Humanities & Social Sciences Quarterly Review (May-July 2014)

Gazelle AcademicQuarterly Review

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May 2014 - July 2014

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CONTENTS

ANTHROPOLOGY - JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN ETHNOLOGY 2

ANTHROPOLOGY - THE MIDDLE & NEAR EAST 3

ARCHAEOLOGY - CLASSICAL GREEK & ROMAN 3

CLASSICAL STUDIES - DRAMA 4

CLASSICAL STUDIES - HISTORY 4

EDUCATION - HIGHER EDUCATION 5

FILM & MEDIA STUDIES - JEAN-LUC GODARD 6

HISTORY - MEDIEVAL 7

HISTORY - REFORMATION 7

HISTORY - EARLY MODERN 8

HISTORY - EARLY COLONIALISM 8

HISTORY - WORLD WAR I 9

HISTORY - WORLD WAR II 10

HISTORY - THE HOLOCAUST 11

HISTORY - THE MIDDLE EAST 11

LITERARY STUDIES - 19TH CENTURY 12

LITERARY STUDIES - 20TH CENTURY 12

LITERARY STUDIES - ANTON CHEKHOV 13

LITERARY STUDIES - LIFE WRITING 13

PHILOSOPHY - ARISTOTLE 14

PHILOSOPHY - THOMAS AQUINAS 15

PHILOSOPHY - RENAISSANCE 15

PHILOSOPHY - EDMUND HUSSERL 15

POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - EUROPE 16

POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - ISRAEL & THE MIDDLE EAST 18

POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - NIGERIA 18

POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - RUSSIA & EASTERN EUROPE 19

POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - U.S. FOREIGN POLICY 23

POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - DEMOCRACY 23


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POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES 24

POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - WRITING POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY 24

PSYCHOLOGY 25

SOCIAL STUDIES - FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS 26

SOCIAL STUDIES - SOCIAL RESEARCH 26

THEATRE & DRAMA STUDIES 27

THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES - CHRISTIANITY 28

WRITING & STUDY SKILLS 29

ASIAN STUDIES - CHINA 29

CANADIAN STUDIES 30

CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPEAN STUDIES 31

LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES 32

PACIFIC STUDIES 33

SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES 34

ANTHROPOLOGY - JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN ETHNOLOGY

ETHNOLOGIA EUROPAEAJOURNAL OF EUROPEAN ETHNOLOGYVolume 43:2Hakan Jonsson

With celebrity chefs and the integration of food into the lifestyle and entertainment industriescontrasting with ever-growing fears over food safety, availability, and affordability, there is noquestion that food culture faces new questions today. This book explores the quickly changingdynamics of food production, distribution, and consumption. Examining everyday foodpractices, the contributors explore topics ranging from the search for traditional foods inmarkets otherwise dominated by cheap and heavily processed ones to the ways digitalcommunication supports the local organic produce industry.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Håkan Jönsson is associate professor in the Department of CulturalSciences, Division of European Ethnology, at Lund University in Sweden.

PB 9788763541510 £19.99 January 2014 Museum Tusculanum Press 92 pages


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ANTHROPOLOGY - THE MIDDLE & NEAR EAST

THE CHARM OF GRAVESPerceptions of Death & After-Death Among the Negev BedouinGideon M. Kressel, Sasson Bar-Zvi, Aref Abu-Rabi’a

The authors provide a comprehensive picture of burial, mourning rituals, commemorationpractices and veneration of the dead among the Negev Bedouin. A primary emphasis is thepivotal linkages between the living and the dead embodied in the intermediary role of healers,sorcerers, seers and other arbitrators between heaven and earth, who supplicate - publicly andprivately - at the gravesite of chosen awliyâh (deceased saints).

The Charm of Graves brings together integrated findings of three scholars, based on decades offield work that combine close to 65 years of scrutiny. It maps out the locations andparticularities of venerated tombs, the identity of the occupants and their individual abilitiesvis-à-vis the Almighty. Attitudes, beliefs and customs surrounding each gravesite, whencombined on a longitudinal scale, reveal changes over time in beliefs and practices in graveworship and burial, mourning and condolence customs. Analysis of the data reveals that thedynamic of grave worship among the Negev Bedouin throws light on ancient traditions in acomplex relationship with mainstream Islamic doctrine and the impact of modernity onBedouin conduct and belief.

The authors’ observations and interviews with practitioners about their beliefs are comparedand augmented with references that exist in the professional literature, including graveworship elsewhere in the Arab world. The Charm of Graves is essential reading foranthropologists, scholars of the sociology of religion, and students of Islam at university andpopular levels. The topic has received only marginal attention in existing anthropological worksand has been keenly awaited.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Gideon M. Kressel is professor emeritus at Ben-Gurion University’sBlaustein Institute for Desert Research.Sasson Bar-Zvi (deceased 2012) served as Military Governor of the Negev (1963-68), and hadlasting personal involvement with the social concerns of the tribes.‘Aref Abu-Rabi’a observes the Bedouin past and present from a unique position of participant-observer, and is a professor in the Department of Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University.

HB 9781845195847 £65.00 April 2014 Sussex Academic Press 256 pages

ARCHAEOLOGY - CLASSICAL GREEK & ROMAN

POTTERY, PEOPLES & PLACESStudy & Interpretation of Late Hellenistic PotteryEdited by Pia Guldager Bilde, Mark L. Lawall

The late Hellenistic period, spanning the 2nd and early 1st centuries BC, was a time of greattumult and violence thanks to nearly incessant warfare. At the same time the period saw thegreatest expansion of 'Hellenistic' Greek culture, including ceramics. Papers in this volumeexplore problems of ceramic chronology (often based on evidence dependent on the violentnature of the period), survey trends in both production and consumption of Hellenisticceramics particularly in Asia Minor and the Pontic region, and assess the impact of Hellenisticceramic culture across much of the eastern Mediterranean and into the Black Sea.

HB 9788779345324 £45.00 April 2014 Aarhus University Press 383 pages


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CLASSICAL STUDIES - DRAMA

SOPHOCLES - PHILOCTETESTranslated, with Introduction and Notes, by Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff

First published in Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's Sophocles: Four Tragedies, this rivetingtranslation by Peter Meineck of Sophocles' Philoctetes features a new Introduction by PaulWoodruff.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Peter Meineck is Founder of Aquila Theatre and Associate

Professor of Classics, New York University. Paul Woodruff is Professor of Philosophy andClassics, The University of Texas at Austin.

REVIEWS: “In these new translations [of Four Tragedies] Meineck and Woodruff have struck

a near-ideal balance between accuracy and readability, formality and colloquialism. Theirversions are simply a pleasure to read, conveying with remarkable vividness the powerfulcharacterizations and poetic variety of the originals. The addition of succinct but illuminatingnotes makes this an exemplary volume for anyone interested in Sophocles' dramatic art.”Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, Department of Classics, Wesleyan University

HB 9781624661235 £24.95 April 2014 Hackett Publishing 112 pagesPB 9781624661228 £7.95 April 2014 Hackett Publishing 112 pages

CLASSICAL STUDIES - HISTORY

ANCIENT ROMEAn Anthology of SourcesEdited and Translated, with an Introduction, by Christopher Francese and R. Scott Smith

REVIEWS: “Terrific…exactly the sort of collection we have long needed: one offering a wide

range of texts, both literary and documentary, and that - with the inclusion of Sulpicia andPerpetua - allows students to hear the voices of actual women from the ancient world. Thetranslations themselves are fluid; the inclusion of long extracts allows students to sink theirteeth into material in ways not possible with traditional source books.

“The anonymous texts, inscriptions, and other non-literary material topically arranged in the‘Documentary’ section will enable students to see how the documentary evidence supplementsor undermines the views advanced in the literary texts. This is a book that should be of greatuse to anyone teaching a survey of the history of Ancient Rome or a Roman Civilization course. Ilook forward to teaching with this book which is, I think, the best source book I have seen forthe way we teach these days.”David Potter, University of Michigan



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HERODOTUS - HISTORIESTranslated by Pamela MenschEdited, with Introduction and Notes, by James Romm

REVIEWS: “This edition reproduces the fluent pace and readability of Herodotus' world-

encompassing work. Mensch has produced a close translation of Herodotus' Greek that is alsoan engrossing read in English. As an old-time Herodotean, I found myself drawn into Herodotus'universe of history and story all over again. Combined with Romm's elegant introduction, whichconveys the lure of Herodotus' work, the lucid maps and tables, and the pertinent, unclutterednotes, this is an edition to read for pleasure and for education. I recommend it to futurestudents of Herodotus and their instructors, and to any reader who wants to discover andrediscover Herodotus in a vibrant new translation.”Emily Greenwood, Yale University


DAILY LIFE OF THE ANCIENT GREEKS (Second Edition)Robert Garland

Significantly expanded and updated in light of the most recent scholarship, the second editionof Garland's engaging introduction to ancient Greek society brings this world vividly to life --and, in doing so, explores the perspectives and morals of typical ancient Greek citizens across awide range of societal levels. Food and drink, literacy, the plight of the elderly, the treatment ofslaves, and many more aspects of daily life in ancient Greece also come into sharp focus. Oversixty illustrations are included, as are maps, a chronology, a glossary of Greek terms, andsuggestions for further reading.

PB 9781624661297 £10.95 April 2014 Hackett Publishing 368 pages

EDUCATION - HIGHER EDUCATION

ACADEMIC TEACHINGMaja Elmgren, Ann-Sofie Henriksson

This is a comprehensive, research-based textbook on teaching and learning in higher education.It is written from the point of view of teachers engaged in teaching and learning practices inhigher education. New challenges require university teachers to work very efficiently. This bookforms a contribution to advancing integrated perspectives, increased knowledge, personaldevelopment, pedagogical competence and raised awareness.

The authors provide a starting point, based on many years of experience as university teachersand pedagogical developers, for reflections on teaching and learning practices by posing anumber of questions such as: What factors contribute to the promotion of learning in highereducation? What is my own fundamental view on teaching and learning? How do I base myteaching on students’ requirements and needs? How can I vary teaching activities andassessment in order to promote learning? How can I develop as a teacher? Academic teachingcan be used in higher education teacher training. It is also suitable for individual teachers’competence development.

PB 9789144101019 £45.00 April 2014 Studentlitteratur AB 362 pages


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FILM & MEDIA STUDIES - JEAN-LUC GODARD

THE LEGACIES OF JEAN-LUC GODARDEdited by Douglas Morrey, Christina Stojanova, Nicole Côté

The artistic impact of Jean-Luc Godard, whose career in cinema has spanned over fifty yearsand yielded a hundred or more discrete works in different media cannot be overestimated, notonly on French and other world cinemas, but on fields as diverse as television, video art, galleryinstallation, philosophy, music, literature, and dance.

The Legacies of Jean-Luc Godard marks an initial attempt to map the range and diversity ofGodard’s impact across these different fields. It contains reassessments of key films like Vivresa vie and Passion as well as considerations of Godard’s influence over directors like ChristopheHonoré. Contributors look at Godard’s relation to philosophy and influence over filmphilosophy through reference to Wittgenstein, Deleuze, and Cavell, and show how Godard’swork in cinema interacts with other arts, such as painting, music, and dance. They suggest thatGodard’s late work makes important contributions to debates in memory and HolocaustStudies.

The volume will appeal to a non-specialist audience with its discussions of canonical films andtreatment of themes popular within film studies programs such as cinema and ethics. But it willalso attract academic specialists on Godard with its chapters on recent works, including Dans lenoir du temps (2002) and Voyage(s) en utopie (2006), interventions in long-running academicdebates (Godard, the Holocaust, and anti- Semitism), and treatment of rarely discussed areasof Godard’s work (choreographed movement).

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Douglas Morrey is an associate professor of French at the

University of Warwick. He is the author of Jean-Luc Godard (2005) and the co-author of JacquesRivette (2009). He is currently researching the legacy of the New Wave in French cinema.Christina Stojanova is an associate professor in film and media studies at the University ofRegina. She is the co-editor, with Bela Szabados, of Wittgenstein at the Movies (2011). She iscurrently working on her book on new Romanian cinema.Nicole Côté is an associate professor at Université de Sherbrooke. She is a member of VERSUS,a group researching representations intersecting race/gender/ class in literature, video, andcinema. She has published several articles and book chapters, edited two shortstoryanthologies, and co-edited three books, most recently, Expressions culturelles desfrancophonies (2008).

PB 9781554589203 £40.99 January 2014 Wilfrid Laurier University Press 235 pages


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HISTORY - MEDIEVAL

MONASTIC CULTUREThe Long Thirteenth Century - Essays in Honour of Brian Patrick McGuireEdited by Lars Bisgaard, Sigga Engsbro, Kurt Villads Jensen, Tore Nyberg

Monasteries were important cultural centres in the Middle Ages. Here, classical authors werecopied and studied, new music and new sermons were composed, and new standards fromabroad were introduced and spread throughout an ever larger Europe. Monks and nunscreated European networks, connecting them to individuals with whom they shared particularinterests in theology and learning, but they also had a keen eye for the importance ofcultivating connections to local magnates and kings. In the long thirteenth century, new orderslike the mendicants emerged, and monastic life as a whole flourished. Sustainedexperimentation, the adaptation of new intellectual inspirations and the adjustment oforganisational structures were major characteristics. There was a balance betweencontemplating the transcendent and securing the material foundation that allowed theindividual monk or nun to disappear into the Divine. Monastic communities were powerfulcentres for innovation that decisively influenced secular life and shaped European history.

The thirteen studies in this volume are offered in honour of Professor Brian Patrick McGuire, arecognised authority on the Cistercians, and in acknowledgement of his significant contributionto European monastic culture.

PB 9788776747749 £29.00 February 2014 University Press of Southern Denmark 328 pages

HISTORY - REFORMATION

HERETICS WITHINAnthony Wotton, John Goodwin & the Orthodox DivinesDavid Parnham

When, early in the seventeenth century, the puritan pastor Anthony Wotton started tocirculate manuscript statements of his theological revision, he was courting danger. Wottonwas at once bold and subtle, a provocation to clerical brethren yet a skilled exponent of theirtechnical disciplines. He addressed matters of fundamental importance: Christ’s redemptivesuffering and the imputation of justifying righteousness, God’s saving grace and the moral law,faith and works, the gracious covenant and the legal covenant. Crucially important, for Wotton,was the interpretation of St. Paul’s epistles in relation to the justification of sinners.

This book examines Wotton’s revisionary writings and the bitter doctrinal controversy that theystimulated, and traces the Wottonian complexion of the theology of John Goodwin, whobecame, over the course of a period of thirty years, a prolific exponent of unorthodox notions -perhaps the most provocative of England’s learned “heretics” and “blasphemers” in the age ofthe Long Parliament and the Interregnum.

Contemporary responses to Wotton and Goodwin reveal how fixed were the core positions oforthodoxy and how worrisome were the challenges posed to them. Wotton and Goodwintrespassed - often in the name of John Calvin - upon some of the borderlands at which unusualuses of technical language became intolerable to the custodians of Calvinist truth. At thesepoints, the contingency of theological language was uncomfortably exposed, and interlocutorsdiscovered how rubbery were the signifiers of doctrine and how unstable the communicationof “truth” could be.

HB 9781845196325 £65.00 May 2014 Sussex Academic Press 400 pages


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HISTORY - EARLY MODERN

THE ROMAN MONSTERAn Icon of the Papal Antichrist in Reformation PolemicsLawrence P Buck

In December 1495 the Tiber River flooded the city of Rome causing extensive drowning anddestruction. When the water finally receded, a rumor began to circulate that a grotesquemonstrosity had been discovered in the muddy detritus - the Roman monster. The creatureitself is inherently fascinating, consisting of an eclectic combination of human and animal bodyparts. The symbolism of these elements, the interpretations that religious controversialists readinto them, and the history of the image itself, help to document antipapal polemics fromfifteenth-century Rome to the Elizabethan religious settlement.

This study examines the iconography of the image of the Roman monster and offers ideologicalreasons for associating the image with the pre-Reformation Waldensians and BohemianBrethren. It accounts for the reproduction and survival of the monster's image in fifteenth-century Bohemia and provides historical background on the topos of the papal Antichrist, aconcept that Philip Melanchthon associated with the monster. It contextualizes Melanchthon'stract, “The Pope-Ass Explained,” within the first five years of the Lutheran movement, and itdocuments the popularity of the Roman monster within the polemical and apocalyptic writingsof the Reformation.

This is a careful examination and interpretation of all relevant primary documents andsecondary historical literature in telling the story of the origins and impact of the most famousmonstrous portent of the Reformation era.

PB 9781612481067 £41.99 March 2014 Truman State University Press 272 pages

HISTORY - EARLY COLONIALISM

THE ESSENTIAL DIAZSelections from The Conquest of New SpainBernal Díaz del CastilloTranslated, with an Introduction and Notes, by Janet Burke and Ted Humphrey

Ideally suited for use in swift-moving surveys of World, Atlantic, and Latin American history,this abridgement of Ted Humphrey and Janet Burke’s 2012 translation of the True Historyprovides key excerpts from Diaz’s text and concise summaries of omitted passages. Included inthis edition is a new preface outlining the social, economic, and political forces that motivatedthe European “discovery” of the New World.

REVIEWS: “Bernal Díaz’s True History of the Conquest of New Spain, the chronicle of an

‘ordinary’ soldier in Hernando Cortés’s army, is the only complete account (other than Cortés’sown) that we have of the Spanish conquest of ancient Mexico. “It makes for consistentlyfascinating reading, and Ted Humphrey and Janet Burke have provided the best, and the mostengaging, translation ever to have appeared in English.”Anthony Pagden, UCLA



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HISTORY - WORLD WAR I

GERMANY’S WESTERN FRONTTranslations from the German Official History of the Great War, 1914, Part 1Edited by Mark Osborne Humphries, John Maker

This multi-volume series in six parts is the first English-language translation of Der Weltkrieg,the German official history of the First World War. Originally produced between 1925 and 1944using classified archival records that were destroyed in the aftermath of the Second WorldWar, Der Weltkrieg is the inside story of Germany’s experience on the Western front. Recordedin the words of its official historians, this account is vital to the study of the war and officialmemory in Weimar and Nazi Germany. Although exciting new sources have been uncovered informer Soviet archives, this work remains the basis of future scholarship. It is essential readingfor any scholar, graduate student, or enthusiast of the Great War.

This volume, the second to be published, covers the outbreak of war in July–August 1914, theGerman invasion of Belgium, the Battles of the Frontiers, and the pursuit to the Marne in earlySeptember 1914. The first month of war was a critical period for the German army and, as theofficial history makes clear, the German war plan was a gamble that seemed to present theonly solution to the riddle of the two-front war. But as the Moltke-Schlieffen Plan was graduallyjettisoned through a combination of intentional command decisions and confusedcommunications, Germany’s hopes for a quick and victorious campaign evaporated.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Mark Humphries is an assistant professor of history at

Memorial University of Newfoundland where he teaches war and society and military history.His books include The Last Plague: Spanish Influenza and the Politics of Public Health(forthcoming) and The Selected Papers of Sir Arthur Currie (2008). His article War’s LongShadow: Masculinity, Medicine, and the Gendered Politics of Trauma, 1914-1939 won the 2010Canadian Historical Review Prize. John Maker received his Ph.D. in history from the Universityof Ottawa in 2010. He currently teaches for the Royal Military College and is a professionalresearcher in Ottawa, Ontario. Wilhelm J. Kiesselbach (translator) was born in Hamburg,Germany, where he completed a B.A. in English and journalism. After emigrating to the UnitedStates he was immediately drafted into the U.S. Army and spent seven years with SeventhArmy Headquarters in Germany as translator and interpreter. For his service in Vietnam, he wasdecorated with the Army Commendation Medal and the Bronze Star.

PB 9781554585007 £40.99 February 2014 Wilfrid Laurier University 570 pages


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HISTORY - WORLD WAR II

MOTHERLODEA Mosaic of Dutch Wartime ExperienceCarolyne Van Der Meer

Motherlode: A Mosaic of Dutch Wartime Experience is Carolyne Van Der Meer’s creativereinterpretation through short stories, poems, and essays of the experiences of her mother andother individuals who spent their childhood in Nazi-occupied Holland or were deeply affectedby wartime in Holland. The book documents the author’s personal journey as she uncovers hermother’s past through their correspondence and discussion and through research in theNetherlands. Motherlode also considers mother–daughter relationships and the effect ofwartime on motherhood.

Motherlode is not about recording precise historical data; rather, it attempts to recover andinterpret the complex emotions of the individuals growing up in wartime. The book is based oninterviews with the author’s mother and other Dutch Canadians, interviews with and lettersfrom Canadian Jewish war veterans, and information provided by individuals with direct orindirect experience of the Dutch Resistance. The creative pieces explore onderduik (goinginto/being in hiding), life in an occupied country, the work of the Dutch Resistance, liberation,collective and individual cultural memory, and the way in which wartime childhoods shapedadulthood for these individuals.

PB 9781771120050 £16.99 January 2014 Wilfrid Laurier University Press 110 pages

Now Available in the UKOUR GLORIOUS PASTLukashenka`s Belarus and the Great Patriotic WarDavid R. Marples

This timely book examines how the regime of President Aliaksandr Lukashenka has used the‘Great Patriotic War’ (1941-45) as a key element in state and identity formation in Belarus. Thecampaign was discernible from 2003 and intensified after a rift with Russia that led to a re-examination of the earlier policy of close political and economic partnership. David R. Marplesfocuses in particular on the years 2009 and 2010, which commemorated two 65thanniversaries: the liberation of Minsk (3 July 1944) and the end of World War II in Europe (9May 1945).

Using a variety of sources, this unique book critically examines the official interpretations of thewar from various angles: the initial invasion, occupation, the Partisans, historic sites andmonuments, films, documentaries, museums, schools, and public occasions commemoratingsome of the major events. Relying on first-hand research, including books recommended by theMinistry of Education, state-controlled media and examinations through personal visits to themajor historic sites and monuments of Belarus, Marples explains and measures theeffectiveness of Lukashenka‘s program. In outlining the main tenets of the state interpretationof the war years, the book highlights the distortions and manipulations of historical evidence aswell as the dismissal of alternative versions as ‘historical revisionism. ‘It assesses the successesand weaknesses of the campaign as well as its long term effects and prospects.

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PB 9783838205748 £39.90 April 2014 ibidem-Verlag 410 pages


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HISTORY - THE HOLOCAUST

Now Available in the UKTHE TREBLINKA DEATH CAMPHistory, Biographies, RemembranceChris Webb & Michal Chocholatý

A number of books have been written on the death camp of Treblinka, but The Treblinka DeathCamp. History, Biographies, Remembrance is unique. Webb and Chocolaty present thedefinitive account of one of history´s most infamous factories of death where approximately800,000 people lost their lives. The Nazis who ran it, the Ukrainian guards and maids, theJewish survivors and the Poles living in the camp´s shadow - every angle is covered in thisastonishingly comprehensive work.

The book attempts to provide a Roll of Remembrance with biographies of the Jews whoperished in the death camp as well as of those who escaped from Treblinka in individual effortsor as part of the mass prisoner uprising on August 2nd, 1943. It also includes unique andpreviously unpublished sketches of the camp´s ramp area and gas chamber, drawn by thesurvivors.


HISTORY - THE MIDDLE EAST

‘A SMALL ROOM IN CLARGES STREET’

War-Time Lectures at the Royal Central Asian Society, 1942-1944Edited by Rosie Llewellyn-Jones

During the darkest days of the Second World War a select group of people gathered together inMayfair to listen to a series of secret lectures organised by the Royal Central Asian Society (nowthe Royal Society for Asian Affairs). Lecturers and their hand-picked audience examined fast-moving events in the Middle East, Persia and Russia with the intention to propose strategies forBritain’s post-war international role. The lecturers were chosen for their inside knowledge ofthese countries: a British General who had visited Russia’s front-line held against the Germaninvasion; an RAF officer who was in Iraq during the pro-German coup by Rashid Ali, and thesubsequent defence of the Habbaniya air base; a Persian-speaking British diplomat stationed inTeheran; a Mancunian of Lebanese descent who spoke frankly about Arab hopes and fears; aHome Officer advisor sent to Moscow to inspect its fire-watching arrangements; and a Polishcountess forcibly transported to a collective farm in Siberia, among others.

Secrecy surrounded these lectures – many of the scripts were marked ‘Secret’ or ‘Confidential’;they were not published in the Society’s Journal, and the audience was warned not to revealthe topics discussed outside the Clarges Street premises. The discussions which followed thelectures were held in the knowledge that frank views could be freely expressed, and areincluded in this volume. Although so much has changed in the international arena, theseseventy-year old lectures, only recently rediscovered in the Society’s Archives, have a peculiarpoignancy and relevance in understanding today’s unquiet Middle East and how war-timeevents and strategies were to shape post-war policy with regard to Arab nationalism and Arabunity.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Rosie Llewellyn-Jones is archivist at the Royal Society for Asian

Affairs.

HB 9781845196332 £50.00 May 2014 Sussex Academic Press 200 pages


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LITERARY STUDIES - 19TH CENTURY

Now Available in the UKFORMAL INVESTIGATIONSAesthetic Style in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Detective FictionEdited by Paul Fox and Koray Melikoglu

The essays in this revised and expanded volume explore a variety of structuring taxonomies,the relationships between the aesthetic forms, styles and methodologies of detective andcrime fiction in the late-Victorian and Edwardian period. The influences on the artists in thegenre are as varied as the interests of the period in scientific method, forensics, archaeology,aesthetics, medicine, and the paranormal. But the formalizing tendencies of investigativeprocess remain, and it is this adherence, in artist and detective alike, to seeing crime and itsresolution as a stylistic imposition of structure on disorder that is under examination.

PB 9783898215930 £24.90 May 2014 ibidem-Verlag 286 pages

LITERARY STUDIES - 20TH CENTURY

THE CREATIVE DIALECTIC IN KAREN BLIXEN’S ESSAYSOn Gender, Nazi Germany & Colonial DesireMarianne Stecher

This new study addresses the provocative essays of Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), an iconic figurein Scandinavia and the Anglo-American world. Celebrated for her literary tales, Karen Blixen’sessays offer sagacious reflections on three significant challenges of the twentieth century:feminism, Nazism, and colonialism.

Karen Blixen (1885-1962) contributed to topical debates in Denmark, particularly during the1950s when her distinct voice on Danish radio became familiar to a nation of listeners. Some ofher lectures, radio addresses, and newspaper chronicles were later published as essays andnow constitute a distinct genre within her work. In this study, Blixen’s most important essaysare critically examined for the first time.

The book demonstrates that a "creative dialectic" informs these essays, an interplay ofcomplementary opposites that Blixen sees as fundamental to human life and artistic creativity.Whether exploring questions of gender and the status of the feminist movement, or the reignof National Socialism in Hitler’s Germany, or colonial race relations under British rule in EastAfrica, Blixen’s observations are insightful, witty, and surprisingly progressive for an authornotable for aristocratic sensibilities. Blixen’s essays are also framed by a "dialectic method,"which develops an idea by drawing on opposing viewpoints in order to arrive at an originalvantage point. The Creative Dialectic of Karen Blixen's Essays builds on archival research,historical study, literary criticism and theory, as well as bilingual readings of Blixen’s renownedliterary work.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Marianne Stecher Ph.D. (UC Berkeley, 1990) is Professor of

Danish and Scandinavian Literature at the University of Washington in Seattle, where sheteaches regularly in the Department of Scandinavian Studies. She has published HistoryRevisited: Fact and Fiction in Thorkild Hansen’s Documentary Works (Camden House, 1997),and edited Twentieth Century Danish Writers (Thomson Gale, 1999) and Danish Writers fromthe Reformation to Decadence 1550-1900 (Thomson Gale 2004).

HB 9788763540612 £39.99 March 2014 Museum Tusculanum Press 300 pages


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Now Available in the UKDECADENCES - MORALITY AND AESTHETICS IN BRITISH LITERATUREEdited by Paul Fox

This revised and expanded volume examines the intersections of aesthetics and morality andasks what Decadence means to art and society at various moments in British literature. As timepasses, the definition of what it takes to be D/decadent changes. The decline from a higherstandard, social malaise, aesthetic ennui - all these ideas presume certain facts about the past,the present, and the linear nature of time itself. To reject the past as a given, and to relish thesubtleties of present nuance, is the beginning of Decadence.

The conflict underlying the contributions to this collection is that of society`s moral contemptvis-a-vis the focus on the fleeting present on part of the purportedly decadent artists; who inturn thought the truly decadent to be the stranglehold society maintained on individualinterpretation and the interpretation of oneself.


LITERARY STUDIES - ANTON CHEKHOV

THREE SISTERSAnton ChekhovTranslated, with an Introduction and Notes, by Sharon Marie Carnicke

First published in her Chekhov: Four Plays and Three Jokes, Sharon Marie Carnicke's eye-opening translation of Three Sisters appears in this edition with a new Introduction thatexpands upon her discussion in Four Plays & Three Jokes of Chekov's innovative dramaturgy -especially as seen in this subtle "melodrama turned inside out".


LITERARY STUDIES - LIFE WRITING

EMBODIED NARRATIVESConnecting Stories, Bodies, Cultures & EcologiesEdited by Laura Formenti, Linden West, Marianne Horsdal

Auto/biography and life history methods can generate deep and rich insights into human lifeand learning. They also celebrate - as this book shows - the complexity and interdependence ofthe many aspects and levels of life that are kept separate by the hegemonic view of learningand research, which is overly functionalist, reductionist, disembodied and disconnected. Storiesare a powerful means, in fact, to illuminate the connections between emotions and meaning,contents and contexts, body and physical space, subjectivities and social structures, both at amicro, messo and macro level, in adult and lifelong learning. A community of researchers whoregularly meet to share ideas and methods, is involved here, building a framework - not unique,but pluralistic and complex - for re-thinking about narrative methods as not only addressed towords, events and meanings, as it is usually thought, but to relationships, contexts, voices,images and metaphors, urban and natural places, cultures, and ecologies.

PB 9788776747473 £26.85 March 2014 University Press of Southern Denmark 308 pages


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PHILOSOPHY - ARISTOTLE

ARISTOTLE'S EMPIRICISMExperience & Mechanics in the 4th Century BCJean de Groot

In Aristotle’s Empiricism, Jean De Groot argues that an important part of Aristotle’s naturalphilosophy has remained largely unexplored. She shows that much of Aristotle’s analysis ofnatural movement is influenced by mathematical mechanics that emerged from latePythagorean thought. De Groot draws upon the pseudo-Aristotelian Physical Problems XVI toreconstruct the context of mechanics of Aristotle’s time and to trace the development ofkinematic thinking from Archytas to the Aristotelian Mechanics. She argues that the influenceof kinematics on Aristotle pinpoints the original meaning of his concept of power, orpotentiality, as a physicalistic meaning addressed to the problem of movement.

De Groot identifies epistemic features of kinematics as a scientific enterprise, includingeconomy of explanation and direct inference to a principle. She shows how these features arewoven into Aristotle’s thinking in the motion books of the Physics, On the Heavens, andMovement of Animals. The book places in doubt both the view that Aristotle’s naturalphilosophy codifies opinions held by convention and, alternatively, the view that the cogency ofhis scientific ideas depends on metaphysics.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Jean de Groot is an associate professor in the School of

Philosophy at The Catholic University of America.

PB 9781930972834 £105.99 April 2014 Parmenides Publishing 468 pages

NICOMACHEAN ETHICSAristotleTranslated, with Introduction and Notes, by C. D. C. Reeve

REVIEWS: “The Nicomachean Ethics remains the most compelling of all works on the good

human life, and readers can now enjoy ready access to it through David Reeve's fluent newtranslation. Accompanied by illuminating commentary and an exceptionally rich index, thevolume is an ideal companion for those aspiring to learn their way around this classic text.”David Sedley, The University of Cambridge



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PHILOSOPHY - THOMAS AQUINAS

AQUINAS - BASIC WORKSThomas AquinasEdited by Jeffrey Hause, Robert Pasnau

Basic Works will enable students to immerse themselves in Aquinas’s thought by offering hisfundamental works without internal abridgements. It will also appeal to anyone in search of anup-to-date, one-volume collection containing Aquinas' essential philosophical contributions -from the Five Ways to the immortality of the soul, and from the nature of happiness to virtuetheory, and on to natural law.


PHILOSOPHY - RENAISSANCE

RENAISSANCE HUMANISMAn Anthology of SourcesEdited and Translated, with an Introduction, by Margaret L. King

REVIEWS: “By far the best collection of sources to introduce readers to Renaissance

humanism in all its many guises. What distinguishes this stimulating and useful anthology is thevision behind it: King shows that Renaissance thinkers had a lot to say, not only about theancient world - one of their habitual passions - but also about the self, how civic experiencewas configured, the arts, the roles and contributions of women, the new science, the ‘new’world, and so much more.”Christopher S. Celenza, Johns Hopkins University


PHILOSOPHY - EDMUND HUSSERL

IDEAS FOR A PURE PHENOMENOLOGY & PHENOMENOLOGICAL PHILOSOPHYFirst Book: General Introduction to Pure PhenomenologyEdmund HusserlTranslated, with Notes and a Translator’s Afterword, by Daniel O. Dahlstrom

REVIEWS: “Husserl's Ideas is one of the most important works of twentieth-century

philosophy, offering a detailed introduction to the phenomenological method, including thereduction, and outlining the overall scope of phenomenological philosophy. Husserl'sexplorations of the a priori structures of intentionality, consciousness, perceptual experience,evidence and rationality continue to challenge contemporary philosophy of mind. DanDahlstrom's accurate and faithful translation, written in pellucid prose and in a fluid, modernidiom, brings this classic work to life for a new generation.”Dermot Moran, University College, Dublin



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POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - EUROPE

EUROPE & ITS INTERIOR OTHER(S)Edited by Helge Holm, Sissel Laegreid, Torgeir Skorgen

Who were and who are the European Other(s), and how have their socio-culturalcircumstances been aesthetically expressed and discussed in works of literature and art inEuropean history?

Members of the interdisciplinary group of researchers "The Borders of Europe" address thesequestions and shed new light on the notion of European transnational identity, self-conscienceand exclusion. Making a mental, space-time journey across and beyond Europe's borders -moving from medieval times to the present, from Istanbul to the northernmost tip of Norway -the authors show how the dangerous dynamics of "Othering", estrangement, intolerance andhatred have become an inherent part of the continent's history.

PB 9788771241280 £30.00 April 2014 Aarhus University Press 216 pages

EUROPE IN ITS OWN EYES, EUROPE IN THE EYES OF THE OTHEREdited by David B. MacDonald, Mary-Michelle DeCoste

What is Europe? Who is European? What do Europe and European identity mean in the twenty-first century? This collection of sixteen essays seeks to answer these questions by focusing onEurope as it is seen through its own eyes and through the eyes of others across a variety ofcultural texts, including sport, film, literature, dance, cartography, and fashion. These texts, asinterpreted here by emerging researchers as well as well-established scholars, enable us toengage with European identities in the plural and to understand what these identities mean inlarger cultural and political contexts.

The interdisciplinary focus of this volume permits an exploration of European identity thatreaches beyond the area of European studies to incorporate understandings of identity fromthe viewpoints of both insider and other. Contributors explore diverse understandings of whatit means to be “other” to a country, a culture, a society, or a subgroup. This book offers a freshperspective on the evolving concept of identity and expands on the existing literature byconsidering the political tensions and social implications of the development of Europeanidentity, as well as its literary, artistic, and cultural manifestations.

HB 9781554588404 £70.99 April 2014 Wilfrid Laurier University Press 240 pages

Now Available in the UKEXPORT PIPELINES FROM THE CIS REGIONGeopolitics, Securitization, and Political Decision-MakingEdited by Andrea Heinrich & Heiko Pleines

This timely collection offers fresh perspectives on the analysis of the ‘New Great Game’ – thefight for access to the former Soviet Union’s energy resources. Thus far the export of crude oiland natural gas has only been assessed through a geopolitical lens, which oversimplifies thepolitical dynamics of the region and neglects to acknowledge the post-Soviet countries asactors in their own right.

Broadening the scope of analysis, this volume brings together insights from various differentangles, including the securitization of energy issues, the formation of post-Soviet energypolicies, and the motives of local business and political actors.

PB 9783838206394 £29.90 February 2014 ibidem-Verlag 300 pages


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‘GOODBYE, SPAIN?’The Question of Independence for CataloniaKathryn Crameri

Support for independence in the Autonomous Community of Catalonia has risen significantlysince 2005. Opinion polls confirm that the idea of holding a legally-binding referendum onindependence is now supported by 80% of Catalans. Many commentators on nationalism inWestern Europe had come to the conclusion that there was no serious threat to the establishednation-states from secessionism within their borders. In The Identity of Nations (2007),Montserrat Guibernau wrote that decentralisation ‘tames secessionism, both by offeringsignificant power and resources to the national minorities it seeks to accommodate and byenticing regional political elites with the power, prestige and perks associated with devolution’.Scott Greer, in Nationalism and Self-Government (2007), wrote that ‘secession seems unlikely’in the Catalan case because the regional political elites have too much to lose by such a moveand are most concerned with winning further autonomy in specific areas that stabilise theirown hold on regional power - a conclusion called into question by the recent radicalisation inCatalan politics and civil society.

Causes for these striking changes in public sentiment include changes in the Catalan politicallandscape since 2003, problems of infrastructure, public apathy with the political process,disillusionment with the Spanish government, a rise in anti-Catalan feeling from otherSpaniards (and a rise in anti-‘Spanish’ feeling among Catalans), the effects of the globalfinancial crisis, and the bumpy ride experienced by Catalonia’s new Statute of Autonomy. Onenotable change has been a shift in the dominant discourse of Catalan nationalism fromconcerns regarding language, culture and identity toward the political and economic welfare ofCatalans. These political and economic discourses have overlaid rather than replaced culturalaspects.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Kathryn Crameri is Head of the School of Modern Languages

and Cultures at the University of Glasgow. Her published work covers Catalan culture, identityand nationalism, and includes Catalonia: National Identity and Cultural Policy 1980-2003(University of Wales Press, 2008). Goodbye, Spain? brings this experience to bear on the crucialissue of the recent and unexpected rise in support for Catalan independence.

HB 9781845196592 £50.00 June 2014 Sussex Academic Press 224 pages

THE MUSLIM STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS IN SPAINPromoting Democracy Through Migrant Engagement, 1985-2010Aitana Guia

In this history of Spain since 1975, with the collapse of dictatorship and transition todemocracy, Aitana Guia demonstrates that a key factor left out of studies on the period -namely immigration and specifically Muslim immigration - has helped reinvigorate andstrengthen the democratic process. Despite broad diversity and conflicting agendas, Muslimimmigrants - often linking up with native converts to Islam—have mobilized as an effectiveforce. They have challenged the long tradition of Maurophobia exemplified in such mainstreamfestivities as the Festivals of Moors and Christians; they have taken to task residents andofficials who have stood in the way of efforts to construct mosques; and they have defied themembers of their own community who have refused to accommodate the rights of women.

Beginning in Melilla, in Spanish-held North Africa, and expanding across Spain, the effect of thiscivil rights movement has been to fill gaps in legislation on immigration and religious pluralismand to set in motion a revision of prevailing interpretations of Spanish history and identity,ultimately forcing Spanish society to open up a space for all immigrants.

PB 9781845195816 £25.00 April 2013 Sussex Academic Press 224 pages


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POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - ISRAEL & THE MIDDLE EAST

CONTESTING SYMBOLIC LANDSCAPE IN JERUSALEMJewish/Islamic Conflict over the Museum of Tolerance at Mamilla CemeteryYitzhak Reiter

In 2006 a dispute broke out regarding an initiative by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in LosAngeles (backed by Israeli authorities) to construct a Museum of Tolerance (MoT) in WestJerusalem. The museum was to be built on a plot of land that in the past had been part of thehistoric Muslim Mamilla Cemetery, which since the 1980s has served as a municipal parking lot.Debate centred on whether construction of a museum dedicated to human dignity on Muslimcemeterial land was justified.

The Northern Islamic Movement and a group of 70 academics and eight Israeli civil societyorganizations (including rabbis) opposed the project, but their petition to Israel’s High Court ofJustice failed. Yitzhak Reiter presents the public and legal dilemmas at the individual level (anact of insensitivity to the Muslim minority in Jerusalem); at the political level (the right of equaltreatment by the state and the right to administer holy properties [waqf] according to religiouslaw and rulings of shari’a [Islamic law] courts); and at the universal level (can conflict over aholy place be addressed objectively from the ideological/political positions that the placesymbolizes, and is a secular civil court competent/appropriate to adjudicate a religious conflict).Research for this book integrates a multi-disciplinary approach involving history, identitypolitics, and conflict resolution. Sources include documents obtained from the Shari’a Court ofJerusalem and Israel’s High Court of Justice, as well as Islamic law and Israeli civil law literature,reports of experts submitted to the courts, and personal participation of the author, includingdiscussions with key players and informants. The Mamilla dispute reflects a microcosm ofconflicts over religious and national symbols of cultural heritage as well as Jewish majority–Arab minority tensions within Israel.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Yitzhak Reiter chairs the department of Land-of-Israel Studies at

Ashkelon Academic College and is a senior fellow of the Truman Institute of the HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem and the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies.

HB 9781845196554 £40.00 May 2014 Sussex Academic Press 224 pagesPB 9781845196615 £22.50 May 2014 Sussex Academic Press 224 pages

POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - NIGERIA

BOKO HARAMThe Emerging Nigerian Terrorist ThreatEdited by Samuel T. Whitlock

Two years on from the bloody and destructive suicide attack on a United Nations (U.N.) facilityin Abuja, Nigeria, the Nigerian terrorist organisation Boko Haram continues to pose a threat toboth the United States and our allies. Since that attack, Boko Haram has received increasedinternational attention, has carried out near-daily attacks throughout much of Nigeria, and hastaken part in operations in other parts of West Africa. They remain a lethal and growing threatto the people of Nigeria, the international community, Americans in the region, and potentiallythe United States Homeland. This book discusses Boko Haram's growing and emerging threat tothe U.S. Homeland and provides statements from a hearing on Boko Haram: emerging threat tothe U.S. homeland.

HB 9781631171055 £91.99 March 2014 Nova Science 102 pages


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NIGERIAInstability, Implications & U.S. PolicyEdited by Todd B. Griffith

Nigeria is one of the pivotal states of Africa and is extremely important to U.S. diplomatic andeconomic interests on that continent. However, Americans’ general lack of knowledge ormisunderstanding of Nigeria undercuts our interactions with this crucial state to the detrimentof both sides. Nigeria is considered a key power on the African continent, not only because ofits size, but because of its political and economic role in the region. In the southern Niger Deltaregion, local grievances related to oil production in the area have fuelled simmering conflictand criminality for over a decade. This book focuses on the government’s efforts to negotiatewith local militants which have quieted the restive region, but the peace is fragile and violentcriminality continues.

PB 9781629486949 £43.50 March 2014 Nova Science 146 pages

POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - RUSSIA & EASTERN EUROPE

Now Available in the UKFILMING THE UNFILMABLECasper Wrede`s 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich'Ben Hellman & Andrei RogachevskiiSeries edited by Andreas Umland

In this amply illustrated book, Hellman and Rogachevskii tell the fascinating story behind thescreen adaptation of one of the most impactful novels of all times. Despite its huge globalsuccess, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn refused all offers to have his One Day in the Life of IvanDenisovich turned into a movie for many years for artistic reasons. It took the full resolve andcommitment of the Finnish director Caspar Wrede to bring this challenging project to fruition,eight years after the novel had been published.

This second, expanded edition of Filming the `Unfilmable` offers an all-encompassing accountof the movie`s production, reception and impact. Filled with little-known facts, it also givesunique and valuable insights into Solzhenitsyn`s complex relationship with the art offilmmaking.


REVIEWS: "Hellman and Rogachevskii's book can be a valuable resource for scholars who

study either Wrede's films or Solzhenitsyn's literary text. It is a well-researched case study of afilm adaptation based on a controversial literary text."Slavic and East European Journal, 56.2 (Summer 2012)



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Now Available in the UKLANGUAGE POLICY AND DISCOURSE ON LANGUAGES IN UKRAINE UNDERPRESIDENT VIKTOR YANUKOVYCHMichael Moser

The status of Ukrainian as the sole state language of Ukraine has been challenged by variouspost-Soviet political forces since it was established in 1989 and enshrined in the Constitution in1996. Since President Viktor Yanukovych came to power in February 2010, the President andthe Party of Regions have put forward several initiatives to promote the Russian language atthe expense of Ukrainian as well as the minority languages of Ukraine. Paradoxically, their mostimportant instrument has been the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.However, the Russian language in Ukraine does not meet the criteria of a regional or minoritylanguage according to the Charter nor do those politicians who struggle for the “rights of thenative Russian language” in the name of Russkiy mir represent the democratic values uponwhich the Charter is built, as perfectly reflected by the history of the unconstitutional languagelaw of 2012.


REVIEWS: "Michael Moser has made a name for himself with his incisive and

multidimensional publications on the Ukrainian language, its speakers, history, and the politicsinvolved. Language having become the cornerstone of nationhood and statehood in manyareas of modern Europe, is a highly politicized issue in independent Ukraine, bearing a salientimprint on Kyiv’s foreign relations, especially with Russia. The monograph usefully chroniclesand analyzes the current Ukrainian administration’s attempt at making the country officiallybilingual; de facto, with Russian accorded the privileged language vis-à-vis Ukrainian relegatedto the status of a minority language - a scenario already tried out in Belarus since 1995. Thedifference is that in Ukraine it is happening with the curious employment of the Council ofEurope’s minority rights legislation.”Tomasz Kamusella, Lecturer in Modern History, University of St. AndrewsPB 9783838204970 £42.90 March 2014 Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag 506 pages

PUTIN'S RUSSIAPolitics, Economics & U.S. InterestsEdited by Florence Brunner

Russia made uneven progress in democratisation during the 1990s, but this limited progresswas reversed after Vladimir Putin rose to power in 1999-2000, according to many observers.During this period, the State Duma (lower legislative chamber) became dominated bygovernment-approved parties, gubernatorial elections were abolished, and the governmentconsolidated ownership or control over major media and industries, including the energysector. The Putin government showed low regard for the rule of law and human rights insuppressing insurgency in the North Caucasus, according to critics. Dmitriy Medvedev, Putin’slong-time protégé, was elected president in 2008; President Medvedev immediately designatedPutin as prime minister and continued Putin’s policies. This book discusses in further detail, thepolitics and economics in Putin's Russia; and provides insight on the Russian political, economic,and security issues and United States interests.

HB 9781631172045 £112.50 May 2014 Nova Science 301 pages


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Now Available in the UKROCKING ST. PETERSBURGTranscultural Flows and Identity Politics in Post-Soviet Popular MusicDavid-Emil Wickström

In this remarkable book, David-Emil Wickström traces the transcultural flow of popular musicproduction emanating from St. Petersburg, a central hub of the Russian music scene. With aspecific focus on the post-Soviet emigrant community in Germany and their event`Russendisko`, Wickström - himself a trumpet player in two local bands - explores St.Petersburg`s vibrant music scene, which provides an electrifying platform for musical exchange.The findings shed a new light on Soviet and post-Soviet popular music history and even Russia`srelationship to Ukraine. Wickström demonstrates the filtering processes embedded intranscultural flows and how music is attributed new meanings within new contexts. Thisinnovative book not only promotes a deeper understanding of the role of popular music insociety, it also enables a better comprehension of cultural processes in the second decade afterthe fall of the Soviet Union.



Now Available in the UKTHE MOSCOW BOMBINGS OF SEPTEMBER 1999Examinations of Russian Terrorist Attacks at the Onset of Vladimir Putin'sRuleJohn B. Dunlop

The five chapters contained in this volume focus on the complex and tumultuous eventsoccurring in Russia during the five months from May through September 1999. They sparkedthe Russian invasion of Chechnya on 1 October and vaulted a previously unknown former KGBagent into the post of Russian prime minister and, ultimately, president.The five chapters are devoted to:

The intense political struggle taking place in Russia between May and August of 1999,culminating in an incursion by armed Islamic separatists into the Republic of Dagestan.

Two Moscow terrorist bombings of 9 and 13 September 1999, claiming the lives of 224Muscovites and preparing the psychological and political ground for a full-blowninvasion of Chechnya.

The so-called Ryazan Incident of 22 September 1999, when eyewitnesses observedofficers of the FSB special forces placing a live bomb in the basement of an apartmentbuilding in the town of Rzayan.

The detonation of a powerful truck bomb outside of an apartment house in Buinaksk,Dagestan, on 4 September 1999, which took the lives of fifty-eight innocent victims.

The explosion on 16 September 1999 of a truck bomb in the city of Volgdonsk insouthern Russia, which killed eighteen persons and seriously wounded eighty-nine260pages.


REVIEWS: "Dunlop draws on investigative reporting by Russian journalists, accounts of

Russian officials in law enforcement agencies, eyewitness testimony, and the analyses ofWestern journalists and academics. The evidence he provides makes an overwhelming casethat Russian authorities were complicit in these horrific attacks."The New York Review of Books



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Now Available in the UKTHE QUEST FOR AN IDEAL YOUTH IN PUTIN'S RUSSIA (Volume 1)Back to Our Future! History, Modernity, and Patriotism according to Nashi,2005-2013Ivo Mijnssen

This important book analyzes the dubious role of the so-called Democratic Antifascist YouthMovement `Nashi´ in contemporary Russia. Part and parcel of the Putinist project of politicalstabilization, Nashi dominates state-sponsored youth politics in Russia, communicatingdemands from official discourse to a young audience. Idealizing the past, present, and future ofPutin`s Russia, Nashi mobilized young Russians through its emotional appeal, skillful use ofsymbolic politics and the promise for professional self-realization. However, the movement`simpact remains limited - mostly due to its internal contradictions.

Based on original and meticulous research, Ivo Mijnssen skillfully picks apart the dynamicsunderlying Nashi`s influence and furthers a deeper understanding of state-sponsored youthpolitics in early 21st century Russia.


REVIEWS: "Mijnssen clarifies the role that historical consciousness plays in the construction

of security politics against domestic and external enemies as well as the translation of theseconstructions into concrete actions with precise conceptual thinking and clear language. This isan excellent study!"Heiko Haumann, Professor Emeritus of East European History, University of Basel


Now Available in the UKTHE QUEST FOR AN IDEAL YOUTH IN PUTIN'S RUSSIA (Volume 2)The Search for Distinctive Conformism in the Political Communication ofNashi, 2005-2009Jussi LassilaWith a preface by Kirill Postoutenko

The so-called Democratic Antifascist Youth Movement “Nashi” represents a crucial case of apost-Orange government-organized formation whose values have broad support in Russiansociety. Yet, at the same time, in view of the movement’s public scandals, Nashi was also aphenomenon bringing to the fore public reluctance to accept all implications of Putin’s newsystem. The Russian people’s relatively widespread support for his patriotic policies andconservative values has been evident, but this support is not easily extended to political actorsaligned to these values.

Using discourse analysis, this book identifies socio-political factors that created obstacles toNashi’s communication strategies. The book understands Nashi as anticipating an “ideal youth”within the framework of official national identity politics and as an attempt to mobilize largelyapolitical youngsters in support of the powers that be. It demonstrates how Nashi’s ambivalentsocietal position was the result of a failed attempt to reconcile incompatible communicativedemands of the authoritarian state and apolitical young.




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POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - U.S. FOREIGN POLICY

GUANTANAMO DETAINEESRecidivism & Reengagement Upon ReleaseEdited by Elliot T Murphy

The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee undertook an in-depth, comprehensivebipartisan investigation of procedures to dispatch detainees from the Guantanamo Baydetention facility (GTMO) over the past decade. This included an examination of mechanismsintended to prevent former detainees from re-engaging in terror-related activities. This bookexplores how the Bush and Obama administrations, in reaction to domestic political pressuresand a desire to earn goodwill abroad, attempted to advance strategic national security goals,and "release" or "transfer" GTMO detainees elsewhere.

HB 9781629486857 £43.50 March 2014 Nova Science 98 pages

POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS – POLITICAL ACTIVISM

BLOCKING PUBLIC PARTICIPATIONThe Use of Strategic Litigation to Silence Political ExpressionByron Sheldrick

Strategic litigation against public participation (SLAPP) involves lawsuits brought by individuals,corporations, groups, or politicians to curtail political activism and expression. An increasinglylarge part of the political landscape in Canada, they are often launched against thoseprotesting, boycotting, or participating in some form of political activism. A common feature ofSLAPPs is that their intention is rarely to win the case or secure a remedy; rather, the suit isbrought to create a chill on political expression.

Blocking Public Participation examines the different types of litigation and causes of action thatfrequently form the basis of SLAPPs, and how these lawsuits transform political disputes intolegal cases, thereby blocking political engagement. The resource imbalance between plaintiffsand defendants allows plaintiffs to tie up defendants in complex and costly legal processes. Thebook also examines the dangers SLAPPs pose to political expression and to the quality andintegrity of our democratic political institutions. Finally, the book examines the need toregulate SLAPPs in Canada and assesses various regulatory proposals.

In Canada, considerable attention has been paid to the “legalization of politics” and the impacton the Charter in diverting political activism into the judicial arena. SLAPPs, however, are anunder-studied element of this process, and in their obstruction of political engagement throughrecourse to the courts they have profound implications for democratic practice.

PB 9781554589296 £33.50 March 2014 Wilfrid Laurier University Press 210 pages


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POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES

Now Available in the UKDOUBLESPEAKThe Rhetoric of the Far Right since 1945Edited by Matthew Feldman & Paul Jackson

This timely intervention exposes the euphemized language of the extreme right as a TrojanHorse of deception to re-gain greater influence on public policy.

Since the end of the Second World War, the extreme right has been tactically using‘doublespeak’, aping the language of liberal democracy. Attentive observation and accuraterecognition of the extreme right pedigree means taking seriously their deliberately craftedslogans, symbols and themes. The essays in this book inquire into the extreme right’s attemptsat ‘repackaging’ contemporary ultranationalism to make it palatable to more mainstreamEuropean and American tastes.

REVIEWS: "In Doublespeak Feldman and Jackson have collected an impressive range of

contributors who analyse the language of the far- and extreme-right with both historic breadthand linguistic detail. This volume demonstrates, in a clear and precise manner, the waysextremists camouflage their language, in a series of elaborate codes and euphemisms, in orderto conceal their anti-democratic nature and appear more moderate. This vitally importantcollection will prove stimulating and useful for all opponents of right-wing extremism, bothinside and outside academia. I cannot recommend this book highly enough."John Richardson, Loughborough University

PB 9783838205540 £33.90 March 2014 ibidem-Verlag 336 pages

POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - WRITING POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY

LIVING POLITICAL BIOGRAPHYNarrating 20th Century European LivesEdited by Ann-Christina Lauring Knudsen, Karen Gram-Skjoldager

Historical political biography is a popular genre, capable of reaching a wide audience. It is also agenre closely associated with the modern nation-state. It often recounts the lives of great menin the service of the nation, but is there a way beyond this methodological nationalism?

Living Political Biography revisits biography as a historical and narrative genre. It explores andexplicates the new analytical potentials of political biographical research in view of the recenttransnational and sociological 'turns' in international and European political history. In doing so,the book attempts to facilitate exchange between scholars of biographical and 20th centuryEuropean political historical research.

PB 9788771240573 £30.00 January 2012 Aarhus University Press 280 pages


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PSYCHOLOGY

THE PREDICTIVE BRAINConsciousness, Decision & Embodied ActionMauro Maldonato

During the lengthy and complex process of human evolution our ancestors had to adapt totesting situations in which survival depended on making rapid choices that subjected musclesand body to extreme tension. In order to seize a prey travelling at 36 km per hour Homosapiens had just thousandths of a second in which to prepare the appropriate gesture. Whilewe are no longer faced with such an environment, our brain continues to use the adaptivemechanisms, enabling us to avoid danger and sense interlocutor intentions. This book sets outto show that our brain is not only a reactive mechanism, reacting to external stimuli, but is pro-active - allowing us to make hypotheses, anticipate consequences, and formulate expectations:in short, to wrong foot an adversary.

The body and its movements are at the origin of all abstract modes of behaviour, starting fromlanguage. The evolution of motor modes of behaviour (e.g the ability to construct andmanipulate instruments) has given rise to an “embodied logic” underpinning not only actionand prediction but also gestures and syllable sequences that are the basis of human communic-ation. Some motor experiences have progressively moulded the nervous infrastructures and ledto the development of symbols/metaphors used in language, coming to serve as classes ofperceptions, behavioural patterns and universal linguistic conventions. Whether shaking some-one’s hand or writing a letter, each executive function – controlled by nervous structures andmental procedures that process the information – requires behaviours that are oriented to aspecific end. The executive functions imply planning/selecting an action; the process is linked toan embodied cognition supported by consciousness. If consciousness is caused by specificneuronal processes and, therefore, conscious states are causally reducible to neurobiologicalprocesses, it is also true that conscious states exist at a higher level than neuron activity. Forthis reason it is necessary to go beyond a hierarchical idea of levels of consciousness, and torefute the idea according to which the ‘mental’ sphere is qualitative, subjective, and in the ‘firstperson’, while the ‘physical’ sphere is quantitative, objective and in the ‘third person’.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Mauro Maldonato is an italian psychiatrist, professor at

Università degli Studi della Basilicata of Matera. His academic formation includes studies at theLa Sapienza University (Rome), Federico II (Naples), London School of Economics, and the Écoledes hautes études (Paris). He has been a recurrent visiting professor at the Universidade de SãoPaulo (USP), Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC) di São Paulo and at Duke University. He is anauthor and curator of volumes and scientific articles published in numerous languages. He isalso the scientific director of the International Research Week.

PB 9781845196394 £17.95 March 2014 Sussex Academic Press 112 pages


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SOCIAL STUDIES - FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS

FAMILY & THE POLITICS OF MODERATIONPrivate Life, Public Goods & the Rebirth of Social IndividualismLauren K. Hall

In Family and the Politics of Moderation, Lauren K. Hall argues that the family is a fulcrum uponwhich societal values balance. Hall describes a set of intermediate institutions that hold thepower to alter polarized political and cultural views--churches, religious institutions, localgovernments, social organizations, and importantly, the family. For Hall the family moderatesbetween broad collectivity and strict individualism. She contends that the family as anintermediate entity wields the strength to guide society between extreme viewpoints, be theysocial, political, or cultural. 'Family and the Politics of Moderation' thus generates an imperativeto ensure the survival of the family as an integral pillar of society.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Lauren K. Hall is Assistant Professor of Political Science,

Rochester Institute of Technology.

REVIEWS: "Lauren K. Hall has written the definitive study on "social individualism." Hall's

moderation isn't just a compromise; it reflects the truth we can see with our own eyes throughphilosophy and science."Peter Lawler is Dana Professor of Government and International Studies, Berry College

HB 9781602588011 £41.99 February 2014 Baylor University Press 200 pages

SOCIAL STUDIES - SOCIAL RESEARCH

JOURNEYS IN COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCHEdited by Bonnie Jeffery, Isobel M. Findlay, Diane Martz, Louise Clarke

Community-based research is relevant social research conducted through partnerships andcollaboration between universities and the larger community. The goal is to develop a deeperunderstanding of communities and to discover new opportunities for improving quality of life.This book presents a diverse collection of stories about community-based research, withtopics ranging from ethical research issues in intimate partner violence to challenges intripartite collaboration. The nine case studies address issues of ethics, advocacy, andimplementation in community-based research, highlighting best practices and lessons learned.Journeys in Community-Based Research will build capacity by helping to guide universityresearchers, faculty, students, community practitioners, and policy makers in their successfulapplication of community-based research.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Bonnie Jeffery is a professor with the Faculty of Social Work,

University of Regina and past Director, Saskatchewan Population Health and EvaluationResearch Unit, Universities of Regina and Saskatchewan. Diane Martz is Director of ResearchEthics in the Office of the VP Research, at the University of Saskatchewan. Louise Clarke isassociate professor (retired), Organizational Behavious and HRM, Edwards School of Business,University of Saskatchewan.

HB 9780889773066 £66.99 May 2014 University of Regina Press 208 pages


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THEATRE & DRAMA STUDIES

THEATRE SCIENCESA Plea for a Multidisciplinary Approach to Theatre StudiesEli Rozik

Traditional theatre semiotics promoted a scientific approach to theatre studies, albeit viewingsemiotics as the unique discipline of research. Theatre Sciences: A Plea for a MultidisciplinaryApproach to Theatre Studies suggests instead a multi-disciplinary approach, including thefollowing theoretical disciplines: narratology, mythology, pragmatics, ethics, theatre irony,theory of genres, aesthetics, semiotics, theory of nonverbal figures of speech, rhetoric,psychoanalysis, reception theory, history, and sociology – with semiotics being only one amongequals. These disciplines are presented from the perspective of their possible contributions to asound methodology of theatre-texts analysis.

Traditional theatre semiotics, moreover, holds the view that the actual performance on stage isthe genuine text of theatre, instead of the play-script. Despite this paradigmatic shift, however,this viewpoint has failed to produce commendable analyses of such texts. The alternativepresupposition put forward in this volume entails a series of novel perceptions of the theatre-text and its possible impact on the experiencing spectator, whose role in reading, interpretingand experiencing the theatre-text is not less crucial than that of the text itself. This viewpresupposes that the theatre-text is a description of a fictional world generated by the theatremedium.

The author also contests the age-old view that a theatre/fictional-text reflects a simplenarrative structure, and suggests instead a complexity that consists of seven layers: personified,mythical, praxical, naïve, ironic, modal and aesthetic – with each one of them re-structuring theprevious layer. Prof. Rozik also presents and describes a semiotic layer that lendscommunicative capacity to the description of a fictional world, and two additional metaphoricand rhetoric layers, which structure the theatre experience. The underlying purpose is toillustrate the application of the aforementioned disciplines to these fictional layers, andeventually their joint application to entire theatre/fictional texts. Organization of the bookreflects the structure of a university course.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Eli Rozik is Ph.D. and professor emeritus of theatre studies. He

was twice head of the Department of Theatre Studies and Dean of the Faculty of the Arts at TelAviv University. He specializes in theatre theory, particularly in non-verbal communication inperformance analysis; and has published numerous articles in international leading journals inEurope and the US. His books include The Language of Theatre (1992), The Roots of Theatre -Rethinking Ritual and Other Theories of Origin (2002), Metaphoric Thinking (2008), GeneratingTheatre Meaning (2008), Fictional Thinking (2009), and most recently Comedy: A CriticalIntroduction.

HB 9781845196288 £65.00 February 2014 Sussex Academic Press 340 pages


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THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES - CHRISTIANITY

GRATITUDEAn Intellectual HistoryPeter J. Leithart

Gratitude is often understood as etiquette rather than ethics, an emotion rather than politics. Itwas not always so. From Seneca to Shakespeare, gratitude was a public virtue. The circle ofbenefaction and return of service worked to make society strong. But at the beginning of themodern era, European thinkers began to imagine a political economy freed from the burdens ofgratitude. Though this rethinking was part of a larger process of secularization, it was also adistorted byproduct of an impulse ultimately rooted in the teachings of Jesus and the apostlePaul. Christians believed that God stood at the center of the circle of gratitude. God was theobject of thanksgiving and God 'gave' graciously. Thus, Christians taught that grace cancelledthe oppressive debts of a purely political gratitude. Gratitude: An Intellectual History examineschanging conceptions of gratitude from Homer to the present. In so doing, Peter J. Leitharthighlights the profound cultural impact of early Christian ingratitude, the release of humankindfrom the bonds of social and political reciprocity by a benevolent God who gave and whocontinues to give graciously.

HB 9781602584495 £41.99 February 2014 Baylor University Press 350 pages

Forthcoming TitleRENEWING CHRISTIAN THEOLOGYSystematics for a Global ChristianityBy Amos Yong with Jonathan A. Anderson

Christianity’s center of gravity has tilted from the Euro-American West to the global South.Driving this shift is the emergence of charismatic renewal movements among Protestant,Roman Catholic, and Orthodox churches. This reshaping of the theological landscape hasinspired prominent theologian Amos Yong to construct a cutting-edge theology for the twenty-first century. Within a Pentecostal and evangelical framework, Yong’s Renewing ChristianTheology is a primer on how to think theologically in a global context.

Students seeking an introduction to systematic theology will not only discover the treasures ofthe tradition but will also encounter a revolutionary pastoral theology that bridges Pentecostal,charismatic, evangelical, and ecumenical traditions. Yong’s theological imagination prioritizesChristian hope, gifts of the Spirit, baptism, sanctification, and healing. Renewing ChristianTheology unveils an inclusive theology conversant with contemporary theological movements -theology and science, contextual theologies, intercultural theologies, theology and disability,public theologies, theology and the arts, and theological aesthetics. Renewing ChristianTheology is theology for the twenty-first-century church.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Amos Yong (Ph.D. Boston University) is Dean of the School of

Divinity and J. Rodman Williams Professor of Theology at Regent University in Virginia Beach,Virginia. Jonathan A. Anderson is Associate Professor of Art at Biola University.

REVIEWS: "Here at last is a vibrant theological text that systematically addresses the big

intellectual challenges confronting twenty-first-century Pentecostals and charismatics. Everychapter bursts with constructive ideas, bringing biblical exposition and theological themes tobear on the doctrinal statements that define the Church’s long renewal."William K. Kay, Professor of Pentecostal Studies, University of Chester

PB 9781602587618 £41.99 August 2014 Baylor University Press 454 pages


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WRITING & STUDY SKILLS

ACADEMIC PAPERS & THESESTo Write & Present & to Act as an OpponentMaria Bjorklund, Ulf Paulsson

An educational method that is becoming all the more common at colleges and universities isthat of the seminar. In the seminar, students write academic papers and reports, present them,and act as opponents on each other’s work. The book covers all the sections that are normallyincluded in the seminar. The learning environment of the seminar is based on a scientific way ofthinking and on scientific methods. With its point of departure in this foundation, the bookaims to provide easily accessible information and advice about the ways in which academicwork can be organised and carried out. Furthermore, the book takes up issues regarding layout,presentation of one’s work, opposition, and cheating, as well as criteria used to assessacademic papers and theses. The book is intended for use on first-cycle levels at universitycolleges and universities, and within other forms of post-secondary school education.

PB 9789144093765 £35.00 February 2014 Studentlitteratur AB 152 pages

ASIAN STUDIES

SHANGHAI, PAST & PRESENTA Concise Socio-Economic History, 1842-2012Niv Horesh

This book sets out to explain how Shanghai emerged from relative obscurity in 1842 to becomeone of the world’s best-known finance and industry hubs. As China’s largest city, Shanghaitoday plays a central economic role, much as it did in the 1920s. The author provides a concisediachronic survey of the economic history of modern Shanghai, setting out how the city’s urbaninfrastructure, municipal institutions, consumer culture and industry have shaped, and havebeen shaped by, this economic power house. The work is aimed at a broad readership of allwho are interested in Asian history, and tackles a range of themes including: the city’smillionaires, then and now; racial tensions and quotidian liaisons between Europeans andAsians before World War II; and the gambling and prostitution industry.

The post-war era is portrayed in comparative discussions on Shanghai under Mao Zedong, andduring the reform era. These discussions bring the narrative up to date to cover importantevents such as the designation of the Pudong precinct as the city’s new engine of growth in1991. The city’s illustrious pre-war past is compared with its present ambitions to becomeAsia’s leading financial centre.

The book employs insights from new institutional economics as well as from the developmenttrajectory of other world cities by way of better understanding Shanghai’s historic distinctness,its relative weaknesses and contemporary strengths.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Niv Horesh is Senior Fellow at the University of Nottingham’s

China Policy Institute (UK) and Associate Professor in China Studies at the University of WesternSydney (Australia). Horesh has worked in the past as a Business Development Manager inChina, and as a civil servant in Israel and Australia.

HB 9781845196318 £29.95 March 2014 Sussex Academic Press 120 pages


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CANADIAN STUDIES

CANADA THE GOODA History of Vice Since 1500Marcel Martel

To invest in vice can be a sound financial decision, but despite the lure of healthy profits,individuals and mutual funds have been reluctant to invest in this type of stock. After all, whowould take pride in supporting the tobacco industry, knowing it sells a deadly product? Andwhat social responsibilities do investors bear with respect to compulsive gamblers who havelost so much money that suicide becomes an attractive option?

Canada the Good considers more than five hundred years of debates and regulation that haveconditioned Canadians’ attitudes towards certain vices. Early European settlers implemented aChristian moral order that regulated sexual behaviour, gambling, and drinking. Later, sometransgressions were diagnosed as health issues that required treatment. Those who refused thelabel of illness argued that behaviours formerly deemed as vices were within the range ofnormal human behaviour.

This historical synthesis demonstrates how moral regulation has changed over time, how it hasshaped Canadians’ lives, why some debates have almost disappeared and others persist, andwhy some individuals and groups have felt empowered to tackle collective social issues. Againstthe background of the evolution of the state, the enlargement of the body politic, andmounting forays into court activism, the author illustrates the complexity over time of variousforms of social regulation and the control of vice.

PB 9781554589470 £24.99 March 2014 Wilfrid Laurier University Press 210 pages

THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY WYANDOTA Clan-Based StudyJohn L. Steckley

The Wyandot were born of two Wendat peoples encountered by the French in the first half ofthe seventeenth century - the otherwise named Petun and Huron - and their history isfragmented by their dispersal between Quebec, Michigan, Kansas, and Oklahoma. This bookweaves these fragmented histories together, with a focus on the mid-eighteenth century.

Author John Steckley claims that the key to consolidating the stories of the scattered Wyandotlies in their clan structure. Beginning with the half century of their initial diaspora, asinterpreted through the political strategies of five clan leaders, and continuing through theeighteenth century and their shared residency with Jesuit missionaries - notably, the distinctrelationships different clans established with them - Steckley reveals the resilience of theWyandot clan structure. He draws upon rich but previously ignored sources - includingbaptismal, marriage, and mortuary records, and a detailed house-to-house census compiled in1747, featuring a list of male and female elders - to illustrate the social structure of the people,including a study of both male and female leadership patterns. A record of the 1747 census andtranslated copies of letters sent between the Wyandot and the French are included inappendices.

HB 9781554589562 £70.99 March 2014 Wilfrid Laurier University Press 300 pages


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CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPEAN STUDIES

Now Available in the UKA LIFE DEDICATED TO THE REPUBLICVavro Srobár´s Slovak CzechoslovakismJosette Baer

In this stunning biography, Josette Baer re-traces the eventful life of the Slovak politician VavroSrobár, the principal figure in the implementation of Czechoslovak democracy in Slovakia.Spanning from his student days and his fight for Slovak civil rights in Upper Hungary via hisministerial positions during the First Czechoslovak Republic to his active resistance againstGerman fascism, Baer’s research paints a most comprehensive picture.

Based on rich archive material available to the English-reading public for the first time, Baershows how Srobár’s political thought and activities shaped the turbulent history ofCzechoslovakia in the first half of the 20th century. Offering unique insights into the politicalpast of a country whose history remains largely under-researched, this book is a must-read foranyone interested in the region.

PB 9783838206462 £32.90 March 2014 ibidem-Verlag 360 pages

THE POWER OF SONGNonviolent National Culture in the Baltic Singing RevolutionGuntis Smidchens

The Power of Song shows how the people of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania confronted a militarysuperpower and achieved independence in the Baltic "Singing Revolution". When attacked bySoviet soldiers in public displays of violent force, singing Balts maintained faith in nonviolentpolitical action.

As an inspiration to all nations, the nonviolent Baltic independence movement revolutionizedeach country through singing and smiling. The "Singing Revolution" is indeed the essence of theBaltic way, and began in 1987 as a public revolt against Soviet restrictions on free speech andassembly. The revolutions and following elections in 1990 resulted in three separategovernments and a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.

The Power of Song seeks to answer questions such as why the struggle for Baltic independencecame to be called the Singing Revolution? What did they sing? And what role did singing play inthe Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian campaigns of political mobilization and nonviolent action?Furthermore, and uniquely for this publication, it explores, in great depth, the songs that gavethe revolution its name, translating and interpreting more than 110 choral, rock, and folk songsin their poetic, cultural, and historical context.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Guntis Smidchens is the Kazickas Family Endowed Professor in

Baltic Studies in the Scandinavian Studies Department at the University of Washington.

REVIEWS: “The Power of Song serves not only as the quintessential study of what constitutes

the heart of the remarkable and inspiring movements of the Baltic people, it will stand as adistinct contribution to the study of civil resistance movements overall.”Peter Ackerman, founding chair of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict and co-author of Strategic Nonviolent Conflict and A Force More Powerful

PB 9788763541480 £38.99 February 2014 Museum Tusculanum Press 456 pages


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LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

CREATIVITY & SCIENCE IN CONTEMPORARY ARGENTINE LITERATUREBetween Romanticism & FormalismJoanna Page

With a burgeoning academic interest in Latin American science fiction and cyberfiction and inrepresentations of science and technology in Latin American literature and cinema, this bookadds new understanding to the growing body of interdisciplinary work on the relationshipbetween literature and science in post-modern culture.

Joanna Page examines how contemporary fiction and literary theory in Argentina consistentlyemploy theories and models from mathematics and science to probe the nature of innovationand evolution in literature. Theories of incompleteness, uncertainty, and chaos are oftenmobilised in European and North American literary and philosophical texts as metaphors forthe inadequacy of our epistemological tools to probe the world's complexity. However, inrecent Argentine fiction, these generalisations are put to very different uses: to map out thepotential for artistic creativity and regeneration in times of crisis. Page focuses on texts bycontemporary Argentine writers Ricardo Piglia, Guillermo Martinez and Marcelo Cohen, whichdraw on theories of formal systems, chaos, emergence, and complexity to counterproclamations of the end of philosophy or the exhaustion of literature in the post-modern era.

This book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of how newness and creativityhave been theorised, tracing often unexpected relationships between thinkers such asNietzsche, Deleuze, and the Russian Formalists. It is also the first time that a major study inEnglish has been published on the work of Martinez, Piglia, or Cohen.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Joanna Page is a senior lecturer in Latin American Cultural

Studies at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Crisis and Capitalism inContemporary Argentine Cinema (2009) and the co-editor of Visual Synergies in Fiction andDocumentary Film from Latin America (2009).

PB 9781552387320 £29.50 March 2014 University of Calgary Press 304 pages

SUGAR & MODERNITYInterdisciplinary PerspectivesEdited by Vinicius de Carvalho, Susanne Hojlund, Per Bendix Jeppesen, Karen-MargretheSimonsen

Type 2 diabetes, obesity, and other diseases related to modern lifestyles have spread withfrightening speed all over the globe, a development that is often correlated with an increase inthe consumption of sugar. Latin America - the cradle of the world’s sugar production - is noexception; it has witnessed an explosion of cases of diabetes, especially in Brazil and Mexico.Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the problem, this book asks two questions. First, whatare the relationships between diabetes, sugar intake, and ‘dangerous’ modern lifestyles? Andsecond, how can research into the material, symbolic, and historical functions of sugar redefinethe concept of modernity?

Experts in medical science, agriculture, sociology, food science and anthropology, as well as inLatin American, Brazilian, and literary studies use sugar as a prism for understanding thecomplicated relations between disease and cultural and social habits, between past andpresent, and between symbolic meanings and material effect. Through this trulyinterdisciplinary perspective, both traditional approaches to lifestyle diseases and currentunderstandings of modernity are questioned.

PB 9788771241105 £24.84 January 2014 Aarhus University Press 172 pages


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PACIFIC STUDIES

AUSTRALIAN SETTLER COLONIALISM & THE CUMMERAGUNJA ABORIGINALSTATIONRedrawing BoundariesFiona Davis

In 1938, the anthropologist Norman Tindale gave a classroom of young Aboriginal children a setof crayons and asked them to draw. For the most part the children, residents of a government-run station Cummeragunja, drew pictures of aspects of white civilisation – boats, houses andflowers. What now to make of the records of this event? Were they encouraged, pressured, ordid they draw of their own volition? Did the fact that they were Aboriginal change the meaningof their art, as they sketched out this ubiquitous colonial imagery and coloured the spacesinside the images they had drawn?

Australian Settler Colonialism and the Cummeragunja Aboriginal Station tracesCummeragunja’s history from its establishment in the 1880s to its mass walk-off in 1939 andfinally, to the 1960s, when its residents regained greater control over the land. Taking in oralhistory traditions, the author reveals the competing interests of settler governments, scientificand religious organizations, and nearby settler communities. The nature of these interests hasbroad and important implications for understanding settler colonial history.

This history shows white people set boundaries on Aboriginal behaviour and movement,through direct legislation and the provision of opportunities and acceptance. But Aboriginalpeople had agency within and, at times, beyond these limits. Aboriginal people appropriatedaspects of white culture – including the houses, the flowers and the boats that their childrendrew for Tindale - reshaping them into new tools for Aboriginal society, tools with which tobuild lives and futures in a changed environment.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Fiona Davis is a scholar in cross-cultural history with a PhD from

the University of Melbourne. She is the co-editor of Founders, Firsts and Feminists: WomenLeaders in Twentieth Century Australia and the author of book chapters in Creating WhiteAustralia and Outside Country: A History of Inland Australia. The descendant of early settlers,she grew up on a dairy farm in northern Victoria.

HB 9781845196080 £35.00 March 2014 Sussex Academic Press 224 pages

FITZThe Colonial Adventures of James Edward FitzGeraldJenifer Roberts

The story of James Edward FitzGerald, whose energy and enthusiasm contributed so much tothe early history of Christchurch. Orator, writer, politician and journalist, he was the firstCanterbury Pilgrim to set foot in New Zealand, first superintendent of the province ofCanterbury, first leader of the general government, and founder of the Press newspaper. Fromhis early years in the Anglo-Irish gentry of England to his old age as auditor-general of thecolony, this is a gripping biography that reads like a novel, breathing new life into theextraordinary man who played a major role in public life through fifty years of New Zealandhistory.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Jenifer Roberts is an English historian and direct descendant of

FitzGerald.

PB 9781877578731 £24.50 May 2014 Otago University Press 400 pages


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SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES

RE-MAPPING LAGERLOFFPerformance, Intermediality, and European transmissionsEdited by Helena Forsås-Scott, Lisbeth Stenberg, Bjarne Thorup Thomsen

For the first time ever, cutting-edge research about the Swedish Nobel Laureate Selma Lagerlöfand her work is made available to a world-wide audience in one comprehensive volume.Written by an international group of scholars, Re-Mapping Lagerlöf highlights theinterdisciplinarity of current Lagerlöf research which frequently cuts across genres, media anddisciplines.

The structure of the book, with sections dedicated to performance, film and intermediality,transnational narratives and European transmissions, is reinforced by the extensiveintroductory portal. The authors explore themes such as Lagerlöf in and political contexts, herinvolvement in the women’s movement, the construction of her celebrity persona, her role forearly Swedish film, the transnationality of her work and its impact in international contexts.

The volume includes a number of illustrations that are rarely reproduced, and the detailedbibliographical section will contribute to making Re-Mapping Lagerlöf an indispensableplatform for Lagerlöf scholarship for years to come. It also offers a model for interdisciplinaryresearch in the arts and humanities.

HB 9789187351211 £35.95 May 2014 Nordic Academic Press 351 pages

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