Eurospan New Books Catalogue 2019

2019 SPRING / SUMMER

NEW BOOKS CATALOGUE

CONTENTS 
Contents 1
7 GENERAL INTEREST
70 STM & PROFESSIONAL
7 FAMILY & HEALTH
9 FOOD & DRINK 70 HIGHLIGHTS
9 SPORT 73 BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT & ECONOMICS
75 DEVELOPMENT
ARTS & HUMANITIES 10 75 EDUCATION

10 HIGHLIGHTS 78 SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS
12 ART, PHOTOGRAPHY & ARCHITECTURE 79 ENVIRONMENT
14 HISTORY 80 ICT & COMPUTER SCIENCE
81 LAW & CRIMINOLOGY
19 ARCHAEOLOGY 83 MATHEMATICS
21 CLASSICS & ANCIENT HISTORY 85 MEDICINE & ALLIED PROFESSIONS
22 HOLOCAUST STUDIES
22 MEDIEVAL STUDIES 85 GENERAL
23 MILITARY HISTORY 86 HISTORY OF MEDICINE
26 LIBRARY STUDIES 86 ANATOMY
26 LITERATURE 87 ONCOLOGY
34 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS 87 OPHTHALMOLOGY
38 MEDIA & COMMUNICATION 87 PAEDIATRICS
39 MYTHOLOGY & FOLKLORE 88 PATHOLOGY
40 PERFORMING ARTS 88 PHARMACOLOGY
40 DANCE 89 NURSING
41 FILM & TV 91 NUTRITION SUPPORT & DIATETICS
46 MUSIC 91 OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
48 PHILOSOPHY 92 PHYSICAL THERAPY
51 POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 92 PSYCHOLOGY & PSYCHOTHERAPY
59 RELIGION 94 REHABILITATION
61 SOCIAL STUDIES 95 SPEECH & LANGUAGE THERAPY
64 ANTHROPOLOGY 95 SPORTS MEDICINE
66 GENDER & SEXUALITY 95 NATURAL HISTORY
67 STUDY SKILLS & WRITING GUIDES 97 SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
97 AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
98 BIOLOGY
98 BIOTECHNOLOGY
98 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
98 CHEMISTRY
99 CIVIL ENGINEERING
99 GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS
99 MATERIALS SCIENCE
99 MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
100 PHYSICS
100 SPACE SCIENCE

Now distributed by Eurospan

F.A. Davis is an independent, family-owned publisher of
educational solutions for the nursing and health science
professions. From flagship titles like Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical
Dictionary to adaptive platforms like Davis Advantage, Kinesiology
in Action, and Medical Language Lab, the company is dedicated
to meeting their customers’ needs with innovative products
powered by the technology that is changing how students are
learning, instructors are teaching, and professionals are practicing.

JOURNEY NURSE'S PHYSICAL
ACROSS POCKET REHABILITATION
THE LIFE GUIDE
SPAN Seventh Edition
Diagnoses, Prioritized
Human Development Interventions and Susan B. O'Sullivan,
and Health Rationales, 15th Thomas J. Schmitz &
Promotion, Sixth Edition George D. Fulk
Edition Marilynn E. Doenges, Feb 2019 1,512pp,
Elaine U. Polan & Mary Frances Moorhouse & 960 images
Daphne R. Taylor Alice C. Murr 9780803661622
Jan 2019 288pp, 116 images Mar 2019 1,152pp, images Hardback£139.00/€154.00
9780803674875 Paperback £46.50 / €51.00 9780803676442 Paperback £43.95 / €48.00 This thoroughly updated
Provides what you need to effectively care for The perfect pocket guide, this quick-reference seventh edition includes everything you need to
your patients at any stage of life in today's tool has what you need to select the appropriate know about the rehabilitation management of adult
ever-changing world of health care. Elaine Polan diagnosis to plan your patients care effectively. patients, from integrating basic surgical, medical,
and Daphne Taylor guide you through the life This 15th edition features all the latest nursing and therapeutic interventions to how to select the
cycle – from conception to old age – with an diagnoses and updated interventions. A most appropriate evaluation procedures, develop
emphasis on health promotion, maintenance, laminated ’pocket minder' bookmark makes rehabilitation goals, and implement a treatment plan.
and restoration in clinical practice. diagnosis even easier. Includes access to DavisPlus online resources.
Includes access to DavisPlus online resources. Includes access to DavisPlus online resources.

The American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN)
is dedicated to improving patient care by advancing the science and
practice of clinical nutrition and metabolism. Founded in 1976, ASPEN
is an interdisciplinary organization whose members are involved in the
provision of clinical nutrition therapies, including parenteral and enteral
nutrition. With more than 6,500 members from around the world,
ASPEN is a community of dietitians, nurses, pharmacists, physicians,
scientists, students, and other health professionals from every facet of
nutrition support clinical practice, research, and education.

ASPEN T GHUEIDPERTAOCTNIUTITORNITEIRO’NS - GUIDEBOOK ON
ENTERAL FOCUSED PHYSICAL EXAM ENTERAL
NUTRITION OF INFANTS, CHILDREN, MEDICATION
HANDBOOK AND ADOLESCENTS ADMINISTRATION

Second Edition Cleveland Children’s Clinic Edited by Joseph I. Boullata
Edited by Edited by Christina DeTallo Oct 2018 560pp, 15 images
Ainsley Malone et al Feb 2019 70pp 9781889622361
Mar 2019 9781889622347 Spiral bound £42.50 / €48.00 Spiral bound £83.50 / €96.00
9781889622392 This illustrated handbook assists bedside A single-source
Spiral bound clinicians in nutrition assessment, helping reference dedicated to
£71.95 / €82.00 discern the presence and degree of malnutrition. the clinically important topic of administering
This second edition is a comprehensive resource Techniques and tips that can be used in daily enteral medication to tube-fed patients. This
on how to safely, effectively, and confidently  practice when examining patients, as well as guide pulls together the available information
care for patients receiving tube feeding. The charts and references, are provided. on the foundational science that underpins the
clinician will find everything needed for positive approach to enteral medication along with specific
patient outcomes. recommendations for individual medications.

Now distributed by Eurospan

Dr Sophia Yin, a 1993 graduate of the UC Davis School of
Veterinary Medicine, was the founder of CattleDog Publishing
and author of numerous books and DVDs including, The Small
Animal Veterinary Nerdbook® and Low Stress Handling, Restraint,
and Behavior Modification of Dogs & Cats. She earned her
Master's in Animal Science with a behavior emphasis in 2001
from UC Davis. She passed away in 2014 and a memorial fund
has been set up in her name. 

BESTSELLER BESTSELLER BESTSELLER

THE SMALL PERFECT LOW STRESS
ANIMAL PUPPY IN HANDLING,
VETERINARY 7 DAYS RESTRAINT
NERDBOOK® AND BEHAVIOR
How to Start Your MODIFICATION
Third Edition Puppy Off Right OF DOGS & CATS
Sophia Yin Sophia Yin
2011 480pp Techniques for Developing Patients
9780964151857 2011 176pp, 400+ images Who Love Their Visits
Paperback £65.95 / €72.00 9780964151871 Paperback £17.50 / €20.00 Sophia Yin
With this book, veterinary students will find With 176 pages and over 400 photos, Dr Yin 2011 480pp, 1600+ images
information fast, understand concepts easily, and explains step-by-step why puppies do what 9780964151840 Paperback + DVD £87.50 / €96.00
finally see the big picture. To be used in clinic or they do, how the environment and your training This book is a pictorial guide into the world of
to revise for Board Exam review, the third edition methods help form their personalities. and how what to do and, as importantly, what not to do,
easily slips into lab coat pockets, ready for action quickly puppies can learn when you set them up to reduce dogs’ and cats’ fear of encounters with
at a moment’s notice. for success. This positive-reinforcement program humans. With more than 1600 photos and 3 hours
leads to a strong bond between puppies and of video, this book and companion DVD offers
their owners from day one. tips, tools, and techniques for recognizing brewing
fear and aggression, while reducing this through
specific handling techniques that decrease stress by
improving patient comfort and safety.

Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft is a well-known publishing house
in Germany. The company, which was founded in 1747, combines
tradition, innovation, practical expertise and modern working methods.
Its comprehensive portfolio of titles has a variety of areas: practical
guide books on all aspects of daily life, specialist books in the field
of elderly care as well as standard works for the study of veterinary
science, veterinary practice and veterinary nursing. Many English works
on veterinary medicine ensure that these specialist publications from
international authors receive worldwide distribution and recognition.

BESTSELLER BESTSELLER BESTSELLER

BOVINE ANATOMY OF MINIMALLY
ANATOMY THE HORSE INVASIVE
SURGERY OF
Second, Extended Sixth Edition THE HORSE
Edition Klaus-Dieter Budras,
Klaus-Dieter Budras & W.O. Sack & Sabine Röck Edited Michael Röcken &
Robert E. Habe 2012 208pp, Bernhard Ohnesorge
2011 184pp, 280 colour images 2015 188pp, 316 images
103 colour images 9783899936667 9783899936803 Hardback £126.00 / €140.00
9783899930528 Hardback £71.95 / €80.00 Hardback £71.95 / €80.00 This comprehensive atlas and textbook on
This is a much-needed textbook-atlas that Already acknowledged by students and teachers minimally-invasive surgery of the horse offers
depicts bovine anatomy. It is appropriately as an essential resource for learning and revision, state-of-the-art advice from the experts. The
organized so that it can easily be the single Anatomy of the Horse is also a valuable reference authors present step-by step-descriptions
book that veterinarians refer to when an for veterinary practitioners and for those who of the most important surgery techniques in
anatomic question needs to be answered own and value horses. equine practice.
about this species.

Now distributed by Eurospan

Founded in 2004, Now Publishers has built a reputation as
a source of excellent peer-reviewed publications in business,
economics, computer science, and engineering. Their leading
product series, Foundations and Trends® (FnT) offers peer-
reviewed, state-of-the-art reviews of specific subjects that act as
“go to” resources for graduate students and senior researchers
looking for high-level introductions to new topics”.

ACCOUNTING AN PUBLISHING
THEORY AS A INTRODUCTION AND
BAYESIAN TO NEURAL CONSUMING
DISCIPLINE INFORMATION 3D CONTENT
RETRIEVAL ON THE WEB
David Johnstone
Jan 2019 286pp Bhaskar Mitra & A Survey
9781680835304 Nick Craswell Marco Potenziani et al
Paperback Jan 2019 142pp Jan 2019 100pp
£81.95 / €94.00
Foundations and Trends® in Accounting, No 40 9781680835328 Paperback £74.50 / €86.00 9781680835366 Paperback £62.50 / €72.00
Introduces Bayesian theory and its role in Foundations and Trends® in Information Foundations and Trends® in Computer
statistical accounting information theory. It Retrieval,No 41 Graphics and Vision, No 31
explains what Bayesian information attributes This tutorial provides an accessible, yet This monograph will be of interest to all readers
are, where they come from in Bayesian theory, comprehensive, overview of the state-of-the- wishing to master the concepts which characterize
and how they apply in statistical accounting art of neural information retrieval. The authors the different phases of the Web3D publishing
information theory. cover all important topics, including learning to process. It presents a comprehensive survey of
rank framework, and an overview of deep neural the currently available Web3D tools and their
networks. applications, providing a roadmap that, depending
on the application field, navigates the user through
the technical characteristics needed to build an
efficient and effective Web3D presentation.

Woodhead Publishing India was established in 2008 as a
joint venture between Woodhead Publishing UK and Sara
Books Pvt. Ltd. WPI has firm roots in textile publishing
and is a leading publisher in textile technology, as well as
in agriculture, energy and environment, food science and
nutrition, materials and engineering. It seeks to serve young
authors, industry experts as well as avid readers.

NEW BESTSELLER BESTSELLER

FOOD ENERGY SUSTAINABILITY
NUTRITION, CONSERVATION IN FASHION AND
SCIENCE AND APPARELS
TECHNOLOGY S.C.Bhatia & Sarvesh Devraj
2016 359pp Challenges and Solutions
Neelam Singh & 9789385059230 Edited by Dr. M. Parthiban,
Dr. I. S. Singh Hardback Dr. M. R. Srikrishnan &
2018 540pp £129.00 /€147.00 Dr. P. Kandhavadivu
9789385059438
Hardback Woodhead Publishing India in Energy 2017 225pp 9789385059292 Hardback
£183.00 / €2019.00 Energy Conservation promises to fill the gap £120.00 / €138.00
Woodhead Publishing India in Food Science between supply and demand. It is a complete Woodhead Publishing India in Agriculture
Addresses three aspects of food: nutrition treatise and will be invaluable for professionals, This book addresses the pathway to reach
(covering the fundamental of food and industrialists and consultants working within the sustainability in the fashion and apparel sectors.
nutrition); food science (including food sources energy sector. It contains various research papers originally
and nutritional benefits); and food technology contributed by different authors from various
(looking at processing techniques, waste organizations who are all working towards the 
utilisation, and food safety). eco-friendly manufacturing of apparel products.

Now distributed by Eurospan

During the last few decades, interest in scholastic philosophy has
grown considerably. In 2011, EDITIONES SCHOLASTICAE was founded
dedicated to publishing in this burgeoning field with new publications
on scholastic philosophy in both English and German, reprinted editions
of classic 19th and 20th century scholastic titles in both English and
German, and translations of classical French and English scholastic books.

ARISTOTLE’S BESTSELLER UNA VERITAS
REVENGE
SCHOLASTIC The ‘Inclusive’
The Metaphysical METAPHYSICS Definition of Truth
Foundations of as a Proof for the
Physical and Biological A Contemporary Existence of God
Science Introduction
Edited by
Edward Feser Edward Feser
2014 320pp Claudio Pierantoni
Jan 2019 515pp 9783868385441 Apr 2018 345pp
9783868382006 Paperback 9783868382105
Paperback £21.50 / €23.50 Hardback
£25.50 / €28.00 Provides an overview of scholastic approaches £82.50 / €92.00
Among the many topics covered in this to causation, substance, essence, modality, Proposes a new proof of the existence of God,
important new book are the metaphysical identity, persistence, teleology, and other issues based on a development of elements found in
presuppositions of scientific method; the in fundamental metaphysics. The book interacts patristic and scholastic philosophical tradition, in
status of scientific realism; the metaphysics of heavily with the literature on these issues in particular that of St Augustine, St Anselm and St
space and time; the metaphysics of quantum contemporary analytic metaphysics, so as to Thomas Aquinas.
mechanics; reductionism in chemistry and facilitate the analytic reader’s understanding of
biology; the metaphysics of evolution; scholastic ideas and the reader’s understanding of
and neuroscientific reductionism. It brings contemporary analytic philosophy.
contemporary philosophy and science into
dialogue with the Aristotelian tradition.

Mirabel Publishing is an educational print media company,
conceived and designed to cater to academic pursuits and
interests and to spread educational and cultural ideas at the
forefront of creative, positive change. Mirabel’s publishing
programme focuses on business and management,
international trade, HR management, and business law.

HUMAN BESTSELLER BESTSELLER
RESOURCE MANAGE
DEVELOPMENT BE YOUR FINANCES
OWN BOSS AND DEVELOP
Learning for FINANCIAL
Innovation and The Practical PLANS
Productivity, Running Your
Fifth Edition Self-Employment Business Better,
Sixth Edition
Brian Delahaye & Sarojni Choy Handbook, Second
Nov 2018 512pp Edition 2017 334pp Ian Birt
9781925716542 Paperback £58.50 / €66.00 Ian Birt
The fifth edition of Human Resource Development 2017 128pp 9781925716368 Paperback £48.50 / €55.00
discusses adult learning theories, human resource 9781925716344 Paperback £19.50 / €22.00
development and knowledge management while A short practical guide for the growing number This fully updated sixth edition shows you how
presenting a number of unique models, e.g. the of people working as independent contractors
Hierarchy of Learning Outcomes, the Interview selling their own skilled labour services. This to control financial results effectively in a small
Pattern, Holistic Adult Learning and Knowledge convenient handy guide explains simply, and
Management. In addition, it has a 19-page case without jargon, how to successfully start and business. To do this, you need to keep relevant
study which is referenced in two ways—text body run your own business – whatever the services
to case study and case study to text body. you offer. It will equip you with all the relevant records, report operating results, and plan financial
tolls and knowledge that you will need to work
 for yourself. performance. Each chapter has exercises within

the text, a list of key terms, and a multiple-choice

quiz. There are also assessment activities at the

end of key chapters. The answers to the quizzes

can be found at the end of the book.





Now distributed by Eurospan

With its more than ninety-years history of publishing high-quality
scholarship, the University of Delaware Press has established itself
as a distinguished press in the arts and humanities, particularly in the
fields of literary studies, art history, and material culture. It is a leading
publisher in early modern and eighteenth-century studies, with thriving
series including Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Art
and Culture, The Early Modern Exchange, Performing Celebrity, and Early
Modern Feminisms.

THE ENEMY RETELLING THE CIRCUIT
IN ITALIAN THE SIEGE OF APOLLO
RENAISSANCE OF
EPIC JERUSALEM Eighteenth-
IN EARLY Century Women's
Images of Hostility MODERN Tributes to Women
from Dante to Tasso ENGLAND Edited by Laura L.
Andrea Moudarres Runge & Jessica Cook
May 2019 288pp Vanita Neelakanta Apr 2019 264pp
Early Modern Exchange Apr 2019 256pp Early Modern
Early Modern Exchange Feminisms
9781644530016 Paperback £38.50 / €42.00 9781644530139 Paperback £38.50 / €42.00 9781644530047 Paperback £38.50 / €42.00
9781644530009 Hardback £76.95 / €83.00 9781644530122 Hardback £76.95 / €83.00 9781644530030 Hardback £76.95 / €83.00
Andrea Moudarres examines the question of Explores the importance of the Fall of Explores women’s tributes to each other
hostility by considering the works of Dante, Jerusalem narrative in early modern English in British literature and attests to the vital
Luigi Pulci, Ludovico Ariosto, and Torquato popular print culture and polemics. Vanita practice of commemorating women’s artistic
Tasso. He argues that all forms of enmity are Neelakanta describes the Jerusalem trope and personal relationships. In doing so, these
ultimately internal. both as literary device and as a tool of creating essays illuminate the complexity of female
English nationhood. friendships and honour.


Pendragon Press is a publisher of musicological research, musical
reference works, and studies of many aspects of musical life. They have
been serving the musicological community for many years and offer a
wide range of classification series, ranging from aesthetics to the history
of theory, to vocal music.

DEBUSSY’S LISTENING BESTSELLER
VOCAL TO BACH
MUSIC AND AND PRACTICAL
ITS POETIC HANDEL VOCAL
EVOCATIONS ACOUSTICS
A Comparative
Siglind Bruhn Critique Pedagogic
Aug 2018 288pp, Joseph P. Swain Applications for
17 illustrations Oct 2018 596pp Teachers and Signers
9781576473153 9781576473139 Kenneth W. Bozeman
2013 156pp
Paperback £48.50 / €55.00 Paperback £59.95 / €69.00 9781576472408 Paperback £43.50 / €50.00
Dimension and Diversity Series, No. 13 Monographs in Musicology, No. 18 Vox Musicae: The Voice, Vocal Pedagogy,
Offers background information, analyses, and Asks why these two German composers, born and Song Series, No. 9
interpretations of Debussy’s seminal cycles for less than one month and 125 kilometres apart Distils from the science of vocal acoustics
voice and piano complemented by the cantata - cultural twins - could compose so differently those factors that are essential for teachers
La damoiselle élue and his only completed opera, from each other as well as their colleagues and at the beginning of the twenty-first century
Pelléas et Mélisande. yet both achieve universal acclaim the greatest to understand, that are most likely to be
exponents of the Baroque. productive for improving our pedagogic
efficiency, and to present them in language
that is generally accessible.

GENERAL INTEREST 7
FAMILY & HEALTH

FAMILY & HEALTH TEN THINGS EVERY CHILD WITH AUTISM
WISHES YOU KNEW
Broadview Press Third Edition

SEIZURE THE DAY Ellen Notbohm
Living a Happy Life With Illness Edited by Veronica Zysk

Brian Orend Jun 2019 277pp
9781941765883 Paperback £16.95 / €19.00
Jan 2019 320pp
9781988298412 Paperback £19.95 / €23.00 For full details of this title, see page 72.

Everyone can live a happier life, especially those with Magination Press
chronic illnesses. Brian Orend’s smart and accessible
guide for people with illness, injury, or other challenges BEE CALM
provides both a satisfying look into happiness as well as The Buzz on Yoga
practical steps for living a measurably happier life.
Freehand Books Frank J. Sileo
Illustrated by Claire Keay
CSIRO Publishing
Mar 2019 32pp, colour illustrations
THE SQUID, THE VIBRIO AND THE MOON 9781433829574 Hardback £19.95 / €22.00

Ailsa Wild et al Bentley Bee loves to fly around and visit his friends in
the garden. One day, he notices all of them in unusual
Feb 2019 40pp poses. What could it bee? Bentley’s friends teach him
9781486309894 Hardback £21.95 / €24.00 several beginning yoga poses including Mountain, Chair,
Small Friends Books, Vol. 2 Airplane, Cobra, and more. Readers will love to follow
Bentley and try the poses themselves in this child-
For full details of this title, see page 96. friendly introduction.

Future Horizons A FEEL BETTER BOOK FOR LITTLE TEARS

DOGS & AUTISM Holly Brochmann & Leah Bowen
Illustrated by Shirley Ng-Benitez
Annie Bowes
Jun 2019 32pp, colour illustrations
Mar 2019 277pp 9781433830310 Hardback £19.95 / €22.00
9781941765906 Paperback £14.95 / €17.00
This rhyming book will help kids identify what it feels
Through many years of working with dogs in her like to be sad and what they can do to respond to it. The
practice, Annie Bowes grew interested in how canine book lets kids know that it’s perfectly normal to feel sad
companionship helps people with Autism. Dogs and - but offers a gentle reminder that the feelings won’t last
Autism is a result of her many years of research and for forever. Includes a note about how to help children
first-hand experience understanding the benefits of respond to strong feelings of sadness.
dogs as an alternative treatment to those on the autism
spectrum.

GENERAL INTEREST
8 FAMILY & HEALTH

GIRAFFE ASKS FOR HELP RAINBOW
A First Book of Pride
Nyasha M. Chikowore
Illustrated by Janet McDonnell Michael Genhart
Illustrated by Anne Passchier
Feb 2019 32pp, colour illustrations
9781433829468 Hardback £19.95 / €22.00 May 2019 24pp, colour illustrations
9781433830877 Hardback £19.95 / €22.00
Gary Giraffe is so excited to finally turn six - now he
should be able to reach the acacia leaves all on his own! A must-have primer for young readers and a great gift
When things don’t go exactly as he’d planned, Gary is for pride events and throughout the year, beautiful
distraught. Gary doesn’t want to have to ask for help, colours all together make a rainbow in Rainbow: A First
but his friends convince him that everyone needs help Book of Pride. This is a sweet ode to rainbow families, and
sometimes. And that’s OK! an affirming display of a parent’s love for their child and
a child’s love for their parents.
GOODBYE, SCHOOL
Purdue University Press
Tonya Lippert
Illustrated by Tracy Bishop A REASON TO LIVE
HIV and Animal Companions
Apr 2019 32pp, colour illustrations
9781433830297 Hardback £19.95 / €22.00 Vicki Hutton

Franny loves her school. She’s played, read, studied, and Jun 2019 277pp, 19 illustrations
even napped here. Franny has lots of good memories 9781557538437 Paperback £32.50 / €36.00
there. But today it’s time to leave. As Franny prepares New Directions in the Human-Animal Bond
to move to a new school, she takes time to reminisce
and cherish her old school. She wants to find a way to Explores the human-animal relationship through the
honour this special place. How can Franny say goodbye? narratives of eleven people living with HIV and their
animal companions. The narratives, based on a series of
MY WHIRLING TWIRLING MOTOR interviews with HIV-positive individuals and their animal
companions in Australia, span the entirety of the HIV
Merriam Sarcia Saunders epidemic.
Illustrated by Tammie Lyon
TRANSFORMING TRAUMA
Mar 2019 32pp, colour illustrations Resilience and Healing Through Our
9781433829369 Hardback £19.95 / €22.00 Connections With Animals

Charlie feels like he has a whirling, twirling motor Philip Tedeschi & Molly Anne Jenkins
running inside him all the time and sometimes he just
can’t settle. When his mom wants to talk to him, he Jul 2019 462pp, 36 illustrations
figures he’s in trouble - but she has a surprise for him 9781557537959 Paperback £46.50 / €51.00
instead! Includes a note with more information on New Directions in the Human-Animal Bond
ADHD, behaviour management, and helping children
focus on the positives. For full details of this title, see page 94.

GENERAL INTEREST 9
FOOD & DRINK · SPORT

FOOD & DRINK SPORT

The University of Arkansas Press University Press of Florida

A RICH AND TANTALIZING BREW THE INVENTION OF THE
A History of How Coffee Connected the World BEAUTIFUL GAME
Football and the Making of Modern Brazil
Jeanette M. Fregulia
Gregg Bocketti
Mar 2019 193pp, 16 illustrations
9781682260876 Paperback £26.95 / €30.00 May 2019 320pp, 20 b&w photos
Food and Foodways 9780813064277 Paperback £29.50 / €32.00

For full details of this title, see page 61. In this cross-cutting cultural history, Gregg Bocketti
traces the origins of football in Brazil from its elitist,
The University of North Carolina Press Eurocentric identity as “foot-ball” at the end of the
nineteenth century to its subsequent mythologization
ALCOHOL as the specifically Brazilian “futebol”, o jogo bonito (the
A History beautiful game).

Rod Phillips

Feb 2019 384pp
9781469652177 Paperback £30.50 / €34.00

For full details of this title, see page 64.

ARTS & HUMANITIES
10 HIGHLIGHTS

Arts & Humanities

University Press of Mississippi University Press of Kansas

THE ARTISTRY OF NEIL GAIMAN THE OBAMA LEGACY
Finding Light in the Shadows
Edited by Bert A. Rockman & Andrew Rudalevige
Edited by Joseph Michael Sommers & Kyle Eveleth
Jun 2019 384pp
Apr 2019 300pp, 44 b&w illustrations 9780700627905 Paperback £37.95 / €42.00
9781496821652 Paperback £30.50 / €34.00
Critical Approaches to Comics Artists Series “Hope” and “change” were the keywords of
President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, and in
Neil Gaiman reigns as one of the most critically his farewell address he cited the evidence that he’d
decorated and popular authors of the last fifty delivered - from reversing the Great Recession, and
years. Perhaps best known as the writer of the unleashing the longest stretch of job creation in US
Harvey, Eisner, and World Fantasy-award winning history to winning marriage equality and securing
series The Sandman, Gaiman quickly became equally the right to health insurance for another 20 million
renowned in literary circles for Neverwhere, Coraline, citizens. At the same time, he made a plea for “the
and award-winning American Gods, as well as decency of our people” and “the sense of common
the Newbery and Carnegie Medal-winning The purpose that we so badly need right now.”
Graveyard Book.  
 In hindsight, it is increasingly possible to
Despite Gaiman’s incredible contributions to understand whether and how Obama’s legacy
comics, his work remains underrepresented in matched his rhetoric as well as to evaluate from
sustained fashion in comics studies. The thirteen various angles what his presidency accomplished
essays and two interviews with Gaiman and and what this has meant for US politics, public
his frequent collaborator, artist P. Craig Russell, policy, and civic life going forward. In The Obama
examine the work of Gaiman and his many Legacy some of the leading observers and scholars
illustrators. The essays discuss Gaiman’s oeuvre of US politics take up this challenge. In twelve
regarding the qualities that make his work essays these writers examine Obama’s choices,
unique in his eschewing of typical categories, his operating style, and opportunities taken and
proclamations to “make good art,” and his own missed as well as the institutional and political
constant efforts to do so however the genres and constraints on the president’s policy agenda.
audiences may slip into one another.

ARTS & HUMANITIES
HIGHLIGHTS 11

Brookings Institution Press The University of Georgia Press

NATIONALISM OPEN BORDERS
A Short History In Defense of Free Movement

Liah Greenfeld Edited by Reece Jones

Mar 2019 220pp Feb 2019 336pp, 3 b&w images
9780815737018 Paperback £21.50 / €24.00 9780820354262 Paperback £34.95 / €39.00
The Short Histories Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation
Series, Vol. 41
Takes the reader on an intellectual journey through
the origins of the word “nationalism” and how it Border control continues to be a highly contested
has changed over the centuries. From its emergence and politically charged subject around the world.
in sixteenth century England, nationalism has This collection of essays challenges reactionary
affected nearly every significant development in nationalism by making the positive case for the
world affairs over succeeding centuries, including benefits of free movement for countries on both
the American and French revolutions of the ends of the exchange. 
late eighteenth centuries and the authoritarian
communism and fascism of the twentieth century. Open Borders counters the knee-jerk reaction to
Now it has arrived as a mass phenomenon in China build walls and close borders by arguing that there
as well as gaining new life in the United States and is not a moral, legal, philosophical, or economic
much of Europe in the guise of populism. case for limiting the movement of human beings
 at borders. The volume brings together essays by
Written by an authority on the subject, Nationalism: theorists in anthropology, geography, international
A Short History stresses the dichotomy of how relations, and other fields who argue for open
nationalism has been institutionalized in various borders with writings by activists who are working
places. On the one hand, nationalism has to make safe passage a reality on the ground. It
contributed to the concepts of liberal democracy, puts forward a clear, concise, and convincing case
human rights, and individual self-determination. for a world without movement restrictions at
But nationalism also has been used by authoritarian borders.
and racist regimes to negate the individual as 
an autonomous agent. That tension is all too
apparent today.

ARTS & HUMANITIES
12 ART, PHOTOGRAPHY & ARCHITECTURE

ART, PHOTOGRAPHY & Melbourne University Publishing
ARCHITECTURE
ON ARTISTS
University Press of Florida
Ashleigh Wilson
ARTS OF SOUTH ASIA
Cultures of Collecting May 2019 277pp
9780522875256 Paperback £11.95 / €13.00
Edited by Allysa B. Peyton & Katherine Anne Paul On Series

Jul 2019 320pp, 151 colour photos, 30 b&w photos For full details of this title, see page 63.
9781683400479 Hardback £69.95 / €77.00
David A. Cofrin Asian Art Manuscript Series University Press of Mississippi

This beautifully illustrated volume details how South THE BEAUTIFUL MYSTERIOUS
Asian art has been acquired by public and private The Extraordinary Gaze of
collectors in Europe and North America from the William Eggleston
mid-nineteenth century onward. It highlights the
various journeys and colonial legacies of artwork from University of Mississippi Museum
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and  and Historic Houses 
Sri Lanka. Edited by Ann J. Abadie

PICTURING APOLLO 11 Jun 2019 144pp, 66 colour photos
Rare Views and Undiscovered Moments 9781496822345 Hardback £39.95 / €45.00
University of Mississippi Museum and Historic Houses Series
J.L. Pickering & John Bisney
Offers an examination of the life and work of the
Apr 2019 272pp, 325 colour & 147 b&w photos artist widely considered to be the father of colour
9780813056173 Hardback £48.50 / €54.00 photography. Edited by Ann J. Abadie, this catalogue
contains fifty-five William Eggleston photographs,
For full details of this title, see page 100. thirty-six that were featured in The Beautiful
Mysterious exhibition at the University of Mississippi
WONDROUS Museum.
WORLDS
Art and Islam Through University of New Mexico Press
Time and Place
NEW IN PAPERBACK
Katherine Anne Paul
EQUAL UNDER
Apr 2019 60pp THE SKY
9780692183106 Hardback Georgia O’Keeffe &
£43.50 / €48.00 Twentieth-Century
Feminism
The intercontinental
reach of Dar al-Islam, or Linda M. Grasso
the Islamic world, today
touches all continents. Mar 2019 336pp
This catalogue (like the 9780826360731 Paperback
exhibition it enhances) £37.95 / €42.00
embraces this global reality to take the most expansive
and inclusive vision of how many art practices have Provides the first historical
historically intersected with Islam and how they study of Georgia O’Keeffe’s
continue to do so. complex involvement
with, and influence on, US feminism from the 1910s
Newark Museum to the 1970s. Utilizing understudied sources, Linda
Grasso shows how and why feminism and O’Keeffe
are inextricably connected in popular culture and
scholarship.

ARTS & HUMANITIES
ART, PHOTOGRAPHY & ARCHITECTURE 13

NewSouth Publishing University of Virginia Press

CAPTURING NATURE INHABITING THE SACRED
Early Scientific Photography at the IN EVERYDAY LIFE
Australian Museum, 1857-1893 How to Design a Place That Touches
Your Heart, Stirs You to Consecrate and
Vanessa Finney Cultivate It as Home, Dwell Intentionally
Within It, Slay Monsters for It, and Let It
Feb 2019 192pp Loose in Your Democracy
9781742236209 Paperback £32.50 / €37.00
Randolph T. Hester Jr & Amber D. Nelson
For full details of this title, see page 96.
Apr 2019 300pp, 144 colour & b&w photos, drawings, plans, & diagrams
Rutgers University Press 9781938086656 Paperback £42.50 / €47.00

THE VISUAL IS POLITICAL Human beings in the 21st century hunger, often
Feminist Photography and Counter-Cultural unconsciously, for places to live that are more than
Activity in 1970s Britain efficient, economical machines. This book offers sound
and innovative guidance to both citizens and planning
Na’ama Klorman-Eraqi professionals who seek to transform public spaces
into sites that answer not only practical needs but also
Jul 2019 250pp spiritual and humanitarian needs.
9781978800311 Paperback £25.50 / €29.00
George F. Thompson Publishing
Examines the growth of feminist photography as
it unfolded in Britain during the 1970s and 1980s. Wits University Press
Klorman-Eraqi looks at the application of feminist
theory, photojournalism, advertising, photo montage, ACTS OF TRANSGRESSION
punk subculture, and politicized street activity to Contemporary Live Art in South Africa
emphasize the statement and challenge that the
photographic language of these works posed. Edited by Jay Pather & Catherine Boulle

Feb 2019 336pp
9781776142798 Paperback £50.50 / €56.00

Performance art is transgressive and interdisciplinary.
Acts of Transgression, an illustrated collection of 15
essays by respected researchers, critically probes where
live art and socio-political turbulence intersect in post-
apartheid South African society. Focusing on work by 25
contemporary artists, it adds significantly to the field.

ARTS & HUMANITIES
14 HISTORY

HISTORY Hoover Institution Press

Baraka Books MOSCOW HAS EARS EVERYWHERE
New Investigations on Pasternak and
ISRAEL, A BEACHHEAD IN Ivinskaya
THE MIDDLE EAST
From European Colony to US Power Paolo Mancosu
Projection Platform
Mar 2019 396pp
Stephen Gowans 9780817922443 Hardback £34.95 / €39.00

May 2019 290pp The conflict between Soviet Communists and Boris
9781771861830 Paperback £24.95 / €28.00 Pasternak over the publication of Doctor Zhivago did not
end when he won the Nobel Prize, or even when the
Challenges the specious argument that Israel controls author died. Paolo Mancosu’s book is the first to explore
US foreign policy, tracing the development of the self- the post-Nobel history of Pasternak and his partner Olga
declared Jewish state, from its conception in the ideas Ivinskaya.
of Theodore Herzl, to its birth as a European colony,
through its efforts to suppress regional liberation University Press of Kansas
movements, to its emergence as an extension of the
Pentagon. NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV’S JOURNEY INTO
AMERICA
The University of Georgia Press
Matthew Schoenbachler & Lawrence J. Nelson
THE DRUM MAJOR INSTINCT
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Theory of Jun 2019 296pp
Political Service 9780700627882 Hardback £37.95 / €42.00

Justin Rose When Nikita Khrushchev toured America in 1959,
the country was enjoying a period of unprecedented
Mar 2019 144pp prosperity, just as the Cold War and the possibility of
9780820355542 Paperback £28.95 / €32.00 thermonuclear annihilation were causing widespread
The Morehouse College King Collection Series on Civil and dread throughout the land. This book for the first time
Human Rights fully explores Khrushchev’s journey as a reflection of a
critical moment in US life.
Though there are studies devoted to aspects of Martin
Luther King Jr.’s intellectual thought, no one has yet Markus Wiener Publishers
undertaken a comprehensive study of King’s overarching
theory of political service. Justin Rose draws on Martin PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED
Luther King Jr.’s sermons, political speeches, and writings CHINESE TRAVELERS TO THE EARLY
to construct and conceptualize King’s politics as a unified TURKISH REPUBLIC
theory.
Giran Fidan

Feb 2019 160pp
9781558766365 Paperback £24.95 / €28.00

Chronicles the observations of Chinese travellers
who travelled to the Turkish Republic in the first
quarter of the 20th century, and features the notes of
historical figures including Shi Zhaoji, the first Chinese
ambassador to the US, and Hu Hanmin, an early leader in
the Kuomintang.

ARTS & HUMANITIES
HISTORY 15

PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED University of Michigan Press
ISLANDS OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
HISTORY, MEDICINE, AND THE
Antonis Hadjikyriacou TRADITIONS OF RENAISSANCE LEARNING

Jan 2019 160pp Nancy G. Siraisi
9781558766273 Paperback £24.95 / €28.00
Feb 2019 456pp, 7 figures
Explores significant events in the naval history of the 9780472037469 Paperback £37.95 / €44.00
Ottoman Empire, along with topics including collective Cultures Of Knowledge In The Early Modern World
punishments by invaders, and many aspects of economic
and cultural life on the islands. Examines the intersections of medically trained authors
and history, in the period 1450 to 1650. Rather than
University of Massachusetts Press studying medicine and history as separate disciplinary
traditions, Nancy Siraisi calls attention to their mutual
LISBON interaction in the rapidly changing world of Renaissance
A Biography erudition.

Magda Pinheiro University of New Mexico Press
Translated by Mario Pereira
THE SPACE-AGE PRESIDENCY OF
Feb 2019 512pp, 89 illustrations (40 colour), 9 maps JOHN F. KENNEDY
9781933227757 Paperback £26.95 / €30.00 A Rare Photographic History

Throughout the pages of this highly original and John Bisney & J.L. Pickering
meticulously researched book, we follow the rich and Foreword by Christopher C. Kraft Jr.
fascinating history of Lisbon.
Tagus Press Mar 2019 224pp
9780826358097 Hardback £48.50 / €54.00
McFarland
For full details of this title, see page 100.

DIAGNOSING CHURCHILL The University of North Carolina Press
Bipolar or ‘Prey to Nerves’
ARMAGEDDON INSURANCE
Wilfred Attenborough Civil Defense in the United States and
Soviet Union, 1945-1991
Feb 2019 231pp
9781476675145 Paperback £43.50 / €48.00 Edward M. Geist

Investigates how biographical evidence has been used, Jan 2019 320pp, 10 illustrations
misused, or not used at all by clinicians entirely reliant 9781469645254 Paperback £37.95 / €42.00
on biographical evidence for the influential posthumous The New Cold War History
diagnoses they have produced of Winston Churchill
as a manic-depressive. Attention is also paid to the The arms race between the US and the Soviet Union
question of Churchill and “nerves”, otherwise known as begged a fundamental question: how did these
neurasthenia. superpowers plan to survive a nuclear strike? This
account of Soviet civil defense and reappraisal of
JEWISH EDINBURGH its American counterpart compares how the two
A History, 1880-1950 superpowers tried, and mostly failed, to reinforce their
societies to withstand the ultimate catastrophe.
M.D. Gilfillan

Feb 2019 226pp
9780786476688 Paperback £43.50 / €48.00

This first full-length history of the Jews of Edinburgh
chronicles their immigration to Scotland’s capital city
from Russia during the 1880s in the wake of Tsarist
persecution, and examines their reception by native
Scots.

ARTS & HUMANITIES
16 HISTORY

HENRY VIII AND University of Notre Dame Press
THE REFORMATION
PARLIAMENT CULTURE OF ENLIGHTENING
Second Edition Abbé Claude Yvon and the Entangled
Emergence of the Enlightenment
John Patrick Coby
Jeffrey D. Burson
Mar 2019 176pp, 11 illustrations
9781469647555 Paperback May 2019 620pp
£32.50 / €36.00 9780268105419 Hardback £80.95 / €89.00

This book transforms Argues that regnant notions of the Enlightenment, the
students into English lords Radical Enlightenment, and the multitude of regional
and commoners during the and religious enlightenments all share an intellectual
tumultuous years 1529 to 1536. At issue is the clash of genealogy rooted in a broader revolutionary’culture of
four contending ideas: traditionalist Christianity, reformist enlightening’ that took shape from the waning of the
Protestantism, Renaissance humanism, and Machiavellian sixteenth-century Reformations to the dawn of the
statecraft. Depending on the outcome of this contest, the Atlantic Revolutionary era.
modern nation-state will or will not be born.
IRELAND’S
Reacting Consortium Press REVOLUTIONARY
DIPLOMAT
KU-KLUX A Biography of
The Birth of the Klan During Reconstruction Leopold Kerney

Elaine Frantz Parsons Barry Whelan

Feb 2019 400pp, 10 illustrations, 4 figures Feb 2019 330pp
9781469652139 Paperback £32.50 / €36.00 9780268105051 Hardback
£53.95 / €60.00
The first comprehensive examination of the nineteenth-
century Ku Klux Klan since the 1970s, Ku-Klux pinpoints Leopold Kerney was one
the group’s rise with startling acuity. Shedding new light of the most influential
on the ideas that motivated the Klan, Parsons' book diplomats of twentieth-
offers the definitive account of the rise of the Ku Klux century Irish history.
Klan during Reconstruction. This book presents the first comprehensive biography
of Kerney’s career in its entirety from his recruitment
VIRGINIA 1619 to the diplomatic service to his time in France, Spain,
Slavery and Freedom in the Making of Argentina, and Chile.
English America
VARIETIES OF MONASTIC EXPERIENCE IN
Edited by Paul Musselwhite, Peter C. Mancall & James Horn BYZANTIUM, 800-1453

Jun 2019 384pp, 13 illustrations Alice-Mary Talbot
9781469651798 Paperback £30.50 / €34.00
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Apr 2019 292pp
Early American History and Culture and 9780268105624 Paperback £48.50 / €54.00
the University of North Carolina Press Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies

Provides an opportunity to reflect on the origins of In this unprecedented introduction to Byzantine
English colonialism around the Chesapeake Bay and the monasticism, based on the Conway Lectures she
Atlantic world. As the essays here demonstrate, Anglo- delivered at the University of Notre Dame in 2014, Alice-
Americans have been simultaneously experimenting Mary Talbot surveys the various forms of monastic life in
with representative government and struggling with the Byzantine Empire between the ninth and fifteenth
the corrosive legacy of racial thinking for more than four centuries.
centuries.

ARTS & HUMANITIES
HISTORY 17

University of Pittsburgh Press THE DICTATOR’S DREAMSCAPE
Building Machado’s Cuba
AMERICAN DINOSAUR ABROAD
A Cultural History of Carnegie’s Plaster Joseph R. Hartman
Diplodocus
Apr 2019 536pp, 112 b&w and colour illustrations
Ilja Nieuwland 9780822945468 Hardback £59.50 / €66.00

Apr 2019 360pp, 56 photos Focuses on the public works campaign of Cuban
9780822945574 Hardback £43.50 / €48.00 president, and later dictator, Gerardo Machado. The
book addresses the regime’s architectural program as a
For full details of this title, see page 97. visual and architectonic response to debates over Cuban
national identity, US imperialism, and Machado’s own
ANXIOUS TIMES cult of personality.
Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-
Century Britain LIBERTY’S DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD
The Liberum Veto and the Destruction of the
Amelia Bonea et al Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Apr 2019 277pp, 8 b&w illustrations Catherine McKenna
9780822945512 Hardback £53.95 / €60.00
Science & Culture in the Nineteenth Century Jun 2019 277pp, 25 b&w illustrations
9780822965763 Paperback £48.50 / €54.00
For full details of this title, see page 86. Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies

DAUGHTER OF THE COLD WAR Explores one of the most famous episodes in Polish
A Memoir history. McKenna shows how the earliest and largest
republic in Europe was brought crashing down by
Grace Kennan Warnecke political leaders who cynically took advantage of the very
civil liberties they should have defended.
Apr 2019 290pp, 33 b&w photos
9780822965893 Paperback £19.50 / €22.00 MAKING MEDICINE IN
Russian and East European Studies REFORMATION NUREMBERG

Grace Kennan Warnecke’s memoir is about a life lived Hannah Murphy
on the edge of history. This compelling and evocative
memoir allows readers to follow Grace’s amazing path Jun 2019 277pp, 30 b&w illustrations
through life - a whirlwind journey of survival, risk, and 9780822945604 Hardback £53.95 / €60.00
self-discovery through a kaleidoscope of many countries,
historic events, and fascinating people. For full details of this title, see page 86.

THE DICTATOR DILEMMA UNINTENDED AFFINITIES
The United States and Paraguay in German and Polish Nineteenth-Century
the Cold War Historians on the Holy Roman Empire and the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Kirk Tyvela
Adam Kozuchowski
Apr 2019 256pp
9780822965732 Paperback £48.50 / €54.00 May 2019 256pp, 2 maps
9780822965718 Paperback £48.50 / €54.00
Pitt Illuminations Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies

Tells the story of US bilateral relations with the Alfredo Analyses how German and Polish nationalistic historians,
Stroessner dictatorship (1954-1989). Kirk Tyvela who played central roles in propagandizing a glorious
focuses on how and why that diplomatic relationship past that justified a centralized modern state, struggled
changed during the Cold War from cooperation, based with how to portray the very decentralized and multi-
on mutual opposition to communism, to conflict, based ethnic empires that preceded their time.
on clashing expectations concerning democratic reforms
and human rights.

ARTS & HUMANITIES
18 HISTORY

The University of South Carolina Press University of Virginia Press

REMEMBERING FOUR FOOLS IN THE AGE OF REASON
WOMEN Cruelty, Laughter, and Power in Early Modern
DIFFERENTLY Germany
Refiguring Rhetorical
Work Dorinda Outram

Edited by Lynee Lewis Gaillet Feb 2019 176pp, 9 b&w illustrations
& Helen E. Gaillet 9780813942018 Hardback £37.95 / €42.00
Studies in Early Modern German History
May 2019 280pp
9781611179798 Hardback Unveiling the nearly lost world of the court fools of
£53.95 / €60.00 eighteenth-century Germany, Dorinda Outram shows
that laughter was an essential instrument of power.
The contributors in this Outram’s book is invaluable for giving us a vivid
collection study the depiction of the court fool and especially for revealing
contributions of fourteen how this figure can shed new light on the wielding of
nearly forgotten women from around the globe working power in Enlightenment Europe.
in fields that range from art to philosophy, from teaching
to social welfare, from science to the military, and how THE ONLY UNAVOIDABLE
and why those individuals became either marginalized or SUBJECT OF REGRET
discounted in a mostly patriarchal world. George Washington, Slavery, and the Enslaved
Community at Mount Vernon
Southern Illinois University Press
Mary V. Thompson
ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S STATESMANSHIP
AND THE LIMITS OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY Jan 2019 480pp, 20 b&w illustrations, 12 tables
9780813941844 Hardback £32.50 / €36.00
Jon D. Schaff
George Washington’s life has been scrutinized by
Jul 2019 280pp historians over the past three centuries, but the day-to-
9780809337378 Hardback £37.50 / €41.00 day lives of Mount Vernon’s enslaved workers have been
largely left out of the story. Drawing on years of research
A groundbreaking study that assesses the presidency of in a wide range of sources, Mary Thompson offers the
Abraham Lincoln through the lenses of governmental first comprehensive account of those who served in
power, economic policy, expansion of executive power, bondage at Mount Vernon.
and natural rights to show how Lincoln not only
believed in the limitations of presidential power but also PRESERVING THE WHITE
dedicated his presidency to restraining the scope and MAN’S REPUBLIC
range of it. Jacksonian Democracy, Race, and the
Transformation of American Conservatism
THE BLACK HEAVENS
Abraham Lincoln and Death Joshua A. Lynn

Brian R. Dirck Apr 2019 264pp, 3 b&w illustrations
9780813942506 Hardback £42.50 / €47.00
Feb 2019 240pp, 12 illustrations
9780809337026 Hardback £31.95 / €35.00 Responding to fears of African American and female
political agency, this book shows how Democrats in
Offers the first in-depth account of how Abraham the late 1840s and 1850s reinvented themselves as
Lincoln responded to the riddles of mortality, undertook ’conservatives’ and repurposed Jacksonian Democracy
personal mourning, and coped with the extraordinary as a tool for local majorities of white men to police racial
burden of sending hundreds of thousands of soldiers to and gender boundaries by democratically withholding
be killed on battlefields. rights.

ARTS & HUMANITIES 19

HISTORY
ARCHAEOLOGY

WOMEN IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ARCHAEOLOGY
Gender, Politics, and the Domestic World
The University of Arizona Press
Edited by Barbara B. Oberg
PAINTING THE SKIN
May 2019 296pp Pigments on Bodies and Codices in
9780813942599 Hardback £42.50 / €47.00 Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica

Building on a quarter century of scholarship following Edited by Élodie Dupey García &
the publication of the groundbreaking Women in the María Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual
Age of the American Revolution, the engagingly written
essays in this volume offer an updated answer to the Jan 2019 384pp, 81 b&w illustrations, 2 16-page colour inserts
question,’What was life like for women in the era of the 9780816538447 Hardback £80.95 / €89.00
American Revolution?’
Brings together exciting research on painted skins
West Virginia University Press - human, animal, and vegetal - in Mesoamerica.
Contributors explore the materiality, uses, and cultural
SMELL AND HISTORY meanings of the colours applied on a multitude of skins,
A Reader including bodies, codices made of hide and vegetal
paper, and even building ‘skins’.
Edited by Mark M. Smith
TEN THOUSAND YEARS OF INEQUALITY
Feb 2019 276pp The Archaeology of Wealth Differences
9781946684684 Paperback £27.50 / €30.00
Edited by Timothy A. Kohler & Michael E. Smith
Collects many of the most important recent essays
on the history of scent, aromas, perfumes, and ways Jan 2019 352pp, 49 b&w illustrations, 25 tables
of smelling. With an introduction by Mark Smith, this 9780816539444 Paperback £43.50 / €48.00
volume introduces to students and to historians of all Amerind Studies in Archaeology
fields the richness, relevance, and insightfulness of the
olfactory to historical study. Presents the first set of consistent quantitative
measurements of ancient wealth inequality. The authors
The University of Wisconsin Press are archaeologists who have adapted the Gini index, a
statistical measure of wealth distribution often used
MY SISTER’S MOTHER by economists to measure contemporary inequality,
A Memoir of War, Exile, and Stalin’s Siberia and applied it to house-size distributions over time and
around the world.
Donna Solecka Urbikas

Feb 2019 312pp, 14 b&w photos
9780299308544 Paperback £19.95 / €23.00

In the 1950s, baby boomer Donna Solecka Urbikas grew
up in the American Midwest yearning for a ’normal’
American family. But her Polish-born mother and half
sister had endured hunger, disease, and desperate
escape from slave labour in Siberia. In this unforgettable
memoir, Donna recounts her family history and her own
survivor’s story.

ARTS & HUMANITIES

HISTORY
20 ARCHAEOLOGY

University Press of Florida MAYA SALT WORKS

ANDEAN ONTOLOGIES Heather McKillop
New Archaeological Perspectives
May 2019 288pp, 81 b&w
Edited by María Cecilia Lozada & Henry Tantaleán illustrations, 18 tables
9780813056333 Hardback
Jul 2019 400pp, 65 b&w illustrations, 7 tables £102.00 / €113.00
9780813056371 Hardback £118.00 / €131.00
Maya Studies
Offers a fascinating interdisciplinary investigation of how
ancient Andean people understood their world and the Details Heather McKillop’s
nature of being. Exploring pre-Hispanic ideas of time, archaeological team’s
space, and the human body, these essays highlight a ground breaking discovery
range of beliefs across the region’s different cultures, of a unique and massive
emphasizing the relational aspects of identity in Andean salt production complex
worldviews. submerged in a lagoon in
southern Belize. Exploring
THE ARCHAEOLOGY the organisation of production and trade at the Paynes
AND HISTORICAL Creek Salt Works, McKillop offers a fascinating new look
ECOLOGY OF SMALL at the role of salt in the ancient Maya economy.
SCALE ECONOMIES
University of Hawai’i Press
Edited by Victor D. Thompson
& James C. Waggoner Jr. NEW IN PAPERBACK

Apr 2019 246pp, 46 b&w ANCIENT RYUKYU
illustrations, 15 tables
9780813064154 Paperback An Archaeological Study of Island
£21.50 / €24.00 Communities

Most research into Richard Pearson
humans’ impact on the
environment has focused Mar 2019 336pp, 36 illustrations, 20 maps
on large-scale societies; 9780824873783 Paperback £32.50 / €36.00
a corollary assumption has been that small scale
economies are sustainable and in harmony with Explores 30,000 years of human occupation in the
nature. The contributors to this volume challenge this Ryukyu Islands, from the earliest human presence in
notion, revealing how such communities shaped their the region up to AD 1609 and the emergence of the
environment - not always in a positive way. Ryukyu Kingdom. It focuses on the unique geopolitical
position of the islands, their environment, and the many
ARCHAEOLOGY OF IDENTITY human communities whose historical activities can be
AND DISSONANCE discerned.
Contexts for a Brave New World
University of Michigan Press
Edited by Diane F. George & Bernice Kurchin
COSA
Mar 2019 320pp The Roman and Greek Amphoras
9780813056197 Hardback £91.50 / €101.00
Elizabeth Lyding Will & Kathleen Warner Slane
Gathering a diverse set of case studies that draw on
popular themes in contemporary historical archaeology Jan 2019 277pp
and current trends in archaeological method and theory, 9780472131433 Hardback £75.95 / €87.00
this volume demonstrates how humans adapt to new
and challenging environments by building and adjusting For full details of this title, see page 21.
their identities.

ARTS & HUMANITIES 21

HISTORY
ARCHAEOLOGY· CLASSICS & ANCIENT HISTORY

University of New Mexico Press Rutgers University Press

TECHNOLOGY AND TRADITION IN READING HOMER’S ODYSSEY
MESOAMERICA AFTER THE SPANISH
INVASION Kostas Myrsiades
Archaeological Perspectives
Apr 2019 375pp
Edited by Rani T. Alexander 9781684481361 Paperback
£21.50 / €24.00
Mar 2019 304pp
9780826360151 Hardback £91.50 / €101.00 Homer’s Odyssey, the first great travel narrative
in Western culture, is a compelling tale about the
This impressive collection features the work of consequences of war, and about redemption,
archaeologists who systematically explore the material transformation, and the search for home. Reading
and social consequences of new technological systems Homer’s Odyssey offers a book-by-book commentary on
introduced after the sixteenth-century Spanish invasion the epic’s themes that informs the non-specialist and
in Mesoamerica. engages the seasoned reader in new perspectives.

Bucknell University Press

CLASSICS & ANCIENT HISTORY The University of Wisconsin Press

University of Michigan Press ATHENS, ETRURIA, AND THE MANY LIVES
OF GREEK FIGURED POTTERY
COSA
The Roman and Greek Amphoras Sheramy D. Bundrick

Elizabeth Lyding Will & Kathleen Warner Slane Feb 2019 352pp, 110 b&w illustrations
9780299321000 Hardback £119.00 / €133.00
Jan 2019 277pp Wisconsin Studies in Classics
9780472131433 Hardback
£75.95 / €87.00 A trade in Athenian pottery flourished from the early
sixth until the late fifth century BCE, finding a market in
Presents the work of Elizabeth Lyding Will on the Etruria. Most studies of these painted vases focus on the
important group of transport amphoras found at Cosa. artistry and worldview of the Greeks who made them,
This town has been widely recognised as a prototypical but Sheramy Bundrick shifts attention to their Etruscan
colony of the later Republic and a source for trade customers, ancient trade networks, and archaeological
with Gaul and Spain, so this publication of its finds has contexts.
important implications for archaeologists and historians
of the ancient world. IN THE FLESH
Embodied Identities in Roman Elegy

Erika Zimmerman Damer

Jan 2019 320pp, 2 illustrations
9780299318703 Hardback £99.95 / €111.00
Wisconsin Studies in Classics

Engages postmodern and materialist feminist thought
in readings of three significant poets writing in the early
years of Rome’s Augustan Principate. In their poems,
they represent the flesh-and-blood body in both its
integrity and vulnerability, as an index of social position
along intersecting axes of sex, gender, status, and class.

ARTS & HUMANITIES

HISTORY
22 HOLOCAUST STUDIES · MEDIEVAL STUDIES

HOLOCAUST STUDIES Purdue University Press

Academic Studies Press FINDING EDITH
Surviving the Holocaust in Plain Sight
MY JOURNEY HOME
Life After the Holocaust Edith Mayer Cord

Zsuzsanna Ozsvath May 2019 295pp, 166 illustrations
9781557538086 Paperback £26.95 / €30.00
Feb 2019 280pp, 13 illustrations
9781618119018 Paperback £21.95 / €25.00 Tells the coming-of-age story of a young Jewish girl
chased in Europe during World War II. Like a great
This memoir begins with the the author’s childhood adventure story, the book describes the childhood and
during the Holocaust in Hungary. It captures life after the adolescence of a Viennese girl growing up against the
war’s end in Communist-ruled Hungary and continues backdrop of the Great Depression, the rise of Nazism,
with her and her husband’s flight to Germany and World War II, and the religious persecution of Jews
eventually the US. Zsuzsanna Ozsváth’s story of survival, throughout Europe.
friendship, and love provides readers with a glimpse of
an extraordinary journey. Syracuse University Press
Cherry Orchard Books
REMAKING HOLOCAUST MEMORY
Northwestern University Press Documentary Cinema by Third Generation
Survivors in Israel
POLAND AND THE HOLOCAUST
Literary Testimonies, 1942-1947 Liat Steir-Livny

Rachel Feldhay Brenner Mar 2019 352pp
9780815636502 Paperback £38.50 / €42.00
Apr 2019 184pp
9780810139800 Paperback £37.95 / €42.00 A pioneering analysis of third-generation Holocaust
documentaries in Israel, this book investigates
This groundbreaking study of responses to the compelling films that have been screened in Israel,
Holocaust in wartime and postwar Polish literature Europe, and the United States, appeared in numerous
explores seven writers’ compulsive need to share their international film festivals, and won international
traumatic experience of witness with the world. It is awards, but have yet to receive significant academic
a particularly timely book in view of the continuing attention.
debates about the attitudes of Poles toward the Jews
during the war. MEDIEVAL STUDIES

University of Notre Dame Press

RIVALROUS MASCULINITIES
New Directions in Medieval Gender Studies

Edited by Ann Marie Rasmussen

Apr 2019 288pp
9780268105570 Hardback £64.95 / €72.00

Bringing together the work of both leading and
emerging scholars in the field of medieval gender
studies, the essays in Rivalrous Masculinities advance our
understanding of medieval masculinity as a pluralized
category and as an intersectional category of gender.

ARTS & HUMANITIES 23

HISTORY
MILITARY HISTORY

MILITARY HISTORY University of Hawai’i Press

Academic Studies Press SOUTHEAST ASIA’S COLD WAR
An Interpretive History
THE OTTOMAN TWILIGHT
IN THE ARAB LANDS Ang Cheng Guan
Turkish Testimonies and Memories
of the Great War Feb 2019 336pp
9780824873479 Paperback £32.50 / €36.00
Edited by Selim Deringil
Examines the international politics of Southeast Asia
Apr 2019 300pp from within. This book provides an up-to-date, coherent
9781618119582 Paperback £29.95 / €33.00 narrative of the Cold War as it played out in Southeast
Ottoman and Turkish Studies Asia against a backdrop of superpower rivalry.

The Great War is still seen as a mostly European war. The University Press of Kansas
Middle Eastern theatre is, at best, considered a sideshow
written from the western perspective. This book fills a gap GERMAN FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE FROM
in the literature by giving an insight through annotated HITLER’S WAR TO THE COLD WAR
translations from Ottoman memoirs of actors who witnessed Flawed Assumptions and Faulty Analysis
the last few years of Turkish presence in the Arab lands.
Robert Hutchinson
Brookings Institution Press
Jan 2019 352pp
FALKLANDS AND MALVINAS 9780700627578 Hardback £37.95 / €42.00

Edited by Guillermo Mira Delli Zotti Examining the information on enemy nations that
was gathered, processed, and presented to leaders
Jun 2019 200pp in the Nazi state, Robert Hutchinson’s study reveals
9781908857569 Paperback £25.50 / €29.00 the consequences of the politicization of German
intelligence during World War II - as well as the
Examines the Falklands/Malvinas conflict and its persistence of ingrained prejudices among the
consequences, but from an oblique perspective intelligence services’ Cold War successors.
that brings together English, Spanish and Argentine
specialists and researchers. The book is novel in that TALIBAN SAFARI
different social scientists analyse the conflict from the One Day in the
perspective of their own disciplines. Surkhagan Valley
Institute of Latin American Studies
Paul Darling
University Press of Florida
May 2019 190pp
UNCOMMONLY SAVAGE 9780700627844 Hardback £30.50
Civil War and Remembrance in Spain and the / €34.00
United States
In crisp prose and sharp
Paul D. Escott detail Major Paul Darling
offers a moment-by-
Jun 2019 278pp moment account of a
9780813064338 Paperback £26.95 / €30.00 one-day mission to track
down and kill Taliban
Spain and the United States both experienced extremely insurgents in the Zabul
bloody and divisive civil wars that left social and emotional Province of southeastern Afghanistan. A rare day-in-the-
wounds, many of which still endure today. In Uncommonly life narrative that is also a page-turner, his story captures
Savage, award-winning historian Paul Escott considers the the mundane realities of deployment.
impact of internecine violence on memory and ideology,
politics, and process of reconciliation.

ARTS & HUMANITIES

HISTORY
24 MILITARY HISTORY

THUNDER AND FLAMES Naval Institute Press
Americans in the Crucible of Combat,
1917-1918 ADMIRAL GORSHKOV
The Man Who Challenged the U.S. Navy
Edward G. Lengel
Norman Polmar, Thomas A. Brooks & George E. Fedoroff
Jan 2019 470pp
9780700627837 Paperback £30.50 / €34.00 Mar 2019 304pp, 27 figures
9781682473306 Hardback £39.95 / €45.00
November 1917. American troops were poorly trained, Blue & Gold
deficient in military equipment and doctrine, not
remotely ready for armed conflict on a large scale - and Examines a man and his ability to change a culture and
on the Western front. The story of what happened next to create a powerful navy that was radically different
- the American Expeditionary Force’s trial by fire on the from traditional navies. This was accomplished despite
battlefields of France - is told in full for the first time in opposition from the nation’s Army-dominated power
this book. structure. The Russian Navy that is at sea in the 21st
Century is to a significant degree based on the fleet that
University of Massachusetts Press this man built.

THE SACKING OF FALLUJAH CHINA’S MARITIME GRAY ZONE
A People’s History OPERATIONS

Ross Caputi, Richard Hil & Donna Mulhearn Edited by Andrew Sven Erickson & Ryan D. Martinson

Apr 2019 208pp, 12 b&w illustrations Mar 2019 336pp
9781625344380 Paperback £30.50 / €34.00 9781591146933 Hardback £42.50 / €47.00
Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond Studies in Chinese Maritime Development

For full details of this title, see page 55. With contributions from some of the world’s leading
experts, this volume explains the forces and doctrines
McFarland driving China’s paranaval expansion. The book covers
China’s maritime forces beyond core gray-hulled Navy
THE COLD WAR units, with particular focus on China’s second and third
DEFENSE OF THE sea forces: the ‘white-hulled’ Coast Guard and ‘blue-
UNITED STATES hulled’ Maritime Militia.
Strategy, Weapon
Systems and FOR GOD AND GLORY
Operations Lord Nelson and His Way of War

John E. Bronson Joel S. Hayward

May 2019 228pp Feb 2019 280pp
9781476677200 Paperback 9781612517797 Paperback £24.95 / €28.00
£48.50 / €54.00
Taking an original thematic approach to the study
During the Cold War, the of Horatio Lord Nelson, Joel Hayward analyses the
United States was forced admiral’s unique war-fighting style, doctrine, tactics and
to establish means of operational art, his command and leadership abilities,
massive long-range attack in response to Soviet Union and his attitudes and beliefs. Hayward reveals how
advancements in weaponry. This book shows how these these elements combined to form the man whose ethos
defenses evolved from fledgling stop-gap measures into spread through his entire force.
a complex fabric of interconnected combinations of
high-tech equipment over 40 years. FOUNDATIONS OF RUSSIAN MILITARY
FLIGHT 1885-1925

James Libbey

May 2019 272pp
9781682474235 Hardback £38.50 / €43.00

Focuses on the early use by armed forces of balloons
and aircraft. While France invented lighter-than-air craft
it was a French pilot who caught Russia’s attention to
airplanes in 1909.

ARTS & HUMANITIES 25

HISTORY
MILITARY HISTORY

NEW GRAPHIC NOVELS FROM  THE NEW BATTLE
DEAD RECKONING FOR THE ATLANTIC
Emerging Naval
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Competition with
Russia in the
Erich Maria Remarque Far North
Adapted by Wayne Vansant
Magnus Fredrik Nordenman
Jun 2019 176pp
9781682473337 Paperback £24.95 / €28.00 Jun 2019 272pp
9781682472835 Hardback
For full details of this title, see page 35. £38.50 / €43.00
Dead Reckoning
Explores the emerging
KATUSHA competition between the
Girl Soldier of the Great Patriotic War United States and its allies
in NATO and the resurgent
Wayne Vansant Russian navy in the North Atlantic. Magnus Nordenman
describes the evolution of warfare in the North Atlantic
Feb 2019 576pp in the 20th century and points to the enduring strategic
9781682474259 Paperback £26.50 / €29.00 factors and dynamics in that maritime domain that must
be kept in mind.
For full details of this title, see page 35.
Dead Reckoning The University of North Carolina Press

MEN AT SEA FRANCE AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
A Diplomatic History
Riff Reb’s
Translated by Joe Johnson Stève Sainlaude
Translated by Jessica Edwards
Apr 2019 120pp
9781682473870 Paperback £19.95 / €23.00 Mar 2019 304pp, 11 illustrations
9781469649948 Hardback £48.50 / €54.00
For full details of this title, see page 35. Civil War America
Dead Reckoning
France’s involvement in the American Civil War was
THE NIGHT WITCHES critical to its unfolding, but the details of the European
power’s role remain little understood. Here, Steve
Garth Ennis Sainlaude offers the first comprehensive history of
Illustrated by Russ Braun French diplomatic engagement with the Union and the
Confederate States of America during the conflict.
Mar 2019 256pp
9781682473900 Paperback £24.95 / €28.00 SEX AND THE CIVIL WAR
Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of
For full details of this title, see page 35. American Morality
Dead Reckoning
Judith Giesberg
STALINGRAD
Letters from the Volga Feb 2019 152pp, 26 illustrations
9781469652078 Paperback £24.95 / €28.00
Daniel Ortega The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
Illustrated by Antonio Gil
Civil War soldiers enjoyed unprecedented access to
May 2019 120pp obscene materials of all sorts. With this book, Judith
9781682473931 Paperback £19.95 / €23.00 Giesberg has written the first serious study of the erotica
and pornography that nineteenth-century American
For full details of this title, see page 35. soldiers read and shared and links them to the postwar
Dead Reckoning reaction to pornography and to debates about the
future of sex and marriage.

ARTS & HUMANITIES
26 LIBRARY STUDIES · LITERATURE

LIBRARY STUDIES LITERATURE

American Library Association The University of Alabama Press

A MATTER OF FACTS F. SCOTT FITZGERALD AND THE
The Value of Evidence in an Information Age AMERICAN SCENE

Laura A. Millar Ronald Berman

Apr 2019 192pp May 2019 112pp
9780838917718 Paperback £48.50 / €54.00 9780817359478 Paperback £27.50 / €30.00

Because facts matter, archives matter. In this urgent A study of the philosophical, intellectual, and political
manifesto, archives luminary Millar makes the case that influences on the artistic creations of Fitzgerald and
authentic and accurate evidence is crucial in supporting key early American modernist writers. Each chapter
and fostering a society that is respectful, democratic, and elaborates on a crucial aspect of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s
self-aware. depiction of American society, specifically through
the lens of the social sciences that most influenced his
ALA Neal-Schuman writing and thinking.

Broadview Press

READING CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
A Critical Introduction, Second Edition

Carrie Hintz & Eric Tribunella

Jun 2019 580pp
9781554814435 Paperback £49.95 / €56.00

Offers insights into the major discussions and debates
currently animating the field of children’s literature.
Informed by recent scholarship and interest in cultural
studies and critical theory, this is a compact core text
that introduces students to the historical contexts,
genres, and issues of children’s literature.

THE ROARING GIRL

Thomas Dekker & Thomas Middleton
Edited by Kelly Stage

Apr 2019 180pp
9781554812134 Paperback £13.50 / €15.00

Offers an introduction, thorough annotation, and a
substantial selection of contextual materials related to
the real Mary Frith, gender and cross-dressing, criminality
in London, and more.

ARTS & HUMANITIES
LITERATURE 27

Cognella Academic Publishing University of Hawai’i Press

JACK KEROUAC FUKUSHIMA FICTION
Tracing the Theme The Literary Landscape of Japan’s Triple
of Epiphany Disaster

Evert Villarreal Rachel DiNitto

Jan 2019 112pp May 2019 240pp
9781516533961 Paperback 9780824877972 Hardback £73.50 / €81.00
£34.95 / €40.00
Introduces readers to the literary works that have
Analyses Jack Kerouac’s emerged out of Japan’s triple disaster, now known as
works with particular 3/11. The book provides a nuanced picture of the varied
focus on his constant literary responses to this ongoing tragedy, focusing
exploration to discover on ’serious fiction’, the one area of Japanese cultural
what it means to live a production that has consistently addressed the disaster
meaningful life. The text and its aftermath.
helps readers understand
how Kerouac contributed to and influenced American University of Iowa Press
literature, becoming one of the most famous writers of
the 20th century. AUSTENTATIOUS
The Evolving World of Jane Austen Fans
University Press of Florida
Holly Luetkenhaus & Zoe Weinstein
OGLING LADIES
Scopophilia in Medieval German Literature Jun 2019 188pp, 5 figures
9781609386399 Paperback £29.95 / €33.00
Sandra Lindemann Summers
Explores online fan spaces in search of “Janeites” all over
May 2019 188pp, 5 b&w photos the world to discover what fans are making, how fans
9780813064215 Paperback £21.50 / €24.00 are sharing their work, and why it matters that so many
women and non-binary individuals find a haven not only
The love of looking is a common motif among female in Jane Austen, but also in Jane Austen fandom.
figures in medieval art and literature where it is usually
expressed as a motherly or sexually interested gaze - The Kent State University Press
one sanctioned, the other forbidden. Sandra Summers
investigates these two variants of female voyeurism in READING HEMINGWAY’S
exemplary didactic and courtly literature by medieval A FAREWELL TO ARMS
German authors. Glossary and Commentary

THIS BUSINESS OF WORDS Michael Kim Roos & Robert W. Lewis
Reassessing Anne Sexton
Jun 2019 384pp
Edited by Amanda Golden 9781606353769 Paperback £43.50 / €48.00
Reading Hemingway
Jan 2019 292pp
9780813064031 Paperback £26.95 / €30.00 Reveals how A Farewell to Arms represents a complex
alchemy of Hemingway’s personal experience as a Red
One of America’s most influential women writers, Cross ambulance driver in 1918, his extensive historical
Anne Sexton has long been overshadowed by fellow research of a time period and terrain with which he was
confessional poets Sylvia Plath and Robert Lowell. This personally unfamiliar, and the impact of his vast reading
volume reassesses Sexton and her poetry and offers in the great works of 19th-century fiction.
directions for future Sexton scholarship.

ARTS & HUMANITIES
28 LITERATURE

University of Massachusetts Press MEDIEVAL CRIME FICTION
A Critical Overview
MADE UNDER PRESSURE
Literary Translation in the Soviet Union, Anne McKendry
1960-1991
Mar 2019 230pp
Natalia Kamovnikova 9781476666716 Paperback £49.50 / €54.00

Jan 2019 272pp Combining elements of medievalism, the historical
9781625343413 Paperback £32.50 / €36.00 novel and the detective narrative, medieval crime
Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book fiction capitalizes upon the appeal of all three. This
book investigates the enduring popularity of the largely
During the Cold War, determined translators and unexamined genre and explores its social, cultural and
publishers based in the Soviet Union worked together political contexts.
to increase the number of foreign literary texts available
in Russian, despite government restrictions. Based on ROBOTS THAT KILL
extensive interviews with literary translators, Made Under Deadly Machines and Their Precursors in
Pressure offers an insider’s look at Soviet censorship and Myth, Folklore, Literature, Popular Culture
the role translators played in promoting foreign authors. and Reality

McFarland Judith A. Markowitz

AUTHOR IN CHIEF Apr 2019 131pp
The Presidents as Writers from Washington to 9781476668130 Paperback £43.50 / €48.00
Trump
Describes the technologies that enable real-world robots
Michael B. Costanzo and drones to be effective killers, including an overview
of how artificial intelligence and nanotechnology relate
Feb 2019 204pp to the topic. The book also examines social controversies
9781476675701 Paperback £43.50 / €48.00 swirling around the design and use of killer robots, such
as whether fully-autonomous, robotic weapons should
Serves as a history of works - including autobiographies, be banned.
diaries, memoirs, political manifestos, speeches and
others - authored by US presidents and published SEEING THE BEAT GENERATION
prior to, during or after their terms. The book tells how Entering the Literature Through Film
writing was easy for some and harder for others. It is the
story of literary comebacks, bestsellers, false starts and Raj Chandarlapaty
failures.
Apr 2019 183pp
9781476675756 Paperback £43.50 / €48.00

For full details of this title, see page 42.

ARTS & HUMANITIES
LITERATURE 29

Melbourne University Publishing CONVERSATIONS WITH ALLEN GINSBERG

ON ARTISTS Edited by David Stephen Calonne

Ashleigh Wilson Jul 2019 224pp
9781496823519 Paperback £25.50 / €28.00
May 2019 277pp Literary Conversations Series
9780522875256 Paperback £11.95 / €13.00
On Series Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) was one of the most
famous American poets of the twentieth century.
For full details of this title, see page 63. Yet, his career is distinguished by not only his strong
contributions to literature but also social justice.
ON FAIRNESS Conversations with Allen Ginsberg collects interviews from
1962 to 1997 that chart Ginsberg’s intellectual, spiritual,
Sally McManus and political evolution.

Jan 2019 277pp NEW IN PAPERBACK
9780522874853 Paperback £11.95 / €13.00
On Series CONVERSATIONS WITH JOAN DIDION

For full details of this title, see page 73. Edited by Scott F. Parker

ON HATE May 2019 186pp
9781496823441 Paperback £25.50 / €28.00
Tim Soutphommasane Literary Conversations Series

Feb 2019 277pp Features seventeen interviews with Joan Didion,
9780522875348 Paperback £11.95 / €13.00 spanning decades, continents, and genres. Didion
On Series reflects on her childhood in Sacramento; her time at
Berkeley, in New York, and in Hollywood; her marriage to
For full details of this title, see page 55. John Gregory Dunne; and of course her writing.

ON IDENTITY FAULKNER AND HISTORY

Stan Grant Edited by Jay Watson & James G. Thomas Jr.

May 2019 277pp Jul 2019 274pp, 6 b&w illustrations
9780522875522 Paperback £11.95 / €13.00 9781496823496 Paperback £30.50 / €34.00
On Series Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series

For full details of this title, see page 63. Brings together historians and literary scholars to explore
the many facets of William Faulkner’s relationship to
ON US history: the historical contexts of his novels and stories;
his explorations of the historiographic imagination; his
Mark Scott engagement with historical figures; and his influence on
professional historians.
Apr 2019 277pp
9780522875164 Paperback £11.95 / €13.00 FROM DANIEL BOONE TO
On Series CAPTAIN AMERICA
Playing Indian in American Popular Culture
For full details of this title, see page 38.
Chad A. Barbour
University Press of Mississippi
Feb 2019 222pp
THE ARTISTRY OF NEIL GAIMAN 9781496820167 Paperback £30.50 / €34.00
Finding Light in the Shadows
From nineteenth-century American art and literature to
Edited by Joseph Michael Sommers & Kyle Eveleth comic books of the twentieth century and afterwards,
Chad A. Barbour examines in From Daniel Boone to
Apr 2019 300pp, 44 b&w illustrations Captain America the transmission of the ideals and myths
9781496821652 Paperback £30.50 / €34.00 of the frontier and playing Indian in American culture.
Critical Approaches to Comics Artists Series

For full details of this title, see page 10.

ARTS & HUMANITIES
30 LITERATURE

RECONSIDERING The University of North Carolina Press
LAURA INGALLS
WILDER NARRATING DESIRE
Little House and Moral Consolation and Sentimental Fiction in
Beyond Fifteenth-Century Spain

Edited by Sol Miguel-Prendes

Miranda A. Green-Barteet & Apr 2019 305pp, 5 illustrations
Anne K. Phillips 9781469651958 Paperback £69.95 / €77.00
North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and
Jun 2019 240pp Literatures, Vol. 317
9781496823083 Paperback
£30.50 / €34.00 Proposes a new taxonomy and conceptual frame for
the controversial Iberian genre of sentimental romance.
Children’s Literature In establishing the genre’s boundaries and cultural
Association Series underpinnings, Narrating Desire emphasizes the crucial
link between Eastern and Western Iberian sentimental
Offers a sustained, critical examination of Wilder’s traditions.
writings, including her Little House series, her
posthumously published The First Four Years, her letters, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of
journalism, and autobiography. The collection also draws Romance Studies
on biographies of Wilder, letters to and from Wilder and
her daughter, and other biographical materials.

TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY FEMINISMS Northwestern University Press
IN CHILDREN’S AND ADOLESCENT
LITERATURE POLAND AND THE HOLOCAUST
Literary Testimonies, 1942-1947
Roberta Seelinger Trites
Rachel Feldhay Brenner
May 2019 242pp
9781496823458 Paperback £30.50 / €34.00 Apr 2019 184pp
Children’s Literature Association Series 9780810139800 Paperback £37.95 / €42.00

Over twenty years after the publication of her For full details of this title, see page 22.
groundbreaking work, Waking Sleeping Beauty: Feminist
Voices in Children’s Novels, Roberta Seelinger Trites returns THE PRICE OF
to analyse how literature for the young still provides one LITERATURE
outlet in which feminists can offer girls an alternative to The French Novel’s
sexism. Theoretical Turn

University of Missouri Press Patrick M. Bray

EAST-WEST LITERARY IMAGINATION Mar 2019 192pp
Cultural Exchanges from Yeats to Morrison 9780810139329 Paperback
£37.95 / €42.00
Yoshinobu Hakutani
Examines the presence of
Jan 2019 pp theory in the nineteenth-
9780826221827 Paperback £26.95 / €30.00 century French novel.
Emerging after the French
Traces the shaping presence of cultural interactions, Revolution, what we call
arguing that American literature has become a literature was conceived
hybridization of Eastern and Western literary traditions. as an art liberated from representational constraints.
Hakutani demonstrates the East-West exchange through Patrick Bray shows how literature’s freedom to represent
discussions of the interactions by modernists such as anything has meant, paradoxically, that it cannot
Yone Noguchi, Yeats, Pound, Camus, and Kerouac. articulate a coherent theory of itself.

ARTS & HUMANITIES
LITERATURE 31

THE TWO-SOUL’D ANIMAL CHAUCER AND RELIGIOUS
Early Modern Literatures of the Classical and CONTROVERSIES IN THE MEDIEVAL AND
Christian Souls EARLY MODERN ERAS

James Jaehoon Lee Nancy Bradley Warren

Mar 2019 216pp, 2 b&w illustrations Apr 2019 220pp
9780810139268 Paperback £37.95 / €42.00 9780268105822 Paperback £48.50 / €54.00

Illuminates an early modern debate that recognised ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern
the troubling extent to which Christian thought had
defined the human in terms of two incompatible models Adopts a comparative, boundary-crossing approach to
of soul. The English writers studied in this book place consider one of the most canonical of literary figures,
two prevailing interpretations of the soul’s faculties Geoffrey Chaucer. This book breaks new ground by
into contact as a way to construct a new mode of considering Chaucer’s continental interests as they
Christian agency. inform his participation in religious debates concerning
such subjects as female spirituality and Lollardy.

THE VIRGINAL MOTHER IN THE PORTRAIT OF BEATRICE
GERMAN CULTURE Dante, D. G. Rossetti, and the Imaginary Lady
From Sophie von La Roche and Goethe
to Metropolis Fabio Camilletti

Lauren Nossett Mar 2019 220pp
9780268103972 Hardback £53.95 / €60.00
Mar 2019 276pp
9780810139299 Paperback £37.95 / €42.00 Examines both Dante’s and D.G. Rossetti’s intellectual
experiences in the light of a common concern about
Presents an analysis of the contradictory obsession with visuality. Both render, in different times and contexts,
female virginity and idealization of maternal nature in something that resists clear representation, be it the
Germany from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth divine beauty of the angel-women or the depiction of
centuries. Lauren Nossett explores how the ideal of the painter’s own interiority in a secularized age.
woman as both a sexless and maternal being led to the
creation of a unique figure in German literature: the THEATER OF THE WORD
virginal mother. Selfhood in the English Morality Play

University of Notre Dame Press Julie Paulson

A BOCCACCIAN RENAISSANCE Apr 2019 240pp
Essays on the Early Modern Impact of 9780268104627 Paperback £48.50 / €54.00
Giovanni Boccaccio and His Works
Sheds light on medieval constructions of the self as they
Edited by Martin Eisner & David Lummus emerge from within a deeply sacramental culture. The
book examines the medieval morality play, a genre that
Jun 2019 340pp addresses the question of what it means to be human
9780268105891 Hardback £69.95 / €77.00 and takes up the ritual traditions of confession and
William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and penance, long associated with medieval interiority, as its
Medieval Italian Literature primary subjects.

Brings together essays written by internationally
recognised scholars in diverse national traditions
to respond to the largely unaddressed question
of Boccaccio’s impact on early modern literature
and culture in Italy and Europe. This is the first
comprehensive examination in English of Boccaccio’s
impact on the Renaissance.

ARTS & HUMANITIES
32 LITERATURE

University of Pittsburgh Press CULTIVATING PEACE
The Virgilian Georgic in English, 1650-1750
THE ANIMAL
WHO WRITES Melissa Schoenberger
A Posthumanist
Composition Feb 2019 160pp
9781684480470 Paperback £29.50 / €34.00
Marilyn M. Cooper Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850

Feb 2019 277pp The poets discussed in Cultivating Peace imagine states
9780822965794 Paperback of peace and war to be fundamentally and materially
£43.50 / €48.00 linked. In distinct ways, they dismantle the dream of the
Pittsburgh Series in Composition, golden age renewed, proposing instead that peace must
Literacy and Culture be sustained by constant labour.

Considers writing as a Bucknell University Press
social practice and as an
embodied behaviour that FAUST, A TRAGEDY, PART I
is especially important
(and presumably unique) to human animals. Dr. Marilyn Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Cooper argues that writing is an act of composing Edited & Translated by Eugene Stelzig
enmeshed in nature-cultures and is homologous with
technology as a mode of making. Jul 2019 250pp
9781684481422 Paperback £16.95 / €20.00
SPANISH MEETS EL INGLES
Translational Intersections in Latinx Goethe’s great dramatic poem continues to speak
Literature, 1990-2010 to us in new ways as we and our world continually
change. This updated translation brings to light Faust’s
Marta E. Sanchez mysterious, and enchanting poetic and cultural power.
Eugene Stelzig’s new translation renders the text of
Jan 2019 176pp the play in clear and crisp English for a contemporary
9780822965510 Paperback £30.50 / €34.00 audience.
Latino and Latin American Profiles
Bucknell University Press
Offers a study of contemporary US Latino literature in
translation. Sanchez examines both English-to-Spanish, JANE AUSTEN AND COMEDY
and Spanish-to-English translation, and what it means
for interrelated communities and language systems. Edited by Erin Goss

Rutgers University Press Apr 2019 250pp
9781684480777 Paperback £29.5 / €34.00
COMMUNITY AND SOLITUDE Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850
New Essays on Johnson’s Circle
In bringing together Austen and comedy, which are
Edited by Anthony W. Lee both often dismissed as superfluous or irrelevant to a
contemporary world, this collection of essays directs
Feb 2019 258pp attention to the ways we laugh, the ways that Austen
9781684480227 Paperback £29.50 / €34.00 may make us do so, and the ways that our laughter
Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850 is conditioned by the form in which Austen writes:
comedy.
Samuel Johnson’s life was situated within a rich
social and intellectual community of friendships and Bucknell University Press
antagonisms. This book is a collection of ten essays that
explores relationships between Johnson and several MIKHAIL BAKHTIN
of his main contemporaries and analyses some of the The Duvakin Interviews, 1973
literary productions emanating from the pressures
within those relationships. Mikhail Bakhtin
Edited by Slav N. Gratchev & Margarita Marinova
Bucknell University Press
Jun 2019 224pp
9781684480906 Paperback £16.95 / €20.00

For full details of this title, see page 50.

Bucknell University Press

ARTS & HUMANITIES
LITERATURE 33

NOVEL BODIES The University of South Carolina Press
Disability and Sexuality in Eighteenth-
Century British Literature UNDERSTANDING JAMES BALDWIN

Jason S. Farr Marc K. Dudley

Jun 2019 224pp Apr 2019 160pp
9781684481071 Paperback £29.50 / €34.00 9781611179644 Hardback £43.50 / €48.00
Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850 Understanding Contemporary American Literature

Examines the significant role that disability plays in The Harlem-born son of a storefront preacher, James
shaping the British literary history of sexuality. Jason Baldwin died almost thirty years ago, but his spirit
Farr shows that various eighteenth-century novelists lives on in the eloquent and still-relevant musings
represent disability and sexuality in flexible ways of his novels, short stories, essays, and poems.
to reconfigure the political and social landscapes of In Understanding James Baldwin, Marc Dudley shows that
eighteenth-century Britain. a proper grasp of Baldwin’s work begins with a grasp of
the times in which he wrote.
Bucknell University Press
Syracuse University Press
ODYSSEYS OF RECOGNITION
Performing Intersubjectivity in Homer, WOMEN, ART, AND LITERATURE IN THE
Aristotle, Shakespeare, Goethe, and Kleist IRANIAN DIASPORA

Ellwood Wiggins Mehraneh Ebrahimi

Feb 2019 298pp Apr 2019 224pp, 21 b&w illustrations
9781684480371 Paperback £29.50 / €34.00 9780815636557 Paperback £26.95 / €30.00
New Studies in the Age of Goethe Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East

Claims that interpersonal recognition is constituted Does the study of aesthetics have tangible effects in
by performance, and brings performance theory into the real world? Does examining the work of diaspora
dialogue with poetics, politics, and philosophy. By writers and artists change our view of “the Other”? In
observing Odysseus figures from Homer to Kleist, this thoughtful book, Ebrahimi argues that an education
Ellwood Wiggins offers an alternative to conventional in the humanities is as essential as one in politics and
intellectual histories that situate the invention of the ethics, critically training the imagination toward greater
interior self in modernity. empathy.

Bucknell University Press University of Virginia Press

READING HOMER’S ODYSSEY ANECDOTES OF ENLIGHTENMENT
Human Nature from Locke to Wordsworth
Kostas Myrsiades
James Robert Wood
Apr 2019 375pp
9781684481361 Paperback £21.50 / €24.00 Jun 2019 272pp, 4 b&w illustrations
9780813942209 Hardback £53.50 / €59.00
For full details of this title, see page 21.
Provides a literary history of the anecdote in English.
Bucknell University Press Drawing on extensive archival research and emphasizing
the anecdote as a way of thinking, James Robert Wood
shows that an intimate relationship developed between
the anecdote and the Enlightenment concept of
human nature.

ARTS & HUMANITIES

LITERATURE
34 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS

NOVEL CULTIVATIONS A WORLD OF DISORDERLY NOTIONS
Plants in British Literature of the Global Quixote and the Logic of Exceptionalism
Nineteenth Century
Aaron R. Hanlon
Elizabeth Hope Chang
May 2019 224pp, 4 b&w illustrations
Apr 2019 240pp 9780813942162 Hardback £31.95 / €35.00
9780813942483 Paperback £31.95 / €35.00
Under the Sign of Nature Examines the literary and political effects of Don Quixote,
arguing that what makes this iconic character so
Situated in a mid-Victorian moment of frenetic plant influential across oceans and cultures is not his madness
collecting from the far reaches of the British empire, but his logic. Aaron Hanlon contends that the logic of
Novel Cultivations recognises plants as vital and sentient quixotism is in fact exceptionalism - the strategy of
subjects that serve - often more so than people - as rendering oneself an exception to everyone else’s rules.
actors and narrative engines in the nineteenth-century
novel. COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS

PUBLIC VOWS McFarland
Fictions of Marriage in the English
Enlightenment THE AGES OF THE FLASH
Essays on the Fastest Man Alive
Melissa J. Ganz
Edited by Joseph J. Darowski
May 2019 328pp, 6 b&w illustrations
9780813942421 Hardback £48.50 / €54.00 Feb 2019 170pp
9781476674445 Paperback £32.50 / €36.00
In eighteenth-century England, the institution of
marriage became the subject of heated debates, as While many superheroes have multiple powers and
clerics, jurists, legislators, philosophers, and social complex gadgets, the Flash is simply fast. This simplicity
observers began rethinking its contractual foundation. makes his character easily comprehendible. This
Public Vows argues that these debates shaped English collection of essays serves as a stepping-stone to a
fiction in crucial and previously unrecognised ways. greater understanding of the Flash, examining iterations
of his character and what they reveal about the era in
TERRIBLE BEAUTY which they were written.
The Violent Aesthetic and Twentieth-Century
Literature

Marian Eide

Mar 2019 336pp
9780813942377 Paperback £42.50 / €47.00
Cultural Frames, Framing Culture

The ’century of trauma’ produced writing at once
saturated in political violence and complicated by the
ethics of aesthetic representation. Stretching across
genres and the globe, Terrible Beauty charts a course of
aesthetic reconciliation between empathy and evil in the
great literature of the twentieth century.

ARTS & HUMANITIES 35

LITERATURE
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS

Naval Institute Press

NEW GRAPHIC NOVELS FROM  THE NIGHT WITCHES
DEAD RECKONING
Garth Ennis
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Illustrated by Russ Braun

Erich Maria Remarque Mar 2019 256pp
Adapted by Wayne Vansant 9781682473900 Paperback £24.95 / €28.00

Jun 2019 176pp As the German Army smashes into Soviet Russia and
9781682473337 Paperback £24.95 / €28.00 defenders retreat in disarray a new squadron arrives at
a Russian forward airbase. Like all night bomber units
The estate of Erich Maria Remarque sanctioned this they will risk fiery death - but unlike the rest, these
adaptation of the author’s 1928 novel of the same name pilots and navigators are women. In the lethal skies of
a tale of WWI trench warfare retold here by cartoonist the Eastern front they will become a legend - known as
Wayne Vansant (Knights of the Skull), a Vietnam veteran. The Night Witches.

Dead Reckoning Dead Reckoning

KATUSHA STALINGRAD
Girl Soldier of the Great Patriotic War Letters from the Volga

Wayne Vansant Daniel Ortega
Illustrated by Antonio Gil
Feb 2019 576pp
9781682474259 Paperback £26.50 / €29.00 May 2019 120pp
9781682473931 Paperback £19.95 / €23.00
Seen through the eyes of a Ukrainian teenage girl
Katusha is not only a coming-of-age story but a carefully Stalingrad. The model industrial city bathed by the
researched account of one of the most turbulent and waters of the Volga, from the end of August 1942
important periods of the twentieth century. until the beginnings of February 1943, witnessed
the bloodiest battle of World War Two. This volume
Dead Reckoning presents the developments of the battle through the
eyes of Russian and German soldiers.
MEN AT SEA
Dead Reckoning
Riff Reb’s
Translated by Joe Johnson

Apr 2019 120pp
9781682473870 Paperback £19.95 / €23.00

Presents eight spectacularly drawn dark poetic stories
adapted by Riff Reb’s. These eight tales, interspersed by
seven double-page spreads dedicated to extracts from
illustrated classics, deliver a rich poetic and masterfully
crafted work.

Dead Reckoning

ARTS & HUMANITIES

LITERATURE
36 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS

University Press of Mississippi CHAM
The Best Comic Strips and Graphic Novelettes,
NEW IN PAPERBACK 1839-1862

BEN KATCHOR David Kunzle
Conversations
Feb 2019 538pp
Edited by Ian Gordon 9781496816184 Hardback £89.95 / €100.00

Apr 2019 238pp, 30 b&w illustrations Cham, real name Count Amédée de Noé, may have been
9781496823359 Paperback £25.50 / €28.00 the epitome of a célèbre inconnu, a famous unknown.
Conversations with Comic Artists Series He is one much deserving, at last, of this first account of
his huge oeuvre as a caricaturist. This book concentrates
Author Michael Chabon described Ben Katchor (b. 1951) on his mastery of the important newcomer to the field
as “the creator of the last great American comic strip.” of caricature, which we call comic strip, picture story, and
Katchor’s work is often described as zany or bizarre, and graphic novel.
author Douglas Wolk has characterized his work as “one
or two notches too far” beyond an absurdist reality. And THE COMICS OF
yet the work resonates with its audience. JULIE DOUCET AND
GABRIELLE BELL
NEW IN PAPERBACK A Place Inside Yourself

THE BRITISH Edited by Tahneer Oksman &
SUPERHERO Seamus O’Malley

Chris Murray Jan 2019 240pp
9781496821096 Paperback
Jan 2019 318pp £30.50 / €34.00
9781496820266 Paperback Critical Approaches to
£30.50 / €34.00 Comics Artists Series

Reveals the largely In a self-reflexive way, Julie
unknown and rather Doucet’s and Gabrielle
surprising history of the Bell’s comics, though
British superhero. It is often autobiographical, defy easy categorization. This
often thought that Britain volume regards their art as actively feminist, not only
did not have its own because they offer women’s perspectives, but because
superheroes, yet Murray demonstrates that there were they do so by provocatively bringing up the complicated,
a great many in Britain and that they were often used as multivalent frameworks of such engagements.
a way to comment on the relationship between Britain
and America. THE COMICS OF RUTU MODAN
War, Love, and Secrets
CAPTAIN MARVEL AND THE ART OF
NOSTALGIA Kevin Haworth

Brian Cremins Apr 2019 194pp, 29 b&w illustrations
9781496821829 Paperback £30.50 / €34.00
Feb 2019 218pp Great Comics Artists Series
9781496820198 Paperback £30.50 / €34.00
Provides a close reading of Rutu Modan’s work and
The saga of Captain Marvel is also that of artist C.C. Beck examines her role in creating a comics arts scene in Israel.
and writer Otto Binder, one of the most innovative and Drawing on archival research, Kevin Haworth traces
prolific creative teams working during the Golden Age the history of Israeli comics from its beginning in the
of comics in the US. Taking cues from Beck’s theories 1930s, to the counterculture movement of the 1970s,
of art and from the growing field of memory studies, to the burst of creativity that began in the 1990s and
this book explains why we read comics and how we continues today.
remember them.

ARTS & HUMANITIES 37

LITERATURE
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS

NEW IN PAPERBACK Rutgers University Press

THE EXPANDING ART OF COMICS EC COMICS
Race, Shock, and Social Protest
Ten Modern Masterpieces
Qiana Whitted
Thierry Groensteen
Mar 2019 164pp, 24 colour illustrations
Translated by Ann Miller 9780813566313 Paperback £25.50 / €29.00
Comics Culture
Feb 2019 252pp
9781496820129 Paperback £30.50 / €34.00 During its heyday in the early 1950s, EC Comics was
an innovator in the so-called “preachies”, socially
Offers a distinct perspective on important evolutions in conscious stories that challenged the conservatism of
comics since the 1960s through close readings of ten Eisenhower-era America. EC Comics examines a selection
seminal works. Thierry Groensteen covers over half a of these works and explores how they grappled with the
century of comics production, sampling a single work civil rights struggle, antisemitism, and other forms of
from the sixties, seventies, eighties, and nineties, before prejudice.
delving into more recent masterpieces.
SERIAL SELVES
GRAPHIC SATIRE IN THE SOVIET UNION Identity and Representation in
Krokodil’s Political Cartoons Autobiographical Comics

John Etty Frederik Byrn Køhlert

Jan 2019 240pp Mar 2019 214pp, 50 b&w and colour images
9781496821089 Paperback £30.50 / €34.00 9780813592251 Paperback £25.50 / €29.00

After the death of Joseph Stalin, Soviet-era Russia Autobiography is one of the most dynamic and
experienced a flourishing artistic movement due quickly-growing genres in contemporary comics and
to relaxed censorship and economic growth. In this graphic narratives. In Serial Selves, Frederik Byrn Køhlert
atmosphere of freedom, Russia’s satirical magazine examines the genre’s potential for representing lives
Krokodil became rejuvenated. John Etty explores Soviet and perspectives that have been socially marginalized or
graphic satire through Krokodil and its political cartoons. excluded.

ARTS & HUMANITIES
38 MEDIA & COMMUNICATION

MEDIA & COMMUNICATION Lynne Rienner Publishers

The University of Georgia Press SURPRISING NEWS
How the Media Affect
NOT SO FAST - and Do Not Affect -
Thinking Twice Politics
About Technology
Kenneth Newton
Doug Hill
Jun 2019 250pp
Apr 2019 240pp 9781626377707 Paperback
9780820355498 Paperback £24.95 / €29.00
£19.95 / €22.00
Recognising that differing
What is technology, and forms of political
how is it shaping us? In communication have
search of answers to those differing effects on
crucial questions, Not So differing people, Kenneth
Fast draws on the insights Newton asks why this
of dozens of scholars and occurs, and how. The answers that he presents in offer
artists who have thought an enlightening challenge to conventional wisdom in
deeply about the meanings of machines. This book will this age of fake news, post-truth, and claims about how
help us understand the interconnected, interwoven, and digital media has transformed politics.
interdependent phenomena of our technological world.
Melbourne University Publishing

University of Hawai’i Press ON US

POP EMPIRES Mark Scott
Transnational and Diasporic Flows of India
and Korea Apr 2019 277pp
9780522875164 Paperback
Edited by S. Heijin Lee, Monika Mehta & Robert Ji-Song Ku £11.95 / €13.00

Jul 2019 360pp, 15 b&w illustrations On Series
9780824880002 Paperback £32.50 / €36.00
Asia Pop! The new media is
enabling despots and
For full details of this title, see page 41. disempowering democracy.
So when every opinion
Holy Trinity Publications seems to matter equally,
On Us offers a few more on
choice in a concentrated media world and asks why more
information often means less insight.

THE NEW MEDIA EPIDEMIC
The Undermining of Society, Family, and
Our Own Soul

Jean-Claude Larchet
Translated by Archibald Andrew Torrance

Mar 2019 208pp
9780884654711 Paperback £21.95 / €25.00

For full details of this title, see page 62.

ARTS & HUMANITIES
MEDIA & COMMUNICATION · MYTHOLOGY & FOLKLORE 39

University of Michigan Press MYTHOLOGY & FOLKLORE

#IDENTITY McFarland
Hashtagging Race,
Gender, Sexuality, ROBOTS THAT KILL
and Nation Deadly Machines and Their Precursors in
Myth, Folklore, Literature, Popular Culture
Abigail De Kosnik & and Reality
Keith Feldman
Judith A. Markowitz
Apr 2019 344pp, 20 figures, 3 tables
9780472054152 Paperback Apr 2019 131pp
£29.50 / €34.00 9781476668130 Paperback £43.50 / €48.00

Addresses the positive and For full details of this title, see page 28.
negative effects of Twitter
on our contemporary University Press of Mississippi
world. Collectively, the
essays in this volume offer FOLKLORE IN
a critically interdisciplinary view of how and why social BALTIC HISTORY
media has been at the heart of US and global political Resistance and
discourse for over a decade. Resurgence

University of Pittsburgh Press Sadhana Naithani

NEWS FROM MARS Jun 2019 80pp
Mass Media and the Forging of a New 9781496823571 Paperback
Astronomy, 1860-1910 £30.50 / €34.00

Joshua Nall Explores the role of
folklore, folklore archives,
Apr 2019 277pp, 20 b&w illustrations and folklore studies in
9780822945529 Hardback £53.95 / €60.00 the contemporary history
Science & Culture in the Nineteenth Century of Estonia, Latvia, and
Lithuania. Sadhana
For full details of this title, see page 100. Naithani combines the study of written works, archival
documents, life-stories, and conversations with
ON THE END OF PRIVACY folklorists, ethnologists, archivists, and historians in
Learning to Read, Write and Think in a Tartu, Riga, and Vilnius.
Screen-Centric World
IMPLIED NOWHERE
Richard E. Miller Absence in Folklore Studies

Feb 2019 277pp, 10 illustrations Shelley Ingram, Willow G. Mullins & Todd Richardson
9780822965688 Paperback £32.50 / €36.00 Foreword by Sw. Anand Prahlad
Composition, Literacy, and Culture
May 2019 224pp, 12 b&w illustrations
Explores how literacy is being transformed in an age 9781496822963 Paperback £30.50 / €34.00
of electronic innovation and intrusion. To make this
abstract concern concrete, Miller follows the story of Talks about things folklorists don’t usually talk about.
a student from the summer prior to his enrolment to The authors ponder the tacit aspects of folklore
his suicide in the fall of 2010 and on through the trial, and folklore studies, looking into the unarticulated
appeal, and court ruling regarding his roommate, who expectations placed upon people whenever they talk
spied on him via webcam. about folklore and how those expectations necessarily
affect the folklore they are talking about.

ARTS & HUMANITIES

MYTHOLOGY & FOLKLORE · PERFORMING ARTS
40 DANCE

University of Virginia Press PERFORMING ARTS

EVERGREEN ASH DANCE
Ecology and Catastrophe in Old Norse Myth
and Literature University Press of Florida

Christopher Abram DANCING IN BLACKNESS
A Memoir
Feb 2019 256pp
9780813942278 Paperback £35.50 / €39.00 Halifu Osumare
Under the Sign of Nature Foreword by Brenda Dixon Gottschild

Most of the Old Norse texts that preserve the myths of Mar 2019 352pp, 20 b&w illustrations
Ragnarok originated in Iceland. As the first full-length 9780813064321 Paperback £29.50 / €32.00
ecocritical study of Old Norse myth and literature,
Evergreen Ash argues that Ragnarok is primarily a story Presents a professional dancer’s personal journey over
of ecological collapse that reflects the anxieties of early four decades, across three continents and 23 countries,
Icelanders who were trying to make a home in a hostile and through defining moments in the story of black
environment. dance in America. In this memoir, Halifu Osumare
reflects on what blackness and dance have meant to her
The University of Wisconsin Press life and international career.

INARI SÁMI FOLKLORE University of Michigan Press
Stories from Aanaar
THE BODIES OF OTHERS
August V. Koskimies & Toivo I. Itkonen Drag Dances and Their Afterlives
Edited by Lea Laitinen
Selby Wynn Schwartz
Jan 2019 344pp, 2 maps, 8 b&w photos
9780299319007 Hardback £79.95 / €89.00 Mar 2019 288pp, 22 photos
9780472054091 Paperback £29.50 / €34.00
A rich multivoiced anthology of folktales, legends, Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance
joik songs, proverbs, riddles, and other verbal art, this
is a comprehensive collection of Sámi oral tradition Explores the politics of gender in motion. From drag
in English. Collected by August Koskimies and Toivo ballerinas to faux queens, and from butoh divas to the
Itkonen in the 1880s, the material reveals a complex club mothers of modern dance, this book delves into
web of social relations that existed both inside and four decades of drag dances on American stages, tracing
beyond the community. the ways in which bodies can be imagined otherwise.

ARTS & HUMANITIES 41

PERFORMING ARTS
FILM & TV

FILM & TV University of Iowa Press

Academic Studies Press DISNEY’S STAR WARS
Forces of Production, Promotion, and
THE RUSSIAN CINEMA READER Reception
Contemporary Russian Cinema 2005-2015
Edited by William Proctor & Richard McCulloch
Edited by Rimgaila Salys
Jul 2019 416pp
May 2019 360pp, 54 illustrations 9781609386436 Paperback £69.95 / €77.00
9781618119643 Paperback £29.95 / €33.00
Film and Media Studies Covering the period from Disney’s purchase to the
release of The Force Awakens, the book reveals how
Provides an introduction to significant Russian films fans anticipated, interpreted, and responded to the
released between 2005 and 2016 that are also available steady stream of production stories, gossip, marketing
with English subtitles. The twenty-one essays on materials, merchandise, and other sources in the build-
individual films provide background information on up to the movie’s release.
directors’ careers, detailed analyses of selected films,
along with suggested further readings both in English McFarland
and Russian.
COWBOY COURAGE
University of Hawai’i Press Westerns and the Portrayal of Bravery

ANIMATED ENCOUNTERS William Hampes
Transnational Movements of Chinese
Animation, 1940s-1970s Feb 2019 170pp
9781476676067 Paperback £43.50 / €48.00
Daisy Yan Du
Film and television Westerns are most often associated
Feb 2019 328pp, 33 b&w illustrations with physical bravery. However, many also demonstrate
9780824877644 Paperback £32.50 / €36.00 moral bravery and psychological bravery. Through a
Asia Pop! close examination of Westerns displaying all three types
of bravery, the author shows us how courage can lead
China’s role in the history of world animation has to, and even enrich, other virtues such as redemption,
been trivialized or largely forgotten. In Animated authenticity, and love.
Encounters, Daisy Yan Du addresses this omission in her
study of Chinese animation and its engagement with FILM APPRECIATION
international forces during its formative period, the THROUGH GENRES
1940s-1970s.
Michael Patrick Gillespie
POP EMPIRES
Transnational and Diasporic Flows of Mar 2019 160pp
India and Korea 9781476676395 Paperback
£37.95 / €42.00
Edited by S. Heijin Lee, Monika Mehta & Robert Ji-Song Ku
Many intelligent,
Jul 2019 360pp, 15 b&w illustrations enthusiastic individuals
9780824880002 Paperback £32.50 / €36.00 approach conversations
Asia Pop! about films as an extension
of the pleasures derived
Bollywood” and “Hallyu” are increasingly competing while watching them. Love
with “Hollywood” - either replacing it or filling a for movies and enthusiasm
void in places where it never held sway. This critical for discussion makes many
multidisciplinary anthology places the mediascapes of people want to attain a better understanding of what
India, South Korea, and the US in comparative dialogue they have seen and to develop a greater skill in talking
to explore the transnational flows of technology, capital, articulately about their experiences.
and labour.

ARTS & HUMANITIES

PERFORMING ARTS
42 FILM & TV

GEORGE STEVENS THE MANY LIVES OF THE EVIL DEAD
The Films of a Hollywood Giant Essays on the Cult Film Franchise

Neil Sinyard Edited by Ron Riekki & Jeffrey A. Sartain

May 2019 238pp Feb 2019 185pp
9780786477753 Paperback £49.50 / €54.00 9781476668710 Paperback £43.50 / €48.00

Winner of two Best Director Oscars, George Stevens Examining the legacy of one of the all-time great
excelled in a range of genres, gave lustre to some of horror films, this collection of new essays covers the Evil
Hollywood’s brightest stars and was revered by his peers. Dead franchise from a range of perspectives. Topics
Yet his work has been largely neglected by critics and include punk rock cinema, the Deadites’ place in the
scholars. This career retrospective highlights Stevens’ American zombie tradition, the powers and limitations
achievements, particularly in his sweeping “American of Deadites, evil as affect, and the films’ satire of
Dream” trilogy. neoliberal individualism.

HITCHCOCK AND HUMOR PRIMAL ROOTS OF HORROR CINEMA
Comedic Elements in Twelve Defining Films Evolutionary Psychology and Narratives of
Fear
Wes D. Gehring
Carrol L. Fry
Apr 2019 241pp
9781476673561 Paperback £43.50 / €48.00 Feb 2019 188pp
9781476674278 Paperback £43.50 / €48.00
The author grew tired of misleading throwaway
references to the Alfred Hitchcock’s “comic relief.” This Evolutionary criticism tells us much about our tastes in
book examines what should be obvious: Hitchcock the arts. But an understanding of how primal narratives
systematically incorporated assorted types of comedy influence our response to films or novels that enact
- black humour, parody, farce/screwball comedy and them also leads us to a new understanding of human
romantic comedy - in his films to entertain his audience nature and how the adaptive strategies of our ancestors
with “comic” thrillers. can create dysfunction in a modern setting.

ITALIAN GOTHIC HORROR FILMS, THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MOVIEGOING
1980-1989 Choosing, Viewing and Being Influenced by
Films
Roberto Curti
Ashton D. Trice & Hunter W. Greer
Feb 2019 200pp
9781476672434 Paperback £48.50 / €54.00 Mar 2019 176pp
9781476677248 Paperback £43.50 / €48.00
Examines the Italian Gothic films of the 1980s. The book
includes previously unpublished trivia and production Looks at how psychological theory can help us
data taken from official archive papers, original scripts understand an everyday behaviour - going to the
and interviews with filmmakers, scriptwriters and movies. The book investigates what psychologists
actors. Entries include a complete cast and crew list, plot scholars have discovered about how we choose a movie,
summary, production history and analysis. how we process the sounds and images, and how
movies influence our behaviours, attitudes, and beliefs.
THE KELVIN TIMELINE OF STAR TREK
Essays on J.J. Abrams’ Final Frontier SEEING THE BEAT GENERATION
Entering the Literature Through Film
Edited by Matthew Wilhelm Kapell & Ace G. Pilkington
Raj Chandarlapaty
May 2019 169pp
9781476669663 Paperback £43.50 / €48.00 Apr 2019 183pp
9781476675756 Paperback £43.50 / €48.00
In an era of reboots, restarts and retreads, 
J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek trilogy has brought the franchise Film adaptations of Beat literature have proven to
to a new generation and perfected a process central to engage students. This book looks closely at the film
entertainment media: reinvigorating the beloved classic. adaptations of works by such authors as Jack Kerouac,
This book offers the first in-depth analysis of the new Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Carolyn
trilogy and the vision of the next generation of Star Cassady, Amiri Baraka and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, as they
Trek filmmakers. relate to American history and literary studies.

ARTS & HUMANITIES 43

PERFORMING ARTS
FILM & TV

TAKASHI SHIMURA BUMPY ROAD
Chameleon of Japanese Cinema The Making, Flop, and Revival of
Two-Lane Blacktop
Scott Allen Nollen
Sylvia Townsend
Mar 2019 207pp
9781476670133 Paperback £43.50 / €48.00 Jan 2019 240pp
9781496820952 Paperback £30.50 / €34.00
Considered one of the finest performers in world cinema,
Japanese actor Takashi Shimura (1905-1982) appeared Chronicles the genesis, production, box-office debacle,
in more than 300 stage, film and television roles during resurrection, near-canonization, and lasting influence of
his five-decade career. This is the first complete English- director Monte Hellman’s 1971 existentialist car-racing
language account of Shimura’s work. In addition to movie. Sylvia Townsend conducts a comprehensive
historical and critical coverage, it includes an extensive examination of the film, its reception, and the
filmography. resurgence of interest it has more recently generated.

TONY SCOTT CHINA IN THE MIX
A Filmmaker on Fire Cinema, Sound, and Popular Culture in the
Age of Globalization
Larry Taylor
Ying Xiao
Feb 2019 149pp
9781476675664 Paperback Mar 2019 326pp, 20 b&w illustrations
£37.95 / €42.00 9781496823472 Paperback £30.50 / €34.00

Tony Scott was a thrill Scarce attention has been paid to the dimension of
seeker who lived and loved sound and its essential role in constructing image,
life to the fullest... He culture, and identity in Chinese film and media. China
was also one of the more in the Mix fills a critical void with the first book on the
cutting edge filmmakers sound, languages, scenery, media, and culture in post-
of his generation. With Socialist China.
original interviews from
actors, cinematographers, THE FILMS OF DOUGLAS SIRK
and writers, Scott’s larger-than-life persona is covered in Exquisite Ironies and Magnificent Obsessions
great detail, from the early days of his life and career, to
its untimely end. Tom Ryan

University Press of Mississippi Jun 2019 320pp, 44 b&w illustrations
9781496822376 Paperback £30.50 / €34.00
BARBARA KOPPLE
Interviews Douglas Sirk (1897-1987) brought to all his work a
distinctive style that led to his reputation as one of
Edited by Gregory Brown twentieth-century film’s great directors. This book offers
fresh insights into all of the director’s films and situates
Mar 2019 214pp them in the culture of their times. Tom Ryan also
9781496823298 Paperback £25.50 / €28.00 incorporates extensive interview material drawn from a
Conversations with Filmmakers Series variety of sources.

Barbara Kopple has established herself as one of the
most prolific filmmakers of her generation. Her projects
have ranged from documentaries to feature films to an
educational series for kids. Through it all, Kopple has
made herself available for many print and broadcast
interviews. The most revealing of these are brought
together in this volume.

ARTS & HUMANITIES

PERFORMING ARTS
44 FILM & TV

JAFAR PANAHI Rutgers University Press
Interviews
BORDER CINEMA
Edited by Drew Todd Reimagining Identity Through Aesthetics

Jun 2019 176pp Edited by Monica Hanna & Rebecca A. Sheehan
9781496823205 Paperback £25.50 / €28.00
Conversations with Filmmakers Series Mar 2019 244pp, 10 illustrations
9781978803152 Paperback £25.50 / €29.00
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi is as famous for his Global Media and Race
remarkable films as for his courageous defiance of Iran’s
state censorship. In sparkling, lively interviews, Panahi Demonstrates how border cinema resists contemporary
reveals his influences, politics, and filmmaking practices, border fortification processes, showing how cinematic
and explains the challenges he faces while working media have functioned to engender shifts in identities
within (and often around) Iran’s heavily restricted film while proposing alternative conceptions of these
industry. identities to those promulgated by the current political
rhetoric and ideologies that represent a backlash to
PULLING A RABBIT globalization.
OUT OF A HAT
The Making of CRIMINALIZATION/
Roger Rabbit ASSIMILATION
Chinese/Americans
Ross Anderson and Chinatowns in
Classical Hollywood
Jun 2019 352pp, Film
30 b&w illustrations
9781496822338 Paperback Philippa Gates
£30.50 / €34.00
Mar 2019 280pp, 15 images
Ross Anderson interviewed 9780813589411 Paperback
over 140 artists to tell the £29.50 / €34.00
story of how, with Who
Framed Roger Rabbit, they Traces how Classical
created something truly Hollywood films
magical. Anderson describes the ways in which the constructed America’s
Roger Rabbit characters have been used in film shorts, image of Chinese
commercials, and merchandising, and how they have Americans from their criminalization as unwanted
remained a cultural touchstone today. immigrants to their eventual acceptance when
assimilated citizens, exploiting both America’s yellow
Northwestern University Press peril fears about Chinese immigration and its fascination
with Chinatowns.

HITCHCOCK’S PEOPLE, PLACES, DEAD AND ALIVE
AND THINGS The Body as a Cinematic Thing

John Bruns Lesley Stern

May 2019 232pp, 30 b&w images Feb 2019 60pp
9780810139954 Paperback £37.95 / €42.00 9780981191454 Paperback £10.95 / €13.00
Kino-Agora
Argues that Alfred Hitchcock was as much a filmmaker
of things and places as he was of people. Drawing on the Lesley Stern is more interested in things than in death.
thought of Bruno Latour, John Bruns traces the complex It is thus the liveliness of corpses that lures her. Not
relations of human and nonhuman agents in Hitchcock’s dead bodies which act as though they were alive, nor
films with the aim of mapping the Hitchcock landscape live bodies which may really be dead, nor bodies which
cognitively, affectively, and politically. may in fact be composited, or even digitally constructed
bodies. Rather, ordinary, old-fashioned bodies.

Caboose

ARTS & HUMANITIES 45

PERFORMING ARTS
FILM & TV

THE MOVIES AS A TRANSGENDER CINEMA
WORLD FORCE
American Silent Rebecca Bell-Metereau
Cinema and the
Utopian Imagination Mar 2019 130pp
9780813597331 Paperback £15.50 / €18.00
Ryan Jay Friedman Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture

Feb 2019 232pp, Gives readers the big picture of how trans people have
25 b&w illustrations been depicted on screen. The book examines a plethora
9780813593593 Paperback of trans portrayals that emerged from varied media
£25.50 / €29.00 outlets, including documentary films, television serials,
and world cinema. Along the way, it analyses milestones
Throughout the silent- in trans representation.
feature era, American
artists and intellectuals UNDEAD ENDS
routinely described cinema Stories of Apocalypse
as a force of global communion, a universal language
promoting mutual understanding and harmonious S. Trimble
coexistence amongst disparate groups of people.
This book examines the body of writing in which this May 2019 224pp,
understanding of cinema emerged and explores how it 15 b&w illustrations
shaped particular silent films. 9780813593647 Paperback
£25.50 / €29.00
THE NEW CINEPHILIA
Examines how we imagine
Girish Shambu humanness and survival in
the aftermath of disaster.
Feb 2019 65pp The book frames modern
9780991830183 Paperback £10.95 / €13.00 British and American
Kino-Agora apocalypse films as sites
of interpretive struggle,
Cinephilic practice today - viewing, thinking, reading and asks what is ending? Whose dreams of starting over
and writing about films - is marked by an unprecedented take centre stage? And how do these films make room
amount of social interaction, made possible by to dream of new beginnings that don’t just reboot the
dramatically lower economic barriers to publication world we know?
through the internet, giving rise to new hybrid forms of
cinephilic writing that draw from scholarly, journalistic Syracuse University Press
and literary models.
BECOMING
Caboose Genre, Queerness, and Transformation in
NBC’s Hannibal
SOME KIND OF MIRROR
Creating Marilyn Monroe Edited by Kavita Mudan Finn & E. J. Nielsen

Amanda Konkle May 2019 328pp
9780815636366 Paperback £37.95 / €42.00
Feb 2019 280pp, 31 b&w illustrations Television and Popular Culture
9781978802612 Paperback £25.50 / €29.00
Explores questions of authorship and audience
Offers the first extended scholarly analysis of Marilyn response as well as themes of horror, gore,
Monroe’s film performances, examining how they united cannibalism, queerness, and transformation in the NBC
the contradictory discourses about women’s roles in series Hannibal. Contributors also address Hannibal’s
1950s America. Amanda Konkle suggests that Monroe’s distinctive visual, auditory, and narrative style.
star persona resonated with audiences precisely because
it engaged with the era’s critical debates regarding
femininity, sexuality, marriage, and political activism.

ARTS & HUMANITIES

PERFORMING ARTS
46 FILM & TV · MUSIC

GLADIATORS IN SUITS DECODING DYLAN
Race, Gender, and the Politics of Making Sense of the
Representation in Scandal Songs That Changed
Modern Culture
Edited by Simone Puff, Kimberly R. Moffitt &
Ronald L. Jackson Jim Curtis

May 2019 400pp May 2019 149pp
9780815636403 Paperback £43.50 / €48.00 9781476678450 Paperback
Television and Popular Culture £37.95 / €42.00

Analyses the communication, politics, stereotypes, Taking readers behind Bob
and genre techniques featured in the television Dylan’s familiar image as
series Scandal while raising key questions about the the enigmatic rebel of the
intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and viewing 1960s, this book reveals
audiences. a different view-that of
a careful craftsman and
Wayne State University Press student of the art of songwriting.

AFRICAN AMERICAN CINEMA THROUGH University of Michigan Press
BLACK LIVES CONSCIOUSNESS
THE BEATLES THROUGH A GLASS ONION
Edited by Mark A. Reid Reconsidering the White Album

Jan 2019 312pp, 34 b&w images Mark Osteen
9780814345481 Paperback £32.50 / €36.00
Mar 2019 328pp, 15 musical examples
Uses critical race theory to discuss American films that 9780472074082 Hardback £67.50 / €77.00
embrace contemporary issues of race, sexuality, class, Tracking Pop
and gender. Its linear history chronicles black-oriented
narrative film from post-World War II through the The Beatles, the 1968 double LP more commonly
presidential administration of Barack Obama. known as the White Album, has always been viewed
as an oddity in the group’s oeuvre. Many have found it
MUSIC to be inconsistent, sprawling, and self-indulgent. The
Beatles through a Glass Onion is the first-ever scholarly
volume to explore this seminal recording at length.

McFarland University Press of Mississippi

BLACK CLASSICAL MUSICIANS AND ANALYSIS OF JAZZ
COMPOSERS, 1500-2000 A Comprehensive Approach

Rodreguez King-Dorset Laurent Cugny

Apr 2019 135pp Apr 2019 384pp, 78 b&w illustrations
9781476669762 Paperback £43.50 / €48.00 9781496821898 Paperback £35.50 / €39.00

Covering the lives and works of such composers as American Made Music Series
Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor,
Scott Joplin and Margaret Alison Bonds, this book In this groundbreaking volume, Laurent Cugny examines
examines the black classical music legacy with profiles and connects the theoretical and methodological
of key artists who made valuable contributions that processes that underlie all of jazz. Jazz in all its forms is
impacted classical music from the 16th through the 21st researched and analysed by performers, scholars, and
century. critics. This book is required reading for any serious study
of jazz.

ARTS & HUMANITIES 47

PERFORMING ARTS
MUSIC

CREOLE TROMBONE TIME OF MY LIFE
Kid Ory and the Early Years of Jazz A Jazz Journey from London to New Orleans

John McCusker Clive Wilson
Foreword by Thomas A. Sancton
Mar 2019 272pp
9781496823427 Paperback £25.50 / €28.00 Apr 2019 202pp, 30 b&w illustrations
9781496821171 Hardback £25.50 / €28.00
American Made Music Series American Made Music Series

Edward ’Kid’ Ory (1886-1973) was a trombonist, New Orleans is a Mecca for jazz pilgrims. This memoir
composer, recording artist, and early New Orleans jazz tells the story of one aspiring pilgrim, Clive Wilson, who
band leader. Creole Trombone tells his story from birth fell in love with New Orleans jazz in his early teens while
on a rural sugar cane plantation in a French-speaking, in boarding school in England.
ethnically mixed family, to his emergence in New Orleans
as the city’s hottest band leader.

DICK WATERMAN The University of North Carolina Press
A Life in Blues
MUSIC MAKERS
Tammy L. Turner Portraits and Songs from the Roots of
Foreword by Edward Komara America

May 2019 304pp, Edited by Timothy Duffy
38 b&w illustrations Foreword by B.B. King
9781496822697 Hardback
£28.50 / €31.00 Feb 2019 216pp, 142 illustrations
American Made Music Series 9781469651699 Paperback £32.50 / €36.00

During his career, Dick Features photographs, biographies, interviews, and
Waterman befriended and lyrics from sixty-six real and rooted originals such
worked with numerous as Beverly ’Guitar’ Watkins, Cootie Stark, Mudcat,
musicians, including Macavine Hayes, and Drink Small. The music of
such luminaries as B.B. America exists in these largely forgotten artists who
King, Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal, and Eric Clapton. This link us back to our earliest history.
authorised biography is the crescendo of years of original
research as well as extensive interviews conducted with Rutgers University Press
Waterman and those who knew and worked with him.
DESTRUCTIVE DESIRES
THE ORIGINAL BLUES Rhythm and Blues Culture and the Politics of
The Emergence of the Blues in African Racial Equality
American Vaudeville
Robert J. Patterson
Lynn Abbott & Doug Seroff
Apr 2019 206pp, 25 illustrations
Mar 2019 432pp, 187 b&w illustrations 9781978803589 Paperback £25.50 / €29.00
9781496823267 Paperback £40.50 / €45.00
American Made Music Series Analyses how post-Civil Rights era rhythm and blues
culture articulates competing and conflicting political,
With this volume, Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff social, familial, and economic desires within and for
complete their groundbreaking trilogy on the African American communities.
development of African American popular music. The
authors bring to life the performers, entrepreneurs,
critics, venues, and institutions that were most crucial to
the emergence of the blues in black southern vaudeville
theatres.

ARTS & HUMANITIES
48 PHILOSOPHY

The Catholic University of America Press

PHILOSOPHY THE ETHICS OF ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
Happiness, Natural Law, and the Virtues
Academic Studies Press
Leo J. Elders
THE EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN ARTS
Aesthetics After Darwin. Competition, Feb 2019 316pp
Cooperation, Self-Transformation: Alexander 9780813231983 Paperback £38.50 / €42.00
G. Baumgarten, Alexander von Humboldt,
Immanuel Kant, and Lawrence Sterne Presents Thomas Aquinas’s thought on such central
questions as man’s happiness, how to determine the
Winfried Menninghaus morality of our actions, the natural law and the main
virtues, as well as on the common good, war, human
Jun 2019 200pp labour, love and friendship. Throughout the book
9781644690000 Hardback £97.95 / €109.00 the intellectual character of this moral philosophy is
Evolution, Cognition, and the Arts pointed out.

Discusses Competitive Courtship and Aesthetic NEW IN PAPERBACK
Judgement/Choice; The Arts as Promoters of Social
Cooperation and Cohesion; Engagement in the Arts as KAROL WOJTYLA’S PERSONALIST
Ontogenetic Self-(Trans-)Formation; and A Cooptation
Model of the Evolution of the Human Arts. PHILOSOPHY

Broadview Press Understanding ‘Person and Act’

PHILEBUS Miguel Acosta & Adrian J. Reimers

Plato Jan 2019 288pp
Edited by James Wood 9780813231976 Paperback £38.50 / €42.00

Mar 2019 200pp For full details of this title, see page 59.
9781554813735 Paperback £15.95 / €18.00
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF PHILOSOPHY
One of Plato’s more sophisticated dialogues, Philebus is
presented here in a thoroughly-annotated translation Brian J. Shanley
informed by recent scholarship.
Jan 2019 312pp
Canadian Scholars 9780813232102 Paperback £38.50 / €42.00
Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, Vol. 36
CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
Written by acknowledged experts in their fields, the
Irving M. Zeitlin essays in this collection provide a unique overview of
philosophical developments in the twentieth century.
Mar 2019 290pp The broad range of topics considered makes the book an
9781773381015 Paperback £64.95 / €72.00 invaluable reference work.

For full details of this title, see page 61. THOMISTIC EXISTENTIALISM AND
COSMOLOGICAL REASONING

John F.X. Knasas

Jun 2019 328pp
9780813231853 Hardback £71.50 / €77.00

Cosmological reasoning is an important facet of
classical arguments for the existence of God, but
these arguments have been subject to may criticisms.
The thesis of this book is that Thomas Aquinas can
dodge many of the classic objections brought against
cosmological reasoning.

ARTS & HUMANITIES
PHILOSOPHY 49

Cognella Academic Publishing Northwestern University Press

FROM WONDER DISTRIBUTIONS OF THE SENSIBLE
TO WISDOM Rancière, Between Aesthetics and Politics
Introductory
Readings in Scott Durham & Dilip Gaonkar
Philosophy
Jun 2019 264pp, 7 b&w images
Edited by Fidel A. Arnecillo Jr. 9780810140271 Paperback £43.50 / €48.00

Jan 2019 222pp Jacques Rancière’s work is increasingly central to several
9781516531745 Paperback debates across the humanities. Distributions of the
£68.95 / €76.00 Sensible confronts a question at the heart of his thought:
How should we conceive the relationship between the
Presents key, foundational “politics of aesthetics” and the “aesthetics of politics”?
selections in Western
philosophy. This anthology features engaging readings HEGEL’S THEORY OF NORMATIVITY
about God, the mind, knowledge, and human morality The Systematic Foundations of the
to help students better understand both themselves and Philosophical Science of Right
those around them.
Kevin Thompson
EDITIONES SCHOLASTICAE
May 2019 144pp
ARISTOTLE’S REVENGE 9780810139923 Paperback £37.95 / €42.00
The Metaphysical Foundations of Physical and
Biological Science Hegel’s Elements of the Philosophy of Right offers an
innovative account of normativity, yet the theory rests
Richard Feser on philosophical foundations that have remained largely
obscure. Kevin Thompson proposes an interpretation of
Jan 2019 515pp the foundations that underlie Hegel’s theory: its method
9783868382006 Paperback £25.50 / €28.00 of justification, its concept of freedom, and its account
of right.
Actuality and potentiality, substantial form and prime
matter, efficient causality and teleology are among the KANTIAN TRANSPOSITIONS
fundamental concepts of Aristotelian philosophy of Derrida and the Philosophy of Religion
nature. Aristotle’s Revenge argues that these concepts
are not only compatible with modern science, but are Eddis N. Miller
implicitly presupposed by modern science.
Jun 2019 152pp
University of Michigan Press 9780810140929 Paperback £43.50 / €48.00

KANT’S INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Presents an important new reading of Jacques
The Political Theology of Perpetual Peace Derrida’s writings on religion and ethics. Eddis Miller
argues that Derrida’s late texts on religion constitute
Sean Patrick Molloy an interrogation of the meaning and possibility of a
“philosophy of religion”.
Jan 2019 270pp
9780472037391 Paperback £25.50 / €29.00 KANT’S NONIDEAL THEORY OF POLITICS

Why does Immanuel Kant consistently invoke God Dilek Huseyinzadegan
and Providence in his most prominent texts relating
to international politics? In this wide-ranging study, Apr 2019 224pp
Seán Molloy proposes that these texts cannot be 9780810139879 Paperback £37.95 / €42.00
fully understood without reference to Kant’s wider
philosophical projects, and in particular the role of belief Argues that Kant’s political thought must be understood
in God. by reference to his philosophy of history, cultural
anthropology, and geography. The thesis is that Kant’s
assessment of the politically salient features of history,
culture, and geography generates a non-ideal theory
of politics, which supplements his ideal theory of
cosmopolitanism.