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Resurrecting Nagasaki: Reconstruction and the Formation of Atomic NarrativesCHAD R DIEHLIn Resurrecting Nagasaki, Chad R. Diehl examines the reconstruction of Nagasaki City after the atomic bombing of August 9, 1945. Diehl illuminates the genesis of narratives surrounding the bombing by following the people and groups who contributed to the city’s rise from the ashes and shaped its postwar image in Japan and the world. Municipal officials, survivor-activist groups, the Catholic community, and American occupation officials interpreted the destruction and envisioned the reconstruction of the city from different and sometimes disparate perspectives. Each group’s narrative situated the significance of the bombing within the city’s postwar urban identity in unique ways, informing the discourse of reconstruction as well as its physical manifestations in the city’s revival.

Hbk | 236pp | 9781501714962 | 2018.03 Cornell University Press | A$72 | NZ$86 229x152mm | USA

Postcards from Auschwitz: Holocaust Tourism and the Meaning of RemembranceDANIEL P REYNOLDSEach year, millions of people visit Holocaust memorials and museums, with the number of tourists steadily on the rise. What lies behind the phenomenon of “Holocaust tourism” and what role do its participants play in shaping how we remember and think about the Holocaust? In Postcards from Auschwitz, Daniel P. Reynolds argues that tourism to former concentration camps, ghettos, and other places associated with the Nazi genocide of European Jewry has become an increasingly vital component in the evolving collective remembrance of the Holocaust. Responding to the tendency to dismiss tourism as commercial, superficial, or voyeuristic, Reynolds insists that we take a closer look at a phenomenon that has global reach, takes many forms, and serves many interests. 20 illustrations.

Hbk | 336pp | 9781479860432 | 2018.03 NYU Press | A$66 | NZ$79 229x152mm | USA

Gold Coast: City and ArchitectureANDREW LEACH The Gold Coast is Australia’s most rapidly changing city – regularly compared to Miami and Las Vegas for its embrace of bad taste and the good life; and with Dubai for its sudden moments of high-rise assuredness and seeming lack of restraint in either the ambitions of building or their manifestations. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this book offers the first comprehensive history of the city and its architecture, documenting its rise from a series of seaside villages in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to the present-day city, set to host the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Considering city plans, architectural works, landscape formations and modes of inhabitation over the time in which the Gold Coast has been peopled, it considers the role of architecture in carrying the city forward. Its main focus is on the contemporary city and the conditions that have given rise to its character - high rise, bad taste and skewed towards the beach edge. 156 colour illustrations. Andrew Leach is Professor of Architecture at the University of Sydney.

Hbk | 176pp | 9781848222298 | 2018.04 Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd A$69.99 | NZ$84.99 | 250x190mm | UK

Market Cities, People Cities: The Shape of Our Urban FutureMICHAEL OLUF EMERSON AND KEVIN T SMILEYHow are modern cities changing, and what implications do those changes have for city inhabitants? What kinds of cities do people want to live in, and what cities do people want to create in the future? Michael Oluf Emerson and Kevin T. Smiley argue that western cities have diverged into two specific and different types: market cities and people cities. Market cities are focused on wealth, jobs, individualism, and economic opportunities. People cities are more egalitarian, with government investment in infrastructure and an active civil society. Analyzing the practices and policies of cities with two separate foci, markets or people, has substantial implications both for everyday residents and future urban planning and city development.

Pbk | 256pp | 9781479800261 | 2018.03 NYU Press | A$56.99 | NZ$67 229x152mm | USA

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ANTHROPOLOGYEngaged Anthropology: Politics beyond the TextSTUART KIRSCHDoes anthropology have more to offer than just its texts? In this timely and remarkable book, Stuart Kirsch shows how anthropology can - and why it should - become more engaged with the problems of the world. Engaged Anthropology draws on the author’s experiences working with indigenous peoples fighting for their environment, land rights, and political sovereignty. Including both short interventions and collaborations spanning decades, it recounts interactions with lawyers and courts, non-governmental organizations, scientific experts, and transnational corporations. 10 black and white illustrations and 8 maps.

Pbk | 321pp | 9780520297951 | 2018.03 University of California Press | A$51.99 | NZ$62 229x152mm | USA

ARCHITECTUREDrawing on Architecture: The Object of Lines, 1970--1990JORDAN KAUFFMANPrior to the 1970s, buildings were commonly understood to be the goal of architectural practice; architectural drawings were seen simply as a means to an end. But, just as the boundaries of architecture itself were shifting at the end of the twentieth century, the perception of architectural drawings was also shifting; they began to be seen as autonomous objects outside the process of building. In Drawing on Architecture, Jordan Kauffman offers an account of how architectural drawings - promoted by a network of galleries and collectors, exhibitions and events - emerged as aesthetic objects and ultimately attained status as important cultural and historical artifacts, and how this was both emblematic of changes in architecture and a catalyst for these changes. 57 color and 19 black and white illustrations.

Hbk | 336pp | 9780262037372 | 2018.04 The MIT Press | A$69.99 | NZ$84.99 229x178mm | USA

ARTArt and War in the Pacific World: Making, Breaking, and Taking from Anson’s Voyage to the Philippine-American WarJ M MANCINIThe Pacific world has been long recognized as a hub for the global trade in art objects, but the history of art and architecture has seldom reckoned with another profound aspect of the region’s history: its exposure to global conflict during the British and US imperial incursions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Art and War in the Pacific World provides a new view of the Pacific world and of global artistic interaction by exploring how the making, alteration, looting, and destruction of images, objects, buildings, and landscapes intersected with the exercise of force. Focusing on the period from British Commodore George Anson’s voyage to the Philippine-American War, Mancini’s exceptional study deftly weaves together disparate strands of history to provide a novel paradigm for cultural analysis. 117 color images and 3 maps.Ahmanson Murphy Imprint in Fine Arts.“In this meticulously researched and powerfully argued account, J. M. Mancini makes clear the degree to which the violence of war, rather than simply trade, was key to the global circulation of objects and information about architecture during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She reveals Manila’s importance to the fortunes of first its British and then its American invaders.” — Kathleen James-Chakraborty, author of Architecture since 1400

Hbk | 344pp | 9780520294516 | 2018.02 University of California Press | A$104 | NZ$124 254x178mm | USA

Masterpieces in Miniature: Engraved Gems from Prehistory to the PresentJOHN BOARDMAN AND CLAUDIA WAGNER The creation of miniature intaglios - or incised carvings - which could be impressed on clay or wax was one of the earliest crafts of civilisation. To this the Greeks added relief cameos, while comparable skills were lavished on the decoration of metal finger rings. These artefacts record subjects of significance for their period and place but are also the direct expression of an artist’s skills and imagination. Engraved gems - collected first by the ancient Romans and then throughout the Renaissance - were a source for knowledge of ‘classical’ subjects and styles. They were copied - from Michelangelo to Rubens - by the foremost artists of the day. The gemstones explored here are from a distinguished collection made in the earlier twentieth century by a notable connoisseur of ancient art. Many originate from named older European collections and were previously unknown to scholars and collectors. The authors have sought to offer a balanced selection of earlier eastern and Greek stones, alongside others from the neo-classical era. The book offers a survey of the finest products of gem craft over millennia.The Philip Wilson Gems and Jewellery Series.

Hbk | 272pp | 9781781300626 | 2018.03 Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd | A$87 | NZ$104 248x297mm | UK= Trade DiscountT

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Enid Marx: The Pleasures of PatternALAN POWERSEnid Marx (1902–1998) was a leading artist and designer, collector and writer, who played an important role in British cultural life in the mid twentieth century. Associated with Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden in the ‘outbreak of talent’ at the Royal College of Art in the 1920s, she excelled as a designer and printer of hand-blocked fabrics before branching into industrial woven patterns for London Underground and the wartime Utility Furniture Scheme. Alan Powers has selected words and images from Marx’s extensive archive to create a rounded picture of her distinctive achievement. High-quality reproductions of a wide variety of designs illuminate Marx’s versatility, high spirits and reconciliation of modernity and tradition through a rare gift for pattern making. 146 colour and 34 black and white illustrations.

Hbk | 176pp | 9781848222526 | 2018.03 Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd A$89.99 | NZ$110 | 260x220mm | UK

Paul FeilerMICHAEL RAEBURNThe paintings of Paul Feiler (1918-2013), the focus of this first survey of the artist’s life and career, were inspired by the English landscape, particularly the cliffs and inlets of the coast of south-west Cornwall. For his friend Peter Lanyon, Feiler’s early works provided him with a sense of ‘calm and I mean a sense of pause...to achieve that repose in the landscape I know one has to suffer the opposite.’Based on full access to the artist’s archive of letters, catalogues and photographs, Michael Raeburn describes how Feiler overcame many painful early experiences to achieve the meditative serenity of his deeply spiritual work. For all those interested in the history of modern British painting, this is a much-needed resource. 175 colour and 17 black and white illustrations.

Hbk | 192pp | 9781848220287 | 2018.03 Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd A$94.99 | NZ$110 | 290x240mm | UK

Philip TaaffeJOHN YAU This book presents a comprehensive view of the work of American painter Philip Taaffe (b.1955), who has expanded the parameters of painting through his use of silkscreen, linocuts, collage, stencils, gouache, chine-collé, marbling, acrylic, enamel, watercolour and gold leaf. Possessing many technical skills, Taaffe has moved decisively between unique pictorial inventions and appropriations, as well as overlaying divergent modes of representation, through cultural patterns found in ornament, and biomorphic abstraction. John Yau’s insightful text is the first to look at every part of Taaffe’s artistic development, from the works he made at Cooper Union while a student of Hans Haacke, to the present. 110 colour illustrations.Contemporary Painters Series.

Hbk | 144pp | | 2018.04 Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd A$69.99 | NZ$79.99 | 280x240mm | UK

Sharing Images: Renaissance Prints into Maiolica and BronzeJAMIE GABBARELLIThis book is the first full-length study into the multifarious influence of Renaissance prints on maiolica and bronze. Focusing on designs by major artists such as Andrea Mantegna, Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Parmigianino, and Albrecht Dürer, the book tells the story of how printed images were transmitted, transformed, and translated onto ceramics and small bronze reliefs, creating a shared visual canon across artistic media and geographical boundaries. Sharing Images provides a comprehensive introduction to different aspects of the phenomenon, from the role of 15th-century prints and the rediscovery of ancient art to the importance of illustrated books and the artistic exchanges between Italy and northern Europe. 85 colour illustrations.

Hbk | 144pp | 9781848222649 | 2018.04 Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd A$69.99 | NZ$79.99 | 254x216mm | UK

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Deaccessioning and its Discontents: A Critical HistoryMARTIN GAMMONMuseums often stir controversy when they deaccession works - formally remove objects from permanent collections - with some critics accusing them of betraying civic virtue and the public trust. In fact, Martin Gammon argues in Deaccession and Its Discontents, deaccession has been an essential component of the museum experiment for centuries. Gammon offers the first critical history of deaccessioning by museums from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, and exposes the hyperbolic extremes of “deaccession denial” - the assumption that deaccession is always wrong - and “deaccession apology” - when museums attempt to blame the object for its removal - as symptoms of the same misunderstanding of the role of deaccessions to proper museum practice. 56 color and 8 black and white illustrations.

Hbk | 480pp | 9780262037587 | 2018.03 The MIT Press | A$94.99 | NZ$110 254x178mm | USA

Toward Fewer Images: The Work of Alexander KlugePHILIPP EKARDTIn Toward Fewer Images, Philipp Ekardt offers both close analyses of Kluge’s individual works and sustained investigations of his overarching (and perpetual) production. Ekardt discusses Kluge’s image theory and practice as developed across different media, and considers how, in relation to this theory, Kluge returns to, varies, expands, and modifies the practice of montage, including its recent manifestations in digital media - noting Kluge’s counterintuitive claim that creating montages results in fewer images. Kluge’s production, Ekardt argues, allows us to imagine a model of authorship and artistic production that does not rely on an accumulation of individual works over time but rather on a permanent activity of (temporalized) reworking and redifferentiation. 212 black and white photos.October Books.

Hbk | 400pp | 9780262037976 | 2018.04 The MIT Press | A$89.99 | NZ$110 229x178mm | USA

Rembrandt’s RoughnessNICOLA SUTHORRoughness is the sensual quality most often associated with Rembrandt’s idiosyncratic style. It best defines the specific structure of his painterly textures, which subtly capture and engage the imagination of the beholder. Rembrandt’s Roughness examines how the artist’s unconventional technique pushed the possibilities of painting into startling and unexpected realms. A beautifully illustrated meditation on a painter like no other, Rembrandt’s Roughness reflects deeply on the intellectual challenge that Rembrandt’s unrivaled artistry posed to the art theory of his time and its eminent role in the history of art today. 25 color and 57 black and white illustrations.

Hbk | 240pp | 9780691172446 | 2018.03 Princeton University Press | A$105 | NZ$124 254x178mm | USA

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Ecologies, Agents, TerrainsCHRISTOPHER HEUER AND REBECCA ZORACHThe newest volume in the acclaimed Clark Studies in the Visual Arts series, this collection of essays explores the intrinsic connection between art and the environment. The romance and rejection of “nature” have always occupied places at the heart of art making and art history, and the resulting practices and discourses have had significant impact on public imagination and perception of ecological crises. The essays in this volume discuss many topics at the intersection of art and ecology, including literal convergences of art and earth, such as 1960s Land Art; social ecologies, like legislative art; rhetorical discourses of environmental interconnectedness or estrangement, such as large-scale agriculture; and performative landscape/body situations, including site-based ceremonies. 150 color illustrations.Clark Studies in the Visual Arts.

Pbk | 300pp | 9780300233162 | 2018.02 Clark Art Institute | A$46.99 | NZ$54.99 241x178mm | UK

Gunther Forg: A Fragile BeautyGAVIN DELAHUNTYGünther Förg (1952–2013) was a German painter, sculptor, and photographer with an irreverent approach to abstract painting. His paintings on lead became key studies of surface, materiality, and gesture. In the mid-1980s, Förg turned to photography, making portraits and architectural images that document historically and culturally significant buildings throughout Italy and Germany. Günther Förg: Fragile Beauty surveys about seventy works by the artist, foregrounding painting and incorporating important works in other media. Förg’s approach was highly formal and abstract, renewing the romantic utopianism central to the modernism of the 1920s and 1930s, and a sense of nostalgia for that lost vision pervades the work. 200 color black and white illustrations.Offical Exhibition CatalogueExhibition: Encounters 2: Gunther Forg and Skeet McAuley, Currently at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam till May -September 2018, it will also appear at the Dallas Museum of Art, Texas.

Hbk | 256pp | 9780300229226 | 2018.03 Dallas Museum of Art | A$94.99 | NZ$110 267x235mm | UK

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Scale and the IncasANDREW JAMES HAMILTONAlthough questions of form and style are fundamental to art history, the issue of scale has been surprisingly neglected. Yet, scale and scaled relationships are essential to the visual cultures of many societies from around the world, especially in the Andes. In Scale and the Incas, Andrew Hamilton presents a groundbreaking theoretical framework for analyzing scale, and then applies this approach to Inca art, architecture, and belief systems. Lavishly illustrated with stunning color plates created by the author, the book’s pages depict artifacts alongside scale markers and silhouettes of hands and bodies, allowing readers to gauge scale in multiple ways. 105 color and 55 black and white illustrations.


Peacock in the Desert: The Royal Arts of Jodhpur, IndiaKARNI JASOLPeacock in the Desert traces the evolution of royal identity in the kingdom of Marwar-Jodhpur in southwestern Rajasthan from the 17th century to the establishment of independence after 1947, presenting the area as a microcosm of India’s extraordinarily vibrant culture. An international team of contributors has contextualized these regional narratives in relation to external - and even global - forces. The book thus offers a new perspective on the acquisition and commissioning of objects through patronage, diplomacy, matrimonial alliances, trade, and conquest. It sheds new light on the influential role of women at the royal courts and examines monarchies as lenses onto cross-cultural relationships, the unrecognized roles of groups marginalized in earlier accounts, cultural heterodoxy, and large-scale multicultural exchange. 426 color illustrations.Offical Exhibition CatalogueExhibition: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 04/03/18— 19/08/18

Hbk | 288pp | 9780300232967 | 2018.03 Museum Fine Arts Houston | A$122 | NZ$144 305x248mm | UK


Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other FablesBARBARA HASKELLThis comprehensive study of Grant Wood (1891–1942) is packed with extensive new scholarship and provides fresh insight into the career of one of the key figures of 20th-century American art. Working primarily in the traditional genres of portraiture and landscape, Wood infused his paintings with a palpable tension that is grounded in the profound epistemological and social upheavals of his time. Exploring Wood’s oeuvre from a variety of perspectives, this book presents the artist’s work in all of its subtle complexity and eschews the idea that Wood can be categorized simply as a Regionalist painter. Generously illustrated, Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables includes several works published here for the first time, as well as new photography of other paintings. 180 color and 30 black and white illustrations.Offical Exhibition CatalogueExhibition: Whitney Museum of American Art, 02/03/18–10/06/18

Hbk | 272pp | 9780300232844 | 2018.03 Whitney Museum of American Art A$110 | NZ$135 | 311x235mm | UK

Kendell Geers, Animystikaktivist: Between Traditional and the Contemporary in African ArtJENS HOFFMANN AND ZOE STROTHERSouth African-born, Belgian artist Kendell Geers, changed his date of birth to MAY 1968 as a performance, effectively giving birth to himself as a work of art. His artistic practice weaves together African Animism, European Mysticism and Socio-Political Activism with humor, irony and contradiction. He uses his identity as a White African like a key to unlock and critique our understanding and reading of history, art and language. This book, which focuses on his works created between 1988 and the present, looks at the influence of avant-garde traditions from Dada and Surrealism to Punk, intertwined with the powerful legacy of traditional African art on his work. 250 color illustrations.

Hbk | 128pp | 9780300233230 | 2018.02 Mercatorfonds | A$79.99 | NZ$94.99 241x267mm | UK

BIOGRAPHYThe Man Who Saw Tomorrow: The Life and Inventions of Stanford R. OvshinskyLILLIAN HODDESON AND PETER GARRETTThe Economist called Stanford R. Ovshinsky (1922--2012) “the Edison of our age,” but this apt comparison doesn’t capture the full range of his achievements. As an independent, self-educated inventor, Ovshinsky not only created many important devices but made fundamental discoveries in materials science. This book offers the first full-length biography of a visionary whose energy and information innovations continue to fuel our post-industrial economy. 8 color and 131 black and white illustrations.

Hbk | 360pp | 9780262037532 | 2018.03 The MIT Press | A$67 | NZ$79 229x178mm | USA

Edna Lewis: At the Table with an American OriginalSARA FRANKLINEdna Lewis (1916-2006) wrote some of America’s most resonant, lyrical, and significant cookbooks, including the now classic The Taste of Country Cooking. Lewis cooked and wrote as a means to explore her memories of childhood on a farm in Freetown, Virginia, After living many years in New York City, where she became a chef and a political activist, she returned to the South and continued to write. Her reputation as a trailblazer in the revival of regional cooking and as a progenitor of the farm-to-table movement continues to grow. In this first-ever critical appreciation of Lewis’s work, a constellation of food world stars gather to reveal their own encounters with Edna Lewis. Together they penetrate the mythology around Lewis and illuminate her legacy for a new generation.

Hbk | 272pp | 9781469638553 | 2018.03 The University of North Carolina Press A$59.99 | NZ$69.99 | 235x155mm | USA

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COMMUNICATION AND MEDIAThe World Made Meme: Public Conversations and Participatory MediaRYAN M MILNERInternet memes - digital snippets that can make a joke, make a point, or make a connection - are now a lingua franca of online life. They are collectively created, circulated, and transformed by countless users across vast networks. Most of us have seen the cat playing the piano, Kanye interrupting, Kanye interrupting the cat playing the piano. In The World Made Meme, Ryan Milner argues that memes, and the memetic process, are shaping public conversation. It’s hard to imagine a major pop cultural or political moment that doesn’t generate a constellation of memetic texts. Memetic media, Milner writes, offer participation by reappropriation, balancing the familiar and the foreign as new iterations intertwine with established ideas. 80 black and white illustrations.The Information Society Series.

Pbk | 272pp | 9780262535229 | 2018.03 The MIT Press | A$42.99 | NZ$51.99 229x152mm | USA

More Than Meets the Eye: Special Effects and the Fantastic Transmedia FranchiseBOB REHAKMore Than Meets the Eye maps the ways in which special effects build consistent storyworlds and transform genres while traveling seamlessly from one media platform to the next. Examining high-profile franchises in which special effects have played a constitutive role such as Star Trek, Star Wars, The Matrix, and The Lord of the Rings, as well as more contemporary franchises like Pirates of the Caribbean and Harry Potter, Bob Rehak analyzes the ways in which production practices developed alongside the cultural work of industry professionals. By studying social and cultural factors such as fan interaction, this book provides a context for understanding just how much multiplatform storytelling has come to define these megahit franchises. Postmillennial Pop.


Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture (New in Paperback)HENRY JENKINS, SAM FORD AND JOSHUA GREENSpreadable Media maps fundamental changes taking place in our contemporary media environment, a space where corporations no longer tightly control media distribution and many of us are directly involved in the circulation of content. It contrasts “stickiness” - aggregating attention in centralized places - with “spreadability” - dispersing content widely through both formal and informal networks, some approved, many unauthorized. Stickiness has been the measure of success in the broadcast era (and has been carried over to the online world), but “spreadability” describes the ways content travels through social media. Postmillennial Pop.

Pbk | 352pp | 9781479856053 | 2018.03 NYU Press | A$39.99 | NZ$46.99 229x152mm | USA

FICTIONThe Valley of the FallenCARLOS ROJASThis historical novel by one of Spain’s most celebrated authors weaves a tale of disparate time periods: the early years of the nineteenth century, when Francisco de Goya was at the height of his artistic career, and the final years of Generalissimo Franco’s Fascist rule in the 1970s. Rojas re-creates the nineteenth-century corridors of power and portrays the relationship between Goya and King Fernando VII, a despot bent on establishing a cruel regime after Spain’s War of Independence.Rojas’s work is a dazzling tour de force, a unique combination of narrative invention and art historical expertise that only he could have brought to the page.The Margellos World Republic of Letters.

Hbk | 312pp | 9780300217964 | 2018.02 Yale University Press | A$49.99 | NZ$54.99 197x127mm | UK

GENDER STUDIESThe Life and Death of Latisha King: A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia GAYLE SALAMONThe Life and Death of Latisha King examines a single incident, the shooting of 15-year-old Latisha King by 14-year-old Brian McInerney in their junior high school classroom in Oxnard, California in 2008. The press coverage of the shooting, as well as the criminal trial that followed, referred to Latisha, assigned male at birth, as Larry. Unpacking the consequences of representing the victim as Larry, a gay boy, instead of Latisha, a trans girl, Gayle Salamon draws on the resources of feminist phenomenology to analyze what happened in the school and at the trial that followed. In building on the phenomenological concepts of anonymity and comportment, Salamon considers how gender functions in the social world and the dangers of being denied anonymity as both a particularizing and dehumanizing act. Sexual Cultures.“This beautifully crafted work in slow and critical phenomenology allows us to understand the fatal consequences of skewed gender perception. Salamon takes us through the trial of Latisha King, murdered by a classmate who understood transgendered expression as an aggressive assault. Paying close attention to how the participants in the murder trial discuss and enact their normative passions about how the body should appear, Salamon shows us how phenomenological description that open up for strong criticism modes of perception and action that bear lethal consequences for those who contest hegemonic gender norms. This book is a model of careful and thoughtful philosophy and cultural criticism, bringing to life the resources of a phenomenological tradition that can name, describe, and oppose the obliteration of queer and trans lives. This work is as electric as its slow, making us think, and teaching us to see.” — Judith Butler, author of Gender Trouble


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Struggling for Ordinary: Media and Transgender Belonging in Everyday LifeANDRE CAVALCANTEFrom television shows like Orange is the New Black and Transparent, to the real-life struggles of Caitlyn Jenner splashed across the headlines, transgender visibility is on the rise. But what was it like to live as a transgender person in a media environment before this transgender boom in television? While pop culture imaginations of transgender identity flourish and shape audience’s perceptions of trans identities, what does this new media visibility mean for transgender individuals themselves? Struggling for Ordinary engagingly answers these questions, offering a snapshot of how transgender individuals made their way toward a sense of ordinary life by integrating available media into their everyday experiences. Critical Cultural Communication.


HISTORYDisciplining the Empire: Politics, Governance, and the Rise of the British NavySARAH KINKEL“Rule Britannia! Britannia rule the waves” goes the popular lyric. The fact that the British built the world’s greatest empire on the basis of sea power has led many to assume that the Royal Navy’s place in British life was unchallenged. Sarah Kinkel shows that the rise of British naval power was neither inevitable nor unquestioned: it was the outcome of fierce battles over the shape of Britain’s empire and the bonds of political authority. The Navy was one of many battlefields where British subjects debated whether the empire would be ruled from Parliament down or the people up.Harvard Historical Studies.

Hbk | 296pp | 9780674976207 | 2018.04 Harvard University Press | A$82 | NZ$98 235x156mm | USA

An Emerging Modern World: 1750-1870 SEBASTIAN CONRAD AND JURGEN OSTERHAMMELFor as long as there have been nations, there has been an “international” - a sphere of cross-border relations. But for most of human history, this space was sparsely occupied. States and regions were connected by long-distance commerce and the spasms of war, yet in their development they remained essentially separate. The century after 1750 marked a major shift. Fleeting connection gave way to durable integration. Culture, politics, and society were increasingly, and indelibly, entangled across continents. An Emerging Modern World charts this transformative period, addressing major questions about the roots of the present from a distinctly global perspective. 55 halftones and 24 maps.A History of the World.

Hbk | 1020pp | 9780674047204 | 2018.04 A$100 | NZ$118 | 235x162mm | USA Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press

The Great Rift: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Religion-Science DivideMICHAEL E HOBARTIn their search for truth, contemporary religious believers and modern scientific investigators hold many values in common. But in their approaches, they express two fundamentally different conceptions of how to understand and represent the world. Michael Hobart locates the great rift between science and religion not in ideological disagreement but in advances in mathematics and symbolic representation that moved past language to open new windows onto the natural world. His work connects the cognitive breakthroughs of the past with intellectual debates ongoing in the twenty-first century. 23 halftones, 38 line illustrations and 13 tables.


Pandora’s Box: A History of the First World WarJÖRN LEONHARDIn this monumental history of the First World War, Germany’s leading historian of the twentieth century’s first great catastrophe explains the war’s origins, course, and consequences. With an unrivaled combination of depth and global reach, Pandora’s Box reveals how profoundly the war shaped the world to come.Jörn Leonhard treats the clash of arms with a sure feel for grand strategy, the everyday tactics of dynamic movement and slow attrition, the race for ever more destructive technologies, and the grim experiences of frontline soldiers. But the war was much more than a military conflict, or an exclusively European one. Leonhard renders the perspectives of leaders, intellectuals, artists, and ordinary men and women on diverse home fronts as they grappled with the urgency of the moment and the rise of unprecedented political and social pressures. And he shows how the entire world came out of the war utterly changed. 61 halftones, 14 maps, 5 graphs and 6 tables.

Hbk | 1060pp | 9780674545113 | 2018.03 A$99.99 | NZ$120 | 235x162mm | USA Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press

Eisenhower: Becoming the Leader of the Free WorldLOUIS GALAMBOSIn this engaging, fast-paced biography, Louis Galambos follows the career of Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower, offering new insight into this singular man who guided America toward consensus at home and a peaceful victory in the Cold War.The long-time editor of the Eisenhower papers, Galambos may know more about this president than anyone alive. In this compelling book, he explores the shifts in Eisenhower’s identity and reputation over his lifetime and explains how he developed his distinctive leadership skills. As a career military officer, Eisenhower’s progress was uneven. Galambos shows how Ike, with the help of Brigadier General Fox Conner, his mentor and patron, learned how to profit from his mistakes, pivot quickly, and grow as a military and civilian leader.

Hbk | 296pp | 9781421425047 | 2018.01 Johns Hopkins University Press A$54.99 | NZ$64.99 | 229x152mm | USA

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Our Germans: Project Paperclip and the National Security State BRIAN E CRIMProject Paperclip brought hundreds of German scientists and engineers, including aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun, to the United States in the first decade after World War II. More than the freighters full of equipment or the documents recovered from caves and hastily abandoned warehouses, the German brains who designed and built the V-2 rocket and other “wonder weapons” for the Third Reich proved invaluable to America’s emerging military-industrial complex. Our Germans reflects on the myriad ways that Paperclip has been remembered in culture and national memory. As this engaging book demonstrates, whether characterized as an expedient Cold War program born from military necessity or a dishonorable episode, the project ultimately reflects American ambivalence about the military-industrial complex and the viability of an “ends justifies the means” solution to external threats. 12 black and white photos.

Hbk | 264pp | 9781421424392 | 2018.01 Johns Hopkins University Press | A$73 | NZ$86 229x152mm | USA

The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Birth of the Modern Arms RacePRISCILLA J MCMILLANOn April 12, 1954, the nation was astonished to learn that J. Robert Oppenheimer was facing charges of violating national security. Could the director of the Manhattan Project, the visionary who led the effort to build the atom bomb, really be a traitor? In this riveting book, bestselling author Priscilla J. McMillan draws on newly declassified U.S. government documents and materials from Russia, as well as in-depth interviews, to expose for the first time the conspiracy that destroyed one of America’s most illustrious scientists. 23 black and white photos.Johns Hopkins Nuclear History and Contemporary Affairs.

Pbk | 416pp | 9781421425672 | 2018.01 Johns Hopkins University Press A$59.99 | NZ$70 | 229x152mm | USA

The Secret History of the Jersey Devil: How Quakers, Hucksters, and Benjamin Franklin Created a MonsterBRIAN REGAL AND FRANK J ESPOSITOLegend has it that in 1735, a witch named Mother Leeds gave birth to a horrifying monster - a deformed flying horse with glowing red eyes - that flew up the chimney of her New Jersey home and disappeared into the Pine Barrens. Ever since, this nightmarish beast has haunted those woods, presaging catastrophe and frightening innocent passersby - or so the story goes. In The Secret History of the Jersey Devil, Brian Regal and Frank J. Esposito examine the genesis of this popular myth, which is also one of the oldest monster legends in the United States. 17 halftones and 1 map.

Hbk | 160pp | 9781421424897 | 2018.03 Johns Hopkins University Press A$44.99 | NZ$53.99 | 229x152mm | USA

Mummies, magic and medicine in ancient Egypt: Multidisciplinary essays for Rosalie DavidCAMPBELL PRICE, ROGER FORSHAW, ANDREW CHAMBERLAIN AND PAUL NICHOLSON WITH ROBERT MORKOT AND JOYCE TYLDESLEYThis volume, published in honour of Egyptologist Professor Rosalie David OBE, presents the latest research on three of the most important aspects of ancient Egyptian civilisation: mummies, magic and medical practice. Drawing on recent archaeological fieldwork, new research on human remains, reassessments of ancient texts and modern experimental archaeology, it attempts to answer some of Egyptology’s biggest questions: how did Tutankhamun die? How were the Pyramids built? How were mummies made?

Pbk | 528pp | 9781784992446 | 2018.04 Manchester University Press | A$70 | NZ$82 240x170mm | UK

Islam in Pakistan: A HistoryMUHAMMAD QASIM ZAMANThe first modern state to be founded in the name of Islam, Pakistan was the largest Muslim country in the world at the time of its establishment in 1947. Today it is the second most populous, after Indonesia. Islam in Pakistan is the first comprehensive book to explore Islam’s evolution in this region over the past century and a half, from the British colonial era to the present day. Muhammad Qasim Zaman presents a rich historical account of this major Muslim nation, insights into the rise and gradual decline of Islamic modernist thought in the South Asian region, and an understanding of how Islam has fared in the contemporary world.Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics.


The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal RemainsTHOMAS W LAQUEURThe Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work of the Dead, acclaimed cultural historian Thomas Laqueur examines why humanity has universally rejected Diogenes’s argument. No culture has been indifferent to mortal remains. Even in our supposedly disenchanted scientific age, the dead body still matters for individuals, communities, and nations. A remarkably ambitious history, The Work of the Dead offers a compelling and richly detailed account of how and why the living have cared for the dead, from antiquity to the twentieth century. 18 color and 101 black and white illustrations.“The Work of the Dead is packed with information, surprises, unaccustomed love and learning, and Laqueur shows throughout a sturdy curiosity, as he digs unflinchingly around and into his chosen topic.” — Marina Warner, London Review of Books

Pbk | 736pp | 9780691180939 | 2018.03 Princeton University Press | A$69.99 | NZ$79.99 235x155mm | USA

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Portrait of a Woman in Silk: Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic WorldZARA ANISHANSLINThrough the story of a portrait of a woman in a silk dress, historian Zara Anishanslin embarks on a fascinating journey, exploring and refining debates about the cultural history of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world. While most scholarship on commodities focuses either on labor and production or on consumption and use, Anishanslin unifies both, examining the worlds of four identifiable people who produced, wore, and represented this object: a London weaver, one of early modern Britain’s few women silk designers, a Philadelphia merchant’s wife, and a New England painter. 43 black and white illustrations.

Pbk | 432pp | 9780300234237 | 2018.03 Yale University Press | A$49.99 | NZ$54.99 235x156mm | UK

LITERARY CRITICISMMythologizing PerformanceRICHARD P MARTINBuilding on numerous original close readings of works by Homer, Hesiod, and other ancient Greek poets, Richard P. Martin articulates a broad and precise poetics of archaic Greek verse. The ancient Greek hexameter poetry of such works as the Iliad and the Odyssey differ from most modern verbal art because it was composed for live, face-to-face performance, often in a competitive setting, before an audience well versed in mythological and ritual lore. The essays collected here span Martin’s acclaimed career and explore ways of reading this poetic heritage using principles and evidence from the comparative study of oral traditions, literary and speech-act theories, and the ethnographic record.

Pbk | 498pp | 9781501713101 | 2018.03 Cornell University Press | A$62 | NZ$73 229x152mm | USA

Culture as Politics: Selected Writings of Christopher CaudwellCHRISTOPHER CAUDWELLConsidered by many to be the most innovative British Marxist writer of the twentieth century, Christopher Caudwell was killed in the Spanish Civil War at the age of 29. Although already a published writer of aeronautic texts and crime fiction, he was practically unknown to the public until reviews appeared of Illusion and Reality: A Study of the Sources of Poetry, which was published just after his death. A strikingly original study of poetry’s role, it explained in clear language how the organizing of emotion in society plays a part in social change and development.Culture as Politics introduces Caudwell’s work through his most accessible and relevant writing.

Pbk | 192pp | 9781583676868 | 2018.02 Monthly Review Press | A$46.99 | NZ$54.99 216x140mm | USA

PHILOSOPHYJean-Jacques Rousseau: Fundamental Political WritingsJEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUJean-Jacques Rousseau: Fundamental Political Writings includes the Social Contract, Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, and “Preface to Narcissus.”Each text has been newly translated, and includes a full complement of explanatory notes. The editors’ introduction offers students diverse points of entry into some of the distinctive possibilities and challenges of each of these fundamental texts, as well as an introduction to Rousseau’s life and historical situation, from his early years in Geneva to his final years in relative solitude. Each text is accompanied by images from the original editions. The volume also includes annotated appendices that help students to explore the origins and influences of Rousseau’s work.

Pbk | 420pp | 9781554812974 | 2018.02 Broadview Press | A$32.99 | NZ$37.99 216x140mm | USA

Thinking beyond the StateMARC ABELESThe French scholar Marc Abélès is one of the leading political and philosophical anthropologists of our time. He is perhaps the leading anthropologist writing on the state and globalization. Thinking beyond the State, a distillation of his work to date, is a superb introduction to his contributions to both anthropology and political philosophy. According to Abélès, we live in a geopolitical universe that, in many respects, reproduces alienating logics. His book, therefore, is a primer on how to see beyond the state. It is also a testament to anthropology’s centrality and importance in any analysis of the global human predicament.

Pbk | 124pp | 9781501709289 | 2017.11 Cornell University Press | A$36.99 | NZ$42.99 216x140mm | USA

Re-Reasoning Ethics: The Rationality of Deliberation and Judgment in EthicsBARRY HOFFMASTER AND CLIFF HOOKERIn Re-Reasoning Ethics, Barry Hoffmaster and Cliff Hooker enhance and empower ethics by adopting a non-formal paradigm of rational deliberation as intelligent problem-solving and a complementary non-formal paradigm of ethical deliberation as problem solving design to promote human flourishing. The non-formal conception of reason produces broader and richer ethical understandings of human situations, not the simple, constrained depictions provided by moral theories and their logical applications in medical ethics and bioethics. Instead, it delivers and vindicates the moral judgment that complex, contextual, and dynamic situations require.Basic Bioethics.Cliff Hooker, a philosopher of science, is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Newcastle.

Hbk | 336pp | 9780262037693 | 2018.04 The MIT Press | A$83 | NZ$99 229x152mm | USA

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Kant’s Philosophical Revolution: A Short Guide to the Critique of Pure Reason YIRMIYAHU YOVELPerhaps the most influential work of modern philosophy, Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason is also one of the hardest to read, since it brims with complex arguments, difficult ideas, and tortuous sentences. A philosophical revolutionary, Kant had to invent a language to express his new ideas, and he wrote quickly. It’s little wonder that the Critique was misunderstood from the start, or that Kant was compelled to revise it in a second edition, or that it still presents great challenges to the reader. In this short, accessible book, eminent philosopher and Kant expert Yirmiyahu Yovel helps readers find their through the web of Kant’s classic by providing a clear and authoritative summary of the entire work.

Hbk | 128pp | 9780691180526 | 2018.02 Princeton University Press | A$44.99 | NZ$52.99 216x140mm | USA

RELIGIONReligion: Material DynamicsDAVID CHIDESTERReligion: Material Dynamics is a lively resource for thinking about religious materiality and the material study of religion. Deconstructing and reconstructing religion as material categories, social formations, and mobile circulations, the book explores the making, ordering, and circulating of religious things. Each chapter offers insightful orientations and surprising possibilities for studying material religion. Exploring the material dynamics of religion from poetics to politics, David Chidester provides an entry into the study of material religion that will be welcomed by students and specialists in religious studies, anthropology, and history.

Pbk | 253pp | 9780520297661 | 2018.03 University of California Press A$49.99 | NZ$59.99 | 229x152mm | USA

SOCIOLOGYAs the World Ages: Rethinking a Demographic CrisisKAVITA SIVARAMAKRISHNANPeople are living longer, creating an unexpected boom in the elderly population. Longevity is increasing not only in wealthy countries but in developing nations as well. In response, many policy makers and scholars are preparing for a global crisis of aging. But for too long, Western experts have conceived of aging as a universal predicament - one that supposedly provokes the same welfare concerns in every context. In the twenty-first century, Kavita Sivaramakrishnan writes, we must embrace a new approach to the problem, one that prioritizes local agendas and values.


America, As Seen on TV: How Television Shapes Immigrant Expectations around the GlobeCLARA E RODRIGUEZAs a dominant cultural export, American television is often the first exposure to American ideals and the English language for many people throughout the world. Yet, American television is flawed, and, it represents race, class, and gender in ways that many find unfair and unrealistic. What happens, then, when people who grew up on American television decide to come to the United States? What do they expect to find, and what do they actually find? In America, As Seen on TV, Clara E. Rodríguez surveys international college students and foreign nationals working or living in the U.S. to examine the impact of American television on their views of the U.S. and on their expectations of life in the United States.


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