Cornell University Press Spring 2010 Catalog

Cornell University Press

Spring 2010

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General Interest Academic Trade New Paperbacks Political Science Urban Studies Labor Sociology | Anthropology Literature History Medieval Studies

34 Cutting, Lore of an Adirondack County

January 33 Atwill, Rhetoric Reclaimed 35 Clapp, Toxic Exports 43 Frazier, Socialist Insecurity 48 Galvan, The Sympathetic Medium 61 Harrison and Jackson, eds., The Ambiguous Allure of the West (Cornell Southeast Asia Program Publications) 50 Heidecker, The Divorce of Lothar II 32 Heringman, Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology 31 McCall, Citizens of Somewhere Else 37 Mearsheimer, Liddell Hart and the Weight of History 46 Morgen, Acker, and Weigt, Stretched Thin 20 Palan, Murphy, and Chavagneux, Tax Havens 51 Pinnow, Lost to the Collective 33 Roberts, The Jeweled Style 32 Saint-Amour, The Copywrights 36 Segal, Digital Dragon 37 Wark, The Ultimate Enemy 35 Yetiv, Crude Awakenings 16 Zaretsky, Albert Camus

14 Gorn, The Manly Art, Updated Edition 24 Gross, A Shameful Business 43 Hertog, Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats 55, 57–60 Leuven University Press books distributed by Cornell University Press in North America 38 Thompson, Channels of Power

March 34 Becker, Cornell University 51 Bren, The Greengrocer and His TV 45 Christensen and Schneider, eds., Workplace Flexibility

Slavic Studies European History U.S. History/Regional Back in Print Leuven University Press Southeast Asia Studies Program Recent Award Winners Sales, Rights, and Ordering Information 69 Indexes

44 Baum, Brown in Baltimore

42 Dür, Protection for Exporters

31 Bodenheimer, Knowing Dickens

34 Ellis, Landlords and Farmers in the Hudson-Mohawk Region, 1790–1850

30 Gaposchkin, The Making of Saint Louis

40 Henry, Red to Green 11 Jervis, Why Intelligence Fails 1 Khan, Enlightening the World 45 Milkman, Bloom, and Narro, eds., Working for Justice 47 Samuels, Deep Skin 34 Zinn, LaGuardia in Congress

April 42 Abdelal, Blyth, and Parsons, eds., Constructing the International Economy 18 Bergstein, Mirrors of Memory 2 Del Tredici, Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast 12 Gordon, ed., When Chicken Soup Isn’t Enough 40 Greenhill, Weapons of Mass Migration 44 Imbroscio, Urban America Reconsidered 33 Kekes, The Enlargement of Life 22 Kroenig, Exporting the Bomb 37 Lind, Sorry States 50 Livingstone, Out of Love for My Kin

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25 Macgregor, Habits of the Heartland 29 Malloy, Atomic Tragedy 13 March, The Ambiguities of Experience 30 Norton, Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures 48 Stalnaker, The Unfinished Enlightenment 5 Tingay and Katzner, eds., The Eagle Watchers

May 36 Aldrich, Site Fights 21 Andreas and Greenhill, Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts

38 Edelstein, Occupational Hazards 41 Hatch, Asia’s Flying Geese 47 Herman, Royal Poetrie 8 Jenkins, Climate Change in the Adirondacks 28 Kitamura, Screening Enlightenment 52 Lauzon, Signs of Light 56 Lyotard, Sam Francis, Lesson of Darkness (Leuven University Press) 17 Nickell, The Death of Tolstoy 6 Reid, Leenders, Zook, and Dean, The Wildlife of Costa Rica 39 Risse, A Community of Europeans? 19 Schweizer, The Sungod’s Journey through the Netherworld 49 Urang, Legal Tender 46 Zhang, In Search of Paradise

June 10 Ende and Steinbach, eds., Islam in the World Today 4 Gwynne, Ridgely, Tudor, and Argel, Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil 27 Hench, Books as Weapons 9 Johnson-Weiner, New York Amish 41 Kabashima and Steel, Changing Politics in Japan 15 Kornhauser and Manthorne, Fern Hunting among Picturesque Mountains 23 Minnite, The Myth of Voter Fraud 26 Naiman, Nabokov, Perversely

July 49 Blumenberg, Paradigms for a Metaphorology 53 Desjardins and Pharoux, Castorland Journal 14 Economy, The River Runs Black, Second Edition 52 Polasky, Reforming Urban Labor

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Enlightening the World The Creation of the Statue of Liberty Yasmin Sabina Khan Conceived in the aftermath of the American Civil War and the grief that swept France over the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the Statue of Liberty has been a potent symbol of the nation’s highest ideals since it was unveiled in 1886. Dramatically situated on Bedloe’s Island (now Liberty Island) in the harbor of New York City, the statue has served as a reminder for generations of immigrants of America’s long tradition as an asylum for the poor and the persecuted. Although it is among the most famous sculptures in the world, the story of its creation is little known. In Enlightening the World, Yasmin Sabina Khan provides a fascinating new account of the design of the statue and the lives of the people who created it, along with the tumultuous events in France and the United States that influenced them. Khan’s narrative begins on the battlefields of Gettysburg, where Lincoln framed the Civil War as a conflict testing whether a nation “conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal . . . can long endure.” People around the world agreed with Lincoln that this question—and the fate of the Union itself—affected the “whole family of man.” Inspired by the Union’s victory and stunned by Lincoln’s death, Édouard-René Lefebvre de Laboulaye, a legal scholar and noted proponent of friendship between his native France and the United States, conceived of a monument to liberty and the exemplary form of government established by the young nation. For Laboulaye and all of France, the statue would be called La Liberté Éclairant le Monde—Liberty Enlightening the World. Following the statue’s twenty-year journey from concept to construction, Khan reveals in brilliant detail the intersecting lives that led to the realization of Laboulaye’s dream: the Marquis de Lafayette; Alexis de Tocqueville; the sculptor Auguste Bartholdi, whose commitment to liberty and self-government was heightened by his experience of the Franco-Prussian War; the architect Richard Morris Hunt, the first American to study architecture at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts in Paris; and the engineer Gustave Eiffel, who pushed the limits for large-scale metal construction. Also here are the contributions of such figures as Senators Charles Sumner and Carl Schurz, the artist John La Farge, the poet Emma Lazarus, and the publisher Joseph Pulitzer. Through the rich story of this remarkable national monument, Enlightening the World celebrates both a work of human accomplishment and the vitality of liberty.

“Enlightening the World is wellconceived, well-organized, and wellwritten. In drawing the Statue of Liberty deeper into the context of American political ideology, Yasmin Sabina Khan reminds us that though the ‘Goddess of Liberty’ hailed from France, much of the thought behind her creation was informed by the American achievement of political democracy.”—Barry Moreno, Ellis Island Immigration Museum and the Statue of Liberty National Monument, National Park Service, editor of The Statue of Liberty Encyclopedia

Yasmin Sabina Khan, an independent scholar, is the author of Engineering Architecture: The Vision of Fazlur R. Khan. MARCH 240 pages, 24 halftones, 5.25 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4851-5 $24.95t/£15.50 History/United States

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A Field Guide Peter Del Tredici Foreword by Steward T. A. Pickett

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Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast

Characterized by an abundance of pavement, reflected heat, polluted air, and contaminated soil, our cities and towns may seem harsh and unwelcoming to vegetation. However, there are a number of plants that manage to grow spontaneously in sidewalk cracks and roadside meridians, flourish along chain-link fences and railroad tracks, line the banks of streams and rivers, and emerge in the midst of landscape plantings and trampled lawns. On their own and free of charge, these plants provide ecological services including temperature reduction, oxygen production, carbon storage, food and habitat for wildlife, pollution mitigation, and erosion control on slopes. Around the world, wild plants help to make urban environments more habitable for people.

Peter Del Tredici is Senior Research Scientist at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University and Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is the author of A Giant Among the Dwarfs. Steward T. A. Pickett is a Plant Ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. A Comstock Book APRIL 392 pages, 966 color photos, 1 chart/graph, 2 maps, 6 x 9 Hyflex ISBN 978-0-8014-7458-3 $29.95t/£18.95 Nature/Field Guides

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Peter Del Tredici’s lushly illustrated field guide to wild urban plants of the northeastern United States is the first of its kind. While it covers the area bounded by Montreal, Boston, Washington, D.C., and Detroit, it is broadly applicable to temperate urban environments across North America. The book covers 222 species that flourish without human assistance or approval. Rather than vilifying such plants as weeds, Del Tredici stresses that it is important to notice, recognize, and appreciate their contribution to the quality of urban life. Indeed their very toughness in the face of heat islands, elevated levels of carbon dioxide, and ubiquitous contamination is indicative of the important role they have to play in helping humans adapt to the challenges presented by urbanization, globalization, and climate change. The species accounts—158 main entries plus 64 secondary species—feature descriptive information including scientific name and taxonomic authority, common names, botanical family, life form, place of origin, and identification features. Del Tredici focuses especially on their habitat preferences, environmental functions, and cultural significance. Each entry is accompanied by original full-color photographs by the author that show the plants’ characteristics and growth forms in their typical habitats. Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast will help readers learn to see these plants—the natural vegetation of the urban environment— with fresh appreciation and understanding.

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“Peter Del Tredici has written one of those rare books that completely overturns the way you look at the landscape—in this case, the landscape of the city’s derelict cracks and corners, which in his hands becomes a place of unusual interest, value, and beauty. Though ostensibly a field guide, this book is much more than that—it offers a deep and wise reconsideration of our most cherished ideas about nature. You will never look at an ‘invasive species’ the same way again.”—Michael Pollan, author of The Botany of Desire and The Omnivore’s Dilemma

Box elder (Acer negundo) thrives spontaneously in an urban location in Roxbury, Mass. Photograph by Peter Del Tredici.

Shepherd’s purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris) in silhouette. Photograph by Peter Del Tredici.

Developing fruits of St. Johnswort (Hypericum perforatum). Photograph by Peter Del Tredici.

Wild carrot (Daucus carota) growth habit. Photograph by Peter Del Tredici.

Bird vetch (Vicia cracca) growth habit. Photograph by Peter Del Tredici.

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The Pantanal and Cerrado of Central Brazil John A. Gwynne, Robert S. Ridgely, Guy Tudor, and Martha Argel

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Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil

Brazil, the fifth largest nation in the world, is one of the planet’s richest places for avian diversity and endemism. With the Birds of Brazil field guide series, the Wildlife Conservation Society brings together a top international team to do justice to the incredible diversity of Brazil’s avifauna. This first guide of the planned fivevolume series features the 743 bird species of the Pantanal and Cerrado regions of Central Brazil. The sprawling Pantanal plain, one of the world’s most famed birding sites, is a seasonally flooded wetland boasting both impressive concentrations of large waterbirds and species such as the Toco Toucan, Hyacinth Macaw, Golden-collared Macaw, and endemic Blaze-winged Parakeets. The Cerrado is a distinctive Brazilian habitat that is the planet’s biologically richest savanna. John A. Gwynne is Chief Creative Officer/V. P. for Design emeritus, Wildlife Conservation Society. He is an artist of books including, Field Guide to the Birds of Panama and Birds of Venezuela. Robert S. Ridgely is an executive of the World Land Trust. He is the renowned coauthor of Birds of Ecuador, also from Cornell, and author of The Birds of South America, Field Guide to the Songbirds of South America, and A Guide to the Birds of Panama. Guy Tudor is the Neotropics’ most renowned bird artist, a MacArthur fellow, and principal illustrator of The Birds of South America, Field Guide to the Songbirds of South America, A Guide to the Birds of Venezuela, and A Guide to the Birds of Colombia. Martha Argel is a widely known Brazilian ornithologist and translator of the Portuguese edition of this work.

This compact modern field guide’s unparalleled color artwork throughout, identification points, and range map for each species enable easy identification of all the birds normally found in these vibrant and critically important areas of Brazil. With 116 threatened species encompassing 25 percent of South America’s threatened birds, Brazil has an imperative to conserve its birds and unique habitats that begins with their appreciation and identification. Thus, the species accounts are coupled with an introductory chapter on the region’s unique environments and pressing conservation challenges. This practical and portable guide is an indispensable companion to those visiting Brazil’s glorious natural areas of the Pantanal and Cerrado.

A Comstock Book June 336 pages, 33 color photos, 663 color illustrations, 749 color maps, 5.5 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4919-2 $75.00x/£46.95 Hyflex ISBN 978-0-8014-7646-4 $35.00t/£21.95 Nature/Field Guides

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The Eagle Watchers Observing and Conserving Raptors around the World Edited by Ruth E. Tingay and Todd E. Katzner Foreword by Keith L. Bildstein and Jemima Parry-Jones, MBE Eagles have fascinated humans for millennia. For some, the glimpse of a distant eagle instantly becomes a treasured lifelong memory. Others may never encounter a wild eagle in their lifetime. This book was written by people who have dedicated years to the study of eagles, to provide an insider’s view for all readers, but especially those who have never been up close and personal with these magnificent yet often misunderstood creatures. In their stories, twenty-nine leading eagle researchers share their remarkable field experiences, providing personal narratives that don’t feature in their scientific publications. They tell of their fear at being stalked by grizzly bears, their surprise at being followed by the secret police, and their sense of awe at tracking eagles via satellite. The reader experiences the cultural shock of being guest of honor at a circumcision ceremony and the absurdity of sharing an aquatic car with the Khmer Rouge. Featuring stunning color photographs of the eagles, information on raptor conservation, a global list of all eagle species with ranges and conservation status, and a color map of the sites visited in the book, The Eagle Watchers will appeal to birders, conservationists, and adventure travelers alike. To further support the conservation programs described in this book, all royalties are being donated to two leading nonprofit organizations for raptor conservation training and fieldwork: Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Intern Program and the National Birds of Prey Trust. Contributors: Bill Clark (Solitary Eagle, Mexico); Rob Davies (Verreaux’s Eagle, South Africa); Miguel Ferrer (Spanish Imperial Eagle, Spain); Martin Gilbert (New Guinea Harpy Eagle, New Guinea); Justin Grant (White-tailed Sea Eagle, Scotland); Teryl G. Grubb (Bald Eagle, United States); Alan R. Harmata (Bald Eagle, United States); Björn Helander (White-tailed Sea Eagle, Sweden); Andrew Jenkins (Martial Eagle, South Africa); Sarah Karpanty (Madagascar Serpent Eagle, Madagascar); Todd E. Katzner (Eastern Imperial Eagle, Kazakhstan); John A. Love (White-tailed Sea Eagle, Scotland); Carol McIntyre (Golden Eagle, United States); Bernd-U. Meyburg (Lesser Spotted Eagle, Czechoslovakia and Germany); Hector C. Miranda Jr. (Philippine Eagle, Philippines); Malcolm Nicoll (Grey-headed Fishing Eagle, Cambodia); Vincent Nijman (Javan Hawk-Eagle, Indonesia); Penny Olsen (Wedge-tailed Eagle, Australia); Keisuke Saito (Steller’s Sea Eagle, Japan); Susanne Shultz (African Crowned Eagle, Ivory Coast); Robert E. Simmons (Wahlberg’s Eagle, South Africa); Ruth E. Tingay (Madagascar Fish Eagle, Madagascar); Janeene Touchton (Harpy Eagle, Panama); Ursula Valdez (Blackand-chestnut Eagle, Peru); Munir Z. Virani (African Fish Eagle, Kenya); Jeff Watson (Golden Eagle, Scotland); Mark Watson (New Guinea Harpy Eagle, New Guinea); Richard T. Watson (Bateleur, South Africa); Jason Wiersma (White-bellied Sea Eagle, Tasmania)

Ruth E. Tingay is Senior Research Coordinator at Natural Research Ltd., Scotland, and President of the Raptor Research Foundation. She studies eagles in Madagascar, Cambodia, Mongolia, and Scotland. Todd E. Katzner is Director of Conservation and Field Research at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and at Duquesne University. He studies eagles in Kazakhstan, the Philippines, and the United States. Keith L. Bildstein is Sarkis Acopian Director of Conservation Science at the Acopian Center for Conservation Learning, Hawk Mountain Sanctuary and the author of books including Migrating Raptors of the World: Their Ecology and Conservation, also from Cornell. Jemima Parry-Jones, MBE, is director of the International Centre for Birds of Prey and author of books including The Really Useful Owl Guide. A Comstock Book APRIL 296 pages, 14 color photos, 29 halftones, 1 chart/graph, 1 table, 6.125 x 9.25 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4873-7 $29.95t/£18.95 Nature/Birds

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A Field Guide Fiona A. Reid, Twan Leenders, Jim Zook, and Robert Dean

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The Wildlife of Costa Rica

This full-color field guide is an indispensable companion to the most popular neotropical ecotourism destination: Costa Rica. Featuring all the mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and arthropods that one is likely to see on a trip to the rainforest (as well as those secretive creatures such as the jaguar that are difficult to glimpse), The Wildlife of Costa Rica is the guide to have when encountering trogons, tapirs, and tarantulas. In addition to providing details for identifying animals along with interesting facts about their natural history, this guide offers tips for seeing them in the wild.

Fiona A. Reid is a Departmental Associate in Mammology at the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation Biology at the Royal Ontario Museum. She is the author and illustrator of Peterson Field Guide to Mammals of North America, Fourth Edition. Twan Leenders, a professional herpetologist and photographer with more than ten years of field experience in Central America, is the author of Guide to Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica. Jim Zook is one of Costa Rica’s most prominent ornithologists. Robert Dean is the illustrator of The Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide, also from Cornell.

Costa Rica, a peaceful nation with many and diverse animal species, is one of the best places in the world for wildlife watching and nature study. It has an excellent system of national parks and reserves, a wide choice of ecolodges, and many professionally trained tourist guides. It is possible to leave the capital city of San José and, just a few hours later, visit a high-elevation cloud forest, dense rainforest, savanna-like plain, or coastal habitat, each with a unique collection of animal species. This new lightweight field guide provides nature enthusiasts visiting Costa Rica with the best introduction to the country’s amazing diversity of wildlife. It is the first general field guide to Costa Rica to combine the most sought-after features: • treatment of all major phyla in the country; • coverage of the animals most likely and most desirable to be seen; • more than 450 detailed illustrations integrated with the text (the preferred method of animal identification in the wild); • full species accounts including ID points, range and habitat, size, and behaviors; • a wealth of natural history information, including more than twenty photographic natural history features; • tips for seeing animals; and • a color map indicating key locations for wildlife observation.

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Gliding Leaf Frogs (Agalychnis spurrelli) on the Osa Peninsula. Photograph by Roy Toft.

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Halloween Crab (Gerarcinus Quadratus). Photograph by Roy Toft.

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The Path to Sustainability Jerry Jenkins Foreword by Bill McKibben

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Climate Change in the Adirondacks

“Thanks to Jerry Jenkins, I think the future has been plotted more firmly for the Adirondacks than perhaps any other region on the planet. These are the biggest changes the park has faced since the last Ice Age, and if we allow them to play out in full many of the glories of the Adirondacks will simply be gone. Jerry Jenkins has emerged as the information source for our mountains. This book is a great resource and a great gift; we are all in his debt.” —from the Foreword by Bill McKibben

South Inlet of Raquette Lake, March 2009. Photograph by Jerry Jenkins.

Although global in scale, the impact of climate change will be felt at the local level. Refocusing our attention away from the ice shelves disintegrating in the Antarctic, the flooding of Pacific islands, and carbon inventories measured in billions of tons, Jerry Jenkins turns to changes that are already occurring much closer to home, changes that threaten to transform one of America’s great wildernesses, the Adirondack region, into a damaged and unfamiliar landscape. Jerry Jenkins is a researcher for the Wildlife Conservation Society and the author of Acid Rain in the Adirondacks: An Environmental History, also from Cornell, and The Adirondack Atlas: A Geographic Portrait of the Adirondack Park. Bill McKibben is the author of books including The End of Nature.

With the aid of comprehensive color illustrations, graphs, charts, and maps, Jenkins demonstrates the fundamental reality of climate change on a local level and presents his analysis and discussion of the available data for the Adirondacks. The region’s culture, biology, and economy are already shifting rapidly: boreal species such as the spruce grouse are in decline, pests such as the mountain pine beetle and black-legged tick are moving in, and ski areas are suffering from lack of snow. Jenkins goes on to deliver a critical message: changes in personal energy consumption can fundamentally alter the present trajectory of global warming.

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Acid Rain in the Adirondacks An Environmental History Jerry Jenkins, Karen Roy, Charles Driscoll, and Christopher Buerkett a comstock book Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7424-8 $29.95s/£23.50

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New York Amish Life in the Plain Communities of the Empire State Karen M. Johnson-Weiner “New York Amish traverses between the history of the Anabaptists in the sixteenth century and anthropological work among contemporary Amish communities. Karen M. Johnson-Weiner makes a notable contribution by bringing Amish history into the larger religious narrative of New York. Throughout, she allows the reader to appreciate the variation and complexity of these communities in a respectful way.”—Philip P. Arnold, coeditor of Sacred Landscapes and Cultural Politics: Planting a Tree In a book that highlights the existence and diversity of Amish communities in New York State, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner draws on twenty-five years of observation, participation, interviews, and archival research to emphasize the contribution of the Amish to the state’s rich cultural heritage. While the Amish settlements in Pennsylvania and Ohio are internationally known, the Amish population in New York, the result of internal migration from those more established settlements, is more fragmentary and less visible to all but their nearest non-Amish neighbors. All of the Amish currently living in New York are post–World War II migrants from points to the south and west. Many came seeking cheap land, others as a result of schism in their home communities. The Old Order Amish of New York are relative newcomers who, while representing an old or plain way of life, are bringing change to the state. So that readers can better understand where the Amish come from and their relationship to other Christian groups, New York Amish traces the origins of the Amish in the religious confrontation and political upheaval of the Protestant Reformation and describes contemporary Amish lifestyles and religious practices. Johnson-Weiner welcomes readers into the lives of Amish families in different regions of New York State, including the oldest New York Amish community, the settlement in the Conewango Valley, and the diverse settlements of the Mohawk Valley and the St. Lawrence River Valley. These congregations range from the most conservative to the most progressive. Johnson-Weiner reveals how the Amish in particular regions of New York realize their core values in different ways; these variations shape not only their adjustment to new environments but also the ways in which townships and counties accommodate—and often benefit from—the presence of these thriving faith communities.

“Karen M. Johnson-Weiner writes fluidly, with a great eye for detail. This book gives ample evidence of the time she spent in intimate relationship with the New York Amish, her love for them, and her desire to present these people to others.”—James Hurd, author of Horse-and-Buggy Mennonites: Hoofbeats of Humility in a Postmodern World

Karen M. Johnson-Weiner is Professor of Anthropology at SUNY Potsdam. She is the author of Train Up a Child: Old Order Amish and Mennonite Schools. JUNE 240 pages, 20 halftones, 1 chart/graph, 1 table, 13 maps, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4518-7 $24.95t/£15.50 Regional/New York | Religion

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A Handbook of Politics, Religion, Culture, and Society Edited by Werner Ende and Udo Steinbach

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Islam in the World Today

Considered the most authoritative single-volume reference work on Islam in the contemporary world, the German-language Der Islam in der Gegenwart, currently in its fifth edition, offers a wealth of authoritative information on the religious, political, social, and cultural life of Islamic nations and of Islamic immigrant communities elsewhere. Now, Cornell University Press is making this invaluable resource accessible to English-language readers. More current than the latest German edition on which it is based, Islam in the World Today covers a staggering array of topics in concise essays by some of the world’s leading experts on Islam, including: “Islam in the World Today is without doubt the most comprehensive work available on contemporary Islam and all phenomena connected with the organization of Islamic societies today. The original German edition has proved tremendously useful as a textbook and is simply the book of reference on this subject for learned speakers of German, be they academics or members of the public who work in journalism, diplomacy, or in international aid organizations. This new Englishlanguage edition will certainly be picked up as a textbook and as a work of reference in advanced college courses and in graduate courses on Islam, the Middle East, political science, and other adjacent fields.” —Frank Griffel, Yale University

• the history of Islam from the earliest years through the twentieth century, with particular attention to Sunni and Shi‘i Islam and Islamic revival movements during the last three centuries; • data on the advance of Islam along with current population statistics; • Muslim ideas on modern economics, on social order, and on attempts to modernize Islamic law (shari‘a) and apply it in contemporary Muslim societies; • Islam in diaspora, especially the situation in Europe and America; • secularism, democracy, and human rights; and • women in Islam. Twenty-four essays are each devoted to a specific Muslim country or a country with significant Muslim minorities, spanning Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the former Soviet Union. Additional essays illuminate Islamic culture, exploring local traditions; the languages and dialects of Muslim peoples; and art, architecture, and literature. Detailed bibliographies and indexes ensure the book’s usefulness as a reference work.

Werner Ende is Professor Emeritus of Islamic Studies at the University of Freiburg. Udo Steinbach is the former director of the German Institute of Middle East Studies, Hamburg. June 1032 pages, 16 halftones, 1 map, 6.125 x 9.25 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4571-2 $85.00s/£52.95 Reference | Religion

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Why Intelligence Fails Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War Robert Jervis The U.S. government spends enormous resources each year on the gathering and analysis of intelligence, yet the history of American foreign policy is littered with missteps and misunderstandings that have resulted from intelligence failures. In Why Intelligence Fails, Robert Jervis examines the politics and psychology of two of the more spectacular intelligence failures in recent memory: the mistaken belief that the regime of the Shah in Iran was secure and stable in 1978, and the claim that Iraq had active WMD programs in 2002. The Iran case is based on a recently declassified report Jervis was commissioned to undertake by CIA thirty years ago and includes memoranda written by CIA officials in response to Jervis’s findings. The Iraq case, also grounded in a review of the intelligence community’s performance, is based on close readings of both classified and declassified documents, though Jervis’s conclusions are entirely supported by evidence that has been declassified. In both cases, Jervis finds not only that intelligence was badly flawed but also that later explanations—analysts were bowing to political pressure and telling the White House what it wanted to hear or were willfully blind—were also incorrect. Proponents of these explanations claimed that initial errors were compounded by groupthink, lack of coordination within the government, and failure to share information. Policy prescriptions, including the recent establishment of a Director of National Intelligence, were supposed to remedy the situation. In Jervis’s estimation, neither the explanations nor the prescriptions are adequate. The inferences that intelligence drew were actually quite plausible given the information available. Errors arose, he concludes, from insufficient attention to the ways in which information should be gathered and interpreted, a lack of self-awareness about the factors that led to the judgments, and an organizational culture that failed to probe for weaknesses and explore alternatives. Evaluating the inherent tensions between the methods and aims of intelligence personnel and policymakers from a unique insider’s perspective, Jervis forcefully criticizes recent proposals for improving the performance of the intelligence community and discusses ways in which future analysis can be improved.

“There is no one better than Robert Jervis at dissecting intelligence, and this book is proof. Happily, at long, long last he has managed to free his three-decade-old inside postmortem on intelligence failure during the early stages of the Iranian revolution from the dark of classification, and he has coupled that with his recent writings on intelligence’s woeful performance over those Iraqi weapons of mass destruction that weren’t. This has resulted in definitive case studies of those two important episodes.” —Gregory F. Treverton, RAND Corporation

Robert Jervis is Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics at Columbia University. He is the author of many books, including The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution, also from Cornell, and American Foreign Policy in a New Era. Cornell Studies in Security Affairs MARCH 248 pages, 6.125 x 9.25 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4785-3 $27.95t/£17.50 Espionage

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Stories of Nurses Standing Up for Themselves, Their Patients, and Their Profession Edited by Suzanne Gordon

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When Chicken Soup Isn’t Enough

The reassuring bromides of “chicken soup for the soul” provide little solace for nurses—and the people they serve—in real-life hospitals, nursing homes, schools of nursing, and other settings. In the minefield of modern health care, there are myriad obstacles to quality patient care—including work overload, inadequate funds for nursing education and research, and poor communication between and within the professions, to name only a few. The seventy RNs whose stories are collected here by the awardwinning journalist Suzanne Gordon know that effective advocacy isn’t easy. It takes nurses willing to stand up for themselves, their coworkers, their patients, and the public. “When Chicken Soup Isn’t Enough is an excellent collection capturing the real work done by nurses. It demonstrates that the triumphs and struggles of nurses are universal.” —Kathleen Burke, RN-BC, BSN, UCSF Medical Center

Suzanne Gordon, a journalist, is Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing and Assistant Adjunct Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Nursing. She is the author of Life Support and Nursing against the Odds, coauthor of Safety in Numbers and From Silence to Voice, and coeditor of The Complexities of Care, all from Cornell. The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work An ILR Press Book April 280 pages, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4894-2 $24.95t/£15.50 Current Events | Nursing

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When Chicken Soup Isn’t Enough brings together compelling personal narratives from a wide range of nurses from across the globe. The assembled profiles in professional courage provide new insight into the daily challenges that RNs face in North America and abroad—and how they overcome them with skill, ingenuity, persistence, and individual and collective advocacy at work and in the community. In this collection, we meet RNs working at the bedside, providing home care, managing hospital departments, teaching and doing research, lobbying for quality patient care, and campaigning for health care reform. Their stories are funny, sad, deeply moving, inspiring, and always revealing of the different ways that nurses make their voices heard in the service of their profession. The risks and rewards, joys and sorrows, of nursing have rarely been captured in such vivid, first-person accounts. Gordon and the authors of the essays contained in this book have much to say about the strengths and shortcomings of health care today—and the role that nurses play as irreplaceable agents of change.

Also of Interest Life Support Three Nurses on the Front Lines Suzanne Gordon Foreword by Claire Fagin, RN, PhD, FAAN an ilr press book | the culture and politics of health care work Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7428-6 $17.95t/£13.95

From Silence to Voice What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public, Second Edition Bernice Buresh and Suzanne Gordon Foreword by Patricia Benner RN, PhD, FAAN an ilr press book | the culture and politics of health care work Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7258-9 $19.95t/£15.50

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The Ambiguities of Experience James G. March “March is to organization theory what Miles Davis was to jazz. March’s influence, unlike that of any of his peers, is not limited to any possible subset of the social science disciplines; it is pervasive.”—John Padgett, Contemporary Sociology “In order to adapt effectively, organizations require resources, capabilities at using them, knowledge about the worlds in which they exist, good fortune, and good decisions. They typically face competition for resources and uncertainties about the future. Many, but possibly not all, of the factors determining their fates are outside their control. Populations of organizations and individual organizations survive, in part, presumably because they possess adaptive intelligence; but survival is by no means assured.”—from The Ambiguities of Experience In The Ambiguities of Experience, James G. March asks a deceptively simple question: What is, or should be, the role of experience in creating intelligence, particularly in organizations? Folk wisdom both trumpets the significance of experience and warns of its inadequacies. On one hand, experience is described as the best teacher. On the other hand, experience is described as the teacher of fools, of those unable or unwilling to learn from accumulated knowledge or the teaching of experts. The disagreement between those folk aphorisms reflects profound questions about the human pursuit of intelligence through learning from experience that have long confronted philosophers and social scientists. This book considers the unexpected problems organizations (and the individuals in them) face when they rely on experience to adapt, improve, and survive. While acknowledging the power of learning from experience and the extensive use of experience as a basis for adaptation and for constructing stories and models of history, this book examines the problems with such learning. March argues that although individuals and organizations are eager to derive intelligence from experience, the inferences stemming from that eagerness are often misguided. The problems lie partly in errors in how people think, but even more so in properties of experience that confound learning from it. “Experience,” March concludes, “may possibly be the best teacher, but it is not a particularly good teacher.”

Also of Interest State-Building Governance and World Order in the 21st Century Francis Fukuyama messenger lectures Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4292-6 $21.95t PUSAC

Praise for James G. March— “James G. March’s work creates a sense of being in a conversation with someone who persistently points to important things that somehow lie just outside of our ordinary awareness.”—Anne Miner, ASQ

James G. March is Emeritus Professor at Stanford University. He holds appointments in the Schools of Business and Education and in the Departments of Political Science and Sociology. His many books include Explorations in Organizations and The Pursuit of Organizational Intelligence. Messenger Lectures April 160 pages, 5 x 7.5 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4877-5 $21.95t/£13.95 Sociology | Business

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The Environmental Challenge to China’s Future, Second Edition Elizabeth C. Economy Praise for the first edition—

“Economy’s book is particularly strong in its examination of the Winner of peculiarly Chinese reasons—beyond the International the country’s rapid development and Convention of Asia Scholars Book Prize in huge population pressure—that lie Social Sciences behind the scale of China’s environmental degradation: the leadership’s obsession with short-term growth to preserve social stability, whatever the ultimate cost, is one; the weak rule of law and a tradition of devolving power to the regions, where watchdogs and polluters are often in collusion, is another.”—Economist In The River Runs Black, Elizabeth C. Economy examines China’s growing environmental crisis and its implications for the country’s future development. This second edition is updated with information about the tumultuous transformation of the Chinese landscape as the PRC deals with local and international groups ever more concerned about climate change and dwindling energy resources. Elizabeth C. Economy is C. V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director, Asia Studies, at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is coeditor of China Joins the World: Progress and Prospects and The Internationalization of Environmental Protection. She has published articles and opinion pieces in Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the International Herald Tribune, among others. She consults regularly for the U.S. government on issues related to China and the environment and is a frequent television and radio commentator on U.S.-China relations. A Council on Foreign Relations Book July 368 pages, 1 map, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4924-6 $55.00x/£34.50 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7613-6 $19.95t/£12.50 [previous edition ISBN 978-0-8014-8978-5] Environment | History/China

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The Manly Art Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America, Updated Edition Elliott J. Gorn

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The River Runs Black

“It didn’t occur to me until fairly late in the work that I was writing a book about the beginnings of a national celebrity culture.” —from the New Afterword Praise for the first edition— “Gorn is an adventurous historian with a talent for informed speculation. He has written an exciting narrative history of boxing and then gone a step further to ask a series of questions that extend his focus to the whole of nineteenth-century American culture.”—The Nation “Writing with clarity, vigor, and grace, Gorn combines detailed narrative with convincing interpretations. He offers the reader a judicious selection of quotations from the sporting press that capture the drama, sensuality, and brutality of the ring and its craftsmen.”—Journal of American History Elliott J. Gorn’s The Manly Art not only told the story of a controversial sport’s origins but also helped shape the ways historians write about American culture. The book expanded scholarly boundaries by exploring masculinity as an historical subject and by suggesting that social categories like gender, class, and ethnicity can only be understood in relation to each other. This updated edition of Gorn’s highly influential history of the early prize rings features a new afterword, the author’s meditation on the ways in which studies of sport, gender, and popular culture have changed in the quarter century since the book was first published. An up-todate bibliography ensures that The Manly Art will remain a vital resource for a new generation.

Elliott J. Gorn is Professor of History and American Civilization at Brown University. He is the author of many books, including Dillinger’s Wild Ride and Mother Jones, and coauthor of A Brief History of American Sports.

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Fern Hunting among Picturesque Mountains Frederic Edwin Church in Jamaica Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser and Katherine Manthorne In 1865 the American landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church and his wife, Isabel, traveled to Jamaica on a sojourn of recovery after the tragic deaths of their two young children Herbert and Emma. A time to mourn and escape from the constant reminders found at their home, Olana, the Churches’ trip to Jamaica also provided ample inspiration for Frederic. The Olana Collection includes eight oil sketches, an ink drawing, and a pencil drawing Church made in Jamaica. Five of these oil sketches on paper Church chose to mount to canvas and frame for his and Isabel’s enjoyment; over the years they have hung in different rooms at Olana. From these works, and others held by the Cooper-Hewitt, Church created two major studio oils, The Vale of St. Thomas, Jamaica, 1867 (the Wadsworth Atheneum) and The After Glow, 1867 (the Olana Collection). Within Church’s oeuvre the studies of Jamaican sunsets, mountains, and foliage are particularly lovely. Church wrote of Jamaica: “The scenery is superb. . . . I have accomplished a great amount of work—but there is so much to do that I am at a loss to decide day by day—what to paint.”

Frederic Edwin Church, Scene in the Blue Mountains, Jamaica, OL.1981.69, August 1865, oil on paper mounted on academy board, 10.625 x 17.75 inches, Collection of Olana State Historic Site, OPRHP

The accompanying exhibition may be seen at: Evelyn and Maurice Sharp Gallery at Olana June–October, 2010

The 2010 exhibit at Olana will help explain Church’s working process by showing Sunset Jamaica and the resulting studio work The After Glow together; it will include five works never before exhibited and reveal Church’s interesting use of his photography collection both as an aide-mémoire and as substrate for sketching. Fern Hunting among Picturesque Mountains includes fortyeight color illustrations, as well as essays by Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser (on Church’s Jamaica work) and Katherine Manthorne (about Church’s friends and fellow artists who also traveled to Jamaica to paint).

Also of Interest Treasures from Olana Landscapes by Frederic Edwin Church Kevin J. Avery the olana collection Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4430-2 $27.00t/£20.95

Glories of the Hudson Frederic Edwin Church’s Views from Olana Evelyn D. Trebilcock and Valerie A Balint the olana collection Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4843-0 $24.95t/£15.50

Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser is Krieble Curator of American Painting and Sculpture at the Wadsworth Atheneum. Katherine Manthorne is Professor of Art History at the Graduate Center, CUNY. The Olana Collection June 80 pages, 48 color illustrations, 10 x 10 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4920-8 $24.95t/£15.50 Art

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Elements of a Life Robert Zaretsky

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Albert Camus

“Like many others of my generation, I first read Camus in high school. I carried him in my backpack while traveling across Europe, I carried him into (and out of) relationships, and I carried him into (and out of) difficult periods of my life. More recently, I have carried him into university classes that I have taught, coming out of them with a renewed appreciation of his art. To be sure, my idea of Camus thirty years ago scarcely resembles my idea of him today. While my admiration and attachment to his writings remain as great as they were long ago, the reasons are more complicated and critical.”—Robert Zaretsky

“Camus is a writer of great nuance and sensitivity, and Robert Zaretsky interprets Camus in a way that is both intellectually sharp and deeply personal. This is a thoughtful and beautifully written book, and I highly recommend it.”—Jeffrey C. Isaac, James H. Rudy Professor of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, author of Arendt, Camus, and Modern Rebellion

Robert Zaretsky is Professor of French History in the Honors College of the University of Houston. He is the author of several books, including Nimes at War and Cock and Bull Stories: Folco de Baroncelli and the Invention of the Camargue. Most recently, he is coauthor of The Philosophers’ Quarrel: Rousseau, Hume and the Limits of Human Understanding.

On October 16, 1957, Albert Camus was dining in a small restaurant on Paris’s Left Bank when a waiter approached him with news: the radio had just announced that Camus had won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Camus insisted that a mistake had been made and that others were far more deserving of the honor than he. Yet Camus was already recognized around the world as the voice of a generation—a status he had achieved with dizzying speed. He published his first novel, The Stranger, in 1942 and emerged from the war as the spokesperson for the Resistance and, although he consistently rejected the label, for existentialism. Subsequent works of fiction (including the novels The Plague and The Fall), philosophy (notably, The Myth of Sisyphus and The Rebel), drama, and social criticism secured his literary and intellectual reputation. And then on January 4, 1960, three years after accepting the Nobel Prize, he was killed in a car accident. In a book distinguished by clarity and passion, Robert Zaretsky considers why Albert Camus mattered in his own lifetime and continues to matter today, focusing on key moments that shaped Camus’s development as a writer, a public intellectual, and a man. Each chapter is devoted to a specific event: Camus’s visit to Kabylia in 1939 to report on the conditions of the local Berber tribes; his decision in 1945 to sign a petition to commute the death sentence of collaborationist writer Robert Brasillach; his famous quarrel with Jean-Paul Sartre in 1952 over the nature of communism; and his silence about the war in Algeria in 1956. Both engaged and engaging, Albert Camus: Elements of a Life is a searching companion to a profoundly moral and lucid writer whose works provide a guide for those perplexed by the absurdity of the human condition and the world’s resistance to meaning.

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The Death of Tolstoy Russia on the Eve, Astapovo Station, 1910 William Nickell In the middle of the night of October 28, 1910, Leo Tolstoy, the most famous man in Russia, vanished. A secular saint revered for his literary genius, pacificism, and dedication to the earth and the poor, Tolstoy had left his home in secret to embark on a final journey. His disappearance immediately became a national sensation. Two days later he was located at a monastery, but was soon gone again. When he turned up next at Astapovo, a small, remote railway station, all of Russia was following the story. As he lay dying of pneumonia, he became the hero of a national narrative of immense significance. In The Death of Tolstoy, William Nickell describes a Russia engaged in a war of words over how this story should be told. The Orthodox Church, which had excommunicated Tolstoy in 1901, first argued that he had returned to the fold and then came out against his beliefs more vehemently than ever. Police spies sent by the state tracked his every move, fearing that his death would embolden his millions of supporters among the young, the peasantry, and the intelligentsia. Representatives of the press converged on the stationhouse at Astapovo where Tolstoy lay ill, turning his death into a feverish media event that strikingly anticipated today’s no-limits coverage of celebrity lives—and deaths. Drawing on newspaper accounts, personal correspondence, police reports, secret circulars, telegrams, letters, and memoirs, Nickell shows the public spectacle of Tolstoy’s last days to be a vivid reflection of a fragile, anxious empire on the eve of war and revolution.

“William Nickell’s account of Tolstoy’s death, its circumstances, and its consequences is the most thorough in any language. The story Nickell tells about the final days and death of a great writer is important in itself, but his careful charting of the reaction of family, the public in all its complex manifestations, church, and state to this death turns into a fascinating revelation of the state of Russian society just before World War I.”—Donna Tussing Orwin, University of Toronto

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Tolstoy and the Genesis of War and Peace Kathryn B. Feuer Edited by Robin Feuer Miller and Donna Tussing Orwin Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7447-7 $24.95s/£19.50

William Nickell is Licker Research Chair, Cowell College, University of California, Santa Cruz. May 232 pages, 25 halftones, 6.125 x 9.25 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4834-8 $29.95s/£18.95 Biography

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Freud, Photography, and the History of Art Mary Bergstein

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Mirrors of Memory

“Mary Bergstein combines her talents as an art historian with a sophisticated approach to Freud and psychoanalytic theory. Mirrors of Memory tells us much about the mentality of turn-of-thecentury visual culture in central Europe and the impact of that mentality on the development of Freud’s thought. Photography as a medium in general—and the roles of art and archaeology photography in particular—played a crucial mediating role in the emergence of Freud’s approach to sexuality, desire, representation, memory, and art.”—Michael Roth, President, Wesleyan University Photographs shaped the view of the world in turn-of-thecentury Central Europe, bringing images of everything from natural and cultural history to masterpieces of Greek sculpture into homes and offices. Sigmund Freud’s library—no exception to this trend—was filled with individual photographs and images in books. According to Mary Bergstein, these photographs also profoundly shaped Freud’s thinking in ways that were no less important because they may have been involuntary and unconscious. In Mirrors of Memory, lavishly illustrated with reproductions of the photos from Freud’s voluminous collection, she argues that studying the man and his photographs uncovers a key to the origins of psychoanalysis.

Mary Bergstein is Professor in the History of Art and Visual Culture at the Rhode Island School of Design. She is the author of The Sculpture of Nanni di Banco and has written extensively on art, photography, and culture. Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry April 232 pages, 114 halftones, 7 x 8 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4819-5 $29.95s/£18.95 Art | Psychology

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Photographs in Freud’s era were viewed as transparent windows revealing objective truth but at the same time were highly subjective, resembling a kind of dream-memory. Thus, a photo of a ruined temple both depicted the particular place and conveyed a sense of loss, oblivion, of time passing and past, and provided entry into the language of the psychoanalytic project. Bergstein seeks to understand how various kinds of photographs—of sculptures; archaeological sites in Greece, Rome, and Egypt; medical conditions; ethnographic scenes—fed into Freud’s thinking as he elaborated the concepts of psychoanalysis. The result is a book that makes a significant contribution to our understanding of early twentieth century visual culture even as it shows that photography shaped the ways in which the great archaeologist of the human mind saw and thought about the world.

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The Sungod’s Journey through the Netherworld Reading the Ancient Egyptian Amduat Andreas Schweizer Edited by David Lorton Foreword by Erik Hornung The Amduat (literally “that which is in the netherworld”) tells the story of the nocturnal journey of Re, the Egyptian Sungod, through the netherworld from the time when the sun dies, after setting in the west, to its rebirth at sunrise in the east. In the middle of the night, this resurrection is made possible by a mystical union of the sun with the mummified body of Osiris, god of the dead. This great mystery of the union between the freely moving soul of the Sungod with Osiris’s corpse evokes the renewal of all life and the restoration of totality. In the Egyptian belief system, the pharaohs and in later times all blessed dead embarked on this same “night-sea journey” after death, ultimately becoming one with Re and living forever. The vision of the afterlife elaborated in the Amduat, dating from around 1500 b.c.e., has been influential for millennia, providing the model for an entire genre of Egyptian literature, the Books of the Afterlife, which in turn endured into the Greco-Roman era. Its themes and images persisted into gnostic and alchemical texts and made their way into early Christian portrayals of the beyond. In The Sungod’s Journey through the Netherworld, Andreas Schweizer guides the reader through the Amduat, offering a psychological interpretation of the principal verbal and visual (iconographic) images. He is concerned with themes that run deep and wide in human experience, drawing on Jungian archetypes to find similar expression in many cultures worldwide: sleep as death; resurrection as reawakening or rebirth; and salvation or redemption, whether from original sin (as for Christians) or from the total annihilation of death (as for the ancient Egyptians).

Also of Interest The Secret Lore of Egypt Its Impact on the West Erik Hornung Edited and Translated by David Lorton Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-3847-9 $29.95s/£23.50

The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife Erik Hornung Translated by David Lorton Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-8515-2 $21.00s/£16.50

“The ancient Egyptian sources come alive, speaking to us without seeming alien to our modern ways of thinking. Andreas Schweizer invites us to join the nocturnal voyage of the solar barque and to immerse ourselves, with the “Great Soul” of the sun, into the darkness surrounding us.”—Erik Hornung, from the Foreword

Andreas Schweizer is a practicing Jungian psychoanalyst in Zürich, Switzerland. David Lorton, an Egyptologist, is the translator of many books, including The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus, also from Cornell. Erik Hornung is Professor Emeritus of Egyptology at the University of Basel and the author of many books, including most recently The Secret Lore of Egypt, also from Cornell. May 240 pages, 46 line drawings, 5.5 x 8.5 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4875-1 $35.00s/£21.95 Egyptology

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How Globalization Really Works Ronen Palan, Richard Murphy, and Christian Chavagneux

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Tax Havens

“This book is an invaluable guide to the lightly studied subject of tax havens. Clearly written and thoroughly researched, it vividly demonstrates how central the scattered archipelago of so-called Preferential Tax Regimes is to the operation of contemporary global finance. Tax Havens belongs on the shelf of every specialist in the international political economy of money.”—Benjamin J. Cohen, Louis G. Lancaster Professor of International Political Economy, University of California, Santa Barbara “This book calls attention to one of the major scandals of our time.”—James K. Galbraith, author of The Predator State

“Impeccably researched and packed with new insights, this groundbreaking book exposes financial capitalism’s best-kept secret.”—John Christensen, Director, Tax Justice Network International Secretariat, London

Ronen Palan is Professor of International Political Economy at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of The Offshore World: Sovereign Markets, Virtual Places, and Nomad Millionaires, also from Cornell. Richard Murphy is CEO of Tax Research, LLP, based in the UK. He is a frequent adviser to the media, NGOs, and politicians, and writes a blog at taxresearch.org.uk. Christian Chavagneux, based in Paris, is deputy editor in chief of Alternatives Economiques and editor of L’Economie politique. Cornell Studies in Money

From the Cayman Islands and the Isle of Man to the Principality of Liechtenstein and the state of Delaware, tax havens offer lower tax rates, less stringent regulations and enforcement, and promises of strict secrecy to individuals and corporations alike. In recent years government regulators, hoping to remedy economic crisis by diverting capital from hidden channels back into taxable view, have undertaken sustained and serious efforts to force tax havens into compliance. In Tax Havens, Ronen Palan, Richard Murphy, and Christian Chavagneux provide an up-to-date evaluation of the role and function of tax havens in the global financial system—their history, inner workings, impact, extent, and enforcement. They make clear that while, individually, tax havens may appear insignificant, together they have a major impact on the global economy. Holding up to $13 trillion of personal wealth—the equivalent of the annual U.S. Gross National Product—and serving as the legal home of two million corporate entities and half of all international lending banks, tax havens also skew the distribution of globalization’s costs and benefits to the detriment of developing economies. The first comprehensive account of these entities, this book challenges much of the conventional wisdom about tax havens. The authors reveal that, rather than operating at the margins of the world economy, tax havens are integral to it. More than simple conduits for tax avoidance and evasion, tax havens actually belong to the broad world of finance, to the business of managing the monetary resources of individuals, organizations, and countries. They have become among the most powerful instruments of globalization, one of the principal causes of global financial instability, and one of the large political issues of our times.

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Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts The Politics of Numbers in Global Crime and Conflict Edited by Peter Andreas and Kelly M. Greenhill “At least 200,000–250,000 people died in the war in Bosnia.” “There are three million child soldiers in Africa.” “More than 650,000 civilians have been killed as a result of the U.S. occupation of Iraq.” “Between 600,000 and 800,000 women are trafficked across borders every year.” “Money laundering represents as much as 10 percent of global GDP.” “Internet child porn is a $20 billion-a-year industry.” These are big, attention-grabbing numbers, frequently used in policy debates and media reporting. Peter Andreas and Kelly M. Greenhill see only one problem: these numbers are probably false. Their continued use and abuse reflect a much larger and troubling pattern: policymakers and the media naively or deliberately accept highly politicized and questionable statistical claims about activities that are extremely difficult to measure. As a result, we too often become trapped by these mythical numbers, with perverse and counterproductive consequences. This problem exists in myriad policy realms. But it is particularly pronounced in statistics related to the politically charged realms of global crime and conflict—numbers of people killed in massacres and during genocides, the size of refugee flows, the magnitude of the illicit global trade in drugs and human beings, and so on. In Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts, political scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, and policy analysts critically examine the murky origins of some of these statistics and trace their remarkable proliferation. They also assess the standard metrics used to evaluate policy effectiveness in combating problems such as terrorist financing, sex trafficking, and the drug trade. Contributors: Peter Andreas, Brown University; Thomas J. Biersteker, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies—Geneva; Sue E. Eckert, Brown University; David A. Feingold, Ophidian Research Institute and UNESCO; H. Richard Friman, Marquette University; Kelly M. Greenhill, Tufts University and Harvard University; John Hagan, Northwestern University; Lara J. Nettelfield, Institut Barcelona D’Estudis Internacionals and Simon Fraser University; Wenona RymondRichmond, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Winifred Tate, Colby College; Kay B. Warren, Brown University

Also of Interest The Golden Triangle Inside Southeast Asia’s Drug Trade Ko-lin Chin Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7521-4 $22.50s/£13.95

“Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts is terrific. It demonstrates that quantitative misrepresentation is not an idiosyncratic problem but one that is widespread and often detrimental.”—John Mueller, The Ohio State University

Peter Andreas is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Brown University. His books include Border Games: Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide, now in a second edition, and Blue Helmets and Black Markets: The Business of Survival in the Siege of Sarajevo, both from Cornell. Kelly M. Greenhill is Assistant Professor of Government at Tufts University and a Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. She is the author of Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy, also from Cornell. May 288 pages, 7 charts/graphs, 10 tables, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4861-4 $65.00x/£40.50 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7618-1 $24.95s/£15.50 Political Science

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Technology Transfer and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons Matthew Kroenig “Exporting the Bomb treats thesupplyside aspect of proliferation seriously, adding significantly to our understanding of the trade in nuclear technology. In a rare nonideological treatment of the subject, Matthew Kroenig supports his arguments with excellent research and uncommon case studies.”—T. V. Paul, James McGill Professor of International Relations, McGill University

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Exporting the Bomb

In a vitally important book for anyone interested in nuclear proliferation, defense strategy, or international security, Matthew Kroenig points out that nearly every country with a nuclear weapons arsenal received substantial help at some point from a more advanced nuclear state. Why do some countries help others to develop nuclear weapons? Many analysts assume that nuclear transfers are driven by economic considerations. States in dire economic need, they suggest, export sensitive nuclear materials and technology—and ignore the security risk—in a desperate search for hard currency. Kroenig challenges this conventional wisdom. He finds that state decisions to provide sensitive nuclear assistance are the result of a coherent, strategic logic. The spread of nuclear weapons threatens powerful states more than it threatens weak states, and these differential effects of nuclear proliferation encourage countries to provide sensitive nuclear assistance under certain strategic conditions. Countries are more likely to export sensitive nuclear materials and technology when it would have the effect of constraining an enemy and less likely to do so when it would threaten themselves. In Exporting the Bomb, Kroenig examines the most important historical cases, including France’s nuclear assistance to Israel in the 1950s and 1960s; the Soviet Union’s sensitive transfers to China from 1958 to 1960; China’s nuclear aid to Pakistan in the 1980s; and Pakistan’s recent technology transfers, with the help of “rogue” scientist A. Q. Khan, from 1987 to 2002. Understanding why states provide sensitive nuclear assistance not only adds to our knowledge of international politics but also aids in international efforts to control the spread of nuclear weapons.

Matthew Kroenig is Assistant Professor of Government at Georgetown University.

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Living Weapons Biological Warfare and International Security Gregory D. Koblentz cornell studies in security affairs Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4768-6 $35.00s/£21.95

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The Myth of Voter Fraud Lorraine C. Minnite “This book is a must-read for anyone concerned with voter fraud in twenty-first-century America. Lorraine C. Minnite defines voter fraud so as to allow the careful, systematic investigation of the subject she reports in this volume. I highly recommend it.” —Chandler Davidson, editor, Minority Vote Dilution Allegations that widespread voter fraud is threatening to the integrity of American elections and American democracy itself have intensified since the disputed 2000 presidential election. The claim that elections are being stolen by illegal immigrants and unscrupulous voter registration activists and vote buyers has been used to persuade the public that voter malfeasance is of greater concern than structural inequities in the ways votes are gathered and tallied, justifying ever tighter restrictions on access to the polls. Yet, that claim is a myth. In The Myth of Voter Fraud, Lorraine C. Minnite presents the results of her meticulous search for evidence of voter fraud. She concludes that that while voting irregularities produced by the fragmented and complex nature of the electoral process in the United States are common, incidents of deliberate voter fraud are actually quite rare. Based on painstaking research aggregating and sifting through data from a variety of sources, including public records requests to all fifty state governments and the U.S. Justice Department, Minnite contends that voter fraud is in reality a politically constructed myth intended to further complicate the voting process and reduce voter turnout. She refutes several high-profile charges of alleged voter fraud, such as the assertion that eight of the 9/11 hijackers were registered to vote, and makes the question of voter fraud more precise by distinguishing fraud from the manifold ways in which electoral democracy can be distorted. Effectively disentangling misunderstandings and deliberate distortions from reality, The Myth of Voter Fraud provides rigorous empirical evidence for those fighting to make the electoral process more efficient, more equitable, and more democratic.

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“For the vast majority of Americans, committing an act of voter fraud—forging a voter registration card, stealing an identity to vote more than once, voting when legally barred from doing so—is even more irrational than the individual act of voting. What would an individual voter get out of it? The incentives to cast an illegal ballot need to be pretty high to risk a felony conviction and five years in jail. . . . Why would an undocumented immigrant who may have obtained a fake Social Security number in order to be paid for the low-wage labor he or she provides an American employer come out from the shadows to cast a ballot that could deport him or her forever? The data uncovered in the pages that follow are consistent with this logic. The best facts we can gather to assess the magnitude of the alleged problem of voter fraud show that while millions of people cast ballots every year, almost no one knowingly and willfully casts an illegal vote in the United States today.”—from The Myth of Voter Fraud

Lorraine C. Minnite is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard College. She is coauthor of Keeping Down the Black Vote: Race and the Demobilization of American Voters. June 264 pages, 3 charts/graphs, 20 tables, 6.125 x 9.25 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4848-5 $29.95s/£18.95 Current Events

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The Case for Human Rights in the American Workplace James A. Gross “If you’re not convinced already that the rights of America’s workers have been thoroughly trumped by corporate property rights—and that we are paying an unacceptably high price as a result—you will be after reading this powerful and deeply unsettling book.”—Sheldon Friedman, Research Coordinator, AFL-CIO Voice@Work Campaign “A Shameful Business offers a thoughtful and comprehensive critique of contemporary labor policy in America. By viewing labor rights as human rights, James A. Gross has provided a provocative, highly original, and thoroughly readable record of America’s shocking failure to comply with international human rights norms.”—Robert Hebdon, McGill University

James A. Gross is Professor of Labor Law at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University. He is editor of Workers’ Rights as Human Rights, also from Cornell, and coeditor most recently of Human Rights in Labor and Employment Relations: International and Domestic Perspectives, also available from Cornell.

In a book that confronts the moral choices that U.S. corporations make every day in the treatment of their workers, James A. Gross issues a clarion call for the transformation of the American workplace based on genuine respect for human rights, rather than whatever the economic and regulatory landscape might allow. Gross questions the nation’s underlying fabric of values as reflected in its laws and our assumptions about workers and the workplace. Arguing that our market philosophy is incompatible with core principles of human rights, he forces readers to realign the country’s labor policies so that they conform with the highest international human rights standards. To make his case, Gross assesses various aspects of U.S. labor relations—freedom of association, racial discrimination, management rights, workplace safety, and human resources—through the lens of internationally accepted human rights principles as standards of judgment. His findings are chilling. “Employers who maintain workplaces that require men and women and sometimes even children to risk their lives and endanger their health and eyes and limbs in order to earn a living are treating human life as cheap and are seeking their own gain through the desecration of human life,” Gross argues, and such behavior should be considered as crimes against humanity rather than matters of efficiency, productivity, or morale. By revealing how truly unacceptable management’s “best practices” can be when considered as human rights issues, A Shameful Business encourages a bold new vision for workers, whether organized or not, that would signify a radical rethinking of social values and the concept of workplace rights and justice in the courtroom, the boardroom, and on the shop floor.

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Agitate! Educate! Organize! American Labor Posters Lincoln Cushing and Timothy W. Drescher

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Habits of the Heartland Small-Town Life in Modern America Lyn C. Macgregor “So, how do Americans in a small town make community today? This book argues that there is more than one answer, and that despite the continued importance of small-town stuff traditionally associated with face-to-face communities, it makes no sense to think that contemporary technological, economic, and cultural shifts have had no impact on the ways Americans practice community life. Instead, I found that different Viroquans took different approaches to making community that reflected different confluences of moral logics—their senses of obligation to themselves, to their families, to Viroqua, and to the world beyond it, and about the importance of exercising personal agency. The biggest surprise was that these ideas about obligation and agency and specifically about the degree to which it was necessary or good to try to bring one’s life into precise conformance with a set of larger goals, turned out to have replaced more traditional markers of social belonging like occupation and ethnicity, in separating Viroquans into social groups.”—from Habits of the Heartland

“Lyn C. Macgregor shows how communities are made in a rural place and, through the three cultural groups identified (Alternatives, Main Streeters, and Regulars), gives important insight into the production of community as well as community identities and individual and collective agency. Habits of the Heartland is a real contribution to the fields of community studies, rural studies, and cultural studies.”—Cornelia Flora, Iowa State University

Although most Americans no longer live in small towns, images of small-town life, and particularly of the mutual support and neighborliness to be found in such places, remain powerful in our culture. In Habits of the Heartland Lyn C. Macgregor investigates how the residents of Viroqua, Wisconsin, population 4,355, create a small-town community together. Macgregor lived in Viroqua for nearly two years. During that time she gathered data in public places, attended meetings, volunteered for civic organizations, talked to residents in their workplaces and homes, and worked as a bartender at the local American Legion post. Viroqua has all the outward hallmarks of the idealized American town; the kind of place where local merchants still occupy the shops on Main Street and everyone knows everyone else. On closer examination, one finds that the town contains three largely separate social groups: Alternatives, Main Streeters, and Regulars. These categories are not based on race or ethnic origins. Rather, social distinctions in Viroqua are based ultimately on residents’ ideas about what a community is and why it matters. These ideas both reflect and shape their choices as consumers, whether at the grocery store, as parents of school-age children, or in the voting booth. Living with—and listening to—the town’s residents taught Macgregor that while traditional ideas about “community,” especially as it was connected with living in a small town, still provided an important organizing logic for peoples’ lives, there were a variety of ways to understand and create community.

Lyn C. Macgregor, formerly Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Montana, lives in Madison, Wisconsin. April 272 pages, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4836-2 $65.00x/£40.50 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7643-3 $22.95s/£14.50 Sociology

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Eric Naiman

“This clear and compelling book is a delight. Nabokov, Perversely is a wellreasoned and brilliant attempt to revolutionize Nabokov studies. Eric Naiman has written a Nabokov book as much for Nabokov skeptics as for Nabokovians.”—Eliot Borenstein, New York University, author of Overkill: Sex and Violence in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture

Eric Naiman is Professor of Comparative Literature and Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Sex in Public: The Incarnation of Early Soviet Ideology. June 304 pages, 2 halftones, 6.125 x 9.25 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4820-1 $35.00s/£21.95 Literary Criticism

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Nabokov, Perversely

In an original and provocative reading of Vladimir Nabokov’s work and the moral peril to which its readers are subjected, Eric Naiman explores the significance and consequences of Nabokov’s insistence on bringing the issue of art’s essential perversity to the fore. Nabokov’s fiction is notorious for the interpretive panic it occasions in its readers, the sense that no matter how hard he or she tries, the reader has not gotten Nabokov “right.” At the same time, the fictions abound with characters who might be labeled perverts, and questions of sexuality lurk everywhere. Naiman argues that the sexual and the interpretive are so bound together in Nabokov’s stories and novels that the reader confronts the fear that there is no stable line between good reading and overreading, and that reading Nabokov well is beset by the exhilaration and performance anxiety more frequently associated with questions of sexuality than of literature. Nabokov’s fictions pervert their readers, obligingly training them to twist and turn the text in order to puzzle out its meanings, so that they become not better people but closer readers, assuming all the impudence and potential for shame that sexually oriented close-looking entails. In Nabokov, Perversely, Naiman traces the connections between sex and interpretation in Lolita (which he reads as a perverse work of Shakespeare scholarship), Pnin, Bend Sinister, and Ada. He examines the roots of perverse reading in The Defense and charts the enhanced attention to the connection between sex and metafiction in works translated from the Russian. He also takes on books by other authors—such as Reading Lolita in Tehran—that inappropriately incorporate Nabokov’s writing within frameworks of moral usefulness. In a final, extraordinary chapter, Naiman reads Dostoevsky’s The Double with Nabokovtrained eyes, making clear the power a strong writer can exert on readers.

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Books as Weapons Propaganda, Publishing, and the Battle for Global Markets in the Era of World War II John B. Hench Only weeks after the D-Day invasion of June 6, 1944, a surprising cargo—crates of books—joined the flood of troop reinforcements, weapons and ammunition, food, and medicine onto Normandy beaches. The books were destined for French bookshops, to be followed by millions more American books (in translation but also in English) ultimately distributed throughout Europe and the rest of the world. The British were doing similar work, which was uneasily coordinated with that of the Americans within the Psychological Warfare Division of General Eisenhower’s Supreme Command. Books as Weapons tells the little-known story of the vital partnership between American book publishers and the U.S. government to put carefully selected recent books highlighting American history and values into the hands of civilians liberated from Axis forces. The government desired to use books to help “disintoxicate” the minds of these people from the Nazi and Japanese propaganda and censorship machines and to win their friendship. This objective dovetailed perfectly with U.S. publishers’ ambitions to find new profits in international markets, which had been dominated by Britain, France, and Germany before their book trades were devastated by the war. Key figures on both the trade and government sides of the program considered books “the most enduring propaganda of all” and thus effective “weapons in the war of ideas,” both during the war and afterward, when the Soviet Union flexed its military might and demonstrated its propaganda savvy. Seldom have books been charged with greater responsibility or imbued with more significance. John B. Hench leavens this fully international account of the programs with fascinating vignettes set in the war rooms of Washington and London, publishers’ offices throughout the world, and the jeeps in which information officers drove over bomb-rutted roads to bring the books to people who were hungering for them. Books as Weapons provides context for continuing debates about the relationship between government and private enterprise and the image of the United States abroad.

Also of Interest The Waffen SS Hitler’s Elite Guard at War, 1939–1945 George H. Stein Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-9275-4 $19.95s/£15.50

“Making excellent use of a wide range of archives, John B. Hench argues that World War II was a turning point for American publishers, forcing them to undertake more strategic and cooperative planning across the industry than had been their wont and prompting them to see the world beyond their own borders as a viable and valuable marketplace. The war heightened publishers’ sense that they dealt in ideas even as it raised their awareness of the value of the commodity in which they traded.” —Trysh Travis, University of Florida

John B. Hench has retired from the post of Vice President for Collections and Programs at the American Antiquarian Society. He is coeditor of The Press and the American Revolution and Printing and Society in Early America. June 320 pages, 12 halftones, 6.125 x 9.25 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4891-1 $35.00s/£21.95 History/United States

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Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan Hiroshi Kitamura

“In Screening Enlightenment, Hiroshi Kitamura offers a view of the U.S. film industry’s efforts in Japan from the perspective of Japan’s engagement with and influence on the world’s cinema, as well as from the point of view of the United States in its cultural dealings with Japan.” —Andrew Gordon, Harvard University, author of A Modern History of Japan

Hiroshi Kitamura is Assistant Professor of History at the College of William and Mary. The United States in the World May 264 pages, 15 halftones, 1 chart/graph, 2 tables, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4599-6 $35.00s/£21.95 History/United States | Film

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Screening Enlightenment

During the six-and-a-half-year occupation of Japan (1945–1952), U.S. film studios—in close cooperation with Douglas MacArthur’s Supreme Command for the Allied Powers—launched an ambitious campaign to extend their power and influence in a historically rich but challenging film market. In this far-reaching “enlightenment campaign,” Hollywood studios disseminated more than six hundred films to theaters, reaped significant profits, and showcased the American way of life as a political, social, and cultural model for the war-shattered Japanese population. In Screening Enlightenment, Hiroshi Kitamura shows how this early attempt at cultural globalization helped transform Japan into one of Hollywood’s key markets. He also demonstrates the prominent role American cinema played in the reeducation and reorientation of the Japanese on behalf of the U.S. government. According to Kitamura, Hollywood achieved widespread results by turning to the support of U.S. government and military authorities, which offered privileged deals to American movies while rigorously controlling Japanese and other cinematic products. The presentation of American ideas and values as an emblem of culture, democracy, and sophistication also allowed the U.S. film industry to expand. However, the studios’ efforts would not have been nearly as successful without the local intermediaries and consumers who served as the program’s best publicists. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from studio memos and official documents of the occupation to publicity materials and Japanese fan magazines, Kitamura concludes that many Japanese were amenable to, and voluntary agents of, Americanization. A truly interdisciplinary book that combines U.S. diplomatic and cultural history, film and media studies, and modern Japanese history, Screening Enlightenment offers new insights into the origins of this political and cultural transpacific relationship.

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Atomic Tragedy Henry L. Stimson and the Decision to Use the Bomb against Japan Sean L. Malloy “Sean L. Malloy’s study of Henry L. Stimson, who served as secretary of war during World War II, is valuable. Stimson, who was in his seventies during the war, was one of the Republican Party’s most respected elder statesmen, having been in Hoover’s and Taft’s cabinets before. He was a deeply moral man who believed in the rule of law to keep international order. Yet despite his fervent belief in moral suasion, he succumbed to the allure of the atomic bomb—and all its attendant horrors—when presented with the possibility that the terrible war could be concluded through its use, even though at the expense of civilian life.”—Library Journal (starred review) “Malloy explores with sensitivity, insight, and rigorous attention to detail the complexity and contradictions of wartime research into atomic weapons.”—America in WWII Atomic Tragedy offers a unique perspective on one of the most important events of the twentieth century. As secretary of war during World War II, Henry L. Stimson (1867–1950) oversaw the American nuclear weapons program. In a book about how an experienced, principled man faltered when confronted by the tremendous challenge posed by the intersection of war, diplomacy, and technology, Sean L. Malloy examines Stimson’s struggle to reconcile his responsibility for “the most terrible weapon ever known in human history” with his long-standing convictions about war and morality. Ultimately, Stimson’s story is one of failure; despite his beliefs, Stimson reluctantly acquiesced in the use of the atomic bomb against heavily populated Japanese cities in August 1945. This is the first biography of Stimson to benefit from extensive use of papers relating to the Manhattan Project; Malloy has also uncovered evidence illustrating the origins of Stimson’s commitment to eliminating or refining the conduct of war against civilians, information that makes clear the agony of Stimson’s dilemma.

“Sean L. Malloy’s richly detailed, wellargued book offers a critical analysis of Henry L. Stimson’s role in what is arguably the most momentous U.S. defense and foreign policy decision of the modern era—to use nuclear weapons against Japan and as a diplomatic tool against the Soviet Union. Malloy’s goal is daunting, especially in a relatively brief book, but he achieves it surprisingly well. Making extensive use of archival resources, Malloy employs the lens of biography to recapture Stimson’s complicated relationship to the bomb and the context of its use. This book is a well-written, informative, judicious account that will be useful to historians as well as policy analysts and ethicists.”—Journal of American History

Sean L. Malloy is Assistant Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts at the University of California, Merced. April 248 pages, 13 halftones, 6 x 9 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7629-7 $19.95s/£12.50 [Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4654-2] History/United States | World War II

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“Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures shows how the exchange between alien civilizations Winner of prefigured a revolution in taste that the ASFS Book was both genuinely global and largeAward given by the ly independent of the power dynamAssociation for the Study of Food and ics of colonialism. Norton creatively Society uses a wide range of sources, from Mayan artwork to early modern medical manuals to Inquisition records, to show how two frequently consumed substances were integrated into European consciousness and diet.”—TLS “Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures is a superior and fascinating book. Marcy Norton seeks to explain why tobacco and chocolate, shunned by Europeans for most of the first century following Columbus’s landfall, subsequently became so enthusiastically accepted.”—American Historical Review Before Columbus’s fateful voyage in 1492, no European had ever seen, much less tasted, tobacco or chocolate. Initially dismissed as dry leaves and an odd Indian drink, these two commodities came to conquer Europe on a scale unsurpassed by any other American resource or product. A fascinating story of contact, exploration, and exchange in the Atlantic world, Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures traces the ways in which these two goods of the Americas both changed and were changed by Europe.

Marcy Norton is Associate Professor of History at George Washington University. She is the Associate Editor of Tobacco in History and Culture: An Encyclopedia.

Kingship, Sanctity, and Crusade in the Later Middle Ages M. Cecilia Gaposchkin “The Making of Saint Louis is one of the most important books on French history in years. It is a brilliant reconstruction and description of the way Louis IX was conceived as a saint in the two centuries after his death—I say brilliant and I mean it. M. Cecilia Gaposchkin exploits her sources with an admirable sophistication and mastery.”—William Chester Jordan, Princeton University “This is a beautifully written, well-researched, comprehensive, and insightful work on the cult of St. Louis, King Louis IX (1226–1270) of France. Scholars and students working in the fields of medieval history, art history, hagiography, and religion will find Gaposchkin’s book an invaluable resource for its content, illustrations, and bibliography.” —Catholic Historical Review Canonized in 1297 as Saint Louis, King Louis IX of France was one of the most important kings of medieval history and also one of the foremost saints of the later Middle Ages. As a saint, Louis became the centerpiece of an ideological program that buttressed the ongoing political consolidation of France and underscored Capetian claims of sacred kingship. M. Cecilia Gaposchkin reconstructs and analyzes the process that led to the monarch’s canonization and the consolidation and spread of his cult. In deepening our knowledge of this royal saint, this elegantly written book opens the curtain on the religious sensibilities and secular politics of a transitional period in European history.

M. Cecilia Gaposchkin is Assistant Dean of Faculty for Pre-Major Advising and Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at Dartmouth College.

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“This beautifully written study of Charles Dickens focuses intently on a body of writing that has too often been accused of lacking interiority and psychological depth. Carefully tracing the workings of Dickens’s conscious and unconscious mind in his letters, journalism, and fiction, Bodenheimer argues that the writer was engaged in a lifelong process of self-observation as keen as the observations that he brought to bear on others, and that he projected on to his fictional characters ‘an inward way of being that knew itself by mirroring its aspects on external screens.’”—Times Higher Education Supplement “Bodenheimer is especially keen on describing the ways in which Dickens plumbed his own rich fantasy life and parceled it out among imagined characters.”—Boston Globe In this compelling and accessible book Rosemarie Bodenheimer explores the thoughtworld of the Victorian novelist who was most deeply intrigued by nineteenth-century ideas about the unconscious mind. Dickens found many ways to dramatize in his characters both unconscious processes and acts of self-projection—notions that are sometimes applied to him as if he were an unwitting patient. Bodenheimer explains how the novelist used such techniques to negotiate the ground between knowing and telling, revealing and concealing

Rosemarie Bodenheimer is Professor of English at Boston College. She is the author of The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans and Fiction and The Politics of Story in Victorian Social Fiction, both from Cornell. May 256 pages, 1 halftone, 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7623-5 $22.50s/£13.95 [Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4614-6] Literary Criticism | Biography

Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry James Dan McCall “Reminding us of the pleasures literary criticism can provide, McCall’s splendid book on Hawthorne and James demonstrates a passion for literature. In conversational but elegant prose, McCall explores how his subjects navigated ‘the relationship between the lived life and the achieved art.’ Citizens of Somewhere Else is fresh and incisive.”—Publishers Weekly “Dan McCall writes in an informal, conversational style that gently demonstrates his passion for these two writers. McCall’s discussion is lively and convincing. He has a keen eye for linguistic detail and is at his best when carefully examining the novels and stories he explores.”—Henry James Review “In this study of significant works of Hawthorne and James, McCall exhibits a style that allows him to say what he thinks—to draw freely on his experience in the classroom, his considerable literary intelligence, and his views of recent criticism. The result is a book as refreshing as it is perceptive.” —American Literature “I am a citizen of somewhere else,” proclaimed Nathaniel Hawthorne in his preface to The Scarlet Letter. In many ways, Henry James shared that citizenship. Intrigued by their resolute stance as outsiders, Dan McCall here reassesses these two quintessentially American writers. He focuses on their works and on their connections to American history and culture. Through McCall’s eyes we gain a renewed appreciation both of James and Hawthorne and of the insights that criticism can bring to literature. Dan McCall is Professor Emeritus of American Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of The Silence of Bartleby, also from Cornell, and of seven novels, including Jack the Bear and Triphammer. January 214 pages, 8 halftones, 5.5 x 8.5 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7630-3 $19.95s/£12.50 [Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-3640-6] Literary Criticism

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Intellectual Property and the Literary Imagination Paul K. Saint-Amour

Noah Heringman “Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology is absorbing, eyeopening, and essential reading for anyone working in Romanticism and its relation to other disciplines.” —Jon Klancher, Carnegie Mellon University “The reexamination of Romantic views of materiality undertaken here is valuable since, as Heringman avers, our current environmental woes were precipitated, at least in part, by a forgetfulness of the resistant agency of the earth’s matter, of which some Romantic literature so powerfully reminds us.”—Romantic Circles Reviews “A fascinating study of the rocks of Romanticism, the geology of German and British thinking that flowed out from the fieldwork of scientists into the libraries, natural history museums, and scientific ‘cabinets’ of Europe.”—Nineteenth-Century Contexts

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“Paul K. Saint-Amour’s superb book is a sustained meditation on the shaping pressures exerted by intelWinner of the lectual property regimes upon 2004 MLA Prize for a First Book the modern literary imagination. We know that our cultural lifeblood is something we might as well call fair use—not a doctrine codified by lawmakers and construed by judges, but the homely good sense that can spread calm and tolerance in a crowded world of born imitators. Paul Saint-Amour’s book helps us to become better citizens of our imitative culture.”—James Joyce Literary Supplement

Noah Heringman maintains that British literary culture was fundamentally shaped by many of the same forces that created geology as a science in the period 1770–1820. He shows that landscape aesthetics—the verbal and social idiom of landscape gardening, natural history, the scenic tour, and other forms of outdoor “improvement”—provided a shared vernacular for geology and Romanticism in their formative stages. Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology reexamines a wide range of eighteenthand nineteenth-century poetry to discover its relationship to a broad cultural consensus on the nature and value of rocks and landforms.

Victorian and modernist writers, among them Oscar Wilde and James Joyce, wrestled with the intellectual property laws of their day. In a highly readable and thought-provoking book that places today’s copyright wars in historical context, Paul K. Saint-Amour asks: Would their art have survived the copyright laws of the new millennium? In The Copywrights, Saint-Amour challenges the notion that copyright’s function ends with the provision of private incentives to creation and innovation. The cases he examines lead him to argue that copyright performs a range of political, emotional, and even sacred functions that are too often ignored, and that what seems to have emerged as copyright’s primary function—the creation of private property incentives—must not be an end in itself.

Noah Heringman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri–Columbia. He is the editor of Romantic Science: The Literary Forms of Natural History.

Paul K. Saint-Amour is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

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The Enlargement of Life Moral Imagination at Work John Kekes “The Enlargement of Life develops an elaborate account, using detailed case studies, of how people can change (or fail to change) what they are like. It presents this life-changing enterprise as principally cognitive in nature. One needs to understand strengths and weaknesses of what one has been, and also to understand the possibilities of change. ‘Exploratory’ and ‘corrective’ imagination play a major role, although Kekes argues that the imagination needs to be disciplined for the process to work. He also argues that there are moral constraints, related to personal responsibility, on what can qualify as acceptable change.”—Mind

Moral imagination, according to John Kekes, is indispensable to a fulfilling and responsible life. By correcting a parochial view of the possibilities available to us and overcoming mistaken assumptions about our limitations, moral imagination liberates us from self-imposed narrowness. It enlarges life by enabling us to reflect more deeply and widely about how we should live. The material for this reflection, Kekes believes, is supplied by literature.

John Kekes is the author of many books, including The Roots of Evil, The Illusions of Egalitarianism, and The Art of Life, all from Cornell. april 256 pages, 6 x 9 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7627-3 $24.95s/£15.50 [Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4511-8] Philosophy

Poetry and Poetics in Late Antiquity Michael Roberts

“Michael Roberts skillfully delineates the qualities of the ‘jeweled style’ and shows that, although rhetorical ostentation was sometimes viewed with suspicion by Christian authors, it became an enduring part of late antique and medieval aesthetics. This book should not be overlooked by anyone interested in a readable treatment of early Christian and medieval Latin poetry.”—Religious Studies Review

Michael Roberts is Robert Rich Professor of Latin in the Department of Classical Studies at Wesleyan University. January 200 pages, 22 halftones, 1 line drawing, 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7633-4 $24.95s/£15.50 Classics

Rhetoric Reclaimed Aristotle and the Liberal Arts Tradition Janet M. Atwill “In Rhetoric Reclaimed, Janet Atwill offers a new framework for understanding the history of Western rhetoric and a reinterpretation of Aristotle’s place within that history. Atwill has done much to illuminate the competing forms of knowledge and subjectivity inscribed in the canonical texts of ancient rhetoric and has recovered a lost or underappreciated dimension of these texts.”—Rhetorik

Janet M. Atwill is Professor of English at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. She is coeditor of The Viability of the Rhetorical Tradition. Rhetoric and Society January 254 pages, 6 x 9 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7605-1 $24.95s/£15.50 Literary Criticism

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Fall Creek Books is an imprint of Cornell University Press dedicated to making available classic books that document the history, culture, natural history, and folkways of New York State. Presented in new paperback editions that faithfully reproduce the contents of the original editions, Fall Creek Books titles will appeal to all readers interested in New York and the state’s rich past. Click here for more information

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Cornell University Founders and the Founding Carl L. Becker

“Howard Zinn’s LaGuardia in Congress is an exceedingly well written and highly readable study of a man and his times.”—American Political Science Review

“This book is written with the lively grace that marks all of Carl L. Becker’s work and is illuminated with shafts of humor. The author’s thorough investigation has brought to light valuable material on the history of Cornell.”—American Historical Review

Howard Zinn is a historian, playwright, and social activist. He has taught at Spelman College and Boston University and is the author of numerous books, including A People’s History of the United States.

Carl L. Becker (1873–1945) taught at Cornell University, where he was John Wendell Anderson Professor of History and University Historian, from 1917 to 1941. His many books include The Declaration of Independence and The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers.

March 302 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7617-4 $27.95s/£17.50 Regional/New York

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Lore of an Adirondack County Edith E. Cutting “Essex County is generally thought of by New York State folklorists as the area where the tall tale and ballad flourish most vigorously. Lore of an Adirondack County bears out this assumption.”—California Folklore Quarterly

Edith E. Cutting is a former English high school teacher and the author of several collections of New York State folklore. She coedited, with Harold W. Thompson, A Pioneer Songster: Texts from the Stevens-Douglass Manuscript of Western New York, 1841–1856, also from Cornell.

Landlords and Farmers in the Hudson-Mohawk Region, 1790–1850 David Maldwyn Ellis

“David Maldwyn Ellis has well chosen the Hudson, the Mohawk, and their tributaries for a study of agriculture in one of its periods of intensive development in the state of New York. In the years under study, 1790–1850, every kind of agriculture was prospering in the twenty-one counties studied.” —American Historical Review

David Maldwyn Ellis was Professor of History at Hamilton College. His other books include New York: State and City, also available from Cornell.

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Crude Awakenings

Toxic Exports The Transfer of Hazardous Wastes from Rich to Poor Countries Jennifer Clapp

Global Oil Security and American Foreign Policy Steve A. Yetiv “Crude Awakenings is smart, practical, and convincing. Steve A. Yetiv argues that while trade and ‘dependency’ may put nations into conflict, it also pulls them together. We must deal with the owners of energy just as people in cities must rely on farmers for food.”—Wall Street Journal

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“Jennifer Clapp provides an engaging account of waste export and hazardous technology transfer problems and an accessible analysis of the various international conventions and amendments that were developed to address these concerns. Clapp is persuasive in her writing because she presents the perspective of all the major stakeholders in this drama: governments, environmental NGOs, and industry.”—Journal of Environment and Development

“Yetiv provides an invaluable guide to the realities that surround the supply of global oil to the world economy. At a time when political analysts and policymakers agree that threats to the global supply of oil have never been greater, Yetiv asserts that such “That the economy and many environmental probassumptions about oil markets are misleading and lems are global is incontestable. Illustrating and wrong. This fine piece of scholarship clearly enhanc- documenting that reality, Clapp details the story es understanding of global oil security.”—Choice of hazardous waste and toxic technology transfer and the complex history of international efforts to curtail and eliminate it.”—Choice Steve A. Yetiv argues that common assumptions about oil markets are wrong. Although prices remain volatile, Yetiv’s account portrays a world mar- International trade in toxic waste and hazardous ket in petroleum products far more benign and pre- technologies by firms in rich industrialized coundictable than the one to which we are accustomed. tries has become a routine practice. EnvironmenIn Crude Awakenings, he identifies and analyzes talists and the governments of developing counreal and potential threats to the global energy sup- tries have lobbied intensively and generated public ply, including wars, revolutions, coups, dangerous outcry in an attempt to halt hazardous transfers alliances, oil embargoes, Islamic radicalism, and from Northern industrialized nations to the Third transnational terrorism. However, he also shows World, but the practice continues. In her insightful how some of these threats have been mitigated and and important book, Jennifer Clapp addresses this how global oil security has been reinforced. alarming problem.

Steve A. Yetiv is Professor of Political Science at Old Dominion University. He is the author of Explaining Foreign Policy: U.S. Decision Making and the Persian Gulf War; America and the Persian Gulf; and The Persian Gulf Crisis. January 256 pages, 9 graphs, 6 tables, 6 x 9 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7650-1 $24.95s/£15.50 [Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4268-1] Political Science

Jennifer Clapp is CIGI Chair in International Governance and Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies, at the University of Waterloo. She is the author of Adjustment and Agriculture in Africa: Farmers, the State, and the World Bank in Guinea and the coauthor of Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment. January 192 pages, 5 tables, 6 x 9 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7649-5 $22.95s/£14.50 [Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-3887-5] Political Science

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Site Fights

Digital Dragon

Divisive Facilities and Civil Society in Japan and the West Daniel P. Aldrich

High-Technology Enterprises in China Adam Segal

“The unique contribution of this book lies in its nature as an exercise in comparative public policy. The case studies, which include Japan and France, are very well done and provide empirical evidence for the universal nature of the human reaction to siting dilemmas. They suggest that the strategic interaction between democratic state policy processes and the organizational structure of the civic society involved— including its conventions, values, and legal background—can indeed predict the success or failure of facility siting.”—Political Science Quarterly

“Digital Dragon is packed with solid information and exceptional insights. Adam Segal examines the record of firms in four cities and concludes that success or failure depends very much on the practices of the local governments. The importance of this factor explains one of his most surprising findings: that Beijing firms were more successful than those in Shanghai, where local authorities concentrated their support for high-tech developments on only the large state-owned enterprises and multinationals. In short, there is no getting around the role of government.”—Foreign Affairs

“Site Fights is an impressive book that pushes the reader to reconsider the role of civil society in state policymaking. It is of great interest to scholars in comparative politics and civil society research, activists, and policymakers alike.”—Japanese Journal of Political Science

“Segal has succeeded in painting a vivid portrait of local backgrounds in the four regions under consideration, starting from interviews with local government officials and entrepreneurs. Anyone who wants to trade with or invest in China will gain a lot from reading this book.”—Leonardo

One of the most vexing problems for governments is building controversial facilities that serve the needs of all citizens but have adverse consequences for host communities. Policymakers must decide not only where to locate often unwanted projects but also what methods to use when interacting with opposition groups. In Site Fights, Daniel P. Aldrich gathers quantitative evidence from close to five hundred municipalities across Japan to show that planners deliberately seek out acquiescent and unorganized communities for such facilities in order to minimize conflict.

China has adopted a wide array of policies designed to raise its technological capability and foster industrial growth. Digital Dragon is the first detailed look at a major Chinese institutional experiment and at high-tech endeavors in China. The evolution of the high-technologies sector will determine, Segal says, whether China will become a modern economy or simply a large one.

Daniel P. Aldrich is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Purdue University and, during the 2007–2008 academic year, was a Visiting Scholar at Tokyo University.

Adam Segal is Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow in China Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

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A Council on Foreign Relations Book Cornell Studies in Political Economy January 208 pages, 2 graphs, 5 charts, 2 tables, 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7636-5 $22.95s/£14.50 [Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-3985-8] Political Science

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The Ultimate Enemy

Sorry States

British Intelligence and Nazi Germany 1933–1939 Wesley K. Wark

Apologies in International Politics Jennifer Lind

“The Ultimate Enemy is clearly, often cleverly and brilliantly, written. It has wit and panache. And, most of all, the author brings a massive intelligence and industry to bear on one of the most important topics of interwar history.”—Paul M. Kennedy, Yale University In The Ultimate Enemy, Wesley K. Wark catalogs the many misperceptions about Nazi Germany that were often fostered by British intelligence. Wesley K. Wark is Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto. Cornell Studies in Security Affairs

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Liddell Hart and the Weight of History John J. Mearsheimer Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart (1895–1970) was long the most highly regarded writer on strategy and military matters in the English-speaking world. In this unflinching but balanced book, John J. Mearsheimer reexamines Liddell Hart’s career. John J. Mearsheimer is R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and codirector of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Conventional Deterrence and The Tragedy of Great Power Politics and coauthor, with Stephen M. Walt, of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. Cornell Studies in Security Affairs January 248 pages, 6 x 9 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7631-0 $24.95s/£15.50 [Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-2089-4] History/Military

“States victimized by aggression often harbor resentment against the perpetrator, but can apologies by the latter lead to reconciliation and harmonious relations? Jennifer Lind focuses on political rather than cultural factors in her cogent analysis of remembrance and remorse. She finds that the issue is whether apologies by the aggressor can reduce the perception of threat by former victims. She concludes that this is possible, but recognizes that bilateral ties may also be improved in the absence of apologies and that apologies can produce jingoistic backlashes in their own countries.” —Choice Examining South Korean relations with Japan and French relations with Germany, Jennifer Lind demonstrates that denials of past atrocities fuel distrust and inhibit international reconciliation. In Sorry States, she argues that a country’s acknowledgment of past misdeeds is essential for promoting trust and reconciliation after war. However, Lind challenges the conventional wisdom by showing that many countries have been able to reconcile without much in the way of apologies or reparations. Contrition can be highly controversial and is likely to cause a domestic backlash that alarms—rather than assuages—outside observers. Apologies and other such polarizing gestures are thus unlikely to soothe relations after conflict, Lind finds, and remembrance that is less accusatory—conducted bilaterally or in multilateral settings—holds the most promise for international reconciliation.

Jennifer Lind is Assistant Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. Cornell Studies in Security Affairs April 256 pages, 7 halftones, 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7628-0 $22.95s/£14.50 [Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4625-2] Political Science

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Occupational Hazards

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Success and Failure in Military Occupation David M. Edelstein

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

“Occupational Hazards seamlessly blends theory, historical case studies, and policy relevance; it is a very good book. I really hope that it attracts the attention it deserves from U.S. policymakers, the ones who most need it before they embark on future military occupations.” —Perspectives on Politics

“This is a powerful work that should be required reading in all of the military academies and war colleges. Policymakers of the present and future should put it on their must-read list. Essential.”—Choice In Occupational Hazards, David M. Edelstein elucidates the occasional successes of military occupations and their more frequent failures. In a book that has implications for present-day policy, he draws evidence from such historical cases as well as from four current occupations—Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq—where the outcome is not yet known.

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“Channels of Power makes a major contribution by showing how international organizations provide informative signals to states with respect to coercive foreign policy actions. It deserves the attention of all students of world politics.”—Robert O. Keohane, Princeton University “Channels of Power is 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 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.

David M. Edelstein is Assistant Professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and the Department of Government at Georgetown University. In addition, he is a core faculty member in Georgetown’s Security Studies Program and Center for Peace and Security Studies. Cornell Studies in Security Affairs

Alexander Thompson is Associate Professor of Political Science at The Ohio State University.

May 248 pages, 1 chart/graph, 5 tables, 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7624-2 $22.95s/£14.50 [Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4615-3] Political Science

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A Community of Europeans? Transnational Identities and Public Spheres Thomas Risse In A Community of Europeans? a thoughtful observer of the ongoing project of European integration evaluates the state of the art about European identity and European public spheres. Thomas Risse argues that integration has had profound and long-term effects on the citizens of EU countries, most of whom now have at least a secondary “European identity” to complement their national identities. Risse also claims that we can see the gradual emergence of transnational European communities of communication. Exploring the outlines of this European identity and of the communicative spaces, Risse sheds light on some pressing questions: What do “Europe” and “the EU” mean in the various public debates? How do European identities and transnational public spheres affect policymaking in the EU? And how do they matter in discussions about enlargement, particularly Turkish accession to the EU? What will be the consequences of the growing contestation and politicization of European affairs for European democracy?

“A Community of Europeans? is a pathbreaking contribution that brings together the main strands of theoretical and policy debate since the EU’s current identity crisis began in the early 1990s and evaluates them against the best and most up-to-date empirical data. Thomas Risse has been a leading voice in these debates since their inception.”—Thomas Banchoff, Director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and Associate Professor of Government, Georgetown University

This focus on identity allows Risse to address the “democratic deficit” of the EU, the disparity between the level of decision making over increasingly relevant issues for peoples’ lives (at the EU) and the level where politics plays itself out—in the member states. He argues that the EU’s democratic deficit can only be tackled through politicization and that “debating Europe” might prove the only way to defend modern and cosmopolitan Europe against the increasingly forceful voices of Euroskepticism.

Also of Interest The End of the West? Crisis and Change in the Atlantic Order Edited by Jeffrey Anderson, G. John Ikenberry, and Thomas Risse Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7400-2 $21.00s/£16.50

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Thomas Risse is Professor of International Politics, Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin. He is coeditor of The End of the West? Conflict and Change in the Atlantic Order, also from Cornell, and the author of books including Cooperation among Democracies: The European Influence on U.S. Foreign Policy. May 272 pages, 8 charts/graphs 6.125 x 9.25 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4663-4 $65.00x/£40.50 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7648-8 $24.95s/£15.50 Political Science

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Weapons of Mass Migration

Red to Green

Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy Kelly M. Greenhill

Environmental Activism in Post-Soviet Russia Laura A. Henry

“Kelly M. Greenhill’s Weapons of Mass Migration shines a bright light on strategically engineered migration.”—Michael Barnett, Harold Stassen Chair at the Hubert H. Humphrey School, University of Minnesota At first glance, the U.S. decision to escalate the war in Vietnam in the mid-1960s, China’s position on North Korea’s nuclear program in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and the EU resolution to lift what remained of the arms embargo against Libya in the mid-2000s would appear to share little in common. Yet each of these seemingly unconnected and farreaching foreign policy decisions resulted at least in part from the exercise of a unique kind of coercion, one predicated on the intentional creation, manipulation, and exploitation of real or threatened mass population movements. In Weapons of Mass Migration, Kelly M. Greenhill offers the first systematic examination of this widely deployed but largely unrecognized instrument of state influence. Coercers aim to affect target states’ behavior by exploiting the existence of competing political interests and groups, Greenhill argues, and by manipulating the costs or risks imposed on target state populations. This “coercion by punishment” strategy can be effected in two ways: the first relies on straightforward threats to overwhelm a target’s capacity to accommodate a refugee or migrant influx; the second, on a kind of norms-enhanced political blackmail that exploits the existence of legal and normative commitments to those fleeing violence, persecution, or privation. Kelly M. Greenhill is Assistant Professor of Government at Tufts University and a Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. She is coeditor of Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts, also from Cornell.

“Red to Green is well written, theoretically sophisticated, and fills an important gap in the existing literature on comparative environmental activism.” —Jane I. Dawson, Connecticut College Environmental activism in contemporary Russia exemplifies both the promise and the challenge facing grassroots politics in the post-Soviet period. In the late Soviet period, Russia’s environmental movement was one of the country’s most dynamic and effective forms of social activism, and it appeared well positioned to influence the direction and practice of post-Soviet politics. At present, however, activists scattered across Russia face severe obstacles to promoting green issues that range from wildlife protection and nuclear safety to environmental education. Laura Henry details what grassroots organizations in Russia actually do, how they use the limited economic and political opportunities that are available to them, and when they are able to influence policy and political practice. Drawing on her in-depth interviews with activists, Henry illustrates how green organizations have pursued their goals by “recycling” Soviet-era norms, institutions, and networks and using them in combination with transnational ideas, resources, and partnerships.

Laura A. Henry is Assistant Professor of Government and Legal Studies at Bowdoin College. She is coeditor of Russian Civil Society: A Critical Assessment.

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Changing Politics in Japan

Asia’s Flying Geese

Ikuo Kabashima and Gill Steel

How Regionalization Shapes Japan Walter F. Hatch

“Changing Politics in Japan provides an up-to-date, integrated, and historically salient argument about the links between parties, politicians, and elections in postwar Japan.”—T. J. Pempel, University of California, Berkeley Changing Politics in Japan is a fresh and insightful account of the profound changes that have shaken up the Japanese political system and transformed it almost beyond recognition in the last couple of decades. Ikuo Kabashima—a former professor who is now Governor of Kumamoto Prefecture—and Gill Steel outline the basic features of politics in postwar Japan in an accessible and engaging manner. They focus on the dynamic relationship between voters and elected or nonelected officials and describe the shifts that have occurred in how voters respond to or control political elites and how officials both respond to, and attempt to influence, voters. Kabashima and Steel set out to demolish the still prevalent myth that Japanese politics are a stagnant set of entrenched systems and interests that are fundamentally undemocratic. In its place, they reveal a lively and dynamic democracy, in which politicians and parties are increasingly listening to and responding to citizens’ needs and interests and the media and other actors play a substantial role in keeping democratic accountability alive and healthy. Kabashima and Steel describe how all the political parties in Japan have adapted the ways in which they attempt to organize and channel votes and argue that contrary to many journalistic stereotypes the government is increasingly acting in the “the interests of citizens”—the median voter’s preferences.

Ikuo Kabashima is Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo, and Governor of Kumamoto Prefecture. His many books include Elites and the Idea of Equality. Gill Steel is Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Tokyo. She is coeditor of Reform in Japan: Assessing the Impact. June 184 pages, 22 graphs, 7 tables, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4876-8 $55.00x/£34.50 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7600-6 $19.95s/£12.50 Political Science

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“Asia’s Flying Geese connects social organization, economics, and politics to bring the study of East Asian regionalism to life. In this landmark book on an extremely important topic, Walter F. Hatch explains Japan’s economic stagnation and subsequent transformation by looking at its ties to East Asia.”—Mark Tilton, Purdue University In Asia’s Flying Geese, Walter F. Hatch tackles the puzzle of Japan’s paradoxically slow change during the economic crisis it faced in the 1990s. Hatch shows how Japanese political and economic elites delayed—but could not in the end forestall—the transformation of their distinctive brand of capitalism by trying to extend it to the rest of Asia. For most of the 1990s, the region grew rapidly as an increasingly integrated but hierarchical group of economies. Japanese diplomats and economists came to call them “flying geese.” The “lead goose” or most developed economy, Japan, supplied the capital, technology, and even developmental norms to second-tier “geese” such as Singapore and South Korea, which themselves traded with Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines, and so on down the V-shaped line to Indonesia and coastal China. Japan’s model of capitalism, which Hatch calls “relationalism,” was thus fortified, even as it became increasingly outdated. The Asian economic crisis in the late 1990s destabilized many of the surrounding economies upon which Japan had in some measure depended, and the People’s Republic of China gained new prominence on the global scene as an economic dynamo. These changes, Hatch concludes, have forced real transformation in Japan’s corporate governance, its domestic politics, and in its ongoing relations with its neighbors. Walter F. Hatch is Assistant Professor of Government at Colby College. Cornell Studies in Political Economy May 304 pages, 19 charts/graphs, 5 tables, 6.125 x 9.25 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4868-3 $65.00x/£40.50 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7647-1 $24.95s/£16.95 Political Science

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Constructing the International Economy Edited by Rawi Abdelal, Mark Blyth, and Craig Parsons Focusing empirically on how political and economic forces are always mediated and interpreted by agents, both in individual countries and in the international sphere, Constructing the International Economy sets out what such constructions and what various forms of constructivism mean, both as ways of understanding the world and as sets of varying methods for achieving that understanding. It rejects the assumption that material interests either linearly or simply determine economic outcomes and demands that analysts consider, as a plausible hypothesis, that economies might vary substantially for nonmaterial reasons that affect both institutions and agents’ interests. Contributors: Rawi Abdelal, Harvard Business School;

Jacqueline Best, University of Ottawa; Mark Blyth, Brown University; Mlada Bukovansky, Smith College; Jeffrey M. Chwieroth, London School of Economics; Francesco Duina, Copenhagen Business School; Charlotte Epstein, University of Sydney; Yoshiko M. Herrera, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Paul Langley, Northumbria University; Craig Parsons, University of Oregon; Catherine Weaver, University of Texas at Austin; Wesley W. Widmaier, Saint Joseph’s University; Cornelia Woll, CERISciences Po Paris

Rawi Abdelal is Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is the the author of National Purpose in the World Economy, also from Cornell, and Capital Rules. Mark Blyth is Professor of International Political Economy at Brown University and the author most recently of The Handbook of International Political Economy: IPE as a Global Conversation. Craig Parsons is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon and the author of books including A Certain Idea of Europe, also from Cornell, and How to Map Arguments in Political Science. Cornell Studies in Political Economy April 280 pages, 1 chart/graph, 10 tables, 6.125 x 9.25 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4865-2 $65.00x/£40.50 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7588-7 $24.95s/£15.50 Political Science

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Protection for Exporters Power and Discrimination in Transatlantic Trade Relations, 1930–2010 Andreas Dür

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“Andreas Dür posits a new argument as to why the United States and the European Community have focused on preferential trade agreements, forcing us to rethink why these trade agreements have proliferated. Trade scholars will be discussing this book extensively in the years to come.”—Susan Ariel Aaronson, George Washington University “All those interested in the politics of EU and U.S. trade policy and negotiations will want to keep up with the work of Andreas Dür.”—John S. Odell, University of Southern California The liberalization of transatlantic trade relations since the Great Depression is one of the key developments in the global political economy of the last hundred years. This period has seen the negotiated reduction of both tariffs and nontariff barriers among developed countries, which allowed for the rapid expansion of trade flows, a driving force of economic globalization. In Protection for Exporters, Andreas Dür provides a novel explanation for this phenomenon that stresses the role of societal interests in shaping trade politics. He argues that exporters lobby more in reaction to losses of foreign market access than in pursuit of opportunities, thus providing a rationale for periods of acceleration and slowdown in the pace of liberalization. Dür also presents hypotheses about the form in which protection for exporters is provided (preferential or nonpreferential) and the balance of concessions that is exchanged in trade negotiations.

Andreas Dür is Professor of International Politics at the University of Salzburg. March 264 pages, 6 charts/graphs, 15 tables, 6.125 x 9.25 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4823-2 $39.95s/£24.95 Political Science

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Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats

Socialist Insecurity

Oil and the State in Saudi Arabia Steffen Hertog “Toward the end of his career, the great Yale political scientist Charles Lindblom advised us to abandon the hopeless pursuit of scientific ‘laws’ and ‘discoveries’ and instead concentrate on what we can indeed do well: correcting the discipline’s own errors and getting the facts straight. Steffen Hertog does both with consummate style and skill in Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats.”—Robert Vitalis, University of Pennsylvania In Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats, the most thorough treatment of the political economy of Saudi Arabia to date, Steffen Hertog uncovers an untold history of how the elite rivalries and whims of half a century ago have shaped today’s Saudi state and are reflected in its policies. Starting in the late 1990s, Saudi Arabia embarked on an ambitious reform campaign to remedy its long-term economic stagnation. The results have been puzzling for both area specialists and political economists: Saudi institutions have not failed across the board, as theorists of the “rentier state” would predict, nor have they achieved the allencompassing modernization the regime has touted. Instead, the kingdom has witnessed a bewildering mélange of thorough failures and surprising successes. Hertog argues that it is traits peculiar to the Saudi state that make sense of its uneven capacities. Oil rents since World War II have shaped Saudi state institutions in ways that are far from uniform. Oil money has given regime elites unusual leeway for various institutional experiments in different parts of the state. This enables swift and successful policymaking in some areas but produces coordination and regulation failures in others.

Steffen Hertog is Kuwait Professor at Sciences Po Paris and Lecturer in the School of Government and International Affairs at the University of Durham. February 312 pages, 11 charts/graphs, 2 tables, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4781-5 $35.00s/£21.95 Political Science

Pensions and the Politics of Uneven Development in China Mark W. Frazier

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“Mark W. Frazier offers an excellent contribution to research on the welfare state by thoroughly examining the factors that have shaped the unique development of China’s old age pension system.” —Sarah M. Brooks, The Ohio State University Over the past two decades, China has rapidly increased its spending on its public pension programs, to the point that pension funding is one of the government’s largest expenditures. Despite this, only about 50 million citizens—one-third of the country’s population above the age of 60—receive pensions. Combined with the growing and increasingly violent unrest over inequalities brought about by China’s reform model, the escalating costs of an aging society have brought the Chinese political leadership to a critical juncture in its economic and social policies. In Socialist Insecurity, Mark W. Frazier explores pension policy in the People’s Republic of China, arguing that the government’s push to expand pension and health insurance coverage to urban residents and rural migrants has not reduced, but rather reproduced, economic inequalities. He explains this apparent paradox by analyzing the decisions of the political actors responsible for pension reform: urban officials and state-owned enterprise managers. Frazier shows that China’s highly decentralized pension administration both encourages the “grabbing hand” of local officials to collect large amounts of pension and other social insurance revenue and compels redistribution of these revenues to urban pensioners, a crucial political constituency. Developing countries such as China, Frazier argues, provide new terrain to explore how welfare programs evolve, who drives the process, and who sees the greatest benefit. Mark W. Frazier is Conoco-Phillips Professor of Chinese Politics and Associate Professor, School of International and Area Studies, at the University of Oklahoma. January 224 pages, 1 line drawing, 3 charts/graphs, 34 tables, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4822-5 $35.00s/£21.95 Political Science

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Brown in Baltimore

Urban America Reconsidered

School Desegregation and the Limits of Liberalism Howell S. Baum

Alternatives for Governance and Policy David Imbroscio

“In this sensitive, readable. and well-researched book, Howell S. Baum shows how Baltimore officials tried and failed to integrate the city schools.”—Edward D. Berkowitz, George Washington University In the first book to present the history of Baltimore school desegregation, Howell S. Baum shows how good intentions got stuck on what Gunnar Myrdal called the “American Dilemma.” Immediately after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, the city’s liberal school board voted to desegregate and adopted a free choice policy that made integration voluntary. Baltimore’s school desegregation proceeded peacefully, without the resistance or violence that occurred elsewhere. However, few whites chose to attend school with blacks, and after a few years of modest desegregation, schools resegregated and became increasingly segregated. The school board never changed its policy. Black leaders had urged the board to adopt free choice, and, despite the limited desegregation, continued to support the policy and never sued the board to do anything else.

“Urban America Reconsidered raises some very provocative questions about the current direction of research in urban politics and presents an intriguing perspective on the future of urban policy action in the United States.”—Larry Bennett, coauthor of It’s Hardly Sportin’: Stadiums, Neighborhoods, and the New Chicago The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina laid bare the tragedy of American cities. What the storm revealed about the social conditions in New Orleans shocked many Americans. Even more shocking is how widespread these conditions are throughout much of urban America. Plagued by ineffectual and inegalitarian governance, acute social problems such as extreme poverty, and social and economic injustice, many American cities suffer a fate similar to that of New Orleans before and after the hurricane. Gentrification and corporate redevelopment schemes merely distract from this disturbing reality.

Baum finds that American liberalism is the key to explaining how this happened. From the classroom to city hall, Baum examines how Baltimore’s distinct identity as a border city between North and South shaped local conversations about the national conflict over race and equality. The city’s history of wrestling with the legacy of Brown reveals Americans’ preferred way of dealing with racial issues: not talking about race. This avoidance, Baum concludes, allows segregation to continue.

Compounding this tragedy is a failure in urban analysis and scholarship. Little has been offered in the way of solving urban America’s problems, and much of what has been proposed or practiced remains profoundly misguided, in David Imbroscio’s view. In Urban America Reconsidered, he offers a timely response. He urges a reconsideration of the two reigning orthodoxies in urban studies— regime theory and liberal expansionism. Declaring both approaches to be insufficient, Imbroscio illuminates another path for urban America: remaking city economies via an array of local economic alternative development strategies (or LEADS).

Howell S. Baum is Professor of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Maryland. He is the author most recently of Community Action for School Reform and The Organization of Hope: Communities Planning Themselves.

David Imbroscio is Professor of Political Science at the University of Louisville. He is the author of Reconstructing City Politics and Urban Regimes, coauthor of Making a Place for Community: Local Democracy in a Global Era, and coeditor of Theories of Urban Politics, second edition, and Critical Urban Studies: New Directions.

May 272 pages, 3 tables, 2 maps, 6.125 x 9.25 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4808-9 $75.00x/£46.95 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7652-5 $24.95s/£15.50 History/United States | Education

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Working for Justice

Workplace Flexibility

The L.A. Model of Organizing and Advocacy Edited by Ruth Milkman, Joshua Bloom, and Victor Narro

Realigning 20th-Century Jobs for a 21st-Century Workforce Edited by Kathleen Christensen and Barbara Schneider

Working for Justice, which includes eleven case studies of recent low-wage worker organizing campaigns in Los Angeles, makes the case for a distinctive “L.A. Model” of union and worker center organizing. The organized labor movement in Los Angeles has weathered the effects of deindustrialization and deregulation better than unions in other parts of the United States, and this has helped to anchor the city’s wider low-wage worker movement.

Although today’s family has changed, the workplace has not—and the resulting one-size-fits-all workplace has become profoundly mismatched to the needs of an increasingly diverse and varied workforce. As changes in the composition of the workforce exert new demands on employers, considerable attention is being paid to how workplaces can be structured more flexibly to achieve the goals of employers and employees. Workplace Flexibility brings together sixteen essays authored by leading experts in economics, demography, political science, law, sociology, anthropology, and management. Collectively, they make the case for workplace flexibility, as well as examine existing business practices and public policy regarding flexibility in the United States, Europe, Australia, and Japan.

The case studies in Working for Justice are all based on original field research on organizing campaigns among L.A. day laborers, garment workers, car wash workers, security officers, janitors, taxi drivers, and hotel workers as well as the efforts of ethnically focused worker centers and immigrant rights organizations. Working for Justice is a valuable resource for sociologists and other scholars in the interdisciplinary field of labor studies, as well as for advocates and policymakers.

Ruth Milkman is Professor of Sociology at UCLA and the CUNY Graduate Center and Associate Director of the Murphy Labor Institute at CUNY. She is coeditor of Rebuilding Labor and editor of Organizing Immigrants, both from Cornell, and author of L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement. Joshua Bloom is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at UCLA and coauthor of the forthcoming Black against Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Black Panther Party. Victor Narro, J.D. is Project Director of the UCLA Downtown Labor Center.

Contributors: Margaret Beck; Suzanne M. Bianchi; James T. Bond; Juliet Bourke; Belinda Campos; Kathleen Christensen; Laura den Dulk,; Robert Drago; Sheila Eby; Ellen Galinsky; Janet C. Gornick; Steven J. Haider; Sylvia Ann Hewlett; Qinlei Huang; Robert Hutchens; Sumiko Iwao; Suzan Lewis; David S. Loughran; Phyllis Moen; Patrick Nolen; Elinor Ochs; Shira Offer; Machiko Osawa; Kelly Sakai; Barbara Schneider; Merav Shohet; Blake Sisk; Matthew Weinshenker; Vanessa R. Wight; Tyler Wigton; Joan C. Williams; Mark Wooden

Kathleen Christensen is Program Director at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and coeditor of Contingent Work, also from Cornell. Barbara Schneider is John A. Hannah University Distinguished Professor in the College of Education and the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University and a Senior Fellow, NORC and the University of Chicago. She is coeditor of The AERA Handbook on Education Policy Research. An ILR Press Book

An ILR Press Book March 312 pages, 8 tables, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4858-4 $65.00x/£40.50 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7580-1 $21.95s/£13.95 Labor

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Stretched Thin

In Search of Paradise

Poor Families, Welfare Work, and Welfare Reform Sandra Morgen, Joan Acker, and Jill Weigt

Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis Li Zhang

“This is a wonderfully thoughtful and illuminating book. Sandra Morgen, Joan Acker, and Jill Weigt peered into the workings of the Oregon welfare system after the implementation of the draconian reform of 1996. The result is a closely observant picture of just what went on.”—Frances Fox Piven, Graduate Center of the City University of New York By examining the varied realities and accountings of welfare restructuring, Stretched Thin looks back at a critical moment of policy change and suggests how welfare policy in the United States can be changed to better address the needs of poor families and the nation. Sandra Morgen, Joan Acker, and Jill Weigt question the validity of claims that welfare reform has been a success. They show how poor families, welfare workers, and welfare administrators experienced and assessed welfare reform differently based on gender, race, class, and their varying positions of power and control within the welfare state. The authors document the ways that, despite the dramatic drop in welfare rolls, lowwage jobs and inadequate social supports left many families struggling in poverty. Sandra Morgen is Professor of Anthropology and Associate Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Oregon. She is the author of books including Into Our Own Hands and coeditor most recently of Security Disarmed. Joan Acker is Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Oregon and the author of Class Questions and Doing Comparable Worth. Jill Weigt is Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University–San Marcos.

“In Search of Paradise is an engaging collection of ethnographies of the very different ways in which individuals, families, and social strata are affected by the experience of homeownership. Li Zhang explains how, in the process, they become citizens of a different political order, building responsibilities and elaborating desires.”—Luigi Tomba, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific A new revolution in homeownership and living has been sweeping the booming cities of China. This time the main actors on the social stage are not peasants, migrants, or working-class proletariats but middle-class professionals and entrepreneurs in search of a private paradise in a society now dominated by consumerism. No longer seeking happiness and fulfillment through collective sacrifice and socialist ideals, they hope to find material comfort and social distinction in newly constructed gated communities. This quest for the good life is profoundly transforming the physical and social landscapes of urban China. Li Zhang, who is from Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, turns a keen ethnographic eye on her hometown. In Search of Paradise is a deeply informed account of how the rise of private homeownership is reconfiguring urban space, class subjects, gender selfhood, and ways of life in the reform era. New, seemingly individualistic lifestyles mark a dramatic move away from yearning for a social utopia under Maoist socialism. Yet the privatization of property and urban living have engendered a simultaneous movement of public engagement among homeowners.

Li Zhang is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. She is coeditor of Privatizing China: Socialism from Afar, also from Cornell, and the author of Strangers in the City.

January 256 pages, 7 tables, 6.125 x 9.25 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4774-7 $59.95s/£37.50 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7510-8 $22.95s/£14.50 Sociology

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Deep Skin

Royal Poetrie

Elizabeth Bishop and Visual Art Peggy Samuels

Monarchic Verse and the Political Imaginary of Early Modern England Peter C. Herman

“Deep Skin  features Elizabeth Bishop’s imagination of space, her sense of the relation of objects and textures in space and time, and her negotiation of surface and depth. This is a novel angle on Bishop’s perceptual thought, a description of her particular phenomenology as it informs her landscapes, her love poems, and her social insights. Peggy Samuels shows how the visual imagination is fundamental to Bishop’s way of experiencing and responding to the world.”—Bonnie Costello, Boston University Elizabeth Bishop, who constructed poems of crystalline visual accuracy, is often regarded as the most painterly of twentieth-century American poets. In Deep Skin, Peggy Samuels explores Bishop’s attraction to painters who experimented with dynamic interactions between surface and depth. She tells the story of the development of Bishop’s poetics in relation to her engagement with mid-century art, particularly the work of Paul Klee, Kurt Schwitters, and Alexander Calder. Contemporary conversations about the visual arts circulating among art historians and reviewers shaped Bishop’s experience and illuminated aesthetic problems for which she needed to find solutions. The book explores in particular the closest intellectual context for Bishop, her friend Margaret Miller, who worked as a research associate and later associate curator at the Museum of Modern Art. Samuels traces a complex and rich four-way metaphor in her portrait of Bishop’s methods: surface of verse, surface of painting, skin, and interface between mind and world. Bishop begins to experiment with modulation, absorption, and incorporation across multiple registers of experience. Peggy Samuels is Professor of English at Drew University. March 256 pages, 8 halftones, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4826-3 $39.95s/£24.95 Literary Criticism

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“Herman’s book offers smart, subtle, and consistently interesting readings of poetry that is understudied and deserves the wider audience one hopes Royal Poetrie will gain for it.”—Wayne A. Rebhorn, The University of Texas at Austin Royal Poetrie is the first book to address the significance of a distinctive body of verse from the English Renaissance—poems produced by the TudorStuart monarchs Henry VIII, Mary, Queen of Scots, Elizabeth I, and James VI/I. Not surprisingly, Henry VIII is no John Donne, but the unique political and poetic complications raised by royal endeavors at authorship imbue this literature with special interest. Peter C. Herman is particularly intrigued by how the monarchs’ poems express and extend their power and control. In monarchic verse, Herman argues, one can see monarchs asserting their significance and appropriating images of royalty to enhance their power and their position. Sometimes, as in the cases of Henry and Elizabeth, they are successful; sometimes, as for James, they are not. For Mary Stuart, the results were disastrous. Herman devotes a chapter each to the poetic endeavors of Henry VIII, Mary Stuart, Elizabeth I, and James VI/I. His introduction addresses the tradition of monarchic verse in England and on the continent as well as the textual issues presented by these texts. A brief postscript examines the verses that circulated under Charles I’s name after his execution. In an argument enhanced by carefully chosen illustrations, Herman places monarchic verse within the visual and other cultural traditions of the day. Peter C. Herman is Professor of English at San Diego State University. He is the author of Destabilizing Milton: “Paradise Lost” and the Poetics of Incertitude and Squitter-wits and Muse-haters: Sidney, Spenser, Milton, and Renaissance Antipoetic Sentiment. MAy 232 pages, 25 halftones, 6.125 x 9.25 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4835-5 $45.00s/£27.95 Literary Criticism

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The Unfinished Enlightenment

The Sympathetic Medium

Description in the Age of the Encyclopedia Joanna Stalnaker

Feminine Channeling, the Occult, and Communication Technologies, 1859–1919 Jill Galvan

“The Unfinished Enlightenment is a pleasure to read—it is clearly written, with an impressive combination of persuasive larger arguments fortified by compelling close readings.”—Cynthia Wall, University of Virginia In The Unfinished Enlightenment, Joanna Stalnaker offers a fresh look at the French Enlightenment by focusing on the era’s vast, collective attempt to compile an ongoing and provisional description of the world. Through a series of readings of natural histories, encyclopedias, scientific poetry, and urban topographies, the book uncovers the deep epistemological and literary tensions that made description a central preoccupation for authors such as Buffon, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Diderot, Delille, and Mercier. Stalnaker argues that Enlightenment description was the site of competing truth claims that would eventually resolve themselves in the modern polarity between literature and science. By the midnineteenth century, the now habitual association between description and the novel was already firmly anchored in French culture, but just a century earlier, in the diverse network of articles on description in Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie and in the works derived from it, there was not a single mention of the novel. Instead, we find articles on description in natural history, geometry, belles-lettres, and poetry. Stalnaker builds on the premise that the tendency to view description as the inevitable (and subservient) partner of narration— rather than as a universal tool for making sense of knowledge in all fields—has obscured the central place of description in Enlightenment discourse.

Joanna Stalnaker is Assistant Professor in the Department of French and Romance Philology at Columbia University.

“Jill Galvan examines how Victorians often overlaid the figure of the woman as sympathetic social mediator, technological operator, automatic typewriter, and mediumistic detecting device, sensitive to messages from the dead. Combining gender studies with the history of science and technology and literary criticism, this is the kind of cultural history that sparks with light and energy.”—Roger Luckhurst, Birkbeck College, University of London The nineteenth century saw not only the emergence of the telegraph, the telephone, and the typewriter but also a fascination with séances and occult practices like automatic writing as a means for contacting the dead. Whether electrical or otherworldly, these communications were remarkably often conducted—in offices, at telegraph stations and telephone switchboards, and in séance parlors—by women. In The Sympathetic Medium, Jill Galvan examines a wide variety of fictional explorations of feminine channeling (in both the technological and supernatural realms) by such authors as Henry James, George Eliot, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, Marie Corelli, and George Du Maurier, Galvan argues that women were often chosen for that role, or assumed it themselves, because they made at-a-distance dialogues seem more intimate and less mediated.

Jill Galvan is Assistant Professor of English at The Ohio State University.

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Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought Published jointly by Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library Series Editor: Peter Uwe Hohendahl, Cornell University

Paradigms for a Metaphorology

Legal Tender

Hans Blumenberg Translated from the German by Robert Savage What role do metaphors play in philosophical language? Are they impediments to clear thinking and clear expression, rhetorical flourishes that may well help to make philosophy more accessible to a lay audience, but that ought ideally to be eradicated in the interests of terminological exactness? Or can the images used by philosophers tell us more about the hopes and cares, attitudes and indifferences that regulate an epoch than their carefully elaborated systems of thought? In Paradigms for a Metaphorology, originally published in 1963 and here made available for the first time in English translation, Hans Blumenberg (1920–1996) approaches these questions by examining the relationship between metaphors and concepts. Blumenberg argues for the existence of “absolute metaphors” that cannot be translated back into conceptual language.

The late Hans Blumenberg was Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at the University of Münster and the author of books including The Legitimacy of the Modern Age, The Genesis of the Copernican World, and Work on Myth. Robert Savage is Australian Research Council (ARC) Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Monash University. He is the author of Hölderlin after the Catastrophe. June 160 pages, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4925-3 $29.95s/£18.95 Philosophy | Literary Criticism

Love and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination John Griffith Urang

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Defining “modern” in the broadest terms—from the postmedieval to the postmodern—Signale will comprise a wide range of interdisciplinary works in the field of German studies. Areas of focus will include the early modern period (Humanism, the Baroque, and the Enlightenment); studies of individual authors and broader literary topics; and contemporary thought and culture in germanophone Europe. Titles will appear simultaneously in digital and print formats, and they will undergo the same rigorous editorial and peer review as other Cornell University Press books. For more information, visit: http://signale.cornell.edu.

At first glance, romance seems an improbable angle from which to write a cultural history of the German Democratic Republic. By most accounts the GDR was among the most dour and disciplined of socialist states, so devoted to the rigors of Stalinist aesthetics that the notion of an East German romantic comedy was more likely to generate punch lines than lines at the box office. But in fact, as John Urang shows in Legal Tender, love was freighted as a privileged site for the negotiation and reorganization of a surprising array of issues in East German public culture between 1949 and 1989. Through close readings of a diverse selection of films and novels from the former GDR, Urang offers an eyeopening account of the ideological stakes of love stories in East German culture. Urang shows how love stories could mediate the problem of social stratification, providing a language with which to discuss the experience of class antagonism without undermining the Party’s legitimacy. But for the Party there was danger in borrowing legitimacy from the romantic plot: the love story’s destabilizing influences of desire and drive could just as easily disrupt as reconcile. Legal Tender offers unique insights into the uses and capacities of romance in modern Western culture. John Griffith Urang is Visiting Assistant Professor of German at Reed College. May 256 pages, 6 halftones, 6 x 9 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7653-2 $35.00s/£21.95 Literary Criticism

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The Divorce of Lothar II

Out of Love for My Kin

Christian Marriage and Political Power in the Carolingian World Karl Heidecker Translated from the Dutch by Tanis M. Guest

Aristocratic Family Life in the Lands of the Loire, 1000–1200 Amy Livingstone

The Divorce of Lothar II illuminates the origin and development of Western notions of marriage and the separation of church and state in the context of a notorious royal divorce in late Carolingian Europe. In 857, Lothar II, king of Lotharingia, decided to divorce Theutberga—either because she had allegedly engaged in an incestuous liason with her brother or simply because Lothar had wished to marry his concubine Waldrada. Karl Heidecker’s dramatic and engaging narrative untangles the chaos that resulted: two popes, a host of often quarreling bishops, and Lothar’s conniving uncles soon became involved in an epic struggle that did not end even with the death of Lothar. The extraordinary series of events sheds light on the fact that the laws on marriage and divorce were still uncertain. In The Divorce of Lothar II, Heidecker discusses not only the legal aspects of the case but also pays much attention to the often heavy-handed ways in which the players of the story achieved their goals. Though the drama ended with no clear resolution of the Church’s position, Lothar’s quest is revealed as an early chapter in the emergence of the belief that marriage rests on the personal will of the partners, is monogamous, and should not be dissolved.

Karl Heidecker is University Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Groningen He is coauthor of Die Privaturkunden der Karolingerzeit, editor of Charters and the Use of the Written Word in Medieval Society, and coeditor of Chartae Latinae Antiquiores of St. Gall. Tanis M. Guest has previously translated books including In the Shadow of Burgundy. Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past

“Out of Love for My Kin is clearly based on an intimate knowledge of an enormous amount of primary information, and Livingstone is up to date on the vast modern literature as well.”—Constance Brittain Bouchard, University of Akron In Out of Love for My Kin, Amy Livingstone examines the personal dimensions of the lives of aristocrats in the Loire region of France during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. She argues for a new conceptualization of aristocratic family life based on an ethos of inclusion. Inclusivity is evident in the care that medieval aristocrats showed toward their families by putting in place strategies, practices, and behaviors aimed at providing for a wide range of relatives. Indeed, this care—and in some cases outright affection—for family members is recorded in the documents themselves, as many a nobleman and woman made pious benefactions “out of love for my kin.” In a book made rich by evidence from charters— which provide details about life events including birth, death, marriage, and legal disputes over property—Livingstone reveals an aristocratic family dynamic that is quite different from the fictional or prescriptive views offered by literary depictions or ecclesiastical sources, or from later historiography. For example, she finds that there was no single monolithic mode of inheritance that privileged the few and that these families employed a variety of inheritance practices. Similarly, aristocratic women, long imagined to have been excluded from power, exerted a strong influence on family life.

Amy Livingstone is Professor of History at Wittenberg University. She is coeditor of Medieval Monks: Ideals and Realities.

January 240 pages, 6 charts/graphs, 1 map, 6.125 x 9.25 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-3929-2 $45.00s/£27.95 History/Medieval

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April 296 pages, 1 line drawing, 13 charts/graphs, 3 tables, 2 maps, 6.125 x 9.25 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4841-6 $45.00s/£27.95 History/Medieval

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The Greengrocer and His TV

Lost to the Collective

The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring Paulina Bren “Paulina Bren’s book is a very smart and occasionally tart analysis of Czechoslovakia’s late communist culture through the prism of television.”—Lewis H. Siegelbaum, author of Cars for Comrades The 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia brought an end to the Prague Spring and its promise of “socialism with a human face.” Before the invasion, Czech reformers had made unexpected use of television to advance political and social change. In its aftermath, Communist Party leaders employed the medium to achieve “normalization,” pitching television stars against political dissidents in a televised spectacle that defined the times. The Greengrocer and His TV offers a new cultural history of communism from the Prague Spring to the Velvet Revolution that reveals how state-endorsed ideologies were played out on television, particularly through soap opera–like serials. In focusing on the small screen, Paulina Bren looks to the everyday experience of late communism. The figure central to this book is the greengrocer who, in a seminal essay by Václav Havel, symbolized the ordinary citizen who acquiesced to the communist regime out of fear. Deftly moving between the small screen, the street, and the Central Committee (and imaginatively drawing on a wide range of sources that include television shows, TV viewers’ letters, newspapers, radio programs, the underground press, and the Communist Party archives), Bren shows how Havel’s greengrocer actually experienced “normalization.”

Paulina Bren is Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at Vassar College. She is the recipient of fellowships from, among others, the Fulbright-Hays, the SSRC, and the ACLS. For 2009–2010, she is a Senior Fellow at the Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study. March 264 pages, 15 halftones, 6.125 x 9.25 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4767-9 $65.00x/£40.50 Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7642-6 $24.95s/£15.50 History/Eastern Europe

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Suicide and the Promise of Soviet Socialism, 1921–1929 Kenneth M. Pinnow “In this landmark book, suicide becomes an incredibly revealing lens through which to interpret how experts and Bolsheviks diagnosed the health of revolutionary society.”—Michael David-Fox, author of  Revolution of the Mind As an act of unbridled individualism, suicide confronted the Bolshevik regime with a dilemma that challenged both its theory and its practice and helped give rise to a social science state whose primary purpose was the comprehensive and rational care of the population. The Soviet confrontation with suicide reveals with particular force the regime’s anxieties about the relationship between the state and the individual. In Lost to the Collective, Kenneth M. Pinnow suggests the compatibility of the social sciences with Bolshevik dictatorship and highlights their illusory promises of control over the everyday life of groups and individuals. The book traces the creation of national statistical studies, the course of medical debates about causation and expert knowledge, and the formation of a distinct set of practices in the Bolshevik Party and Red Army that aimed to identify the suicidal individual and establish his or her significance for the rest of society. Arguing that the Soviet regime represents a particular response to the pressures and challenges of modernity, the book examines Soviet socialism—from its intense concern with the individual to its quest to build an integrated society—as one response to the larger question of human unity.

Kenneth M. Pinnow is Associate Professor of History at Allegheny College. January 288 pages, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4766-2 $49.95s/£31.50 History/Soviet Union

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Signs of Light

Reforming Urban Labor

French and British Theories of Linguistic Communication, 1648–1789 Matthew Lauzon

Routes to the City, Roots in the Country Janet L. Polasky

“Signs of Light shows Matthew Lauzon’s extensive learning in a wide range of areas, including language theory, missionary tracts, and literary texts.”—Laura Brown, Cornell University In Signs of Light, Matthew Lauzon traces the development of very different French and British ideas about language over the course of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and demonstrates how important these ideas were to emerging notions of national character. Drawing examples from a variety of French and English language works in a wide range of areas, including language theory, philosophy, rhetoric, psychology, missionary tracts, and literary texts, Lauzon explores how French and British thinkers of the day developed arguments that certain kinds of languages are superior to others. The nature of animal language and British and French understandings of the languages of North American Indians were vigorously debated. Theories of animal language juxtaposed the apparent virtues of transparency and wit; considerations of savage language resulted in eloquence being regarded as an even higher accomplishment. Eventually, the French language came to be prized for its wit and sociability and English for its simple clarity and vigor. Lauzon shows that, besides concerns about establishing the clarity of introspective representations, questions about the energetic communication of sincere emotion and about the sociable communication of wit were crucial to language theories during this period. A richly interdisciplinary work, Signs of Light is a compelling account of a formative period in language theory.

Matthew Lauzon is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.

Reforming Urban Labor is a history of the nineteenth-century social reforms designed by middleclass progressives to domesticate the labor force. Industrial production required a concentrated labor force, but the swelling masses of workers in the capitals of Britain and Belgium, the industrial powerhouses of Europe, threatened urban order. At night, after factories had closed, workers and their families sheltered in the shadowy alleyways of Brussels and London. Reformers worked to alleviate the danger, dispersing the laborers and their families throughout the suburbs and the countryside. National governments subsidized rural housing construction and regulated workmen’s trains to transport laborers nightly away from their urban work sites and to bring them back again in the mornings; municipalities built housing in the suburbs. On both sides of the Channel, respectable working families were removed from the rookeries and isolated from the marginally employed, planted out beyond the cities where they could live like, but not with, the middle classes. In Janet L. Polasky’s urban history, comparisons of the two capitals are interwoven in the context of industrial Europe as a whole. Reforming Urban Labor sets urban planning against the backdrop of idealized rural images, links transportation and housing reform, investigates the relationship of middle-class reformers with industrial workers and their families, and explores the cooperation as well as the competition between government and the private sector in the struggle to control the built environment and its labor force.

Janet L. Polasky is Presidential Professor of History and Women’s Studies at the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of four other books in European history, including Revolutionary Brussels, 1787–1793 and The Democratic Socialism of Emile Vandervelde. July 264 pages, 20 halftones, 10 charts/graphs, 6.125 x 9.25 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4794-5 $55.00s/£34.50 History/Europe

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Castorland Journal An Account of the Exploration and Settlement of Northern New York State by French Émigrés in the Years 1793 to 1797 Simon Desjardins and Pierre Pharoux Edited and translated by John A. Gallucci The Castorland Journal is a diary, a travel narrative about early New York, a work of autobiography, and a narrative of a dramatic and complex period in American history. In 1792 Parisian businessmen and speculators established the New York Company, one of the most promising French attempts to speculate for American land following the American Revolution. The company’s goal was to purchase and settle fertile land in northwestern New York and then resell it to European investors. In 1793, two of the company’s representatives, Simon Desjardins and Pierre Pharoux, arrived in New York to begin settlement of a large tract of undeveloped land. The tract, which was named Castorland for its abundant beaver population (“castor” is the French word for beaver), was located in northwestern New York State, along the Black River and in present-day Lewis and Jefferson counties. John A. Gallucci’s edition is the first modern scholarly translation of the account Desjardins and Pharoux wrote of their efforts in Castorland from 1793 to 1797. While the journal can be read as tragedy, it also has many pages of satire and irony. Its descriptions of nature and references to the romantic and the sublime belong to the spirit of eighteenth-century literature. The journal details encounters with Native Americans, the authors’ process of surveying the Black River, their contacts with Philip Schuyler and Baron Steuben, their excursions to Philadelphia to confer with Thomas Jefferson, Desjardins’ trip to New York City to engage the legal services of Alexander Hamilton or Aaron Burr, the planting of crops, and the frustrations of disease and natural obstacles. The Castorland Journal is historically significant because it is an especially rich account of land speculation in early America, the displacement of Native Americans, frontier life, and politics and diplomacy in the 1790s. The Cornell edition of the journal features Gallucci’s introduction and explanatory footnotes, several appendixes, maps, and illustrations.

Pierre Pharoux’s plan for Baron de Steuben’s estate. Oneida County Historical Society, Utica, N.Y.

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situational Aesthetics Selected Writings by Victor Burgin Edited and with an Introduction by Alexander Streitberger Highly influential both as an artist and as a theoretician, Victor Burgin figures among the most insightful thinkers on visual culture in recent times. His writings focus on the production of meanings and affects through images—at the intersections of subjective desire and sociopolitical organization—and draw on diverse representational practices (photography, fi lm, painting, advertising, television, and the Internet) and theoretical fields (semiotics, psychoanalysis, feminist theory, and cultural studies). The essays in this volume provide a succinct overview of Burgin’s rich and multifaceted work during the last forty years—from its origins in debates within conceptual art to its present concern with everyday perception in the environment of global media. The selection includes such classic essays as “Situational Aesthetics” and “Photographic Practice and Art Theory,” together with less widely known articles as “Work and Commentary” and the previously unpublished essays “Shadows, Time, and Family Pictures” and “Monument and Melancholia.” The essays are arranged chronologically in sections to represent four salient phases of Burgin’s preoccupations: Conceptual Art and Photography; A Psychical Realism; The City and Global Media; and Infi nite Film. Each section is preceded by an exchange between Burgin and the book’s editor, Alexander Streitberger, that introduces the main lines of thought. Examples from Burgin’s visual works, selected by the editor in consultation with the artist, accompany each section. Victor Burgin is Emeritus Professor of History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz. Alexander streitberger is Professor in Modern and Contemporary Art History at the Université catholique de Louvain.

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Th is series collects in five volumes all of Lyotard’s writings on contemporary art and artists. Volumes include the complete original French texts along with English translations on facing pages. Illustrations of the works discussed accompany the texts. The philosopher and literary theorist Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998) was Woodruff Professor of Philosophy and French at Emory University. Herman Parret is Professor of Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, Leuven University. Geoff rey Bennington is Asa G. Candler Professor of Modern French Thought in the Department of Comparative Literature at Emory University. jeAn frAnCois lyotArd: writings on ContemporAry Art And Artists, volume ii

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A small nation in the turmoil of the second world war

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Money, Finance and Occupation (Belgium, its Enemies, its Friends, 1939–1945) Herman Van der Wee and Monique Verbreyt

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“The authors tell an important—and fascinating— story of the Belgian central bank and the Belgian government in Brussels and in London during the hazardous years of World War II. It is authoritative, wide-ranging, and objective, putting the Bank and the government in their full context of international relations.” —Peter Mathias, Cambridge University Based on intensive research in the archives of six countries, this book presents an in-depth analysis of Belgium’s monetary and fi nancial history during World War II. Exploring Belgium’s fi nancial and business links with Germany, France, The Netherlands, Great Britain, the United States, and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the authors focus on the roles played in this complex wartime network by the Central Bank and private bankers in Brussels, by the Belgian government in exile in London, and by the Belgian minister plenipotentiary in New York.

For far too long, Catholic teaching sisters have been overlooked in the history of education. During the past twenty-five years, however, researchers have begun to explore the fundamental role played by these women in teaching children in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Th is essay provides the first detailed overview of the historiography of the teaching sisters in Western Europe, North America, Latin America, and Australasia, surveying scholarship since 1985. It reviews the literature on six major themes: contribution to schooling, teaching orders and schools, educational philosophy, content and practice, life and lived experience of teachers and students, the professionalization of teaching, and changes in the composition of the teaching staff. Very rich in bibliographical references, this book is indispensable for all further research on this significant but underexplored group of women teachers.

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Ancient perspectives on Aristotle’s De anima

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Aristotle’s treatise On the Soul figures among the most influential texts in the intellectual history of the West. It is the first systematic treatise on the nature and functioning of the human soul, presenting Aristotle’s authoritative analyses of, among others, sense perception, imagination, memory, and intellect. The ongoing debates on this difficult work continue the commentary tradition that dates back to antiquity. Th is volume offers a selection of essays by distinguished scholars, exploring the ancient perspectives on Aristotle’s De anima, from Aristotle’s earliest successors through the Aristotelian Commentators at the end of Antiquity. ContriButors: Enrico Berti, Klaus Corcilius, Frans de Haas, Andrea Falcon, Patrick Macfarlane, Pierre-Marie Morel, Ronald Polansky, R. W. Sharples, Nathanael Stein, Annick Stevens, Joel Yurdin, Marco Zingano

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At the beginning of the second century c.e., Plutarch of Chaeronea wrote a series of pairs of biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen. Their purpose is moral: the reader is invited to reflect on important ethical issues and to use the example of these great men from the past to improve his or her own conduct. Th is book offers the first full-scale commentary on the Life of Alcibiades. It examines how Plutarch’s biography of one of classical Athens’ most controversial politicians functions within the moral program of the Parallel Lives. Built upon the narratological distinction between story and text, Simon Verdegem’s analysis, which involves detailed comparisons with other Plutarchan works (especially the Lives of Nicias and Lysander) and several key texts in the Alcibiades tradition (e.g., Plato, Thucydides, and Xenophon), demonstrates how Plutarch carefully constructed his story and used a wide range of narrative techniques to create a complex Life that raises interesting questions about the relation between private morality and the common good.

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Edited by Gordon A. Wilson and Girard J. Etzkorn Henry of Ghent, the most influential philosopher/ theologian of the last quarter of the thirteenth century at Paris, delivered his fourth Quodlibet during 1279. Th is Quodlibet was written at the beginning of the height of his career. In total there are thirtyseven questions, which cover a wide range of topics, including theories in theology, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophical anthropology, ethics, and canon law. In these questions Henry presents his mature thought concerning the number of human substantial forms in which he counters the claims of the defenders of Thomas Aquinas, particularly those in Giles of Lessines’s De unitate formae, but also those found in Giles of Rome’s Contra Gradus. He is critical of Thomas Aquinas’s theories concerning human knowledge, the “more” and the “less,” and virtue. He also is critical of Bonaventure’s analysis of Augustine’s notion of rationes seminales. There are thirty-three known manuscripts that contain the text of Quodlibet IV, and the critical text is reconstructed based on manuscripts known to have been in Henry’s school, as well as manuscripts copied from two successive university exemplars in Paris.

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Th is collective volume has been dedicated to two distinguished scholars of Neo-Latin Studies. Both the rich variety of subjects dealt with and the international diversity of the contributors reflect the wide interests of the celebrated Neo-Latinists and the contemporary status of the discipline itself. In addition to studies of Petrarch, Lorenzo Valla, Erasmus, Vives, Thomas More, Eobanus Hessus, Lipsius, Tycho Brahe, Jean de la Fontaine, and Jacob Cats, it also includes contributions on Renaissance commentaries and editions of classical authors such as Homer, Seneca, and Horace; on Neo-Latin novels, epistolography, and Renaissance rhetoric; on Latin translations from the vernacular and invectives against Napoleon; on the teaching of Latin in the nineteenth century; and on the present-day didactics of Neo-Latin.

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Humanistica lovaniensia

the neo-latin epigram

Journal of Neo-Latin Studies, Volume LVIII (2009) Edited by Dirk Sacré, Jan Papy, Lambert Isebaert, Monique Mund-Dopchie, and Gilbert Tournoy

A Learned and Witty Genre Edited by Susanna de Beer, Karl Enenkel, and David Rijser

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 NeoLatin studies (Instrumentum bibliographicum Neolatinum), accompanied by critical notes, is the standard annual bibliography of publications in the field. The journal is fully indexed (names, mss., Neo-Latin neologisms). Please visit www.lup.be for the full table of contents.

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The epigram is certainly one of the most intriguing, while at the same time most elusive, genres of NeoLatin literature. From the end of the fi fteenth century, almost every humanist writer who regarded himself a true “poeta” had composed a respectable number of epigrams. Given our sense of poetical aesthetics, be it idealistic, postidealistic, modern, or postmodern, the epigrammatic genre is difficult to understand. Because of its close ties with the historical and social context, it does not fit any of these aesthetic approaches. By presenting various epigram writers, collections, and subgenres from the fi fteenth to the seventeenth century, this volume offers a first step toward a better understanding of some of the features of humanist epigram literature. Jan Bloemendal, Stephan Busch, Donatella Coppini, Susanna De Beer, Karl A. E. Enenkel, Juliette A. Groenland, Johannes Jansen, Maarten Jansen, Han Lamers, Marc D. Lauxtermann, Tobias Leuker, Moniek Oosterhout, Christoph Pieper, David Rijser, Ingrid D. Rowland

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The Ambiguous Allure of the West Traces of the Colonial in Thailand Edited by Rachel V. Harrison and Peter A. Jackson Foreword by Dipesh Chakrabarty “This excellent collection of essays represents a major advance in the application of Western postcolonial theory to the study of Asian history and culture. No other book is more successful at shattering the ‘uniqueness’ of Thailand, or of demonstrating the many ways in which Southeast Asia is comparable to the rest of the world.” —Tony Day, coeditor of Clearing a Space: Postcolonial Readings of Modern Indonesian Literature

The Ambiguous Allure of the West examines the impact of Western imperialism on Thai cultural development from the 1850s to the present and highlights the value of postcolonial analysis for studying the ambiguities, inventions, and accommodations with the West that continue to enrich Thai culture. Since the mid-nineteenth century, Thais have adopted and adapted aspects of Western culture and practice in an ongoing relationship that may be characterized as semicolonial. As they have done so, the notions of what constitutes “Thainess” have been inflected by Western influence in complex and ambiguous ways, producing nuanced, hybridized Thai identities. The Ambiguous Allure of the West brings together Thai and Western scholars of history, anthropology, film, and literary and cultural studies to analyze how the protean Thai self has been shaped by the traces of the colonial Western Other. Thus, the book draws the study of Siam/Thailand into the critical field of postcolonial theory, expanding the potential of Thai Studies to contribute to wider debates in the region and in the disciplines of cultural studies and critical theory. The chapters in this book present the first sustained dialogue between Thai cultural studies and postcolonial analysis. By clarifying the distinctive position of semicolonial societies such as Thailand in the Western-dominated world order, this book bridges and integrates studies of former colonies with studies of the Asian societies that retained their political independence while being economically and culturally subordinated to EuroAmerican power. Contributors: Rachel Harrison, SOAS, University of London; Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University; May Adadol Ingawanij, Westminster University, London; Peter A. Jackson, Australian National University, Canberra; Pattana Kitiarsa, National University of Singapore; Tamara Loos, Cornell University; Richard Lowell MacDonald, Goldsmiths College, University of London; Thongchai Winichakul, University of Wisconsin– Madison; Thanes Wongyannava, Thammasat University, Bangkok

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Forgotten Contribution of the Teaching Sisters, The 57 Frazier, Mark W. 43 Gallucci, John A. 53 Galvan, Jill 48 Gaposchkin, M. Cecilia 30 Gordon, Suzanne 12 (ed.) Gorn, Elliott J. 14 Greengrocer and His TV 51 Greenhill, Kelly M. 21 (ed.), 40 Gross, James A. 24 Gwynne, John A. 4 Habits of the Heartland 25 Harrison, Rachel V., ed. 61 Hatch, Walter F. 41 Heidecker, Karl 50 Hellinckx, Bart 57 Hench, John B. 27 Henricus de Gandavo Quodlibet IV 59 Henry, Laura A. 40 Heringman, Noah 32 Herman, Peter C. 47 Hertog, Steffen 43 Humanistica Lovaniensia 60 Imbroscio, David 44 In Search of Paradise 46 Isebaert, Lambert, ed. 60 Islam in the World Today 10 Jackson, Peter A., ed. 61 Jenkins, Jerry 8 Jervis, Robert 11 Jeweled Style, The 33 Johnson-Weiner, Karen M. 9 Kabashima, Ikuo 41 Katzner, Todd E., ed. 5 Kekes, John 33 Khan, Yasmin Sabina 1 Kitamura, Hiroshi 28 Knowing Dickens 31 Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin 15 Kroenig, Matthew 22 LaGuardia in Congress 34 Landlords and Farmers in the Hudson–Mohawk Region, 1790–1850 34 Lauzon, Matthew 52 Leenders, Twan 6 Legal Tender 49 Liddell Hart and the Weight of History 37 Lind, Jennifer 37 Livingstone, Amy 50 Lore of an Adirondack County 34 Lost to the Collective 51 Lyotard, Jean-François 56 Macgregor, Lyn C. 25 Making of Saint Louis, The 30 Malloy, Sean L. 29 Manly Art, The 14 Manthorne, Katherine 15 March, James G. 13 McCall, Dan 31 Mearsheimer, John J. 37 Milkman, Ruth, ed. 45

Minnite, Lorraine C. 23 Mirrors of Memory 18 Morgen, Sandra 46 Mund-Dopchie, Monique 60 Murphy, Richard 20 Myth of Voter Fraud, The 23 Nabokov, Perversely 26 Naiman, Eric 26 Narro, Victor, ed. 45 Neo-Latin Epigram, The 60 New York Amish 9 Nickell, William 17 Norton, Marcy 30 Occupational Hazards 38 Out of Love for My Kin 50 Palan, Ronen 20 Papy, Jan, ed. 59, 60 Paradigms for a Metaphorology 49 Parsons, Craig, ed. 42 Pharoux, Pierre 53 Pinnow, Kenneth M. 51 Plutarch’s Life of Alcibiades 58 Polasky, Janet L. 52 Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats 43 Protection for Exporters 42 Red to Green 40 Reforming Urban Labor 52 Reid, Fiona A. 6 Rhetoric Reclaimed 33 Ridgely, Robert 4 Rijser, David, ed. 60 Risse, Thomas 39 River Runs Black, The 14 Roberts, Michael 33 Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology 32 Royal Poetrie 47 Sacré, Dirk, ed. 59, 60 Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures 30 Saint-Amour, Paul K. 32 Sam Francis, Lesson of Darkness 56 Samuels, Peggy 47 Schneider, Barbara, ed. 45 Schweizer, Andreas 19 Screening Enlightenment 28 Segal, Adam 36 Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts 21 Shameful Business, A 24 Signs of Light 52 Simon, Frank 57 Site Fights 36 Situational Aesthetics 55 Small Nation in the Turmoil of the Second World War, A 57 Socialist Insecurity 43 Sorry States 37 Stalnaker, Joanna 48 Steel, Gill 41 Steinbach, Udo, ed. 10 Streitberger, Alexander, ed. 55 Stretched Thin 46 Sungod’s Journey through the Netherworld, The 19 Sympathetic Medium, The 48

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