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Adams and Adams: Chapters of Erie Andrews: Our Earliest Colonial Settlements Barthélemy: The Serf, the Knight, and the Historian Beizer: Thinking through the Mothers Benjamin: Icons of the Desert Crane: Killed Strangely Craton: Testing the Chains Edgerton: The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope Hafner-Burton: Forced to Be Good Hughes: Dependent Communities Janus: Failure to Protect Lewis: From Newgate to Dannemora Pinstrup-Andersen and Cheng, eds.: Case Studies in Food Policy for Developing Countries, vols. I, II, and III Rink: Holland on the Hudson Roberts: Autobiography of a Farm Boy Vinh: Phan Châu Trinh and His Political Writings Wesser: Charles Evans Hughes Wisbey: Pioneer Prophetess

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Leuven University Press books distributed by Cornell University Press in North America Bernstein: Plutonium Blum: My Word! Chin: The Golden Triangle Darlington: The Love Letters of William and Mary Wordsworth Douglas: A Geneaology of Literary Multiculturalism Goldberg: Struggle for Empire Goldstein: Playing for Keeps, 20th Anniversary ed. Herndon and Murray, eds.: Children Bound to Labor Knudsen: Farmers on Welfare Lerner: The Powers of Prophecy Pastor, Benner, and Matsuoka: This Could Be the Start of Something Big Rector: Federations Salehyan: Rebels without Borders Verhoeven: The Odd Man Karakozov Wood: Kant’s Moral Religion Wood: Kant’s Rational Theology

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Caron: My Father and I Clark: Building More Effective Unions, 2nd ed. Dobson: Khruschchev’s Cold Summer Ellis et al.: Manual of Leaf Architecture Gray: Milton and the Victorians Hampton: Fictions of Embassy Kahler: Networked Politics Leheny: Think Global, Fear Local McGuinness: Path of Empire Papa: Staged Action Preble: The Power Problem Sidorick: Condensed Capitalism Thompson: Channels of Power White: China’s Longest Campaign Wolf and Denzin, eds.: Romance and Love in Late Medieval and Early Modern Iceland

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Acharya: Whose Ideas Matter? Andreas: Border Games, 2nd ed. Blumenthal: Enemies and Familiars Bouchard: Holy Entrepreneurs Bouchard: Sword, Miter, and Cloister Brown: Glamour in Six Dimensions Cushing and Drescher: Agitate! Educate! Organize! Filc: Circles of Exclusion Garwood: Seedlings of Barro Colorado Island and the Neotropics Kochan et al.: Healing Together LaCapra: History and Its Limits Leftow: Time and Eternity Levin and Watkins: Shakespeare’s Foreign Worlds McCurdy: Citizen Bachelors Mullin and Seigel, eds.: Snakes Olmert: Kitchens, Smokehouses, and Privies Oushakine: The Patriotism of Despair Su: Streetwise for Book Smarts

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Faubion and Marcus, eds.: Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be Goodman: Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters Grant: The Captive and the Gift Hanebrink: In Defense of Christian Hungary Hochschild and Mollenkopf, eds.: Bringing Outsiders In Immergluck: Foreclosed Lake: Hierarchy in International Relations Malaby: Making Virtual Worlds Panchasi: Future Tense Rebillard: The Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity Roze: The North American Porcupine, 2nd ed. Santoro: China 2020

ILLUSTRATIONS cover “Together we win: Get behind your labor-management committee.” Artist Unknown, War Production Board, circa 1944 (see pages 4–5). Page 4 Art from Agitate! Educate! Organize!: “Taking out the scabs: A big job for the 80s,” Doug Minkler, 1984. “Farmworkers Demand: Don’t Fence Us Out!” David Loewenstein, Workforce Development Institute, Bread and Roses Cultural Project, SEIU 1199, Justseeds 2007. Page 5 Art from Agitate! Educate! Organize!: “Boycott Campbell’s Condemned Cream of Exploitation Soup,” artist unknown, FLOC Support Group, 1984. “Gap Traditional,” (jeans tag). Jean Carlu derivative, designer unknown, Gap Incorporated, circa 1985. “Knock him out! Labor can do it,” Bill Seaman, National Labor Service (American Jewish Committee); CIO Committee to Abolish Racial Discrimination, 1945. “HudsonMohawk May Day 2007,” Josh MacPhee, Hudson Mohawk May Day Organizing Committee, 2007. Page 7 Thomas Malaby’s Second Life home. Page 8 Mount Vernon privy (photograph by Michael Olmert), George Washington Birthplace National Monument, reconstructed kitchen interior (photograph by Michael Olmert). Page 14 “Kimanzi” secteur, Rwanda, 2004. Photograph by Lee Ann Fujii. Page 20 By Florence Finkelsztajn’s Yiddish bakery (photograph by David Caron). Page 21 Gilbert Seehausen cellophane gown in Fall 1933 Esquire. Page 24 S. P. Dubinin as the Russian captive, and E. G. Chikbaidze as the Circassian maiden who sets him free, in the 1938 Leningrad ballet adaption of Pushkin’s “Prisoner of the Caucasus.” Page 25 “They helped him out,” Krokodil, 10 January 1960. Courtesy SSEES Library, London. “Programja,” Pravda, 7 August 1961. Courtesy SSEES Library, London. Page 53 Sample illustration from Manual of Leaf Architecture: Euphorbiaceae Macaranga bicolor (detail). Page 54 Oxybelis aeneus (Horsewhip) photograph by John D. Willson. Page 55 Peacekeepers and children in East Timor, Binsar, United Nations.

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My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture Susan D. Blum “Classroom Cheats Turn to Computers.” “Student Essays on Internet Offer Challenge to Teachers.” “Faking the Grade.” Headlines such as these have been blaring the alarming news of an epidemic of plagiarism and cheating in American colleges: more than 75 percent of students admit to having cheated; 68 percent admit to cutting and pasting material from the Internet without citation. Professors are reminded almost daily that many of today’s college students operate under an entirely new set of assumptions about originality and ethics. Practices that even a decade ago would have been regarded almost universally as academically dishonest are now commonplace. Is this development an indication of dramatic shifts in education and the larger culture? In a book that dismisses handwringing in favor of a rich account of how students actually think and act, Susan D. Blum discovers two cultures that exist, often uneasily, side by side in the classroom. Relying extensively on interviews conducted by students with students, My Word! presents the voices of today’s young adults as they muse about their daily activities, their challenges, and the meanings of their college lives. Outcomes-based secondary education, the steeply rising cost of college tuition, and an economic climate in which higher education is valued for its effect on future earnings above all else: These factors each have a role to play in explaining why students might pursue good grades by any means necessary. These incentives have arisen in the same era as easily accessible ways to cheat electronically and with almost intolerable pressures that result in many students being diagnosed as clinically depressed during their transition from childhood to adulthood. However, Blum suggests, the real problem of academic dishonesty arises primarily from a lack of communication between two distinct cultures within the university setting. On one hand, professors and administrators regard plagiarism as a serious academic crime, an ethical transgression, even a sin against an ethos of individualism and originality. Students, on the other hand, revel in sharing, in multiplicity, in accomplishment at any cost. Although this book is unlikely to reassure readers who hope that increasing rates of plagiarism can be reversed with strongly worded warnings on the first day of class, My Word! opens a dialogue between professors and their students that may lead to true mutual comprehension and serve as the basis for an alignment between student practices and their professors’ expectations.

“Susan D. Blum is genuinely interested in understanding her students and brings great care and compassion to her discussion of plagiarism. She generously draws on student interview segments throughout My Word! to illuminate today’s campus climate. I especially like that Blum locates acts of cheating within the wider sociocultural context rather than regarding them simply as failures of personal morality.” —Cathy Small, author of My Freshman Year

Susan D. Blum is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author, most recently, of Lies That Bind: Chinese Truth, Other Truths and editor of Making Sense of Language: Readings in Culture and Communication. MARCH, 240 pages, 1 table, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4763-1 $24.95t/£13.95 Education

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China 2020 How Western Business Can—and Should—Influence Social and Political Change in the Coming Decade Michael A. Santoro

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“In this great book, Michael A. Santoro adds in significant and important ways to the dialogue over the economic reforms in China and how these reforms give rise to many complexities in the areas of politics and human rights.” —Doug Guthrie, New York University

Chinese society is plagued by many problems that have a direct impact on its current and future business and political environment—worker rights, product safety, Internet freedom, and the rule of law. Drawing on knowledge gained through personal interviews, documentary sources, and almost two decades of visits to China, Michael A. Santoro offers a clear-eyed view of the various internal forces—such as regionalism, corruption, and growing inequality—that will determine the direction and pace of economic, social, and political change. Of special interest is Santoro’s assessment of the role of multinational corporations in fostering or undermining social and political progress. Santoro offers a fresh and innovative way of thinking about two questions that have preoccupied Western observers for decades. What will be the effect of economic reform and prosperity on political reform? How can companies operate with moral integrity and ethics in China? In China 2020, Santoro unifies these hitherto separate questions and demonstrates that moral integrity (or lack of it) by Western business will have a profound impact on whether economic privatization and growth usher in greater democracy and respect for human rights. China 2020 also offers a novel vision of China’s future economic and political development. Santoro rejects the conventional view that China will muddle through the next decade with incremental social and political changes. Instead he argues that China will follow one or two widely divergent potential outcomes. It might continue to progress steadily toward greater prosperity, democracy, and respect for human rights, but it is also highly likely that China will instead fall backward economically and into an ever more authoritarian regime. The next decade will be one of the most important in the history of China, and, owing to China’s global impact, the history of the modern world. China 2020 describes various tectonic social and political battles going on within China. The outcomes of these struggles will depend on a number of powerful indigenous forces as well as the decisions and actions of individual Chinese citizens. Santoro strongly believes that Western businesses can—and should—influence these developments.

Michael A. Santoro is Associate Professor of Business Ethics at the Rutgers Business School. He is the author of Profits and Principles: Global Capitalism and Human Rights in China, also from Cornell. JUNE, 176 pages, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4695-5 $21.95t/£11.95 Current Events | Business 2

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The Power Problem How American Military Dominance Makes Us Less Safe, Less Prosperous, and Less Free Christopher A. Preble Numerous polls show that Americans want to reduce our military presence abroad, allowing our allies and other nations to assume greater responsibility both for their own defense and for enforcing security in their respective regions. In The Power Problem, Christopher A. Preble explores the aims, costs, and limitations of the use of this nation’s military power; throughout, he makes the case that the majority of Americans are right, and the foreign policy experts who disdain the public’s perspective are wrong. Preble is a keen and skeptical observer of recent U.S. foreign policy experiences, which have been marked by the promiscuous use of armed intervention. He documents how the possession of vast military strength runs contrary to the original intent of the Founders, and has, as they feared, shifted the balance of power away from individual citizens and toward the central government, and from the legislative and judicial branches of government to the executive. In Preble’s estimate, if policymakers in Washington have at their disposal immense military might, they will constantly be tempted to overreach, and to redefine ever more broadly the “national interest.” Preble holds that the core national interest—preserving American security—is easily defined and largely immutable. Possessing vast military power in order to further other objectives is, he asserts, illicit and to be resisted. Preble views military power as purely instrumental: if it advances U.S. security, then it is fulfilling its essential role. If it does not—if it undermines our security, imposes unnecessary costs, and forces all Americans to incur additional risks—then our military power is a problem, one that only we can solve. As it stands today, Washington’s eagerness to maintain and use an enormous and expensive military is corrosive to contemporary American democracy.

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Christopher A. Preble is Director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Cato Institute and a former commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy. He is the author of John F. Kennedy and the Missile Gap and Exiting Iraq: Why the U.S. Must End the Military Occupation and Renew the War against Al Qaeda. CORNELL STUDIES IN SECURITY AFFAIRS a series edited by Robert J. Art, Robert Jervis, and Stephen M. Walt

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Agitate! Educate! Organize! American Labor Posters Lincoln Cushing and Timothy W. Drescher “We seek to inform as well as to celebrate. The best posters about American workers and the jobs at which they labor make up a visually fascinating body of work that rewards our attention. The posters were produced with a dual purpose: to entertain and to inform. They were also vehicles for working people to present themselves visually, which is rarely as straightforward as it might seem because the labor force itself is not monolithic. Nor are the posters about just paid or wage labor. They repeatedly demonstrate that labor issues include both the workplace and the outside community and often portray families and neighbors, not just fellow workers.”—from Agitate! Educate! Organize!

In Agitate! Educate! Organize!, Lincoln Cushing and Timothy W. Drescher share their vast knowledge about the rich graphic tradition of labor posters. Lavish full-color reproductions of more than 250 of the best posters that have emerged from the American labor movement ensure that readers will want to return again and again to this visually fascinating treasury of little-known images from the American past. Some of the posters were issued by government programs and campaigns; some were devised by unions as recruiting tools or strike announcements; others were generated by grassroots organizations focused on a particular issue or group of workers—all reveal much about the diverse experiences of working people in the United States.

Lincoln Cushing is the author of Revolucion! Cuban Poster Art and coauthor of Chinese Posters: Art from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Timothy W. Drescher is the author of San Francisco Bay Area Murals and a coeditor of San Francisco Labor Landmarks Guidebook. An ILR Press Book

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American labor posters are widely scattered, difficult to locate, and rarely archived. Cushing and Drescher examined several thousand such images in the course of their research, guaranteeing a truly representative selection. The presentation of the posters is thematic, with a brief history of activist graphic media followed by chapters on Dignity and Exploitation; Health and Safety; Women; Race and Civil Rights; War, Peace and Internationalism; Solidarity and Organizing; Strikes and Boycotts; Democracy, Voting, and Patriotism; History, Heroes, and Martyrs; and Culture. Along with the stunning color images, the text contributes to a much deeper understanding of the politics, history, artistry, and impact of this genre of activist art and the importance of the labor movement in the transformation of American society over the course of the twentieth century.

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Staged Action Six Plays from the American Workers’ Theatre Edited by Lee Papa With this anthology of six plays, Lee Papa reintroduces readers and performers to a largely forgotten American theatrical genre from the 1920s and 1930s, the workers’ theatre movement. In an introduction that gives background on the workers’ theatre movement and traces its influence on American drama, from David Mamet and August Wilson to the work of Anna Deavere Smith and Vermont’s Bread and Puppet Theatre, Papa explains the criteria for his selection of plays. Papa’s section introductions provide historical, cultural, and literary context for each of the plays.

“In Staged Action, Lee Papa is addressing an area of theater history that is woefully neglected and unrepresented in academic literature. He has done a true service for the general public as well as students of theater by giving us access to these plays.” —Mark Plesent, Working Theater

Lee Papa is Assistant Professor of Drama Studies in the Department of English at the College of Staten Island/ CUNY.

The first two plays in the anthology—Processional by John Howard Lawson and Upton Sinclair’s Singing Jailbirds—reflect the large-scale arrests of strikers and union organizers during and after World War I. The next two plays were produced at labor colleges. Bonchi Friedman’s 1926 play The Miners combines expressionism and realism in a drama about a violent strike that has an unusual female union leader as its hero. In Mill Shadows by Tom Tippett, a town changes from a simple industrial village into a place of rebellion and eventually a union community. The last two plays are representative of those produced by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. In contrast to Irwin Swerdlow’s one-act agitprop In Union There Is Strength, the musical revue Pins and Needles—until Oklahoma the most successful musical on Broadway—is a collection of satirical sketches that parodies workers’ theatre while simultaneously taking on serious issues like the treatment of blue- and white-collar workers and the rise of fascism overseas.

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Making Virtual Worlds Linden Lab and Second Life Thomas Malaby The past decade has seen phenomenal growth in the development and use of virtual worlds. In one of the most notable, Second Life, millions of people have created online avatars in order to play games, take classes, socialize, and conduct business transactions. Second Life offers a gathering point and the tools for people to create a new world online. Too often neglected in popular and scholarly accounts of such groundbreaking new environments is the simple truth that, of necessity, such virtual worlds emerge from physical workplaces marked by negotiation, creation, and constant change. Thomas Malaby spent a year at Linden Lab, the real-world home of Second Life, observing those who develop and profit from the sprawling, self-generating system they have created. Some of the challenges created by Second Life for its developers were of a very traditional nature, such as how to cope with a business that is growing more quickly than existing staff can handle. Others are seemingly new: How, for instance, does one regulate something that is supposed to run on its own? Is it possible simply to create a space for people to use and then not govern its use? Can one apply these same free-range/free-market principles to the office environment in which the game is produced? “Lindens”—as the Linden Lab employees call themselves—found that their efforts to prompt user behavior of one sort or another were fraught with complexities, as a number of ongoing processes collided with their own interventions. Malaby thoughtfully describes the world of Linden Lab and the challenges it faced while he was conducting his in-depth ethnographic research there. He shows how the workers of a very young but quickly growing company were themselves caught up in ideas about technology, games, and organizations, and struggled to manage not only their virtual world but also themselves in a nonhierarchical fashion. In exploring the practices the Lindens employed, he questions what was at stake in their virtual world, what a game really is (and how people participate), and the role of the unexpected in a product like Second Life and an organization like Linden Lab.

Thomas Malaby is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He is the author of Gambling Life: Dealing in Contingency in a Greek City. JUNE, 192 pages, 4 halftones, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4746-4 $24.95t/£13.95 Computer Games | Anthropology W W W . C O R N E L L P R E S S . C O R N E L L . E D U

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Kitchens, Smokehouses, and Privies Outbuildings and the Architecture of Daily Life in the Eighteenth-Century Mid-Atlantic Michael Olmert In Kitchens, Smokehouses, and Privies, Michael Olmert takes us into the eighteenth-century backyards of colonial America. He explores the many small outbuildings that can still be found at obscure rural farmsteads throughout the Tidewater and greater mid-Atlantic, in towns like Williamsburg and Annapolis, and at elite plantations such as Mount Vernon and Monticello. These structures were designed to support the performance of a single task: cooking food; washing clothes; smoking meat; storing last winter’s ice; or keeping milk, cheese, and cream fresh. Privies and small offices are also addressed, as is the dovecote, in which doves were raised for their eggs, squab meat, feathers, and fertilizer. Often, these little buildings were clustered in such a way as to resemble a small village, knit together by similar design details and building materials: they were all constructed in weatherboards or in brick, for instance, or were arranged in a single file or positioned at the four corners of the yard. In this appealing book, featuring nearly a hundred crisp black-andwhite photographs, Olmert explains how these well-made buildings actually functioned. He is riveted by the history of outbuildings: their architecture, patterns of use, folklore, and even their literary presence. In two appendixes he also considers octagonal and hexagonal structures, which had special significance, both doctrinal and cultural, in early America. Archaeologists and historians still have many questions about the design and function of outbuildings—questions that are often difficult to answer because of the ephemeral nature of these structures; they were not documented—any more than laundry rooms and storage units inspire rhapsodies today. Olmert’s book, deeply grounded in scholarship, eminently readable, and profusely illustrated, takes these buildings seriously and gives them the attention they deserve.

Michael Olmert teaches English Literature at the University of Maryland. He has won three Emmys for writing documentaries and is a regular contributor to Colonial Williamsburg magazine. He is also the author of The Smithsonian Book of Books and Milton’s Teeth and Ovid’s Umbrella: Curiouser and Curiouser Adventures in History. MAY, 208 pages, 9 line drawings, 91 halftones, 7 x 10 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4791-4 $27.95t/£15.50 Architecture 8

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The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope How Renaissance Linear Perspective Changed Our Vision of the Universe Samuel Y. Edgerton “Samuel Y. Edgerton’s work is the best embodiment of an integrated approach to perspective, blending historical and geometric concerns into one narrative. Edgerton knows perspective very well, and he makes perspective drawings himself. At the same time this is not the sort of mathematically inclined writing that reduces perspective to a series of geometric tricks. This book is full of careful scholarship, and Edgerton does not forget the Christian contexts of Renaissance perspective. He also resists the ‘new wave of art criticism’ that sees perspective as a minor technical invention, soaked in an abandoned ideology of naturalism. Edgerton celebrates perspective as a ‘positive idea’: he cares about what perspective has accomplished in Western culture, from mapping and exploration to the latest achievements of digital astronomy. This book is a concise summary of his work, and a reliable and up-to-date introduction to the subject. Read this first, and the rest of the literature will make sense: read the other literature first, and perspective may remain in a fog of intimidating mathematics and metaphorics.”—James Elkins, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

In The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope, Samuel Y. Edgerton brings fresh insight to a subject of perennial interest to the history of art and science in the West—the birth of linear perspective. Edgerton retells the fascinating story of how perspective emerged in early fifteenthcentury Florence, growing out of an artistic and religious context in which devout Christians longed for divine presence in their daily lives. And yet, ironically, its discovery would have a profound effect not only on the history of art but on the history of science and technology, ultimately undermining the very medieval Christian cosmic view that gave rise to it in the first place. Among Edgerton’s cast of characters is Filippo Brunelleschi, who first demonstrated how a familiar object could be painted in a picture exactly as it appeared in a mirror reflection. Brunelleschi communicated the principles of this new perspective to his artist friends Donatello, Masaccio, Masolino, and Fra Angelico. But it was the humanist scholar Leon Battista Alberti who codified Brunelleschi’s perspective rules into a simple formula that even mathematically disadvantaged artists could understand. By looking through a window the geometric beauties of this world were revealed without the theological implications of a mirror reflection. Alberti’s treatise, “On Painting,” spread the new concept throughout Italy and transalpine Europe, even influencing later scientists including Galileo Galilei. In fact, it was Galileo’s telescope, called at the time a “perspective tube,” that revealed the earth to be not a mirror reflection of the heavens, as Brunelleschi had advocated, but just the other way around. Building on the knowledge he has accumulated over his distinguished career, Edgerton has written the definitive, up-to-date work on linear perspective, showing how this simple artistic tool did indeed change our present vision of the universe.

Samuel Y. Edgerton is Amos Lawrence Professor of Art History Emeritus at Williams College. He is the author of many books, including Theaters of Conversion: Religious Architecture and Indian Artisans in Colonial Mexico and The Heritage of Giotto’s Geometry: Art and Science on the Eve of the Scientific Revolution. FEBRUARY, 224 pages, 105 halftones, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4758-7 $65.00x/£35.95 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7480-4 $19.95s/£10.95 Art History

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A Room of Their Own The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections Edited by Nancy E. Green and Christopher Reed Although of another place and time, the Bloomsbury group confronted issues that are remarkably current: international crises, war, the value of craft in an industrialized world, women’s rights, environmental protection, and the search for the true, the good, and the beautiful in their art and their lives. A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections, an exhibition catalog produced by the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, examines the group’s responses to these issues, providing a valuable mirror on how people can address similar concerns today. A hundred years after the Bloomsbury group was established, their story still resonates and brings together a variety of interests across many artistic and intellectual pursuits. The exhibition will include two hundred watercolors, drawings, books from the Hogarth Press, decorative works from the Omega Workshops, and other works. The exhibition catalog features essays by several leading Bloomsbury scholars. Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, author of a major 1995 Carrington biography, provides a personal overview of artistic Bloomsbury. Nancy E. Green, the Johnson Museum curator and organizer of the exhibition, explores the Victorian-era influence on sisters Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. Mark Hussey’s essay discusses the cultural differences behind how British and American audiences experience Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury group. Benjamin Harvey offers “An Appreciation of Bloomsbury’s Books and Blocks.” Christopher Reed presents personal stories behind many of the prominent Bloomsbury collectors in North America. The book is illustrated with full-color plates of the two hundred exhibited works, as well as numerous color figures of comparative works and documentary photographs. Nancy E. Green is the Gale and Ira Drukier Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University. Christopher Reed is Associate Professor of English and Visual Culture at The Pennsylvania State University. Distributed for the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University

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Exhibition Itinerary This catalog accompanies an exhibition organized by the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University. Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina December 18, 2008–April 5, 2009 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York July 18–October 18, 2009 Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, California November 7–December 13, 2009 Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois January 15–March 14, 2010 Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts April 3–June 15, 2010 Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania July 6–September 26, 2010

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Icons of the Desert Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya Roger Benjamin Icons of the Desert is an exhibition catalog produced by the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University for a show featuring forty-nine “dot-paintings” produced by Aboriginal artists from the settlement of Papunya in the Western Desert of Australia. Dot-painting has become an art instantly associated with Aboriginal Australia. In the more than thirty-five years since the advent of this movement, Papunya works have been widely exhibited and acquired by private collectors and museums in Australia, and increasingly abroad. Icons of the Desert is the first book to focus on the founding expressions of Papunya art. It examines their origins in the paintings produced in Papunya during the years 1971 to 1973, after the Sydney schoolteacher Geoffrey Bardon provided Aboriginal men with art materials and encouraged them to paint on Masonite, against the wishes of Australian government officials. These paintings claim a unique status. Only around six hundred were made. They are also the first painted works to transfer the designs of desert ceremonial imagery to a permanent surface. Beyond this rarity and historical significance, however, the visual qualities of Papunya boards make them a uniquely appealing body of work. They have the freshness of trial and error, of experiment by artists who were seasoned in other media adjusting to an unfamiliar format. Icons of the Desert is illustrated with full-color plates of the forty-nine exhibited works by such great artists as Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula, and Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri. In addition, it features numerous color figures of comparative works and documentary photographs of the original artists at work, some never before published, and a chronological catalog documenting the works’ history and iconography, edited by project curator Roger Benjamin. The leading Indigenous curator in the field, Hetti Perkins, contributed the preface. Roger Benjamin authored the lead essay, which situates the works in their historical and cultural context. Fred Myers, an internationally renowned cultural anthropologist who undertook his doctoral research at Papunya when the movement was still in formation, has written an essay on the stylistic development of one of the painting men he knew personally, Shorty Lungkarta Tjungurrayi. Vivien Johnson, the most prominent Australian author on Western and Central Desert art, writes on a second important artist in the collection, Charlie Tarawa Tjungurrayi. In addition, the memories of relatives of deceased painters in the exhibition are presented in the form of an interview conducted by Dick Kimber, who was a schoolteacher at Papunya in 1971 when the paintings were first produced.

Exhibition Itinerary Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Cornell University Ithaca, New York January 10–April 5, 2009 Fowler Museum of Cultural History University of California Los Angeles, California April 27–August 3, 2009 Grey Art Gallery New York University New York, New York September 1–December 5, 2009

Roger Benjamin is Research Professor in Art History and Actus Foundation Lecturer in Aboriginal Art at the Power Institute Foundation for Art & Visual Culture, University of Sydney. Distributed for the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University

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The North American Porcupine Second Edition Uldis Roze Praise for the first edition— “The variety, power, and pleasure of modern natural history shines brightly in this book. Long and sympathetic watching, radio tracking, chemical analysis . . . are all part of this naturalist’s ingenious and peaceable arsenal of inquiry into the lives of porcupines.”—Scientific American “Rarely does one encounter scientific writing that is at the same time authoritative, full of well-documented data, and yet as readable as this book. It is good literature as well as good science. Readers almost feel as though they are looking over the shoulder of the observer, feeling his discomfort at the cold and rain, his excitement when something new and unexpected happens, and sharing in the sadness over the demise or misfortune of an animal that had long ago become a friend.”—Quarterly Review of Biology

“This is an engaging and interesting book that will be of interest to general readers and specialists alike. The new material in the second edition of The North American Porcupine—especially the information on defense reactions and Uldis Roze’s up-close observations derived by following the life of a single individual—is informative and adds new dimensions.” —Bernd Heinrich, author of Winter World and Mind of the Raven

Uldis Roze is Professor Emeritus of Biology at Queens College. He is the author of The Living Earth: An Introduction to Biology.

The North American porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum) is universally recognizable, yet has a complex biology that continues to fascinate. This large-bodied, slow-moving herbivore is found in coniferous and mixed forested areas through much of the northern and western United States and in Canada. The porcupine would be ill equipped to avoid any sort of predator were it not for its most distinguishing feature—a unique natural defensive system of thousands of sharp, barbed, multipurpose quills, which are marvels of evolutionary adaptation. Intrigued by the porcupines after he discovered them gnawing at the plywood of his Catskills cabin, the biologist Uldis Roze has spent twenty-five years tracking and studying this solitary animal. His firsthand observations are a revelation; throughout the second edition of his classic work on the subject, he shows how much can be learned by “following a porcupine in the woods.” Quill design, defensive reactions, foraging, reproduction, and life cycle are among the topics illuminated by Roze in this fine example of forest ecology. Roze’s comprehensive knowledge of this important mammal will interest wildlife managers in addition to a wide audience of natural history readers. The penultimate chapter, in which the author rehabilitates an orphaned porcupine he names Musa, teaching her to climb trees and forage, shows the scientific insights that come from such pursuits—such as the discovery of clay-eating in the porcupine diet—but also the pure joy and excitement of gaining a window into the world of the porcupine. Roze’s writing beautifully unites scientific research with a naturalist’s fascination with the outdoor world and the lives of his subjects: Each animal he encounters is “a teacher, a storyteller of the woods, a complexifier and adorner of the world.” also

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A COMSTOCK BOOK

Natural History of a Wetlands Engineer Dietland Müller-Schwarze and Lixing Sun

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Plutonium A History of the World’s Most Dangerous Element Jeremy Bernstein “Plutonium is a strong candidate for the weirdest, most fascinating, and most frightening element in the periodic table. For it to be the subject of a book by the acclaimed physicist turned science writer Jeremy Bernstein promises a great deal. Plutonium does not disappoint, even for those who think they are already familiar with the evolution of nuclear science during the twentieth century.”—Physics World “Bernstein’s book should play a useful role by helping demystify plutonium and by encouraging interested members of the public and Congress to start constructing a more rational policy to deal with the dangers posed by this man-made element.”—American Scientist “Irony and drama shape Bernstein’s accounts of amazing feats of scientific deduction and world-endangering secrets, which give way to a sobering overview of the environmental damage caused by plutonium-producing reactors and the enormous threats embodied in today’s global plutonium inventory.”—Booklist “Running through a spectrum of Nobel Prize winners, 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 this hazardous element, good for nothing but nuclear weapon production, continues to hold us hostage with the threat of nuclear terrorism.” —Library Journal “None of Jeremy Bernstein’s devoted New Yorker readers were surprised that he brought J. Robert Oppenheimer to life in his compelling biography, Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma. But bringing plutonium to life—making the 94th element as interesting as ‘the father of the atomic bomb’—is science writing that borders on literary magic.”—Martin J. Sherwin, coauthor of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Biography

When plutonium was first manufactured at Berkeley in the spring of 1941, there was so little of it that it was not visible to the naked eye. It took a year to accumulate enough so that one could actually see it. Now so much has been produced that we don’t know what to do to get rid of it. We have created a monster. The history of plutonium is as strange as the element itself. When scientists began looking for it, they did so simply in the spirit of inquiry, not certain whether there were still spots to fill on the periodic table. But the discovery of fission made it clear that this still-hypothetical element would be more than just a scientific curiosity—it could be the main ingredient of a powerful nuclear weapon. In his history of this complex and dangerous element, the noted physicist Jeremy Bernstein describes the steps that were taken to transform plutonium from a laboratory novelty into the nuclear weapon that destroyed Nagasaki. This is the first book to weave together the many strands of plutonium’s story, explaining not only the science but also the people involved.

“In Plutonium, Jeremy Bernstein acknowledges that everything connected with the element is complicated, and that includes plutonium itself and its history. Its discovery in 1941 by Glenn Seaborg and Arthur Wahl is part of a much bigger story in which each part becomes a story in itself.” —Nature “Bernstein spins an accessible, insightful description of how the great scientists Curie, Bohr, Rutherford, and Fermi, among others, deconstructed the atom through a combination of individual brilliance, a spirit of collaboration, and serendipity.” —Publishers Weekly

Jeremy Bernstein was a staff writer at the New Yorker for thirty-five years and is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the Stevens Institute of Technology. His books include Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma. MARCH, 216 pages, 34 halftones, 5 1/8 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7517-7 $17.95t/£9.95 (cloth edition ISBN 978-0-3091-0296-4) Science

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Killing Neighbors Webs of Violence in Rwanda Lee Ann Fujii “Lee Ann Fujii has written a thoughtful, eloquent book that powerfully engages the complexity of the Rwandan genocide. Through careful local-level research and through presenting many fascinating personal accounts, Fujii sheds light on the genocide, challenges much conventional wisdom, and develops a novel argument about the importance of performance, social ties, and group dynamics in how Rwanda’s genocide unfolded. This is a terrific book that should be widely read by students of violence, ethnicity, and African politics.”—Scott Straus, author of The Order of Genocide

“Killing Neighbors incorporates a sophisticated approach to historical factors and gives voice to people ‘in the hills’ as well as to political leaders. It makes a muchneeded contribution both to the field of Rwandan studies and of genocide studies, substituting data for ideology and local voices for political tracts. Understanding how genocide happens requires more studies such as this.” —David Newbury, Smith College

In the horrific events of the mid-1990s in Rwanda, tens of thousands of Hutu killed their Tutsi friends, neighbors, even family members. That ghastly violence has overshadowed a fact almost as noteworthy: that hundreds of thousands of Hutu killed no one. In a transformative revisiting of the motives behind and specific contexts surrounding the Rwandan genocide, Lee Ann Fujii focuses on individual actions rather than sweeping categories. Fujii argues that ethnic hatred and fear do not satisfactorily explain the mobilization of Rwandans one against another. Fujii’s extensive interviews in Rwandan prisons and two rural communities form the basis for her claim that mass participation in the genocide was not the result of ethnic antagonisms. Rather, the social context of action was critical. Strong group dynamics and established local ties shaped patterns of recruitment for and participation in the genocide. This web of social interactions bound people to power holders and killing groups. People joined and continued to participate in the genocide over time, Fujii shows, because killing in large groups conferred identity on those who acted destructively. The perpetrators of the genocide produced new groups centered on destroying prior bonds by killing kith and kin.

Lee Ann Fujii is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs and Program Coordinator of the International Politics cohort of the Women’s Leadership Program at George Washington University. JANUARY, 224 pages, 2 tables, 1 map, 2 line drawings, 3 halftones, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4705-1 $29.95s/£16.50 Political Science 1 4

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The Golden Triangle Inside Southeast Asia’s Drug Trade Ko-lin Chin The Golden Triangle region that joins Burma, Thailand, and Laos is one of the global centers of opiate and methamphetamine production. Opportunistic Chinese businessmen and leaders of various armed groups are largely responsible for the manufacture of these drugs. The region is defined by the apparently conflicting parallel strands of criminality and efforts at state building, a tension embodied by a group of individuals who are simultaneously local political leaders, drug entrepreneurs, and members of heavily armed militias. Ko-lin Chin, a Chinese American criminologist who was born and raised in Burma, conducted five hundred face-to-face interviews with poppy growers, drug dealers, drug users, armed group leaders, law-enforcement authorities, and other key informants in Burma, Thailand, and China. The Golden Triangle provides a lively portrait of a region in constant transition, a place where political development is intimately linked to the vagaries of the global market in illicit drugs. Chin explains the nature of opium growing, heroin and methamphetamine production, drug sales, and drug use. He also shows how government officials who live in these areas view themselves not as drug kingpins, but as people who are carrying the responsibility for local economic development on their shoulders.

“The Golden Triangle provides a richly detailed account of drug production, use, trade, and enforcement in the region. Ko-lin Chin’s individual site narratives of the Wa residents are unique.” —David Steinberg, Georgetown University

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Black Markets, Illegal Finance, and the Underworld Economy Revised Edition R. T. Naylor 2005, 400 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-8960-0 $21.95s/£14.95 OCSA

Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists The Violent Politics of Modern Japan, 1860–1960 Eiko Maruko Siniawer 2008, 288 pages, 9 halftones, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4720-4 $39.95s/£21.95

Ko-lin Chin is Professor of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University. He is the author of several books, including Heijin: Organized Crime, Business, and Politics in Taiwan; Smuggled Chinese: Clandestine Immigration to the United States; and Chinatown Gangs: Extortion, Enterprise, and Ethnicity. MARCH, 296 pages, 11 tables, 2 maps, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4666-5 $65.00x/£35.95 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7521-4 $22.50/£12.50 Criminology

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Foreclosed High-Risk Lending, Deregulation, and the Undermining of America’s Mortgage Market Dan Immergluck Over the last two years, the United States has observed, with some horror, the explosion and collapse of entire segments of the housing market, especially those driven by subprime and alternative or “exotic” home mortgage lending. The unfortunately timely Foreclosed explains the rise of high-risk lending and why these newer types of loans—and their associated regulatory infrastructure—failed in substantial ways. Dan Immergluck narrates the boom in subprime and exotic loans, recounting how financial innovations and deregulation facilitated excessive risk-taking, and how these loans have harmed different populations and communities.

“Foreclosed is accessible, comprehensive, informative, and insightful. It provides a critical but balanced analysis of the current mortgage crisis, its origins, consequences, and solutions. It is very well written and will appeal to a broad audience including policymakers, policy analysts, bankers, and lawyers. Dan Immergluck’s recommendations couldn’t be more timely.” —Alex Schwartz, Milano The New School for Management

Dan Immergluck is Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author, most recently, of Credit to the Community: Community Reinvestment and Fair Lending Policy in the U.S. Immergluck has testified before the U.S. Congress, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, federal agencies, and state and local legislative bodies.

Immergluck, who has been working, researching, and writing on issues tied to housing finance and neighborhood change for almost twenty years, has an intimate knowledge of the promotion of homeownership and the history of mortgages in the United States. The changes to the mortgage market over the past fifteen years—including the securitization of mortgages and the failure of regulators to maintain control over a much riskier array of mortgage products led, he finds, inexorably to the current crisis. After describing the development of generally stable and risk-limiting mortgage markets throughout much of the twentieth century, Foreclosed details how federal policymakers failed to regulate the new highrisk lending markets that arose in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The book also examines federal, state, and local efforts to deal with the mortgage and foreclosure crisis of 2007 and 2008. Immergluck draws upon his wealth of experience to provide an overarching set of principles and a detailed set of policy recommendations for “righting the ship” of U.S. housing finance in ways that will promote affordable yet sustainable homeownership as an option for a broad set of households and communities.

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Chasing the American Dream New Perspectives on Affordable Homeownership Edited by William M. Rohe and Harry L. Watson 2007, 328 pages, 33 tables, 18 charts/graphs, 3 maps, 5 halftones, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7361-6 $24.95s/£16.95

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This Could Be the Start of Something Big How Social Movements for Regional Equity Are Reshaping Metropolitan America Manuel Pastor Jr., Chris Benner, and Martha Matsuoka For nearly two decades, progressives have been dismayed by the steady rise of the right in U.S. politics. Often lost in the gloom and doom about American politics is a striking and sometimes underanalyzed phenomenon: the resurgence of progressive politics and movements at a local level. Across the country, urban coalitions, including labor, faith groups, and community-based organizations, have come together to support living wage laws and fight for transit policies that can move the needle on issues of working poverty. Just as striking as the rise of this progressive resurgence has been its reception among unlikely allies. In places as diverse as Chicago, Atlanta, and San Jose, the usual business resistance to pro-equity policies has changed, particularly when it comes to issues like affordable housing and more efficient transportation systems. To see this change and its possibilities requires that we recognize a new thread running through many local efforts: a perspective and politics that emphasizes “regional equity.” Manuel Pastor Jr., Chris Benner, and Martha Matsuoka offer their analysis with an eye toward evaluating what has and has not worked in various campaigns to achieve regional equity. The authors show how momentum is building as new policies addressing regional infrastructure, housing, and workforce development bring together business and community groups who share a common desire to see their city and region succeed. Drawing on a wealth of case studies as well as their own experience in the field, Pastor, Benner, and Matsuoka point out the promise and pitfalls of this new approach, concluding that what they term social movement regionalism might offer an important contribution to the revitalization of progressive politics in America.

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City Bound

How States Stifle Urban Innovation Gerald E. Frug and David J. Barron 2008, 280 pages, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4514-9 $35.00s/£19.50

Manuel Pastor Jr. is Professor of Geography and American Studies & Ethnicity and Director of the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity at the University of Southern California. He is the coauthor of books including Up Against the Sprawl and Regions That Work. Chris Benner is Chair of the Community Development Graduate Group and Associate Professor of Community and Regional Development at the University of California Davis. He is the author of Work in the New Economy. Benner and Pastor are coauthors with Laura Leete of Staircases or Treadmills. Martha Matsuoka is Assistant Professor in the Urban and Environmental Policy Department at Occidental College. MARCH, 248 pages, 3 tables, 2 charts/graphs, 3 maps, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4721-1 $59.95x/£33.50 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7462-0 $19.95s/£9.95 Urban Studies

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Condensed Capitalism Campbell Soup and the Pursuit of Cheap Production in the Twentieth Century Daniel Sidorick Corporations often move factories to areas where production costs, notably labor, taxes, and regulations, are sharply lower than in the original company hometowns. Not every company, however, followed this trend. One of America’s most iconic firms, the Campbell Soup Company, was one such exception: it found ways to achieve low-cost production while staying in its original location, Camden, New Jersey, until 1990. The first in-depth history of the Campbell Soup Company and its workers, Condensed Capitalism is also a broader exploration of strategies that companies have used to keep costs down besides relocating to cheap labor havens: lean production, flexible labor sourcing, and uncompromising antiunionism. Daniel Sidorick’s study of a classic firm that used these methods for over a century has, therefore, special relevance in current debates about capital mobility and the shifting powers of capital and labor. “The union at Campbell Soup’s Camden plant was one of the most remarkable progressive unions in the mid-twentieth century. Daniel Sidorick’s superb Condensed Capitalism tells us about its accomplishments, as well as the impact of late-twentieth-century capitalism on its demise.” —Roger Horowitz, University of Delaware

Sidorick focuses on the engine of the Campbell empire: the soup plants in Camden where millions of cans of food products rolled off the production line daily. It was here that management undertook massive efforts to drive down costs so that the marketing and distribution functions of the company could rely on a limitless supply of products to sell at rock-bottom prices. It was also here that thousands of soup makers struggled to gain some control over their working lives and livelihoods, countering company power with their own strong union local. Campbell’s low-cost strategies and the remarkable responses these elicited from its workers tell a story vital to understanding today’s global economy. Condensed Capitalism reveals these strategies and their consequences through a narrative that shows the mark of great economic and social forces on the very human stories of the people who spent their lives filling those familiar red-and-white cans.

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Race, Gender, and Shop-Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States Carolina Bank Muñoz

Daniel Sidorick is Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at Temple University.

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Circles of Exclusion The Politics of Health Care in Israel Dani Filc, MD Foreword by Quentin Young, MD In its early years, Israel’s dominant ideology led to public provision of health care for all Jewish citizens—regardless of their age, income, or ability to pay. However, the system has shifted in recent decades, becoming increasingly privatized and market-based. In a familiar paradox, the wealthy, the young, and the healthy have relatively easy access to health care, and the poor, the old, and the very sick confront increasing obstacles to medical treatment. In Circles of Exclusion, Dani Filc, both a physician and a human rights activist, forcefully argues that in present-day Israel, equal access to health care is constantly and systematically thwarted by a regime that does not extend an equal level of commitment to the well-being of all residents of Israel, whether Jewish, Israeli Palestinians, migrant workers, or Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. Filc explores how Israel’s adoption of a neoliberal model has pushed the system in a direction that gives priority to the strongest and richest individuals and groups over the needs of society as a whole, and to profit and competition over care. Filc pays special attention to the repercussions of policies that define citizenship in a way that has serious consequences for the health of groups of Palestinians who are Israeli citizens—particularly the Bedouins in the unrecognized villages—and to the ways in which this structure of citizenship affects the health of migrant workers. The health care situation is even more dire in the Occupied Territories, where the Occupation, especially in the last two decades, has negatively affected access to medical care and the health of Palestinians. Filc concludes his book with a discussion of how human rights, public health, and economic imperatives can be combined to produce a truly equal health care system that provides high-quality services to all Israelis.

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A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions in the United States and France Paul V. Dutton The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work An ILR Press Book 2007, 272 pages, 1 table, 2 line figures, 2 halftones, 6 x 9 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7484-2 $19.95s/£10.95

“Circles of Exclusion does more than characterize the changing nature of the Israeli health care system and the impact of these changes. By tracing the institutional, political, and ideological processes that influence the health of Israelis, Dani Filc also presents a measured but powerful critique of the choices and actions of the Israeli leadership in recent decades. Filc documents how ideology, law, and politics have pushed both Jewish Israeli citizens and other groups— non-Jewish citizens, migrant workers and refugees, and Palestinians in the Occupied Territories—farther from the hope of enjoying what he calls ‘the right to health.’” —Sarah S. Willen, Harvard Medical School

Dani Filc, MD, is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben Gurion University and Chairman of Physicians for Human Rights–Israel. Quentin Young, MD, is Chairman of the Health & Medicine Policy Research Group. The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work a series edited by Suzanne Gordon and Sioban Nelson An ILR Press Book

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My Father and I The Marais and the Queerness of Community David Caron “It is a living museum of a long-gone Jewish life and, supposedly, a testimony to the success of the French model of social integration. It is a communal home where gay men and women are said to stand in defiance of the French model of social integration. It is a place of freedom and tolerance where people of color and lesbians nevertheless feel unwanted and where young Zionists from the suburbs gather every Sunday and sometimes harass Arabs. It is a hot topic in the press and on television. It is open to the world and open for business. It is a place to be seen and a place of invisibility. It is like a home to me, a place where I feel both safe and out of place and where my father felt comfortable and alienated at the same time. It is a place of nostalgia, innovation, shame, pride, and anxiety, where the local and the global intersect for better and for worse. And for better and for worse, it is a French neighborhood.”—from My Father and I

“My Father and I is beautifully written and often quite moving. David Caron’s superb book uses the private as a template to analyze the public: his own story intersects with history and the result is a critical tour de force.” —Lawrence D. Kritzman, Dartmouth College

Mixing personal memoir, urban studies, cultural history, and literary criticism, as well as a generous selection of photographs, My Father and I focuses on the Marais, the oldest surviving neighborhood of Paris. It also beautifully reveals the intricacies of the relationship between a Jewish father and a gay son, each claiming the same neighborhood as his own. Beginning with the history of the Marais and its significance in the construction of a French national identity, David Caron proposes a rethinking of community and looks at how Jews, Chinese immigrants, and gays have made the Marais theirs. These communities embody, in their engagement of urban space, a daily challenge to the French concept of universal citizenship that denies them all political legitimacy. Caron moves from the strictly French context to more theoretical issues such as social and political archaism, immigration and diaspora, survival and haunting, the public/private divide, group friendship as metaphor for unruly and dynamic forms of community, and founding disasters such as AIDS and the Holocaust. Caron also tells the story of his father, a Hungarian Jew and Holocaust survivor who immigrated to France and once called the Marais home.

David Caron is Associate Professor of French and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of AIDS in French Culture: Social Ills, Literary Cures. APRIL, 288 pages, 1 map, 57 halftones, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4773-0 $29.95s/£16.50 Gay Studies | History/France 2 0

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Glamour in Six Dimensions Modernism and the Radiance of Form Judith Brown Glamour is an alluring but elusive concept. We most readily associate it with fashion, industrial design, and Hollywood of the Golden Age, and yet it also shaped the language and interests of high modernism. In Glamour in Six Dimensions Judith Brown looks at the historical and aesthetic roots of glamour in the early decades of the twentieth century, arguing that glamour is the defining aesthetic of modernism. In the clean lines of modernism she finds the ideal conditions for glamour—blankness, polish, impenetrability, and the suspicion of emptiness behind it all. Brown focuses on several cultural products that she argues helped to shape glamour’s meanings: the most significant perfume of the twentieth century, Chanel No. 5; the idea of the Jazz Age and its ubiquitous cigarette; the celebrity photograph; the staging of primitivism; and the invention of a shimmering plastic called cellophane. Alongside these artifacts, she takes up the development, refinement, and analysis of glamour in Anglo-American poetry, film, fiction, and drama of the period. Glamour in Six Dimensions thus asks its reader to see the proximity between the vernacular and elite cultures of modernism, and particularly how glamour was animated by artists working at the crossroads of the mundane and the extraordinary: Wallace Stevens, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, Josephine Baker, D. H. Lawrence, Gertrude Stein, Nella Larsen, and others.

“This sophisticated, informed, and visually stunning book makes a significant and original contribution to the New Modernist Studies. Judith Brown’s premise that glamour inheres in the very problem of modernist form is entirely original and manages to sustain a line of argument extending from Greta Garbo to Conrad to cellophane. Glamour in Six Dimensions is marked by Brown’s sheer innovative genius.” —Jane Garrity, University of Colorado “Glamour in Six Dimensions is fabuloussmart, original, and fun to read all at once, as knowledgeable and authoritative as it is elegant and charming. It has a place on my list of books that fundamentally redefine modernist culture.” —Jesse Matz, Kenyon College

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Surrealism and the Art of Crime Jonathan P. Eburne 2008, 344 pages, 32 halftones, 6 5/8 x 9 3/8 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-4674-0 $35.00s/£19.50

Judith Brown is Assistant Professor of English at Indiana University. MAY, 224 pages, 17 halftones, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4779-2 $39.95s/£21.95 Literary Criticism

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History and Its Limits Human, Animal, Violence Dominick LaCapra Dominick LaCapra’s History and Its Limits articulates the relations among intellectual history, cultural history, and critical theory, examining the recent rise of “Practice Theory” and probing the limitations of prevalent forms of humanism. LaCapra focuses on the problem of understanding extreme cases, specifically events and experiences involving violence and victimization. He asks how historians treat and are simultaneously implicated in the traumatic processes they attempt to represent. In addressing these questions, he also investigates violence’s impact on various types of writing and establishes a distinctive role for critical theory in the face of an insufficiently discriminating aesthetic of the sublime (often unreflectively amalgamated with the uncanny).

“In History and Its Limits, Dominick LaCapra addresses some of the most important issues facing intellectual and cultural historians today (our understanding of violence, current trends in animal studies, and the place of theory in history) and does so in a way that is provocative, engaging, and instructive. History and Its Limits is a mustread for current and aspiring intellectual and cultural historians as well as all those with an interest in critical inquiry.” —Ethan Kleinberg, author of Generation Existential: Heidegger’s Philosophy in France, 1927–1961

Dominick LaCapra is Bryce and Edith Bowmar Professor of Humanistic Studies and Professor of History and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. He is the author or editor of twelve other books published by Cornell, including History in Transit and History and Memory after Auschwitz.

In History and Its Limits, LaCapra inquires into the related phenomenon of a turn to the “postsecular,” even the messianic or the miraculous, in recent theoretical discussions of extreme events by such prominent figures as Giorgio Agamben, Eric L. Santner, and Slavoj Žižek. In a related vein, he discusses Martin Heidegger’s evocative, if not enchanting, understanding of “The Origin of the Work of Art.” LaCapra subjects to critical scrutiny the sometimes internally divided way in which violence has been valorized in sacrificial, regenerative, or redemptive terms by a series of important modern intellectuals on both the far right and the far left, including Georges Sorel, the early Walter Benjamin, Georges Bataille, Frantz Fanon, and Ernst Jünger. Violence and victimization are prominent in the relation between the human and the animal. LaCapra questions prevalent anthropocentrism (evident even in theorists of the “posthuman”) and the long-standing quest for a decisive criterion separating or dividing the human from the animal. LaCapra regards this attempt to fix the difference as misguided and potentially dangerous because it renders insufficiently problematic the manner in which humans treat other animals and interact with the environment. In raising the issue of desirable transformations in modernity, History and Its Limits examines the legitimacy of normative limits necessary for life in common and explores the disconcerting role of transgressive initiatives beyond limits (including limits blocking the recognition that humans are themselves animals).

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Experience, Identity, Critical Theory Dominick LaCapra 2004, 288 pages, 6 x 9 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-8898-6 $21.00s/£14.50

MAY, 248 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4786-0 $59.95x/£33.50 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7515-3 $19.95s/£10.95 History | Historiography 2 2

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The Serf, the Knight, and the Historian Dominique Barthélemy Translated from the French by Graham Robert Edwards “Dominique Barthélemy is in my book the most interesting historian of the middle ages writing today in France, or possibly anywhere else. He combines the best of the French intellectual tradition with a deep understanding of what Anglophone anthropology and legal studies have to offer. His persuasive pen draws readers to approve the unexpected beauties his imagination and broad learning constantly elicit from his texts. The fertility of his mind seems unceasing.” —Paul Hyams, Cornell University “The term ‘feudal society’ is a caricature. It was invented by nineteenthcentury historians to capture a particular period in French history, that of the retreat of monarchy (and thus of state authority) and the supposed tyranny of fiefdoms. It had its uses. As caricatures go, it was no worse than many others. But it was both reductionist and unbalanced. Among other things, it reduced society to bonds of dependency that were ritualized and personalized, and it imagined a scenario of quasi-independent castles, each with its own knights, existing in a state of continuous warfare with one another. It largely ignored other links and networks, and it overlooked the fact that warfare between neighbors was intermittent and limited. Meanwhile, in the real world, apart from such conflict—though sometimes through it—social construction was going on.”—Dominique Barthélemy

“Dominique Barthélemy’s willingness to challenge received opinion marks an important contribution which all those interested in medieval France at a critical period will find stimulating.” —Times Literary Supplement, reviewing the French edition

In a collection of combative essays, updated for this new translation, Barthélemy presents a sharply revisionist account of the history of France around the Year 1000. He challenges the view, developed in the enormously influential writings of Georges Duby and others, that France underwent a kind of revolution at the millennium that transformed it into the classic feudal, or seigneurial, society we know from a host of college textbooks. Barthélemy advances his own original views, positing a much more complex and incremental evolution, and maintaining that the post-Carolingian world was more dynamic and creative than Duby and his successors have held. Barthélemy’s view requires historians to radically rethink their notions of the history of serfs and nobles, of the so-called Peace of God movements, of the influence (indeed, even the existence) of millenarian fears, and of the nature of the legal system in early medieval Europe. Moreover, it challenges the utility of the term “feudalism” itself, and of our notion that Europe of the High Middle Ages was a “feudal society.” Originally published in French by Fayard, this book has generated loud debate on both sides of the Atlantic. In addition to having been revised throughout, the Cornell edition contains a new preface, concluding chapter, and bibliography.

Dominique Barthélemy is Professor of Medieval History at Paris–IV (Sorbonne) and director of studies at the Ecole Pratique des hautes études. Among his other works is Chevaliers et miracles: la violence et le sacré dans la société. Graham Robert Edwards is the translator of Order and Exclusion: Cluny and Christendom Face Heresy, Judaism, and Islam (1000–1150) by Dominique IognaPrat, also from Cornell. FEBRUARY, 368 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-3680-2 $89.95x/£49.95 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7560-3 $29.95s/£14.95 History | Historiography

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The Captive and the Gift Cultural Histories of Sovereignty in Russia and the Caucasus Bruce Grant The Caucasus region of Eurasia, wedged in between the Black and Caspian Seas, encompasses the modern territories of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, as well as the troubled republic of Chechnya in southern Russia. A site of invasion, conquest, and resistance since the onset of historical record, it has earned a reputation for fearsome violence and isolated mountain redoubts closed to outsiders. Over extended efforts to control the Caucasus area, Russians have long mythologized stories of their countrymen taken captive by bands of mountain brigands. In The Captive and the Gift, the anthropologist Bruce Grant explores the long relationship between Russia and the Caucasus and the means by which sovereignty has been exercised in this contested area. Taking his lead from Aleksandr Pushkin’s 1822 poem “Prisoner of the Caucasus,” Grant explores the extraordinary resonances of the themes of violence, captivity, and empire in the Caucasus through mythology, poetry, short stories, ballet, opera, and film. Grant argues that while the recurring Russian captivity narrative reflected a wide range of political positions, it most often and compellingly suggested a vision of Caucasus peoples as thankless, lawless subjects of empire who were unwilling to acknowledge and accept the gifts of civilization and protection extended by Russian leaders. Drawing on years of field and archival research, Grant moves beyond myth and mass culture to suggest how real-life Caucasus practices of exchange, by contrast, aimed to control and diminish rather than unleash and increase violence. The result is a historical anthropology of sovereign forms that underscores how enduring popular narratives and close readings of ritual practices can shed light on the management of pluralism in long-fraught world areas.

Bruce Grant is Associate Professor of Anthropology at New York University. He is the author of In the Soviet House of Culture: A Century of Perestroikas.

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Francine Hirsch Culture and Society after Socialism 2005, 384 pages, 7 charts/graphs/maps, 20 halftones Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-8908-2 $27.95s/£19.50

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Khrushchev’s Cold Summer Gulag Returnees, Crime, and the Fate of Reform after Stalin Miriam Dobson “In this remarkable book, Miriam Dobson offers a strikingly original and fascinating perspective on the de-Stalinization process. At the center of her captivating narrative is the dismantling of the Gulag and the impact— social, cultural, psychological—of former prisoners on Soviet society during the Khrushchev years. Her keen analysis provokes us to think anew about Khrushchev’s leadership, the discourses of exclusion and inclusion in the USSR, and everyday life after Stalin.”—Golfo Alexopoulos, author of Stalin’s Outcasts: Aliens, Citizens, and the Soviet State

Between Stalin’s death in 1953 and 1960, the government of the Soviet Union released hundreds of thousands of prisoners from the Gulag as part of a wide-ranging effort to reverse the worst excesses and abuses of the previous two decades and revive the spirit of the revolution. This exodus included not only victims of past purges but also those sentenced for criminal offenses. In Khrushchev’s Cold Summer Miriam Dobson explores the impact of these returnees on communities and, more broadly, Soviet attempts to come to terms with the traumatic legacies of Stalin’s terror.

“Based on myriad personal stories, Khrushchev’s Cold Summer never loses sight of the big picture. Effectively using the medium of letter writing to the authorities, Miriam Dobson tells a human and often moving story of the revived and crushed hopes, compassion and cruel indifference, zeal and apathy, ideological concerns, and petty calculations that formed Soviet life.” —Amir Weiner, Stanford University

Confusion and disorientation undermined the regime’s efforts at recovery. In the wake of Stalin’s death, ordinary citizens and political leaders alike struggled to make sense of the country’s recent bloody past and to cope with the complex social dynamics caused by attempts to reintegrate the large influx of returning prisoners, a number of whom were hardened criminals alienated and embittered by their experiences within the brutal camp system. Drawing on private letters as well as official reports on the party and popular mood, Dobson probes social attitudes toward the changes occurring in the first post-Stalin decade. Throughout, she features personal stories as articulated in the words of ordinary citizens, prisoners, and former prisoners. At the same time, she explores Soviet society’s contradictory responses to the returnees and shows that for many the immediate post-Stalin years were anything but a breath of spring air after the long Stalinist winter. Miriam Dobson is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Sheffield. She is the coeditor of Reading Primary Sources: The Interpretation of Texts from Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century History. APRIL, 296 pages, 7 halftones, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4757-0 $45.00s/£24.95 History/Soviet Union W W W . C O R N E L L P R E S S . C O R N E L L . E D U

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“This wonderful book is essential reading for anyone interested in women and the Enlightenment. Dena Goodman brings together diverse areas of inquiry to focus on the issue of letter writing and its role in the formation of a woman’s sense of self in eighteenth-century France. Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters, which is based on truly impressive original research, is written in an elegant, accessible style.” —Mary Sheriff, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Dena Goodman is Lila Miller Collegiate Professor of History and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment and Criticism in Action: Enlightenment Experiments in Political Writing, both from Cornell, and the editor or coeditor of several other books including, most recently, Furnishing the Eighteenth Century. JUNE, 488 pages, 2 charts/graphs, 106 halftones, 7 x 10 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4761-7 $79.95x/£44.50 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7545-0 $29.95s/£14.95 History/France | Women’s Studies 2 6

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Over the course of the eighteenth century in France, increasing numbers of women, from the wives and daughters of artisans and merchants to countesses and queens, became writers—not authors, and not mere signers of names, but writers of letters. Taking as her inspiration a portrait of an unknown woman writing a letter to her children by French painter Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Dena Goodman challenges the deep-seated association of women with love letters and proposes a counternarrative of young women struggling with the challenges of the modern world through the mediation of writing. In Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters, Goodman enters the lives and world of these women, drawing on their letters, the cultural history of language and education, and the material culture of letter writing itself: inkstands, desks, and writing paper. Goodman follows the lives of elite women from childhood through their education in traditional convents and modern private schools and into the shops and interior spaces in which epistolary furnishings and furniture were made for, sold to, and used by women who took pen in hand. Stationers set up fashionable shops, merchants developed lines of small writing desks, and the furnishings and floor plans of homes changed to accommodate women’s needs. It was as writers and consumers that women entered not only shops but also the modern world that was taking shape in Paris and other cities. Although many women, from major novelists, painters, and educators to schoolgirls and their mothers as well as Parisian tourists and other shoppers, come to life in this book, Goodman focuses on four bodies of epistolary work by little-known women: the letters of Genevieve de Malboissière, Manon Phlipon, Catherine de Saint-Pierre, and Sophie Silvestre. These letters allow Goodman to explore how particular girls of different social positions came to womanhood through letter writing. She shows how letter writing expanded women’s horizons even as it deepened their ability to reflect on themselves. The analysis of more than one hundred illustrations—from paintings by major Dutch and French artists to inkstands and writing desks, stationers’ trade cards, and manuscript letters on decorated paper—is integral to Goodman’s argument.

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Citizen Bachelors Manhood and the Creation of the United States John Gilbert McCurdy In 1755 Benjamin Franklin observed “a man without a wife is but half a man” and since then historians have taken Franklin at his word. In Citizen Bachelors, John Gilbert McCurdy demonstrates that Franklin’s comment was only one side of a much larger conversation. Early Americans vigorously debated the status of unmarried men and this debate was instrumental in the creation of American citizenship. In a sweeping examination of the bachelor in early America, McCurdy fleshes out a largely unexamined aspect of the history of gender. Single men were instrumental to the settlement of the United States and for most of the seventeenth century their presence was not particularly problematic. However, as the colonies matured, Americans began to worry about those who stood outside the family. Lawmakers began to limit the freedoms of single men with laws requiring bachelors to pay higher taxes and face harsher penalties for crimes than married men, while moralists began to decry the sexual immorality of unmarried men. But many resisted these new tactics, including single men who reveled in their hedonistic reputations by delighting in sexual horseplay without marital consequences. At the time of the Revolution, these conflicting views were confronted head-on. As the incipient American state needed men to stand at the forefront of the fight for independence, the bachelor came to be seen as possessing just the sort of political, social, and economic agency associated with citizenship in a democratic society. When the war was won, these men demanded an end to their unequal treatment and, sometimes grudgingly, the citizen bachelor was welcomed into American society. Drawing on sources as varied as laws, diaries, political manifestos, and newspapers, McCurdy shows that in the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the bachelor was a simultaneously suspicious and desirable figure: suspicious because he was not tethered to family and household obligations yet desirable because he was free to study, devote himself to political office, and fight and die in battle. He suggests that this dichotomy remains with us to this day and thus it is in early America that we find the origins of the modernday identity of the bachelor as a symbol of masculine independence. McCurdy also observes that by extending citizenship to bachelors, the founders affirmed their commitment to individual freedom, a commitment that has subsequently come to define the very essence of American citizenship.

“John Gilbert McCurdy considers the political history of bachelors in all the colonies and over the course of the entire colonial period through the Revolutionary era. He makes use of all sorts of evidence, including statutes, popular literature, demographic data, and tax records. He describes a clear trajectory of the rise and fall of unequal treatment of bachelors in eighteenthcentury America and persuasively suggests that this history is an important piece of the larger story of gender and democratic revolution. All scholars of early American manhood as well as of gender and citizenship should read this engaging book.” —C. Dallett Hemphill, author of Bowing to Necessities: A History of Manners in America

John Gilbert McCurdy is an Assistant Professor of History at Eastern Michigan University. MAY, 272 pages, 6 halftones, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4788-4 $35.00s/£19.50 History/United States W W W . C O R N E L L P R E S S . C O R N E L L . E D U

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Playing for Keeps A History of Early Baseball 20th Anniversary Edition with a New Preface Warren Goldstein “Goldstein sees clearly that baseball’s history is not only linear—that is, its events unfold chronologically—but also cyclical—that is, the same things tend to happen again and again. This repetition binds each generation of fans to the preceding ones and makes the emotional response to the game so intense. In the late 1850s, baseball was a club-based sport enjoyed by artisans, clerks, and shopkeepers who played for fun. Two decades later, it was a business run by owners and managers who employed players in an effort to make a profit. Goldstein analyzes the hows and whys of this transformation.”—Sporting News

“Rich in delicious information, Playing for Keeps argues that the first years of baseball established patterns of double thinking that still govern the complaints and yearnings of fans. Playing for Keeps tells its story with affection. Its calming long perspective should reassure lovers of the game—or business—as we approach new crises and apparent transformations.” —New York Times Book Review

“Baseball remains our paradise lost, a perpetual disappointment, where the best hitters make outs two-thirds of the time and the home team seldom if ever makes it to October. One of the many virtues of Warren Goldstein’s Playing for Keeps is that it explains why we continue to care, our hopes eternally and absurdly renewed each spring and dashed each autumn. . . . This is a marvelous book, tightly structured, entertaining, beautifully written; and, like the best social history, it focuses on the particular (the story of baseball) to enlarge our understanding of the general (American society and culture).”—The Nation “A strikingly original interpretation of baseball’s early history, Playing for Keeps is imaginatively conceived and rich in texture. It is not only commendable for its treatment of baseball history but appreciably expands our knowledge of nineteenth-century American urban life in general.”—Journal of American History

In the late 1850s organized baseball was a club-based fraternal sport thriving in the cultures of respectable artisans, clerks and shopkeepers, and middle-class sportsmen. Two decades later it had become an entertainment business run by owners and managers, depending on gate receipts and the increasingly disciplined labor of skilled player-employees. Playing for Keeps is an insightful, in-depth account of the game that became America’s premier spectator sport for nearly a century. Reconstructing the culture and experience of early baseball through a careful reading of the sporting press, baseball guides, and the correspondence of the player-manager Harry Wright, Warren Goldstein discovers the origins of many modern controversies during the game’s earliest decades. The 20th Anniversary Edition of Goldstein’s classic includes information about the changes that have occurred in the history of the sport since the 1980s and an account of his experience as a scholarly consultant during the production of Ken Burns’s Baseball.

Warren Goldstein is Professor of History at the University of Hartford. He is the author of William Sloane Coffin, Jr.: A Holy Impatience and coauthor of A Brief History of American Sports. MARCH, 200 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7508-5 $17.95t/£9.95 (previous edition ISBN 978-0-8014-9924-1) Sports 2 8

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“This excellent book presents a true 1673 murder mystery. . . . This well-written, integrated, historical perspective on this mystery fascinated me. Think of it this way— when was the last time you heard about the testimony of a crime victim’s ghost being admissible in a court of law?” —Virginia Quarterly Review “A satisfying account of the mysterious death in 1673 of a 73-year-old Rhode Island matriarch (and ancestor of Ezra Cornell, founder of Cornell University), for which her son, Thomas Cornell, was hanged.”—Publishers Weekly “The violent deaths of Rebecca Cornell and her son, Thomas, undoubtedly stunned the residents of seventeenth-century Portsmouth, Rhode Island, but subsequent accounts of the colony have virtually ignored the Cornells. In Killed Strangely, Elaine Forman Crane rescues their disturbing fates from oblivion.”—Journal of American History “Killed Strangely is itself a strangely haunting work. Based on meticulous, often ingenious, research, it unfolds a compelling story of lives gone awry in the lost world of colonial America. Some parts are highly specific to that world; others are of universal significance. As such, the book makes a signal contribution to the budding genre of microhistory.” —John Demos, author of Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England “For sleuthing historian Elaine Forman Crane in Killed Strangely, the jury’s ‘willingness and ability to reconcile medieval superstitions with modern evidentiary standards makes the Cornell case a striking example of the friction between traditional Christian folklore and evolving common law.’”—Boston Globe

“McGuinness is a superb storyteller.”—Foreign Affairs “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 “Path of Empire provides a transnational context for Gold Rush history and draws links between continental expansion and empire-making abroad. Aims McGuinness also shows that colonialist incursions and continental incorporations were closely connected—that the informal empire that was established in Central America was crucial to the formal Americanization of California. This brief book about a small place delivers on its bold ambitions.”—Stephen Aron, author of How the West Was Lost and American Confluence “Because it was built in Panama, the first transcontinental railroad—built to connect the eastern U.S. to California—is little known to students of U.S. history. In Path of Empire Aims McGuinness offers a fascinating example of ‘connected histories.’ His attention to the interplay of U.S. and Latin American nation-building and racial ideology in one small place offers an international history and a tale of historical detective work.”—Donna R. Gabaccia, author of A Longer Atlantic in a Wider World

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“This is a useful addition to the literature of penal history. . . . It makes for some macabre reading, for over the building and operation of the two great prisons of Sing Sing and Auburn brooded the evil genius of Elam Lynds, a fanatical flogger. Part of the story recounted by Lewis is of the efforts of humanitarian reformers to control the abuses and excesses of Lynds and his small band of associates.” —New Society

Isaac Phillips Roberts was born in Seneca County, New York, in 1833. He came to Cornell University as Professor of Agriculture in 1873, and shortly afterward was made Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Experiment Station. His autobiography is an unusual account of farm life in New York and in the Midwest during the nineteenth century, and of the difficulties of building up a vital and progressive agricultural college. An introduction by Liberty Hyde Bailey gives a sympathetic portrait of Roberts as a man both practical and visionary.

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Chapters of Erie Charles Francis Adams Jr. and Henry Adams Foreword by Robert H. Elias This fascinating account of the Erie Railroad wars offers important insight into the character of post– Civil War America. The Adams brothers saw barely concealed buccaneers and cardsharps in the men behind the Erie Railroad scandal of the late 1860s—a scandal that “convulsed the money market, occupied the courts, agitated legislatures, and perplexed the country.” The chicanery and the scoundrels involved were well known to the railroad commissioner Charles Francis Adams and his famous brother Henry, for they had more than once witnessed and reported the financial machinations that rocked the nation’s economy in the years immediately following the Civil War. Chapters of Erie and Other Essays was first published in 1886 and reissued by Cornell University Press with a Foreword by Robert H. Elias in 1956.

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Our Earliest Colonial Settlements

Our Earliest Colonial Settlements THEIR DIVERSITIES OF ORIGIN AND LATER CHARACTERISTICS

Charles M. Andrews

Their Diversities of Origin and Later Characteristics Charles Andrews Foreword by Karen Ordahl Kupperman

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KAREN ORDAHL KUPPERMAN

“Andrews writes with such fullness of knowledge, such easy command of his material, and such vigorous presentation of his ideas that his book will be keenly interesting for all who care about our early history.” —New York Times “Andrews has a happy facility in making the results of his lifelong researches clear and interesting to the general reader.”—Geographical Journal

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Pioneer Prophetess

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Holland on the Hudson

Jemima Wilkinson, the Publick Universal Friend Herbert A. Wisbey Jr. At the age of twenty-four, the Rhode Island Quaker Jemima Wilkinson (1752–1819) recovered from a bout of fever with the pronouncement that she had been directed by a vision to preach to a “dying and sinful world.” Announcing that Jemima had died and that her body now housed a new spirit, the Publick Universal Friend, this remarkably charismatic—and notably scandal-plagued—woman gathered several hundred followers and settled to the west of Seneca Lake. Although the religious community she founded on a framework of abstinence and friendship did not long survive her, Wilkinson remains a figure of fascination and mystery to this day. Herbert A. Wisbey Jr.’s 1964 biography is the authoritative account of her life, times, and ideals.

An Economic and Social History of Dutch New York Oliver A. Rink “Holland on the Hudson takes into account social, political, demographic, and economic factors in assessing the history of New Netherland. The author skillfully unravels the commercial and political intrigues back in the Netherlands that so affected life in the Dutch colony across the Atlantic. Through extensive research and methodological dexterity, moreover, Oliver Rink has produced a history of New Netherland and an example of transatlantic scholarship worthy of emulation.”—New York History

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The Occult Mind

The Powers of Prophecy

Magic in Theory and Practice

The Cedar of Lebanon Vision from the Mongol Onslaught to the Dawn of the Enlightenment

Christopher I. Lehrich “Christopher Lehrich convincingly argues that the study of magic warrants the same depth of thought and careful analysis as that regularly given to more acceptable topics within the history of science. In The Occult Mind he gives energy and careful consideration to the trying project of understanding what early modern practitioners were thinking—literally how they imagined themselves— when they talked to angels while also doing calculus.” —Renaissance Quarterly “A riveting and serious philosophical reevaluation of the intellectual history of the occult in the West.”—Christina Oakley Harrington, owner and manager of Treadwell’s Bookshop, London “A fascinating book that examines ley lines, the Tarot, the Corpus Hermeticum, writing and ritual in magic practice, and early attempts to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics. I particularly appreciate Lehrich’s successful attempt to write a work of interdisciplinary scholarship in an engaging fashion.” —Joshua Glenn, Boston Globe “The Occult Mind draws on many magical traditions including Hermetism, alchemy, John Dee, Japanese Noh plays, Goethe, Giordano Bruno, and others, but its primary purpose is to argue that occult traditions are a form of theoretical thought and should be analyzed as such. Highly recommended.”—Choice “The Occult Mind could easily gain the status of an occult masterpiece.”—Richard J. Parmentier, Brandeis University “The Occult Mind is destined to be a highly significant book for the community of scholars who are concerned primarily or even tangentially with work upon esoteric, occult, or magical discourses. It serves to radically widen the scope and significance of such work and to seriously begin to define the foundations of this still fledgling field.”—The Pomegranate: The Journal of Pagan Studies

Christopher I. Lehrich is Assistant Professor of Religion at Boston University. He is the author of The Language of Demons and Angels: Cornelius Agrippa’s Occult Philosophy. JANUARY, 272 pages, 3 tables, 10 halftones, 6 x 9 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7535-1 $19.95s/£10.95 (cloth edition ISBN 978-0-8014-4538-5) Occult 3 2

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Robert E. Lerner “ Wo r k i n g a s a s l e u t h , Robert E. Lerner has discovered and linked together many hitherto unknown renditions of what he calls the ‘Cedar of Lebanon Vision,’ a mysterious astrological prophecy originally recorded by an anonymous hand in 1239 in Hungary.”—Speculum “The Powers of Prophecy is one of the most spellbinding studies I have read in a long time. Lerner as usual combines his mastery of the subject, superb research skills, and an exciting writing style to bring a little-known subject to life. . . . This is an important book for anyone who wishes to understand better the late medieval mind, who is fascinated by popular history, and for those who study the history of eschatology. It is also a book to be enjoyed by the serious scholar as well as by the general reader as it offers stimulating insights into the human mentality.”—American Historical Review “This volume is a delightful and somewhat amazing picture of what happened to an eschatological prophecy written about 1240 concerning the Mongol invasion of Europe. Lerner’s book is of serious interest to concerned laypeople as well as to medieval historians.”—History Teacher

In The Powers of Prophecy Robert E. Lerner traces the fortunes of an eschatological prophecy that was first written around 1240 and thereafter circulated throughout Western Europe for more than four centuries. Originally composed as a response to the Mongol onslaught, the Cedar of Lebanon vision was resurrected again and again to apply to other crises including the fall of the Holy Land, the Black Death, and the Protestant Reformation. Now back in print, Lerner’s highly original book is an excellent resource for anyone seeking to understand the apocalyptic tradition and its enduring popularity in European history. Robert E. Lerner is Peter B. Ritzma Professor in the Humanities Emeritus at Northwestern University. He is the author of books including The Age of Adversity, The Heresy of the Free Spirit, and The Feast of Saint Abraham and coauthor of Western Civilizations. MARCH, 264 pages, 6 x 9 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7537-5 $24.95s/£13.95 Philosophy

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Struggle for Empire Kingship and Conflict under Louis the German, 817–876 Eric J. Goldberg “This is a vivid portrait of a tough and resourceful ruler in a challenging landscape. Written with exemplar y clarity and with sovereign command of the evidence, Eric J. Goldberg’s book guides us through the conflicts, intrigues, and rituals of a dynamic world. That world is brought before us in all its detail: the great fortresses of eastern Europe, the rich clothing of courtiers, the tasty freshwater crabs that were prized items of trade. Above all, Louis the German’s relentless effort in building a kingdom in the harsh environment of early medieval Europe comes into clear focus. This is a fine study of medieval rulership.” —Stuart Airlie, University of Glasgow “Eric Goldberg’s detailed and nuanced account of the life and reign of Louis the German conveys both the success and the tragedy of the Carolingian dynasty. This is a beautifully designed book, both in concept and in execution. The author uses a wide variety of sources, charters as well as chronicles, along with seals and clothing, books and paintings, and architectural and archaeological remains—to great effect.”—Speculum

Holy Entrepreneurs Cistercians, Knights, and Economic Exchange in Twelfth-Century Burgundy Constance Brittain Bouchard “A signal strength of this book is the author’s care to show that contemporaries understood and expressed in the charters the different transactions in which a monastery might engage. There was no confusion among pawns, leases, purchases, and gifts. In addition to being an important revisionist study of Burgundian Cistercian economic practices, this clear book is an excellent brief introduction for anyone wishing to understand twelfth-century charters and cartularies.”—American Historical Review

Constance Brittain Bouchard is Distinguished Professor of Medieval History and Chair of the History Department at the University of Akron. Among her many books are “Strong of Body, Brave and Noble”: Chivalry and Society in Medieval France and “Every Valley Shall Be Exalted”: The Discourse of Opposites in Twelfth-Century Thought, both from Cornell. MAY, 264 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7525-2 $24.95s/£13.95 (cloth edition ISBN 0-8014-2527-1) History/Religion | History/Medieval

“Louis the German is known mainly in the context of the Treaty of Verdun and the ‘birth’ of Germany. Eric Goldberg has written a valuable and stimulating book that scrapes away those anachronisms and puts Louis back into his proper context. Cornell has done a superb job producing this book, which has attractive illustrations.”—German Studies Review

Sword, Miter, and Cloister Nobility and the Church in Burgundy, 980–1198

“Struggle for Empire is enjoyable to read. Goldberg’s approach is clear and the style of his prose will capture the attentions of even a nonspecialist audience.”—H-German, H-Net Reviews “A highly readable and well-illustrated account of an important stage of the early Middle Ages.”—American Historical Review “This is a wonderful book by a gifted historian.” —International History Review “I predict the book will be a classic.”—Medieval Review

Eric J. Goldberg is Associate Professor of History at Williams College. MARCH, 408 pages, 2 charts/graphs, 3 maps, 21 halftones, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7529-0 $27.95s/£15.50 (cloth edition ISBN 978-0-8014-3890-5) History/Medieval

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Constance Brittain Bouchard “Sword, Miter, and Cloister is an exemplary piece of scholarship. The work is beautifully presented: good maps, index, bibliography. Noteworthy is Bouchard’s care to include wives and daughters in the genealogical notes; this makes the work especially useful as a reference for questions of Burgundian genealogy.”—American Historical Review MAY, 463 pages, 9 halftones, 8 maps and figures, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7526-9 $35.00s/£19.50 (cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-1974-4) History/Religion | History/Medieval

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The Birth of the Despot

Testing the Chains

Venice and the Sublime Porte

Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies

Lucette Valensi Translated from the French by Arthur Denner “Lucette Valensi’s essay is an elegant, almost lyrical Lucette Valensi historical study. In it, the author attempts to illuminate the image of the Ottoman Turkish Empire in the Venetian imagination of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. To accomplish this she pursues an in-depth study of one of the most important and widely used collections of early modern documents, the relazioni of the Venetian ambassadors.” —The Sixteenth Century Journal Translated by Arthur Denner

In her graceful account of the transformation of European attitudes toward the Ottoman empire during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Lucette Valensi follows the genealogy of the concept of Oriental despotism. The Birth of the Despot examines a crucial moment in the long and ambiguous encounter between the Christian and Islamic worlds: the period after the fall of Constantinople to the Turks, when Venice’s pursuit of its commercial and maritime interests brought two powerful protagonists—Venice and the Sublime Porte— face-to-face. Vivaldi’s oratorio Juditha Triumphans, in which Judith liberates her besieged town by killing the Turk Holofernes, serves as the organizing metaphor in Valensi’s study of how Venice’s perceptions of its rival changed. Valensi shows how Venice’s initial admiration for the sultan and his orderly empire metamorphosed into revulsion at a monstrous tyrant.

Michael Craton “Testing the Chains is a most welcome contribution to debates about developments in slave and post-slave societies of the Americas. Craton has concentrated his considerable skills as a historian, and his enviable familiarity with the sources, on an investigation of slave resistance in these territories from the early days of slavery in the seventeenth century to the 1830s, when emancipation, for which the slaves had long fought in their own way, arrived. Craton paints a most exciting, informative, and thought-provoking picture of the slaves’ struggles against oppression.” —William and Mary Quarterly “Craton performs an invaluable service by chronicling the continuity and persistence of slave resistance. He extends the implications of the argument that that West Indian slaves constructed a proto-peasant society in the shadow of the plantation, shielding themselves from some of its stultifying restrictions and forging networks of resistance.”—Journal of Social History “Scholars interested in determining the causes of slave rebellions, the characteristics of rebel slave leadership, the autonomous organizations developed, and the ideology and styles of rebellious behavior will find this work an invaluable sourcebook.”—Journal of American History “The strength of this book derives from its nice, neat, and convenient compilation of plots and revolts throughout the English Caribbean. Craton’s compilation illustrates that in the earlier period the revolts and plots were dominated by Africans or maroons, while the later revolts involved creole slaves often in high-status positions in the plantation occupational structure.”—Hispanic American Historical Review

Lucette Valensi is Director Emerita of the Center for Historical Research at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Arthur Denner is an independent scholar.

Michael Craton is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Waterloo. He is the author of books including Empire, Enslavement, and Freedom in the Caribbean and History of the Bahamas.

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The Love Letters of William and Mary WORDSWORTH

The Love Letters of William and Mary Wordsworth

Time and Eternity Brian Leftow Brian Leftow makes an important contribution to the longstanding debate among philosophers and theologians about the nature of God’s eternity.

Edited by Beth Darlington “Conscientiously edited by Beth Darlington and handEdited by Beth Darlington somely printed by Cornell, these letters display an intense affection between William and Mary which was not only spiritual but physically passionate as well. They show us a serious but appealing man hungry for news of his children, courting his wife’s affection, and seeking to entertain her with tidbits about the life and landscape around him.” —Washington Post Book World “These letters give us an attractive and sometimes affecting glimpse of the Wordsworths. Darlington’s editing is enthusiastic and helpful, the letters themselves have the unstudied freshness of lived life, and their publication constitutes a major event for students of English Romanticism.”—Kirkus Reviews “Discovered in 1977 at an auction of Wordsworth family papers at Sotheby’s, this collection of thirty-one letters is an important contribution to the interpretation of the poet’s life. Ranging from the prosaic to the passionate, they reveal a close and tender relationship.”—Library Journal

The Love Letters of William and Mary Wordsworth collects letters that William Wordsworth exchanged with his wife, Mary, during the early years of their marriage. These letters—fifteen from William to Mary and sixteen from her to him—were written during William’s absences from home in 1810 and 1812 and offer an entirely new way of looking at the poet and his married life. Reproduced here with an informative introduction and headnotes by Beth Darlington that set each missive in biographical context, the letters cover a wide range of topics: village life, Regency politics, poetry and painting, London gossip, rural manners, their five children, domestic activities, and family anecdotes.

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Brian Leftow is Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion at the University of Oxford and a Fellow at Oriel College. Cornell Studies in the Philosophy of Religion a series edited by William P. Alston

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Kant’s Moral Religion Allen W. Wood “Writing about Kant’s ideas simply and clearly is never easy, but Wood manages to do so, with good scholarship rendered unobtrusive by his ability to keep touch with the realities of faith and morality.”—Choice

Allen W. Wood is Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University. He is the author of many books, including Hegel’s Ethical Thought, Kant’s Ethical Thought and Kantian Ethics and coeditor and cotranslator of Immanuel Kant’s Lectures on Philosophical Theology, also from Cornell. MARCH, 296 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7552-8 $29.95s/£14.95 (cloth edition ISBN 0-8014-0548-3) Philosophy

Kant’s Rational Theology Allen W. Wood

Beth Darlington is Professor of English and Director of Victorian Studies at Vassar College.

“Wood’s scholarship possesses both historical insight and analytic subtlety.”—Journal of the American Academy of Religion

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Consuming Visions

Hysterical Men

Mass Culture and the Lourdes Shrine

War, Psychiatry, and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 1890–1930

Suzanne K. Kaufman “This is a sophisticated, erudite, and provocative study of one of the world’s most enduringly popular modern sites of Christian worship. Suzanne Kaufman offers a compelling explanation for its longevity and for the evergrowing market for mass-produced religious objects even today. Refusing to condescend to her subjects, in particular the thousands of desperate women who made their oftenpainful way to the shrine, Kaufman has produced an important book that will be of great interest not just to historians of France but to anyone interested in the role of religion in the modern world.”—American Historical Review “Consuming Visions is an engaging entrée into the ways in which the reappropriated ‘traditions’ and popular religiosity that the Lourdes shrine spawned challenged the growing secularism and anticlericalism of fin-de-siècle France. Kaufman is especially good at showing how the Lourdes medical bureau, charged with verifying cures, was a particularly inspired and effective means of engaging the modern culture. Kaufman also explores well the complicated role women played in the shrine’s growth. The experience of Lourdes chronicled by Kaufman might hold answers for our own day as we struggle to rediscover our traditions in the light of postmodern realities.”—America “This book provides an insightful and persuasive argument for the centrality of Lourdes to the development of modern France.”—H-France Review

Plastic Madonnas, packaged holy tours, and biblical theme parks can arouse discomfort, laughter, and even revulsion in religious believers and nonbelievers alike. Scholars, too, often see the intermingling of religion and commerce as a corruption of true spirituality. Suzanne K. Kaufman challenges these assumptions in her examination of the Lourdes pilgrimage in late nineteenth-century France. Consuming Visions offers new ways to interpret material forms of worship, female piety, and modern commercial culture.

Paul Lerner “Hysterical Men is one of the most significant publications in the history of psychiatry to date. As such, my recommendation of this book is unreserved. My only advice is to read it.”—Isis “Paul Lerner’s book fills a substantial hole in war literature by providing the first scholarly, authoritative account of German psychiatry’s role in the First World War: a story just as dramatic as the familiar British ‘shell-shock’ saga, and hisWinner of the torically far more significant. Lerner Cheiron Book Prize has distilled his material into a clear, well-organized and thoroughly documented narrative.”—Times Literary Supplement “Lerner takes on the critical issue of whether soldiers who suffer trauma on the front lines are to be treated as unfortunates who have reached their breaking point or malingerers who have failed a test of character. This is a first-rate book, speaking to issues that return with every war.” —Foreign Affairs “Hysterical Men contributes importantly to the history of psychiatry and medicine and to the histories of Germany, modern Europe, and the Great War; it examines issues important to social policy and gender studies. By this standard, too, it is very well done. The topic is large, complex, and important, and Lerner handles it with rigor, skill, and clarity. This is a very good and very important book.”—American Historical Review

Paul Lerner is Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern California. He is coeditor of Traumatic Pasts: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma in the Modern Age.

Suzanne K. Kaufman is Associate Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago.

Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry a series edited by Sander L. Gilman and George J. Makari

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In Defense of Christian Hungary

China’s Longest Campaign

Religion, Nationalism, and Antisemitism, 1890–1944

Birth Planning in the People’s Republic, 1949–2005

Paul A. Hanebrink

Tyrene White

“In his excellent and tersely argued book, Paul A. Hanebrink shows that the church paved the way for the destruction of Hungary’s Jews. From the 1880s, Catholic intellectuals and priests helped create an ideology of the Hungarian ‘Christian nation’ that cast Jews as hostile to Hungary’s interests. The nationalism reached obsessive proportions after World War I, when Hungary lost two-thirds of its territory. Previously, the country’s secular elites had integrated Jews into Hungarian society as a counterweight to other ethnicities, like Rumanians, Slovaks, and Serbs. But when these groups got their own states, Jews became Hungary’s only significant minority. As such, they became the target of scapegoating.”—John Connelly, Commonweal “Hanebrink brings together important questions concerning nationalism, religion, and the ever-present issue of antisemitism. The novel aspect of Hanebrink’s work is to place religion at the center of the definition of nation and thereby connect it to the growth of antisemitism.”—Slavic Review

“China’s Longest Campaign is filled with fascinating data; local examples; balanced and insightful assessments of struggles between Chinese Communist Party factions; and interesting and clearly drawn administrative detail derived from numerous interviews with officials, cadres, and local people. What emerges is a sense of the vicissitudes of the effort, and, at least initially, of the willingness to exact a terrible price from millions of women in order to lower the population growth rate in contemporary China.”—China Quarterly “Tyrene White’s careful reading of documentary evidence from the 1950s leads to a nuanced and interesting picture of internal debates within the Chinese leadership and among intellectuals about birth-control issues in a period prior to mandatory family planning. When discussing changes in mandatory family planning in the 1980s, White is able to rely on local evidence she collected, particularly in rural Hubei, on changes in the implementation of the policies she describes.”—Martin K. Whyte, Harvard University

“I agree with Paul A. Hanebrink that modern nationalism, rather than leaving old-fashioned religion and religiosity behind, today often forms a partnership with it and that in Hungary, religiosity was a concomitant part of nationalism. Hanebrink is right that, until now, no one has adequately demonstrated the overwhelming importance of antisemitism in formulating Catholic nationalist policy. Today, when there seems to be an international effort to awaken the Vatican and the Catholic Church in general to its responsibility for the ‘success’ of the Nazi Holocaust project, Hanebrink’s contribution on the complex Hungarian solution is crucial.” —István Deák, Columbia University

“Tyrene White knows as much about the one-child policy in China as anyone around. The narrative of China’s Longest Campaign is presented in rich yet always pleasurably readable detail, and the research on which it is based is solid and comprehensive. White’s analysis is cast, cleverly, in terms of a compelling set of puzzles: why would, and how could, the state undertake so unpopular a policy at a time of considerable political uncertainty, flux, and retrenchment? She offers an important, insightful correction to some of our best grassroots-centered theories of resistance and political change.”—Marc Blecher, Oberlin College

Paul A. Hanebrink is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University.

Tyrene White is Associate Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College.

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Failure to Protect

Think Global, Fear Local

America’s Sexual Predator Laws and the Rise of the Preventive State

Sex, Violence, and Anxiety in Contemporary Japan

Eric S. Janus “Failure to Protect is a vitally important book that demonstrates how we have drastically undermined the protections of our Constitution by creating a class of citizens for whom these protections no longer apply. The book raises this question: if one class of citizens can be excluded from the Bill of Rights, what other classes can also be excluded later on? This book should be essential reading for lawyers, law students, and those who care about preserving our liberties.”—Charles Reich, author of The Greening of America “Janus argues that sexual predator laws reflect a conservative backlash against hard lessons learned from the feminist movement about the systematic nature of sexual violence in society. He identifies misconceptions about recidivism and questions ‘actuarial’ approaches that assign a static risk rating to an individual and ignore changes from treatment, aging, or altered circumstances.”—Chronicle of Higher Education “Eric S. Janus explores sexual predator laws from three perspectives: public safety, civil liberties, and effective government. He moves beyond the quick and easy arguments used both to defend and attack these laws, seeking policy solutions that can reduce sexual violence without scarring our constitutional values.”—Roxanne Lieb, Director, Washington State Institute for Public Policy

In Failure to Protect, Eric S. Janus exposes the reality of the laws designed to prevent sexual crimes. He contends that aggressive measures such as civil commitment and Megan’s Law, which are designed to restrain sex offenders before they can commit another crime, are bad policy and do little to actually reduce sexual violence. Further, these new laws make use of approaches that violate important principles of liberty and may lead to the expansion of a dangerous preventive state government. Janus discusses serious alternatives and how best to overcome the political obstacles to achieving rational policy.

David Leheny “Leheny’s is a clear-headed take on the recent social turmoil in Japan. His effective use of personal anecdotes and the wide-ranging material, including Japanese popular publications, combined with his accessible writing style, makes this book good classroom reading.”—Journal of Anthropological Research “Leheny has written a provocative and highly readable treatise on the impact of international norms in Japan. Focusing on the norms against child prostitution and those of antiterrorism, Leheny shows how these norms were internalized in Japan against the background of widespread local fears that did not exactly correspond to those that had inspired the international norms.”—Journal of Japanese Studies “David Leheny’s book vividly illustrates how vague and notso-vague fear is pervasive in post–Cold War and post-9/11 Japanese society.”—Takashi Inoguchi, Chuo University “Insightful social science is rarely such fun. Think Global, Fear Local reveals how broadly accepted global norms against child prostitution and terrorism get transformed by anxietyridden Japanese policymakers into powerful weapons used to attack peripheral, though admittedly vexing, domestic demons. Leheny’s wry wit and Runyonesque characterizations make this a delicious romp through the back alleys of contemporary Japan in the quest to learn how ‘good norms go bad.’ Read this book; you won’t be disappointed.” —T. J. Pempel, University of California, Berkeley “David Leheny’s brilliant book shows how global norms are transformed in Japan by officials in the law enforcement and security fields who seek expanded state powers to target national problems and offer credible solutions. This analysis reveals the cultural politics through which solutions resonate with and amplify local constructions of threats, anxieties, villains, and scapegoats.”—Kay Warren, Brown University

Eric S. Janus is President and Dean of William Mitchell College of Law. He is the author of Law and Mental Health Professionals and Civil Commitment in Minnesota.

David Leheny is the Henry Wendt III ’55 Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University. He is the author of The Rules of Play: National Identity and the Shaping of Japanese Leisure, also from Cornell.

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Agency, Power, and Governance

Emilie M. Hafner-Burton

Edited by Miles Kahler The concept of network has emerged as an intellectual centerpiece for our era. Network analysis also occupies a growing place in many of the social sciences. In international relations, however, network has too often remained a metaphor rather than a powerful theoretical perspective. In Networked Politics, a team of political scientists investigates networks in important sectors of international relations, including human rights, security agreements, terrorist and criminal groups, international inequality, and governance of the Internet. They treat networks as either structures that shape behavior or important collective actors. In their hands, familiar concepts, such as structure, power, and governance, are awarded new meaning. C ontributors Peter Cowhey, University of California, San Diego • Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, University of Cambridge and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge • Zachary Elkins, University of Texas at Austin • Emilie M. Hafner-Burton, Princeton University • Miles Kahler, University of California, San Diego • Michael Kenney, Pennsylvania State University • David A. Lake, University of California, San Diego • Alexander H. Montgomery, Reed College • Milton Mueller, Syracuse University School of Information Studies and Delft University of Technology • Kathryn Sikkink, University of Minnesota • Janice Gross Stein, University of Toronto • Wendy H. Wong, University of Toronto • Helen Yanacopulos, Open University

Miles Kahler is Rohr Professor of Pacific International Relations and Professor of Political Science at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Leadership Selection and the Major Multilaterals and International Institutions and the Political Economy of Integration and coeditor of Governance in a Global Economy. Cornell Studies in Political Economy a series edited by Peter J. Katzenstein

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Why Trade Agreements Boost Human Rights

“Why have human rights provisions increasingly been attached to preferential trade agreements in recent years? Forced to Be Good is the best single treatment of the issue I have read.”—Daniel Drezner, Tufts University

Preferential trade agreements have become common ways to protect or restrict access to national markets in products and services. The United States has signed trade agreements with almost two dozen countries as close as Mexico and Canada and as distant as Morocco and Australia. The European Union has done the same. In addition to addressing economic issues, these agreements also regulate the protection of human rights. In Forced to Be Good Emilie M. Hafner-Burton tells the story of the politics of such agreements and of the ways in which governments pursue market integration policies that advance their own political interests, including human rights. How and why do global norms for social justice become international regulations linked to seemingly unrelated issues, such as trade? Hafner-Burton finds that the process has been unconventional. Efforts by human rights advocates and labor unions to spread human rights ideals, for example, do not explain why American and European governments employ preferential trade agreements to protect human rights. Instead, most of the regulations protecting human rights are codified in global moral principles and laws only because they serve policymakers’ interests in accumulating power or resources or solving other problems. Otherwise, demands by moral advocates are tossed aside. And, as Hafner-Burton shows, even the inclusion of human rights protections in trade agreements is no guarantee of real change, because many of the governments that sign on to fair trade regulations oppose such protections and do not intend to force their implementation. Ultimately, Hafner-Burton finds that, despite the difficulty of enforcing good regulations and the less-than-noble motives for including them, trade agreements that include human rights provisions have made a positive difference in the lives of some of the people they are intended—on paper, at least— to protect. Emilie M. Hafner-Burton is Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. FEBRUARY, 232 pages, 4 tables, 2 maps, 2 line drawings, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4643-6 $39.95s/£21.95 Political Science

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Hierarchy in International Relations

Channels of Power

David A. Lake

The UN Security Council and U.S. Statecraft in Iraq

“David A. Lake effectively and convincingly argues that international politics is characterized not by anarchy, as the received wisdom and theory in the field hold, but rather by hierarchical relations among states. He develops the concept of relational hierarchy, by which a pair of states agree for one to accept the authority of the other to their mutual benefit, and applies it to understand the hierarchical relations created by the United States during and after the Cold War.” —James D. Morrow, University of Michigan

International relations are generally understood as a realm of anarchy in which countries lack any superior authority and interact within a Hobbesian state of nature. In Hierarchy in International Relations, David A. Lake challenges this traditional view, demonstrating that states exercise authority over one another in international hierarchies that vary historically but are still pervasive today. Revisiting the concepts of authority and sovereignty, Lake offers a novel view of international relations in which states form social contracts that bind both dominant and subordinate members. The resulting hierarchies have significant effects on the foreign policies of states as well as patterns of international conflict and cooperation. Focusing largely on U.S.-led hierarchies in the contemporary world, Lake provides a compelling account of the origins, functions, and limits of political order in the modern international system. The book is a model of clarity in theory, research design, and the use of evidence. Motivated by concerns about the declining international legitimacy of the United States following the Iraq War, Hierarchy in International Relations offers a powerful analytic perspective that has important implications for understanding America’s position in the world in the years ahead.

David A. Lake is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. His previous books include Power, Protection, and Free Trade: International Sources of U.S. Commercial Strategy, 1887–1939 (also from Cornell) and Entangling Relations: American Foreign Policy in Its Century, as well as eight edited or coedited volumes. Cornell Studies in Political Economy a series edited by Peter J. Katzenstein

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Alexander Thompson “Channels of Power addresses an important and fascinating issue using an innovative argument, careful theoretical reasoning, and sound empirical evidence. Alexander Thompson’s book will stand out as a particularly valuable contribution to the literature on the Security Council, Iraq, and U.S. statecraft. Given the clarity and accessibility of Thompson’s argument and evidence, Channels of Power should find its way into undergraduate classrooms.”—Darren Hawkins, Brigham Young University 

When President George W. Bush launched an invasion of Iraq in March of 2003, he did so without the explicit approval of the Security Council. His father’s administration, by contrast, carefully funneled statecraft through the United Nations and achieved Council authorization for the U.S.-led Gulf War in 1991. The history of American policy toward Iraq displays considerable variation in the extent to which policies were conducted through the UN and other international organizations. In Channels of Power, Alexander Thompson surveys U.S. policy toward Iraq, starting with the Gulf War, continuing through the interwar years of sanctions and coercive disarmament, and concluding with the 2003 invasion and its long aftermath. He offers a framework for understanding why powerful states often work through international organizations when conducting coercive policies—and why they sometimes choose instead to work alone or with ad hoc coalitions. The conventional wisdom holds that because having legitimacy for their actions is important for normative reasons, states seek multilateral approval. Channels of Power offers a rationalist alternative to these standard legitimation arguments, one based on the notion of strategic information transmission: When state actions are endorsed by an independent organization, this sends politically crucial information to the world community, both leaders and their publics, and results in greater international support. Alexander Thompson is Assistant Professor of Political Science at The Ohio State University APRIL, 280 pages, 10 tables, 3 charts/graphs, 6 line drawings, 6x9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4718-1 $39.95s/£21.95 Political Science

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Bringing Outsiders In

Border Games

Transatlantic Perspectives on Immigrant Political Incorporation

Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide Second Edition

Edited by Jennifer Hochschild and John Mollenkopf

Peter ANDREAS

For immigrants, politics can play a significant role in determining whether and how they assimilate. In Bringing Outsiders In, leading social scientists present individual cases and work toward a comparative synthesis of how immigrants affect—and are affected by—civic life on both sides of the Atlantic. Just as in the United States, large immigrant minority communities have been emerging across Europe. Attending to how local and national states encourage or discourage political participation, the authors assess the relative involvement of immigrants in a wide range of settings. Jennifer Hochschild and John Mollenkopf provide a context for the particular cases and comparisons and draw a set of analytic and empirical conclusions regarding incorporation. C ontributors Richard Alba, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York • Sandro Cattacin, University of Geneva • Gianni D’Amato, Swiss Forum on Migration • Jan Willem Duyvendak, University of Amsterdam • Nancy Foner, Hunter College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York • Luis Fraga, University of Washington • Jennifer Hochschild, Harvard University • Christian Joppke, American University of Paris • Gallya Lahav, State University of New York at Stony Brook • Marco Martiniello, University of Liege • Michael Minkenberg, New York University and European University Viadrina • Lorraine Minnite, Barnard College and Columbia University • Tariq Modood, University of Bristol • John Mollenkopf, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York • Eva Østergaard-Nielsen, Autonomous University of Barcelona • Adrian Pantoja, Pitzer College • Trees Pels, Verwey-Jonker Institute for Social Research • Rally Rijkschroeff, Verwey-Jonker Institute for Social Research • Reuel Rogers, Northwestern University • Peter Schuck, Yale Law School and New York University Law School • Raphael Sonenshein, California State University, Fullerton • Janelle Wong, University of Southern California

Jennifer Hochschild is Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Her books include Facing Up to the American Dream. John Mollenkopf is Director of the Center for Urban Research at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he is also Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology. He is the author of A Phoenix in the Ashes. JUNE, 376 pages, 32 tables, 8 charts/graphs, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4811-9 $79.95x/£44.50 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7514-6 $29.95s/£14.95 Political Science

Praise for the first edition— “Provocative and highly persuasive.”—The Nation “Required reading for anyone with an interest in U.S.-Mexico relations and the American West.”—Bloomsbury Review “Andreas provides an excellent overview of the topic of smuggling and makes interesting comparisons between U.S.-Mexico border control and policing in Eastern and Southern Europe.”—Library Journal “This outstanding book is a much-needed addition to the literature on the policing of international boundaries.” —Professional Geographer “A slim, smart book that explains the paradoxical developments that have gripped the border since NAFTA.”—Journal of American History “Andreas offers a broad overview of smuggling immigrants and drugs into the U.S. from Mexico and intensified enforcement efforts. On a broader scale, Andreas looks at international trends in smuggling and border enforcement in Europe.”—Booklist

In an updated and expanded edition of his essential 2000 book about shifts in how borders are perceived and patrolled, Peter Andreas brings the story into the present day. The second edition of Border Games places the continued sharp escalation of border policing in the context of a transformed post-September 11 security environment. As Andreas demonstrates, in some ways it is still the same old border game—but more difficult to manage, with more players, played out on a bigger stage, and with higher stakes and collateral damage. Andreas continues to help readers understand the changing practice and politics of policing national boundaries in the twenty-first century. Peter Andreas is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Brown University. He is the author of Blue Helmets and Black Markets: The Business of Survival in the Siege of Sarajevo, also from Cornell, coauthor of Drug War Politics: The Price of Denial, and the coeditor of The Rebordering of North America and The Wall Around the West. Cornell Studies in Political Economy a series edited by Peter J. Katzenstein

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Rebels without Borders

Whose Ideas Matter?

Transnational Insurgencies in World Politics

Agency and Power in Asian Regionalism

Idean Salehyan

Amitav Acharya

“Rebels without Borders is an interesting and important contribution to the study of civil war. Idean Salehyan’s argument provides real insights into the causes and conduct of such conflicts.”—Stephen Saideman, McGill University

“Amitav Acharya has led the way in thinking not only about the international relations of Southeast Asia but also about how to conceptualize international security more generally. This is another important contribution from him, with fascinating new historical material on the evolution of ASEAN.” —Stephan Haggard, University of California, San Diego

Rebellion, insurgency, civil war—conflict within a society is customarily treated as a matter of domestic politics and analysts generally focus their attention on local causes. Yet fighting between governments and opposition groups is rarely confined to the domestic arena. “Internal” wars often spill across national boundaries, rebel organizations frequently find sanctuaries in neighboring countries, and insurgencies give rise to disputes between states. In Rebels without Borders, which will appeal to students of international and civil war and those developing policies to contain the regional diffusion of conflict, Idean Salehyan examines transnational rebel organizations in civil conflicts, utilizing cross-national datasets as well as in-depth case studies.  He shows how external Contra bases in Honduras and Costa Rica facilitated the Nicaraguan civil war and how the Rwandan civil war spilled over into the Democratic Republic of the Congo, fostering a regional war. He also looks at other cross-border insurgencies, such as those of the Kurdish PKK and Taliban fighters in Pakistan. Salehyan reveals that external sanctuaries feature in the political history of more than half of the world’s armed insurgencies since 1945, and are also important in fostering state-to-state conflicts.  Rebels who are unable to challenge the state on its own turf look for mobilization opportunities abroad. Neighboring states that are too weak to prevent rebel access, states that wish to foster instability in their rivals, and large refugee diasporas provide important opportunities for insurgent groups to establish external bases. Such sanctuaries complicate intelligence gathering, counterinsurgency operations, and efforts at peacemaking.

Idean Salehyan is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas. He is also a research associate at the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies, Southern Methodist University and at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo.  MARCH, 216 pages, 14 tables, 6 charts/graphs, 2 maps, 4 line drawings, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4744-0 $39.95s/£21.95 Political Science 4 2

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Asia is a crucial battleground for power and influence in the international system. It is also a theater of new experiments in regional cooperation that could redefine global order. Whose Ideas Matter? is the first book to explore the diffusion of ideas and norms in the international system from the perspective of local actors, with Asian regional institutions as its main focus. There’s no Asian equivalent of the EU or of NATO. Why has Asia, and in particular Southeast Asia, avoided such multilateral institutions? Most accounts focus on U.S. interests and perceptions or intraregional rivalries to explain the design and effectiveness of regional institutions in Asia such as SEATO, ASEAN, and the ASEAN Regional Forum. Amitav Acharya instead foregrounds the ideas of Asian policymakers, including their response to the global norms of sovereignty and nonintervention. Asian regional institutions are shaped by contestations and compromises involving emerging global norms and the preexisting beliefs and practices of local actors. Acharya terms this perspective “constitutive localization” and argues that international politics is not all about Western ideas and norms forcing their way into non-Western societies while the latter remain passive recipients. Rather, ideas are conditioned and accepted by local agents who shape the diffusion of ideas and norms in the international system. Acharya sketches a normative trajectory of Asian regionalism that constitutes an important contribution to the global sovereignty regime and explains a remarkable continuity in the design and functions of Asian regional institutions. Amitav Acharya is Professor of International Affairs at American University, Washington, D.C. He was Professor of Global Governance at the University of Bristol. He is the author of Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia and The Quest for Identity and coeditor of Crafting Cooperation. Cornell Studies in Political Economy a series edited by Peter J. Katzenstein

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Federations

Farmers on Welfare

The Political Dynamics of Cooperation

The Making of Europe’s Common Agricultural Policy

Chad Rector “Federations is a joy to read and provides an extremely useful framework for understanding why countries choose this form of alliance. Chad Rector’s clear explanation builds on the broad literature on cooperation and the narrower literature on institutional choice and federalism and adds the exquisite dimension of elucidating not simply why countries federate but why they choose this option over self-sufficiency or joining an international organization.”—Carol S. Weissert, editor of Publius: The Journal of Federalism

Why would states ever give up their independence to join federations? While federation can provide more wealth or security than self-sufficiency, states can in principle get those benefits more easily by cooperating through international organizations such as alliances or customs unions. Chad Rector develops a new theory that states federate when their leaders expect benefits from closer military or economic cooperation but also expect that cooperation via an international organization would put some of the states in a vulnerable position, open to extortion from their erstwhile partners. The potentially vulnerable states hold out, refusing to join alliances or customs unions, and only agreeing to military and economic cooperation under a federal constitution. Rector examines several historical cases: the making of a federal Australia and the eventual exclusion of New Zealand from the union; the decisions made within Buenos Aires and Prussia to build Argentina and Germany largely through federal contracts rather than conquests; and the failures of postindependence unions in East Africa and the Caribbean.

Chad Rector is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at The George Washington University. MARCH, 256 pages, 4 charts/graphs, 1 map, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4736-5 $69.95x/£38.95 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7524-5 $24.95s/£13.95 Political Science

Ann-Christina L. Knudsen “Farmers on Welfare is an important work that provides the most detailed account to date of the creation of the Common Agricultural Policy. Employing newly tapped archival sources, Ann-Christina L. Knudsen challenges much of the received wisdom about the formation of the CAP and, in doing so, offers valuable new insights into the nature of European politics and about policymaking in general.”—Adam Sheingate, The Johns Hopkins University

In 2007 the farm subsidies of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy took over 40 percent of the entire EU budget. How did a sector of diminishing social and economic importance manage to maintain such political prominence? The conventional answer focuses on the negotiations among the member states of the European Community from 1958 onwards. That story holds that the political priority, given to the CAP, as well as its long-term stability, resides in a basic devil’s bargain between French agriculture and German industry. In Farmers on Welfare, a landmark new account of the making of the single largest European policy ever, Ann-Christina L. Knudsen suggests that this accepted narrative is rather too neat. In particular, she argues, it neglects how a broad agreement was made in the 1960s that related to national welfare state policies aiming to improve incomes for farmers. Drawing on extensive archival research from a variety of political actors across the Community, she illustrates how and why this supranational farm regime was created in the 1960s, and also provides us with a detailed narrative history of how national and European administrations gradually learned about this kind of cooperation. By tracing how the farm welfare objective was gradually implemented in other common policies, Knudsen offers an alternative account of European integration history.

Ann-Christina L. Knudsen is Associate Professor in the Department of European Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. MARCH, 360 pages, 3 tables, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4727-3 $45.00s/£24.95 Political Science

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Case Studies in Food Policy for Developing Countries Volume I: Policies for Health, Nutrition, Food Consumption, and Poverty Volume II: Domestic Policies for Markets, Production, and Environment Volume III: Institutions and International Trade Policies Edited by Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Fuzhi Cheng The food problems now facing the world—scarcity and starvation, contamination and illness, overabundance and obesity—are both diverse and complex. What are their causes? How severe are they? Why do they persist? What are the solutions? The authors of the more than sixty international case studies contained in these three volumes approach the food system with a multidisciplinary perspective. In three volumes that serve as valuable teaching tools, they call upon the wisdom of disciplines including economics, nutrition, sociology, anthropology, environmental science, medicine, and geography to create a holistic picture of the state of the world’s food systems today. The authors focus in on specific cases from all corners of the globe to cover topics including drought and soil conservation; land allocation and cooperative marketing efforts; and food safety measures and advertising policies. In documenting past successes and failures, these case studies provide a valuable foundation for future research and efforts to create truly successful and sustainable food policy. Per Pinstrup-Andersen is the H. E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition, and Public Policy, the J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship, and Professor of Applied Economics at Cornell University and Professor of Agricultural Economics at Copenhagen University. He is the 2001 World Food Prize Laureate. His more than 400 publications include the coauthorship of Seeds of Contention. Fuzhi Cheng is a Commodity Trading Research Analyst at Noble Group based in Stamford, Connecticut. Volume I FEBRUARY, 240 pages, 8 1/2 x 11 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7554-2 $22.95s/£12.95 Food 1/ 2

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Streetwise for Book Smarts Grassroots Organizing and Education Reform in the Bronx Celina Su “Streetwise for Book Smarts is a completely novel and provocative take on an extremely important topic. Its great strength arises from Celina Su’s street-level research style. This book should be read by community organizers, foundation officers, and policymakers as well as political scientists, sociologists, urban anthropologists, and scholars of community organizing.”—Dennis Shirley, Boston College

In Streetwise for Book Smarts, Celina Su examines the efforts of parents and students who sought to improve the quality of education in their local schools by working with grassroots organizations and taking matters into their own hands. In these organizations, everyday citizens pursued not only education reform but also democratic accountability and community empowerment. These groups had similar resources and operated in the same political context, yet their strategies and tactics were very different: while some focused on increasing state and city aid to their schools, others tried to change the way the schools themselves operated. Some coalitions sought accommodation with administrators and legislators; others did not. The events Su describes began with a series of stabbings in Bronx high schools during the 2003–2004 school year. After this rash of violence, several grassroots groups cited the need for additional safety patrols. Mothers from one school spoke of how they had previously protested until they got extra officers, a fairly scarce resource in New York public schools, at their local elementary school. Others asserted that not all the safety patrol officers already in place were treating students humanely. Parent organizations and school officials proposed and mobilized behind a range of remedies. These divergent responses shed light on the ways in which the choices made by each organization mattered. By learning from Su’s close observation of four activist groups in the Bronx, including Mothers on the Move and Sistas and Brothas United, we can better understand strategies that may ultimately lead to better and safer schools everywhere and help to revitalize American democracy.

Celina Su is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College. MAY, 248 pages, 2 maps, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4725-9 $65.00x/£35.95 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7558-0 $22.95s/£11.50 Education U N I v E R S I T Y

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Healing Together

Building More Effective Unions, Second Edition

The Labor-Management Partnership at Kaiser Permanente Thomas A. Kochan, Adrienne E. Eaton, Robert B. McKersie, and Paul S. Adler Kaiser Permanente is the largest managed care organization in the country and has the most complex labormanagement partnership ever created in the United States. This book tells the story of that partnership—how it started, how it grew, who made it happen, and the lessons to be learned from its successes and complications. With twenty-seven unions and an organization as complex as 8.6-million-member Kaiser Permanente, establishing the partnership was not a simple task and maintaining it has proven to be extraordinarily challenging. Thomas A. Kochan, Adrienne E. Eaton, Robert B. McKersie, and Paul S. Adler have been tracking the evolution of the partnership between Kaiser Permanente and the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions ever since 2001. They review the history of health care labor relations and present a profile of Kaiser Permanente as it has developed over the years. They then delve into the partnership, discussing its achievements and struggles, including the negotiation of the most innovative collective bargaining agreements in the history of American labor relations. They conclude with an assessment of the Kaiser partnership’s effect on the larger health care system and its implications for labor-management relations in other industries. Thomas A. Kochan is George M. Bunker Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His many books include Up in the Air, also from Cornell. Adrienne E. Eaton is Professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at the School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University—The State University of New Jersey. She is the coeditor of Employment Dispute Resolution and Worker Rights in the Changing Workplace, also available from Cornell. Robert B. McKersie is Professor Emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His books include Strategic Negotiations, also from Cornell. Paul S. Adler is Professor of Management and Organization at the Marshall School of Business, UCLA. He is the coeditor most recently of The Firm as a Collaborative Community.

Paul F. Clark Praise for the first edition— “Paul Clark has taken years of behavioral science studies about unions and applied them to the modern-day challenges faced by organized labor. Building More Effective Unions is an excellent resource on organizing issues, retaining members, building proper union culture, political action communication, and grievance procedures.” —George Apaliski, National Education Association, retired “This book is full of information on how to engage members in ways that build greater commitment and loyalty to the union. Every union would benefit from the ideas in this book.”—Mary Lehman MacDonald, Director AFT Healthcare “Clark’s approach delights students from various unions and backgrounds.”—Greg Giebel, First Provost National Labor College “Paul Clark offers a lot of practical and commonsense advice for union officials who are looking for ways to get members interested and involved in their unions.”—James M. Warren, Director, LIUNA (Laborers) Education Department

Paul F. Clark believes union leaders should take advantage of the valuable discoveries made in behavioral science, and, in Building More Effective Unions, he offers a straightforward account of how they can do so. The second edition provides an updated discussion of important lessons behavioral science holds for labor organizations. It also provides new examples of how unions and their leaders have benefited from putting the principles outlined in the first edition into practice.

Culture and Politics of Health Care Work a series edited by Suzanne Gordon and Sioban Nelson

Paul F. Clark is Professor of Labor Studies and Industrial Relations at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as an education and research consultant for more than twenty-five national and numerous local unions. He is the coeditor of Forging a Union of Steel: Philip Murray, SWOC, and the United Steelworkers and Collective Bargaining in the Private Sector, both from Cornell.

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Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be

The Patriotism of Despair

Learning Anthropology’s Method in a Time of Transition

Serguei Alex. Oushakine

Nation, War, and Loss in Russia

Edited by James D. Faubion and George E. Marcus Over the past two decades anthropologists have been challenged to rethink the nature of ethnographic research, the meaning of fieldwork, and the role of ethnographers. Ethnographic fieldwork has cultural, social, and political ramifications that have been much discussed and acted upon, but the training of ethnographers still follows a very traditional pattern; this volume engages and takes its point of departure in the experiences of ethnographers-in-the-making that encourage alternative models for professional training in fieldwork and its intellectual contexts. The work done by contributors to Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be articulates, at the strategic point of career-making research, features of this transformation in progress. Setting aside traditional anxieties about ethnographic authority, the authors revisit fieldwork with fresh initiative. In search of better understandings of the contemporary research process itself, they assess the current terms of the engagement of fieldworkers with their subjects, address the constructive, openended forms by which the conclusions of fieldwork might take shape, and offer an accurate and useful description of what it means to become—and to be— an anthropologist today. C ontributors Lisa Breglia, George Mason University • Jae A. Chung, Aalen University • James D. Faubion, Rice University • Michael M. J. Fischer, MIT • Kim Fortun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute • Jennifer A. Hamilton, Hampshire College • Christopher M. Kelty, UCLA • George E. Marcus, University of California, Irvine • Nahal Naficy, Rice University • Kristin Peterson, University of California, Irvine • Deepa S. Reddy, University of Houston–Clear Lake

James D. Faubion is Professor of Anthropology at Rice University and the author of books including The Shadows and Lights of Waco. George E. Marcus is Chancellor’s Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine; coauthor with Fernando Mascarenhas of Ocasião: The Marquis and the Anthropologist, a Collaboration; and the author of books including Ethnography through Thick and Thin. JUNE, 248 pages, 1 table, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4776-1 $65.00x/£39.95 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7511-5 $21.95s/£10.95 Anthropology 4 6

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“The Patriotism of Despair is a detailed presentation of aspects of provincial Russian life—military, patriotic, psychological, interpersonal, academic, economic, and others—that could only have been revealed by the author’s focus on the discourses and practices of trauma, sacrifice, tragedy, and loss.”—Dale Pesmen, author of Russia and Soul: An Exploration

The sudden dissolution of the Soviet Union altered the routines, norms, celebrations, and shared understandings that had shaped the lives of Russians for generations. It also meant an end to the state-sponsored, nonmonetary support that most residents had lived with all their lives. How did Russians make sense of these historic transformations? Serguei Alex. Oushakine offers a compelling look at postsocialist life in Russia. In Barnaul, a major industrial city in southwestern Siberia that has lost 25 percent of its population since 1991, many Russians are finding that what binds them together is loss and despair. The Patriotism of Despair examines the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, graphically described in spray paint by a graffiti artist in Barnaul: “We have no Motherland.” Once socialism disappeared as a way of understanding the world, what replaced it in people’s minds? Once socialism stopped orienting politics and economics, how did capitalism insinuate itself into routine practices? Serguei Alex. Oushakine offers a compelling look at postsocialist life in noncosmopolitan Russia. He introduces readers to the “neocoms”: people who mourn the loss of the Soviet economy and the remonetization of transactions that had not involved the exchange of cash during the Soviet era. Moving from economics into military conflict and personal loss, Oushakine also describes the ways in which veterans of the Chechen war and mothers of soldiers who died there have connected their immediate experiences with the country’s historical disruptions. The country, the nation, and traumatized individuals, Oushakine finds, are united by their vocabulary of shared pain. Serguei Alex. Oushakine is Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. Culture and Society after Socialism A series edited by Bruce Grant and Nancy Ries

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The Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity éric Rebillard Translated from the French by Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings and Jeanine Routier-Pucci “Éric Rebillard’s important work fills a gap in the field of late antiquity by addressing burial customs and the development of early Christian communities in the West. His innovative research integrates complex historical and archaeological sources in a way that changes our perspective of the role of the church in this period.”—Bonnie Effros, Binghamton University (State University of New York) “The Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity offers a fresh and challenging examination of how the Church came to be involved in cemeteries.”—John S. Kloppenborg, University of Toronto

In the translation of his provocative Religion et Sépulture: L’Église, les vivants et les morts dans l’Antiquité tardive, Éric Rebillard challenges many long-held assumptions about early Christian burial customs. For decades scholars of early Christianity have argued that the Church owned and operated burial grounds for Christians as early as the third century. Through a careful reading of primary sources including legal codes, theological works, epigraphical inscriptions, and sermons, Rebillard shows that there is little evidence to suggest that Christians occupied exclusive or isolated burial grounds in this early period. In fact, as late as the fourth and fifth centuries the Church did not impose on the faithful specific rituals for laying the dead to rest. In the preparation of Christians for burial, it was usually next of kin and not representatives of the Church who were responsible for what form of rite would be celebrated, and evidence from inscriptions and tombstones shows that for the most part Christians didn’t separate themselves from non-Christians when burying their dead. According to Rebillard it would not be until the early Middle Ages that the Church gained control over burial practices and that “Christian cemeteries” became common. Éric Rebillard is Professor of Classics and History at Cornell University. He is the author of In hora mortis and editor of L’Année philologique on the Internet. Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings is an independent translator. Jeanine Routier-Pucci is Senior Lecturer of Spanish Language at Cornell University.

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Enemies and Familiars Slavery and Mastery in Fifteenth-Century Valencia Debra Blumenthal “Enemies and Familiars is a terrific piece of work that provides complete and bold new vistas on the lives of slaves during the transition to modernity and on the eve of the Atlantic slave trade. The archival evidence deployed by Debra Blumenthal is unusually rich and abundant. I have seldom seen a book with such a wealth of truly interesting material, nor have I often seen such evidence so artfully used.”—Teofilo F. Ruiz, UCLA

A prominent Mediterranean port located near Islamic territories, the city of Valencia in the late fifteenth century boasted a slave population of pronounced religious and ethnic diversity: captive Moors and penally enslaved Mudejars, Greeks, Tartars, Russians, Circassians, and a growing population of black Africans. By the end of the fifteenth century, black Africans comprised as much as 40 percent of the slave population of Valencia. Debra Blumenthal explores the social and human dimensions of slavery in this religiously and ethnically pluralistic society. Enemies and Familiars traces the varied experiences of Muslim, Eastern, and black African slaves from capture to freedom. After describing how men, women, and children were enslaved and brought to the Valencian marketplace, this book examines the substance of slaves’ daily lives: how they were sold and who bought them; the positions ascribed to them within the household hierarchy; the sorts of labor they performed; and the ways in which some reclaimed their freedom. Scrutinizing a wide array of archival sources, Blumenthal investigates what it meant to be a slave and what it meant to be a master at a critical moment of transition. Arguing that the dynamics of the master-slave relationship both reflected and determined contemporary opinions regarding religious, ethnic, and gender differences, Blumenthal’s close study of the day-to-day interactions between masters and their slaves not only reveals that slavery played a central role in identity formation in late medieval Iberia but also offers clues to the development of “racialized” slavery in the early modern Atlantic world. Debra Blumenthal is Associate Professor of History at The University of California at Santa Barbara.

Cornell Studies in Classical Philology

Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past a series edited by Barbara H. Rosenwein

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“Speak Useful Words or Say Nothing” Old Norse Studies Joseph Harris Edited by Susan E. Deskis and Thomas D. Hill This selection by Susan E. Deskis and Thomas D. Hill of twelve of Joseph Harris’s most important essays underscores the range of his work from critical readings of canonical texts to philological elucidation of Old Norse and Old English literary works to discussions of larger theoretical issues such as oral theory. One of the central problems of medieval literary scholarship is the aesthetics of traditional and oral literature, and how and whether one can meaningfully discuss the literary history of an oral genre. Harris’s studies of such topics as the Old Norse short narrative and of the Masterbuilder tale focus precisely on such problems and offer brilliant readings of specific texts as well as models of literary historical discourse. “Speak Useful Words or Say Nothing” also shows that Harris’s work frequently bridges the divide between the Latin and Christian sources and the native vernacular traditions that together found their way into Old Norse and Old English literature.

Joseph Harris is the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature and Professor of Folklore at Harvard University. Susan E. Deskis is Associate Professor of English at Northern Illinois University. Thomas D. Hill is Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Cornell University. Islandica 53 Distributed by Cornell University Press for the Cornell University Library

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Essays in Honor of Marianne Kalinke Edited by Kirsten Wolf and Johanna Denzin “The world of romance is often fraught with difficulties. Lovers are parted and have to struggle to be reunited, monsters or evil stepmothers have to be defeated, and the strength of one’s devotion to God or the Virgin Mary has to be demonstrated. As all lovers of a good romance know, the protagonist is always rewarded for his or her kindness, wit, hard work, and perseverance.” —from the Introduction

Marianne Kalinke made profound contributions in Old Norse–Icelandic literature. This volume in her honor features new essays by fourteen authors on the theme of Old Norse–Icelandic romance and love. Several chapters examine love with special focus on the ways in which the Sagas of Icelanders differ from courtly romances; tragic and comic elements of Icelandic tales of love; and the differing societal roles of women and men. Other chapters explore the intersection of folklore, mythology, and romance; the role of dwarfs in fourteenth-century Icelandic romances; and the characteristics that distinguish heroic epics from romances. Religious love is highlighted in chapters on sacred and hagiographic texts. contributors Theodore M. Andersson, Indiana University • Úlfar Bragason, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies • Robert Cook, University of Iceland • Johanna Denzin, Columbia College of Missouri • Matthew J. Driscoll, University of Copenhagen and The Arnamagnaean Institute • Margrét Eggertsdóttir, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies • Shaun F. D. Hughes, Purdue University • Ármann Jakobsson, University of Iceland • Jenny Jochens, Towson University • John Lindow, University of California, Berkeley • Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies • Margaret Clunies Ross, University of Sydney • Sverrir Tómasson, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies • Kirsten Wolf, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Kirsten Wolf is Professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Johanna Denzin is Assistant Professor of English at Columbia College of Missouri. Islandica 54 Distributed by Cornell University Press for the Cornell University Library

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Romance and Love in Late Medieval and Early Modern Iceland

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Children Bound to Labor

Future Tense The Culture of Anticipation in France between the Wars

The Pauper Apprentice System in Early America Edited by Ruth Wallis Herndon and John E. Murray The history of early America cannot be told without considering unfree labor. At the center of this history are African and Native American adults forced into slavery; the children born to these unfree persons usually inherited their parents’ status. Immigrant indentured servants, many of whom were young people, are widely recognized as part of early American society. Less familiar is the idea of free children being taken from the homes where they were born and put into bondage. Binding out pauper apprentices was a widespread practice throughout the colonies—poor, illegitimate, orphaned, abandoned, or abused children were raised to adulthood in a legal condition of indentured servitude. Children Bound to Labor show the various ways in which pauper apprentices were important to the economic, social, and political structure of early America. In considering the practice in English, Dutch, and French communities in North America from the mid-seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century, Children Bound to Labor even suggests that it was notable as a positive means of maintaining social stability and encouraging economic development. C ontributors Monique Bourque, Willamette University • Holly Brewer, North Carolina State University • Gillian Hamilton, University of Toronto • Ruth Wallis Herndon, Bowling Green State University • Steve Hindle, University of Warwick • Paul Lachance, University of Ottawa • Timothy J. Lockley, University of Warwick • Gloria L. Main, University of Colorado, Boulder • John E. Murray, University of Toledo • Jean B. Russo, Historic Annapolis Foundation • Jean Elliott Russo, independent scholar • Adriana E. van Zwieten, Biographical Dictionary of Pennsylvania Legislators • T. Stephen Whitman, Mount St. Mary’s University

Ruth Wallis Herndon is Associate Professor of History at Bowling Green State University. She is the author of Unwelcome Americans. John E. Murray is Professor of Economics at University of Toledo. He is the author of Origins of American Health Insurance. MARCH, 288 pages, 27 tables, 14 charts/graphs, 1 map, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4624-5 $69.95x/£38.95 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7559-7 $24.95s/£12.50 History/United States

Roxanne Panchasi “Roxanne Panchasi’s deft consideration of Paris as a site of anticipation, where past and future might well have to carry out a fight to the death, is quite intriguing indeed. In Future Tense, she brings imagination and an impressive variety of sources to bear on her argument that anticipation about the future is as much about the present doing the anticipating as it is about the future being anticipated.”—Leonard V. Smith, author of The Embattled Self: French Soldiers’ Testimony of the Great War

In the years between the world wars, French intellectuals, politicians, and military leaders came to see certain encounters—between human and machine, organic and artificial, national and international culture—as premonitions of a future that was alternately unsettling and utopian. Skyscrapers, airplanes, and gas masks were seen as traces in the present of a future world, its technologies, and its possible transformations. In Future Tense, Roxanne Panchasi illuminates both the anxieties and the hopes of a period when many French people—traumatized by what their country had already suffered—seemed determined to anticipate and shape the future. Future Tense, which features many compelling illustrations, depicts experts proposing the prosthetic enhancement of the nation’s bodies and homes; architects discussing whether skyscrapers should be banned from Paris; military strategists creating a massive fortification network, the Maginot Line; and French delegates to the League of Nations declaring their opposition to the artificial international language Esperanto. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Panchasi explores representations of the body, the city, and territorial security, as well as changing understandings of a French civilization many believed to be threatened by Americanization. Panchasi makes clear that memories of the past—and even nostalgia for what might be lost in the future—were crucial features of the culture of anticipation that emerged in the interwar period. Roxanne Panchasi is Associate Professor of History at Simon Fraser University. JUNE, 240 pages, 18 halftones, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4670-2 $39.95s/£21.95 History/France

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The Odd Man Karakozov

Shakespeare’s Foreign Worlds

Imperial Russia, Modernity, and the Birth of Terrorism Claudia Verhoeven

National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age

“Claudia Verhoeven is a masterful thinker, and The Odd Man Karakozov is a beautifully written, provocative, and important book that will be widely read. Verhoeven demonstrates that Karakozov’s attempt on the life of Alexander II inaugurated a new form of modern terrorist political violence.” —Kevin M. F. Platt, University of Pennyslvania

On April 4, 1866, just as Alexander II stepped out of Saint Petersburg’s Summer Garden, a young man named Dmitry Karakozov pulled out a pistol and shot at the tsar. He missed, but his “unheard-of act” changed the course of Russian history—and gave birth to the revolutionary political violence known as terrorism. Based on clues pulled out of the pockets of Karakozov’s peasant disguise, investigators concluded that there had been a conspiracy so extensive as to have sprawled across the entirety of the Russian empire and the European continent. Karakozov was said to have been a member of “The Organization,” a socialist network at the center of which sat a secret cell of suicide-assassins: “Hell.” It is still unclear how much of this conspiracy theory was actually true, but of the thirty-six defendants who stood accused during what was Russia’s first modern political trial, all but a few were exiled to Siberia, and Karakozov himself was publicly hanged on September 3, 1866. Because Karakozov was decidedly strange, sick, and suicidal, his failed act of political violence has long been relegated to a footnote of Russian history. In The Odd Man Karakozov, however, Claudia Verhoeven argues that it is precisely this neglected, exceptional case that sheds new light on the origins of terrorism. In characterizing Karakozov’s as an essentially modernist crime, Verhoeven traces how his act affected Russian culture, including such touchstones as Repin’s art and Dostoevsky’s literature. By looking at the history that produced Karakozov and, in turn, the history that Karakozov produced, Verhoeven shows terrorism as a phenomenon inextricably linked to the foundations of the modern world: capitalism, enlightened law and scientific reason, ideology, technology, new media, and above all, people’s participation in politics and in the making of history. Claudia Verhoeven is Assistant Professor of Modern European History at George Mason University. MARCH, 248 pages, 16 halftones, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4652-8 $39.95s/£21.95 History/Russia 5 0

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Carole Levin and John Watkins “Carole Levin and John Watkins move beyond current debates about the status of early modern studies vis-à-vis historicism to offer an original and much-needed book that truly brings together the fields of literature and history.” —Rebecca Lemon, author of Treason by Words

In Shakespeare’s Foreign Worlds, Carole Levin and John Watkins focus on the relationship between the London-based professional theater associated with William Shakespeare and an unprecedented European experience of geographic, social, and intellectual mobility. Shakespeare’s plays bear the marks of exile and exploration, rural depopulation, urban expansion, and shifting mercantile and diplomatic configurations. He fills his plays with characters testing the limits of personal identity: foreigners, usurpers, outcasts, outlaws, scolds, shrews, witches, mercenaries, and cross-dressers. Through parallel discussions of Henry VI, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Merchant of Venice, Levin and Watkins argue that Shakespeare’s centrality to English national consciousness is inseparable from his creation of the foreign as a category asserting dangerous affinities between England’s internal minorities and its competitors. Levin is particularly interested in Shakespeare’s responses to marginalized sectors of English society. Watkins situates Shakespeare in the context of broadly European historical movements.Together they narrate the emergence of the foreign as a category that might be applied both to “strangers” from other countries and to native-born English men and women who resisted conformity to an increasingly narrow sense of English identity. Carole Levin is Willa Cather Professor of History at the University of Nebraska. She is the author of several books, including Dreaming the English Renaissance. John Watkins is Professor of English, Italian Studies, and Medieval Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is the author most recently of Representing Elizabeth in Stuart England. MAY, 232 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4741-9 $45.00s/£24.95 Literary Criticism

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Fictions of Embassy Literature and Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe

Milton and the Victorians Erik Gray

Timothy Hampton “Addressing topics both political and aesthetic, particularly those created by international relations in which the norm is negotiation rather than war, Fictions of Embassy illustrates important developments in early modern statecraft.” —Constance Jordan, Claremont Graduate University

Historians of early modern Europe have long stressed how new practices of diplomacy that emerged during the period transformed European politics. Fictions of Embassy is the first book to examine the cultural implications of the rise of modern diplomacy. Ranging across two and a half centuries and half a dozen languages, Timothy Hampton opens a new perspective on the intersection of literature and politics at the dawn of modernity. Hampton argues that literary texts use scenes of diplomatic negotiation to explore the relationship between politics and aesthetics, between the world of political rhetoric and the dynamics of literary form. The diplomatic encounter is a scene of cultural exchange and linguistic negotiation. Literary depictions of diplomacy offer occasions for reflection on the definition of genre, on the power of representation, on the limits of rhetoric, on the nature of fiction making itself. Conversely, discussions of diplomacy by jurists, political philosophers, and ambassadors deploy the tools of literary tradition to articulate new theories of political action. Hampton addresses these topics through a discussion of the major diplomatic writers between 1450 and 1700—Machiavelli, Grotius, Gentili, Guicciardini—and through detailed readings of literary works that address the same topics—works by Shakespeare, More, Rabelais, Montaigne, Tasso, Corneille, Racine, and Camoens. He demonstrates that the issues raised by diplomatic theorists helped shape the emergence of new literary forms, and that literature provides a lens through which we can learn to read the languages of diplomacy.

“The idea behind this gracefully written, very original book has something in common with the Milton it finds behind Victorian writers. Like the great poet by the middle of the nineteenth century, Gray’s topic is hidden in plain sight: obvious to the point where it has become practically invisible to literary history, and therefore all the more surprising when Gray draws it out of thin air and makes it present to critical consciousness. Gray possesses outstanding talents for the job he has undertaken—analytic ingenuity in close reading, a patient and well-stocked memory, an ear judicious in the detection of echoes that signify, and a light touch in setting them forth for literary-historical understanding.”—Herbert Tucker, University of Virginia

The Victorian period was a golden age for the study of Milton. Yet the influence of Milton on poetry, and on literature more generally, during the period is often obscure. Victorian writers rarely display the overt, self-conscious engagement with Milton that typified so much Romantic writing earlier in the nineteenth century. In Milton and the Victorians Erik Gray argues that this shift represents not a breach but an expansion: if Milton’s influence seems less remarkable than before, it is due not to his absence but to his pervasiveness. Through detailed consideration of works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, Matthew Arnold, Alfred Tennyson, and George Eliot, Gray shows how Victorian writers tended to draw upon the less sublime, more understated elements of Milton’s writings. In tracing the characteristically oblique influence of Milton on Victorian authors, Gray also draws attention to important aspects of Milton’s own work, notably the way it often depicts power being exerted indirectly. Gray thus proposes new and nuanced models of literary relations, while offering original and elegant readings both of Milton’s poetry and of major works of Victorian literature.

Timothy Hampton is Professor of French and holds the Bernie H. Williams Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Writing from History: The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Renaissance Literature and Literature and Nation in the Sixteenth Century: Inventing Renaissance France, both from Cornell.

Erik Gray is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of The Poetry of Indifference: From the Romantics to the Rubáiyát.

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Thinking through the Mothers Reimagining Women’s Biographies

A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism

Janet Beizer

Christopher Douglas

“Janet Beizer’s exploration of relationships both real and imagined between mothers and daughters, women and their feminist biographers and critics, is a wide-ranging meditation on the possibilities and difficulties of recuperating past lives, especially those veiled in obscurity, either through the repressions of patriarchy or through a determined stance of secrecy on the part of the subject herself.”—Rosemary Lloyd, author of Shimmering in a Transformed Light

As an anthropology student studying with Franz Boas, Zora Neale Hurston recorded African American folklore, studied voodoo, talked with the last ex-slave to survive the Middle Passage, and collected music. Her ethnographic work would serve as the basis for her novels and other writings.

If questions of subjectivity and identification are at stake in all biographical writing, they are particularly trenchant for contemporary women biographers of women. Often, their efforts to exhume buried lives in hope of finding spiritual foremothers awaken maternal phantoms that must be embraced or confronted. Do women writing in fact have any greater access to their own mothers’ lives than to the lives of other women whose stories have been swept away like dust in the debris of the past? In Thinking through the Mothers, Janet Beizer surveys modern women’s biographies and contemplates alternatives to an approach based in lineage and the form of thought that emphasizes the line, the path, hierarchy, unity, resemblance, reflection, and the aesthetic— mimesis—that depends on these ideas. Through close readings of memoirs and fictions about mothers, Beizer explores how biographers of the women who came before rehearse and rewrite relationships to their own mothers biographically as they seek to appropriate the past in a hybrid genre she calls “bio-autography.” Thinking through the Mothers features the work of George Sand and Colette and spans such varied figures as Gustave Flaubert, Julian Barnes, Louise Colet, Eunice Lipton, Vladimir Nabokov, Huguette Bouchardeau, and Christa Wolf. Beizer seeks an alternative to women’s “salvation biography” or “resurrection biography” that might resist nostalgia, be attentive to silence, and reinvent the means to represent the lives of precursors without appropriating traditional models of genealogy.

In A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism, Christopher Douglas uncovers the largely unacknowledged role played by ideas from sociology and anthropology in nourishing the politics and forms of minority writers from diverse backgrounds. Douglas divides the history of multicultural writing in the United States into three periods. The first, which spans the 1920s and 1930s, features minority writers such as Hurston and D’Arcy McNickle, who were indebted to the work of Boas and his attempts to detach culture from race. The second period, from 1940 to the mid-1960s, was a time of assimilation and integration, as seen in the work of authors such as Richard Wright, Jade Snow Wong, John Okada, and Ralph Ellison, who were influenced by currents in sociological thought. The third period focuses on the writers we associate with contemporary literary multiculturalism, including Toni Morrison, N. Scott Momaday, Frank Chin, Ishmael Reed, and Gloria Anzaldúa. Douglas shows that these more recent writers advocated a literary nationalism that was based on a modified Boasian anthropology and that laid the pluralist grounds for our current conception of literary multiculturalism. Ultimately, Douglas’s “unified field theory” of multicultural literature brings together divergent African American, Asian American, Mexican American, and Native American literary traditions into one story: of how we moved from thinking about groups as races to thinking about groups as cultures—and then back again.

Janet Beizer is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University and the author of Ventriloquized Bodies: Narratives of Hysteria in NineteenthCentury France, also from Cornell, and Family Plots: Balzac’s Narrative Generations.

Christopher Douglas is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria. He is the author of Reciting America: Culture and Cliché in Contemporary American Fiction.

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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 The Manual of Leaf Architecture is an essential reference for describing, comparing, and classifying the leaves of flowering plants. This manual, illustrated with dozens of line drawings and more than 300 photographs of prepared stained leaves, provides a framework with comparative examples allowing consistent and detailed description of both modern and fossil leaves. This one-of-a-kind resource will be invaluable to a broad range of people who work with plants, from paleobotanists to systematists to tropical ecologists. The Manual allows for the description and identification of plants independently of their flowers, offering especially useful assistance in the case of fossil leaves (usually found in isolation) and tropical plants, whose flowering cycles can be brief and irregular, and whose fruits and flowers may be difficult to access. It provides long-needed guidelines for characterizing the organization, shape, venation, and margins of the leaves of flowering plants. Beginning with a set of illustrated definitions of leaf characters, this manual proceeds to define and illustrate the variations on each of these characters. The system presented here is based on a widely tested scheme that has been significantly expanded and refined through the detailed examination of thousands of living and fossil leaves Beth Ellis is a research scientist at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Douglas C. Daly is Director of the Institute of Systematic Botany at the New York Botanical Garden. Leo J. Hickey is a Professor and Curator in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Yale University. Kirk R. Johnson is Vice President of Research and Collections and Chief Curator at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. John D. Mitchell is a Research Fellow at the New York Botanical Garden. Peter Wilf is Associate Professor of Geosciences at Pennsylvania State University. Scott L. Wing is Research Scientist and Curator in the Department of Paleobiology at the Smithsonian Institution. A COMSTOCK BOOK Published in association with The New York Botanical Garden

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Seedlings of Barro Colorado Island and the Neotropics Nancy C. Garwood Illustrated by Margaret Tebbs Foreword by Robin B. Foster Knowledge of seedling ecology is essential for understanding the local abundance, distribution, and dynamics of individual species and plant populations, for deciphering the mechanisms responsible for the high species diversity in tropical forests, and for developing sound management and conservation plans for tropical forests. In this monumental work of botany, Nancy C. Garwood provides the first comprehensive guide to seedlings in the American tropics, using Barro Colorado Island in Panama as an emblematic locale. The review of Neotropical seedlings from 229 plant families is the heart of the book. Descriptions summarize information from 1,243 genera gleaned from accounts of nearly 3,000 species. Families of all major Neotropical woody plants are covered, as well as those that are mostly herbs, aquatic species, parasites and saprophytes. This is the largest compendium of information on tropical seedlings published to date. This guide to the seedling flora of Barro Colorado Island includes illustrations of and keys to 775 species of forest trees, shrubs, lianas, vines, herbs, epiphytes, hemiepiphytes, and “weedy” plants typical of forest margins and clearings. All genera and 75 percent of the species covered occur broadly across the Neotropics. There are numerous illustrated examples for the family accounts and key characters needed to identify dicot and monocot seedlings are also described and illustrated, supplemented with an illustrated glossary of descriptive terms. Paired with superb and intricate illustrations by Margaret Tebbs, arranged in 255 plates, Garwood’s work enables tropical ecologists, botanists, and systematists to identify Neotropical seedlings that have not yet developed the diagnostic characteristics of the parent plants. Nancy C. Garwood is Adjunct Professor of Plant Biology at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Margaret Tebbs is a freelance botanical illustrator. Robin B. Foster is Adjunct Curator of Vascular Plants and Conservation Ecologist in the Environmental and Conservation Programs at the Field Museum. A COMSTOCK BOOK Published in association with the Natural History Museum, London

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Snakes Ecology and Conservation Edited by Stephen J. Mullin and Richard A. Seigel Destruction of habitat due to urban sprawl, pollution, and deforestation has caused population declines or even extinction of many of the world’s approximately 2,600 snake species. Furthermore, misconceptions about snakes have made them among the most persecuted of all animals, despite the fact that less than a quarter of all species are venomous and most species beneficially control rodent pests. It has become increasingly urgent, therefore, to develop viable conservation strategies for snakes and to investigate their importance as monitors of ecosystem health and indicators of habitat sustainability.

“Snakes: Ecology and Conservation is an important and excellent book. The choice of topics is timely and each chapter offers something novel.” —Harry W. Greene, author of Snakes: The Evolution of Mystery in Nature

Stephen J. Mullin is Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at Eastern Illinois University. Richard A. Seigel is Professor and Chair of Biological Sciences at Towson University and the author or editor of several books, including Snakes: Ecology and Behavior, Snakes: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and The Garter Snakes: Evolution and Ecology. A COMSTOCK BOOK

In the first book on snakes written with a focus on conservation, editors Stephen J. Mullin and Richard A. Seigel bring together leading herpetologists to review and synthesize the ecology, conservation, and management of snakes worldwide. These experts report on advances in current research and summarize the primary literature, presenting the most important concepts and techniques in snake ecology and conservation. The common thread of conservation unites the twelve chapters, each of which addresses a major subdiscipline within ecology. Applied topics such as methods and modeling and strategies such as captive rearing and translocation are also covered. Each chapter provides an essential framework and indicates specific directions for future research, making this a critical reference for anyone interested in vertebrate conservation generally or for anyone implementing conservation and management policies concerning snake populations. C ontributors Omar Attum, Indiana University Southeast • Steven J. Beaupre, University of Arkansas • Xavier Bonnet, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique • Frank T. Burbrink, College of Staten Island–The City University of New York • Gordon M. Burghardt, University of Tennessee • Todd A. Castoe, University of Colorado • David Chiszar, University of Colorado • Michael E. Dorcas, Davidson College • Lara E. Douglas, University of Arkansas • Christopher L. Jenkins, Project Orianne, Ltd. • Glenn Johnson, State University of New York at Potsdam • Michael Hutchins, The Wildlife Society • Richard B. King, Northern Illinois University • Bruce A. Kingsbury, Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne • Thomas Madsen, University of Wollongong (Australia) • Stephen J. Mullin, Eastern Illinois University • James B. Murphy, National Zoological Park • Charles R. Peterson, Idaho State University • Kent A. Prior, Parks Canada • Richard A. Seigel, Towson University • Richard Shine, University of Sydney • Kevin T. Shoemaker, College of Environmental Science and Forestry–State University of New York • Patrick J. Weatherhead, University of Illinois • John D. Willson, University of Georgia

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Dependent Communities offers a searing analysis of contemporary international aid strategies based on the author’s years of fieldwork in Cambodia and East Timor.

Caroline Hughes is Associate Professor of Governance Studies at Murdoch University, Australia; a fellow of the Murdoch Asia Research Centre; and an advisor to the Cambodia Development Resource Institute in Phnom Penh. She is the author of The Political Economy of Cambodia’s Transition and UNTAC in Cambodia: The Impact on Human Rights, and the coeditor of Conflict and Change in Cambodia. FEBRUARY, 240 pages, illustrations, 7 x 10 Cloth ISBN 978-0-87727-778-1 $46.95x/£25.95 Paper ISBN 978-0-87727-748-4 $23.95x/£13.50 Cambodia and Indonesia | Politics | Contemporary History

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In her study of these two cases, Hughes demonstrates that the clientelist strategies of Hun Sen, Cambodia’s postwar leader, have created a shadow network of elites and their followers that has been comparatively effective in serving the country’s villages, even though so often coercive and corrupt. East Timor’s postwar leaders, on the other hand, have alienated voters by attempting to follow the guidelines of the donors closely and ignoring the immediate needs and voices of the people.

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Dependent Communities investigates the political situations in contemporary Cambodia and East Timor, where powerful international donors intervened following deadly civil conflicts. This comparative analysis critiques international 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— groups whose interests frequently conflict.

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Phan Châu Trinh (1872–1926) was the earliest proponent of democracy and popular rights in Vietnam. Throughout his life, he favored a moderate approach to political change and advised the country’s leaders to seek gradual progress for Vietnam within the French colonial system. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he did not favor anti-French military alliances or insurgent military resistance, arguing that “to depend on foreign help is foolish and to resort to violence is self-destructive.” This collection offers translations of four of his most significant works: “The New Vietnam,” “Letter to Emperor Khải Định,” “Morality and Ethics,” and “Monarchy and Democracy.” The first two texts were written in literary Chinese and the other two in quốc ngữ style. As a result of his exposure to Chinese reformist literature, Phan Châu Trinh assigned top priority to promoting democracy and human rights and to improving Vietnamese people’s lives. He believed that true independence could only be achieved by changing the Vietnamese political culture, and he articulated penetrating criticism of the corruption and superficiality of Vietnam’s officials. His emphasis on changing the fundamental values governing the ruling class’s behavior, as well as his skepticism regarding anticolonial resistance, set Phan Châu Trinh apart from his contemporaries and mark him as a true revolutionary. Sinh Vinh’s masterly introduction to Phan Châu Trinh’s essays illuminates both this turbulent era and the courageous intelligence of the author.

Sinh Vinh is a Professor in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta. FEBRUARY, 152 pages, 4 illustrations, 7 x 10 Cloth ISBN 978-0-87727-779-8 $41.95x/£22.50 Paper ISBN 978-0-87727-749-1 $20.95x/£11.50 Vietnam | Politics | Translation 5 6

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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/£25.95 Paper ISBN 978-0-87727-745-3 $23.95x/£13.50 Indonesia | Politics | Contemporary History

At the Edge of the Forest

Essays on Cambodia, History, and Narrative in Honor of David Chandler 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/£25.95 Paper ISBN 978-0-87727-746-0 $23.95x/£12.50 Cambodia | Anthropology | Contemporary History P R E S S

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A Man Like Him

Portrait of the Burmese Journalist, Journal Kyaw U Chit Maung Journal Kyaw Ma Ma Lay Translated by Ma Thanegi

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Fiction by Muslim Filipinos Edited by Coeli Barry

Copublished with Anvil Publishing, Inc., Philippines. 2008, 216 pages, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-87727-606-7 $40.95x/£22.95 USA Paper ISBN 978-0-87727-605-0 $19.95x/£10.95 USA Philippines | Literary Studies

Early Southeast Asia Selected Essays

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/£25.95 Paper ISBN 978-0-87727-743-9 $23.95x/£13.50 Southeast Asia | History

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2008, 205 pages, 4 illustrations, 7 x 10 Cloth ISBN 978-0-87727-777-4 $46.95x/£25.95 Paper ISBN 978-0-87727-747-7 $23.95x/£12.50 Burma | Autobiography | Translation

This landmark collection brings together a range of short fiction written by Muslim Filipinos over nearly seven decades, beginning in the 1940s.

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The story of eight years in the brief life of Journal Kyaw U Chit Maung, a courageous Burmese journalist and editor. His political analyses helped guide the nation during a turbulent era marked by internal struggles to establish a democracy independent of Britain in the late 1930s and the Japanese Occupation of the 1940s.

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Christoforo Borri on Cochinchina and Samuel Baron on Tonkin Edited and annotated by Olga Dror and K. W. Taylor This volume introduces two of the earliest writings about Vietnam to appear in the English language. The reports come from narrators who are viewing different parts of Vietnam at an early stage of European involvement in the region. 2006, 290 pages, 4 maps, 13 line drawings (plates), 7 x 10 Cloth ISBN 978-0-87727-771-2 $46.95x/£32.50 Paper ISBN 978-0-87727-741-5 $23.95x/£16.50 Vietnam | History | Translation

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Friends and Exiles

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Des Alwi Edited by Barbara S. Harvey

The Politics of Despotic Paternalism Revised Edition In 1958, Marshal Sarit Thanarat became prime minister of Thailand following a bloodless coup. This book offers a comprehensive study of Sarit’s paternalistic, militaristic regime, which laid the foundations for Thailand’s support of the US military campaign in Southeast Asia. 2007, 284 pages, 46 photographs, 17 tables, 1 map, 1 diagram, 7 x 10 Cloth ISBN 978-0-87727-772-9 $46.95x/£32.50 Paper ISBN 978-0-87727-742-2 $23.95x/£16.50 Thailand | Politics

A Memoir of the Nutmeg Isles and the Indonesian Nationalist Movement

Des Alwi tells of his childhood on the eastern Indonesian island of Banda, where he was befriended and adopted by the two nationalist leaders, Mohammad Hatta and Sutan Sjahrir. He describes his experiences during the Japanese Occupation and his involvement in the underground struggle for Independence. 2008, 172 pages, 21 illustrations, 7 x 10 Cloth ISBN 978-0-87727-774-3 $41.95x/£23.50 Paper ISBN 978-0-87727-744-6 $20.95x/£11.50 Indonesia | Autobiography | History

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Mediumship in Contemporary Vietnamese Communities

Essays examining the resurgence of the Mother Goddess religion among contemporary Vietnamese following the economic “Renovation” period in Vietnam. Anthropologists explore the forces that compel individuals to become mediums and the social repercussions of their decisions. 2006, 194 pages, 17 photographs, 1 table, 7 x 10 Cloth ISBN 978-0-87727-171-0 $41.95x/£28.95 Paper ISBN 978-0-87727-141-3 $20.95x/£14.50 Vietnam | Religion

The Memoirs of Mrs. Nguyễn Thị Định Seventh Printing

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Southern Vietnam in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Li Tana

The memoir of a woman whose strength, courage, and intelligence had a profound impact on Vietnamese histor y. Mrs. Nguyễn Thị Định was an active leader against the Diệm regime, was appointed to the leadership committee of the National Liberation Front (NLF), and served as Chairman of the South Vietnam Women’s Liberation Association. 1998, 108 pages, 3 photographs, 1 map, 7 x 10 Paper ISBN 978-0-87727-102-4 $13.95x/£9.50 Vietnam | Autobiography | Translation

In this historical reassessment of southern Vietnam and its distinct culture, Li Tana illuminates the resourceful qualities of the Đáng Trong pioneers, develops a meticulous analysis of the Nguyễn trade and taxation systems, and, in the process, redefines the chief cause of the Tây Sơn rebellion. 1998, 194 pages, 2 maps, 20 tables, 3 diagrams, 7 x 10 Paper ISBN 978-0-87727-722-4 $23.95x/£16.50 Vietnam | History

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Spirited Politics

Religion and Public Life in Contemporary Southeast Asia Edited by Andrew C. Willford and Kenneth M. George

2005, 210 pages, 11 photographs, 7 x 10 Paper ISBN 978-0-87727-737-8 $23.95x/£16.50 Southeast Asia | Religion | Politics

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Choi Byung Wook

Written in the 1930s, this book reports and expands on the author’s meetings with North Vietnamese women who had made an “industry” of marrying European men. It is notable for its sharp observations, pointed humor, and unconventional mix of nonfictional and fictional narration, as well as its attention to voice.

Central Policies and Local Response

Covering material from Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines, these essays explore the calamities and ironies of Southeast Asian identity politics, examining the ways in which religion and politics are made to serve each other.

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This study of nineteenth-century Vietnam focuses on interactions between the Vietnamese king, Minh Mạng, and the heterogeneous southern region of the country, which he sought to bring more firmly under state control through a series of polices intended to “Vietnamize” the populace and unite north and south. 2004, 232 pages, 11 photographs, 2 maps, 12 tables, 7 x 10 Paper ISBN 978-0-87727-138-3 $20.95x/£14.50 Vietnam | History

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VŨ Tro . ng Phu.ng Translated by Thúy Tranviet

2006, 74 pages, 7 x 10 Cloth ISBN 978-0-87727-170-3 $20.95x/£14.50 Paper ISBN 978-0-87727-140-6 $13.95x/£9.50 Vietnam | History | Translation

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Laskar Jihad

Islam, Militancy, and the Quest for Identity in Post-New Order Indonesia

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Violence and the State in Suharto’s Indonesia

Sebastiaan Pompe

Edited and with an Introduction by Benedict R. O’G. Anderson

A Study of Institutional Collapse

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2006, 274 pages, 1 map, 15 photographs, 1 diagram, 7 x 10 Cloth ISBN 978-0-87727-770-5 $46.95x/£32.50 Paper ISBN 978-0-87727-740-8 $23.95x/£16.50 Indonesia | Politics | Contemporary History

2005, 494 pages, 21 photographs, 4 tables, 4 diagrams, 7 x 10 Cloth ISBN 978-0-87727-739-2 $62.95x/£43.50 Paper ISBN 978-0-87727-738-5 $31.95x/£21.95 Indonesia | Politics | Contemporary History

2001, 248 pages, 1 map, 7 x 10 Paper ISBN 978-0-87727-729-3 $23.95x/£16.50 Indonesia | Politics | Contemporary History

Southeast Asia over Three Generations

History, Culture, and Region in Southeast Asian Perspectives

Fear and Sanctuary

These essays investigate institutionalized violence in New Order Indonesia and the ongoing legacy Suharto’s dictatorship has conferred on the nation. The collection includes papers on East Timor, Aceh, Biak, the police, and the Indonesian military, among other topics.

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Since the fall of Indonesian president Suharto, a major focus of the country’s reformers has been the corrupt and inefficient judicial system. Within the context of a history of the Supreme Court in postindependence Indonesia, Sebastiaan Pompe analyzes the causes of the judiciary’s failure over the last five decades.

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An in-depth study of the militant Islamic Laskar Jihad movement and its links to international Muslim networks and ideological debates. This analysis is grounded in extensive research and interviews with Salafi leaders and activists who supported jihad throughout the Moluccas.

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Revised Edition

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O. W. Wolters

In honor of Benedict Anderson’s profound contributions to the field, the editors have collected essays from a number of the many scholars who studied with him. These articles deal with the literature, politics, history, and culture of Southeast Asia. 2003, 398 pages, 7 photographs, 8 drawings, 3 tables, 2 maps, 7 x 10 Paper ISBN 978-0-87727-735-4 $27.95x/£19.50 Southeast Asia

A new edition of this classic study of mandala Southeast Asia. The revised book includes a substantial, retrospective postscript examining contemporary scholarship that has contributed to the understanding of Southeast Asian history since 1982. 1999, 275 pages, 1 map, 7 x 10 Paper ISBN 978-0-87727-725-5 $22.95x/£15.95 Southeast Asia | History

Burmese Refugees in Thailand Hazel J. Lang An examination of the plight of the refugees of Burma’s protracted civil war, many of whom have fled across the border into Thailand. This study looks at the changing nature of the refugee situation and the responses of the parties involved, including the United Nations, the refugees themselves, and governments in both Bangkok and Rangoon. 2002, 240 pages, 7 x 10 Paper ISBN 978-0-87727-731-6 $23.95x/£16.50 Burma and Thailand | Contemporary History

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Musical Form, Forms & Formenlehre Three Methodological Reflections

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William E. Caplin, James Hepokoski, and James Webster Edited by Pieter BErgé In Musical Form, Forms & Formenlehre, three eminent music theorists reflect on 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 and Pastoral Symphony, Egmont Overture, and Die Ruinen von Athen Overture). 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 a basic 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 reply to the comments, and to further refine his own fundamental ideas on musical form.

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Fluid Flesh The Body, Religion and the Visual Arts Edited by Barbara Baert How do we relate the body we have and the bodies we see to the mind, or to the soul? Fluid Flesh addresses the relationship between the body, religion, and the visual arts, which is one of both love and tension. Are we able (and allowed) to think of the divine in a corporeal way? Isn’t artistic expression, which originated from both the human mind and body, intrinsically a bodily matter?  Featuring an introduction from James Elkins, Fluid Flesh covers an array of topics including the visual as a spiritual medium today; iconophilia and iconoclasm in the past and present; the human body, religion and contemporary lifestyles; and premodern and postmodern perspectives on anatomy and the visual arts. Several authors address the presentation of the human form in Christian art and ask whether the body may be present in religious art even without figuration. The authors highlight the intertwined and powerful roles of both the image and the body within a contemporary culture that has seemingly devalued language (in favor of the image) and has renewed a “sinful” conception of the body as in constant need of improvement. of

interest This book examines a recurrent question in recent literature on the use of the photographic medium in contemporary art. It is concerned with the multiformity of ways the photograph manifests itself in diverse artistic practices today and with the consequences of this situation for photography’s critical potential. Central to this discussion is the question whether photography has a hybrid or chameleonic character because it can be part of entirely different mixed-media works of art. Furthermore, issues are raised such as if the photo-image nowadays mainly serves as a useful tool to make a renewed kind of ‘tableaux’, often marked by a rather noncommittal and ‘poetic’ visual imagery. When photographic practices aim at raising a critical debate on the internal workings of the artistic system itself or on broader social problems, is the photograph then able to distinguish itself from a merely ‘political’ statement or a pamphlet? A distinguished variety of authors, all specialists in the field of contemporary photography, offer their viewpoints on this debate.

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Surrealism in Belgium

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Barbara Baert is Professor in Medieval Art and Iconology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. She is the founder of the Iconology Research Group, LeuvenUtrecht (www.iconologyresearchgroup. org). Lieven Gevaert Series Volume 8

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The Critical Position of the Photographic Medium in Contemporary Art Hilde Van Gelder is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the K.U.Leuven. Her research concentrates on postwar art and photography

C ontributors Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for MuslimChristian Understanding and Georgetown University • Barbara Baert, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven • Ralph Dekoninck, Université Catholique de Louvain • Jan De Maeyer, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven • Renaat Devisch, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven • James Elkins, School of the Art Institute of Chicago • Jan Koenot, Faculty of Philosophy of the Centre Sèvres, Paris • Ann-Sophie Lehmann, Utrecht University • Regina Ammicht Quinn, University of Tübingen • Catrien Santing, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen • Hilde Van Gelder, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

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The Transformation of the Christian Churches in Western Europe (1945–2000) Edited by Leo Kenis, Jaak Billiet, and Patrick Pasture

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Research continues to show that the Christian religion is gradually disappearing from the public, cultural, and social spheres in Western Europe. Even on the individual level, institutionalized religion is becoming increasingly marginalized. New forms of religious life and community, however, may point toward a resurgence of Christian churches in postmodern Europe. This book focuses on the complex transformations Christian churches in Western Europe have undergone since World War II. C ontributors Jaak Billiet, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven • André Birmelé, Université Marc Bloch–Strasbourg • Jon Butler, Yale University • Bart Cambré, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven • Philippe Chenaux, Pontificia Universitas Lateranensis • Wilhelm Damberg, Ruhr-Universität Bochum • Karel Dobbelaere, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven • Etienne Fouilloux, Université Lyon 2, France • Jan Grootaers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven • Gerd-Rainer Horn, University of Warwick • Anton Houtepen, Universiteit Utrecht • Anne-Marie Korte, Universiteit Utrecht • Hugh McLeod, University of Birmingham • Patrick Pasture, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven • Joachim Schmiedl, Philosophische-Theologische Hochschule Vallendar • Hans Ucko, World Council of Churches • Johan Verstraeten, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven • Liliane Voyé, U.C. Louvain • Lodewijk Winkeler, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

Leo Kenis is Professor in History of Church and Theology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Jaak Billiet is Emeritus Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He is a member of the central coordination team of the European Social Survey. Patrick Pasture is Associate Professor in History at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, where he coordinates the research unit Modernity & Society 1800–2000 (MoSa). Kadoc Studies on Religion, Culture and Society 6

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The Maritain Factor Taking Religion into Interwar Modernism Edited by Rajesh Heynickx and Jan De Maeyer By studying the reception and perception of the French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain, this book argues that European modernist artists and intellectuals sought a primordial finality in Catholicism. The French poet, writer, and surrealist filmmaker Jean Cocteau converted under the influence of Maritain. For the painters Gino Severini, a pioneer of Futurism, and Otto Van Rees, one of the first Dadaists—both converts— Maritain played the role of spiritual counselor. And when the promoter of abstract art Michel Seuphor embraced Catholic faith in the 1930s, he, too, had extensive contact with Maritain. For all of them, the dictum of the Irish poet Brian Coffey, once a doctoral student under Maritain, applied: modern art needs a Thomist conceptual framework. However, the contributions in The Maritain Factor also show that, besides admiration, Maritain provoked irritation with his theories. Walter Benjamin for example, could only look at Maritain as a charlatan who was out to place modern art under the glass bell jar of Catholicism. The authors demonstrate that Catholic thought was not just one aspect of the manifold varieties of modernist discourses and practices, but in fact offered a basis to organize and structure this multiplicity in the 1920s and 1930s. C ontributors Philippe Chenaux, Pontifical Lateran University, Rome • Jan De Maeyer, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven • Michael Einfalt, Universität Freiburg • Jason Harding, University of Durham • Rajesh Heynickx, Universiteit Antwerpen and Sint-Lucas Brussel-Gent • Zoë Marie Jones, Duke University • Ewoud Kieft, Dutch Institute for War Documentation in Amsterdam (NIOD) and Universiteit Utrecht • Mathijs Sanders, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen • Stephen Schloesser, Boston College and Weston Jesuit School of Theology • Stéphane Symons, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven • Cécile Vanderpelen-Diagre, Université Libre de Bruxelles • James Matthew Wilson, University of Notre Dame

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NEW SERIES— Studies in Archaeological Sciences Editor-in-Chief Patrick Degryse Centre for Archaeological Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven E-mail: [email protected] Editorial Board Ian Freestone, Cardiff University Carl Knappett, University of Toronto Andrew Shortland, Cranfield University, UK Manuel Sintubin, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Marc Waelkens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

The series Studies in Archaeological Sciences presents state-of-the-art methodological, technical, and material science contributions to Archaeological Sciences. The series aims to reconstruct the integrated story of human and material culture through time and testifies to the necessity of inter- and multidisciplinary research in cultural heritage studies. Studies in Archaeological Sciences aims to publish at least one volume a year and accepts monographs as well as coherent edited volumes in English. Contributions should be set up to be a specialist reference work for a broad audience of academic readers in fields such as Archaeology, Archaeological Sciences, History, Conservation, and Cultural Heritage Studies and Museum Sciences. Manuscripts should be 80,000 to 120,000 words in length and may include graphs and tables in black-and-white. All contributions are submitted to international peer review. The editors would be interested to receive proposals. To submit a proposal, please contact Prof. Patrick Degryse (Editor-in-Chief) or one of the editorial board members.

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Humanistica Lovaniensia Journal of Neo-Latin Studies (Volume LVII) Editorial Board: Gilbert Tournoy, Dirk Sacré, Monique Mund-Dopchie, and Jan Papy Humanistica Lovaniensia: Journal of Neo-Latin Studies, published annually, is the leading journal in the field of medieval, Renaissance, and modern Latin. As well as presenting articles on Neo-Latin topics, the journal is a major source for critical editions of Neo-Latin texts with translations and commentaries. Its systematic bibliography of Neo-Latin studies (Instrumentum bibliographicum Neolatinum), accompanied by critical notes, is the standard annual bibliography of publications in the field. The journal is fully indexed. Gilbert Tournoy is Professor of Classical, Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Dirk Sacré is Professor of Latin and Neo-Latin at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Monique Mund-Dopchie is Professor of Ancient Greek literature and History of Humanism at the Université catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve). Jan Papy is Research Professor of Neo-Latin Literature and Renaissance Humanism at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

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Spanish Humanism on the Verge of the Picaresque Juan Maldonado’s Ludus Chartarum, Pastor Bonus and Bacchanalia Edited with introduction, translation, and notes by Warren S. Smith and Clark Colahan The sixteenth-century humanist Juan Maldonado in his Latin essays foreshadows the Spanish picaresque. Maldonado’s Pastor Bonus, a lengthy open letter to a bishop, reviews in a vivid and satirical style the abuses of the churchmen in his diocese. His Ludus chartarum is framed as a colloquium on entertaining while teaching a Latin terminology for card playing. His Bacchanalia is a spirited play pitting the forces of Lent against those of Bacchus. These works have been edited and translated into English by Warren S. Smith and Clark Colahan for the first time, with illustrations of scenes from each work, and of sixteenth-century cards, by Richard Simmons and Caleb Smith. Warren S. Smith is Professor of Classical Languages at the University of New Mexico. Clark Colahan is Anderson Professor of Humanities and Professor of Spanish at Whitman College. SUPPLEMENTA HUMANISTICA LOVANIENSIA 24

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Syncategoremata Henrico de Gandavo adscripta Edited by H. A. G. Braakhuis, Girard J. Etzkorn, and Gordon Wilson With a Critical Study by H. A. G. Braakhuis The Stadsbibliotheek of Brugge houses a manuscript (ms. 510, f. 227ra- 237vb) that holds a short logical text on the Syncategoremata. In this manuscript the text is ascribed to Henry of Ghent, who was a leading thinker of the second half of the thirteenth century. If Henry wrote the text, he had much more technical knowledge of logic and semantics than is often imagined. The text was influenced by the logical works of Peter of Spain. H. A. G. Braakhuis is Professor Emeritus of the History of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at University of Nijmegen. Girard J. Etzkorn was, prior to his retirement in 1995, a Research Professor at St. Bonaventure University’s Franciscan Institute. Gordon Wilson is NEH Distinguished Professor at University of North Carolina at Asheville. This series is available on standing order. To sign up for a subscription to this series, contact Diane Marlette at [email protected]. Ancient and Medieval Philosophy—series 2 – 37

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Francisci de Marchia Quaestiones in secundum librum sententiarum (Reportatio) Quaestiones 1–12 Edited by Tiziana Suarez-Nani, William O. Duba, E. Babey, and Girard J. Etzkorn The texts edited in this volume all deal with creation, and investigate such central philosophical and theological issues as action, production, and causality, being and nothingness, the nature of time, God’s relation to the world, and the distinction between God’s creation and God’s conservation of the world. Throughout these twelve questions, Marchia challenges the ideas of some of the later Middle Ages’ best minds.

Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse Syntaxis Joop van der Horst

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In this unparallelled reference work Joop van der Horst, professor of Dutch Linguistics at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, offers an in-depth study of the historical development of Dutch syntax. In a clear and structured manner, Van der Horst describes the changing forms of sentences from the earliest known texts (Wachtendonckse Psalmen, Williram) to present-day Dutch usage. Each stage of development is meticulously documented with quotations and sample sentences (all with source acknowledgments), to show which constructions characterize each period.

Francis of Marchia (born ca. 1290) was a highly innovative thinker. Recent work has highlighted facets of his philosophical theology, natural philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics that show his creativity and deserve more study. A lively discussion of aspects of Marchia’s thought can be traced in the second quarter of the fourteenth century, but because Marchia’s works are for the most part unprinted, scholars have been hampered in their efforts to reconstruct his thought, let alone trace its influence. This new series of critical editions of Francis of Marchia’s most important works will go a long way to improving that situation.

Ancient and Medieval Philosophy series 3 Francisci de Marchia Opera Philosophica et Theologica, volume ii, 1

Joop van der Horst is professor of Dutch Linguistics at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. His earlier publications include Kleine Middelnederlandse syntaxis, Analytische taalkunde, Geschiedenis van het Nederlands in de 20ste eeuw, Inleiding Oudnederlands, and Het einde van de standaardtaal: Een wisseling van Europese taalcultuur.

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The two-volume bound set is divided into seven “books,” each of which describes a different period in the development of the Dutch language: Oudnederlands (Old Dutch), Middelnederlands (Middle Dutch) 1200–1350, Middelnederlands (Middle Dutch) 1350–1500, sixteenth century, seventeenth century, eighteenth century, and nineteenth century to the present. Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse syntaxis is an indispensable reference for anybody interested in the roots of the Dutch language.

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