February 2005

Ancient Maya commoners; edited by Jon C. Lohse and Fred Valdez, Jr. University of Texas Press 2004 299p il $45.00

ISBN 0-292-70571-9; LC 2004-4631

Topics include daily life, pottery, food consumption, Pacific Coast settlements, and the spatial mobility of non-elite populations.

Bodies in contact: rethinking colonial encounters in world history; edited by Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton. Duke Univ. Press 2005 445p pa $24.95; $89.95

ISBN 0-8223-3467-4; 0-8223-3455-0; LC 2004-18697

Discusses subjects as diverse as slavery and travel, ecclesiastical colonialism and military occupation, marriage and property, nationalism and football, immigration, and temperance.

The book unbound: editing and readings medieval manuscripts and texts; edited by Sian Echardand Stephen Echard and Stephen Partridge. University of Toronto Press 2004 236p il (Studies in book and print culture) $50.00

ISBN 0-8020-8756-6

Texts examined include Cursor mundi, the Malory documents, Cyprian’s Epistolary, and the Lives of St. Edmund and Fremund.

Continental crossroads: remapping U.S.-Mexico borderlands history; edited by Samuel Truett and Elliott Young. Duke Univ. Press 2004 344p il (American encounters/global interactions) pa $22.95; $79.95

ISBN 0-8223-3389-9; 0-8223-3353-8; LC 2004-4074

Explores how ethnic, racial, and gender relations shifted as a former frontier became the borderlands.

Crouch, Stanley

The artifical white man: essays on authority. Basic Civitas Bks. 2004 244p $24.00

ISBN 0-465-01515-8; LC 2004-11998

Essays examine the cultural realities of racial authenticity through works of Philip Roth, Ernest Hemingway, Saul Bellows, Duke Ellington, Quentin Tarantino, and Spike Lee.

The early upper paleolithic beyond Western Europe; edited by P. Jeffrey Brantingham, Steven L. Kuhn, and Kristopher W. Kerry. University California Press 2004 295p il $75.00

ISBN 0-520-23851-6; LC 2003-10136

Contributors discuss new archaeological evidence such as the Middle-Upper Paleolithic transitions in areas as diverse as the Levant, Eastern-Central Europe, and Central and Eastern Asia, and how they are characterized by substantial behavioral continuity over the period 45,000-25,000 years ago.

Enchanted ground: reimagining John Dryden; edited by Jayne Lewis and Maximillian E. Novak. University of Toronto Press 2004 344p (UCLA Center/Clark Series) $75.00

ISBN 0-8020-8940-2

Looks at Dreyden’s role as a public poet in the restored Stuart court, as well as his relationship to the theatrical arts and music.

German-American immigration and ethnicity in comparative perspective; edited by Wolfgang Helbich and Walter D. Kamphoefner. University of Wisconsin 2004 356p $29.95

ISBN 0-924119-18-7; LC 2004-7238

Examines the similarities and differences among German Catholics and other Catholic groups in America, the political activities of nineteenth-century German and Irish immigrants, and German-American responses to the differing policies of the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany.

Hendrix, John

Platonic architectonics: platonic philosophies and the visual arts. Lang, P. 2004 283p il pa $39.95

ISBN 0-8204-7110-0; LC 2003-25898

Plato, Cusanus, Alberti, Ficino, and Cezanne are among the authors and artists discussed.

Howard, Richard

Paper trail: selected prose, 1965-2003. Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2004 434p $35.00

ISBN 0-374-25885-6; LC 2004-47126

Subjects range from American poets such as Emily Dickinson and Marianne Moore to French artists such as Rodin and Michel Delacroix. Also included are considerations of modern sculpture and of the photography of the human body.

Japtok, Martin

Growing up ethnic: nationalism and the Bildingsroman in African American and Jewish American fiction. University of Iowa Press 2005 201p $29.95

ISBN 0-87745-923-1; LC 2004-58848

Authors analyzed include James Weldon Johnson, Samuel Ornitz, Jessie Fauset, and Edna Ferber.

Music observed: studies in memory of William C. Holmes; edited by Colleen Reardon and Susan Parisi. Harmonie Park Press 2004 547p il (Detroit monographs in musicology/Studies in music; no. 42) $79.50

ISBN 0-89990-125-5; LC 2004-54094

Musicians discussed include Guglielmi, Rossini, Mahler, Verdi, and Stravinsky.

Nadell, Martha Jane

Enter the new Negroes: images of race in American culture. Harvard Univ. Press 2004 199p il $27.95

ISBN 0-674-01511-8; LC 2004-52365

Focuses on the works of Alain Locke, Wallace Thurman, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Langston Hughes.

Ngai, Sianne

Ugly feelings. Harvard Univ. Press 2005 422p il $29.95

ISBN 0-674-01536-3; LC 2004-51133

Examines the works of Melville, Beckett, Freud, Hitchcock, Heidegger, and Gertrude Stein.

Parr, James A.

Don Quixote, Don Juan, and related subjects: form and traditions in Spanish literature, 1330-1630. Susquehanna Univ. Press 2004 282p $52.50

ISBN 1-57591-084-5; LC 2004-7343

Discusses translation, narrative technique, and orality, as well as examining such texts as Don Juan, Libro de buen amor, and El burlador de Sevilla.

Polhemus, Robert M.

Lot’s daughters: sex, redemption, and women’s quest for authority. Stanford Univ. Press 2005 432p il $29.95

ISBN 0-8047-5051-3; LC 2004-19649

Explores the relationship of fathers and daughters and of older men and younger females in history, life, art, and culture.

Printed voices: the Renaissance culture of dialogue; edited by Dorothea Heitsch and Jean-Francois Vallee. University of Toronto Press 2004 291p $65.00

ISBN 0-8020-8706-X

Includes discussions on the texts of Petrarch, Montaigne, Thomas More, Aretino, Milton, and Hobbes.

Printing and book culture in late imperial China; edited by Cynthia J. Brokaw and Kai-wing Chow. University of Calif. Press 2004 539p il (Studies on China; 27) $75.00

ISBN 0-520-23126-0; LC 2003-27385

Essays investigate the relationship between the manuscript and print culture, the emergence of urban and rural publishing centers, the expanding audience for books, the development of niche markets and specialized publishing of fiction, drama, non-Han texts, and genealogies.

Ray, Sid

Holy estates: marriage and monarchy in Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Susquehanna Univ. Press 2004 227p $46.50

ISBN 1-57591-081-0; LC 2004-4874

Studies such texts as Mary Wroth’s Urania, Shakespeare’s The taming of the shrew and Titus Andronicus, and Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi.

Ruling America: a history of wealth and power in a democracy; edited by Steven Fraser and Gary Gerstle. Harvard Univ. Press 2005 368p $45.00; pa $18.95

ISBN 0-674-01695-5; 0-674-01747-1; LC 2004-59769

Discusses how elites came into existence, how they established their dominance over public affairs, and how their rule came to an end.

Taking faith seriously; edited by Mary Jo Bane, Brent Coffin, and Richard Higgins. Harvard Univ. Press 2005 381p $29.95

ISBN 0-674-01710-2; LC 2004-42350

Describes the multiple and subtle roles that religion plays on many levels in our civic life, the increasing moral and social capital inspiring citizens to serve their neighbors, building relationships across barriers of race and income, and providing a moral vision of what kind of society we are called to be.

The theology of Thomas Aquinas; edited by Rik Van Nieuwenhove and Joseph Wawrykow. University of Notre Dame Press 2005 472p $37.50

ISBN 0-268-04363-9; LC 2004-27610

Topics include the Trinity, creation theology, theory of analogy, anthropology, evil, and original sin.

Verbal encounters: Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse studies for Roberta Frank; edited by Antonina Harbus and Russell Poole. University of Toronto Press 2005 298p (Toronto Old English series) $75.00

ISBN 0-8020-8011-1

Subjects include the integral position of Anglo-Latin within Anglo-Saxon culture and literature, the rise of Latin-based learning in twelfth-century Iceland, and the conversion to Christianity in medieval Scandinavia.

Virginia’s Civil War; edited by Peter Wallenstein and Bertram Wyatt-Brown. University of Virginia Press 2005 303p $35.00

ISBN 0-8139-2315-8; LC 2004-11410

Robert E. Lee, slavery, religion, the Confederate nation, and the Freedman’s Bureau School in Lexington are among the topics analyzed.

Woman as witness: essay on testimonial literature by Latin American women; edited by Linda S. Maier and Isabel Dulfano. Lang, P. 2004 218p $63.95

ISBN 0-8204-6324-8; LC 2002-154656

Authors discussed include Nidai Diaz, Victoria Ocampo, Elena Poniatowska, and Luis Valenzuela.