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Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a MovementDAVID K. JOHNSONIn 1951, a new type of publication appeared on newsstands - the physique magazine produced by and for gay men. For many men growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, these magazines and their images and illustrations of nearly naked men, as well as articles, letters from readers, and advertisements, served as an initiation into gay culture. The publishers behind them were part of a wider world of “physique entrepreneurs”: men as well as women who ran photography studios, mail-order catalogues, pen-pal services, book clubs, and niche advertising for gay audiences. While such businesses have often been seen as peripheral to the gay political movement, in Buying Gay David K. Johnson shows how gay commerce was not a byproduct of the gay-rights movement but an important catalyst for it. 56 figures.Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism.

Hbk | 320pp | 9780231189101 | 2019.01 Columbia University Press | A$63 | NZ$74 235x156mm | USA

Happy Singlehood: The Rising Acceptance and Celebration of Solo LivingELYAKIM KISLEVIn this carefully crafted, thoroughly researched book, Elyakim Kislev delivers groundbreaking insights on the fastest growing demographic in the world: singles. Happy Singlehood investigates how unmarried people create satisfying lives in a world where social structures and policies are still designed to favor married couples. The book challenges readers to rethink how people organize social and familial life in new ways. Based on hundreds of interviews and widespread quantitative analysis, Happy Singlehood investigates how singles nurture social networks, create novel living arrangements and innovative communities, develop self-sufficient lifestyles, and effectively deal with discrimination.

Pbk | 287pp | 9780520299146 | 2019.01 University of California Press | A$51.99 | NZ$60 229x152mm | USA

Delayed Response: The Art of Waiting from the Ancient to the Instant WorldJASON FARMAN We have always been conscious of the wait for life-changing messages, whether it be the time it takes to receive a text message from your love, for a soldier’s family to learn news from the front, or for a space probe to deliver data from the far reaches of the solar system. In this book in praise of wait times, award-winning author Jason Farman passionately argues that the delay between call and answer has always been an important part of the message. Traveling backward from our current era of Twitter and texts, Farman shows how societies have worked to eliminate waiting in communication and how they have interpreted those times’ meanings. 30 black and white illustrations.

Hbk | 232pp | 9780300225679 | 2019.01 Yale University Press | A$39.99 | NZ$47.99 210x140mm | UK

Magic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes: How Myth and Religion Shape Fantasy CultureDOUGLAS E. COWANMagic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes looks at fantasy film, television, and participative culture as evidence of our ongoing need for a mythic vision—for stories larger than ourselves into which we write ourselves and through which we can become the heroes of our own story. Why do we tell and retell the same stories over and over when we know they can’t possibly be true? Contrary to popular belief, it’s not because pop culture has run out of good ideas. Rather, it is precisely because these stories are so fantastic, some resonating so deeply we elevate them to the status of religion. Illuminating everything from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Dungeons and Dragons, and from Drunken Master to Mad Max, Douglas E. Cowan offers a modern manifesto for why and how mythology remains a vital force today.


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ANTHROPOLOGYGiving to God: Islamic Charity in Revolutionary TimesAMIRA MITTERMAIERGiving to God examines the everyday practices of Islamic giving in post-revolutionary Egypt—from foods prepared in Sufi soup kitchens, to meals distributed by pious volunteers in slums, to almsgiving—practices that are ultimately about giving to God by giving to the poor. Surprisingly, many who practice such giving say that they do not care about the poor, instead framing their actions within a unique non-compassionate ethics of giving. At first, this form of giving seems deeply selfish, but upon further consideration, it does avoid many of the problems associated with the idea of “charity.” 10 black and white photos.


ARCHITECTUREArchitecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art - The Arthur Drexler Years, 1951-1986THOMAS S. HINESArthur Drexler (1921-1987) served as the curator and director of the Architecture and Design Department at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) from 1951 until 1986—the longest curatorship in the museum’s history. Over four decades he conceived and oversaw trailblazing exhibitions that not only reflected but also anticipated major stylistic developments. Although several books cover the roles of MoMA’s founding director, Alfred Barr, and the department’s first curator, Philip Johnson, this is the only in-depth study of Drexler, who gave the department its overall shape and direction. During Drexler’s tenure, MoMA played a pivotal role in examining the work and confirming the reputations of twentieth-century architects, among them Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Richard Neutra, Marcel Breuer, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Exploring unexpected subjects—from the design of automobiles and industrial objects to a reconstruction of a Japanese house and garden-Drexler’s boundary—pushing shows promoted new ideas about architecture and design as modern arts in contemporary society. 116 black and white illustrations.

Hbk | 208pp | 9781606065815 | 2018.12 Getty Research Institute | A$76 | NZ$89 254x203mm | UK

Concrete - Case Studies in Conservation PracticeCATHERINE CROFT AND SUSAN MACDONALDThis timely volume brings together fourteen case studies that address the challenges of conserving the twentieth century’s most ubiquitous building material—concrete. Following a meeting of international heritage conservation professionals in 2013, the need for recent, thorough, and well-vetted case studies on conserving twentieth-century heritage became clear. Concrete: Case Studies in Conservation Practice answers that need and kicks off a new series, Conserving Modern Heritage, aimed at sharing best practices. The projects selected represent a range of building typologies, building uses, and project sizes, from the high-rise housing blocks of Le Corbusier’s Unite d’Habitation and public buildings such as the London’s National Theatre to small monuments such as the structures at Dudley Zoological Gardens and a sculpture by Donald Judd. 176 color illustrations and 2 line drawings.Conserving Modern Heritage.

Pbk | 236pp | 9781606065761 | 2019.01 Getty Conservation Institute | A$96 | NZ$114 267x216mm | UK

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Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century IstanbulUNVER RUSTEMWith its idiosyncratic yet unmistakable adaptation of European Baroque models, the eighteenth-century architecture of Istanbul has frequently been dismissed by modern observers as inauthentic and derivative, a view reflecting broader unease with notions of Western influence on Islamic cultures. In Ottoman Baroque—the first English-language book on the topic—Unver Rustem provides a compelling reassessment of this building style and shows how between 1740 and 1800 the Ottomans consciously coopted European forms to craft a new, politically charged, and globally resonant image for their empire’s capital. 203 color and 45 black and white illustrations.

Hbk | 336pp | 9780691181875 | 2019.01 Princeton University Press | A$132 | NZ$156 279x203mm | USA

ARTAmerican Silver in the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Volume 1, Makers A–FBEATRICE B. GARVAN AND DAVID L. BARQUISTBeginning with Cesar Ghiselin in 1681, Philadelphia has a long and storied history of silversmithing that includes notable artists such as Joseph Richardson Sr. and Jr., Philip Syng Jr., and Olaf Skoogfors. Celebrating this legacy and showcasing the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s extraordinary and comprehensive collection of American silver, this generously illustrated book features a broad array of objects that range from colonial-era tableware to groundbreaking contemporary designs. Extensive biographies of makers accompany detailed entries on individual pieces that are full of new discoveries related to artist marks, heraldic engravings, and provenance histories. This volume is the first of four—organized alphabetically by makers and retailers—that will eventually encompass the museum’s complete collection of American silver. 650 color illustrations.

Hbk | 520pp | 9780300229400 | 2019.01 Philadelphia Museum Distribution A$230 | NZ$272 | 305x254mm | UK


Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan AfricaKATHLEEN BICKFORD BERZOCKThe Sahara Desert was a thriving crossroads of exchange for West Africa, North Africa, the Middle East, and Europe in the medieval period. Fueling this exchange was West African gold, prized for its purity and used for minting currencies and adorning luxury objects such as jewelry, textiles, and religious objects. Caravans made the arduous journey by camel southward across the Sahara carrying goods for trade—glass vessels and beads, glazed ceramics, copper, books, and foodstuffs, including salt, which was obtained in the middle of the desert. Northward, the journey brought not only gold but also ivory, animal hides and leatherwork, spices, and captives from West Africa forced into slavery.Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time draws on the latest archaeological discoveries and art historical research to construct a compelling look at medieval trans-Saharan exchange and its legacy. 192 color illustrations.

Hbk | 304pp | 9780691182681 | 2019.01 Princeton University Press | A$140 | NZ$170 279x229mm | USA

Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar JapanDAKIN HART AND MARK DEAN JOHNSONIn May 1950 Isamu Noguchi (1904–88) returned to Japan for his first visit in 20 years. He was, Noguchi said, seeking models for evolving the relationship between sculpture and society—having emerged from the war years with a profound desire to reorient his work “toward some purposeful social end.” The artist Saburo Hasegawa (1906–57) was a key figure for Noguchi during this period, making introductions to Japanese artists, philosophies, and material culture. Hasegawa, who had mingled with the European avant-garde during time spent as a painter in Paris in the 1930’s, was, like Noguchi, seeking an artistic hybridity. Changing and Unchanging Things is an account of how their joint exploration of traditional Japanese culture influenced their contemporary and subsequent work. 150 color images. Exhibition: Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan, 12/10/18–21/03/19.

Hbk | 276pp | 9780520298224 | 2019.01 University of California Press | A$125 | NZ$150 267x241mm | USA

Hans Hofmann: The Nature of AbstractionLUCINDA BARNESHans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction offers a fresh and revealing assessment of the artist’s prolific and innovative painterly career. The comprehensive exhibition and accompanying catalogue features approximately seventy paintings and works on paper by Hofmann from 1930 through the end of his life in 1966, including works from public and private collections across North America and Europe. Curator Lucinda Barnes builds on new scholarship published over the past ten years and the 2014 catalogue raisonné to present Hofmann as a unique synthesis of student, artist, teacher, and mentor who transcended generations and continents. 135 color illustrations.


The Central Collecting Point in Munich - A New Beginning for the Restitution and Protection of ArtIRIS LAUTERBACHAt the end of World War II, the U.S. Office of Military Government for Germany and Bavaria, through its Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives division, was responsible for the repatriation of most of the tens of thousands of artworks looted by the Nazis in the countries they had occupied. With the help of the U.S. Army’s Monuments Men—the name given to a hand-picked group of art historians and museum professionals commissioned for this important duty—massive numbers of objects were retrieved from their wartime hiding places and inventoried for repatriation. Iris Lauterbach’s fascinating history documents the story of the Allies’ Central Collecting Point (CCP), set up in the former Nazi Party headquarters at Koenigsplatz in Munich, where the confiscated works were transported to be identified and sorted for restitution. 238 black and white illustrations.

Hbk | 304pp | 9781606065822 | 2018.12 Getty Research Institute | A$120 | NZ$142 247x168mm | UK

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Models of Integrity: Art and Law in Post-Sixties AmericaJOAN KEEModels of Integrity focuses on the history of the relationship between contemporary art and the law through the lens of integrity. From the late 1960s, artists engaged conspicuously with ideas, rituals, or documents of the law—an institution subject to intense moral and political scrutiny. The primacy of law in society made it a widely recognized source of authority to audiences both in and out of the art world. These artists’ engagements with law were frequently undertaken in ways that signaled a recuperation of integrity compromised by the very institutions supposedly entrusted with establishing standards of just conduct. 102 color images.


Painting Harlem Modern: The Art of Jacob LawrencePATRICIA HILLSJacob Lawrence was one of the best-known African American artists of the twentieth century. In Painting Harlem Modern, Patricia Hills renders a vivid assessment of Lawrence’s long and productive career. She argues that his complex, cubist-based paintings developed out of a vital connection with a modern Harlem that was filled with artists, writers, musicians, and social activists. She also uniquely positions Lawrence alongside such important African American writers as Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison. Drawing from a wide range of archival materials and interviews with artists, Hills interprets Lawrence’s art as distilled from a life of struggle and perseverance. 112 color illustrations and 205 black-and-white photographs.“Based on exhaustive research and interviews, this thoughtful and comprehensive biography makes a good case for recognizing Jacob Lawrence as among the finest American artists of the 20th century. . . . [Hills’] empathetic analyses will make this the definitive biography of Lawrence for a very long time.” — Artnews

Pbk | 368pp | 9780520305502 | 2019.01 University of California Press | A$82 | NZ$96 254x203mm | USA

Vanguardia: Socially engaged art and theoryMARC JAMES LEGERThe avant garde is dead, or so the story goes for many leftists and capitalists alike. But in an era of neoliberal austerity, neocolonial militarism and ecological crisis, this postmodern view seems increasingly outmoded. Rejecting ‘end of ideology’ post-politics, Vanguardia delves into the changing praxis of socially engaged art and theory in the age of the Capitalocene. Covering the major events of the last decade, from anti-globalisation protests, Occupy Wall Street, the Maple Spring, Strike Debt and the Anthropocene, to the Black Lives Matter and MeToo campaigns, Vanguardia puts forward a radical leftist commitment to the revolutionary consciousness of avant-garde art and politics.

Hbk | 256pp | 9781526134899 | 2019.01 Manchester University Press | A$54.99 | NZ$66 234x156mm | UK

Nature’s Nation: American Art and EnvironmentKARL KUSSEROW AND ALAN C. BRADDOCKPublic awareness of environmental issues has never been greater, nor has the need for imagining more sustainable and ethical habits of human action and thought, including environmentally informed ways of understanding art history. This multidisciplinary book offers the first broad ecocritical review of American art and examines the environmental contexts of artistic practice from the colonial period to the present day. Tracing how visions of the environment have changed from the Native-European encounter to the emergence of modern ecological activism, more than a dozen scholars and practitioners discuss how artists have both responded to and actively instigated changes in ecological understanding. 310 color and 30 black and white illustrations. Exhibition: Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment, Princeton University Art Museum, 13/10/18–06/01/19.

Hbk | 448pp | 9780300237009 | 2019.01 Princeton University Art Museum A$120 | NZ$145 | 267x241mm | UK

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BIOGRAPHYKarl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society: The Life of Marx and the Development of His WorkMICHAEL HEINRICHThis first volume of a planned three volumes deals extensively with Marx’s youth in Trier and his studies in Bonn and Berlin. It also examines the function of poetry in his intellectual development and his first occupation with Hegelian philosophy and with the so-called “young Hegelians” in his 1841 Dissertation. Already during this period, there were crises as well as breaks in Marx’s intellectual development that prompted Marx to give up projects and re-conceptualize his critical enterprise. This volume is the beginning of an astoundingly dimensional look at Karl Marx—a study of a complex life and body of work through the neglected issues, events, and people that helped comprise both. It is destined to become a classic.

Hbk | 464pp | 9781583677353 | 2019.01 Monthly Review Press | A$70 | NZ$83 229x152mm | USA

A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-AlleeVICTOR GROSSMANGrossman—a.k.a. Steve Wechsler, a committed leftist since his years at Harvard and, briefly, as a factory worker—left his barracks in Bavaria one August day in 1952, and, in a panic, swam across the Danube River from the Austrian U.S. Zone to the Soviet Zone. Fate—i.e., the Soviets—landed him in East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic. There he remained, observer and participant, husband and father, as he watched the rise and successes, the travails, and the eventual demise of the GDR socialist experiment. A Socialist Defector is the story, told in rare, personal detail, of an activist and writer who grew up in the U.S. free-market economy; spent thirty-eight years in the GDR’s nationally owned, centrally administered economy; and continues to survive, given whatever the market can bear in today’s united Germany.

Pbk | 336pp | 9781583677384 | 2019.01 Monthly Review Press | A$47.99 | NZ$56.99 210x140mm | USA

A Path Twice Traveled: My Journey as a Historian of ChinaPAUL A. COHENIn this memoir, Paul A. Cohen, one of the West’s preeminent historians of China, traces the development of his work from its inception in the early 1960s to the present, offering fresh perspectives that consistently challenge us to think more deeply about China and the historical craft in general. A memoir, of course, is itself a form of history. But for a historian, writing a memoir on one’s career is quite different from the creation of that career in the first place. This is what Cohen alludes to in the title A Path Twice Traveled. The title highlights the important disparity between the past as originally experienced and the past as later reconstructed, by which point both the historian and the world have undergone extensive change. 19 photos.

Pbk | 326pp | 9780674237292 | 2019.01 Harvard University Asia Center | A$64 | NZ$77 229x152mm | USA

CULTURAL STUDIESOmnicide: Mania, Fatality, and the Future-in- DeliriumJASON BAHBAK MOHAGHEGHWhat kind of circumstances provoke an obsessive focus on the most minute object or activity? And what causes such mania to blossom into the lethal conviction that everything must be annihilated? There is no turning away from the imperative to study this riddle in all its mystifying complexity and its disturbing contemporary resonance—to trace the obscure passage between a lone state of delirium and the will to world-erasure.A fragmentary catalogue of the thousand-and-one varieties of manic disposition (augomania, dromomania, catoptromania, colossomania…), Omnicide enters the chaotic imaginations of the most significant poetic talents of the Middle East in order to instigate a new discourse on obsession, entrancement, excess, and delirium.

Pbk | 600pp | 9780997567465 | 2019.02 Urbanomic/Sequence Press | A$69.99 | NZ$84.99 178x114mm | USA

FILM AND MEDIA STUDIESAttack of the Leading Ladies: Gender, Sexuality, and Spectatorship in Classic Horror CinemaRHONA BERENSTEINFrom the earliest days of Hollywood sound productions, horror proved to be a popular and lucrative genre. At the center of the Industry’s first cycle of horror films was the terrified woman. Eyes straining and mouth open wide as she emitted an ear-piercing scream, the damsel in distress awaited rescue from the monster’s horrible attentions. Or so it seemed.The first book to explore the gender dynamics of classic horror film, Attack of the Leading Ladies addresses the roles of women both on- and off-screen. Combining close textual analysis with the study of advertising campaigns, reviews, fan magazines, and censorship material, the author presents an in-depth look at such films as Bride of Frankenstein, Dr. X, Dracula, King Kong, Mad Love, Svengali, and White Zombie.Film and Culture Series.

Pbk | 274pp | 9780231192651 | 2018.08 Columbia University Press | A$57.99 | NZ$69 229x152mm | USA

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Cartoon Vision: UPA Animation and Postwar AestheticsDAN BASHARAIn Cartoon Vision Dan Bashara examines American animation alongside the modern design boom of the postwar era. Focusing especially on United Productions of America (UPA), a studio whose graphic, abstract style defined the postwar period, Bashara considers animation akin to a laboratory, exploring new models of vision and space alongside theorists and practitioners in other fields. The links—theoretical, historical, and aesthetic—between animators, architects, designers, artists, and filmmakers reveal a specific midcentury modernism that rigorously reimagined the senses. Cartoon Vision invokes the American Bauhaus legacy of László Moholy-Nagy and György Kepes and advocates for animation’s pivotal role in a utopian design project of retraining the public’s vision to better apprehend a rapidly changing modern world. 40 black and white illustrations.


The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s AmericaGIORGIO BERTELLINIIn the post-World War I American climate of isolationism, nativism, democratic expansion of civic rights, and consumerism, Italian-born star Rodolfo Valentino and Italy’s dictator Benito Mussolini became surprising paragons of authoritarian male power and mass appeal. Drawing on extensive archival research in the United States and Italy, Giorgio Bertellini’s work shows how their popularity, both political and erotic, largely depended on the efforts of public opinion managers, including publicists, journalists, and even ambassadors. 46 black and white illustrations.Cinema Cultures in Contact.


The Dynamic Frame: Camera Movement in Classical HollywoodPATRICK KEATINGThe camera’s movement in a film may seem straightforward or merely technical. Yet skillfully deployed pans, tilts, dollies, cranes, and zooms can express the emotions of a character, convey attitude and irony, or even challenge an ideological stance. In The Dynamic Frame, Patrick Keating offers an innovative history of the aesthetics of the camera that examines how camera movement shaped the classical Hollywood style. In careful readings of dozens of films, including Sunrise, The Grapes of Wrath, Rear Window, Sunset Boulevard, and Touch of Evil, Keating explores how major figures like F. W. Murnau, Orson Welles, and Alfred Hitchcock used camera movement to enrich their stories and deepen their themes. 110 black and white illustrations.Film and Culture Series.

Pbk | 384pp | 9780231190510 | 2019.01 Columbia University Press | A$69 | NZ$83 235x156mm | USA

The Hollywood Jim Crow: The Racial Politics of the Movie IndustryMARYANN ERIGHAThe #OscarsSoWhite campaign, and the content of the leaked Sony emails which revealed, among many other things, that a powerful Hollywood insider didn’t believe that Denzel Washington could “open” a western genre film, provide glaring evidence that the opportunities for people of color in Hollywood are limited. In The Hollywood Jim Crow, Maryann Erigha tells the story of inequality, looking at the practices and biases that limit the production and circulation of movies directed by racial minorities. She examines over 1,300 contemporary films, specifically focusing on directors, to show the key elements at work in maintaining “the Hollywood Jim Crow.” Unlike the Jim Crow era where ideas about innate racial inferiority and superiority were the grounds for segregation, Hollywood’s version tries to use economic and cultural explanations to justify the underrepresentation and stigmatization of Black filmmakers. 17 illustrations.

Pbk | 240pp | 9781479847877 | 2019.01 NYU Press | A$48.99 | NZ$57.99 229x152mm | USA

Post-Fordist Cinema: Hollywood Auteurs and the Corporate CountercultureJEFF MENNEThe New Hollywood boom of the late 1960s and 1970s is celebrated as a time when maverick directors bucked the system. Against the backdrop of counterculture sensibilities and the prominence of auteur theory, New Hollywood directors such as Robert Altman and Francis Ford Coppola seemed to embody creative individualism. In Post-Fordist Cinema, Jeff Menne rewrites the history of this period, arguing that auteur theory served to reconcile directors to Hollywood’s corporate project. Film and Culture Series.


Static in the System: Noise and the Soundscape of American Cinema CultureMEREDITH C. WARDIn this rich study of noise in American film-going culture, Meredith C. Ward shows how aurality can reveal important fissures in American motion picture history, enabling certain types of listening cultures to form across time. Connecting this history of noise in the cinema to a greater sonic culture, Static in the System shows how cinema sound was networked into a broader constellation of factors that affected social power, gender, sexuality, class, the built environment, and industry, and how these factors in turn came to fruition in cinema’s soundscape. 17 black and white illustrations.California Studies in Music, Sound, and Media.


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Runaway Hollywood: Internationalizing Postwar Production and Location Shooting DANIEL STEINHARTAfter World War II, as cultural and industry changes were reshaping Hollywood, movie studios shifted some production activities overseas, capitalizing on frozen foreign earnings, cheap labor, and appealing locations. Hollywood unions called the phenomenon “runaway” production to underscore the outsourcing of employment opportunities. Examining this period of transition from the late 1940s to early 1960s, Runaway Hollywood shows how film companies exported production around the world, and the effect this conversion had on industry practices and visual style. 54 black and white illustrations.


Women at Work in Twenty-First-Century European CinemaBARBARA MENNELFrom hairdressers and caregivers to reproductive workers and power-suited executives, images of women’s labor have powered a fascinating new movement within twenty-first-century European cinema. Social realist dramas capture precarious working conditions. Comedies exaggerate the habits of the global managerial class. Stories from countries battered by the global financial crisis emphasize the patriarchal family, debt, and unemployment.Barbara Mennel delves into the ways these films about female labor capture the tension between feminist advances and their appropriation by capitalism in a time of ongoing transformation. 27 black and white photographs.

Pbk | 272pp | 9780252083952 | 2019.01 University of Illinois Press | A$54.99 | NZ$64 228x152mm | USA

GENDER STUDIESLast Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin ANDREA DWORKINRadical feminist author Andrea Dworkin was a caricature of misandrist extremism in the popular imagination and a polarizing figure within the women’s movement, infamous for her antipornography stance and her role in the feminist sex wars of the 1980s. She still looms large in feminist demands for sexual freedom, evoked as a censorial demagogue, more than a decade after her death. Among the very first writers to use her own experiences of rape and battery in a revolutionary analysis of male supremacy, Dworkin was a philosopher outside and against the academy who wrote with a singular, apocalyptic urgency. This book brings together selections from Dworkin’s work, both fiction and nonfiction, with the aim of putting the contentious positions she’s best known for in dialogue with her literary oeuvre. Semiotext(e) / Native Agents.

Pbk | 408pp | 9781635900804 | 2019.01 Semiotext(e) | A$44.99 | NZ$54.99 203x137mm | USA

HISTORYBedouin Culture in the BibleCLINTON BAILEYWritten by one of the world’s leading scholars of Bedouin culture, this groundbreaking book sheds new light on significant points of convergence between Bedouin and early Israelite cultures, as manifested in the Hebrew Bible. Bailey compares Bedouin and biblical sources, identifying overlaps in economic activity, material culture, social values, social organization, laws, religious practices, and oral traditions. He examines the question of whether some early Israelites were indeed nomads as the Bible presents them, offering a new angle on the controversy over the identity of the early Israelites and a new cultural perspective to scholars of the Bible and the Bedouin alike. 28 black and white illustrations.

Hbk | 288pp | 9780300121827 | 2018.12 Yale University Press | A$77 | NZ$92 235x156mm | UK

Before the Gregorian Reform: The Latin Church at the Turn of the First MillenniumJOHN HOWEHistorians typically single out the hundred-year period from about 1050 to 1150 as the pivotal moment in the history of the Latin Church, for it was then that the Gregorian Reform movement established the ecclesiastical structure that would ensure Rome’s dominance throughout the Middle Ages and beyond. In Before the Gregorian Reform John Howe challenges this familiar narrative by examining earlier, “pre-Gregorian” reform efforts within the Church. He finds that they were more extensive and widespread than previously thought and that they actually established a foundation for the subsequent Gregorian Reform movement.

Pbk | 372pp | 9781501732683 | 2019.01 Cornell University Press | A$60 | NZ$72 229x152mm | USA

Dust Bowls of Empire: Imperialism, Environmental Politics, and the Injustice of “Green” CapitalismHANNAH HOLLEMANThe 1930s witnessed a harrowing social and ecological disaster, defined by the severe nexus of drought, erosion, and economic depression that ravaged the U.S. southern plains. Known as the Dust Bowl, this crisis has become a major referent of the climate change era, and has long served as a warning of the dire consequences of unchecked environmental despoliation. Through innovative research and a fresh theoretical lens, Hannah Holleman reexamines the global socioecological and economic forces of settler colonialism and imperialism precipitating this disaster, explaining critical antecedents to the acceleration of ecological degradation in our time.Yale Agrarian Studies Series.

Hbk | 256pp | 9780300230208 | 2019.01 Yale University Press | A$49.99 | NZ$58.99 210x140mm | UK

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Mistress of Everything: Queen Victoria in Indigenous worlds SARAH CARTER AND MARIA NUGENTMistress of Everything examines how indigenous people across Britain’s settler colonies engaged with Queen Victoria in their lives and predicaments, incorporated her into their political repertoires, and implicated her as they sought redress for the effects of imperial expansion during her long reign. It draws together empirically rich studies from Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Southern Africa, to provide scope for comparative and transnational analysis. The book includes chapters on a Maori visit to Queen Victoria in 1863, meetings between African leaders and the Queen’s son Prince Alfred in 1860, gift-giving in the Queen’s name on colonial frontiers in Canada and Australia, and Maori women’s references to Queen Victoria in support of their own chiefly status and rights. Studies in Imperialism.“Non-European peoples had reason and opportunity to learn the structure and disposition of the authorities that colonised them. Under British rule, they had time to get to ‘know’ Queen Victoria, for she reigned from 1837 to 1901. ‘Queen Victoria’ was not only an individual but a ‘synonym for the Crown, for the British government and for the Empire’ (p.2). In Mistress of Everything ten historians of British settler-colonial southern Africa, Australia, Canada and New Zealand richly illustrate how Victoria was ‘known’ to the colonised.” — Tim Rowse, Western Sydney University, OceaniaMaria Nugent is Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Indigenous History in the School of History at the Australian National University.

Pbk | 280pp | 9781526136886 | 2018.09 Manchester University Press A$51.99 | NZ$62 | UK

A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern WorldERIKA RAPPAPORTTea has been one of the most popular commodities in the world. Over centuries, profits from its growth and sales funded wars and fueled colonization, and its cultivation brought about massive changes’ in land use, labor systems, market practices, and social hierarchies’ the effects of which are with us even today. A Thirst for Empire takes a vast and in-depth historical look at how men and women—through the tea industry in Europe, Asia, North America, and Africa—transformed global tastes and habits. An expansive and original global history of imperial tea, A Thirst for Empire demonstrates the ways that this powerful enterprise helped shape the contemporary world. Winner of a 2018 Gourmand World Cookbook Award, U.S. National Winner in “Tea”, Winner of the 2018 PCCBS Book Prize, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, Co-Winner of the 2018 ASFS Book Award, Association for the Study of Food and Society and Winner of the 2018 Jerry Bentley Prize in World History, American Historical Association.“Rappaport tells with authority how tea and the culture of tea drinking has influenced the greater history of the British Empire and the British-influenced world beyond. . . . [Her] description of the ways in which tea has been marketed over the years is entirely absorbing.” ― Simon Winchester, New York Times Book Review

Pbk | 568pp | 9780691192703 | 2019.01 Princeton University Press A$56.99 | NZ$67 | USA

Roving Revolutionaries: Armenians and the Connected Revolutions in the Russian, Iranian, and Ottoman WorldsHOURI BERBERIANThree of the formative revolutions that shook the early twentieth-century world occurred almost simultaneously in regions bordering each other. Though the Russian, Iranian, and Young Turk Revolutions all exploded between 1904 and 1911, they have never been studied through their linkages until now. Roving Revolutionaries probes the interconnected aspects of these three revolutions through the involvement of the Armenian revolutionaries—minorities in all of these empires—whose movements and participation within and across frontiers tell us a great deal about the global transformations that were taking shape.


Shaped by the State: Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth CenturyBRENT CEBUL, LILY GEISMER AND MASON B. WILLIAMSAmerican political history has been built around narratives of crisis, in which what “counts” are the moments when seemingly stable political orders collapse and new ones rise from the ashes. No doubt the history of American politics is filled with such moments—the Great Depression and the New Deal; the rise of modern conservatism in the 1960s and ‘70s; and, most recently, the 2016 election of Donald Trump. But while crisis-centered frameworks can make sense of certain dimensions of political culture, partisan change, and governance, they also often steal attention from the production of categories like race, gender, and citizenship status that transcend the usual breakpoints in American history. The editors have brought together first-rate scholars from a wide range of subfields who are making structures of state power—not moments of crisis or partisan realignment—integral to their analyses.

Pbk | 384pp | 9780226596327 | 2018.12 University of Chicago Press | A$69 | NZ$83 229x152mm | USA

Time and Power: Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years’ War to the Third ReichCHRISTOPHER CLARKThis groundbreaking book presents new perspectives on how the exercise of power is shaped by different notions of time. Acclaimed historian Christopher Clark draws on four key figures from German history—Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg-Prussia, Frederick the Great, Otto von Bismarck, and Adolf Hitler—to look at history through a temporal lens and ask how historical actors and their regimes embody unique conceptions of time. Elegantly written and boldly innovative, Time and Power takes readers from the Thirty Years’ War to the fall of the Third Reich, revealing the connection between political power and the distinct temporalities of the leaders who wield it.The Lawrence Stone Lectures.

Hbk | 298pp | 9780691181653 | 2018.12 Princeton University Press A$64.99 | NZ$74.99 | USA

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Winning Hearts and Votes: Social Services and the Islamist Political AdvantageSTEVEN BROOKEIn Winning Hearts and Votes, Steven Brooke argues that authoritarians often seek to manage moments of economic crisis by offloading social welfare responsibilities to non-state providers. But providers who serve poorer citizens, motivated by either charity of clientelism, will be constrained in their ability to mobilize voters because the poor depend on the state for many different goods. Organizations that serve paying customers, in contrast, may produce high quality, consistent, and effective services. This type of provision generates powerful, reputation-based linkages with a middle-class constituency more likely to support the provider on election day. Brooke backs up his novel argument with an in-depth examination of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, the archetypal organization that combines social service provision with electoral success. 7 black and white halftones, 11 black and white line drawings, 4 maps, and 7 charts.

Hbk | 228pp | 9781501730627 | 2019.01 Cornell University Press | A$74 | NZ$87 229x152mm | USA

LITERATUREABBA ABBAANTHONY BURGESSABBA ABBA is one of Anthony Burgess’s most original works, combining fiction, poetry and translation. A product of his time in Italy in the early 1970s, this delightfully unconventional book is part historical novel, part poetry collection, as well as a meditation on translation and the generating of literature by one of Britain’s most inventive post-war authors. Set in Papal Rome in the winter of 1820-21, Part One recreates the consumptive John Keats’s final months in the Eternal City and imagines his meeting the Roman dialect poet Giuseppe Gioachino Belli. Pitting Anglo-Italian cultures and sensibilities against each other, Burgess creates a context for his highly original versions of 71 sonnets by Belli, which feature in Part Two.The Irwell Edition of the Works of Anthony Burgess.

Hbk | 256pp | 9781526138033 | 2019.01 Manchester University Press | A$51.99 | NZ$61 216x138mm | UK

MUSICWhy Jazz HappenedMARC MYERSWhy Jazz Happened is the first comprehensive social history of jazz. It provides an intimate and compelling look at the many forces that shaped this most American of art forms and the many influences that gave rise to jazz’s post-war styles. Rich with the voices of musicians, producers, promoters, and others on the scene during the decades following World War II, this book views jazz’s evolution through the prism of technological advances, social transformations, changes in the law, economic trends, and much more.


PHILOSOPHYBeyond the Nation-State: The Zionist Political Imagination from Pinsker to Ben-GurionDMITRY SHUMSKYThe Jewish nation-state has often been thought of as Zionism’s end goal. In this bracing history of the idea of the Jewish state in modern Zionism, from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century until the establishment of the state of Israel, Dmitry Shumsky challenges this deeply rooted assumption. In doing so, he complicates the narrative of the Zionist quest for full sovereignty, provocatively showing how and why the leaders of the pre-state Zionist movement imagined, articulated and promoted theories of self-determination in Palestine either as part of a multinational Ottoman state (1882-1917), or in the framework of multinational democracy. “A must-read for scholars in the field, this is a brilliant, trenchant critique of current dominant interpretations of the Zionist movement and the birth of the state of Israel.” — Alon Confino, author of A World Without Jews“This provocative study disrupts the uncontested link between Zionism and statism. It will no doubt ignite important popular and scholarly debates about the past, present, and future significance of Zionism and the state of Israel.” — Noam Pianko, University of Washington

Hbk | 320pp | 9780300230130 | 2019.01 Yale University Press | A$59.99 | NZ$72 235x156mm | UK

Enlivenment: Toward a Poetics for the AnthropoceneANDREAS WEBERWe have been told that we are living in the Anthropocene, a geological era shaped by humans rather than by nature. In Enlivenment, German philosopher Andreas Weber presents an alternative understanding of our relationship with nature, arguing not that humans control nature but that humans and nature exist in a commons of mutual transformation. There is no nature–human dualism, he contends, because the fundamental dimension of existence is shared: aliveness. All subjectivity is intersubjectivity. Self is self-through-other. Seeing all beings in a common household of matter, desire, and imagination, an economy of metabolic and economic transformation, is “enlivenment.” This perspective allows us to move beyond Enlightenment-style thinking that strips material reality of any subjectivity.Untimely Meditations.

Pbk | 208pp | 9780262536660 | 2019.01 The MIT Press | A$34.99 | NZ$39.99 178x114mm | USA

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Morphing Intelligence: From IQ Measurement to Artificial BrainsCATHERINE MALABOUWhat is intelligence? The concept crosses and blurs the boundaries between natural and artificial, bridging the human brain and the cybernetic world of AI. In this book, the acclaimed philosopher Catherine Malabou ventures a new approach that emphasizes the intertwined, networked relationships among the biological, the technological, and the symbolic. Malabou traces the modern metamorphoses of intelligence, seeking to understand how neurobiological and neurotechnological advances have transformed our present-day view. She considers three crucial developments: the notion of intelligence as an empirical, genetically based quality measurable by standardized tests; the shift to the epigenetic paradigm, with its emphasis on neural plasticity; and the dawn of artificial intelligence, with its potential to simulate, replicate, and ultimately surpass the workings of the brain.The Wellek Library Lectures. “Catherine Malabou is one of the rare philosophers who seriously engages contemporary biological research in her explorations of human experience. In this book, she turns her attention to the core question of intelligence, and with spectacular results. At stake is the very future of human thought, and Malabou is led to reflect on machine intelligence for the first time, generating singular insights. As ever, Malabou’s prose is precise and elegant, deftly expressed in Carolyn Steadman’s fluid translation.” — David Bates, author of Plasticity and Pathology: On the Formation of the Neural Subject

Hbk | 224pp | 9780231187367 | 2018.12 Columbia University Press | A$53.99 | NZ$63 216x140mm | USA

Videophilosophy: The Perception of Time in Post-FordismMAURIZIO LAZZARATOThe Italian philosopher Maurizio Lazzarato has earned international acclaim for his analysis of contemporary capitalism, in particular his influential concept of immaterial labor and his perceptive writings on debt. In Videophilosophy, he reveals the underpinnings of contemporary subjectivity in the aesthetics and politics of mass media. First written in French and published in Italian and later revised but never published in full, this book discloses the conceptual groundwork of Lazzarato’s thought as a whole for a time when his writings have become increasingly influential.Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts. “Like his comrade Antonio Negri, Maurizio Lazzarato has dedicated himself to exploring the less-traveled paths of modern thought in search of alternatives to capitalist modernity. In Videophilosophy, that exploration produces stunning results. Drawing on Bergson, Nietzsche, Vertov, Nam June Paik, and Bill Viola, Lazzarato constructs an innovative and compelling sequel to two of the most revolutionary texts in media studies: Gilles Deleuze’s Cinema books and Walter Benjamin’s The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility.” — Timothy Murphy, author of Antonio Negri: Modernity and the Multitude


PHOTOGRAPHYThe Photographs of Ralston Crawford KEITH F. DAVISBest known for his modernist paintings and prints, the multitalented artist Ralston Crawford (1906–1978) maintained a deep and intensive interest in photography throughout his career, using the camera as a tool of both documentary and artistic expression. This exquisitely produced publication provides a fresh, comprehensive look at Crawford’s photographs from 1938 through the mid-1970s, including both well-known works and previously unpublished images. Some of his photographic images served as the basis for paintings and prints, but many more were made for their own sake as photographs, capturing a wide variety of subjects, from pristine industrial forms to the vibrant street life and musical culture of New Orleans. 18 color and 148 black and white illustrations.

Hbk | 204pp | 9780300241365 | 2018.12 Nelson Atkins | A$99.99 | NZ$120 279x279mm | UK

SOCIOLOGYAre Racists Crazy?: How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of InsanitySANDER L. GILMAN AND JAMES M. THOMASIn 2012, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at the University of Oxford reported that—based on their clinical experiment—the beta-blocker drug, Propranolol, could reduce implicit racial bias among its users. Shortly after the experiment, an article in Time Magazine cited the study, posing the question: Is racism becoming a mental illness? An illuminating and riveting history of the discourse on racism, antisemitism, and psychopathology, Are Racists Crazy? connects past and present claims about race and racism, showing the dangerous implications of this specious line of thought for today. Biopolitics.“Sander Gilman and James Thomas have provided a unique intellectual and political history of racial theorizing – and have generated a virtual ‘cognitive road map’ of how anti-Semitism as leitmotif has played such a powerful, even dominant role in the way scholars and researchers have approached the subject matter, whether in Europe, the United States, or South Africa. Few works even attempt to piece together so much material, while pulling a convincing thread through a sustained argument.” — Troy Duster, author of Backdoor to Eugenics

Pbk | 368pp | 9781479887309 | 2018.09 NYU Press | A$48.99 | NZ$58.99 229x152mm | USA

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Forms of Life: The Method and Meaning of SociologyHARRY COLLINSIn Forms of Life, Harry Collins offers an introduction to social science methodology, drawing on his forty-plus years of conducting high-profile sociological research. In this concise, accessible, and engaging book, Collins explains not only how to do sociology (the method) but also how to think about sociology (the meaning). For example, he describes the three activities that are the foundations of sociological method (immersing oneself in a society; estranging oneself from that society; and explaining what has been discovered to those who have not been immersed) and goes on to consider broader questions of the meaning of science in relation to social science and the scientific authority of “subjective” methods.

Pbk | 192pp | 9780262536646 | 2019.01 The MIT Press | A$64 | NZ$77 229x152mm | USA

New Media and SocietyDEANA A. ROHLINGERIn New Media and Society, Deana Rohlinger provides a sociological approach to understanding how new media shape our interactions, our experiences, and our institutions. Using case studies and in-class exercises, Rohlinger explores how new media alter everything from our relationships with friends and family to our experiences in the workplace. Each chapter takes up a different topic—our sense of self and our relationships, education, religion, law, work, and politics—and assesses how new media alter our worlds as well as our expectations and experiences in institutional settings. Instead of arguing that these changes are “good” or “bad” for American society, the book uses sociological theory to challenge readers to think about the consequences of these changes, which typically have both positive and negative aspects. 44 illustrations.“The Internet and social media have changed virtually everything about social life. Rohlinger’s indispensable book explains how. Rather than celebrating or lamenting the new world we live in, she shows what’s different, how, and why it matters.”—David S. Meyer, Author of The Politics of Protest: Social Movements in America

Pbk | 240pp | 9781479845699 | 2019.01 NYU Press | A$52.99 | NZ$64 229x152mm | USA

Seeing Race Again: Countering Colorblindness across the DisciplinesKIMBERLE WILLIAMS CRENSHAW, LUKE CHARLES HARRIS, DANIEL MARTINEZ HOSANG AND GEORGE LIPSITZThis book challenges scholars and students to see race again. Examining the racial histories and colorblindness in fields as diverse as social psychology, the law, musicology, literary studies, sociology, and gender studies, Seeing Race Again documents the profoundly contradictory role of the academy in constructing, naturalizing, and reproducing racial hierarchy. It shows how colorblindness compromises the capacity of disciplines to effectively respond to the wide set of contemporary political, economic, and social crises marking public life today.“A powerful compendium on the discourse of colorblindness shaping American society, which forcefully demonstrates that it is not a change of heart but an epistemic shift in a long racial project. Seeing Race Again assembles an impressive array of scholars from diverse academic locations, representing leading and emergent voices in the study of race.” — Roderick A. Ferguson, author of The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference“Seeing Race Again is an unprecedented collection that examines the longstanding complicities between the American academy and the settler, colonial, and racialized society that it shaped and continues to advantage. With essays from leading lights in their fields, this anthology breaks new ground by revealing how the major disciplines of modern thought promote ‘race-blind’ and ‘post-racial’ methods and values that both advance and obscure past and present patterns of white supremacy, racial impoverishment, disenfranchisement, and the wholesale violations of life at the center of American society. In this moment of racial emergency when Muslim bans are repackaged by the law as mere ‘travel bans,’ Seeing Race Again explains not only how we got here as scholars and intellectuals but also how we might repurpose our disciplines for genuinely emancipatory ends.” — Chandan Reddy, author of Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the U.S. State


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