender delves deeply into the culture and politics of the age of industry. Linking urban slum tourism and imperial science with immigrant better-baby contests and hoboes, American Abyss uncovers the complex interactions of turn-of-the-century ideas about race, class, gender, and ethnicity.

Karl D. Qualls is Associate Professor of History at Dickinson College.

Daniel E. Bender is Associate Professor of History and Canada Research Chair in Urban History, University of Toronto. He is the author of Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor and editor of Sweatshop USA: The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective.

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The Diary of Hannah Callender Sansom

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Sense and Sensibility in the Age of the American Revolution

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New-York Tribune Civil War–Era Socialism and the Crisis of Free Labor

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Adam Tuchinsky

Hannah Callender Sansom (1737–1801) witnessed the effects of the tumultuous eighteenth century: political struggles, war and peace, and economic development. She experienced the pull of traditional emphases on duty, subjection, and hierarchy and the emergence of radical new ideas promoting free choice, liberty, and independence. Regarding these changes from her position as a well-educated member of the colonial Quaker elite and as a resident of Philadelphia, the principal city in North America, this assertive, outspoken woman described her life and her society in a diary kept intermittently from the time she was twenty-one years old in 1758 through the birth of her first grandchild in 1788.

“This is an important book, distinguished in quality and broad in significance. Its conception is highly original. Adam Tuchinsky is the first modern biographer to take Horace Greeley’s socialism seriously, instead of treating it as a mere eccentricity. As Tuchinsky reassesses socialism in American history, he presents a sophisticated and complex interpretation of America in Greeley’s lifetime. One of the book’s merits is the way it integrates political history, economic history, the history of the printed media, labor history, and, most of all, intellectual history.”—Daniel Walker Howe, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 to 1848

Hannah Callender Sansom’s struggle to become reconciled to an unhappy marriage is related in frank terms and in certain silences. Ultimately she created a meaningful life centered on children, religion, and domesticity. When her daughter was to marry, Hannah Callender Sansom made certain that, despite risking her standing among Quakers, Sarah married for love. Long held in private hands, the complete text of Hannah Callender Samson’s extraordinary diary is published here for the first time. In-depth interpretive essays, as well as explanatory footnotes, provide context for students and other readers. The diary is one of the earliest and fullest documents written by an American woman, and it provides fresh insights into women’s experience in early America, the urban milieu of the emerging middle classes, and the culture that shaped both.

Susan E. Klepp is Professor of History at Temple University. She is the author of Revolutionary Conceptions, among other books, and coeditor of The Infortunate. Karin Wulf is Associate Professor of History and American Studies at the College of William and Mary. She is the author of Not All Wives and coeditor of Milcah Martha Moore’s Book. OCTOBER, 376 pages, 11 halftones, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4784-6 $75.00x/£50.95 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7513-9 $24.95s/£16.95 Diaries | History/United States

In the mid-nineteenth century, Horace Greeley’s NewYork Tribune had the largest national circulation of any newspaper in the United States. Its contributors included many of the leading minds of the period— Margaret Fuller, Henry James Sr., Charles Dana, and Karl Marx. The Tribune was also a locus of social democratic thought that closely matched the ideology of Greeley, its founder and editor, who was a noted figure in politics and reform movements. Adam Tuchinsky’s book recalls an earlier style of opinion media, with “participant editors” acting not unlike today’s Internet journalists—professionals and amateurs alike—who digest the news and also shape it. It will appeal to all readers interested in the history of the media and its relationship to partisan politics. During its Greeley era, the Tribune was simultaneously an influential voice in the Whig and Republican parties and a vigorous advocate of socialism. Historians and biographers have struggled to reconcile these seemingly contradictory tendencies. Tuchinsky’s history of the Tribune, by placing the newspaper and its ideology squarely within the political, economic, and intellectual climate of Civil War–era America, illustrates the connection between socialist reform and mainstream political thought. Tuchinsky demonstrates that, amid the sectional crisis and the battle over slavery, Greeley and the Tribune promoted a viable form of democratic socialism that formed one foundation of modern liberalism in America. Adam Tuchinsky is Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern Maine. NOVEMBER, 336 pages, 8 halftones, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4667-2 $59.95s/£40.95 History/United States

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Mapping the Americas The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture

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Conservatives and the 1974 Kanawha County Textbook Controversy

Shari M. Huhndorf “In this wise and wide-ranging book, Shari M. Huhndorf challenges truisms about contemporary Native nationalism in the arts while remaining respectful of the ideas that she asks us to rethink. Mapping the Americas extends Huhndorf’s continuing project of bringing Eskimo and Inuit studies together with American Indian studies, and in that way and many other ways it offers a model of the alliance-building that it invites us to study.”-—Robert Dale Parker, author of The Invention of Native American Literature and The Sound the Stars Make Rushing through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft “In clear and convincing prose, Mapping the Americas places the complex dynamics of tribal transnationalism at the forefront of Native American and American studies.” —Kenneth M. Roemer, coeditor, Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature

In  Mapping the Americas, Shari M. Huhndorf tracks changing conceptions of Native culture as it increasingly transcends national boundaries and takes up vital concerns such as patriarchy, labor and environmental exploitation, the emergence of pan-Native urban communities, global imperialism, and the commodification of indigenous cultures. While nationalism remains a dominant anticolonial strategy in indigenous contexts, Huhndorf  examines the ways in which transnational indigenous politics have reshaped Native culture (especially novels, films, photography, and performance) in the United States and Canada since the 1980s. Mapping the Americas  thus broadens the political paradigms that have dominated recent critical work in Native studies as well as the geographies that provide its focus, particularly through its engagement with the Arctic. Among the manifestations of these new tendencies in Native culture that Huhndorf presents are Igloolik Isuma Productions, the Inuit company that has produced nearly forty films, including Atanarjuat, The Fast Runner; indigenous feminist playwrights; Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead; and multimedia artist Shelley Niro.

Shari M. Huhndorf is Associate Professor of English and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Going Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination, also from Cornell. AUGUST, 216 pages, 8 halftones, 1 line drawing, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-8014-4800-3 $39.95s/£26.95 Native American Studies 4 6

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Carol Mason “Reading Appalachia from Left to Right is an extremely interesting, informative, and important book that deserves a wide reading.”—Dwight Billings, coauthor, with Kathleen Blee, of The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia

In Reading Appalachia from Left to Right, Carol Mason examines the legacies of a pivotal 1974 curriculum dispute in West Virginia that heralded the rightward shift in American culture and politics. At a time when black nationalists and white conservatives were both maligned as extremists for opposing education reform, a fundamentalist mother who objected to new languagearts textbooks featuring multiracial literature sparked the yearlong conflict. It was the most violent textbook battle in America, inspiring mass marches, rallies by white supremacists, boycotts by parents, and strikes by coal miners. Schools were closed several times due to arson and dynamite while national and international news teams descended on Charleston. A native of Kanawha County, Mason explores how reports of the conflict as a hillbilly feud affected all involved, she draws on substantial archival research and interviews with Klansmen, evangelicals, miners, bombers, businessmen, and residents who, like herself, were in Kanawha County during the dispute. Mason investigates vulgar accusations of racism that precluded a richer understanding of how ethnicity, race, class, and gender blended together as white protesters set out to protect “our children’s souls” even as they objected to the black soul aesthetic of the 1970s. The alliances, tactics, and political discourses that emerged in the Kanawha Valley in 1974 crossed traditional lines, inspiring innovations in neo-Nazi organizing, propelling Christian conservatism into the limelight, and providing models for women of the New Right.

Carol Mason is Associate Professor of English and Director of Gender Studies at Oklahoma State University. She is the author of Killing for Life: The Apocalyptic Narrative of Pro-life Politics, also from Cornell. JULY, 256 pages, 14 halftones, 1 map, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4728-0 $69.95x/£47.50 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7581-8 $22.95s/£15.50 History/United States P R E S S

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From Servants to Workers South African Domestic Workers and the Democratic State Shireen Ally

“In this most important book, Shireen Ally explores the paradox of independence: as private domestic workers became recognized in the labor law of the postapartheid state, as their work became ‘modernized’ to be like other forms of employment, their unions withered.”—Eileen Boris, author of Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States “From Servants to Workers is a readable and engaging volume containing multiple strong voices of women informants and union activists.”—Michele Ruth Gamburd, author of The Kitchen Spoon’s Handle

In the past decade, hundreds of thousands of women from poorer countries have braved treacherous journeys to richer countries for jobs as poorly paid domestic workers. Scholars and activists denounce compromised forms of citizenship that expose these women to at times shocking exploitation and abuse. In From Servants to Workers, Shireen Ally asks whether the low wages and poor working conditions so characteristic of migrant domestic work can truly be resolved by means of the extension of citizenship rights. Following South Africa’s “miraculous” transition to democracy, more than a million poor black women who had endured a despotic organization of paid domestic work under apartheid became the beneficiaries of one of the world’s most impressive and extensive efforts to formalize and modernize paid domestic work through state regulation. Instead of undergoing a dramatic transformation, servitude relations stubbornly resisted change. Ally locates an explanation for this in the tension between the forms of power deployed by the state in its efforts to protect workers, on the one hand, and the forms of power workers recover through the intimate nature of their work, on the other. Listening attentively to workers’ own narrations of their entry into democratic citizenship-rights, Ally explores the political implications of paid domestic work as an intimate form of labor.

Shireen Ally teaches in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Changing the Course of AIDS Peer Education in South Africa and Its Lessons for the Global Crisis David Dickinson Foreword by Charles Deutsch Changing the Course of AIDS is an in-depth evaluation of a new and exciting way to create the kind of much-needed behavioral change that could affect the course of the global health crisis of HIV/AIDS. This case study from the South African HIV/AIDS epidemic demonstrates that regular workers serving as peer educators can be as—or even more—effective agents of behavioral change than experts who lecture about the facts and so-called appropriate health care behavior. After spending six years researching the response of large South African companies to the epidemic that is decimating their workforce as well as South African communities, David Dickinson describes the promise of this grassroots intervention—workers educating one another in the workplace and community—and the limitations of traditional top-down strategies. Dickinson’s book takes us right into the South African workplace to show how effective and yet enormously complex peer education really is. We see what it means when workers directly tackle the kinds of sexual, gender, religious, ethnic, and broader social and political taboos that make behavior change so difficult, particularly when that behavior involves sex and sexuality. In this book we see why peer education has so much to offer societies grappling with the HIV/AIDS epidemic and why those interested in changing behaviors to ameliorate other health problems like obesity, alcoholism, and substance abuse have so much to learn from the South African example. David Dickinson researched Changing the Course of AIDS while Associate Professor of HIV/AIDS in the Workplace at the Wits Business School, University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is currently Professor of Sociology at University of the Witwatersrand. Charles Deutsch is a senior research specialist at the Harvard School of Public Health and the author of Broken Bottles, Broken Dreams: Understanding and Helping Children of Alcoholics. An ILR Press Book The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work a series edited by Suzanne Gordon and Sioban Nelson

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Organizing at the Margins

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The Symbolic Politics of Labor in South Korea and the United States Jennifer Jihye Chun “Organizing at the Margins is an excellent contribution to our understanding of global labor movements. Jennifer Jihye Chun combines careful ethnographic case studies of recent union campaigns among low-wage service workers in the United States and South Korea with nuanced theoretical discussion to develop a provocative and highly original perspective on labor organizing in the neoliberal era.”—Ruth Milkman, author of L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement

The realities of globalization have produced a surprising reversal in the focus and strategies of labor movements around the world. After years of neglect and exclusion, labor organizers are recognizing both the needs and the importance of immigrants and women employed in the growing ranks of low-paid and insecure service jobs. In Organizing at the Margins, Jennifer Jihye Chun focuses on this shift as it takes place in two countries: South Korea and the United States. Using comparative historical inquiry and in-depth case studies, she shows how labor movements in countries with different histories and structures of economic development, class formation, and cultural politics embark on similar trajectories of change. Deftly combining theory and ethnography, she argues that by cultivating alternative sources of “symbolic leverage” that root workers’ demands in the collective morality of broad-based communities, as opposed to the narrow confines of workplace disputes, workers in the lowest tiers are transforming the power relations that sustain downgraded forms of work. Her case studies of janitors and personal service workers in the United States and South Korea offer a surprising comparison between converging labor movements in two very different countries as they refashion their relation to historically disadvantaged sectors of the workforce and expand the moral and material boundaries of union membership in a globalizing world.

Jennifer Jihye Chun is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia.

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Case Studies of HRM Programs and Practices in Early American Industry Bruce E. Kaufman In a companion volume to Managing the Human Factor, also from Cornell, Bruce E. Kaufman shows how American firms transitioned from the traditional “hired hand” model of human resource management (HRM) to the modern “human resources” version popular today. Kaufman illuminates through fifteen detailed case studies the structure and operation of HRM programs and practices across a diverse range of American business firms spanning the fifty years from 1880 to 1930. Nine of the fifteen case studies in Hired Hands or Human Resources? examine HRM before World War I and document the highly informal, decentralized, externalized, and sometimes harsh nature of the peoplemanagement practices of that era. The remaining six span the Welfare Capitalism decade of the 1920s and reveal the marked transformation to a more progressive and professional model of personnel practice at some companies, along with continued reliance on the traditional model at others. Hired Hands or Human Resources? features new insights into key subjects such as the strategic versus tactical nature of early HRM, alternative models of workforce governance used in these years, and the reasons some companies created autonomous HRM departments.  also

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Bruce E. Kaufman An ILR Press Book 2008, 384 pages, 4 tables, 4 charts/graphs, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4227-8 $49.95s/£33.95

Bruce E. Kaufman is Professor of Economics and Senior Associate of the W. T. Beebe Institute of Personnel and Employment Relations at Georgia State University. He is author of Managing the Human Factor: The Early Years of Human Resource Management in American Industry and editor of Theoretical Perspectives on Work and the Employment Relationship, both from Cornell. An ILR Press Book

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Human Rights in Labor and Employment Relations

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International and Domestic Perspectives Edited by James A. Gross and Lance Compa The concept of human rights at work has advanced significantly in the last decade. The authors of the essays in Human Rights in Labor and Employment Relations focus in various ways on how the promotion and protection of human rights at workplaces here and around the world posit a new set of values and approaches that challenge every orthodoxy in the employment relations field, every practice and rule based in that orthodoxy, and even the underlying premises and intellectual foundations of contemporary labor and employment systems. The authors constitute a diverse and accomplished group of human rights activists, practitioners, and scholars. Implementing the theme of the volume, they address a wide range of important subjects: worker health and safety, child labor, worker freedom of association, migrant and forced labor, the human rights obligations of employers, workplace discrimination, and workers with disabilities. The authors also discuss the implications of their findings for labor and employment research and, where relevant, make pragmatic proposals for change.  contrib u tors Susanne M. Bruyère, Cornell University • Lance Compa, Cornell University • James A. Gross, Cornell University • Jeffrey Hilgert, Cornell University • Barbara Murray, International Labour Organization • Tonia Novitz, University of Bristol • Maria L. Ontiveros, University of San Francisco Law School • Edward E. Potter, Director of Global Workplace Rights, Coca-Cola Company; U.S. Employer Delegate, International Labour Organization Conference • Marika McCauley Sine, Global Stakeholder Engagement Manager, Coca-Cola Company • Rebecca Smith, National Employment Law Project • Burns H. Weston, University of Iowa

The ILO and the Quest for Social Justice, 1919–2009 Gerry Rodgers, Eddy Lee, Lee Swepston, and Jasmien Van Daele

This book tells the story of the International Labour Organization, founded in 1919 in the belief that universal and lasting peace goes hand in hand with social justice. Since then the ILO has contributed to the protection of the vulnerable, the fight against unemployment, the promotion of human rights, the development of democratic institutions, and the improvement of the working lives of women and men everywhere. In its history the ILO has sometimes thrived, sometimes suffered setbacks, but always survived to pursue its goals through the political and economic upheavals of the last ninety years. This book addresses such issues as rights at work, the quality of employment, income protection, employment, poverty reduction, a fair globalization, and today’s overriding goal of decent work for all. The book ends with reflections on the challenges ahead in a world where the present economic crisis underlines the urgency of global action for social justice.

James A. Gross is Professor of Labor Rights at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University. He is editor of Workers’ Rights as Human Rights, also from Cornell. Lance Compa is Senior Lecturer at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University. He is the author of Unfair Advantage: Workers’ Freedom of Association in the United States under International Human Rights Standards, also from Cornell.

Gerry Rodgers, former director of the International Institute for Labour Studies, is Visiting Professor at the Institute for Human Development, New Delhi. Eddy Lee, former economic adviser at the ILO, is Visiting Fellow at the International Institute of Labour Studies, Geneva. Lee Swepston, Former Senior Adviser on Human Rights and Director of the Department of Fundamental Principles and rights at the ILO, is Visiting Professor at Lund University, Sweden and a lecturer and consultant. Jasmien Van Daele, a research officer for the ILO Century Project, 2007–2008, is now a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Contemporary History at Ghent University.

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Idols in the East European Representations of Islam and the Orient, 1100–1450 Suzanne Conklin Akbari

Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World Valerie L. Garver

“Idols in the East is an excellent as well as a timely book. Suzanne Conklin Akbari’s assessments of the primary and secondary sources that come under her scrutiny are judicious, insightful, and fair-minded. Above all, Idols in the East makes clear how wide a range of evidence there is for a discourse of medieval Orientalism and how such a discourse might be understood in the present.”—Iain Macleod Higgins, author of Writing East

Representations of Muslims have never been more common in the Western imagination than they are today. Building on Orientalist stereotypes constructed over centuries, the figure of the wily Arab has given rise, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, to the “Islamist” terrorist. In Idols in the East Suzanne Conklin Akbari explores the premodern background of some of the Orientalist types still pervasive in present-day depictions of Muslims—the irascible and irrational Arab, the religiously deviant Islamist—and how these stereotypes developed over time. Idols in the East contributes to the recent surge of interest in European encounters with Islam and the Orient in the premodern world. Focusing on the medieval period, Akbari examines a broad range of texts including encyclopedias, maps, medical and astronomical treatises, chansons de geste, romances, and allegories to paint an unusually diverse portrait of medieval culture. Among the texts she considers are The Book of John Mandeville, The Song of Roland, Parzival, and Dante’s Divine Comedy. From them she reveals how medieval writers and readers understood and explained the differences they saw between themselves and the Muslim other. Looking forward, Akbari also comes to terms with how these medieval conceptions fit with modern discussions of Orientalism.

“Valerie L. Garver has exhaustively combed a huge number of primary sources and frequently presents her findings in novel or unexpected conjunctions, to excellent effect, especially on such important questions as women’s contribution to the domestic economy or the details of their prayer texts.”—Julia Smith, author of Europe After Rome

Despite the wealth of scholarship in recent decades on medieval women, we still know much less about the experiences of women in the early Middle Ages than we do about those in later centuries. In Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World, Valerie L. Garver offers a fresh appraisal of the cultural and social history of eighth- and ninth-century women. Examining changes in women’s lives and in the ways others perceived women during the early Middle Ages, she shows that lay and religious women, despite their legal and social constrictions, played integral roles in Carolingian society. Garver’s innovative book employs an especially wide range of sources, both textual and material, which she uses to construct a more complex and nuanced impression of aristocratic women than we’ve seen before. She looks at the importance of female beauty and adornment; the family and the construction of identities and collective memory; education and moral exemplarity; wealth, hospitality, and domestic management; textile work; and the lifecycle of elite Carolingian women. Her interdisciplinary approach makes deft use of canons of church councils, chronicles, charters, polyptychs, capitularies, letters, poetry, exegesis, liturgy, inventories, hagiography, memorial books, artworks, archaeological remains, and textiles. Ultimately, Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World underlines the centrality of the Carolingian era to the reshaping of antique ideas and the development of lasting social norms.

Suzanne Conklin Akbari is Professor of English and Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Seeing Through the Veil: Optical Theory and Medieval Allegory and editor of Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West.

Valerie L. Garver is Assistant Professor of History at Northern Illinois University.

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Race and the Modernist Imagination

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Caribbean Middlebrow Leisure Culture and the Middle Class

Urmila Seshagiri

Belinda Edmondson

“In Race and the Modernist Imagination, Urmila Seshagiri makes a capacious case that the aesthetics of Anglo-British modernism are fundamentally shaped by a racial imagination. In surprising juxtapositions, Seshagiri finds race embedded in texts where we might not suspect it (such as The Good Soldier and To the Lighthouse) and in popular texts where it operates in unexpected forms below the surface of crude racial polarizations (as in the Fu Manchu stories).”—Laura Doyle, author of Bordering on the Body: The Racial Matrix of Modern Fiction and Culture

It is commonly assumed that Caribbean culture is split into elite highbrow culture—which is considered derivative of Europe and not rooted in the Caribbean—and authentic working-class culture, which is often identified with such iconic island activities as salsa, carnival, calypso, and reggae. In Caribbean Middlebrow, Belinda Edmondson recovers a middle ground, a genuine popular culture in the English-speaking Caribbean that stretches back into the nineteenth century.

Race has long been recognized as a formative element of American modernism, but its role in England is less clearly understood. While critics have examined race in the works of British writers such as Kipling, Conrad, and Forster, they have done so mostly from a postcolonial perspective. In Race and the Modernist Imagination, Urmila Seshagiri finds that race—as a matter apart from imperialism—served as an engine for the creation of new literary forms by a wide range of writers, including Oscar Wilde, Ford Madox Ford, Katherine Mansfield, Rebecca West, and Virginia Woolf. In Seshagiri’s view, race provided these writers with a set of tropes and plots that rejuvenated the British aesthetic tradition: new ideas and fresh forms found their way into British literature through characters and settings that evoked other peoples, other places. In addition to her readings of a fascinating array of works—The Picture of Dorian Gray, Heart of Darkness, The Good Soldier, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and the short stories of Mansfield and West—Seshagiri considers examples that fall outside the usual purview of British modernist literature, such as Sax Rohmer’s Dr. Fu Manchu tales, the avant-garde review BLAST, and Vita Sackville-West’s travel writings. Throughout, she places her subjects within their social and cultural contexts: British Chinatowns, avant-garde cabaret clubs, exhibitions of African art, and dance performances by the Ballets Russes. Urmila Seshagiri’s interdisciplinary study reveals a common core of race in the modern imaginary and, more broadly, establishes race as a crucial concept for understanding the cultural field of modernity.

Edmondson shows that popular novels, beauty pageants, and music festivals are examples of Caribbean culture that are mostly created, maintained, and consumed by the Anglophone middle class. Much of middle-class culture, she finds, is further gendered as “female”: women are more apt to be considered recreational readers of fiction, for example, and women’s behavior outside the home is often taken as a measure of their community’s respectability. Edmondson also highlights the influence of American popular culture, especially African American popular culture, as early as the nineteenth century. This is counter to the notion that the islands were exclusively under the sway of British tastes and trends. She finds the origins of today’s “dub” or spokenword Jamaican poetry in earlier traditions of genteel dialect poetry—as exemplified by the work of the Jamaican folklorist, actress, and poet Louise “Miss Lou” Bennett Coverley—and considers the impact of early Caribbean novels including Emmanuel Appadocca (1853) and Jane’s Career (1913).

Urmila Seshagiri is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Tennessee.

Belinda Edmondson is Associate Professor of English and African American and African Studies at Rutgers University–Newark. She is the author of Making Men: Gender, Literary Authority, and Women’s Writing in Caribbean Narrative and editor of Caribbean Romances: The Politics of Regional Representation.

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Biological Systematics Principles and Applications Second Edition Randall T. Schuh and Andrew V. Z. Brower

Praise for the first edition— “This lovely little book is a godsend to those of us who teach systematics. I believe that Biological Systematics is the best textbook currently available for courses focusing on the theory and practice of cladistics.” —Cladistics “This is an excellent book. Its blend of theory and empiricism results in a very authoritative treatment. I thoroughly recommend this book, which demands to be read as much for its readability as its content.” —The Paleontological Association Newsletter

Biological Systematics: Principles and Applications draws equally from examples in botany and zoology to provide a modern account of cladistic principles and techniques. It is a core systematics textbook with a focus on parsimony-based approaches for students and biologists interested in systematics and comparative biology. Randall T. Schuh and Andrew V. Z. Brower cover: • the history and philosophy of systematics and nomenclature; • the mechanics and methods of analysis and evaluation of results; • the practical applications of results and wider relevance within biological classification, biogeography, adaptation and coevolution, biodiversity, and conservation; and • software applications. This new and thoroughly revised edition reflects the exponential growth in the use of DNA sequence data in systematics. New data techniques and a notable increase in the number of examples from molecular systematics will be of interest to students increasingly involved in molecular and genetic work.

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Manual of Leaf Architecture Beth Ellis, Douglas C. Daly, Leo J. Hickey, Kirk R. Johnson, John D. Mitchell, Peter Wilf, and Scott L. Wing

Randall T. Schuh is Curator in the Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History. He is the author of the first edition of Biological Systematics: Principles and Applications and coauthor of True Bugs of the World (Hemiptera: Heteroptera): Classification and Natural History, both from Cornell, as well as Plant Bugs of the World. Andrew V. Z. Brower is Associate Professor of Biology at Middle Tennessee State University.

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The first volume in the new series Jean-François Lyotard—Writings on Contemporary Art and Artists is dedicated to the Dutch Abstract Expressionist painter, sculptor, and poet Karel Appel (1921–2006). Originally published in German, the book’s original French text, written in 1992 as the result of a correspondence with Karel Appel, is here published for the first time. In his text about Appel, Lyotard reflects on the nature and function of color as it is used by the artist. Karel Appel, A Gesture of Colour brings together, in a special color section, twenty-five color reproductions of paintings discussed by Lyotard. The layout of this remarkable art historical survey of Appel’s work emphasizes the bilingual texts.

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Jean-François Lyotard is well-known especially for his views on postmodernist thinking and its impact on society. Lyotard’s language-specific philosophy both reflects on the use of language and uses a consciously subtle style to approach contemporary ethical and aesthetic themes. His essays, reflections, and impressions on contemporary artists represent a particularly interesting part of his work. The series Jean-François Lyotard: Writings on Contemporary Art and Artists consists of five volumes that offer a complete collection of all the writings by Jean-François Lyotard concerning contemporary art and artists, some of which have been published only in German, French or English. Others, from Lyotard’s personal archive, are being published here for the first time. Leuven’s five volumes include the complete original French texts along with English translations on facing pages. The parallel presentation of both the French text and the English translation will introduce a wide English-speaking public to the intriguing manner in which Lyotard approached the artists and their work. Illustrations of the works discussed accompany the texts. All volumes include an introduction by Herman Parret and an epilogue by another Lyotard expert. This project is the fruit of a collective initiative by Herman Parret (Institute of Philosophy, Leuven University) and other prominent Lyotard specialists—Dalia Judovitz, Geoffrey Bennington and Peter Milne—from Emory University, the institution with which Lyotard was associated for many years. His wife Dolorès Lyotard has also been closely involved in this project. The research was carried out mainly at the Kandinsky Library of the Georges Pompidou Centre and at the Doucet Library in Paris, where the Lyotard archive is located. Future publications in the series VOLUME II (Spring 2010) Sam Francis, Lesson of Darkness / Sam Francis, leçon de ténèbres • VOLUME III (Fall 2010) Duchamp’s Trans/formers / Les transformateurs Duchamp • VOLUME IV (Spring 2011) Various Texts on Contemporary Art and Artists / Textes dispersés sur l’art contemporain et les artistes • VOLUME V (Fall 2011) What to Paint? / Que peindre?

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Sigmund Freud on the Sense of Guilt

Form and Cycle in Single-Movement Instrumental Works by Liszt, Strauss, Schoenberg, and Zemlinsky

Herman Westerink

Sigmund Freud, in his search for the origins of the sense of guilt in individual life and culture, regularly speaks of “reading a dark trace,” thus referring to the Oedipus myth as a myth about the problem of human guilt. In Freud’s view, this sense of guilt is a trace, a path, that leads deep into the individual’s mental state, into childhood memories, and into the prehistory of culture and religion. Herman Westerink follows this trace and analyzes Freud’s thought on the sense of guilt as a central issue in his work, from the earliest studies on the moral and “guilty” characters of the hysterics, via later complex differentiations within the concept of the sense of guilt, and finally to Freud’s conception of civilization’s discontents and Jewish sense of guilt. The sense of guilt is a key issue in Freudian psychoanalysis, not only in relation to other key concepts in psychoanalytic theory but also in relation to Freud’s debates with other psychoanalysts, including Carl Jung and Melanie Klein.

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Two-Dimensional Sonata Form is the first book dedicated to the combination of the movements of a multimovement sonata cycle with an overarching single-movement form that is itself organized as a sonata form. Drawing on a variety of historical and recent approaches to musical form (e.g., Marxian and Schoenbergian Formenlehre, Caplin’s theory of formal functions, and Hepokoski and Darcy’s Sonata Theory), it begins by developing an original theoretical framework for the analysis of this type of form that is so characteristic of the later nineteenth and early twentieth century. It then offers an in-depth examination of nine exemplary works by four Central European composers: the Piano Sonata in B minor and the symphonic poems Tasso and Die Ideale by Franz Liszt, Richard Strauss’s tone poems Don Juan and Ein Heldenleben, the symphonic poem Pelleas und Melisande, the First String Quartet and the First Chamber Symphony by Arnold Schoenberg, and Alexander Zemlinsky’s Second String Quartet.

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William E. Caplin is James McGill Professor of Music Theory at McGill University. He is the author of Classical Form. James Hepokoski is Professor of Music at Yale University. He is the co-author of Elements of Sonata Theory. James Webster is Goldwin Smith Professor of Music at Cornell University. He is the author of Haydn’s Farewell Symphony and the Idea of Classical Style. Pieter Bergé is Professor of Musicology at the University of Leuven.

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The volume is divided into three parts, focusing on Caplin’s “theory of formal functions,” Hepokoski’s concept of “dialogic form,” and Webster’s method of “multivalent analysis” respectively. Each part begins with an essay by one of the three authors. Subsequently, the two opposing authors comment on issues and analyses they consider to be problematic or underdeveloped, in a style that ranges from the gently critical to the overtly polemical. Finally, the author of the initial essay is given the opportunity to respond to the comments and to refine further his own fundamental ideas on musical form.

Form and Cycle in Single-Movement Instrumental Works by Liszt, Strauss, Schoenberg, and Zemlinsky Steven Vande Moortele

also In Musical Form, Forms & Formenlehre: Three Methodological Reflections, three eminent music theorists consider the fundamentals of musical form. They discuss how to analyze form in music and question the relevance of analytical theories and methods in general. They illustrate their basic concepts and concerns by offering some concrete analyses of works by Mozart (Idomeneo Overture, Jupiter Symphony) and Beethoven (First Symphony, Pastoral Symphony, Egmont Overture, and Die Ruinen von Athen Overture).

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Steven Vande Moortele is a postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders at the Department of Musicology of the University of Leuven.

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NEW PATHS Aspects of Music Theory and Aesthetics in the Age of Romanticism Scott Burnham John Neubauer Jim Samson Janet Schmalfeldt Susan Youens

New Paths Aspects of Music Theory and Aesthetics in the Age of Romanticism

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UNFOLDING TIME Studies in Temporality in Twentieth Century Music Bruce Brubaker Pascal Decroupet Mark Delaere Justin London Ian Pace

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C ontrib u tors Bruce Brubaker • Pascal Decroupet • Mark Delaere • Justin London • Ian Pace

Darla Crispin is Senior Research Fellow in Creative Practice at the Royal College of Music and one of the team of Research Fellows within the Orpheus Research Centre in Music (ORCiM).

Darla Crispin is Senior Research Fellow in Creative Practice at the Royal College of Music and one of the team of Research Fellows within the Orpheus Research Centre in Music (ORCiM).

Collected Writings of the Orpheus Institute Volume 7

Collected Writings of the Orpheus Institute Volume 8

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Questions concerning music and its inextricably intertwined and complex interface with time continue to fascinate musicians and scholars. For performers, the primary perception of music is arguably the way in which it unfolds in “real time.” For composers a work appears “whole and entire,” with the presence of the score having the potential to compress, and even eliminate, the perception of time as “passing.” The paradoxical relationship between these two perspectives, and the subtle mediations at the interface between them with which both performers and composers engage, form the subject matter of this collection of essays. The contributors address the temporal significance of specific topics such as notation, tempo, meter, and rhythm within broader contexts of performance, composition, aesthetics, and philosophy. The aim is to present novel ideas about music and time that provide particular insight into musical practice and the world of artistic research.

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C ontrib u tors Scott Burnham • John Neubauer • Jim Samson • Janet Schmalfeldt • Susan Youens

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In New Paths five renowned scholars discuss a variety of topics related to Romanticism, focusing especially on the years 1800–1840. In a much-needed historical and critical overview of the concept of organicism, John Neubauer ranges from its origins in Enlightenment biology to its aftermath in postmodernism. Janet Schmalfeldt shows that not only Beethoven’s op.47 should be called the Bridgetower rather than the Kreutzer Sonata but also that this makes a difference as to its meaning. Scott Burnham explains extreme contrasts between emotional and mechanical types of music in late Beethoven as stagings of the limits of human subjectivity. Jim Samson discusses Chopin’s little-known musical upbringing in Warsaw, arguing that his grounding in eighteenth-century aesthetics (as opposed to theory) has thus far been neglected. Finally, Susan Youens’s case study of Franz Lachner’s Heine songs sheds light on radical experimentation by a so-called epigone in the period between Schubert and Schumann’s miracle song year. INSTITUTE

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Essais de langue et de littérature françaises du moyen âge

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Dedicated to increasing our knowledge and awareness of the ever-growing diversity and pluralism of global society, Forum A. & A. Leysen has initiated a debate/lecture series, with a focus on Islam in today’s world and in Europe in particular. Well-known influential authorities —each an active participant in the public debate on the global role of Islam past, present, and future — presented papers at the several Intercultural Relations meetings sponsored by Forum A. & A. Leysen. These important contributions, on the topic Islam and Europe: Crises are Challenges, are collected in this volume.

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Edited by Michèle Goyens and Werner Verbeke This volume gathers eight contributions regarding French medieval language and literature. The papers collected here regard a variety of subjects: historical phraseology, medieval authors, some specific literary characters, addressees of medieval literature, certain types of literary texts, and the relationship between Middle Dutch and Old French literature. C ontrib u tors Herman Braet • Claude Buridant • Brigitte L. Callay • Geert H.M. Claassens • Yasmina Foehr-Janssens • Dulce Maria Gonzalez Doreste • Cinzia Pignatelli • Remco Sleiderink • Colette Van Coolput-Storms

A common message emerges from the contributors and all their different points of view: only dialogue—on the one hand between the West (countries that manifest themselves as Western Democratic constitutional states) and Islam, and on the other hand within and among societies historically identified with Islam—will overcome entrenched confrontation and negative animosity. Such dialogue will engender new possibilities and understandings, and, by encouraging free and critical thinking, pave the way to social equity and the scientific innovation that may lead to more prosperity. In the course of the meetings all talks led to fascinating debates. This book includes the papers presented during the period January 2008 to January 2009. Although the question of how to actually construct the dialogue remains unsettled, this pioneering book takes a giant step toward an answer. C ontrib u tors Ahmed Aboutaleb • Durre S. Ahmed • A.S.A. Al-Saify • Mohamed Benzakour • Helge Daniëls • Nadia Fadil • Silvio Ferrari • Marie-Claire Foblets • Fouad Laroui • Paul Lemmens • Rashida Manjoo • Ziba Mir-Hosseini • Bhikhu Parekh • Mathias Rohe • Cedric Ryngaert • Shaheen Sardar Ali • Prakash Shah • Paul Scheffer • Amina Wadud • Sami Zemni

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UPL in Context

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Predicting the Past

PRE DIC TING THE PAST THE PARADOXES OF AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY

MICHAEL BOYDEN

awing original insights from the social eories of Niklas Luhmann and Mary Douglas, edicting the Past advocates a reflexive nderstanding of the paradoxical institutional namic of American literary history as a ofessional discipline and field of study. nlike most disciplinary historians, Michael oyden resists the utopian impulse to offer finitive solutions for the legitimation crises setting American literary history by “going yond” its inherited racist, classist, sexist, or nglocentric biases. Approaching the existence the American literary tradition as a typically odern problem generating diverse but funconally equivalent solutions, Boyden argues w its peculiarity does not, as is often supsed, reside in its restrictive exclusivity but ther in its open-ended inclusivity, which ives it to constantly revert to a self-negating eyond” perspective.

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Crossing Cultures Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Literature in the Low Countries

Michael Boyden

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“A brilliant account of how American literature has systematically internalized the conception of utopian alternatives, so that the projected future of the subject is tied inexorably to its past.”—Paul Giles, Oxford University LEUVEN UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Crossing Cultures Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Literature in the Low Countries Edited by Tom Toremans and Walter Verschueren

Crossing Cultures brings together scholars in the field of reception and translation studies to chart the individual and institutional agencies that determined the reception of Anglophone authors in the Dutch and Belgian literary fields in the course of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. The essays offer a variety of angles from which nineteenth-century literary dynamics in the Low Countries can be studied. The first two parts discuss the reception of Anglophone literature in the Netherlands and Belgium, respectively, while the third part focuses exclusively on the Dutch translation of women writers.

Michael Boyden is Assistant Professor of American Literature and Culture at the Department of Translation Studies of University College Ghent, Belgium.

Tom Toremans is Lecturer in English literature and literary theory at the Katholieke Universiteit Brussel (partner in Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel), and affiliated researcher at the Department of Literary Studies of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Walter Verschueren is Professor of American literature and translation studies at the Faculty of Language and Literature of the Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel and is affiliated researcher at the Department of Literary Studies of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

November, 216 pages, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-90-5867-731-0 $55.00s NAM Literary Criticism

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Predicting the Past covers a broad range of literary histories and reference works, from Rufus Griswold’s 1847 Prose Writers of America to Sacvan Bercovitch’s monumental Cambridge History of American Literature. Throughout, Boyden focuses on particular themes and topics illustrating the self-induced complexity of American literary history, such as the early “Anglocentric” roots theories of American literature; the debate on contemporary authors in the age of naturalism; the plurilingual ethnocentrism of the pioneer Americanists of the mid-twentieth century; and the genealogical misrepresentation of founding figures such as Jonathan Edwards, Emily Dickinson, and Robert Lowell.

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Drawing from the social theories of Niklas Luhmann and Mary Douglas, Predicting the Past advocates a reflexive understanding of the paradoxical institutional dynamic of American literary history as a professional discipline and field of study. Contrary to most disciplinary accounts, Michael Boyden resists the utopian impulse to offer supposedly definitive solutions for the legitimation crises besetting American literature studies by “going beyond” its inherited racist, classist, and sexist underpinnings. Approaching the existence of the American literary tradition as a typically modern problem generating diverse but functionally equivalent solutions, Boyden argues how its peculiarity does not, as is often supposed, reside in its restrictive exclusivity but rather in its massive inclusivity, which drives it to constantly revert to a self-negating “beyond” perspective.

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Geert Roskam is Research Professor at the Faculty of Arts (Greek Studies) of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

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Edited by Gerry van Klinken and Joshua Barker A major realignment is taking place in the way we understand the state in Indonesia. New studies on local politics, ethnicity, the democratic transition, corruption, Islam, popular culture, and other areas hint at novel concepts of the state, though often without fully articulating them.

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State of Authority offers a range of detailed case studies based on fieldwork in many different settings around the archipelago. The studies bring to life figures of authority who have sought to carve out positions of power for themselves using legal and illegal means. These figures include village heads, informal slum leaders, district heads, parliamentarians, and others. These individuals negotiate in settings where the state is evident and where it is discussed: coffee houses, hotel lounges, fishing waters, and street-side stalls.

Gerry van Klinken is a permanent research fellow with the KITLV research program in Leiden that led to the present book. After a previous career teaching physics and geophysics in Southeast Asia, he moved to Asian Studies with a dissertation in history in 1996. His most recent monograph is Communal Violence and Democratization in Indonesia: Small Town Wars. Joshua Barker is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. He received his BA from Trent University, his MA from SOAS, and his PhD from Cornell University. He has held postdoctoral fellowships in Indonesia, the Netherlands, and Sweden. His research examines urban transformation, crime and security, and new technologies. He is a contributing editor to the journal Indonesia.

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Aid and Politics in Cambodia and East Timor

Edited and Translated by Vinh Sinh

Caroline Hughes Caroline Hughes investigates the political situations in contemporary Cambodia and East Timor, where powerful international actors intervened following deadly civil conflicts. Her comparative analysis critiques donors’ policies that focus on rebuilding state institutions to accommodate the global market. In addition, it explores the dilemmas of politicians in Cambodia and East Timor who struggle to satisfy both wealthy foreign benefactors and constituents at home. 2009, 268 pages, illustrations, maps, 7 x 10 Cloth ISBN 978-0-87727-778-1 $46.95x/£31.95 OSAPH Paper ISBN 978-0-87727-748-4 $23.95x/£16.50 OSAPH Cambodia and Indonesia | Politics | Contemporary History

Phan Châu Trinh (1872–1926) was the earliest proponent of democracy and popular rights in Vietnam. He favored a moderate approach to political change and advised Vietnam’s leaders to seek reform within the French colonial system rather than organize violent resistance. This collection of four of Phan’s essays, accompanied by Vinh Sinh’s masterly introduction, illuminates both this turbulent era and the courageous intelligence of the author. 2009, 152 pages, 4 illustrations, 7 x 10 Cloth ISBN 978-0-87727-779-8 $41.95x/£28.50 OSAPH Paper ISBN 978-0-87727-749-1 $20.95x/£14.50 OSAPH Vietnam | Politics | Translation

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Conflict, Violence, and Displacement in Indonesia Edited by Eva-Lotta E. Hedman This volume foregrounds the dynamics of displacement and the experiences of internal refugees uprooted by conflict and violence in Indonesia. Contributors examine internal displacement in the context of militarized conflict and violence in East Timor, Aceh, and Papua, and in other parts of Outer Island Indonesia during the transition from authoritarian rule. 2008, 304 pages, 40 illustrations, 7 x 10 Cloth ISBN 978-0-87727-775-0 $46.95x/£39.50 OSAPH Paper ISBN 978-0-87727-745-3 $23.95x/£20.50 OSAPH Indonesia | Politics | Contemporary History

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Edited by Anne Ruth Hansen and Judy Ledgerwood Inspired by David Chandler’s groundbreaking work on Cambodian attempts to find order in the aftermath of turmoil, these essays explore Cambodian history using a rich variety of sources that cast light on Khmer perceptions of violence, wildness, and order. 2008, 251 pages, 7 x 10 Cloth ISBN 978-0-87727-776-7 $46.95x/£39.50 OSAPH Paper ISBN 978-0-87727-746-0 $23.95x/£20.50 OSAPH Cambodia | Anthropology | Contemporary History

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O. W. Wolters Edited by Craig J. Reynolds A collection of the classic essays of O. W. Wolters, reflecting his radiant and meticulous lifelong study of premodern Southeast Asia, its literature, trade, government, and vanished cities. Included is an intellectual biography by the editor, which covers Wolters’s professional lives as a member of the Malayan Civil Service and, later, as a scholar. 2008, 236 pages, 8 illustrations, 7 x 10 Cloth ISBN 978-0-87727-773-6 $46.95x/£39.50 OSAPH Paper ISBN 978-0-87727-743-9 $23.95x/£20.50 OSAPH Southeast Asia | History

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