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Between Birth and Death Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century China Michelle T. King

Female infanticide is a social practice often closely associated with Chinese culture. Yet how is it that the killing of newborn daughters has come to be so intimately associated with Chinese culture? Between Birth and Death locates a significant historical shift in the representation of female infanti-cide during the nineteenth century.

“Michelle King has written a fascinating and well-researched account of how infanticide came to be viewed as a characteristically Chinese problem. She examines how infanticide was viewed by participants, as well as local and foreign observers, and explains how Chinese infanticide has had such a strong grip on our minds on the basis of remarkably little evidence other than condemnation of the practice.”

—henrietta harrison, University of oxford

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What remains Coming to Terms with Civil War in 19th Century China TOBie MeyeR-FOng

“Tobie Meyer-Fong’s pathbreaking study of the experience of war and its aftermath in 19th-century China is the rare kind of scholarship that resonates deeply not just on an intel-lectual level but on an emotional one as well. It is the first truly intimate study we have of human responses to the massive Taiping Rebellion, one of the darkest chapters of human history. A work of pathos and insight, What Remains is by turns thought-provoking, heartbreaking and above all eye-opening.”

—Stephen r. Platt, author of Autumn in the

Heavenly Kingdom

“[A] must-read not only for any stu-dent of the Taiping Rebellion but also for anyone seeking understanding of the effects of and response to war in late imperial China.”

—edward a. mccord, H-Net

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Asia ................................................2-4

Latin America ............................ 4-7

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture .........................................7-10

Europe .......................................10-13

Middle East ..............................13-14

Cultural and Intellectual ....14-15

Exam Copy Policy ....................... 5

Ordering Information ...............15

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opera and the City The Politics of Culture in Beijing, 1770–1900 AndReA S. gOldMAn

“Like a rewarding afternoon at the the-ater in Qing Beijing, Opera and the City is a lively, sexy, and artistically accomplished performance. A must-read for anyone interested in late imperial China.”

—Peter J. carroll, northwestern University

“I find Goldman’s book to be one of the most exciting works of Qing history I have read in some years. . . . Raising provocative arguments for discus-sion is one of the most important things an historical monograph can do, and when, as in Goldman’s book, it is combined with deep erudition and empirical richness, it is an occasion to celebrate.”

— william t. rowe, Frontiers of History in China

386 pp., 22 figures, 1 map, 2012 9780804792059 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale9780804778312 Cloth $55.00 $44.00 sale

regulating Prostitution in China Gender and Local Statebuilding, 1900–1937 elizABeTh J. ReMicK

At the turn of the twentieth century, prostitution was one of the few fates available to women in China besides wife, servant, or factory worker. As the century began, cities introduced regulatory measures—registering, taxing, and monitoring—that changed politics and gender relations in important new ways. Elizabeth J. Remick shows here that the decisions local govern-ments made about how to deal with gender, and specifically the thorny issue of prostitution, had concrete and measurable effects on the structures and capacities of the state.

“A pioneering work of political and social analysis that honestly and force-fully explores the very different ways local governments in China grappled with the moral and governmental chal-lenges posed by prostitution.”

—david g. Strand, dickinson college

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A family of no Prominence The Descendants of Pak Tŏkhwa and the Birth of Modern Korea eugene y. PARK

With A Family of No Prominence, Eugene Y. Park gives us a remarkable account of a nonelite family, that of Pak Tŏkhwa and his descendants (which includes the author). Spanning the early modern and modern eras over three centuries (1590–1945), this narrative of one family of the chungin class of people is a landmark achievement.

“This book is a tour de force. Park draws from archives, oral history, and even his own memory to trace a family history across nearly half a millennium, offer-ing a much-needed, eye-opening view of individuals in the late Chosŏn period.”

—James B. Lewis, oxford University

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the Battle for China Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–1945 ediTed By MARK PeATTie, edWARd dReA, And hAnS vAn de ven

Winner of the 2012 Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award (non-US).

“In scope, it is the most comprehensive work on the military history of the war in English. It makes available a diverse body of scholar-ship, much of which has not been translated. It should stimulate additional research into one of the most significant events in the his-tory of modern China.”

—Parks m. cole, Chinese Historical Review

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occupying Power Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan SARAh KOvneR

“Relying on a range of Japanese- and English-language sources, this succinct volume offers a thick analysis of sex work in Japan from political, social, economic, and sym-bolic viewpoints. . . . Occupying Power is literally a powerful book that adds important insight to the fields of modern Japan, women’s studies, and ‘America in the world.’ This study deserves a wide audience.”

—hiroshi Kitamura, Diplomatic History

stuDies of tHe WeAtHerHeAD eAst AsiAn institute, ColumBiA university

240 pp., 2 tables, 1 figure, 12 illustrations, 1 map, 2012 9780804788632 Paper $22.95 $18.36 sale9780804776912 Cloth $50.00 $40.00 sale

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street Culture in Chengdu Public Space, Urban Commoners, and Local Politics, 1870–1930 di WAng

Winner of the Urban History Association’s 2005 Best Book in Non-North American Urban History Award.


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the teahouse Small Business, Everyday Culture, and Public Politics in Chengdu, 1900–1950 di WAng

376 pp., 4 tables, 12 figures, 21 illustrations, 4 maps, 2014 9780804791038 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale9780804758437 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale

Distance and Documents at the spanish empire’s Periphery SylviA SelleRS-gARcíA

The Spanish Empire is famous for being the realm upon which “the sun never set.” And yet we know little about how Spain managed to move that crucial currency of governance—paper—over such enormous distances. This book takes up these unknowns and proposes that by examining how documents operated in the Spanish empire we can better understand how the empire was built and how knowledge was created.

“In this meticulous study Sellers-García interrogates the lives of documents and how they reflect multiple understand-ings of distance in temporal as well as spatial terms in late colonial Guatemala. Ambitious and illuminating, this work makes significant contributions to the social history of knowledge and commu-nications, the history of Guatemala and of the Spanish empire.”

—Susan deans-Smith, the University of texas at austin

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making the Chinese mexican Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands gRAce PeñA delgAdO

Making the Chinese Mexican is the first book to examine the Chinese diaspora in the U.S.-Mexico border-lands. It presents a fresh perspective on immigration, nationalism, and racism through the experiences of Chinese migrants in the region during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Navigating the interlocking global and local systems of migration that underlay Chinese borderlands communities, the author situates the often-paradoxical existence of these communities within the turbulence of exclusionary nationalisms.

“This path-breaking history is a probing analysis of the interconnected worlds that the Chinese in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands created, inhabited, and sometimes contested. Making the Chi-nese Mexican is a stunning example of borderlands history.”

— erika Lee, University of minnesota


rebel mexico Student Unrest and Authoritarian Political Culture During the Long Sixties JAiMe M. PenSAdO

In the middle of the twentieth century, a growing tide of student activism in Mexico reached a level that could not be ignored, culminat-ing with the 1968 movement. This book traces the rise, growth, and consequences of Mexico’s “student problem” during the long sixties (1956–1971).

“Pensado has written a fundamentally revisionist work that throws into relief many of our basic assumptions about post-war Mexican political culture, while also revealing the deep history of the 1968 student movement and its aftermath. This work will quickly shoot up to the top of required read-ing on the Global Sixties as well as twentieth-century Mexico.”

—eric Zolov, Stony Brook University

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the invisible War Indigenous Devotions, Discipline, and Dissent in Colonial Mexico dAvid TAváRez

After the conquest of Mexico, colonial authorities attempted to enforce Christian beliefs among indigenous peoples. The Invisible War assesses this immense but dislocated project by examining all known efforts in Central Mexico to obliterate native devotions of Mesoamerican origin between the 1530s and the late eighteenth century.


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the Black middle Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatan MATTheW ReSTAll

Winner of the 2010 Mexican History Book Prize, sponsored by the Conference on Latin American History

“A full-blooded portrait of a historically important and interesting corner of the colonial world. The archival sources are truly impressive, expertly handled, and deployed with smart critical discussion.”

— eric van young, University of california, San diego


Dreaming of Dry land Environmental Transformation in Colonial Mexico City veRA S. cAndiAni

Dreaming of Dry Land weaves a narra-tive that describes what colonization was and looked like on the ground, and how it affected land, water, and humans to explain the origins of our built and unbuilt landscapes. Con-necting the history of science and technology, environmental history, social history, and Atlantic history, Candiani proposes that colonization was a class-based phenomenon, rather than ethnic or nation-based, occurring simultaneously on both sides of an Atlantic, where state-building and empire-building were intertwined.

“This ambitious and original study traces the history of an important engineering and environmental project. The author

‘decolonizes’ historical (mis)understand-ings of the Desagüe and, in the process, pushes back against narratives of prog-ress and advancement that tend to come with looking at scientific change over time. The work succeeds admirably.”

— Jordana dym, Skidmore college

400 pp., 49 halftones, 3 tables, 3 maps, 2014 9780804788052 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale

Amazonian routes Indigenous Mobility and Colonial Communities in Northern Brazil heATheR F. ROlleR

This book reconstructs the world of eighteenth-century Amazonia to argue that indigenous mobility did not undermine settlement or community. In doing so, it revises longstanding views of native Amazonians as perpetual wanderers, lacking attachment to place and likely to flee at the slightest provocation. Instead, na-tive Amazonians used traditional as well as new colonial forms of spatial mobility to build enduring communities under the constraints of Portuguese colonialism.

“Heather Roller sets a very high stan-dard here for work on Amazonian history. More than simply filling a gap, her book presents new, perspec-tive-shifting insights into the eigh-teenth-century Amazon—and, by implication, Brazil—from the point of view of Indians and ribeirinhos.”

— mark harris, University of St. andrews

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the Guaraní and their missions A Socioeconomic History JuliA J. S. SARReAl

The thirty Guaraní missions of the Río de la Plata were the largest and most prosperous of all the Catholic missions established throughout the frontier regions of the Americas, but between 1768 and 1800, the mission population fell by almost half and the economy became insolvent. This unique socioeconomic history provides a coherent and comprehensive explana-tion for the missions’ operation and decline, providing readers with an understanding of the material changes experienced by the Guaraní in their day-to-day lives.

“By illuminating the complexity of Guar-aní responses to the dramatically al-tered political and economic landscape initiated by the Jesuit expulsion, Sarreal provides a challenging and innovative reexamination of the mission communi-ties in the late colonial period.”

—Lyman Johnson, Professor emeritus,

University of north carolina, charlotte

368 pp., 15 tables, 9 figures, 5 maps, 2014 9780804785976 Cloth $70.00 $56.00 sale

Continuity Despite Change The Politics of Labor Regulation in Latin America MATTheW e. cARneS

As the dust settles on nearly three decades of economic reform in Latin America, one of the most funda-mental economic policy areas has changed far less than expected: labor regulation. Continuity Despite Change develops a new theoretical framework for understanding labor laws and their lack of change through time.”

“This important book pushes us to think afresh about labor’s enduring role in Latin American politics. Carnes helps us see how national-level orga-nized union activity has shaped the path of labor law reform. It deserves high praise for its skillful combina-tion of quantitative and qualitative methods—and rich case studies of Argentina, Chile, and Peru—which work together to tell a compelling and important story about the evolution of labor law in Latin America.”

— timothy r. Scully, cSc, University of notre dame

soCiAl sCienCe History

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the Business of identity Jews, Muslims, and Economic Life in Medieval Egypt PhilliP i. AcKeRMAn-lieBeRMAn

The Cairo Geniza is the largest and richest store of documentary evidence for the medieval Islamic world. This book seeks to revolutionize the way scholars use that treasure trove.

“In this deeply learned study of medieval Egypt, Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman de-tails the ways in which Jews immersed themselves in Muslim culture and institutions, not to create a symbiosis of Judaism and Islam, but to forge a par-ticular and nuanced minority identity as Jews. This is a landmark book, chal-lenging prevalent misconceptions about Jewish history and offering remarkably original insights into the formation of minority cultures.”

—Susannah heschel, eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies,

dartmouth college

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An unpromising land Jewish Migration to Palestine in the Early Twentieth Century guR AlROey

From the beginning of the twentieth century until the First World War, about 35,000 Jews reached Palestine. Because of the place the land of Israel possesses in Jewish thought, histori-ans and social scientists have tended to stress the uniqueness of Jewish immigration to Palestine. This book presents a more complex picture both of the causes of immigration to Palestine and of the mass of immigrants who reached the port of Jaffa in the years 1904–1914.

“Gur Alroey has refocused the great Jew-ish migration of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, putting the migration to Palestine into its proper perspective. By doing so, he expands our understanding of not only that small stream but its larger global scope.”

—hasia diner, new york University

288 pp., 9 tables, 9 figures, 2014 9780804789325 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale

to tell their Children Jewish Communal Memory in Early Modern Prague RAchel l. gReenBlATT

This book offers an examination of Jewish communal memory in Prague in the century and a half stretching from its position as cosmopolitan capital of the Holy Roman Empire (1583–1611) through Catholic reform and triumpha-lism in the later seventeenth century, to the eve of its encounter with Enlighten-ment in the early eighteenth.

“To Tell Their Children weaves a fascinat-ing tale of the interplay between indi-vidual and communal memory and the topographies of Jewish space. Prague was home to the largest and most culturally creative Ashkenazic community in early modern Central Europe. Beautifully written and richly detailed, Greenblatt’s creative approach provides a wonderful entry to the world of Prague Jews and the means by which they perpetuated their historical memories.”—elisheva carlebach, columbia University

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sephardi lives A Documentary History, 1700–1950 JuliA PhilliPS cOhen And SARAh STein

Jewish Studies and Middle Eastern Studies have seen an unprecedented diversification in focus over the course of the last twenty years, yet neither pedagogical materials nor documentary compendia have kept pace with these dramatic changes. This comprehensive documentary reader fills the void in modern Jewish and Ottoman history, presenting a staggering array of primary sources generated by or about Sephardi Jews. The approxi-mately 150 sources in this edition have been selected carefully and specifically for students, researchers, and general readers.

“This extraordinary collection of texts, eloquently presented and analyzed, opens a window to the Judeo-Spanish communities of the late Ottoman and post-Ottoman world.”

—daniel J. Schroeter, University of minnesota

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mediterranean enlightenment Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform FRAnceScA BRegOli

The Mediterranean port of Livorno was home to one of the most promi-nent and privileged Jewish enclaves of early modern Europe. This book offers an alternative perspective on Jewish acculturation during the eighteenth century, and reassesses common assumptions about the interactions of Jews with outside culture and the impact of state reforms on the cor-porate Jewish community. Francesca Bregoli explores Jewish-Christian cultural exchange, sites of sociability, and reformist policies to investigate Jewish responses to Enlightenment thought and politics, as well as non-Jewish perceptions of Jews.

“This book fills a significant gap in Jew-ish and Italian historiographies in an impressive and exemplary fashion. It will immediately command attention as a major scholarly work.”

— Lois dubin, Smith college

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the modernity of others Jewish Anti-Catholicism in Germany and France ARi JOSKOWicz

The most prominent story of nineteenth-century German and French Jewry has focused on Jewish adoption of liberal middle-class values. The Modernity of Others points to an equally powerful but largely unexplored aspect of modern Jewish history: the extent to which German and French Jews sought to become modern by criticizing the anti-modern positions of the Catholic Church. Drawing attention to the pervasiveness of anti-Catholic anticlericalism among Jewish think-ers and activists from the late eigh-teenth to the early twentieth century, the book turns the master narrative of Western and Central European Jewish history on its head.

“This fascinating approach provides new ways to think about Jewish modernization, as well as about the construction of ‘secularism’ in modern France and Germany.” —Lisa moses Leff, american University


jewish Pasts, German fictions History, Memory, and Minority Culture in Germany, 1824–1955 JOnAThAn SKOlniK

This is the first comprehensive study of how German-Jewish writers used images from the Spanish-Jewish past to define their place in German culture and society. Jonathan Skolnik argues that Jewish historical fiction was a form of cultural memory that functioned as a parallel to the modern, demythologizing project of secular Jewish history writing.

“This is a first-rate piece of scholarship that makes a crucial and original con-tribution to the fields of German-Jew-ish history, Jewish literature, and both Jewish Studies and literary studies more generally. Skolnik offers the first comprehensive discussion in English—or any other language—of the pivotal role that historical fiction played in German-Jewish culture from the 1830s well into the postwar period.”

—Jonathan hess, University of north carolina

at chapel hill

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memoirs of a Grandmother Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century, Volume TwoPAuline WengeROFF

TRAnSlATed WiTh An inTROducTiOn, nOTeS, And cOMMenTARy By ShulAMiT S. MAgnuS

Volume One, Winner of the 2010 National Jewish Book Awards, Women’s Studies Category, sponsored by the Jewish Book Council.

Pauline Wengeroff ’s Memoirs of a Grandmother offers a unique first-person window into traditionalism, modernity, and the tensions linking the two in nineteenth century Russia. Wengeroff (1833–1916), a perceptive, highly literate social observer, tells a gripping tale of cultural transforma-tion, situating her narrative in the experience of women and families.

In Volume Two, Wengeroff ’s entries reveal that Jewish women were capable and desirous of adopting the best of European modernity but were also wedded to tradition, while expressing her concerns that Jewish men reck-lessly abandoned tradition and forced their wives to do the same.

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mixing musicsTurkish Jewry and the Urban Landscape of a Sacred SongMAuReen JAcKSOn

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jewish spainA Mediterranean MemoryTABeA AlexA linhARd

What is meant by “Jewish Spain”? The term itself encompasses a series of his-torical contradictions. No single part of Spain has ever been entirely Jewish. Yet discourses about Jews informed debates on Spanish identity formation long after their 1492 expulsion. The Mediterranean world witnessed a renewed interest in Spanish-speaking Jews in the twentieth century, and it has grappled with shifting attitudes on what it meant to be Jewish and Spanish throughout the century. At the heart of this book are explorations of the contradictions that appear in different forms of cultural memory.

“Lively, forceful, and immensely well-informed, Jewish Spain will be of great value both to Hispanic Studies and Jew-ish Studies.”

—andrew Bush, vassar college

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Was Hitler a riddle?Western Democracies and National SocialismABRAhAM AScheR

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the virtues of AbandonAn Anti-Individualist History of the French Enlightenment chARly cOleMAn

This book traces the far-flung sparks of anti-individualism that permeated theology, philosophy, and politics throughout the Enlightenment. Fired by the notion that the self was a fiction, men and women joined illicit mystic cults that engaged in shocking rituals of physical mortification and sexual abandon, committed suicides out of materialist fatalism, and even renounced the feudal privileges that had for centuries defined their social existence.

“Charly Coleman’s The Virtues of Abandon will transform the way we think about the Enlightenment and its relationship to the Revolution. Ranging across intellectual fields and forms of social practice, Coleman uncovers a reli-gious, mystical strain of thinking which runs in fruitful counterpoint with the more familiar, secularising Enlighten-ment narratives.”

—colin Jones, Queen mary, University of London

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Britain and the Bomb Nuclear Diplomacy, 1964–1970 dAvid JAMeS gill

Drawing on primary sources from both sides of the Atlantic, Britain and the Bomb explores how economic, political, and strategic consider-ations have shaped British nuclear diplomacy. The book concentrates on Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s first two terms of office, 1964-1970, which represent a critical period in international nuclear history.

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Captives and Corsairs France and Slavery in the Early Modern Mediterranean gilliAn WeiSS

“[A] a book of masterful erudition, herculean archival research, and deep understanding of French history.”

—nabil matar, French History

“Full of verve and rich detail, Captives and Corsairs is history-writing at its best.”

— natalie Zemon davis, University of toronto

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selling under the swastika Advertising and Commercial Culture in Nazi Germany PAMelA e. SWeTT

Selling under the Swastika is the first in-depth study of commercial advertis-ing in the Third Reich. Scholars have traditionally paid little attention to the role played by commercial ads and sales culture in legitimizing and stabilizing the regime. Historian Pamela Swett explores the extent of the transformation of the German ads industry from the internationally infused republican era that preceded 1933 through the relative calm of the mid-1930s and into the war years.

“In this provocative and original analysis, Swett shows how the bright world of brand names, advertising slogans, and shopping expeditions nestled itself into the racial imperatives of the Third Reich as ‘Aryans’ sought the pleasures and en-titlements of consumption.”

—Peter fritzsche, University of illinois at Urbana-champaign

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the Civilizing mission in the metropole Algerian Families and the French Welfare State during Decolonization AMeliA h. lyOnS

France, which has the largest Muslim minority community in Europe, has been in the news in recent years because of perceptions that Muslims have not integrated into French society. The Civilizing Mission in the Metropole explores the roots of these debates through an examination of the history of social welfare programs for Algerian migrants from the end of World War II until Algeria gained independence in 1962. Lyons questions myths about Algerian immigration history and exposes numerous paradoxes surrounding the fraught relationship between France and Algeria—many of which echo in French debates about Muslims today.

“Amelia Lyons succeeds brilliantly in linking the history of the French repub-lic and that of its colonial empire.”

—eric Jennings, University of toronto


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Between states The Transylvanian Question and the European Idea during World War II hOlly cASe

Winner of the 2010 George Louis Beer Prize, sponsored by the American Historical Association.

“This will take a rightful place among the really important and interesting works written on East Central Europe in the last forty years.”

—John connelly, University of california, Berkeley

“This well-written and meticulously re-searched study advances large and pro-vocative claims. At its center stands the

‘Transylvanian Question’: the struggle, particularly bitter during World War II, between Hungary and Romania for possession of the borderland made famous by Bram Stoker. It is not Holly Case’s purpose to side with one country or the other but to demonstrate the im-portance of this and, by extension, other territorial disputes to the larger history of Europe.”

—Lee congdon, American Historical Review

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monsters by trade Slave Traffickers in Modern Spanish Literature and Culture liSA SuRWillO

Transatlantic studies have begun to explore the lasting influence of Spain on its former colonies and the surviv-ing ties between the American nations and Spain. In Monsters by Trade, Lisa Surwillo takes a different approach, explaining how modern Spain was literally made by its Cuban colony. She analyzes a sampling of nineteenth-century Spanish literary works that reflected metropolitan fears of the hold that slave traders (and the slave economy more generally) had over the political, cultural, and financial networks of power.

“In Monsters by Trade, Lisa Surwillo expertly maps modern Spain’s culture of colonialism, while urging us to look at familiar authors from the literary canon in a new light. Both are signal achievements.”

—christopher Schmidt-nowara, tufts University


secret intelligence in the european states system, 1918-1989 ediTed By JOnAThAn hASlAM And KARinA uRBAch

This volume brings together a collec-tion of essays avoiding the traditional pitfalls while carrying out the essential task of analyzing the recent evidence concerning the history of the Euro-pean state system of the last century. The essays offer an array of insight across countries and across time. Together they highlight the critical importance of the prevailing domestic circumstances in which intelligence operates. A keen interdisciplinary eye focused on these developments leaves us with a far more complete understanding of secret intelligence in Europe than we’ve had before.

“This collection of essays by notable scholars advances our understanding of aspects of European intelligence history, still an underdog field compared to the enormous literature on Anglo-Ameri-can intelligence.”

—wesley wark, University of ottawa

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memories of Absence How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco AOMAR BOuM

Memories of Absence investigates how four successive generations of Moroc-cans remember the lost Jewish com-munity. Moroccan attitudes toward the Jewish population have changed over the decades, and a new debate has emerged at the center of the Moroccan nation: Where does the Jew fit in the context of an Arab and Islamic mon-archy? Can Jews simultaneously be Moroccans and Zionists? Drawing on oral testimony and stories, on rumor and humor, Aomar Boum examines the strong shift in opinion and attitude over the generations and increasingly anti-Semitic beliefs in younger people, whose only exposure to Jews has been through international media and national memory.

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the mind-Body stage Passion and Interaction in the Cartesian Theater R. dARRen gOBeRT

The Mind-Body Stage provides a dazzlingly original picture of one of the most consequential and confusing periods in the histories of modern theater and philosophy. Interdisciplin-ary and comparatist in scope, it uses methodological techniques from literary study, philosophy, theater history, and performance studies and draws on scores of documents from several countries.

“With the publication of Gobert’s book, no longer can we see the Cartesian sub-ject as a pure mind disconnected from others or the ‘emotional cocktails’ that constitute experience. His fascinating and original discussion of Descartes’s theory of the passions and the mind-body union is a must for scholars of ear-ly modern literature and drama, histo-rians of philosophy and of science, and philosophers of mind and neuroscience.”

—Patricia easton, claremont graduate University


Citizen strangers Palestinians and the Birth of Israel’s Liberal Settler State ShiRA ROBinSOn

Following the 1948 war and the creation of the state of Israel, Palestin-ian Arabs comprised just fifteen percent of the population but held a much larger portion of its territory. Offered immediate suffrage rights and, in time, citizenship status, they nonetheless found their movement, employment, and civil rights restricted by a draconian military government put in place to facilitate the coloniza-tion of their lands. Citizen Strangers traces how Jewish leaders struggled to advance their historic settler project while forced by new international human rights norms to share political power with the very people they sought to uproot.

“Shira Robinson brilliantly demonstrates that the treatment of Palestinian citi-zens in Israel is a mirror of Israel itself.”

—gershon Shafir, University of california, San diego

stAnforD stuDies in miDDle eAstern AnD islAmiC soCieties AnD Cultures

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the Barber of Damascus Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant dAnA SAJdi

This book is about a barber, Shihab al-Din Ahmad Ibn Budayr, who shaved and coiffed, and probably circumcised and healed, in Damascus in the eighteenth century. The barber may have been a “nobody,” but he wrote a history book, a record of the events that took place in his city during his lifetime. Dana Sajdi investigates the significance of this book, and in examining the life and work of Ibn Budayr, uncovers the emergence of a larger trend of history writing by unusual authors—people outside the learned establishment—and a new phenomenon: nouveau literacy. The Barber of Damascus offers the first full-length microhistory of an individual commoner in Ottoman and Islamic history.

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ConnectedHow Trains, Genes, Pineapples, Piano Keys, and a Few Disasters Transformed Americans at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century STeven cASSedy

Between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twen-tieth, Americans underwent a dramatic transformation in self-conception: having formerly lived as individuals or members of small communities, they now found themselves living in networks, which arose out of scientific and technological innovations. There were transportation and communica-tion networks. There was the network of the globalized marketplace, the network of standard time, the public health movement, and social networks that joined individuals to their fellows at the municipal, state, national, and global levels. Previous histories of this era focus on alienation and dislocation that new technologies caused. This book shows that American individuals in this era were more connected to their fellow citizens than ever—but by bonds that were distinctly modern.


Why literary Periods mattered Historical Contrast and the Prestige of English Studies Ted undeRWOOd

Why Literary Periods Mattered explains how historical contrast became central to literary study, and why it remained institutionally central in spite of critical controversy about literature itself. In the twenty-first century, Underwood argues, literary study may need digital technology in particular to develop new methods of reasoning about gradual, continuous change.

“Underwood offers fresh historical insight into the way English depart-ments are now organized and invites us to imagine the ways in which they, and the research and scholarship they support, might be organized differ-ently, in part through the qualitative possibilities of digital humanities and the ‘gradualist’ models of liter-ary history they make possible.”

—adam Potkay, the college of william and mary

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requiem for the ego Freud and the Origins of Postmodernism AlFRed i. TAuBeR

Requiem for the Ego recounts Freud’s last great attempt to ‘save’ the autonomy of the ego, which drew philosophical criticism from the most prominent philosophers of the period—Adorno, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein. Despite their divergent orientations, each contested the ego’s capacity to represent mental states through word and symbol to an agent surveying its own cognizance.

“This is an important book in the phi-losophy of science, but it is also an im-portant critique of the history of 20th-century philosophy and its relationship to psychology. The blurred lines are here clarified and the denial on the part of philosophy that it was and is in a dia-logue with psychology is laid to rest for once and for all.”

—Sander gilman, emory University

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islandology Geography, Rhetoric, Politics MARc Shell

Islandology is a fast-paced, fact-filled comparative essay in critical topogra-phy and cultural geography that cuts across different cultures and argues for a world of islands. Written by Shell in view of the melting of the world’s great ice islands, Islandology shows not only new ways that we think about islands but also why and how we think by means of them.

“ Islandology is one of those rare works that perfectly reflects its object of study. Instead of being a contribution to a par-ticular field of research, it is an island of scholarship that allows us to chart sub-merged connections among such fields as cultural geography, literary analysis, and socio-political inquiry.” —Peter fenves, northwestern University

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