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Categorically Famous
Literary Celebrity and Sexual Liberation in 1960s America
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
The first sustained study of the relations between literary celebrity and queer sexuality, Categorically Famous looks at the careers of three celebrity writers—James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, and Gore Vidal—in relation to the gay and lesbian liberation movement of the 1960s. While none of these writers...
by Lisa Adkins
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Speculation is often associated with financial practices, but The Time of Money makes the case that it not be restricted to the financial sphere. It argues that the expansion of finance has created a distinctive social world, one that demands a speculative stance toward life in general. Replacing...
The History of Missed Opportunities
British Romanticism and the Emergence of the Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Through close engagement with the work of Wordsworth, Austen, and Byron, The History of Missed Opportunities posits that the everyday first emerged as a distinct category of experience, or first became thinkable, in the Romantic period. Conceived here as something overlooked and only noticed in retrospect,...
The Proper Order of Things
Language, Power, and Law in Ottoman Administrative Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
The "natural order of the state" was an early modern mania for the Ottoman Empire. In a time of profound and pervasive imperial transformation, the ideals of stability, proper order, and social harmony were integral to the legitimization of Ottoman power. And as Ottoman territory grew, so...
A Genealogy of Dissent
The Progeny of Fallen Royals in Chosŏn Korea
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2018
In early modern Korea, the Chosŏn state conducted an extermination campaign against the Kaesŏng Wang, descendants of the preceding Koryŏ dynasty. It was so thorough that most of today's descendants are related to a single survivor. Before long, however, the Chosŏn dynasty sought to bolster its...
Borders of Belonging
Struggle and Solidarity in Mixed-Status Immigrant Families
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Borders of Belonging investigates a pressing but previously unexplored aspect of immigration in America—the impact of immigration policies and practices not only on undocumented migrants, but also on their family members, some of whom possess a form of legal status. Heide Castañeda reveals the...
Scarcity and Survival in Central America
Ecological Origins of the Soccer War
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1979
Looking at both population and land tenure dynamics in their historical context, this study challenges the view that the 1969 conflict between El Salvador and Honduras was primarily a response to population pressure. The author demonstrates that land scarcity, a principal cause of the war, was largely...
One Blue Child
Asthma, Responsibility, and the Politics of Global Health
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Radical changes in our understanding of health and healthcare are reshaping twenty-first-century personhood. In the last few years, there has been a great influx of public policy and biometric technologies targeted at engaging individuals in their own health, increasing personal responsibility, and...
by Joshua M. White
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
The 1570s marked the beginning of an age of pervasive piracy in the Mediterranean that persisted into the eighteenth century. Nowhere was more inviting to pirates than the Ottoman-dominated eastern Mediterranean. In this bustling maritime ecosystem, weak imperial defenses and permissive politics made...
Recovering Armenia
The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Recovering Armenia offers the first in-depth study of the aftermath of the 1915 Armenian Genocide and the Armenians who remained in Turkey. Following World War I, as the victorious Allied powers occupied Ottoman territories, Armenian survivors returned to their hometowns optimistic that they might...
Divine Variations
How Christian Thought Became Racial Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Divine Variations offers a new account of the development of scientific ideas about race. Focusing on the production of scientific knowledge over the last three centuries, Terence Keel uncovers the persistent links between pre-modern Christian thought and contemporary scientific perceptions of human...
Phonopoetics
The Making of Early Literary Recordings
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Phonopoetics tells the neglected story of early "talking records" and their significance for literature, from the 1877 invention of the phonograph to some of the first recorded performances of modernist works. The book challenges assumptions of much contemporary criticism by taking the recorded,...
Global Data Shock
Strategic Ambiguity, Deception, and Surprise in an Age of Information Overload
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Intelligence and security communities have access to an overwhelming amount of information. More data is better in an information-hungry world, but too much data paralyzes individual and institutional abilities to process and use information effectively. Robert Mandel calls this phenomenon "global...
Shakesplish
How We Read Shakespeare's Language
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
For all that we love and admire Shakespeare, he is not that easy to grasp. He may have written in Elizabethan English, but when we read him, we can't help but understand his words, metaphors, and syntax in relation to our own. Until now, explaining the powers and pleasures of the Bard's language has...