September 2006

Anderson, Monica
Women and the politics of travel, 1870-1914. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press 2006 287p $49.50
ISBN 0-8386-4091-5; LC 2005-21500
The author discusses how late nineteenth-century women’s travel and travel literature produced changes in the way society thought about women, especially within the context of social, political, and cultural constructions.

Andrews, David L.
Sport-commerce-culture; essays on sport in late capitalist America. Peter Lang 2006 (Popular culture and everyday life) 161p pa $28.95
ISBN 0-8204-7483-X: LC 2005-23198
In this investigation of sport’s interdependent relationship with consumer capitalism, the author examines connections between sport and modern modes of commercialization, commodification, and mass mediation. The XFL, Tiger Woods, the Olympic Games, and suburban soccer are among the people and topics covered.

Writing a modern Jewish history; essays in honor of Salo W. Baron; edited by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett; essays by Arthur Hertzberg [et al.]; poems by Robert Pinsky. The Jewish Museum; Yale Univ. Press 2006 127p $35.00
ISBN 0-300-10677-7; LC 2006-4006
Exploring the Jewish experience in the Americas, essays discuss such topics and figures as the significance of American Jews in the colonies; the history of a group of Jews in the remote Amazon; the philanthropy of Jewish women in the nineteenth century; the art critic Meyer Schapiro; and the influence of Salo W. Baron as a historian and teacher.

The Black power movement; rethinking the civil rights-black power era; edited by Peniel E. Joseph. Routledge 2006 385p $90.00, pa $27.95
ISBN 0-415-94595-X; 0-415-94596-8; LC 2005-35654
Contributors reconsider the postwar political climate leading to the 1965 Watts uprising, the formation of the Black Panther Party, and the rise of a radical ethnic nationalism that inspired minorities to celebrate their ethnic heritage.

Center or margin; revisions of the English Renaissance in honor of Leeds Barroll; edited by Lena Cowen Orlin. Susquehanna Univ. Press 2006 (The Apple-Zimmerman series in early modern culture) 318p $55.00
ISBN 1-57591-098-5; LC 2005-31325
This collection of essays discusses such subjects as the global status of England in the early modern period, gender relations, and Shakespeare’s strategies for distinguishing characters with individual attributes of masculinity, charisma, and voice.

Critical Inuit studies; an anthology of contemporary Arctic ethnography; edited by Pamela Stern & Lisa Stevenson. University of Nebraska Press 2006 302p $65.00, pa $29.95
ISBN 0-8032-9348-8; LC 2005-28939
Scholars from six nations present multiple perspectives culled from case studies with individuals and Native communities in the far North. Among the topics covered are the use of translation in oral history and memory, the significance of place names, urban social networks in Montreal, the interpretation of body gesture, and the transition from igloos to permanent houses.

Daughters of Earth; feminist science fiction in the twentieth century; edited by Justine Larbalestier. Wesleyan Univ. Press 2006 397p $65.00, pa $24.95
ISBN 0-8195-6675-6; 0-8195-6676-4; LC 2005-30647
Contributors discuss the role of feminism in the development of science fiction over the past century. Kate Wilhelm, Clare Winger Harris, Alice Eleanor Jones, James Tiptree, Jr., Lisa Tuttle, and Octavia E. Butler are some of the novelists studied.

Feroli, Teresa
Political speaking justified; women prophets and the English Revolution. University of Del. Press 2006 270p $49.50
ISBN 0-87413-908-2; LC 2005-14400
Tracing the evolution of female political authority in the seventeenth century, the author examines literary contributions by Eleanor Davies, Anna Trapnel, and Margaret Fell to the history of feminism.

Haunted by empire; geographies of intimacy in North American history; edited by Ann Laura Stoler. Duke Univ. Press 2006 (American encounters/global interactions) 544p $99.95, pa $26.95
ISBN 0-8223-3737-1; 0-8223-3724-X; LC 2005-31722
This collection of essays explores how colonizers drew comparisons between one group or set of behaviors from another. Among the topics addressed are the interwoven histories of Asian, African, and native peoples in the Americas; the racial categorizations of the 1890 census; and the politics of race and space in French colonial New Orleans.

Henderson, John
‘Oxford reds’; classic commentaries on Latin classics. Duckworth 2006 183p $63.00
ISBN 0-7156-3516-6
The author discusses the stories behind the publication of a set of commentaries on Latin texts by Cicero, Virgil, and Catullus, as well as how these texts were utilized in the post-war competition for curriculum space in the UK university system.

Jhally, Sut
The spectacle of accumulation; essays on culture, media, and politics. Peter Lang 2006 300p pa
$32.95
Covering a variety of issues concerning social justice and cultural politics, the author addresses the role of advertising in contemporary life, the power of media education, and sport, race, and gender coding in the coverage of current events.

Klosterman, Chuck
Chuck Klosterman IV: a decade of curious peoplpe and dangerous ideas. Scribner 2006 374p $25
ISBN 0-7432-8488-2; LC 2006-44308
A compilation of essays, profiles, opinions, and theories on pop culture topics ranging from robots to Radiohead.

Landscape and film; edited by Martin Lefebvre. Routledge 2006 (AFI film readers) $95.00, pa $25.95
ISBN 0-415-97554-9; 0-415-97555-7; 2005-33754
Essays examine the relation of cinematic landscape to the idea of national cinema, as well as differences between the use of landscape in Western filmmaking and in works by Middle Eastern and Asian filmmakers.

Looking beyond the highway; Dixie roads and culture; edited by Claudette Stager and Martha Craver. The University of Tennessee Press 2006 298p $48.00
ISBN 1-57233-467-3; LC 2005-28531
An anthology of road history and roadside attractions specific to the South covering such subjects as outdoor drive-in church services, brick highways, differing opinions over the route of the Dixie Highway, and the evolution of motel architecture.

Native peoples of the Gulf Coast of Mexico; edited by Alan R. Sandstrom and E. Hugo Garcia Valencia. The University of Arizona Press 2005 (Native peoples of the Americas) 335p $50.00
ISBN 0-8165-2411-4; LC 2005-5828
Chronicling the history of several indigenous groups along the Gulf Coast, essays examine each group’s language, settlement pattern, belief system, and social organization.

Nolden, Thomas
In lieu of memory; contemporary Jewish writing in France. Syracuse Univ. Press 2006 (Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art) 254p $29.95
The author presents an analysis of the major themes, concerns, and stylistic features of works by French Jewish authors born after the Shoah. Among the writers studied are Alain Gluckstein, Pier Goldman, Patrick Modiano, Georges Perc, Katia Rubinstein, and Claude Gutman, and Annette Kahn.

Perusek, Glenn W.
Shifting terrain; essays on politics, history and society. Peter Lang 2006 182p $64.95
ISBN 0-8204-8602-7; LC 2006-4971
The author addresses current political, economic, and social questions within historical perspectives of U.S. foreign and domestic policy. The American war and occupation of Iraq, poverty, child labor, and strategies from Thucydides on the hubris of empire are among the topics covered.

Rosie, George
Curious Scotland; tales from a hidden history. St.Martin’s Press 2004 244p $23.95
ISBN 0-312-35416-9; LC 2006-40194
The author details some lesser known facts about Scotland’s past, including John Ross and the Cherokee nation, Edinburgh, the Glasgow Frankenstein, and the Scotch industry and Prohibition.

Rovee, Christopher Kent
Imagining the gallery; the social body of British Romanticism. Stanford Univ. Press 2006 251p $55.00
ISBN 0-8047-5124-2; LC 2005-32998
Assessing the rise of portraiture in the Romantic period, the author examines its influence upon British society through such conduits as Jane Austen’s Pride and prejudice, portraits of working men and women in published books, and the eighty-plus paintings of William Wordsworth.

Self-determination: the other path for Native Americans; edited by Terry L. Anderson, Bruce L. Benson, and Thomas E. Flanagan. Stanford Univ. Press 2006 332p $35.00
ISBN 0-8047-5441-1; LC 2006-6595
In this comparison of historical and contemporary Canadian and U.S. Native American policy, contributors discuss the evolution of property rights, the importance of customs and cultures, Native American casino revenues, and the impact of sovereignty on economic development.

Sen, Amartya
The argumentative Indian; writings on Indian history, culture and identity. Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005 409p $26.00
ISBN 0-374-10583-9; LC 2005-49460
The nature of Hindu traditions, Indian identity, the country’s social and economic disparities, as well as India’s current standing in the world are among the subjects examined in this explication of India’s argumentative tradition.

Shakespeare in the worlds of communism and socialism; edited by Irene R. Makaryk and Joseph G. Price. University of Toronto Press 2006 402p $85.00
ISBN 0-8020-9058-3
Addressing the relationship of Shakespeare to Marxist and communist ideology, essays trace the reception of Shakespeare in East Germany, Poland, Cuba, Russia, Hungary, and China between 1917 and 2002.

Synge: a celebration; edited by Colm Toibin. Carysfort Press 2005 163p pa $29.95
ISBN 1-904505-14-7
Contributors analyze the life and works of the Irish playwright, J. M. Synge, as well as his influence upon contemporary writers.

Ubilluz, Juan Carlos
Sacred eroticism; Georges Bataille and Pierre Klossowski in the Latin American erotic novel. Bucknell Univ. Press 2006 (The Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory) 356p $62.50
ISBN 0-8387-5625-5; LC 2005-23721
The author explores, from aesthetic, theoretical, and political contexts, the influence of Bataille and Klossowski’s mysticism in the works of such novelists as Julio Cortazar, Salvador Elizondo, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Juan Garcia Ponce.

Williams, Bernard
On opera. Yale Univ. Press 2006 149p $30.00
ISBN 0-300-08976-7; LC 2006-17015
Covering a wide range of topics from Mozart to Wagner, as well as such composers as Verdi, Puccini, Strauss, and Debussy, the author offers insights on the demands of composing, performing, and staging opera, and its power to render immediate emotion.