Bahr, Erhard. Weimar on the Pacific: German exile culture in Los Angeles and the crisis of modernism. University of California Press 2007. 358p $39.95 (Weimar and now: German cultural criticism, v41)
Los Angeles in the 1930’s and ‘40’s was a sanctuary for major German artists and intellectuals who had fled Nazi Germany, including Thomas Mann, Theodore W. Adorno, Bertolt Brecht, and Arnold Schoenberg. These essays discuss the creative achievements of these artists in exile and their activities in furthering the intellectual and artistic goals of German modernism in the face of Nazism.
ISBN 978-0-5202-5128-1; LC 2007-207

Cline, Lynn. Literary pilgrims: the Santa Fe and Taos writers’ colonies, 1917-1950. University of New Mexico Press 2007. 186p $18.95
Following World War I and continuing into the 1950’s, the communities of Taos and Santa Fe, New Mexico, became home to numerous writers who had left their industrial, mechanized modern cities to be inspired and invigorated by the blend of natural beauty and harmonious native civilization that they found in northern New Mexico. These essays discuss the writers’ colonies and circles that formed around such authors as Willa Cather, D.H. Lawrence, and Oliver La Farge, and their creative achievements.
ISBN 978-0-8263-3851-8; LC 2006-29418

Creating military power: the sources of military effectiveness; edited by Risa A. Brooks and Elizabeth A. Stanley. Stanford University Press 2007. 252p $55.00
A country’s military readiness is usually determined by a basic assessment of its wealth, manpower, and technology. The essays in this volume go beyond these primary considerations, and examine how a country’s military readiness can be affected or even determined by the cultures, social structures, and political institutions within that country, with in-depth discussions of conditions in such countries as Egypt, Iraq, and Ireland.
ISBN 978-0-8047-5399-9; LC 2007-345

Crook, Paul. Darwin’s coat-tails: essays on Social Darwinism. P. Lang 2007. 340p $79.95
These essays examine the influence of Charles Darwin’s evolutionary ideas and their application to disciplines other than biology, such as anthropology, economics, eugenics, politics, religion, and sociology.
ISBN 0-8204-8138-6; 978-0-8204-8138-8; LC 2006-33678

A dilemma of English modernism: visual and verbal politics in the life and work of C.R.W. Nevinson (1889-1949); edited by Michael J.K. Walsh. University of Delaware Press 2007. 213p $65.00
The essays in this volume examine the life, work, and influence of English artist C.R.W. Nevinson, who was known as England’s only representative of the futurist movement and who was active in modernist circles in Europe and in New York.
ISBN 0-8741-3942-2; 978-0-8741-3942-6; LC 2006-22576

Grassroots political reform in contemporary China; edited by Elizabeth J. Perry and Merle Goodman. Harvard University Press 2007. 400p $59.95; $24.95 (pa) (Harvard contemporary China series, v14)
These essays explore the efforts of local communities and governments in China to effect change on the local level, to enhance the accountability of local authorities, and to counter the sometimes corrupt or ineffective practices of the national government. Topics include village and township elections, fiscal reform, legal aid, media supervision, informal associations, and popular protest movements.
ISBN 0-6740-2485-0; 978-0-6740-2485-4; 0-6740-2486-9 (pa); 978-0-6740-2486-1 (pa); LC 2007-2992

Holmes, Amanda. City fictions: language, body, and Spanish American urban space. Bucknell University Press 2007. 212p $47.50 (The Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory)
The essays in this volume examine the representation of the city in the literary works of five Spanish-American writers: Octavio Paz, Julio Cortazar, Cristina Peri Rossi, Diamela Eltit, and Carlos Montsivais. The relationship between language, body, and urban space is a common theme.
ISBN 0-8387-5673-5; 978-0-8387-5673-7; LC 2006-25901

Ingersoll, Earl G. Waiting for the end: gender and ending in the contemporary novel. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press 2007. 286p $55.00
These essays examine the endings of two dozen contemporary English novels, addressing the question of whether the ending embodies and articulates the novel’s meaning, or whether, on the contrary, the ending defies and challenges the meaning implicit in the rest of the novel. The differences between male and female authors in their manner of supplying endings, and the gender-based perceptions of readers, are among the topics.
ISBN 0-8386-4153-9; 978-0-8386-4153-8; LCCN 2006-37383

Institutional games and the U.S. Supreme Court; edited by James R. Rogers, Roy B. Flemming, and Jon R. Bond. University of Virginia Press 2006. 335p $60.00 (Constitutionalism and democracy)
These essays examine the role of the strategic interactions between the U.S. Supreme Court and other institutions in determining the decisions that the Court makes, and examine the relations among the Supreme Court justices. The conflict that a justice may face between his sincere preference in a particular case, and the strategic necessity that may constrain him to vote other than his conscience, is among the topics.
ISBN 0-8139-2527-4; LC 2005-29109

Latinos in a changing society; edited by Martha Montero-Sieburth and Edwin Melendez. Praeger 2007. 285p $39.95
The role of first and second generation Latinos in American society is the subject of these essays. Latino students in American colleges, Mexican workers in New England, and ideological diversity among Cuban Americans in Miami, are among the topics.
ISBN 0-275-96233-4; 978-0-275-962333-3; LC 2006-35013

Law and authority in early modern England: essays presented to Thomas Garden Barnes; edited by Buchanan Sharp and Mark Charles Fissel. University of Delaware Press 2007. 246p $50.00
The essays in this volume about law in early modern England focus on four major themes: common law and its rivals; the growth of parliamentary authority; the assertion of royal authority; and the relationship between royal authority and the governed.
ISBN 0-8741-3959-7; 978-0-8741-3959-4; LC 2006-17443

McKelvy, William R. The English cult of literature: devoted readers, 1774-1880. University of Virginia Press 2007. 322p $45.00 (Victorian literature and culture series)
These essays explore how literature and reading took on many of the functions of religion in 19th century England, and how the literary author, with his power to sanctify human experience and redeem national life, assumed a sacred vocation in the eyes of his readers. The novels of George Eliot, Macaulay’s The lays of ancient Rome, and William Gladstone’s interpretation of the classical Homeric tradition are among the topics.
ISBN 978-0-8139-2571-4; LC 2006-15952

Montage of a dream: the art and life of Langston Hughes; edited by John Edgar Tidwell and Cheryl R. Ragar; with a foreword by Arnold Rampersad. University of Missouri Press 2007. 351p $44.95
The diverse and extensive literary work of African-American poet Langston Hughes is examined in these essays. The personal life and times of Hughes, the development of his literary craft, and his enormous influence on other writers as a chief figure in the Harlem Renaissance are explored.
ISBN 978-0-8262-1716-5; LCCN 2006-102013

On Harper Lee: essays and reflections; edited by Alice Hall Petry, with a foreword by William T. Going. University of Tennessee Press 2007. 181p $36.00
These essays examine social, political, and literary issues associated with author Harper Lee’s To kill a mockingbird, her hugely popular 1960 novel and only published work to date. Among the topics are her friendship with author Truman Capote, the reception of her work in apartheid South Africa, and the religious vision of her novel.
ISBN 1-57233-578-5; 978-1-57233-578-3; LC 2006-22263

Peucker, Brigitte. The material image: art and the real in film. Stanford University Press 2007. 251p $65.00 (Cultural memory in the present)
The essays in this volume explore the relationship between motion pictures and the world of reality that they represent, and examine the role of the film spectator with attention to the cognitive and phenomenological aspects of perception. Among the filmmakers discussed are Leni Riefensthal, Alfred Hitchcock, and Stanley Kubrik.
ISBN 978-0-8047-5430-9; 978-0-8047-5431-6 (pa); LC 2006-17976

Powhatan’s mantle: Indians in the colonial Southeast; edited and with an introduction by Gregory A. Waselkov, Peter H. Wood, and Tom Hatley. Rev. and expanded ed. University of Nebraska Press 550p $21.95
This new, expanded edition of a work originally published in 1989 offers essays demonstrating how ethnohistory, demography, archaeology, anthropology, and cartography can be combined in new and insightful ways to illuminate the life of Native Americans in the early southeast.
ISBN 0-8032-9861-7; 978-0-8032-9861-3; LC 2006-14921

Rosenbaum, Susan B. Professing sincerity: modern lyric poetry, commercial culture, and the crisis in reading. University of Virginia Press 2007. 283p $39.50
The distinction between poetic sincerity (i.e., the poet’s own voice) and its opposite, theatricality (i.e., the poetic persona), is the theme of these essays. The works of English romantic poets such as William Wordsworth and twentieth-century American poets such as Frank O’Hara and Sylvia Plath are examined.
ISBN 978-0-8139-2610-0; LC 2006-32724

Ruptured histories: war, memory, and the post-Cold War in Asia; edited by Sheila Miyoshi Jager and Rana Mitter. Harvard University Press 2007. 384p $59.95; $24.95 (pa)
The essays in this volume examine the social conditions of the nations of East Asia since the end of the Cold War, and explore the change in these countries’ national identities as they profoundly reassess their experiences from World War II to the Vietnam era. China’s renewed memory of their War of Resistance against Japan, South Korea’s new pro-North Korea, anti-America stance, and Japan’s revived interest in their kamikaze heroes are among the topics.
ISBN 0-6740-2470-2; 978-0-6740-2470-0; 0-6740-2471-0 (pa); 978-0-6740-2471-7 (pa); LC 2006-49772

Sontag, Susan. At the same time: essays and speeches; edited by Paolo Dilonardo and Anne Jump; with a foreword by David Rieff. Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2007. 235p $23.00
This collection of sixteen essays and speeches, written in the last years of Susan Sontag’s life, explore a variety of literary and political topics. Included are essays examining the works of Russian authors Victor Serge and Leonid Tsypkin; an essay extolling the importance of literary translation; and three essays written over the period of a single year pondering the effects of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the American psyche.
ISBN 0-374-10072-1; 978-0-374-10072-8; LC 2006-31179

The state of state reform in Latin America; edited by Eduardo Lora. Stanford Economics and Finance, Stanford University Press, and The World Bank 2007. xxi, 446p $70.00; $35.00 (pa) (Latin American development forum series)
These essays examine the major areas of institutional reform in Latin America since the 1980s, including political institutions and state organization, fiscal institutions (e.g. budget and tax), public institutions responsible for economic policies, and social sector institutions (e.g. social welfare and education).
ISBN 0-8213-6575-4 (pa); 978-0-8213-6575-5 (pa); 978-0-8047-5529-0 (pa); 978-0-8047-5528-3; LC 2006-299651

Stribrny, Zdenek. The whirligig of time: essays on Shakespeare and Czechoslovakia; edited by Lois Potter. University of Delaware Press 2007. 258p $52.50
This collection by the Czech Shakespearean scholar Stribny Zdenek contains essays and speeches written in English from 1966 to the present, and is preceded by an autobiographical essay describing the author’s difficulties as a professor of English under the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. Among the topics are: place and time in Shakespeare’s The winter’s tale; recent productions of Hamlet in Prague; and Shakespeare and perestroika.
ISBN 0-87413-956-2; 978-0-87413-956-3; LC 2006-48554

Structures and subjectivities: attending to early modern women; edited by Joan E. Hartman and Adele Seeff. University of Delaware Press 2007. 394p $52.50
The essays in this volume explore the social, intellectual, and political life of women in the early modern period in Europe. Among the topic are: convent singing; same-sex relationships; and, a comparison of the rights and status of women under the law in Europe and the Ottoman Empire.
ISBN 0-87413-941-4; 978-0-8741-3941-9; LC 2007-295017

Terrorism financing and state responses: a comparative perspective; edited by Jeanne K. Giraldo and Harold A. Trinkunas. Stanford University Press 2007. 365p $24.95
These essays examine the financial and material resources that are at the heart of modern terrorist movements. The international movement of funds, the collusion of governments with terrorist organizations, and the inner workings of such organizations as Al Qaeda and the Taliban are among the topics.
ISBN 0-8047-5566-3; 978-0-8047-5565-8; LC 2006-35059

Tolkien and Shakespeare: essays on shared themes and language; edited by Janet Brennan Croft. McFarland & Company 2007. 327p $35.00 (Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy, v2)
These essays explore the themes and motifs that were of common interest to two English authors widely separated by time and temperament: Elizabethan playwright William Shakespeare and 20th century scholar and novelist J.R.R. Tolkien. Both authors made extensive use of native folklore, especially with regard the world of elves and fairies, and explored the world of masks and disguises, the meaning of valor and glory, and the uses and abuses of power in politics and war. The similarities and differences in their treatment of these themes are the focus of these essays.
ISBN 978-0-7864-2827-4; LC 2007-1370

Zacharasiewicz, Waldemar. Images of Germany in American literature. University of Iowa Press 2007. 253p $39.95
The essays in this volume examine the constantly changing image of Germany in American culture, primarily as reflected in the writings of American authors of the 19th and 20th centuries. Starting from the ideal picture of an advanced and cultured nation in the American imagination, the image of Germany over time degenerated into that of a state plagued by militarism and barbarism. The reflections of authors such as Mark Twain, Henry James, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr. are discussed.
ISBN 1-58729-524-5; 978-1-58729-524-9; LC 2007-295962