Cornell University Press Spring 2010 Catalog

Spring 2010
Cornell University Press

Spring 2010 1 General Interest
Contents
51 Slavic Studies
19 Academic Trade 52 European History
29 New Paperbacks 53 U.S. History/Regional
39 Political Science 54 Back in Print
44 Urban Studies 55 Leuven University Press
45 Labor 61 Southeast Asia Studies Program
46 Sociology | Anthropology 65 Recent Award Winners
47 Literature 67 Sales, Rights, and
49 History Ordering Information
50 Medieval Studies 69 Indexes
January 34 Cutting, Lore of an Adirondack County 44 Baum, Brown in Baltimore

33 Atwill, Rhetoric Reclaimed 42 Dür, Protection for Exporters 31 Bodenheimer, Knowing Dickens
35 Clapp, Toxic Exports 34 Ellis, Landlords and Farmers in the 30 Gaposchkin, The Making of Saint Louis
Hudson-Mohawk Region, 1790–1850 38 Edelstein, Occupational Hazards
43 Frazier, Socialist Insecurity
40 Henry, Red to Green 41 Hatch, Asia’s Flying Geese
48 Galvan, The Sympathetic Medium
11 Jervis, Why Intelligence Fails 47 Herman, Royal Poetrie
61 Harrison and Jackson, eds., The
Ambiguous Allure of the West (Cornell 1 Khan, Enlightening the World 8 Jenkins, Climate Change in the Adirondacks
Southeast Asia Program Publications) 45 Milkman, Bloom, and Narro, eds., 28 Kitamura, Screening Enlightenment
50 Heidecker, The Divorce of Lothar II Working for Justice
52 Lauzon, Signs of Light
32 Heringman, Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic 47 Samuels, Deep Skin
56 Lyotard, Sam Francis, Lesson of Darkness
Geology 34 Zinn, LaGuardia in Congress (Leuven University Press)
31 McCall, Citizens of Somewhere Else 17 Nickell, The Death of Tolstoy
37 Mearsheimer, Liddell Hart and the
April
6 Reid, Leenders, Zook, and Dean, The
Weight of History 42 Abdelal, Blyth, and Parsons, eds.,
Wildlife of Costa Rica
Constructing the International Economy
46 Morgen, Acker, and Weigt, Stretched Thin 39 Risse, A Community of Europeans?
18 Bergstein, Mirrors of Memory
20 Palan, Murphy, and Chavagneux, Tax 19 Schweizer, The Sungod’s Journey through
Havens 2 Del Tredici, Wild Urban Plants of the
the Netherworld
Northeast
51 Pinnow, Lost to the Collective 49 Urang, Legal Tender
12 Gordon, ed., When Chicken Soup Isn’t
33 Roberts, The Jeweled Style 46 Zhang, In Search of Paradise
Enough
32 Saint-Amour, The Copywrights
40 Greenhill, Weapons of Mass Migration
36 Segal, Digital Dragon June
44 Imbroscio, Urban America Reconsidered
37 Wark, The Ultimate Enemy 10 Ende and Steinbach, eds., Islam in the
33 Kekes, The Enlargement of Life World Today
35 Yetiv, Crude Awakenings
22 Kroenig, Exporting the Bomb 4 Gwynne, Ridgely, Tudor, and Argel,
16 Zaretsky, Albert Camus Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil
37 Lind, Sorry States
50 Livingstone, Out of Love for My Kin 27 Hench, Books as Weapons
February
25 Macgregor, Habits of the Heartland 9 Johnson-Weiner, New York Amish
14 Gorn, The Manly Art, Updated Edition
29 Malloy, Atomic Tragedy 41 Kabashima and Steel, Changing Politics
24 Gross, A Shameful Business in Japan
43 Hertog, Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats 13 March, The Ambiguities of Experience
15 Kornhauser and Manthorne, Fern Hunting
55, 57–60 Leuven University Press books 30 Norton, Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures among Picturesque Mountains
distributed by Cornell University Press 48 Stalnaker, The Unfinished 23 Minnite, The Myth of Voter Fraud
in North America Enlightenment
26 Naiman, Nabokov, Perversely
38 Thompson, Channels of Power 5 Tingay and Katzner, eds., The Eagle
Watchers
July
March
May 49 Blumenberg, Paradigms for a Metaphorology
34 Becker, Cornell University
36 Aldrich, Site Fights 53 Desjardins and Pharoux, Castorland Journal
51 Bren, The Greengrocer and His TV
21 Andreas and Greenhill, Sex, Drugs, 14 Economy, The River Runs Black, Second Edition
45 Christensen and Schneider, eds., and Body Counts
Workplace Flexibility 52 Polasky, Reforming Urban Labor
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Enlightening the World

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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 Lin-
coln, the Statue of Liberty has been a potent symbol of the na-
tion’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 gen-
erations 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 fas-
cinating 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 nar- “Enlightening the World is well-
rative begins on the battlefields of Gettysburg, where Lincoln conceived, well-organized, and well-
framed the Civil War as a conflict testing whether a nation “con- written. In drawing the Statue of
ceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men Liberty deeper into the context of
are created equal . . . can long endure.” People around the world American political ideology, Yasmin
agreed with Lincoln that this question—and the fate of the Union Sabina Khan reminds us that though
itself—affected the “whole family of man.” Inspired by the Union’s the ‘Goddess of Liberty’ hailed from
victory and stunned by Lincoln’s death, Édouard-René Lefebvre France, much of the thought behind
de Laboulaye, a legal scholar and noted proponent of friendship her creation was informed by the
between his native France and the United States, conceived of American achievement of political
a monument to liberty and the exemplary form of government democracy.”—Barry Moreno, Ellis
established by the young nation. For Laboulaye and all of France, Island Immigration Museum and
the statue would be called La Liberté Éclairant le Monde—Liberty the Statue of Liberty National
Enlightening the World. Monument, National Park Ser-
vice, editor of The Statue of Liberty
Following the statue’s twenty-year journey from concept to con- Encyclopedia
struction, 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 height-
ened 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 engi-
neer 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, Yasmin Sabina Khan, an indepen-
Enlightening the World celebrates both a work of human accom- dent scholar, is the author of Engi-
plishment and the vitality of liberty. neering Architecture: The Vision of
Fazlur R. Khan.
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Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast
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A Field Guide
Peter Del Tredici
Foreword by Steward T. A. Pickett
Characterized by an abundance of pavement, reflected heat, pol-

luted air, and contaminated soil, our cities and towns may seem
harsh and unwelcoming to vegetation. However, there are a num-
ber 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 mitiga-
tion, and erosion control on slopes. Around the world, wild plants
help to make urban environments more habitable for
people.
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, Washing-
ton, D.C., and Detroit, it is
broadly applicable to tem-
perate urban environments
across North America. The
book covers 222 species that
flourish without human as-
sistance or approval. Rather
than vilifying such plants as
weeds, Del Tredici stresses
that it is important to no-
tice, recognize, and appreci-
ate their contribution to the
quality of urban life. Indeed
their very toughness in the
Peter Del Tredici is Senior Research face of heat islands, elevated levels of carbon dioxide, and ubiqui-
Scientist at the Arnold Arboretum of tous contamination is indicative of the important role they have
Harvard University and Lecturer in to play in helping humans adapt to the challenges presented by
Landscape Architecture at the Har- urbanization, globalization, and climate change.
vard Graduate School of Design. He The species accounts—158 main entries plus 64 secondary spe-
is the author of A Giant Among the cies—feature descriptive information including scientific name
Dwarfs. Steward T. A. Pickett is a and taxonomic authority, common names, botanical family, life
Plant Ecologist at the Cary Institute form, place of origin, and identification features. Del Tredici
of Ecosystem Studies. focuses especially on their habitat preferences, environmental
functions, and cultural significance. Each entry is accompanied
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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 der-
elict 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 Omni-
vore’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. Wild carrot (Daucus carota) growth habit.
Photograph by Peter Del Tredici.
Developing fruits of St. Johnswort Bird vetch (Vicia cracca) growth habit. Photograph by Peter Del Tredici.
(Hypericum perforatum). Photograph
by Peter Del Tredici.
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Wildlife Conservation Society
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Birds of Brazil
The Pantanal and Cerrado of Central Brazil
John A. Gwynne, Robert S. Ridgely,
Guy Tudor, and Martha Argel
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 five-
volume 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 bird-
ing 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 This compact modern field guide’s unparalleled color artwork
Officer/V. P. for Design emeri- throughout, identification points, and range map for each spe-
tus, Wildlife Conservation Society. cies enable easy identification of all the birds normally found in
He is an artist of books including, these vibrant and critically important areas of Brazil. With 116
Field Guide to the Birds of Panama threatened species encompassing 25 percent of South America’s
and Birds of Venezuela. Robert S. threatened birds, Brazil has an imperative to conserve its birds
Ridgely is an executive of the World and unique habitats that begins with their appreciation and iden-
Land Trust. He is the renowned tification. Thus, the species accounts are coupled with an intro-
coauthor of Birds of Ecuador, also ductory chapter on the region’s unique environments and press-
from Cornell, and author of The ing conservation challenges. This practical and portable guide is
Birds of South America, Field Guide an indispensable companion to those visiting Brazil’s glorious
to the Songbirds of South America, natural areas of the Pantanal and Cerrado.
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 Ven-
ezuela, 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.
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The Eagle Watchers

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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 life-
time. This book was written by people who have dedicated years
to the study of eagles, to provide an insider’s view for all read-
ers, but especially those who have never been up close and per-
sonal 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 Ruth E. Tingay is Senior Research
an aquatic car with the Khmer Rouge. Coordinator at Natural Research Ltd.,
Featuring stunning color photographs of the eagles, information Scotland, and President of the Raptor
on raptor conservation, a global list of all eagle species with rang- Research Foundation. She studies ea-
es and conservation status, and a color map of the sites visited gles in Madagascar, Cambodia, Mon-
in the book, The Eagle Watchers will appeal to birders, conser- golia, and Scotland. Todd E. Katzner
vationists, and adventure travelers alike. To further support the is Director of Conservation and Field
conservation programs described in this book, all royalties are Research at the National Aviary in
being donated to two leading nonprofit organizations for raptor Pittsburgh and an Adjunct Assistant
conservation training and fieldwork: Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Professor at the University of Pitts-
Intern Program and the National Birds of Prey Trust. burgh and at Duquesne University.
He studies eagles in Kazakhstan, the
Contributors: Bill Clark (Solitary Eagle, Mexico); Rob Davies (Ver-
Philippines, and the United States.
reaux’s Eagle, South Africa); Miguel Ferrer (Spanish Imperial Eagle,
Keith L. Bildstein is Sarkis Acopian
Spain); Martin Gilbert (New Guinea Harpy Eagle, New Guinea); Justin
Director of Conservation Science at
Grant (White-tailed Sea Eagle, Scotland); Teryl G. Grubb (Bald Eagle,
United States); Alan R. Harmata (Bald Eagle, United States); Björn Hel- the Acopian Center for Conservation
ander (White-tailed Sea Eagle, Sweden); Andrew Jenkins (Martial Eagle, Learning, Hawk Mountain Sanctu-
South Africa); Sarah Karpanty (Madagascar Serpent Eagle, Madagas- ary and the author of books includ-
car); Todd E. Katzner (Eastern Imperial Eagle, Kazakhstan); John A. ing Migrating Raptors of the World:
Love (White-tailed Sea Eagle, Scotland); Carol McIntyre (Golden Eagle, Their Ecology and Conservation, also
United States); Bernd-U. Meyburg (Lesser Spotted Eagle, Czechoslova- from Cornell. Jemima Parry-Jones,
kia and Germany); Hector C. Miranda Jr. (Philippine Eagle, Philippines); MBE, is director of the International
Malcolm Nicoll (Grey-headed Fishing Eagle, Cambodia); Vincent Nij- Centre for Birds of Prey and author
man (Javan Hawk-Eagle, Indonesia); Penny Olsen (Wedge-tailed Eagle, of books including The Really Useful
Australia); Keisuke Saito (Steller’s Sea Eagle, Japan); Susanne Shultz
Owl Guide.
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Eagle, South Africa); Ruth E. Tingay (Madagascar Fish Eagle, Madagas-
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The Wildlife of Costa Rica
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A Field Guide
Fiona A. Reid, Twan Leenders,
Jim Zook, and Robert Dean
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 ar-
thropods that one is likely to see on a trip to the rainforest (as
well as those secretive creatures such as the jaguar that are dif-
ficult 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.
Costa Rica, a peaceful nation with many and diverse animal spe-
cies, 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.
Fiona A. Reid is a Departmental It is the first general field guide to Costa Rica to combine the most
Associate in Mammology at the Cen- sought-after features:
ter for Biodiversity and Conservation • treatment of all major phyla in the country;
Biology at the Royal Ontario Museum. • coverage of the animals most likely and most desirable to be
She is the author and illustrator of seen;
Peterson Field Guide to Mammals • more than 450 detailed illustrations integrated with the text
of North America, Fourth Edition. (the preferred method of animal identification in the wild);
Twan Leenders, a professional her- • full species accounts including ID points, range and habitat,
petologist and photographer with size, and behaviors;
more than ten years of field expe- • a wealth of natural history information, including more than
rience in Central America, is the twenty photographic natural history features;
author of Guide to Amphibians and • tips for seeing animals; and
Reptiles of Costa Rica. Jim Zook is • a color map indicating key locations for wildlife observation.
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.
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Climate Change in the
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Adirondacks
The Path to Sustainability
Jerry Jenkins
Foreword by Bill McKibben
“Thanks to Jerry Jenkins, I think the future

has been plotted more firmly for the Ad-
irondacks than perhaps any other region
on the planet. These are the biggest chang-
es the park has faced since the last Ice Age,
and if we allow them to play out in full
South Inlet of Raquette Lake, March 2009. Photograph by Jerry Jenkins. 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
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 mea-
sured in billions of tons, Jerry Jenkins
turns to changes that are already occur-
ring much closer to home, changes that
threaten to transform one of America’s
great wildernesses, the Adirondack re-
gion, into a damaged and unfamiliar
landscape.
With the aid of comprehensive color illustrations, graphs, charts,
Jerry Jenkins is a researcher for the and maps, Jenkins demonstrates the fundamental reality of cli-
Wildlife Conservation Society and mate change on a local level and presents his analysis and dis-
the author of Acid Rain in the Ad- cussion of the available data for the Adirondacks. The region’s
irondacks: An Environmental History, culture, biology, and economy are already shifting rapidly: boreal
also from Cornell, and The Adiron- species such as the spruce grouse are in decline, pests such as the
dack Atlas: A Geographic Portrait of mountain pine beetle and black-legged tick are moving in, and ski
the Adirondack Park. Bill McKibben areas are suffering from lack of snow. Jenkins goes on to deliver
is the author of books including The a critical message: changes in personal energy consumption can
End of Nature. fundamentally alter the present trajectory of global warming.
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An Environmental History
May Jerry Jenkins, Karen Roy, Charles Driscoll, and
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New York Amish

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Life in the Plain Communities of the

Empire State
Karen M. Johnson-Weiner
“New York Amish traverses between the history of the Anabap-

tists 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, inter-
views, and archival research to emphasize the contribution of
the Amish to the state’s rich cultural heritage. While the Amish “Karen M. Johnson-Weiner writes flu-
settlements in Pennsylvania and Ohio are internationally known, idly, with a great eye for detail. This
the Amish population in New York, the result of internal migra- book gives ample evidence of the
tion from those more established settlements, is more fragmen- time she spent in intimate relation-
tary and less visible to all but their nearest non-Amish neighbors. ship with the New York Amish, her
All of the Amish currently living in New York are post–World love for them, and her desire to pres-
War II migrants from points to the south and west. Many came ent these people to others.”—James
seeking cheap land, others as a result of schism in their home Hurd, author of Horse-and-Buggy
communities. The Old Order Amish of New York are relative Mennonites: Hoofbeats of Humility
newcomers who, while representing an old or plain way of life, in a Postmodern World
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 confron-
tation and political upheaval of the Protestant Reformation and
describes contemporary Amish lifestyles and religious practices.
Johnson-Weiner welcomes readers into the lives of Amish fami-
lies 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 real-
ize their core values in different ways; these variations shape not
only their adjustment to new environments but also the ways in
Karen M. Johnson-Weiner is Profes-
which townships and counties accommodate—and often ben-
sor of Anthropology at SUNY Pots-
efit from—the presence of these thriving faith communities.
dam. She is the author of Train Up a
Child: Old Order Amish and Menno-
nite Schools.
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Islam in the World Today
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A Handbook of Politics, Religion,
Culture, and Society
Edited by Werner Ende and Udo Steinbach
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 immi-
grant 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:
• the history of Islam from the earliest years through the twen-
tieth century, with particular attention to Sunni and Shi‘i Islam
“Islam in the World Today is without and Islamic revival movements during the last three centuries;
doubt the most comprehensive work
available on contemporary Islam • data on the advance of Islam along with current population sta-
and all phenomena connected with tistics;
the organization of Islamic societ-
• Muslim ideas on modern economics, on social order, and on
ies today. The original German edi-
attempts to modernize Islamic law (shari‘a) and apply it in con-
tion has proved tremendously use-
temporary Muslim societies;
ful as a textbook and is simply the
book of reference on this subject • Islam in diaspora, especially the situation in Europe and America;
for learned speakers of German, be
• secularism, democracy, and human rights; and
they academics or members of the
public who work in journalism, di- • women in Islam.
plomacy, or in international aid
Twenty-four essays are each devoted to a specific Muslim country
organizations. This new English-
or a country with significant Muslim minorities, spanning Asia,
language edition will certainly be
Africa, the Middle East, and the former Soviet Union. Additional
picked up as a textbook and as a
essays illuminate Islamic culture, exploring local traditions; the
work of reference in advanced col-
languages and dialects of Muslim peoples; and art, architecture,
lege courses and in graduate courses
and literature. Detailed bibliographies and indexes ensure the
on Islam, the Middle East, political
book’s usefulness as a reference work.
science, and other adjacent fields.”
—Frank Griffel, Yale University
Werner Ende is Professor Emeritus

of Islamic Studies at the University of
Freiburg. Udo Steinbach is the for-
mer director of the German Institute
of Middle East Studies, Hamburg.
June
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Why Intelligence Fails

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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 misunder-
standings that have resulted from intelligence failures. In Why
Intelligence Fails, Robert Jervis examines the politics and psy-
chology 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 find-
ings. The Iraq case, also grounded in a review of the intelligence “There is no one better than Robert
community’s performance, is based on close readings of both Jervis at dissecting intelligence, and
classified and declassified documents, though Jervis’s conclusions this book is proof. Happily, at long,
are entirely supported by evidence that has been declassified. long last he has managed to free his
In both cases, Jervis finds not only that intelligence was badly three-decade-old inside postmortem
flawed but also that later explanations—analysts were bowing to on intelligence failure during the
political pressure and telling the White House what it wanted to early stages of the Iranian revolution
hear or were willfully blind—were also incorrect. Proponents of from the dark of classification, and
these explanations claimed that initial errors were compounded he has coupled that with his recent
by groupthink, lack of coordination within the government, and writings on intelligence’s woeful per-
failure to share information. Policy prescriptions, including the formance over those Iraqi weapons of
recent establishment of a Director of National Intelligence, were mass destruction that weren’t. This
supposed to remedy the situation. has resulted in definitive case studies
of those two important episodes.”
In Jervis’s estimation, neither the explanations nor the prescrip- —Gregory F. Treverton,
tions are adequate. The inferences that intelligence drew were RAND Corporation
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 Robert Jervis is Adlai E. Stevenson
the methods and aims of intelligence personnel and policymak- Professor of International Politics at
ers from a unique insider’s perspective, Jervis forcefully criticizes Columbia University. He is the au-
recent proposals for improving the performance of the intelli- thor of many books, including The
gence community and discusses ways in which future analysis Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution,
can be improved. also from Cornell, and American
Foreign Policy in a New Era.
Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
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When Chicken Soup Isn’t Enough
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Stories of Nurses Standing Up for Themselves,
Their Patients, and Their Profession
Edited by Suzanne Gordon
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 obsta-
cles to quality patient care—including work overload, inadequate
funds for nursing education and research, and poor communi-
cation between and within the professions, to name only a few.
The seventy RNs whose stories are collected here by the award-
winning journalist Suzanne Gordon know that effective advo-
cacy 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 brings together compelling
“When Chicken Soup Isn’t Enough personal narratives from a wide range of nurses from across the
is an excellent collection captur- globe. The assembled profiles in professional courage provide new
ing the real work done by nurses. It insight into the daily challenges that RNs face in North America
demonstrates that the triumphs and and abroad—and how they overcome them with skill, ingenu-
struggles of nurses are universal.” ity, persistence, and individual and collective advocacy at work
—Kathleen Burke, RN-BC, BSN, and in the community. In this collection, we meet RNs working
UCSF Medical Center at the bedside, providing home care, managing hospital depart-
ments, 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 ac-
counts. Gordon and the authors of the essays contained in this
book have much to say about the strengths and shortcomings of
Suzanne Gordon, a journalist, is Vis- health care today—and the role that nurses play as irreplaceable
iting Professor at the University of agents of change.
Maryland School of Nursing and As-
sistant Adjunct Professor at the Uni-
versity of California, San Francisco, Also of Interest
School of Nursing. She is the author
of Life Support and Nursing against Life Support
the Odds, coauthor of Safety in Num- Three Nurses on the Front Lines
bers and From Silence to Voice, and Suzanne Gordon
coeditor of The Complexities of Care, Foreword by Claire Fagin, RN, PhD, FAAN
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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 limit-
ed to any possible subset of the social science disciplines; it is
pervasive.”—John Padgett, Contemporary Sociology
“In order to adapt effectively, organizations require resources, ca-
pabilities 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 fu-
ture. 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 decep-

tively simple question: What is, or should be, the role of experi-
Praise for James G. March—
ence in creating intelligence, particularly in organizations? Folk
wisdom both trumpets the significance of experience and warns “James G. March’s work creates a
of its inadequacies. On one hand, experience is described as the sense of being in a conversation with
best teacher. On the other hand, experience is described as the someone who persistently points
teacher of fools, of those unable or unwilling to learn from accu- to important things that some-
mulated knowledge or the teaching of experts. The disagreement how lie just outside of our ordinary
between those folk aphorisms reflects profound questions about awareness.”—Anne Miner, ASQ
the human pursuit of intelligence through learning from experi-
ence 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 in-
dividuals and organizations are eager to derive intelligence from
experience, the inferences stemming from that eagerness are of- James G. March is Emeritus Profes-
ten misguided. The problems lie partly in errors in how people sor at Stanford University. He holds
think, but even more so in properties of experience that confound appointments in the Schools of Busi-
learning from it. “Experience,” March concludes, “may possibly ness and Education and in the De-
be the best teacher, but it is not a particularly good teacher.” partments of Political Science and
Sociology. His many books include
Explorations in Organizations and
The Pursuit of Organizational Intel-
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State-Building Messenger Lectures

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Francis Fukuyama April
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The River The Manly Art
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The Environmental America, Updated Edition
Challenge to China’s Elliott J. Gorn
Future, Second Edition
Elizabeth C. Economy “It didn’t occur to me until fairly late in the work
that I was writing a book about the beginnings of a
Praise for the national celebrity culture.”
first edition— —from the New Afterword
“Economy’s book is particu- Praise for the first edition—

larly strong in its examination of the “Gorn is an adventurous historian with a talent for
Winner of
the International peculiarly Chinese reasons—beyond informed speculation. He has written an exciting
Convention of Asia the country’s rapid development and narrative history of boxing and then gone a step
Scholars Book Prize in huge population pressure—that lie further to ask a series of questions that extend his
Social Sciences
behind the scale of China’s environ- focus to the whole of nineteenth-century Ameri-
mental degradation: the leadership’s can culture.”—The Nation
obsession with short-term growth to pre-
serve social stability, whatever the ultimate cost, is “Writing with clarity, vigor, and grace, Gorn com-
one; the weak rule of law and a tradition of devolving bines detailed narrative with convincing interpre-
power to the regions, where watchdogs and pollut- tations. He offers the reader a judicious selection of
ers are often in collusion, is another.”—Economist quotations from the sporting press that capture the
drama, sensuality, and brutality of the ring and its
In The River Runs Black, Elizabeth C. Economy ex- craftsmen.”—Journal of American History
amines China’s growing environmental crisis and
its implications for the country’s future develop- Elliott J. Gorn’s The Manly Art not only told the sto-
ment. This second edition is updated with informa- ry of a controversial sport’s origins but also helped
tion about the tumultuous transformation of the shape the ways historians write about American
Chinese landscape as the PRC deals with local and culture. The book expanded scholarly boundaries
international groups ever more concerned about by exploring masculinity as an historical subject
climate change and dwindling energy resources. and by suggesting that social categories like gender,
class, and ethnicity can only be understood in rela-
tion to each other. This updated edition of Gorn’s
Elizabeth C. Economy is C. V. Starr Senior Fel-
highly influential history of the early prize rings
low and Director, Asia Studies, at the Council on
features a new afterword, the author’s meditation
Foreign Relations. She is coeditor of China Joins
on the ways in which studies of sport, gender, and
the World: Progress and Prospects and The Interna-
popular culture have changed in the quarter cen-
tionalization of Environmental Protection. She has
tury since the book was first published. An up-to-
published articles and opinion pieces in Foreign
date bibliography ensures that The Manly Art will
Affairs, the New York Times, the Washington Post,
remain a vital resource for a new generation.
and the International Herald Tribune, among oth-
ers. 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. Elliott J. Gorn is Professor of History and Ameri-
can Civilization at Brown University. He is the au-
thor of many books, including Dillinger’s Wild Ride
A Council on Foreign Relations Book
and Mother Jones, and coauthor of A Brief History
July of American Sports.
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Fern Hunting among

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Picturesque Mountains
Frederic Edwin Church in Jamaica
Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser and
Katherine Manthorne
In 1865 the American landscape painter Fred-

eric Edwin Church and his wife, Isabel, trav-
eled to Jamaica on a sojourn of recovery after
the tragic deaths of their two young children
Herbert and Emma. A time to mourn and es- Frederic Edwin Church, Scene in the Blue Mountains,
cape from the constant reminders found at their home, Olana, Jamaica, OL.1981.69, August 1865, oil on paper mounted
on academy board, 10.625 x 17.75 inches, Collection of
the Churches’ trip to Jamaica also provided ample inspiration for Olana State Historic Site, OPRHP
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
The accompanying
hung in different rooms at Olana. From these works, and oth-
exhibition may be seen at:
ers held by the Cooper-Hewitt, Church created two major studio
oils, The Vale of St. Thomas, Jamaica, 1867 (the Wadsworth Ath- Evelyn and Maurice Sharp
eneum) and The After Glow, 1867 (the Olana Collection). Gallery at Olana
June–October, 2010
Within Church’s oeuvre the studies of Jamaican sunsets, moun-
tains, and foliage are particularly lovely. Church wrote of Jamai-
ca: “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.”
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 sketch-
ing. Fern Hunting among Picturesque Mountains includes forty-
eight color illustrations, as well as essays by Elizabeth Mankin
Kornhauser (on Church’s Jamaica work) and Katherine Man-
thorne (about Church’s friends and fellow artists who also trav-
eled to Jamaica to paint).
Also of Interest
Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser is
Treasures from Olana Krieble Curator of American Paint-
Landscapes by Frederic Edwin Church ing and Sculpture at the Wadsworth
Kevin J. Avery Atheneum. Katherine Manthorne is
the olana collection
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Evelyn D. Trebilcock and Valerie A Balint June
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Albert Camus
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Elements of a Life
Robert Zaretsky
“Like many others of my generation, I first read Camus in high

school. I carried him in my backpack while traveling across Eu-
rope, 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, com-
ing 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 com-
plicated and critical.”—Robert Zaretsky
On October 16, 1957, Albert Camus was dining in a small res-
taurant 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
“Camus is a writer of great nuance been made and that others were far more deserving of the honor
and sensitivity, and Robert Za- than he. Yet Camus was already recognized around the world as
retsky interprets Camus in a way the voice of a generation—a status he had achieved with dizzy-
that is both intellectually sharp and ing speed. He published his first novel, The Stranger, in 1942 and
deeply personal. This is a thoughtful emerged from the war as the spokesperson for the Resistance
and beautifully written book, and I and, although he consistently rejected the label, for existential-
highly recommend it.”—Jeffrey C. ism. Subsequent works of fiction (including the novels The Plague
Isaac, James H. Rudy Professor of and The Fall), philosophy (notably, The Myth of Sisyphus and The
Political Science, Indiana Univer- Rebel), drama, and social criticism secured his literary and intel-
sity, Bloomington, author of Arendt, lectual reputation. And then on January 4, 1960, three years after
Camus, and Modern Rebellion 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 Ber-
ber tribes; his decision in 1945 to sign a petition to commute the
death sentence of collaborationist writer Robert Brasillach; his
Robert Zaretsky is Professor of famous quarrel with Jean-Paul Sartre in 1952 over the nature of
French History in the Honors Col- communism; and his silence about the war in Algeria in 1956.
lege of the University of Houston. He Both engaged and engaging, Albert Camus: Elements of a Life is
is the author of several books, includ- a searching companion to a profoundly moral and lucid writer
ing Nimes at War and Cock and Bull whose works provide a guide for those perplexed by the absurdity
Stories: Folco de Baroncelli and the of the human condition and the world’s resistance to meaning.
Invention of the Camargue. Most re-
cently, he is coauthor of The Philoso-
phers’ Quarrel: Rousseau, Hume and
the Limits of Human Understanding.
January
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The Death of Tolstoy

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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 sen-
sation. 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 en-
gaged 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 “William Nickell’s account of Tol-
the state tracked his every move, fearing that his death would em- stoy’s death, its circumstances, and
bolden his millions of supporters among the young, the peasant- its consequences is the most thor-
ry, and the intelligentsia. Representatives of the press converged ough in any language. The story
on the stationhouse at Astapovo where Tolstoy lay ill, turning his Nickell tells about the final days and
death into a feverish media event that strikingly anticipated to- death of a great writer is important in
day’s no-limits coverage of celebrity lives—and deaths. Drawing itself, but his careful charting of the
on newspaper accounts, personal correspondence, police reports, reaction of family, the public in all its
secret circulars, telegrams, letters, and memoirs, Nickell shows complex manifestations, church, and
the public spectacle of Tolstoy’s last days to be a vivid reflection of state to this death turns into a fasci-
a fragile, anxious empire on the eve of war and revolution. nating revelation of the state of Rus-
sian society just before World War
I.”—Donna Tussing Orwin, Univer-
sity of Toronto
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Divine Sophia
The Wisdom Writings of Vladimir Solovyov
Judith Deutsch Kornblatt
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Chair, Cowell College, University of
California, Santa Cruz.
Tolstoy and the Genesis of War and Peace
Kathryn B. Feuer
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Mirrors of Memory
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Freud, Photography, and the History of Art
Mary Bergstein
“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-the-
century 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 photog-
raphy in particular—played a crucial mediating role in the emer-
gence of Freud’s approach to sexuality, desire, representation, mem-
ory, and art.”—Michael Roth, President, Wesleyan University
Photographs shaped the view of the world in turn-of-the-

century 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 im-
portant 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 ori-
gins of psychoanalysis.
Photographs in Freud’s era were viewed as transparent windows
revealing objective truth but at the same time were highly sub-
jective, 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 sculp-
tures; 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 pho-
Mary Bergstein is Professor in the
tography shaped the ways in which the great archaeologist of the
History of Art and Visual Culture at
human mind saw and thought about the world.
the Rhode Island School of Design.
She is the author of The Sculpture of
Nanni di Banco and has written ex-
tensively on art, photography, and
culture.
Also of Interest
Cornell Studies in the
History of Psychiatry A Compulsion for Antiquity
Freud and the Ancient World
April Richard H. Armstrong
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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 mid-
dle 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 ancient Egyptian sources come
alive, speaking to us without seeming
The vision of the afterlife elaborated in the Amduat, dating from alien to our modern ways of think-
around 1500 b.c.e., has been influential for millennia, providing ing. Andreas Schweizer invites us to
the model for an entire genre of Egyptian literature, the Books of join the nocturnal voyage of the so-
the Afterlife, which in turn endured into the Greco-Roman era. lar barque and to immerse ourselves,
Its themes and images persisted into gnostic and alchemical texts with the “Great Soul” of the sun, into
and made their way into early Christian portrayals of the be- the darkness surrounding us.”—Erik
yond. In The Sungod’s Journey through the Netherworld, Andreas Hornung, from the Foreword
Schweizer guides the reader through the Amduat, offering a psy-
chological interpretation of the principal verbal and visual (icon-
ographic) 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).
Andreas Schweizer is a practicing

Also of Interest Jungian psychoanalyst in Zürich,
Switzerland. David Lorton, an
Egyptologist, is the translator of
The Secret Lore of Egypt
Its Impact on the West
many books, including The Secret
Erik Hornung
History of Hermes Trismegistus, also
Edited and Translated by David Lorton from Cornell. Erik Hornung is Pro-
Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-3847-9 fessor Emeritus of Egyptology at the
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University of Basel and the author of
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The Secret Lore of Egypt, also from
Cornell.
The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife
Erik Hornung
Translated by David Lorton May
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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.
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Economy, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Christensen, Director, Tax Justice view, have undertaken sustained and serious efforts to force tax
Network International Secretariat, havens into compliance.
London In Tax Havens, Ronen Palan, Richard Murphy, and Christian
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tory, inner workings, impact, extent, and enforcement. They
make clear that while, individually, tax havens may appear insig-
Ronen Palan is Professor of Inter- nificant, together they have a major impact on the global econo-
national Political Economy at the my. Holding up to $13 trillion of personal wealth—the equivalent
University of Birmingham. He is of the annual U.S. Gross National Product—and serving as the
the author of The Offshore World: legal home of two million corporate entities and half of all inter-
Sovereign Markets, Virtual Places, national lending banks, tax havens also skew the distribution of
and Nomad Millionaires, also from globalization’s costs and benefits to the detriment of developing
Cornell. Richard Murphy is CEO economies.
of Tax Research, LLP, based in the The first comprehensive account of these entities, this book chal-
UK. He is a frequent adviser to the lenges much of the conventional wisdom about tax havens. The
media, NGOs, and politicians, and authors reveal that, rather than operating at the margins of the
writes a blog at taxresearch.org.uk. world economy, tax havens are integral to it. More than simple
Christian Chavagneux, based in conduits for tax avoidance and evasion, tax havens actually be-
Paris, is deputy editor in chief of Al- long to the broad world of finance, to the business of managing
ternatives Economiques and editor of the monetary resources of individuals, organizations, and coun-
L’Economie politique. tries. They have become among the most powerful instruments
of globalization, one of the principal causes of global financial
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“There are three million child soldiers in Africa.” “More than ic. It demonstrates that quantitative
650,000 civilians have been killed as a result of the U.S. occu- misrepresentation is not an idiosyn-
pation of Iraq.” “Between 600,000 and 800,000 women are traf- cratic problem but one that is wide-
ficked across borders every year.” “Money laundering represents spread and often detrimental.”—John
as much as 10 percent of global GDP.” “Internet child porn is a Mueller, The Ohio State University
$20 billion-a-year industry.” These are big, attention-grabbing
numbers, frequently used in policy debates and media report-
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these numbers are probably false. Their continued use and abuse
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on. In Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts, political scientists, anthro-
pologists, sociologists, and policy analysts critically examine the
murky origins of some of these statistics and trace their remark-
able proliferation. They also assess the standard metrics used to
evaluate policy effectiveness in combating problems such as ter- Peter Andreas is Associate Professor
rorist financing, sex trafficking, and the drug trade. of Political Science and International
Contributors: Peter Andreas, Brown University; Thomas J. Biersteker,
Studies at Brown University. His
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies—Geneva; books include Border Games: Polic-
Sue E. Eckert, Brown University; David A. Feingold, Ophidian Re- ing the U.S.-Mexico Divide, now in
search Institute and UNESCO; H. Richard Friman, Marquette Univer- a second edition, and Blue Helmets
sity; Kelly M. Greenhill, Tufts University and Harvard University; John and Black Markets: The Business of
Hagan, Northwestern University; Lara J. Nettelfield, Institut Barcelona Survival in the Siege of Sarajevo, both
D’Estudis Internacionals and Simon Fraser University; Wenona Rymond- from Cornell. Kelly M. Greenhill is
Richmond, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Winifred Tate, Colby Assistant Professor of Government at
College; Kay B. Warren, Brown University Tufts University and a Research Fel-
low at the Belfer Center for Science
and International Affairs at Har-
vard University. She is the author of
Also of Interest Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced
Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign
Policy, also from Cornell.
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adding significantly to our under- thew Kroenig points out that nearly every country with a nuclear
standing of the trade in nuclear weapons arsenal received substantial help at some point from a
technology. In a rare nonideological more advanced nuclear state. Why do some countries help others
treatment of the subject, Matthew to develop nuclear weapons? Many analysts assume that nuclear
Kroenig supports his arguments transfers are driven by economic considerations. States in dire
with excellent research and un- economic need, they suggest, export sensitive nuclear materials
common case studies.”—T. V. Paul, and technology—and ignore the security risk—in a desperate
James McGill Professor of Interna- search for hard currency.
tional Relations, McGill University
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 threat-
ens 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 con-
straining an enemy and less likely to do so when it would threat-
en themselves.
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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. Understand-
ing why states provide sensitive nuclear assistance not only adds
to our knowledge of international politics but also aids in inter-
national efforts to control the spread of nuclear weapons.
Matthew Kroenig is Assistant Pro-

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“This book is a must-read for anyone concerned with voter fraud “For the vast majority of Ameri-
in twenty-first-century America. Lorraine C. Minnite defines cans, committing an act of voter
voter fraud so as to allow the careful, systematic investigation fraud—forging a voter registration
of the subject she reports in this volume. I highly recommend it.” card, stealing an identity to vote
—Chandler Davidson, editor, Minority Vote Dilution more than once, voting when legally
barred from doing so—is even more
Allegations that widespread voter fraud is threatening to the irrational than the individual act of
integrity of American elections and American democracy itself voting. What would an individual
have intensified since the disputed 2000 presidential election. voter get out of it? The incentives to
The claim that elections are being stolen by illegal immigrants cast an illegal ballot need to be pretty
and unscrupulous voter registration activists and vote buyers high to risk a felony conviction and
has been used to persuade the public that voter malfeasance is of five years in jail. . . . Why would an
greater concern than structural inequities in the ways votes are undocumented immigrant who may
gathered and tallied, justifying ever tighter restrictions on access have obtained a fake Social Security
to the polls. Yet, that claim is a myth. number in order to be paid for the
low-wage labor he or she provides
In The Myth of Voter Fraud, Lorraine C. Minnite presents the
an American employer come out
results of her meticulous search for evidence of voter fraud. She
from the shadows to cast a ballot that
concludes that that while voting irregularities produced by the
could deport him or her forever? The
fragmented and complex nature of the electoral process in the
data uncovered in the pages that fol-
United States are common, incidents of deliberate voter fraud
low are consistent with this logic. The
are actually quite rare. Based on painstaking research aggregat-
best facts we can gather to assess the
ing and sifting through data from a variety of sources, including
magnitude of the alleged problem of
public records requests to all fifty state governments and the U.S.
voter fraud show that while millions
Justice Department, Minnite contends that voter fraud is in real-
of people cast ballots every year, al-
ity a politically constructed myth intended to further complicate
most no one knowingly and willfully
the voting process and reduce voter turnout. She refutes several
casts an illegal vote in the United
high-profile charges of alleged voter fraud, such as the assertion
States today.”—from The Myth of
that eight of the 9/11 hijackers were registered to vote, and makes
Voter Fraud
the question of voter fraud more precise by distinguishing fraud
from the manifold ways in which electoral democracy can be dis-
torted. Effectively disentangling misunderstandings and deliber-
ate distortions from reality, The Myth of Voter Fraud provides rig-
orous empirical evidence for those fighting to make the electoral
process more efficient, more equitable, and more democratic.
Lorraine C. Minnite is Assistant Pro-

fessor of Political Science at Barnard
Also of Interest College. She is coauthor of Keeping
Down the Black Vote: Race and the
Demobilization of American Voters.
The Hidden Costs of Clean Election Reform
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the rights of America’s workers have tions make every day in the treatment of their workers, James A.
been thoroughly trumped by corpo- Gross issues a clarion call for the transformation of the Ameri-
rate property rights—and that we are can workplace based on genuine respect for human rights, rather
paying an unacceptably high price than whatever the economic and regulatory landscape might al-
as a result—you will be after read- low. Gross questions the nation’s underlying fabric of values as
ing this powerful and deeply unset- reflected in its laws and our assumptions about workers and the
tling book.”—Sheldon Friedman, workplace. Arguing that our market philosophy is incompatible
Research Coordinator, AFL-CIO with core principles of human rights, he forces readers to realign
Voice@Work Campaign the country’s labor policies so that they conform with the highest
international human rights standards. To make his case, Gross
“A Shameful Business offers a thought-
assesses various aspects of U.S. labor relations—freedom of as-
ful and comprehensive critique of
sociation, racial discrimination, management rights, workplace
contemporary labor policy in Amer-
safety, and human resources—through the lens of internationally
ica. By viewing labor rights as hu-
accepted human rights principles as standards of judgment. His
man rights, James A. Gross has pro-
findings are chilling.
vided a provocative, highly original,
and thoroughly readable record of “Employers who maintain workplaces that require men and
America’s shocking failure to com- women and sometimes even children to risk their lives and en-
ply with international human rights danger their health and eyes and limbs in order to earn a living
norms.”—Robert Hebdon, McGill are treating human life as cheap and are seeking their own gain
University through the desecration of human life,” Gross argues, and such
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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.
James A. Gross is Professor of Labor
Law at the School of Industrial and
Labor Relations, Cornell University. Also of Interest
He is editor of Workers’ Rights as Hu-
man Rights, also from Cornell, and Human Rights in Labor and Employment Relations
coeditor most recently of Human International and Domestic Perspectives
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Lyn C. Macgregor
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This book argues that there is more than one answer, and that de- munities are made in a rural place
spite the continued importance of small-town stuff traditionally and, through the three cultural
associated with face-to-face communities, it makes no sense to groups identified (Alternatives, Main
think that contemporary technological, economic, and cultural Streeters, and Regulars), gives im-
shifts have had no impact on the ways Americans practice com- portant insight into the production
munity life. Instead, I found that different Viroquans took dif- of community as well as community
ferent approaches to making community that reflected different identities and individual and collec-
confluences of moral logics—their senses of obligation to them- tive agency. Habits of the Heartland
selves, to their families, to Viroqua, and to the world beyond it, is a real contribution to the fields
and about the importance of exercising personal agency. The big- of community studies, rural stud-
gest surprise was that these ideas about obligation and agency ies, and cultural studies.”—Cornelia
and specifically about the degree to which it was necessary or Flora, Iowa State University
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
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 investi-
gates how the residents of Viroqua, Wisconsin, population 4,355,
create a small-town community together. Macgregor lived in Vi-
roqua for nearly two years. During that time she gathered data
in public places, attended meetings, volunteered for civic orga-
nizations, 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 Ameri-
can 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 vot-
ing booth. Living with—and listening to—the town’s residents Lyn C. Macgregor, formerly As-
taught Macgregor that while traditional ideas about “communi- sistant Professor of Sociology at the
ty,” especially as it was connected with living in a small town, still University of Montana, lives in Mad-
provided an important organizing logic for peoples’ lives, there ison, Wisconsin.
were a variety of ways to understand and create community.
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ov’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 ar-
gues 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
“This clear and compelling book is a readers, obligingly training them to twist and turn the text in
delight. Nabokov, Perversely is a well- order to puzzle out its meanings, so that they become not better
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revolutionize Nabokov studies. Eric tial for shame that sexually oriented close-looking entails.
Naiman has written a Nabokov book In Nabokov, Perversely, Naiman traces the connections between
as much for Nabokov skeptics as for sex and interpretation in Lolita (which he reads as a perverse
Nabokovians.”—Eliot Borenstein, work of Shakespeare scholarship), Pnin, Bend Sinister, and Ada.
New York University, author of He examines the roots of perverse reading in The Defense and
Overkill: Sex and Violence in Con- charts the enhanced attention to the connection between sex
temporary Russian Popular Culture 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 Nabokov-
trained eyes, making clear the power a strong writer can exert
on readers.
Eric Naiman is Professor of Com-

parative Literature and Slavic Lan-
guages and Literature at the Univer-
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author of Sex in Public: The Incarna- Dirt for Art’s Sake
tion of Early Soviet Ideology. Books on Trial from Madame Bovary to Lolita
Elisabeth Ladenson
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Global Markets in the Era of World War II
John B. Hench
Only weeks after the D-Day invasion of June 6, 1944, a surpris-

ing cargo—crates of books—joined the flood of troop reinforce-
ments, weapons and ammunition, food, and medicine onto Nor-
mandy 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 with-
in the Psychological Warfare Division of General Eisenhower’s
Supreme Command.
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ship between American book publishers and the U.S. government
to put carefully selected recent books highlighting American his- “Making excellent use of a wide range
tory and values into the hands of civilians liberated from Axis of archives, John B. Hench argues
forces. The government desired to use books to help “disintoxi- that World War II was a turning
cate” the minds of these people from the Nazi and Japanese pro- point for American publishers, forc-
paganda and censorship machines and to win their friendship. ing them to undertake more strategic
This objective dovetailed perfectly with U.S. publishers’ ambi- and cooperative planning across the
tions to find new profits in international markets, which had been industry than had been their wont
dominated by Britain, France, and Germany before their book and prompting them to see the world
trades were devastated by the war. Key figures on both the trade beyond their own borders as a viable
and government sides of the program considered books “the most and valuable marketplace. The war
enduring propaganda of all” and thus effective “weapons in the heightened publishers’ sense that
war of ideas,” both during the war and afterward, when the Soviet they dealt in ideas even as it raised
Union flexed its military might and demonstrated its propaganda their awareness of the value of the
savvy. Seldom have books been charged with greater responsibil- commodity in which they traded.”
ity or imbued with more significance. —Trysh Travis, University of Florida
John B. Hench leavens this fully international account of the pro-
grams with fascinating vignettes set in the war rooms of Wash-
ington 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.
John B. Hench has retired from the
post of Vice President for Collections
and Programs at the American An-
tiquarian Society. He is coeditor of
Also of Interest The Press and the American Revolu-
tion and Printing and Society in Early
America.
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Hiroshi Kitamura
During the six-and-a-half-year occupation of Japan (1945–1952),

U.S. film studios—in close cooperation with Douglas MacAr-
thur’s Supreme Command for the Allied Powers—launched an
ambitious campaign to extend their power and influence in a his-
torically rich but challenging film market. In this far-reaching
“enlightenment campaign,” Hollywood studios disseminated
more than six hundred films to theaters, reaped significant prof-
its, 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
“In Screening Enlightenment, Hiro- role American cinema played in the reeducation and reorienta-
shi Kitamura offers a view of the tion of the Japanese on behalf of the U.S. government.
U.S. film industry’s efforts in Japan According to Kitamura, Hollywood achieved widespread results
from the perspective of Japan’s en- by turning to the support of U.S. government and military au-
gagement with and influence on the thorities, which offered privileged deals to American movies
world’s cinema, as well as from the while rigorously controlling Japanese and other cinematic prod-
point of view of the United States in ucts. The presentation of American ideas and values as an em-
its cultural dealings with Japan.” blem of culture, democracy, and sophistication also allowed the
—Andrew Gordon, Harvard Univer- U.S. film industry to expand. However, the studios’ efforts would
sity, author of A Modern History of not have been nearly as successful without the local intermediar-
Japan ies 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 ori-
gins of this political and cultural transpacific relationship.
Hiroshi Kitamura is Assistant Pro-

fessor of History at the College of
William and Mary. Also of Interest
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Sean L. Malloy
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tary 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
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important events of the twentieth century. As secretary of war defense and foreign policy decision
during World War II, Henry L. Stimson (1867–1950) oversaw the of the modern era—to use nuclear
American nuclear weapons program. In a book about how an ex- weapons against Japan and as a dip-
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Stimson reluctantly acquiesced in the use of the atomic bomb the context of its use. This book is a
against heavily populated Japanese cities in August 1945. This well-written, informative, judicious
is the first biography of Stimson to benefit from extensive use of account that will be useful to histo-
papers relating to the Manhattan Project; Malloy has also uncov- rians as well as policy analysts and
ered evidence illustrating the origins of Stimson’s commitment ethicists.”—Journal of American
to eliminating or refining the conduct of war against civilians, History
information that makes clear the agony of Stimson’s dilemma.
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of California, Merced.
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of France was one of the most important kings
Before Columbus’s fateful voyage in 1492, no Eu- of medieval history and also one of the foremost
ropean had ever seen, much less tasted, tobacco or saints of the later Middle Ages. As a saint, Louis
chocolate. Initially dismissed as dry leaves and an became the centerpiece of an ideological program
odd Indian drink, these two commodities came that buttressed the ongoing political consolidation
to conquer Europe on a scale unsurpassed by any of France and underscored Capetian claims of sa-
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Atlantic world, Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures trac- canonization and the consolidation and spread of
es the ways in which these two goods of the Ameri- his cult. In deepening our knowledge of this royal
cas both changed and were changed by Europe. saint, this elegantly written book opens the curtain
on the religious sensibilities and secular politics of
a transitional period in European history.
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culture was fundamentally shaped by many of the today’s copyright wars in historical context, Paul K.
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period 1770–1820. He shows that landscape aes- the copyright laws of the new millennium? In The
thetics—the verbal and social idiom of landscape Copywrights, Saint-Amour challenges the notion
gardening, natural history, the scenic tour, and that copyright’s function ends with the provision
other forms of outdoor “improvement”—provided of private incentives to creation and innovation.
a shared vernacular for geology and Romanticism The cases he examines lead him to argue that copy-
in their formative stages. Romantic Rocks, Aesthet- right performs a range of political, emotional, and
ic Geology reexamines a wide range of eighteenth- even sacred functions that are too often ignored,
and nineteenth-century poetry to discover its and that what seems to have emerged as copyright’s
relationship to a broad cultural consensus on the primary function—the creation of private property
nature and value of rocks and landforms. incentives—must not be an end in itself.
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Natural History. English at the University of Pennsylvania.
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John Kekes ties of the ‘jeweled style’ and shows that, although
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suspicion by Christian authors, it became an en-
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indispensable to a fulfilling and responsible life.
By correcting a parochial view of the possibilities Janet M. Atwill
available to us and overcoming mistaken assump-
tions about our limitations, moral imagination lib- “In Rhetoric Reclaimed, Janet Atwill offers a new
erates us from self-imposed narrowness. It enlarges framework for understanding the history of West-
life by enabling us to reflect more deeply and wide- ern rhetoric and a reinterpretation of Aristotle’s
ly about how we should live. The material for this place within that history. Atwill has done much
reflection, Kekes believes, is supplied by literature. to illuminate the competing forms of knowledge
and subjectivity inscribed in the canonical texts of
ancient rhetoric and has recovered a lost or under-
appreciated dimension of these texts.”—Rhetorik
Janet M. Atwill is Professor of English at the Uni-

versity of Tennessee at Knoxville. She is coeditor of
John Kekes is the author of many books, including The Viability of the Rhetorical Tradition.
The Roots of Evil, The Illusions of Egalitarianism,
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vincing. Steve A. Yetiv waste export and hazard-
argues that while trade and ‘dependency’ may put ous technology transfer
nations into conflict, it also pulls them together. We problems and an accessible analysis of the various
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Steve A. Yetiv argues that common assumptions curtail and eliminate it.”—Choice
about oil markets are wrong. Although prices re-
main 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 coun-
dictable than the one to which we are accustomed. tries has become a routine practice. Environmen-
In Crude Awakenings, he identifies and analyzes talists and the governments of developing coun-
real 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.
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ernance and Professor, Faculty of Environmental
Steve A. Yetiv is Professor of Political Science at Studies, at the University of Waterloo. She is the
Old Dominion University. He is the author of Ex- author of Adjustment and Agriculture in Africa:
plaining Foreign Policy: U.S. Decision Making and Farmers, the State, and the World Bank in Guinea
the Persian Gulf War; America and the Persian and the coauthor of Paths to a Green World: The
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include Japan and France, are very well done and success or failure depends very much on the prac-
provide empirical evidence for the universal na- tices of the local governments. The importance of
ture of the human reaction to siting dilemmas. this factor explains one of his most surprising find-
They suggest that the strategic interaction between ings: that Beijing firms were more successful than
democratic state policy processes and the organi- those in Shanghai, where local authorities concen-
zational structure of the civic society involved— trated their support for high-tech developments on
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for host communities. Policymakers must decide look at a major Chinese institutional experiment
not only where to locate often unwanted projects and at high-tech endeavors in China. The evolu-
but also what methods to use when interacting tion of the high-technologies sector will determine,
with opposition groups. In Site Fights, Daniel P. Al- Segal says, whether China will become a modern
drich gathers quantitative evidence from close to economy or simply a large one.
five hundred municipalities across Japan to show
that planners deliberately seek out acquiescent and
unorganized communities for such facilities in or-
der to minimize conflict.
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In The Ultimate Enemy, Wesley K. Wark catalogs
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ysis of remembrance and remorse. She finds that
that were often fostered by British intelligence.
the issue is whether apologies by the aggressor can
reduce the perception of threat by former victims.
Wesley K. Wark is Associate Professor of History
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at the University of Toronto.
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John J. Mearsheimer many countries have been able to reconcile with-
out much in the way of apologies or reparations.
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the most highly regarded writer on strategy and to cause a domestic backlash that alarms—rather
military matters in the English-speaking world. than assuages—outside observers. Apologies and
In this unflinching but balanced book, John J. other such polarizing gestures are thus unlikely to
Mearsheimer reexamines Liddell Hart’s career. soothe relations after conflict, Lind finds, and re-
membrance that is less accusatory—conducted bi-
John J. Mearsheimer is R. Wendell Harrison Dis- laterally or in multilateral settings—holds the most
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and codirector of the Program on International
Security Policy at the University of Chicago. He
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and policy relevance; it is showing how interna-
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In Occupational Hazards, David M. Edelstein elu-
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tions and their more frequent failures. In a book veys U.S. policy toward Iraq, starting with the Gulf
that has implications for present-day policy, he War, continuing through the interwar years of
draws evidence from such historical cases as well sanctions and coercive disarmament, and conclud-
as from four current occupations—Bosnia, Kosovo, ing with the 2003 invasion and its long aftermath.
Afghanistan, and Iraq—where the outcome is not He offers a framework for understanding why pow-
yet known. erful states often work through international orga-
nizations when conducting coercive policies—and
why they sometimes choose instead to work alone
or with ad hoc coalitions.
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Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and
the Department of Government at Georgetown
University. In addition, he is a core faculty mem-
ber in Georgetown’s Security Studies Program and
Center for Peace and Security Studies.
Alexander Thompson is Associate Professor of Po-
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Thomas Risse
In A Community of Europeans? a thoughtful observer of the on- “A Community of Europeans? is a path-

going project of European integration evaluates the state of the breaking contribution that brings to-
art about European identity and European public spheres. Thom- gether the main strands of theoretical
as Risse argues that integration has had profound and long-term and policy debate since the EU’s cur-
effects on the citizens of EU countries, most of whom now have rent identity crisis began in the early
at least a secondary “European identity” to complement their na- 1990s and evaluates them against
tional identities. Risse also claims that we can see the gradual the best and most up-to-date em-
emergence of transnational European communities of commu- pirical data. Thomas Risse has been
nication. Exploring the outlines of this European identity and of a leading voice in these debates since
the communicative spaces, Risse sheds light on some pressing their inception.”—Thomas Banchoff,
questions: What do “Europe” and “the EU” mean in the various Director of the Berkley Center for
public debates? How do European identities and transnational Religion, Peace, and World Affairs
public spheres affect policymaking in the EU? And how do they and Associate Professor of Govern-
matter in discussions about enlargement, particularly Turkish ment, Georgetown University
accession to the EU? What will be the consequences of the grow-
ing contestation and politicization of European affairs for Euro-
pean democracy?
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 Eu-
rope against the increasingly forceful voices of Euroskepticism.
Also of Interest Thomas Risse is Professor of Inter-

national Politics, Otto Suhr Institute
for Political Science, Freie Univer-
The End of the West?
sität Berlin. He is coeditor of The End
Crisis and Change in the Atlantic Order
of the West? Conflict and Change in
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Foreign Policy Activism in
Post-Soviet Russia
Kelly M. Greenhill
Laura A. Henry
“Kelly M. Greenhill’s Weapons of Mass Migration
shines a bright light on strategically engineered “Red to Green is well
migration.”—Michael Barnett, Harold Stassen written, theoretically so-
Chair at the Hubert H. Humphrey School, Uni- phisticated, and fills an
versity of Minnesota important gap in the ex-
isting literature on com-
At first glance, the U.S. decision to escalate the war parative environmental activism.”
in Vietnam in the mid-1960s, China’s position on —Jane I. Dawson, Connecticut College
North Korea’s nuclear program in the late 1990s
and early 2000s, and the EU resolution to lift what Environmental activism in contemporary Russia
remained of the arms embargo against Libya in the exemplifies both the promise and the challenge
mid-2000s would appear to share little in common. facing grassroots politics in the post-Soviet period.
Yet each of these seemingly unconnected and far- In the late Soviet period, Russia’s environmental
reaching foreign policy decisions resulted at least movement was one of the country’s most dynamic
in part from the exercise of a unique kind of co- and effective forms of social activism, and it ap-
ercion, one predicated on the intentional creation, peared well positioned to influence the direction
manipulation, and exploitation of real or threat- and practice of post-Soviet politics. At present,
ened mass population movements. In Weapons of however, activists scattered across Russia face se-
Mass Migration, Kelly M. Greenhill offers the first vere obstacles to promoting green issues that range
systematic examination of this widely deployed but from wildlife protection and nuclear safety to envi-
largely unrecognized instrument of state influence. ronmental education.
Coercers aim to affect target states’ behavior by ex- Laura Henry details what grassroots organizations
ploiting the existence of competing political inter- in Russia actually do, how they use the limited eco-
ests and groups, Greenhill argues, and by manip- nomic and political opportunities that are available
ulating the costs or risks imposed on target state to them, and when they are able to influence policy
populations. This “coercion by punishment” strat- and political practice. Drawing on her in-depth in-
egy can be effected in two ways: the first relies on terviews with activists, Henry illustrates how green
straightforward threats to overwhelm a target’s ca- organizations have pursued their goals by “recy-
pacity to accommodate a refugee or migrant influx; cling” Soviet-era norms, institutions, and networks
the second, on a kind of norms-enhanced political and using them in combination with transnational
blackmail that exploits the existence of legal and ideas, resources, and partnerships.
normative commitments to those fleeing violence,
persecution, or privation.
Kelly M. Greenhill is Assistant Professor of Gov-

ernment at Tufts University and a Research Fellow
at the Belfer Center for Science and International Laura A. Henry is Assistant Professor of Govern-
Affairs at Harvard University. She is coeditor of ment and Legal Studies at Bowdoin College. She is
Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts, also from Cornell. coeditor of Russian Civil Society: A Critical Assess-
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Walter F. Hatch
“Changing Politics in Japan provides an up-to-date,
integrated, and historically salient argument about “Asia’s Flying Geese connects social organization,
the links between parties, politicians, and elections economics, and politics to bring the study of East
in postwar Japan.”—T. J. Pempel, University of Asian regionalism to life. In this landmark book
California, Berkeley on an extremely important topic, Walter F. Hatch
explains Japan’s economic stagnation and subse-
Changing Politics in Japan is a fresh and insightful quent transformation by looking at its ties to East
account of the profound changes that have shaken Asia.”—Mark Tilton, Purdue University
up the Japanese political system and transformed it
almost beyond recognition in the last couple of de- In Asia’s Flying Geese, Walter F. Hatch tackles the
cades. Ikuo Kabashima—a former professor who is puzzle of Japan’s paradoxically slow change dur-
now Governor of Kumamoto Prefecture—and Gill ing the economic crisis it faced in the 1990s. Hatch
Steel outline the basic features of politics in postwar shows how Japanese political and economic elites
Japan in an accessible and engaging manner. They delayed—but could not in the end forestall—the
focus on the dynamic relationship between voters transformation of their distinctive brand of capi-
and elected or nonelected officials and describe the talism by trying to extend it to the rest of Asia. For
shifts that have occurred in how voters respond to most of the 1990s, the region grew rapidly as an
or control political elites and how officials both re- increasingly integrated but hierarchical group of
spond to, and attempt to influence, voters. economies. Japanese diplomats and economists
Kabashima and Steel set out to demolish the still came to call them “flying geese.” The “lead goose”
prevalent myth that Japanese politics are a stag- or most developed economy, Japan, supplied the
nant set of entrenched systems and interests that capital, technology, and even developmental norms
are fundamentally undemocratic. In its place, they to second-tier “geese” such as Singapore and South
reveal a lively and dynamic democracy, in which Korea, which themselves traded with Thailand,
politicians and parties are increasingly listening Malaysia, and the Philippines, and so on down the
to and responding to citizens’ needs and interests V-shaped line to Indonesia and coastal China. Ja-
and the media and other actors play a substantial pan’s model of capitalism, which Hatch calls “re-
role in keeping democratic accountability alive and lationalism,” was thus fortified, even as it became
healthy. Kabashima and Steel describe how all the increasingly outdated.
political parties in Japan have adapted the ways in The Asian economic crisis in the late 1990s desta-
which they attempt to organize and channel votes bilized many of the surrounding economies upon
and argue that contrary to many journalistic ste- which Japan had in some measure depended, and
reotypes the government is increasingly acting in the People’s Republic of China gained new promi-
the “the interests of citizens”—the median voter’s nence on the global scene as an economic dynamo.
preferences. These changes, Hatch concludes, have forced real
transformation in Japan’s corporate governance,
its domestic politics, and in its ongoing relations
with its neighbors.
Ikuo Kabashima is Professor Emeritus, Univer-
sity of Tokyo, and Governor of Kumamoto Prefec-
ture. His many books include Elites and the Idea of Walter F. Hatch is Assistant Professor of Govern-
Equality. Gill Steel is Assistant Professor of Social ment at Colby College.
Psychology at the University of Tokyo. She is coedi-
tor of Reform in Japan: Assessing the Impact. Cornell Studies in Political Economy
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Edited by Rawi Abdelal, Transatlantic Trade Relations,
Mark Blyth, and Craig Parsons 1930–2010
Andreas Dür
Focusing empirically on how political and eco-
nomic forces are always mediated and interpreted
“Andreas Dür posits a new argument as to why the
by agents, both in individual countries and in the
United States and the European Community have
international sphere, Constructing the Internation-
focused on preferential trade agreements, forcing
al Economy sets out what such constructions and
us to rethink why these trade agreements have
what various forms of constructivism mean, both
proliferated. Trade scholars will be discussing this
as ways of understanding the world and as sets of
book extensively in the years to come.”—Susan
varying methods for achieving that understand-
Ariel Aaronson, George Washington University
ing. It rejects the assumption that material inter-
ests either linearly or simply determine economic “All those interested in the politics of EU and U.S.
outcomes and demands that analysts consider, as trade policy and negotiations will want to keep up
a plausible hypothesis, that economies might vary with the work of Andreas Dür.”—John S. Odell,
substantially for nonmaterial reasons that affect University of Southern California
both institutions and agents’ interests.
Contributors: Rawi Abdelal, Harvard Business School;
The liberalization of transatlantic trade relations
Jacqueline Best, University of Ottawa; Mark Blyth, Brown since the Great Depression is one of the key devel-
University; Mlada Bukovansky, Smith College; Jeffrey opments in the global political economy of the last
M. Chwieroth, London School of Economics; Francesco hundred years. This period has seen the negoti-
Duina, Copenhagen Business School; Charlotte Epstein, ated reduction of both tariffs and nontariff barriers
University of Sydney; Yoshiko M. Herrera, University of among developed countries, which allowed for the
Wisconsin–Madison; Paul Langley, Northumbria Uni- rapid expansion of trade flows, a driving force of
versity; Craig Parsons, University of Oregon; Catherine economic globalization. In Protection for Export-
Weaver, University of Texas at Austin; Wesley W. Wid- ers, Andreas Dür provides a novel explanation for
maier, Saint Joseph’s University; Cornelia Woll, CERI-
this phenomenon that stresses the role of societal
Sciences Po Paris
interests in shaping trade politics. He argues that
exporters lobby more in reaction to losses of for-
eign market access than in pursuit of opportunities,
Rawi Abdelal is Joseph C. Wilson Professor of thus providing a rationale for periods of accelera-
Business Administration at Harvard Business tion and slowdown in the pace of liberalization. Dür
School. He is the the author of National Purpose in also presents hypotheses about the form in which
the World Economy, also from Cornell, and Capi- protection for exporters is provided (preferential
tal Rules. Mark Blyth is Professor of International or nonpreferential) and the balance of concessions
Political Economy at Brown University and the au- that is exchanged in trade negotiations.
thor most recently of The Handbook of Internation-
al 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 Politi-
cal Science.
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Oil and the State in Saudi Arabia Uneven Development in China
Steffen Hertog Mark W. Frazier
“Toward the end of his career, the great Yale political “Mark W. Frazier offers an excellent contribution
scientist Charles Lindblom advised us to abandon to research on the welfare state by thoroughly ex-
the hopeless pursuit of scientific ‘laws’ and ‘discov- amining the factors that have shaped the unique
eries’ and instead concentrate on what we can in- development of China’s old age pension system.”
deed do well: correcting the discipline’s own errors —Sarah M. Brooks, The Ohio State University
and getting the facts straight. Steffen Hertog does
both with consummate style and skill in Princes, Over the past two decades, China has rapidly in-
Brokers, and Bureaucrats.”—Robert Vitalis, Uni- creased its spending on its public pension pro-
versity of Pennsylvania grams, to the point that pension funding is one of
the government’s largest expenditures. Despite this,
In Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats, the most thor- only about 50 million citizens—one-third of the
ough treatment of the political economy of Saudi country’s population above the age of 60—receive
Arabia to date, Steffen Hertog uncovers an untold pensions. Combined with the growing and increas-
history of how the elite rivalries and whims of half ingly violent unrest over inequalities brought about
a century ago have shaped today’s Saudi state and by China’s reform model, the escalating costs of an
are reflected in its policies. aging society have brought the Chinese political
Starting in the late 1990s, Saudi Arabia embarked leadership to a critical juncture in its economic and
on an ambitious reform campaign to remedy its social policies.
long-term economic stagnation. The results have In Socialist Insecurity, Mark W. Frazier explores
been puzzling for both area specialists and politi- pension policy in the People’s Republic of China,
cal economists: Saudi institutions have not failed arguing that the government’s push to expand pen-
across the board, as theorists of the “rentier state” sion and health insurance coverage to urban resi-
would predict, nor have they achieved the all- dents and rural migrants has not reduced, but rath-
encompassing modernization the regime has tout- er reproduced, economic inequalities. He explains
ed. Instead, the kingdom has witnessed a bewilder- this apparent paradox by analyzing the decisions of
ing mélange of thorough failures and surprising the political actors responsible for pension reform:
successes. urban officials and state-owned enterprise manag-
Hertog argues that it is traits peculiar to the Saudi ers. Frazier shows that China’s highly decentral-
state that make sense of its uneven capacities. Oil ized pension administration both encourages the
rents since World War II have shaped Saudi state “grabbing hand” of local officials to collect large
institutions in ways that are far from uniform. Oil amounts of pension and other social insurance rev-
money has given regime elites unusual leeway for enue and compels redistribution of these revenues
various institutional experiments in different parts to urban pensioners, a crucial political constitu-
of the state. This enables swift and successful poli- ency. Developing countries such as China, Frazier
cymaking in some areas but produces coordination argues, provide new terrain to explore how welfare
and regulation failures in others. programs evolve, who drives the process, and who
sees the greatest benefit.
Steffen Hertog is Kuwait Professor at Sciences Mark W. Frazier is Conoco-Phillips Professor of

Po Paris and Lecturer in the School of Govern- Chinese Politics and Associate Professor, School of
ment and International Affairs at the University of International and Area Studies, at the University of
Durham. Oklahoma.
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“Urban America Reconsidered raises some very
“In this sensitive, readable. and well-researched book, provocative questions about the current direction
Howell S. Baum shows how Baltimore officials tried of research in urban politics and presents an in-
and failed to integrate the city schools.”—Edward D. triguing perspective on the future of urban policy
Berkowitz, George Washington University action in the United States.”—Larry Bennett,
coauthor of It’s Hardly Sportin’: Stadiums, Neigh-
In the first book to present the history of Baltimore borhoods, and the New Chicago
school desegregation, Howell S. Baum shows how
good intentions got stuck on what Gunnar Myrdal The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina laid bare the
called the “American Dilemma.” Immediately af- tragedy of American cities. What the storm re-
ter the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, vealed about the social conditions in New Orleans
the city’s liberal school board voted to desegregate shocked many Americans. Even more shocking is
and adopted a free choice policy that made inte- how widespread these conditions are throughout
gration voluntary. Baltimore’s school desegrega- much of urban America. Plagued by ineffectual
tion proceeded peacefully, without the resistance and inegalitarian governance, acute social prob-
or violence that occurred elsewhere. However, few lems such as extreme poverty, and social and eco-
whites chose to attend school with blacks, and af- nomic injustice, many American cities suffer a fate
ter a few years of modest desegregation, schools similar to that of New Orleans before and after the
resegregated and became increasingly segregated. hurricane. Gentrification and corporate redevelop-
The school board never changed its policy. Black ment schemes merely distract from this disturbing
leaders had urged the board to adopt free choice, reality.
and, despite the limited desegregation, continued Compounding this tragedy is a failure in urban
to support the policy and never sued the board to analysis and scholarship. Little has been offered in
do anything else. the way of solving urban America’s problems, and
Baum finds that American liberalism is the key to much of what has been proposed or practiced re-
explaining how this happened. From the classroom mains profoundly misguided, in David Imbroscio’s
to city hall, Baum examines how Baltimore’s dis- view. In Urban America Reconsidered, he offers
tinct identity as a border city between North and a timely response. He urges a reconsideration of
South shaped local conversations about the na- the two reigning orthodoxies in urban studies—
tional conflict over race and equality. The city’s his- regime theory and liberal expansionism. Declaring
tory of wrestling with the legacy of Brown reveals both approaches to be insufficient, Imbroscio illu-
Americans’ preferred way of dealing with racial is- minates another path for urban America: remak-
sues: not talking about race. This avoidance, Baum ing city economies via an array of local economic
concludes, allows segregation to continue. alternative development strategies (or LEADS).
David Imbroscio is Professor of Political Science

at the University of Louisville. He is the author of
Howell S. Baum is Professor of Urban Studies and Reconstructing City Politics and Urban Regimes, co-
Planning at the University of Maryland. He is the author of Making a Place for Community: Local De-
author most recently of Community Action for mocracy in a Global Era, and coeditor of Theories of
School Reform and The Organization of Hope: Com- Urban Politics, second edition, and Critical Urban
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Working for Justice Workplace Flexibility
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Organizing and Advocacy 21st-Century Workforce
Edited by Ruth Milkman, Edited by Kathleen Christensen and
Joshua Bloom, and Victor Narro Barbara Schneider
Working for Justice, which includes eleven case Although today’s family has changed, the work-
studies of recent low-wage worker organizing cam- place has not—and the resulting one-size-fits-all
paigns in Los Angeles, makes the case for a dis- workplace has become profoundly mismatched
tinctive “L.A. Model” of union and worker center to the needs of an increasingly diverse and varied
organizing. The organized labor movement in Los workforce. As changes in the composition of the
Angeles has weathered the effects of deindustrial- workforce exert new demands on employers, con-
ization and deregulation better than unions in oth- siderable attention is being paid to how workplaces
er parts of the United States, and this has helped can be structured more flexibly to achieve the goals
to anchor the city’s wider low-wage worker move- of employers and employees. Workplace Flexibility
ment. brings together sixteen essays authored by leading
experts in economics, demography, political sci-
The case studies in Working for Justice are all based
ence, law, sociology, anthropology, and manage-
on original field research on organizing campaigns
ment. Collectively, they make the case for work-
among L.A. day laborers, garment workers, car
place flexibility, as well as examine existing business
wash workers, security officers, janitors, taxi driv-
practices and public policy regarding flexibility in
ers, and hotel workers as well as the efforts of ethni-
the United States, Europe, Australia, and Japan.
cally focused worker centers and immigrant rights
organizations. Working for Justice is a valuable Contributors: Margaret Beck; Suzanne M. Bianchi;
resource for sociologists and other scholars in the James T. Bond; Juliet Bourke; Belinda Campos; Kathleen
interdisciplinary field of labor studies, as well as for Christensen; Laura den Dulk,; Robert Drago; Sheila Eby;
advocates and policymakers. 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 Osa-
wa; Kelly Sakai; Barbara Schneider; Merav Shohet; Blake
Sisk; Matthew Weinshenker; Vanessa R. Wight; Tyler
Wigton; Joan C. Williams; Mark Wooden
Ruth Milkman is Professor of Sociology at UCLA

and the CUNY Graduate Center and Associate Di-
rector of the Murphy Labor Institute at CUNY. She Kathleen Christensen is Program Director at the
is coeditor of Rebuilding Labor and editor of Orga- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and coeditor of Contin-
nizing Immigrants, both from Cornell, and author gent Work, also from Cornell. Barbara Schneider
of L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of is John A. Hannah University Distinguished Pro-
the U.S. Labor Movement. Joshua Bloom is a Ph.D. fessor in the College of Education and the Depart-
candidate in sociology at UCLA and coauthor of ment of Sociology at Michigan State University
the forthcoming Black against Empire: The Rise and and a Senior Fellow, NORC and the University of
Fall of the Black Panther Party. Victor Narro, J.D. Chicago. She is coeditor of The AERA Handbook on
is Project Director of the UCLA Downtown Labor Education Policy Research.
Center.
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and Welfare Li Zhang
Reform
Sandra Morgen, “In Search of Paradise is an engaging collection of
Joan Acker, and ethnographies of the very different ways in which
Jill Weigt individuals, families, and social strata are affected
by the experience of homeownership. Li Zhang
“This is a wonderfully explains how, in the process, they become citizens
thoughtful and illumi- of a different political order, building responsibili-
nating book. Sandra Morgen, Joan Acker, and Jill ties and elaborating desires.”—Luigi Tomba, ANU
Weigt peered into the workings of the Oregon wel- College of Asia and the Pacific
fare system after the implementation of the draco-
nian reform of 1996. The result is a closely obser- A new revolution in homeownership and living has
vant picture of just what went on.”—Frances Fox been sweeping the booming cities of China. This
Piven, Graduate Center of the City University of time the main actors on the social stage are not
New York peasants, migrants, or working-class proletariats
but middle-class professionals and entrepreneurs
By examining the varied realities and accountings in search of a private paradise in a society now
of welfare restructuring, Stretched Thin looks back dominated by consumerism. No longer seeking
at a critical moment of policy change and suggests happiness and fulfillment through collective sacri-
how welfare policy in the United States can be fice and socialist ideals, they hope to find material
changed to better address the needs of poor fami- comfort and social distinction in newly construct-
lies and the nation. Sandra Morgen, Joan Acker, ed gated communities. This quest for the good life
and Jill Weigt question the validity of claims that is profoundly transforming the physical and social
welfare reform has been a success. They show how landscapes of urban China. Li Zhang, who is from
poor families, welfare workers, and welfare admin- Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, turns a
istrators experienced and assessed welfare reform keen ethnographic eye on her hometown.
differently based on gender, race, class, and their In Search of Paradise is a deeply informed account of
varying positions of power and control within the how the rise of private homeownership is reconfig-
welfare state. The authors document the ways that, uring urban space, class subjects, gender selfhood,
despite the dramatic drop in welfare rolls, low- and ways of life in the reform era. New, seemingly
wage jobs and inadequate social supports left many individualistic lifestyles mark a dramatic move
families struggling in poverty. away from yearning for a social utopia under Mao-
ist socialism. Yet the privatization of property and
urban living have engendered a simultaneous move-
Sandra Morgen is Professor of Anthropology and ment of public engagement among homeowners.
Associate Dean of the Graduate School at the Uni-
versity of Oregon. She is the author of books in-
cluding Into Our Own Hands and coeditor most
recently of Security Disarmed. Joan Acker is Pro-
fessor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Or-
egon and the author of Class Questions and Doing Li Zhang is Professor of Anthropology at the
Comparable Worth. Jill Weigt is Associate Profes- University of California, Davis. She is coeditor of
sor of Sociology at California State University–San Privatizing China: Socialism from Afar, also from
Marcos. Cornell, and the author of Strangers in the City.
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Deep Skin Royal Poetrie

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Peggy Samuels Peter C. Herman
“Deep Skin features Eliza- “Herman’s book offers smart, subtle, and consis-
beth Bishop’s imagina- tently interesting readings of poetry that is under-
tion of space, her sense studied and deserves the wider audience one hopes
of the relation of objects Royal Poetrie will gain for it.”—Wayne A. Rebhorn,
and textures in space The University of Texas at Austin
and time, and her nego-
tiation of surface and depth. This is a novel angle Royal Poetrie is the first book to address the signifi-
on Bishop’s perceptual thought, a description of cance of a distinctive body of verse from the Eng-
her particular phenomenology as it informs her lish Renaissance—poems produced by the Tudor-
landscapes, her love poems, and her social insights. Stuart monarchs Henry VIII, Mary, Queen of Scots,
Peggy Samuels shows how the visual imagination Elizabeth I, and James VI/I. Not surprisingly, Hen-
is fundamental to Bishop’s way of experiencing ry VIII is no John Donne, but the unique political
and responding to the world.”—Bonnie Costello, and poetic complications raised by royal endeavors
Boston University at authorship imbue this literature with special in-
terest. Peter C. Herman is particularly intrigued
Elizabeth Bishop, who constructed poems of crys- by how the monarchs’ poems express and extend
talline visual accuracy, is often regarded as the most their power and control. In monarchic verse, Her-
painterly of twentieth-century American poets. In man argues, one can see monarchs asserting their
Deep Skin, Peggy Samuels explores Bishop’s attrac- significance and appropriating images of royalty
tion to painters who experimented with dynamic to enhance their power and their position. Some-
interactions between surface and depth. She tells times, as in the cases of Henry and Elizabeth, they
the story of the development of Bishop’s poetics in are successful; sometimes, as for James, they are
relation to her engagement with mid-century art, not. For Mary Stuart, the results were disastrous.
particularly the work of Paul Klee, Kurt Schwitters,
Herman devotes a chapter each to the poetic en-
and Alexander Calder. Contemporary conversa-
deavors of Henry VIII, Mary Stuart, Elizabeth I,
tions about the visual arts circulating among art
and James VI/I. His introduction addresses the
historians and reviewers shaped Bishop’s experi-
tradition of monarchic verse in England and on the
ence and illuminated aesthetic problems for which
continent as well as the textual issues presented by
she needed to find solutions. The book explores in
these texts. A brief postscript examines the verses
particular the closest intellectual context for Bish-
that circulated under Charles I’s name after his
op, her friend Margaret Miller, who worked as a
execution. In an argument enhanced by carefully
research associate and later associate curator at the
chosen illustrations, Herman places monarchic
Museum of Modern Art.
verse within the visual and other cultural tradi-
Samuels traces a complex and rich four-way meta- tions of the day.
phor in her portrait of Bishop’s methods: surface
of verse, surface of painting, skin, and interface
between mind and world. Bishop begins to experi- Peter C. Herman is Professor of English at San
ment with modulation, absorption, and incorpora- Diego State University. He is the author of Desta-
tion across multiple registers of experience. bilizing Milton: “Paradise Lost” and the Poetics of
Incertitude and Squitter-wits and Muse-haters: Sid-
Peggy Samuels is Professor of English at Drew ney, Spenser, Milton, and Renaissance Antipoetic
University. Sentiment.
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Age of the Encyclopedia Medium
Joanna Stalnaker Feminine
Channeling, the
“The Unfinished Enlightenment is a pleasure to Occult, and
read—it is clearly written, with an impressive com- Communication
bination of persuasive larger arguments fortified by Technologies,
compelling close readings.”—Cynthia Wall, Uni- 1859–1919
versity of Virginia Jill Galvan
In The Unfinished Enlightenment, Joanna Stalnaker
offers a fresh look at the French Enlightenment “Jill Galvan examines how Victorians often overlaid
by focusing on the era’s vast, collective attempt to the figure of the woman as sympathetic social me-
compile an ongoing and provisional description diator, technological operator, automatic typewrit-
of the world. Through a series of readings of natu- er, and mediumistic detecting device, sensitive to
ral histories, encyclopedias, scientific poetry, and messages from the dead. Combining gender stud-
urban topographies, the book uncovers the deep ies with the history of science and technology and
epistemological and literary tensions that made literary criticism, this is the kind of cultural history
description a central preoccupation for authors that sparks with light and energy.”—Roger Luck-
such as Buffon, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Diderot, hurst, Birkbeck College, University of London
Delille, and Mercier.
The nineteenth century saw not only the emergence
Stalnaker argues that Enlightenment description of the telegraph, the telephone, and the typewriter
was the site of competing truth claims that would but also a fascination with séances and occult prac-
eventually resolve themselves in the modern po- tices like automatic writing as a means for contact-
larity between literature and science. By the mid- ing the dead. Whether electrical or otherworldly,
nineteenth century, the now habitual association these communications were remarkably often
between description and the novel was already conducted—in offices, at telegraph stations and
firmly anchored in French culture, but just a cen- telephone switchboards, and in séance parlors—by
tury earlier, in the diverse network of articles on women.
description in Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclo-
pédie and in the works derived from it, there was In The Sympathetic Medium, Jill Galvan examines
not a single mention of the novel. Instead, we find a wide variety of fictional explorations of feminine
articles on description in natural history, geometry, channeling (in both the technological and super-
belles-lettres, and poetry. Stalnaker builds on the natural realms) by such authors as Henry James,
premise that the tendency to view description as the George Eliot, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker,
inevitable (and subservient) partner of narration— Marie Corelli, and George Du Maurier, Galvan
rather than as a universal tool for making sense of argues that women were often chosen for that
knowledge in all fields—has obscured the central role, or assumed it themselves, because they made
place of description in Enlightenment discourse. at-a-distance dialogues seem more intimate and
less mediated.
Joanna Stalnaker is Assistant Professor in the

Department of French and Romance Philology at Jill Galvan is Assistant Professor of English at The
Columbia University. Ohio State University.
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Paradigms for a Legal Tender
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Hans Blumenberg East German Cultural Imagination
Translated from the German by John Griffith Urang
Robert Savage
At first glance, romance seems an improbable angle
What role do metaphors play in philosophical lan- from which to write a cultural history of the Ger-
guage? Are they impediments to clear thinking and man Democratic Republic. By most accounts the
clear expression, rhetorical flourishes that may well GDR was among the most dour and disciplined of
help to make philosophy more accessible to a lay socialist states, so devoted to the rigors of Stalinist
audience, but that ought ideally to be eradicated in aesthetics that the notion of an East German ro-
the interests of terminological exactness? Or can mantic comedy was more likely to generate punch
the images used by philosophers tell us more about lines than lines at the box office. But in fact, as John
the hopes and cares, attitudes and indifferences Urang shows in Legal Tender, love was freighted as
that regulate an epoch than their carefully elabo- a privileged site for the negotiation and reorganiza-
rated systems of thought? tion of a surprising array of issues in East German
In Paradigms for a Metaphorology, originally pub- public culture between 1949 and 1989. Through
lished in 1963 and here made available for the first close readings of a diverse selection of films and
time in English translation, Hans Blumenberg novels from the former GDR, Urang offers an eye-
(1920–1996) approaches these questions by exam- opening account of the ideological stakes of love
ining the relationship between metaphors and con- stories in East German culture.
cepts. Blumenberg argues for the existence of “ab- Urang shows how love stories could mediate the
solute metaphors” that cannot be translated back problem of social stratification, providing a lan-
into conceptual language. guage with which to discuss the experience of class
antagonism without undermining the Party’s legit-
imacy. But for the Party there was danger in bor-
The late Hans Blumenberg was Professor of Philos- rowing legitimacy from the romantic plot: the love
ophy, Emeritus, at the University of Münster and story’s destabilizing influences of desire and drive
the author of books including The Legitimacy of the could just as easily disrupt as reconcile. Legal Ten-
Modern Age, The Genesis of the Copernican World, der offers unique insights into the uses and capaci-
and Work on Myth. Robert Savage is Australian ties of romance in modern Western culture.
Research Council (ARC) Postdoctoral Fellow, Cen-
tre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Stud-
ies, Monash University. He is the author of Hölder- John Griffith Urang is Visiting Assistant Professor
lin after the Catastrophe. of German at Reed College.
June May
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Medieval studies
The Divorce of Lothar II Out of Love for My Kin
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Christian Marriage and Political Aristocratic Family Life in the

Power in the Carolingian World Lands of the Loire, 1000–1200
Karl Heidecker Amy Livingstone
Translated from the Dutch by
Tanis M. Guest “Out of Love for My Kin is clearly based on an in-
timate knowledge of an enormous amount of pri-
The Divorce of Lothar II illuminates the origin and mary information, and Livingstone is up to date on
development of Western notions of marriage and the vast modern literature as well.”—Constance
the separation of church and state in the context Brittain Bouchard, University of Akron
of a notorious royal divorce in late Carolingian
Europe. In 857, Lothar II, king of Lotharingia, de- In Out of Love for My Kin, Amy Livingstone ex-
cided to divorce Theutberga—either because she amines the personal dimensions of the lives of
had allegedly engaged in an incestuous liason with aristocrats in the Loire region of France during
her brother or simply because Lothar had wished the eleventh and twelfth centuries. She argues for
to marry his concubine Waldrada. Karl Heideck- a new conceptualization of aristocratic family life
er’s dramatic and engaging narrative untangles the based on an ethos of inclusion. Inclusivity is evi-
chaos that resulted: two popes, a host of often quar- dent in the care that medieval aristocrats showed
reling bishops, and Lothar’s conniving uncles soon toward their families by putting in place strategies,
became involved in an epic struggle that did not practices, and behaviors aimed at providing for a
end even with the death of Lothar. The extraordi- wide range of relatives. Indeed, this care—and in
nary series of events sheds light on the fact that the some cases outright affection—for family members
laws on marriage and divorce were still uncertain. is recorded in the documents themselves, as many
a nobleman and woman made pious benefactions
In The Divorce of Lothar II, Heidecker discusses
“out of love for my kin.”
not only the legal aspects of the case but also pays
much attention to the often heavy-handed ways in In a book made rich by evidence from charters—
which the players of the story achieved their goals. which provide details about life events including
Though the drama ended with no clear resolution birth, death, marriage, and legal disputes over
of the Church’s position, Lothar’s quest is revealed property—Livingstone reveals an aristocratic fam-
as an early chapter in the emergence of the belief ily dynamic that is quite different from the fictional
that marriage rests on the personal will of the part- or prescriptive views offered by literary depictions
ners, is monogamous, and should not be dissolved. or ecclesiastical sources, or from later historiogra-
phy. For example, she finds that there was no single
monolithic mode of inheritance that privileged
the few and that these families employed a vari-
ety of inheritance practices. Similarly, aristocratic
Karl Heidecker is University Lecturer in Medieval women, long imagined to have been excluded from
History at the University of Groningen He is coau- power, exerted a strong influence on family life.
thor of Die Privaturkunden der Karolingerzeit, edi-
tor 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 previ-
ously translated books including In the Shadow of
Burgundy.
Amy Livingstone is Professor of History at Witten-
Conjunctions of Religion and berg University. She is coeditor of Medieval Monks:
Power in the Medieval Past Ideals and Realities.
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The Greengrocer and His TV Lost to the
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the 1968 Prague Spring Suicide and the
Paulina Bren Promise of
Soviet Socialism,
1921–1929
“Paulina Bren’s book is a very smart and occasional-
ly tart analysis of Czechoslovakia’s late communist Kenneth M. Pinnow
culture through the prism of television.”—Lewis H.
Siegelbaum, author of Cars for Comrades
“In this landmark book,
suicide becomes an in-
The 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
credibly revealing lens through which to interpret
brought an end to the Prague Spring and its prom-
how experts and Bolsheviks diagnosed the health
ise of “socialism with a human face.” Before the
of revolutionary society.”—Michael David-Fox,
invasion, Czech reformers had made unexpected
author of Revolution of the Mind
use of television to advance political and social
change. In its aftermath, Communist Party leaders
As an act of unbridled individualism, suicide con-
employed the medium to achieve “normalization,”
fronted the Bolshevik regime with a dilemma that
pitching television stars against political dissidents
challenged both its theory and its practice and
in a televised spectacle that defined the times. The
helped give rise to a social science state whose pri-
Greengrocer and His TV offers a new cultural his-
mary purpose was the comprehensive and rational
tory of communism from the Prague Spring to the
care of the population. The Soviet confrontation
Velvet Revolution that reveals how state-endorsed
with suicide reveals with particular force the re-
ideologies were played out on television, particu-
gime’s anxieties about the relationship between the
larly through soap opera–like serials. In focusing
state and the individual.
on the small screen, Paulina Bren looks to the ev-
eryday experience of late communism.
In Lost to the Collective, Kenneth M. Pinnow sug-
The figure central to this book is the greengrocer gests the compatibility of the social sciences with
who, in a seminal essay by Václav Havel, symbol- Bolshevik dictatorship and highlights their illusory
ized the ordinary citizen who acquiesced to the promises of control over the everyday life of groups
communist regime out of fear. Deftly moving be- and individuals. The book traces the creation of
tween the small screen, the street, and the Central national statistical studies, the course of medical
Committee (and imaginatively drawing on a wide debates about causation and expert knowledge,
range of sources that include television shows, TV and the formation of a distinct set of practices in
viewers’ letters, newspapers, radio programs, the the Bolshevik Party and Red Army that aimed to
underground press, and the Communist Party ar- identify the suicidal individual and establish his or
chives), Bren shows how Havel’s greengrocer actu- her significance for the rest of society. Arguing that
ally experienced “normalization.” 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
Paulina Bren is Adjunct Assistant Professor of question of human unity.
History at Vassar College. She is the recipient of fel-
lowships 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. Kenneth M. Pinnow is Associate Professor of His-
tory at Allegheny College.
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Signs of Light Reforming Urban Labor

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Linguistic Communication, 1648–1789 Roots in the Country
Matthew Lauzon Janet L. Polasky
“Signs of Light shows Matthew Lauzon’s exten- Reforming Urban Labor is a history of the nine-
sive learning in a wide range of areas, including teenth-century social reforms designed by middle-
language theory, missionary tracts, and literary class progressives to domesticate the labor force.
texts.”—Laura Brown, Cornell University Industrial production required a concentrated
labor force, but the swelling masses of workers in
In Signs of Light, Matthew Lauzon traces the devel- the capitals of Britain and Belgium, the industrial
opment of very different French and British ideas powerhouses of Europe, threatened urban order.
about language over the course of the late seven- At night, after factories had closed, workers and
teenth and eighteenth centuries and demonstrates their families sheltered in the shadowy alleyways
how important these ideas were to emerging no- of Brussels and London. Reformers worked to al-
tions of national character. Drawing examples leviate the danger, dispersing the laborers and their
from a variety of French and English language families throughout the suburbs and the country-
works in a wide range of areas, including language side. National governments subsidized rural hous-
theory, philosophy, rhetoric, psychology, mission- ing construction and regulated workmen’s trains
ary tracts, and literary texts, Lauzon explores how to transport laborers nightly away from their ur-
French and British thinkers of the day developed ban work sites and to bring them back again in
arguments that certain kinds of languages are su- the mornings; municipalities built housing in the
perior to others. suburbs. On both sides of the Channel, respectable
working families were removed from the rookeries
The nature of animal language and British and
and isolated from the marginally employed, plant-
French understandings of the languages of North
ed out beyond the cities where they could live like,
American Indians were vigorously debated. Theo-
but not with, the middle classes.
ries of animal language juxtaposed the apparent
virtues of transparency and wit; considerations In Janet L. Polasky’s urban history, comparisons
of savage language resulted in eloquence being re- of the two capitals are interwoven in the context
garded as an even higher accomplishment. Eventu- of industrial Europe as a whole. Reforming Urban
ally, the French language came to be prized for its Labor sets urban planning against the backdrop
wit and sociability and English for its simple clar- of idealized rural images, links transportation
ity and vigor. Lauzon shows that, besides concerns and housing reform, investigates the relationship
about establishing the clarity of introspective rep- of middle-class reformers with industrial workers
resentations, questions about the energetic com- and their families, and explores the cooperation as
munication of sincere emotion and about the socia- well as the competition between government and
ble communication of wit were crucial to language the private sector in the struggle to control the built
theories during this period. A richly interdisciplin- environment and its labor force.
ary work, Signs of Light is a compelling account of a
formative period in language theory.
Janet L. Polasky is Presidential Professor of His-

tory and Women’s Studies at the University of New
Hampshire. She is the author of four other books in
European history, including Revolutionary Brus-
Matthew Lauzon is Assistant Professor of History sels, 1787–1793 and The Democratic Socialism of
at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Emile Vandervelde.
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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
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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 at-
tempts 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
Pierre Pharoux’s plan for Baron de Steuben’s estate.
investors. In 1793, two of the company’s representatives, Simon Oneida County Historical Society, Utica, N.Y.
Desjardins and Pierre Pharoux, arrived in New York to begin
settlement of a large tract of undeveloped land. The tract, which
“Castorland Journal is especially rich
was named Castorland for its abundant beaver population (“cas-
on the interaction of foreign and
tor” is the French word for beaver), was located in northwestern
American land speculators and on
New York State, along the Black River and in present-day Lewis
the displacement of native peoples.
and Jefferson counties.
Perceptive, articulate, and frank,
John A. Gallucci’s edition is the first modern scholarly transla- the French authors crafted an espe-
tion of the account Desjardins and Pharoux wrote of their efforts cially detailed and insightful (and
in Castorland from 1793 to 1797. While the journal can be read as often highly critical) account of their
tragedy, it also has many pages of satire and irony. Its descriptions flawed attempt to profit from the
of nature and references to the romantic and the sublime belong rapid expansion of new settlements.”
to the spirit of eighteenth-century literature. The journal details —Alan Taylor, author of William
encounters with Native Americans, the authors’ process of sur- Cooper’s Town
veying 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 fea-
tures Gallucci’s introduction and explanatory footnotes, several
appendixes, maps, and illustrations.
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A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century America
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Selected Writings by Victor Burgin

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Highly influential both as an artist and as a theoretician, Vic-

tor 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 (se-
miotics, 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 Aesthet-
ics” and “Photographic Practice and Art Theory,” together with
less widely known articles as “Work and Commentary” and the
previously unpublished essays “Shad-
ows, Time, and Family Pictures” and
“Monument and Melancholia.”
The essays are arranged chronological-
ly 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, Alexan-
der 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, Uni-
versity of California, Santa Cruz.
Alexander streitberger is Professor
in Modern and Contemporary Art
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reflections and comments on the work of the well-known Califor-
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the English text, which is no longer available, with the previously
unpublished French original on facing pages. In Lyotard’s opin-
ion Sam Francis’s work “pays homage to the visible marvel and
bears witness to the visual enigma.” Color evokes confl icting
feelings in the artist: “. . . color says to me: ‘Come, I am your con-
solation, I cure your melancholy, love me,’ and it says to me: ‘Go,
I am your deception, traverse me, lose yourself and enough of
absent truth.’” Lyotard is the first to see through the subtle variety
of meanings in Sam Francis’s use of color. Th is edition also repro-
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was Woodruff Professor of Philoso- • Volume IV: Various Texts on Contemporary
phy and French at Emory Univer- Art and Artists (available Spring 2011)
sity. Herman Parret is Professor of • Volume V: What to Paint? (available Fall 2011)
Philosophy at the Institute of Phi-
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Bennington is Asa G. Candler Pro-
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Author and Title Index
Abdelal, Rawi, ed. 42 Forgotten Contribution of the Minnite, Lorraine C. 23 Syntagmatia 59

Acker, Joan 46 Teaching Sisters, The 57 Mirrors of Memory 18 Tax Havens 20
Albert Camus 16 Frazier, Mark W. 43 Morgen, Sandra 46 Thompson, Alexander 38
Aldrich, Daniel P. 36 Gallucci, John A. 53 Mund-Dopchie, Monique 60 Tingay, Ruth E., ed. 5
Ambiguities of Experience, Galvan, Jill 48 Murphy, Richard 20 Tournoy, Gilbert 60
The 13 Gaposchkin, M. Cecilia 30 Myth of Voter Fraud, The 23 Toxic Exports 35
Ambiguous Allure of the West, Gordon, Suzanne 12 (ed.) Nabokov, Perversely 26 Tudor, Guy 4
The 61 Gorn, Elliott J. 14 Naiman, Eric 26 Ultimate Enemy, The 37
Ancient Perspectives on Greengrocer and His TV 51 Narro, Victor, ed. 45 Unfinished Enlightenment, The 48
Aristotle’s De anima 58
Greenhill, Kelly M. 21 (ed.), 40 Neo-Latin Epigram, The 60 Urang, John Griffith 49
Andreas, Peter, ed. 21
Gross, James A. 24 New York Amish 9 Urban America Reconsidered 44
Argel, Martha 4
Gwynne, John A. 4 Nickell, William 17 Van der Wee, Herman 57
Asia’s Flying Geese 41
Habits of the Heartland 25 Norton, Marcy 30 Van Riel, Gerd, ed. 58
Atomic Tragedy 29
Harrison, Rachel V., ed. 61 Occupational Hazards 38 Verbreyt, Monique 57
Atwill, Janet M. 33
Hatch, Walter F. 41 Out of Love for My Kin 50 Verdegem, Simon 58
Baum, Howell S. 44
Heidecker, Karl 50 Palan, Ronen 20 Wark, Wesley K. 37
Becker, Carl L. 34
Hellinckx, Bart 57 Papy, Jan, ed. 59, 60 Weapons of Mass Migration 40
Bergstein, Mary 18
Hench, John B. 27 Paradigms for a Metaphorology 49 Weigt, Jill 46
Bloom, Joshua, ed. 45
Henricus de Gandavo Parsons, Craig, ed. 42 When Chicken Soup Isn’t Enough 12
Blumenberg, Hans 49 Quodlibet IV 59
Pharoux, Pierre 53 Why Intelligence Fails 11
Blyth, Mark, ed. 42 Henry, Laura A. 40
Pinnow, Kenneth M. 51 Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast 2
Bodenheimer, Rosemarie 31 Heringman, Noah 32
Plutarch’s Life of Alcibiades 58 Wildlife Conservation Society
Books as Weapons 27 Herman, Peter C. 47
Polasky, Janet L. 52 Birds of Brazil 4
Bren, Paulina 51 Hertog, Steffen 43
Princes, Brokers, and Wildlife of Costa Rica, The 6
Brown in Baltimore 44 Humanistica Lovaniensia 60 Bureaucrats 43 Wilson, Gordon A., ed. 59
Burgin, Victor 55 Imbroscio, David 44 Protection for Exporters 42 Working for Justice 45
Castorland Journal 53 In Search of Paradise 46 Red to Green 40 Workplace Flexibility 45
Changing Politics in Japan 41 Isebaert, Lambert, ed. 60 Reforming Urban Labor 52 Yetiv, Steve A. 35
Channels of Power 38 Islam in the World Today 10 Reid, Fiona A. 6 Zaretsky, Robert 16
Chavagneux, Christian 20 Jackson, Peter A., ed. 61 Rhetoric Reclaimed 33 Zhang, Li 46
Christensen, Kathleen, ed. 45 Jenkins, Jerry 8 Ridgely, Robert 4 Zinn, Howard 34
Citizens of Somewhere Else 31 Jervis, Robert 11 Rijser, David, ed. 60 Zook, Jim 6
Clapp, Jennifer 35 Jeweled Style, The 33 Risse, Thomas 39 Subject Index
Climate Change in the Johnson-Weiner, Karen M. 9 River Runs Black, The 14
Adirondacks 8 Anthropology 9, 46, 62
Kabashima, Ikuo 41 Roberts, Michael 33
Community of Europeans?, A 39 Art 1, 15, 18, 47, 55–56
Katzner, Todd E., ed. 5 Romantic Rocks,
Constructing the International Asian Studies 14, 28–29, 36–37, 41, 43,
Kekes, John 33 Aesthetic Geology 32
Economy 42 46, 61–64
Khan, Yasmin Sabina 1 Royal Poetrie 47
Copywrights, The 32 Biography/Autobiography 5, 12, 16–17,
Kitamura, Hiroshi 28 Sacré, Dirk, ed. 59, 60 31, 53, 63–64
Cornell University 34
Knowing Dickens 31 Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures 30 Business 13, 20, 27, 45
Crude Awakenings 35
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Saint-Amour, Paul K. 32 Classics 18, 33, 58
Cutting, Edith E. 34
Mankin 15 Sam Francis, Lesson of
de Beer, Susanna, ed. 60 Current Events 8, 10–12, 14, 20–24,
Kroenig, Matthew 22 Darkness 56 35–36, 38
Dean, Robert 6
LaGuardia in Congress 34 Samuels, Peggy 47 Egyptology 18–19
Death of Tolstoy, The 17
Landlords and Farmers in the Schneider, Barbara, ed. 45 History 1, 9–10, 14, 17–18, 23, 27–30,
Deep Skin 47 Hudson–Mohawk Region, Schweizer, Andreas 19 34, 37, 44, 50–53, 57, 62–64
Del Tredici, Peter 2 1790–1850 34
Screening Enlightenment 28 Labor 12, 24, 45–46, 52
Depaepe, Marc 57 Lauzon, Matthew 52
Segal, Adam 36 Latin 59–60
Desjardins, Simon 53 Leenders, Twan 6
Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts 21 Literature 16–17, 26, 31–33, 47–49, 63
Destrée, Pierre 58 Legal Tender 49
Shameful Business, A 24 Medieval Studies 30, 50
Digital Dragon 36 Liddell Hart and the
Signs of Light 52 Nature 2–8
Divorce of Lothar II, The 50 Weight of History 37
Simon, Frank 57 New York State 1, 8–9, 15, 34, 53
Dür, Andreas 42 Lind, Jennifer 37
Site Fights 36 Philosophy 16, 33, 49, 58, 59
Eagle Watchers, The 5 Livingstone, Amy 50
Situational Aesthetics 55 Political Science 10–11, 14, 20–23,
Economy, Elizabeth C. 14 Lore of an Adirondack County 34
Small Nation in the Turmoil of 35–44, 62–64
Edelstein, David M. 38 Lost to the Collective 51
the Second World War, A 57 Psychology 13, 18–19, 51
Ellis, David Maldwyn 34 Lyotard, Jean-François 56
Socialist Insecurity 43 Religion 9–10, 30, 50, 57
Ende, Werner, ed. 10 Macgregor, Lyn C. 25
Sorry States 37 Security Studies 11, 22, 27–29, 37–38
Enenkel, Karl, ed. 60 Making of Saint Louis, The 30
Stalnaker, Joanna 48 Slavic Studies 17, 40, 51
Enlargement of Life, The 33 Malloy, Sean L. 29
Steel, Gill 41 Sociology 13, 21, 25, 39–40, 45–46
Enlightening the World 1 Manly Art, The 14
Steinbach, Udo, ed. 10 Urban Studies 44, 52
Etzkorn, Girard J., ed. 59 Manthorne, Katherine 15
Streitberger, Alexander, ed. 55
Exporting the Bomb 22 March, James G. 13
Stretched Thin 46 11/09 • PR: CCKI
Fern Hunting among McCall, Dan 31
Sungod’s Journey through the Printed in the USA on recy-
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